The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-28 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 27.—APPOINTMENT.—Second
Master M. Netten (1850), to the Alarm, 26, at Deeonport.

PORTSMOUTH, Jura 27.
The Cambria (No. 101) steam transport, arrived at I
Spithead this morning from the Crimea. She called at
Malts, which place she left Jane 14 for Gibraltar. She
has brought home 12 sick men from the last named place,
which she left June 21, bat they are not from the wet ot
war, not having been farther than the rock. She has also
79 women and 118 children belonging to the 13th Regiment
of Light Infantry, which had gone on from Gibraltar to the
Crimea. Five sergeants, 7 corporals, end 35 men of the
13th also come home in her to furor • reuniting party for
the regiment. The other passengers were Mrs. Peel, wife
of Captain Peel of the 13th, godchildren' and Staff Assistant
Surgeon Stewart. This afternoon the Cambria came into
harbour and landed the troops anti women and children •
the sick have been sent to the military hospital
in this garrison, the detachment of the 13th to
Chatham, and the women and children to the
Camber barracks, in this town, until they can be sent to
their respective homes. Tney and their baggage were
taken to the barracks in omnibuses and other conveyances.
The Mlles, shell magazine, for the Baltic, Muter Com-
mander Browne, has received her crew to-day, and is ready
to_go to Spithead, to take in her cargo prior to sailing.
The Neptune, 120, sailing ship, Captain T. Hutton, and I
Cruiser, 17, screw stoop, Commander the Hon. G. H.
Douglas, have exercised their crews at Spitheut to-day in
shifting sails and spars.
The Sutiej, 50, new sailing frigate, was taken into dock
to-day to be fitted out; and the Sealark, 8, was taken out.
To-morrow, being the anniversary of her Majesty's
coronation, will be observed as a holiday in the Dockyard
and other government establishments, and throughout the
1. borough generally by all classes.

CHATHAM, Jossz 27.
Commodore Trotter is appointed to the command
of the Castor, 36 guns, and exertions are made to complete
her for sea. The shipwrights are squaring her bottom, the
caulkers busy on her topside., and ethers in the hold re.
lining the magazine and storerooms. She will be ready in
are weeks.
Forty invalids arrived at Chstham on Tuesday, 3t) of
whom were received into Fort Pitt; the remainder were
forwarded to St. Mules Barrazke.

DUBLIN, John 27.
Major Poneonby, late Private Secretary and Aide-
de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant, bee resigned his appoint-
ment for the purpose of joining his regiment, the Grenadier
Guards, in the Crimea, and leaves this evening for London
sn nowt' to his destination.
Drafts from the following depots, vie. 30th, 49th, 50th,
68th, 9th, 89th, 17th, 39th, 21st, 57th, 13th, 44th, 47th,
66th, will embark at Queenstown on the 30th, on board
the Bride of the Sea, the Royal Charlie, the Duke of
Bedford, and the Trafalgar, for Malta. Oa the same day
drafts from the undermentioned depots :-13th, 14th, 62nd,
90th, 63rd, will take their departure in the Lillie., at
Kingstown, for the same destination. The aggregate num-
bers of officers and men are :—Captain", 21; subaltern',
89 ; sergeants, 74 ; drummers, 40 , rank and 8 e, 2,032.
The officers who accompanied the troops which sailed, in
the screw-steamer Golden Fleece, from Queenstown for the
Crimea, on Sunday lest, were:—Captain R. A. Fraser,
Captain J. C. liPLeod, Captain Charles Y. Belga', Lieu
tenants Sir Peter A. Heiken, Bart., Crompton, Ferguson,
Green, and Farquharson, of the 424 Highlander; Captain
W. C. Cunningham., and Captain James Herbert Frame,
of the 79th Regiment (eight officers of this regiment are
gone overland to join the regiment) ; Captain M. 0. Sprott
Lieutenants Nightingale, W. G. Aiesander, A. Tabuteau,
M. W. Hyslop, Edward Welch, E. H. D. Macpherson, and
J. M. Clayhille, of the 93d., Cornet Baker, of the Bth Ha-
ws, and Cornet Cockburn, of the 11th RUMP.
On Monday evening 40 young men left Belfast for Fleet-
wood, on their way to join the service companies, at the seat
of war, of the several regiments to which they belonged.

Yesterday morning, at 7 o'clock, the remainder of Capt. B.
Lenson's company, 10 battalion, and Major J. C. Fortescue's
company, 7th battalion, emberted et the Wharf wall of
Woolwich Arsenal, in the Sovereign steam transport, No.
68, for conveyance to Gibraltar.