The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

The steam-transport Niagara, No. 48, Capt. N. Shan- l
non, arrived at the Motherbank on Saturday night, and
sent a heavy mail ashore at Portsmouth the same even-
ing. She steamed up to Spithead yesterday morning.lt
She left Balaklava on the 6th inst., Scutari the 3
h,
Malta'the 18th, and has brought the following invalid
officers and men :-Major-Gen. Sir H. D. Jones, K oB•,
Late Commanding Engineer at Sebastopol, suffering
greatly from sciatica, &c. ; Col. T. Graham, let Royals;
Major the Hon. E. T. Gage, Royal_ Artillery ; Major
J
Graham, 41st Regt. ; Capt. J. R. Hume, 55th Regt.,
who was struck by a shell in the Redan on the Bth ult.,
and much hurt about the legs, &c., with pieces of shell ;
Cap. Huey, of the 28th Regt. ; Capt. Ryan, of the Hon.
East India Company's service, in charge of invalids ;
Capt. Suckling, of the Transport Service ; Lieut. Martir,
of the 19th Regt., who was shot through the neck in the
Bedell on the Bth ult. ; Lient. Kingscote, of the 40th
Regt, who had his right arm shot off in the Redan on
the Bth ult. • Lient. Cowell, Royal Engineers ; Lieut.
Vaughan, of 28th Regt. ; Lieut. Maude, of the 41st
Regt. •; Lieuts. Gifford and Goldfrap, 12th Lancers ;
Limit. Stockwell, 72d Regt. ' • Lieut. Booth, Royal Ar-
tillery ; Lient. Wilkinson, 28th Regt ; Lient. Petre, 6th
Dragoon Guards ; Lient. Bell, 28th Regt. ; Ensign
Walker, 88th Regt. ; Ensign Hampton, 56th Regt.; En-
sign Fiehbourne, 46th ; Paymaster Brown, R.N. ; Pay-
master Sewell, 6th Dragoon Guards; Assistant-Surgeon
Semple, 18th Regt. ; Mr. Taylor and Mr. Kingsley, hos-
pital dressers ; Mr. Brown, Assistant-Paymaster, R.N. ;
3lrs..Lister, Non-commissioned officers and men :-8 of
the Royald Artillery, 1 of the Sappers and Miners, 1 of
the 4th Dragoon Gds., 1 of the Bth Hussars, 1 of the 17th
LanCers, 1 of the Grenadier Guards, 2 of the Coldstream
Guards, 1 of the Scots Fusilier Guards, 3 of the Ist Royal
Regt of Foot, First Battalion, 2 of the 4th, 4 of the 7th,
5 of the 13th, 3 of the 14th, 1 of the 17tb, 2 of the
18th, 8 of the 19th, 1 of the 20th, 1 of the 21st, 3 of the
23d, 2 of the 31st, 3 of the 33d, 12 of the 34th, 1 of the
39th, 17 of the 41st, 1 of the 44th, 2 of the 46th, 2 of
the 47th, 1 of the 49th, 7 of the 55th, 2 of the 57th, 1 of
the 62d„4 of the 63d, 3 of the 68th, 1 of the 72d, 10 of
the 77th, 1 of the 82d, 7 of the 88th, 2 of the 89th, 2 of
the 95th, 2 of the 97th, 3 of the let battalion Rifle Bri-
gade, 4 of the 2d ditto, 3 of the Transport Corps, and 1
of the Army Works Corps. Total-12 sergeants, 4 core
porals, rdrummer, and 125 privates, nearly all of whom
were engaged at the assault on the Redan at Sebastopol
on the Bth ult. ; 5 of them have lost one leg, 1 has-lost
both arms, 4 have lost one arm each, and about 50
others are wounded in various other ways ; the rest of
the number are sick with sundry complaints. They all
came home in medical charge of Dr. O'Donough, sur-
geon of the Niagara, by whose unremitting attention,
combined with the wholesomeness of the ship, they have
improved much in health on the voyage. The Niagara
brought naval invalids also from her Majesty's ships
Royal Albeit, St. Jean D'Acre, Hannibal, Leander,
Terrible, and Stromboli, in number 16, also 12 merchant
seamen. She will go into Portsmouth harbour this
afternoon to land them. On the 18th inst., about 5 p.m.,
80 miles S.W. of Malta, she passed the screw transport
Nos 189 steering for Malta ; on the 22d, 15 miles east
of Gibraltar signalled her Majesty's ship Hibernia bound
east ; also the Ida, of London, and Francis Barclay, of
Liverpool, bound west. The Niagara experienced
but little of the gale of Thursday last, having
reached this side of the Bay of Biscay before she met it.
She has during the last 11 months carried 8,500 men,
130 officers, 800 horses, and stowed six ships many hun-
dreds of miles, and proved herself a first-rate war tran-
seort.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Ariel, 9, Commander Luce,
arrived at Spithead from the Channel and the White Sea
on Saturday night, 12 days from the latter cruising
ground, and encountered all the force of the late gale in
the Channel without bearing up or putting back after
she left the Downs the second time, about a week ago.
She has but few defects, and left Spithead for Devon-
port to receive further orders yesterday morning early.
Her Majesty's steam troopship Simoom, 18, Captain
Ts R. Sulivan, left Portsmouth harbour on Saturday
morning with the First Light Infantry Regiment of the
British German Legion, and anchored at Spithead, where
she remained all night ; she left yesterday morning,
about 6 o'clock, for Balaklava, but put back again at
12.30 p.m. to Spithead, owing to some important por-
tion of her machinery giving way. The defect will soon
be rectified. It is not serious, as is proved by the fact
that after it showed itself the ship came back against a
stiff northerly and easterly breeze at the rate of seven
knots.
The steam transport Rhadamanthus, Master Com-
mander Belem, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morn-
ing from the Mediterranean, with aboat 70 convicts on
board, whose terms of penal servitude have expired.
The Russell, 60, Captain Francis Scott, was taken
out of the steam basin at Portsmouth on Saturday morn-
mg.
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth, returned from a week's absence on
Saturday, and rehoisted his firg, when Sir Thomas
Maitland, C. 8., struck his commodore's pendant.
-The Denmark, American ship, Luther, master, from
Shediac for Great Grimsby, laden with deals, with loss
of rudder, damage to stern, windlass broken, loss of
foretopsail, and both anchors and chain slipped from
her in the " Park," off Selsea Bill, where she had
been anchored after being got off the " Puller," on
which she struck in the gale of Thursday last, the
25th instant, at three p.m. ; weather thick, and blow-
ing hard from W.S.W., was towed into Portsmouth
harbour on Saturday night by the Selsea pilots by the
aid of two private steam-tugs. The pilots found her
abandoned by her master and crew, and took posses-
sion of her. It would appear that on the ship striking
iii such a dangerous spot, and in such awful weather, no
hope was entertained of saving life or ship, and the mas-
ter and crew accordingly left her to her apparently in-
evitable fate, but the force of the storm seems to have
driven her over the shoal into deep water soon after she
was abandoned, and the pilots made a prize of her.
The steam transport Perseverance, Nc. 7, Capt. Harris,
embarked the baggage of the 4th Middlesex Militia on
tturday at Portsmouth Dockyard, and will embark the
regiment this morning for Malta.
On Friday night the Cuckoo, 3 paddlewheel steam•
vessel, Lieutenant-Commander G. E. Murray, during a
heavy gale of wind at Sheerness, dragged her moorings
and fouled with the Nymph frigate (hulk), by which the
Cuckoo carried away her bowsprit, damaged hercutwater,
knee of the head, and figurehead. She was taken into
No. 5 Dry Dock to make good damage and defects.
Mr. William Rowley, Assistant Engineer of the first
class (late borne on the books of the Formidable, 84,
Captain John Jervis Tucker) has been appointed chief
engineer of the Otter. Mr. Rowley joined on Saturday.
The Mars, screw steamship, 80 guns, built at Chatham,
is shortly expected at Sheerness to receive her boilers
and machinery.
The boilers of the new screw steam-frigate Chesapeake,
of 50 guns, have been lowered into their places, and pre-
parations are being made to fit her machinery with every
despatch possible.
The Pigmy, 3, paddlewheel steam-vessel, Second-
Master William Johnston in command, late from Ports-
mouth, dragged her anchor during the gale on Friday
night while riding at single anchor in Sheerness harbour,
aad hooked the heavy chain moorings. The Pigmy, being
under sailing orders for Heligoland, was supplied with
aeother anchor and part of a chain cable, and proceeded
at 10 a.m. for Heligoland, the Elbe, and the Weser.
The Pigmy is intended to keep np a communication be-
tween Heligoland, the Elbe, and the Weser as long as
the weather will permit.
The brig Britomart, 8, Commander Heseltine, was
t owed on Friday from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze,
where her crew will be paid off on Wednesday. No fur-
ther information has transpired regardingfi the name of
the ship which she discovered on in the Altantic
on the 10th inst. The sail pickedu prismarkedattachedis " Fore
Royal ;" the yard to which it was
long, the size suitable for a able of about I,2oo3otofenest.
It is intended to place these vestiges in charge of Mr.
'Collier, Lloyd's agent at Plymouth, for identification.
The sloop Arachne, having been masted, was warped
to the jetty at Devonport on Saturday, and will be
',laced in dock to-day to have her copper examined and
The Bremen bark Meteor, Captain Wm. Blohm, from
Quebec, laden with red pine timber, American elm-tial.
• her, headmasts, spars, and deals, for the use of Sheerness
• Dockyard, was taken into the fitting basin on Saturday,
• The Meteor is a new clipper-built bark, with seven years'
• classification at Lloyd's. Capt. Bohm states that the
greatest difficulty prevailed at Quebec (which was gene-
ral at all the other ports) to procure seamen.
The Sardinia screw transport, No. 244, has arrived at
Woolwich, and is receiving a cargo of ammunition and
live shell for the Crimea.
The Euphrates freight-ship is ready for sea, the tug-
boat being moored alongside, but in consequence of a
• strike among the crew her departure has been delayed.
• Five of the men are in charge of the police, awaiting
theirt examination by one of the local magistrates for re-
, using to work according to the stipulated regulations.
The Admiralty authorities have ordered several large
mortar vessels to be built at Rye on the same plan as
t lose constructed there last spring. They are all to be
completed by February next.
P. W. W. Oke
Saturday
appointed Second Master to the
Castor on
During last weeyksagLo medical boards were held in
Chatham garrison, fortwthefopurpose of deciding upon the
invalids who were unfit
when about 250 w ere sett:Cl:len further military duty,
riy.discharge bythe Deputy-
„ Inspector-General of
Dr. George Russell
_ Dartnelly and Dr. A. Reid .PAll the men are from the
cr,ea, and are more or less wounded.
manywo of them are deco-
unded. Several have
'either lost a leg or an arm,,
and
rlied. with. the Crimean medal, with clasps,
inkerman, and Balaklava. for Alma,
A beautiful tablet, to the memory of hero of ili
fria'anct his two brothers, the gallaet 'Rona of Gen --
e
Mittel', who fell in the present sear with Russia, ,01
- l sera pig up in the parkli church of Thom_
wo
'v. county Kdhenny,- on Thursday.
;Iu the General Order of the 16th inst., published in
• ow jourealean Saturday last, in the list of regimeute
• eellhorieed to•bear on the regimental colours the words
r, ." Alma," &c., the 77th Foot was omitted. That corps
is authorised to bear " Alma," " Inkerman," and " S.
hastopol" on the regimental colours.

MILITIA.
,0 West York Rifles, under the command of Lieut.-
onel the Hon. E
FPV4e4 . • E. Q. Monckton, having been in-
let.
Pb Arbuthnot on the 16th inst.,

_ .41 the 18th for Liverpool and Dublin.
On reaching the latter city the regiment received orders
to proceed at once to Cahir, and is distributed as fol-
lows :—five companies, with head-quarters, at Cahir ;
two companies, with Captain Nelson, Lieut. Hercy, and
Ensigns Masse and. Reid, at Fethard ; and -two e;, corn-
-1), ii with Captain Lawes,,
r _.
eutsnants..WaikuT, and
Euiiun Chauner, at Cashel.-U
One depot company re-
m tins at Pontefract.