The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-05 00:00:00

SUN' LONDON, MONDA.t ETR r!!1" 114 G, MARCH B, 1661;_

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The fleet now assembling at Portsmouth is daily be-
coming of more interest and importance. There appears
likely to be a Channel squadron as well as a Baltic fleet,
if report may be trusted. Sundry ships have been ordered
to refit " for Channel service." Two more arrivals (the
Nile, 91, and Euryalus, 51, from Plymouth) have aug-
mented the force at Spithead, which will now be hourly
swelling towards its fully-intended proportions of " 100
pennants." The Imperieuse, 51, also joined the gather-
ing on Saturday. Numerous desertions have taken place
from the Calcutta, 84, Captain J. J. Stopford. The Fal-
con, 17, screw corvette, Commander Pullen, completed
her outfit on Saturday, and bent sails ready for going to
Spithead ; she will go out to-day or to-morrow. The
Oberon, 3, paddle vessel, Lieutenant Freeland, left
Portsmouth harbour yesterday forenoon for Spit-
head. The Resistance, troop-ship, was towed into
harbour to prepare for docking before she embarks
the Royal Wiltshire Militia for foreign service.
The John, freight-ship, sailed on Saturday for
Balaklava, with victualling stores and bale goods. The
Dee, steam transport, arrived at Portsmouth on Satur-
day, with machinery for the ships refitting in the dock-
yard and her Majesty's new yacht. The utmost activity
pervades every department of the dockyard. The ships
still in hand are the James Watt, 91, Captain Ellb,t ;
the Blenheim, 60, Captain Hall, which will leave the
basin to-day ; the Hogue, 60, Captain Ramsay ; the
Pembroke, GO, Captain G. H. Seymour ; the Hastings,
60, Captain Caffin ; the Edinburgh, 60, Captain Hew-
lett ; the Retribution, 28, Captain Fisher; the Pene-
lope, 18, Captain Sir W. Wiseman ; the Centaur, 6,
Captain Clifford ; and the Basilisk, 6, Commander the
Hon. F. Egerton. The Arrogant, 46, Captain Yelver,
ton, is ready for Spithead. Two lieutenant-colonels of
Royal Marines will, it is expected, be embarked this
year for service in the Baltic fleet, one from the Artillery
and one from the " Light Infantry" branch, with two
captains to attend to the duties of the irst-named
branch when disembarked for shore operations. An
exchange of ships has taken place between Captain J.
0. Travers, of the Neptune, 120, and Captain and
Brevet-Major Elliott, of the flag-ship Duke of Wel-
lington.

Captain Drury relieved Lieut.• Colonel Hunt in com-
mand of the detachment on board the blockship Pem-
broke on Wednesday last.
The Himalaya, steam transport, Commander Priest,
went to Spithead on Saturday, and left last evening at
four o'clock with the troops, &c., for Cork, en route to
the seat of war.

The Calcutta, No. 195 screw-transport (General
Screw Company), Captain Blacktnore, left Portsmouth
harbour yesterday morning for Corfu, with the Ist Royal
Lancashire Militia-the first militia regiment ever sent
on foreign service.
The Gorgon, 6, paddle-frigate, Commander R. B.
Crawford, left Portsmouth on Saturday night for the
eastward, with men whose leave had expired from the
ships fitting out there, and also supernumeraries.
The Ai iel, 9, Commander Luce, is ordered into har-
bour to repair some defects.
The Arabia, hired steam-transport (one of the Cunard
line of Transatlantic packets), Capt. Judkins, arrived at
Portsmouth on Saturday last horn the Black Sea, with
sick and wounded, as we announced on Saturday.
She left Constantinople on the 16th of February,
for Malta, with Lieutenant-Colonel Blake, of the 33d
Regiment, wife, and two servants ; Commander Hoare,
R.N., and servant ; Paymaster Hadley, of the 68th
Reglineut ; Captain Muir, of the 79th Highlanders ; and
Lieutenant Martin, R.A., and servant. From Constan-
tinople for England she brought Lieutenant-Colonel
Haines, of the 21st Regiment ; Lieutenant-Colonel Jef-
freys, of the 88th ; Major Tyler, of the 62d ; Major
Taylor, of the 79th ; Major Elrington, of the Rifle Bri-
gade ; Major Elliott, ditto ; Major Bourke, of the 17th
Regiment Major Baumgartner, of the 28th ; Major
Lardner, of the 47th ; Major Leith Hay, of the 93d
Highlanders ; and Major Call, of the 18th Royal Irish.
From Scutari, Captain South and wife (Brigade of
Guards) ; Captain Oxlebar, of the 93d Highlanders ;
Captains Balfour, Nixon, Lindsay, Ross, Warren,
and Drummond, of the Rifle Brigade • Captain
Acton, of the 77th ; Captain Barrett, of tile 19th ;
Captain Scott, ditto ; Captain Johns, of the 23d ;
Captain Morgan, of the 954 ; Captain Astley, of the
49th ; Captain Rocko, ditto ; Captain Maitland, of the
97th ; Captain Dawson, of the 93t1 ; Captain Swin-
bourne of the 18th Royal Irish ; Captain Earle, of the
17th ; Captain Cunningham, of the 79th ; Capt. Frame,
ditto ; Mr. George Chew, Commissary's clerk ; Mr.
Jex, veterinary surgeon ; Mrs. 'Wilson, nurse. The
whole of the before-mentioned officers have not come
home invalided from sickness or wounds, but on pro-
motion. From Malta for England the Arabia brought
Lieut. Dalby, R.M.; Lieut. Lodder, R.N.; and Mrs.
Baker and family; from Gibraltar for England, Mr. and
Mrs. M'Pherseu. From Constantinople for England,
the Arabia brought 194 sick and wounded soldiers and
9 women ; from Malta for Gibraltar, 2 ; from Malta
for England, 10 ; from Constantinople for Gibraltar,
1 ; from Gibraltar for England, 2 men, 2 women, and 2
children, She reports a great and manifest improve-
ment in the management of the transport service at Con-
ste.ntinople. The hospital at Scutari is becoming more
healthy and less crowded. The Arabia towed the sail-
ing transport Burmah (No 85) through the Straits of
Gibraltar on her way to England, with sick and wounded,
on Sunday, the 25th ult. Her Majesty's ship Belle-
rophon, 78, Captain Lord G. Paulet, also with sick and
wounded on board, was telegraphed from the hill on the
24th, but was not in sight on the 25th. The Arabia
passed her Majesty's ship Vengeance, also homeward-
' bound, off Cape Bonn, on the 21st. The CrEesue, steam-
transport, was to leave Malta the day after the Arabia,
for England ; she may now be hourly expected. The
same mismanagement and want of pre-organisation was
exhibited by the military authorities as has been so
painfully apparent on nearly every arrival of sick and
wounded at Portsmouth as yet. No medical officer or
other official was sent off to the Arabia while she lay
at Spithead to see what was the nature of the cases
and which the most urgent to be got to hospital. Two
of the sick have lost their legs, several are wounded in
the arms and shoulders, and many wounded in the legs,
mostly by gunshots. The dysentery and diarrhoea
patients are, as usual, the worst cases. Three men
have died en the passage. All the inva:ide have
benefitted much from the attention bestowed on them
during the passage. The number of invalids (non-com-
missioned officers and privates) brought home are-
from the Ist Royal Dragoons, 1 ; 4th Dragoon Guards,
3 ; sth Dragoon Guards, 5 • 6th Dragoon Guards, 1 ;
4th Light Dragoons, 1 ; Bth Hussars, 1 ; 13th Light
A,OOIIS, 1 ; 17th Lancers, 2.; Grenadier Guards, 5 ;
Coldetreams, 2 ; Scots Fusiliers, 3 ; Ist Foot,
3 ; 7th,
1 ; 17th, 3; 19th, 3; 20th, 7 ; 21st, 1 ; 23d, 6 ; 28th,
3 ; 30th, 6 ; 33d, 5 ; 34th, 1 ; 38th, 2 ; 41st, 7 ; 42,1,
1 ; 44th, 6 ; 4Gth, 4 ; 47th, 2 ; 49th, 1 officer and 1
private ; 50th, 5 ; 55th, 2 ; 57th, 7 ; 82d, 1 ; 63d, 8;
68th, 3 ; 77th, 4 ; 79th, 1 ; 88th, 10 ; 90th, 1 ; 93d, 2 ;
95th, 16 ; Ist battalion Rifle Brigade, 10 ; 2d ditto, 3 ;
Ambulance corps, 6; Royal Artillery, 22 ; Royal Sap-
pers and Miners, 1. These were under the military
charge of Captain H. Rocke, of the 49th,
Major-General Sir F. Smith, R.E., has received large
contributions of valuable comforts and necessaries for
the sick and wounded in hospital us Portsmouth garri-
son. These were distributed last Tuesday and Satur-
day by himself and Lady Smith. Each man received
one flannel and one linen shirt, a wrapper for the neck,
aed a supply of nutritious confections.
Royal Artillerymen are employed in mounting the
heavy guns at Fort Victoria, Sconce Point, Isle of
Wight.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. Caldwell,
was taken out of the basin dock at Plymouth on Friday,
and continued in Hamoaze on Saturday.
The steam gun-vessel Recruit, 4, was commissioned
at Plymouth on Thursday by Lieutenant G. F. Day.
The hired screw steam-transport Imperial, No. 188,
Captain Inman, which left London on Saturday, the
24th of February, with medical stores for Constanti-
nople, broke down her machinery on Thursday, the Ist
of March at 2 p.m., in lat. 46.21 N., and long. 8.42
W., and put back to Plymouth Sound on Saturday
evening.
The transport Vacona arrived at Plymouth on Satur-
day, and went to the Royal William Victualling-yard to
Iced stores. The Deva, Captain Giffard, is ordered
from Plymouth to 'Portemoutk. The War Cloud, No.
56, Captain Fox, has been discharged from the public
service.
The bark Henry Bowls, Captain Laing, with coal
-from Hartlepool for Savannah, after being 300 miles to
the westward, put back to Plymouth on Saturday with
loss of three topmasts, and the same day the Spanish
barque Maria and Juana, Captain Ugarte, from Mexico
with mahogany fer London, put in leaky and damaged,
with loss of sails, kc.
There are now on drill in Sheerness garrison nearly
1,000 newly raised fine young men for the Royal Artil-
lery corps, many of wheal are ready to be draughted
when their services may be required.
The Royal George, 102 guns, screw eteareeship was
under sailing orders to leave Sheerness yesterday for
Spithead, but in consequence of the waste-pipe in the
starboard side bursting, she is to leave to-day. In every
other respect she is ready for immediate service, having
shells, ammunition, &c., ou board.
The new screw steam-corvette Pylades, 21 gums will
get up steam to-day to try her engines and machinery.
She will sitortly be ready for sea.
The Velage, 22 guns, ordered to be commissioned, has
been put iato dry dock at Sheerness, to be fitted ready
for the pendant.
The Majestic, 81 guns, screw steam-ship, has com•
pleted taking in her ammunition, shells, shot, &c., and
is ready for sea.
On Saturday the steam-transport Baltic left the
Downs, carrying several hundred tons of stores, medical
comforts, and general necessaries to the hospital at Scu-
tari ; she also takes out Mr. Macconnell, 16 assistant
clerks, and a number of storekeepers, to establish the
purveyor's department at the hospital.
It is otated that, in addition to the 10th Hussars and
the 12it Lancers, the following infantry re:;brients will
proceed early in the spring from India for the seat of
war, vie -Bth Regiment of Foot, &Gni. Bengal ; 25th,
King's Own B nelerers, from Madras ; 29th Foot, from
Bengal; 431, Menmoutlishire Light Infantry, from
Madras ; 531 Foot, from Bengal ; Blst dit o, from
ditto ; 16th, 'loyal County Down, frone Bombay; 87th,
Royal Irish Fusiliers, from Bengal; and 98th Foot, from
ditto-rnakiug, with the aboveenentioned cavalry regi-
ments, s total of 7,700 men. These wild proceed by the
overland route to Alexandria, where they will embark
for the Crimea.
The 6th Carbineers and the depot of the 13th Dra-
goons, in quarters at Canterbury, have received orders
to hold themselves ready to embark for the Crimea im-
mediately.

department ; Wm. G. Englani, recently serving in the
Nankin, to the Driver.

Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, David Deas, to be In-
spector of Hospitals, and appointed to the Royal Albert,
121, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, on
the'Black Sea station.
Surgeon John Davidson, M.D., has been promoted to
be Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, vice Des.", promoted
and appointed to the hospital at Therapia.
Master Charles A. Smart, serving on the North Ame-
rican and West Indies station, is confirmed to the Arab,
12, sloop.
Chaplain.—Rev. Richard B. How, 8.A., to the Cey-
lon, 36, flagship of Rear-Admiral Superintendent Mon-
tagu Stopford, at Malta.
Naval Instructor.—Thomas S. Osborn, to the Aga-
memnon..

Clerks.—William Rogers, trom the Illustrious to the
Victory ; Joseph Singleton, to the Impregnable ; Edw.
J. Giles, to the Bellelisle hospital ship at Devonport ;
Richard Curgenven, to the Pembroke.
Naval Cadet4.—J. D. V. Butler, from the Vulture,
steam-frigate, to the Pembroke ; A. B. C. Booth, from
the Bulldog, steam-frigate, to the Exmouth.
Mate William R. Boulton, at pregent serving as mate
in the Nankin, 50, is promoted to be lieutenant.
The following appointments have taken place in the
Hospital staff :—Acting Assistant-Surgeon T. E. Hale,
to be an assistant-surge,br, vice Reade, who has been
appointed to the Rifle Brigade ; Acting Assistaut-Sur-
geon J. Macartney to be an assistant-surgeon, vice King,
appointed to the 41st Foot.
The following appointments have taken place in the
New Land Transport Corps : —Captain R. Larkins, of
the 49th Bengal Native Infantry, to be captain of a divi-
sion. The following to be quartermasters of brigades :
Sergeant G. R. Caldwell, Lieutenant L. Isacke, Ser
geant-Major J. Jones, Corporal A. M`Lean, Troop
Corporal-Major C. Hutton.
The stewards of the Black Sea fleet have made a sub-
scription, amounting to 371. 125., for James Jeffery, late
ship's steward of the Tiger, to enable him to purchase
some small articles, as a mark of their esteem, for which
kindness the recipient requests us to express his grati-
tude. Mr. Jeffery was cast away four times—in the
Thunderbolt in 1847, in the Birkenhead in 1852, when
he was 18 hours in the water, in the Caique sunk in the
Sea of Marmora, and recently in the Tiger, when he was
made prisoner, being the last to leave the ship.
General the Marquis Alphonse de la Marmora, Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Sardinian contingent for the Cri-
mea, accompanied by Lord Hathorton, visited Ports-
mouth on Saturday, and inspected the Himalaya, the
fortifications, &e., and also the fortifications at Sconce
Point, Isle of Wight.

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Dividend Amount ,
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
British •••••••••• •• •• 1 1
Ditto Provincial.•.• 71. 20 0 0 20 0 0 20
Brighton •• •• .. •• •• .. 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0
City of London • 41. Os. 100 0 0 100 5 0
:ontinental (3d Cap.)... 4/. Os. 10 0 0 43 10 0 58%
Equitable-. •......... 2/. 16s. 50 0 0 all 2954
Great Central ...... • 71 per cent. 10 0 0 all 1134
Imperial ............ 101 & bonus. 50 0 0 all 100
Independent .......•• 51. 40 0 0 PI 50
London.• ............ - 50 0 0 PP
Do., l'arl. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 99 25
Pa ix ............• 4:. per cent. GO 0 0 50 0 0 27U
Katcliff ..... ....... 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 73
United General ...• •• 11. Sc. :50 0 0 all 1914
Westminster f.'hartered 5' per cent.l 60 0 0 „ 39%
Ditto, New ........ 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 ' 0
WATER-WORKS.
Dividend 1 Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
East London
Grand Junction .... • • 4*. per cnt. 50 0 0 all 66
Kent.... • •
Lambeth
New River Company
Southwark &Vauxhall 51. per cnt. ,100 0 0 89%
West Middlesex .. ••