The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-30 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1855.

A..RUSSIAN INFERNAL MACHINE,
picked up off Cronsta It, by 11. V.S. Wellingtim, is on view
and its ;se expla.neci daily, at the ROYAL PANOPTICON, Leicester-
square. Doors open, morning, 12 to 5 ; awning, 7to 10. Admission,
Is.

p OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
For ono night only, WEDNESDAY, the lgth instant, at
Eight o'clock'. A ORAND MUSICAL ENTEItTAINMENT will he
riven by Mr. GEORME DUCKLAND, assisted by the following
eminent Artists:—Miss Clari Fraser, Mr. T. Young, Mr. Henry
Buekland, Mr. Goveli:ein, and Mr. Montem Smith. Thu Selection
will consist of Glees, Duets, and Songs from the most eminent com-
posers.

tenant-Commander Wm. T. F. Jackson, left Sheerness
on Saturday for her cruising ground off the coast of
Scotland, having completed her refitment for the season.
' During the thunderstorin on Thursday last the electric
fluid descended over the Thunder floating battery, at
moorings on the west shore abreast of the dockyard,
Sheerness, struck the mizenmast of that ship, and
shivered her masthead to pieces.
Her Majesty's steam-transport Rhadarnanthus, John
Be lam, Master-Commander, has arrived at Woolwich
with stores from Portsmouth. I
The hired transport Heaper, Donald Cruikshank,
Commander, has sailed from Woolwich for the Crimea,
with waggons, shot, &c. -
The Adelaide steam-transport has also sailed from
Woolwich for the Black Sea, heavily laden with powder,
shot, shell, ambulance waggons, hospital carts, and other
stores.
The building capabilities of Peralieokedonkyard are to
be enlarged by the construction of two newvbuilding slips,
which, when completed, will raise the number to 14.
Several of these are of very large dimensions, capable of
taking the largest men of war. These works, with a new
boat basin, are now being carried out, and the dry dock
is also being lengthened and widened
.so as to admit a
heavier ship than hitherto. The RUM of 25,0001. will
this year be expended in these improvements. The erec-
tion of gasworks for the dockyard is immediately to be
proceeded with, and the whole is to he ready by October,
when the arsenal will be lighted by gas. The strength
of this establishment has of late been much increased,
and the utmost activity prevails. . S
Several detachments of regiments serving in India ar-
rived on Friday evening at the General. Hospital, Fort
Pitt, Chatham, being invalids sent home for discharge.
There are a few able men among them ) these will join
their depot's provisional battalip,-Cha Ls m arrison, to
complete their time of service. They r ••• . -is o the fo
lowing corps :—.Bth King's Own, 10th ' pot, 22d, 35th,
ad, 53d, let Battalion 60th Rifles, :i , 75th, Q6th,
Royal Artillery, and St. Helena Regiment, in charge of
Lieutenant William Henry Herrick, Bth Foot. The
undermentioned officers also came home in the ship :
Lieutenant Peter Edward Quin, 98th ; Surgeon Charles
Hamilton Fasson, 14th Light Dragoons ; Assistant-
Surgeon Bassana, 70th ; Major Whitelock and Dr. Fer-
son, of the East India Company's service. These troops
embarked on board the ship Marlborough, Capt. Smith,
on the 30th of March last, at Calcutta, and sailed the
following day, and arrived at St. Helena on the 16th of
June and received on board a detachment of invalids,
consisting of 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 4 privates,
one woman, and two children of the St. Helena Regi-
ment ; on Thursday they arrived in the Thames, and
disembarked at Gravesend the following day. They
brought home five military prisoners under various sen-
tences by General Court-Martials. During She voyage
there were eight deaths, viz., Privates Mitchel and Kelly,
Bth Foot ; Charles Purcel, 35th ; Corporal John Ryan,
Patrick Allen, Henry Sarrance, 52d ; John Porcer, 96th;
C. Hangar, 70th; they died from phthisis and dysentery.
The Royal Artillery has proceeded to Woolwich.
Information has been received at Chatham garrison, of
the arrival in the Channel of the 22d Regiment from
India ; they are expected at Chatham daily.
Another party of Russian prisoners has just arrived at
Lewes from Portsmouth, consisting of four officers and
four privates. They are all from the Crimea, and during
the past week eight officers and as many men have thence
arrived in Lewes. The officers are fine, powerful men,
above the ordinary stature. They are all in lodgings in
the town, and the privates are in the war prison.
Large quantities of shell of every description, from
13-inch to the smallest sizes used, with mortars to match,
are being made at two of the principal foundries in
Liverpool.
We regret to announce that telegraph intelligence has
been received of the death of Lieutenant the Hon. E.
Fitzclarence. Lieutenant Fitzclarence died on Wed-
nesday last, from the effects of his wounds, at the Eng-
lish hospital at Constantinople, to which place he had
been conveyed from Balaklava. The gallant deceased
was serving as aide-decamp to his colonel, the late Co-
lonel Yea, and with him took part in the unsuccessful
attack on the Redan, on the 18th ult., where he was
very dangerously wounded. He suffered amputation of
the left leg and the right hand, which operations he bore
with great fortitude, and at the date of the last letters
he was considered to be progressing most favourably,
so that the receipt of the news of his death las occa-
sioned much grief to his relatives. The deceased was
the fourth and youngest son of the late Earl of Mun-
ster, and was born on the Bth of July, 1837. He entered
the 7th Regiment, as Ensign, in November, 1854, and
in January last obtained his lientenantey. In the spring
be accompanied the depot of his regiment to the seat of
war, and he had only been a few weeks before Sebasto-
pol when he was called upon to assist in the attempt on
the Redan.