The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-05 00:00:00

NAVAL AiV D 111/1, fT_ .LAY I G-117..N

A report was yesterday currant in Portsmouth dock-
yard that Rear-Admiral Sir Wi!ham Edmund Parry,
Lieutenant• Governor of Greenwich Fospit•il, had died
at the watering-place in Germany (Ems, we believe) to
which he had lately resorted with the view. of renovating
his health.

The Myrmidon. 4, iron stearn-res!,:el, Lieutenant
Maurisell commanding, was towed out of harbour for
Spithead, after being fitt3d for service in -the Coast of
Africa Squadron on Tuesday evening. Mr. Hobbs, the
Chief Engineer, R.N., takes* passage in her to join the
Commodore's ship Scourg,e. The Diligence, naval tran-
sport, sailed from Spithead yesterday for the Eastern
dockyards, with stores. •
The hired screw steam-transport Zebra, No. 211, Cap-
tain Betts, from Balaklava„ June 14 ; Constantinople,
20 ; and Malta, 25, arrived at Plymouth yesterday. She
brings passengers from Constantinople, Deputy-Assist-
ant-Commissary-General Gould, Mr. Samuel Boyd,
Assistant Storekeeper, and 10 merchant seamen. Passed
June 25, off Gez.), the screw steam-transport Arcadia,
bound for Liverpool ; and on the 26th, in lat. 37.20 N.,
long. 5.28, bound west, the screw steam-transport Im-
peratrice, which left Malta on the 24th ; and July 4, off
the Lizard, the ship Barham, steering south-west.
The G.lypso, 18 guns, Captain Arthur Forbes, ar-
rived at Sheerness yesterday, saluted the admiral's flag,
and anchored 'off Blackstakes at 1.20 p.m. She is from
the North .A:nserica and West Indies station.

The Powerful, 84 guns, sailing ohip, Captain Thomas
L. Massie, was ordered yesterday to prepare to take on
board 600 supernumeraries, consisting of marines, marine
artillery, and seamen, to be called for at Portsmouth and
Plymouth, a portion thereof to embark at Sheerness
from the Chatham division of marines. She has also re-
ceived an order to take all her lower-deck guns on beard,
which had been previously landed. She wi►l be ready
for sea at noon to-day.
The .Glatton .floating. battery, Captain A. Cumming,..
left Sheerness yesterday on a trial trip.
The Horatio, 24 guns, Captain the Hon. A. A. Ccch-
rane, left Sheerness yesterday with the mortar-vessel
Sinhad in tow ; the latter on her way to the Baltic, the
former for Heligoland.
The Kite, 3 guns, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, passed
up the Thames from Bermuda at 2.25 p.m. yesterday
(apparently disabled in her machinery department),
under sail only.
Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, of the Waterloo, was
honoured with the company of the Commander-in-Chief,
Vice-Admiral the Hon. William Gordon, to dinner yes-
terday, at Sheerness. The ward room offiesrs of Cie
Waterloo also received an invitation from Lord Frederick
Kerr to meet their Commander-in-Chief.

The Hermes, steam-sloop, Commander Henry Cory-
ton, has received orders to prepare for sea immediately.
It is said that she is to take ono of the floating batte-
ries out to the Baltic.

The Urgent, screw steam-vessel, leas come down to
Woolwich, after having been taken into dock at Black-

The Meteor, floating battery, Captain Frederick Beau-
champ Seymour, received her boats and requi-Fites for
the boats yesterday morning, and left, Woolwich for
Greenhithe, to have her conirl.ses adjusted.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—Surgeons Sloan, to the Saturn ; G.
Millar, to the Wellesley ; John Gallaghan, to the It.yal
George ; Daniel Ritchie, to the Arrogant ; J. Stirluh7,
to the Queen ; J. D. Tweoddaie, to the Fury ; W. T.
Domville, to Vie Agamemnon ; As4stant-Surgoon W.
Crawford, to the Marines at Woolwich ; Chas. Douglas
Shepherd, promoted to he surgeon of the London.
Major Na.myth, so distinguished as one of the
heroic defenders of Silistria, arrived in Kilkenny on
Monday last, to enter on his duties as Adjutant-General
of the district.

On Tuesday six detachments, viz., 1 sergeant and 8
privates, 9th Dragoons ; 2 sergeants, 3 corporals, and
14 privates, 14th Light Dragoons ; 1 sergeant and 13
privates, 24th Foot ; 5 sergeant; and 32 privates, 29th ;
1 private, 52d ; and 1 of the 87th, arrived at the General
Hospital, Chatham, as invalids from India, under com-
mand of Captain H. E. Reader, 14th Light Dragoons,
with Lieut. R. H. Travers, 24th Foot. The invalids dis-
embarked at Gravesend from the ship Queen, from Ben-
gal. Private Nash, 29th, died at sea on the 13th of
April.

The following draughts, which arrived in Cork from
the Fermoy Battalion on Monday, are to embark in the
Bride of the Sea, which will shortly leave that port for
the seat of war :-30th Foot—Brevet-Major. Camp-
bell, Captain Brook, Lieutenants Moorsom and Tolcher,
Ensigns Deane and Campbell, 4 sergeants, 2 drummers,
71 rank and file. nth—Captain Astley, Lieutenants
Rogers, Madan, and Powell, Ensign Burrowes, 5 ser-
geants, 2 drummers, 143 rank and file. 50th—Lieu-
tenants Dimond, Creagh, Hickman, Leach ; 1 sergeant,
1 drummer, 18 rank and file. 68th—Lieutenants Blood,
Light, Nicholetts, Clarkson, Thornton, Stuart, 5 ser-
geants, 2 drummers, 143 rank and file. Total-3 cap-
tains, 18 subalterns, 14 sergeants, 7 drummers, 375 rank
and file.

A letter from Cephalonia represents the reception of
Ensign (late Sergeant) Sullivan by the officers of the
82d, to which he was gazetted, as most cordial—just
such as should be the reception of a brave soldier by
brothers in bravery as well as arms.
A draught of the 21st Fusiliers, under command of
Captain Peddie, arrived in Cork Barracks on Saturday.