The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-26 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

The latest- movements of the Black Sea fleet are men-
tioned in letters from off Sebastopol, dated the Gth. One
of these says:—" The Princess Royal, 91, arrived this
morning, so we have now here the Royal Albert, 124,
Ag,atuemnon 91, Algiers, 91, Hannibal, 91, and St. Jean
d'Acre, 101. The Admiral and Staff will shift over to
the Royal Albert towards the end of the week. The
naval instructor and chaplain will be the only followers,
besides one or two of the midshipmen, who will go with
him out of the Agamemnon.
The Britannia, 120, Captain T. R. Carter, late flag-
ship of Vice-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., ex-Commander-in-
Chief of the Black Sea fleet, arrived at Portsmouth on
Saturday afternoon from the Black Sea and the Medi-
terranean, 30 days from Malta, owing to contrary winds.
She brought home about 100 men of the lost Tiger, who,
together with their officers, will undergo the form of
trial by court-martial for their participation in that
catastrophe. Her crew, now mustering between 500
and GOO then, aro in good health. They have not suf-
fered from any want of provhions on their protracted
voyage. Her ship's complement was reduced to the
above number from 1,000 men by cholera at Varna, and
by sending a large number of seamen and marines into
the trenches. Lieutenant the Hon. R. A. Capel, Lieu-
tenant Kidd, and Mr. Francis M. Norman, mate, were
left on shore off Sebastopol. Her late First Lieutenant
(Mr. Greathead), it will be remembered, was killed on
this service. At the attack by the fleet-on Sebastopol
every gun on the starboard broadside.of the Britannia
fired an average of between 80 and 90 rounds at Fort
Constantine.

The St. George, 120, Captain Eros, C. 8., also anchored
at Spithead on Saturday afternoon from Malta, whither

she had taken troops for the East for Queenstown. She
has been five weeks on her passage. She left the Trafal-
gar close to Gibraltar, and expected to find her at Spit-
head before her. We regret to add that smallpox broke
out among her crew (St. George's), after leaving Malta,
there having been 30 cases and two deaths reported. The
crews of all these ships will, we believe, be made avail-
able for the screw fleet, the batteries, mortar-vessels,
and gun-boats, together with coast volunteers.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's ship Calcutta, taken up by the Government for
the transport of troops, has been appropriated for the
conveyance of the Royal Lancashire Militia from Ports-
mouth to Corfu. She arrived at Portsmouth last even-
ing, and will be ready this day to embark the troops.
Detachments of two captains, two subalterns, six ser-
geants, and 120 rank and file, from the depots of the 20th
and 95th Regiments, will embark with the Lancashire
Militia on board the Calcutta. The Royal Wiltshire
Militia, also under orders for Corfu, will embark at
Portsmouth early in the ensuing month on board her
Majesty's troop transport Resistance.
The clipper ship Result, Captain Cow. the property
of Mr. R. Green, of London, arrived at Portsmouth on
Saturday afternoon from China, laden with tea, cotton,
&c., leaky, having exper'e-c3d very heavy weather.
She did net touch at the Cape. On bringing up at Spit-
head she parted her chain cable, and tailed near the Spit
in the evening at low water; she touched the ground,
but was soon towed into deep water by a Government
tug, obtained by Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon, the r
to Lloyds, from the Admiral Superintendent. She has
eight feet of water in her hold. Messrs. Garratt and
Giblion took off a good party of hands to help to pump
her, and themselves went personally to superintend-the
work. The cargo is a very valuable one.
The Mirage, Clptain Carter, from Hartlepool for
Shanghai, also arrived-Ak 2pithead pn.Saturda...,y. In
working in at the east end grounded on the inner elbow
of the Dean Sand, but was assisted off again and
anchored at Spithead without apparent damage.
By letters from her Majesty's ship Dido, 20, Captain
Morshead, C. 8., on the Pacific station, we learn that
on Christmas-day, Lieutenant Pigott, first lieutenant of
that ship, was murdered on board by a marine. It ap-
pears that some of the crew were making an outrageous
noise between decks, and Lieutenant Pigott, having
tried to put a stop to it, the marine used mutinous

language, which induced the lieutenant to threaten to

put him in irons. The man then rushed at the officer
and plunged 'a knife into; his abdomen, from the effects
of which he soon after died.

Her Majesty's new steam yacht Victoria and Albert,
in the steam basin at Portsmouth, is having some alte-
rations made in the arrangements for the accommoda-
tion of the ship's company, at the suggestion of the Hon.
Joseph Denman, which will render them much more
comfortable.

The Comet steam-tug went to Spithead yesterday, and
,00k out of the St. George several of her sick men, and

landed them at Haslar Hospital.

The Sprightly steam-tender took out of the Calcutta,
at Spithead, yesterday, all the men belonging to the
Blenheim, Hogue, &c., who had been on leave. She
also landed the two Bulgarian children, whose capture,

or rather guardianship by the officers of the Firebrand,
has been before fully described.

The following is an extract from a letter received from
an officer of one of her Majesty's transport-ships, with
574 troops on board, bearing date Gibraltar :—" On ac-
count of smallpox breaking out, and showing itself in
only one case of a very mild nature, it was deemed ex-
pedient by the comtrander of the forces and the captain
tl e steamer to put into Gibraltar for the purpose of
landing the above case, and thereby preventing, as far

as human m,ans could go, a coniag. iou which would
suo4 likely rapidly increase on account cf the crowded
state in which the men were packed together. Ou the
existence of the else being reported to the health officer,
the ship was placed in quarantine as a matter cf neces-
sity ; -but, although we lay in harbour awaiting the
decision of the authorities respecting the matter for
the bpaoe of 24 hours, the only reply was that some
of the authorities were de3irous of convening a
Board of Health, which unfortunately militated against
the opinion of others. A. pest-captain of one of her
Majesty's ships in harbour also explained to the governor
the necessity of the invalid's removal, and heroically
offered to remove him on board his own ship rather
than that we should run the danger of putting to sea
with the case on board. However, after waiting some
considerable time longer; no result could be obtained.
Surely this is another flagrant case which proves to the
public the want of head in all our public departments.
The final reply leas just been sent. We are net to be
admitted. Several other cases are just showing them-
selves. One man of the 73d Regiment is down in the
disease. We have to proceed to Malta immediately, al-
though it is the opinion of medical men that it is mad-
ness to do so."

A. court-martial assembled on board the Impregnable,
104, at Plymouth, en Thursday, for the trial of Com-
mander Henry Alexander Story and Mr. Thomas H.
' Huss, master of her Majesty's screw steam-sloop Harier,
for running that vessel ashore on the morning of the
29th of November, off the island of Virgin Gorda, in
the- West Indies. Rear-Admiral Plumridge presided,
and the prisoners were sentenced to be severely repri-
manded, the Court "being of opinion that sufficient
precautions were not taken to secure the safety of the
ship."

Th© hired sailing transport Deva, 96, of Liverpool,
Captain William Giffard, from the Bosphorus, Jan.

4th, and the Straits of Gibraltar, Feb. 2d, arrived in
Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning. This ship took
out the head-quarters of the 4th Dragoon Guards, whom
she landed at Varna July 10, and has returned in ballast,
having three invalided seamen from the transports, War
Cloud, Talavera, and Mauritius. Lieutenant Scott,
R.N., is the agent in charge. Jan. sth, in the north
entrance to the Dardanelles spoke the transport Panola,
No, 71 ; Jan. 7, in the Zea channel, the transport Mary
Ann, 64 ; Jan. 13th, north of Malta, the transport
Maori, 91, Escort, 97, London, 34, Burmah, 85, and,
bound to Plymouth, the War Cloud, 56. Jai. 30 and
Feb. 1, six miles east of Gibraltar, all loaded and bound
west, the Rebecca, of Glasgow, Juliana, the Austrian
brig St. George, four large Austrian ships, and the
schooner Gratitude, 18 days out from London for Gib-
raltar. On the 17th inst., in lat. 50 deg. 25 min. north,
long. 10 deg. 12 min. west, wind south south-east, blow-
ing strong, saw a three-decker, under close reefed can-
vast, standitg to the south, supposed to be her Majesty's
ship Britannia, 120, Captain Thomas W. Carter. Feb.
23, in the channel, spoke the bark Laura, going up the
channel, supposed from Pernambuco for Hamburg. The
Deva was 39 days going out to the Black Sea, and 50
days in coming home.

The transport Sultana, with invalids from the Crimea,
arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning.
The screw steam-ship Exmouth, 90, Captain Pelham,
has returned from her trial cruise to Plymouth Sound.
She is described by those on board as "worse than the
Albion ; rolls tremendously, and carries away every-
thing." Her rnainyard is gone. The machinery answers
very well.
Lieutenant George F. Day and Lieutenant Corn-
merell have been appointed to the command, at Ply-
mouth, of the two gun-boats (Nix and Salamander) re-
cently exchanged for the frigate Thetis. Each boat is to
have a complement of 65 men, but where they are to be
stowed it is difficult to say.
The screw-corvette Tartar, 20,
,Captain H. Dunlop,
entered Plymouth Sound on Friday morning. She left
Portsmouth a week ago to cruise in the Channel. The
Tartar experienced very heavy weather, and beeame
leaky.
The paddl,- wheel steam-slocp Prometheus, 5, Com-
mander Jasper 11. Selwyn, which arrived at Plymouth
on Thursday, left Sierra Leone on the 27th of January,
and, after a series of headwinds, arrived at, Tener,ffe on
the night of the Bth inst. Having coaled and watered
on the island, she sailed again on the morning of the
13th inst.

At the time of her leaving Sierra Leone the only men
of-war on the northern division were the brig Britomart,
8, Commander A. llesseltine, at Sierra Leone ; and the
sloop Ferret, 8, Commander C. T. Leckie, cruising off
the river Pongos. In the Bights were the brig Crane,
6, Commander Thomas Miller ; the brigantine Dolphin,
3, Lieutenant-Commander Edmund Webber ; and the
paddle-wheel steam-vessel Antelope, 3, Lieutenant-
Commander Charles H. Young. In the south division
the sloop Philomel, 8, Commander 'John D. Maeskene ;
the screw steam-sloop Plumper, 9, Commander G. A.
L. WEarten ; and the paddle-wheel steam-vessel Pluto,
4, The Commodore left Lagos in December for the
south coast, and was expected shortly at Sierra Leone.
The brig Crane, 6, Commander Thomas Miller, has re-
ceived her sailing orders, and may be expected home at
an early period.
Rear-Admiral Plumridge has hoisted his flag as super-
intendent of the Devonport dockyard on board the
guard-ship in ordinary Royal William, 120, Captain
Kingeornhe, at Plymouth.
The riggers employed in fitting the screw steam-ship
Cornwallis, GO, at Devonport, have got topgallantmasts
pointed and topsailyards crossed.
The screw steam-ship Duke of Wellington, 131, will
be taken out of the Keybam Dock this day, and she will
go into Plymouth Sound on the 2d of March. The
Captain of the Baltic fleet, the Hon. F: T. Pelham' will
take charge of her to Portsmouth, where she will bear
the flag of Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., Commander-in-
Chief of the Baltic Fleet. The steam-vessel Lightning,
at Woolwich, will be appropriated as tender to the
Duke for the service of the Admiral, and for postal
purposes.
At the Davenport Dockyard the smiths are now
working from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Shipwrights em•
ployed in the boat house, and all the joiners, except
those employed on the Conqueror, work extra hours.
The transport Timandra has sailed for the Crimea.
The lighter Rambler sailed during last week for the
same destination.
The shipwrecked mater and crew of the schooner
Hiram, of Cardiff, have been landed at Deal from the
Odea, from New Yorkifor Hamburg. The master, Lake,
reports that he sailed in the Hiram, from Cardiff, on the
13th inst., for .Gibraltar, and when in latitude 47.50
(Bay of Biscay), the weather being very bad, the vessel
sprung: a leak. The crew were kept at the pumps
from the 16th to the 20th inst., without any -rest.
About 10 a.m. of the 20th, the water being then up to
the cabin floor, the master and crew abandoned the

Commander Alexander C. Gordon to the
Commander Thomas D. A. FQrtescue to command
the Barracouta sloop on the East India station, vice
Commander George Parker, promoted to be captain.
Commander H. C. Glyn to commission and command
the Hecate.

Lieutenants—Charles J. Bullock, to the Merlin ;
Thomas Barnardiston, to the Duke of Wellington; Wil-
liam F. Gregory, to the Rnssell ; Francis W. Bennett,
to the Cornwallis ; George F. Aston, to the Himalaya ;
Charles G. G. Perceval, to the Majestic; John R. Ous-
ley, t) the Penibroke ; and Richard B. Creyke, to the
Mertin, for surveying service.
Master's-assistant W. H. Parker, to the Recruit.
Commander Edward B. Rice, in command of the
Driver, sloop, to be Captain.
Sccend-Masters Edmund Swain and Richard C. Dyer
to be masters.

Several promotions and appointments have taken
place in the corps of Royal Marines, dated Feb. 21,
1855, consequent on the retirement of Lieutenant-Col.
John Land, and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George
Mitford.

The following appointments have taken place in the
hospital staff :—Mr. W. Morris, Mr. W. Stockwell,
Mr. S. A. Lithgow, Mr. W. Sharp, Mr. J. Denholm,
M.D., Mr. F. Pratt, and Mr. G. Wright, to be actin
assistant-surgeons.

THE NEW MILITARY UNIFORM:

TIM% GITAILDS.
Her Majesty having, at the recommendation of the
General Commanding-in-Chief, been pleased to approve
of the following regulations with regard to the dress of
officers of infantry, officers who are appointed to corn-.,
mission, or requiring uniforms, will provide themselves
as herein described, viz.:-
1. CO./T.—Scarlet, double-breasted, with. voila; lap.
pals, and cuffs, of the regimental facing. The collet- •
rounded off in front. The lappels made to be worn
either turned back or buttoned over, the latter if ort
parade or duty. The cuff round, it inches deep ; a
slashed flap on the sleeve of the regimental facing, 6
inches long and 21 inches wide, with three loops of
4-inch lace and regimental buttons. Two rows of regi-
mental buttons down the front, nine in each row at equal
distances, the distance between the rows 8 inches at top
and 4at bottom. The skirt 14 inches deep fort an offi-
cer of the height of 5 feet 9 inches, with a variation of
half an inch longer or shorter for every inch of differ-
ences in the height of the wearer. Scarlet slashed flap
on the skirt behind, 10 inches deep, two buttons on slash,
and one on waist, standing 3 inches apart, with three
loops of i•inch lace. The coat, collar, cuffs, and slashes
edged with white, and the skirts lined with white. On
the left shoulder a crimson silk cord, to retain the sash,
with a small regimental button.
2. The field officers to be distinguished by lace round
the top and bottom of the collar—down the edge of the
skirts behind—also on the edge of the skirt flaps, and
edge of the sleeve flaps ; two rows of lace round the top
of the cuffs ; and the following badges embroidered in
silver at each end of the collar, viz. :
Colonel, a crown and ',tar. •
Lieutenant-Colonel, a crown.
Major, a star.
The other officers to have lace only on the top of the
collar, one row round the top of the cuff', none on the
edge of the skirts, the loops only on the skirt flaps and
sleeve flaps, and ie following badges at each end of the
collar, viz. :
Captain, a crown and star.
Lieutenant, a crown.
Ensign, a star.

3. LAcE,L-Guld, according to the petern established
r e.t&l roginieLt, but in Lo case to exceed the breadth
of half an inch.

4. BurroNs.--Gilt, with the number of the regiment,
sui mounted by a crown.
5. LAP.—Shako of black felt, 5 inches deep-- in the.
front, 71 inches deep behind, one inch less in diameter
at top than at bottom, patent leather sunk top turned
over at the edge to the breadth of g of an inch, and
stitched round ; a baud of the same double stitched, and
of au inch wide, encircles the bottom of the cap ; a
peak of patent leather 28 inches wide in front, and
another 11' inches behind ;-A chin strap of an inch.
wide, fastened inside to the
top of the cap. Gilt
plate, a star of eight points, Sis, in extreme diameter,
surmounted by a crown, and having the number of the
regiment in bright gold on black ground, within a garter
proper. 4 bronze Gorgon's head at the back for a ven-
tilator.

6. WORSTED BALL TUFT.—Regimental field-officers
and battalion companies § white and red, at the bot-
tom ; grenadier companies all white ; light infantries,
green ; and the whale with a gilt socket.
7. TROUSERS.—From the 15th of October to the 30th
of April, Oxford mixture cloth, with a scarlet welt down
the outward seam ; from the Ist of May to the 14th of
October, dark blue, with a scarlet welt, in the United
Kingdom and on the North American or other stations
in cold climates ; white linen in the East or West Indies
and the Mediterranean.

8. BELT.—Waistbelt of white enamelled leather, an
inck and a half wide, with slings and a gilt hook.
The sword when hooked up to have the edge to the
rear, and the back to the front. This is to be the only
svvordbelt for all occasions.
9. Fr.aTa.—A round clasp, gilt, having in the centre-
piece the number of the regiment surmounted by a
crown, both in silver, and in the outer circlo the regi•
mental title in silver letters.
10. SASH.—Crimson silk net, with fringe ends, united
by a crimson runner, worn diagonally over the left
shoulder, and the ends of the fringe not to hang below
the bottom of the coat.

11. BLIJE FROCK COAT.—Double breasted, with stand-
up collar, enff4, and lappels, all blue. The collar
rounded off in front • round cuff 21 inches deep ; slashed
flap on sleeve 54 inches long, 44 inch wide, with three
small regimental buttons. Two rows of regimental
buttons down the front, nine in each row at equal dis-
tances, the distance between the rows 8 inches at top
and 4at bottom. Slashed flaps on skirts behind 10
inches deep, with two regimental buttons on slash mud
one on waist. The skirt 17 inches deep for an officer 5
feet 9 inches in height, with a variation of half an inch
longer or shorter for every inch of difference in the height
of the wearer. The skirts lined with black. On the
left shoulder a crimson silk ccrd, to retain the sash, with
a small regimental button. Field officers to have the
distinction of their rank (crown and star for colonel ;
crown, lieutenant-colonel; star, major) embroidered in
gold at each end of the collar. The collars of the other
officers to be plain. This coat to be worn with the
waist-belt and the sash over the left shoulder, as a com-
mon morning dress, when riding or walking in the neigh.
bourhool of their quarters ; but it is to be understood
that the blue frock shall not be worn on any parade, or
on the march, or at exercise with the troops, or on any
description of duty.
12. SHELL JACKET.—To be discontinued on all home
service, hut permitted to be worn in the East and West
Indies, the Mauritius, and Mediterranean stations, as at
present.
13. FORAGE CAP.—As at present.
14. REGIMENTAL STAFF OFFICERS.—The adjutant

t• wear the uniform of his rank, and in the field a steel
scabbard. Paymasters, quartermasters, surgeons, and
assistant-surgeons are to wear the uniforms of their re-
spective regiments, with the distinctions of their corres-
ponding ranks, excepting that they are to wear cocked
hats, black waist-belts with slings, and no Sash. The
hat is to be 9 inches in the fan or back part, the front
7A- inches, with the regulation lace loop and crape-fringe
tassels ; the paymaster to wear no feather ; the quarter-
master to have a hackle feather 5 inches fusi-

tier regiments all white—in regiments of the line 3
inches wh:te and 2 red, at bottom—in light infantry regi-
ment, green—the surgeon and Assistant-surgeon to wear
a feather of black cocketail, drooping from a feathered
stem, 3 inches in length. The surgeon and assistant-
surgeon will also wear a shoulder belt, with a small ease
of instruments, according to pattern.
15. No alteration has been made in any of the articles
of dross not mentioned in this memorandum
16. Patterns of the above articles of dross aid ap-
pointments have been sealed and deposited at the office
of military boards for the inspection of tradesmen, and
for the regulation of future supplies.—By command.
G. A. WETIIERALL, Adjutant-General.

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