The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-22 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The screw steam troopship Perseverance, Captain
Harris, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning from
the westward. She left Portsmouth on the 25th ultimo
for Havre de Grace, where she embarked about 200 Rus-
sian prisoners (officers and men) ; she then proceeded to
Plymouth, and embarked a similar number there; thence
proceeding to Sheerness, where she took in a like num-
ber. She conveyed the whole to Libau, in the Baltic,
where, on arrival, she sent in a flag of truce, which was
' acknowledged by a military officer putting off in a boat.
Communications having been thus opened, the prisoners
were sent ashore in boats. They evinced the kindest
feeling and gratitude towards the officers and crew of the
ship, and cheered them on quitting her. The returns
for the liberation of a corresponding number of English
and French prisoners of war are to be sent by the Rus-
sian Government to Odessa. The Perseverance left
Libau for Elsinore, where she replenished her stock of
coal, and proceeded to Heligoland, where she embarked
350 of the British German Legion, whom she landed at
Folkestone on Friday morning, and then made for Spit-
head, where she arrived on Saturday morning, and re-
mained at anchor yesterday.
The Penelope, 18, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain
Sir William Wiseman, is under orders to leave Ports-
mouth on Sunday nest, for the Cape of Good Hope, and
will take a mail and parcels for the squadrou on that
station •, also a mail for the colony.
The Porpoise and Havoc bomb-vessels were taken
into dock, at Portsmouth, on Saturday, to be refitted for
nett season in the Baltic.
The steamers Trafalgar and Princess, which sailed
from Liverpool on Thursday for Dublin with the Ist
Regiment of Yorkshire (Rifle) Militia, returned to that
port on Friday with detachments of the Cambridge Mili-
tia, under the command of Col. Duncan, Major Pember-
ton, and Lieut.-Colonel Wale, together with detach.
ments of various cavalry regiments, with the following
officers : ...Captain Grant, of the 16th Light Dragoons ;
Captain Barron, 3d Dragoon Guards ; Lieutenant H.
M. Stapylton, d Dragoon Guards; Lieutenant Stewart,
16th Light Dragoons ; Lieutenant Neave, 3d Dragoon
Guards, and 134 privates.
The ships Golconda (1,124 tons) and Cologne 1,370
tons) have been chartered for the conveyance of troops
to the seat of war. • _ _

The brig Siren, Commander R. Otway, sailed from
Plymouth on Friday afternoon with a small mail for
Rio Janeiro and the Pacific.

The paddle-steamer Vixen, Master Commanding E.
C. Pym, from Woolwich, with boilers and machinery
for the Satellite, and supernumeraries, went into Key-
ham docks on Friday.
The steam-tender Avon, 3, Second Master Veitch,
was placed in Keyham dock for repairs on Friday. Her
crew has been transferred to the steam-vessel Inflexible,
6, which was placed at her sailing moorings, in Hamoaze,
on Saturday, and will sail for Woolwich to convey ma-
chinery for ships fitting at Devonport.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Thames, trans-
port No. 92, Captain Strutt, now lying at Southamp-
ton, is ready for sea, and orders have been received by
the company to prepare for the reception of the follow-
ing officers and troops at that port on Wednesday next :
—For Malta- Staff-Surgeon of the second class, T. A.
Lawson, and wife. For Constantinople:---Paymaster W.
C. Chantrill, Turlcish Contingent. For Scutari—Capt.
Maxwell, 34th Foot, and 160 men of the Medical Staff
Corps ; Major Boothby and Captain Adams, and 6
officers and 165 non-eommissioned officers and men of
the Royal Artillery ; 4 officers and 102 meti of
the 13th, 14th, and 15th Divisions of the Land Trans-
port Corps ; and 2 officers and 300 men of the 16th, 17th,
and 18th division of the same corps. Total, 17 officers
and 727 men. The Thameshasbeen most efficiently;fitted
for the transport service. By a very slight alteration
in the arrangements of the berths she can be transformed
into an hospital ship, and will po.:sess every comfort ne-
cessary for sick and wounded soldiers.

VISIT OF SIR BALDWIN WALKER, K.C.8.,

TO WOOLWICII.

At precisely 11 o'clock on Saturday Captain Sir Bald-
win W. Walker, K.C.8., surveyor of the navy, accom•
panied by Mr. Isaac Watts, assistant surveyor, arrived
at the main gate of Woolwich Dockyard, on a visit of
inspection, and were received by Commodore-Superin-
tendent John Shepherd, Mr. William M‘Pherson Rice,
master shipwright, and several of the officers of this yard,
who accompanied their visitors along the yard to the
new screw steam-corvette Pearl, recently launched at
this yard, and where she has been masted, and is at pre-
sent in the inner basin receiving her internal fittings.
Sir Baldwin Walker inspected the various parts of the
Pearl with great satisfaction, and, after which, the party
went round the yard to witness the various works, and
the ships that are building. Their visit, which was but
a short one, terminated at 12 o'clock, when they left for
town.

Draughts of the cavalry reserve, consisting of 205 men
of the 4th Dragoon Guards, the sth Dragoon Guards,
the Bth and 11th Hussars, and the 17th Lancers, left
Dublin on Friday, to join their respective corps in the
Crimea. The following officers have sailed :—Captain
Percy Smith and Lieut. Stapylton, Queen's Bays ; Capt.
Barron and Lieut. Neave (3d) Prince of Wales's Dra-
goon Guards ; Captain Smith and Lieut. Dettmar, 7th
Dragoon Guards ; Captain Sir W. Russel and Lieut.
Browne, 7th Hussars ; and Capt. Grant and Lieutenant
Williams, 16th Lancers. A very large cavalry reserve is
to be immediately formed at Kululee for those corps now
in the Crimea. It will amount to several thousand rank
and file, as the draughts from Newbridge, Maidstone,
Canterbury, &c., are under immediate orders. These
will be entirely officered by the home cavalry, under
i Lieut.-Col. Morrie, of the 17th Lancers.

Quartermaster-Sergeant J. Twigg, City of Dublin
Militia, is appointed Quartermaster in the German
Legion.
Lieut--Col. A. J. Pack, 7th Royal Fusiliers, who was
wounded at the unsuccessful attack on the Redan on the
18th of June, has been appointed by Viscount Hardinge
Assistant-Quartermaster-General of the Cork District, in
the room of Colonel Terence O'Brien. He left town on
Saturday last for Cork, to enter on his military duties.
Colonel Pack is the son of the late General Sir Denis
Pack, nephew of the late Viscount Beresford.

The following appeared in our late edition of Satur-
day :
MEDAL AND GRATUITY FOR CONSPICUOUS
GALLANTRY.

ADMIRALTY, Saturday Evening.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have this
day been pleased to grant a medal and gratuity of 151.
to John Shepherd, boatswain's mate, late of her Ma-
jesty's ship St. Jean d'Acre, now belonging to her Ma-
jesty's ship Rodney, for conspicuous gallantry, in endea-
vouring to set fire to the Russian ships in the harbour
of Sebastopol, by means of an exploding apparatus, on
the nights of the 15th of July and 16th of August, 1855.