The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-14 00:00:00

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I now ask you to drink to " The health of General,
Pelissier, Simpson, Marmora, and Omer Pacha ;" and I
hope and trust that as their colours are now waving in
Sebastopol, the Russian flag will ere long be swept from
the Crimea. (Loud applause.)
The next toast was "The health of the Members of
Parliament for the County and Burgh," acknowledged
by Major Currming Bruce, M.P.
The meeting, which was a very enthusiastic ono
throughout, terminated about 10 o'clock.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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The Thames, steam-transport, No. 92, belonging to
the West India Mail Packet Company, arrived at Spit-
head early yesterday morning from the Crimea. She
brings no invalid troops, but about 60 invalid seamen
and marines, who have chiefly been engaged in the
trenches. She has also four serjeants of the Royal Ar-
tillery, who come home to join their battalions, and a
few men from the Land Transport Corps. Captain
Beynon and seven of the crew of the brig John Beynon,
which wa, run down in the Sea of Marmora, and the
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following officers, all of whom came home invalided by
illness or wounds :—Lieut.-Colonel W. Napier, Land
Transport Corps ; Capt. Foster, 11th Hussars ; Capt.
Caulfield, Coldstream Guards ; Capt. Ball, 31st Foot ;
Capt. Murray, 79th Foot ; Capt. J. Doherty, of the
Staff ; Lieut. Yates, 11th Hussars ; Lieut. Torriano,
Royal Artillery ; Lieut. C. B. Hughes, 62d Foot ;
Lieut. Mairis, R.M. ; Lieut. C. J. Napier, R.M. ; Lieut.
Robinson, 7th Foot. Capt. Shearman, Ist Dragoons,
comes home on leave, and Lieutenant Yates, 11th Hus-
sars, on promotion. The Thames reports the following
vessels :—Augnst 21, the steamer Severn left Constan-
tinople for Balaklava ; August 24, passed the steamer
Medway ; August 27, the Trent, steamer, arrived
at Malta en route to Balaklava ; August 29, exchanged
signals with the Terrible, 21, steam-frigate, and
the Sheldrake, in lat. 37, long. 11 ; and on 4th Sept.
left at Gibraltar the floating battery Meteor, and the
steam-sloop Prometheus, 6. The Thames came into
harbour this afternoon and landed her passengers.
The Tyne, transport, Commander P. Wellington, ar-
rived at Spithead yesterday, and landed some old stores
and invalids from the South American station to-day,
and sailed fur the eastward.
The Lucifer, steamer, sails on Saturday with 73
riggers and seamen, under charge of Mr. Bean, master
of the St. Vincent, 103, to bring the Repulse, 91, new
screw-ship, from Pembroke to this yard, to be fitted out.
The Sirnoorn, 18, screw troop-ship, Capt. Sullivan, is
to come out of the dock to-morrow and be taken into the
steam-basin, to receive new engines of 600-horse power,
her present engines being only 350-horse power—much
too weak.
The Great Tasmania, sailing transport, No. 210, is
re-fitting for further service.
The Baron Von Humboldt, screw steamer, is in
Woolwich basin, undergoing repairs.
The Castor, frigate, 06, arrived at Plymouth on Wed-
nesday afternoon from Chatham, and saluted the Port
Admiral. She is bound for the Cape of Good Hope,
and takes out a small mail from this port.
The Inflexible, 6, has been ordered to be masted and
brought forward for temporary service.
Two more mortar-boats, Nos. 3 and 16, were towed
up to Wool,sich yesterday morning by the Lizard from
Sheerness. They are to be stripped and laid up at
Deptford. The Hollander also arrived yesterday morn.
ing at the dockyard from the Crimea.
Yesterday afternoon the ceremony of launching the
Pearl took place in the dockyard at Woolwich. At
two o'clock precisely Commodore Shepherd, Superin-
tendent of the Dockyard, arrived on the platform which
had been erected for the occasion, escorting Miss Gor-
don, one of the daughters of Rear-Admiral Sir James
Alexander Gordon, K.C.8., Lieutenant-Governor of
Greenwich Hospital. Having taken a very brief sur-
vey of the ship, Commodore Shepherd placed the gar-
landed bottle of wine in Miss Gordon's hands, which
she immediately dashed against the cutwater, exclaim-
ing " Success to the Pearl." The National Anthem
and " Rule Britannia" were struck up, and the men
began to cleave the wedges from the keel, thereby
allowing the vessel to drop on the bed. The artificers
were then ordered to knock away the blocks and set
free. The ship then made her first movement, and de-
scended slowly to the river, amidst the applause of a
largo concourse of persons. She is an elegantly-built
vessel, and has a remarkably clean run from fore to aft.
Her dimensions are as follow :

Ft. In.
Length over all 224 0
Length between the perpendiculars 260 0
Length of the keel for tonnage 172 Oj
Breadth extreme 4O 4'
Breadth for tonnage
Breadth moulded
Depth in hold
Burden in tons 1,468 76-94
Armament, 20 8-inch 6J cwt. 9 feet; 1 68-pounder
93 cwt. 10 feet.
Power of engines, 400 rees.
The Pearl was built by Mr. M'Pherson Rice, the master
shipwright of the dockyard at Woolwich. She will be
imm..diately taken into the basin to receive her screw
and fittings.

OFFICIAL VISIT TO DEVONPOR.T.
From the office of the Admiral Superintendent of the
Dockyard at Devonport the Lords of the Admiralty
roceeded, on Wednesday morning, to the Rope-house,
and witnessed the closing of a first-rate's cable by ma-
chinery. They then went to the building-slips to ex-
amine ships in course of construction and alteration. At
No. 1 is the Narcissus, 28 ; this frigate is planked down,
sut, being intended for sailing only, all further work is
suspended for the present. No. 2, the screw-frigate
Satellite, 22, forwarding with despatch ; cradle ready for
the launch, which is appointed for the 26th inst. Her
ooilers and engines, of 400-horse power, are prepared at
Keyham Steam-yard. No. 3 slip, the screw steam-ship
Liffey, 51, on which a large number of barids are em-
ployed ; planked down, beams cro,sed, and will be ready
for launching in February. Slips No. 4 and 5 are
vacant. In the new basin is the Hibernia, 120, fitting
as a receiving-ship at Malta, where she will convey nll
stores due to the island, including various anchors,
chains, &c., and a lot of spars, to receive which the
bulkheads will be removed from her lower deck.
In the head dock is the Seahorse, originally in-
tended for a 44, but now fitting as a screw blockship
of 200-horse power. She is to be supplied with two
13-inch mortars, and will be undocked about Christmas.
In the Union Dock the Forth, old 44, is fitting like the
Seahorse, and may be undocked in January. The Cen-
turion, 80, taken into the North Dock about four months
since, is being converted into a screw block-ship, and
will be ready before Christmas, This examination occu-
pied the time until half-past one, when their lordships re-
turned to the Black Eagle, took luncheon, and at 3 were
rowed up Hatnoaze in the Admiral's barge, to the exten-
sive
powder works in course of construction at Bull-
point, from which they went to Keyham: and examined
the progress of buildings, machinery, smit6eries, &c., of
the great quadrangle, and of the tunnel which will soon
connect this establishment with the Devonport Dock-
yard. The steal -ships fitting at Keyhain are the Con-
queror, 120, launched at Plymouth on the 2d of May ;
steam has been got up, and she is nearly ready for sea.
The Brunswick, 00, launched at Pembroke on the let of
June, also nearly ready ; and the Ueda, 6, recently
returned from the Pacific and Gibraltar, where she ran
ashore. She is almost fit for sea service. The Lords
of the Admiralty left at 5.30 for the Black Eagle, and in
th 3 evening dined with Admiral Superintendent Plum-
ridge, in the dockyard.

APPOINTMENTS.
John R. Ityan, Second Master, to the Impregrable ;
John F. R. Aylen, Second Master, to the Tyne.

Orders were received at Southampton yesterday, by
the Peninsular and Oriental Company, to prepare to re-
ceive on board the steam-transport Ripon, No. 25, 9
officers and 206 men of the Coldstream Guards ; 6 offi-
cers and 207 men of the Scots Fusiliers ; 6 officers and
236 men of the S2d Regiment ; and 2 officers and 300
men of the Laud Transport Corps. The detachment of
the 82d Regiment will probably embark to-morrow.
The Ripon will sail for the Crimea early next week.
The General Screw Company's steam-ship Hydaspes will
probably sail for Plymouth to-morrow or Sunday to em-
bark troops for the Crimea. She has taken on board a
large quantity of shell and huts at Southampton. The
Queen of the South is under repairs for the conveyance
of shell, huts, &c., to the Crimea.

Prince Albert has forwarded a check for 101. each to
Serjeant-Major J. Steel and Quartertnaster-Serjeant
B. K. Spencer, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, " as
o`Woolwich g_t
a mark of his Royal Highness's approval of their atten-
tion and care in making the survey of Osborne."
Captain R. Haig, Lieutenant Dawson, 1 serjeant, 2
corporals, and 5 bombardiers, of the Royal Artillery, sre
to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to the Crimea,
on particular service.
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