The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-28 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

A letter from Balaklava, dated the 14th inst., notices
the following movements in the fleet at that station :

" In harbour—the Leander 50, Diamond 28, Wasp 14,
and Triton 4. The captains of the Leander and Wasp are
absent from their ships—the former under treatment for a
musketball wound, at Therapia Hospital; the latter,at the
Pirmus, to give evidence in a case of piracy. The captain
of the Diamond is on leave, having gone in the Dauntless
to the coast of Circassia. Captain Heath, principal agent
of transports, is doing the duty of senior officer, in addition
to the duties of his own appointment. Lieutenant Cane,
of the Diamond, wounded in the affair of the 18th while
in command of a division of seamen for placing sealing-
ladders, is all but recovered from his injury. No eases-of
cholera have appeared in harbour for the last fortnight, at-
tributable in a great measure to the sanitary precautions
adopted by Captain Heath. All vessels arriving with
cattle or horses, after discharging them, are ordered into
the bay, where they are obliged to clean and whitewash
before they are suffered to come in and coal. Lime is
supplied gratuitously for this purpose by the authorities.
The following recommendations have just been promul-
gated :

" 'Her Majesty's ship Diamond, at Balaklava,
July 14.
" Sir,—Many of the medical officers of her Majesty's
ships at Balaklava having been called away to assist in
duties connected with the siege, those remaining are unable
to render assistance to the transports to the extent they
would wish. I therefore suggest your recommending to
the masters of transports that they should apply, when
convenient, for assistance from the ships of that service
which carry medical officers, our own continuing to render
every assistance in their power.—l have the honour to be,
your most obedient servant,
" ' COSPATRICK BAILLIE HAMILTON,
Captain and Senior Officer.
" ' To Captain L. Heath, R.N., C. 8.,
Principal agent for transports.' "
The Malacca, 17, screw corvette, Captain Farquhar,
went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning, and
was taken into the fitting-basin to refit. The Mel-
bourne, steam-transport, left Portsmouth yesterday
morning for the Thames. Captain Sir Thomas Mait-
land, C. 8., of the Excellent, with a party of scientific
gunnery officers, will proceed from Portsmouth to the
Needle Rocks this morning by a steam•vessel, to try
some experiments with a new gun.
The store-ship Diligence came to Woolwich yesterday
from Deptford for the purpose of receiving stores for the
Portsmouth and Plymouth yards, and is being laden
with all despatch.
The William sailing•transport left Woolwich yesterday
morning, heavily laden with shot, shells, ammunition,
stores, pontoons, &c., for the Crimea.
The screw-steamer Imperatriz, after being refitted and
cleaned, went into the Mersey yesterday, whence she
will sail to-day for Kingstown to embark the 56th Regi-
ment of Foot._

The Himalaya is expected to arrive at Liverpool this
evening. She will take onboard detachments of various
regi►►►ents. A number of officers, including Colonel
Spottiswoode, Captain Bradbury, and Lieutenant Smith,
have arrived in Liverpool, and will embark in the Hima-
la.ya. She will probably embark the troops and horses
on Monday.

The screw-steamer Resolute will sail from Liverpool
to-day or to-morrow with detachments of the Ist and
sth Dragoons, 120 horses, and draughts of the Ist, 9th,'
13th, and 14th Regiments.
The General Screw Company's steam-ship Queen of
the South, Captain Beal, transport No. 135, arrived at
Southampton yesterday from the Black Sea, bringing
with her five Government and three other passengers.
Her Government passengers comprise Lieutenant Cant,
79th Regiment ; rieutenant Fowler, 21st ; Lieutenant
Bassett, Ist Royal Dragoons ; J. Berriugham, distressed
British subject, and insane, from Malta ; and William
Sargent, dismissed British sailor. Besides, are Major
Clephane, 79th, Major Feilden, 44th, and Mr. Wilkin-
son, on furlough from the East. The Queen of the
South left Malta on the 11th inst., and passed Gibraltar
on the 16th. During the homeward voyage from the
former port she experienced very boisterons• and foggy
weather. Passed the Great Tasmania, bound to Eng-
land with invalids, on the 15th inst., to the eastward of

the Rock of Gibraltar. The Queen of the' South has
returned to England for repairs, having beers continually
employed in the Government service in the Black Sea
for nine months.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty : •
Commander Edward Franklin to the St. Vincent, for
the service of the ordinary at Portsmouth ; Christopher
0. Robinson, Second Mastei, to the Urgent.
Captain R. Neville, 11th Regiment; has left England,
overland for Scutari, to join the staff under Lord Wm.
Paulet.

Another detachment of 23 men and 11 horses belong-

ing to the 13th Light Dragoons left Dorchester a few
days since for Southampton for embarkation for the
Crimea. They were under the command of Lieutenant
Vivian.

During the present week the 15th Hussars, for some
time stationed at Exeter, have left that city for Man-
chester, accompanied by Colonel Key, Major Knox,
Adjutant Grantham, Capt. Brett, and Cornets Crowley
and Walker.
Yesterday afternoon 115 non-commissioned officers
and privates, with two women and one child, in charge
of a captain of the Royal Artillery (Capt. J. Michell),
arrived at Chatham from Portsmouth. They are from
several regiments now in the Crimea, and most Of them
are wounded, and are from the hospitals at 1;mluIeo
and. Smyrna. At the Strood station of the North
Kent Railway a strong fatigue party of soldiers from
the invalid depot were ready, with Lieutenant Lnd
Adjutant J. Pope, with a medical officer from . the gar-
rison hospital, Chatham, and assisted the .s. c'.c and
wounded unable to walk from the railway carriag.es to
the vans and omnibuses in readiness to take thernttoe r
the
hospital and barracks, and in a very short tione h
valids, with their kits, &c., were on their way. Fourteen
men werereceived into the suppleraeutal hospital, Bromp..
ton, for immediate surgical attendance ; the rerna'ader
They came
to Portsmouth in the screw tca, -P which
were sent into quarters at the nCi.anhseipruHate.das
es
sailed from Kululee with a portion of the invalids on the
died on the
19th of Jl:ne, and on the 24th of the same month put in
dusskin
at Smyrna, :ILA took !n the remain ler. Privates James
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voyage. Several o
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and filt cehianrvda
were severely wounded
at
shot with rifle balls in eight different parts of his body.
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CAI:
en
sae a a
next, when the cases of the above invalids •
consideration ; those unfit for will come
under
charged on pensions. service will be die-