The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Charles Walker, paymaster, to the Cressy ; William
Dewar, paymaster, to the Tribune ; .1. C. Meagher, as-
siEtant,paymaster-in-eharge, to the Bloodhound ; T. K.
Dennis, assistant-paymaster, to the Neptune Chas. K.
Harvey, acting clerk, to the Alarm ; E. S. M. Power,
acting clerk, to the Alecto ; H. Mandeville, midship-
man, to the Beagle.
The Vixen, Commander Barnard, is reported at
Woolwich, from South America, having been. on that
station three years and eight months. She is last from
Plymouth, whence she arrived on Sunday evening, and
will be immediately docked and paid off.
The 50-gun sailing frigate Raleigh was removed
out of the fitting-basin at Portsmouth yesterday, and
taken to harbour moorings in ordinary ' • and the Sutlej,
sailing 50-gun frigate, will be removed to the ordinary
to-day.
The schooner Sir Thomas Mansell, which arrived at
Plymouth on Sunday from Corunna, reports that the
Meteor, floating battery, with the Rhadiunanthus in
company, sailed thence on the 21st for the Crimea.
A. detachment of 40 non-commissioned officers and
privates of the Sappers and Miners are under orders to
proceed to the Crimea. They are to embark in differ-
ent vessels about to ship the soldiers' huts, so as to un•
dertake their safe and speedy delivery' on arrival there.
The Ist battalions of the Coldstream Guards and
Scots Fusiliers return to London to-day from the camp
at Aldershott, and two battalions of the Grenadier
Guards will proceed thither to fill the vacancy caused
by their departure.

We regret to.announce the death of Col. F. R. Blake,
C. 8., of the 33d (the Duke of Wellington's) Regiment.
He died en Thursday last, at Rottingdean, Sussex,
where he had gone for the benefit of his health. The
gallant colonel continued to serve in the camp before
I Sebastopol until his shattered health, combined with a
severe attack of fever, compelled him to return home.
The Government have authorised Sir Joseph Paxton
to organise another body of 1,000 men, to augment the
Army Works Corps now in the Crimea. The additional
1,000 will be composed of mechanics and artisans, and
a certain number of navvies, with superintendents and
foremen, and will be accompanied by their own surgeons,
and by a chaplain and scripture-reader. The principal
duties of the corps will consist in erecting huts, con-
structing and repairing roads, and providing in other
ways for the health of the troops at the seat of war.
About 500 men belonging to the provisional battalion
at Chatham will embark at Gravesend on the 29th and
31st int 4 , on board two ships for conveyance to Bombay
and Madras. In the vessel Earl of Balcarres the follow-
ing men and officers of different corps will embark, viz. :
-64th Foot, Ensign Halrlarn and 42 men • 74th, Ensign
Thomson and 58 men ; 78th Highlanders, Ensign Kirby
with 88 men ; 63d, Major Edward Steele, Lieut. H. S.
Cooper, and 42 men ; Lieut. H. S. Cochraine and En-
sign James Creigh, and 118 men, 86th (Royal County
Down). The undermentioned corps, with the number
of mer. and officers, are to embark on board the ship
Trafalgar-Ensigns Close, Gorton, and Elmes, with 8
men, 43d Foot ; and Capt. W. K. M'Leod, 74th High-
landers, with 120 men, and Ensign Macliman, 84th
IterAment (York and LancaAer) for Madras.
At 2 p.m. on Monday afternoon a large number of in.
valid soldiers arrived at Chatham by special train from
Portsmouth, consisting of the Ist Dragoon Guards, 4th
(Royal Irish) Dragoons, sth Dragoon Guards, 13th
Light Dragoons, 10th Hussars, 12th Lancers, Ist Foot,
3d Buffs, 4th, 7th, 9th, 14th, 17th, 18th, tb, 20th,
21st, 23d, 28th, 30th, 31st, 33d, 34th, 38th, 39th, 41st,
44th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 51st, 55th, 57th, 63d, 68th,
71st, 77th, 79th, 88th, 89th, 90th, 93d, 95th. 97th, Ist
and 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, and 14th Regiments.
with 1 sergeant and 7 privates of the Ambulance Corps,
and James Armstrong, Land Transport Corps, and John
Taggot, of the Commissary, invalided ; making a total
number of 195 invalids. 89 were from Portsmouth, and
came in the Clyde steamer, and 106 were from the hos-
pital at Chichester, and from the hospital at Scutari.
The officers who came homp with the men are Captain
M. Legge, Ist Royals, who has a wound in his cheek ;
Lieut. G. Waddilove, 47th, with Assistant-Surgeon Sid-
ney Alder, 62d Regiment. About 20 of the invalids were
supported by crutches, and to assist those poor fellows
who were unable to walk from the railway carriages to
the vans to take them to the hospital were a party of
the medical staff corps who have recently returned from
the Crimea, and Assistant-Surgeon Robert B. Heatley,
from the General Hospital, Fort Pitt, and Lieutenant
and Adjutant James Pope, Invalid Depot. Owing to
the excellent arrangements the invalids were soon on
their way to quarters at the Invalid Depot, and 82 were
conveyed to the Supplemental Hospital, Brompton, for
surgieal operations. They left Scutari on the Ist of
August. On the passage died Private John Murphy,
30th Foot, and a clergyman of the name of Freeman.