The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-04 00:00:00

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THE WAR.

(a second wound over the patella of Use left knee super
ficial).
Captain, the Earl of Erroll, Rifle Biigade, 2111. 75,,,
11d. ; severely wounded . by a musket ball in the right
hand (index finger amputated).
Captain Fairtlough, 63d Regiment, 211/. Is. 11d. ;
very severely wounded by a musket ball fix the right
thigh.

Lieut. Gipps, Sooa-Fusilier Guards, 661. 188. 4d. ;
severely wounded by a musket ball in the back of the
neck.

Lieut.-Colonel Haly, 47th Regiment, 2321. 18s. 9d. ;
four bayonet wounds (une through the left leg, left
temple, left thigh, and left side).
Captain Hepburn, Scots Fusilier Guards, 70/, 14s. 4d.;
by a musket ball in the right arm.
sligchatplytawinounded
Heyland,
95th Regiment, 292/. ; severely ,
wounded by a musket ball in the left elbow (left arna,
ampntate3).
Captain Hutton, 4th Light Dragoons, 2661. 2s. 11d. ; -
very severely wounded by a musket ball in each thigh-
(neatly equal to the loss of a limb).
severelyea 2111. 7s. 11d. ;
the left foot (at
p,taiuti,ol\uln‘dDeodnablyil,a9m2‘ul
skiteetgbizr,
present fully equal to the loss- of a limb).
Captain Morris, 17th Lancers, 2661. 2s. 11d. ; several
severe wounds (two,sabre cuts on the bead, a lance •
thrust on the forehead, a sabre cut on the left arm, abd
two ribs broken).

Captain Pakenhatn, 30th Regiment, 1051. 13•,. lld
first, severely wounded by.a musket ball on the left side
of chest, and secondly a musket ball across the left arm
(the first ball cut out below the shoulder blade, and the
second wound superfic;al).
Second Lieutenant Stephens, 21st Regiment, 951. 16s.
3d. ; very severely wounded by grape shot in the right
arm (right arm-amputated).
Lieutenant E. D Smith, 95th Regiment, 1181. 12e.
6d ; severely wounded in the head from the fragment of •
a shell.

Brigadier-General Torrens, Staff, 5201. 2s. 6d. ;
gerbusly wounded by a musket ball on the left side of
the thorax (at present fully equal to the loss of a limb).
Staff Captain Thompson, 10th Dragoons' 1331. ls. 6d.;
severe contusion on the left shoulder by a fragment of &
shell.

Major Sir T. Troubridge, Bart 7th Foot, 5841. ; very
severely wounded by a 391 b. shot (right leg and left foot
am pu fated).
Captain Vial's, 95th Regiment, 2111. 7s. 11d. ; very
severely wounded by a musket ball in the right hip.
Lieut.-Colonel Warren, 55th Regiment, KO/. ss. ;
wounded very severely by a musket ball in the right;
hand.

The return further states that " an officer who, in con-
sequence of his wound, has lost a limb or an eye, or
whose injury in action is proved to be fully equal in
every respect to the loss of a limb, will receive, in addi-
tion to the above gratuity, a pension according to his
rank ; such pension commencing one year after the
wound was received, as prescribed in her Majesty's war-
rant of the Ist of July, 1848."

SHIP-BUILDING IN THE TIIA3IES FOR

Yesterday another large screw-ship, purchased by
the Admiralty for the transport service, was launched.
from the establishment of Messrs. Mare and Co., in
Bow Creek, Blackwall. The ship, named the Urgent,
is of the following principal dimensions :

Ft. in.
Length between the perpendiculars 273 3
Length of the keel for tonnage 250 2,1
Breadth for tonnage
Depth in midships 26 81
Draft of water
Burden in tons, numbers 1964 5-94.

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She is a sister ship of the Candia—a vessel whose
nerformances in the transport servibe have been analyse
Or Mr. Atherton, the chief of the machinery depart-
ment of the Royal dockyard, Woolwich, and who,
states in his article in the Artisan that she achieved 12
knots, and has produced a result comparatively the best .
of any screw-steamer afloat. The Urgent, like the
Perseverance, has been fitted up with a long and
heavy poop and forecastle, fur which she was not
designed ; but in launching she appeared as stiff
as any three-decker, and was brought up within
her own length, and towed round to the East
India Deck, to receive her machinery of .350-horse
power, by Napier, the second pair of engines built
for the Emperor of Russia, and confiscated by the British
yards,Go v e namn
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ing, and then there is little doubt she will prove what
every other ship turned out from the same establishment'
has been found—a good, fast, safe, and serviceable yes-
sel, and she will realise all that could be anticipated
from the report of Mr. Chatfield, the master shipwright
of the Royal Dockyard, Deptford, who pronounced the
Perseverance, Urgent, and Transit admirably adapted'
for the service for which they have been purchased.
On Saturday last Messrs. Green launched from their
establishment at Blackwall two of the screw gun-boats
for the Fa'tic fleet.

On the same day Messrs. Wigram launched t so of the
mortar-vessels fur the Baltic, to be fitted with Captain
Rgherts' sling carriages.
The great point of attraction, however, in the Thames
at the prestrit mokutnt is the construction of the screw
battt r:es for the Rant'. There Ile% er was such friendly
rivalry bite cen the respective constructors as prevails
with regard t tie compit.Con of these towel ships. Mr.
Scott Itu,seq is building one, Messrs. Green two, and
Mestze. Mare and Co. two. Numbers of people visit them
dally, or rbtler watch their progress, for they are crowded
With wotkinen, and there i§ no room either about the
slips or on bot.rd the ships for visitors. No efforts have
bean spat ed, n:t expense has been stinted to get these bat-
teries read) f launching. Night and day gangs of men
are employed, and there is no pause to the busy work,.
There is wit a passion in tie minds of the workmen that
has not been appealed to—whether of self-intere:t or
hainf'llti'ss q considered.
patriotism, and there is no doubt that the work almost
at fliesth through omueg
ofh tehoerni hands."httoi a "Isp
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if to, that will soon be solved, for no men in the world
could despatch the work so speedily as the ships-rights of
:flare's establishment at Blisok wall are knocking off their
job. But it is rather a question of " iron," and the chief
difficulty is in the bending of the massive plates, four and
a half inches thick, to adapt them to the peculiarcurves of
the bows and sterns of these new batteries. Messrs.
Green have their plates from Scotland, and Mr. Scott
Russell has his plates from the country ; but everything
for the batteries constructing by Messrs. Mare has been
manufactured on their premises. In fact, the whole of
the gigantic concern has been absorbed in this great
national work. Steain•hammers and forges in making
and twisting, lathes and tools of all kinds in the machinery
department, drilling, planing, cutting, and squaring,
and at least a dozen furnace 4 and 200 men in binding,.
hollowing, and adjusting. We believe that at least 800
men in various departments are employed in the con-
struction and completion of these batteries, which are re-
garded by many experienced officers as so many useless
logs or targets.
The engineers, too, are not idle, Messrs. Miller,
Ravenhill, and Salkeld, Penn and Co., and Mandalay
and Field, are taking every advantage to fit their ma-
chinery on board the ships on the stocks, whilst the
ships are progressing. The engineers are like so many
birds at a lati, season building their nests in the trees,
whilst the foliage is being developed day by day, or
Lour by hour, by a gleam of sunshine or a genial shower
of rain to protect their industry.
It is expected that the five batteries will be launched

in the Thames on or btfori Monday, the 16th instant,
when they will be instantly fitted and despatched for
service under the most active, energetic, and skilful
captains in the Royal navy.
Almost every day now in the names some new yes•
sal is launched for the war service—either man-of-war,
transport, gun-boat, or mortar-vessal, when they are
pounced upon at the moment by some Admiralty tug,
and towed to the Royal dockyards to be fitted for im-
mediate service. The demand for shipwrights is in"-
Cable, and the high wages, so touch in some instance 3
as 15s. a day, must bring a host of ss. a day good men
from north, east, south, and west to share the
"good times," and give masters a chance of keeping
their engagements within some reasonable bounds o
expense.
Yesterday the Penin,ular and Oriental Company's
screw-ship Candia was taken out of Messrs. Green
dock. She is to be fitted to convey cavalry to 12
Crimea
ent was also
A screw-ship for the Mexican Gover
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nsinetablishment.
The following are her principal dimension
launched yesterday from Messrs. Mare's

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quarterlyl{Oy
AL COLLEGE OF ...DRYSICIANS.—sit the usual
the necessary wln
meeting of the comitia majora, held on Mon-
day, April 2, the full
ggentlemen, having undergone
examinations for diploma, were admitted
members of the College :—Dr. Bealey, Lansdowne-place,
Brunswick-square ; Dr. Sanderson, Albion-street,
liyde-park ; Dr. I\lackerzie, Chester-place, Hyde-park-
;4ardens ; Dr. Murcet, Chapel-street, Belgrave-square ;
Dr. t:crnple, Toirington-square. Also Dr. Eager,
Liverpool,
was admitted an extra licentiate. At the
same coinitia, Dr. Billing, Dr. Nairne, Dr. Jeaffreson,
and Dr. Owen Foes, were chosen consiliarii.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
hers of the college, having undergone the necessary
examinations, were admitted licentiates in midwifery
at the meeting of the beard on the :3d -inst. : Messrs.
John Mennie, Plymouth, diploma of membership dated
Nov. 18, 1853 :--William Henry Beere, Bsnbury, Dec.
IS, 1554 ; Edward Chas. Garland, Bath, Feb. 23, 1855 ;
Robert Geo. Hardwick, Leeds,ekrs,March Jan.
rBc,hl9B,slsB;ssW;ilvlliain
Bray Wm.
Aldersoy,,Puckeridge, Herts, March 2, 1855 ; Robt.
SHall, zveeedetsi,ng, Reading,
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March 1(3,1855 ; Cecil Webster, Newton
Heath, Manchester, March IG, 1E55 ; John Nettleton
Terry, Bradford, Yorkshire, March 28, 1855 ; Hanson
Eviso ,n Hull, March 28, 1855 ; Wm. Dale, Kirby Moor-
side,
e,y, Yorkshire,veraeifmo red c8.11h! March 30,
, Jan.
Water-
ford, Dec. 8, 1854 ; and Thomas Elkington, Fenny
• Compton, Dec, 8,185 g. ; Peter O'Connell, Huel RichardPWowe
tee
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