The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-23 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1855.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The City of London steam-transport arrived at Spit-
head from the East on Saturday afternoon, and left for
London. She brought no news or invalids. The Hy-
daspes, Captain Baker, went into Portsmouth harbour
on Saturday afternoon, to land her invalids at the dock-
yard, whence they marched to barrack quarters. About
a dozen only required cabs, and these were sent to the
Military Hospital. The Alps steam transport, Captain
Moody„ left Spithead for Deptford, after landing her
passengers on Saturday night. The Gorgon, 6, paddle
sloop, Commander Crawford, left Spithead on Saturday
for Sheerness ; it is believed she is ordered there to take
charge of one of the floating batteries for the Baltic.
The Hermes, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Coryton, left
Spithead on Saturday, for the West India station, call-
ing at Plymouth.
It is stated that
,the great boon for which the assist-
ant-surgeons of her Majesty's navy have been so long
struggling has been granted, and that they will all hence-
forth take up their position as wardroom officers.
Her Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday from the eastward. .
Thee Owen -Glendower, Captain W. H. Pare, after
embarking passengers and stock, sailed on Saturday
from Portsmouth for the Cape and Cannamore.
On Saturday, 95 men and 75 horses belonging to the
Turkish Contingent, the 46th Regiment, and the Land
Transport Corps, were safely embarked at Liverpool on
board the steamer City of Aberdeen, which" afterwards
sailed for the Crimea. To-day 170 horses, 124 men, and
7 officers of the let Dragoon Guards, the 4th Light
Dragoons, and the Bth Hussars, will be embarked on
board the steam.ship Arabia, in which they will be con-
veyed direct to Balaklava. The steamer Imperatrice
will sail on the 28th instant with the 56th Regiment on
board, part of which she will embark at Liverpool, and
the remainder at Queenstown. The Resolute will
take her departure' about the same time from Liverpool,
with detachments of the Ist and sth -Dragoons, and Ist,
13th, 14th, and 9th Foot, and 116 horses.

The Government troop-ship Resolute, in her first trip
to Balaklava, arrived out on the 18th June, after a ro.
markably quick run. Having landed the whole of the
horses without an accident, she was ordered to be
cleaned and made ready t) return. In A very short time
she re-entered the• port, having ample accommodation for
a large number of men, and with a provision for six
months. Notwithstanding, however, that there were
numerous invalids who required removal, she was or-
dered to proceed to England with great despatch, call-
ing at Constantinople. At that port the order for im-
mediate departure was renewed, and she arrived in the
Mersey without a passenger or a single package on
board. She has been in port about a week, and, as will
be seen by the above statement, is yet waiting for troops
and horses.

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Orinoco, Cap-
tain Wilson, No. 218, as stated in The Sun of Satur-
day, shipped horses and troops at Southampton on that
and the previous day, and hauled out into the river on
Saturday evening amid immense cheers from the men
on board and the spectators on shore. In consequence
the non-arrival of 29 horses ordered to be shipped the
Orinoco had not left for destination last evening.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Virago, 6, Commander
Marshall, from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth Sound
on Saturday afternoon. The screw-steam-ship Brims-
wick, 80, was taken out of dock at Devonport on Tues-
day and placed in the basin at Keyham, where she is
receiving her machinery. The frigate Seahorse was
docked on Tuesday to be fitted as a screw steam-block-
ship. The Penguin, 6, Commander Etheridge, having
had her masts taken out, has been placed in ordinary.
The crew were paid off on Friday ; the continuous ser-
vice men have been granted leave until the 31 st of
August ; the remainder are at liberty to join a ship or
not. This is the first crew who have been allowed this
privilege since the commencement of the war. The screw
steam-ship Sanspareil, 71, Capt. W. G. Williams, having
bad repairs made good, was taken out of Keyham basin
on Thursday, to be fitted for commission. The Ha-
vannah,.l9. having been repaired, is ordered to be com-
missioned forthwith. It is intended to launch the screw
steam-ship Satellite, 50, now building in No. 2 slip, at
Devonport, on the 27th of August next. Sixty rope-
makers and 20 boys are ordered to be entered immedi-
ately in that yard.
The mail-steamer Retriever, Captain Mackintosh, is
to leave Plymouth to-morrow for Madeira and the West
Coast of Africa.

The Black Eagle paddle-wheel steam-yacht, Master-
Commander John E. Petley, made her number on de-
mand, at seven o'clock p.m. on Friday, passing down
Sea Reach, .on her way to the Downs from Woolwich,
to communicate with three French men-of-war reported
to be then in the Downs.

The Thunder, 14, floating. battery, Mr. James Leys,
in charge of the machinery department, arrived at
Sheerness at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday, assisted by the
Dee, 4, paddle-wheel steam-transport, Master-Com-
mander T. C. Pullen, and the Rhadamanthus, 4, paddle.
wheel steam-transport, Master-Commander John Belem.
After the Thunder had anchored, the Rhadamanthus
proceeded for Portsmouth at 11.35 a.m., with steam
engine machinery for the Marlborough, 131 guns, now
fitting at that port.
The Dee left Sheerness at eight p.m., also with ma-
chinery for Portsmouth, for tite same ship.
The artificers of Sheerness were busily engaged on
Saturday caulking in and making secure all the main-
deck ports of the floating batteries, Glatton and Meteor.
They have not yet commenced taking their guns on
board. They are ordered to be ready for departure from
Sheerness to-morrow evening. Rear-Admiral the Hon.
Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M.P., one of
the Lords of the Admiralty, arrived at Sheerness on
Saturday, and inspected both the Glatton and the Meteor.
Their destination is at present uncertain. It is rumoured
they are to proceed, assisted by powerful steam screw-
ships, for the Black Sea on Wednesday next.
The screw steam-sloop Cruiser and the paddle-wheel
steam-vessel Alban are ordered to hold themselves
ready for sea.

The Otter, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant
Commander John H. Glover, is hourly expected at Sheer-
ness from Heligoland, after landing volunteers for the
Foreign Legion at Folkestone.
The Jupiter screw steam-transport, No. 231, arrived
at Sheerness from the river Thames at 8 p.m. on Satur-
day, for the Admiral's despatches and the mails. Yes-
terday at 8 a.m. she received her mails, &c., and left for
the Baltic at 8.30 a.m,

The Calcutta. Commander Wylie, from Sierra Leone,
arrived at the Nore at 10.45 a.m. on Saturday, and pro-
ceeded to London.

About 300 men employed in the Lancaster shell fac-
tory of Woolwich Arsenal last week refused to continue
their work at a reduced salary offered them by the
superintendent, and were consequently discharged.
Circulars have been issued by these men, addressed to
persons connected with the iron trade, to dissuade them
from accepting employment there.
Last week proof was made at Woolwich of a large
brass gun completely enveloped in copper wire. The
experiment of the invention proved a complete failure,
as the gun burst at the breech.
A general inspection of the County of Dublin Consta-
bulary force, at present stationed at the depot, Phcenix-
park, took place on Thursday morning, in the presence
of Colonel Macgregor, Lieutenant-Colonel Hatton, of
the Guards, and Colonel BroNvne, with the view of pro-
curing volunteers into the Guards. The men, who num-
bered about 300, including recruits, were paraded in
three divisions, and their soldierly bearing and discipline
drew forth the praise of Colonel Hatton, who explained
to them the objects of his visit, and the advantages to be
derived by becoming volunteers into the Guards, whose
intrepidity and valour during the Crimean war were the
admiration and envy of their brothers in arms.
The annual inspection of the Dublin police force by
the Lord-Lieutenant took place on Friday evening at
the Castle. The Lori-Lieutenant having expressed his
views respecting all he had witnessed to Col. Browne,
the latter rode forward and addressed the force. He
said he was authorised by his Excellency to state that
he was highly pleased with their appearance and dis-
cipline, and also with the accounts he had received
as to their general good conduct. He had to state
that the commissioners were not anxious to part with
any of them ; but if any man was desirous of entering
into the Queen's Guards, he coull enrol his name with
his superintendent on the following day. He would
observe that if it should happen that the British colours
were planted on the walls of Sebastopol by one of the
Dublin metropolitan police, the fact would make him 10
years younger. (Cheering.) If it was necessary he
would himself go to the war—(cheering)—and he bad no
doubt that he would find 500 men among them that
would also go. In conclusion, he would ask them, be-
fore separating, to give a cheer for the Queen and the
Lord-Lieutenant. The call was responded to by hearty
cheers. Cheers were give❑ for Lord Carlisle, Lord Se--
ton, Lord sough, and Colonel Browne. It was stated
that if an Irish Brigade were formed a large number of
the men would volunteer fOr it, and it was generally
asserted that, in a comparatively short space of time,
some thousands would be enrolled throughout the coun-
try in a body that could be distinguished and recognised
as a national corps. The Commander of the Forces, it
is said, expressed an opinion that the project would be
eminently successful, and was worthy of consideration.

SHEERNESS, SUNDAY.
There are now at Sheerness barracks about 800 of the
Royal Artillery, the greater part of whom are daily
drilled at the long-gun exercise and general practice,
under Colonel P. V. England and Captain Cannon, of
the 13th Battalion, and Captains Fisher and Burrows.
Out of these there are two companies expected to go
out in the Transit for the Crimea, besides others which
are expected from the westward, &c. It is generally
expected this splendid transport will come here after she
has taken in one troop of horses ; but, of course, that
depends on what orders they receive from the Horse
Guards—whether they go to her or she to them.

DUBLIN SATURDAY.

CURRAGH ENCAMPMENT.—Her I'l;~jesty+ has been
pleased to approve of Colonel James Webber Smith,
C. 8., being appointed temporarily a colonel upon the
staff in Ireland, while in command of one of the brigades
to be assembled at the Curragh.
Brevet Major E. Roche, unattached, has been ap-
pointed temporarily on the staff as a brigade major.
The troops assembled at the Curragh, being under the

immediate command of the general commanding in Ire-
land, are to report direct to head-quarters through the
channels prescribed by the regulations of tie service.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to arprove of the
under-mentioned officers being placed temwrarily upon
the staff of the army serving in Ireland, 'with_ a view to
their being employed at the encampment or. the Curragh
of Kildare.
Captain and Brevet Major George E. Hillier, half-
pay, 80th Foot, to be assistant adjutant-general. •
Major C. P. B. Walker, of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
to be assistant quartermaster general.
Deputy Assistant Commissary General M'Clintock
will be stationed at the Hutment, on the On-ragh of Kil-
dare, in order to superintend the executioa of the com-
missariat contracts for the supply of the troops.
First-class Staff Surgeon Robert Smith has been ap-
pointed to do duty at the Curragh encampment, as prin-
cipal medical officer.
The general commanding has been pleated to appoint
Sergeant Henry Barnes, of the 7th Dragocin Guards,
superintendent provost serjeant for the encampment at
the Curragh ; and Serjeant James Wither!, of the 16th
Lancers, assistant provost serjeant. Tie pay of the
superintendent provost serjeant will be made up to 55.,
and that of the assistant to 3s. per diem.
Corporal Thos. Marshall, of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
bas been appointed an assistant in the post-office at the
Curragh.
Yesterday 28 sick and wounded soldiers, invalided
from the army in the Crimea, arrived in Dublin per the
Ondine steamer.
BEGGAR'S-IMBH BARRACKS.—A number of sheds, built
of corrugated iron, raised on foundations of brick, have
been erected within the square of these barracks for the
reception of additional troops. The sheds are commo-
dious and well constructed, under the direction of Mr.
Hemmings, the contractor. An rattional number of
sheds is about being built on the waste ground outside
the barracks. The whole, when finished, will afford ac-
commodation for 800 men.
A party of the 9th Depot has arrived in Dublin to
recruit.
The 40th Depot moved to Athlone on Tuesday from
Gal way.
Alexander T. Munroe, Esq., barrack-master, Sligo, is
removed to Boyle.
The Minister for War contemplates extensive addi-
tions to the Irish barracks.
Lieut. Browning Drew, 75th, is ordered with a draft
to India.
Captain Eden, aide-de-camp to his uncle, Major-
General Eden, at Kilkenny, has joined the 56th, about
to embark for the Crimea.
LIMERICK, Wednesday. Lieut.-General Fleming,
C. 8., yesterday handed over the command of the Li-
merick district to his successor, Major-General Chatter-
ton, K.H. For three years (says the Chronicle) the
lieutenant-general devoted himself with untiring energy
to important staff duties, extending over a considerable
tract of the south and west of Ireland, where the mili-
tary force has been distributed at remote and distant
stations. The ceaseless vigilance, however, of the dis-
tinguished veteran was fully equal to the responsibilities
of his command, both at head-quarters and cantonments.
The troops have, under Lieut.-General Fleming, learnt
the relative position of a soldier and a citizen; to estimate
that strict discipline is the best proof of obedience to le-
gitimate authority, and the sure reward to military dis-
tinction in every rank of the service. In his frequent
intercourse with officers and men no commander so hap-
pily blended the "suaviter in modo " with the " fortiter
in re." When praise was merited or reproof found ne-
cessary there could be no mistake in the earnest sin-
cerity of his manner and address—qualities which never
failed to secure perfect confidence and respect. Lieut.-
Gen. Fleming retires into private life after a period of 50
years employed in the most stirring service as a regimen-
tal and staff officer, including Sicily, Egypt, the Penin-
sula, America, and the East and West Indies. We shall
now bid him farewell for the present, in full assurance
that the best wishes of all our fellow-citizens, who have
experienced his thorough kindliness and winning cour-
tesy, will attend the late district commander and Mrs.
Fleming when they take their departure from Limerick
for any other part of the country.—Lim'erick Chronicle.
A letter, dated the 2d July, from Sebastopol, from a
medical officer of the Naval Brigade, states that the
troops are preparing to abide another winter in the' ,
Crimea, and that the heavy woollen clothing has been •
ordered.
Captain Croker, 96th (son of the Rev. E. Croker), who
went with volunteers to the 61st, on tie Bengal presi-
dency, is expected to join his regiment in Dublin next
month, en route to the Crimea.
THE 56TH REGIMENT.—This corps, known as the Pom-
padours, now lying at the Royal %Tracks, is under
orders for the Crimea, and is in hourty expectation of
the order to embark on the arrival in Kingstown of the
Government steamer which is destined to convey it to
the seat of war. At morning parade yesterday new
Minie riffs were served out to the regiment.
About 140 Men. .cavalry drafts, arrised from New-
bridge yesterday, and proceeded to Port,bello barracks.
About 130 men of the let and 13th Footere eflpected to
arrive in town to-day, to await embarkaiori, taking up
their quarters in Linen Hall barracks.
FIELD DAY IN THE PHCENIX PARK.—.A. cavalry and
artillery field-day took place on Saturdas in the Fifteen
Acres, Phoenix Park. The troops, consiitingef the 7th
and 3d Dragoon Guards, and the Royal bore Artillery,
were on the ground before 11 o'clock, ant were exercised
during three hours in a variety of evobtions and field
manoeuvres, which were executed with great precision.
The cavalry were exercised in carbine fring and vidette
duty. The artillery performed their t3volutions with
marked correctness and rapidity. Tie troops were
marched off the field, and returned to larracks at half-
past two o'clock.