The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-05 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females B3l

Total 1,671

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Peninsular and Oriental 'Company's steam-ship
Ripon, transport No. 25, Captain Cooper, arrived at
Southampton yesterday with invalids, eio. Her dates
are—Malta, Aug. 23, and Gibralta, Aug. 28. The Ri-
pon brings 70 invalids and passengers, viz.:—From
Malta—Major Deering and Lieut. Wilson, E.K.M. ;
Dr. and Mrs. Stewart, child, and servant ; Mr. Warni-
man ; Major Crawley, 20th Regiment ; Lieut. Jones,
7th Regiment ; Lieut, Colson, 49th Regiment ; Capt.
M`Pherson, 30th Regiment ; Capt. Thurston, 7th Regi-
ment,; Messrs. C. Hill, T. Elland, and Wright, R.N. ;
12 invalid seamen, 4 seamen's wives, five privates, R.A.,
and three officers' servants. From Gibraltar—The Hon..
Capt. and Mrs. Grey, Capt. Warry, 34th Regiment ;
Lieut. Wilkinson, 2d W.Y.M.; Mr. M‘Bean and ser-
vant,.eight privates of the Royal Artillery, &c. During
the voyage the Ripon spoke, on the 27th ult., the Eng-
lish barque Dorothea, bound east ; on the 30th, spoke
the screw-transport No. 76, bound south ; and on the
2cl inst. passed the English ship Bessy, steering south.
A fatal boat accident occurred in Plymouth Sound on
Monday evening. Mr. Douglas Dent, storekeeper of her
Majesty's dockyard in Devonport, sias cruizing in his
dingy under canvas near Lady Enema'a cottage, Mount
Edgecumbe,.where the flood tide run; between the rocks
with great swiftness and with occasional irregularity ;
he was accompanied by his two sons, Mr. Albert Dent,
lieutenant in the Royal Navy, recently returned from the
West Indies, and Mr. Digby Dent; clerk in the Devon-
port dockyard.. The wind was puffy from the northward
and eastward, and the sail having jibbed one of the sons
reached up the mast and attemped to clear it, when his
weight overbalanced the dingy, which was of light
draught, and she upset immediately. The accident was
observed by a large number of pleasure seekers on
.the grounds of Mount Edgecumbe, and these persons
hailed several boats, which, however, were
hirectsCii unfor-
tunately at ' such a distance as not to arrive before
Mr. Dent had sunk, and his sous did not recover un•
til some time after they were picked up. A seaman
recovered Mr. Der.,t'a body by. diving. The boats from
the Implacable, , 'l2, Captain Arthur Lowe, at anchor
svci
r .'Thel under the kr.twater,, were early in•Attendancet
The • steaM-ship,Australia, which left Wool-
wich on=iriunday morning with shot and shell' for 'theCriraeap wet off Ptymouen; en Monday." I
screw steamer'
G atlitatywithßritain'a w
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sailed'ard yesterdaysofo
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from Liverpool for .Blk
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tropps.
rp F. large number of 13-fech slaelly and a consider-
able riamber of huts, on board,

THE MILITIA.'
In Consequence of some disagreement which took place
on Sa tnrday an order was issued that a change of quar-
ters v hould take place in the encampment on the Cur-
ragh.. On Monday the Longford Militia, 15 officers, 400
men, were removed to Limerick ; 20 officers, 400 men,
to Cork; on Tuesday the City of Dublin, consisting of
204. officers and 500 men, from Athy to Waterford ; on
Wednesday the 3d West York, consisting of 27 officers
land 600 men, are to move from Waterford to Kildare ;
on Thursday the 3d West York, 5 officers 105 men,
froz Thomastown to Kildare. . , ,..

TEE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

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FOREIGN OFFICE, .AUG. 12.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Spenser
St. John, Esq., now Acting Consul-General, to be her Ma-
jesty's Consul-General in the Island of, Borneo.
FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 1.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Senhor Manoel
Joaquin Soares, as Consul at Sydney, in Australia, for the
King of Portugal.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry
Chapman as Consul at M. ntreal for the King of Prussia.