The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-02 00:00:00

Land Transport Corps, under Lieutenant Redden, who
embarked at Plymouth, had been stationed at Maker
Heights, where they received religious instruction from
the Rev. W. Langmaid, garrison chaplain, with whom
they left a contribution towards the fund for the widows
and orphans of soldiers who died in the East.
The barque Duke of Norfolk, the brig Elizabeth, Cap-
tain Cooper, and the brig eEneae, Captain Smith, all
three from Queenstown, are unloading pork and beef at
the Royal William Victualling-yard, Plymouth. The
brig Dauntlse, of Brixharn, Captain James Reed, is load-
ing bread, beef, pork, and rum for Balakla.va.
The merchant ship Cressy, Captain Miller, belonging
to Mr. Dunbar, of London, which sailed from Manilla
on the 10th of September, with a cargo of sugar, hemp,
cigars, cocoanut oil, deer and buffalo horns, Sec., put
into the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th of December,
sailed therefrom on the 25th of January, and on Friday
last entered the port of Plymouth, where she landed
Sir Robert Stamford and other passengers.
The emigrant ship Semarang, from Southampton,
which received damage in going down Channel, will be
placed to-day (Monday) in dock at the Keyham yard,
Plymouth, for repairs. Her detention there will not
probably exceed a day or two.
It is said that the owners of the vessels recently taken
up at Liverpool as transports by the British and French
Governments, and ordered into dock for alterations,
have since been informed that the vessels will not be re-
quirsd.
By the arrival of the steam-ship Tagus at Southampton
with the heavy portion of the India and China mails, we
receive the following items of naval and military intelli-
gence from Gibraltar :—On the 12th ult. her Majesty's
ship Bellerophon, Capt. Lord G. Paulet, with invalids
from the seat of war, and which had been lying at Gib-
raltar since the Ist of March in consequence of adverse
winds, weighed anchor and proceeded to the westward ;
but was obliged, with several other Teasels, to put back.
She left for England on the f vening of the 16th. Her
Majesty's steamer Malacca, 14, Capt. Hillyar, arrived at
Gibraltar, from Constantincple and Malta, on the morn-
ing of March 11. She had o ' :ard a number of inva-
lids belonging to different reF -Lents from the hospitals
at Scutari. After coaling a, making good some trifling
defects in her machinery • left for England on the
morning of the 14th u, e steam-transport
with a cargo of oatefre o don to the Crimea, reached.
Gibraltar on the 110' .a after coaling left fur her des-
tination. The stee.e•transport Earl of Norwich, from
Lowestefo, bonne to Balaklava, also put into Gibraltar
f a the llth ult. She had on board 50 navvies, 68
• ~„ r charge of a veterinary surgeoe, and stores fur
the Baklava Railivay. 12 horses died on the passage
out, owing to the bad weather. She proceeded to the
Blame Sea the following day. The Falcon steamer, seven
days from London, with preeerved meats .end clothing
for the French army in the East, reached Gibraltar on
the 12th ult. ed, route to Constantinople. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Trail-Ogee, 50 days from Malta, put into
Gibraltar on the 11th. She had been cruising to the
eastward of the Rock several days, endeavouring to
make the Straits, hut was prevented in consequence
of strong adverse win is. The Earl of Lonsclale steam
tug, with supplies for the Trafalgar, after great difficulty
succeeded in getting them on board. Her Majesty's
steam sloop Oberon, 6j days from Portsmouth, with 60
supernumeraries for the British squadron in the Black
Sea under the command of Admiral Lyons, reached
Gibraltar on the 13th, and left on the 15th. The Eglin-
ton steam-ship, six days from llavre de Grace, with hos-
pital stores, waggons, &c., for the use of the French
army in the East, arrived at Gibraltar on the 13th. The
Calcutta steamer, with the let Royal Lancashire Militia
on board, passed Gibraltar t o the eastward on the even-
ing of the 19th ult. Her Majesty's screw-steamer troop-
ship Himalaya, from Spithead and Cork, arrived at Gib-
raltar on We 13th en route to the East. She had on board
7 officers, 229 non-commissioned officers and men, and
278 horses of the artillery ; about 70 horses were shipped
at Gibraltar. The Himalaya left for her destine-
tion on the evening of the 15th. Her Majesty's steam-
sloop Heels was fast progressing in her equipment for
sea. The British transport Mary Ann, 70 days from
Constantinople, in ballast for Plymouth, reached Gibral-
tar on the 15th alt. This vessel unfortuna'ely lost two
men overboard on the 25th ult. Her Majesty's ecrew
steam-ship Sanspareil, 14 days from Mal:a, with a num-
ber of navy invalids for England, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 17th. She left on the following morning. The
steam-transport Vests), with packages, ct e., fee. the
British army and navy in the Eact, left Gibraltar on
the 17th ult. The hired screw-steamer Estella,
sight days from London, with a general cargo
and medical stores for the British hospitals in the
East, arrived at Gibralt ir on the 17th ult.; she
left on the evening of the same day for Constan-
tinople. The sailing transport Dunbar, 33 days from
Corfu, put into Gibraltar on. the morning of the
17th. She has a number of invalids on board in charge
of Colonel Buchanan of the Royal Artillery, and a
great many women and children belonging to regiments
that have left the lonian islands for
the seat of war.
The Dunbar was prevented from proceeding to England
by stress of weather. The sailing transport Wilson
Kennedy passed to the westward on the 19th ult appa-
rently in ballast, bound to England. Her Majesty's• ship
Vengeance arrived in the Bay from the East
on the 19th
ult. The British steam-transport Indian, six days from
Liverpool, with 160 officers and men of the Royal
Ar-
and 113 horses, bound for Scutari, put info Gib-
raltar on the 21st ult., being short of both coal and
water.
Five horses died during the
passage out, and
two while the ship was lying at Gibraltar. The British
sailing transport Panola (No. 71), 77 days from Con-
stantinople, which passed Gibraltar for Plymouth in
ballast in the afternoon of the 19th, was obliged to put
back, having sprung her rudder in a heavy veuth-west
gale on the 21st ult., in 7.40 W. 36 lat.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Parana, lying
at Southampton, will probably be taken up for the con-
✓eyance of French troops to the Crimea.
The Sutlej, SG-gun sailing frigate, is ordered to be
iannched at Pembroke on the 17th inst. It is under-
stood that-this is the last vessel of her clans to be con-
structed in the Royal dockyards without the auxiliary
asrew power.
The battery
of Royal Artillery, under the command of
Capt. Gibbon, heretofore stationed at Norwich, is now
on the way to Woolwich, preparatory to embarkation
for the seat of war. The batter yconsists of four 9-poun-
der guns, twolhowitzersof 4-- eounds calibre and a rocket
case, with ammunition and
o,
ther carriages.
The following correspondence
War-office and the Society .n has passed between the
Gospel, on the subject ofof the
apg the Propagation
sistant chaplains at the seat of nwtarrnent of additional as-
" Sir,—Referring to your letter 7fetriitoface, March 23.
. chaplain-general, offering, on the Part rho 13th inst. to the
the Propagation of the Gospel, eo n,,urniitnhe Society for
chaplains to the army in the East, upon the same additional
were adopted with regard to those who have aarine terms an
appointed under its recommendation, I am l;i3ioerlY been
convey to you Lord Panmure's high sense of the littd-t°
of the offer which you have made on behalf of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel, and in acquainting
1;t1
thathis lordship accepts your proposal, I am instructed
to state that the names of 12 clergymen to act in the capa-
city of assistant-chaplains to the camp and hospitals in the
East may accordingly be submitted for appointment, who
Will be provided each with a free passage, and receive 100 e
a year from this department, with rations for self and ser-
rant, forage for a horse, and field allowances.
" I am to add that these gentlemen will be subject to
the same discipline and authority as the chaplains excln-
sively paid by the Government.—l have the honour to be,
sir, your obedient servant,
"B. HAWES.
". The Secretary, Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel."

" Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,
"79, Pall-mall, March 30.
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" Sir,—The societhas learnt with extreme satisfaction
that its proposal of nominating 12 additional assistant-
chapliiiia for the duty of the camp and hospitals in the
East has been approved by Lord Panmtue.