The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-23 00:00:00

MOVEMENTS AT BALABLAVA.

A letter from the Black Sea Fleet, dated Balaklava,
May 8, mentions the following movements :—ln Har-
bour.--The Leander, 50 ; the Diamond, 28 ; the Wasp,
14 ; the Himalaya, and de Triton. The Himalaya
arrived yesterday from 'Alexandria with cavalry. The
men•of-aar steamers that formed part of the expedition
for Kertch ara at anchor in the bay, waiting to disem-
bark their troops. The Medina steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenai,t-Commander H. B. Beresford, ran into a brig and
sunk her ; the petty officer in charge of the watch, it is
said, committed suicide, by cutting his throat, home-
diately afterwards. The chief mourners at Captain
Christie's funeral were Captain Marsh, R.N., Mr.
Pritchard, Commander:in-Chief's secreted' Lieutenants
Hutchinson and Goss, and Dr. Costello. Admirals
Lyons and Stewart and a large number of naval officers
were present.
The huts in course of erection for the reception of
sick and wounded seamen belonging to the Naval
Brigade are rapidly advancing towards completion. The
site is very healthy, and enjoys a good supply of excellent
water. A court-martial has been ordered upon Surgeon
Ellidtt, R.N., doing duty with the Royal Marine Bri-
gade, upon charges preferred against him by the Colonel
commanding, for neglect of duty. Miss Nightingale
has just arrived in the Robert Lowe steam transport.
M. Soyer also curie by the same vessel. The Caradoc
is daily expected from Constantinople. Lord and Lady
Paget are living on board the Leander frigate."

The Liverpool and Philadelphia Company's screw
steam-ship, Kangaroo, sailed yesterday morning for
Queenstown, to embark a company of the Royal Artil-
lery for the seat of war in the East. The screw steamers,
City of Montreal, Pioneer, and Sarah Sands, have also
been engaged for the transport service by the English
Government. The new clipper Tudor, of 1,573 tons,
has been also engaged as a transport, and will carry out
the Zd We-t, York Militia to Gibraltar. She will carry
between 700 and-800 persons, including wome.3l and
children.

TRE
The Leicestershire Regiment of Militia, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel King, has received
order:: to hold itself in readiness to proceed to the Camp
at Aldershott -tu-morrow. The force will consist of
about 400 men, the new levies being left as a depot at
Leicester.

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

DOWNING-STREET, MAY 18.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry James
Atelier, Esq., to b 3 Resident Magistrate for the county of
D'Urban, in the district of Natal, in South Africa.
WHITEHALL, MAY 22.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James
Mitchell to the church and parish of Peterhead, in the
presbytery of Deer, and county of Aberdeen, vacant by
the transportation of the Rev. Alexander Irvine to the
'wish of Cratnond.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
John M'Crae Sandilands to the church and parish of Orr,
alias Urr, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, and Presby-
tery of Dumfries, vacant 13) the resignation of the Rev.
George Stewart Burns.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 21.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations_ have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Vice. Consul at Galatz,
reporting the permission granted to all neutral vessels with
cargoes of grain to leave the Danube for their respective
countries.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 21.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen, enclos-
ing a copy of a Danish law, suppressing, from and after Jan.
1, 1856, the monopoly of the trade with the Faroe Islands
enjoyed by the Danish Gisvernment, and throwing that
trade open to the subjects of all nations. The coasting
trade and the trade between Denmark and the Faroe
Islands are, however, restricted, in the case of foreign
vessels, to those of about fifteen lasts measurement.
All masters of vessels arriving from the Faroe Islands
will be supplied with a copy or translation of the law, in
English or Dutch.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 22.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Madrid, en-
dosing a notice to mariners issued from the Hydrographi-
cal Office there, respecting a new light on the Castle of
San Sebastian at Cadiz, a translation of which is sub-
joined.

(Translation.)
(Copy.) Hydrographical Office.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Lighthouses on the Ocean Coasts of Spain.
The Ministry of Marine has communicated to this office,
through the Ministry of Public Works, some information
relative to an alteration which has been made in the Ca-
diz Lighthouse, under the direction of the Corps of Engi-
neers of Roads, Canals, and Ports, in consequence whereof
the following notice has been drawn up :
Cadiz Lighthouse.
From the lot of June of this year the new catadioptrical
apparatus of the second order, groat model, with which
the old reflecting light, which was placed on the most
western point of the Castle of San Sebastian, at Cadiz, has
just been substituted, will be lighted from sunset to sun-
rise ; thessituatiOn of this light, to which no alteration has
been made, is the following-:-
36 deg. 31 min. 10 sec. N. latitude, and
00 deg. 06 min. 38 sec. W. longitude, from the Naval
Observatory of San Fernando.
The elevation of the luminous focus above the level of
equinoxial full tides is of 1,575 feet (43 7m), and it pro-
duces a white permanent light, varied with red flashes
every second, which will be visible from a distance of 20
miles, provided the state of the atmosphere allows it, and
the eye of the observer be placed at 28'5 feet (7.81 m) on
the same height.
Madii.l, 23d April, 1855.
(Signed) JOAQUIN' GUTIERREZ DE RUBAI,cAvA.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 22_
STAFF.
Captain John Swinburn, of the lElth Foot, to be Assis-
tant-Adjutant of a Depot Battalion.
OFFICE OF ORD ,STANCE, MAY 19.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant Robert Wnlse-
loy Haig to be Second Captain • Serjeant-Major Thomas
Bishop to be Lieutenant, vice Philips, retired on full pay.
• Ordnance Medical Department—Acting Assistant-Sur-
geons Edward Bubb and Nathaniel Philip Betts, to be
Assistant-Surgeons.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Ist Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Captain Charles
Yolverton Balguy (late of the 42d Foot) to be Adjutant,
vice Captain Le vegan 'G o wer, resigned.
Ist West York Regiment of Militia—Charles Edgecumbe
Ditvenport, Gent. to be Adjutant.
2d West York (Light Infantry) Regiment of Militia.—
Charles John Ewen, late Captain 65th Regiment, to be
Adjutant.

Royal Aberdeenshire Regiment of Mil4ia.—Captain and
Adjutant James Bland to be Paymaster; Captain Samuel
Rawson, late of the 28th Regiment, to be Adjutant, Viet)
Bland, who accepts the Paymastership.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
County of Stafford—William Orme Foster, Esq., Theo.
philus John Levett, Esq., and Robert Thomas Kennedy
Levett, Esq., to be Deputy LientenantS.
County Palatine of L3neastei —Jos3ph Christopher
Ewart, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia— John Row-
' landson Marshall, Esq., to be Captain William Browne
Pousohby, Esq., late Lieutenant, Bombay Native Infan-
t try, to be Captain ; Richard Citmeat, Req., to be captau ;