The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-26 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

The latest movements of the Black Sea fleet are men-
tioned in letters from off Sebastopol, dated the 6th. One
of these says:—" The Princess Royal, 91, arrived this
morning, so we have now here the Royal Albert, 124,
Agamemnon 91, Algiers, 91, Hannibal, 91, and St. Jean
d'Acre, 101. The Admiral and Staff will shift over to
the Royal Albert towards the end of the week. The
naval instructor and chaplain will be the only followers,
besides one or two of the midshipmen, who will go with
him out of the Agamemnon.
The Britannia, 120, Captain T. R. Carter, late flag-
ship of Tice-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., ex-Commander-in-
Chief of the Black Sea fleet, arrived at Portsmouth on
Saturday afternoon from the Black Sea and the Medi-
terranean, 30 days from Malta, owing to contrary winds.
She brought home about 100 men of the lost Tiger, who,
together with their officers, will undergo the form of
trial by court-martial for their participation in that
catastrophe. Her crew, now mustering between 500
and 600 men, are in good health. They have not suf-
fered from any want of proviions on their protracted
voyage. Her ship's complement was reduced to the
above number from 1,000 men by cholera at Varna, and
by sending a large number of seamen and marines into
the trenches. Lieutenant the Hon. It. A. Capel, Lieu•
tenant Kidd, and Mr. Francis M. Norman, mate, were
left on shore off Sebastopol. Her late First Lieutenant
(11r. Greathead), it will be remembered, was killed on
this service. At the attack by the fleet on Sebastopol
every gun on the starboard broadside of the Britannia
fired an average of between SO and 90 rounds at Fort
Constantine. •

The St. George, 120, Captain Eyreq, also anchored
at Spithead on Saturday afternoon from Malta, whither

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she had taken troops for the East for Queenstown. She
has been five weeks on her passage. She left the Trafal-
gar close to Gibraltar, and expected to find her at Spit-
head before her. We regret to add that smallpox broke
out among her crew (St. George's), after leaving Malts,
there having been 30 cases and two deaths reported. The
crews of all these ships will, we believe, be made avail-
able for the screw fleet, the batteries, mortar-vessels,
and gun-boats, together with coast volunteers.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's ship Calcutta, taken up by the Government for
the transport of troops, has been appropriated for the
conveyance of the Royal Lancashire Militia from Ports-
mouth to Corfu. She arrived at Portsmouth last even-
ing, and will be ready this day to embark the troops.
Detachments of two captains, two subalterns, six ser-
geants, and 120 rank and file, from the depots of the 20th
and 05th Regiments, will embark with the Lancashire
➢Militia on board the Calcutta. The Royal Wiltshire
Militia, also under orders for Corfu, will embark at
Portsmouth early in the ensuing month on board her
Majesty's troop transport Resistance.
The clipper ship Result, Captain Cow, the property
of Mr. R. Green, of London, arrived at Portsmouth on
Saturday afternoon from China, laden with tea, cotton,
&e., leaky, having exper4aod ♦ery heavy weather.
She did not touch at the Cape. On bringing up at Spit-
head she parted her chain cable, and tailed near the Spit
in the evening at low water ; she touched the ground,
but was soon towed into deep water by a Government
tug, obtained by Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon, the agents
to Lloyds, from the Admiral Superintendent. She has
eight feet of water in her hold. Messrs. Garratt and
Gibbon took off a good party of hands to help to pump
her, and themselves went personally to superintend the
work. The cargo is a very valuable one.
The Mirage, Captain Carter, from Hartlepool for
Shanghai, also arrived at Spithead on Saturday. In
working in at the east end grounded on the inner elbow
of the Dean Sand, but was assisted off again and
anchored at Spithead without apparent damage.
By letters from her Majesty's ship Dido, 20, Captain
Morshead, C. 8., on .the Pacific station, we learn that
on Christmas-day, Lieutenant Pigott, first lieutenant of
that ship, was murdered on board by a marine. It ap-
pears that some of the crew were making an outrageous
noise between decks, and Lieutenant Pigott, having
tried to put a stop to it, the marine used mutinous
language, which induced the lieutenant to threaten to
put him is irons. The man then rushed at the officer
and plunged a knife into his abdomen, from the effects
of which he soon after died.

Her Majesty's iew steam yacht 'Victoria and Albert,
in the steam basin at Portsmouth, is having some alte-
rations made in the arrangements for the accommoda-
tion of the ship's company, at the suggestion of the Hon.
Joseph Denman, which will render them much more
comfortable.

The Comet steam-tug went to Spithead yesterday, and
took out of the St. George several of her sick men, and
landed them at Haslar Hospital.

The Sprightly steam-tender took out of the Calcutta,
at Spithead, yesterday, all the men belonging to the
Blenheim, Hogue, &c., who had been on leave. She
also landed the two Bulgarian children, whose capture,
or rather guardianship by the officers of the Firebrand,
has been before fully described.
The following is an extract from a letter received from
an officer of one of her Majesty's transport-ships, with
574 troops on board, bearing date Gibraltar :—" On ac-
count of smallpox breaking out, and showing itself in
only one case of a very mild nature, it was deemed ex-
pedient by the commander of the forces and the captain
of the steamer to put into Gibraltar for the purpose of
landing the above case, and thereby preventing, as far
as human means could go, a contagion which would
most likely rapidly increase on account of the crowded
state in which the men were packed together. On the
existence of the case being reported to the health officer,
the ship was placed in quarantine as a matter of neces-
sity ; but, although we lay in harbour awaiting the
decision of the authorities respecting the matter for
the space of 24 hours, the only reply was that some
of the authorities were desirous of convening a
Board of Health, which unfortunately militated against
the opinion of others. 1 pest-captain of one of her
Majesty's ships is harbour also explained to the governor
the necessity of the invalid's removal, and heroically
offered to remove him on board his own ship rather
than that we should run the danger of putting to sea
with the case on board. However, after waiting some
considerable time longer no result could be obtained.
Surely this is another flagrant case which proves to the
public the want of head in all our public departments.
The final reply has just been sent. 'We are net to be
admitted. Several other cases are just showing them-
selves. One man of the 73d Regiment is down in the
di<eme. We have to proceed to Malta immediately, al-
though it is the opinion of medical men that it is mad-
ness to do so."
1 court-martial assembled on board the Intpregnahle,
104, at Plymouth, en Thursday, for the trial of Com-
mander Henry Alexander Story and Mr. Thomas H.
of her Majesty's ee,..er steam-sleion Harier.
for running that vessel ashore on the morning of the
29th of November, off the island of Virgin Gorda, in
the West Indies. Rear-Admiral Plarnridge presided,
and the prisoners were sentenced to be severely repri-
manded, the Court " being of opinion that sufficient
precautieas were not taken to secure the safety of the
ship."

The hired sailing transport Deva, 96, of Liverpool,
Captain William Giffard, from the Bosphorus, Jan.
4th, and the Straits of Gibraltar, Feb. 2d, arrived in
Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning. This ship took
out the head-quarters of the 4th Dragoon Guards, whom
she landed at Varna July 10, and has returned in ballast,
having three invalided seamen from the transports, War
Cloud, Talavera, and Mauritius. Lieutenant Scott,
R.N., is the agent in charge. Jan. sth, in the worth
entrance to the Dardanelles spoke the transport Panola,
No. 71 ; Jan. 7, in the Zea channel, the transport Mary
Ann, 64 ; Jan. 13th, north of Malta, the transport
Maori, 91, Escort, 97, London, 34, Burmab, 85, and,
bound to Plymouth, the War Cloud, 56. Jan. 30 and
Feb. 1, six miles east of Gibraltar, all loaded and bound
west, the Rebecca, of Glasgow, Juliana, the Austrian
brig St. George, four large Austrian ships, aid the
schooner Gratitude, 18 days out from London for Gib-
raltar. On the 17th inst., in lat. 50 deg. 25 min. north,
long. 10 dog. 12 min. west, wind south south-east, blow-
ing strong, saw a three-decker, under close reefed can-
vas, standing to the south, supposed to be her Majesty's
ship Britannia, 120, Captain Thomas W. Carter. Feb.
23, in the channel, spoke the bark Laura, going up the
channel, supposed from Pernambuco for Hamburg. The
Deva was 39 days going out to the Black Sea, and 50
days iu coming home.

The transport Sultana, with invalids from the Crimea,
arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning.
The screw steam-ship Exmouth, 90, Captain Pelham,
has returned from her trial cruise to Plymouth Sound.
She is described by those on board as " worse than the
Albion ; rolls tremendously, and carries away every-
thing." Her mainyard is gone. The machinery answers
very well.
Lieutenant George F. Day and Lieutenant Corn-
merell have been appointed to the command, at Ply-
mouth, of the two gun-boats (Nix and Salamander) re-
cently exchanged for the frigate Thetis. Each boat is to
have a complement of 65 men, but where they are to be
stowed it is difficult to say.
The screw-corvette Tartar, 20, Captain H. Dunlop,
entered Plymouth Sound on Friday morning. She left
Portsmouth a week ago to cruise in the Channel. The
Tartar experienced very heavy weather, and became
leaky.

The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Prometheus, 5, Com-
mander Jasper H. Selwyn, which arrived at Plymouth
on Thursday, left Sierra Leone on the 27th of January,
and, after a series of headwinds, arrived at Teneriffe on
the night of the Bth inst. Having coaled and watered
on the island, she sailed again on the morning of the
13th inst.
At the time of her leaving Sierra Leone the oily men-
of-war on the northern division were the brig Britomart,
8, Commander A. Hesseltine, at Sierra Leone ; and the
sloop Ferret, 8, Commander C. T. Leckie, cruising off
the river Poegos. In the Bights were the brig Crane,
8, Commander Thomas Miller ; the brigantine Dolphin,
3, Lieutenant-Commander Edmund Webber ; and the
paddle-wheel steam-vessel Antelope, 3, Lieutenant-
Commander Charles H. Young. In the south division
the sloop Philomel, 8, Commander ,John D. Macskene ;
the screw steam-sloop Plumper, 9, Commander G. A.
L. Wharton ; and the paddle-wheel steam-vessel Pluto,
4. The Commodore left Lagos in December for the
south coast, and was expeated shortly at Sierra Leone.
The brig Crane, 6, Commander Thomas Miller, has re-
ceived her sailing orders, and may be expected home at
au early period.
Rear-Admiral Plumridge has hoisted his fact as super-
intendent of the Devonport dockyard on board the
guard-ship in ordinary Royal William, 120, Captain
ICingcombe, at Plymouth.
The riggers employed in fitting the screw steam-ship
Cornwallis, 60, at Devonport, have got topgallantmasts
pointed and topsailyarde crossed.
The screw steam-ship Duke of Wellington, 131, will
be taken out of the Keyham Dock this day, and she will
go into Plymouth Sound on the 2d of March. The
Captain of the Baltic fleet, the Hon. F. T. Pelham' will
take charge of her to Portsmouth, where she will bear
the flag of Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., Commander-in-
Chief of the Baltic Fleet. The steam-vessel Lightning,
at Woolwich, will be appropriated as tender to the
Duke for the service of the Admiral, and for postal
purposes.

At the Devonport Dockyard the smiths are now
working from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Shipwrights em•
ployed in the boathouse, and all the joiners, except
those employed on the Conqueror, work extra hours.
The transport Timandra has sailed for the Crimea.
The lighter Rambler sailed during last week for the
same destination.
The shipwrecked master and crew of the schooner
Hiram, of Cardiff, have boen landed at Deal from the
Odea, from New Yorkifor Hamburg. The master, Lake,
renorts that he sailed in the _Hiram, from Cardiff, on the
13th inst., for Gibraltar, and when in latitude 47.50
(Bay of Biscay), the weather being very bad, the vessel
sprunk a leak. The crew were kept at the pumps
from the 16th to the 20th inst., without any rest.
About 10 a.m. of the 20th, the water being then up to
thQ cabin floor, the master and crew abandoned the