The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-05 00:00:00

TOTAL 81:TPPLI,

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Graham, of the Ist Royal
Regiment of Foot, who landed at Portsmouth invalided
from the Crimea yesterday week, died at the Royal
Naval Hospital, at Haslar, on Friday night, aged 46.
The gallant deceased left his sick bed to lead on his men
to the assault of the Redan, at Sebastopol, on the Bth of
September, by which exposure he incurred illness which
has terminated fatally. He was sinking rapidly when
the ship arrived. He had seen 30 years' full pay service
in the army. His col:emissions bore date :—Ensign,
May, 1826 ; Lieutenant, April, 1827 ; Captain, August,
1883 ; Major, May, 1844 ; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel:
June 20, 1851 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 25, 1855.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Penelope, 18, Captain Sir
William Wiseman, after a refit, left Portsmouth harbour
for Spithead on Saturday, and was to leave the latter
roadstead yesterday evening for the Gambia, Sierra
Leone, Ascension, and the Cape of Good Hope, taking a
mail for the latter colony, and despatches for the Com-
manders-in-Chief on the coast of Africa and Cape sta-
tions. She also took out -Major Ord, of the Royal En-
gineers, to inspect the state of the forts on the Gold
Coast, and as a commissioner to adjust certain "difficul-
ties" between the sable monarchs of certain territories
and their belligerent neighbours an subjects.
His Imperial French Majesty's steam gun-boats La
Lance, Capitaine de Tonquibres, and La St. Barbe,
Capitaine Payron, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the
Baltic, last from Ramsgate for Cherbourg. They put in
from strong headwinds, and intend to start again this
morning, weather permitting. The officers landed at
Portsmouth, and were presented to the Port-Admiral
by Chevalier Vandenbergh, who afterwards entertained
them at the French Consulate.

The Dapper, steam gun-boat, arrived at Portsmouth
on Saturday night from the Baltic.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Sultan, which arrived at Southampton yesterday morn-
ing with the Peninsular mail, we, have the following
items of naval and military intelligence from Gibraltar:
—Her Majesty's steamship Horatio, 10 days from Malta,
left Gibraltar for England on the 21st ult. The British
steamer Azoff, 10 days from London, with huts, &c.,
for Balaklava, arrived at Balaklava on the 20th ult.
The steam transport Jackall, having had her machinery
repaired, sailed from Gibraltar for the Crimea on the
22d ult. The British steam transport Niagara, with in-
valids, passed Gibraltar for England on the afternoon of
the 23d. The British steam transport Levant, 11 days
from Lo westoft, with railway materials, for Balaklava,
arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d. The Levant was
obliged to put into the Tagus from stress of weather.
The screw steam transport Imperatrice, seven days and
seven hours from London, with medical stores for the
Crimea, arrived at Gibraltar on the 22d ult. During
the voyage she experienced very severe weather. The
steam transport Pacific, five days and sir hours from
London, with Government stores for Balaklava, also
arrived at Gibraltar on the 22d. The British steamer
Black Sea, 10 days from London, with railway store:; for
Balaklava, arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d ult. The
British steam-transport Robert Lowe, 27 days from Ba-
laklava, 15 from Constantinople, and eight from Malta,
with invalids for Portsmouth, reached Gibraltar on the
24th. The French line-of-battle ship Tage, of 100 guns,
Appeared off Cadiz on the morning of the 21st nit., die-
masted, and was towed into that port by a steamer. The
Tage bad thrown overboard all her guns but four. A
heavy squall at the mouth of the Straits is supposed to
be the cause of the disaster.

The steam gun-boats Badger and Redwing, from the
Baltic, last from Spithead, arrived at Plymouth on Sa-
turday, and went up Hamoaze. They are to be refitted
in the Keyham docks.

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No more launches will take place this year at Pem-
broke, but there will be several early in the spring.
The newly-erected wooden barracks will shortly be
ready for occupation.
The Rhadamanthus, Master Commander Belam, from
Malta and Gibraltar, after landing 75 convicts from the
latter place at Portsmouth, arrived on Saturday morning
;*t Woolwich, and will be taken into basin to ship ma-
chinery and boilers for the western yardr.
The steamer Caradoc, Lieutenant Chandos Stanhope
commanding, has gone down to Greenhithe for the ad-
justment of her compasses, and will return to Woolwich
to-day prior to her departure for Marseilles. The inter-
nal fittings of the Caradoc are not terminated i❑ conse-
quence of some changes considered necessary for the
accommodation pf the numerous suite of Lord Canning.
Iler ladyship, accompanied by one of the aidee-de-camp,
Captain Bouverie, went down to Woolwich on Thursday
last, and inspected the cabin appointments. The Admi-
ralty upholstery contractor has since received orders to
fit up the salon and sleeping berth according to Lady
Canning's instructions, and the officers of the ship must
necessarily be provided for in the forepart of the vessel.
The Caradoc, after landing her passengers at Alexandria,
will proceed to the Black Sea.

There is a considerable increase in the arrival of shot
and shell at the Arsenal wharves at Woolwich, which are
daily crowded with vessels of large burden, discharging
their cargoes, thereby augmenting the already incredible
quantity in piles and heaps. A number of mortar car-
riages are being fitted for eventual service, and for some
days past a daily proof of 10 11-inch mortars has taken
pace at the butt. The same diligence prevails in the
dockyard in fitting out a number of gun-boats. A for-
midable fleet of these useful vessels will be in readiness

to sail thence in the ensuing spring.
The Magpie, gun-beat, Lieut.-Commander B. C. J.
Pim, arrived at Sheerness, from the Baltic on Friday
last, at 4 p.m. She is ordered to proceed to Plymouth,
but, owing to defects, cannot have at present.
The Merlin, 6, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Capt. B. J.
Sullivan, C. 8., arrived at Sheerness, from the B:►ltic, on
Saturday, at 6.45 a.m., and left yesterday morning on
particular service.
The Sanspareil, 70, screw steam-ship, Capt. W. J.
Williams, came into Sheerness harbour on Saturday at
8.45 a.m., but owing to the heavy wind and rain,
nothing was done. D.)ekyard lighters are already laden
with her lower deck guns and gun-carriage., and will
be sent alongside this day.
The steam-vessel Adder, Master-Commander J. Mun-

cham, left Sheerness on Saturday at 6 a.m., with Mr.
John Jackson, Assistant-Master-Attendant of the yard,
to proceed to render assistance to the gun-boat Hind,
and to make the necessary arrangements for her being
got afloat next spring tides, if practicable.
The Basilisk, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Cot-annul-
. .

, . .
der Robert Jenner, arrived at Sheerness from the Baltic
yesterday, at 9 a m., with the Watertank schooner in
tow. The Basilisk and schooner Tank remain in
harbour.

A. telegraphic order has arrived at Sheerness for the
Belleisle, hospital-ship, to proceed to the westward. Mr.
Brookman, master of the steam-tender (to Waterlo()
Wildfire, was sent on board in pilot charge of her, and
The left at daylight on SaturJay morning for Portsmouth
and Plymouth.
On Saturday evening, during the heavy weather, the
boat of the Thistle gun-boat was capsized in Sheerness
harbour, and had it not been for the watch on beard the
steam-vessel Myrtle, Master-Commander Bourchier, who
also heard the cries for help, the engineer and three
of the crew of the Thistle must have been drowned ;
as it was, the Myrtle's boat was lowered and manned,
and they succeeded after some time in finding three
persons ; they still heard distant cries for help,
when Commander Bourchier fortunately succeeded
in lighting a blue light, by which they found
the fourth person, one of the boat's crew, hanging
on to the moorings of one of the vessels riding on the
Lapwell, he having drifted a considerable distance with
the tide and wind. All were taken on board tne Myrtle
in a very exhausted state, and were some time before
they sufficiently recovered their senses to make any
statement of the accident. It appears that a sea broke
into the boat and immediately swamped her.
Capt. Englefield's company cf Royal Artillery, now
in garrison at Sheerness, are ordered to proceed to Malta
for service in the Crimea, when required ; and not to
Ceylon, as formerly reported.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant a
pension of 1001. a-year to Lieut.-Colonel Mauleverer,
C. 8., of the 30th Regiment, for distinguished service at
the siege of Sebastopol.

The following appointments, made at the Admiralty
yesterday, appeared in our late edition of Saturday :

SURGEONS.
James Holt, to the Sampson.
Edward Adams, to the Heela.

ACTING ASSISTANT-SURGEON.
George F. Elliott, to the Sampson.

GENERAL GUYON.

The following letter has been addressed to the editor
of the Times :- . _

Sir,--I am highly honoured by your insertion of my
appeal in favour of Defoe. The private is less important
than the public ; that to which I would now call
your attention may be truly said to partake of botli:,,Al-
rewly you have thrown such a light from the East as bath
awakened the dormant West. Had your remarks been
earlier attended to, what calamity and disgrace had been
spared to England ! Had a Williams or a Guyon com-
manded_ our armies,howmany thousands had nowfill d their
ranks who now fill their graves. It is about thislatterge.n
badl
that I now am writing. General Guyon
_scats alwa
held in high estimation for courage and men he
ed and ob-
two uncles in the British navy who .
of the Gene-
tained an equal reputation. The catnpal
aanndd.
Ithde ral in Transylvania is celebrated ranktgh the whole of
in Asia. Turkey
Europe, and acquired for him a
has been induced by the threats of f
English Ministry is bold
Austriam
ma-
chinations of Russia to divest him ? _ _
... .
.doubt
whether any member of the
l ase the House f ans
and honest enough to displease e
word "element,"(3 II 1--
burg. Excuse my use. of the
awns, when I express my fears that
common upon all occasions,
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the
German
element is more p nia among us than
ever I't was heretofore. However, all I desire is that
before the public what you know
you will lay . _ . _ or believe
. id to the fitness ot lieneral liuyOn to serve our
in regard
by being placed '
1 common country . In a station where he
may effectually serve our allies.--
WALTER am, sir, eze.,
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

1855.

TOE CONVICT BANKERS.—There is no foundation for
the statement whi.A), has been going the round of the
papers, that Strahan, Paul, and'Bates, the bankers, were
about to be sent to Gibraltar to suffer the sentence of the
Criminal Court. Gibraltar is not by any means an easy
station, but may be reckoned perhaps one of the most
penal and hard-working, as well as being by far from the
most healthy. The convicts are now in Newgate. They
will, in the first instance, suffer the usual period of
separate confinement, which is, we believe, a year. After
that they will probably be transported to a penal settle-
went for the remainder of their sentence ; but no deci-
sion will be come to until after the customary probation
of seiarate confinement.—Observer.