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

BIRTHS IN THE WEER.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Ripon, transport No. 25, Captain Cooper, arrived at
Southampton yesterday with invalids, &c. 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.
AiTherson, 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. Al‘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. 70, bound south ; and on the
2d inst. passed the English ship Bessy, steering south.
A fatal boat accident occurred in Plymouth Sound on
Monday evening. Air. Douglas Dent, storekeeper of her
Majesty's dockyard ix Devonport, was cruizing in his
dingy under canvas near Lady Emma's cottage, Mount
Edgeoumbe, where the flood tid• runs 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 unfor-
tunately at such a distance as not to arrive before
Mr. Dent bad sunk, and his sons did not recover un-
til some time after they were picked up. A seaman
recovered Mr. Dent's body by diving. The boats from
the Implacable, 72, Captain Arthur Lowe, at anchor
under the breakwater, were early in attendance.
The hired screw steam-ship Australia, which left Wool-
wich on Sunday morning with shot and shell for the
Crimea,
was off Plymouth, all well, on Monday.
The screw steamer Great Britain sailed yesterday
from Liverpool for Balaklava with upwards of 1,000
troops, a large number of 13-inch shell, and a consider-
able number of huts on board.

THE MILITIA.
In consequence of some disagreement which took place
on Sat,lrday an order was issued that a change of quar-
ters should 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
20 officers and 500 men, from Athy to Waterford ; on
Wednesday the 3d West York, consisting of 27 officers
and 600 men, are to move from Waterford to Kildare ;
on Thursday the 3d West York, 5 officers 105 men,
from Thomafitown to Kildare.