The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-22 00:00:00

ACCIDENT TO THE PERSEVERANCE.

On Saturday afternoon the Perseverance iron screw-
steamer at Woolwich met with an accident in the east
dock by which she was thrown over on her beam ends.
The Perseverance was built by Messrs. C. J. Mare and"
Co. An order was issued that she should be masted
and rigged at Woolwich, and the masts were conse-
quently sent up from Sheerness, and, on their being put
in under the shears, she was taken into the east dock to
be completed for sea. On letting the water into the
dock as the tide rose on Saturday afternoon, for the
purpose of taking her out to be placed alongside the coal
depot-ship to take on board 400 tons of coals she was
scarcely floated and the shores taken away when she
gave three or four sways from side to side and turned
completely over on her beam ends in the dock, the fore-
mast resting on the roof of the chapel over the sawmills,
knocking down between 20 and 30 feet of the parapet,
but assisting to break her fall. The fall of the foremast
on the roof of the chapel broke it, and the mainyard and
foreyard were both broken, but with scarcely any other
injury. It was a fortunate circumstance that she turned
over in the deck, as there were about 150 persons on
board at the time, several of then at work in the cabin.
As it was, a number were thrown into the water, and
three persons injured, but no bones wore broken. The
Perseverance has had her rigging all stripped and her
fore, main, and mizen topmasts taken down, relays of
workmen and of the crews of the Fisgard and of the
steam-vessels at IVoolwich being at work all day yester-
day upon her. She has her engines, of 300-horse power
on board, and the funnel is within 12 or 15 degrees of
being in a horizontal line. The engines have been ex-
amined and have sustained no injury. The seamen and
ringers have commenced laying large cables under the
Perseverance, and ether preparations are in progress to
raise her, which it is expected will be a task of no ordi-
nary difficulty.

MILITARY.
The 26th Cameronians, under the cemmand of Col.
Whittinghana, C. 8., will leave the barracks inNewcastle-
on-Tyne this week for Bermuda. The depot is ordered
to Ireland.
The following cavalry regiments willex proceed to
dhatoeathche
Crimea early in the spring, when it is p
will be augmented to 800 sabres, exclusive of trumpeters
and farriers, viz., Ist, 2d, 6th, and 7th Dragoon Guards,
3d Lignt Dragoons, 7th Hussar!, and 16th Lancers. The
following are the infantry regiments under orders for
the Crimea—viz., 2cl battalion let Foot (Royal Scots),
from Corfu ; 3d Buffs, from the Pirosus ; 13th Light In-
fantry, from Gibraltar ; 31s;t end
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ta? t a2d battalion, from Winchester ;
82d Foot, fronlEdinburgh; 9lst, from Malta; 92d, from
Gibraltar ; and the 3d battalion of the let Royals, 60th
Riffles, and Riffle Brigade, which are now being raised.
Those regiments which are stationed in Malta, Gibraltar,
and the lonian Islands will proceed te the seat of war
a 3 soon as they are relieved by the regiments of Militia
which have volunteered for foreign service.
On Saturday afternoon two numerous drarights of
volunteers from regiments of the line and the Militia,
:and newly levied recruits, numbering 130 atialetic young
men, proceeded to join the provisional bait atiuns termed
of the depots of regiments serving in the C rims a, the Le-
vant, and the forti.csqes in the Mediterrar ,ean. The follow-
ing regiments are forthwith to be ani;mented to 1,600
Ixtyohets, viz., 2d battalion ls t Royale, 3d Foot, 4th ditto,
7th Fusiliers,l7th Foot, 18th Royalh'ish,l9th Foot, 20th
ditto, 21st ditto, 231 Royal Welsh F usiliers, 28th Foot,
30th ditto, 33d ditto, 34th ditto, 38th ditto, 39th ditto,
42d Highlanders, 44th Foot, 46th ditto, 47th ditto, 48th
ditto, 49th ditto, 50th ditto, 54th ditt n, 55th ditto, 57th
ditto, 611 ditto, 63,1 ditto, 66th 'ditto, 68th Durham
Light Infantry, let and 2d battli/ ions 71st Highland
Light Infantry, 77th Foot, 79th d itto, 82d ditto, 88th
Connaught Rangers, 39th Foot, 97th ditto, 91st ditto,
92d ditto, 93d Highlanders, 95th Toot, and 27th ditto.
Third battalions of 1,000 men ea ....h will be added to the
Ist Royals, 60th Rifles, and Ref le Brigrade. Cavalry
Regiments to be increased to 800 sabres 2€l, 4th,
sth,- 6th, and 7th Dragoon Guard s, Ist Royal Daagoons,
2d Scots Grays, 3d Light Drag°, ~yas, 6th Enniskillens,
7th Hussars, Bth ditto, 11th ditto, 13th Light Dragoons,
I 16th.,Lancers, and 17th ditto.