The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

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Naval and. Military Intelligence.

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The steam-transport. Great Britain, No. 187, Captain
Gray, went into Por'Amouth harbour yesterday after-
noon to land the invr'id troops repo:Led yesterday. This
transport carried between March the 7th and the 11th
of August last 258 officers, 9,347 men, 55 women, 55
children,.and 146 horses to various places for the service
of the war, She 1e:;; Englard twain on Sept. 4, and
,arrived at Portsmouth on t'•e 7ta ins!. , having carried
during that interval 43 officers, 970 men, and 22 horses,
English troops ; 5 officers, 1,800 men, and 25 horses,
Turkish troops ; 36 officers, 131 men, 5 women, 4 chil-
dren, 1 officer's wife, and 2 children, invalids, &c.,
several hundred tons of camp equipage, 500 tons of
shell; 3,437 pieces of huts, baggage, &c.—all of which
have been ' transported to the universal satisfaction of
all on board and the Crown authorities.

The William Jackson transport left Portsmouth har-
bour for Balaklava yesterday, with the detachments of
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troops reported previously, but she brought up at Spit
head, frornadverse winds.

Her Majesty's screw-corvette Malacca, 17, Capt. Fart
quhar, left Spithead yesterday for Bermuda, but brought
tip at St. Helen's roads, from adverse winds.
Her Majesty's ship Sanspareil, 71, Captain Williams,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from the eastward, to
await further orders. Four steam gun-boats also arrived
at.Spithead yesterday from the eastward.
The Protector, of Liverpool, H. Simmons commander,
from London, bound for Demerara, put in at Portsmouth
yesterday, with loss of bowsprit, jibboom, jib, and fore-
topmast staysail, with shrouds, &c., connected threwith,
having been in contact yesterday morning at 3.30, with
a brig, name unknown, 12 miles off St.. Katharine's- The
strange vessel stood off to the southward.
The crew of the Arachne, 18, got topmasts on end
and topmast rigging over the masthead at Devonport on
Tuesday, and the steam-vessel Hecla was warped to the
depot Jupiter, to complete coaling.
The crew of the steam-corvette Ariel, 9, Commander
Luce, were paid wages at_ Plymouth on Wednesday,
and granted a week's leave of absence.
The steam-frigate Satellite, having been coppered,
will be removed from the basin-dock at Devonport and
taken to Keyham-dock to be fitted with machinery.
The screw steam-yacht Pleiad, Captain Monson,
arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday from the Mediter-
ranean, touching at Gibraltar on the 17th ult. Off
Lisbon, on the let inst., she observed a raft of varnished
spars ; and on Sunday, half-way across the Bay of
Biscay, saw a large paddle-wheel three masted steamer,
with white boxes and two funnels, under steam only,
steering south-west, supposed to be a mail packet.
The paddle-wheel steamer Dee, Master-Commander
Pullen, has arrived at Woolwich from Portsmouth, and
is to be laden with machinery.
The Merlin, Captain Sullivan, whose surveying ser-
vices in the Baltic have proved of so much importance,
was yesterday morning received into the dry dock at
Woolwich, to undergo a complete overhaul. She takes
the place of the Hesperus, now ready for sea.
The Wildfire, an iron barque-rigged schooner, has
been purchased by the Government. She arrived yes-
terday at Woolwich, and lies off the dockyard ready for
the transport service.
Lieutenant G. F. H. Parker is appointed to the Duke
of Wellington, and Lieutenant Douglas Walker to the
Polyphemus.
We are requested to state that the health of the Hon.
Oliver W. M. Lambert, whose appointment as lieute-
nant to the Sauspareil was announced yesterday, is such
as to render it impossible that he should join the Sans-
pareil, or any other ship.
Contracts were entered into, at the Royal William
Victualling-yard, Plymouth, on Wednesday, for the
supply of 3,000 quarters of wheat—viz., Messrs. Collier,
Brothers, 1,000 at 85s. ; 500, at 85s. 9d. ; Frean, Daw,
and Serpell, 600 at 85s. 9d. ; and Fox, Sons, and Co.,
500 at 85s. 9(1., and 400 at 84s. 3d.
A patent has very recently been granted to a Mr.
Bertram, a practical engineer employed in the dockyard
at Woolwich as foreman of the factory. His invention
consists of a perfectly new and more economical process
of firmly joining together slabs of sheet-iron work for the
purposes of making boilers, building ships, and erecting
bridges, &c., without the use of rivets. This novel method
of welding the iron, instead of joining it by the rough
means hitherto in use—that of riveting, is carried out
by fusing the two edges of the plates to be adhered, and
striking them simultaneously on both sides. By this
means the structure is rendered naturally lighter, and
much stronger. Some experiments have been tested by
order of the Lords of the Admiralty, in presence of the
officers of the Dockyard at Woolwich, who are autho-
rised to report thereon. The result of their deliberations
will shortly be made known. It has been hitherto c•n-
sidered impossible to make an unlimited surface of iron ;
hence the system of riveting has been so far perpetuated,
but is now about to be superseded by this invention.
The greater requirements of strength now necessary, as
evinced by the numerous boiler explosions and the de-
fectiveness of the riveting system in shipbuilding, which
does not admit of the strength required, gave Mr. Ber-
tram the idea that some important improvements might
be made available, and thus far his exertions have suc-
ceeded, so as to warrant the belief that his new system
will be universally introduced where the old principle
has so long been found faulty, and through which such
innulue&ble accidents have vc...rraff.
A Clonmel paper of Tuesday says :—" Yesterday,
Captain Laynee and a recruiting party from the 88th, or
Connaught Rangers, attended the parade of the Tip-
perary Light Infantry, for the purpose of receiving volun-
teers, when 26 young fellows stepped from the ranks
and exchanged into this gallant corps. The Tipperary
Light Infantry will not come under the regulation of
the Horse Guards, ordering a reduction of officers where
the rank and file do not amount to a certain number.
Volunteers are evsry day being enlisted into several re-
giments from the North Tipperary. This day 20 of the
Tipperary Light Infantry volunteered-18,for the 88th,
1 and two for the 82d."
On Monday the following draughts, which arrived in
Cork barracks from Fermoy on Sunday, were conveyed
by the river steamers to Queenstown for embarkation on
board the Herefordshire transport, by which they will
be conveyed to the seat of war :—lst Foot, 2 officers, 41
rank and file ; 30th Foot, 3 officers, 126 rank and file ;
33d Foot, 4 officers, 66 rank and file ; 49th Foot, 3
officers, 63 rank and file ; 50th Foot, 4 officers, 64 rank
and file ; 68th Foot, 4 officers, 117 rank and file ; 72d
Foot, 2 officers, 61 rank and file. Total, 22 officers,
537 rank and file. The transport-ship Culloden is to
embark detachments from the Ist, 30th, 33d, 68th, and
82d Regiments for Malta.