The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-27 00:00:00

LAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE'.

Every exertion is now making to get her Majesty's
new yacht Victoria and Albert ready for undocking by
Saturday next, and perhaps by Friday. When this is
done she will immediately proceed on a trial trip as far,
it is reported, as Gibraltar, so as fully to test her ma-
chinery and sea going qualities. Im/ell-taut results, so
far as speed and sea-worthiness are concerned, are ex-
pected from her.
The Centaur, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Capt.
William J. C. Clifford, which arrived at Sheerness on
Sunday, left Kiel Bay on the 20th inst. (arriving there
the same day). Admiral Baynes's squadron, consisting
of five line-of-battle ships, and the Falcon, 17, screw
steam-sloop, each towing one gun-boat and one mortar
vessel, were then under way. Tho Retribution took the
Centaur's mortar vessels and water tank vessel in tow,
and they all proceeded up the Baltic under all Fail and
steam power. The Centaur parted company with the
squadron that day at 2 p.m., and arrived at Sheerness
on Sunday at 9 a.m., after anchorin, all the night pre-
viously near the sunk light vessel? She has left for
Woolwich to have some necessary repairs.
Orders have been received at Sheerness for the Cal-
cutta, 84 guns, sailing ship, Capt. J. J. Stopford, to
land the 24 guns belbeging to the floating batteries
Glutton and Meteor. Bedding, &c., has been sent on
board for 100 supernumerary seamen,. and she is under
sailing orders to proceed to the Baltic with all possible
despatch. This ship has been converted into a storeship
of considerable magnitutle. When the orders arrived for
landincr the guns reerred to she had received on board a
,fvery large quantity of stores—viz., more than 1,100
casks of provisions, about 1,620 'bags of biscuit, about
130 rases of provisions, &c., about 230 bales of cloth-
cwt.
ing, 100 private caves for the fleet, 24 guns of 96
for the floating batteries, six 24-pounder howitzers for
boats ; also six boats and all their gear, one bower
anchor of five tons and chain cable for the Orion,
1,400 mortar shells of 13 inches, 2201 b. each, above
7.000 shot, from 321 b. and upwards ; powder, about
500 cases of 1201 b. each ; rockets, about 40 cases. Irt!
addition to her own complement—namely, one launcl
an"
and four pinnace, with all their necessary gear—
private stores innumerable for the fleet, she victuals wog
then 600 men from her coppers daily ; and
enormous quantity of store-s, &c., on board, she only
draws aft 25ft. llin end forward 24 ft.
On Monday the 'frigate Alarm, 26, Captain Corry,
On
having been masted at Devonporie was warped t Cale-
sailing moorings in Hamoaze. Tho hospital sbiPed the
donia, 120, was taken out of the basin dock, 3 have
receiving-ship Implacable, 72, was placed in dock to
her copper examined and repaired. off at
The Devastation paddle steam-sloop was paid d
Woolwich yesterday. The crew have been grante
with t
weeks' leave of absence.
The Meteor floating battery, Captain
Ssymour, has all her guns and stores on board, and
expected to leave for Greenhithe to-morrow for the p.m"
pose of a,djueting her compasses. The Thunder floating
battery is also ready for the pendant. the
In consequence of so many invalids arriving from .tei
Crimea the accommodation in the Ordnance IldsPi -t
at Woolwich has become too small, and the Goverrene%
has directed another building to be added to one of th
wings of the hospital, to consist of 6 wards.
Frederick. p;

APPOINTMENTS.
al lie
John Burgess, Lieutenant (unemployed), G. ;R 1
second
mate, (unemployed), Cha,s. E. Puckett to be nd
mate, Samuel J. Gissing, Francis 0. SinipeoPt a
Francis J. Grey, to be Masters'-Assistants to the Tran-
sit ; and C. H. Wade to be Master's-Assistant to the
Alarm. al Sap.
Quartermaster-Sergeant Conolly,
of the Roy
pars and Miners, has been promced to the rank of
Quartermaster of the Chatham Division.
Rear-Admiral Charles Howe Fremantle, Adm"ra
Boxer's successor, hoisted his flag (blue at the wizen) an
board the steam-sloop Promethus at Spithead yester -
-
day morning, and will leave this day, as at present in
tended, for Balaklava, where he will hoist i the
t int-in-
Leander, 50 -gnu sailing-frigate, as Superintends
n
Chief of the war transport service afloat.
A detachment of invalids from the Crimea em
barlce
on board one of the Star Gravesend steamers on Mondcitaed
afternoon for Chatham. The gallant fellows exy
great sympathy. Some had lost limbs, and many were
suffering from fever.
On Saturday evening the Golden Fleece left her moor-
ings at Queenstown, and steamed to the nian-ofwar
roads, where she took up her berth for the night, and n
o
Sunday morning she took her departure for the Crimea
at
-
B-sides the troops and horses she took on board
Queenstown, 55 men of the let Dragoons and 103 horses,
under Captain Annesley, and 27 men of the 4th Prad-
goons and 21 horses, under Lieutenant Paley, ernbarke e,
at Portsmouth. The entire living freight, therefo
leaving Queenstown was, besides her crew, 456 men and
305 horses.

By a letter from Balaklava, dated the 12th inst., vra
learn that the Leander, Wasp, and Triton are in
iar
hour, the Diamond and Himalaya in the Bay. The vf
clops arrived there on the 10th, and, after landing soot!
guns, sailed on the lltb for the fleet. The Firebrand'
arrived there on the 9th, and sailed again on the lkh'
Lieut. Mitchell, of the Diamond, was wounded in the
back on the 9th by a piece of shell ; the wound Was at
first thought to be very dangerous, but it has not prnv.,e„l
to be so. Assistant-Surgeon Irwin was also wounnv—
by some fragments of stone. Cholera is on the denlit
no fatal cases have as yet occurred en board any of tu"
men-of-war. Mr. Roberts, Master, R.N , comroand lta
ing
H.M.S. Cyclops, has been left behind at Ma d
Hospital. Major Hopkins, Royal Marines, has recovered
from his attack of cholera, but it is feared that be
have to invalid.