The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-21 00:00:00

NEW BURLINGTON-STREET.

Messrs. Robert Cooks and Co., music publishers ern.
her Majesty the Queen, and to the Emperor Napoleon
HI.—A brilliant radiating star in gas, with " V.R." in
the centre..

DUBLIN, May 18.—A division of the 50th Regiment,
numbering 350 men, have arrived by rail from Cork,
where they disembarked on Tuesday, on their return
from Bermuda. A number of invalids from the Crimea
arrived in Dublin yesterday, and were provided with
proper accornthodation during their stay in Dublin,
under the superintendence of the garrison chaplain, who
sees the generous directions of the Lord-Lieutenant car-
red out on there occasions.
How CLOTHING FOR THE CRIMEAN TROOPS IS
MADE —At the Worship police-court, on Saturday,
Blizabeth Gibbs, a very decent-locking young woman
who had been several days in custody, was re-examined,
charged with unlawfully pawning six or seven pairs of
trouser-A which Phe bad been employed to make by a
person named William Ball, of 11, Collirgwood-street,
Bethnal-green. They were canvas Overall
trousers for
oner, having
the soldiers in the Crimea, and the p
pawned them,"surrendered the ticketshe Pawnbroker gave
to her employer,
who then gave her into custody. T
up six pairs, but the seventh was not forthcoming.—Mr.
Eiaminill now asked the prison bow much she was
paid for making thesecanvastreorusers ?—Prisoner said
pair,
the pay was 2id. perand, workting hard from morn-
ing till night, she could make only three pairs in a day,
Anill
:—" d had to provide needles and thread, &c.—Mr. Ham-
hour." He a, good God -dded, that , that is less'than a penny an
so treated were driven
it was no wonder if poor crea-
turese
astray, .and, after some
further remarks, he discharged the young woman.

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Portsmouth, on Saturday, exhibited a very gay and
imposing ceremo
annual upon the official celebration
of the Sovereign's birthday. The troops in
garrison*
consisting of battalions of the Rifle Brigade, Royal Ar-
tillery, Sappers and Miners, Royal Marine Artilly atg
Infantry, the 80th Foot, Regiments of the Middlesex,
Gloucester, and Oxford Militia, attendei by their bands
and colours, manned the walls of Portsmouth and the
shore at Hasler, on thEropposite side of the harbour, and
at noon fired a feu de joie, the Royal Artillery leading,
from the King's Ravelin, on which the Royal standard
was hoisted. The fleet at Spithead took up the fire on
the troops ceasing, and being dressed in flags and en-
igma from their mastheads to the water's surface, pre-
sented the most imporing and exhilarating feature in the
pageant. Major-General Breton, commanding Ports-
led off three-times-three cheers from the
m o
walls,u th
and garrison,a f afterwards cards inspected the troops on the parade,
whence they marched off to their quarters. The dock-
yard, victualling-yard, gun-wharf, CuStom-house, and
all other Crown offices were closed for the day, and in
the evening Admiral-Superintendent Martin entertained
the captain.; offleet, and all the beads of depart-
ments. the
atliis official mansion in the dockyard.

The Shooting Star sailing transport (No. 40), Captainved
Prat, Li4otet,a,it James,f.N., Admiralty agent, arrived
atu-gthteheleSfttralib-ts
Sia;sutr.d, ay
beingfr- towed the E:jai
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rioirche,.i.:vbitohun3dofoßr osycailitaArirt;ilaielrsyzeonff,
C2mo3efficer.s,__and 50
the transport No. 203, from Woolwich, with horses,
bound for Scutari—three dead. The Shooting Star
brought home 19 di tressed British seamen. The Corn-
wall transport, is Portsmouth Harbour, has been sur-
veyed with the view to purchase, for the purpose of
Carrying the electric wire tubing (1,200 tons) 180 miles
across the Mediterranean. The Canterbury sailing
transport was towed from Portsmouth Harbour to Cowes
yesterday to be docked, there being no docks for mer-
cantile ships at Portsmouth.
Tho'new clipper ship Ttidor; 1,573 tons,, has been
taken up at Liverpool as a transport, and will embark
the 2d West Yorkshire Militia Regiment at that port,
on the 30th inst., for Gibraltar. The screw steamer
Kangaroo went into the Mersey on Saturday, and will
sail thence for Queenstown to-morrow or Wednesday,
for the purpose of embarking a company of the Royal
Artillery, besides Lord C. Fitzroy and Colonel Lindsey
of the 63d Regiment. To-day she will take on board a.
number of horses whidh arrived at Liverpool on Satur-
day.

The screw•steamers Pioneer and Sarah Sands have
been taken up for the conveyance of troops and stores.
Large numbers of active men and boys continue to
volunteer at Liverpool for the Royal navy.

The following appointments have been made :—'
Assistant•Surgeons—Robert Creighton, from the Tra-
`algar to the Hawke ; Richard Evans, from the Hecla to
the Cornwallis.

Acting Assistant-Snrgenns—G. Noble, to the Majes-
tic ; G. Mavall, to the Russell ; A. M‘Bride, to the
Hastings ; P, Comrie, to the Pembroke.
Second Master—C. K. Hanwell, to the St. George.
Midshipmen—H. C. Best, to the Duke of W elling-
ton ; N. C. Singleton, to the Hastings.
Naval Cadet—J. J. C. Smail, to the Hastings.
On Saturday the whole of the troops in Woolwich gar-
rison in review order and proceeded to the
Common, where they were drawn up in line in the fol-
lowing order :—Half a troop of Royal Horse Artillery,
under the command of Captain Ptrilpott ; the whole of
the gentlemen cadets under arms, under the command
of Captain Shakespeare ; the Buckinghanishire Mild*
under Lieutenant-Colonel Pratt ; the Tower Hamlets
Militia, under Lieutenant• Colonel Dixon ; and the Royal
Marines, under Lieutenant Stransha,m ; one half troop
of Royal Artillery, under the command of CaptainDyne-
ky. Precisely at 12 o'clock a Royal salute of 21 guns
was fired from a 12-pounder field battery in Greenhill in
front of the Repository acres ; the whole of the troops
Presented arms, the bands playing "God save the
Queen," and then gave three hearty cheers.
The troops at Manchester, including the 3d Dragoon
Guards, the 51st Regiment of li,fantry, detachments of
Artillery, S ipp-rs and Miners, pensioners, &c., were on
Saturday reviewed by Sir Harry Smith at Old Trafford,
near Manchester, when a fete de joie was fired in honour
of her Maje,ty's birthday. The gallant General after-
wards-gave a dinner at his residence in Rusholme to the
officers assemble.' on this occasion.

It was .stated in The Sun of Wednesday that Mr. J.
Marriott, a Government agent, was down in the north
engaging s. ivvies to proceed to the Crimea to execute
works in connexion with the army. He has been very
successful, having the choice of any number of men ' • 110
able-bodied men left Sunderland for the place of em-
barkation on Thursday, and about the same number
have been engaged and sent off from the city of Durham.
The Handy Tyne tug-steamers ire in great (Inland
for the East.

A new and valuable steel field-gun, the invention of
Mr. W. G. Armstrong, of the Els wick works, New-
castle-on-Tyne, has been tried with eminent•success upon
Whitby Sands, on the Northumberland coast. It has all
the precision of the Minie rifle, and on Saturday last re-
peatedly hit a target, five feet in diameter, at a distance
of 2,200 yards.

Dr. Mortimer Glover, late of Newcastle-on-Tyne, bav•
irg been appointed by the Government to the civil me-
dical staff, has left London for Scutari.

IThe head-quarters of the 15th Regiment, commanded
(by Lieutenant-Colonel George l'inde-r, arrived at Queens-
'town in the Carriperc/own on Tuesday, and disembarked
shortly afterwards to join tho depot companies at Cork.
This regiment sailed frJtit Ceylon on the 21st of Janu-
ary, anchored at Spithead on the 7th of May, and sailed
th-nce for Queenstown on Saturday week. It has en-
joyed good health during the voyaze, having lost only
seven men, among whom were some invalids of the 37th
Regiment, from Colombo. The wife of the serjeant-
major also died on the passa;e. Total strength disern-
hirked-1 fiekl officer, 2 captains, 1 subaltern, 3 staff,
21 2.erjeants, 7 drummers, 230 rank and file. The ye-
t/mintier of the regiment, in the Empress Eugenie, is
expected about the latter end of the month.

His Netherlands Majesty's steam-frigate Amsterdam,
Captain Spanjaard, sailed from Plymouth on Friday
evening for the West Coast id Africa.
The Peruvian screw steam frigate Apurimac, Comm-
dore Dan Joze Maria Salcedo, accompanied by the sloop
Loa, Captain Rees, 44 hours from London for Lima, put
into Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning, and will be
detained two or three days in consequence of slight de•
rangement of her machinery. The frigate Turnbes, which
sailed with her from the Thames, was obliged to return,
her main shaft having been injured.
The paddlewheel steam.frigate Centaur, 6, sailed from
Plymouth on Friday afternoon with two divisions of
the Land Transport Corps for the Mediterranean.
Letters from the Britomart, dated Coast of Africa,
April 15, state that htr orders to return have been coun-
, termanded. She is now on a three months' cruise.
The names of two officers who received the Crimea
medal from her Majesty were omitted from the list which
appeared in The Sun on Saturday—viz., those of Captain
Blinckthan, 17th Regiment, and Captain W. Capell
i Clarke, 23d Regiment Royal Weish Fusiliers.

THE MILITIA.
The East Nodolk Militia, which again musters about
500 men, has now attained a high state d efficiency.
Since the corps were first enrolled more than 1,200 men
have enlisted, a large number of whom have volunteered
into regiments of the line, and it has also supplied a
great many men to the Norfolk Militia Artillery.
Ou Monday last the Berkshire Militia were addressed
in the Forbury, Reading, by the Adjutant, Captain
Lynch, by whom they were called on to volunteer for
foreign service. At least 500 of them at once stepped
forward with a hearty cheer. They have since been at-
tested, and on Wednesday they received a bounty of 2/.
each. Their de-tinatton is said to be Gibraltar. Scarcely
more than 100 will remain of the entire regiment who
have not volunteered.
Fliday wasthe day appointed for mustering the North-
umberland Militia Artillery Regiment at Tynemouth
Garrison. About 150 bad been enlisted, andabout 50 men
had presented themselves by the evening. As many men
have to come from the interior of the county, however,
it is thought that the corps will be much
cataistrongerp in
a few days. They are under the command of
n
M‘Bsy.
ment is fast regaining
The South Durham 3 titia Regi
the loss of the men enrolled in 1852.
300 men, and has passed through its inspectionIt
with now musters
IT
credit.
and joined the following
have volunteered for thnien
hh Enniskillen Dragoons,
During the past weeke 100
I.e men of the Longford Rifles
distinguished corps :
56th, 62C, 90th, and 96th'
the •
atht,thefirst move of regiment
of Kildare early •
oplrtoenvilosuasbout to join the 88th
niih4the Curragh
Fthoeot6.otlltßieifleexsp,etchteeod
will be to the camp
Middlesex Militia, now 700
to the volunteetin
Major Semen, was in-
Regiment. gt
the next mont,l;.
by Major-General
reLgiget.ntß,
p n e mustered
4ut
under
derl upwards
thee Royale
command
4umOt
apl n Idnme
oni
di.
strong,
qpected at Portsmouth on Friday,
Breton, commanding the south-west district.

WRECK OF THE SHIP OPRELIA..--Aclvices from Elst-
nore, dated May 13, mention that' the Ophelia, Ohlsen,
.with coals, was stranded near Torekow the day before,
and had much water in her ; but the crew were fortu-
nately saved.
ROBBERY.—On Friday morning a robbery of gold and
bank notes, to the amount. of 45/., was effected at the
" Horse and Groom," Mansfield. The money was stolen
from the bedrooni_of the landlord by a man of about 30
years cf age, who slept in the house the previous night.
He is about 5 feet 8 inches in height, with dark hair,s
rather short, and small whiskers, and is inclined to.
fresh colour. He ,yore a velveteen dark conast!_edwgrth
with broad braid, and h9/1 on a lilac checked rf,
sa Notting
a breast-pin. He is]'su-pected of belonging
offered
ham gang. A reward of 201. bas been off
apprehension.
AT CHATHAII.—A
GREAT FIRE AND Loss OF LlFEith
10,.$
of life, broke
serious fire, unhappily attendeda ed for his
byout twelve o'clock on
out at Brompton,
Wedne,sday night. - wife and child were
named Flemming,
grocer
building by a party of invalid
rescued from the horning building
girl,
ClthactolTwiennsceed in the house of a
Mary Taylor, lost Veer
soldiers, but the
senedr
perished in the flames. Flemmi ug
presence of midndwith difficulty. The fire soon spiead to
himself escapei
ing lou,e. and in a very short space of tittle
the adj"?.-' of Mr. Passly, tobacconist ; Mr. Chap= my
the preauses
Mr. Bills,
.saddier ; Mr. Ramage, bake r -
11
d
;house occupied as a lodging-house, were a
flames, and were eventually destroyed. The ca use tif
in is not known. All the sufferers were inured , the fire
• sconrdnaf:cntis,iri
• with the exception of Mr. Ramage. •

THEATRE - ROYAL, DR-U.AY - LANE.
LeS.s.se, Mr. E. T. S ah.—The GREAT DERBY DAY “AL
3lAsutrE, May 23.-- r. m an-Winces to the nobility, gentry, and
public this Grand Fete, on a scale of magnitude and expense ever
befors attempted. A superb Salf.n de l)anse of .0) feet in length,
embellished and decorated with illum.n.ted bowers, variegat' d
lamps. and novel devices. Enlarged o chestra, ointe ' Mas-
ters of the Ceremonies. all the new -antes, muss, &c., harming a
coup d'cell of attraction and splendour without parallel- ficket.i.
fps. 6d. each, to be obtained at the principal musicsellers' and libra-
rians' ; and at the theatre.

LYCEUM THEATRE.-MADAME ANNA
THILLON'S FAREWELL of the STAGE. Owing to the
illiant reception of Madame Anna Th lion in Auber's ct lebrated
Opera, THE CROWN DI .1 MONDS, it will be rep eted THIS
EVENING, May 21. Cat rina, Madame Anna Thilii n 5111)-
Ported by Miss J. It eadon, Messrs Leffler, 0. Sumers, Bowler, and I.
Williams, with a complete Orch stra alto Chorus, conducted. by M.
7hillon. To conclud., with a new Grand Ballet Divertssemen.
t
t.
Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. s. ; Gal ery, Is. Private
21. 2s. Tickets and places to he bad at the Box-officefrom 1 till
daily ; and at lir. Allicrott's Office, 15, New Bond-street.