The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The ingwing notice has been issued from the Admi-
ralty riiye ting the admission of persons from the mer-
chant servi, 3 into the Royal Navy :--
" The Aords Commissioners of the Admiralty, being de-
sirous to encourage gentlemen from the merchant service to
enter the Royal Navy in the rank of second-master, are
pleased to invite such officers as can comply with the re-
quirements of the Queen's regulations to offer themselves
-for such appointments.
" The Adth4ralty are also pleased to invite officers who
may not be able fully to comply with those requirements
to offer themselves for the appointment of acting secend-
`mastet, pro idel they shall have completed four years' stn.-
viee at sea, have filled some of the rating-required by the
Queen's regulations before isentioned, shall have completed
the full age of 18 sears, and shall produce satisfactory
',ref of diligpnce, sobriety, and good conduct. The Board
'of Ac'.eiiralty are willing to guarantee to them on their
consizleticg the necessary period of service in the Royal
Navy, and on their 9onforming in allrespects to the re-
quiretnents at4such time existing, their confirmation to
the :auk of second master in her Majesty's service, with
all the further advantages to be derived from such rank,
both as regards half-pay and the prospect of future ad-
vancement to the rank of master, &c. Details of the ex.-
amination whe.:; candidates for the appointment of acting
second master must pass are subjoined.
" Officers making application must state distinctly their
age, the ships in which they have served, length of service,
ratings, &c., addressing such application to the Secretary
of the Admiralty, when their claims will receive Maine-
diate attention.
" To qualify en officer to receive a commission as second
master ho must have served at least six years at sea, three
of which in her Majesty's navy as midshlurnan or master's
assistant; or, having served six years at sea, shall have
actually been one year or more master, or two years chief
mate, or three years inferior mate of a merchant vessel; or
shall have served in the two former capacities in a mer-
chant vessel for a period, when combined, of 18 months ;
or in the two latter, or in the three capacities, for a period
combined of two years and a-half. He shall produce cer-
tificates of diligence, sobriety, and good conduct, as re-
quired in tho case of masters, and shall pass examination
as the Admiralty may from time to time direct; but no
candidate shall On examined before he shall have attained
the age of 19 years, or after the age of 35.
"It will be required of candidates who present them-
selves at the Admiralty for examination for the appoint-
ment of acting second-wasters—
" 1. That they shall be IS years old ; shall have been 4
years at sea; shall produce satisfactory testimonials.
2. Shall have a tolerablegeneral knowledge of the pilot-
age of the Channel from the North Foreland to the Land's-
end, including the Downs, Spithead, and Plymouth-sound.
"3. A fair knowledge of seamanship at the discretion of
the examining-officers, also of the stowage of the ship's hold.
" i. Iu navigation they must be able to work a day's
work ; to find the latitude by meridian altitude of the sun,
longitude by chronometer, and variation of the compass by
amplitude azimuth,

5. A competent knowledge of the tides, so as to be able
to find the time of high water on any given day at any
given place."

The Baraguay d'Hilliers, sailing transport No. 124,
Capt. Sharp, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from
the East. She sailed from Malta Sept. 12, and Gibral-
tit Sept. 29. . On the 29th, off the Rock, she passed the
transport Campardown ; on the 30th, in the Gut, passed
the screw steam transport No. 183 ; on 13th Oct., in
lat. 39'30 No., long. 11 \V., signalled the screw steam-
transport Clyde ; on the 20th, in lat. 46.30 N., long.
8.20 \V., spoke the brig Ware ; on the 21st, in lat.. 46.39
N., lung 8'23 W., signalled the steamer Persian, with a
bark in tow, steering S.W. the brought no invalids or
passengers.

Her Majesty's steam troopship Simoom, 18, Capt. T.
R. Sulivan, hauled alongside off Portsmouth yesterday
morning, in readiness to embark her allotment of the
British German Legion (the Ist Light Infantry Regi-
ment, consisting of 45 officers and 1,000 men) who are
expected to arrive to-day from Shortieliffe for transport
to Ealal.•lava.
The steatu•transport Lady Eglinton, No. 105, will
leave Portsmouth to-day with a cargo of the huts built
by Mr. Luke Camwell, the contractor with the Govern-
ment, for the Crimea.

The steam-transport Perseverance, Capt. Harris, will
take o❑ board the 4th Middlesex Militia at Portsmouth
on the 29th inst., for Ireland, and returns with the Ar-
magh Militia, to replace the Middlesex, in garrison at
Portsmouth.

The Royal Mail Stea.rn.packet Company's ship Ori-
noco has been again appropriated for transport service,
and taken up to convey draughts to Malta from Ports.
mouth ; she will be ready in a-few days to receive her
allotment of troops, which, consisting of British regulars
and British Swiss Jagers, will number about 1,400 or
1,500 men.
The Royal Charlie, sailing transport, appropriated to
convey draughts from Portsmouth, has not yet arrived
at that port, owing to the strong contrary winds expe-
rienced in her passage from the Thames.
Very heavy westerly gales blew all day yesterday at
Portsmouth, and there was much sea on. In the morn-
ing a barge, laden with ballast, filled and went down off
the Spur Redoubt, but the crew were saved. At 7 p.m.
the gale seemed on the increase, attended by squalls and
rain.

The steam vessel Inflexible left Plymouth on Monday
for Woolwich, to return with machinery for the Satellite.
The frigate Arachne and the steam•vessel Heela have
been placed along.-ide the dockyard, Devonport, prepa-
ratlry to their being put in commisBion.

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The African mail steam-packet Ethiope, Commander
Barnwell, sailed from Plymouth for Madeira and the
West Coast of Africa on Wednesday afternoan. Among
her passengers are Dr. Weeks, the newitroppointed
Bishop of Sierra Leone, and 14 clergymen. She has a
full cargo of general merchandise, including nearly one
tou of specie for the different ports on the coast. The
next mail home, the Gambia, is probably between
Bathurst and Tenerife, and the Candace between Lagos
and Fernando Po.
The passenger ship Kent, Capt. Coleman, belonging
to Messrs. Money, Wigrain, and Co., London, which
sailed from Plymouth for Melbourne on the evening of
the 13th of May, made the passa.;e in 69 days, having
arrived on the 20th of July, up to which date there was
nu appearance of the mail contract ship Oliver Laing,
which left Liverpool on the 25th of July, eight days be-
fore the Kent.

Her Majesty's brig Britomart, 8, Commander Hessel-
tine, which has been engaged upwards of three years on
the West Coast of Africa, arrived at Plymouth yesterday
afternoon, short of provisions and water, having been 49
days from Ascension. Spoke, Sept. 13, in lat. 7.30 N.,
loug. 21 W.. the Dutch bark Castor, and the English
bark Burmah, from London for Calcutta ; 19th, the
Hamburg brig No. 33 ; 29th, the American bark Ithona,
39 days from New York, for Rio do la Piata ; Oct. 1,
the Spanish brigantine Abace, from Santander ; 3d, in
lat. 28.40 N., long. 33.3 W., the Golden Age, from Old
Calabar for Liverpool ; 14th, in lat. 37.25 N., long. 34.7
W., the ship Phoebe Dunbar, 85 days from Mauritius,
for London ; on the 25th, 20 miles S.S.E. off the Lizard,
the Norwegian bark Argo, outward bound ; on the 10th
of Oct., at sunset, saw the glare of a fire in the north-
we=t, made all sail, and at 11 p.m. came up, in lat.
35.51 N., long. 30,54 W., with the hull of a ship, about
1,200 to 1,400 tons, burnt half-way down to the water's
edge. The Britomart cruised near during the night, and
fired guns, but no vestige 6f a boat or crew was seen.
lire brig Corbeille, of Jersey, also joined in the effort to
identify the vessel. Her fore-royal yard and sparsail
were picked u;s by the Britomart.
The hired screw-transport Indiana, Captain Lambert,
which left Southampton on Wednesday with troops for
the East, encounted a heavy south-west gale when off
tho Eddystone, and put back to Plymouth-sound yes-
terday afternoon.

The Nicholas Wood, screw-transport, wag to leave
Woolwich last evening for Portsmouth, to take in provi-
'ions for the army in the Crimea.
Yesterday at half-past 1 p.m. an explosion took place
in the fuse department of the Royal Arsenal at Wool-
wich, but no loss of life resulted from it. A considerable
quantity of prepared fuses had been collected and depo-
sited in the drying-house. The men and boys employed
there had not returned from dinner when the explosion
occurred. The only person injured was a policeman,
whose beat was on that spot, and who was suddenly em-
bedded in a portion of the ruins. Assistance was imme-
diately at hand, and he was conveyed to the surgery.
His injuries, although severe, are not of a dangerous
nature. The drying-room, it appears, was heated by
steam, conveyed though the building by means of vari-
ous pipes, but how the accident occurred has not been
discovered. Col. Pickering and Capt. Fraser, belong-
ing to the department, were instantly on the spot, and
the fire-engines were immediately in full play on the
ruins, the adjoining buildings, the model room, and the
chemical laboratory, into which some fragments of burn-
ing fuses had been forced through the broken windows.
The fire was speedily quenched, and the amount of damage
was very slight, considering the quantity of combustible
matter collected there. _

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Forty•one wounded and disabled soldiers arrived in
Dublin by the Ondine ecrew•steamer, from London, on
Wednesday morning. On the wounded soldiers arriving
at the North-wall, they were conveyed to the Crimean
Hotel, where they were carefully attended to. It having
been intimated to the Lord-Lieutenant that these poor fel-
lows had arrived, he immediately expressed his determi-
nation to visit them. His Excellency arrived shortly after
4 o'clock, accompanied by the Hon. Agar Ellis, Aide•de.
Camp in Waiting, and immediately proceeded to inspect
the wounded soldiers. Among them were numbers of men
who were severely wounded in the different engagements
in the Crimea, and who had been in hospital for some
time. Their wounds, speaking generally, Were of i a fright-
ful character—some being on crutches, others on wooden
niost minutey
legs, and others bearing marks . severe injuries received
His Excellency questioned thetas
in action.
and evidenced the most marked Rio,
with the poor fellows' sufferings. After kindly
IlYmP3thY
satisfying his.
self that all their wants were properly attended to he
1 returned to the Vice-regal Lodge,
Colonel Gordon Higgins, commanding
tillery, has left Dublin on a tour of inspection in the
the Royal Ar-
North of Ireland.
Lieutenant T. F. Maude, 15th Hussars, has offered
his services at.the seat of
cer sailed on Tuesday,
He froml warS.ou This gallant young dB,
Hussars,
in the Indi-
ana steam transport. 's a cousin of the three Maudes
who were wounded at the Redan and at Balaklava.
ing°t3l-1190notaoyerms,orrning. the following draughts, amount
serjeants, 2 drummers, and 390 rank
and file, were conveyed to Queenstown, where they em-
barked on board transportthye Dalhousie :-41st Regi.
m and e eet, 2 officers 49 men, under the command of
Major Meredith ; 55th Regiment, 3 officers and 55 men,
commanded by Captain Barnston ; 47th Regiment, 3
officers, 2 serjeants, 1 drummer, and 130 men, ued.er
C. :twain Pilkington ; 14th Regiment, 1 officer, 1 ser-
jeant, 1 drummer, and 36 men ; 56th Regiment, 7 0 ffi-
cers, 3 serjeants, and 158 men. Major Peaty, of the
latter regiment, bad the command of the several
' draughts. The Dalbousie will convey them to Ithe

Crimea. The Earl of Dalhousie railed on Tuesday for
I her destination.
1 The following draughts arrived in Cork on Tuesday
evening from Limerick, and avrait their gmbarkation for
the Crimea :-17Lh Re.2imetit, 130 men and 4 ollicere,
under the command of Lieutenant Travers ; 39th Regi-
ment, 100 men and 4 officers, under Captain Priteband ;
90th R. rrimerit, 150 men and 4 officers, urd.-r the cart.
!nand of aptain Taylor; 89th Petgim.n:, 12 men and
3 officer,,, under Lientenal:t -Hoare. A transport is ex-
pected to arrive in Cork Harbour in the course of the
week to convey those troops to the seat of war.

The following appointments, =via at the Admiralty
yesterday, appeared in our late edition last night :
LIEUTENANTS.
ThOwag C, Bruce, to the Sampson.
Denis B. Pack, to the Russell.
Edward White, to the Penelope.
PAYMAUTER.
Alex. C. Yule, to the
,Arachne.