The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-30 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The launch of the screw three-decker Marlborough,
131 guns, will take place at Portsmouth dockyard to-
morrow between half-past twelve and one o'clock. Her
Majesty signified her intention yesterday evening to the
Port-Admiral of naming the ship herself.
The steam-transport Hansa, No. 206, Capt. Geerken,
arrived at Spithead from the East on Saturday after-
noon, and steamed into Portsmouth harbour in the even-
ing to land her invalids. The worst cases for hospital
treatment were disembarked and removed yesterday
morning to the General Military Hospital, Portsea, and
all who could walk or be removed in omnibuses were
disembarked yesterday morning and marched to tempo-
rary barrack quarters. The Hansa brought home 211
invalids, 4 women, and 2 children. She left Scutari,
July 12 ; Malta, the 18th ; Gibraltar, the 23d. She em-
barked at Balaklava Captain Breeden, of the Ist Royals,
in military charge, Lieut.-Colonel Louth, of the 38th
Regiment ; Lieut.-Colonel Johnstone, of the 33d ' • Lieu-
tenant Johnstone, of the 33d ; Assistant-SurgeonHiffer-
man, of the 19th ; and Lieutenant Logan, of the 77th.
At Scutari no embarked Major Westinacott, Major
Pack, of the 7th ; Major Armstrong, of the 49th ; Major
Villiers, of the 47th ; Lieutenant N. J. Montgomery,
of the sth Dragoons ; Captain Malcolm, of the 28th ;
Lieutenant Brodigan, of the 28th ; Lieutenant Kemp,
of the 18th ; Lieutenant Zamby, of the 18th ; First-class
Surgeon Loughby, Staff-Surgeon Brown, and Staff-
Surgeon Gloyne. At Gibraltar she embarked Lieut.-
Colonel Burgeman, Royal Engineers, and Mrs. Burge-
man, Mr. Burgeman, and two children. She left the
Europa coaling at Gibraltar. and passed her Majesty's
ship t.Simoom off Cape Trafalgar, on the 23d instant,
under canvas, bound for Portsmouth. Lieutenant-
Colonel Lowth, who was in a moribund state when
the Hansa arrived alongside of Portsmouth dock-
yard, was, in direct opposition to the advice of
the most competent authority consulted, removed in a
stretcher through the streets to lodgings, where he died
in half-an-hour afterwards. Ten of the 15 officers brought
home in the Hansa were engaged in the attack upon the
Redan on the 18th, and wounded, among them the late
Colonel Lowth, who was wounded in the thigh, but
dysentery was the cause of his death. .

The steam transport Europa arrived at Spithead yes-
terday morning from the East, with the following pas-
sengers and invalids :—Commander M'Kenzie, from her
Majesty's ship Miranda; Commander Risk, from her
Majesty's ship Wrangler ; Commander M'Killop from
her Majesty's ship Snake ; Mr. Sampson Harris, chief
engineer of the first class ; Mr. Adam Dunn, chief en-
gineer of the third class ; Lieutenant William Warren,
from her Majesty's ship Queen ; Mr. J. W. Paynter,
acting second master, R.N., from her Majesty's ship
Vulcan ; Captain Conyers Tower, of the 6th Dragoons,
and servants ; Captain Le Marchant, of the 49th, and
servants ; Lieutenant Eustace of the 49th and servants ;
Lieut. Jolly, of the 32d, and servants ; Lieut. Dixon, of
the 77th, and servants ; Lieut. Gryils, of the Royal
Horse Artillery, and servant ; Lieut. Slade, of the 57th,
and servant ; Commissariat Clerk Hurst, Surgeon Han-
ley, of the 62d Regiment; Lieut. George Stopford,R.N.;
Commander Triscott, R.N. ; James Fidler, John Wil-
combe, Joseph Smith, Philip Horrell, John Kenwick,
Alexander Spinks, Robert Randall, Thomas Aram,
George Burns, Edward Hosken, John O'Leary, John
Minard, and James Driver, naval invalids ; Corporal
Stephenson, one seaman of the transport Imperador,
four seamen of the Arabia, three Government nurses,
one policeman and wife, one man, wife, and three chil-
dren, and one woman, as passengers. The naval invalids
were disembarked and transferred to her Majesty's ship
Victory in Portsmouth harbour by the boats of her Ma-
jesty's ship St. George, at Spithead yesterday afternoon,
after which the Europa departed for Liverpool.
The Marley Hill, screw steam-transport, No. 169,
Captain Conway, arrived at Spithead yesterday, from
the East. She put in at Oporto on her way home to re-
pair some defects in her machinery. She brought no
news or invalids. The Snowdoun screw steam-transport
No. 190, Captain Gunn, also arrived at Spithead yester-
day, from Constantinople, Malta, and Gibraltar, but
without news or invalids. Her Majesty's yachts Vic-
toria and Albert and the Royal George returned to
Portsmouth-harbour from Cowes on Saturday afternoon,
and in the evening the Queen and Court took an airing
in the Fairy, through Spithead. The Herefordshire, late
No. 108 sailing transport, was towed from Portsmouth
harbour to Southampton yesterday.
The military hospital at Portsea has never since the
war began been so crowded as it is at the present mo-
ment—in fact, there were some ships in the roadstead at
Spithead yesterday with invalids whom the medical au-
thorities are puzzled what to do with. Yesterday they
discharged from the General Hospital, Portsea, 21 in-
mates at 7 o'clock in the morning to Chichester, to make
room for 25 landed from the Hansa at 8 o'clock, just one
hour afterwards.

The Hibernia, 104, was placed in the floating basin at
Devonport on Thursday, to have her copper examined
and repaired. Extra shipwrights and joiners have been
employed to expedite her equipment as a receiving ship
at Malta.

The screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 71, Captain W. S.
Williams, will make a trial trip of her new machinery
to-morrow.

The crew of the:paddle-wheel steam-sloop Virago, 6,
Commander Maxwell, will be paid off at Plymouth to-
morrow.

The Alarm, 26, Captain Curry, is expected to go out
of harbour on the 7th of August ; she is ordered to
South America to relieve the Spartan, 26, Captain Sir
William Hoste.

The Britomart, 8, Commander Hesseltine, expected
daily from the coast of Africa, will, on arrival, be
paid off at Devonport.
The hired steam-transport William Hutt, No. 149,
Captain David Todd, which arrived at Plymouth on
Friday with six tons of condemned stores from the
Crimea, spoke, on Wednesday evening, in lat. 49 S.,
long. 7 W., the schooner Ladybird, bound southward.
The merchant ship Edmund Graham, 927 tons, Captain
Shiel from Newcastle for Calcutta, entered Plymouth
Soutd on Saturday morning, having on board the body
of William Hannaford, skipper of the Brixham trawl-
sloop Elizabeth, of 40 tons, which she ran down on
Friday morning, at six o'clock, nine miles south-south-
west of the Start Point. The wind was freshening from
the west, the royals were taken off, and the men were
lowering the flying jib. The chief officer, who was in
charge, thought the sloop, which had her fishing gear
down, wanted to speak. Life-buoys were instantly
thrown overboard and a boat lowered, hut only one of
the crew was picked up, and, although there were signs
of animation, every effort to recovbr him proved fruit-
less. The crew consisted of Wm. Hannaford, Richard
Tuckerman, Thomas Ellis, and a boy, William Macey.
Many disastrous cases of the loss of trawl-sloops and
fishing-boats, run down by large ships, have occurred
lately off the coast of Devonshire. The New Great
Britain, Captain Fairman, which ,left Port Philip for
London on the 19th of April, the same day as the Pa-
cific steamer, was off Plymouth on Saturday. She has
40,000 oz. of gold-dust and a full cargo of wool, trans-
shipped brandy, and other merchandise, a small mail, and
25 passengers, among whom is Major Cockcraft, 58th
Regiment, at New Zealand. Spoke June 30, in lat.
1.10 N., the Livonia, from Glasgow for Buenos Ayres,
out 63 days ; July 3, in lat. 7.23 N., the Egbert, from
London for Hobart Town, out 32 days • and, July 18,
third distinguishing pendant No. 126, a ship, from Ran-
goon for London, out 107 days.
About 200 men belonging to the depot of the 31st
Regiment, quartered in Plymouth Citadel, are appointed
to leave this morning, under the command of Captain
Law, for Walmer Castle, !via the South Devon and
Great Western Railways. The remainder of the depot,
consisting of one captain, one subaltern, three sergeants,
two drummers, and 32 rank and file, will shortly embark
for Malta.

The artillery stationed at Horfield Barracks, Bristol,
under the command of Captain Calder, on Friday re-
ceived the route for Plymouth, thence to hold themselves
in readiness to proceed in the Indiana to the Crimea. It
is expected they will leave the barracks on Wednesday.
They are to be succeeded at Horfield by another detach-
ment from Woolwich. _

The screw steamer Himalaya arrived in the Mersey on
Saturday morning, and the same evening 212 men and
194 horses, forming detachments• of the various Dragoon
Guards, embarked. The officer in command was Colonel
Spottiswoode, besides whom there were Captain Brad-
bury, Captain Nisbett, Lieutenants Dunovan, Mitchell,
Smith, Stillman, &c.
The Alban, 4, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander William E. Fisher, is under orders to pro-
ceed to Heligoland, to convey volunteers for the Foreign
Legion to Folkestone.
The Urgent iron screw steam store-ship, now at Black-
wall, is ordered to Sheerness immediately, to be fitted
for sea.

The Meteor, 14-gun floating-battery, Captain F. B. P.
Seymour, received orders on Saturday to proceed out on
a trial to-day.
The Horatio, 8-gun steam-frigate, Captain the Hon.
A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., is under orders to proceed to-day
for Heligoland. She is to take out with her a large sum
of money for the use of the Foreign Legion, and for for-
tifying the island of Heligoland.
The Gorgon, 6-gun paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander Richard B. Crawford, on Saturday last received
on board,at Sheernds 10,0001. in sovereigns and silver for
conveyance to the Baltic for distribution to the Paymas-
ters of the various ships serving there,to pay seamen's wages
&c. The Gorgon received a new foreyard on Saturday,
in lieu of the one carried away while in collision with
the Prussian brig Mentor, off Beachy Head. Several
very heavy mails have arrived for the Gorgon, and on
the arrival of this day's mails she will leave for the
Baltic,

The Jackall, 4, iron paddlewheel oteam•yemool, Lip;