The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The steam transport nags,: a, No. 43, Capt. N. Shan-
non, arrived at the Molherba.nk on Saturday night, and
sent a heavy mail ashore at Portsmouth the same even-
ju". She steamed up to Spithead yesterday morning.
Slio left Balaklava, on the 6th inst., Scutari the 13th,
Malta the 18th, and has brought the following invalid
officers and men :-Maj,,e-Gen. Sir H. D. Jones, K.C.8.,
late Commanding Engineer at Sebastopol, suffering
greatly from sciatica, &c. ; Col. T. Graham, Ist Royals;
Major the Hon. E. T. Gage, Royal Artillery ; Major
Graham, 41st Regt. ; Capt. J. R. Hume, 55th Regt.,
who was struck by a shell in the Redan on the Bth ult.,
and much hurt about the legs, &c., with pieces of shell ;
Cap. Huey, of the 28th Regt. ; Capt. Ryan, of the Hon.
East India Company's service, in charge of invalids ;
Capt. Suckling, of the Transport Service ; Lieut. Martin,
of the 19..11 Regt., who was shot through the neck in the
Redan on the Bth ult. ; Lieut. Kingscote, of the 40th
Regt., who had his right arm shot off in the Redan on
the Bth ult, ; Lieut. Cowell, Royal Engineers ; Lieut.
Vaughan, of the 23th Regt. ; Lieut. Maude, of the 41st
Regt. ; Lieuts. Gifford and Goldfrap, 12th Lancers ;
Lieut. Stockwell, 72d'Regt. ; Lieut. Booth, Royal Ar-
tillery ; Lieut. Wilkinson, 28th Regt ; Lieut. Petre, 6th
Dragoon Guards - Lieut. Bell, 28th Regt. ; Ensign
Walker, 88th Regt. ; Ensign Hampton, 56th Regt.; Eu-
irign Fishbourne, 46th ; Paymaster Brown, R.N. ; Pay-
ma:4er Sewell, 6th Dragoon Guards; Assistant-Surgeon
Semple, 18th Regt. ; Mr. Taylor and Mr. Kingsley, hos-
pital dressers ; Mr. Brown, Assistant-Paymaster, R.N. ;
Mrs. Lister, Non-commissioned officers and men :-8 of
the Royald Artillery, 1 of the Sapperi and Miners, 1 of
the 4th Dragoon Gds., 1 of the Bth Hussars, 1 of the 17th
Lancers, 1 of the Grenadier Guards, 2 of the Coldstream
Guards, 1 of the Scots Fusilier Guards, 3 of the Ist Royal
Regt. of Foot, First Battalion, 2 of the 4th, 4 of the 7th,
5 of the 13th, 3 of the 14th, 1 of the 17th, 2 of the
18th, 8 of the 19th, 1 of the 20th, 1 of the 21st, 3 of the
23d, 2 of the 31st, 3 of the 33d, 12 of the 34th, 1 of the
39th, 17 of the 41st, 1 of the 44th, 2 of the 46th, 2 of
the 47th, 1 of the 49th, 7 of the 55th, 2 of the 57th, 1 of
the 62d, 4 of the 63:1, 3 of the 68th, 1 of the 72d, 10 of
the 77th, 1 of the 82d, 7 of the 88th, 2 of the 89th, 2 of
the 95th, 2 of the 97th, 3 of the Ist battalion Rifle Bri-
gade, 4 of the 2d ditto, 3 of the Transport Corps, and 1
of the Army Works Corps. Total-12 sergeants, 4 cor-
porals, 1 drummer, and 125 privates, nearly all of whom
were engaged at the a-sault on the Redan at Sebastopol
on the Bth ult. ; 5 of them have lost one leg, 1 has lost
both arms, 4 have lost one arm each, and about 50
others are wounded in various other ways ; the rest of
the number aro sick with sundry complaints. They all
came home in medical charge of Dr. O'Donough, sur-
geon of the Niagara, by whose unremitting attention,
combined with the whole someness of the ship, they have
improved much in health on the voyage. Toe Niagara
brought naval invalids also from her Majesty's ships
'Royal Albert, St. Jean D'Acre, Hannibal, Leander,
Terrible, and Stromboli, in number 16, also 12 merchant
seamen. She will go into Portsmouth harbour this
afternoon to land them. On the 18th inst., about 5 p.m.,
80 miles S.W. of Malta, she passed the screw transport
No. 189 steering for Malta ; on the. 22d, 15 miles east
of Gibraltar signalled her Majesty's ship Hibernia bound
east ; also the Ida, of London, and Francis B.srelay, of
Liverpool, bound west. The Niagara experienced
but little of the gale of Thursday last, having
reached this side of the Bay of Biscay before she met it.
She has during the last 11 months carried 8,500 men,
130 officers, 800 horses, and towed six ships many hun-
dreds of miles, and proved herself a first-rate war tran•
13,iort.

Her Majesty's steam•sloop Ariel, 9, Commander Luce,
arrived at Spithead from the Channel and the White Sea
on Saturday night, 12 days from the latter cruising
ground, and encountered all the force of the late gale in
the Channel without bearing up or putting back after
she left the Downs the second time, about a week ago.
She has but few defects, and left Spithead for Devon-
port to receive further orders yesterday morning early.
Her Majesty's steam troopship Shnoom, 18, Captain
T. R. Sulivan, left Portsmouth harbour on Saturday
morning with the First Light Infantry Regiment of the
British German Legion, and anchored at Spithead, where
she remained all night ; she left yesterday morning,
about 6 o'clock, fur 13alaklava, but put back again at
12.3 G p.m. to Spithead, owing to some important por-
tion of her machinery giving way. The defect will soon
be rectified. It is not serious, as is proved by the fact
that after it showed itself the ship came back against a
stiff northerly and easterly breeze at the rate of soveu
knetA.
The steam transport Rhadamanthus, Master Com-
mander Belam, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morn-
ing from the Mediterranean, with about 70 convicts on
board, whose terms of penal servitude have expired.
The Russell, 60, Captain Francis Scott, was taken
out of the steam basin at Portsmouth on Saturday morn•

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth, returned from a week's ab-ence on
Saturday, and rehoisted hisbwhen Sir Thomas
Maitland, C. 8., struck his commodore's pendant.
The Denmark, American ship, Luther, master, from
Shediac for Great Grimsby, laden with deals, with loss
of rudder, damage to stern, windlass broken, loss of
foretopsail, and both anchors and chain slipped from
her in the " Park," off Selsea Bill, where she bad
been anchored after being got off the " Puller," on
which she struck in the gale of Tnurs(l..y last, the
25th instant, at three p.m. ; weather thick, and blow-
ing hard from W.S.W., was towed into Portsmouth
harbour on Saturday night by the Selsea pilots by the
aid of two private steam-tugs. The pilots found her
abandoned by her master and crew, and took posses-
F-ion of her. It would appear that on the ship striking
in such a dangerous spot, and iu such awful weather, nu
hope was entat tamed sf saving life or ship, and the mas-
ter and crew accordingly left her to her apparently in-
evitable fate, but the force of the storm seems to have
driven her over the shoal into deep water soon after she
was abandoned, and the pilots made a prize of her.
The steam transport Perseverance, Nc. 7, Capt.ffarris,
embarked the baggage of the 4th Middlesex Militia on
Saturday at Portsmouth Dockyard, and will embark the
regiment this morning for Malta.
On Friday night the Cuckoo, 3 paddlewheel steam-
vessel, Lieutenant-Commander G. E. Murray, during a
heavy gale of wind at Sheerness, dragged her moorings
and fouled with the Nymph frigate (hulk), by which the
Cuckoo carried away her bowsprit, damaged hercutwater,
knee of the head, and figurehead. She was taken into
No. 5 Dry Dock to make good damage and defects.
Mr. William Rowley, Assistant Engineer of the first
class (late borne on the books of the Formidable, 84,
Captain John Jervis Tucker) has been- appointed chief
engineer of the Otter. Mr. Rowley joined on Saturday.
The Mars, screw steamship, 80 guns, built at Chatham,
is shortly expected at Sheerness to receive her boilers
and machinery.
The boilers of the new screw steam-frigate Chesapeake,
of 50 guns, have been lowered into their places, and pre-
parations are being male to fit her machinery with every
despatch possible.
The Pigmy, 3, paddlewheel steam-vessel, Second-
Master William Johnston in command, late from Ports-
mouth, dragged her anchor during the gale on Friday
night while riding at single anch r in Sheerness harbour,
and hooked the heavy chain moorings. The Pigmy, being
under sailing orders for Heligoland, was sepplied with
another anchor and part of a chain cable, and proceeded
at 10 a.m. ter Heligoland, the Elbe, and the Weser.
The
Pigmy is intended to keep up a communication be-
tween Heligoland, the Elbe, and the Weser as long as
the weather permit.
The brig Britomart, 8, Commander Heseltine, was
t ?wed on Friday from Plymouth Sound into Han:maze
where her crew will he paid off on Wednesday. No fur-
ther information has trans
eprired regarding the name ef
the ship which she discovered deoia fire in the Altantic
on the 10th inst. Thesailsnic up is marked " Fore
which t picked
Royal ;" the yard to
was attached is 30 feet
long, the size suitable for a
ship
About 1,200 tone.
It is intended to place these vestiges of
7.bn c
Collier, Lloyd's agent at Plymout, for idenatrififecato.if Mr*n
The sloop Aracbne, having been masted, was warped•Ped
to the jetty at De.vonport on Saturday, sill will be
nlaced In dock to-day to have her copper wsamined and
r tpaired.
The Bremen bark Meteor, Captain Wm, Nolan+, from
Quebec, laden with red pine timber, American elm tim-
ber, headmasts, spars, and deals, for the use of Sheerness
Dockyard, was taken into the fitting basin on Saturday.
The Meteor is a new clipper-built bark, with seven year;
classification at Lloyd's. Capt. Robin states that the
greatest difficulty prevailed ar Quebec (which was gene-
ral at all the other ports) to procure seamen.
The Sardinia screw transport, No. 244, has arrived at
Woolwich, and is receiving a cargo of ammunition and
live shell fur the Crimea.
The Euphrates freight-ship is ready for sea, the tug-
boat being moored alongside, but in consequence of a
strike among the crew her departure has been delayed.
Five of the men are in charge of the police, awaiting
their examination by one of. the local magistrates for re-
fusing to work according to the stipulated regulations.
The Admiralty authorities have ordered several large
mortar vessels to be built at Rye on the same plan as
tho se constructed there last spring They are all to be
completed by February next.
C *
P• W. W. Ok e was appointed Second Master to the 1
astor or, Saturday last
During
last week two. medical boards were held in
Chatham g
for the purpose of deciding upon the
invalids who,sNvinee'ruetifit for any further military duty,
when about o,neral
of selectedn for discharge bythe Deputy-
Inspector-
Dartnell, and Dr. A. Reid, Dr, George Russell
All the men are from the
Crimea, and are more or less svounded Several have
rated
either
wi loth the st a leCrimean or an arm, and
many of them are deco-
lakerman, and Balaklava naedal, with clasps,for Alma,
A beautiful tablet, to the memory of the
tria and' his two brothers, the gallant sonhseorof Gof.eSnielriasi Butler, who fell iu the present war with Russia, has
I:ten put up in the parish church of Thom tas own,
county Kilkenny, on Tburnfay.
In the General Order of the 16th inst., published in
our journal on Saturday last, in the list of ressments
authorised to bear on the regimental colours the words
" Alma," &c., the 77th Foot was omitted. That coris ps
authorised to bear "Alma," " Inkerman," and " Se.
bastopol" on the regimental colours.

The West York RifIeMs,ILITIA under the command of Lieut..
i -
Colonel the }lon. E. G. Monckton, having be en
ins
it
n
specte,l by Major General Arbuthnot on the 16th
ns.,
left Pontefract on the ISth for Liverpool and Dublin.
On reaching the latter city the regiment received orders
to proceed at once to Cahir, and is distributed as fol-
lows
:—five co
two tom meanies with head-quarters, at Cahir ; !
panies, with Captain Nelson, Lieut. ilerey, and
Ensigns MO9M3 and Reid, at Pet:Lard ; and two com-
panies, with Capt:iin Lawes, Lieutenants Walker, and
.tiasio Chauner, at Cashel.. One depot company re-
plains at Pontefract,