The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EV_ENI

L 4 PAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Regina Esther, which have been engPg..d as transports
by the BrAish Government, were beiog fitted up at
Gibraltar to convey horses and mules to the East I.r the
use of her Majesty's troops ; the British sailing trans-
port-ship Akbar, from England with troop-, passed the
garrison to the eastward on the morning of the 3d inst.

By a letter from Malta we have the subjoined notices
of military arrivals at that island :

" April 5, from Constantinople, per Clyde, Dr. Wilson,
Mr. J. Scott, and Mr. A. Edniundson.
" Per Candidate, Captain Gosson (late of Iberia) from
Constantinople.
"Per City of Aberdeen, from Plymouth, Lieutenant
and Adjutant Dalgleish, 71st Regiment, and Messrs.
Peake and Jennings, Ordnance department.
" Me:iical Staff.—Surgeons Howard, M.D., Philips,
Foote, M.D., Millard, Husband, Wilson, M.D., Rad-
cliffe, Ormerod and Pont, and Browne, M.D.
"Assistant Surgeons.—Messrs. Skinner, Harris, Riddle,
Bolding, Turner, Perceval, and Puokle.
" Apothecaries.--Messrs. Walkingshaw, Cloyne, and
Williams.
" For service in the Hospital at Eupatoria.—Surgeons
Hulls, Nicholas, Knight, Brabazon, Kialinark, and
Michael ; A. Clerk, for service at Scutari ; with seven
servants, Messrs. Denton, Wilkinson, Hyland, Carton,
Bryce, and Blythe.
" Dr. Wilson is the gentleman who, in the ever-
memorable charge of cavalry at Balaklava rushed to the
front, and, cheering on the men, most probably was the
means of saving the life of the Duke of Cambridge.
" Per Byzantine, from Algiers—Captain Petit, two
lieutenants, 1 surgeon, and 85 rank and file of the French
army.
" April 6—Per Assyrien, from Marseilles-11 French
officers, 121 men, and 18 horses.
" Per Caroline, from London—Engineers and stores
for the Hospital at Smyrna.
" Per Laplace, from Toulon and Algiers—M. Maurice,
Chef de Bataillon, Dr. Mamelet, 10 officers, 365 rank
and file, 6 horses. and 14 mules.
" Per Robert Small, from the East-15 invalid mer-
chant seamen.
" Per Grounissa,mois-20 French soldiers and 22
horses.
" April 7.—Per Julia, from Constantinople, Lieut.
Marsh, 34th Regiment ; Assistant-Surgeon Poulton,
73d ; Giles, hospital dresser, and 100 invalids.
" April B.—Per Nubia, from Kamiesh.--Captain
Puree!, 50th Regiment.
" Per Enchantress, Royal yacht schooner, from South-
ampton and Marseilles.—Sir Thomas Whichcote, Col.
Dundas, Hon. Major Freke Captain Turner and J. Cole.
" Per Caire —Lieut.-Colonel Crewe, Lieut.-Colonel
Holmes; Majors Carruthers, Robinson, and Edwards;
Captains Broome, Sharp, H. G. Rubinson, and Walker;
and 16 French soldiers.
" Per Tynemoutb, No. 102, from Constantinople-
30th Regiment, Captain Falkner ; 50th Regiment, Lieu-
tenant Antrobns ; 57th Regiment, Captain Hugesson
and ...A.s.-i-.tarit-Surgeon Scott ; 71st Regiment, Lieu-
tenant Hon. R. Harbor I ; 77th Regiment, Captains
O'Brien, Carden, and Kent ; 90th Regiment, Lieut.
Irby ; Artillery, Captains Algernon and Brodie,
Lieutenant Tucker ; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon S. Saod-

ers; Purveyor-in-Chief Wref,rd ; Engm,:er, 2d Cia-s,
Pineliasi,; 212 soldiers of various regitnent4, invalids ;
8 officers servad;tA, 2 civil servants, 5 women, and 2
sergeants, for Matta.

"Per Phlegethon, from Algiers.—Nine officers, 023
rank and tile, 23 horses and mules for the French army.
" Per Capi,.ol.—Lieutenaut-Colonel E. 11. Rose.
" 9th.—Per Resistance, from Portsmoutb.-42d,
Major Murray, Lieutenants Macpherson and B;ack ;
46th, Capt. Clarke, Lieut. Hutton; 79th, Captains Mur-
ray and Scott, Lieuts. rdaeßarnett and De Carteret ;
93d, Capt. Brown, Lients. Butter and Stirling ; 97th,
Captains Sibthorp and Hawkins, Lieuts. Browne and
1 medical officer, 573 rank and file, 7 women,
and 12 children.
" Per Ardent, from Corfu.-48th Regiment, Lieut.
and Adjutant Horne ; 82d, Lieut. Thompson.
"Per Hansa, Dutch Transport, No. 206, from London.
—Brigadier-General Ramby, for Ma to ; Colonel the
Hon. C. Talhot, 25 officer,, 599 rank and file, 40
w,tnen, and 50 children, of the Stafford (King's Own)
Militia.
" Per Clyde.—Major Duffin, Captains Smith, Mason.
Garstine, and 595 French troops and 6 horses.
" Per Talavera.—Captain Thrupp, R.A.; Lieutenant
Brown, R.A. ; Assistant-Surgeon Pratt."
According to the latest accounts the following was
the position of the detached fleet :—The Royal Albert,
Hannibal, Rodney, St. Jean d'Acre, Princess Royal,
Agamemnon, Algiers, Sidon, Leopard, Inflexible, Swal-
low, and Beagle, at Kandesh. The Tribm..e mid Spite-
ful, off Sebastopol. The Highflyer, off Kertsch. The
Leander, Diamond, Wasp, and Vesuvius, at Balaklava.
The Vulcan, Megnra, and Simoom are gone to Genoa
for Sardinian troops.
The hired screw-steam transport Victory, Capt. Vere
Rnse, having been surveyed by Messrs. Coming and
Mare for the Board of Trade, and inspected by Mr.
Brown, Master Attendant, left Plymouth Sound yes-
terday morning for the Crimea with the staff of General
Vivian.

A detachment of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
consisting of 1 cacer, 1 sergeant, 30 men, and 60 horses,
marched from Dundalk on Thursday, and arrived in
Dublin on Saturday, to await embarkation to join the
regiment in the Crimea.
A detachment of the 14th Regiment, consisting of 1
field-officer, 2 captains, 3 subalterns, 6 serjeants, 2 drum-
mers, and 154 men, arrived in Dublin on Friday from
Mullingar, and proceeded by railway to Cork on Satur-
day to await embarkation, to form a portion of the depot
battalion at Malta.
Large draughts from the depots in Limerick garrison
proceeded on Friday to the seat of war. A. large con-
course of persons witnessed their departure.
The steam-transport Indiana, which arrived at Spithead
at 6 o'clock on Friday morning with 263 military invalids
from Scutari went into Portsmouth harbour about 12
o'clock on Saturday. The Acting-Assisting Quarter-
master-General Dalgetty then went on board, and arranged
for the cases that required stretchers, to be removed at once
into sick quarters at Portsmouth ; these were only 17 in
number ; those :.no go to the Invalid Depot at Chatham
remain on looard ship until this morning, when they
will tnd and proceed by railway. The invalids have
received unremitting attention from Mr. John Macdo-
nald, M.D., surgeon of the Indiana, and in charge of
the invalid troops. The Indiana is a most admirably
fitted-up ship, better than any we have seen yet, for the
comfortable accommodation of sick and wounded,
having been originally fitted up for German emigrants
of a superior class. The Medway, which also arrived
at Spithead at the same early hour on Friday morning
as the Indiana, was not taken into harbour yesterday—
upwards of 50 hours after reporting herself. The captains
could get no one to authorise their coaling in on Saturday
morning. the Port-Admiral had gone twodays previously
to the Downs with a squadron of honour for the Empe-
ror of the French ; the Admiral Superintendent of the
Dockyard, and pro. tern. acting Commander-in-Gaief,
was sitting as president of the court-martial on the
officers of the Tiger, and he does not appear to have de-
puted anybody to do the duties of the port during his
engagement on board the Victory, for his flag-lieu-
tenant told the captain of the Indiana, that he
could not see the Admiral, but if he (the captain) chose
to take his (the flag-lieutenant's) leave to bring the ship
in he might ; and this the captain accepted. These two
enormous ships, the one of 2,367 toss, the other up-
wards of 1,800, each cost the country upwards of 50s.
per ton per day. The ease of the latter ship is pecu-
liarly bad, as she only brought 25 invalids altogether;
and they might have been sent into harbour in one of
the ship's boats an hour after arrival, if the Crown could
not spare one of the thousand in port for that duty.
The fact is, some experienced, active officer who knows
the work and how to do it, is, and bas long been, wanted
at Portsmouth as an unfettered and responsible manager
of transports.
The Odin, 16, paddle-frigate, Captain Wilcox, went
out of Portsmouth harbour, after fitting her new
cylinder covers, &e., on Saturday, and anchored at Spit-
head while she took in powder, &c., after which she
steamed away for the Downs, to join the guard of honour
for the Emperor of the French under Vice-Admiral Sir
Thomas Cochrane. The Crane, 6, Commander Miller,
sailed in company.
The Rosamond, 6, paddle sloop, Commander S. L.
Crofton, arrived at Spithead from Devonport yesterday
morning, with 20 new bo-ts of various descriptions, and
new stores, and was reported to leave in the evening for
the Downs, taking despatches for Sir Thomas Cochrane,
and parcels, &c., for the squadron, which were put on
board her by the steam-tug Pigmy.
The Great Britain steam transport left Portsmouth on
Saturday morning with the troops we reported on Sa-
turday.
The Leander freight ship sailed from Portsmouth har-
bour yesterday with supplies for the Black Sea fleet,
shipped from the Royal Clarence Yard. -
The machinery of the screw blockship Cornwallis, 60,
Captain George G. Wellesley, baying been rectified, she
made a second and mere successful experimental trip out
of Plymouth Sound on Saturday, when her speed, under
steam, averaged from five to six knots an hour.
The screw steam-ship Sanspareil, Captain Woodford
J. Williams, was moved into the steam-basin at Key-
ham, Plymouth, on Friday, preparatory to her being
placed in dock to-day.
Tho refitting of the frigate Meander, 44, Captain Thos.
Baillie, at Plymouth, is proceeding with all despatch,
and she will soon be ready to proceed to her destination,
which is said to be the White Sea.
A. large quantity of compressed bay was last week
placed on board the sailing transport Wide-Awake,
Captain Moon, at Plymouth, and to-day she is appointed
to receive 2 officers, 51 men, and 56 horses of the 13th
Light Dragoons, for the Crimea.
The hired transport, No. 28, sailed from Plymouth on
Wednesday, with provicione and stores for Balaklava.
Mr. Grant, Centroller of Victualling, has, during the
past week, made his usual annual inspection of the Royal
William Victualling-yard, Plymouth. Two leading men
to work in the stores, and four with the labourers, have
just been appointed there. The brig Gazelle of London,
from Ireland, is unloading beef and pork. The steam
transport Argo, from Portsmouth, is ordered to call and
load salt meat, biscuit, and 5,000 gallons of rum, for the
Crimea.
By the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's
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COURT-MARTIAL ON THE FIRST LIEU-
TENANT AND MASTER.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 14.

THE
The Duke of Lancaster's Own Artillery (formerly the
Royal Lancashire), a fortnight ago mustered about
1,000 strong ; but about one half that number had vo-
lunteered under the act of 1852, and when the regiment
was embodied for permanent service they almost unani-
mously took advantage of the provision enjoining only
56 days' service in each year, and returned to their
homes. The remaining portion of the regiment, having
joined the service under the recent act, were embodied,
and placed on garrison duty at the new battery, north
of the Huskisson Dock, Liverpool. Oa Saturday,
headed by the band, and accompanied by a piece of ar-
tillery, they marched through the town. Recruiting for
the regiment is rapidly proceeding, and it is anticipated
that it will speedily regain the full emnplement.
Nearly 600 non-commissioned officers and privates of
the 2d West York Light Infantry, now stationed at
Sheffield, have been attested for foreign service by Colo-
nel Smyth, M.P., during the past week. Colonel
Smyth, with the concurrence of his brother officers, has
recommended Captain (Adjutant) Cobbe to the lieu-
tenant-colonelcy of the regiment, vacated by the re-
signation of Lieutenant-Colonel Brandling. The regi-
ment volunteered for foreign service in October last,
and are daily expecting the route for Gibraltar or the
lonian Islands. The service companies will proceed
to Portsmouth in two divisions in the course of this
week, and will remain there until shipping is provided
for their accommodation. The following officers will pro-
ceed abroad—Lieut.-Col. Cobbe, Major Crompton, Cap-
tains Carroll, Thompson, Sutton, Price, and Stanhope ;
Lieutenants Brown, Wilkinson, Duesbury, English, Cleg-
horn, Lett% and Baxendale ; Ensigns Lloyd, Wilson,
Stoddart, and Ick ; Qeartermaeter Linford, Surgeon
Paley, Captain and Adjutant Ewen. About 150 men
will remain at home, and will be stationed at the regi-
mental depot at York, undei- the command of Major Van
Straubenzie. The strength of the regiment on the 31st
ult. was 940 men of all ranks.
The 3d West York Regiment of Militia, now stationed
at Richmond Barracks, Dublin, which but a few days
ago was one of the most efficient and best disciplined
regiments in the service, is now reduced almost to a skele-
ton, in consequence of the numberof men who have availed
themselves of Lord Panmure's order to return to their
homes. On the receipt of that order Colonel Loftus,
alter having con-uited with the General of the Forces,
Lord Seaton, who authorised him to give to each man
who would consent to be attested for permanent duty a
month's furlough, in addition to the supplementary
bounty of 11., assembled the regiment in the Barrack-
square, and called upon them, as Englishmen, not to
desert the old colours of the regiment at a time when
their services were so much reqeired by the country, re-
minding them of the good opinioes they had won and
the high state of discipline they had attained ; but, not-
withetanding this appeal., only 121 volunteered to re-
mein on duty, while 320 availed themselves of the oppor-
tunity of leaving the service. If Lord Penninve's order
had been received two or three days laier nearly all the
recusants would have been sworn in for foreign service.
It is understood that the rejLeent will shortly be re-
moved to England to recruit. Tee regiment could not
now go abroad unless it obtained a di might from some
other corps, a, it is about 250 short ef its complement.
From the three militia regiments stationed at Dublin be-
tween 700 and 800 men were dismissed to their homes
last week.
A detachment of the Northamptonshire con-
sistirg of 307 men and 8 o:Beers, arrived by steam at
Liverpeol from Dublin on Saturday morning, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Lord Burghley ; and the re-
mainder arrived at the same port yesterday morning.
They proceeded to Northampton.
The Cunard steamer Cambria left Liverpool en Satur-
day for Dublin, having. on board 100 horses, intended
for the cavalry remount at the seat of war. She had in
tow the clipper ship Crest of the Wave, with a further
complement of hor,e.i on board.
The Anglesey regiment of Militia, which a fortnight
ago numbered upwards of 300, has now dwindled down
to about 20 or 30 men. The discharge of so many to
whom an instilment of bounty money was due has pro-
duced great commotion in Beaumaris. The officers were
in many instances set upon by the discharged men, and
had to draw their swords to enforce obedience or to pre-
vent violence. Several drunken riots have occurred,
one of which very nearly terminated fatally to a militia-
man, who received a severe wound in the head. The
majority of the few retained cannot cl urn their discharge,
but some of them have been re•attested and received
additional bounty. Among these symptoms of insubor-
dination have been manifested, and no picket could be
mustered to patrol the streets. A memorial has been
presented to the authorities by the inhabitants of Beau-
maris, praying for the removal of the militia corps.
The Roscommon and Longford Militia Regiment, it
is said, will be quartered at Athlone fur drill, previous
to being encamped on the Curragb.
On Saturday Lieut.-General Thomas arrived in Ar-
magh from Belfast for the purpose of inspecting the Ar-
magh Regiment. When the inspection had concluded,
the regiment proceeded to the Mall for the purpose of
going on with their usual drill, and were followed by
General Thomas, Col. the Earl of Gosford, Lieut.-Col.
Caulfeild, and the other officers, where the General again
expressed himself in complimentary terms. When they
returned to barracks Colonel the Earl of Gosford formed
them into a hollow square, and having stated that all the
officers had expressed their readiness to volunteer for
foreign service, he inquired if the men Were willing to
follow them ; to which consent was immediately given
in three hearty chefrs. The colonel then asked if there
was any dissentient, and, if so, that he would step out ;
but, to the honour of the corps, not one man left the
ranks, and be was again responded to by three hearty
cheers.

LOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP TIGER.

METROPOLITAN AN
LEGISLATION.

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