The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-06 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

The ships left at Spithead after the departure of the
mai❑ body of the Baltic expedition shifted berths yester-
day under sail, and formed two lines, as ordered, thus :

Falcon, 14 (screw). Neptune, 120.
Ariel, 9 (screw). Calcutta, 84.
Cruiser, 16 (screw). Orion, 91 (screw).
Centaur, 6 (paddle). St. George, 120.
Pylades, 21 (screw). Powerful, 84.
The Geyser, 6, paddle, was ordered to take officers
and men for the Baltic fleet in the Downs, and left last
evening. The Driver, 6, paddle, will leave Spithead
to-morrow, and will then also take supernumeratic to
join the larger ships. The Falcon returned to Spithead
on Wednesday night from the Channel. Rear-Admiral
Baynes remains at Portsmouth to take out the third
division ; but his flag-ship, the Retribution, will not be
out of the hands of the engineer department until the
10th, and the shipwrights will not have done with her.
She remains iu the steam basin, with Admiral Baynes's
flag at her mizen, and is being proceeded with as fast as
possible. The Odin, 16, paddle frigate, is also in the
steam basin, having new covers to her cylinders fitted,
her old ones not being strong enough to contain the
pressure of the additional power of steam generated by
her new boilers ; she will be refitted in this respect by
the 10th. The Ruby, Pelter, and Grinder gun-boats
are all in the hands of the dockyard artificers ;' the latter,
which came up from Cowes on Monday from the ship-
building yard of Messrs. Robert White, is in dock, being
fitted out fur the fleet. The Pelter is having moveable
iron plates of a quarter of an inch thickness fitted on
to the gunwale, and projecting above the bulwarks
about eighteen inches, for the protection of her crew
from rifle bullets from without, when in close proximity
with the enemy, and also the better to enable those
on board to shield themselves while at rifle firing
themselves. This vessel needed some new tubes fur
her boilers, but those sent to replace the defective
ones are said to be four inches too short for her ! The
Hastings, 60, new screw blockship, went out of har-
bour yesterday again to make a trial of her steaming
properties at the measured mile. She went out with
most of her weights on board, and drawing 22 feet.
The mean of four runs showed an average speed realised
of 6.7 knots—a result far beyond the most sanguine ex-
pectations of the scientific on board and ashore ; revolu-
tion of engines, 78 ; and the pressure of steam in the
boilers, 551 b. The inexperience of the stokers alone
prevented a better mean speed being realised, and there
is no doubt that greater speed will be ultimately obtained.
She victuals now 279 out of her intended complement
of 600. The Ruby gun-boat was undocked yesterday.
The Bellerophon, 78, landed her invalids yesterday
morning at the dockyard jetty, and they were conveyed
to the invalid depot by railway. The ship is now return-
ing stores, preparatory to being put out of commission.
Her officers will be paid off, but the crew will be paid
down, and after a fortnight's leave draughted for service
in the Baltic. None of her bulkheads or internal fittings
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the following vessels :—The Duke of Wellington, 131,
Royal George, 102, Nile, 91, James Watt, 91, Cresar,
91, Exmouth, 91, Majestic, 81, Cressy, 81, Colossus,
81, Hogue, 60, Blenheim, 60, Edinburgh, 60, Vulture,
Aj6, Dragon, 6, Gorgon, 6, Baslisk, 6, Bulldog, 6. The
ax, 60, was coming in. The weather being very
flue, visitors were flocking into Deal by every train.
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le steam gun•boats Weser and Recruit sailed from
P 1 mouth on Wednesday for the Black Sea.
The paddle-wheel steamer Rosatuond, 6, Commander
Crofton, arrived in Plymouth Sou zd o f Taesday eve ling
from a cruise in the Channel. Her defects are to be
made good with all despatch.
The store-ship tlelampus sailed from Plymouth on
Wednesday morning for the Black Sea.

THE TRANSPORT SERVICE.
The Great Britain steam transport came into Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday morning to land her invalids.
Telegraphic orders were issued yesterday for her to pre-
pare with the utmost despatch for the embarkation of
1,500 troops for the seat of war.
The Cunard steamer Arabia, which had been ordered
to be in readiness at this date for the reception of cavalry
horses at Liverpool, was yesterday prepared to embark
them, but the horses had not arrived. After embarking
the horses at Liverpool, the Arabia will proceed to Dub-
lin, where she will take additional horses on board—her
total complement being 200—which are intended to
mount the 17th Lancers.
Commander Tudor, R.N., who has been appointed to
the command of a division of transports to sail from
Liverpool, arrived at that port yesterday. He will to-
day hoist his pennon on board the Arabia.
The hired screw steam-ship Jarrow, Captain Marsh,
arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday to load Government
stores for the Crimea.
The Gibraltar steam-transport went alongside Ports-
mouth dockyard yesterday afternoon to disembark the
few invalids she returned with ; there were only six
wounded soldiers; the rest were men returning to their
depots. She towed the Dunbar, full of sick and
wounded, through the Straits of Gibraltar on the 28th
ult., at which date the Thames steam-transport was
beating in under canvass.
The splendid new screw steamer Alma sailed from
Liverpool yesterday with detaehm, nts of the 18th and
50th Regiments of. Foot, from Dublin, on board. She
was to call at Portsmouth for 1,163 troops and 43 officers,
and would sail thence direct to the seat of war.
Yesterday a new iron screw steam troopship, the As-
sistant, expressly built for ber Majesty's service, was
launched from the yard of Mr. John Laird, at Liverpool.
She is 1,800 tons burden, and 400 horse power, and is a
sister ship to the Resolute, launched from the same yard
about six weeks ago. The Resolute is now ready for
sea. The Assistant will be fitted fur the conveyance of
horses.
Ad Thai e emigrant ship Samarang, from Southampton, for
elde, which was injured in the Channel and placed in
the Government dock at ICeyham, Plymouth, has been
thoroughly repaired, and is now receiving her goods and
passengers in the Sound.

Mr. J. W. Bills, First-class Assistant Engineer R.N.)
is promote`a to be Chief Engineer of the third class, and
appointed to her Majesty's yacht Elfin.
The Lords of the Admiralty have forwarded to Mr.
W. H. Hawker, chairman, the sum of 100/. in aid of
the Sailors' Hems at Plymouth.

Contracts were entered into at the Royal William tualling-yard, Plymouth, on Tuesday, for the supplyvic-
of

3,000 quarters of wheat for the use of the navy—viz.:
1,000 quarters at 725. GI, 1,000 at 71s. 6d., and 600 at
715., with Messrs. Collier, Brothers ; and 400 quarters
at 71s. 9d. with Mr. F. Saldorf.
A contract was taken yesterday at the Royal Clarence
victualling establishment, Gosport, by Captain Superin-
tendent H. Smith, C. 8., for 3,400 quarters of wheat, at
from 70s. 6d. to 71s. Gd. A great quantity was offered.
The authorities of this establishment are still daily em-
ployed in loading cargoes of provisions for the Crimea
and Malta depots.

LATEST FROM GIBRALTAR.
By the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steam-ship Euxine at Southampton we have the
following items of naval and military intelligence from
Gibraltar :- --The British steam-transport Edina, seven
days from London, arrived at Gibraltar on the 26th
ult., with some firemen of the London Brigade on
beard, together with the fire-engines sent out to protect
the hospital at Scutari. The new steam-vessel Propel-
ler, laden with fodder for the horses employed on the
Balalilava Railway, arrived at Gibraltar the same day.
The steam-transport City of • Aberdeen arrived at Gib-
raltar on the night of the 27th ult. from Woolwich and
Plymouth, laden with huts for the British army in the
Crimea. Therewerealso on board 35 surgeons and dressers
for the different hospitals in the East. The City of
Aberdeen encountered severe gales all the way to St.
Vincent's. The steam-transport Volunteer, with
stores, for Scutari, left Gibraltar on the night of the
27th.

L • The British schooner Adis, 24 days from London, with
a cargo of wines, spirits, &c., bound to Scutari, put into
Gibraltar on the 29th ult. with loss of sails and other
damages, having experienced heavy westerly gales since
leaving the Isle of Wight. The British steamer Caro-
line, eight days from London, with Government stores
for Smyrna, put into Gibraltar on the 28th ult., with
her machinery out of order. The British steam-trans-
' port Sea Nymph, which left Constantinople on the 15th
ult. with invalided officers for England, arrived at
Gibraltar on the 30th. The British steam-transport
Black Sea also arrived from London with medical stores
for the hospitals at Scutari. The British Crimean Rail-
way steamer Lady Alice Lambton, from Balaklava and
Malta arrived at Gibraltar on the morning of 30th ult.
The Sea Nymph steamer, which arrived from Constan-
tinople and Malta on the 29th, left during the night for
England. The following invalided officers are passen-
gers on board :—Lieutenant-Colonel Deverell, 90th ;
Captain Bourne, 41st; Lieutenants Bennett, 63d, Waldy,
46th, Borton, 9th, and Mr. Thompson, of the Commis-
sariat. The Lady Alice Lambton, with a number of
invalided navvies from Balaklava, likewise pursued her
voyage to Plymouth at 5 p.m. The Caroline steam-
transport, with stores for Smyrna, having had her ma-
chinery put in order, and the Black Sea (steamer), laden
with medical stores, from London for Scutari, finished
coaling during the night, and left for the eastward on
the 31st. The Panola, sailing transport ship, put to
sea from Gibraltar on the 31st ult. for England, having
had the defects i❑ her rudder made good. The steam-
transport Eagle arrived at Gibraltar from the East the
same morning.