The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-10 00:00:00

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SEVERE GALE IN THE ATLANTIC.-
LOSS OF LIFE.

6n by Wise and Gardiner, and has only made one trip
England.
Commander Victor G. Maley has been appointed to
the Childers.
Chanlains Rev. John Cawston, to the Centaur ; Chas.
L. Bell, to the Conway flagship, at Cork.
Acting Second Master Isaac Reeves, to the Ajax.
Assistant-Surgeons Henry M. Speer, recently serving
in the Hogue ; Allan Brown, M.D., recently serving in
the Bellerophon ; and Charles S. Lester, M.D., recently
serving in the Ajax, have been promoted to be surgeons.
In order to render the communication between the
entrance of Milford Haven and the Royal Dockyard,
Pembroke, as perfect as possible, a code of signals is
about to be established from St. Ann's Head, and by
means of stations there, at Hakin, and Pembroke, intel-
ligence can at once be sent to the Admiralty. In order
that this telegraphic system between the arsenal and the
various fortifications down the Haven shall be kept in
full efficiency, accommodation will be provided at St.
Ann's for an officer and boat's crew, who will communi-
cate with a station at Weir Point, and thus on direct to
the dockyard.
The Lords of the Admiralty have notified to the Rev.
J. C. Conolly, chaplain of the dockyard, Woolwich,
that they have voted 3001. for the improvement of the
dockyard chapel, and to repair the damage done on the
west side when the Perseverance fell upon it. , The ex-
pense of the latter will not be much, and there will con-
sequently be a considerable sum for the improvement of
the chapel.
The General Screw Company's steam-ship Argo, Capt.
Hyde, will leave Southampton for Portsmouth this morn.
ing to embarkdetachments of the 4th and 13rh regiments
of cavalry, consisting of horses, 3 officers, and 497 men.
She will leave direct for the Crimea, callipg at Gibraltar
and Malta.
In the account given in The Sun of Thursday of the
sailing of the Baltic fleet it was noticed that the Duke of
Wellington, besides the flag of the Commander in-Chief
at the wizen, carried the broad pendant (blue) of the
captain of the fleet at her main, although there were
eight senior captains in sight. A letter in reference to
this statement says—
" The fact is that the blue flag in question was'merely a
general signal to the fleet, to the effect that the movements
of the flag ship while this signal was flying were to be dig-
regarded. The same signal was repeated next day is the
Channel, and is of constant occurrence during the opera-
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broad pendant, but the idea of the flagship wearing two
distinctive flags at the same time is quite preposterous."
The steam-ship Arabia, Capt. Stone, arrived in Kings-
town-bay on Saturday night ; she embarked 73 horses
and 37 men of the 17th Lancers; she had previously em.
barked at Liverpool 117 horses and 18 men of the 4th
Dragoons, and 47 men of the Bth Hussars; also Colonel
M`Mahon of the sth Dragoon Guards. The Arabia left
the Queen Victoria Wharf at 6 p.m. on Sundays, vocifer-
ously cheered by the spectators, who remained through
the rain to cheer these gallant fellows, who appeared in
high voice and in excellent spirits.
Upwards of 50,000 stocks of walnut-wood, in the
rough, for Minh and other rifles, have been received in
the Tower from the continent. They are issued to the
fitter in this state to prepare and mount in readiness for
the contractors. The barrels and locks of the regulation
firelocks being all of a size, the stocks require little'or
no alteration. 5,000 stocks were sent down yesterday
to the fitters in Birmingham to prepare for the contrac-
tors at that place.
Notifications to the effect that proposals are required
fel, an additional ordnance contract have been issued from
the office of the Commanding Royal Engineer in Ire-
land. The present tenders are to be for the supply of
1,318 cast iron stoves for officers' and soldiers' rooms ;
11 hot plates for the officers' mess kitchens, and 328 cast
iron trucks, with 1,800 yards lineal of iron rails for the
purpose of removing offal of every description from the
vicinity of the camp.
It has been stated by mistake that Lieut. Richards,
55th Regiment, had arrived at Malta by the Great EH-
tam. Lieutenant Richards, we are informed, left the
depot in Ireland hot May, and has remained at the
head -quarters of the regiment in the East ever since.
The Earl of Lucan passed through Tuam on Thursday
last, on his way from London to Castlebar. The noble
and gallant earl appeared the object of much public
curiosity.

The 3d Buffs expect to stud out a strong draught in a
few days for the Critnca.

The depot of the 60th Royal Rifles is about to be trans-
ferred from Beggar's-bush to Richrnond-barracks,Dublin,
preparatory to the formation of the depot into a third
battalion of the corps. When completed to the requisite
strength the 60th will, in the course of the summer, form
part of the force about to be encamped on the Curragh
of Kildare.

Captain H. C. Watson, of the 3d West India Regi-
ment, and Paymaster T. M. Creagh, have been ap-
pointed Paymasters of a provisional depot battalion in
the new Land Transport Corps.

MILITIA.
2`)o of the Tower Hamlets Light Infantry arrives in
Woolwich garrison yesterday, and 200 more, with the
staff and band of the regiment, are to arrive to-day to do
duty in the garrison.
The Exeter and South Devon Volunteer Rifle corps
has received a special mark of approval from the Premier.
Upon the occasion of Lord Palmerston's making some
remarks on the system of volunteer rifl.3 corps, Major
Sir E. Prideaux wrote to Earl Fortescue, Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Devon, who at once communicated with the
noble Premier. By return of post an answer was re-
ceived, in which Lord Palmerston said his remarks were
not intended to apply to existing corps, but to the ques-
tion whether such should be established generally
throughout the country, and especially in the great in-
land towns, which he considered would not be desirable.
On the coast, however, and particularly near a great
naval arsenal like Plymouth, his lordship added, he was
fully sensible of the usefulness of such a corps ; and the
report 4 he had had of the efficiency of the Exeter and
South Devon Rifles showed that they would be fully com-
petent for any duty they might be called on to perform.
The following official communications have been re-
ceived by Lord Hatherton, the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county of Stafford :

" " Horse Guards, April 3.
My Lord,—l have the honour, by direction of the
General Commanding-in-Chief, to forward to you a copy of
a saport made by Major-General Breton of the embarkation
of the Ist Staffordshire Militia at Portsmouth, for service
in the Mediterranean.—l have, &c.,
"E. A. WETIIERACL, Adjutant-General."
" Portsmouth, March 30.
" Sir,—ln transmitting the accompanying embarkation
return of the Ist Staffordshire Militia Regiment on board
the steamer Hansa, I hold it my duty, and as justly due to
the corps, to bring under your notice, for submission to the
General COnimanding-in-Chief, the highly soldier-like and
creditable manner in which the embarkation of the regi-
ment was effected. The officer in command reported to me
that not a man was either absent, drunk, or late at parade
on their quitting Dover early in the merging, and the
same state of good discipline existed on their arrival here,
reflecting extreme credit on Colonel the Hon. W. P. Tal-
bot, and the other officers of tha regiment.—l have, &c.,
" H. W. BRETON, Major-General-Commanding.
The Adjutant-General of the .Forces, •
Horse Guards.' "
The depot companies of the above regiment having
left Dover have arrived at Lichfield. The companies are
four in number—in all 284 rank and file. A considerable
number of the men will go on furlough, and recruiting
for the service companies at Corfu will be actively kept
up. The following officers are at Lichfield :—Major
Tennant, Captains Dyott, Mousley, Willett, and Bridg-
man ; Lieutenant Taylor,' Ensign and Adjutant Oswell,
and Surgeon Welshman.

Some. 300 men of the Hants Militia having claimed
their discharge as having enlisted for only a limited time,
the remainder, comprising about 150 men, were ordered
from Portsmouth to Winchester, where they arrived on
Wednesday, under the command of Major Robbins.
On Thursday many of these volunteered into Coe different
regiments of the line now in the barracks, and the mi-
litia, as a force, may now be said to be almost nil, and
it is questioned if it will be possible to rase it again to
the proper standard without recourse to the ballot.
The Warwickshire Militia Regiment, whose strength
was greatly diminished by the operation of the recent
Government order, has again materially increased, large
numbers of the men having offered themselves for re-at-
testation. The Second Regiment it is expected,
speedily attain its former number of 800 men. Mr.
Cox, one of the deputy-lieutenants for the county, at-
tended at the head-quarters of the 2d Regiment of War-
wickshire Militia at Leamington on Tuesday last, when
163 volunteers of that regiment were re-attested, and
received the additional bounty of 1/. each.

Major Fitzgerald, of the West York Rifles, requests
us to contradict the statement that the greater part of
the men who enlisted prior to the 12th of May last year
had signified their intention of leaving. The regiment
bag only lost 150 men, and is still upwards of 600 strong,
o fall ranks.

Ltvzapoor, Monday.—The American ship John Rut•
ledge arrived here on Friday, from New York, having
suffered severe damage, and lost two seamen overboard
during the gale of the 10th ult. The following is the
report of Captain Sands :—" Left New York, March 9,
in company with the Hendrik Hudson, for London
(which sprung a leak in same gale, and was abandoned
on the 12th ult.) And on the 10th the ship was throwit
on her beam ends by shifting of the cargo—wind
N.N.W. to N.W.—blowing a heavy gale. The cargo
shifting so much she became unmanageable. She lay
with her starboard rail and quarter boat in the water,
washed the starboard anchor off the rail, blew the fore-
topsail, foresail, and. foretopmast staysail away, split
the maintopsail, and blew the sails adrift from the gas-
kets' and split them ; the ship at the time lying on her
side, with three feet water in the hold, and two feet in
the between decks. The crew and passengers were en-
gaged pumping and baling out water, in order to free
her so soon as the gale abated. When they were able
to get the batches off they went down to the hold, and
commenced throwing out cargo. After throwing over-
board about 200 barrels of turpentine, and some tar and
logwood, they succeeded in righting the ship. Lost two
men overboard in the gale. During the latter part of
the voyage there was very unsettled weather—squally,
with variable winds, and much rain." The Corra Linn,
an American ship, of 754 tons, Captain Risk, which
loft Glasgow on the 24th ult. fur New York, put into
this port to-day, with two feet water in her kold.

AMUSEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA.—In Salem, Massa
chussetts, after the heavy and deep snowfall, a man was
discovered stic'eing sticks into a huge " winter bank o
snow." On being asked why be amused himself thus,
"Amuse !" said he, with a voice which betrayed the
deepest anxiety of mind; "fine amusement; I have
lost my shop—it used to stand somewhere near this
spot."—American paper.

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