The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-20 00:00:00

BEAR-ADMIRAL SIR 11. LEEKE.

A letter from the naval department of the Hon. East
India Company's service at Bombay, dated December
the. 14th, says :—" The indefatigable Commander-in-
dhief, Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, R.N., is hard at
work in a way he likes—fitting out the Punjab (which
was built for a steamer), 1,800 tons, ae a sailing trans-
port, to convey the 10th Hussars to Suez ; thence they
march across the Desert, and so on to Alexandria, down
the margin of the Nile, and then to the Crimea. The
Punjab will carry 450 horses and men, and there are
vessels for the rest that will be ready. The Punjab was
only launched a month ago. On Tuesday evening, the
12th inst. (December), Sir Henry Leeke sent in his plan
to Government ; it was immediately approved ; and on
Wednesday he commenced to get her ready under his
personal superintendence, which your home dockyard
superintendents might take a hint from at these busy
times. He commenced to get her masts in and to work
at her; she has, of course, to be caulked, coppered, rigged,
stored, provisioned, watered, (650 tons), decks to be laid,
sails, awnings, fittings of all sorts to be supplied, and in
six days ho has promised the Government she shall go
out of dock with topgallantyards across, sails beat, and
everything ready for sea—and she will be ready by the
day promised. To-day her lower masts and yards are
rigged, 450 tons of ballast in, tanks going on board,
alai all is work.' I never saw fellows work better
and they gave Sir Henry three hearty cheers on his ad-
dressing them as to the urgency of their service. She
will be ready on Monday—Sunday will not be employed.
This is pretty well, it is thought here (Bombay), for a
British admiral who is not thought workable enough to
be rated an admiral on the ' active list' of the Royal
Navy."

LOSS OF A BREMBN BRIG.

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The Moniteur announces that orders have been

given for the immediate reimbursement of all
those subscriptions to the loan which exceed 500

frau cs.

Tho Moniteur says that the great activity of
Omer Pacha leads to the belief that 35,000 Turks
will shortly disembark in the Crimea, where 12,000
are already ; 11,000 men, Egyptians and Tuni-
sians, are about to leave Constantinople, and will

form a Turkish army of 60,000 men, whom Omer

will command.

The Paris correspondent of the Indepenclance

Beige states that the French Foreign Legion is to
be increased by two brigades of Swiss trroops,
under the command of two Swiss officers, Colonel
Ochsenhein and Colonel Ritter, who will leave
the Federal service, and take rank in the French
army as Generals of Brigade.

The Austrian Government has, in the last few
days, issued a confidential circular to the Federal

Courts to the effect that the late pacific declara-
tions of Russia made it expedient to suspend any

such measure, so that for the present no
motion for mobilization would be made at Frank-

fort.

The Moniteur of Friday publishes the follow-

ing :

" We have received letters from Balaklava, dated
Ist January, announcing that the Russian column
which was at Kamara in froiat of Balaklava had
been driven out by the English troops. The Rus-
sians burnt their provender before evacuating the