The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-14 00:00:00

.LF:AVAL AND MILITARY INTELL.TGENC.R.

Mails for the troops in the Pirmus (Greece), Turkey,
and the Crimea, the sick and wounded in &uteri,
Smyrna Hospital and the fleet, and transport service in
the Black Sea, will be made up at the General Post-
office and despatched on Monday. evening, via Mae,
seilles. Letters must be prepaid. -
Several alterations were made in the numbers of the
men'and officers embarked at Portsmouth on board the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's new trans.
port Alma, Captain Evans. The following is a cor-
rect list of the troop 3 she received- :—Coldstre.
Guards Colonel Drummond, Lienienant-Colonel
Cocks, Captain Thellusson, Lieutenants Lane and
Adair, two servants, 307 non-commissioned officers
and privates, and six horses. Grenadier Guards—Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Wynyard, Captains Digby aZul the Hon.
W. Quinn, Lieutenants Earl of Carrick and Milet, two
servants, 412 non-commissioned officers and privates,
and two horses. Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieut.-Colonel
Hepburn, Captain Astley, Lieutenants Ce.mpbell, the
Hon. M`flay, and Moncrieffe, four servants, 310 non-
commissioned officers and privates, and one horse.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenants Baillie and Wocelford,
signs Eccles and Playne, Major Bordinorer 201 h, Cap
tains Arbuckle,. 57th, aed Dowbiggin, ant the Rev. E.
J. Parker Medical Staff—Staff Surgeons Hadley and
M'Andrew, and Assistant-Staff Surgeon Coates.
These were all on board yesterday and very comfort-
ably berthed. Capt. Evans
_and his officers were meet
assiduous in their personal attention to the officers and
men. The ship was visited during the day by. Lord
George Paulet, Lord George Lennox, Colonel Sibthorp,
&e. At about half-past 6 o'clock the Alma
steamed out of harbour for her destination. She left
with 1,030 men besides 'her. own crew, 30 officers, and
19 horses. She landed the detachments of the 18th
Royal Irish and the 50th. The 71st nod the Sappers and
Miners did not arrive. The troops went away •in high
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The Great'Britain,
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also embarked at Portsmouth Dockyard, yesterday the
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Elliott, and -Breton, and 128 men. 18th Royal Irish,
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Call, Captain's Ward and Graves, Lieutenants
Pecklington, Ring, and Wilford, Ensign Cottee, and
-- 128 men. 28th Regiment, Captains Huey and Gearetein,
LicutenaotsTurner,Smith,Day,and Irwin, and 128 men.
38th Regiment, Captain Daniel, Lieutenants; Smell and
Hume, Ensigns Stansfield and Wilkie, and 128 reeri..44th
Regiment, Captains Green and Mansfield, Lieutenants
Kendall, Pigott, Raymond, and Hawaith, and 128 meta.
East Kent Militia, 22 officers, 599 men, 2 officers.
2 children, 48 men, And 43 children. A vary g..wd syc.,
tem was parsued in embarking temps in this ship. Each
soldier, on passing the gaugboard and entering the ship,
had one buckle of his knapsack' eased bp the captain,
another officer gave the man a printed ticket, carrespond-
ing with the number of the part of the ship he was to be
berthed in, and the number of the hammock be would
find slung for him, and also with the number painted
over the beak of the hammock ; thus, men were told off
in an orderly, steady, regular, and certain manner. The
men having had the night to settle comfortably into their
places, the ship will leave Portsmouth harbour early ibis
morning for Malta. ' The detachment which crossed over
from the Isle of Wight to go on board her bad largely
printed upon their tattered colours, "The 28th Slashers
—Sebastopol or death." Alf cheered vociferously.
1 he Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain Caldwell, M
Spitbead, got up a new foreyard yesterday, and looks all
ataunt again. Her tender, the Lightning, will be ready
to attend upon her this day, it is expected.
On Thursday the screw steam-ship Russell, Captain
F. Scott,, proceeded out on a trial of her machinery.
She left Sheerness harbour at 7.30 a.m., went down the
Swin and continned running between the Nore and the
Mouse light-vessels, until she returned into harbour at
6 p.m. Her machinery acted in every way satisfactorily ;
ihe made from 85 to 102 revolutions per minute with an
average of 471 b. per square inch. Her speed under un-
favourable circumstances (the screw propeller not being
sufficiently immersed in consequence of her not being ,
down to her intended draught water line) exceeded 7
knots. Diameter of screw propeller, 12 feet; pitch of
ditto, 9 feet 6 inches ; 30-inch cylinder, (effective), and
30-inch stroke.
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ing, and proceeded out of port on a trial of her
machinery.
Commander Victor Ge•Hickley (12th December, 1850),
has taken up his commission in the Childers, 12-gun
sloop at Chatham. She is ordered to be got ready for
sea with all possible despatch and proceed to the Nore.
Chit-a is named as her destination.

Mr. Randal M`Donnell, Acting Assistant-Surgeon of
the Janus, has left Sheerness to join the Duke of Wel-
lington for service in the Lightning steam tender.
The Trafalgar, 120 guns, will be taken into the fitting
basin at Sheerness this day. Her officers, marines, and.
the remaining part 'of the crew, will be lodged in the
naval barracks in the dockyard. •
The Admiralty have been pleased to grant permission
for all the Russian prisoners now on board the Devon-
shire receiving ship at Sheerness, to have two interme-
diate days in every month to go on shore for exercise
and recreation. There are at present about twenty-five
Russian subjects on board, exclusive of other prisoner.,
for breaking the blockade, 'and whose vessels have been
seized under assimilated papers.
The Volage, 22, floating magazine for the Baltic, is
getting on rapidly with her rigging and internal fitments.
She is daily expected to be commissioned, and can be got
ready for sea in a few days.
A general order has been issued from the Deputy-
Adjutant-General's office, Woolwich, stating that the
Government has sanctioned an augmeutation 'to the
Royal Regiment of Artillery from the Ist of April,
1855, of one battalion, to be numbered the 14th, and to
consist of the following establishment :—Staff-1 colonel
commandant, 2 colonels, 3 lieutenant-colonels, 1 lieu-
tenant-colonel on major's pan:). adjutant, 1 quartermas-
ter, 1 sergeant-major, 1 quartermaster-sergeant, 1 re-
pository-sergeant. Eight companies-8 captains, 8
second captains, 24 lieutenants, 8 company sergeants, 40
sergeants, 40 corporals, 40 bombardiers, 1,008 gunners
and drivers, and 16 trtunpeters. Various promotions
have taken place in the regiment.
Yesterday large numbers of extra labourers, in addi-
tion to those attached to the Ordnance storekeepers'
and the small arms departments in the Tower, were en-
gaged in shipping boxes containing in the aggregate,
nearly 2,000 stand of Micid rifles and plain bore
percussion firelocks ; a large number of carbines, pistols
(revolvers), cavalry sabres, lances, and cutlasses for the
navy ; several Lancaster and other guni of large calibre,
hollow and solid shot of various dimensions, &c.