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

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OC'IOBEIt 4 1855.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Russell, 60, screw steam-ship, Captain Francis
Scott, arrived at the Nore from the Baltic on Tuesday
evening. She left Sheerness yesterday morning for Ports-
mouth.

Her Majesty's steam troopship Simoom, 18, Captain
T. R. Sulivan, after having bad new boilers fitted, got
up steam in the factory basin at Portsmouth dockyard
yesterday and tried them, when they proved all satis-
factory.
The Alban, 4 guns, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenant-Commander William E. Fisher, has bad her de-
fects repaired, and is under orders to leave Sheerness on
particular service. Heligoland is her supposed desti-
nation.

The Perseverance, 2, iron screw steam troop-ship,
Commander Harris, left Sheerness yesterday at 3 p.m.
for the Baltic. She takes in all—Russian prisoners,
officers, women, and children-461 persons, with guard
and crew 153—making a total of 614. All the Rus-
sian officers are considered as first-class passengers.
They speak in the highest terms of their reception on
board by Commander Harris, and the officers gene-
rally.
The Lizard, 1, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel (tender
to the Waterloo), Lieutenant Thomas B. Christopher
commander, is also under orders for Heligoland.
Her Majesty's steam-transport Dee,. Master-Com-
mander Pullen, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morn-
ing from the eastward with portions of the machinery
for the great three-decker Marlborough, 131, which
is progressing rapidly in the fitment of her motive
power.
Her Majesty's ship Aolus, Master Commander W.
L. Browne, has struck lower yards and topmasts at
Portsmouth, and made all snug for the winter, as it is
not expected her services as shell magazine for the
Baltic fleet will be required until next year.
The steam-ship Rosamond, from Portsmouth, arrived
at Plymouth on Sunday with 200 seamen, appointed to
navigate the Hibernia, 1011, to Malta. The Hibernia
was appointed to go from Hamoaze into the Sound yes-
terday. The crew of the Dee is to be transferred to the
steam-sloop Inflexible, which is to accompany the Hi-
bernia.

Four mortar-vessels, the Sindbad, Redbreast, Rocket,
and Beacon, having landed and stored their ordnance
and dockyard gear and stores at Woolwich, were towed
up to Deptford yesterday by the Monkey, to be laid up
there.

Admiral the Hon. George Elliot, C. 8., has been
placed on the " reserved half-pay list, in receipt of ser-
vice pension," in the place of Admiral Giffard, deceased.
Lieut. G. P. Heath is appointed to the Penelope ;
Mr. Brice W. White to be Paymaster, commission to
bear date the 29th ult.

of Cadiz, and at the Nile, 1798 ; and lieutenant of the St.
George, at Copenhagen, in 1801. Captain of the Modesto,
and captured the French 26-gun corvette the Jena, in 1809,
and at the storming of Fort Cornelis, and reduction of
Java, in 1811. Captain of the Hussar, and commanded
an expedition against pirates at Sambas, on the coast of
Borneo, and subsequently at the capture of Palembang,
Sumatra, for which last service he received the thanks of
the Indian Government, and of the commander in-chief,
in 1813. Commander•in-chief in the East Indies at the
capture of Chusan, &c., in 1841."

DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR SAMUEL PYM,

K. 0.8.

We regret to announce the death of this very distin-
guished flag officer, which occurred at the Royal Hotel,
Southampton, on Tuesday, in the 85th year of his age.
His death-bed was attended by his aged brother, the
celebrated physician, Sir William Pym. The following
account of his services is extracted from " O'Byrne's
Naval Biography :"-
"He entered the navy in June, 1788, as captain's ser-
vant, on board the Eurydice, Capt. Lumsdaine,.employed
at first in the Channel, and next in the Mediterranean,
where, and on the Irish and Jamaica stations, he served,
from the summer of 1791 until November, 1793, in tha
Zebra, Kingfisher, and Fly sloops, all commanded by CaP-
tain William Brown. He then joined thee Cambridge, 74,
Captain Rich. Boger, guard-ship at Plymouth; and after
cruising for about 12 months in the Channel and North
Sea as midshipman and master's mate in the Ganges, 74,
Capt. William Truscott, and Venus and Almene frigates,
each under the orders of Captain Wm. Browne, was pro-
moted March 7, 1795, to the rank of lieutenant, and placed
in the Martin, sloop, Captain Wm. Grenville Lobb. His
succeeding appointmentavvere, as senior; Sept. 4, 1795, and
May 7, 1798; to Le Babet, 20, Captains Lobb and
Jemmett Mainwaring, Amiable, 32, Captain W. G. Lobb,
both in the West Indies -Nov. 12, 1718, to the Ethalion,
35, Captains Geo. Countess, Jas. Young, and John Clarke
Searle, under the last-mentioned of whom he was wrecked
on the Penmark Rocks, Dec. 25, 1799-Feb. 12, 1800, to
the Stag, 32, Captain Robt. Winthrop, which ship was
also lost in Vigo Bay, Sept. 6, in the same year-and Oct.
25, 1800, to th Robust, 74, commanded in the Channel by
his friend Captain Brown. In the spring of 1795, Mr.
Pyre, then in Le Babet, witnessed the surrender of the
Dutch colonies of Demerara, Essequibo, and Benice ; and
on Jan. 16, 1798, having in the handsomest manner volun-
teered his services, he took command of two of her boats,
went in pursuit of, and succeeded, with only one of them,
in capturing La Desiree, French national vessel, of 6 guns
and 146 men, after a desperate struggle, in which the Bri-
tish sustained a loss of 1 man killed, another drowned, and
himself and all the remainder wounded, and the enemy of
49 killed, 8 drowned, and 15 wounded. Prior to the wreck
of the Ethalion he assisted in that ship, under Captain
Young, at the capture, Oct. 17, 1799, of the Spanish 36-
gun frigate El Thetis, laden with specie to an enormous
amount, his own share alone of which exceeded 5,0001.
For the assistance he afforded his captain on the quarter-
deck, as well as for the indefatigable
,exertions in shifting
the wounded masts and yards on board the Thetis, Mr.
Pym was warmly recommended to the notice of Lord-Brid-
port, the commander-in-chief. He had previously, on June
10, commanded the boats of the Ethalion, and captured in
them, after a fatiguing row, two brigs and five tartans,
with wheat and sheep from liarcalcona, leeeed.djo Majorca.
On leaving the Robust he was made commander, Fete 10,
1801, into the Swan, in which vessel he cruised fo: about
six months on the Portimouth station. He acquired post
rank April 29, 1802 ; and was subsequently appointed
April 29, 1804, to the Mars, 74, employed at the blockade
of Corunna ; June 29 ensuing, to the Atlas, 74, which ship,
after serving in the Channel, North Sea, and South Ame-
rica, formed part of the force under Sir John Duckworth
in the action off St. Domingo, Feb. 6, 1806, and was sub-
sequently stationed off Cadiz ; Oct. 13, 1808, to the
Sirius, 36 ; Feb. 27, 1812, to the Hannibal, 74, off Cher-
bourg ; May 12 following, to the Niemen, 38, employed
for three years on the home, Lisbon, Cape of Good Hope,
North American and West India stations; and July 22,
1830, to the Kent, 78, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence
he returned to England, and was paid off at the close of
1831. In the Syrius Capt. Pym assisted, under Commo-
dbre Rowley, at the capture of the town of St. Paul's, Ile
de Bourbon, Sept. 21, 1809. On that occasion he stood in,
anchored within half-musket shot of La Caroline, French
frigate, two captured Indiamen, and a brig of war, and
opened so heavy a fire that in twenty minutes the whole of
them struck their colours. At the reduction of the Ile de
Bourbon in July, 1810, Capt. Pym displayed his usual zeal
and ability. He afterwards obtained possession of Ile de la
Passe, the key to Grand Port, in the Isle of France; and
re-captured, while cruising off Port Louis, the Wyndham,
a British I miiamaq," recently taken by two French frigates,
and a corvette, undpr the orders of M. Duperre. In Aug.,
1810, as senior officer of a squadron, consisting, with his
own, of the 36-gun frigates Nereide, phigenia, and Magi-
cienne, we find Capt. I'ym conducting a series of gallant,
although, from circumstances he could not control, unsuc-
cessful operations, which, in an endeavour to capture the
above-named enemy's vessels and rescue another Indiamen,
terminated in the self-destruction of the Sirius and Magi-
cienne, the capture of the Nereide, and the surrender to a
powerful French squadron of the Iphigenia. In consequence
of this disaster, Capt. Pym remained in close captivity un-
til the reduction of the Mauritiee in the ensuing Decem-
ber. On his release he was tried by court-martial, and
honourably acquitted.. Ja the Niemen Capt. Pym made
prize, July 14, 1814, after a chase of 14 hours, of the Henry
Gilder, American privateer, of 12 guns and 50 men. He
was nominated a C.B. June 4, 1815, and a K.C.B. Oct.
25, 1839,; advanced to flag rank Jan. 10, 1837; and made
a vice-admiral Feb. 12, 1847. From Dec. 16, 1841, until
Dec., 1846, he filled the postlof admiral superintendent at
Plymouth. In September and October, 1845, he had
command of an experimental squadron, consisting of the
St. Vincent, 120, Trafalgar, 120, Queen, 110, Rodney, 92,
Albion, 90, Canopus, 84, and Vanguard, 80.
" For his conduct in the action cff St. Domingo, Sir
Samuel Pym was presented by the Admiralty with a gold
medal."

Sir Samuel received his seniority as flag officer an
1847, and was appointed to the good•service pension in
1851 ; and by his death another vacancy is placed at the
disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT
CONSTANTINapLE.

The Pays of Monday remarks that the real cir-
cumstances of the intervention attributed to Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe are as yet but very imper-
fectly known, and that up to the present time the
evidence adduced to fix the proceeding of M. Pi-
sani on Lord Stratford's shoulders is not by any
means conclusive or satisfactory. If we recollect
rightly, also, his lordship was absent in the Crimea
when the incident alluded to took place, conse-
quently if there ever was a case in which the sound
maxim of Audi alteram partem ought to be acted
on, it is surely the one to which the Pays devotes
its leading article. Our contemporary says :--
" Our private information enables us to confirm
the exactitude of this incident. It is only too true
that the British Ambassador endeavoured to exer-
cise a sort of moral restraint on the Sultan, in
order to induce him to modify the choice which the
sovereign authority has the exclusive right to make.
It is true also that this unfortunate attempt has failed in
presence of the ligitimate irritation and offended dignity
of the Emperor. We are assured that the English Go-
vernment will formally disavow the conduct of its repre-
sentative ; perhaps even a more severe measure will be
applied to his forgetfulness of propriety and diplomatic
duties. We have already had occasion several times in
this journal to notice the conduct of Lord Redcliffe. He
is the oldest of European diplomatists in Turkey ; he no
doubt knows the East better than any one else, and the
questions connected therewith ; but be entirely belongs
to the-epoch now happily very distant, at which Con-
stantinople was a field of conflict of rival influences, and
at which each ambassador endeavoured to obtain abso-
lute preponderance in the councils and over the decisions
of the Porte. He has not yet cast off the old man ;he
still believes himself in presence of the same rivalries ;
he wishes still to reign as before ; he has not seen, or at
least he seems not to have accepted, the fortunate revo-
lution which has taken place, and which has given to
the Turkish Government all its independence. The last
incident of this fatal diplomatic war, nail which nearly
caused the ruin of Turkey, was the famous embassy of
Prince Menscbikoff. The consequences of it are known.
The West has taken arms to free the Ottoman Empire
from the yoke under which it was bowed down,
and to restore it to the Sultan, with the guarantee
of the Ottoman territory, and the plenitude and free
exercise of his sovereign rights. The Eastern war, apart
from its high European importance, had principally that
character and that object. Is it then bacoming in the
representative of one of the two great nations which de-
vote their gold and the blood of their soldiers to the sup-
port of this cause—in the Minister charged to make the
all powerful authority of the Sultan respected—to him-
self forget the respect and the deference due to the chief
of an allied nation ? In so doing, he most certainly dis-
regarded the intentions, and forget the friendly instruc-
tions, of his Government."
Our contemporary then proceeds with great satis-
faction to show that not only was Lord Stratford
de Redcliffe completely foiled in his interference,
but that the very contrail to what his lordship de-
sired has taken place in the Turkish Government.
The following is the language used :
"This thoughtless proceeding appesrs, after all, to
have bad a result diametrically contrary to that which
he expected. The Ministry to which Mehemet Ali Pacha
belongs is said to have been strengthened instead of
weakened by it, if, indeed, it had need to be strength-
ened, and if the confidence of the Sultan were not, for
all its members, sufficient title and authority. We are
assured that all the Ottoman Ministers, united in the
most complete understanding on all great questions,
form hecceforth a united body which nothing seems
capable of destroying ; all consider tiemselves as bound
up one with another, and the retirement of one would
assuredly cause the dislocation of allthe Cabinet. All
have, besides, frankly engaged to second the Sultan in
his civilising views, and to labour in common for the re-
generation, the progress, and the consolidation of the
empire. We must congratulate ourselves on this new
situation, which rescues Turkey hem the lamentable
intrigues by which all the activite of that important
nation has been so long paralysed ; and we must hope
that the public welfare will hencefeith be the sole object
and sole ambition of her statesmen. And it is because
this wise and generous policy app -s to have triumphed
in the councils of the Sultan that itis doubly melancholy
to see it embarrassed or opposed by the representative
of an allied government—by the man who ought to
second it with the greatest pleasure'and devotedness."

SCRAPS FROM THE CAMP.

SEBASTOPOL PASTE.

• It began to rain to-day (the 19th) soon after 12
o'clock, and the camp speedily: looked as gloomy,
black, and wretched as was its wont during the
winter. The wind- always accompanies these heavy
falls of rain in the Crimea, with rare exceptions,
and so it blew to-day furiously. The ground was
Vapidly , turned into the well-known Sebastopol
;paste, famous for its adhesiVe properties, never to
be shaken or rubbed off by any amount of scrub-
bing ; washing is the only operation to which it
'succumbs. , Every one who :is obliged to walk
forth is hobbling about on two lumps of earth,
:with large lateral extensions, which form under
his feet; fasten to his shoes, and increase at every
step.