The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-15 00:00:00

Naval aald Military Intelligence.

The Orinoco steam-transport, No. 218, arrived at Spit-
head yeste'rday morning from the East, with invalids
from the hospitals, and wounded from the final assault
on Sebastopol of the Bth ult. She left Balaklava on the
22d of September, arrived at Constantinople on the 24th,
and left on the 29th, and left Malta on the 4th inst. On
the 11th inst., in lat. 41.22, long. 9.30, she passed the
screw-steamer Corinthian, steering south ; on the Bth,
in lat. 36.33, Jong. 2.28, passed the American ship
Zephyr. She has brought home Col. Wood, Col. Hey-
land of the 7th Royal Fusi:iers, wounded in the ankle at
the assault on the Redan, on tie Bth ult.; Capt. Turner,
Royal Artillery ; Capt. Beresford, of the 88th Connaught
Rangers, woundd in the side ; Capt. Mauleverer, of the
188th, and Capt. Bertram of the 41st, both wounded in
the foot ; Captain Ward, of the LBth Royal Irish ;
Lieut. Rattray, of the 9th, wounded in the breast;
Lieutenant Sir C. Pigot, of the 90th, wounded in the
arm ; Lieut. Deverell, of the 90th, wounded in the leg ;
Lieut. Lambert, of the 88th, wonnsied in the neck ;
Lieut. Hopton, of the 88th, woundeeh in the back (all
at the assault on the Redan on the Sth ult.) ; Second-
class Staff-Surgeon Rutherford, Assistant-Surgeon Or-
ford, Acting-Assistant-Surgeon .IVPlCutchin, invalided
from fever; five intermediate passengers, Quartermaster-
Serjeant Saut, 68th Regiment; Corporal Grundy, Royal
Artillery ; Serjeaut Rock, Turkish Contingent ; 178 in-
valided soldiers, mostly wounded, from Balaklava and
Scutari ; three women, three children, one servant of
Lieut.-Colonel de Batte, and one of Capt. Pechell, all in
medical charge of Dr. Coveruton, Surgeon of the Ori-
noco, under whom all are doing well. Four deaths oc-
curred on the passage.
The Marlborough, 131, screw three-decker, fitting
her machinery in the steam-basin at Portsmouth, re-
ceived her screw on Saturday evening, and makes
such
progress in fitting her engines that she will soon be
ready to get up steam.
The Vixen steam transport, Master Commander Pym,
R.N., arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Woolwich,
with some portions of the machinery for this ship.
The Hastings, CO, screw blockship, Captain E. G.
Fanshawe, arrived at Spithead on Friday night from the
Baltic, and has gone into Portsmouth :Harbour to refit.
The Pembroke, 60, screw blockship, Captain Sey-
mour, left Portsmouth harbour for Spithead, after re-
pairing a few defects, on Saturday.
The Russell, 60, screw blockship, Captain Francis
Scott, was taken out of dock at Portsmouth on Friday
evening.

Lieutenant W. Clark, late of the Star, has been ap-
pointed to the Waterloo for disposal ; Lieut. W. Vicary,
late of the Buzzard, to the Victory ; and Lieutenant G.
E. Barnes, late of the Hastings, to the Impregnable.
The freight ship Neptune sailed on Saturday morning
from Woolwich Arsenal with 200 barrels of tar, a num-
ber of watercarts and saddles ; and a cargo of military
appurtenances and stores for the East.
The Havannab, 19, Captain Thomas Harvey, was in-
spected in Plymou h wound by Port-Admiral Sir Wil-
liam Parker, on Tuesday, and on Saturday morning
sailed for the Pacific with mails for Rio and Valparaiso,
taking with her those which were on board the Siren.
The Siren, 16, Commander Otway, which put back
damaged on Friday, was towed on Saturday by the
Zephyr steamer from the Sound into Eamoaze, where
she will receive new mainmast.

The Cuckoo gun-boat, Lieutenant Commander Augus-
tus G. E. Murray, arrived at Sheerness from the Baltic
at 1 p.m. on Friday. She put into Hull in consequence
of meeting with heavy gales from the south-west and
being in want of coals. She left at Elsinore on the Ist
inst., the day of her departure, the Basilisk, 6, paddle-
wheel steam-sloop, Commander Robert Jenner. During
a gale .of wind, when the Cuckoo was in the Gulf of
Bothnia, she lost all her anchors and cables a tew days
previous to her leaving for England. She succeeded in
procuring a stream anchor and chain cable from the
Pembroke, 60, screw steam-ship, Captain George H.
Seymour. Commander Murray reports that the win-
ter season had set in very severely, and quite three
weeks sooner than it did last season. The Cuckoo
has taken and destroyed twenty-seven sail of mer-
chant vessels and transports of the enemy, each vessel
averaging 200 tons. These vessels were destroyed in
consequence of there not being a sufficient number of
seamen or officers to put on board to send them to Eng-
land. The Hailer, 17, screw steam-sloop, Commander
A. Storey, has taken and destroyed a still greater num-
ber of the enemy's vessels of a similar class. The ma-
chinery and hull of the Cuckoo are reported to be in a
very defective state from continual service for the last
seven months, she having run over more than 30,000
nautical miles. She is to be taken into dry dock No. 5
for survey and repairs. She was the first vessel fitted as
a gur-boat on the breaking out of the present war with
Russia.

Orders have arrived at Sheerness to prepare to receive
the Sanspareil, 70, screw steam-ship, Captain Woodford
J. Williams. She is to take her guns on board (which
were landed to make room for sea service mortars,
which have :rine° been landed at Portsmouth)* to com-
plete provisions, stores, ammunition, &c., and is to be
ready for imine,liata foreign service. The West Indies
is reported to be her destination.