The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-16 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Yesterday advices were received at Lloyd's, under
date Stockholm, June 8, that the Norwegian barque
Johanna 'Maria, of Stavanger, Lindner master, had been
captured by her Majesty's cruisers and taken into Faro
harbour, Gothland, and found laden with contraband of
war; she was consequently declared a prize and sent to
En„(sland, her crew to be landed at Stockholm.
Intell!gence was received yesterday, under date Dant-
. zic, June 11, that her Majesty's steamer Desperate, 8,
Captain D'Eyncourt, had just entered that harbour and
landed the crews of two neutral vessels, who, after being
warned off the coast, attempted to break the blockade.
The ships have been sent home to England in charge of
prizemasters.
The French ship Algerine sailed yesterday from the
Downs for the Baltic ; she carries stores and a medical
staff, sick berth attendants, and the ether requisites for
an hospital ship, for which purpose she is intended.
Her Majesty's steamer Medina, under orders for the
Baltic, sailed past Deal yesterday afternoon, going west-
ward.
Yesterday the Directors of the East India Company
gave notice at Lloyd's that a ship of about 500 tons was
required to carry a number of lads to Bombay for the
naval service, as also another ship to convey troops to
Kurrachee. They are all to embark the latter end of
July.
The Taurus, screw steam transport, having completed
taking on board stores at the Royal Arsenal, the_ re-
mainder of Captain Brandling's No. 1 company of the
12th battalion embarked in her at the Royal Arsenal,
and she has left Woolwich for Constantinople in the
The Camperdown transport, No. 90, arrived
Downs yesterday afternoon from the Thames, with
stores for Malta.
The officers studying steam at the factory at Wool.
_ wich dockyard concluded their examination befure Com-
, modore John Shepherd, Superintendent, and Mr.
Atherton, Chief Engineer, yesterday, and the answers to
the various questions put on the practical working of
marine steam-engines will be sent to Portsmouth pre-
vious to their being finally passed.
The Rev. Dr. Woolley, Inspector of Dockyard Schools,
concluded his inspection of the school for the dockyard
apprentices on Thursday, and during their examination
was assisted by the Rev. J. C. Connolly, Dockyard
Chaplain, and Mr. M'Avoy, teacher of the apprentices.
The non-commissioned officers and gunners of Cap-
tain Graydon's company, Ist battalion, Royal Artillery,
have presented a splendid silver cup, with suitable in-
scription, to Colour-sergeant Robert Allen, as a memo-
rial of the high esteem in which he was held by them for
his good conduct towards them, on his retiring from the
corps on a pension. He has obtained the situation of
Superintendent of the Revenue Police of Dublin.
The Medina will leave Portsmouth to-morrow with
mails for the Mediterranean and Black Sea fleets. • Let-
ters and papers must be posted this evening (Friday).
The Locust, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Day, is appointed to leave Portsmouth on the 21st inst.
for the Baltic, carrying a mail to the fleet.
The Myrmidon, 4, iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander W. K. Jolliffe, arrived at Spithead, from the
West Coast of Africa station, yesterday morning. She
left Sierra Leone on the 15th of May, Teneriffe on the
30th, and Madeira on the 2d of June, bringing mails.
The Ferret, 8, Commander Macdonald, was about to
sail for a cruise. The Plumper, 11 (screw), Commander
Wharton, was about sailing with mails for Ascension.
Commander Hesseltine, of the Britomart, 8, was ex-
pected from Ascension, to assume the command, as
senior officer of the Sierra Leone division of the
squadron. The mail steam-packet Faith was at Sierra
Leone, endeavouring to fit a propeller, in lieu of that
lost on her way out. The Bacchante, with mails, ar-
rived outwards on the 15th of May. The slave trade is
reported apparently extinct, and no prizes have been
made for a very long time. The station was very healthy.
Mrs. Lindsay and Mr. Barlee, Ordnance Storekeeper,
have come home from Sierra Leone in the Myrmidon,
which vessel has been healthy, considering the hazardous
and continued river work upon which she has generally
been employed. She has lost one man from sickness,
four by violent deaths, and Mr. Carr, Second-Master,
murdered in November last by the natives of ICanyaboe.
She has taken one prize, in May last, almost-the last, or
the last captured ; this was a fine new clipper schooner
from the Havannah, about the city -place for which
slaves are carried from the coast. The Myrmidon has
gone into Portsmouth Harbour to be refitted, most pro-
bably to serve as a gun-boat for the Baltic.
ANOTHER SCREW SHIP OP THE LINE COMMISSIONED,
—We stated a few days since that Captain R. Spencer
Robinson (1840) was likely to have a command.. This
officer has been appointed to the command of the newly-
converted 80-gun ship Colossus, to be commissioned at
Portsmouth. Captain Robinson is the youngest son of
the late Sir John Robinson, Bart., of Rokeby Hall,
county Louth, and as we have before stated, is the son-
in-law of Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart. He is one of
the youngest captains of his standing on the list ; he
entered the navy in 1821, served against the pirates in
the Mediterranean, was made a lieutenant in 1830, and
a commander in 1835. He commanded two steamers--
the Phoenix and the Hydra, and was promoted from the
latter in 1840, for services on the coast of Syria. As a
captain he lately commanded the Arrogant, 47, screw ;
but that ship having been paid off before he had served
the usual period, his claims to further employment have
been recognised in the bestowal on him of the command
of the Colossus. The Colossus is one of the improved
Vanguard class of Sir William Symonds's design ; but,
like a sister ship, the Majestic, she has been converted
into a screw-ship, with engines of 400-horse power by
Penn and Co. She will have a complement of 750 offi
cers and men.

MANNING THE FLEET.—We are sorry to find that,
notwithstanding the Algiers, 90, screw, Capt. Talbot,
had the crew of the Meander, 44, turned over to her,
and had been some two months previously entering men,
she is yet between 200 and 300 short of her complement
of petty officers and seamen. So far as her fitting is
concerned, she will be ready to leave Devonport for the
Baltic or elsewhere by the 27th inst. The Hannibal, 91,
screw, Capt. Hon. W. F. Grey, fitting at Chatham, is
pretty much in the same condition as the Algiers. She
will be ready for sea by to-morrow ; but although she
has been in commission since the 18th March, she has
not two-thirds of her whole complement on board, and,
moreover, the third portion of which she is short is, un-
fortunately, petty officers and seamen.
The following appointments have been made :
Captain--Robert S. Robinson (1840), to command the
Colossus, 80, screw steam-ship, commissioned yesterday
at Partamouth.
Clerk— George A. S. Ley (1849), to the Termagant,
24, screw steam-frigate at Portsmouth.
Gunner's-mate—Thomas Pearce, of the Rhadaman-
thus steam-vessel, at Woolwich, is promoted to be boat-
swain, and reappointed to that vessel.
Lieutenant Fairfax Moresby (1847), having been no-
minated by his father, Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8.,
to whom he was flag lieutenant during his command-in-
chief in the Pacific, has been promoted to the rank of
commander.

Sir James Dunbar, Bart., late flag lieutenant to Ad-
miral Sir John A. Ommanney, has been promoted to
tho rank of commander, on the hauling down the flag
of the gallant admiral as commander-in-chief at Devon-
port.

At the monthly examination of officers to qualify for
promotion to higher ranks, and of candidates for entry
into the navy, the following have passed, and have re-
ceived certificates, at the Roy al Naval College, Ports-
mouth :

Mates for Lieutenants—Messrs. W. G. England, Sir
M. Macgregor, C. G. F. Knowles, F. M. Prattent, W.
T. W. Harubly, J. R. Palmer, and F. R. Purvis.
Second Masters for Masters—Messrs. T. Pounds, A.
J. Armstrong, T. D. Nicholson, and J. E. Cha.pplc.
For Naval Cadets—A. H. Blair, G. H. J. Eliott, and
C. B. Charlewood, from Mr. Fastman's naval establi,h-
rnent C. A. Hayes, W. G. Scott, W. C. Shuckburgh,
A. G. C. Tait, G. F. Pardon, H. S. Sandys, H. H.
A'Court, J. L. Way, J. A. Errington, F. C. Baker,
and C. D. E. H. Tracy.
For Masters%Assistaws.—F. Burne, J. F. Bruntor,
J. C. Thomas, J. Dixon, E. H. C. Smith. W. Stewart,
11. H. Hannay, and C. J. Bigley.
For Clerk's-Assistant.—F. A. Keogh.
For Royal Marine Cadet—H. T. M. Cooper.

THE MILI.
The Wiltshire Militia will mach from Devizes to-
morrow for Portsmouth. They will be quartered in
Hasiar Barracks, on the Gosport side.
The Nottinghamshire enrelled pensioners were re-
viewed on Wednesday last in the Park, Nottingham, by
Colonel Tulloh. The veterans went through the various
manoeuvres with great precision,'and looked remarkabl
well in their rent y
uutforal.

NOTTlNGlihat •rreA.l)--E---The lace trade, in its a.
branches, still preserves.-ths at total quiescerte whichm be-
gins to persuade e, one that the season has passed
very
over without, preaucing
_its usual activity in business.
sagacity is tested ex-
This being the case, mercantile
tremely in attempting to probe into causes of stag-
the war, and
nation. Many incline to trac,e
many more to the weather, whilstranto
opinion that the high rate of provisionost, curtailing all
elfexpenditure on luxuries and superfluit'
res—pa. n
of the necessaries of life, particularly in clip-n,..,,1nan?,.
clothing-;-has occasioned the prostration of the home
-.mile
market as effectually as if a sumptuary law had been
passed against the use of laces. Manufacturers of better
class goods complain very much of the condition to
which trade has been brought in that department in con-
sequence of the long continued dullness, and large accu-
mulation of manufactured stocks, inducing amongst the
smaller capitalists, particularly, an unprecedented amount
of jobbing. The result is that the more independent
houses can do na business on the terms offered them.
Fine weather and an abundant harvest would do much
to restore activity. Our prospects of a plentiful crop of
grain and other produce, except hay, are excellent, and
consequently, although meet will probably rise, bread-
stuffs, &c.;--svill certainly decline, and shopkeeper's and
retail businesses will immediately experience the benefit
which muS'e ere long react upon the manufacturer, The
late failure§ are looked upon as a salutary check on those
impatient,ortat to effect transactions prematurely. The im-
i. . rons'Of Pi I k for the month will be announced in
the menhs of the 20th, but we hardly anticipate that
the extraaltirfavetrage importation of the last five
months inarnamed ; and the first of the new
un
crop will not arrive til October. Already we have to
hand 34,00) out of the whole annual consumption of
53,000, with the new crop still to come in.- Nottingham-
shire Guardian. -

THE CHARGE OF CORRUPTION AGAINST IRISH MlDl-
selett committee appointed to inquire into
this charge're-asseuihled yesterday at twelve o'clock, and
eat for several hours considering and discussing their re-
port. No other witness was examined ; the proceedings
were again-conilticted with .closed doors, and we are
therefore unable to state what transpired.