The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-19 00:00:00

THAE WA-R.

.NAVAL AND MIKJIT..4.ItY INTELLIGENCE.
Two more Russian ships b ave been seized in the port
of Leith, under false colours ;, by her Majesty's officers
ot-Vustoma ; one is called t he Sojlassu, and the other
the Ocean Bride, :Fiesels U ,te master. The necessary
proceedings have beet takes i in the Court of Admiralty
to insure their confiscation, , and notice was given yes-
terday on the Royal En chat ige that within 20 days from
that , date they and their cargoes, together with t
he
ebe
Johan Christoph, seized at Great Grimsby, would
the
condemned as Crown dro its, , being the property of
Queen's enemies.
The steam-ship Simla, (IN Main Brooks, embarked the
remainder of the Queen's 0* rn Light Dragoons at Key-
bam on Tuesday, and was al )pointed to leave Plymouth
for the Black Sea to-day (VT. anesday). The steam-ship
Himalaya, Captain Kello cl from Southampton for
u Tues
Plymoth on -
Queenstown and Liverpool,. ;wasoff
day at 3 in the afternoon, vri nth topgallant yards across,
proceeding under steam only -
The United States' sloop- .of-war Preble, 8, Captain
Craven, 20 days from Nor folk, Virginia, arrived at
Plymouth on Tuesday afters Loon, and was saluted by
the batteries in the citadel a nd by her Majesty's ship
Impregnable, 104, in Hamos .ze. She has on board 36
cadets for instruction, and p roceeds froci Plymouth to
Portsmouth, Cherbourg, and Brest. On the 12th just.,
in lat. 48.47 N., long. 3'0.39 W., the Preble spoke the
brig Ocean, from Quebec, for Bristol.
The Arrow screw steam gun-boat, recently law) ched
at Blackwell, and fitted wiith engines of 160 horse power
by Honipl!rys, Tennant, 1 mud Dyke, was brought dow.
to ViToolwioh yesterday, a aid commissioned by Lieute-
nant-Commander Joliffe, recently in command of the
Myrmidon, and the crew of that vessel has been turned
over to the Arrow.
Lieutenant Robertson I eft Woolwich on Monday even-
ing for Greenhithe, to ins wet the fine screw stew-ship
Prince of 2,700 tons, an, 1. she left the river on Tuesday
morning for Calais Roads I, to embark French troops for
the Baltic.

A Court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's
skip Impregnable, 104, Cs .ptain Wise, on Monday, Ad-
miral Stopford president, to try Lieutenant Frederick
G. Leigh, on a charge of i irunkenness. The Court sen-
tenced the prisoner to be dismissed from her Majesty's
service.
The General Screw St, !..; im-shipping Company's vessel
Jason has been taken up b y the Admiralty, and is being
tted with all expedition . to carry 300 horses to the
East ; they will embark a It Woolwich.
PEMBROICB.—The fourt It launch this season front the
building slips of this establiiihment has just taken place.
The vessel is the Ariel, 8, $ crew steam-sloop, sister ship
to the Swallow, 8, launch ed here on the 21st ult. The
following are her principal dimensions :—Leugth between
perpendicular, 125 feet ; lemgth for tonnage, 120 feet ;
breadth extreme, 28 feet ; breadth for tonnage, 27 feet 6
• inches ; breadth. moulded, :27 feet ; depth of hold, 13
feet 6 inches ; burden in tons, 490. She is of 60-horse
power and her engines are by Miller, Ravenhill, and
Salkeld. She is in the hand sof the seamen riggers, and
will immediately be taken round to Portsmouth for
fitting with her engines awl commissioning. Captain
Smart, Rai., the newly appointed Captain-Superintend-
ent, has entered upon the duties of his situation, and is
actively superintending and engaged in the onerous
duties of his new choral*. The Falcon, 16, will be
launched in August, and, to complete her, the men are
working from five o'clock 21-1 the morning until eight
o'clock at night.

NAVAL AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE QUEEN.
rite vacant aide-de-camp to the Queen has been con-
ferred on Captain Sir Balwin Wake Walker, K.C.8.,
Surveyor of the Navy, vice Martin, pro.'eoted.
We copy from: Q'Byrne's Biography t:le epitome of
the services of Sir Baldwin. We may add that it is ad-
mitted by the whole service that a better ()facer and
sailor never commanded a ship, and few will dispute
that the office of Survegor of the Navy, the dutie,3 of
which have become . tenfold more onerous since .the
preparations for war, has been as ably and as eff,:.c
ently filled as any sailor in the navy could perform it..
The gallant Surveyor of the Navy, by his services
at sea, his gallantry against the enemy, and his devo-
tion to his office, has fully earned the proud dis-
tinction of aide-de-camp to her Majesty.
"Sir Baldwin Wake Walker entered the navy July
5, 1812, and was made lieutenant April 6, 1820, into
the Nautilus, 18, Capt. Isham Fleming Chapman, on the
Jamaica station. He returned to England about the com-
mencement of 1822, and was next appointed, Jan 17,
1823, to the Brazen, 26, Capt. Gee. Wickens Willes, in

,
which vessel he was employed until the close of 1826 in
South America and on the coast of Africa; Sept. 7, 1827,
and March 28, 1828, to the Rattlesnake, 23, and iEtna,
bomb, Capts. Hon, C. Orlando Bridgeman and Stephen
Lushington, both in the Mediterranean ; May 6, 1829,
and April
,28, 1830, to the Asia, 84, and Britannia, 120,
flag-ships.of Sir. Pulteney Malcolm, on the same station ;
and August 27, 1831, as_senior_to the Barham, 50, Cap-
tain Hugh Pigot. While serving as first lieutenant in
the Atna he distinguished himself by the valuable assis-
tance he afforded his captain, Lushington, at the reduc-
tion, in October, 1828, of Morea Castle, the last hold of

the 'Turks in the Peep °rumens. For hie services he was
created a Knight of the Legion of Honour of France,
and of the Redeemer of Greece. He continued employed
in the Barham, on the Mediterranean station, until the
spring of 1834 ; and on the 15th of July in that year
he was advanced to the rank of commander. He
served afterwards, from Sept. 1, 1836, until advanced
to his present rank, Nov. 24, 1838, as second captain,
again in the Mediterranean, on board the Vanguard, 80,
Captains Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie and Sir
Thomas Fellowes ' • and he held command, from April
16 until October, 1845, and from April 23, 1846, until
August, 1847, of the Queen 110, and Constance, 50,
the former bearing- the flag of Sir John West, at Devon.
port, the latter stationed in the Pacific. In 1848 he
was appointed Surveyor of the Navy.
" Captain Walker was for some time a rear and vice
admiral in the Turkish service ; and for the conduct he
displayed in command of the Ottoman naval forces during
the operationson the coast of Africa, including the attack
Avon Beyrout and the bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre,
1 ewes nominated an honorary Knight Commander of
Leßath, Jan. 12, 1841. He was made a knight also
" tithe second class of the Iron Crown of Austria, of the
, --ecouiTclase of St. Anne of Russia, and of the second
elais of the Red Eagle of Prussia."

APPOINTMENTS.
Captain George R. Monday (1837), to command the
Nile, 91, screw steam-ship, vice Martin, promoted.
Lieutenant Richard H. Risk (1844), from the com-
mand of the Tartarus paddle-wheel steam-vessel, to the
Wrangler, new screw steam gun-boat, now ready at
Mlackwall to be commissioned, and have the crew of the
Tartarus turned over to her.

Lieutenant Edward F. Holme (1848) is appointed to
the Meander, 42, at Devonport:
Lieutenant E. G. Hore (1846), First-Lieutenant of
the Conflict screw steam-frigate, serving in the Baltic, to
command the Beagle screw steam gun-boat, now ready
at Blackwall to be commissioned.

EMBARKATION OF THE 20TH REGIMENT
FOR THE SEAT OF WAR.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.
Another of those exciting scenes which have of late so
frequently aroused the enthusiastic feelings of the "true
and brave" in this town, occurred this morning on the
embarkation of the 20th Regiment for the scene of more
stirring events in the East.
- The Colombo having arrived to take the troops to
their destination (Varna), at ten o'clock they mustered
on parade in the citadel, 900 rank and file ; and having
gone through the preliminary manoeuvres, marched off
through the principal streets to the scene of their em-
barkation; the streets from the citadel being crowded
-with" -whose enthusiastic cheering fully evinced
..the'lively interest with which they were animated towards
their brave' Conntryinen. They were accompanied to
.the Victualling-yard by the Marine band and the fifes
And 'drains- of the Devon and Somerset Militia, and fol-
:lOeted by- a large -concourse 'of persons, who, how-
Mir; fortunately for the 'convenience of the troops,
..were lb' the majority unable to gain admittance, the
Ir,ard• abbe ticomiag' crowded. Itriatty farewells hay-
' tug' beblvtklae-by thegdlant -fellow • of the- comrades
and friends ahou_tto,,bt behnido'att!iseni,* the process of
Ntheesspeirnyinininasiryion.ezzjer the
cninatoiylnwas dsolohe steamers and
and. ithe.favonrite . tune Of "The girt
neiog struck .up by the Marine .band,frontof the•
,steamer. containing the head-quarters
Joieht. Crofton, -Mate Ereleigh, and other .of*Lelirenr" and
, soldiers of the regiment), three long and enthusiastic:
cheers•bnrstfrom the gallant. fellows, and were tarnnup
by those on shore with an equal degree of - enthusiasm.
All being ready, steam • was got up and the deneely.i
packed boats coloured by the, bright uniforms, the wv-1
ing of hats, the martial and inspiriting strains ot music‘'
from boat to shore, rendered it one of the most exciting;
scenes that has been-witnessed:here for a-longtime. The'
Colombo. was lying in the Sound, and the embarkation on
board that 'ship being accomplished, in the course of the.
next 24 hours it is expected she will sail from the shore ,
of her home, followed by hopes bright and glorious for
the success of the noble hearts she has on board.t
siA. de-
Pot
is left
Ph beh under the cown reve ajor
Crespiguy.ind .
B
Colombo out takes out a mail

EIiBARKA TION
OO OF THE 4ra LIGHT DRA-
GNS FOR THE EAST.

- -
- A detachment of the 4th Light Dragoons embarked
on Monday on board the Simla from the Keyham
Docks, and to-morrow (Tuesday) a second detachment,
-under tke command of the colonel, Lord George Paget,
embark.

Tux `PftracE CONSORT AND THE HORSE Gutitp
Guards
rince Consort had a long interview at the Horse
l h e
'P
-fate last week in reference to the new dressfort
ere theyhear
army.
The patterns were shown to his Royal Highness
4ere sitbriNitted to her Majesty, before whom and the
Prince I,
a bevy of ‘, live soldiers" were next day pro-
menaded at Buckingham Palace.
' THE MILITARY SCHOOL AT CHRLSEA.—The designs for
the addition to the Duke of York's School at Chelsea
have been laid before the Board of Works. The estab-
lishment will, s iii.i
it 1 --erstood, be on an extensive scale.
The pupils will be instructed on extended views of mili-
tary education, particularly in artillery practice.
RECRUITING IN LONDON,--THRCAVALRY.— Recruiting
in the metropolis is proceeding with much briskness,
although not with proportionatesuceess. Indeed, Dever
do we remember seeing Hyde. Park decked with so many
benches of ribbon. The following have parties in Lon-
,dort y—tlst Dragoon -Guards, 3d .(Prieee- of Wales's)
Dragoon Guards, 4th- +Royal, liish)i- -lithi..Diagooni
Guards, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), 7th (Prin-
cess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, 6th Enniskillen Dra-
goons, 7th Hussars, Bth (Royal Irish), 10th (Prince of

Wales' s Own) Hussars, 11th (Prince Albert's Own)
Hussar a, 13th Light Dragoons, 16th Lancers, and
17th 1 ,ancers. There are no recruiting parties for
any 0! f the regiments absent in India. The infantry-
have recruiting parties for the following foot re-
gimen is : Ist (Royal Regiment of Foot, the national
corps of Scotland), 4th, 7th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 23d,
28th, 30th, 33d, 38th, 41st, 42d, 44th, 47th, 49th, 50th,
57th, 77th, 79th, 97th, and the two battalions of the
Rifle Brigade. The lowest standard is now for infantry
5 5' in., for India, 5 ft. 6 in.—by the way, in the
lat teir 74 recruit with other qualifications would not be
ref as etc/ half an inch under. A larger number passed
the have, tt or-General last month than have been enlisted
in Lon don. for many years.

ITAICY CLOTHING.—CoIoneI Lothian Dickson, and
Mr. S alaman, of Charing-cross, had an interview with
the 21 finister of War yesterday, when the proposed uni-
form for the Light Infantry was submitted. The uni-
form consists of a short tunic, or short frock, of a grey
texts ire, trousers the same. The whole of the accoutre-
ment gun, knapsack, &c., weigh but 281 b., an improve-
ment, certainly, upon the present scale, 681 b. A
kini t of blanket is substituted for the great coat, and as
a st t off there is a waterproof cape added, a desideratum,
ind eed, under a hot rain.