The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-13 00:00:00

COURT-MARTIAL.

A court-martial assembled at Plymouth on Saturday
morning on board the flagship Impregnable, 104, Captain
Wise, to try Mr. James William Peck Foord, paymaster
of thesMeander, 44, Captain Bayley, for neglect in not
having rendered his cash and victualling accounts when
paymaster in the steam sloop Sphinx, to the officers of
the Comptroller of the Victualling Department. The
court consisted of Admiral Eden, Admiral• Superinte-
ndent of the Devonport Dockyard ; Captain Gray, Han-
nibal, 91 ; Captain Kingcombe, Royal William, 120 ;
Captain Eyres, St. George, 120 ; Captain Stoplord,
Calcutta, 84 ; Captain Bayley, Meander, 44 ; and Capt.
Fanehawe, Cossack, 20. The court sat from 9 a.m.
to
1 p.m. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the court, in
consequence of his previous and subsequent good cha-
racter, adjudged him only to lose three years' rank as
paymaster, and to be severely reprimanded.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant Charles B. C. Dent (1852), from the Va-
lorous, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, has been ap-
pointed to the Gordon, paddle-wheel steam sloop ; Lieu-
tenant John G. S. Clarke (1854), promoted from mate
of the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-ship, to
the Hanibal, DO, screw steam-ship, at Devonport, under
orders for service in the Black Sea.

MILITARY.
The Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, Sir Hew
D. Ross, K.C.8., has nominated Lieutenant-Colonel
Hugh Hanley Tuite, of the Royal Artillery, to the com-
mand of the Artillery in the Belfast district, in the room
of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick M. Eardley Wilmot,
who has been appointed to a situation at head-quarters,
Woolwich. Lieutenant-Colonel Tuite will arrive at
Charlemont about the middle of the present month.
The steam-ship Cleopatra, having on board detach-
ments belonging to the 42d and 93d Highlanders, em-
barked at Birkenhead, arrived in Cork harbour from
Liverpool on the 7th inst., to receive on board draughts
of the 21st, 30th, 33d, 47th, 50th, 55th, and 68th Regi-
ments for conveyance to the Crimea ; but, in consequence
of some damage sustained by her machinery on the pas-
sage, she was not ready to receive the troops.
Draughts of the 92d, 63d, 9th, 14th, and 3d Buffs
left Cork en Thursday in the Prince and Prince Arthur
river steamers, for Queenstown, to embark on board the
transport Gallipoli, for conveyance to Malta. The men,
numbering 392, were under the command of Captain
Hood, of the 3d Buffs. The band of the 91st played
them to the quay, on leaving which they cheered loudly,
and were heartily responded to.
A. detachment of the Royal Artillery, under the com-
mand of Captain H. A. Vernon, with Lieutenant Harris,
marched from the garrison at Woolwich en Saturday
morning, headed by the band and drums and flutes of
the regiment, to the North Kent Railway, en route for
Portsmouth, where they will be joined by fifty additional
men, under orders to embark in the Curaeoa, 30, screw
steam-frigate, as she will leave Portsmouth on the 13th
instant for the Crimea.
Recruiting for the army is proceeding actively in Nor-
folk and Suffolk, and with considerable success. During
the last month upwards of 100 young men have been
drafted from Norwich, Lowestoft, and Yarmouth for the
metropolis.

KILKENNY, Nov. 11.—The depot of the 17th Regiment
in this garrison have received a " letter of readiness."
MORE TROOPAI FOR THE CRIMEA.—A draft of the 49th,
from the depot battalion at Fermoy, is to proceed to
England to embark on board the Adelaide for the
Crimea.---Dublin Evening Post.

INCREASE OF THE ROYAL DOCKYARDS.
PORTSMOUTIL—The pressure of business has been so
great at this yard, owing to the repairs and alterations
necessary for tha coming spring, that ere long the num-
bers will be increased to the original war establishment.
There will be required upwards of 1,000 additional ship-
wrights and joiners. The artisans are at the present
moment planking•in the largest ship ever built in the
Royal naval yards—namely, the Marlborough, screw,
131 guns, of more than 4,000 tons, and which will be
ready for launching in the spring of next year—for power
and symmetry -she is unequalled. The Marlborough is
stronger than the A gamemnon, with every possible mo-
dern improvement added ; besides which her middle and
lower decks will carry 68 and 84-pounders. Next we have
the Shannon, 50, screw-frigate, some 20 feet longer than
the line:of-battle-ship Friume Royal, built of the