The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-19 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Royal Albert has completed her coaling, and is ro
k-
ceiving her armament of lower, middle, and upper dec
guns in.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, on her return from the
Baltic, is to come to Plymouth to be docked at Keyharn.
It is reported that the Exmouth, 91, new screw steam-
ship, fitting at Plymouth with engines of 400-horse power,
will be very soon commissioned. by Captain the Hon. F.
Pelham, of the Blenheim, 60, screw, and that Captain
(Nemesis) Hall, of the Heels, S, steam-vessel, will succeed
Captain Pelhain in the command of the Blenheim.
The Constance, 50, is ordered to be fitted as an advance
ship at Plymouth.
The Thetis, 40, is to be clocked at Plymouth on Saturday
next, and repaired, after whidi she will be jury rigged,
and, it is confidently reported, exchanged for two Prussian
gun-boats, fully equipped for immediate service.
The Tartar, 21, screw steam-corvette was taken out of
Woolwich basin yesterday, and proceeded in charge of Mr.
Pym, additional master of the Black Eagle, to Chatham, to
be rigged and completed at that fort for sea. She draws in
her present state 10 feet 11 inches forward and 14 feet 3
inches aft. The Monkey accompanied her to Chatham to
bring Mr. Pym and the men who navigated her.
The Miranda, 15, Capt Lyons, left Portsmouth yester-
day for the Black Sea, calling at Plymouth, to take in a
mail which is to arrive there for her to-morrow.
The Horatio has been put out of dry dock, and remains
under fitting in the basin.
The Cossack remains in harbour still, her captain being
engaged on the courts-martial, now sitting on board the
Waterloo.

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THE SUPERINTENDENT OF WOOLWICH
ARD.
Sir James Graham has selected Capt. Horatio Thomas
Austin, C.B. (1838), to succeed the late Captain Martin as
superintendent of Deptford dock and victualling establish-
ments.
Captain Austin will bo recognised as an officer of great
energy and extensive experience. As a captain he is known
as the commander of the Cyclops, steam-frigate, in the
operations on the coast of Syria and at Acre ; as the officer
who mainly assisted to get off the Sphinx from the rocks
at the Isle of Wight ; who acted for some time as super-
intendent of Woolwich Dockyard; who commanded the
Blenheim as superintendent of the steam-reserve at Ports-
mouth ; then as the chief of the Arctic Expedition in
search of Sir John Franklin ; and latterly as superintd-
ent of the packet service at Southampton.

APPOINTMENTS.
Master Charles C. Scott (1854), to be a chief officer in
the Coast Guard.
Masters'-Assistants—Frederick Hunter, to the Rodney,
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flag-ship at Woolwich; Michael S. Gray, to
90, on the Mediterranean and Black Sea station.
Second Master—W. B. Calver (1846), has been promoted
to the rank of master.

MEDICAL OFFICERS FOR THE EAST.
A reinforcement of medical officers beim; required for
the Feat of war, the following have been selected from the
medical staff at Chatham to proceed immediately to Con-
stantinople and Sebastopol:—J. Newton, J. Summers,
and F. Rutter, second-class staff surgeons at the Invalid
Hospital Fort Pitt, Chatham. The above gentlemen are
ordered to proceed to Constantinople, and Assistant-Sur-
geon Johnstone. 65th Regiment, has proceeded from Chat-
ham to Portsmouth, to embark with a reinforcement of
Artillery for Sebastopol. It is expected that another
draught of medical men will be required from the hospitals
at Chatham for the seat of war.
During the week 12 additional surgeons have been de-
spatched from Ireland to the East to attend on the wounded.

ARRIVALS FROM THE BALTIC.
The cutter Sparrowhawk arrived at Portsmouth during 1
the gale of last night, from the Baltic. She was despatched
to the Baltic fleet by Messrs. Edwin Galt and Co., wine
merchants, of this port, and joined the fleet at Baro Sound
in July, was taken in .tow by her Majesty's ship Arrogant
to Ledsund, and thence to Bomarsund by the Termagant ;
left Bomarsund three days after the siege, touching at
Stockholm and Copenhagen. On the coast of Norway
1 there has been a succession of heavy westerly gales. The
Sparrowhawk was windbound at Christiansand for three
weeks. At least 300 vessels remained in the ports of Area-
dal, Christiansand, Gamla, Hellesund, and Mundal, from
stress of weather. Among these were eight Russian prizes,
in charge of Lieutenant Bathurst, of the Archer, Lieut.
Hall, of the Conflict, and Mr. Curtis, mate of the Cruiser.
The Sparrowhawk has brought home many !interesting
trophies from Bomarsund, the keys of Fort Nottich being
among them. Mr. Edwin Galt and Mr. Baldock have re-
turned in her.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Captain B. J. Sulivan, re-
turned from the Baltic on Tuesday evening to Woolwich,
in charge of Lieut. Cudlip, Captain Sulivsn having been
ordered by Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier to remain on
board the Duke of Wellington flag-ship until the return of
the fleet from that sea. The Lightning accomplished her
duties as a surveying vessel in a highly satisfactory man-
ner, and, having run in close to Cronstadt, bad a good op-
portunity of reconnoitring the strength of that fortress.
The mouth of the harbour is narrow, and one ship only
could enter at a time, which she would have to do under
the concentrated firing of 101 guns, and if she passed the
outer entrance she would receive, before entering the inner
harbour, the concentrated firing from 280 guns on a double-
tier battery erected at its entrance, and in which 14 ships
of the line are now lying. The walls are of solid granite,
18 feet thick, and it would require a considerable land
force to aid a powerful fleet when attempting 'to destroy
the fortifications.
The Leopard, 18, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain
George Giffard, whose arrival at Spithead from the Baltic
we announced yesterday, left Oregrund, Gulf of Bothnia,
on the Bth inst., Faro the 10th, and
addle Copenhagen the 13th.
At Oregrund she left the Odin, 16, p-friate, Captain
Scott, and at Baro Sound, the Cruiser, 14, screw, Commander
the Hon. G. Douglas, and the Gorgon, 6, paddle-sloop,
Commander P. Cracoft ; the Hecla, 6, paddle, Capt. Hall,
and the Driver, 6, Commander Rice, were at Elsinore ob-
taining supplies for Rear-Admiral Plumridge's squadron
at Kiel. The Leopard has been and is extremely healthy.
She passed two French line-of-battle ships and three
steamers off Wingo Sound, homeward bound. She has
brought home Lieutenant Magrath, of the Odin, on pro-
motion, and, as trophies, a 13-inch mortar and a long 24-
pounder, captured at Bomarsund. The Sprightly, port
tender, had been in the Channel all night, on the look-out
for the Leopardi to inform Admiral Martin of the illness
of his father (the Admiral of the fleet), and to hasten him
to his bedside ; and, immediately on arriving in the Leo-
pard, the Sprightly took him out at Spithead, and con-
veyed him into Portsmouth harbour, towing his barge
astern to land him without delay at the dockyard.
No. 118 transport, Lieutenant Robinson in charge, has
returned from the Baltic to Deptford, and has brought
home several trophies of the attack on Bomarsund, among
which are two helmet-shaped caps of the let Regiment,
remarkably well made, of black polished leather, with
pieces for defending the head from the blow of a sword, in
addition to the front plate. They are lighter and much
softer, and sit easier on the head than the shako of the
British service. The spike rising from the top is admira-
bly adapted for ventilation, and the strong tinning inside
has the name of the owner upon it in Roman and Greek
.otters each an inch long.

LITE SHELLS AND ROCKETS FROM THE
BLACK SEA.
The Palmyra, transport, which brought invalids and
stores from the Black Sea and Malta, has completed the
time for which she was hired. When her stores were dis-
charged at the dockyard great consternation was pro-
duced from several cases being found to contain live shells
and Congreve rockets.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
It is most currently reported that after the present
court-martial now sitting on Captain Sir Edward Belcher
is finished, three other courts-martial will sit on officers
connected with the expedition for drunkenness.
Friday is named for the first of them to take place, as,
under present circumstances, Sir Eward Belcher's case is
not expected to be concluded till tod-day.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
Four pinnaces of the Fisgard, flag-ship at Woolwich, in
n
charge of Mr. Bean, master, serving on board, proceed
to the Royal Arsenal on Tuesday morning, and towed the
right half battery of 9-pounder guns of Captain Gibbon's
company, 12th battalion, across the Thames, in barges, to
North Woolwich, on the Essex side, and the half battery
marched thence to Norwich, where the entire battery is to
be stationed. The pinnaces proceeded to the Royal Arse-
nal, on Wednesday morning, and towed across the left
half battery, on its way io Norwich.

THE SCREW STEAMER JURA.
The large iron screw steamer Jura, to which we
Corkreferred
yesterday, will leave Liverpool on Saturday mposed for
o,
where she will embark about 1,200 troops, co
detachments of various regiments for Constantinople. She
has on board upwards of 500 tons of Ordnance stores and
other supplies, received from the Tower and Chester
L Castle.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Captain Smyth's field battery, Royal Artillery, leaves
the garrison at Woolwich this morning for Ipswich.
Two more Russian vessels, one called the Elise Wilhel•
mina, Peterson late master, and the other the Esso,
Sanders, master, have been seized as Crown droits by the
officers of Customs at Leith.
Yesterday the baggage of the detachment of the 23d
Foot, on duty at the Tower, left for the depot at Win-
chester ; the men march this day to be ready to embark
for the Crimea.
The Russian schooner Volga, prize to the Miranda, laden
with rye meal, under pilot charge of, and as prize-master,
Mr. Ireland, late pilot of the Eurydice, left part of the
prize crew at Sheerness, on board the Waterloo, only
taking sufficient men to navigate her to London. This
prize is said to be valued at 1,400/., ship and cargo. She
arrived at Sheerness on Tuesday, and proceeded for the
West India Docks the same day.
Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton, of the Guards, arrived
at the War Department with despatches from Lord
Raglan.
Smyth's field battery Royal Artillery leaves the
Captaingarriso at Woolwich, this day morning, for Ipswich.
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MILITARY.
The newly-appointed commander-in-chief for this dis-
trict, Major-General Eden, arrived hero on Saturday last.
On Monday the gallant general was visited at Government
House by the commanding-officers of regiments and corps,
and the heads of departments in his district. He has si
31st
nce
left the garrison, having been granted leave till the
War the command of the district again devolving on Col.
Ward, R.E., until General Eden's return.
—Plymouth

Mail.
A draft of th 3d uffs now in Cork. This dra, with
those of the 9th.e and B
lith,is
w ftM
ill shortly depart for alta,
in the Poictiers.
Ipswich barracks are again to be occupied, after having
remained empty since the month of April last. The troops,
whose destination is Ipswich, are the V field battery of
the Royal Artillery, consisting of four officers, 1 staff-Ber-
-1 jeant, 5 aerjeNuts, 148 rank and file, 86 . horns, 6 guns,