The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-25 00:00:00

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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
MA .TA, MAY 17.
The continued arrival of English and French troops,
en route to the eastward, forms the only subject of local
information of the least interest. Up to the evening
of the 11th inst. the total amount of French troops and
horses that have passed through were—troops, 4.721
rank and file, exclusive of officers ; horses, 1,883 ;
mules, 67. Up to last night at gun fire the following is
the gross total of French troops, with horses and mules,
viz., troops, 5,636 ; horses, 585. Grand total, troops,
10,357 ; horses, 2,468 ; mules, 67.
It is not a little remarkable that the amount of
casualties among the French horses has been of a very
insignificant nature, while the English have lost a con-
siderable number, and among them some very valuable
animals. The glanders has appeared among the French
horses, and five of them have been destroyed.
The Vulcan is about to proceed to England.
The number of English troops that have arrived is :
By the Blundell. -45 horses, Captain White, Lieu-
tenant Thomson, Assistant Surgeon Brady, Veterinary
Surgeon Constant, and 55 rank and file of the 17th
Lancers.
By the Bombay—Lieutanant-Colonel Barlow, Major
Watson, Captains Budd, Dwyer, Douglas, and Trevor,
Lieutenants Hawley, Segrave, Grogan, Barlow, Smythe,
Heywood, Bower, Mathews, and Wilson (Adjutant),
Ensigns Inglefield, Vivian, Crosby, and Blunt, Paymas•
ter Hall, Quartermaster O'Connor, Surgeon Denny, As-
sistant-Surgeon Bleckley, and 749 rank and file of the
14th Regiment.
By the Edmundsbury-35 horses, Captain Morgan,
Lieutenant Knight, Paymaster Stephenson, Surgeon
Powell, and 40 troopers of the 17th Lancers.
By the St. Vincent—Dr. Baxter, 54th Regiment,
Lieutenant Davidson, and 51 rank and file of the Royal
Artillery.
By the British Queen-264 rank and file and officers
for the service companies of the regiments in garrison
here, Lieutenant Maxse, aide-de•camp to Lord Cardigan,
and Major Mayow, also attached to his staff, arrived by
the British Queen.
By the Baalbec detachments for the East also arrived,
but no report has been as yet made.
Up to post hour the Simla, with the India mails (out-
ward), had not been telegraphed. She has been ex-
pected since the 14th.

By the Peninsular and Oriental company's steamer
Ripon, which arrived at Southampton yesterday, we
have accounts from Gibraltar to the 18th inst. The
British transport ships Courier, Timandra, Star of the
South, and Gomeiza, which had landed the 39th and
89th Regiments at Gibraltar, sailed thence on the 6th,
laden with Minie rifle ammunition, stores, and coals, for
the East. The transport-ship Dunbar, with the head-
quarters of the 17th Regiment, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel M‘Pherson, C. 8., arrived at Gib-
raltar on the 7th, from Cork. The 55th Regiment,
commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Warren,
C. 8., embarked on the 10th inst. by the Medway
steam-ship from Gibraltar for the East. Their de-
parture was the signal for a complete ovation on the
part of the inhabitants of the garrison. The steamer
Admiral, six days and a half from Cardiff, with
hay, beef, and pork for Constantinople, touched at
Gibraltar on the 9th. The screw-steamer British
Queen, five days from Cork, with detachments of the
3d and 9th Regiments, for Malta, arrived on the 10th
inst. The transport-ship No. 43 passed the Straits of
Gibraltar on the 10th inst. The steamer Baalbec, with
a draught of the 55th Regiment, from Cork, touched at
Gibraltar on the 11th inst., en route to Constantinople
The left wing of the 17th Regiment, under command of
Major Bourke, arrived at Gibraltar on the 12th inst., in
the transport-ship Cornwall.
Her Majesty's screw troop-ship Shroom, having on
board the 79th Highlanders, commanded by Lieutenant-
Colonel Elliott, touched at Gibraltar on the 12th on her
way to Constantinople. The gallant Highlanders met
with a most enthusiastic reception from the troops in the
garrison during their short stay at Gibraltar. The
British transport Rodsley, No. 37, 18 days from Wool-
wich, with a detachment of the Royal Horse Ar-
tillery, arrived at Gibraltar on the 13th inst., and lett
on the 14th fur the East. The transport Sultana passed
the Straits on the 15 ast., and the Rubicon on the 17th
inst.

ARRIVAL FROM THE BALTIC FLEET.
The Holyrood, screw steam hired transport, Corn
mander Lovett, arrived at Sheerness at 7.30 a.m. yes-
terday from the Baltic fleet. Commander Lovett left
Sir Charles Napier with his flag-ship the Duke of Wel-
lington, and his squadron, cruising N.N.E. of the
Island of Gottska Sandoe, distant about 30 miles. No
attempts up to the 16th inst. (the day on which the
Holyrood left the fleet) had been made to attack either
Revel, the Island of Aland, or any other Russian porgy.
The English fleet were then waiting the arrival of the
French fleet, and no operations are anticipated until the
fleets unite. Only one French line-of-battle ship had
joined Sir Charles Napier's squadron, but the whole of
the French fleet were daily expected. On the 17th inst.
the Royal George, 121 guns, sent a boat alongside the
Holyrood for information, and she reported having
passed six sail of the line of the French fleet on the pre-
vious day. The Holyrood has brought home 61 invalids
from the fleet ; 63 were sent on board, but two seamen
(invalids) died on the passage home ; one died on the
17th, and the other on the 22d, from the effects of in-
termittent fever.
Captain Dunlop (who went out passenger in the St.
Jean d'Acre) has taken a passage home in the Holyrood.
A Mr. Ringrose, mate, is among the invalids sent home;
also a boy named Parsons, who lost his right arm by
firing a musket. On the 18th inst., the Holyrood
passed the Penelope steam-frigate, with the Water Tank
in tow, in the East Sea ; the Penelope steam-frigate sent
a boat alongside, and reported all well.
The Holyrood arrived at Copenhagen on the 18th,
and left there on the 20th inst., passed Elsinore the same
day at noon, and cleared the Scaw at 1 a.m. the follow-
ing day. She did not afterwards pass any English or
French men-of-war, and saw no vessel bearing the Rus-
sian colours during her passage home. The Holyrood
has steamed home from Copenhagen in 74 hours. Mr.
George Frankish, pilot for the Baltic, came home as
passenger in the Holyrood. Mr. Frankish left the
Edinburgh, 60 guns, Rear-Admiral Henry D. Chads.
The Edinburgh was then in company with Sir Charles
Napier's squadron.
The Basilisk, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, had
been close in off Hango Head, and sighted the Russian
fleet, from 10 to 12 sail. A shot was tired from the bat-
tery, which fell short of the Basilisk. After recon-
noitring sufficiently, she returned. Up to the time of
the Holyrood leaving the allied fleet had not been above
e Revel, the ice not having cleared away.
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