The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-12 00:00:00

THE WAR.

"To the respective Captains and Commanders."
On Saturday ten of the Russian prisoners of war on
board the Crocodile, receiving ship, lying off the Tower,
were released at the instance of the Danish Consul.
Surgeon Thomas Russell Dunn, M.D. (1335), at pre-
sent borne on the books of the Conway, 26, flag-ship at
Cork, for service off Haulbowline Hospital, is promoted
to be deputy-inspector of hospitals and fleet, and ap-
pointed deputy-inspector of Yarmouth Hospital, which
is now to be re-opened as a naval hospital, consequent
on the requirements of war. It has been lately occupied
as a station for a portion of the army, and is a much
more commodious establishment than the hospital at i
Deal, and on that account may have a larger raedicaj 1
staff appointed to it.

NVOOLWICII, Jura 10,

The Rhadamanthus, paddlewheel steam stare•ship,
Master Commander John Belam, arrived at Woolwich
in the afternoon of to-day, on her return from Ports-
mouth and Sheerness.
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The Medina, steam mail packet, Lieut.-Commander
Eeresford, has been placed under orders to leave Wool-
wich on Tuesday next for service as a mail packet on the
Mediterranean station, and to run between Malta and
Constantinople, and Malta and Marseilles, and vice versa.
The Medina will take out a mail for Malta and Con-
stantinople; and after having her compasses adjusted at
Greenhithe, will proceed to Sheerness, Portsmouth, and
Plymouth, to take out despatches, &c., from these ports
to the seat of war in the East.
The Hermes, paddle-wheel steam-sloop,Saptain Fish-
bourne, has paid off to-day at Woolwich, after four years
and five months' service on the East Indies and China
station.

One sergeant, I corporal, and 11 gunners of the Royal
Marine Artillery disembarked at 12 o'clock noon, on
Saturday, from the Hermes, and marched up to the
Royal Marine Barracks, and left again shortly after to
proceed by the one o'clock train of the North Kent Rail-
way for London en route to join the head quarters of the
Artillery companies at Portsmouth.

SHEERNESS, Juan 10.
A court martial was held on board the Waterloo, 120
guns, flag-ship, this day. The following officers com-
posed the court :—Captain the Hon. Frederick W. Grey,
C. 8., of the Hannibal, president ; Captain Superinten-
dent Christopher Wyvill, aide-de-camp to her Majesty,
in command of the Formidable, 84 guns ; Captain Lord
Frederick H. Kerr, in command of the Waterloo ; Com-
mander Josiah Thompson of the Formidable, and Com-
mander John Barling Marsh, of the Waterloo. Mr.
William Webb Hayward Presided as deputy judge advo-
cate. The court assembled to try Mr. William Hannant,
surgeon of the Philomel, 8-gun sloop, stationed on the
west coast of Africa, he being sent home in the Teazer,
steam tender to Tortoise, after a court of inquiry had
been held on him, to be tried by a court martial. The
charge on which he was tried was, for that he, the said
William Hannant, had been drunk and incapable of per-
forming his duty from the 16th to the 27th day of April
last, on board the Teazer, whilst in charge of the sick
and medical stores. Lieutenant P. D. Rich prosecuted.
The charge was fully proved by several witnesses, and
the sentence of the Court was that he, the said William
Hannant, be dismissed her Majesty's service.
The steam-transport Rhadamanthus, Master Corn-
mender John Belam, arrived here at one p.m. this day,
from Portsmouth, with supernumeraries, seamen volun-
teers, and naval cadets for general service, all of whom
were transferred to the 'Waterloo. The Rhadamanthus,
when off Beachy Head, yesterday, between four and
five p.m., broke the sway-beam of her starboard engine,
which caused other damage to that engine and her decks,
and compelled them to disconnect her engines, and she
has only been able to work her port engine; with this
she has made (with sail) fli knots from Beachy Head to
this port. She left here at 3.45 p.m. this day, accom-
panied by the steam-vessel Adder, Mr. Munchon, second
master in charge, in case of her services being found ne-
cessary from this port to Woolwich.
The Devonshire receiving-ship for Russian prisoners
of war, arrived here at 7.30 p.m. yesterday from Dept-f
ford (assisted by Adder and Monkey), in pilot charge o
Mr. Barnes, Queen's pilot, of Woolwich. The Devon
shire will be placed in the first division of ships in or
dinary, and be under charge of Commander Josiah
Thompson, of the Formidable, 84 guns, guard-ship of
ordinary.
The Waterloo, 120 guns, Captain Lord Frederick H.
Kerr, now musters over 500 hands. A large number of
them, ordinaries, and first-class boys, have, by the inde-
fatigable attention of their officers, been perfected in
great gun, musket, and cutlass exercises, and are now
ready for being drafted away for ships requiring their
services. Many of these first-class boys are fully com-
petent to put their juniors completely through their
whole course of exercise, doing duty as first and second
captains of the guns, and are equally competent
at the musket and cutlass drill. These fine lads
will be found a great acquisition to any ships who
may be fortunate enough to get their services ;
many of them being fully competent to give their orders
to lead their respective guns, and after lay it so that
every shot would tell on a ship's hull at practice distance
with as much accuracy as many of the old experienced
gunners from the Excellent, by whom, under the gun-
nery lieutenants of the Waterloo, these fine lads have
received instructions. The coast-guard guns on our
beach here have been found most advantageous towards
perfecting them at target practice.
The Wildfire, steam-tender to Waterloo, left hero yes-
terday, for Chatham, to convey the officers who had at-
tended the court.martial to their respective ships, in con-
sequence of the Adder being required to assist the Rha-
damanthus to Woolwich.
The Royal Albert, 121 guns, screw steam-ship, in
charge of Mr. Rumble, chief engineer.—On the rudder
of this ship being unhung and placed on the wharf, upon
survey thereof it was found that the main piece only had
received damage, with the exception of a very slight
fracture of the copper on the fore side of the heel of the
mainpiece, which appears to have been caused by her
touching some bard substance on the ground or mooring
chain on her first immension when launched. Various
reports have been made as to the cause of the mainpiece
of the rudder immediately under the rudder trunk being
completely twisted, and thereby destroyed. The true
cause thereof was in consequence of the tiller yoke being
put hard over, and the rudder head being tightly choked
in the upper part of the trunk, to give the ship the pro-
per sheer head on the tide, that the immense pressure of
the body of water on the broadside of the entire rudder
when at her greatest immersion on launching was
too much for the substance of wood forming the neck
of the rudder, and the leverage therein caused the
main piece to give way. The main piece is of English
timber, the grain of which has given way, and completely
twisted, similar to the worm of a corkscrew. It will re-
quire all the pintles to be taken off, and a new main-
piece substituted, which is to be of larger dimensions ;
such an occurrence could never happen by a sea striking
her, or any other ship. It was the great rapidity with
which she displaced the water at the time of her being
launched, and the entire resistance met with by the
rudder being so tightly choked, which has been the cause
of the damage to the rudder. Although in itself trifling,
much has been the concern of parties ignorant in marine
architecture when the rudder was in place. This ship,
in addition to Grant's patent cooking apparatus, is to be
fitted with Grant's patent distilling apparatus, capable
of distilling 100 gallons from sea water every hour whilst
at work. The distilling apparatus will receive its supply
of water through branch pipes leading from the main
Supply pipes for the boilers ; no extra supply pipes will
be required through the bottom of this ship, as hereto-
fore has been the case with other ships.

bPLY, Jusa .
The 2 Algiers, 90-gun steam-shipMO, is to UTH
be ready for sea
y t4th.
The Indefatigable, 50-gun frigate, was taken out of
dock yesterday, and is to be completed by the 19th of
July.
servi The Mariner, sloop, is also nearly ready for active
The Scourge, 6, steamer, arrived here on Friday
from Portsmouth, en route to the Coast of Africa.
boun The Minx, tender, arrived this afternoon, and is also
Africa.

MILITARY.
A part of Captain Brandling's No. 1 c
battalion, marched from the garrison, ;vritinsidtlan2tthi.
half-past eight o'clock on Saturday morning,- andnwic ern.
ll' at
barked at the dockyard in the Cormorant, for
nople. Twenty-eight horses were put on boa
same day ; 24 to fill up casualties, and the others t
the officers of the company. The Cormorant was taken
r
out of the basin the afternoon, and went down to Pur-
fleet to take on board about .50 tons of gunpowder, for
conveyance to Constantinople. The remainder of Capt.
Brandling's company are under orders to embark on
Monday at the Royal Arsenal in the Kangaroo, screw
steam-vessel, as she had not been able to complete
taking on board the siege guns and other stores intended
for service in Turkey in time for them to embark to-day.
Some idea may be formed of the immense quantity of
stores put on board of the Kangaroo, when it is stated
that the whole of the men of the Royal Artillery off
duty were employed in the Royal Arsenal from the
early hour of four o'clock a. m. to expedite the loading
of the vessel. She will also take en board 20 tons of
guapowder at Purfleet, or remain at Queenhithe until
it
is put on board, for conveyance to the seat of war in
the East.

One officer, 3 non-commissioned officers, and 30
gunners of the Royal Artillery left Woolwich this morn-
ing by railway for London, to be in readiness at the
Leith Wharf to receive 50 horses sent up from Scotland
by one of the Edinburgh and Leith steamers, and take,

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The following very proper and becoming order by the
Port Admiral of Portsmouth, respecting naval officers
appearing in their prescribed uniform, has just been
promulgated .
" Her Majesty's Ship Victory, in Portsmouth
Harbour, Jane 8.
" The Commander-in-Chief has been informed that offi-
cers are in the habit of going on shore, and even to parties
and public places, in plain clothes, and thereby treating
with contempt and disrespect her Majesty's Order in
Council on that poLut. The Commander-in-Chief would
suggest to those officers who are ashamed to be seen in
their uniform rather to resign their appointments than
thus disregard her Majesty's comma3ds ; and he enjoins
upon all captains and commanding officers to see that their
officers are dressed in the rmileorm assigno to them, and
to report to him when they shai2 see any offiCers of their
own or any other ship disobeying the instruction.' on this
head. When an officer wishes to absent himself fro.'n
s
ship for the purpose of going into the country for exerj.'"
or recreation, the captain may, at his discretion, give him*
a permission on each occasion to do so; but at all other
times it is positively enjoined that every officer shall wear
iris established uniform.
"THOMAS COCHRANE, Vice-Admiral
and Commander-in-Chief.