The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-26 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Royal Albert, 121, screw, Captain Sir Thowas Feeley,
is lying at her old moorings abreast of the dockyard,
Sheerness. A. lighter is now alongside, and she is busy
hoisting in her lower-deck guns. Soine delay has beta
caused by the lighter being latterly employed at Chat-
ham 'taking away the Cumberland's guns. This fine
vessel is now getting in something like trim, thereby
displaying her fine model.
The Curacoa, 31, screw frigate, Captain the Hon. G.
F. 'Hastings, received her crew from the berthing hulk
in Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and hauled into' the
stream to swing for the adjustment of her compasses,
after which she will be reported ready for sea, and will
proceed either to . the Crimea or to the West India and
INorth American station.

The Phenix screw steam-sloop, Captain Edward A.
Ingiefield, and the Talbot store-ship, Commander
Jenkins, were paid off yesterday at 'Woolwich, the
officers and crew of the latter vessel having come
op
from Sheerness from the Talbot for that purpose. Tl
officers and men are anxious to volunteer their services
again in any expedition that may be sent out to collect
the remains, and bring home to this country for a public
funeral all that can be obtained of the bodies of the
missing navigators of the Arctic regions, and at the
same time search for papers among the Esquimaux
in the locality indicated by Dr. John Rae as the last
resting place of the brave seamen.
Steam wss got up, for the first time, on board the
screw steam-ship Exmouth, 91, on Tuesday.
The copper of the frigate Thetis is ordered to be taken
off, preparatory to her being caulked.
The hospital ships Andromache and Endyraion bate
been towed from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze.
The fine screw steam-transport Queen of the South
arrived in Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon front
the Thames, to embark the troops mentioned is The Sun
of yesterday for the Crimea.
The transport Diligence, from Pembroke, arrived.
at Plymouth on Monday.
lier Majesty's steam sloop-of-war Malacca, 20 guns,
arrived
in Leitk Roads on Sunday morning, from Potts,
mouth.

APPOINTMENTS.
' Commander John A. Shears (1854), to be an, inspect*
ing commander in the Coast Guard.
Second Masters William Johnston (1841), from the
Coast Guard, to the Pigmy paddle-wheel steam-vessel;
Philip J. Dennehy (1850), from the Dasher paddle-wheel
steam-♦essel, to the Hannibal, 91, screw steam-ship at
Sheerness.

Surgeon John Cockin (1852), to the Britannia, 120,
flagship on the Medterranean and Black Sea station.
Master's Assistant Thomas Robeson, to the Powerful,
84, at Portsmouth.
Clerks James A. W. Nicholls (1854), confirmed is
the Majestic, 80, screw steam-ship, with the Baltic
fleet.

Jon T. Ibbstt has been promoted from second clam
to first class Assistant-Engineer for Arctic service.

PREPARATION FOR THE VISIT OF THE EX.
PEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.

The Ajax, 60, Captain Warden, and the Royal steam-
yachts Fairy and Elfin, have gone into the basin 111
Portsmouth Dockyard to refit ; the two latter, it is re-
ported, to be re-embellished by the time they will be
required to attend upon the Queen at Osborne, a month
hence, when the Emperor Napoleon 111. and the Em-
press Eugenie are expected to visit her Majesty at the
Isle of Wight.