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

NAVAL AND .311LITARY-

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Royal Albert, 121, screw, Captain Sir Thomas Pasley,
is lying at her old mcwing-s abreast of the dockyard,
Sheerness. A lighter is now alongside, and she is busy
hoisting in her lower-deck guns. Some delay has been
caused by the lighter being latterly employed at Chat-
ham taking away the Cumberland's guns. This tine
ve::s:A is now getting, in something like trim, thereby
displaying her fine m0d..1.

The Curacoa, 31, screw frigate, Captain the Hon. G.
F. Hastings, received her orew from the berthing hulk
in Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and battled 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
North American station.
The Phenix screw steam-sloop, Captain Edward A.
Ing,lefield, and the Talbot store-ship, Commander
Jenkins, were paid off yesterday at Woolwich, the
officers and crew of the latter vessel having come up
from Sheerness from the Talbot for that purpose. The
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 obtained of the bodies of the
missing navigators of the Arctic regions, and at the
samethe alitilmocestey indicatedarchfer by Dr. John papersamong
the Esquimaux
i Rae at the last
resting place of the brave seamen.
Steam was get up, f.,r the first time, on board the
screw steam-ship Exameth, 91, on Tuesday.
The copper of the frigate Thetis is ordered to be take*
off, preparatory to her being caulked.
The hospital ships Andromache and Eadymion have
been towed from Plymouth Sound let° Hamease.
The fine screw steam-transport Queen of the South
arrived in Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon from
the Thames, to embark the troops mentioned in The Sua
of yesterday for the Crimea.
The transport Diligence, from Pembroke, Anita
at Plymouth on Monday.
Her Majesty's steam sloop-of-war Malacca, 20 guns,
arrived in Leith Roads on Sunday morning, from Ports.
mouth.

APPOINTMENTS.
Commander John A. Shears (1854), to be an isweet •
ing commander in the Coast Guard.
Second Masters William Johnston (1841), from tie
Coast Guard, to the Pigmy paddle-wheel steam-vessel
Philip J. Dennehy (1850), from the Dasher paddle-wheel
steam-vessel, to the Hannibal, 91, scrbw steam-ship at
Sheerness.

Surgeon John Cochin (1852), to the Britancia, 120,
flag-ship on the Medterranean and Black Sea station.

Master's Assistant Thomas Robeson, to the Powerfull
84, at Portsmouth.
Clerks James A. W. Nicholls (1854), confirmed is
the Majestic, 80, screw steam-ship, with the Baltic
fleet.

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

PREPARATION FOR THE VISIT OF THE EAf.
PEROR AND.EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.
The Ajax, 60, Captain Warden, and the Royal steam-,
yachts Fairy and Elfin, have gone into the basin in
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 Eug6nie are expected to vibit her Majesty at the
Isle of Wight.

REINFORCEMENTS
_FOR THE ARMY IN TIM

EAST.

Yesterday the final orders for the departure of the
detachments of the Guards to reinforce the service com-
panies of their regiments in the Crimea were issued,
and this morning the men proceeded to Portsmouth.
The total number of the Guards forming these detach-
ments is 340 ; they are all armed with the Minis rifle.
They embark in the Queen of the South steamer for the
Crimea.

COURT-MARTIAL.
A court-martial was held on board the Victory is
Portsmouth harbour yesterday, to try Mr, David Or-
mond West, assistant-surgeon of her Majesty's ship Vio-
tory, en charges of drunkenness and disobedience of
orders, which charges were declared proved, and the
prisoner was sentenced to receive three months' impri-
sonment in the county gaol and to be dismissed from her
Majesty's service.

THE LATE ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET.
The remains of the late Admiral of the Fleet Cams gp
to London bola Portsmouth yesterday morning by the
mail train, on the South-Western Railway, attended by
Rear-Admirals W. F. and H. B. Martin (tie chief
mourners), Ic., and were removed to the residence of
the deceased, in Wimpole-street, whence they will be
conveyed to their last resting place in seisal•green
Cemetery to-morrow or Saturday.