The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-24 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Yesterday intelligence was received at the Admiralty,
under date Memel, June the 18th, that her Majesty's
steamers Amphion and Archer had just towed three
Russian prizes—namely, the Mezita, Hannan master ;
the Hannah Maria, Lorenston master ; and the For-
tuna, Thomson master— into that harbour.
By advices received yesterday, under date Elsinore,
June the 19th, an English war steamer, supposed to be
the Desperate, towed past that port on the 18th inst.
four Dutch vessels, taken prizes.
The Lords of the Admiralty yesterday gave notice at
Lloyd's that ships were required to convey 450 tons of
biscuit from Gosport and 650 tons of biscuit from Ply-
mouth to Var. a for the use of the army and Black Sea
fleet ; the ships will be required to wait at Constanti-
nople, in the event of the army having crossed the
Danube, for further orders.
Mrs. Doraville, wife of the surgeon of the Tiger, has
received a letter, under date the 12th of May, from her
husband at Odessa, in which he states that they were
all well. Mr. Domville and eight other officers were
about to be exchanged for Russian prisoners.
The transport Libertas was towed from the Royal
William Victualling-yard into the Channel on Thursday,
by the Confiance steam-vessel, and sailed immediately
with provisions and stores for Malta.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Minx, tender to the
Scourge, sailed on Thursday morning from Plymouth,
for the coast of Africa.
The crew of the frigate Indefatigable, 50, Capt. Hope,
got up topmast rigging, and completed setting the
lower rigging on Thursday.
The Hornet, 17, screw steam-sloop, Commander Fre-
derick A. Campbell, was taken out of dock on Thursday
and into the basin, and will be ready for sea by Thurs-
day next.
The Kangaroo screw steam-vessel left the Royal Ar-
senal, Woolwich, yesterday, and went up to Deptford.
The Swallow, screw steamer, recently launched at
Pembroke, having been rigged in the unprecedented
short period of four days, left yesterday for Portsmouth,
in tow of the Prospero, steam-tender. She is at once to
be furnished with machinery, and placed in commission
for service with the Baltic fleet. The following are her
principal dimensions :

ft. in.
Length between the perpendiculars 139 0
Do. keel for tonnage l2O 6
Breadth, extreme 27 11
Do. for tonnage
Do. moulded
Depth in hold
Burthen in tons, 486 33-94.
The Ariel, a sister ship, will follow in about a fortnight,
to finish which the blacksmiths of the establishment are
working from 5 in the morning until 8 at night, this
class of vessels being greatly wanted in the Baltic.
The head quarters of the 80th Regiment of Foot, with
the grenadier and light companies, arrived at Gravesend
on the 22d inst. in the Blenheim, freight-ship, from
India, and, having landed the same day, in the afternoon
proceeded by the North Kent Railway to Strood, where
they were met by the band of the 35th Regiment of
Foot, and played up to their quarters at St. Mary's Case-
mate Barracks. The other division of the 80th Regi-
ment is expected in a few days, and arrangements have
been made for its reception.
The head-quarters and four troops of the 15th Hussars
arrived at Gravesend on the 21st instant from India, and
proceeded by the North Kent Railway to Strood, where
the band of the 35th Regiment, from Chatham, were in
waiting, and played them to their quarters. The Tra-
falgar hired freight-ship, in which they arrived, called at
St. Helena, and took in a supply of fresh water there.
The men appear in very good condition, and it will not
be long before they are again ready for service, if re-
quired. It has been remarked by old soldiers that they
never witnessed a regiment land from a long voyage so
clean and fresh as the 15th Hussars did, although they
were much crowded on board the ship they came home
in. They gave about 250 volunteers to other cavalry
regiments previous to their leaving India on the return
to England. During the passage of 109 days four men
and four children died on board,
From Plymouth we learn by electric telegraph that
Captain Adair, 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, and 91 privates
of the Royal Marines had left yesterday evening by mail
train to join the Royal Albert at Sheerness. 130 volun-
teers from the 91st Regiment had arrived by the steamer
Prussian Eagle, en route to join the depots of The 42d,
. 38th, and 93d Regiments. About 300 volunteers from
the 2d (Queen's) and 37th Regiments had also arrived
from Dublin by the steamer Devonshire, on their way
to join the 77th and 44th Regiments.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants.—James D. Curtis (1849), recently serving
as First Lieutenant of the Waterwitch, 8, sloop, on the
West Coast of Africa station, to the Royal Albert. 121,
screw steam-ship, at Sheerness ; George W. Watson
(1849), recently serving in the Centaur paddle-wheel
steam-frigate when flag-ship on the south-east coast of I
America station, to the Royal Albert.
Chaplain Rev. Frederick E. Gutteres, to the *Ven-
geance, 84, on the Black Sea station.
Surgeons.—Fitzwilliam Mansell (1840), to Haulbow-
line Hospital ; Charles R. Brian, M.D. (1842), to the
Royal Albert ; George J. Wiles, to the Malacca, at
Chatham.
paymaster George M. Lang (1851), recently clerk in
charge of naval and victualling stores at Rio Janeiro, to
the Devonshire Russian prison ship at Sheerness.
Clerk Thomas J. Ley (1549), recently serving in the

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The following are the regulations ,under which the corre-
spondence for her Majesty's forces in the Baltic, in the White
Sea, and in Turkey and the Black Sea is at present for-
warded :
Mails for the Baltic fleet are made up in Loudon every
Tuesday evening, and are forwarded through Belgium to
Dantzic, where they arrive on Friday. Orders have been
given that a steam-vessel shall be detached from the fleet,
and sent to Dantzic weekly, to receive the mails from Eng-
land, to 'bring to that port the return mails for England,
which, on arrival, are despatched to this country through
Belgium.
An officer's letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
sent by this route, is liable to a postage (British and foreign
combined) of Bd.
A seaman's or soldier's letter; not exceeding half an ounce
in weight, forwarded by this route, is charged with a com-
bined British and foreign postage of sd.
Upon both classes of letters the Postage must be paid in
advance.

Newspapers cannot be forwarded by the route of Dantzic,
because, according to the arrangements with the Prussian
(government, the Prussian postage upon Newspapers cannot
be collected in this country. If, therefore, newspapers were
sent by this route, they would be detained at Dantzic, until
the postage due upon them to the Prussian Post-office was
paid.
The shove is the speediest and most direct communisation
with the Baltic fleet : but there are other occasions, by means
of Queen's ships or transports, when letters and newspapers
can be forwarded. • ,
Mails are made up to be despatched by every vessel of war
proceeding ftom England to the fleet, and the postage by such
ships is as follows
For an officer's• letter, not exceeding oz 6d
For a seaman's or soldier'sletter not exceeding os ld
Newspapers are forwarded by vessels of war, or transports,
free of postage.
Letters, dzc., for the Baltic fleet, should be addressed with
the name of the ship for which they are destined, and the
fleet to which that ship belongs, without mentioning any port
or town, thus—.

H. M. Ship
Baltic Fleet."

•Mails for the army in Turkey, and for the fleet in the Black
Sea, are made up in London six times in each month, viz.,
the evening's of the 3d, Bth; 13th, 18th, 23d, and 28th or
(when the month has 31 days) the 29th.
These mails are forwarded, 'through France, to Marseilles,
and are thence conveyed to Constantinople by the French
Mail Packets in the Mediterranean.
By the favour of the French Government, no higher charge
is made fOr the conveyance of tho Letters of British soldiers
and Sailors than that which is levied on the correspondence
of a French naval and military force. A letter, therefore,
under a quarter of an oz. in weight, whether to or from an
officer, a soldier or a seaman, is liable only to a combined
British and foreign rate of 3d. If the letter weighs a quarter
of an oz., and is under half an oz., the charge is 6d. ; if it
exceed half an oz., and does not exceed 1 oz., the charge is
is., and so on for heavier letters.
The postage upon newspapers is two-pence each.
The postage both upon letters and newspapers must be paid
in advance.
The above is the speediest and most direct communication
with the fleet in the Black Sea,and with her Majesty's Forces
in Turkey ; but the letters of soldiers and seamen serving
in Turkey and the Black Sea may also be forwarded to
Malta, via , Southampton, twice a month, viz., on the morn-
ings of the 4th and 20th, for the sum of ld., under the
usual regulations applicable to such letters. From Malta
they are sent to their destinations as opportunities offer, by a
ship of war or other vessel in the service of her Majesty,
without any further charge.
At the same rate of ld., -letters may also be forwarded by
any vessel of war, or hired transport, proceeding from Eng-
land to Turkey.
By these opportimities newspapers are transmitted for a
postage of One Penny each, which must be paid in advance.
Letters, &c., for the army in Turkey, should be addressed
to the Regiment to which the officer or soldier belongs with
the addition of the words, " Army in Turkey," but without
any further local address.
Letters, &c., for the fleet in the Black Sea, should be ad-
dressed with the name of the ship for which they are destined,
and the fleet to which: that ship belongs, without mentioning
any port or town, thus—

H. M. Ship --- -
Black Sea Fleet."

Mails for the British squadron in she White Sea are for-
warded from Hull every Friday, by private steamers pro-
ceeding to Christiania, whence they will be despatched by
the mail packets of the Norwegian Government.
An officer's letter not exceeding half an oz. in weight, sent
by this route, is liable to a postage (British and foreign com-
bined) of is.
A seaman's letter, forwarded by this route, not exceeding
half an ounce in weight, is liable to a postage (British and
foreign combined) of 9d,
Upon both classes of letters the postage must be paid in
advance.
The above is the speediest and most direct communication
with the White Sea squadron, and all letters upon which the
requisite amount of postage has been prepaid will be so f3r-
warded unless otherwise addressed.
Letters for the squadron will also be forwarded, should op-
portunities offer, by any ships of war or vessels in her Ma-
jesty's service, proceeding to the White Sea ; and upon let-
ters so transmitted, the postage, which must be prepaid,
will be— •
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For Officers' Letters, Cd. the half ounce, according to the
scale for charging Inland Letters.
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For Seamen's Letters, 1.d., when sent under the usual regu.
lations.

By ships of war or vessels in her Majesty's Service, news.
papers are transmitted free of postage.
Letters, &c., for the White Sea Squadron; should be ad.
dressed thus :
" To --
H. M. Ship
White Sea."
General Post Office, June, 1854.