The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-08 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieuts. G. B. Williams (1840), to the Royal William,
120, at Plymouth ; and B. S. De R. Hall, to the Mo-
narch, 84, guard-ship of ordinary, at Plymouth.
Master J. T. Davis (1841), to the Melanspus, 42, at
Plymouth.
Payaiasters J. L. Southey (1851), to the Perseverance,
troop-ship, at Woolwich ; W. P. Carrigan (1839), to the
Exmouth, 90, screw steans-ship, at Devonport ; and E
W. M. Milman (1847), to the Geyser, 0, paddle-wheel
steam-sloop, of 280-horse power, North America and
West India station.
Clerks—W. T. Richards (1848), to the Exmouth ; C.
L. Cartwright (1851), to the Tartar, 21, at Chatham ;
A. T. M. Roberts (1848), to the. Wellesley, 72, at Chat-
ham ; and W. Elliott (1848), to the Impregnable, 104,
flag-ship, at Devonport.
Masters Assistant H. T. Slader to the Perseverance.
Clerk in Charge IL Callaway (1847), to the Rhada-
manthus, 4, paddle-wheel steam transport, of 220-horse
pewer,,at Portsmouth..

FORTIFICATION AT MILFORD HAVEN,—This week the
heavy guns, nine 8 inch long 68-pounders, weighing each
68 cwt., were unshipped from Pembroke-yard by means
of the Prospero steamer to the tower on Thorn Island.
To furnish this and the other fortifications with troops
extensive barrack accommodation must be provided at
Pembroke. The magnificent fortified barracks there
at present are totally inadequate to that service, and to
prevent the inhabitants being saddled with billeted sol-
diers, the new barrack■ already decided upon, and for
the construction of which all the preliminary arrange-
ments have been perfected, must be forthwith taken
in hand—a consummation devoutly to be wished.--
Carmarthen Journal.

rxtensive coast defences are now in course of construc-
tion at Shoreham, Eastbourne, Newhaven, and Fresh-
water, opposite the Needles, and other places on the
south coast.

Orders have been received at Devonport dockyard to
expedite the fittings of the Exmouth, 91, Capt. Pelham.
Mechanics are to work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The riggers
have got her topmasts on end.
Owing to the great demand for provisions, 120 bul-
locks are slaughtered every week at the Royal William
victualling-yard, Plymouth. The bakers work in two
gangs—one from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., the other from 2to
10 p.m.
Yesterday information was received at the Admiralty
that another Russian vessel, called the Ariel, had seen
seized in the port of Liverpool, under simulated papers.
She came in under Danish colours, from Miramichi,
laden with deals. The master stoutly maintains her to
be a Danish vessel, having been sold by the Russian
owner a week before the declaration of war.
' The Court of Admiralty has condemned the Russian
ship Atlantic, seized at Leith, and the Ernest Merk, at
Hull, under simulated papers, to be lawful prizes, and
yesterday the decrees of sale were issued.
Yesterday advices were received from Memel, under
date Dec. 4. On the previous day (Sunday) her Ma-
jesty's steamer Conflict was oft the port with three ves-
sels, supposed to be prizes.
Yesterday advices were received that the hired British
strain transports the Eineu and the Candia left Marseilles
on the 2d of December inst., filled with French troops
for the Crimea.
The Adelaide screw steamer has been laden with nearly
2,000 tons of shot, shell, ammunition, and winter cloth-
ing for the Crimea. At Woolwich she embarks a com-
pany of artillery, and thence proceeds to Portsmouth to
embark detachments of the 34th and other regiment
under orders for the Crimea.