The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-21 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL- AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Boscawen, 70, Captain Glanville, sailed on Friday
for the West Indies. Prior to sailing, her crew were
mustered by Port-Admiral Sir William Parker, and the
newly-raised men paid wages in advance by Mr. Mills,
master-attendant of the dockyard, She is said to be
only about 40 short of her complement.
The Phaeton, 50-gun frigate, has been put out of dry
dock and moored alongside
.the MinOtaur,. hulk to the
Royal Albert. In consequence of some derangement of the
moorings to which the Minotaur was riding, she has with
the Phaeton been shifted to a.nother.pair of
.moorings in
order to enable the riggers to lift the moorings to make
good defects.
The Cossack, 21, screw, Capt. F. G. Fanshawe, or-
dered to be fitted for sea at Chatham, is td have a com-
plement of 236 men.
The Esk, 20, screw steam-corvette, is now in an ad-
vanced state, and will soon be ready for commission.
The Malacca is receiving from the Sheerness yard 200
tons of iron ballast to bring her down in the water to
counteract her top hamper. She is considered by all
practical men to be overmasted; this great leverage upon
a heavy!careen she cannot, at her present draught of
water, counteract. It will require until Thursday next
to get,the ballast properly stowed, and to complete her
machinery, &c. She is being fitted with Mr. W. Bon-
ney's• patent gutta percha speaking tubes for communi-
cating with the engine-room, &c., from the quarter-deck.
The Malacca's destination is unnown. •
The Curlew, 8, screw, Commander Rowley Lambert,
is ordered to Chatham, to be fitted for sea immediately.
The Spy, 3, brigantine, Lieut. the Hon. Robert F.
Boyle, arrived at Sheerness on Saturday from Chatham,
where she willihave her compasses adjusted. Her crew
will be paid their advance (they are only 2 hands short
of her complement), after which she will be inspected
by the Admiral previous to her proceeding to sea. Her
destination is not yet known..
The Diligence, Arctic storeship, was .paid °flat Wool-
wich on Frid4.l4,-
The Riladaniarittiiis paddle.-wh"Lel steamMaster-Commander Belam, left Pembroke on Friday,
direct for Woolwich, and may be expected there on Tues-
day.

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The Chatham, pay-yacht, .J. Granay, master, arrived
at Sheerness on Saturday. The crew of the Malacca
were paid their advance in the presence of the captain-
superintendent, after which Mr. John C. Barlow, master
of the Formidable, proceeded on board, and commenced
swinging the ship for the adjustment of her compasses.
The Walmer Castle, transport, Commander Price,
with Commander John Steane, as transport agent, was
at Copenhagen on the 15th instant, waiting there for
confirmation of orders to proceed to Farosund, there to
take in troops.
The Supply, screw steam store-ship; Master-Comman-
der John Penn, has moved from the dockyard to the
Royal Arsenal, to take on board a large quantity of
stores for the fleet in the Black Sea and the army in the
East. There are now ready for embarkation two large
waggons, at present in the carriage department of the
Royal Arsenal, fitted with large reels of telegraphic wire
covered with gutta percha, and intended as a means of
communication between the camps of the army in Tur-
key. There is a small two-wheeled carriage for each
waggon, and a small hand plough for opening the ground
in which the telegraphic wire is inserted as it is rolled
off one of the large reels, which revolves horizontally,
and contains about a mile in length of the wire. The
plough is so constructed that on the wire being depo-
sited on the ground it is immediately covered over and
requires no other labour. On the camps changing their
positions, the wire can be rolled on the reels again, and
be made available on the new ground.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant George E. K. Gore (1843), formerly flag-
lieutenant of the Fisgard, flag-ship at Woolwich, to the
Royal William, 120, guard ship of ordinary at Devonport,
for service as flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Henry
Eden, superintendent of Devonport dockyard.
Master James D. Milne (1849), from the coastguard
to the Malacca, 17, screw steam-sloop, at Sheerness.
Clerk—Henry M. Moore (1847), from the Arrow,
screw steam despatch gun-boat, to be clerk in charge of
purser's stores, on board the Supply, screw steam store-
ship.

Assistant-Engineer Henry Branford, of the third class,
to the fleet.
Gunner Thomas Harris to the Curlew, 8, screw steam-
sloop, at Woolwich, ordered to be taken to Chatham, to
be made ready for sea at that port.
Boatswain—William Beverley to the Curlew.
Carpenters—George Hughes to the Curlew ; Bevil
Kingston to the Supply.

WAR PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS AT

THE ADMIRALTY.
The immense increase of official business in the Admi-
ralty department, consequent upon the war, has compel-
led the appointment of an additional number of clerks,
both at Whitehall and Somerset Rouse. At Whitehall
Edward Giffard, Esq., of the second class, has been
promoted to be one of the senior clerks. Mr. Gifford,
son of the late Sir Hardinge Giffard, and brother of
Captain Giffard, of the Leopard, in the Baltic, is well
known in the service as the secretary to the medal com-
mittee, and as having filled other offices of trust and
responsibility. In the ranks of literature he will be
recognised as the compiler of those instructive and spirit-
stirring popular volumes, " Deeds of Naval Daring."
Robert Bell, Esq., has been promoted to the second
class, vice Giffard ; and the Hon. W. Moreton has been
appointed a third class clerk, vice Bell.
At Somerset House the following new appointments
have been made :
Mr. Selby De Vere Spencer, Mr. C. G. Turner, Mr.
e
Joseph Senior, Mr. Henry Blyth, Mr. Andrew Arm-
strong, and Mr. F. T. Pearsall, to the accountant
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Mr. J. Vivian Hampton and Mr. James Gambier to
Mr. W. F. Robson, iMr. F. A. Miles, Mr. F. S.
Jerningham, Mr. Evans, Mr. John Pigou, and Mr.
He
rtmenry C. Alley, to the comptroller of victualling's
depant.
Messrs. Zanti Lemaitre and Edward E. Ede to the
medical director-general's department. •

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THE GUNBOATS
The Arrow steam desUpatch gun-ssel, Lieutenant
Commander W. Jolliffe, arrived avte Portsmouth on
Saturday morning from Woolwich and remains at
Spithead. Careful trials of her speed at sea by Massey's
patent log show that, when her engines are making 92
revolutions per minute, the vessel is travelling 11
knots, 12.6 statute miles per hour. She arrived at
Portsmouth without any defect. She was built by
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Steam Department, Somerset House. The Arrow is
the first of the despatch boats so called, four of which
wyiktehs, her
were lately constructed by Mare and Co., and two by
Messrs. Green, of Blackwall. The Arrow, Beadle,
Lynx, and Snake are by the former, and the Wrangier
and Viper by the latter firm. They are each of 160-horse
power, mounting 10-inch and 8-inch Lancaster's new oval
rifle guns and 12-pounder. brass.howitzers. Their great
rifle guns are mounted on pivots amidships, and ca-
pable of firing on a line with the keel on each bo are
w. The
are rakish-looking craft, with three y
masts, schooner-
rigged. The Arrow has been sent to Portsmouth for the
inspection of the Lords of the Admiralty, now at that
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• ADMIRALTY INSPECTION.
mustered
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dock-
yard artisans at 11 o'clock, and dismissed them The Lords of the Admiralty recommenced their in-
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wards with the usual holyday ; after this, Rear-Admiral
Berkeley and Rear-Admiral Martin went on board the
hulk where the officers and crew of the steam-sloop Sala-
mander are berthed, to inquire into the causes of so
man determined complaints having been made of the
commander and first lieutenant, numerous applications
to be forthwith superseded having been urged repeatedly
on the part of the officers, and a. round robin having
been sent to the acting commander-in-chief and the Lords
of the Admiralty on Saturday morning from the crew.
What the result is to be we are not :informed of. Sir
Baldwin Walker subsequently went on board the Arrow
at Spithead, and the Black Eagle conveyed the First
Lord to Cowes, after he had held a lengthened levee at
the Royal Naval College. In the evening the usual
Admiralty dinner to the heads of departments and cap-
tains of the ships in commission, was given at the George
Hotel. Rear-Admiral Berkeley presided. , Sir James
Graham having gone to Cowes, it was surmised to in-
form the Queen of a telegraphic message having been
received at the Admiralty fro4i Sir Charles Napier
notifying the fall of Bomarsund. Before concluding
their business afloat, the Lords of the Admiralty went
on board the training. ship Illustrious, Captain Robert
Harris, and mustered and- inspected the men under
process of training for sea service in ,that ship, which
admirably answers the purpose fp- which she is commis-
sioned. The Admiralty yacht "Mack Eagle left yester-
day morning (it is believed with some members of the
Admiralty) for the westward. Their Lordships during
their visit also went on board and inspected the fine
screw transport Mauritius, which arrived in Portsmouth
harbour on Saturday morning, te prepare for the embar-
kation of the 34th Regiment this: morning for Corfu.
ADMIRAL OF THE FLT AT CROATADT.
Admiral Ricord is a plain.md an obliging sort of a
man, in appearance not at an' Russian. He was for
many years. governor of Kamschatka ; from thence he
was appointed port captain at Cronstadt ; in 1828 he
sailed from Cronstadt with a squadron of frigates
under. his orders, for the Black Sea, and in the British
Channel was overtaken with a- gale, which separated
the ships, and all but the frigate on board of which
Admiral Ricord was bore up and reached Plymouth ;
and so certain were the officers of these ships that the
commodores ship had foundered in the gale, and all
911 band perished, that they went threligh the core.