The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-08 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Rear--kd'iniral M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., First Naval
Lord of the+ Admiralty, left Whitehall, yesterday, and pro-
ceeded by railway to Dover, where he is to embark in the
Vivid, steam-vessel, Master-Commander W. H. Allen,
and proceed in her to Calais, to be prosent at the embarka-
tion of the French troops in the English ships of war ap-
pointed to convey them to the Baltic.
A request, it is understood, was submitted to the Cabi-
net Council, 'held. on Saturday last, for permission to allow
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, with the fleet under his
command, to attack Cronstadt. Sir Jas. Graham, G.C.8.,
First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Duke of Newcastle,
War Minister, attended a Privy Council held on Monday by
the Queen, to consider the same application and resolution
of the Cabinet Council ; and although the result has not
transpired, the despatch of Brigadier-General Harry D.
Jones and a Company of the Royal Sappers and Miners
from Chatham, leave little doubt as to the answer sent to
the gallant admiral iu command of the Baltic fleet. The

Dauntless. screw steam-frigate, brought home the appli-
cation from Sir Charles Napier, and is now on her way
back with the answer, after having been personally visited
at Sheerness by Sir James Graham, who placed his son on
board, and a son of the Duke of Newcastle, who have been
ppointed as midshipmen in screw steam-ships serving in
be Baltic, where they may have an opportunity of witness-
ng what can be done by the aid of screw steam-ships car-
rying more powerful armaments, and largo guns with
longer ranges, than have ever previously been engaged in
naval warfare.
Yesterday notices were publicly given on the Royal Ex-
change that within 20 days the Court of Admiralty would
proceed to condemn the Russian ships Amelia, Alroe,
late master ; the Baltica, Ludwic Sheldavach, late master ;
and the Eolus, Pyglestron, late master, taken prizes under
simulated papers at Leith by her Majesty's officers of
Customs ; as also the Otsaee, Voss, late master, taken by
her Majesty's steamer Alban.
Yesterday the first sale of a Russian prize since the com-
mencement of the war took place in the Captains' rosm at
Lloyd's, and attracted a number of persons. The ship is
called the Fenix, or Phcenix. She is 480 tons burden,
and it is stated was built last year. She was offered to
the highest bidder by Lachlan and Macleod, the Admiralty
brokers, and was knocked down at 4,7701. The next Rus-
sian prize vessels to be sold are the Wasthi, lying in the
Commercial Dock, and the Johannes Christoph, lying in
the Hnskison Dock, Liverpool.
The Janus, 4 paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander Colin C. A. Kane, has taken in shell, shot, and
ammunition, at Sheerness, preparatory to her departure
for the Baltic. She is at present very short-handed, har-
ing only her complement for had-our duty.
Active preparations are making on board the Hannibal,
90, to prepare for her departure. Every possible arrange-
ment is being made for the accommodation of the officers
and troops, so as to insure their comfort during their pas-
sage out. The Chatham pay yacht arrived at Sheerness
yesterday at 9 a.m. The ships' crew were paid their two
months' advance, and the Pay-office staff left the ship at
2 45 p.m. for Chatham.
The Algiers, 90 guns, screw steam-ship, Capt. Charles
Talbot; yesterday took in coals and completed her water-
ing. Every exertion is being made to forward the de-
spatch of this ship, in order that she may follow the Han-
nibal with the least possible delay.
Officers arc to be sent to the northern ports to enter
volunteer seamen for the Royal Albert.
Capt. Lord Frederick Kerr, of the Waterloo, 120 guns,
flag-ship, on Thursday mustered the officers and crews of
the ships in commission at :sheerness. The Hannibal mus-
tered nearly 300 hands short of her complement, princi-
pally A.B's. Draughts of seamen are expected previous
to her departure for the Baltic. After disembarking the
troops she will return to Sheerness, take iu her lower deck
guns, ammunition, &e., and proceed for the Mediterranean
and Black Sea.
The Royal William, 120, Capt. Kini;come, at Plymouth,
had her compasses adjusted on Thursday by Mr. Thompson,
Queen's Harbourmaster. Her crew were paid wages yes-
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modation for 1,200 soldiers.
The brig Wolverine, from Sheerness, arrived in Ply-
mouth Sound on Thursday morning.
The crew of the Indefatigable got up lower yards and
topgallant masts on Thursday.
The Andromache is to bo fitted up as a powder depot for
Pembroke, in place of the Mulgrave, to be broken up.
The St. Vincent, 102, Capt. Mansell, was completed last
evening by the artificers of Portsmouth dockyard, and her
decks made available for the comfortable accommodation of
upwards of 1,500 French troops. Her crew wore paid wages
yesterday also, and she will start to-day for the place ap-
pointed for the embarkation of the troops. The Sphinx,
6, paddle steam-sloop, Capt. Clifford, which is ordered to
attend upon her, steamed out of Portsmouth Harbour to
Spithead at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, and tested her
machinery along the measured mile in the Solent, after
which she anchored at Spithead, took in her sea service
ammunition, and received wages for her crew. The Ter-
magant, 21, screw-frigate, Captain the Hon. K. Ste wart,
which is the third vessel fitted at Portsmouth for this
Anglo-French expedition, will be completed this day
(Saturday), " all hands" being employed upon her to get
ready to leave with the others.
The Gladiator, 6, paddle steam-frigate, Captain Broke,
arrived at Spithead on Thursday evening, and received
orders to proceed to Devonport.
The Rhadamanthus, 4, steam-transport, arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday from Woolwich, with machinery for
the Harrier and Swallow screw-sloops.
The following appointments have been made :
Commander Vashun Baker (1819), to study steam at the
factory at Woolwich dockyard.
Lieutenant J. Townsend, to study steam at the factory
at Woolwich dockyard.
Lieutenant P. Lyon, James Olivey, Edward Cooper,
and Arthur C. Do-vdell to be Masters' Assistants.
Second-Master Robert Coen (1851), from the Dasher
steam-vessel, to the Jackal steam-vessel, at Woolwich.
Mr. B. L. Lefroy, serving as acting mate of the Impe-
rieuse, 50, screw steumfrigate in the Baltic, since July
15, 1831, is promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
Our Southampton letters stste that the fittings on board
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ships Hima-
laya and Simla, for the reception of cavalry horses, &c., are
being rapidly proceeded with, and these vessels will be
ready for sea next week. The Government is also about to
rake up the company's screw steam-ships Colombo, of 1,850
tons, and Candia, of 1,960 tons, for the conveyance of pro-
visions and stores to the Black Sea, as also the Royal mail
steam-ship Avon of 1,950 tons, now lying in the Southamp-
ton docks, for the transport of troops to the Baltic. The
Royal mail steamer Orinoco is ready to start, and will em-
bark 1,200 men, 33 officers, and 16 horses on Monday, this
body of men (supposed to be the Rifles) being under orders
to arrive at Southampton on that day. The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamer Rajah was to have pro-
ceeded to the Black Sea with gunpowder and military
stores, but, owing to a defect in her machinery, cannot be
made available. The General Screw Steam-shipping
Company's great screw steamer Prince will be ready for
sea on the 15th instant, and is to embark 2,000 French
troops for the Baltic, and to be convoyed by the line-of-
battle ships now fitting out for the conveyance of further
regiments of French soldiery, to be employed in conjunc-
tion with the British and French fleets in operatisn against
the Russian fortresses in the Baltic. The Government is
stated to be in immediate want of more steamers, and it is
probable some of the screw steamers at Liverpool, belong-
ing to the Messrs. Cunard, will likewise be chartered for
the conveyance of either troops or stores, and that pos-
sibly some of their powerful paddle-wheel steamers will
also be required. A considerable quantity of goods in
transitu to the Mediterranean and other places is now
detained at Southampton, waiting shipment, the incon-
venience being caused
packets
The of small tonnage
having been recently despatched with the mails, in place
of ships of large size generally used, and on board these
steamers no room can be found for the quota of merchan-
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The Progress, loading at Liverpool with hay and oats
or the horses belonging to the British army in the East,
is expected to be ready for sea by to-day or to-morrow.
The Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, by general
order, dated Woolwich, June 29, has appointed the un-
dermentioned officers to be adjutants provisionally, under
the regulations contained in the general order of February
5, 1826, viz.
Second Captain J. Desborough to the 10th battalion,
vice Adye, promoted.
Second Captain C. H. Smith to the 11th battalion, vice
Green promoted.

In consequence of the above, the following officers are
Second Captain R. p
posted to companies as undermentioned :
company, first battalion;vie C.
Desborongh.
Second Captain C H. Ingilby to Captain Harrison's
I company, sixth battalion, vice Smith.
An order arrived at Chatham on July 6 for Colonel
Harry D. Jones, Royal Engineers, and director of the en-
Jones to Captain Lawson's
gineering establishment at that station, to prepare for im-
mediate embarkation for service with the Baltic fleet.
Captain F. W.Ring's No. 2 company of the Royal Sappers
and Miners received orders on the same day to hold them-
selves in readiness for immediate embarkation for service
in the Baltic. The company had been in daily expectation
ngi as his Brigade-Major.
of receiving orders to proceed to the East, but its desti-
nation has now been changed to the north. The company,
has been
fere from the other companies and the detachments at
made up to 100 privates by volunteers and trans-
Chatham. The men were medically inspected on July 7,
and will leave Chatham on Monday or Tuesday next for
Sheerness, to embark on board the Hannibal.
. Colonel Harry D. Jones goes out with the rank of Briga-
dier-General, and will be accompanied by Captain Ord,
Royal Engineers,
The Whole of the troops in the garrison at Chatham went
through a rehearsal on the 6th inst. of the siege operations
that are to take place on the 13th inst.
All the invalids who arrived at Chatham from India prior
to those who came home iu the Balcarres, to be discharged
by allowing their claims, will leave to-day for their respec-
tive homes with the exception of those invalided by a
,
medical board, as the latter will not be discharged until
the regulation board day, the 15th inst.
The Scots Greys, at present staying at Manchester, where
they have arrived from Nottingham, are expected to arrive
in Liverpool in a few days for embarkation in the Simla,
which is under orders to proceed to that port.
The following notice has been posted in the Under-
writers' rooms at Liverpool :—" Required immediately,
steam-vessels of not less than 900 tons burden, to convey
troops to the Black Sea, at a fixed rate for the trip, or per
tonnage, Government finding coal, the owners
ingprovision-
the troops and finding all other stores for the ships and
engines Tenders to be recesved at the Admiralty,
Somerset-house." No tenders have yet been received.
There is no want of steamers of the requisite description ;
but they are all profitably engaged iu the trades with which
their owners are connected.

THE LONDUN GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WHITEHALL, Jur 5.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
he passed under the Great Seal, nominating, presenting,
and appointing the Hon. and Rev. Horatio Powys, M.A.,,
to the Bishopric of the Isle of Man and Sodor, void by the
translation of the Right Rev. Father in God, Robert John,
Lord Auckland, to the see of Bath and Wells.
WHITEHALL, JULY 7.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Donald
Mackay to to the Church of Stoer or Rhuistore, in the
parish of Assint, and presbytery of Dornoch, and shire of
Sutherland, vacant by the transportation of the Rev..
Donald Masson, late minister thereof, to the Gaelic Church
in Edinburgh.