The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-15 00:00:00

THE WAR

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Captain Mansel arrived at Portsmouth and took his
commission to the Powerful, 84, on Saturday night.
The men belonging to the Royal yacht and other
ships, who navigated Cie Portland from Portsmouth to
Devonport, returned on Saturday in the Sprightly
steam•vessel, Master Commander Allen.

The Rhadatnanthus, steam-transport, Master-Com-
mander Belam, landed stores at Portsmouth Dockyard
on Saturday, and sailed in the evening for Woolwich,
taking supernumeraries.
The Brisk, 14, screw-corvette, Commander Seymour,
will be ready to go to Spithead this day, and to follow
the Eurydice to the North Sea.

No. 40 transport put in at Spithead on Friday.even-
ing from the Channel and sailed on Saturday morning
for the westward.
The Pigmy, 3, steam gun-boat, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Hunt, shipped her powder and shell on Sunday
morning and left for the Downs, en route to the Baltic.
His Danish Majesty's frigate Tordenskiold, Captain
Direkinck, from Copenhagen on the let of May, hove
to outside Plymouth Sound on Sunday morning, and
the captain landed for letters. The frigate carries 44
30-poundeze, and is bound for St. Thomas and the West
India station. 80 miles north of the Galloper light-
vessel, in the North Sea, she passed the French fleet,
consisting of four line-of-battle-ships and four frigates.
The hospital ship Belleisle, CominanderJames Hosken,
sailed from Plymouth on Saturday afternoon for the
Baltic. A. party of men has been sent from the Impreg-
nable and the Royal William to navigate the Belleisle to
the Downs.

The crew of the steam gunvessel Jasper, Lieutenant-
Commander Crawley, were paid wages on Friday, and
the next day she left Plymouth Sound for the Baltic.
The steam-sloop Strornboli arrived at Plymouth on
Saturday from a cruise in the Channel.
Captain Curry, First Lieutenant Usher, and Second
Lieutenant Napier, with two sergeanti, two corporals,
one fifer, and 90 privates, embarked on Saturday on
board the Calcutta, 84, Captain Stopford.
The Nautilus apprentices brig went down:Channel by
the Eddystone on Saturday afternoon.
The Brazilian Government steam-vessel Santa Cruz,
built in London, which injured her boilers coming
down Channel, and put into Torbay, was towed into
Plymouth Sound on Saturday by the steam-vessel
Brunswick, Portsmouth trader, Capt. T. Russell.
Mr. J. C. Barlow, Master (late of the Waterloo, 120)
took up his commission at Sheerness on Saturday, and
joined the Formidable, 84, guardship of ordinary, Capt.
Superintendent Christopher Wyvill. Mr. John Edg-
combe Skinner, clerk's-assistant (first appointment), has
also taken up his commission and joined. The ship is
progressing very slowly in her fitment as regards her
rigging, in consequence of the riggers being stationed on
work more urgently required for immediate service.
The Wellesley, 72 guns, guardship of ordinary at Chat-
ham, Capt.-Superintendent Peter Richards, C. 8., &c.,
is progressing smartly with her rigging under the direc-
tions of Mr. C. Gahan, Master of the Poictiers. They
are!setting up all her lower standing rigging, and she has
been coppered up to her deep water line. It is the in-
tention of the Admiralty that this ship and the Formida-
ble shall be fitted and stowed so as to be ready fur sea
on the shortest notice.
The Hannibal, 90 guns, new screw steamship, Captain
the Hon. F. W. Grey, at Chatham, has her masts and
spars all a-taut, her topmasts rigging ratlined down, and
her lower rigging fore and aft is all ready for being rat-
lined. She has now upwards of 500 men on her books.
The seamen of the Waterwitch, 8-gun sloop, Corn. A.
H. Gardner, are to be paid their wages, and will pro-
ceed on immediate service in another ship. Vice-Admi-
ral the Hon. Josceline Percy has been pleased to say he
will use his influence with the Admiralty for their mess
not to be broken up, but to get them all draughted to
the same ship. The officers are also to be paid their
wages, and proceed into other ships for duty, as directed
by the Admiralty. Tte Waterwitch will not be commis-
sioned again, as she requires very considerable repairs in
her topsides, caused by the excessive straining of the
rigging and masts on the upper parts of her hull, fore
and aft. The captains and commanders of the shipping
fitting out in this port at present, are all trying to gain
for their respective ships this little handful of blue-
jackets.
The Janus, 4 guns, paddlewheel steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenat-Commander Colin C. A. Kane, remains waiting
for orders to proceed on particular service. The Rus-
sian seamen she brought round have all been sent to the
receiving ship Crocodile, where they were eagerly sought
for by shipowners in the port of London, and engaged
at wages rating from 3/. to 6/. per month.
We were premature in stating, as we' did on Friday
last, that the Russian brigantine Johanna Emilie, ar•
rived here under false colours, had been condemned. We
have learnt that the case is at present undergnii:g inves-
tigation by the Admiralty proctor. The capture was
effected jointly by the three landing surveyors stationed
at the London Docks. Of the fate of the vessel there is
little doubt—she will be confiscated, but the consignees
anticipate release of the cargo, on the plea that it was
shipped at Lisbon on the supposition that the vessel was
Hanoverian, having been advertised as such—by which
they were deceived.
The Soufflier iron war steamer, belonging to the
French Government, and in command of Captain Man-
tra; entered the Tyne on Friday to coal and adjust her
compasses. She left on Saturday morning for the Baltic.
She is a handsome new vessel, evidently of great speed,
and is from Cherbourg. The officers and men, the few
hours they had to spend on shore, met a hearty recep-
tion from the inhabitants of Shields.
Captain Sherringlsam, who has visited several of the
Devonshire towns to enrol men as Coast Volunteers, was
at Appledore, in the North of Devon, last week. After
explaining the object of his visit, the gallant captain
succeeded in enrolling more than 20 of the watermen,
pilots, and coasters of the place. In joining this new
corps the men are consulting their pecuniary interests,
inasmuch as they receive 16s. per week while on duty,
and all their travelling expenses are paid ; in addition to
which they are found provisions if exercised on board
ship, and that too in the most dreary month of February,
when there is scarcely anything doing on the sea or on
the river.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Sultan, which arrived at Southampton on Saturday, we
have dates from Gibraltar to the 6th inst. The British
transports Bombay and St. Vincent, with troops, passed
the Straits of Gibraltar on the 3d inst. The Eveline and
Blundell, having detachments of the 17th Lancers on
board under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lawren-
son, put into Gibraltar on the 3d, haviug lost four horses
al the voyage. They proceeded on the same day for the
East. Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Dilegwra, with
the 38th on board, passed the Straits on the 4th inst.
The second division of the 89th Foot, under command
of Major the Hon. Charles Daly, arrived on the 3d in
the ship Goinebza, seven days from Cork. They disem-
barked the same day, and marched to Windmill-hill
Barracks.
It is positively stated that an Anglo-French army
will occupy Greece before the month of June shall
have been many days old. The army of occupation, it
is said, will consist of somewhere about 15,000 men,
of which 10,000 will be contributed by the French,
The regiments forming the English portion of the
force either have already received. or will in a
few hours hence receive, their orders for immediate
embarkation. They are the 20th Regiment, at
Plymouth ; the 34th and Ist battalion of the Rifle Bri-
gade, at Portsmouth ; the 21st and 63d, in Dublin ; and
the 97th, at Windsor. As soon as the steam-transports
are ready (and all haste is being made to make them so),
these troops will embark. The departure of the above
troops will leave the head-quarters of only four or five in-
fantry regiments in the kingdom, and it is in consequence
determined on to call out some 15 or 20 of the best
trained regiments of the English militia for garrison
duty in this country and in Ireland.
Captain George E. Hillier, half-pay 80th Regiment,
has been appointed Deputy-Assistant Adiutant.General
in Dublin, in succession to Captain Mackenzie, 92d
Highlanders, nominated Brigade-Major to Brigadier-
General Airey, on the staff of the army in Turkey. The
situation of Assistant Military Secretary is vacant by
the resignation of Captain Hillier.
The head-quarters of the 12th Regiment arrived in
Cork on Thursday by train front Dublin.
The fourth troop of the 11th Hussars embarked at
Kingston on Friday. Tho fifth and last troop of this
fine regiment Will go on board this day (Monday). Their
departure is greatly regretted. A better behaved corps,
both privates and officers, never formed part of the Dub-
lin garrison.
The order for the 97th Regiment to march from the
Sheet-street Barracks. Windsor, on Monday (this day),
has been countermanded in consequence of the American
steam-ship Orinoco not being in a sufficient state of
readiness to proceed immediately with the troops to the
Mediterranean. The day for the departure of this regi-
ment front Windsor is now fixed for Monday the 22d
instant.
VICTORIA RIFLES.—The Duke of Wellington, and not
the Marquis of Salisbury, as erroneously stated, holds
the rank of lientenantscnlonel in this corps.
FOOD FOR THE BRITISII TROOPS IN TURKET.--The
authorities at the Horse Guards have bad under their
consideration a newly-invented meat cake, which seems
to be admirably adapted for soldiers engaged in a cam-
paign like that in which we are about to embark in
Turkey. Each cake affords three good meals, weighs
71 ounces, divided in three rations of 2 ounces each,
which can be eaten dry, or when broken up and mixed
with warm or cold water affords a nutritious soup.
These meat cakes are easily stowed away, and a soldier
might, with ease, carry a dozen in his haversack, to be
used as reserved rations whenever the supply of other
provisions failed, thereby being independent of the com-
missariat for twelve days. Mr. O'Brien, in the second
edition of "A Residence in Wallachia," referring to
this invention, says, " I have more than once tasted
the soup made from these cakes, amid found it excellent.
Mr. Celquhnun approved of them so highly that he sent
some .to Constantinople, with a recommendation that
they should be used in the Turkish army. I understand
it is the intention of Mr. Pouteau, the inventor, in con-
junction with his brother, who resides in London, to
establish a manufactory of these meat cakes and other
provisions, and to supply them at moderate price to