The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

THE WAR,

The Lizard has received orders to prepare again imme-
diately for sea. The Lizard is rigged yacht fashion, polacco
rigged, her lower masts and topmasts being in one length,
which prevents in time of need her striking topmasts when
going alongside ship to deliver stores and provisions. It is
the general opinion, had she been fitted with regular shifting
topmasts, they could have been struck previous to her going
alongside the Algiers, which might in all moral reasoning
have prevented the loss of two lives—the one having de-
prived a family of a parent, the other a loss of a fine pro-
mising lad in the service, where seamen aro always valuable.
It appeared on the evidence given, that had the main-yard of
the Algiers been topped the right way,
or the braces let go,
the accident could not have happened. No assistance (in the
confusion of berthing the troops) was given in getting along.
side, although a rope was repeatedly called for to keep the
Lizard clear of the Algiers' main-yard, caused by the run of
tide and the lift of the sea.
The Long Boat (sailing tender to the Formidable), Reuben
Harvey, master, arrived here
yesterday from Calais, at eight
p. In., having gone over there to put machinery ou board the
Hannibal ; but in consequence of a cross sea running too high
to go alongside, the Long Boat ran for Calais harbour, and put
the machinery on board the Echo steam-vessel for the purpose
of being shipped ou board the Hannibal at the time the Long
Boat left Calais. On Saturday evening the Hannibal was pre-
paring to get under weigh with the squadron of line-of-battle
ships. Mr. Harvey reports that the Emperor only visited
the commodore's ship, the Hannibal, and that for only a very
short time.
The Spiteful, fitting at Woolwich, has been commissioned
by Commander Kynastou, and is to be brought forward im-
mediately for active service,
The Tartarus paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant R. H.
Risk, arrived at Woolwich yesterday from Sheerness.
Notice has been posted at Woolwich Dockyard that letters
for the Black Sea will be despatched by the Colombo and
Simla steam-vessels on the 18th and 19th inst. from Devon-
port.

Letters for seamen, marines, and boys serving in the Black
Sea will be forwarded by these opportunities if posted in time,
and marked " By the Colombo or Simla."

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants Francis R. Purvis (1852), recently promoted
from acting mate ; and Lionel Lambert (1852), recently pro-
moted from mate, having been appointed to the Spiteful.
Lieut. Thompson, additional of the Britannia, has been
appointed to the Fury, vice Blake, at Malta Hospital. Mr.
Wright, clerk of the Terrible, has been appointed in charge of
the Banshee, vice the,
to be acting paymaster of the
Vesuvius.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIM FLAG APPOINTMENTS, &C.
As was stated yesterday, the death of Rear-Admiral Hen-
derson, C. 8., promoted no less than ten captains to flag rank,
on the active, retired, and reserved half-pay lists.
By these promotions a good-service pension, the appoint-
ment of a naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, and the com-
mand of the screw-ship Nile are relinquished.
The vacant good-service pension, we believe, has been be-
stowed upon Captain Lushington (1819), now in command of
the Albion, 80, in the Black Sea fleet.
This selection is an act of justice towards a senior captain
of good service 'in his present rank, and of distinguished
service in an inferior grade, who has been passed over
several times in favour of juniors. Captain Lushington, as
a commander, distinguished himself in command of the
"Etna, bomb, at the taking of Mores Castle. As a captain
ho commanded the Retribution, steam-frigate, and the
Vengeance, 84. He was then appointed superintendent of
the Indian navy, which post, however,
ho resigned in order
to continue his service in the Royal navy, and has held the
command of the Albion since July, 1852. There aro only
three officers senior to Captain Lushington on the list that
can be said to have any claims to the good-service pension.
Commodore Henry Byam Martin, C. 8., having attained his
rank of rear-admiral, the command of the Nile, 90 gun screw
ship, in the Baltic, has been given to Captain George Rodney
Mundy (1837), This gallant officer, it will be remembered,
was for some time captain of the Waterloo, 120, and then of
the London, 90 ; but after fitting and manning the latter ship,
Captain Mundy, Ui consuquence severe illness, was obliged to
relinquish his post, and was succeeded by Captain Charles
Eden.

It is deemed probable that Rear-Admiral Martin may take
out the Royal Albert, screw three-decker, to the Black Sea,
to serve as flagship of the.... Commander-in-Chief of the.
.British
fleet in those waters
remained at Halifax in his
Captain of the Fleet. , near-Admiral Martin remaining as
Rear-Admiral Fanshawe, C.B the commander-in-chief,
Thompson, July 6.
iaauthdeeil mu
The force of Admiral Fanshaw
flag ship Vestal, 26,Captain
on the North American
division of the station at Halifax(' consisted of the flag-ship
Buzzard, 6, paddle, Commander Dobbin, Newfoundland ;
Daring, 12, Commander Napier at St.' Lawrence ; and the
Netley, tender, in the Bay of FuLd
In the West Indies are the
and Devastation, 6, pad Commander Do Horsey, at St.
Thomas's, June 16. rb Cal
'---eYPso loft fora cruise among the
CalyYp.so, 1.8, Captain Forbes,
northern islands, June 28 ; and the Devastation conveyed the
Magdalena, Royal Mail steam-packet, out of the port.
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Hancock, kwas
was a t
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Cuba ; Medea, 6, paddle, Commander Phillimore, left Jamaica,
June 23, for Havannab.
Commodore Adams, commander-lu-chief for the coast of
julCyom2rEodspozgie Henderson,
coram
Africa, in the Scourge, 6, paddle, arrived at Madeira, from
Devonport, June 22, and after coalin eeded to Ascension.
Rear-Admiral Henderson, C.B. having
' died, the command-
in-chief of the Brazils station devolves on a commander.
Commander Finch, we believe, is the eominander.in.chief.
The command in chief of another station—the Cape of
Good Hoe—is left to a commander, who, by the way,
should have been a captain, for Commnder Morris, of the
Hydra, 6, paddle at the Cape, was acting caPtain twice when
with 'Commodore Plnmridge in the East Indies.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Simla,
Captain George Brookes, which is to take the 4th Dragoons
to the East, made au extraordinary passage from South-
ampton to Plymouth. Sho left the docks at 330 p.m. on
Saturday, and entered the Sound at 145 at
on Sunday.
iOn,,the passage from the Needles to the Breakwater Light-
house she averaged 14 knots, under steam only, against seven
hours' flood tide and a strong head wind, although she is
four inches by the head, her proper trim being seven inches
by the stern. She anchored in the Sound until nine o'clock in
the morning, when Nlr. Thoinpson, Queen's harbour-master,
navigated 'her to her moorings off Keybana, where she was
shortly afterwards inspected by the Brigade-Major. The
Simla is nearly 100 feet longer than her. Majesty's ship
Duke of Wellington. She takes in all 320 horses—namely,
26 in the bold, 127 between decks, and 167 on deck. Of
these, she embarked at Southampton six, supplied by the
6th Enniskillens, nine by the 6th Light Dragoons (carbineers),
three by the 17th Lancers, and two by the 15th Light Dra-
goons. The 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons, under the
command of Colonel Lord Paget, will consist of two sad-
roes, comprising 250 horses and 293 men. The A an qud
B
troop, under Major Lowe, arrived at Plymouth on Paturclay,
and the E and F troop, under Major Acker, arrived on
Monday.
The Clifton, Belgravia, Edwin, Columbia, and Hereford-
shire transports left the Downs yesterday for Calais, to be
ready to embark the French troops. The Prince screw
steamer, 2,700 tons burdens, left Blackwell on Saturday for
the same service.' She carries a vast quantity of shot, shell,
and ammunition.
The Orinoco screw-steamer sailed from off Portsmouth on
Saturday with the Rifles and a detac hmeut of Foot for the
Black Sea.

Au immense quantity of shot, shell, barrels of cartridges,
cases of swords, &c., have been shipped on board the Manilla
for conveyance into the Black Sea.
The Himalaya will not mire at Liverpool until Friday.
Instead of proceeding to that port direct she has gone round
bsycolitsnaGgrastyoswsutatfoirotheedptuhieTroes.e oTfheenimbaain odrkinbga portion of the
of that regi-
ment still remain at Manchester.

Yesterday morning the senior and junior companies of the
46th Regiment, consisting of 200 rank and file, with 22 non-
9eram*onod officers and drummers, marched from the In-

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
ft Yesterday notice ivas publicly given on the Royal Ex-
change that within 20 clays from that date the Court of Ad-
miralty would proceed to condemn the undermentioned Rus-
sian ships as lawful captures—namely, the Augusta, prize to
her Majesty's steamers Arrogant and Hecla ; the Franciska,
Muhelsen late master, prize her Majesty's steamer Cruiser ;
the Alexander, prize to the Amphion and Conflict ; the Johan
Carl, prize to the Conflict • the Johanna Maria, Andreas E.
Lindtern, late master, and the Noruen, Dahls, late master,
both prizes to the Archer; the Louisa, prize to the Amphiou;
the Union, 13arm late master, prize to the Cruiser ; the
Louisa Amelia and a schooner, name unknown, both prizes
to the Amphion; the Anna Catarina, the Polka, and Livonia,
all prizes to the Amphion and Conflict; and the Jean Marie,
Rolle, late master, prize to the Archer. These vessels and
their cargoes will forthwith be sold by public auction, and the
proceeds divided among the captors.
The Royal Albert, 131 guns, new screw steam-ship, Com-
. inander Alexander Little. Arrangements are being made
for fitting this ship with Mr. William Wolfe Bonney's patent
gutta-percha speaking-tubes, as adapted to her Majesty's
ships of war either propelled by steam power or otherwise.
for communicating orders to all parts of the ship, and up
into the tops without the intervention of men to, pass the
word. This has been found to act admirably in the Hannibal
during her late embarkation of troops off Calais. In time of
action a concentrated fire can be made true to a second of
time, by the word " fire" being given fore and aft the ship on
either or each deck at the same moment. Either in time of
action or during a gale of wind, every order can be distinctly
heard below and aloft at the same moment. Mr. Bonney was
here yesterday, for the purpose of consulting with Commander
Alexander Little as to what particular parts of this ship the
tubes are to be conveyed, so as to, give the greatest facilities
of communicating for general service between decks, engine-
rooms' &c.
The Hornet, 16, screw steam-sloop, Commander Frederick
A. Campbell, arrived at the Nore, yesterday, from Woolwich,
at 10.3 a.m., for the Baltic. She is first to proceed to
Portsmouth for her final orders. A number of the friends and
relatives of officers and men serving in the Baltic have endea-
voured to send out letters and parcels in her from here, but
on application to the Post-office authorities hero, they have
been informed, " There are no orders sent to that department
to forward any mail or parcels through this post-office by her,"
much to the disappointment of some hundreds of persons here.
The Vulture, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain
Frederick H. H. Glasse.--The crew of this ship, with her
officers, are busily engaged receiving her stores, provisions,
&c. It will be Friday next before she will be ready to leave
here. She was put out of the fitting basin yesterday, and
her compasses are to be adjusted by swinging ship immediately
after she has completed her coaling.
The Lizard, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant
Thomas B. Christopher.—The first-class boy, Edward Cham-
bers, who received severe injuries by the falling of the top
end of the mainmast of this vessel when alongside the Algiers,
off Calais, on Saturday last, died shortly after from the injury,
his skull being severely fractured and one leg being broken at
the knee, with a compound fracture of the same leg. Mr.
Charles Christopher, an architect, whose injuries caused
almost immediate death, was visiting his brother, the com-
mander, to witness the embarkation of the French troops.
It appears, upon evidence taken before Mr. James
Lewis, coroner for the waters of the Medway, within
the jurisdiction of the city of Rochester, that the Lizard had
been ordered to convey fresh provisions to the Algiers from
the commodore's ship Hannibal ; and on ranging up along-
side the Algiers, the maintopmast (or rather a part of the
mainmast, the Lizard being rigged with polacco mast, form-
ing lower masts and topmasts in one stick), fouled with the
lower yard arm of the Algiers, and carried the mast away
just above the rigging. The lower part of the stick forming
the topmast was strongly hooped with iron bands, which
considerably added to the weight thereof. This came down
upon deck on the starboard side, just between the after com-
panion and the skylight where Mr. Christopher and the boy
were standing. Both were knocked down on the deck and
the mast laid on them. The jury returned a verdict of acci-
dental death in both cases. The boy Chambers was buried in
Trinity churchyard by the Waterloo, yesterday, and the body.
of Mr. Christopher has been conveyed to London for inter-
ment there by his friends.