The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-21 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Royal Albert, 131 guns, screw steam-ship, Comman-
der Alex. Little.—Mr. W. Cowan, acting assistant-surgeon,
has taken up his appointment and joined this ship. In order
to facilitate the fitment of rigging of this ship a portion
thereof is being prepared at Chatham yard. The number of
visitora who have gone over the Royal Albert since she has
been here has considerably exceeded the grosi number of
visitors to this yard (Sheerness) for the last ten years past.
As she becomes more advanced the visitors increase in num-
ber. The fitment of Mr. W.W. Bonney's patent gutta per-
cha speaking tubes is being proceeded with. On visitors
going round. the Hannibal, when here, these tubes were
quite the lion of the ship—friends conversing with each
other with the greatest ease when separated, in all parts of
the ship, seemed to astonish the sight-seeing folks from all
parts.

The Ganges, 84 guns, has been put into N
2 dry dock
for further sea-going fitment;i her rigging, sails, &c., are to
be got ready for her, which will occupy from nine to ten
weeks from the present time.
The Vultim e, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Capt.
Fred. H. H. Glasse, has completed her coaling at Saltpan
Reach, and will be ready to leave Sheerness on the 24th
inst. She takes out stores for the fleet.
A very superior class of launches, pinnaces, and cutters,
is now being received at Sheerness fur ships' use proceed-
ing on active service.
There is but very little moving in the shape of warlike
activity now at Portsmouth The Colossus, 80, and
Powerful, 84, aro now the only ships of the line fitting
out, and those so slowly, for the want of men, that a record
of their daily progress in e4uipment would be a most
tedious detail. The Curagoa, 30 ; Harrier, 16 ; and Swal-
low, 8, all newly built screw vessels, are in process of being
fitted with their engines fast; and the Harrier was so far
finished that she got up steam and worked her propeller in
the steam factory basin on Wednesday, and worked most
satisfactorily at 80 revolutions per minute, with 201 b. of
steam, 264 inches vaccum, so that a commission for her
may be expected daily.
The Royal George, formerly the sailing yacht of George
IV., William IV., and Queen Victoria, has been taken
from her moorings in Portsmouth harbour to the jetty of
the dockyard, it is reported, to be equipped as the flag-ship
of the Rear-Admiral Superintendent; she is the residence
afloat of the junior captain and staff of the Victoria and
Albert Royal steam-yacht. She is about to be docked and
examined_

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Tho steam-tenders Sprightly, Lucifer, and Echo returned
to Portsmouth yesterday from Calais.
The Maidstone, freight ship, is expected at Portsmouth,
to embark a detachment of the 73d Foot from Jersey, and
one of the 6th Foot from Hull (who aro waiting at Gos-
port), for the Cape of Good Hope.
Advices were received yesterday at the Admiralty,
under date Memel, July 13, that the Elida, Hoguian
master, a Swedish vessel, had been captured for breaking
th.) blockade off Libau by her Majesty's ship Cruiser, and
brought in a prize to Memel. She will be sent home to
England for condemnation.
The High Marshal of the Court of Admiralty has or-
dered that the Russian ship Patrioten, of Helsingfors,
Brockelman late toaster, prize to her Majesty's ship Ma-
gicienne, Captain Fisher, and the vessel Ida, of Gamin
Carleby, shall forthwith be sold for the benefit of their
captors. They were condemned June 2'.).
towed
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join the fleet at Baro Sound.
A mail for the White Sea squadron', via Hull, Christian-
sand, and Wangoe, will be despatched from the General
Post-office this evening.
The Devonshire, late third-rate, Lieutenant-Commander
John Lloyd, is now so far advanced as to receive her crew
on board. Her guards consist of 26 Marine pensioners and
four sergeants of Marines, in addition to whom she will
have three efficient boats' crews for general duty. The pen-
sioners were mustered yesterday at Sheerness by their com-
mander, and a suitable address was given them, in which
were pointed out the duties they, as guards, would have to
perform, and the mode iu which it was most desirable that
those duties should be carried out towards their fellow-men
taken in warfare, who no longearn(Nivseeraemeienne,mwiheso.
are
ehnroewe
months' provisions, stores, &e., arnenbdeeirngohdarargwonoffoartategmivpetn.
,aotfmep:Oltoreotss: in the Baltic, will be im-
ininnelgtianl tii number,
etebredr: yeaoannkdbt thehoae r(
shiftedl toahvs °te masters,
blockade Waterloo,
o the Devonshire. This ship has
no appearance whatever of a prison ship. There are neither
cells nor bars.
By electric telegraph from Plymouth, we learn that his
Netherlands Majesty's brig of war Zeehound, Captain
Eschen, which left Plymouth a short time since on a cruise,
returned to that port yesterday (Thursday). On the 15th
inst. , inlat.l4elBd:-. ; on
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tlhoong:.6Bo, 21inWia.,t. shesaw49
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the Aboneogn.
Ba,
of North Shields
34 W., the Austrian brig Morocco ; on the 19th, 16 miles
of Ushant, the Netherlands barque Vreede, of Rotterdam,
all well ; and the same day observed in the distance a large
ship in tow of a steamer steering W.
made ready
m Thede r Supplyjoho
Penn,sc re s
Woolwich o e s e I
'YeMstearsdteary, Com-
mander
Contracts were taken yesterday by Captain-Superin-
tendent Courtenay, at the Royal Clarence Victualling-
yard, Gosport., for 2,000 quarters of wheat, at an average
a saving of 48, per quarter on
of 70s. Bd. per quarter, being
the last purchase.
The Agincourt, Indiaman, sailed from Spithead yester-
day morning for Calcutta.
The freight-ship William embarked a detachment of the
66th Regiment at Spithead yesterday afternoon, and sailed

THE HIBIA7LAY tt.
"DUBLIN, TIORSDAT MORNING.
The splendid troop steam-ship Himalaya arrived at
Kingstown yesterday, at two o'clock, having made the
passage from Southampton in 33 hour*. She arrived when
the harbour was the scene of great excitement, from the
regatta in progress. Thousands of spectators enjoyed the
sight of this Leviathan vessel under weigh. Several yachts
bearing. the flags- Of the Thames, the Mersey, the Royal
Western (of Ireland), and other clubs were present. As
the Himalaya hauled alongside the jetty h-r immense pro-
portions became evident to the crowd on shore, who
heartily cheered as she came to her berth. There are stalls
for 450 horses destined for Turkey. The embarkation is
expected to commence this forenoon. The deck of the
Himalaya is rather above the level of the jetty at low water;
consequently the horses may, instead of the tedious process
of slinging, be walked on board.

Mr. E. W. B. Portman has been appointed midshipman
to the Colossus, 80, screw, fitting at Portsmouth
The dep ature of the Vulture,•6, paddle, Captain Glasse,
for the Baltic, has been postponed until the 24th inst.
The 2,500 tons screw-ship, Golden Fleece, left Spithead
yesterday afternoon, for the Thames.
The 2,500 tons screw-ship, Jason, from Constantinople;
passed through the Downs at ten o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, and carte up the river. The Jason, it will be remem
bored, was the first screw-transport fitted for the transport
of horses.

The 1,400 tons screw•ship Australian is having her de-
fects made good in the East India Docks.

These throe ships are now available for further transport
service. The Baltic will probably be their destination.

MILITARY.

Lieutenant-Colonel Beresford, Royal Artillery, recently
promoted to that rank, is appointed second in command of
the field batteries at Woolwich.

Captain Townsend's field battery assembled in service
marching order in the gan-park, Woolwich, on Wednesday,
and proceeded at three o'clock p.m. to the common, where
they were inspected by Major-General E. C. Whinyates,
C. 8., K.H., commandant of the garrison' accompanied by
Colonel Andet son, commanding the field batteries, Lieut.-
Colonel Beresford, second in command of the field batte-
ries, and Brigade-Major Bingham. Captain Townsend's
battery, with four other batteries, are under orders for
foreign service, and two of these batteries, with the requi-
site number of horses, are .expected to embark at Wool-
wich dockyard in the Jason screw steamer during the pre-
sent week. •

The 2d division of the 35th Regiment left Brompton
Barrrcks, Chatham, on Wednesday, at ten a.m., preceded
by their own band and the band of the 94th Regiment,
playing " Cheeri- boys, cheer," "Auld lang syne," "Rule
Britannia," and other appropriate airs, and marched cheer-
fully to .the North Kent. Railway station at Strood, whence
they proceeded by xailway to Gravesend, where they em-
barked for service in the Madras Presidency.
Colonel William,
.Redman Ord, Royal Engineers, in com•
mand of the Medway.district, willrelingnish the command
of,that district early, next month, for the purpose of pro-
ceeding
to assume the command at Montreal, Canada.
Colonel Ordreturned from Quebec in 1850, after com-
pleting his time as Commandant of Royal Engineers in
Canada. East.

Serjea.nt-Major G. Brooker, 75th Regiment, 11 is been
presented with the good-conduct medal, which entitles
him, on his discharge from the service, to the gratuity
of 151. The commander-in-chief has also granted good-
conduct medals, with a gratuity of 51. each, to Private
J. Buller, 84th, and to Private R. Cox, of the 61st Foot.
A detachment of the 66th Regiment, about 100, em barked
on board the William (freight ship), at Spithead, yesterday
afternoon, from the dockyard, for passage to Amerj,ca, to
join the regiment.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 20.
The Simla, steam troop-ship, left Keyham at noon yes-
terday, and proceeded into the Sound, where she took on
board about 400 barrels of powder, and at two o'clock she
proceeded on her voyage, touching at Malta for fuel only,
and from thence proceeds, it is believed, direct for Varna.
The horses are accommodated on the orlop, main, and
suhpip decks,
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of
stallsing fittedeu
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upper
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deck LI, orlop deck 26, making in all 320. The stalls and
everything required for the reception of the troops were
fitted up at oouthampton, where the provender for the
horses was also shipped. The Simla is a now iron-built
vessel, having performed only one voyage, and is com-
manded by Capt. Brooks. She is of the extraordinary
length of 315 feet, and is 2,600 tons burden. She made
the passage from Southampton to this port in 10 hours,
her speed averaging 11 knots an hour. She was supplied
with a flat-bottomed boat by this dockyard for the disem-
barkation of the troops, and has provender on board for 20
days. The officers who accompany the regiment aro Lieut.-
Col. Lord George Paget, commanding officer; Major John
J. D. Halkett ; Brevet-Major Alex. Low ; Captains Geo.
Brown, Robert Portel, and Thomas Hutton ; Lieuts.
Henry S. Adlington, Henry A. Sparke, George E:lis, H.
Flylon Jolliffe, J. Barry Marshall, Hon. Charles James
Keith, and Gustavus A. Hartman ; Cornets Fiennes W.
Martin, Win. A. King, George W. Hunt, and Robt. N. G.
Booth ; Paymaster George Thorn George ; Quartermaster
Jolla Hill ; Surgeon TllOB. Hunter, M.D. ; Veterinary
Surgeon John Byrne. The Si mla embark •cl at Southamp-
ton 6 horses, supplied by the 6th Enniskillens, 9 by the tick
Light Dragoons (carbineers), 3 by the 17th Lancers, and 2
by the 15th Light Dragoons. The 4th (Queen's Own),
The following were the officers tuzleergethederceohme,maeeneld
polfieCitijlonel Lord Paget, consists of
who left with that regiment on Tuesday, in the
steam-ship Colombo, for the seat of war :—Lieuten-
ant-Colunel Frederick Horn, commanding officer ; Majors
men.2o t 1
Hugh do Crofton and Frederick Charles Evelaigh ;
horsesbelonging a and `2933e
Captains James B. Sharpe, Seroope R. Berdmore, Richard
lt
GeorgelheaiStTev. W.ens, ..wWO.OdP;.
Lieutenants
teGceo. rile.
TLheiogmhpsLony,e' and v
Butler, Edmund FrancisAaistey,William Henry Dowling,
Henry James, James George Hay, S. Remnant Chapman,
Edward Leet, George Bennett, and G. S. Peard ; Ensigns
g-asse, Hector Barlow Vaughan,
Francis Padfield, Morgan T. Rotheram, Charles E. Parkin-
son, George Dow l
Parr, John W. W. Lewia Paymaster Godfred Goodman
Mosley; Quartermaster David Bilham„. Surgeon Edward
Howard; Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Wright. This regi-
ment has peculiar claims upon the people of this country.
It was first raised in, and takes its name from, East Devon;
Fred.
Egmont-op-Zee," the Sphynx,
it was the first that welcomed William of Orange on his
landing at Torbay. It has a glorious history, as its banners
proud relate, for they bear on them the names of " Min-
with the words
V,i,inier4," " Corrunna," " Vittoria,"
" Pyrenees," " Orthe " Toulouse," ...peninsula ;" and
amongst the most celebrated of its officers was the gallant
Sir John Moore. The number of men that embarked was
961, exclusive of officers, that regiment leaving a depot
behind, under the command of Major Crespigny.
The head-quarters of the 51th depot arrived at Dublin
on Tuesday last, from Enniskillen, under the command of
`,l.e.Elizco;:""Maida," "
Brevet Major Smith, and proceeded to the Linen-hall bar-
racks, where the depot is to be stationed. The under-
am
Galbraith,
Swetenham,Ensignsßeethamandhis division ; —Cap
and Assis-
tant-Surgeon Youll, with nine sergeants, four drummers,
and 150 rank and tile.
The 21st (Royal North British) Fusiliers paraded on the
by Major-General
Esplanade in front of the Royal Barracks yesterday, in
Dublin d' •
Cochrane, commanding the district, prior to its
war. At cloven
embarkation for the seat of _ en o'clock a.m.
the regiment was formed in op.3n
hiscolumn, when the Major-
General arrived, accompanied
heavy marching order, for inspection
yininusttaff, and commenced
his inspection by e examination of the
men,
gallant geneial was
their appoinmtmaeknintsg, a&vce.ryLittle was done in the way
of nianosuvring, as the {,,
bravely satisfied
express himself in the but he was pleased to highest terms
with the high state of discipline ofth. e Fusiliers ;
g officer,
respecting the very fine appearance of the inen, their clean-
liness on parade, and the extremely good conduct of the
under his command,
to Lieutenant-Colonel Ainslie, the commanding
regiment while