The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-22 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant William A. R. Pearse (1841), has been
pointed to the Ajax, 60, screw steam-ship at ports-
month.

Masters—Vincent Williams (1841), recently sender
in the Prince Regent, 90, and Stephen Court, reoentty
promoted from Acting-Master of the Investigator die.
oovery-ship, to the Fisgard gag-ship at Woolwich ;W.
C. Pyper (1854), to the Perseverance iron screw steam
troop-ship at Woolwich.
Clerks' Assistants—W. Shott to. the Star, 8, sloop, on
the south-east coast of America station ; Allen F. Gain
to the Geyser paddle-wheel steam-sloop at Portsmouth.

ROYAL MARINES.
The following promotions and appointments have taken
place in the corps of Royal Marines :
Second Lieutenant C. F. Witham, to be First Li eut.,
vice Douglas, to half-pay. Dated the 16th inst.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Thomas Val antine
Cooke, of the Portsmouth division, to be Captain, and
appointed to the Woolwich division, vice Harlot,
deceased.

Second Lieutenant Albert Highman, of the Plymouth
division, to be First Lieutenant, vice Cooke, promoted.
Dated December 19th inst. The division will be here-
after notified.

• THE TRANSPORT SERVICE.
The Royal Victoria, steam transport, left Portsmouth
on Tuesday afternoon, with wooden huts, duo., for the
Crimea.

The Foyle, steam transport, arrived in Portsmouth
harbour on Wednesday evening to embark huts and
stores for the Crimea.

Yesterday the Oscar transport hauled out into the
river from Woolwich Dockyard with 153 tons of
ordnance stores, and the Agnes Blakey, with 180 tons of
shot and 250 of coke, for the Crimea.
The steam transport Adelaide, taken up by the Ad-
miralty some time ago for the conveyance of troops to
the Crimea, has taken in her stores in the river, and is
now on her way to Portsmouth to receive detachments
of the 19th, 38th, and 86th Regiments, and 2d battalion
of the Rifle Brigadge. She also calls at Plymouth for
a detachment oft he 34th Regiment .
The L'Emperatrice, chartered steamer, is expected at
Portsmouth, from Liverpool, to embark detachments of
the following :-
Ist Regiment ...
4th Regiment....
7th Regiment....
20th Regiment....
23d Regiment....
28th Regiment....
44th Regiment....
46th Regiment....
77th Regiment...
88th Regiment.
95th Regiment.
Rifles

106 men
65 .
75
30
100 ...
65 ...
SO ...
25
247
100 ...
39 .
50 ,

In all —..
932 privates.

4 captains.
7 lieutenants.
9 ensigns.
25 sezjeants.

, Total . 99-7

MISCELLANEOUS.
Yesterday a merchant-ship which has been engaged
by the committee of the Crimean Fund left Irongate-
wharf fort he Crimea, heavily laden with provisions,
clothing, &c., for the troops in the Crimea. The cargo
oonsisted_oX ar.oral (wheats of tea, a large quantity of
boxes containing cocoa, preserved vegetables, meat, and
milk, coloured blankets, a supply of warm clothing,
&c. In a few clays the yacht of the Earl of Ellesmere,
which is placed at the disposal of the committee by his
lordship, will start with a similar description of cargo.
The Wildfire, Capt. Downward, the first vessel to be
despatched by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Co., as a por-
tion of their railway expedition to the Crimea, is still de-
tained at Birkenhead by unfavourable weather. She has
on board 52 "navvies" and a cargo of railway plant.
Tyne owners, who sent coal out on speculation to Con-
stantinople, have been advised by their captains that the
whole of the cargoes have been taken up by the Govern-
ment, and that the vessels are now delivering at the
Crimea.
The Duchess of Cambridge has ordered that every
widow in the Cambridge Asylum shall be supplied with
a good dinner of roast beef, plum pudding, and ale on
Christmas-day, at her Royal Highness's expense.

THE CREW OF THE ATLANTIC.
The crew of the Atlantic (lately condemned as a legal
prize) were released from on board the Devonshire re-
ceiving-ship for Russian prisoners yesterday, having vo-
lunteered to serve on board ships chartered from Lon-
don for Australia and China, and proceeded to their
respective ships. The crew of the Atlantic, 13 in num-
ber, have left the Devonshire with an excellent charac-
ter. They speak in the highest terms of the kindness
they have received from the commander and officers of
the Devonshire during their detention on board that
ship,

Yesterday a great number olfßseYrv.iceable men were en-
tered for her Majesty's land forces at the Staff-office,
Delahay-street, Westminster, at the reduced height of 5
feet four inches, and an increased bounty of 61. per man.
Yesterday Colonel Jones issued orders, pursuant to
instructions from the War Office, for the first company
of the Royal Sappers and Miners to proceed forthwith
to the Crimea.