The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

the accommodation of the troops now embarking, in the
Downs for the Baltic ; 12,000 beds with bedding- are
being shipped for them. The Adder steam-vessel, se-
cond master in command Mr. Munchin, has also taken
in stores, and left yesterday for the Downs.
The Gladiator, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-vessel,
Captain George N. Broke, is to proceed to the Downs
immediately. She has coaled and drawn stores. She
will attend the troop line-of-battle ship squadron to the
Baltic.
The Vulture, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate,
Captain Frederick H. H. Glasse, is ordered to take on
board 340 tons of coals, and her defects are to be ex-
pedited to enable ber to join the squadron in the Downs,
and proceed to the Baltic.
The Termagant, 24, screw frigate, Captain the Hon.
Keith Stewart, lies hors de combat at Spithead. All the
attention bestowed upon her by the engineer power of
Portsmouth dockyard has failed to make her "move
on," mid it is feared that she cannot be got away to the
Downs to ship the Frenrh troops before to-morrow or
Saturday.
The Wellesley, 72, in dock at Chatham, will leave by
the end of the present week for the Downs, to assist in
conveying the French troops under orders for the
Baltic.
The frigate Andromache, 26, having been masted, has
been warped to the new basin in the dockyard to be
jury-rigged, previous to her going to Pembroke.
The Avon steimer, Master-Commander Veith, was
towed alongside the dockyard on Monday to have de-
fects made good, and she sailed on Tuesday for the Downs
to assist in the embarkation of troops.
The Meander, 44, is ordered to be ready to go out of
harbour an the 20th inst.
The officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Impreg-
nable. 104, Captain Wise, in Hamoaze, were paid wages
on Monday.
The Comet steam-vessel, in charge of Mr. M'Dougal,
and manned by riggers, has been hurriedly got away
from Portsmouth for Calais, to assist in transhipping the
French troops to the ships in the Downs.
The Stromboli, 6, paddle-wheel steam sloop, has com-
pleted her coaling, and will, most probably, leave Ports-
mouth to-day for Calais, to assist in embarking French
troops.
The Portuguese war steamer Mindello sailed from
Southampton yesterday for Lisbon.
By letters from the Britannia, 120, flag-ship of Vice-
Adoural finiadas in the Black Sea, dated Baltschik,June
20, w,"l learn that the ship's company had presented a
highly compli,-nentary address to Captain Dickson, on
his quitting them on promotion. The address begged
the gallant office.e's acceptance of a fine piece of plate,
ordered at home, , ftnd bearing upon it a suitable inscrip-
tion. vls of the Admiralty gave notice at
Yesterday
'ofthe North Sea merchant captains
the
different
resortsththat a number of Baltic' plasters were required to pilot
e
the,English and French vessels about to convey the
French troops to the Baltic', They are to receive 15s. a
day for their services.
Yesterday the Lords of the Ad:oiralty issued contracts
for the supply of 50,0001 b. of tea, .50 tons of sugar, and
15,000 gallons of vinegar for the use of the Royal navy.
Twenty volunteers for the Royal naivy were last even-
ing despatched by rail from Liverpool to London.
The Sealark, 8, Lieutenant Fenwick, sailed to-day
for the Downs.

The Fairy, steam-yacht. Master-OommancL.r Welch,
hauled on the graving slip to-day, to reship her pro-
peller.

APPOINTMENTS.
The following appointments have been made :
Captain—Patrick Campbell (1854), to be Inspecting
Commander of the Coast Guard.

Surgeon—Matthew Burton, M.D. (1851), to Yar-
mouth Hospital.
Master's•Assistant—Richard Mumford, to the Cal-
cutta, 84.

From Southampton we are informed that the Govern-
ment has purchased from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company the steam-ship Himalaya,
to be used for troop service. The price given for this
noble ship is understood to be about 140,0001. sterling.
For the present Her Majesty's ship Himalaya will be
officered and manned by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, until other arrangements can be made by the
Government. The royal mail steamer Medway arrived
at Southampton yesterday ; and, after going into the
graving dock, will be got ready for further troop service
in the Baltic or Black Sea.

The Himalaya steamship will embark at Southampton
to-morrow Lieutenant-Colonels Seymour and Tracey,
with their servants and officers, and she then proceeds
to Plymouth, to take on board the 4th Light Dragoons,
for Varna.

.. .
months back thife has not btY.)n
,P), uy military stationed
in the west riding. of the co tic ty of Cork.
A number of Irish const 4, Julary 'officers have been se-
lected for employment in til e east, w hither some of them
have already proceeded. r'i: hey have received 12 months'
leave of absence, and will ? nave remuneration at the rate
of 1/. per d iy.
Draughts from the fol'i.‘ 'wing depots are under orders
to proceed at a short noti c e to the east :-3d Buffs, from
Newry, 1 officer and 6;0 men ; 62d, from Belfast, 100
men ; and 68th, from B alrast, 6 officers and 120 men.
No women to accompany these draughts. The last two
will reduce the garrison. of Belfast to its last " man-at-

arms."
The draught of the 68th depot is to embark at Belfast
for Liverpool, en route to Portsmouth, to be embarked
on board the Orinoco, for Turkey.
The 54th depot has been ordered from Enniskillen to
Dublin.
The companies of the 15th depot, at Ballyshannon
and Sligo, are to replace the 54th at Enniskillen. A
few men of the 15th are to be left at Ballyshannon to
take care of the pensioners' arms and barracks.
A Belfast paper says—" We understand that the de-
pot of the 62d Regiment, now quartered here, is under
orders for foreign service, and will be replaced by the
East Middlesex Militia, a regiment which was many
years ago in this garrison."

SONGS OF SCOTLAND-MR. SIIERER'S
LECTURE.

M. Kossuth's remarks at Glasgow the other day in-
dicating an affinity between the Scotch and Hungarian
people, are much in accordance with an opinion which
Scotchmen, intimately acquainted with the latter, enter-
tain of both nations. The Hungarians read in their own
language the poems of Chaim] and some of the works of
Sir Walter Scott ; while those who have seen Dr. Bow-
ring's work on the Poetry of the Magyars are much
struck with the remarkable similarity in the sentiments
and in the general domestic habits and circumstances of
both nations. M. Kossuth's allusion to these facts was
not to identify them as one race, but to direct attention
to corresponding points in their history as incorporated
kingdoms, and particularly to their common struggles
against centralisation. There is no doubt, however, that
people who interest themselves in such questions as the
Caucasian mystery" and others beyond the pale of au-
thentic history, mustrely in agreatmeasure on poetry and
music in tracing the earlier migration of races, and iden-
tifying geographically remote groups of population.
Like their ancestors, who "kicked up their heels" in the
halls of Tara and Cashel, and the Courts of those kings
of Scotland of whose existence modern pundits doubt,
the Celts of the present day are poetical and musical in
their idiosyncracies, and the same sentiments and music
excite the same feelings and emotions in their bosoms, in
every quarter of the world. A remarkable instance of
the fact, is the enthusiasm which the music of the Scotch
brigade awakened among the inhabitants of the Basque
provinces during the Peninsular war.
No man did more to popularise the songs of Scotland
than the late Mr. Wilson, who was the first to familiar-
ise the general public of England with their beauties,
and with that success that many of them are quite as
well known here as on the other side of the Tweed. Tne
gap which the unrivalled Scotch vocalist left in the mu-
sical world has not yet been filled, although there have
been many talented aspirants. One of the most pro-
mising is Mr. John Sherer, who last night delivered a
lecture on Scottish minstrelsy at the Burlington-hall,
Saville-row. The vocal illustrations comprised several
of the most popular of the amorous, bacchanalian, and
pastoral songs. . Mr. Sherer is possessed of a voice of
admirable quality, although hardly to be compared in
mellowness and power to that of the late Mr. Wilson,
who
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retiring manner operates to his advantage. M. r. Wilson's
enlivenedrespewnti, with amusing
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