The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-13 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

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Captain—Thomas L. Massie (1841) to the Powerful, 84,
at Portsmouth.

Commanders—Edward B. Rice (1850) at present in com-
mand of the Prometheus, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, to the
Driver, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, serving in the Baltic,
vice Commander Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, promoted to
be Captain; Commander Fred. L. A. Selwyn (1847), from
the Coast Guard, to the Prometheus, vice Commander Ed-
ward B. Rice.

THE GUN-BOATS.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 12.
The Lynx, screw steam despatch gun-boat, Lieut.-Com-
mander J. P. Luce, in the basin at Woolwich, is now in so
advanced a state that she will be out of the hands of the
dockyard artizans to-morrow evening, and will leave early
on Thursday morning for Greenhithe, to have her com-
passes adjusted for sea service. She has already on board,
mounted and ready for use, her two 68-pounder oval guns
of 95 cwt. and 9 ft, long, and four 12-pounder howitzers,
with a large supply of 68-pounder shot. On her arrival at
Greenhithe she will receive her supply of gunpowder and
live shells. The engines, by John Penn and Son, have been
completed some time, and everything has been done to make
her thoroughly complete and in good order for starting.

THE RUSSIAN PRISONERS.
The Hannibal, Commodore the Hon. F. W. Grey, ar-
rived at Sheerness yesterday at 2.30 p.m., from Brest—
she arrived at Brest, from the Downs, on the night of the
7th ; she was subjected to a strict quarantine of five days.
The prisoners were transshipped into transports and con-
veyed to Rochefort. The following officers wore brought
home from Bomarsund by her—viz., Colonel Turnheilm,
Lieutenant-Colonel Kraushold, Captain Knosring, Capt.
Bark, Captain Fomin, Lieutenant Chatelain, Lieutenant
Brofelt, Lieutenant Wolkoff, Lieutenant Borisoff, and
Johan Ernold ; the latter-named gentleman was a Polish
officer, prisoner to the Russians in the fort at Bomarsund,
and released by the admiral's orders on arrival in France.
There were also 288 rank and file, 10 women, and 3 chil-
dren. Nineteen deaths among the Russian soldiers took
place on the passage home. There have also been 19 deaths
among the ship's company. With ono or two exceptions,
officers and men have been on the sick list. Dr. Crawford,
the surgeon, has proceeded to Chatham with 11 invalids
for Melville Hospital. The doctor and the assistant-sur-
geon appear to have suffered considerably from constant
fatigue in attending on the sick and dying men, as the
Russian surgeons at the forts at Bomarsund made their
early exit from the forts and escaped being taken as pri-
soners. The Hannibal left Brest on the morning of the
oth. On steaming for the mooring lighter, she had to
cross the harbour tide into the eddy tide, by doing which
the strong eddy tide caught her fore body and slowed her
up into the streamage of the two tides, and, in endea-
vouring to clear the Minotaur, hulk to the Royal Albert,
her port-quarter gig was smashed, and some slight damage
accrued to the port quarter gallery. The gig was lowered
into the water, and, fortunately, no person was hurt,
although one of the wardroom officers had a narrow escape.
In consequence of some derangements in her machinery
from wear and tear, it will be necessary for thellannibal
to be placed in dry dock at Sheerness.
A question of some importance arose yesterday among
the gentlemen cadets, prisoners, most of whom are the
sons of gentlemen, under training in the ranks to serve as
sub-lieutenants ; it was, whether they were entitled to
their parole, and to receive their subsistence money the
same as the lieutenants. There are in all 16 of them, and
they express great sorrow that at present they have no
privilege beyond the common soldier—the service instruc-
tions making no provision under a sub-lieutenant. This
rank they claim, as they were entitled to all the privileges
c a
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for
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of sub-lieutenants in their own service. An especial
ap-
plication will be made to the authorities on their behalf
on na
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been immediately.
granted
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day'stheir health, and the officers in charge wish to give all
reasonable indulgences. There are women among them
parole oe
on board the BenboNv. The husband of one (a common
soldier) was killed at the taking of Bomarsund ; the hus-
band of the other (a common soldier also) died on his pas-
sage home in the St. Vincent. The former woman is near
her confinement, and is in very delicate health. A cabin
is appropriated for her by Lieutenant Commander Everest,
and every attention shown her that her situation requires.
Fresh cases of cholera are daily making their appearance
on board both ships.
The following are the names of the gentlemen cadets :
Carl Scanbcrg, Alexander Ekman, Carl Ranau, Frans
Wahl borg, Gustaf Lindsbrorn, Carl Tarnroth, Gustaf Freij,
Carl Foi ssgard, Wilhelm Grenholin, Pavel Petraff, Alexy
Sveroff Mattoy off Fejdoroff, on board the Devonshire, and
cadets Ferfebrom, Aisspegriu, Sandberg, Bjarhbomt, and
Wa.nsin, on board the Benbow. These gentlemen, 17 in
number, have appealed to their senior officer at Sheerness,
Major Grahn, of the Finnish Grenadier Company, to inte-
rest himself on their behalf to obtain their parole and sub-
sistence.

THE FINS AND THE RUSSIANS.
The Finnish soldiers were yesterday separated from the
Russian soldiers, and also the Russian Jews from the Fin-
nish Jews, each being.placed in separate messes, by order
of Lieutenant-Commander Everest, who took the greatest
interest in meeting the wishes of Lieutenant Hook of the
Finnish Artillery, who went on board yesterday for the
purpose of distributing pay to the soldiers, due up to the
time of the capture of Bomarsund.

The Russian prizes Mazeta and Fortuna, taken by her
Majesty's steamers Amphion and Archer, are now being
worked home from Memel, in charge of prize crews, in
order that they may be legally condemned by the Court
of Admiralty, and sold for the benefit of their captors.

The Algiers has gone to Devonport, there to be docked,
preparatory to her proceeding to the Black Sea.
Mr. Aitchison, surgeon, and Mr. Herbert Johnston, pay-
master, have taken up their commissions, and joined the
Benbow prison-ship.
Several hundred beds and blankets were taken on shore
from the St. Vincent on Monday, and burnt on Rat's
Island. The same order has been given on board her Ma-
jesty's sloop Sphinx, whore the prevailing epidemic has
been raging.

TRANSPORTS FOR THE BLACK SEA, &c.
Yesterday the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
took up steamers of from 700 to 800 tons' burden to convey
victualling stores for the use of the army invading the
Crimea and the fleet in the Black Sea ; also for the con-
veyance of 300 tons of heavy shot and shell to Malta 40
toils of Ordnance stores to Sydney, and 9 tons to Melbourne'
and Port Philip for the defence of those colonies. It is
now under the consideration of Government,, at the in-
stance of the merchants of the United Kingdom, to permit
the entry of
into thelFinnish
enaie9taken prisoners during the
British merchant service. Such
a
permitted so to enter, taken out of the prizes
captured by her Majesty's cruisers, have all strictly kept
swar
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Russia
their parole, and conducted themselves to the entire satis-
faction of the shipowners.

PROVISIONS FOR THE BLACK SEA. FLEET.
In addition to the troops that the hired steam transport
Nyfredo will take out to the Black Sea, she will also take
out 2,800 barrels of beef and pork, several tons of bread
and biscuit, and 300 dozen of port wine for the use of the
sick troops at Varna. It is reported that a portion of the
46th Regiment will embark in the Nyfredo.

TROOPS FOR WINDSOR.
Tho detachrnorts from the 92d Highlanders are under
orders to march from the Tower, as also those of the 88th,
38th, 23d, and other regiments, to strengthen the garrison
of Windsor on the depart= of the 46t4 foot for the Eat.