The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-03 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The following notice has been posted at the dockyard
pies at Woolwich :
;" Letters for the Baltic fleet will be despatchedby her
Majesty's ship Dauntless on July 4.
" Letters for seamen, marines, and boys serving in the
Baltic will be forwarded by this opportunity, if posted in
time, and marked 'By Her Majesty's ship Dauntless.'
;.1 "The postage of one penny must be paid on the letter
4 the time of posting it."

MORE TROOPS FOR TUE EAST.
iry_Yesterday the following regiments were ordered to
efabark immediately for Turkey, to reinforce the British
arfayi a the Black Sea
2d Dragoons (Scots Greys),
4th Light Dragoons,
20th Regiment of Foot,
.11 21st dc. do.
34th de. do.
46th do. do.
63d do. do.
Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade.
Every one of these regiments is prepared to embark
at a day's notice. Each regiment of infantry will embark
1,900 rank and file, besides officers, non-commissioned
~officers, drummers, band, &c. The Rifle battalion will
be 1,200 rank and file. The infantry will form a fourth
division, with a general and two brigadiers, the latter to

be selected from the senior colonels of the regiments

No general of division is yet appointed. It is not un-
likely that Sir George Cathcart (who is daily expected)
may arrive from the Cape of Good Hope in time to take
the command. The whole of the troops will go ont in
steamers; and will proceed direct to the Black Sea with.
out making any stoppage by the way. The Himalaya,
which has just returned to Southampton; in eleven days,
from Varna, whither she had carried the sth Dragoon
Guards, with 320 horses and some 500' infantry, is now
quite ready to convey another cavalry regiment, horses
and all, and a large portion of infantry besides. The
other cavalry regiment will probably be taken out in the
new steamer of the Peninsular Company, which has been
just tried in the Southampton Waters, and ordered to
be fitted out for,the conveyance of horses. The 2d and
4th Dragoons viallnot lie formed into a separate cavalry
brigade,' but will be added one to each of the cavalry
brigades already with the army. The two cavalry bri-
gades in active service will then consist of five regiments,
instead of four regiments each. The entire British lard
force in the Black Sea will now consist of something like
50,000. Before this last addition there were 31 regi-
ments, besides artillery, staff, commissariat, &c. Each
of these regiments is now at least 1,000 strong. Last
week 450 men and 12 officers of the Guards were em-
barked to reinforce the three battalions at Varna, 150
men to each battalion, to bring them up to 1,000 men
each. Letters were received yesterday at the War-office,
giving the most cheering accounts of the health, condi-
tion and spirits of the expedition. We learn also that
the French continue to send large reinforcements from
Marseilles and from Africa to their force in Turkey,
which by this time, on the Black Sea, the Bosphorus,
and the Dardanelles, is little short of 100,000 men. We
hear a great deal of the vast legions of the Czar, amount-
ing to from 400,000 to 600,000 men ' • we do not doubt
that they are numerous, well officered, and well drilled ;
but he seems likely to have full employment for them
all.— Observe?.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. M. F. F, Berkeley, C. 8.,
M.P., First Naval Lord of the Admiralty, arrived at
Portsmouth on Saturday afternoon, and proceeded im-
mediately to Portsmouth Dockyard, to have an inter-
view with the Admiral Superintendant and the naval
staff. The first thing done was to get the ordinary
depot ship St. Vincent out of the harbour to Spithead,
and this was accomplished in the smartest manner. The
flag of Rear-Admiral Superintendent Martin was trans-
ferred from her to the Illustrious, 44, training ship,
Captain Harris pro tem. The ordinary officers and crew
of the St. Vincent will be turned over to either the
Nelson or Princess Charlotte, advanced sailing three-
deckers, in this harbour ; and Rear-Admiral Martin
will hoist his flag in one or other of these as ordinary
depot ship. The Powerful, 84, was to have gone to
Spithead, but the St. Vincent having to be got out first,
owing to her larger draught, and the tides taking off,
she was prevented going until this day, when we be-
lieve her crew (now numbering 450) will be turned over
to the St. Vincent. It is, we are informed, intended to
prepare at least six large ships, which will take on
board at Cherbourg 1,000 French troops each for con-
veyance to the Baltic. In order to afford more accom-
modation to the troops, the ships will not carry their
lower deck guns.
Orders were received at Sheerness on Saturday last to
get out all the lower deck guns, carriages, &c., of the
Hannibal, which has been done, the officers and crew
being engaged all day yesterday in doing so. Provi-
Cons for 2,000 men for 80 days, and ships' stores, ammu-
nition, shell, &c., are now being taken on board her.
On Saturday morning last another trial of a very satis-
foctory nature took place ; at 2.30 a.m. she slipped her
moorings and proceeded down Swin as far as the Maplia
lighthouse. She continued running up and down Swin,
trying her machinery in every way, until nearly 5 p.m.,
when she returned again into harbour. Her average
speed during this trial was 10 knots 6-10ths, or better
than 101 nautical miles per hour ; the number of revo-
lutions she made per minute varied from 28 to 34, giving
an average of 31 per minute. Her pressure of steam
per square inch was from 101 b. to 161 b., and a most fa-
vourable report is made as regards her machinery in
general. The gutta percha communicating tubes from
the extreme ends of the ship, both bows and quarters,
on every deck, leading thence into the engine-room,
have been found on this trial most advantageous in
threading between ships and vessels while running up
and down Swin, the orders being conveyed into the
engine-room from the commanding officer in a fine full
tone, and the answer returned up from the engine-room
immediately should any reply be necessary. There can-
not be the least doubt that, with common care, the engi-
neer on watch has at a moment's notice the entire machi-
nery under perfect control. Mr. Patridge, superintendent
of steam machinery at Woolwich dockyard, attended of-
ficially to report upon the general working of the ma-
chinery. The engines were under the immediate control
of Mr. Thomas Bullions, Chief Engineer. It is expected
to be Wednesday or Thursday before this ship can be
stowed ready for sea. She will convey French troops
to the Baltic.
In consequence of orders received yesterday, the
Royal William, 120, Captain Kingdombe, now in
Hamoaze, is to be got ready with all despatch. The
crews of the Impregnable, 104, Indefatigable, 50, and
Meander, 44, are to be employed and victualled on
board to expedite her fitting. Sails, boats, and sea-going
stores were drawn on Saturday. Commodore Stopford
and Mr. Eddy, the master shipwright, have been per-
sonally inspecting the progress of the work. If possible,
she will go into the Sound on Tuesday. It is said that
she is to be used for the conveyance of French troops to
the Baltic.

The Sphynx is engaging the marked attention of Ports-
mouth Dockyard. Men from the steam-factory were at
work all Saturday night and the whole of yesterday, by
which exertion her steam was got up yesterday after-
noon, and a trial made of the working of her machinery
in the steam-factory basin ; and, all being found sound,
she will be moved into Portsmouth harbour at three
o'clock this morning. Upwards of 50 additional hands
were also employed yesterday on the scrawships Colos-
sus, Termagant, Harrier, and Swallow, these being the
next to bo finished for sea at Portsmouth.

The following officers have joined the Royal Albert at
811,1. %%mess —Lieutenant Sir Malcolm M`Gregor ; Lieut.
H. Curtis, late of the Waterwitch ; Master W.
,;-`4dge ; Assistant-Surgeon John Gunn, late of the
Clerk George- Lappidgo, late of the
Marines '
;Cklite.vk's-Assistant Mr. Dufaur ; Captain of
ecorepe.ny , "•• First Lieutenant of Artillery
• Bair.•
Melt'-ills Luther • ettilacnamara ; Second-Lieutenant
• draught of first and ;14 Lieutenant Le Grand ; a
board-from the Waterloo; classt boys has been sent on
• Vice-Admiral the lion. j
• mander-in-chief at the Nore II phis Percy, C. 8., com-
kit, and Vice-Admiral the 'RC
tphis flag on Saturday
flag on board the Waterloo, with ti; Gordon hoisted his
elyenge ef flags. Lieutenant Horace "lutes usual on a
-Lieutenant of the Waterloo, is appointedut*
agent in a contract-inail ateam-packet,
late Third-
ton,
ant Mail-
and left Sheerness on Saturday last to takeutellkrni)
pointment ; and John H. Cook, late paymaaterl'e. hij
be„,B an,
the retired list of paymasters, after sere' country in all climates for more than half a mg eta
Mr. James Lyall, paymaster of the 27th of MtnMareC
1833, has taken up his commission and.joined the Wat -
100. Up to this time no other change has taken place
with her wardroom or gunroom officers.
The Dauntless, 33 guns, steam-frigate, Captain Alfred
P. Ryder.—Orders have been received for this ship to
eonvey'the mails to the Baltic' fleet. Up to Saturday
eight very large mail sacks had been forwarded, and yes-
terday two other very heavy mails arrived, and have
been put on board.
The following supernumeraries, now on board the flag-
ship at the Nore, are to take passage in the Dauntless
to their respective ships in the Baltic, viz. :—Mr. D. B.
Pack, of the Odin ; Mr. E. F. Dillon, of the Bulldog ;
and Mr. W. J. Baker, of the Cruiser, prizemasters.
Assistant-surgeons—Mr. Heffernan, to the Imperieuse;
Mr. Morton, to. the Archer; Mr. Smyth, to the Rosa-
mond ; and Mr. Atkinson, who is placed at the disposal
of the Admiral of the fleet. -Clerks—E. W. Hayes, to
the Duke of Wellington.; H. de Ridder, to the Duke of
Wellington ; Mr. Beggs, to the Cumberland. Naval
cadets. -Mr.
.13yles, to the Prince Regent; Mr. Morgan,
to the Edinburgh ; the lion. J. Ellis, to the Royal
George ;, Mr7Glaville, to the Boscawen ; Mr. Omman-
ne, to the Duke of -Wellington. In consequence of the
Dauntless taking in provisions and stores f r the fleet,
Sweteker time of leaving will be delayed till to-morrow
or.
etlaed2y--. The Dauntless, it is reported, will again
sh'Ortly raTirti, and her officers and crew be turned over
to anothee shin with engines and machinery of a more
modern construction.
The following vessels have arrived at Sheerness, seized
for breaking the blockade—viz , the Danish schooner
Ur,;ion, from Schleswig for Memel; in ballast. The
neaster, mate, and carpenter came home in her ; the re-
Inainder of the crew were left at Faro. She was taken
off Riga. She left Faro on the 14th of June in charge
of Mr. R. I. Hancock. of the Dauntless, prizemaster.
She was taken by the Cruiser, 16 guns, screw steam
sloop ; also the Norwegian schooner Johanna Maria,
from Riga for Norway, laden with rye and hemp. She
was taken on the 25th of May last off Lyserort Light-
house, from 8 to 12 miles distant. The captain, steer.