The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-08 00:00:00

WEST.

The military movements to-day are the following :
The 42d Highlanders removed from quarters at Gosport
to Portsmouth this morning, and exchanged quarters
with the 35th, who went to Gosport. The bonnets of
the 42d and 79th Highlanders have been been lowered
six inches, by bending the wires on which the plumes
were fixed, their late height having been found an im-
pediment to efficient field service. The depot of the
65th embarked to-day at Cowes in the Sprightly steam
tender, Mr. Allen commanding, which conveyed them
to Southampton, whence they proceeded by railway to
Weymouth. Draughts of the 58th ani 66th, with Dr.
Webster, embarked at Cowes this morning in the Eg-
mont for New Zealand.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 7.
After leaving the Keyham dock yesterday morning
the screw steam-ship Duke of Wellington, 131, took her
powder, shot, shell, and provisions on board in Hamo.
aze. She will probably go out of harbour to-day. For-
one extra riggers have been ordered to oin her from this
dockyard.
The St. George, 120, Captain Eyre, will go out of
harbour on Wednesday ; her crew will be paid wages on
Thursday.
The crew of the frigate Pique, 40, Captain Sir F.
Nicolson, were paid wages yesterday.
The Royal William, 120, was masted yesterday. She
will be brought to the yard to-day.
The third detachment of the let Royals, consisting of
about 300 men, arrived at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
They left Pembroke on Saturday, and remained at Bris-
tol on Saturday and Sunday.

SHEERNESS, MARCH 6.
The Euryalus, 50, screw steam-frigate of 400-horse
power, Captain Samuel Ramsey, got up steam yester-
day morning and left Folly-point. She is now alongside
the coal depot in Saltpan-reach taking in her coals for
sea ; when she has completed her coaling she will be
brought to the swinging buoy for the purpose of having
her compasses adjusted, and on Thursday next will pro-
ceed down the Swin on a trial trip, after which she will
be inspected by the port officers, and proceed to the
Downs to join the Baltic fleet.
The Miranda, 14, .screw steam-sloop of 260-horse
power, Captain E. M. Lyons, is all ataunt, her t -
gallantmasts having been sent up ; and the respective
officers are busily engaged drawing stores, provisions,
ammunition, &c., preparatory to her leaving here for the
Downs to join the Baltic fleet.
Timothy Clinch, Paymaster, Dec. 9, 1852, has taken
up his commission and joined the Rosamond, 6, paddle-
wheel steam-sloop of 280-horse power, Commander George '
Wodehouse. Seamen, it appears, do not like the remem•
brance of the former name of this sloop—Eclair—for, up
to the present time, no volunteers have come forward for
her, and of the blue jackets serving on board the flag-
ship Waterloo, many of whom might have had a higher
rating, volunteered for her. It is the name of the
ship, not the officers, to which they object. We are
informed, from most undoubted authority, that the ori-
ginal cause of the sickness in this sloop on a former oc-
casion has been entirely removed, and there is not the
slightest ground for any apprehension of a similar cala-
mity befalling this vessel's crew in any climate beyond
that to which the crews of all other vessels are subject.
The Majestic, 80, screw steam-ship, of 400 horse
power. Captain James Hope, C.B.—The Admiralty have
ordered that 150 Coast-c,mard men should be draughted
from different stations to join this ship ; in addition to
which there is an order at this yard that all the seamen-
riggers serving in this yard should be transferred from
the dockyard establishment to this ship and the Eurya-
lus, 50 gun frigate, Captain Samuel Ramsey, the seamen
riggers having the opportunity of entering which of the
two ships they prefer.
Such is the zeal of old men-of-warstnen, or rather
A.B.'s and petty officers, serving in this dockyard as rig-
gers, that many of them are volunteering for the ships
fitting out here to join the Baltic fleet. Many of the
riggers' labourers are also volunteering, and being entered
as second class ordinary seamen. The Admiralty have
ordered that all the seamen-riggers draughted from this
yard are to receive their full pay as seamen-riggers for
the full term of two months, agreeably to the extent of
time allowed by their regulations.
The Monarch, 84, Captain John E. Erskine.—The
steam tug Tessel Adder has this day been sent off to