The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-02 00:00:00

SALE OF RUSSIAN PRIZES.

Yesterday, by virtue of a decree ef sale, issued by the
High Court of Admiralty, Mr. Laehlans, the Admiralty
broker, attended at Lloyd's Rooms, Royal Exchange, to
submit the Russian prizes, Boj Noja Nadescha and the
Volga, captured by her Majesty's ship Miranda, off the
coast of Lapland, on the 29th of August last, to public
competition. There was a numerous attendance of
buyers. The first put up was the Boj Noja Nadescha,
of which George Jorgensen was late the master, about
150 tons burden, and said to be built at Kola, appa-
rently nearly new. The first offer was 4001., which
eventually increased to 7901., at which price she was
knocked down. Her cargo consisted of about 139
gallons of cod liver oil, which sold at is. 9d. per gallon,
and 1471 b. of coffee, sold at 455. per cwt., in bond. The
Volga was next put up. The first offer for the Volga
was 300/. ; a spirited bidding ensued, and the vessel was
ultimately knocked down for 670/. Her cargo, 750 bags
of rye meal, weighing about 110 tons, sold at from 9s.
6d. to lls. per cwt. ; she had also 33 bags of groats, and
about 7 cwt. of hemp, producing in the aggregate about
1,200/., making with the sum previously produced by
the sale of the Dwina, 4401., also captured by the Miranda,
a total of about 3,110/. some odd shillings, to be divided
among the officers and crew of her Majesty's ship
Miranda, in respect of the White Sea expedition.

MILITARY.
The 72d Highlanders, recently returned from America,
are to arrive from Limerick in a few days. This regi-
ment is believed to be udder orders for Gibraltar.
A draft of the 89th, numbering 233 men, will arrive
at Cork to-day, from Waterford.
The 2d Somerset Militia has furnished 30 volunteers
for the 17th Lancers.
A draft of the 17th, numbering 23G men, is to arrive
on Saturday from Kilkenny.
Lord Ennismore, of the Scots Fusiliers, is at present
staying at Con vamore, the seat of his father, the Earl of
Listowel. His lordship, wounded at one of the late
severe engagements in the Crimea, has arrived home on
leave.
On Wednesday 200 of the 16th (Bedfordshire) Regi-
ment arrived at Cork from Athlone, under command of
Captain George Studdert, with two ensigns. The head-
quarters will arrive or Saturday or lelonday, under
Henry Copinger. Detachments will be sent to Haul-
and Spike Island.
bowline, Camden
In place of 300,
which was iformerly the number of
soldiers doing duty i 0 Spike Island convict depot, there
will in future be but 40 ; the constabulary and turnkeys
are to be increased, to assist the military in taking
charge of the convicts.

MILITIA.
BILLETTING THE 'MILITIA VOLUNTEERS FOR THE LINE.
The following War-office circular has been addressed
to the colonels of militia regiments :
" I have the honour to acquaint you, that, as it is most
important at this moment to give every opportunity to
men serving in the militia to volunteer into her Majesty's
regular forces, it has been determined to embody the regi-
ment under your command forthwith.
" As, however, there aro no barracks available for the
largo body of men who will now be under arms, andas the
replacing in your regiment of the mon who may volunteer
into the regular forces is likely to be more easily effected
while it remains in its town county, the regiment under
your command, though embodied, will remain billeted at
the present head-quarters until further orders.
" With a view to alleviate the inconvenience which by
the Mutiny Act is thrown upon the owners of houses who
by that act are liable to have men billeted upon them, it
is intended to augment the daily rate of payment for each
man billeted from id. to lid., or Did. per week per man,
in lie, of 3id. a week as heretofore.
"The men billeted on innkeepers and others in England
and Wales are in no instance to receive the above allow.
ante, but the same is to be paid to the innkeeper or other
parties equally entitled to it, and charged in the embodied
accounts, vouched by a certificate front the commanding
officer of the number of men actually billeted durieg the
period for which the account is rendered, and by a receipt
in proof of payment from the innkeeper.
" I havo the honour to be,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" SIDNEY HERBERT."
The members of the West Essex Militia staff, sta-
tioned at Chelmsford, have received an intimation to
hold themselves in readiness, as the regiment will proba-
bly be embodied for permanent duty.—Chelmsford
Chronicle.
TILE SCOTCH MILITIA.—On Wednesday large placards
were posted up in the most conspicuous places in town,
intimating that public notice will shortly be given of the
times and places in different parts of the county where
volunteers will be enrolled for the Royal Perthshire
Rifle Regiment of Militia, under the command of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, Bart., who ap-
peals to the loyalty and patriotism of the young men of
the county to come forward and enrol themselves in this
regiment.—Perthshire Courier.
The following eleven regiments of militia will be im-
mediately called out for permanent service :—The Corn-
wall Rangers, the North Gloucester, the South Glou-
cester, the Hereford, the West Kent, the North Lincoln,
the West Norfolk, the 3d Staffordshire, the Ist Surrey,
the 2d Warwick, and the Montgomery Regiments.
With the regiments already doing garrison duty, and
those which we some days since stated were to be called
out, the total number of militia regiments on fiervice