The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-16 00:00:00

--THE WAR.
1
NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Yesterday advices were received at Lloyd's, under
date Stockholm, June 8, that the Norwegian barque
Johanna Maria, of Stavanger, Lindner master, had been
captured by her Majesty's cruisers and taken into Faro
harbour, Gothland, and found laden with contraband of
war; she was consequently declared a prize and sent to
England, her crew to be landed at Stockholm.
Intell!gence was received yesterday, under date Dant-
zic, June 11, that her Majesty's steamer Desperate, 8,
Captain D'Eyncourt, had just entered that harbour and
landed the crews of two neutral vessels, who, after being
warned off the coast, attempted to break the blockade.
The ships have been sent home to England in charge of
prizemasters.
The French ship Algerine sailed yesterday from the
Downs for the Baltic ; she carries stores and a medical
staff, sick berth attendants, and the other requisites for
an hospital ship, for which purpose she is intended.
Her Majesty's steaniii Medina, under orders for the
Baltic, sailed past Deal yesterday afternoon, going west-
ward.
Yesterday the Directors of the. East India Company
gave notice at Lloyd's that a ship °fa:bout 500 tons
was
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required to carry a number of lads to 13RFfiba)tr for
ro s to
naval service, as also another ship to convey
Kurrachee. They are all to embark the latter end of
July.
The Taurus, screw steam transport, having completed
taking on board stores at the Royal Arsenal, the
-re-
mainder of Captain Brandling, sNO
12th battalion embarked in her at i 1 company of the
litieaaprrived in the
Royal Arsenal,
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and she has left Woolwich for ConN
0.1190,
The Camperdown transport,
Downs yesterday afternoon from the Thames, with
stores for Malta.
steam ry at the facto at Wool-
The officers studying
wich dockyard concluded their examination before Com-
modore John Shepherd,Superintendent, and Mr.
Atherton, Chief Engineer, yesterday, and the answers to
the various questions put on the practical working of
marine steam-engines will be sent to Portsmouth pre-
yibus to their being finally passed.
The Ite.c. Dr. Woolley, Inspector of Dockyard Schools,
concluded his inspection of the school for the dockyard
'apprentices on Thursday, and during their examination
was assisted by the Rev. J. C. Connolly, Dockyard
Chaplain, and Mr. M'Avoy, teacher of the apprentices.
The non-commissioned officers and gunners of Cap-
tain Graydon's company, Ist battalion, Royal Artillery,
have presented a splendid silver cup, with suitable in-
scription, to Colour-sergeant Robert Allen, as a memo-
rial of the high esteem in which he was herd by them for
his good conduct towards them, on his retiring from the
corps on a pension. He has obtained the situation of
Superintendent of the Revenue Police of Dublin.
The Medina will leave Portsmouth to-morrow with
mails for the Mediterranean and Black Sea fleets. Let-
ters and papers must be posted this evening (Friday).
The Locust, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Day, is appointed to leave Portsmouth on the 21st inst.
for the Baltic, carrying a mail to the fleet.
The Myrmidon, 4, iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander W. K. Jolliffe, arrived at Spithead, from the
West Coast of Africa station, yesterday morning. She
left Sierra Leone on the 15th of May, Teneriffe on the
30th, and Madeira on the 2d of June, bringing mails.
The Ferret, 8, Commander Macdonald, was about to
sail for a cruise. The Plumper, 11 (screw), Commander
Wharton, was about sailing with mails for Ascension.
Commander Hesseltine, of the Brithmart, 8, was ex-
pected from Ascension, to assume the command, as
senior officer of the Sierra Leone division of the
squadron. The mail steam-packet Faith was at Sierra
Leone, endeavouring to fit a propeller, in lieu of that
lost on her way out. The Bacchante, with mails, ar-
rived outwards on the 15th of May. The,.slave trade is
reported apparently extinct, and no prizes have been
made for a very long time. The station was very healthy.
Mrs. Lindsay and Mr. Barlee, Ordnance Storekeeper,
have come home front- Sierra Leone in the Myrmidon,
which vessel has been healthy, considering the hazardous
and continued river work upon which she has generally
been employed. She has lost one man from sickness,
four by violent deaths, and Mr. Carr, Second-Master,
murdered in November last by the natives of Kanyaboe.
She has taken one prize, in May last, almost the last, or
the. last captured ; this was a fine new clipper schooner
from the Havannab, about the only place for which
slaves are carried from the coast. The Myrmidon has
gone into Portsmouth Harbour to be refitted, most pro-
bably to serve as a gun-boat for the Baltic.
ANOTHER SCREW SHIP OF THE Lus COMMISSIONED.
—We stated a few days since that Captain R. Spencer
Robinson (1840) was likely to have a command. This
officer has been appointed to the command of the newly-
converted 80-gun ship Colossus, to be commissioned at
Portsmouth. Captain Robinson is the youngest son of
the late Sir John Robinson, Bart., of Rokeby Hall,
county Louth, and as we have before stated, is the son-
in-law of Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart. He is one of
the youngest captains of his standing on the list ; he
entered the navy in 1821, served against the pirates in
the Mediterranean, was made a lieutenant in 1830, and
a commander in 1838. He commanded two steamers—
the Phcenix and the Hydra, and was promoted from the
latter in 1840, for services on the coast of Syria. As a
captain he lately commanded the Arrogant, 47, screw ;
but that ship having been paid off before he had served
the usual period, his claims to further employment have
been recognised in the bestowal on him of the command
of the Colossus. The Colossus is one of the improved
Vangu:-.1.1 class of Sir William Symonds's design ; bqt,
like a sister ship, the Majestic, she has been converted
into a screw-ship, with engines of 400-horse power by
Penn and Co. She will have a complement of 750 offi-
cers and men.
MANNING THE FLEET.—We are sorry to find that,
notwithstanding the Algiers, 90, screw, Capt. Talbot,
had the crew of the Meander, 44, turned over to her,
and had been some two months previously entering men,
she is yet between 200 and 300 short of her complement
of petty officers and seamen. So far as her fitting is
concerned, she will be ready to leave Devonport for the
Baltic or elsewhere by the 27th inst. The Hannibal, 91,
screw, Capt. Hon. W. F. Grey, fitting at Chatham, is
pretty much in the same condition as the Algiers. She
will be ready for sea by to-morrow • but although she
has been in commission since the 18th March, she has
not two-thirds of her whole complement on board, and,
moreover, the third portion of which she is short is, un-
fortunately, petty officers and, seamen.
The following appointments have been made :
Captain—Robert S. Robinson (1840), to command the
Colossus, 80, screw steam-ship, commissioned yesterday
at Portsmouth.
Clerk— George A. S. Ley (1849), to the Termagant,
24, screw steam-frigate at Portsmouth.
Gunner's-mate—Thomas Pearce, of the Rhadaman-
thus steam-vessel, at Woolwich, is promoted to be boat-
swain, and reappointed to that vessel.
Lieutenant Fairfax Moresby (1847), having been no-
minated by his father, Rear-Admiral Moresby, C.B ,
to whom he was flag lieutenant during his command-in-
chief. in the Pacific, has been promoted to the rank of
commander.
Sir James Dunbar, Bart., late flag lieutenant to Ad-
miral Sir John A. Ommanney, has been promoted to
the rank of commander, on the hauling down the flag
of the gallant admiral as commander-in-chief at Devon-
port.
At the monthly examination of officers to qualify for
promotion to higher ranks, and of candidates for entry
into the navy, the following have passed, and have re-
ceived certificates, at the Royal Naval College, Ports-

mouth :
Mates for Lieutenants—Messrs. W. G. England, Sir
M. Macgregor, C. G. F. Knowles, F. M. Prattent, W.
T. W. Hambly, J. R. Palmer, and F. R. Purvis.
Second Masters for Masters—Messrs. T. Pounds, A.
J. Armstrong, T. D. Nicholson, and J. E. Chapple.
For Naval Cadets—A. H. Blair, G. H. J. Eliott, and
C. B. Charlnwood, from Mr. Fastman's naval establish-
ment ; C. A. Hayes, W. G. Scott, W. C. Shuckburgh,
A. G. C. Lit, G. F. Pardon, H. S. Sandys, H. H.
A'Conrt, J. L. Way, J. A. Errington, F. C. Baker,
and C. D. R. H. Tracy.
For Masters'-Assistants.—F. Burne, J. F. Brunton,
J. C. Thomas, J. Dixon, E. H. C. Smith. W. Stewart,
H. H. Hannay, and C. J. Bigley.
For Clerk's-Assistant.—F. A. Keogh.
For Royal Marine Cadet—H. T. M. Cooper.

VIE MILITIA.
The Wiltshire Militia will march from Devizes to-
morrow for Portsmouth. They will be quartered in
Hasler Barracks, on the Gosport side.
The Nottinghamshire enrolled pensioners were re-
viewed on Wednesday last in the Park, Nottingham, by
Colonel Tulloh. The veterans went through the various
manoeuvres with great precision, and looked remarkabl
well in their neat
uniform. y

NOTTINCiRThe lace trade, in its main
TR
every
that total quiesce
branches, still preserves whichas be-
gd Ing to persuade one that the seasonlile has
over withoutthpereoolduec,inigo its usual activity in business.ps
This being
to probe
sagacity is tested e
tremely in attempting
into the causes of stag.
nation. Many incline tiontttecwela9lem to the war, and-
vroivlsit. not a few are of
many more to the weather
opinion that the high rate ei
pwluaitt?", curtailing all
expenditure on luxuries and sn
of the necessaries of life, particularly in drapery " many
clothing—has occasioned the prostration japery and
market as effectually as if a sumptuary law the
passed against the use of laces. Manufacturers
class goods complain very much of the conditionbbeteteenr
which trade has been brought in that department In to
sequence of the long continued dullness, and large „c'en:
mutation of manufactured stocks, inducing amongst the
smaller capitalists, particularly, an unprecedented amount
of jobbing. The result is that the more independent
houses can do no business on the terms offered them.
Fine weather and an abundant harvest would do much
to restore activity. Our prospects of a plentiful crop of
grain and other produce, except hay, are excellent, and
consequently, although meet will probably rise, bread-
stuffs, &c., will certainly decline, and shopkeepers and
retail businesses will immediately experience the benefit
which must ere long react upon the manufacturer. The
late failures are looked upon as a salutary check on those
impatient to effect transactions prematurely. The iin-
Pcrtations of silk for the month will be announced in
the circulars of the 20th, but we hardly anticipate that
the extraordinary average importation of the last five
months will be maintained ,- and the first of the new
crop will not arrive until October. Already we have to
hand 34,003 out of the whole
53,000, with the
new crop still to come in.--Nottincham-
shire Guardian.

THE CHARGE OF (CORRUPTION AGAINST IRISH
BERS.—The select committee appointed to inquire into
this charge re-assembled yesterday at twelve o'clock, and
sat for several heurs considering and discussing their re-
port. No otherWitpess was examined; the proceedings
were again condiidee'd' with '4loed 'doors, and *e are
therefore unable to state what transpired.