The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-03 00:00:00

THE BLACK SEA.

One of the ship's company of the Sanspareil, 70, Cap-
tain Sidney C. Dacres, writes under date Jan. 14 :
" Sinope is a beautiful bay, where several hundred
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sail of the line might ride with safe anchorage, but badly

fortified. The beach is strewed with wrecks- and dead
bodies, the dogs tearing them to pieces. The Turkish
town is quite in ruins, having been set fire to by the
Russians. The day after our arrival the inhabitants
sent us three days fresh provisions. On the following
morning the signal was made to the Agamemnon, Sans-
pareil, and Terrible, and line-of-battle ships Charle-
magne, Mogador, and two others of the French, to con-
voy five Turkish steamers with troops, stores, and pro-
visions to Trebizond and Batonin. There is no sign as
yet of the enemy ; they had left two days before our arrival
and intelligence was given to Admiral Lyons that a Rus-
sian squadron of 10 sail was blockading Batoum. The
inhabitants of Trebizond were overjoyed to see us ;
they made us a present of mutton and vegetables enough
to last three days. The Admiral made a signal to load
the guns with shot, as we fully expected the enemy was
close at hand. We weighed anchor the same evening,
and proceeded to land the troops and stores. When we
reached there no Russians were to be found ; they were
safely moored beneath the guns of Sebastopol. They
heard the combined fleets were in the Black Sea, and
did not like our company, The Black Sea has ceased
to be a Russian lake ; we can range it from one end to
the other at our leisure. We are in number 33 sail, 18
of which are ships of the line, the remainder frigates and
steamers—enough, I should fancy, to sweep the world
before it. I do not think the Biitannia will, be much
longer in commission. The admiral will leave the sta-
tion in the spring, as he is appointed First Naval Lord
of the Admiralty."

WOOLWICH, FEB. 2
APPOINTMENTS.

Commander Augustus S. Booth (1848), to the Nile,
91, screw steam-ship, of 500-horse power, to prepare
her for immediate commission at Devonport.
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Lieutenant Henry Crofton (1842), from the Coast
Guard to the Cesar, 90, at Portsmouth.
The Cyclops, steam-frigate, Master-Commander Ro-
berts, immediately after she took on board the baggage
of the detachments of artillery, who were previously em-
barked, left Woolwich in the afternoon of yesterday to
convey them to their destinations in the Mediterranean,
where the companies they are to join are at present sta-
tioned.

The Phdenix, screw steam-sloop, on being taken into
dock to be examined, was found to have about 20 feet
of her false keel carried away, but in every other re-
spect she appears to be uninjured by her last year's
voyage to the Mediterranean.

The Hannibal, 90, screw steam-ship, launched at
Deptford on Tuesday last, h ordered to have her engines
put on board by the engineers of the fectory at Wool-
wich Dockyard, and it is officially stated to the authori-
ties here that she is to be made ready for sea in every
respect at this port.
The Medea, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
Augustus Phillimore, was taken out of the basin into
the stream to-day, and having had her defects made
good, is now ready for sea.