The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-04 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY TNTELLIGENCE.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamer Colombo, Captain Russell, which reached.
Southampton at midnight on Tuesday after a rapid
voyage from the Mediterranean, we have dates from
Gibraltar- to the 28th ult. The Sovereign steam-trans-
port, with commissariat officers and stores, 13 days from
London, and 3 from Vigo, arrived on the 27th, and after
coaling was to proceed on the 28th for Malta and Galli-
poli. The Ripon, 5 days from Southampton, touched at
Gibraltar on the 25th, en route to Malta and Alexandria.
No. 44 transport, the Echinga,, with Captain Longmore's
troop of the Bth Hussars, arrived on the 27th ult. The
steamships Trent and Golden Fleece passed Gibraltar to
the westward on the 28th. The screw steamer Andes,
with troops, passed the Straits of Gibraltar to the east-
ward at 4 p.m. on the 25th ult. A Spanish sloop of war
and a steamer left Algeciras on the 25th ultimo.
The 30th and 55th Regiments were still waiting at
Gibraltar to embark by the Trent and Medway
(hourly expected) for constantinople. Very heavy
easterly gales had been experienced at Gibraltar,
and on the 19th ultimo the Portuguese schooner
Amelia was wrecked on the Devil's Tongue. A
French barque was also reported to have gone to pieces on
the opposite coast. The screw steamers Rhone, fire
days from Palermo, and the Karnak, nine days from
Alexandria, touched at Gibraltar on their way to Liver,
pool. The Colombo reports having spoken on the 24th
ult., off Pantellaria, the English transport ships Nos. 6
anll, in company with 100 sail of other ships, among
which were many French transports filled with troops.
On the Ist instant she spoke transport No. 45, and a
French corvette convoying 20 French transports. On
the 30th of April, off Cape Finisterre, she observed a
French frigate.
The Excellent, gunnery-ship, Captain Sir Thomas
Maitland, C. 8., hauled under the shears yesterday at
Portsmouth, and shipped a new mainmast, after which
she returned to her moorings.
The Gladiator, 6, paddle frigate, Captain Broke, and
the Stromboli, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Hall, were
paid advance yesterday at Spithead, and had steam up
last evening at six, for departure, supposed for the
the Downs. with coastguard and supernumerary men,
brought from Plymouth yesterday afternoon by the Avon
steam-tender.
The Brisk, 14, screw sloop, Commander Seymour,
hauled into the steam factory basin at Portsmouth yes-
terday afternoon to repair the defects of her machinery.
The Eurydice, 28, Captain Oinmanney, hauled along-
side the Dryad hulk, in Portsmouth harbour, yesterday,
and is taking in her armament and sea stores.
The Sealark, 8, Lieutenant Fenwick in charge, left
Portsmouth yesterday afternoon for the Channel.
The Sprightly, port tender, Master Commander Allen,
left on Tuesday to cruise in Channel on the look-out for
prizes.
The Victoria and Albert Royal yacht, Capt. the Hon.
Joseph Denman, is complete in her refit externally, and
nearly so internally ; but the order respecting her being
in readiness to embark the Court on the 11th inst. has
been cancelled. She will not, therefore, be ready to
leave the dock so soon as previously contemplated.
Yesterday afternoon her Majesty's storeship Tyne an-
chored in the Downs from Portsmouth ; she is expected
to sail this day (Thursday), with stores for the Baltic
fleet.

Her Majesty's frigate, 42, Captain Tarleton, C. 8., ar-
rived at Spithead yesterday morning from the East India
station. She left Trincomalee on the Bth Dec., Bombay
the 7th January, Point de Galle the 23d, arrived at the
Cape of Good Hope on the 2d March, and left on the
9th, at which time that colony was perfectly tranquil.
Her Majesty's ships Meander, Penguin, and Dee were at
anchor in Simon's-bay. She touched at Ascension for
three hours only, where her Majesty's ship Tortoise was
then lying. Lieutenant-Colonel Clindon, Lieutenant
Purvis, and Mr. Warrington have come home passengers
from Trincomalee; also Messrs. Barnardiston and Lefroy
(mates), and Mr. Davis, midshipman, R.N. Mr. Robert
Kelland, paymaster, died on the 20th of December from
disease of the heart, very much and deservedly respected
by all the officers and crew of the Fox, which has been
four years and ten months in commission, and has lost
about 17 per cent, of her officers and men by sickness,
SE.e., during the Burmese war. One-third of her crew
have invalided, and out of 12 gun-room officers who left
England in her only three have returned— namely, the
captain, the marine officer, and surgeon ; the latter of-
ficer rendered very valuable assistance during the war to
the crews of other ships, besides that of the Fox, who
were on board a hospital ship, and was unwearied in his
attentions to the sick and wounded. Of the crew who
left England in 1850 in the Fox only 83 have returned.
She arrived at 5 yesterday morning. Captain Tarleton
landed, communicated with the Port-Admiral, and at a
few minutes before 8 her anchor was up, and she was
away for the Downs, where she will transfer her well-
trained and experienced crew to the line-of-battle-ships
for the Baltic, herself returning to port to be paid,off.
The Alecto paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
Stephen S. L. Crofton, has arrived at 'Woolwich, on
her return from three years' service on the West Coast
of Africa station, to be paid off. She went down the
river immediately after her arrival, to enable the assis-
tant-engineer at the factory to ascertain the state of her
engines, and was to be taken into the basin at high
water yesterday evening.
The Phoenix screw steam-sloop, Captain Edward A.
Inglefield, and the Talbot sailing-vessel, Commander
Jenkins, both left Woolwich at an early hour yester-
day morninc, for the Arctic Regions, with supplies for
Sir Edward' Belcher's expedition. These vessels will
remain at Greenhithe to have their compasses adjusted
and observations made, so as to compare them with the
aspects of the heavenly bodies in the far northern regions.
Captain Inglefield takes out with him on the present
occasion a most complete series of the articles used by
photographists for depicting nature as seen in the Polar
regions. The Diligence is nearly completed in her
stores, and will be towed to Greenhithe before the de-
parture of the expedition.
The African steam-tug went up the river to Messrs.
Seaward's engineering establishment at the City Canal
on Sunday, and on the following day conveyed a new
casting, to replace the one injured in the Nile, 91, screw
steam ship, on her passage round from Devonport to the
Downs. The Nile was taken to Sheeruess to have the
defect made good, and Mr. Dinnen, of the engineer de-
partment at Somerset-house, went to Sheerness on Tues-
day, to be present at the trial of the Nile when again
ready for sea.
An anchor, weighing 25 cwt. and 15 lb. with the
stock, on a plan submitted by Captain Dwyer, R.N.,
was tested yesterday in the testing-room at Woolwich,
with the usual strain for anchors of that weight, when
the first arm deflected 1-16th of an inch, returning to one-
half inch on the strain being withdrawn. The second
tested arm deflected 7.l6ths of an inch, and on the
strain being withdrawn returned to 5-16ths of an inch.
The principle of the anchor is nearly similar to Porter's,
with the difference that the upper arm is prevented fall-
ing down on the shank by a pivot bolt fitted in a groove
in the crown of the anchor, in addition to the pivot bolt
for connecting the arms with the shank.
The accident which recently occurred on board the
Great Britain was not caused by the bursting of the steam
pipe, as was at first supposed, but owing to a tube
through which the screw shaft passes in working the
propeller. The tube first fitted to the Great Britain for
that purpose was made of brass by Messrs. Penn and
Son, manufacturers of the engines, and it had in the
usual course of time become worn. The owners of the
vessel considered it advisable to have a new tube made
at Liverpool, and, as it was formed of wrought iron, the
same description of iron as the shaft, it is supposed to
have become heated, and, consequently, twisted out of
its place by the enormous friction that would necessa-
rily be produced. Immediate steps have been taken to
substitute another brass tube, and the detention of
the ship will not be so long or so serious as was at first
anticipated.
The following appointments have been made :
Clerks' Assistants.—Gisborne Homer to the Calcutta,
84, at Devonport ; Henry P. Brenan, to the Conway,
14, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sir William F. Carroll,
K.C.B„ at Cork.
The officers, horses, and baggage of the 79th High-
landers were shipped yesterday on board her Majesty's
troopship Simoom, 18, Captain Smith, alongside of
Portsmouth Dockyard, and the troops will embark at
nine this morning for Turkey.
One squadron of the 13th Light Dragoons arrived
_yesterday at Chichester en route to Portsmouth to em-
bark. The other portion of the regiment will be billeted
in the adjacent
towns of Emsworth, Havant, and
ar
Cosha
rivem, until the ships hired for their conveyance
Captain Loneden's
at Porton's return Tueesedniaypany of Royal Artillery arrived
from Sheerness, and Captain
same day.
Grayd from Portsmouth to Woolwich the
Yesterday afternoon a
of detachment of the Royal Ar-
tillery, under the commandCaptainHutchinson, ar-
rived by the Hull steamer at London-bridge-wharf. The
men with their baggage subsequently embarked on board
the Sylph and one of the "Waterman" steamers, and
proceeded to Woolwich.
There are six drafts of regiments now in Cork barracks
awaiting the arrival of transports to convey 6
thBetmh,tof the
East. Drafts of the 9th, from Tralee ;
Newry ; the 3d and the 62d have also arrived, thereroro
embark on board the transport-ship British Queen for
the seat of war,
On Tuesday morning 12 pensioners embarked at Cork
on board the Sabrina steamer for Bristol, en route to the
seat of war, where they are to be placed in the hospital
department.
The 17th depot, in Kilkenny, are at present recruit-
ing, not for their own regiment, as their complement is
completed, but for other corps on foreign service. The
46th Regiment, within the three months previous to
their leaving Kilkenny, picked up more than 100 effi-
cient recruits.
During the past eight or ten days no fewer than 3,000
tank and file, exclusive of officers and staff, have em-
barked from Queenstown for the Mediterranean. They
consisted of the service companies of the 14th, 17th,
39th, and 89th Regiments. The whole were, without
exception, able hearty fellows, and not a single man was
absent when each corps was embarking. The left wing
of the 17th, consisting of three companies, embarked on
board one of the river steamers on Saturday for convey-
ance by transport, at Queenstown, to the East, As
there were neither band nor drums and fifes to accom-
pany them from barracks they merrily sang, cheered,
and chorused as they marched to the quayor ember-
tcn,tion. They left in the highest spirits. Crowds as-
sembled to witness their departure, and vociferously
cheered them as they steamed down the river.
Major T, Brooke, Capt W, H Quaide, Lieuts. J. Rob-
son and T. Adams, Ensign J. Williams, 7 sergeants, 9
corporals, 3 drummers, and 181 privates of the 12th
Regiment, arrived in Dublin on Tuesday from Belfast.
At the terminus of the Drogheda Railway they were
received by the band of the 90th Light Infantry, who