The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN PRIZES.

The Russian ships Caroline, prize to her Majesty's
ship Amphion, of which Ehlers was late master, and the
Carl, taken by the Avon, of which Carl Bernatt Back
was late the master, have both been condemned by tit
Court of Admiralty, and ordered to be sold for the be-
nefit of their captors.
Yesterday the Froya and Fame, two Russian ships
taken by her Majesty's revenue cutter Argus, were
towed from Gravesend to the West India Docks, to be
sold for the benefit of the officers and crew of the Argus.
The steam-tug vessel African left Sheerness on Sun-
day last for Harwich, by telegraphic order, and at 1 20
p.m. yesterday passed up Sea-reach with the Russian
prize galliot Younge Albert for the West India D,,eks.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS FROM BONIARSUND.
An order has been sent down to Sheerness to prepare
the Devonshire for receiving 500 Russian prisoners of
war, coming home from Bomarsund. They are daily
expected.

NEW SCREW MEN-OF-WAR.
Two new screw first-rates are to be built forthwith,
viz., one of 3,950 tons, 245 feet in length, by 61 feet in
breadth ; and one of 4,116 tons, 260 feet in length, and
60 feet wide. These ships will be the finest and most
powerful that the world has yet produced.

A NEW DOCK AT PORTSMOrTH.
Tho plans for a new dock, 600 feet in length, in
Portsmouth Dockyard, are ordered to he immediately
prepared by the Engineer department of the Admiralty,
the Board having, at their visit just terminated at Ports-
mouth, resolved to construct a dock of the above di-
mensions, to communicate from the harbour to the steam-
basin dock now in use. Prom the position chosen this
addition is only wanted to mate Portsmouth Dockyard
the most complete in dock accommodation of any of her
Majesty's naval establ►slimeuts.

ADMIRALTY INSPECTION.
The Admiralty returned to Portsmouth last evening,
and to-day (Tuesday) will proceed in their lordships'
steam-yacht, Black Eagle, Master Commander Petley,
to witness the practice of Lancaster's long-range gun
from the Arrow, screw despatch gun-vessel, Lieut.
Cimmander Joliffe. The Admiralty yacht tender,
Vivid, Master Commander Allen, has gone round from
Woolwich to Portsmouth, by telegraph order yesterday;
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Sixty very fine horses arrived in the garrison at Wool-
wich on Saturday. These superior animals for field
battery service were purchased by Lieut.-Col. Wingfield,
many of them at liorncastle and other large horse fairs
in Yorkshire. The demand for horses for military ser-
vices is very great at present, and there were a consider-
able number of buyers for foreign Governments at the
re-
cent Horncastle fair, which rendered it difficult to obtain
gool horses for the British artillery and cavalry services
except at high prices.
Capt. Oldfield's Company, 4th battalion, left Purfieet
on Saturday morning last, at 8 o'clock, for Shoebury-
ness, to relieve Capt. Graydon's company, Ist battalion,
and on the latter being relieved they returned to head-
quarters in the afternoon, and marched into the camp on
Wool wich -corn mon.
The head-quarters and two companies of the 18th Re-
giment, having joined the previously-arrived eight com-
panies of the corps at present stationed in St. Mary's
casemate, Brompton, now hold themselves is readiness
to move to Windsor on the departure of the 46th Regi-
ment for Turkey.

DEPARTURE OF THE 34TH FOOT FOR CORFU'.
The Mauritius, steam-vessel, received on board the
34th Regiment yesterday, less one company, which was
kept back to accommodate a party of sappers and
miners, phich arrived by the two o'clock train, and
proceeded to Corfu.
The 34th were much cheered on their way to the
dockyard; and the band of Colossus, 80, Captain
Robinson, gave them the favourite "Cheer, boys,
cheer," with such effect as to produce an out-and-out
" cheer" from the gallant regiment, whose exemplary
conduct has commanded universal respect from the in-
habitants of Portsmouth garrison.
Messrs. Dunbar 's noble new troop-ship the Hougo-
moat, of 1,000 tons, Captain R. J. Downes (late of the
Poictiers), proceeds to the Baltic for the conveyance of
French troops. In compliment to our allies, the Go-
vernment, with the sanction of Mr. Dunbar, has altered
her name.
The depot of the 12th Foot (East Suffolk) and the
depot of the 27th (Enniskillen) are both to embark at
Cork for Chatham on Thursday, the 24th inst. They
are to arrive on Saturday next.
The undermentioned medical officers have been re-
leased from duty at Chatham, for the following
reasons :—Assistant Surgeon Agnis, of the 3d Light
Dragoons, proceeds to Manchester to join his corps ;
.ind Staff Surgeon C. J. Davenport proceeds to Cork to
,mloark with detachments for Gibraltar in the ship
Elougomont.
Colonel Redman Ord, Royal Engineers, recently in
command of the Royal Engineers in the Medway dis-
trict, has left, Chatham with his family for the purpose
.1 proceeding to take the command of the Royal Engi-
neers in Canada. Colonel Savage, his successor in the
command of the Medway district, has taken possession
of the quarters vacated by Colonel Redman Ord at
Chatham, and assumes the command of the Royal En-
;ineers in the district.
BELFAST, Aug. 19.—A draft, conistinz of three offi-
!ore and 72 men, from the depot of the 92d (Gordon)
iiighlanclers, will leave Belfast for Cork on Tuesday
,ext, by rail, via Dublin, for embarkation for Gibraltar.
file service companies are now at " Gib." They em-
,irked for Corfu on the 3d of May, 1851. Sepgeant
Brooke, of the Sixwts Fusilier Guarde, stationed here on
recruiting duty, will send off eight fine-looking young
ellows for London, vid Liverpool, this evening. Ser-
vant Brooke is decidedly one of the most active non-
commissioned officers we have had in Belfast on the re-
,:ruiting service for a long time.—Banner of Ulster.
The sth company of the Royal Sappers and Miners,
having been made up to the war establishment, assem-
bled yesterday morning on the parade ground of the
barracks, under the command of Captain Inglis, Royal
Engineers, and marched to the Arsenal station of
the North Kent Railway, headed by their brass
band, and accompanied by a number of spectators,
who enthusiastically cheered them as they left their head-
quarter station en route to Portsmouth, where they
are to embark in the Mauritius steamer, in which the
34th Regiment has already embarked, for conveyance is
Corfu, where the Royal Sappers and Miners are to be
stationed. The Mauritius is expected to call at Cork
to embark more troops.

• MI LITIA.
The Exeter and South Devon Rifle Corps have, during
the last few days, been firing with rifles for prizes, at
Torquay. This system of giving prizes has been intro-
duced in order to make rifle practice popular.
The Cambridgeshire Militia muster this day, at Ely,
for permanent duty, the regiment having been embodied.
After a few weeks' drill the regiment will proceed to
Ireland for garrison duty.
The 4th Middlesex Militia, Lieut.-Col. Bag•t, will
,larch from Hounslow to Portsmouth, to take the place
Hf the 34th Foot, to morrow.

DEVONPORT DOCKYARD. —Mr. Abel George Clifton
has been appointed clerk and draftsmen at Keyinan,
vice Glint), left the service. The nine hired millwrights
at this yard were discharged on Saturday, their services
iiot being longer required.
The American liner Hendrick Hudson, Mr. Smith in
command, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the River ;
will receive passengers and stores from the Messrs. G.
nett and Gibbon, Lloyd's agents, and sail fur New York
this day (Tuesday.)

Letters from Moscow announces the death at that
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of
Ttihre.
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s CARDEN.—The Tipperary Free Press
says :—" There is no exception made in Mr. Carden's
favour; he is treated in the same manner as the other
prisoners, clothed in the same dress, partaking of the
same fare, and being subjected, at it:>> usual times, to the
hard labour to which he was sentenced. Parties ought
.o be more guarded in making statements like these,
inlculated to create a wrong feeling in the public mind,
and
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•fiicial duties have been rigidly yet courteously per.
formed.
THE ACCIDENT UPON THE NORTH LONDON RAIL-
WAY.—ADJOURNED INQUEST.—Yesterday morning, at
12 o'clock, the adjourned enquiry was resumed upon
the body of John Allen, the driver of the passenger
train upon the North London Railway. The first wit.
ness called was Thomas Allen, broth* r of the deceived.
Wm. Thomas Lowe, surgeon, of Canterbury, described
the nature of the accident, and also the finding of the
deceased driver. Mr. Harry Chubb, manager of the
North London, said that the investigation had been made
by Major Wynne. No one was charged before him,
neither did they charge the company. The jury retired
for a short time, and returned a verdict of accidental
death, with a recommendation that the company make
provision for the widow and family of the deceased. They
also suggested that a longer time should elapse between
the
company passenger and goods trains, and if possible t h
company should supply sufficient power at the starting
sii.
in itt: yet
go ek. r 0 r
the former caught
tphorrtesefoomr
recommendations
dcaontilo•euyeawnecere ofof
thetrains.
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were present at
ter ; and the railway authorities who
proceedings terminated, after having
eight hours. i Coroner said
rani n.
1 ' home by the Alexandrian
once promised that they should be comlapsltinedd
upwards rdTs The
The passengers broug id.
had been waiting ten
stTadhme
packet Tagus, on Saturday,
quick
days in Egypt, owing
from
ins down the Nile a collisionsma_
sailing
Calcutta
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between Itwhichne
pas.otmh e.
vessel. In clearing
the boat from the steam
s e steamernger
steamerß omba mad©aynd
eri
the funnel of the latter, which came down on the deck
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with - poor Arab skipper
commas.
treat
fortunately
dragged on boar.
d All the passengers protested against this treatment,
der, and thrust into the stoke hole, and barbarously ill-
use
and signed a memorial to have the captain of the steamer
punished. They stated that the skipper of the vessel
was not to blame in the matter of the collision. The
subject was being investigated by the authorities. Said
Paella is very popular in Egypt. Be intends actiag
most generously to El Harni Paella, son of the late
Viceroy. He also intends to reside in Alexandria. Abbas
Pacha had a superstitious dread of residing in that city,
1 imagia4 that ithe did he Weuld .it his bath *re.