The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-13 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS

Captain—Thomas L. Massie (1841) to the Powerful, 84,
at Portsmouth.

Commanders—Edward B. Rice (1850) at present in com-
mand of the Prometheus, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, to the
Driver, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, serving in the Baltic,
vice Commander Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, promoted to
be Captain; Commander Fred. L. A. Selwyn (1847), from
the Coast Guard, to the Prometheus, vice Commander Ed-
ward B. Rice.

THE GUN-BOATS.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 12.
The Lynx, screw steam despatch gun-boat, Lieut.-Com-
mander J. P. Luce, in the basin at Woolwich, is now in so
advanced a state that she will be out of the hands of the
dockyard artizans to-morrow evening, and will leave early
on Thursday morning for Greenhithe, to have her com-
passes adjusted for sea service. She has already on board,
mounted and ready for use, her two 68-pounder oval guns
of 95 cwt. and 9 ft. long, and four 12-pounder howitzers,
with a large supply of 68-pounder shot. On her arrival at
Greenhithe she will receive her supply of gunpowder and
live shells. The engines, by John Penn and Son, have been
completed 801110 time, and everything has been done to make
ber thoioughly complete and in good order for starting.

THE RUSSIAN PRISONERS.
The Hannibal, Commodore the Hon. F. W. Grey, ar-
rived at Sheerness yesterday at 2.30 p.m., from Brest—
she arrived at Brest, from the Downs, on the night of the
7th ; she was subjected to a strict quarantine of five days.
The prisoners were transshipped into transports and con-
veyed to Rochefort. The following officers were brought
home from Bomarsund by her—viz., Colonel Turnheilm,
Lieutenant-Colonel Kraushold, Captain Knosring, Capt.
Bark, Captain Fomin, Lieutenant Chatelain, Lieutenant
Brofelt, Lieutenant Wolkoff, Lieutenant Borisoff, and
Johan Ernold ; the latter-named gentleman was a Polish
officer, prisoner to the Russians in the fort at Bomarsund, ,
and released by the admiral's orders on arrival in France.
There were also 288 rank and file, 10 women, and 3 chil-
dren. Nineteen deaths among the Russian soldiers took
place on the passage home. There have also been 19 deaths
among the ship's company. With one or two exceptions,
officers and men have been on the sick list. Dr. Crawford,
the surgeon, has proceeded to Chatham with 11 invalids
for Melville Hospital. The doctor and the assistant-sur-
geon appear to have suffered considerably from constant
fatigue in attending on the sick and dying men, as the
Russian surgeons at the forts at Bomarsund made their
early exit from the forts and escaped being taken as pri-
soners. The Hannibal left Brest on the morning of the
9th. On steaming for the mooring lighter, she had to
cross the harbour tide into the eddy tide, by doing which
the strong eddy tide caught her fore body and slowed her
up into the streamago of the two tides, and, in endea-
vouring to clear the Minotaur, hulk to the Royal Albert,
her port-quarter gig was smashed, and some slight damage
accrued to the port quarter-gallery. The gig was lowered
into the water, and, fortunately, no person was hurt,
although one of the wardroom officers had a narrow escape.
In consequence of some derangements in her machinery
from wear and tear, it will be necessary for the Hannibal
to be placed in dry dock at Sheerness.
A question of some importance arose yesterday among
the gentlemen cadets, prisoners, most of whom are the
sons of gentlemen, under training in the ranks to serve as
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tenants ; it was, whether they were entitled to
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they express great sorrow that at present they have no
privilege beyond the common soldier--the service instruc-
tions making no provision under a sub-lieutenant. This
rank they claim, as they were entitled to all the privileges
of sub-lieutenants in their own service. An especialap-
plication will be made to the authorities on their behalf
on this subject immediately. Non-commissioned officers
have kindly been granted a day's parole occasionally for
their health, and the officers in charge wish to give all
reasonable indulgences. There are women among them
on board the Benbow. The husband of one (a common
soldier) was killed at the taking of Bomarsund ; the hus-
band of the other (a common soldier also) died on his pas-
sage home in the St. Vincent. The former woman is near
her confinement, and is in very delicate health. A cabin
is appropriated for her by Lieutenant Commander Everest,
and every attention shown her that her situation requires.
Fresh cases of cholera are daily making their appearance
on board both ships.
The following are the names of the gentlemen cadets :
Carl Scanberg, Alexander Ekman, Carl Ransil, Frans
Wahlborg, Gustaf Lindsbrom, Carl Tarnroth, Gustaf Freij,
Carl Forssgard, Wilhelm Gronholm, Pavel Petraff, Alexy
Sveroff Mattoy off Fejdoroff, on board the Devonshire, and
cadets Ferfebrom, Aisspegrin, Sandberg, Bjarhbomt, and
Wansin, on board the Benbow. These gentlemen, 17 in
number, have appealed to their senior officer at Sheerness,
Major Grahn, of the Finnish Grenadier Company, to inte-
rest himself on their behalf to obtain their parole and sub-
sistence.