The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-27 00:00:00

AUGMENTATION OF TEE ROYAL MARINE CORPS.

An order has been received at each of the divisions to
form eight new divisioi companies and two artillery
companies, two compani( is to be attached to the Chatham
or first division, two co mpanies to the Portsmouth or
second division, t wo corn panics to the Plymouth or third
division, two companies to the Woolwich or fourth divi-
sion, and two companies to the Royal Marine Artillery
at Portsmouth—making a, total number of 10 companies
as originally stated. 'Art is. :fully expected there will be one
field officer, with two colonels commandant, two second
colonels commandant, nmd four pay captains, appointed
to each division as perxtrinent staff, instead of one colo-
nel commandant, one scicoi Id colonel commandant, and
one paymaster, the num.bei at present attached to each
division. Colonel, secoi id. commandant, Stephen Giles,
of the Plymouth divisi on, and Lieut.-Colonel William
Lewis Dawes have retie id on full-pay, but their succes-
sors have not been appointed, and will probably be de-
ferred until the new arr. tmgements are completed.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

WOOLWICH, FEB. 25.

The whole of the field ;batteries, five in number, under
orders to form the first division proceeding on foreign
service, were out again this morning on the Common, in
route order the same as yesterday, with the additional
feature that, each of the p ackhorses attached to the bat-
teries had on a packsaddle for conveying the medicine
chests and the portable 'baggage of the officers. The
packsaddles are made of very strong canvas padded with
tow, and the medicine chests have two broad straps to
go over the backs of th,, horses, with one in the centre
under the bottom, to fasten under the horses' belly.
Sailing vessels have been taken up for the conveyance of
1,600 horses to the Meditt)rranean.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 25.

Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, G.C.8., arrived here on
Friday by railway, And w.a.s received at the station by
Admiral Sir John 0 mman ney, whom he succeeds in the
important office of Commander-in-Chief at this port.
The crew of her Majesty's screw steam-ship Royal
George, 121, Captain Codrington, bent sails yesterday.
She will go out of harbour in the course of a few days.
The defects of the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Magi-
cienne, 16, Capt. T. Fisher, have been made good. Her
Master, Mr. L. C. Bailey,. was yesterday tried by court-
martial, Commodore Seyrn our, president, on board the
flag-ship Impregnable. The• court declared the charge of '
drunkenness proved, but in consideration of the pri-
soner's high testimonials and of the surgeon's certificate,
sentenced him only to be dist.nissed from the ship.
fr The screw steam block-ship Hogue, 60, Capt. Ramsay,
sailed from the Sound to-day at noon for the eastward.

The African Steam Navigation Company's mail packet
Forerunner, Capt. Barnwell, sailed on Friday with let-
ters for the west coast of Africa. The next homeward
ship, the Faith, Capt. Parsons, is due here on the Bth
of March.

The Norwegian barque Sylphide, Capt. Sunnse, was
off the Sound on the 22d, and the Bremen ship Hudson,
for Hamburg, was off the .Start on the 23d inst.

IVOOLWICH, FEB. 25.

Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., notwith-
standing the repeated assertions of a contemporary to
the contrary, has been appointed to the command of
the fleet intended for operations in the Baltic in the
event of the Emperor of Russia persisting in the aggres-
sive course he has recently pursued in respect to the
affairs of the East. The gallant admiral received'his
appointment to-day, and immediately after proceeded
to Woolwich, where he arrived at four o'clock p.m., and
hoisted his flag on hoard the Fisgard, flag-ship, where
it remained until sunset.