The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-02 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Captain Peter Richards, C.B. is selected to fill the
vacant seat at the Board of Admiralty, taking prece-
dence of Captain Milne.
Letters for the fleet in the Black Sea will be forwarded
by the Harpy steam-vessel to-day, from Portsmouth.
The letters must be marked, "By the Harpy."
Yesterday notices were publicly given on the Royal
Exchange from the Admiralty, that within 20 days from
that date the Russian barque Johanna, Captain Uld-
strom, would be condemned as a lawful prize to her
Majesty's steamer Bulldog.

We learn from Plymouth, by electric telegraph, that
her Majesty's steamship Algiers, 91, Captain the Hon.
Charles Talbot, made a trial trip of her engines yester-
day. She left Hamoaze at half-past 7. steamed down
against a strong wind and tide, and went to sea immedi-
ately. At 12 she returned, and, after making some evolu-
tions inside the break water, went to sea again by the eastern
channel. At half past 2 she came back to the Sound,
and steamed in good style to her moorings in Hainoaze.
Her engines and machinery appeared to answer excel-
lently well. She is 300 hands short of her complement.
The Hermes, 6, steam-sloop, Captain Fishbourne,
arrived yesterday evening at Spithead from China and
the Cape of Good Hope. Her news has been anticipated
by overland and steam mails. Her craw will be made
available for the war service.

The Rhadamanthus paddle-wheel steam store-vessel,
Master Commander John Belam, took on board in the
basin at Wonlwich, for conveyance toYortsmouth, new
boilers for the Centaur, and the remainder of the ma-
chinery for the Colossus, 80, screwAteam-ship, fitting
at that port. The boilers of the Royal., Albert were put
on board the Beaver steam-vessel, arAphe was towed to
'Sheerness by the Rhadamanthns. Th Rhadamanthus
will leave to-morrow, and is-under orders to return to
Woolwich within a week to take round the machinery
of the Harrier, screw steam-sloop, and the Curagoa,
30, steam-frigate, built at Pembroke. The boilers
brought down by the Rhadamanthus were afterwards
put on board the Royal Albert at Sheerness.
A new spare screw propeller, weighing 6 tons 12 cwt.
3 qrs. 241 b., has arrived at Sheerness for the Euryalus,
51, steamship, now serving in the Baltic. It will be
sent out in the steam transport Holyrood.
The Curlew, 8, screw steam-sloop, was launched on
Wednesday at Deptford, from the slip on which she
was commenced about 18 months ago. Her dimensions
are as follows :

Ft.
Length between the perpendiculars
Length of the keel for tonnage
Breadth extreme
Breadth for tonnage
Breadth moulded
Depth in hold
Burden in tons, 311.04. Her engines are of 50-horse
power.
The Curlew is to be taken to Woolwich to be fitted
with her engines in the basin adjoining the factory.
The following appointments have been made :
Master George L.. Bradley (1848), recently master-
commander of the Crescent, 42, receiving ship at Rio
de Janeiro, to be master in command of the Industry
steam-vessel, purchased to serve as a steam store ship.
Assistant-Surgeon Charles G. Wolfendan (1851), re-
cently serving as acting assistant-surgeon in the Fox,
42, on the East India station, to the Hannibal, 91, screw
steam-ship, at Chatham.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon Seth Lane (1854), to the
Britannia, 120, in the Black Sea.

Clerk Edward 0. Hayes (1849), to the Prince Regent,
91, screw steam-ship, with the Baltic fleet.
Clerk's-Assistant Derisley Martin, to the Meander,
44, at Devonport.
Assistant-Engineers of the third class Thomas Dine-
ley, Joseph Rothesy, James M'lntyre, and Owen Ash
Davies, have been appointed to the fleet.
Acting Gunner James Fullerton to the Minx steam-
vessel at Woolwich.

The following rewards and promotions have taken
place in the civil departments in the dockyards :
Mr. Harding, foreman of shipwrights at Woolwich
Dockyard, has received the annual gratuity of 501. for
that yard.
Mr. Cheeseman, foreman of shipwrights, the annual
gratuity of 501. for Chatham Dockyard.
Mr. Carter, measurer at Chatham Dockyard, is pro-
moted to be foreman at Portsmouth Dockyard ; and
Mr. Hamden is promoted to be measurer, vice Carter.
Mr. Siburn, inspector of the second class at Chatham,
is promoted to be inspector of the first class.
The, galley's crew of Rear-Admiral Martin, Superin-
tendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, and picked men of the
crew of the Royal yacht, left Portsmouth at an early
hour yesterday morning for Ham, to carry to the grave
the remains of the late Vice• Admiral Hyde Parker, C.B.
These men, with the exception of the two from the yacht
were, we believe, the late Admiral's boat's crew during
his last commission afloat, when his flag flew on board
the St. Vincent, 120, in Portsmouth harbour.

The Lords of the Admiralty yesterday gave notice at
Lloyd's that a ship of from 500 to 600 tons was required
to convey part of a regiment from Cork to Melbourne,
New South Wales, and afterwards call at Ceylon, to
bring home part of another regiment to this country.
Advices were received yesterday at the Admiralty,
uuder date Gibraltar, May the 29th, announcing that
the Parainatta, Cornwall, Ann Blake, and three other
Government transports, and a frigate had arrived, and
sailed to the East, with troops and stores.
The Lord Raglan transport, No. 93, embarked at the
Plymouth Dockyard yesterday a Major, Captain, Lieu-
tenant, and Cornet, an infantry surgeon, and two troops
of the 6th Enniskillens, with 72 horses, for service in the
East. The embarkation commenced at 10, and was
completed by 1 o'clock ; shortly after which the Con-
fiance and Pique steamers took her through Hameem
into the Sound, whence, at 4 o'clock, a favourable breeze
carried her out of sight of land in about two hours.
The engineers, boiler makers, &c., volunteers from the
factory at Woolwich for service at Malta, leave Woolwich
to-day for Southampton, tolembark in the Candia, screw
steamship of the Peninsular and Oriental Bteam Naviga-
tion Co., for a passage to their destination.
One hundred and three recruits arrived at Woolwich
yesterday to join the Woolwich division of Royal Ma-
rines. They aro principally volunteers from the Shrop-
shire regiment of Militia.
No. 2 company of the 12th battalion of Royal Artil-
lery left the garrison at Woolwich at 6 a.m. yesterday,
and embarked at Roff's wharf in one of the Woolwich
Steam-boat Company's vessels, for conveyance to Shoe-
buryness, where they are to join the lst company of the
same battalion, for practise with the Minis carbines in
the mornings and with the siege guns and long ranges in
the afternoons. They are two of the six companies under
orders for foreign service.
Gunner and Di iver, Fuller, until lately groom to
Captain and Adjutant Telfer, of the Royal Artillery,
committed suicide yesterday morning at six o'clock,
while getting ready for guard-mounting- By some
Means he loaded his gun unobserved by the other men,
and, with the aid of a piece of twine and his foot, pulled
the trigger after he had placed the piece under his chin,
and blew his head almost entirely off. The deceased had
been 15 years in the service, and has left a wife and two
children.
Lieut.-Colonel Yule has been appointed to command
the Royal Engineers of Jersey, in the place of Lieut.-
Colonel' Alexander, who has gone to join the army in
Turkey. •
A detachment of the 44th Foot proceeded by railway
yesterday morning from Portsmouth to W'aliner, to join
the depot.
The depot of the 34th Regiment is ordered to join the
service companies at Portsmouth from Leeds.
Two detachments of the 6th (Eaniskillen) Dragoons
left Exeter on Wednesday en route for Plymouth. The
order for their departure arrived late on the previous
evening, and the men left the Topsham Barracks shortly
before 11 o'clock, and proceeded down the main street
of the city. A large number of citizens were assembled
to witness their departure, and cheered them as they
passed.
Two troops of the Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards, under
the command of Captain J. R. S. Sayer and Captain
Sir T. Grisley, Bart., arrived in Dublin on Tuesday from
Newbridge, and occupy quarters in Portobello barracks.
Two additional troops of the same corps also arrived in
Dublin on Wednesday. Captain R. T. Thompson's
troop will be quartered in Island-bridge barracks, and
Captain A. H. P. S. Wortley's in the Royal barracks.
The regiment is under orders for Scotland, to replace
the 7th Hussars.
Colonel M`Murdo has arrived in Dublin, and will as-
sume the duties of Assistant-Adjutant-General in the
Dublin district to-day.
A Limerick military paper says In the forthcom-
ing military Brevet the services of the following staff
officers will be discontinued in their present position, all
occasioned by promotion, that from Major-General to
be Lieut.-General, and pf Colon&to be Major-General,
-- viz., Major-General Conyers, lonian Islands; Major-
General Sir H. Smith, Plymouth4Major-Gen. Fleming,
Limerick; Major-Gen. Bainbridge, Ceylon; Major-Gen.
Napier, Edinburgh ; Major-General Rowan, Montreal ;
Major-Gen. Thack well, Inspeir, Cavalry ; Major.
Gen. M 'Donald, Kilkenny; Maj Jen. Thomas, Belfast;
Major-General Sutherland, M itins ; Major-General
Macneil, Madras. Colonels h, Inspecting Field-
officer, London ; Eden, Adju t-General, Dublin ;
Lord De Ros, Commanding, Tower ; William Cox,
Quartermaster-General, Limerick; Frederick Maunsell,
Inspecting Field-officer, Cork ; Frith, Inspecting Field:
officer, Dublin. Colonels Sir Michael Creagh and T.
C. Chatterton are to be Major-Generals. Major Shad-
fort, 57th, will be Lieutenant-Colonel in the approach-
ing Brevet, and Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas, Adjutant-
General, to be Colonel. The following Colonels retire
from the Command of their ieginients :—Lord Melville,
60th ; the Hon. T. Ashburnham, 29th ; Scott, 9th Lan-
cers ; Despard, 99th ; Earl Cardigan, 11th Hussars ;
Stanhope, Grenadier Guards ; Breton, 53d ; White, 3d
Light Dragoons ; Eden Dixon, Grenadier Guards ;
Fludyer, Guards ; Hall, Life Guards.