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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 4. 1854.

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Cot-ninny'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 Echunga, 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 Tongae. A
French barque was also reported to have gone to pieces on
the opposite coast. The screw steamers Rhone, five
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
and 11, 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 muorings.
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

escorted them to the Royal Barracks, where they were
quartered for the night. They proceeded from the
Kingsbridge terminus at seven a.m. on Wednesday
morning, en route for Cork, to await embarkation for
Van Diemen's Land. The head-quarters, under the
command of Lieutenant Colonel St. Maur, may be ex-
pected to follow in the course of next week.
Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, G.C.8., K.H.,
appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry (vice the Duke
of Cambridge), accompanied by Major Roche, as his
aide-de-camp, left Cork on Tuesday for London, to enter
on his official duties.
The left wing of the 46th Regiment, which arrived in
Cork from Kilkenny, are to embark from that port for
the manufacturing districts in England. This wing,
under the command of Major David Tyffe, left on Tues-
day by the Nimrod steamer for Liverpool.
Unless other changes are contemplated, the 91st
Regiment (Argyleshire), a division of which has already
arrived in Cork, will probably be quartered in that gar-
rison for some time. The head-quarters, band, and
colours, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. G.
Campbell, arrived there on Monday from Dublin.
Major-General Manse! left Cork on Tuesday for Lon-
don, to give evidence before a select committee of the
House of Commons on the subject of railway extension
in Ireland. During the Maj T-General's absence, Col.
IVlannsell, Inspecting Field Officer (the next senior officer)
will take command of the troops in the Cork district.

DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH FLEET
FRONI THE DOWNS.
All the ships of the French fleet under the command
of Admiral Deschenes, with the exception of three, left
the Downs yesterday for the Baltic.
Those left behind are the liners Jemappes and La
Tage, the ships that came in contact with each other,
:and received damage. The Jemappes has proceeded to
Sheerness to have her defects made good. La Tage re-
mains in the Downs.
The third is the Andromaque, frigate. She arrived
in the Downs at 9 a.m. yesterday, and was signalled
from the admiral's ship, L'lnflexible, to anchor. She
saluted the admiral's flag, and the Inflexible acknow-
led ed the salute. A salute was also fired from Widmer
Castle.

entertained that they went down at the moment when
Captain Hoegman observed the light to disappear, and
that not one of them escaped a watery grave.
The survivors arrived in town yesterday morning, and
were forwarded by the conml-general back to Bremen
and IJamburg by one of the General Steam Navigation
Company's steamers.
The total number who have perished by this sad
catastrophe amounts to no fewer than 201.