The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Vulture, "6, paddle-wheel. steam-frigate, Captain
F. H. H. Glasse, left her moorings at Sheerness yes-
terday shortly after neon. .- The:following supernumera-
ries have taken passage in .her, by Admiralty orders :
Henry Hutchings, master, .to join the Gladiator ; A. L.
Galbraith, mate of the Arrogant ; John Hickens, eating
assistant-surgeon, to join the Sphynx ;. Henry P.
Geary, midshipman, to the Dragon ; James L. Barry,
assistant-surgeon, to join the Teimagant; Thomas P.
Newell, second lieutenant of Marines, to join the Nile ;
one private R.M to join the Nile ; one A.B. to join`
the Duke of Wellington; one leading seamen to join the
Cruiser; one petty officer and one stoker to go in the
Archer ; 19 naval coast, volunteers, 30 boys of the first
class, 20 boys of the second class, and 1 bombardier Of
Royal Marine Artillery, for the Baltic fleet: Master H.
Buchanan, son of the British Minister at Copenhagen,
also takes a passage, as an honorary member of the gun-
room mess, to Copenhagen. Mr. E. B. Walker, clerk of
this frigate, received an Adniii-alty appointment, as eerk
in the Admiral's-office at Mount Wise, Devonport, on
Sunday morning last. • The appointment arriving here
too late for him to close accounts, .he proceeds out.to
the Baltic, and an appointment of another clerk will be
at the disposal of Sir Charles Napier, on her arrival out.
Mr. James Shepherd, one of the younger brethren of
Hull Trinity-house, proceeds in the Vulture as Baltic
pilot. Mr. Milbank,- Trinity pilot, goes with
her as far as Orfordness.
Centaur, 6, paddle,, is under the steam-basin shears,
getting out her old boilers, and will instantly redeive
new ones.
The Beagle, screw steam gun-boat, Lieutenant-Com.;
mender Bore, at Blackwell, will be taken dowia to
Woolwich fro be fitted forthwith for sea.
The Fire Queen steam-yacht, Master-Commander
Paul, returned to Portsmouth from Calais yesterday,
and, after coaling, left for-the Channel. Islands, we be.
lieve, with the Governor. .
The Melampus store-ship, Master Commander John
Jackson, has left Sheerness, in company with the Rha-
damanthus, for Portsmouth, taking there machinery
for the Colossus and Curacoa.
The Jason, screw steam-ship is at Blackwell, fitting
for the conveyance of the. Artillery. force, horses in-
cluded, under orders for the East.
The Medway steam-vessel is loading with siege guns
at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for service in the
Baltic.

The Bombay Indianian and' Seuthampton American
line of packet ship arrived at Spithead yesterday from
the Thames. - •
The officers and men detained at sheerness for at-
tempting to break the blockade in the Baltic were turned
over from the Waterloo yesterday to the Devonshire,
Lieutenant Commander Lloyd. All have cabins ap•
portioned them.
A mail for the Vulture, weighing over 2 cwt., arrived
at Sheerness at 6 p.m. yesterday, which, unfortunately,
was about six hours too late to be 'put on board. The
constant complaint of the Post-office authorities there
is that they never get apy official information from the
proper department of the time of departure of any of her
Majesty's ships ordered to take out mails. The mail re-
ferred to will forthwith be returned to London to take
another route. A large number of letters lay at Sheer-
nessTeady to be made up for the Vulture, but, her time
of departure not being known, they were not sent on
board, and must also be sent back to Lond on.
The' mail for the Baltic fleet, via Belgium to Dantzic,
will be made up and despatched this evening.
Thirty thousand blankets for the transport service are
to be sent into her Majesty's dockyard at Deptford. .
The Commissioners of the Admiralty have received
orders to provide transports to convey 280 rank and file .
from Cork to Gibraltar, and 500 tons of oats in sacks,
and 500 tons of hay, from the Thames, and 180 tons Of
hay from Qwenstown, to Varna, calling at Constanti-
nople for orders from the Commissariat ; also 235 tons
of provisions from the Thames to Varna, 324 tons of
naval stores to Malta, and 179 tans of ammunition,
heavy shot, shell, &c., to Melbourne, New South Wales.
On Sunday afternoon, about half-past 5 o'clock, the
steam transport Prince, 2,700 tons burden, having 1,142
French troops and 21 horses on board, left the Downs.
She took the transpoit Herefordshire; 'with 829 French
troops, and the transport Edwin Fox in tow, and pro-
ceeded for the Baltic. The total number of French
troops shipped on board her Majesty's vessels and the
six hired transports for service in the Baltic is 9,850' men
and 100 horses.
We learn by electric telegraph froth Plymouth that the
Alfred, Captain Vess, which sailed from Calcutta on the
let of April and St. Helena on the.l6th of lune, dropped
her mail at Falmouth on Sunday, and landed •at Ply-
mouth yesterday Captain Vrewer and Mr.' and Miss
Rawson, passengers. The Lord George Bentinck, from
Bombay, and the Hougoumont, from Madras, were in
quarantine at St: Helena; having on board portions of
the 51st and 9,2 d Regiments, who were, it is said, suffer-
ing from measles and smallpox. No other British ship
was there, but, several American, French, and Belgian.
Her Majesty's ship Linnet, Commander Henry Need,
sent in a slave schooner of 300 tons, as a prize, on the
13th of June.