The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-24 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Yesterday intelligence was received at the Admiralty,
under date Memel, June the 18th, that her Majesty's

steamers Amphion and Archer had just towed thee
Russian prizes—namely, the Mezita, Hannan master ;
the Hannah Maria, Lorenston master ; and the For-
tuna, Thomson master— into that harbour.
By advices received yesterday, under date Elsinore,
June the 19th, an English war steamer, supposed to be
the Desperate, towed past that port on the 18th inst.
four Dutch vessels, taken prizes.
The Lords of the Admiralty yesterday gave notice at
Lloyd's that ships were required to convey 450 tons of
biscuit from Gosport and 650 tons of biscuit from Ply-
mouth to Var. a for the use of the army and Black Sea
fleet ; the ships will be required to wait at Constanti-
nople, in the event of the army having crossed the
Danube, for further orders.
Mrs. Doraville, wife of the surgeon of the Tiger, has
received a letter, under date the 12th of May, from her
husband at Odessa, in which be states that they were
all well. Mr. Doraville and eight other officers were
about to be exchanged for Russian prisoners.
The transport Libertas was towed from the Royal
William Victualling-yard into the Channel on Thursday,
by the Confiance steam-vessel, and sailed immediately
with provisions and stores for Malta.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Minx, tender to the
Scourge, sailed on Thursday morning from Plymouth,
for the coast of Africa.
The crew of the frigate Indefatigable, 50, Capt. Hope,
got up topmast rigging, and completed setting the
lower rigging on Thursday.
The Hornet, 17, screw steam-sloop, Commander Fre-
derick A. Campbell, was taken out of dock on Thursday
and into the basin, and will be ready for sea by Thurs-
day next.
The Kangaroo screw steam-vessel left the Royal Ar-
senal, Woolwich, yesterday, and went up to Deptford.
The Swallow, screw steamer, recently launched at
Pembroke, having been rigged in the unprecedented
short period of four days, left yesterday for Portsmouth,
in tow of the Prospero, steam-tender. She is at once to
be furnished with machinery, and placed in commission
for service with the Baltic fleet. The following are her
principal dimensions :

ft. in.
Length between the perpendiculars 139 0
Do. keel for tonnage l2O 6
Breadth, extreme 27 11
Do. for tonnage 27 7
Do. moulded
Depth in hold
Burthen in tons, 486 33-91.
The Ariel, a sister ship, will follow in about a fortnight,
to finish which the blacksmiths of the establishment are
working from 5 in the morning until 8 at night, this
class of vessels being greatly wanted in the Baltic.
The head quarters of the 80th Regiment of Foot, with
the grenadier and light companies, arrived at Gravesend
on the 22d inst. in the Blenheim, freight-ship, from
India, and, having landed the same day, in the afternoon
proceeded by the North Kent Railway to Strood, where
they were met by the band of the 35th Regiment of
Foot, and played up to their quarters at St. Mary's Case-
mate Barracks. The other division of the 80th Regi-
ment is expected in a few days, and arrangements have
been made for its reception.
The head-quarters and four troops of the 15th Hussars
arrived at Gravesend on the 21st instant from India, and
proceeded by the North Kent Railway to Strood, where
the band of the 35th Regiment, from Chatham, were in
waiting, and played them to their quarters. The Tra-
falgar hired freight-ship, in which they arrived, called at
St. Helena, and took in a supply of fresh water there.
The men appear in very good condition, and it will not
be long before they are again ready for service, if re-
quired. It has been remarked by old soldiers that they
never witnessed a regiment land from a long voyage so
clean and fresh as the 15th Hussars did, although they
were much crowded on board the ship they came home
in. They gave about 250 volunteers to other cavalry
' regiments previous to their leaving India on the return
to England. During the passage of 109 days four men
and four children died on board.

From Plymouth we learn by electric telegraph that
Captain Adair, 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, and 91 privates
of the Royal Marines had left yesterday evening by mail
train to join the Royal Albert at Sheerness. 130 volun-
teers from the 91st Regiment had arrived by the steamer
Prussian Eagle, en route to join the depots of the 42d,
33th, and 93d Regiments. About 300 volunteers from
the 2d (Queen's) and 37th Regiments had also arrived
from Dublin by the steamer Devonshire, on their way
to join the 77th and 44th Regiments.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants.—James D. Curtis (1849), recently serving
as First Lieutenant of the Waterwitch, 8, sloop, on the
West Coast of Africa station, to the Royal Albert. 121,
screw steam-ship, at Sheerness ; George W. Watson
(1849), recently serving in the Centaur paddle-wheel
steam-frigate when flag-ship on the south-east coast of
America station, to the Royal Albert.
Chaplain Rev. Frederick B. Gutteres, to the Ven-
geance, 84, on the Black Sea station.
Surgeons.—Fitzwilliam Mansell (1840), to Haulbow-
line Hospital ; Charles B. Brian, M.D. (1842), to the
Royal Albert ; George J. Wiles, to the Malacca, at
Chatham.
Paymaster George M. Lang (1851), recently clerk in
charge of naval and victualling stores at Rio Janeiro, toi
the Devonshire Russian prison ship at Sheerness.
Clerk Thom J, Ley (icil9), recently ;trying in tin

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Hermes steam•sloop, on the East Indies station, to be
clerk in charge of the Spy, 3, brigantine, commissioned
at Chatham.

Midshipmen—D. K. 'Warren, to the Meander, 44, at
Devonport ; the Hon. Albert Denison, to the Hornet
screw steam-sloop, at Woolwich.

MILITIA.
The Essex Rifles will be reviewed in Hyde Park on
M,,nda.y, at ten o'clock, by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, and it is expected that there will be a large
attendance on the occasion. In the absence of the regi-
ment a company of the Guards will do duty in the
Tower, at the Museum, and the Mint.
The 3d West York Regiment are said to have im-
proved greatly since they got into barracks at Berwick.
About 140 men have been selected to go home ; of these
nearly all are married men, and are only waiting for the
order as to the period of absence to be given to each
man to proceed to their respective places of abode. An
issue of 1/. ls. (exclusive of bounty) is to be made to
every man in the regiment, for the purpose of completing
them in extra necessaries for active service. Most of
them have already been supplied with new great coats.
There have not been above six cases of drunkenness
since the regiment arrived at Berwick.

LETTERS FOR THE BALTIC,'WHITE SEA,
TUBKEY, AND THE BLACK SEA.

The following are the regulations under which the corre-
spondence for her Majesty's forces in the Baltic, in the White
Sea, and in Turkey and the Black Sea is at present for-
warded

Mails for the Baltic fleet are made up in London every
Tuesday evening, and are forwarded through Belgium to
Dantzic, where they arrive on Friday. Orders have been
given that a steam-vessel shall be detached from the fleet,
and sent to Dantzic weekly, to receive the mails from Eng-
land, to bring to that port the return mails for England,
which, on arrival, are despatched to this country through
Belgium.
An officer's letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
sent by this route, is liable to a postage (British and foreign
combined) of Bd.

A seamu's or soldier's letter, not exceedinr, half an ounce
in weight, forwarded by this route, is charged with a com-
bined British and foreign postage of sd.

Upon both classes of letters-the Postage must be paid in
advance.

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Newspapers cannot be forwarded by the route of Dantzic,
because, according to the arrangements with the Prussian
Government, the Prussian postage upon Newspapers cannot
be collected in this country. If, therefore, newspapers were
sent by this route, they would be detained at Dantzic, until
the postage due upon them to the Prussian Post-office was
paid.
The above is the speediest and most direct communication
with the Baltic fleet : but there are other occasiods, by moans
of Queen's ships or transports, when letters and newspapers
can be forwarded.

Mails are made up to be despatched by every vessel of war
proceeding from England to the fleet, and the postage by sudi
ships is as follows
For an officer's letter, not exceeding 1 oz 6d
For a seaman's or soldia's letter not exceeding oz id
Newspapers are forwarded by vessels of war, or transports,
free of postage.
Letters, &c., for the Baltic fleet, should be addressed with
the name of the ship for which they are destined, and the
fleet to which that ship belongs, without mentioning any port
or town, thus—.....