The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-31 00:00:00

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"" oveilw isPlou atoi.e-ship Remthst,s, Pmitkei4l4
master, which arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday morn.
ing, left Constantinople Jan. 4th, Malta the 10th, and
Gibraltar on the 22d. She has about 30 passengers,
among whom are Major Kirby, 94th Regt. ; Dr. Brush,
Scots Greys ; Major Winnenberger, German Legion ;
Capt. Brown, and Mrs. Brown, Turkish Contingent;
and Colour-Sergeant Partridge, 2d West York Militia"
on duty at Malta ; also several naval prisoners sent
home fur want of accommodation in the East. At Malta
the Resolute took in tow her Majesty's screw.steatu
store-ship Urgent, Commander Chao. 13-. Phillips, her
engines being out of order. Two days after,
when the
tow-ropes were cast off, the Urgent gob up steam, and',
although the Resolute fired guns, waited some time at
sea, and remained 2 days at Gibraltar, nothing more son
heard of her, and it is concluded that she went back to
Malta. The machinery of the Resolute is out of order,
which has caused several detentions on the passage.
Between Malta and Gibraltar she spoke the bargee
Arctic Hero, and off Cadiz the troop-ship Albion, NO'
23, both homeward bound. At Malta the crew of thcei
screw steam-ship Royal Albert, 121, flag of Sir Edtanl
Lyons, were taking out her guns preparatory to the ee":
mencement of her repairs, which will occupy some th;
Orders have been received at Devonport that on ti"e;
arrival of the screw steam-ship Algiers, Capt, docks
Talbot, from Malta, she is to be taken into Keyham
at"—
to have defects made good.
The screw steam-corvette Cossack, 20, Cant• Jag'
. the
Cockburn, was to leave Plymouth yesterday for
Mediterranean.
It having being discovered that the mainmast of the
sloop Ferret, 6, Commander C. T. Leckie, was sprung,the orders for her departure from Plymouth to Porte'
mouth were countermanded, and she went alongside the
jetty at Devonport on Tuesday for repair. ger crap
will be paid off on Saturday.
The Pioneer has been fitted at Pembroke docklarci,
for navigation round to Portsmouth. She is a sister
ship to the Flying Fish, and the following are her Prin•
cipal dimensions :—Length between perpendiculars
200 ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 179 ft. 6in. ; Breadth
extreme, 30ft. sin. ; breadth moulded, 29ft. sin. ; uer..-0
of hold, 14ft. 6in. ; burden, 872 tons. Her engines
being prepared for her, and she will at once be nenrs.
mimed as a despatch gun-boat.
A number of schooners, sloops, and small craft an
lying alongside the Arsenal-wharf, at Woolwich, lan;
cargoesing their of mixed shot from the Scotch fen 'a
denies. The Capricorn, Grimsby, Alert, Selby, Ant
Mary of Carnarvon have discharged since Mondaya°o-
- tons of the same description.
The following promotions have been notified to tak:
place in Woolwich dockyard :—Mr. G. B. Johnelc
is to succeed Mr. Burr in the capacity of first-class eler„,.
Mr. A. B. Pike will fill the vacancy created by the the
motion of Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Flower is to fill
post of Mr. Pike in the Master-Shipwright's office.
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A party of the Royal Marines arrived last evening:o
Chatham Barracks from Portsmouth, from 011 board "
Colossus.
The following are the particulars respecting her 111.--a.
jesty's vessels-of-war stationed in the %Vest Indies,.o
Jan, 10, at Port Royal, the Termagant, Consreen°„l„
Kellett, arrived from Port. au-Prince Dec. 28; the Pa. a
ful, the Imaum, and the Daring arrived on the Ist, anwas
sailed on the 9th inst. for Montego Bay. The Argus,. 00
cruising to the northward ; the Eurydice arrived 'r to
Bermuda on Dec. 29, and sailed Jan. 2 for GreytowilAtb
relieve the Espiegle. Buzzard, at Jacmel on the the
inst., and the Malacca, at St. Domingo ; 4' by
Arab and Espiegle, at Greytown ; Jan. 11, at Bat
ardoes, the Vestal and Mariner, cruising ; Jan'
Havannab, the Hermes ; Jan. 14, arrived at St. •
masts, the Medea, from Bermuda. Cn the 7th, the 1:64
cawen, with Admiral Fanshawe on board, waaLt°ciesi•
out of harbour by the Medea, and sailed for Barun broke.
Jan. 8, at Bermuda, the Cornwallis and Pern e ars
Jan. 4, the American corvette Saratoga, 22 WTI
rived at St. Thomas's from St.. Domingo, and ea"el ate
the 9th for Martinique. The United. States'
Cyane was at St. Domingo. At Greytown, on the
'se
were the United States' frigate Potomac, with the ;
of Commodore Paulding, and the United States frigi,
Tunis
Fulton, Jan. 15, arrived at St. Thomas's!. * Goa-
corvette, 16 guns, from St. Domingo ; Jan, 13, at Com
daloupe, the French frigate L'lphigenie, 64 gunn,a she
tre-Ainiral Hernoux (who was on shore sick), an
brig Le Duconedie, 20 guns.