The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-15 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling, commanding the
East India station, is recalled from his command. It
is stated that this step has been taken at the gallant
officer's own solicitation.
The steam-transport Indian, Captain M'Maeter, 1 eft
Portsmouth yesterday afternoon, direct for Malta, Con-
stantinople, and the Crimea.
The steam-transport Cleopatra hauled alongside Ports-
mouth dockyard yesterday, to embark, on Monday next,
560 men of militia, 22 officers, and other draughts for
Corfu and the Crimea.
Her Majesty's steam-transport Urgent, Commander
Phillips, arrived at Portsmouth on Wednesday night
from tho Mediterranean, defective in her inaehinery.
She has gone into harbour to have the defects repaired.
She brought no invalids or passengers. She reports
having been in collision on the 13th inst., at 1.30 p.m.,
off St. Catharine's, with the steam-transport Imperial,
No. 188 ; the latter lost her mizenmast, the brgent
merely lost her foretopmast and studdingsail boom ; on
the 7th of January, off Cape. St. Vincent, she spoke the
English ship Mary and Emma.
The Eliza sad Herefordshire transports left Spithead
for the Thames yesterday.
The Centaur, 6, paddle-frigate, Captain Clifford, C. 8.,
was taken into dock yesterday, at Portsmouth, •for
repairs.
The hired schooner Ocean Lady, in the service of the
Ordnance Department of Woolwich Arsenal, is embark-
ing 2,000 feet of gun-skids, and other stores for Ports-
mouth.
The Lord Vivian, another of the Ordnance vessels, is
engaged in shipping mortar beds, mortars, guns, and 13-
inch shell boxes, likewise for Portsmouth. The Grass-
hopper gun-boat a few nights since broke from her
hawser during a squall which blew up the river, was
driven foul of the Lord Vivian, and carried away her
starboard bow and bulwarks, occasioning game other
damage.
The iron screw transport Black Prince, No, 161, G.
Shavers master, arrived yesterday morning off the Ar-
senal, Woolwich, and has commenced shipping a cargo
of forage waggons and others geode for the troops in the
Crimea.

The Government screw-transport Hesper, Captain
Cruickskank, anchored off Woolwich Dockyard yester-
day morning from the Black Sea, with her machinery
and engines in a defective state. She is to be admitted
into basin for repairs.
The subjoined circular memorandum has been issued
to officers commanding, regiments and depots a: homet.:—
" Horse Guards, Feb. 12'.
" The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief havizag,
in communication with the Secretary of State for War,
decided upon the importance of providing efficient non-
commissioned officers fa -the Land Transport Corps,
and the Secretary of State having anthorised the rates
of pay here specified [regimental serjeant-major, ss. per-
diem ; troop serjeant-major, 4s. ; serjeant, 33. ; besides'
the usual field allowances and free rations allowed by
Government to this corps] to such thoroughly efficient
men as may volunteer for the purpose, is pleased to
direct that the commanding officers of artillery, ca-
valry, and infantry, call immediately upon the non-com-
missioned officers and men to volunteer, transmitting
descriptive returns of such as may some forward to the
Adjutant-General. The formation of an efficient Land
Transport Corps is of paramount importance, and coin.
mantling officers are strictly enjoined not to accept the
services of any but steady, intelligent, and trustworthy
men, although the loss of sneh may occasion temporary
regimental inconvenience. ,
"By command.
"G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."
The following General Order has been issued, dated
"Horse Guards, Feb. 9.
"The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief has great
pleasure in communicating to the army the following
garrison order, issued by Lieut.-General Sir James For-
gusson, Governor of Gibraltar :
" ' Gibraltar, Jan. 16.
" 'The Lieutenant-General Commanding cannot allow
the departure of Colonel Wilson Patten without express.
ing his regret at losing his services and `assistance.
" 'Colonel Wilson Patten has devoted his time and
energies so unceasingly to the training of his officers and
men, and has shown so good an example in coming out
with his regiment, when from other duties it could not
have been expected from him, that the Lieutenant-
General Commanding feels it incumbent on him to ex-
press his high sense of the service he has rendered to his
Queen and country, and he will not fail to notify to the
Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief the favourable opi-
nion he has formed of Colonel Wile( a Patten and the
3d Royal Lancashire Regiment.
" 'J. FERGIISSON, Lieutenant-General.'
" The valuable services of Colonel Wilson Patten,
and the zeal and exertion he has evinced in bringing his
regiment to its present high state of discipline and effi-
ciency, have been on other occasions most favourably
brought to the notice of theField-Marshal Commanding..
in-Chief, and his lordship feels that he can iu no way
better mark his approval than by thus promulgating
Lieutenant-General Sir James Fergusson's order, so
creditable to Colonel Patten and the militia service.
" By command, &c."
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Commander J. C. Bickford, to ba Inspecting Com-
mander of the Coastguard ; P. Syoret, second master,
to the St. Vincent ; G. W. Bloxsoin, acting mate, to the
Lapwing ; C. H. S. Baker, master's-assistant to the
Vulture ; J. L. Way and C. C. T. Fitzgerald, naval
cadets, to the Royal George ; J. F. Paton, surgeon, and
agent for sick and wounded seamen at Greenock ; R. C.
Russell, surgeon, to the Pioneer ; C. Crandall, surgeon,
Pto the Rodney • L. A. White, acting surgeon, to the
Wizard ; R. Browning, acting surgeon, to Plymouth
Hospital ; E. L. Lowe, acting surgeon, to the Royal
William ; Walter J. utler, acting surgeon, to the
Rodney ; Charles M. Normand, acting surgeon, to the
Seahorse ; Eames, acting surgeon, to the Con-
queror ; Joseph. Sloss, assistant surgeon, to the Royal
Albert ; Horace H. Smith, assistant surgeon, to the
Royal William ; Alexander Rattray, assistant surgeon
(confirmed), to the Nankin.

SOUTH SEA COMVANY.—A final division of 5 per cent.
to the present stochholders will be paid on Ttrarsday,
the 21st of February.
CHARGE OP MANSLAUGHTIM AGAINST Two ARMY
SURGEONS.—At an iuquest held yesterday at CLu..thara
on the body of William Stinson, a private in the .38th,
who met with his death in the garrison hospital, in' con-
sequence of having had a large dose of laudanum ad mi-
nistered to him in misi`eake for a dose of senna, the 3'10,1
retired, and, after an absence of nearly two hours, I'o-
- a verdict of manslaughter against Augus;-,all
Frederick Turner and Henry Bed well, two army surgeons, •
MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXIIIBITION.—This well-known
establishment continues to attract a crowded audience
daily, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the
weather. We understand that many novelties are in
progress, and will soon be completed for public inspec•
tion ; some of which will create much public curiosity
from the peculiar position held by the originals during
the past and present year. The dresses of the principal
f_male figures have lately been replaced with entirely
new costumes of the most: elegant and tasteful descrip-
tion, the whole having been completed under the imme-
diate superintendence of Mr, J. Tussaud, and ar highly
creditable to his judgment.
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POWERFUL TELESCOPF.S, OPERA, RAGE AND PISRSPECTIVR GLASSSC.
—Messrs. S. and B. Solemons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly. Observe opposite the York Hotel.
By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and
extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and
brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per.
spective Glasses, to know the distances of objects viewed
through them—of great importance to the army, navy
and others. These telescopes possess such extreordinary
powers that some three and a-half inches, with am extra eye.
piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Sa,'•urn's ring,
and the double stars; with the same telescope can be
seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant.
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of /arm aid all
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly ; while their vary.
ing from 4 to 6 inches enable us to discoter more than the
above, and the Georgian,"with his 6 satellites, &e.—True Ron,'
Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very email,
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Deafness—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an ex-
traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for
deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass ani
thing of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be.
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ROYAL STITtREY THEATRE.

Lessees, 3fesirs. Shepherd and Creswlck.

THIS EVENING
THE SHADOWS OF CRIME.

To conclude with
A PRINCE OF PAARL4 ; or, Harlequin and Jane Shore.

tOYAL STILAITD THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr: Payne.
THIS EVENING,

THE ROMANTIC WIDOW.

Followed by
TUE PRISONER OF ROC REGLE; or. Inns and Outs.

After which,
PEACE AT ANY PRICE.

To conclude with
BLUE JACKETS.

AI3TLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. Wm. CsOke.
TIII3 EVENING.
ROOKWOOD; or. TURPIN'S FIDE to YORK. The last week
of that popular Spectacle.
After which the SCENES in the CIRCLE and the performance of
tho Sagacious and Stupendous Elephants, one of which ascends from
the centre of the stage to an elevation high above the stage, on a
narrow ridge not the width of his foot !
Tn conclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime called'
HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON; or. the
Seven Champions of Christendom.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager. Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director. W. W. Cooke.

EMMA STANLEY'S SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN,
Every Evening at g, and on Saturdays at 3.

Pronounced by the unanimous voice of the press, and by nightly
Inzreasin audiences, to be the Greatest Artistica' Triumph of the
day.

SAINT MARTIN'S HALL Long-acre.
Area, Is. Reserved Chairs, 23. 6d.