The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Ripon, Captain Cooper, transport No. 25, arrived at
Southampton yesterday from the Mediterranean, with
the officers, troops, &e., previously enumerated in The
San,. The Ripon sailed from Smyrna on the 4th inst.,
Malta the 9th, and Gibraltar the 14th, and on leaving
the latter port passed the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s
steam-ship Tagus, with the outward Peninsular mails,
entering the bay. The steam transport Foyle, from Spit-
head, with store-, officers, &c., arrived at Gib-
raltar on the Sth instant, on the way to the East.
The steam transport Berwick, having taken on
board 172 horses and mules, &c., sailed for the
Dardanelles on the 6th inst The British paddlewheel
steamer Gun. Paltssier left Gibraltar the same day, for
Constantinople, where she is to be employed in convey-
ing passengers from that city to Scutari. Lieut.-Colonel
C. E. Law, of the 66th Regiment, who had been absent
in England on leave, returned by the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's mail steam-ship Euxine on the 9th
inst. H.M. paddlewheel steam-sloop Tartarus, Comman-
der Mansell, left Gibraltar on the evening of the sth, for
Malta, whence she will proceed to the Sea of Azoff, to be
employed in surveying the intricateinlets of that •.ea. The
British screw steamer Victor Emmanuel, six and a-bamf
days from Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar on the 6th, and
the Albanian, six days from Liverpool, arrived on the
11th. The steam transports Sarah Sands, from Liver-
pool, and the Norman, from Woolwich, with Royal Artillery and horses for Balaklava, reached Gibraltar on I
the night of the 13th inst. The Sarah Sands lost seven
horses during the voyage, and 14 others were reported
in a bad state, owing to the rough weather she expe•
rienced. The Prince Arthur steam transport sailed for
Deptford on the morning of the 14th. The British brig
her Majesty, which arrived at Gibraltar on the 12th inst.
from Deptford, bound to Constantinople, was on the
night of the 9th, while lying-to, struck by a heavy sea,
which stove is the boats, main hatches, forehatch, and
water casks, carried away a portion of her bulwarks,
studding sails, and washed other articles from the deck.
The British brig Coquette, Forbes Watt, master, put
into the bay at noon, on the 9th inst., having been in
collision at 1 a.m. that morning, close to the Morocco
coast in the Straits, with a bark called Barthia or Mer

thew (or some such name), of 400 tons, belonging to
Dantzie, bound front Alexandria, for Liverpool. In the
collision the bark struck into the larboard aide of the
Coquette between the fore and main rigging. The
shock was so dreadful that Captain Watt, fully ex-
pecting his vessel would sink before he* could get time
to lower a boat, went on board the bark with all his
crew. As soon as the latter vessel cleared the brig
Captain Watt requested the captain of the barque to
put out a boat, which he consented to with the great-
est reluctance, when he, with his mate and three men,
returned to the brig, leaving the remainder of his crew
on board the barque. He found her with eight inches
of water in the hold, besides having suffered considerable
damage; and, while securing the rigging, &c. the barque
bore down to inquire if the brig was making water.
Capt. Watt replied in the affirmative, and requested the
captain of the barque to take his vessel in tow to Gib-
raltar ; but his request was unheeded, and the barque
sailed away, having on board part of the brig's crew,
and leaving the brig in a disabled condition.
An express from Madrid arrived at Gibraltar on the
evening of the 13th inst., with a despatch from the Bri-
tish Embassy- for Lieut.-Col. Maberley, conveying in-
structions from her Majesty's Government to suspend
throughout Spain the purchase of horses and mules for
the British army in the East.
The British steam-transport Earl of Durham, eight
days from Plymouth, with Government stores for Malta
and Constantinople, arrived at Gibraltar on the 14th

inst. ; also the British steamer Eglinton, seven days from
Liverpool, for Constantinople. The British steamer
Prince of Wales, seven days from London, bound fur
Constantinople, arrived out on the 13th.
Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir M. F. F. Berkeley.
K.C.8., Senior Naval Lord of the Admiralty, visited
Portsmouth yesterday, and went over the dockyard, and

nut to Spithead and the Motherbank, to inspect the gun-
boat division under Captains Codrington and the Hon.
11. Keppel. The Admiral embarked in the eteam•yacbt
Vivid, Master Commander N, W. Allen, R.N., and he

returned to the df.c'Ayard w;th Capt9.in Codriogtom abort
half past t tt.e!, :afternoon. Other rur::nbcrs rf the
Board of Admiralty are exp••eted at Portsmouth to day,
and the Queen and Court on Tuesday next. Her Majesty's
ship Orion, 91, Captain Erskine, arrived at Spithead on
Tuesday evening from Plymouth, and joined the fl,et.
The Pearl, 21-gun corvette, Capt. Sotheby, having been
undocked, after repair of a little defect. went to the coal-
ing bulk yesterday. The Ringdove, 6, new despatch gun-
boat, Commander Sau'ez, was undocked ye4.rdav after-
noon at Portsmouth, and moved into the steam-basin for
the attention of the engineer department. The Fox, 42,
being fitted for a steam-transport, was undocked at Ports-
mouth yesterday, and will move into the steam basin to
ship her machinery, which has been landed from the steam
tender Rhadaruanthus. Two new mortar vessels arrived
at Portsmouth yesterday from Liverpool, in tow of :he
steam-tug Tartar. The steam-transport East Anglian,
No. 162, left Portsmouth on Tuesday night with Ord-
nance stores for the Crimea. The sailing transport Clif-
ton, No. 106, arrived at Spithead yesterday. The Eagle
steam-transport, No. 171, arrived at Portsmouth yes-
terday:

Tne two last gunboats building at Pembroke dockyard
have been launched—viz., the Drake and the Janus.
They were launched at the same time, having been built
in the same slip. The following arc their principal dimen-
sions—viz.:—Length between perpendiculars, 110 feet ;
do. for tonnage, 85 feet ; extreme breadth, 21 feet 11 in.;
do. for tonnage, 21 feet 8 inches ; depth of held, 64 feet ;
and of the, barden-br2l2 tons. No relaxation of acti-
vity is ♦isible, and the other vessels on the stocks are
being brought forward with all despatch ; the Aerial
will be launched in the course of April.
The steam-transport Imperatriz, Captain H. Cox, was
yesterday morning ordered up from Woolwich to the
docks, to be examined preparatory to future service.
His Imperial Majesty's sailing transport Marsoein ha
been towed down to Gravesend from Woolwich. Th
Mate )uin is laden with engine gear for the French Go-
vernment.

The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle left Woolwich yes-
terday morning for Portsmouth.
Four other gun-boati, named the Thrasher, Spanker,
Leveret, and Mackerel,' hra nearly completed. The first
two were built at Moors. -Green's, at Blackwall, and
the latter by Messrs. Pitu,ker,' of Northfleet. They are
to be manned in the ordatury manner of that class of
Fun-boats—lamely, with one 68 and one 32 pounder.
Their measurement is 233 tons re sister, and they are
to be supplied with 60-horse power engines. These ves-
sels are to be launched on Saturday.
The following lieutenants were yesterday appointed to
the command of Run-boats :—Lieut. H. W. Brent, to the
Daisy ; Lieut. F. P. Doughty, to the Pert; Lieut. F. T.
Thomson, to the Bullfinch ; Lieut. H. M. Bingiam, to
the Delight ; Lieut. G. L. Sullivan, to the Thrasher ;
Lieut. G. S. Bosanquet, to the Spanker; Lieut. W. Cod-
rington, to the Leveret; and Lieut. Hewett, to the
Onyx.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty ; Lieut. J. W. East, to the Tartar ; Lieut.
E. Drury, to the Sanspareil ; Lieut. J. E. Hunter, to
the Retribution-t-Lieut. E. J. Brooks, to the Rodney;
W. S. Lake, master, to the Euryalus ; A. N. Phillips,
master's assistant, to the Impregnable ; J. Rose, acting
surgeon, to the Flying Fish • C. W. Harris, paymaster,
to the Waterloo ; W. M. Shanks, paymaster, to the Vi-
gilant; A. Ovey, paymaster, to the Surprise ; F. Burns,
assistant paymaster in charge, to the Assurance ; G. M.
Blyth, assistant paymaster in charge, to the Osprey ; G.
B.!Brown, assists,_' arge, to the Alacrity;
W. H. Whichelo, clerk; ; H. B. Rowe, clerk,
to the Centaur; S. temporary eerk, to the
Hawke ; Victor I*-0. assistant clerk, to the
Arrogant.