The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-11 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXC.

Amsterdam .•• • • • •• • • 11 17

Ditto, three months .. 11 19%
Rotterdam ............ 11 193,4
Antwerp .............. 25 57%
Brussels ....•......... 25 575
liamburgh ............ 13 93i
Amnia •• .• •• •. •• •• .• --
Pari5........ • • .... 25 37

Ditto. three months .. 25 9714.
horseflies 25 77%
Bourdeaux .• •
Frankfort-on Maine •• •• 120 k
Berlin •• •• •• .• •• .• •• ••
. •• ..., 11 20
Trieste........ •• •• •... 11 22
Petersburg •• •• •• •••• •• 3434
Madrid •• .• •• •.• •• 49%
Cadiz •••• •• •••• 00000 •• 49%
rt.:at:olo/1a •• •• ••••
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Naval and Military Intelligence,

1 The following circular has just been issued to heads of
departments and regiments and depots in Ireland :
" Adjutant-General'a•office, Dublin, Jan. 1.
"Sir,—ln transmitting the enclosed copy of resolu-
tions adopted at a meeting held for the purpose of giving
the public an opportunity of expressing their apprecia-
tion of the noble and benevolent exertions of Miss
Nightingale for the benefit of the sink and wounded in
military hospitals, I have the honour, by desire of the
General Commanding in Ireland, in pursuance of the
orders of the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, to
request that you will be pleased to cause the same to be
notified to the regiment under your command, in order
that all ranks may be afforded the opportunity of con-
tributing towards a fund which has for its object the ex-
tension of those laudable and charitable views of Miss
Nightingale by which the army has already so materi-
ally benefitted.

"I hare the honour to be, Sir,
"Your obedient servant,
" G. H. HILLIER, Major,
".Assistant-Adjutant-General, for the
Deputy-Adjutant-General.
" The Officer Comniandirg."

THE MILITIA.
New colours were presented to the Piince of Wales
Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia, in the barrack
square. Paisley, on Friday forenoon, by Lady Napier.
Her ladyship ad&reesed the regiment as follows
Officers, non-commissioned officers, and solaiers of
the Royal Renfrerw Militia,--I find the honour has been
deputed to me by the Countess of Glasgow of presenting
to you these colours, the gift of the Earl of Glasgow,
Lord-Lieutenant c.f the county. It is with the greatest
pleasure 1 V3OlB fc rward to do so, knowing that during
the short tme tha t you have been embodied you have
already aquired .a reputation for discipline and good
conduut which is highly creditable to the regiment as
well as to the cowl ty to which you belong. You have,
further, shown yc.ur desire to serve your Queen and
country by volunti tering for foreign service, and the num-
bers who continually. step forth from your ranks, both
officers and men, to join those of the regiments of the
line, and share vi.th them the perils and glories of the
war, are sufficient evidence, if any were needed, of the
good and loyal spirit which animates your corps. You
have begun your career well. You bare my best wishes,
and I am sure I may add those of all present, for your
continued prosperity and success. Into your hands I
now consign thew colours, with the conviction that the
honour of these glorious standards can never be in safer
keeping than in th.st of the Prince of Wales Royal Regi-
ment of Renfrewsliiire Militia."
The principal residents of the county were present
among the great cm icourse of spectators. The Colonel,
Sir Robert Napier, iin returning thanks, particularly ex-
pressed the great obligation the regiment felt itself under
to the Lord-Lieute uant, the Earl of Glasgow, for his
great interest and nuitay acts of kindness. A ball was
given by the officers an the evening to the inhabitants of
the county and neighbeurhood. This was the first Scotch
regiment that voltinteered for foreign service, and it bas
given 220 men to the line since February last, and now
stands within a very few of its complement.

CRITICAL ,STATB OF THE ROYAL

ALBERT.

...P.-
ATHENS, Jan. 2.—Her Majesty's steam line-of-battle
ship Royal Albert, 131 guns, has bad a narrow escape
from foundering on her passage from the Crimea to
Malta. It appear s that she sprung a leak in the Archi-
pelago, caused by some defect in the screw machinery,
and that the water rushed in at the rate of half a ton a
minute at the stern, so that, to save the vessel, it was
deemed expedient to put into Port San Nicholas, in the
Island of Zea, where she was run aground to prevent
her sinking. By
the last account received here, up to
noon of the 31st ult., all was going on well. The leak
had been stopped, and it was expected that this noble
vessel would be able to leave yesterday, for Malta, c•
conipanied by her Majesty's steamer Sphinx, which
latter vessel, with the Princess Royal and the Swallow,
bad proceeded from the Piraeus to the assistance of the
Royal Albert, as soon as her critical situation was
known there, on th.e 29th ult. After passing unscathed
through all the daggers of the Black Sea for the last
twelve months, pr,tudly bearing
the flag of our naval
Commander-in-chief, it would indeed have been lament-
able-if this truly magnificent ship had been lost in the
waters of the AtVupelago. Sir Edmund Lyons must
have reached Mars lilies in the Caradoc steamer about
the time that his stag-ship was in such imminent dan-
ger. It is understood that he is to be one of the mem-
bers of a Council of War which is to be held mime-
diately in Paris. It is much to be regretted that
there has not been a wider field for action on the
part of our naval forces in the Black Sea ; as, al-
though Sir Edmund Lyons has accomplished all that
was practicable, it is believed he regrets that there was
not more for the noble fleet he commands to do. —Morn-
ing Post.

COMMON THINGS.—ii is a common thing for the con-
ductor of a Brompton •omnibus to propose to put you
down within "a heasy va lk" of Brixton. It is a common
thing for a wife whose• husband comes home late from a
dinner-party to be told, r•. Myd-ear I shure you pnrrinn-
our I shefirstogerriway." It is a commo❑ thing for men
who " won't detain you a. minute" to hold you by the
button-hole for more than an hour. It is a common
thing for an undergraduate to discover after a wine party
that he has taken too lime. `i coffee. It is a common
thing upon one's entrance in, ‘io what are advertised as
" quiet lodgings" to find tht tin tenanted already by a
troop of equalling children and an amateur cornopean.—
Punch.

From Chatham we learn that the Sappho, 16-gun
brig, bi ordered to be commissioned immediately. The
floating battery -e-D;na is now in frame. A portion of
the iron for her topsides has arrived from Mill wall, the
remains of the oue burnt: The Rattlesnake store-ship
was paid off on the 7th inst. The Severn screw, 50, is
to be launched on the 24th inst. The Cadmus screw
steam-sloop will be launched in February. Mr. Leacock,
measurer, is ordered to attend as inspecting ship wright
officer at one of the building yards -on the Thames, to
overlook one of the floating batteries which are to be
built there. A number of boys are being entered as
apprentices to the several trades in Chatham dockyard.
The screw sloop Falcon, 17, Commander Pullen, ar-
rived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from the east-
ward. The shipwrights of the dockyard assembled at
the Admiral-Superintendent's office yesterday, and asked
for an increase of wages. The shipwrights in the Thames
yards (contract builders) are represented as earning 6s.
a day, while those in her Majesty's dockyards cannot
get such wages even at task-work.
The Admiralty yacht Vivid, Master-Commander Allen,
arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning from Ports-
mouth, and was ordered immediately alongside the ma-
gazine to coal. Her Majesty's surveying steamer Vesu-
vius, Commander Hoare, arrived at Woolwich yesterday
morning from the Black Sea. The Vesuvius left Malta
on the 25th ult., Gibraltar on the Ist inst., and reached
Spitbead on the Bth. She is to go into basin forthwith,
to be refitted for immediate service, but will require
considerable repairs in her machinery, to which new
boilers are to be applied. The screw transport Norma,
No. 135, passed Woolwich yesterday morning from Con-
stantinople for Deptford. The pilot who took the sur-
veying ship Driver down the river, on her departure
on Sunday evening last for the Baltic, has returned to
Woolwich, having left the Driver off Harwich, where
she steered due north.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty .—Lieut. J. Grant, to the Imperieuse ;
Lieut. A. Dent, to the Firefly ; Lieut. W. Chimmo, to
the Tartarus ; Lieut. F. M. Welsall, to the Horatio ; F.
Wills, Master to the Sappho ; T. A. W. Smith, Acting-
Clerk to the Pylades ; A. J. Mayers, Assistant-Clerk to
the Illustrious ; C. H. J. Coiling, Assistant-Clerk to the
Fisgard. The undermentioned clerks have been pro-
moted to be Paymasters :—H. Callaway, H. Tevit, J.
T°mkinm, C. W. Tuke, A. W. Chimmo, H. Champion,
R. D. Hors, and J. Seldon.
Brevet-Major J. C. Rawstorne, 91st Regiment, has
joined at Chatham, and assumed the command of the 65h
company depot of that corps.
It is rumoured that the 96th Regiment, upwards of
1.200 strong, stationed in the camp at the Curragh of
Kildare, will be moved early in spring from that station
to Cork barracks, to be in readiness for embarkation for
the seat of war. The 96th have been supplied with the
Enfield rifle.
The head-quarters of the Royal Sappers and Miners
from Woolwich arrived at Brompton barracks yesterday.
The band played two airs before the quarters of Colonel
H. Sandhain, R.E., after which the Colonel inspected
the men, who were told off to their rooms. The duties
of the department will be continued some weeks longer
by the Assistant-Adjutant-General, who will return to
Woolwich for that purpose. The body of the barrack
quarters being required for the practical class of Gentle-
men Cadets, the sth company, under the command of
Captain Tilley, will consequently be the only portion of
that corps which is to be stationed in Woolwich for the
future. The services of the sth company will be employed
in carrying on all barrack repairs, &c. Quartermaster
Jenktn Jones will l►kewise be stationed at Woolwich, to
superintend the transport department of military cloth-
ing, &c.