The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-12 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Weasel, Skylark, Starling, Dapper, Hind, and
Jackdaw gun-boats were taken out of the steam basin at
Portsmouth yesterday, being refitted for the Baltic.
The Prompt, Blazer, Havoc, and Porpoise mortar-
vessels were taken out of the sea basin at Portsmouth
yesterday, having also been refitted for the Baltic.
The Centaur, 6, paddle-frigate, and Gorgon 6, paddle
sloop, were taken yesterday into the fitting basin at
Portsmouth.

The Dragon, 6, paddle-sloop, Capt. Stewart, was taken
into the steam-basin at Portsmoutb.

The Geyser, 6, paddle•sloop, Commander Dew, was
undocked yesterday at Portsmouth.
The screw steam-ship Brunswick, 80, Captain H. It.
Yelverton will be taken out of the basin-dock at Devon-
port today and placed alongside the sheer hulk to re-
ceive her masts.

The steam-transport Diligence was towed out of Ha.
moaze on Thursday by the Confiance steam-tender, and
sailed the same day with stores for Pembroke.
The block-ships Forth and Seahorse, at Plymouth, are
to be got ready for roasting with all despatch.
The Albion, 90, has been warped to the sheer-hulk at
Devonport, and, having had her masts taken out, was
placed at the moorings in ordinary. She is to be fitted
as a temporary hulk for the crew of the Brunswick.
Fifteen apprentices to shipwrights, four to engineers,
and four to caulkers are ordered to be entered in the
Devonpprt Dockyard.
The steam-transport City of Paris, Commander Roy,
from London for Balaklava, put into Plymouth Sound
on Thursday evening with two feet water in her engine.
room.

The hired bark Kinnear, Captain Metcalf, from
London, to load provisions at the Royal William
Victualling-yard for Balaklava, arrived in Plymouth
Sound on Thursday.
The steam-ship Belgique, Capt. Tack, with mails for
New York, sailed from Plymouth yesterday morning.
The screw-transport Edina has arrived at Woolwich
with a cargo of military stores from Deptford, for Ba-
laklava. She has embarked her powder and a few other
requisites, and is ready to proceed to Greenhithe to be
adjusted for her voyage.
The following appointments were made yesterday :
Lieut. E. M. Leycester, to the Centurion ; Lieut. A. T.
Bullock, to the Centurion ; Lieut. D. B. Pack, to the
Centurion; Lieut. J. S. Tomkin, to the Sappho ; Robt.
Knox, master, to the Centurion ; W. C. Back, master,
to the Intrepid ; W. Rowe, master's assistant, to the De-
vastation ; Robert W. Roberts, acting-master's attend-
ant, to Haulbowline-yard ; W. H. Parker, promoted to
be master ; L. T. Cunningham, surgeon, to the Centu-
rion ; Wm. Evans, surgeon, to the Sappho ; Alexander
Fisher, assistant-surgeon, to the Brunswick ;John Hen-
ahaw, paymaster, to the Centurion; A. W. Inglis, mid-
shipman, to the Pearl ; A. Markham, midshipman, to
the Royal Albert ; C. D. Broughton, midshipman, to
the Seahorse.

The Spanish Government, with a view of introducing
the English system of keeping accounts in their naval
departments, have despatched Brigadier Juan de Dios
Eames Yzquierdo, belonging to the naval establishment
of that country, to visit England, for the purpose of ob-
taining a knowledge of the method of keeping accounts
used in her Majesty's dockyards. This gentleman has
visited Woolwich with the intention of being initiated
into the mode pursued in that establishment in keeping
the timber and stone ledgers.
An experimental trial of the power of galvanism has
been made in the proof department of the Arsenal,
Woolwich, for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain a
surer mode of discharging in regular succession the vari-
ous guns under proof. The method, however, has been
pronounced too complicated to admit of its being brought
into general use for the present. A number of 24-pound
brass howitzers have gone through the usual proofs at
the Arsenal butt, which are intended for the use of the
numerous gun-boats fitting out there. The aggregate
number ordered from the various Government contrac-
tors, to be conveyed to Woolwich dockyard alone, to be
completed for service before the ensuing spring, is 200,
independently of a number of despatch-boats.
All the companies of the Royal Marines Light In-
fantry, Chatham, which have been open to receive re-
cruits from the Militirs, have their full complement.
About 300 men of the Provisional Battalion, Chatham,
volunteered on Thursday and Friday for regiments in
the Crimea.

_At a medical beard held yesterday at Brompton 102
men were passed as unfit for further active service.
The Rev. Win. Hare, chaplain to the forces, is about
to quit Malta for Dublin, having received a similar ap-
pointment in that city to the one he held at the former
place. The Rev. Mr. Lawless succeeds Mr. Hare at
Malta.

The Very Rev. the Dean of Down and Connor has]
been appointed chaplain to the Royal Antrim Artillery
Regiment.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Ensign James Bartho-
lowew Sehlotel to be Lieutenant, vice Wimberley, re-
signed ; John Hampden Waller, gent., late King's Own
Light Infantry Tower Hamlets Militia, to be Ensign.
West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—Mi•
chael Clare Garsia' gent., to be Ensign ; Charles Hamilton
Sams, gent., to be Ensign.
Northamptonshire Militia Ensign William Henry
Worge-de Capel Brooke to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Felix
Mashetor Whitehurst to be Lieutenant ; Charles Jennings
to be Ensign.
. _

Fifeshir; Militia Artillery—Henry Moore Johnston©,
gent.,to be second Lieutenant.

ist.Reginient of King's Own Staffordshire Militia —Ed-
ward Essex Digby Boycott, gent., to be Ensign.
2,1 Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En-
sign George Walton to be Lieutenant, vice Levett, pro-
moted.

mist Rifle Regiment Royal Cornwall Rangers—Ensign
:Murray to be Lieutenant.

Reial Monmouthshire Light Infantry Regiment of Mi-
litia—Lieut. John Richard Russell to he Captain; Ensign
William Leigh to be Lieutenant, ♦ice Homfray, resigned ;
Ensign William Owen to be Lieutenant, vice Leigh, pro-
moted.

2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlesex
Militia—Charles Bridger, gent., to be Ensiga.
Ist Durham Regiment of Militia.—Lieut. William Dale
Trotter to be Captain, vice Forester, resigned ; Ensign
Thomas Kipling to be Lieutenant, vice Trotter, promoted.
West Essex Militia—Lieut. John Manners Tharp° to be
Captain, vice Brett, appointed to the 28th Foot; Charles
Gregory Way, gent., to be Ensign, vice Harwood, resigned.
Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery--
Second Lieutenant Thomas Broun to be First Lieutenant,
vice Carnegie, resigned.
Leicestershire Militia—John Buckley, Esq., to be Cap-
tain ; Hercules Akernan, gent., to be Ensign.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
George Weatherhead, joiner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
BANKRUPTS.

Robert Turner, draper, Ludgate-hill, to surrender, Jan.
23, at two, and Feb. 19, at half-past one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Shepherd, Clif-
ford's-inn, Fleet-street.

James Wilson, ship broker, Grafton-road, Kentish-town,
Jan. 31 and Feb. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbnry ; A. Reed, Iron.
monger-lane. . _

Ttiomas Hampton, corn merchant, Broadwator, Sussex,
Jan. 23, at twelve, and Feb. 19, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee. Aldermanbury ; Van-
dercom, Cree, Laws, and Cornyn, Bush-lane, Cannon-st.
George Longden, draper, Welton-in-the-Marsh, Lincoln,
Feb. 6 and 27, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Farrow, Alford.
Edward Rheam Sanderson, seed crusher, West Kinnald
Ferry, Lincoln, Feb. 6 and 27, at twelve, at the Leeds
District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Peel,
Liverpool ; Markland, Leeds.
John Richards, ship owner, Cardiff, Jan. 22 and Feb.
19, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official
assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
Alexander Anderson, innkeeper, Stoarbridge, Jan. 25
and Feb. 22, at 11, at Birmingham. Christie, official
assignee, Birmingham ; Addenbrooke, Stourbridge ; E.
and H. Weight, Birmingham.
Thomas Whitehead and Joseph Lassey, dyers, Morley,
Yorkshire, Jan. 28, and Feb. 25, at 11, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Naylor, Leeds.
James Pratt and Charles Abson, earthenware manufac-
turers, Castleford, Yorkshire, Jan. 28, and Feb. 18, at 12,
at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee,
Leeds ; Haigh, Horbary ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Charles Fox, print seller, Manchester, Jan. 24 and Feb.
14, at twelve, at she Manchester District Court. Herna.
man, official assignee, Manchester; Boote, Manchester.
Samuel Lowe, provision dealer, Oldham, Jan. 28 and
Feb. 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Partington, Man-
chester.

SCOTCH SEQUEBTR ANIONS.
Macdonald and Baird, clothiers, Glasgow.
Alexander Macinnes, merchant, Inverness.
John M‘Hardy, senior, gardener and merchant, Stone-
haven.
John Bendalow, hotel keeper, Mtartewn, near Inver-
ness.