The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

, Naval and 141litary
,Intelligence.j
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An official account from the A.dmiralty states that hcr
Majesty's ship Royal Albert snivel at Malta ou the
7th of January, all safe. .

The Cressy, 80 guns, screw steam-ship, Captain R.
L: Warren, left Sheerness on Saturday for the Downe,
to wait Atlmirtiltj, orders.
The Royal George, 102 guns, screw steam-ship, Capt.
H. J. Cadriugton, C. 13., having bad her damage to Ea

ainery and defects repaired, has been put out of the
fit►tin-basin, Sheerness, to harbour moorings.
The Esk, 2t, screw steam-corvette; Capt.. T. T. Birch
is progressing rapidly in
.her: refitment, and will 4hortly
be reported ready for immediate service.
The London, 90, Capt. A. Kuper, from the Mediterra-
nean, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday. She is to La

taken to the Devonport dock rd and fitted with` all
speed to convey shot and shell to tile 'Baltic% where eh.
will probably continue a 9 a depot.
All ships preparing at Plyzaoatti for 'servi,e ;6 the
Baltic are ordered to be ready by the l!st of Ma?el,

A eimsiderable number of-mechanics, priti4ailvsLip•
wriglite and shipjoineys, at Sheerness ard, have de,_
mai,ded and obtained their discharge, for the purpose cy±
proceeding up tbe.river Thames for employment at mer-
chant yards. The inducement is the hilfh rate of wages
paid for jib, and taskwork by private buildeN compared
with the dockyard rate of prices for ainular work.
Thj tion-commis4oned officers and men of the Royal
Sanms and Miners. Chatham, are under the instruction
of Captain Francis Du Cane. in the use and working of
the eletric telegraph.
el!iptical bore rifle has been issued to the
17th; 24th, 25th, and 2fith companies of the Royal Sap-
pers Mni Miners ; the 24th company is the first for tier-
vice„,stipposed to be the Baltic.
i'nortler has been issuedirom the War-office: to
miatry authorities at Chatham that the corps of the
Rpj.Artillery and. Ruyal,Sappers and Al iners 'shalt he
b;rilislied with their daily rations from the C3nonisi.ariet
Depirtmcnt on the home stations!, the same, as the Ca-.
Nalry and line, cotnunn ct i the let of ,Febriiarv.
Au additiona! number of 40 sergea.nts and 40 privates
of the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, are. to be pLitec3
011 - Capt. W. Nott, 83d Regiment, fur inetruCtion
the. Enfield practice.
stcat..-velood A-viin, from Ports Mouth. arrived at

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Plyiriout:i nn S9tnidity, with Sk,a:Lleti. and for
the stei,m-sh:p Brunswick. 90, Captain -Yelverwri.
Only 16 of the 100 shipwrights aritholised by the Ad-
miralty on the sth inst. to be received at the Devonport
doekyavd have as yet entered.

The hired sailing transport Bombay, Capt. Flamank,
from the Mediterranean, with 250 cases of tuu.skets, ar-
rived in Plymouth Sound on Friday &yelling. This ship
belongs t., Mr. Dunbar ; she was um ii4inally employed' by
the E ,st India Company, and has been constantly (wen-
pied in the Last since the cowmen-cement of the war .
Harlin;
taken aminnuition and I,tcres Sheerne.s
a ~rtsinoutli, she lett Cork iu April, 1854, with the
14th Reinvent, which were landed at Malta, and she
then proceeded to do duty at Constantinople as a store-
ship, am il became for six weeks the residence of time late
Admiral Boxer. Aftir the troops embarked for the

ernuoathe Bambay conveyed sick from Varua to sett-

tari. returning with heathy soldiers to Vann. and tia-ek
gain with siek to Sentari, where Op, was retained ai a
flo,,tqT hospital. In April, ]SSS, she vonveyed stores
ti Malts, and then took ammunition from 11laraeilles to
Katn;egh, where retnained until the 'day after the

fall of Sehactop .1, when she went to Bnjukder,o,slnd em-
harked 1,200 mon of the Tnrki.-h Contingent, Who lauded
at St., Pa li, of Ar -1(.-erreh-;--atailtie-MinWreturivr g
to S'entars, took in shot and shell for :Malta, when, here
not leing sufficient store roo'n, she diFeharged tliem -at
Gibraltar, and 'left on the 26th of December for' Eng-
lane,

Thft Pigmy•eteamer went out of Portsmouth harbour
on Saturday morning with a mooring Jump anti a !tarty of
rigger., to lift the raft. and mortar whirl, ,ask while
making trial of the Rev. Mr. .13,r,hon'A invention
on Friday last. The steamer, however, returned with-
out effecting the object, but they found the raft lying
bottom upwards with the mortar underneath. They
also discovered the 'body of the unfortunate roan whu
was drowned, which was so entangled with the gear e•t
the raft that it could not be raised to the surface• of thee.
wa►er, and it still remains. The poor fellow was gun•
ner's mate on board the Egcelient. ills name is Robert
Charters, aged ahout3s. He leaves ore child and a wile
near her confinement. Another attempt will he made
to-day to rescue the body of the unfortunate man, and
to raiss the r ft and mortar.

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The f• wiug appointments z' were mane on atur-ay
at the Admira ty :—Lientenant E. C. Symons, to the
Charger ; Lieut. T. F. Bullock, to the Badger ; Lieut.
W. 11. Cruising, to the Lark ' • F. L. Birrington, Mid•
•shipman to the ; W. V. E. Reynolds, Su:-
geon to the Tartarus ;•John Fisher, Assistant-Surgeon
to the Centurion ; C. L. Cartws ight, Assistant.P:-zy
master in charge of the Tartarus ; Richard Sainthill,
ARsi.tant-Paytua-ter to the Doke•of Wellington ; John
E. C Suldvain Acting Clerk to the Russell ; VVilliatu
Flood, Acting Clerk to the Tartarus.
The steam transport Cleopatra arrived in Cork har-
bour ts u Thuraday, and was expected to sail on Saturday
morning for the seat of war with the iollowing diaughtt, :
—7l men of the Ist Royale, 37 of the 30th Regiment,
18 of the 33 I. 20 of the 49th, 66 of the noth. 20 of the
68th, and 100 of *the 82J. They will 'he ekni•stupsean
by the 13 oftigers,•and will be all lustier the command tit
Captain Fitzr. rah!, of the 68th. - -
Major, commanding the depot of the 69th
Regiment, in Kilkenny, has receife4 orders to give
vo:unteeri f.ir the .regiments in the Crimea, permitting
all such of his men an wished to proceed to the seat of
war to %olunteer. The depot is et present 380 strong,
and so ready were the men to volunteer for active ser-
vice that it is expected not 100 'nen will remain behind,

The Trusty, 14 guns, flouting-battery, Capt. Frederick
9. Campbell, and the 'l'W:oder, fitiating-battery, 14
gon4, Captain George G. Randolph, are being fitte..l
with guila perch; speaking tubes leading trout aft to
forward on the main gundeck, communicating with the
intended shot-proof look-out house on deck for the offi-
cer in command giving orders for placing ship in time
of action, and for giving, from any given number of
guns, a concentrated broadside fire. Mr. Wro. Wolfe
Rainey, the inventor of this mode of cominunicatiou
during action, has recently been engazed in enperin-
tending the fitting of similar tube; to ail the French
floating-batteries new fitting at the French Royal duck-
yards.

Second-Class-Surgeon Alexander Knox, M.D., sta-
tioned at Chatham, retires on lia,if-nay.
The fnllowint is the probable staff of the headquarters
of th 4 Royal Sappers and Miners at Chatham : Colonel
Henry Sandham, R.E , Director of the establishment ;
Lieut.-Colonel Yorke, Assistant-Adjutant-General ;
Maj •r Hassard, R.E., Ausistant Director of Field
Works ; Capt. 11. D. Scott. R.E., Superintendent of
Survey Instructions ; Capt. Fitzroy Somer,et, Brigade-
Msjor ; Capt. F. E. Cox, R.E., Adjutant ; Lieut. Lem-
priere, Adjutant of the party occupying huts ; Lieut.
Phillips; Instructor of Field Works. Quartermaster
Jenkins Jones remains at Woolwich ; Quartermaster
Thos. Connolly, Chatham ; Quartermaster Bradford to
that portion occupying the huts.

THE MILITIA.
'The following general order has been issued
" Adjutant-Generars-office, Dublin, Jan. 7.
" The exemplary conduct, order, and regularity of the
regiments of Irish Militia on the occasion of their em-
barking lately at Kingstown and Cork for England,
and of the English regiments of Militia on their diseui;
barking to replace them, have been mentioned in the
most favourable terms by Major• General CochranP, com-
manding the Dublin district, and by Major General
Mansei, commanding the Cork district. The General
Commanding has bad great satisfaction in receiving and
communicating to the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief the reports to which be refers, and which are so
creditable to the state of discipline of these corps, to the
exertions of the officers in command of them, acd to the
departmental officers under whose immediate superior
tendence the arrangement for the departure and recep-
tion of Si regitdents were made, and this service carried
into effect.

" By order of the General Commanding,
"J. E. HILLIER, Major, -e_ssistant-Adjutant-Gette.
ral, for the Deputy-Acf.jittant General."
The following regiments of Militia have embarked fur
England : The Antrim, Armagh, Cambridge, Cavan,
CLlianireel„ieCko(rckou(nNtyl, th),Dul,lin(C Galway, Kerry,
Northampton,
commou Tyrone,
and Westmeath.
The regiments of Militia which have disembsrked in
Ireland are the Bedford, Cambridge, Cheshire, Gunther.
land, Devon (1-0, Kent (West), Laam-ashire (4th), Lan-
casbire (stb), Lincoln (South), Middlesex (4th), Norfolk
(West), Northampton, Nottingham, Somerset (2d),
Warwick (2d), York (Ist West), York (3d West).
wore Causland'
of
the
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The proceedings of the court-martial on Lieutenant A.
B.
PortsmouthArmagh Li,gol int t h
the 2d Infantry
o
fMilitia,
January
o promulgated
by Major General Breton, Commanding the South-
Western District. Lieutenant M'Causlantl was placed
under surest at Armagh, on the /9th of June last, under
charges which it i.a not now necessary to detail ; and,
the charges being submitted from the General Com-
manding the Belfast District, General Thomas, to Lord
Seaton, the court-martial was assembled at the Curragh,
directly atter the arrival of the regiment there on the
10th of September. The Court was again re-assembled
by order on the 12th of November. The following is
the wording of the decision of the Court as now era-
mulgated
" The r;ourt-martial, having attentively
reconsidered the whole of the evidence adduced both on
the part of the prosecution and the &fence, and Laving
had due- deference to her Majesty's gracious commands
and the observations of the legal adviser of the Crown,
do hereby reverse their former findiu,
, of
NweoitghGednialtnyd,,
and do now find the prisoner, Lieutenant A. B. M'Caut.
land, of the Armagh Militia, guilty of both the charges
preferred against
"The court-martial, having thus found the prisoner
guilty of both the charges preferred against him, do
Waco him, Lieutenant A. B. M`Causland, of the Armagh
Milctia, to be cashiered.
"‘ Hvr.Majesty has been pleased to approve and con-
rhiernso Majestyer's behalfw a, and the grounds of
the further pleased to
firm the finding and sentence of the °mut
"In consideration, however, of the recommendation
of -the Court
recommendation, in
extend her most gracious clemency to Lieut. M`Causland
g
and to command that he be restored to the functions of
the'
'his commission in the Armagh Militia, being severely
reprimanded and admonished as to ilia future conduct."
Lieut. .M'Causland was placed under arrest at Ar-
magh on the 19th of June, 1355, anvil the finding and
sentence were not promulgated, as approved and con-
firmed by her Majesty, untii. 'be 24 of Jan., 1856
upwards of 6 months.

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