The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-25 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence

The Rosamond, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Crefton,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from the West India sta-
tion, last from Queenstown, at which port she put in
seven days ago, having encountered severe weather.
The Prometheus 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Selwyn,
arrived at Spithead yesterday, from Plymouth, with su-
pernumerary seamen for the ships fitting at Portsmouth.
The Avon steam-vessel left Portsmouth yesterday for
Plymouth with supernumerary seamen for the ships
fitting there.
The Wide• Awake sailing•transport arrived at Spit-
head yesterday from the Crimea. She has only some
condemned stores on board.

The gun-boat Spitjack, from Woolwich, which arrived
at Plymouth on Wednesday morning, reported that, on
passing the Bolt Tail during the night, she observed
blue lights, and concluded that they were exhibited by
some ship in distress. The bad condition of her engines
prevented her from offering assistance on a lee shora,
and she therefore reported the circumstances to Port-
Admiral Sir W. Parker, who immediately despatched
the steamer Confiance, in charge of Flag-Lieutenant
Turton, with spare anchors and cables, and a party of
riggers from the Devon port dockyard. She left at 9.30
a.m.,,and returned at 9 p.m., but without discovering
any vessel in distress, or finding by whom the blue
lights were exhibited.
The paddle-wheel steam troop-ship Dee, 4, Commander
Thos. C. Pullen, from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth
on Wednesday with machinery for the block-ships Forth
and Seahorse.

The Government lighter Camel, when sailing from
Hamoaze into Plymouth Souni on Wednesday,
grounded on the German Rock, but was get off by the
Pike steam-vessel without having suffered much injury.
Yesterday the Severn, having been christened by Miss
Wyvill, the granddaughter of CommodoreWyvill, Super-
intendent of Chatham Dockyard, was launched amid the
hearty cheers of those who had assisted in her construc-
tion, and with the good wishes of numerous visitors,
consisting of the pi incipal officers of the yard and a great
number of the military, &c. The Charybdis is imme-
diately to be laid down on the same slip.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Tagus, which arrived at Southampton yesterday, we re-
ceived the following items of naval and military intelli-
gence from Gibraltar :
The steam-transport Cape of Good Hope put into the
bay on the 12th, from Malta, with Lieutenant Crawford
and Lieutenant Dunn, 55th Regiment, and after taking
in coal resumed her voyage on the following day. The
steamer Telegraph coa'ed at the New Mole on the
12th, and left for Malta and Corfu, with detachments
of the Berkshire and Middlesex Militia, at 8 o'clock
the same evening, and returned the next night from off
Almeria, she having encountered a severe gale from the
S.F. with a very heavy sea, which washed overboard the
coal on deck and carried away the inner side of the
paddleboxes. She was replenishing her stock of fuel
and making good her repairs. The screw steam-trans-
port Indiana left Gibraltar for the Crimea on the 13th
inst. The Prince of Wales steam-transport, from Malta,
with 1,000 32-pound shot fur Gibraltar for orders,
anchored in the bay on the 13th. The Prince spoke
on the 12th inst. the British bark Integrity and the
Solstice, the latter of Sunderland, 57 days from
Alexandria., 110 miles east of Gibraltar, all well. The
steam-transport Ze'ara, from Deptford to the Crimea,
arrived at Gibraltar on the 13th inst. Her Majesty's
steam•slcop Prometheus left Gibraltar for England on
the 12th inst. The Perseverance steam-transport, from
Spithead for Malta, arrived at Gibraltar on the 14th,
and left the same day. The Zebra also sailed in the
afternoon. Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Transit
arrived at Gibraltar, for Scutari, on the 14th ; also the
transport Durham, from London, with stores for the
Crimea. Her Majesty's steamer Spitfire and steam
transports Prince of %Vales and Levant left for England
•n the 15th inst.
The steam-sloop Pearl, Capt. Sotheby, was hauled out
of Woolwich basin yesterday morning, and steamed
down to Greenbitbe to be swung. As soon as her cabin
fittings are completed she will sail thence on her first
voyage. The Devastation, Capt. Marshall, went out of
the basin by the same tide, and is to be stationed for a
short time in the river off the dockyard, whore she will
receive her mainmast and complete her repairs. The
gun-boats Charger, Lieut.-Commander Symons, and the
Dove, Lieut.-Commander Herbert, have also proceeded
to the Arsenal moorings to receive their sea stock and
ammunition. The Rhadamanthus and the Niger were
admitted into the basin yesterday morning, and the
Vixen will enter the basin to-day.
Lieut.-Colonel Beatson, Superintendent of the Build-
ing Department in the Arsenal grounds at Woolwich,
has received a notification from Lord Panmure, announc-
ing it to be the intention of Government to abolish that
post as a separate branch of the establishment, as by the
adoption of a new system, which is to be introduced,. the
services of an officer of engineers will not be required.
The duties of the office are to be carried out for the future
by the respective superintendents of the departments
generally.
The barracks lately in the occupation of the corps of
Sappers and Miners, at Woolwich, are now being con-
verted to the use of the classical department of the
for which purpose Captain Tilley's
Academy,(t
besth ) consisting of 60 men is hutted in the
i?el at the back of the Garrison Hospital. This
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company is the only remnant of the Royal Sappers and
Miners which is to remain at Woolwich, and is to nu-
dertake the carrying out all barrack and other garrison
repairs, &c.
Eighty volunteers will leave Chatham garrison this
day for their depots in Ireland, previous to joining their
regiments in the Crimea. Captain James Bailie, sth
Fusiliers, goes in command of this detachment to Cork,
vie Bristol.

Sixty young men of the Medical Staff Corps, after
being paraded, their kit examined by Staff-Captain S. G.
Bunbury, medically inspected at the General Hospital,
Fort Pitt, and, having gone through a course of instruc-
tion in the duties of stewards and orderlies, will quit
their depot, Chatham, this day, in charge of Thos. C.
Lyons, 20th Regiment, for Deptford, to embark on board
the Clyde, in medical charge of Surgeon J. W. Shiell,
M.D., for duty in the hospitals in the East.
The battery of artillery at present lying in Norwich
barracks (under the command of Captain Mountains) is
under orders for the Crimea. No time, however, has
yet been appointed for its departure.

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ment MILITIA.
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is stationed. The regiment was about 750 strong,
and in the course of a few hours gave about 20S volun-
teers to the Royal _Artillery, the Fusilier Guards, the
Royal Marines, and to the different regiments of the
cavalry and the line. The Colonel (the Hon. Col. Lyt•
tleton) told the men he was sorry to part with any of
them, but as the country required their services he was
proud and glad that such numbers of them had so readily
volunteered.
The East Norfolk Militia are under orders to proceed
to Colchester at the close of this month.
Thesg
have just given their first instalment of volun-
teers to the Line for the year 1856. 170 men have been
al!Glowuke of Lancaster's Own Rifles, stationed at
approved principally for the Queen's Bays, Artillery,
Marines, 34th, 40th, 71st, and Rifle Regiments. The
volunteering was limited to one day. The regiment INV
steads about 600 rank sad Mo.