The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-05 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY, 3danctr 1.

Corps of Tloyal)liarines—Second Lieutenant Alfred H.
Pascoe to be tiitst Lieutenant, vice Nason, resigned his
Commission.
CONAIISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIWTEN ANTS.

Oxfordshire Regi in entloi Militia—Henry Atkins 'Bowyer,
Gent., to be an Ensign, vice Clark, retired.
Herefordshire Reginient of Militia—Win. Christopher
Seymour, Gent., to be Ensign; vice Brown, promoted ;
John Early, Gent., to he Ensign, vice Archibald, appointed
to the 50th Refit. of Foot. *7
• Ist Cornwall Rifles-Lieutenant Fulbert Archer to be
Captain, vice Glanville, resigned. •
Inverness, Rua Elgin, and Nairn Regiment of High-
lend Light Infantry Militia—The Hon. Lewis Alexander
Grant to be Captain, vice William Duff, who retires
90th. Stirlingshire,' &c., Militia, Highland Borderers
Light Infantry—John Crawford Tait, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Alexander Robert Abercromby Boyd, re-
signed ; Francis ',Pringle, Gent., to be Ensign;' vice
Francis Fawkes, appoiated.to the 71st Regiment of Foot.
Ist Royal Lanarkshire Militia--,Lieutenant Sir Henry
Orlando Robert Chamberlain,. Bart., to be Captain. vice
Itoberton, deceased; Ensign William Mitchell to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Crawford, promoted; Ensign Robert Savery
Rouse to' be Lieutenant, vice Chamberlain, promoted
George Panlet, 0-plat., to be Ensign, vice Macdonald,',
resigned ; James McGregor, Gent.• to be Ensign, vice
Mackenzie,. appointed to 3 oth liont ; John Cameron
Fender, Gent., to be Ensign, vice: Hussey, appointed to
39th Foot ; Alexander Martin Edmiston, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Mitchell, promoted.
24 Royal Lanarksbire Militia—Ensign Robert Pollock to
he Lieutenant, vice• Eddington, appointed to 92d Foot ;
Fnsign dames Begg to be Lieutenant, vice William Ful-
lerton Fullerton, appointed to 924 Foot ; John Forbes,
nt., to he Ensign, • vice John Pollock, resigned ; John
Charles Meriette, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Eddington,
promoted.
Hertfordshire Militia—Ensign Augustus Temple to be
Lieutenant ; Ensign Edward Dorricer Nowbolt to be Lieu-
tenant ; Ensign Henry Joseph Toulmin to be Lieutenant.
South Herts Yeomanry—Stevenson Arthur Blackwood,.
Esq., to be Cornet; Henry Sambrook Crawley, Esq., to
be djutant.

A court-martial, connietkng of P.eareAdmiral the Hon.
Sir a S. Dundee, K C. 8., Commander-in• Chief of the
Baltic fleet, president ; Captains H. J. Codrington,
C.B. ; Sir T. Maitland, C.B. ;,G. R. Mundy ; the Hon.
11. Keppel, C.B. ; G. A. Elliott, J. Hope ; the Hon. F.
T. Pelbern, C.B. ; It. S Robinson, J. Rohb, H. Lyeter,
G. T. Gordon, and E. Ommanney, and Mr. W. J. Hel-
lyer, Deputy-Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, assembled
yesterday morning on board the flag-ship Victory, at
Portsmouth, to try Henry Duncan, Acting-Ass'.stant-
Engineer of the second-class, belonging to her Majesty's
ship Cressy, for having deserted, or absented himself
without leave, from that ship on the 12th of February
last, and for not returning until taken back in custody on
the 25th. It appeared by the evidence of Commander
J. Seccombethat the prisoner was sent ashore on the day
in question (when the ship was lying in the Downs) to
take the chief engineer's expense-book to that officer,
who was then sick in Deal Naval Hospital, Commander
Seccombo strictly enjoining him to use despatch and re-
turn to the Cressy the Berne day, as he was the only en-
gineer they had to depend upon in the event of weigh-.
ing, or the engines being started. The prisoner did not
go near his .chief, but kit the books at a public-house in
Deal (the New Inn), and made off for Dover to visit
his brother with whom he took a trip to France in
the Queen mail packet, of which his brother is the
engineer ; from Calais the prisoner was on his way
to London to finish his "spree," when he was appre-
hended about 40 miles from Deal, and sent as a de-
serter to the flag-ship Waterloo, at Sheerness, whence he
was forwarded to the Cressy, to be dealt with as the
Lords of the Admiralty might direct. The prisoner had
nothing to say in defence, but put in certificates of good
character from the mercantile firms where he learnt his
craft, and he called on Commander Seccornbe to speak
as to his knowledge of his conduct during the three
months he had been on board the Cressy ; this testi-
mony was very favourable to him. The Court, after a
very long deliberation, pronounced the charge proved,
except in that part relative to the prisoner's apprehen-
sion on the road, on the 18th Feb., which they had no.
direct evidence to prove ; and he was sentenced to be
mulcted of all pay and allowances due to him, to be re•
duced to the grade of a third class assistant engineer,
and to be disqualified for promotion to a higher grade
for the term of one year. •
,Her Majesty's ship Hawke, Cept. Ommanney, will
leave Spit head to.da.y, .with a party of marines, for Ply-
mouth: It de -reported that Will • proofed-frem-Any,
r.outh to the North American station.

The Julie steam izun-boat, Lieut. C. H. Clu3erbuck,
joined the fleet at P.rtsmouth yesterday, and -the Stork,
the Dapper, and the Opossum went into dock for re-
pairs, and the, Weazel was taken out.

The steam troop ship Vulcan, Corntriander Bowyear,
R.N., was 'Wien out of dock :.t Portsmouth yesterday,
aft, r ri fit ; and the Perseverance steam troop-ship, COM.
wander R. J. J. M`Dona'd, was taken in to be exa-
mined, after being ashore off Portland lately (for which
Commander Crang and Mr Green, tho master, were
lately tried by court-m.rtial and severely reprimanded
- -a punishment de,,med w,i light by the L ris of the
Adniira'iy that tbey have summarily superseded theta
sinee).
The Rhadamanthus, steam transport, went into the
steam basin at Portsmouth .yesterday, to land machi-
nery for the ships fitting ,tut in that dockyard.
The screw mortar-ship Seahorse, 12, will be taken out
of dock at Davenport on Friday.

The screw steam .I.,.tni.ltoats Ant and Angler, building
in sips Nos. 2 and 4, Davonport diekyard, are to be
launched en Saturday.
A new steam frigate, sister to the screw steam-sloop
Satellite, 20, is ordered to be built in No. 2 slip, Devon-
p irt dockyard,
The new colonial war steamer Victoria, Capt. Norman,
from Southampton, arrived at Plymouth yesterday morn-
ing. and is appointed to sail for Melbourne tomorrow.
The Flydaspes, screw transport No. 87, will, it is ex-
pected, receive on board at Southampton tomorrow, 4
offic-rs, 120 men, and 200 horses of the Royal Artillery,
besides officers of Other regiments. The destination of
these ships is, it is understood, the Crimea.
The Intrepid, having been coppered, was yesterday
morning taken out of the dry dock at Woolwich aid
placed into the fitting basin, and the Vixen was, at the
same time, hauled out of basin and docked for final ex-
amination, an I to have the defects in her extreme bull
repaired.
The transport steamer Dee has embarked her cargo
of steam machinery for the western yards and will sail
Irons Woolwich to-morrow mornin;.
The transport steamer Hesper is progressing rapidly
with her repairs, in which a number of Genoese, brought
to England as a portion of her crew, have been employed
since her arrival at Woolwich. Toe HeTer was yester-
day morning admitted from the outer to the inner basin.
A nurnker of schooners and other craft have arrived
at Woolwich Arsenal, with cargoes of shot, shell, and
guns from the contractors' foundries. The Ann, of
Goole, is discharging mixed shot from the Lowmoor
works. The barque Pearl has commenced discharging
a heavy cargo, consisting of 2,400 10-inch shells awl a
large quantity of mixed shot from Forester's Vauxhall
Foundry, at Liverpool. The Eliz tbeth, of Pwllheli, and
i the Ann, of Liverpool, are laden with shell, shot, and
staves. The Betsy, of Liverpool, is landing 140 tons of
mixed shot. The Ann, of London, is unshipping a cargo
•f 13-inch shell from the Lowmoor f tundry. The Edward
Mad lox is unloading about 200 tons of mixed shell from
Liverpool, and the Hero, from Goole, has a cargo of
guns and mixed shot from the Lewmoor Works, York-
shire. In fact, at no time since the commencement of
' hostilities have the preparations for war been carried on
in the Ordnance Department at Woolwich with greater
avdity than at the present moment.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Lieut. A. B. Forde, to the Russell ; Lieut. W. C. de
Vere, to the Esk ; Lieut. C. J. Slaughter, to the Ring.
dove ; Lieut. S.. Douglas, to the Calcutta ; the Rev. J.
W. Russell, chaplain, to the Calcutta ; J. K. Laughton,
naval instructor, to the C dcut a ; E. Pearce, surgeon, to
the Impregnable ; T. Beaumont, acting assistant-sur-
geon, to the Royal George ; E. W. Pearn, toaster's
assistant, to the Calcutta ; T. Marsh, assistant-clerk, to
the Exmouth ; T. W. Moore, assistant clerk, to the
Algiers.