The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-27 00:00:00

THE ARMY AND NAVY;

(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart, 6th Regiment, who had
applied for permission to retire from the service by the
sale of his commission, since requested leave to with-
draw his application, but which had been refused by the
Commandr-in- Chief.
THE VACANT IiEGIMENT.—The Colonelcy of the
78th Highlanders has become vacant by the decease of
General Anderson, C. 8., and K.C.
INCREASE TO THE ARMY.—It is rumoured that un
augmentation of 5,000 men to the Army will take place
early in the ensuing year, and that probably some second
battalons will be again formed.
Colonel Blanshard, C. 8., Royal Engineers, appointed
Commanding Engineer at Woolwich, has moved from
Dover and assumed the duties at the former place.
CAPE CORPS.—The vacancies which have occurred
in this regiment by desertion to the enemy, and other
casualties, amounting to 400 M9ll, are to be filled up by
volunteers from the regiments of the line now stationed
at the Cape of Good Hope. Each man is to receive a
bounty of one guinea. The regiment will then be re-
cruited in England, and ultimately consist of white men.
We understand that the retirement from the service of
Major Ashmore, 16th Regiment, has been caused by the
report of the Military Court of Inquiry which has re-
cently taken place in the deFOt, of that regiment.
The Commander-in-Chief, after much delay, has at
last permitted Lieutenant- Colonel Abbott, 3d West
India Regiment, to retire from the ser,vice by the sale of
his commission.

ARMY AND NAVY CLUB.—WO understand that at a
recent meeting of the committee of this club the names
of Captain Holder and Mr. Billeachy Alleyne were
oadered to be struck out of the list of members.

THE ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITIONS.
By the Avon have been received further details of the
news as to the Behring Straits Arctic Searching expe-
dition, brought by her Majesty's ship Pmlalus, Captain
Wellesley, from Behring's Straits to San Francisco on
the 22d October. The Plover, Commander Moore, had
passed the winter in Grantley Harbour, and was re-
joined by the Enterprise, Captain Collinson, C.B.
from Hoeg-Kong, on the 3d of July, who, on the 10th,
proceeded northward. The Dredalus and Plover met
at Port Clarence towards the end of July, the former
deeply laden with provisions and stores, and prepared
to pass the winter in the ice, should that prove neces-
accident having happened to the Plover.
miry from any
The crew of the Plover had suffered a good deal from
scurvy during the winter, but no lives were lost, and a
great number of the crew were removed, and replaced by
volunteers from the Dm talus. We regret to state that
the Enterprise has been less fortunate, having lost two
officers. These aro Lieut. J. Barnard, and Mr. White-
head, clerk in charge. Lieut. Barnard and Mr. E.
Adams, assistant-surgeon of the Enterprise, had been left
at Michaelowski, the Russian trading post in Norton
Bay, in October last, for the purpose of collecting infor-
mation of the missing expdition from the Russian. posts
and from the natives inland. In pursuance of this ob-
ject, Lieutenant Barnard, with an interpreter, had gone
early in January to a distant post, intending to commu-
nicate, if possible, with some of the neighbouring chiefs.
During the night the post was surrounded by a large
body of Ko-yu-kuk; Indians, several of whom at day-
break entered the principal dwelling and killed the
Russian governor. Lieutenant Barnard and the inter-
preter, who were in the same house, made snob re-
statance as drove the Indians out of the house. They then
laid siege to the post, sheltering themselves behind
wooden shields, stuck upright in the snow, but one of
them being soon afterwards shot, the whole party retired
to an E, quimaux village at some distance, where they
committed great cruelties, killing upwards of 60 natives,
including women and children. Lieutenant Barnard
died of his wounds on the afternoon of the day fol-
lowing the attack. Mr. Adams, on hearing of the
event at Michaelowski, proceeded with a number
of Russians to the post, . where he saw the
body of his late companion, in which were numer-
ous wounds, the principal ono being in the abdomen, and
of such an extent as to have proved inevitably fatal. Mr.
Whitehead's death took place on board the Enterprise,
while on her passage from Hong-Kong to Port Cla-
rence. Lieutenant E. L. Cooper (invalided) and Mr. John
Simpson (B), surgeon (on promotion), came to San Fran-
cisco by the Lkedalus on their way to England by Panama.
The whaling-vessels have crowded in great numbers this
year again to the Straits of Behring, but have not been
so successful as before. The season has been a late
one in those seas, and the ice floating about until late
in July, has caused many disasters, no less than 11 or
12 vessels having been lost, but not many lives. Among
the vessels endangered by being '° beset" by the ice were
the Enterprise and Daedalus, somewhere near St. Law-
rence Island. The line of ice in the Arctic sea has like:
wise been found in a lower latitude than the two pre-
ceding years. There is no account of the Investigator,
Commander M'Clure, since July, 1850 ; probably he is
in the ice to the eastward of Point Barrow. The Dacia-
his sailed from San Francisco for the Sanwich Islands
on the 31st of October.