The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

On Saturday 247 (invalid itvoops arrived at Strood
from Liverpool, where they disembarked from the
steamer Jura, which arrived at that port from the Me-
diterranea%). The troops were sent home from the various
regiments stationed at Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian

- Her Majesty's ship Victory, 104, Captain G. H. Sey-
mour, C. 8., struck the flag of the Commander-in-chief
(Vice-Adrniral Sir G. Seymour, K.C.8., &c.) on Satur•
day mol wog, the admiral having gone to attend his
bro,her's funeral, Her Majesty's skip Excellent oonse•
quently hoisted a commodore's broad pendant for Sir T.
Maitland, C. 8., who, being the senior officer of the fleet
in the port, will be Acting Commander-in-Chief until the
return of one or other of the admirals.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam frigate Firebrand
arrived at Woolwich dockyard on Saturday from Sheer•
news, to have the defects in her machinery and boilers
made good and to undergo other necessary repairs.
Her Majesty's 50-gun ship Conquestador was on Sa•
turday ordered to Woolwich from Sheerness, to be rigged
f r service.

The freight ship Northumberland sailed on Saturday
Irons Gravesend, laden with Governmen sti,res and a
foil magazine of ammunition and powder from Wool-
Ajoh Arek-val, for the Cape of Good Hope. She em-
arced thence 12 non-commissioned officers of the 10th
Hussars from Dublin.

The freight ship Lady Valiant has gone down to
Woolwich from the docks, for the ,purpose of shipping
pow er and ammunition.
The new steam yacht named the Emperor, which ar-
rived at Wo frlwich on the 29th ult., is to be fitted with a
screw, and is otherwise in a 'forward state.-- When co
pleted she is to be sent under the charge of one of the firm
of Messrs. H. and C. Green, the builders, to be presented
to the Emperor of Japan from the British Government.
In the naval estimates it appears that the sum of
10,0001. has been voted for the expenses of the yacht, it
is computed that this amount will be inadequate to cover
the total expenses.
The following appointments were made at the Admi-
ralty o❑ Saturday :
Captain F. Warden to be Naval officer in charge of
naval and victualling establishments and stores at Gib-
raitar ; Lieut. C. R. Robson, to the Bloodhound ; Lieut.
H. J. Hodgson, to the Victory (for disposal) ; Lieut
S. M. Wilson, to the Hawke ; Lieut. S. H. Pickard, t I
the Hibernia ; Lieut. W. E. Anne-ley, to the Scourge
(for disposal) ; Lieut. J. Ward (A), to the Southampton;
E. P. Bed well, Second Master, ,o the Plumper; H. S.
Collins, Paymaster, to the Melatnpus ; S. Fisher, Pay-
master, to the' Eagle; G. A. Lance, Paymaster, to the
Hawke ; A. B. Curnmin, Clerk, t) the Alelainpus ; G
W. Jones, Clerk, to the Eagle ; F. A. W. Smith, Clera.
to the Hawke ; F. Woods, Assistant Clerk, to the Eagle,
and F. A. Johnston, Assistant-Clerk, to the Melampus.

IiE.R MAJESTY'S SIIIP RESOIUTE AND THE

AMERICAN OFFICERS.

PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY.

This morning COmmandor Hartstein was embarked by
Mr. George Allen in H.M.'s steam to❑der Sprightly, and
landed near the official residence of the United States'
Consul the Chevalier Vincent Pappalardo, at the Plat-
form Battery, where he was met immediately by Corn-
mod,sre Sir T. Maitland, C. 8., of H.M.S. Excellent, the
Commander- n-Ch of pro tern, of the port, Vice-Admiral
Sir G. Seymour being absent at the funeral of his bro-
ther, and Rear-Admiral Mai tin being absent on leave.
Sir Thomas offered Captain Hartstein. in the name of
her Majesty's Government, everything in the way of
ship's provisions, pilotage, and, indeed, everything else
the officer or crew could require during their sojousn in
England. For these hospitable courtesies Captain Hart-
stein expressed his a arinest acknowledgments.
After this interview Chevalier Pappalardo presented
Capt. Hartstein, at the Government-house, to the Lieu
tenant-Governor (Major-General H. Breton), by which
gallant officer he was moat warmly greeted ; then to the
Mayor of the B tough (Mr. Crosweller), and then to
Flag-Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8., on board the flag-
ship Victory.
Capt. Hartstein has accepted the invitation of the
Mayor and Corporation to dine with them, but could not
name a day, owing to the necessity for transacting the
official business connected with hie courteous mission.
At 11 o'clock this morning ber Majesty's steam frigate
Shannon, 51, Capt. Peel, C. 8., saluted the American
ensign with 21 guns, after which the Resolute changed
her colours to English, and the garrison and battery (on
the flagstaff of which was hoisted an American ensign)
fired a salute of 21 guns thereupon.
Capt. Hartstein and his next in command partook of
an elegant dejeus.er at the Consulate, and the former left
for Loudon by the 1.45 p.m. train on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Rai►way, to deliver his
de,patches to the British Admiralty and the American
Minister.

The Government sent down a special messenger last
night to Portsmouth to order suites of apartments and
every accommodation of the best class for the Americin
officers at the Portland Hotel, Southsea, where the most
assiduous and satisfactory attention is insured at the
hands of Mr. Digby Dent, the lessee.

The Resolute Will come into Purtquouth harbour on
Monday, unless contrary orders are issued. She is in
first-class condition. Her commander reports a sueces•
sion of gales the whole voyage from the N. W. on the
other side of the Atlantic, and from the S.S.W. to S.S. E.
on this, in all which she behaved remarkably well. The
weather the night previous to her arrival at Spithead
(Thursday) is described by Commander Hartstein and
his officers as awful wild—heavy squalls, with rain and
hail, and lightning very vivid.
Considering the peculiar build of the Resolute, and
the season of the year, her passage has been a remarkably
good one. •
Capt. Dacres, C. 8., the superintendent of the Royal
Clarence Victual!mg Establishment, Gosport, sent off
to the Resolute this morning by the 'Sprightly a full
supply of fine Christmas beef and every other victualling
necessary for the crew. The ship is an object of much
interest in the port.

EXTRICATION OF Two MORE Suits FRODI THE ICE.—
The following information relative to the discovery of
two of the abandoned ships has reached us from Aber-
deen :—Captain Paterson, of the Pacific whaler, who
had been in Pond's-bay, Baffin's Straits, this past sea-
son,lBs6, states that he had bartered with an Esquimaux
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put, assort that two ships have been discovered by them
—one is on the beach and broken up by the ice, but that
the other vessel is perfectly sound, and merely beset in
some inlet west of Pond's-bay--either Admiralty or
Prince Regent's Inlet, but most probably the former.
Capt. Penny, who, as well as Capt. Parker, of the True-
love, wintered about Cumberland Straits in 18556, was
puzzled by constant rumours of ships being somewhere
to the north-west of his position. Capt. Penny fancied
at first that these reports referred to Franklin's ships
locked up in King William's Land, but we sow under-
stand what gave rise to these rumours, being nothing
more than two more of Sir E. Belcher 's squadron that
have floated from the spot where they were so prema-
turely left, to bear witness against the need of any such
wholesale expenditure of her Majesty's ships. From the
vessels having been abandoned in pairs, and the,Resolute
and Intrepid being originally fully 200 miles from the
Assistance and Pioneer, there seems reason to suppose
that the Intrepid, whether floating or wrecked, would
never be very far from the position in which the Reso-
lute was discovered by the Americans, and that the two
ships now in the hands of the Esquimaux are the Assist-
ance and Pioneer. In corroboration of the idea that
ships beset together and drifting in the sea would not be
very far separated we need only point to the great win-
ter drift of Commander De Haven's two vessels, the
Advance and Rescue, and that of the Enterprise and In-
vestigator, under Sir James C. Ross, in 1E49, and of the
Terror, under command of Sir George Back, still earlier.
—United Service Gazette.
If the physician sees you eat anything that is not
good fur your body, to keep you from it he cries " 'tis
poison ;'' if the Divine sees you do anything that is hurt-
ful for your soul, to keep you from it he cries "you
are damned." To preach long, loud, and damnation,
is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns
us, and we run after him again to save us.—Sciden.
A boy having been remarked for his quickness of re-
tort, a gentleman, on looking at hiw, observed that
" When children are so keen in their youth, they gene-
rally become stupid as they advance in years." " Wbat
a remarkable sharp boy you must have been yourself,
sir !" retorted the youngster. The gentleman remem-
bassi an appointment which required his immediate
attention.
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The • hired screw steam transport Cleopatra, Captain
Pattie, arrived last evening. Her dates are--Cape of
Good Hope, Oct. 19 ; St. Helena, Oct. 29 ; Ascension,
Nov. 4 ; St. Vincent, Nov. 27 ; and Madeira, Dec. 5.
She left Dublin on the let of August with troops, who
were landed in surf-boats at the mouth of the. Buffalo
River, and has returned with naval stores. On the 12th
of October she conveyed the Governer, Sir George Grey,
from East London to Cape Town. The arrival of troops
had quieted all apprehensions of dkturbances on the
frontier, and the colony was in a very tranquil state.l
The Cleopatra had a fine passage until she arrived
about 100 miles north-west of Cape Finisterre, where,
on Tuesday last, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, she fell in
with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Azoff, with snsign down, apparently in a sinking state.
The lifeboat was immediately over the side, but the sea
was too heavy to launch her, and While the Cleopatra
was lying to with steam off the Azoff ported her helm
and carried away her bowsprit, which struck the Cleo-
patra's quarter. No help could be rendered on Wed-
nesday, but on Thursday night a marine named Banks,
having twice volunteered, was followed by two other
marines, Pine and Tayl r, Bombers ier Harding., R.A ,
James Morehouse, seaman passenger, and T. Riley, ship's
steward who were put on board in the ship's boat. The
Azoff had lost her wheel, the engines were disabled, and
was quite unmanageable. Has sere from the Cleopatra
were broken twice on Wednesday by the tremendous sea
which was running. The military officers on board de-
scribe,Capt. Paton's conduct to have been most noble ;
he kept by the distressed ship at great risk, and conti-
nued watching her day and night. The last time she
was seen with certainty was on Friday evening at 6
o'clock, but the next morning the second mate supposed
that he descried her well ahead, steering north-east
by east, and, the wind hiving become favourable, she
has p'.obably gone to Southampton.
„s:,
Naval Intelligence—Commodore Trotter, in the Castor,
had left the Cape of Good Hope for the Isle of France.
Captain Sir William S. Wiseman, in the Penelope, was
senior officer at the Cape. The steam-sloop Geyser,
Commander Arthur Tower, was in Table Bay, October
16. His Netherlands Majesty's barque Prince William
Henry was in Table Bay, August 14, bound for lidland.
The only ship of war at Ascension was the 'Tortoise.
Merchant Shipping—At the Cape of Good Hone were
the ships Alipore, Archibald M‘Millen, Nii, and. Anne
Jane; the barques Intrepid, Montezuma, Dreadnought,
Ellen Ra arson, Catherine Pemberton, and Willia:n James.
At St. Helena, October 29, the barque Martha and
Jane.; passed the shipiMary Stenhouse, standing to
north-west ; October 30, in lat. 14 S., long. 7 W., sig-
nalled the French ship Edward, bound north-west.
At Ascension, November 4, the barque Jessie Mac-
farlane; November 11, in lat. 6 40 N , long. 20 39 W.,
signalled the French ship. Nouvelle Pauline, standing
south-west. On Saturday, at 8 a.m., the barometer was
down to 26 8 10ths deg.
At St. Vincent's, Nov, 27, were the ship Carthage,
and barks Ino, G-lenburn, Haametede, Victory, brig
Queen of Britain, and Brigantine Glance. Nov. 30, lat.
23.23 N., long. 22 17 W., signalled the bark Jane Strong,
standing to the S.W. Dec. 1, lat. 25.47 N., long. 21.13
W., signalled the French ship Pauheta, bound to Rio
Jo neiro.

The Cleopatra brings passengers from the Cape of
Good Hope—Second-Master Switzer, R.N., Capt. Du-
m.,nt, Mr. Westenerck, and several invalided seamen
and marines ; from St. Helena, Major Faunce (St.
Helena Regiment) and M. Fiquet ; from Ascension,
Lieut. Taylor (t iyal Marines); and from Madeira, Mrs.
Barrett.