The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-18 00:00:00

THE SUN; LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18. 1856

SHARE MARKETS.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

(THIS DAY.)

RAILWAYS;

Leasing
Company.

Closing Mat
thia day

Par sees
this day,

RAILWAYS.

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Orinoco, Capt.
Wilson, transport No. 218, arrived at Southampton
from the Black Sea yesterday morning with the follow-
ing invalids :—Captain the Hon. Keppel, R.N. ;
Captain Clayhill, 93d Regiment; Captain Vyner, Major
Olpherts, Lieut. Clarkson, 30th Regiment ; Lieuts.
Munsell and Lake, 54th Regiment ; Assistant-Surgeon
Rose, Army Works Corps ; Assistant-Surgeon Hyde,
Medical Staff ; Messrs S. Peike, Turkish Contingent ;
Berry, Heziker, Cann, and Freeman, assistant-engineers,
R.N. ; Mr. Craig, from the transport Tynemouth ; 16
invalided troops, and 2 distressed British subjects. The
Orinoco left Balaklava, Dec. 28 ; Constantinople, Jan.
1 ; Malta, 6 ; and Gibraltar, 12.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Madrid, which arrived at Southampton yesterday morn-
ing with the Peninsular mails, we receive the following
items of naval and military intelligence from Gibraltar:--
Col. J. W. Patten, of the 3d Royal Lancashire Militia, and
family, left Gibraltar on the let inst. for Cadiz on board
the Ligero steamer. After visiting the principal cities
in Spain, the gallant eolonel will proceed to England.
Her Majesty's screw-steamer Buffalo, from London to
the Crimea, arrived at Gibraltar on the 3d inst., after
experiencing heavy weather in the Bay of Biscay. The
steam-transport Imperador, with the 3d Light Infantry
Regiment of the German Legion, from Portsmouth to
the Crimea, passed Gibraltar on the 3d, and signalled
"All well on board." The sailing-transport Pride of the
Ocean, from Constantinople and Malta for England,
passed through the straits on the 3d inst. The steam-
transport Charity arrived at Gibraltar from Malta on
the 4th, for the purpose of embarking about 200 mules
for conveyance to the depot forming at the Dardanelles
for the use of the Land Transport Service. The steam-trans-
port Ripon arrived at Gibraltar from Malta on the 6th
inst. She left Balaklava with despatches for Kamiesh on
the 18th ult., took in 3 engineers of the Royal Navy at
the latter place, and left the same night for Constantino-
ple, where she arrived at 10 p.m. ; prepared fittings for
the reception of the sick, and departed on the 24th,
reaching Renkioi on the 26th ; she took in invalids and
continued her voyage on the following day ; arrived at
Malta on the 30th, resumed her voyage on the Ist inst.,
and put into Gibraltar on the 6th, on her way to Spit-
head. On the 3d she passed the Golden Fleece, which
left Gibraltar with horses for Constantinople, off Calita;
and the Thames steam-transport, from England, bound
upwards, off Cape de Gatte. The Ripon left on the
morning of the 7th for Spithead. The following is a
list of the passengers on board :—From Balaklava—
General Dupuis, Royal Artillery ; and Messrs. Hollo-
way, Marsden, Hood, Young, and Page. From Con-
stantinople—Lieutenant Byam, Dr. White, Dr, Ed-
wards, Lieutenant Judma n, Assistant-Commissary-
General Webb, Dr. Moline, Dr. Denny, Captain Tem-
ple, 72 military, 12 naval invalids, and 7 others. From
Renkioi—Captain Straubenzee, 26 military and 4 naval
invalids, 4 men belonging to the Medical Staff Corps,
and 7 others, for England ; and Lieutenant Festing, for
GBraltar.
The Pigmy steamer returned into Portsmouth harbour
on Wednesday morning with the Rev. Mr. Berthon's
indiarubber mortar raft, which was sunk on Friday last,
during the trials of it at Spithead. The party of riggers
who went out were unable to recover the mortar itself,
or the body of the unfurtunrte man who was drowned.
They are to make another attempt for the mortar as
soon as the weather and wind will'permit. The wind was
yesterday blowing a gale at Portsmouth. The mortar is
in 11i fathoms of water, and deeply embedded in the sand.
The crew of the Exmouth, 90, Capt. H. Y. Hall, at
Plymouth, bent sails on Wednesday.
The steam-ship Brunswick, 90, Capt. H. R. Yelver-
ton, was taken out of Keyham Docks on Wednesday,
towed to the sheer hulk, and masted. She will go into
the basin dock at the Devonport yard to be rigged.
The screw steam corvette Cossack, 20, Capt. Jas. 11.
Cockburn, had a new bowsprit put on board on Wed.
nesday, and was to be removed from the basin dock in
the Devonport yard yesterday.
The gun-boats Bullfrog and Carnation are moored
alongside the Arsenal-wharf at Woolwich, to receive
their ammunition and sea stores. Their detachment of
Royal Marines will likewise embark thence.
Her Majesty's steamer Merlin got up steam yesterday
morning in Woolwich basin to try her engines.
The crew of her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius, Com-
mander Hoare, were yesterday morning paid down in
Woolwich dockyard, and were granted a month's leave
during the progress of her repairs, which are being pushed
forward, as the services of the Vesuvius are agaia in-
tended for foreign operations.
The paddle-wheel steamer Dee, Master-Commander
Pullen, sailed yesterday morning from Woolwich with
machinery and spars for Plymouth.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Prometheus, 5, Com-
mander Selwyn, from Gibraltar, arrived in Plymouth
Sound yesterday evening.
The merchant ship Marathon, Captain Shute, 30 days
out from Bristol, having been as far as 13 W., put into
Plymouth Sound, leaky, on Wednesday. She was bound
to Constantinople with about 700 tons of hay, which is
so much heated that for SOM3 days past the crew have
been driven from the forecastle to the cabin, and the
hatches of the forecastle and the hold, the chain boxes,
and every other communication with the cargo have
been carefully battened down and covered with tarpaulin,
to prevent the bay from bursting into a flame.
For some time past the Garrison Hospital, Chatham,
has been inadequate to the requirements of the sick of
the garrison, and Fort Pitt has accommodated them, in
consequence of which the Commandant has ordered a
board, composed of the Commandant of the Provisional
Battalion as president, one captain of the Royal Engi-
neers, one captain of the Provisional Battalion, and the
principal medical officer, to assemble and report upon
the best plan for increased accommodation.
This day 120 men of the Medical Staff Corps will pro-
ceed from Chatham to Deptford, in charge of Capt. R.
S. Cole, to embark on board the Earl of Aberdeen for
Malta and Scutari; and Staff-Captain S.G. Bunbury has
received orders to hold in readiness 60 men to embark
in the steamer Clyde when required. The depot of this
corps is 400 strong.
Some important additions have been made during the
last few days to the Royal Artillery Corps at Woolwich
by the reinforcement of a strong party of 60 fine young
men who volunteered from various militia regiments
30 stalwart, ablebodied fellows have likewise joined that
regiment from Ireland, and were welcomed at head-
quarters with hearty cheers.
The shipwrights and sawyers employed in the con-
struction of the gun and mortar vessels on the Wear
have demanded and received a second advance of wages
—the shipwrights 6d. per day extra, making their pay
2/. Bs. a-week ; and the sawyers 3d. per hundred, making
their pay 53. per hundred feet for oak. The wages at
the yards on private works remain the same—viz., ship-
wrights 6s. per day, and sawyers 4s. 3d. per hundred
feet for oak. There are upwards of 300 men employed
on the gun-vessels, four of which are nearly ready for
launching.

The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—(feu. P. Rickford, paymaster, to the
Centurion ; Wm. W. Parminter, paymaster, to the
Sanspareil.