The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 21, 1856.

were identical with those laid before the house. Same
returns had been prepared by one of the commissioners
with reference to the severity of the disease and suffer-
ing of the army in the East, which had been disap-
proved of by the other commissioner. It was not proper,
under such circumstances, to present those returns.

CITY OF LONDON THEATRE.

PRESENTATION OF A GOLD ALBERT CHAIN
TO MR. NELSON LEE.

Tuesday being the fiftieth representation of the pan-
tomime, Mr. Johnson, one of the lessees, presented his
partner and the author, Mr. Nelson Lee, with a massive
gold Albert chain, valued at 20 guineas, as a token of
respect, and to commemorate the unprecedented success
attending the "Fox and the Grapes," his 199th panto-
mime. We know of no gentlema❑ more deserving.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

BLACKWALL.

The poll demanded at the half-yearly meeting, on the
election of an auditor in the room of the late Capt. Pro-
byn, was taken on Tuesday and yesterday, at the Fen-
church-street station, and the scrutineers declared the
state of the poll at its close to be--

Shares. Votes.
Mr. C. Whetham
Mr. G. Smith 5,852 ... 2,171
Mr. J. Pilcher
Mr. W. Taylor
whereupon the chairman declared Mr. Whetham elected.

also declaring a number of shares forfeited on which calls
had not been paid.
The retiring auditor was elected, and the remuneration
to the auditors advanced to 1001.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman and Board of Direc-
tors closed the meeting.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Richd. Saunders Dundas,
K.C.8., arrived at Portsmputh yesterday forenoon, and
rehoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic
Fleet on board the Duke of Wellington, 131 (Captain of
the Fleet the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8.), Capt. Caldwell,
C.B. The usual salutes wer e exchanged between Rear-
Admiral Dundas aud Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour,
K.C.8., G.O H., the Commander-in-Chief of the port.
Rear-Admiral Baynes, C. 8., as already stated, has re-
hoisted his flag on the Retribution steam-frigate at Sheer-
ness.

The third in command is a new appointment, that of
Capt. H. J. Codrington, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Al-
giers, 91, who is ordered to hoist a broad pendant as
Commodore on board the Majestic, 81 (,crew), and be
third in command of the Baltic fleet. It is surmised that
Capt. Hope, C. 8., of the Majestic, will hare the Algiers
vice Codrington. The above appointment involves a
change in the commands of the gun-boat flotilla.
Capt. the Hon. Hry. Keppel, C. 8., of the Colossus,
81, will now be senior officer in command of this new and
numerous force, vice Codrington, to a division of the fleet.
Capt. Hastings R. Yelverton, C. 8., will command
the second division of the gun-boat flotilla, vice Koppel,
to be senior officer.

Capt. W. Peel will command the third division, vice
Yelverton, appointed to the second.
Capt. A. C. Key will command the fourth division.
There were 23 of these gun-boats at the Motherbank
yesterday. The Hawke, 60, Captain Ommanney, went
down and moored at the head of them as a depot ship.
Lieut. Montagu O'Reilly is the senior lieutenant of these
gun-boats.

- The Collossns, 81, bent sails yesterday.
Crimean war medals for such of the crews of those ships
lately serving in the Crimea as have returned to port
and not receiving them were yesterday distributed at
Portsmouth. The Royal Marines had three clasps each
to theirs.

The Perseverance and Urgent steam troop-ships,
Commanders Crang and Phillips, were docked yesterday
at Portsmouth, to be refitted with all despatch for the
conveyance of troops.
The Caritaur, 6, paddle-sloop, Capt. Clifford, C. 8.,
and the Fury, 6, paddletsloop, were taken out of dock
at Portsmouth yesterday after refit.
The Dee, steam-tender, Master-Commander Pullen,
arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from the
eastern ports, with machinery fur the steam fleet under
refit.

The steam-transport Cleopatra, No. 136, left Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday for Corfu, Constantinople, and
Balaklava, with a fine bir wind and every chance of a
speedy run down Channel. She conveyed the following
officers and troops :--Major Cross, Lieut. Hursly, Ensign
Westly, 248 men, 5 women, and 8 children of the I,t
Lancashire Militia ; Lieut. Keogh, Cornets Foster,
Applin, Keogh, and Snlith, and 100 men of the Land
Transport Corps ; Capt. Peirse, Lieut. Carter, Ensign
Keston, and 83 men of the Medical Staff ; also Lieut.
NVontney, and 90 men of the Osmanli Horse Artillery,
Mrs. and Miss Dunn.

The Harrier, 17, screw-sloop, Commander Derriman,
which arrived at Dartmouth on Saturday, from Ply-
mouth, is again ordered to Spithead, which she left a
week since with supernumeraries.
A. court-martial, comprising Capt. Codrington, C. 8.,
President; Captains Sir T. Maitland, C. 8., Eliott, C.B,
Hope, C.B , Robinson, Watson, C. 8., W. 11. Hall. C. 8.,
Lyster, Gordon, Ommanney, Wilson, Harris, and D'Eyn-
court, and Mr. Hellyer, Deputy Judge-Advocate of the
Fleet, astembled yesterday morning on board the Vic-
tory, flag-ship, in Portsmouth harbour, to try the com-
mander and the master of her Majesty's steam troop-ship
Perseverance, on the following charge :
" For that the said C >outlander John Henry Crang,
when commander of her Majesty's steurn-sloop Perseve-
rance, and in actual service and full pay of her Majesty's
fleet, an the said Mr. Williams Hugh Tilly Green, when
master of said sloop, and in actual service and full pay of
her Majesty's fleet, did, through want of care, run the
said sloop Perseverance aground in the morning of the
7th day of February, 1856, on the beach to the west-
ward of of the Bill of Portland."

The Court opened at 9 o'clock in the morning, and
was sitting when this report left last night.
During the visit which her Majesty on Tuesday paid
to the wounded and invalid soldiers at Womlwich Ar-
senal, her Majesty, after inspecting the Russian trophies,
desired that one of the large bells brought from Sebas-
topol should be forwarded to the Castle at Windsor. Her
Majesty likewise expressed a desire that the orders for the
exclusion of stiangers to the Arsenal should be relaxed
in some degree for a few weeks, so as to admit the public
to view the trophies. Lord Panmure, therefore, before
his departure, gave instructions that any visitors, not
being furnkhe I with orders for admission to the Arsenal
and who may present themselves at the gate, should be
permitted to proceed over the Dial-square only, in which
place the trophies aro deposited.

The paddle-wheel steamer Rhadatnanthus arrived at
Woolwich on Tuesday night, and was admitted into
basin yesterday morning, to reload with steam machinery
fur Portsmouth.
The Hesper, Government steam•transport, was yester-
day morning- taken into the fitting basin at Woolwich to
have her defects made good.

The Mohawk despatei gun-vessel was yesterday morn-
ing removed from 'Messrs. Young's building-yard, Wool-
wich, to be rigged and fitted at Chatham fa. service.
The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle has left Woolwich

basin and proceeded down the rivr on a cruise for four
days, in order to carry out sundry experiments with her
machinery while under steam, which have been proposed
by Mr. Westrom, an American engineer.
A renewal of the experiments with Capt. Boxer's im-
proved ConL;rave rockets has taken place in the Arsenal
marshes, Woolwich. A large number of these rockets
were tested, and fired experimentally, all of which suc-
ceeded remarkably well.

The echooner eiueen, T. Barter master, is shipping at
Woolwich a quantity of powder and empty powder eases
for Portsmouth, and will sail to-day.
The order for the embarkation of the 17th and 24th
companies of Royal Sappers and Miners fer the Crimea
has been countermanded by a communication received
by Col. H. Sandbar; the director of the Royal Engi-
neers' establishment at Prempton Barracks, from the
War-office, and those companies are not to leave England
for the present. This carps is in a high state of disci-
pline, the men have all been armed with the new Lan-
caster rifle and camp equipage, and all other articles re-
quired for this important br inch of the service ha, e been
received at the headquarters, Brompton, from the
Tower. The men are held in readiness for immediate
entharka`ion whenever their services tray be required.
A number of convalescent invalids from the Crimea
left the invalid depot at St. Mary's Barracks yesterday,
having been granted pensions according to the nature of
their wounds and length of service. Among those who
were discharged were some able to rejoin the depots of
their regiments.
Capt. G. D. Pitt, 80th Regiment, has rejoined the
Provisional Battalion at Chatham, from Ireland, where
he has made the tour of the principal military stations,
for the purpose of ascertaining how the men are pro-
gressing in the practice of the rifle. Captain Pitt re-
gimes his duties of assistant instructor at the School of
Musketry, Hythe.
The preparations at the dockyard at Pembroke do not
relax in the slightest. degree. Two more gun-boa's have
been' launched, the Pet and the Nettle, they being as
nearly as possible of the same size—viz., length between
perpendiculars, 100 feet ; length for tonnaee, 81 feet; the
extreme width, 22 ft ; and depth of hold, 6/2 ft. The bur-
den of these vessels is 211 tons, and the) are to be fitted
with engines of 20-horse nower. The workmen now
commence their labours at 'dawn and continue as long
as possible in the evening. The Captain Superinten-
dent, Capt. Smart, R.N., has been appointed naval
aide-de-carop to her Majesty. The steam vessels Avon
and Prospero, from Pembroke, arrived at Plymouth on
Sunday with the steam gun-boats Pet and Nettle, which
were taken into the basin dock at Devonport on Mon-
day, to be fitted with engines and boilers. The Avon
sailed yesterday for Pembroke, with masts and rigging
and seamen riggers for Pembroke, to bring the Wrangler I
and Decoy steam gun-boats to Plymouth, where they
will be fitted with engines and boilers.
Toe new screw steam-ship Conqueror, 100, Captain
Symonds, accompanied by the Confiance and Zephyr,
steam-tugs, left Hamoaze on Monday morning for Ply-
mouth Sound in order to make a trial of her engines.
In consequence of the state.of the weather, she did not
take the ordinary course reund the Eddystone, but kept
on the eastern side of the port, the wind blowing very
hard from E.S.E. to E.N.E. by N. When a little off
the wind she made 11 knots 2 fathoms under steam only,
with a pressure of 20:b. on the square inch. The trite',
as far as it went, was considered satisfactory, but the
bearings having become slightly heated she returned to
port. Another trip will be made shortly.
The crew of the screw steam-frigate Euryalus, 51,
Capt. G. Ramsay, bent sails at Devon port on Monday.
She will leave for Spitbead in a few days.
The crew of the bogpital ship Belleisle, 6, Commander
J. Hosken, got up lower yards and topmasts on Tues-
day-. She is to be prepared with all despatch to leave
Plymouth for service in the Baltic.
The steam gun-boats Badger and Soap went from Ha-
naoaze into Plymouth Sound on Tuesday.
In addition to those officers beloneing to the 63d Re-
giment whose names were given in The Sun of Monday,
Col. Crutchley, Commanding the Provisional Depot
Battalion at Parsonstown, on Monday last received or-
ders for Captains Bamford and Fitzroy, also of the 63d,
to bold themselves in readiness to proceed to join their
regiment in the Crimea. Three captains and seven
subalterns are therefore under orders, and officers be-
longing to the 21st and 57th also are in expectation of
receiving similar orders very shortly.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Henry Hutchings, master, to the Euryalus ; George
S. 'Webster, acting second master, to the Salamander ;
W. D. Jeans, secretary to Rear-Admiral Sir Michael
Seyin-ur, Commander in-Chief the Indian Station ;
Richard Curgenven, secretary to Admiral Sir Geo. Sar-
torius ; George Jeffreys, paymaster, to the Blenheim.

Rifles, now stationed in Bir, they were addressed by
Lieut.-Col. Bernard. The gallant Colonel said that Ma•
jor Tinley, of the 21st Fusiliers, was present to receive
such of them as were willing to give their services in the
line. He hoped that many of them would do so, and
that they would, if opportunity was given them, distin-
guish themselves, as several of their former comrades
had already done in the Crimea, particularly at the at-
tack on the Great Redan in Sept. last. A considerable
number of young fellows stepped forward and were
loudly cheered, 24 of whom have been passed by the
medical and superintending field officer, making, with
131 given since the embodiment of the regiment in April
last, 155 men to the regular service. The regiments to
which the men volunteered are the 4th Royal Irish Dra-
goons, 21st, 55th, 57th, and 63d Foot. Only eight men
more are required to complete the quota for the current
quarter.