The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 29 1856.

Navas and Military intelligence.

The steam-transport W. S. Lindsay, No. 98, Captain
Western, arrived at Spithead yesterday evening from
the East, with the head-quarters of the 4th Light
Dragoons, consisting of 150 men, 47 horses, and the
following officers:—Major Brown, Lieutenants Jen-
nings and Weatherby, Cornet Ellis, Quartermaster Hill,
Veterinary Surgeon Ayrme, and Quartermaster-Sergeant
Kindel). She has brought also several guns, 200 tons
of shot and shells, 31 cwt. of antique marble from
Kertch, &c.
The Clyde, steam•traneport, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday afternoon with the remainder of the Army Works
Corps from Balaklava, which she left on the 6th, and
Malta on the 14th. She brought home 12 Russian
guns, 10 horses, 91 men of the Army Works Corps, and
the following officers :—Lieutenant-Colonel Elmhirst

and Lieutenants Renant, Burland, and Rolls, of the 99th
Foot ; Lieutenant-Colonel Ingall, Captain Cubitt, and
Assistant-Surgeon Reigall,• of the 62d ; Lieutenant-
; Colonel Shackwell, Royal Engineers ; Captain Bruce,
of the 82d ; Lieutenant Elmhirst ; the Rev. Mr. Lewis,
chaplain ; and Messrs Hutchinson, Shaw, Sharrock,
Tanner. Turner, Robertson, and Barnett, officers of the
Army Works Corps.
The sailing transport Windsor, No. 216, arrived at
Spithead yesterday evening, 137 days from Tasmania,
and 103 from Swan River, Western Australia ; she left
Hobart Town on the 12th of January, Swan River the
sth of February, and St. Helena, the 11th of April.'
She has brought home the head-quarters of her Majesty's
99th Regiment, after nearly 14 years' service in the
Australian colonies. The offisers are Lient.-Colonel E.
Last, Captains Lempster, R. Elliot, and E. W. Isdell ;
Lieutenants J. Grime, W. H D R. Welman, H F. W.
Ely, E. G. K. Ravenbill, and T. H. Clarkson ; Eosign
H. J. Day, and Assistant-Surgeon H. H. Jones, M.D. ;
38 serjeants, 28 corp rats, 28 drummers, 253 privates,
26 women, and 47 children. • The troops on the passage
have been very healthy ; 2 births and 4 deaths occurred.
The wife of Deputy-CommissaryGeneral F. Mends, of
Western.A.us.tralia, who took paesage home in the hope
of reaching England for advice and the benefit of her
health, having been in a delicate state for some time,
lied on hard on the 26th of May. On the 15th inat., in
lat. 35.37 deg., long. 4PII deg. the Windsor spoke the
Wellington with the remainder of the regiment on board
:find on the same day the iron ship Wimfre 1, from Cal-
cutta for Liverpool.
Telegraphic orders from the Admiralty were received
at Plymouth, oe Tuesday evening, to prepare for sea
saith all de-patch—the James Watt, 91 ; Exmouth, 90 ;
Centurion, 80 ; Brunswick, 80 ; and Orion, 91. Too
Orion is preparing at Keyham, the others are in the
Sound, and were relieved yesterday of their lower deck
guns, and their crews reduced to 500. They will proba-
bly sail to-morrow for the Crimea to embark troops,
every ship on an average taking 1,000 soldiers. The
captains have orders to instruct the Retribution, 28,
Firefly, 4, and other vessels of war at Gibraltar, or com-
ing through the Straits, to return to Bslaklava and
assist in the embarkation.

Au Admiralty order bas arrived at Sheerness to pre-
pare the Royal George, 102, screw steam ship, Captain
Robert S. Robinson, and the Colossus, 80 guns, screw
team-ship, Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel, C.B , for
the embarkation of troops. They are both to proceed to
the Crimea, there to embark artillery and infantry.

The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :---
Lifutenant Bernard J. Cooper, to the Firefly ; Lieu-
tenant Thomas Borrett, to the Tartar ; Lieutenant J.
W. James, to the Firefly ; the Rev. Henry Alexander,
chaplain, to the Cmsay ; W. H. Plows, naval instructor,
to the Forth ; Thomas H. Johnson, naval instructor,
to the Eurotas ; George A. Stable, master, to the Fire-
fly ; Charles Sproul!, ssrgeon, to the Cormorant ; H.
C. A. Brand, midshipman, to the Elk ; W. Brabaz'n,
midshipman, to the Magicienne ; F. Rougemont and H.
Burr. naval cadets, to the Magicienne ; S. G. Chown
and B. B. Dowling, master's assistants, to the Firefly.
The 17th Lancers, just returned from the Crimea, will
march to Dublin from Cahir on Saturday next, on their
way to the camp at Aldershott.

The 58th Regiment will, on its arrival from Australia,
be stationed in Clonmel, the West York Rifles proceed-
ing to England.

PROGRAMME OF THE FIREWORKS.

Tae following is a copy of the official programme, ac-
cording to which the display of fireworks will take place
to-night in Hyde-park, Green-park, and Victoria-park,
commencing at 9.30, and ending at 11 p.m. :-
First Division.
Brilliant illuminations, with white, and green, and yel-
low fires, and a continuous discharge,of the maroons.
Order. Second Division. Nn.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of pearl streamers
3. Para Chute shells .
4. Discharge of A-lb. rockets, red and green ' 100
5. Discharge of 54-inch shells, blue and yellow 5O
Third Division.
1. Flight of rockets •
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3. Tourbillons 4O
4. Discharge of A-lb. rockets, parachute lOO
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, serpents
Fourth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of gold streamers
3. Parachute shells
4. Discharge of A-lb. rockets, red and green
5. Discharge of SA-inch shells, blue and yellow 5O
Fifth Division.
1. Flight-of rockets
2. Batteries of mines, squibs.,, 4
3. Tourbillons •
4. Discharge of 1-lb rockets, red and green lOO
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, tailed stars lOO
Sixth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of pearl streamers
'.4. Parachute shells
4. Discharge of 4-lb. rockets, red .. 100
5. Discharge of 5-.-inch shells, green . 50
Seventh Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. B Merles of mines, squibs
3. Tourbillons - 40
4. Discharge of rockets.
5. Discharge of rockets ‘,... . AO
Eighth Division, '
1. • Plight of rockets , 2OO
2. Batteries of gold streamers
3. Parachute shells 4
4. Discharge of s-lb. rockets blue and yellow
5. Discharge of 4.inch shells, variegated
Ninth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
•• -- •
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3. Tourbillons
40
4 Discharge of 1-lb. rockets, blue and yellow lOO
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, crackers
Tenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of pearl streamers
3. Parachute shells •
4. Discharge of A-lb. rockets, green
- 100
5. Discharge of SA-inch shells, red. 5O
Eleventh Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3. Tourbillons : . 40
4. Discharge of A-lb rockets, parachute
5. Discharge of 10 inch shells, gold and silver rain 50
Twelfth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of gold streamers
3. Parachute shells
4. Discharge of .lb-rockets, blue and yellow
5. Discharge of SA-inch shells, green and red 5O
Thirteenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3- Tourbillons
4. Discharge of 1-lb. rockets, blue and yellow lOO
5. Discharge of 10 inch shells, squibs lOO
Fourteenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of pearl streamers
3. Parachute shells
4. Discharge of 4-Ib. rockets, blue
5. Discharge of 5A inch shells, yellow
Fifteenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3. Tourbillons .
40
4. Discharge of 4-lb. rockets, parachute
5. Discharge of 10 inch shells. tailed stars 10)
Sixteenth Division:
1. Flight of rockets 2OO
2. Batteries of gold streamers
3. Parachute shells 4
.
4. Discharge of A-lb. rockets, green and red lOO
5. Discharge of SA-inch shells, variegated 5O
Seventeenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3. Tourbillons ......................................... • ......... 40
4. 'Discharge of 1-lb. rockets, blue and yellow 5O
I. 4-lb. rockets, ditto
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, brilliant 5O
Eighteenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of pearl streamers
3. Parachute shells , 4
4. Discharge of A•lb. rockets,. yellow
5. Discharge of Si-inch shells, blue 5O
Nineteenth Division.

200

200

200

200

200

200

200

200

200

100

. 200

200

Flight of rockets
Batteri,s of mines, squibs
Tourbillonq
Discharge of a-lb. rockets. parachute
Discharge of 10-inch shells, crackers 5O
Twentieth Division.

Flight of rockets
Batteries of gob! streamers..
Parschnte shells
Discharge of 1 lb. rockets blue and yellow
Discharge of *inch shells, green and red 5 /
T wan ty-first Division.

200

1. Flight of rockets 2OO
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3. Tourbillons
4. Discharga of 1-lb. rockets, green and red
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, gold and silver rains 6O
Twenty-second Division.
1. Flight of rockets
200
2. Batteries of pear) streamers 4
3. Parachute shells
4
4. Discharge of 3-1 b. rockets, green and red
1-Ib. , blue and yellow
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, squib
Twenty-third Division.
1. Flight of rockets
200
2. Batteries of mines, squibs 4
3. Tourbillons
40
4. Discharge of 1-lb. rockets, green and red lOO
5 Discharge of 10-inch shells, tailed stars lOO
Twenty-fourth Division, Finale.
L Fountain of 12 pr. gerbes ........
2. Flight of rockets
3. Batteries of mines, squibs......
pearl streamers
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4. Parachute shells
5. Tourbillons

200
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7. Discharge of 10-inch shells, brilliants
8. Flight of rockets, 210, 560, 840, 1120, 1400, 1680,
1960, 2240 ............................................... 10,010
E. M. BOXER, Capt., R.A.,
Superintendeut Royal Laboratories.

THE ILLUMINATIONS.
The Bank, the, Post-office, the Custom-house, and
other public buildings in the City, government offices in
and about 'Whitehall, the Club-houses in Pall-mall,
Somerset-house, the National Gallery, and other con-
spicuous edifices, will be illuminated with a variety of
devices. Many of the shops, banking-houses, and ware-
houses, from the City to the west-end, along Cheapside,
Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, the Strand, the Haymarket,
Regent-street, and Piccadilly, not to mention other
streets which do not lie in the main east and west
thoroughfare of the metropolis, as well as Oxford-street,
which has a parallel direction to it, will be decorated
with beautiful and costly contrivances ; the railway sta-
tions, the great hotels, and the halls of the different City
companies, are expected to have a very splendid ap-
pearance. _

A statement of some of the more prominent public
buildings to be illuminated will assist spectators to select
their route.

CITY.
GUILDHALL. -- The illuminations of Guildhall will
ewer the front of that edifice facing Ding-street, from
the roof to the ground, its outlines being all defined by
beads of gas ; and it will also bear the royal initials, and
the City arms and In.ttO.
INDIA HOUSE.—Rich and elaborate foliage, &c., in
gas, With appropriate devices.
ROYAL EXCHANGE. FeAqons of lamps running
round the building ; over the principal entrance, a
transparency, with the inscription, " The earth is the
Lor I 'B, and the fullness thereof."
BANK OF ENGLAND.—A brilliant star, fixed to each of
the street-lamps along the front in Threadneedle-street.
POST oFFlce.—Transpai entv? over the principal en-
trance ; in the centre the Union Jack and Tricolor
combined ; on one side the initials V. R., surmounted
by a crown ; ou the other LN. and crown, with
stars,

Sr. PAUL'S SCHOOL —4. transparency showing the
initials V.A., surmounted by a crown, and bearing the
inscription " Peace."
CUSTOM-HOUSE.—The Custom-house is expected to
look very maolificent. The entire front facing the river
will be illuminated with gag, and it has been decided by
the City authorities to iiluminate Billingsgate Market,
which immedia•ely adjoins it.
FISHIIONGERS.-HALL —One of the most conspicuous
decorations will be teat of the Fishmongers' Company,
near London-bridge. It consists of a royal crown, the
royal initials, and the word "Peace" at the bottom.
Temple-bar will be illuminated with jets of gas running
along the top and different projections.
LONDON-URIDCETERMINUS.—The offices of the London
and Brighton Railway will have a beading of gas running
along the top and sides of the principal face of the build-
ing, with a very large reflecting star in the centre. The
South-Eastern office will be lighted up only with a star.
FENCHURCH-STREET TERMINUS.—The Blackwell ter-
minus, in Fenchurch-street, will present a beautiful ap-
pearance ; the top and sides will have beadings of gas,
and on the front of the building will be four medallions,
also in gas, containing the names of tke allies, England,
France, and Sardinia and Turkey.
WHITEHALL.
HORSE GUARDS.—The Horse Guards will be illumi-
nated both on the front and on the back facing the Pa-
rade. Ou each side the devices will be the same—a large
garter, in coloured lamps, in the centre, surmounted
with a cow; flanked 04 040 h Ode with two. reflecting
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stars, with the motto, " Honi soit qui mal y pense."
The whole of the facade will be illuminated with con-
tinuous series of jets of gas.
ADMIRALTY.--The front of the Admiralty, Charing.
cross, will be lighted with oil lamps, with the letters
"V. R." on either side. The centre of the arch will
be surmounted with a transparency. There will be an-
chors, and other appropriate devices.
TREASIIIM—On the pile of building which con-
tains the Home-office Treasury, Board of Trade,
and Council-office, will, be displayed five banners
suspended from a continuous cable, each banner bear-
ing the component letters of the word peace, and
the 'cable loops by which the banners, will be sus-
pended form medallions, containing the initial letters of the
different sovereigns ' • at the extreme right and left of
the cOmposition will be placed the letters V. and N., en-
circled by a similar cable and laurel wreaths. These
devices will be formed of coloured lamps.

TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
NATIONAL GALLERY.—The front of this edifice will
display an illumination formed of the flags of England
and France, with those of Turkey and Sardinia com-
bined in the centre, with a large star above and the
crescent beneath; on the right will be placed the letters
V. A., surmounted by the British crown, and a star
beneath the letters ; on the left will be placed the letters
N. E., surmounted by the French crown, and a star
beneath the letters ; the whole of this composition will
be supported on each flank by laurel branches. These
several devices will be formed of white and coloured glass
drops, to represent jewels when lighted with gas.