The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-21 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Ripon steam-transport arrived at Spithead en
Saturday morning from the Crimea. She left Malta on
the 31st of December, and Gibraltar on the 6th of Jan.,
which dates appeared with a list of her passengers in
The Sun of Friday last. The Ripon experienced very
severe weather on her voyage from Gibraltar, and on
reaching Corunes the captain brought up, and remained
some hours, which was a great relief to the invalids and
also to the officers and crew, who were much exhausted.
There were some very bad cases among th• wounded
brought by the Ripon, and one poor fellow, a steward
belonging to the ship, died of fever a few days after
leaving Gibraltar. She came into harbour about noon,
landed her invalids and passengers, and arrived yester-
day at Southampton.
The sailing transport Orient, No. 78, and the Marley
Hill, 169, arrived at Spithead on Saturday last, from the
East—the latter in ballast, the former with condemned
stores (clothing and ammunition.) She spoke on the 18th
ult., 30 miles east of Scilly, the Indiana, eastward bound.
The Orient sailed from Malta en the 26th of December.
Her Majesty's ship Rodney anchored at' Spithead on
Saturday from Malta and the Black Sea.
The Vedra, late transport 108, sailed from Portsmouth
on Saturday from Sunderland, she having been paid out
of the service at Plymouth.
The Indian, steam-transport, went into Portsmouth
harbour on Saturday to embark troops for the East.
She takes out a regiment of the Foreign Legion.
The Vixen, steam-sloop, sailed yesterday afternoon
with supernumraries for the eastward.
The Harrier was taken out of dock on Saturday, and
the Falcon and Vulcan was docked to undergo repairs.
The crew of the screw steam-ship Brunswick 81, Capt.
H. E. Yelverton, C. 8., at Plymouth, got tops over
mast-heads on Friday.
The crew of the screw steam-ship Sanspareil, Captain
A. C. Key, C. 8., completed taking out her lower deck
guns o❑ Friday at Plymouth. She is to take in stores
for the division of steam gun-boats going to the Baltio
under command of Captain Key.
The screw steam-ship Centurion, 80, was to be com-
ans-ioned at Devonport on Saturday by Capt. Williams.
Steam was got up on Friday on board the screw steam
sloop Cruiser, 17, Commander the Hon. G. H. Douglas,
at Devonport, to try her new boilers.
The hired screw steam-transport Borusia, No. 33,
Captain H. Esblers, which arrived from Portsmouth on
Wednesday with troops for the Crimea, embarked 360
officers and men of the Land Transport Corps at Ply-
mouth on Thursday, and sailed on Saturday for her desti-
nation.

The General Screw Company's steam-ship Argo, Capt.
Hyde, transport No. 81, arrived at Southampton on Sa-
turday. The Argo left Malta on the 28th of December,
and Gibraltar Jan. 3. She brings the following Govern-
ment passengers :—Sergeant Geary, Thomas Turner and
R. Beggs, of her Majesty's ship Leander, and the wife of
Serjeant Bennett, of the Coldstream Guards, invalids,
and 24 commissariat bakers, and one man of the Army
Works Corps. The Argo also brings the following private
passengers :—Capt. Digby and servant, Captain Smith,
and Messrs. Wilson, Currie, and M'Millen. There are
also some returned Government stores. In the voyage
from Gibraltar the Argo experienced frightful weather,
and during the worst portion of the late gale was driven
nearly on to the coast of Madeira. In taking in sail
two men were blown from the foreyardarm, and received
serious injury.
The General Screw Steam Company's steamer Queen
of the South, Capt. Beal, arrived at Southampton yester-
day from Malta, which island she left on the 9th inst.
She brings home as passengers the Rev. Mr. Hare, chap-
lain to the forces, and a few others, the -Queen of the
South sailed from Spithead on Dec. 21, 1855, with 24
officers and 709 men, draughts from the Ist, 3d, 4th,
20th, 23d, 28th, 48th, 77th, 88th, and 95th Regiments.
For the first seven days she encountered very severe
gales from the south-west and west. The Queen of the
South passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on Mon-
day, the 31st of December, and arrived at Malta on the
sth of January, 1856. The officers and men were dis-
embarked on the same day, all well. On Monday, the
14th, off Gibraltar, exchanged numbers with the sailing
transport Deva, No, 91, of Liverpool, windbound. Same
day, in the Straits of Gibraltar, met a large screw
steamer, bound up, supposed to be her Majesty's steamer
Transit. Since leaving the Straits she has had very thick,
dirty weather, with strong winds from the south-west by
south-south-west, and saiied under canvas without steam
thr, e days
The paddle-wheel-steamer Rhadamanthus, Master-
Commander Petley,, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday
morning from Chatham, to reload with boilers and ma-
chinery for the western yards.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Niger, 14 guns, Comman-
der Hire, reached Woolwich from Portsmouth on Satur-
day morning. Having sustained considerable damages
she is to be immediately docked, and will undergo a
complete overhaul. On her arrival at Woolwich she was
despatched down the river on a trial trip, for the purpose
of an examination of her engines under steam by the en-
gineer department there. Having performed her destined
term of service afloat, the officers and crew of the Niger
will be immediately paid off.
Staff-Surgeon T. W. Shiell has received ()Hers to hold
himself in readiness for immediate embarkation, to take
medical charge of a large draught of the Medical Staff
Corps, who go out to Scutari in the Clyde.
The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Commander C. W. Hope to the Pro-
metheus, vice Selwyn, superseded; George Mason, M.D.,
Surgeon to the Flying Fish ; C. R. Marcon, Master's-
Assistant, to the Centurion ; Joseph White, Master's
Assistant, to the Sappho ; H. P. Collinson, Master's
Assistant, to the Blenheim ; John G. Francklyn, Act-
ing-Clerk, to the Boyne.
On Saturday the undernamed officers assembled at the
Chatham garrison hospital, forming a board for the se-
lection of buildings for the accommodation of sick troops.
Colonel Henry Jervis, the Commandant of the Provi-
sional Battalion, was President, with the following
gentlemen :—Mr. George Russell Dartnell, Chief Medi-
cal Officer ; First-class Staff-Surgeon Batteraby ; Sur-
geon R. Hassard, Ordnance Medical Department ; Cap-
tain W. Lyons, sth Foot ; and Captain A. Lochner,
R.E. The board came to the conclusion that the south
wing of Brompton barracks, including the rear range of
buildings, which during the commencement of the year
1855 were constructed as a temporary. hospital, are to
be used by the sick troops of the garrison, and that a
portion of the rear range, being No. 1 square, and part
of No. 2, are to be set apart as al hospital for the Royal
Sappers and Miners.
On Wednesday Major Hartz, of the 9th Regiment,
attended by Dr. Byden, arrived in Clonmel, for the pur-
pose of receiving volunteers from the sth Lancashire
Militia. On the first day (Friday) upwards of 130 volun.
te
of the Coldstream Guards has arrived in
Dublin the recruiting service, and this time, it is
ered.
p
A arotny
believed, the Guards have been more successful than they
were on a former occasion, as already they have secured
a tolerable number of fine young fellows, volunteers
from the Militia regiments now lying in Dublin.
The following obituary notice appears in the Duildiss
Evening Maid :
" Died at Malta, from the effects of a wound received
on the memorable Bth of September, Ensign Lionel Ed-
ward Fitzgerald, of the 41st Regiment. A member of a
respectable family in the Queen's Comity (the Fitzgerald'
of Rockview), he was thrown upon the world at an early
age to carve out his own fortune ; and, having first led
a civil employment, to which he had been appointed
through the influence of the Hon. Thomas Yesey,.
oW
Viscount de Vesci, he enlisted about 12 years ago !ra t9ll
corps to which he remained attached until his deatl. Ast
ad duel's
colour-serjeant he accompanied his regiment to_thre.Eas ,
and bore his part in all the deadly confiTts etnhd
duties which devolved upon that distinguis e corps
until the fall of Sebastopol. In the assault on the. 13e.
spirits who so
themselvesworthily merited a
dan his name is recorded by the General of Division
among those generous
place under a
civic crown by volunteering to
murderous fire in order to bring away their wounded
comrades to a place of safety. It was while engaged in
that noble service that he received the wound, which,
after much suffering, him to an early, but
has. brought
hweansourable promoted t
g voe. For his conduct on thatloccasion he
an
ensigncy, to the great satisfaction
and men, by whom
he had always been esteemed.
of the whole regiment, both officers

THE MILITIA.
Nearly 70 of the Chatsworth Rifles have tendered
their names for regular service, subject to the approval
of tie colonel of the regiment. During the week Capt.
Greenhill, of the Coldstream Guards, has been at Ches•
terfield, and, having
addressed the regiment while . en
parade, a number of the men at once volunteered to join
the regiment. To make up this deficiency, recruiting
for the Chatsworth Rifles is actively progressing in the
north of Derbyshire.