The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-16 00:00:00

[PRICE 4D.

Mil Italy Intedige,l%;e

Thefollowing officers attached to the Provisional D,?.-
pot Battalion at Parsonstown are ordered to proceed ta
Nova Scotia, to join the service companies Of their re
giments—viz , 62d . Depots—Lieutenants Chippendall,
Holder, Walsh, Staines, and Harriseon. 63d Depot—
Cap'. Fitzroy, Lieutenants Hand, Pye, Grant, Tuyston,
and Moorehead. 76th Depot—Lieut. Preston. These
officers will sail in the Arabia from Liverpool to-mor-
row. Capt. Bouverie, of the 63d, has also received an
order of readiness to proceed to Nova Scotia.
H. M. steam frigate Amphion, 34, Capt. Chads, arrived
at, Spithead yesterday morning from the West India Sta-
tion, 35 days from Port Royal. She brought no news,
and oniv-eme invalid—The orders for her Majesty's steam
frigate Imperieuse, 51, Capt. Watson, C. 8., to proceed
to En. laud, w. sa de-patched from Port Royal to Grey.
town the day before the Aintilnon's sailing. The Am-
!thine passed St. Alban's Head during the eight of
Wednesday, some distance off, and, consequently, saw
nothing of the Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's
ship Tyne on shore there. The Ataphion proceeded to
Sheerness at 2 p.m. to be paid off.
The Simoom, 18, iron troop steamship, Commander
Cooke, bent sails at Portsmouth on Wednesday. She
i- being fitted, in pursuance of Admiralty order, with a
30-feet cutter, and the stern jollyboat with Clifford's
lowering apparatu,, under the personal direction of the
patentee, in order that the workmen may prepare in like
manner the whole of the boats of the Megssra and Urgent
troopships and other vessels, whose officers, since the
report of Commander Pullen, of H.M.S. Dee, off the
Nore, have made application for the apparatus.
Her Majesty's steamvessel Trident, 6, Commander
Close, left Spithead yesterday at noon for the West Coast
of Africa station.
The Megsera, 6, iron steam troopship, Cora. Purvis,
was taken out of the steam basin and harbour at Ports
mouth yesterday to prove her machinery before being
reported ready for embarkation.
The Urgent., 6, steam troopship, Commander Phillips,
was taken into the steam basin dock yesterday, at Ports-
mouth, far refit.
Her Majesty's steam frigate Retribution and Pigmy
tug were despatched from Portsmouth in the night of
Wednesday to St. Alban's Head to render assistance to
the stranded mailship Tyne. The Pigmy took down
pumps, hawsers, and other gear that might be useful.
The steam troopship Transit was undocked yesterday
at Portsmouth after repairs.
The Sharpshooter, 8, steam sloop, was placed under
the shears at Portsmouth yesterday to be masted for re-
commission.
A discharge of troops took place from Chatham yes-
terday. 180 men belonging to various regiments received
their discharge.
Her Majesty's steam troop ship Dee, Master Com-
mander Pullen, from Portsmouth, wasyestsrday received
under the shears in the outer basin at Woolwich from
the river, to be rolodex' with fr 4 ahinery.
The gunboats Hunter, Handy, Garnet, and Fenella,
of 40-horse power respectively, were hauled out of the
fitting basin at Woolwich yesterday, and placed along-
side the wharf, to be roasted.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Clerks—F. M. S Dufour, to the Retribution ; Rus-
sell Hill, to the Waterloo.
Mr. Augustus Mayford, William P. Law, George P.
Heather, and W. 11. Obree, have been promoted to the
rank of Master.