The Sun. — 1854-06-16 (London, England)

THE WAR. 1 NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday advices were received at Lloyd's, under date Stockholm, June 8, that the Norwegian barque Johanna Maria, of Stavanger, Lindner master, had been captured by her Majesty's cruisers and taken into Faro harbour, Gothland, and found laden with contraband of war; she was consequently declared a prize and sent to England, her crew to be landed at Stockholm. Intell!gence was received yesterday, under date Dantzic, June 11, that her Majesty's steamer Desperate, 8, Captain D'Eyncourt, had just entered that harbour and landed the crews of two neutral vessels, who, after being warned off the coast, attempted to break the blockade. The ships have been sent home to England in charge of prizemasters. The French ship Algerine sailed yesterday from the Downs for the Baltic ; she carries stores and a medical staff, sick berth attendants, and the other requisites for an hospital ship, for which purpose she is intended. Her Majesty's steaniii Medina, under orders for the Baltic, sailed past Deal yesterday afternoon, going westward. Yesterday the Directors of the. East India Company gave notice at Lloyd's that a ship °fa:bout 500 tons was t required to carry a number of lads to 13RFfiba)tr for ro s to naval service, as also another ship to convey Kurrachee. They are all to embark the latter end of July. The Taurus, screw steam transport, having completed taking on board stores at the Royal Arsenal, the -remainder of Captain Brandling, sNO 12th battalion embarked in her at i 1 company of the litieaaprrived in the Royal Arsenal, le. a and she has left Woolwich for ConN 0.1190, The Camperdown transport, Downs yesterday afternoon from the Thames, with stores for Malta. steam ry at the facto at WoolThe officers studying wich dockyard concluded their examination before Commodore John Shepherd,Superintendent, and Mr. Atherton, Chief Engineer, yesterday, and the answers to the various questions put on the practical working of marine steam-engines will be sent to Portsmouth preyibus to their being finally passed. The Ite.c. Dr. Woolley, Inspector of Dockyard Schools, concluded his inspection of the school for the dockyard 'apprentices on Thursday, and during their examination was assisted by the Rev. J. C. Connolly, Dockyard Chaplain, and Mr. M'Avoy, teacher of the apprentices. The non-commissioned officers and gunners of Captain Graydon's company, Ist battalion, Royal Artillery, have presented a splendid silver cup, with suitable inscription, to Colour-sergeant Robert Allen, as a memorial of the high esteem in which he was herd by them for his good conduct towards them, on his retiring from the corps on a pension. He has obtained the situation of Superintendent of the Revenue Police of Dublin. The Medina will leave Portsmouth to-morrow with mails for the Mediterranean and Black Sea fleets. Letters and papers must be posted this evening (Friday). The Locust, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Day, is appointed to leave Portsmouth on the 21st inst. for the Baltic, carrying a mail to the fleet. The Myrmidon, 4, iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander W. K. Jolliffe, arrived at Spithead, from the West Coast of Africa station, yesterday morning. She left Sierra Leone on the 15th of May, Teneriffe on the 30th, and Madeira on the 2d of June, bringing mails. The Ferret, 8, Commander Macdonald, was about to sail for a cruise. The Plumper, 11 (screw), Commander Wharton, was about sailing with mails for Ascension. Commander Hesseltine, of the Brithmart, 8, was expected from Ascension, to assume the command, as senior officer of the Sierra Leone division of the squadron. The mail steam-packet Faith was at Sierra Leone, endeavouring to fit a propeller, in lieu of that lost on her way out. The Bacchante, with mails, arrived outwards on the 15th of May. The,.slave trade is reported apparently extinct, and no prizes have been made for a very long time. The station was very healthy. Mrs. Lindsay and Mr. Barlee, Ordnance Storekeeper, have come home front- Sierra Leone in the Myrmidon, which vessel has been healthy, considering the hazardous and continued river work upon which she has generally been employed. She has lost one man from sickness, four by violent deaths, and Mr. Carr, Second-Master, murdered in November last by the natives of Kanyaboe. She has taken one prize, in May last, almost the last, or the. last captured ; this was a fine new clipper schooner from the Havannab, about the only place for which slaves are carried from the coast. The Myrmidon has gone into Portsmouth Harbour to be refitted, most probably to serve as a gun-boat for the Baltic. ANOTHER SCREW SHIP OF THE Lus