The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligenc.!..

A Malta letter of the 14Tii inst. gives the following
account of naval and military movements at the port of
Valetta :
" The Capitole, French postal steamer, arrived from
Constantinople, Smyrna, and Syra on the 9th, bringing,
among other passengers, General Markham, whose state
of health has compelled him to retire from the Crimea ;
Lieutenant Williams, 10th Hussars ; Major Mills, of
the 52d ; Sir A. F. Webster, Bart ; and 46 French
military invalids, who, with the exception of General
Markam, left on the 10th for Marseilles in the same ves-
sel, which also embarked at Malta Colonel de Bathe,
Captain W. Jones, Lieutenant Marshall, and Messrs.
Sievwright and Cochrane, also from the East.
"The Marley Hill, screw steam-transport No. 169,
rem London and Gibraltar, with huts and ammunition,
in charge of two Sappers and Miners, arrived on the
10th, and left for Balaklava on the 11th.
" The Grecian, screw steamer, with fruit, from
Smyrna, left for London on the 9th.
" The Tonning, screw steam-transport No. 65, which
put back owing to some derangement oemachinery, left
for Balaklava on the 9th, conveying Captain Dewar,
0. M., Captain Annesley, 0. M., Messrs. Bulkeley,
Harrison, and Peacock, 2 Sappers and Miners, and 4
muleteers.

" The African, screw-steamer, with a general cargo,
Liverpool, left for Constantinople on the 10th.
"The defects of her Majesty's steam-frigate Horatio
being found so great as to render it inexpedient that she
should be sent eastward, in charge of toe Meteor float-
ing steam battery, the Medina steam-packet left with
this latter on the 10th ; and on the same day the Horatio
took her departure for England.
"The Shea.rwater steam-tug will until the Medina's
retrrn take up the mail service between Malta and
Corfu.
"The Empress, English steam-transport in the French
service, left for Marseilles on the 10th, conveying 121
French military invalids and five vivandieres.
"Her Majesty's screw steam-sloop Wasp arrived on
the 10th from Balaklava and Kazatch.
" The French steam-frigate Oreneque, with 65 French
military invalids, arrived from Kamiesb, Cunstantinople,
and Milo on the 11th, having in tow the disabled French
steam corvette Coligny, bringing 37 more military in-
valids from Constantinople.
" The French steam-corvette Veloce arrived from
Marseilles on the 11th, bringing 518 officers, non-com-
missioned officers, and privates, and left for the Crimea
on the 13th.

"The Sardinian salling•frigate Eurydice arrived on the
11th from Genoa with a cargo of provisions for the Sar-
dinian army in the Crimea, and left for her destination
on the 12th.
"The Hetton, screw steam-transport No. 156, ar•
rived on the 11th from Lowestoft and Gibraltar with
huts, and left on the same day for Balaklava.
"The Panama, French steam-frigate, with 1,062 offi-
cers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, left for
Kamiesh on the 11th.

"The French schooner Vauquelerin, with wines and
biscuit for the French Government from Bordeaux,
sailed for Constantinople on the 10th.
"The naval agent victualler has landed from the
Daring, from Liverpool, 467 puncheons of rum.
" The Earsden, screw steam-transport No. 17, arrived
from Woolwich, Greenhithe, and Gibraltar on the 12th,
with huts and ammunition, in charge of 2 sappers and
miners, and left for Balaklava on the same day.
" The Jura, screw steam-transport No. 14, Lieuts.
Bainbridge, R.N., Admiralty agent, arrived from Liver-
pool on the 12th, with 15 horses, and bringing for Malta
Capt. England, Lieut. Kirkwrick, and 52 non-commis-
sioned officers and privates of the 55th ; for Corfu,
Major Shakepear, Capt. Wragge, Lieuts. Crawford,
Dawson, Bacon, Martin, Piercy, Relf, Salter, Stowe,
Walker, Gifford, Dr. Jones, 283 non-commissioned offi-
cers and privates, 18 soldiers' wives with 46 children, and
2 officers' servants of the Berkshire Militia ; for the
Dardanelles, Captains Carleton and De Norman, and
147 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 0. H.
A. and two servants ; for Constantinople, Captain
Smith and Lieutenant Dettman, 7th Dragoons ; Captain
Monkton and Lieutenant Prestos, 3d Light Dragoons ;
40 non-commissioned officers and privates of the let
Dragoons ; a like number of the 4th Dragoons, 51 of the
6th Dragoons, 29 of the Bth Hussars, and two servants ;
and for Balaklava, Lieutenant Potts, and a trooper of
the 11th Hussars ; Captain Holmes and 123 non-com-
missioned officers and troopers of the 10th Hussars ;
Captain Recchie and Lieutenant Handcock, and 88 non-
commissioned officers and troopers of the 12th Lancers ;
Mr. Quin and a private of the Land Transport Corps ;
Surgeon Hearn and two privates. She left for the above-
mentioned places on the 13th, conveying likewise Cap-
tain Ducaire.
"The screw steam-transport Progress (No. 208) ar-
rived from Deptford and Gibraltar en the 12th, with
gunpowder, shells, and huts, in charge of two sappers
and miners.
" Her Majesty's steam-corvette Niger arrived on the
12th from the offing off Sebastopol and Constantinople
to await ulterior orders at Malta from the Admiralty.
It is generally supposed that this steamer, which has
done such good service in the blockade of Odessa, and
afterwards at Kertcb, will, with the Queen, London,
Rodney, Albion, ships-of-the-line, the Leander frigate,
and Wasp steam-corvette, shortly looked for from the
East, proceed to Naples.
" The Sardinian steam-transport Vittorio Emmanuele
arrived on the 12th from Marseilles with ammunition,
&c., for the French Government, and bringing 25 offi-
cers, non-commissioned officers, and privates.
" The Bomarsund, hired bark, with a large cargo of
hay, from Liverpool, having had her damages repaired,
left for Constantinople and Balaklava on the 12th, anc
at the same time the Sardinian brig Francesca, with bar
ley, for the same destination.
" The Saladin, sailing transport, with ammunition,
arrived from Marseilles on the 12th.
"The Egyptian, screw steamer, arrived from Liver-
pool on the 13th, with a general carboy bringing among
other passengers Captain Baker and Captain Turner.
"The English steamer Sea Nymph, in the French
transport service, from Marseilles, with ammunition,
and having on board 30 officers, non-corausissioned offi-
cers, and privates, arrived on the 13th, bringing in tow
the Queen of the Clippers, American ship, likewise from
Marseilles, with ammunition, having on board 1,047
officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates.
" The Caffareli, French steam-frigate, arrived from
Marseilles on the 13th with 540 officers, non-commis-
'4l oned officers, and privates.
"The Norman, screw steam-transport, No. 155, ar-
rived on the 13th from Koslou and Constantinople, bring-
ing Ensign Mackay, of the 72d, and 47. muleteers.
" The English bark San Pietro, with hay and flour,
arrived from Algiers on the 13th.
" The Sardinian steam-frigate Constituzione, with pro-
visions and ammunition, left for the Crimea on the 12th,
having on board 30 officers, non-commissioned officers,
and privates.
"The Dragoon steAm-tug left Constantinople on the
13th.

"Arrivals of f.:oals continue at Malta adding to the
already heavy docks, and two or three cargoes from
Troon have bc.ean repudiated by the assignees, seeing that
what they are likely to realise in the present depressed
state of the market is not likely to cover even the freight.
Between the 10th and 13th of October, 5,800 tons ar-
rived, by 16 English, one Neapolitan, one French, four
Sardinian, one Bremen and two Norwegian vessels, from
Cardiff, Newcastle, Swansea, Newport, Glasgow, and
Leith. On the morning of Sunday, the 7th, from the
American s hip Walter Scott, Captain Smith, with a
large cargo from Liverpool, which has been upwards of
a month in port, smoke was observed to issue, and al-
though /ic. time was lost in setting the ship's fire-engiae
to work., and procuring others, with a gang of men from
the Aine rican merchant ships and British men-of-war in
port, as well as from the dockyard, the fire, from spoil-
taneow .3 combustion of the cargo, was only put out after
scattli- no the vessel and sinking her at the "marsa" or
ahalic ,west part of Valetta harbour, level with the lower
deck . She is now being pumped out, and as the
and elivered part of the cargo has been rejected by the
Ft each Consul, who had purchased the same, it has been
ai ivertised for Bale by public auction. It is not supposed
tt
,at the vessel has suffered any material damage from
V Ili fire.
" Orders have been received by the police to engage
50 more Maltese for employment as muleteers in the
Land Transport Corps at
P
" Her Majesty's Government
in the Crimea.
enthtehanvoeyiatlinxicaointtaemppenlactiiboine
to augment the strength o
Regiment to 1,000 men, provided a battaliou of 500
consent to serve at Hong Kong.
`There were 19 deaths in the military hospital at Va-
letta from the 21st of September to the 4th of October,
13 of which were cases of cholera.
" Dr. Rook, assistant surgeon, and Mr. Wilkinson,
purveyor's clerk, have arrived fur duty in
Malta.
" Letters from Salanica of the 4th of October make
mention of a hurricane in that vicinity a few days pre-
viously, which occasioned the loss of
an English vessel,
the Susanne, iron-lalen ; the Austrian brig Michell,
with hay ; the Sardinian brig Nostra Singora del Dos'
chetto, in ballast ; and some 10 Greek and Ottoman
coasting craft."
A letter from B;.laklava of the Pith of October gives
the following movements at that station :—" Admiral
Lyons arrived here in the Sidon on the morning of the
30th, and,' attex conferring with Admiral Freemantle,
on hoard of the. Leander, he sailed in the afternoon for
the fleet. Dr. 7...)erriman, surgeon to the General Hos-
pital of the narine Brigade, has been invalided. As-
sistant-Surgeon r Carter, lately doing duty in the Naval
Brigade Hospital, has been appointed to the St. Jean
d' Acre. Mr. Thompson, late chaplain to the Naval
Brigade, ham been appointed to the Marine Brigade.
Mr. wise, second-master of the Diamond, to be acting
master of th at vessel, vice Heath, invalided. The Marine
Brigade em narked yesterday on board of the St. Jean
d'Acre. Surgeon Tweedale has joined the Triton, which
sails to-day 'to join the expedition. The Gladiator is
lying in the bay with her Blue Peterflying."
The Han .let, sailing-transport, has left Woolwich for
..
the Crimea. with a cargo consisting of about 80 guns, a
number of forage and ammunition waggons, gun car-
riages, bn sad waggons, harness, and stores for the army
• there,

The 0 tter, 3,
paddle-wheel steamer, Lieutenant
at
Com-
mander Je hn 11. Glover, from Portsmouth, arrived,..
Sheerne es with supernumeraries at 1 p.m. on 'Thursday,
and reru a ins to repair damage done some time since.
Mr. C iareriee Aylen, from the Naval School at New.
cross, ) e
Is been appointed as clerk's assistant on board the
flag-sLi p Waterloo,
Aylen. has taken up eaptain Lord Frederick Kerr. Mr. .
his appointment and joined.
A as lice has been posted at the Sheerness dockyard
that al' I seamen now on leave of absence from the Cal-
cutta, 84 guns, Captain James J. Stopford, are to return
to 'the Ir ship at Portsmouth immediately.
A.e r Majesty's steam-transport Transit, Commander
tha clef , R. Johnson, R.N., arrived at Spithead yester-
e cao
ay ruing from I
the East, and Went into harbour at