The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-30 00:00:00

ith the East Kent Militia and draughts for Malta, ar-
rived at that island :—Colonel Brockman, Lieutenant-
Colonel Dering (Major) ; Captains Pennefather, Castle,
Kebble, and Mount ; Lieutenants Inverarity, Zaba,
Wilson, Wimberly, and Grey ; Ensigns Fraser, Easel-
dine, Ball, Schlotel, Howell, and Paul • Adjutant-Cap-
tain Whitehead (previously arrived) ; Quartermaster R.
Jones ; Surgeon W. R. Curtis ; Assistant-Surgeon
Braidley, Mrs. Mount, Mrs. Jones, two children, Mrs.
and three children, 594 rank and file ; 49
women, Willman,2
children, of East Kent Militia.
"Ist froonts944SnCarlyon ; Lieutenants Brady,
Low, an Oake , us' s Heywood and Watson ; 130
men, 2 women, and 3 children. •
" 4th—Captain Wilby ' • Lieutenants Elliott, Constable,
Breton, and George • 128 rank and file.
" 18th—Major Ca ll ; Captains Ward and Graves ;
Lieutenants Pocklington, Willford, and King ; Ensign
Cottee • 127 rank and file.
" 28;h—Captain Garston, Lieutenants Turner and
Smyth, 125 rank and file.

‘` 38th —Captain Daniel, Lieutenants Snell and Hume
Ensins Stanfeld and Wilkie, 125 rank and file. ,

":44t11--Captains Green and Mansfield. Lieutenant
Kendall, Ensigns.Pigot and Raymond, 128 rank and
file."

THE FLOATING BATTERIES AND MORTARS.
Rear-Admiral Berkeley, C. 8., and Sir Robert Peel
paid a visit to Woolwich Dockyard on Saturday, and
inspected the iron cased floating batteries, and thernoF-
tar-vesseis fitting at that port. One of the batteries is
in a dock, a: d another is in the basin. Their lordships
minutely inspected the lattery in the basin.
Of the mortar-vessels the seven ordered to the Crimea
had all their mortars fitted by-Saturday night. They
areM all completed on the plan of Captain Julius Roberts,
R., but for some unexplained reason are some 40
tons burden less than the vessels built for the old bed
principle. The mortars (5 tons weight each) in the
slings and the apparatus look very snug, and turned
mouth downwards perpendicularly into a well made in
the vessel, and pecked with stores, the vessels will not
be badly ballasted- by them for a sea voyage. Captain
Wilcox, of the Odin, who was also in the dockyard, is to
convey these vessels to Sebastopol after sufficient trial
has proved their seaworthiness and efficiency. To-day
it is expected that they will take in their stores of shells,
&c., and in the course of the week they will all be de-
spatched,
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Admiral Earl Talbot,
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Captain 'W. H. Henderso Lord George Lennox,
, e (Comptroller of the
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Coast Guard) and Mr. Stafford, M.P. Were
the ntrtriet'oneviiillois, on-Saturday, to %leafy' forroidabie
engines of war.

ARRIVAL OF THE VICTORIA. --
The screw steam transport Victoria,No. 72, Capt. M.
Lay, arrived at Southampton from the Black Sea, Malta,
and Gibraltar, on Saturday evening. She left the latter
port on the evening of the 20th inst., with invalids from
the garrison at Gibraltar, in charge of Assistant-Surgeon--
J. Scott. The Victoria has on board Lieut. Beetham,T
92d Highlanders, and M men, 8 women, and 14 children.
This vessel has. been engaged in the transport service
during the past 12 months, and, besides the conveyance
-of troops, stores, &c., from ports in the Mediterranean
and Black Sea to Balaklata,, has rendered valuable asiest-
ance by towing sailing transport vessels to their differ-
ent places of destination. During the great gale oh the
14th of November last the Victoria received damage,
and hei rudder was almost entirely carried away. For
this reason, as well as requiring a thorough refit, shea
has been ordered to England. She reached Gibraltar
from Malta in ballast. aOn the 12th inst., the. Ina-
ichinery was partially disabled by the bottom of one of
Pie cylinders being blown out. Since leaving Gibraltar,
he Victoria passed, on the 20th instant, the steam-
ship . Tyneniouth ; on the 21st spoke .the' brig
Favourite, of Marseilles ;on the-22d exchanged colours'
With the English brig Stipio,, and the Swedish barque
Hedwig Sophia ; and on the 23d inst. also exchanged
colours with the English brig Lebanon and the English
ichooner John Parden. The Victoria passed'the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Iberia, with
the Peninsular mails, entering Gibraltar harbour, on the
evening of the 20th inst. The Victoria was ordered-:di-
rect to Southampton, it was presumed by, thus? on
board for the purpose of landing her invalids, lint on her
arrival at that port, " Routine" required that
Orders-be first received from head-villein for the dis-
posal of her freight. Up to last evening directions from
bead-quarters had not been received, and the vessel re-
mained in Southampton river. Fortunately, however,
there are no urgent cases on board ; had it been other-,
wise the process would, nevertheless, have been gone
through. Orders will doubtless be received to send the
ship back to Portsmouth, but had the captain been in-
trusted with a discretionary power all the troops might
have been landed on the evening of her arrival, and
sent off by train to the military hospital at Portsea. -