The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Yesterday being the anniversary of his Royal High-
ness Prince Alfred's birthday, and the Court being
within tio precincts of the port, a general Royal salute
was fired at PGou from the fleet at Portsmouth in honour
of the day, and the usual fete, in which all officers and
men of the Royal yacht participated, took place as here-
tof,re at Osborne.

The steam batteries Meteor and Glatton, Captains
Seymour and Cumming, arrived at Spithead yesterday at
noon fiom the Nore. and remain there. They were in-
spected yesterday afternoon by Vice-Admiral Sir Thos.
Cochrane, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth.
The Alban, paddlewheel steamvessel, Lieut. Fisher,
arrived at Spithead yesterday evening from the east-
ward, and remains there.
The Rosamond, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Crofton,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Black Sea.
The sailing transport Lady Anne, No. 130, arrived at
Spithead en Sunday evening from the Thames, for the
East, with a portion of the Turkish Contingent.
The Bhadnmanthus steam transport, Master Com-
mander Belam, R.N., arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
with large guns, and went into harbour after berthing
the Glatton steam battery at Spithead.
The Lord Dalhousie sailing transport, No. 116, went
into Portsmouth Harbour to land her invalids at the
dockyard yesterday.
The Blake sailing transport No. 33, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday afternoon from the East.
The Simoom, 18, steam troop-ship, Captain T. R.
Sulivan, went into the steam basin yesterday at Ports-
mouth to have her defects made good.
The ship George Marshall passed the Isle of Wight
yesterday from Port Phillip for London.
Her Majesty's yacht Fairy, Captain the Hon. Joseph
Denman, steamed through Spithead last evening at six
o'clock with the Royal standard at her main, which was
saluted by the St. George, 120, Captain Eyres C. 8., and
Neptune, 120, Captain Hutton, which dressed in mast-
head flags as the yacht approached.
A court-martial was held yesterday on board the Vic-
tory, in Portsmouth Harbour, to try Mr. W. Belize,
third-class assistaat engineer, of the Malacca, for deser-
tion. The Court sentenced him to be imprisoned in
Winchester gaol for six months.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Inflexible, 6, which ar-
rived at Plymouth yesterday, left Kazatch Bay and Ba-
laklava on the 4th of July, Constantinople on the even-
ing of the 7th, and Smyrna on the morning of the 11th.
She anchored at Syra on the 12th ; but being in quaran-
tins had no communication with the shore, and left '
again on the 13th, arrived at Malta on the 16th, and
left for Tripoli on the afternoon of the 19th, with her
Britannic Majesty's Consul-General Harmann, in cmse-
quence of a despatch from Mr. R. Read, Vice-Consul of
that place, who reported a revolt of the Arab tribes in
the Jebul mountains, headed by their chief, Gomer, in
which the Turkish troops suffered severely, losing about
70 killed and wounded. The rebels retained posses-
sion of their stronghold at the foot of the moun-
tain pass, having taken six Turkish guns. A
descent upon the town being feared, the Inflexible
remained for two days, when all apprehensionforted.
subsided, and she sailed on the 22d July.
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