The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-09 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

By advices received by our Southampton correspon-
dent from Malta, bearing date March 28, we learn that
the. General Screw• Company's steam-transport ship In-
diana, Captain Lambert, left Malta on that day for
England with the following invalided officers and troops,
who embarked at Scutari :—Lieutenant-Colonel Han.
cock and lady, 97th Foot ; Rev. E. Owen, chaplain ;
Captain Darby, 89th Foot ; Lieut. Matthews, 14th
Foot ; Assistant-Surgeon Sinclair, 93d Highlanders ;
Lieut. Grain, Royal Engineers ; Captain Ingleby, Royal
Artillery • Lieut. Day,-R.N. ; Commander Jones, ;
Assistant-Surgeon Sing ley, and kr. Miller, bandmaster
of the

The following British steam-transports were at Malta
when the Indiana left, nearly all of•which were under
orders to sail tor Genoa, to embark the Sardinian con
tingent for the Crimea :- -The Thames. Niagara, Eugene-
Avon, Kangaroo,. Charity, Emeu, Holyrood, Manilla
and Tamar.

Eugene Popoff, Russian priest in London, has, by the
desire of her Serene Highness the Grand Duchess Marie
Savlovna (of Weimar),_ and her Serene Highness the
Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna (of Stutgardt), for-
warded to the commanding officer of the Devonshire the
sum of 51. for Qie use of the Russian prisoners.
Official routine, indented letter paper, and red-tapism
never had a more forcible or farcical illustration than is
presented by the flag of the Admiral-Superintendent of
Portsmouth Dockyard. This officer was promoted from
the Blue to the White squadron of the fleet about two
months ago, and duly gazetted to that position, but the
Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty having neglected
to offic,ially write him to inform him of the fact, his first
blue flag has been flying ever since, and is now, as lie
must not change it for the one he has been gazetted to
hoist without the official authority. This was singularly
ridiculous the other day when "my lords" were at
Portsmouth, whero four blue flags were flying in the
port at ono time.

MILITARY.
On Saturday orders were received from the Horse
Guards at the respective quarters of the detachments of
the household brigade of infantry, under orders to rein-
force the service battalions in the Crimea, and to esta-
blish a depot of reserve at Malta, to have the men under
arms in light service marching order this day, to pro-
ceed to Portsmouth and Southampton fer embarkation
for the above destinations ; in obedience to which the
draughts for the several battalions wero mustered and
inspected in their respective barrack squares, when the
general order was read to the men, who were formed in
close column ; and they were subsequently addressed by
the respective commanding officers. The draughts will
fall in at 9 o'cloCk on their barrack parades—viz., 400
rank and file, for the third battalion of the Grenadiers,
in the Grand-square, Tower ; 380 ditto, for the first bat-
talion of the Coldstreams, in St. George's-barracks ; and
400 ditto, for the Scots Fusilier Guards, in Portman-
street barracks.

The Earl of Carlisle, with the sanction of the General
Commanding•in-Chief, bag been pleased to make the
following appointments :—Captain the Hon. Leopold-
Agar Ellis, Kilkenny Fusiliers, to be aide-de-camp ;
Captain Viscount Ennismore, cots Fusilier Guards;
and Cornet Augustus F. Wentworth Gore, 7th Hussars,
to be extra aides.de camp.
On Wednesday morning a squadron of the Bth
fluEsars, who have been for some time past training a
dumber of horses at the York barracks, left that city
for Liverpool for the Crimea, taking with them 80 0,