The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

We have received the Moniteur of yeslerday. It pub-
lishes the following letter addressed by Lord Cowley to
Count Walewski, accompanying the official notification
by General Simpson of the death of Lieutenant-Colonel
" Paris, Icily 28, 1855.
"Monsieur le Ministre,-1 have received instructions
from Lord Clarendon to communicate tq your Excellency
the annexed copy of a despatch addressed to thelWar.
office by Lieutenant-General Simpsonovbich expresses
the regret of the English army in the Crimea at the
death of Lieutenant-Colonel Vico, wh?, since the com-
mencement of the war, acted as French Commissary at
the head-quarters of the English army.
"In making this communication, and in announcing
to your Excellency that General Simpson's despatch was
published in a supplement to the London Gazette of the
26th instant, I have to add that the Government of the
Queen shares the regret expressed by the English Com-
mander in-Chief at the loss of an officer
been associated with the British army, and who earned
the esteem and affection of all those who came in con-
tact with him.--I am, &a., " COWLEY,"

Vico :

The following letter is from a MAlta correspondent,

dated July 28 :
"The Indiana, screw steam transport, belonging to
the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, arrived on
the 25th from Plymouth and Kingstown, having ou
board, for Malta, Capt. Grey, Lieuts. Coffin, Hazelrigg,
Green, Hutton, and Winslow ; and Ensign Bennett, of
the 21st ; for the Dardanelles, Majors Campbell and
Synge ; Ca.pts. Grierson, Matthews, and Piatt ; Lieuts.
Bridgman and Dunne ; and Surgeon Brown ; and for the
Crimea, Lieut.-Colonel Stuart, Capt. Henry, and Lieu t.
Show, 4th Dragoons ; Capt. Slade, Lieutenants Dawson
and North, 14 Dragoons ; Capt. Macbean, Lieutenants
Leeson and Rycroft, Surgeons Anthony and Haverty,
and 261 non-commissioned officers and privates, and
Hendrick Brouvver and the whole of the crew of the
Dutch schooner galliott Anna Louisa, run into by the
steamer on the night preceding in the waters of Cape
Bon, when such serious damages were occasioned to the
galliot that immediately the two ships were disentangled
by the cutting away of the rigging she foundered, with
her cargo of Indian corn, shipped at Galatz by the firm
of Ludeman and Romer, to the order of S. Prince, of
Amsterdam. Although not more than six minutes elapsed
between her being struck and so going down, all hands
happily contrived to get on board the steamer, which
landed them at Malta, where an action is about to be
instituted in which the damages are laid at 7,000/.
" The screw-steamers, Black Prince, with medical
comforts, and the Pioneer with Government stores, both
from London, arrived on the 27th, and on the same day
the La Plata screw-steamer with provisions, &c., from
Liverpool and Gibraltar.
" The Rajah screw steam-transport left for England
on the 25th, and at the same time the Great Britain
screw steam transport for Spithead, which latter con-
veyed Captains Burnard, Gairdner, Peel, and Sullivan,
Major Anderson, Lieut. Spright, Lieut.-Col. Douglas,
one
Majors Gordon, Gritnst, , Hills, and Watts,. Capt.
Elliott, Lieut. Harman, Deputy-Assistant Commissary-
General Fosberey, Mr. Rust, 148 non-commissioned
officers and privates, four soldiers wives, and 10 seamen,
sick, wounded, and invalided from the East.
"Her Majesty's steam-ship Inflexible left for England
on the 25th.
" The Victory, screw steam transport, left for the
Crimea on the 25th, having on board 27 officers, 27 sol-
diers, 65 land transport men, and 14 horses and mules ;
and on the 27th, the Lady Alice Lambton, screw steam
transport, with Government stores for Constantinople,
for which port the schoer yacht Genevra sailed on the
25th, conveying Sir E. Colebrooke and Mr. Twopenny.
"The Firefly screw steam transport arrived from Bar-
celona and Constantinople on the 26th.
" The Joseph Shepherd and Great Tasmania sailing
transports arrived from Balaklava on the 27th, the latter
having on board the following invalids :—Capt. Herbert
(in command), Captain Quayle, 33d ; Captain Lea, 57th ;
Lieutenant Stewart, Ist Royals ; Lieutenant Beat, 21st;
Lieutenant Brilow, let battalion Rifle Brigade Lieu-
tenant Stanley, Grenadier Guards ; Surgeons Evans,
Hughes, Innis, and Jardine ; the Rev. Mr. Hynard, and
397 non-commissioned officers and privates of various re-
giments, and 27 orderlies.
" The Provence, French screw steamer, left for Ka-
miesch on the 25th, conveying 5 officers and 406 non-
commissioned officers and privates, and 1 chaplain.
" The French screw steam transport Normandie ar-
rived from .starseilles on the 27th, bringing 29 French
soldiers, 74 horses, and a cargo of ammunition, having
in tow the English transport Sibilla (No. 5), likewise
from Marseilles, and bringing 28 more soldiers and 54
horses. The Normandie left for the Crimea on the 27th.
" The William Penn, American screw steamer, in the
French transport service, arrived from kamiesch and
Constantinople on the 26th, bringing 2 officers and 64
non-commissioned officers and privates, and 1 officer's