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adopted his (the President's) proposal to fit out an expedi-
tion to clear away all such obscurities by ascending the
White Nile, and not, as previously, by any efforts from Zan-
zibar and the eastern coast of Africa. The difficulties en-
countered by Speke and Grant in passing through that tract
and the apparent impossibility of establishing any regular
traffic between the east coast and the central kingdoms, had
induced the Council to prefer to any other line of research
an effort to render the great White Nile a channel of inter-
course and commerce between the prolific interior and the
frAders of the Mediterranean Sea. For such an expedition
the Council were ready to advance £lOOO, hoping that meats
would be found to put a stop to the demoialising traffic in
slaves which, as our Consul-General in Cairo (Mr. Col
quhoun) wrote to him, was accompanied by horrors of which
no one could form an idea. That they believed could best
be accomplished by the exertions of the Pasha of Egypt and
by the extension of his influence southwards from Khartum
to Gondokoro. The intermediate country was now a sort
of No-man's-land, in which numerous warring small tribes
were kept in an excited and barbarous state by the importa-
tion of firearms, now so largely brought into use. If the
miserable natives were rescued from the present disorders
legitimate commerce would soon arise between the equatorial
kiags and the merchants of Cairo and the Mediterranean. A
great portion of the President's address was devoted to the
subject of the glaciers of the Himalayas and New Zealand,
as compared with those of Europe, and their influence in
modifying the surface of the earth. The address was lis-
tened to with great attention and frequently applauded.
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A STRAY.

The anniversary meeting of this society was held yester-
day at Burlington-house, Piccadilly,—Sir Roderick Mur-
chison, president of the institution, in the chair. Thera
was a numerous attendance of members, with a large sprink-
ling of ladies. After some preliminary business,
Mr. MARKHAM, the secretary, read the report of the
council, detailing the transactions of the society for the past
year, and describing its present state and prospects. Since
the last anniversary eoeeting 233 new members had been
elected, and 61 vacancies had occurred, the total number of
Fellows now being 1,907. The balance-sheet for the year
ending the 31st of December, 1863, showed that the esti-
mated receipts and expenditure laid before last year's meet-
ing had differed from the actuals, but in a way favourable to
the society—the receipts estimated having been stated at
£4,502 10s., exclusive of the cash in hand ; whereas the
actuals amounted to £5,258 9s. 3d., exclusive of the cash
balance. The estimated expenditure also was put down at
£5,747 ss. 2d., or at £3,897 bs. 7d., excluding the money
proposed to bo invested ; but the outlay, exclusive of the
cash and amount invested, was only £3,655 4s. ld. The
difference between the actual receipts and actual outlay left
a surplus balance in hand of £1,601 ss. 2d„ and the council
had had available for investment in the funds a sum of
£1,837, for which there had been purchased £2,000 amount
of stock in Three per Cents. The funded capital of the so-
ciety. consisting at the beginning of 1863 of £7,500, and at
the close of the year 1863 of £9,500. New Three per Cent.
Government Stocks, was increased during the past year by
the purchase of £2,000 stock for a cash payment of £1,837
10s., and since the Ist oflauary of the current year an addi-
tion had been made by f 171" A" sum of £896 55., foe which
£l,OOO New Three per Cent. Stock had been purchased,
making a total of £10,500 stock, yielding an annual income
of £315, as the reserve fund of the society up to this date.
The 32d volume of the Journal of the society, which was
announced as ready at the last anniversary, had been
brought out during the past season ; and the council were
sanguine that the valuable papers it contained would greatly
add to the usefulness of the Royal Geographical Society.
The 33d volume of the Journal was now in the press, and
would have been published before this but for the death of
the assistant secretary. The report then proceeded to de-
scribe the accessions which had been made to the library
and the map room, together with the means used to enlarge
the map room collection, and also explained the steps taken
by the award of premiums to encourage the production of
improved scientific instruments for the use of travellers.
Since the last anniversary, with a view to make the instru-
ments more accessible to travellers, a room had been set
apart and the instruments properly arranged, upon the re-
commendation of the Vice-President, Admiral R. Collin-
son. Further arrangements were in contemplation for
making the collection more generally available and useful
to all classes. On the subject of grants to travellers the re-
port stated that the sum of £5O was sent to M. Rohlfs
Gerard on the 10th February, 1864, to assist him in his
projected journey from Morocco towards Timbucto ; and
the council had at present a proposal under the considera-
tion of Government for the exploration of the Nile from
Egypt, for which the sum of £l,OOO would be made avail-
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An interesting portion of the proceedings was the pre-
sentation of the patron's and founder's gold medals to dis-
tinguished explorers. The founder's medal falling due this
year to an eminent foreigner, its presentation took prece-
dence.

In performing this ceremony, the PRESIDENT said—
Baron C. von der Decken, this medal is awarded to you for
the two remarkable journeys which you have performed
from the East Coast of Africa to the great mountain of
Kilimandjaro, in each of which, with the assistance of Mr.
Richard Thornton in the first and of Dr. Karsten in the
second case, you made many astronomical observations, and
by the use of good instruments constructed a contoured
map of the region. You also determined numerous alti-
tudes by barcmetrical measurement, and estimated the
highest of the peaks of the mountains to be 20,065
English feet above the sea, and preyed it to be covered with
perpetual snow. rn these expeditions you farther collected
rock specimens which have demonstrated that in a remote
period this snow. capped mountain was an active volcano,
The accuracy of the observations made in your last journey
was proved by a comparison of the chronometers you took
with you, which having been compared on your return to
Zanzibar were found to have varied only seven seconds in
upwards of 100 days. In adjudicating this medal we further
applaud your unabated zeal and energy in exploring Eastern
Africa, seeing that you have just fitted out at great expense
a new expedition, and have constructed an iron river
steamer, wherewith you hope to ascend one of the rivers
flawing from Mount Kenia, and thence to explore unknown
regions of inner Africa, if not to follow down one of the
main eastern affluents of the Nilo. I therefore hand to you
this medal in the conviction that, long as England was
united with Hanover, we never have had among us one of
your countrymen so entitled to the cordial thanks of geo-
graphers. And as you have named your new vessel the
Guelph I trust that this name,so long endeared to English-
men like myself, mho lived in the days when Hanover and
England were, as it were, one country, may be a happy
omen of the success which we all hope may crown your
next enterprise. (Cheers.)
Baron vox DER DECIOEN expressed his warm acknow-
ledgments for the honour done him, which he ascribed less
to his actual achievements than to his earnest endeavours
to be useful to geographical science. He attributed it also
allusion
thedee members
in some measure to the expectations formed of his proposed
new expedition to Eastern and Equatorial Africa. Whether
that expedition would be successful God knew, but he had
great hopes in connection with it, and if anything should
happen to himself in the course of its prosecution, its ob-
jects
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Mr.rty
Thornton, Baron von der Decken concluded by thanking
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the president for the valuable assistance he had always ren-
dered to his enterprises. ll e

The PRESIDENT next presented the patron's or Queen's
having, on his arrivalinattchOant
medal to Captain Grant in
months have elapsed since these terms :—Captain Grant, 11
theth received your. leader Captain
Speke and yourself within
greetervices.you have. performed in
services you
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your skilful leader,
and affixed to each of his medals the appropriatetl motto of
" Honor a Nilo." On my own part, I c
thatmed medals
set loi.ieilgploorfelrstaolfyd
the many occasions on which it has beenan mru y say that on
my lot to present
satisfaction than on the present occasion. For now that I
hand to you this medal, bearing the effigy of Queen Victoria,
I feel that we geographers are not merely •
recompensing the
noble and disinterested companion of Speke, but, as a sol-
dier of the olden time myself, I have a special pride in re-
cognising in yourself the gallaat young officer who in the
Indian mutiny, and despite a severe wound, was the means
of saving from serious disaster the rearguard of the illus,
trious Havelock as he advanced to the relief of Lucknow.
Accept, then, this our gracious patron's medal, and consi-
der it as our Victoria Cross. (Cheers,)
Captain GRANT expressed his deep sense of gratitude for
the high reward bestowed on him---a reward he said which
he little thought he had ever done anything to merit.
The PRESIDENT then proceeded to deliver his annual ad-
dress, recounting the progress of geographical science
throughout the world during the past year. His discourse
commenced with an obituary of the distinguished members
of the society who had passed away within the last year.
Among these were the names of Lord Ashburton, Lord
Elgin, Admiral Washington, Mr Thornton, and others. De-
scanting on the subject of the recent explorations in Africa,
Sir Roderick said—The discovery of that great water basin
i the Victoria Nyanza in the heat of equatorial Africa, and
the proof that a great stream flowed out from its northern
extremity, which Speke and Grant followed and stated to
be the White Nile, was. as he stated last year, truly a great
feat of which all our countrymen had reason to be proud.
But in warmly praising and honouring the men who ac-
complished it, they were not yet satisfied as geographers
with that their single line of march and the Valuable data
which they fixed regarding the upper waters of the Nile.
They looked naturally to other efforts which must be made
to dispel all scepticism, including that raised by the claim
of the Venetian traveller Miani as to his having continu-
ously ascended the river to 21 degrees to the S.S, W. of
Gondokoro, the rocky banks of which he had laid upon a
sketch map. The Council of the society had, therefore, come
to the conclusion that the physical geography of all that re•
gion, together with the shores of the Victoria Nyanza (a
lake described by Speke as larger than all Scotland) should.
bo further explored and the nature and extent of the vari-
ous affluents of that vast body of water determined • that
the regions between the waters of the lake Luta-Lzie and
the lake Tanganyika of Burton and Speke should beex-
amined in order to determine if there were not there (as
some geographers thought probable) other sources of sup-
ply for the White Nile coming from that region to the west
of the Victoria Nyanza; and, finally, that, if possible, the
Upper White * Nile of Speke and Grant should be traced
continuously from the lake to that point where, according
to their map, it was made to join the end of the lake Luta-
-1 Lzigi, Having considered that point, the Council lead

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At its conclusion Lord DONOUGHMORE moved that the
thanks of the meeting should be voted to the President for
delivering it, coupled with a request for its publication.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
The members of the Council of the Society were then
chosen by ballot, and on the motion of Sir H. Rawlinson,
seconded by Mr. J. Crawfurd, a rule of the institution was
suspended to enable Sir R. Murchison to be again re-elected
as its chairman. Sir Roderick was unanimously re-elected
accordingly, and briefly returned thanks for that renewed
mark of confidence.
The proceedings then terminated.

THE BANQUET.
The annual dinner of the society took place at Willis's
Room, St. James's, in the evening. Sir R. Murchison again

presided, and Was supported by Lord Houghton, Lord

Strangford, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord A.

Churchill, Sir C. Eastlake, Sir T. Fremantle, Sir H. Raw-
linson, General Stanhope, Baron Von Der Decken, Sir S.
Donaldson, Captain Grant, Admiral Kellatt, Count Stre-
lecki, Sir C. Nicholson, Admiral Hall, the Hon. Mr.-Petre,
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Dr. Percy, Mr. Bracebridge, Professor Tyndal, Professor
Hoffman, Professor Masson, Mutu Coomain Swainy, &c.
About 150 guests sat down to dinner.
The PRESIDENT gave "The Queen, the Patron of the
Society," which was drunk with enthusiasm. in proposing
the next toast, " The Prince and Princess of Wales, and the
rest of the Royal Family," Sir Roderick remarked that the
Prince of Wales was the greatest traveller of any heir ap-

parent to the English throne in modern times. From the
eloquent words which the Prince had spoken at the Lite-
rary Fund dinner, he felt sure that if his Royal Highness
took an interest in any of the sciences, and he hoped he
would take an interest in many, he would evince a special

attachment to geography, in which, as so great a traveller,
he was well fitted to become distinguished. Though the
Prince had seen many lands, he doubted not that, like a
true Englishman, the place dearest of all to him, particu-
larly now that he was united to a charming Danish Prin-
cess, was " sweet home." (Hear, hear.)
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The toast was received with the usual honours ; and was
followed by " The Army, Navy, and Volunteers."

General STANHOPE returned thanks on behalf of the
army, which, he said, was now in as fit a state to go any.
where and to render any service on which her Majesty's
Government might choose to employ it as in the best days

of " the Iron Duke." (Hear, hear.)
Admiral COLLINSON briefly responded on behalf of the
navy.

Professor 11fAssoN, in returning thanks for the Volun-
teers, and particularly for the London Scottish, with which '
his name had been associated, said, that according to an
ordinary jest, Scotland was so horrible a country in itself,
and so awful a place to reside in, that its inhabitants were
more fitted by nature than any other race to become ex-
plorers of other countries. (Laughter and cheers.) It was
an old saying of an English satirist, that had Cain been a
Scotcbman God would have reversed his doom, and, in-
stead of making him a wanderer, would have compelled
him to stay at home. (Laughter.) But Scotchmen were
naturally explorers; though some' of them had not gone
farther than Engl tncl or London—which, however, to say
the truth, they had found to be so much of a land flowing
with milk and honey, that they had made up their minds to
remain there. (Renewed laughter.) As to the London Scot-

tish, that corps, they might be sure, would always do its
duty, for its members had such an interest in England that
they would snffor no other invaders to set foot in it. (Cheers
and laughter.)
The PRESIDENT said the period had now arrived when it

was usual to propose the toast of the evening, " Prosperity
to the Royal Geographical Society," but ho would on that
accasion deviate from the established custom. At the same
time he would express his belief that the gratuitous labours
of that society had yielded fruits of great national import-
ance. The institution had in its earlier days to struggle
with considerable difficulties. At one period they had no
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place of meeting, no receptacle for their books or maps.
For a series of years he had striven with the concurrence of
the Council to persuade the Government that for a very
small sum of money, not exceeding the remuneration given
to a first clerk in some of our public departments, that
society could provide itself with a local habitation, feeling
satisfied that that desideratum once gained they would be
able to secure for it a more extended fame and usefulness.
As a Scotchman himself, he must say he first enlisted in the
cause of geography a Scotchman whose name would live as
long as England endured—he meant the late Joseph Hume
—(hear)—who, on condition that their collection of maps
and books was thrown open to the community, consented to
support a grant of public money for the diffusion of geogra-
phical knowledge. Through the kindness of Lord Aber-
deen, then Prime Minister, the object was at length ob-
tained, and thus was perpetrated a Scotch job—(a laugh)—
but a job which redounded to the honour of the British Go-
vernment and Legislature. Many important distant ad-
ventures had solely originated in the labours of that society.
Its members had been pioneers in the opening up of coun-
tries which were destined indefinitely to increase the wealth
and give a new impulse to the manufacturing industry of
England. In conclusion, he begged to propose that they
should drink to the successive Governments and Parlia-
ments which had countonaced and encouraged the Royal
Geographical Society, coupling with that toast the name of
their distinguished guest, Mr Gladstone. (Cheers.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who was received
with cheers, said—Sir Roderick Murchison, I am very glad
that by the deviation which you have ventured upon from
the ordinary course of your speeches and toasts on this occa-
sion you have at any rats enabled me to discharge a duty of
the most pleasing character. It is very delightful to find
that without any reproach from any quarter relations have
been established between this society and the Government,
on a footing, I must say, most modest as far as regards your
demands on the public purse, and I believe also most bene-
ficial as regards the public at large. Sir R. Murchison has
told us, gentlemen, the history of the Geographical Society
with respect to the effect produced on its fortunes by acquir-
ing a local habitation, and I was not aware until this even-
ing that this had been a point of so critical a nature in its
career. To judge from the speech of the President, the con•.
dition of the members of the Geographical Society before
that happy era arrived must have been not, perhaps, pre-
cisely the same, but not very different from that of parish
vagrants. (A laugh.) The society would appear to have
been in the condition of being owned by nobody, somewhat
in the manner in which ancient fable tells us the island of
Delos was, and I refer to this as a geographical illustration.
(" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) Delos, it is said, was in the
habit of navigating about the Archipelago, coming into con-
stant conflict with one island or another; and it never ac-
quired any distinct site of its own until Latona took it one
day into her head to be breught to bed there under a palm-
tree, and I have no doubt in a delightful atmosphere•
(Laughter and cheers.) From that moment Delos struck
root at the bottom of the sea, and, just as the Geographical
Society did the moment it got a local habitation, became
famous and flourishing, with a name celebrated throughout
the world. (Cheers.) But there is much more which
associates itself with the toast that you have given us than
any reference to the efforts produced by a small grant from
the Government. What is remarkable is that so long a
time elapsed before a society of this description came to be
appreciated by the British public; because, without re-
proach or disparagement to any other institution, there
is no other institution which can claim to be more truly
national than that whose festival we are now celebrat-
ing. I do not say that simply because it happens, as if
by a matter of accident, that so many distinguished
Englishmen and Scotchmen have been travellers, and,
among the boldest and most effective explorers of the un-
known regions of the earth. But I think that if we look
a little further into the subject wo shall find that phe-
nomenon itself has a cause, and that cause lios deep in the
national character. It is the love of adventure, it is the
boldness in facing danger, it is the strong self-reliance, it
is the ready presence of mind, it is all that constitutes that
powerful individuality which lies at the root of the whole
greatness of this country, and which likewise has lain at the
root of the greatness and of the performances of the Geo-
graphical Society. (Cheers.) The very same causes which
have made you distinguished as a body are those which have
made England distinguished among the nations of the
world. (Hear.) Mr. President, there is nothing to do
now but to congratulate you on your proud position and
express a confident ht,ipe that you will go on as you have

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done. The only apprehension which I think the most sen-
sitive of your friends can entertain is one connected with
the approaching exhaustion of that scene to which, for the
present at least, your labours are confined—l mean the
limited surface of this globe itself. (Hear, and a laugh.)
Alexander in his day thought he might reach a point in his
career when he would desire to have new worlds to con-
quer. You, too, seem likely at some time or other to reach
that point, and 1 have no doubt that when you do reach it,
whether it be sooner or later, our excellent and distin-
guished friend Sir R. Murchison, whatever he may say to
the contrary, will be here in the chair, presiding over yon
—(cheers and laughter)—and endeavouring to consider
with you what new fields of enterprise you can explore in
some, at any rate, of the nearest planets whtch you can
occupy yourselves until science, so rich in her appliances,
enables you to reach those that are more distant. (Re-
newed cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, I cordially hope
that the relations established between this society and the
Legislature, this society and all successive Governments,
and this society and the country at large, may be perma-
nent relations of credit and honour on the one side, of ad-
vantage and utility on the other—and that for many years
you may be recognised, as you are recognised now, as hold-
ing a foremost place amongst those institutions which, per-
haps deriving some slight acknowledgment from the State,
but essentially resting on the broader and surer foundation
of private enterprise and private energy, form one of the
most marked distinctions which attract the eye and excite
the admiration of every foreigner who visits the shores of
England. (Loud cheers.)
The PRESIDENT then, in eulogistic terms, proposed the
health of the medalists of the year, Baron von. der Beckett
and Captain Grant.
The toast was drunk with much cordiality.

Baron VON DER DECREN and Captain GRANT severally
returned thanks in a few modest words, the latter remark-
ing that he was so unused to address public assemblies that
he would almost rather traverse Africa over again than un-
dergo the ordeal of making a speech. (Laughter and cheers,)
The PRESIDENT then gave " The health of Sir C. East-
lake," Chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts ; to which
Sir Charles briefly responded by a graceful allusion to the
many links which bound together the votaries of science
and art. _ _ _ _

Sir H. RAWLINSON next proposed " The health of the
President of the Society," warmly eulogising his invaluable
services to science, and particularly to that institution over
whose whole career from its infancy to its maturity he had
exercised so sedulous and watchful a care. If, he said,
Scotchmen were formed by nature to overrun the world, Sir
Roderick Murchison was pre-eminently formed by nature as
well as by his attainments to fill the chair of the Geogra-
phichal Society. (Cheers.) After expressing the deep obli-
gations which the council owed to Sir Roderick for consent-
ing to act as their president for another year, Sir Henry
concluded by proposing the chairman's health.
The toast was received with enthusiasm.
The PRESIDENT, in responding, said he felt highly
flattered by the compliment just paid to him. It was also
very gratifying to him that he should have been so una-
nimously invited to continue one year more as their
president. Having been born in 1792, and having filled
that post for many years amidst his many other avocations
--for he was a geologist by profession and a geographer
by love—he had thought it was time for him to give
place to another man, and not imitate the Archbishop
of Toledo, who remained in his office until he might almost
be said to have preached his own funeral sermon, (Laugh-
ter.) If, however, they would kindly bear with his infirmi-
ties he would strive to discharge his duties for another year
to the best of his power. (Cheers.)
The next toast was " The Colonies and the Colonists of
Great Britain," which was given by Lord HOUGHTON, and
acknowledged by Sir STUART DONALDSON.
" The Scientific Societies of Europe, coupled with the
name of Dr. Hoffman," was next:drunk ; and, after one or
r two other minor toasts, the company separated.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

THE NAVY.

MALTA, Map 18.

The Trident, steam sloop, arrived on the Bth from
Corfu, to which portthe Magicienne, steam frigate,
was despatched on the 10th, and returned en the
14th, with the diligence for which this vessel, under
the command of Capt. Armytago, has been remark-
able. She brought two batteries of artillery, con-
s'e?ting of Lieut.-Col- :N1 rude, four other ufficers, 216
non-commissioned officers and gunners, 21 wc;rpt n,
40 children, four prisoners, and two bospit3l at-
tendants. The Liffq, steam frigate, left :or Z tote
on the 11th, for the purpose of removing the troops
from that island, and relieved there the Cossack,
which reached Malta on the 13th. The Foxhound,
steam gunboat, was despatched on the Bth to Suse,
at the solicitation of some Maltese merchants. who
had received alarming intelligence of threats
against the Christian and the Jewish population on
the part of the revolted Arabs. Oa the 14th and
15th a number of families reached Malta in four
small coasting craft, in all some 250 persons, for the
safety of their lives, and others are looked for. The
Foxhound returned on the 15th, having run along
the coast as far as Tunis. She brings intelligence
from the British Consul-General, Vice-Consuls, and
Consular agents, from which it would appear that
the Arabs are close upon Tanis. They are said to
be 40,000 strong, under the command of a renegade
Frenchman, and they maintain a menacing atti-
tude against the Bey, though no positive act of
aggression had been committed against Chris-
tians. The Ottoman steam frigate Feizi Babri,
having on board his Excellency Haydar Effendi,
a special envoy from the Sultan to the Bey of
Tunis, left Malta for Tunis on the 10th of May,
accompanied by the Monbir Souror steam frigate
and the Peki Cherrif despatch boat. The French
Admiral is said to have questioned the right of the
Sultan to send a naval demonstration to Tunis
under the present disturbed state of affairs in that
Regency, to which the Envoy, Haydar Effendi, had
very properly paid no attention. The matter seems,
however, to have been considered of sufficient im-
portance to call for the presence of an increased
naval British force. Accordingly, on the 16th, the
Resistance, ironclad steam frigate, was despatched,
from Malta to Suss, and the Psyche, despatch
steamer, to Tunis. The Foxhound left on the same
day for Melidia, and the Trident on the 18th for
Geiba, in the regency of Tunis. The Meannee and
the Psyche returned to Malta from Tunis on the
18th, bringing dates thence to the 17th, announcing
the arrival of the Italian steam frigate Re d'ltalia
with 200 marines to be landed in case of need. The
insurrection had not yet been put down, but the
Bey had superseded the Governor of Suss for allow-
ing himself to be panic striken. A French line of
battle ship had been despatched to a point north-
west of Tanis, where the public peace had been
threatened. The Imperial Ottoman steam yacht
Feizi Djehart, having on board. his Excellency
Vice-Admiral Roussan Pasha, arrived at Malta from
Constantinople on the 12th of May to be decked
and cleaned. On the evening of Sunday, the 15th,
this magnificent vessel, as well as the Mahomed
Ali, Egyptian steam frigate, was most brilliantly
illuminated, and on the following day dressed out
with flags innumerable in honour of the feast of the
Bairam. The Sofia, a small Nile steamer, intended
as a yacht for the Pasha of Egypt, arrived at Malta
on the 15th of May from Newcastle, Falmouth, and
Lisbon, and left for Alexandria on the 18th. The
Italian steam frigate Principe Humberto, having on
board upwards of 100 naval students on a voyage
of instruction, arrived from the Piraeus of Athens
on the 11th, left for Syracuse on the 14th of May,
and returned to Malta on the 17th. Her Majesty's
screw steam ship the Marlborough, bearing the
flag of the naval Commander-in-Chief, accompa-
nied by the Magicienne, steam frig
Is ate, will leave
Malta on the 21st of May for Corfu, tdos to
present at the cession of the lonian. lan . o
Greece, and also to assist, if necessary, le riesaidoov nogt
the British garrison, if the steam transpor
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reach in time. The Drome.lary,;l3
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transport, arrived from Gibraltar
left for Corfu to take in stores on the
day follow-
ing. The Supply, storeship,
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also took her depar-
ission onnsptohret 14atrhriovfeAdlayat.
tare for Corfu on a lik
The Tamar, screw steam-tra
Malta on the
17th from Cape Coast Castle, the
Island of St. Vincent, Madeira, and Gibraltar, will
leave Corfa to take in troops on he 24t. Liet.
Supenumerary Lieut. t
of this vessel,u is
Court-martial to-morrow, the 19th,
to Hanson,
be
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tried
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on a charge of having been found intoxicated and
asleep during his watch at sea.
The Norwegian transport Tanaro, damaged by a
Spanish gunshot from the Fort of Tarifa, as re-