The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-14 00:00:00

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VALETTA, Dec. B.—The Tunisian ar= ea r
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Begi came into this port yesterday from Tunis. It
is said she has despatches on board, but of their na-
ture nothing has transpired. There have been
several movements of men.of-war during the week.
Her Majesty's. paddlewheel frigate Megicienne, 16,
Capt. Armytage, returned from Patras on the 2d
inst. in two days'v having on board as passengers
Capt. Bland, R.E., and Capt. Bowden, who had
proceeded in her from Malta. The screw sloop
Racer, 6, Commander Sacilaz, arrived from Tunis in
26 hours on the same day, gad left this often-Joon on
return to the coast of the hegtancy. The Pelican,
17, Commander Comber, for .Z,Jate and Corfu, arcl
the Assurance, 4, Commander IV.aoleornhc, for the
Pit was of Athens, also left to-day.. Yesterday morn
ing official intelligence having been received of the
promotion to Vice-Admiral of Rear-Aimiral 11. I'.
Austin, C. 13., Superintendent of the Malta Back-
yard, he shifted his fig- on board her Majeaty'a
ship Hibernia, under a salute from the Gibraltar,
flagship of the Vice- Admiral Commander-in,Chief.
A court• martial was held on Saturday last on board
her Majesty's ship Hibernia, to try the carpenter,
second class, John Paine, of her Majesty's ship Cos-
sack, on a charge of drunkenness on board. Capt.
Prevost, commanding her Majesty's ship Gibraltar,
sat as. president, and Mr Royle, R.N., acting veered
tary to the Commander-in-Chief, officiated as judge
advocate. The charge was proved, and the prise),
ner was sentenced to be dismissed from her Ma-
jesty's service. 'The following passengers have
arrived since the departure of the last mail—Capt.
Davidson, 221 Regiment, and family ; Capt. Bayco
and family; Mejor Trevor, and Mrs Carey,
Lady Houlton, Capt. Barton, Sergeant Roe, Ser.
geant Cusack, and Sub-Lieutenant Sullivan, RN.,
The missing screw steamer Danube, of Liverpool,
arrived safely into port yesterday from Alexandria,
having been driven thrice by stormy weather from
within 50 miles of this island towards the coast of
Barbary, out of the track of all vessels from which
she might have sought assistance. On arrival here
she had but i cwt. of coals on board, the remaind,ir
of a stock of 8 tons, which had been reserved for in
emergency when she was put under canvas 10 days
ago. A screw steamer called the Dessouk, one of
several in course of construction for the Viceroy of
Egypt, arrived here on Sunday night from England,
and after replenishing fuel left for Alexandria, con-
signed to the agent of the Peninsular and Orientel
Company. The Austrian screw frigate Itadetzki,
Capt. A. Barry, continued her voyage on Monday
last for the Adriatic.

The Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by the lion.
Col, Curzon (Aide-de-Cmp), Gen. the Hon. Sir
James Yorke Scarlett (Adjt.-Gen.), Goa. Sir Richard
Airey (Quartermaster-an.), 1116jor-Gen. Hamilton,
C 8., and Col. Addison (of the Council of Military
Education), end a large number of the members of
the Staff at headquarters, left town yesterday morn<
ing, at 8 oVook, to attend the halfmyearly exami-
nation at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
The Duke and company returned home shortly after
5 o'clock.

Mr Childers, M.P., Civil Lord of the Admiralty—
Major Clarke, ME., Director of Works—and Mr
Robinson, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from
the Admiralty, and were engaged in the dockyard
during the day.

Yesterday the ironclad screw frigate Valiant, 24,
4,063 tons, 800-horse power, received on board from
the Ordnance.wharf, Chatham, upwards of 60 tons
of solid 68-pounder spherical cast-iron shot and
110-pounder and 40-pounder Armstrong shot.
According to Existing orders received at Chatham,
the Valiant will not be armed with any of the
12-ton 300-pounder rifled Armstrongs, but will
carry 16 of the 61 tons 100 pounder smoothbore
Armstrongs. The only veseels ordered to be sup•
plied at Chatham with the 300-pounder Armstrongs
are the following ironclads, which will carry the
proportion of ordnance named—viz , the Bellero-
phon, 140,000 horse power, 10 300-pounders; the
Royal Sovereign, 5, 800 horse power, 5, 300 poun•
ders; the Northumberland, 26, 1,350 horse power ;
the Agincourt, 26, 1,330 horse power; the Mino-
taur, 26, 1,330 horse power; the Prince Albert, 4,
500 horse power; the Scorpion, 4, 1,000 hilrse
power; and the Wyvern, 4, 1,000 horse power,
each four 300• pounders. The first supply of the
12-ton guns are expected shortly to ba received at
Chatham from the Royal gun factory.
Admiralty instructions were yesterday received
at Wool with ordering the immediate sale by auction
of the whole of the plant and materials of the Admi-
ralty shipbuilding yard at Blackwall, adjoining
that of Messrs. Westwood *and Baillie, in which
the iron steamship Valiant was recently built.
The Torch, 5, screw gun vessel, having under•
gone a very extensive repair to hull and machinery
in the dry dock at Chatham, will be floated out into
the harbour on
.Saturday next. She is complete
in her rigging, and only awaits the shipment of her
shot, shell, guns, and sea stores to be ready for the
pennant.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Trident,
Commander Charles Balfour, having landed her
gnus and ammunition at Woolwich Arsenal rester•
day, went into the outer basin of the dockyald
and commenced stripping. She is ordered to be
paid out of commission on Tuesday the 20th inst.
The Eist India and London Shipping Company's
steamship Ca'cutta, after discharging her troops,
invalided and time-expired men, from Madras,
sailed from Portsmouth at noon yesterday for
London.

The Urgent, screw troopship, Cipt. Henderson,
yesterday made a trial of her machinery at Spithead,
which, however, provPd quite unsatisfactory, and
will have to be renewed.

Cspt. W. 11. Stewart, C. 8., Superintendent of
Chatham Dockyard, having proceeded on a short
leave of absence, the duties of superintendent will
devolve on Commander R. Stokes, master-attendant
of the dockyard.

The half-yearly examinations of the shipwright
and engineer apprentices commenced on Monday
And terminated yesterday at Woolwich. Thirty-two
lads passed a highly favourable examination, the
result of which was forwarded to the Board of Ade
miralty for consideration.
Gen. Sir Geo. Turner, K.C.8., Col. Commandant
of the 12th Brigade of the Royal Artillery, died on
Friday last at Menie-house, Aberdeenshire, where
he was born in 1780. He obtained his commission
of second-lieut. in the Royal Artillery in January,
1791. The deceased general was at the capture of
the Cape of Good Hope is 1806 ; he joined the army
in the Peninsula in Dec., 1813, and served with it
until the end of the war. He was present at the
battles of Orthes and Toulouse and at the affairs of
Vie Bigorre and Tarbes. He received the gold
medal and one clasp for Orthes and Tou'ouse. In
1831 ho was made a Companion of the Order of the
Bath, and is 1862 a Knight Commander of that order
of knighthood. Since Aug. 1852 he had been Cali
Commandant of the 12th Brigade Royal Artillery.
The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Capt. A. C. Gordon,
to the Cadmus, commissioned—Capt. T. M. S.
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period of service has since expired—Lieutenant
S imuel Long, Lieut. John Fellowes, and Lieut.
Thos. Ramsbotbam, to the Cadmus—Lieut. Francis
C. Vincent, Lieut. T. P. W. Neehern, and Lieut. S.
H. Rickman, to the Higt.flyer—Lieut. Alexander 411
Topham, to the Defence—Dr A. Brown, surgeon, to
the Blenheim—Charles W. Ecles, paymaster, to
the Victoria—George IV. Alldridge, assist. pay-
master, to the St.-Vincent—James B. Rawlings,
assist. paymaster, to the Egmont—lV. &Weather-
ley, assist. paynaester, to the Excellent—J. IV. S.
Nott, engineer, confirmed, to the Asia, as super-
numerary—James Barre, acting second class assist.
engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary—G.
Woolard in the Trafalgar, Edmund Clark, supers
numerary in the Asia, and N. D. Chambers in the
Dauntless+, promoted to first-class assist. engineers.

THE APPEAL OF DR COLENSO.—The appeal of
Coo Bishop of Natal against the Bishop of Cape Town has
been appointed by the Judicial Committee of the Pilvy
Council to be heard to-day. Mr W. M. James, Q.C. (of
the Chancery Bar), Mr Fi!zjames Stephens, Mr Wt.stl3l:o,
and Mr G. Clarke will appear for Dr Colenso; Sir Thigh
Cairns and the Queen's Advocate for the Bishop of C!lpe
Town.

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