The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-19 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

MALTA, Sept. 3.—On the 11th the screw steam
gunboats Foxhound and Surprise arrived, the for-
mer from Syria, the latter from the Pirmus. At the
same time the Psyche despatch steamer arrived
from Palermo, at which port Vice-Admiral Smart,
in the Marlborough, with the Gibraltar, Resist.
ance, and Royal Oak, arrived from Malta on the
7th ; they were to leave on the 10th for Catania,
Messina, and Naples, and thence back to Malta to
meet the Admiralty Board, expected under present
arrangements to arrive at this island about Sept.
28. The Freech steam frigate Cacique, last from
Tunis, arrived this morning, having on board the
Prince and Princess Murat and family, on their way
to Palestine. The Ottoman steam frigate Fezj
Bahri has just anchored, from Tunis, ou her way to
Alexandria.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya, Capt.
E. Lacy, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning with
the Ist Battalion of Grenadier Guards, and a portion
of the 2d Battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards on
board, from Canada, in the following strength :
Grenadier Guards—Acting Major and Lieut.-Col.
Commanding W. B. De Horsey, Capts. and Lieut.-
Cols. T, H. Bramston, wife and two servants, E. W.
Lloyd Wynne, and William L. Stnckley ; Lieuts.-
and Capts. Alfred W. Thynne (Adjutant), Reginald
J. Buller (Instructor of Musketry), Lewis G. Phil-
lips, Edward Smith Bridges, Thomas Ferdinand
Fairfax, Henry W. Hope, James T. R. Lane Fox,
Leopold R. Seymour, Henry R. Clinton, Charles
'Tomes Herbert, Henry M. C. Legh, Chas. Edward
H. Stanley, and the Hon. Charles F. Crichton ; En-
signs and Lieuts. William Young Lautour, Fredk.
William Duncombe, the Hon. Edward C. P. Little-
ton, and Hugh de Grey, Seymour; Battalion Stag-
Charles R. Nicoll (Surgeon-Major), Assist.-Surg.
Henry H. Lawrence, Quartermaster John Hockey,
wife, and one child. Scots Fusilier Guards-
-Capts, and Lieut.-Col. Commanding William
Aitchison and Francis Baring; Lieuts. and Capts.
Cecil L. Peel, Charles Shelley and James Edward
Ford ; Battalion-Surg, Frederick Robinson, M.D.,
wife, four children, and two servants. On leave—
Major-Gen. the Hon. J. Lindsay, M.P., Lady Sarah
Lindsay, three Misses Lindsay, and two servants;
Capt. the Hon. C. Eliot, Grenadier Guards, Gene-
ral's aide-de-camp. Grenadier Guards-9 staff-
sergeants, 6 staff-sergeants' wives, and 3 children ;
711 non-commissioned officers and privates, 78
women, 102 children, and four horses. Scots Fusi-
lier Guards-206 non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates, 34 women, 34 children, and two horses. The j
Himalaya weighed her anchor from Quebec at
9.30 a.m. on the 7th inst. after receiving the Guards
on board from the Richelieu Company's steamer
Europa, which had conveyed them down to Quebec
from Montreal. Very strong breezes from the north•
west, with heavy seas, were experienced from Quebec
to the Channel. Her Majesty's screw transport
Urgent, Capt. Henderson, arrived at Quebec at noon
on the 6th inst. with detachments of Royal Artil-
lery on board for service in the province, and also
an officer and eight men of the 100th (Canadian)
Regiment. She was expected to leave Quebec for
Spithead, with the remainder of the Scots Fusiliers
on board, about the 14th inst. The officers and
men of the Guards on board the Himalaya speak
in the most unqualified terms of praise of the ship
and her officers and crew. The Himalaya steamed
into Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon, and
the Guards will land at noon to-day at the dock.
yard, and will be sent on by two special trains to
the Victoria station, Pimlico, vied the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway. The first train,
which will convey the main portion of the Grena-
diers, will be despatched from Portsmouth at 1.40
p.m, and the second train, with the remainder of
the Grenadiers and the Scots Fusiliers, will follow
after 20 minutes' interval. The two trains may ac-
cordingly be expected to arrive at the Victoria ter-
minus, Pimlico, by 5 p.m. The arrangements for
the disembaroation and despatch of the troops to
town have been made under the direction of Col.
Shadwell, Assist. Quartermaster• General of the
S.W. district.

The Warrior, 40, !Screw iron frigate, Capt the Hon.
A. A. Cochrane, C. 13., arrived at Spithead on Saturn
day from Gibraltar (last from Plymouth Sound) with
the following military invalids and time-expired
men on board :—From Malta, received at Gibraltar
from her Majesty's ship Meeanee, Ist battalion, 22d
regiment, Capt. Patton ; 2d battalion 22d regiment,
Capt. Davern ; 23 invalids for Netley, and 14 time-
expired men for regimental depots, From Gibral-
tar, 14 time-expired men and invalids. The troops
will be landed from the Warrior to-day, and sent on
to their respective destinations.

The United States' screw corvette Iroquois, Coma
mander Rogers, sailed from St. Helen's Roads, off
Portsmouth, on Saturday morning, for the west-
ward, and at 10.30 a.m. was under steam, with her
head about W.S.W., off Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
The Royal Sovereign turret ship, Capt. Sherard
Osborn, C. 8., arrived at Spithead on Saturday
morning from Portland,
and in the afternoon
steamed into Portsmouth to complete her fittings
and defects, with which she was last sent to sea
from Portsmouth unfinished. She also requires
repairs to one of her hawse pipes, which was da-
maged during some recent firing in the Channel
from her bow turret's guns, Capt. Osborn, in his
very laudable desire to test tho turrets and guns to
the utmost, drawing rather too fine a line of depres-
sion in ono part of the practice. The damage is
but trivial, and has no bearing whatever upon the
turret principle.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—R. L. Cleveland, master, to the
Achilles ; G. F. A. Drew, surgeon, to the Achilles ;
Robert J. M'Morris, assist..surg. to the St Vincent;
Dr. G. R. Pickthorn, assist.-surg., to the Achilles ;
A. N. M. Sedgwick, acting assist.-surg., to the
Achilles; James Lem chief engineer to the Achilles;
11. C. Jones, engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary;
W. H. Elliott, G. L. P. lieelin, and 1. Richards,
engineers, to the Achilles ; Henry Hall, first-class
assist.-engineer. to the Indus, as. supernumerary ;
James W. Watson, first class assist...engineer, ad-
ditiona,l to the Brisk; E. Barrett, of the Cumber.
land, and F. E. Shean, of the Jaseur, confirmed as
second class assist. engineers; John Watson (A),
assist.sengineer, to the Fisgard, fo the Black Eagle;
J. Barnett, E. J. Murphy, R. H. r Trubshaw, John
Phillips, James Phillips, James Shore, and M. A,
Fothergill, to the Achilles.