The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Times Malta letter of the 25th inst. mentions the
following naval and military movements at that port :
" The screw steam-transport Bacchante arrived on the
19th from London with medical stores for the British
military hospital at Kenikoi (within the Dardanelles),
for which place she took her departure on the same day,
conveying Surgeons Bader, Dix, Fawens, Fox, Hall,
and Playne, Lady Matvens, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Newman,
Miss Frodsham, Miss Grisdale, Miss Parkes, Miss
Raynes, 21 female nurses, and 9 female attendants.
" The Cambria steam•transport arrived on the 21st
from Plymouth, and at the same time the Candle, steam-
transport from Southampton, the latter having on
board, besides 175 horses, Captain Dixon, 39th ; Captain
Henning, Lieutenants Blythe, Scott, and Waring, of the
88th; and Ensigns Buckle, Watson, and Walker, of the
same regiment, for the Malta reserve ; Surgeons Ander-
son, Baxter, Pennington, Reed, Smith, and Stewart ;

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Assistant-Surgeons Bird, Bonstead, Davison, Dewar,
Graham, Lindsay, Philips, Meredith, and Smitb, for the
Dardanelles ; Lieutenant-Colonel Graham, of the Ist
Royals ; Captains Cureton and Durant, of the 12th
Lancers ; Lieutenant Bolt and Cornet Wight, of the
Oth Dragoons ; Captain Clayton, of the 13th Light Dra-
goons ; the Hon. Lieutenant Herbert, of the 16th ;
Assistant-Surgeon Hind, and 179 non-commissioned
officers and privates. The Camoria, brought for Malta
Lieutenant Boyle, of the 4th ; Lieutenants Alderson and
Armstrong, Fitzgerald and Morgan, and Ensign Hill ;
and for the Crimea Captain Forster, Lieutenant Petrie,
Cornet Curtis, of the Carabineers ; Ensign Leeson,
34th ; Lieutenant Stoel, 12th Lancers ; Lieutenant
Brown, Scots Fusilier Guards ; Lieutenant Wynne,
Grenadier Guards ; Surgeon Hunter, and 60 non-com
missioned officers and privates, besides 89 horses. Both
vessels left for the Crimea on the 23d, the Candia hav-
ing embarked, in addition, at Malta, the Rev. Mr.
Beever, military chaplain, Major Coll, and Capt. Ward,
of the 18th.

"The Empress Eugenie screw steam-transport arrived
from London, Gibraltar, and Cagliari on the 22d, bring-
ing Paymaster Howitt, 17th Regiment ; Lieut. Roper,
39th ; Assistant-Surgeon Johnstone, 60th ; Major Ber-
nard, Lieutenants Archer, Moore, Pye, and Stuart, 63d ;
Ensigns Griffith and Ramsbottom, 63d ; Major Mercer,
Dr. Irwine, Lieutenants Miall and Tryon, R.N., De-
puty-Assistant-Commissary-General Addams and 24
commissariat clerks, Mr, Bogg, Mr. Varley, 11 telegraph
clerks, 1 letter sorter, 1 groom, and three servants. She
left on the evening of the 23d for the Crimea.
" The screw steam-transport Lady Alice arrived on
the 24th from Dublin with Government stores for the
Crimea, and on the same day the screw steam-transport
Victory, from Gravesend, bringing 27 officers (and a
lady) and 27 privates of the Polish Legion, 65 labourers,
13 muieteers, 14 horses, and mules for the Land Trans-
port service.
" Surgeon Tweeddale arrived from Marseilles on the
21st in the Siaai, French postal steamer for Malta and
for Constantinople, Captain Calott, 26th, Major Munro
and Captain La Touche of the 98th. They went on in
the same steamer immediately after she coaled.
" ThelHydaspes, French postal steamer, which arrived
from Marseilles at the same time, brought Capt. Lilley
for Malta' and for Alexandria, for which port she left on
the same day, Colonel Ibrahim Effendi, M.D.
" The Genevra schooner yacht arrived from Cowes on
the 22d, having on board Sir E. Colebrooke and Mr.
Twopenny.
" The Oscar and Yarrow screw steam-transports left
for England on the 17th, the former conveying Ensign
Walker, 3d (Buffs) ; Captain Molyneux, 4th Light Dra-
goons ; Quartermaster Watson, 89th ; Captain Burton,
97th ; and Dr. Turner, 4th Dragoons.
"The Robert Small sailing-transport leftfor Gibraltar
on the 19th.
"The Bremen transport Germania arrived from Bala-
klava on the 21st, and left for Spithead on the 23d,
conveying Captain Sullivan, R.M. ; Lieutenant and
Mrs. Douglas, 9th ; Lieutenant Irby, 47th ; Lieutenant
Handford, 12th Lancets ; Captain Douglas, 78th.
Messrs. Hunter and Peacock; Captain Conyers, of the
89th ; and Messrs. Wenketer, Dickens, Phillips, and 6
Maltese carters landed at Malta. _ _ _

" Her Majesty's steam-sloop Medina arrived from
Smyrna and Syra on the 19th, and on the 20th her
Majesty's steam-corvette Rosamond from Constantinople ;
the latter left for England on the 21st.
" The Tonning screw steam-transport arrived from
Balaklava on the 20th, bringing for Malta Purveyor
Stewart, Captain Mercer, 89th, Dr. Woolaston, and
nine Maltese diivers ; and for England Captain Godley,
28th, Ensign M'Kesey, 30th, Lieutenant Wliesey,
97th, Surgeon Day, of the (3d Buffs), Surgeon Withers,
R.A., Lieutenant Pedfield, 20th, Lieutenant Gougb,
Rifle Brigade, Messrs. Camridge, Arkman, Bennett,
M'lntosh ; and 31 invalided soldiers and navvies. She
left for Spithead on the same afternoon, when the Cos-
mopolitan screw steam-transport came in from Constan-
tinople, bringing 28 Spanish seamen, and left on the
same day for Gibraltar. _ _

"The Sultana sailing transport, from Balaklava, and
the Magnet sailing transport, from Constantinople, ar-
rived on the 23d, and on the 24th the former sailed for
England.
" The screw steam transport Black Boy arrived from
Kosloff on the 24th.
The Rajah screw steam transport arrived from Bala-
klava on the 24th, bringing only one passenger, Captain

Eager.
" The Great Britain screw steam-transport arrived
from Kainiesch and Constantinople on the 24th, having
on board for Malta Captain Foster, Lieutenants Bed-
ford and Hobson, and Mr. Collett ; for Spithead, for
which destination she left on the 25th, Major Anderson,
Captains Barnard, Gardner, Peel, and Sullivan;• Majors
Mills, Jordon, Grinstone, and Watts ; Lieut. Spright,
Lieut. Harman, Captain Elliot, Mr. Rust, Deputy-As-
sistant Commissary-General Fosbrey, Lieut.-Colonel
Douglass, 148 non-commissioned officers and privates.
" The Sinai, French postal steamer, arrived from Mar-
seilles on the 21st, bringing, among other passengersfor
Constantinople, nine French officers and 462 non-com-
missioned officers and privates, and proceeded on to
Smyrna and Constantinople the same afternoon.
"The Sardinian screw-steamer Vittorio Ernmanuele,
in the French service, arrived on the22d. from Marseilles,
having on board 125 horses and 27 officers and 91 non-
commissioned officers and privates of the French army,
towing the Sardinian bark San Paolo, likewise from
Marseilles, ammunition laden. Both these vessels left
on the 23d for Constantinople.
" The Wagram French screw-steam line of battle ship
arrived on the morning of the 25th from Brest, with 3
French officers and 147 marines.
" The Provence French steamer, from Marseilles, has
just arrived with 50 officers and 406 troops-
" The screw-steamer Sea Nymph, in the French trans-
port service, left for the Crimea on the 18th, conveying
12 horses and 14 officers and soldiers, having in tow the
American ship Ticonderoga, in the same service, con-
veying other 179 horses and mules and 139 officers, non•
commissioned officers, and privates.

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l'iw Edinburgiv .
Bevietv life and WO
.—The dir
of Dryden are revieWeci in an able and ~
criminating; article.
" Villemain's IteeT„
tions of History and Literature" s,.°Ves the
lively paper. "The Laud of Silence ' is
hich
affected title of an interesting article, ill v,,ve•
what has been done for the intellectual iniPtu,is,
menu of the deaf and dumb is, on the whole, sao'„,,
factory. The general absenc..,•, at industrial lir;
however, is very properly repr Amtei. Tilde Lopi
of the late Henry St. George L ne:-:7 111 iit for
Metcalfe, " Statesmen of Tudia," a:', ;I•ja:),:oicil
imitation to such as are about to enier I'l' e jir
service in India or elsewhere. Among ' r '..;
ing articles, those on " Modern For.l
and " The Life and Character of Sydney '..i'",, ,
m, ay be noticed, and more especially the 11P,A
' We should be guilty of an unpardonsblenegr4
of duty," says the reviewer, " were We to vouvg
Sydney Smith to be permanently Placed atuthe
the illustrious band of English worthies il. vi. $
temple of fame, at the risk of seeing, too i° the
pedestal assigned to him, without urging °l3_, of
attention of contemporaries and the instructne,
posterity his claims to rank as a great pUblie 7.0
factor second only of his class to Lord Bt se.
The political article touches on the report of the, 0
bastopol Committee and the Vienna Conferenc'
much the usual Edinburgh way.
......* °tie°
The Quarterly Review.—A eulogisticcr 13,5e00
of the life and career of the late Arc 4
Hare opens the number. The conduct of '',llo
elicits 11130
dinia in its quarrel with Rome
decided approval of the reviewer, who ,desci;ell"
it as having been enlightened without being'' the
gious. In " The Romans at ColchesCer old
archaeologist will find one of those elaborate 00
ingenious papers in which he delights. 1*,,111010
of Sydney Smith" may be regarded on the
as an honourable tribute by a rival to the ol'Aisr
of the deceased divine. A paper on " eltia
ments" is perhaps the most generally in'Ah",,,,cier
contribution in the number. The writ
yours to show, by a continuous line of au°,:f this
ments extracted from the newspaper presentv toe,
country since its establishment to the presu% ite
how distinctly the manners and habits of t'; iiiificl
are illustrated. The paper is both avagsfil3f 101,
instructive. An article on "The Supply °f P'
forcibly urges the necessity for new member coil;
order to keep up the supply. The nota:flii"
eludes,,, as usual, with a political paper, .: if 0e
The Objects of the War" are teraPellilsti 10;
viewed. The writer intimates, however, v-,iy,501.:
paralleled advantages have been thrown 07:a r
a great cause sacrificed to incompetent nicll-13
unworthy policy.

CAPTAIN DISNEY'S WAR PROdTex
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Yesterday Captain Disney performed sol3ld Vi
ments illustrative of his war projectile, in the tiogoegii
lagh grounds of Chelsea Hospital. There is 00','„"0 11,h
in the projectile itself ; the invention consist, r„,07,
—well named by the inventor " infernal dolor I
which any hollow projectile may be whellY,,°,;ol%,
filled. The nature of the fluid is such that svi',Fors
seconds of being "exposed to the air it inflatalf;r #,P
neously, and sets fire to any inflammable 1097eilor
which it comes in contact. Captain Disney 13°13,:achc/
on canvas, carpet, the grass, and stone, and iirtooo
ignition speedily followed. The fumes resulti t'
combustion are, according to Captain Disney, IgAsiPtco
—they are certainly very disagreeable and sil .010 x,
and have a strong odour of phosphorus. rrbet eon!
has also another fluid which ignites sposos.oAt
and the fumes of which permanently destroy the; Ira,
all persons whom they reach. Capt. Disney st:ooe
these fluids are cheap, and that they can bed
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tured, packed, carried, .and used without dsf eist°V
way in which he proposes to employ his flui" clioal 0
glass hand-grenades with it, or to pour it into d
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in an ordinary shell, the chamber being sea
be air-tight, and the shell loaded with '-e '
toso,
substances in a distinct cylindrical chamber, `Ptslftly,
combustible matter is surrounded by, but sePart bIA-11
the fluid. The hand-grenade may be throW".„.o4
hand, and the shell may be made to explode.lo '7(O
the ordinary ways, by percussion, coneussil°;llol.
lightsd fuse. Whichever projectile is useu,.,,,
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bursts, and the fluid is scattered and exposed,' P
liquid fire and poisonous gases are generateu,,h,
not explained whether the fluid would corrodeLiioA
chambers in which it might be contained,Zefl9
very little explanation at all was given. -I'-ociooe
certainly not cacodyl (or liquor of Cadet), StiP:oo;‘,4
be the old Greek fire, though it resembles it
spects, except that the combustion of cacodY`bir.)
a far more destructive vapour, which has an tof";
odour of arsenic--cacodyl being, in fact, Ena'
parts of acetate of copper and white arsenio.,dotor
periments were, as far as they went, perfeoWolrgi
ful. There were present on the grounds 1) e 0,41
lagh, Mr. French, and several other gentled
even ladies. Captain Disney has been to Sc,:erei
the Crimea, and has shown his experiments t'd el
even succeeded in getting a committee to il3l 19
his invention ; but though they have repot
tewAy
not been able to see their report. He has bee,nli,
unable to get any notice taken of it by the bc/".
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