The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-19 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Sept. 14.—Her Majesty's iron screw
troopship Orontes, 2, Capt. Hire, arrived last night
from England and Gibraltar, having on board from
the latter place the 2d battalion 7th Regiment, con-
sisting of 25 officers, 832 men, 73 women, 6 ladies, and
97 children, under the command of Major R. Hibbert.
She also had on board Assist.-Adjt.-Gen. Maude.
Capt. Clarke, R.A., Dr. Clarke, R.A., Capt. Darn-
ford, R.E., and 15 naval officers supernumeraries
for the fleet. The regiment will disembark to-day
and relieve the 4th battalion Rifle Brigade, which
is to embark in the Orontes on Tuesday or Wed-
nesday for Gibraltar. Her Majesty's iron paddle-
wheel sloop Trident, 3, Commander C. S. Balfour,
arrived to-day from Gibraltar to be employed in
victualling the fleet. Her Majesty's screw corvette
Cossack, 20, W. R. Rolland, arrived at the Piroaus,
from Malta, on the 26th ult., and was to leave on
the Ist inst. for Beyrout, to relieve the Chanticleer,
17, Commander C. Stirling. Her Majesty's ship
Marlborough, 121 (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral
R. Smart, K.H.), Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton ; the
Trafalgar, 70, Capt. T. Mason ; the Meeanee, 60,
Capt. G. Wodehouse ; and the Icarus, 11, Comman-
der N. Salmon, V.C., which last arrived on the 29th
ult., were anchored in Phalerum Bay. The Cossack
remained in Phalerum Bay till the 29th, when she
went into the Piraeus, and took up her berth along-
side the Orlando, 46, Capt. G, G. Randolph, the
only other English ship there. The French ship
Magicienne, and two other French war vessels, one
Turk, one Greek, and one Italian, were also lying
in the Pirseas. The Austrian frigate Novara and
another Austrian vessel left early in the morning of
the Ist inst., soon after the arrival of the mail. The
English frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Army-
tage, called in at Phalerum Bay on the 28th ult., to
communicate with the Admiral, and the Surprise,
4, Commander C. M. Seymour, left for Patras the
same day. A court-martial was held on board the
Cossack on the Ist, to try a private of Marines for
striking a sergeant. The prisoner was found guilty,
and sentenced to penal servitude for five years.
Her Majesty's ship Queen, 74, Capt. C. F. Hillyar,
leaves after the arrival of the mail from Marseilles,
due to-night, for Athens, with stores and provisions,
and £20,000 in specie, for the use of the fleet.

Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Scylla, 21
guns, 400-horse power, recently commissioned by
Capt. S. G. Cresswell, was this day removed from
Sheerness dockyard, where she has completed her
fitments, to moorings in the harbour, for the pur-
pose of being swung for the adjustment of her com-
passes, preparatory to being taken on trial of her
machinery at the measured mile off Maplin Sands.
The Medusa, paddlewheel, tender to her Ma-
jesty's steamship Cumberland, 70, guardship of the
Sheerness steam reserve, Master-Commanding J.
H. Allard, was yesterday taken into the dockyard
at Sheerness to be examined and cleaned, and to
have some small defects in her machinery remedied.
The Wrangler, 4, screw steam gun-vessel, 80-
horse power, Commander Henry H. Beamisb, re-
cently returned from the West Coast of Africa, will
be paid off at Sheerness dockyard on Monday next,
and will be placed inlthe third division of the steam
reserve at that place.

The following appointments and promotions were
made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lient. Richard
M. Blomfield to the Cumberland ; Arthur Heath-
cote, nominated to a naval cadetship ; John Weir,
engineer, to the Wasp; Alexander Stewart, of the
Asia, promoted to first-class assistant engineer ; and
George M'Lean, in the Ringdove, promoted to
acting first class assistant engineer.