The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LoNnor!, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1862

The following is a letter from Malta, dated Va-
letta, Sept. 16 :—We have news from the Com-
mander-in-Chief to the 11th inst., by the gunvessel
Alacrity, 4, Commander K. E. Baird, which arrived
from Corfu on Sunday. The Marlborough, 131,
Capt. W. H. Steward, C.B. had left the island on
the 9th for ten days' cruise, the Admiral having
previously transferred his flag temporarily to the
Algiers, 89, Capt. E. B. Rice. The Trident, 3, Com-
mander C. J. Balfour, had gone to Ancona and
other ports of the Adriatic. There were very strong
rumours that the Admiral and a portion of the Me-
diterranean fleet would winter at Corfu. But the
cessation of hostilities between the Turks and Mon-
tenegrins renders the presence of the Admiral and
his fleet in thosewaters unnecessary. We werevisited
with, a slight shock of earthquake at 1.45 a.m. of
the Bth, and some persons affirm having felt another
on the previous day. From the coast of Syria we
have nothing of a very late date, except the depar-
ture of her Majesty's sloop Icarus, 11, Commander
Salmon, V.C., from Beyrout for this island, where
she is daily expected. The remainder of the squad-
ron on the coast of Syria had orders to assemble at
Beyrout about the middle of September. Nothing
more is said about the Mars, 80, Capt. S. N. Strange,
going home, although her time has expired. The
Wanderer, 4, Commander C. M. Seymour, had been
ordered to Malta. The :London, 86, Capt. H. Chads,
and the Neptune, 86, Capt. G. Hornby, continue
at Naples; but the Amphion, 36,Capt. A. C. Gordon,
and the Doris,.32, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, have
changed places, the former vessel having proceeded
from Naples to Messina, and the latter from Mes-
sina to Naples. The naval movements in Malta har-
bour during the week comprise the departure to and
arrival from Corfu of the Alacrity, and the departure
yesterday of the Foxhound, 4, Lieut. Doughty,with
mails for that island; the arrival of the Shannon,
35, Capt. C. 0. Jones, on the Bth inst., from Ply-
mouth and Gibraltar, and her departure on the 13th
to join the Admiral. The Pelican, 17, Commander
P. Brook, has also left to join the Commander-in-
Chief at Corfu. Admiral Codrington will
probably
return to Malta by the French packet due fromicienne is
Italy t -morrow. The Mag expected to
leave for Sicily and Italy some time next week. The
following officers of the garrison have recently left
Malta for England on leave of absence :—per Vectis
on the sth inst., via Marseilles, Brigadier-Gen. H.
Bates, Lieut. C. F. Legh, and Ensign R. Higgins,
25th Regiment, Lieut. F. T. Bircham, R.A., and
Ensign S. P. Majoribanks, 15th Regiment—per
Mooltan, on the sth inst., via Southampton, Lieut.-
Col. J. Gubbins, 23d, R.W.F. ; per Euxine, on the
Bth inst., via Marseilles, Capt. J. J. Dudgeon, Ist
battalion, 22d Regiment, and Lieut. R. N. Camp-
bell, R.E. ; per Pera, on the Bth inst., via South-
ampton, Major F. M. Ommanney, R.A. The Ripon,
which arrived from Southampton on the 13th inst.,
brought out Ensign Linley, Serg. Esmond, and 24
sailors; and the Vectis, from Marseilles, on the 14th,
had on board for Malta, Capt. and Mrs. Bonavita,
R:M.F.A. Mr. Andrews, engineer and superin-
tendent of the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph,
and Mr. Gibson, inspector of telegraphs, left in the
Foxhound, for Corfu, to test the Corfu end of the
Otranto cable.. The working of the telegraph to
England continues to be most satisfactory. A tele-
gram was received from Liverpool the day before
yesterday in two hours. A marble tablet, with a
suitable inscription, was laid on the 10th inst., in a
conspicuous part of the Malta Exchange, in com-
memoration of the honour which his R.H. the Prince
of W ales conferred on the establishment by visiting
it during his stay at Malta. The inscription is sur-
mounted by his Royal Highness's crest.
The Revenge, 73, Capt. C. Fellowes, of 3,320 tons
and 800 horse power, bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Robert Smart, K.H., Commander-in-Chief
of the Channel squadron ; the Defence, 18, iron
frigate, Capt. R. A. Powell, C. 8., of 3,668 tons and
600 horse power; the Emerald, 36 guns, Captain
Arthur Cumming, of 2,913 tons and 600 horse
power ; the Galatea, 26 guns, Capt, R. Maguire, of
3,227 tons and 800. horse power; and the Princulo,
gunboat, of 60-horse power, arrived at Spithead on
Saturday morning on their return from their cruise
in the Baltic.

The Resistance, 18, iron frigate, Capt. Chamber-
lain, in No. 10 Dock at Portsmouth, has had the
starboard side of her bottom paid over with Pea-
cock and Buchan's preservative composition, and
her port side with the composition prepared by Mr.
Hay, the Admiralty chymist.
The Sutlej, 36, screw frigate, has been commis-
sioned at Portsmouth by Capt. M. Connolly.
The Sharpshooter, iron gunvessel, on being
docked at Portsmouth on Friday, was found to
have her bottom so thickly covered with oysters
that the only means to remove them was by dubbing
them off with the shipwright's adzes. Flakes of
shells from 18in. to 2ft. square were got off in this
manner, in all cases bringing off with them a con-
siderable amount of the scale of the iron from the
vessel's plates.

The paddle-wheel steamer Terrible, 21, 800-horse
power, attached to the steam reserve in the Med-

way, is to undergo a most complete and thorough
repair, at a cost amounting to about £15,000, after
which she is to be again commissioned.
Her Majesty's iron screw troopship Adventurer,
Commander Lethbridge, from Canada, with a de-
tachment of troops, the detail of which was given in
The Sun of Friday last, arrived alongside the T
pier, at Woolwich, on Saturday. Her log records
the deaths of 10 of her passengers during the
voyage home—viz., three soldiers (consumptive
invalids) and seven children, three of whom, the
entire family of one woman, died on three succes-
sive days of measles. and were buried at sea. The
Adventurer is ordered to be docked, to be over-
hauled and to repair damages sustained on the coral
reefs at Bermuda.

The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi-
nated to naval cadetships :—William E. Adderley
John Dunn Auberton, Hans Hamilton Brooke,
Harry Bryant, Robert Boyle, Anthony Marcus

Hammond, Alexander Bohun Hawkes, Charles
Hervey, Edmund Samuel Poe, Francis Powell,
John Grey Russell, Charles Arthur Stephenson,

Foster Lechmere Wade, Wm. Moore West, Wm.

Henry Young, George Hector Bruce, and Edward

Pakenham Brooks.

The following appointments were ma3e at Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieuts. T. Stackhouse, H.
M. Fox, C. R. Buckle, and R. E. Stopford, to the
Sutlej ; Sub-Lieuts. G. R. Keating, H. B. Stewart
and A. T. C. Warrington, to the Sutlej ; A. D.
Fanshawe, midshipman, to the Edgar, as supernu-

merary ; F. L. C. Reece, G. S. La Coste,R. C.
Jolliffe, J. 1). Maycock, and E. T. Wingfield, mid-
shipmen, to the Sutlej ; J. Noble, assist.-surg., to
the Phcebe ; A. W. Miller, second master, to the
Sutlej ; 8, H. Liddell, second master, to the Phcrbe;
H. D. Stanistreet, acting assistesurg., to the Phoebe;
J. H. Datton and H. Bath, masters' assistant., to
the Sutlej.