The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-06 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, May 31.—News has been received from
Athens that the King will leave for Corfu on June
10, when H.M.'s ship Gibraltar, having probably
on board our Minister, the Hon. E. M. Erskine, will
form part of his escort. H.M.'s ship Wanderer, 4,
Cora. M. C. Seymour, will remain at the Piraeus ;
the Assurance, 4, Corn. H. B. Woolcombe, had left
for Patras. The Admiralty yacht Enchantress, Staff-
Cora. J. E. Petley, left Malta on the 23d inst., for
Gibraltar, Lisbon, and Portsvouth. She took as
passengers Mr. E. R. Lytton (appointed Secretary
of Legation at Lisbon from Athens) and Mrs. Lytton;
Corn. H. W. Comber, invalided from H.M.'s ship
Pelican ; and Mr. H. Wilkinson, midshipman, inva-
lided from the Royal Oak. H.M.'s ship Pelican, 17,
Acting-Com. N. B. Smith, left on the 27th inst. for
Beyrout, with orders for the Orlando, 46, Capt. G.
G. Randolph, and the Chanticleer, 17, Com. J. E.
F. Risk, to return to Malta. The latter ship will call
at Budroum (Halicarnassus), to assist Mr. Billiotti,
her Britannic Maj esty'sVice-Consul,who is employed
there in excavation for the British Museum. H.M.'s
ship Magicienne, 16, Capt.W. Armytage, has arrived
at Salerno, and it appears that her sudden departure
from Malta was owing to the capture of two Eng-
lishmen by Italian brigands. Efforts are being made
to procure the release of the gentlemen, who are still
in the hands of the banditti. H.M.'s ship Supply,
screw storeship, Staff-Com. C. Bawden, having
nearly completed loading naval andvictualling stores
for England, will leave on June 1 for Spithead, con-
veying a few time-expired men and invalids. Her
Majesty's surveying steamer Firefly, 5, Corn. G.
R. Wilkinson, left on the 27th instant, to resume
her survey on the east coast of Tunis. During the
cruise of the ironclad Royal Oak off the port an
accident occurred to her boilers, by which 54 tubes
were broken, owing, it is said, to priming: Her Ma-
jesty's gunboat Surprise, 4, Corn. G. Tryon, having
arrived at Gibraltar, from Malta and Tunis, the
Racoon, 22, Capt. Count Gleichen, left that station
for Spithead. The Redpole, tug, conveyed the
Bishop of Gibraltar to Malaga, where his lordship
was to hold a confirmation. Lieut. N. B. Smith, of
the Pelican, has received an acting order as com-
mander of that vessel, vice 11. W. Comber, inva-
lided ; and Lieut. W. G. Lecocq, supernumerary of
the Victoria, has also joined the above ship, vice N.
B. Smith. Lieut. C. R. Harris, late flag-lieut. to the
Commander-in-Chief, goes home by the present
packet to join the gunnery ship Excellent. Her Ma-
jesty's ships in port are :—The Victoria, 102, bear-
ing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir. R. Smart, K.C.8.,
K.H. ; the Hibernia, receiving ship, bearing the flag
of Rear-Admiral 11. Kellett, C.B. ; the Royal Oak,
35, ironclad ; the Meeanee, 60 ; the Resistance, 16,
iron ram ; the Cossack, 20 ; the Enterprise, 4, iron
corvette ; the Psyche, 2, and Caradoc, 2, despatch
vessels ; the storeship Supply, 2 ; and the Wizard,
gunboat. The Commander-in-Chief, Sir R. Smart,
purposes leaving soon for a summer cruise. He will
be accompanied by the principal ships of the squad-
ron, including the iron frigates ; but no day has yet
been fixed for his departure. It is reported that he
will leave about the Bth of June.
Yesterday the first of the boilers for the ironclad
frigate Lord Warden arrived at Chatham from the
establishment of Messrs. Maudslay and Co., Lon-
don, in readiness for lifting on board that vessel.
A portion of the machinery has also arrived and
will be forthwith fitted on board, it being intended
to ship all the heavy machinery before the Lord
Warden is floated into dock to be plated with her
armour and to be brought forward for sea. The
Lord Warden will occupy the
.second dock, from
which the Bellerophon was recently launched, and
the workmen yesterday commenced preparing the
blocks and clearing the dock for her reception. She
will be placed in dock towards the end of the pre-
sent month, and the work of completing and pre-
paring her for sea will occupy about six months.
The screw corvette Charybdis, 21, 400-horse
power, Capt. E. W. Tumour, from the Pacific sta-
tion, has been inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir C.
Talbot, K.C.8., Naval Commander-in-Chief at the
Nore, and is now being rapidly dismantled, prepa-
ratory to being paid off into the Steam Reserve. She
has returned the greater portion of her war depart-
ment and other stores into the Ordnance depot at
Chatham. The Charybdis has been in commission
a few months short of five years.
A number of additional workmen have been placed
on the screw corvette Reindeer, 17, 250-horse power
(originally commenced at Chatham in May, 1860),
in order to complete that vessel and bring her for-
ward for launching. She is about one-third com-
pleted, and will be ready for launching in about
four months.

Her Majesty's ship St. George, 72 (Coastguard),
Capt. Edward B. Rice, sailed from Portland-roads
on Saturday last, with Coastguardsmen and Naval
Volunteers, for a month's cruise in the Channel for
general exercise.
The troops which arrived in the Himalaya, from
Quebec, disembarked at the Dockyard, Portsmouth,
in excellent order, yesterday ; the regimental
baggage having been previously landed. The dis-
embarkation was carried on most expeditiously,
under thepersonal superintendence of Col. Shadwell,
Assist-Quartermaster-General. A special train
being in readiness, they left the dockyard at 1
p.m. for the Farnborough station, en route
to Aldershott, where they are to be quartered,
in consequence of want of proper and sufficient
accommodation at the camp. The soldiers' wives
and children were removed to barracks at Chichester.
The military invalids were removed by Government
steamer to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, and
the time-expired men to their respective depots.
The Himalaya will again soon be in full employ-
ment. She will shortly embark a regiment from
Aldershot, for Kingston, the relieve the 32d at the
Curragh, with whom she will leave for Quebec.
The Urgent, troopship, Captain Ilenderson, left
Portsmouth yesterday for Plymouth, to embark the
71st Regiment for Leith.

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