The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-17 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, July 12.—0 n the evening of the 6th
inst. her Majesty's screw transport Orontes, Capt.
Hire, left Malta harbour with the 2d battalion 22d
Regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Anderson. The battalion consisted of 30 officers,
738 non-commissioned officers and soldiers, eight
ladies and six children of officers, and 50 soldiers'
wives and 89 children. The Orontes also conveyed
Col. Romer, R.A., Capt. Risk, R.N., Commander
Harvey, R.N., Lieut. McHardy, MN., 39 military
and naval invalids, Capt. Warnes, of the Militia,
Lieut. Davies, R.E., and the following ladies :
Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Risk, Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Cleve,
land, Mrs. Waller, Mrs. Joynson, Mrs. Hillman,
Mrs. Greatham, and Mrs. Bonham and sister. The
Orontes will transfer the battalion at Gibraltar to
the sailing transports Star of India and the Devon-
shire, which will convey it to Mauritius. The re-
mainder of her passengers will then proceed in her
to Portsmouth, and the Orontes will afterwards go
to Dublin. The Tyrian screw gunboat, Lieut. Mur-
ray, arrived on the 6th inst. from the fleet, which
she left near Cape Bon, The Racer, 11, screw cor-
vette, left on Saturday noon, the Bth inst., for Bar-
celona, with mails for the fleet. The Wanderer, 4,
screw gunvessel, Commander M. C. Seymour,
arrived on Sunday night, the 9th inst., from the
Piraeus. She is ordered home, and will leave in a
few days for England. Commander R. Sterne,
recently promoted, handed over his command
of the Psyche on the 'Ali-Instant to Lieutenant
Blane. The late commander was much respected
by all hands, and was rowed on shore with
overy honour that could be shown him. He proceeds
by the next mail to England. In consequence of
the occurrence of several cases of cholera in the
garrison clean bills of health have ceased to be
issued. The Psyche, Lieut. Blanc, left port on the
morning of the 10th inst. to cruise outside, so as to
be able to leave with the next mail for the fleet, with
a clean bill of health. The English screw steamer
Luxor arrived at Malta on Friday evening from
Alexandria, having on
board 239 passengers, but she
performingi ng , o w ng tou
atrhaen
tiLazaretton e .
on s
beingund
Sunday
full of
large numbererso
s
y
a was compelled to remain outside until Sunday morn-
lar
received pratique, and accommodation was afforded
for those who had recently arrived. The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamers Poonah and
pn
Nyanza came in this morning from Alexandria.
There had been one fatal case of cholera on board—
that of a first class
leaving Alexandria.
passenger, who died the day after

Earl de Grey and
Rbiopaornd, Secretarythe
Admiralty
arrived at Portsmouth 'dockyard on Saturday after-
noon, and embarked on
for
steam War,
yacht Enchantress, to
join the Lords of the Admi-
ralty. The yacht left
whence r ortsmouth on Saturday even-
ing for Plymouth, it is expected their Lord-
ships will proceed to Cherbourg.
The Octavia,
steam
screw
frigate, Capt. Charles
lli 'llyar, C.B , steamed out of Portsmouth harbour
to Spithead On Saturday, exchanging salutes with
the Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief,
Admiral Sir M. Seymour,. K.C.B. She received her
w
shot and shell, and leave Spithead shortly for
the West Indies, 9 where Capt:
Hillyarwill hoist his
broad pendant as Commodore on that station.
The Royal Sovereign turret ship, Capt. Herbert,
sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday for Plymouth
to join the Channel squadron.
The Irresistible,
screw
Srtoe.
am frigate, Captain J.
Dickson, came up to Spithead on Saturday from
Southampton Water.
The Helicon, steam despatch vessel, was taken
into dock at Portsmouth on Saturday for surveying.
The Dromedary, steam storeship, Master-Com-
mander J. H. Allard, arrived at S • pithead on Satur-
day from Malta and Gibraltar, 4-
with
I supernu-
meraries, invalids,:and condemned t s ores, and a few
passengers, among whom was Mr. William
Roche
assist.-surg., late of H.M.S. Orlando. The Drome-
dary'
left Malta on the 30th of June, and •
Gibraltar
on the 7th instASince leaving the latter place she
has experienced very strong northerly winds and
heavy head seas up to the entrance of the Bay of
Biscay. The Dromedary passed, in lat. 4418 and
long. 8.45, the French bark red pendant over 4,657.
After disembarking her supernumera • ries and inva-
lids, who were conveyed to the Victory
flagship,
the Dromedary proceeded on for
Woolwich, to dis-
charge her stores, &e.
The hired sailing transport Dunbar Castle arrived
at Spithead on Saturday afternoon from Indi •a, with
military invalids and time-expired men, who will be
disembarked to-day.

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Reference was made in The Sun of Saturday to
erei‘iwelabro, ,
1,686 tons,
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evpgeai yuirL, tiercnoutoi
a pfrs and stores to India.
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m_._For the convey-
Bombay, and of the 49th Regiment from Dublin to
Bombay—the Cospatrick, 1,200 tons register, J. A.
1,300 tons, new
sEhlminlie,
and commander;
screw
steamer
theam
Dla
have been chartered by Messrs. Gellatly, Hankey,
and Sewell. The same firm have also engaged to
t
convey out in their Calcutta packet the Cossipore,
leaving on the 20th inst., a quantity of mooring,
gear, buoys, and other stores. The Government
have also engaged Mdssrs. Green's ships the Windsor
Castle and Renown to take troops from Dublin to
Gibraltar, thence to Cape Town, Port Elizabeth,
and Bombay. In addition to the above ships the
St. Lawrence and Conflict will convey about 609
adults from Gravesend to Calcutta ; the Roslin
Castle, 472 troops, from Cork to Calcutta; the
Winchester and Albert Victor, the 41st Regiment

from Dublin to Calcutta; the Agamemnon 484
troops, from Cork to Bombay ; the Tyburnia, 372
troops, from Gravesend to Bombay ; and the Mala-
bar, 500 troops, from Gravesend to Kurrachee.
Colonel Edwin Beaumont Johnson, C. 8., Royal
(late Bengal) Artillery, is appointed Assistant Mili-
tary Secretary for Indian Affairs at headquarters,
vice Lieut.-Col. Greathed, C. 8., Royal (late Ben-
gal) Engineers, who was appointed temporarily in
May, 1861. The appointment is to be dated from
the 10th inst.

The Wimbledon Meeting.
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One week's experience at Wimbledon justifies the
belief that, in spite of the awkward concurrence of
the general election, this will prove the most suc-
cessful meeting of the National Rifle Association
which has yet been held. The mere sightseers, it is
true, have scarcely flocked to the Common in such
numbers, as on previous occasions, a result attribut-
able in part, no doubt, to the circumstance that there

can be this season no great Lords and Commons'
match, and that even if the newly returned members
of the Lower House could get together an Eleven in
the coming week the fashionable world has fled from
town and would not be there to see it. The marks-
men, however, the proper clients and supporters of
the Association, have more than supplied any short-
comings on the part of the public by the eagerness
with which they have entered for all the good things
in the gift of the Council, and have employed
their spare time in Pool shooting, twenty-five per
cent. of the amount contributed at these latter
ranges going in every case towards the expenses of
management. At this moment, exclusive of Pool
tickets, sighting shots, entries for cartons, and all
that constitutes the fringe of rifle-shooting finance,
the mere entries for the great competitions, such as
the Queen's Prize and Alexandra, bid fair to double
the total amount of tickets issued at the meeting
of 1864. With all these additions to the magni-
tude of the gathering the facilities for conducting
business are on the increase. The great difficulty
of consulting the convenience of men who wish to be
at Wimbledon and in the polling booth at one and
the same moment of course exists, and its effects,
visible at the door of Captain Page's marquee, have
been already described. Another stream, smaller
and much more patient, flows through the mar-
quee of the secretary, where the certificates entitling
volunteers to the money value of the prizes they have
won are distributed, and the number of prizes is so in-
finite that even this duty forms no inconsiderable
addition to the other business pressing upon Captain
Mildmay, and transacted by him with as much ease
and courtesy as if he were writing complimentary
letters. But apart from these marquees of work,
and one or two other tents where statisticians hide
themselves and pore till lamplight over piles of re-
gisters, kept, for some inscrutable reason, with blue
pencil on pink sheets of paper, and apart also from
that other cave of canvas, where the dread tribunal
of " the Council" waits with umpire and attendant
Staff to pronounce judgment on any cases that may
be submitted, it really seems as if the meeting ma -
naged itself very successfully. The great art of let-
ting things alone becomes additionally important
when all concerned have imbibed notions of disci-
pline and come to the ground prepared to conform
in every manner to authority, provided only that it
be legitimate. Men have gained confidence in the
arrangements at Wimbledon ; or, if new to the
place themselves, they generally come with com-
rades whose favourable report first induced them to
entertain the idea, and so they are prepared, almost
without knowing it, to feel at home. The Associa-
tion was fortunate enough to establish or obtain the
assistance of an admiral Staff at the outset, and that
Staff it has since preserved intact. As on board a
man-of-war every one knows his own rope, so here
each has his department, and matters proceed so
smoothly that a difficulty has seareply time to arise
before it is mastered. A thorough hitch would be
a new sensation.

The principal competitions on Saturday were
those for the Challenge Vase, value 550 guineas,
contributed in specie by Volunteers in China, and
for the London and South Western Railway Prize
of £5O, to which the Association adds £25, given
for the best volley firing. Several designs for the
China vase have been submitted, and the selection
is still under the consideration of a committee. The
conditions of the match having been left to the de-
termination of the Council, great curiosity was natu-
rally felt as to the ultimate destination of so valu-
able apiece of plate. The decision arrived at was
that it should be placed in the hands of the Lord-
Lieutenant of the winning county from year to year,
and that £lOO should be annually dividea among
the more successful of the competing squads, con-
sisting of 10 men drawn from every county desir-
ous of entering.

The following vre the official scores of the diffe
rent contests:—

FIRST STAGE, ALEXANDRA.
200 Yards Winners.

Sergeant Walker, London Rifle Brigade 18
Sergeant Deane, London Rifle Brigade 18
Sergeant J. Butler, let Wilts ... 18'
Private Ward, 6th East York ... 18j
Private Sharman, 4th West York 17
Sergeant Allen, 35th Somerset... ... 17
Private Barrett, 2d Northumberland ... 17
Sergt. Hon. R. Bouverie, Camb. Univ. 17
Ensign M. Rimington, sth Cambridge... 17
Sergeant Barker, 3d Leicester ... ... 17
Lieut. Clark, 4th Notts ... ... 17
Private Burt, sth Isle of Wight 17
Colour-Sergeant Clews, 3d Renfrew 17
Private Atfield, 7th Sussex ... ... 17
Sergeant Hony, Ist Oxford University 17
Captain Miller, 6th Renfrew ... ... 17
Private Allcock, Ist Warwick ... ... 17
Private E. Ross, London Scottish 17
Corporal Lea, 3d Salop ...
Sergeant Barry, let Lancashire
Private Other, 12th North York

... 17
... 17

Private Whincnp, 17th West York ... 17
Sergeant Toogood, 25th Devon ... 17

Sergeant Dodd, 2d Hereford ...
Corporal Forrest, 2d Roxburgh ... 17
Corporal-Sergt. Paterson, Ist Berwick 17,

Corporal Peaman, 3d Durham 17
Sergeant Smith, West York 16
Sergeant Holmes, Ist Manchester 16
Corporal Putt, 10th Herta 16

Private Syer, London Rifle Brigade 16
Private Hoddinott, 25th Somerset 16
Sergeant M'Cullock, 7th Ayr ... ••• 16
Sergeant Dunn, London Rifle Brigade... 16
Private Fowkes, Ist Manchester ••• 16
Ensign, Lockhart, 7th Ayr ... .., 16
Private Miln, Perth ... ••• ."
16
Corporal Newton, Bth Leicester •••
16
Lieut. Cunningham, 18th Middlesex ... 16
Capt. MuHiner, Ist Lancashire Engineers 16
Sergeant Muatt, 3d Ayr ••• "• 16
Private Forest, 26th Sent ... 16
Corporal Arrowsmith, Bristol Rifles ... 16
Private C. Wilardy, 6th Inverness 16
Captain Morris, 9th Middlesex ... 16
Sergeant Stark, Bristol Rifles ... ... 16
Private Purcher 10th Gloucester ... 16
Lieut. Crockford, 4th Flint ... ... 16
Sergeant Goodwin, 12th Derby „. 16

Private Curtis, Ist Surrey
Private Soucham, Queen's

... 16
... 16

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5

Corporal Fraser, 7th Inverness
Sergeant Blenkhorn, West York

... 16
... 16

Private Dawson, 4th West York ... 16
Corporal Taylor, 19th North York 16

Capt. Smith, Edinburgh Rifle Brigade 16
Colour-Sergeant Yates, 2d Derby ... 16
Corporal Leah, 19th Cheshire ... ... 16
Lord Glentworth, Ist Glocester Artillery 16
Colour-Sergt. Smith,2d Towernamlets 16
Private Grace, 3d Portsmouth 16

Corporal liarmes, 2d Sussex ...
Sergeant Ainsley, 21st Devon ...

... 16
... 16

Private Morgan, Ist Leicester ...

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