The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-07 00:00:00

THE WAR

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

By our Malta correspondence, dated May 30, we
learn that French and English troops continued to

arrive, but less frequently.
The Harbinger and Sydney had arrived in safety with
artillery, and a considerable addition to the commissa-
tdepartment bad come by the Colombo, after a beau-

tiful passage of less than nine days.
The arrivals by the Harbinger on the 25th were Cap•
tains Gambier and Taswell, Lieutenants Lyons and
Hideout, Assistant-Surgeon Bowen, and 145 rank and
file Royal Artillery, Assistant-Commissary Richardson,
Deputy-Assistant-Commissaries Russell, Heweil, G ren-
sill, Peager. and Hayter, attached to the Ordnance.
By the Sydney, on the 29th, Colonel elude, Captains
D'Aguilar, Strange, Henderson, Mowbray, and Chem-
side, Lieutenants Singer, Hope, Harward, Watson,
Park, and Yellow, and 240 rank and file of the Royal
Artillery.
By the Colombo, also on the 29th, Deputy-Assistant
Commissary-Generals Uniacke, Sutherland, Murray, Le
Maitre, Barker, Wilkinson, Crichton, and Senelaaldi,
and Captain Small, R.N.
By the Glendalough, on the 30th, 21 days out, 50
horses, Captain E. Peel, Lieutenant Saltrnarshe, Assis-
tant-Surgeon Wilkin, and 45 troopers of the 11th
Hussars.
No. 39, transport Harkaway, 21 days out, brought
Captain Maude, Lieutenant Whinyates, Assistant-
Surgeon Thornton, 55 troopers, and 56 horses of the
Royal Horse Battalion.
The Simla, after completing her repairs, was to leave
on the 31st, via Gibraltar. The Rubicon, No. 38, and
the Mary Anne, No. 42, had just arrived, bringing 97
horses.
The French frigates Laplace, Caffarelli, and L'Eclai-
reur reached Malta on the 30th, on their return from
Athens.
Mails were made up and sent off from the General
Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, last evening for the
Baltic fleet. They will be conveyed through Denmark
to Dantzic, and placed in charge of the British Consul ;
a steamer will arrive at Dautzic on Friday and carry on
the correspondence to the fleet.
Advices have been received at the Admiralty that on
the 16th of April the Russian ship of war Aurora arrived
at Callao from Rio Janeiro. It is supposed that she
will endeavour to make for the White Sea in order to
avoid the British fleet on the India station. _ _

Advices have been received at the Admiralty from
Stockholm that two more Ruasian ships had been cap-
tured by her Majesty's cruisers, and brought into that
port. They are named the Franciska, Michelson master,
laden with salt, and the Union, Captain Barni, freighted
with potatoes, and have been forwarded to London in
charge of prize masters.
Yesterday the Gebroeders, Lindholm master, prize
to her Majesty's steamers Amphion and Cruiser, taken
off Riga, and the Najaden, Jorneborg master, taken by
her Majesty's ship Odin off Aland, were brought into
the West India Docks to be condemned as lawful prizes
to their captors.
Yesterday the French ship of war Psyche worked
through the Downs from Brest, to join the allied fleets in
the Baltic.
The Janus, 4, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander Colin C. Kane, arrived at Sheerness on the
sth, at 6 30 p.m., from her Channel cruise, under sealed
orders.
The Royal Albert has taken all her engine boilers on
board, and they aro being fixed in their respective places
in the engine-room. Her bowsprit and masts are being
put in their places, and she will be put into No. 3 dry
dock for her further fitment. _ .

—The African steam-vessel has been taken into basin at
Sheerness to undergo repairs, and make good defects in
her boilers, &c.
The Formidable, 84, guardship of ordinary, Captain
Superintendent Christopher Wyvill, is now advancing
with her equipment, under the directions of Commander
Josiah Thompson.
The Scourge, 6, paddle-wheel steam sloop, Commo-
dore Adams, went out of Portsmouth harbour to Spit-
head on Monday afternoon, and anchored. She was
inspected yesterday afternoon by Vice-Admiral Sir T.
Cochrane, K.C.B. the Commander-in-Chief. Her crew
will be paid to-day, and she leaves in a day or two for
the coast of Africa, where Commodore Adams has been
appointed Commander-in-Chief.
The Locust, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Day, recently from the Brazil station, weighed from
Spithead on Monday, and, after making a few runs along
the measured mile in Stolse,s.bay, steamed into the basin
to refit.
The crew of the Calcutta, 84, Captain Stopford, at
Plymouth, got up topmasts on Saturday.
The Zephyr steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Crawley, is under orders to leave Woolwich to-day, and
will take out a large mail addressed to the Admiral of
the Baltic fleet. Two mail carts, with a number of
large bags and three mail guards, arrived at Woolwich
yesterday from the General Post-office and were put on
board the Alecto, where the crew of the Zephyr are to be
accommodated until she is out of the hands of the ship-
writ4hts, which will be to-day.
The following appointments have been made :
Lieutenant.—Thomas Gooch (1554), recently from
Acting-Lieutenant of the Fox, 42, when serving on the
East India station, to the Meander, 44, at Devonport.
Masters'-Assistants.---John E. Chapple, to the
Wizard, 6, brig, tender to the flagship at Cork ; C. R.
Haswell, to the St. George, 120, with the Baltic fleet.
Clerk.—John Adams (1852), to the Wolverine, 12,
sloop, at Chatham.
Clerks'-Assistant.—John H. Mooney, to the Vulcan
screw steam troop-ship, at Portsmouth.
Yesterday the Admiralty took up ships for the con-
veyance of troops to the Cape of Good Hope; from Cey-
lon home to Cork ; to Halifax, Nova Scotia ; and to
Melbourne, New South Wales, as also for the con-
viyance of cannon, weighing 146 tons, to Constantinople.
The Kangaroo, steam transport ship, loading with
siege artillery at the Royal Arsenal, will, when she re-
ceives it all on board, embark Captain Brandling's let
company of the 12th battalion, under orders for the
East.
The Rhadamanthus, steam transport, Master Com-
mander Belam, is landing the machinery for the Colussus
and boilers for the Centaur, &c., in Portsmouth Dock-
yard.
The transport Sutlej, No. 90, Captain Sinclair, em-
barked at Plymouth the fourth troop of Enniskillens on
Tuesday. Owing to the activity of the dockyard au-
thorities and the docility of the horses, 57 were em-
barked in one hour and 45 minutes. The Sutlej was
immediately taken in tow by the Confiance and Pike
steamers, which left her in the Channel at two o'clock

in the afternoon with a fair wind from the north-east.

The transport Libertas, No. 95, Captain Kean), ar-
rived from Woolwich on Tuesday morning with stores
for the Devonport Dockyard and the Royal William
Victualling-yard.
The Wellesley East Indiaman, one of Green's ships,
was off Plymouth on Tuesday morning. She left Graves-
end on the 31st of May, for Bengal, with passengers
and 277 soldiers, 20 women, and 7 children, under the
command of Captain Thompson.
Captain Irving's 31 company of the 12th battalion
left the garrison at Woolwich at 6 o'clock a.m. yester-
day, and embarked at Roff's-wharf for Southend, en
route to Shoeburyness, for practice with the Minie car-
bines in the mornings, and with the large guns at long
ranges in the afternoons. Captain Brandling's com-
pany will return to Woolwich immediately for embarka-
tion, being first on the roster for foreign service.
Brigade Major Bingham, of the Royal Artillery, in-
spected the Tynemouth yesterday, as she is to take out
to the seat of war about 20 horses, in addition to the
men of the ambulance corps, under the command of
Captain Grant.
Lieutenant Alexander M‘Pherson, of the Riding-
house Department, Royal Artillery, has been superseded
by Sergeant-Major Wm. Boylin, promoted to be Lieu-
tenant. Lieutenant INlTherson has served in the Rid-
ing-house Department for the last 43 years, and pre-
vious to his appointment as a Lieutenant-riding master
in 1835 passed through the depot for cavalry at Maid-
stone to test his qualifications as an instructor in horse-
manship. It is understood he will be allowed the full
pay retirement of his rank, to which he is justly entitled
for his long and zealous services. His successor has held
the appointment of sergeant-major at Woolwich for about
19 years.
At eight o'clock on Monday morning the last division
of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was paraded in
full marching order in Portobello Barracks, Dublin, and
underwent inspection. The fine bands of the 16th
Lancers, 3d Dragoons, and Royal Artillery being in at-
tendance to play them out, at a quarter to eight the word
was riven and to the stirring sounds of their national
air, " Patrick's-day," the brave fellows began their
march in excellent health and spirits, and attended by a
vast concourse of civilians of all classes. The detach-
ment took the line of Richmond-street and Harcourt-
street, through the south and east side of St. Stephen's-
green, Bagot-street, Fitzwilliam-street, Merrion-square,
and by the Rock-road to Kingstown, where it arrived at
10 o'clock. The work of embarkation commenced at
once, and was speedily completed without any accident.
The transport was towed out of harbour on the follow-
ing morning.

YEOMANRY AND MILITIA.
The 28 days' period for which the Royal Berks
Militia
were called out to undergo their annual course of train-
ing terminates this day (Wednesday). On Monday they
were reviewed in a spacious field at Early, near Read-
ing, by Colonel Garratt. The time appointed for the
review was 12 o'clock, but the men were assembled an
hour previous, and underwent a thorough inspection by
their officers. The day being beautifully fine, and it be-
ing Whit-Monday, thousands assembled to witness the
spectacle. A squadron of Hungerford Yeomanry, under
the command of Lieut. Willes and Cornet Barker, kept
the ground most efficiently. The inspecting officer and
staff arrived on the ground about 12 o'clock, and were
received with the usual honours. The various move-
ments were performed with great regularity and precision.
Colonel Garratt, at the completion of the review, ad-
dressed the men in highly complimentary terms, and they
seemed highly pleased with the encouraging words
spoken by him. In the afternoon the officers and their
triendo, to the number of 2QO, congaing of the acre of

kdrinfiglibeig4l)oal).‘ down to a c?cfintner at the Town;
.taltßbadTsgr AlKotigh it has been stated that the
L.., l Berks Vkia are chiefly composed of farm la-
ir: s, yetiWch statement is far from the fact, inas.
much as not one-third of them belong to that station of
life. Their conduct during their temporary sojourn in
Reading has been in the highest degree praiseworthy,
and great credit is due to the officers and staff for their
indefatigable labours in rendering the regiment so
efficient.
The West Suffolk Militia have received a notification
to encamp at Languard Fort, where the East Suffolk
Artillery are already stationed. Permission has been
given to the East Suffolk Militia Artillery to allow their
moustaches to grow during the time of their encampment,
and a large majority of the men have availed themselves
of it !
Since the dismissal of the 2d Somerset Militia, re-
cruiting parties in Bath have been busily engaged in en-
listing- the men into the regular service. Upwards of
G 0 aave already been examined by the surgeon, Dr. T.
Barrett, and declared fit for service. The largest propor-
tion of the inen have enlisted in the Grenadier Guards
and Royal Marines.
The Carmarthenshire Rifles have completed their
second period of 28 days' training, and have undergone
an official inspection in the presence of Lord Dynevor,
Colonel W. H. Barnard, commandant of the Montnouth
and South Wales district, Major Mann, Captain David
Davies, Sir John Manse), &c. Colonel Barnard com-
plimented Lord Dynevor of the efficiency of the regi-
ment. At the el ose of the proceedings the noble lord
invited all the officers to dinner, and provided a suitable
entertainment for the men.
A detachment of the Ist Somerset Militia are ordered
for Plymouth, and will leave Taunton for that town
to-day.
The West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry are to go out for
seven days exercise on the 12th inst. The head-quar-
ters of the regiment will be at the Star Hotel, Maidstone.
The West Essex Militia assembled yesterday morning
at Bury St. Edmund's, for 28 days training, under the
command of Earl St. Jermyn.