The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-31 00:00:00

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INT ELLIGENCE.
Our advices from Malta, dated 25th of May, state
that since the 22d inst. there had been no arrivals of
English troops at that island. The addition to the
French contingent up to the 24th at sunset reaches the
number of 1,320, exclusive of officers. The French
troops who left Malta on the 22d inst. for Athens were
in number 6,570 men and 190 officers, under the com-
mand of General Forey. The vessels that conveyed
them were 12 in number—viz., Christoph Colomb,
Asmodee, Labrador, Laplace, Caffarelli, Coligny,
L'Eclaire, Le Mouette, Le Fulton, Le Metere, and the
Solon. Monsieur Bouree, the Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Court of Athens, with an ultimatum to his Ma-
jesty King Otho from the Emperor Napoleon 111., took
his departure with the steam fleet, on board the Labrador.
News from Constantinople reached Malta on the 24th
inst. by the Rajah, Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship. It announces the departure of a portion of
the English troops for Varna as close at hand, orders
for their embarkation being already issued, per Andes,
Golden Fleece, Cyclops, and other vessels not mentioned.
The troops under orders are the 7th, 19th, 23d, 33d,
77th, 88th, and the Rifles. The officers of the commis-
sariat department will proceed by the Hope transport.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Simla is still undergoing repair of her broken fan, and
it is feared she cannot possibly be ready for sea before
the middle of next week at the earliest. The dry dock is
too small to receive her. She is consequently moored off the
anchor wharf, her heavy cargo brought forward, chains and
anchors suspended to her bows, thus causing her stern
to be raised high out of water. The repairs will be but
temporary, and on her return to England she must be
thoroughly overhauled.
The Chatham pay yacht, Second Master John Grundy,
arrived at Sheerness at 8.30 a.m. yesterday from Chat-
ham, with the pay clerks, and the crew of the Cuckoo,
3, steam gun-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Augustus
G. E. Murray, were paid their advance. The Cuckoo
leaves Sheerness for the Downs to-day. and, having
taken letters, parcels, &c., on board there, proceeds
direct for the Baltic.
The Star, 8 gun-sloop, Commander Frederick P.
Warren, left Sheerness at 10.30 yesterday in tow of the
steam-vessel African for Chatham to be dismantled ; her
crew and junior officers are to be turned over to other
ships for active service.
The Russian prize bark Primus left Sheerness yester-
day morning for the West India Docks.
The Ganges, 84 guns, is being fitted as an advanced
ship-of the-line, in lieu of the Formidable, now fitting
for guard-ship of ordinary at Sheerness. The Ganges
will have everything ready for being commissioned, and
her armament is being prepared for her. She is to carry
on the lower deck 8 8-inch-65 cwt., 9 feet ; and 22 32-
pounders-56 cwt., and 9 feet 6-inch guns ;on the
main deck, 4 8-inch-65 cwt., 9 feet, and 28 32-
pounders-42 cwt. 8 feet guns ;on the quarterdeck, 6
32-pounders-42 cwt. 8 feet guns ; and on her fore-
castle, 16 32-pounder carronades, 17 cwt. each.
Mr. Hall, from the Ordnance department, is at Sheer-
ness, taking the necessary admeasurements on board the
Royal Albert screw steam-ship, for her armament, gun
carriages, &c. She is not to carry 131 guns, as has
been currently reported. The armament she is to carry
is as follows :—On the gun-deck, 32 32-pounders--65
cwt., 9 feet ; on the middle-deck, 32 32-pounders-56
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deck, which can at any time be put into her if necessary.
A strong staff of riggers and labourers are engaged
getting in her machinery for the masting shears. Mr.
Nation, from Messrs. Penn and Son's factory, is super-
intending the setting up of her machinery, under the in-
spection of Mr. Rumble, chief engineer of the Royal
Albert. The lighter which was sunk in the basin along-
side the Royal Albert was raised yesterday by No. 5
mooring lighter, carried out of the basin, and put on to
the ebb dry alongside the basin wall.
Mr. Thomas Frost, Senior Foreman of Shipwrights
here, doing duty in the mast-house, has by an Admiralty
order been presented with the good service gratuity

of 501.
The Long Boat sailing cutter, Second Master R
Harvey, returned to Sheerness from Dover yesterday,
with volunteers for service in dockyard craft at Sheer-
ness.
The Goodwill, Second Master Henry George, arrived
at Sheerness yesterday from Portsmouth.
The new screw corvette Harrier was placed in the
steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday to receive her ma-
chinery of 100-horse power.
The Harpy, 4, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieut.
Lindsay commanding, went frqm the steam basin to
Stokes Bay yesterday to try her machinery.
The Sprightly steam tender, Acting Master-Comman-
der. Allen, left yesterday morning for the westward.
The Powerful, 84, Captain Mansell, has got her top-
mast rigging over the mastheads.
The officers and crew of the Meander, 44, were trans-
ferred on Monday to the screw steam-ship Algiers, 91.
They left the frigate with three hearty cheers, and seemed
much pleased at going all together into another ship.
The men have three days' leave of absence.
The following appointments have been made :
Master Charles Bawden (1849), from the Coast Guard,
to the Meander, 44, commissioned at Devonport.
Surgeon George J. Willis (1854), promoted from As-
sistant-Surgeon of the Alecto steam-sloop, on her return
from the West Coast of Africa, to the Hornet, 17, screw
steam-sloop, at Woolwich.
Second Master Joseph G. Dathan (1847), recently
serving in the Meander, 44, to the Cuckoo steam-vessel,
vice Yeatman, dismissed the service.
The head-quarters and staff of the Enniskillens were
embarked at Plymouth dockyard on Monday, on board
the transport Europa, Captain Gardener, and in the
afternoon she was towed from Hamoaze into the Sound.
The transport ship Lord Raglan was on Monday
towed from the Sound into Hamoaze, and placed along-
side the dockyard. The Dragoons who go by her will
be embarked on Wednesday.
The transport Sutlej, No. 19, arrived in Plymouth
Sound on Tuesday morning.
The Himalaya left Queenstown on Sunday for Con-
stantinople, having the following troops on board :-18
horses and 20 men of the Royal Artillery ; 136 men of
the 68th Regiment, accompanied by eight women and
22 children ; six men of the 3d Regiment ; 20 officers,
294 men, and 298 horses of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
and two women. The horses were got on board with
the greatest ease, and the arrangements on board this
leviathan steam-ship give the most unqualified satisfac-
tion to the military authorities at Queenstown, who
superintended the embarkation. The interest excited
by the visit of the Himalaya to Queenstown was very
great. The town commissioners sent a deputation from
their body to present an address to Captain Kellock,
and to invite him and his officers to a public entertain-
ment, but this mark of respect was necessarily declined,
owing to the sailing of the ship on Sunday.
Yesterday the fourth detachment of the 4th (Royal
Irish) Dragoon Guards, consisting of two officers, as•
sistant-surgeon, and 46 rank and file, with a corre-
sponding number of horses, were paraded in 'all service
order at 8 o'clock a.m., and having undergone the usual
inspection, proceeded to Kingstown, where they em-
barked for the seat of war. The troop, who seemed in
excellent spirits, were escorted for some distance by the
band of the 3d Dragoon Guards and 16th Lancers. The
last detachment of this fine regiment will leave Porto-
bello this morning.
The General Commanding-in-Chief has approved of
Captain Robert Blakeney, of the 48th Regiment, being
appointed Assistant Military Secretary at Dublin, vice
Captain G. E. Hillier, appointed Deputy Assistant
Adjutant-General ; and of Captain Thomas George
Gardiner of the 40th Regiment, being appointed Aide-
de-Camp to Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney,
K.C.8., commanding the forces in Ireland, in the room
of Captain Blakeney.
Yesterday morning, 150 men of the 4th Regiment,
under the command of Captain Campbell, arrived at
Windsor by the South-Western Railway, having travelled
from London to Weedon by the North-Western line. It
was expected that the whole of the 46th, quartered at
Weedon, would have joined the other portion of the
regiment at Windsor, but it is understood that it was
only at the urgent request of Colonel Garratt that the
detachment of 150 was spared from the former barracks.
The Royal Bucks (King's Own) Militia had been named
to relieve the 46th at Weedon, but the inspecting officer
reported to the Horse Guards that the men were not
yet sufficiently advanced in their drill to perform garri-
son duty. It is anticipated, however, that the militia
regiment will be in an efficient state by the Bth of next
month, when they will enter upon their military duties
at Weedon, and the remainder of the 46th will proceed
to Windsor.
Orders were recently received at the Hon. East India
Company's depot, Warley, Brentwood, Essex, for a
number of men to bold themselves in readiness for
foreign service. Accordingly a large draught has been
selected, and they quit their barracks this morning
(Wednesday) en route for India.

MILITIA.
The Royal London Militia were inspected yesterday
by Colonel Bush, at the Artillery-ground in the City-
road, and had their colours presented to them by Mrs.
Wilson, wife of their colonel. The colours were conse-
crated by the Dean of St. Paul's, and Mrs. Wilson, in
presenting them, said, she trusted that whenever they
might be unfurled on active service, peace would quickly
be restored, and that the prayers which had been offered
up by the dean might be heard and answered by the So-
vereign Disposer of all Events. The ensigns received
the colours kneeling. On their being raised before the
regiment, Colonel Wilson gave the word " General salute
—present arms," and the band played the National An-
them. The regiment was then put through a series of
evolutions, at the conclusion of which Colonel Bush
formed the men into square, and complimented them
upon their good behaviour and steadiness in their
manoeuvres, and expressed his surprise at what had
been accomplished within their period of training. He
told them that their country required theiraervices, and