The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, SEPT. 3.—A1l the ships, the captains of
which are to assist at the court-martial on the engineers
of the llecla (which will assemble on Monday next on
board the Ceylon), have arrived.
The Trident arrived here from England on the 29th
ult., but in such a miserable state that she was unable to
proceed to Trieste, and the Ardent (the vessel origifially
designed for that service) left port, with Lieut. Wag-
horn on board, on the 31st. Off Gibraltar the Trident
narrowly escaped shipwreck, and was towed in by the
Phoenix.

It is notorious that all vessels arriving at this station
from England, whether new or in commission before,
are obliged to undergo repair here before they can pro-
ceed to sea, a sad proof of the penny wise and pound
foolish system of the British naval department.
Lieut. Hillyar, third of the Tyne, exchanges into the
Amazon with Lieut. Hoffmeister, taking first lieutenant
duty; and Lieut. Hire, first of the Hecla steamer, ex-
changes into the Tyne as third, with Lieut. Hoffu:mister,
afterthe joins from the Amazon.
All the packets due have arrived. From the Levant
we learn that the cholera has broken out in Persia,
particularly at Teheran, where one of the brothers of the
Shah has fallen. The Shah, with his court, has sought
refuge in the mountains. It is feared that, as in 1832,
this scourge may again visit Asia Minor and the Medi-
terranean.

The police magistrates are occupied with a case of
forgery, committed by a young man named Assenza, a
clerk in the house of a Greek merchant. It is feared that
others may prove to be implicated. Assenza has just
been committed.

We have no other local news of importance, or, indeed,
of interest to the European reader.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON.
In Malta Harbour.—The Ceylon, 12, receiving-ship,
bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Bart.,
second in command and Superintendent of Malta Dock-
yard ; the Tyne, 28, Captain W. N. Glascock ; the
Amazon, 18, Captain J. J. Stopford ; the Harlequin,
Commander Curry ; the Fantome, 16, Commander L.
Hardy ; the Avenger, Captain T. Williams ; the Hecla
war-steamer, Commander C. Starner ; the Locust
steamer, Lieutenant-Commander Power ; and the Wee
I'et steam-tug.
On Surveying Duty.—The Benetta, Commander T.
S. Brock, and the Research cutter, Lieutecant Spratt.
At Sea.— The Hibernia' r2O, Captain Peter Richards.
C. 8., bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker,
Bart., G.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief.

At Gibraltar.—The Virago war-steamer, Commander
John Lunn, and the Phoenix steam-vsssel, Commander
Dennis.

At Corfu.—The Meteor, Lieutenant Commander
Butler.

At the Piraeus of Athens.—The Jackall steamer,
Lieutenant-Commander W. M. J. G. Pascoe.

At Beyrout.—The Inconstant, 36, Captain C. IL
Fremantle.

At Smyrna.—The Siren, 16, Commander H. E.
Edgell. _ _ _

At Constantinople.—The Bloodhound steamer,
Lieutenant R. Phillips.

MAIL STEAM PACKETS.

At Malta.—The Spitfire, Lieutenant J. A. Mac-
donald, and the Trident, Lieutenant C. E. Rigge.
En route from Malta to Marseilles.—The Flamer,
Lieutenant Lavie.

En route from Malta to the lonian Islands and Greece.
—The Volcano, Lieutenant Crang.
En route to Trieste from Malta.—The Ardent, Lieut.
G. Spong.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM-
PANY'S FLOTILLA. _ _

........., _______.
At Southampton.—The Pottinger, the Tagus, and the
Duke of Cornwall.

DESTINATION OF PACKETS.

- -
En route to Southampton and Gibraltar from Malta.
—The Ariel and Montrose.

En route from Southampton and Gibraltar to Malta.
—The Erin.

En route to Constantinople and Ports of the Black
Sea from Malta.—The Achilles.
En route to Alexandria from Malta.—The Oriental.
At Malta.—The Iberia.

Foreign Ships-of-war and Packets in Port —The
French steamers Eurotas and Mentor ; the Neapolitan
steamer Maria Christina.

ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 9.
APPOINTMENTS.

Henry Goldsmith, Master's-Assistant, to the Hound.
John Smallshaw, Gunner, to the America.

Henry Pengelly, CI( rk's-Assistant, to the Madagascar.
John Evans, Gunner, to the Excellent.
James R.Veitch, Midshipman, to the Excellent.

Charles K. Renwick, First Engineer, to the Acheron.
William Norris, Acting Second Engineer, to the
Acheron.

F. W. Stow, First Engineer, to the William and Mary.
F. G. Barr, Third Engineer, to the William and Mary.
James Whitworth, Third Engineer, to the William
and Mary.

PROMOTIONS.
J. E. Brooman, Clerk, to be Paymaster and Purser.
John Grigg, to be Acting Boatswain to the Victory.
DOCKYARD PROMOTIONS.
Francis Clifton, Naval Storekeeper, to be Agent
Victualler at Malta, vice K. C. Sconce.
Benjamin Chimmo, Paymaster and Purser, and
Secretary to Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, to be Naval
Storekeeper, vice Francis Clifton.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE NEW HOUSES Or
PARLIAMENT.—Yesterday afternoon between three and
four o'clock an accident of a fearful character occurred
at the, new Houses of Parliament. It appears that
whilst one of the large hods filled with bricks was being
hoisted by means of some machinery used for that pur-
pose, the rope either broke or became disarranged, BO
that the hod and its contents fell to the ground with a
tremendous crash, the whole mass falling upon the
bodies of two of the workmen, one named Richard
Shannon and the other John Brown, a young man aged
29, of Holland-street, Westminster. As soon as possible
the men were extricated, when a most dreadful scene
presented itself. The poor fellow Brown, was found
with his head and face frightfully mangled and dis-
figured, the blood was issuing from_the temples, and the
eyes were nearly forced from the sockets. The men
were removed to Westminster Hospital, when it was as-
certained that with the exception of a few severe contu-
sions Shannon had escaped uninjured. Brown was placed
under the care of the surgeon, but
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