The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Ripon, Captain Cooper, transport No. 25, arrived at
Southampton yesterday from the Mediterranean, with
the officers, troops, &c., previously enumerated in The
The Ripon sailed from Smyrna on the 4th inst.,
Malta the 9th, and Gibraltar the 14th, and on leaving
the latter port passed the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s
steam-ship Tagus, with the outward Peninsular mails,
entering the bey. The steam transport Foyle, from Spit-
head, with storee, officers, &c., arrived at Gib-
raltar on the Bth instant, on the way to the East.
The steam transport Berwick, having taken on
board 172 horses and mules, &c., sailed for the
Dardanelles on the 6th inst. The British paddlewheel
steamer Gen. Pelissier left Gibraltar the same day, for
Constantinople, where s'ie is to be employed in convey-
ing passengers from the, city to Scutari. Lieut.-Colonel
C. E. Law, of the 66th Regiment, who had been absent
in England on leave, returned by the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's mail steam-ship Euxine on the 9th
inst. H.M. paddlewheel steam-sloop Tartarus, Comman-
der Mansell, left Gibraltar ou the evening of the sth, for
Malta, whence she will proceed to the Sea of Azoff, to be
employed in surveying the intricate inlets of that sea. The
British ecrew steamer Victor Emmanuel, six and a-ha'f
days from Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar on the 6th, and
the Albanian, six days from Liverpool, arrived on the
11th. The steam transports Sarah Sands, from Liver-
pool, and the Norman, from Woolwich. wiiia Royal
Artillery and horses for Balaklava, reached Gibraltar en
the night of the 13th inst. The Sarah Sands lost seven
horses during the voyage, and 14 others were reported
in a bad state, owing to the rough weather she expe
rienced. The Prince Arthur steals transport sailed for
Deptford on the morning of the.l4th. The British brig
her Majesty, which•arrieed at Gibraltar on the 12th inst.
from Deptford, bound to Constantinople, was on the
night of the 9th, while lying-to, struck by a heavy sea,
which stove in the boats, main hatches, forebatch, and
water casks, carried away a portion of her bulwarks,
studding sails, and washed other articles from the deck.
The British brig Coquette, Forbes Watt, master, put
into the bay at noon, on the 9th inst., having been in
collision at 1 a.m. that morning, close to the Morocco
coast in the Straits, with a bark called Barthia or Mer-
thew (or some such name), of 400 tons, belonging .to
Dantzic, hound from Alexandris for Liverpool. In the
collision the bark struck into the larboard side of the
Coquette between the fore and main rigging. The
shock was so dreadful that Captain Watt, fully ex-
pecting his vessel would sink before he could get time
to lower a boat, went on board the bark with all his
crew. As soon as the latter vessel cleared the brig
Captain Watt requested the captain of the barque to
put out a boat, which he consented to with the great-
est reluctance, when he, with his mate and three men,
returned to the brig, leaving the remainder of his crew
on board the barque. He found her with eight inches
of water in the hold, besides having suffered considerable
damage; and, while securing the rigging, &c., the barque
bore down to inquire if the brig was making water.
Capt. Watt replied in the affirmative, and requested the
captain of the barque to take his vessel in tow to Gib-
raltar ; but his request was unheeded, and the barque
sailed away, having on board part of the brig's crew,
and leaving the brig in a disabled condition.
An express from Madrid arrived at Gibraltar on the
evening of the 13th inst., with a despatch from the Bri-
tish Embassy for Lieut.-Col. Maberley, conveying in-
structions from her Majesty's Government to suspend
throughout Spain the purchase of horses and mules for
the British army in the East.
The British steam-transport Earl of Durham, eight
days from Plymouth, with Government stores for Malta
and Constantinople, arrived at Gibraltar on the 14th
inst. ; also the British steamer Eglinton, seven days from
Liverpool, for Constantinople. The British steamer
Prince of Wales, seven days from London, bound for
Constantinople, arrived out on the 13th.
Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir M. F. F. Berkeley,
K.C.8., Senior Naval Lord of the Admiralty, visited
Portsmouth yesterday, and went over the dockyard, and
out to pithead and the Motherbank, to inspect the gun-
boat division under Captains Codrington and the Hon.
H. Koppel. The Admiral embarked in the steam-yacht
Vivid, Master Commander N. W. Allen, R.N.: and bo