The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-22 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major de Moleyns, of the Royal Engineers, died at
his father's house in Dublin on the 17th inst. This gal-
lant young officer was only 23 years of age, and his pre-
mature demise was the result of excitement and fatigue
during a protracted service in the trenches before Se-
bastopol.
The following military movements are taking place in
Scotland :—The 34th Regiment has been selected to gar-
rison Edinburgh Castle ; a detachment, consisting of
three officers and 220 men, arrived there on Wednesday.
from Preston, and another detachment is to leave Glas-
gow for Edinburgh on Friday ; the 34th will also oc-
cupy Greenlaw Barracks, nine miles south of Edinburgh.
The depot of the 93d Highlanders is en route from Dun-
dee to Dover, leaving Dundee without troops. On
Tuesday the band of the 42d Highlanders left Stirling
Castle for Gravesend. The depot of the 71st High-
landers is expected to arrive in Stirling Castle in a few
days. The 21st Fusiliers are ordered from Birr (Ire-
land) to Glasgow, as also the depot of the 2d battalion
of the Ist Royals from Fermoy to that city.
The screw steamship Brunswick, 80, Captain R. H.
Yelverton, went from Hamoaze into Plymouth sound
on Tuesday.
The Cambridge, 78, having been masted, was takea
into the new dock at Devonport on Tuesday to have her
copper examined and repaired. Her crew got tops over
mastheads the same day.
The sloop Camilla, 16, was placed to her sailing
moorings at Devonport on Tuesday.
The iron screw steam-transport Imperial, No. 188,
Captain Gibson, from Balaklava, with stores for Ports-
mouth, which left Constantinople July 23, Malta July
31, and Gibraltar Aug. 9, put into Plymouth Sound on
Wednesday, short of coal.
Yesterday (Thursday) 30 officers and 864 men of the
4th Regiment of Foot embarked at Liverpool, on board
the steam-transport Pacific, for Dublin. The Pacific
will return to Liverpool on Saturday with the depots of
the 49th and 89th Regiments.

On the sth of September 2 officers, 150 men, 13 car-
riages, and 81 horses of the Royal Artillery will sail from
Liverpool for Dublin.
The following troops, selected from the depots of the
64th, 74th Highlanders, 78th Highlanders, 83d, and
86th Regiments, left Chatham barracks at an early
hour yesterday morning and proceeded by railway to
Gravesend, where they embarked on board the Earl of
Balcarres for Bombay, for the purpose of joining the head.
quarters of their respective regiments in that presidency,
viz. :-64th Regiment, 35 me❑ ; 74th Highlanders, 45
men ; 78th Highlanders, 65 men ; 83d Regiment, 6$
men ; 86th (Royal County Down) -Regiment, 62 men—
giving a total of 275 men of all ranks, and the following
Jfficers :--Lieutenant F. Du Bois Lukis, 64th Regi-
ment ; Lieutenant F. D. Wyatt and Ensign F. Kean,
74th Highlanders ; Captain D. Hastings, Lieutenant A.
W. P. Weekes, and Ensign J. Sinclair, 78th High-
landers ; Lieutenant J. S. Keddle, Lieut. H. Gandy,
Lieutenant G. L. Huysche, Ensign W. H. Ivimy, and
Ensign B. Charnley, 83d Regiment ; Ensign S. W.
Sewell, Ensign C. Keane, and Ensign Fowler, 16th
Regiment. In addition to the above, 25 women and
children embarked with the detachments. _

The Russell, 60, screw steam-ship, bas been taken into
the basin and divnasted, and is ordered to be placed in
the steam squadron of reserve, under Capt. Halsted, of

the Edinburgh.
All the engineer staff belonging to the Retribution, 28,
paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Capt. T. Fisher, have been
re-appointed to her to serve in her next commission. Mr.
Ward, the Master, recently appointed by the Admiralty
to the Retribution, bas been declared by a medical board
incapable of active service in his present state of health.
Mr. Ward's appointment has therefore been cancelled
by the Admiralty.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Lieut. T. H. Greer, to the Inflexible ; Lieut.J. Nott,

to the Retribution ; Lieut. J. E. Hunter, to the Retri-
bution ; Wm. F. Hains, Master, to the Retribution ;
Wm. Jefferey, Master, to the Blenhim ; S. Sibley, Mas-
ter, to the Tortoise ; L. M. Mallett, Midshipman, to
the Wasp ; J. T. Cammilleri, Midshipman, to the Wasp ;
A. A. S. Watts, Midshipman, to the Wasp ; G. A. W.
Birch, Naval Cadet, to the Cs:mar ; C. F. M. Gordon,
Naval Cadet, to the Royal Albert ; J. C. Burrell, Naval
Cadet, to the Brunswick ; J. P. Bayly, Naval Cadet, to
the Brunswick ; T. B. Hamilton,' Naval Cadet, to the
Cressy ; R. F. E. Morison, Paymaster, to the Hecate ;
P. H. Kean, Assistant• Surgeon (confirmed), to the
Colossus ; W. J. Lewis, Assistant-Surgeon, to the
Dauntless ; and W. H. Carter, Assistant-Surgeon to the
Wasp.