The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-01 00:00:00

laval and Military intelligence.

MALTA, NOT. 24.
Admiral Lord Lyons, in the Royal Albert, 121, with
the Majestic, 80, and Cressy, 80, screw steam ships of
the line, Diamond, 27, sailing frigate Siromboli, steam
sloop Wrangler, Coquette, Boxer, and Weser, steam gun
boats, continued, on the 13th November, at anchor at
Buyl'ere in the Thsphorus, expecting to be reinforced
by the Gladiator steam frigate, which left Malta on the
15th. Her Majesty's steam frigates Vulture, Curac
and Magicienne, Sphynx steam sloop, Lynx steam
sloop, and Medina surveying steamer, were cruising in
the Black Sea. The Grinder gunboat, to be shortly re•
lieved by the Boxer, was stationed at the mouth of the
Danube. Tee Gorgon steam frigate Wag at Smyrna, and
the Miranda steam corvette on the coast of Albania.
The Vigilant steam gnu boat had been suddenly ordered
away to the Piraeus of Athens. The assistant-surgeon
of the Spbynx was missing, and is suppose,' to have met
with a watery grave. The Paymaster f the same ship,
Mr. Wright, is tinier arrest oo a charge of drunkenness.
The squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundas,
which had been reinforced on the 13th by the Dautless
steam screw frigate from Eogland and GibraltAr, con
tinned in port, excepting her Majesty's screw steam cor-
vette Malacca which had been despatched to Naple-,
and the Wanderer screw steam sloop for Sicily and
Naples on the 19th.

Her Majesty's steam frigate Gladiator left for Constan-
tinople on the 15th to reinforce the ,quadron under Ad-
miral Lord Lyons, and conveyed the medals brought
from England by the Dauntless for the Ottoman army.
The Dauntless will, it is expected, relieve the Miranda
on the Albanian caast and lonian islands' station.

Her Majesty's steam c .rvette Ariel arrived from Gib-
raltar and Algiers on the 15th.
Her Majesty's screw ateain transport Supply arrived
from Constantinople on the 20th.
The Jura screw steam transport arrived on the 12th
from Liverpool, Cork, and Gibraltar, bringing Colonel
and Mrs. Denny, and Assistant-Surgeon Leach, 71st,
Major and Mrs. Trevor and three children, and Ass:stant•
Surgeon Stockwell of the 14th Regiment; the Rev. T.
D'Arcy Preston, 7 non-commissioned officerA, anti 7 pri
vates, 209 serkants, c, rporals, and privates' wives, and
341 children for Malta; Captain Gore, 3d Buffs, 92 more
women, and 124 children, for Corfu, for which port she
left on the 13th, conveying in addition to these last.
mentioned passengers Major Dillon, Lieut, Brook, 46th;
Lieu'. Bedingfield, 49th, and other two soldiers' wives.
The Fancy schooner yacht, which left Malta on the
24th of October, for Algiers and Eogland, returned from
Algiers on the 15th of November; her owner, the Mar-
quis of Drogheda, having al' ered all his plans in conse-
quence of the melancholy death from a fad t.ff ti e rigging
of the Hon. Mr. Fortescue, a relative of the Marquis,
who, with the Marchioness, was on deck at the time and
witnessed the sad accident. The untortunate gentleman
was interred at Algiers.
On Saturday the 26th company of Royal Engineers,
under the command of Capt. G. E. L. Walker, with
Lieut. R. M. F. Sandford and Lieut. E. Mitchell, R.E.,
left Chatham for Gravesend, where they embarked en
board the Apolline, for Bermuda. On arriving at that
station they will be employed upon the Government
engineering work now in progress. Capt. W. Mouse,
26th Cameronians, also embarked on board the came
vessel, having been ordered to join the bead quarters of
his corps at Bermuda, for the purpose of superintending
their instruction in the use of the Enfield rifle.
Her Majesty's frii.,ate Raleigh, 50, Capt. the Hon.
Henry Keppel, sailed from Plymouth on Wednesday
afternoon for the Cape of Good Hope and the Emit In-
dies. Outside the Breakwater she carried away her
rnaintvgallant-3ard, and in little more than an hour
was out of sight. Wind northerly.
Letters have been received at Plymouth from the
Amethyst, 26, Capt. Sidney Grenfell, datad Halifax,
Oct. 6. She had a boisterous passage of 46 days from
Falmouth.

Capt. John C. Iday hoisted his pennant on Thursday
afternoon on hoard the Indus, 7S, at Plymouth. She
was nearly manned by Friday evening, chiefly from the
crew of the Harn,ihal, recent y paid off at Portsmouth.
The Indus was masted un Saturday, and warped to the
basin dock to ba rigged and to receive stores.
the steam Wore-ship Rhadamanthus, Master Com-
mander Wm. L. Browne, from Woolwich, arrived on
Saturday at Plymouth, with machinery for the Keyham-
yard. _

- The gun-boats Fenella, Garnet, Handy, and Hunter,
were taken into the fitting basin at Woolwich on Satur-
day. The 6 gun screw steam gun vessel Roebuck, in
temporary command of Master Commander Allen, left
Woolwich on Saturday for Portsmouth, to be placed in
the ant class steam reierve there,