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

Naval and Military Intelligeuce.

MALTA, Nov. 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 Stromboli, steam
sloop Wrangler, Coquette, Boxer, and Weser, steam gun
boats, continued, on the 13th November, at anchor at
Buyukilere in the ilosphorus, expecting to be reinforced
by the Gladiator steam frigate, which left Malta on the
15th. Her Majesty's steam frigates Vulture, Curacoa,
and Magicienne, Sphynx steam sloop, Lynx steam
sloop, and Medina surveying steamer, were cruising in
the Black Se 9, The Grinder gunboat, to be shortly re.
lieved by the Boxer, was stationed at the mouth of the
Danube. The Gorgon steam frigate was at Smyrna, and
the Miranda steam corvette on the coast of Albania.
The Vigilant steam gun boat had been suddenly ordered
away to the Piimus of Athens. The assistant-surgeon
of the Sphynx was missing, and is supposed to have met
with a watery grave. The Paymaster of the same ship,
Mr. Wright, is under arrest on a charge of drunkenness.
The squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundas,
which had been reinforced on the 13th by the Dautless
sncw frigate from England and Gibraltar, con-

tinued pre, excepting her Majeqy's screw steam cor-
vette Malacca, which had been despatched to Naples,
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 squadron under Ad-
miral Lord Lyons, and conveyed the medals brought
from England by the ➢auntless for the Ottoman army.
The Dauntless will, it is expected, relieve the Miranda
on the Albanian coast and lonian islands' station.

Her liaTest:;;; si;;;;;;;;tteA riel arrived from Gib-
raltar and Algiers on the 15th.
Her Majesty's screw steam 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 Assistant.
Surgeon Stockwell of the 14th Regiment ; the Rev. T.
D'Arcy Preston, 7 non-commissioned officers, and 7 pri-
vates, 209 serjeauts, corporals, and privates' wives, aad
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;
Lieut. Bedingfield, 48th, and other two soldiers' wives.
The Fancy schooner yacht, which left Malta on the
24th of October, for Algiers and England, returned from
Algiers on the 15th of November ; her owner, the Mar-
quis of Drogheda, having altered all his plans in conse•
quence of the melancholy death from a fall off the 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 unfortunate genngtilneetneargn,
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. Mosse,
26th Cameronians, also embarked on board the same
vessel, having been ordered to join the head quarters of
his corps at Bermuda, for the purpose cf superintending
their instruction in the use of the Enfield rifle.
Her Majesty's frigate Raleigh, 50, Capt. the Hon.
Henry Keppel, sailed from Plymouth on Wednesday
afternoon for the Cape of Good Hope and the East In-
dies. Outside the Breakwater she carried away her
maid )pgallant-yard. and in little more than an hour
was out of sivlit. Wind northerly.
Letters have been received at Plymouth from the
Amethyst, 26, Capt. Sidney Grenfell, dated Halifax,
Oct. 6. She had a boisterous passage of 46 days from
Falmouth.

Capt. John C. Hay hoisted his pennant on Thursday
afternoon on hoard the Indus, 78, at Plymouth. She
was nehrly mp,nned by Friday evening, chiefly from the
crew of the Hannibal, recent 'y paid off at Portsmouth.
The Indus wa4 masted on Saturday, and warped to the
basin dock to b 3 rigged and to receive stores.
The steam store-ship Rhadamanthus, Master Com-
mander Wen. L. Browne, from Woolwich, arrived on
Saturday at Plymeutb, with machinery for the Keyham-
yard.
The gun-boats Fenella, Garnet, Handy, and _Hunter,
were taken into the fitting basin at WOolwiah 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 first class steam reserve there,