The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

.Naval and Military Intelligence,

A circular has been issued from the Horse Guards,
dated September 30, directed to commanding officers of
regiments and depots at home and regiments of militia,
containing a statement of the daily rates of allowances
to General and other Staff Officers of infantry regiments
of Artillery, and Engineers, in lieu of forage for the
horses required to be kept by them for the public ser-
vice, for the half year from the Ist of April to the 30th
of September, 1856, agreeably to which the charge for
forage will be allowed.
On the occasion of the Powerful, 84, Captain T. L.
Massie, being paid off at Chatham, on Wednesday, a
handsome field-officer's sword was presented to Capt. J.
H. Gascoigne, Royal Marines, in command of the de-
tachment of Royal Marine Light Infantry serving on
board, that officer being the senior captain of his corps,
and therehre the first for primotion. The swor.l was
presented to Captain Gascoigne by the officers of the
Royal Marines serving under him on board the Power-
ful—viz., Lieutenant F. Ley, Lieutenant W. J.:Christy,
and Lieutenant A. B. S. Sbairp, as a mark of the
Esteem in which he was held by the officers under his
command. The Lords of the Admiralty have also
awarded Serjoant Charles French, Royal Marines, the
senior Berg ant of the Powerful, the gratuity at their
disposal, for his good conduct while serving on beard
that vessel. The following memorandum was issued to
the Royal Marines serving on board the Powerful by
Captain Gascoigne, previously to that vessel being paid
off :

"As the detachment is about to separate, and rejoin
their several head-quarter divisions, Captain Gascoigne
wishes to express the groat satisfaction ho has felt in the
command of men generally so well disposed, and that ho
will be glad at all times to give his aid to their advance-
ment in the service. The commendations in the letter
from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, relative
to the good state of the ship, apply equally to the detach-
ment of the Royal Matinee, whose conduct (with only ono
exception) has been marked by cheerful devotion and sol-
dierlike attention to duty."
A letter from Hong Kong, dated August 10, no-
tices the following arrival of vessels there from Eng-
land :—July 13, the E. T. Willetts, from Cardiff ; July
18, the Aden, from Liverpool, and the Henrietta
Maria, from Cardiff; July 20, the Queensbury, from
Liverpool ; July 26, the Arctic, from Cardiff ; August
5, the Sir Bevels, from London. The departures
of vessels front China were :—From Whampoa, July
14, the Daphne, aad the Cairngorm, for London ;
July 19, the Patna, for Liverpool ; July 23, the Spitfire,
for L )ndoc. From Foochow, July 18, the John Taylor)
for Landon. From Shanghai, July 31, the Challenger,
for London. The ships of war stationed in China, were
thus distributed :—At Hong Kong, her Majesty's ship
Nankin ; United States' steamer San Jacinto ; Spanish
steamer Reyna do Castilla. At Macao, the Portuguese
brig Mondego. At Whampoa, her Majesty'sf brig
e.Bit-
tern. At Foochow, her Majesty's steamer Raceb
of
Major-General Sir W. F. Williams, Commandant
Wool wich garrison, attended by Lieut.-Groner Teesdale,
thei annual
his aide-de-camp, yesterday morning made
inspection of the Royal Horse Artillery queera and
un
staidc',, and visited the riding-schools of the establish-
ment.
t_rfno_psl
ehfitpvvDoeoCame)es
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam
Master C,murnanderPullen, yesterday]] r"'
boats 6
c
Pluto arrived at Wool-
le'h
Cherokee, f°r
sw an, Portsmouth,and cn
Carolinesoyitailigi
thither.
g ,
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yesterdaypadcl
le-wheelnsitoegamfr-ovmessei)eptford, where she has
u
were made t day at
wniTedhehregone thorough repairs.
The following appointments yesterday
the Admiralty :
storekeeper and agent vic-
tualler at Trincomalee i C• R'
B.
Br kle, midshipman to
Ashley P. Cooper, naval
the Inflexible ; C. I
;t uliamtlt , naval cadet to the
Colossus
John paymaster, to the Satellite.

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,t, MALTA, SEPT. 28.
..,,,_ mft;esty's shipMagicienne arrived at Smyrna en
the
Wib, i',lo.jug within a mouth visited 23 islands in the
n'l3B..tk.ll;r:iitiolilliiple.
sh 3 brought orders for part of
Ur' lc Archipelago, froin
_Rhodes upwards to Lemnos
and Itoxo, besides Jarsans and Antioch. She left for
(122aar;idoe arrived on the 26th with
tr,:a:ni‘til.,'lCtitio::[:i:gl:tPBB)rtat'3eCt:ceed to A jaceio. Eetrly on the 27Lh he
Pe3
and several other passengers, C 3
:3 riiiips Colitaiir and Swallow lift. At noon I
pi o‘vq:ded on t') ConFtantinlple, a Ali Sin
V,'lllig and tb,.; passengers she brought from Engie
awl Capt. Stanhope, 11. N., the latter going to jo'
R"Yal Albert. acre
Ey tl:e French steamer from Italy Liest.-Co'
. . .
joi:.. t
1 he 57th Regt. .re Cen-
It is reported that other vessels will folio'
tar r and Swallow. jlmpany's
Yoe Veetis, Peninsular and Orientat Malta till
Btx4wor, from Alexandria, did not arrir from Mar-
late on the 28th, - and the French steal.
seilles, duo in the morning, has not ary he made, was.
Sir G. Young, during the short !the Knights of
very active in visiting the scenes '
Malta.