The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-13 00:00:00

711 E NAVY.

A letter from Malta, dated Valetta, Nov. 8, says :
" Her Majesty's line-of-battle-ship Victor Em-
manuel, Capt. W. J. C. Clifford, arrived on Tues-
day last from Corfu. There have been no other
movements among the ships of war since my last.
Admiral Martin was still at Corfu by the last ac-
counts. The frigate Melpomene, Capt. C. J. Ewart,
is to leave for Corfu, with the mail just arrived in
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Vectis, from Marseilles, for the fleet. Admiral Mar-
tin's family are to proceed in the Melpomene.
" The Right Hon. Sir J. APNeil arrived to-day
by the French steamer from Marseilles,
" A solemn requiem was performed yesterday
throughout the island for the souls of the faithful
who have fallen in defence of the Pope, and at the
Cathedral Church of St. John in Valetta the Bishop
of Malta performed the ceremony of high mass to a
large audience.
" Great activity is at present being displayed in
garrison in consequence of an order from the Ge-
neral Commanding in Chief, his Excellency Sir I.
Gaspard Le Merchant, that all the batteries should
be placed in a state of defence, so as to be able to
meet any attack at the shortest notice. 6,000 men
are now employed moving guns and munitions of
war for this purpose.
" Major F. Vane, 2d battalion 23d Regiment,
and Major Burke, 3d Buffs, returned to-day from
leave, to resume garrison duty.
" A letter from Alexandria of the 4th inst. says
that her Majesty's surveying vessel Firefly, Com-
mander Mansell, entered that port on the 2d inst.,
from Syria. She brought no news of importance.
Her stay at Alexandria was likely to extend to
two months.

" The first of the French transports left Galle
for Suez before the Colombo, so that the troops
who have been so long in the port of Alexandria
may now soon leave."

The hired transport Sultana, Commander A.
Sharp, laden with 700 tons of war stores, yesterday
hauled alongside the Arsenal pier at Woolwich for
the purpose of embarking troops for Hong Kong,
whither she is destined with her cargo.
The War Department steamers Lord Panmnre
and Balaklava, T. H. Moore and W. Pellat, masters
in charge, arrived at Woolwich yesterday from
Devonport and Portsmouth, calling at Purfleet and
the Tower, sand have commenced loading with
Armstrong shot and shell and other military stores
for the western ports.
The Undaunted, 51, one of the two improved
screw frigates now being built at Chatham, is or-
dered to be launched on the Ist of January next,
and every effort is being made to have her com-
pleted by that date. Her engines and machinery
are intended to be of 600-horse power (nominal),
and her armament is intended to consist exclusively
of Armstrong guns. The Belvidera, the other 51-
gun screw frigate building at Chatham, is progres-
sing very rapidly.
The Orpheus, 21, screw corvette, 400-horse power,
being fitted at Chatham for the steam reserve, hav-
ing been coppered and completed, has been removed
from the second dock, into which the Cormorant, 5,
and the Linnet, 5, screw despatch gun vessels, have
been taken to be completed for the steam reserve
ordinary at Chatham.
The Ariel, 9, screw, Commander Alexander, left
Spithead under sail yesterday, at 10 a.m., by the
Western Channel, for Plymouth Sound.
'Vie Eagle training frigate, Commander Strode,
will proceed this morning from Portsmouth to her
moorings in Southampton-water.

The Meteor, 16, floating battery, has been placed
in No. 1 dock, in Portsmouth yard, for overhaul
and repair. A number of her timbers have been
found very defective and will have to be removed.
To enable the workmen to remove the timbers the
iron bolts are being knocked out of her two upper•
rows of plates.

The Volcano, 6, floating factory, has been re-
moved from the ship basin to the steam basin in
Portsmouth yard, where she will receive her machi-
nery, &c.

The Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. Cockburn, was yes
terday warped out of the steam basin at Ports-
mouth, on the completion of her repairs, and berthed
alongside her hulk in the harbour.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander N. B. Beding-
field to the Prometheus, vice Commander Skip-
with, invalided ; Lieut. R. Hope to the Illustrious,
for service of the ordinary ; Arthur H. Kelly,
Assist.-Surg., to the Hibernia; Thomas West and
'Samuel Broad, acting third-class assist.-engineers,
to the Cumberland, 13,8 supernumeraries ; Robert
Jago, acting third-',;lass assist.-engineer, to the
Indus as supernumerary ; and Henry Gray (a),
paymaster, additional, to the Formidable.