The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-21 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

MALTA, June 11.—Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle
ship James Watt and the steam corvette Desperate ar-
rived from Plymouth and Gibraltar on the 9th ; the
latter proceeded on the same day, and the former on
the day following, for the Black Sea.
Her Majesty's screw steam line-of-battle ship Ex-
mouth arrived from Plymouth and Gibraltar on the 10th.
Her Majesty's steam frigate Furious left for the
Black Sea on the 30th of May, and on the same day
her Majesty's corvette Modesto for England.
Her Majesty's screw steam transport Hesper, and
her Majesty's line•of-battle ship Rodney left for Con-
stantinople and Ba'aklava on the 30th.
Her Majesty's steam line-of-battle ship Royal Albert
returned from a week's cruise in the Malta Channel
on the evening of the 2d, and awaits the arrival from
England of Sir Edmund Lyons, the naval commander-
in-chief, when she will immediately procead to the
Back Sea.

Her Majesty's steam transport Perseverance arrived
from Constantinople on the 29th of May, and left on
the 30th.

Her M.j sty's screw steam line-of-battle-ship St. Jean
d'Acre arrived fr Consstantinople on the 10th,

Her Majesty's screw steam battle-ship Aga-
memnon arrived from Constantinople on the 11th.

The Great Britain screw steam-transport left for Gib-
raltar on the 29th of May with the 30th and 55th regi-
ments.

The screw steam-ship Sarah Sands, Captain Illesly,
which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Thursday morning
with troops, left B,tlaklava, May 23 ; Constantinople,
25th ; Malta, June 2 ; and Gibraltar, June 3. She
has on board 175 men of the Royal Artillery and 101
horses.

The Flarier, 17, screw sloop, Commander Derriman,
sailed yesterday from Spithead on a cruise to the west-
ward.

Yesterday being the anniversary of the accession of
her Majesty to the throne, the day was ushered in at
Portsmouth by a rejoicing peal of bells from the old
town church. At 8 o'clock the fleet dressed ship, and
the royal standard was hoisted on all Government estab-
lishments, and on the garrison flagstaffs. At noon a
general royal salute was fired by ships and garrison.
The Seamen and Marines' Orphan Schools of Ports-
mouth (where a certain number of the orphans of seamen
and marines of the Royal Navy and Hoo. East India
Compasy exclusively are lodged, boarded, and educated.
—the boys for the service and the girls for domestio em-
ployment) has just received notice of a grant of 2,500/.
in aid of its funds, frets the Patriotic Fund Commission.
Capt. Engledue, of the Himalaya, by a small charge
for seeing the ship when first equipped, was the means
of contributing several hundred pounds in aid of the
funds of the S9uthampton Dispensary.
The steam-transoort Ripon, No. 25, Capt. Cooper,
sailed on Wednesday from Southampton for Malta,
with about 50 women and children, who could not be
accommodated on board the steam-transport Colombo,
which sailed for the Mediterranean on the 14th inst.
The Ripon, after landing her passengers, will proceed
to the Black Sea to bring home troops, &c.
Yesterday being the anniversary of her Majesty's ac-
cession to the throne, the Wellesley, 74, Captain G.
Goldsmith, guardship of ordinary at Chatham, dressed,
and the other vessels at that station were decorated with
flags. The Royal standard was hoisted at Fort Am-
herst, Fort Clarence, the dockyard, and at the other
public offices, and at 12 o'clock a Royal salute was fired
from the saluting battery by a party of the Royal Marine
Light Infantry.

The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty : —Commander H. Lloyd, to tbe Formid-
able ; Lieutenant Noel Osborn, to the Boscawen ; and
Silas Waymoutb, clerk, to the Brilliant.

The Caledonia, 120, from Devonport for Deptford, an-
chored at the Nore on Thursday evening. The Gorgon, 6,
paddle-wheel steam sloop, Commander R,chard B. Craw-
ford, and the Geyser, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander Arthur Tower (late flag-lieutenant at Sheerness),
also anchored at the Nore, being engaged to tow the
Caledonia to Deptford, to take the place of the Dread-
nought Hcspital ship for seamen of all nations.
A portion of the gallant 18th (Royal Irish), which on
the 18th of June last year effected an entrance into
Sebastopol, and held their ground in the houses near the
Cemetery for an entire day, took up their quarters on
Thursday in the Royal Barracks, Dublin.
THE MILITIA.

On Thursday morning the Cheshire Regiment of
Militia received orders at Dublin to proceed to England,
where they are to be disembodied. •

THE STRIXE or RAILWAY PORTERS AND CLERKS AT
LIVERPOOL.—Yesterday morning a numerous body of
labourers, principally discharged militiamen, who have
been engaged by the North-Western Railway Company
proceeded to Liverpool to supply the place of
those who have struck. This is the second draft of
workmen from London, upwards of fifty having pro-
ceeded to the game place by the mail train last night.