The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-04 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1856.

Naval atd tlilitar3t ~Zt alit tee.

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The -crew steam-ship Victory, Capt. ',Richards, from
the Mediterranean, put Into Plymouth on Saturday. She
left Constantinople Ju'y 8, :Maltal6, ana"Gibraltar 25.
She brin;is from Constantinople 10,•004.(in specie. Tee
steam-ship was used as a viurkshon 133,141iWa.
A Court-martial assembled on nidp,y,, nn, board the
flag-ship Impregnable, in the Hamooze? Plymouth, for
the trial of Lizut. Joseph George Shanks, Royal Marines,
servibg on board her Majesty's ship Qaierr, for having,
on the 10th of July, used reproachful, lan'guage to-
wards Lieut. William D. D. Selby, 84. N., :of the same
ship. The evidence clearly proved that the prisoner
had taunted the prosecutor with having hid himself un-
der a gun carriage while in action ; but, inasmuch as be
had afterwards offered to apologise, the Court adjudged
him only to be severely repriManded, and to be placed at
the foot of the list of the first lieutenants.
The Prince Jerome and another French frigate were
in the Tains on the 221 of June. - No English stip of
war was there. The cholera was subsiding at Lisbon.
The frigate Meander, 44, Captain Thpmas Baillie,
sailed from Plymouth Sound for Queenstown yesterday
morning.
The screw steam-ship Sanspareil, ,70, Captain A. C.
Key, fiom Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Satur-
day ; she; is appointed to ga into Harnoaze'
• The screw steam-ship Exmouth, 90, Capt. H. Eyres,
and the paddieivbeel steam-frigates Leopeld, 18. Capt.
C. 0. Hayes, and Valorous, 16, Capt. C. IL M. Buckle,
went-from PlymOuth- Sound into Hatnoaze on Saturday.
The crew of the Amethyst, 26,- got tops and lower
rigging over mastheads at Devonport on Raturdlty:
-The paddlewheel steam-troopship Dee', 4„Commitiider
Thomas C. Pullen, left Plymouth on Saturday for Pem-
broke:

The following efricexx have joined the 'depots of their
respective r?gimettts at -Chatham J.
H. Chads,-sth Fusiliers ; Capt,, 78th
Highlanders ; and Lieut. J. S. Keddle, 83d.Rnirnebt.
By thel'eninsular mail-packet Madrid, whichorrivad
at Southampton on Saturday evening, we have received
the following items of naval. and military
from Gibraltar :--The •13th Light Infantry, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Lord Mark Kerr, and the
89th, commanded by Col. Ferryman, hid received orders
to hold themselves in readiness for immediate embarka-

Lion to the Cape of Good Hope. The 15th and 96th
were mentioned a; the two regiments likely to relieve
the two corps doing duty at Gibraltar. The Chasseur
(engineer workshop), under the command of Captain
Brightman, returning from the Crimea, whence she
sailed from Balaklava on the sth, C.mstantinople on the
9th, and Malta on the 16th inst., arrived at Gibraltar
on the 24th. After taking in a supply of coal and water
she was to resume her voyage to Spithead in the even-
ing. The Chasseur spoke, on the 20th, in lat. 37.35,
long. 4.14 E., the British brig Wild Wave and British
schooner Argo ; and, on the 21st, in lat. 37.37 N., long.
4.54 E., the British brig Duchess of Leinster.
A letter from Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, dated the 12th
of July. says :—" The Imperiduse, 51, Capt. R. B. Wat-
son, C.B , arrived here on the 10th, and found the Ar-
rogant, 47, Capt. Lyster, in the Bay waiting orders.
The Cossack arrived on the 11th, and the Victor and Tar-
tar anchored this morning. The Orion, 91, Capt. Ers-
kine, and the two gun-boats Intrepid and Pioneer and
hourly expected. 4 p.m.—The Orion has just arrived.
6.30 p.m.—We sail for Greytown as soon as we are all
completed with coal, 80111'
H,r Majesty's ship Himalaya, Commander Priest,
left Portsmouth yesterday morning for Plymouth.
Her Majesty's steam corvette Cruiser, 17, was com-
missioned on Friday afternoon by Commander C. Fel-
lowes, at Portsmouth.

On paying off the Terrible at Sheerness on Saturday
Capt. 111‘Cleverty, C. 8., distributed on the quarterdeck
the good conduct medals, and announced that the Ad-
miralty had granted the gratuity to be given, with the
medals to the following seamen :—viz , to Busbridge,
gunner's mate ; Grant, ship's cook (late boatswain's
mate) ; and Bowden, quartermaster. Captain 111‘Cle-
verty highly complimented the marines for their excel-
lent conduct during the time they had been doing duty
en board the Terrible ; and he then informed them that,
should he be so fortunate as to get an early command of
another ship, he should make application for the same
company, and also for their efficient commanding officer,
First-Lieutenant W. R. Jeffreys, to be permitted to join
him.

The Royal Mail screw steamer England, Lieutenant
A. D. Dundas, R.N., Commander, sailed on Saturday
from Woolwich for the Cape of Good Hope.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant H. R. Crofton, to the Actaeon ; Luke
Masterson, Paymaster to the Highflyer ; Henry C.
Davey, Paymaster to the Medusa ; Henry Bruston,
Paymaster to the Actaeon ; James M. Carmichael Clerk
to the Highflyer ; Thomas S. Wells, Surgeon to the
Highflyer.