The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-20 00:00:00

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The au hjoined is froin a letter
December 20 :
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ship Ywious, on board which he will temporanti
fly lif,s flag, had preceded him.
"The remainder of the 3d Buffs, from India,
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have arrived in her Majesty's Indian navy steamer
Coromandel and sailing ship Tasmania, the former
having., the latter in tow until arriving in Chinese
waters, where, in a gale of wind, they parted com-
pany. The troops have since gone up to Canton.
" The seamen and officers of her Majesty's
steamer Cambrian, who 'have garrisoned Macao
Fort for many months, are to be superseded by ar-
tillery from the marine brigade at Canton and re-
turn to their ship.
" CiLpt. Commerell, of her Majesty's ship Magi-
cienne., has been several days with her Majesty's
gunboats Clown, Drake, Woodcock, and Leven,
with tamed boats from her Majesty's ship Chesa-
peake:, Cambrian, and Magicienne, in search of
pirates, who are again becoming numerous and
bold iri the south of China. They had no fight-
ing, but captured and burnt many junks.
" The vessels composing_ our Chinese squadron
at] present stationed at .Hong Kong are :—The
Chesapeake (flagship), the Cambrian,the High-
flyer, the Magicienne, the Nimrod, the lesper, and
the Princess Charlotte ; gunboats, the Opossum,
the Torester, the Kestrel, •the Leven, the Starling,
the Clown, the Woodcpck, the Drake, and the
Watchful. -

" At Canton and Whampoa—The Fury, the As-
sistance,"theßittern ; gunboats, the Staunch, the
Banterer, and the Firm.
"At Shanghai--The Furious (flagship), the
Sampson, the Camilla, and the Roebuck; gunboats,
the Haughty,. the Janus, and the Bustard.
" At Ningpo—The Algerine.
" At Foochow—The Infletible.
" At Amoy—The Acorn.
" At Japan—The Cruiser.
" Coast of Tartary.—The Actreon and the Dove.
"At Singapore.—The Esk and the Saracen.
"In India.—The Retribution, the Cyclops, and
the Sparrowhawk." -
Our Malta correspondent, in his letter dated
Feb. 12, says :
" The Valetta, Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamer, arrived here at 3 30 from Alexan-
dria, with the China and Calcutta mails, but will
not get away until daylight to-morrow, having had
a very boisterous passage, and sustained damage in
her rudder, which is now being repaired. This
was the only steamer out of some eight or 10 out-
ward bound which contrived to get to sea during
the prevailing gale, as the pilots refused to take
them out. The China and Himalaya steamers had
both reaohed Alexandria in safety, bat up to the
7th of February no troops had reached Suez from
India for embarkation ix the Himalaya. The
Ornen, Norwegian* corvette, and the Nayaden,
Swedish corvette, were lying at Alexandria, to
leave about the middle of February, the former for
Palermo, the latter for Malta, where the Lagerb-
jelk, Swedish corvette, is hourly looked for from
the Piratus. Admiral Fanshawe, in the Marl-
borough, is looked for at Malta from Gibraltar,
where he will be relieved by Rear-Admiral Mundy,
in the Hannibal, from Corfu."
The screw steamship Brunswick, 81, Captain
Erasmus Ommanney, which arrived in Plymouth
Sound on the 18th, as reported on Saturday even-
ing in The • Sun, left Lisbon January 30, and
has experienced nothing but strong northerly
and north-easterly winds on the passage home.
Spoke. Feb. 5, in lat. 41-9 N., long. 18 25 W., the
bark Portuna, from Liverpool, and Feb. 10, in lat.
45 26 N., long.
,11 30 W., the English ship Ger-
trude. The Brunswick has a few invalids. She

was commissioned Jan.. 8, 1856, and will probably
be inspected to. day in• the Sound, after which she
will go up Hamoaze, where her crew will be paid
off. • •
The screw steamship Centurion, 80, Capt. Rod-
gers, C. 8., at Plymouth, received her powder on
Saturday.
Top-gOlant and royal yards were crossed and
studding-sail gear rove on Saturday on board the
screw steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. Curry, in Ply-
mouth Sound, and she now waits orders from the
Admiralty to sail for Portland. On her arrival
there the Donegal will sail for Plymouth, where her
crew will, be paid wages and obtain leave of ab•
sence.
The following hired transports have been char-
tered by Government to ship munitions of war from
the Military Store Department at Woolwich—viz.,
the Stirlingshire, the Marianne, the Nugget, the
Pioneer, the Mary Innes, and the Scotia.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—F. G. Barr, chief engineer,
to the Asia, for service in the Immortalite ; George
Weeks, chief engineel' to the Cumberland, for ser-
vice in the Severn; A. Whines, chief engineer, to
the Virago; J. W. German, acting chief engineer,
to the Cumberland, for service in the Charybdis;
Wm. J. Brown, first class assist.. engineer, to the
Victoria and Albert, for service in the Elfin; Alex.
B. XPLuokie, acting third class assist.-engineer, to
the Victoria and Albert; James Bell (b), acting
third assist;-engineer, to the Cumberland, for ser-
vice in the Meeanee.; M. B.Kelly, third class assist.-
engineer to the Cumberland, for temporary charge
of the.machinery of the Wasp.