The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

The Osborne, Admiralty yacht, Master. Comma-
nder. Bower, is under orders to proceed from Ports-
mouth to Holyhead to be in attendance on the
Lords of the Admiralty.
Her Majesty's War Department steamers Lord
Panmnre and Balaklava arrived at Woolwich on
Saturday from Dublin and Devonport.
The Etna, 16, floating battery, 200 horse power,
has nearly completed her repairs at Chatham dock-
yard, and will be ready to be undocked at the ap-
proaching spring tides. This vessel is found to be
in a sounder and in every respect better condition
than either of the floating batteries which have yet
been examined. The immense strength of her con-
struction and the thickness of the wrought-iron
plates with which she is protected render her al-
most invulnerable to anything but the Armstrong
and Whitworth rifled cannon.
At a meeting of the Great Yarmouth Town Coun-
cil, held in the course of last week, it was stated offi-
cially that the fort projected at the mouth of that
harbour would, in all probability, be commenced
during the present year.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander 0. M. Crewe Read,
to the Cumberland ; Commander F. T. C. Strode, to
the Eagle, commissioned as a training ship; Lieut.
Francis Hewson, to the Hogue, additional, for ser-
vice in the Harpy, tender; Charles S. Broome, mid-
shipman, to the Diadem; Colman M. Hammond,
second master, to the Avon; Thomas H. Hayman,
second master, to the Lizard; John Williams, second
masts; to the Rhadamanthus ; Percy C. Smith,
master's-assistant, to the Emerald ; John M'Lloyd,
master's-assistant, to the Diadem; Augustus A.
Jayne, clerk, to, the Centurion ; and Thomas Mit-
chell, clerk, to the Cornwallis.

T.H.E ARMY.

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Three troops of the Ist (or Royal) Dragoons left
Dublin on Thursday, two to be stationed at New-
bridge and one at the Curragh Camp. Tho 2d (or
Royal North British) Dragoons arrived in Dublin
on Thursday from the Curragh, and occupied quar-
ters in Island-bridge Barracks. The 4th Light
Dragoons arrived in Dublin on the same day from
the Curragh, and occupied quarters in Portobello
Barracks.
We understand (says a Dublin paper) that the
Ourragh Camp will shortly be broken up. for the
Winter.
The Himalya, screw troopship, Capt. T. Seccombe,
embarked the troops enumerated in The Sun of the
22d inst. alongside Portsmouth Dockyard on Satur-
day, and sailed for Plymouth Sound and the Medi-
terranean at 6 a.m. yesterday. The detachment of
the 2d Queen's which was ordered to disembark at
Gibraltar, and wait there the return of the head-
quarters of the regiment in the Himalaya on her
return from 'Corfu, are now ordered to proceed to
Corfu direct to join bead-quarters there. On the
Himalaya's arrival at Corfu she will be placed at
the 'disposal of the authorities, in the event of her
beini; required for particular service. The follow-•
ing acre the names of the officers embarked with the
troops :—For Gibraltar.—Lieut. Harrison, 2d Bat-
talion 7th ; Assist.-Surg. Jay, 2d Battalion Bth ;
Capt. (Very, Lieut. Davidson, and Ensigns Lawrell
and Tanner, 100th Foot. For Malta.—Lieut.
Groans :and Surg. Crocker, 2d Battalion 3d ; Assist.-
Surg_ Hinton, 2d Battalion 15th • Ensigns Gar-
wood and Farley, 2d Battalion .22c1.; and • Capt.
Hill, 40th Foot. For Corfu.--Ensign Bates and
Surg. Hindley, 2d Battalion 2d; and Ensign Wil-
liams„ 2d Battalion 4th. One sergeant, 14 men,
three women, and three children *of the 53dRegia
merit Also embarked for pas Sage head-quar-
-ters 91 the regiment at Devenpcx.t:-.:-
Ti to batteries from the 15th
114.;_gade of Royal
Arti: kry, :Antioned at Gospore,.,-?rill early this
mon- iT;ig erabirk on beard a steanicr at the :Royal .
Claretace-yard, and be conveyed out to Spithead,
whet:a they will be transshipped on board her Ma-
jesty'a: ship Emerald, 51, screw, Capt. H. Cumming,
for cortYcyanee to Alderney, where they will re-
lieve two batteries of the 10th Brigade, which will
return race Spithead on board the Emerald.
The detachment of the Bth (King's Own) arrived
from Lo tia on board the Lady Clarendon are hourly
expected to arrive at Portsmouth, and will be sta-
tioned at P,trkhurst, Isle of Wight, until the ari
1-al of head-qn avers from India, which according to
Vrese at arrange,nents,will be stationed in the south-
west district.
The City of Lon don Hon. Artillery Company ar
-rived at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon by steamet
from Ryde, Isle of 'Night, on the way- from San-
rum to London; Thee weather has been most un-
a"uxable durini, the stay of the corps in the island,
and but little profitable practice or pleasure has re.
suited from. 1.
Thetnriir. visit. .
E
uachrnents of the Royal Artillery, Royal nganears •
tpr teed' ‘1 I.ld St. .1-1 elena Regiment selected
t 0
St. 11-elena will embark at Gravesend
on Thursday
xt,
Akbar, which board the chartered vessel
Artillery, -. 9,
s of the Royal
Pl,,ars of the Royal Engineers; and
182 nott.commussiened'. officers and men of the St.
Helena itegiment. frot 3 the depot of that corps at
Chatham: The Royal Artillery and Royal Engi-
neers are to be employaed in repairing the present
and erecting additional fn;-ii.fications at the island,
32 nod 38 pounder
„(runs with
and mounting the
which the defences are taa be fartaithed. The Akbar
(pi, witty of military stores for
will also take out a
the island

1:.;, , wno has recently
Ciipt. A. P.Lei.nprie.re,
thry NortA
Liert.-Col. Hawkins,
returned. to England frd 'fl --merica.n
boundary ex nediti D-n, uud er
R.E., } 1
•,u3 oeri ord,ired, -,.0 join ben4.-quarters at the
Royal Engineer los t;ltblishn lent, ChAtham.
A rumour h:is,bc eh. for ',.. ome days in circulation
in Woolwich Arsoizi to the effect that Sir W. Arm-
stroirg was about to re sign the Superintendence of
the Rifled Ordnance Department ; and on Saturday
it was announced as a faCt that, although iry his re-

aignation had not be 1 accepted by the Government,

A letter from Malta:dated Aug: 21, says :
" Since despatching my letter on Saturday there
have been two or three further arrivals of French
steamers, with troops, mules, and stores, on the way
to Beyrout. On the 18th, tlie steam transport
Reine Mathilde came into port, from Illarseilles,
with 1 officer, 14 men, 23 mules, and provisions.
On the following day, the Messageries Imperiales
steamer Jourdain arrived from Algiers, with 16
officers, 25 non-commissioned officers, and 486 men;
also, the French steam corvette Eumenide, from.
Toulon, but she brought no troops. All these ves-
sels, except the Eumenide, which is still here, left
with all possible despatch for Beyrout.
" The Ottoman steam 'yacht El Hami Pasha,
Capt. T.' Hinson, arrived on the 18th, from London,
in 92 days, Falmouth and Scilly 47, Gibraltar 32,
and Bona 5, and left to-day for Constantinople.
" On the 19th the Turkish screw frigate Mil-
biri Surnr arrived from Tripoli, with the en-Gover-
nor-General of that province, Haggi Ahmet Izet
Pasha, who has lately been recalled by the Sultan
for maladministration, and Mahmond Pasha ap-
pointed in his place. Izet Pasha is accompanied by
his suite. The submarine and subterranean electric
cables, to connect the different forts of Malta with
head-quarters at the Palace, have arrived from Eng-
land, and were to be tested yesterday by the officers
of the Royal Engineer department.'
A letter from Corfu, dated Aug. 8, received by
the Magwra, says :
" Her Majesty's frigate Doris returned to this
port on the 26th ult., and remains on this station.
A transport ship is expected here shortly to take the
2d battalion of the 9th Regiment to relieve the 2d
battalion of the 2d Regiment at Santa Maura and
Cephalonia, the latter regiment being ordered to
Gibraltar, vice the 25th Regiment, ordered home.
This will reduce our garrison to one battalion.
Three men of the 4th and 9th Regiments were
tried on Monday, the 6th instant, on separate
charges for striking and threatening to strike their
officers, and sentenced severally to four, six, and
ttn years' imprisonment.
Another letter from Corfu, dated Aug. 18, says—
" Her Majesty's gunboat Alacrity arrived here
from the Adriatic on the 13th inst. His Excellency
the Lord High Commissioner left Corfu at three
p.m. on the 15th, in the lonian Government steamer
for a trip to the islands. Her Majesty's frigate
Doris accompanied him in his trip, which will pro-
bably extend over three weeks or a month. Her
Majesty's steam troopship Magmra arrived from
Malta at two p.m. on the 15th.
The screw steam gun vessel Torch, 5, Commander
T. H. Smith, from Chatham, bound to the coast of
Africa, arrived at Plymouth on Friday ; her defects
will be made good in the Sound.
The troopship Lady Clarendon, from Calcutta,
which landed the 53d Regiment at Plymouth on
Thursday, left the Sound on Friday, under tow of
a Government steamer, but owing to a strong gale
from the westward was obliged to return to her
anchorage.
Preparations are being made in the slip of the
Devonport dockyard, from which the Gibraltar was
recently launched, to lay down the keel of the
screw steamship Ocean, 101.
The new atoreship Rhadamanthus, F. R. Star-
dee master, on passage with machinery from Wool-
wich for Devonport, will, on arrival, be cleared
with all despatch.
The new contract-built steamboat Heron, at
Devonport, having had her planking examined, is
to be coppered.
The Russian, screw frigate Gromoby, 50, Capt.
Ponafldine, from,Cronstadt, last from Torquay, ar-
rived in Plymouth' Sound on Friday evening, and
on Saturday morning saluted the flag of Port-Ad-
miral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, K.C.8., which was
acknowledged by the Impregnable, 104, Capt. Lord
Frederick Kerr, in Hamoaze.