The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-19 00:00:00

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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Telegrams have been received of the arrival at
Malta, on Sunday last, of the screw steamer Ilel-
vetia, " all well," and of the departure from Suez,
for Bombay, on the same day, of her Majesty's
Indian troopship Euphrates; the later having on
board the 62d Regiment, and the other troops con-
veyed in the Serapis to Alexandria. The Serapis
(alid not the Helvetia) will bring home the 101st
Regiment, and others which arrived at Suez in the
Malabar on the 16th instant.

Twouty of the discharged artisans from the Go-
vernment establishment included in the late reduc.
tions at Woolwich will proceel to Queensland on
Wednesday next, as einigrants, the Relief Com-
mittee paying £2 per head, and the Emigration
Commissioners furnishing them with a passage.
The distress in Woolwich is still very great, and
likely to be considerably augmented by the further
reduction in contemplation of the Government ego.-
blishmouts. Tae Woolwich division of the Royal
Marines will cease to exist on the Ist of April next,
and the closing of the Royal Dockyards is expected
to follow soon afterwards.

Yesterday the hired troopship Theresa, which has
been chartered by the Government for the corivey-
auee of troops to Jamaica and the other 'West India
Islands, embarked at Gravesend 16 non-commis-
sioned officers and gunners of the Royal Artillery,
with one soldier's wife and child, from Wool-
wich ; 50 non-commissioned officers and men and
three soldiers' wives of the 47th Regiment, from
Pembroke ; one hundred non-commissioned offi-
cers and privates, two soldiers' wives, and one
child, of the 84th Regiment, from Colchester ;
one sergeant-major of the 2d West India Regiment
and one sergeant-major and one man of the 3d
West India Regiment, from Chatham. The fol-
lowing officers embarked with the troops :—Capt.
P. A. Riley, 47th Regiment ; Lieut. E. Hamilton,
84th Regiment ; and Staff Assist.-Surgeon Smith,
in medical charge. The Theresa left the Thames to-
day.

Capt. T. A. Campbell was yesterday appointed to
the Ariadne, vice Capt. Colin A. Campbell, ill.
The following officers who have completed their
course of study at the Staff CAlege, and passed
the final examination, are ordered to undergo a
special course of instruction under the superintend-
ence of the Director of Artillery Studies, Royal
Artillery :—Major J. Aytoun, half-pay, late 85th
Regiment; Captain G. M. Cardew, 67th Regi-
ment; Captain A. L. Walker, 99th Regiment;
Captain J. G. Image, Ist Battalion of the 21st
Fusiliers; Captain N. X. Gwynne, 77th Regiment;
Capt. J. N. Crealock, 95th Regiment ; Capt. G.
D. Webber, 2d West India Regiment ; Capt. R.
11. Fawcett, 33d Regiment ; Lieut. A. L. E. H.
Holmes, 79th Highlanders ; Lieut. L. F. B. Cary,
2d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade ; Lieut. F. C.
Lewin, 85. h Regiment; and Lieut. S. Flower, 2d
Battalion of the 13th Light Infantry. During the
time the above officers are under insttuction they
will be posted to the briodes of R )yal Artillery in
garrison.

The following appointments were made yester•
day at the Admiralty : —Sub-Lieutenant Charles C.
Woad to the Hercules, Cecil E. Willoughby,
midshipman, to the Hercules; and Frederick W.
E. H. Smith, navigating midshipman, to the Her-
cules.

BRUSH WITH PIRATES.

Lately a schooner, sailing under the British flag,
and belonging to a Chinese trader of Labuan, was
captured near Mulluda Bay by pirates, in fifteen prahus,
who tore down the British flag and killed three
of the crew. When intelligence of this outrage reached
Labuan, Governor Hennessy started in pursuit in the
Dwarf, armed with his consular authority and with
a firman from the Sultan of Sooloo, to punish the
marauders. Led by a notorious pirate of the name
of Ati Bunding, they made a stand on the island
of 'Glean, their chief retreat. in those seas. After
trying by fair means to induce them to deliver up their
leader, Governor Hennessy, with forty seamen and
marines of the Dwarf, armed with the Snider and gusded
by an officer of the Sultan of Sooloo, lauded and burned
their village to the ground. The pirates were so humbled
that Mr. Hennessy considered it safe to leave the Sooloo
official behind, to arrange about compensation for sundry
piratical incursions.