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

A letter from Malta, dated Aug. 21, says :
" Since despatching my letter on Saturday there
have been two or three 'farther arrivals of French
steamers, with troops, mules, and stores, on the way
to Beyrout. On the 18th, the steam transport
Reine Mathilde came into port, from 'Marseilles,
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 Muh-
biri Surur arrived from Tripoli, with the ea-Gover-
nor-General of that province, Haggi Ahmet Izet
Pasha, who has lately been recalled by the Sultan
for maladministration, and Mahmoud 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 Meg:era, 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
tsn 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 Magtera 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 storeship Rhadamanthus. F. R. Stur-
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 hadsher planking examined, is
to be coppered.
The Russian screw frigate Gromoby. 50, Capt.
Ponafidine, from Cronstadt, last from Torquay, ar-
rived in Plymouth Sound on Friday evening, and
on Saturday morning saluted the flan, of Port-Ad-
miral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, K.C.8.,6 which was
acknowledged by 'the Impregnable, 104, Capt. Lord
Frederick Kerr, in Hamoaze.

The Osborne, Admiralty yacht, Master- Comman-
der 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
Panmure 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 ; Theinas 11. Hayman,
second master, to the Lizard; John Williams, second
master, to the Rhadatnanthus ; Percy C. Smith,
master's-assistant, to the Emerald ; John M'Lloyd,
master's-assistant, to the Diadem; Augustus A.
Lyne, clerk, to the Centurion ; and Thomas Mit-
chell, clerk, to the Cornwallis.