The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-28 00:00:00

TEE NAVY.

The reports from a Malta correspondent, which
reach to the 22d April, announce the arrival there
on the morning preceding, from Gibraltar, of the
squadron under Rear-Admiral Rodney Mundy,
consisting of the Hannibal (flag-ship), Renown,
James Watt, and Agamemnon, ships of the line,
and the steam corvette Scylla, which, added to the
squadron under the Commander-in-Chief already
there, brings up the present force in Malta harbour
to nine sail of the line, besides the smaller vessels,
the London having arrived from Cephalonia on the

17th, after escorting, with the Exmouth and Liffey,
the Lord High Commissioner Of the lonian Islands
on a tour to the Southern Islands, the last two
mentioned ships having returned to Corfu. The
Assurance, which was despatched to Messina on
the 15th, returned to Malta on the 20th of April;
and the Boxer, which left on the 17th for Catania
and Syracuse, returned to Malta on the 21st, re-
porting all as quiet in these places, as the presence
of a large and daily increasing garrison would natu-
rally command. Not so, however, in the country
outside Palermo, Trapani, Marsala, and pleas ad-
jacent, with few or no garrisons, for which direction
the Amphion left Malta on the 17th, to take the
place of the Orion, which arrived at Malta from
Naples and Palermo, on the 16th, and left for Gib-
raltar and Plymouth on the 19th, under canvas,
being unable safely to steam from defects in her
stuffing boxes, which render her being sent home
necessary. She conveyed 55 naval and 25 military
invalids,four soldiers' wives and eight children. The
Victor Emmanuel left on the 7th, but whether for
Corfu or Palermo is not known. The Neptune is
under orders to leave Malta at a moment's notice
for any point of Sicily, where the telegraph wires
may point out her presence to be wanted for the
protection of British interests, though from the fact
of the frequent stoppage, under orders of the Go-
vernment of the Two Sicilies, of the working of
the telegraph to Malta, intelligence of moment
is more likely to reach this island by the ordi-
nary steam packets from Marseilles, and there-
fore the actual presence of a British ship-of-war
in the principal ports of Sicily would be more
satisfactory to British subjects there established
than having to trust to summoning one from
Malta, where, after all, so many ships-of-war
can scarcely be needed. Her Majesty's survey-
ing vessel Firefly, Captain Mansell, for Beyrout on
surveying duties, was under orders for sea at Malta,
to be followed by the Medina, Capt. Spratt. The
Intrepid, whose commander, Marryat, has shown
some resolution in desiring the military com-
mandant to cease unnecessary firing from the citadel
at night time to the alarm of the citizens, continues
at Messina, and the Banshee at Constantinople,
whence she will probably convey for a cruise as far
as Trebizond Sir Henry Bulwer, her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Ambassador at the Sublime Porte, and later
in the summer embark at the same port for Europe
Sir Henry Rawlinson, who has resigned the Am-
bassadorship at the Court of the Shah.
The following ships have commenced loading
from the Military Store department at Woolwich,
for foreign stations—namely, the Harbinger, Pro-
thesa, Weymouth, her Majesty's iron screw steam
troopship Megrera, the Effort, Clara, Samuel, Prin-
ceza, Syria, Hannibal, Amaranthe, Maria, and
Lauderdale.

Her Majesty's screw steam gun-vessel Landrail,
fitting for service at Woolwich, was yesterday
hauled into the inner basin to ship the experi-
mental boiler manufactured from the design of the
Earl of Dundonald, for trial; and the steam store
ship Rhadamanthus was taken into the same basin,
alongside the factory, to be fitted with the Hon.
John Wethered's superheating gear.
The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. W. Tumour, flag-
ship of Rear-Admiral Sir H. Keppell, K.C.8., went
out of Portsmouth Harbour yesterdayat noon under
canvas, and afterwards anchored at Spithead, where
she took in her powder, shell, &c. She will sail
from Spithead this morning for the Cape of Good
Hope, calling at Plymouth to take in a mail. It was
expected that his Excellency Sir George Grey, Go-
vernor of the Cape, with his familyand suite, would
defer embarking on board the Forte until she arrived
in Plymouth Sound.
The Victoria and Albert Royal paddle yacht,
Capt. the Hon. Joseph Denman, has landed her
paddle shaft on the sheer jetty of the dockyard at
Portsmouth.

In the steam basin at Portsmouth, the Nelson,
91, screw, is expected to get up her steam this
morning to test her machinery. She has her tanks
in and stowed, and has commenced taking on board
her cables.

The Duncan, 101, screw; the Victoria, 121,
screw ; and the Immortalite, 51, screw, have all
got their cables on board, but have not yet received
their tanks.

In the four line-of-battle-ships belonging to the
division of the Channel fleet at Spithead, there are
now vacancies for 89 petty officers.
The Russian screw steam-frigate Askold left Ply-
mouth Sound on Thursday with the customary
salutes for Portsmouth. Her officers will probably
visit the Great Eastern before sailing for Cronitadt.
The paddlewheel steam-frigate Terrible, 21, Capt.
Glasse, C. 8., in Plymouth Sound, received her
powder on Thursday.
The naval apprentice brig Nautilus, Lieut. W.
B. Grant commanding, sailed out of Hamoaze on
Thursday, and took her customary quarters between
Millbay and St. Nicholas Island, Plymouth.
The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Capt. Ed-
ward S. Sotheby, C. 8., left Plymouth Sound under
canvas on Thursday for Portland.

The screw steam sloop Surprise, r,4, recently paid
off, was towed on Thursday from Devonport Dock-
yard•to the west moorings in Hamoaze.
The screw steam frigate Melpomene, 51, Capt. C.
J. F. E wart, at Plymouth, is discharging her pow-
der, preparatory to going into dock.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty:--Lieutenants W. E. S.
Brome, W. L. Martin, and....,A. S. Montagu, addi-
tional, to the Marlborough ; Lieut. C. D. Sanders
to the Excellent, Lieut. 0. T. Lang to the Cressy,
Lieut. J. Patton to the Bacchante, E. L. Green,
mate, to the Bacchante, C. E. Napier, J. G. Mas-
ters, A. Hutchinson, and Lambton L. L. Bevan,
naval cadets, to the Bacchante ; T. Ratnsbotham,
midshipman, to the , Bacchante ; H. C. Jones, pro-
moted to the rank of first-class assist.-engineer, and
appointed to the Wellington as supernumerary.;
P. J. Roberts, third class assist.-engineer, to the
Asia, as supernumerary ; and W. C. P. Grant, pay-
master additional, to the Hero. •

Yesterday a Board of the Commissioners of Chel-
sea Hospital assembled at Chatham for the inspec-
tion of those wounded a nddisabled troops who have
recently arrived at that garrison from India, when
a number of men who were found to he unfit for
further service were ordered to be discharged.
The 15th brigade of Royal Artillery will be formed
and placed under orders at Gosport on the Ist prox..
and will consist of 3 lieutenant-colonels, 1 surgeon,
12 captains, 16 lieutenants, 1 paymaster, 1 quarter-
master, 1 sergeant-major, 1 quartermaster-sergeant,
3 battery sergeants, 40 sergeants, 32 corporals, 32
bombardiers, 770 gunners, and 16 trumpeters.
Maj orDickson, from Christchurch, joins the brigade.

I,ieut.-Col. N. 0. S. Turner's 10th battery, 4th
field-brigade garrison artillery, arc under orders to
leave Woolwich for Northampton.
The following promotions and appointments
were yesterday announced at Woolwich as having
taken place in the Royal Marines, consequent on
the increase of the corps, under her Majesty's order
in Council of Feb. 22, 1860:—First Lieut. and
Quartermaster H. F. Cooper, of the Chatham divi-
sion, to be captain, and to be appointed to that divi-
sion ; First Lieut, and Adjt. J. H. Maskery, of the
Chatham division, to be captain, and appointed to
the Portsmouth division ; First Lieut. H. C. Mudge,
of the Plymouth division, to be captain, and ap-
pointed to the Woolwich division ; First Lieut. and
Quartermaster A. Wolrige, of the Woolwich divi-
sion, to be captain, and appointed to the Portsmouth
division, vice Capt. E. M'Arthur, to be removed to
the additional artillery company; Second Lieut. R.
G. Sharpe, of theoportsrnouth division, to be first
lieutenant, and appointed to the Chatham division;
Second Lieut. T. M. Whale, of the Plymouth divi-
sion, to be first lieutenant, and appointed to the
Portsmouth division ; Second Lieut. E. 0. B. Gray,
of the Plymouth division, to be first lieutenant, and
appointed to the same division ; Second Lieut. A.
E. Otter, of the Portsmouth division, to be first
Lieut., and appointed to the Chatham division ;
Second Lieut; Frederick Amelius Ogle, of the ar-
tillery division, to be First Lieut., and appointed
to that division ; Second Lieut. Francis Edmund
Begbie, of the artillery division, to be First Lieut.,
and appointed to the same; Second Lieut. George
Harrie Thorn Colwell, of the Portsmouth division,
to be First Lieut., and appointed to that division ;
Second Lieut. James Samuel Derriman, of the ar-
tillery division, to be First Lieut., and appointed to
that division; Second Lieut. Edward Elliee Hill,
of the artillery division, to be First Lieut., and
the division Portsmouth ; Second Lieut. Hugh
William rtsmouth division, to be
appointed t
Bamber,o that
of
First Lieut., and appointed to the Chatham divi-
sion ; Second Lieut. Herbert Everitt, of the artil-
lery division, to be First Lieut., and appointed to
the same division; Second Lieut. Evelyn Sturt, of
the Plymouth division, to be First Lieut., and ap-
pointed to the same division ; Lirst Lieut. William
Henry Clements, of the Woolwich division, to be
Lieut. and Quartermaster to that division, vice
Wolrige, promoted ; First Lieut. James Sterling
Mould of the Chatham division, to be Lieut. and
Quartermaster, and appointed to that division, vice
Cooper, promoted ; Second Lieut. James Pulteney
Murray, of the Portsmouth division, to be Adjt.,
and appointed to the Chatham division, vice Mas-
kery, promoted.