The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-21 00:00:00

raval and 11UL:tar; intailigence.
Her Majesty will give the annual fete at Osborne to the
royal yachts' crews, the labuuret, on the estates, and
others, to-morrow. The band of the 22d Regt. and of the
Porisin:uth division of the Royal Marine Light Infan•
try are ordered to be sent over to Way on the occasion.
Her Majesty announced her in ten F. in to ;11ajor-Gen. Bre-
ton, the governor of PJrtsmouth, com` mander-in-chief o f
e south-west district, of visiting the camp at Brown-
down, near Gc,spor, ytsten'ay afternoon, and inspect-
ing the British German Legion there encamped under
canvass. One of her Majesty's carriages were sent
from Ost erne for the Queen's accommodation, but the
weather was so exceedingly foul and the sea so heavy
that the Royal visit could not be paid.
Major-General Breton entertained at the Governiiient-
house, Portsmouth, on Tuesday night, the Sardinian,
Dutch, and Austrian officers of the ships of those nations
now at Spithead ; also Brig idit-r-General Woolridgeand
the commanding oflic,re and staff of the British German
Legion, Colonel Forster, R.E , Colonel Eyre, R.A. ;
Colonel Raymonds of the Depot Battalion, Winchester;
QColonel Evelegb, of the 20th Regiment ; Assistant-
uartermaster-General (Lieut.• Colonel) Wright ; De.
puty-Assistant Adjutant-General Nelson (Major), Town.
Major Breton, the foreign Consuls, &c.
Her Majesty's ships Rodney, 90, Captain Wilson ;
Pembroke, 60, Captain Seymour, C.B. ; and Furious,
16, Captain Loring, 0.13., were all paid off at Porte-
mouth yesterday ; and the Transit, Commander John-
son, will be paid off to-day.
A general court-martial assembled at Hasler Barraoks,
Gosport, on Tuesday morning, to try Lieut. H. A. Mule
my Deane, of the 22d Regiment, on charges preferred
p,gainst him by his commanding officer, Colonel Boileau,
the substance of which are—Fer having voluntarily
given a guarantee to liquidate certain debts on behalf of
his father-in-law, Paymaster Barlow, of the said regi-
ment, and for being a defaulter in failing to fulfil the
same ; also for deficiencies in certain funds of the regi-
tnent during the time ho was Acting Paymaster ; also
for having tors, or permitted to be torn, out of the led-
ger the account of the said Paymaster Barlow. We are
of course prohibited by the etiquette of such tribunals
from publishing anything further until the sentence is
known. The trial may last a fortnight.
Her Majesty's ship Algier-, from Queenstown, arrived
at Spithead yesterday morning, and her Majesty's ship
Seahorse, from Malta, Gibraltar, and Lisbon. Her dates
from the latter place are the 11th inst. She bring news
of the bread riots there on the iOth inst. She has on
board, from Malta, Capt. Peddy, Lieuts. Furlong and
Dickson, and 133 non-commissioned officers and men,
the depot of her Majesty's 41st Regiment.
Yesterday morning a detachment of 114 non-commis.
sioned officers and men left St. Mary's Casemate Bar-
racks, Chatham, for the purpose of joining their respec-
tive depots in England and Ireland. The detachment
included men from each of the following regiments=viz.,
fib Dragoon Guards, 7th (Queens Own) Light Dra-
goons, 12th (Prince of Wales's) Lancers, 2cl Royals, 4th
(King's Own), 9th Font, 13th (Prince Albert's) Light
Infantry, 30th, 33d (Duke of Wellington's), 41st (Weleh)
Regiment, 42d Royal Highlanders, 46th, 55th, 63d,
68th Light Infantry, 69th, 79th Highlanders, 89th, 93d
Highlanders, and 97th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment. The
whole of the above troops had been sent to the Invalid
Depot, Chatham, on account of sickness or wounds re-
ceived, and were so far recovered as to be able to rejoin
their respective regiments. The draught, which proceed,ed
to the camp of Aldershot, was under the command' of
Captain J. V. H. Montagu, 10th Regiment.
A draught of Crimean invalids, numbering 8 serjeants
and 52 rank and file, were examined at Fort Pitt Hospi.
tal, Chatham, yesterday, by Dr. J. R. Taylor, C. 8.,
Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals, when those men
who were considered unfit for further service were or-
dered to be inspected by a Chelsea Board previously to
their being discharged.
From inquiries made at the Garrison Hospital yester-
day it was ascertained that the whole of the men injured
by the explosion of a mine during the siege operations on
Tuesday are progressing favourably. A court of inquiry
was held yesterday at the Adjutant-General's-office,
Brompton Barracks, to inquire into the cause of the ac-
cident.

The following officers and non-commissioned officers
belonging to the Royal Sappers and Miners at Chatham
have been presented with the Cross of the Legion of
•, Honour by the Emperor of the French for distinguished
conduct in the Crimea :—Lieut. W. a'Andetrion;-',.0,0.
1 lour Serjeaut Stanson, Colour-Serjeatit -Maedonald,:aiid
Corporal Collins.
Recruiting for the Royal Artiilery has been suspended
until further orders. The party at Bristol, under the
command of Captain T. Millward, has been ordered to
join head-quarters at Woolwich, and Captain Millward
to join his field battery at Weedon.
The ship Williams, from Kertcb, arrived in the Med-
way on the 19th inst., having on board the whole of the
engineer equipment belonging to the Turkish Contin-
gent. The gunpowder which was on board has been
safely deposited in the powder magazine.
800 men belonging tro the Provisional Battalion, from
the 64th, 74th 78th, 83d, and 86th depots, were in-
spected yesterday by the commandant of the Garrison,
and, as the whole are young soldiers, each man was fur-
nished with the regimental account-book and the Ar-
ticles of War. They loft Chatham for Gravesend yes.
terday morning, to embark on board the ship Earl Bal.
carres for B unbay, to join their service companies in
that pre:,idency. 14 officers embark with them, under
the charge olgapt. Douglas Hastings, 78th Highlanders.
The usual number of women and children will embark
with the draught?.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Lieut. H. C. Lees (additional), to the Royal Albert ;
Lieut. W. T. Lee (additional), to the Scourge ; R. Ste-
!
venson, Surgeon, to the Mermaid convict-ship A.
Adams, Surgeon, ti the Acuson; J. E. Pritchard, Sur-
geon, to the Sparrowhawk • ; J. E. Stokes. Midshipman,
to the Inflexible ; C. S. Shackborooglo, Midshipman, to
the Actmon ; E. Hotham, Naval Cadet, to the Exmouth;
and H. R. Deniers, Naval Cadet, to the Calcutta.
Capt. Thotnpson's sth Company of the 6-. h Battalion
Small-arms Brigade, Royal Artillery, commenced their
march yesterday morning from Woolwich, en route for
Liverpool, where they are to embark f .1- Ireland. The
officers who accompany the brigade :,re Capt. Thompson
in command, Capt. Owen, Lieut. Daubuz, and Lieut.
Cuthbert, about 139 non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates, and a similar number of horses.

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