The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-25 00:00:00

711 E NAVE

A Malt 'B. letter, dated Valletta, Oct. 19, says :
II Her Maj W sty's steam despatch-boat Caradoc, Lieut.
Scott, wh tich has been lying at her mooring in
Sliema Cr, eek for some time past, suddenly received
orders to g up, steam, and at 530 p.m., left port
for Naples. The corvette Argus also left port yes-
terday eve Jg, for Gibraltar, to relieve the Scourge,
which is e X petted here. The Kertch, which has
been convey ted into a tank for naval purposes, left
with her, • .lso bound for Gibraltar. The line-of-
battle ship s Orion and James Watt took their de-
parture to day, both for Corfu, the former carrying
a mail. :It is said that eight line-of-battle ships
have bee s ordered to assemble at Corfu, and that
the Mar iiborough, bearing the flag of Admiral
martin, was to leave Beyrout for that island on the
11th ins t . The gunboat Assurance is hourly looked
for from. Beyrout, to carry on to the Admiral,
whereye ir he may be, the London mail
of the 18th instant. The screw transport
Supply came into port yesterday morning with
stores from Woolwich, Plymouth, and Gibral-
tar. A Prussian gunboat, the Loreley, came into
port yesterday morning from Gaeta and Civita
Ve cchia, bound for Constantinople. The Dutch fri-
gate Admiral Tan Wassenaer also arrived here
from Alexandria. The French steam transport
Anaerique entered port to-day from Marseilles, hav-
ing .on board 262 French troops, 6 horses, and pro-
visions for the French forces in Syria. Mr. Scamp,
Admiralty engineer, who hag been charged by the
Imperial Government with a survey of the Great
Harbour, preliminary to the execution of the pro-
jected extension scheme, left Malta on Tuesday last
on his' return to England.
Tho-Undaunted, 51, 600-horse power, one of the
two improved screw frigates under construction at
Chatham Dockyard, is fast approaching completion,
and will shortly be ready for launching, but no day
has yet been named for that event by the Admiralty.
The Belvidere, 51, the other screw frigate, is also
progressing, very fast, the Lords of the Admiralty
having given orders for her construction to be has-
tened. forward.
The Tartar, 20, screw corvette, Capt. Hayes, sailed
yesterday for the Pacific.
The Trafalgar, 91, screw, Capt. Fanshawe,
steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morn-
ing to complete her refit.
The new steam sloop Foxhound, 4, Commander
Alfred Mitchell, left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday
for the Mediterranean. She took an engine for the
screw steam ship Orion.
The screw steam corvette, Jason, 21, went from
Hamoare on Tuesday outside the Plymouth Break-
water, to test her machinery in the measured mile.
Commander Ross has commissioned the screw
steamship Desperate, 8, at Plymouth. She is to
have a complement of 170 men.
The screw steam gun vessel Nimble, 5, and the
new contract-built gunboat Speedy, were hauled
on Tuesday from the north crane, in the Keyham
ateamyard, to the south basin ; a portion of their
machinery is shipped. Steam was got up the
same day on board the gunboats Ripple and Til-
bury, in the basin.
The screw steam gun vessel Penguin, 5, made a
trial outside Plymouth break water yesterday (Wed-
nesday), and returned to her moorings in the steam
ordinary in Hamoase. Her engines appeared to an-
swer very well.•
The artisans of the Devonport Dockyard are
scraping the aides of the screw steamship St.
George, Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, preparatory to
being painted, when she will complete her equip-
ment.

The serew steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. D. Curry,
in to be removed from No. 3 dock in Keyham steam-
yard to-day.
The screw steam store ship Industry, 4, J . G.
Hodges, master, has sailed from Plymouth for the
Island of Ascension and Rio Janeiro.
The crew of the screw steamship Donegal, 101,
Capt. H. Broadhead, at Devonport, were paid wages
and granted leave of absence yesterday.

TER ARMY. •

FIELD DAY AND REVIEW OF TROOPS BY
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

The field-day in honour of the visit of his Impe-
rial Highness the Grand Duke Michael of Rpssia,
on Woolwich Common, :took place yesterday, as
previously announced. His Imperial Highness,
attended by his personal Staff, consisting of Messrs.
Le Comte Levanhoff, Le Comte Zoubof, Le Baron
fallen, and Le Capitaine Novitzky, entered the
garrison precisely at 10 a.m., under the salute of 21
guns, fired from the Greenhill Battery. The Royal
standard of England was hoisted on the Royal
Artillery flagstaff, and a guard of honour, under
the command of Capt. Field, was drawn up in front
of the entrance to the mess quarters, where the
Grand Duke alighted from his carriage. His Im-
perial Highness, contrary to expectation, was ac-
companied to Woolwich by his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, attended by one of his Aides-
de-Camp, Col. Tyrwhitt ; Lieut.-Gen. the Right
Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., Adjutant Ge-
neral to the Forces; Capt. Yonge, Deputy Assist.-
Adjutant-General ; Gen. Sir R. Airey, K.C.8.,
Quartermaster-General, &e. Immediately on their
leaving their carriages the Artillery band performed
" God save the Queen," followed by the Russian
national air, which compliment the Grand Duke
courteously acknowledged, the two Dukes and
their suite standing uncovered in the peristyle dur-
ing the performance. They were then conducted
to apartments appropriated to their use, and having
attired in full military uniform, returned to the
parade ground, when the Grand Duke inspected
.the guard of honour, the band continuing to play a
Dumber of Russian airs in honour of the distin-
guished visitors, who repeatedly acknowledged the
attention by various significant marks of recogni-
tion. Major• Gen. Sir R. Dacres, K.C.8., command-
ing the garrison, attended by a Staff of mounted
officers, exceeding 30 in number, performed the
honours of reception. They then proceeded
through the barrack field towards the review
ground, where the mounted troops were drawn up
in line. They consisted of the Horse Brigade, in
command of Colonel D'Aguilar, C. 8., eight batte-
ries of Field Artillery, consisting of 48 Armstrong
and other guns, and a squadron of the 16th Lancers,
the latter of
whom kept the ground. General
Dacres
then
assumed the command of the whole.
Immediately on the arrival of the august visitors
the troops 'oioyed.
into open order and performed a
general saliitic after which their Imperial and
Royal Highnesses and attendants rode through the
line, which they inspected throughout. Retiring to
the front, ttey up todk their position under the
flagstaff, and the troo'
PP marched past in slow and
quick time, and afterwards at full alio His Im-
perial Highness, who is „ g P.
M of Ord-
nance and a most experienced. officer, regarded the
movements with attention, aid Di •
astantly remarked
his approval to the ,Commander.in-Chief, and also
to Gen. Dacres, who had joined the staff
he repeatedly nodded his assent, particular)
garded the rigid precision witli which thejras rer.
loped past without committing the smallest dellift-
tion perceptible. The latter movement was ordered
to be repeated, when they galloped past in two rows
of four batteries each with the like remarkable pre-
cision. Having again retired to the rear, the whole
of the ground was ordered to' be cleared, and the
line of Lancers moved back
,to the high road, to
prepare for a display of the guns. Two batteries
then formed in reserve, and the remainder limbered
up and manoeu rued in "sham action for upwards of
an hour, when the troops retired from the ground
at 12 o'clock. The Grand Duke and party then
proceeded. to visit the Repository and Rotunda, the
COmmander-in-Chief taking a hurried departure to
attend his levee in London, a Royal salute announc-
ing his departare. The Imperial party afterwards
inspected the guardroom; non-commissioned officers'
and gunners' libritries,*thenffieers' library, !cc., and
partook ofluncheon with Gen. Decree and Staff in
the messroom. At two o'clock they again mounted,
and. proceeded to an inspection of the Royal Mili-
"riv.,•aeedemy. The Grand Duke, who had intended
I° quitham yesterday, understanding that the
whole • of the (I,
3, would be required to inspect the
establislith4 er t Woolwic , then desired that a
IklOilakitg ,autApktat
warded to .Chatham to cancel ti