The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-20 00:00:00

THE CITY BURGLARIES.

Mr. GOVER moved the adoption of a report of
the Law, Parliamentary, and City Courts Com-
mittee on the several references made to them in
June last, relative to felons' goods, in which they
recommend that the sum of £5O realised by the
goods found upon the felons who had committed
the great burglary a couple of years ago upon Mr.
Walker, the jeweller in Cornhill, be handed over to
the latter.

Mr. MEDWIN moved an amendment that the sum
to be allo ived to Mr. Walker be £240 instead of £5O.

The amendment, after a long and animated dis-
cussion, was rejected.
The original motion was then carried, and the
court adjourned.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

VALETTA, Sept. 15.—1 n my last letter it was
announced that there had been several deaths from
cholera in the newly-arrived 14th Regiment. Since
then, according to official information, there have
been five more deaths from the same cause in the
wing quartered at Pembroke Camp, two on the
9th, two on the 11th, and one on the 13th inst. A
case has also occurred in the other wing at Fort
Manoel. The poor fellow was seized while on guard
in another part of the fortress, and died in 12 hours.
Yesterday morning the wing at Pembroke Camp
was sent in her Majesty's steamer Hearty to Gozo.
It is to be quartered in Fort Chambray, one of the
healthiest and most comfortable barracks which the
island affords, and it is hoped the change will be
beneficial. On the morning of their embarkation an
attack of cholera took place among them. Happily
the other troops in garrison, up to the present time,
are free from all taint of disease, and the fever in
the Ist battalion of the Bth Regt. has disappeared.
The issue by Malta of foul bills of health has been
followed by the anticipated consequences. Mar-
seilles, the non-infected ports of Italy, Alexandria,
and Tunis (the latter country having herself only
just been delivered of the pest) have imposed various
terms of quarantine on arrivals from our island.
The cases during the week among the population
have scarcely ever exceeded two or three a day. As
we are now nearing the cooler season, hopes are
entertained that all trac3s of this baneful disease
will disappear. The new Indian troopship Croco-
dile, which was to leave England on the 15th inst.
with reliefs, will, I hear, coal at Gibraltar instead
of at Malta, to avoid quarantine at Alexandria, and

will not communicate in any way with this island
The Hydra, surveying steamer, Capt. Shortland
received orders to-day, by telegraph, to proceed to
the Arabian Gulf, calling at Gibraltar for further
instructions. She is to be employed in taking
soundings between Aden and Bombay, preparatory
to the Anglo-Indian Telegraph Cable being laid for
establishing telegraphic communication between
these two points, in connection with a line to Europe
by the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. She has
been fitted, provisioned, and stored for a year's ser-
vice, and will sail to-morrow morning for her long
voyage. A number of officers accredited to the In-
dian Government have passed through Malta during
the week on their way to the East, chiefly in con-
nection with the supplies for the expedition to Abys-
sinia. Deputy-Assist. Commissary-Generals Furse
and Casolani, and a commissariat clerk left Malta
a few days ago for this purpose in a small steamtug,
the packet Delta having declined to take passen-
gers from this island, as such a step would subject
her to quarantine on arrival at Alexandria. Some
260 mules have been secured in Malta for the ex-
pedition, and the number will probably be made up
to 300. The light pack mules have been selected.
The cost of these animals before they reach the Red
Sea will, it is thought, amount to £5O a head, or
£15,000. If this kind of animal is to be used in pre-
ference to bullocks, would it not be a great saving,
and be at the same time very desirable, to seek for
them on the shores of the Red Sea itself ? A com-
missariat officer, who served for some time in the
Mauritius, informs me that the countries bor-
dering the Red Sea will supply any number of ex-
cellent mules already acclimatised, and procurable
at a comparatively small cost. Six years ago first-
rate mules, he assures me, used to be imported into
that island from the neighbourhood of the Red Sea,
for the Commissariat Department, free of all other
expenses, at £l2 each. A few Maltese carts, with
harness complete, have also been purchased for
transport purposes, they being considered very light
and well adapted for hilly countries. Letters from
the squadron of the 9th of September came to hand
this morning, via Marseilles. Lord C. Paget, with
the ships under his command, arrived at Bastia on
that day, having left Porto Ferrajo on the 3d to
meet the Psyche and despatch the mails. They
were to return to Spezzia shortly, and were likely to
remain in that neighbourhood for some time, as the
crews continued healthy. Lieutenant Howes, of
the flagship, was to be tried by court-martial,
charged with being asleep twice in two middle
watches, once during a gale at Gibraltar and
once at sea lately, besides being the worse for
drink. The youngest son of our present Gover-
nor, a child of about six years of age, died
on Wednesday last from choleraic diarrhoea. The
whole community have shown the deepest sympathy
with Sir Patrick and Lady Grant in their bereave-
ment. Letters from the Pirzus of the 3d September
say that since the middle of August the French
squadron had conveyed to the Piraeus from Candia
1,200 Cretans, the Russian ships 1,600, the Italian
390, the Austrian gunboat 300, and the Prussian
gunboat 250. The Greek blockade-runners had also
landed 1,000 at Nauplia. It is calculated that there
are now more than 30,000 Cretan refugees distri-
buted over Greece. The French squadron having
ceased bringing over any more of these distressed
people the various ships have been sent to the diffe-
rent stations. There has been a revulsion of feeling
against the French Admiral for having witnessed
the destruction of the Arkadi by the Turkish cruiser
Izzedin without interfering. The ships of war at
the Piraeus were the English corvette Racer, the
French war vessels Renommee and Promothee, the
Prussian gunboat Blitz, and the Greek corvette
Missolonghi.
We learn from Plymouth, by telegraph, that the
Lords of the Admiralty telegraphed at noon yester-
day to Port Admiral Sir W. F. Martin to prepare
for active service the screw:steam frigate Liffey,
31, Capt. Johnson ; the iron and armour-plated
turret ship Wivern, 4, Capt. Burgoyne ; and the
gunboat Redwing, tender to the Cambridge. The
Wiveru left the Sound by the western channel at
p.m.) and then toot a cot= for the Lady-