The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-08 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

MALTA, Feb. 2.—The English screw steamer
Montezuma, belonging to Messrs. Smith, Sundius,
and Co., chartered by the Government for the con-
veyance of time-expired men and invalids to Eng-
land, arrived on the 31st ult. from Constantinople,
and having embarked here four officers, 44 men, 18
women, and 17 children, leaves port to-day home-
ward bound. Capt. Clarke, R.E., director of Admi-
ralty works, also leaves to-day on return to Eng-
land, via Marseilles. News has been received here
by the Malta and Alexandria Telegraph of the ar-
rival of the Psyche and Caradoc from Alexandria.
Col. Chandler, R.A., did not leave Malta in the
latter vessel as reported, although his name was on
the list for passage by her. Some particulars have
been received of the loss of the Maltese yacht Me-
lita, on the coast of Albania. She was wrecked at a
place called Fanara, between Parga and Prevesa,
and soon afterwards went to pieces, nothing being
saved but the lives of the four naval officers on
board, and the crew of three persons. They sub-
sequently arrived at Prevesa on horseback, in a
deplorable state from exposure to cold and rain, with
insufficient clothing. As there is a Vice-Consul at
Pquureeisrsew.ts aai etesteetritar lstwaeyi
received
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occurred on board that vessel at the Piraeus, and that
she was in consequence placed in a few days' qua-
rantine by the Greek Board of Health. It is gra-
tifying to add that the disease was of a mild type,
and that the general health of the crew was good.
Cholera still lingers in some parts of Sicily. At
Empedocle (Moto di Girgenti) several attacks have
taken place. It is reported that :her
Majesty's yi
Terrible, 21, Captain Commerell,
‘eyce recently
n
shiaybpe expected shortly in the Mediter-
ranean, and that she will bring out guns for her
Ocean, and supernumeraries for
Majesty's
y's shipthleajessqtuadron. Information has reached this island
that it is the intention of the War Department
to increase very materially the armament of the
Fortress of Malta, and that for this purpose
it has been resolved to spend half a million sterling.
The Maltese papers speak very highly of the exem-
plary conduct of the 84th Regiment, which is under
orders to be in readiness for embarkation for Ja-
maica, midi have much pleasure to be able to add my
testimony to the truth and justice of their observa-
tions. I may, however, go further and say, that
since the departure of one or two regiments, some
of the members of which were constantly getting
into hot water with the natives and the police, the
conduct of the troops in garrison generally has been
most praiseworthy. A fancy fair is to be held at the
Aubence de Provence on the 12th and 13th instant,
under the patronage of Lady Clarence Paget, Lady
Houlton, and Mrs. Trower, in aid of the funds
for building and endowing the English church
at Sliema. Notwithstanding the liberality of Dr.
Trower, Bishop of Gibraltar, and his family, the
sum falls very far short of the necessary amount.
The sum contributed i5£2,162 14s. 6d.; that required
£4,000. We still are without rain, and greatappre-
hensions are entertained lest there should be no water
for our summer's supply. For some time past prayers
have been offered up in the churches of all denomi-
nations. The Right Hon. Seymour Fitzgerald, the
newly-appointed Gevernor of Bombay, attended by
his secretary, Capt. Felgate, and Capt. Fitzgerald,
passed through Malta on Wednesday last, on his
way to assume the government of the Presidency.
The English steam yacht Ceres, the property of Col.
M'lver, returned last night from a tour in Greece
and the Holy Land.
The Curacoa, 23, unarmoured screw frigate,l,s7l
,tons, 350 horse power, Comr. Sir W. S. Wisemq.n,
C. 8., arrived at Sbithcad at 4 p.m. yesterday from
the Australian station,and on anchoring at Spithead
exchanged the customary salutes with the flag-hip
of the Port Admiral and Naval Commander-in-
Chief of the port and south-west naval station.
The Terrible, 19, paddle frigate, Capt. John E.
Commerell, V.C., C. 8., sailed from Spithead at
daylight yesterday morning for the Mediterranean,
the weather having somewhat moderated, but a
fresh wind prevailing from the north-west.
The unarmoured screw corvette Charybdis, 17
guns, 1,506 ions, 400-horse power, Capt. Algernon
M.
Lyons, sailed from St. Helen's roadstead,
sou,:„ of Spithead, at daylight yesterday morning,
on a term of service on the coasts of Australia and
New Zealand.

The Pandora, 5, screw gun-vessel, whose arrival
at Spithead was announced in The Sun of yesterday,