The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-28 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, June 23.—Her Majesty's screw iron
troopship Tamar, Capt. F. W. Sullivan, C. 8., ar-
rived here at 8 30 a.m. on the 22d inst., from Ports-
mouth 14, and Queenstown ten days, having on I
board the 31st Regiment, commanded by. Colonel
Eager, and consisting of 31 officers, 679 non-com-
missioned officers and soldiers, 77 women, and 68
children. She also had on board a few men of
other corps. The troops disembarked in the fore-
noon in excellent order at the Hay-wharf, in the
Marsamuscetto harbour, and marched round to
Pembroke barracks at St. George's Bay. The 31st
relieves the 29th, which will embark in the Tamar
about the last day of June or Ist of July for Quebec.
The Ist battalion Bth Regiment will then be trans-
ferred from Verdala barracks to St. Elmo, now
occupied by the 29 and the 31st will take the
place of the Ist battalion Bth Regiment. The next
to proceed from this garrison to Canada is a por-
tion of the 3d Brigade, Royal Artillery. These
troops will be conveyed to their destination by the
screw iron troopship Simoom, Capt. J. B. Leth-
bridge, which is expected here from Portsmouth in
the course of the week for that purpose. The re-
mainder of the Brigade and the Ist battalion 60th
Rifles will follow in the autumn. The 60th will be
relieved by the 14th Regt. Letters from the squad-
ron at Gibraltar, dated the 17th inst., inform us of
the intention of Lord Clarence Paget to sail on the
19th inst. fora cruise along the coast of France, and,
after visiting Hyeres, reach Toulon about the first
week in July. The Admiral carrying his flag on
board the Caledonia ironclad, 24 guns, Capt. Alan
Gardner, will be accompanied by the Arethusa, 35,
Capt. R. Coote, the Psyche, Lieut.-Commander Sir
F. Blackwood, remaining at Gibraltar to take on the
next mail to him. The Royal Oak ironclad, now at
Malta, willleave on the evening of the 24th or morn-
ing of the 25th for Hyeres, to join the flag of the
Commander-in-Chief there. The Prince Consort
ironclad will follow when ready for sea. Although,

as intimated in my last letter, the idea of escorting
the Sultan to France has been abandoned, it is still
most probable, should his Imperial Majesty carry
out his wish of calling at Malta on his return, that
the squadron will be ordered here to give him a
grand reception. The Ocean ironclad, Capt. Stan-
hope, arrived at Gibraltar from Malta on the 16th
inst., and was to leave on the 17th for Madeira, en
route for Hongkong. The Trinculo, 1, gunboat,
Lieut.-Commander F. de V. Sanders, sailed from
Gibraltar for Malta on the 15th inst. She will pro-

bably go to Patras as soon as possible, with orders
for the Endymion, 21, Capt. C. Wake, now at the
Piraeus, to join the squadron cruising under the im-
mediate orders of Lord Clarence Paget, Mr. Totten-
ham, Sub-Lieut., for the Prince Consort, and Mr.
Pooke, midshipman, for the Endymion, took passage
in the Trinculo, to join their respective ships. The
following appointments and changes have recently
been made by the Commander-in-Chief, in addition
to those already announced :—Dr.J.Pringle, assist.-
surg., from the Victoria to the Caledonia (comple-
ment incomplete); Lieut. E. Foster, of the Galatea,
invalided ; Lieut. A. Fitzgeorge, of the Arethusa,
to the Galatea, vice Foster ; Mr. J. Jack, staff-sur-
geon, of the Royal Oak, discharged to half-pay at
his own request ; Mr. W. Alland, midshipman, of
the Ocean, at present waiting passage in the Cale-
donia, will be sent home by the first opportunity to
pass his examination for Lieutenant ; Mr. W. Gul-
liver, assist.-engineer, from the Ocean to the Cale-
donia, for dispos 11 as supernumerary; and Mr. W.
Hudson, assist.-engineer, from the Caledonia to the
Ocean, as part complement ; Mr. R. White, assist.-
paymaster (secretary's clerk), has been permitted
to proceed to England on six weeks'leave of absence;
Mr. 11. Turner, midshipman, from the Victoria to
the Ocean, and Mr. G. J. Capes, midshipman,
from the Ocean to the Caledonia ; Mr. J. Mahony,
acting-boatswain, from the Psyche to the Ocean,
vice Farrell, sent to hospital at Gibraltar. Com-
mander-in-Chief's Staff and the Inspector of Ma-
chinery, Dr. William Yarde, assist.-surg., has been
appointed by the Admiralty to the Trinculo, vice
Bridgford, deceased. Dr. Martin, staff-surg. of
the Arethusa, left Gibraltar for England by the
mail Packet on the 11th inst., permitted to return
home without waiting to be superseded. Her Ma-
jesty's ships in Malta harbour at present are the
Hibernia receiving-ship (bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Henry Kellett, C. 8.) ; the Prince Consort
and the Royal Oak ironclads, the Cruiser, 5, the
Tyrian, 1, and the Tamar, troopships. The Egyptian
screw steamer Dakahlich, 6 guns, is also here, wait-
ing to be docked. She will be admitted into the
Royal Naval dry dock in a day or two, and
when her defects are made good, which it is expected
will occupy the better part of a week, she will make
way for the Prince Consort. Two condensers for
the use of the naval establishments at this island
arrived yesterday from England in the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamer Columbian. Those
stated to have been ordered some months ago for
the use of the civil population have not yet been re-
ceived, and it is feared that if a little more activity
is not shown in the matter they will not make their
appearance until the rainy season has set in, when,
it is to be hoped, their assistance will be no longer

required.
The annual dinner to the First Lord of the Ad
miralty, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, given by
the members of the Navy Club, took place on Tues-
day evening at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St.
James's ; Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle presided.
The contractors' trial of the new iron screw steam
transport Jumna, 2, Capt. Pickard, was made yes-
terday at the measured mile, outside the Plymouth
breakwater. Six runs at full-boiler power gave a
mean of 11.6557 knots per hour, and four runs at
half-boiler power produced 11.772 knots. This is
considered even more satisfactory than the results
of the trial of the sister ship Euphrates-14.775
and 11.523 knots, because the Jumna, is loaded
down six inches deeper in the water. The Jumna
will probably sail for Calcutta on Monday.
The screw steam sloop Niobe, 4, Commander
Thomas K. Mackenzie, was appointed to leave
Plymouth yesterday for the West Indies.
The screw steam gunboats Sandfly and High-
ander, from Queenstown, are now at Devonport,
fitting for the Naval Review at Spithead.
Advices from the West India station, received by
a correspondent, report that her Majesty's ships
Aboukir, Constance, Delight, Minstrel, Onyx, and
Nettle were at Jamaica when the mail left. The
Cygnet, Commander Chetwynd, arrived at Port
Royal on the 27th of May from Nassau, and left ow
the sth inst. for England. The Barracouta, Com-
mander Bevan, arrived at Jamaica from Vera Cruz
on the 25th ult. for Belize, Honduras. She took de-
spatches from Governor Austin, and a detachment
of the 4th West India Regiment to relieve Colonel
Harley and a detachment of the 3d West India
Regiment, who will return in the Barracouta to
Jamaica. Among the passengers in her were--Sir
Francis Johnson, Deputy-Adjutant-General ;
Desborough,',commantling Royal Artillery, and Col.
Chamberlayne, commanding 3d West India Regi•
meat ; all members of a military Court of Inquiry
appointed by Gen. O'Connor, C. 8., commanding
the forces on the station, to inquire into the conduct
of Major Mackay and the troops who, in December
last, retreated before a body of some 50 Indiana at
Orange Walk. It will be remembered that when
this news reached England General Peel, who was
then Secretary of War, stated in the Home of Com-
mons that an inquiry would be instituted, for he
believed the troops had laid themselves open to the
severest penalty of the Mutiny Act. her Majesty's
ship Favorite was at Barbadoes, the Jason at Vera
Cruz, and the Scout at Panama. The ship New-
castls, Capt. Marsden, with 477 coolie immigrants, in
charge of Surg.-Superintendent Dr. Arthur, arrived
at St. Vincent on the Ist of June, after a passage of
101 days from Calcutta. Fourteen deaths, includ-
ing infants and children, occurred during the voyage.
tier Majesty's iron store steamshipMegaera, Capt.
James Simpson, on particular service, laden with
victualling and miscellaneous stores for Rio and
Ascension, sailed yesterday from Woolwich, and,
having adjusted compasses at Greenhithe, took her
departure under orders to call at the western ports
and embark supernumeraries and seamen for the
Egmont, Capt. Herbert F. W. Ingram, receiving
and store ship at Rio Janeiro, and for disposal. The
Diegara embarked at Woolwich the following