The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

MALTA, April 25.—N0 more ships of war have
been despatched to Gibraltar since the Ocean, 24,
ironclad, left on the 22d. The Royal Oak, 35, and

Prince Consort, 35, ironclad; whose arrival at Gib-
raltar has already been announced, haveorders to re-
main there for the present. We have here the flag-
ship Victoria, 102, Resistance, 16, and Enterprise, 4,
the two latter ironclad; Arethusa, and a few smaller

vessels. The Eudymion, 21, is at the Piraeus, the
Racer,ll, at Patras. The Caradoc is at Cons t antinople
and the Cockatrice at her station on the Danube.

The Right Rev. Dr. Trower, Bishop of Gibraltar,

accompanied by his family, and the Yen. Archdeacon
Cleugh, left Malta yesterday for England, by way
of Sicily, Corfu, and Venice. It is not the intention
of his lordship to retain the bishopric. •
Yesterday being the birthday of the Emperor of
Russia, the Russian squadron now anchored at the
Motherbank, under the command of Rear-Admiral
Kern, her Majesty's ships lying at Spithead and in
Portsmouth harbour dressed out in colours in honour

of the day, her Majesty's ships hoisting at their main
royal mast heads the flag of the Russian navy, a
blue cross, diagonal, on a white field. At noon her
Majesty's ship Victory led off with the first gun of
a general salute, taken up in succession by her Ma-
jesty's ships Duke of Wellington and St. Vincent in
the harbour, and the Bellerophon and Lord Clyde
at Spithead. The Russian ships Askold and Variag,
and the guns on Portsmouth town fortifications also

joined in the salute.
Rear-Admiral F. Warden, C. 8., at present the
second in command of the Channel Fleet, but its
intended chief in the trials of 1867, rehoisted his

flag yesterday morning on board his flagship, the iron
frigate Minotaur, Capt. James G. Goodenough, at
Portsmouth. The sails of this frigate were bent

some days since, but yesterday they were set for the
first time, when, to the astonishment of all who wit-
nessed the performance, the upper topsails were found
to have been made much too deep in their hoist, and
the lower topsails (the ship carries double topsail
yards on four of her five masts) as much too small.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steom sloop Virago, 6,
Commander H. M. Bingham, from Portsmouth for
Australia, which was off the Start, Plymouth, all

well, at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, broke down her

starboard engine subsequently, and at 5 yesterday
morning was in a disabled condition outside the
Breakwater. She has been brought into harbour
by the tugboat Trusty.
The paddlewheel steamer Adder, Master Com-
mander Blakey, completed her repairs yesterday,
and will resume her duties as tender to the Welles•
ley, 72, in Chatham harbour, this morning.
The 98th Regiment, under the command of Col

Peyton, who returned to England during the past
week from service in India, paraded yesterday morn-
ing for inspection by Lieut.-General Sir George
Buller, K.C.8., in the Governor's-green at Ports-
mouth. They look remarkably well.
The 4th Rifle Brigade, at present serving in
Canada, is shortly expected to leave that colony for
England, and on arrival will be quartered in Ports-
mouth garrison.
The 15th (the King's) Hussars and the 17th
Lancers, at Aldershott, have commenced their troop
competition for prizes and badges. The dexterity
shown in the use of the cavalry weapons by both
regiments has been highly praised. Prizes are
awarded to three men out of every 50 who prove
their superiority after repeated encounters on horse-
back. The best swordsman in each troop received
2d. per day extra and the badge of the cross-swords
in silver. The other two prizemen receive id. per
day extra, and the cross-sword badge in worsted. It
is understood that in the regimental competition this
year the competitors will engage with equal weapons,
sword against sword, and lance against lance, and
not, as on former occasions, lance against sword,
and vice versa. The champion in this competition
will receive 3d. per day extra, and the badge of the
swords in gold. Great interest is evinced in the com-
petition and the results, both by participants and
spectators. The troops at Aldershott have been en-
gaged in the ordinary spring drill during the past
week. Lieut.-Gen. the lion. Sir James Yorke
Scarlett, K.C.8., commanding the division, had
ordered a field-day of the infantry on Wednesday,
and of the cavalry on Thursday: but, owing 4o the
unfavourable weather, a counter-order was issued.
Yesterday a detachment of 150 non-commissioned
officers and men belonging to the various depots,
comprising the 2d battalion of infantry at Chatham,
arrived at the garrison from Gravesend, after com-
pleting their course of ball practice at the Govern-
ment rifle range, previous to embarcation.
In the afternoon a similar detachment of the
same battalion left the garrison and marched to
Gravesend to undergo the course of rifle instruc-
tion.
A detachment, numbering 25 non-commissioned
officers and men, with three officers, will leave Chat-
ham garrison to-morrow for Hythe, there to un-
dergo a course of instruction with the Snider breech-
loader rifle at the School of Musketry.
A letter from Kingston, Jamaica, dated the 9th
inst., received by a Southampton corrrespondent,
gives the following information respecting military
and naval movements at that place :—" The 84th
Regiment arrived at this port in her Majesty's trans-
port steamer Tamar, Capt. Sullivan, on the 2d inst.,
landed at Kingston on the following day, and
marched for Newcastle yesterday, passing the 6th
Regt. on its way to Kingston for embarkation. A
company under Captain Simpson had started for
Manchester, where they had quarters prepared for
their reception. The 6th Royal Regiment are in
great spirits with the prospect of returning home.
A pile of wood 12ft. high was built by the regiment
above Newcastle and lighted when the Tamar hove
in sight. During their stay in Jamaica the regiment
has been deservedly popular. The Tamar spoke on
the 17th March, in lat. 24 24 N., long. 32 11 W.,
the English bark Warrior, bound for Callao ; and
on the 23d, in lat. 19 46 N., long. 39 23 W., the
English bark Samuel, bound homeward. There is
nothing new from Honduras. Col. Hunt, Royal
Marines, proceeds to Belize, in the Ornew, in a few
days to organise a militia force, and he will be ac-
companied by Deputy Assist.-Commissary-General
Archer and two officers of the 4th West India Re-
giment. Her Majesty's ship Cadmus arrived on the
sth from Port au Prince, where she had been sent
to preserve and protect the interests of British sub-
jects during revolutionary proceedings. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Doris left this on the 27th ult. for Hali-
fax, with 30 cases of yellow fever on board. The in-
fection had been brought from Carthagena, where
she had but recently come from. H.M.S. Nimble
is at present on a cruise. She had arrived at St.
Jago and had left there for St. Domingo and Porto
Rico. tier Catholic Majesty's steamer Concepcion,
28 guns, arrived here yesterday from St. Jago de
Cuba, ostensibly on a cruise, but more likely for the
purpose of protecting the Spanish mail steamer
Montezuma between the Havannah and Colon, via
Jamaica and Santa Martha, which there is some
reason to suspect is watched by the Peruvians. De
Cordova's Gleaner, some few days ago announced
some startling particulars relative to an attempt
that had been made in Kingston to put certain
Peruvian passengers' (persons in the interest of
l'eru) on board the Montezuma for Santa Martha.
The captain, however, suspected that all was not
right, and their connection with a Peruvian priva-
teer, the Cuyler, that had left Carthagena, in the
inter, sts of Peru and Chili, being whispered about
the city, they were refused a passage. These per-
sons ou the other hand (on going on board the
Moutezun •la to inspect her after taking their tickets),
finding that the ,
spani aa Government having ;:ome
scent of their intentions bad the ship well armed
and manned for such an emergency, quickly re-
traced their steps, and consented to receive one-
half of their
luggage,
it
is passage-money rather than go. Their
alleged,contained documents that
would have afforded too much information for
Spain. Since then some
f
regarding her safety,
as
the ears have been expressed
Cuyler is believed to
be no great distance from Jamaica at present. The
Montezuma being a fast steamer
would
valu-
able instrument against the Spaniards be a
in the hands
of Peru, but the Cubans, having fully em
for such an emergency, consider herquitecipped her
equal to
any hostile attack that she is likely
to meet with."
The following appointments have been
made at