The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-22 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

FALMOUTH, Wednesday Morning.

The ship Orient, belonging to Anderson, Thomp-
son, and Co., Loudon, 1,032 tons, Captain Harris,
from Adelaide, for London, arrived off this port (all
well), having on freight 250 tons copper and ore,
3,800 bales wool, 150 tons sundries, and three pas-
sengers, one of whom was landed here ; ailed from
Adelaide on the 10th February, rounded Cape Horn
on the 30th March, crossed the Equator on the 2')th
April ; had light winds and fine weather to the
Azores, thence light and variable winds and misty
weather.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILS.

GALLE, May 19.
The Ottawa from China arrived on the 15th
inst., and the Avoca from Australia to-day.
The Surat leaves for Suez to-day.
The Bombay reached Melbourne on the 14th and
Sydney on the 16th April.
The Mongolia arrived at Galle on the 4th May.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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VALETTA, May 17.—The most interesting local
events of the week are the arrival of our new Go-

vernor, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Patrick Grant, G.C.8., and
the departure of the Naval Commander-in-Chief,
Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., for the usual summer
cruise. Sir Patrick Grant arrived early in the morn-
ing of the 15th inst., from Marseilles, on board the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Nyanza, and at 8
o'clock his excellency, Lady Grant, his family, and
his personal staff landed at the Marmuscetto with
the usual honours. At 11 o'clock her Majesty's
commission appointing Sir Patrick Grant Adminis-
trator of the Government of the Island of Malta
and its derendencies was read iu the hail of St.
Michael and St. George, and the usual oaths were
administered in the presence of the constituted
authorities and a considerable number of the in-
habitants. Previous to disembarking Sir Patrick
Grant received a visit on board the Nyanza from
Lord Clarence Paget, who was on the point of sail-
ing, but had postponed his departure in order to
welcome her Majesty's representative before leaving.
His Excellency's staff is composed of Capt. A. C.
Grant, 11th Hussars, Assist. Military Secretary and
Private Secretary ; Lieut. G. C. Strahan, R.A., Ist
A.D.C., and Lieut. 11. G. Grant, 78th Highlanders,
2d A.D.C. The same morning the Naval Com-
mander-in-Chief, Lord C. Paget, with Lady Cla-
rence and family, left Malta in H.M.S. Victoria,
Capt. Alan Gardner, for Gibraltar, accompanied by
H.M.S. Arethusa, Capt. R. J. G. Macdonald. More
than usual interest was taken in the departure of
these ships, or rather the former, on account of her
being in all probability the last of the seagoing
three-deckers that will be seen in the Mediterra-
nean. On reaching Gibraltar the Admiral will shift
his flag to the Caledonia, ironclad, which it is ex-
pected will have arrived before him. The Victoria
thence, proceeds to Devonport to pay off, the Cale-
donia and Arethusa remaining for the present at
Gibraltar, whence they will, however, in a few
weeks commence their summer cruise by visiting
some of the ports of Spain and France. The rest
of the squadron will join the Admiral as soon as
they can be got ready for sea and have completed
the fitting of their new heavy ordnance. The Ocean
24, ironclad, Captain Stanhope, will probably sail
about the 24th inst., for Gibraltar and China. The
Royal Oak, 35, ironclad, Captain the Hon. G. D.
Deane, will be ready for sea about the middle of
June, and the Prince Consort, 35, ironclad, Capt.
Inglefield, about the 4th of July. Four United
States' ships of war were at Messina on the 12th
inst. The half-yearly inspections being over, many
officers of the garrison have obtained leave of ab-
sence and proceeded to England.
The launch of the unarmoured screw sloop Danae,
4 guns, 350 horse power, constructed from the de-
signs of Mr. E. J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of
the Navy, was successfully accomplished yes-
terday just before noon from No. 2 building slip
of Portsmouth dockyard. In the notice of the
Danae, in the Naval Intelligence of yesterday, by
a clerical error, the speed of the Amazon at the
measured mile, at her deep load draught, was stated
to be " a little short of 131 knots." It should have
read " a little short of 12fr knots."
His Italian Majesty's ship Eurydice, 24 guns,
Capt. Cavalier Bertelli, arrived at Spithead yester-
day from Genoa and Gibraltar, and on anchoring
exchanged the customary salutes with the Port Ad-
miral's ship at Portsmouth and the garrison saluting
battery. Unfortunately, in firing the salutes from
the Italian frigate a very serious accident occurred
—two of her men reloading one of the guns being
blown into the water out of the gun port by a pre-
mature explosion of the charge on being rammed
home in the gun, supposed to have been caused by
the vent of the gun not being " served" properly—
i.e., the external air kept from the chamber of the
gun by pressure of the thumb of the man on the
touchhole of the piece whose duty it was to attend
to that part of the gun's loading. One of the poor
fellows had his hand blown off, and the other had
his arm severely fractured. Both were immediately
sent on shore to the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar,
Gosport, where their injuries were promptly at-
tended to by the staff of the establishment. Capt.
Bertelli will land at Portsmouth to-day from his
ship, and, accompanied by the Italian Vice-Consul,
the Chevalier Vandenbergh, pay the usual official
visits to the Port-Admiral and Lieutenant-
Governor, acts of courtesy which he was pre-
vented doing yesterday by the roughness of the
weather.

The sailing Indiaman Nile, 1,250 tons, Captain
Owen, one of Messrs. Green's Black wall fleet,
arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon from Cal-
cutta, with 185 invalid soldiers, 14 women, and 38
children. The Nile sailed from Calcutta on the
29th of January, called in at St. Helena on the 3d
of April, and arrived off the Lizard on the 17th
inst. The troops will be disembarked from the ship
early this morning, and she will afterwards sail from
Spithead for the Thames to discharge her cargo.
Her Majesty's steam transport Euphrates, which
has been built by Messrs. Laird, Brothers, of Birk-
enhead, and was floated on the 24th of November
last, has received her rigging and completed her
fittings. Yesterday she finally left the New
Alfred Dock, Birkenhead, and was formally
handed over to Government. Captain Mon-
tagu Dunn assumed the command, Mr. E. J. Reed,
Chief Constructor of the Navy, and Mr. Luke, one
Inspectors, were present. The of the Admiralty
ship, it is understood, will leave the Mersey for
Portsmouth to-day. She is a very fine vessel, and
is the first of the five transports destined for the
Indian relief troops service, via Suez. Her length is
365 ft., breadth 49ft., maximum draught of water
21ft., and tonnage, 4,173. Her engines, which are
of 700 horse power nominal, were also constructed
by Messrs. Laird, who have, in fact, built and com-
pleted the ship throughout at their own works. The
cylinders are 94in. diameter, with 4ft. 6in. stroke.
Her accommodationis for 1,450 persons, 1,250 mili-
tary, and 200 crew. After her trial at Portsmouth
she will proceed to Bombay to commence, in August,
the new system of relief.
The trial last week of the engines of the screw

steam frigate Phoebe, Capt.. J. Bythesea, V.C.,
outside Plymouth Breakwater, not having proved
satisfactory, another trial will be made as soon as
the necessary alterations are completed.
The screw steamer Imogene, tender to the Coast-
guard, from Cowes, was appointed to leave Ports-
mouth yesterday with supernumeraries for Ireland.
The Lords of the-Admiralty have deterniined on
erecting fortifications on St. Catherine's Island,
near Tenby, and tenders have already been received.
The island commands an important point of the
Bristol Channel, and the new works will be a valuable
addition to the range of fortifications around Mil-
ford and Pembroke.
The Enrolled Pensioners and Army Reserve men
of the Bristol district, under the command of Major
Maclean, staff officer, completed their annual eight
days' permanent duty on Monday, when they were
inspected on Durdham Down by Colonel Blyth, of '
the 40th Regiment, who spoke highly of the efficiency
of the corps.
The following appintments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander Edward W. Shaw,
to the Revenge, for service in the Coastguard ;
Commander Loftus F. Jones to the St. George, for
service in the Coastguard ; Commander Richard H.
Harrington, to the Frederick William, for service
in the Coastguard ; Lieut. John H. O'Brien to the
Bristol, additional, for disposal; Sub-Lieut. F. G.
M. Powell to the Phoebe; Sub-Lieut. W. Bayly
and Sub-Lieut. J. G. W. Harrison to the Lord
Clyde ; Sub-Lieut. N. 14. H. Clarke to the Dryad ;
M. Napier, midshipman, to the Phoebe; W. Y.
Ottley, midshipman, to the Achilles ; P. F. Tillard,
naval cadet, to the Zealous ; A. 11. Lindesay, naval
cadet, to the Phoebe ; E. I'. Brett and G. A. D.
llaviland, naval cadets, to the Royal Alfred ; T.
Parker, engineer, to the Excellent, for service in
the Stork ; H. B. Fabian, engineer, to the Indus,
for the Vixen; and J. Pearse, engineer, to the Cum-
berland, for the Lee.

It is rumoured that a gentleman connected with
a large music publishing firm, the universality of whose
enterprise has long beeu appreciatod, is about to devote
his entire energies to the establishment of a permanent
peripatetic English opera ; short seasons to be given in all
the chief towns of the United Kingdom.—Orchestra.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, May 21.
The baptism of his Royal Highness the infant
Prince, son of their Royal Highnesses the Prince
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess
Christian (Princess Helena of Great Britain and
Ireland) took place to-day at one o'clock, in the
Private Chapel at Windsor Castle.
The following Royal personages were at the
ceremony : Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, K.G., his Royal
Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, their Royal
Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian, her
Royal Highness Princess Louise, his Royal Highness
Prince Arthur, his Royal Highness Prince Leopold,
her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, their Royal
Highnesses the Grand Duke, the Grand Duchess,
and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, his Serene Highness Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Sereno Highness the
Prince of Teck, and Count Gleichen.
The Cabinet Ministers present were the First
Lord of the Treasury (the Earl of Derby, K.G.)'
the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, and the Secretary
of State for the Home Department (the Right Hon•
Gathorne Hardy).
The clergy officiating were the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of
Windsor, and the Very Rev. the Dean of West-
minster.

The members of the household in attendance as"
sembled in the corridor shortly before one o'clock.
The Ministers and other company invited to be
present proceeded on arrival to the Red Drawing
Room, and thence were shown to seats provided for
them in the chapel.
The sponsors for his Royal Highness the infant
Prince, viz., her Majesty the Queen, his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, her Royal Highness
Princess Louise, proxy for her Royal Highness the
Crown Princess of Prussia ; his Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburgh, proxy for his Royal
Highness the Duke of Saxe-Goburg-Gotha ;
his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, prOXY
for the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein Augus"
tenburg ; Lady Churchill, proxy for the Dowager
Princessof Hohenlohe-Langenburg; were conducted
to the seats prepared for them on the left side ei
the Communion rails.
Her Majesty the Queen was attended by thei
Duchess of Wellington (Mistress of the Robes), an
by the Dowager Duchess of Athole (Lady-in-Wait-
ing), and the Hon. Lucy Kerr and the Hon. Ewa
Cathcart (Maids of Honour).
At the commencement of the service the bymn:
" In life's gay morn," &c., composed by his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, was sung.
The infant Prince was brought in, attended by
Lady Susan Melville.
The Queen handed him to the Archbishop, and.
named him Christian Victor Albert Ludwig Ernest
Anton.
At the conclusion of the service another hymn'
composed by S. Bach, was sung.
Her Majesty the Queen then retired from the
chapel to the Green Drawing Room. The Royal
and other distinguished guests were also conducted
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to the Green Drawing Room, where the baptismal
register was completed.
Luncheon was served for the royal family in the
Oak Room, and for the other distinguished guest°
in the dining room.
During the collation the Lord Steward gave .the
following toasts :—" Prince Christian Victor 01'
Schleswig-Holstein," " The Queen," " Their Royal;
Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian 01
Schleswig-Holstein."
A special train left the Paddington Station fe,r
Windsor Castle at 11.30 a.m. to convey her Majesty
guests, and returned from Windsor at 3.15 p.m. A
The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold and
Princess Beatrice, drove out this afternoon.
The Dowager Duchess of Athole has succeeded
the Countess of Caledon as Lady in Waiting.
Viscount Torrington and Colonel the lion. C.
Lindsay have succeeded Viscount Hawarden an
the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West as Lord and
Groom in Waiting.

The Prince of Wales, attended by General Sir
W. Knollys and Major Teesdale, went to Windsor
yesterday, and was present at the christening of the
infant Prince, first child of their Royal highnesses
the Prince and Princess Christian.
The Duchess of Northumberland will leave town
in a few days for Oatlands Park Hotel, Walton-ou'
Thames.
The Duchess Dowager of Athole and Miss M'
ray Macgregor have left the St. George's Hotel.
The Duca and Duchessa del Galdo, with the
Conte Giusso and Signor and Signora Volpiceilio
have arrived at Catakli's Hotel from Naples.
The Earl of Wilton entertained a large party 01
sporting friends at dinner last evening at his man'
sion in Grovenor-square.
Lord Dunglas arrived at the Earl of Home's man:
sion in Grosvenor-square, on Monday, from Hiree'
Viscount and Viscountess Boyne have arrived in
Belgrave-square from Burwarton, Bridgenorth.
The Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone re-
ceived a select party at dinner last evening at the
family residence on Carlton-house-terrace.
Gladstone had a very small circle of friends late '.`"
the evening.