The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-15 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, March 10.—Her Majesty's iron screw
transport Megmra, Capt. J. Simpson, arrived on
the 4th inst., after a fine passage of 12 days from
Plymouth and Gibraltar, having on board supernu-
meraries for the fleet, among whom was Lieut. C. R.
Drew, surveying-officer of her Majesty's ship Hydra,
returning from leave. The Megmra will take back
to England naval and military invalids and time-
expired men. She is expected to leave about the 24th
inst. The Tyrian gunboat, Lieut.-Commander the
Hon. V. Montagu, and the Cockatrice gunboat, Com-
mander Bogle, left port on the sth inst., the former
for Patras, to relieve the Enterprise, 4, Commander
Bosanquet, which will bring back to Malta the
Bishop of Gibraltar calling at Zante and Cephalo-
nia, to enable his lordship to visit the English
families residing in those islands. The Tfrian will
afterwards proceed to Candia to take the place
of the Wizard, gunboat, Lieut.-Commander P. J.
Murray, on being relieved by the Racer, 11, Comr.
L. Brine, which arrived at Malta on the sth inst.
from Alexandria and Suda Bay. The Cockatrice
has orders to resume her station on the Danube,
communicating on her way with the Pirreus and
Constantinople. The Turkish steam transport Kars,
from Constantinople and the Dardanelles, having
on board 841 soldiers for the garrison of Tripoli,
put in here on the 4th inst., having, although only
at sea foutdays, run short of water, for which, on
entering the port, biscuits were gladly bartered by
the troops over the side of the vessel. No time was
lost in sending her a tank of water, and she pro-
ceeded on the following day to Tripoli. The Egyptian
steam yacht Mahrusa, Capt. Gemelly Bey, arrived
on the 6th inst. from Alexandria, to make use of
our naval dock for cleaning purposes. The French
steam frigate Eldorado, with 800 troops and 61
horses on board from Toulon and Algiers for Cochin
China, which left our port for Alexandria on the 2d
inst., after replenishing fuel, bore up on the sth
inst., having, as it is reported, run short of provi-
sions and water. It is said there are 25 horses of
pure Arab breed on board this vessel, which arel
being sent as a present from the Emperor of France
to the Emperor of Japan. The Uawk, screw
steamer, belonging to the Telegraph Construction
and Maintenance Company, left Malta On the 4th
inst., for Messina, to overhaul tie telegraphic cables
between Sicily and Calabria, which have lately been
out of working order. The appearance of cholera
at Jersey has induced the Malta Government to
impose a quarantine of 15 days on arrivals thence,
and from the other Channel Islands. It has at
the same time increased the period of quaran-
tine from seven to 15 days on arrivals from
Girgenti, in Sicily, and its vicinity, where cases
of cholera continue to occur of a very type.
Arrivals with clean bills of health from
other parts of Italy and from the Calabrias are
admitted to pratique. Among the passengers by
the Pera from Alexandria for Gibraltar and South-
ampton was the Count d'Alengon, who is returning
to Europe from a tour in India. Rear-Admiral
Hall, one of the directors of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company, arrived here by the Ripon from
Southampton on theBth inst., ena
rcnlte to Alexandria.
For some time past it has been rumoured that the
squadron would be suddenly ordered away on a
cruise. It is now said it will be put to sea to-mor-
row—the Victoria, the Prince Consort, the Ocean,
the Royal Oak, and the Arethusa—under the com-
mand of Lord Clarence Paget, and, after a day's
target practice at the Tilfla Rock, on the south
coast of Malta, proceed to Favignana, and the coast
of Sicily. Arrangements have, I understand, been
made to keep up communication with-the Admiralty
through the Consulate, so that in case affairs in the
East, or elsewhere, require the presence of any of
the ships at any particular quarter they will be al-
ways at hand. The English screw steamer Jarrow,
which arrived from Port Said and Candia on the
sth, brings news to the 2d inst. The insurrection
is by no means quelled, and every effort is being
made to keep it alive, not only by the Greek com-
mittee, but by agents of other foreign Powers. An
English steamer, called the Dream, 460 tons, had
hoisted Greek colours, and been taken charge of
by a•Greek owner at Syra. She is fitted with two
guns, and it is no secret that she is intended to
assist the Panhellion in running the blockade. Two
shots were fired at the Jarrow by a Turkish frigate,
which mistook her for a blockade runner."

A telegram received at the office of Admiral Sir
Thomas S. Pasley, the Port Admiral and
Naval Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, from
the Admiralty yesterday afternoon, directed that
the whole of the available seagoing vessels in com-
mission in the port should complete their prepara-
tions for sea, and be held ready to proceed to
Ireland at an early hour this morning. The Hector
frigate, returning stores alongside the dockyard,
preparatory to being paid out of commission, im-
mediately on the receipt of the telegram com-
menced re-shipping her stores and bending her sails
and would be ready to again leave Portsmouth
harbour by high water today (Friday), en route
for Queenstown. The Bellerophon frigate had but
to take her powder and shell on board and could
leave for Queenstown by daylight this morning. The
Niobe screw gun vessel, which has been lying at
Spithead having a new stanchion fitted, would also,
it was expected, sail from Spithead at daylight this
morning, and would be folio wed by Two gunboats,
manned from the paddle frigate Terrible, and the
gunboat Stork, manned from the Excellent. The
screw troopship Himalaya is lying at Spithead, in
readiness to convey the 66th Regt. to the Channel
Islands; but at the present moment -she is availablend
for conveying two regiments per trip to Ireland, and
the Bellerophon and Hector can well convey another
regiment between them. We would again remark
that there are 1,200 Royal llarine Artillery in bar-
racks at head-quarters if troops are wanted to take
charge of any parts of the dbast or of the harbours
of Ireland. The Royal Marine Light Infantry also
muster strongly at all their divisional head-qu triers.
Her Majesty's yachts Victoria and Albert,
Osborne, Alberta, and Elfin are all undergoing their
usual repairing and embellishment courses for
summer service at Portsmouth. The Elfin reived
new boilers yesterday from the steam factOry-ed`e-
partment.

The Royal Marine Artillery serving on board her
Majesty's ships Bellerophon, Royal Alfred, Rodney,
and other seagoing vessels have been armed with
the Snider breechloading Enfield rifle.
The Dee, paddle steamer, Commander Raymond,
is loading at Portsmouth with machinery for the
armour-plated frigate Repulse, 12, converting at

The 66th Regiment (Berkshire), from Aldershot,
will embark on board her Majesty's screw troop-
ship Himalaya, Capt. Shute B. Piers, from Ports-
mouth Dockyard on the 18th or 19th inst., for con-
veyance to the Channel Islands. The Ist, 2d, and
sth batteries of the 6th Brigade of Royal Artillery
are also under orders to relieve three other batteries
of that Brigade now serving in the Channel Islands.
They also will embark in the Himalaya, the present
orders of that vessel being to carry out the Channel
Islands reliefs.

Don Enrique and the Spanish Government.

MADRID, March 11.

A Royal decree depriving Don Enrique Maria de
Borbon of the dignity of Infante of Spain and all
other honours and titles conferred upon him ap-
peared to-day. The text of the Ministerial pre-
amble to the decree is as follows :

" Madame,—When everything is threatened and
invaded by the fury of social revolution ; when the
force and destructive tendency of this revolutionary
movement attacks not only the foundations of the
throne but those of society ; when the Governments
of order resolutely prepare to resist it ; when the
threatened classes—threatened because they have
something to lose—rally instinctively to strengthen
and support to the utmost the principle of authority,
weakened in so many ways, and yet the last anchor
of salvation for secular society ; when, iu fact, all
the revolutionary elements, in formidable concert,
adopt as their watchword, and proclaim with all the
fury of their instinct, levelling and dethronement—
nothing that might happen could cause surprise.
One thing, however, appeared to be impossible. It
is, that a scion of the royal race, a prince of the
blood, disavowing his dynastic origin with incorri-
gible obduracy time after time, should now by his
acts excite the instincts of revolution, and weaken
the efforts of the Government of his country, who,
faithful to their oath, contend against it. But that
which seemed impossible has, to the shame and in-
dignation of all, come to pass. It is not the first
time, madame, that the well-tried loyalty and mon-
archical instincts of the Spanish people and their
attachment to order have had to deplore culpable
aberrations similar to that which forms the subject
of the present statement, and they still remember
the inconceivable acts of 1848. Your Majesty, act-
ing with your unvarying and inexhaustible munifi-
cence, chowered honours and benefits upon the
Infante Don Enrique. The; republican revolution
was then in fierce agitation at the gates of the Pe-
ninsula. Few were under greater obligations to stay
its course than the Infante ; and yet, to the asto-
nishment of Spain and all Earope, forgetful of him-
self, forgetting everything, denying his country, his
family, and his origin, and even reviling them, he
took the lowest post among the inflamed adepts
of the republic. With pain, therefore, but
with the resolution of duty, the Ministers
of that period considered themselves under the
necessity of recommending to your Majesty the
deprivation of the Infante, and your Majesty had to
endure the bitterness of sanctioning this step. The
Ministers will not add to the grief oppressing your
Majesty's generous heart by recapitulating the mo-
tives of that determination. Written documents
however remained, and even the infants himself,
when disabused of his errors, could hardly hear them
read without anguish and remorse. These charges
have now been increased by a fresh offence. Your
Majesty's unfailing bounty, reinstating the Infante,
again bestowed upon him honours and favours.
The Infante Don Enrique now resides abroad by
his own choice. The press of the country in which
he resided proffered the most insupportable insults
against the highest objects, such as good Spaniards
never mention but with enthusiasm and respect.
If any Spaniard more than another should have felt
indignation at this, and come forward to redress the
wrong, it was the prince, the near relative of the
royal house, upon whom a thousand favours had been
lavished. But the Infante Don Enrique, when it
is not to be supposed that he could have been un-
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has been twice summoned to receive your Majesty's
orders, but has left these requests unnoticed. Un-
der these circumstances the counsellors of the crown
firmly resolved that your Majesty's authority shall
be respected by all, without exception of persons or
classes ; and, considering how greatly such deplor-
able excesses are aggravated by their inconceivable
repetition, feel bound to propose to your Majesty
the deprivation of the Infante Don Enrique Maria
de Borbon ; and to that effect submit to your Ma-
jesty's sovereign approbation the following decree.
" DUKE OF VALENCIA.
" EUSEBIO DE CALONJE.
" L. AIIRAZOLA.
" M. G. BA RZANALLANA.
" J. DE RUBALCAVA.
" L. G. BRABO.
" M. DE ORIVIO.
" A. CASTRO.

" Madrid, March 9."

Her Majesty issued the following decree :
" Taking into consideration the reasons explained
by my Council of Ministers, and in conformity with
their opinion, I decree as follows :—Art. 1. The In-
fante Don Enrique Maria do Bo' bon is deprived of
the dignity of Infante of. Spain, conferred on him
by my august father, and of all the honours, deco-
rations, grades, titles, and offices which he now holds,
without prejudice to other resolutions that may
be found expedient. 2. The present decree
will be communicated to Cortes in their next ses-
sion. Given at the Palace, March 9, 1867.
"Signed by the royal hand.
" RAMON MARIA NARVAEZ."

A HINT TO SMOKERS.—M. Melsens has found
that tobaccos from various countries contain nicotine in
vary different proportions. In tobacco ftom some parts of
France e. g., the department of Lot) there is nearly 8 or
7.95 per cent. of nicotine, while Havana tobacco contains
only 2 per cent. Ile proposes to smokers a way of preserv-
ing them from the effects of the alkaloid, sud advises them
to put into the tube of the pipe or cigar holder a little ball
of cotton impregnated with citric and tannic acids; as the
smoke passes through the cotton it will deposit the nico-
tin:, therein, in the shape of faunae and oitrato.—The
Engineer.