The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-26 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

MALTA.—H.M.'s screw troopship Simoom, Capt.
B. Lethbridge, arrived at Malta on the 16th inst.,
after a rapid passage of only nine days from Kings-
town, having on board 29 officers, 7 staff sergeants,
636 non-commissioned officers and soldiers, 1 school-
master, 1 schoolmistress, 67 women, 66 children, and
7 servants, of the Ist battalion 60th Rifles ; one
officer, one lady, and one soldier 2d battalion Bth
Regiment. The troops were landed on the following
day at Fort Manoel, and are now temporarily en-
camped on the slopes of the island, where they will
be kept until the arrival of the Tamar, with the Ist
battalion Bth Regiment, which is to relieve the 2d
battalion 4th Regiment, when the 2d battalion Bth
Regiment will vacate Fort Manoel and occupy the
barracks at Floriana, on the departure of the 4th,
and the 6th Rifles will then take up their quarters in
Fort Manoel. The Ist battalion 22d Regiment is
expected to embark on board the Simoom, for St.
John's, N. 8., on the 24th inst. The Industry, screw
storeship, Staff Commander Youel, has left Malta
for England, with condemned stores and a few naval
invalids. The Caledonia, 35, ironclad (bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the
Hon. F. A. Foley, had left port for gun exercise.
The Pelican, 17, screw corvette, Commander R. P.
Cator, is daily expected from the coast of Syria.
The paddlewheel surveying steamer Hydra will pro-
ceed, about the 2d April, to resume surveying ope-
rations on the coast of Greece. Capt. Shorttland,
appointed to the command of this ship, in place of
Capt. Mansell, retired, is expected by the next
Marseilles packet. For ten days the town has
been kept in a state of excitement by several
disturbances committed by officers and soldiers
of the garrison. On the evening of the 10th
inst., in the vicinity of the theatre, a dispute arose
between some officers of the 100th Regiment and a
Maltese shopkeeper, which led to a serious disturb-
ance, in which several policemen and civilians re-
ceived black eyes, and were otherwise maltreated.
Lieut. Fox and Ensign Merritt were tried for the
assaults on the police, sentenced to a fine of £l5
each, and bound over to keep the peace for one year
in recognizances of £5O, and to be imprisoned for
three months. Two soldiers of the same regiment,
concerned in the disturbance, were sentenced to 25
days' imprisonment. On the evening of the day on
which the sentence was passed on the officers a
large number of soldiers assembled opposite the shop
of the accuser, a man named Preca, evidently with
the intention of avenging themselves on him for
having brought the charge forward, and had it not
been for the timely intervention of the main guard,
called out by the police, and a picket of the 100th
Regiment, the matter might have become serious.
On the following evening, being St. Patrick's-
day, the regiment was confined to barracks. A
number of officers of the 4th Regiment were also
charged with committing a disturbance and assault-
ing and striking the police on a previous night. Capt.
De Robeck was fined £5, and the rest were liberated
with an admonition. It was only a few months ago
that two officers of the Ist battalion 22d Regiment
were sent to prison for three months for an aggra-
vated assault on the police, and it is feared that the
clemency shown towards them in first commuting
the sentence, and then pardoning the offenders, has
had a bad effect on the soldiers and some of the
young officers of the garrison. Since writing the
above her Majesty's guuvessel Star, 4, Commander
W. Gordon, has arrived from Portland and Gib-
raltar, having on board as passenger the Rev. Mr.
Gordon. She left the former place on the 20th ult.,
and the latter on the 10th inst. This vessel is to
relieve the Surprise, 4, Commander G. Tryon,
ordered to England to be paid off. The Tamar, 2,
screw troopship, Capt. Stirling, has also arrived
from Kingstown. She left that port on the 10th inst.
-with the Ist battalion Bth Regiment, for this garri-
son, consisting of Col. Ilinde, C. 8., Major Baynes,
32 other officers, 5 officers' wives, and 9 children ;
709 non-commissioned officers and men, 76 women,
and 92 children. Mr. Page and Capt. Langford,
Royal Navy, has also arrived by her. This vessel is
to convey the 4th Regiment to Halifax. The Dutch
frigate Adolf Herteg Van Nassau, 51, Capt. Uhlen-
bech, has come in from Vessingen in 18 days, on her
way to Smyrna. A court-martial was held on board
her Majesty's ship Hibernia—president, Capt. W.
Chamberlain, of the Resistance, officiating Judge
Advocate, Mr. Fegen, secretary to the Commander-
in-Chief, to try Mr. E. Hocken, assist.-engineer,
first-class, of her Majesty's ship Phcebe, for drunk-
enness. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sen-
tenced to forfeit his seniority as assist.-engineer first-
class, and to be reprimanded. It was telegraphed
that the quarantine restrictions lately established at
Malta on arrivals from Alexandria had been removed,
and soon after the following notice, signed by the
Chief Secretary to Government, was promulgated on
the subject Official information having been re-
ceived that there has been no case of cholera in
Egypt since the case reported on the Bth inst., and
that the public health is perfect, without suspicion,
of cholera both at the Isthmus, as also at Gaza,
Jaffa, and Jerusalem, the officer administering the
Government, having heard the opinion of theßoard
of Health, has been pleased to direct that the Go-
vernment notice of the 12th insi. shall be cancelled,
and arrivals from Alexandria placed in free pratique
with these islands."'

The whole of the vessels comprising the squadron
of wooden mortar boats laid up at Chatham since
the termination of the Russian war have been re-
moved from the moorings they have occupied for
several years past at Yantlett-creek, and by direc-
tion of the Admiralty have been converted either
into mooring lighters or dockyard tenders, for ser-
vice at the various naval ports, for which use their
size and tonnage well adapt them. The last two of
the vessels left Chatham a day or two since for
Sheerness and Portsmouth dockyards. There now
remain a considerable number of the iron mortar
vessels laid up high and dry at the eastern end of
Chatham dockyard, where each vessel has been
roofed over to protect it from the weather. No de-
cision has been arrived at by the Admiralty as to
the ultimate use to which they will be devoted,

while every precaution is taken, by frequent 112qt:0-
i-ions and repairs, to keep each vessel sound and fit
for any service to which the squadron may ulti-
mately be devoted.
A most distressing accident occurred yesterday
morning at Woolwich, by which a young officer
belonging to the garrison, Lieut. A. H. Gorges, B
Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, lost his life. He
had mounted his charger on which he was accus-
tomed to accompany the troops, and was about to
take a gallop across the review ground before the
parade for morning service at church, when the
horse rushed forward and sprang on the raised foot-
way in front of General Belson's house, in Kempt-
terrace, where, after struggling for a moment, it
fell on the pavement, rolling over the rider
and crushing him beneath it. Dr. J. S. Little, sur-
geon-major to the Royal Military Academy, was
promptly in attendance, and found the sufferer al-
most lifeless, but still breathing. He was hastily
conveyed to the Herbert Hospital, but died before
his arrival. The disaster which befel Lieut. Gorges
was witnessed by a number of persons who were
passing at the time, and the news soon spread
throughout the town and garrison. He obtained his
first commission in the Royal Artillery in 1857,
having passed the Royal Military Academy with
success. The horse had been under
iunder a course of train-
ing for some time past, hang been entered to run
in the Royal Artillery steeplechases, which took
place on Thursday last.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieuts. Henry F. Nicholson, S.
M'Dougall, F. W. Lowther, H. Bridger, and C. F.
Gordon, to the Bellerophon ; Lieut. W. Collins, to
the Cockatrice ; Lieut. C. P. Bugle, to the Cum-
berland ; F. 11r. Rea, master, to the Bellerophon ;
N. Littleton, Burg., to the Barracouta ; James F.
Fitzgerald, assist.-surg., to the Barracouta.

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE,

THE BRIGHTON REVIEW.

The detailed lists of the volunteer corps which
have signified their intention to take part in the
Easter Review at Brighton have been published.
A force of 15,650 men will go from London, and
6,484 from different parts of the country, chiefly
from Sussex, making up in the aggregate an army
22,135 strong. It is the intention of their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to be
present on the very interesting occasion. The in-
vitation received a most gracious reply (conveyed
through General Knollys in the affirmative, coupled
with the request that the Mayor of Brighton (Alder-
man H. Martin) would wait upon his Royal High-
ness atMarlborogh House, on Wednesday evening,
respecting arrangements. Accordingly the Mayor,
accompanied by David Black, Esq. (Town Clerk),
attended at Marlborough House, and had the
honour of an interview with the Prince of 'Wales.
His Royal Highness having been informed of the
proposed arrangements made several inquiries, and
then stated his determination to visit Brighton, ac-
companied by the Princess of Wales and the Duke of
Cambridge. The Mayor presented a copy of Wyld's
plan and a sketch of the town. The Royal party
will reach Brighton by a special train on Easter Mon-
day morning, and upon their arrival they will pro-
ceed to luncheon at the Pavilion. Their Royal
Highnesses will then leave for the Race-course, and
the recent addition to the Grand Stand will be placed
at their disposal. Upon the conclusion of the re-
view a special train will convey the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales to town. Suitable arrangements are
being made to give eclat to the occasion, and it is
rumoured that a public illumination will take place
in the evening in honour of the event. On Satur-
day week Colonel Erskine, Inspector-General of
Volunteers, visited Brighton to make himself con-
versant with the arrangements of the forthcoming
review. He expressed approval of the police arrange-
ments of last year, and in a conference with the
Mayor and chief constable it was decided that simi-
lar plans should be adopted on this occasion. The
gallant colonel rode over the review ground, with
which he was much pleased.

On Saturday, in anticipation of the Brighton Vo-
lunteer Review, most of the metropolitan volunteer
regiments, notwithstanding the, inclemency of the
weather, marched out into the various parks for
either battalion drill or blank cartridge firing, and
the musters were very excellent.

The Queen's (Westminster) mustered in New
Palace-yard, and marched, headed by their bands,
to Hyde-park, for battalion drill.
The London Rifle Brigade mustered in Finsbury-
circus at three p.m., and marched, via the City,
Pentonville and Euston roads, to the Regent's-park,
for light infantry drill, skirmishing, and blank
cartridge practice.
The South Middlesex mustered at Beaufort House
for battalion drill at five p.m.
The London Irish paraded at 4.30 p.m. in front
of their headquarters, Adelphi- terrace, and marched
to Battersea Park for battalion drill

The North Middlesex mustered at the Cavalry
Barracks, Albany-street, Regent's-park, and
marched to Primrose-hill for blank cartridge firing
and light infantry drill.
The various Tower Hamlets corps mustered very
numerously in Victoria-park for battalion drill and
blank cartridge firing.