The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-04 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intellijence.

VALETTA, Sept. 29.—Her Majesty's gun vessel
Assurance, 6, Commander Pym, returned from the
Commander-in-Chief on the morning of the 25th
inst. with despatches, and left the following clay to
rejoin the squadron, which left Sicily on the 24th,
on their way to Port Mahon. The only other move-
ments are the departure of the Resistance, 16, iron
clad frigate, on the 21th inst., for a 10 days' cruise,
to run out her quarantine, and the departure of the
Racer, 11, on the 25th, to relieve the Cossack, 20, at
Beyrout, and order her to Malta. The Cruiser, 5,
from England and Gibraltar, the hydra, surveying
vessel, from Sicily, and the Caradoc, despatch ves-
sel, from Constantinople, expected at Malta, have
not yet arrived. The 24thRegme
Pennsylvanian
t sa expectedabout
th e Ih2etrhe
in the hired troopship
prox., to relieve the 100th Royal Canadians, which
regiment will embark in the same ship for Quebec.
Preparations are being made to receive the 24th
Regiment in quarantine at Fort Manoel, where they
will find very comfortable quarters. Some more
places have been put into quarantine during the
week. In consequence of official information having
been received that cases of cholera had occurred
among the troops at Palermo arrived from Naples,
a quarantine of 15 days has been established here
on arrivals from Marsala, Trapani, Palermo, and
termini, as well as the islands in their vicinities.
Arrivals from the rest of the ports in Sicily continue,
however, to be received in free pratique. Norway
has also been included among the countries against
which' 15 days' quarantine is enforced. The last
news from Alexandria, of yesterday's date, is re-
assuring. The cholera seems to have made no further
progress. The issue of clean bills of health had been
resumed, and the telegraph states that the sanitary
condition of the country is excellent. The quaran-
tine which Tunis had imposed on arrivals from Malta
had been abolished. The sanitary authorities of that
regency have doubtless seen the absurdity of esta-
blishing a quarantine on vessels arriving from Malta,
where the state of the public health is excellent, and
where the sanitary measures with regard to arrivals
from infected countries are being carried out with
great rigour. The following is a list of the ports
arrivals from which are at present put in quarantine
at Malta, and the terms of quarantine enforced :
Constantinople, 5 days ; ports of the Black Sea,
Smyrna, and the coasts of Turkey in Asia Minor
as far as Alexandretta, including the islands belong-
ing to Turkey, Austrian ports in the Adriatic,
ports of France, ports of Great Britain, ports of
Cronstadt, the Netherlands, Stockholm, and
in ; Algiers,
Brindisi, Taranto, Genoa, Naples,
a
par•ilslands ; Marsara, Trapani, Palermo,
Stettin tt
u
Termini, and the islands in their
15 days. Leghorn and ports in
Italy neighbour-
hood
3Norway,
not
sevenpateh
-dvaeys ss
e; A
will
e ixlla u
leave
clra 30
days. The Psyche,
,
the Island of Sardinia),
des
to-
night for Cagliari and Port Mahon with despatches
for the Commander-in-Chief, after the arrival of
the overland mail from Marseilles. The following
Government notice was promulgated yesterday :
'The officer administering the Government is hereby
pleased to publish for general information that it
has been officially reported that no fresh case of
farcy has appeared since the publication of the Go-
vernment notice of the 3d of July, 1866, and the
promulgation of Ordinance No. V. of 1866,
and
that, according to the opinion of a medical commis-
sion, the disease h
R. C. as now entirely ceased.-- By com-
mand,LEGH, Acting Chief Secretary to Go-
verntneut."

Her Majesty's screw sloop Rosario, 11, 673 tons,
150-horse power, Commander Louis 11. Versturme,
from the North-American and West Indian squad-
ron, arrived at the Nore on Tuesday evening from
the West Indies, and saluted the flag of Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Baldwin W. Walker. She afterwards
steamed into the harbour to be dismantled and paid
out of commission. The Rosario has been in com-
mission about four years, and has been attached to
the North-American and West Indian station nearly
the whole of that time.

Her Majesty's steam store-ship Dee, Master-Com-
mander Raymond, has shipped a cargo of stores at
Woolwich for Portsmouth and Plymouth, including
a couple of boilers and steam machinery for the new

screw 4-gun sloop Daphne, built recently at Pem-
broke.

The Fraser cheap guns, made at Woolwich, having
been subjected to the most severe tests, both at Wool-
wich and Shoeburyness, with results very favour-
able to the system, the authorities of the War De-
partment have ordered a supply of various calibres
on that system for land and sea service to be got
ready as early as maybe. Col. Campbell, Superin-
tendent of the Royal Gun Factories, has received
orders for the manufacture of 200 68-pounders, 25
9-inch guns, and a couple of heavy guns to carry a
6001 b. cylinder, each gun to be denominated
Fraser gun."
Deputy Inspector-General James Salmon, M.D.,
Superintendent of the Royal Marine Infirmary at
Woolwich, has been granted six weeks' leave of
absence.

The following divisional order was yesterday
issued to the troops in the Chatham district by
Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.B.
"The Major-General Commanding has great pleasure in
making known to the troops serving at Chatham that the
Field-Marshal Commanding-in Chief has desired him to
communicate to them his entire satisfaction of the appear-
ance, manceuvring, and general efficiency of the troops
which his Royal Highnessinspected yesterday. The Major-
General takes this opportunity of thanking the command-
ing officers, the officers generally, and the non-commis-
sioned officers and private soldiers for their general atten-
tion to their duties, which has produced such satisfactory
results.—By order of the Major-General Commanding.
"H. JACKSON, Lieut.-Col."
Major-Gen. Warde, C. 8., commanding the gar-
rison of Woolwich, on Tuesday proceeded to Erith
and Warley, in continuation of his half-yearly visi-
tation of the district in his command.
Staff-Assist.-Burg. W. Orr has been ordered to
join the garrison at Colchester for duty. Lieut.
Holford, North Durham Militia, is to be attached
to the Bth depot battalion for a course of drill in-
struction. Serg. Barnes, of the 35th Regiment,
has been transferred to the permanent staff of the
3d Surrey Militia. Serg.-Major J. Prendergast,
with the depot 22d battalion 18th Regiment, and
late Serg.-Major of the St. Helena Corps, is under
orders to join the head-quarters of his regiment.
The chartered troopship Akbar embarked at Go-
vernment-quay, Gravesend, yesterday, for Colombo,
Ceylon, 71 non-commissioned officers and men,
seven soldiers' wives, and seven children of the 2d
battalion 25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment,
from Preston ; eight non-commissioned officers and
men of the 3d division Depot Brigade, Royal Ar-
tillery, from Warley ; and one armour-sergeant,
wife, and four children from the Royal Small Arms
Factory, at Pimlico. The following officers pro-
ceed in charge of the above troops :—Capt. Horace
William Scriven, in command ; Ensign John Leith
Ross and Ensign Francis Welch, 2d battalion 25th
Regiment; and Staff Assist.-Surg. Robert Nelson
Malley, in medical charge. The embarcation of
the troops was effected under the superintendence
of Brigade-Major W. W. Lynch and the officials of
the staff from Chatham garrison. The Akbar will
take her departure from the Thames to-day.
The officers of the 68th Regiment, the Durham
Light Infantry, gave their first regimental ball since
the return of the regiment to England from foreign
service, on the Governor's-green, Portsmouth, on
Tuesday. The ball, which was carried out in a most
superb manner, was given in the head-quarters'
rooms of the 3d Hants Artillery Volunteers, placed
at the disposal of the 68th for the occasion. The
dancing salon was 100 ft. in length by 50ft. in
breadth, and presented a magnificent appearance
when filled with the guests. Figures in the armour
of knights of olden time stood at intervals round
the walls of the salon, relieved by trophies of flags,
flowers, sculpture, and arms. Over the entrance
of the salon hung the colours of the regiment with
the Queen's Colours, the former bearing the
honourable emblazonments of " Salamanca,"
"Pyrenees," " Orthes," " Vittoria," " Nivelle,"
" Alma," " Inkerman," and " Sevastopol." At the
opposite end of the salon was a trophy of New Zea-
land weapons and chiefs' insignia, mounted on a chief's
magnificent state robe, comprising long and short
steel-headed tomahawks, daughs, akaakas, bone
char, chiefs' spears in wood, canoe paddles, feather
cloaks, &c. Upwards of 400 guests were present,
among them being Rear-Admiral L. M. Colds-
borough, United States' Navy and officers of the
United States steamer Frolic ; Captain Karves-
zcwski and officers of the Imperial
cinaen, and V ice-Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine
Pasley, K.C.8., Port Admiral and Naval Com-
mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth.

The following appointments have been made at the
Admiralty :—Lieut. George Blakeley to the Endy--
mion ; Lieut. George S. Brown to the Resistance ;
W. 11. Bradley, master, to the Indus, additional, for
service in the Galatea ; Stopford C. Tracey, master,
to the Racoon ; George E. G. Jackson, master, to
the Vixen ; Dr. W. R. Bennett, surgeon, additional,
to the Duke of Wellington; Henry C. Madder,
assist.-paymaster in charge of the Vixen ; William
Rhodes, assistant, to the Indus ; David W. Wise,
assist-paymaster, to the Cambridge; Henry Cope,
chief engineer, to the Indus, additional, for service
in the Daphne ; Thomas Edgar engineer, to the
Indus, additional, for service in the Clinker, and
Henry A. Malaker, assist-clerk, to the Vixen.