The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-03 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

On Saturday morning orders arrived for the re-
inforcements for the 64th and 86th (Royal County
Down) Regiments to leave the Provisii Battalion
Chatham, and embark at Gravesend on board the
Genghis Khan for Bombay. The detachments con-
sisted of 105 non-commissioned officers and men of
the 86th, and 21. of the 64th Regiment, under the
command of Lieut. T. R. Hamilton and Lieut.
Valentine G. Coates, 86th Regiment. Reinforce-
ments for the 10th and 84th (York and Lancaster)
Regiments are also under orders to proceed from
Chatham and embark on board the East India
Company's ship Agamemnon for Calcutta. The
64th and 86th will embark to-morrow.

Six officers and two companies of the 38th Regi-
ment, numbering 100 non-commissioned officers
and privates, left Kingstown on Saturday by the
transport Louisiana. The second division of the
79th Highlanders, consisting of 15 officers and 392
rank and file, also embarked in the same vessel.
The third division of the Ist battalion of the First
Royals are expected to sail by the Defiance to-day.
The following officers will embark with them :
Lieutenant Colonel Daveny, Brevet-Major Maine,
Captains Bawtree and Coles, Lieutenants Hassell,
Marwell, Browne, and Deane, Ensigns Thompson,
Stanfield, Bloomfield, and Logan, and Surgeon
Hearn. The same vessel will take out a company
of the 60th Rifles to make up the full number of
troops which she is chartered to carry. The head-
quarters of the 38th Regiment, under the command
of Colonel Sparks, C.P., will embark on Tuesday
in the John Bell screw steamer. The 51st Regi-
ment is held in readiness to move from the Curragh
to Put.lin, to relieve the 79th Highlanders.
On Friday afternoon the officers and men of the
Royal Engineers at present at heed-quarters,
Chatham, with the troops of the East India
Company's Engineers, assembled in review order
in the square of Brompton Barracks for the purpose
of witnessing the presentation by General Sir John
F. Burgoyne, G. C. 8., luspector-General of Forti-
fications, of a number of medals to officers and
men of the Royal Engineers awarded by his Ma-
jesty the King of Sardieia for meritorious conduct
during the Crimean campaign. Shortly before 3
o'clock General Sir J. F. Burgoyne arrived on the
parade, accompanied by Col. H. Sandham and the
staff at head-quarters, and was received. with a
general salute, the Sardinian flag being hoisted at
the saluting post. The troops having been formed
into line Sir J. Burgoyne presented the medals to
the fidlowing officers and non-commissioned officers
of the Royal Eugineers, viz.:—Col. J. W. Gordon,
C. 8., Deputy-Adjutant-General, and Aid-de-Camp
to the Queen ; Col. F. E. Chapman, C. 8., Lieut.-
Col. E. Stanton, C. 8., Major F. C. Hassard,
Major H. W. Montague, Major C. B. Ewert,
Corporal W. Baker, and Corporal W. Trimble.
The medals having been presented, the band '
played the Sardinian national anthem, after
ev:..ich General Sir John Burgoyne addressed the
troops, expressed the high satisfaction he felt
at being delegated to present the medals to those
officers and non-commissioned officers who had so
highly distinguished themselves, and said that,
should an opportunity ever arise, he was sure the
officers and men before him woall show that they
were deserving of similar honours. The troops
then broke into companies and marched past in
slow and quick time.
First-Lieutenant and Quartermaster P. Harris,
of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines, has been
promoted to be Captain, and appointed to the
Woolwich division, vice ept. T. B. V. Fitzgerald,
retired on half-pay.
The letters of our Malta correspondent reach to
the 27th of July, but only report the departure of
one ship of war, the Desperate steam sloop, on the
23d, for Alexanelria, there to remain, to receive on
hoard, for conveyance to Europe, the Princes of
Siam, and thus leave free the Caradoc for convey-
ing to Cagliari any important intelligence that may
arrive at Alexandria from the East Indies and
China, in order to telegraph it to London. The
Colombo, Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-packet, arrived at 5 p.m., and the Vectis,
belonging to the same company, at 11.30 p.m., on
the 2tith, both from Alexandria, bringing the India
mails, and full of passengers. The former left for
Marseilles at 5 a.m. on the 27th. His Excellency
Major-General Sir Wm. Reid, Governor of Malta,
accompaniel by his family, took passage by the
Colombo, on two months' sick leave. Lieut.-Gen:
Sir John Pennefather, as senior military officer, ate
sumed the Government ad interim.
A numberof non-commissioned officers of various
regiments have arrived at Chatham garrison for the
purpose of being 'organised into a corps and pro-
ceeding to the Falkland Islands. Each man will
be accompanied by his wife and children, and on
arriving at his destination will be granted a certain
quantity of land. Lieut. C. C. Abbott, 75th Regi-
ment, has been appointed to the command of the
' troops.
The steamship Scotland, 1,100 tons burden Capt.
Millman, belonging to W. S. Lindsay and Co.,
which embarked the T and F troops of Royal
Horse Artillery on Friday at Woo'wich, was de-
tained at the Arsenal pier-head until yesterday to
ccmplete necessary arrangements. She sailel down
the river under steam, starting at 7.30 for D .rt-
mouth, on her voyage to India. According to the
conditions of the contract entered into between the
owner and the India-house, she is to perform the
voyage in 70 days. Mr. Lindsay, accompanied by
Capt. Wilson, visited the Scotland on Saturday,
when the officers in command of the troops were
assured that strict injunctions had been given to
render the voyage a speedy and comfortable one
to all on board. The Deputy-Assistant-Quarter-
master-General and a medical officer of artillery in-
spected the ship, and expressed their approval of the
arrangement. The Warrior Queen, Victoria, and
Sydney, are expected to embark the six bat-
talion companies, under orders for India to-mor-
row (Tuesday) ; and the Marine companies, who
are to be armed with the Enfield rifle, either to-
morrow or Wednesday. Her Majesty's ship r-
gon, recently returned from Asia Minor, was on
Saturday paid off on board, in Woolwich basin.
The following officers of her 'Majesty's 37th Re-
giment, whose leave has been cancelled, have left
per overland mail for Calcutta, to join the portion
of that regiment which has arrived there from Cey-
lon on the way to Delhi—viz., Colonel Millman,
Captain Bedford, Lieutenants J. D. Collura and
G. W.. Savage. Captains Polly, Luxmore, and
Burton are to join the head-quarters of the corps in
Ceylon.
A review of a portion of the Volunteer Brigade
will take place to-day upon Nazing-mead, close to
the Broxbourne station of the E..stere Counties
Railway, at 1 o'clock p.m. The brigade will con-
sist of the H n. the Artillery Company of London,
of which his Royal Highness the Prince Consort is
the colonel ; the South Herts Regiment of Yeo-
manry Cavalry, Colonel-Commandant the Right
Hon. the Earl of Verulatn ; and the Essex Corps
of Yeomanry, Artillery and Cavalry, under the
command of Major Palmer.
The Pyladeg, 31, Capt. M. De Conway, arrived
at Spithead from Sheerness on Saturday.
The Lords of the Admiralty arrived at Ports-
mouth on Saturday night by mail train, embarked
immediately on board the Admiralty yacht Osborne,
end sailed at once for the Channel Islands to make
their annual inspection. Their lordships will go
thence to Ireland, calling at Plymouth on their re-
turn to Spithead.
The Imperial Royal French steam yacht Reine
Hortense left Osborne on Thursday at midnight
with his Highness Prince Napoleon for Cherbonrg.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Valorous made a
successful trial trip outside Plymouth &run I on
Wednesday.
The steamvessel Zephyr, 3, wag placed in 'dock at
Devonport on Thursday. The paddlewheel steam
sloop Buzzard, 6, was removed out of dock on Fri-
day preparatory to her being put into commission.
0: ders have been received in Devonport to prepare
the screw steam-sloop Brisk, 16, and the steam
gunboats Forward and Shipjack for active service.
The steam transport Dee, Master-Commander
Thomas Pullen, with machinery from Woolwich,
arrived in Plymouth on Friday.
The paddlewheel steam-frigate Cyclops, 6, Lieut.-
Dayman,CoemvomnpanordtertoJ-mohonTrow,
and the screw steamship will get up steam at
D
Nile, 90, on Friday.
The launch of the Melpomene is to take place on
the Bth inst. at Pembroke Dockyard. She is a
heavilyarmed screw frigate of 51 guns, havingbe
converted from a 60-gun ship, for which she was eri_
ginally laid down. She is to be jury-rigged'and
navigated round to Portsmouth for commimoning.
She has been cut in half and lengthened amidships,
and has also received a finer entrance and longer
stern, so that she is now about 240 feet in length.
The 80th Regiment of Foot, stationed at the Hut
Barracks, Pembroke, have given 27 volunteers to
the 79th Highlanders for service in India.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :
Commander F. P. Porteous, to command the
Buzzard.; Lieutenant A. St. Clair, to the Buzzard ;
H. B. Akaster, master to the Buzzard ; E. Jago,
paymaster to the Buzzard ; E. M. Russell, c'erk to
the Buzzard ; E. F. Raffell, assistant-paymaster to
the Pylades. .

THE REFUGEE QUESTION.—According to the Bourse
Gazette of Vienna the Au*tri:,n Cabinet, taking into
consideration the difficulties which the English Govern
ment might meet with in Parliament for a bill relating
to refugees. has not applied for a modification of the
Alien Bill." It has mer:•ly contented its,:•lf ‘N WI the
assurance given by Sir Hamilton Seymour, that the
recogees in London will be sill jetted to a strict surveil-
lance, and that such as may be found to be accomPlices
in the conspiracy lately discovered in Paris will by ex