The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-10 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into ihe
System of Purchase in the Army resumed their
meetings yestvHay, at No. 1, Whitehall-yard ;
the Duke of Somerset presided, and the other
commissioners present were Lord Stanley, M.P.;
the Right Hon. S. Herbert, M.P. ; the Right
Hon. E. Ellice, M.P. ; General Wyndham, Gen.
S'r Harry Jones, Gen. Henry J. W.. Bentiuck,
Gen. Sir De Lacy Evans, and Mr. George Carr
Glyn. Sir Cila!lei Trevelvan was examined before
the:consuis,roners.

The members of the Council on Military Edu-
cation, comprising G neral Cameron, Col. Addi-
son, and C'ol. Portlock, have begon to hold their
preliminiry meetings at No. 1, Whitehall-yard.
The gallant ()Moen met again yesterday.
The Royal Comtnission on the Medicil Depart-
ment of the army, after a brief adjournment for
the holydays, hive resumed their sittings at No.
1, Whitehall-yard. The meeting on Monday was
presided over by the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
M.P. ; and the other commissionora pi eseilt were
Mr. Augustin &afford, M.P., Sir Henry K. Storks,
Dr. Andrew Smith, Sir T. Philbp, Mr. Rayn'ald.
Martin, and Sir James Clarke.

We have advices from our Malta correspondent
to the 4.,h of June, announcing the following move-
ments at the port :

" The schooner-yacht Fa'con arrived from Syra-
cum and Pa.chino on the 3d, having on toard the
Earl and Countess Somers and Sir C. Lindsay.
" The Adeltide, screw steam transport, left on
the 26th for Gibraltar, conveying the 47th Regi-
ment,

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" Colonel Urquhart, Captains Peel, Rowland,
and Williams • Lieutenants Law, Stewart, Gill-
more, and Plaskett ; Eusins Thompson, Gilmore,
Kevugh, and Evans ; Assistant-Surgeons Birnie
and Mackay : 4 officers' wives and 4 children, 117
non-commissioned officers and privat2s, 28 women.
and 44 children, of the Ist Royals ; and Lieu en-
ants S,retton and Stokes, of the 47th, went by the
Australian, screw steam trauspo:t, whose departure
for Gibraltar has been already announced.
"The Arne: ican schooner Silverkey, with hydrau-
lic apparatus for raising the sunken ships of war in
the harbour of Sebastopol, arrived at Malta from
Boston ou the 26h, and lett for her destination on
the following d y.
" The Colombo, Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steam•packet, arrived from Southampton
and Gibraltar oa the 28th of May, bringing from
Malta Captain Forbes, Lieutenants Costeer and
Moore, and Lord W. Butler ; and from Alexan-
dria Major Porter, Captain the Hon. E. Forester,
Captain and Mrs. Walker, Captain and Mrs. Burns,
and Maj r Belgrave. This steamer left for Alex-
andria on the 31st, at the same time as the Valetta,
belonging to the same company, which arrived oa
the night of the 30th from Marseilles with over-
land London mails, and bad on board for Malta
Captain and Mrs. 'Williams • and for Alermdria
Colonel and Mrs. rapier, Colonel Otter, and Capt.
Yule.

" The Jura, screw steamer, from Alexandria,
bringing the Australian, Calcutta, and China mailg,
and 66 passengers, arrived from Alexandria on the
3d, and left for Southampton on the same morning-
" The Cambria, belonging to the same company,
left at the same time for Marseilles, with the over-
land mails for England.
"The Austrian barque Rodo, bound for Smyrna
from Hull, put into Malt L on the 30th to land
Captain Blaue, the crew, and one passenger of the
barque Saturn, of St. John's, New Brunswick,
which, on the 23d of May, when about 140 miles
to the westward of Sardinia, was destroyed by firs
from spontaneous combustion. She was 'laden wit h
coals, earthenware, and manufactures, bound for
Con-tantinople and the Danube from Liverpool."
A military review and sham fight on a somewhat
extensive scale, took place on Saturday on Arthur's
Seat, near Edinburgh, the-troops being two com-
panies cf Royal Artillery, commanded by Lieut.-
Colonel Crofton and Major Craufurd ; tt)e 501
Dragoon Guards, under Lieutenant-Colonel M,Ma-
lion ; and the 31'h Regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel
Kelly. The reviewing General was Viscount Mel-
ville, commanding the forces in North Britain.
The troops were put through a series of operations.
The weather being very beautiful, the spectacle
attracted an assemblage of about 20,000 persons.
At the close the troops passed in review before the
Gen ral, who expressed his high satisfaction with
the manner in which they had conducted them-
selves.

Owing to the large number of invalid troops who
have recently arrived at the invalid depot, St.
Mary's, Chatham, from India, it has been found
necessary to remove the depots of the 81st Regi-
ment and the 93d Highlanders, now quartered at
St. Mary's, to BromPton barracks.
The United States' screw corvette Niagara, 12,
Captain Hudson, has been an object of much in-
terest since anchoring at Portsmouth, and has been
inspected by 'numbers of critical, pinfes:sional, and
amateur naval architects, and naval men of all
ranks. They agree upon one point—the vessel's
ugliness. Admiral Sir George Seymour and staff
visited her oil Sunday, and on Monday evening en-
tertained Captain Hudson, First-Lieutenant Wells,
and two o'her lieutenants, and Chevalier Pappal-
ardo, the United Stat- s' Vice-Consul, at the Ad-
miralty-!souse. The alterations of the Niagara will
be effLcted in the harbour, and not in the basin or
dock. A large body of dockyard artificers have
been put upon her to expedite the work of cutting
away the stancheons and clearing space below to
make the required room for coiling away uninter-
ruptedly h( r proportion of the great Atlantic tele-
graph cable. The men a: e to work from 5 a.m.
until 9 p.m.
The Adelaide, steam transport, Captain Bourne,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, four and e
half d;Ays only f,om GiLraltar, having on board the
961 h Regiment, consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel
E. W. &oven, Captains F. R. Pierce, 0. LoWrit
(My. Lowry and two children), J. S. Cannon
(Mrs. Cannon and two children), and the Hon. F.
13. Pakenha.m ; Lieutenants W. M. Lees, G. B.
Cumberland, G. H. Cochrane, J. Briggs, J. WhittY,
and R. D. Douglas ; Ensigns H. M. Lowry, B.
Johnston, , and E. J. Scovell ; Adjutant J. 13;
Kirk ; Surgeon, Dr. B. Swift, Mrs. Swift, and
three children ; Assistant-Surgeon H. Nutchelly
Quartermaster P. Sheeran, Mrs. Sheeran and four
children, Paymaster and Alf S. Thompson and five
children, 764 rank and file, 60 women, 60 children,
and six female servants. Also, a detachment of
the 47th Regiment, Lieutenant W. C. R. Myling
in command, 107 rank and file, three women, and
five children. The Adelaide passed the barque,
Maitland off Cape St. Vincent, and exchanged
colours with the screw ship Brag,anza off Cap°
Oitegau. She went into Portsmouth harbour yes-
terday afternoon to land the troops, who proceeded
to Aldershot.

The Princess Charlotte, barrack ship, Captain
G. St. Vinceut King, C. 8., is ready to haul off
from Portsmouth th,ckyard and receive her crew
from her bulk.

The Melville, hospital ship, Commander Trol-
lope, was -Liken out of dock yesterday at Ports-
mouth.

The screw two-decker Hannibal, 91, was taken
into the steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday, le
refit.

The Victoria, and Albert,, Captain the Hon•
Joseph Denman, is about taking a cruise, it 15
said as far as Gibralt,ir.

The fAlowing apioitrtments were made yesterdaf
at tbe Admiralty :
The Rev. J. U. Campbell, to be chaplain to
Pembioke Dockyard ; E. L. Trafford, midithir
Iran, to the Bocawen ; William B. V. Farrow',
paymmter, to the Centurion.

DEATH OF CAPT W. W. EYTON, R.N.
Died on Saturday, the 6th inst., at Leeswooay
the seat of his brother, J. Wynne Eyton, Esq.
Capt. W. W. Eyton, who was one of the few stir-
vivor3 among those who were engaged in the memo-
rable battle of Trafalgar, Oct. .41, 1805, on which
occasion he served as midshipman in the Neptune/
Capt. Fre-mantle.

On the Neptune being paid off, he was reconv
mended by Capt. Freemantle to the care of his
friend, Capt. J. Stewart, of the Seahorse, and 105,_
again engaged in a most spirited action, of whics
the following record appears in the Gentleman's
Magazine of 1811 :

" Capt. J, hn Stewart, of the Seahorse frigate/
acquired immortal honour, by gallantly defeating,
afttr a long and hardly-contested action, a squadron
of three Turkish frigates, one of which, the Bader
Zaffer, a much larger vessel thin the Seahorse, be
took ; another blew up during the fight, and the
third got away much shat'ered, the Seahorse being
too much crippled to punue her."
In 1814, Capt. Eyton was made lieutenant, arid
continued for several years in active service. In
course of time he was appointed flag lieutenant 111_,
the Victory guard ship, at Portsmouth, and in 183 v
was deputed to convey Charles X. to Holyrooct
He was sut.is,nuently first lieutenant on board the
Asia, Capt. Hyde Parker, till by reason of severe
and long-continued illness he was obliged to 10;
valid. His health being somewhat restored, an'
still anxious for employment, he entered the coast"
4uard service, in which he continued till the autumn
of 1854, when, worn out with hard work and fall-
ing health, he accepted a retiring pension with the
rank of mater and commander. For many yea!
lie resided at Grolt Yarmouth, where he .
highly respected.

The mail steam packet Jura, which is expected home
in a day cr two, has about 300 boxes and bags of letters
and newspapere on board from Australia and India.

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