The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-25 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

A Malta letter, dated Valetta, March 15, says :
" Rear-Admiral Sydney C. Dacres, C. 8., Captain
of the Fleet, hoisted his flag, the blue, on the 12th
inst., on board the Caesar, 90, Capt. T. Mason, and,
accompanied by the Algiers, 91, Capt. G. W. D.
Callaghan, left the same day for Corfu. Vice-Ad-
miral F. Martin, the Commander-in-Chief, carrying
his flag on board the Neptune, 90, Capt. F. A.
Campbell, is still here, and Rear-Admiral G. R.
Mundy, C. 8., carrying his flag on board the Han-
nibal, 91, Capt. A. Farquhar, has not yet left for
Beyrout. The Medina surveying vessel, Capt. T.
A. B. Spatt, C. 8.; which was to have proceeded to
Tripoli on service connected with the :proposed
telegraphic cable between Malta and Alexandria,
received counter orders, and left on the 12th inst.
for Alexandria, whence tshe will take soundings all
along the African coast to Bengazi, where a fresh
supply of coals has been sent to meet her. Messrs.
Ford and Laws, whose depai-ture in the Mohawk
gunboat, Commander E. 11. laToward, has already
been announced, have proceeded !;co Bengazi, for the
purpose of selecting landing_plac.es, which I un-
derstand will most likely be Bomb,zia and Bengazi.
The only other movement among our ships of war
is the arrival yesterday of the Assurance gunboat,
Comaander Aynsley, from Corfu. I subjoin a few
items of news received by her. Her latest date is
the 11th inst.:—Her Majesty's ship queen, 86,
Capt. C. F. Hillyar, left Corfu on the 28th .of Feb.
for the coast of Syria. The Agamemnon, 91, Capt.
T. Hope, was at Zante, and the 0ri0n,,91, Capt. J.
J. B. E. Frere, at Cephalonia. The London, VO,
Capt. H. Chadds, was the only British man-of-war
then at Corfu, besides the gunboat Assurance,.
which was starting with the mail. The Assurance,
while at Corfu, was suddenly despatched to Trieste.
It appears that through the negligence of the Aus-
trian Lloyd's officials, the porters took empty boxes
on board, instead of those containing the mails,
pa +ha ,zaotsilto Traci not alooororod until the
steamer had left, Sir Henry Storks,'the Lord High
Commissioner, immediately ordered the Assurance
to take the mails, telegraphing to the Govern-
ment what had been done. A letter an-
nounces the death of Quartermaster J. P.
Arrowsmith, of the 2d Battalion 9th Foot, at
Cephalonia, and states that Lieut. John Aplin, of
the Ist Battalion, same regiment, had been cashiered.
Among the passengers by the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, which arrived
on the 13th inst. from Southampton and Gibraltar,
were Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, R.N., the gallant
Polar voyager and newly-appointed Captain of her
Majesty's frigate Doris, now on the coast of Syria.
Capt. G. T. Hornby, who is to relieve Capt. Camp-
bell in the command of the Neptune, also arrived by
the same steamer. Her Majesty's ships in port are :
—Liners : the Neptune, 90 (bearing the flag of
Vice-Admiral W. F. Martin) ; the Hannibal, 91
(bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral G. R. Mundy,
C. 8.) ; the Hibernia receiving-ship (bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 8.) ; the
Cressy, 80, and the James Watt, 91. The frigate
Liffey, 51 ; surveying vessel Firefly, 4; gunboats
Assurance, 4, and Quail, 2 ; and the tug Hearty.
Foreign : the Dutch corvette Cycloop."

The steam sloop Buzzard, 6, Commander Treve-
nen, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday. She left
Montevideo on the 31st Dec. ; Rio Janeiro, Jan. 24;
Bahia, Feb. 12; St. Vincent, March 3; and Fayal
on the 15th. She brings passengers Lieut. Bayly
and 10 seamen and marines. Commander Trevenen
has for some time been dangerously ill of consump-
tion, and was conveyed immediately to the Royal
Naval Hospital.
Letters received from the gunboat Janus, dated
at Hope Sound, Jan. 15, state that she had been
driven on shore on the 19th Dec., during rough
weather, by a junk driving down athwart hawse of
the Janus at 3 a.m. that day. At low water the
crew could walk round the ship. Everything pos-
sible to remove was taken out of the vessel, but it
was the 28th Dec. before she was got afloat again.
The weather was-exceedingly severe, the thermome-
ter having been down to 20 deg. below freezing
point. Several of the crew had their hands very much
frost-bitten. The Clown gunboat had been driven on
shore at the mouth of the Yetho, and was not ex-
pected to be got off before spring, even if they suc-
ceeded in doing so then. It was reported among the
squadrons that the officers and crews of the gun-
boats would proceed to England in other vessels,
the gunboats receiving necessary repairs at Hong-
kong and crews sent out to them from England.

The Marlborough, 131, screw, was recommissioned
at Portsmouth on Saturday byeapt. W.H. Stewart,
C. 8,, as flagship for the present commander-in•chief
in the Mediterranean. The ship's masts were taken
out of her alongside the sheer jetty of the dockyard
the same day.
The hired transport Zebra, for the lonian Islands,
shipped 34 heavy guns of position from Woolwich
Arsenal, and went into the London Docks to fill in
with a general cargo for Corfu on Saturday. She
will be ready for sca in a few days.
Two Armstrong batteries are in readiness for
-shipment in Woolwich Arsenal for Madras
,and
Calcutta.

The following transports have been chartered by
the Government to receive guns and war materials
from the military store department of Woolwich
Arsenal for stations abroad, in the British colonies
and possessions :—Hotspur, Cinderella, Northern
Light, Moor of Venice, City of CI iebee, Jabez,
Crystal Palace, Minnahaha, Avon, Northumber-
land, Mary Lord, Maze, and Agrippina.
Her Majesty's 14 floating battery Trusty, expe-
rimented upon by the Armstrong and Whitworth
guns at Shoeburyness, arrived at Woolwich on Sa-
turday under steam, attended by the steam tenders
African and Adder, to be fitted with Capt. Coles's
newly-invented protecting shield.
The name of the 22-gun screw corvette. one of the
squadron of five vessels of war ordered to be laid
down at Chatham, is to be the Ganymede, and not
the Pactolus, as previously ordered by the Admiralty.
The 3-gun brigantine Dolphin, and No. 4 mortar
vessel have been removed from the ordinary at
Chatham and sent round to the Thames to be used
as watch vessels in the Coastguard service.
The riggers have commenced work on board the
screw steam sloop Pantaloon, 11, at Devonport. Her
"tops" are over and the lower rigging is in place.
The crew of the screw steamship Princess Royal,
91, Captain Followes, in Hamoaze, have been turned
over to the hulk Vengeance.
The screw steam gunboat Procris, 3, Lieutenant
the Hon. J. Carnegie, is out of the hands of the
authorities in the dockyard in Devonport. The
Nimble, 5, tender to the Nile, will be completed in
the engineer depattment to-morrow.
The screw steam corvette Jason, 24, Captain Von
Donop, will, weather permitting, proceed to-day
outside the Plymouth Breakwater to try her Grif-
fiths' propeller with an altered pitch.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Francis C. R. Baker, mate,
to the Marlborough; Charles C. P. Fitzgerald, mate,
to the Ariadne ; Henry M'lnroy, mate, to the Edgar;
William M. Moger, mate, to the Nile; Thomas H.
Punshon, Ist class assist.-engineer, to the Asia,
for the Chanticleer; John E. Rowe Townsend,
acting 3d class assist.-engineer, to the Indus, as
supernumerary;' Stephen Vincent Bull, acting 3d
class assist.-engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary;
C. Webb, clerk, to the Cossack; W. B. Beve-
ridge, clerk, to the Hero ; 11. B. Italy, assist.-clerk,
to the Excellent ; Charles E. Gifford, assist.-clerk,
to the Marlborough ; Joseph Allen, assi4-clerk, to
the I e Centurion ; and W. B. Spence, assist--clerk, to
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TILE ARMY.

Major-Gen. Sir It. nacres, K.C.8., commanding
the garrison at Woolwich, in conjunction with the
Hon. James R. Duramond, C. 8., Commodore Supel
rintendent of the doe kyard, and the authorities of
the Royal Arsenal, has issued instructions for the
solemnities to be observed in the Government esta-
blishments at Woolwich to-day, on the occasion of
the interment of H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent—viz.,
30 minute guns per hour, to commence firing from
the Royal Artillery gun park battery at 16 minutes
past 4 p.m., to be followed by the guns of the flag-
ship Fisgard, stationed off the dockyard and the
Royal Artillery alternately, until 16 minutes past
6, when the Royal standard hitherto floating half-
mast high in the garrison and over the Government
offices since the announcement of her Royal High-
ness's death, will be hauled down. The battery guns
to be manned by the 3d Brigade Royal Artillery,
and the Fisgard's guns by the seamen gunners of
the ship. The Government regulations for the
guidance of officers of the army, the fleet, and the
Royal Marines with reference to the general mourn-
ing are posted throughout the establishments at
Woolwich, and are minutely carried out, not only
by officers in uniform, but universally also in the
civil departments of the State.
Minute gua s will also be fired from the ships of
war at Portsmouth, and the various forts surround-
ing the Arsenal, extending from Cumberland Fort,
at the mouth of Langston Harbour, to Fort Victoria,
near the Needles, at the west end of the Isle of
Wight. The time occupied in the firing will be
from noon until 6 p.m.
It is arranged at Plymouth that on the occasion of

the interment of H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent

minute guns will be fired, commencing at the cita-
Idel to the east, and continuing on the line of forts
to' Mount Wise, and probably Mount Edgecumbe,
on the west, after which the firing will be taken up
by ali the ships of war in commission in the port:
The following movements are about to take
place at the camp at Colchester :—Captain Whyte
and Captain Willis, of the Ist battalion, Ist
Royals, Lieutenant Dew, of the 88th, and Ensign
Addison, of the 60th, are under orders for service
in India. Three ensigns of the 56th are also about
to join their regiment abroad. Ensign Mitchell, of
the 66th, has relieved -Lieut. White, of the Ist bat-
talion, 6th Regiment, as assistant musketry instruc-
tor in the 9th depot battalion at Landguard Fort,
Harwich. Lieut. White has returned to Col-
chester.
Yesterday orders were issued by Colonel Harness,
C. 8., director of the Royal Engineer establishment
at Chatham, directing the 32d company of Royal
Engineers, under the command of Captain D. A.
Frazer, to proceed this morning to Gravesend,
there to embark on board the chartered troop-ship
Maida, 519 tons, Capt. W. Black, for St. Helena,
where they will join the Royal Artillery and Eu-

gineers, in order to be employed in the erection of
additional defences for the protection of that island,
the House of Commons having voted a considerable
sum for that purpose. A detachment of the St.
Helena Regiment will leave the depot at Chatham
this morning, and embark at Gravesend, on board
the same vessel, to join the service companies of
that regiment.

The Secretary of State for War has appointed
Mr. W. H. Browning, paymaster of the 3d West
India Regiment, to be paymaster at the Royal En-
gineer Establishment, Chatham, with the rank of
captain, in the room of Captain C. Wilkinson, who
has been removed from that appointment.
The 2d battalion of the 19th Regiment, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. R. Warden, stationed
at Portsmouth, were inspected on Saturday in the
Governor's-green by Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., the
Major-General commanding the south-west dis-
trict. His Lordship arrived on the ground, accom-
panied by Colonel E. Somerset, C. 8., Assistant-
Quartermaster-General ; Colonel Thackwell, Bri-

gade-Major, and Captain Milligan, A.D.C. March-
ing past and the usual manceuvres incidental to
such an occasion were gone through, at the close of
which Lord Paulet addressed the regiment in short,
but complimentary terms. The 2d battalion, 11th
Regiment, will, according to Saturday's arrange-
nacnta, ba isaapuotod 1:7- Lord Patact at Portzmouth
to-day.
Her Majesty's troopship Megcera, Commander
Henderson, having been detained at Woolwich for
the repair of her boiler tubes, will embark this
morning the 2d division of the Ist brigade garrison

Artillery for Gibraltar. The wives and children

authorised to be provided with passage accommo-
dation according to War-office regulations took up
their berths on board on Saturday evening.

THE VOLUNTEERS.

A grand brigade field day was held on Saturday
in the Regent's Park, the various corps assembling
in front of Holford-house. The brigade consisted
of the following regiments :—West Middlesex,
Adjutant G. Pennymore ; 19th Middlesex (Blooms-
bury, or Working Men's College), Colonel Bathurst,
Major Hughes, Captains Shaen, Martin, Robins,
Roebuck, Furnival,Lieutenants Fotheringham and
Boddy, and Adjutant Read ; 20th Middlesex
(Euston-square, or Railway), Lieut.-Colonel Bigge,
Captains Timms, Graham, Oughton, Barrow,
Collard, Plunkett. and Lieut. Boucher ; 37th Mid-
dlesex, Major J. W. Jeakes and Captain Corrie ; Ist
Administrative Battalion under Major Wilkinson,
the battalion consisting of the 13th Middlesex
(Hornsey), Captain Warner; 14th Middlesex,
Captains Barclay and Langdale; and the 3d Middle-
sex, Captains M'lnnes and France. The West
Middlesex kept the ground, and the operations were

conducted by Lord Radstock, aided by Colonel
Seymour. Colonel Tayleur, and Major Kirby,
Adjutant Royal Horse Guards. Sir James Hamil-
ton was on the ground, and took great interest in
the proceedings. After forming, the brigade went
through the usual evolutions incidental to field
operations, to the evident gratification of the many
thousand persons who were assembled, and to the
complete satisfaction of Lord Radstock and the
officers by whom his Lordship was accompanied.
On Saturday afternoon the members of the
Queen's (Westminster) mustered at the Carlton-ride
for the purpose of marching out. The regiment
numbered above 500 strong, with a full complement
of officers, and, under the command of- Adjutant
Mayne, went through some preliminary drill.
Having been told off into companies, they went to
Battersea New Park, where they went through an
exercise in blank cartridge practice.
The members of the St. George's Rifles paraded on
Saturday in the quadrangle of Burlington-house,
and went through manual and platoon exercise,
and afterwards executed some battalion move-
ments. The Artists also mustered at Burlington-
house, and in the grounds at the rear of the
building, and went through their skirmishing drill
until dusk.

The London Scottish assembled in great numbers
on Saturday afternoon on Adelphi-terrace, and
marched under the command of Lord Elcho, M.P.,
by way of Charing-cross, Regent-street, Piccadilly,
to• Hyde-park, where, on the site of the old Exhi-
bition ground, they went through battalion drill
and other movements, after which they returned
to Adelphi-terrace.
The Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers will proceed
on Tuesday next to Richmond Park for blank
cartridge drill, &c.

On Saturday afternoon the 29th North Middle-
sex Rifles assembled at the Cavalry-barracks
Albany-street, Regent's Park, for marching out.
In consequence of the fairness of the weather there
was a large muster, and after being formed into
marching order they proceeded, headed by their
bands, to Regent's Park, and afterwards returned
to head-quarters, where they were dismissed. Vis-
count Enfield, Lieutanant-Colonel Commanding,
has reCeived the sanction of the Lord-Lieutenant
to increase the regiment to 1,000 men, which num-
ber it is fully expected will be speedily attained.
Yesterday afternoon the Metropolitan Rifles
mustered in strong force at head-quarters, in the
Euston-road, for attendance at Divine service. At
a quarter before three o'clock they were paraded at
their drill-ground, and afterwards marched, headed
by their brass band, to St.:Pancras-church,:Euston-
road. After the afternoon prayers were concluded,
the Rev. W. W. Champneys, incumbent of the
church, and honorary chaplain to the corps,
delivered an appropriate sermon, after which they
returned to headquarters, the band playing sacred
music.

The Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Lieutenant of
Middlesex, has recommended her Majesty to accept
the services of the London National Rifles as a bat-
talion in Westminster, under the title of the 46th
Middlesex Volunteer Rifles. On Saturday even-
ing the corpsmustered at Wellington Barracks for
battalion drill, to the number of 300 men, under the
command of M'ajor Walmsley, and afterwards
raarelled. to Westminster Hall, to be definitively