The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

Naval and Military *lnteWgence.

Her Majesty's ship Ganges, 84, sailing two-decker,
Captain Fulford, flag of Rear-Admiral R. L.
Baynes, 0.8., is under orders to leave Spithead
this morning for'the Pacific station, on which the
Admiral has been appointed Commander-in-Chief.
Rear-Admiral Bruce awaits his relief in the Mo-
narch, 84, at Callao.
The Dennis Brundit47, from Caldera, arrived. at
Liverpool, spoke the Champion of the Seas, Black
Ball clipper, Captain M'Kirdy, having on board the
97th Regim.nt for India, on the morning of the
Bth of September, in lat. 9.6 S., long. 31.15 W.,
and received some provisions from her. Cap-
tain 11/Pliirdy writes that " there has not been
the slightest sicluidss, and the officers and
troops are quite like a happy family." Two
days previously the Dennis Brundiit saw a very
large clipper in lat. 13.27 W., steering to the east-
ward supposed to be the James Baines, another of
the Black Rill line, and having on board the 20th
Regiment for India. Both ships passed th Needles
at 6 p.m. of i the Bth of August, and the tug boats
left them on the lltb. Captain M'Kirdy's letter
conclu les, "God be praised for all His mercies.
These ships look like 70 to 75 days only if the Bay
of Bengal doesn't bother us."
The Hannibal, 91, screw two-decker, is ordered
to be undockcd at Por' smouth and dismantled. She
is to be brought forward as an advanced ship in
the steam reserve.
The Mars, 80, screw, was yesterday towel higher
up She'srness harbour. She will go on trial as soon
as she ra ‘n ba got ready—no doubt towards the lat-
ter end of next week.

The Persian, 12, sailing sloop Of war, Com-
mander °bads, will this day, Saturday, hoist Ler
two lower ma-ts iu. Carpenters and caulkers are
actively engaged in giving her a thorough caulking,
&c. She will, however, have to go into a dry
dock at She:rneFs' if it is only to clean the barnacles
otr, accumulate l through having been, some time
in ordinary (River Medway.)
The Bacchante, 51, screw, now building unct3r
Shannon's shed, is getting well forward, and by
April, 1858, will be ready for launching. She is
sister ship to Shannon, of 2,640 tns, with the same
armament and machinery.
The Diadem, 32, screw, Captain (steel!) Moorsom.
The new balance valve has been sent down to Ports-
mouth from the engineering establi,hrnent of
Mes-rs. Mauds'ay, Field, and C.t., and by Tueldoty
next the Diadem will be enabled to 'amine her trial
at the meamrel mile at Stokes Bay. Her heavy
shot have been shifted aft, to bring her as much as
possible by the stern, which, looking at her fulness
forward, will be considerably in her favour. The
screw will be well immersed, and the bluff of her
bows be4.ter lifted.

The Renown, 91, in charg) of Mr. Robert
Nicoll, chief engineer, is ordered t h-tul out of
Sheerness Basin on Monday next, and go ou trial
again about Wednesday, the Admiralty not can-
si lering, on her last trial, that she had been kept
long enough on full steam to ascertain her real
speed.

Th 3 Sprightly, tender, Master Commander
George Allen, has beenplaced at the service of Rear
Admiral Baynes, whose flag flies at the mizrn
of the Ganges, 84, Captain John Fulford, at Ports-
momh. She sails to-day for the South Pacific, and
has been fitted with spare sets of pennants belong-
ing to Clifford's patent boat-lowerin4 apparatus.
The Well'ng on, 72, Captain John Moore, was
yesterday taking in more ballast, to bring her wing
pumps un,ler water. She will be reported Toady for
,ea on the 25th inst., and sail from Sheerness about
the Ist prArium. She is still short of her com-
plement.
The Sharpsho)ter, 9, iron screw steam vessel, is
to be undockel in a few days at Portsmouth and
brought f ,rward for commission.
Yesterday moaning reinforcements for the 24th
Regiment avd 52d Light Infantry, to the number
of 31 men of all ranks, left Chatham garrison and
embarked at Gravesend on board the screw steamer
Southampton for Kurrachea. The troops go out
ut:der the command of Capt. S. 0. Jackson, 70th
R-giment, and Lieutenant A. N. Montgomery, 7th
Fusiliers.

Yesterday an order arrived from the Admiralty
at the head-quarters of the Royal Marines, Chtt-
ham, directing Col. E. A. Perker, theCommandaut,
t r furnish two detachments cf non-commissioned
oflicLirs and men for service on board the Heron,
12, and Persian, 12, both of which vessels are to be
fit:ed out immediat
Assistant Staff Surgeon P. A. M'Darmott has
been directed to proceed from Chatham to the Gam-
bia, for medical duty at that station.

The following officers have joined their depots at
Chatham Garrison, previous to embarking for In-
dia, viz.:—Capt. C. R. Mure, 43d Light Infantry;
Ensign M. Wiliams, and Ensign H. S. Jones, 84th
Regimen.
The Heron, 12, sloop, has been commissioned at
Cna`ham by Commander William H. Truscott
(1855). She is to be made ready for sea with all
despatch, and is intended for the coast of Africa.
The advice?' of our Malta correspondent reach to
the afternoin of the 9th of October, and announce
the arrival from Alexandria on the day preceding
of her Majesty's despatch steamer Caradoc, followed
by the Desperate, the former having on board three
ambassadors from Siam, who were to leave on the
10th or 11th in the Caradoc for England direct, ac-
companied in all probability by the Desperate.
The Caradoc brought the Bombay ma 1, which
was forwarded on the afternoon of the 9th to
Marseilles by the French steampacket Meandro.
A summary of the intelligence was despatched froni
Malta to Cagliari at 6 a.m. on the Bth by Her
Majesty's steamgun-vessel Coquette' fortelegraphic
communication to London. Up to noon on the
9th of October neither the Calcutta nor the Aus-
tralian mail had reached Suez. The outward mail
for Australia left that place on the 27th of Sept. in
the Colombian.
The French postal steimpacket Merovee, from
Marseilles the Italian ports, and Sicily, arrived at
Malta on the 7th bringing, among other passengers,
Lady Hamilton Chichester, the Chevalier Fopr-
earde, French Consul for Malta, and family, return-
ing from leave ; Professor Galland, of the Malta
University ; Mr. Frederick Guairacino, British
Consul for Sinope and SamFo In, on leave, with his
family ; Paymaster Cockerill, 3d Dragoon Guards,
en route for India, and, 'for Alexandria on her way
to the Holy Land, whore she has founded a reli-
gious establishment, the Princess La Tour
d'Auvergne. The Princess went on to Alexandria
the same afternoon in the Cephise, French postal
steamer, which conveyed likewise James Brant,
Esq. (and family), recently promoted from
Erzeroom to be British Consul at Damascus, and
Prince Bahadour of Oude and suite. The Hon.
Victor Houlton, Chief Secretary to the Govern-
ment of Malta, returned by the Cephise.
The screw-steamers, with general cargoes, which
touched at Malta between the 2d and the 9th of
October, were—the Alps, from Liverpool and
Gibraltar, for Syra, Constantinople and Smyrna
the Damascus, from Constantinople, Smyrna, and
Alexandria, for Tunis, Gibraltar, and Liverpool ;
the Flora, from Odessa, Constantinople, and
Smyrna for Gibraltar and London ; the Waniebeck
from Newcastle and Gibraltar, bound to Smyrna:
with damage to machinery.
The Araxes steamer arrived at Malta from Alex-
dria on the Bth, having onboard Captain Alexander
and the crew of the Persian screw steamer, lately
purchased by the Pasha of Egypt for the purposes
of a yacht. She left Malta the same night for Tunis,
Gibraltar, and Liverpool.
The Aleppo steamer, from London for Constanti-
nople, vrrived ou the 9th.
Our Malta correspondent states, also, that in pqr-
sua,nce of instructions received from Lieutenant
Colonel Harness, R.E., was to proceed to India by.
Colombo, about the 15th October ; that Major Por-
ter was to take charge of the Royal Engineer de-
partment at Malta ; and that Major Bayley,, rain-

tary secretary, was acting as Deputy Quartermaster..
General, during the absence on duty of Lieut.-Col.
Pocklington in Egypt.
Captain Snow, 96th Regiment, District Inspector
of musketry fur the Mediterranean, arrived on the
30th of September at Malta.

The steamship Hydaspes, Captain Bowen, for
Calcutta, arrived at St. Vincent's on the 30th of
September, after a quick passage from the Thames
of 10 days 20 hours. She had on board the Q and
J batteries of artillery, and Lieut.-Colonel Turner
troop of Horse Artillery, the whole under the corn.
mand of Lieut.-Calonel Riddel. Both officers and
men were in the best health and spirits, and anxious
to arrive at their destination. The were deriving
great benefit from the light fatigue clothing and
straw hats provided for the voyage.
The Mauritius steamer arrived at the Mauritius
on the 29th August from the Portsmouth and tha
Cape with 34 officers and 700 rank and file, 93d.
Highlanders, and proceeded to India. The Eng-
land steamship arrived at the Mauritius on the
same day from East, London, Cape of Good Hope,
with 28 officers and 517 men of her Majesty's 89th
Regiment.

The Madras steamer conveyed 400 of th 3 13th
Light Infantry from the Cape of Gool Hope to
India.

The steamship Bahiana put into Lisbon on the
11th Oct ,ber with loss of boats, &c. Part of the
98th Regiment is in this ship, bound for In Zia.
Au English three decker is stated to have been
sea, with troops on board, dismasted in lat. 44 N.,
long. 8 IV., on the 10th Oct., but it does not ap-
pear that any troops have embarked in a three-
decked ship.

The steamer Fiery Cross, White; arrived at Cal-
cutta on the Ist Sept. from Hong Kong, with the
following passengers on board :-001. Crawford,
R. A., Majors, Barry and Pennycuick, R.A., Cap-
tains Mulock, A.D. C., and Talbot, R.A., Surgeon
Farris, R. A., Lieuts. Dyer,tand Pickering, R.A.,
Veterinary Surgeon Wither?, R.A., Mrs. Drough•,
two children, and native ayah, Mrs. White and
European servant, two companies of Artillery, com,
manded by Capt. Middleton and Capt. Longden,
were d.►ily expected at Calcutta in the Sanspareil
from Hong Kong, and two companies of Artillery,
commanded ley Capt. Knox and Capt. Baritow
were also expected to another vessel.
The steam transport Viscount Canning, Captain
Blackmore, lying at Woolwich for the embarkation
of Capt. Dyneley's battery company for Calcutta,
has completed her arrangements for the voyage and
is to commence shipping the siege train to-day.
Owing to the damage done to the Austria in the
1 to gele, which compelled her to put back in a crip-
pled state to Portsmouth, it is thought that the steam
clipper Princess Charlotte, which has been daily
expected in Cork, will be employed to take her
troops to India, and that the Jura will remain in
Queenstown to take the remainder of the 18th Royal
Irish, which were to have sailed by the Princess
Charlotte. .

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :

Li-mtenanta—T. N. Chapman, to the Henn ; and A.
A. Smith, to the Persian.

MILITIA,

Orders have been recoived for the immediate em-
holimcnt of the_King's Own Light Intantry (Ist
Tower Hamlet,) Militia, under the command of
Lieut.-Col. Grant. The regiment numbers upwards
of 1,000 men.

Yesterday morning the Oxford Militia, doing gar-
neon duty at Woolwich, was inspected by the Ge-
nerAl Commandant. The regiment, in command
of Colonel Bowles, was drawn out on Woolwic:t
common, and put through a round of battalion
movement in the presence of Major-Gen. Sir W.
F. 'Williams,- Col. Bloomfield., 2-3 Commandant.
Colonel Brown commanding the Royal Marines,
:Ind ihe.whole.of the General officers and staff of
the garrison. After performing the evolutions
usual ou inspection days, trey marched pr.st, and
having formed into squaTe, were addressed by the
General, who congra.ulated them on their clean
and soldierly- appearance, which he said he should
leport to his Royal Highness the- Commander-in-
Chief, togeth,-r wAh their efficient state of discipline
and perfect drill. The term of five year;; for whi.th
they were embodied, is nearly expired.
The East Ktint Militia, mentioned in yesterday's
plpf-r as having been called out for emboditnint,
consists of 800 moo. The regiment served for a
considerable time iu the Mediterranean.

The Marquis of Westminster, the Lord-Lieut&
pant, has given notice that thl 2d Regiment of
Cheshire Militia will be imnr!diately out for em-
bodiment.
The 2d Regiment of Warwickshire Militia assem-
bled for embldiineiit at LeaminL;ton on Thursday.
The regimol..t is nTresctited to bo iu a highly effi-
cient condition.

Lola Lyttelton, the Lord-Thatenant, has notified
that the Vjoree,tershire KWh will be forthwith
ernb

The first Reglment of o:,esliire Mirtia has volun-
teered for service in

• The officers awl st!ff of the City of Edinburgh
111iliti% are actively et,g)ged in recruiting for the
regular army, and are enlisting for 17 di Brent
regimPnts.