The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-17 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

The fallowing circular ha,. been issued from the Horse
Guards, dated Jan. 10, 1857 :
"Trio monthly return of discharged men re-enlisting,
called for by the Circular Memoraidurn, dated the 22d
Feb., 1855, being no longer required, Inspecting Field
Officers and Commanding Officers of regiments and de-
pots will discontinue forwarding those returns to this
department. " By command,
"G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."
A letter from Malta, dated Jan. 10, states that the
following British ships of war were then lying in Malta
harbour :
" The Conqueror, Brunswick, and Centurion steam
ships of the line ; Dauntless steam frigate ; Conflict, Os-
prey, Swallow, Recruit, and Shear water steam sloops;
Lynx, Weser, Cracker, and Fancy steam gunboats • Dili-
gence sailing transport ; Hearty, Thais, and Wallace
steam tugs ; Caradoc steam packet ; Hibernia receiving
ship, and Ceylon hospital ship, for military convalescents.
On the 4th her Majesty'; scr-w steam sloop Wan-
derer left for Naples ; arid her Majesty's screw steam
gunboat Lynx arrived from Constantinople on the 6th.
Her iNl,jesty's steam sloop Shearwater returned from
the Pirasue on the 7th. She experienced very boisterous
weather on her pa sage to the Piraaus, and on Christmas-
day lost all the covering boards of her paddle-boxes, and
while lying at Zante on New-Year's-day bad also very
heavy weather. She brought back Mr. Hamshaw, the
Superintending Engineer of Malta Dockyard, and
daughter, and Mr. Stopf,rd, Major Kelly, and fonr
military invalids.
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"Her Majesty's steam corvette Swallow arrived on
the 4th from Beyrout.
"His Netherland Majesty's frigate Doggerebank
passed Malta un the 7th, from the eastward, bound fur
the Texel.
"The Aventure, French postal steamer, due on the
28th of Dec., from Marseilles, the continental ports of
Italy and Messina, met with such bad weather before
reaching and after arrival at Naples that she did not
arrive at Malta before the 3d of Jan. Major St. Clair,
of the 57th, came passenger by her. She returned to
Marseilles by the same route on the same afternoon.
"The Caire, French postal steamer, arrived on the
4th from Marseilles, and left on the same afternoon for
Syra, Smyrna, and Constantinople, conveying to the
first named pert, for Athens, Deputy Assistant Commis.
sary General Arthur Baynes.
" The Brenda arrived from Odessa, Constantinople,
and Smyrna on the 31st of December, having on board
his Excellency Ziki Pasha and suite, proceeding to
assume the government of Bengazi. She was not able
to proceed to her destination before the 6th.
"The Austrian Lloyds screw steamer No. 67 .arrived
from Plymouth and Gibraltar on the 3d of January, and
left for Corfu and Trieste on the 7th.
The Athens arrived from Liverpool on the sth, and
left for Constantinople on the same day.
"The Indus and Vectis, Peninsular and Oriental Com

pany's steamers, arrived from Alexandria early on the
morning of the 10th with the India mails and pas-
sengers. The first-named vessel left immediately after
replenishing fuel for Marseilles with the overland mails
and despatches for England. The Indus was to follow on
the same day Nvii.h those for Gibraltar and Southampton.
"According to recent advices from Constantinople
Admiral Lord Lyons would leave for Malta about the
9th in the Royal Albert."
In consequence of the division of Royal Marine Light
Infantry at Chatham being above its usual establish-
ment an order has been forwarded from the Admiralty
to Colonel J. A. Philips, Commandant of the division,
authorising volunteering to be commenced from that
corps for the Royal Marine Artillery. The qualifications
required of volunteers are that they shall be of good
character and possess general intelligence, and not less
than lift. Bin. in height. The number of Royal Marines
who volunteered yesterday was 52.
The board of officers which has been sitting at Chatham
barracks for the purpose of fixing the prices at which the
several articles sold in the barrack-canteens at that gar-
rison shall be charged to the troops, having concluded
their labours, the authorities have directed that a list of
prices of the various articles sold in the canteen shall be
placed in a conspicuous place in each of those establish.
ments, so that the troops may ascertain the sum autho-
rised to be charged for every article supplied to them.
The sailing sloop Star, 8, Corn. Boyle, arrived at
Spithead yesterday morning from the south-east coast of
America station. She sailed from Rio in company with
her Majesty's storeship Tyne, for England, on Nov. 27,
and the English squadron, then under the command
of the Commodore for a cruise, consisting of her
Majesty's ships Madagascar, Indefatigable, Spy, and
Siren. Her Majesty's •hip Cruiser, with two gunboats
—the Haughty and Staunch—arrived from England on
the same day. She parted company with the Tyne in
a heavy gale of wind on the 9th, 10th, and 11th inst.,
from S.W. to N.W., 169 miles west of the Lizard ; she
lost stern and quarter boats, stove part of her bulwarks,
and the ship is much strained. The Star has been the
whole of her time on commission, consequently has been
doing duty as senior officer's ship in the Rio de la Plata.
She brings five naval invalids from Rio. The Sta
sailed the same afternoon for Sheerness, to be paid otf.
The ship Zetnindar, Captain Furber, arrived at the
Motherbank yesterday morning from Bassein and the
Cape of Good Hope. Date of sailing from the Cape,
Nov. 20. She landed a mail and some passengers.
One of Mr. Francis's corrugated metal boats, employed
in the ordinary service of Woolwich dockyard during the
last six months, having been subjected to sundry tests, in
competition with other boats most approved in the yard,
has been pronounced equally light on the water, much
less subject to capsizr, and more durable. The report
further states that the boat in present use there has
been constantly exposed to the hardest service since
July last, and is now as good as ever, with the excep-
tion of some of the wooden mouldings being knocked
off by being driven forcibly against the docks. She has
had no repairs, not even paint, since she left New York.
This is the same boat that was suspended with a ton of
rough stone blocks in her, and tossed about on the
wharf, and run against the duck by four carmen for
experimental purposes.