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

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Iler esty's ship Gangds, 84, sailingtwo-decker,
Captain Fnifold, flag of Rear-Admiral R. L.
Bayne; 0.11,, is , under orders to leave Spithead
this morning for the Pacific station, cu which the
Admiral hal been appointed Commander-in-Chief:
Rear-Adtniral Br uce awaits his relief-in the Mo-
narch, 84, at Callao ,
The Dennis Brundittt, from Caldera, arrived at
Liverpool, spoke the Champion of the Sew, Black
Ball clipper, Captain Iti‘Kirdy; having on board the
97th Regini.f.nt for India, on the morning of the
Bth of September, in lat. 9.G S., long. 31.15 W.,
and receiver some provisions from her. Cap-
tain. M`Kirely writes that " there has not been
the slightest sickness, and the officers and
troops Are 'quire like a happy family." Two
days previously the Dennis Brunditt saw a very
large clipper in lat. 13.27 W., steering t) the east-
ward supposed to be the James Baines, another of
the Black Ball line, and having on board the 20th
Regiment for India. Both skips passed th Needles
at G p.m, on the Bth of August, and the tug boats
left theta On the 11th. Captain M‘Kirdy's letter
concludes, "God be praised for all His mercies.
These ships look like 70 to 75 days only if the Bay
Of Bengal doesn't bodice us."
The Hannibal, 91, screw two-docker, is ordered
to be undocked at Portsmouth and dismantled. She
is to be brought forward as an advanced ship in
the steam reserve.
The Marv, 80, screw, was yesterday towed higher
up Sheerness harbour. She will go on trial as soon
as she can be not ready—no doubt towards the lat-
ter end of neat week.
The Persian, 12, sailing sloop of war, Com-
mander Chad; will, this day, Saturday, hoist her
two lower masts in. Carpenters and caulkers aro
actively engaged in giving her a thorough caulking,
(iTo. She will, however, have to go into a dry
dock at She,,ruesS, if it is only to clean the barnacles
otf, accumulated through having been seine time
in ordinary (River Medway.)
Tho Bacchante, 51, screw, now building under
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 tons, with the same
armament and machinery.
Tho Diadem, 32, screw, Captain (shell) Moorsom.
The new balance valve has been sent down to Ports-
mouth from the engineering establishMOlit of
Mes.rs. Mauds'ay, Field, and Co., and by Tuesday
next the Diadem will be enabled to resume her trial
at the measured mile at Stokes Bay. Her heavy
shot have been shifted aft, to bring her as much as
possible by the stern, which, looking at hoe fulness
forward, will be considerably in her favour. The
screw will be well immersed, and the bluff of her
bows better lifLed.
The Renown, 91, in charge of Mr. Robert
Nicoll, chief engineer, is ordered t) hiul out of
Sheerness Basin on Monday next, and go on trial
again about Wednesday, the Admiralty not con.
sidering, on her last trial, that she had been kept
long enough on full titeam. to ascertain her rea
speed.

- The Sprightly, tender, Master Commander
Goorga Allen, has beenplaced at the service of Rear
Admiral Baynes, whose flag flies at the mizen
of the Ganges, 84, Captain John Fulford, at Ports-
mouth. She sails to-day for the South Pacific, and
has been fitted with spare seta of pennants. belong-
ing to Clifford's patent boat-lowerim; apparatus.
The Wellington, 72, Captain John Moore, was
yesterday taking in more ballast, to bring her wing-
pumps under water. She will be reported ready for
ea on the 25th inst., and sail from Sheerness about
the Ist proximo. She is still short of her com-
plement.

The Sharpshooter, 9, irun screw steam vessel, is
to be unlocked in a fow days at Portsmouth and
brought forward for comlrliSBloll.

Yesterday morning reinforcements for the 24th
Re4inient and 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 Kurrachee. The troops go out
under the command of Capt. S. C. Jackson, 70th
Regiment, and Lieutenant A. N. Montgomery, 7th
Fusiliers.

Yesterday an order arrived from the Admiralty
at the head-quarters of the Royal Marines, Chat-
ham, directing Col. K A. Parker, the Commandant,
t ) furnish two detachments of non-commissioned
officers and' men for service on board the Heron,
12, and Persian, 12, both of which vessels are to be
fitted out immediat ly.
Assistant Staff-Surgeon P. A. M‘Derrnott has
been direc'ed to proceed from Chatham to the Gam-
bia, for medical duty at that station.
The follovring.officers have joined their depots at
Cha.tbam Garrison, previous to embarking for In-
dia, viz. :—Capt. C. R. Murc, 43d Light Infantry;
Ensign M. Wiliams, and Ensign H. S. Jones, 84th
Regimen%
The Heron, 12, sloop, has been commissioned at
01 wham by Commander William H. Truscott
(1855). She is to be made ready for sea with all
despatob; 'and is intended for the coast of Africa.
The advices of our Malta correspondent reach to
tha afternoon of the 9th of October, and announce
the arrival from Alexandria on the day preceding
of her MAjoil y'sdespatch steamer Caradoc, followed
by the Desperate, the former having on board three
ambassadors from Siam, who were to leave on the
10th or.] lth in the Caradoc for England direct, ac-
companied in all probability by the Desperate.
The Cataloc brought the Bombay ma 1, which
was forwarded on the afternoon of the 9th to
Marseilles by 11r) French stearnpacket Meandro.
A summary of the intelligence was despatched 1; om
Malta to Cagliari at 6 a.in. on the Bth by Her
Majoity's s tennigun- vessel Coquet!-e, for telegraphic
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 cteampacket Merovee, from
Marseilles the Italian ports, and Sicily, arrived at
Malta on the 7th bringing, among other passengers,
Lady Hamilton Chichester, the Chevalier Four-
carde, French Consul for Malta, and family, return-
ing from leave ; Professor Gallant, of the_ Malta
University; Mr. Frederick Gum racine, British
Consul for Sinope and SamEosn on leave, with his
family ; Paymaster Cockerill, Sd Dragoon Guards,
en route for India, and, for Alexandria on her way
to the Holy Land, where she has founded a reli-
gious establishment, the Princess La Tour
d'Auvergno. 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 Babadour of Onde 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 Liverp I°l ;
the Flora, from Odessa, Constantinople, and
Smyrna for Gibraltar and London ; the Wansebeck,
from Newcastle and Gibraltar, bound to Smyrna,
with damage to machinery.
The Araxes steamer arrived at Malta from Alex-
dria on the Bth, having on board 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, crrived on the 9th.
Our Malta correspondent states, also, that in pur-
suance of instructions received from Lieutenant
Colonel Harness, R.E., was to proceed to India ty
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, mili-

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self-clegraling act ?---st that intolerable wrong she had done j
both to lyzaelf and to the Earl. • Atno.: she witlidraws
into her privy clo.z:et. There, alon,-, did she rAl.,:ct at ?
Essex was vory pale wheumyLerdSouthampton, hearing
from Ralegh sornewha: of ail .this,room.
mot him in the ante-
. "How is't, m,n?", said he, graspint; the El,rl's - right
hand, pacing his left on my Lord's shoulder.
Trembling with excitement, ESSO7 could scarcely, and
butin curt speech tell his tale.
" Not only broken all laws of affection".
"Fear not !" • '
" False, inconstant, begniling pleasures"
"I was never proud till she sought to make me too
base."
" Patience, clear Essex 1 Patience ! Her Grace"--
" Nay, nay 1 She which governs this is world
weary of
me, and I of the world 1"
The author, in his quaint and characteristic pre •
face, apologises for the darns and patches in his
tapestry, but they must be severe crit;cs who take
the general effect is so
exception to, parts, . when
good. —Tlio author has completely identified
himself with tho age and
.epoch of which
lie wri:es, his• very mottoes being invari-
ably selected from plays whose very names aro
' almost extinct, and she labour of spelling in such
an witelluviati manner cannot have
.Lean trifling
to a writer of modern habits. The. itnita-
Von is well Lepiup, and the writer never descends
from his stilts, oven the title page being in accord-
ance with the quaintness of the style. As a his.
torical romance the narrative is highly interesting,
but as a picture of life, three centuries ago, it in of a
•higher value, and the author, besides the dramatic
interest of his tragedy, has undertaken the labours
of another department, and may claim credit for.
the brilliancy and variety of his stage acce‘fseries,
and the fidelity and success of his scene painting.