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now, is daily expected to arrive at Spithead ; the
Albuera, with a portion of the regiment, consisting
of 10 officers, 288 men, 10 women, and 18 children,
has been reported in the Channel. The regiment
will disembark at Portsmouth, and proceed thence
to the camp at Shorncliffe by rail.
The first grand field day of the season, at Ports-
mouth, took place yesterday on Southsea-common.
The troops consisted of the mounted artillery bat-
teries from Hilsea, the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade,
2d Cheshire, East Kent, and Royal Limerick
County Militias.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. Mann has been appointed
Town-Major at Plymouth. ; .
Major Stevens, unattached, is appointed Ma.jor of
Brigade to the Division commanded by Major-
General Shirley at the Curragh.
The Council of Military Education under Major-
General Cameron, vice-president, commences the
next examination of candidates for direct commis-
sions on the Ist prox. at the Royal College at Chelsea.
The examination will extend over six days.

MUTINY ON BOARD THE MARL-
BOROUGH.

A letter from Malta, dated August 20, says :
Her Majesty's gunboat Wanderer arrived on the
18th instant from Constantinople. She brings in-
telligence that Admiral Mundy's squadron is about
150 miles from the island of Malta, and that the
Mediterranean fleet, under the command of Admi-
ral A. Fanshawe, may be looked for to-morrow or
the day following.
Letters from the fleet mention a serious outbreak
of a rather mutinous character having occurred on
board the Admiral's ship Marlborough, at Castel-
lamare, Naples. We learn that a' great number of
the crew took part it; but no warrant or petty
officers, and that the mutineers not only rolled the
shot along the deck, but actually threw them at the
officer in charge. The Admiral turned up the
hands, and we hear addressed the malcontents, and
thus order was restored, he having ordered them to
their different messes. The men afterwards put
their alleged grievances in writing, and it is said
that out of several statements drawn up there were
many different versions of their complaints. It is
reported that Lord F. Kerr shed tears at the con-
duct of the men, and said he would rather have
been shot than have witnessed such a disgrace to
the leading ship of the Mediterranean fleet. Five
of the ringleaders are in irons, and will no doubt
be tried by court-martial.
On the 13th inst., Mr. Edward Simpson, pur-
veyor to the forces, died after a very short illness.
He was buried with military honours, the band and
funeral party being found by the 21st Fusil'ers.
Mr. Simpson was only 24 years of age.
Her Majesty's ship Urgent left for Corfu on the
18th with stores. She took a great number of
passengers, chiefly officers of the regiments of the
garrison, who will return in her in the course of
next week. The Urgent will thence proceed to.
England. Her Majesty's frigate Liffey arrived
from England and Gibralter on the 15th inst., and
is still in port. Her Majesty's frigate Euryalus
came into port from Palermo on the 18th. Her
Majesty's ship Caradoc proceeded to Palermo on
the 19th. The Intrepid relieved the gunboat
Wanderer at Constantinople. The Fulminante,
French screwgunboat, arrived from Dulsigno on
the 14th, and left for Marseilles on the 17th. The
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Indus arrived on
the 14th from Southampton, and continued her
voyage to Alexandria the same day. The Nepaul
arrived on the same date, and also went on to
Alexandria. The Panther, with Bombay mails,
arrived on the 16th, as did the Behar ; the former
proceeded to Marseilles and the latter to South-
ampton. The Alhambra proceeded to Corfu with
the lonian mails on the 15th, and is expected to-
day from the lonian Islands. The French packet
Borysthene arrived from Marseilles on the 17th
inst., with Paris dates to the 13th ; but she
brought no English mails. The following steamers
came in during the week :—French—Hellespont
and Hy daspe ; British—Arcadia, Milan, Scamander,
Tweedside, and South-Western. An Italian
steamer, called the Corriere Siciliano, arrived from
Syracuse on the 15th inst., and left for the same
place last night.
I regret to state that the line of telegraph cable
between Malta and Corfu has been ruptured since
the 14th inst. The officers of the company have
experienced many serious difficulties in attempting
to restore communication between Malta and Cag-
liari. I hear that the company are about to fit out
another steamer for the purpose of repairing the
cable.

(From the Malta Observeriof August 19.)

- _
Gozo.—During last Sunday and Monday this
island was visited by several thousands of persons
(about 7,000 or 8,000) from Malta, chiefly of the
lower classes, who took the opportunity of cele-
brating the Gozitan.festa of Santa Maria, and pay-
ing a visit to the fabled Island of Calypso. The
concourse of persons was indeed unprecedented,
owing to the great facilities and convenient rates
offered by the steamer South-Western, and tugs
Bulldog and Dragon, in the conveyance of passen-
gers. The result of this festa proves that the
Maltese are excessively fond of excursion trips,
and would never fail to form merry parties if suit-
able occasions were always chosen by the owners of
the steamers for such trips. The usual races and
display of fireworks went off very successfully, to
the great delight of the Gozitans and their guests.
Standing on an eminence above Rabato, the
town in the centre of the island, there is a pic-
turesque castle, which, after being destroyed in dif-
ferent wars was, we learn, rebuilt and fortified in
the last century. The inhabitants, before the coast
was protected by towers, were obliged to retire
every night into the castle for fear of pirates, who
frequently landed in the night and carried off all
those who had imprudently slept in tho country.
The first fort built on the coast was the Migiarro,
at the landing place, which IN as begun in 1605
at the expense of the Grand Master Garzes ; the
bailly of Chambray began one at his own expense
in 1749, but not being finished before his death,
the order had it completed and gave it his name.
But all the fortifications of the island are at pre-
sent in a very dilapidated state, and the authori-
ties can have no intention whatever of defending
Gozo against a foreign enemy.
This island is generally very fertile ; the pastures
are good ; and they grow excellent fruit. The air
is very fine, and the country pleasingly varied ; the
gardens round the hills of Nadur and Seiahrer,
watered by different springs, are the pleasantest in
the island. The edifice which bears the name of
" Giant's Tower" is certainly of great antiquity.
The custom of building with immense stones
without cement is generally attributed to primitive
nations. Some of the stones which form the Giant's
Tower are 13 feet in length and six in breadth.
Ciantar mentions a gigantic bone which served as
the transversal beam of a door, a grinding tooth an
inch in length, taken from a skull and sent to the
Commander Grimaldi ; and many other enormous
bones havebeen found at different times. In 16580ne
of immense magnitude was brought from Africa as
a present to the Grand Master, who sent it to Pope
Alexander VII. To prove this gigantic race is not
totally extinct, Ciantar gives us an account (in his
time) of a young Gozitan of extraordinary stature
and strength. He was by trade a mason, and used,
in house-building, to carry stones four feet long up
the ladder, and could lift from the ground a bronze
mortar which four men could scarcely move. One
day two bailiffs wanted to seize and drag him to
prison. " Gently, gently," says he, "we will go
directly," and grasping them both, one under each
arm, like a couple of goats, he walked off towards
the sea. The poor bailiffs, expecting to be buried
in its waves, begged for mercy and forgiveness, and
promising not to molest him again, he released
them. The Grand Master Manoel wished him to
enter his service, but he chose rather to live by his
profession, and in his native island. A few years
afterwards, having exerted himself too much in
raising a weight which he thought very heavy, but
which was comparatively light for his strength, it
affected his breast, and brought on a mortal com-
plaint. As contrarieties illustrate each other,
Ciantar, to confront these giants of other times,
produces six dwarfs, who, though advanced in life,
did not exceed the height of three feet. Three of
them (two boys and a girl) were children of the
same parents, and the mother had alternately three
other sons of ordinary stature.
Drydone in an epistolary account of his travels
says—" As Gozo is supposed to be the celebrated
Island of Calypso, you may believe we expected
something very fine ; but we were
disappointed. It
must either be greatly fallen off since the time she
inhabited it, or the Archbishop of Cambray, as well
as Homer, must have flattered greatly in their
painting. We looked as we went along the coast for
the grotto of the goddess, but could see nothing
that resembled it. Neither could we observe those
verdant banks eternally covered with flowers ; nor
those lofty trees forever blossoming, that lost their
heads in the clouds, and afforded a shade to the
sacred baths of her nymphs. We saw, indeed,
some nymphs ; but as neither Calypso nor Eucharis
seemed to be of the number, we paid little atten-