The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-09 00:00:00

THE NAP Y.

The Victoria and Albert, Royal yacht, Captain
Hon. Joseph Denman, left Portsmouth harbcur
yesterday to take up her position at Cowes roads.
The Octavia, 51, screw steam frigate, went out of
No. 8 dock yesterday into the steam basin at Ports-
mouth.

The Pandora, 5, screw steam gunussol, was
taken out of the steam basin at Portsmouth yester-
day, and steamed out of harbour to try her ma-
chinery at Stokes Bay. She is to be got ready for
the first-class steam reserve.

The Persian, 12, sloop, Commander Cecil M-
Buckley, V.C., arrived at Spithead yesterday after-
noon from the Cape of Good Hope, and saluted the
flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry W. Bruce, naval
commander in chief at Portsmouth. She will pro-
ceed to the eastward to pay off.
The Supply, storeship, Master Commander Wm.
H. Balliston, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday
afternoon, with supernumeraries, for the eastward.

The Medea, 6, steamsloop, was towed alongside
the north end of Portsmouth dockyard yesterday,
to be brought forward for the first-class steam
reserve.

The Leveret, tender to guard ship lying at South-
ampton Water, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
under steam, as also did the Biter, gunboat, tender
to her Majesty's steamer Colossus, at Portland.
The Walmer Castle, freightship, which arrived at
Portsmouth on Sunday from Calcutta, went into
harbour yesterday, and disembarked the right wing
of sth Fusiliers. The division proceeded to their
quarters at Anglesea Barracks.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieutenant J. W. Lambe,
to the Wanderer; Lieutenant G. S. Graves, to the
Orion; Midshipman G. W. Osmond, to the Doris;
Midshipman G. V. Story, to the Chameleon.

MALTA, JUNE 30.
The steam frigate Terrible returned on the 28th
from the Dardanelles, where she transferred to the
dispatch steamer Banshee, for Constantinople, his
Excellency Mirza D'Jafar Khan and suite, return-
ing to Persia, he having completed the objects of
his mission from the Shah to the Court of St.
James's. The Terrible on her way up touched, at
the request of the ambassador, at the Pirmus of
Athens, whence his excellency caused a telegram to
be sent to Constantinople craving a firman to be
issued for the Terrible to pass through the Darda-
nelles to Constantinople ; but this, it seems, under
existing circumstances could not be granted. His
excellency visited the ambassador of Great Britain
at the Hellenic court, by whom he was presented
to their Majesties the King and Queen of Greece,,
who received him with the honours due to his rank..
On his being transferred to the Banshee the Terri-
ble fired a salute of 19 guns. After a few days'
stay at Constantinople the Banshee will convey his
excellency and suite to Poti, in the Black See,
on route to Teheran, calling at Tribisond. The
Terrible is taking in stores and provisions for the
squadron at Beyrout, for which port she will leave
on the 4th of July.

Her Majesty's screw steam gun boat Intrepid left
for Corfu on the 23d June.

Vice Admiral W. Fanshawe Martin, the com-
mander in chief in the Mediterranean, shifted his
flag on the 29th June from the Liffey to the Nep-
tune, preparatory to taking a short cruise with these
two vessels and the London. On board of the Nep-
tune there has been a manifestation of a mutinous
spirit, which the presence of the admiral will no
doubt repress. Messina, Palermo, and other ports
of Sicily will be visited before returning to Malta
to meet the Marlborough from England.
The James Watt continued at Suda Bay, in Can-
dia, on the 20th June, expecting as her relief the
Gannet, from Malta, Sicily, and Corfu.
The movements at Malta between the 24th and
30th June—viz., of merchant steamers discharging
part of cargo thereat, and proceeding with the re-
mainder to ulterior ports, consist of the Paletine,
from Smyrna, with Indian corn for Liverpool; Ada,
with a general cargo from London, for Con-
stantinople and Odessa ; Melita, from Gibraltar and.
Liverpool, with a general cargo for Syria and Con-
stantinople, Eva, from Odessa, Constantinople, amid
Smyrna, with wheat and a general cargo for Lon-
don ; Tider, from Alexandria, with a general cargo
for Liverpool.

The Mehludia, Ottoman steamer, left on the 28th
June on a three days' trip for Catania and back,
with upwards of 100 English and Maltese excur-
sionists. JuLY 3.
The screw steam line-of-battle ship Neptune,
bearing the flag of the naval commander in-
chief in the Mediterranean, Vice Admiral W. Fan-
shawe Martin, together with the London, screw
line-of-battle ship, and Liffey, screw steam frigate,
left for a ten days' cruise on the 2d, proceeding im
the first place to Catania, and thence to Messina and
Palermo, and probably Naples, returning to Malta
to meet the Marlborough from England, on board
of which the admiral's flag will be reheisted.

Orders have been sent by telegraph to the steam
gunboat Intrepid, at Corfu, to repair to Constanti-
nople, provided she can reckon on reaching her
destination by the 4th of July, to be present at the
coronation of the new Sultan.

The steam gunboat Assurance is under orders to
proceed, under the temporary co'aimand of Lieut.
Luard, to Corfu to take the place, on that station,
of the Intrepid. Commander Aynsley, R.N., of the
Assurance, left, on the 29th of June, for Ischia, on
sick leave, in the French steam packet Quirinal.
The movements at Malta of merchant steamers,
between the 30th of June and the 3d of July, land-
ing part cargo thereat, and proceeding to ulterior
ports with the remainder, consist of the Coloco-
tronis, from Giurgevo and Constantinople, with
Indian corn, &c., for Cork ; the Mehludia (Otto-
man), from Catania, with excursionists, fox Tripoli;
and the Vesta (Russian), from London for Constan-
tinople and Odessa, with a general cargo, having
some disarrangement in her machinery.