The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, JCNE 22.—The Ganges, 84, arrived on Sun-
day last, from Athens, having had the advantage of a
ttilF breeze, rau up to her moorings in pretty style.
Previons to her arrival reports were in circulation that
some of her officers had rendered themselves amenable to
a court.martial, and that one was to be assembled.
There is no truth at all in the report.

The fleet, it is said, will shertly quit port—some say
for a cruise to Port Mahon; others, to meet her Majesty
at Gibraltar; but nothing positive on the subject is
known. Generally the fleet is in a healthy state, not-
withstanding the awful " cholera cry" every day heard.
The sailors have had their leave considerably abridged,
and the bum-boats are not allowed to bring off any
fruit for sale before being first inspected by a medical
officer.

The Medusa, with the Indian mails, may be expected
on the 24th inst.

'rho Triton, with mails from the lonian Islands, is due
on the 24th inst.

Th© Medusa is under orders to convey the India mail
to Marseilles.

The Antelope is ordered to Constantinople, to relieve
the Pcreupine, and will sail, it is said, on Aiondcy.
The Hogue steam- frigate is hourly expected.
:Her
mooring buoys have been laid down.

The 'general health of the city is not of a nature, to
cause auy alarm, but it is yet such as to cause much
anxieT. The various reports of cholera haying broken
out among us are not confirmed, aithough a disease
very much like it has made its appearance, and has
been designated by medical men as gastro interitis.
When fatal, it carries off th© person attacked in three
to five hours. Fortunately the attacks are very limited
in number at.present, and are easily brought under sub-
jection by the medical men. Our bills of health are
consequently " touched," though they are nut as yet ac-
tually foul.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON.
In Malta Harbour—The Ceylon receiving-ship, bear-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Edward Harvey, Superin-
tendent of Malta Dockyard, and second in command ;
Queen, 116, Captain C. Wise, bearing the flag of Vice •
Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.C.13., the Commander-in-
Chief ; Caledonia, 120, Captain T. W. Carter ; Superb,
Cliptain E. Purcell; Powerful, 84, Captain the Bon. R.
S. Dundas ; Ganges, 84, Captain 11. Smith; Bellerophon,
78, Captain Robert L. Baynes ; Hercules, Captain R.
Fulton; steam-frigates Terrible, Captain Hope ; Fire-
brand, Captain T. 0. Knox ; steamers Ardent, laid up
in ordinary; Spitfire, laid up in ordinary.
At the Pirmus of Athens—The Frolic, 16, Captain
N. Vansittart.

En route to Trieste, Scourge steam-sloop, Lord F. H.
Kerr.

At Constantinople—Porcupine steam-vessel, Lieut.
E. F. Roberts; Tartarus steam-sloop, Sir Godfrey Web-
ster, cruising.
At Canes—The Volage, 6, surveying-ship, Captain
Thomas Graves; Auxiliary, surveying-tender to Volage,
mate in command J. H. Glover; Research, surveying-
tender to Volage. Lieutenant Lord John Brown.

At Coriu—the Growler steam-sloop, Commander
Stodds rt.

At Argostoli—The Racer, 12, Commander Beddoes.

En route from Malta to Gibraltar and England, the
Howe, 120, Captain Sir J. Stirling; Vengeance, 84,
Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood.

MAIL ETEAM•PACKETS.

At Malta—The-Oberon, Lieutenant Gardiner; Ante-
lope, Lieutenant Smith; Medina, Lieutenant A. Darby.
En route from Malta to Marseilles, the Merlin, Lieut.
J. H. Turner.

En route to Malta from Alexandria, the Medusa,
Lieutenant Bathurst.

En route to Malta from the lonian Islands and Greece,
the Triton, Lieutenant J. C. P. Glint].

At Naples—The Spiteful, Commander J. Carmichael.
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM-

PAN Y'S FLOTILLA.

At Southampton—The Pacha, Queen, Tagus, Euxine,
and Pottinger.
En route from Southampton to Malta, the Ripon.
Eu route from Malta to Southampton, the Indus.
En route to Malta from Constantinople, the Sultan.
Between Constantinople and Trebizond, the Erin.
UNITED STATES SQUADRON.

En route from Naples to Gibraltar, tho Independence
frigate, bearing the flag of Commodore Charles W.
Morgan.
En route from Messina to Trieste, the Cumberland,
Captain Latimer.

En route from Naples to the United States, the Relief
store-ship.
At Spezzia—The Mississippi steam-frigate, Captain
Long.
At Genoa—The Constitution frigate, Capt. Conover.
At Naples—The St. Lawrence, Captain Paudling.
At Palermo—The Erin store ship and Jamestown
corvette.

SHIPS OF WAR IN roar.

The Firefly and Nautilus yachts.

PORTVIOUTYI, JULY I.—The Vengeance, 84, Captain
Sir lieuiy Blackwood, arrived at Spithead this morning
from the Mediterranean station to be paid elf. She will
be mustered and inspected to-morrow by the Port-
Admiral, and come into harbour to be paid off all stand-
ing,. She left Malta on the 18th of May, arrived at
Gibraltar on the Ist of June, and sailed ore the 4th. She
has had three cap'.ains during her commission. She
was present at the bombardment of Palermo and Geno
during the time of her detached services from the Ad-
miral. She has brought home Lieut,uant George Begot,
of the 69:h Regiment, on leave; 73 men of the 44th
R,gituent; and 80 men of the 69:h R:giment, sent home
for the purpose of obtaining their discharge in conse-
qu,nce of the late reduction in the army. The Ven-
,,,-eance was commissioned on the 17th of October, 1846,
by Caiittin St-phen Lushiogton, now Commodore of the
Indian navy. The followiog are the only officers who
have eur.ved in her throughout her commission:—Lieu-
tenant Joseph Bickforl; Mr. Robert Salmond, Master;
Mr. J. Mounsteven, Paymaster and Purser; Dr. Robert
Wallace, Assistant-Surgeon ; Mr. E. Death and Mr.
T. U. Store, Clerks; Mr. Ley, Master's-Assistant; Mr.
Brett, Midshipman. Her military invalids were in
charge of Captain Toth ill, R.M.

Tlie Howe, 120, Captain Sir James Stirling, arrived
at Spithcad this afternoon from the Mediterranean, to
be paid off.
Spitheacl has not been so full since the experimental
squadron of 1849. We have the Howe, 120; Vengeance,
84; end 'Medea steam sloop, of the Royal navy, and the
Barham, 1,150 tins, Captain Grinblett, from London
for Calcutta, full of passengers and freight. The Se-
ringapatam, 1,000 tons, Captain Purnell, for Bombay;
and the Bucephalus, 1,000 tons, Captain Bell, for Madras
and Calcutta, with troops.
PLYMOUTH, JULY I.—Letters dated May 19, from
her Majesty's troop-ship Apollo, Commander Raw-
storne, at the Cape of Good Hope, state that she left
Hong-Kong with the 95th Regiment, about 800 rank
aud file, on the Ist of March, touched at Angiers on the
23d of March, and arrived at St. Simon's Bay on the
Bth of May. During the passage great sickness pre-
vailed among the troops, caused in the first place by
their protracted residence aboard. The whole ship, for
a long period, was quite like an hospital, as many as
100, and sometimes 150, being sick at a time of dysen-
tery, of which 40 soldiers died. Only one of the officers
had been ill, and he recovered. On arrival at the Cape
all the sick were sent to the hospital, and
the rest of the troops were landed at the dcckyard ;
six men who were very ill when landed died ashore, and
more will probably die before reaching England. How-
ever, only four or five fresh cases occurred after arrival,
and the weather was very fine. No mention is made of
any sickness among the crew. The senior medical officer
at the Cape has been on board and inspected g the
Apollo; she was to be cleaned and purified, provisions
got on board, and everything ready to receive the troops
by the 26th of May; but the medical officer thought
they ought not to go before the Ist of June, so as to
give the men time to recover previous to embarkation.
All the sick will be left behind, and this will in some
measure prevent overcrowding. The Apollo, it is sup-
posed, will be paid off on arrival home. She has not
sufficient height between decks, and is others Vise ill
adapted for the conveyance of troops, of which fact
there has been very fatal evidence since she left
England.
COAST OF AFRICA.—By accounts received from the
sloop Ranger, 8, Commander T. Miller, it appears that
on the sth of December last, while off the coast of Africa,
after experiencing a very heavy short sea for two days,
she encountered a tremendous squall,, with variable
wind, accompanied with terrific thunder, a deluge of rain,
and vivid forked lightning from nearly every part of the
horizon, a flash from which struck the ship and came
down the main mast, passed through the gunroom, and
escaped by the third Lieutenant's cabin, where the con-
. ductors lead overboard. The First-Lieutenant was
sick in bed at the time, and the purser sitting outside
talking to him. Both of these saw the lightning come
down and escape in the manner described. The officers
consider that, under Providence, the conductors, which
are on the plan of Sir William Snow Harris, were the
means of saving the ship, if not all on board. The
• weather was so thick at the time that half the ship's
length could not be seen from any part of her. lied
. either of the masts gone, a considerable sacrifice of life
must have occurred, as the crew were of course on deck.
The commander observed the lightning strike the fore-
mast in a similar way. The ship was exposed to the
rage of the thunderstorm from 5 to 9 P.M., that is to say,
four hours.
The Thetis, 40, Captain H. J. Codrington, is to go up
Hamoeze to-day.
The infantry of the Royal Dockyard Battalion were
exercised in Granby-square on Saturday afternooon.

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