The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-05 00:00:00

Naval and AliMazy Intelligence.

It is with infinite satisfaction we are enabled to
announce that the Lords Commissioners of the
Board of AdmiraDy. have rescinded the regulation
which prevented any blue jacket, excepting con-
tinuous service men, from entering on board her
Majesty's ships of war. The ships now fit ing for
China will be manned forthwith by the " right sort
of stuff." Commanders and lieutenants are busy
:entering lots of A.B.'s at the several rendezvous.
The following general regimental order has been
issued from the Adjutant General's Office, Royal
Artillery, Woolwich, signed 13. Palliser, assistant-
' adjutant-general :
" With reference to the War-office circular, of
tho 9th of April, 1857, commanding officers of ar-
tillery •are reques•ed to call upon the officers in
command of companies doing t,arrison duty under
their orders, to furnish, with the least possible de-
lay, the names of two gunners and drivers whom
they would recommend to be employed as artificers
on the conditions therein laid down.
" The men to be selected must have completed
all their drills, and it is to be understand that their
employment as artificers is not in any way to in-.
terfere with their instruction as artillerymen, or
their promotion to the rank of non-commissioned
officers.

" The names of the men to be selected are to be
transmitted to this office by officers commanding
Royal Artillery at each station or district"
Yesterday the troops belonging to the Provisional
Battalion at Chatham who were s-lected from the
Indian depots for that duty were marched to the
fortifications near Prince Henry's bastion, under
the command of Captain L. N. D. Hammond, 90th
Light Infantry, where they went through a variety
of e2caladingoperations with the troops of theßoyal
En-rineers, who are under the command of Col. H.
Sandham, direetia• of theßoyal Engineers establish-
ment. The following officers were in charge of the
escalading party :—Captain W. F. M'Lean, St. He-
lena Regiment • Lieut. J. W. Madden, 70th Regi-
ment; Lieut. R. E. Deare, 74Th Highlanders; Lieut.
V. G. Coates, 86th Regiment; Ensigns W. Thomp-
son and R. P. Butler, 78th Highlanders. • The
whole of the troops belonging to the Indian depots
at Ch4tham are undergoing a course of instruction
in escalading, in order to be made acquainted with
those operations previously to joining the service
companies of their corps in India.
It has been deemed advisab!e that the troops in
garrison at Pembroke should be encamped this sum-
mer at a short dist ance from the dockyard, and for
this purpose land has been selected at a place called
Fresh wat er-ea4—a spot about seven miles from
Pembroke. The customary tenders for the supply
of firewood and straw for bedding are to be imaied;-
ately sent in, so that by June it is likely the troops
will be under canvas. The place fixed upon is ex-
ceedingly open and healthy, and adjacent to the
coast, so that there is every probability of the health
of the troops being properly kept up. Freshwater-
east was the spot selected for the new musketry drill,
in which the soldiers will doubtless be properly
initiated.

'Accounts from Malta to the 29th April announce
the appearance off that port, on the afternoon of the
23d, of the Royal Albert screw steamship of the
line, bearing 'he flag of Admiral Lord Lyons, ac-
companied by the Brunswick, the Centaur, and the
Conqueror screw steamships of the line, prece led by
the Curacoa and the Vigilant screw steam gunboat,
which two last mentioned vessels entered Valetta har-
bour on the same afternoon, leaving the others in
the offing, where they still continue ; but it wa4
reported that they would enter the harbour on the
30th ult.

The following movements have been made at the
pert.

Her Majesty's steam corvette the Desperate
arrived on the 24th from Syra, and the Ariel on the
28th, from the Piraeus.
Her Majesty's, screw steam gunboat the Snake
left for England on the 23d.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's s'eam-
packet Colombo arrived on the 22d from Alexan-
dria, and left on the 23d for Southampton.
Captain Lyon arrived on the 22d in the Thrys-
thene steamer from the Levant, in which vessel
Earl Ducie and Capt. Poll left for Marseilles on the
same day.

The Vectis, Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-packet, arrived from Alexandria on the 231,
and left for Marseilles on the same morning.
The Teneriffe screw steamer arrived from Alex.
andria on the 28th, and left on the 29th for Liver-
pool. This vessel brought a confirmation of the ar-
rival at Suez on the 12th from Australia of the
steamer European, with the welcome intelligence—
already t -legraphed—that, besides her own mails
and passenge:s she conveyed those of the long over-
.
due Oneida.

The Etna arrived at Malta from Alexandria with
these mails and paqseugers at 1 a.m. on the 29th,
and transferring such as were for the ouerland route
to the Cambria, this latter was ready to start for
Marseilles at 4, but had to wait for her bill of health
until 5.30 a.m. The Etna proceeded Onwards to
Gibraltar and Southampton on the same morning
at 10.
The Napoleon 111. and' the Caledonia, screw
steamers, arrived from Leith and Gibraltar on the
27th, to the consignmeut of the Russian consul,
bound for Odessa.
The Killarney screw steamer, from Glasgow
reached Malta on the morning of the 29th.
The Bustard, 2, screw-gunboat, Lieut. T. B. Col-
linson commanding, was at the Capeof Good Hope
on Feb. 4, on her way from England for China. A
letter from her of the above date says—" We bad
a very line passage to this place—most beautiful
beautiful [weather, and only 3 days' rain ; but we
were detained 17 days at Ascension on account of
the Fury steamsloop, Com. Lockie, having to repair
ber rudder, and that has thrown us behind ; but
the Cruizer, 17, Com. Fellowes, and her gunboats
are only 10 days sail before us, and the Inflexible,
6, Corn. Corbett, and Starling, gunboat, a mon h.
The Plover, 2, steam-gunboat' Lieut. Stewart, and
Opossum, 2, steam-gunboat, Lieut. C. A. Camp
bell, are here waiting for the Highflyer, 21, Capt.
Shad well, C. 8., which is at ,Nata', landing Govern.
ment money.
The Victory, 104. Capt. Seymour, C. 8., flag of
Vice-Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C. 8., Com-
mander-iu-Chief at Portsmouth, was " paid down"
yesterday.
The Amphitrite, 25, sailing corvette, Captain
Tatham, was inspected at Portsmouth by Captain
Sir T. Maitland, C. B , of the Excellent, yesterday,
after which she went to Spithead, saluting as she
passed on tovi ands the anchorage.
the Agamemnon 91, screw, flitting at Ports-
grgmloaesipisti
jihnegtaobialtap",sist in Agamemnon,
down the Atlantic tele-
idy underl 13
in htehrericgo.mmand of Mr. Noddal,
mairfr, R.N. has topmaits pointed, and is ,o-
Assistance, 6, iron set ew troop frigate, Com-
mander W. T. Heath, is to be ready fur sea on the
12th instant, and to receive on board the 82d Regi-
ment for service in China. On reference to our