The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 27.—Areoi
tenet W. J. Stevenson, to the Fspoir.
Acting Third Class Assistant Engineer G. Brewer, to the
Lucifer.

.—Lieu-

CHATHAM, Avousr 27.
This morning a numerous party of txmvalescent
troops belonging to the ilrd (Buffs), 13th (Prince Albert's
Light Infantry), end the 99th Regiments, left St. Idary's
invalid establishment to join their respective depots in Ire.
land, the whole of them having been pronounced fit for
further service.

19111 SURREY RIFLZB (Liana-Tit). —This corps
at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning last, and marched
ritlid.edtililes'a, Camberwell, to attend Divine service, and
hear a discourse from the Rev. W. Cable. The text chosen
for the occasion was the 3rd chapter 17th verve of the 2nd
Epistle to the Corinthians, " For where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty." The main argument of the
speaker was to dist, attention to the liberty enjoyed by the
people of this country, morally, socially, and politically.
That such liberty was only to be retained by a perfect sense
of justice, right, and honour ; and this must be defended
with an exceedingly jealous heart and ready hand. He drew
strong attention to the body of volunteers then before him,
and strongly advocated the necessity of those who were un-
able to devote the time to learning the art of " defence not
defiance," to assist the movement—u he said, • peace
movement—pecuniarily. He observed that if this been
made the means of forming a body of men into • force for
the purpose of aggression and destruction, he as a minister
of the Gospel should certainly have set his face against it ;
but as he saw nothing but pesos in the great national fea-
ture of the day, he went with it in every way. After an
exhortation to the bettalion not to forget their duty to God,
to the Queen, and their country, the volunteers marched
back to headquarters amidst immense crowds of the popu.
lace. Major P.oupell commanded the battalion in person on
this comeices.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN AT
MILFORD HAVEN.

The Great Eastern steamship arrived at Milford
Haven on Sunday evening at six o'clooly having
left New York on the 16th instant and Bart ax at
2 p.m. on the 19th instant. Her arrival created a
great deal of excitement, and her reception was a
must enthusiastic one, the allure and men of the
Channel fleet being very demonstrative. Her de-
parture from New York attracted no great amount
of attention, and during her voyage no incident
occurred worthy of particular mention. She made
the passagefi Sandy Hook to Halifax in 46
hours, the shortest, we believe, on record, and the
nuttier being calm no assistance was derived from
her sails. From the official report it appears that
the average speed of the vessel over the whole
voyage was nearly fourteen knots an hour. On
Saturday last a meeting was held in the grand
saloon, when Captain W. Morris, R.N., proposed,
and Judge Hastiimssseeonded, the adoption of a
congratulatory to Captain Vine Hall on
the auclessful conclusion of the voyage, to which
the gallant captain returned s suitable reply. The
future proceedings of the Great Ship are not yet
decided. By the time the bottom is cleaned some
course of action will doubtless be agreed to by the
board of directors.