The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-03 00:00:00

CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 2.
The Canadian mail steam-ship Bohemian has
arrived, with the mails of the 18th ult.
The Quebec Chronicle of the 17th announces the
following movement of troops :
"The head-quarters of the army in Canada are to
be at Montreal, and there are to be at least two dis-
tricts in Upper Canada, with a general officer in
command of each. The first of these is called the
Hamilton district, the head-quarters being at the
city of Hamilton, where Major-General G. Napier,
C. 8., is to be in command. It will extend along
the frontier from Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, to
Long Point, on Lake Erie, and include Toronto,
Brantford, Simcoe, St. Catherine's, &c. The
second is called the London district, to be commanded
by Major-General David Russell, C. 8., whose
head-quarters are at London, and it includes
the extreme west of the peninsula of Upper Canada.
Whether there will be a third district in Upper
Canada, with Kingston as head-quarters, will de-
pend on future events. In the meantime, that part
of the country is under the charge of the officers at
Montreal. The Guards are to be quartered at
Montreal, where the Rifle Brigade was arriving.
The idea of the authorities seemed to be that the
regiments at present at Quebec, or oven one of
them, would be sufficient to garrison that city, to-
gether with the local militia and a detachment of
Royal Engineers.
" The first detachment of the 62d Regiment, from
Halifax, which arrived at Riviere du Loup on Wed-
nesday morning, left that place for Montreal
direct, by express train, yesterday morning. They
numbered about 160 men. A second detachment of
the same regiment was expected to leave Riviere du
Loup at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Montreal.
The 63d, also from Halifax, numbering about 900,
will soon be due at Riviere du Loup. This regiment
left at the same time as the first brigade of Guards,
and one of the batteries of Artillery by the last
steamers. The 62d and 63d had both been in
Nova Scotia garrisons for some time past. Their
final destination will be made known on reach-
ing head-quarters at. Montreal. In future express
trains will be in readiness daily, at Riviere
du Loup, for the purpose of immediately for-
warding to their destination the large bodies of
troops now on the march between New Brunswick
and that station. We are informed that Major
Villiers Lieutenants Berkely and Jarvis, 100 noa-
commiEsioned officers and privates of the 47th
Regiment, and a detachment of Royal Artillery
will proceed to Isle aux Noix Noix next week to
garrison that important post. Lieutenant King
and 25 men of the same regiment have been sta-
tioned at St. Lambert's since Monday for the pur-
pose of guarding the Victoria-bridge. Two build-
ings in the vicinty of the bridge have been partially
leased, with the ultimate view of increasing the
guard to 250 men,"

The private secretary of the Archduke Maximi-
lian, M. Scherzenlechner, has left Vienna for
Mexico; and despatches from Vienna speak again of
the proposition of erecting a monarchy in Mexico.
The proposed Sovereign is the Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian of Austria. It seems to be a wild
scheme ; nevertheless, an exchange of views are
said to have taken place on the subject between the
Cabinets of the great European Powers. The Go-
vernments of European States seem to admit the
necessity of establishing a new form of Govern-
ment in South America, if ever they are to be tran-
quil. But what favour an Austrian Archduke would
find amongst the bastard Spaniards is surely very
problematical; and will America, tranquillised,
look with indifference on the establishment of a
royal and kingly throne in America? The ques-
tion of offering Herzegovina to Austria, if she
would give up Venetia, is again mooted ; Turkey
is to be compensated by money. I very much
doubt if Francis Joseph would ever renounce
Venetia by peaceful negotiations.

111EDITERRAN _RAN EXTENSION TELE-
GRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED).

The following is the report of the directors of this
company to the ordinary general meeting on Fri-
day next—" It is satisfactory to the directors to be
enabled tosubmit the annexed statement of accounts
fir the half-year ending Dec. 31 last. The receipts
for messages, as compared with the previous half-
year, have more than doubled, whilst the expendi-
ture has not materially increased. Since the opening
of the Alexandria line in November last the traffic
has greatly augmented, and is still increasing. The
shareholders are aware from previous reports that
the directors have experienced considerable diffi-
culty in securing a systematic transmission of tele-
graphic communication through the Italian king-
dom, but they are glad to say that there is at length
a probability of their efforts being successful, the
Italian Government having entered into arrange-
ments which, when completed, will, it is believed,
secure the object in view. The attempt made by
Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., for the restoration
of the old submarine cables, failed, and there
is now little hope of success in that direction. It
will be satisfactory to the shareholders to know
that their new cables, the one connecting Malta
with Sicily and the other connecting Corfu with
Otranto, continued to work most efficiently. The
directors have lately received information through
the company's agent at Turin, that it is the imme-
diate intention of the Italian Government to lay a
submarine cable connecting Sicily with Sardinia,
by which means the route via Naples, Rome, Bc.e.,
which has been the cause of so much difficulty and
delay, will be avoided, and a more regular and
speedy communication obtained. The usual pay
ment of the dividends on the preference shares is
recommended. The directors regret that they can-
not announce a dividend on the original shares for
the past half-year. An examination of the com-
pany's position will show that the
prospects of the
company are more cheering at the present moment
than they have been for a long time past, and the
directors confilently hope that the operations of the
company for the current half-year will enable them
in August next to declare a dividend on the original
shares."

The National Bank are about toen a branch E t
Bayswater, additional facilities being required for that large
and wealthy district.