The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-01 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Our Malta correspondent, in his letter of the 26th
ult., gives the following account of arrivals and depar-
tures of vessels

"The Malcolm Brown and Arabella schooners, with
Government stores and merchandise, arrived from Lou-
don o❑ the 2.4tb, and during the past three days a whole
fleet of colliers have come in.

" The City of London steam-transport arrived from
Leghorn on the 22d.
"The Africa schooner arrived on the 24th.
"The Great Britain steam-transport arrived on the
24th from Genoa, bringing Culs. De Horsey and Burn-
aby and 42 officers and 1,046 non-commissioned officers
and privates of the 2,1 Regiment of the Anglo-Italian
Legion. The Great Britain returned on the 25th for the
3d Rifle 11,gitnent, which is incomplete, further enlist-
ment in Italy having been suspended, arid so has like-
wise the purchase of mules in Spain, according to a pub-
lic notice posted up at Gibraltar.
"The Hydaspes, the Sarah Sands, and the Norman
rerew' steam-transports, with the troops and horses they
brought front England, left for Constantinople on tine
231 ; and likewise the Marley Hill steam-transport, with
clothing. The Sarah Sands also embarked, at Malta,
Capt. Guise, Lieuts. Barrel( and Knight, of the 50th ;
Mr. C,,,reux, and 42 privates of the 9241.
" Her Majesty's steam-frigate Curacaa left on the 24th
for Cot stantinople.
" Her Majesty's screw steam-ship Mega ra left on the
22d for England.
" The French steam line-of-battle ship Prince Jerome
and the steam frigate Le Loire arrived from Toulon on
the 23d, bound to Constantinople. The latter left fur
Kamiesh on the 25th.

" The French steam-sloop Passepartout arrived from
Messina on the 23d, and left for Tripoli on the 25th.
" The American sailing ship Alleghanean, in the
French transport service, arrived on the 24th from Mar-
seilles, with grain and deal planking, for Kamiesh.
" The French brig Chevalier Mustafa arrived from
Bona on the 24th.
" The French steam line-of-battle ship Navarino, and
the La Saone, steato-corvette, took their departure on
the 234 for Constantinople.
" The Normandie, French steam-transport, left on the
22d for Marseilles, conveying 147 French military inva-
lids from the East.
"The Henri IV., French steam-transport, from Con-
stantinople, arrived on the 25th, with 113 French mili-
tary invalids, and left for Marseilles on the 26th.
" The Esser Hair, ottoman Government steamer,
which left for Canea on the 21st, put back from stress
of weather on the 22d, and remained until the 23d, when
she took a fresh departure.
" The schooner yachts Mariquita and the Dream ar-
rived on the 25th from Algiers.
"Her Majesty's steam-packet Caradoc arrived from
Marseilles on the 23d, and leaves shortly for Alexan-
dria, to be at the disposal of the Earl of Dalhousie, the
Governor-General returning from India. By the Cara-
doe accounts were received of the birth of the anxiously
looked-for heir to the Throne of France, and accordingly
on the following morning a Te Dcont was chanted at the
Carmelite church, at which, on the invitation of the
French Consul, the British and naval authorities, the
officers of the British and French ships of war in port,
and the foreign consuls attended. The ships of war iu
port dressed in colours, those of England displaying
conspicuously the tricolor, and those of France the St.
George's ensign of England. At noon the Prince Jerome
fired a grand imperial salute of 101, and all the British
ships of war a Royal Salute of 21 guns. The Royal
standard of England was hoisted at the palace flagstaff
and on several other public establishments, and the
Union Jack on every fart throughout the island. All
the foreign Consuls hoisted their national colours, and
every merchant ship in port was dressed out with tele-
graph flags innumerable.
"The French postal steam-packet Mersey arrived
from Marseilles on the 24th, and left for Syra, Smyrna,
and Constantinople on the same day.
" The French postal steamer Hellespont arrived at
Malta from Marseilles on the 26th.
"The Sinai French postal steamer arrived on the
26th from Constantinople, Smyrna, and Syra. She left
for Marseilles on the same afternoon.
"The Lebanon screw steamer, which arrived from
Constantinopleand Smyrna on the 22d, left for Marseilles
and Liverpool on the 23d.
" The Karnal screw steamer left for Syra and Con-
stantinople on the 22d.
"The Madge screw steamer arrived from Plymouth
and Gibraltar on the 23d.
" The Gulliver steamtug left for Constantinople on
the 24th, and at 'she same time the Eglinton steamer for
the same destination.
" The Prince of Wales screw steamer, from London,
left for Constantinople on the 25th.
" The Ottoman mew stosmer Ivialakhoff arrived from

Liverpool on the 26th, with a general cargo fox: Constan-
tinople."
The screw despatch gunboat Intrepid, Commander
Wood, having sailed from Woolwich on Saturday last
for Portsmouth, was swung at Greenhithe to undergo
the (customary regulations before proceeding to sea,
when it was discovered that a considerable quantity of
water had entered from a leak, supposed to be in some
part of her hull. Information to that effect was conveyed
the same evening to the dockyard at Woolwich, and an
inspection of the vessel speedily took place. She was
towed up to Woolwich by the steamer Monkey, Master-
Commander Syndecombe, and subjected to the requisite
overhaul on Sunday, but it appears that no satisfactory
conclusion sufficient to account for the defect has as yet
been obtained. She was again ordered down the river
on trial, for the purpose of watching the working of her
screw, as it was imagined the fault lay in that direction.

The gun-boat Mastiff, No. 22, took up her moorings
yesterday off the Arsenal at Woolwich from Deptford,
to be stored with ammunition and to join the flotilla at
Portsmouth.

The gun-boat Procris, launched at Nortbfleet, arrived
on Saturday at Woolwich, and was admitted into the
fitting basin yesterday morning. The gun-boat Grappler,
which arrived at Woolwich likewise on Saturday from
Blackwell, was received into the fitting basin at Wool-
wich at the same time. A new mortar float has likewise
been received at Woolwich, of the same kind as the for-
mer six, which are now ready for service. Two others
of the same class are to-arrive there tomorrow.

156 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 10th
battalion Royal Artillery have been paraded at head-
quarters, Woolwich, and passed examination for foreign
service, 80 of whom, commanded by Capt. Morris, R.A.,
are to embark in a day or two on board the transport
E4court for Quebec, and the remainder, 76. under the
command of Lieut. Watts, R A., will leave Woolwich,
by the Lady Amherst, for Halifax, to make up casual-
ties which have occurred in the ranks of the Royal
Artillery corps stationed in the above-named places.
In consequence of the instructions issued from the
Horse Guards great exertions are being made by the
military authorities at Chatham to have the whale of the
infantry stationed at that garrison instructed in the
theory and practice of the Enfield rifle. The whole of
the non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the
depot of the sth Northumberland Fusiliers, under the
command of Captain W. Lyons, have completed their
course of instruction in the rife practice, and are ready
to be draughted to various stations for the purpose of
instrecting the troops. Yesterday Colonel Jervis, com-
mandant of the Provisional Battalion, selected 84 non-
commissioned officers and men from the various depots
at the Provisional Battalion to be instructed in the use
of the Enfield rifle. The following were the depots
which furnished men for this duty—viz., the 35th, 40th,
and 52d Light Infantry ; 75th, 83d, and 87th Royal
Irish Fusiliers. The whole of the above are relieved from
the ordinary garrison duty and placed under the super-
intendence of Captain W. Nott, 83d Regiment, the in•
structor of musketry at Chatham ; and, as soon aFothey
have obtained a competent knowledge of the use of that
important weapon, they will be prepared to be sent to
the several British stations far the purpose of instructing
the troops on the home service.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
W. J. Mainprise, to be Master Attendant of the
Malta dockyard ; John F. Mitchell, to be Acting As-
sistant-Surgeon to the Hastings.
It is understood that the British German Legion,
which has been raised by Baron Stutterheim to meet
the exigencies of the war, will be sent, now that peace
has been concluded, to the Cape of Good Hope. At the
Cape they will garrison the colony, and officers and
men will receive grants of land for their military ser-
vices Colonel Worldridge'e brigade will return from
Scutari, and form part of the force at Aldershot camp
before embarkation for the Cape. The strength of the
force will muster by about the 10th of April, when all
the recruits en route will be delivered, about 9,000 men.
The justice and liberality of thus disposing of the Ger
mans is unquestionable. Most of the officers have
thrown up their commissions and prospects of advance-
ment in the Austrian, Prussian, Hanoverian, and Bava-
rian armies for the purpose of serving England, and,
having got away with great difficulty, they would never
be received back again into their former service. And
as for the men, if they were disbanded, thousands of
them would not be allowed to return to their homes ;
and if they attempted to go beak they would be perse-
cuted, if not imprisoned. It is a matter of good policy
also to provide for and keep the German Legion in our
service, for on any future emergency, east or west, they
would be available ; and the fact of their having been
so liberally dealt with will have the very best effect
throughout Germany, from which, should another
war arise, treble the number of men might be easily
recruited.