The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-29 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Orders were yesterday received at Chatham Gar-
rison, directing the volunteers from the three bat-
talions of Infantry for the Royal Canadian Rifle
Regiment to be forwarded, with their families, to
Chester, where the whole of the non-commissioned
officers and men who have volunteered for that
corps will be formed, previously to their embarka-
tion for Canada. As soon as the volunteers from
the several districts have arrived at Chester they
will embark at Liverpool for their destination.
Each man who has volunteered from a British regi-
ment will, on the completion of his term of ser-
vice, be granted two acres of land by the Govern-
ment of Canada.
His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief
has given directions for a certain number of officers
selected from each of the regiments serving at home,
to proceed to Chatham, where they are to be at-
tached to the ledian depot battalions, for the pur-
pose of undergoing a course of instruction at that
' garrison in all the branches of their profession.
The Goliath, 80, having been lengthened for a
screw steamer, and completed her repairs at Chat-
ham dockyard, will be put out of dock this day.
She is intended for the steam reserve.
The Growler, steam gunboat, has been towed
from Chatham to Portsmouth by the Adder steam-
vessel, to be placed on the steam reserve at that
port.
The Rochester, freight-ship, Heather, master,
has commenced shipping war stores at Cha'.hana for
atvozport dockyard.
By intelligence from her Majesty's ship Cumber-
land, 70, Capt. Dickson, flag of Vice-Admiral
Wallis, Commander-in-Chief of the South-East
Coast of America station, dated the 7th ult., we
learn all were well on board at that date, although
the yellow fever was committing sad ravages in
other ships on the station. The Admiral had not
then heard of the appointment of Rear-Admiral
Sir S. Lushington, K.C.8., to succeed and relieve
him, but would do so by the mail expected at
Monte Vidco, where Admiral Wallis then was,
about the 20th of that month. The promotions
consequent on the death of Commander Haggard
had been conferred by Admiral Wallis on most de-
serving and meritorious officers :—Lieutenant B.
S. Pickard (1843), first of the Cumberland, to he
commander, and appointed to the Virago steam
sloop ; and Mr. B. W. Bax, mate of the Cuinber-
land, to be lieutenant, . vice Pickard. Admiral
Wallis is not expected to arrive in England, before
the middle of May or the beginning of June.
Her Majesty's steamers Banshee and Vivid were
yesterday ordered alongside the coaling barge off
Woolwich dockyard to prepare for sea, so as to be
ready to sail at the shortest possible notice for
Ostend, in she service of the Pi incess Hohenzellern,
about to visit her Majesty at Osborne. In conse-
quence of the Vivid having flooded and. exhibited
other awkward se,soing propensitioo on her last
special voyage from Ostend, the B inshee had on
this occasion been ordered to embark the Princess,
and the Vivid to follow with the baggage and suite.
The Hannibal, 91, screw, Captain the Hon.
George Fowler Hastings, will pick up the guard
ship's moorings off Gosport as soon as the Arrogant
leaves for Southampton.
The Orion, 90, screw, in the steam reserve at
lXvonport, will proceed to the Eddystone on Wed-
nesday next, for a trial trip to test her machinery.
This vessel is rigged, and supposed to be ready fur
sea in 48 hours' notice, being in the first-class steam
reserve.

The Procris and Shamrock, steam gunboats, hav-
ing had defects made good, were taken out of No.
1 dock, at Devonport, on Tuesday, and the Charon
and Jackdaw taken in the same tide.

The Renown, 91, screw, at Devonport, was
practising at target firing on Tuesday, when some
excellent practice was performed. ; the flag being
several times shot away.
The Rinaldo, 17, screw corvette, Ind her first
futtock timbers placed yesterday morning- in No. 6
dock at Portsmouth, and derricks are rigged along-
side to put this ship in frame within a few months.
The vessel will be built by convicts, under the
superintendence of a foreman cf shipwrights and a
few leading hands. Her timbers, as before de-
scribe!, are already bolted together in masses, and
only require to be slung into their place and
dowelled.

The Victory, fia; ship, Captain George Henry
Seymour, C. 8., will have completed rattling down
to-morrow. She will haul out of the fitting basin
alongside her berthing hulk, Bellerophon, in Ports-
mouth Harbour, and on Monday, the 3,1 of May,
she will be placed at her old moorings, off the Hard
Portsea.

MALTA, APRIL 20.
The squadron under the command of Admiral
Lord Lyons took its departure from Malta harbour
en Wednesday morning last. The steam corvette
Swallow, under sail, was the first of the ships to
leave the port. At about half-past 9, that noble
ship the Royal Albert set all plain sail, including
royals, and as she cast off from her moorings re-
ceived a parting salute from the Dutch frigate Ad-
miral Wassaner, which the gallant Admiral Lord
Lyons returned from the flag ship on passing Fort
St. Angelo. The screw liners Princess Royal, Cen-
turion, and Conqueror followed in her wake, under
all sail, the wind being light from the southward.
The squadron was shortly after joined by the Me-
dina, which in the evening parted company, and
steamed to the eastward, to follow up her hyclrogra-
phic operat ions in the Grecian Archipelago. The steam
tug Hearty was in attendance on the squadron,
to renter any assistance that might be necessary,
in case of the ships getting any flaw of wind under
the battlements at the entrance of the harbour, and
she returned to her moorings in the afternoon.
The
steamers Coquette and Harpy left port with
thewit
hadmiral,despatches. an
Afterwardsreturned the Coquette in the course of ftl d a
followedy
the admiral, the Harpy remaining
on the arrival of the
in harbour to
take letters to the squadron
next mail. The Upper and Lower Batraccas, and
the walls of the fortifications affording a view of
e witht . people
_ a o
sightfall
the Great Harbour, were
previoussphsctato
spectators.
classes, who had a.semble some
witness the departure of the squadron.
which always attracts large numbersco
rfon
During the night the ships must
an offing, as nothing was seea of themaovne
reportsher
the
t
following morning.* In the conflicting
as to their destination, wo are inclined fo
a cruise for a few weeks extending as far as Tunislnve
and Bona to the w est wat d and Corfu to the eastward,
is the most probable, which will keep
m thertiwithin
telegraphic comurlication, in case the rumoured
junction with the French and Russian squadrons
in the Adriatic to interfere in the Montenegrin
question, should require their attendance. Among
the rumours afloat is one that by a telegram from
the Admral y, received on the evening previous to
their departure, Lerd Lyons has orders to lcok in
at Naples, which, however, may have been given
prior to the knowled.2e of the fact that Park, the
English engineer of the Gtgliari, had been set at
liberty, and had been put ftwri causs, through the
energetic remonstrances of the new Mieist_r of
Foreign Affairs, Lord Malme6bury, a',ily supported
by the presence, during the progress of the trial, of
Mr. Lyons, son of Lord Lyons, and aided by the
activity and ability displaye I from beginning to
end in this matter by Mr. Lewis Barbar, our
acting consul at Naples.
ci7.oeamkp aTy haet ftroohleleAwdining,raaplptyoitments were made yester-
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* A day or two after the departure of Lord Lyons, the
squadron was seen to the westward of Gozo. We under-
stand that despatches left for Lord Lyons on Saturday by
a French steamer to Marseilles.