The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-07 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Dec. 31,.—Several ships of the squa-
dron are now under sailing orders. The Caradoc

despatch vessel, Lieut.-Commander E. H. Wilkin-
son, is to leave to-morrow for Naples to bring back
Capt. Clarke, Director of Admiralty Works, who is
about to pay a visit of inspection to the naval works
in course of progress here. The Endymion, 21,

screw frigate, Capt. C. Wake, is to leave on the fol-

lowing day for Beyrout and await their further in-

structions. She went out of port on the 27th inst.,

and returned on the 29th. The Resistance, 16, iron
screw ship, Capt. 11. S. Ilillyar, C. 8., is under

orders to leave on the 3d Januiry, or thereabouts,
for the Piraeus, to relieve the Arethusa, 35, screw
frigate, Capt. Macdonald, and send her to Malta.
The Cossack, 20, screw corvette, Capt. R. D. White,
having been three years and a half in commission,
is to sail on the 4th January for Spithead, to be, paid
off. The Ocean, 21, screw ironclad, Capt. C. Stan-

hope, which lately arrived from England to join the

squadron, is in port completing for service.

Royal Oak, 35, screw ironclad, Capt. the Hon. G.
_ _

D. Keane, came out of dock on the 29th inst. The
Hydra, 1, paddlewheel surveying sloop, Captain P.

F. Shortland, which arrived on the 15th inst. from

Agosta, is still in quarantine. Orders were issued
for her to be admitted to pratique on the morn-
ing of the 20th instant, the quarantine on
arrivals from Sicily having been on the 27th

reduced to seven days, but these orders were at the
last moment countermanded, and it has been deter-
mined that she should run out the whole period of

21 days. The United States screw corvette Ca-

nandaigua, 9 guns, Capt. 11. Upshur (her former

captain having been invalided), returned here on
the 28th inst., three days from Civita Vecchia I
need scarcely say it was wholly unconnected with

the Surratt affair, and was really nothing more
than a visit of courtesy. Admiral Goldsborough
and the officers of the Canandaigua were, I am in-
formed, so pleased with the reception and hospita-
lity the latter met with on their previo.us visit, which
was merely a call on their way to another port, that
they have come to pay a regular visit to the British
naval port, and are, it is said, making arrangements
to entertain the messes of ships and regiments, in
return for the attentions received on that occasion.

Admiral Goldsborough's squadron is now, I be-

Hove, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Nice.
The United States sloop Swatara is not ex-
pected to call at Malta on her return from Alex-
andria. The Canandaigua is to await orders here.
The Prussian screw corvette Gazelle, 28, will
leave to-morrow for Naples ; and the Prussian
screw gunboat Blitz, 9, will leave on the same day
for the Pincus and Constantinople. The English
screw-steamer Hawk, which lately returned here,
on completing the repair of the Malta and Alexan-
dria Submarine Telegraph, has, during the week,
filled up with fuel, and shipped some new cable, and
on the 30th inst. started again for Tripoli and Alex-
andria. From this it must be inferred that some
new interruption of telegraphic communication
along the line is anticipated. The following is a
list of the ships of war, British and foreign, now in
Malta harbour :—The Victoria, 102 (bearing the
flag of Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., Vice-Admiral
Commander-in-Chief) ; the Hibernia, receiving
ship (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Henry
Kellett, C. 8.) ; the Ocean, 24 ; the Prince Con-
sort, 30 ; Resistance, 16 ; and the Royal Oak, iron-
clads ; the Cossack, 20 ; the Cruiser, 5 ; the Assu-
rance, 4 ; the Cockatrice, 2 ; the Tyrian, 2 ; the
Hydra, 1, surveying steamer ; the Caradoc, 2 ; and
Psyche, 2, despatch vessels. Prussian.--The
Gazelle, 28, screw corvette ; and the Blitz, 4, screw
gunboat, awaiting orders ; the United States screw
sloop Canandaigua, 9.
The iron and wood double screw gunboat Vixen, 4,

armour-plated, Commander Spencer P. Brett, left
Devonport on Monday last for Ireland. She ex-
perienced a snow-storm, and put back, disabled, to
Falmouth. On Thursday the paddlewheel steam