25 FEBRUARY 1854, Page 11
Commissary-General Filder, C.B., an officer of great experience, who, after ,
going through the whole of the operations of the Peninsular war, was intrusted with the charge of the department at Gibraltar,. Malta, the West Indies, and Canada, has been appointed, with an efficient staff of assistants, to conduct the commissariat arrangements of the expedition now proceeding to the Mediterranean.-14xce8.
The Rifles and the Sappers and Miners of the Mediterranean expedi- tion embarked yesterday, at Portsmouth. There was as great a display of public sympathy as on Wednesday.
Admiral Corry left Lisbon on the 15th instant, with the whole of the Western squadron, for England.