The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

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The Conatitutionnel compares the degrees of mortality
in the French and English armies, and finds, to its satis-
faction, that the mortality amongst the French troops
is far less than that amongst the English soldiers.
Good service pensions of £lOO per annum each have
been bestowed by the Commander-in-Chief on three
officers who have lately reaped distinction in India.
Colonel H. W. Hartley, of the Bth Foot; Sir J. Hope
Grant, of the 9th Lancers; and G. Campbell, of the
52nd, are identified with the most brilliant and success-
ful operations against the mutineers.
A great meeting was held last week in London, to
form a committee to relieve the distresses of soldiers'
wives and families. The Duke of Cambridge took the
chair.

In consequence of the large number of sick and
wounded troops who are daily expected to arrive at
Chatham from India the authorities have decided on
providing increased hospital accommodation for them
at that garrison, for which purpose arrangements are
being made for appropriating the whole of the south
side of Brompton-barracks, heretofore occupied by the
corps of the Royal Engineers, and the troops being re-
moved into other quarters. The reason for Brompton
barracks being selected for the purpose is on account of
its healthy situation, and the facilities which are to be
wet with at that establishment, for the comfort and
convenience of the sick and wounded troops. During
the Russian war several thousand invalid soldiers were
quartered at Brompton, • portion of the barracks being
on that occasion set apart for • hospital by order of the
Board of Ordnance, and on the several occasions of the
Queen visiting the sick and wounded Crimean troops at
Chatham her Majesty invariably expressed her satisfac-
tion with the manner in which the invalids were provided
for at the Brompton hospital. The number of sick and
wounded troops who can be accommodated in the several
military hospitals at Chatham is about 3,000.
The garrison of Chatham is more crowded with troops
of the line than has been the case for several years past,
and volunteers and recruits still continue to arrive in
great numbers. Since the commencement of the month
upwards of 1,000 recruits have been received at Chat-
ham, and Wednesday and Thursday nearly 300 volun-
teers from militia regiments arrived at Chatham barracks
for the purpose of joining the various East India
depots.

THE VICIROTALTY.—The non-abolitionists had their
field-day on Monday at the Rotunda, and the muster on
the occasion was both large and influential—including
the Earl of Howth, Lord Talbot de Mslahide, some
members of Parliament, and • fair sprinkling of pro-
fessional gentry. The chief resolution of a series was
proposed by Lord Howth, and was to the effect that Mr.
Roebuck's motion, coupled with Mr. Horsuian's attack
on the office of the Viceroy, made it • duty on the part
of the meeting to resist by all constitutional means the
effort to insult the Irish people, and to compromise the
interests of the Crown itself. Colonel Taylor seconded
the resolution, which, with others of a similar tenoux,
was adopted. The proceedings did not terminate until
an advanced hour in the evening.