The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, Oar. 22.—APPOIOMM11110.—estpfAin
G. 8. Head (1862), to the Baspeos, 6, paddlewheel steam
sloop, of 220.b0ns power, at Portunnuth.
Commanders V. O. leglatield (1848), to the Araohne, 18,
at Devenpon ; F. Warren, to the Polyphentaa, 5, paddle-
whor) dim sloop, of 200 bona power, at Portsmouth; end
B. VA. D'O. Apliu (1863), to the Heels, 8, paddle-wheel
Media ship, of 240 horse power, at Portsmouth.
Masson H. P. Ward (1865), to the &apses ; H. B.
Bawler (1866), to the Arsobse ; N. B. Herbert (1866), to
the Polyphemus; sad J. Thompson (1855), to the Heels.
Moistest Paymaster in Charge A H. Martin (1860), to
the Crocodile, 8, modeles ship, at Portsmouth.
Tadao ; to
Midshipmen C. H. Murphy, to the Bamapeoa ; and C. W.
the Arecbso.

FORMATION OF AN ADJUTANT'S DETACHMENT
TO THE FIELD BATTERIES AT WOOLWICH.

WOOLWICH, Oar 22.
The government baying decided on a loon eye
tornado mode et instruction for non countiniened Aiken
and sea for the field-batteries belonging to the Royal
Artillery. se ea alwayi to have on hand a supply of well-
drilled see to 1111 up say vacancy that owear, have
reeeleed es fieeleteg ea Adjutant% Detwhmaat for this
The irsater per: of the horses of the reserve battery
having -bees withdrawn from the public works in the Royal
Anna, and es the reminder will be given up by the eiril
depertinsate aa eon so eirawnstanene wilksdnit, the re-

mire battery is to be broke' up, and the itdlowiejarrases!
meats made for the formation of a detachment to be canal
the Adjutant's Detachment of the Field Batteries, fee ilint
inatraeties of son-eounaissioned alone and ems is sal&
duties, ribs& sad driving. The detachment is to oceibt of
the esmermirmajor,cptartersamter-sergesat, the drill swan
of tie iaid batteries, three roughriders, 20 non-eolsir
slaw& elhiss, sod 100 rumen and driven, 6 trumpeters,
sad 190brimea, with harness, saddlery, &e.. for a 9-pounder
Said b'el'ay et 6 gess : also the artificers who do not belong
MD
Ike baChwias at Wool wilds, sad all men ..der laminar,
he seams.

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Innijet major is to be coosidsrral attached to this
ditnelWest fir the purpose of giving the transpeten of the
Arad batsmen mad this dumbness occasional practice in the
seande el the trumpet end bugle.
The Aran cemassoding the Meld batteries,. Colonel W.
Aadersee, Is to furnish to the Adjutant Guerel's office a
het of all the non-commistioned officers cad men beloagiog
to the reserve, distinguishing those whom he wishes largest*
under his orders, cad the remainder are to join their
respective battalions.
Officers oonstaamding battalions are to send 1* to the
Adjutant General's office lists of the names, age, service,
and character of one nen-commissioned officer from each
battalion who are recommended to be plaid ander instruc-
tion in this detachment. The individuals to be selected for
this reuse must be smart sod intelligent, not over 10 pears
emit*.
The

Mean and men who join this
detachment, onset W take with them any arms or accoutre
meats, and when dm have once joined for ditty with the
held battery, they am set ander say circumatanias to be
witbdnwa except by aatbority from the Adjutant-

On Saturday evening four gunboats arrived at Woolwich,
from Sheerness sad Norttifieet. The fittelldrake and Tick-
ler have left Woolwich for Deptford, to be fitted with
newts by Mitsm. John Peon and Son, and were towed by
the Monkey this morning. The other two, the Plover and
Sandfiy, hews been fitted with engines by Messrs.
Mandalay, Sons, and Field, and have been taken into basin
to be masted and rigged. There were also two other gas-
boats launched en Saturday, the Buster and Bullfrog, from
the building yard of /haus. Pitcher, of Northfiset.
Her Majesty's screw steam store ship limper, which has
just returned from Bslaklava has been taken into No. 3
Dry Dock to be examined. Heri crew, which were all ai-
med la the same se those of the merchant service,
have completed their voyage for which they entered, and
were this afternoon paid off.

SHEERNESS, Om. 22.

A detachment of the Royal Artillerj from this
garrison, seder charge of Sergeant Wistos, U. eogaged
a:0851log the battery at Coal Roam Point, commanding
Sea Read:, in the River Thames. The battery consists
of 17 long 32.ponader guns, and will Do completed in
about ten days. Witbia lb. fort tbore is barrack accom-
modation for 3 deem, 90 men. and a master g
Captain Aaaertel's company of Royal Atlinary, 7th com-
pany, let battalion; Lieut. Carey's company, 3rd company,
7th battalion ; and Lieut. Crarne's company. let company,
2nd battalion, are ordered immediately to prepare to pro-
ceed to Oibraltar.

Captain leglell4d's 3rd company 13th battalion are under
immediate orders to proceed to Ceylon.

DUBLIN, Ocr. 22.

The detachment, for the Crimea, from the provi-
sioaal battalion in Limerick, bare received orders of pre•
parstion to march at Rye minutes' notice.
The Watford Independent thus announces a grateful re.
cognition of heroism:—" 'Ye understand that the humble
hero who here, and held in his death grasp the colours of
Ragland and Alms, his predecessors having been shot down,
was a brave son of our county—Philips—from near Bully
chew. The fact is indubitable, for letters of inquiry are in
town for a dater, as to the dispose' of 1,0001. among the
immediate heirs of our gallant countryman. We shall he
more explicit on • proper dey. The award is made by the
order of our gracious soversigo, and thus enhances the
prise."
The ceremony of presenting colours to the Boy+) Galway
Militia took place on the Square, in Galway, on Friday last.
The regiment wee under the command of Lieut.. Colonel
the Berl of Clamart', and the colours were presented by
the Marchioness of Cianricarde, who, with a grace worthy
of the daughter of George Canning, adaemed the officals
and men in the following terms on the occasion :
" Lord Clasearty, officers, noncommissioned officers, and
soldi.n of the Galway Militia-1 rejoice that it should have
been my nrivilege to have the honour of preventing you
with these colours. I feel sure that I commit them into the
heads of those who will disgrace them. In times of
British wetter., the Irish have ever been foremost to render 1,
braes and loyal service to their sovereign and their country,
and I believe there is no instance of an Irish regiment
having ever failed in valour on the Bald of battle; bat in
this province especially, and in the *aunty still more espe-
cially, the Irish have good meson to feel proud of their
military sonless; for in the history of British wars what
regiment in neseejtmetly ealegieed—what name more honour
ably modosoil—diaa the same of the C ht Ranges, !
Your eenegthea begs. mew onsoessfolly. You have de-
served mad obtained the approbation of the inspecting
generals, awl you have negolted the esteem of the civilians
wawa, whom yes MN bees ersertered ; and I trust it will
be hews era leaf Immebseed to your b , that,
yen wore Peen the lest ofalibi Irish regiments to
Is embedled, you have been mew the int to supply largo
linneems of trained and efficient Maims to the liee. Msy
the blessing of God rest upon yea, sad may you thus go on
sad prosper."
After the presentation the Earl of Clasearty came for-
herd and delivered the following appropriate address:
"Lady Clanriearde,—The duty having been delegated to
by my superior officer of responding, en the part of the
reglentent, to your ladyship's address, I am sure I speak the
MN= sentiment of very officer, sous commissioned
▪ and private of the corps bore prone when I say
that year 'pleb-stirring words have been listened to with
the highest gratification by all ; and, should hereafter the
occasion arise for the colours you have presented to us to be
borne in the face of the enemy, your address, and the
Impressive manner in which you have delivered it, will be
recalled as an encouragement to the fulfilment of every duty
appertainiog to the soldier, and especially to the paints.
manse of that order and discipline which gives a regiment
in a battle fired its chief strength and efficiency, and coot re
even in time of peace honour upon the profession of arms.
My lady, there is one circumstance to which I may
briefly advert, that elves penalise interest to your pre-
sentation of the colours to the militia of your Gaiety.
Constitated as we are as a kind of national guard foe the
defence of oar shores against the invasion of an enemy,
and called into existence only when a st.ta of war renders
the precaution necessary, by none could our colours be more
appropriately ommerated to the service of the %men, and
to the macaw of her dousinione,than by the daughter of that
great statesman whose mese adorns some of the brightest
of our country's history, who assisted by his sotalleth
Ili:C
aging the war of European independence to a seeeemfal
lamination, and who to the end of his life devoted hie eel-
seat abilities in and out of path ..ment ; and Neely, ma heed of
the governmest, to the preservation and improvement of
those freeinstitutions orate free couatry which make it the
admiration of the world, violets endear it to every British
sub eat, and which servo the arm that is raised in its
es
The daughter of the late Mr. Canning bee
kinerffinary, a pert from her personal claims to the homage with
Mali we receive the regimeatal odours at her beads.
Tear ladyship has noticed as creditable to our young regi-
Mout the number of nen thst have volunteered from It into
the Nme. Yoe will therefore be at no loos to mown for the
shillhele of the corps new drawn up before yes. It is, in
hat the frogman of that very pretnieiag and well-
army that bat ten days ego received in this
the merited approbation of the gene al of the diatelet.
I wish that all who were then present could have
gemelated to witness this day's ptomains, I feel with your
pride rattier the regret that en many were reedy
A oar Of their country to join tide geosatrymou la arms
ie • *mho hod. Most of them eh* have 'shay left us
will 'hardy Is fixed is the ranks of that gallant sores to
width your lalihildplias alladed—thellinnaught Riggers—
the meet plasm of Oho mull leave men that Mn