The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-02 00:00:00

miLITAItY.

DErars 15rit AND 511f11 11EGIMENTi.—With re-
femme to the details given in the Express of Saturday
of the intended augmentation, it may now be added that the
two other depots alluded to as Itliely to be reduced aro the
lath and 59th to the extent of 100 meu each.

TUE AUGMENTATION or THE ARTILLERT.—This
augmentation, which will amount to about :,000 men will,
it is said, be carried out by the selection of the most intel-
ligent soldiers of the depots about to be reduced.
BOARD ov ORDNANcE CIncuLAK.--The Master-
Oeoeral and Board of Ordnance have Lately issued a cir-
, mime to the Royal Artillery. to the effect that in future the
' charge of powder for firing 32-pounder shells is to be Blbs.
instead ot 100 he., es hitherto used.
'lice VACANT COLoNELCIES.—Tho coloneley of
the 39th Regiment has been vacant since the Ist of Janu-
ary ; SIMo then that of the 96th is also vacated. It is still
believed that Major-General Conyers will succeed to the
39th Regiment.
CHATIItM, Fmn. 2.—A rolanteering has opened
in Chatham Barracks for the dephts of the Rifle ltrigede,
her Majesty's 97th and 69th Regiments, and nobly and
willingly have the men eumpoeina these depUts responded
to the wishes of the commander an-chief; upwards of three
hundred having volunteered their servici, fur the home re-
giments. It is expected the volunteering wall become
general in Chatham. Several recruiting parties have re-
cently been sent to different localities in England and Ire-
land. The depAts of the 97th and the Rifle Brigade lately
sent out on the recruiting service have been recalled by
order of the commander-in chief. Several European con-
victs, belonging to the sth and 20th Cameroulaus and Royal
Artillery, arrived here last week from Gibraltar, and were
subsequently marched under military escort from the main
guard to Minbank prison.
ROTA!. AlNENAL.—Fittecn thousand shells bays
been ordered to ue immediately paCeed ready for service
mad sent away for the dilf,rent ports throughout England.
A still larger order is daily expected ; many of the men
work overtime, and additional men and buys are to be
entered to complete the supply required. On Thursday
the storekeepers' men were mustered anal their names and
residences taken down, in case their services should be re-
. geared in the night to pack stores. Some engineers,
htters, &c., are to be entered to complete the orders just re-
ceived fur machinery, &c. Large enders tor powder bags
have been received, and on Saturday last a large quantity
was sent away. An etch ris expected for 3,0410 more guns
'to be sent away for actual service. The anticipation of war
has caused all departments to be brisk, and instead of a
discharge it is stated that from 300 to 500 men and toys
will be entered. A number of the engineers " on strike "
have applied fur employment at the arbellid.—KeNtish Mer-
cury.
AMMUNITION FOR PORTSMOUTH.—One mounted
non. commissioned officer, 1 trumpeter, anal 12 mounter!
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gunnen and drivers, with 4 wagiuo•, each drawn by six
horses, and having 1 non•commiasioued officer and b dis-
mounted gunners as an escort, under the command of Licut.
Strover, of the E Field Battery, let the Royal Arsenal at
8 o'clock a.m. on Saturday tor the Bricklayers' Arms
Railway terminus, with ammunition to be sent by train to
Portsmouth.

Itultutrisc FOR THE ARMY.—lnstructions were
forwarded from the horse. Guards on Saturday to a number
of line regiments to send out recruiting parties to enlist
men fur the immediate augmentation of the army, it having
been resolved by government to increase the cumber of men
in the regiments of the line to the extent of 6,004.1 as early
as recruit* can be obtained to make up that number. It is
ago fully expected, as we originally orated, that when the
army estimates fur 1852 3 arc brought before parliament a
vote will be called for of an addition of 10,000 men, and
that the other 5.000, or nearly that number, will be added
to the royal artillery and cavalry regiments.

THE RIFLE CLLR AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.—
About ninety members of the Stock Earhange have sigsi-
fled their intention of belonging to the proposed Rifle Club;
it is to be armed with double-barrelled rifles of the value
of tin guineas each.
I M POItTANT NOVELTY.—PUBLIC WAITING-ROOMS.
—On the lith day of May, the Council of the Society
of Arts named the following committee :—The Earl of Car-
lisle, the Earl of Granville, Henry Cole, P.q , C. 8., 8. M.
Path, 1 q., M.P. and C. Wentworth I)ilke, Egg. The com-
mittee has accordingly caused two sets of rooms to be pre-
pared by way of experiment. The waiting-room for ladies
ta at 61, Bedford-street, Strand, on the north side, opposite
Coutts's Bank ; and a respectable female has been charged
with the superintendence. The waiting-room for gentle-
men is at 9.., Fleet-street, on too south side. The entrance
fee to either is 2d. The hours of mime...ion from it till 7.
Each waiting-room is also provided with accommodation for
washing, for which the charge is 4d., with a clean towel to
each person. It is hoped that the success of this experi-
ment will induce the public generally to establish these
mach-wanted conveniences. That they may be made mil-
remunerating under proper management, has been proved
at the late Great Exhibition. The receipts for the waiting-
rooms there in five months were 2,1701., while the expenses
were only fso/.--a fact to which it is important to direct
the attention of the proprietors of theatres and other places
of public amusement. As the present movement is of AO
novil and delicate a character, and 40 important to public
health and comfort, the manntittee nt the Society of Arts
have requested their members to make it known as widely
ea parable.
FURTIIF.R CALLS To TIIF BAR.—A farther call to
the bar of students of the Hon. Society of the Middle
Temple was made on Saturday evening last, and they emu-
' prise the following gentlemen:—Meson. James Kcenpla,v
i Edward Glover, Thomas Dickson Archibald, George Webbe
Dasent. John Dennistoun Worst, John Lane, Henry Cle-
ments Loyd, end Carew Th. mss Elers.

The Jersey Chronicle in prohibited from entering
France. A copy of that journal was seized in the French
post-office last week, and returned to the publisher, with
the word pit-MI/net: written on the whitens. In order that
the Jersey journalist should not mistake why the paper was
returned, the French post-office authorities translated pro-
Albite' by writing the word " forbided" on the address.
RISE IN THE PRICE sly lIKEAD.—Thia morning,
according to an underst.uoling rinti•red into by the trail, On
Saturday, a general rise of one penny nn the foot pound
hat took *or throughout the metropolis.