The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-10 00:00:00

EMBARKATION OF TROOPS OF THE FOREIGN

LEGION.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 9.
Considerable interest bee been excited here by the
receptions of orders to get the Peninsular Company's steamer
Ripon ready to nowise on board to-merrow 1,000 troops be-
longing to the Foreign Legion reviewed this day by the
Queen at Shonelift. It is fully expected that the Ripon
will depart to-morrow for the Crimea with this ant instal-
ment of the Foreign Legion.
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The Royal Mail 'turner Treat will be ready to start for
the Rost on the 14th inst. The number of men and horses
which she was originally designed to take oat to &taut
hes been increased. The following °Sinn will take their
departure for the But in the Treat, viz., Captain Crawford,
of the 98th Regiment; Major Chapman, of the 48th; Major
Logan, of the 67th ; and Major Green, of the 3rd ; Major
Brennan, Captains Villiers and Pittman, and Mr. Wilkin-
son, assistant surgeon, belonging to General Besteoa's
cavalry; Colonel Forbes, Major Stedman, and Captala
Farquharson, of the Turkish Contingent; sad Mr. A. Hop-
kins, acting assistant surgeon of the Royal Albert. Same
of the abovenemed officers will be conveyed by the Treat
to Malts, some to Coastaatiaople, and others to the Dar-
daneUu.

DUBLIN, A 1301337 9.
An order bail been received in Limerick for a
further draft from the depot battalion in that garrison tab*
in readiness for embarkation at the briefest utilise fully
lovas& and equipped, for the seat of war. The detachment
adll impasist of 300 men with 12 officers, and the four depots
which compose the battalioa will contribute in the following
order :-9tit. Lieuts. Taylor, Coasting, Elmhiret, and
Grubb., 2 sergeants, 7 drummer., and 60 rank and filo;
17th. Lieut. Travers, Ensigns Houghton, Prentrave, and
Haycock, 1 drummer, and 80 rank and file; 39th. Major
Herbert, Limits. Daunt and Arbuckle, 2 serpents, Bdremw
moss, sod 90 rank and file ; 89th. E064/111 Bowmen sal
Salem, 3 drummers, and 70 raok and file. The satire
drafts ordered from the several depot battalions in Ireland
on this occasion will consist of over 1,000 rank and %Vs
64 officers. Bight officers and 60 men of the 6611
loses Templemon for the Crimea.
A strong detachment, 'oilskin.'" 411 MANI. and 260 di►
mounted men, from the eavalry 4spars, have been oedema
to embark forthwith for the Crimea. Ibis will prove a
met seasonable reinforcement, es the •lIIIIIINIF of hones Mere
greatly earned@ that of efficient me&
&nee the establishment of the prmiskmal battalion he

Limerick asthma, compoeed of the 'demote of the Ilth, 17th,
39th, end 89th Regiments, 1,200 reek sad Ale base beta as.
patched from them to the war la the Crimea.

N4BIITTEI'a WROUGHT-110N 017 S.—We understand
that the first of the two gigantic pieces of artillery to be
made at the Bridgewater Foundry ts now nearly forged,
but how long the succeeding operations of turning and
boring may take, and the gnu be ready for shipment to the
Baltic—for that we believe is Its deadaatioa—is more than
we or any one, we presume, as tall. At all events, it can-
not be practically tested this year. The man of Iron, eon-
pond of small slabs, welded together by the four-ton steam
hammer, is at present a huge shapeless lump, apparently
some Bor 10 feet lug, by 3or 4 feet in diameter. The pro-
cess of forging presents a grand sight ; the enormous mass
of white-hot iron being turned and shifted under the
hammer with u much ease and dexterity as if it were a
common azletree. Indeed, the whole apparatus—the hammer,
the hydraulic crate, tie —is quite a triumph of mechanical
shill and genius. Several of the balls are now ready. They
weigh a little more than ►alf a ton, and are of an oblate
spheroid shape, cut at one end—in tact, not unlike the com-
mon Idinif ball. Should the gun answer, its power and
nuts mat necessarily make great havoc when directed
against mos fortifications —Namehethir Gua►dian.

HOUSES FOR THI CHINIA.-OLOUCESTII, THUBJJ-
DAT.—An order has jest been received here for the con-
struction of a large number of houses for wintering the
army ones more in the Crimea. The order has been seat
down by the government to Messrs. Prim and Co., the in-
tensive timber merebsists of this port, who, It may be re-
membered, eoastraeted a number of hats last summer for
both the English and French goveramonts. Mr. Liddell,
who laid down the Balaklava railway, is ben to Inperistead
she Strangemeats. Five hundred houses are to be am•

struwed far the soldiers, and one hundred of a Gni erior kind
for the use of the officers. Gloucester is conveniently
situated for works of this kind, being the most inland pert
in the country, one of the largest timber importing plata,
and pouncing extensive steam apparatus for its conversion.
It is thought not improbable that the houses will be shipped
from Gloucester direct. instead of being sent by railway to
Southampton, as was done last year.
MEDICAL OFFICERS IN THE ARMY AND ?Cm.—
This morning a return use issued, which shows that then
are 26 medical officers attached to the hospital at Smyrna,
and 24 to the civil hospital in the Dardanelles. The same
rears also shows that situps the Ist of January, 1864, np to
the preseut time, there have been appointed for the serene
of the army mad aavy 66 staff assistant-margeons, 160 acting
assistant-surgeons, 10 amistaat-sergeene of the Ordnance ,
Department. I pried* sad 1 =Want medical etankeeper„ !
netimeenehee. IS dimmest* end 36 dresses., ol whom
Menend were head duly qudiled before,
they were appals
CONTRACTS 1011 WINTER, CLOTHING. 8100.11 m
Government hen sawed into ostensive connects foe ha
clothing for the troops is the Cabers. The somber to be
supplied is, omits lined with rabbit fur, 46,000, treereers,
ditto, 46,004 sulfur weistnama, 46.000: 10,000 of each of
the foregoar artkles of a better description are eh* te be
mlsidirA. The waterproof elothing easerseted for is to
mullet of 80,000 cloaks with sleeves, 50.000 gapes, and
60,0000x-hids boots, inspervkais to snow wester. The greater
ponies of the above meetioned le to be dr:livered inte Mere
by the Ist of September.
SEAMEN FOR, TIM NATT.--Early this morning
seventy. eight able and sodality emoraa, who volunteered
at Debris, Belfast, Gag Liverpool. for megtiebeee make in
the navy, arrived by treat ma the Lyman 606 11406.Weet-
era Railway, sod proceeded at in im thellreteekte aellway
Ornstein,, from whence they were esevmped to Peetementb,
for nerd's to the Black Sun bet
BRITISH AND FRENCH YISHINO VESSZL6.—This
esernieg a retort was imam" of all British ashler vessels
that have bees, mien& sad Liam tam porta ed Fresco Isr
vitae:Uhl lb* conveetlea Mem the let day ef
laseary, OIL Ihf ressits are :-8 Dunkirk, 6 Boulogne,
66 Nam, 120mA/or& and 41 Greaville. Within the
sans period 11 &WI at heath rash von isnled bats
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