The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

MILITARY.

ROYAL AfiTILLERV.—WooLerIcH, Feb. 6.—Major
Win...lield, of the Riding Hesse troop, has prooeeded into
the c..untry, it is mad. for the purpose of purclusing bones
for the ti“op• of Use Royal Horse Artillery and Field Bat-
teries The hones at present unfit for tleld battery duty,
but capable of &tides duty, in charge date men of lbs
resorci battery, are to be all sold, and the work which has
hithert been required of them for the engineer department
in tho Ito) al Arsenal is to be done by contract, as formerly,
and the meet of the reserve battery will be attached to a 11.
pounder battery. Nothing of an official nature has as yet
e', promulgated u to the addition of strength about to
be with to this important branch of the service, but the
gene ral impression is that the numbers will be at least
2,400 men. It is also said that the second lieutenants ak,
pointed to commission in July last will shortly join their
comp • s, although they may be on foreign stations.
Ilet.ilefiNT* AT THE (Are, CEYLON, AND HONG
Rmu.—With refereace to the list of regiments and depots
(-el in number) specified in the Express of the 31st ult.
as int, ailed to be increased, it may now be added that the
following 7 depots (the service companies are at the Cape)
are to be ',creamed ISO each, vie., Depots 2nd, lith, 43rd,
2ndlndult°, 60th, 73rd, 74th, and lit battalion Rills Bri-
gade. The depots of the 15th regiment (service companies
at Ceylon), and of the 59th (service companies at Hong
Kong), an, as already intimated, to be reduced 100 men
each, ant in future will be 300 instead of 400. Thus all
the above nine regiments are to be divided as follows:
Service companies, 600; depot companies, 300; total, 900.
In all other respects the augmentation will, we believe, be
effected as we have already explained.
THY. COLONELCIES 01' THE 39f n AND 96TH
111:01111111711.—It was stated on Saturday that Lieut.-Gen.
Burrell, C.D., will entered to the colonelcy of the 39th, and
liajnr-Ota. Conyers, C.B. to that of the 96:h regiment.
MILITIA STMT.—A circular letter, dated White-
hall, 31st alt , has been received 1,7 the lords tiestanaats et
counties., staling that her Majesty ass boa pima& to 411•••
mend that an iespection of the wariest dir ea.
militia in the Center! Kingdoms should tale plea at the
earliest possible period, and that an officer of bee Majesty's
regular foveae, assisted by • regimental or Guff sumees,
will
visit the heed-quarters of each regiment of militia far this
OT LIECT,COLONEL Hawn, ROYAL
MAKINSI.—Lieut-Colonel Hewes, in the retired full pay
of the Royal Marines, died on the tad inst. His commis-
sions in the service were dated as follows :—Second
lieutenant, 1803; first lieutenant, 180.5; captain, 1826;
brevet major, 1841 ; and lieutenant-colonel, 1842. He
serviel in the West Indies, and was on board the ltaiobow,
24 guns, in a lover* action with the French frigate LI:
Nen ide, 44 gars, at Cape Tiberon. Afterwards he was
employed on the coasts of Catalonia and Corsica. He was
alio at the attack on Leghorn in 1813 by Sir J. Rowley, and
well present at the capture of Genoa, in 1814, by Lord Wm..
nt.ock.
N Meta Muaxcrs.--500 of the new rifle
asu,liets have lately been sent in the Hydra steamer to the
Cape of Hood Hope, with a large quantity of the Mini*
ammunition.