The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

MILITARY.

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PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 12.—The depot of the 11th
Regiment is to move from Ilythe, Kent, to this garrison ;
and the depot of the faith is to cross from this side of the
water to Gosport barracks. Ono company of the 88th
Regiment left this garrison on Thursday for Weymouth to
join two other companies of the regiment previously sta-
tioned there, the reinforcement taking place in consequence
of more convicts being about to be sent to Portland Prison.
The Board of Ordnance has accepted the tender of Messrs.
'Piper and Son, of London, fur tho construction of the new
tort at Gomer Pond, lirowndon, near Gosport. The esti-
mate for the whole of the defences at this place wa543,0001,
of which 15,0001. vrero voted last year, 6,0001. being ex-
pended. The sum voted this year is 10,0001. It is stated
that a troop of Royal Horse Artillery is to be stationed at
Basra, three miles on the London nal from Portsmouth
garrison, and that for this purpose stables are to be erected
there at a cost of 3,0001.

THE MILITIA.
(From Friday's Gastlk.)
The following commissions have been signed :
Lieutenant George Smith, to be captain,; in the Narth
York Regiment of Militia.
Charles Frederick fbru•tan, gent., lieutenant in her Ma-
jesty's 90th Regiment of Light lufar.try, to be captain, in
the Merionethshire Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.
John Isaac Walker, gent., to be first lieutenant, vice
Rowell Redd Lloyd Clough, gent., promoted in ditto.
William Petro Jones, gent., to be meowd lieutenant, vice
Richard Meredith Richards, gent., resigned, in ditto.
John J4ll/11, gent., to be emend lieutenant, vice Edward
Lloyd Edwards, Fent.. resigned, in ditto.
Lieutenat William Fleury Cresswell, to be captain, in the
Royal Wilts Militia.
Lieutenant Walter Coleman, to be captain, in ditto.
Lieutenant Frederick Breton, to be captain, in ditto.
Ensign Beverley Robinson, to he lieutenant, in ditto.
Ensign Thomas Pocock, to be lieutenant, in ditto.
[Tke following article is substituted for that which ap-
peared in the Gaut& of the 4th March.]
Samuel Brise Ruggles Brise, Esq., late of the Ist
(King's) Dragoon Guards, to be lieutenant-colonel, vice
Tower, resigned, in the West Essex Militia.

NEW DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS.
LA:WASTED..

Joseph Need Walker, Esq.
HUNTINGDON.
Richard Hussey Hussey. Esq., John Linton, Esq.,
George Thornhill, Esq., Philip Pillard, Esq., David
Veasey, Esq.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations,
were adusitted members of the college on the 11th inst.:—
Messrs. Charles James Herbert, Bedworth, Warwickshire ; !
' George Glans Heinle, lion. East India Company's service;
John Thomas Younger, Neweastle•upon.Tyne ; John Baker
Greene, Dublin; John Shepherd, Erpingham, Norfolk.;
George Seudamore, Melbourne, Australia; Robert Which
cord Beaumont, Royal Navy ; Robert Grundy, St. Helen's,
Lancashire; John Allli son, Peoria), Cumberland ; Charles,
Augustus Shia, Clonmell, 'Tipperary; Evans, '
Ystratlyfodwg, Glamorganshire, and Walter Moses Gil-
baut, army, Jersey.
TELE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.—If the mail steamer
Sydney, which left New South Welts on the 6th December
last, is as long on her passage so the steamer Australian was,
she will not be due in England before the lith or 15th of next
month; for the Australian left New South Wales on the
Bth of last September, and did not arrive et Plymouth be-
fore the 12th of January. It is not nt all improbable, there-
fore, that the next mail from the Australian ports will ar-
rive by way of India, for on thq _ad of April the Australian
mail via India and Marseilles, will be due in London. The
, dates of this mail will be :—Sydney, Jan 20 ; Melbourne,
23rd ; aad Adelaide, 25th.