The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additienll ) [TWOPENCE.

AAVAL AND MILITARY.

CHATHAM, Jan. E.
Colonel W. H. Eden, the commandant of thin
garrison, received an order yesterday from the War-office,
directing him to hold in readiness all the available nor,

commissioned officers and men belonging to the three depot
battalions to tnibark during the present month for India, for
tho purpee of reinforcing the regiments now serving in the
Bengal, Madras, and Bombay presidencies. The number of
troops that can be furnished by this garrison is nearly 2,0(10,
all equipped with the Enfold rifle.
Upwards of 1,600 recruits enlisted during the part week
for regiments serving in India; this number doe. not in-
clude the volunteers for the Royal Artillery or the East
India Company's European troope—nearly 400 for the last-
named service having been enrolled during the same period.
The steam-ship Prince Albert, with troops and
MOM, sailed from Bt. Helena, for Bombay, on the 20th of
November.

RECRUlTlNG.—Recruiting is being conducted with
considerable activity in Nottingham for the let Dragoon.,
Bth Hunan, 16th Lacers, 17th Lancer., 19th Foot, 34th
Foot, 69th Foot, 82nd Foot, 91st Foot, 2nd Battalion a the
Rifle Brigade, Grenadier Guards, and the Royal Marines.
Recruits are sent off weekly to the depot. of the various re-
giments, and it Is very singular that during the present
commercial gloom a leas number of men are enlisted than
at the time when employment was not so scarce. Recruitiog
is now proceeding in Norfolk for the sth, 9th, 10th, 67th,
77th, and 96th regiments, besides the Royal Artillery and
the Coldstream Guards. The country lads are said to prefer
a service in the militia—at any rate in the first instanee—to
the more arduous engagements of the line.

AUDIS 4k0.7? 271 E P.4UPEE LAJOVhEZB

AT ills-Ili-v-1:

SATURDAY An outbreak of a most alarming kind took pNIGHT.Iane
here among the pauper labourers between six and seven o'clock
this evening. There are upwards of 1,000 man employed on
the Moor, generally at the rate of a shilling a day. The
work is excavation of 90t1113 hills for the corporation ; and
it is called the " test " for the out-d.)or able-bodied paupers.
Daring the crisis which has vialted the town it has been found
impossible to employ the men more than half a day each,
part of the number in the morning and the other pert in the
afternoon ; but they have still received their slitting each.
Lately, however, labour.masters have been appointed, and
on Friday orders were given to enforce a full day's work,
because a large class of paupers have found it profitable to
attend upon the Moor two or three days fur the sake of the
shilling, and then spend the remainder of the day in adven-
titious employment. Another end incurable class have
found it an easy method of turning an honest ill shilling.
The order of Friday was mast sternly resisted therefore,
and the more violent of the labourers threatened death to
those who were willing to comply. Some of the well-
disposed loft the ground through fear; and on that
day the guardians did not deem it prudent to enforce
the order, or reduce the pay at night. This evening,
however (the men having only worked half-a-day, as usual),
the relieving-officers at the buildings in Paul-street were in-
structed to pay thepartiee only half the allowance. The men
were congregated in the yard and avenue to the number of
1,000, an a most violent commoti-m ensued. The leader of
the dissffected paupers addressed the fellows in im-
passioned harangues, calling upon them to resist to the last,
and have their full pay, "either one way or another." The
guradisns who attempted to speak were Mimed, execrated, said
denounced. The men declared that it was an attempt to
starve them to death. A riot being apprehended, the civil
authorities were applied to. The mayor (Mr. .1 Humber),
Mr. Dodd (the justices' clerk), Mr. Gibbons the
superintendent of police, and about a score of constables,
attended at the place; but all efforts to restore quietness
were useless. The paupers, in violent language, proclaimed
their determination to have their shilling. A suggestion to
read the riot act was not carried one, and the orators pro-
ceeded with their appeals to their follows. A consultation
then took place between the guardians and authorities, and
some contended that the mutiny ought to be put down, and
the order enforced ; others pointed out the danger in the then
excited state of the men, and also the fact there were some
grounds for the ometion, being that on:Sunday:(thefollow-
mg day) they would receive no pay at all. About eight
o'clock the guardians gave way, and agreed to pay the
pupate in full. Thus quietness was once more restored, and
a riot avoided. Great excitement prevailed, and the paupers
expressed their determination not to work more than half a
day, and not submit to any reduction. The guardians pur-
pose to enforce their resolution this day (Monday), bat our
correspondent feels apprehensive u to the result,—Liverpool
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