Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

MILITARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Detachments of the 7th Dragoon Guards arrived at
Nottingham on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from
Sh ffield, on their way for embarka ion fer India.
In consequence of the large numbr r cf troops it is intended
to concentrate at Chatham Garrison as a reserve for the
Indian regiments, the authorities have decided on forming
the troops sow attached to the Indian depot at the Pro-
visional Battalion into three battalions, each consisting of
nine regiments with its own staff, the vvinle being placed
under the command of Colonel W. li. Eden, Commandant.
of Chatham Garrison. As soon as the necessary arrage-
ments are con4leted the three battalions will be formed,
the following :officiils being attached to the staff of
each :-Ist B ittilion—Colonel H. Jervis, C3mosandant ;
Major A. Wombwell, Major H. Jackson, Quartermaster
J. Menzies, Paymaster W. Eummetfield, and A. Maclean,
M.D., Battalion Surgeon. 2d Battalion.—Lieuttnant-
Colonel R. N. Phillips, Commandant ; Major H. D. Ellis,
Captain and Adjutant R. Polley, Captain E. Griffiths,
Paymaster, and Quartermast€r W. M. Kay. 3d Batal-
lion—Lieutenant-Colonel C. E'mhirst, Commandant ;
Mijor D. G. A. Darrech, Captain C. S. Naylor, Paymaster,
and Quartermaster T. Walker. Each of the Indian depots
will be formed into two companies agreeably to the recent
order from the Horse Guards.

Upwards of 100 recruits arrived at Chatham on Satur-
day from the various recruiting districts for the purpase of
joining the several Indian regiments at the provisional
battalion.

Recruiting for various regiments of the line is actively
proceeding in Brislol, and hitherto the recruiting officers
have been very successful.

On Thursday the Peninsular and Oriental C.lmpan)'s
screw steamer Jura steamed into Quenstown harbour
with nearly 1,300 soldiers on board. The Jura arrived
fr,rn Portsmouth, fr_bm which garrison she brought the
wh,de of the 30th Rpgiment, about 900 men, under the
command of Colonel 31au1everer, who had been previously
stationed at Gibraltar. She hart also on board 'eetwesta
300 and 400 men of the 55th Regiment, also stationed in
the Mediterranean. On Friday the whole of the troops
were brought up to the garrison, and half the 30th Regi-
ment went to Dubin, where they are to be stationed for
the present. The men of the 55th will wait in barracks
until the arrival of the Dutchman, by which the head-
quarters of the regiment are expected daily, when their
ultimate destination will he known,
The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain Yelverton'
having Lad her defects made good in Plymouth Sound,
sailod on Thursday for the Mediterranean.
The crews of the screw corvette Pelorus, 21, Captain
Frederick B. Seytw_ur, and the desp itch steam vessel
Mohawk, 4, Con:minder M`Dougall, were paid ad vane,- of
wages on Wednesday, and the ships left Plymouth Sound
on Ahursday for the East Indies.
The steam sloop Buzzard, 6, Commander F. Peel, was
mustered and inspected by Captain Jeraingham, in Ply-
m-uth Sound on Thursday, and the crew were paid
advance of wages on Friday.

THE MILITIA.

The sth West York Regiment of Militia are ordered out
for twenty-one da)s' training and exercise at Kuaresbo-
rough, ::her: the corps will assemble next week.
The 3rd West York Militia, the embodiment of which
has already been mentioned, will assembla at Doncaster
on the Ist of October.
The Royal Sherwood Foresters (Niotts Militia) are to be
embodied, and it is expected that the men will assemble a-,
Newark before the eLd of the month.
The Girliganshire Militia will assemble for training on
Thursday next.

The Plintsi-iico Royal Militia are under orders to
assemble at Mold on the 25th of• this month, to undergo
their usial training of 28 days.
The Merionethshire Militia have received orders from
Lord Mostyn, Lord Lieutenant of the county, to assemble
for training at Bala on Taseday, the 22nd inst, Taey are
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
.Morgar.

THE NEW LORD MACAULAY.—By an extract from the
Gazette of Friday tight., tor readers will see
that Mr. Mac:allay has chosen as h s new
name, style, and title, that of " Baran Macaulay
of Eothley, in the county of Leicester." P ssibly they
may thank us for reminding them that Illthley Temple was
the residence of his maternal uncle, the late Mr. Thomas
Babirro”, high-sheriff of Leicestershire, and many years
Irvi.P. for the borough of LeicsstPr, and that the future
essayist, orator, poet, and historian was born in that village
in the eatly phrt of the year 1800. Hance, we presume,
arises his selection of that spot as the loc)1 source from
which be has selected his barony, accardin,g to the old
feudal theory; which maleas every Baron the Lord also of
some definite loc,rlity. Lord Macaulay, we may add, is
the eldest son of the late Zachary Macaulay, the early
friend and associate of Wilberforce, and the veteran labourer
in the cause of the abolition of negro slavery. His
grandfather was a PleEbyteria* clergyman in the high-
lands of Scotland, aud, we believe, was a native of the
remote and romantic Wand of Lewes.

RZSTBICTIONS (227 THE INDIAN PIIESS.—The " Gagging
Act" is still in force; we Ast, therefore, be excused for
not referring to some suljects at all, and for dealing only
partially with others. This act has not fulfilled one of the
objects for which it wes istended, but, on the contrary,
has tended considerably to increase the embarrassment of
the crisis. Tke European community are rig biding their
time, as fur as nay manifestation is concerned ; but they
are as se. shire as ever of the insult which has been east
upon them, and certain preliminaries are being gone
through with a visw to give effect to their opiniens in a
manner which will soon be sufficiently known. We hear
that some antiquarian politicians have discovered the
fossil remains of a pamphlet, written by an exploded
Indian official, in which the mutinies are prophesied as a
natural effect of the freedom of the press. This enlightened
production will probably be made use of at home, where
similar effects from the same cause have been freely pre-
dicted from time to time, and have never happened to come
to pa's. The theory, as far as India is concerned, would
be a very good one if the cause of the mutinies could not
be found, and were not as plain as the sun et noon-day,
As it is, the difficulty is to find in the; past system of
governmr nt— which the press generally op';Josed—a glirivese
of a policy calculated to laid to any other results than
those which we now see.—Bengal Ilutkat