Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-11 00:00:00

NAVAL AND ZLLITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Major-General Sir Hugh Rose will command a division,
and Colonel Percy Herbert a brigade in the army which
has just been despatchd to India. General Rose, it will
be remembered, was for some time Consul General in
Syria, was then for awhile Charge. d'Affaires at Constan-
tinople, and was the Military Commissioner with the
French army in the Crimea. He also filled for soma
months the same position with the A.ustrian army.
Colonel Percy Herbert! was Deputy.Q tartermaster-
General of the division under Sir De Lacy Evans in,the
Crimea, and was afterwards Quartermaster-General of
the army in the Crimea. Major-General Windham will,
as we have already stated, command a division in
India.

The following circulars have been is Ated from the 'Torso

Guards :

"Until furthdr orders, recruits enlisted at the head
quarters of regiments will be retained there for training,
and not be sent to the depots•
" The standard of recruits for the Infantry is r3duced
to 5 feet 5} inches."
On Friday 15 officers• and 446 sergeants and privates of
the. 2d Battalion of the 60th Rlfles proceeded to Kings-
town. The 31 Battalion of the 60th Rifiss, consisting of
212 rank and file, and the last division of the 79th High-
landers, consisting of nine officers and 162 sergeants and
privates, proceeded to Kingstown on Saturday for the
purpose of embarking.
Considerable activity prevails at the head quarters of
the Royal Engineers• at Chatham., where the whole of the
officers. non-commissioned officers, and men are almost
daily practised, under the direction, of Colonel 11. Sand-
with --oter' ellgtue'ernig Opera:Lail:ls,- - vt 'LScalr cm.
young officers and men of the Royal and East India Com-
pany's Sappers and Miners 'may be perfected in those
branches *of military exercise previously to quitting
England for service in India. The number of Royal,
Engineers and East Company's troops who are now under
instruction at Chatham is considerably more than 1,003
men, exclusive of officers.

The James Baines and Champion of the Seas (clippers),
Captains M4Dannell and MiKirdy, left Spithead in tow of
the powerful steam tugs (which took them from Liverpool
to Portsmouth harbour).Resolute and Blazer at one p.m.,
on Saturday. The James Baines took out Lieutenant-
Colonels Ingram and Legh, Brevet Lieatenant-Colonels
Burton and Turner, Captains Hawkins, Harene, Venables,
Jones, Annersley, Browne, Wilkie, and • Ingram
Lieutenants Harmond, Morgan, Onslow, Fitzprald,
Gould, Smyth, Safford,. Mellay, and M`Donald ; Ensigns
Parker, Barber, Cookesley, Stator, Lowe, Thompson,
Fulford, Grey, Adjutant and Ensign Smith, Quartermaster
Woodrooffe, Surgeon Barry, M.D., Assistant-Surgeons
Porter, Sinclair, M.D,, and Drumbeck ; 52 sergeants, 21
drummers, 34; corporals,. and 711 privates of the 97th
regiment. These troops are all armed with the 1853
pattern rifb,.and have taken out 483;140 .rounds of ball
cartridge, 600,175, percussipn caps, and 1,049 rifles.
'Major Wilkinson, Captains Ward and Baird, Lieutenants
•IWLeod and Stewart, I 9 sergeants, 2 drummers, 6 cor-
porals, and 165 privates of the 4.2 ad Highlanders, also,
have gone in the James Baines.
The- following troops 'went in the Champloa of. the
Seas _--Lieutenant-Colonel Evelegh, Majors Radcliffa and
Butiar, Captains Bennett, Parkinion, Dickens, Warren,
Hewett,. Lyons,. Dashwood, and. Francis ; Lieutenants
Vaughan, Mitchel), Little, Datrickson, Holmes, Edridge,
M‘Donough, Carden, Gordon, Rimer, Vereker, Dean,
and Grethin;. Ensigns Fahie, Byrne, and Johnstone
Lieutenant and Adjutant Geraghty, Surgeon E. Howard,
Assistant-Surgeons Keleall, Short, and Monday; and
Quartermaster Aylett,, 53 sergeants,. 20 drummers, 33.
corporals, and 705 privates of the. 20th Foot. All are
armed with the riPleonusket of the pattern of 1853. Tirly
carry out 48),140 rounds of ball cartridge, and 600,17 a
percussion caps.
Orders were issued on Saturday at. Chatham for the
following reinforcements from that garrison, for the pur
pose of embarking for India to join the head quarters of
their respective regiments, viz. non-commissioned.
officers and men of the 64th and 86th Regiments, to
embark in the Genghis Khan at Gravesend for Bombay,.
under the command of Lieutenant T. R. Hamiltcn and
Lieutenant V. G. Coates, 86th Regiment;. 50 non-commis.
sioned officers and men of the 82nd (yriuce of Wales's
Volunteers) Regiment will proceed to. Portsmouth, in
charge of Lieutenant J. A. Brock,, and embark on board
the Sarah Sands for conveyance to. Calcutta; 50 men of
the same corps are also to proceed to Dublin for the
purpsse of embarking on board the Ballarat for Calcutta.
Reinforcements for the 10th Foot and 84th (York and
Lancaster) Regiment will also leave Chatham garrison
for the purpose of embarking for India. The number of
men of those corps under orders to proceed from the
Provisional Battalion are 44 non-commissioned officers
and men of the 10th Foot, and 106 of tke 84th Regiment,
with the following officers, viz.:—Captain J. Cater,
Lieutenant P. B. Lucas, Lieutenant C. A. Armstrong, and
Ensign J. Ball, 10th Foot. The whole of the non-com-
missioned officers and men have been equipped with the,
Enfield rifle, in the use of which weapea the' llaYe been:
instructed at Chatb,ani garrison.