The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-23 00:00:00

MILITIA.

During the past week about 13f of the 2d Royal
Cheshire Militia, stationed in Plymouth Citadel, have
taken the bounty, varying from 91, so 11/., and joined
the line. Of these a considerable ,umber have gone
into the 31st Regiment, which has $ depot in the cita-
del, 5 have entered the Artillery, 24 the Sappers and
Miners, 16 the Scots Fusilier) Guards, 16 the Royal
Marines, and the remainder the 51st snd 73d Regiments.
The Royal Cheshire, which is commanded by Colonel
Devonport, retains more than 500 rank and file.
The East Suffolk Militia Artillery have left head-
quarters at Ipswich and encamped at Landguarcl Fort.
Since its embodiment it has given men to distant garri-
sons, 30 men to the Guards, and 96 to the Royal Artil-
lery.

The Essex Rifles are at Colchester in order to recruit
their wasted strength preparatory to foreign garrison
duty. Major Wallace has accepted a commission as
Colonel to a
portion of the Turkish Contingent ; Capt.
Stewart has joined the 13th Infantry as Ensign ; Ensign
Gorton has received an ensigncy in the 29th, at present
in India ; and Captain Lister, it is stated, is about to
join the 11th Hussars.
The contracts for the new militia encampment at Col-
chester have been taken by Messrs. Lucas, of London,
and operations have already commenced. Accommoda-
tion is to be provided for 3,000 men, and the huts, &c.,
are to be completed by the end of the ensuing month.
The West Suffolk corps, under the command of Colonel
Earl Jernayn, M.P. for the borough, are now mustered
at Bury St. Edmunds, and, notwithstanding the nume-
rous recruits it has given to the line, the regiment
numbers 500 men.

The North Durham Militia is now in charge of Sun-
derland barracks. The whole of the regulars lately sta•
tioned there have departed for the Crimea. Arrange-
ments are being entered into for the purchase of the
old workhouse in that town for the use of the artillery
regiment of militia, which has to be made up to 400.
ROYAL SOUTH DOWN MILITIA.—This regiment sup-
plied the troops for garrison duty in Dublin on Satur-
day, who mounted guard at the Castle and the several
public offices.

COUNTY OP DUBLIN MILITIA.—This corps, under the
command of its colonel, the Earl of Meath, remains
quartered at the Curragh camp, where the nsen are pa-
raded and exercised daily.
ROYAL CUMBERLAND MILITIA.—OR Saturday this
regiment, which has hitherto occupied quarters at Ald-
borough House and Beggars-bush barracks, was marched
to Richmond barracks, were the entire regiment is now
stationed.

STATE OF THE THAMES.—On Saturday an !influential
deputation from the inhabitant householders of Wal-
worth and the district supplied with water by the South-
wark and Vauxhall Water Company waited upon Sir
Benjamin Hall, Bart., President of the Board of Health,
for the purpose of seeking his interference on a question
of the fcetid and unwholesome water supplied by the
Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company to the inhabi-
tants of Walworth, and drawn from the Thames at Bat-
tersea. The deputation having stated their case, and
exhibited various disgusting specimens of water from
their own and neighbours cisterns, Sir Benjamin Hall,
in the course of a lengthened reply, observed that under
his bill for the " Better Local Management of the Me-
tropolis," one of the first acts the Metropolitan Board
of Works would be called upon to perform would be to
carry out two main intercepting sewers, one on each side
of the river Thames, so that there would be no excuse if
the river was not speedily relieved from the sewage. An
act, passed in 1852, would also come into operation on
the 31st of August, 1855, compelling the metropolitan
water companies deriving their supply from the Thames
to take that supply from above Teddington Lock, and
beyond the tidal influence. The Government would
take steps to have the act enforced. That was all he
I could do at present.