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

MILITIA.

Daring the past week about 136
c,! the 2d Royal
Cheshire Militia, stationed in Plymouth
Citadel, have
taken the bounty, varying from 9/. to 11/., and joined
the line. Of these a considerable n
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into the 31st -Regiment, which has a depot in the cite-
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Marines, and the remainder the and 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 Landguard Fort.
Since its embodiment it has given men to distant garri-
sons, 30 men to the Guards, and 96 to the Royal Artil-
lery.

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Stewart has joined the 13th Infantry as Ensign ; Ensign
Gorton has roceived an ensi.rucy in the 29th, at present
in India; and Captain Lister, it is stated, is about to
join the 11th Hussars.

The contrwts 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 Jermyn, M.P. for the borough, are noxv 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 ara 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 OF DUBLIN MILITIA.—This corps, under the
command of its colonel, the Earl of Meath, remains
quartered at the Curragh camp, where the men are pa-
raded and exercised daily.
ROYAL CUIEBERLAND MILITIA.—On Saturday this
bush barracks, was marched
regiment, which has hitherto occupied quarters at Ald-
borough House and Beggars bush
Richmond barracks, were the entire regiment is now
stationed.

STATE OP 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,
reply, observed that under
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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
from the Thames
the 31st of August, 1855, compelling the metropolitan
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deriving
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beyond the tidal influence. The Government would
take steps to have the act enforced. That was all he
hat supply
could do at present.