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[PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD•

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following general order was issued yesterday :
Horse Guardw, October 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to command
that, in commemoration of the gallant conduct of the
troops concerned, the words " Alma," " Balaklava,"
and "Inkertnan," be borne on the regimental colour of
the regiments specified in the accompanying list.
Also, that the several corps composing her Majesty's
army in the Crimea on the sth of September, 1855, shall
bear the inscription "Sebastopol " on the regimental
standard or colour, as a memorial of the arduous and
succesiful operations which have led to the reduction of
that fortress.
Regiments which have no standards or colours will
bear these distinctions on their cap or helmet plates.

Rifle regiments will wear them on their breast plates
and cap plates.
By command of the Right Ron. Field-Marshal,
Viscount HARDINGE, CJmmanding-in-Chief.
G. A. WMIERALL, Adjutant-General.

REGIMENTS AUTHORISED TO BEAR TIIE WORDS " ALMA," SEPTEM-
BER 20, 1854 ; " BALAKLAVA," OCTOBER 25, 1854 ; "
MAN," NOVEMBER 5, 1851, AND " SEBASTOPOL."
• Ist Dragoon Guards—Sebastopol.
4th Dragoon Guards—Balaklava and Sebastopol.
sth Dragoon Guards—Balaklava and Sebastopol.
6th Dragoon Guards—Sebastopol.
Ist Dragoons—Balaklava and Sebastopol.
2d-Dragoons—Balaklava and Sebastopol.
4th Light Dragoons—Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Se-
bastopol.
6th Dragoons—Balaklava and Sebastopol.
Sth Hussars—Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebas-
topol.
10th Hussars—Sebastopol.
11th Hussars—Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebas-

topolt ' ,
12th Lancers-Sebastopol.
13th Light DragoOns-Alma, Balakranc-DaYerman, and
Sebastopol.
17th Lancers-Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebas-
topol.
Grenadier Guards, 3d Battalion-Alma, Inkerman, and
Sebastopol.
Coldstream Guards, Ist Battalion-Alma, Inkerman, and
Sebastopol.
Scots Fusilier Guards, Ist Battalion-Alma, Inkerman, and
Sebastopol.
Ist Foot, Ist Battalion-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
„ 2d Battalion-Sebastopol.
3d Foot-Sebastopol.
4th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
7th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopl.
9th Foot-Sebastopol.
13th Foot-Sebastopol.
14th Foot-Sebastopol.
17th Foot-Sebastopol.
18th Foot-Sebastopol.
19th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
20th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
21st Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
23d Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
28th Foot-Alma, Inkorman, and Sebastopol.
30th Foot-Alma, lukerman, and Sebastopol.
31st Foot- Sebastopol.
330 Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
34th Foot-Sebastopol.
311th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
39th Foot-Sebastopol.
41st Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
420 Foot Alma and Sebastopol.
44th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
46th Foot-Sebastopol.
47th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
48th Foot-Sebastopol.
49th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
50th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
55th Foot Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
56th 1- oot- Sebastopol.
57th Foot-Inkerman and Sebastopol.
620 Foot-Sebastopol
63d Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
68th Foot-Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
71st Foot-Sebastopol.
72(1 Foot-Sebastopol.
730 Foot -Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
79th Foot-Alma and Sebastopol.
821 Foot-Sebastopol.
88th Foot-Alma, lukerman, and Sebastopol.
89th Foot-Sebastopol.
90th Foot-Sebastopol.
934 Foot-Alma, Balaklava, and Sebastopol.
95th Foot-Alma, Inkorman, and Sebastopol;
97th Foot-Sebastopol.
Rifle Brigade, Ist Bat.-Alma, Inkerman, and FAbastopoi.
If 2d Bat.-Alma, Inkerman, aud. Sebastopol.
By Command.
G. A. WETHERALL, Ad:am:lt-General.

Her Majesty's steam-corvette Malacca, 17, Captain
Farquhar, was undocked yesterday at Portsmouth, and
the Transit steam troop-ship, Captain C. R. Johnson,
taken in to repair defects.

Her Majesty's screw block•ship Russell, 60, Captain
Francis ScAt, was to be taken out of the steam basin at
Portsmouth yesterday. This vessel, the Hawke, 60,
Captain E. Ommanney, and the Hastings, 60, Captain
E. G. Fanshawe, are reported to be refitting with all
despatch to follow their sister ships, the Cornwallis and
the Pembroke, to the West India and North American
stations.

The Lady Eglinton steam-transport, No. 165, left
Portsmouth yesterday afternoon, for the Crimea, with
huts for the army.
Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Simoom, 18, Captain
T. R. Sulivan, embarked at Portsmouth dockyard, yes.
terday afternoon, a regiment of the British German
Legion, with whom she will leave this morning for the
Crimea. The troops arrived from Shorncliffe by the
South Coast Railway, and marched to the place of em-
barkation preceded by the band of the Middlesex Mi
litia, and were in the finest order and best spirits.
Major-General Breton and Staff superintended their
embarkation, and seemed thoroughly satisfied with their
orderly and soldierlike behaviour.
The following are the names of the officers and the
numbers of non-commissioned officers and men who em-
barked:—Lieutenant-Colonel Hake, Majors Winnebergn
and Kessler, Captains Crompton, Maunsfeld, Noodt,
Valentine, Newiadomiski, Waakel, Rosencranta, Defin,
and Genertons; Lieutenants Scopnik, Bliesner, Schwenki,
Wimsten, Misani, Grabowski, Scheller, and Petersin ;
Ensigns Beamis, Weir, Brombsen, Jones, Bunde, Valet,-
' tine, Bertram, 11,olliben, and Power ; Adjutant Tobias,
Paymaster Hunt, Quartermaster Elliot; Drs. Simojo
Lost, Phillipp, and 6teteck ; Captain Mills, Brigade
Major ; Rev. Appereten, Chaplain; 44 sergeants, 24
drummers, 50 corporals, and 820 rank and file.
The Brazilian ship Theodora, which broke from her
moorings and went ashore ,in Balten Bay yesterday morn•
ing, unshipped her rudder, and whets the tide receded
fell to starboard, bilged, and broke her keel ; although
relieved from a portion of her ballast she did not float on
the rise of the tide in the evening,
The Inflexible has arrived at Woolwich from Ply-
mouth, and has been received into basin to be laden with
machinery. The Dee is about to sail, with boilers and
machinery, for Portsmouth and Plymouth. By the de-
parture of the Nicolas Wood, which sailed on Thursday
evening from Woolwich Arsenal for Portsmouth, there
are at present only the Collingwood transport sailing
ship and the Euphrates freight vessel lying there. Col.
Wilmot, with Captain Boxer and other officers of the
Royal Arsenal departments, who started some time since
on a tour of inspection to the continental foundries, as
stated in The Sun, have been joined by Mr. Moneell,
of the Ordnance, and are expected to return about Mon-
day next. The accident which occurred in the fuse.
drying department of the laboratory in the Royal Ar-
senal is discovered to have arisen from the flues havine
been overheated, the fireman having imprudently Leaped
on a quantity of coals to feed the fire until his return
from dinner. The carriage branch department of that
establishment has augmented its number of labourers
by the addition of 150 wheelers and 20 smiths. Two fatal
occurrences have taken place in the above-named depart.
ment during the present week—namely, the sudden
deaths by apoplexy of two of the carpenters employed
therein.

The following gentlemen cadets passed on Thursday
at Portsmouth for direct commissions in the Royal Ma-
rine corps. The names are placed in rotation, in the
order in which each candidate passed in the estimation
of the Board of Examiners. Those marked * were stu-
dents on board her Majesty's ship Excellent :—G. L.
Tupman,* G. H. Elliott,* W. W. G. B. Willis,* G. W.
Oliver,* J. G. Fits-Gerald,* W. E. Despard,* W. J.
Barker,* C. C. Suther, E. F. Thompson,* W. Arm'
strong,* H. S. Lewis,* W. H. Smith,* J. Straghan, W.
H. Poyntz, T. L. Grant, A. Evans, R R. A. W°°°.
forde, J. A. Godfrey, and L. Rokeby.
On Thursday 140 volunteers from the depoto ue_a
of the
36th Regiment left Windsor, under the charge f
Lloyd, for Birmingham, to join the 62d Begimae:mtaiini
Ireland. Early in the evening of the same dayto take
party of the 22d arrived from Plymouth,
pos-
session of the barracks and prepare
morning the
the main body of the regiment.
190 men, commanded by
tfeorrdtahye reception of
depot of the 94th, consisting of 1
Major Buller and Acting-Adjutant
the Sheet-street Barracks and took
Captain Drew, left
their departure for
Plymouth.
Windsor yesterday afternoon, under ,
Sixty-four volunteers from the sth Lancashire Mi-
litia passed through
to join the 3d Light Dragoons
the charge of a
ApartsergelVnin
t'of the 22d Regiment, about 300
—fiymenth ; the remainder of the
at Hounslow.
strong, arrived r
Windsor next week.
half-pay unattached, is ap-
pointed will arrive at
Lieut.-Colonel Fordyce,
Colonel de Rottenburg as AlListant-
pointed to succeed
(martermaster. eneral in Canada, the latter gallant
having resigned his appointment on the Staff.
officer W. Vicary has been appointed to the Pene-
lope, and Lieut. J. Foster to the Victory additional for
disposal.
A Limerick paper states that Major-General the Earl
of Cardigan has issued strict injunctions to cavalry com-
manding officers that the dress of the cavalry is to be
strictly regulation. The jackets, a/a Franfaise, over-
alls a la Cossack, and sleeves a la Moine are prohibited.
Lord Cardigan complimented the Queen's Bays and 16th
Lancers on their high state of efficiency.
On Tuesday morning the first draught from the depot
battalion in Limerick garrison left for Cork, to embark
on board the Hanover, at Queenstown.
1,600 well-trained, drilled, and effective soldiers have
been sent from Limerick to the seat of war within the
last eight months.
When the Kerry Militia were assembled for parade for
BoaFbuoy
the purpose volunteering on Monday o_l