The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-21 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

ichard Batchelor, Paymaster to the Impregnable • Chas.
J. Webb, Assistant-Paymaster in charge to the Jackal; Chas.
p. Nash, Assistant-Clerk to the Glatton. Naval Cadets—
L. A. Fosbery to the St. George ; A. P. Still, R. P. W. Pom-
neY, A. G. Grote, and A. G. R. Riall, to the Sanspareil ;, J.
A.. Boxer to the Castor; It. Burnett to the Alarm ; A. C. W.
Lennox (for disposal) to the Duke of Wellington ; E. J. Bellett
(for disposal) to the Royal Albert.
Lieut.-colonel Hatton, of the Grenadier Guards, has arrived
in Dublin for the purpose of obtaining recruits for the House-
hold Brigade of Infantry. A notification upon the subject
has been issued, stating that the bounty would be 81., and
mentioning the other advantages offered by the Government.
Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of Colonel James
Webber Smith, C. 8., being
,appointed temporarily a Colonel
upon the staff in Ireland while in command of ono of the
brigades to_be assembled at the Curragh. Brevet-Major E.
-Roche, unattached, has been appointed temporarily on the
staff as aßi igade NrlkjOr: The troops assembled at the Curragh
being under the command ,of, the. General Commanding in
Ireland, are to report to direct to head-quarters, through the
channels prescribed by the regulations of the service. Her
Majesty has also been pleased to approve of the undermen-
tioned officers being placed temporarily upon the staff of the
army serving in Ireland, with a view to their being employed
at the encampment on the Curragh of Kildare :—Captain and
Brevet-Major George E. Hillier, half-pay, 80th Foot, to be
Assistant-Adjutant-General; Major C. P. B. Walker, of the
7th Dragon Guards, to be Assistant-Quartermaster-General.
The left wing of the Clarence Barracks, Portsmouth, Is
being converted,into quarters for, invalids arriving from the
Crimea. The work of adaptation was commenced on Wed-
nesday.
Captain Rolt, of the African niail packet Retriever, which
arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday, received from her passen-
gers an address duty
a gold watch, to mark their sense of his
I attention to his duty on the voyage home.

THE MILITIA.
The removal of the 3.1 West York Militia from Waterford
to the camp on the Curragh of Kildare, which has been de-
layed in consequence of the incompleteness of the huts pre-
paring for their reception, will take place next week. The
companies will be lodged in huts containing 25 men each,
and they will be divided into squads of 12 men each. The
sick will remain at the present station of the regiment. A
detachment or the regiment, under Captain Bawer, remains
at New Ross. Only 69 of the 310 disembodied men have as
yet taken advantage of Lord Panmure's order, and applied
for their discharge. The total strength of the, regiment is 42
sergeants, 36 corporals, 15 drummers, and 619 privates. ''
The different militia regiments in Scotland are being visited
by military officers for the purpose of receiving volunteers
for the regul.r army.
The Royal Elthorne Light Infantry, stationed at Uxbridge,
Lieutenant-Colonel L. M. Murray Prior ,Commandant, and
which regiment is upwards of 1,000 strong, has volunteered
for the East, or wherever its services may be required.