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THE SUN. LO N 130. N; TUESDAY RATENINtt OCTOBP4B, 28, it366;

the prisoner to find bail to keep the peace for 6 moLths.
She was committed in default of bail.
VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A POLICE SERGEANT.—.Tainq
Weatherall, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Jewett, an
outfitter, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with
committing a violent assault on William Haynes, a po-
lice sergeant, No. 400 A.
The police sergeant stated that, at an early hour this
morning he was called to a house in John's-place, Back-
road, Shadwell. There was a mob in front of the dwell-
ing, and a woman in a room above was screaming and
calling out murder. He went upstairs and found the
prisoner on the top of his wife, and pummelling her
with his fists. She was bleeding profusely, and ap-
peared to have been dreadfully beaten. Three prosti-
tutes had seized the prisoner by the hair of the head, and
were attempting to drag him from the woman. He
pulled the prisoner away from his wife, and asked him
what he meant by such conduct, to which he replied,
" What the hell is that to you?" and struck him a violent
blow on the head. A struggle took place, and the pri-
soner got him outside the door and endeavoured to throw
him down stairs and nearly succeeded in doing so. He
then got the tongs from the fire-place and made a blow
at his head, but it fell on his shoulders. The prisoner
then made a rush at him and threw him down stairs.
He procured assistance and went up stairs into the room
a second time. A desperate struggle took place in the
room, and he was compelled to strike the prisoner on
the head with it before he could subdue him and effect

his capture.
Mr. Yardley sentenced the prisoner to 14 days' impri-
sonment in the House of Correction.
SEAMEN'S ADVANCE NOTES. A tradesman named
Myers came before Mr. Yardley and said that he had
been directed by one of the shipping masters of the port
of London to ask his worship's advice under these cir-
cumstances :—About 12 months ago he cashed a❑ ad-
vance note for the payment of a month's wages for a
seaman who had signed articles to proceed on a voyage
to the East Indies and back. The note was made ply-
ab'e three days after the sailing of the ship, provided
the seaman sailed with the vessel. The mariner aban-
doned the vessel, which Baled without him, and the
note was cashed. The seaman shipped on board another
vessel, and obtained another note, which was cashed,
and played the same trick over again. The dishonest
fellow shipped a third time in a ship bound to the Euxine
with stores for the troops, and sailed in that vessel, which
had just arrived, and the crew of it were paid off this
morning. He demanded the cash he had given for the
advance note, and the sailor refused to pay him. The
shipping master had detained the man's wages until the
magistrate's opinion was taken .
Mr. Yardley—My opinion is, the shipping master has
no right whatever to detain the wages; and I am very
much surprised he has done so. Your remedy against the
sailor is in the County Court for money lent, but the
Merchant Shipping Act no longer recognises advance
notes. If tradesmen cash them, or accept them in pay-
ment of goods, they do so at their peril. If advance
notes are given to sailors the owner cannot be com-
pelled to pay them. The law recognising these instru-
ments, and enabling holders of them to sue owners and
agents of ships, has been repealed. So many tricks
have been played by mariners who obtain advance notes,
abandon their vessels, and sail in another, that trades-
men, slopsellers, and licensed victuallers ought to be
very cautious in dealing with them.

THE SOUND DUES.

The following appears in yoterday's Indepen.
dance Beige :

Hamburg, Oct 18.
The Danish despatch of Oct. 1, on the conference upon
the Sound dues, of which I sent you an analysis in my
letter of yesterday, was accompanied, I told you, by a
memorandum, addressed, in the same km, to all the
governments interested. I think myself fortunate in be-
ing able to forward you a detailed account of it to-day.
It is as flllows
"The memoir alludes, first of. all, to the agitation for
a long time levelled against the toll, and which would
have entirely diregarded the claim of the Danish esta-
blishments, whose object it is to facilitate naviga-
tion, &c.
"Under the late King Christian VIII., in consequence
of negotiations catered into by Denmark, England, and
Sweden, a revision of the tariff was effected. There was
then a stationary period. •
" Christian VIII. had in view other modifications and
revisions. He was prevented from carrying them out
through the war (with Schleswig-Holstein) and its con-
sequences,. Later, the war in the East broke out.
" in *order to seek a solution, Denmark has chosen
the present moment, it is because the situation has been
created for her, in this way :
" By a note dated last April, the 14th, the American
envoy to the court of Copenhagen denounced the con-
vention of April 26, 1826, the only one in which, in so
far as America is concerned, there is any mention of the
toll.
"It results from the explanations of the American
envoy that the avowed object of this denunciation is to
release the American shipping from this toll, although,
in the Danish point of view, this release would not be
the natural consequence of the cessation of the conven-
tion.
" This has therefore created for Denmark anew situa-
tion, and the idess previously imparted must from that
moment become problematical.
"Denmark herself would be disposed to have arevision
of the tariff, but neither America nor other powers would
be satisfied with that. The Danish government, there-
fore, put the revision on one side, withoutaltogether aban-
doning it. It results from this hypothesis that the other
governments, considering the revision not calculated to
prevent the conflict, might have invited Denmark to
make other propositions.
" But it is wished to come to some definitive arrange-
ment for putting an end to the toll, without infringing
on the rights of the Danish crown.
"It is from these motives that Denmark is induoed to
propose the capitalisation of the toll.
" One essential condition is, that the question should
be treated, not as an affair of trade or money, but as a
political affair. On this head, the memorandum alludes

to the Sound dues, and the part that the toll has played
in the policy of northern Europe. In thus treating the
question the negotiation will have impressed. upon it
the character and impulse to which it is entitled.

" Denmark's desire to ace the negotiations opened at
Copenhagen in the course of November next, already
expressed in the circular, is repeated and supported by
motives to be found in the circumstances and in the im-
portance of the city of Copenhagen for the affair in
question. . _ _

" Without wishing, in the slightest degree to antici-
pate the decisions of the Governments, Denmark points
out the basis, the adoption of which in her opinion
would have for its result that each of the powers should
c3ntribute on the payment of the capital in a ratio to
the duty levied on its navigation and commerce.

"The Sound dues are—partly levied on the ships,
partly on the cargoes.
" These latter •are the true Sound dues, whereas the
former consist especially in lighthouse dues and the like.
"Formerly the idea was propounded of adopting for
the exclusive basis of capitalisation the nationality of
the ships passing through the straits ; but this plan was
anything but just, seeing that the number of ships be-
longing to a nation and passing through the Sound does
Lot at all represent the quota contributed by the nation
to the toll, which is chiefly levied on the goods.
" There would be far greater conformity with the true
state of things if the quantity of goods that have passed
through the Sound and the Belts were taken as a basis.
"It might, for instance, be agreed upon that the re-
spective States, including Denmark, should contribute
in proportion to the quantity of goods exported from
their harbours and imported into the Baltic through the
straits, or exported by the same Baltic route for the
purpose of being imported into their harbours.
"By combining this basis with that of the nationality
of the ships, so that the compensation to be paid to
Denmark might be calculated, for the true Sound dues,
according to the movement of the goods, according to
the direct importations or exportations of each State, in
goods having passed the Straits of the Sound and the
Belt, and for the lighthouse dues, according to the flag,
a more just and equitable solution of the difficulty would
be arrived at."

Such is substantially the memorandum accompanying
the despatch of Oct. 1. Of the two annexed tables, one

gives the amount of the dues levied in the Sound and

the Belts on the vessels of each of the States in the years
1851, 1852, and 1853 ; the other the amount of the
dues levied on the goods imported into the Baltic or
exported from that sea.

TIIE ARMY IN MB 17RIMEA.

GENERAL GIZDETIF.

Head-quarter 7, Sebastopol, Oct. i.
No. 1. At a General Court-martial held at Camp
before Sebastopol on the 3d day of October, 1855, in
pursuance of an order of his Excellency General Simp-
son, Commanding the Forces, dated the let day of Oc-
tober, 1855, No. 3,455, Private James Salmon, Sad
Highlander?, was tried upon the following charge :
"For having deserted from the 93d Highlanders when
on duty in the trenches before Sebastopol, on or about
' the 13th of August, 1855, with intent to go over to the
enemy." Of which charge the Court found the prisoner
guilty.
Sentence—The Court having found the prisoner
guilty of the charge preferred against him, which being
in breach of the Articles of War, and having received
evidence of there being no previous convictions against
him, and of his indifferent character since he joined the
regiment, do now adjudge him, the prisoner, No. 3,455,
Private James Salmon, 93d Highlanders, to suffer death
by being shot, at such time and place as the Commander
of the Forces may appoint.
W. G. Romani]; Deputy Judge-Advocate.
G. STAUNTON, Colonel and Lient.-Colonel
of the 31st Regiment, President.
Approved and confirmed,
JAMES SIMPSON, Giineral Commanding.
Head-quarters, Crimea, Oct. 5.
REMARKS.

The Commander of the Forces has attentively consi-
dered the proceedings of. the Court-martial on the trial
of the prisoner for the gravest of all military crimes. He
entirely concurs in the justice of the sentence pronounced
by the Court after a most anxious and deliberate inves-
tigation of the case.
The Commander of the Forces, therefore, approves and
confirms the same, but he is induced to commute the sen-
tence of death to penal punishment for life. This commu-
tation of sentence by the Commander of the Forces is
made entirely from consideration of the good and faith-
ful conduct of the regiment, and of the army to which
the. prisoner belonged, and of which he has been so un-
worthy a member. The prisoner is therefore ordered to
be kept in penal servitude for life in such place as one
of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State may from
time to time direct.
JAMES SIMPSON, General Commanding.
Head-quarters, Crimea, Oct. 5.
No. 2. The General Court-martial of which Col. Staun.

ton, 31st Regiment, was president, is dissolved.
No. 8. Leave of absence is granted, at the rocommen-
dation of a medical board, to Cart. F. Butts, 77th Regi-
ment, to Nov. 5, to proceed to the Monastery.
No. 4. A medical board will assemble to inquire into
the state of health of Lieutenant and Adjutant Horne,
48th Regiment. The principal medical officer will be
pleased to give the necessary directions.
No. 5. The Commander of the Forces has, with the
approval of the Secretary for War, been pleased to
authorise the following alteration in the style or titles of
the non-commissioned ranks in the Land Transport
Corps :—Regimental Superintendent, to be styled Regi-
mental Sergeant-Major ; Assistant to Quartermaster, to
be styled Paymaster or Quartermaster-Sergeant ; Super-
intendent, to be styled Troop Serjeant-Major ; Sub-Su-
perintendent, to be styled Sergeant ; First-class Driver,
t) be styled Corporal ; Second-class ditto, to be styled
First-class ditto ; Third-class ditto, to be styled Second-
class ditto.

No. 6. It is to be understood that such corps, or por-
tions of corps, employed in roadmaking as are reported
not to have worked well, will not be included in the
Quartermaster-Geaeral's approved pay list.
No. 7. Ensign Sullivan, 82d Regiment, will be at-
tached to the Land Transport Corps, to do duty as a
Quartermaster until further orders.

No. 8. Leave of absence is granted, at the recommen-
dation of medical boards, to Lieuts. Martin, 19th Regi-
ment ; Hyndbam, 3d Regiment ; Quartermaster Fraser,
6th Dragoon Guards ;.also, at the recommendation of
boards held at Scutari, to Lieut. E. P. Vaughan, 28th
Regiment ; Rev. G. Lawless, Officiating Chaplain ; Dis-
penser of Medicines a Clayton—to proceed to England.
On arrival they will report themselves to the Adjutant-
General.

Nw. 9. Leave of absence is granted on medical certifi-
cates to Captains Sawyer, 6th Dragoon Guards, to the
20th of October ; Smart, Ist Regiment, to the 10th of
November; Rev. F. Cannon, Officiating Chaplain, to the
31st of October— to proceed to Scutari. And, in exten-
sion, to Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart, 21st Regiment—to
remain at the Monastery.
No. 10. Leave of absence is granted, on urgent pri-
vate affairs, to Lieut.-Colonel Fitzrnayer, Royal Artil-
lery, to the sth of Janeary, 1856.
No. 11. The following subaltern officers, being in
charge of troops or companies, may draw field allowance
and forage as captains from the Ist of October :—Lieu-
tenants Nowlan, Peddie, and Baird, 41st Regiment.
By order. H. W. BARNARD, Chief of the Staff.

Read-quarters, Sebastopol, Oct. 6.
Medical boards rill azseruble to inquire into the state
of health of Colonel Daniell and Brevet• Major Baring,
Coldstream Guards ; Captain Godber, Land Transport
Corps ; Lieutenant Brinkley, 97th Regiment. The
principal medical officer will be pleased to give the ne-
cessary directions.
By order. H. W. BARNARD, Chief of the Staff.

Naval and Military intelligence.

The following is from a letter, dated Malta, Oct. 17 :
"TLe Powerful, steamer, with railway plant, arrived
fro:n London on the 15th and left for Balaklava on the
16th.

" The Victory steam-transport left on the 14th for
Balaklava.
" The Union steam.transport arrived from London on
the 15th with railway plant, and left for Balaklava on
the day following.
" The Borussia, steam.transport arrived on the 16th
from Deptford with huts, warm clothing and ammunitiOn
bringing Commander Starner, RN., and two sappers.'.
" The Mary Miller, with a cargo of shot and buts for
the Dardanelles and Constantinople, having made good
the damages sustained on her voyace to Malta from
London, proceeded eastward on the 16th.
" The Robert Lowe steam-transport arrived from
Balaklava on the 14th, bringing 27 officers and 194 non-
commissioned officers and privates, 40 petty officers
and seamen, .and 6 muleteers, with whom, excepting the
latter, she left for Spithead on the 15th.
"The Contraste steam-tug arrived from Marseilles on
the 13th, having in tow an Austrian bark, laden with
ammunition for the French army. Both vessels left for
Constantinople on the 15th.
" The El Dorado, French steam-frigate, arrived from
Marseilles on the 14th, bringing 21 horses, 87 French
seamen for the Black Sea fleet, and 1,052 officers, non-
commissioned officers, and privates. In consequence of
some disarrangemant of the vessel's propelling power all
these troops have been landed in the Lazaretto's bar-
Packs.
" The Sinai, French postal steamer, arrived from Mar-
seilles on the 14th, bringing, among other passengers,
Captain Hallett, RN., and family ; Mr. Frederick
Guarracino, her Britannic Majesty's Consul for Samsoon
and Sinope, and family ; Major Nally, for Malta ;
Lieut. Peogelley and family, and 106 officers, non-com-
missioned officers, and privates of the French army.
She left for the Levant on the same afternoon.
"The Vittorio Einmanucle, Sardinian Ecrew steamer
in the French service, left for Constantinople on the 14th•
with ammunition,• conveying 18 French officers, and
towing the &Min, Eeglish sailing • transport in the
French service, ammunition laden.
The Caffarelli, French steam-frigate, left for Kamiesh
on the 14th, with 540 officers, noncommissioned officers,
and privates.
"The English steamer Sea Nymph, in the French
transport service, left for Constantinople with an:mount,
tion on the 14th, conveying 30 officers and privates,, and
having in tow the American ship Queen of the Clippers,
laden with ammunition, and conveying 1,047 more offi-
cers, non-commissioned officers, and privates.
"The San Pietro, English barque, from Algiers, with
hay and flour, sailed for Constantinople on the 15th.
"The French steam-transport Byzantin arrived from
Kamiesh and Constantinople on the 14th, bringing 145
military invalids, and left on the 15th for Marseilles.
"The Normanby screw steam-transport arrived from
Constantinople on the 15th, bringing 63 French, military
invalids, under the charge of Dr. Bernarsconi, after
landing five of whom (bad cases) she left for Marseilles
on the 16th.
"The American ship Golden Gate, in the French
transport service, left on the 14th for Marseilles.
The Or6noque, French steam-frigate, conveying 65
officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, left for
Marseilles on the 14th, having in tow the Coligny, dis-
abled steam-corvette, with 37 others.
"The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
packet ATa., arrived from Southampton on the 14th,
bringing, among other passengers—for Malta, the Rev.
Mr. Landon ; and for Alexandria, Cols. Bellasis, David-
son, hlachedo, South and wife, Major Lumsden, Cants,
Lowe, Henry and wife, Lieuts. Heathcote and Stirling,
Lieut.-Col. Michell, Dr. Asher, Assistant-Surgeon
Meares and the Rev. Messrs. Dewar and Hasel. She
left for Alexandria on the 15th.

"The Alhambra, belonging to the same company, ar-
rived from 'Marseilles on the 15th with the overland
London mails of the 9th, and brought, among other pas-
sengers, Lord Methuen, Deputy Ordnance Storekeeper
G-alletly, Lieut. and Mrs. Duff ; the newly-appointed
Chief Secretary to the Malta Government, Mr. V. Houl-
t )n ; the Chevalier Ross, Netherlands and Mecklenburg
Consul at Malta, and wife ; and for Alexandria, going
to India, General, Sir H. Wheeler and family, and the
Rev. Mr. Wilson.

" The Valetta, Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-packet, Taft for 3darseilles on the 14th, with the
overland India mail for England.
"The Nubia arrived from Alexandria on the 14th,
bringing, among other passengers—for Malta, Col. Tu-
dor ; for Marseilles, Lieut. Kindersley ; and for South-
ampton, Lieuts. Allardice, Cox, Cromartie, Fraser, and
Mylne ; Captains Ross and
_Roberts Major Owen, and
the Rev. G. Copland. She left for Gibraltar and. South-
ampton on the 15th.

" Her Majesty's steam-sloop Shearwater left for Corfu
on the 15th with the mails.
"The Maim, French steam despatch vessel, left on
the 26th for Tripoli, in Barbary.
" The Norman steam-transport left for Messina,, to
land 34 Sicilian muleteers from the Crimea, and after-
wards proceeded onwards to Genoa.
" The steamer Briton's Ferry arrived from London
on the 13th, and left for Constantinople on the 15th.
"The Egyptian steamer from Liverpool, with a gene-
ral cargo, left for Constantinople on the 13th, and on the
same day the Star steamer for the same destination.
"The Thessalia screw-transport, with a general cargo
from Constantinople and Smyrna, arrived on the 16th,
and left for Liverpool on the same day.
"The Sicilian pinto St. Agata arrived on the 15th
from Catania, and on the 16th the Neapolitan brig An-
toinette, from Aci Castello, both with hay."

The Orinoco and Simoo:n steam ships are prepaiing at
Portsmouth to embark another moiety of the British
German Legion for the Crimea. They will leave about
the 29th inst.

The Transit, steam troop-ship, is to go into dock at
Portsmouth to refit prior to proceeding on further ser-
vice,

The Perseverance, steam troop-ship, Captain Harris,
went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning to
prepare for the embarkation of the 4th Middlesex Mi-
litia, now quartered at Portsmouth, and convey them to
Ireland, bringing back the Armagh Regiment of Mi-
litia to Portsmouth.
The Royal Charlie. sailing-transport, will embark at
Portsmouth for the Black Sea in a day or two 4 officers
and 173 men of the 31st Regiment, 2 officers and 65 men
of the 38th, 1 officer and 21 men of the 44th, 1 medical
officer, and other troops and stores.
The Lady Eglintos, steam-transport No. 165, went
into Portsmouth harbour on Sunday evening from
Southampton, to ship a cargo of the huts built by Mr.
Camwell for the army in the CrimeA.

Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Vulcan, Captain Von
Donop, hourly expected at Portsmouth from the Cri-
mea, is to be docked and repaired immediately. She is
to have new boilers.

The crew of the Hawke, 60, Captain Ommanney, was
turned over to the Belvidere hulk, in Portsmouth har-
bour, yesterday, and the ship taken alongside the dock-
yard for a refit.
The screw steam-transport Von Humboldt arrived at
Sheerness, from Greenhithe, at 9 a.m., on Sunday, re-
ceived her snails, despatches, &c., and left at 3 p.m. on
the same day for the Baltic.
The Otter, 8, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieut.-Com-
mender John H. Glover, recently reported to have ar-
rived at Sheerness, last from Portsmouth, has made 31
passages from the Elbe and the Weser to Heligoland.
During the said trips she has conveyed more than 1,200
men, most of whom, after getting a free passage to He-
ligoland, for the benefit of sea-bathing, hare joined the
Foreign Legion there, under the command of Colonel
Baron Von Steinbach. Most of these volunteers have
been conveyed to England by the steam-frigate Horatio,
steam-vessel Alban, and private steam-transports hired
for that purpose. A large portion of the volunteers re-
ferred to were educated at Heidelberg, men of good
families, many of them of noble birth, and bearing
medals from their respective Governments, and honour-
able decorations for their services in their country. The
Otter is under the survey of the yard authorities, in con-
sequence of damage, and being in a very leaky state.
A detachment of the Royal Artillery from Sheerness
garrison, under charge of Sergeant Winton, are engaged
mounting the battery at Coalhouse Point, commanding
Sea Reach, in the River Thames. The battery consists
of 17 long 32-pounder guns, and will bo completed in
about 10 days. Within the fort there is barrack accom-
modation for 3 officers, 90 men, and a master gunner.
Capt. Anketell'a company of Royal Artillery, 7th
company, let battalion ; Lieut. Carey's company, 3d
company, 7th battalion; and Lieut. Coorne's company,
let company, 2d battalion, are ordered immediately to
prepare to proceed to Gibraltar.
Capt. Inglefield's 3d company, 13th battalion, are
under immediate orders to proceed to Ceylon.
Two 10-inch mortar-platforms are now being erected
on No. 1 bastion, Seaward Battery, Sheerness,
purpose of mortar practice for the Artillery nocow: the
train-
plete
ing, in addition to which there is an order
tmo
oterial and
two field batteries in every respect, withdrivers at
and
Indiana,
camp equipage, for fully training gunners
this garrison.
The General Screw Company
lying at
Ca,pt. Lambert, transport No. 147t'ee-t.;rimea the felle
's steam-ship
Southamp-
ton, is under orders to convey
2t servants,_ of the
East :—For Sen.
ing officers, troops, and horsestoto the
tari—Lieut. Stapylton. 2 horses
• rrovs and Lieu iNeave, 5 horses
21 Dragoons ; Capt. Ba
Dragoons ; 3
and 4 servants, of the
3d
dLieutservants and 5
horses of Capt. Smith and Dettmar,_ 7th Dragoon
ts and 4 horses of C
Guards ; 2 servants apt. Monckton and
•
Lieut. Preston, 3d Light Dragoons , Capt. Sir W. Rus-
sell, 3 servants;
and 3 horses, of the 7th Hussars Lieut.
Coates, 2 servants and 2
horses, 7th Hussars ; Capt.
Lieut.servants Brett and Maude, and 5 horses, of the
15th Uussars ; Capt. Grant and a Lieutenant not
named, 5 servants and 5 horses, 16th Lancers ; 46 men
of the 4th Dragoon Guards ; 3 men of the sth ditto ; 30
men of the 2d Dragoons ; 45 men of the Sth Hussars ;
55 men of the 11th Hussars ; and Major Morris, 1 ser-
vant, 2 horses, and 35 men of the 17th Lancers. For
the Crimea-2 field officers, 1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 1
assistant-sureeou, and 310 men of the Grenadier Guards ;
6 officers, 204 men, and 5 horses of the Land Transport
Corps ; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. R. Charteris, 1 servant,
nod 1 horse, and Lieut. Knox and 1 servant, of the Scots
Fusilier Guards ; Major Bell, 1 servant, and 1 horse,
of the 23d Foot ; Capt. Hurt, 2 servants, and 2 horses,
of the Grenadier Guards ; 2 servants and 2 horses of
Brigadier General Crawfurd ; 1 artificer, Sergeant Jones,
Private O'Connor, 46th Foot ; 1 servant of S,aff-Surgeon
G. Anderson of the First Class ; 1 servant of Capt. Mo-
rant, of the Grenadier Guards ; and 1 servant and 1 horse
of Liout.-Coi. Lord F. Fitzroy, Grenadier Guards. For
the Dardanelles or Constantinople.7-Capts. W. R. Spei f
ding, C. B. Stevenson, and C. Vivian ; 3 servants, and.
8 horses of Beatson's Irregular Cavalry. For Constan-
tinople—Capt. Williams, 1 servant, and 2 horses, 1 ser.

vent of Capt. A. H. Campbell, ditto of Major Cress.
and 1 horse of Capt. Evans, of the Turkish Cientiagent.
Total-28 officer:, 43 servants, 204 men of the Lard
Transport Corps, 1 artificer, 525 troops, and .50 horses.,
It was the intention of the Land Transport Corps to
embark at Plymouth, bat subsequent orders render it
probable that the whole of the troops, &c.,
.enumerated
above Will ship on board the Indiana at Southampton
this day.
The Thames will also receive to-day about 12 officers
and 400 men of the Land Transport Corps for the
Crimea.
The freight-ship Euphrates, 340 tons' burden, has ar-
' 'rived' at'Weolvvich from Deptford, and is moored off the
arsenal,
.to be laden. with powder for the Crimea. The
Sir Robert Sale transport sailing ship has left Woolwich
for the East with a full cargo, composed principally of
waggons, carts, wheelbarrows, handspikes, and Leaflets.
The Janus has been taken out of the dockyard hatlin and
received into one of the docks, to be overhauled propara-
t,i-y to her being despatched on foreign service. The
paddle-wheel steamer Dee, Master-Commander Pullen,
has returned to Woolwich from Portsmouth and Ply-
mouth, and has commenced receiving her usual freight
of machinery and boilers for the above-named yards.
The transport Helper steamed out of basin yesterday
morning and went into dock for the purpose of being
examined, the lower extremities of her hull being de-
fective.

Instructions have been issued to the various provin-
cial recruiting stations of the Royal Engineers t o for-
ward the recruits who have been enrolled and passed
medical examination to bead-quarters at Woolwich. 51
have been accepted and have joined that corps during
the past week—namely, 28 from Devonport and 13 from
Scotland.

A small detachment of disabled men belonging to the
Royal Sappers and Miners arrived at the Woolwich Bar-
racks on Saturday last from the Crimea, some of whom
received their wounds in the attack on the Redan on the
Bth ult. Lance Corporal Macginn, one of their number,
was landed at Gibraltar, and, at his own request, placed
under the care of his father, who is Barrack• Sergeant
there. Some of the wounds of these gallant shldiers are
of the very worst description. One poor fellow was die.
abled by the disjointed fragment of a rock striking hint
immediately above the left eye, shattering part of the
craniutm and penetrating to the brain. A second was
very dangerously struck on the left side of the throat
by the splinter of a gun-carriage, nearly severing his
head from his shoulders. All have sustained more or
less severe injuries, such as contusions in the knees,
compound .fractnres•of the• arms •and legs, or have shat-
tered hando. Oue. of them received •his Wodnd in the
reft arm, which was shattered at the taking of Sebasto-
pol. -The whole of these brave fellows are now in tole-
rable health.

A military correspondent, referring to an order re-
cently issued from the Horse Guards, gives his opinion
that it will check the militia from volunteering into the
line. Our correspondent adds :
"On the Ist of November all regiments of militia that
have less than 50 privates per company are to have a pro-
portionate number of their officers reduced and sent to
their respective homes. Hithert,c, every effort has been
made by the officers of militia regiments to induce their
men to volunteer into the line, and their reward is to be
their being struck off the strength of their regiments..
For instance, a regiment a few weeks since consisted of
500 meu-10 companies of 50 rank and file each. By
the exertions of its officers, 101 men have volunteered

into the regular army, leaving the regiment 400 strong.
In return for this, 2 captains and 4 subalterns, by this
new order, are to be struck off the pay list and sent to
the right-about. Of course, volunteering will be no
longer encouraged ; 'self-preservation is the first law
of nature,' and no man can be expected to persuade
others to volunteer when, by so doing, he will throw
himself out of employment. The order is, that on
the Ist of November all captains and subalterns
beyond the proportion of one captain and two
subalterns to every 50 rank and file are to be
struck off the embodied list. These are the thanks the
Government return to the Militia officers for the thou-
sands of men they have induced to volunteer from their
ranks into the regular army during this very critical
period."

The following appointments, made at the Admiralty
yesterday, appeared in our late edition last night :
Captain George J. Hand to the Sampson.
Commander V. 0. Inglefield to the Ara.ohne.
Commander F. Warren to the Polyphemus.
Commander E. D'A. D'O. Aplin to the Hecla.
Master Henry P. Ward to the Sampson.
Master Henry B. Gawler to the Arachne.
Master Nathaniel B. Herbert to the Polyphemus.
Master John Thomson to the Hecla.
Midshipman Charles H. Murphy to the Sampson.
Midshipman Charles W. Tucker to the Arachne.
Assistant-Paymaster in Charge Alfred 8.. Martin to
the Crocodile.