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Artillery in the northern district, vice Marriott, who will
join the 9th brigade at Shorneliffe ;. Capt. R. 0. Farmer to
be inspector of warlike stores, and firemaster at Malta;
Lieut. L. If. H. Parsons to be gunnery instructor to the
Royal Horse Artillery, vice Tupper, promoted, and he will
remain in Ireland."

The whole of the men required to augment the
2d and 17th companies of Royal Engineers, which
have been selected to be employed at the Great In-
ternational Exhibition, were chosen from the coin-
panics at headquarters, Chatham, on Saturday. In
making the augmentation of the two companies
care was taken to select the men who have been the
longest time in the service, and who bear the best
characters for steadiness and attention to duty. The
men selected to join the 17th company will leave
headquarters for Aldershot Camp, where the com-
pany is quartered, some time during the present
week.

Orders were yesterday issued at Woolwich
directing a detachment of 138 non-commissioned
officers and men of the sth Royal Irish Lancers,
together with 13 women and 14 children, to pro-
ceed this morning from that garrison to Hounslow.
The detachment will be under the command of
Capt. E. Boyd and one subaltern, and in medical
charge of Staff Assist.-Surgeon W. C. Boyd. A de-
tachment numbering 117 non-commissioned officers
and gunners, together with five officers, of the 15th
brigade, sth battery Royal Artillery, has also been
detailed to proceed from Woolwich to Shoebury-
ness, where it will relieve a detachment of four
officers and 115 men of all ranks of No. 4 battery,
15th brigade, ordered to rejoin headquarters on the
completion of their course of instruction in the Arm-
strong ordnance at the School of Gunnery.
The undermentioned officers and draughts of
troops will embark at Southampton on board the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Delta on Wednesday :—For Malta—Assist.-Surg.
Graves, R.A., Ensign Barnes, 2d battalion, 22d
Foot, and one schoolmistress, R.A. For Gibral.
tar—Lieutenant Durnford, R.E.; Lieutenant But-
ler ; Paymaster Falls, wife and child, and 30
men, 2d battalion, Bth Foot; Lieut. Nicholls, wife
and servant, and 50 men, 100th Royal Canadian
Regiment, and the wife, child and female servant of
Deputy-Purveyor Hammond, recently gene on ser-
vice to Canada.

THE DESPATCH OF TROOPS AND
SIORES TO CANADA.

voyors, 400 oases of medical e
clothing, 25 pairs of Jitters, 150 pa,
hospital waggons, a large number of
Armstrongti, with carriages and platforms Jpi,
and stores of shell ; engineers' tools, an electric
telegraph, with wires, batteries, and instruments;
1,000 solid shot for the North American Equadion,
5,000 32-pounder naval shells, 5,000 10-inch naval
shells, more than 1,000 tons of gunpowder, and
15,000 suits of warm clothing for the troops re•

cently sent. This warm clothing, indeed, is in
truth very warm clothing, inasmuch, as it consists,
in addition to the soldier's ordinary dress, of one
pair of knee boots, one fur cap, one pair of fur
mitts, two flannel jerseys, two pair of flannel
drawers, one chamois-jacket, two pair of flannel
stockings, and one sheepskin coat. All these, how-
ever, with the exception of the warm clothing,
may be considered as reserve stores, inasmuch
as every regiment and battalion took with
them, one marquee, two hospital tents, 130 circular
tents, 1,800 blankets, 900 canteens, 180 camp ket-
tles, two medicine chests, 900 surgical bandages,
900 cholera belts, 70 hatchets, two pack saddles, 10
spades, 10 shovels, 16 pick-axes, 20 felling axes,
six saws, six files, 12 whetstones, 10 hammers, and
20 wedges.

All these troops and stores were collected and
shipped for Canada in little more than 30 days,
and too much praise cannot be given to the energy
and forethought of Lord de Grey, on whom fell the
great brunt of all this business of preparation and
despatch. But, as we have said, if there was trouble
on this side of the water, the difficulties of forward-
ing the men and stores over the snow from Halifax
to Canada seemed at first almost insurmountable,
and Quartermaster-General Doyle had to meet them
all. The news that the troops and stores were
the first coming
ship
on
l
c y
reacheanddat
Colonel
that time Moyle
olfive
days before
his staff con-
sisted of an assistant-quartermaster-general, a bri-
gade and town majors, all with a peace establish-
ment of clerks. The two barracks in Halifax were
quite full,but accommodation had to be found some-
how. Every one, of course, had to work day and
night in fitting up the temporary huts, and Lord
Mulgrave and the civil authorities gave every assist-
ance. But still there were the greatest difficulties,
for the merchants, though willing enaugh to lend
their stores as stores, could not, of course, convert
them into barracks. Still, in five days all was ready
at Halifax, But those not acquainted with the
rigours of a Canadian winter, and the mass of
details necessary to be attended to when the first
troops
Commissariat,c am e, withßa
Barrack,
eeikr Engineer,
Purveyors'
Depart-
ments all claiming, all requiring, and all receiving
attention at the same time, can have no idea of
the mass of duties which were suddenly thrown
on Colonel Doyle to discharge. He had to pro•
vide accommodation for the men almost as fast
as each regiment came in, to manage the dis-
embarkation of stores when ropes were frozen
and snow storms incessant, to chalk out the
line of march along the frontier by the Madawaska
road at a time when war was imminent, and it was
necessary to make a route that would give protection
to the left flank against the " scouters" and Fili-
busters that would certainly have been on the
watch. At New Bruns wick the personal exertions of
over
to
forwardt
theto
the Governor, Mr. Gordon, and of General Rumley,
provided accommodation for the troops ; but from
:e., by
t son ow
Ri.
this point Colonel Doyle had to make all his ar-
t
smßrlaeeindvnggi eieentsme abednnaudtt batches
hpLf eoaosrrutotpl hfy. I the winter
was march
decided
from 200 to 150, partlh e snow
by marching, from St. John's to
Woodstock, and so on, by Tobique, Grand Falls,
Little Fall, Florenceville, Fort Ingall,
viere du Loup. In the first place, measures were
taken to insure telegraphic communication at all
points of arrival and departure in case of such un-
foreseen accidents as snowdrifts blocking the roads,
while at the midday halting places Indian runners
were kept to forewarn the night stations in advance.
Hospital accommodation was erected at all the halts
with purveyors' and medical stores, while the Com-
missariat Department provided each detachment
witil means to clear the roads, and a contract was
made with the lumberers in the woods to keep the
route as clear as they possibly could. Billeting wax
avoided in nearly all cases by the erection of log
huts. Before starting, each man received an extra
ration of hot coffee, and all the men took cooked
provisions with them for use at the midday halting
place, where an allowance of rum was served out.
A hot meal was ordered to be ready on the arrival
at the night station, and at these points the Com-
missariat had extra comforts for all men fatigued or
suffering much from cold. Three officers and one or
more medical officers went with each detachment,
and extra medical officers were stationed at all the
halting places.

The promptitude and success with which a com-
plete corps d'armee of 12,000 men was equipped and
sent out to Canada, on the first danger of hostilities
occurring, was so creditable to our military admi-
nistration as to deserve publicity. Canada during
the winter is, in point of time, almost as inacces-
sible for reinforcements as New Zealand or Aus-
tralia. The public only heard that so many regi-
ments and so many batteries had been embarked and
landed. They knew nothing of the enormous quan-
tities of military, hospital, commissariat, and gar-
rison stores required for each battalion, the quota
of different reservestores necessary for every branch
of the service, and, above all, of the extra stores and
preparations necessary to provide for the comfort
and health of men passing at once from a tempe-
rate to an almost Arctic winter. Perhaps our readers
will be better able to understand these things when
they see in the estimates what the outrage of Com-
mander Wilkes has cost us. It will unquestionably
be a very respectable item even in an English
budget of expenditure.
When the news of the Trent affair reached Eng-
land, Canada, though it had been reinforced by two
regiments of infantry last summer, hal only a gar-
rison throughout the entire colony of less than
5000 men of all arms and ranks. While the Prince
of Wales was there there were only 3000. In simple
truth, the garrison before Christmas only amounted
to one field battery, two batteries of garrison artil-
lery, six officers of engineers, four regiments of in-
fantry, an army hospital corps of 12 men, a commis-
sariat staff of one rank and file (!), and the Royal
Canadian Rifles, 1,050 strong. In Nova Scotia the
force was equally low, for, though divided between
Halifax and New Brunswick, the total strength was
only 2,000 men—a garrison of, in all, only 7,000
troops to defend the exposed frontier of a country
as large as Europe. With the first news of the
Trent outrage every effort was made by the War
Department to strengthen the colony with men
and munitions of war; but the attempt had to be
made at the worst possible time of the year, and,
though the Government took up at once and in rapid
succession the finest and best found steamers in our
merchant navy, only one—the Persia—succeeded in
getting up the St. Lawrence as far as Bic, and her
able commander could only manage to land the
troops, and was obliged, after losing his boats among
the ice and leaving part of his crew on shore, to
return with the military stores to Halifax. In all
18 powerful steamers were despatched—the Mel-
bourne, Australasian, Persia, Niagara, Adriatic,
Parana, Delta, Magdalena, Asia, Canada, Calcutta,
Cleopatra, Mauritius, Hibernia, Arabia, Adelaide,
Victoria, and St. Andrew. The united freights of
these vessels enabled the War-office to send away a
perfect corps d'armee of 12,000 men, complete in
all save cavalry, even to the most minute working
details of commissariat, staff corps, military train,
army hospital corps, military store department, and
engineers, with garrison and field artillery. By
these reinforcements the garrisons of Canada has
been raised from 5,000 to 13,000 men ; that of Hali-
fax to 3,000, New Brunswick to 2,500, and New-
foundland has 200 additional artillerymen to man
the guns in the batteries at the mouth of the har-
bour of St. John. In all therefore there is now a
total force in Canada and the provinces of 18,000,
exclusive of the militia and volunteers. But to
march down regiments to certain ports and embark
them on board steamers is a comparatively easy
business. It is the enormous quantities of stores
that accompany each department that have given
all the trouble, and what is only trouble here be-
comes a formidable difficulty in Canada and Nova
Scotia, where everything has to be forwarded in
sledges over the snow to Riviere du Loup.
It will give our readers a good idea of the cost
and trouble of campaigning if we detail the prin-
cipal impedimenta which this little army required
to fit it for the field. As we have said, we do
not estimate the cost, but if we recapitulate
some of the items a shrewd guess may be made at
the amount the British public will have to pay be-
cause Commander Wilkes could not understand
Vattel. Thus, before the Trent mischief there were
in the military stores in Canada 15,000 rifles,
10,000 smooth bore muskets, 20,000 sets of infantry
accoutrements, 4,000,000 rounds of small-arm am-
munition, 18,000 thick greatcoats, and
blankets. In Halifax there were 2,000 rifles, 5,500
3,000 blankets.
muskets, 6,000 sets of accoutrements,
31/1005:0:0
rounds of ammunition, 4,000 greatcoats, and 4,000
considered as mere peace
blankets. In New Brunswick there were 1,000
and. 12,000
rifles, *OOO muskets, 7,000 sets of accoutrements,
These,lso,oooor uroundsours
so
werwere ammunition,
con s
id
in case of the necessity for
stores, and therefore,
war arising, they had to be largely increased; so
fl6OO accoutrements,gre at
c oa t s
with the troops for Canada were sent out 31,000
rifles,rounds
o un d s
03f1 ,aonolmo
blankets. To Halifax has been sent 15,000 rifles,
10,000 muskets, 20,000 sets of accoutrements,
7,000,000 rounds of ammunition, with 8,000
greatcoats and , 8 000 blankets •while
New Bruns-
wick has received an addition of 20,000 rifles,
20,000 accoutrements, 5,000,000 rounds of am-
munition, 16,000 greatcoats,
and 16,000 blan-
kets. These, however, though
usoeittsi o no,
large amounts,
are only among the items of
the stores that have
been despatched—such
as two complete 12-pounder
batteries, one 9.p d
oun er battery, 30 sledges, with
harness complete ; forge and hand carts, spare tum-
brils and
ambulance waggons, scaling-ladders, in-
trenching tools, tools for sappers, immense quanti-
ties of hospital stores and bedding for the pur-

The best commentary on the difficulties of this
route is to be found in the fact that the first on-
ward movement along it was ordered on the 7th of
January, with a detachment of the 62d Regiment,
and on this day a snowstorm set in, which rendered
the track impassable till the 11th. On the 11th, how-
ever, the first division was able to more, and since
then a constant succession of from 200 to 150 men
has been kept up from stage to stage, and in spite
of snow the passage of each has kept the route open.
for those which had to follow, and by this time, no
doubt, all the reinforcements of men and stores that
were necessary have been safely passed into Canada.
Had anything failed, of course Col. Doyle would
have been held answerable, with all the Lieute-
nant-Governors and Gen. Rumley. As it is every-
thing, both on this and the other side of the Atlan-
tic, appears to have been admirably managed, and,
as illustrating the good which our departments
have reaped from the evils of the Crimean disasters,
this short but most energetic and complete prepara,
tion for war well deserves recording.

THE HA.RTLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SATURDAY.
A very interesting meeting of delegates, repre-
senting collieries in Northumberland and Durham,
has been held in the Lecture-room in this town to-
day, to devise plans for a change from the present
system of mining operations, and for the better
preservation of the lives of the mining community.
A discussion took place on various points, but the
feeling was unanimously against the brattice
shaft system being continued, the men in very
forcible language pointing out the dangers inci-
dent to the system. The following resolutions
were unanimously agreed to :—" That, in the
opinion of this meeting the "resent system of
working coal and ironstone mines is dangerous to
the lives and injurious to the health of the miners,
and that for the purpose of effecting a change in the
system, petitions, pointing out the remedies of such
nesa,dionpstpeedc.tion,
teovitlhsebheoguosetsuopf Parliament ; and that for the better
i t ion
systemw a s
oa
ft oncerai
carrying into effect the present resolution, an ex-
ecutive committee and secretary be appointed." A.
and the
A good deal of discussion took place regarding
general feeling of the meeting seemed to be, that
under the present system no inspector, with the
number of pits at present under his charge, could
visit one-half of them, and it was • l
unanimous y re-.
solved—" That the present system was inadequate
to its requirements, and that 10 sub-inspectors, hav-
ing charge of 20 collieries each, should be appointed
refs:nett
by the Government."
Next Saturday another delegate meeting will
be held, with a view to adopt measures to establish
tfhoremp
a permanent miners' relief fund, and to make an
appeal to the public of the United Kingdom to
assist in establishing it.
It is computed that down to this evening close
upon £30,000 has been subscribed for the widows
and orphans, and it is thought that before the lists
are closed the fund will considerably exceed that
amount.

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the confederate war steamer ashvilte, of the sufferers by the above calamity. The total amount
now received by the Lord Mayor is over £14,000.
Sailors' Home last week a report was read, in which it was
A t the annual meeting of the Southampton
Sailors'
stated that since the opening of the home on the 9th of
August last, 1,043 beds had been occupied, and 940 break-
fasts, 913 dinners, 929 teas,
sumed. The expenses of the home up to the present time
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