The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-01 00:00:00

THE REINFORCEMENTS,

The following information has been received in Dub-
lin :—Ten new regiments of the line will be asked for from
Parliament. Amongst them will be the 3rd battalions
of the Coldstream and Fusilier Guards, of the Rifle
Brigade, and of the 60th (the depot of the latter now in
Dublin). Three of these ten will be selected from the
embodied militia who have volunteered. The remainder
will be completely new regiments, to be added to the
number in the army list. All the militia regiments will
be embodied, and besides the three regiments to be in-
corporated into the hne, other ten will be selected from
amongst those who may volunteer for service at the
Cape, and in Canada and in Australia, where they will
relieve line regiments. The Mediterranean garrisons
will continue to be occupied by line regiments, who will
constitute the reserve force.

Upwards of 800 men have this week joined the three
brigades of Guards. from the Militia. Yesterday up-
wards•of 200 were attested at the Horse Guards.

The detachments of the 4Sth Regiment, at present in
Tynemouth garrison and iu Sunderland barracks, have
received instructions to be in readiness to proceed to
the East. They are busily employed recruiting. The
detachment of the- 18th at Windsor left on Wednes lay
for Chatham ; and the detachments at the Wellington
Barracks also left for Chatham, previous to the em-
barkation of the regiment for the East.

The 16th Lancers are to give both men and horses to
the ii;th Lancers, in the Crimea.
Major Elmhirst, 9th, is ordered from the depot at
Tralee, to join with a second draft to that at Cork, to
embark for the Crimea:

One hundred of the 36th Regiment, at Bury, have
aocepted the invitation from the Horse Guards to join
the 18th Royal Irish.

The Cumberland, Captain Wallinger, hired transport,
No. 151, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the
Thames, to ship a 'timber of the huts which have been
constructed for the troops to winter in before Sebastopol.
Within the past few days orders have been received
at Cleokheaton, Heckraondwicke, aid neighbourhood,
for no less than 30,000 heavy blankets for the array in
the Crimea. The whole were to bo ready in the short
space of 14 days.

DUBLIN, No►. 30.—Volunteering from the English
militia regitaents into tbe line is going on briskly in
Dublin at present. Not a day elapses without batches
of men being attested at the different divisional police
offices. Thirty-four active young fellows were enlisted
yesterday at the College ;street Office, and thirty-two the
previous day.--Daily Express.

The Cunard mail steamer Arabia, Captain Judkins,
is being rapidly fitted up at Liverpool, and will sail
thence about Monday next for Marseilles, where she
will embark French troops for the Crimea. Twenty
naval volunteers for her Majesty's screw steamer Cossack
were forwarded from Liverpool to London on Wednes•
day night.

INDIA-RUBBER BLANKETS iron TIM TBooll.—The
Government has given an extensive order to the proprie-
tors of the Bow-common India Rubber Steam Mills, to
prepare a large supply of India-rubber blankets for the
service of the troops in the East. This liberal order will
be the means of giving employment to hundreds of per-.
sons who would otherwise have been without work at
this dull season of the year.

The late Captain Bland, 57th, who fell mortally
wounded at the battle of Inkerman, was son of Mr.
James F. Bland, of Derryquin Castle, Kerry, and com-
manded the Grenadier company of his regiment.
The British Queen screw steamer, which arrived at
Falmouth on Tuesday, short of fuel, on her voyage frora
Constantinople, Smyrna, Malta, and Gibraltar, and
bound for Liverpool, has brought the following military
officers as passengers:-Lieutenant and Adjutant Car-
dew, 19th Regiment, and Captain Bissett, 55th Regi-
ment, both wounded at Alma ; also the following who
have invalided—Lieutenant Brooks and Lieutenant Sil-
lsry, 30th Regiment ; Lieutenant Hickman, 50th Regi-
ment, and Lieutenant Young, of the Rifle Brigade ; also
Mr. Sharp, late second master of the Agamemnon, on
promotion. The British Queen Ind been 15 days from
Gibraltar, having expended her coal and met with ad-
verse winds and weather.

FRENCH UNIFORMS.—The uniform of the new Impe-
rial
Guards of the Emperor Napoleon 111. is handsome
and appropriate. The head-dress is the bear-skin cap,
such as worn by the first Napoleon's Guard ; the coat
dark blue, with breastpiece and facings scarlet. The
cross-belts in the Gendarmerie are chrome yellow
coloured, and in the Grenadiers white ; trousers light
blue, with a black stripe for the former and a red
piping for the latter. The cloth of which their clothes
were made is fine, and of most excellent qual fv. The
men themselves are picked from different regiments
of the army for their size. In the four battalions of
Voltigeurs of the Guard the coat is blue, with white
facings and breastpieces, and the shako is ornamented
with a yellow feather. The uniform of a battalion of
Chasseurs of Vincennes of the Guard is coquettish in
its neatness. The light little pointed shako is deco.
rated with a green plume made of cock's-tail feathers ;
then a long jacket, which we cannot better describe
than by comparing it to what ladies and milliners call
a " polka." It reaches a few inches below the hip-bone,
and the quasi skirt is open just above the hip on each
side, permitting the stuff "to stick out," as may be
seen exemplified any day in a "polka jacket." The
shoulders are surmounted by green epaulettes, edged
with yellow. The lower man is covered by the volumi-
nous Turkish trousers, of the same description 'as worn
by the Zouaves, gathered in below the calf, from whence
to the ankle is a yellow greave, and finally a white
gaiter over the shoe.