The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-10 00:00:00

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7th Foot ...
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23d Foot ...
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33d Foot ...

850
RECAPITULA
Royal Artillery 2,431
Cavalry
Foot Guards 2,550

The above enumeration comprises the rank and file
only—amounting to a total of fighting teen in the finest
order of equipment, and in the highest condition—com-
prising a grand total of 25,732 men and muskets. In
this enumeration the staff is not included, neither are
the commissioned or non-commissioned officers of any
part of the force—so that the round number of 30,000
men and officers of all ranks may be safely set down as
the effective force ready to take the field together. We
may observe, too, that the above calculation, giving 850
men, for example, to each of-the infantry regiments, is
under rather than over the mark. They are, in fact, re-
quired to bring that number into the field ; but it is well
known that many of them embarked in still larger force.
The 95th left Portsmouth in the Medway steamer on
Thursday 1,070 strong, 220 more than the mimiinum
contingent. The 93d embarked more than 1,000 men
at Plymouth. The 50th mustered 1,100 at Dublin, and
the Rifles at Dover over that amount. These are all
the effective force—not to speak of the followers and
attachds of all sorts, and the sailors and marines of what
we may now safely call the Black Sea squadron—since
they have entered that sea definitely to carry the terror
of the British arms against the common enemy of Europe.
The marines under the command of Admiral Dundas ex-
ceed 7,000 men, and his ships aro known to be manned
with a full complement of able and experienced seamen.
The French force by land will muster 46,000 men. The
land forces will muster at Gallipoli, which is situated
conveniently (in the old Thracian Chersonesus) at the
top of the Hellespont, and the commencement of the
Sea of Marmora. Gallipoli has the advantage of being
open to both seas—the Dardanelles on the one side, and
the Bay of Saros on the other. Troops can be landed or
embarked on either side—the land being extremely nar-
row across this particular point. On the iEgean side the
Bay of Enos at hand, with the ancient highway by the
Hebrus to Adrianople. On the side of the Hellespont
and the Propontis, it is in close contiguity by water to
Constantinople itself, and a most admirable rendezvous
for any operations in the Dosphorous and the Black Sea.
If any grumbler should be disposed to find fault with
the numerical smallness of a force of 30,000 men, he
should remember that they are the picked men of per-
haps the finest force in the world, and that they are sent
forth—and many of them are ere this arrived—in the very
finest order and condition—in high health and spirits—
and accompanied by the prayers and blessings of every
class of their countrymen, and the approbation of the
whole civilised world, in a cause the most necessary and
just, which above all appeals to every feeling as the cause
of weak against the strong, the oppressed against the
most tyrannical and causeless aggression. When the
Duke of Wellington commenced his campaign of 1800
for the liberation of the Peninsula, he began with 20,000
men, picked up with every sort of scramble : and at the
crowning finish of Waterloo there were not 40,000 Bri-
tish troops of all arms under his command against those
mighty legions which now go forth to fight side by side,
in a country where the people are with us, and where
they have shown their patriotism and courage to be un-
doubted, and where all the seas are entirely at our com-
mand.

Letters from Malta to the 2d state that on the previous
day the screw steam-ship Hope, from Woolwich, arrived,
having on board stores for the Government, and some
officers belonging to the Commissariat.
Three hired transports had left Malta on the Ist for
Gallipoli—the Orient, the Canterbury, and the Sir
George Pollock. The first conveyed 10 soldiers and
three women, the second 111 rank and file ; and the
third 10 rank and file and two women of the 2d battalion
Rifle Brigade. The following officers embarked in the
Sir George Pollock :—Captain Newdegate, Lieutenants
Warren and Malcolm, and a staff surgeon whose name
has not reached us.
Rear-Admiral Edward Boxer, C. 8., who hoisted his
flag temporarily on Friday on taking up his appointment
for service afloat is to have the superintendence of all
the hired transports for conveying troops to the East.
The Arnotdale horse transport ship, Lieutenant
Dicken, R.N., with the centre division of Captain
Thomas's field battery, was taken out of the basin at
Woolwich on Saturday morning, and towed down the
river, on her way to the Mediterranean.
The Emperor steam transport vessel left the basin with
the staff officers and their horses on Saturday morning,
at 10 o'clock.

The Lady Valiant, No. 16, horse transport ship, has
embarked a division of Captain Anderson's Small Arms
Ammunition Brigade, with 10 waggons, 1 forge cart,
and 52 horses. She will be taken out of the basin to-
day, and leave Woolwich for her destination.
Two sets of boiler-makers left Woolwich dockyard on
Saturday for Sheerness to repair the boilers of the Mi-
randa, 14, screw steam sloop, in order to have her ready
to proceed again with the least possible delay to the
Baltic.
The Cumberland, 70, Captain Seymour, sailed from
Spithead on Saturday, mutinous symptoms, we are sorry
to say, being manifested on board to the last. Rear-Ad-
miral Berkeley visited the ship and took her in tow with
the Black Eagle. Commander Hockin took up his com-
mission to the Cumberland on Saturday, vice Bickford,
invalided. The crew received three months pay prior to
sailing ; but this did not allay the spirit of discontent
which was so apparent on board. The men have exhi-
bited unmistakeable signs of mutiny, so mucli so that the
marine division at Gosport (or a large number of the
force) were kept under arms all night on Thursday, and
steam kept up in steam-vessels ready to carry them
out to Spithead in the event of the turbulence on board
the Cumberland not being restrained by the force in the
ship. The officers were at one time compelled to call
upon the marines to assume an attitude of offence, and
they themselves drew their swords. Rear-Admiral Ber-
keley's speech to the crew on arrival is looked upon as a
very indiscreet measure, and his visit to them to-day did
not add to the popularity of the movement ; in fact, the
"thing" was an Admiralty bungle; but, as if to "take