The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-29 00:00:00

THE REINFORCEMENTS.

97'11, 13TH, 22n, 2:STIT, NTTT, (1.1T71
72D, 82D, 91ST, AND 92D REGIMENT',
of the 72d Higlanders is Malta, where they will relieve the
911 Regiment, ordered to the Crimea. The let battalion
of the 91st Regiment, at Cork, has also been ordered to
Malta, to relieve the 14th, placed under Lord Raglan's
command. The reserve battalion of the 91st is now on its
passage heme from the Cape, and, on its arrival in this
country the greater part of its effective men will be sent
out to strengthen the Ist battalion, which will in all pro*
bability be sent on to the Crimea, the remaining men
being formed into a depot. With the exception of the
12th Regiment, all the reserved battalions formed some 12
years ago will then be abolished, and the only regiments
having second battalions will be, as of old--the three regi,
ments of Foot Guards, the let (Royal) Regiment, _the 60th
Rifles, and the Rifle Brigade.

The regiments now in garrison in the Mediterranean
and available for the Crimea are the 13th, at Gibraltar ;
31st, at Corfu; 48th, at Corfu; 92d, at Gibraltar. To-
these in a few days will be added the 54th and 66th to.
Gibraltar, the 72d and 91st to Malta, the 82d and another 4:
regiment to Corfu—probably the 56th, now daily expected.
at Dublin, from Bermuda.
The regiments now remaining at home will then be the
51st Light Infantry, now at Manchester ; the 80th, at'
Fort George ; and the 94th, at Chatham ; all of whom hAve
but just returned from a long tour of Indian service, and
are, therefore, numerically weak ; but the draughts from
the militia and the activity of the recruiting staff will bring
them up to the required strength before many weeks.
The 22d, 25th, 96th, and 98th Regiments have been re-
moved from the Indian establishment, and will arrive
home early in 1855.

The following militia regiments are to be embodied for
immediate service forthwith :—The 4th Lancashire (Royal
Lancashire, Duke of Lancaster's Own Light Infantry), the
Dorsetshire, the Nottinghamshire, the Salopian, the Wor•
oestershire, the Sent Artillery Corps, the Hants Artillery
Corps, the Suffolk Artillery Corps, the Ist Cheshire (Royal
Cheshire), and the Oxfordshire Militia.

Volunteering has been going on at Chatham for the 18th
Regiment, in consequence of another War Office circular,
received from the Horse Guards by the commandant of the
garrison. The following are the numbers volunteered from
each of the depots :—One private from the 10th Foot ;
3 privates, 22d ; 1 corporal, 25th ; 1 drummer, 45th ;
lance serjeant, 53d ; 1 private, 70th ; 1 private, 74th ;,
1 corporal, 75th ; 1 private, 76th ; 2 privates, 81st ; 3 pri-
vates, 84th ; 1 corporal and 1 private, 87th; 1 corporal
and 1 private, 96th ; and 1 corporal, 1 drummer, and
privates, 99th—making a total of 1 serjeant, 4 corporals,
2 drummers, and 18 rank and file. These volunteers joined.
the 18th Regiment on Tuesday. Three sergeants, 4 cor-
porals, 7 drummers, and 136 rank and file of the 94th Re-
giment, volunteers, also joined the 18th. Thus has the
94th lost both their flank companies by this movement,
and which circumstance has much dispirited the comm
manding officer, Colonel Milner, who would have liked tcr
lead his own men.

On Monday evening a large batch of recruits went into
Ckatham Barracks from Manckester, the whole of them.
being for the 18th Regiment ; there were also two other
batches went in from the§ northern dishicts, for the Pro-
visional Battalion, to the number of 100 men.

In consequence of a War-office circular, received by the
18th Foot, the volunteering for this regiment is closed,
and everything connected with this corps is to be made up
by the Ist of next month. A large number of volunteers
are to arrive from Manchester, from the 51st King's Own,
Light Infantry.

Though an unusually large number of reeruits for tho
different arms of her Majesty's army have been incessantly
arriving in the metropolis within the past six weeks, from all!
parts of the country, yet the drain does not seem to have►
at all exhausted our resources, for each new- day freak
batches are arriving. Last evening, a large number arrived,
from Liverpool, Manchester, anti Birmingham, by train;
and yesterday morning the steamer London, bound fox'
Hall, had on board a batch of fino, athletic young men,,
who were en route to York to join the head-quarters of their
regiment, the 7th Hussars, now stationed in that fine
city. We also learn that a large number, amounting to,
over .50, arrived here at noon yesterday from the South..
Eastern counties, and were at once transmitted to Wool.
wich and Chatham,

Yesterday 54 men from the provisional battalion at
Chatham volunteered for the ambulance corps to be sent to
tho seat of war in the East, and to attend the sick a a
wounded. They are to be under the entire direction of
the medical inspector-general. These men are experienced,
having seen foreign service, and are well adapted for the
duties required, and, having characters of steadiness aad
sobriety, they can be trusted to perform all the requisiltes
attending the sick.

Captain Traver's company of Royal Artillery, under !the
command of Second-Captain Pigou, accompanied by Li en-
tenants Orr and Miller, left Plymouth citadel on SUM'
day afternoon by the South Devon Railway for Wockl-.
wich. Captain Inglefield's company, also stationed at
Plymouth, is under orders to proceed to Woolwich, leaving
only one company of Artillery in this district. The de-
tachments of Artillery at Bovisand, Maker Heights, aed
Drake's Island, have been relieved by non-commissioned
officers and privates of the 34th Regiment, at present sits,
tioned in this garrison. Major Kelly, Lieutenants Camp-
bell and Boyce, and Ensigns Alt and Ramsay, with 140
men of the 34th, are under orders to proceed with their
service companies to Corfu, from which place the regimens
has lately left for the Crimea.

Recruiting sergeants are on duty in this district front
the 13th, 20th, 34th, 40th, and 46th Regiments, and from.
She Plymouth division of Royal Marines. Daring the pasta
week volunteers have joined the 34th from the sth Find
lien, 22d Regiment,'24th, 27th, 53d, 76th, 96th, and 83e1
Regiments.

INCREASE OF THE ARMY.
The contemplated augmentation of the army, which ill
expected to take place immediately after the assembling of
Parliament, will, it is stated, embrace the whole of the
infantry regiments of the line, it being considered donb t•
fal policy, and an expensive mode of increasing the strength
of the army, to raise new regiments. The manner in whic
the increase is to be effected is stated to be as follows h,
viz.:—

The regiments of infantry serving in the East, Gibral••
tar, Malta, and the lonian Islands, will have additional'
battalions of 800 rank and file respectively, to be termed:
2d or 3d battalions, as in the case of the Ist Royal andl
Rifle Brigade; those regiments in the Colonies and:
East Indies to have each a reserve battalion of 5004
bayonets, and the regiments on home service to be placed,
as regards their numerical strength, on the war establish••
ment. The regiments to have additional battalions of 800/
mon are the Ist Royals, 3d Buffs, 4th Regiment of Foot,.
7th Fusiliers, 9th Foot, 13th ditto, 14th ditto, 17th ditto
18th Royal Irish, 19th Foot, 20th ditto, 21st ditto, 23
Fusiliers, 23th Foot, 30th ditto, 31st ditto, 33d ditto, 34th.
ditto, 38th ditto, 41st ditto, 42d Highlanders, 44th Foot,.
46th ditto, 47th ditto, 48th ditto, 49th 'ditto, 50th dittos,
55th ditto, 62d ditto, G3d ditto, 68th Light Infantry, 71st?
Highland Light Infantry, nd Highlanders, 77th Foot,.
79th ditto, 88th Connaught Rangers, 89th Foot, 90th ditto,.
92d ditto; 93d Highlanders, 95th Foot, 97th ditto, and the
Rifle Brigade.
The remaining regiments will be augmented as stated
above : an additional battalion of Royal Artillery, and ,
eight companies of Royal Marines are also to be raised.

General Boutin()lc and Colonel Dalrymple arrived at
Dover yesterday morning, from the Crimea, and continued
their journey to London by the B.a.m. train.

We understand that the gallant officer, Captain Toosay
Williams, who led the second squadron of the Scots Greys
at the memorable charge of tho 25th October, was, at the
last dates from Balaklava (Nov. 10), suffering very severely
from fever and dysentry ; so much so, that it was feared
- he would be obliged to lelve for Pora for a few days.
Tan LATE COLONEL GOLDIE, C.B.—We are requested
to state that the officer bearing the above name, who was
killed at Inkerman, is Colonel Thomas Leigh Goldie,
C. 8., of the 57th Foot ; net Lieutenant-General Alexander
Goldie, as some of the papers have been stating.
A THOUSAND SEAMEN FOR THE ROYAL NAVY.—Yes-
terday an offer from some of the principal merchants and
shipowners of New Quay, South Wales, and Liverpool,
was made to the Lords of the Admiralty to the effect,
that they were willing to raise 1,000 able seaman for her
Majesty's service in any part of the world, to fight the
Russians, provided the Government would consent to fit -
out a 120 gun-ship, to be called the " South Welshman,
for them to man. There is a 120-gun ship new building
at Portsmouth, and nearly ready for launching; it is pro•
posed to call her the Marlborough. Whether, under the
above circumstances, the Admiralty will consent to alter
it to the South Welshman is at present uncertain.

PRINCE ALBERT AND THE GRENADIER GUARDS.—Iiis
Royal Highness Prince Albert, a day or two since, com-
manded Messrs. Hebbert and Co., army contractors, of
Pall-Mall East, to attend at the Castle, when the Prince
gave them instructions to prepare a number of seal skin
coats, lined throughout with fur, one of which his Royal
Highness, as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, intends to
present to every officer of this regiment doing duty at the
seat of war. The Prince, at the name time, gave Mr. Ileb-
bert his own coat, as a pattern after which these coats,
about 70 in number,- are to be made, directing that they
should be completed in the course of a week.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN MANBT.---This benevolent and
philanthropic individual has been gathered to his fathers,
full of years and honours, his decease having occurred on
Saturday week, at his residence, Pedestal House, South-
town, near Great Yarmouth. Captain George William
Manby was born at Highay, in Norfolk, Nov. 28, 1765,
and was consequently in his 90th year. Before his decease
the veteran philanthropist had the satisfaction of knowing
his invention had been the means of saving no less than
1,000 lives, which must otherwise have perished, and for
which he had received medals from almost all the Euro-
pean crowned heads, e32l.:magd