The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-04 00:00:00

LON DON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1854.

MON T BL ANC
0 2ENS TO-NIGHT.

THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.-
The Agents and Friends of Gentlemen in the Army are
respectfully informed that the Subscriber has a large supply of
CLOTHING suitable for Wintering in the Crimea. Lsrge Heavy
PLAIDS, Warm RAPPERS, the Famous HIGHLAND CLOAK,
Warm Coloured FLANNEL SHIRTS, TOP-COATS, Stout STOCK-
INGS, &c., &c., &c.
Parcels leaving Inverness twice a-week by RAH to f.oni.n, and
thence carefully forwarded to the Army, by zubscriber'i Agent.
D. AI`DOUO ALL, •
THE TARTAN AND TWEED WAREHOUSE, INVERNESS.

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LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROONIS_—
Now Open for the Season.—But in; the week the Orchestra
will perform the following music :—Overture Bronze Horse, Atittr;
Waltz,t : Ls Naturelle, 11. Wie •ard ; Jubilro, Tuttle), ; Burg,•tr Ball
(fir ..t time). Strauss ; Le Carnival de Venice (by eesire), wilts Varia-
tio :s for all the ptincipal performers, by H. Laurent. Quadrilles:
Le Palais de l'Alcaz.tr, H. Lamotte ; L'Etoile du Nord, Mcs .1.1;
Mont Blanc (first time), Blauchetem ; Partsnt pour la Syrie, H.
Laurent. it:,.chntiische: The Moldavian, by Jullien. Polkas: Musen,
tratiss ; Baceaas, Strauss; L'Eteile du Norl, H. Laurent;
Strauss. Gallops : Royal . Artillery, Coote ; Les Guid,s, H. Laurent.
,hort,y, Keen,g's Staff Polka. Principal Cornet a Piston, M. Boat-
court.—Alteration of Time —Doors open at Eight; commence at half-
past. —Admission, One Shilling.

OREkT REDUCTION IN PRICE OF

SIR WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING
FLUID.
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Gallons, se. Quarts, Is. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d.
This Valuable DEODORISER and DISINFECTANT instantane-
ously destroys all BAD SMELLS without producing any itself.
Its free use, as directed, PREVENTS CIIOLERA and all CON-
TAGIOUS DISEASES.
Sold by all Chemists and Druggists, and at the Ofice,l 8, Cannon-
street, London-bridge.
N.B.—Beware of a spurious imitation.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Neptune, 120, Captain Hutton, flag If Rear-
Admiral Plumridge, will leave. Spithead on Wednesday
(attended by the steam-frigate Leopard) for Queenstown,
to embark 32 officers and 670 of the 72d Regiment
(Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) for the Crimea.
Rear-Admiral Plumridge will strike his flag prior to the
sailing of the Neptune, and will have further leave of
absence- granted him.
The screw steamship Princess Royal, 91, Capt. Lord
C. Paget, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Michael
Seymour, and the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Captain the
'Hon. H. Keppel, are hourly expected at Plymouth to
be docked and refitted.
The Orion, screw, 90, is still under the sheers at
Sheerness ; her bbilers are being bedded, &c. Messrs.
Penn and Sons' men and engineers are working at her.
Her mainmast is stepped; and foremast and mizenmast
already in the basin. To-day, if the caisson is opened
for the Melampus, they will be towed alongside and
hoisted in. Her rigging, &c., is at Chatham, where she
will proceed to fit out for immediate service. Most
probably next spring tides she will be towed up there.
The Monarch, 84, Captain Lyster, sailed from Spit-
head on Saturday evening for Devonport, to be fitted as
flagship on the Pacific station.
The Ajax, 60, screw block ship, Captain Warden, on
the water being pumped out of her dock at Portsmouth,
discovered the ugly thumps she has been subjeot to
from the "Bomarsund granite," which must have been
particularly ragged and sharp ; her false keel is cut clean
through in several places, and will require new through-
out ; it is only a wonder how her propeller could act
with such a concussion immediately under the frame-
work, which was enough to drive the whole out of gear;
her copper is otherwise sound and in good condition.
Pylades, screw, 21 guns, ia in No. 1 dry dock,
Sheerness, her bottom is being cleared preparatory to
coppering. Many artisans are working at her, and she
is to be brought forward with all possible despatch.
'Leopard, 18, paddle, Captain Giffard, is painting out-
side, and looking particularly smart. She will be ready
for service the middle of next week, but will not accom-
pany the Monarch, as stated in a London journal of Sa-
turday, and which, no doubt, all the little " country
papers" will serve them right by copying.
The Admiral's order for the Horatio to proceed to the
east coast of England has been countermanded. She
will be permanently stationed at Sheerness as a steam
school-ship for volunteers and apprentices.
The departure of the screw steam-sloop Brisk, Com-
mander Curtis, from Plymouth, for Rio Janeiro and the
Pacific, has been countermanded until further orders.
The steam-tender Avon, Second-Master Veitch, sailed
on Saturday from Plymouth for Falmouth, with newly-
entered men for the Calcutta, 84,

The following appointments have been made :
Captain Thomas R. Sußyan (1847), to command the
Simoom, 18, iron screw steam troopship.
Commander John Borlase (1849), to command the
Melampus, 42, frigate.
A isistant-Surgeon John Hudson (1853), from the Vic-
tory flagship at Portsmouth, to the Waterloo, 120, flag-
ship at Sheerness.

SAILING OF THE NORMAN-THE WOODEN

HUTS.

The first shipment of wooden huts to provide for the
comfort of our soldiers in the East during their winter
campaign in the Crimea was made from Southampton
yesterday (Sunday), the screw-steamer Norman, belong.
ing to the Union Screw Collier Company, having sailed
from the Southampton Docks at noon for Balaklava,
touching at Constantinople. The Norman takes out 100
of these habitations, each capable of accommodating 20
men. The screw-steamer Metropolitan is loading with
a further quantity, and has on board a quantity of shot,
warm clothing, and other necessaries for the army. The
loading of the screw-steamers Hetton and John Bowes
with materials ready prepared for the construction of
wooden houses has also commenced.

THE REINFORCEMENTS.

The changes in the stations of the army during the
past month give a very clear detail of what has been
done to aid the troops be-fore Sebastopol
The 9th Foot; from Malta to the Crimea. •
14th do., from Malta to the Crimea.
6211 do., from Malta to the Crittir,a.
681.13 do., from Malta to the Crimea..
84th do., from C.,rfu to the Ci imea.
-71st (Ist battalion), from Corfu to the Crimea.
17th Foot, from Gibraltar to the Crimea.
29th do., from Gibraltar•to the Crimea.
89th do., from Gibraltar to the Crimea.
90th do., from Dublin to the Crimea.
97th do., from Canterbury to the Crimea.
Making a total of 11 regiments—four from Malta,
two from Corfu, three from Gibraltar, one from Ireland,
and one from England.
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The 54th• Foot, from Glasgow, and the 66th Foot,
from Preston, have left- to fill the vacancies caused by
these movements. : .

.The other changes of the stations of regiments during
the past month has been the removal of the 7th Hussars
from Leeds to York, and, the arrival of the 56th Foot
at Dublin from Bermuda. The 22.1 Foot and the 96th
Foot are both on their passage home from Bengal, in
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The 36th Regiment of root has relieved the division
of the 18th on duty at Wellington Barracks, St. James's
Park. 100 men from the 36th have voluntee red into
the 18th. The whole of the detachments of the 18th
have joined head-quart-Ts at Chatham, and the regiment,
having completed its strength, is ready at a moment's
notice to embark for the Crimea.

Four companies of the :z al Artillery, Capt. Camp-
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company,-504atat Capt. Wragg'a-company,
6th battalion, Capt. Graydon's company, Ist battalion,and Capt. Oldfield's company, 4th battalion, left the gar-
1-rison atWoolwich during the same month for the Crimea;
and the 2d company of Royal Sappers and Miners from
Woolwich, under the command of Captain Sing, Royal
Engineers, proceeded for the same destination.

On Saturday a large number of volunteers, from regi-
ments and depot companies of line- regiments on home
service, along with many volunteers from Militia regi-
ments,.were inspected by the officers and medical staff
attached to the Household Brigade. and the recruiting
establishment at the head•quarters of-the recruiting de-
partment in Duke•street, Westminster. During the last
week upwards of 70 volunteers from the Middlesex re-
giments of Militia have joined the several battalions of
the Guards, in addition to a very large number of volun-
teers from the Irish and Scotch Militia. The Guards,
when the last draught left for the Crimea on Friday
week, were scarcely 200 strong, but they now number
above 1,100 bayonets, and a very large portion of the
recruits have nearly completed their drill while serving
in the Militia..

A number of volunteers from the various depots for
the 18th (Royal Irish), under orders for the Crimea, ar-
rived at the recruiting rendezvous, Delahay-street,
Westminster, and having been inspected were, without
a single exception, finally approved, and received the
♦olunteering bounty of one guinea. To show th• ferl-
- that exists throughout the army with respect to the
war it is only necessary to state, that when the order
for volunteering was read to the depot of the 58th Regi-
ment, 200 strong, almost all the men stepped forward
two paces to the front, thus indicating their desire to
proceed on active service ; but, as the regiment (th•
58th) is conning home from New Zealand, only 50 volun-
teers were accepted.

The Royal Wilt Shire Regiment has supplied the fol-
lowing numbers :-02 men to the Royal Marines, 40
men to the Rifle Brigade, 29 men to 62d Regiment, 14
wen to the 23d Regiment, 12 men to the Guards, and 1
man to the 421 Highlanders—in all 153 men. This
regiment is nearly 700 strong.
Orders have been issued for the siega guns just finished
for the Crimea to be embarked at Woolwich forthwith ;
they colsiit of 55 eight-inch guns ; their total weight of
metal is 208 tons 10 cwt.—namely, 44, each weighing 3
tons 4 cwt., and 11 six tons each. The Adelaide,
steamer; and Elisa, transport, are ordered to carry them
out. " '

Messrs. Peto, Braseey, and Co., the celebrated railway
contractors, are in want of a large number of experienced
" navvies " to proceed to the Crimea, under the super-
intendence of an able civil engineer. None will be en-
awed unless producing certificates of good conduct from
their last employer.

The steam-ship Magdalena, Captain Abbott, is to em-
bark on Wednesday from Southampton, the 18th (Royal
Irish) Regiment for the seat of war, and will besides
take out some horses and military stores.
The G3ueral Screw Company's ship Crcesus, of 2,500
tons, daily expected at Southampton from Australia,
has been chartered by the Government for the convey-
ance of troops.
The splendid screw steamer Europa, now lying in the
East India Dock, has been taken up by the Admiralty
to convey troops to the Crimea.
The hired transports Cumberland and Hatt have been
ordered round to Plymouth to ship the wooden huts
constructed at that port for the army in the Crimea.
The hired screw transport Manilla, 142, Captain
M`Kenzie, which put into Plymouth through stress of
weather on Wednesday, left again on Friday, with shot,
shell, &c., for the Black Sea.
The transport No. 149 (screw steamer) arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday afternoon to embark troops and
stores for the Crimea.

The screw steam-transport No. 157 arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday afternoon to embark troops or stores
for the East.

The bounty money for the corps of Royal Sappers and
Miners has been raised to 71. 15s. 6d., and upwards of
600 men aro wanted to complste the strength of that
branch of the ordnance service. The 2d company pro-
ceeded to Portsmouth, and embarked in the Royal Al-
bert, 121, for the Crimea.

THE WOODEN HUTS FOR THE CRIMEA.
PORTSMOUTH, Saturday. —The wooden "barracks"
progress more favourably than the transports selected to
convey them to our gallant and suffering troops. The
contractor, Mr. Cornwell, at this port, has about 700
men working day and night to complete 1000 wooden
huts, which will contain 20,000 men.
DIRECTIONS FOR THE ERECTION OF SOLDIERS' WOODEN
RUTS, MADE AT PORTSMOUTH UNDER THE DIRECTION
OF THE ROYAL ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, BY MIS. CAM.
WELL.
Level the ground to the extent of 23 feet by 16 feet,
for each hut.
Lay side plates in two pieces, 14 feet long, 4 inches
by 3 inches, which are halved together.
Lay end plates, 16 feet long, 4 inches by 3 inches,
which are halved at the angles to sido plates.
Fix the angle posts and two door posts, 6 feet, 4 inches
by 3 inches, then the intermediate stancheons, 11 on
each side, four at the door, and six at the other end.
Put nn the top plates, which are morticed to fit tenons
on ends of stancheons.
Fix a pair of rafters at each end of building and ridge
board, then fill-in intermediatp rafters, one over each
stancheon.
The stancheons for gable ends are stub-tenoned into
plate, halved, and nailed to rafters at top.
The felt is to be laid longitudinally on the boarding,
each sheet to overlap two inches.
The weather boarding of the roof aiid aides to be laid
with 11 inc h laps, At each gable end one board is axed
obliquely, as a barge board, projecting 4 inches from the
face.

A batten 4i inches to be nailed over the centre joints.
The sides and ends to be weather-boarded with
iach laps,
Two sleeper plates to be laid 6 feet from inside of
hut, to receive joists for bed, 4 inches by 2 inches, one
to each stancheon, to be covered with inch boarding.
The shelves to be !aid on the three long collars of
roof.

MATERIALS FOR ONE SOLDIERS' HUT.
8 plates, 14ft. Oin. by 4in. by 3in.
4 plates, 16ft. Oin. by 4in. by 3in. for ends.
4 plates, 14ft. Oin. by 4in. by 3in, for ends of floor-joists.
6 angle and door-posts, Eft. Oin. by 4in. by 3in.
32 stancheons, Eft. Oin. by 4in. by 2in.
26 rafters, Oft, Gin. by 4in. by 2in.
5 collars, two 7ft. 10in. by 4in. by 2in., and three 10in.
by Din., on which the shelves rest.
26 joists, Eft. 4in. by 4in. by 2in.
20 deals, 14ft. Oin. by Din. by 3in. cut into weather-boards.
32 boards, 14ft. Oin. by 9in. by lin. guard-bed.
4 ditto, 13ft. 10in. by 41in. by lin. under ends of joists,
2 shelves, 12ft. Oin, by llin. by 141 n.
1 door and 2 window sashes.
8 braces, 41ft. Oin. by lin.
1 ridge-piece and pole, 28ft.. Oin.
2 gitnblets, 2 carpenters' hammers, and 141bs. nails.

DESTRUCTION OF A THREE-GUN BATTERY
AT CHATHAM.
Sinco Friday last the Sappers and Miners belonging
to the engineer establishment have been working by
night and by day in re!ieves, preparing mines under a
three•gun battery, which had Wen thrown up on a hill,
between the Casinate Barracks and the Fire Barn, on
the fieldworks of the Royal Engineers, as an experiment
for destroying the gun platforrn of a substantial
battery. The whole of • the officers Of the Royal
Engineers, and those of the East India Company,
and a number of officers from Chatham garrison, were
present, together with the men of the Royal and
EAst India'Company's Sappers and Miners, on Saturday,
when the explosions were made. The experiment gave
the greatest satisfaction to all present, and also to the
direeter, Colonel Jones, who seemed much pleased at
the result. The explosions were . simultaneous, and the
earth was lifted up a considerable height, and it had a
grand effect. It appears that there were three charges
of gunpowder placed opposite the embi•asures' two of
.115Ibs. each and the other 811 b., each charge being 10
and 11 feet below the surface of the platfornt So
effectual was the destruction of the works that not a
particle was loft standing but the outer works of
.the
fortified plans, which the explosions were not intended
to touch. The guns were blown frOm their position and

buried in the ruins, making three craters of about 20
feet by 18 feet in circumference, and from 8 to 9 feet
in depth.

ENGLISH MILITIA EMBODIED.
Within the last fear days orders have been issued for
the embodiment of several fresh regiments of militia.
The following-is a complete list of the regiments, sixty-
one in all, which will he ready for active service as mi-
litia, when the intentions froin the Government are hilly
carried out.
Bedford
Beika
Brecknook
Bucks
Cauibrike,.
Ist Cheshire
2.1 ditto
Cornwall Rangers
Cumberland
Ist Derby .
Ist Devon
South Devon
Dorset
South. Durham
East Essex
Wist ditto
Glamorgan
South Gloucester
North ditto
Hampshire
Ditto Artillery
Hereford •
Herts
East Kent
West ditto
Kent Artillery
Ist Lancaster
21 ditto
Sd ditto
4th ditto
Leicester

North Lincoln
:south ditto
lstlosex
4ch ditto
Monmouth
Montgotne ry
Northainpton
Northumberlaud
East Norfolk
West ditto
Nottingham
Oxford
Salop
Ist Somerset
21 ditto
let Stafford
2d ditto
3d ditto
West Suffolk
Suffolk Artillery
Ist Surrey
Sussex
Ist Warwick
2d ditto
Ist West York •
2d ditto
3d ditto
North ditto
Wilts
Worcester