The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-20 00:00:00

duly made for the contingent military and naval
forces to be supplied by each State. The engage-
ment is fully made and entered into, but the form
of it will be doubtless changed, as soon as conve-
niently may be, for the more solemn though not
more binding international treaty signed by the
Sovereigns.
At the union of England and France for purposes
so just, and with views so disinterested, the whole
civilised world may well rejoice ; for the cordial
and united action of the two most enterprising,
most wealthy, and most liberal nations of the earth,
cannot fail to produce effects fraught *with the
greatest advantage to the swift and wholesome pro-
gress of civilisation, and be therefore productive of
blessings for humanity.

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

The important appointments of Quartermaster and
Adjutant-General under Lord Raglan are not finally
settled. Colonel Sullivan is to be Assistant-Adjutant-
General, and it is stated that Colonel Somerset and Lord
Burghersh, of the Coldstreams, and Captain Kingscote,
of the Scots Fusilier Guards, are to be Lord Raglan's
aides-de-camp.
The first division of the British auxiliary force will
consist of the brigade of Guards, the 4th, 28th, 33d,
50th, 77th, and 93d Regiments, amounting to 10,000
men. A certain proportion of cavalry and artillery will
be told off to this division.

Instead of 500 troopers, an effective brigade of cavalry
is to be immediately formed, consisting of the Scots
Greys, the Carabineers, 17th Lancers, and Bth and 11th
Hussars.

Should the 17th Lancers be one of the cavalry regi-
ments ordered to the East, it is to be hoped that they
will leave behind them their unwieldy weapon, and make
use of the sabre. The 16th Lancers, who earned for
themselves imperishable distinction at the battle of Ali-
wal, found their lances such a damaging incumbrance
that many-of the men threvi them away and fought with
their sabres, as, while they shot out their lance, the
Sikhs rushed to their horses' heads and cut away the
bridles. Many of that gallant band who survived the
charges of that memorable fight have been heard to ex-
press their unqualified condemnation of the modern
javelin, which is nine feet long, and which no man of
ordinary size and strength can possibly use with ad-
vantage.
We understand that the authorities of the Horse
Guards have been quite inundated with volunteers prof-
fering their services in every rank of the military pro-
fession.

The whole of the baggage of the Grenadier battalion,
as well as the horses belonging to the officers, and also
the horses belonging to the staff of the Guards brigade,
are to be shipped on the 21st instant.
On Wednesday morning the 3d battalion of Grenadier
Guards will proceed by the London and South-Western
Railway to Southampton, at which port they are to
arrive at ten o'clock a.m. The battalion will immediately
embark in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ships the Ripon and Manilla.
The troops, on their arrival at Southampton, will be
under the orders of Major-General Simpson, the general
commanding the South-Western district, who will super-
intend the arrangements of the embarkation.
A regimental order reminds officers that their servants
are to be equipped in every respect as men serving in
the ranks.

Great efforts are now making for organising a good
working field hospital, the want of which has been
severely felt in every campaign, and even in India of late
years.
The 23d Fusiliers and 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade
are under orders for immediate embarkation. Two hun-
dred volunteers have joined the latter regiment.