The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

MILITARY.

ROYAL ENGINEERS.—We have authority for stating
there is no truth in the statement published on Friday,
" That it has been decided that a grand night attack will
take place at Chatham on the night of Wednesday, the
27th inst., under the direction of Captain M'Kerlio."
Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, Royal Marines, with other
officers forming a district court-martial, assembled at Chat-
ham on Friday and Saturday, for the trial of the following
prisoners :—Private Martin Haley, 24th, was found guiltMy of
desertion ; Private James Connors, 99th ;
Private ark
12th Foot ; and Private
37th, was tried
and found guilty, and Private J. Britain,
DCoaavtieds,m9s9ctghn;irPer,i2v7attheW,
werem
.Wseapdaerately tried for desertion
for deserting'his regiment in 1846, when it was stationed
at Monmouthshire. He wasbrought in a prisoner to Chat-
ham under escort, when he confessed to Colour-Sergeant
Woods, of the same corps, that he was a deserter ; the
prisoner surrendered himself to the civil power. The issua
of the above trials will not be known.until the proceedings
are confirmed at the Horse Guards.
THE WAR IN THE EAST.—Recruiting is most actively
going forward on account of the following regiments doing
active foreign duty, viz., the Ist battalion of the let
Royals, the 4th, 13th, 20th, .28th, 29th, 30th, 38th, 41st,
'5457th the Rifle Brigade, and Royal
88th,
49th, 50th, 57th, 63d, 79th
42d,
44th,
th;
Artillery. Recruiting is also going on for the following
Highlanders,93d9sth
not on war duty-18th, 51st, 4 5
—th, 56th, 66th, 724, 80th,
82d, 90th, and 94th. For the cavalry recruiting is also
going on very actively. Tha ~cots Greys, though in the
East, have no recruiting party in London, as in the case of
other regiments. The complement for the sth, or Princess
Charlotte of Wales' Dragoons, which regiment was almost
cut off to a man by the cholera, while encamped in the
East, will be made up as soon as possible. At present the
corps is virtually disbanded,• the survivors having been in-.
corporated with the 4th Royil Irish Dragoon Guards,
now commanded by Colonel Hodge.
The purchase of troop and artillery horses is actively
going on.
The 94th Regiment, at Chatham, is b • organised as
being
quickly as possible since the return of the right wing, in
expectation of soon getting the route for Canterbury.
Tho depot of the 42d Regiment of Highlanders has been
removed from Winchester, where they could not obtain
recruits, to Stirling Castle, where they will no doubt ob-
tain many fine Highland lads from the glens in Perth and
Stirling shires.
The depot of the 93d Highland Aegiment has been sent
from the Isle of Wight to Dundee, for the same reason.
The Government has chartered the steam-ship Sarah
Sands to convey the second battalion of the 71st Highland
Light Infantry from. Quebec to England, and she was to
leave Quebec, on Friday last. The depot of the 2d bat-
talion is at' present stationed at Chatham. a
Orders have been receitted at. Quebec for the following,
officers of the Rayal Engineers to proceed to England im-
mediately :—Lieut.-Colonel Henry.P. Wulff, Captain Hon.
H. F. Keane, at presbnt stationed at Montreal ; and
Lieutenant A. R. Vyvan Crease, at Quebec ; Lieutenant
B. A. Wilkinson, at present stationed at Toronto.; and
Lieut. George ]tanken, at present stationed at Quebec.
Two companies of the Royal Artillery have been ordeied
home from the West Indies, without any other companies
being seat out to relieve, and they are now on their way
in one of the West India Mail steam-packets, and will
land at Southampton. The companies are Captain J. W.
Domvile's company, 10th battalion, stationed at Barba-.
does since October, 1851, and Captain Thomas Knoi's
company, 9th battalion, stationed at Barbadoes since Sep.

tember, 1852.
LIMERICK, SEPT. 23.—Limerisk has at length been to-
tally ungarrisoned. For the first time since the siege, the
city of the violated treaty is left in the keeping of a hand-
ful of raw recruits. The 57th depot has gone off to Birr,
and the 40th depot has been removed up to the New Bar-
racks, to replace the "Die Hards." Tho Castle Barracks,
in which the 40th was stationed, has, since their removal,
been closed, and there are at present a sergeant, a corporal
and two or three privates keeping possession of H.—Lime-
rick Chronicle.

POISONOUS PLANTS.—A case of growing poisonous
plants was tried at the police court on Monday. Mr.
Bailey, surgeon, appeared to make a complaint against
William Dellor, chicory dealer. Dellor has a field in his
occupation, near the Barnwell gravel pits, in which he is
growing three different sorts of poisonous herbs, and the
field is not protected by fencing ; the consequence is,
that children frisk about the dangerous berries, and three
have nearly been sacrificed by eating them. The mayor
requested Superintendent Jaggard to call on Dellor and
expostulate with him on the impropriety of growing his
" villanous stuff " in the neighbourhood of a populous
place, and even without a proper safeguard.—Cambridge
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