The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-05 00:00:00

THE REINFORCEMENTS.

Yesterday afternoon 50 volunteers from the 58th Re•
giment of Foot for the 18th (Royal Irish), arrived at the
Waterloo-road station from Weymouth, and proceeded
by the North Kent line to Chatham to join the head.
quarters of the 18th.
_

From all parts of the country reports arrive of the
volunteering of militia men into regiments of the Guards
or the line. The Northamptonshire Militia has just
offered 300 men to the Guards. The South Middlesex
MiLtla have given 200 volunteers to the Rifles, Marines,
and hue ; the Lancashire has also given upwards of 150
to the line and Guards ; the Essex Rifles have furnished
over 200, and the Wiltshire 153 volunteers to the line,
and more daily join. The South Lincolnshire Militia,
which has for some months been quartered at Chichester
barracks, under the command of Colonel Sibthorp,
M.P., a great desire to join the line, and no
less than 150 of them have volunteered during the past
week.

There is no foundation, for the report that the Cara-
bincers and 71Ii Dragoon Guards are to be sent to the
Crimea. Tile Caraijineers _are .now busily engaged re-
eruitinfy and reinountin,ty; forthelst Royal Dragoons, and
the 7th Dragoon Guards for the 4th. Royal .Irish Dra-
goon Guards. Cavalry regiments on service will only
be augmented to e'ght troops of 75 sabres each.
On Tnur.-day.Gl Volunteers for the 17th Lancers ar-
rived from Kilkenny. An order was received in bar-
racks countermanding ail furloughs for the 17th Lan•
cers, a draught of which expects to embark for the seat
of war immediately.

The different cavalry depots are now actively engaged
training and breaking young horses to be sent out as
remounts for the cavalry in the Crimea.

A detachment of the field battery of Royal Artillery
stationed at Leeds left the barracks on Saturday morn-
ing, together with 40 horses, and proceeded to Wool-
wich, en route for the seat of war.
In consequence of a communication from Colonel An-
derson, commanding the field batteries at Woolwich, the
men belonging to the Royal Artillery now lying in Leeds
were informed that 20 men might volunteer for service
in the Crimea. Instantly 35 stepped from the ranks
and offered themselves. They were subsequently in-
spected by Colonel Anderson, who selected from them
20 unmarried men. The remaining 15, who were a good
deal disppointed on being told that they could not go,
were informed that, in all probability, further volunteers
would hereafter be required, and in that case they would
have the preference. Forty horses were also selected
from the same detachment for the Crimea, and both men
and horses left for Woolwich on Saturday morning.
Yesterday the officers of the Ordnance at the Tower
were actively engaged in forwarding bale goods, consist-
ing of blankets, fur cloaks, caps, and gloves, waterproof
capes, cowhide boots, suits of inner flannel clothing,
waterproof leggings, 40,000 of each description, to Ports-
mouth and Woolwich, for shipment to the Crimea.
There were also forwarded 10,000 suits of the above-
mentioned articles for the use of officers.

Yesterday the commissioners for victualling and trans-
port service issued contracts for the supply of 500,0001 b.
of preserved boiled beef for the use of the forces in the
Crimea; also for the conveyance of 2,400 tone of provisions
from Deptford and 1,100 from Gosport to Malta ; as
also 375 tons of powder to Malta. Contracts were also
issued for the supply of 22,300 pair of boots, one half to
be delivered within six weeks.

DTinie rifles, to the number of from 1,000 to 1,200, are
now being sent into the Ordnance stores weekly.
Upwards of 500 tons of round shot and shell are now
in course of delivery at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich,
for service is the Crimea.

The 10th Royal Hussars, serving at Kiokee, Bombay,
are held in readiness to embark for service in Turkey,
should Lord Raglan send for the regiment, which he is
empowered to do. Ships belonging to the East India
Company's navy are held in readiness to convey the
regiment from Bombay to Suez.
A portion of the 34th Regiment left Corfu in the
transport Gomelza prior to the 25th November for the
Crimea, towed by an Austrian and an lonian steam-
boat ; they passed the island of Zante all well on the
24th of November for the Crimea. The remainder of
the regiment, with fifty of the Royal Artillery, are
to proceed to the Crimea in the screw steamer
Danube.

Upwards of 3C,0 volunteers, chiefly from the Militia,
left Dublin on Saturday evening by one of the London
steamers, to join the detachments of the several regi-
ments under orders for the Crimea.

The Cork Constitution, has the following :—The 91st
Regiment on Friday formed their depot, which is to em-
bark in one of the Cork Company's steamers for Chatham,
under command of Ensign Glass.

The Royal George, 120, is ordered to Cork, to em-
bark 660 rank and file and 100 tons of stores for the
Black Sea.

The Melampus is ordered to be fitted with all expe-
dition to carry troops to the Crimea.
The Charity, screw steamer, arrived at Plymouth yes-
terday, to embark troops for the Crimea.

Government instructions were received yesterday at
Southampton ordering the Mngdalena to be prepared for
receiving the 18th Regiment or Royal Irish on board on
Thursday morning at Portsmouth, together with large
quantities of ammunition, for the Crimea.

The second batch of nurses, under the escort of the
lion. Mr. J. Percy (50 in number), to attend on the
sick and wounded soldiers in hospital at Scutari, embark
at Marseilles on Sunday, the 10th inst., proceeding
direct to their destination.

A Carlow paper states "upon authority" that every
available iron-bedstead in the several barracks in the
country, with blankets, in bales and otherwise, have
been ordered to be sent forthwith to the Tower of Lon-
don. These are to be despatched immediately, in order
to furnish the wooden houses for winter occupation in
the Crimea.

VOLUNTEER RIFLE Coers.—Arrangements are being
made fce• enrolling in Sheffield a volunteer rifle corps.
THE EIGHTY-SECOND.—No orders have yet been re-
ceived by the 82d Regiment as to their departure from
Edinburgh, although everything is in preparation for it.
RECRUITING FOR THE CAVALRY.—The commanding-
officer of the Ist Dragoon Gaards, stationed at Piers-
hill, hag, we understand, been instructed to enlist men
and purchase horses for the Scots Greys.
SOLDIERS GOING TO THE CRIMEA.—On Wednesday a
dejeuner, which was very tastefully got up, was given to
the officers and men of the 89th Regiment, at the Town-
hall of Waterford.
VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FllSlLlERS.—Lieutenant Lewis
(of St. Pierre), and 75 men of the Royal Monmouth
Militia, have this week left our barracks for London, as
volunteers for the line, the larger number intending to
enrol themselves among the brave Welsh Fusiliers.—
Monmouthshire Merlin.
LEAVE or ABSENCE has been granted to the follow-
ing officers, who proceed to England :—Major P. Lin-
desay, 631 Regiment ; Lieutenant L. E. Knight, 17th
Lancers; Captain and Lieutenant. Colonel J. Elphin-
le and Ensign and Lieutenant A. H.
sTthoineetleptl:wira7teP, of the Scots Fusilier Guards ; and
Lieutenant 11. Newdogate, Rifle Brigade. Colonel Lord
George Paget, 4th Light Dragoons, having tendered
the resignation of his commission under urgent private
circumstances he has been permitted to proceed to Eng-
land ; and Captain A. C. Greville, lately A.D.C. to Sir
G. Cathcart, has been ordered to join his regiment at
home by the earliest opportunity.
THE MEDICAL STAFF IN THE CRIMEA.—Dr. Humfrey,
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals ; Dr. R. Law-
son, staff surgeon (first class) ; and John Newton and
John Summers, M.D., staff surgeons (second class) ;
and staff assistant surgeons A. Hooper, J. W. Rut-
ter, B. Williamson, W. R. Stewart, W. Macnamara,
F. A. Macartney, James Macartney, H. Mitchell,
J. V. Seddall, and G. H. Findlay, joined the army
in the Crimea on the 7th ultimo. Dr. Clito Bellanti,
Dr. Vincenzo Muscat, and Dr. T. Louis Pisani, have
been appointed to act as temporary assistant
sur-
geons, pith the daily pay of Bs. 6d., together with
also joined the
The under-mentioned officers
enAce. C(tueranil
rations and the regulated allowance for a servant.
taslps
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ming ; Deputy Inspector of
medical staff : Deputy Inspeßctosorhoiatfvallis,osTpi.
• °rJ. A. Earns, John Mulock, James
ary duty) ; staff surgeon (first class), Marshall ; staff
assistants. h acti surgeons,ivistati assistant surgeons, Harvey Ludlow,
Cumming, has the Gmeoltrge. C. Clery, John Hearn. Deputy Inspector Gene.
ral of Hospitals, Dr. A. Cum
superinten-
dence of the general hospital at Scutari. First-class
Staff Surgeon Marshall has been attached to the second
division, and Dr. Lawson is to proceed to Abydos, to
superintend the general hospital there established, vice
First-Class Staff Surgeon Dr. Jameson, who has been
ordered up to Scutari.

THE OFFICERS FROM THE Cammit.--Among the pas-
sengers by the Indus, which brought the India and
Australian mail to Southampton yesterday, were
Lieutenant-General Torrens, Captain Torrens, his
aide.de.camp ; Lieutenant-Colonel Gambier, R.A. ;
Major Hoyland, 95th Regiment ; Staff-Surgeon
Legress, Lieutenant Harrison, 19th Regiment ; Lieut.
the Hon. Mr. Amherst, of the Coldstream Guards ; Capt.
Morant, 68th Regiment ; Dr. Skelton, of the Cold-
stream Guards ; Lieutenant Harrison, of the 79th
Regiment ; Captains Taylor, Harrison, and Wetherall,
95th Regiment ; and Lieutenant the Hon. F. Crof ton,
most of them wounded at the battle of Inkerman. Ge-
neral Torrens nearly lost his life at Gibraltar. While
on shore there the horses of his carriage ran away, and
the vehicle was upset. Col. Gambier is internally in-
jured. He was knocked off his horse by a 321 b. shot,
which had touched the ground and struck him after-
wards in the chest. One of the above-named officers,
a beardless youth, had his arm in a sling ; another
scarcely older was walking on crutches. Some
were carried, and others were led onwhshenore.
the
iterues
hundreds of people ware in the docks
to see the heroes of Inkerman. A lane was formed by
soldiers
paleas
arrived, and the most intense curiosity was manifested
the spectators, who treated the wounded
dedThe n
they passed with the greatestrespc
ap-
pearance and maimed state the officers prevented
anything like cheering. The
of
labourers and coal heavers
working
iu the docks and on board ships stopped their
work and ran to look at the won whofought 50 gloriously
in the Crimea.-