The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-15 00:00:00

THE ROYAL DOCKYARD BRIGADES.

Now that all the regular military forces are withdrawn
or being withdrawn from our naval port garrisons, the
Government are looking round to see what other de-
fenders they have, and on Thursday morning each Royal
Dockyard authority was called upon to supply with the
utmost expedition a return of the effective strength of
the enrolled dockyard battalions. Much urgency was
expressed in the Admiralty letter, from which it may
fairly be augured that their lordships have it in contem-
plation to employ these highly respectable artisan soldiers
in watching and protecting their own spheres of labour
—the Royal Dockyards of the kingdom, during the ab-
sence of the soldiers of the line in aiding the Turks. The
return furnished, showed the following as the effective
strength of these brigades :
Portsmouth, with Royal) 1600 non-commission officers
Clarence Battalion and men.
Plymouth, with Royal
Williamandthe Break- 1500 ditto.
water Battalions
Chatham Battalion lOOO ditto.
Sheerness Battalion 7OO ditto.
Woolwich Battaliion .... 700 ditto.
Deptford Battalion
Pembroke Battalion 4OO ditto.

Total

,;70,p

These forces originally numlireit :-"'").)• men, but by
them of all tlo s 4, of t.. and retiring the
infirm, the 1111/1110-.l': Are :00 t!ffectives bfqvrP.--qi
the Age, of '!is of offn,er,4.
bodies havd.not yet Leek called out for exercise during
tlte present year, in consequence of the extraordinary
pressure upon the, artificers in the discharge of their
mechanical duties, but as new clothing has been lately
issued and fines re-established chiefly for artillery prac-
tice, it is expected, now that the Admiralty has called
fur returns from the several commanding officers show-
*.g.tlle,number of artificers who are enrolled in these
143.41i0u5, and who have been clothed and selected for
Military duty, that they will immediately commence
their.drills, and most probably be called upon to assist
in
.the military guardianship connected with her Ma-
jesty's dockyards, if not the naval port garrisons. Our
impression is that so fine a body of men are fit for any-
thing.—Hampshire Advertiser.

of the 45th Regiment,
This
merging a
detach CHATHAM, FRIDAY.
consisting of 40 nrivates,maenndt.
officers, Major W. P. Preston
10:1Ensign Preston, and
serjeant, with three
Assistant-Surgeon Allen, with
Mounted Rifles, marched from Chautlsal ofga
the Cape
Gravesend, there to embark on board thnelPunjaub, for
gthdeeCteoaphemoeintoodf
tHheo
f morning, to
Hope. Regiment leave
conveyance
The
ollovteion
Chatham garrison for Gravesend to-morrow
embark on board the undernamed ships
to Calcutta :—On board ths- ship Agncoor ecvveYan
with 13 women and 21 children, will embarkurt 168
men,
with six
officers, viz., Major James Tedlie, Captain Le Grand
Captain James Bickerstaff, Lieutenant J. Ormsby -
daleur, Lieutenant Edward Tedlie, and Assistant-Sur-
geon Van.
Thistleton ; and Major Charles Beamish, Captain
M. V. S. Morton, and Assistant-Surgeon W. G. Clarke,
with 86 men, 10 women, and 17 children, will embark
on board the ship Hotspur.
Major General Harry D. Jones, director of the engi-
neering establishment at this garrison, takes his depar-
ture to-morrow, en route for Deal. Captain Ord, his
brigade major, accompanies the gallant officer to that
station, and embarks for the ship Hannibal, to proceed
to the Baltic.
The. Avon steam-ship, which embarks the detachment
of the 48th, from Windsor, on the 19th inst., for Con-
stantinople, takes also the 63d Regiment from Cork for
the same destination.
The City of Norwich, hired steam-transport laden with
Government stores for the eastward, left Portsmouth
yesterday morning.
An entire new battery of 9-pounder brass guns was
taken up from the depot yesterday to the Woolwich gar-
rison, and new harness from the Royal Arsenal, for
Captain Townsend's No. 4 Company, 12th Battalion,
:under orders to proceed to Turkey.
The 70 horses sent up from Leith to head-quarters at
proved Wool
ai ell, in the early part of the present week, have
to be fine and valuable animals, well adapted
s r • for field battery service.
INT Captain Penrose Charles Penrose, of the Woolwich
c elli ; ... ~ '.. Division
of Royal Marines
I .7Z* 4 , 'k: , o join the Winchester, 50, has been placed under orders
" '":-. ' ("" ation. "2 50, flag-ship on the East India
..-* er• '
• . - •.X The recruT
\ ' Y.J, I mg parties of the Royal Marines at pre-
, ',..,,, = . z,.r —nt at Worcester, Bi •
Ingham, Derby, and Peter-
/{ %`` .--'..*"%le,orough have been ordered
Milic"-•01: 1.T..„./Portsmouth, and theto send their recruits to
recruitingmouth' Party at Bath to Ply-
'Ludy r", a . :--,-.: . . ' .
a ..,,,id. 2.,,, Eight privates of -the' Wool Wis di Division of Ituyil