The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

THE REINFORCEMENTS.

Yesterday, at eight a.m., six divisions of the 18th
Regiment (Royal Irish) assembled on the general parade
ground of Chatham Barracks, under command of Major
Wigston, numbering 300 duty men. The muster of the
regiment was in consequence of a telegraphic despatch
having arrived at the head-quarters, from the Horse
Guards, on Thursday afternoon, requiring the troops for
duty at the palace, So., and to occupy Wellington Bar-
racks. The troops were inspected, previous to taking
their departure, by the colonel, Thomas S. Rignolds,
C.B. The following officers went with them :—Capts.
Lawrie, Hayman, and Kelly; Lieuts. Wood, Stacpoole,
and Taylor; Ensigns Woolsey and Wigston.
Major A. W. Campbell, who is now at Windsor with
a detachment, is to take the command of the 18th in the
barracks, Bird-cage-walk, London.
This morning they mounted guard at Buckingham
Palace. A large number of persons also collected at tke
Horse Guards to witness tkem relieving the Grenadiers
doing duty there.

Yesterday was a day of great activity at Woolwich.
Long before the dawn of the morning Captain Camp-
bell's company, sth battalion Royal Artillery, assembled
in marching order, and, headed by the band of the re-
giment, marched at six o'clock a.m. from the garrison to
the Dockyard station of the North Kent Railway Sta-
tion, and proceeded thence to London en route to Liver-
pool, where the company is to embark in the Niagara
for the seat of war in the East. The band returned to
the garrison, and at seven o'clock played Capt. Wragge's
company, 6th battalion, to the Arsenal station of the
same railway, and- they proceeded thence to London,
en route to Southampton, where they are to embark in
the Tamar for a passage to the Crimea.

Major Crofton's company, 7th battalion, expects to
leave Woolwich this morning, or on Monday, for the
seat of war. These seven companies now on their way
to the East will afford a glorious relief to their hitherto
hard-worked comrades, new before Sebastopol, as the
seven companies contain a total of 1,050 officers, non-
commissioned officers, and gunners, all practically ac-
quainted with the duties of artillerymen, and the effi-
cient working of the largest siege guns.
Six other companies were yesterday placed under
orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark on
the shortest notice for the seat of war, and eight com-
panies more are ordered from the home stations to re-
turn to head-quarters, to prepare for active service in
the Crimea.

Captain King, Royal Engineers, with the company of
Royal Sappers and Misers under his command, left
their barracks at eight a.m. yesterday for the Arsenal
station, headed by the brass band, and proceeded to
Loidon, en route to Portsmouth, where they are to em-
bark in the Royal Albert for the Crimea.

Fifty gunners and drivers arrived at Sheerness to re-
inforce-the garrison yesterday from Woolwich. The re-
cruiting party, under Captain Cannon, of the Royal
Artillery, here have, during the present month, suc-
ceeded in procuring a number of fine young men for the
regiment. We are sorry to state that small-pox of a
virulent nature has broken out in the military hospital
here ; there has been one death, and ten men are at pre-
sent under treatment in hospital, several of whom are
in a very precarious state. Every necessary precaution
to prevent the spread of this dreadful disease is being
taken by the Colonel-Commandant, Capt. Cannon, he.

Seven of the senior engineer officers at Chatham are
under orders for the service of their corps. The second
company of the Royal Sapper. and Miners, commanded
by Captain Frederick William King, ILE., have received
orders to prepare for service in the Crimea.

Yesterday morning the reserve battalion of the 71st
Highlanders, numbering about 500 rank and file, left
the Canterbury barracks and proceeded to Portsmouth,
where they are to embark for the East. They were
loudly cheered as they passed through the streets on
their road to the railway station.

There are at present in Leeds recruiting parties from
the 2d Dragoon Guards, 6th Dragoons, 13th Light Dra-
goons, 16th Lancers, Scots Fusilier Guards, Royal Ma-
rines, Royal Artillery, 3d, 7th, 28th, 66th, 67th, and
94th Regiments of the line, and from the 2d, 3d, and 4th
West York Militia Regiments. At no period during
the present century has volunteering been more brisk
in this town, and every fresh report of au engagement
steins to add new excitement to the martial spirit of our
young men. During the month' ended the 23d billets
were issued for no less than 246 recruits, of which 70
were for the last week. This is, of course, exclusive of
those continually enrolling from the militia regiments.

Yesterday the 54th Regiment of Foot, composed of
G4O men, arrived at Liverpool from Lancaster, where
they had halted during the night, having left Glasgow
on Tlanrsday morning. They had only been stationed
in Glasgow five weeks, previous to which time they had
been for nine years on service in Canada and various
foreign stations, including the West Indies and Gibral-
tar, They were accompanied by 50 women and SO
children, and were commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel
Moore, besides whom there were the following officers :
—Adjutant Lake ; Majors Moffatt and Smith ; Captains
Jones, Gilham, Fairfewk, Thompson, Brett, Miller,
Mathias, and Sweetman ; Lieutenants Ramsey, Thomp-
son, Mansell, Howson Stokes, Clarke, O'Brien, and
Shiffner ; Ensigns Fane, Perry, Betham, Galbraith,
White, and Parker ; Paymaster Mariott, Quartermaster
Hipkin, Drs. Grant and Firth. Soon after 1 o'clock
they embarked on board the Cunard steamer Niagara.
At a later period of the day a detachment of the Royal
Artillery, composed of 150 men, arrived in the town
from Woolwich, and were also embarked on board the
Niagara, which will proceed to sea this morning to
Gibraltar, where the 54th will replace the 13th Regi-
ment, which proceeds immediately to the Crimea. On
arriving at Gibraltar the Niagara will disembark the 54th,
and take on board the 13th, with which and the artillery
she will proceed direct to the Crimea.
Yesterday morning a detachment of the 56th Regi-
ment, composed of 100 men, arrived at Liverpool, from
Chatham, for the purpose of being forwarded this morn-
ing to Dublin.

Fifty gunners anti drivers arrived at Sheerness yester-
day frstn Woolwich, to reinforce that garrison.

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Tamar, Capt.
Rivett, left Southampton this foremen for the Black
Sea, with the 66th Regiment, and 125 nten of the 6th
division of Royal Artillery on board, under the command
of Captain Wragge. The 06th Regiment will be landed
at Gibraltar, to supply the place •f one which will be
taken on to the Crimea by the Tamar.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Nubia will leave Southampton this afternoon for Toilon.

MR ROYAL ALBERT.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited Ports-
mouth yesterday, to inspect the screw three-decker
Royal Albert, Captain Sir Thomas Pasley, prior to her
departure to the seat of war in the Crimea, and to wit-
ness the embarcation of the reinforcements of Guards,
&e., who take passage in that noble ship. The Prince
arrived in the Royal Clarence yard, Gosport, between
12 and 1 o'clock, by train from London, attended by
Colonel the Hon. G. Grey and Captain Da Plat,
Equerries, and was received with a Royal salute by her
Majesty's ship Victory and the Platform Battery. The
officers in attendance at the Clarence-yard were—Vice-
Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral
Martin, Rear-Admiral Courtesay, Major• General Simp-
son, Major Dalgetty, Master-Attendant Davis' R.N.,
Mr. Storekeeper Pinhorn, R.N., and a guard of honour.
The Royal yacht Fairy, Captain the Hon. Joseph Den-
man, was alongside, and at once conveyed the Prince
and staff to the Portsmouth side of the harbour, where
she remained to await the arrival of the troops from the
Portsmouth Railway-station. The first portion of these,
comprising 730 of the Guards (Grenadier, Coldstream,
and Scots Fusilier), arrived at the station about one
o'clock, and were met by the bands of the regiments in
garrison, who, on their falling in, placed themselves at
the head of the column and played them to the place of
embarcation in the dockyard to the liveliest tunes and
amid an ovation from the populace such as had not been
accorded to any of their comrades who had previously
embarked at this pert. The greeting was roost inde-
scribably enthusiastic, and business along the entire
line of march was completely suspended during the pas-
sage. One warm-hearted inhabitant (Mr. Antill, wine,
spirit, and porter merchant, whose premises are con-
tiguous to the dockyard gates) had all the drawers of his
establishment employed in drawing pots of first-class stout,
and banding them to the troops as they defied past his
house to the dockyard, and so admirably was this timed
and managed that no stoppage took place, ner any con-
fusion in the ranks ; and we don't think a score of the
whole of the Guards went without their hearty " pull" at
the foaming cheer. On arriving at the dockyard another
greeting awaited the gallant soldiers from the artisans
of the establishment, and they then driw up near
the jetty of embarcatiou, and formed in divisions at close
order for the Prince to inspect them. His Royal High-
ness then, accompanied by Major-General Simpson and
the staff, passed from right to left of each rank and
minutely inspected them, after which they filed off on
board the Sprightly, the Comet, and the Echo steam-
tender, and tugs, and where conveyed out to Spithead,
the Fairy, with the Prince and suite on board, attending
the first vessel out to Spithead. Large concourses of
spectators lined the ramparts and the beach, and cheered
the troops as each freight want out of harbour. On
• Arriving eit Spithea, the Prince gensort left the rah 7