The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

Notice has been issued for the embodiment of the
Cornwall Rangers Militia. The regiment will assemble
at Bedmin on Monday, the 16th of January.
The endeavours which have been made during the
last week to establish evening schools for the men be-
longing to the Oxfordshire Militia have been successful,
and will be in operation this week.
The 4th West York Militia (the staff of which regi-
ment has been for the last 18 months in Leeds, under
the command of Captain Pollard, the adjutant, late of
the 17th Regiment of Foot), has received orders for
permanent service. The staff, all of whom are from
some crack regiments of the line, have, by their uni-
formly good conduct, won for themselves the regard of
a numerous circle of friends.
Intimation has been received that the Brecon Militia
(a rifle regiment) will in all probability, in the course
of a couple of wesks, occupy Horfield barracks, near
Bristol. The party of artillery who recently went to
Horfield are expecting to receive orders to march very
soon. The Brecon Rifles are commanded by Colonel
Watkins, M.P.
The West Kent Light Infantry is ordered to assemble
at Maidstone on Wednesday, • the 2d of January, for
embodied service. The strength of the regiment at the
present time is 750. Since the commencement of the
last training 96 men have joined the line, 61 the Kent
Artillery, and 12 the East rent ; the latter rdgiment
has been embodied since May last. The West Kent
was one of the last regiments to be disembodied, after
having served during the last war a groat portion of its
time in Ireland, and having given 2,040 men to the regi-
ments in the Peninsula.

• The Shropshire Militia is now fully embodied. Seve-
ral men have volunteered into the " line " since last
week.

The now barracks which are being erected in the field
near St. Domingo-how-e, at Everton, for the 2d Royal
Lancashire Militia, are rapidly approaching completion,
and will be ready for occupation in a few weeks. The or-
dinary militiamen will be billeted in the town, or remain
at their own houses, if within easy access, as heretofore,
the barracks being merely for the purpose-of drill and
exercise, and for storing the ammunition and arms.
The Fermanagh Regiment hai received orders to be
immediately embodied for permanent duty, in addition to
the eight Irish militia regiments already called up ; head-
quarters at Enniskillen, under Colonel W. Earl of En-
The head-quarters of the Armagh Militia, at Market-
hill, under Colonel A. Earl of Gohford, having been
called up for permanent duty, are allowed to occupy Ar-
magh barracks, relieving the detachment of the 21st
Royal North British Fusiliers, which will rejoin its
head-quarters at the depot battalion, Birr. -
The Monaghan Militia, under Colonel Henry Lord
Rossmore, have been accommodated in barracks at
Monaghan for the purpose of enrolment.
Captain Blake Foster, of the Galway Militia, attended
on Saturday at the Court House, when persons willing
to enter are enrolled. The applications are so many
that there can be no doubt but the required number will
be soon attested.

THE WEATHER AT PORTSMOUTH.—The weather was
exceedingly boisterous the whole of yesterday, blowing
half a gale from the SW. The ships of war have sent
down topgallantreasts. A steam transport has run
down to the Motherbanlr, and anchored. A vast num-
ber of merchant vessels are weather bound at Spithead,
St. Helen's, and the Motherbank.

RIFLE BRIGADE, SECOND BATTALION,

The following is an official list of the men belo'nging
to the 2el battalion, Rifle Brigade, who have been re-
ported as having died or been killed from the Ist of
March to the 31st of October, 1854 :
Privates William J. Cullen, Thomas Jones, Rickard
Beasley, Samuel Clarke, Abraham Wilson, and Richard
Brown; Corporal Thomas Singer; Sergeant Robert Taylor;
Privates John Ward, William mith, John Tong, Henry
Heard, John Mayes, and John M unro ; Acting Sergeant-
Major Henry Lugg ; Privates George Miller, Stephen Fry,
William Read, William Eglestone, George Boyce, William
Lewis, Charles Bollard, Gideon Petilla, Frederick Mercy,
Nathaniel Heard, John Simpson, R. Townend, George
Smith, William Dray, Charles Perry, George R. Mitchell,
William Nicholls; Sergeant William Stapeley ; Privates
Henry Mallino, William Johnson, Robert Taylor, John
Farnsworth, John M'Leod, Aubrey Shoesmith, R. West,
John 11Z'Duff, James Younger, Henry Penny; Sergeant
Henry Plumridge; Corporal William Simpson, killed at
the Alma; Corporal John Robertson, ditto; Private Wil-
liam Kennedy, ditto; Sergeant James Swallow, ditto;
Privates Thomas Pine, ditto ; Ml. M'Bride, ditto ; Corne-
lius Finucane, ditto ; George Robinson, ditto ; Charles
Resell, ditto ; Henry Colton, died of wounds • Edward
Hester, ditto ; Castles, William Baulkham ;
Corporal Samuel Henning; Privates Peter Keating, Wil-
liam Pope, John O'Niel, W. Smith, William H. Morgan,
George Wakefield, Cornelius Halpin, and J. Dunn • Ser-
geant Henry Steer; Privates Thomas Chambers, William
Dizon, Henry Downer, Charles Marsh, and Frederick
Hewlett; Sergeant Alfred Slade; Private Edward Par-
kinson ; Corporal William Campbell, -killed ; Privates
John Bishop, ditto ; John Calow, ditto, and William
Harris ; Sergeant Thomas Hale ; Privates John Riggett,
died of wounds; William Jackson, ditto; David Graham,
ditto ; William Crouch, ditto ; William Hewitt, killed ;
Henry Kent, died of wounds ; John Glover, and Alex-
ander M'Lean ; Corporal Patrick Behean ; Private James
Paton ; Corporal Joseph Brown ; Privates Frederick
Crutchley, Isaac Russell, and James Lucas.