The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-20 00:00:00

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

WOOLWICH, FEB. 18.—The horses of the half of the
field-battery stationed at Leeds for some time past ar-
rived in the garrison at Woolwich on Thursday, at 11
o'clock a.m., and the other half of the battery, stationed
at Chester, sent up the horses attached to it on the fol-
lowing day. Captain Pack, with four non-commissioned
officers, six artificers, and 20 gunners, arrived on the
evening of the 16th, with 78 horses belonging to the
field-battery at Bristol, and the whole of the horses were
turned over to the batteries under orders for foreign
service. Captain Pack, with the four non-commissioned
officers, returned to-day to their station at Bristol, and
the six artificers and 20 gunners remain at head quarters
here to join the batteries for foreign service.
One bugler and 25 gunners of Captain Nedham's com-
pany, 11th battalion, arrived in the garrison at 1 o'clock
p.m. on the 16th inst., from Eastbourne station, to join
the batteries for foreign service, as they are all men who
have gone through a course of field•battery duties. 25
gunners from Captain Campbell's company, Ist battalion,
stationed at Sheerness ; and 25 gunners from Captain
Edward Price's company, 7th battalion, stationed at
Shorncliffe, arrived in the garrison on the same day, all
for the purpose of joining the batteries under orders for
foreign service.
No day has been as yet fixed for the embarkation of
the troops of the Royal Artillery branch of the service,
but, as the arrangements become more matured, the
detail is better known. It appears Lieutenant-Colonel
Bloomfield does not proceed in command of a divison,
as the whole, consisting of 1 troop of Royal Horse
Artillery and 5 field-batteries, each to be 190 in strength
including officers and men, are to be under the command
of Colonel Cator, and the right and left divisions under
Lieutenant-Colonel Dacres and Lieutenant-Colonel
Lake, every man to be mounted and supplied with
Mini 4 rifles.
Two companies of the 38th Regiment of Foot have
arrived at Woolwich to do duty with the two companies
previously here, in the room of the Royal Marines,
nearly all the men of that corps belonging to this divi-
sion having been draughted for service afloat, or to as-
sist at the other divisions. A detachment of the 19th
Foot has relieved the detachment of the 38th Regiment
, from duty at Deptford dockyard.

(From the Morning Post.)
Lord John Russell announced to the House of
Commons, on Friday night, that " an exchange of
notes had taken place between England and
France," engaging those Powers " to co-operate
in giving assistance to Turkey."
This alliance between the two great Powers of
Western Europe is an event of immense importance,
both in its present aspect and future consequences.
We search in vain the pages of their annals for its
parallel. Those records tell chiefly of destructive
jealousies, of enmities and wars, mutually mis-
chievous, and of the difficult progress of each na-
tion, constantly injured by her neighbour.
A happier event than ever took place in the his-
tory of the two countries has now to be written
down. England and France have entered into an
alliance for a just and noble cause, agreeing to
bear alike the chances of war, and, in common, to
accept its consequences, and to carry it to an issue,
making war together and peace together ; stipu-
lating, with a magnanimity worthy of such coun-
tries that as stated by Lord John Russell, " No
, ,
selfish interest, no increase of territory or power,
is sought on the part of either State."
To these provisions the two Governments have
bound themselves by an exchange of notes—a diplo-
matic form having all the binding force of a treaty
—by which more solemn engagement it will soon
be, no doubt, replaced.
The exchange of notes is a form invented by mo-
dern diplomacy ; for to our ancestors treaties and
conventions only were known. These documents,
however, occupying frequently a long time in their
negotiation, being intended for deposition in the
national archives and as historical muniments, it
has been of late years found more expeditious, when
the matter is of an excessively urgent or of a pro- APPOINTMENTS.
visional nature, to supply the place of a treaty, Captain Henry Smith, C.B. (1829), who has a good
which is ratified by the Sovereign's own hand, by service pension, to the Neptune, 120, at Portsmouth,
an exchange of notes, signed by their Ambassa- SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 18. and not Captain Henry Smith (1846), at present in com-
mand of the Simoom, as inadvertently announced on
dors, as a temporary, though equally valid, bond. The squadron of glom-transports hired by the Go- Saturday.
It is with this latter form that Lord John Rus- vernment from this port, for the conveyance of a portion Lieutenants—Richard H. Dalton (1843), recently
sell has stated that England and France have -of the British expeditionary army to the East, is now Lieutenant-Commander of the Rifleman screw steam
bound themselves to maintain the integrity of the fully equipped and ready for sea. It is composed of the ' gun-vessel, when on the south-east coast of America sta-
Ottoman Empire, -and the independence
,of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw-steamer Hima- tion, to the Dasher, employed in surveying the Channel
Sultan, against all attack. This is the purpose of Jaya, 3,560 tons, 700-horse Power ; the Ripon, 1,900 islands, vice Freeland, to the Neptune ; John B. Bal-
the engagement ; the method of carrying it out is, tons, 450-horse power (Paddle-wheel) ' the Manilla, 635 four (1854), recently promoted from mate of the Excel-
of course, by war with Ruspia—provisions being tons, 60-horse power (screw) ; the West India Mail 1. lent gunnery ship at Portsmouth for gallant service at

WEYMOUTH, FEB. 18.
The Weymouth district has furnished 66 Coast-guard
men to be draughted on board the Baltic fleet—six men
being drawn from each of the 11 stations. They were
conveyed a few days ago to Plymouth by her Majesty's
steamer Sprightly, which is now actively engaged in
running to the various ports on this coast to take in de-
tachments of Coast-guard for service afloat.
The Lyme district has also furnished 41 men, who
have been sent to Devonport to be draughted on board
the men-of-war in commission at that port.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.