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Naval and Military Intelligence.

Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell will have the
command of the troops to be encamped at Shorneiffe,
numbering about 5,000 men. Among the regiments
constituting this division will be included some of those
lately under Sir Colin's command in the Highland Di-
vision in the Crimea.

Colonel Trollope, of the 62d Regiment, who lately
commanded a brigade in the Crimea, will, we under-
stand, proceed to Canada to fill a staff appointment of
similar rank, in the room of Major-General Home Home,
, who returns to 'England.
1 As some reports have appeared Injurious to the cha-
racter and discipline of the Foreign Legion at Dover, it
may be right to state that at a meeting of the directors
of the Dover Sailors' Home, which took place a few
days ago, it was resolved that the secretary should be
requested to express to Lieut.-Colonel Raines the great
satisfaction of the directors at the exemplary behaviour
of the soldiers of the British Swiss Legion, who in large
nulders have availed themselves of the opportunities
affoiJed to them for reading in that institution.
The Second Battalion of the Fusilier Guards is ex-
pected to arrive at Liverpool from Windsor early on
Thu May morning, to embark at 10 o'clock on board the
screw steamer Indus for Dublin.
The steamer Gorgon has arrived at Liverpool for the
germ-boats G.uat and Garland ; and the steamer Salaman-
der is expected there for the gun boats Kestral and
Clown, which will camplete the number ordered by Go-
vernment at Liverpool.
The Diadem steam-frigate is in a forward state at Pen).
broke Dockyard. She is the first laid down of the new
class men-of-war, of her size and weight of metal, of
which two more, t be Ariadne and Galatea, have just been
ordered to be built'at'Woolwich and Deptford. Although
the Diadeni is only. `tut carry • et these are all to
be 68 pounders, and Or is thong t that she able
to 'carry 84',4. The IDiatlem is being pushed forward
with all rapidity, a I 'at-go number of hands being em-
ployed upon her. This frigate is longer than the Duke
of Welliogton, 131 gun e, ship of the line, and will have
engines sir 1.000-horse p o wer. Her burden will be up-
wards of 1,500 tons, ant I she promises to prove a model
of strength, beauty and soiled.
The huge chain lights 'z' in the service of Woolwich
doCkyard was on Monday -,towed up to Poplar for the
purpose of embarking IV., Cr, Horsfail'a monster gun,
which had been received at the railway station front
Liverpool. The gun was i ,zeeived on board the barge
with safety, but with some difficulty, on account of its
enormous weight— 26 tons. It was thence conveyed to
Shoeburyness, where it will t undergo a course of experi-
mental trials, _ _

Messrs. Lucas Brothers hat •e commenced framing and
sinking 10 gun casting-pits wit bin the enclosure of the
newly-erected gun foundry in NA l'oolwich Arsenal. These
pits are to be 300 feet in length, 184 feet broad, and 27
feet deep. To prevent accident SP
frOm an escape of any portion of the metal while in a
state of hydrostatic fusion, which ,a ' which might result
ill take place in these
pits, they are to be lined with a
ts solid substance of
wrought iron, enclosing a thick ho dy of concrete and
Portland cement about eight feet dee P.
The following appointments were 1, lade yesterday at
the Admiralty :—Captain Sidney Gren fell, to the Ame-
thyst ; Cominander G. T. Colville, to t, 'le Camilla.

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At a court of the City Commission of Sewers, held
yesterday, Mr. Joshua W. Butterworth and Mr. E.
Waller, a deputation from the guardians of the West
London Union, attended for the purpoSe of thanking the
commission for the measures they had taken for abating
the nuisance ari,ing from the overcrowding and • filthy
condition of the houses situated in Pluintree.court and
its vicinity.
Mr. BUTTERWOIITH said that the prompt mariner in
which the commission had met the complaint of the
board of guardians in respect to the unsatisfactory state
of this locality had induced them to revise the plan for
the introduction of baths and washhouses into the City,
The guardians felt that sanitary improvement in the City
could never be effectually carried out unless baths and
washouses were established for the use of the labouring
poor, and from the establishment of which they expected
immense good. Their application upon this subject to
the Court of Common Council having been rejected i hey
entertained the sanguine hope that it would be enter-
tained by the Commission of Sewers. The guardians had
lately received a variety of reports from the relieving
officer, the medical officer, and other persons,. upon the
condition of the courts and alleys in the union. The re-
lieving officer wrote—" I rather find fault with a system
that allows sexes of all ages to lie indiscriminately in one
room, that permits girls and boys of the ages from T 1 to
20 to occupy the same apartments as their parents, And
to the apathy that exists with regard to proper lavator 'es
and washhouses. It has frequently been ray lot to wit`-
ness females of 20 stripped to their waists, washing be-
fore men of the same age, and to find sheets and blan-
kets dripping with wet in the same room where the
pallid cheek from the bed on the floor denotes the near .
approach of death." The medical officer wrote—" I beg
to state that I can bear testimony most emphatically to
the injury both to health and morals which the poor sus-
tain from the almost total absence of means in their own
habitations for personal ablution, and the cleansirrg of
their clothes and bedding. In the course of my duties
as medical officer of the union, I have had daily occasi
to notice and regret this state of things, and I am coa-
-1 vinced that the establishment of public baths and wash-
houses would be a great advantage to the humbler
classes. A. large amount of disease, suffering, and pre-
mature death is undoubtedly occasioned in this district
by the absence of all domestic conveniences of the kind,
and I shall be glad to see souse efiectual measures
taken to abate these evils." There were about 30,000 -
souls itrthe union, of whom about 10,000 were of the- •
poorer classes, to whom baths and washhouses would be
an invaluable blessing. By the accounts for the last
half-year, he (Mr. Butterworth) found that relief had
been administered to no less than 6,000 cases, which
would give a notion of the character of the population
inhabiting the West London Union.
A section of the Sewers Act decreeing that no extra-
ordinary business be transacted at the weekly meetings
of the court without due notice, Mr. Ross said be should
draw the attention of the Commission to the subject at
the next court.