The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-29 00:00:00

T.HE ARMY.

Yesterday orders were recoived at Chatham gar-
rison from the Horse Guards for 21 officers and 949
non-commissioned officers and men of the 2d bat-
talion of Ist Royals, Ist battaiion of the 3d Buffs,
31st, 44th, 67th, and 99th Regiments, to be held in
readiness to embark for China to reinforce the ser-
vice companies of those regiments. Of the above
draughts 11 officers and 548 men of Ist Royals, 31st,
and 44th Regiments will embark at Gravesend, and
10 officers and 401 men of the 3d Buffs, 67th, and
99th Regiments at Cork. The tonnage for the
China reinforcements will be taken up by the Go-
vernment this day.

The whole of the officers at Chatham garrison
who have received orders to embark for India, a list
of whom has already appeared in The 'Sun, have
been granted one month's leave of absence from
their depots at Chatham previous to their embarka-
tion, which is not expected to take place before the
close of the ensuing month.

Capt. Erasmus Borrowes, 80th Regiment, has
been appointed Adjutant of the 2d battalion at
Chatham, on the promotion of Capt. and Adjt. R.
Roney to be Major in the 3d depot battalion.
Orders have been received at the Royal Engineer
establishment, Chatham, for Capt. E. 0. Hewett,
R.E., to proceed to Portsmouth to take the com-
mand of the 36th Company of Royal Engineers.

THE MILITIA.
The Queen's Own Light Infantry (2d Tower
Hamlets), Col. the Earl of Wilton, G.C.H., were
inspected on Thursday last by Col. Bradford, Gre-
nadier Guards, who expressed himself highly
pleased with the general efficiency of the regiment.
The Chatsworth Rifles, or 2d Regiment of
Derbyshire Militia, assembled last Thursday, at
Chesterfield, for their annual period of training.
The Hampshire Militia Infantry has just com-
pleted its annual period of training, and the men
have returned to their homes. There was an ex-
cellent muster.

The Ist Devonshire Regiment of Militia has just
completed its annual period of training at Exeter,
under the command of Lieut.-Col. Ferguson Davie,
M.P. The regiment consists of about 550 men.
The Royal Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty
Rifles will assemble at Dingwall on the 7th of June,
for training, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Ross.
The Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders will as-
semble, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Erskine,
for 27 days' training, on Monday next.

A detachment of the Staffordshire Militia [will
to-day proceed from Portsmouth to Portland and
Weymouth, to relieve a detachment of East Kent
Militia, which returns to head•quarters at Ports-
mouth.

THIS -DAI'S SHIPPING.

fine29.—Wind
wtheiasthdeary at noon—North-
Wet; WQesirt;:NiTowN, May 29.—WindN.W.—Arrived—Teu-
tonic, 'screw steamer, from New York I r Hamburg, ma-
chinery damaged.
PLYMOUTH, May 28.—Wind W.N.W., strong.—Ar-
D Ot
strong gMay breeze, aud
rived—Sydenham, from Bombay.
RAMSGATE, May 28.—1 t has blown a tremendous gale.
here all this day.. The J. C. Schotel, barque, of Dordt
have all been supplied with
Viscountess Canning, of Guernsey, and one brig and two'
abnacrqhuoress'anndanclhesaiunnskfin.oomwnlience.

(BY ELECTRIC TELI',GRAPIT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.

Wind W.
Arrived, May 23.--Cautious and Vixen, from Seaham ;
Victoria, from Aberdovy ; Wonder, steamer, from Jersey ;
Martha, from Cerdiff; Heiress, from Newport ; Mary Ann,
from Llanelly ; Breach, from Sunderland.
Sailed.—Polka, for Cardiff; Tagus, steamer, for Lisbon;
Atalanta and Despatch, steamers, for Jersey; Le Coq, for
Cherbourg; Alliance, steamer, -for Ifavre.

(By SUBMARINE AND BRITISh TELEGRAPH.)

Wind N.W. GRAvEsEND, Tuesday Morning.
, tide three hours ebb, weather fine.
Arrived; May 28—Wacousta, from Kurrachee.
Arrived, May 29—Rater, from Palermo.
Sailed, May 29—Maria Hay, for Calcutta ; Beethoven,
for Buenos Ayres; Ann Pitcairn Sharp, for Valparaiso.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind W.N.W., fresh.
l'a,sed—Ernity, barque, from westward, for London.
Anchored—lrvine, of Yarmouth, from London, for
west ward ; Nina, of Weymouth, from the north, for the
west.

Sailed—Fortuna, for Rochfort.