The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-19 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Severn, Capt.
Gilles, hospital transport, is under orders t 9 convey
the following detachments to Malta—viz., 1 captain, 4
subalterns, 2 serjeants, and 101 rank and file of the 2d
batalion of the rifle brigade ; 1 captain. 1 subaltern, 1 ser-
geant, and 52 rank and file of the 13th Foot ; 2 subal-
terns, 2 sergeants, 4 drummers, and 84 men of the 41st
Foot ; 1 captain, 2 subalterns, 1 sergeants, 1 drummer,
and 49 men of the 47th Foot ; 2 subalterns, 2 sergeants,
1 drummer, and 60 men of the 90th Foot ; 1 captain, 1
subaltern, 2 sergeants, and 80 men of the 39th Foot ;
total, 4 captains, 15 subalterns, 12 sergeants, 7 drum-
mers, and 521 men, and a medical officer. The 2d batta-
lion of the Rifle Brigade will embark at Southampton on
Nlonday next, when the Severn will take departvre.for
Cork, where the remaining portion of the troops will
be received on board. This vessel has rendered valua-
ble services in the Crimea for 11 months as a hospital
ship, the duties of which will be resumed by her on her
arrival in the Black Sea. Many improvements have
been effected in the hospital arrangements for the com-
fort of the sick and wounded, and she has been newly
furnished with all necessary atticles for the use of in-
valids. Dr. Schuyler will again accompany the Severn
as medical officer of the ship.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Candia, lately engaged in the transport service, is in the
graving dock at Southampton effecting necessary repairs
previous to resuming the transportation of troops, &c. to
the East, should her assistance be required.
The General Screw Company's steam-ships Calcutta
and Hydaspes are ready for sea, and only await orders
from Government. They are both lying at Southampton.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steam-
ship Alma, which arrived at Southampton yesterday
afternoon with the India and Mediterranean mails,
brings the following items of naval and military intelli-
gence from Gibraltar :—The British steam-transport
Harbinger, nine days from Falmouth, with Government
stores for Malta and Balakla.va, arrived out at. Gibraltar
on the Bth inst., and sailed on the 11th. On account of
the tempestuous whether it was quite impracticable to
ship the mules on board the steam-transport Charity,
until the morning of the 10th, The vessel sailed in the
afternoon with a foreman superintendent farrier, 9 fore-
men, and 45 drivers in charge of 200 animals, all under
the command of Lieut. Ormsby of the 3d Lancashire
Militia. The steam-transports Marley Hill, Royal Vic.
toria, and Black Prince, sailed from Gibraltar for Eng-
land—the former on the 11th, and the two latter on the
12th inst. The steam-transport Indiana, eight days
from Portsmouth, for the Crimea, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 11th. The Telegraph steam-transport, which put
into Lisbon, owing to the boisterous state of the weather
en route from Southampton to Malta, reached Gibraltar
on the 12th inst. The steam-transport Cape of Good
Hope, was steering for Gibraltar on the morning of the
12th.

The gun-boats Carnation and Bullfrog being provided
with sea stores and ammunition, have left Woolwich for
Greenhithe. The Dove gun-boat has been commis-
sioned by Lieut. F. A. Herbert, and has nearly com-
pleted her rigging and fitting for service.
The following changes and premotions are forthwith
to take place in Woolwich Dockyard :—Mr. Gottlieb,
storekeeper there, retires on receipt of annual full pay,
and is to be succeeded in his not by Mr. Vintner, store-
receiver at Portsmouth. Mr. Purr, private secretary
to Commodore Shephered (Superintendent of Wool wich
Dockyard), is to succeed ➢lr. Vintner as storereceiver
at Portsmouth. Mr. Crouch, assistant-scretary, suc-
ceeds Mr. Burr as privitte secretary ; and Mr. Hatton
fills up the vacancy which' occurs by the promotion of
Mr. Crouch.

The subjoined important circular, cancelling all the
former " volunteering instrucitons" issued since the com-
mencement of the war, was issued yesterday, and for-
warded to all the regiments of militia throughout the
united kingdom :

Revised Special Instructipns for carrying into effect
the volunteering from the Militia to the Cavalry,
Foot Guards, Infantry of the Line, Ordnance Corps,
and Marines.

" Horse Guards, Jan. 14, 1856.
" On all occasions of regiments of embodied militia
being prepared to volunteer, the same will be notified by
the commanding officers to the general officers of dis-
tricts, who will detach a steady officer to each corps for
the purpose of receiving the volunteers. He will be ac-
companied by a staff or regimental medical officer of the
regular forces, and also by a non-commissioned officer ;
and their arrival must be so regulated as to have every
necessary arrangement prepared previously to the day
on which the kvolunteering is to take place ; after the
conclusion of which the superintending officer will re-
turn to his regiment, reporting to the general officer
commanding the district, and transmitting through the
same channel, for the information of the Field-Marshal
Commanding-ire Chief, a return of the number of men
who have been released from their militia engagement,
showing the regiments to which they belonged and those
for which they have volunteered. In the event of the
q
incomplete, the volunteering will recom•
mn
be afterwards directed, and will be re-
befri mgonmay time to time until the prescribed number
shall be
e as
eueao
be furnished. In all possible cases the superintend-
, ing officer is to be a field officer, and his name and the
date of the volunteering are invariably to be reported to
the Adjutant-General in sufficient time to allow of the
same being notified to the Artillery, Engineers, and
Marines.
"2. The number of men required to be furnished by
the respective regiments of militia is in the proportion of
25 per cent. of their county establishment.
3. men will be permitted to volunteer for any of
the regiments of Cavalry, Artillery, Sappers and Miners,
Foot Guards, Infantry, and Royal Marines.
4. No militia soldier who may be in confinement is
to be permitted to volunteer without the consent of his
commanding officer. Soldiers undergoing imprisonment
by sentence of courts,martial are not to be allowed to
volunteer.
f, 6. No militia soldier employed as orderly-room
clerk, drummer, or belonging to the band or armoury,
is to be permitted to volunteer, without the eoneent of
his commanding officer.
6. The approval of volunteers by superintending
officers will henceforth be anal, and medical officers are
to pay the strictest attention to their surgical examina-
tion before they leave the head-quarters of the
No man is to be accepted labouring under any infirmity,
or who is not fit for immediate and active service. No
man under aft. tiin. in height is to be received for the
Guards ; for the cavalry under aft. sein., or for the in-
fantry of the lino under sft. 4i. ; or who is under 18 or
above 30 years of age. Special enlistments of men be-
tween the ages of 24 and 35 years of age, ender the
Order in Council dated the 31st of March, 1855, will
be allowed on application to inspecting field officers of
districts.
" 7. Officers commanding militia regiments aro strictly
enjoined to afford every facility to the volunteering of
their men ; and in case they should refuse to discharge
any private who shall be desirous of volunteering, they
will transmit their reasons in writing for such refusal to
tke General cnminanding the district, for reference to
g head-quarters.
"8, The superintending officers will take care that
the volunteers are regularly discharged from the militia,