The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-29 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

On Friday an intimation was received from
Windsor that her 'Majesty- intended to review the
troops in camp at Aldershot on the following day,
and the regiments were accordingly. ordered to
parade at 9 o'clock in marching order. Owing, how-
ever, to the inclemency of the weather on Satur-
day, which even for Aldershot was very bad, a
counter-order was received per telegraph postpon-
ing the review. It is her Majesty's intention to re-
view the troops this morning (Monday), at 11 o'clock.
Orders were on Saturday issued to the officers in
command of the cavalry and infantry battalions at
Chatham, Canterbury, Maidstone, Colchester, Win-
chester, Fermoy, Stirling. and other military sta=
tionsordering the following reinforcements to embark
at Gravesend on the dates mentioned on board the
vessels taken up on Friday last by the Hon. Council
of India for the purpose of augmenting the British
forces in the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presi-
dencies—viz., 24 men of the Ist battalion of the Bth
(the King's) Regt., one man of the 24th Regt., 12
men of the 29th Regt., 16 men of .the 25th (Royal
Sussex) Regt., and 30 men of thd 75th Regt., from.
Chatham, 42 men of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Ca-
rabineers), and 12 men of the 9th Lancers; from
Maidstone; 32 men of the 2d (the Queen's) Dra-
goon Guards, and 32 men of the 7th Hussars, from
Canterbury ; 20 men of the Ist battalion, sthFusi-
leers, 20 men of the Ist battalion 6th Regiment, 16
men of the 37th Regiment, and 30 men of the 88th
Connaught Rangers ; 20 men of the 2d battalion
Rifle Brigade from Winchester ; 20 men of the 73d
Regiment, from Jersey; 58 men of the 31st Regi-
ment, from Pembroke ;..12 men of the 42d Royal
Highlanders, from Stirling ; 26 men of the 79th
Highlanders, from. Perth ; 16 men of the 48th
Regiment, and 48 men of the 99th Regiment, from
Fermoy ; and 12 men of the 3d battalion, Rifle
Brigade, from Winchester; the whole of the above
troops are to embark on board the Marseilles on
the 11th of December for conveyance to Calcutta.
The. following reinforcements are to embark on
board the Bloomer, on the 9th of December, viz.:-
12 men of the 14th (the King's) Light Dragoons,
from Maidstone ; 32 men of the Bth Hussars, and
32 men of the 17th Lancers, from Canterbury ; 32
men of the sGth Regiment, from Colchester ; 20
men of the 71st Highland Light.' Infantry, from
Stirling •, 16 men of the 89th Regiment, and 14
.men of the 95th Regiment, Vora Fermoy ; and 15
men of the 57th Regiment, from Cork, all of whom
proceed to Bombay, The following embark in the
same vessel for Kurrachee ;--18 men of the 81st
Regiment and 20 men of the 94th Regiment, from
Chatham; 32 men of the 7th (Princess Royal's)
Dragoon Guards, 1 man of the 70th Regiment, and
16 men of the 98th Regiment, from Canterbury ; 28
men of the 27th Enniskillens and 12 men, of the 87th
Royal Irish Fusileers, from Buttevant, The rein
forcenients for Madras embark on board the lartir
on the 7th of Dec., and are sielected from_ die follow-
ing corps :-20 men of the 12th (P.lince of Wales's)
Royal Lancers, fstlM Maid,str;ilo ; 32 men of the Ist
(the King's; Dragoon G:daras, from Canterbury; 17
melt pc.ilie 74th
14' men of th- ftgliianders, from Aberdeen; and
The 69th Regiment, from Fermoy.
'-dciieral Court-martial which assembled at
..,natham barracks on Friday last, under the presi-
dency of Lieut.-Colonel C. E. Fairtlough, ,for the
trial of Private Thomas Tole, 7th Royal Fusileers, eers,
on the charge of deserting t
while serving with the othe Russian enemy
British forces in ' the
Crimea in 1855, again assembled,lock on Saturday in the General
Court-martial room at 10 o'clock
morning, for the purpose ofgoing through the
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evidence brought b-yur-thoese prosechut.ion finding.against the
The
prisoner, and agreeing as to t
trial of the prisoner having been concluded on the
previous day, the members of the Court sat with
closed doors. The Court remained a consider-
able time in deliberation, and during the day
called Capt. L. Sidebottom, the adjutant of the
Ist Battalion of Infantry at Chatham; to speak as
to the prisoner's character. Captain Sidebottom,
on being examined, stated that the prisoner
Tole's character, since he had been in the service,
was bad, and produced the necessary documents
and returns to prove that the prisoner had been
previously convicted by court-martial of desertion,
and sent out to join his regiment in 'the Crimea.
The Court, after sitting a considerable time on
Saturday, then concluded its proceedings,
On Saturday 240 non-commissioned officers and
men of the East India troops, from the depot at
Worley, embarked at GraVesend on board the Lin-
cluden Castle, 960 tons, Commander D. Maclellan,
for Bombay. The Lincluden Castle left the Thames
the same evening.. •
A detachment of the 4th battalion of the Rifle
Brigade in quarters at Winchester are ordered to
14* themselves in readiness to embark, to join the