The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

THE AB3IY.

-Major-General Peel, Secretary of State for War,
is expected to visit the camp at Colchester in the
course of the present week.
Orders were issued on Saturday for alternate
companies of the different regiments of Guards to
proceed monthly to the'eamp at Aldershot for rifle
practice.
On Saturday orders were issued for further rein-
forcements of draughts of regiments serving in
India, to the number of 1,200, to be held ready to
embark the first week in November. All these
troops will proceed to India via the Cape of Good
Hope.
Detachments left the camp at Colchester last week
to the extent of seven officers and 356 rank and file
for service in India. The destination of the d3tach-
ments is Calcutta. The-draughts were drawn from
the following regiments :—Two officers and 40 rank
andfile, sth ; one officer and 23 rank and file, 6th ;
one officer and 60 rank and file, 34th ; 25 rank and
file,, 37th ; 20 rank and file, 38th ; two officers and
60 rank and file, 54th ; one officer and 50 rank and
file, 56th ; 38 rank and file, 88th ; and 40 rank and
file, 91th.
The entire battalion of the Chatham division of
Royal Marine Light Infantry were on Friday
marched to the square at the rear of the barracks,
agreeably to garrison orders for the purpose of wit-
nessing the infliction of corporal punishment on
Private Samuel Smith, attached to the 25th com-
pany, who had been tried by district court-martial
and found guilty of the serious offence of having
assaulted a non-commissioned officer of the battalion
by striking him a violent blow in the face with his
clenched fist, and afterwards breaking out of
Melville Hospital, in which he was a prisoner
patient awaiting his trial by court-martial. The
Court found the prisoner guilty, and, in considera-
tion of his general character having been bad since
he has been in the division, sentenced him to re-
ceive 50 lashes;:and also to be imprisoned in the
military prison at Fort Clarence for 84 days. The
battalion having been formed into a square, the sen-
tence passed on the prisoner was read to the troops
by -Adjutant Elliot, when the prisoner was imme-
diately fastened to the halberds and the punishment
inflicted in the usual manner. Tne prisoner was
afterwards removed to Melville Hospital, and in a
few days will be sent to Fort Clarence to undergo
the remainder of his sentence. The infliction of
corporal punishment is of very, rare occurrence in
the Chatham division of Royal Marines.
Clif Saturday morning a telegraphic message from
the Admiralty was received at the head-quarters
of the. Chatham division of the Royal Marine Light
Infantry, directing the immediate embarkation of
the- detachment of officers and men ordered the pre-
vious day to be held in readiness to proceed to
Sheerness. Within an hour after the receipt of the
order the required number of officers and men
marched to the dockyard, preceded by the divisional
band, and embarked on board two steamers that had
arrived from Sheerness for their conveyance. The
number of Marines that left head-quarters were
8 sergeants, 2 buglers, and 190 rank and file, to-
gether with the following officers, viz. :—Lieut.-
Col. W. H. March, Captains G. B. Heasby and J.
H. Parry, and Lieutenants W. Taylor, A. C. J.
M‘Meekan, J. R. Mascall, and J. Cairncross.
The sum realised by the grand military bazaar
which was held at Chatham garrison on Thuriday
and Friday, in aid of the funds of the Association
for Improving the Condition of the Wives and
Families of Soldiers and Sailors, exceeds £3BO,
which amount, after deducting the expenses in-
curred, will be handed over to the committee of the
association.

Since the hop-picking and harvest operations
have been brough. t to a close recruiting is proceed-
ing very briskly in the several recruiting districts,
the number of men enlisting being at the rate of
about 1,500 per week, which number is steadily in-
creasing. Blueing the past - week nearly 300
recruits have been received at Chatham alone
chiefly from the London, Bristol, and Liverpool dis-
tricts, the whole ,of whom have been draughted into
the East India di spots attached to the three batta-
lions of infantry at that garrison. The recruits are
for the most part a finer body of men than have
been enlisted for some time past, and will make
excellent troops far India.

MILITIA.
n The Lancashixe Militia Artillery, stationed at
,AosPort, iS undo m orders to proceed to Dover on
Monday next.
The Hamshi Ire Militia Artillery, stationed at
Gosport, will pri )ceed to Plymouth on Monday next,
4nd will be reigaced by the Waterford Militia
Artillery.