The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-25 00:00:00

-A PAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The A.dmiralty have instructed Lieutenant Com-
mander Boys to use increased exertions in raising
volunteers, particularly seamen, who are very
scarce at present. Artificers and stokers are
coming in freely, and there is a party of nearly 20
(including some A.B.'s) now on board the Athol],
4, receiving ship, at Greenock, who will be sent off
to London this week. Captain Lord Frederick
Kerr, of the Marlborough, has written to Lieu-
tenant Boys expressing his high satisfaction with the
fine drafts of volunteers sent to that ship from this
port. Orders have been received for the collection
of the coast-guard volunteers, in readiness for the
arrival of the Hogue, which is expected early next
month.
The Admiralty have required to be informed in
how short a time the ships in the steam reserve at
Devonport could be got ready for sea. At the same
time a return has been called for of the number of
continuous and non-continuous service men serv-
ing on board ships in the home ports.
The Dapper, gun-boat tender to the Hastings,
sailed front Devonport cn Monday evening for
Sheerness.

The Intrepid, 6, screw steam sloop, in the steam
reserve at Devonport, took a trial trip outside the
breakwater on Tuesday. Vice Admiral Sir Bar-
rington Reynolds, K. C. 8., commands in chief ;
Rear Admiral Sir Thos. Pasley, the captain of the
steam reserve, and a party of ladies, proceeded in
the vessel on her trial, returning in the evening.
The following depots, attached to the battalions
of infantry at Chatham' have been ordered to be held
in readiness to embark at Gravesend for Cork for
the purpose of occupying the barracks at Butte-
vant, which have been vacated by the troops pre-
viously quartered there, viz. :—the 18th Royal
Irish, under the command of Capt. G. W. Stac-
poole ; the 27th Enniskillens, under the command
of J. V. O'Donnell, with Capt. J. S. Manly, Lieut.
W. S. C. Pinwill, Ensign R. Hamilton, and En-
sign F. A. Campbell • the Bth Royal County Down,
in charge of Capt. H. W. P. Welman and Ensign
G. S. Jackson. The depot of the 87th Royal
Irish Fusiliers will also proceed from Canterbury
to Buttevar.t. _ _

Col. H. Sandham, Director of the Royal Engineer
Establishment, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, has
received orders to hold in readiness 56 non-com-
missioned officers and privates of the Royal Sappers
and Miners to proceed forthwith to British
Nortl Ameriea,:where they are to be employed
on the boundary expedition under the command of
Capt. J. Summerfield Hawkins and Lieut. James
Hamilton Wilson, R.E. The expedition will leave
Chatham on the 2d of April.
During yesterday and the previous day nearly
200 recruits arrived at Chatham for the purpose of
joining the Indian depots at that garrison. Owing
to the continued influx of volunteers and recruits,
the garrison of Chatham is more crowded with
troop than for several years past, and there are
nearly 5,000 men ready to embark for India.
The following is a list of the officers attached to
the United States' steam frigate Niagara, which
arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday :—Capt. W. L.
Hudson, Lieutenants J. H. North, J. D. Tedd, J.
Guest, W. A. Webb, E. Y. M'Cauley, and B.
Gherardi, Surgeon D. S. Green, Purser J. C.
Eldredge, Lieut. W. S. Boyd, Passed Assistant-
Surgeon F. M. Gunnell, Assistant-Surgeon W. G.
Hay, Chief Engineer J. Follansbee, Purser E.
Willard, and Boatswain R. Dixon.
Orders have been received at Chatham garrison
for the immediate erection of a number of huts,
which are to be built outside of Fort Pitt, on the
rising ground between the new burial ground and
the fort. The huts are for the convalescent invalid
troops, and are to accommodate 500 men.

Eitiact from a letter from her Majesty's ship
Leopard, 86, paddle, Capt. Wa;nwright, dated off
St. Juan do Nicaragua (Grey Town), Feb. 16 :
" We scarcely know what to do to pass the time
away off this very dismal place, so we have got up
a first-rate theatrical company, and on Feb. 3
Shakapeare's ' Richard lII.' and the farce of the
' White Sergeant' were produced. It was consi-
dered a rich treat by all who witnessed it. The
next performance takes place on the 24th, when
&Asher and Crasher,' and Box and Cox' will
be-enacted. We are expecting orders by next mail
to leave for England."
ROYAL MAE.INEs ...The following promotion
and appointment has taken place in the corps,
dated 13th instant.—Second Lieutenant Henry
Thomas Stanes Davis, of the Plymouth Division,
to be first lieutenant, vice Rose, resigned and ap-
pointed to the Chatham division. A commission,
dated 13th inst., will be laid before the Queen, ap-
pointing Gentleman Cadet Thomas Martin Hope
Whale to be a second lieutenant, and appointed to
the Plymouth division. Second Lieutenant Whale
has been granted one month's leave of absence,
which will expire on the 22d proximo. Capt. R.
C. Spalding, and the party under his command
recruiting at Derby, have been ordered to rejoin
their divisional head-quarters at Woolwich. The
following officers joined head-quarters on the 20th
inst., from leave of absence—First Lieutenants
Harrington and Morris.

(Prom a Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday.)
WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 24.
BREVET.
To the Colonels in the Army—Lieutenant-Colonels the
on. Adrian Hope, 93d Foot ; William Fasten Par-
nell, 90th Foot.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels—Majors Giles Keane, 86th
root ; William Payne, 53d Foot ; Archibald Alison,
Unattached ; James Peter Robertson, Military Train ;
Edward W. D. Lowe, 32d Foot ; Richard Herbert
Gall, 14th Light Dragoons; George Bryan Millman,
sth Foot; John Christopher Guise, 90th Foot ; Ne-
ville Hill Shute, 64th Foot.
To be Majors—Captains Alex. Cunningham Robertson,
Sth Foot ; George Cornwall, 93d Foot ; Chas. Scuda-
more Longden, Royal Artillery ; William Alexander
Middleton, Royal Artillery ; Gnome Alexander
Lockhart, 78th Foot ; Henry Frederick Saunders,
70th Foot ; Thos. Lightfoot, 84th Foot ; Frederic
Arthur Willis, 84th Foot ; James Francis E. Travers,
Royal Artillery ; Geo. Robert Hopkins, 53d Foot ;
John Robert Wilton, 60th Foot; Charles E. Mans-
field, 33d Foot ; Erskine S. Francis George Dawson,
93,1 Foot; Garnet Joseph Woleley, 90th Foot ; Cor-
nelius Charles Rolleeton, 84th Foot ; Bendyshe Walton,
63d Foot ; Alfred Bassano, 32d Foot ; George Newton
Pendell, 53d Foot ; Sir David Baird, Bart., 98th
Foot ; William Rudman, 32d Foot ; Samuel Hill
Lawrence, 32d Foot ; David O'Brien, 84th Foot ;
William Henry Petty Meara, sth Foot; Henry
Andrew Sarel, 17th Light Dragoons ' • John Edmon-
atoune, 32d Foot; Wilbraham Oates Lennox, Royal
Engineers ; Charles Marshall Foster, 32d Foot ;
Robert Henry Drury Lowe, 2d Foot; John Robert-
son Turnbull, 13th Foot.
To be Colonel—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Eyre,
0.8., Bengal Artillery.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels—Brevet:Major C. Apthorp,
Bengal N. 1.; Thomas Simpson, Bengal N. 1.; George
James Montgomery, Bengal N.I. ; George Henry
Robertson, Bombay N.I. ; Townshend James W.
Hungerford, Bengal Artillery ; Henry Hamilton
Maxwell, Bengal Artillery ; Major Michael Galwey,
Ist Madras Fusiliers ; Brevet Majors John Hall
Smyth, Bengal Artillery ; William Oh:lert; Bengal
Artillery ; Frederick Freeman Remmington, Bengal
Artillery ; George Wade Guy Green, Bengal 2.1
Fu pliers ; George Bourceier, Bengal Artillery.
To be Majors—Captains Sutherland George Gordon Orr,
Madras N. 1.; Edward Henry Simpson, Bombay Light
Cavalry ; John William Carnegie, Bengal N. 1.; David
Scott Doc4son, Bengal N. 1.; Loused& Barrow, Madras
Light Cavalry; Thomas Fonrness Wilson, Bengal
N.I. ; Henry Dinning, Bengal N.I, ; James Met•
calfe, Bengal N. 1.; Matthew Francis Kernble, Bengal
; Henry Lloyd Evans, Bombay N.I. ; Henry
Hammond, Bengal Artillery ; John Joseph Lawrie,
Bombay N.I. ; John Dobree Woolcombe, Bombay
Artillery ; Richard Charles German, Bengal N.I. ;
Edward Long Grant, Madras Fusiliers ; James Gray
Campbell Fraser, Madras Fusiliers ; John W 1 iam
Sanders, Bengal N. 1.; Herbert Bruce, Bombay Euro-
peanßegiment ; Thomas Theophilus Boileaux Bengal
Light Cavalry ; Richard John Edgell, Bengal N.I. ;
Edward Oakes' Bengal N.I. ; William Arden Crotn-
melin, Bengal Engineers ; Thomas Augustus Carey,
Bengal N.I. ; Robert Patrick Anderson, Bengal N.I. ;
Henry La Geyt Bruce, Bengal Artillery ; Arthur
Davies Dickens Bengal N.I. - George S. Macbean ;
Bengal N.I. ; Charles Harris Blunt, Bengal Artillery ;
Charles Arthur Barwell, Bengal N.I. • Dighton Mac-
, ,
naghten Proben, Bengal Light Cavalry ; Job n Curl-
bam Anderson, Madras Engineers • William
g
Temple Hughes, Bengal N I ; -George' Nicholas
Hardinge, Bengal N.I. • •

The,,Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the following appointments to the Most Honour-
Order of the Bath
To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
Sioond 'Class, or Knights Commanders of the said
Moat ircnourable Order, viz.:—Colonel Sydney John
major-general

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Colonel William Paston Purnell, 90th
Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Sebastian Leith gla,Ter ;
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Her Majesty his also been graciously pleased to mak,
andordain a special statute of the said Most Honour.
able Order for appointing the following officers in the
service of her Majesty and of the East India amp-
pany to be Extra Members of the Military Division of
the Third Class, or Companions of the said Order, viz. :
Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Crawford, Royal Artillery;
Lisat.-Colonel E. B. Sale, 82d Regiment ; Lieut.•

Cotton, serving with the local rank of
---, in the East' Indiee.
To be an Extri Member of the Military D
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To be Ordi -. nal Army..
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Guy, 6th Regiment ; eP ISI
Brigade ; Colonel Davux ' Robert,_;
Colonel Charles Aseheton Pi kg:4:
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