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 the 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-
lecrs, 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 ' • 20 men of 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 56th 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, from Fermoy ; and 15
men of the 57th Regiment, from Cork, all of whom
proceed to Bombay. The following embark in the
same vessel for Kwurrachee :!---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-
forcements for Madras embark on board the Tartar
on the 7th of Dec., and are selected from the follow-
ing corps :-20 men of the 12th (Prince of Wales's)
Royal Lancers, from Maidstone ; 32 men of the Ist
(the King's) Dragoon Guards, from Canterbury; 17
melt of the 74th Highlanders, from Aberdeen; and
14 men of the 69th Regiment, from Fermoy.
The General Court-martial which assembled at
Chatham barracks on Friday last, under theprethe
si-
dency of Lieut.-Colonel C. E.Fairti oumh
r
trial of Private Thomas Tole, 7th Royalfo Fusileers,
on the charge of deserting to the Russian enemy
while serving with the British forces in the
Crimea in 1855, again assenil: led
_in the General
Court-martial room at 10 -o clock on Saturday
morning, for the purpose of going through the
evidence brought by the prosecution against the
prisoner,
and agreeing as to their finding. The
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 liad 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
Warley, embarked at. Gravesend on board the Lin-
eluden Castle, 96Q tons, Commander D. Maclellan,
for Bombay. The Lincluden Castle left the Thames
the same evening.
A detachment of the 4th battalion of .the
Brigade in quarters at Winchester are ordered to
hold themselves in readiness to embark, to join the