The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-22 00:00:00

NATAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Orders were yesterday received at Chatham gar-
rison from the War Department directing Major-
General W. H. Eden, iu command of the troops,
to furnish the following officers and reinforcements
to embark to-morrow at Southampton for the pur-
pose of joining the service companies of their re-
spective regiments in India, viz. :-31 non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the 18th Royal- Irish ; 1
officer and 66 men of all ranks of the 51st Light In-
fantry ; 29 men of the 83d ' • 1 captain and 2 sub-
alterns of the 86th (Royal County Down) Regi-
ment. Total, 4 officers and 126 men of all ranks,
the whole of whom will embark to-morrow on board
the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steamer Sultan
for Alexandria, and proceed overland to Bombay.
The following reinforcements will proceed from
Chatham on Saturday next and embark at Graves-
end for Kurrachee :-76 noncommissioned officers
and men of the 7th (Royal Fusiliers), 1 subaltern
and 41 men of all ranks of the 27th (Enniskillens),
1 lieutenant and 28 menof the 52d (L. 1.), 1 subal-
tern and 23 rank and file of the 61st, 1 captain and
8 men of the 70th, 12 rank and file of the 87th
(Royal, Irish Fusiliers), 30 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men of the 94th, and 30 men of all ranks
of the 98th ; total 4 officers and 248 men. The fol-
lowing troops have also received orders to be held
in readiness to embark for India :-1 officer and 10
men of the Bth (the King's), Regiment, 11 men of
the 10th Foot, 40 non-commissioned officers and
men of the 19th, 13 men of the 20th, 78 men of all
ranks of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 26 men of
the 24th, 1 lieutenant and 27 men of the 29th, 2
subalterns and 26 men of the 32d, 13 men of the
35th (Royal Sussex), 1 officer of the 53d, 2 ensigns
and 29 non-commissioned officers and men of the
64th, 1 officer and 16 men of the the 75th, 32 men
of all ranks of the 82d, 1 officer and 20 privates of
the 84th (York and Lancaster), and 10 men of the
the 90th (Light Infantry).
During the week ending Saturday upwards of
500 recruits and volunteers arrived at Chatham from
the various recruiting districts in this country and
Ireland, including a large number of volunteers
from the various embodied militia regiments, for
the purpose of joining the depot companies of In-
dian regiments attached to the three battalions of
infantry at that garrison.
Several movements have taken place in Colches-
ter camp during the last few days. On Friday the
lit bat. of 60th Rifles, 3d bat. of the 60th depot,
and 2d and 3d battalions Rifle Brigade leftfor Wiu-
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chester, with the exception of -60 men who are

about to be despatched to India. The officers in
command were Capt. Biggs, Capt. Battersby, Capt.
Rowles, and Lieut. Purdon. These troops are suc-
-ceeded by the depots of the 19th Regiment Capt.
Currie ; 43d, Capt, Holmes; 86th, Capt. Welman;
and the let battalion 6th Foot. A further draught
of 200 men is expected to be despatched to India,
orders having been received to hold that number in
readiness for embarkation. A great number of re-
cruits have joined the camp during the present
month, and the huts are consequently crowded.
Detachments continue to be forwarded to Land-

guard Fort, Harwich, for instruction in musketry.
The second battalion 9th Foot, which has been re-
, crniting at Great Yarmouth, left that town on
Thursday evening for Bradford. The battalion has
been under the command of Lieut.-Col. Elmhirst,
- and during its stay in Yarmouth 200 recruits have
been obtained.

The War Department having yielded to the re-
quest of Mr. Mallet, forwarded by the authorities
of Woolwich Arsenal, to sanction another series of
experiments, the monster mortar has been again
dismounted, in order to examine and repair the
damages sustained by the late proof in Woolwich
marsh. The third experiment may, therefore, be
expected to take place during the ensuing mouth
of March. At a recent mee'ing of the officers of the

select committee it was decided to abandon any
further attempt to recover the remainder of the
shells used in the former experiments, it being con-
sidered that the outlay requ'red for that purpose
would far exceed their actual value. Meetings

composed.of the foremeniAnd workmen of the Roya.
arsenal were last week held in the Royal paper
- factory, with the view of calling the attention of
Lord Panmure to the presumed injustice of a high
rate of income tax ordered to be levied on the body
through an increase of pay, obtained by over hours
and night work, during the two years pending the
Russian War.
The Royal carriage department, under the sups
rintendence of Colonel Tullech, R.A., is actively
engaged in forwarding the immediate execution of
the outstanding orders for coast defences, which
have been unavoidably allowed to fall into arrear.
The artificers in that department are therefore
ordered to be employed over-hours for that pur-
pose, so as to turn out in addition to the allotted
number of gun-carriages, platforms, &c., one com-
plete battery per week.
Capt. !knee, R.M., left Woolwich garrison on
Friday, in compliance with an Admiralty order,
for Plymouth, to take command of a picked detach-
ment of Royal Marines for service on board the
51-gun screw steam frigate Euryalus, Capt. John
Tarleton, commissioned for the initiation of his
Royal Highness Prince Alfred in the naval service.
The newly constructed steam corvette Challenger
commenced receiving her machinery of 400-horse
power on Saturday in Woolwich basin.
Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Racer, and the
gunboats Mistletoe and Julia, were on Saturday
taken into the fitting-basin at Woolwich for the
completion of repairs.
Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, K. C. 8., Co mmander-
• in-Chief at Portsmouth, changed his flag on board
the Illustrious on Saturday from blue to white on
promotion, when the usual salute was exchanged
with the next in command, Vice-Admiral Martin,
who at the same time changed his flag from red at
the mizen to blue at the fere on promotion. Rear-
' Admiral of the White, the Hon. Sir Geo. Grey,
will relieve the latter officer as superintendent of
Portsmouth Dockyard in a few days.
The Avon steam vessel, Master-Commander
Palmer, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday from
Plymouth with seamen, &c., paid off from her
Majesty's ship Encounter, and supernumeraries for
the gunnery-ship Excellent, and volunteers for the
Marlborough, 131, Captain Lord F. H. Kerr. The
- latter ship is being fitted out for the Mediterranean
with all despatch, and has nearly 500 out of her
complement of 1,100. She sent up topmasts for
trial on Saturday.
The Blenheim, 60, Capt. Frances Scott, C. 8., is
ready to receive her crew from the Mecander sailing
frigate.
The Arrogant, 47, screw frigate is expected to
be immediately commissioned at Portsmouth. She
is quite ready and will be masted in a day or two.
• The left wing of the 2d battalion of the 2d Foot
will move from Shorncliffe to Portsmouth this day
to await embarkation for Malta to join the head-
quarters, which are on their way thither in her
Majesty's steam-troopship Vulcan.
The ship Helvellyn, Captain Lash, put in at the
Motherbank on Saturday from the Mauritius and
St. Helena, bound to London. Owing to the pre-
• Talent strong easterly winds' she is 91 days from
the Mauritius. She brought home staff schoolmas-
ter Webb, wife and child, Sergeant Campbell, R.E.,
Corporals C. Bush, S. Gamman, and W. Thomp-
son, R.E., one wife and two children from the
Mauritius. From St. Helena she brought Sergeant
J. Harvey, Bombardiers W. Williamson, J. Wil-
son, J. Butter, J. Pallister, three wives and seven
children. The agents to Lloyds (Messrs. Garratt,
Gibson, and Sons) at Portsmouth, waited on Col.
Wright, the Assistant Quartermaster-General of
the South-West district, OR Saturday with a letter
from Capt. Lash, representing that in the present
state of the wind it might yet be some time before
the ship reached Gravesend, and that it would
Tench conduce to the comfort of all if they could be
landed at Portsmouth, especially with regard to
the situation of soldier's
Wright
immediately,
of thewives. Colonel
and most kindly, gave an
order to land the
they were • ,
•axe troops and women at once, and
The Lord Raniashore in Lloyds' cutter.
from Deptford for convict ship, Captain Hybert,
at Spithead
r Swan River with convicts, ar-
rivedmore. She wilithenyestetrday morning to take in
to fill up her allotment for Portland and Plymouth
her destination.
The frigate Cambrian, ao, ea
C. 8., sailed from Plymouth SoPt. J. J.M'Cleveriy
• for the China Seas, touching atVaid on Wednesday
The screw steam despatch boat Lynx,aise'
4, Li ut
ommander H. Berkeley, having completed e
defects
ailed on Friday for the West Coast of Africa.
The Coast-guard service ship Wellington, 72
'Capt. John Moore, arrived at Plymouth
on Friday
night from Scotland.
The
new screw steamship Renown,
Capt. A. Forbes, left 9l
guns,day.
The Alacrity, 'Sheerness on Saturday.
The
guns,
Commander A.Wodebou
screw steam gun vessel,
seamen pad marinesid off at Sheer-
ness on Saturday. Her
- been transferred to the Wateurloaonflaghll), wherehave
they are to remain as supernumeraries
Ru.sell steamship is ready to proceed to Plymouth
the
The new screw steam corvettee Racoon, outnh..
Capt. J. A. Painter, at Sheerness completed thL
adjustment of her compasses on Saturday, and left
at 12.20 p.m. yesterday for Portsmouth, where si c
will receive her orders for her future destination,
said to be the Mediterranean.
The Royal George, 102 guns, screw steamship,
•
Master-Commander
Wm. Ellis, at Sheerness, pro
seeded on a trial trip of her machinery on Thurs-
day last. The entire Forking of her engines was in
every respect satisfactory. She returned into har-
bour again the same day. The new screw steam
g day, also
vessel Snake, of 4 guns, on the followin
her machinery,
made an experimental trip to try
which worked satisfactorily.