The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 2d battalion of the 22d Regiment has been
presented with new colours before embarking for
the Mediterranean. The ceremony tookplace on the
Queen's Parade-ground, South Camp, Aldershott.
There was a very distinguished company present,
among whom were Lieut.-Gen..Knollys, command-
ant of the garrison; Major-Gen. Paulett, Major-
Gen. Spencer, and a large and brilliant staff. The
colours were consecrated by the Rev. C. Kingsley,
and the ceremonyof presentation was performed by
the wife of Colonel Napier. Having handed the
colours to the junior ensigns, Mrs. Napier ad-
dressed the officers and soldiers of the regiment.
She said,—

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and it is because I am his daughter that you have wished to
receive these colours from my hands To ask any lady to
present to a regiment its colours must always be considered
by her to be a great compliment ; but how much more must
I feel it so, who from my earliest years have been aeons-
-tamed to hear the praises of the glorious 22d—the regiment
whom my father loved, the regiment to whom he owed his
victories, and the regiment who won the battles of
Meeanee and Hyderabad 1 Take, then, your colours,
second battalion of that distinguished regiment, and re-
member in the hour of battle and of danger that you. bear
on these colours a number which is a warrant of high cou-
rage and discipline—the numberof aregunent to which any
soldier may well be proud to belong. I will say nothing of
the duty whicb.you owe to thosecolours, because, as a sol-
dier's daughter, and as a soldier's wife, I well knew that

the devotion of British soldiers to their colours can never
be surpassed, and, moreover, as a woman, it would not be-
come me to dilate on the duties of soldiers I will there-
fore now take my leave of you with this message from your
present colonel, Sir William Napier—that he feels as
much for• the honour of the regiment. although he
never had the good fortune to serve with it, and as deeply
as if he had been all his life in the midst of you. Farewell,
then, 22d Regiment f You are now about to proceed abroad,
and, may be, ere long, to unfurl those colours on the field of
battle. If such should be your destiny, lam confident that
under the leading of your present commander, Lient.-Col.
Anderson, you will nobly inscribe upon them names as
glorious as those which adorn the proud banners of your
first battalion."

Lieut.-Col. Anderson thanked Mrs. Napier for pre-
senting the colours to the regiment. The ceremony
of " trooping the colours" next took place, and the
regiment having been inspected by Mrs. Napier,
the men were dismissed to barracks.
The Ist battalion Rifle Brigade arrived at Ports-
mouth for garrison duty from Newcastle on Saturday.
The following officers and troops of the 100th
(Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment em-
barked on board the Urgent screw steam troopship,
Commander Hire, at Portsmouth on Saturday :
Lieut.-Col. De Rottenburgh, C. 8., Major Dunn,
Capts. Lake, Cooke, Smythe, Clarke, and Price,
Lieuts. Lamb, Casault, Rykert, Duchesnay, and.
Walls, Ensigns Moorsom, Ridout, Davidson, Boul-
ton, Clarke, and Baldwin, Paymaster Hutchinson,
Surg. Ingham, Assist.-Surg. Murray, and Adjt.
Lee, 34 sergeants, 14 drummers, 27 corporals, 465
privates, 54 women, 81 children, and 3 horses. In
steaming out of the harbour the Urgent fouled the
Partridge gunboat, carrying away the foremast of
the latter, and receiving some slight damage herself.
Shipwrights were despatched to Spithead (where
she had brought up to receive on board the re•
mainder of the regimental baggage) to repair the
Urgent's damages. She sailed from Spithead for her
destination (Gibraltar) yesterday morning at day-
light.
We arc informed from the highest official autho-
rity, that the rumour which has been circulated of
the intention of quartering cavalry and regiments
of the line at Woolwich is without the slightest
foundation in fact. The garrison at the present
moment is crowded with the various corps of Royal
Artillery, Royal Engineers, and Royal Marines.
Yesterday orders were issued at the head-quarters
of the Royal Engineers, Chatham, for the 29th
company, with a detachment of the 9th company, -
to proceed this morning to Portsmouth, where they
are to embark for Corfu. The 28th company will
embark to-morrow morning for Malta, together
with detachments of the 17th and 24th companies.
The 18th company Royal Engineers, under the
command of Capt. R. Hawthorn, is ordered to be
raised to its proper strength, and is to proceed from
Chatham to Weymouth, for the purpose of being
employed in the completion of the fortifications
which have recently been erected in the vicinity of
that town.