The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-20 00:00:00

N.IVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Yesterday nn order was received from the War-
office by the Commandants of the Ist, 2d, and 3d
b ittalions at Chatham garrison directing them to
hold in readiness 500 men of all ranks, with a pro-
portionate number of officers, selected from the va
rii:us Indian depots at Chatham, to embark on the
Ist proximo for India, for the purpose of rein-
forcing their regiments serving in the Bengal,
Madras, and Bombay Presidencies.
Gon. Lord Seaton, Commander-in-Chief of the
Forces in Ireland, accompanied by Col. the Hon. J.
Colborne, military secretary, and Capt Peacock, aide-
de-camp, arrived in Cork on Monday. His lordship
proceeded, accompanied by his aide-d»-camp, to-
gr.ther with Gen. Eden and Staff, to the barracks,
for the purpose of holding the annual inspection of
the garrison.
A' second battalion is to be added to the Bth
(King's) Regiment, part of the staff of which pro-
ceeded on Monday to Buttevant for the purpose of
raising and drilling the regiment. The first bat-
talion is serving in India and the depot is in Ci,a,t-
ham. _ _

Second battalions are to be added to all the in-
fantry regiments from. the Ist to the 20th inclusive.
The 14th are raising their second battalions in Curk
garrison.

- Part of the second battalion of the 2d Buffs, num-
bering about 170 rank and file, arrived in ~Cork on
S ,turday from Limerick, under command of Major
Sargent, and are to proceed to Canterbury. The
remainder of the battalion will foliovr.

A draught of the Royal Marine Lcght Infantry,
numbering 13 non-commissioned of and men,
left head-quarters, Chatham, yesterday, and em-
barked on board the Edinburgh, 60, screw steamer,
attached to the reserve at Sheerness.

Yesterday 54 non-commissieneel officers and men
belonging to the 14th, 28th, and 57th Regiments
left St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, for the purpose
of joining their respective depots.
The screw steam transport Leopold 1., Captain
Luning, lying off Woolwich pier, has the whole of
her sea stock on board, and has commenced ship-
ping a siege train from the Arsenal for Kurrachee.
She is under orders to embark 600 troops of the
Royal Artillery and Infantry from Woolwich,
Portsmouth, and Cork, and is expected to sail
about Thursday next from Woolwich, calling at
the above named poite, under trial of her ma-
chinery, for the satisfaction of the East India
Directors, in whose service she is engaged. She
will then steam direct for her destination,
putting in at St. Vincent's, the Cepa, and the
Mauritius for coal. The Leopold I. is a sister
vessel to the Prince Albert (late Duo de Bra-
bant), and is the property of the Transatlantic
Company. She was built at Antwerp by Messrs.
Jolin Cooke' ell and Co., of Liege, and cost the
company about 80,0001. She was launched in 1855,
and has since performed three successful voyages
to New York as a passenger vessel. Her crew con-
s eta of 90 officers and men, she is of 2,500 tons bur-
den, and her nominal tonnage about 1,400 tons.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship Austra.la-
s'an is ordered to be surveyed by the East India
Company, with a view to her being tskea up as a
transport vessel for India.
Sergeant-Major Wilson, 11th battalion Royal
Arillery, at head-quarters, Woolwich, has been
presented. by Lord Panmure with a first lieute-
nancy in the Forfar and Kincardine Artillery Re-
giment, in acknowledgment of long and meritorious
service 3 in the Royal Artillery Regiment. Daring
the late war Sergeant-Major Wilson was appointed
d-ill instructor to the c)rp3 to which he is about to
be gazetted.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL CHAS. GRAHAM,