The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-17 00:00:00

THE ARMY,

The headquarters of the 59th Regiment, under
Colonel Burmester, disembarked at Portsmouth yes-
terday morning for the transport Boanerges, and
were forwarded on by railway to Dover, via Has-
tings. The regiment embarked for foreign service
in 1848, on board the Apollo troopship, at Cork,and
reached Hong Kong after a voyage of 10 months'
duration. It took part in subsequent operations
before, and in the capture of, Canton, the capture
of Fort Lin, the expedition to the White Cloud
Mountain and capture of Naintow, &c. It has since
been stationed about three years at the Cape of
Good Hope. Its last service was at Natal, whither
it was conveyed.to put down a rising of Zulus under
Cetwaya, the son of Panda, the great Zulu chief,
but on its arrival at Natal it was found that its ser-
vices were, fortunately, not required.

The 18th Company Royal Engineers (Captain
Hewitt's), which has been recalled to Portsmouth
from the Isle of Wight, is ordered to embark during
the present week on board the Parana steamship
to Southampton, for conveyance to British North
America. Several lighters have been despatched
from the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard at
Gosport, with stores and provisions to South-
ampton for the use of the troops on board the
chartered steamships. The War Department
at Portsmouth are working extra hours and up to
2 p.m. on Sunday, in preparing stores, &c., for
the troops. All the Dockyard Departments are
also working extra hours to hurry forward the
ships preparing for sea.

The heavy baggage belonging to the Ist battalion
Military Train, at Woolwich, in command of Major
Hill, was yesterday packed in readiness for the
hasty departure of the battalion for embarcation at
Southampton on board the Adriatic, for Halifax,
Nova Scotia. The Adriatic also takes out Capt.
Gabbett's No. 4 battery, 10th Garrison Brigade,
Royal Artillery, now in readiness Or departure
from Woolwich.

In addition to the non-commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Engineers transferred from the
companies at Chatham to those about to embark
for Canada, orders have been received at head-
quarters, directing 45 men to be selected from the
depot and other companies to augment the 4th Com-
pany at Dover, which is the next to be despatched
to British North America.

The greatest activity is now observable at the
Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, in the in-
struction of the officers and men of the Royal and
Indian Engineers in the several branches of engi-
neering operations. Advantage is taken of every
hour of fine weather to assemble the Engineers on
the field-works in order to expedite the instruction
of the men in the formation of batteries and earth-
works, &c., information having been received that
the demand for well-trained engineers will be very
great for some time to come. In order to strengthen
this branch of the service additional rebruiting
parties will be despatched from headquarters to ob-
tain young men accustomed to some trade or pro-
fession, well skilled mechanics, photographers, elec-
tricians, telegraphists, and surveyors being now in
request for the corps. Volunteering has also been
reopened from the various regiments of the line.