The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major-General Sir Hugh Rose will command a
division, and Col. Percy Herbert a brigade in the
army which has just been despatched to India.
General Rose, it will be remembered, was for some
time Consul-General in Syria, was then for awbil•
charge d'affaires at Constantinople, and was the
Military Commissioner with the French army in
the Crimea. He also filled for some months the
same position with the Austrian army. Col. Percy
Herbert was Deputy-Quartermaster-General' of the
division under Sir De Lacy Evans in the Crimea,
and was afterwards Quartermaster-General of the
army in the Crimea. Major-General Windham
will, as we have already stated, command a division
in India.

Tb• following circulars have been issued from
the Horse Guards :
" Until further orders, recruits enlisted at the head-
quarters of regiments will be retained there for training,
and not be sent to the depots.
" The standard of recruits for the Infantry is reduced
to sft. siinches."

On Friday 15 officers and 446 sergeants and pri-
vates of the 2d Battalion of the 60th Rifles pro-
ceeded to Kingstown. The 3d Battalion, consist-
ing of 242 rank and file and the last division of the
79th Highlanders, consisting of 9 officers and 162
sergeants and privates, proceeded to Kingstown on
Saturday for the purpose of embarking.
H. E. H. the General Commanding-in-Chief has
been pleased to appoint Brevet Lieut.-Colonel
Conolly, unattached, to be Major of Brigade in
the South-West District, vice Brevet Major Nelson,
appointed Assistant Military Secretary to Major-
General Breton at the Mauritius, from the Ist inst. ;
Col. Conolly commenced the duties of his office on
Saturday last at Portsmouth.
Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Holloway, Aide-de camp
to the Queen ; Major Schomberg ; First Lieu-
tenauts Williams, Festing, Crease, and Crawford ;
5 sergeants, 5 corporals, 3 bombargiers, 2 drum-
mers, and 80 gunners of the Royal Marine Artil-
lery, which arrived at head-quarters, Woolwich,
from Portsmouth on Friday eveniug, were on
Saturday paraded in the barrack-square, before the
Commanding officer Colonel Tatton Brown, being
under orders for China. The abovenamed corps
are to constitute the head-quarters of the Royal
Marines in China, Col. Holloway having been de-
puted to the chief command. The troopship Ade-
laide is now ready for their embarkation.

A detachment of the Royal Artillery, consisting
of 12 non-commissioned officers and gunners, ar-
rived at Woolwich on Saturday from New Zealand,
per ship to Gravesend, 112 days out. Major Smith's
and Brevet Lieut.-Col. Gordon's companies of the
14th battalion Royal Artillery, reported in several
of the London and provincial journals to have left
Woolwich for India, are still in garrison awaiting
transport accommodation. Two companies only of
the Foot Artillery have actually left Woolwich for
India of the six some time under orders for that
station—namely, Capt. Ommanney's and Capt.
Paget's companies.

Captain Radcliffe's T battery Royal Artillery
marched up from Aldershot and arrived at Wool-
wich on Saturday, to prepare for departure to India.
Orders were issued on Saturday at Chatham for
the following reinforcements to proceed from that
garrison this day, for the purpose of embarking for
India to join the head-quarters of their respective
regiments, viz. :-121 non-commissioned officers
and men of the 64th and 86th Regiments, to em-
bark in the Genghis Khan at Gravesend for Bom-
bay, under the command of Lieut. T. R. Hamil-
ton and Lieutenant V. G. Coates, 86th Regiment;
50 non-commissioned officers and men of the 82d
(Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment
will proceed to Portsmouth, in charge of Lieu.
tenant J. A. Brock, and emblrk on board
the Sarah Sands for conveyance to Calcutta ; 50
men of the same corps are also to proceed this day
to Dublin for the purpose of embarking on board
the Ballarat for Calcutta. Reinforcements for the
10th Foot and 84th (York and Lancaster) Regi-
ment will also leave Chatham garrison to-morrow
fur the purpose of embarking for India. The num-
ber of men of those corps nnder orders to proceed
from the Provisional Battalion are 44 non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the 10th Foot and 106 of
the 84th Regiment, with the following officers—
viz., Capt. S. Catar, Lieut. P. B. Lucas, Lieut. C.
A. Armstrong, and Ensign J. Ball, 10th Foot. The
whole of , the non-commissioned officers and rien
have been equipped with the Enfield rifle, in the
use of which weapon they have been instructel at
Chatham garrison.
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Considerable activity prevails at the head-quar-
ters of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, where the
whole of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and
men are almost daily practised, under the direction
of Col. H. Sandham, RE., in forming pontoon
bridges over the Medway, with other engineering
operations, in order that the young officers and men
of the Royal and East India Company's Sappers
and Miners may be perfected in those branches of
military exercise previously to quittirg England
for service in India. The number of Royal Engi-
neers and East India Company's troops who are
now under instruction at Chatham is considerably
more than 1,000 men, exclusive of officers.
The following vessels have been taken up for the
conveyance of troops to India :—Screw steamers—
Chersonese, City of Manchester, and Bombay
Castle. Sailing ships—Lightning (a splendid clipper
ship), Waterloo, Sedgmoor, and the Southampton.
The French transport steamer St. Louis, about
to tako troops to India, has arrived at Queenstown. .
The annual Admiralty inspection of the works at
the Portland Harbour and breakwater was made on
the 7th inst. The admiralty steam yacht Osborne
arrived in the harbour from Plymouth at 9 30 a.m.,
having on board Sir C. Wood, Captain Milne, Sir
B. Walker, Surveyor-General of the Navy, Mr.
Romaine, Secretary, and Commodore Eden.
The James Baines and Champion of the Seas
clippers, Captains M'Donnell and M'Kirdy, left
Spithead in tow of the powerful steam tugs (which
took them from Liverpool to Portsmouth harbour)
Resolute and Blazer at 1 p.m. on Saturday, The
James Baines took out Lieutenant-Colonels In-
grain and Legh, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonels Bur-
ton and Turner, Captains Hawkins, Ilarenc,
Venables, Jones, Annesley, Browne, Wilkie, and
Ingram ; Lieutenants Harmond, Morgan, Onslow,
Fitzgerald, Gould, Smith, Safford, Mellay, and
M'Donald ; Ensigns Parker, Barber, Cookesley,.,
Slater, Lowe, Thompson, Fulford, Grey, Adju-
tant and Ensign Smith, Quartermaster Woodroofe,
Surgeon Barry, M.D., Assistant-Surgeons Porter,
Sinclair, M.D., and Drumbeck, o 2 sergeants, 21
drummers, 34 corporals, and 711 privates of the
17th Regiment. These troops are all armed with
the 1653 pattent rifle, and have taken ollt 4800.0

roundsl,oo4f9ballritioaeartri.
Ward and Baird, Lieutenants M'Leod and Stewart,
dgmea) on Wilkinson,l7spercussion caps,
Captains
10 sergeants, 2 drummers, 6 corporals, and 160
privates of the 42d Highlanders, also have gone in
the James Baines.
The following troops went in the Champion of
the Seas :—Lieutenant-Colonel Evelegh, Majors
Radcliffe and Butler, Captains Bennett, Parkinson,
Dickens Warren, Hewett, Lyons, Dashwood, and
Francis 4Lieutenants Vaughan, Mitchell, Little,
Patricksou, Holmes, Edridge, M'Donough, Carden,
Gordon, Rimer, Vereker, Duffin, and Gethin ;
E.psigns Folio, Byrne, and Johnstone • Lieutenant
and Adjutant 'Geraghty, Surgeon E. Howard, As-
sistant-Surgeons Kelsall, Short, and Munday ;
and Quartermaster Aylett. 53 sergeants, 20 drum-
mers, 38 corporals, and 705 privates of the 20th
Foot. All are armed with the rifle musket of the
pattern of 1853. They carry out 480,140 rounds
of ball cartridge and 600,175 percussion caps.
The following officers of the 20th not embarked with
the regiment for want of room will probably go out
overland—Lieut.-Col. Lys, Ensigns Hoblyn and
Hone, Paymaster Mossley, Ensigns Egan, Blount.
Major Priestley, and Capts. Fraser and Moseley,
10 sergeants, 5 drummers, 11 corporals, and 154
privates of the 42d were added to the troops in the
Champion of the Seas.
The Golden Fleece, one of the European and
American Steam Shipping Company's flotilla, also
left Spithead on Saturday for India with the follow-
ing troops :—Lieut. -Cols. Kelly and Simpson, Brevet
Lieut.-Col. G wilt, Capt. Best, Brevet-Major Warry,
Capt. Bale, Cassidy, Steuart, Puget, and Shawe ;
Brevet Major Harman, Capt. Marsh, Lieuts.Boyce,
Moore, Byron, Saunders, Peal, Cochrane, Jordan,
Dunbar, Holroyd, Lampen; Ensigns Applegate and
Grier,
u Paymaster Roche, Lieut. and Adj. Leeson,
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22 drummers, 37 corporals, and 649 privates of the
34th Regiment; also Capt. Scott, Lieuts.
Douglas, and Bayley, . 9 sergeants, 7 corpora's, 2
drummers, and 126 privates of the 42d. Lieut.-Col.
Wright, Assist. Quartermaster-General of th e south-
west district, with Capt. Locke, Inspector of Tram-
ports for the Hon. East India Company, steamed
out with the Golden Fleece.
The Imperatriz screw steamship arrived at Spit-
head on Saturday morning and steamed into har-
bour and moored alongside the dockyard. She will
embark about 700 of the Royal Marine battalion
ordered for China, together with a number of naval
supernumeraries for disposal by Admiral Sir M.
Seymour among his fleet. She also takes out a
large quantity of arms and ammunition.
The Chesapeake, 51, screw, fitting at Chatham
for the flag of Commodore R. B. Watson, C. 8.,
for the East India station, has nearly completed her
repairs, and will be put out of dock during the next
spring tides. Her machinery and boilers have been
overhauled, and defects made good. The following
officers have taken on their commissions
J. C. Wilson ; J. Worsley, second master ; C. J.
Brownrigg, J. B. Warren, and C. G. S. Stanley,
mates ; Rev. J. W. Bamfield, chaplain ; T. S. Os-
borne, naval instructor; G. C. Masters, midship-
man 4 and C. Hobart, naval cadet.
The Government troopship Waterloo, Young
commander, has arrived in the Thames from Aus-
tralia, having on board a number of troops who
have been sent home from that colony. The Wa-
terloo sailed from Sydney on the 19th April, with
69 non-commissioned officers and men on board, be-
longing to the 11th, 40th, 58th, and 65th Regts.,
together with some men of the Royal Engineers,
and seven women and children, the whole under
the command of Lieut. W. H. Clarkson, 11th Foot.
During the voyage, which occupied 110 days, five
deaths and one birth occurred on board. On reach-

jug Gravesend the troops disembarked and pro-
ceeded to Fort Pitt, Chatham, where they were
medically inspected on Saturday, when seven men
were ordered to be taken into hospital for medical
treatment, and the remainder sent to St. Mary's
invalid depot to await their discharge from the ser-
vice.

-At the special annual examination held at the
Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, and which ter-
minated on Saturday last, the following gentlemen
passed into the navy under the new regulations,
which came into operation for the first time :
For Naval Cadets.—C. Johnstone, W. J. L.
Wharton, J. Hope, C. W. Jones, J. W. Bracken-
bury, A. E. Hutchinson, A. D. Douglas, W. G. Le
Cocq, A. H. Du Boulay, W. H. Jocelyn, V. L.
Cameron, E. R. Mathias, F. D. E. Jerniogham,
J. T. Kellett, J. Hex+. H. H. Justice, F. S. Dods
worth, A. Grenfell, N. H. Ward, A. Little, C. J,
Scholefield, G. W. Mill, R. B. Trollope.
For Masters'-Assistants—J. Aylen, V. H. Lys,
J. Southwick, E. K. Barnes.
For Marine Cadets—J. S. Derriman, G. H. T.
Colwell, F. E. Begbie, H. Everitt, H. W. Bamber,
E. Kinsman, S. V. Alston, H. E. Sturt, F. A.
Ogle, D. D. Fosbroke, G. S. Nash, H. W. Framp-
ton, W. H. V. Tom, E. E. Hill, L. P. Shawl.
Sixteen of the above passed from the preparatory
naval establishment of Mr. Eastman, R.N.,
Southsea.

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands' frigate
Admiral Van Wassenaer, Captain Van Brokell,
from the Texel, put into Plymouth Sound on Fri-
day for fuel, and will sail again to-morrow for Lis-
bon, where she will join the frigate Groningen for
a cruise up the Mediterranean. The Groningen
left the Texel the day before the higate, and has
cn board his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange.
Her Majesty's steam corvette Curacao, from the
llediterranean, and the Sarah Sands steam trans-
tort, from the Thames, arrived last night at Ports-
mouth to embark the head-quarters of the 54th
Toot for India ; and the Warrior Queen, Indiaman
(off St. Helen's), from London for Bombay, with
troops on board. Lloyd's agents at this port re-
ceived a despatch yesterday, stating that the fol-
bwing eight ships have been taken up to convey
troops for India, the majority of which will embark

tliis port :—Steamers:—The Queen of the South,
the City of Manchester, the Bombay Castle, and

the Chersonese. Sailing ships—The Waterloo, the
Sedgmoor, the Lightning, the Southampton, and

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THE EUPHRATES ROUTE TO THE
PERSIAN GLEE.

Many people are pondering whether Russian
ency have been at work in India. A more
iractical question would be whether it is at work
in England. Of course, Russia is acting according
co her nature and opportunities from the Caspian
to Calcutta. But the evil being notorious loses
its terrors. We do our best to meet it in a
vigorous and honest way, and leave the result
to Providence. Our real dangers arise from
involuntary agents of Russia at home. If
that Power wishes to work us harm in the
East, what kind of missionaries will she
most value,--those who would pursue the vulgar
method of sowing discontent among the soldiery
awl people, or those who would contrive, without
our consciousness and without the possibility of
implicating her in the movement, to delay all our
communications with that region, to prevent us
from cultivating friendships with neighbouring
races, and to check the development of a trade that
might threaten to compete with her own and partly
to extinguish it I If the latter would be her choice,
she has apparently no need to seek them. Among
our own wordy formalists she will find them to her
hand. If there be a possibility of shortening our
distance to India by one-half there will be no oc-
casion, if legislative aid is required for the task, tot
set intrigues on foot to retard its accomplishment.
No matter if the help demanded be but nominal,
or, at most, only such as under every conceivablecrladly
contingency could not involve the outlay
the
incur in panic for a few steam-transports,
affair will be shunned or postptoenietd
are worn out,
who have endeavoured to promeso
that invited have
itil those
or the favourable circumstances
a subject on which
r passed away. There is hardlyare at this moment more
the people of England_
thousand
emtoiletsheinPoeirir-
hrtahtoesusr
Per-
sian Gulf. The saving of a .
alive than that of the Euphrates
influence of the new trade with Persia,
transit to India, the strengthening of the Turkish
empire, the
and
and the restoration of civilization prosperity to
the land distinguished as the cradle of the human
race, all impel them to the undertaking. In
this, however, there is a sort of enthusiasm,
and enthusiasm, although it uses to be the
foundation of the greatness of nations, is incon-
sistent with a regard to routine, precedent, aud,
in short, all the ordinary elements of modern Par-
liamentary life. On several occasions an attempt
has been made to bring the subject under consi-
deration, but the abridgement of the distance
from 28 days to 14 between ourselves and
200,000,000 of souls whom we have undertaken to
1 rule is not a matter to take precedence of the
common pedantries cf the hour. The night be-
fore last the wants of New Zealand—which is
perhaps the last place in the world the public are
thinking about at the present moment—had to be
i discussed and provided for, and yesterday evening
was partly devoted to the chimney-pots on _Se
1 set: house, the size oi the NOW at ts "M"

p(i
... . ....
Palace, and a variety of other to 'ca of equal ht.;
portance, when the pulse of the country is throb-
bing for every nerve to Le strained to tepair past
infatuation in neglecting the most obvious methods ----
tor con,olidating our E tstern empire. Mem-
while, the Euphrates question is powponed until
the first favourable opportunity. Upon the Bth
of August, when there are doubtless a multitude
of other chimney-pot or equally elevated domestic
matters remaining to be cleared off, the value of
such an announcement is certain to be appreciated,
if not in London at all events at St. Petersburg.—.
Times' City Article.