The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-22 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The head-quarters of the Bth Royal Irish Hussars,
un ler th,) command of Lieut.-Col. R. de Sang, ar-
rived at Newbridge barracks on Saturday from
Dundalk, and will shortly move to Cork to embark
for Bombay.
The bead-quarters and six troops of the 17th
Lancers, under Lieut.-Col. Benson, will very shortly
movo to Cork to embark for Bombay.

The 94th Regiment, under the command of Major
13u11e,-, in the absence of Lieut.-Col. Mills, on leave,
will shortly proceed from Dublin to Cork to pre-
pare to embark at Queenstown harbour for convey-
&aloe to Kurrachee, India.

The Slat (the King's) Light Infantry, now in
Dublin, will shortly embark at Queenstown for
Bombay.
The service companies ofthe 76th Regiment, un-
der the command of Lieut.-Col. R. C. Lloyd, are
shoitly expected to arrive at Queenstown from
Nova. Sc Etta, and on arrival at Cork will proceed to
the Curragh camp to join the Infantry Brigade.
The whole of the officers and men of the 4th,
10th, 11th, and 21st companies of Royal Engineers,
under orders to embark for India, were yesterday
inspected on the parade-ground at Brompton bar-
racks, Chatham. The companies were drawn up in
the Barrack-square under the command of their
respe3tive officers, the strength of the whole force
500 men of all ranks. Nearly the whole of the men
ordered to India have seen a great deal of service in
all quarters of the globe, and a large number are
decorated with the Crimean medal. The order for
the 11th (Capt. C. E. Cumberland's) company to
embark at Southampton and proceed overland to
India has been cancelled, and it is understood that
a portion of the Royal Engineers will be conveyed
to India in the Chesapeake • 51, steam-frigate, Com-
modore Watson, now ready for sea at Portsmouth.
The officer selected to command the Royal Engi-
neers in India is Lieut.-Col. H. D. Harness, com-
manding Royal Engineer at Malta ; Capt. F. E.
Cox, attached to the Staff at Chatham, being ap-
pointed Adjutant.
The Indian depots at the Provisional Battalion,
Chatham, will be greatly strengthened on the Ist
October by the arrival of five additional depots at
that gArrison—viz., the sth Fusileers, 18th Royal
Irish, 33d (Duke of Wellington's), 51st Light In-
fantry, and the 94th Regiment, for the purpose of
being attached to the 3d battalion, which is to be
formed under the command of Lieut.-Colonel C.
Eiutitirst. Each of the three battalions at Chatham
wilt eonsist of 10 depots, numbering 2,000 men of
alt ranks, with a separate staff, but the selection of
depots for each battalion has not yet been made.
_The 3d battalion will occupy the huts at Prince
Henry's bastion.
The steam ship Great_ Britain, which has been
fitted at Liverpool under the immediate superin-
tendence of her owners, will leave that port to-
morrow or Thursday for Cork, whence she will em-
bark about 1,100 of the Bth and 17th Cavalry for
Bombay on or about the 28th of this month.
Extensive preparations have been in progress for
some weeks pact by the troops belonging to the
Sappers and Miners at Chatham for blowing up the
remaining portions of old Rochester-bridge, and,
the whole of the arrangements having been com-
pleted the explosions will take place this day, on
which occasion upwards of I,ooolb. weight of gun-
power will be used in destroying the arches of the
bridge, which are to be blown to pieces. In order
to fac litate the operations several shafts have been
suuk to a great depth in the piers, communicating
with which are galleries, in which the gunpowder
was yesterday deposited. There are four charges
of 2uulb. each and two of 1331 b. each, the whole of
which will be fired simultaneously by means of the
voltaic battery worked by Capt. Scott, Royal En-
cineers. General Sir John F. Burgoyne, G. C.B ,
Inspector-General of Fortifications, with several
otlit-r distinguished officers of the Royal Engineersi
will be present to witness the operations, which will
e carried out under the direction of Col. H. Sand-
ham, Director of the Royal Engineers at Chatham.
The working party of Sappers and Miners is under
Mao direction of Captain W. H. Noble, Royal En-1
gineers, to whom the superintendence of the under-
taking has been confided.

THE MILITIA.
The Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery has been
ordered to assemble at the Islington Barracks,
Liverpool, on the sth proximo.
The assembly of the Royal Wiltshire Militia is
not postponed till ths 7th of October, but takes
place on the original day named by the Lord-Lieu-
tulant—viz., the Ist October.
The Oxfordshire Militia a,sembled at Oxford on
Thurday, and as it took some little time to furnish
them from the armoury with clothes and accoutre-
no regular drill took place until yesterday morn-
inz. Upwards of 100 are wanted to complete the
full number.