The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Tho following officers have arrived. at the Pro•
visional Battalion, Chatham, for the purpose of
joining the depot battalions which have ben
formed, viz. :—Brevet-Major D. G. A. Darrock
and Paymaster C. S. Naylor, attached to the staff
of the 3d battalion ; Captain Mullett, 211 Royal
Welsh Fusileers ; Lieutenant J. E. Waite, 10th
Regiment ; and Lieutenant T. Carlisle, 75th Regi-
ment, Ist battalion.
Recruiting for the corps of Royal Marine Light
Infantry is actively proceeding, the Lords of the
Admiralty having decided on keeping each divi-
sion up to its full strength. A recruiting party,
under the command of Major H. Marriott, has
proceeded from head-quarters, Chatham, to Leeds,
and yesterday another party, commanded by Cap-
tain J. Huskisson, left for Worcester for the pur-
pose of raising men.
The depots of the 23d Welsh Fusileers, 24th,
27th Ennisklllens, 29th, 53d, and 84th Regiments
have been considerably augmented by the arrival
at Chatham yesterday and the day previous of up-
wards of 100 recruits, for the purpose of joining
those regiments.
In consequence of the large number of recruits
who are daily arriving at Chatham, amounting to
upwards of 200 weekly, for the purposs of joining
the Indian depots at the Provisional Battalion,
considerable activity prevails at Chatham barracks
in preparing the men for embarcation for India,
for the purpose of joining the service companies of
their respective regiments. The troops are
marched out daily to the lines, where they are ex-
ercised for several houis, in addition to which
large bodies of troops, selected from the various
depots, are instructed in the use of the Enfield
rifle, no non-commissionad officer or private being
allowed to embark until he has undergone a course
of instruction in that weapon.
Nineteen officers and 300 men of the 78th Regi-
ment arrived at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon
from the camp at Shorncliffe, to embark in the
steamer Ireland for India.
The newly-formed second battalion of the 2d
Queen's Royals, which left Colchester Camp last
week for Shorncliffe, consisted of 16 officers, six
sergeants, 300 rank and file (all recruits), 10 wo-
men, and 14 children. The recruiting for this
battalion, and for the depots of the Rifle Brigade,
continues as actively as ever, and, as a proof of the
readiness to enter the army, we may mention that
about 000 recruits have joined the Colchester Camp
within a short period, and fresh men are arriving
every day from the various provincial towns where
recruiting parties are stationed. On Saturday the
Ist depot battalion, consisting of the 4th, 12th,
and 89th depots, left the camp for Shorncliffe,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Whit-
more. The battalion consisted of 31 officers, 400
men, 87 women, and 165 children, and their de-
parture will leave the camp entirely in possession
of depots of the Indian regiments, which will be
comprised in two divisions, as follows :-2d and 3d
battalions Rifle Brigade, 54th, and 56th, Ist
and 3d battalions of the 60th Rifles under the com-
mand of Colonel Dixon ; Ist Royals, 34th, 37th,
83th, 88th, and 97th, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Street. Accounting for the
departure and arrival of depots, there remain in
camp about 2,100 men, who upon the whole may
be said to be healthy, as there is but a small pro-
portion of invalids in hospital. One death
took place last week, that of Colour-Sergeant
Wedgeworth, of the 97th, a remarkably fine
man, who passed through the Crimean campaign,
and was awarded the Legion of Honour for his
gallant conduct in the attack on the Redan. The
men complain of the inconvenience experienced
during the late heavy rains in consequence of the
insufficiency of the present drainage to carry off the
surface water from the level of the camp ground,
and which chiefly disappears by percolation through
the gravelly soil.
The Chesapeake, 51, screw frigate, Commodore
Watson, C. 8., was to sail from Spithead last night
for Calcutta, having received an additional quantity
of the munitions of war, in the shape of shells, which
will contain molten iron instead of the old fashioned
red-hot shot. The Royal Corps of Engineers that
were to have embarked in her have been forwarded
oveiland.
The Perseverance iron steam troop-ship, Com-
mander M‘Donald, requires so much refit in her
engine department, &c., that her of sers and craw
are ordered to be turned over to the Urgent, a sis-
ter ship to the Transit.
A letter received in Cork on Monday from Cal-
cutta, dated the Bth of August, states that reinforce-
ments to the amount of 1,400 had arrived up to
that day.
The following appointments were made at the
Admiralty yesterday :
Lieutenant—F. S. Thompson, to the Cyclops.
Mates—Orford S. Cameron and Thomas W. Simeon,
to the Diadem.

Paymaster—G H. Wil'ier, to the Cyclops.
Clerk—Warwick Woolridge, to the Valorous. ,
Acting Assistant-Surgeons—Henry Usoher, R. R.
Siccatna, Dr. W. Howison, and L. Lucas, additional to
the Victory for Haslar Hospital. T. Colaghan, Dr.
Dr. Henry S. Smart, and Dr. John M'Cortnick, addi-
tional, to the Impregnable, for Plymouth Hospital.
Acting Second Master—Thomas H. Hayman to the
Valorous.