The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-01 00:00:00

FIRST BRIGADE.

Composed of Middlesex Corps, and commanded by
Viscount Enfield, Lieut.-Colonel 29th Middlesex.
Ist Battalion—Under the command of Major
Whitehead, Victoria Rifles: Victoria Rifles, Cap-
tain Clarkson ; 4th Middlesex, Major Lord Truro.
2d Battalion—Captain Jones : 29th Middlesex,
Captain Ross.

3d Battalion—Captain Hawker, Civil Service
Corps : 21st Middlesex (Civil Service), Captain
Harrington ; 38th Middlesex (Artists'), Captain
Phillips; 2d city of London, Captain Spottiswoode.

SECOND BRIGADE.
Composed of Surrey Corps, and commanded by
Li'ut.-Colonel M'Donald, Ist Surrey Rifles.

Ist Battalion—Colonel Campbell : Ist Admini-
strative Battalion Surrey Rifles,, Major Jones, ith
Surrey, Major Beresford.
2d Battalion—Major Cochrane, 12th Surrey :
12th Surrey, Captain Arnold.
3d Battalion—Captain Freeman : Ist Surrey,
Captain Rouse.

CAVA LRY.

Under the command of Captain Mellor, Ist Surrey

Mounted Rifles.
Ist Middlesex Light Horse ; Ist Surrey Mounted
Rifles.

The 20th Middlesex, under Colonel Bigge, will
probably join in the course of the day.
The Surrey corps will march back ; but the
majority of the Middlesex corps will return from
Wimbledon by a train specially placed at the ser-
vice of the volunteers by the South Western Rail-
way Company, on very liberal terms.
That the comparative probaole strength of the
metropolitan forces to be engaged at Brighton and
Wimbledon may be ascertained with approximate
accuracy, we subjoin the list of the various regi-
ments which have signified their intention of taking
part in the Wimbledon Review.
In the first place we have the Ist Middlesex
Artillery, 200 ; the Ist Middlesex (Victoria) Rifles,
500; the City Brigade, two battalions, say 1,200;
the Queen's (Westminster), 1,000; the North Mid-
dlesex (Lord Enfield's regiment), 600 ; the Hon.
Artillery Company, 400; Ist Middlesex Light
Cavalry (Lord Truro's regiment), 150 ; the Civil
Service, 400 ; the 4th Middlesex (Islington), 400 ;
the 20th Middlesex (Railways), 400; the Metropo-
litans (to keep the ground), 500 ; the 37th
Middlesex (Bloomsbury), 200; the Inns of
Court Volunteers, 400 ; the 39th Middlesex (Fins-
bury), 400 ; the Ist Surrey, 400 ; other Surrey
corp, 500; the 38th Middlesex (Artists'), 100.
Thus here we have an aggregate of something near
8,000 men expected to take part in the display .it
Wimbledon, as against the 4,000 or 5,000 metropo-
litan Riflemen who will be engaged at Brighton.
Nor have the arrangements with respect to this
important gathering been forgotten. Most of the
Middlesex regiments are under orders to muster on
their respective parades at 9 a.m.,
and march to that
portion of Hyde Park facing the Knightsbridgeßarracks, each regiment being accompaniedi by its
band. Having assembled and formed n column,
the march of the entire brigades will take place at
11 30 by the Kensington-road to Putney-bridge,
and thence to Wimbledon. common. The sight will,
no doubt, be a very imposing one. The Surrey

A comartmicaattoo from .grivaii-tiebrisiela
of the let of March, has the following :
I have received a letter from Teheran, in which
it is stated that Hanza Mirza, lately commander-
in-chief of the army of Lhorassan, had arrived in
that capital. On his arrival he was placed under
arrest at the gate of the city, mounted on a small
pony, with his legs tied together under the animal's
body, and in this way conveyed to the citadel, whet°
he was confined with the officers who had accom-
panieddtorui
edbt thatcond be3i thisnedand
time
thexecuted. The new commander, Prince Murad
eeex-General
ne hasilve no
been
Mirza, has left for Meshed; Dr. Dolmage accom-
panies the Prince as chief of the medical staff.
Although it may appear somewhat rash to offer an
opinion at such a distance, I am able to affirm that
there is no General in the Persian service who is
more likely to be able to cope with the Turcomans
than Murad Mirza. The Shah will shortly start
to enjoy some hunting at Gougari, in Astrabad,
where his Majesty is certain to find abundant
sport. My correspondent mentions that a tramway
is about being laid down between Teheran and the
shrine of Shah Abdul Karsim. I am unable to state
whether this work has been undertaken at Govern-
ment or private expense. The entire distance to
be traversed is only four and a-half English
miles. It his, however, deserving no further
notice than to cite as an instance of some sign of
progress. I ought to state, when referring to the
subject of roads, the remarkable efforts now being
made by the Russians to develop() the means at
communication in connexion with the Russian,
Persian, and Turkish frontier. The most notable
instance of this is to be found in the case of War-
onzoff, who is engaged at his special charge in
laying out a railway between the celebrated salt
works of Perekop to Kakhovka, on the Dnieper.
The surveys and preliminary work have been care-.
fully attended to by English engineers, and accord-
ing to their estimate the line of 100 versts (on,
miles) between the places named will cost about
12,000,000 f. The Prince is a very wealthy man,
and whatever sum he may need to carry out the
project he will find little difficulty in obtaining on
favourable terms. Well does he deserve all the
praise that has been bestowed upon him by the
Russian journals, and I may be permitted to add
that if some of the very wealthy Turkish Pashas—
and they are not insignificant is point of numbers
—would but act with a little of the noble patriot-
ism of Prince Woronzoff they could at a very
comparatively small expense construct a good
carriage road from Bayazid to Trebizonde, thus
preventing the t raffle being diverted eLsewheve."