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Vaval and Military
At- a
Major-General Windham, the " Hero of %1
Redan," has accepted an important command in,
India, and will proceed to the East as soon as pos.
sible. The gallant General, who represents the
Eastern Division. of Norfolk in Parliament, has been
staying in that county during the last few days.
The 66th Regiment marched into Portsmouth
garrison last night from Aldershot camp, which
they left per special train, and await orders and it
ship to embark for India.
The 54th Regiment also marched into Portsmouth
Sandewga iemosntbeayareits
yesterday afternoonmywohui cdh aMonday
has
sor
been fromind thekienn camp,lti and
ph etoSacroaltn.
vey them out.
nh Foot e a
Fleece
se
etce
ea embarked
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steamship,
o oneena°te
_romifaptya!
yEo7firi
oontpg i i
el
flotilla,
the
AGh emo l3ed4reit
and dropped out to Spithead.
The James Baines and Chimp'on of the Seas
clippers, Captains M‘Don nel I and Al•Kirdy,
dropped out to Spitbead yesterday moiling wit't
the 20th, 97th, and part of the 42d r,,,iment, at
.before reported. The troops on board these ships
were enthusiastically cheered as th-,y left Vie har-
bour by an unusually great conormrso of :pea hors.
They will sail this morning t*,,r
In consequence of the large number of reinforce•
ments for the Indian regimenti proceeding from.
Chatham great activity prevails at that garrison.
Sub-divison officers for the recruiting service hays
been selected from the regiments at Onatila,m, and,
forwarded to those stations where recruiting was
proceeding previously to all the recruiting parties
being called in. The following regimen's are or-
dered to be augmented—viz., the 10th, 23d Welsh
Fusiliers, 24th, 29th, 32d, 35th, 431 Li..eit
try, 52d Light Infantry, 53d, 69th Rifles, 64th,
70th, 74th Highlanders, 75th, 81e, and 87th.
Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Yesterday orders were received at the Provi-
sional Battalion, Chatham, for the re'nforcements
for the 82d Regiment, consisting of 100 n m-com-
missioned officers and men, und,,r the command of
Lieut. J. A. Brock, to embark for India on board.
the Ghenzis Khan. The reinforcements for the
64th and 86th regiments, under Vie command of
Lieut. T. R. Hamilton and Lieut. V. G. Coates,
will leave Chatham on Monday.
Lieut.-Colonel Turner's H troop of Royal Horse
Artillery, under orders for India, arrived at head-
quarters, Woolwich, from Ireland, yesterday even-
ing.

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was broken. The complaints were loud and gene-
ral against the driver of the Great Northern ex-
press, sslio must have seen the standing carriages
at some distance, and it was declared that he
seemed to be taking no notice of his engine. Un-
less it was that the rails were more slippery from
the rain than he had calculated upon, and he was
unable to bring up his engine in a reasonable dis-
tance, there can be no doubt he was guilty of gro!s
negligence. The matter certainly demands, as we
presume it will receive, thorough inquiry.
Lady Londesborough and her daughter, the
Hon. Miss Denison, were among the persons who
were injured. These ladies were in a carriage the'
was about to be detached for Hull, to which town
ihey were about to proceed to meet Lord. Londes
horough,' and to attend the annual ball of the Hull
Regatta. Both Lady Lundesborough and her-
daughter have their faces bruised, and the former
received a severe contusion of one of her legs.
Both the ladies returned to Lord Londesborough's
seat, Grimston-Park, near Tadcaster, where they
were joined the same evening by Lord Londes-
borough, who on receiving information of the ac-
ci.lent by electric telegraph took a special train
from Hull to Tadcaster. Happily both the ladies
a,-e likely to' recover, the report as to the state
~f their health from Grimston-house :yesterday
(Friday) morning being of a favourable character.

THE NEW REFORM BILL.

(From the Times.)

A week ago Lord Brougham found an occa-
sion for delivering a speech on the expected Ra-
ft-yin Bill. The ex-member for Yorkshire, the
Chancellor of 1830, naturally regards the revival
of discussions on the representative system with the
half-sympathetic and half-contemptuous feeling
which some old Peninsular General may have en-
tertained when, after 40 years of peace, the Guards
embarked for the Dardanelles. The colours are
the same, although a third or fourth generation of
recruits has taken the place of the seasoned soldiers
who crossed the Pyrenees. The veteran sees with
pleasure that the interests of his youth are reviving ;
but he takes care to remind his younger contempo-
raries that they are not yet equal to their fathers.
The agitation for " the Bill, the whole Bill, and
nothing but the Bill.' will assuredly not be repro-
duced
in 1858. The hopes and fears which will be
excited by any change which may ba proposed are
comparatively moderate an d calm. Lord Brougham's
successor will have no occasion to implore the House
of Lords on his bonded knees to pass Lord Palmer-
ston's Reform Bill.

The transport Sunderland, from Halifax, has
discharged her cargo at Woolwich Arsenal, consist-
ing of 790 tons of returned stores, and was yester-
day hauled out to the buoy to wait for further
orders.

1 The screw steam transport Balaklava, in the ser-
vice of the MilitarylS tore Department of Woolwich,
arrived at the Arsenal-wharf yesterday fr an Ports-
mouth, laden with returned Ordnance stores.
In consequence of the heavy demands for the
supply of cartridges and ammunition from Wool-
wich Arsenal for the service of the East India Cone
pany 150 extra hands were yesterday engaged for
that department.
The Defence convict hulk, scuttled about three
weeks back off Woolwich Arsenal, in order to ex-
tinguish the spontaneous ignition of a largo quan-
tity of coals in the hold of the vessel, still lies
waterlogged, in spite of the exertions of upwards
of 1100 riggers and shipwrights in constant
attendance. Yesterday a couple of steam-tugs—
the Monkey and the Widgeon—were attached,
when they succeeded in bringing her about 30 feet
inward towards the shore. AS the spring tides
have commenced setting in another attempt will
be made to lift her nearer the wharf, but although
partially buoyed up between a couple of heavy
barges and crammed with empty casks, the task is
still difficult.l
On parade, on Thursday, as the 20th Regiment
was leaving he camp at Aldershot to embark for
Thomas Peden was pre-
slenndtieaci
by
Lieutenant-Colonel Colour-Sergeant
C. 8., and
the officers of the regiment with a very handsome
slver teapot, bearing the badges and mottoes of
the regiment, and containing a purse with 201.
Colonel Everlegh, in addressing Colour-Sergeant
Peden, spoke of the exemplary character he had
borne during the whole time he had been in the re-
giment, upwards of 20 years, and of the high con-
sideration in which he was held by every one in
the regiment • that for some years he had been
in charge of the officers' mess, in which
position he had been entrusted with large sums
of money and the charge of very valuab'e
plate, and that his constant care and attention
had contribu' ed much to the comfort of the officers.
Colonel Everlegh said he trusted that the pleasure
now afforded him of presenting, in the name of the
officers of the 20th Regiment, this testimonial of
their regard might be an inducement to the young
men of the regiment to endeavour to follow the ex-
ample so plainly held before them. Colour-Ser-
geaut Peden was some time since pre-ented by the
captain of his company with a very handsome silver
watch. He is now on the strength of the depot of
the regiment.
A squadron of the Ist (King's Dragoon Guards
have lett,Aldershot for Canterbury, proceedino• to
India. The other squadrons will follow on the Bth,
10th, and 11th inst.
The two companies of Royal Marines, 75 each,
under command of Captain Ward, which left Gos-
port at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday by spec'al train, ar-
rived at Plymouth 3.30 a.m. yesterday morning.
They will probably embark to-thy on board the
steam troop ship Imperador, Commander Atkins,
and sail to-morrow (Sunday) for China.
The Princess Charlotte, 104, Captain Ge arge F.
Vincent King, which left Plymouth, July 1, with
ammunition and stores for China, experienced a
fine passage to Madeira, where she arrived on the
morning of the 15th of July, and sailed iu the
evening for the Cape of Good Hope.
His Netherlands Majesty's steamer Gehdi, 6,
Commander Staring, left Plymouth Sound on
Thursday afternoon for Madeira, Rio Janeiro, the
Cape of Good Hope, and Batavia. At Rio she
embarks 25 mutinous merchant seamen for a penal
settlement at Batavia. During the stay of the
Gehdi at Plymouth her officers visited the Devon-
port Arsenal and all the public establishments.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
George King, midshipman, to the Assurance ;
G. C. Masters, midshipman, to the Chesapeake ;
B. S. Hamilton, midshipman, to the Ganges ;
Charles Hobart, naval cadet, to the Chesapeake ;
William E. Darwell, naval cadet, to the Ganges ;
Jams T. Hart, master's assistant, to the Sparrow-
, hawk.
THE VOYAGE OE THE SHANNON.—A. letter from
this 51-gun screw frigate, Captain Peel, says :
" We towed Frolic out of False Ely on the 11th of
May. She arrived at Singapore on the eve of the
11th of June, all well. In lat 44 30 S, long. 78 E,
experienced a terrific thunderstorm. The main
royalmast was struck three times by lightning. No
damage, and a most terrific sea arose at the same
time. Spartan, 26, Captain Sir W. Hoste, Bart.,
was waiting here for the Racehorse, 14, her relief.
She then proceeds to England. None of the other
vessels have arrived yet. It is thought some oft
troops will be sent to India, if rrquired.
Elgin and suite embark on the 22d,
and will
. live
altogether on board of us. Simoom, sFrew. t roSheop
ship, is hourly expected from the Mauritiusan sent to
may have been picked up in the Straits
eight hours after the Frenchmen.'
India. She was to have sailed from the Mauritius

The immediate reason for introducing such a
measure consists in the fact that it has been re-
peatedly announced, and that almost all consider-
able statesmen and a majority of the House of Com-
mons are pledged to support a change. Lord J.
Russell was with difficulty persuaded to withdraw
his Bill in the midst of the Russian War, and he is
ready at any moment to take the lead of the Re-
forming party, if the Government shows any want
of zeal in the cause. At the general election it was
impossible to confine candidates and constituencies
to the immediate issue between Lord Palmerston
and his opponents. In a large number of boroughs
Reform was made the test of Liberalism, and the
temperate desire forchange which is partially enter-
tained was loudly and universally expressed. The
country and its rulers have been led by circum-
stances to make a kind of compact among them-
selves, and it would be rash, and scarcely honest,
to treat the bargain as a nullity. Communities as
well as individuals feel them, elves bound to act up to
a resolution when they have once publiclyannounced
it. The business of wise politicians at present is
not to thwart the popular demand, but to make
use of it for the purpose of strengthening and puri-
fying the representative system. Lord Brougham
need not deprecate the renewal of revolutionary
excit*rnenf. The Reform Bill of 1831 was a train

applied to a powder mine. There is no mass of
combustible materials underlying the present posi-
tion of political society in England.
Rotten boroughs, close corporations, corn laws,

and navigation laws have disappeared, and, above
all, the suspicion that public evils are to be attri-
buted to the legislation of a selfish minority has
happily becume obsolete. There may be errors and
abuses still to correct, but there is no indignant
feeling of disaffection among the great- body of the
clmtnunity. The advance of prosperity and of en-
lightenment in the last quarter of a century bas been
so visible and rapid that the popular imagination is
not forced to employ itself in creating a future
Utopia, or in looking back to a fictitious age of
gold. Even the most thoroughgoing advocates of
organic change demand rather a logical symmetry
in the representative system than a machinery
adapted to the realisation of extensive social re-
forms. By a natural consequence, the old spirit of
bigoted resistance to improvement has almost dis
appeared with the subsidence of revolutionary agi-

tat ion. .
There never was a time at which the correction
of constitutional irregularities might be more
safely undertaken. The difficulty of the Govern-
ment will consist principally in the absence of
enthusiasm for any definite scheme which may be
proposed. The measure which obtains the Nano-
tiou of the ablest politicians may perhaps not be
calculated to satisfy the popular expectations. The
constituencies at the general section ,probably
desired a considerable extension of the suffrage,
and it will be necessary to carry out their wishes.
On the other hand, all statesmen worthy of the
name will be unanimous in resisting proposals
for uniformity of representation. The admission of
the higher and more enlightened class of non-voters
will meet with universal approval ; but it unfor-
tunately happens ti.at in proportion to any man's
rank in soAety is his indifference to the Parlia-
mentary franchise. - The upper classes must neces-
sarily form a small minority, and it is not through
the influence of their individual votes that they
contrive to govern the country.
The borough constituencie., especially in the
larger towns, are already too homogeneous. Small
tradesmen outnumber the more educated portion
of the middle classes, while the active and intelli-
gent artisans are for the most part excluded from
the franchise. If some plan can be devised for
enabling the manufacturing operatives to vote,
without swamping the remaining bodies of elec•ors,
the economic errors which embody themselves in
" unions" and in
." strikes" may soon be eradicated
by the influence of free diescussion. The Lancashire
factory hands might possibly, in the first instance,
return a few Socialist demagogues to Parliament,
but experience would rapidly convince them of
their error ; and the consciousness that they had a
voice in the councils of the nation would go far
to anticipate their periodical outbreaks of dis-
eontent.
It must not be forgotten that the total amount
of electoral power is necessarily a fixed quantity.
Nothing can be given to ono class but what is
taken away from another. New seats can be
created only the disfranchisement of small
boroughs. Large additions to existing constitu-
ences will swamp the present electors. At the
time of the Reform Bill it was comparatively easy
to transfer power from a score of noblemen to
some dozens of counties and of large towns. The
elective bodies of the present day are more power-
ful than the boroughmongers, inasmuch as they
occupy a less anomalous position. The disfran-
chisement of fifty small boroughs would unite_
seventy or eighty members in oppositiondto_othne
promotors of any reform measure. If Loin
4-b,
Russell's bill had passed a second reading
0..,1g
it was generally understood that the distr.?, DI 1
clause would be rejected by a large
It may be doubted whetheriany po 1
• The gentry
really eager for a specificLe'Llaernar manufacturers
manage the counties; the
owi
ns. mwajeorr.iuirc.iass
is
The electors in
have no rivals in the large t
scarcely wish to reduce the
the minor boroughs canfc o
by sharing it with a
importance of h are advantages to those
to use them in the opportunity of
larger number.
who know how to
c‘alin. A well-considered measure,
navigating t Yet there
with all the vigour of Government, will
qid of those numerous members who
oed. to do sow,' • Q.,
-,ething 'and at a loss to decide
are pled„ • • —.O There is no reason to
morig competing prop,. • . .
cPorneriadnQ: the .
fad •1; y44r, Pica-heirs protest ea istf.qlalf of the
,i, ~ ,
ill-
treated counties, 'Ur um vonservati:T supporters
are well aware that tiley eau only lose .I.vv. any
attem lb make representation coincide with pr.:-
ilt
perty and with numnefs. If London, carrying
out the same principle., demands s44tit or seventy
members, thBprHvinoes
Government in repudiating - • - hi --
''sill not fail to support the
d runic evo,us unt
-i, .
fortuity. • '
~,,,- liberal majority will ovtrbear any
obstinate resistance to improvement, and a late
I ortiOn. of its members will, at, the same time,shancle
ready to support the Minister against any
ruabtedly
dangerous innovation. The result will undo
no
con-
involve an increase of popular power,
demands a
siderable section of the comniunityo_
the
consti-
sei ious derangement of the balancef
itself, iu a certain
tution. The electoral body must If it once
sense, represent the collective nation.
ultitude all the more
becomes identical with the
practically
aisiranchiiitd•
enlightened climeo. site prael

THE INDIAN EQUIPMENT OF AN
ENGLISH SOLDIER.

We have been favoured by the War Department
with the following memorandum
According to existing regulations of some years'
standing, every soldier on his arrival in India is pro-
vided with the following articles of clothing, in addition
to those which compose his kit in this country : ,
" Mounted Men—Four white j wkets, six pairs of
white overalls, two pairs of Settringee overalls,- six
shirts, four pairs of cotton socks, and one pair of white
braces.

" Foot Soldiers—Four white j whets, one pair of
English summer trousers, five pairs of whits trousers
five white shirts, two check shirts, and one pair
of
white braces.
" These articles are not supplied in this country) but
form a part of the soldiers' necessaries on bis arrival in
India, and are composed of materials made on the spot
and best suited to the climate.
Ind
hot stations, he is provided with a tonischtienli
the
tunic
is
" During his stay in India,- China, Ceylon,
snhdelaitj
y other
in alternate ears, and in the year in
icleers c
not issued the difference in the valso
is paid to the soldier, to be
exPen. artiel3s suited to
commanding) for his benefit in any
the climate for the station.le:fdthfebytv,t(s)62;rotffi
Provided with white cotton anforage cap " The force recently sent out toilonaChieitca adndf,lndia has

bet,:
covers. 'l
of light clothing for troops can lie
f ty-ot in India
at the s b ortest notice."
procured
IVO . have heard of eptally admi
"Unfortunately,
-
rable arrangements before, none of which were
i Any
o gn t"-te ti.
si. .
eddied out, tmd it is not a sufficient answer to those
who say that, as a matter of fact, the Et'.glish regi-
ments in Bengal are at present dressed precisely
like those at Aldershot, to give us a statement of
the equipment they ought to receive. It will be
observed, too, that the white cotton head-coverings
are to be worn over the helmets or sakoes. Those
who have had to wear a. heavy 3)2 o ruing
during -,the late hot weather ;will appreciate the
indulgence.