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    Septemb^13,1856.] TEE LEADEB. 873

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    Naval And Military. Tins Army Reductions...

    consist of 82 battalions of about 110 . 0 men each , and one ( the 12 th Begiment ) , which . will for the present remain as a reserve battalion regiment , of 1200 rank and file . With tie exception , of six regiments on foreign service , each of those -will be divided into service and depSt companies . The service companies -will be kept at a strength of eight companies , or 800 rank and file exclusive of Bon-commissioned officers , with -which all the field-officers are to "be present as a general rale . They will form part of biigades and divisions , as much together as practicable . " These portions of the army will be constantly kept in training and accustomed to military operations on a large scale . " The old regimental system will be preserved at the depots , of which there will be 77 in all , grouped into 24 battalions , each comprising from three to six depots , as barrack accommodation may suit . The regimental depot will be composed of four companies of 50 men , or about 200 in . all ; and its mission will be to recruit and train men for the service companies , so as to keep them at their full strength and efficiency . These depots being under experienced field-officers , specially closen for the purpose , it is hoped that each draught of men sent to the service companies will arrive thoroughly effective regimental soldiers , as fit for service , in fact , as were our regiments of the line before the war . The Land Transport Corps is to be entirely reorganized , and will assume the title of the Military Train , being divided into bodies proportioned to the strength of the regiments , brigades , and divisions to which it will be attached . " Of the cavalry we read : — " The regiments will be reduced to the extent of the two additional troops by which they ¦ were severally increased during the war , and : will now nave six troops each instead of eight . The two junioi captains , therefore , will tie placed on half-pay , and , as the regiments not on the Indian establishment numbei 19 , it follows that 38 captains altogether will be thus reduced . COBBUGATED METAL WAGGONS FOB THE ARMY . — The experiments with Mr . Francis ' s corrugated meta waggons , which were last week submitted for trial befor < the authorities of Woolwich Arsenal , have been pro nounced of so satisfactory a nature that they havi expressed their decision of urging the Government t < decide on their introduction for all the purposes to -vvhicl they maybe applied . Sir George Pollock , Sir Frederic Abbott , Major-General Brooke , Colonel Tulloch , anj many other scientific officers , have expressed thei opinion that , if the metallic waggons were introduce into bur public services , they would prove of incalculabl value . Sir George Pollock , after te 3 ting their floatin capabilities , when fully loaded , expressed his opinion < their merit in the following terms : — " If I could ha-v had the benefit of Mr . Francis ' s carts when I crossed tl five rivera « f the Punjab , the soldiers would have bee saved some days' hard labour . I . was detained a day < two at each river , whereas with this carriage I cou ' have crossed each river in three or four hours with i difficulty , and without fatiguing the troops . " Colon Portlock has given his opinion that there is so mu < of practical ingenuity ia Mr Francis ' s invention that 1 sincerely hopes the British Government , however hi bitually cautious it might be in admitting great militai changes , will follow the example at once of the Goveri ments of the United States and of Napoleon III . 1 adopting in the army and navy botli the boats and tl waggons of Mr . Francis , as well as his life-car for o coasts . The first experiments , which were tested und the inspection of the Emperor of the French , so convinc his Majesty of the importance and efficiency of the inve tion , that te sanctioned on the spot a supply to the Fren army , and , as a testimonial of his satisfaction , present Mr . Francis with a gold snuffbox Talued at 200 / . IS Francis is about to proceed to Vienna and St . Petersbu where he lias received orders to attend from the Austri and Russian Governments . —Times . Sheffield ' s Greeting to the Dragoons . —On \ evening of Monday last , the anniversary of the fall Sebastopol was celebrated by a very interesting ce mony at New Hall Gardens , Sheffield . This consis in the presentation of n valuable pen and pocket knife each of tbe surviving officers , non-commissioned offici and privates of the 4 th Dragoon Guards ( now principa stationed at Sheffield ) , who were with their regiment its landing in' the Crimea and passed through Crimean campaigns . The knives , two hundred i twenty-five in number , are the gift of Mr . Thoi Toudan , proprietor of the Surrey Music-hall , Sheffi The presentation was made by Mr . W . Ovorend , J who delivered an address , after which , Mr . Itoeb ¦ spoke , observing at the close of his remarks : — " ' men of England respond to you . Thoy are with They know the difficulties that you have overcome ; they welcome your return from them . Wo are me peace . We know full well the blessings of peace , ar is because wo know them that wo appreciate you , are men of war ; for by your efforts those blessings maintained . ( Ajtplauae . ' ) It is a great mistake to i pose that the Engliali army is in any way oppose Englishmen . They are the protectors of England ; are the protectors of our glory ; they are the prote < of our freedom . ( Hear , hear . ) Wo arc not ofra soldiers . We love you as brethren , and wo know you will protect us as such . ( Applause , ") Gcntlem have very imperfectly performed th « duty imposed me . I bog heartily- to return y Ou the thanks of ¦

    ! : , town—of England , ay , and I may say of the whole world—for the deeds , the great deeds , you have done , the gallantry you have shown , and the thorough devo- tion you have always manifested to England and all that belongs to her . " A Long Absent Sinp .-r-Her Majesty ' s sloop Express , Commander Boys , arrived at Spithead on Monday evening from the Brazils , after an absence from England of five years and three months . She was employed , first at the West India station , and afterwards along the coast of South America , looking after English interests , and suppressing the slave trade . During .-the time the Express was on the Brazil station , she suffered much from sickness , principally dysentery and yellow fever . Her captain , Commander Head , died of this malady in May , 1853 . In May last , when , at-sea , the fever broke out again very violently ; six died before her return to Rio , on the 1 st of June , and forty-one officers and men were on that date sent to the Fever Hospital of St Isabel , in Juruguba-bay , Rio de Janeiro ; seven men died at that place , including Lieutenant W . G . Sewell and Assistant-Surgeon Soden . The Express returns home with only one officer ( Mr . George Richards master ) , sixteen seamen , and two marines , who left England in her . Running Down- of a Steameb in the River . — Shortlv after seven o ' clock on Tuesday morning , steam-boat collision took place in the river , in Lower Hope Reach , two or three miles below Gravesend , re suiting in the running down of the Sydney Hall , screw > ¦ steamer , an iron-built ship , of between 500 and 600 tons burthen , the property of the Patent Fuel Company , and commanded by Captain Michel , bound to Cronstadt : The other ship -was the Dodo , Captain Hanson , from j Cork , belonging to the Cork Steam Navigation Coin :. pany . The morning was misty . The Sydney _ Hall was i cut " down more than two feet below her -water line . drifted to the Essex shore , and then went down . the crew got off . At the moment of the collision , indeed I Captain Michel got hold of the 'Dodo's bowsprit , be 3 lieving that his own vessel was going down , and was - taken , off , the mate being left in the conamand . e Sydney Hall is insured ., \ T a A Steadier ow Shobe . —The English steamer New ti castle , Captain Legett , which left Flensburg on the 2 k September , with one hundred , and twenty-nine head of il cattle on board , bound for Stettin , got aground near r Holnis , in Kragoesund , the same evening , and threw d overboard the wlole of her coals to lighten her ; but she e still remains on shore , and it is feared she will be lost . g A Transport Destroyed byFire . —The Prussian jf ' barque Albion , Captain Krolcer , on her voyage from 'd Constantinople for . England , with Government stores , le took fire on the Slst August , in lat . 17 , Ion . 14 E ., sn about seventy miles from Gozo , and was destroyed . The jr crew landed at Malta . Id A Suggestion for the German Legion . —A German 10 newspaper ( the Londoner Deutschen JournaI ) , published in el London , and which advocates democratic principles , : h giye 3 a supplement to its last number , containing a long tie exhortation to the soldiers of the British German Legion a- They are called upon neither to return to the Continent , ry nor to allow themselves to be enlisted as military a- colonists for the Cape of Good Hope , but to claim , one jy and . all , a freo passage to the United States , to winch he they are entitled by the terms of their stipulation . The ur document is signed by Colonel Mack . " Where should ler you go ? " asks he . " To the United States , " ho replies ed " And what to do there ? To labour ! - For H is in the n- United States alone where the greatest part of the ch European political' refugees liave an opportunity to do ; ed their duty towards themselves as well as towards their tr . mother-country . Among tlicir duties towards them rg , selves labour is the first-for by labour alone inde lan peridence is secured . There is no political liberty with out personal independence , and there is no personal in the dependence without labour . " He advises them , further . of not merely to emigrate , but to settle in a body , for the re- purpose of mutual support . In conclusion , he declares ted himself willing to give personal advice , and we should i to judge that it might be to the effect that tho sudden srs , arrival of ton thousand free-soil settlers in Kansas , illy the sword-and-givn sort , would be of some service against on the border ruffians . — Morninij Star . —[ Via have received the from . Colonel Mack an elaborate statement , and slioll ind give our attention to it . ] nas Shipwreck and Loss op Lives . —Tho American ship eld . Ocean Home , of 700 tons burthen , bound from Rotter . P ., dam to Now York , came into collision , olT the Lizara uck with a largo ship ( name unknown ) , and received hiku The injuries that she immediately began to sink . 1 he captain rou . of the other vessel , though he was informed that and Ocean Homo Tas going down , made iio effort to n of the crew and passengers , and at least eight } - who rCoLONKL Lake , C . B ., is about to be brought into i are Royal army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel ( . fdto r Cownrci . HicrsDERT , and the other Shropshire officers they Llio served in the late war , wore entertained at SUrovra ctors bury on Thursday by the citizens . They were all . id of burgesses and the greatest enthusiasm -was m « m » OB « oi that Thb Edinburgh Bakquet ™ *"" - ^ J ^ en , I Soi . muRS .-lt has now been arranged that this ' HWj upon ing event shall be held on the 31 st of October , this banquet ia to tako place ia tho Corn Exchange ,

    Ti posec dinn Lone bridg whic Thk HiGHiiAND Brigade at Doveb . —rlt was proposed to give the Highland brigade now at Dover a dinner at the Surrey Gardens , the Highland Society of ¦ > London defraying the expenses ; but the Duke of Cambridge has refused permission for moving the troops , which he says would be very inconvenient .

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    Septemb ^ 13 , 1856 . ] TEE LEADEB . 873

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    * * t 0 S u ° | « ¦" t > £ " ¦ ol O ( . Dl y " »» « . « ^ P - " - v - « - * , < of . - , the save lour the un- - made ' Jf Ihe . miscellan eous ; The Great Comet of 1556 . —In a letter addressed to the Times-. by Professor Hind , the astrtmomer , that gentleman states that , by means of the obliging exertions of Professor Littron , of the Imperial Observatory of Vienna , he ha 3 discovered the missing chart of Fabricius and Ms ' Judicium ' upon the comet of 1556 , together w . ith an unknown , but highly important , descriptive treatise by Joachim Heller , astronomer of Nuremberg . By these documents , Professor Hind is strengihened in his belief that the comet of 1555 was the same as that of 1264 , and that the next appearance of the celestial body is near at hand . ' : '_ . ¦ . -.. The English Harvest . —A large portion of the crops has been got in , and , although in some districts wheat has been injured by the , rain , this depreciation is by no means , general , and for tho most part the corn has been housed \ in excellent condition . The harvest , -taken altogether , , will be at least above the average , and prices are falling i in consequence . In the neighbourhood of Norfolk , however , considerable damage has been done by a storm \ which occurred on the 1 st inst . Green and root crops 3 promise admirably , and the hop-grounds are yielding a 3 most liberal supply , equal to that of last year . r Thk Harvest ih the North of Scotland . —1 he harvest has commenced in the north of Scotland , and many fields have already fallen under tho aickle . Hie crops of -wheat , oats , and barley are all far above the , average of tho last few years . Potatoes arc an , abundant crop . Tlie disease has been checked by the fine dry 1 weather of this month , and is net likely to appear again . , Turnips arc in excellent condition , and tho aftermath ot ii the hay crop is most luxuriant . « One of the Crkw of the YicTORY .-Peter Moser , Df aged eiglity-tliree , died on the 21 st of August last , at st the Royal Hospital , Greenwich . This veteran sailor -a was in several engagements of the British navy between , 11 1794 : and 1800 , including the battle of lrafalgar . When Nelson fell , Peter Moscr served on board the Vie-In tory as captain of the maintop . In recognition of lua r services , which extended over more than twenty years , d he received two medals ( one with three clasps ) , ana vus cu for tho lust thirty years of his life an inmate of Greoiin wich Hospital . It is worthy of note that Ho , had he ¦ he honour of carrying the first flag at the public funeral ol lU r N H ?« i . riiHMUBK Steam fo » Marw . ^"" gj *^ An interesting trial has taken place at the Bailwaj ho Foundry , Leeds , in the presence of the G 0 ™™ . ™^ . " " i ! npector and other scientific persona , of a novel apphcat on of locomotive high-presai . ro machinery to « er 3 purposes . The machinery , which has been arranged " ! and completed from designs of tho engineer of the ac works , u intended , we understand for a serew steamer recently launched at Hull . Nothing could apparent !;* bo more" admirable than tho smoothness and facility tl with which tho machinery worked , a speed o * hundr « a * L and twenty revolutions of tho screw-abaft per ni nuto ' - ' being obtain d from the direct action of tho engines ,

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13091856/page/9/