PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 100, 28 June 1854, Page 3

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

It is now well known thar tho British Govern* mant intend to forwuid a first division of Infantry, 10,000 strong, lo Constantinople, immediately. The division will consist of lluoe battalions ef the Guards— the 4th, 28tb, 33rd, 50ih, 77th nnd U3rd Regiments of the Line, and the 2nd battalion of tlio Riflo Brigade. Tho Artillery foioe will include five field bnttoriea nnd ono brigade for email-arm bull cartridge. Theso regiments hare already been mn.de up to the requisite strength by volunteers from other regiments who lmve come forward with great alacrity . Tho deficiency in the Rifles was nt once supplied; nnd out of 19!) required 102 belonged to tho lit battalion which only returned on Sunday lout from the Cnpe, In like manner, a considerable number of Sappers and Miners, nUo froah from Cape Betvioe, have volunteered. The Artillery batteries will have 180 men oaoh, or dou« bio the peace establishment. Nothing, as yet has been determined as to" tho eavnlry to be employed in the expedition, though several regiments have been named ; J but picked men to the number of fiOO sabres will certainly go. Tho principal Stufr appointments for th« Eastern oxpcJition wcro, it ia said, determined at the Horse Guards yesterday, and will bo submitted to tho Queen to day. Although, of eoume, the published list in not official, yet It ia put forward on good authority, and is believed to be correct. The state- I mont is, that Lord Raglan will take "the chief! command of tlin British auxiliary force ; which will 1 consist of two division*, one under General Brosvu J the other under lm (loyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. ( oloiiols Beutinck, Eyre,jAirey, and , Sir Colin Campbell, it ia said, go out tm Brigadiers Colonel Sulhvtm bs Adjutant-General, Colonel ', Cutor in command of the Artillery, and Colonel I Victor in command of the corps of Engineers ; Licutcnnnt-Coloucl Dacrea, Lieutenant-Colonel Bloomfield, nnd Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, go out under Colonel Cator ; Captain Welherall as Dcpu. ty«Assiitant»Adjutant«Gonernl, ond Dr. Smith as head of the Medical department," Another report mentions Lieutenant-General Ferguson as second in command, and aligns tho jioat of AdjutantGeneral lo Colonel Aiiey It in stated that tho entire force will be armed with the Mim6 rillo ; and that tho whole much in. cry of the training school nt Hythe will be transported to Malt'i, in order to teach the troops the perfect use of that formidable weapon. It is estimated that, taking the torca now under orders for the Mediterranean, a brigade ulrcudy formed there, and the regiments next for service the British contingent for the defence of Turkey will amount to twenty thousand men, and torty ,';iuib admirably honed and provided with a lull proportion of ammunition waggons. Thecfiieioucy of the v. hole corps is universally mlnuUcil. 'I In- Flo li"M)linn of ColiK'rmm Guards,

marched on Tuesday from St. George's Bnrrnek 0 fjufali;ar srj>i.ir<>, lor Chirlfstcr. They were led by Colonel Bcntinck, and were accompanied through the streets in the line of their roulo by cheermtf crouds. On the nnme dny, the picked men, 350 in iium» her, supplied by the Scoti Fmileen ot Windsor, kit fiieir burnicki ; mid ihe neopla of Windsor, the Eton boys and tbeir innatcra, cheered them u» they departed. Tina battalion took up its quarters in the Wellington birrackn, London, and goes at ouce to the Meditoirnncr.n. For t!io coiivovonco ot the troopa Government: have chartered four steamers belonging u> ihe General Srictv Company, three belonging to the Poninsular and Oriental Cnmpan), two of the Cunnril linera, and ono of tho Aunlrulinn Company. The call for temlcrn lor nailing Unps bus been answeied by a host of ofFcrn ; but aomo have been* already secured. It is bcleiveii ihnt tlio Himalaya md Great Brltaia will be cnrpl'iyi '•■ Tlio abstraction of all theso ships will not affect the regular despatch of mails and (,uodfl. In the mean time, recruiting »cnt on very briskly in Ireland up to lust Sununy. Numbers had offered in Dublin ; 500 during the week m Belfast and proportionate numbers in the South nod Went. But on Sunday tho yiriosis throughout tho country are Bnid to have warned young moil not to be lured by the "Saxon •lulling"— with what effect, it not elated.