ABSTRACT
The depôt of the 53d Regiment, which has recently sailed for India, consisting of about 150 men, with upwards of 50 women and children, arrived here from Manchester, and joined the provisional battalion. The depôt having brought with them a greater number of women than is allowed by the regulations of the service, the officers in command refused the extra number of women accommodation in the barracks, and they were therefore turned out. The women, with their families, being total strangers to the place, knew not where to seek for shelter for the night, and they had recourse to the Medway Union Workhouse, where the whole of them were taken in on Saturday night last, and there accommodated. Some of the soldiers whose wives have thus been treated, feeling indignant, have sent in their names claiming a discharge, although their term of servitude in the regiment entitles them to a pension. The circumstance has caused a great deal of unpleasant feeling throughout the depôt.
