The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-27 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

.b...Th_e.follgowing general regimental order, signed
~,Y__ "I* C. Bingham, Deputy Adjutant-General,
promulgating the code of rules and regulations for
ion
rrezinu n. for the new branch of the service in con-
ith the Royal Artillery, has been received
at C 1,,,
HiF, Roth_ata‘ garrison from the Horse Guards :—" 1.
jr. Highnessg_ie..Yenliti the Field-Marshal Command-
ing
Royat It,
,as the satisfaction of announcing to
of state for rent of Artillery that the Secretary
has been pleased to make provision
for the future special instruction of officers who
may desire to
qualify
connexion 'with
themselves for employment
thetmanufacturing departments,
the civil establisnmen
demy, and generally forbeing military
appointments usually
held by rfficers
military staff a
which are Speciallm ppoint-
ents,toithe Artillery service
2. It is the earnest hope o his Royal Highness that
'by' this arrangement the Royal
Regiment of Artil-
lery will continue to sustainita
be
eientific reputation
under any progress which may
war. 3. The
Deputy Adjutant-General is eharge
chanical arts as applied to materiel7flde in
tne me-
to
exercise
y the Field-
'Marshal Commanding-in-Chief
tettesa
has
com-
e the ut-
most vigilance that no officer be perto
pets for a place in the proposed class who
sno.s
not
given unqualified satisfaction in the discharge of h
purely regimental duties, and ia not, from a mill
tary point of view, an active and efficient artillery
officer. 4. Officers desirous of competing at the fits;
examinations will make application through their
commanding officer, who in forwarding it will ap.,
pend a certificate in accordance with paragraph 3
No officer will be adinis3iblE under six years' ser.
vice, and he must have undergone a course
of instruction at Shoebaryness. A medical
certificate of good health will be required. 5.
The first examination will take place in March,
1864, under the Council of Military Education.
The books to be specially taken up until further
notice, are—" Twieden's Mechanics and Todhun tees
Differentiai Calculus, but the examination will be
chiefly confined to the earlier portions of the latter.
The French will be qualifying for the purpose of
ascertaining that the candidate has such an acquain-
tance with the language, and especially with the

for of contracts, principal superintendent of stores
and director of ordnance; patterns, systems re-
specting them; examination of stores. 8 Ditties
of the Inspector of Artillery :—Pro )" of guns,
examination of guns and stores. 9. The small
arms departments, Enfield and P mlico, will
follow the Royal gun factories, and be treated
in the same comprehensive manner, including
the system of supply of small arms to the army,
their repair, and comparison of systems of rifling
and breech-loading for small arms. 10. From the
royal gun factories the class will proceed to the
royal carriage department, where the subjects' will
be—selection and purchase of timber,
saw-mills
planing and other machinery applied to working of
timber ; censtrnction ; mechanical principles as ap-
plied in military machines ; friction, draught, trac-
tion, locomotive power ; harness ; organisation of
labour in the royal carriage department ; system of
accountability and
payment ; prices ; relations to
director of stores, director of contracts, principal
superintendent of stores, and dthireetneto;reoxfamoirndantaionnceo;f
patterns, systems respecting
stores. 11. Here will conveniently come in the
organisation and duties of the department of the
Principal Superintendent of Stores, including the
detail of equipments for all services, and proportion
of stores, packing ammunition, arrangement of
magazines. 12. The last term will be devoted to
the manufacture of gunpowder, ammunition, and
generally, the duties of the Royal laboratory, in-
cluding the chemistry of the subjects—selection and
examination
purchase of pyrotechnic material;
gunpowder
andin
atpioonwd and
refining e r
mills; th of
theory saltpetre,
of &
gunpowder, qualities effect of ec.
dif-
ferent sized grains ; electro•ba
llietie apparatus, and
other modes of proof, gun cotton, detonating com-
pounds, other laboratory specimens, small arm am-
munition, cannon
ammunition,
fuses, rockets, &c.
manufacture of ballets,
casting of every description
of projectile for smooth bored and rifled ordnance
organisation of the Royal laboratory department ;
supply of raw material;
and payment, • prices ; relations to the director of
stores, director of contracts, principal superinten-
dent of stores, and director of ordnance ; pat-
terns, inspection, and examination of stores
13. The Professor of Applied
the several lecturers will proceed in correspond-
ing order through their subjects, so that practical
instruction may be based on thorough acquaintance
with principles, If found necessary to do so, a large
part of the first term will be devoted to theoretical
instruction and mathematics, in order that the stu•
dents may be in a position to follow the professor
in the more advanced subjects of his subsequent lec-
tures. 14. There will be periodical examinations
and certificates given at the close. 15. No payment
will be required. 16. After a certain date, to be
fixed hereafter by his Royal Highness the Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, first appointments
to all special employments of a scientific character
will be made exclusively from officers who have
passed through the contemplated course of instruc-
ion?'

The battalion of Royal Marines for service in
Japan is ordered to rendezvous for embarkation at
Plymouth. It will be quartered and organised in
Mil Nay barracks, which are near the waterside.
Among other ships spoken of for transport service
is the Windsor Castle, 97, 3,101 tons, which is pro-
vided with engines of 400-horse power and a screw,
and is now in Hamoaze, Davenport. The entire bat-
talion will consist of six companies, numbering in
the aggregate 36 officers and 604 non-commissioned
officers and men, the whole under the command of
Lieut.- Col. W. G. Suther. He will have for flag-
cfficers Lieut.-Col. Penrose Charles, of the Plymouth
division, and Lieut.-Col. Chas. Wm. Adair, Chatham
division. The following is the proportion of officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men selected from the
Chatham division—Lieut.-Col. C. W. Adair, in com.
mend; Capt. J. A. Stewart, paymaster ; Lieut. W
J. Barker, quartermaster; Capt, J. H. Parry, First
Lieut. R. H. Dwyer, Second Lieut. W.W. Spalding,
8 non-commissioned officers, and 76 men. The en-
tire quota from Plymouth will consist of a detach-
ment of 1 lieut.-colonel, 2 captains, 4 lieutenants, 8
sergeants, 8 corporals, two drummers and 150 men
An Admiralty order was yesterday received atiWool
wich, instructing the following detachment of the
division of Royal Marines to be held in readiness
for immediate embarcation for Japan, viz., Lieut.-
Col. Suther, Lieut. and Acting Adjutant Poyntz,
Captains Seymour and Lean, Lients. Donellan and
Hore, 8 sergeants, 8 corporals, 2 buglers, and .150
rank and file.

A general regimental order of the Royal Artillery, signed
by Deputy-Adjutant-General, Col. Charles Binghaa', bear-
ing date the 20th inst., but promulgated yesterday, aloe
nounces the following changes :—The following appoint
ments have been made by the Secretary of State for War,
with the concurrence of his Royal Highness the Field Mar-
shal Commanding in Chief—viz. :—Lieut-Col and Brevet-
Col F. A. Campbell to be Superintendent of Royal Gun
Factories, vice Sir William Armstrong, resigned—Lieut-
Col C. W. Younghusband to be a member of the Ordnance
Select Committee, vice Campbell. Her Majesty has been
pleased to approve the following promotions is the Royal
Regiment of Artillery—viz.,:—Captain Hickman Thomas
Molesworth, 3d Horse Brigade, to be Lieut.-Col. 17th Bri-
gade, vice Henry Charles Wade, retired upon full pay--
Second Capt Marmaduke Charles Lawson, 17th Brigade, to
be Capt, vice Molesworth—Lieut Charles Joseph M'Mahon,
3d Horse Brigade, to be Second Capt 17th Brigade, vice
Lawson—Lieut•Col William Henry Delamain, 224 Bri-
gade, to be Col 24th Brigade, vice William Barr, retired
upon full pay—Capt Walker King Fooks, 19th Brigade, to
be Lieut-Col 22d Brigade, vice Delamain—Second Capt
William Dickson, 16th Brigade, to be Capt 19th Brigade
vice Fooks—Lieut Henry Archibald Matlock, 24th Bri-
gade, to be Second Capt 16th Brigade, vice Dickson—
Lieut-Col William Kinnaird Worster, 20th Brigade, to be
Col, 17th Brigade, vice Bladen West Black, retired upon
half-pay—Capt Robert George Hunter Grant, 3d Horse
Brigade, to be Lieut. Col, 20th Brigade, vice Worster—
Second Captain John Frederick Adolphus M`Nair, 17th
Brigade, to be Captain, vice Grant —Lieut Charles Edward
Watson, 20th Brigade, to be Second Capt, 17th Brigade,
vice hl'Nair—Lieut Christopher Edward Newport, 18th
Brigade, to be Second Capt therein, vice Frederick Alex-
ander Whish, who resigns—Lieut-C' lonel George Prince
Sealy, 18th Brigade, to be Col, 21st Brigade, vice Robert
Croft Wormald, retired upon full pay—captain Hill Wal-
lace, 4th Horse Brigade, to be Lietenant-Colonel, 18th
Brigade,vice Sealy—Second Captain Charles Shaw de Neuf-
villa Lucas, 21st Brigade, to be Captain, vice Wallace—
Lieutenant J. Vibart, Depot Brigade, Royal Horse Artil-
lery, to be 2d Captain 21st Brigade, vice Lucas—Lieut.-
Colonel Arnold Burrows Kemball, C. 8., 18th Brigade, to
Colonel therein, vice John Pottinger, C. 8., retired upon
full pay—Captain and Brevet-Major George Gleig Brown,
4th Horse Brigade, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, 18th Brigade,
vice Kemball—Second Captain John Henry Porter Mal-
colmson, 21st Brigade, to be Captain, vice Brown—Lieut.
Henry Tanfield Vachell, 4th Horse Brigade, to be Second
Captain 21st Brigade, vice Malcolmson—Second Captain
Walterli Claidisck Nangle, 13th Brigade, to be Captain 6th
vice Cherie
terinrde, vice Brevet Major Edmund Palmer, placed upon
B PQrarY half-pay—Lieutenant Stuart J. Nicholson, sth
Ca
to • • •
en ) be Second Captain 13th Brigade, vice Naugle—
LX:ol,443cid Brevet Major Augustus Frederick Francis
numeraryl,BlWat
Brigade, to be Lieut-Colonel, 11th Brigade,
right Younghusband, removed to the Super-
Strover,l2t4 Brigade,
Captain and Brevet Major Henry
Len-
Sox—Lieutenant to be Captain 3d Brigade, vice Len-
ing officers are raiaee
Second Captain, 2:all Smith, Ist Horse Brigade, to be
Brigade, vice Strover. The follow-
ing increased pay—via.:—Lieut-Col.
G. E. Vogle, 26th
W. C. L. Baker, 234
13ritigade, vice Wade—Lieut-Colonel
Lieut-Colonel A. V. Earls,edvice Delamain, promoted—
Horse Brigade, vice Wor-
ster, promoted—Lieut-Colonel
M. Murray, 21st Bri-
t-Colonel R. H. Keat-
ing, vice Sealy, promoted---Lt;
jog., 4th Horse Brigade, v-
Colonel R. O'Connell, 14th Brisrade,4v.'
G. .2.Uxh Brigade, vice
Lieutenant the Hon. 11. S. u,Gradyt,ce_ yteurighusband—
pruoted—AiLilieou:ktenvaienet
Watson,
lii.i'leßt'.
16th Brigade, vied eea , promoted—Lieutenant
M 'Mahon,
Thompeon, 20th Brigade,
e.'t' promoted—
C. Calaecetf, 21st Brigade, vice
Lieutenant F. Gardiner •leade vice
d—Lieut A. C. 2 '
Newport, promote, let Brigade
t F. Lode, 18
vice Vibart, promoted—Lieu
G. B.gGatt thi3rigade, vice
Vachell, I.,romoted—Lieut B. t
J.
T.
e4,relst Brigade,
vice Nicholson, promoted—Lieu . A.
t C . W . Thomson, 12th
Brigade, vice Smith, promoted—Lieu . mason, 9th
The following exchanges
have vice Campbell, deceased.
".' V. J h
have been approved, viz., between Lieut-Col G. d ()etnsoe,
7th Brigade, and Lieut-Col Lennox, 11th Briga,
fer—eruLwtteeu
Lieut W. S. Brown, of No 1, and Lieut B. J.
F• S. Buad,'' 0011
No 2 Battery, 13th t4igade—between Lieut
h Bri
No 2, and Lieut F. F. Weston, of No 1 Battery, 17f . -,
gade—between Lieut F. Howlett, of the Depot Brigafd?.
and Lieut E. S. G. Cobbold, of the 2d Btigade. Th
el-
lowing transfers have been ordered, viz., Lieut Col
P. Maclean, from the Ist to the 2d Brigade, and Lieut-Col W. B
Gal dner, frem the latter to the former—Lieut-Col R. P
Radcliffe, from the Bth to the Ist Brigade, and Brevet-Lae
H. F. Strange, C. 8., from the latter to the torrner—Lieut
A. Wynch, from F Battery, 23d Brigade, to No 2 Battery,
17th Brigade—Lieut P. Thompson, from No 7 Battery, 25th
Brigade,l to No 4 Battery, 24th Brigade ; Lieut E. R. Co-
ly,
fo from No 4 Battery, 24th Brigade, to No 7 Battery)