The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-03 00:00:00

hurst, halts there over Friday, and returns to Alder-
shott on Saturday.
On Friday Ensign Cumberland and seven rank
and file of the 82d Regiment, and Ensign Vigne,
of the 67th, left the camp at Colchester to join the
service companies of those regiments in India. In
the course of last week 54 rank and file of the 103 d
Regiment, and 38 rank and file of the 98th (accom-
panied by Capt. Edward& and Ensign Roberts), left
the camp with the same object. Further draughts
of officers and men are expected to leave the camp
on Thursday or Friday for India.
Lord De Grey and Ripon has appointed Capt.
E. F. Du Cane, R.E., inspector of military prisons,
and Sir G. Grey has also appointed Capt. Du Cane
a director of convict prisons. Capt. Du Cane was
officially employed for some years in Western Aus-
tralia, and since his return to England has been
engaged in the War-office.
The hired freight ship Louisa sailed from Spit-
bead at 2 p.m. on Saturday for Hongkong, leaving
the anchorage by the Needles passage before a fine
breeze from the S.E. She had on board the follow-
ing troops. viz.-22d Company of Royal Engineers
—Major Ed wards, Lieute. Williams and Bond, 100
non-commissioned officers and men, 12 women, and
15 children. Commissariat Staff Corps-4 staff ser-
geants, 4 women, and 8 children ; 22 men, 4 wo-
men, and 2 children. Royal Engineer Department
—Clerks of Works Walker and Diack. The 27th
Regiment, 4 women ; the 99th Regiment, 4 women.
Staff Assist. Surg. Wood proceeded in the ship in
medical charge.
A portion of the Portsea town line of fortifica-
tions, at their north-western extremity, and extend-
ing from high water mark to the Unicorn-gate,
have been disarmed and handed over by the War
Department to the naval authorities at Portsmouth
to be incorporated with the plot of ground on which
the Admiralty have already caused operations to be
commenced for the building of naval barracks. The
Portsea lines of fortification are all about to be le-
velled with the ground, and their site appropriated
to barracks and parade and drill grounds. For all
defensive purposes they have long been useless. The
extensive suburb of Landport, which is considerably
larger than Portsea itself, runs up to the very foot
of the glacis, and surrounds ditch, bastion, and cur•
tain in such a manner as to leave the guns on the
works nothing whatever to point at but the bedroom
windows of the peaceful inhabitants outside the walls.
Anew code of instructions for establishing a uni-
form system, at home and abroad, of Artillery
duties, has been issued from the Horse Guards, by
command of his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief. Under the new regulations
the commanding officer of Artillery garrison
or district is responsible for the whole-of the
ordnance, ammunition, and stores within the limits
of his command, and will make such a distribution
of his force as he may consider best for the public
service. The field officers are directly responsible
to the commanding officer for the whole of the ar-
mament and stores of that portion of the fortress or
works assigned to each, and will report weekly.
These portions of the fortress or works are to be
divided into Artillery districts. Each district will
be in charge of a captain, or, if there be not enough
captains, the senior lieutenant; and the subalterns
will be distributed to the districts in proportion to
their extent. Each officer in charge of a district
will be responsible to the lieutenant-colonel under
whom he may be serving for everything connected
with the works under his charge. The distribution
of the portion of the Coast Brigade which may be
serving in a district, is also vested in the command-
ing officer of Artillery, who will take care that all
the officers, &c., composing it are employed at such
points and in such duties as will cause the greatest
possible benefit to accrue to the service from their
experience. When master gunners are, attached to
any of the districts of a station, the captains in
charge of such districts will, of course, avail them-
selves to the utmost of the services of these carefully
selected and well-instructed men. As soon as an
officer joins a garrison, he is to make himself ac-
quainted with the arrangements of the ordnance
and stores in every district in the garrison besides
that to which he may be particularly attached. For
this purpose he will go round every district—if a
captain, twice with the captain of the district ; and
if a subaltern, once with the captain and once with
a subaltern of the district. The captain will men-
tion in his weekly report the names of such officers
as have 'been round with him or his subaltern in
conformity with this order. The completion of
this order is limited to four weeks from the period
of officers joining the garrison, at the end of which
time they will themselves report in writing to
the commanding officer their having complied with
the same.