The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The subjoined general order has been promul-
gated from the Horse Guards by Adjt.-Gen. Sir
James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., in reference to ex-
changes :—" His Royal Highness the Field-Mar-
shal Commanding•-in-Chief is pleased, with the con-
currence of the Right Hon. the Secretary of State
for India in Council, to announce that exchanges
will be permitted between officers who have entered
the new line regiments from the general lists or
from the cadres of European regiments of the In-
dian army, and officers of cavalry and infantry re-
spectively of corresponding rank, now of the Indian
army, without reference to the Presidency to which
they may belong. Officers of the new line regiments
of the claeses above described, wishing to revert to
their former positions in the Indian service, will
submit their applications to the Adjutants-General
of their respective Presidencies on or before the 12th
of October, 1863, after which date no application
will be received and no exchange will be permitted.
These applications, if supported by the Commander-
in-Chief in India, will be entertained according to ,
seniority and to the numbers and rank of officers of
the Indian army desirous of joining the new line
regiments, whose names may be received from the
Secretary of State for India. Officers of the new
line regiments permitted to exchange under this
order, will revert to the positions which their names
still occupy in the lists of the Indian army. Officers
of tha Indian army will enter the new line regi-
ments under this order, as the junior of their grades
in each case.—By command, &c."
The examination of candidates for admission to the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before Major-
Gen. F. W. Hamilton, C,8., Vice President, and
the other members of th 9 Council of Military Edu•
cation, commenced on Thursday last at the Royal
Hospital, Chelsea, as usual with the medi-
cal examination. The examinations will extend
over 15 days. There are upwards of 140 candidates
on this occasion.

A notification has been received at Chatham gar-
rison that the following troops will be despatched
to Calcutta during the present season—viz. 1,000
officers and men of the 2d battalion of the 20th Re-
giment, to embark at Portsmouth, 1,000 officers and
men of the 36th Regiment, to embark at Cork, and
620 officers and men of the sth Royal Irish Lancers,
to embark at Portsmouth. Orders have also been is-
sued at the Horse Guards for the following reinforce.
ments of the Royal Artillery to be held in readi-
ness to embark for India with the drafts about to
be despatched during the present season—viz., For
Calcutta—Three non-commissioned officers and 105
bombardiers, gunners, and drivers, for the various
horse brigades ; 5 captains, 7 subalterns, 11 non-
commissioned officers, 11 bombardiers, and gunners,
200 drivers, and 35 smiths, wheelers, and trum-
peters, for field and garrison brigades. For Bom-
bay-15 officers for field and garrison brigades, and
55 non-commisioned officers, drivers, gunners, and
bombardiers for horse brigades and for Madras.
One lieutenant-colonel, and 51 men of all grades,
for horse brigades ; and 3 captains, 9 subalterns,
and 98 non-commissioned cfficers and men for field
and garrison brigades. The total 'force of Royal
Artillery about to be despatched to India to supply
the vacancies in that arm of the service is upwards
of 600 officers and men of all ranks.

The first annual meeting of the board of managers,
committee, and members of the Soldiers' Institute,
formed at Chatham garrison, was hold on Thursday
evening, under the presidency of Major Gen. Eyre,
commanding the district. The annual report stated
that the Institute, which had been opened exactly 12
months, had proved a most complete success. After
the payment of all expenses in the refreshment and
every department there was a clear balance profit
of £99 lls. 6d. to March 31 last, and the profit for
the whole year was £124, showing that a sum of
no less than £l,OOO had been paid into the institute
by the troops during the past year. The bazaar
held last year under the patronage of the Duchess
of Cambridge and other ladies of distinction realised
a clear profit of £370. There is still a debt of about
£4BO owing on the building, which the committee
are desirous of liquidating at once, and therefore
they earnestly appeal for assistance to enable them
to do so. The cash account showed that the sum of
£5,119 had been received in donations, including
grants from the War Department and Admiralty,
the whole of which had been expended in building,
furnishing, and fitting up the building, The meet-
ing was addressed by the Rev. Dr. Griffiths, canon
of Rochester, Col. Newdigate, and Capt. Fanshawe,
Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard.

A further reduction of the artisans and labourers
of Woolwich Arsenal is ordered to take place to-day,
notices having been given to that effect ; 200 men
will be discharged from the Royal gun factories,
thereby reducing that branch of the establishment
(a short time ago numbering 3,500 men) to 800. The
laboratory department is likewise ordered to be re-
duced, and a number of wheelers and tin workers in
the royal carriage department have received notices
of dismissal, some of whom have been in the em-
ployment about 20 years.
For several months past the departments have
been engaged solely in executing outstanding orders
for the coast defences, some of which have been on
the order-books about eight years, the whole of which
are now completed, and the establishment is literally
at a stand-still. The only work now being executed
in the royal gun factories consists of repairs, the
completion of 300-pounder coast defence guns, and
the adjustment of some guns on Mr. Broadwell's
principle, on a peculiar system of breech loading, for
experimental purposes commenced recently at Wool-
wich with success.

CONVICTION FOR MURDER IN IRELAND.—At the
Longford Assizes, on Thursday, a man named Chas.
M'Cormack was found guilty of the wilful murder of Michael
Beglan on the 21st of November last. The atrocious crime
(says the Dublin Daily Express) was committed under
aggravated circumstances, which rendered it incumbent on
the Crown to prosecute with a firm determination to vindi-
cate the law. It arose out of a double cause—the fact that
the unfortunate victim, a young man named Beglan, had
taken part against the popular candidate at the last con-
tested election, and, what was still greater offence in the
estimation of his murderers, he had even dared to give evi- j
dente against their friends in a court of justice. It ap-
peared that he was examined as a witness against some
persons who were charged with being concerned in the dis-
graceful riots which took place at Ballymahon. For this
he was ;loomed in the secret councils of the Ribbon con-
spiracy, and the vengeance treasured up at the time fell
upon him with fatal certainty several months after the
election, On the day he met his untimely death ho had
gone into Ballymahon with his aged father to attend a
fair. Four neighbours, professed friends, accompanied
them on their way home. After crossing Drinan-bridge,
however, the young man was set upon by a party of mis-
creants armed with bludgeons, and when his father, who
had lagged behind, came up with him,. he found Ilia,
him at the trial,
stretched upon the ground, with his assailants completing
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their bloody work, whilst his own companions looked on
without raising a hand to shield him. Fortunately for the
ends of justice, the old man was. .able to recognise One
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