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

THE ARMY.

Major G. T. Field, Deputy Assist.-Quartermas-
ter-General on the Staff of the garrison at Wool-
wich, has received the appointment of Governor of
the General Hospital at Woolwich, and will be suc-
ceeded in his present post by Capt. W. C. Nangle,
of the Depot Brigade. Notwithstanding the nume-
rous applications for the vacancy to his Royal High-
Less the Field Marshal Commanding by officers
senior to the Major, the Major, who is close on his
promotion as Lieut.-Col., was specially selected
without solicitation or appeal. The appointment is
spoken off in the garrison as the most judicious and
well-directed which could have been resolved on.

Ensign Stanton, of the Ist battalion of the 6th
Regiment, has been appointed assistant instructor
in musketry to the 9th Depot Battalion at Colches-
ter, in the place of Ensign Hume, of the 54th Regi-
ment. Ensigns Baxter and Soady, of the 66th, have
received orders to join the service companies of that
corps in India.

ft appears that £30,080 had been expended upon
the new cavalry barracks at Colchester to the close
of last year. The vote proposed for 1863-4 is
£30,000, and a further sum of £22,000 will be re-
quired to complete the works. The original esti-
mate was £BO,OOO. During the present financial
year it is proposed to expend a further sum of £4,000
upon Warley barracks, near Brentwood, and an
expenditure of £6,400 is contemplated for new
works, alterations, and repairs in connection with
the present camp buildings at Colchester.
No further detachments of invalids have been re-
ceived of late at the military hospital on the South
Denes, Great Yarmouth, it being intended to for-
ward them instead to the establishment at Netley,
near Southampton.
The companies of Royal Engineers at head-
quarters, Chatham, have commenced their field ope-
rations at the Royal Engineer practising ground,
which extends from Brompton barracks to the banks
of the Medway, and covers several acres. The plan
of operations already commenced supposes an attack
against St. Mary's casemated barracks, the works
to be executed including three parallels, four
sunken, half-sunken, and raised batteries; ap-
proaches, magazines, gun and mortar batteries,
mines, and single and double saps. From the plan
of the attack already laid out, and the large num-
ber of men employed on the works, the operations
are expected to be the largest of the kind yet at-
tempted by the Royal Engineers at Chatham. The
entire work is being carried out under the direction
of, Lieut.-Col. J. W. Lovell, C. 8., assisted by Lieut.
V. G. Clayton.

The remarks which appeared in The Sun some
few days since respecting the formation of separate
quarters for the married non-commissioned officers
and men of regiments at Chatham have resulted in a
correspondence between the officials and heads of
departments, and there is now some probability that
separate quarters for the married troops will be
provided at Chatham as at other garrisons. The
Board of officers who assembled at Chatham some
time since reported strongly in favour of the pro-
posal to provide a separate building for the married
men, but the reason why nothing has been done to
carry out the recommendations then as. well as
subsequently made is stated to be the difficulties
which have arisen between the departments with
respect to the proposed This, however,
site.
should not interfere, as there are several exceed-
ingly suitable sites contiguous
could be erected, to the barracks on
which the proposed building
With regard to the statement officially made in
contradiction to remarks which appeared in The
Sun, it may be explained that owing to there
being a comparatively small number of troops
quartered in the barracks at present it is possible
to apportion some few barrack-rooms, "as far as
the accommodation will admit," ostensibly for the
married troops, some two or three separate families
being quartered in one room ; but on the occasion
of a sudden Max of troops into the barracks this
arrangement is liable at any moment to be set
aside. Married and single men would still be re-
quired to occupy the same room, the rules of the
service knowing of no distinction between married
and unmarried soldiers, excepting where separate
quarters are provided for the former, as is now the
case at most of the large garrisons. Even under
the recent modified arrangements at Chatham Bar-
racks it may be observed that the single soldiers
and married men in several parts of the barracks
still occupy the 6arns floors, while the
dividin o me partitions
„ e rooms are by no means sufficient to
effectually separate the apartments. In the obser-