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

Tor of contracts, principal superintendent of stores '
and director of ordnance; patterns, systems re-
specting them; examination of stores. 8 Duties
of the InopEctor 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, apal be treated
in the sac e 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; construction ; mechanical principles as ap-
plied in military machines; friction, draught, trac-
tion, locomotive power ; barn. as ; organisation of
labour in the royal carriage department ; system of
accountability and payment ; prices ; relations to
director of stores, director of contracts, principal
superinteuder.t of stores, and director of ordnance, ;
patterns, systems respecting them; examination of
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
purchase of pyrotechnic material; examination and
refining of saltpetre, &c. gunpowder and powder
dif-
ferent sized grains; electdr;oe-rb,
mills; theory
aqiuha.sltiitcieas,ppeffareacttuosf,
and
n
otherpoun dmu,odes of proof,otherlaborat gun
specimens,cotton, detonating
sma small
la com-
pounds,
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; system of account keeping
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 Mathematics and
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 ifficers 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
%arty 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.
lnd is now in Hamoaze, Davenport. The entice bat-
talion will consist of six companies, numbering in
the aggregate 36 offi 3ers and 504 non-commissioned
officers and men, the whole under the command of
Lieut.-Col. W. G. Suther. He will have for flag-
officers 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 corn
inand ; Capt. J. A. Stewart, paymaster; Lieut. W
J. Barker, quartermaster; Capt. J. H. Parry, First
Lieut. R. H. D wyer, Second Lieut. W.W. Spalding,
8 non-commissioned officers, and 76 men. Thi?, en-
tire quota from Plymouth will consist of a &tech-
rnent of 1 lieut.-colonel, 2 captains, 4 lieutenants, 8
sergeants, 8 corporals, two drummers and 150 men
An Admiralty order was yesterday received atlWool
cvich, instructing the following detachment of the
divi_tion of .ttoyal Marines to be held in readiness
for immediate embarcation for Japan, viz., Lieut.-
Col. Suther, Lieut, and Acting Adjutant Poyniz,
Captains Seymour and Lean, Lieuts. Donellan and
Hore, 8 sergeants, 8 corporals, 2 buglers, and 130
rank and file.

A general regimental order of the Royal Artillery, signed
by Deputy-Adjutant-General, Col. Charles Binghaw, bear-
ing date the 20th inst., but promulgated yesterday, an-
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 itoyal 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 in 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 Mt Mahon,
3d Horse Brigade, to be Second Capt 17th Brigade, vice
Law.on—Lieut•Col William Henry Delamain, 224 Bri-
gade, to be Col 24th Brigade, vice William Barr, retired
upon full pay —Capt Walker King FoJks, 191,11 Brigade, to
ca Lieut-Col 22d Brigade, vice Detamain—Second Capt.
:Villiatn Dickson, 16th Brigitte, to be Capt 19th Brigade
vice Fo)ks—Lieut Henry Archibald Matlock, 24th Bri-
gade, to be Second Capt 16th Brigade, vice Dickson—
Lieut-Col William Kiunaird Worster, 20th Brigade, to be
Col, 17th Brigade, v,ce Bladen West Black, retired upon
half-pay—Caps Robert George Hunter Grant, 3d Horse
Brigade, to be Lieut. Col, 20th Brigade, vice Worster—
Second Captain John Frededck Actaphus MiNair, 17th
Brigade, to be Capt.in, vice Grant -Lieut Charles Edward
Watson, 20th Brigade, to be Second Capt, 17th Br Bade,
vice M`Nair—Lieut Christopher Edward Newport, 18th
Brigade, to be Second Cap therein, vice Frederick Alex-
ander Whish, who resigns—Lieut-C lonel George Prince
Sealy, 18th Brigade, to be Col, 21st Brigade, vice Robert
Croft Worrnald, 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-
ville Lucas, 21st Brigade, to be Captain, vice Wallace—
Lieutenant J. Vibart, Depot Brigade, Royal Horse Artil-
lery, to be 2d Captain 21st Brigade, vice Lutts--Lieut.-
Colanel Arnold Burrows Kemball, C. 8., 18th Brigade, to
Colonel therein, vice John Pottinger, C. 8., retired upon
full pay—Captain and Brevet-Major George Gieig 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
Walter Chtdieck Nangle, 13th Brigade, to be Captain sth
Brigade, vice Brevet Major Edmund Palmer, placed upon
temporary half-pay—Lieutenant Stuart J. Nicholson, sth
Brigade, to be Second Captain 13th Brigade, vice Nangle—
Strovero.2
t?,.:111. and Brevet Major Augustus Frederick Francis
,3d Brigade, to be Lieut-Colonel, 11th Brigade,
utZ.ets.haryrleLs.Wright Younghusband, removed to the Super-
ist—Second Captain and Brevet Major Henry
nox—Li,utll Brigade, to be Captain 3d Brigade, vice Len-
Second ea,7,_lmit William Smith, Ist Horse Brigade, to be
in orge,4l:l:, 12th Brigade, vice Strover, The follow-
W. C. L. Bak: lead to increased pay—viz.:—Lieut-Col.
G. E. Vogle, 2:smaid Brigade, vice Wade—Lieut-Colonel
Lieut-Colonel A.. -v:ll_rigade, vice Delamain, promoted—
ster, promoted_Lientr.aells, 3d Horse Brigade, vice Wor-
gade, vice Sealy, protu,‘"tlei A. M. Murray, 21st Bri-
ttle, 4th Horse Brigaded—Litut-Coloncl R. H, Keat-
ing,
vice Younghusband—
Colonel R. O'Connell, 1.4 t viceatX.. emball, promoted—Lieut-
pr meted—Lieutenant R.
Lieutenant the
promoted—LientettLadY, 20th Brigade, vice
16th Brigade, vice manueit, ca• B. W. Malec,
Thompson, 2Fo.th
CB.rigeadaied,
Vermaa?mmt promoted—
Lieutenant.
promoted—Lieut A. Brigade vice
Newport, promo
d—Lieut F. Gardiner,ig: 21st ;Brigade
vice Vibart, promote
ut B. G. B. Ge'lBthßrigade,vie
Vachell, promoted—Lieut _ attey, bit
Bri ad e,
te—Liut J. T. G
vice Nicholson, promo
d—Lieut C. reenteld,gl2teh
Brigade, vice Smith, promote
ed.
The folio °emu"' 9th
Brigade, vice Campbell, deeeas _ exchanges
tveen. Lteu.t-Col G. V. John
have been approved, viz, be
11th Brigad b ta°ll,
7th Brigade, and Lieut-Col Lennox,.
ut E• Tremet wee"'
Licut W. S. Brown, of No 1, and Lie
Lit ut F. S. Budd, o°t
No 2 Battery, 13,h .rigade--hetWeett 1 Battery, 17th Brit-
'l:No 2, and Lieut F. F. Weston, of No
the Depot Brigade,
gade—between Lieut F. Howlett, of
de. The fol.
and Lieut E. S. G. Cobbold, of the 2d Bliga
u Col P. Mae.
lowing transfers have been ordered, viz., Lt6-t-
Lieu-Col W. B
lean, from the Ist to the 2d Brigade, and Col R. P
Gat deer, fr m the latter to the former--L&Lit- t-00
Radcliffe, from the Bth to the Ist Brigade, and
Breve
Lte ut
H. F. Strange, C. 8., from the latter to the former--
Y,
A. Winch, from F Battery, 23d Brigade, to No 2 Batter
17th Brigade—Lieut P. Thompson, from No 7 Ba•terYt 25th
Brigade, to No 4 Battery, 24th Brigade ; Lieut E. it, Co-
uolly, from No 4 Battery, 24th Brigade, to No 7 Battery,