The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-27 00:00:00

of being the heroine of an exciting story
Various minor adjuncts continue to add attractions
to the narrative, and the book is certain to create a
great sensation among all classes of novel readers,
alike from its merit of desig a and skill of execution.
There are also here and there met with some fine
passages of a reflective character, and some impres-
sive warnings regarding the thoughtless and incon-
siderate actions so easily committed, but whose
consequences are often so difficult to obviate and so
dangerous to encounter.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

LATEST-THIS DAY.

Major-General the Hon. James Lindsay has been
appointed to the command of the Brigade of Guards
in Canada, vice Major-General Lord Frederick
Paulet, who is about to return home for the purpose
of assuming command of the Brigade of Guards in
England, rendered vacant by the expiration of
Major-General Crawford's five years' term of staff
service. It is said that there is no unwillingness in
certain quarters to get rid of General Lindsay's
presence in the House of Commons, where his un-
failing advocacy of the claims of the army is some-
times exceedingly unpleasant to the official mind.

It is believed that Colonel Pipon is to succeed
Major-General Lord Frederick Paulet as Inspector-
General of the Militia, for whom, though lately com-
manding the Guards in Canada, the appointment
has hitherto been kept open. Colonel Pipon has
up to this time only held the acting appointment
during Lord Frederick's absence.

A new annual is about to swell the ranks of
periodical literature. It is to be called The Journal
of the Brigade of Guards, and will be composed of
contributions from the officers of the Household
Troops, including accounts of travels, adventures,
sporting excursions, &c. To these will also be
added a chronicle of the doings of the Brigade
during the past year. The editor is J. Dilby,
Esq., of Messrs. Cox and Co., and it is understood
hat the work will receive distinguished patronage.
We regret to state that Field Marshal Lord
Seaton is still in such a state of health as to cause
serious uneasiness to his friends.

The notice taken by the Commander-in-Chief of
the recent practical joking in the 18th Hussars has
not been confined, as stated in some newspapers, to
mere reprimand and stoppage of promotion of
those concerned. Several officers, it is understood,
will be obliged to retire; and it is said that, as a
further punishment, the regiment will shortly be
despatched to India, instead of the sth Lancers, as
originally intended. This proceeding seems a great
hardship on the men of the regiment.
There is a pretty general belief that Major-
General Sir Sidney Cotton will obtain the colonelcy
of the 10th Rtgiment, rendered vacant by the death
of General Burke. This opinion is founded on the
fact of Sir Sidney having for many years com-
manded the 10th Regiment, as well on the impor-
tant services he rendered during the Indian mutiny,
and the circumstance that he has just completed his
period of staff employment. •

Major-General Fludyer, we are sorry to be in-
formed, is in a very critical state of health, so much
so indeed that but small hopes are entertained as
to his recovery.

Arrangements were yesterday commenced in the
Royal Arsenal at Woolwich for the erection of a
new chemical department. The site selected is
the spacious shot and shell ground fronting the
paper factory, and adjoining the mounting ground.
The latter, provided with hydraulic cranes for
mounting guns, is ordered to be roofed in with
galvanised and corrugated iron sheds.
It is stated that the 4th Depot Battalion will
arrive at the camp at Colchester in March. It is
at present stationed at Canterbury.
The new cavalry barracks at Colchester comprise
a two-story building, 135 ft. long by 27ft. wide, to
be employed as a place of amusement and recreation
for the troops. The ground-floor comprises a day-
room, 60ft. by 23ft., and 14ft. high; a sergeants'
messroom, 35ft. by 23ft., with kitchen, &c. The
second floor has a fine reading-room, 75ft. by 23ft.,
and 20ft. high, warmed by two fireplaces, and ven-
tilated with fresh and foul-air flues. At one end is
a coffee-room, fitted with stove-boiler, &c., with a
counter in communication with the reading-room by
a sliding sash window. At the other end is a library
to be fitted with shelves and closets, and adjoining
are apartments for the librarian. The barrack
stores adjoin the officers' entrance, and comprise a
one-story building 129 ft. long by 26-14 t. wide and
20ft. high. One end is devoted to the barrack
master's and barrack sergeants' offices, and the re-
mainder is occupied by utensil, bedding, and straw
stores, 17ft. wide, and utensil and bedding stores
30ft. wide. A coal store, 841 t. long and 34ft. wide,
is provided. The cookhouse is situated between the
troop stables and the soldiers' quarters. It is 25ft.
by 23ft. and 16ft. high, and is fitted with six boilers,
for 50 men each, and an oven for 250 men. The
guardhouse is 112 ft. long by 23ft. wide and 1811.
high. It comprises a guardroom, three cells, an
orderly-clerk's room, an orderly-room, and pay-
master's office, engine-house, latrines, &c. The
shops, quartermaster's stores, &c., are 155 ft. long
by 24ft. wide, and a shoeing shed, 50ft. by 16ft.,
has also been provided. An infant school is in-
tended to be erected upon a piece of land near
Monckwick farm, adjoining Berechurch-road, also
to be the site of the married men's quarters. The
buildings executed are of red brick, with white
brick dressings and string courses; the external
walls of living and bed rooms, offices, &c., have
been built hollow with vitrified boundary bricks,
and a damp proof course has been laid below the
ground floor line.

A notification has been received at Chatham gar-
rison that the Secretary of State for War, on the
recommendation of the Ordnance Select Committee,
has approved the 110-pounder Armstrong gun,
weighing 75cwt., hitherto known by the name of
Armstrong's " unstrengthened 110 pounder," being
in future designated the " light 110 pounder Arm-
strong gun." On the recommendation of Field-
Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, each artillery sta-
tion, at home arid abroad, to which Petman's con-
cussion fuzes have been issued, will be furnished,
for purposes of instruction, with the following
stores, viz.:—One specimen fuze, one ditto in parts,
one section of fuze before firing, one ditto after
firing, and one drawing and description of fuze.
By direction of the Duke of Cambridge, officers
commanding districts and stations hav,e received
orders to forward to the Deputy-Adjt.-Geta., Royal
Artillery, demands for the new kind of duck cloth-
ing for use by the Royal Artillery when employed
in cleaning the Armstrong guns supp ied for gar-
rison service, as well as the 40 pounder Armstrong
batteries of position, in the proportion of two suits
per gun.

The arrangements for the removal of the invalid
establishment at Chatham, together with the medi-
cal staff, professors, and other officers connected with
the Army Medical School at Fort ritt, to the new
hospital at Netley, near Southampton, are expected
to be completed in the course or a few weeks. The
entire medical staff at the General Hospital, Fort
Pitt, as well as the staff of the invalid establishment
and pay-offices, will quit Chatham for the new esta-
blishment at Netley. The responsible appointment
ot Governor of Netley Hospital has been conferred
on Col. R. Wilbraham, C. 13., the present Governor
of the General Hospital at Woolwich. On the
removal of the General Hospital from Chatham it
is at present intended to transfer the 3d depot bat-
talion to Fort Pitt, when the hut barracks, now
occupied by the 3d battalion, will be available for
the reception of one of the regiments of the line
arriving from India.

CHARGE OF GAROTTE ROBBERY IN EITERY-
STREET.—A burly-looking Irishman, named Patrick
Finn, was charged at the City Police-court yesterday with
stealing a hat, the property of Overton Only, a factory
operative, living in Gledhill-street. The prosecutor said
that about half-past eleven o'clock on Sunday night he was
proceeding along Every-street, when the ?risoner met him,
seized him by the tl.roat, and asked him for some money.
Prosecutor told him that he had not got any, whereupon
the prisoner said he would have his hat, and before the pro-
secutor could prevent him the prisoner took it, and ran
away. The prosecutor cried " Stop thief," and some meX
who heard him prevented the prisoner making his escape.
Finn, who offered no defence, was remanded.--.llfanchester
Guardian.