The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-07 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yesterday Col. J. W. Ormsby, commanding the
9th Brigade Royal Artillery, made an official it;
spection of the mounted D field battery of the 91,
brigade quartered at Chatham garrison. He i 1381:
tuted a minute inspection of the mer, horses, gliv_L,
&c., and afterwards went through the quartel"
stables, and offices, and inspected the official recoil'
of the battery. In the afternoon the non-coro°111;
sioned officers and men of the battery assemble',"
dismounted, in the square, for the purpose of beitly
inspected at drill. The D battery having just under
gone the half-yearly inspection, the customary eel
lutions on the Lines were dispensed with. The
battery is just now in a very high degree Of tW
ciency.
The half-yearly inspection of the Chatham or fired
division of Royal Marine Light Infantry was re;
sumed at headquarters on Tuesday, by major-0° 4
rat A. B. Stransham, the Inspector. General of ti;
Royal Marine forces. On the previous dal to,
inspection was confined to a battalion of 600 oleo
in order to test the efficiency of that number of 1130 e of
taken from the division, when under arms. o
Tuesday the Inspector-General selected a t
pot
smaller battalion, which was marched to the Greer
Lines in order to enable him to ascertain the porlr
in which the captains of companies and the junior
o •
officers could handle their men and many:Wirer
battalion. For this purpose MI jor- General StrB
slamam selected a number of the officers, who !ere
er
successively called to the front, and under his d'r ,
tion put the battalion through various move:Del:or
The battalion Was subsequently manoeuvred nl3
the command of one of the fiela-officers, and at 11°00
was marched back to its quarters. At 2 o'clock t//0
companies wets formed in the barrack-square, whey
Major-General Stransham made a minute iosP,4
non of their arms, kits,uniforms, and accoutre
a portion of the inspection which occupied him O
bi
time. The Inspector-Generai, accompanied I,
Col. Lemon, C. 8., and other officers, afterweit,
proceeded to the gun battery for the purpose of 1100
nEssing a portion of the battalion at ship's 141?
drill. The number of men selected for tbio
was 60, a portion of the number who are 01).0
daily instruction in gun-drill. The battery in °ire
f
the Royal Marines are exercised is made In reliar
sent a portion of a line-of-battle-ship, and le '
nished with the naval 110-pounder and 40 pou°der
0,
Armstrongs, and the ordinary 68-pounder 95 °re,
guns. Tne inspection on Tuesday proved in aoyal'
markable degree the value of training the Sge
Marines in a thorough knowledge of ships a
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drill, so as to render them valuable auxiliarle
the seamen. During the inspection the 14ari0er
under the direction of Capt. Bligh, the instrtict sts
in gunnery to the division, displayed a tb(r.tte
knowledge of every portion of their gundrill'o u i
ore
large Armstrongs and 68-pounders being cat' are
cision. pointed, and fired with rapidity ",,,,%3ar
cision. On leaving the gun-shed battery
General Stransham expressed his satisfaction °wad
manner in which the Royal Marines had 04: far'
themselves. The inspection was brought t° "boa
minaticin yesterday afternoon. The result Wofs!
in the highest degree satisfactory, and the ° bip
report to the Admiralty will, there is little doti
an exceedingly flattering one.
paid
Major-General Sir Richard Dacres, comet ° orlf
•
at Woolwich, on Tuesday resumed his half Ye .0000
inspection of the garrison, by parading a doloool
of the Ist Horse Brigade, commanaed by Ti,sog
Sir David Wo The F and H batteries 'flitfea
been supplied with 10 rounds of blank arnwur ag:
per man, mustered on Woolwich common tiwaya
past 10, in heavy marching order, in copra
Capt. F. L. H. Lyon.

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