The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yesterday Mr. J. Anderson, one of the staff of
lecturers engaged by the War Department at the
Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, com-
menced a course of lectures to the officers and men
at head-qaarters on " The Elementary Principles of
Machinery." The series of lectures embrace the
following subjects :—Mechanical power and its ap-
plication ; iron and steel manufacture ; and the tools
and machinery for working woods and metals, &c.
The whole of the officers and men at head-quarters
who have completed a certain course of their instruc-
tion are to attend these lectures. Arrangements
have likewise been made for the delivery of lectures
to the officers and men of the Royal Artillery in the
theatre of the Royal Artillery Institution.
Yesterday a portion of the depot of the 2d batta-
lion of the 20th Regiment left Chatham garrison
for Portsmouth, to join the service companies. An-
other largo detachment of the 20th will also
leave Chatham in the course of a few•days to join
head-quarters, the service companies having been
ordered to be augmented to their fall strength,
prior to the embarkation of the regiment to Cey-
lon, to which it is expected to proceed. The officers
named to leave Chatham with the 20th, for embar-
kation, are :—Capt. R. H. Lewis, Lieut. C. S.
Elliott, and Lieut. B. K. Whiteford. The depot of
the 2d battalion of the 20th will be increased to its
proper establishment by the transfer from the ser-
vice companies of those men who are deemed unfit
to proceed on foreign service.

The detachment of Royal Marine Artillery and
Royal Marines, to the number of 40 non-commis-
sioned officers and men, selected for service in her
Majesty's screw corvette Racoon, 22, 400-horse
power, Capt. the Count Victor F. F. R. G. A. C.
F. Gleichen, left head-quarters, Chatham, yester-
day, and embarked on board that vessel. The whole
of the Royal Marines for service in the Racoon have
been specially selected from the companies at
Chatham, none but men of the very best character
being detailed for embarkation on board that vessel,
the usual plan of taking the non-commissioned offi-
cers and men indiscriminately as they standeoe
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officers and men of the Royal Engi-
neers have proceeded from head-quarters, Chatham,
to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, to assist
in the instruction of the cadets in sapping and min-
ing and other engineering duties.
The corporals of the Woolwich
division of Royal
Marines yesterday presented Regimental Sergeant-
Major George Smith, on the expiration of his term
of service in the corps, with a handsome silver tea
service, bearing an appropriate inscription. A few
days ago the sergeants of the division presented
him with a valuable silver snuff-box as a token of
their regard, on the oecaaion of his having received
the long-service medal and gratuity.
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Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual
kinds. llorniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always
good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents.
LADY MORGAN had weekly receptions in her
own little drawing-room, and moved heaven and
earth, and a variety of penny-post men, to get them at-
tended. A few old Whigs, including the ;Marquis of
Lansdowne and good-natured Lord Carlisle, when he hap-
reoed to be in town, looked in occasionally at her soirees.
Now and then a Tory man of genius—Sir E. B. Lytton,
LI for example—would make his appearance ; and it is eves
been whispered, though we doubt the truth of the stein
that a ;learned divine, sometimes two, might occasionally
be seen in the throng. But the bulk of her guests con-
sisted of fashionlbles of a second or third order, with a
few small celebrities, literary, musical, and artistic. The
little woman was very great on these occasions. She dis-
pensed her weak tea and weaker conversation with equal
fluency ; she flattered and received flattery to any conceiv-
ble amount,—Beackweed,

S. LINDSAY, M.P.—The Rising Genera-
• tion—Our Prize Essays—Mrs. Grundy's Gossiping,
&C., in FUN this week.
One Penny. Of all Newsmen.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, the Opera of MARITANA. Miss A.
Niles, Mrs. Aynsley Cooke, and Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs.
W. IL Weiss, Patey, J. Rouse, Aynsley Cooke, E. Dussek,
and W. Harrison.
Conductor—Or. A. Mellon.
After which, the Grand Comic Curiatmas Pantomime, en-
titled HARLE BEAUTY AN 13;THE BEAST.
HAD
Q openUlN at half-past =,—Commence at 7.

THE A TRE-R OYA I DRURY-LANE-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS KVENDIG, the Comio Drama of THE NEXT OF
After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY
TWO SHOES.