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-quarters 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 large 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 full 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. H. H. Lewis, Lieut. C. S.
Elliott, and Lieut. 13. 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. E. G. A. C.
F. Gleichen, left head-quarters, Chatham, yester-
day, and embarked on board that vessel. The whole
of the Royal Marines forservice 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 stand on the
dmiralty.
sea-going roster having, in this
parted from by special directio
barkn
instance,
the A been de-
The officer selected to em
Royal Marines is First Lieut. F. H. Poore, of the
Royal Marine Artillery.
Hale and a detachment of 30 non-
Capt. L. A.
commissioned 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 occasion of his having received
the long-service medal and gratuity.'

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-
peoed to be in town, looked in occasionally at her soirees.
Now and then a Tory man of genius—Sir E. B. Lytton,
pie—would make his appearance ; and it is even
whispered, though we doubt the truth of the story,
bfoerenexato
that a ilearned 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 flatteryto anY conceiv-
ble amount,—Blackwood,

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI
NE Foie Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE LII TLE THE k SURE. Mr.
13111131 g-ton, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton.
Aftor which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole,
Bed.tord, and Mrs. Billington.
To be followed by "GEORGE DE BARNWELL :
or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar,
Mies K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J L. Toole, P. Bed-
ford, ,9.4ephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri;
Colurubine, Miss Caroline Adams ; CAown, Mr. W. Hildyard ;
~,,taloon, Mr. J. P, ulo. The celebr tted Arthur and
iicrtrand

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