The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 76th (Hindostan) Regiment arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from Aldershot in two divisions, and embarked
on board the Hornet and the Atalanta hired transports
alongside the transport jetty of the dockyard, under the
superintendence of Capt. It. Locke, embarkation officer to
the Hon. Council for India, and Col.. Somerset, C. 8.,
Deputy-Quartermaster-General of the South-Western Dis-
trict. The regiment was apportioned to the ships as fol-
lows :—To the Hornet, 1,155 tons, headquarters, band, and
colours, Col. Brewster, wife, and servant; Capts. Lacy,
Caldicott, and Acton ; Lieuts. Allardice, Hodges, Pasey,
and West; Ensigns Alexander, Lloyd, Cookson, and Gos-
sett ; Lieut. and Adjt, Butler, Quartermaster Davies;
Surg. Mostyn, wife, and two children; 317 non-commis•
sioned officers and men, 43 soidiers' wives, and 78 children.
to the Atalanta, 930 tons, Major Cator, Capts. Tripp, Pal-
liser, and Hincks ; Lieuts, Linton, Austen, Bartlett, and
Pearce; Ensigns Denham and Simpson; Assist.-Surg.
Horton, 317 non-commissioned officers and men, 29 soldiers'
wives, and 43 children. The Hornet carries 32,067 gallons
of water in stock, and is fitted with an efficient distilling
apparatus. The Atalanta has 25,500 gallons of water in
stock, and is fitted with one of Dr. Normandy's distilling
apparatus, which furnishes 400 gallons of fresh water per
day. The ships were towed out of Portsmouth harbour yes-
terday on the embarkation of the regiment being effected,
and were anchored at Spithead, whence they will sail this
morning for Madras. The late bandmaster of the regiment,
M. Rigazzoli, was presented yesterday by Col. Smyth, C. 8.,
and the officers of the regiment, with a silver baton, in re-
cognition of his services when in charge of the regimental
band. The members of the band at the same time pre-
sented him with a silver snuff-box.
The authorities at the Horse Guards having decided on
allowing the senior class of the army schoolmasters to rank
as commissioned officers, with a corresponding rate of pay,
an amended code of regulations relating to that department
of the service has jast been issued for general information
by direction of Ficld-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge.
Under the new regulations army schoolmasters of less than
four years' service, who are desirous of accepting tho new
regulations laid down in the general order of the 25th of
May, 1863, will not be required to relinquish any portion of
their present pay at 4s. a day, but they will not be allowed
any increase until they have served years, when they
will, if duly recommended, be entitled to receive an addition
of Gd. a day. Other schoolmasters, 011 accepting the new
regulations as to pay and proportion, will draw the pay cor-
responding to their service. A second-class schoolmaster
who may accept the new regulations will not receive
the additional pay after re-engagement, nor any increase
to his pay until he has completed 12 years' service as
schoolmaster, when, if recommended by the Council of
Military Education, his pay will be increased from ss.
Gd. to Os. per diem. The periodical increase of pay is
not to be considered in the light of good conduct pay,
which, under certain circumstances, may be forfeited. It
becomes, on the contrary, an integral part of the school-
master's salary. A schoolmaster of the second-class will
take precedence over all army schoolmasters under the new
regulations who have shorter service. Where a school-
master who retains the position of second-class, and an
army schoolmaster who, having been passed over, may have
since come under the new regulations, and who may have
greater length of service, are engaged in the same school-
room, a special reference will be made to the adjutant-gene-
ral as to which schoolmaster shall take precedence. Should
an immediate decision be requisite the officer commanding
at the station will exercise his discretion Pending snob refs..
rence, which is to contain the fullest particulars of the caec
Where a schoolmaster of the
submitted for consideration•
third-class and an fumy schoolmaster under the new regu-
lations are engaged in the same schoolroom they 14ill take
precedence according to the date of their appointment as
schoolmasters. The time allowed for the acceptance of the
new regulations is extended until the 3lst of March hext.
Major General Talton, Director-General of Ordnance,
who has been engaged during the past week in inspecting
the various departments of Woolwich Arsenal, yesterday
terminated his inspection. The General, accompanied by
Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw, Assistant uperinteudent of the
Royal Carriage Department, and Captain Inglis, Inspector
of Works, yesterday went over the department belonging to
the Royal Engineers, and viited the tauke and mains by

which the whole of the establishment is supplied with water,
and by which every precaution is provided against fire.
Preparations are in progress in Woolwich dockyard for
carrying out the designs of the Admiralty to prepare at that
yard, with as much expedition as possible, the whole of the
armour-casing intended for the Enterprise, Favourite, and
Pallas, as well as the future ships on Mr. Reed's design to
be built at Woolwich and Deptford. Various kinds of ma-
chinery have been received, and are in course of erection,
for that purpose, from Messrs. Smith, Beacock, and Tan-
rott, of Leeds, and Glascow of Manchester, namely, bend-
ing, planing, and slotting machines. The old shed is to be
lengthened by a couple of spacious wings, capable of afford-
ing room for double the amount of machinery employed in
preparing the plates for the Caledonia, and all the avail-
able space adjoining the shed has been taken up and en-
closed.