The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The C Battery Horse Brigade Royal Artillery
arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from Aldershot,
consisting of Major R. J. Hay, Second-Capts. R.
Gore and S. P. Leymes, Lints. G. S. Harvey and
V. F. Vufnell, Assist.-Surg. J. Wood, 144 non-com-
missioned officers and men, 131 horses, and the
ordinary equipment of Armstrong guns, waggons,
&c. They halted on Thursday at Guildford, on
Friday at Kingston, and marched into head-quar-
ters at 2 p.m. They will be inspected this morning
by Sir R, Dacres, the General commanding the gar-
rison.
The following promotion was on Saturday an-
nounced at Woolwich :—The Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty have been pleased to appoint, on
the 28th inst., Lieut.-Col. George Bridges Rodney,
of the Chatham Division, to be Assist.-Acljt.-Gen.
of Royal Marines, vice Travers resigned.
Courts-martial, composed of officers selected from
the various corps in garrison, have sat each day for
10 days past at Woolwich, on trial of a large num-
ber of Royal Marines, on charges of having made
away with their kit, and being absent without
leave. The defaulters' list of men not subjected to
imprisonment has been unusually large for some
time past, and numbered on Saturday 140 men.
This is accounted:for my the fact that sums of money,
amounting to about 30s. per man, have been dis-
tributed in lieu of clothing, and that, in consequence,
there has been much drunkenness.
Earl de Grey, Secretary of State for War, accom-
panied by Col. Jervoise, R.E., of the Boys) Defence
Commission, was on Friday engaged in.
the different military barracks and fortifications on
inspecting
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The enrolled pensioners
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district, Ist and 2d divisions, ander Lieut.-Col.
Meehan and Capt. Driver and their staffs, consist-
ing in all of one field officer, one captain, with their
subordinate officers, and 372 rank and file, having
completed their eight days' summer training, were
inspected on Southsea-common on Friday by Col.
English, C. 8., commanding the 53d Regiment. At
the close of the inspection, Col. English expressed
his entire satisfaction with their steadiness and
clean and soldierly appearance. The Portsmouth
pensioners are now principally composed of compa-
ratively young and robust men, and are undoubtedly
cep able of undergoing much more arduous service
than ordinary garrison duty should their services
be ever required.

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THE KILLING OF GENERAL VAN DORN.—The
Chattauooga _Rebel sass :—" As yet we have received
no particulars of the killing of Gen. 'Van Dorn, nor of the
causes which led to it, other than from street rumours,
which, if correct, would seem that the killing was justifi-
ablo. Dr. Peters, who killed kin', moths formerlygentle-
tor from Ilardeman County, in till' state,
man of wealth, position, and influence, whose family con-
nections rank with the first in Tennessee. lie reported to
have approached Gen. Van Dorn in the street, and, pre-
senting a pistol, shot him in the head."
ECCLESIASTICAL CENSUS OF IRELAND.—A return
issued from the Census-office shows that in 1834
there were 6,436,00 Roman Catholics in Ire:and, and
in 1861, 4,505.265; of members of the Established Church
in Roland there were 853,160 in 1834, and 691,872 in 1861,
So that in 1834 to every 100 Roman Catholics there were
13.25 members of the Established Church, and in MI
15.35,

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