The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

As many days may not elapse before her Majesty
returns to England, and there appears to b© some
probability that the disembarkation will take place
at Woolwich Arsenal, it may be satisfactory tostate
that the publicity given to the late absurd order
promulgated by the Woolwich officials has had the
effect of directing the attention of the Secretary of
State to the subject. He has given instructions
that all local orders shall be transmitted for his
inspection before being issued. Accordingly, should
the Royal family land, as anticipated, on Woolwich
pier, there is little danger of a repetition of the
scene which greeted her Majesty on her last visit.
Her Majesty is said to have asked " what bad be-
come of the labourers formerly so numerous ?" A
portion of the order by the heads of departments
has already been published in the Sun. The fol-
lowing, which has not found its way into the public
press, is another portion :
" No person is to be upon any road in the Arsenal under
any circumstances whatever, on Tuesday, the 11th inst.,
after half-past 4 o'clock, until her Majesty has left the
Arsenal. Any person, of whatever rank, will immediately
be taken into custody if found in the roads between these
times, and will be discharged without any appeal. Every
person leaving the Arsenal after 2 o'clock on that day must
go out by the Plumatead gate. Any one attempting to leave
by the main gate will be discharged. No one is, under any
circumstances, to attempt to view the embarkation from any
door or window in any way in the Royal Arsenal. Any
person infringing these instructions, either in the letter or
in the spirit, or attempting in any way to intrude upon the
strict privacy which it is her Majesty's wish should be
observed, will be summarily discharged."

The new garrison church at Woolwich, ordered
to be erected by the late Lord Herbert,
when Secretary of State for War is fast ap-
proaching completion, and will be consecrated
for Divine service, in the month of October
next, by the Bishop of London. The architecture,
which is Byzantine, has been much admired. The
building was commenced in February, 1562, under
a contract for .£14,000, with £2,000 extras. The
organ has been purchased by a general subscrip-
tion among the officers in the Royal Artillery for
the sum of £4OO, and will probably be in its place
to-morrow. Ten of the stained glass windows have
been fitted in.
Sir William Gomm, who has been appointed to
the Colonelcy of the Coldstream Guards as the suc-
cessor to Lord Clyde, entered the army in 1794, and
served in Spain, Portugal, and subsequently in
Flanders. He became Colonel of the 13th Foot in
1846, and General in 1854. He received a cross
and one clasp for his services as Assist.- Quarter-
master-General at Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria,
Sebastian, and Nive. He was at Waterloo, and
for his services at that battle he received the order
of St. Anne, second class. He was Governor and
Commander-in-Chief at the Mauritius from June,
1842, to February, 1849, and was appointed Com-
mander-in-Chief of the East India Company's forces
and an extraordinary member of Council in India
in September, 1850. He received. his G.C.B. in
1859.

In accordance with orders to that effect issued by
Major-General Eyre, commanding the Chatham
district, the whole of the non-commissioned officers
and men attached to the invalid depot at Chatham
garrison are to be transferred from the invalid
establishment to the Royal Engineer Hospital, and
the whole of the official documents and accounts of
the depot made up to the 20th inst., preparatory to
the Chatham invalid establishment being abolished,
and the St. Mary's casemate(' barracks taken pos-
session of by the battalion of infantry now occupy-
ing the Hut barracks and Brompton barracks
Chatham.