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tor of contracts, principal superintendent of stores
and director of ordnance; patterns, systems re-
specting them; examination of stores. 8. Duties
of the Inspector of Artillery :—Proof of guns,
examination of guns and stores. 9. The small
arms departments, Enfield and Pimlico, will
follow the Royal gun factories, and be treated
in the same comprehensive manner, including
the system of supply of small arms to the army,
their repair, and comparison of systems of rifling
and breech-loading for small arms. 10. From the
royal gtra factories the class will proceed to the
royal carriage department, where the subjects will
be—selection and purchase of timber, saw-mills
planing and other machinery applied to working of
timber ; censtrnction ; mechanical principles as ap-
plied in military machines ; friction, draught, trac-
tion, locomotive power ; harness ; organisation of
labour in the royal carriage department ; system of
accountability and payment ; prices ; relations to
director of stores, director of contracts, principal
superintendent of stores, and director of ordnance;
patterns, systems respecting them ; examination of
stores. 11. Here will conveniently come in the
organisation and duties of the department of
the
the
Principal Superintendent of Stores, including
detail of equipments for all services, and proportion
of stores, packing ammunition, arrangement of
magazines. 12. The last term will be devoted to
the manufacture of gunpowder, ammunition, and
generally, the duties of the Royal laboratory, in-
cluding the chemistry of the subjects—selection and
purchase of pyrotechnic material;
refining of saltpetre, &c.; examination and
gunpowder and powder
mills; theory
of gunpowder, qualities, effect of dif-
ferent sized grains; electro-ballistic apparatus, and
other modes of proof, gun cotton, detonating com-
pounds, other laboratory specimens, small arm am-
munition, cannon ammunition, fuses, rockets, &C.
manufacture of bullets, casting of every description
of projectile for smooth bored and rifled ordnance
organisation of the Royal laboratory department ;
fsupply of raw material; system of account keeping
and payment, prices ; relations to the director of
stores, director of contracts, principal superinten-
dent of stores, and director of ordnance ; pat-
terns, inspection, and examination of stores
13. The Professor of Applied Mathematics and
the several lecturers will proceed in correspond.
ing order through their subjects, so that practical
instruction may be based on thorough acquaintance
with principles. If found necessary to do so, a large
part of the first term will be devoted to theoretical
instruction and mathematics, in order that the stu-
dents may be in a position to follow the professor
in the more advanced subjects of his subsequent lec-
tures. 14. There will be periodical examinations
and certificates given at the close. 15. No payment
will be required. 16. After a certain date, to be
fixed hereafter by his Royal Highness the Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, first appointments
to all special employments of a scientific character
will be made exclusively from officers who have
passed through the contemplated course of instruc-
ion."

The battalion of Royal Marines for service in
Japan is ordered to rendezvous for embarkation at
Plymouth. It will be quartered and organised in
Milibay barracks, which are near the waterside.
Among other ships spoken of for transport service
ig the Windsor Castle, 97, 3,101 tons, which is pro-
vided with engines of 400-horse power and a screw,
and is now in Hamoaze, Devenport. The entire bat-
talion will consist of six companies, numbering in
the aggregate 36 offiaers and 504 non-commissioned
officers and men, the whole under the command of
Lieut.-Col. W. G. Suther. He will have for flag-
officers Lieut.-Col. Penrose Charles, of the Ply mouth
division, and Lieut.-Col. Chas. Wm. Adair, Chatham
division. The following is the proportion of officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men selected from the
Chatham division—Lieut.-Col. C. W. Adair, in com
mand ; Capt. J. A. Stewart, paymaster; Lieut. W
J. Barker, quartermaster; Capt. J. H. Parry, First
Lieut. R. 11. D wyer, Second Lieut. W, W. Spalding,
8 not►-commissioned officers, and 76 men. Thi en-
tire quota from Plymouth will consist of a detach-
ment of 1 lieut.-colonel, 2 captains, 4 lieutenants, 8
sergeants, 8 corporals, two drummers and 150 men
An Admiralty order was yesterday received atlWool
with, instructing the following detachment of the
division of ittoyal Marines to be held in readiness
for immediate embarcation for Japan, viz., Lteut.-
Col. Suther, Lieut, and Acting Adjutant Poyntz,
Captains Seymour and Lean, Lieuts. Donellan and
Hore, 8 sergeants, 8 corporals, 2 buglers, and 150
rank and file.

A general regimental order of the Royal Artillery, signed
by Deputy-Adjutant-General, Col. Charles Bingham, bear-
ing date the 20th inst., but promulgated yesterday, an-
nounces the following changes :—The following appoint,
menta have been made by the Secretary of State for War,
with the concurrence of his Royal Highness the Field Mar-
shal Commanding in Chief—viz. :—Lieut-Col and Brevet-
Col F, A. Campbell to be Superintendent of Royal Gun
Factories, vice Sir William Armstrong, resigned—Lieut-
Col C. W. Younghusband to boa member of the Ordnance
Select Committee, vice Campbell. Her Majesty has been
pleased to approve the following promotions in the Royal
Regiment of Artillery—viz.!:—Captain Hickman Thomas
Molesworth, 3d Horse Brigade, to be Lieut.-Col. 17th Bri-
gade, vice Henry Charles Wade, retired upon full pay--
Second Capt Marmaduke Charles Lawson, 17th Brigade, to
be Capt, vice Molesworth—Lieut Charles Joseph M'Mahon,
3d Horse Brigade, to be Second Capt 17th Brigade, vice
Laweon—Lieut.Col William Henry Delamain, 22d Bri-
gade, to be Col 24th Brigade, vice William Barr, retired
upon full pay—Capt Walker King Fooks, 19th Brigade, to
be Lieut-Col 22d Brigade, vice Delamain—Second Capt
William Dickson, 16th Brigade, to be Capt 19th Brigade
vice Fooks—Lieut Henry Archibald Mallock, 24th Bri-
gade, to be Second Cart 16± Brigade, vice Dickson—
Lieut-Col William Kinnaird Worster, 20th Brigade, to be
Col, 17th Brigade, vice Bladen West Black, retired upon
half-pay—Capt Robert George Hunter Grant, 3d Horse
Brigade, to be Lieut. Col, 20th Brigade, vice Worster—
Second Captain John Frederick Adolphus M'Nair, 17th
Brigade, to be Captain, vice Grant—Lieut Charles Edward
Watson, 20th Brigade, to be Second Capt, 17th Brigade,
vice 141'Nair—Lieut Christopher Edward Newport, 18th
Brigade, to be Second Capt therein, vice Frederick Alex-
ander Whish, who resigns—Lieut-Colonel George Prince
Sealy, 18th Brigade, to be Col, 21st Brigade, vice Robert
Croft Wormald, retired upon full pay—Captain Hill Wal-
lace, 4th Horse Brigade, to be Lietenant-Colonel, 18th
Brigade,vice Sealy—Second Captain Charles Shaw de Neuf-
villa Lucas, 21st Brigade, to be Captain, vice Wallace—
Lieutenant J. Vibart, Depot Brigade, Royal Horse Artil-
lery, to be 2d Captain 21st Brigade, vice Lucas--Lieut.-
Colonel Arnold Burrows Kemball, C. 8., 18th Brigade, to
Colonel therein, vice John Pottinger, C. 8., retired upon
full pay—Captain and Brevet-Major George Gleig Brown,
4th Horse Brigade, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, 18th Brigade,
vice Kemball—Second Captain John Henry Porter Mal-
colmson, 21st Brigade, to be Captain, vice Brown--Lieut.
Henry Tanfield Vachell, 4th 8.,u-se Brigade, to be Second
Captain 21st Brigade, vice Malcolmson—Second Captain
Walter k..laidisck Naugle, 13th Brigade, to be Captain sth
Brigade, vice Brevet Major Edmund Palmer, placed upon
temporary half-pay—Lieutenant Stuart J. Nicholson, sth
Brigade, to be Second Captain 13th Brigade, vice Nanglc—
Captain and Brevet Major Augustus Frederick Francis
Lennox, 3d Brigade, to be Lieut-Colonel, 11th Brigade,
';7ll:lharles Wright Younghusband, removed to the Super-
stavvrY List—Second Captain and Brevet Major Henry
nox_4:ll2th Brigade, to be Captain 3d Brigade, vice Len-
Second :tenant William Smith, Ist Horse Brigade, to be
ing 12th Brigade, vice Strover. The follow-
W. C. L. -1146:taised to increased pay—viz.:—Lieut-Col.
Lieut-Colonel
llthb3eli
G. E. Wee, 2152t131d Brigade, vice Wade—Lieut-Colonel
v.Byrigade, vice Delamain, promoted—
star, prornoted__Lielxolls, 3d Horse Brigade, vice Wore
r.tornuolonel A. M. Murray, 21st Bri-
gade, vice Sealy,
ing, 4th Horse Brige,4:4:.----Lieut-Colonel R. H. Keat-
emball, promoted—Lieut-
21att8011'
Colonel R. O'Conn
C. Gareiner
tolttade, vice Younghusband—
C1!/,' Sie'utet?.r.ady, 20th Brigade, vice
iLii,eztaehnoann,t thperomnootne
16th Brigade, vice Matlock, G. E. W. Malet,
promoted—
Thompson, 20th Brigade, vi:e"twoead—Lieutenant R.
2815. r, Brigade
Lieutenant F. C. Caldecatt,
Brigade, vice
Newport, promoted—Lient A.
GatteY, latgaßde, vice_)
vviacechVeliib,aprtr,opinroottnedo_tedt—ieLutieuEt.FG..Lßed.ge,
vice Nicholson, promoted—LieuLtie.T. T
-• s.reenheld,.gla2dteh
Brigade, vice Smith, promoted-
-4°lraann, 9th
following exchanges
Brigade, vice Campbell,
have been approved, viz., between Lieut-Col G. v. jounson,
deceased. ThteCfo:lllVo.
7th Brigade, and Lieut-Col Lennox, 11th Brigade—between
Lieut W. S. Brown, of No 1, and Lieut E. J. Tremlett, of
No 2 Battery, 13th Brigade--between Lieut F. S. Budd, of
No 2, and Lieut F. F. Weston, of No 1 Battery, 17th Bri.
gade—between Lieut F. Howlett, of the Depot Brigade,
and Lieut E. S. G. Cobbold, of the 2d Brigade. The fol-
lowing transfers have been ordered, viz., Lieut-Col P. Mac-
lean, from the Ist to the 23 Brigade, and Lieut-Col W. B
Gaidner, from the latter to the former—Lieut-Col R. P
Radcliffe, from the Bth to the Ist Brigade, and Brevet-Co
H. F. Strange, C. 8., from the latter to the former—Lieut
A. Wynch, from F Battery, 231 Brigade, to No 2 Batter'',
17th Brigade—Lieut P. Thompson, from No 7 Battery, 25th
Brigade, to No 4 Battery, 24th Brigade ; Lieut E. R. Co-
nolly, from No 4 Battery, 24th Brigade, to No 7 Battery/