The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-23 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

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tillery, attached to the Chatham district, which is at
present considerably below its proper establishment,
was yesterday reinforced by a detachment of non-
commissioned officers and gunners from Woolwich.
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be completed to its full strength with recruits, who
complete course of drill in all the various artillery
exercises, to qualify them for embarkation for
India during the ensuing summer. The officers, non-
commissioned officers, and gunners belonging to the
five batteries, which compose the first division of
the depot brigade, have recommenced practice from
the 13-inch and 8-inch land service mortars whick.
are mounted in the centre bastion of the fortifica-
tions commanding the main channel of approach to
the river Medway. Owing to the great number of
vessels passing and repassing across the line of fire,
the greatest difficulty has been experienced during
the practice in obtaining a range sufficiently clear
to admit of the bursting of the shells with safety.
Every precaution has accordingly to be taken, both
by telescopic observations from the batteries and re-
ducing the bursting charges of powder to a mini-
mum degree, to avoid accidents. Lieut. Phipps, the
gunnery instructor to the division, superintends the
filing, including the laying of the mortars and the
cutting and fixing of the fuzes.
A general order, issued from the Horse Guards
by command of the Dake of Cambridge, has been
promulgated at Chatham garrison, announcing that
the Secretary of State for War has decided that the
moiety of money deducted from the pay of men on
the issue of their clothing for 1862.63, for altera-
tions, is to be refunded them, and the amounts
charged against the public. Captains of companies
have been directed to take the necessary steps to
pay the men.

Earl de Grey and Ripon, Under Secretary of
State for War, who with Col. F. D. Jervois, Royal
Engineers, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday,
commenced yesterday, in company with the resident
engineers, an inspection of the fortifications in that
neighbourhood. It is understood that they have
already condemned what is called the "Keep," near
Stonehouse-hill, Devonport. They will recommend
its removal and the appropriation of the site for the
erection of a hospital for the wives of soldiers in
garrison there, for whom there isat present no such
accommodation.
It having been announced, by order of the heads
of departments in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich
that a small number of artisans, mechanics,
and
labourers would be taken on from among those who
had recently been discharged, about 2,000 yester-
day morning congregated around the principal
entrance, in hopes of recovering their lost employ-
ment. In consequence of the small amount;of work,
about 30 only were engaged, and those principally
for yard work. The recruiting sergeants of the
Royal Artillery and other regiments were, in con-

sequence, successful in enlisting a number of those
Who were eligible, and they were shortly after-
wards sworn into her Majesty's service.
Another 200-pounder Armstrong muzzle-loading
gun was yesterday landed on the wharf in Wool-
wich Arsenal, from the Elswick factory, for ex-
perimental purposes at Shoeburyness.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the
monthly general meeting held yesterday at the 50-
eiety' s house, If anover- squtu e—the Right Hon. Sir G. Clerk
Bart., president of the society in the chair--Messrs, T.
Woodbine Ilinchliffo, J. Wingfield Larking, Augustus H.
Smith, Edmund Walcot, Samuel 11. Cochrane, Tio wet
Morgan, Archibald Travers, and Charles W. Tupper were
elected fellows; Viscount Casticrosso, M.P., Sir Humphrey
do Trafford, Bart., Messrs. M. Biddulph, 'W. Graham, C.
Hammersiy, J. S. Challis, and J, Beast Lord were pro-
posed as candidates for the fellowship ; and Mr. Robert
Swift. of St. Thomas, as a correspor, ding member of the
society. The report from the council stated that the num-
ber of visitors to the gardens in 1862 had been 682,205,
showing an increase of 300,368 over the year 1861 ; and
that amongst other donations to the menagerie during the
past month there had been presented by his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales two Syrian wild cats, obtained by
his Royal Highness during his recent tour in the East•

Second Edition, price 25. 6d.,
CRCCSUS, KING OF LYDIA. A Tragedy.
By ALFRED B. RICHARDS.
Atioi her Matthew Lock might modulate their (the Fates')
chant in tones as expressive as those of the weird sisters in
'Macbeth,' and more solemnly sublime." -The Morning
Post.
Macbeth ' has many of these elements, especially Rs
added to by Dryden and Davenant. . . The language
and construction well deserves a royal and magniAcent set-
ting." --The Critic.
"Contains passages which are not to be surpassed by any-
thing in the language. The awful retribution that awaits
the neglect of poverty by wealth, and the extremes of luxury
and starvation, form the moral and portraiture of this work,
which, in the present state of the manufacturing districts in
the north of England, the rich and the powerful would do
well to study and to lay to heart." The Weekly Times.
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