The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The detachment of Royal Marines and Royal
Marine Artillery, numbering 128 non-commissioned
officers and men, under the command of Capt. J.
Taylor, Lint, C. W. Carlyon, and Lieut. J. D. Fos-
broke, joined their respective headquarters yesterday
from the Donegal, 99, 800-horse power, Capt. S.
Osborn, C. 8., which has been put out of commission.
The time-expired men and invalid cavalry and
infantry troops recently arrived at Chatham from
India, who have been inspected by the Commis-
sioners of Chelsea Hospital, were discharged from
St. Mary's invalid establishment yesterday, the
number of men forwarded to their homes being
nearly 100 of all ranks and degrees of service.
Twenty-seven of the Chatham division of Royal
Marines, who after examination by a medical board
at Melville Hospital have been found unfit for further
service, have been ordered to receive their discharge.
During the time the men of the Ist division of the
depot brigade, Royal Artillery, were making their
first practice with solid shot and common shell from
the 110-pounder Armstrong guns defending the en-
trance to the Medway, a day or two since, one of the
110-pounder solid shot fell close to the bows of the
paddlewheel steamer African, Mr. Harvey, Master
Commander. If the steamer had been struck she
would in all probability have been sunk. The
steamer, at the time, was nearly two miles distant
from the battery, and was returning from Shoe-
buryness. In consequence of the quantity of ship-
ping continually crossing the line of fire and sailing
within range of the Armstrong guns, the greatest
caution has to be observed in carrying on the prac-
lice, more especially as the angle made by the Arm-
strong conical shot on touching the water cannot be
depended upon. The range at which the target was
fixed was 2,000 yards ; but this, it was soon found,
was altogether too restricted to exhibit the power
and accuracy of the 110-pounders. The practice
made by the Royal Artillery on this, the first occa-
sion of their working the Armstrong% was very
good, and the bursting of the shells was remarkably
accurate.

The whole of the stores at Tilbury Fort are to be
removed, and the office of storekeeper at that station
abolished, the Government having decided on doing
away with the store depot which has existed for so
laY Tears at Tilbury, owing to its proximity to
the ,
Renal at Chatham, to which the greater por-
tion of the small arms, both for land and sea service,
will be sent,
is to be Although the store depot at Tilbury
abolished it is not contemplated to disturb
the old fort,
Letters received at the headquarters of the Chat-
ham division of Royal Marines from Vera Cruz an-
pounce that the two companiesurlizt of Royal Marines
arris.on duty, left behind behind at Vera
prising the last portion et
the
baromeef distributedrom
that
have re-embarked for England,
and ican battalion,
among the various ships ordered
station. The officers who have embarked with the
Royal Marines are Capt. J. Elliott, Capt. p,
Noott, Lients. C. P. Henslep, S. R. Bnekle
E. p.
B. Gray, P. R. Champion, and H. Cornmins, and
Assist.-Surg J. T. Adams.
A detachment, consisting of one captain, one
subaltern, two non-commissioned officers, and 84
rank and file, of the Royal Marines will be de-
spatched to China in the Sanspareil, 70, to fill up
vasancies in the squadron of Vice-Admiral Sir J.
Hope, K.C.B.
Yesterday a complete battery of 20 of the new
description of large 110-pounder Armstrong guns,
each of 91 cwt., arrived at the Ordnance-wharf,
Chatham, from Woolwich, in the Government trans-
ports Petrel and Thames, and during the day were
landed and deposited in store. The quanty of 110-
pounder Armstrongs at Chatham is very large, but
none of the 70 pounders have yet been received.
By direction of the -War Department all the 110-
pounder Armstrongs which have been double-
bouehed—that is, first for the thick iron bouch in-
stead of the copper bouch, and afterwards for the
thin iron bouch—are to be distinguished from those
guns which have been bouched for the thin iron
bench only, by having the letters D. B. stamped on )
the blank trunnions.

FAST DGINCIS AT ROME.—There is many a "slow
COr C 11" in itcinle, Whether it does or does not contain some
Eminence in the way of a cardinal. But the most go-a-
head observer will hardly complain of the pace at which
certain omnibuses, including the Pevero and the Corso,
dash along with their four or more horses by the Flaminian
road up to the Porta del Popolo. With ceilingless pens for
waiting-rooms at railway stations, and seatless third-class
carriages on the Southern line, the city of the Caesars can
yet boast some of the fastest and largest omnibuses, and
perhaps the best-horsed cabs of any place of its size.—Ones
0 Week.