The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

About 30 rank and file have been transferred
from the 2d to the Ist battalion 6th Regiment, and 70
men, under the command of Capt. Bennett, will im-
mediately join the head-quarters of the regiment.
Capt. Dawson is to be attached to the depot.
His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief, has sanctioned the issue of passes at the dis-
cretion of Col. Guy, Commandant of the camp at
Colchester, to enable non-commissioned officers and
privates under his command to visit the Exhibition.

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The extensive range of barrack buildings erected
at Gravesend for the troops from Chatham garri-
son by Mr. Down, of Southwark, and Mr. Naylor, of
Rochester, having been completed by the contrac-
tors, were yesterday taken possession of by the Go-
vernment. Detachments, to the number of 300
men of all ranks, from the different corps at
Chatham marched to their new quarters. The rifle
range at St. Mary's Creek, hitherto used by
the troops of the garrison and the local Volunteer
corps, being required for the proposed enlargement
of Chatham dockyard, a more extensive tract of
land on the banks of the Thames, between Roches-
ter and Gravesend, has been purchased by the War
Department, and converted into a rifle range for
the use of the troops at Chatham. The latter will
be quartered in the barracks at Gravesend during
the time they are under instruction. The detach-
ments that left the garrison yesterday included 104
men of the Royal Marines Light Infantry, and 200
men selected from the depots of the 4th King's
Own, 12th, 19th, 20th, 31st, 43d Light Infantry,
51st Light Infantry, 52d Light Infantry, 75th,
81st, and 94th Regiments, together with the fol-
lowing officers :—Major C. J. Ellis, Royal Marines,
in command ; Capt. J. Paton and Ensign R. Simp-
son, 4th King's Own; Capt. E. Foster and Ensign
W. B. Ferris, 12th Regiment ; Ensign G. Okes,
19th Regiment; Capt. S. T. Sargent and Ensign.
S. P. T. Nicholl, 43d Light Infantry ; Captain A.
Henley, 52d Light Infantry ; Ensign R. B. Wesley,
91st Regiment; Lieut. E. W. G. Bryan and Lieut.
F. V. G. Bird, Royal Marines. In addition to the
above Lieut. R. Parsons, 35th Regiment, assistant
instructor of musketry to the Ist Battalion, and
the other instructors and assistant instructors of
musketry, including six non-commissioned offi-
cers of the Royal Engineers, left the garri-
son for Gravesend. The troops were inspected on
the general parade-ground, Chatham Barracks, and
at half-past 1 marched off to Gravesend, the journey
being performed on foot. The troops will be quar-
tered at Gravesend for a few weeks, after wnich
they will return to Chatham, and be succeeded
by other detachments from that garrison, the course
of rifle instruction being carribd on without inter-
mission during the summer.
MARKETS-THIS DAY.

HAY MARKETS.
£5 Os Od i new
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £1 los too
straw,
w£,llll6sl6tso t
o£4£o2s
2;
sclpoevrer do.load.,
to i 5 Os; new
CUMBERLAND.--Meadow hay, si_l6,oB to £6 Os; and
do., £1 168 to £1 Os ; clover do.,
straw, £1 16a to £2 2s per load. -4-11 oc to £5 Os; new
dow hay' 3 105 to £6 OA ; and
WHITECHAPEL.—Mea , 4
do., £1 16s to £.l Os ; ctoyeli''Trs.de steady.
straw, £1 16s to £2 20 per load.Os 0d ; and
COLONIAL.. •
been limited, and prices him
£3Tradsestfiriol
• have
dealings e of importance.
TEA.—The d change
' d without amoderate amount of business has been
remained
A veil ral instances have slightly SuuAu.-- i, several
re-
done, ands 0_
need descriptions, however, have been in more
fait-demand.
ceded. R% rates.
. us of P,antation Ceylon, at enhancedquota-
tions, East. full has been a steady demand for good and
descriptio .
without change
w—
i, values.
The dealings in East India have been to
fns hue inferior qualities have remained
an aver-
RicE.
ge extent, and good and fine descriptions have shown an
%ward movement in prices.
upward
has been dull, at about former
prices.
TALLOW.—The market has been more animated, and
prices have tended upwards. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted
475, and last three months 495 per cwt.

DEATH OF A NONAGENARIAN—A CONTEMPO-
RARY OF ROBERT BURNS.—Died last week at Duntarvie,
Abercorn, Thomas Herries, of whom a brief notice lately
appeared. His age is not exactly known, but it must have
been at least about 90 years, if not, as is firmly believed by
some, 97. This is evident from the circumstance that he
was in the habit of speaking
of himself as being a young
lad serving at Dalswinton, near to Dumfries, when Burns
resided at Ellisland in 1788. In referring to these times
his language was,
" Well do I remember of frequently
meeting Burns reading a book while riding; and also of
his resorting to a summer-house in a wood on the Glen-
riddle estate, for the purpose, as it was said, of writing his
poems." The old man, who was born in Glencairn, but
brought up in Dunscore, not far from Lag Hill, was a master
dyker to trade; yet, so ungrasping was he in disposition,
and so distinguished for integrity as a true member of the
bachelor brotherhood, that in his estimates of jobs he often
" gained 104so."—Zdidurgh Witness.