The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-15 00:00:00

THE AR Au;

formed on Hungry-
Place yesterday at
A lAd
e rds ihvoi ts ti o.
hill at a.m. The manoeuvres were unusually com-
plex, and exhibited great ingenuity on the part of
Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Pennefather, K.C.B. The
troops deserved great credit for their steady and
well executed movements. They returned to Camp
at one o'clock. The Artillery only were furnished
with ammunition on the occasion.

The following is the present distribution of the
companies of the Royal Engineers :-Ist company,
Plymouth4th,;lsth, and,Al 8t
derlshoh,
tt ;3d, 27th, and 33d,
Malta; Canada;
sth and 34th,
Burmuda ; 6th, New Zealand; 7th, Halifax, Nova
Scotia ; Bth and 10th, China ; 9th, Woolwich ; 11th
and 21st, Mauritius; 12th and 25th, Cape of Good
Hope ; 20th, Australia ; 23d, Shorncliffe ; 24th,
28th, and 31st, Malta ; 29th and 30th, Corfu ; and
the 32d at St. Helena. The companies at head-
quarters, Chatham, are the 17th, 22d, 2Gth, 35th,
37th, and 38th, in addition to which the 13th, 14th,
16th, and 19th companies are engaged in the tri-
gonometrical survey of Great Britain. The follow-
ing companies will shortly arrive in England on
the completion of their period of foreign service-
viz., the 7th, from Halifax; the Bth and 10th, from
China; the 11th, from Mauritius; the 20th, from
Western Australia ; the 24th and 28th, from Malta;
and the 25th, from the Cape. The 22d Company,
at Chatham, is the next on the rota to proceed on
foreign service.
The improvements recently effected in the system
of instruction pursued at the Royal Engineer Esta-
lishment, Chatham, as well as the increase made in
the number of subjects connected with the theory
and practice of military engineering which the offi-
cers and men of the Royal Engineers have to acquire
before they have completed their curriculum of in-
struction, have necessitated a considerable augmenta-
tion in the staff of instructors and assistant instruc-
tors in the different schools and departments of the
establishment at headquarters, as the number of
instructors hitherto employed has been found alto-
gether insufficient for the present requirements of the
establishment. The Duke of Cambridge has ac-
cordingly sanctioned the appointment of six addi-
tional instructors, raising the total number at head-
quarters to 14, who will be distributed as follows-
viz., five fieldwork instructors, two surveying and
levelling instructors, one photographic instructor,
one telegraphic instructor, one topographical in-
structor, one lithographic instructor, and one labo-
ratory instructor. Previously to the employment
of permanent instructors the officers and men were
put through a course of instruction in a body, under
the superintendence of the non-commissioned offi-
cers of the company to which they were attached,
but under the new arrangement the Royal Engi-
neers will go through the course of fieldwork in-
struction according to classes, each class being
under the superintendence of an instructor, while
each officer and man will have to pass an exami-
nation by Lieut.-Col. Lovell, C. 8., the chief field-
work instructor, before he will be dismissed from
the fieldworks to join the other classes.
The Lords of the Admiralty have sanctioned an
exchange of divisions between Lieut.-Colonel C, 0.
Hawley, of the Portsmouth Division, and Lieut.-
Col. W. S. Aslett, of the Plymouth Division.
The corps of Royal Marines being below its re-
quired strength the following officers have been
detached from the head-quarters of several divi-
sions, and are employed in superintending the re-
cruiting at the stations named :-Lieut.-Col. J. C.
D. Morrison, Chelmsford ; Lieut.-Col. R. Parke,
Bath; Major N. Moore, Hull; Major A. A. Dou-
glas, Bedford;
Major E. L. Pym, Derby; Major
J. B. Prynne, Launceston ; Captain F. E. Budd,
Manchester ; Captain C. Louis, London ; Captain
H. H. Goold, Northampton ; Captain It. S. Harri-
son, Salisbury ; Captain G. L. Blake, Wolver-
hampton ; Captain H. G. J. Davies, Liverpool ;
Captain E. C. Domvill, Exeter ; Captain S. R.
Lille, Taunton ; Captain H. F. Pox, Ludlow ; and
Captain R. Farmar, Monmouth. The proper
strength of the corps is 18,000 of all ranks.
Lieut.-Col. Scovell and the officers and men of
the 96th Regiment, who left Queenstown for Ca-
nada in the hired transport Viet oria, which put back
to Plymouth on Tuesday, were landed from her on
Thursday. The head quarters and three companies
are now in Milbay-barracks : the other two com-
panies are in the ltaglan, at Devonport.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARMA-
MENT.—Yesterday the committee of the House of Com-
mons sitting to consider the competing schemes. for a rail-
way to the camp at Colchester passed the bill of the Ten-
dring Hundred Railway for that Purpose, with which it
may be mentioned, was associated
the accommodation of an
extensive agricultural district,
and ignoring the bill of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, but giving them an
extension of time for the
.completion of their line to Ongar.
Clauses connected with the interests of the South-Eastern
Railway Compaq
were submitted and considered in the
committee on the bill of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway. The committees on the Andover and Great
Western group of railways, and on the Barnsley
Coal Railway Company's Extensions, were engaged in
taking important evidence throughout the day y until the
Speaker was at prayers.