The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-08 00:00:00

711 E ARM,.

The service companies of the 51st (King's Own)
Light Infantry, in India, being below their proper
complement, volunteering for that regiment has
been opened among the regiments at the home sta-
tions, chiefly those serving in Ireland• Intelligence
was yesterday received at Chatham that 120 volun-
teers will arrive in the course of a few days, and
join the depot of the 51st, attached to the third
depot battalion, in readiness to be despatched to
India with the reinforcements forwarded during the
ensuing season. Each of the volunteers will receive
the sum of one guinea on joining the depot of the
regiment at Chatham. The Slat Regiment em-
barked for India in 1857.
An order has been received at Chatham from the
War-office, directing that, with a view to obviate
the necessity of the purchase of iron for the cupolas
for Martin's liquid shells, all the old and unservice-
able shot and shell suitable for melting in the
cupolos is to be retained in such quantities as the
officer commanding the Royal Artillery may con-
• Bider necessary to meet the supply required for the
furaaces. Care is to be taken to have the iron for
the cupoi'izs as small as possible, in order that they
may be the more easily melted. All unserviceable
shot and shell are CP nsequently to be broken up by
means of the sledgehammers which accompany the
cupolas, lumps of iron four inches square being not
too large, although they will melt all the more
rapidly if smaller. In breaking up the shell great
caution is to be exercised, in case there should be
powder remaining inside.
The following Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal
Military College, who have been g,,:zetted to com-
missions as Lieutenants in the Cores of Royal
Engineers, have joined at head quarters, Chatham,
and are posted to the companies named A.
Sargeaunt and C. S. Beauchamp, 17th compaOY ;
M. W. Rogers and H. L. Lewis, 22d company ;
A. Whitmore and H. Champernowne, 26th com-
pany; F. Firebrace, IV. Osborne, and T. B. B.
Savi, 35th company; J. L. Morgan, A. E.
Dummler, L. F. Boileau, and W. Sedgwick, 36th
company ; A. D. Brooke, G. W. Gifford, A, W.
Baird, and A. H. Hime, 37th Company ; S. R.
l'el'Culiagh, R. J. IL Parker, and C. E. Pridden,
38th company. Each of the offioers will forthwith
commence a course of instruction in the carbine
drill and rifle practice.
Yesterday a District Court-martial, which as-
sembled at Chtitharn on the previous day, under
the Presidency of Major F. G. 'l'. Deshon, attached
to the Staff of the 2d depot battalion, for the trial
of Private George Bowman, of the Chatham divi-
sion, terminated its sitting. The prisoner was
handed over to Sergeant Green, the non commis-
sioned officer in charge of the guard, to be placed in
confinement in the guard-room for a breach of mili-
tary discipline. During the time he was being re-
moved to the lock up, after he had been placed
in confinement, the prisoner made use of the most
violent language towards the sergeant, and more
than once expressed his determination to shoot him
on the first opportunity. At the termination of the
evidence for the prosecution, the Court found the
prisoner guilty, hut the sentence will not be pro-
mulgated until it has been confirmed by the General
commanding the district.