The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-19 00:00:00

had strong winds from the eastward for the first 10
days, since which fine westerly winds, She spoke,
May 2, in lat 41 18 N, log 53 47 W, the English
ship Annette Gilbert, from Honduras for Quebec;
Bth, in lat 45 54 N, long 48 56 W, the Danish bark
Chieftain, homeward bound; and tha 11th, in lat
45 5 N, long 25 20 W, the English bark Jane, also
homeward bound,

Tho appointment of chief inspector of machinery
to the Chatham steam reserve in the Medway has
become vacant by the death of Mr. Price, which
occurred on Friday last after a short illness. Pend-
ing the appointment of a successor to Mr. Price, the
duties are discharged by Mr. G. Weeks, senior chief
engineer of the steam reserve.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Charles G.
Lindsay, to the Galatea; Lieut. W. Farquhar to the
Racehorse; Bernard B. Dowling, master, to the
Racehorse ; W. T. Clifton, master, to the Cormorant;
Sub.-Lient. Percy B. Nind, to the Forte, additional
for disposal ; Leopold J. T. C. Scarlett, naval cadet,
to the Shannon ; R. Ditchburn, first-class assistant
engineer, to the Asia as supernumerary ; W. Town
and John Dunlop, acting second class assistant-en-
gineers, to the Adventurer as supernumeraries.

THE ARMY.

No draughts of troops will be despatched to India
this season from the depots at the camp at Col-
chester, some of the regiments which have been
stationed in the East being now en route for Eng-
land, while the strength of others will be made up
by -volunteers from such depots of the home regi-
ments as have their full complement. On Friday a
detachment of sergeants and privates left Colches-
ter for the Hythe School of Musketry. The officers
accompanying the detachment were Lieut. Lampen,
34th ; Lieut. Hume, 38th ; Lieut. Davidson, 88th ;
Ensign Stanton, Ist battalion, 6th; and Ensign
Bain, 44th Regiment.
On Saturday a troop of the 14th Hussars, con-
sisting of 5 officers, 111 men, and 109 horses, under
the command of Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. A. Todd,
arrived in Liverpool from Dublin. They were
brought in the City of Dublin Steampacket Com-
pany's steamer Windsor, and proceeded southwards
by the London and North-Western Railway.
The hired transport King Lear, with the 83d Re-
giment from Bombay, which arrived at Plymouth
Sound on Saturday morning, having received orders,
was towed out of the Sound in the evening, and
left for Gravesend, where her troops will be landed.

On Saturday detachments of Royal Engineers,
the Army Hospital Corps, 2d battalion 10th, 2d
battalion 11th, 2d battalion 13th (Prince Albert's
Light Infantry), 67th, 85th, 99th, and Cape Mounted
Rifles Regiments arrived at Chatham garrison from
China and the Cape of Good Hope, having disem-
barked at Government quay, Gravesend, the same
day from No. 7 Government transport the Echunga,
Capt. Cooper, and the hired transport Sir George
Grey, Capt. 'Wilkins. The Echunga, 1,007 tons
burden, sailed from Hongkong on Dec. 29, having
on board 238 naval invalids from the various vessels
serving in China, 12 men of the Army Hospital
Corps, 29 men of the 67th Regiment, and 61 non-
commissioned officers and men of the 99th Regi-
ment, together with the following officers :—Capt.
G. Ingham, 44th Regiment, in charge of the mili-
tary invalids ; Mr. W. H. Warsfold, master ; of the
Pioneer, 6, screw steam-sloop, in charge of the
naval invalids; Capt. 0. H. Stokes, Royal Engi-
neers ; Lieut. C. B. H. Somerset, 99th Regiment ;
Mr. W. C. Gordon, deputy assist.-superintendent of
stores ; Staff Assist.-Surg. J. Carlaw, and Assist.-
Surg. J. Mockridge, R.N. The Echunga arrived at
the Mauritius on the 30th of January, and remained
there 14 days to land stores, ammunition, &c., and to
ship guns. During the time the vessel was there the
cholera broke out on board, and 20 persons died from
the disease. The Cape was rounded on the 9th of
March, and St. Helena sighted on the 17th of the
same month. The Echunga arrived at Ascension on
the 2d of April, and, after landing and shipping
stores, sailed thence on the sth. The passage
to Gravesend occupied 138 days. During the
voyage the vessel was in a very leaky condition,
requiring pumping every four hours from the day
she left Hong Kong. Owing to the protracted
nature of the voyage, the troops were on short
allowance of water for 3,1 days. During the pas-
sage there were 37 deaths on board, including 22 of
the naval invalids, 10 of the 99th, and 5 of the 67th
Regiment. After the troops had been medically
inspected, on Saturday, 15 of the number were ad-
mitted to Fort Pitt Hospital for treatment.
By direction of the Secretazy of State for War a
number of men of the Royal Artillery, from Wool-
wich, together with troops of the line, assisted by a
party of convicts, have been employed for several
days past, under the direction of Capt. Dyer, Royal
Artillery, in the examination of the whole of the
smooth-bore guns lying on the Ordnance-wharf,
Chatham, in order that any gun in which the
slightest flaw is to be detected may be at once
removed, to prevent it being issued. Although
several hundred of the largest 10- inch, 68-pounders,
and 32-pounders have been examined, the number
of guns discovered to be in the slightest degree un-
sound has only been three. The examination has
been confined to the smooth-bore guns, the 110-
pounder and other Armstrongs, proved only a few
months since, not requiring to be examined.

VOLUNTEER YIELD-DAY 42 EPSOM-.

On Saturday afternoon a brigade field-day took
place on the Epsom Downs, under command of
Colonel M'Murdo, Inspector-General of Volunteers,
attended by Colonel Luard and Colonel Morriss,
members of his Staff. The force under arms, num-
L bering in the aggregate little short of 2,000 men,
was contributed by half-a-dozen of the principal
Volunteer regiments of the metropolis, and the
gathering was intended not so much for purposes
of display as of work. In the regular service the
occasion would have been known as a "private
field-day ;" but from their very constitution Volun-
teers may be added to that class of humanity which
cannot keep a secret, and accordingly there was a
large though not inconveniently numerous atten-
dance of sight-seers on the Downs. The afternoon
was beautifully fine, but with a dull heat that
seemed ominous of a coming storm, and the long
ascent from the station to the stand-house was con-
sequently rather a severe preparation for the move-
ments to be undertaken. But the regiments all
bore it very well ; and when the line was formed,
at half past six o'clock, the men looked in remark-
ably good ultlei. On the CaiTCMO right were the
Inns of Court, whose punctuality—professional
multiplied by military—brought them on the ground
a good hour before anybody else. On the extreme
left were the London Rifle Biiigade ; and In-
termediately, in the order of their arrival,
were the Queen's Westminsters, the London
Scottish, the 38th (Artists), and Lord Radatock's
corps, the 9th Middlesex. The plan of battle was
of the ordinary suppositions and flexible :character,
largely affected by the nature of t'le ground, and
still more by the absence of either cavalry or ar-
tillery. For purposes of explanation, it is sufficient
to state that the enemy was in force in the direction
of Leatherhead, facing the grand stand, that he had
got possession of a thicket of gorse and brushwood,
and that his advanced posts held a farmhouse im-
mediately on the right of Col. M'Murdo's position.
To sheke off these proximate assailants, the Inns of
Court, under Colonel Brewster, were at once thrown
out as skirmishers, and continued to act in that ca-
pacity during nearly the whole of the operations. In
modern warfare it has become habitual to employ
corps ethat, instead of holding them in reserve.
Louis Napoleon used up his Imperial Guards and
won his Italian campaign at about the same moment.
In the event, therefore, of actual invasion, the
" Devil's Own" have before them a future more bril-
liant than pleasureable. While they were engaged
in surrounding the farmhouse the other battalions
moved up a valley towards Tattenham-corner, the
London Brigade leading, in a dark solid column, like
a patch of ink upon the grass. The Queen's West-
minsters, nearly double the strength of any other
, regiment upon the ground, wheeled very steadily,
and followed in the same direction, and the line was
closed by the London Scottish, the attire of whose
flank companies Mr. O'Lynn himself must have com-
mended as "pleasant and cool," though penalties
lurked in the thicket of gorse. At this point the