The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 55th Regiment, under the command of Col.
Robert Hume, was yesterday officially inspected on
Southsea Common, this being the first occasion Mince
their arrival in Portsmouth Garrison from the
Channel Islands. The regiment formed in line on
the common at half-past 10, and immediately after-
wards the inspecting officer, Major-General Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., accompanied by his Staff, arrived
on the ground, and was received with a general
salute. After a minute inspection by his Lordship
the regiment marched past in slow and quick time,
at the latter in grand divisions of companies. Re-
forming on the original alignment, the manual
platoon, and bayonet exercises were gone through.
A few manoeuvres followed, but were of a neces-

sarily brief character, owing to the inclement state
of the weather. At the close the regiment formed
square, and his Lordship, riding into the centre,
briefly addressed the men. After this they were
marched back to their quarters. In the afternoon
Lord Paulet visited the orderly-room, school, and
barrack-rooms.

The annual dinner of the 71st Highland Ligh,
Infantry Club took place at the London Tavern on
Tuesday, 10th inst., Viscount Falkland in the chair.
The following members were present, viz.—the
Earl of Morton, the Hon. H. Duncan, Sir Hew
Dalrymple, Sir Thomas Erskine, Sir A. P. Gordon
Cumming, Major-General Stack, Lieut.-Colonels
Blennerhassett and Colvill ; Capta. Hamilton,
Halkett, Dashwood, Horne, Sigrave, Buckenden,
Mounsey, O'Malley, Fairholme; Messrs. Howard,
Musgrave, Blair, and Morgan.
The annual dinner of the Royal Artillery took
place at Willis's Rooms on Monday last, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge in the chair. Up-
wards of 100 gentlemen were present, among whom
we noticed Sir G. Pollock, Sir W. Brereton, Gens.
Brooke, Sir R. Dacres, Dupuis, Tulloh, Wingfield,
G. Higgins, D. Grant, Arbuckle, Wylde, and Bloom-
field ; Cols. Teesdale, Bingham, Sandham, Burnaby,
Crofton, St. George, D'Aguilmr, Woachouse, Ask-
with, Anderson, Brougham, Gambier, and Thomas ;
Capt. Forbes, &c. The Chairman, after proposing
" the health of her Majesty the Queen and his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," made a
speech, in which he intimated his approval of the
recent amalgamation of the Royal Artillery regi-
ments. Sir George Pollock, in returning thanks,
pointed out the advantage that he had derived from
having had command of an army in the field. and
said that every artillery officer from his particular
professional education ought to have sufficient
knowledge of military affairs to take the command
of a division of the army. Several speeches fol-
lowed, especial honour being done to Capt. Forbes,
the secretary, whose health was drunk. His Royal
Highness took his departure about half-past 11.
His Royal Highness the Prince Carignano and
suite yesterday visited Woolwich Garrison, and
were received by General Sir Richard Dacres and
staff in full uniform. Soon after his Royal High-
ness rode up to the review ground and witnessed
the field-day evolutions of the mounted batteries of
the Royal Horse Artillery, and the field brigades
suppliedevl with the Armstrong guns. The proceed-
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as well as the Caledonia,
and other ships under
construction in the yard, and left Woolwich in the
Commodore's State barge at 2 o'clock,