The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 96th Regiment is appointed to embark to-
morrow at Plymouth on board the screw steamship
Revenge, 89, Capt. C. Fellowes, for conveyance to
Portsmouth. The 96th will probably go first to the
Camp at Shorncliffe, and then to Aldershott prior
to the opening of the Great Exhibition.

An order has been received at Chatham, from the
War-office, laying down a ccde of regulations for
piling and arranging the Armstrong shot and shell
delivered into store.

A redistribution of the Corps of Royal Marines
and Royal Marine Artillery, and an alteration in
the system of promotion, was authorised by an
Order in Council, dated March 21, in conformity
with which the following regulations were pro-
mulgated :—The Royal Marine Artillery division
will be composed of 24 companies, each consisting of
one captain, two subalterns, eight sergeants, six
corporals, five bombardiers, two drummers and
buglers, and 107 gunners; total, 131. The Royal
Marine Light Infantry will comprise 116 companies,
each consisting of one captain, two subalterns, aix
sergeants, six corporals,three drummers and buglers,
and 109 privates ; total, 127. The whole of the
subalterns of companies to be two-thirds first, and
one-third second lieutenants. The regimental staff
of the artillery and Light Infantry divisions will in-
clude five colonels commandants, five colonels second
commandants, 20 lieutenants-colonels, five paymas
ters, five barrack masters, five surgeons, five assis
tant-surgeons, one laboratory instructor, five gun
nery instructors, five musketry instructors, 10 adju
tants, five lieutenants and quartermasters, five quar-
termasters, 10 sergeants-major, five quartermaster
sergeants, and five barrack sergeants. The general
staff will consist of one deputy-adjutant-general and
one assistant adjutant-general. The following pro-
motions and appointments have taken place in the
Royal Marines, by order of the Admiralty, conse-
quent upon the re-appointment of captains to com-
plete the separate establishment of the Royal Ma-
rine Artillery:—First Lieut. and Quartermaster W.
F. P. S. Dadson, of the Portsmouth division, to be
Captain, and appointed to the same divilion ; •First
Lieut. H. A. Brenan, of the Portsmouth division, to
be Lieutenant and Quartermaster, and appointed to
the same division ; First Lieut. C. F. Short, of the
Woolwich division, to be Captain, and appointed to
the Plymouth division ; Second Lieut, R. W. F.
Holt, of the Plymouth division, to be First Lieute-
nant, and appointed to the Woolwich division;
First Lieut. and Adjt. F. Lean, of the Portsmouth
division, to be Captain, and appointed to the Ply-
mouth division; First Lieut. S. B. Colwell, of the
Portsmouth division, to be Captain, and appointed
to the same division ; First Lieut. and Quartermas-
ter H. Swale, to the Woolwich division, to be Cap-
tain, and appointed to the same division ; First
Lieut. T. Bent, of the Chatham division, to be Lieu-
tenant and Quartermaster, and appointed to the
Woolwich division ; Second Lieut. R. H. Dovyer, of
the Portsmouth division, to be First Lieutenant, and
appointed to the Chatham division ; First Lieut. R.
Woolcombe, of the Artillery division, to be Adju-
tant, and appointed to the same division; Second
Lieut. F. F. Evans, to the Chatham division, to be
First Lieutenant, and appointed to the same divi-
sion, vice Hemmaus, pi.,tced on half-pay.

We understand that a soiree, under distinguished
patronage, for the sale of works of art, ladies' work, ttc.,
with music and singing, will be held on Thursday evening,
the 10th April, at the Female School of Art, 43, Queen-
square, Bloomsbury, in aid of the Building Fund. Lady
Goldsmid, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mrs.
Temple Bowdoin, and other ladies have kindly promised to
assist. We hope that the public will give their support on
this occasion to this excellent institution.
GARIBALDI AND MANZONI.—An anecdote con-
nected with Garibaldi's stay at Milan is going the round of
the Italian papers. The general visited Manzoni in the
afternoon of the 25th, "Allow me," said the general, "to
do homage to a man who so greatly honours Italy." "
It
is for me," answered the poet, "to do homage to you; 1
feel very small before the lowest of The Thousand of Mar-
sala ; how must I feel before their leader, who has re-
deemed so large a part of Italy, offering it in the hand-
somest manner to Victor Emmanuel ?" Garibaldi replied,
" I have only done my duty." Ho then embraced Man-
zoni, and offered him a bunch of violets. " I will keep
these flowers," said the poet, "as a remembrance of one of
the brightest days in my existence."
Inisn ExPORTS.—A mon g the exports from Ire-
land to Great Britain in 1861 were 1,068,883 proof gallons
of home-made spirits, 123,812 quarters of wheat and wheat
flour, and 1,551,524 quarters of oats and oatmeal, an in-
crease in both the two lat ter items upon the previous year,
but in spirits a decrease. These returns are from official
records. According to non-official documents collected by
the officers of Customs, Ireland also exported to Great Bri-
tain last year 334,304 oxen and cows, 24,360 calves, 407,426
sheep, and 358,187 swine.
CAPE TOWN RAILWAY.—It appears that this
railway was opened for public traffic as far as the Erste ,
River on the lath of February last.