The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-12 00:00:00

IHE ARMY.

By a general order, signed by Major-Gen. Sir
James Yorke Scarlett, Adjutant-General, received
at Chatham from the Horse Guurds, it is announced
that the Duke of Cambridge, in concurrence with
the Secretary of State for War, directs that soldiers
sentenced to be discharged from the army with
ignominy and marked with the letters " 8.C."
(bad conduct) shall be so marked by the hospital-
sergeant of the regiment or. deFts to which the
offenders belong, under the direction of a medical
officer. The making is to be effected prior to the
offender's committal to a civil prison.
A notification has been received at Chatham
garrison, from the Horse Guards, in which it is an-
nounced that by direction of his Royal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief military bandmaster shall
always take precedence over the civilians on the
occasion when regiments and troops in garrison are
brigaded together ; and that whenever bands are
playing together the military bandmaster shall lead
according to seniority of appointment. The order
further. directs that, with a view to insure uni-
formity throughout the regimental bands in the
British service, the pitch to be used shall be that
adopted by the Ancient Philharmonic Society, and
that on all occasions of military bands playing the
National Anthem the key shall invariably be that
of B flat.

The 22d company of the Royal Engineer, which
has been augmented to its full complement, will
leave head-quarters, Chatham, to-morrow morning,
to undergo a course of ball practice, at the new rifle
range on the banks of the Thames, previous to its
embarcation for service in China.

It was yesterday announced in Chatham garrison
that the Duke of Cambridge had appointed Capt.
H.lCardew, of the Ist Division Depot Brigade
Royal Artillery, as an instructor in fortifications at
the Royal Military College Sandhurst. This ap-
pointment will remove Capt. Cardew to the super-
numerary list.
Captain Julius Roberts, Royal Marine Artillery,
Associate Institution Civil Engineers, F.G.S., &c.,
yesterday returned to Woolwich from a tour of
inspection of the principal ironplate makers' estab-
lishments in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Stafford-
shire. Capt. Roberts has secured, among others,
the services of the Butterly Company, who have en-
gaged to supply 60 plates per week on his principle,
which, it is stated, will afford an invulnerable
strength and an enormous structural bond to the
framework of the ship, and give the facility of
converting timber bottoms to his method, so that
copper sheathing can be applied for foreign-going
ships. In so novel a system (secured to Captain
Roberts by the Queen's letters patent) the only
question of doubt existing with the Board of Ad-
miralty was the facility of making the plates, which
has now been removed. The Repulse, 90-gun ship,
in frame in Woolwich dockyard, the works on which
have been for some time suspended, i&atated to be
the first ship ordered to be converted on Captain
Roberts's principle. _ _ _

A battery of four 12-pounder brass guns, rifled in
the itoyai gun factories at Woolwich on Mr. Whit-
worth's principle, was yesterday shipped on board
the Alma transport vessel, belonging to the war
department of Woolwich, for conveyance to Dover
for experimental purposes at Shorncliffe. The guns
are some of our old smooth bore, muzzle loaders,
and weigh respectively 1 lcwt 3qrs 141 b, llcwt 3qrs,
llcwt 2qrs 161 b, and 14cwt 3qrs 101 b. A large
amount of ammunition, suitable to the Whitworth
system only, has been prepared in the laboratory
of the Arsenal, and shipped with the guns to give
the system a thorough trial.

THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT

INSTITUTION.

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday,
at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Captain Sir Ed-
ward Perrott, Bart., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present Admiral Cater, Col. Palmer, Admiral
Gordon, and other gentlemen.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read,
A reward of £l2 was given to the crew of the
Berwick lifeboat belonging to the institution, for
going off in the night of the 9th ult. with the view
of rendering assistance to the smack Ann, of Hnll,
which, during rough weather, had struck on Spit-
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after the smack drifted out of danger. In accord-
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ships.
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hours together ; and the distressed sailors, thus
nerved afresh, exert themselves successfully in get-
ting their vessels out of danger.
A reward of £7 was also voted to the crew of the
Arklow lifeboat of the society for putting off to the
assistance of a schooner which had struck on the
outlying sand bank, on the 10th ult. Fortunately
the vessel floated off, and proceeded on her voyage.
A reward of £2 was likewise granted to four
country people, who had promptly manned a small
boat and rescued three men, whose boat had struck
on a rock during a gale of wind and a heavy sea off
Ballysteen, on the coast of Limerick.
A reward of £2 was also given to the crew of the
fishing lugger Excelsior, of Lowestoft, for saving
the crew of five men belonging to the lugger Cale-
donia, of Buckhaven, bound to Whitby, which,
during a gale of wind and squally weather, had
been upset near the last-named port.
A reward was likewise granted to a fishing-boat's
crew for rescuing five out of seven of the crew of
another boat, which, having shipped a heavy sea, had
capsized off Garnish, on the coast of Cork, on the
30th July last. The five men were in a very ex-
hausted condition when they were rescued from the
T
inevitable death that apparently awaited them.
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could er two
reach men
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unhappily perished before as-
sistanceA
communication was read from his Grace the
Duke of Northumbez land, K.G., presidentwith ofm much
institution, stating that he accepted
pleasure the model of the institution's lifeboat and
transporting carriage which the society had pre-
sented to him, and that he should preserve them £.13
a memorial
benefit which the Life-
boat the shipwrecked
Ins
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had been sent to Withernsea,
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had important
conferred 0 n
sailor.
During
f
the past month a new lifeboat and
near Hull. On the occasion of the inauguration of
transporting
n
the boat, exult 20,000 persons had assembled to
witness
ge had also been sent to Apple-
dore, in Devon.
The inspector of lifeboats of the institution read
interestingoarr
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lifeboattnessand thei
a favourable report on the condition of the lifeboat