The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-13 00:00:00

THE _ARMY.

Detachments of the Coldstream and Fusileer
Guards, under the command of Col. de Bathe and
Capt. Blackett, arrived at Eastbourne on Friday,
from Aldershot and London, to go through a course
of musketry practice. Upwards of 100 of the men
are under canvass, as there was not sufficient bar-

rack room to accommodate them.
In addition to the particulars given a week since
in The Sun with respect to the new cavalry bar-
racks at Colchester, it may be stated that a regi-
mental reading-room and school-room are to be pro-
vided. Upon the ground floor will be a day-room,
in which the men can assemble at pleasure, 135 ft
by 27ft in extent ; and above will be the reading-
room, 75ft by 23ft, 'with library, librarian's quar-
ters, cook's room, and coffee-room attached. The
schoolroom will be 40ft in length by 20ft in width.
Attached are apartments for a schoolmistress and
an enclosed playground for the children.
The hired troopship Sir George Grey, Captain
Wilkins, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the
Cape of Good Hope. She sailed thence on the sth
of March, arrived at St. Helena on the 17th, and
sailed again on the 18th. She has brought home
Major Romer, 59th Regiment, wife and family;
Lieut. Tibbs, 2d Battalion 11th Regiment ; Ensign
Capel, 85th Regiment ; Staff-Surgeon M'Queen,
and 97 invalided soldiers from the Royal Engineers
and Artillery, 10th, 11th, 13th, and 87th Regi-
ments ; two prisoners, under sentence of court-mar-
tial, of the 59th; and 23 women and 28 children.
IMr. Paisley, late of the Royal Engineers Depart-
ment at the Cape, also came home in the ship. Fine

weather, with generally favourable winds, was ex-
perienced during the passage until the 6th instant,
when heavy weather was experienced, which
continued the remainder of the voyage. The
Lizard was sighted on the 10th instant. On the
19th of April, in lat. 23.53, long. 35.46, Captain
Wilkins report that the southern cross and polar
star were both distinctly visible at midnight. The
ship received her orders and sailed for the Thames,
with the troops on board, last evening.
Numerous applications have already been received
by the Duke of Cambridge, through the Deputy
Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers, for Royal En-
gineer instructors to be appointed to the several
Volunteer Engineer corps, under the regulations re-
cently issued by the Commander-in-Chief. Orders
have accordingly been forwarded to the head-quar-
ters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham,
directing that the several candidates for appoint-
ment as instructors are to be completed in their
course of instruction as speedily as possible, in
order that no delay may arise in supplying instruc-
tors to those Engineer corps requiring them.
The whole of the Royal Engineers who have gone
through their iifle drill have commenced a course
of pontociling with Gen. Pasley's large pontoons,
with the view of enabling the instructors to acquire
a knowledge of their use, in order to impart it to
the Volunteers.
Intelligence has been received at Chatham from
the companies of Royal Engineers lately despatched
to Canada, announcing that they are employed,
without intermission, in strengthening the fortifi-
cations and erecting new defences along the line of
the British frontier. The, officers and men are all
in excellent health, and are anxiously awaiting the
permission of Government to have their wives and
families sent out to them. The companies of Royal
Engineers now stationed in British North America
are the 4th, 7th, 15th, and 18th, in addition to which
there are two companies stationed at Bermuda.
The instructions issued on Saturday regarding
admission to Woolwich Arsenal do not, as stated
yesterday, render
tickets unnecessary. Visitors can
only be admitted on Tuesdays and Thursdays, be-
tween the hours of ten and four o'clock, on produc-
tion of cards, which must be obtained at the War-
office, Pall-mall. The statement in regard to the
admiodoll of f9reiguers is quite correct.