The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-10 00:00:00

7HE ARMY.

Professor Abel, F.R.S., and Professor Pole,
F.R.S., have been engaged by the authorities at
the War-office to deliver a course of lectures to
the officers and men of the Royal Engineers at the
headquarters, Chatham, during the present winter.
The subjects on which Professor Abel lectures re-
late chiefly to the various descriptions of wrought
and cast iron, puddled steel, and homogeneous iron,
and the latest improvements in iron manufacture
together with the production, properties, and uses
of copper, zinc, and tin, and their alloys. Profes-
sor Pole's series of lectures will treat exclusively of
the various structures in iron. The lectures will
be delivered three times weekly during the winter.
The clipper ship Flying Spear left the Thames
on Saturday for China, having embarked the fol-
lowing officers from Chatham garrison to join head-
quarters of the 31st Regiment—viz., Ensign It. H.
Townsend, Ensign W. F. H. Majendie, Ensign R.
C. Hill, and Ensign W. T. Deverell.
A War-office circular, signed by Sir G. C. Lewis,
Secretary of State for War, has been issued, an-
nouncing that Major-General A. Tulloh, Artil-
lery, Director-General of Ordnance, is charged,
under the new regulations for the sufficient main-
tenance of stores, with the important duty of ad-
vising the Secretary of State for War upon all ques-
tions relating to the supply of guns, small arms,
ammunition, &c., to fortifications at home and
abroad, and of seeing that prompt attention is paid
to the execution of orders. His decision will be
final on all questions of detail, and he will conduct
the correspondence which bears on such questions,
communicating with Col. Bingham, Deputy-Adjt.-
Gen. of the Royal Artillery, and the heads of the
Government manufacturing establishment by means
of " minute papers." All ulterior questions will be
referred to the Secretary of State for War through
the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for
War, or, in his absence, through the permanent
Under-Secretary of State acting for him. Colonel
Bingham, Deputy Adjutant-General (under the
orders of his Royal Highness the General Com-
manding-in-Chief), is held responsible for the pre-
servation, in a state of immediate rea:tiness for any
emergency, of the whole of the rifled and smooth
bore iron guns and howitzers, shot, shell, and other
stores connected with the armaments of the sea and
land defences at home and abroad in charge of offi-
cers of the Royal Artillery, as also for the mainte-
ance of the proper proportions of such stores, and
likewise the maintenance of ample reserves of all
descriptions of offensive missiles of war. All de-
mands for artillery warlike stores will be examined
by the director of ordnance. As soon as the an-
nual estimate for such stores has been approved by
the Secretary of State, for submission to Parlia-
ment, the Director of Ordnance will direct
the Deputy Adjutant-General of Artillery to
put forward his demand for the year.
The Director of Ordnance will seal all ord-
nance patterns on behalf of the Secretary of State,
and he will be held responsible that supplies of
warlike stores, whether received under contract
or manufactured by Government, are conform-
able to the sealed patterns. This will not re-
move any responsibility from the heads of the
manufacturing establishments, whose duty it is
carefully to examine every process of manufacture, in
regard to material and workmanship. All questions
which the heads of manufacturing establishments
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wish to refer for the orders of the Secretary of State
are to be submitted through the director of Ord-
nance,
manu-
facturingccounts.asAwlleGllovaesrnthmeenwtorksatae, excepting
establishments, accounts.
Elswick, will be inspected annually by Major-Gen.
Tulloh, who will submit a general report to the Sec-
retary of State, with special recommendations upon
any matters which may require his attention ; but
the interior economy of those establishments is not
to be interfered with, unless under special authority.
He will also advise the Secretary of State upon all
business relating to the Ordnance Select Committee,
end the engineer of rifled ordnance will also report
to him upon matters connected with his branch of
the service. In the event of any expedition being
ordered by Government, after the nature and num-
ber of the guns have been determined by the Secre-
tary of State, in communication with the Comman-
der-in-Chief, the Deputy Adjutant-General of Royal
Artillery will submit the proper demands for the
ordnance, carriages, amen anition , &c., and the direc-
tor of ordnance, in conjunction with the director of
stores, will be responsible for their due preparation
as well as that the reserves are adequately main-
tained. The Director of Ordnance, in conjunction
with the Inspector-General. of Fortifications, will

advise the Secretary of State with respect to the
armament of works of fortification proposed to be
constructed, or in respect to which any alterations
may have been made during their progress. All
questions relating to changes in the existing arma-
ments are to be referred to him. The Deputy-Adju
tant-General of Royal Artillery, the Director of
Stores, Accountant-General, Director of Contracts,
heads of manufacturing establishments, and others,
will render the Director of Ordnance every assist-
ance in their power, and supply him promptly with
such information as he may from time to time re-
quire.
The command of the 3d depot battalion at Chat-
ham garrison will shortly become vacant by the
transfer of Lieut. Col. G. N. K. A. Yonge to a line
regiment. The officer mentioned as the successor of
Col. Yonge is Lieut.-Col. T_ E. Knox, C. 8., 67th
Regiment.
Recruiting for the several British and East India
depots at Chatham garrison, the service companies
of which require augmentation, has fallen off very
much within the last few weeks. The depot of the
83d Regiment, the head-quarters of which are at
Dover, is now very strong, and a large detachment
has been forwarded from Cnatham to join the
service companies. Recruiting for the 75th Regi-
ment, which was discontinued some time since, is
ordered to be again opened in consequence of the
service companies of the regiment being below their
proper srrength.

Ensign Marvin, 2d battalion, 6th, 'las proceeded
from the camp at Colchester to Harwich to assume
the command of the detachment stationed there, in
the room of Lieut. Gubbins, of the 56th, who has
received leave of absence till the 31st of December,
Capt. Manners, Ist battalion, Ist Regiment, will
join the service companies of that corps on the
arrival of Capt. Hill, who will take the command
of the depot.

A testimonial has just been presented at the
camp at Colchester to Colour-Sergeant Sweeney,
who, after serving in the army for nearly 20 years
has received the appointment of Sergeant Instructor
to the 3d West Riding Volunteer Corps, stationed
at Bradford.

A large block of barrack buildings is about to be
commenced at Warley, near Brentwood.