The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

2HE ARMY.

In consequence of instructions received from his
Royal Highness the General Commanding in Chief,
. the following detachments at Aldershot will hold
themselves in readiness to proceed to Hythe School
of Musketry :-13th Hussars, 1 sergeant ; 2d bat-
talion Ist Royals, 1 officer, 3 sergeants, 2 corporals,
and 6 privates : Ist battalion Bth King's, 1 officer, 3
sergeants, 2 corporals, and 5 privates ; 64th Regt.,
1 officer and 1 private. The privates for this duty, ex-
cept those who are officers' servants, are not to ex-
ceed three years' service, and must be of good cha-
racter and stcady habits. Representations having
been made that the intelligence and educational
attainments of many of the noncommissioned offi-
cers sent to the schools of musketry are of such a
low standard that the object of their instruction is
often frustrated, and their usefulness on returning
to their battalions greatly limited, his Royal High-
ness has desired that this subject may be specially
attended to in the selection of persons to be in-
structed. He has notified that he will henceforth
take serious cognizance of any case in which such
injunctions, and the directions of the General Order
of the 26th Sept., 1861, shall appear to have been
disregarded. The Ist battalion Bth King's Regt.,
now at Aldershot, is ordered to proceed, head-quar-
ters and six companies, to Sheffield, two companies
to Bradford, and two companies to Weedon. The
2d battalion, 20th Regt., after a stay of 17 months
at the camp of Aldershot, is ordered to proceed by
a march route to Portsmouth, to relieve the Ist bat-
talion, 24th Regt., ordered to Aldershot. Both
regiments will encamp on the march. The Ist bat-
talion Coldstream Guards will leave Aldershot for
Windsor on the sth Sept. The "flying column,"
which was ordered to proceed from Aldershot on
Monday, and encamp at various places, received
counter-orders on Sunday evening, in consequence
of unfavourable weather, and will, weather per-
mitting, march as follows :—Monday, to Sandhurst;
Tuesday, to Bourlaybottom, where it will halt on
Wednesday, proceeding thence the following day to
Woolmer Forest, and returning to camp on Satur-
day. The column consists of the 12th Lancers, the
Ist R iyals, 76th Regt., 64th Regt., two field bat-
teries of Royal Artillery, and detachments of the
Military Train and Commissariat Staff, the whole
under the command of Major-Gen. Brook Taylor.
Major-Gen. Stransham, Inspector-General of the
Royal Marines, yesterday commenced his autumnal
inspection of the 4th division of the corps stationed
at Woolwich. At half-past 10 the whole of the avail-
able portion of the 4th, Bth, 12th, 16th, 20th, 24th,
28th, 32d, 36th, 40th, 44th, 48th, 52d, 56th, 60th,
64th, 68th, 72d, 76th, 80th, 84th, 88th, 92d, 99th,
100th, 111th, 112th, and 116th companies mustered
in the barrack square, under the command of their
officers. The General was accompanied by Capt.
Travers, his aide-de-camp, and immediately on-his
arrival on parade commenced a most minute inspec-
tion of the line, front and rear. He rigidly exa-
mined the men's accoutrements and necessaries, laid
out for that purpose at their feet, after which he
want carefully through the officers' quarters, the
paymaster's offices, the commandant's and adjutant's
departments, and the new billiard-rooms, &c. After
lunching with the officers in the mess-room, the
General proceeded to Woolwich common and in-
mGeanrcehrainlgwpilals continue n &c.,tin all in the best man-
ue his field inspection
in-
spected the division under arms. It went through
an active course of battalion exercises, volley and
file
and probablyfiring, terminate it this morning.
anTdr.h
e service, companies of the 75th Regiment, just
returned from India, having been reduced consider-
ably below their proper strength, orders have been
received at Chatham for recruiting to be immedi-
ately commenced for that corps, it being intended
to raise the regiment to its proper war strength.
Since the order for recruiting has been received from
the Horse Guards, nearly 200 recruits have joined
the depot companies of the 75th at the Hut Bar-
racks, Chatham garrison ; others are joining almost
daily. Orders have likewise been received at Chat-
ham for recruiting to be opened for the Ist battalion
of the 19th Regiment, but the number of men who
have joined that corps up to the present time is
comparatively small.

The officers and men of the Royal Engineers at
Chatham have been occupied for several days past
in a series of pontooning and diving operations in
the Medway, above Rocnester-bridge, a portion of
the river which presents facilities for carrying on
operations of this kind. The description of pon-
toons used on the different occasions of the Royal
Engineers being engaged in these duties have been
Gen. Blanshard's, in ordinary use by the Sappers
and Miners, the newly-invented pontoons by Cap-
tain-F. Fowke, R.E., the designer of the Interna-
tional Exhibition building, and the ordinary bar-
rel pontoons. The diving apparatus used during
the operations was that invented by Mr. Heinke,
by the use of which accidents are rendered
nearly impossible. The operations, which extended
over several days, were brought to a termination
yesterday,
when the pontoon rafts were floated
Engineers' practising ground.
Rochester-bridge to the Pontoon-hard ad-
n,
itohirnoiungghtbe
Royal
The Himalaya, screw troopship, Commander
Lacey, commenced embarking at Portsmouth yes-
terday the women and children belonging to regi-
ments in Canada, under the superintendence of Col.
E. Somerset, C. 8., Assist. Quartermaster
d4o General.
One sergeant, four corporals, privates of the
Marinenkinonydanlet
lays from head-
Infantya,n all men with good
stripes, Lighthave
embarked onboard the
quarters at Portsmouth, to act as
orderlies during the voyage out, and yesterday were
busily engaged in receiving the women and children
on board the ship, and showing them to their berths.

.n orphan home for Coolie children has been
established in Trinidad, and about 60 Coolie orphans are
now being maintained and educated there.