The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-14 00:00:00

THE ARIIIY.

Orders were yesterday received at Chatham gar-
rison for the following reinforcements of cavalry,
artillery, and infantry troops to embark at Graves-
end to-morrow, on board the East India and Lon-
don Shipping Company's screw-steamer Mauritius,
2,135 tons, 300-horse power, Capt. J. Smyth, for
Madras ;-298 non-commissioned officers and men of
the Royal Artillery, from Shorncliffe; 1 man of the
17th Lancers, from Kneller-hall ; 32 non-com-
missioned officers and men of the Ist Battalion, Ist
Royals, from Colchester ; 3 men of the 3d
Battalion 60th Rifles, from Winchester; and
2 men of the 102 d Royal Madras Fusileers
from Chatham. The following reinforcements
will embark at Gravesend, on the 22d inst.
on board the chartered troopship Akhbar, for Kur-
rachee :-1 man of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dra-
goon Guards, from Kneller-hall ; 25 non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the Ist battalion 19th
Regiment, 187 non; commissioned officers and pri-
vates of the 51st (King's Own) Light Infantry, and.
29 men of all ranks of the 94th Regiment, from
Chatham ; 46 men of the 71st Highland Light In-
fantry, from Stirling ; 8 men of the 93d Highlan-
ders, from Aberdeen ; and 4 men of. the 98th Regi-
ment, from Canterbury.

During the temperary absence of Col. Guy, the
command of the camp at Colchester will be vested
in Col. Street, of the 10th bat. A detachment of
100 non-commissioned officers and men of the 6th
Foot, has left the camp for Gosport, to augment
the head-quarters of that regiment. Lieut. Whyte,
of the Ist battalion, 6th, has been appointed acting
adjutant to the troops at Landguard Fort, Harwich,
vice Lieut. Williams, who has returned to Colches•
ter. On Saturday the draught of the 9th battalion
stationed at the fort was relieved by a detachment
of 84 non-commissioned officers and men of the same
battalion, under the command of Capt Torrens, 66th.
Lieut. Saunders, of the 66th, is to proceed with the
draught of that corps to India, in the room of Lieut.
Short, as originally arranged.

On Thursday last the ltd battalian Military Train,
under the command of Lieut.-Col. Robertson, C. 8.,
arrived at Aldershot from Woolwich, and took up
their quarters in lines, South Camp. The battalion
numbers 18 officers, 27 sergeants, 278 rank and file,
and 170 horses. There have been no other arrivals
at Aldersh of during the week, and the total strength
of the division is now over 16,000 men.
A draught of Royal Artillery, comprising two
officers and 116 rank and file, has left Warley Bar-
racks, near Brentwood, for India.

Good conduct medals have been presented at the
camp at Colchester to Corporal Holloway of the
38th, and Private McManus, of the 44th Regiment,
The medals were accompanied with gratuities of X 5
to each recipient.
Capt. Clarke, of the Royal Engineers, late in
command of the branch of the service in the eastern
district has been promoted to the Birmingham dis-
trict.

A series of athletic sports and foot races are
arranged to come off at Aldershot on the 7th of
August next, should the weather prove favourable.
The Aldershot garrison races are appointed to
take place on Monday, the 11th of August.
The Government powder magazines at Upnor
Castle, Chatham, had a narrow escape of being de-
stroyed a few days since in consequence of a fire
breaking out From the investigation which has
been instituted by the authorities it appears that
smoke and flames were first discovered
hiohsome
of theissuin work-
mengfromningthat
magazines were employed. This was
a about r o room
am7t
o'clockadjoining
e
in the evening, the hands, who
were working overtime, not having left the castle.
The alarm bell was immediately rung, and every
possible exertion used to extinguish the flames and
prevent them communicating with other portions
of the building, the thousands of tons of gunpowder
and filled shells stored in the castle rendering it
almost certain that the explosion of the magazines
would result in the destruction of Chatham dock-
yard and arsenal on the opposite side of the har-
bour. By dint of extraordinary exertions, how-
everrig intahteedfi and within
confined to the room in which it
o
within an hour after the flames
were discovered they had been extinguished,
and all danger was at an end. The fire is supposed
to have been caused by one of the workmen, who,
contrary to the regulations on the subject, had been
smoking, hastily thrusting his lighted pipe into the
pocket of his coat, which was afterwards hung up
in the room in which the fire originated. As soon
as the intelligence spread that a fire had occurred
at the castle the inhabitants of the district com-
menced leaving their residences, under the impres-
sion that the destruction of all the houses in the
neighbourhood would inevitably take place.

Advices from Vienna state that the ratifications
of the Treaty of Commerce between the Porte and
Austria 'were exchanged the 6th.
THE SUGAR DUTIES,—The select committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the operation of the preseent sca
sess-
le of
the quality of sugar duties, with especial reference to thir as
ment upon a classification according. to
the sugar, have reported the following r.esolutions to the
house :—" Resolved, that it is the opinion of this com-
app licable
mittee, 1. That the amount of revenue now derived from
sugar could not, with justice to the consumers of the lower
tcolaas
all
sugarysclosfsses
2 bege suar
That raisedit
is
sy
not any b
pu g
o snsiifo
lrem t
od
char
ty
with duties varying exactly with the quality of value. 3.
That it is necessary to maintain the principle of a scale of
duties, with standards designed to include several
classes
of sugar within each range of duty. 4, That the du ties
ought co be so regulated as to encourage the largest possi-
ble supplies of sugar from the various sourcesof
produc-
tion, in whatever form the same may be imported,
whether
as refined sugar, or in combination withother
to be afterwards separated by the process substance_s.
That the existing scale may be rendered
of refining.ite
by
such an alteration as shall admit, at lowermerleateivqeu rates of
duty, the inferior portion of the sugars relative
which are now
liable to pay 12s. Bd. and 16s. respectively. 6. That
sufficient evidence has been laid before the committee to
warrant the conclusion that such alterations might be maths
without any i
-mportant risk to the revenue. 7. That the
evidence does not justify the committee in recommending
Ola adoption of refining in bond."