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 R. H.
Townsend, Ensign W. F. H. Majendie, Ensign R.
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 reaflness 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
wish to refer for the orders of the Secretary of State
are to be submitted through the director of Ord-
nance, excepting accounts. All Government manu-
facturing establishments, as well as the works at
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, un less under special authority.
He will also advise the Secretary of State upon all
business relating to the Ordnance Select Committee,
and 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-
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