The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-01 00:00:00

7.HE NAVY.

The Vindictive, 50, Master Commander W. Lee,
from Portsmouth, arrived on Saturday at Plymouth,
and will leave to-day (Monday) for Fernando Po.
She will be escorted as far as the Bay of Biscay by
the paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 5, Commander
Colin A. Campbell.
The screw steam sloop Africa, 11, at Devonport,
which has been sold to the Chinese Government, is
now alongside a hulk in the Hamoaze, where she
will probably be fitted for sea by merchant ship-
wrights.
The screw steamship St. George, 86, Capt. the
Hon. F. Egerton, will proceed shortly to Devonport
to have her armanarnt reduced to the same scale as
that of the Trafalgar ; she will also -carry less men.
The armament of .the Princess Royal will also be
placed on the same reduced scale tit-that of the Re-
venge.

The lighter Hamoaze, W. Webtipr, master, with
Commander Paul, Assist.-Master 'Attendant of the
dockyard, left Devonport on Saturday with a divi-
sion of riggers for Citieenstown,wh* the Admiralty
moorings require some alterations.' 'She will call at
Milford.

The screw steam storeship Supply, Master-Com-
mander B. Allison, from Woolwich 'and Portsmouth,
touched at Plymouth on Saturday, and then pro-
ceeded to her destination, Bermuda.

_

A general order, relating to the amalgamation of
the corps of Royal and Indian Engineers, signed
by Col. F. E. Chapman, C. 8., Deputy Adjutant-
General, has been issued from the Horse Guards
by command of the Duke of Cambridge, which lays
down the following regulations :
" 1. Until further orders, the Engineer duties in India
will be furnished as far as possible, by Engineer officers o
the late Indian service, and by officers volunteering from
the corps at large. But officers are liable to be ordered to
India as at any other starion.

"2. Officers of the Royal Engineers desirous of serving
in India wiil transmit their names to the Deputy Adjut.-
General, Royal Engineers, Horse Guards, by whom a
special roster of officers volunteering for Indian service will
be kept.
"3. Officers of the late Indian corps who may wish to
serve permanently out of India must submit their applica-
tions, through their respective commanding officers, to the
Adjt.-General of the army in India, by whom they will be
forwarded, with such remarks as his Excellency the Com-
mander-in-Chief may think proper, to the secretary to Go-
vernment in the Military Department. The application, if
sanctioned by the Government of India, will be forwarded
to the Secretary of State for India, and, if approved, will
be communicated by him to the General Commanding-in-
Chief.

" 4. Officers of the late Indian Engineers, who have ob-
tained such sanction, may apply to the Deputy Adjutant-
General, Royal Engineers, at head-quarters, who, with the
approval of the General &;ommanding-in-Chief, will direct
an exchange between the officers so applying, and any
officers of similar rank serving out of India who may have
recorded his name on the special roster for service in India;
or officers of the late Indian Engineers who have obtained
the necessary sanction may make arrangements with officers
of equal rank serving in any part of the world, and submit
their joint applications to the Adjutant-General for the
approval of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief.

" 5. Any officer of Royal Engineers proceeding to India
under the above rules will be eligible for such employment
as the local authorities may propose, bat will not neces-
sarily succeed to the appointment vacated by the officer
whom he may replace.
" The circumstances of officers serving in or out of
India will not In any way affect their promotion, which
will continue to run on in separate lists, as announced in
the London Gazette of May 21, 1861.
" 7. Neither will it affect the claims of officers to full pay
retirement, halfpao, or pensions under the regulations of the
services to which they respectively and originally belonged.
" 8. The payment of passages of officers to and from
India will also be governed by the regulations of the ser.
vita to which they heretofore respectively belonged.
" 9. Officers of the late India Engineers will be allowed
to count the whole of their ser7ices for pension whenever
they may be ordered to serve ; hit if serving out of India,
at tbxu uwnrequest, they will be allowed to count only half.
of - •
10. Offi-ars originally belonging to the Royal Efiginct,
who may serve India under thsse regulations will, subject
to the approval of the General Commanding-in-Chief, be
allowed a tour of home duty, and will be admitted to the
general roster when they return to England on leave, whe-
ther on medical certificate or on private affairs, after seven
years' Indian service. But such officres may, if expedient,
be permitted to return to India at the expiration of their
leave of absence.

" 11. Officers who have exchanged from the Indian to
the general roster, or vice versa, may, with the sanction of
the General Commanding-in-Chief, return again to their
original service, under the provisions of paragraphs 2,3,
and 4.

" 12. Officers of the late Indian Engineerp desirous of
serving in the United Kingdom during the period of their
leave of absence from India, will, with the approval of the
General Commanding-in-Chief, be so temporarily employed
on their making application to the Deputy Adjutant-Gene-
ral, Royal Engineers, at head quarters, if the requirements
of the service permit ; and in this case it will not be neces-
sary for officers to have obtained the sanction of the Govern-
ment of India, referred to in paragraph 3.
" 13. All Engineer officers on leave from India will re-
ceive the rate of home pay fixed for officers of the late In-
dian corps, so long as they are unemployed. But they will
revert to Imperial military pay and cease to receive any por-
tion of India Staff pay when employed at the Imperial
charges."

A memorandum is referred to in the order which
is of great length, and defines the establishment,
administration, special and ordinary duties, appoint-
ments, and distribution of the officers specially em-
ployed. To it are attached tables showing the
emolumentsappointmentosf , officersalso
ot on
hee
stthaebl secondedishm ent
a listsn d dutiesand at staff
ff
corps in India. A table is also appended giving the
pay and allowances of Engineer officers, superin-
tendent, executive, and assistant officers,

Col-
ins ection of the
c h eCsetle r , Guy,
has just made
caodmemhaisndaannatuaolf thepcamp at
10th battalion. Captain Hayes, of the sth Dragoon
Guards, has arrived at the camp and is attached to
the 9th battalion for infantry drill. Eleven
privates of the Ist battalion of the 6th Regi-
ment have been transferred from the service com-
panies of their regiment at Portsmouth to the depot
at the camp, in consequence of their being in ill-
health. The detachments of the 9th and 10th bat-
talions stationed at Landguard Fort,',Harwich, have
been relieved by 43 non-commissioned officers, 9th
battalion, and 61 non-commissioned officers, 10th
battalion, under the command of Brevet Major
Vance, of the 38th.
The departure of troops from Aldershott in the
course of the present week will be numerous; but
arrivals will doubtless shortly take place to supply
the vacancies created by removal. To-day the I
battery Royal Horse Artillery, Capt. W. B. Saun-
ders, will leave for Dublin via Bristol, and the K
battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery, Lieut.-Col. J.
D. Shakespear, leave for Hilsea. To-morrow the
A battery Royal Horse Artillery, Brevet Major
Tupper, leave en route for Bristol, and thence to
Dublin. The other removals contemplated for to-
morrow include that of the 16th Lancers, who, un-
der the command of Lieut.-Col. Dickson, have been
stationed here for the last 14 months. The head-
quartersand three troops go to Sheffield; one field
d three troops go to Preston ; and two
officer
a n
troops Burnley. We learn from the Army and
Navy Gazette that there is a probability of this fine
corps being, shortly ordered to India. The 13th
Hussars, at Present in the North Camp, will occupy
the quarters in the
to B
West Cavalry Barracks vacated
y the s• The Ist battalion Bth
(King's) Regiment
—lent... Col. A. C. Robertson,
after a sojourn of about 12
months at Aldershott,
also quit 16th
to-morrow. m Lancers,
Sig companies are under b r'r
or-
dersweedfoonr.Their
Sheffield, two for Bradford, and two for
huts
in the
G and H lines, South
Camp,GraGray,
atpresent
will b e taken
under y r
the
ass on Cove-common.
This latter regiment will be transferred from the 3d
Brigade into the Ist, in place of the Ist battalion
Bth Regiment. The sth Lancers, Lieut.-Colonel
Portal, are also under orders to march to-morrow
be canvass n37th Regiment, Major
for Norwich and Ipswich. They have been at