The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-24 00:00:00

THE ROYAL ARSENAL.

WOOLWICH, FEB. 23.
Lieutenant-General Lord Raglan, G.C.8., Master-Gene-
ral of the Ordnance, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge and Lord Adolphus Fitzdarence, arrived at the
Royal 'Arsenal shortly after 10 o'clock a.m. to-day, and
were received by Lieutenant-General Sir Hew D. Ross,
Deputy-Adjutant-General of Artillery, Colonel Cater, Col.
Chalmer, Colonel Colquhoun, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson,
Lieutenant-Colonel Tylden, Lieutenant-Colonel Burn, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Pickering, Lieutenant-Colonel Palliser,
Lieutenant-Colonel Strangways, Lieutenant-Colonel An-
derson, Brigade-Major Bingham, and Captain Harrison,
with a number of officers of the Royal Artillery.
The royal and distinguished visitors proceeded to in-
spect the now machine for making Minie musket balls by
compressure, at the rate of 10,000 per hour, and the prlll
ciple of the machine, and its entire mode of self-action,
were explained ;by Mr. Anderson, the inventor, and its
simplicity, and the perfect nature of the balls made by it,
elicited the highest approbation of the visitors. His
Royal Highness also visited a new description of stove
or fire-place, invented by Mr. Anderson, which may
be said to have no chimney, the smoke passing through a
cironlar aperture in the back of the concave fireplace, which
prevents the possibility of its smoking, and allows only of
heated air passing horizontally over the surface of the
burning coals, and combines great economy with cleanli-
ness, although no fender is used. After an inspection of
the Minie ball and boring department, the visitors pro-
ceeded to the carriage department, and inspected all the
new improvements recently introduced for the completion
of the various kinds of gun-carriages for sea and land ser-
vice and other articles required in the army and navy,
which aro now manufactured by machinery in such quan-
tities that the largest orders can be completed in a very
short time with comparatively little manual labour.
The inspection of the new improvements in the various
departments of the Royal Arsenal occupied the Royal and
distinguished visitors' attention until half-past 12 o'clock,
when they left in Sir Hew D. Ross's carriage, and pro-
ceeded to the garrison.
On striving at the barrack-square, the Duke of Cam-
bridge, as the chief inspecting cavalry officer, was accom-
panied by Lieutenant-Colonel Wingfield, while inspecting
the horses of Major Dupuis' and Captain Wood's troop of
Horse Artillery, each troop having 100 horses at present,
and they are to be increased so as to have 136 horses in
each troop, exclusive of the 11 horses required by the offi-
cers of each troop. The fine appearance and excellent con-
dition of the troop horses elicited his Royal Highness's
entire approbation, and he congratulated Major Dupuis and
Captain Wood on the high efficiency of the horses, The
whole of the new horses purchased by Lieutenant-Colonel
Wingfield for the batteries were subsequently ordered by
Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson to be brought in the east
square of the barracks, each horse led by a gunner and
driver, and the whole passed round the square in single
file for the inspection of his Royal Highness. There are
now 1,280 horses in the batteries, a number sufficient for
eight batteries containing 160 horses each.

THE ARMY.

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Major General Cochrane has returned from leave of
absence, and resumed the command of the garrison of 12i
Dublin, and of the Dublin district. 25
KILKENNY, WEDNESDAY.—Two towns in our county,
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those of Castlecomer and Callan, have ceased for the 6
present to be military stations. There has been no 12
detachment at the former since the removal of Captain 12
Weyland's company
.of the 43d depot, which marched 12
on the 3d instant to join head-quarters at Templemore. St.
On Thursday last Captain Wilbraham's company of the St.
39th Regiment, at Fethard, and Captain Liddell's com-
pany of the 81st Regiment, at Callan, which latter is 16
20
under command of Lieutenant Skerry, in the captain's
absence, were withdrawn from those stations. The for-
mer proceeded to Cashel, and the latter to Thurles, to St.
relieve the detachments of the 80th Regiment which 20
joined head-quarters at Buttevant. Fethard, as well as R.
Castlecomer and Callan, is now left without troops.
On Wednesday last, Captain Walker's troop of the 2d 15
Dragoon Guards, which was stationed in Kilkenny, 8
with the exception of 1 subaltern, 1 serjeant, and 14 10
rank and file, proceeded, under command of Cornet
10
Bridgeman, to Newbridge, to join head-quarters, in 12
order to make room for the Royal Artillery in this gar- 10
rison, which is now being augmented. The subaltern, 1.0.1
serjeant, and 14 men of the Dragoons, will only re-
main in this garrison.
The 39th Regiment, at Clonmel, under command of
Colonel Wright,
Dun, with its detachments at Carrick-
on-Suir, Cashel, garvan, and Clogheen, are about to
be relieved by the 9th Regiment of Foot, from Galway ;
the head-quarters of the latter corps, under command of
Major Elmhurst, will arrive at Clonmel on the 26th
instant. The 39th proceed to Cork.
ARDIAGII GARRISON.—We believe that there is truth
in the rumour that Governmrnt intends to strengthen
inland garrisons. Though outports have the first de-
mand, we cannot forget that inland towns such as
Armagh were once strong fortresses against the common
be. I 2,

WRECK OF THE ARIENIS.—TWENTY LIVES LOST.—
The fate of this vessel, an East Indiaman, and that of
her officers and crew, have for a long while excited much 2,
anxiety. She sailedfrom London some years since on
a voyage for Bombay and China, and from the period of
her departure from Bombay, nothing was heard of her
until about a month or six weeks ago ; when the atten-
tion of the underwriters were attracted to a notice of a
loss, in the Java paper, announcing that a large ship,
supposed to be the Arienis from England, had been
wrecked on the Eugans Islands, in lat. 5.31 S., long.
102.12 E., about 60 miles of Sumatra, on the west coast,
and that the whole of the crew, forty-four in number,
had perished by starvation, where thay had been exposed
many months. Lloyd's agents at Singapore, Messrs.
Lindsey and Co., by the recent mail, have sent addi-
tional inf9rmation respecting the unhappy catastrophe,
from which we gather a confirmation of the loss of the
ship ; but it is somewhat gratifying to state that al-
though a great many of the crew, including the master,
Captain Brown, his chief officer, Mr. Church, and others,
twenty in all, perished under the melancholy circum-
stances before mentioned, the remainder of the ship's
company, twenty-four, were found alone on the island
by a merchant trading there for oil, who took them on
board his vessel, which has since arrived at Singapore.
The Arienis, it seems, struck on a sunken reef near the
coast, and floating on went down in deep water. She is
represented as being insured.
ENGLISH PRESENT TO A FRENCH CAPTAIN. —The Eng-
glish Government has sent through its Ambassador in
Paris a telescope, as a present to Captain David, of the
Louis Napoleon, of Bordeaux, for his humane conduct
in December last towards the crew of the Lady of the
West, which foundered to the weetwerd, of Scilly. •