The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-27 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

We have to announce the death of another
gallant and highly distinguished officer, Colonel
Swivel], the late Lieutenant Colonel of the 12th
Lancers. He served with the Walcheren expedition,
and subsequently in the Peninsula, from 1811 to
1814, including the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and
Bidajoz, the cavalry affair of Rena, destruction of the
Bridge of Almaraz, battle of Vittoria, siege and cap-
ture of San Sebastian, and also at Waterloo. -His
Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge was
attached to the 12th Lancers, and placed under the
orders of Colonel Stawell, who was selected to instruct
his Royal Highness in cavalry movements, a duty
which it is well known he most satisfactorily per-
formed. His lamented death took place at Harrowgate
on the 21st of August.
ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, AUG. 22.—The
annual inspection of the battalions of Royal Artillery
commenced to -day; and for the purpose of being a
relief to the men the whole of the battalions are
formed into three divisions, and only one division to
assemble at one time. The 12th battalion, consisting
of eight companies, being the whole of the companies
in the battalion, and all at present stationed at Wool-
wich, assembled to-day, at ten o'clock A.M., on the
parade ground, the line under the command of
Colonel Cruttenden, inspector of drills, and the bat-
talion under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel F.
Warde, with Captain and Adjutant Rogers. Lieute-
nant-General Sir Thomas Downman, C.B. K.C.H.,
commandant of the garrison, arrived on the ground
at a quarter-past ten o'clock, accompanied by Brigade
Major Bingham and Captain Tylden, Deputy-As-
sistant Quartermaster General of Artillery. The
Lieutenant-General with his staff then rode down the
front and up the rear, and the ranks having closed
broke into open columns of companies to the right.
Sir Thomas Downman dismounted, and upon being
presented with a state of each com-
pany commenced inspecting them individually,
and after the inspection eight men were selected
from each company to show their kits. The exami-
nation of the kits and the inspection of the men
occupied about two and a half hours, when they were
marched to the barracks. In the afternoon one com-
pany of the Ist battalion, the garrison staff of the
2d battalion, one company of the 4th battalion, one
company of the sth battalion, two companies of the
7th battalion, the garrison staff of the Bth and 9th
battalions, assembled for the inspection of the
commandant, and the same routine was gone through
as in the inspection of the 12th battalion in the fore-
noon. Two companies of the 3d battalion, three
companies of the 6th battalion, and the garrison staff
of the 10th battalion, and three companies of the 11th
batt • almn, will be inspected to morrow, and conclude
the inspection for the present year.
CORR, AITG. 21.--Yesterday morning the whole
of the troops in barracks assembled on the Square, to
witness the promulgation of a general court-martial
on private Falvey, Regiment, for mutinous
conduct on the line oPmth arch from Fermoy to Cork,
and using threatening
language to Lieutenant de
Montmorency when in charge of the
party. The
charges having been fully sustained against the
prisoner, the Court sentenced him to fourteen years'
transportation.

ECONOMY IN FUEL.--Lieutenant
has projected a plan
for caving the fuel of large steam.'
men-of-war, by drawing the fires instead of banking them
up. The plan is ordered by the Admiralty to be tested
on board the Monkey, at Woolwich;
,the officers are re-
porting the result.— United Sermee.Crazdt3,
DARING AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY ON A RAIL.
vAL—on Friday evening inform ation was received at the
Metropolitan Police-otn2e, Scotland-yard, that Mr. John
Anstruther, of Greenbank-street, Preston, bad been
plun&red, whilst travelling on the Preston and Lanca-
shire of a red morocco purse, containing 390/.
in bank. of. England notes, and 30 sovereigns, supposed
by two individuals who travelled in the same carriage
from Lancaster.