The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

ROYAL MARINES.

Second Lieutenants Crocket, Buck, Digby, and Adair have
left the Excellent and joined the Artillery Companies.
First Lieutenant H. C. M. Hawkey, of the Portsmouth
division, has gone on Admiralty leave for three months.
Marine Cadet—J. Poore appointed to the Excellent.
The Rev. H. J. Harrison has passed the College for naval
instructor and schoolmaster.

The sergeants of the 13th Light Infantry (Prince Albert's
Own), quartered in this garrison, gave a ball and supper at
the Crown and Assembly Rooms, Portsmouth, on Friday
night, in honour of the occasion of their regiment being pre-
sented with new colours, by Prince Albert, on the previous
day. The gallant non-commissioned most liberally invited
all their brother officers of the 74th and 3d Regiments, quar-
tered here, as also some of the chief tradesmen of Ports-
mouth, Portsea, and Gosport. About 300 guests were pre-
sent ; and the arrangements of the ball and supper, which
were completed by Sergeant-Major Browne and Quarter-
master Sergeant Hawenham, well deserve mention. The
rooms were most handsomely decorated, presenting a coup
d'ceil at once imposing and characteristic.
The 74th Highlanders are ordered to embark at this port
fur Scotland. They will leave the latter end of this, or the
early part of next week.
The 3d Regiment (Buffs) will be removed from Gosport to
Portsmouth, on the 74th leaving. This celebrated regiment
will be presented with new colours in about a, month
hence, their present time-honoured ensigns being literally
bare poles.
The 2d Regiment (Queen's) will leave Winchester for the
quarters of the 3d at Gosport, on their being vacated by that
regiment, and the 40th Regiment succeed to Winchester.
Sergeant Rombillow, of the Buffs at Gosport, who was
tried by court-martial a few weeks since for embezzling
moneys belonging to the captain of this company, has been
sentenced to be imprisoned for the term of two years, one
half of which period is to be spent with hard labour, the
other half in solitary confinement; and at the expiration of
this sentence he will (if he survives it) be returned to his
regiment, and placed under " stoppages," until the sum em-
bezzled is repaid.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
(GENERAL ORDER.)
WOOLWICU, Ana. 13.—His Lordship the Master-Genera'
directs the accompanying letter from the Horse Guards, con-
veying her Majesty's pleasure upon the proceedings of a
General Court-martial, held for the trial of gunner and driver
Richard Gilbertson, to be promulgated to the Royal Artillery,
and read at three parades.
(Signed) H. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General.
Horse Guards, Aug. 10.
Sir,—Field Marshal the Commander. in-Chief, having had
the honour to lay before her Majesty the Queen the pro-
ceedings of the General Court-martial, holden at Government
House, Devonport, on the 23d and 25th of July, 1846, for
the trial of gunner and driver Richard Gilbertson, No. 1,325,
of the 9th battalion of Royal Artillery, who was arraigned
upon the undermentioned charges, viz. :-
1. For being absent from his barrack in Plymouth citadel
at a quarter before eleven o'clock on the 9th of July, 1846,
when the check roll call was called, and not returning until
seen in his barrack-room about a quarter past eleven o'clock
the same night and then drunk.
2. For having on the night of the 9th of July, 1846, at
half-past eleven o'clock, in his barrack-room. Plymouth
citadel, threatened, or avowed an intention, that he would
shoot Company Sergeant Archibald Reid, his superior
officer, the prisoner having his carbine loaded with carbine
powder and ball, percussion cap on the nipple, and the car-
bine in the position of ready, which was wrested from him
and he secured as a prisoner—such conduct being insubordi-
nate and outrageous and subversive of good order and mili-
tary discipline.
3. For violently assaulting the guard when taking him
to the guard-room in Plymouth citadel on the night of the
9th of July, 1846, between the hours of eleven and twelve
o'clock.
4. For damaging one round of ball cartridge entrusted to
his charge, value fourpence.
Upon which charges the Court came to the following de-
cision :
The Court having maturely weighed and considered the
evidence in support of the prosecution, together with what
the prisoner has urged in his defence, is of opinion, with
regard to the first charge, that the prisoner, gunner and
driver Richard Gilbertson, No. 1,325 of the 9th battalion
Royal Artillery, is guilty, and that he is also guilty of the
second, third, and fourth charges.
The Court having found the prisoner guilty of all the
charges preferred against him, which being in breach of
the Articles of War, and taking into consideration his
former convictions and general bad character, do now sen-
tence him, the prisoner, gunner, and driver Richard Gilbert-
son,each,hard No. 1,325, of the 9th battalion Royal Artillery, tolun-
dergo an imprisonment of three hundred and sixty-five (365)
days—eighty-four of which are to be solitary, divided into
six periods
labou aof fourteen e
rdaysm
stop-
pages, not exceeding two-thirds of his daily pay to the
amount of 4d., the value of one round of carbine ball
ammunition.
The Court consider it their duty to remark on the good
conduct of Sergeant M'Lain and gunner and driver Colley,
Royal Artillery. 1
have his Grace's directions to acquaint you that her
Majesty was pleased to approve and confirm the finding and
sentence of the Court, but under all the circumstances to
remit so much of the sentence as inflicts solitary confinement.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) FITZROY SOMERSET.
Major-General the Hon. Henry Murray, &c.
EMBARKATION OF TROOPS.—.GRAVESEND, AUG. 13.—This
morning arrived from Chatham six detachments of regiments
now stationed in India, viz., 24th, 29th, 51st Light Infantry,
61st, 80th, and 94th, to the number of 173 men, with 18
officers. The troops embarked in boats from the Custom-
house quay on board the ship Alfred, of 1,291 tons burden,
Captain Alexander HennesY, for Bengal, Colonel Weare,
K.H., the commanding officer of the provisional battalion,
was present at the embarkation. These drafts close the
embarkation of troops for India for this season. Sir Thomas
Willshire, K.C.8., the Commandant of Chatham Garrison,
and the Major of Brigade, Captain J. S. Wood, arrived from
Chatham yesterday, and inspected the ship.

We have much pleasure in announcing the safe return
of Lieut. H. J. Warre, of the 14th Regiment, Aide-de-Camp
to the late Commander of the Forces in Canada. Mr. Warre
was dispatched upon a confidential mission to the Oregon
Territory, whence he has returned direct, across the continent
of North America, and his long absence from Canada had
given occasion to the most absurd, but alarming, reports.
Mr. Warre left the Columbia river on the Ist of April, at
which time both parties were quietly but anxiously waiting
the decision by the home Governments of the long pending
Oregon question. her Majesty's ship Modeste, 18, Captain
Baillie, was then in the Columbia.