The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-17 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief has made the following appointments :

Second Capt. H. J. Alderson to be Assist.-Super-
intendent of Experiments at Shoeburyness, vice
Lyons, appointed Assist.-Inspector of Artillery at
Woolwich; Lieut. T. C. Price, of the 15th brigade,
to be Acting-Adjt. and Quartermaster at the School
of Gunnery, vice Alderson ; Lieut. M'Murray, of
the Boast Brigade, has been removed from Bun-
crana to Carlisle Castle, where he will do duty
until further orders ; and Lieut. Wieown has
been ordered to Weymouth. Veterinary-Surgeon
Anderson has been nominated to proceed to New
Zealand to join Capt. Mercer's battery, and will
take his departure on the 20th inst., via Egypt.
Lieut.-Col. Middleton, C. 8., has embarked for the
Mauritius to assume the command of the Royal
Artillery at that station, in the room of Col. Cock-
burn, who will return to England. Lieut. H. M.
Moorsom is transferred from No. 6 battery, 12th
brigade, to No. 1 battery, 4th brigade. Lieut. J. H.
Wilmer, of the 11th brigade, is raised to increased
pay therein, vice Traill, deceased,
The undermentioned lieutenants, who obtained
their commissions on the Ist, announced in a gene-
ral regimental order, are to be posted to batteries
as annexed :—W. H. Wright, sth brigade, 2d bat-
tery, Gibraltar; Arthur Warry, sth brigade, Bth
battery, Gibraltar; C. Kirkwood, Ist brigade, 3d
battery, Woolwich ; J. A. Kelso, 14th brigade, 4th
battery, India; J. E. Toiler, 3d brigade, 2d battery,
Guernsey ; Henry Knollys, 10th brigade, 7th bat-
tery, Isle of Wight; William Alexander Day,
Ist brigade, 7th battery, Woolwich ; Spencer
Gardiner, 3d brigade, 7th battery, Plymouth ;
H. R. Y. Browne, 6th brigade, 3d battery, Malta ;
E. G. B. Gattey, Ist brigade, 2d battery, Woolwich;
J. T. Greenfield, 12th brigade, 7th battery, Cape of
Good Hope ; C. W. Thomson, 3d brigade, sth bat-
tery, Plymouth ; F. W. Nind, 15th brigade, Ist
battery, Gosport ; F. W. Carey, 15th brigade, 3d
battery, Gosport; F. H. E. Day, 6th brigade, Ist
battery, Malta; W. H. M. Duthie, 10th brigade,
6th battery, Portsmouth ; P. Lewis, 15th brigade,
4th battery, Gosport; A. H. Maclean, 3d brigade,
Bth battery, Plymouth ; G. C. Parlby, 6th brigade,
10th battery, Corfu ; A. B. Davies, 7th brigade, Ist
battery, Jamaica ; and E. Woolcombe, 3d brigade,
4th battery, Plymouth. Such of the before-men-
tioned officers as are posted to batteries at home
stations will join them on Jan. Ist next. Those for
the Mediterranean stations will hold themselves in
readiness to embark about the 4th of that month,
on which subject a future communication will be
made to each of them; and the remainder will join
at Woolwich en Jan. Ist for duty until passages are
provided for them to their respective destinations.
Assist.-Surg. H. Peacock, M.D., one of the staff
surgeons at Chatham dockyard, has been superan-
nuated from that establishment by order of the
Admiralty, after 17 years' service.
Yesterday a Board of the Commissioners of Chel-
sea Hospital was held at the invalid depot, St.
Mary's barracks, Chatham, when a number of non-
commissioned officers and men of various regiments
who were found to be unfit for further service were
ordered to be discharged on Thursday next, each
man being awarded a pension according to his
period of service.
The Hon. Artillery Company mustered at their
headquarters in Finsbury, yesterday, to march out,
under command of Major Robinson, with a troop of
Horse Artillery, under command of Capt. Jay, and
the Foot Artillery, under the command of Captain
Blockley, accompanied by their band, and left
the barracks at two o'clock, and marched through
Moorgate-street, Cannon-street, and the Strand;
thence through Pall-mall, up Regent-street, and to
Lord's cricket-ground, where they halted for half
an hour. They then returned through Oxford-
street, Holborn, and at Barbican, to their quarters.
The precision of their march and the soldierlike
bearing of the men excited the admiration of the
officers at the different military clubs, and excited
great attention from the populace, who followed
them in great numbers throughout the march. The
character and discipline of the whole corps reflected
the greatest credit on the Adjutant, Capt. Potts.
One of Dr. Normandy's newly-invented conden-
sers for ship's use was yesterday received at Wool-
wich, for fitment on board her Majesty's 21-gun
screw steam corvette Barossa, at Woolwich. From
experiments which have been carefully gone
through, by order of the Board of Admiralty, under
the supervision of Mr. Hall, commanding her Ma-
jesty's steam reserve at Woolwich, the abovtnamed
condenser was found to distil water, otherwise unfit
for use, in the most effectual marner, and in com-
peting with Grant's apparatus for the same purpose
was proved incllculably superior. Accordingly a
Grant's condenser, recently fitted, at a cost of about
£BO, on board the Barossa, is now ordered to be
removed and to be replaced by Dr. Normandy's
apparatus. The Barrosa is ordered to be placed in
the 2d class steam reserve at that port until
brought forward for commission.