The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

According to present arrangements, the A troop
of the Royal Engineer Train, under the command
of Capt. R. W. Duff, R.E., with the whole of their
field equipment and stores, will vacate their win•
ter quarters at Brompton-barracks, Chatham, on the
16th inst., and proceed to the camp at Aldershott,
where they will stationed during the summer. The
quarters at Brompton-barracks now occupied by the
Royal Engineer Train will be taken possession of
by the detachment of Royal Engineers, which now
numbers 500 men.

A court-martial has been held at Chatham Gar-
rison on a driver of the Royal Engineer Train,
named George Hamilton,a man of exceedingly bad
character, for desertion. The prisoner deserted un-
der very aggravated circumstances, and disposed of
the whole of his kit for a trifling amount. On a pre-
vious occasion he was tried for desertion, and was then
sentenced to a long term of imprisonment, and to be
marked with the letter " D." The proceedings and
finding of the Court were yesterday read out to the
officers and men on parade, the prisoner being sen-
tenced to be again marked with the letter D, to be
imprisoned for 168 days, and to be placed under
stoppages until the value of his kit is made good.
He will undergo his term of imprisonment in Fort
Clarence, Rochester.

Mr. Barrans's patent improved steam traction en-
gine, manufactured byMessrs. Gardiner and Macin-
tosh, at New Cross, was tested experimentally over
the public roads about Woolwich on Wednesday.

THE ROYAL NAVY.—A return was published
yesterday relating to the expenses incurred in building and
fitting her Majesty's ships during the financial year
1858-59. A total expenditure in that year of £2,163,675 is
accounted for in the following way :—Ships and vessels
building, £475,560 ; ships commenced as sailing ships, and
converted to screws while building, £89,800 ; ships
launched as sailing ships and subsequently converted into
screws, £114,490 ; fitting out and refitting for, also repairs
and maintenance of steam ships and vessels in, commission,
£523,317 ; fitting, refitting, repairs, and maintenance of
ships and vessels in the steam ordinary, £342,254 , repair-
ing, fitting, and refitting for, and maintaining sailing ships
lin3
57,
maintenance £4,399 ; fitting and
of all yard
m
and vessels in, commission, £5,478 ; repairing and main-
taatintamgsianiglinhlk
sailing ships ipn£°l2rd,
craft, boats, &c., £13077 ; incidental expenses of buoys,
capstans, £248,001 ; machinery for steam vessels,
£250,996 stores sent home from foreign stations, £37,997;
stores purchased at home, £56,469.
BONAPARTIST INTRIGUES IN GERMANY.—For
several years past the Goveinment of Louis Napoleon have
kept a number of literary agents, or censors, at Leipzic,
Frankfort, and Munich, whose duty it was to note down
everything injurious to apoleonic interests which occur-
red in the press or in any new book or pamphlet edited in
Germany. This system, we understand, has now been per-
fected. Instead of a mere literary espionnage, a dowunght
propaganda has been established, the first experiment being
made at Leipzic, by means of a secret bureau of the press,
from which German pamphlets are published in the inte-
rest of the Bonapartist cause. One of the prints that has
come out in this way is a pamphlet, "On the Annexation
of Savoy." Both in argument and style it is, however, de-
clared to be only a fifth-rate production.—Morning Ad. i
vertiser.
"FLOWERING SUNDAY" IN WALES.----011 Palm
Sunday the friends of the departed strew the graves of the
deceased with the choicest flowers and evergreens of the sea-
son, throughout the whole of the Principality. It is a
beautiful awl touching ceremonial, and one which attracts
great attention from all parts in Newport. On Sunday the
sacred festival was duly observed at the various burial
dlaces though the weather was not as favourable as could
be desired for such an occasion.