The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-06 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

In accordance with orders received by Col. Har-
ness, C. 8., director of the Royal Engineer establish-
ment at Chatham, several changes will take place in
the quarters of the companies at the commencement

of next week. The 33d Company, under the com-
mand of Captain A. R. Lempriere, will proceed on
Tuesday next from Brompton Barracks to Alder-
shot Camp, where it will relieve the 35th Company,

which is ordered to join head-quarters. On the same
day the A mounted troop of the Royal Engineer
Train, under the command of Captain R. W. Duff,
R.E., will vacate the camp at Aldershot and pro-
ceed by easy marches to Chatham to go into their
winter quarters. The whole of the horses, stores,
waggons, and engineering material of the troop will
be transported from Aldershot to Brompton Bar-
racks, where quarters have been ordered to be made
ready for the officers, men, and horses.
The sappers and miners of the Royal Engineers,
who have been selected from among the most skilful
of the mechanics and handicraftsmen of the sap-
pers and miners at head-quarters, Chatham, will
embark at Southampton to-day for the Cape of Good
Hope, where they are to be employed in assisting in
the erection of a sanatorium at Winsberg, about
eight miles from Cape Town, for the reception of
the sick and wounded troops from China and India.
From advices which have been received at Chatham
we learn that several of the huts of which the sana-
torium is to be formed have already been erected,
and are occupied by several of the sick and dis-
abled troops, who have already been sent there.
The Royal Engineers who go out to assist in the
erection of the sanatorium have undergone a
course of instruction in putting together the huts,
several of which will be sent out from this
country. The Royal Engineers take out with them
a quantity of engineering implements and tools to
be used in the work on which they will be engaged.
The huge piece of brass ordnance recently cast in
the Royal gun factory of Woolwich Arsenal, under
the superintendence of Mr. S. Anderson, and which

is said to be the heaviest of that species ever cast in
England, has been completed under the turning and
boring lathe, and has received a 6-inch smooth bore
for present experiments, which are ordered to com-
mence forthwith. The solid block of metal, as it
now appears, is considered one of the finest speci-
mens
of casting yet produced.
A number of workmen yesterday commenced de-
molishing the remaining quarters lately in the oc-
cupation of married non-commissioned officers of the
Royal Artillery in Mill-lane, Woolwich, for the
purpose of clearing the ground and preparing for
the erection of the branch or supplemental estab-
lishment of the new hospital about to be built on
Kidbrooke-common, under Shooter's-hi'l, the esti-
mates for which, it is stated, amount to £120,000.
The Hampshire Artillery are under orders to
proceed to Gosport on the 9th inst., there to be dis-
embodied ; and the Antrim Artillery are to leave
Newport, Monmouthshire, on the morning of the
10th, to replace them at Pembroke Dock.
The quarterly inspection of the Tipperary Militia
Artillery, garrisoned at Sheerness, took place yes-
terday, on the garrison parade, Sheerness, and was
witnessed by a large number of spectators. The
inspection was made by Gen. Eyre, commandant of
the Chatham garrison, attended by his staff, con-
sisting of Col. Gordon and Capt. Congreve, Brigade
Major, Aide-de-Camp, accompanied by Col. Mon-
tagu, commanding enginesr, Lieut. Graham, R.A.,
garrison adjutant, and other military gentlemen.
The regiment wag under the command of Lieut.-Col.
the Earl of Donoughmore. Eight companies, con-
sisting of nearly 700 non-commissioned officers and
men, were inspected. On Gen. Eyre's arrival the
men presented arms, and were afterwards minutely
inspected. They then marched in both slow and quick
time, and were subsequently formed into square,when

the gallant general addrez•sed them. He highly
praised them for their mar tial bearing, efficiency, and
skill, expressed his regret that their five years' term
of service was so near a termination, adding that it
would have given him much greater pleasure to
think that their services to their Queen and their
country were only just beginning.