The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-20 00:00:00

TIIE ARMY.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Smith, G.C.8., is, we are
happy to learn, nearly recovered from his recent
indisposition, which at first occasioned some un-
easiness among the gallant General's friends.
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We understand that the division of the Guards
will not change quarters on the Ist of September,
a 6 usual in previous years, but on theist of Oct.
The Ist battalion of the Grenadier Guards goes to
Dublin to relieve the 2d battalion.

The Government having decided on strengthen-
ing the fortifications at the Island of St. Helena,
and adding to the strength of the troops and native
regiment garrisoning the island, arrangements have
been completed for despatching a body of Royal
Engineers and Royal Artillery, together with nearly
200 other troops of the line, to that island. The
vessel chartered by the Government for the convey-
ance of the troops to St. Helena is the Akbar, which
is appointed to sail from Gravesend on the 30th
inst., taking out, in addition to the reinforcements,
a large quantity of material and other stores.
The Royal Engineers selected for service on the
island will be the first body of men belonging
to that corps who have ever been employed at
St. Helena, and during the time they are sta-

tioned there they will be engaged in repairing the I
present fortifications and erecting additional bat-
teries and works of defence on the least protected
parts of the coast under an officer of Royal Engi-
neers of great experience selected to superintend
the works. The batteries will then be supplied
with 68 pounder guns, and manned by Royal Ar-
tillerymen, 51 of whom have been selected to pro-
ceed in the Akbar. In order to augment the ser-
vice companies of the St. Helena Regiment, rein-
forcements to the number of 182 men of all ranks
are to be despatched from the depot at Chatham,
which has latterly been considerably strengthened
by volunteers from other regiments.
A large range of building is about to be erected
by the Government at Brompton Barracks, Chat-
ham, to be used for the purposes of a lecture theatre,
schools of designs, class rooms, and schools for the
instruction of the officers and men of the Royal and
Indian Engineers attached to head quarters. The
site of the proposed erection is the vacant ground
on the eastern side of the barrack square, adjoining
the memorial arch now in course of building. The
cost of the buildings will involve an outlay of seve-
ral thousand pounds, but the entire sum has been
voted for the purpose by Parliament. Mr. Stump,
the Government contractor, who has been selected
to carry out the works, is to have the whole com-
pleted by the month of February next.

The reinforcements for the 73d Regiment, with

the officers, a list of whose names has already ap-
peared in The Sun, left Chatham garrison on Satur-
day morning, and embarked at Gravesend on board
the Gosford for Calcutta. The Louisa, with rein-
forcements for the sth Fusiliers, and the Daphne,
with troops for the 12th Foot, in Australia, sailed
from the Thames the same day.
There was a slight error in the account of the
memorial arch in course of erection at Chatham from
the designs of Mr. Digby Wyatt. The sculpture
which decorates the arch is described as having
been executed by Mr. Farmer, of Lambeth, with
the assistance of some Frenchmen. The fact is
that all the principal sculpture, both of figures and
ornament, has been wrought with the greatest care
and taste by Mr. John Thomas, the well-known
sculptor of the Alpha-road, Regent's Park.
The ship Earl Balcarres, Capt. Morris, with
troops from Bombay, arrived off Falmouth on
Thursday evening, and, having received instructions
through the medium of Lloyd's agents to proceed
to Gravesend, she continued her course up channel
about midnight. The Earl Balcarres has on board
330 men belonging to different regiments, under the
command of Capt. Curtis, of the Bombay Native
Infantry, together with 50 women and 100 children,
also. a full cargo of produce.
On Thursday morning detachments of the 18th,
29th, 32d, 41st, and 55th- Regiments arrived in
Preston. The body arrived in Liverpool on Wed-
nesday evening, on board the Himalaya, from Ply-
mouth.

The military and naval invalids on board the
Marchioness of Londonderry, whose arrival at
Spithead from Hongkong was reported on Satur-
day, were disembarked from that ship by the
Government steam tug on Saturday. The naval in-
valids were sent on board her Majesty's ship Vic-
tory. The military portion will be forwarded from
Portsmouth to Chatham by the South Coast Rail-
way this morning. They comprise—Royal Artil-
lery, 2 men, 1 woman, and 1 child ; Royal Engi-
neers, 4 men ; 2d battalion 1 Foot, 3 men, 4 women,
and 6 children ; 3d Foot, 1 man ; 12th Foot, 2 men;
45th, 1 man ; 67th, 3 men ; and medical staff, 2
men. The ship sailed from Spithead for the Thames
yesterday at noon.
The Adjutant-General, Sir Jas. Yorke Scarlett,

has issued a circular memorandum, dated the Gth

inst., of which the following is a copy :
" By the regulations of the service a soldier is
required to keep his cap on in the presence of a
superior; but as the contrary usage prevails in civil
life, the General-Commanding-in-Chief directs that
in a civil court, and before a magistrate, a soldier,
not under arms, shall remove his cap."
The following circular memorandum has been
issued addressed to the army at home and abroad :
" Horse Guards, Aug. 7.
" With reference to paragraph 4, page 178, of the
Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army, the
General Commanding-in-Chief desires, that in pre-
paring the discharge documents of a soldier already
in possession of one or more good conduct badges,
the Board will invariably state, at the foot of the
first page of the proceedings thereof, the date (when
within a month or two) on which he may be en-
titled to an additional badge.
" His Royal Highness also requests that, when a
soldier has been wounded in action during any part
of his military career, the name of the engagement,
and description of wounds received, may likewise
be inserted on the first page of the proceedings of
the Board held to verify and record his services,

" By command,
"JAS. YORKE SCARLETT, Adjt.-Gen."

TEE VOL UNTEER MOVEMENT.

On Saturday afternoon between 400 and 500 of
the London Rifle Brigade, with Lieut.-Col. Hicks
in command, and accompanied by their band, as-
sembled.for parade in review order at the King's-
cross terminus, and proceeded thence by a special
train to Colney Hatch, from which they marched a
distance of about three miles to Oak-lodge, South-
gate, the seat of Mr. Sugden, an honorary member
of the corps, who had kindly offered them the use of
his park, about 200 acres in extent, for the pur-
pose of a field day. The brigade was also accom-
panied by Major Rose, Capt. and Adjt. Ewens,
Copts. Smith and Pawson, Lieuts. Sewell and Hop-
kinson, and several other of the subaltern officers.
Unfortunately the day was extremely wet, cold, and
cheerless, rendering military evolutions, unless
prompted by stern necessity, and in the face of an
enemy, out of the question. Ten or 12 rounds of
ammunition were served out to the men on the
ground, but, under an unrelenting, drenching rain,
the barren.duty alone devolved upon them of piling
arms and keeping their powder dry. Many of the
families of the neighbouring gentry, in spite of the
inclemency of the weather, assembled in the park
to witness the intended evolutions, as did also num -
hers of villagers, to whom the sight of a rifleman
'seemed a positive novelty. The disappointment was
therefore keen and general. Mr. Sugden opened
his doors to as many of the visitors as were driven
by stress of weather to seek shelter there, and to
the officers of the brigade, about 30 in number, in-
cluding those of the Hornsey, Southgate, and Tot-
tenham corps, who were also present, he gave a
handsome entertainment at his house ; while to the
whole of the men on the ground abundant refre.9l-
- went was provided at hip expense, and dispensed
under the direction of Mr. SeNvZltit )ord Mayor's