The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-20 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

From the returns compiled by Major-Gen. C. C.
Hay, the Inspector-Gen. of Musketry, from the
whole of the corps in the service of her Majesty,
and presented to the Duke of Cambridge, the satis-
factory result has been again elicited that the corps
of Royal Engineers maintains the high position of
being the most skilful marksmen with the rifle
of any branch of the British army. The Duke of
Cambridge, who is Colonel of the Royal Engineers,
has expressed himself much pleased at the high po-
sition attained by the men of that branch of the
service, and a notification has been received at Chat-
ham from his Royal Highness expressing his grati-
fication in finding that the Ist and 17th companies
of Royal Engineers, both of which are now at Malta,
have attained the highest figures of merit in rifle
instruction of the whole of the British army who
practised during the last year. His Royal High-
ness also announces the pleasure he feels on finding
that two of the companies of Royal Engineers—
the 2d and 24th, both at Gibraltar—have obtained
the second figure of merit, and compliments the
whole of the instructors of the corps on the posi-
tion obtained for the Royal Engineers, and for
their exertions in raising the figure of merit so high
for the corps.
The death of Major-Gen. H. E. Robinson is an-
nounced. The gallant veteran entered the army in
1806, and served with the 48th in the Peninsula
from June, 1809, to October, 1813, and was present
in the battles of Talavera and Busaco, Lines at
Torres Vedras, pursuit of Massena, action of Campo
Mayor, siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, siege and storm-
ing of Badajoz, when he was shot through the left
arm ; battle of Salamanca, capture of Madrid ;
battles of Vittoria, Rolcesvalles, and the Pyrenees,
where he was severely wounded, and had his left
leg fractured ; besides which he took part in various
minor engagements and skirmishes. As Lieut.-Col.
he commanded the 30th Regiment for ten years,
when he retired in 1843 on half-pay, and during
that period commanded the troops at Bermuda for
two years. He had received the war medal
with
seven clasps and a pension for his
military services. His commissionsi
follow :—Ensign, the 28th of
the 9th of February, 1808 ; t ,gthe 26th ofJulYI
834 ; Col., he
la-Gen., the 20th Of
C
;thMe Ist of January. 1
ajor, the 20th of September, 1827 ; L9itheuto.-f
November, 1846 ; and 1‘ J
or
ne, 1854.

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TII E SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 1860.

Thanks to a timely, a complete, and altogether a
very excellent pamphlet just issued from the press
of the Messrs. MACMILLAN of Cambridge,* we are
enabled to judge with some distinctness ( just before
the reassembling of Parliament) of the progress and
of the wants of the Volunteer Movement. The
compiler in this instance, or pamphleteer (Mr.
DUDLEY BAXTER), has contrived in the course of a
sufficiently brief and very readable epistle, addressed
to the Earl DR GREY and RIPON, to give a succinct
history of all that it is really essential to know in
regard to the rifle corps movement, in reference to
the most important results at least of its rise
and development. The noble lord whose name
has been here particularised as that of the ad-
ministrator especially addressed by the pamphleteer
has been selected by the latter as the recipient of
his communication, for the simple reason that his
lordship, as ono of the Under-Secretaries of State
for War, has had this Volunteer movement placed
particularly under his charge; and, furthermore,
that the noble earl is known personally to take a
very great interest in it. Therefore it is that Lord
DE GREY and RIPON is singled out as the mark for
the paper pellet fired at the War Office by the
pamphleteer. If for nothing else, the " opuscule"
before us would be recognised as valuable and in-
teresting for the authentic tables contained in it
(extending from page 5 to page 14 inclusively),
enumerating the Volunteer Corps throughout Great
Britain, giving us an estimate of their expenses,
specifying as nearly and as accurately as possible
the strength (numerically) each has already at-
tained, and intimating at a glance, by a simple
variation in the typography, which have been and
which have not been gazetted. Beyond this,
however, the brochure calls attention to certain
difficulties already noticeable in the system as more
or less obstructing the working of its machinery.
The particulars, tabularly arranged (pp. 5 14) in
-the pamphlet, are brought down to the First of
.ranuary, and are drawn variously from the Army
2.,i6t and the public newspap3rs. They include
n tore than the two classes of corn already spe-
c:Mud—the gazetted and the ungazetted—they
eniorace. a third class, namely, those which have
;been commenced at public meetings, but which
are not yet organised. In regard to these
th me classes, the writer observes—" Their strength
is g iven as reported, where the notice was of recent