The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-30 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The colonelcy of the 2d Dragoons has become vacant by
the death, at his residence in Norfolk, of Lieut.-Gen. Money.
The gallant officer, who was in his 80th year, entered the
army 64 years since, and between 1794 and 1815 saw a good
deal of hard service in Holland, Egypt, and the Peninsula ;
he was also present at Waterloo and Quartre Bras. The
General received the Peninsula medal with one clasp for
Salamanca. The dates of his commissions were—Cornet,
April, 1794; Lieut., May, 1794; Captain, May, 1800 ;
Major, Dec., 1809 ; Lieut.-Col ~ June, 1814 ; Colonel, Jan.,
1837; Major-General, Nov., 1846; and Lieut.-General,
June, 1854. The Culonelcy of the 2.1 Dragoons was con-
ferred upon General Money in May, 1852.
The following reinforcements are ordered to be held in
readiness to embark at Gravesend for Calcutta in the under-
mentioned vessels :—viz., Octavia, 1,055 tons, Capt. W. J.
Dale ; Alfred, 1,291 tons, Capt. W. H. Pope • and Gosforth,
810 tons, Capt. 1. L. Porteous-15 men Of the Bth (the
King's) Regiment, 20 men of the 19th Regiment, 80 men of
the 20th Regiment, 15 men of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusi-
liers, 63 men of the 24th Regiment, 25 men of the 29th Re-
giment, 30 men of the 35th Regiment, and 30 men of the
75th Regiment from Chatham; 20 men of the 2d (the
Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 50 men of the 7th (the Queen's
Own) Hussars, 90 men of the 64th Regiment, 45 men of the
82d Regiment, and 35 men of the 90th Light Infantry, from
Canterbury; 60 men of the 34th Regiment, 90 men of the
37th Regiment, 45 men of the 38th Regiment, 50 men of the
54th Regiment, 11 men of the 88th (Connaught Rangers),
and 50 men of the 97th Regiment, from Colchester ; 18 men
of the'6oela Rifles, Ist battalion, 15 men of the 2d battalion
Rifle Brigade, and 20 men of the 3d battalion Rifle
Brigade, from Winchester ; 104 men of the 424 Royal
Highlandefs, and 60 men of the 79th (Cameron) High-
landers, from Stirling, 39 men of the 93d Highlanders,
from Aberdeen ; 43 men of the 13th (Prince Albert's) Light
Infantry, from Ferm ey ; and 20 men of the 80th Regiment,
feenLiinttexantovith 109 men from the Royal Artillery,
from Woolwich ; total, 1,270 non-commissioned officers and
men. Of the above reinforcements 500 men are ordered to
embark in the Alfred on the 3d of September, and 450 in the
Octavia and 320 in the Gosforth on the 2d of September.
Further draughts of troops will be despatched from the
camp at Colchester in the course of the next few days. 16
men of the 56th will leave for Bombay, and 93 from the 44th
and 66th Regiments for the Madras presidency.
On Saturday an order was received at Chatham garrison
countermanding the order previously given for the embarka-
tion of reinforcements for Kurrachee in the Velocity on the
Ist of September, as the authorities have refused to allow
troops to proceed to India in that vessel. Tenders were on
Saturday received at the East India-house fur another vessel
to supply the place of the Velocity.
The whole of the extensive works which have been in pro-
gress for several months past by the Royal Sappers and
Miners and the East India Company's Engineers at Chat-
ham, for a series 6f grand siege operations on a scale of great
magnitude, in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge and
other distinguished visitors, are now completed, and on Sa-
turday orders were issued by Colonel Saudham, director of
the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham, for the
Royal and East India Company's Engineers, together with
the troops of the Line who are to take part in the operations,
to be held in readiness for that duty to-day, as it is expected
his Royal Highness will visit Chatham this morning, in
which case the grand review and siege operations will take
place immediately on his arrival.
Lieut.-Colonel Maydwell, appointed Deputy-Adjutant-
General at Ceylon, was entertained on Friday evening, at
Colchester, on his departure.
The Green-hill encampment, in the Royal Artillery garri-
son, Woolwich, occupied by the Royal Antrim Rifles, was
on Saturday removed, the troops having been provided with
their winter accommodation. Eight companies are allotted
quarters in the Royal Artillery Bartacks, and the remainder
with the Royal Marines. A few days ago it was announced
to the regiment, by order of the Commander-in-Chief, that
volunteers would be received into the various corps of the
Line ; accordingly a considerable number have presented
themselves from day to day on the application of the recruit-
ing officers, the majority volunteering for the 60th Rifles;
and having passed the necessary medical attestation, they
were, on Saturday, sworn in, and paid 10s. each, a portion
of the bounty money. During the day a party of stragglers
entered the barrack-room in a state of intoxication, and
conducted themselves in a most outrageous and insubordi-
nate manner. They were consequently ordered to be placed
under restraint, and were conveyed with some difficulty to
the guard-room at the north-west gate of the garrison, not,
however, before they had violently resisted and injured some
of the picket in charge. At the guard-room the riot and dis-
turbance assumed a more serious aspect, as one of the en-
raged fellows succeeded in wresting the bayonet from the
sentry on duty, and made a violent plunge at his face. The
blow aimed by the drunken man fortunately did but slight
injury ; the point of the weapon, however, according to the
statement of the sergeant, passed over the leather stock of
the sentry and grazed the skin of his throat. On being at
length overpowered, those most unruly were placed in irons
and some it was found necessary to confine hand and foot.
Scenes of a somewhat similar description have been of fre-
quent occurrence with the Antrim men since their arrival
in Woolwich. Scarcely a day passes but they are engaged in
some street brawl with the civilians, when, from the dan-
gerous and savage character of the men under the influence
of liquor, the police have found it imprudent to interfere,
and the Royal Antrim Rifles, en perceiving the number of
their opponents increase, have in more than one case, in
their disgraceful street rows at Woolwich, deemed it the
wiser part of valour to beat a hasty retreat, amid the hoot-
ings of an infuriated mob of men, women, and children.
The number of recruits received and passed as fit for ser-
vice in the Royal Artillery Regiment at Woolwich during
the past month is 70—considerably over the amount given as
ewered during any month for some time past.
Mr. Horsefall's celebrated gun, manufactured by the Mer-
sey Steel and Iron Company, and presented to Government
on the understanding that it should be employed in defence
of British rights, has undergone a most severe and length-
ened course of trials on the sands at Shoeburyness, and,
finding it faultless and incapable of injury with any amount
of charge,lthe War Department has ordered it to be removed
to &mime-common, to be reserved until called into requi-
sition according to the tenour of the grant. The weapon was
fired at Sboeburyness, loaded with 701 b. of gunpowder and a
13-inch solid shot, which obtained a flight of n miles. The
monster gun left Woolwich arsenal yesterday morning in
the Bornarsuud, one of the transports belonging to the mili-
tary store department of Woolwich, for Postsmeutb.

THE MILITIA.
The Royal Sussex Artillery Militia has received orders to
assemble at Lewes on Wednesday, Oct. 20, for 21 days'
training.
It is expected that the West Essex Militia will be quar-
tered during their ensuing training at the camp at Col-
chester.