The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-16 00:00:00

THE .1.R211Y.

On Tuesday afternoon Lieutenant-General Love,
K.C.8., Inspector-General of Infantry, paid a visit
to Colchester camp for the purpose of inspecting
the Indian depots now quartered in the garrison.
These form two battalions,the first, under the com-
mand of Colonel Dixon, B, comprising the Ist
Royals, 6th, 54th, 56th, 66th, and 88th Connaught
Rangers ; the second battalion, commanded by
Colonel Street, C. 8., consists of sth Fusiliers, 34th,
37th, 38th, 44th, and 97th. The men, in number
nearly 2,000, comprising a strong body of recruits,
were drawn up in line upon the chief parade
ground. Subsequently General Love inspected the
invalids in the hospital and on the books. The
several depots, which have been greatly diminished
by heavy draughts for Irttlia, are now being re-
plenished by a supply of recruits.
A general parade of the entire battalion of the
Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry,
under the command of Colonel H. W. Parke, took
place yesterday in the square of the Royal Marine
Barracks at Chatham, for the purpose of hearing
read the proceedings of a general court-martial
which assembled on the 3d inst., under the presi-
dency of Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Gascoigne, Royal
Marines, for the trial of Private Benjamin Phipps,
17th company, attached to head-quarters of the
Chatham division, on the charge of having struck
Lieutenant Martin Hogge, Royal Marines, a violent
blow in the face with his fist, and also for threaten-
ing to kill that officer. The prisoner was convicted
of the charges, and it was proved that he returned
into barracks with a severe cut on his lips which
attracted the notice of the prisoner's sergeant, who
reported the circumstance to Lieutenant Hogge,
and the prisoner was taken before him. On the
officer asking "if that was the fellow," the pri-
soner replied, " Yes, that is the fellow," for which
insubordinate answer Lieutenant Hogge ordered
him into one of the cells attached to the guard-
room, and charged him with being drunk. The
prisoner replied that he was not drunk, and called
the officer a filthy name. After he had been
confined some time the sergeant again called the
attention of the officer to the prisoner's wound, and
suggested that he had better be allowed to see the
doctor. The prisoner was then ordered to be taken
out of the cell and marched, in charge of an escort,
to Melville Hospital. On being released he imme-
diately rushed at Lieutenant Hogge and gave him
a violent blow in the face with his fist, at the same
time threatening to take that officer's life. At the
trial Lieutenant Hogge swore that the prisoner
struck him several other blows on the back, but
this statement was contradicted by several wit-
nesses who saw the transaction, all of whom agreed
in their statement that only one blow was given.
The Court found the prisoner guilty, and in con-
sideration of his former bad character, and also the
fact that he had before been convicted of striking
a non-commissioned officer, he was sentenced to
five years' penal servitude, at the •expiration of
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having, as it was stated, paid proper attention to
the orders of his superior officer in the men's bar-
rackroom. It appeared that Ewen was, as it is
termed, "skylarking" with an apple-woman, when
he was rebuked by the sergeant-major of the troop,
and was ordered to retire to his room, which order,
it appears by the evidence of a gunner who was
present, he did not obey with sufficient prompti-
tude. The prisoner was consequently arraigned at
a regimental court martial, when a rigid investi-
gation was entered into, and he was convicted and
was ordered to be publicly "broke" or to beg- his
superior non-commissioned officer's pardon, which
he expressed his unwillingness to do. The sentencd
was accordingly put into effect yesterday in the
presence of the entire corps of officers and men. A
couple of drummer boys belonging to the troop,
after the rpromulgation of the sentence, stepped
forward and commenced stripping off the decora-
tions which distinguished him as a non-commis-
sioned officer, and he was thereupon ordered to
serve as a private in the ranks.
The Royal Marine Artillery had some superior
practice yesterday from Fort Cumberland at targets
afloat, varying from 800 to 1,100 yards range. The
shells from the 8-inch garrison gun mounted on the
bastion would have been most destructive in effect
upon an enemy, every shell bursting with fatal
accuracy immediately off the target, working the
sea up to a perfect foam. The other practice was
from field-guns and howitzers of 8-inch calibre, and
from 24-pounders, 12-pounders, and 6-pounders.
Eighty-five rounds were fired. Fort Cumberland
is one of the strongest forts in the kingdom, and
commands the most important position, affecting
Portsmouth and Chichester, as well as Hayling
Island. It is defended by upwards of 120 pieces of
heavy ordnance. It is understood that it is under
the consideration of Government to purchase cer-
tain land in the immediate vicinity, so as to erect a
barrack contiguous to the fort which will accom-
modate 1,200 men, and with an unequalled drill
ground for artillery practice.
The greatest activity is observable at Chatham in
training the numerous troops at that garrison in
the use of the Enfield rifle, previously to their em-
barkation for India. In addition to the musketry
instruction at Hythe and Eastbourne, there are
about 500 non-commissioned officers and men daily
undergoing instruction in the rifle exercise at
Chatham garrison.
It was not Ensign M‘Leod, but Ensign Cloves,
who sailed in the Tartar, in charge of a draft of
the 74th Highlanders. Ensign M‘Leod was to
have gone, but was attacked by scarlet fever.

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