The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-18 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The following circular, relative to the deliveries
of ammunition from the Government magazines, has
just been issued from the Horse Guards, by order
of the Duke of Cambridge, for the guidance of
commanding officers at home and abroad :
" His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief has reason to believe that sufficient atten-
tion is not paid by commanding officers to the de-
livery of ammunition from the regimental
magazines, and , that this duty is too frequently
delegated to non-commissioned officers • attention
is, therefore, called to the " Queen's Regulations
and Orders for the Army," page 107, on this sub-
ject, which directs that the deliveries of ammuni-
tion from the regimental or depot magazines are to
be made by the Quartermasters to the officers
commanding troops, or companies. The Quarter-
master will be held responsible that he so regulates
this point of his duty as to prevent the necessity of
trusting the key of the magazine to any subordi-
nate authority.

" By command,
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."
The new system of ventilation for the barrack-
rooms occupied by the troops, which has been so
successfully adopted by the several blocks of build-
ings at Chathain-barracks is being applied to the
various buildings occupied by the Royal Engineer
at Brompton Barracks, under the direction of
Colonel ittr Williams, the Commanding Royal En-
gineer. The new-prineiFde of ventilation, which
has already been described in The Sun, has been
found to answer so satisfactorily that it will be
carried out at all the barracks and military hos-
pitals throughout the kingdom.
Yesterday:the officers and reinforcements for the
2d (the Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 6th Dragoon
Guards (Carabineers), 7th Hussars, 9th Lancers,
Royal Artillery, 6th, 19th, 23d (Royal Welsh Fusi-
liers), k34th 35th (Royal, Sussex), 37th, 88th (Con-
naught Rangers), 90th (Light Infantry), and 97th
Regiment; from the depots at Maidstone, Canter-
bury, Chatham, and Colchester, embarked at
Gravesend on board the Gertrude, for Calcutta.
The recent arrangements, sanctioned by the
authority of the Duke of Cambridge, for sending a
certain number of staff-sergeants and discharged
sergeant-majors with the reinforcements proceeding
to India, have been found to work so satisfactorily,
that orders have been received at Chatham for an
additional number of non-commissioned officers of
this class to be selected to embark for India with
the troops under orders for embarkation. On
arriving. in India these sergeants will be employed
in conducting invalid and wounded troops to
England.
The ordcr for the departure of Captain Blosse's
company of Royal Artillery for Bermuda recently
issued at Woolwich was yesterday countermaneed,
under an order, it is said, from the Commander-in-
Chief, to reduce the strength of the Royal Artillery
there to one full company only.

Yesterday, at 1 o'clock, the corps of Royal
Horse Artillery stationed at head-quarters, Wool-
wich, were mustered on parade for the purpose of
witnessing the execution of a sentence of a regi-
mental Court•martial, pronounced last week on two
sergeants of Major Tupper's A troop, named Ed
ward Raisebeck and Simon Briggs, who wets
convicted of having, in breach of the articles of
war, absented themselves from their post without
leave, and retired to their homes without the gar-
rison lines, at a time specified, when appointed to
night duty, together with four other sergeants, in
charge of a 100 rank and file as a garrison picket,
to assemble in case of fire or any sudden emergency.
The sentence of the Court-martial, adjudging the
prisoners to be degraded from their position and
reduced as gunners, having been read by the Ad-
jutant of the day, a couple of drummer-boys
advanced towards the prisoners, and tore off their
stripes and other badges distinguishing their grade
above,-the ranks, to which they were thereupon or-
, dered to retire. _

A detachment of 66 non-commissioned officers
and gunners of the Royal Artillery yesterday left
Woolwich for Calcutta. A number of non-com-
missioned officers employed as clerks in the Adju-
tant- General's and the Battalion offices accompanied
the detachment for similar servive in India.

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