The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-13 00:00:00

THE ..4 RMY,

None of the Staff appointments vacated by the
recent Brevet will be filled up immediately, their
present occupants continuing to discharge the
duties until the Ist of January next.
The reinforcements for the 7th Hussars, 6th,
34th, 35th (Royal Sussex), 37th, 88th (Connaught
Rangers), 90th (Light Infantry), and 97th (Earl of
Ulster's) Regiments, and the Royal Artillery, did
not embark at Gravesend yesterday, as previously
ordered, owing to the Gertrude, in which they pro-
ceed to Calcutta, not being reported ready to re-
ceive the troops on board.
The honorary medals of the Royal Humane So-
ciety have just been awarded to Colour-Sergeant
Thomas Barrow and Sapper John Castle, of the
Royal Engineers, attached to head-quarters,
B-2ompten, for their gallant and praiseworthy con-
duct in having, on the 23d of August last, cou-
rageously plunged into the Medway and succeeded
in rescuing a woman named Mary Fitzpatrick, who
attempted to drown herself in the river at St.
Mary's Creek, Chatham.
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Oiders have been forwarded to Fort Pitt Hos-
pital, Chatham, for the following medical officers
atthat establishment to proceed to the stations
named :—Staff Assistant-Surgeon M. L. White, to
embark for India; Staff Assistant-Surgeon J. V.
Lane, to proceed to Winchester ; Staff Assistant-
Surgeon L. Carey, to proceed to Cork; and Staff
Assistant-Surgeon G. T. Adams, to Plymouth.
First-Lieutenant F. S. Boxer, of the Chatham
Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, tx-
pired in Melville Hospital on Thursday night after
a short illness, the cause of death being disease of
the brain. The deceased officer served in the
Baltic in the year 1854-55. His commission as se-
cond lieutenant bears date the 24th of July, 1856.
The infliction of corporal punishment at Wool-
wich, after a lapse ofseveral months, during which
time no single case of military flogging has oc-
curred in the garrison, created considerable ex-
citement yesterday morning, when it became
known that a gunner of the Royal Horse Artiller
had received 50 lashes. It appears that every
other mode of punishment has been essayed in the
fruitless endeavour to reclaim the prisoner's insu-
bordinate habits without having recourse to the
extreme measure resorted to yesterday. The bat-
talions of Royal Artillery with the brigade of field
batteries and Horse Artillery, dismounted, were
paraded at eight o'clock a.m., in front of the bar-
rack quarters, and were drawn up in the riding-
school to witness the infliction of the lash. The
prisoner was a gunner named Alexander Ross, be-
longing to Major Tupper's A troop, who was last
week convicted at a general court-martial of un-
soldierly and disgraceful conduct, in having, at 7
o'clock in the morning of 21th of August last, at
Romford, during the march from Shoeburyness to
Woolwich, while in a state of intoxication, broken
and destroyed the furniture of his billet ; also of
having struck and injured a gunner of the troop,
and made a desperate attempt on the life of a non-
commissioned officer with his drawn sword. These
facts were elicited in evidence at the court-martial
from the officers of the troop as well as from several
of the prisoner's comrades who were 'present. In
addition to the punishment of 50 lashes, the maxi-
mum now permitted by the service, the prisoner
was sentenced to undergo 350 days' imprisonment,
to date from the time of his arrest at Romford. The
judgment of the court-martial was read in the pre-
sence of the entire corps, and the prisoner was
forthwith subjected to the whole of the corporal
punishment awarded, which he bore with marked
indifference, and did not exhibit the slighest indi-
cation :of, regret or emotion of pain. His term
of service is stated to be 10 years, and his conduct
of the worst possible character, his habits of intoxi-
cation originating almost every species of crime.
It is stated that on being liberated from Fort
Clarence he will be dismissed her Majesty's service
with ignominy.

MILITIA.
Col. St. John Browne, commanding officer for
the south-eastern district, last week inspected 225
men of the Royal Sussex Artillery. Militia. They
assembled in the depot field, Southover, under the
command of Col. Carr Llovd, who has been through-
out the entire period of the training indefatigable
in his endeavours to increase the skill of his men.
In this work he has been ably and strenuously
assisted by the officers of the regiment, Major Ches-
ter, Capt. Settle, the Adjutant, Capt. Wetherell,
Capt. St. Clair, Capt. Sadler, Capt. Cole, Capt.
Moore, Lieut. Clark, Lieut. Darby, and Lieut.
Skinner. Having gone through their drill, the
men were next taken to the guns, in order to test
them in this most material department of an artil-
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At the close of the practice the men were paraded
in front of the Inspectingw Colonel St. John Browne,
who said he very much pleased with the
manner in which they had gone through their
drill that [day, and more especially with the
manner in which they had handled the artillery
He had been informed by the chief constable
(Captain Mackay), that there had not been a
single complaint against a militiaman of the Royal
Sussex Artillery, which did great credit to the re-
giment. The officers and men assembled at the Re-
gimental Depot at Southover, Lewes, on Wednes-
day, Oct. 20, and were dismissed on Tuesday, Nov.
9. The strength of the regiment has been much re-
duced, from numerous transfers to the regular forces,
and the effective volunteers at drill did not exceed
220.

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