The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The following Circular Memorandum has been
issued to the army at home and abroad, relating to
instruction of musketry :
"Horse Guards, S.W., Oct. 21.
"The General Commanding-in-Chief desires that the
annual musketry practice returns, and the applications for
rewards for good shooting, be invariably transmitted to the
Inspector-General of Musketry by battalions in the United
Kingdom, North America, and Australia, on the date of
the autumnal half-yearly inspection, or, at the latest, on the
14th of November in each year; and by battalions serving
elsewhere on the date of the spring inspection, or, at the
latest, on the 15th of May.
"The documents in question are to be rendered annually
by every corps, whether completed or not in the prescribed
yearly course ; and in cases where the course has been
omitted, or not completed, a statement fully explaining the
causes that have delayed or prevented the instruction is to
accompany the annual musketry returns.
"No application for rewards for good shooting will be
entertained if transmitted after the dates above specified.
" By command,
"G. A. WE'rumt.u.i., Adjutant-General.
The detachment of Royal Artillery, draughted
from the depot brigade at Woolwich, under orders
for supplementary service in China, a portion of
whom are at present at Shoeburyness, carrying out
a course of practical exercises with the Armstrong
gun, has been increased from 250 non-commissioned
officers and men to 275, in command of Captain
Blakiston, and they are ordered to hold themselves
in readiness for embarkation on the 4th of Novem-
ber, on board her Majesty's iron screw steam troop-
ship Simoom, Com. John M. Cooke.

FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.-011 Monday evening
about a quarter past 7 o'clock, while arrangements were
being completed for the departure of the stage -coach from
Musselburgh to Edinburgh, the horses suddenly took
fright, and ran off through Musselburgh to Fishorrow.
When the coach was nearly opposite the Ship Inn, Fisher-
row, one of the outside passengers, a lady from Edinburgh,
was thrown off, and so severely injured on the headthat she
died about half-an-hour after the accident.—Scotsman.

FALL OF A FACTORY CHIMNEY, NEAR HUDDERS-
FIELD.—About three o'clock on Wednesday morning, the
atone chimney in course of erection at Messrs. John Day
and Son's factory, Mold-green, Huddersfield, fell to the
ground. It was 41 yards high, and fell across the yard in
an easterly direction, destroying a two-storey building at
the east end of the yard, and a portion of the wall of the
mill lying to the west. The cause of the accident is be-
lieved to be a slip of th 3 " backings," or inner stone work
of the chimney, which caused the exterior to bulge out,
and fall. The damage caused by the fall is estimated at
£4OO.
A MAN PERISHED IN THE SNOW-STORM.--011 the
forenoon of Sabbath, the 23d October, the body of a man,
apparently about forty years of age, was found among the
snow, on the farm of Old Noth; in the parish of Rhynie,
near to the Sledge -bridge crossing the Bogie and railway.
Shortly after the body was discovered, Dr. Gray (of Insch)
was called, and had the body removed to the farm-house of
Old Noth, where he examined it, and as no marks of vio-
lence were found on the person, ho was of opinion that de-
ceased had come to his death by exposure to cold and the
inclemency of the weather. It is supposed from do_La.as..
ments in his pocket, that his name is James Graharrni,ygl
terer, belonging to Rothes. He was last seen h,u2a_.yin to
the railway station of Gartly.—Banfshire Tiohuire
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