The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-05 00:00:00

111 E NATT.Y.

The Excellent, gunnery ship tkt Portsmouth,
Capt. Hewlett, C. 8., will shortly be taken into
dock for Uvei:hauLand repair._ It is expected the
Colossus, 80, screw,--in-tbe first-class steam reserve,
will take up the nrceltent's-moo-rings, *hell she
will fully test the cupola furnace, recently fitted on
board her, for the filling of hollow shot with mol-
ten metal.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty re-
turned to town by train from Portsmouth on Sa-
turday morning. The workmen of the dockyard
and Royal Clarence yard received their customary
half-holyday on the occasion of their Lordships'
annual inspection on Saturday.
The Pearl, 20, screw, Capt. J. Borlase, C. 8., fit-
ting at Portsmouth, has sent up her lower and top-
sail yards and placed battens on her rigging.
The Arrogant, 47 screw, Capt. W. Edmondstone,
in dock at Portsmouth, fitting as senior officer's
ship on the coast of Africa, is having stern gun-
room ports fitted to increase her ventilation.

The Harrier, 174 screw, Capt. Sir M. M‘Gregor,
at Portsmouth, has stripped to her lower masts.
She pays off about Wednesday next.
Steam was got up on Friday on board the screw
steamship St. George, 91, at Devonport.
The screw steam sloop Grayhound, 17, is ap-
pointed to be undocke'd to-day (Monday) at Key-
ham, Plymouth.

The screw steam despatch vessel Flying Fish, 6,
Commander Hope, arrived on Saturday evening at
Plymouth, from the squadron in Torbay, where the
ships arrived on Friday. It is understood that they
will separate about the 21st inst. The screw steam
frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. W. Moorsom, C. 8., will
probably go to Plymouth to repair spars, &c.
One of Sir W. Armstrong's guns, an 80-pounder,
forged at the Elswick factory, was tested in. the
long range at Shoeburyness on Thursday last, in
the presence of the Ordnance Select Committee of
Woolwich Arsenal, and gave the most wonderful
results as regards accuracy, &c. The flight ob-
tained was 9,000 yards, or upwards of five miles.
The military store screw steamship Lord Pan-
mure, Mr. J. T. Moore, commander, arrived nif
Woolwich Arsenal on Saturday, from Devonport,
laden with stores for the Tower.

The Pitt coal depot, in the steam basin at Ports-
mouth, is ordered to be fitted with machinery for
coaling the fleet at Portland.
Commander the Right Hon. Richard James Vis-
count Gilford, has been promoted to the rank of
captain. This officer obtained his commission as
lieutenant 15th September, 1852, and served in the
Imperieuse, 51, screw frigate, in the Baltic fleet,
from December, 1852, to the close of the Russian
war. He was appointed to the Raleigh, 50, Com-
modore the Hon. Henry Keppel, C. 8., on the 4th
September, 1856, where he served on the East
India and China station until re-appointed to the
Calcutta, 84, flag ship, on the same station, in
August, 1857. He was promoted to the rank
of commander 26th February, 1858, and has held
the command of the Hornet, 17, screw steam-sloop,
on the East India and China station since the 9th
March, 1858.

Mr. Frederick F. Morgan has been appointed
surgeon to the Pearl, 21, screw corvette.

THE ARMY.

It may possibly serve to elucidate the question as
to how far it may be desirable to resort to corporal
punishment to instance the results of a totally dif-
ferent system, pursued at Chatham, at which gar-
rison the infliction of the lash is resorted to only
on the very rarest occasions. During the present
year there have been certainly not more than half-
a-dozen soldiers flogged at that garrison, and these
only men whose ruffianly propensities rendered all
other descriptions of punishment unavailing. In the
last two cases of corporal punishment both the men
flogged had openly refused to obey the orders of
their commanding officers when on a full parade of
the troops, and had made use of mutinous lan-
guage, when, or course, the requirements of the ser-
vice rendered it necessary that a severe example
should be made, one of the men receiving 50 lashes
and a long term of imprisonment, and the other 25
lashes and imprisonment. Notwithstanding that
the lash is but seldom resorted to, the discipline of
the troops at Chatham is, perhaps, not equalled,
and certainly not excelled, by those of any other
troops in England, although there are seldom less
than 5,000 men belonging to various branches of
the service quartered at that garrison. This result
has been brought about by the prompt measures
resorted to by the Major-General commanding for
maintaining discipline among the troops under his
command. When released from military control the
conduct of the men is equally praiseworthy. Mili-
tary brawls in the streets—a thing of almost nightly
occurrence in many other garrison towns—are al-
rmost unknown in Chatham, strong pickets being
stationed in the streets to remove any man to the
barracks on the slightest indication of a disturbance.
In order to provide amusements for the troops, and
to entice them away from the low beerhouses and
dens of inflimy in the town of Chatham, the Major-
General has sanctioned healthy games, space in the
barracks being provided for skittles, nine-pins, fives,
and other amusements, while a piece of ground is
appropriated entirely for the use of the soldiers on
which to play at cricket. In addition to this a
large room has just been appropriated at Brompton-
barracks in which the men can practice single-stick,
fencing, and boxing, and this is nightly resorted to
by the troops at that barracks. Reading and news-
rooms are also provided in the barracks for the men,
who have the use of well-furnished libraries. The
result of this effort is that the troops are kept from
debasing pursuits, which in other garrisons lead
them to desert, and commit crimes which render
them amenable to courts-martial.
Orders have been received at Chatham for the
following officers at that garrison to embark for
India with the reinforcements of cavalry and in-
fantry proceeding to join the service companies of
their respective regiments, viz.,—Major T. Teulon,
35th Regiment; Lieut. W. B. D. Alderson, 77th
Regiment ; Lieut. J. Wilkinson, 81st Regiment ;
Ensigns W. Trocke, C. J. Stone, and A. C. Crook-
shank, 35th Regiment ; Ensigns J. E. K. Morley
and J. Hogarth, 43d Light Infantry ; Ensigns A.
C. F. Armstrong, H. F. H. Gibsone, and J. Fraser,
73d Regiment ; Ensigns G. A. White and E. N.
Mosley, 77th Regiment.
On Saturday Major-Gen. Eyre, the Commandant
of Chatham, assembled the whole of the officers and
men of the various East India depots who are under
orders to embark for India on the general parade-

Capt. Durnford's 27th company of Royal Engi-
neers, employed, in consequence of the builders'
strike, in terminating the works left incomplete in
Sir W. Armstrong's new factory at Woolwich, have
accomplished their engagements in a most masterly
style. They have set the three huge boilers required
for working the Nasmyth's hammers and other
machinery, have laid down the flag flooring of the
engine-houses, completed the pointing of the exte-
rior walls, hung th 6 doors and window frames,
glazed the windows, completed the plumbers' and
smiths' work, &c., with the proficiency of practised
and skilful artificers. Capt. Durnford, Lieut. Buckle,
and 90 non-commissioned officers and men of the
company, will leave Woolwich to-day (Monday) for

atham. I,ieut. Micklem and the remainder of
he company—namely, 40 men, will join head-
quarters in a few days.
Lieut. H. D. Crozier. and 150 an.. of the Royal
Engineers, at-Chatham; are to embark for India,
to fill up vacancies.

The reinforcements from the camp at Colchester
for service in India will, it is expected, leave the
camp in the course of the current week. The total
strength of the detachment is 12 officers (the chief
of whom is Col. Guy, of the sth Fusileers), and 670
non-commissioned officers and privates. A fives-court
is now in course of construction at the camp.
A detachment of the Norfolk Artillery, under the
command of Capt. Wodehouse, with Lieut. Beding-
feld, 4 sergeants, 89 rank and file, and 1 trumpeter,
proceeded to Pirfleet from Sheerness on the Ist
inst., in her Majesty's steamer Lizard, to relieve a
similar number of the Forfar Artillery.

The Himalaya screw troopship, Commander J.
Seccombe, sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday at
noon for Halifax, Quebec, and Bermuda, with the
officers and troops on board as enumerated in The.
Sun of Saturday. Lieut. Crowther, of the 63d
Regiment, also embarked on board the Himalaya
on Saturday for a passage to Halifax.
The Royal Antrim Artillery were inspected on
the Ist inst. by Gen. Gascoigne, commanding the
division. He was received by the regiment in line,
under the command of the colonel, Viscount Mas-
sareene. After presenting arms, the regiment broke
into open column of companies, and was most
minutely inspected by the General. At the conclu-
sion the regiment was formed up in quarter-distance
column, and was addressed by the General, who said :

" My
.Lord Massareene,—l have had great plea-
sure in inspecting your regiment to-day, for in your
ranks I find very many fine and soldierly men, and
if I have passed any remarks upon a few, it has
been more as a spur to others than as a condemna-
tion of any one. With regard to your conduct since
you came into this camp I can only say that you
came hero under circumstoncos and with a name
apparently not altogether creditable to you, but the
result of the investigation into the affair to which I
allude has clearly shown that the occurrence was
attributable not to yourselves, but to the conduct
of the civilians with whom you were brought in
contact. While you have been here you have be-
haved yourselves in a most soldierlike and orderly
manner ; you have seen while here something of
what is expected of a regiment, and I trust that
wherever you go—and your stay here will not, I
believe, continue long—you will bear the same
character you have earned for yourselves here."