The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

dirostion of Major Lovell and Lieutenant Clayton,
R.E.

The Royal Artillery stationed in Woolwich gar-
rison were yesterday paraded at an early hour,and,
accompanied by Major-Gen. Sir Richard Dacres,
K.C.13., Commandant, and the garrison staff, they
proceeded to Dartford-heath. Under the facilities
and home comforts realized by Capt. Grant's new
system of cooking on the road, the exercise of march-
ing out in lieu of parade and field drills is now
readily adopted, and it is stated is ordered to be
issued as one of the garrison regulations, to take
place one day in each week, the weather per miffing,
in order to inure themen to the fatigue ofa campaign,
and to familiarize them with the new method of
preparing their rations on the road. The ambu-
latory cooking waggons having been previously
prepared under the superintendence of Capt. Grant,
the fires were kindled, and the process of cooking
commenced with the march. They arrived at Dart-
ford at a quarter past twelve preceded by the regi-
mental band, and immediately proceeded to pitch
their tents in preparation for dinner and rest. The
travelling kitchens were drawn up in an appro-
priate spot, and the process of "serving up," with-
out the necessity of delay, immediately commenced
in the same manner as in apermanentkitchen.Lady
Dacres and other ladies were present, and partook
of some of the soup, drawn from the general cauld-
ron, which was pronounced excellent, and acknow-
ledged to possess a flavour impossible to be excelled
by the most practised chef in town. Gen. Dacres
expressed his opinion of the apparatus in the most
eulogistic termb and the whole body of officers as
well as a number of visitels present who were
enabled to exercise their •,-.,itigni,mt pronounced
without hesitation that the merits of the invention
were incontestably proved. The cooking waggons
have been exclusively employed for some days past
at the back of the barracks at Woolwich for the
meals of the Ist brigade, the operations of which
have been diligently supervised by Gen. Dacres,
who has watched the progress of the invention with
great interest, and has reported accordingly to his
Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief. The
quantity of wood yesterday consumed was proved
to be one-tenth of the ordinary amount allowed by
Government—namely, 1501 b. in lieu of 1,5001 b., the
ordinary consumption. Capt. Grant, who is a re-
tired officer of the Royal Artillery, actuated by a
philanthropic desire of benefiting the soldier, has
passed many years of anxious study in perfecting
his various cooking apparatus, the merits of which
have been at length tardily acknowledged. Several
of the pontoon cooking kettles were also in use yes-
terday on the heath, and were reported by the
superintending officers to be a boon hitherto un-
known in the field. The dinners supplied by the
above-named kettles were ready to serve out,
in an hour and a half after the fires were lighted,
and water was boiled in six minutes and a half. Au
improvement has been effected in this method since
the last trial on Dartford-heath, by adopting a
longer trench, and thereby affording a more avail-
able current of air to keep up the fires. The
trenches were yesterday 16 feet long, for the 16
inch kettles, 15 inches wide, and 16 inches deep.
The three feet kettles contain 27 gallons, and with
10 kettles dinners have been cooked for 1,000 men.
Some of the kettles are served by temporary turf
chimneys, in which case the trenches were 18 feet
long. The General and his officers, as well as many
ladies and other visitors, and the entire body of
troops dined at one o'clock, and, after indulging in
various games and amusements, returned to quar-
ters at Woolwich.

On Saturday five officers and 95 non-commis-
sioned officers and privates, and 109 horses of the
15th Hussars, arrived at the North Wall, Dublin,
in the Windsor steamer, en route from Aldershott
Camp to the Royal Barracks.
The Horse Artillery stationed at Cahir for some
time under Lieut.-Col. Strange, C. 8., have left for
Newbridge, and are replaced by a field battery
from Ballincollig.
The field battery of Royal Artillery under the
command of Capt. M'Coy, in Clonmel, with Second
Capt. Closeley, Lieuts. Farrell and Johnsen, and
Assist.-Surg. Graham, leave on the 22d for Kinsale,
for 21 days' training in shot and shell practice.
During their stay at Kinsale the men are to be
tented, and the horses picketed in the open air.
The recruiting for the Tipperary Artillery is
going on briskly in Fethard, Cahir, Cashel, and
other parts of the county. A ti;l4t 100 stalwart
young fellows have " taken on" with the recruiting
staff of Capt. Mulcahy, at Fethard, since May last.
The regiment is now nearly 800 strong. The men
are all in excellent health.

The infantry regiments in Portsmouth garrison,
comprising the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade, the East
Kent Militia, 2d Royal Cheshire, and Royal Lime-
rick County, were brigaded on Southsea Common
yesterday morning by Major-Gen. Sir J. Y. Scar-
lett, K.C.8., commanding South-West District and
Staff.