The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-25 00:00:00

THE A.RMI .

The fourth grand review at the Curragh Camp
was held on Friday, and was one of the finest of
these military spectacles that have yet taken place.
The whole of the troops encamped under the im-
mediate personal command of Gen. Lord Seaton
were on the ground. Additional interest was given
to the proceedings by the presence of his Excellency
the Lord-Lieutenant, who arrived by special train
at Newbridge, where he was received by a guard of
honour, shortly before 11 o'clock.
The two-company depot of the 73d Regiment
marched into Chatham Garrison on Saturday from
Plymouth, and occupied the, quarters in Chatham
Barracks vacated by the 10th depot, which has re-
cently joined head-quarters. The strength of the
73d depot consists of 9 officers, 8 sergeants, 9 cor-
porals, 1 drummer, and 386 rank and file. The offi-
cers who are attached to the depot are Captains G.
Benny (in command) and G. J. Burne, Lieuts. H.
Fraser, W. Bayley, and W. Clarke, Ensigns A. C. F.
Armstrong, H. F. H. Gibsone,St. John D. Galwey,
and B. J. A. Monsell. The head-quarters of the 73d
are now at Benares, the regiment having been in
India since 1849. It is not expected home for some
time. The depot is attached to the 2d battalion,
under the command of Col. R. N. Phillips.
The following officers, who have obtained com-
missions in the corps of Royal Engineers, are or-
dered to join head-quarters as Chatham on the Ist
of August :—Lients. A. B. Haig, E. M. Lloyd, H.
Causley, A. Featherstonehaugh, J. G. M'Pherson,
T. Howard, and F. Bailey.
On Saturday a number of non-commissioned offi-
cers and men, belonging to various regiments, who
have recently returned invalided from India, left
St. Mary's invalid establishment, Chatham, for the
purpose of joining their respective depots, the whole
of them having recovered from their wounds or
sickness. Several men who were declared unfit for
further service received their discharge the same

day.
Some experiments were tried at Fort Moncton,
near Portsmouth, on Saturday, with the view of
testing a new description of embrasure. Sir John
Burgoyne, G.C.B. (Inspector-General of Fortifica-
tions), Sir J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.B. (Commanding
South-West District, Assistant Quartermaster-
General), Col. E. Somerset, C. 8., and a large num-
ber of military officers, were present to witness the
proceedings. The immediate space round the
mouth of the embrasure is formed of pigs of iron
bolted together in the strongest possible manner.
The outer space is formed of iron plates, with an
outside facing of brickwork several feet thick ; the
parapet, arch, and other portions of the work on
the inner face of the battery being built in the
usual manner. The practice at the embrasure was
from an eight-inch gun with solid shot and a charge
of 161 b. of powder, at only 400 yards range; at
this distance the shot broke into fragments, making
an indentation on the pigs of iron of 11 inch.
Where the shot struck the brickwork it tore the
whole of it away from the iron plates, but in the
intended future trial the place occupied by the
brickwork will be filled up with earth. The result
of the experimeats proved, in the opinion of the
military officials present, the perfect shelter men
would have in working artillery behind a battery
built on this plan.
The Royal Miners' Artillery Militia of Cornwall
were inspected last week by' Col. Pester at Truro,
previous to the expiration of the usual period of
drill. The gallant colonel bestowed high praise on
the efficiency of the regiment.
The West Norfolk Militia were reviewed on
Saturday afternoon on Mousehold-heath, near Nor-
wich, by Colonel Bloomfield, commandant of the
camp at Colchester. The regime=t is to be disem-
bodied to-day.
The East Norfolk Militia, which have been as-
sembled at Great Yarmouth for three weeks" train-
ing and exercise, are to be disembodied to-morrow.
The Stirlingshire Militia Regiment, which is at
present quartered in the permanent barracks at
Aldershott, had new colours presented to it by the
Duchess of Montrose on Saturday last. The
ceremony took place on the regimental parade-
grotmd, in presence of a large party of ladies
and gentlemen, the latter consisting chiefly of the
General and Staff officers of the camp. The regi-
ment was drawn up in full marching order, and the
colours having been blessed by the chaplain to the
regiment, her Grace addressed Sir Alex. Maitland,
the Lieut.-Col. Commandant, and the presentation
took place in the accustomed form. The ensigns,
kneeling, received the colours from the Duchess,
and Sir A. Maitland made an appropriate address.
The " trooping" followed, after which the regiment
marked past in slow and quick time, a performance
which elicited flattering commendations from her
Grace, as well as from several officers who were
present.

ROYAL ARTILLERY STAFF.

WOOLWICH, Jut 24.

In accordance with the reorganisation of the
regiment of Royal Artillery, the following new ar-
rangements for the distribution of the staff officers
have been sanctioned by the Commander-in-Chief,
and are now nearly completed, viz.:—
Horse Brigade—Headquarters, Woolwich—Colo-
nel Commandant, Sir Hew D. Ross, G.C.B. ; In-
spector-General, Colonel Bloomfield, C.B. ; Colonel
H. G. Teesdale ; Lieutenant. Colonel Philpots ; Pay-
master E: Gibbs; Adjutant Denne ; Quartermas-
ter Marwin ; Suageon-Major Savage. At Alder-
shott—Lieutenant-Colonel Wood. At Bengal—
Lieutenant-Colonel Price. At Portobello—Lieute-
nant-Colonel Gambier.
First Brigade—Garrison Artillery ; headquar-
ters, Woolwich.—Colonel Commandant, H. Eve-
legh ; Colonels Ward and Palliser; Lieutenant-
Colonels Dalton De Rinzy,.Maclean, and Brough-
ton ; Adjutant, Morris ; Quartermaster Cass ; Sur-
geon, Conibe, M.D.
Second Brigade—Garrison Artillery ; headquar-
ters, Dover.—Colonel Commandant R. Jones; Colo-
nels Cappage and Ingilby ; Lieutenant-Colonels
213'erz Gardner, D'Aguilar, and Talbot ; Pay-
master
vYner; Adjutant Simpson; Quartermaster
Murphy; Surgeon Voss.
Third Brigade—Garrison Artillery • h d
, ea guar_
ters, Devonport—Colonel Commandant Tobin •
Colonels Pester and Maclean ; Lieutenant-Colonels'
Rowan, Wright, Henderson, and Romer ' • Pay-
master Murray; Adjutant Penn ; Quartermaster
Black; Surgeon Park.
Fourth Brigade—Field A
rtinirhit.eadq4:4ll. *3
Woolwich.—Colonel Commandant
txdo Gardiner;
Colonels Flude and Dick ; Limiten
onels
Franeklyn, C. 8., Cofton, Devereux, and Gardiner ;
Adjutant Taylor; Quartermaster Williams and
Surgeon Fogo.
Fifth Brigade—Garrison Artillery; headquarters,
Gibraltar.—Colonel Commandant J. Michell, C.B. ;
Colonels Burn and Shuttleworth ; Lieutenant-
Colonels Elwyn, Maberly, C. 8., Campbell, C. 8.,
and Bingham; Paymaster Kidcl; Adjutant Col-
lington ; Quartermaster Clvs ; and Surgeon.
Dempsey.
Sixth. Brigade—Garrison Artillery; headquar-
ters, Malta.—Colonel Commandant F. Campbell ;
Colonels Thorndike and Warde ; Lieutenant-Cols.
Kennedy, Irving, Wodehouse, and Graydon ; Pay-
master Scott; Adjutant Oldfield ; Quartermaster
Stewart ; Surgeon Galloway.
Seventh Brigade-.. Garrison Artillery ; head-
quarters, Quebec---,-Colonel Commandant T. DynelY,
C. 8.; Colonels Cravirtird and Taylor; Lieutenant-
Colonels Turner, Benn, Printer, C. 8., and Dora-
ville ; Adjutant Close; 4uartermaster Morris ;
SuootOillborne.
ighth Brigade--Field Artillery ; headquarters,

Portsmouth.—Colonel Commandant T. J. Forbes ; '
Colonels Gostling and Lake, C.B. ; , Lieutenant-
Colonels Fitzmayer, C. 8., Goodenough, C. 8.,
Nixon, and Radcliffe ; Adjutant Rolton ; Quarter-
master Hassell ; Surgeon De Lisle.
Ninth Brigade—Field Artillery. ; headquarters,
Dublin.—Colonel Commandant A. C. Mercer; Cols.
Symons and Ormsby; Lieutenant-colonels Marriott,
Dickson, C. 8., Shakespear, and • Knox; Adjutant
Carey ; Quartermaster Armstrong; and Surgeon
Rndge.
Tenth Brigade--Garrison Artillery ; headquar-
ters, Guernsey.—Colonel Commandant W. G.
Power, C.B. ; Colonels Nedham and Dunlop, C.B. ;
Lieutenants-colonels Cleveland, Elliott, Mundy,
and Crofton ; Adjutant Cairns ; Quartermaster
Haines ; Surgeon Macintosh.
Eleventh Brigade—Field Artillery ; headquar-
ters, Bengal.—Colonel Commandant P. M. Wal-
lace ; Colonels Wingfield and Poole ; Lieutenant-
Colonels Riddell, C. 8., Adye, C. 8., Burrowes, and
Christie; Quartermaster Lloyd; Surgeon Elliott.
Twelfth Brigade—Garrison Artillery ; head-
quarters, Mauritius.—Colonel Commandant G.
Turner, C.B. ; Colonels Benn and M'Coy ; Lieuten-
ant-Colonels Fresser, C. 8., Crawford, C. 8., Cock-
burn, and Graham; Adjutant Le Mesurier, C. 8.,
Quartermaster Keating ; Surgeon Protheroe.
Thirteenth Brigade--Field Artillery ; headquar-
ters, Bombay.—Colonel Commandant G. Cobbe ;
Colonels Hill and Morris ; Lieutenant-Colonels
Buchanan, Brown, Smyth, and Younghusband ;
Quartermaster Kirkman ; Surgeon Dassauville.
Fourteenth Brigade—Field Artillery ' • headquar-
ters, Bengal.—Colonel Commandant E. Whinyate
Colonels St. George, C. 8., and Mitchell ; Lieuten-
ant-Colonels Sir G. R. Barker, K.C.8., -Taddy,
Dennis' and Travers ; Adtant Murray ; Quarter-
master Hodge ; Surgeon Waishe.
The Depot (or additional) Brigade at Woolwich
will consist of Lieutenant-Colonels Kennedy, Tal-
bot, Henderson, and Travers ; Adjutant Bryne ;
Quartermaster Hendley ; and Surgeon-Major Davis.

THE COST OF SHIPBUILDING IN THE
ROYAL DOCKYARDS.

Curious facts—not unfamiliar to ourselves, how-
ever—have lately been brought forward in illus-
tration of the cost to which the nation is put for
shipbuilding in the Royal Dockyards. In that
speech of Mr. Lindsay's to which we have already
more than once referred, we find these facts put in a
connected and striking form. They will bear reca-
pitulation here. It appears that a return has been
made of the cost 6f a number of ships built in our dock-
yards, all of the same size-1,462 tons burden. The
first of these vessels—the Satellite—was built at
Devonport, and the expenditure for shipwrights'
labour was in her case said to be £6,450, or at
the rate of £4 Bs. 3d. per ton. The second, the
Pelorus, was also built at De'vonport, and the ship-
wrights' wages were £6,712. The Scylla was built
at Sheerness, and the expenditure for the same
purpose was £8,621 ; while in the case of the
Racoon, built at Chatham, it was £6,321. The cost
of labour ilia one dockyard was apparently, there-
fore, much greater than in another. Thus, the
Pearl, built at Woolwich, costs us £6 18s. sd. per
ton ; while the Satellite, built at Devonport, and the
Racoon at Chatham, cost £4 6s. 6d. per ton. There
must be something radically wrong, said Mr. Lind-
say, to cause such a discrepancy as this. Two
frigates built in a private yard on the Tyne for
the Russian Government—viz., the Tartar and the
Cossack—cost £2 Bs. per ton. That included not
only the cost fir shipwrights, but the cost offitting
them out for sea : whereas the entire cost of flitting
out the Pearl for sea was £8 13s. 11d. It was
evident, to Mr. Lindsay's mind, that there was
something wrong in the management of the Royal
dockyards. " Why could the men not be employed
as they were in private dockyards ? If they were
employed on piecework, instead of the labour
account of the shipwrights being £8 13s. 11d. per
ton, it would not be more than £2 12s. per ton.
The rate for labour in the present estimates
was £1.527,000. Of this £1,000,000 at least
was for shipwrights ; and on this item alone there
might be a saving of £400,000, while the work
would not be one whit less efficiently done."
Now, we are not about to blame Mr. Lindsay, by
any means, for the part which he has taken in this
matter. He is wrong, and in error ; but innocently
so in this case. If the facts really were as the re-
turn itself makes them appear, his criticism would
in the main be sound and pertinent. But the facts
are not as they there-appear. We know somewhat
of the manner in which accounts are kept in the
Royal Dockyards, and we unhesitatingly state that
it is not possible to get from those aceounts what
the return professes to give, viz., the actual amounts
of money expended for labour upon particular ships.
The surveyor of the navy, or his staff, has acted
most unwisely, in our judgment, in putting forth
sach a return. We entirely deny that its accuracy
can be guaranteed.
Let us glance for a moment at the circumstances
operating in two neighbouring yards which are
contrasted most unfavourably in this return—
Sheerness and Chatham. Now, in the latter yard,
where there are numerous building slips, by far the
12.rger portion of the shipwrights are constantly
engaged upon what is called " new work"—in other
words, upon the building of new ships. The inter-
ferences occasioned by the pressure of fitting and
repairing of ships occur but comparatively seldom.
In Sherness yard, however, the case is wholly dif-
ferent. There is but one small building slip in it ;
and the regularity of the work expended upon the
single ship there building is, of necessity, seriouslir
impaired by the frequent putting on and calling of
of hands for repairing and fitting purposes. How
this R ould tell upon the nominal expense of the
ship in progress of building will be readily con-
ceived. Like effects are produced in another and
somewhat similar way. In the building of a ship
upon the stocks, in order that she may be built
economically, it is indispensably necessary to ad-
just the number of hands employed upon her to
the varying state of her progress. There are times
when less than 100 men, say, are all that can be
kept economically at work upon her ; there are
other times when five times that number may be
advantageously employed. Now, in a yard
where there are several ships in various stages
of advancement simultaneously in progress, this
adjustment of hands can be properly attended
to. But in a yard like Sheerness, with its one
building slip, and an exceedingly fluctuating amount
of fitting and repairing to be executed, it is quite
impossible to economise the labour in this way.
The same remarks apply, to a certrin extent, to
Woolwich dockyard. These are the causes which,
with others—for we are by no means attempting to
treat the subject fully—tend to produce those dis-
crepancies which, by their grossness, have struck
the senses of the member for Sunderland. And
these are causes, it will be observed, which cannot
be removed.

It may occur to some that it would be better to
build no ships at yards circumstanced like Sheer-
ness. But this is a mistake ; it would be worse.
With a ship in progress on the stocks, there is a
means of absorbing your spare work in times of
slackness, when there is but little fitting or repair-
ing to be done ; and although its absorption in this
way is undoubtedly attended by a loss, the loss
would be greater did this provision not exist.
But when all due allowances are made for facts
of this kind, it is useless to look for accuracy to the
accounts as they are at present kept. An immense
amount of dockyard labour gets " charged," in the
course of months, to wrong vessels. Nor is it, in-
deed, practicable to avoid this. It is sometimes as
impossible to estimate the labour expended upon
the building of a particular ship as it would be to
measure the work done by the French battalions in
the capture of each of the several positions of Sol-
ferino, Cavriana, &c., at the last great battle. The
mistake lies, as we have said, in the present in-
stance, in the putting forth of the return in ques-
tion. Far better admit the difficulty than ignore
it, and expose yourself to such hard and inexorable
critics as Mr. Lindsay.
Mr. Lindsay's remarks upon " piecework" and
the cost of shipbuilding in private dockyards, are
open to many corrections ; but having dealt with
the main question, we must defer the consideration
of minor points for the present.—Mechanics'
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