The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Major-General J. Bloomfield, Inspector-General
of Royal Artillery, attended by Brevet-Major C. C.
Teesdale, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp, and accompanied by
Col. H. Pester, commanding Royal Artillery in the
western district, inspected the fortifications at
Devonport on Saturday morning, had the guns
manned, and put the soldiers through the manual
exercise. Gen. Bloomfield called on Port-Admiral
Sir B. Reynolds in the afternoon, and in the even-
ing made a preliminary visit to Plymouth Citadel,
where he will exercise the Artillerymen to-day,
Monday.
A court-martial has been held at the camp at
Colchester on private John Jones of the 44th Regi-
ment, charged—first, with stealing a pistol, the pro..
perty of his master, Major West; secondly, with
endeavouring to break open his master's cashbox;
and, thirdly, with menacing his master by threat-
ening to shoot him. The prisoner was acquitted
on the first charge, but convicted on the second and
third, the Court sentencing him to 365 days' impri-
sonment. The General Commanding-in-Chief has
since remitted halt the punishment awarded by the
Court.

A communication was on Saturday received by
he authorities of WoOlwich Arsenal from Mr.
Sidney Herbert, intimating the decision of the War
Department to appoint a Lieut.-Colonel as Inspector
of Artillery, whose duties will be confined to the
proving and examination of the Armstrong and
other ordnance manufactured in the Arsenal, pre-
paratory to their being distributed for service. This
arrangement has been adopted in compliance with
the special request of Sir W. Arrastroug, inn orderto
relieve the important duties of the department, which
is now in full progress for the completion of the stipu-
lated number of guns by the end of the year, the
whole of which will be completed without fail. A
new arrangement will then be entered into, when
the whole of the machinery recently erected in the
new branch of the establishment will be ready for
use, so that the department has undertaken to
turn out three guns per day, to be handed over at
that ratio to the proof department, in readiness
for service, after the commencement of the new
year. A complete 12 pound battery of Sir W.
Armstrong's guns, carriages, limbers, and hospital
ammunition waggons, forges,
&c., is ordered to be
packed in the carriage department of the Arsenal
on Thursday next, to be transmitted overland to
China. No. 1 steam transport, the Thunder, with
a full cargo, was ordered to leave Deptford this
(Monday) morning for Greenhithe, to be swung for
the adjustment of compasses, where iho
frill 100 tons of powder, and sail for Hongkong.
receive
steam transport, the Powerful, arrived at Wool-
wich pier on Saturday, And commenced shipping
two heavy batteries of 68-pounder guns, with an
equipment to form a thorough siege train and re-
quisites to subdue the resistance offered to the pas.
sage of the Peiho. The cargo of the Powerful will
be similar to that of the Thunder—namely, 850
tons of war and commissariat stores. The Powerful
is commanded by Capt. Richards. She will be
ready for departure about the 14tk inst. No. 3,
the Mauritius, will shortly follow.