The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-13 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Daring the past week a large number
of
gent young men have arrived at the head
of the Royal Engineers, C head-quarters
luinartLllts
i-
.
oei ni
either
skilled that
mechanics, branch
canics,
of thhatham, for the purpose
of j
hh or surveyors, clerks,
e service. Most of them
are
&c. Recruiting forthe corps of Royal Marines
is also proceeding
very briskly, the high bounty
now given to recruits joining
that
corps having
raised the average number of recruits to upwards
of 100 men per week. The depots of the East
India Regiments stationed at Chatham garrison are
all very strong, and each of the three battalions can
furnish nearly 500 reinforcements.
Notwithstanding that the establishment of Wool-
wich Arsenal engaged in the various departments
of war has for some time exceeded that of any
former period, large additions have been made
every day during the past week, consisting princi-
pally of men required for preparing guns, shot,
shell, and cartridges for use and for exportation,
removing stocks of obsolete or doubtful stores to be
examined and recast, and cleaning and burnishing
arms and materials of every description which may
possibly be brought into sudden requisition. • The
number of men, women, and lads who daily as-
semble within the arsenal at the various working
hours, including the contractors' labourers, are
calculated at about 12,000 persons. The Royal
carriage department and the laboratory em-
ploy 6,718 military and civil officers, mana-
gers, masters, foremen, artificers, labourers, and
others ; the gun factories, the military storekeepers,
and the inspectors of machinery, about 2,000; the
other departments each a proportionate number,
and the contractors about 3,000. A large building
is in course of erection at the terminus of the new
railway junction in the arsenal to be used as a store
reception room. The length of the building is
stated to be 272 feet, and the breadth 72 feet.
The contract has been granted to Mr. Myers,
who
recently built the pattern room attached to the
carriage department. The new branch of Sir W.
Armstrongs rifled ordnance department, under
contract by Messrs. Lucas, Brothers, is
ing rapidly; the tall chimney, intended pro gress.i.
to sere
the machinery„ and to be 100 feet
high, is far
advanced, and the exterior walls ofthe
are ready to receive the iron girders to lay down.
the first floor. The old Lancaster shell factory,
adjoining the building now in
progress,
ing 180 smiths, hammermen, ais employ-
others, and on
Saturday commenced forging ; and
the coils to carry out
the manufactory of the new rifled ordnance an far
as the limits of the present establishment wilt ad-
mit.

MIDDLESEX
S ESSI ON S.—On Saturday, John
Brown, a legal
gentleman, was indicted for havihag as-
saulted Harriet Holland, by striking her with a cricket bat.
It was contended by, Mr. Sleigh, for the defendant, that
the blow was accidental, and that the defendant had since
had every possible care taken of her by a medical futtondant,
and had given her compensation for the injury. Under
these, circumstances no evidence was offered for. Um prose-
tion, and the defendant was discharged after a caution from
the assistant-judge about the careless handling of such a
formidable weapon as a cricket bat.