The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-30 00:00:00

THE ARIIII.

A number of the troops at Chatham having ap-
plied to Major-Gen.Eyre to authorise the formation
of a penny savings bank for the use of the men
quartered at that garrison, an order was yesterday
issued on the subject to the troops. It points out
to the non-commissioned officers and men that they
can in effect have a penny savings bank by allowing
the captains of their companies to retain one penny
per diem out of their daily pay, and by having the
same placed at the end of each month in the regi-
mental savings bank, where the amount deposited
would bear interest at the rate of 31 per cent. per
annum. It would appear, however, that soldiers as
a body are averse to depositing their surplus money
in the military savings banks, from the great dis-
like they seem to entertain of their officers knowing
the amount of money they may have saved, and
also from the fact that, if tried for desertion or any
other serious military crime, the whole of the sum
placed to their credit in the regimental savings
bank becomes forfeited. Under these circumstances
a soldier would prefer placing the money at his
disposal in a place of deposit unconnected with the
army.

The staff surveyors and draughtsmen selected
from the companies of Royal Engineers at head-
quarters, Brompton barracks, to proceed to the
Danube, where they will be employed on the sur-
veying expedition, have been medically inspected,
none of them being allowed to be employed on this
duty but thosa in sound health. The force is ex-
pected to leave Chatham on the Ist of December,
Yesterday the officers and men of the Royal En-
gineers at Chatham who have not gone through a
course of instruction in escalading, were paraded at
Brompton Barracks for the purpose of commencing
practice in operations of this kind, which will be
carried on at stated intervals during the winter.
Yesterday a detachment of invalid troops and
time-expired men belonging to the 21st Royal North
British Fusileers, under the command of Lieut. G.
A. G ran t,arrived at Chatham from the West Indies,
having disembarked at Southampton from the mail
steamer La Plata. After medical inspection, five of
the number were admitted into Fort Pitt Hospital
for treatment.

A detachment of 200 non-commissioned officers
and gunners yesterday proceeded from Woolwich
to Warley, in charge of officers of the depot brigade,
Royal Artillery, whoreturned to headquarters ; and
100 gunners proceeded from Warley to Sheerness.

AUSTRALIA.—PLYMOUTH, Friday.—The Suffolk,
Capt. J. B. Martin, left the Sound yesterday for Melbourne,
having on board Sir Dominick Daly, the newly-appointed
Governor of Western Australia, Lady Daly, and fareil?"'
His Excellency, on arrival at Port Phillip, takes passage in
a colonial steamer to Adelaide. The Itavenscraig, Capt.
Inglis, leaves the Sound to-day for Nelson,
New Zealand,
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expected from London, to embark passengers for Queens-
land.
EXPORTATION OF SALTFETRE.—The announce-
ment made yesterday morning that the Government had
issued an Order in Council prohibiting- altogether the ex-
port of saltpetre created a great sensation in commercial
the future with more than ordinary alarm. At first it was
circles, it being well understood to indicate that they viewed
said that the regulation only applied to America, but this
was speedily contradicted, the regulation being directed to
every foreign port. The transmission of the greater part,
if not the whole, of the recent purchases for New York
will be prevented, and the stock thus remain in this coun-
try. Of course, a kind of panic existed among the opera-
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