The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-17 00:00:00

THE ARMI ,

Major-General Lord W. Paulet, Lieut.-Governor
of Portsmouth and Commanding the South-West
District, accompanied by Colonel Somerset, C. 8.,
Deputy•Quartermaster-General ; Col. Tiaackwell,
Deputy-Adjutant-General; and Capt. C. Milligan,
Aide-de-Camp, is at present engaged at Christ-
ct nrch, Dorchester, and Weymouth, on his half-
yearly tour of inspection. Colonel Warde, R.A.,
commanding the artillery of the district, who has
returned from leave, is also engaged in the same
way.

General Hay, Inspector-General of Musketry,
has during the week been engage& in the examina-
tion of the returns of the depots forming the two
battalions at Colchester, whose period of musketry
instruction at Landguard Fort has just been con-
cluded. He has expressed himself satisF.ed with
the result, the average being fully equal to that of
former years.

On Monday the men of the 9th depot battalion
were assembled on early parade in Colehester Camp
to witness the infliction of the sentence of a court-
martial upon Private J. Reardon, of the 6th depot,
who' had been found guilty of drunkenness and
striking a non-commissioned officer. The prisoner,
who is an old soldier, having been in the service
upwards of twenty years, had been frequently con-
victed of military offences, and was now sentenced
to receive 50 lashes and undergo. B-1 days' imprison-
ment. He received his punishment without saying
a word, and was afterwards marched to the hos-
pital, whence he will be removed to a military pri-
son to undergo the ,remainder of his sentence so
soon as he has recovered from the effects of the
flogging.

Major-Gen. Eyre, commanding the Chatham dis-
tricts, completed the half-yearly inspection of the
thee: battalions of. infantry at that garrison at a
late hour on Tuesday evening. ,The inspection com-
menced :with the first battaliOn, under the com-
mand of Col. iervis, including the depot companies
of the Ist and 2d:battalions 4th (king's Own), 35th,
43d (Light Infantry), 77th, and 94th Reginients.
Thee: and depot battalion, under the command of
Cdl.4) Mips, consisted of the Ist and 2d battalions
112th; st and 2d battalions 20th, 31st, 52d (Light
1,
Infantry), and 83d Regiments; _ and the 3d depot
all ranks. battalion,
e o 1 ni}aen,d e d
resultb y.
9I .4f i eite -
inspectionC Lieut.-Col. irt 1
appearedou gh, o f
thewh whole
et
'.oi'fathe2lde:l:: tt
depots
oanysinlg9tbh ,e e
rsl.lst considerably (Light Inf Infan-
try), try), 75th, 81st, and 91st Regiments. Owing to the
been suspended, the
re-
duced, and recruiting having
; strength of the three battalions is now lower than
it has been for several years past, each battalion
9 numbering, in the aggregate, scarcely 1,000 men of
1 to be very satisfactory,

the 37
mesiuttthhe
t that the Com_
There is a rumour at Ply
lfarrison there
mander-in-Chief will :shortly vi
for the purpose of inspecting
gim have been, inspected by
ents, neither of which and 73d Re-
his Royal Highness.
Lieut.-Col. D. R. Smith who died on thel3thinst;
at Bath, in his 56th year, served throughout the
campaign in the Southern Mahratta. in 1844 and
1845 with her Majesty's 22d Regiment, and was
present at th,; ir.v2stment ant' o.9,rture of the forts of
PantiDa And Powng,hur.

We are authorized to state that there is no foun-
dation for tho announcement that the consecration of the
three Bishops will take place in Westminster Abbey,