The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-08 00:00:00

Lieut.-Col. Sir H. M. Havelock, son of the Ge,
neral, has arrived at Aldershott and entered on his
duties as Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General of the
division, in the room of Major Nugent, who has
been appointed Assistant-Quartermaster-General in
Nova Scotia. Sir Henry Havelock, who entered
the army in 1846, is in his 33d year.
The principal event at Aldershot during the last
few days has been the half yearly inspection of the
various regiments composing the division. Among
the regiments Inspected may be mentioned the 9th
Lancers, by Major.. Gen. Lord George Paget ; the
Royal Engineers ( A troop, 2d company and 9th
company), by Col. Simmons and Lieut.-Gen. Sir J.
Pennefather ; the Ist battalion, Bth (" The King's")
Regiment, the 61st Regiment, and the 2d Battalion,
16th Regiment, by Brigadier-Gen. Brook Taylor;
the 2d Battalion, 20th Regiment, and the 53d Regi-
ment, by Brigadier-Gen. Brown ; and the 28th end
84th Regiments, by Btigadier-Gen. Russell. The
inspection of the remaining regiments in camp--
viz., the 12th Lancers, the 16th Lancers, the 3d,
4th, and part of the sth battalions military train,
the 78th Highlanders, the 45th Regiment, the Ist
Battalion 60th Rifles, &0., was continued on Satur-
day and yesterday by Major-Gen. Lord G. Paget
(Cavalry Brigade), Brigadier-Gen. Brown (2d In-
fantry Brigade), and Brigadier-Gen. Russell (3d
Infantry Brigade). The regiments inspected have
made a creditable appearance.

The sergeants of the 78th Highlanders have just
celebrated at Aldershott the fourth anniversary
of the first relief of Lucknow by the troops under
Gen. Havelock in 1857. The healths of Gen. Lord
Clyde, Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Outram, Lieut.-General
M'Neill, and other distinguished officers, were
drunk with great enthusiasm. The non-commis-
sioned officers of the Commissariat staff corps have
also celebrated the anniversary of the formation of
that useful branch of the service.
The Government is about to make considerable
alterations and additions at the cavalry barracks,
Maidstone, to provide increased accommodation for
the officers and troops attached to the cavalry
depot. The chief of the alterations will include the
erection of a new and commodious riding-school,
about 160 ft. in length and upwards of 50 in width,
at an estimated cost of £3OOO, the contract for which
has been taken by Mr. Naylar, Rochester. Addi-
tional quarters are also to be erected, which will
necessitate the removal of several houses abutting
on the barracks. The new block of buildings will
be constructed of brick, with iron girders, the pre-
sent barracks being built of wood.

IHE PRISONERS HELD BY THE FEDE-
.RAL GOVERNMENT AT FORT LAFAYETTE.

(From the New York Herald.)

We have been furnished with the following
interesting account of matters at Fort Lafayette by
Mr. M. C. Stanley, a recent inmate thereof, who
was discharged upon an investigation of his case,
which established his entire innocence of the
charges brought against him, and exhibited him as
a perfectly loyal Union man :
" Upon the arrival of the prisoner at Fort
Hamilton he is at once delivered into the charge
of Colonel Burke, and the document for his com-
mitment exhibited. The document comes from either
the Secretary of War or Secretary of State, accord-
ing as the prisoner is one of war or of state. Col.
Burke thereupon has the accused ferried across the
little channel which flows between Fort Hamilton
and Fort Lafayette, and upon his arrival in the
latter stronghold he is given into the charge of the
commanding officer, Lieut. Wood, who writes out
a receipt for his prisoner. After this formula is
over he is shown to his quarters, which of late have
been the casemates or gun-rooms around the walls
of the fort. This economy has bean necessitated
by the filling up of the more desirable officers' quar-
ters by the first arrivals.
" Aa soon as the new comer is left to himself he is
at once surrounded by his now fellow-prisoners, and
plied with questions as to his name, where he
came from, and what are the charges against him,
which usually wind up with an expression on the
part of the interrogators of doing all they can
to render his stay as agreeable' as possible. The
conversation continues, and when friendly relations
have been established he is very blandly asked
what he will have for his dinner or supper, ac-
cording to the hour at which he arrives. In the
same breath they extol the delicious character of beef
steak with mushrooms, and broiled chicken or other
savoury dishes, and urge him, some to have the
former, others the latter. In a maze of astonish-
ment at this good treatment of criminals by an
offended government he states his choice, or perhaps
expresses a wish for a little of several of the dishes
mentioned ; and the character of the wine then
comes up for extolment, and the wags get into quite
a dispute among themselves as to the relative qual.
ties of the Burgundy, Port, Madeira, claret, &c.,
which is given them at dinner. The still further
astonished prisoner drinks all this in with con-
siderable pleasure, and beginning to get over the
fright which his arrest and incarceration have pro-
duced, congratulates himself that a stayat Fort La-
fayette is a capital thing. But his fond delusion—
at least, the one produced by his fellow-prisoners—
soon vanishes when the conversation which by this
time has, of course, changed to other subjects, is
suddenly interrupted by the signal for dinner or
supper, and he is conducted to his seat in the dining
room, where, in place of a mahogany table with
lustrous white damask cloth, silver service, and
richly cut glass ware, all of which his imagination
had conjured up, he discovers a plain deal table,
unpainted and without a cloth, with a tin plate
containing a piece of partially cooked pork, a tin
cup of coffee, and a large chunk of bread. As he
contemplates this in dismay a loud laugh from
his fellow-prisoners, who, from the door have been
watching his movements, throws a little light on
his disordered intellect, and he perceives that he
has been the victim of a hoax. This constitutes
his installation into FoLt Lafayette society, and
he in turn becomes as eager as the rest to 'sell'
the next new comer.

" This is one of the ways in which the inmates
manage to while away the time, and, in fact, it has
become so popular among them that the an-
nouncement in the daily papers (which, by the way,
they receive every morning regularly before one
o'clock) of any arrest at once creates quite an ex-
citement, and everything is prepared to thoroughly
initiate the expected individual.
" Those of the prisoners who have means and
friends can pass time in comparative comfort. A
mess has been established, by permission of the
commanding officer, which is under the control of
the ordnance serjeant a ttached to the post. It
numbers about 30, and at a cost of one dollar a
head per diem the table is supplied from market
daily with good food of every description, together
with such viands and liquors they may choose to
purchase extra. The trade is better, in fact, than
such as aro provided in second-class hotels at
fashionable watering-places.
" Tho sleeping arrangements are also very com-
fortable. The mattresses, bedding, blankets, and
sheets are of good quality, and care is taken to keep
them clean. The bedsteads are small iron ones,
which are folded up in the daytime, making addi-
tional room in the somewhat confined quarters.
" Two hours a day are allowed to prisoners for
exercise out of doors in the open space in the centre
of the fort, viz., between six and seven o'clock in
the morning and between five and six o'clock in the
evening. In the intervals they are confined in the
rather commodious quarters which are appropriated
to officers when the fort is completely garrisoned,
where they amuse themselves playing chess,
draughts, backgammon, whist, and the like, read
the newspapers, or discusss the events of the day
as they reach them through the last-mentioned
channel. At nine o'clock every light is extin-
guished and universal silence prevails until the
next dawn awake them to re enact the same un-
varied routine.

" In case of sickness Mrs. Wood, the lady of the
commanding officer, is unremitting through her
domestics, in kindness and attention, and has won
the esteem of all the inmates for her considerate

" With. the water occasionally bad on account of
absence of rain, with some defects in the cooking
arrangements, which are not sufficient to supply
the extra quanity of rations now in demand, ren-
dering them only partially prepared for edibility,
the prisoners still manage to pass their time of
incarceration in a much more pleasant manner than
is generally believed, with the exception only of the
privateers' men, or pirates, as they are deemed, who
are closely confined and supplied with Government
rations. They are not denied, however, any luxury
which is sent in from outside, nor prohibited from
purchasing such, as they sometimes do by clubbing
their limited funds together."

The New York Herald gives the following list
of persons from foreign countries who have taken service
in the Federal army :.prince Salm-Salm, Prussia; Count
Liebenhoff, Prussia; Lieut. Oscar Brendeuer, Prussia;
Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, England; Lieut.-Col. Fitz-
roy Do Courcy, England ; Count de Paris, France; Duc
de Chartres, France; Capt. Vegesach, Sweden; Capt.
Hohmann, Sweden; Major Wa, Kirk, Canada; Col. Ra.
Rankin, Canada.