The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-08 00:00:00

THE ARIIII >

By direction of the authorities at the Horse
Guards, a further discharge of 172 invalids and
men whose period of service has expired has taken
place from St. Mary's invalid establishment,
Chatham. Nothwithstanding the large numters
who have been discharged weekly for some time
past there are still several hundred non-commis-
sioned officers and men at the Chatham invalid
depot awaiting the orders for their discharge from
the Horse Guards.

Yesterday Lieut -Col. S. N. Lowder, second in
command of the battalions of Royal Marines Light
Infantry about to be despatched to Mexico, toge-
ther with Capt. J. Huskisson, Capt. F. H. Nott,
Lieut. M. H. Price, Lieut. J. M. Hamilton, and
Lieut. W. Menzies, left head-quarters, Chatham,
for Plymouth, where they embark on board the
screw steamer Himalaya with the expeditionary
force for Mexico.

The 34th company of Royal Engineers, which
has been some time under orders to embark for
Bermuda, to relieve the 26th company, underwent
a final inspection at Brompton-barracks, Chatham,
Yesterday, by Lieut.-Col. J. F. M. Browne, C. 8.,
second in command at the Royal Engineer esta-
blishment. The company, which has been completed
to its proper strength of 100 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men, will leave Chatham for Portsmouth
uit Tuesday, and will be accompanied by the detach-
ment: of Royal -Engineers proceeding to Nova Scotia,
to augment the
7th company.
In accordance
with orders received at the head-
quarters of the Rosa
°face
of the
establishment,
Chatham,
from the
Deputy Adjutant-
General, a number of the most intelligent and best
educated non-commissioned °facer and
men of the
corps have been selected from ft,
e to go through% )339Inies at
Brompton Barracks,complete course
of instruction in the theory and practice of Survey-
ing,
levelling, and triangulation, in order that a bod
of men who are thoroughly conversant with those
duties shall be attached to every company in the
corps of Royal Engineers.
The following troops are ordered to embark in
the Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. J. Seccombe,
under orders for the West Indies, and expected to
sail about the 12th inst :—For Halifax. TI
oyal
Engineers, 22 men, 1 woman, and 1 child • 62d
Foot--1 field officer and 2 subalterns ; 63d Foot-
-3 subalterns, 1 staff surgeon, wife, and 2 children ;
pensioners and their families-2 men, 3 women, and
13 children. For Bermuda :—Royal Engineers-2
subalterns, 86 men, 7 women, and 14 children; 2
staff surgeons and 1 clerk sergeant ; and 2 children
of Brevet-Major Collingwood, with their nurse.
At Queenstown the Himalaya will embark for the
same destination 4 captains, 10 subalterns, 2 sur-
geomi, 510 men, 3 officers' wives,
3 children, and 4
term -
(tle,terranti4with 25soldiers'
dieTt houv,
:lona regiments.
4 Y last, Thomas Blizard, a discharged

soldier, now a labourer in the barrack department
at Aldershot ; George Morrison, a sergeant in the
Army Hospital Corps; Richard Castle, a sergeant,
3d battalion Military Train ; and Arthur Allum, a
general dealer, Bagshot, Surrey, concerned in a
wholesale robbery of Government stores, were
examined before Mr. F. R. Thresher, sitting in
petty sessions at Aldershot. During the last month
it was discovered that some shirts and other
articles were missing from the canteen stores, and
by order of the principal purveyor a general
stock-taking took place on the 19th and 20th.
It was then found that numerous articles were
missing, such as 150 pairs of ankle boots, 21
tablecleths, 97 dinner knives, &c. The prisoners
were committed to Winchester for trial, the whole
of them reserving their defence. It is expected
that several more persons supposed to be concerned
in camp robberies will be apprehended before the
next court day.

Capt. Pritchard, Woolwich division Royal Marine
Light Infantry, yesterday received orders to hold
himself in readiness for Mexico to join the expedi-
tionary battalion about to sail from Plymouth. The
Royal Marine clothing establishment at Woolwich
is engaged in making 700 blue tunics, which are
ordered to be got ready with the utmost despatch
for the expedition.
Quartermaster-Sergeant Blastock yesterday re-
ceived his discharge from the Royal Marine force
at Woolwich, on a retiring pension of 2s 6d per
day, being 3d per day in excess of the established
order, as an additional reward for his good conduct,
as registered over a period of 33 years.
The orders for the despatch of the 12-pounder
battery of Armstrong guns, &c.,!prepared for trans-
mission to Quebec, from Woolwich Arsenal, have
been countermanded, in consequence of the advanced
state of the winter season. Three million rounds of
rifle ball cartridges are ordered to be got ready for
transport by the mail packets for Canada.