The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-18 00:00:00

Ti -E ARMY.

Yesterday Major-General Eyre, commanding the
troops of the Chatham district, made his yearly in-
spection of the corps of Royal and Indian Engineers,
at head-quarters, Brompton. The entire force now
at the Itoyal Engineers eolublishuieut N.“. itn wetl
on the parade-ground at Brompton Barracks shortly
after 9 o'clock, in eight divisions, including the
22d, 30th, 31st, 35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th com-
panies of Royal Engineers, and the detachment of
Royal Indian Engineers, the whole under the com-
mand of Co!. T. B. Collinson. Previously to leav-
ing the Royal Engineer establishment, Major-Gen.
Eyre expresed through the officer commanding his
satisfaction at the result of his inspection.
The following circular, dated the 15th inst., was
issued from the Horse Guards yesterday by com-
mand of the Duke of Cambridge :
" It appearing that the Commander-in-Chief in
India has recently approved of a white tunic for the
troops in India, 1 am directed to acquaint you that
no further provision of Khakee suits for draughts is
to be made, and that the ordinary sea kit canvass
frock should be issued instead. In cases, however,
where any Khakee suits remain in store, or have
been ordered of the tradesmen, they must be sup-
plied to the men as part of their sea kit, and Sir
Hugh Rose has been informed that the men on land-
ing in India are to be allowed to wear them out. -1t
will also be desirable that they should be :ss"orn on
board ship, instead of being retained for issue on
landing."
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Messrs. Westley Richards and Co., of Birming.
ham, have just completed an order from the Govern-
ment for some of their breech-loading rifled mus-
kets, with Whitworth barrels. They are to be
played In the hands of a certain number of line

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vention as a military weapon. These rifled m -
have an accurate range of 1,200 or 1,300 yard c-%
They are the same length as the Enfield rifle, and
of equal precision with the Whitworth ; indeed, on 1.
referring to the report of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation recently published, it appears that the three
prizes, the Prince Consort's, the Duke of Cam-
bridge's, and the Duke of Wellington's, each at
800, 900, and 1,000 yards, and open to all corners
of all nations, were each won with Westley
Richards' breach-loaders, the guns used having
been made for the Government. This is sufficient
to show the accuracy of the guns at long ranges,
and their adaptation for military purposes. This
firm has also large contracts on hand for breech-
loading cavalry carbines, rifled on the same prin-
ciple as the muskets. They are a light..anid handy
weapon, being only 61b. in weight, and having an
accurate range of 1,000 yards. Some of these arms
were sent to China for trial during the late war.
The report sent home relative to them by Sir Hope
Grant is most satisfactory in every respect. The
ammunition is represented as being the strongest
and best adapted for military purposes of any that
has been served to the troops ; it is further added
that a missfire is almost unknown. These breech-
loading weapons, from the rapid manner in which
they can be loaded, have double and treble the effi-
ciency of weapons on the ordinary principle. They
would be invaluable as an arm for the volunteers in
the colonies.

General Sir Richard Dacres, Commandant at
Woolwich, and the Hon. I. R. Drummond,
Commodore-Superintendent of the dockyard, ac-
companied *by other officers, yesterday weld
down from Woolwich to Parfleet for the purpose
of inspecting the detachment of Royal Artillery at
that station, and also to carry out the annual sur-
vey of the powder stores and other Government
establishments there. They proceeded to Graves-
end, and inspected the floating defences moored on
either side of the •river. Returning to Woolwich,
a modification of Mr. Clark's smoke-preventive
apparatus adapted to war vessels became the subject
of their inspection. It was found to act very well.
The system is now oidered to be employed for two
other vessels in the Royal navy now at Woolwich
—namely, the Bustler and the Monkey.
In answer to the appeal forwarded by General
Sir Richard Dacres, Commandant at Woolwich,
through her Majesty's Privy Purse, on behalf of
the orphan children of the late unfortunate gunner
of the Royal Artillery, Hugh Davis, an official
reply has been received by the widow, informing
her that no claims for further allowance can be
entertained by the State. The widow and children

(the youngest only a few months old) are, therefore,
destitute, and but for the indulgence of General
Dacres, who has compassionately allowed them a
few days' grace, they would have been, some days
ago, removed from the hut in which they are still
living by sufferance.

Lieut. John E. Toiler, Lieut. James Gore Booth,
and Lieut. H. G. Pilleau have been transferred
from the Royal Artillery to the Royal Engineers.
Lieut. C. W. Townsend, of the 11th Brigade, is
raised to increased pay therein, vice Campbell. The
following officers of the Royal Artillery are placed
as Colonels on the Staff of the army serving
in Great Britain and Ireland so long as
they shall be employed—Colonel Burke Cuppage,
south-eastern ; Col. Franklin Dunlop, C. 8.,
south-western ; Col. A. A. Shuttleworth, western ;
Col. I. W. Ormsby, Ireland ; and Col. J. W. Fitz-
mayer, C. 8., Aldershott. Col. Charles James
Dalton is placed as a Colonel upon the Staff of the
army serving at Gibraltar, while commanding the
Royal Artillery at that fortress. The following
transfers have been ordered :—Lieut. H. G. Hill,
from No. 5 battery, 2d brigade, to No. 1 battery,
12th brigade, at Plymouth ; Lieut. W. M. Tollner,
from the depot brigade to No. 1 battery, 12th bri-
gade, to do duty at the Cape of Good Hope. The
following Lieutenants, who obtained their commis-
sions on the Ist ult., are to be posted as annexed :
Lieut. H. L. Smith to 15th brigade, sth battery,
Duncannon Fort; Lieut. John Keith, 13th brigade,
Bth battery, Secunderabad; Lieut. Alex. Grubb,
15th brigade, Ist battery, Pembroke Dock ; Lieut.
•E. D. Shafto, 2d brigade, 4th battery, Dover ;
Lieut. James Wall, 7th brigade, 3d battery, Quebec ;
Lieut. Samuel Pym, 2d brigade, sth battery, Dover;
and Lieut. F. T. Bircham, 6th brigade, 7th battery,
Corfu. The following exchanges have been. ap-
proved :—between Lieut. Strange, of No. 1 bat-
tery, and Lieut. Tremlett, of No. 2 battery, 13th
brigade. The former has joined his battery at Se-
cunderabad, and the latter will return to this coun-
try with No. 1 battery. Lieut. Wells is transferred
from No. 1 to No. 3 battery, 7th brigade, and will
remain in Jamaica on the relief of the former by
the latter from Canada.

Orders have been issued to strengthen the fortifi-
cations of Portsmouth at the salient points of their
sea face, and the approaches to Spithead, with 40 of
the 100-pounder Armstrong guns. The sites se-
lected to receive them on the town lines com-
prise the pivot platforms of the three traversing
68-pounders guns of the St. James's-gate, the Sema-
phore 8-inch shell battery, and the King's Bastion.
The auxiliary batteries of Southsea Castle and the
new fort at Lumps will each be supplied with two
of these weapons. Blockhouse Fort, Moncton Fort
and auxiliary earthworks, and the Browndown
batteries will receive their proportion. The re-
mainder will be distributed between Hurst Castle
and the forts of Cliff-end and Victoria, near the
Needles.

The York sailing transport, Captain Redpath,
sailed ut 11 a.m. yesterday from Spithead for Dub-
lin, with the detachment of the 87th (Royal Irish)
FusileerA on board she brought home from China.