The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-09 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

The Mars, troopship, Capt. Anderson, the arrival
of which at Spithead from China was reported in
The Sun of yesterday, was yesterday towed into
Portsmouth harbour, and will this morning dis-
charge her troops, Royal Artillery, from China.
'They consist of Brevet Lient.-Col. Barry's battery
of the 4th Brigade—two captains, one lieutenant,
one assist: surgeon, one veterinary-surgeon, two
Staff-sergeants, eight sergeants, five corporals, 18
bombardiers, 89 gunners, 67 drivers, two trum-
peters, and 13 artificers ; one bombardier of Capt.
Milward's battery; and Major Rotton's battery of
the 2d Brigade—one lieutenant, one assist.-surgeon,
two sergeants, two corporals, four bombardiers, one
trumpeter, and two artificers. Lieut.-Col. Barry's
battery will proceed to quarters at Christchurch.
Major Rotton's battery proceeds to Dover. The
names of the officers on board are—Brevet Lieut.-
Col. Barry, Capt. Rowley, Lieuts. Phillpots and
Dyce, surv. Taylor and Harrison, and Veterinary-
SnTR. Long. The Mars sailed from the Cape of Good
Hope for England, after lying there 10 days on
arrival from China, on the Ist of March, calling in
at St. Helena and sailing again on April 14. The
Mars had a long continuance of easterly and north-
east winds the latter part of her voyage. One death
u~ourred during the passage, which was from dy-
sentery.

The Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. Cockburn arrived
at Portz=outh yesterday at 1.30 p.m., from Jersey,
having on beuA the head quarters and right wing
of the 30th Regimen!, -with band and colours, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. J. T. Mauleverer, C. 8.,
and consisting of 18 officers, 543 men, 5911.t,ien,115
children, and 5 horses. The troops were, on the
frigate arriving alongside the dockyard, immedi-
ately disembarked under the superintendence of
Co). E. Somerset, 'C.D., Quartermaster-Gen. of the
south-west district, and headed by the band of the
2d battalion, 11th regiment, marched to the rail-
way station at Landport, whence they were for-
warded to Farnborough for Aldershot Camp. The
Diadem arrived at Jersey at 8 a.m. on Tuesday,
having left Portsmouth the previous evening. She
anchored about four miles from the lauding place of
the troops, who were conveyed to and from the Dia-
dem by her Majesty's paddle steamer Dasher and a
small screw steamer. On the 55th having been landed
from the Diadem the embarkation of the right wing

of the 30th took place,and at its conclusion the frigate
left for Portsmouth at 8 a.m., where she arrived at
the time stated above. Strong winds from E. to E.S.E.
were met with in crossing the Channel, The Dia-
dem embarked at Portsmouth this morning the left
wing of the 55th Regiment, which leave Aldershot
at 8 a.m., and will convey them to Alderney, re-
turning to Portsmouth with the left wing of the 1
30th for Aldershot.
Within the tit st few days the authorities connec-
ted with the Commissariat Department at Chatham
have discovered that the persons under contract to
supply meat to the several barracks at that garri-
son have latterly been in the habit of substitutin3
inferior meat for meat of Fine quality, which by the
terms' of their contract they were bound to supply
to the troops of the garrison. The discovery of the
system practised appears to have been made a few
days ago in a purely accidental manner by some par-
ties who were invited to attend at the garrison on the
occasion of fresh tenders being required, when the
specimens of meat then in the course of being served
out to the troops were examined, on which it was
found that the whole was of a most inferior qua-
lity, and of a kind that ought never to have been
delivered for consumption. On the circumstances
being brought under the notice of Major-General
Eyre, commanding the forces at the garrison, and
Assist.-Commissary-General Ibbetson, a board of
officers was immediately assembled to examine and
report upon the meat then delivered, the result of
which was that the whole was condemned and pro-
nounced unfit for food, and the supply required
for the day purchased of private butchers, at the
expense of the contractors. On several days dur-
ing last week Gen. Eyre directed a board of officers
to be assembled to inspect the meat, and in nearly
every instance the board condemned the supply fur-
nished, and refused to allow it to be cooked for the
troops. On Saturday last no less than 7001 b. weight
were rejected, and a fresh supply purchased at the
expense of the army butchers. The result of the
discoveries made has been that a report of the
whelp of the circumstances has been laid before the
authorities at the Horse Unards, and Ic under-
stood that the contractors at present supplying
meat to the garrison will cease to do so at the ter-
mination of the present contract.