The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

By a general regimental order issued by Colonel
Charles Bingham, the Deputy Adjutant-General,
dated the 9th inst., the following changes and move-
ments in the Royal Artillery have taken place :
Lieut. W. B. R. Hall, of the 15th Brigade, having
been appointed aide-de-camp to his Excellency the
Governor of Gibraltar, is transferred to No. 6 battery,
Ist Brigade; and Lieut. Graham from that battery
'to No. 7 battery, 2d Brigade, in place of Lieut.
Noyes, who is posted to No. 1 battery, 15th Brigade.
The following exchanges have been ordered between
the Hon. Capt. and Brevet-Major Yelverton [sic],
of the 9th, and Capt. Byrne, of the 15th Brigade ;
Second Capt. Purcell of the 3d Brigade, and Second
Capt. Hope Johnstone, of the 15th Brigade ; Capt.
Wodehouse, of the Bth Brigade, and Lieut. Bowen,
of the 3d Brigade; Lieut. Maclean, of the 3d Brigade,
and Lieut. Goodeve, of the 4th Brigade ; Lieut.
Parlby, of the 6th Brigade, and Lieut. Porter, of
the 3d Brigade. Two additional instructors in topo-
graphical drawing and surveying being required at li
the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich, officers
desirous of these appointments are requested to for-
ward their names to Col. Yorke, R.E., Inspector of
Studies at the Academy. Officers of the rank of
Second Capt. will be preferred.
The following redistribution of the Royal Artil-
lery Coast Brigade has been ordered, viz.:—One
captain withdrawn from Ireland, and a division
formed at Purfleet, to consist of the detachment
serving there at Woolwich ; No. 6 division to com-
prise the detachments at the Tower of London and
in the Medway district ; the officers and men serv-
ing in the South Wales district to be transferred
from No. 1 to No. 4 division ; Capt. Handyside re-
moved from Dublin to the Tower of London ; Capt.
W. Henry from Cork harbour to Portobello, Dub-
lin ; Second Capt. Scott to command the division
at Purfleet; and Lieut. Lee to do duty with the
head-quarters at Woolwich. Lieut. I. Taylor, of
the Coast Brigade, is raised to increased pay in this
service, vice Scott, promoted.
The 2d battery of the 4th Brigade of Field Artil-
lery (12-pounder Armstrongs), under the command
of Lieut.-Col. Turner, stationed at Hilsea, was yes-
terday officially inspected on Southsea-common,
Portsmouth, by Major-General Lord W. Paulet,
C. 8., commanding the South-Western district. The
Major-General, accompanied by Col. Somerset and
other officers, arrived on the ground where the bat-
tery was drawn up at 3 p.m., and immediately
commenced the inspection. The battery was put
through a series of manoeuvres incidental to move-
ments of attack and defence in the field in presence
of an enemy, firing blank, all of which were exe-
cuted with great precision and rapidity. At the
close of the proceedings Lord Paulet said it was
exceedingly creditable both to officers and soldiers
to find a body of men who had but recently returned
from service in China in so efficient and orderly a
state.

A portion of the Ist company of Royal Engineers,
numbering about 30 non-commissioned officers and
men, with the 9th company, arrived a few days
since from the Mediterranean. The men belonging
to the Ist company have been sent to Plymouth,
where they are employed in the erection and repair
of the defences at that part of the coast. The re-
mainder of the company will embark in the first
transport, and proceed direct to Plymouth. The
men belonging to the 9th company have arrived at
Aldershott.

A large and commodious Presbyterian church,
dedicated to St. Andrew, built on land given by
the War Department, and towards which Govern-
ment granted a considerable sum, has been built
at Chatham, for the accommodation of the Royal
Marines belonging to the Church of Scotland, the
condition of the grant by Governmeßt being that
space shall be allotted in the church for 200 men
from the garrison on each Sunday. The church
was opened for public worship on Sunday last.

IREL AND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.
CONFESSION OF A TRIPLE MURDER AND ROBBERY

The following appears in the Sligo Champion of
Saturday :

" Mathew Phibbs has at length given evidence that ho
has awakened to a sense of the enormity of his crime. Ho
has justified the finding of the intelligent gentlemen who
were empanelled on the coroner's jury in Ballymote, in
January last,—and the verdict of the jurors who tried his
case at our recent assizes—by confessing that he was the
murderer of Mr. William Callaghan, his wife Fanny Cal-
laghan, and their servant, Anne Mooney.
"We had heard more than a fortnight since that Phibbs
expressed a wish to have an interview with Mr. Lindsay,
Primitive Wesleyan preacher, and it is probable enough
that he would have made a confession to that gentleman had
he been permitted to seo him ; but such permission was not
granted, and Phibbs ultimately disburdened his mind to
one of the turnkeys, named Bell, to whom he admitted that
it was his hand that had deprived Mr. and Mrs. Callaghan
and their servant of life. lie also mentioned that he had
hidden some of the property he had taken in a field belong-
ng to Captain Gethin, and which is about 300 yards distant
from Callaghan's house. On the following morning the
turnkey's term of duty having ceased for 24 hours, Bell
availed himself of the opportunity to proceed to Ballymote,
and on searching Mr. Gethin's turnip-field he found in a
trench a case of pistols, a watch and chain, watch key, and
seal, and in a field adjoining, after a strict search, he found two
large silver tablespoons, six silver teaspoons, and two pewter
spoons, under a flat stone. Those articles Bell brought to the
authorities, and in consequence of Phibbs having informed
him that he had also hidden £l4 in money, which Bell could
not find on his first search, he had a conversation to that
effect with Phibbs, who stated that he thought he had
thrust it under a rock, and Bell again went to Ballymote,
searched the place mentioned by Phibbs, but failed to find
the money. Bell then went to the house of Mr. Forde,
adjacent to the residence of the late Mr. Callaghan; and
Forde, who is a very respectable man, told him that ho and
more than 20 othets had .searched the same ground, but
only found a muslin handkerchief. On returning to the
gaol Bell acquainted Phibbs with his fruitless search, and
questioned him about the handkerchief, and Phibbs
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