The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-28 00:00:00

THE ARML .

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief inspected the garrison at Woolwich on
Saturday. He arrived at 10 a.m. under a royal
salute. The 10th Brigade, 13th Brigade, and the
Depot of Royal Artillery, the sth Company of
Royal Engineers, and a strong battalion of Royal
Marines, were drawn up in line in the barrack field
—the 10th Brigade under Col. Burrows, the Depot
under Capt. Nangle, the Royal Marines under Col.
Hopkins ; the whole commanded by Sir Richard
Dacres, On the common were four batte-
ries Royal Horse Artillery, three batteries of the
Depot, a squadron of the sth Lancers, the riding
troop Royal Artillery, and two batteries of the
Military Train, the Royal Horse Artillery under
Col. D'Aguilar, the Depot batteries under Col.
Smyth, C.B. (Indian Artillery), the Military Train
under Col. Robertson, the sth Lancers under Capt.
Boyd, and the riding troop under Col. Henry. His
Royal Highness minutely inspected the troops,
after which the whole marched past. The Duke
then divided the force into two parts, taking com-
mand of one himself, and leaving the other to
General Dacres. The Duke took up a position on
the eminence at the top of the common, and sus-
tained the attack from Sir Richard Dacres with
good effect. Sir Richard succeeded in turning
the flank of the enemy, causing him to retire and
change his front. During the evolutions some bril-
liant charges were made by the cavalry (the infan-
try having been dismissed to barracks), and the
whole of the movements of the artillery were con-
ducted with great celerity and precision. His Royal
Highness afterwards inspected the remount horses,
&c., the new quarters for married soldiers (which
elieited his highest approval), and the General Hos-

pital. After taking luncheon at the Royal Artillery

mess he returned to London, expressing the highest
approval of all he had seen in the garrison. The
duke was accompanied by Sir R. Airey, Major-Gen.
Bloomfield, Col. Bingham, Col. Clifton, and other
officers.

Last Wednesday considerable commotion took
place among the gentlemen cadets at the Royal
Military Academy at 'Woolwich, the immediate
cause of which appears to have been a new regula-
tion which deprives them of the leisure time cus-
tomarily allowed on Wednesday afternoon ; but the
true source of discontent is said to have been the
quantity and quality of the provisions. The first
symptom of any irregularity was that only 30 cadets
out of 230 presnited themselves at the roll-call on
parade in the afternoon. When called a second time
no one refused to obey. In the evening, however,
the old field guns posted along in front of the Aca-
demy (trophies from the battlefield of Waterloo)
were thrown into the ditch of the enclosure, and a
number of the drill swords were at the same time
cast into the governor's garden, while other guns
were loaded with the lb. loaves recently intro-
()need in the rations. In vain the authorities endea-
voured to put a stop to the proceedings by punish-
ingaom e of the supposed ringleaders, and also by
removing all traces of the disturbance early on the
following Nom,- g. In the course of the day the
governor 5...-kogued the malcontents, informing
them that the
commandant of the garrison had
offet ea' to Place 100 artillerymen at his disposal
in the event of any
.further disturbance. The
succeeding evening the
Etoyern or's windows were
about th
smashed, e
andbarracks a,variety
00111 placards were posted
Nl:Let they desired,
_ , Y the mutineers
seemed to have obtained
viz., an investigation into the cause of
and dissatisfaction. A board of complaint
inquiry has sat
each day for that purpose, and consists of
el
Colo
Yorke, R.E., Major Fitzhugh, and Major Williamsl ,
ILA. The cadets who were under arrest have, forthe present, been allowed to return to duty. Other'
causes of complaint, as stated by the cadets are the
unjust manner in which they consider the " special
class" to have been promoted over the heads of many
gentlemen Low at Woolwich ; and also a new mode
of dividing the classes lately introduced by the Go-
vernor. With regard to matters unconnected with
study, they state that the regulations are totally
unsuited to the present age of the cadets, and that
in various ways they are not treated as gentlemen,
A statement of the facts in a formal and official report
is expected to be forwarded today to headquarters.
The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. J. Sec-
combe, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the
Mediterranean with the following passengers, naval
and troops on board :—Capt. E. M. A.
f
Wylde, ;
L I Lieut. C. H. Murphy, invalided rom the -Wanderer. ; Lieut. C. D. Davis, invalided
from tb.eboris• 3Mr. A. F. Gain, moistepaymagter,

invalided from the London ; Mr. G. G. 7,30y5, naval
cadet, invalided from the Doris; Mr. Hancock,
assist.-engiLL,:r, ius 41ided from the blue. n ; Mr.
Moorman, paymaster, invalided from the Queen ;
the Rev. .T. W. Clarke, M.A., to join t'-,e Hawke ;
Mr. C. F. Batcsh, midshipman, R. Nr. (Prussian
lieutenant); Mr. W. Dennison, Mr. Stocker,
R.N., Mr. T. Shuter, R.N., Mr. T. B. Kerr, R.N.,
68 invalided seamen, marines, and boys, one ordi-
nary seaman to join the Recruit, three seamen to
join the Orion, four passengers for harbour service,
two seamen for trial by court-martial, and two for
discharge. The troops on board were embarked as
follows :—From Corfu, on the 11th October, Lieut.
Givin, Ist battalion 9th Foot, 26 rank and file of
various regiments, invalided and to join their
respective corps, six women and 16 children ;
from Malta, on the 16th of October, the 17th
company of Royal Engineers, under the command
of Lieut. Lambert, and men invalided from va-
rious regiments, 116 rank and file, eight women
and 14 children, one lady and one child ; from
Gibraltar, on the 22d of October, the 24th company
of Royal Engineers, under the command of Lieut.
I)urnford, and men invalided from various corps-
-144 rank and file, 21 women, and 19 children, and
Staff-surgeon O'Longhlan. The ship steamed into
Portsmouth harbour soon after her arrival at Spit-
head, and was made fast alongside the dockyard,
where the military will disembark this morning,
Lieut. Durnford's company of Royal Engineer's
proceeding to the camp at Aldershot, and Lieut.
Lambert's company to Chatham, Malta was left on
the 17th, the day after the troops had embarked ;
Gibraltar on the 22d ; Spithead was reached thence
in 971 hours. The Himalaya sailed from Ports-
mouth on the 26th September, calling at Queens-
town, where she took in detachments of troops, and
went thence to Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu, and
back to Malta, Gibraltar, and Spithead, embarking
and disembarking troops at each port, and, in addi-
tion, taking 250 tons of stores. Rough weather was
experienced during the voyage out, but fine weather
during the return passage home. The superheating
apparatus acted better during the present voyage
than the previous one, but it requires to be entirely
re-arranged. At present it chokes the up-take of
the funnel, destroys the draught, and after two days
at sea it becomes a difficult matter to keep up steam.
The Himalaya's next services will be a voyage to
Halifax and Bermuda.

In consequence of the great want of artisans of
the Royal Engineers at Aldershott and Shorncliffe
Camps, and also at Dover, at which latter station a
large party of Royal Engineers have been for some
time past employed in repairing the defences at that
part of the coast, a number of skilled mechanics,
consisting principally of masons, bricklayers, and
carpenters, have been selected from the com-
panies of sappers and miners at Chatham,
and will leave head-quarters, Bromptoa-bar-
racks, this morning for the above stations. The
sappers and miners proceeding to Aldershott will
be employed, in conjunction with the men
of the 2d company of Royal Engineers, sta-
tioned at the camp, in erecting stabling and huts
for the horses and men of the A troop of the Royal
Engineer Train, which, instead of going into winter
quarters at Chatham, will remain at Aldershott
during the winter, the north square at Brompton
barracks, in which the men and horses of the Royal
Engineer Train have been hitherto quartered, being
now occupied by the D battery of the 9th brigade
Royal Artillery. The want of additional engineers
at Aldershott has been so great that the volunteers
from the Royal Engineers from the cavalry and in-
fantry regiments at the camp have been posted to
the second company, with which they are doing
duty, instead of being forwarded to headquarters.
On the completion of the stables at Aldershott the
volunteers will proceed to Chatham and be attached
to the depot company in order to be put through a
course of instruction in sapping and mining, and
pontooning.

The Royal Engineers at Chatham having com-
pleted the submarine cable, which is to be laid
down across the harbour at Portsmouth, Captain
H. D. Schaw, under whose superintendence it has
been prepared, will leave head-quarters this morn-
ing for Portsmouth, accompanied by the assist.-in-
structors on the staff, for the purpose of directing
the operation of laying it, and testing its working
after it has been put in the desired position across
the harbour.

The inaugural lecture "On Electricity" to the
officers and men of the Royal Engineers on the
opening of the new lecture theatre and other build-
ings recently completed at the Royal Engineer
establishment, Chatham, was given on Saturday
evening last, by J. Douglas, a private in the Royal
Engineers, on which occasion Col. H. D. Harness,
C. 8., director of the Royal Engineer establishment,
presided, the officers of the staff, as well as the offi-
cers and men of the Engineers, to the number of
several hundred, being present. The lecture was
clear and lucid, the lecturer being evidently tho-
roughly conversant with the subject he undertook
to explain.