The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-07 00:00:00

THE ARM}

It appears that 14 building firms contemplate de-
livering tenders for the new cavalry barracks about
to be erected at Colchester: 'Messrs. Haiding and
Bond have been chosen surveyors cn the part of
the builders, and Mr. Meeking has 1 een selected to
act also on the part of the Government ; these gen=
tlemen will take out the quantities, and tenders will
be delivered on their report being received. The
buildings will be of brick and of a solid and per-
manent character.

The 49th Regiment was inspected on Saturday
at Portsmouth by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C.B.
The volunteers from the Royal Marines for the
Royal Marine Artillery were inspected on the
parade ground at Chatham on Saturday morning,
after which they proceeded to Portsmouth to join
head-quarters. The required number of men having
been obtained, volunteering for the Royal Marine
Artillery is closed.

; A further order has been issued by Major-Gen.
Eyre, commanding the troops at Chatham, on the
subject of the officers of the garrison appearing in
public in private clothes. Major-General Eyre has
given the most stringent orders to the various offi-
cers commanding that, under no circumstances—
excepting in the cases of going on a journey—are
officers to appear in public dressed in private
clothes without the especittl leave of their com-
manding officer.
The 68-pounder 95cwt. guns mounted on the bat-
tery on the Isle of Grain, at the entrance to the
Medway, were dismounted on Saturday by a party
of men of the Royal Artillery belonging to the
Depot Brigade, for the purpose of enabling the con-
tractor, Mr. Twigg, to commence laying down the
raised racers, the invention of Colonel Colquhoun,
late of the Royal Artillery. The invention is about
to be adopted on the recommendation of the Ord-
nance Select Committee after numerous trials at
various parts of the coast, at all of which it has
been put to severe tests, The system of raised
racers and hollow soled trucks entirely does away
with the pivots with traversing platforms hitherto
in use. The trucks—with the exception of those
for the casemated platforms, which are of special
design and make—are all of the same construction,
and can be easily altered to suit any radius. The
racers are 11 inches in thickness, let into the plat-
form three quarters of an inch, leaving a clear inch
above. By direction of the authorities at the War-
office, the improved system is to be applied to the
whole of the 10-inch and 68-pounder guns mounted
on the fortifications in the Chatham district.

The deaths of the following officers have been
officially reported at the War-office since the Ist of
December :—General D. Herbert ; Colonels R. W:
Huey, Ist Royals, and H. D. Crofton, 11th Depot
Battalion ; Major E. Nepean, Royal Marines ;
Captains P. de Winton, Bth Hussars; E. C. Barnes,
St. Helena Regiment, W. Rose, 97th Regiment, J.
M. Mason, D. G. James, Royal Marines, and J.
Hanham, Adjutant of the 11th Depot Battalion ;
Lieutenants T. Richards, Bth Hussars; It. D. Mac-
gregor, 17th Lancers ; E. A. Elgin, 42d Highlan-
ders ; E. D, Cockell, 87th Regiment ; G. Paton, 22d
Dragoons; R. Campbell, 38th Regiment; H. H.
C. Ritter, 2d Light Dragoons ; T. J. Thompson, L.
Rotely, Royal Marines ; W. C. Chambers, Royal
Marines ; 3 . IV. Clapperton and R. W. Walter,
Royal Marines ; Quartermaster F. &nary, 74th
Highlanders; Surgeons A. B. Morgan, 57th Regi-
ment, and R. Wright ; and Assist.-Surg. E. D.
Verner, Royal Artillery.