The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-15 00:00:00

TIIE ARMY,

The following officers, who have recently obtained
their commissions as Lieutenants in the Royal
Artillery, are posted to batteries as under. Those
who belong to batteries serving at home stations
are to join them on the Ist proximo and the remain-
der at Woolwich on the same date :—Lieut. Emilius
Clayton, 4th Brigade, Bth battery, Aldershott ;
Lieut. Fred. E. B. Loraine, 4th Brigade, 10th bat-
tery, Gosport; Lieut. Willoughby B. Hemans, 15th
Brigade, ith battery, Guernsey ;
Lieut. George E.
Townsend, sth Brigade, 2d battery, Plymouth ;
Lieut. Arch. James Anderson, 15th Brigade, 4th
battery, Pembroke Dock; Lieut. Thos. de la C. Ir-
win, 10th Brigade, Ist battery, Isle of Wight;
Lieut. Earnshaw Bradley, 10th Brigade, 4th bat-
tery, Portsmouth ; Lieut. Edgar Kensington,t 15th I
Brigade, sth battery, Duncanno.o.n Fade,
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Robert Molesworth, 15th rib
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Pembroke Dock; Lieut. Edward ace, 15
Brigade, Bth battery, Guernsey; Lieut. J. Sutton
Rothwell, 10th Brigade, Bth battery, Portsmouth , •
Lieut. Thomas Gaskell, depot, 6th battery, Wool-
wick ; Lieut. Alexander Campbell, 13th Brigade,
4th battery, Tien-tsin ; Lieut. William Ogle
Carlisle, sth Brigade, sth battery, Woolwich ; Lieut.
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Alfred Logan, 14th Brigade, 3d battery, on passage
home; ; and Lieut. A. H. J. Des Barres, 10th Bri-
gade, 6th battery, Portsmouth.
The details connected with the proposed changes
contemplated in the present Depot Brigade of the
Royal Artillery were announced on Saturday. In
consequence of the Depot Brigade having of late
been considerably augmented by the addition of
several newly-formed batteries, it is intended to
make a triplicate division of the brigade, and thereby
relieve the present head-quarters of the heavy re-
sponsibility which at present attaches to the colonel'
commanding the brigade in carrying on the official
correspondence and regulating the changes Which
have multiplied so rapidly since our Indian posses-
skirls have been garrisoned by the Royal Artillery.
I:.P.e Plan of alteration contemplated consists in the
li"ibade
being formed into three separate divisions
or dePots, to be quartered at Woolwich, Sheerness,
and Warley, each division being in charge of a
separate commanding officer, who will be empowSred
to communicate on all subjects connected with the
interior economy and discipline of the brigade direct
with the Deputy Adjutant-General, at the Horse
Guards, instead of as heretofore the officer command-
in g at Woolwich. The right division, in the event
of the proposed alteration receiving the sanction of
her Majesty, will be stationed at Woolwich, the
centre division at Sheerness, and the left division
at Warley. The number of batteries at present
comprised in the Depot Brigade is 16, which is
about double the strength of that of any other bri-
gade in the Royal Artillery, with the exception of

the 4th and 6th, which number ten batteries each.
The right division at Woolwich will be placed under
the command of Col. G, R. H. Kennedy, and that
at Sheerness under the command of Lieut.-Col. R.
Talbot, both of whom are energetic and most zea-
lous officers. The name of the officer who will com-
mand the left division at Warley has not yet been
officially announced.
The 22d (Captain Steward's) Company of Royal
Engineers, which left head-quarters, Chatham, a
few days since to be employed in completing the
new barracks at Chelsea, the works of which have
been until recently suspended, in consequence of
the strike, has been augmented by an addition of 40
sappers, all experienced mechanics, from the com-
panies of Royal Engineers stationed at Aldershott
and Woolwich. Already considerable progress has
been made by the Royal Engineers in the comple-
tion of the works. The turn-outs are in the habit
of assembling in some numbers to hiss the Engi-
neers while the latter are at work. _

The right wing of the 37th (North Hampshire)
Regiment, consisting of companies Nos. 1,2, 3,5,
and 7, 300 rank and file, including the head-quar-
ters, which landed at Gravesend from the transport
Nimrod on Friday afternoon, left at five in the
evening under temporary command of Capt. E. J.
N. Burton, and, passing over the South-Western
and South Devon lines, arrived at Plymouth about
six on Saturday morning, and is now quartered,
with the left wing in Raglan Barracks, Devonport.
Both wings have just returned from India.
The Indomitable sailing transport arrived at
Spithead from the Thames on Saturday, and was
towed into harbour, where she will embark the
remainder of the 2d battalion of the 11th Regiment
for the Cape of Good Hope. The ship is expected
to sail on Tuesday morning. The depot is ordered
to Fermoy.
The Akbar sailing transport, hourly expected at
Spithead from London, is ordered on arrival at the
former port to embark Capt. Wood, 91st Foot, for
conveyance to the Mauritius, and four men of the
Royal Artillery; Captain Armstrong and wife and
Lieutenant Stanley, for conveyance to Ceylon.
The Akbar, after sailing from Portsmouth, calls in
at Queenstown, where she will embark 4 subalterns,
187 men, 4 women, and 7 children of sundry regi-
ments.

In the early part of last week a driver belonging
to the 6th Battery, Depot Brigade, Royal Arsenal,
at Woolwich, named Peter Masterton, having been

picked up by the military police for absenting him•

self from the garrison without leave, was brought
in custody to the mainguard in the Royal Arsenal.
The non-commissioned officer on duty, Sergeant
Martin Murphy, was in the act of entering the
charge when the prisoner suddenly rushed to the
fire place, and, seizing the huge barrack poker,

which he wielded double-handed, swore he would
be revenged for a three months' confinement which
he had suffered through a similar commitment by
Sergeant Murphy, and struck him two fearful blows
over the temple, felling him to the ground. The
sergeant lingered in great pain until Saturday,
when he expired. The prisoner has been handed
over to the civil authorities, to be tried for wilful
murder.

A wrought-iron gun, made in the reign of Henry
VI., was cut open in the Royal gun factories,Wool-
wich, last week, for the purpose of ascertaining the
nature of its construction. The gun has proved to
be similar to the ordnance designed a few years ago
by Mr. Dundas, of Dundas Castle, North Briton,
and consists of longitudinal staves, or bars, built up
and hooped with a series of out rings, the inster-
stices being run in with lead. The process has un
dergone considerable examination and much scien-
tific scrutiny.

The officers of the Royal Engineer Department
at Woolwich have made a survey during the past
week of the ground in the rear of the Royal Military
Academy, by order of Government, with a view of
extending the premises of the establishment, so as
to accommodate an additional number of gentlemen
cadets to the amount of 300, each pupil to be allowed
a separate sleeping chamber. The estimate is stated
to amount to about £60,000, for which tenders will
shortly be issued. Six extra batches of buildings
are about to be commenced, in addition to the four
just completed, at the back of the old hospital, be-
low Woolwich common, for the accommodation of
10 married Artillerymen and their families.
By a general regimental order issued by Colonel
Charles Bingham, Deputy Adjutant• General, the
following transfers have been ordered :—viz.,
Lieut. Knollys from No. 7 Battery, 10th ,Brigade,
to No. 7 Battery, 4th Brigade ; Lieut. Cuming
from No. 3 Battery, 15th Brigade, to No. 9
battery, 4th Brigrade ; Lieut. Sartorius from the
Depot Brigade, to No. 2 battery, 14th brigade; and
Lieut. Harrison from the Depot Brigade, to No. 5
battery, 2d brigade. An exchange of batteries has
been sanctioned between Capt. and Brevet-Major
C. T. Du Plat, of the Bth brigade, and Capt. W. J.
Wilson of the 10th brigade.
Ensign King, 37th Regiment, has been appointed
musketry instructor to the 9th depot battalion at
the camp at Colchester, relieving Ensign Mitchell,
appointed instructor to the 66th Foot. Draughts
of the 34th, 54th, and 97th Regiments left the camp
en route for India, in the course of the last week.