The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The following general orders were yesterday
issued at head quarters, Woolwich, in reference to
promotions and removals ordered to take place in
the corps of Royal Artillery :
" Her Majesty has been pleased to approve the
following, promotions viz., Lieutenant-General
Alexander Cavalie Mercer, to be Colonel Comman-
dant, vice Brough, deceased ; Second Captain W.
Lambert Yonge, from the supernumerary list, to be
Second Captain, vice Dames, placed on the super-
numerary list. Her Majesty has also been pleased
to approve the undermentioned officers of the Royal
Artillery receiving from the grant for distinguished
services the allowances stated against their names
—viz., Major-General R. Hardinge, K.H., £lOO
per annum ; Major-General W. C. Anderson, £5O
per annum. The grants will commence from the
16th of January, 1859."
The following field-batteries of the Royal Artil-
lery are to be held in readiness to embark for India,
according to details which will be published here-
after, viz., No. 5, Captain C. W. Elgee's, at present
at Northampton; M, Major Field's, at Limerick;
N, Major Hawkins', at Devonport; Z, Major Mil-
man's, at Devonport ; No. 12, Captain Green's, at
Shorncliffe ; R, Major Thompson's, at Aldershott :
Li, Captain Pigeon's, at Hilsea ; No. 12, Captain
Saiinders', at Aldershott; No.l, Major Brockley's,
at Ballincolig ; 0, Captain Meeking's, at Longford;
No. 10, Major Yelverton's, at Leith; No. 11, Capt.
J. L. Elgee's, at Christchurch. The following com•
panics are to be held in readiness to take over the
equipment, guns, stores, and horses of the above-
named companies, and be formed into new field-
batteries, numbered as under :—Lieutenant-Colonel
Morris' Company, 7th battalion, from Sheerness to
Northfieet, to form No. 17 battery; Capt. Vernon's
Company, 3d battalion, from Alderney to Linierick,
to form No. 18 battery ; Lieutenant-Colonel Dixon's
Company, 9th battalion,at Devonport, to form No.
19 battery ; Captain Woolridge's Company, sth
battalion, from Guernsey to Dublin, to form No. 20
battery; Major Clifford's Company, Ist battalion,
from Dover to Shorncliffe, to form No. 21 battery ;
Captain Travers' Company, 4th battalion, from
Portsmouth to Aldershott, to form No 22 battery ;
Major Adye's Company, 3d battalion, from Ports-
mouth to Hilsea, to form No. 23 battery ; Captain
Green's Company, Bth battalion, from Portsmouth
to Aldershott, to form No. 24 battery ; Major Len-
nox's Company, Ist battalion, from Guernsey to
Ballincolig, to form No. 25 battery ; Capt. Forbes's
Company, Ist battalion, from Sheerness to Long-
ford, to form No. 26 battery ; Lieutenant-Colonel
D'Aguilar's Company, 6th battalion, from Liver-
pool to Christchurch, to form No. 28 battery.
Col. Wilford,R.A., delivered a lecture on gunnery
on Thursday evening last, in the Royal Artillery.
Regimental School at Woolwich, to the non-com-
missioned officers and gunners of the corps, on
which occasion a number of the officers of the gar-
rison were present. The lecturer congratulated his
hearers on the formation of a regular school of gun-
nery at Shoeburyness, where a systematic teaching
of gunnery would be matured, and said that every
company of Artilleryshould be a school of gunnery
under its own officers,while instruction of a higher
character was given, and that the strictest attention
should be given to every detail of the service.

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