The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-06 00:00:00

TIE ARMY.

A_ .tea .c:.otvd LU Lue reorganisation or
the Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms has been issued
from the Horse Guards by command of the Duke
of Cambridge. Under the new regulations the pur-
chase of commissions is to cease, compensation to
existing interests being made from the reserve fund
by the Secretary of State for War. No officer who
may be appointed to the corps henceforth will be
allowed to sell his commission. Candidates for ap•
pointment to the corps must be officers of the army,
not under the rank of captain, with 20 years full
pay service. If on full pay they must, previous to
appointment, be placed on half-pay, if entitled to it
by the provisions of the Royal warrant. Captains
on retired full pay are to be eligible, also captains
having superior brevet rank. Candidates are not to
be above 50 years of age, nor under five feet six
inches in height. Officers who have sold out of the
army are ineligible. Any officer who may possess
the above qualifications, and is desirous of being a
candidate for appointment to the corps must address
his application to the military secretary.
It has been resolved to carry out some experi-
mental firing with the monster wrought-iron Hors-
fall gun, mounted near Southsea Castle, Portsmouth.

To accomplish this purpose a large party of Royal
Artillery are engaged in preparations to remove the
gun to a more suitable site for the intended experi-
ments than the one it stands on at present.
An order has been received at Chatham from the
War Department, announcing that the Secretary
of State for War has decided on separating Graves-
end from the Medway district until the batteries
and other works of defence now in course of erec-
tion at Coalhouse Point and Shornmeade are com-
pleted. In accordance with these instructions Capt.
W. S.Stace has been appointed commanding Royal
Engineer pro tern. To expedite the progress of the
new fortifications he has received instructions to
correspond direct with the War-office.
A circular memorandum has been forwarded
from the Horse Guards to Chatham and the other
garrison towns inviting mechanics at present serv-
ing in the line to volunteer to the Royal Engineers.
The class of workmen required are carpenters,
smiths, masons, bricklayers, and plumbers, of good
character and fair education.

By direction of the Duke of Cambridge, Captain
H. Schaw, of the Royal Engineer establishment,
Chatham, has proceeded to Portsiaouth to take the
necessary steps for laying down a telegraph line be-
tween Portsmouth and Gosport, which the Govern-
ment has decided on establishing, to facilitate the
works connected with the construction of the pro-
posed defences.
The next examination of candidates for admission
to the Royal Military College Sandhurst, is to com-
mence on the lith inst., before Gen. Knollys, the
vice-president, and members of the Council of Mili-
tary Education, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
The examination will extend to the 22d inst.

The candidates for appointment to the Commis-
sariat come up for examination before the Council of
Military Education, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea,
on the 17th inst. and two following days.
The examination of candidates to the Royal Mili-
tary Academy, Woolwich, to be held before the
Council of Military Education, is to commence on
the Ist proximo, and will continue daily (Sundays
excepted) up to Thursday, the 18th.
For a short period, at the close of the late finan-
cial year, and pending a decision of the finances for
1861-2, the operations in the Rifled Armstrong Ord-
nance Department at -Woolwich, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Anderson, were restricted solely to
completing the work already in hand, and, as no
new orders were received, a number of forgemen and
others, to the number of 250, were discharged from
the establishment. The factories have again as-
sumed their former activity, and are now turning
pounders
ndlen rs
out a large number of the heavy kind of naval
guns---viz., 100-pounders, upwards of 200 of which
have already passed proof and are now realy for
use. a 10-
addition
tiprovedonte tahtetehheebvuettnollnin.bre 'Tuesday
five
yve 0
and
five yesterday; and of the smaller kinds for the army
20 25. pounders are turned out weekly. Mr. Whit-
worth, who has partially recovered from his late
severe indisposition, yesterday visited Woolwich

Arsenal, and entered into arrangements for an offi-
cial trial of his guns ; four 80-pounders are now
in the arsenal for that purpose, two of which were
manufactured by himself, and two in the royal gun
factories at Woolwich. The latter are now in course
of being sighted, after having satisfactorily passed
the Government proof.

The following batteries of the Royal Artillery
have marched from head-quarters, Woolwich, pass-
ing through Kingston and Chertsey, Epsom,
Ewell, and Guildford, to Aldershott—namely,
Captain Paget's B battery, Royal Horse, and
Major Penn's, No. 4, 4th Brigade, on Monday;
and the mounted portion of Capt. Leslie's battery,
No. 6, of the 4th Brigade, and Capt. Saunders's I
battery, A equipment, Royal Horse Artillery, left
Woolwich yesterday, and are now on the march
also for Aldershott.

Major-General S. R. Wesley, Deputy Adjutant •
General of the corps of Royal Marines, yesterday
made his annual inspection of the Woolwich divi-
sion.