The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The annual inspection of the Plymouth division
of Royal Marines took place on Tuesday on the
Hoe before Adjutant-General Wesley. The progress
of the officers and men met the approbation of Gen.
Wesley. In consequence of the accidental discharge
of a musket -while fixing bayonets one of the Ma-
rines had a portion of his hand shot away.
The 53d Foot, comprising 21 officers, 385 men, 24
women, and 20 children, are ordered to proceed
from Plymouth to Aldershot, via Portsmouth. The
Ist division is expected to arrive at the last-named
port in her Majesty's steamer Bulldog by 10 a.m.
to-day.
The 2d Battalion, 11th (North Devon) Regiment
is ordered to embark as follows, at Portsmouth, for
the Cape of Good Hope, in the hired sailing tran-
sport Boanerges—Lieut.-Col. A. F. Senner, Major
J. Peebles, Captains A. D. Dixon, F. B. Fuite, F.
L. Slack, and M. L. M'Causland ; Lieuts. F. J. S.
Whitehead, W. G. Ripon, 0. C. Robinson, and E.
H. Hare ; Ensigns H. H. Skill, G. A. Elliott, T.
Auchinleck, T. F. Gibbons, A. H. Vaughan ; Sur-
geon W. F. Black, Assist.-Sorg. W. J. Tibbs, Quar-
termaster J. R. Atkins, 6 staff-sergeants, 22 ser-
geants, 22 corporals, 11 drummers, 389 men, 46
women, and 43 children ; 3 officers' wives, 7 chil-
dren, and 2 servants. In the sailing ship Indomit-
able—Major A. H. L. Wyatt ; Captains R. Man-
sell, R. C. Richardson, F. W. H. Petre, and D. B.
Gabb ; Lieuts. M. Guard, J. R. Kelsell, E. J. B.
Dunellan, G. Edge, W. A. Irwin, and V. Williams ;
Ensigns I. Boyce, J. Helby, and G. W. Westrop ;
Paymaster R. R. Robinson, Quartermaster A.
Macintyre, 1 schoolmaster, 1 staff sergeant, 16 ser-
geants, 16 corporals, 10 drummers, 336 privates, 21
women, and 32 children ; 3 officers' wives, 4 chil-
dren, and 2 servants. In the sailing ship Conflict—
Captain W. H. Crompton, Ensign R. Cumberlege,
2 sergeants, 2 corporals, and 35 men ; one officer's
wife. The Conflict also takes in other detachments
for the Cape.
Yesterday the chartered East India troopship
Trafalgar, 1,100 tons, Capt. Taylor, belonging to
Messrs. Green, of Blackwall, brought up in the
Thames from Madras, and landed a numerous party
of cavalry and infantry troops from the various
regiments serving in the Madras Presidency, at the
Government Quay, Gravesend, when the whole
were immediately forwarded to Chatham garrison,
the troops having been sent to England to be dis-
charged. The Trafalgar embarked her troops at
Madras on the Bth of March last, and sailed the
following day ; rounded the Cape of Good Hope on
the 24th of April ; anchored at St. Helena en the
15th of May, and sailed thence the following day ;
crossed the Equator on the 22d of May, and first
sighted the Scilly Islands, bearing N.N.E., on the
18th inst. ; the voyage to Gravesend, including de-
tentions, occupying 108 days. The number of
troops who embarked at Madras was 130 men of
all ranks, with 12 women and 21 children, belong-
ing to the Ist (the King's) Dragoon Guards, 17th
Lancers, Madras Arqllery, Ist and 2d Madras
Fusileers, Ist battalion 18th Royal Irish, 43d Light
Infantry, 3d battalion 60th Rifles, 68th Light In-
fantry, 69th Regiment, and the 74th Highlanders.
Ile whole were under the command of Capt. H. T.
Trafford, 43d Light Infantry, and Lieut. A. M.
Duff, 74th Highlanders, and in medical charge of
Dr. Peterkin, of the Madras Army. During the
voyage only two deaths occurred on board.

The following reinforcements will be despatched
to India from the camp at Colchester during the
ensuing month :—For Calcutta 3 officers and 26 man,
34th Regiment; 2 officers and 30 men, 54th ; 2 offi-
cers, 38; 1 man, 88th (Connaught Rangers) ; and 2
officers and 70 men, 97th. For Bombay, 2 officers
and 70 men, 56th ; and for Madras, 1 officer and 46
men, Ist Battalion, Ist Royals.

Yesterday a number of officers from the Royal
Engineer establishment, Chatham,proceed to Shoe-
buryness, by direction of the Secretary of State for
War, to witness and report upon the experiments
ordered to be carried out with the Armstrong guns
on various descriptions of iron plates. The experi-
ments yesterday were to be made on iron plates
varying from one quarter of an inch to three inches
in thickness ; and to•day the same kind of experi-
ments will be continued, when the plates to be ex-
perimented upon will be those of from four inches
and a half to six inches and a half in thickness.
Experiments are also to be made upon the Hussar,
old 42-gun ship, which has been given over by the
Admiralty for that purpose, and forwarded from
Chatham to Shoeburyness, where she has been scut-
tled and sunk in 15 feet of water. Owing, how-
ever, to the Peculiar position in which she lies, it