The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-19 00:00:00

THE ARM}

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-'
in-Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards' at
one o'clock on Thursday next, the 24th inst.
Recruiting for the corps of Royal Marine Light
Infantry is proceeding more briskly than is the case
with recruiting for any other branch of the service,
and each of the divisions of Royal Marines is now
nearly up to its full strength. Yesterday' a party
of fine young men arrived at headquarters, Chat-
ham, having been forwarded from the Hull dis-
trict. The principal portion have been sent up
from the recruiting districts in Yorkshire and
the North, where in consequence of the
stagnation occurring in the cotton and sub-
sidiary .trades there appears to be no difficulty
experienced in obtaining recruits for the various
branches of the service requiring men. The Royal
Marine recruits on, being finally approved at head-
quarters are forwarded to Deal and attached to
the depot battalion at that station.•
Yesterday .a Board of the Commissioners of
Chelsea Hospital assembled at St. Mary's Barracks,
Chatham, under the presidency of Inspector-Gen.,
W. M. Muir, M.D., C. 8., principal medical :officer
of the district, when' 106 non-commissioned officers
and men of the various cavalry and infantry regi-
ments, chiefly from the Mediterranean and home
statione, all of whom had been previously inspected
and found unfit for further servide,twere ordered to
be discharged from the army on. Thursday next.
The claims were investigated by the Commissioners,
and pensions awarded to each non commissioned.'
officer and private according to his leugthof service.

The detachment of Royal Marines and Marine
Artillery which arrived at Chatham, from China,
in the Chesapeake, 51, under the command of
Major W. R. G. Masters and Lieut. B. D. Kenni-
cott, was inspected at head-quarters on Thursday
by Col. Gascoigne, C.B. In addition to their sea
pay for the period they have been absent from
England each of the privates will receive £l4 China
prize money,' and the non-commissioned'officers £2B
each. As soon as the men of the detachment have
reeeived.their pay they will be granted six weeks'
leave of absence.

His Serene Highness the Prince of Saxe Weimar,
Lord Bingham, Lord George Lennox, M.P., and
M. Acott, accompanied by Major-Gen. Sir Joshua
Webb, 'arrived at Portland on Wednesday, and in-
spected the breakwater, fortifications,"‘ casemated
barracks, batteries, and priion works now in course
of erection. The visitors were .OecaPija: several
hours in going over the extensive` works in' progress,
as well as those completed, and 'did not leave the
island until late in the afternobn,Wheithey returned
to Weymouth.' ; - •
Two batteries of 6-Pounder smooth' bore guns
were yesterday withdrawn: from the depot of the
Royal Artillery at Woolwich, and were ordered to
be prepared for embarkation in the Black Eagle
transport vessel, now at Deptford, for the use of
the Artillery Volunteers in Prince Edward's Island.
Three batteries of 12-pounder Armstrong guns and
equipments were ordered to be got in readiness for
despatch by an early conveyance for Quebec.
The newly organised military police force at
Woolwich, which at present comprises only 14 men,
selected from the various regiments stationed there,
and who parade the town and garrison night and
day, has been found to act most beneficially, the
number of desertions and other crimes having de-
creased in a marked manner. As the number of
the garrison amounts to between 5,000 and 6,000
soldiers, it is proposed to increase themwileirtearfyorpmoelriclye
corps to an equivalent number of men for relief and
now
permanent duty. The streets, which
comparatively impassable and
orderly dangerous
an a safterafe under
nightfall,the operation
are
of the new system, which has been established in
other garrisons with the like effect. The members
of the corps are only distinguished from other sol-
diers in their dress by the letters " M. P." in red
and yellow cloth attached to their left arms. Those
only are appointed who are known to be temperate
and of good general conduct.
The new barracks in course of erection at Hamp-
stead, for the use of the Ist or Royal East Middle-
sex Militia, are fast approaching completion, and
arc expected to be ready for occupation before the
close of the present year.
Col. Donaldson, who died on the. 14th inst. at
Fulham, served in the Peninsula with the 57th
Regiment from June, 1809, to the end of the war in
1814. He was present at the siege of B
aciagrilan
April, 1811, and at the battles of Albuera, Vittoria,
and the Pyrenees. His corumisesei :b
Cornet, Sept. 14, 1804 ; Lieut., n •
25, •
June 24, 1813 ; Major, Jan. 10,
1837; Lieut. ons
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Col.,
Nov. 11, 1851; and Col.,Nov. 28, 1854.

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