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

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-

bons officers. The name of the officer who will cora-

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. linollys from No. 7 Battery, 10th Brigade,
to No. 7 Battery, 4th Brigade ; Lieut. Owning
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.