The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-03 00:00:00

THE AR2III

Yesterday morning H,R.H. the General Com-
manding-in-Chief, accompanied by Major-Gen. Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., Sir R. Airey, Quartermaster-
General; Major the Hon. F. Keane, Assist.-Adjt.-
Gen., Royal Engineers; Col. Bingham, Deputy-
Adjt..Gen., Royal Artillery; Col. -Ward, Royal
Artillery, on the Staff, and other officers, rode out
from Portsmouth, at 8 a.m., to Hillsea and Ports-
down to inspect the new lines of defence and forts
there, as also the new barracks, now nearly com-
pleted, at Hillsea for the accommodation of an addi-
tional battery of field artillery. On returning to
Portsmouth his Royal Highness embarked in the
steam yacht Fire Queen, Master Commander Paul,
and crossing over to the Isle of Wight paid a visit
to the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, at Bin-
stead, near Ryde. The parade of the troops for re-
view by the Duke of Cambridge was ordered for
3.30 p.m., and shortly before the time they were
drawn up on Soathsea-common in line of contiguous

columns at qnarter distance, right in front.— The

grand total of the troops on the ground was 204
officers, 3,974 non-commissioned officers and men ;
92 horses, six guns, and six waggons. There were,
besides, Volunteers on the ground, who amounted
to about 350 officers and men, representatives of the
2d Hants Artillery and 6th Hants Rifles, the former
under the command of Capt.-Commandant E. Galt,
and the latter under Lieut.-Col. Valiancy. Punc-
tually the Duke, attended by Quartermaster-Gen.
Sir Richard Airey and other officers, arrived on the
ground, and was received by the troops, with Major
Gen. Lord Paulet at their head, with a general
salute. The Grand Duke Constantine was also pre-

sent in a private character. The force marched past
in quick time, first in open and afterwards in close
column, the field battery with its magnificent ches-
nut horses leading. Next came the 6th brigade of
Royal Artillery, just returned from foreign service,
a fine body, steady and compact in their marching.
" God save the Queen," from the bands massed to-
gether opposite the saluting point, heralded the ap-
proach of the 2(1 Queen's, just arrived from Indian
service. Next came the 2d battalion 18th Royal
Irish, a regiment bearing a high character for dis-
cipline in garrison. The 49th came after the 18th,
and marched, as they might have been expected to
do after their course of Aldershot instruction. The
24th, another Indian regiment, followed the 49th,
and deserved equal praise for carriage and steadi-
ness. The Royal Marine Light Infantry followed.
It is a wonder that this corps should march by so
steadily, considering how often it is broken up into
detachments doing duty on board ship—a place
certainly not suited to fit for parade or battalion
movements. The sth Fusiliers closed the line
of regulars. They have also returned bat recently
from India, and went past in steady, unwavering
lines. The 2d Hants Artillery Volunteers, and the
sth and 6th Hants Rifle Volunteers, brought the
line to a close. These troops—except the regular
and Volunteer Garrison Artillery, who marched off
the ground to man the guns. mounted on the works
—took up ground in columns at quarter distance.
Advancing by battalions in echelon the force was
threatened with en attack by cavalry, and throwing
the battalions in squares, with artillery on the right,
a hot fire was opened from right to left, concluding
with a volley from the squares. The enemy's
cavalry being supposed to have been repulsed
in their attack, column was re-formed. The
2cl and 18th Regiments next deployed in
line facing the edge of the beach, changing
front, and opening a heavy and lengthened file
fire, the guns from the fortress and Southsea Castle
opening at the same time, the 49th deploying into
line into skirmishing order on the left flank of the
force, and the main body deploying into two
lines. The enemy having been beaten off the
main body advanced in line, with skirmishers in
front, and second line moving up in support. The
Rifle Volunteers occupied the left of the advanced
line, the Royal Marine Light Infantry being in
reserve. The skirmishers being called in the ad-
vanced line took ground to the right, and heavy
firing along its extent, with the field artillery on its
right, assisted also by tne heavy ordnance of South-
sea Castle, told that the action was becoming serious.
The resistance was useless in opposing the advance
of the enemy, and over the ground where they had
lately passed, now wreathed in smoke, the advanced
lineretired, covered by the Rifle Volunteers, passing
through the second line by companies of fours to the
rear. The enemy appeared to follow up their ad-
vantage vigorously, for the Volunteers were called
in at the "double," and passed through the line to
the rear; a furious fire being opened along the line
to check the enemy's advance, which was, however,
fruitless, and the line • again retired, covered
again by the Rifle Volnnteera. T;le fil:irminhers
were soon sounded to the " elose,'P And ra
'quares formed to resist another attack of cavalry,
a hea#Y:lir Iring• aga• in opened, in which the guns
en the worka of the fortress joined. The enemy
had, however, po3:;ession of the field, and the troops
retired inside the walls of the fortress, covered by
artillery and the Royal Marine Light Infantry, the
retiring columns lining the ramparts of the fortifi-
cations and maintaining a hot fire from there upon
the enemy, to cover the retreat of the remainder of
the troops within the works, which was at length
effected ; and the enemy, master of the battlefield.
but foiled in his attempts to enter the works,' was
compelled, as was supposed, to retire to a certain
strategical distance from the fortress. At the close his
Royal Highness addressed the troops briefly inthe
place darnies of the garrison, the Governor's green.
of the troopu composing the
garArilt:ori(rd
noaj
of Chatham ehflcat;44-aday mtook place on Chatham-lines

yesterday afternoon, in tl-..0 presence of a numerous
body of spectators. The troops marched to the lines
by various routes, and 11,tre formed in the centre at
3 o'clock. On the arri.val of Major-General Eyre,
atteanded by his Streft; the whole force gave a
general salute, after
which they broke into columns
of companies, and •
time. They ,narched past in slow and quick
next . executed a variety of manoeuvres
incidental to a
/ irimoade field-day, all of which were
gone through
Shortly bef with great steadiness and precision.
ire 5 o'clock they returned to their
quarters.

Grmerr.t Sir Richard Dacres, commanding at
iVo•Jlw'Lch, accompanied by Commodore Sir F.
Niiholson, superintendent of the dockyard, and the
P,eneral's military staff, yesterday made his annual
official inspection of the powder magazine on the
river and inland. On returning to Woolwich they
landed at the dockyard, went on board the Trusty,
and inspected Capt. Coles's revolving battery shield.
After their inspection some photographic sketches
were taken of the shield, exhibiting with perfect
accuracy its battered condition, and the numerous
shot marks, produced by the 68-pounder siege and
100-pounder Armstrong guns during the pounding
at Shoebnryncss. The result of the experiments,
it appears, has been favourably considered by the
Duke 07,' Somerset and the full Board of Admiralty,
as it -was yesterday announced at Woolwich that
one or more ships will be forthwith accommodated
to Capt. Coles's principle of armament, each vessel
to be iron-cased, and to be fitted with six shielded
batteries of six guns each.
The following changes of station, &c., have re-
cently taken place in the Royal Engineers :
Colonels Renwick to the Cape of Good Hope, and
Hodden. to Ceylon. Lieutenant-Colonels—Whit-
tingham, ordered from Canada to Jamaica; Robert-
fon, to Canada ; Browne, C. 8., from leave, returned
to head-quarters as field officer for military discip-
line; and Graham, from Chatham to Shorncliffe.
Captains—Pasley, removed to Gravesend to relieve
Captain Stare, now on sick leave; Pelley, from
Gibraltar to Sandhurst; Fyers, from Chatham to
Malta; Drake, from Malta to Devonport ; Haw-
thorn, from Chatham to Gibraltar; Kerr to Ber-
muda, to command the 26th company; and Mal-
colm, ordered home from China. Lieutenants—
Jones, ordered to Malta ; Engledue, from Graves-
end to the Cape of Good Hope; Salmord, from
Chatham to Gibraltar ; Campbell, from Chatham to
Malta; Tarbet, from Chatham to Shorneliffe ;
Mackenzie, from London district to Dover; Vetch
from Shorncliffe, and Peters from Portsmouth, to
head-quarters; Sandford, from leave to Guernsey;
Courtney, ordered home from China; and Smith
from the Cape of Good Hope.
A large number of workmen are now employed
by the contractor, Mr. Naylor, on the new barracks
at Gravesend, which are to be completed in Feb-
ruary next.

Lieutenants Pope and Munro, of the Royal Indian
Artillery, have taken up their appointments as
additional officers to the Gentlemen Cadet Com-
pany at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich ;
and the undermentioned officers, recently trans-
ferred from the Indian service to the Royal Artil-
lery, have been stationed as follows :—Lieutenant-
Colonels J. Smyth, C. 8., and Brougham, Second
Captain F% Lloyd, Lieutenants C. H. Barnes and
C. R. Buckle, at Woolwich ; Captain Hutchinson,
at Shoeburyness ; Second Captain C. Roberts and
Lieutenant T. Ritchie, at Sheerness ; Captain Sir
W. Hamilton, Second Captain Wilson, :and Lieu-
tenant It. Stevenson, at Warley ; and Second Cap-
tain Campbell, at Aldershot.