The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-09 00:00:00

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mg-assist-surgeon, to the Encounter; Geo. Curtis,
acting assist: surgeon, to the Spiteful; Richard B.
O'Toole, acting assist-surgeon, to the Racer ; In:
ham Hanbury, acting assist.-surgeon, to the Nile ;
and Richard L. Canney, of the Asia, promoted to
chief engineer.

T.HE 41Uif

The success of the military garrison police at
Chatham, organised some time ago by Major Gen.
Eyre, has been so great that the force has been con-
-1 siderably augmented, and now includes not only
Ithe troops of the Line, of whom it was formerly
exclusively composed, bet also men of good charac-
ter selected from the RoyalE nginecrs and the Royal
Marines. The force, which is under the direction
of a superior noncommissioned officer, whoriVes
his orders direct from Major-Gen. Eyre, numbers
rather more than 100 men, who are distinguished
from the other troops by wearing a numbered badge
on the arm, when on police duty. To any one ac-
quainted with the riotous and uproarious scenes
frequently, enacted by the military at ,Chatham a
short time since the improvement which has re-
cently taken place is most striking.
,Although there
are often as many as 5.000 and 6,000 troops taking
their exercise in the streets of Chatham during the
evening, so excellent are the arrangements that a
military bravel or disturbance is now almost un-
known, the slightest disorder on the part of any of
the troops subjecting the offenders to be immedi-
ately apprehended and taken to the guardroom.
The beerhouses which abound in the purlieus of the
garrison, where most of the riotous behaviour on the
part of the:military had its origin, are now placed
i under the surveillance of the police, who visit them
I at frequent intervals during the day and night, iu
order to ascertain 'that no drunken soldiers are har-
boured in them after the hour at which they are
bound to be in barracks. The result of the measures
has been that drunkenness, absence, and other mili-
tary offences are steadily on the decrease in the
garrison, while the most serious of military Crimes
—that of desertion—also shows a diminution. The
officers of the garrison are alive to the importance
of providing rational and elevating amusements for
the troops. A gymnasium is in course of erection,
.and an American bowling-green has also been
opened at the barracks.
' The 2d (Queen's) Regiment, under the command
of Col. Addison, were inspected on Southsea-com-
mon yesterday by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C.B.
The regiment received the Major-General in line,
afterwards breaking into open column right in
front, and opening out to double-distance for inspec-
tion. The regiment then marched past in slow and
quick time, reformed line on its original alignment,
and went through the manual, platoon, and review
exercises, followed by a series of battalion move-
ments, all performed with great precision and steadi-
ness. At the close of the proceedings Lord Paulet
addressed the regiment at some length, and said, in
conclusion, " I am proud to have you under my
command. Yon are certainly the most efficient re-
giment I have seen." The regiment paraded eight
companies, each npwards of GO rank and file. The
uniformity in size of the men, and their steadiness
and freedom of movement in marching past, excited
much favourable comment from the spectators, mili-
tary and civil, on the ground.
The corps of Royal Marines Light Infantry being
several hundred men below its original complement,
recruiting for that branch of the service is being
vigorously carried out, and numbers of fine young
men are almost daily arriving at the head quarters
of the respective divisions, sent up from various
parts of the country. After being finally approved
they are despatched to the Royal Marine battalion
at Deal, to undergo their required course of train-
ing before being attached to head quarters. The
following officers have been detached from duty at
the several stations to superintend recruiting for
the Royal Marines, at the stations named :
Lieut.-Col. W. C. P. Elliot, Pontefract ; Lieut.-
Col. W. S. Aslett, Wolverhampton ; Lieut.-Col.
R. Parke, Bath ; Major W. F. Foote,
Bradford ; Major F. G. Pym, Derby; Captain
H. H. Good, Aylesbury; Capt. E. H. Cox, Bedford;
Capt. B. IL Herrick, Cipping Norton ; Capt. E. C.
Darnville, Exeter ; Capt. H. G. J. Davies, Liver-
pool ; Capt. C. Louis, London ; Capt. G. Naylor
Ludlow ; Capt. J. A. Stewart, Manchester ; Capt
J. Poore, St. Alban's ; Capt. H. S. Harrison, Salis-
bury ; and Capt. N. W; de Conrcy, Sheffield.
It appears that the force of artillery now col-
lected at Watley, near Brentwood, •is about 700
strong. Good conduct medals have just been pre-
sented by Major-General Sir R. Dacres, com-
mandant at Woolwich, to Gunners Summers and
White, the former having been in the service 21
and the latter 20 years. A gymnasium is now in
course of erection at the barracks, 1,000 having
been appropriated for the purpose. It appears
from plans produced to Gen. Dacres on his recent
visit by Capt. Clarke, RE., that other new build-
ings are proposed, which will consist of a canteen,
boys and girls' schools, men's schoolrooms, school-
master's and mistress's quarters, sergeants' reading-
room and mess-room, lecture-room, and a magazine.
General Dacres approved the plans, which involve
an outlay of £6,000.
A circular was yesterday received at 'Woolwich
from the Horse Guards, directing three non-com-
missioned officers of the Royal Artillery to be de-
spatched to Melbourne, to instruct the Militia
Artillery in the use of the Armstrong guns.

APPREHENSION OF A RAIL 117-4 Y

DEF.AULTEB.

In February, 1860, the Eastern Counties Rail-
way authorities at London announced that Algernon
Sydney Lumby, a clerk in their employ, had ab-
sconded; and in the warrant issued for his appren-
sion he was charged with taking with him £lOO,
the property of his employers. From the very
earnest manner in which he has been hunted up
and looked for by the company's police-superinten-
dent, Mr. Kent, it is thought that the amount
appropriated is more than £lOO. Mr; Kent has
visited the continent in:search of his man ; and after
full many a fruitless journey in this country, having
travelled " some thousands of miles"—his own
expression—during the period of a year and nearly
eight months, in which Lumby has been at large,
he has at length succeeded in apprehending the
missing defaulter at the fashionable watering place
of Scarborough, where he has been resident during
the summer season. He is a musical man, and at
an early part of the summer he took an engagement
as pianist at a music room attached to the Old Spa
Inn, and known as the St. George's Hall. He was
announced in the bills as " Mr. Sydney Staples,
pupil of Professor Sterndale Bennett." The com-
pany of performers with whom he was associated
have been chiefly buffo singers and dancers, rather
above the vulgar stamp of similar artists. While in
Scarborough he has been living in a quiet, orderly,
respectable manner, his wife residing with him in a
cottage in the upper part of the town. his appre-
hension was Drought about as follows :—A few days
ago, a gentleman who was perionally acquainted
with Lumby, and was acquainted with the fact
of his having absconded, was visiting Scarborough ;
and amongst other " lions" of the place, he went to
the Casino or music-room above-named, for an even-
ing's entertainment. He was at once struck with
the resemblance the pianist bore to the missing
clerk, Lumby. The only difference appeared to be,
that really Lumby's forehead was rather bald, but
the pianist's cranium was covered all over. How-
ever, on his return home, he saw Mr. Kent, the
officer above named, and mentioned his suspicion.
Mr. Kent at once came down to Scarborough,
Mr. and
on Saturday evening last, in company force,
Roberts, superintendent of the S
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of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, and con-
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