The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The flying column detached from the camp at
Aldershott a few days since, under the command of
Col. Fitzmayer, R.A,, as stated in The Sun of
Wednesday, returned to the camp on Friday. The
column, which was encamped at Woolmer from the
4th to the 12th inst., consisted of the B battery-
Royal Horse Artillery, No, 6 field-battery 4th Bri-
gade Royal Artillery, a detachment of the Military
Train and Commissariat Corps, and 2d battalion
of the 16th, and 29th Regiments. With the ex-
ception of this force, the whole division at the
camp took part in a field-day in the course of
last week, in celebration of Her Majesty's
birthday. The following troops took part
in the manoeuvres, which were, as usual, brilliantly
executed :—lnfantry-Ist battalion 10th, 2d bat-
talion 20th, 2d battalion 25th, 32d, 2d battalion
Scots Fusileer Guards, 41st, 45th, 53d, 78th High-
landers, and 84th Regiments. Cavalry-2d Life
Guards, sth Dragoons, 9th and 16th Lancers, and
18th Hussars. Artillery—A and I batteries Royal
Horse Artillery, 7th, Bth, and 11th batteries 4th
Brigade, and 2d, 6th, and 7th batteries Bth Brigade,
the A troop Royal Engineer Train, and 2d and 33d.
companies Royal Engineers.
The following changes were yesterday made in
the batteries of Royal Artillery to fill up the
vacancies caused at Woolwich and Sheerness by the
embarcation of 1,000 non-commissioned officers and.
men of the Royal Artillery for service in India :
No. 3 battery, numbering 170 non-commissioned
officers and men, under the command of Captain.
Dirom and Lieut. Stevenson, of the Indian Artil-
lery, from Great Yarmouth ; and a detachment of
350 gunners and a due proportion of non-commis-
sioned officers from Woolwich, for Sheerness, where
they will be attached to the Depot Brigade at that.
garrison.
Yesterday the reinforcements for the Ist battal:ton
of the 4th King's Own, to the number of 120 non-
commissioned officers and men, proceedeet from.
Chatham garrison to Gravesend, and embarked on
board the chartered East India troopship Cospet-
rick, 1,119 tons, Capt. C. Scott, belonging to the
firm of Duncan Dunbar, for Bombay. The troops
proceed to India in charge of Ensign William H.
E. Stone and Ensign Edgar Montagu Kemp.
Yesterday the screw-steamer Hydaspes, 2,249
tons, Capt. G. H. Forster, belonging to the East
India and London Shipping Company, embarked at
Gravesend 21 non-commissioned officers, 150 gun-
ners, 150 drivers, 20 men, and 12 children of the
Royal Artillery, for Calcutta, with the following
officers :—Captain J. Barton, Lieut. J. Macgregor,
Lieut. J. Keith, and Lieut. R. H. Grant. The
Hydaspes will leave the Thames for her destination
to-day.
The hired troopship Adamant, Captain Sheard,
sailed yesterday from Woolwich, at an early hour,
with a detachment of the Royal Artillery Depot,
commanded by Col. Kennedy, to proceed to Cal-
cutta. The Adamant having been carefully in-
spected by General Sir Richard Dacres and Staff
on the preceding day, the troops embarked on Sun-
day evening, in readiness to sail with the first tide.
They consisted of Major Light, of the Indian Artil-
lery, in command; Lieuts. Gardner, Smith, and
Kelso ; Assist.-Surg. O'Leary, 10 non-commissioned
officers, and 275 gunners. A second detachment,
likewise belonging to the depot, consisting of 360
of all ranks, was paraded at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning. Having been formally inspected by the
commanding officer, Colonel Kennedy, it left Wool-
wich for Sheerness; the detachment was commanded
' by Capt. Hanwell, Lieut. Cottingham, and. Assist.-
' Surg. Forshall, who will return to headquarters,the
L Woolwich, after giving over the detachment 2
to
' depot at Sheerness. A detachment of 6 drivers
yesterday morning from the
adepotlso leftfo for Aldershott.Woolwich