The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-23 00:00:00

THE 9RMY.

A detachment of 80 rank and file of the sth Fu-
siliers, under the command of Brevet-Major Meara,
has left the camp at Colchester to join the service
companies of the regiment
lt
aster. ile followingPortsmouth.Leave
of absence until the 15th of October has been given
o Cc-erOLSY Meal
account of sickness :---galt-surgs.-nce, generally on
9th; Lieut. Newton, 34th; Capts. Saiitri, of the
Raymond; Lieut. O'Neill°, and Ensign Burn, 44th,
Capt. Thomson, 54th. . _

A squadron of the 18th Hussars, consisting of 90
rank and file, under the command of Capt. Perring,
arrived at Shorncliffe camp this week from Alder-
shot, having marched through Sevenoaks, Maid-
stone, and Ashford. The remainder of the regiment
and the headquarters, under the command of Lieut.-
Col. Knox, has arrived at Brighton from Aldershot.
The 7th battery of the 9th brigade Royal Artil-
lery, under the command of Capt. Byrne and Lieuts.
Kenzie and Milner, has arrived at Canterbury from
Dublin, in accordance with the recent determination
of the War-office to form artillery stations at Chat-
ham and Canterbury.
The War Department having ordered a recon-
struction of the coast brigade of Royal Artillery,
one division is to be formed at Purfleet, under the
command of Second Capt. Scott, while another divi-
sion will comprise the Tower and Medway district,
under the command of Capt. Handyside.
A detachment, consisting of one corporal and six
sappers of the Royal Engineers, under the command
of Lieut. Hon. Le Poer Trench, has proceeded to
France to co-operate with the Engineer Depart..
ment of that empire and Russia for the purpose not
only of carrying out a uniformity of triangulation,
but of substituting one meridional line for the three

lines of Greenwich, Paris, and St. Petersburg. The
party expects to be absent from England about
eight months. The General Commanding-in-Chief
has awarded a medal and gratuity of £lO to Sergt.
John Shearer, Royal Engineers, who has been in
corps upwards of 21 years without being once re-
ported for any offence.
In accordance with the arrangements decided on
by the Duke of Cambridge for concentrating the
depot companies of the Ist and 2d battalions of regi-
ments at the same station, where practicable, the
depot of the 2d battalion of the 4th King's Own,
now stationed at Chichester, is ordered to leave that
city and proceed to Chatham, at which garrison it
will be attached to the Ist depot battalion, to which
the Ist battalion of the 4th King's Own belongs.
The depot of the 73d Regiment has been placed
under orders to vacate Chatham barracks and pro-
ceed to Chichester, there to join the 21st depot bat-
talion. The depot companies of the 2d battalion 23d
Royal Welsh Fusiliers have also been placed under
orders to proceed to Chatham for the purpose of
being attached to the same battalion as the Ist bat-
talion of that corps.
In consequence of the lamentable accident which

occurred a few days at Woolwich, where a private
of the Royal Marines, who was
firing
acting as a marker
at the targets during the
of the Volunteers,
was shot dead, positive orders were issued at Chat-
acC
ham yesterday forbidding the Royal Marines, under
any circumstances, to act as markers for Volunteers
at the rifle range. Similar orders will also bo issued
at each of the other divisions of Royal Marines.
The troop ship Alegme from Portsmouth, with
the head-quarters first division of the 32d Regi-
ment, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday fore.,
noon, and proceeded at once into Hamoaze for con.
venience of disembarcation at the Royal William
Victualling-yard. To-day she will receive from
Plymouth Citadel the first division of the 12th Re-
giment. With these the Alegmra proceeds this after-
noon, :co nc,ouorrsteo-onif to-morrow forofewwmdoarynsinregt,urn t
Cork. She will in
and
embark for Cork th
the e2d division of the 12th. The
depot compan yof 12th, commanded Capt.
Espinosa°, will not go with the regiment to Ireland,
but to Chatham probably Yia Portsmouth.