The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-26 00:00:00

TIE ARMI'.

The half-yearly inspection of the 2d battalion of
the 11th Regiment, under the command of Lieut.-
Col. Jenner, took place at Portsmouth yesterday.
The inspecting officer was Major• Gen. Lord W.
Paulet, C. 8., Lieut.-Governor of the garrison, and
commanding the South-West district.
The Rev. C. A. Assheton Craven, Chaplain to the
Forces, has been transferred from Preston Garrison
to Corfu, and the Rev. E. Stanley from Aldershot to
Preston.

The following is the detail of the embarkation at
Woolwich yesterday, on board her Majesty's troop-
ship Megmra, Commander Henderson, for Gibral-
tar :—Colonel C. J. Dalton, Lieut.-Colonel A.
Thompson, Captains J. Saunderson and C. G. Las-
celles, Assistant-Surgeon W. Graves, Lieutenants
S. C. L. Lacy, V. Wing, C. Kirkwood, R. W. Chute,
F. Schaek, H. A. Barber, A. J. Cullen, and T. C.
H. Hallett, and 354 non-commissioned officers and
men, comprising the 2d Division, Nos. 3,4, 5 bat-
teries of the Ist brigade garrison Artillery, toge-
ther with 24 soldiers' wives and 29 children ; also
six officers' wives, three children, and four female
servants ; two officers and 30 non-commissioned
officers from Halifax, belonging to the 100th Foot,
stationed at Gibraltar ; 2 officers, 1 assistant-sur-
geon's wife, and. 2 children of the 2d battalion, Bth
Foot; 1 officer, Ist battalion, 25th Foot; 2 soldiers'
wives and 2 children of the 2d battalion, 6th Foot
—the whole for Gibraltar. After landing her pas-
sengers the Megmra will embark Nos. 4 and 5 bat-
teries of the sth Brigade, consisting of about 14
officers and 240 non-commissioned officers and

men, with their wives and families, for conveyance
to Devoriport. The Megwra will then embark the
headquarters and Nos. 6,7, and 8 batteries of the
3d Brigade, consisting of about 18 officers and 386
non-commissioned officers and men, with their
wives and families, foi passage to Woolwich.
In consequence of some military riots and other
disgraceful scenes which have recently taken place
in Woolwich town in and about the market.place,
the pickets have been strengthened to 100 each,and
have' for some weeks past paraded the streets at
short intervals during the night. The following
garrison order was issued last night by General Sir
Richard Lures at Woolwich relative to the
above:--

"It having been reported to the Major-General
commanding that many gross irregularities have
been committed by soldiers of the garrison in the
Beresford Arms public-house, at the corner of
Beresford-street, Woolwich, with the fall know-
ledge and connivance of the landlord, the Command-
ant desires that no non-commissioned officer nor
soldier of the garrison shall enter the said public-
house until further orders. Commanding officers
will take care that this order is made generally
known to the men, and the pickets will be directed
to apprehend any soldiers who may disobey it."
During the present mouth two lectures on pro-
fessional subjects have been delivered to the mem-
bers of the Royal Artillery Institution at Wool-
wich by officers of the regiment-1. "On the con-
ditions under which war is made in modem times,"
by Lieut.-Col. E. B. Hamley, Professor of Military,
Art and History at the Staff College, Sandhurst;
2. " On ricochet and curved fire from smooth-bared
and rifle guns," by Col, Wilford, R.A., Governor of
the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. To-
morrow a lecture will be delivered by Major Owen,
R.A., Professor of Artillery, Royal Military Aca-
demy, on " the laws which govern, the motions of
projectiles fired from rifled ordnance, and the ad-
vantages to be derived from the adoption of these
pieces."
The Soldiers' Institute, which the Government
has decided upon erecting at Chatham fOr the use of
the troops quartered at that garrison, is to be -at
once commenced, the contract for the building
having been taken by Mr. Stump, Chatham, for
£3,498 9s. The small building which has hitherto
been used by the troops of the garrison will be re-
moved, and the new Institute erected on its site,
near the Brompton entrance to Chatham Barracks.
The ediice is to be completed by the month of
October next.

Corporal Clarke, of the Royal Marines, died sud-
denly yesterday on the Parade at Mount Wise, De-
vonport, while marking out the ground for drill.

THE Ull7l7*D*-- 811',4TES.

(FroM the Correspondent of the Times.)
NVIV YORK, MARCH 12.
At a Cabinet meeting do Saturday last 13 tatetnents
were made from General Scott, to the effect that

Major Andeison iequirel3 immediate reinforcements
of men and provisions if the Government are to
adhere to the policy of retaining Fort Sumter. The
reinforcements required would by from 10,000 to
2J,000 men, to act by land as well as at sea—a force
much larger than the Government has at Its com-
mand—to say nothing of the vessels; necessary to
transport and keep up communication with such an
army. He added that no ship could reach the Fort
to reinforce it. One naval officer offered, indeed,
to make the attempt with three ships, and to succeed,
losing but two ; but from the number of 'the -hos-
tile batteries it was demonstrated that on reaching
the Fort the remaining ship would be a wreck. The
Cabinet were at first divided as to the advice to
retire, which accompanied this statement, and it is
said in the evening papers as I write • that they_are
still deliberating, with a strong pressure made upon
them by the ultra Republicans not to yield. I
lave authority for saying that the move is decided
On as a military measure, and that the odium of the
measure will be thrown on the last Administration,
which allowed the Fort to be invested, acts of war
and rebellion to go on unchecked, and the public
force to be scattered so that it cannot now be made
available.
The Senate is in session at Washington, receiving
and acting upon the nominations sent in by the Pre-
sident. The pressure for office, especially for foreign
appointments, by men totally unfitted, is said to be
beyond anything ever known. The only diplomatic
appointments thus far made are the Berlin ones;
a Chicago lawyer and intimate friend of the Pre-
sident being the happy nominee as Minister,
and a young German, not a political refugee, being
the secretary. Mr. Schurz,. a German refugee, is
strongly pressed for the Italian mission. The
proposal to make such an appointment is excit-
ing attention and feeling, and the impression in
Washington now is that the nomination will
not be made. Mr. George P. Marsh, Mr. Raynond
of the New For, Times, and Mr. Burlingame, late
representative from Boston, are pressed for that
post. For the 'English mission there are several
cadidates, among whom are Mr. Pennington, the
late Speaker, and Mr. Charles Francis Adams, son
of the late Mr. John Quincy Adams. The Republi-
can Senate has begun its career by quarrelling with
the diplomatic corps. They adopted a resolution
aboli.shing the Diplomatic Gallery in the Senate
Chamber, whereupon Baron Gerolt, the head of the
corps, sent a written notice to Mr. Sumner, the
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations,
that the families, Secretaries of Legation, and
Attaches of the American Legations would be
excluded from the diplomatic galleries in European
Courts. The Senate has also a small domestic
quarrel on hand in a resolution to expel Mr.
Wigfall, of Texas, for declaring in debate that he
represented a foreign State and owed no allegiance
to the United States ; which resolution is still under
discussion.
The popular vote in North Carolina, though close
results in a minority against a Convention, and in
the election of a large majority of Union delegates
in case one should be held. The Secession move-
ment may therefore be regarded as stayed for the
present, while Mr. Lincoln shall develope his policy.
If this is a policy of peace it is believed that the
rupture will go no further, and that some of the
States which have gone out will come back. If, on
the other hand, it is a policy of war, these States
will probably follow the lead of Virginia. All
agree in the propriety of a Border State Conven-
tion. The majority resolutions recommend such a
Convention to be held at Frankfort, in the State of
Kentucky, on the last Monday in May, "to con-
sult together and concert such measures for their
final action as the honour, the interests, and the
safety of the people may demand."
I enclose a continuation of the reports of the
doings of the Southern Congress. They have
adopted a flag—" a red field, with a white space
extending horizontally through the centre, and
equal in width to one-third the width of the flag,
the red spaces above and below to be of the same
width as the white, the Union blue extending down
through the white space and stopping at the lower
red space ; in the centre of the Union a circle of
white stars, corresponding in number with the
States in Confederacy." They have passed an Act
providing fur nationalising their vessels ; another
relating to patents; and another organising a light-
house bureau. They have under consideration an
Act forbidding their courts to take cognizance of
suits between citizens of the United States and their
own citizens " in the event of a conflict of arms,"
and resolutions contemplating fullcoPYright treaties
with " Great Britain, France, Prussia, Saxony, and
other European Powers." In its free and liberal
treatment of commerce the legislation of Milledge-
ville may well be copied at Washington. And
lastly, they have adopted a permanent Constitution,
which has not, however, yet been made public. The
export duty on cotton promises to be their most
reliable source of revenue. Their statesmen look to