The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-13 00:00:00

TILE ABMY.

Orders were yesterday received at the head-quar-
ters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham,
directing 58 non-commissioned officers and men of
the Royal Indian Engineers, who have completed
their course of instruction, to proceed this morning
to Warley, prior to their embarkation for India.
A number of the most efficient non-commissioned
officers of Royal Engineers have been selected from
the companies now at head-quarters, Brompton, to
be employed as foremen and clerks on the public
works now in progress at Plymouth and Devonport,
the appointments having been made under the pro-
visions of the circular recently issued from the War
Department by Lord Herbert.

A draught of troops is about to be despatched
from the depots at the Camp at Colchester to rein-
force the service companies of various regiments in
India. The draught will be made-as follows :—For
Bengal Lieut. IVliyte and 110 rank and file of the
Ist battalion 6th Foot ; Lieut. Malcolm, Ensigns
Gillham and Vaugham, and 25 rank and file of the
34th; Capt. Gordon, Ensigns Wilkinson and Col-
ville, and 30 rank and filo of the 54th ; Capt. On-
slow, Lieut. Barber, and 70 rank and file of the
97th. For Bombay Capt. Eccles, Ensign Stewart,
and 70 rank and file of the 56th. For Madras
Lieut. Freeborn and 45 men of the Ist battalion Ist
Royals. The men composing these reinforcements
are selected from those who have not yet served in
India or the colonies.

The Colonial Government of Australia having
commissioned an agent, who has arrived in Eng-
land, to purchase a provision of rifled ordnance and
muskets, the department in Woolwich Arsenal has
received instructions from the War-office to prepare
a 12-pounder battery complete of Armstrong guns
and equipment, to be supplied at the cost of the
colony, and to be packed for shipment without delay.

GEN. SIR P. GRANT AND BTh J HOPE
GRANT.

'he following Minute has been published :
" No. 103.

"TORT ST. GEORGE, MARcii 22.
"In directing the publication in General Orders
of the following minute by the Right Hon. the
Governor-General of India relative to the resignation
of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Patrick Grant, K.C.8., of the
office of Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army,
his Excellency the Governor in Council has much
gratification in adding the expression of the high
sense entertained by this Government of the valuable
services rendered by Sir Patrick Grant during the
entire period of his connexion with it :
MINUTE BY THE RIGHT HON. THE GOVERNOR-

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just been received from the
Government of Madras announcing that his Excel-
lency Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant pro-
poses to resign the command of the Madras Army,
and to proceed to England by the first steamer in
March.
‘" Sir Patrick Grant's duties during the time that
I have held the government of India have not been
confined to the Madras Presidency, but have upon
one memorable occasion brought him into direct
and most intimate relations with the Supreme
Bengal and of its army he was enabled
Government in Calcutta, and as the services which
by his ripe professional experience and his thorough
knowledge of I3gal
to render to India at that critical time were very
great, I am desirous that Sir P. Grant should not
lay down his command without a distinct and cor-
dial acknowledgment of those services being placed
on the records of the Supreme Government. The
assistance which the Government of India received
from him from the time when, in June, 1857, it
called upon him to assume the command vacant by
General Anson's death to the time of Lord Clyde's
arrival in India will not be forgotten.by any mem-
ber of that Government.
"' I do not speak of Sir Patrick Grant's dis-
charge of his subsequent duties after his return to
Madras, for these, of course, were not ;performed
under the eyes of
the Governor-General ; but I
cannot forbear to say that the earliest judicious
and successful exertions made by him, in common
with his colleagues to reduce the military expen-
diture of that Presidency entitle him to the best
thanks of the GOvernor-General in Council.
" ' Feb. 15, 1861.'

“ , CANNING.

" Th© following " No. 104.
extract from a military des-
patch from the Right lion. the Secretary of State
for India to the Government is published in
General Orders :

" ' Despatch dated Feb. 18, 1861, No. 31.
" Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of
Major-General Sir James Hope Grant, G.C.8.,
being placed upoii the Staff of the Army in India
as a Lieutenant-General, with a view to his com-
manding the troops in Madras, in succession to
Lieutenant Owneral air Patrick Grant, K.C.B.
2. The Act of the 16th and 17th Victoria,
cap. 95, directed that any person hereafter
appointed by Her Majesty to be Commander-in-
Chief of her forces in any Presidency in India
shall,. by virtue of such appointment, be also the
Commander-in-Chief of the Company's forces under
such Presidency.'
" 3. Consequent on this enactment, the warrant
or commission hitherto issued from this office to a
Commander-in-Chief is no longer necessary, and
will be discontinued.

" '4. Duo intimation will be conveyed to you
in the proper department of the appointment of
Lieutenant-General Sir Hope Grant to a seat
at the Council of the Government of your Presi-
dency."

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The 2d division of the sth company of Royal En-
gineers, numbering 70 non-commissioned officers
and men, arrived at head-quarters, Chatham, on
Saturday afternoon from Woolwich, for the pur-
pose of going through a course of rifle instruction
at that garrison. The first subdivision of the same

company, numbering 50 men of all ranks, having
completed their course of rifle musketry instruction
at Brompton, left Chatham on the previous after-
noon for 'Woolwich, under the command of Lieut.
Bigsby, R.E.

Several detachments from the East India depots
attached to the 3d depot battalion at Chatham left
on Saturday for Eastbourne, to undergo a course of
rifle instruction.