The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

of Army Expenditure will enter into all contracts
for the supply of provisions and stores required for
the provost prisons, and this duty will no longer de-
volve on the commanding officer at the station. The
accounts and vouchers which are in future to be pre-
pared by the provost-sergeants, are to be certified
by the commanding officer. Where a strictly regi-
mental system of imprisonment is carried out in the
barrack cells, these new regulations will not apply,
but the existing system of accounts are to be fol-
lo wed.

. _
Her Majesty has been pleased to approve Mr.
Westley Richards's breech-loading rifled carbine
being adopted in the cavalry. The following is the
description of this very efficient weapon :—Bore,
0.448 inches; weight of bullet, 400 grains; length
of barrel, 20 inches ; number of grooves, 8; charge,
2 drachms; pitch of rifling, one turn in 20 inches ;
weight, 61b. l loz. ; sighted to 700 yards ; bullet,
cylindro-conoidal, with hollow base.

A couple of model guns made by the Mersey Steel
Works have been received at Woolwich by the Select
Committee of Ordnance, and will be submitted to
proof in a few days at the Royal Arsenal butt.
Yesterday the depot of the 37th Regiment, for-
merly attached to the 10th battalion, left Colches-
ter Camp and proceeded to Pembroke, where it will
for a time be quartered. The strength of the depot
was about 150 rank and Ale, under the command of
Capt. R. B. Pelly, and the following officers were
attached to it :—Capt. C. Laxmore, Lieut. R. Bunn,
and Ensigns J, Ennis, W. Hodgkinson, C.E. K:
It. Skinner, and J. D. R. Dick.
The 2d battalion of the Ist Royals, the sth Fusi-
leers, and the 6th Regiment, which are to be at-
tached to the 9th and 10th depot battalions in Col-
chester Camp, in accordance with the wish of the
commander-in-chief that battalion of regiments shall
as much as possible b' concentrated, are expected to
arrive from Pembroke and from Ireland towards
the close of the present week. These will increase
the strength of the camp about 500 men.
The remainder of the depot companies of the 73d
Regiment will leave Chatham garrison this morn-
ing, and proceed to Chichester, where the depot will
in future be stationed. The officers who accompany
the depot are Capt. M. S. Blyth, Capt. A. H. God-
frey, and Lieut. St. John D. Galwey. The depot
of the second battalion of the 4th King's Own will
arrive at Chatham to-day from Chichester. Tho
depots of the Ist and 2d battalions of the 12th (East
Suffolk) Regiment are both to be removed to Chat-
ham garrison. Several other depots will also be
sent to Chatham to augment the strength of that
garrison.

Instructions have been issued from the War De-
rartment to the Principal Superintendent of Stores,
directing the issue when required of hospital mar-
quees as officers' mess tent. , in the proportion of
sae
marqueerae_araue to. each regin aent or brigade. The
hospital
raess.ul
The
.e is also to be issued to the sergeants'
marquee dim •tif3 ions of the new pattern
wide at the
benitre.
qeueee are 30 .Fee tin length by 15 feet
will cease to Th e supply of cotton tents
inerassoued foi 7 -the future.
A circular
ryanodfur a has been issued by direc-
tion of the Secrets
S :ate for War, announcing
that, in consequence of the
diversity which exists at
foreign stations in the
am clp
t(.:7tt of
scharging expendi-
ture on account of provost
andsgarrison cells,
the Secretary of State for War h
decided that
one uniform system shall in future be followed, and
Pay and charge
that the military accounts.% it shall
in his accounts, under the' b ead of military prisons,
all expenses connected I 7ii h those services, Which
will consequently be alb )g ether removed from the
flusters. The Controller
accounts of regimental pf iY)

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1861.

VOLUNTEER DRILL INSTRUCTORS.

The following official documents have been issued
from the Horse Guards in reference to the provi-
sion of drill instructors

MEMORAN3UM.

War-office, August 22.

With a view to afford increased aid to volunteer corps in
obtaining properly qualified drillinstructors, the Secretary
of State for War has cancelled articles 147 to 167 of the
Volunteer Regulations, and the following articles are to be
substituted for them, from the lit of September next.

DE GREY AND RIPON.