The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-02 00:00:00

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THE ARMY.

Orders were yesterday issued from the Horse
Guards directing upwards of 1,000 non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery to be
held in readiness to embark for India with the
reinforcements of infantry troops proceeding from
Chatham. The following are the details of the
number of men who will be selected from each of
the batteries of the depot brigade for embarcation :
From Sheerness, 4 sergeants, 10 corporals, 3 bom-
bardiers, and 350 gunners, for Calcutta, and 150
gunners for Madras ; from No. 5 battery, 220 drivers
for Calcutta ; from No. 6 battery, 65 drivers for
Calcutta ; from No. 7 battery, 150 drivers for
Madras, and 15 drivers for Calcutta; from No. 11
battery, 50 drivers for Calcutta; from Yarmouth,
2 sergeants, 2 corporals, and 2 bombardiers for Cal-
cutta and Madras; and from Woolwich, 5 bombar-
diers for Calcutta, and 3 sergeants, 6 corporals, and
10 bombardiers for Madras.

In consequence of the 4th company of Royal
Engineers, which is stationed at Dover, where it is
employed in the repairs and reconstruction of the
defences on that part of the coast, being below its
required strength, orders have been received at the
head-quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment,
Chatham, directiLg 20 noncommissioned officers
and men to be selected for that company, to raise it
to its proper complement. The Royal Engineers
selected will leave head-quarters for Dover on
Saturday next.
The volunteers given by the various East Indian
depots at Chatham to those regiments which are
below their proper strength, to the number of
279 men, were assembled on the general parade
ground yesterday morning, and after inspection
were marched off to join their new corps at
Portsmouth, Parkhurst, and Chicnester. The
corps for which volunteering has been opened
at Chatham are the 2d battalion 4th King's
Own, Ist battalion Bth, 2d battalion 11th, Ist
battalion 24th, Ist battalion 25th King's Own
Borderers, 29th, 50th Queen's Own, 59th, 73d, and
100th. The Ist depot battalion gave 13 men for
Chichester, 29 for Parkhurst, and 67 for Ports-
mouth ; the 2d depot battalion, 9 for Chichester, 21
for Parkhurst, and 43 for Portsmouth ; and the 3d
battalion 14 for Chichester, 33 for Parkhurst, and
50 for Portsmouth.

The undermentioned troops are under orders to
embark at Gravesend to-day on board the Clarence,
1,250 tons, Capt. J. Watson, belonging to Messrs.
Green, for Madras—viz., two men of the Ist (the
King's) Dragoon Geards, from Kneller-hall ; one
officer and 46 men of the Ist battalion Ist Royals,
from Colchester ; one officer and 100 men of the 3d
battalion 60th Rifles, from Winchester; one officer
of the 52d Light Infantry, from Chatham ; three
officers and 80 men of the 74th Highlanders, from
Aberdeen ; one man of the 68th Light Infantry, and
three officers and 20 men of the 69th Regiment, from
Chatham and Fermoy ; and one man of the 21st
Fusileers from Wellington.
The only movement of importance in the camp at
Aldershott last week besides the departure of the
30th Regiment for Canada, already noticed in The
Sun, was the arrival on Thursday and Friday of
the 53d Regiment, under the command of Lieut.-
Col. English, C.B. The regiment, which came to
Aldershott from Plymouth, is quartered in the G
and H lines, North Camp, and now forms part of
the 3d brigade under the command of Brigadier-
General Russell. The strength of the regiment is
21 officers and 395 rank and file. On Friday after-
noon a fire broke out in the North Camp in the ser-
geants' mess of the 84th Regiment. A good supply
of water being, however, at hand the flames were
quickly subdued. A divisional field-day formed
also one of the events of last week. Lieut.-General
Sir S. Pennefather, accompanied by his Staff, in-
spected the assembled troops.
During the past few days volunteering from the
several Itidian depots in Colchester Camp, whose
strength is complete, has been most actively carried
on, and yesterday a draught, consisting of about
200 men from the 34th, 38th, 97th, 88th, and 66th
Regiments, together with a detachment of about 50
volunteers from the 10th depot battalion, left the
camp and proceeded to Aldershott, to join the seve-
ral regiments to which they have been attached.
The garrison orders of the Royal Artillery at

Woolwich yesterday announced that an officer and
20 non-commissioned officers and men are to be held
in readiness to leave the depot at Woolwich on the
sth inst., and proceed to Portsmouth to embark for
the Cape of Good Hope ; and also that an Artillery
depot is ordered to be formed at Warley, to which
a colonel, lieutenant-colonel, surgeon, and assist.-
surgeon will shortly be appointed.
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Woolwich, from Shoeburyness, for the purpose of
being tested at the proof butt preparatory to being
issued for service according to the usual regulations.
In this gun the screw for closing the breech is su-
perseded by a wedge, the series of small rifle grooves
are dispensed with, and three large grooves on the
shunt plan are substituted in their place. The gun
was recently employed with success at Shoebury-
ness in demolishing the battery lined with 8 and
10-inch plates of iron, when a projectile was fired,
weighing 1261 b., as stated in The Sun at the period.
The invalided troops brought to England by the
West India Mail Company's steamship Avon, whose
arrival at Spithead from Barbadoes was announced
in our yesterday's impression, were taken out yes-
terday by the Government bteamtug and conveyed