The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-09 00:00:00

THE ARM'.

A statement yesterday appeared in some of the
morLing journals to the effect that the Commis-
sioners appointed to investigate the cause of the
outbreak at the Royal Military Academy at Wool-
wich had terminated their inquiries, and had given
their verdict, condemning some of the senior cadets
to be punished according to the discretionary
powers invested in the military authorities. We
are requested to state, for the satisfaction of the
relatives and friends of the cadets, that there is not
the slightest ground for any such assertion. The
Commissioners sat as usual yesterday from 12 to
4, and will hold a similar sitting to-day. The re-
sult of their inquiries cannot be possibly known,
as they are conducted with the strictest secrecy.
Many of the cadets have now been examined, yet
up to the present day no name of any of the guilty
party has been divulged, although threats have
been employed to induce those concerned to give
the requisite information.
Yesterday a draught of 25 men from the 2d bat-
talion, 6th Regiment, under the command of En-
sign Marvin, left Colchester Camp and embarked
on board the Lord Dalhousie, at Deptford, as a
portion of a guard over convicts for conveyance to
Gibraltar. On their arrival in London they were
joined by a similar draught from the 2d battalion
of the 7th Foot, and the command on board ship was
transferred to Capt. Strike, of the 6th Foot. Ensign
Marvin returned to Colchester Camp.
Yesterday the ordinary detachments, consisting
of 1 officer, 3 sergeants, and 7 men from the 9th
depot battalion, and 2 officers, 3 sergeants, and 7
men from the 10th battalion, proceeded from Col-
chester Camp to the School of Musketry at Hythe,
for the customary course of rifle instruction.
Ensign Hume, Instructor of Musketry to the 9th
battalion, has left Landguard Fort and proceeded
to Colchester, to instruct a body of men to be sent to
that station for rifle practice. The command of the
troops at Landguard is about to be handed over to
Lieut. Bicknell, 38th Foot, who will also perform
the duties of Acting-Adjutant and Quartermaster.

Yesterday a detachment of 15 non-commissioned
officers and privates of the Royal Canadian Rifle
Regiment, under the command of Lieut. E. Whyte,
arrived at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, from Canada,
the whole of them having been sent home to be dis-
charged on the completion of their period of service.
A party of troops belonging to the 37th and 73d
Regiments, from the depot battalion at Plymouth,
also arrived at Chatham yesterday afternoon, for
the purpose of being medically inspected, in order
to ascertain their fitness for further service.
It is intended to convert the officers' large mess-
room, recently erected at Fort Pitt Hospital, into a
reading-room for the use of the patients who are

able to leave their wards, as well as for the non-
commissioned officers and men of the Army Hospi-
tal Corps in attendance on invalid soldiers. The
want of a reading room at Fort Pitt has long been
experienced, there being on an average from 400
to 500 invalids and others connected with the ser-
vice always stationed there. According to the
plan proposed by Dr. W. M. Muir, C. 8., Inspector-
General, the principal medical officer of the garri-
son, with whom the suggestion originated, it is
intended to make the messroom a reading, loung-
ing, and smoking room for the exclusive use of the
inmates of the establishment, the tables being fur-
nished with most of the daily and weekly papers,
and with books of a light and amusing kind suited
for the class who will peruse them.