The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-04 00:00:00

THE ABlll}.

General Knollys, president of tho special com-
mittee, now sitting for the revision of the regula-
tions affecting the guidance of the Royal Military
Academy at Woolwich, yesterday paid an official
visit to the establishment, unattended.

The E Battery of the 4th Brigade Field Artillery,
numbering 6 officers, 90 gunners, 70 drivers, non-
commissioned officers, &e., and supplied with six
Armstrong guns, under the command of Captain
Vesey, will leave Bristol by special train this morn-
ing for Woolwich, whence they will embark with
other detachments on board the Melbourne for
Canada. The guns and waggons have been already
despatched, and the horses will follow immediately.
A notice has been issued by Major Savile, com-
mandant of the British Volunteer Artillery Corps,
requiring the attendance of the band and corps to
accompany the Royal Artillery to the railway ter-
minus.

One hundred non-commissioned officers and men
belonging to the Depot of the Royal Artillery were
yesterday despatched by rail from Woolwich to
Bristol, to take charge of the horses belonging to
Capt. Vesey's battery.

THE ROY AL NAVAL RESERVE 47

SUNDERLAND.

The men of the Royal Naval Reserve at Sunder-
land have not been behind their brother seamen at
other ports in expressing their determination to
support the Government in any extreme measures
which it may ultimately find necessary to adopt to
vindicate the honour of the British flag against the
recent attack upon the mail steamer Trent. On
Saturday upwards of 100 members of the force
assembled on the main deck of the training-ship
Trincomalee, now stationed in Sunderland Docks,
and the chair having been taken by John
Robertson, he addressed his shipmates in a few
stirring sentences. At the conclusion of his
speech the chairman submitted to the meeting
the following copy of an address, which
he proposed they should send to Captain Heard,
the commander of the Trincomalee :—" Her
Majesty's ship Trincomalee, Sunderland, Nov. 30.
Captain Heard. Sir,—At a general meeting held
on board her Majesty's training-ship Trincomalee,
now lying in the south dock, it was resolved—that,
seeing by the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette the
insult offered to the British flag by the Americans,
we, the undersigned Naval Reserve men, do freely
and spontaneously offer our services to resent the
insult, and will shed the last drop of our blood
against any nation that dares to insult our gracious
Queen or national flag." The address was carried
amid enthusiastic cheering, and was then signed by
Robot tson on behalf of the meeting. Loud calls
were then made for Captain Heard (who, together
with all his officers, had entirely kept aloof from the
proceedings), and the captain having stepped upon
deck from his cabin was presented by Robertson
with the address, which ho said he should have great
pleasuro in forwarding to the proper quarter. Three
cheers for the gallant captain terminated the pro-
ceedings. Before the meu dispersed it was resolved
that they should meet again on Monday, and show
to their fellow•townsmen, by a public demonstra-
tion in the streets, that they were thoroughly in
earnest. Accordingly, at one o'clock on Monday
afternoon they assembled on board their training
ship iu much larger numbers than on Saturday,
men both on and off drill coming forward to join in
the procession. On stepping ashore they formed
in ranks, and, preceded by the Union Jack, with a
band of music at their head, they perambulated the
the docks and the principal streets of the town. In

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the centre of the procession was borne a large ban-
ner, on which were inscribed the words, " Ready,
aye ready !" On their return to the Trincomalee
Robertson again addressed the assembled tars.
They wished (he said) to show the Government that
they were not paying the retaining money to the
men of the Reserve for nothing; and that now,
when a crisis was apparently about to arise, the
Reserve men were able, willing, and ready to fulfil
their agreement. War was not yet declared, but
he had not the least hesitation in saying that within
two:months of the day when it was declared there
would not be an American ship afloat on the open
sea. Other ports might turn out in greater num-
bers, but he defied them to produce a finer body
of men than would be found in Sunderland. The
demonstration was then brought to a close with a
round of vociferous cheering. The total strength
of the reserve in Sunderland is between 800 and
900 men.