The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-10 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The 2d Life Guards, Col. Marshall, left the
North Camp, Aldershot, yesterday for Windsor, the
dismounted parties proceeding by the South.
Eastern Railway.
The 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), Colonel
Sawyer, marched from Aldershot yesterday and
Monday for Shorncliffe and Brighton—three troops
to the former place, and headquarters and five
troops to the latter.
The A battery, B brigade, Royal Horse Artillery,
under the command of Capt. Denne, marched from
Aldershot yesterday morning for Dorettester.
Four companies of the 87th Royal Irish Fusi-
leers marched from Aldersleott yesterday morning,
at 7 o'clock, for Portland and Weymouth. The de-
tachment was under the command of Major Lord
D'Arey Osborne, and it was to halt at Woolmer for
the night and proceeded this aay on its route. The
head-quarters and remeeining five companies of the
regiment will lee ie the camp to-morrow morning
for Gosport and Tipner, encamping at Woolmer one
night, marching into Gosport on Friday.
The :37th Regiment, under the command of
Lieut.-Col. Francis Douglas Grey, left Aldershot
Camp on Saturday morning for Diver. The regi-
ment marched from the South Camp to the North
Camp station of the South Eastern Railway, where
a special train conveyed it to its destination. The
strength marching out was as follows :-30 officers,
35 seargeants, 21 drummers, 953 rank and file, 81
women, 85 children, and 6 horses. The bands of
the let battalton of the 6th, 59:h, 733, and 87th
Regiments accompanied the regiment to the statior.
In addition to the detachment of non-commis-
sioned cfficers and men of the Royal Engineers
selected for service in New Zealand,a farther num-
ber of Sappers and Miners were yesterday selected
from the companies at head quarters, Chatham, in
accordance with instructions from the Horse
Guards, and placed under orders to embark from
the colony as soon as the necessary amount of ton-
nage has been taken up for them by the Government.
The 62d Regiment. under the command of Colonel
Brett, embarked on board the screw troopship
Tamar, Capt. Stirling, yesterday, at Portsmouth,
and will leave this morning for Dublin.
A number of the workmen employed on the iron
frigate Achilles, 20, 1,250 horse power, at Chatham,
have again commenced working extra hours, and
are now employed each evening until 9 o'clock
p.m., by order of the Admiralty, In anticipation
of the mechanics employed on the iron-clad frigate
Lord Warden, building at Chatham Dockyard,
being required to work additional hours during the
approaching autumn, the Admiralty have given
directions for the necessary gasfittings to he erected
at the slip on which the ironcased ship is under
construction. The Achilles is expected to be en-
tirely out of the hands of the dockyard offi3ials by
the close of the present month, when the mechanics
still engaged on her wilt be transferred to the Bel-
lerophon and Loed Warden, both of which, it ie
believed, will be completed and afloat by the end of
the ensuing year. The Achilles commenced ship-
ping her sails from the dockyard yesterday.
The screw steamship Himalaya, 6, Captain E.
Lacy, was spoken, all well, off Plymouth, going
down Channel, by the pilot cutter Alarm, No. 7, on
Saturday at 2 p.m.
The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt. H. W. Hire,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from Bermuda, after
a passage of 13 days, with the 39th Regiment on
board, under the command of Col. Munro, C.B.
The regiment will be disembarked this morning,
and be forwarded on from Portsmouth by special
train to Aldershot.