The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-16 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The annexed General Order has been promul-
gated :

" Horse Guards, Oct. 10.

" His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief is pleased to approve of general
officers commanding districts and divisions in
Great Britain, and officers commanding in gar-
risons not included in any military district, grant-
ing leave of absence to officers, and furloughs
to non-commissioned officers and soldiers, under the
following regulations and restrictions, viz.
Leave of absence, granted underthis order to officers,
may commence on the 15th of October, or as soon
as the half-yearly inspection shall have been made.
Furloughs granted to non-commissioned officers and
soldiers may commence from the Ist of the next
month. 2. These indulgences are to terminate on
the 14th of March next, when, agreeably to her
Majesty's Regulations, all officers and soldiers are to
be present with theirrespective regiments and depots.
3. One field officer, one half of the captains, and one
half of the subaltern officers, are always to be pre-
sent. 4. No officer (except in the performance of
duty, or for the purpose of joining his regiment) is
to quit the United Kingdom without having first
received her Majesty's special permission, according
the regulation of that head. 5. Officers employed
on the recruiting service or upon the Staff of the
army, are not to be included in the number hereby
fixed for the constant duty of the regiment or depot.
6. The applications for leave for regimental pay-
masters and medical officers are to continue to be
made in the mode prescribed in the Regulations and
Orders for the Army. 7. In cases of short leave of
absence being requested by adjutants, ridingmasters,
quartermasters, or veterinary surgeons of regiments,
it will be necessary that a special report be made as to
the mode in which their duties are to be performed
during their absence, and that the commanding offi-
cer is satisfied. 8. The proportion of non-commis-
sioned officers, trumpeters, drummers, and private
men, to whom furloughs may be granted is not to ex-
ceed 20 per battery of horse and field artillery, or 10
per troop, battery of garrison artillery, or company.
Commanding officers of regiments returning from
India may exercise a liberal discretion in granting fur-
loughs to soldiers who come home with their corps.
When corps are not stationed in garrisons or mili-
tary districts, the officers commanding are at liberty
to use their discretion in granting the indulgence of
leave of absence, under the foregoing restrictions,
to the officers and soldiers under their command,
reporting the same to the Adjutant-General. His,
Royal Highness expects that the general and other
officers who are empowered to grant leave of absence
under the provisions of this order will strictly con-
fine that grant to the proportion of officers herein
specified.

" By command of his Royal Highness the Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief,
" LORD WILLIAM PAIILET,•Adjt.-General."

Col. Maxwell, commandant Woolwich division
Royal Marine Light Infantry, accompanied by Col.
Lambrick, second commandant, Aide-de-Camp to
the Queen, and other officers of the corps, on Satur-
day inspected a class of non-commissioned officers
and men who have been under instruction at the
Gymnasium at Woolwich. The men were put
through the whole of the exercises in the three courses
laid down by the authority of the Horse Guards, all
of which they performed most efficiently. At the
conclusion of the exercises, Col. Maxwell addressed
the men, telling them that he had been astonished
to hear that they had been under instruction only
three months. He understood that some of the men
had increased in stamina and had gained very much
in breadth of chest and in the thickness of their
arms during the course. It was stated that these
advantages had been notified to the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief, the Duke of Cambridge, who
had been pleased to take into consideration the ne-
cessity of enlarging the establishment, in order td
enable a greater number of the men in garrison to
profit thereby. The gymnastic exercises which have
been already so beneficial will henceforth, it appears,
take a much greater place in military drill than
heretofore.

The under-mentioned officers of the Military Store
Department having gone through the complete course
of practical instruction in the manufacturing de-
partments of Woolwich Arsenal, have been ordered
to hold in readiness for removal as follows : Assist.-
Superintendent Dwyer, from Woolwich to St.
Helena ; Deputy Assist.-Superintendent March,
from Woolwich to Natal, in charge; D eputy-Assist. -
Hunt, from the Tower to Sydney, in charge ; De-
putyAssist.-Superintendent O'Riardan, from Wool-
wich to Malta; Deputy Assist.-Superintendent
Dunstan, from Woolwich to Gibraltar; Major-Gen.
Warde, C. 8., commanding the troops in the Wool-
wich district, attended by Major Hay, R.A., Bri-
gade Major; Brevet Major Greville, RA., Acting
Deputy Assist-Quartermaster-Gen. ; Capt. Wil-
liams, A.D.C., Major Shervinton, Brigade Major
Military Train ; Assist.-Commissary-Gen. Swain,
and other officers, made his half yearly inspection
of the Military Train, under the command of Major
Buller on Saturday at 3 o'clock, when he expressed
himself very much pleased with their high discip-
line, and the cleanliness and perfect order apparent
in their barracks, stables, and quarters.
Major-Gen. Lord George Paget, Inspector of
Cavalry, is expected to-day on an official visit to
the cavalry barracks at Colchester.

The ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 16, 1,000 horse
power, in dock at Chatham, fitting, has had her
four-bladed screw taken out, preparatory to being
fitted with a two-bladed Griffith propeller now be-
ing manufactured for her, with which she will again
be tried at the measured mile, Maplin Sands. No
relaxation had taken place on the part of the work-
men engaged on this vessel in completing her, the
hands being still engaged working on board until a
late hour each evening, while gas is laid on to every
part of the vessel.
The following appointments have been. made at
the Admiralty :—Staff-Commander John F. Rees,
to the Flora, in command ; Lieut. L. Martin, to the
Donegal ; Lieut. James A. Forbes, to the Trafalgar ;
Lieut. Wm. Collins, to the Victory ; Lieut. A. G.
M'Kechnie, to the Asia ; Sub-Lieut. Gerard R.
Bromley and Sub-Lieut. W. M'F. Castle, to the
Terrible ; Keppell H. Foote, naval cadet to the
Prince Consort; John_
Frazer, assist.-surg., addi-
tional, to the Princess Royal ; Thos. W. L. Bowling
and Wm. B. Antridge, assist.-paymasters, to the
Bristol ; Charles Leigh, assist,-paymaster, to the