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By the Rev. GEORGE MUSGRAVE, M.A., Oxon.
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de Grey and Ripon will immediately reload with a
full cargo of the new Palliser shot and shell, and
ieturn to Portsmouth without delay.
The firing detachment of Royal Marines Light
Infantry, under the command of Lieut. Leeky,
Musketry Instructor (pro tem.) to the division, were
yesterday engaged at their practice ground in
Woolwich-marsh in firing over the long range at
distances of 700 and 800 yards. The ammunition
employed was Boxer's cartridges No. 3. The prac-
tice was very fair, and the sighting good. The
firing with the five-grooved Sergeant's short rifle
was exceedingly good, the efficacy of that weapon
having proved as superior to that of the long rifle as
the Snider is to the long Enfield.
The 11th depot battalion stationed at Gosport,
under; the command of Lieut.-Col. Nason, erased
over to Portsmouth yesterday, and paraded on
Southsea-common for inspection by Lieut.-Gen.
Sir G. Buller, K.C.8., Lieut.-Governor of Ports-
mouth and Commander-in-Chief of the South-
West Military District. The inspection proved
very creditable both to officers and men.
The shipping departmental officers at Woolwich
have received instructions front the War Depart-
ment to embark 100 tons of the new Boxer ammu-
nition, for the use of the Militia regiments in Scot-
land, now about to commence their annual course
of training and practice for inspection.
Her Majesty's steamship Caledonia, armour-clad,
late flagship of Admiral Yelverton, whose period of
service has expired, is under orders for the,
terranean, to relieve the Victoria, three-decker, as
flagship of the Commauder-iu-Chief on that station.
The Victoria will return home to be paid off.
Captain Scovell, of the 9th Regiment, Ensign
Guyon, 49th Regiment, Ensign Willoughby, 96th
Regiment, two sergeants, two corporals, and six
privates, 4th and Bth depot battalions, were to leave
the camp at Colchester yesterday for the Hythe
School of Musketry. Captain Sheringham, Ist
battalion, 16th Regiment, is under orders to pro-
ceed to Canada with the draught of the Ist batta-
lion, 16th Foot, in place of Capt. Goodwin, with-
drawn. Lieut. Church, 96th Foot, is held in readi-
ness to proceed from the depot to the service com-
panies of his regiment in Bombay. Ensign Tar-
leten, Ist battalion, 16th Regiment, has received
orders to proceed from the service to the depot-
companies for duty. Staff-Assist.-Surg,. Jay has
been attached to the 6th (Enniskillen) Dragoons.
A farewell inspection and review of the 72d
Highlanders was held at Edinburgh on Monday.
The regiment was paraded in the morning on the
Castle esplanade, under the command of Lieut.-
Col. Payn, and a careful inspection was made by
Major-General Hamilton, C. 8., Commander of the
Forces in North Britain. In the afternoon the
corps was reviewed in Holyrood-park, and put
through the drill for the breech-loading rifle, with
which the men are now armed, and in the use of
which they showed great proficiency. A few men
were taken from the ranks to ase4ertain the rate of
firing, and the result showed tha4 each man fired on
the average seven shots per min* At the conclu-
sion Major-Gen. Hamilton complimented the men
on their steadiness and on their rapid and well-sus-
tained firing. The regiment is about to leave Edin-
burgh for Aldershot, and will be succeeded by the
second battalion of the 6th:Foot.
The announcement in the Owl, that " the whole
of the infantry in the army in the United King-
dom aro at this moment supplied with the Snider
rifle," has nowhere created more surprise than at
Chatham, as not a single rifle of the new breech-
loading Snider pattern has been yet distributed to
any of the infantry-troops at that station, and not a
Snider rifle has been received at the garrison. The
statement, therefore, that " the reports from all dis-
tricts announce a perfect satisfaction with the arm
as a practical weapon" must be illusory.
On Wednesday Major-general Freeman Murray,
commanding the forces in the Chatham district,
commenced his first half-yearly inspection of the
Corps of Royal Engineers at head-quarters,
Brompton barracks, under the command of Col. J.
L. A. Simmons, C. 8., director of the Royal Engi-
neer establishment. At 11 o'clock a.m. the whole
of the available officers and men of the corps, num-
bering eight companies, together with the mounted
A troop of the Royal Engineer. train, under the
command of Capt. R. N. Dawson, with their horses;
waggons, and pontoon-train complete, to the num-
ber of about 800 men of all ranks, were formed on
the Great Lines in heavy marching order, under the
command of Lieut.-Col. Fitzroy H. Somerset. On
the arrival of General Murray, accompanied by the
officers of his personal and divisional staff, the usual
salute was given, immediately after which the com-
panies were formed in open column, when the kits,
arms, and accoutrements of each company were
minutely inspected. This completed, the cus-
tomary movements and exercise were gone
through, in which the corps acquitted itself very
satisfactorily. The companies were afterwards
marched back to their quarters, and General Mug-
ray proceeded to Brompton barracks, on which the
staff and other non-commissioned officers and men
were drawn up, for the purpose of being exercised
in the new sword-drill, through which course of in-
struction they have just passed. In the afternoon,
at 3 o'clock, the entire corps was drawn up on the
Lines, in review order, and on the arrival of Gen.
Murray the officers and men were put through an
extended course oflight infan try and other manceuvres
incidental to the half-yearly inspection, in order to
test the efficiency of the officers and men of the
Royal Engineers. Notwithstanding the compara-
tively few occasions that the Royal Engineers, from
the varied character of their duties, enjoy for prac-
tising light infantry and field movements, they
acquitted themselves very satisfactorily, the different
manceuvres being gone through with steadiness and
precision. Yesterday General Murray resumed and
brought the inspection to a conclusion, the day
being devoted to the examination of the barrack-
rooms and men's quarters, schools, halls of study,
lecture theatres, model rooms, offices, and other de-
partments at the Royal Engineer establishment, the
General visiting, later in the day, the hospital for
the Royal Engineers at Fort Pitt.
The deaths of the following officers have been
officially reported at the War-office since the Ist ult. :
—Generals Richard Uniackecßoyal Irish Artillery,
and John H. Richardson ; Lieut.-Gen. A. Fraser ;
Major-Gen. James Gordon, Royal Engineers ; Col.
H. E. de Burgh Sidley, 50th Queen's Own Regi-
ment ; Lieut.-Col. S. J. Stevens, C. 8., Paymaster,
Royal Artillery. Copts. G. A. Hartman, 2d battalion
13th Light Infantry; Stephen Kenny; and M. de
Cloudt, Ist Light Dragoons. Lieuts. V. H. Walker
and W. A. Cook, Royal Artillery ; John Bain, 61st
Regiment ; and William G. Gardiner, Rifle Bri-
gade. Cornet Lord James Hubert Henry Thomas
Butler, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers. Ensigns H.
Newman, 2d battalion 6th Regiment ; Henry C.
Bailey, 2d battalion 14th Regiment ; Frederick G.
Moore Ellis, 2d battalion 22d Regiment ; and Win.
Veitch, 58th Regiment. Inspector-Gen. of Hospi-
tals, James French, M.D., C.B. ; Deputy-Inspector
Gen. of Hospitals, Win. 11. Burrell, M.D. Surg. -
Major Edward William Thomas Mandeville, 2d
Battalion 7th Royal Fusileers ; Assist.-Surg. William
James Mullan, and Veterinary-Surg. John KingsleY,
Cape Mounted Riflemen.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Capt. E. W. Turnour tothe Done-
gal, vice Paynter ; Capt. the
.Hon. F. A. Foley to
the Cambridge, vice Ewart ; Capt. M. S. Nolleth to
W. Annesley
the St. George, vice Rice ; C
to the Cameleou, Licuts.coullnission:dlll;.
Licuts. E. C.
E. D. Law
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and L. G. A. Roberts to the Phoebe
Drummond and C. A. Nicolson to the Dryad ;
Lieut. IL H. Washington to the Favourite ; Vesey
Knox, midshipman, to the Dryad,complement in-
to the Dryad
complete ; E. J. Bawtree, naidshipman,
as supernumerary ; Commander
Coastguard at Brid-
lington C. C. Rising, to b©
Inspecting Commander of h
; Sub-Lieuts. R. F. Ward and L. Napier, to

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The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. John Bythesea, V.C., to
the Phiebe, commissioned ; James Fisher, master, to
the Came.leon ; John A. it. Petch, master, to the
Phoebe ; John W. 11. Harvey, master, to the Re-
venge ; Win. 11. Hayward, master, to the Dryad;
Sub.-Lieut. Claud Harding and Sub-Lieut. Robert
0. Tottenham, and Sub-Lieut. John Hicks, to
the Prince Consort ; Sub-Lieut. Horace J. M.
Pugh, to the Minotaur ; John Plielips and
Alfred L. Winslow, midshipmen, to the Minotaur;
W. Y. Ottley and W. R. Creswell, midshipmen, to
the Phoebe ; R. C. Sparkes, Frank H. Henderson,
Alfred T. Holmes (as supernumerary), and W. C.
H. Hastings (for disposal), naval cadets, to the
Cameleon ; Alfred W. Paget, naval cadet, to the
Galatea, as supernumerary ; John L. Marx, H. G.
Grey, and A. A. Broughton, naval cadets, to the
Phoebe; Dr. J. Digan, M.D., staff surgeon, to the
Formidable, for service with the Royal Marines at
Deal ; E. J. Bennett, paymaster, to the Phoebe;
F. Parker, paymaster, to the Dryad ; H. M. Ber-
nard, paymaster, to the Cameleon ; C. 0. Salmon,
assistant paymaster, to the Fisgard, as supernume-
rary ; J. D. Taylor, clerk to the Phoebe ; and E.
R. C. Bromley, assistant clerk, to the Phoebe.

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