The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-10 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Much dissatisfaction exists at Aldershot among
he corps that have served in New Zealand in con-

sequence of a reply given in Parliament on the 30th
ult., to the question as to whether any medals were

to be awarded for the New Zealand wars
since 1845. The 65th Regiment served in these

wars and received no marks of distinction, except

,he Victorih Cross won by two or three men of the

corps. The two corps now at Aldershot, and which

served in those wars, are the 68th and 70th Regi-
ments; and also, we believe, the Ist battalion 12th,
the 2d battalion 14th, the 2d battalion 18th, the

40th, 43d, 50th, and 57th Regiments. The North
Camp is now for the most part appropriated to re:

;invents that have arrived from New Zealand, and
the 431 Regiment, from Portsmouth, is expected

shortly to join them.
The depot of the 57th Regt., under command or
Capt. Brown, will be held in readiness to procNd
from Colchester to Manchester, to join the service

companies on their arrival from New Zealand. A
route has been received from the Quartermaster-

General to the Forces, directing the draught
of the Ist battalion 16th Regt., consisting of four
officers, 80 non-commissioned officers and privates,
7 women and children, and also a draught of 5 non-
commissioned officers and privates of the 100th Re-
giment, to proceed to Liverpool, to embark on the
12th inst. to join their regiments in Canada. Re-
cruiting for all branches of the service is to be sus-

pended in the Eastern districts until further orders

Gen. hay, Inspector-General of Musketry, and

Capt. M'Kay, of the School of Musketry, officially
visited the Camp at Colchester during the last week,
and examined the musketry returns, &c., of the 4th
and Bth depot battalions.
The following detachments have been placed un-
der orders to proceed from Chatham to Liverpool
on Wednesday next, there to embark on board the
mail steamer for conveyance to Canada, viz. :—Fif-
teen non-commissioned officers and men of the 3rd

brigade Royal Artillery, four men of the 4th bri-
gade Royal Artillery, 13 men of all ranks of the
Royal Engineers, two officers and 70 non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the 30th Regiment, 50
non-commissioned officers and men of the 29th
Regiment, ons officer and 72 men of all ranks of
the Ist battalion of the 15th Regiment, and two
officers and 91 non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates of the Ist battalion of the 22d Regiment, with
three soldiers' wives and nine children ; total 315
men of all ranks, and 12 women and children. The
officers detailed to embark with the above detach-
ments are Capt. W. Sugden Jemmett, Ist battalion
15th Regiment; Capt. Herbert C. Patten and En-
sign Henry Hall, Ist battalion 22d Regiment ; and
Capt. Henry C. Singleton and Lieut. Frederick
Clowes, 30th Regiment. The draught from the
29th depot, Chatham, will join the service com-
panies on the arrival of the regiment in Canada, to
which it is ordered to proceed from Malta.
The examination of candidates for admission to
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, under the
regulations dated Horse Guards, March 31, 18G6,
will commence at Chelsea Hospital on Thursday
next, the 13th inst., before Major-General W. C.
E. Napier, vice-president, and the members of the
Council of Military Education. The next exami-
nation of candidates for commission to the Royal
Artillery and Royal Engineers for admission to the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, under the

regulations dated Horse Guards, Jan. 1, 1867, will
commence on July 1 ; and the examination for ad-
mission to the Staff College on the 22d of the same

month.

The 12th company of the Royal Engineers, num-
bering 80 non-commissioned officers and men, with
two officers, now on passage home from the

Cape of Good llopo in the Akbar, chartered troop-
skip, will, on their arrival at Gravesend, proceed to
Chatham garrison, for the purpose of being at-
tached to the head-quarters of the corps at Brorup-

ton barracks.
Detachments of non-commissioned offiers and
men of the Royal Artillery, 4th a.id 10th Brigades,
Ist battalion of the 15th Regt., 21 battalion of the
22d Regt., 30th Regt., and the Royal Engineers,
have
.been place ,1 under orders to proceed from
Chatham, on Thursday next, the 13:h inst., and
embark for Canada :and New Brunswick. The
draughts for Canada will embark on board the screw
steamer Nestoria, and those for New Brunswick in
the St. David.
Yesterday a party of non-commissioned officers
and men of the Royal Engineers left headquarters,
Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to ernbalk On board
the screw steamer Tamar, 2,812 tons, 500 horse
power, for conveyance to Malta, where they will be
employed on the works being executed in connec-
tion with the defences of that island.
By direction of the Field-Marshal Commanding
in Chief, Deputy Inspector General H. Hugh
Massy, M.D., president of the Army Sanitary
Committee, has been engaged the entire week in
the sanitary inspection of the barracks occupied by
the troops, the hospitals, forts, and other military
establishments at Chatham district and garrison, in
which duty he has been assisted by the principal
officials connected with the various departments.
Yesterday Dr. Massy was engaged in the inspection
of Chatham barracks, occupied by the corps attached
to the Ist and 2d Depot Battalions.
Yesterday Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., In-
spector-General of Royal Marines Light Infantry,
attended by Capt. J. M. Lennox, Aide-de-Camp,
completed his summer inspection of the Chatham
division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, in which
duty he had been engaged the greater portion of the
week. The portion of the inspection entered upon
yesterday was for the purpose of testing the efficiency
of the officers of companies in handling their men
and exercising them in battalion and company drill.
At 11 o'clock a.m. a small battalion of eight com-
panies was formed on Chatham lines, when the cap-
tains of companies and the subalterns of the division
were selected by Gen. Travers to drill the battalion
in different movements. The battalion returned to
headquarters at 1 p.m., and the inspection of the
division was brought to a close by Major-General
Travers in the afternoon with results it is understood
exceedingly favourable to the efficiency of both offi-
cers and men. To-day the Inspector-General is
expected to visit and inspect tho detachments of
Royal Marines at Milton-barracks, undergoing a
course of instruction in the use of the Snider rifle,
which has been served out to the whole of the non-
commissioned officers and men of the Royal Marines
at Chatham.
The unarmoured screw gun vessel Myrmidon, 4,
200-horse power, having shipped her masts, was
yesterday placed in No. 4 dock at Chatham, to have
her launching gear removed, and to be brought for-
ward for sea. Her draught of water on launching
was 9ft. sin. aft, and 7ft. forward, and her displace-
ment 500 tons.
The 'Victoria, screw three-decker, Commander
Codrington, whose arrival at Spithead from tho
Moditerranoan was reported in The Sun of yester-
day, is ordered to be dismantled and paid out of
commission at Portsmouth. She will go into har-
bour from Spithead on Monday.
The Duncan, screw two-decker, Captain Robert
Gibson, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir James
Hope, G.C.8., late commanding her Majesty's fleets
on the North American and West India station,
arrived at Spithead yesterday, from her station, on
relief by the ironclad frigate Royal Alfred, bearing
the flag of Sir James Hope's successor, Sir. G.
Rodney Mundy, K.C.B. The Duncan, on anchor-
ing at Spithead, exchanged salutes with the flagship
of the Port Admiral at Portsmouth, the Victory,
Capt. Hon. Egerton, C. 8., A.D.C. to the Queen.
Sir Jernee Hope struck his flag soon after the Dun-
can';.; arrival at Spithead, and disembarked in the
Pigmy steam tender, which had been placed at, his
disposal by Rear-Admiral Superintendent G. G.
Wellesley, who proceeded in the Pigmy to Spithead
and personally received the Vice-Admiral on his
return to England. The Duncan is ordered to pro-
ceed to Sheerness to dismantle and pay out of com-
mission. The following officers and passengers
arrived in the ship :—Capts. Burney and Cleather,
47th Regiment ; Capt. Blackwell, 16th Regiment ;
Dr. Littleton, Sub.-Lieut. the Hoc.
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Sub.-Lieut.
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from her Majesty's ship Constance
North, from her Majesty s ship Wolverine ; Lieut.
NiYen and (36 naval and marine invalids front the
4 squadron.