The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-17 00:00:00

* Bedfordshire.

GOVERNMENT INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES.—TiIe
following additional post-offices will be open on and after
the 17th of December for the receipt of proposals for the in-
surance of lives or the purchase of Government annuities
under the Act 27th and 28th of Victoria, cap. 43 ; and for

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the receipt of the premiums becoming due to the Postmas-
ter-General from Limo to thno under contracts for the in-
surance of lives or the purchase of Government Annuities,
and for the payment of any sums which shall become pay-
able by the Postmaster-General under the said contracts :
—Biggar, N.B. ; Gourock (Greenock), N. 13. ; Grange-
mouth (Falkirk), N.B. ; Kilcreggan (Greenock), N. 8.,
Kincardine (Allow), N.B. ; Lesmahagow (Lanark), N.B.
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Adjt.-Gen., resumed and brought to a termination
his annual inspection of the officers and troops at
Chatham who kayo completed their course of mus-
ketry instruction during the past 12 months. The
non-commissioned officers and men who passed the
examination satisfactorily, and have completed the
entire course of instruction in musketry, will be
awarded extra pay for 12 months. During his in-
spection Major Gen. Hay examined the officers and
men of the three depot battalions of infantry and
other corps stationed at Chatham garrison.
The roof of the drill-shed in course of erection at
the Royal Marine Barracks, Chatham, which gave
way a few weeks since, has been made good, the

last of the principals and girders having been securely
fixed in its place on Saturday. The new shed, which
is of iron, with louvre skylights, is 360 feet in length,
with a breadth of 60 feet, and is erected at the back
of the men's quarters, between the new and the old
buildings. The drill-shed is sufficiently commodious
to admit of several hundred men being exercised
beneath it at the same time, and will thus relieve
the occasionally crowded barrack-square on the
occasion of the ordinary drills of the Royal Marine
battalion.

The following garrison order, No. 6, was on Satur-
day issued from the Commandant's-office of the
Royal Artillery, Woolwich :--" Major-Gen. Maxwell
having relinquished the command of the Woolwich
division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry on
his promotion, and being about to leave Woolwich
the Major-General commanding the district takes
the opportunity of requesting him to ampt his
thanks for the uniform assistance that he has
afforded him ou all occasions, and also for the able
and judicious manner in which he has carried out

,he duties of his command, the result being the high

state of discipline nosy existing in they
the Major-General commanding attributes to
the anxious care and earnest interest in their wel-

'are evinced by Major-Gen. Maxwell during the

period of his command, as regards equally officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men."

Major-Gen. Hodge, C. 8., has been appointed to
the command of the Aldershot Division from Dec.
11 until January 5, during the absence on leave of
Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.B.
The necessity for putting in force at Aldershot
the provisions of the Contagious Diseases Preven-
tion Act has formed the subject of a memorial from
the Farnham Board of Guardians to the Secretary
of State for War, the Guardians complaining of the
heavy expense entailed upon the Union by the ad-
mission to the workhouse infirmary of a large num-
ber of women requiring a long course of medical
treatment. The following reply to the memorial
has been received, addressed to the Clerk of the
Guardians :

" am dire:teldVabry-otffiheces, Dec.e.cre talrOy,
01f866.
State
for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 6th inst., and to acquaint you in reply that
he is anxious that arrangements should be made for
putting the Contagious Diseases Act into force with-
out delay at Aldershot, a building for an hospital
having already been selected, and that he has called
for information which he hopes may enable him to
do so effectually. lam to add that the delay which
has occurred has been mainly due to the difficulties
interposed by the Hampshire magistrates in occu-
pying the War Department building (chosen for an
hospital) by the constabulary at Aldershot.—l am,
sir, your obedient servant,

" EDWARD LUGARD."

The military gymnasium at Aldershot, which has
been closed lately in order to effect some improve-
ments, was to be re-opened to-day (Monday), and
classes formerly attending will resume their course
of training.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments

in the Civil Service.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Mr. Francis Gerard St.
John Tupper has been appointed to be clerk in the
Committee-office.

WAR- 0 FFIC E.-111r. Edward John Lawless has
been appointed to be an established clerk in the
purveyor's department.

BOARD OF TRADE.--Mr. George Mudge has been
appointed to a temporary clerkship.
PRISONS DEPARTMENT.-Mr. Henry Essex Wil-
liams has been appointed to be a clerk at Penton-
vile Prison.
ADMIRALTY.-Mr John Hardinge Giffard has
app
been appointed to a clerkship,
appointed
to a clerkship,itehall; Alr
Alpine Macgregor has been
Whitehall ; Mr. J. Buttery, second schoolmaster at
Chatham Dockyard, has been appointed to be
schoolmaster at Pembroke Dockyard.
TnE POST-OFFICE.-Mr. Edwin Lloyd has been
appointed to be postmaster at Stamford ; Mr. Wm.
Wynne Caruthers has been appointed to be a tem-
porary clerk in the Savings Bank ; Mr. William
Thomas Aston has been appointed to be a clerk at
Northampton ; Mr. Robert Binns Halstead has been
appointed to be a sorting clerk, Manchester ; Mr.
William Collins has been appointed to be a clerk at
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Duty Department, Somerset House ; Mr. Walter
Walker has been appointed to be a clerk in the
Registry of Licenses-office ; Mr. Daniel Northwood
has been appointed to be an assistant surveyor of
taxes.
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EXCISE BIiANCII.-Mr. Lauranbe Counsel, sur-
veying-general examiner, second class, has been
appointed to be collector, Ripon collection ; Mr.
Ambrose Martin, surveying-general examiner, third
class, has been appointed to be surveying-general
examiner, second class.—Civil Service Gazelle.

A drunken man lately tried to get a policeman to
arrest his own shadow. His complaint was that au
ill-looking scoundrel kept following him.

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