The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-01 00:00:00

An order from the Horse Guards was received
at Chatham yesterday, directing the depot com-
panies of the 65th Regiment, under the command
of Capt. J. 0. Priestley, to move from that garri-
son to Plymouth citadel to-morrow morning, for
the purpose of joining the headquarters and service
companies of the 65th Regiment on their arrival
from New Zealand. The non-commissioned officers
and men of the depot have been inspected by
Major-General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., pre-
viously to their departure from Chatham.
The 25th company of Royal Engineers, under
the command of Capt. R. Grant, numbering 70
non-commissioned' officers 'and men, has received
orders to proceed from the Royal Engineer esta-
blishment, Chatham, to Dover, on the 9th inst., to
relieve the 7th company, which rejoins at head-
quarters, Brompton-barracks, on the completion of
that company's period of service on the fortifica-
tions and works on that part of the coast having
terminated.

On Wednesday ten companies of the 85th King's
Light Infantry, under the command of Major
Appleyard, left the North Camp Station, Alder-
shot, and proceeded by train to Manchester and
Chester. The remaining two companies of the re-
giment were ordered on Saturday to proceed to
Newcastle-on-Tyne.

On Thursday the 21st Royal North British Fusi-
liers, under the command of Lieut.-Col. J. R.
Stuart, C. 8., left the camp-tit Aldershot, en route-
for Glasgow and Paisley.
An order directing Capt. Gaynor, of the 38th
Regiment, to join his regiment in India, has been
cancelled, he 'having been appointed Instructor in
Musketry to the Bth Depot Battalion.
The funeral of the late Col. Alexander Murray,
commanding the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regi-
ment at Portsmouth, who died at his residence in
London on the 24th ult. while on sick leave, took
place at Portsmouth on Saturday with military
honours. The coffin containing the body of the de-
ceased officer arrived attire Landport railway station
from London at 11 30 a.m. The 87th, comprising
359'officers and men, were drawn up in line facing
the station, under the command of Major T. Lyons,
and received the remains of its late commander with
presented arms. The coffin was placed on a gun
carriage drawn by six horses, and the funeral cortege
then proceeded from the railway to the Southsca
cemetery, marching in slow time with the bands of
the*B7th and 52d Regiments, playing the Dead March
in Saul. Arriving at the gates of the cemetery the
87th halted and faced inwards, resting on reversed
arms and forming a line, through which the cortege
passed into the burial ground. The service at the
chapel and the grave was read by the Rev. T. H.
St. George, 8.D., chaplain to the Forces. Three
volleys of musketry, with as many rolls 'on the
drums, concluded the ceremony.
Her Majesty's ships Galatea, 26 guns, Capt. Roch-
ford Maguire, sailed from Port Royal, Jamaica,
Nov. 29, for Bermuda, Halifax, and Plymouth, to
be paid off. She embarked previously a wing of the
2d Battalion of the 17th Regiment for Halifax, the
officers and crew of the Delight gunboat for Ber-
muda, and the officers and crew of the Bulldog for
England. She had with her own crew upwards of
1,000 souls on board.
The Lords of the Admiralty have accepted the
tender of Messrs. John Brown and Co., of the Atlas
Icon and Steel Works, Sheffield, for the manufac-
ture of the rolled armour plates of Bin. and 9in. in
thicknesslor the new iron clad frigate Hercules,
about being commenced at Chatham dockyard. An
order received at Chatham from the Admiralty also
states that their lordships have likewise accepted the
tender of Messrs. Cammell and Co., of the Cyclops
Works, as well as that of the Mersey Iron Company,
for the manufacture of the Gin. plates required for
the llercules. Ate. cont Act price to be piid for the,
Bin. and 9in. plates is £33 per ton, and for the Gin.
plates £29 10s. and £29 ss. per ton.

A notification has been received at Chatham dock-
yard that the Lords of the Admiralty have entered
into an arrrngement with Mr. G. IV. Beatdslee, the
United States' torpedo officer, for the purchase by
the Government of the torpedo implements, mag-
netic instruments, electric batteries, and the other
apparatus used :by him in his method of de-
stroying vessels of war, harbour obstructions, forts,
and batteries, &c., by means of submarine explo-
sions, the recent experiments undertaken in Chat-
ham harbour having shown the value of the inven-

tion in naval warfare. Mr. Beardslee has recently
been occupied at Chatham in making the prelimi-
nary arrangements for sane further additional ex-
periments on a much more extended scale than any
previously undertaken, with the object of further
demonstrating the importance of the new agency for
the destruction of forts and vessels of war.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Capt. Norman B. Bedingfeld to
the Wasp, vice Capt. Thwden, superseded at his
own request ; Captain H. F. W. Ingram to the
Egmont, vice Capt. Crauiurd, whose period•of ser-
vice has expired ; Capt. Thomas Cockran, to the
Wolverine, vice De Horsey to the Aurora ; Com-
mander G. J. Malcolm to the Dasher, when recom-
missioned on the Ist of January; Lieut. John
Houghton to the Defence, vice Mead ; Lieut. Arthur
Gilmore to the Revenge, vice Berkeley.