The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-29 00:00:00

file of the depot of the 2d battalion 16th Regiment
are to be held in readiness to proceed to join the
service companies in Barbadoes on a conveyance
being provided.
Two troops of the Ist Dragoon Guards have left
Colchester for Norwich (where they arrived on
Saturday) to form an escort for their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales during
their visit to the Norwich Musical Festival.

The half-yearly inspection of the troops at Col-
chester having been completed a large number of
officers of the garrison have been granted leave of
absence until the end of the year.
On Saturday Major-Gen. Sir D. A. Cameron,
K.C.B. (president), Major-Gen. J. St. George,
C. 8., Royal Artillery, Director of Ordnance ; Com-
missary-Gen.-in-Chief Sir W. J. Tyrone Power,
K.C.B. ; Col. Commandant J. Clark Kennedy,
C. 8., Military Train ; Purveyor-in-Chief J. Scott
Robertson, Colonel L. Shadwell, Military Assistant
at the War-office, and the other members of the
commission for inquiring into the transport service
of the army, with the view to its complete reorga-
nisation visited Chatham for the purpose of prose-
cuting their inquiries and investigations at that gar-
rison. The Commissioners were attended officially
by Major J. Buckley, barrack-master ; Assist.-
Commissary-Gen. A. A. Downes ; Superintendent
of Stores A. Gun, and the officers connected with
the 'Quartermaster-General's department at that
garrison. In the course of their investigations and
inquiries the members of the commission visited
Fort Pitt, the Ordnance Department, and other
establishments, and were occupied in their investi-
gations until late in the afternoon, when they
quitted the garrison and returned to London. One
result of their inquiries will in all probability be
the appointment of an assistant-quartermaster-ge-
neral, together with some other staff appointments
at Chatham, to superintend the embarkation and
disembarkation of the troops now constantly arriv-
ing at and leaving Gravesend—a duty which has
hitherto been discharged by the ordinary garrison
staff, upon whom these labours press, in addition
to their duties, with very considerable severity.
The half-yearly muster of the battalions of Guards
stationed in London will take place on the 19th
proximo, on the Horse Guards Parade.

Capt. I. Inglis, R.E., Inspector of Works, who
met with a severe accident some months ago, which
has incapacitated him from active duty since that
period, has been appointed a member of the com-
mittee for the construction of fortresses and other
defences of wrought iron. Major P. H. Scratchley,
RE., who has been acting in the absence of Capt.
Inglis, is therefore appointed Inspector of Works,
with a residence in Woolwich Arsenal.

The Rev. Hugh Huleatt, M.A., Chaplain to the
Forces at Hounslow and Kixller-hall, is under
orders to relieve the Rev. W. F. Hobson, senior
chaplain at Woolwich, they having been permitted
to exchange stations.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Tamar, Capt. F.
H
Sullivan, C. 8., arrived at Spithead at 7 a.m.
yesterday, from the West Indies and North America,
with officers and troops—invalided and time-expired
—from the various regiments stationed in the North
American provinces, with naval invalids, passengers,
&c., from ships on the station. The Tamar's pas-
senger and freight list comprised :—Lieut.-Col.
Boothby, R.A., Ga
pt. Bolton, R A Lieut. Grover,
R.E.E. ; Lieut.-col. mart• •
Martin, Airs. Martin, and Capt.
Wilson, 2d battalion 4th ; Capt. Adcock, Ist bat-
talion 16th; Capt. Gardner, Ist battalion 22d ;
Ljeut
Capt. Vivian and Western, Ist battalion
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25th ; Paymaster Dun •
.y, ,4 th ; Lieut. RWhitting-
ton, Royal Canadian Rifles, Mrs. Whittington, and
three children ; Deputy Assist.-Com.-Gen. Stuart ;
Staff-Surg. Moffatt, Aim a
att and two chil-
dren ; Assist.-Surg. Wolsele
Y and Airs Wolseley ;
Assist.-Sung. Ferguson, Mrs. Ferguson, and two
children ; Assist-Surgeons Martin and Taylor ;
Barrack-Master Shrapnell and family ;irMr.HR. eeaadd ,;
As S
C.E., Government Clerk of Works, and Mrs
Mrs. Ffennell and two children ;
Ems,
R.N.nelair
and five children ; Acting-Lieutenant
on promotion ; Mr. Ross, late acting
se-
cond master of her Majesty's ship \Volv
rine ; 149 soldiers, 32 women, 48 children,
and a number of naval invalids. The disembarea
tion of the officers, troops, and seamen will be
effected alongside Portsmouth dockyard this morn-
ing. The distribution of her Majesty's ships on
the North American station when the Tamar left
was as follows :--The Niger, screw sloop, at Mon-
treal ; the Duncan, screw line-of-battle ship, carry-
ing the- flag of the commander-in-chief, Vice-Ad-
miral Sir James Hope, K.C.B. ; the Wolverine,
screw corvette, and the Fawn, screw sloop, at Hali-
fax ; the Aurora, screw frigate, at Quebec. The
Jason, screw corvette, left Sydney, Cape Breton,
for a cruise on the 16th inst. On the 17th her
Majesty's screw troopship Orontes arrived at Sydney,
Cape Breton, and transferred the military invalids
the had on board for England to the Tamar. The
Orontes was left by the Tamar at Sydney filling up
coal, and appointed to sail for Bermuda, with the
61st Regiment on board, two days afterwards, and
return thence to England with the 2d (Queen's)
Regiment. The Tamar experienced strong westerly
winds across the Atlantic, but made the passage
home in 10} days. The Tamar, with her splendid
accommodation as a troop-carrying steamer, re-
quires only filling up with coals and stores to place
Let again at the disposal of the Transport Depart-
ment for further service at home or abroad.
The Mary Sheppard has been chartered by the
Govern
eat for the conveyance of reinforcements
for the 12,._,,yai Artillery, let battalion of the 12th
Regiment, 2d battalion of the 14th Regiment, 2d
battalion of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment, 40th
Regiment, 50th (Queen's e Own) Regiment, 57th
Regiment, and other corpsl New Zealand, and is
ordered to be in readiness
to to
embark her o fficers and
troops at Gravesend on the 15th of November.
The Endytnion, 24, unannoured
sailed frpm
Capt. C. W. Wake,
Spithead yesterday
morning for the Mediterranean.
The sloop corvette Reindeer, 7, 200-horse
power,
Mr. Mr. Wotton, master, in charge, was put out
4 dock, at Chatham, on Saturday afternoon, ando
warped alongside the floating sheers in the harbour.
It was announced at Chatham yesterday that she
is to be commissioned forthwith, her destination
being, it is understood, the Pacific. She is complete
both inboard and aloft. Her armament will be
placed on board to-day. She is to be supplied with
stores for 12 months.
The hired transport Talavera, in Woolwich basin,
commenced shipping on Saturday a cargo of gun-
carriages and building materials from the Royal
Arsenal for Bermuda.

The following appointments were made on Satnr-