The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-26 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Yesterday Major-General Sir Robert Walpole,
K.C.8., commanding the forces in the Chatham
district, held an inspection of the battalions of in-
fantry and the brigade of Royal Marines Light In-
fantry on Chatham lines. The forces on the ground
included the Ist, 2d, and 3d depot battalions and
the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light In-
fantry, the whole numbering about 3,000 bayonets.
The Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers took no
part in the manoeuvres.

Intelligence has been received at Chatham gar-
rison of the embarkation at Calcutta, in the char-
tered troopshipAlumbagh, of time-expired men and
invalid troops belonging to the Royal Artillery,
Royal Engineers, 2d battalion 13th Prince Albert's
Light Infantry, 2d battalion 22d Regiment, and 2d
battalion 24th Regiment. The troops embarkedon
the 19th of February.

The Rev. J. C. Edghill, M.A., one of the chap-
lains to the forces at Chatham garrison, has been
ordered to embark for Nova Scotia, where he is to
be stationed. He will be succeeded at Chatham by
the Rev. W. Sykes, M.A., from Devonport.
Gen. George Powell Higginson died on the 19th
inst., at Cannes, where he had been staying during
the past winter. He entered the army as ensign in
the Ist Regiment of Guards in 1805, and served
with his regiment in Sicily in 1807, in the cam-
paign in the north of Spain, with Sir John Moore,
in 1808 and 1809. He was present at the battle of
Corunna. He ,'went with the expedition to Wal-
cheren in 1809. He joined the Grenadiers. in Por-
tugal, in 1812, and advanced with the army into
Spain in 1813 ; he embarked with his regiment at
Bordeaux, when the army left France in 1814. He
went with reinforcements to the Netherlands in
June, 1815, ani arrived at Paris shortly after its
capture, and remained in France during the three
years of its occupation by the allied army. In 1830
he was appointed aide-de-camp to Lord Hill, then
Commander-in-Chief. Gen. Higginson was ap-
pointed Col. of the 94th Foot, in January, 1855,
and his commissions bore date as follows :—Ensign,
Nov. 6, 1805 ; Lieut. and Capt., April 3, 1811 ;
Capt. and Lieut.-Col., Oct. 26, 1820 ; Col., Jan. 10,
1837 ; Major-Gen., Nov. 9, 1846 ; Lieut.-Gen., June
20, 1851 ; and Gen, Nov. 9, 1862. By his death
the colonelcy of the 94th Regiment becomes vacant.
The Cameleon, 17, 200 horse-power, Commander
T. M. Jones, from the Pacific, has been stripped
and dismantled in the steam basin, and will be paid
off into the third division of the Steam Reserve in
the Medway, on Saturday.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :--Capt. William C. Chamberlain, of
the Resistance, to the Asia, for service in the Re-
serve, vice Caldwell; Commander J. E. Hunter to
the Amazon, commissioned ; Lieut. D'Arcy A.
Denny, as lieut. commanding. to the Forward, vice
Fox, promoted ; Lieut. R. H. Thompson, as lieut.
commanding to the Doterel, vice Elliot promoted;
Lieut. Somerled M'Dougall to the Hastings, as Flag
Lieut. to Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick ; Lieut.
John J. F. Bell, Lieut. Edward A. Bolitho,
Edward S. Evans, and Lieut. Francis F. Liardet to
the Curacoa ; Lieut. Charles S. Broome, Lieutenant
Harry L. H. Veitch, and Lieut. Philip H. C. Wogan
to the Duncan ; Lieut. Astley R. Cooper and Lieut.
Arthur S. Phillpotts to the Narcissus ; John G.
O'Connell, master, to the Amazon ; Victor A. Brad-
shaw, midshipman, to the Barracouta ; A. M‘Leod
and Wm. W. Pughe, midshipmen, to the Pallas ;
Gilbert E. Harrison, naval cadet, to the Challenger;
Fred. Day, engineer, to the Duke of Wellington ;
Robt. W. Jones, engineer, to the Minstrel, commis-
sioned ; Thos. W. Sandars, engineer, to the Asia, for
the Harrier; James Stinen, engineer, to the Cherub,
commissioned; W. Waterfield, engineer, to the Royal
George ; It. Sutherland, first-class assist.-engineer,
to the Cherub ; R. Phillips, first-class assist.-engi-
neer, to the Minstrel ; Alfred J. Allen, acting
second-class assist.-engineer, to the Cherub ; M. G.
Moore, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the
Minstrel ; Staff-Commander Edward C. T. Youel,
to command the Industry ; Lieut. Charles 11. Stir-
ling, to the Bellerophon ; Edward C. Smyth, mas-
ter additional, to the Cumberland for the Endy-
mion ; Sub-Lieut. Albert B. Jenkyns, to the Gla-
diator ; George A. Wells, chief engineer, to the
Barracouta ; James Cooper, chief engineer, to the
Amazon commissioned ; W. W. Hutton, second
master, to the Industry ; Dr. Pierce Mansfield,
surg., to the Amazon ; W. Roche (a), assist.-surg.,
to the Black Prince ; Dr. W. Yarde, assist.-surg.,
to the Industry ; 11. V. Forrest, assist.-paymaster-
in-charge, to the Industry ; Edwin Hawke, engi-
neer, to the Amazon ; Henry Jones, engineer, to
the Industry ; "J. Watson (b), first-class assist.-
engineer, to the Amazon ; 'l'. Young, first-class
assist.-engineer, to the Industry ; T. G. Punnett,
first-class assist.-engineer, to the Industry ; and B.
R. King, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Indus-
try as supernumerary.