The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelli;ence.

The summer military season at Chatham was
brought to a termination yesterday with a review of
the whole of the forces quartered in the district by

his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Field-

Marshal Commanding-in-Chief. The force on the
ground comprised the B field battery, 4th Brigade
Royal Artillery, numbering five officers, 105

non-commissioned officers and men, 72 horses,
and six Armstrong field guns, with ammunition
waggons, &c., complete ; the corps of Royal Engi-
neers, consisting of 30 officers and 710 non-commis-
sioned officers and men ; the Ist, 2d, and 3d Depot
Battalions of Infantry, numbering 80 officers and
1,200 men of all ranks, and comprising the depots of
the Ist and 2d battalions of the Ist -Royals, Ist and
2d battalions of the 15th Regiment, 2d battalion of
the 17th Regiment, 50th Queer's Own Regiment,

109th Bombay Infantry, Ist and 2d battalions of
the 2d Royals, Ist and 2d battalion of the Bth Re-
giment, 29th Regiment, 30th Regiment, 106th
Bombay Light Infantry, Ist and 2d Battalion 10th
Regiment, Ist and 2d Battalions- 224 Regiment,- 2d
Battalion of the 14th Regiment, 34th Regiment,
and 45th Regiment, and the Chatham division of
Royal Marines Light Infantry, consisting of 30
officers and 520 non-commissioned officers and men,
the whole under the command of Major-Gen. Sir R.
Walpole, and Staff. Riding slowly along
the front and rear of the columns, his Royal High-
ness
made a minute inspection of the several corps,
after which he took up his station at the saluting ,
flagstaff, and the whole of the troops marched past.
A number of field movements of a more or less com-
plicated character followed, the object appearing to
be to test the character of the training the officers
and men have gone through since the occasion of the
last inspection of the troops at Chatham by his
Royal Highness. A series of interesting manoeuvres
having been gone through the columns again formed
in line, with theßoyal Artillery on the right and the
Royal Marines on the left ; after which the com-
manding officers were called
ito the front, and ad-
dressed by his Royal Highness, who criticised the
manner in which some of the corps had acquitted
themselves, at the same time expressing himself in
generally satisfactory terms at the way in which
most of the movements had been executed. His Royal
Highness then proceeded to the newly formed mili-
tary hospital at Brompton, over which he was
conducted by the officials of the establishment.
After inspecting the various portions of the estab-
lishment, the general parade-ground at Chatham
barracks was visited, on which were drawn up up-
wards of 500 recruits belonging to the various East
India and other depots in garrison. A considerable
time was occupied by his Royal Highness in the in-
spection of this body of troops, in the course of
which considerable dissatisfaction was expressed by
him with the quality of the clothing served out to
the men, which, taking into account the compara-
tively brief period it has been in wear, appeared to
be of an inferior description. The Duke proceeded
to the Royal Engineer, field-works, Brompton, for
the purpose of inspecting the works executed by the
officers and sappers during the past summer.
The depot of the 100th Regiment of Foot (the
Royal Canadians) will arrive in Liverpool from Col-
chester, and embark on board the Canadian mail
steamer Belgian, Capt. Brown, which sails from
Liverpool on Thursday (to-morrow) for Quebec.
The depot consists of 3 officers and 125 non-com-
missioned officers and men. They will be accom-
panied by a sergeant and 6 privates of the Military
Hospital Staff Corps. In the Belgian there will
be taken out an officer's wife and child of the 100th,
together with two soldiers' wives and 4 children.
The Belgian will likewise take out 19 tons of min
tary stores, besides the baggage of the treoobpse;ii
offi-
The deaths of the following officers have
the Ist
cially reported at the War Department Alfred
Macdonald,
of September :—Majors-
77th Regiment ; and Charles nnr :Gordon, 93d High-
Barton Webster,
landers. Captains
iaroinies Brook, Royal
Royal Artillery ; Gustavus
31st Regiment ;
Engineers ; Alexannde!
_meat ;
and Henry Magill,
Richard Pack, 41stt
Bat.. fie
jgn. 3d Buffs.
paymaster, 2d 2d
Osborne, 4th West India
F. W. Hodges and
15th Re 7. pment ; R. Lynam,Smith,
Regiment ;
53d Regiment; an th
dC. E d 71st I •
var es, Highlanders
Light Infantry; Ensign W. Duncan, 2d garrison
battalion; Ridmgmaster C. Clarke, Royal Artillery;
Assist.-Com.-Gen. P. Rolleston ; Deputy-Assist.-
Cori.-Gen. J. M. Rattle. Surgeons J. J. Muloch,
Staff ; J. Davys, Staff ; R. D. Smyth, 2d Dragoons;
D. Perston, M.D.,l3th Dragoons; J. Pateson,M.D ,
42d Royal Highlanders ; and J. K. Leet, M.D., Cape
Mounted Rifles ; Assist.-Surg. G. Ham
mon d
Staff. , M.D ,

Capt. Edmonclstone, C. 8., Superintendent of
Woolwich Dorkyard, has received his promotion as
Commodore of the second class by appointment of
the Board of Admiralty, and yesterday in lieu of his
small pennant at the mizen, his broad pennant as
commander and senior officer in the Thames, was
hoisted at the foremast on board the flagsbipFisgard.
The ceremony was accompanied by the firing a
salute of nine guns.
The War Department vessel Inkerman, Mr. John

Yesterday Mr. Corbett, the Poor-law Board's Commission-
er, held an official inquiry at the above workhouse at Lower
Homerton, with respect to the conduct of the officials in re-
fusing admission to an out-door cholera patio/IL The case
was brought to public notice in the report of a coroner's in-
quest published in The Sun not long since upon a child
named Nichols. The depositions taken at the inquest' were
read over to the witnesses on Monday, and the further exa-
mination proceeded yesterday in the presence of many of
the guardians, who were professionally represented by
Mr. Metcalfe, the master and matron being represented
by Mr. Daniel, and Mr. East attending for Dr. Millar,
the medical officer of the workhouse. Though the evidence
taken was most voluminous, the simple facts of the case
may be very briefly stated. Tho child whose death was the
subject of inquiry was brought to the workhouse on his
father's back, with an order from the, district surgeon say-
ing, "Please admit James Nichols, or send him to the Ger-
man Hospital immediately." The child was refused adinis-.
sion to the workhouse, and was sent to the German Hos-
pital, where he died, and the circumstances related in
evidence before the coroner justified the jury in considering
that death had been accelerated by the refusal of the maSter
to admit the boy to the workhouse. The manner in which
the child was refused admission, as told by the matron of
the workhouse, who is the wife of the master, gives the
clue to the whole case. She stated that the child was
brought in under the gateway of the workhouse, and Mr.
Oxley, a gentleman associated with Dr. Millar, but appa-
rently having no legal standing in the house, asked what
was to be:done with the child. She replied that the master
was going to send him to the German Hospital,
,to which
Mr. Oxley rejoined, " The child shall not go ; he (the mas-
ter) is not medical officer." She believed it was about this
that 'le told Mr. Oxley that the master had always
had charge of the wards. Mr. Oxley then went away and
returned in a few minutes with Mr. Summers the legally-
appointed deputy of Dr. Millar, and he asked what was
going to be done with the child, and she told him what
she had told Mr. Oxley, that it was going to be sent to the
German Hospital. All this time the plague-stricken child
was sitting in the gateway. Mr. Summers went into the
lodge and brought out what she supposed was a written
order for the child to be admitted to the workhouse, and
said, "Read that." She took it from him and laid it on a
form by her side, saying the master would read it, and she'
then said to a pauper, "Go down and tell the master I
want him at once." When he came she gave him the
order, and he read it ; but he sent the child to the Gorman
Hospital. In answer to further questions, she said she
believed she used the word "officious" to Mr. Oxley, say-
ing that ho was too officious, but she did not say, as Mr.
Oxley asserted she did, that 5f it had not been for his offi-
ciousness the child would have been admitted. The ex-
amination then turned upon alleged obstructions which
had been thrown in the way of the medical officer and
nurses by the matron, by her neglectingto supply stores, or
delaying to supply necessities. She was always willing to
supply anything in reason. She distinctly denied the truth
of assertions made by witnesses that necessities had not been
supplied when asked for, but she allowed that on one occasion
when Dr. Millar had asked for the assistance of some women
in the iron house, the then cholera ward, she, after having
had a sort of dispute with him on the point, offered the
position to two old paupers, who refused to go. She told
Dr. Millar this, and he told her she must get somebody—
she must hire somebody from out of the house, and this she
looked upon as unreasonable. In her further evidence she
allowed that there had been "difficulties" with the medical
officer before Dr. Millar's time, but she maintained that she
had worked altogether harmoniously with this gentleman.
She allowed she had had words with Mr. Oxley, and she
admitted, somewhat excitedly, that the spirits for the
patients had been taken from her charge and given to the
charge of the medical officer, denying, however, that this
was done because the spirits had been found diluted with
water. The reasons assigned by the master for refusing
admission to the child were four-fold—first, that the
guardians had passed a "negative resolution" by refusing
to allow wards to be opened for out-door cholera patients ;
second, that the Poor Law Board had issued a circular
letter stating that it was inexpedient to admit such
cases ; the third, that the cholera had broken out among
the children in the house; and the fourth was that he
was under the impression that ho was justified, from cir-
cumstances brought to his knowledge, in sending the case
to the German Hospital. After the examination of the
matron a long conversation ensued, from which it was
apparent that there was not only a want of hannony be-
tween the medical officer and the master and matron,
but that the guardians were much divided. So far
indeed was this division shown, that the Commissioner was
obliged to request the guardians to keep certain amenities
until the next Board meeting. He said he had evidence
sufficient, and should doss the inquiry, and the proceed-
ings accordingly concluded.

Honours for the Layers of th 3 Atlantic

Cable.

The following is the letter of the Earl of Derby,
of which we gave a summary in our report of the
Atlantic cable banquet in yesterday's impression :
BALMORAL, Sept. 29.
"Dear Sir Stafford,—As I understand you are to havo
the honour of taking the chair at the entertainment which
is to bo given on Monday next in Livetpool, to celebrate
the double success which has attended the great undertak-
ing of laying the cable of 1866, and recovering that of 1865,
by which the two continents of Europe and America are
happily connected, I am commanded by the Queen to make
known to you, and through you to thoso over whom you
are to preside, the deep interest with which her Majesty
has regarded the progress of this noble work, and to tender
her Majesty's congratulations to all of those whose energy
ar.d perseverance, whose skill and science have triumphed
over all difficulties, and accomplished a success alike hon-
ourable to themselves and to their country, and beneficial
to the world at large. Her Maiesty, desirous of testifying
her sense of the various merits which have been displayed
in this great enterprise, has commanded me to submit to her
for special marks of her royal favour the names of those
who, having had assigned to them prominent positions,
may be considered as representing the different depart-
ments whose united labours havo contributed to the final
result. Her Majesty has accordingly been pleased to
direct that the honour of knighthood be conferred on
Captain Anderson, the able and zealous commander of
the Great Eastern ; on Professor Thompson, whose
distinguished science has been brought to bear with
eminent success upon the improvement of submarine tele-
graphy ; and on Messrs. Glass and Canning, the manager
and engineer respectively of the Telegraph Maintenance
Company, whose skill and experience have mainly contri-
buted. to the admirable construction and successful lkayihnegt.
of the cable. Her Majesty is further pleased to marompa_
approval of the public spilt and energy of the t
tnai
ke 7uwg who havo
offeringha successivelythe
dignity
of tah o
baronetcycond conduct
t 000 ff f
he: compa-
nies
Uniteduonrdi er-.
Kingdom toMr. Samson, the deputy-chairman
project, iTn
nal company, to whose resolute support of the
; great measure owing
spite of :01 discouragements, it wasn-u,in despair, and to
that it was not at one time abarrodfoc oeue
_pany
which has
Mr. Gooch, M.P., the cha!rmatn_osigha.
If, among the names
finally accomplished the g d
groat
by her Majesty, that of
thus submitted to and approved
which
mard of the eminent services
attributed to any disrecondore
d to the cause of Transatlantic
from the first he haszreal and resolution with which he has
prosecutiond.th.
Mr. Cyrus Field does not appear, the omission must not be
telegraphy, of this object ; but to an appre-
hension encroach on the province
hension
les
Government if her Majesty were advised to
of his own
citizen of the United States, for a service ren-
dered to a t
both countries, British marks of
frught appear
honour,
which, following the example of another
daadrheedreadl
itkoettinteo
highly distin-
guished citizen, ho might feel himself unable to accept.
wi'l only add, on my own par t, how cordially I con-
cur in the object of the meeting over which you are about
to preside, and how much I should have been gratified had
circumstances permitted me to have attended inerson.
I gars
idgehatr
u o Sirn S.
st a ffi r osr dt
Stafford
°erry :
Nsionrc:hrceolyte,yßouarrts:p
M.P."
(Signed) "DERBY.
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