The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-26 00:00:00

THE ARNE

The troops belonging to the First Division,
Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, stationed at Sheer-
ness, were engaged on Thursday afternoon in a
variety of military games and sports, which took
place under.the sanction and in the presence of Col.
Nedham, commandant of the garrison. The whole
of the officers and several thousand spectators wit-
nessed the sports. All the games were ably con-
tested. At the termination of the sports the prizes
were distributed by Lieut.-Colonel Talbot, who
highly complimented the winners.

A parade of the officers and men of the Chatham
division of Royal Marine Light Infantry took place
yesterday on the occasion of the promulgation of
the sentence of a district Court-martial passed on
Private William Ringer for gross insubordination.
The prisoner, who during the tittle, he has been in
the service has borne an exceedingly indifferent
character, was a few•days since brought before Col.
Gascoigne, C. 8., for a breach of railitary
and, having been before reprimanded for similar
misconduct, was ordered, a trifling punishment. On
this the prisoner took, off some of his military
ap-
pointments and threw them on the parade-ground,
before the whole of the battalion on parade, at the
40:1Q time UComPAllyin this gross misconduct

PRICE -.4d.
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with insubordinate language. The Court sentenced
the prisoner to be imprisoned in the Rochester mili-
tary prison for 112 days, with hard labour.
Notwithstanding the large number of cavalry and
infantry troops who have lately received their dis-
charge at Chatham, there are still upwards of 500
men at the St. Mary's invalid establishment waiting
to be discharged from the service as soon as orders
to that effect have been received from the Horse.
Guards. In addition to this number of troops now
at the invalid depot, a notification was yesterday re-
ceived at the garrison that a large party of soldiers
from the depot battalions in Scotland will arrive at
St. Mary's Barracks on Monday next to be medi-
cally inspected and discharged from the army, the
whole of them being unfit for further service.
By the last overland mail we learn the death of
the following officers :—Capt. W. C. Grant, of the
2d Regiment of Queen's Dragoon Guards, who
served with the Eastern army from Nov., 1854, as
capt.-commandant of the Mounted Staff Corps ; from
Oct., 1855, to the conclusion of the war as assist.-
quartermaster-general to the cavalry division of the
Turkish Contingent; and with the 2d Dragoon
Guards in the Indian campaign in 1858-59. He had
received the medal and clasp for Sebastopol, the
order of the forth class of the Mejidie, and the medal
and clasp for India. Capt. J. Urquhart, of the 27th
Regiment, who served with the reserve of the army
of the Indus in Scinde at the reduction of Fort
Munaro, in 1839. He debarked in command of a
detachment under a brisk fire at Bushire ; he was
present with the expeditionary force in China
from the first capture of Chusan up to the attack
on the heights above Canton ; he had received the
medal for China. Capt. R. M. B. Maurice, of the
95th Foot, who served at the siege and fall of Sebas-
topol, from August, 1855, for which he received
the medal and clasp and the Turkish medal. In
1858 he served at the siege and capture of Kotah,
the battle of Kotah-ka-Seria, and the general action
resulting in the capture of Gwalior. He had been
mentioned in despatches, and received the medal
and clasp.

RIFLED ORDNANCE.