The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-15 00:00:00

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NAVAL AND MILITARY LrIELLIG ENCE.

It is expected that the visit of the Queen to Alder-
shot to-day will be brief. According to present
arrangements, the troops, under the command of
,Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett,
K.C.8., will march from camp about 9 o'clock and
proceed to Frimley, where they will form up to re-
ceive her Majesty, who is expected to arrive about
12 o'clock. The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
and the Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards will furnish
escorts from Bagshot, and a battery of Artillery
stationed on Frimley Ridge will fire a royal salute
as soon as her Majesty's approach is signalled. The
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quarters. Her Majesty
will then proceed to the Royal Pavilion to lunch,
and she will return to Windsor in the afternoon.
The 43d Monmouthshire Light Infantry, under
then return tpuarsnt
the command of Lieat.-Col. F. H. Synge, and now
quartered at Aldershot, is held in readiness to pro-
ceed from the camp on the 23d inst. to Jersey, there
to be stationed.

Yesterday the Royal Horse Artillery at Aldershot
was actively exercised. C, and E Batteries of
the C Brigade formed upon Eelmoor-hill about 10
o'clock in drill order. After marching past in close
column at a walk, trot, and gallop, they were put
through various field movements peculiar to artillery
by their respective commanders. C Battery, on the
march to quarters, received the word " detachments
front," and the men were put through the sword
exercise, which they performed in a most perfect
manner. The condition of the batteries leaves
nothing to be desired in point of drill, discipline,
and efficiency.
Lieut.-Colonel Mowbray, R.A., will proceed to
Aldershott Camp at the end of the present month
to assume command of the Field Batteries, Royal
Artillery.
A notification has been:received at Chatham from
the Horse Guards announcing that the first and
second distribution of the Banda and Kirwee
prize money, amounting to £63 for each private's
share, has commenced being paid at the Royal
Hospital Chelsea, to the roll of officers and men of
No. 6 Company, 14th Battalion (now G Battery,
14th Brigade), Royal Artillery, who were employed
in the operations leading to the capture of Banda
and Kirwee, between the 19th of April and 16th of
June, 1858.
The 11th Brigade, Royal Artillery, recently re-
turned from India, has received orders to take over
horses and equipments for Field Battery service.
Her Majesty's troopship Simoom arrived at Ports-
mouth late on Monday night, with troops on board
from foreign service, and disembarked them yester-
day at the dockyard.

VOLUNTEER FIELD DAY AT WlMBLLDON.—Yes-
terday morning the Inns of Court Volunteers assembled
in the Temple, and were joined by four companies of the
Oxford and Cambridge corps. Previous to falling in, the
band belonging to the " Devil's Own" played several
pieces, after which the respective corps marched to the
Waterloo terminus station, and proceeded to Wimbledon,
where they held a field-day. Ensign Hughes (Oxford),
Captains boo and Tomlinson, and other officers accom-
panied the Universities' corps; and Major Lysley and
Captain Wood were among those with the Inns of
Court.

THE LAW OF GRAVITATION.----The moon may
fairly claim to share with the apple the honour of having
led to the discovery of gravitation. Weight, which makes
bodies fall to the ground, is not confined to the surface cf .
the earth. It exists on the top of the tallest edifices, at
the summits of the loftiest mountains, without showing
any appreciable sign of growing weaker. It brings back
the stick of the most high-flying rocket; it draws down
hail, rain, and snow, from the upper regions of the atmo-
sphere. "If weight," thought Newton, "has caused this
;tpple to fall to the ground, why should not weight reach
as far as the moon ? Why should not the'moon have the
same tendency as the apple has to fall to the ground ?
And is not this tendency the actual cause which, like an
invisible spring, retains the moon in her orbit round the
earth.—Lickens's " All the Year Round."