There was a ball yesterday at Aldershot, to inaugurate the
Club re- cently established there. Among the guests, were Lord Panmure and General Power of the Royal Artillery. The attraction of red coats for the fair sex was newly illustrated by the fact that out of 600 guests 320 were ladies.
Mr. Henry Herbert, Colonel commanding the Kerry Militia, has written to the Times for the purpose of correcting an erroneous impression which has gone abroad respecting the behaviour of the regiment on the 7th instant. He states, that " when the bugle sounded the ' assembly' for divine service parade, there appeared a hesitation on the part of a few of the men to fall in unless the band was to play them to chapel. The Sergeant-Major, on their declining to fall in, placed the most conspicuous, six in number, in the guard-room ; some delay was caused by this pro- ceeding, and by the time the Major arrived at the barracks, the period for the commencement of divine service had passed. For this reason, the men were not marched to chapel, although the parade was formed in the most orderly manner. On this slight foundation a series of the most unfounded rumours have been raised. The regiment has been represented as in a state of mutiny, officers have been reported to have been struck, and other acts of insubordination to have been committed. The whole of these statements are untrue." Colonel Herbert encloses corroborative testimony signed by the Quartermaster-Sergeant, "on behalf of the re- giment."
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