On Monday, the Second Battalion of the Grenadier Guards was
paraded at Wellington Barracks before proceeding on foreign service to Bermuda, where they have been ordered as a punishment for their recent insubordination, the Com- mander-in-Chief addressing the men in forcible language, in regard to the disgrace which had fallen on the regiment. Colonel Maitland, the former commanding officer of the Battalion, will, said Mr. Stanhope in the House of Com- mons, be placed on half-pay ; while the Adjutant, who has resigned, will be replaced by another officer. After the ceremony of inspection was over, the very heavy sentences passed on the men of longest service in each company, who, since the instigators of the virtual mutiny cannot be traced, were assumed to be the ringleaders, were read out. Four were sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, one of these to be, in addition, dismissed with ignominy, and a fifth to eighteen months' hard labour. The sentence on the sixth was reserved, but it is understood that he will also receive eighteen months' hard labour.
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