16 DECEMBER 1865, Page 3

A private letter from Hong Kong states that the 2nd

Battalion 11th Regiment there quartered has lost sixty men and two officers in four months. By other accounts it appears that the regiment was encamped in an old Chinese burial-place, and that the surgeon of the battalion had no medical aid whatever, there being no assistant-surgeons available, while the two principal medical officers in China were absent in Yokohama. It does not appear that there will be any improvement either, for the regiments in India are very scantily supplied, the profession being in fact on strike. Until Government attends to the reasonable claims of the doctors they will hate to go without them, an abstinence of which their soldiery will scarcely approve.