THE VOLUNTEERS.
The following abstract of the annual volunteer returns, dated December, 1865, for Wilts, Hnts, and Dorset, is taken from the Volunteer Gazette:—
| WILTS. | ||||
| Efficients | Non-efficients | Total enrolled | Efficients entitled to extra cert. | |
| 1st Salisbury | 120 | 33 | 153 | 116 |
| 2nd Trowbridge | 86 | 34 | 120 | 51 |
| 3rd Malmesbury | 35 | 37 | 72 | 25 |
| 4th Chippenham | 79 | 34 | 113 | 42 |
| 5th Devizes | 41 | 34 | 75 | 25 |
| 6th Maiden Bradley | 50 | 1 | 51 | 42 |
| 7th Market Lavington | 54 | 8 | 62 | 44 |
| 8th Mere | 49 | 23 | 72 | 43 |
| 9th Bradford | 41 | 23 | 64 | 7 |
| 10th Warminster | 59 | 41 | 100 | 46 |
| 11th Swindon | 115 | 49 | 164 | 57 |
| 12th Melksham | 51 | 9 | 60 | 38 |
| 13th westbury | 61 | 6 | 67 | 53 |
| 14th Wilton | 67 | 42 | 109 | 56 |
| 15th Wootton Bassett | 46 | 24 | 70 | 23 |
| 16th Old Swindon | 63 | 67 | 130 | 37 |
| 17th Marlborough | 31 | 31 | 62 | 14 |
| 18th Highworth | 61 | 10 | 71 | 39 |
| HANTS. | ||||
| 1st Artillery, Bitterne | 88 | 55 | 143 | |
| 2nd Ditto, Southsea | 401 | 82 | 483 | |
| 3rd ditto, Portsmouth Dock | 354 | 103 | 457 | |
| 1st Engineers, Southampton | 92 | 18 | 110 | 92 |
| 1st Mounted Rifles, Droxford | 36 | 13 | 49 | 25 |
| 1st Winchester | 106 | 18 | 124 | 54 |
| 2nd Southampton | 213 | 44 | 257 | 104 |
| 3rd Lymington | 40 | 27 | 67 | 36 |
| 4th Havant | 69 | 22 | 91 | 23 |
| 5th Portsmouth | 262 | 210 | 472 | 29 |
| 6th Gosport | 102 | 18 | 120 | 29 |
| 7th Fareham | 70 | 30 | 100 | 39 |
| 8th Bitterne | 98 | 40 | 138 | 40 |
| 10th Christchurch | 31 | 32 | 63 | 18 |
| 11th Romsey | 79 | 0 | 79 | 75 |
| 12th Petersfield | 59 | 7 | 66 | 24 |
| 13th Andover | 98 | 18 | 116 | 78 |
| 14th Lyndhurst | 34 | 33 | 67 | 26 |
| 15th Yateley | 21 | 30 | 51 | 12 |
| 16th Alresford | 48 | 16 | 64 | 27 |
| 17th Titchfield | 24 | 7 | 31 | 19 |
| 19th Bournemouth | 46 | 14 | 60 | 39 |
| 20th Wickham | 34 | 4 | 38 | 24 |
| 21st Alton | 76 | 24 | 100 | 43 |
| 23rd Cosham | 28 | 4 | 32 | 0 |
| DORSET | ||||
| 1st Artillery, Lyme Regis | 51 | 25 | 76 | |
| 3rd ditto, Bridport | 68 | 13 | 81 | |
| 4th ditto, Portland | 67 | 13 | 80 | |
| 1st Bridport | 77 | 31 | 108 | 62 |
| 2nd Wareham | 61 | 5 | 66 | 42 |
| 3rd Dorchester | 63 | 33 | 96 | 50 |
| 4th Poole | 54 | 21 | 75 | 47 |
| 5th Weymouth | 61 | 34 | 95 | 30 |
| 6th Wimborne | 57 | 10 | 67 | 44 |
| 7th Sherborne | 74 | 21 | 95 | 45 |
| 8th Blandford | 75 | 8 | 83 | 55 |
| 9th Shaftesbury | 51 | 15 | 64 | 48 |
| 10th Sturminster Newton | 27 | 12 | 39 | 16 |
| 11th Gillingham | 52 | 15 | 67 | 21 |
| 12th Stalbridge | 60 | 21 | 81 | 51 |