Lovely group, looks like battalion staff plus colour sergeants. The seating arrangement is a little unconventional: whereas the sergeant major is in his traditional place to officer's right, and with 4 chevrons point down, and crown, lower arm as 1869 regulations, the soldier tentatively identified as the QMS has been exiled to the flank. His badge appears to be 4 chevrons and crown upper arm. It can hardly be an eight point QMS star, not introduced until 1881. I do not know what his rank might be. Just possibly bugle major, 4 chevrons and bugle[s]. But then again in wrong position on arm.
A mystery perhaps.
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