The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-09 00:00:00

THE TROOPS AND TRANSPORTS.

Her Majesty's crew steamer, St. Jean d'Acre, 600-
horse power, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, which left
Plymouth at 4 o'clock on Wednesday evening, having
on board Major-General Lord Rokeby
i and Major-
General Barnard, nominated to commands n the British
Expedition, arrived in Queenstown on the following day,
at half-past 3 o'clock, to embark troops for the Crimea.
'lmmediately on her arrival being made known, the bag-
gage and guards of the different draughts were got ready
and sent on board in a few hours. The following is a
correct list of the men sent from the different regiments,
with the names of the offioars accompanying theta ; they
embarked on Friday morning :-51 of the 63d, with
Lieutenants Hunt and Hand ; 51 of the 30th, with' Capt.
Robertson and Lieutenant Hill ; 97 of the 33d, with
Captain Ellis, Lieutenant Wallis, and Ensign Ellis; 109
of the 41st, with Captain BertiatcylOeutenant Lambert,
and Lieutenant Nowlan ; 67 of the 47th, with Captain
Colthurst, Lieutenant Thompson, and Ensigns Travis
and Disbrowe ; 17 of the 50th—no officers ; 45 of the
63th—no officers; 39 of the 55th, with Lieutenant
Hannay ; 67 of the 40th, with Lieutenant Eustance ; 9
of the 57th, with Captain Brown and Lieutenant Ash-
win. The St. Jean d'Acre sailed at 7 o'clock on Satur-
day morning. Lord William Lennox, one of whose
sons is an officer on boaid the ship, sailed with her some
distance out of the hat:bour, and returned by the pilot
boat. Such was the haste used in the embarkation, and
so sudden was her arrival, that several officers who
should have embarked in her were absent on a shooting
excursion, and were unable to go on board with the
draughts of their regiments. ' We trust that these gentle-
men will be relieved from any further interference with
their snipe shooting and left to pursue that engrossing
amusement.
Since our last notice on the subject of the transport
service, when we gave the totals of the sailing vessels
and steamers employed by Government for the convey-
ance of troops and stores to the Crimea, the following
vessels have been also taken up for the service, viz., No.
165 transport, Lady Eglinton steamer ; No. 166,
Union steamer ; 167, Foyle steamer ; No. 168, Prompt
Marley Hill steamer ; No. 170,
steamer
Kangaroo ; 'N °.
Eagle steamer ; No. 172,
Peninsular steamer ; No. 173, Black Boy steamer ; No.
174, Whitley Park steamer ; No. 175, Cochrane
steamer ; No. 176, Canadian steamer. Consequently
12 more steamers have, within the last 10 days, been
steameri69' ; No.
added to this fleet, now comprising 109 sailing vessels
and 67 steamers.

The Duke of Cornwall (Irish steam-packet) left Ports-
mouth yesterday for Dublin, taking a number of the
women and children who arrived lately in the Himalaya.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Captain North, 60th Royal Rifles, in command of the
depot at Chatham, is ordered to join the service com-
panies of his carpsin India ; and Captain Williams, who
is on leave to the Ist of February, is ordered to join at
Chatham to take the command of the depot.
Assistant-Surgeon Lynch proceeds from the garrison
hospital, Chatham, to Portsmouth, to embark in medical
charge of detachments on board the ship Charlotte Jane
for litarbadoes.

A letter from Metz says :—" During the last month
we have sent by railway for Marseilles and Toulon, for
the army of the East, upwards of a million of congreve
rockets, large bombs,, and howitzer-shells, and 150,000
kilog. of gunpowder.
A young officer of cavalry, in a lively letter to his
father, admitting his severe privations, but undepressed
by them, gives the fallowing account of his clothing :
A pair of large sailor sboots, a pair of coarse sailor's
trousers, a pea-jacket with anchor buttons, and his own
old foraging cap, the last remnant of his regimental rags.