The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-20 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The Orontes, steam troopship, Capt. W. H. Hire,
whese arrival we have already announced, came
into Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and disem-
barked her troops at the dockyard jetty, under the
superintendence of Colonel Shad well, A.Q, M.G.,
whence they proceeded by special train at 2 p.m.
for Farnborough station, South-Western Railway,
en route to Aldershott Camp, where they are to be
stationed. The troops comprise Col. Budd, Ist bat-
talion (in command); Col. Trevor, 2d battalion ;
Majors Hawley and Grogan ; Capts. Maycock,
Warren, Le Mesurier, Cosby, Burton, Gordon, and
Barlow; Lients. Watson, Lemon, Laing, Williemsa,
and Hall ; Lieut. and Adjutant Blois; Ensigns
Firmen, van Heythuyson, Laverton, Mills, Atkin.
son, Pigott, and Hoeack ; Quartermaster Moore,
Dr. King, Assist.-Surgeon Cherry, Staff Assist.-
Surgeon Wills; Mr. Thorley (bandmaster), and 711
rank and file of the Ist battalion 14th Regiment.
Also the following officers' wives :—Mrs. Trevor,
Mrs. Hawley, Mrs. Grogan, Mrs. Cosby, Mrs. War-
ren, and Mrs. Duorley and families; 38 soldiers'
wives and 95 children. The passenger list com-
prises Capt. -Watson, R.N., on promotion, from her
Majesty's ship Petrel; Lieut. Dawson, 23d Royal
Welsh Fusiliers ; the Rev. B. Fielding ; Mrs. Bl ack •
ler, wife of Assist.-Commissary-General Blackler,
and family; Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs.
Richards, the Misses Fyfe, and Mrs. Moat, wife of
the barrackmaster at Jamaica, and family. The
Orontes also brought 16 naval invalids, who were
removed to the flagship Victory, 1 sergeant, Ist
West India Regiment, and 4 gunners, Royal Artil-
lery, invalided, and sent to the Royal Victoria Hos-
pital, Netley, The Orontes left England on the
Bth of February, with draughtsof •
ments for Gibraltar and Malta thence, proceeding
various reel,
with a select number of engineers, ice., to assist in
the demolition of the fortifications at Corfu, after
which she embarked the 2d battery of the 6th
Regiment, conveying three detachments to Trini-
dad, touching at Gibraltar, Teneriffe, and St. Vin-
cent, and the remainder to Kingston,
Jamaica.ftr th
Owing to strong head winds and unfavourable wea-
ther she made a long passage of 40 days. A
disembarcatlon of the 6th Regiment she immedi-
ately proceeded to the different stations and era_
barked the 14th Regiment, leaving Jamaica for Eng.
land on the 24th April, where she left her Majestre
ships Liverpool, Aboukir, Challenger, Virago, and
Petrel. The Diana (flagship) and Royalist were
expected at the beginning of the present month from
Bermuda. The boilers of the Orontes are, as was
supposed, very defective. The engines work well,
but the connecting rods being unusually short have
often to be stopped to "screw up." A survey
was held on board yesterday, and it is reported a
trial will be made to remedy the only defect which
is apparent in her, by reducing the pressure of the
boiler from 20 to 10, so as to enable her to make an-
other voyage, and if not then found to be of suffi-
cient effect she will be furnished with new boilers.
With this exception she is perfectly ready for sea,
and is ordered to coal and prepare immediately, to
proceed, it is believed, to Corfu.
The troops which arrived in the Orontes reached
the camp at Aldershot last evening at 7 o'clock.
The bands of the lst battalion of the 6th, 7:3d, and
87th Regiments played the 14th from the station to
toeir quarters, the Esst Block, Permanent Barracks.
Two troops of the 14th Hussars arrived at the
North Camp, Aldershott, yesterday, by March
from Manchester.
We have to record the death of Sir Alex. Murray 1

Tullocb, K.C.8., who died at Winchester on Mon.
day morning after a short illness. The gallant offi-
cer had only just left town to eee a newly purchased
property in DJrsetshire. The late Sir A. Tulloch
was educated at Edinburgh, and afterwards went
to the Military College at Sandhurst, where he ob-
tained the highest honours in the senior depart.
ment. He entered the army as ensign in the 45th
Regiment in 1826. The late General occupied seve-
ral important administrative offices in the War De-
partment. For some time he was in charge of the
statistical branch of the War-office, and was latterly
Assistant Military Superintendent of Pensioners.
He obtained the honour of Knight Commander of
the Bath for his important civil services as commis-
sioner, in conjunction with Sir John M'Neill, G.C.8.,
in the inquiry sent out to the Crimea by the Go-
vernment in 1855 on the management of the British
army during the campaign in the East. Their joint
report is generally considered due to Sir Alex. Tul-
loch, and as was afterwards declared in Parliament,
"he was a faithful exposer of the errors which
then brought our military organisation into dis-
repute." It is universally acknowledged that the
dsceased General was a valuable public servant.
His commissions bore date as follows :—E❑sign,
April 9, 1826 ; Lieutenant, November, 30, 1827 ;
Captain, March 12, 1838 ; Major, March 29, 1839 ;
Lieutenant-Colonel, May 31, 1844 ; Colonel June
20, 1854 ; and Major-General, September 9, 1859.