The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-02 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The Alumbagh sailing ship, Capt. Dale, R.N.R., be-
longing to Messrs. Dunbar and Co,, of London, arrived at
Spithead on Saturday from India, having on board Capt.
Waters, 77th Regiment, and Mrs. Waters; Lieut. Bernard,
11th Brigade Royal Artillery; Lieut. Lloyd, 7th Fusiliers,
Mrs. Lloyd, and two children; 12 sergeants and 119 rank
and file belonging to various regiments serving in India,
with 17 soldiers' wives and 31 children. Five deaths
occurred at sea and two births, The Alumbagh sailed from
Calcutta on the 6th of January, and from St. Helena on the
7th of March.

The Queen of the South screw steamer, Capt. Stewart,
R.N.R., also arrived at Spithead on Saturday, from India,
with the following officers and troops :—From Calcutta—
Capt. G. A. Brown, Ist Bengal Native Infantry, and Mrs.
Brown—Lieut. Trevon, 80th Regiment—Quartermaster
Piper, 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade—Mrs. Piper and two
children. From Madras—Capt. Dunbar, 102 d Foot—Lieut.
Wale, Ist Dragoon Guards, Mrs. Wale, and one child—
Lieut. Skues, 6903. Regiment-289 invalided soldiers, five
of whom are insane-23 soldiers' wives, and 51 children.
The Queen of the South is last from Queenstown, where
she put in, owing to a collision with another vessel.
The sailing ship Renown, one of Messrs. Green's Black-
wall fleet, Capt, Hight, R.N.R., with the head-quarters of
the Bth Hussars, from Calcutta and Madras, also arrived on
Saturday at Spithead, under the command of Lieut.-
E. Seager, as follows :—Lieut.- Col. E. Seeger, in military
charge—Major M‘Naughten—Capt. Biddle, Mrs. Biddle,
and infant—Surgeon Llewyllin, in medical charge—Lieuts.
Stopfort, Whittock, and Keene—Adjt, Goldsworthy-192
men, 7 women, and 9 children. The Renown sailed from
Calcutta on the 15th of January, and from Madras on the
27th. The troops on board appear to be a remarkably
healthy and fine body of men; have suffered from no sick-
ness of any kind on board since their embarcation ; and
officers and men speak in the highest terms of the ship and
their treatment, and the accommodation afforded them on
board. Light winds and calm weather was experienced
during the voyage until reaching the chops of the Channel,
when S.S.E. winds, varying in strength, were met with.
The invalided soldiers on board the Queen of the South
and Alumbagh are ordered to be transferred from those
ships at Spithead at 6 a.m. to-day to a Government steam
tender, which will convey them to the Royal Victoria Mi-
litary Hospital at Netley. The Bth Hussars will disembark
from the Renown alongside the dockyard at 2 p.m., and
will be forwarded to Brighton, where they will join the
left wing of the regiment at 2 p.m.
The colonelcy of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of
Foot has become vacant by the death of Lieut.-Gen.
John Geddes, K.H., who expired at 15, Salisbury-road,
Newington, Edinburgh, on Thursday last. The deceased
entered the army in August, 1804, and became Lieut. Oct.
25, 1805. He served with the 27th in Calabria in 1806, and
obtained the rank of Capt. Dec. 1, 1808. Ho served subse-
quently in the Peninsula, and at Toulouse he received a
severe wound, which broke his left thighbone. His com-
missions bear date as Major Feb. 24, 1825, Lieut.-Col.,
Nov. 11, 1831; Col., Nov. 9, 1846 ; Major- Gen. June 20,
1854; Col. of the 27th Foot, April 24, 1860; and Lieut.-
Gen., March 23, 1861. He had received the war medal
with four clasps for his valuable services.
The deaths of the following officers havo been officially
reported at the War-office since the Ist of April :—Lieut.-
Gen. R. C. Memel, K.H., Col. of the 68th Light infantry,
Major-Gens. H. Evans, T. P„ Dwyer, and G. E. Hunt,
Royal Marines; Cols, C. Bingham, Deputy Adjt-Gen.
Royal Artillery ; J. Johnston ; C, 0. Hamley, Royal
Marines ; R. Wallet°, K.H., 3d Buffs, M. G. Dennis, C. 8.,
60th Rifles; 0. H. Somerset, C. 8., 72d Highlanders; Lieut.-
Col. W. G. Le Mesurier, C. 8., Royal Artillery, H. Clements
16th Regiment; E. D'Alton, Royal Newfoundland Com-
pany; G. Barer, and W. MtKinnon, Royal Marines; R.
Carruthers, C. 8.. 2d Royals--J. B. Harrison, C. 8., 50th
Queen's Own—and H. Halkett, C. 8., G.C,H., German
Legion—Major R. W. Clerk, 26th Cametonians (drowned
at Fort Gomer), J. Humby, and G. T. Welchman, Royal
Marines—Capt. Sir A. Stockenstrom, Corsican Rangers—
H. M. Burns, 24th Regiment—E. F. Twysden, 55th Regi-
ment—C. Ford, Royal Artillery—W. S. Dawes, Royal
Marines—and K, C. Wulff, Rol al Artillery—Lieuts. It B.

Hewson, Royal Artillery—G. W. Gifford, Royal Engineers
(from the effects of a fall from his horse at Corfu)—C. P.
Fitzgibbon, 10th Regiment—J. D. Knox, 16th Regiment
—H. S. Jones, 84th Regiment—R. P. Jones, 91st High-
landers—T. M. Re; nolds, 12th Regiment—H. Tudor, 37th
Regiment—W. Cosby, sth West India Regiment•—R.
Rouse, D. Ede, P. F. E. Daniel, 11. L. Harrison, and
C. J. D. Napier, Royal Marines. Second-Lieuts. S. Lloyd,
H. Gritton, J. Jenkins, A. M, Lyons, and H. P. B. Ross,
Royal Marines. Ensigns C. D. Steer, 33d Regiment—E.
B. Gardiner, 103 d Royal Bombay Fusileers ; and L. Tholcn,
York Light Infantry—Paymaster M. M'Leod, 25th King's
Own Borderers—Quartermaster W. Garland, 17th Lancers
—Surgeon R. Ayton, 34th Regiment—Assist.-Surgs. J. U.
Smith, 19th Regiment—R. W. Hooper, M.D.—and A.
Bremner, 3d Buffs. Deputy-Assist.•Superintendents of
Stores C. F. Marriott and P. Hunt.
Tho examination of candidates for direct commissions in
the army, under the regulations dated Horse Guards, Jan.
1, 1861, commenced this morning at Chelsea Hospital, be-
fore Majer•General F. W. Hamilton, C. 8., vice-president.,
and the members of the Council of Education.

AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE AT LIVER-
POOL THIS WEEK.—There are three American mail
Steamers due at Liverpool this week—viz,, the Etna, Jura,
and Asia. The Etna, with dates from New York to the
23d ult., and the Jura, with similar dates from Portland,
may be expected—the former at Queenstown on Wednes-
day, and the latter at Londinderry on the same day. The
National Steam Navigation Company's cargo steamer Vir-
ginia, also from New York on the 23d, will, no doubt, call
off Queenstown in the course. of Wednesday. The Asia,
from Boston on the 27th, and Halifax early on the morning
of the 29th, may be looked for at Queenstown in the course
of Saturday next.

APOTHECARIES'-lIALL.—The following are the
names of the gentlemen who passed the examina-
tion in the science and practice of medicine, and received
certificates to practise, on Thursday, the 28th of April : --
Thomas E. Blick, Islip, near Oxford ; and William Her.ry
Sutcliffe, Manchester. The following gentleman also on
the same day passed his first examination :—David Howell
homes, St. Bartholooaewta Hospital.