The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-20 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Lieutenant- Colonel Holloway, C. 8., of the Royal Engi-
neers, has arrived in Dublin, and assumed the command of the
engineer department in Ireland, in succession to Colonel Ar-
nold, K. 11. ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Slade has arrived at
Cork and assumed the command of the engineer department
in the Munster district, in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel
Holloway.
Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer, of the Royal Artillery, has suc-
ceeded Colonel Brough in the command of the Artillery in
Nova Scotia. Major Arabin was in temporary command until
Lieut- Colonel Mercer's arrival.

Captain Archibald Maclean, of the Royal Horse Artillery,
will be appointed Aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir Wm.
Macbean, K. C. 8., who is to assume the command of the
troops in tha south-western district on the Ist of the ensuing
month.

The service companies of the 10th Foot embarked at Corfu
on the 10th ult. for home, and may be expected to arrive at
Cork shortly, where they will be joined by the depot compa-
nies from Wexford.

The William Miles, freight ship, arrived at Cove on the
11th inst., and the drafts from the depot companies of the Bth
and 68th Regiments, destined to join the service companies of
those corps, embarked on board that vessel on the following
day for Jamaica.
From the United Service Gazette.
CAVALRY.

th Dragoons—Sergeant Nlaccafry of the troop of Innis-
killins, quartered at Tiuro, was tried by a Court•martial last
week, and sentenced to be reduced to the ranks for drun-
kenness while on duty.

INFANTRY'.

Ist--Capt Brooke, Ist bat., has been appcinted to the
splendid grenadier company of this battalion. Lieuts. Haw-
kins, Sanderson, and Hinton, are on leave ; also Ensign Par-
ker, and Assistant-Surgeon Christian. Capt. Blacklin's com-
pany (the light infantry) is said to be in first-rate order.
2d—The Queen's were in excellent health at Bombay on
the 19th of September. Lieut.-Colonel Baumgardt was re-
ported in arrest.
6th—The troops under the command of Sullivan, at Bom-
bay proclaimed her Majesty as Queen on this 19th of August.
10th—The service companies embarked at Corfu on the
15th of last month for home, and may be expected to arrive at
Cork about Christmas-day, when the depot from Wexford will
join head-quarters.
I Ith—The regiment at Zante has been ordered home in
ships of war instanter, and without relief, it is supposed in
consequence of the aspect of affairs in Canada. They are ex-
pected to land in England, and that the depot will be ordered
from Spike Island. Orders have been given to countermand
the embarkation of the draft from the depot companies at Spike
Island. The service companies of this regiment proceeded
abroad in the year 1626. The depot companies expect to em-
bark for England in the course of the ensu►ng spring.
12th—The regiment at the Mauritius are to replace the 21st
at Van Diemen's Land. .

14th—A draft arrived at Cork from Bristol last week, to
await the arrival of a transport to convey them to the West
Indies, where the service companies are stationed.
21st—Are to proceed to India from Van Diemen's Land.

25th—Lieut. Ethelstone, from Limerick garrison, has re-
placed Lieut. O'Donnell in the detachment at Newcastle.

27th—Lieut. Smith has obtained leave of absence from the
6th of December to the 9th of March.

30th—This regiment will be removed from Bermuda, in the
event of more troops bring required in Canada.
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eight or nine ruffians attacked a private of this regiment on
duty at the Commissariat, Montreal, and seized his ilrelock ;
however, the main guard turned out and caught five of them.
33d— Lieut. Erskine, acting Adjutant of the depot, has left
Boyle for England, on two months' leave.
34th—The accident to Lieut. Norris occurred in a fox hunt.
Mr. Lumley's fox hounds met at the form-yard near Littleton,
where, having drawn the adjoining cover blank, they proceeded
to Archerstown, where a sporting fox was quickly found, and
soon broke cover, running through Coolkennedy and Turtulla
plantations, to near Killough-hill, where he turned, and ran
by Maxfort, through Parkstown to Curragheen, where he was
earthed without a check, save that of which we are speaking,
when the following accident, which we regret to state, occur-
red :—ln running towards the Horse and Jockey, Lieut. Nor-
ris had his thigh broken by his horse falling oa him over a
fence. He was speedily extricated from under the animal by
Mr. Phillips, of Gaile, who was just before him, or, serious as
the accident was, he must have been more seriously injured.
He was conveyed to Laurel-ville, the residence of Vernon
Lamphier, Esq., where every attention was paid hies. As-
sistant-Surgeon Smith, of this regiment, quickly arrived from
Cashel and set the fracture, and he was able to be removed to
the barracks, Cashel, the following day. Lieut. Norris's horse
has been the occasion of another accident, by throwing lser
rider in a steeple chase last week, by which Lieut. Glubb lost
51. The distance was two miles, with 40 leaps.
37th—A detachment, consisting of 1 captain, 3 subalterns,
and 61 rank and file, embarked on Thursday se'nnight on
board the William Miles, freight ship, at Plymouth, to join
the service companies in Jamaica.
43d—Have arrived in Canada, from Nova Scotia.
46th—On the occasion of a visit of the Duke de Nemours
to the lines of Gibraltar on the 22d of November, this regi-
ment and the superb band were particularly noticed by his
Royal Highness. On his landing, the troops in garrison,
consisting of the 33d, 46th, 52nd, 68th, 81st, 82d regiments,
and Royal Artillery, were formed in a line of contiguous
columns, along which, after the general salute, his Royal
Highness proceeded. The troops then marched past in slow
and quick time, and then performed various evolutions under
the command of Sir A. Woodford. At the close of the re-
view his Royal Highness was pleased to express his gratifi-
cation at the opportunity which had just been afforded him of
arcing troops so remarkable for their discipline and steadiness.
51st—Captain Holden has obtained leave of absence front
the 15th to the 31st of December.
53d—The draft intended for foreign service will embark in
the Christina.
55th—The regiment in Madras were in the enjoyment of
excellent health in
reSecordingtember. They have formed a temper-
ance society. In recordin the death of Lieutenant H. A. P.
Daubeney, of this regiment (son of Colonel Daubeney, of
Bath), at Secunderabad, on the 24th of August last, of dysen-
tery, after a painful and protracted illness, which he bore with
exemplary fortitude and resignation, it is gratifying to us to
be enabled to mention a circumstance no less indicative of the
unanimity of feeling which prevails in the regiment than of
the esteem in which this excellent Tonng man was held by his
brother officers ; a request has been prZerred to Colonel Dan
benoy, that he would allow a monument to be erected at their
expense in his parish, bearing a simple, touching, and appro.
printe inscription, and recording the fact of its erection by the
officers of the 55th, "as a mark of their esteem and affection,
and as a testimony of the deep regret they feel at the loss of
one who endeared himself to them all by his gentle and amiable
qualities."
57th—Lieutenant Jackson has obtained leave of absence
from the 15th December to the 14th February,

60th—A detachment under the command of Lieut. Palmer,
e übarked on Monday, at Chatham, for the Mediterranean.
68th—This Light Infantry Regiment is to be conveyed from
Gibraltar to Jamaica in the Maitland and Hound.

69th—Late accounts from Demerara left the regiment there
far from healthy. Dr. Turner, assistant-surgeon, has fallen
a victim to the fever. Captain Garland and Lieut. Tudor
were confined to their beds. Mrs. Colonel Monins and Mrs.
Tudor were seriously ill. The yellow fever has swept away
many Europeans, but has not touched the natives in the island.
68th—The transports Numa and Barossa are to proceed to
Gibraltar, to convey this regiment thence to Jamaica, which
corps will not for the present be replaced at Gibraltar.
73d—The regiment at Corfu has been suddenly ordered
home without a relief, supposed to be in consequence of
affairs in Canada. Orders have been given to countermand
the embarkation of the draft at Spike Island ; they will rejoin
the depot Companies at Clare Castle : this regiment went
abroad in 1827.

78th—The head-quarters are on their way home in the
Barrosa, from Ccylon, and may be hourly expected.
82d—The regiment at Gibraltar, under Lieut.- Col. Hogarth,
were inspected by the Commander of the Forces there about
the 20th of November.

83d—By the arrival of the Spey this week, with letters of
the 13th of November from Halifax, we learn that extraordi-
nary military movements were almost daily taking place. An
officer of this regiment had arrived at Halifax with some des-
patches for Sir Colin Campbell, from Quebec. Some of the
merchants were applied to on the sth of November, to furnish
vessels to convey troops to Quebec, but the Commander-in-
Chief, in consequence of the lateness of the season, had aban-
doned the idea of sending them by water, and an order had
been issued for the 43d regiment, stationed in New Bruns-
wick, to proceed by land to Canada, which regiment was to
be replaced by the 84th, from Halifax.
84th—The regiment in Jamaica will come home in the
Maitland and Hound, on their return from taking the 68th
from Gibraltar.

89th—Captain Graham is ordered to join the depot at Gos-
port. Captain James is the next officer to join the service
companies.
92d—Lieut. and Adjutant Spiller, has joined from leave.
Lieut. Aldworth has gone on two months' leave.
93d—These gallant Highlanders stand fast for the present ;
but expect to go eventually as a reinforcement to Nova Scotia.
Royal African Corps—Such has been the dreadful ravages
of yellow fever that two schooners arrived at Sierra Leone in
the middle of September, from the Gambia, with 90 rank and
file of this corps witnout a single officer.
Royal Artillery—An inquest was held at the Royal Court-
house, Guernsey, last week, on Gunner William Walker. who
was found dead on the ground, a few yards from the Royal
Artillery barracks. He was about forty years of age, and had
been near thirty in the corps. Sergeant Major Dick stated
that the deceased had been long affected with a cough and
shortness of breath ; that he was at his house that day per-
fectly sober, and accompanied him part of the way to the bar-
racks. The jury brought in a verdict of apoplexy. Major
Whyte, of the 70th, proposed sending a band of buglers of that
regiment and a firing party, as the number of the artillery
were so short in Guernsey, but Captain Slade, attributing his
death to drunkenness, the deceased was buried privately.
Royal Marines.—Lieut.- Colonel T. Aslett is ordered to
hold himself in readiness to proceed to join the battalion on
the north coast of Spain. First Lieutenant Griffin, from
Portsmouth, to be Captain at Chat'eam ; First Lieutenant T.
Park to be Captain at Chatham, vice M'Arthur, appointed to
Woolwich ; First Lieutenant Henry Savage to be Quarter-
master at Chatham, vice Park ; First Lieutenant F. Maltby
to be Acting Quartermaster and Paymaster at Pembroke:
First Lieutenant Dwyer to take charge of the duties of that
department until the return of Lieutenant Maltby from Ascen-
sion. Second Lieutenants Arnold from Chatham, Hocken
from Woolwich, and Erskine from Plymouth, to be First
Lieutenants at Portsmouth. Captain Plattoun is ordered to
the north coast of Spain. Second Lieutenant Varlo, or Ports-
mouth, and Second Lieutenant Moubray, of Woolwich, have
exchanged divisions. It is considered strange that a Field
Officer has not set been ordered to Pembroke in the room of
the late Lieut.-Colonel Baillie. First Lieutenant P. Priest,
and Second Lieutenant W. F. Foote, with four sergeants,
two corporals, aad twenty private Marines, have embarked in
the Alligator, to form part of the settlement which Captain
Sir J. G. Bremer is about to establish near Torres Straits.
Lieuts. Wood and Dwyer, R. M., have relieved Lieuts.
Barnes and M'Dougal at Pembroke. Lieut.-Colonel Owen,
having arrived in England, and taken upon himself the duties
of Adjutant-General of the corps, the vacancy created at Pem-
broke by the death of the late Lieut.-Colonel Baillie, as com-
mandant there, is expected to be forthwith filled. There have
been several applications to head-quarters by senior officers
for the appointment, which has been withheld hitherto solely
for the return of Colonel Owen. First Lieutenant Langley,
of the Chatham division, has proceeded to Pembroke on com-
mand duty, in place of First Lieutenant Shoveller, ordered to
head-quarters. It is Mr. Charles Yates Stewart Moubray
(son of Captain Moubray, R.N.) who is appointed to the
Woolwich division.

The undermentioned officers retired from the army last
week :—Paymaster Graham, sth Dragoon Guards ; Captain
Evans and Lieutenant Robertson, 4th Foot ; Captain Mor-
den, 6th Foot; Second Lieutenant Campbell, 21st Foot; and
Lieutenant Stirling, 42d Foot.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, Drc. 15, 1837.

The Queen has been pleased to nominate His Royal Highness
the Duke of Sussex, K. G. K. I'. to be the first and principal
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath;
and to constitute and appoint His Royal Highness Acting Great
Master of the said Most Honourable Order.