The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-20 00:00:00

THE AlLlll'.

The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. John Sec-
combe, arrived at Spit head yesterday morning from
the West Indies, 13 days and 20 hours from St.
Thomas's, her last point of departure. She brought
mails from St. Thomas's, which were landed at Ports-
mouth,,, and despatches from his Royal Highness
.i. rin-...e Alfred for her Alajesty, which Capt. See-
combo conveyed ,
lowing is the Hi l'ersona"y to Osborne. The fol-
list, with malay es passenger, troop, and in-
validfax, Dec, 1, portslB6i_isof ernbarcation :—From Hali-
fax,
and file, 4 soldiers' wives,
and 9 children, belod
.napto varicus regiments, and
1 ward-room steward
Capt. Thomas F. Dixon, 39rotitin Bermuda, Dec. 8—
of troops on board), wife, wit, egiment (in charge
rank and file 39th Regimen: da' and
servant; 22
Artillery ; Lieuts. Mitchell one.
an man Royal
r
end file, 9 soldiers' wives, and 22 Tisdall'
73
rank children
Engineers; Mr. Payne, carpenter it, Ronal
to undergo sentence of Court- ma'rt . *N" 6 seamen
ial, and the dis-
rated Master-at-Arms of her j M aesty, s ship Jas o
From Jamaica, Dec. 21—Dr. W. E 11.
Eaton, 3a, West
India Regiment, and Ensigns Metcalf and Daly,
14th Regiment, proceeding to England on leave;
staff purveyors wife, 2 children and 1 servant,
and
2 seamen. From Barbadoes, Dec. 27-14 rank and
file from various regiments, invalids ; one woman
and four children ; Staff-Assist.-Surg. W. Gardiner,
in charge of invalids; the sergeants Royal Marine
Light Infantry for passege to England; Mr. J. T.
Price, clerk, Royal Navy, one colour-sergeant Royal
Marine Light Infantry, une corporal and two pri-
vates Royal Marine Light Infantry, one quarter-
master, ono stoker, end six seamen, invalids. The
sl:in baQ also on board abort 400 tons of condemned
naval stores. She will go into Portsmouth harbour
to-day to land her freight and prepare for further
service. '1 he Himalaya. on her cutward voyage.
took out a company of Royal Engineers for servic,
in Canada, who were disembarked at Halifax, pro
needed thence to Windsor by rail, where they em-
barked on board a steamer to Fredericton and the
Grand
Falls,- marching from the latter place'to

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Riviere du Loup, and concluding their journey
thence by rail to Quebec.
The 41st Regiment, which has been emp yed in
the construction of military roads at the western
end of the Isle of Wight, is under orders o remove
from there to Sheffield on Wednesday n xt.
The men belongiug to the lath R 3 ment were
sent on Friday from the transport Adelaide to the
hulk Vigo, in Hamoaze, and on Saturday were
conveyed in a steamtug to the Royal William Vic-
tualling-yard. They are now distributed in diffe-
rent quarters, some at Mount Wise, others in the
Raglan Barracks, &c. The Adelaide is under re-
pairs in No. 1 dock at Keyham steamyard. She
will not be able to leave Plymouth for Halifax in
less than ten days.
The vice-president and members of the Council
of Military Education have removed from No. 1,
Whitehall-yard, to their new quarters, 13, Great
George-street, Westminster. The residence in
Whitehall-yard and the adjoining house are to be
appropriated to the use of the State Paper-office
about to be pulled down for the public offices im-
provements.