The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-27 00:00:00

MILITARY.

The 10th Hussars are under orders to proceed to the
Crimea.
Captain Hussey, 1 serjeant, and. 50 men of the 19th
Regiment; Captain Hacket, 2 serpents, and 100 men,
38th Regiment ; Ensigns
.Kenny and Preston, 2 serjeants
and 100 men, 88th Regiment ; Lieutenant Balfour, 1
serjeant, and 59 men, 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade ; and
Staff Assistant-surgeon Hall, in medical charge, em-
barked yesterday morning at the dockyard, by means
of steam-vessels, on board the steamer Adelaide, lying
at Spithead, and sailed in the evening for the Black
Sea:
On Christmas-day one of the soldiers brought home
from the East in the Libertas, now in Plymouth Sound,
died while being landed from that transport. It having
been determined to send seven of the invalids to the
military hospital at Stoke, distant by water more than
three miles, through a circuitous route, they were placed
in the barge of the Calcutta, 84,
.Captain J. J. Stopford,
in charge of an officer belonging to that ship, and
taken in tow by the Calcutta's cutter, in charge of an-
other officer. Five of the sick were in cots, and two
were well enough to sit in the stern sheets. They
were in medical charge of Staff Surgeon Baxter,
and were accompanied by the commanding officer,
Captain Pocock, 30th Regiment. Very heavy weather
having prevailed for some time past a considerable sea
was running, and the wind having veered a little to the
northward and the tide ebbing, it was found impossible,
after a long effort, to make any headway, and the cutter
accordingly bore up for Plyraoutb. As ao preparations
fir landing had been made there Dr. Baxter was obliged
to zeek a vehicle, and all establishments being closed
during divine service, some time elapsed before an omni-
bus was procured. Meanwhile, the exposure in the
Sound, and the subsequent detention, had produced fatal
effects on one of the men—Gentry, belonging to the
Coldstream Guards—who unfortunately died from ex-
haustion in his cot alongside the pier. The poor fellow
was afflicted with dysentery. This lamentable circum-
stance has created considerable sensation. It is evident
that the cutter's crew was unequal to towing the barge.
The boats were more than an hour in the Sound, and
nearly two hours alongside the pier. Had arrangements
been made for their coming direct to Plymouth, the sick
could have been landed within half-an-hour of leaving
the ship.

THE MILITIA.
Yesterday fatigue parties of the Royal Artillery, the
detachment conatituting the garrison of the Tower, with
several extra labourers, were engaged in delivering from
the Ordnance stores in the fortress military clothing,
boots, and other military stores for conveyance to the
several tread-quarters of those regiments already embo-
died, or about to be embodied, throughout the United
Kingdom. It is intended to supply each regiment with
a limited number of Minie rifles, and the officers, non-
commissoned officers, and privates will be practised in
the use of that formidable weapon, in case of volunteer-
ing for foreign service.
Yesterday intelligence was received of the decease of
Major Tyndall, a major in the West Middlesex Regi-
ment of Militia, who expired at Anglesea, Gosport, on
Sunday last, aged 59. The deceased had seen some active
service, having served in the Peninsula with the .51. t
Light Infantry, and had received the war medal, with
five clasps, for the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria,
Pyrenees, Nivelle, and Orthes. He was also for many
years major of brigade at Corfu, and military secretary
to Sir Alexander Woodford at Gibraltar. In addition