The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

INFANTRY.

2d—We are truly sorry to learn by a private letter
from
Deesa, of date of the end of June, that this re-
giment is suffering severely from fever. Two hundred
men are in the hospital, and in five weeks fifty gallant
soldiers have fallen a victim to the wasting pestilence.
Rain had not fallen at the date of the letter, and we can
only trust that the merciful dispensations of Providence
will ameliorate the pestilence.
sth—A draft of this corps arrived at Limerick from
Castlebar, escorted by an armed party, Sept. 6, on route
for Cork, to embark for the Mediterranean to join the
service companies.
6th—The Taptee leaves for Aden to-day with a mail.
We anticipate she will not have a very quick passage,
and that many parties will reserve their letters for the
is reported
Company's war steamer Sesostris, which it
reported will leave this port for Aden ebout the 15th
instant, carrying a wing of this regiment, proceeding
thither under Major Pottinger. The only passenger
we know of by the Taptee is Lieutenant Curtis, of the
Engineer corps, who goes to the appointment vacated
by the lamented decease of the late Lieut. Western.
We are rather surprised that a wing of this regiment
should have been selected to proceed to the Red Sea,
as report has asserted that the corps was about to go
home after so long a service in India. We believe,
however, that the Royal Warwickshire regiment is one
of the strongest in the Presidency, and as it was debarred
from acquiring a full branch of laurels in the late cam-
paign of the Indus, it is but fair that it should run the
chance of culling a few leaves at Aden. We sincerely
wish the corps luck wherever it goes, and should desire
no stouter defenders than the distinguished old 6th of
the most strictly leagured possession of the British
Crown.—Bombay Gazette, July 1.
13th—The ship David Clark is under orders for
Calcutta, whither she conveys a detachment of her
Majesty's 13th Light Infantry. Our worthy garrison
surgeon, we understand, will have medical charge of
the detachment during the passage.—Bombay Timer,
June 17.
10th—The Vanguard is expected at Cove to em-
bark a wing of 13 officers and 271 non-commissioned
officers and rank and file, for the Mediterranean. On
the departure of this corps from Cork. the 19th are to
march from Limerick to replace them in Cork barracks.
38th—The service companies, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, sailed from Cork on
Saturday, in the Apollo troop-ship, for the Mediter-
ranean. Her Majesty's ship Vanguard, about to con-
vey the 19th Regiment to the Mediterranean, will not
accommodate any of the officers' ladies, and such offi-
cers as are desirous to have their ladies on foreign ser-
' vice must provide a passage for them at their own
expense. Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, previous to
the departure of the regiment, most kindly supplied
from his own purse money to defray the expense of con-
veyance of the soldiers' wives left behind to their homes
in England and Ireland.
-OA—The first division arrived at Cork on Friday
morning from Fermoy to replica the 38th. On the ar-
rival of the Ist division, under the &Graf-nand of Major
Macdougall, at Fermoy from Templemore, after being
in barracks for two hours, it received the route to pro?
coed on to Cork ; it had unpacked the baggage, and the
officers had made themselves comfortable in barracks.
The head-quarters has also received the route for Cork.
Captain Beale'e company arrived at Mitchelstown on
Friday, en route for Cork. The original destination,
Ferenoy, was changed in consequeliza of the arrival of
1 the Apollo troop-ship, to convey the IsStia La 'bate.
The remaiaing seven companies, under a field-officer,
marched from fermoy for Cork, on the 11th inst. to
Ijoin head-quarters.
F3'slth—This corps is daily expeete4 Kinoton, from
Beltasa, per the Alban, Government steamer,
97th—This corps will shortly march from Limeriels
for Cork, to embark. for the Mediterranean. The re-
giment will move on next week.
Marine Artillery.—A most generous and noble trait
in the conduct of the noncommissioned officers and
men of the Royal Marine Artillery who were serving
in Spain has just came to our knowledge, and which we
have greet' pleasure in giving publicity to. A sergeant
of the Artillery of the Legion was killed ip the lines be-
fore St. Sebastian, leaving a widow, and son thou 4hput
ten years old ; the mother dying soon afterwards, left
4estitute ; the Marine Ar-
tt
ihuee rby oaydoa
pnteodrpthhaisnpuo.tLeor rblYeitiless and for the last
four years have fed and clothed him--,:the non-commis-
sioned officer; hiking charge of his education,They
brought him with them to England ; he is now a fine,
handsome, inteiligeot youth,.
the Marine Artillery and h lately enlisted,
with a view of ultimately io!;;:nri;
as a trumpeter.

A SINGULAR CHARACTER.—Compton, for
several years one of the keepers of the New Forest, had a
house near the spot where Rufus was slain. He was a
molt singular character : he was continually shooting,
until he lost his right arm by his gun bursting; after which
b. e took to ‘. ell.
g At the rear of his dll.
mg was a long garden, where he built an aviary, and every
morning went with his breakfast-cloth and shook the
crabs from it, which brought various birds to the spot,
when the gentle creatures would rest on his 0017 arm, a:A
receive their footi t,rom his mouth. At his " whistle" they
would
is most
and rest on his shoulder as well as his arm ;
and it most extraordinary, that, when he died (three
years ago), several of the feathered tribe, of various co-
lours, were found lifeless in the garden.--,Strlisbury
Herald.

FRENCEI LlBERTY.—According to that school,
the only principle of regeneration and improvement is to
bring every time-honoured institution to the bed of Pro-
crustes. Ali that was living, national, local, or provincial,
disappeared before the iron hands that were covered with
the gloves of liberty. There was to be but one head, nor
were any distinctive functions assigned to the siaveral dimhst
one centralizing capitale du monde, regardless whether the
world around sunk more and more into death or not.
3.lany of the heroes of liberty, in our own day, know of no
ybulittt a le
flimsyb eings
scheme that pre-
tend of-
tend to his inheritance better principle; and if even Talleyrand were nothing
but a cunning., though broken-down, pupil of the Roman
Macchihav:
ellietrhitewce is isdomofman
nothing
the driest bureaucracy,— Rau4g, 8 Italy and the Italians.