The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

SHIPS AND TROOPS ARRIVED IN INDIA.
The Anne Armstrong, with the head-quarters of the
Bth Regiment of Foot, about which some anxiety had
been feat, arrived safe at Bombay, August 28.
The Poictiers, with the head-quarters of the 24th
Regiment, arrived at Calcutta, August 26; and the
British Sovereign and Edmondsbury, with detachments
of the 32d Regiment, arrived at Calcutta, the first August
22, and the second August 28, and the Duchess of Nor
thumberland arrived the same day.
The following other transports have arrived at Cal-
cutta :—The Timandra, Aug. 14 ; Livingstone and
Queen, 16 ; Success. 17 ; Semarang and Bland, 18 ;
Amity, 20 ; British Sovereign, 22 ; and Salsette, 30.
The Cornwall, transport, arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope from Cork, en the 28th August, with the
following officers and men, seventy-four days on her
passage :—Cornet N. de la Cherois, and 10 men, her
Majesty's 7th Dragoon Guards ; Captain Brooke, Lieu-
tenant Queade, Ensigns Garner, Herrick, White, and
Lalor, and 112 men, of her Majesty's 12th Foot; Lieu
tenants Ewart and Russel, Ensigns Ora and Blyth,
and 51 men, of her Majesty's 35th Regiment ; Lieu
tenant-Colonel Erskine, Ensigns Fleming and Grantham.
and 41 men, of her Majesty's 45th Regiment ; Ensign
Ramsay and 41 men of her Majesty's 73d Regiment ;
Ensign -Minchin and 74 men of her Majesty's 95th Regi-
ment ; 31 men of her Majesty's 15th Regiment ; Cap
tain Molins, Ceylon Rifh.s ; Lieutenants Gossett and
Cooke, Royal Engineers ; Assistant-Surgeon Millenger.
Staff ; four ladies, and eleven women ar,d children. The
drafts for the troops serving at the Cape were trans-
-1.-rred to her Majesty's ship Apollo, fa- conveyance to
Algoa Bay, en route. to the frontier, anti the transport
was about to proceed- to the Mauritius and Ceylon.
Major Goodman, 27th; Major Creagh, 87th; Brevet
Major Bainbrigge, Fort Adjutant at Guernsey; Captains
'Tennis and Mundy, Royal Artillery, gazltted on Tues-
day, the first three to the rank of lieut.-colonel, the
other two to the rank of major in the army, had been in
command on her Majesty's recent visit to Guernsey.
A troop of the Bth Hussars, under Captain Lord Kil
leen, were out in the direction of Cappoquin, and returned
to Dungarvan with twenty-one prisoners, engaged in in-
timidating the farmers to give up eon-acre money.
We (Limerick Chronicle) have been requested to state.
on behalf of the gentry and other inhabitants of Killaloe,
their great regret at the departure of the detachment of
period the officers and met.
the 66th Regiment, stationed for the last thirteen month:
anti respect of all classes
ble orderly, and correct conduct on al:
during that
. length of time
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having never been brought before the local authoeiti,
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regiment.
Captain Rich, marched from Pembroke
to Newcastle-Emlyn, where they are t
the command of
to be stationed
A detachment of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, under
for Cardigan, commanded by Lieut. Patterson. Or
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A detachment of the same regiment have also marched
Tuesday the detachment which is to be stationed
Carmarthen, amounting to about 170 strong, arrive(
under the command of Captain Kidd. They are a fin'
solder-like body of men, and will, we have no doubt, with
the example of their officer, emulate the unexceptionable
conduct of the 37th, just left.

ESCAPE FROM SHERIFFS OFFICERS.—A few even-
ings since the fillowing extraordinary scene occurred at
the General Post office in St. Martin's• le-grand :
Shortly after six o'clock, while Remington, one of the
porters, was on duty at the northern or newspaper
entrance into the office, and while the folding gates
were opened for the reception of the masses of
bags of papers collected from the several offices
of the newsvenders throughout the metropolis, a
man, apparently respectably dressed, rushed past
the officer into the letter carriers' office. No sooner
was he perceived than Remington followed in chase of
him, and finding that the party had darted into the mid-
dle of the office, he proceeded towards the opening be-
tween the letter carriers' and the sorting office fir the
letters; but whilst there engaged, the porter found that
two other men were standing in the doorway, and beck
oning him to go to them. Not knowing what to
make of a circumstance of so unusual a character,
the officer returned to the door, and upon questioning
the newly arrived parties, they told him they were
sheriffs' officers, and that the man who had entered
the office was a party of whom they were in pursuit.
and who, having caught sight of them, had " bolted "
into the office. While the porter was thus engaged, the
intruder rushed through the numerous body of clerks,
messengers, &c., who were then busily engaged, in the
dispatch of the evening mails, when eventually he sud-
denly came to a stand still, as if stunned in the midst
of tLe range of sorting tables with which the
office is filled. For a minute or so his appearance
was not noticed, but immediately afterwards one of the
officers, perceiving the man did not belong to the esta-
blishment, requested him to leave the office. Glad of the
opportunity to escape by any other wcy than by the one
through which he had entered, he followed the messen-
ger to the eastern outlet of the office, ofposite to the.
front entrance to Goldsmith's Hall, thus leaving his pur-
suers many yards distant from him, and in total ignorance
of his escape.
BRISTOL FREE-PORT AgiOOIATioN,-,-This body
numbers already upvards. of 1,200 members. Among
the first to enrol himself, was P. W. S. Miles, M.P.,
whose example has since been followed by the Hon. F.
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