The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

(From the Limerick Chronicle.)
This day two companies of the 76th depot marched into this
garrison, under command of Captain Ross, from Buttevant, on
route for Athlone. The detachment comprises two captains,
three lieutenants, three ensigns, nine sergeants, ten corporals,
four drummers, and 178 rank and file.
The 52d and 74th regiments are now on the march • the
former from Belfast to Enniskillen, and the latter from Newry
to Belfast.
The 30th regiment will march in a few days from Fermoy to
Cork, to embark for Bermuda.
Two companies and head-quarters, 90th regiment, march
from Kilkenny on the 11th July for Naas, to replace the 7th
Fusileers' depot going to Drogheda.
The 83d depot companies marched
.from Mullingar for
Newry yesterday.
Two companies and bead-quarters 60th Rifles, second bat-
talion, march from Mullingar for Kilkenny on the Bth of July.
Detachments at Newtownbarry, under Capt. Spong; Wexford,
Capt. Adair; Enniscorthy, Lieut. Woodgate.
The following officers have embarked to join the 62d regi-
ment at Madras :—Capt. Mair, Lieuts. Jervis and Moore, En-
signs Wells, Schobell, Nicholas, and M'Leod.
Captain Smith's company of the 32d depot marched from
Waterford on Saturday for New Ross. The other three reserve
companies, commanded by Major Palk, form the garrison of
Waterford.

The warrant for promotion of veteran army Lieutenants
will appear early in this month.
It is expected that Col. Sir G. Whitmore, K. C. H., will be
succeeded by Colonel Birch as commanding officer of the Royal
Engineers in Plymouth.
Lieut.-Colonel Goldie, 35th regiment, has recovered from
his late severe accident while on duty near Dublin.
Captain Tait, 15th Hussars' Lieut. Cook, Royal regiment,
Captain Champaign, 29th, Ensign Gordon, 44th, Lieut.
Lloyd, 47th, Ensign Parke, 65th, Captain Hoare, 66th, and
Lieutenant Langford, 73d regiment, retired from the army
last week.

Two Captains have retired from the 15th Hussars within a
very few days of each other.
By a recent order from the War-office, the nurses of the
General Military Hospital or Royal Infirmary in the Phcenix
Park, Dublin, are to be discontinued, and orderlies from
regiments in the garrison employed in their places, who are
merely to receive the addition of their rations to their daily pay.
The 76th depot is destined for the barony of Longford,
county Galway, now under the Coercion Act, and on arrival
will be encamped near Clonfert, camp equipage having been
ordered to be immediately forwarded from Athlone for that
purpose.
The Brunswick transport from Cork arrived at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, the 26th May, with three companies of the 83c1
regiment, under Major Crofton.
Lieut.-Colonel Lord Thomas Cecil has returned from leave
of absence, and resumed the command of the 10th Royal
Hussars at Dundalk.
Second Lieutenant Lord Viscount Jocelyn, eldest sonof the
Earl of Roden, has embarked in the Woodbridge transport at
Cove, to join the Service Companies of the Rifle Brigade at
Halifax.

Among the modes of overland communication with
India, one is to be noticed which has been some time set on
foot under the direction of Mr. Robert Tod, a British mer-
chant established at Damascus, and who has also a house at
Bagdad. He has organized a line of couriers from Damascus
to Bagdad and Bussorah, aided by Colonel Taylor, the British
resident at the latter places, and with the concurrence of the
present authorities in Syria. A courier is despatched once
every 20 days from Damascus, and performs the journey to
Bussorah in from 16 to 23 days. Despatches are forwarded
from Bussorah by the first vessel for Bombay. There is a
monthly communication between Constantinople and Aleppo
by Government Tartars, who usually take up 15 days between
these two cities. This route has the advantage over others of
being less exposed to the uncertainties of the sea. The ordi-
nary time required from London to Bussorah would be about
70 days in this way, thus—
Londe!? to Constantinople, the post is 27 to 30 days.
Constantinople to Aleppo, by the Tartar 15
Aleppo to Damascus 7
Damascus to Bagdad
Bagdad to Bussorah

Total.
Between Bussorah and Bombay there are communications
more or less frequent, according to the monsoon. In cases
where the expense was not regarded, the time might be cur-
tailed nearly one half. An express goes from London to Con-
stantinople in 16 to 18 days. A Tartar, well paid, will per-
form the journey from the latter city to Aleppo in six days.
This mode may answer for letters, but for passengers we
should apprehend that the route by Alexandria will be pre-
ferred.