The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-10 00:00:00

TEE ARMY.

The following general order, dated the 6th inst.,
has been issued from the Horse Guards, by order of
the Duke of Cambridge :
" Many regiments and depots having omitted to furnish
the annual nominal return ordered by the circular of the
7th of June, 1856, to be rendered to the military secretary,
of casualties among officers, non-commissioned-officers, and
men appointed to the French Order of the Legion of Honour,
the General Commanding-in-Chief calls the attention of
commanding officers to the omission in question, and de-
sires that it may be rectified by every corps in which it may
have occurred.

" These returns are now and for the future to be trans-
mitted by regiments and depots direct to the Under-Secre-
tary of State for War, instead of the military secretary.
" By command,
" JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjt.-General."
The following circular has been issued :
"War-office, Aug. 30.
" 1. The arrangements under which the contribution for
the messing of military officers and other public passengers
on board ship, and also their families (when not in contract
vessels), is brought to the credit of the public, having been
under the consideration of Mr. Secretary Herbert, he has
been pleased to direct that from and after the Ist October
next the settlement for such contribution shall be exclu-
sively effected at the termination of the voyage ; no deduc-
tion as heretofore being made from the pay advanced on
embarkation.

" 2. At the termination of the voyage the paymaster or
agent of the regiment to which the officers belongs, or
paymaster or acting paymaster of the depot or detachment
which he may first join, or other public accountant into
whose payment the officer or other public passenger may be
reported, will be held responsible for deducting from such
person, and crediting in the public accounts, the amount of
mess contribution which shall be shown to be due by the
mess certificate to be produced by him.
"3. Officers and others about to embark on board ship
are to take care to provide themselves with the prescribed
form of mess certificate, and to complete or cause to be com-
pleted the same in every particular, including the signature
of the master or purser of the vessel, and of the officer com-
manding the troops on board, before going on shore, or of
the officer himself when there is no commanding officer.
" 4. Military officers and other public passengers autho-
rised to proceed in contract steamvessels, or proceeding on
service without troops from one foreign station to another,
or from port to port within the same command, under
special contracts made by the Commissariat, will be re-
quired, as at present, to pay to the owners for their families
permitted to embark with them the sums for passage and
messing prescribed in the contracts, of which notice should
be taken in the certificate.

"5. A copy of the form of mess certificate is annexed
hereto, and all military accountants should forthwith obtain
an ample supply of the form by application to this depart-
ment. B. HAWES."

The chartered East India troop ship Abyssinian,
1,070 tons, Capt. Thomas, which arrived in the
Thames on Friday night from Kurrachee, as re-
ported in The Sun, landed her troops at the Custom-
house quay on Saturday morning, under the
direction of the staff officers from Chatham Garri-
son, who superintended the disembareation. She
brings home 264 non-commissioned officers and
men, 25 women, 36 children, and one schoolmaster,
belonging to the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon
Guards, 7th Hussars, 3d Bengal Cavalry, sth
Bengal Cavalry, Royal Artillery, Bengal Artil-
lery, Royal Engineers, 7th (Royal Fusileers), 24th,
27th (Enniskillens). 46th, 31st (King's Own Light
Infantry, 52d (Light Infantry), 70th, 79th (High-
landers), 81st, 87th (Royal Irish Fusileers), 93d
(Highlanders), 94th, and 98th Regiments, and
the Ist Bengal Fusileers—the whole under the
command of Capt. Waldy, 46th, Lieut. Sayers,
64th, and Lieut. Lewes, 51st Light Infantry, and
in medical charge of Staff Assist.-Surg. Jameson,
The Abyssinian embarked her troops at Kurrachee
on May 18, and sailed the following day, the pas-
sage to Gravesend occupying 110 days. St. Helena
was reached on July 17, where the vessel remained
only a few hours. The number of deaths on board
during the voyage was seven, including four of the
24th, one of the 51st, one of the 52d, and one of
the 87th. The vessel attempted to put in at the
Cape, but the state of the 'weather prevented her.
In addition to the wounded and disabled troops
brought home there are also a number of time-
expired men, as well as those formerly belonging
to the East India Company's Service, who have
taken their discharge. On the landing of the
troops at Gravesend they were immediately for-
warded to Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, where 24
men, two of whom were insane, were taken into
hospital for medical treatment, and the remainder,
after inspection, sent to St. Mary's invalid estab-
lishment. The East India troops proceeded in the
vessel to Blackwall, where they landed.
A number of non-commissioned officers and men
of the East India Sappers and Miners, whel have
completed a course of instruction at the Royal
Engineer establishment, Chatham, in sapping and
mining, fortification, and engineering, left Bromp.
tom barracks on Saturday and proceeded to the
East India depot at Warley, to be in readiness to
embark for India.
According to orders received at Chatham garri-
son from the Horse Guards the detachment of Royal