The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-31 00:00:00

THE BRITISH ARMY AT PEKIN.

The following is the distribution of the Expedi-
tionary Army which hub teen determined on,
should nothing occur to .render alterations neces-

sary :
1 roops to remain for the present in China :
At Tientsin—The 31st, 60th, and 67th Regi-
ments, Govan and Pesborough batteries, Bth s
Hors ande
10th Companies of Royal Engineers, Fane'
(300) strong. The Military Train—Commissariat
Staff and Army Hospital Corps.
At Taku—Osie half of Pennycuick's
etaßttery,
and one wing of a regiment in garrison. Tien-
tsin.
nil,obeust,
Barry's,
ta is
y 's,
At Shanghai—One native regiment and Penny-
cuick's battery ; native regiment not yet detailed.
At Hong Kong and Kowloon—The 44th Regi-
ment, and Bedding's field battery, with detachment
of Engineers, Army Hospital, and Commissariat
Staff Corps ; probably the Bth Company, also, of
Royal Engineers.
At Canton—The 99th Regiment and 'rwiss's
battery.
To leave China for England :
gylaetndk,noaws
The Ist, 2d, 3d, and 87th Regiments. As regards
the disposition of the general body of the Indian
troops
Engineers
returns
positiverns
to Ei
nil
be-
lieved that the most of them will be sent back im-
mediately to India. The 23d Company of Royal
Millward's, and Rottou's batteries. Sterling's
battery returns to India. The Armstrong guns of
Millward's battery arc to be handed oTer to Govan's
battery, which in future will be an
Armstrong one.
The troops are reported to have suffered a good
deal from diarrhoea, and sick in considerable num-
hers' have been received
at Tien - s-
sion to the hospital ships off -tsin for transndilof
the Peiho, .1!.
which, at present there areon Xre is
an extensive hospital est overb 500 sick: wico.tsin,
where there are now abouta lishmen '1
and about the
same number at our lOO sick,establishment on the
other
Tien-tsin forts, the town. The
three miles from
mortality, however in has not been great;
the a
the form of disease which has prevailed not being
of a
___,
muulgiant type. Dysentery has been one of
theand a low form of fever
Most common ailraeuts'
also has been rather Prevalent.
The Melbourne and Maur
Citius hospital ships
Proceed immediately to the ape. Sir William
Peel and Lancashire Witch go to Hong Kong.-..
London and china Telegraph.

!„6 FOR _MURDER IN SCOTLAND.

A Glasgow Circuit Court, before Lord Ivory,
on
of murder, he having on the evening of
Ttlitu the
s
crime,day, Patrick Lunnay was charged with the
Saturday, 10th, or Sunday, 11th of November last,
in or near Bank-street, Alexandria, attacked and
assaulted James Cassidy, shoemaker, residing in
Bank-street, and with a knife stabbed and cut him
14 times on the breast and chest and stomach,
whereby he was mortally injured, and immediately
afterwards died. The jury returned a unanimous
verdict of guilty of murder, with a unanimous and
strong recommendation to mercy, on the ground of
passion, having received strong provocation from
the deceased, and of this being the first crime of
which he had been found guilty. The judge pro-
nounced sentence of death, to be carried into
execution at Dumbarton on the 18th of January,

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