The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-01 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

The East India troopship General Caulfield,
Capt. Richards, which arrived in the Thames with
military invalids from Madras, disembarked her
troops at Custom-house-quay, Gravesend, yester-
day. Her dates are,—Madras, April 26 ; Mauri-
tius, June 6 ; and St. Helena, July 17. The num-
ber of troops who embarked at Madras was 213,
belonging to the Royal Artillery, Ist battalion Ist
Royals, Ist battalion 18th Royal Irish, 43d Light
Infantry, 44th, 3d battalion 60th Rifles, 68th
Light Infantry, 69th, 74th Highlanders, and 91st
Regiment, one woman, and seven children, toge-
ther with the following officers,—viz., Capt. H. W.
Palmer, 74th Highlanders; Lieut. S. Adams and
Lieut. Swinley, 12th Lancers, and in medical
charge of Dr. Marshall, civil Surgeon. Nineteen
men of various native Indian regiments also came
home with the troops, having received their dis-
charge. The number of deaths on board during the
voyage was ten. After the troops had disembarked
at Gravesend they were forwarded to Chatham gar-
rison, when 22 of the worst cases were admitted
into hospital, and the remainder sent to St. Mary's
invalid establishment.

Col. Tulloh, R.A., Superintendent of the Royal
carriage department of Woolwich Arsenal, and In-
spector• General of Ordnance, yesterday left Wool-
wich, having obtained a month's leave of absence.
The direction of the department has in consequence
devolved on Lieut.-Col. Clarke, the senior officer in
succession.

A number of the new class 40-pounder Armstrong
guns, the whole of which have been manufactured
at Elswick and forwarded to Woolwich for proof,
have been fired at the 'Royal Arsenal butt during
th© week. Two of the guns proved yesterday with
an ordinary charge of powder and shot, by an acci-
dental weakness of the inner screw, burst at the
breech, and two others of the same class, subject to
a like unaccountable weakness, gave way in a simi-
lar manner. The guns were fired by electricity, the
operating wire being secured beneath a bomb-proof
shed for the protection of the gunners. The breech
piece of each gun was projected to a considerable

distance from the butt, and after a lengthened
search they were found imbedded in the Arsenal
ditch.

The order for the removal of the 2d battalion 2d
Queen's Royals from Corfu to Gibraltar is cancelled.
That battalion will remain at Corfu, as will the Ist
battalion 25th Regiment at Gibraltar.
The Colon°ley of the 88th Regiment of Foot
(Connaught Rangers) has become vacant by the
death, on Thursday, of Lieut.• Gen. Horatio George
Broke, in the 71st year of his age. The deceased
officer had seen much service, having accompanied
the 52d Regiment on the expedition to Copenhagen
in 1807, and in the following year on that to Por-
tugal, and being present at the battle of Vimiera,
the advance into Spain, and retreat under Sir John
Moore. In 1809 he served on the Walcheren expe-
dition. In ISII he joined the Light Division on the
retreat of Massena from the lines of Lisbon, and

served in Spain till the end of the war. In 1812 he

joined Sir Harry Clinton as Aide-de-Camp at the
siege of Burgos, and was severely wounded, being
shot through the lungs while serving with him at
the battle of Orthes. He also served with the Army
of Occupation in France from 1815 to 1818 as Aide-
de-Camp to Sir Harry Clinton, and received the
war medal with four clasps for his services at
Vimiera, Salamanca, Nive, and Orthes.
Major Thomas Moore died on the 27th ult., at the
advanced age of 75. Few officers have seen more