The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

TIER ARMY.

The King Philip, 1,253 tons, Commander C. H.
Cary, which has been taken up by the Hon. Council
of India for the conveyance of reinforcements to
India, embarked the following troops at Custom-
house-quay, Gravesend, yesterday, for Calcutta—
viz., 20 men of the 19th Regiment, Ist battalion,
22 men of the 29th RegimeAt, and 28 men of the 75th
Regt., from the battalions of infantry at Chatham
garrison ; 150 non-commissioned officers and men
of the Royal Artillery, from Woolwich ; 60 men of
the. Ist battalion sth Fusiliers, 23 men of the Ist
battalion, 6th Regiment, 60 men of the 34th Regi-
ment, 25 men of the 37th Regiment, and 20 men of
the 38th Regiment, from Colchester ; together with
the following officers :—Lieut.-Col. H. R. Carden,
77th Regiment ; Capt. T. D. Forde, 46th Regiment ;
Lieut. W. A. •Roberts, Royal Artillery ; Ensign J.
H. Bradshaw and Ensign F. H. D. Brome, • sth
Fusiliers ; Ensign J. Fitzgerald, 6th Foot ; Ensign
Lutley Jordan, 34th Regiment ; Ensign G. F. Vesey,
19th Regiment; and Ridingmaster C. C. Brooke,
9th Lancers. Staff-Surgeon W. M. Dowding, from
Ferraoy, embarked in medical charge of the rein-
forcements. The King Philip is a very fine.vessel,
and her accommodation for troops is very superior ;
it is expected that she will make the passage to
Calcutta in a short period. The vessel was to leave
the Thames last night.
- The following reinforcements will embark at
Gravesend this day for Calcutta, on board the Lady
Octavia, 1,200 tons, Commander D. Welch, viz.:-
1 subaltern and 13 men of the Ist Battalion 23d
Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; six men of the 35th (Royal
Sussex) Regiment, 10 men of the 42d Royal High-
landers, one subaltern and 60 men of the 54th Regi-
ment, one subaltern and 19 men of the 60th Rifles,
one subaltern and 16 men of the 73d Regiment, 38
men of the 88th Connaught Rangers, 18 men of the
93d Highlanders, and 40 men of the 97th (Earl of
Ulster's) Regiment.
The San dfly steam gunboat has arrived at Chat-
ham from Portsmouth, and has commenced shipping
war stores for that port.
The line-of-battle screw steamer Hood, 91, build-
ing at Chatham, is so far completed that she will
be fit to be launched this year if required. The
machinery with• which she is ordered to be fitted is
of 600 horse-power.
The 48th Foot, from Gibraltar, and the 46th and
91st Foot, from Corfu and the Mediterranean, have;
passed through Egypt, and embarked at Suez on
board the steam transports Feroze, Zenobia, and!
Oriental, and sailed for Calcutta.
Yesterday the Admiralty took up the Caroline
Coventry, to convey military stores to Bombay,
and the Star of the East, to carry a detachment of
artillery and several hundred tons of military stores
to Hong Kong. The Sir G. F. Seymour and th...e
Forward were also hired to take out military stores
to Bermuda and Halifax.
Her Majesty's ship Russell, 60, Captain Storey,
accompanied by her tender, the Hind gunboat, re-
turned to her station (as coastguard head-quarters
for the western district) at Falmouth, on Friday,
from a cruise to the eastward.

In consequence of the lamentable destruction by
fire of the steamer Austria, the Admiralty have
directed their attention to the necessity of using
every precaution to prevent the possibility of so
fearful a calamity occurring, on board any of her
Majesty's steamships, and ° yesterday orders were
issued for experiments to be made with Horsey's
patent, which consists of a steam cock at the top
of the boiler, from which pipes extend all over the
ship, so that on fire occurring in any part of a
vessel it may, by simply turning the cock, be de-
luged with steam and extinguished.
An order was yesterday received at Woolwich
from the War Department, directing the authori-
ties of the Royal Artillery Garrison to extend as
far as practicable the number of bathrooms already
commenced, so as to admit of the frequent bathing,
in hot or cold water, of the entire garrison. The
substitution of Captain Grant's culinary apparatus
in lieu of the ordinary mode of barrack kitchen has
rendered 12 of the old cookhouses available for
other purposes. These are ordered to be given
over to the Royal Engineers, to be fitted with
eight baths each, for the exclusive use of the non-
commissioned officers and soldiers. The new
method of ventilating the men's sleepino• rooms is
in progress throughout the garrison, and is found
to work most effectually.
Yesterday the whole of the metropolitan divisions
of the enrolled Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital
were summoned for their annual drill and training.
The east division musters on Tower-hill, the west
in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital. the north in
the Cavalry Barracks, Regent's-park, and the south
at Kennington. They will be trained and put
through battalion drill from the 21st to the 29th
inst., and on the 30th inst. all the divisions will be
reviewed in Hyde-park by Colonel Sir A. M.
Tulloch.
THE LATE GALE.—During the gale of Thursday
last the whole of the tents of the encampment be-
longing to the Pembroke garrison at Freshwater
east were entirely blown down. Both officers and