The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The wives and children of the sick and wounded
troops belonging to the Eastern Monarch have
been provided with an abundant supply of neces-
sary clothing and every other comfort since their
arrival at Chatham, by the ladies of the local com-
mittee of the Central Association for the Relief of
the Wives and Families of Soldiers and Sailors,
who are most assiduous in their attention to the
sufferers, most of whom have lost every article they
possessed by the burning of the vessel. A sum of
money has been placed in the hands of Captain J.
Pope, of the Invalid Depot at Chatham, who has
undertaken to distribute it among the sufferers, in
order to alleviate their more immediate wants.
The whole of the troops who, came home from
India in the Eastern Monarch have been supplied
with a fresh kit by order of the Government, and
it is understood that the personal losses of the men
by the burning of the ship will also be made good
to them.

General Gerard Gosselin died on Saturday
last at his seat in Kent, at the advanced age of 90
years, having survived the death of his venerable
brother, Admiral Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin,
about two years, the gallant admiral having died
at a great age. The late general was one of the
senior generals on the army list. He entered the
army so far back as November; 1780. According
to Harts's record of his services, General Gosselin
commanded a brigade on the expedition against
Genoa, under Lord William Beranek; and on its
capture was appointed commandant there until the
peace with France. Subsequently he commanded
a brigade in the American war, and was present at
the attack on and capture of Castine on the Penob-
scot. The late officer's commissions bore date as
follows :—Ensign, Nov. 29, 1780 ; lieutenant,
Jan. 6, 1791 ; captain, June 6, 1794 ; major, June
15, 1794; lieutenant-colonel, Jan. 1, 1800 ' • colonel,
July 23, 1810 ; major-general, June 4, 1813 ; lieu-
tenant-general, May 27, 1825 ; and general, Nov.
23, 1841.

Major-General David Macadam, R.M., expired
on Friday, at Edinburgh. The gallant deceased
had been 54 years in the Royal Marines, and
he had greatly distinguished himself in
his professional career. While serving in the
L'Aigle, between August, 1805, and May, 1809, he
was at the attack on the French by Admiral Corn-
wallis on the 21st of August, 1805 ; gunboats in
Vigo Bay, 29th of October following ; the blockade
of Fort t ygo, July and August, 1807 ; action with
the French frigate, off L'Orient, 22d of March,
1808; Basque Roads, 11th and 12th of April, 1809;
and various other affairs in the ship or her boats,
and was 40 times under fire. During service in the
Thames, between the 7th of October, 1809, and
27th of August, 1812, he landed at Mount Coreilly,
Amanthea, Citraco, in the Gulf of Policastro, and
near to Cape Palinuro, and several other places on
the coast of Calabria and in the Roman States. On
board the Forth, from July 31, 1813, to September
29, 1815, he was most actively employed, and was
on the staff of the Anglo-Russian force forming the
siege of Bathz. The gallant general subsequently
served on the North American coast. The deceased
had on repeated occasions been honourably noiiced
in the despatches of his superior officers to the
home government, and is stated to have been above
70 times under fire. His commissions were dated
as follows :—Second lieutenant, April 19, 1805 ;
lieutenant, July 27, 1808; captain, Dec. 7, 1830;
major, Nov. 9, 1846 ; lieutenant-colonel, May 27,
1848 ; colonel, March 14, 1854 ; and major-general,
June 20, 1855.

The Royal Sussex Artillery have received their
order to assemble on the Ist of July at the Redoubt
at Eastbourne for 21 days' training and exercise.
The Royal Anglesey Light Infantry Regiment
has assembled at Beaumaris for 21 days' training
and exercise, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Williams, M.P. A considerable number of recruits
have been enrolled by the adjutant since the
training of last year.

We have been favoured by the Secretary of the
Admiralty with the following report of this unfor-
tunate occurrence :

" (COPY.)
"REPORT OF MR. R. MINDRY, GUNNER.
" H.M.S. Victory, Portsmouth, June 10.
" Sir,—Being the only surviving officer from the
wreck of her Majesty's brig Heron, I have the
honour to report, for the information of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, my proceedings
immediately before the wreck, and. until my arrival
on board this ship.
"On Sunday, the Bth May, I had the first watch
(from fflo 12 p.m.) At nine o'clock the captain
left his order-book with me ; it ran as follows :
Course N.E. by N. Shorten sail on any ap-
pearance of a squall, and call me.' At midnight
I was relieved by Lieut. Porter, of the Trident,
who was taking passage and doing duty. The ship
at the time was under topgallant sail 9, single-reefed
topsails, courses, boom mainsail and fibs ; going
1.8 ; a fine starlight night.
"At five the following morning, of the 9th, I
was thrown out of my bed against the main ladder.
I rushed on deck, caught a rope, which had fallen
to Leeward, and succeeded in getting on the ship's
bottom, where I found a number of men. I imme-
diately called for a knife, when Samuel Handsford,
captain forecastle, cut away the foremast fall of the
weather whale boat. The ship then sunk, leaving
the boat afloat, the after-fall having been cut or
separated, but not known by whom. Twenty-three
men and myself got into the whale boat. After
being in the boat about four minutes I saw a white
speck on the water making towards us. I then
gave orders to keep every one off the boat, as she
was already overcrowded. When the white speck
was within a few feet of the boat I found by the
voice that it was the captain, and instantly took
him in ; the weather at this time was very dark,
and raining heavily.
" The captain was so much exhausted that I
kept charge of the boat for about 40 minutes, when
he, being partially recovered, and his wounds
bound up, took charge.
" When daylight appeared we found the boat's
crutches, and commenced pulling, keeping head to
sea. After about an hour John Waldren, ordinary,
said he saw a sail ahead, which was not visible to
any one else, but we all saw her about a quarter of
an hour afterwards, and reached her at 2 p m. We
were then taken on board the Irlam, a bark of Liver-
pool, from Calabar to Sierra Leone, where we arrived
at noon on the 16th. Capt. Truscott went on board
her Majesty's ship Trident and reported himself;
the Trident's cutter then took us out of the barque.
" On the 19th May we went on board the Ethiope,
African mail steamer, for passage to Liverpool.
" On the 29th May James Kettle, private, Royal
Marines, died ; on the 30th Mr. George Haydon,
boatswain, died ; and on the 3d of June Capt. Trus-
cott died=all of whom were buried at sea.

"We arrived at Liverpool at 6 p.m., yesterday,
the 9th, when Commander Goldfinch forwarded us
on by rail to this ship.
" I annex a list of all the survivors who have
arrived with me-viz.: Alexander Allan, gunner's
mate; James White, quartermaster; George Pin•
horn, quartermaster; Samuel Handsford, captain
forecastle ; James Bartlett, captain afterguard ;
James Waldren, ordinary ; William Windover,
ordinary; James Gifford, ordinary; Richard Hicks,
ordinary; George Ge3ge, ordinary ; John H. Kemp,
ordinary; William Becket, ordinary; Nicholas
Harvey, painter ; Richard Gorey, boy, first class ;
Wm. Miller, drummer; Henry Anderson, private,
R.M.—I have, &c,
" ROBERT MINDRY, Gunner, 3d Class."

"List of Prize Crew belonging to her Majesty's
late brig Heron, left at Sierra Leone, on board her
Majesty's ship Trident :
" Lieutenant Chapman, in charge ; Charles Hors-
pool, captain maintop ; Wm. Rogers, boatswain's
mate (dead) ; John Spencer, leading seaman ;
Thomas Bowsy, A.B. • John Osborne, ordinary ;
John Germain,. ordinary ; William Young,
ordinary ; George Beaver, ordinary ; Reginald
Andrews, ordinary ; Alfred Dibden, ordinary ;
John Treves, boy, second-class ; William Hurst,
private, Royal Marines ; William, Bridgeman,
private, Royal Marines.
" Admiral WM. BOWLES, C. 8.,
" Commander-in-Chief."

THE TWO NEW MARSHALS.

(Rom. Galigithni'a Messenger.)

The following are some particulars of the military
career of the two new Marshals of France :

" Count de M'Mahon (Marie Patrice Maurice)
was born about 1807, at the chateau,of Sully, in the
arrondissemont of Autun. He is descended from
an Irish family, which, after living with distinction
for many centuries in Ireland, risked all for the last
of the Stuart Kings. The M'Mahons, carrying
their national traditions and historic name to France,
mingled their blood by marriage with the old
nobility of their adopted country, and obtained
with the hand of an heiress the magnificent castle
and extensive estates of Sully. The present Gene-
ral's father, the Count de M'Mahon, who was an
officer of high rank, a peer of France, a Grand Cross
of the Order of St. Louis, and a personal friend of
Charles X., espoused a lady of the ducal house of
Caraman, and left four sons and four daughters.
Of that numerous family the youngest is the hero
of Malakoff and Magenta. He was educated partly
at his father's, and partly at the seminary for young
men destined for the priesthood in that city. He
afterwards entered the military school at St. Cyr,
on leaving which, in 1825, he entered the French
military service, and in 1830 joined the army of
Algeria, where he soon distinguished himself alike
by his gallantry and intelligence. After the com-
bat of the Col de Terchia, in which he was the
aide•de-camp to General Archard, the latter said to
him, ' Can you carry to Col. Rullieres, at Blidah,
the order to change his march ? As the mission is
dangerous, I will give you a squadron of light
dragoons as an escort.' The young officer refused
the escort, declaring that it was either too little or
too much, and preferred going alone. On arriving
at about half a mile from Blidah he saw groups
of the enemy's horsemen on each side, as well as
behind him ; but he went firmly on, knowing that
a deep precipice, called the ravine of Blidah, was a
little way in front of him. He there drove his
horse, a high-blooded animal, at the tremendous
chasm, and the animal, without hesitation, sprang
into mid air. The rider held his seat immovably and
escaped unhurt, but was obliged to abandon his
charger, which had its forelegs broken. Not one
of the Arabs ventured to take the desperate leap,
and the young officer reached Blidah in safety.
He rose rapidly through the different grades, and
attained that of General of Brigade in 1848. For
a time he occupied the position of Governor of the
province of Oran, and afterwards of Constantine,
and in 1852 became General of Division. In 1855,
when General Canrobert left the Crimea, General
M'Mahon was selected by the Emperor to succeed
him in the command of a division, and when the
chiefs of the allied armies resolved on assaulting
Sebastopol he had assigned to him the honourable
and perilous post of carrying the works of the
Malakoff. The manner in which he performed that
duty is too fresh in the memory of our readers to
need mention, and his able conduct at the battle of
Magenta has now raised him to the highest rank in
the army. The Marshal married in 1854 Made-
moiselle Elizabeth de Castries, daughter of the
Marquis de Castries, and has by her a son born in
1855."
The following details relate to his companion in
arms :
" Count Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely, com-
manding in chief the Imperial Guard, is the son of
a distinguished officer of the First Empire. He
commenced his military career under that Empire
as sub-lieutenant of the Bth Regiment of Hussars. ,
In that regiment, he made the campaign of Russia,
and was at the battle of Leipzig. Both in the re-
treat from Russia and in the battle his regiment
suffered severely, and it was by a sort of miracle
that he escaped. In 1814 he was attached to the
Imperial staff, and was made a captain by the Em-
peror, for having distinguished himself in presence
of his Majesty before Rheims. On the return of
Napoleon from the Isle of Elba he was nominated
one of his Majesty's orderly officers, and he dis-
played such marked bravery at the battle of
Waterloo that he Was made a Chef d'Escadron
on the field. After the downfall of Napoleon he
was struck out of the army list, but he joined
Colonel Fabvier in his expedition to Greece. In
1830 he was restored to his grade of Chef d'Esca-
dron, and was in 1832 appointed colonel of the Ist
Regiment of Lancers. In 1840 he was made major-
general, and in 1848 general of division. In the
revolution of 1848 he commanded a brigade of
cavalry, and Marshal Bugeaud declared of him that
he stood by the King to the last. In 1849 he com-
manded the troops forming the expedition to
I Rome. Having been elected deputy of the Cha-
rente-Inferieure, he joinedthepartyofthe Emperor.
In 1851 he was for a short time Minister of War.