The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-07 00:00:00

TILE NAVY.

Her Majesty's Royal yacht Victoria and Albert
engine disabled, from the
arrived at Portsmouth early yesterday morning
Cap. Arthu
from Ai:twerp with one
getting ashore, as reported in The Sun of
yesterday.
The Emerald, 51, screw fri
Cumming, was taken out of No.ate,
.7 dockt at Ports-
r
mouth yesterday.
The Himalaya iron steam troopship, Co:umander"
S. Seccombe, proceeded yesterday.kom PortOnouth
to Keyham, for the purpose of being docked.
The Magnet, hired steamer, sailed from Ports--
mouth for Guernsey with a battery of Royal Artil-

lery.
Her Majesty's ship Rhadamanthus, Master Com-
mander Sturdee, from Portsmouth, was yesterday
received :into the basin at Woolwich to reload
with machinery for the West. She is to be fitted
with a new piston rod, and will undergo some re-
pairs of machinery prior to her next voyage.
The hired transport Rattler, James Wallis com-
mander, embarked on Saturday,'at Woolwich pier,
1 medical officer, 13 men, 3 women, and 4 children,
belonging to the 100th (Canadian) Rifle Regiment,
and is to sail this (Tuesday) morning from Wool-
wich, calling at Cork to embark 10 officers, 124
men, 4 'women, and 2 children belonging to the 17th
and 39th Regiments, for Montreal and Quebec. The
Rattler is freighted with a general cargo and guns
and war stores from Woolwich.
Commander C. E. Sidebottom (1855) has been
appoiniNl inspecting commander of the Coast Guard,
vice Smythe, whose period of service has expired.
The Royal Rad-
nor Rifles will assemble for train-
ing on Tuesday, the 14th inst., under the command
of Major L. H. Peel.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Lieutenants—W. P. Pauli, J. M. Morris, C. R. Ma-
berley, Henry S. Vaughan, and A. J. V Collins, to the
Excellent ; R. P. Fitzgerald, to the Emerald ; F. H.
Hastings, to the Edgar; A. G. Bogle, to the Excellent.
The undersigned mates have been promoted to rank of
lieutenant :—C. W. S. Blount, and A. C. Adams.

THE AlfllY.

`4l,
Yesterday the sick and wounded troops who were
brought home from India in her Majesty's steamer
Simoom, 8, Commander J. M. Cooke, which arrived
at Chatham Dockyard on Saturday afternoon, were
medically inspected at Fort Pitt Hospital. The
number of men who embarked at Bombay was 260
of all ranks, belonging to the 3d (Prince of Wales's)
Dragoon Guards, 6th Enniskillen Dragoom, Bth
Hussars, 17th Looters, Royal Horse Artillery,
Royal Engineers, Military Train, 4th (King's Own)
18th (Royal Irish), 33d (Duke of Wellington's),
51st (Light Infantry), 57th, 64th, 66th, 71st High-
landers), 83d, 89th, 92d (Highlanders), and 95th
Regiment. The voyage from Bombay. to Chatham
Dockyard, including detentions, occupied 124 days,
the Simoom steaming a portion of the time, but
being detained at the Mauritius, the Cape of Good
Hope, and St. Vincent. During the passage 13
deaths' occurred on board. The invalid troops, who
were under the command of Capt. J. S. Malony,
83d Regiment, and in medical charge of Assistant-
Surgeon E. C. Ryall, 86th Regiment, were, on land-
ing at the dockyard, removed to Fort Pitt, where
64 were admitted into hospital for medical and
surgical treatment, and the remainder sent to St.
Mary's invalid depot to await their diocharge. The
Adder and Myrtle steamers were emp2eyed in
bringing the troops ashore from the Simoom.
• Yesterday afternoon the troops who arrived at
Portsmouth from India, in the ill-fated Eastern
Monarch, were forwarded to Chatham from Ports-
mouth. On reaching Strood junction, the troops
were medically inspected by the staff from Fort
Pitt, when those who had received injuries or were
suffering from illness were forwarded to that esta-
blishment for treatment, and the remainder con-
veyed to St. Mary's barracks, where they will be
inspected by a Chelsea board. A great deal of
mpathy is felt for the unfortunate troops by the
Eastern Monarch, as, in addition to several of them
having received injuries from the burning ship,
nearly the whole of them have lost all they pos-
sessed, in many cases the savings of a number of
years.
Eight soldiers, who arrived in Portsmouth by the
Eastern Monarch, were left behind in the hospital,
whose sickness had no connection with the loss of
the ship, Six men have remained owing to their
having wives and children in the hospitals suffering
from burns and contusions ; one woman, Mrs.
Walsh, the wife of Private D. Walsh, with her
three children being all four dreadfully burnt. The
actual loss of life from the destruction of the ship
appears to be seven. Private William Foster, 52d
Foot, died soon after being brought on above, :from
immersion in the water. Mrs. Hill, wife of Pri-
vate Thomas Hill, of the 52d Foot, also died soon
after being brought on shore. Four children—one
who died from suffocation at the time of the explo-
sion, one died in Haslar Hospital from burns, and
two who died on board the ship from the effects of
the explosion, and whose bodies were not recovered.
One private soldier, C. Barry, 70th Regiment, who
is returned as " missing," is supposed to have been
drowned in leaving the ship. A subscription has
been opened for the relief of the unfortunate suf-
ferers by the military authorities, and also by the
inhabitants of Portsmouth.
The detachments of the Grenadier and Coldstream
Guards, which left for ball practice at Aldershott a
few weeks since returned to barracks and joined
their respective battalions on Friday and Saturday
last.
Major-General Sir Richard Dacres; K.C.8., com-
manding the garrison at Woolwich, on the assump-
tion of his post yesterday paraded the corps of
Royal Artillery on Woolwich-common. The Horse
Artillery, together with the field and siege
brigades, were drawn up in heavy marching order,
in charge of the various commanding officers, at 10
o'clock, when the General, accompanied by his
Aide-de-Camp, Brevet Major W. E. Moyses Reilly,
C. 8., and the garrison Staff, rode up to the ground
and made a careful inspection of the line. After
the inspection the troops marched past, the Foot
Artillery in advance, retiring to quarters. The
mounted corps were then put through a heavy
course of gun and waggon drill. The General sub-
sequently proceeded to a survey of the barrack
quarters, and the various establishments within his
jurisdiction. During his progress through the
garrison his attention was continually arrested by
recognizing the old familiar faces of niell who had