The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Major-General Slade, late commandant of the
camp at Colchester, left on Friday afternoon for
Guernsey, where he has received a command; Col,
Bloomfield, the gallant General's successor at Col-
chester, has assumed the command of the camp.
General Frederick Chas. White, one of the oldest
Generals in the army, being the fourth in seniority
on the list of general officers, died on Friday last.
The deceased General was for many years in the
Grenadier Guards, and in 1793 was appointed
Brigade-Major to the Guards employed in the cam-
paign in Flanders, and was present at the sieges of
Valenciennes and Dunkirk, and at the action and
storming of Lincelles. His commissions bore deo
as follows :—Ensign, Feb. 19, 1781 ; Lieutenant,
Dec. 30, 1782 ; Captain, May 6, 1783 ; Major, Jan.
1, 1794; Lieut.-Colonel, Sept. 5, 1796 ; Colonel,
Jan. 1, 1805 ; Major-General, July 25,1810 ; Lieut.-
General, Aug. 12, 1819 ; and General, Jan. 10,
1837.
The following detachments will embark for the
Cape of (Sood Hope on board the screw steam troop-
ship Perseverance, Commander Power, reported
ready for sea at Portsmouth, about the 10th inst. :
—From Portsmouth—Royal Artillery-1 officer,
68 men, 2 soldiers' wives, and 4 children ; Ist Bat-
talion 2d Foot-1 field officer, 2 ladies, 4 children
and 2 female servants, 6 soldiers' wives and 5 chil-
dren ; 85th Foot-1 man • Cape Rifles-1 man;
Royal Engineers-1 soldier's wife and 3 children ;
St. Helena Regiment-3 men and 1 soldier's wife ;
Staff-1 surgeon. From Pembroke-85th Foot-
-5 officers, 104 men, 4 soldiers' wives, and 4 children.
From Queenstown-59th Foot-5 officers, 1 lady, 2
children, 2 female servants, 174 men, 48 soldiers'
wifes, 47 children, and 1 schoolmaster.
A very handsome timepiece has been presented to
Quartermaster M. Bradford, Royal Engineers,
Chatham, the hon. secretary of the Central Associa-
tion for Relieving the Wives of Soldiers and Sailors
on Foreign Service, by the wives and widows of
soldiers and sailors at Chatham, as a mark of their
gratitude to him for his humane conduct towards
them in connection with the association. Since the
association has been in existence at Chatham it has
been the means of effecting a vast amount of good
among the class for whose benefit it was established
by bringing them up to habits of industry, so as to
prevent their becoming a burden upon others. This
association has at the present time upwards of 200
women under its protection, all of whom are work-
ing at industrial employments, and paid out of the
funds. The affairs are conducted by the Rev. A.
Fielding, chaplain of Chatham dockyard, and the
Rev. D. Cooke, assisted by a committee of the wives
of the officers of the garrison, consisting of Mrs.
(Col.) Sandham, - Mrs. (Capt.) Goldsmith, Mrs.
(Col.) Phillips, Mrs. (Col.) Gascoigne, Mrs. (Col.)
Williams, Mrs. (Major) Buckley, and Mrs. Fielding.

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