The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief has appointed a Commission to consider
and report on the nature of the stores, &c., and the
proportion thereof, which should be transmitted to
China for service of her Majesty's troops, about to
serve in that country. The Commission comprises
tho following distinguished and able officers—viz.,
the Quartermaster. General, Major-General Sir R.
Airey, K.C.8., Commander of the Legion of Honour,
Commander First Class of the Military Order of
Savoy, and Second Class of the Medjidie, who served
most successfully throughout the Eastern campaign
of 1854-55. The Military Inspector of Army Cloth-
ing, Col. C. B. Daubeney, C. 8., Knight of the
Legion of Honour, and Fourth Class of the Medjidie;
who served with the 55th Regiment in the Coorg
campaign, East Indies, in 1834, and was present at
the assault and capture of the stockade of Kissen-
hully, and at the attack on the stockade of Soam-
warpettah. He also served during the Chinese
war of 1841-42; commanded the Light Company at
the repulse of the enemy's night attack at Chinhae,
and at the storm and capture of Chapoo ; served on
the staff as Major of Brigade to Sir J. Schoedde, at
Woosung, Shanghai, and Chinkiangfoo ; and ulti-
mately in the Eastern campaign of 1854, being pre-
sent at the battles of Alma and Inkermann, the
siege of Sebastopol, and the repulse of the sortie of
26th October. The Director-General of the Army
Medical Department, Dr. T. Alexander, C. 8., who
served with the 60th Rifles in the Kaffir war of
1851-53, and was
principal medical officer of the
expedition across the Kei in 1851 ; proceeded with
the first troops of the Eastern army to Gallipoli,
and was present throughout the campaign of 1854-
55, as also at the affair of Bulganac, battles of Alma
and Inkermann, capture of Balakhva, siege and
fall of Sebastopol, sortie on the 26th of October,
assaults of the Medan on the 18th of June and Bth
of September, and was principal medical officer
of the Kutch Expedition, for all of which ser-
vices he was made a Knight of the Legion of
Honour. Commissary- General- in - Chief John
William Smith, C. 8., who is a Knight of the
Legion of Honor, and a distinguished public offi-
cer. The Commission held its first sitting, on the
20th ult., at the Horse Guards, in pursuance of in-
structions received to that effect; but as yet nothing
definite has been decided on in consequence of the
absence from town of Mr. Sidney Herbert, her Ma-
jesty's Secretary of State for War.
•
In accordance with orders received at the head-
quarters
of the Royal Engineers, Chatham, from
the Horse Guards, a number of Royal Sappers and
Miners have been selected to proceed to Hongkong,
for the purpose of reinforcing
men selectedoo:.
the companies of
Royal Engineer:, now serving in China, the Bth and
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fitted for fo
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opera-
tions fr
10th companies having been very much reduced by
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no other casualties:
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every
tions in which they are likely to be engaged, the
whole of them having gone tl • h
ling a regular
course of instruction to sapping and in'ning the
construction of field works and • •
pontooning ; in ad-
dition to which they have all been instructed in the
use of the Laneastu rills so as to make them effi-
cient marksmen with that weapon. The officer
selected to embark in command of the detachment
is Lieut. F. W. Clements, R.E., who has joined
head quarters, Brompton Barracks, in readiness for
embarkation.

Yesterday the general inspection of the Indian
depots, composing the Ist and 2d battalions of in-