The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-07 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The ceremony of degrading a non-commissioned
officer by order of a sentence of Court-martial took
place at Chatham on Saturday afternoon last in the
presence of the whole of the officers and men of the
depots attached to the Ist battalion of infantry sta-
tioned at that garrison. The prisoner, an orderly
sergeant, named Clarke, belonging to the depot of
the 32d Light Infantry, had been tried by Court.
martial for breaking out of barracks after the hour
for closing the gates at night, and remaining absent
from his duty all night until the following day,
when he returned and gave himself up. For this
offence the prisoner, who has been a number of
years a non-commissioned officer, was sentenced to
be degraded to the rank and pay of a private sol-
dier, in the presence of the whole of his battalion.
The troops having been drawn up within the for-
tifications, under the command of Col. H. Jervis,
the prisoner was marched into the centre, when the
finding and sentence of the Court were read to the
battalion by the Adjutant, Captain L. Sidebottom,
immediately after which the prisoner's chevrons
were severed from his arms by the Sergeant-major,
and the prisoner marched to the rear of the batta-
lion.

The sailing transport Mary Ann, Capt. Ashby,
arrived at Spithead on Saturdayfrom Auckland,New
Zealand, with the head-quarters of the 58th (Rut-
landshire) Regiment of Foot on board. The Mary
Ann sailed from Auckland on the 20th of Novem-
ber, 1858, and arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 3d of
January, 1859, sailed thence on the 6th of January,
arrived at Fayal on the 20th of February, and
sailed again on the 24th. The following are the offi-
cers and troops qn board :—Major C. W. Thomp-
son, in military command; Captains H. Reynolds,
L. J. Thompson, and G. H. Wynyard ; Lieuten-
ants M. Tighe, J. H. Crosse, A. H. Russell, W. R.
Russell, J. H. R. Harrison, G. Mariner, 0. W.
Hill, and J. A. Tighe; Ensigns H. J. Wynyard
and A. W. M'Crae ; Adjutant Bolton •, Surgeon
Thompson ; Assistant-Surgeons Snell and B. Tydd ;
Quartermaster Slattery, Mrs. Slattery, and four
children ; Mrs. Bolton and one child ; Miss Tighe ;
29 sergeants and 173 rank and file, 15 women and
21 children; one sergeant and five privates (in-
valids), 65th Regiment ; one corporal, Royal Artil-
lery ; one sergeant, Royal Engineers, wife, and two
children. The following passengers also came
home in the ship:—Lieut. Hennes, 65th Regi-
ment ; Mr. and Mrs. Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Marsack,
two children, and servant ; and Mr. J. S. Hickson.
The 58th Regiment commenced embarking for New
South Wales by detachments, acting as convict
guards in 1843. The head-quarters, under Major
Bridge, sailed for Sydney in May, 1844, and, after
being stationed a few months at Parramatta, were
ordered to proceed at a moment's notice to New
Zealand early in 1845, in consequence of certain of
the tribes in the northern district having risen in
arms against the British authority, destroying the
European settlement Korveorika, and obliging the
inhabitants to fly for safety to Auckland, the capital.
After various engagements, with heavy loss in pro-1
portion to the numbers engaged (amounting in
killed and wounded to one-fourth of the regi-
ment), it underwent considerable hardships from
the unprepared state in which the troops
were compelled to take the field. The insur-
rection was finally suppressed by the
on the
capture of Kawiti's Pah, or stockade,
of January, 1846, when the regiment was com-
manded by Col. Wynyard, and for which services
he received the Companionship of the Bath. The
regiment returned to New South Wales in 1846, at
the close of the insurrection, and was again in
1847, ordered to New Zealand where it remained
until its embarkation for England. That its ser-
vices were fully appreciated by the colony was
amply manifested both on the occasion ofolonel
Wynyard's departure and on the embarkation
Colonel
Wynyard's
land
of
_ at
the regiment for England. The 58th will and
Portsmouth this day and proceed to-morrow by rail
via Liverpool for Ireland (Camp, Curragh of Kil-
dare.)

A DERELICT VESSEL.—A letter from Galway,
dated Wednesday, says :—" A vessel, name unknown, has
been picked up by two trawlers of this port, belonging to
Mr. Peter Sweney. The vessel seems to have been
homeward bound irom America, supposed from St.
John's, New Brunswick. She is laden with white deal. She
is a total wreck, having lost her mainmast ; she is bound in
seven places by chains, apparently done by the crew, who
must have stood by her until she became a wreck; her stern
is completely taken away, and therefore no trace has been
got of her name or where she belongs to. She is altogether
invisible, with the exception of her bulwarks and mast, all
the hull and deck being- submerged in water. The trawler
men who took her say she was knocking about outside of the
Black Head when they fell in with her, when they made
several attempts to board, but were unsuccessful. At length
they got a ropo fastened to her bows, and hauled her into
the bay, having a fair wind. They were then joined by a
second trawl, the property of the same owner, who at once
got out a hawser and gave every assistance to the first boat.
The steamship Vesper was got under weigh on the fact
being made known to the Steam Superintendent, Captain
Thomson, who proceeded to assist in the towing of her
down the bay. They were accompanied by a number of
men, belonging to the Antelope steamer, now in our dock,
who were taken to lend a hand ;' but on their approach
to the vessel they were warned off by the men who had
found the vessel,
and who brandished'hatchets, boathooks,
and handspikes Ina most determined manner, not being
aware that the Vesper did not go to take the vessel, but
merely to give her a tow into shallow water.),