The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

N.4.-47a and tigit9zy Intelligence.

Major-General the Earl of Cardigan has arrived
n Dublin for the purpose of inspecting the Bth
Hussars and the 17th Lancers, previous to embar-
kation for India.
A letter from Malta, dated. Sept. 25, says :
"It is satisfactory to find that the Government
at home have at length determined to despatch
troops across the Isthinus of Suez. Orders have
been received by the Lieut.-General Commanding
to place two companies of the 37th Regiment in
readiness to embark by the next packet which con-
veys the outward India mail to Alexandria. The
destination of this vanguard of British troops is
stated to be Aden, and it is said that it will be fol-
lowed soon afterwards by the other companies of
the regiment."
The 4th company of Royal Engineers, under the
command of Brevet-Major L.
,Nicholson, and the
11th company, commanded by Capt. C. E. Cum-
berland, will leave head-quarters, Brompton Bar•
racks, Chatham, at an early hour this morning for
Southampton, for the purpose of proceeding over-
land to India. An immense quantity of sapping
and mining implements, intrenching tools, and
other materials required by this branch of the ser-
vice, with photegraphie apparatus, batteries, &a,
was forwarded yesterday and the previous day -by
the 'Royal Engineer train from the- stores at
Bromptoa to Southampton, to be shipped for
India, to arrive with the Royal Engineers. The
Sappers and Miners are also provided with a
number of the newly-invented portable indiarubber
boats, for the purpose of transporting the officers
and men across the rivers of India, and the
utmost care has been paid by the authorities at the
head-quarters toprovide the officers and men with
everything they may require for carrying on the
campaign in India. The 10th company, under the
command of Capt. A. A'Court Fisher, and the 21st,
under that of Capt. G. Neville, are both ready to
embark at an hour's notice. Both these companies
will probably embark for India next week. The fol-
lowing are the officers of the staff proceeding to
India—Lt.-Col. H. D. Harness, in command; Capt.
F. E. Cox, adjutant; and Lieut. F. E. B. Beaumont,
acting quartermaster. some alterations have been
made in the list of officers ordered to India, and the
following are now under orders for embarkation :
Lieut. J. B. Edwards, Lieut. G. Langley, Lieut.
P. H. Scratchley, Lieut. J. B. Magnay, Lieut.
W. B. Gossett, Lieut. J. Wilson, Lieut. J. M. H.
Maitland, Lieutenant E. B. Festing, Lieutenant C.
E. Wynne, Lieutenant A. Thaine, Lieutenant J.
Swetenham, Lieutenant D. C. Walker, Lieutenant
J. B. Paterson, and Lieut. W. Keith, nearly the
whole of whom go out as supernumeraries.
Yesterday the troops belonging to the Indian
depots at Chatham Garrison were formed into three
battalions. Each of the battalions will have a
separate staff, and will have 10 depots attached to
it, numbering in the aggregate 2,000 men of all
ranks ; the united strength of the depots at Chat-
ham will thus be kept up to 6,000 men, intended.
as a reserve for the corps serving in India. The
staff of each battalion has been arranged as fol-
lows :-Ist battalion, Commandant, Colonel H.
Jervis ; Major, H. D. Ellis ; Staff-Capt tin Brevet-
Major H. Jackson ; Instructor of Musketry,
Brevet-Major W. Radcliff ; Paymaster, W. Sum-
merfield ; Quartermaster J. Menzies ; Surgeon,
A. Maclean, M.D. The Ist battalion will oc-
cupy the Chatham Barracks, and will consist
of the depots of the 7th Fusiliers, 24th, 27th
Enniskillen.., 32d, 35th, • 53d, 70th, 75tb,
81st, 84th, and 95th. 2d batt alien, Command-
ant, Colonel R. N. Phillips ; Major A. Wombwell ;
Adjutant, Captain R. Roney ; Paymaster, Capt. E.
Griffiths ; Quartermaster W. McKay. The 2d bat-
talion includes the depots of the Bth, 10th, 20th,
and 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers, 29th and 52d Light
Infantry, 61st, 82d, and 87th Royal Irish Fusileers,
90th Light Infantry, and 98th, the whole of which
will occupy Chatham Barracks. The 3d battalion
depots are quartered in the huts and Brampton
Barracks.. The following is the staff:—Comman-
dant, Lieut.-Col. C. Eltnhirst; Major, D. G. A.
Darrock ; Adjutant, Capt. W. Daunt ; Instructor
of Musketry, Capt. W. Nott ; Paymaster, C. S.
Naylor; Quartermaster, W. Goldby; and Surgeon,
E. W. T. Mandeville, M.D. The depots attached
to the 3d battalion are the 19th, 431 Light Infan-
try, 51st ditto, 64th, 83d, and 86th. The officers
and men of the 60th Rifles, 74th, and 78th are also
attaehld to the 3d battalion until required for em-
barkation for India.
Ganeral Williams, Commandant of the Artillery
At Woolwich, yt s'erday morning visited the Royal
Marine gnu-drill battery, commanded by Captain
McArthur, Royal Marine Artillery. Captain
M'Arthur, who was on' duty at the bat-
tery, requested permission to put his men
through a course of manoeuvres, which the General
consented to witness, and which occupied nearly an
hour. Col. Brown and the whole body of available
officers belonging to the corps were promptly in at-
tendance. At the close of the proceedings the Ge-
neral expressed his gratification to Col. Brown, and
complimented Capt. M'Arthur on'the success which
had attended his exertions.
Arrangements were yesterday entered into at the
Artillery quarters, Woolwicb, fur the reception of
400 men of the Oxford Militia, who are to arrive
in the garrison to-day (Friday),
.to do duty until
further orders. About 400 men of the 10th bat-
talion Royal Artillery at Woolwich commenced
passing medic cl examination preparatory to being
despatched for service in India and are ex-
pected to follow shortly after the departure of
Captain Thring's and Captain Calvert's companies
by the overland roue via Southampton and Alex-
andria. "The sailing troop ship Spitfire,. Cap-
tain Williams, recently arrived at Woolwich
from Nova Scotia, hauled off the pier yesterday,
having been ordered to proceel to Liverpool
in the rervice of the Government.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Ardent, having un-
dergone considerable repairs at Woolwich, yester-
day got up steam in basin to try her machinery,
which was found to work satisfactorily.
The freight ship New Great Brit tin, in the Lon-
don Docks, is to commence to-da3 asmbarking mili-
tary Stores from Woolwich for Hong Kong.
Her Majesty's steam store-ship Industry, Mr. G.
J. Hodges, Master,-R N., commanding, arrived at
Spithead
_yesterday morning froin the coast of Africa.
She left Ascension on Aug. 21, at which date there
were her Majesty's ships Castor, 36, with the flag of
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, K. 0.13. ;
the Scourge paddle sloop, with the broad pendant
of Commodoz e Adams ; and the Tortoise, 12, Capt.
Seymour, stationary ship. The Admiral in the Cas-
tor, accompanied by the Scourge, was about to sail
for the Bights, to inspect the African squadron. The
Vesuvius, Commodore Wise, left Ascension Aug. the
19th for the coast of Africa. The Industry has ex-
perienced contrary winds and calms the whole of
the passage from Ascension to England. The fol
lowing vessels have bsen fallen in with :—Sept. 1,
Ist, 11.50 N., long. 23.19 W., the Sarah Sands,
screw steamer ; Sept. 6, 9.30 p.m., arrived at the
Island of St. Vincent's , the screw steamer City of
Manchester ; Sept. 18, arrived at Madeira the
screw eteamer. Scotia, both with troops for India ;
Sept. 20, lat. 23.36 N., long. 17.30. W.. the Eng-
lish merchant ship Wm. de Lannoy ; Sept. 24, lat.
40.3, lone. 11.24 W., the Dutch brig Willi Bror-
dos ; Sept. 20, 7 a.m., the screw steamer Powerful
arrived at Madeira.

Vice-Admiral of the Red John B. Purvis died
yesterday at his residence, Gosport, in the 71st
year •of his age. He was a magistrate and deputy-
lieutenant of the county; of Hants, and a gallant
and „distinguished officer, as the following brief
epitome of his services will show :—He was a lieu-
tenant of the Driver sloop and in her boats at the
capture of a Spanish privateer of 14 guns and 60
men ; be commanded the Delight sloop in the expe-
dition to Naples and the capture of the islands of
IF,chia, and Precida ; he served as a volunteer at the
siege of Cadiz on board the Atlas, 74, commanded
by his father in 1820, and was captain of the Gany-
mede, in co-operation with the Patriot, on the coast
of Catalonia, particularly atlthe siege of Tarragona
and destruction of the Coll de Ballaguer. By his
death the following prometions will take place on
the flag list :

Vice-Admiral of the White Edward Harvey to
be Vice-Admiral of the Fed.

Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Right Hon. Sir E.
M. Lyons, Bart., G.C.B. (Brevet Admiral) to be
Vice-Admiral of the W bite.

Rear-Admiral of the Red Henry W. Bruce to be
Vice-Admiral of tho Blue.

Rear-Admiral of the White Henry Eden, fourth
Lord of the Admiralty, to lie Rear-Admizal of the
Red.

Rear-Admiral of the Blue Christopher Wyvill to
be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captains Brunswick Popham, Thos. Ogle, Geo.
Evans, John Ila.cket, and Julius J. F. Newell, to
be Rear-Admirals on the reserved half-pay list.
Capt. Frederick Bullock is tobe Rear-Admiral of
the Blue.

The Bahiana screw steamship arrived at Ports-
mouth ye-terclay from Liverpool to embark the
head-quarters of the 98th Regiment for India.
The Leopard. 18, paddle steam frigate, Captain
Wainwfighr, left Spith9ad yesterday for the West
Indies.

The Cyclops, 6, steam frigate, Capt. Pullen, was
unlocked yesterday at Portsmouth, and will be
taken out of the steam-basin to-day, refitted.
Commodore C. Eden, Controller of the Coast-
guard, visited Portsmouth district yesterday.
- We learn by the British and Irish Magnetic Tele-
graph that the Liverpool, New York, and Phila-
delphia Steamship Co.'s steamship Bosphorog
arrived at Queenstown yesterday afternoon from St.
'Vincent, Cap& de Verdes, to which port she went

with-coals for that company's steamer City- of Man-
chester for Calcutta. The Bosphorus left St. Vin
cant on the 10th ult., and bas returned borne
chiefly under canvass. The steamer City of Man-
chtater, with the Ist Dragoon Guards and 150 men
of the 54th Regiment, in all 700 men, reached St.
Vincent on the 6th, after a rapid run of 10 days
from England, the fastest passage yet made by any
transport, and, after coaling, lett for Ceylon direct
on the Bth ult. Up to the 10th Sept. no other
transports had called at St. Vincent.
Commander R. Studdert, R.N., has received the
silver medal awarded by the Board of Trade for
gallant conduct in saving life at sea.
Mr. Thompson has been appointed Master of
Greenwich Hospital.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty:—

The Rev. J. Miner, chaplain, to the Welling-
ton ; W. P. Braund, master, to the Urgent ; C. D.
Steel, staff surgeon, to the Portsmouth division of
Royal Marines ; H. M'lnvoy, midshipman, to the
Diadem.