The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-27 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The Himalaya screw troopship, Commander J.
Seccombe, will embark at Portsmouth on the 2d
proximo for conveyance to Quebec, the following
officers, men, women, and children of the Royal
Artillery-2 officers, 11 men, 2 officers' wives, and
3 officers' children. At Quebec she will embark
the 39th Regiment, consisting of 39 officers and
840 men, for conveyance to Bermuda, to relieve the
26th Regiment, which returns to England in the
Himalaya.
The Albuera, hired troop ship, Captain Tanner,
anchored in Cowes Roads on Thursday evening
from Calcutta, and arrived at Spithead at three
p.m., yesterday. She has the following troops on
board :—The head-quarters of the gallant 32d
(Cornwall) Light Infantry, Lieut-Col. W. Bell, in
command ; Capt. IL Priestly and lady ; Capt. W.
Knox ; Lients. J. Strachan, J. Garforth, J. T. Gray,
and S. B. Noble • Ensign W. T. Goad; Adjutant
and Lieutenant S. Stabb, Surgeon W. Boyd ; 5
staff sergeants, 16 sergeants, 16 corporals, 6 buglers,
and 245 privates, 10 women, and 18 children. The
baggage was landed by steam tug from the Albuera
last evening, and the troops will be disembarked
this morning and proceed, by rail to Shorncliffe
Camp. The glorious deeds of the 32d at the de-
fence of Lucknow, and their sufferings in common
with the remainder of the garrison, during the
period of that memorable siege, are far too deeply
impressed on the minds of their countrymen to
need any repetition of their services at our
hands. Dr. Boyd, who has come in medical
charge, was at the Residency throughout
the eventful time. Since the suppression of the
rebellion he has been to England on sick leave to
recruit his shattered health, and arrived in Calcutta,
on his return from leave, only three days before the
Albuera's sailing for England, when he again re-
sumed medical charge of his old companions in
arms. The Albuera left the Sand-heads for Eng-
land on the 27th of March last ; thence to the Bay
of Bengal had light winds and calms. Off the Cape
of Good Hope had strong westerly gales for 27
days; was at anchor at the Cape seven days. On
the 27th July was 400 miles S.W. of Corvo and
Flores, since which time had experienced nothing
but light easterly winds and calms.
The funeral of Assist.-Surg. Arthur Henry Taylor,
attached to the Medical Staff of the Royal H Arse
Artillery, was yesterday performed at Woolwich
with the full military honours due to his rank. The
death of the deceased took place at Chelsea, whence
his body had been removed to Woolwich for sepul-
ture in fulfilment of his own request. The distin-
guished career of the deceased during his period of
service in the Russian campaign was on various
occasions notified, in his despatches to Government,
by Major-General Sir Richard Dacres, at present
commanding the garrison of Woolwich. On Wed-
nesday a general notification in garrison orders was
issued for the arrangement of the funeral, at which
the whole of the officers were invited to attend.
The burial bad been arranged to take place on
Thursday at 2 o'clock, but it was necessarily deferred
till yesterday. At 11 a.m. the coffin, containing the
body, was brought forth from the Hospital (where
it had been temporarily deposited) by six gunners
of the Royal Artillery, heroes of the Crimean war,
who bad solicited
that duty as a chlefultributtheititor
-him, whom, under Providence, they impute
recovery from severe anddangerous wounds incurred