The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The Government, on the recommendation of the
General Commanding-in-Chief, having directed
that the head=quarters of the Royal Artillery shall
remain, as heretofore, at Woolwich, but that the
Staff of the battalions shall be distributed to the
several districts and garrisons at home and abroad,
as detailed in The Sun of yesterday, under the
terms " Brigade" and " Battery," the regimental
Staff of the existing battalions will form brigades
bearing corresponding numbers, and will proceed
in the early part of June, in the first instance, to
the stations already named as head-quarters. The
depot brigade at Woolwich will supersede the pre-
sent Adjutant's and Field Battery detachments at
oolwich, to which the Regimental Staff of the
field batteries will be transferred, and will recruit
for foreign service brigades. The reliefs will be
carried on by entire brigades.
Major-General Sir W. F. Williams, commanding
the garrison, yesterday assembled the whole of the
forces under his command for general parade and
inspection on Woolwich-common in heavy marching
order. The corps of Royal Marines were com-
manded by Col. Stransham, Commandant ; the
Queen's Royal Rifles, the Antrim Militia, by the
Marquis of Donegal ; the Royal Horse Brigade, by
Col. Philpotts ; the various brigades of Artillery by
the respective officers in charge; and the Military
Train, by Col. Erskine. They were drawn up in
double line, extending the entire length of the
review ground, when the General and Staff, who
proceeded to the inspection at 11 a.m., rode up and
down the lines, and retired to the front. The troops,
preceded by the Royal Horse Brigade, defiled in a
single line, and marched past four abreast. Having
performed a slight series of field evolutions they
retired to quarters. The Royal Horse Brigade then
went through a course of active gunnery exercise,
firing blank ammunition. Before leaving the ground
the General intimated to the officers commanding
his perfect satisfaction at the general clean and
orderly bearing and appearance of each corps.
The East India troopship Merchantman, Com-
mander Brown, arrived at Gravesend yesterday, 110
days out from Calcutta, having on board a large
number of sick and wounded troops, who have been
invalided home in consequence of having been
wounded or otherwise disabled at Cawnpore, Luck-
now, and Delhi. The troops embarked at Calcutta
on the 27th December last, and sailed on the 29th
of the same month; the Merchantman touched at the
Cape of Good Hope on the 14th February, where
several passengers were taken on board, including
Assistant-Surgeon E. P. Forrest, late of the screw
steam sloop Wasp, 13—and sailed on the 19th Feb.,
the passage to the Thames being a very tedious one,
caused chiefly by calms and adverse winds. The num-
ber of sick and wounded troops who embarked was
153 of all ranks, five women, and 14 children, be-
longing to the 2d (Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 7th
Hussars, 9th Lancers, sth (Fusiliers), 6th, Bth (the
King's), 13th (Light Infantry), 19th, 20th, 23d
(Royal Welsh Fusiliers), 29th, 34th, 35th, 37th, 38th,
and 42d (Royal Highlanders), 43d (Light In-
fantry), 53d, 54th, 60th (Rifles), 64th, 73d, 77th,
79th (Highlanders) 82d, 84th, 88th (Connaught
Rangers), 90th (Light Infantry), 93d (Highlanders),
and 97th Regiments, the Rifle Brigade, Royal Ar-
tillery, Royal Engineers, and Military Train, the
whole under the command of Lieut. H. Helsham,
53d Regiment, and Lieut. S. Johnstone, 20th Regi-
ment, and in medical charge of Dr. Fosbroke, civil
surgeon. During the voyage Mrs. Brown, the wife
of the captain, died, and 13 of the invalid troops,
including one man of the Military Train, one of the
sth Fusiliers, one of the 13th Light Infantry, two
of the 23d. Welsh Fusiliers, two of the 37th Regi-
ment, two of the 43d Light Infantry, one of the 53d
Regiment, two of the 73d Regiment, and one of the
90th Light Infantry. The troops, after disembark-
ing at Gravesend, were immediately conveyed to
Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, wh ere they were medi-
cally inspected by Surgeon-Major J. S. Prender-
gast, M.D., when it was found necessary for 46 men,
who are still suffering from the effects of their
wounds, to be admitted into hospital ; the remain-
der were forwarded to St. Mary's invalid depot to
await their inspection by a Chelsea Board. Many
of the troops are suffering from severe wounds re-
ceived at Cawnpore and Lucknow, where nearly
the whole of the troops, with the exception of the
Bth Foot, served under Lord Clyde. The Bth were
at the assault of Delhi, where they suffered severely.
A number of the men have lost an arm from musket
wounds.