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

THE ARMY.

The military invalids belonging to the 59thRegt.
from China, and the regiments now at the Cape of
Good Hope. who arrived at Portsmouth in the
troopship Lord Raglan, reached Fort Pitt, Chat-
ham, on Tuesday evening, from Portsmouth. The
number of men who arrived at Chatham was about
300 of all ranks.

The companies of Royal Engineers now at
headquarters, Chatham, were assembled on their
parade ground at Brompton - barracks on
Tuesdayafternoon, for the purpose of hearing read
the sentence of a district court-martial passed
en a man of extremely bad character, Sapper Jas.
Lloyd, who was tried for desertion under very ag-
gravated circumstances. The prisoner joined the
Royal Engineers in the early part of 1858, and
after receiving the high bounty usually paid to re-
cruits in that branch of the service almost imme-
diately deserted. He then enlisted into the 60th
Rifles, where he defrauded the Government of an-
other bounty. While in the 60th Rifles the pri-
soner was tried for using threatening language to
a non-commissioned officer, and on being sentenced
,wi
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placed" D , "
underto be
for that crime gave
the Royal Engineers. He was again tried, and
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he was stoppages until the amount of which he had de-
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enlisting. again into another corps, for the
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him guilty, and sentenced him
sonment, and the
and
dreoene icia•
sentence
to 112 days' impri-
ence of the district court-
martial having been confirmed by Major-General
Eyre, it was read in
the
presence of the prisoner,
who was immediately
marched off to undergo his
punishment.

-
DUNCOMBE, M.P.—Yesterday this gentle-
man personally waited upon many of his leading supporters
in the late contest, in order to convince them of his being
still alive, a report having obtained extensive currency that
he had died very suddenly immediately he had been declared
elected. Indeed so far was the report of his decease be-
lieved that proceedings were taken to get up requisitions
to several gentlemen to offer themselves as candidates for
the representation of the borough in place of Mr. Dun-
combe.

NATIONAL DE8T.—X79,311,563 is the gross total
amount of the sums received by the Commissioners for the
Reduction of the Public Debt on account of savings-bsn"
and friendly societies from August, 1817, to November,
1858. The gross amount of all sums pa.id to the trustees
was was £40,939,473. The Commissioners in the year .riesN,
granted X 71,197 immediate, and 011 in
.aanti•
The total stock at the account of the Military Swamp-bolt
on the 6th of January last was £286,120.

OY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
'Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical
play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.

THE A TRE-R Y AL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckatone.
THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original
Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AlciD THE STAGE. The
characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far-
ren, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwick, &c.
After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled
ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs.
Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright,
Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq.
And 'TWAS I.