The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.)
The 72d, or Albany Highlanders, under Lieut.-Colonel
Lord A. Lennox, by the Resistance, troop-ship, from
Cork, were landed at Gibraltar, on the 13th December,
and played into barracks by the bands of the Ist, 7th,
38th, and 79th, to the tune of " Auld lang syne."
The third and last division of the 67th, under Major
Orange, has landed in Dublin from Woolwich.
Captain Stokes's company, 6th Battalion Royal Artil-
lery, has embarked at Cork for Bristol, en route to
Woolwich.
Major Harrison's company of Royal Artillery has
embarked at Kingstown for Cork, and arrived yesterday
per Dee steamer.
The troops ordered to O'Brien's-bridge, Silvermines,
Castle Connell, Cappaghmore, Cloghjordan, Borriso-
leigh, are countermanded for the present.
The detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards, ordered
to march for Killaloe and Nenagh, is countermanded for
the present.
Assistant-Surgeon Stack, 23d depot, Cork, is on leave
of absence to the 31st December.

Colonel Chatterton, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards, and Mrs. Chatterton, left the Rev. Richard
Dickson's yesterday, fur Cahir.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Michael Creagh, 11th Regi-
ment, at Chatham, is on leave. The regiment only re•
quires thirty men to complete its strength.
Lieutenant- General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, com-
mander of the district, attended the Manchester public
dinner last week to Sir Henry Pottinger ; also, Lieute-
nant-Colonel White, 70th, and Major Westenra, sth
Dragoon Guards.
Lieutenant Vansittart, of the Ist, from Barbadoes,
and Captain White and Lieutenant Forbes, 77th, from
Jamaica, have landed at Southampton by the West
India mail steamer, Thames. The i3lands were gene-
rally healthy.
The Sergeant-Major of the 16th Lancers is promoted
to a cornetcy in the regiment, without purchase.
Lieutenant Grogan, 7th, Lieutenant-ColunelCockburn,
60th, and Lieutenant Shirley, 87th, sold out of the ser-
vice last week.
The Senior-Lieutenant of the 7th Fusilecrs, and Pay-
master of its depot, has sold out of the service.
Captain Norman's Company, 54th, has arrived at
Ballinanaore; county Leitrim, from Mullingar, head-
quarters.

FRIGHTFUL SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT IN JERMYN.•
STREET, ST. JAMES'S.—Yesterday forenoon, a dreadful
accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at a
new building in the progress of erection, situate at the
corner of Jermyn-street, and Duke-street, St. James's-
square, belonging to Mr. Slater, butcher to her Majesty.
It appears that Mr. Archbutt, builder, of Hanover-street,
Chelsea, superintended the erection of the building,
which is chiefly built of stone. On Saturday evening
last, prior to the workmen leaving their work, two mas-
sive stones, each weighing about 500 cwt., forming a
coping between the third and fourth stories, was hoisted
on to the scaffold, where it was allowed to remain until
Monday morning, when the men returned to their work.
Shortly after nine o'clock, a mason, named John Smith,
was engaged with his chisel, making a hole on one of
the sides of the stones as it lay on the scaffold, when the
putlocks which supported it, broke away, and the scaffold,
the two stones, Smith, and two other workmen, named
William Francis, and Rolna Perry, were precipitated
to the basement, a depth of seventy feet, the coping stones
in their descent, carrying with them about twelve
feet of the stone balcony. Francis, one of the three
men, fell head foremost upon one of the stones which
had lodged on the edge of a well which had been covered
over with boards ; but the weight of the stone had dis-
placed one or two of them, and through the opening the
unfortunate men had fallen a further depth of thirty-six
feet. Assistance was immediately procured, and on
being got up from the bottom his skull was found to be
extensively fractured, and life quite extinct. Smith,
another workman, was discovered lying a few yards
from him insensible, and bleeding profusely from several
wounds in the head ; and a short distance from the
latter lay Perry sensible, but bleeding from several
wounds in the scalp, and covered with bruises and con-
tusions. Francis was conveyed to the Unicorn public-
house opposite, where the body now lies ; and Smith
and Perry were immediately removed to St. George's
Hospital, where but slight hopes are entertained of
Smith's recovery. An inquest was held last evening at
the Unicorn, Jermyn-street, before Mr. Iliggs, upon the
body of William Francis, and the jury, after hearing
the facts as above related, returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental Death." The jury appended an opinion that an
excessive weight had been placed on the scaffold, and
that better precautions ought to have been taken.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EGYPT AND INDIA.—
It is satisfactory to be able to inform our readers that
Mr. Galloway, the engineer (whose pamphlet on the
Cairo and Suez Railroad, as noticed in the Westminster
Review, we referred to in connexion with the Indian
railways on Friday last) has just left Paris, en route to
Egypt, to commence this great work, projected by his
brother, the Bey, ten years ago. This work must be
looked upon as the first link of the grand chain of rail-
, way communication from the Mediterranean so gene-
rally advocated, and so obviously necessary between
England and her Indian possessions, and her recently-
acquired colony in China.—Morning Paper.