The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

WOOLWICH-MONDAY.

A letter was received at Woolwich last week, from
Major Messiter, of the 28th Regiment, written a few
days after his arrival in India from . New South
Wales ; but there is not the slightest allusion in it to
the 41st Regiment, and the near relations of the
Major in this quarter cannot imagine how such an
account as is said to have emanated from him could
have found its way into the columns of the Standard,
unless a mistake has occurred by substituting the 41st
for the 44th Regiment. The letter from Major Mes-
siter to his sister, at Woolwich, is dated August 27,
and does not allude further to military matters than
merely an observation that he had assumed the com-
mand, and that, owing to the boisterous state of the
weather, the 28th Regiment had not been able to
land at the time his letter was written.

Col. A. Creagh, CJ3., late of the 81st Foot, has
been appointed Barrack Master of the North District,
Gibraltar, vice Captain Chambre, retired on half-pay.
The Dee steam-vessel, Master Commander Thomas
Driver, arrived yesterday evening at Woolwich, from
Gibraltar, and Captain Rawneley and Captain Hol-
combe's companies of the Royal Artillery, brought
home in her, on being relieved at that station, disern.
barked this morning at the dockyard, and marched to
join headquarters in the garrison. Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Faddy, Royal Artillery, came home in the Dee,
his term of duty at Gibraltar having expired.
The Adventure transport ship arrived yesterday at
Woolwich.

THE ARMY IN INDIA.—The formation of three
large armies speaks of more extended operations than
a mere march on Caubul, or of a campaign in Affgha-
nistan. We have long been of opinion that the
treacherous conduct of the Ameers of Scinde would
require the presence of a large force in that country, to
secure the safety of our commerce and communications
with those countries through which the Indus flows.
Sir Charles Napier, lately commanding the Poona
Division of the Bombay army, has been nominated to the
command of the troops about to be assembled, accord-
ing to the last accounts, in Lower Scinde. Our pri-
vate letters inform us that the 2d Bombay Regiment,
her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, her Majesty's
22d, 28th, 78th, and 86th Regiments, would compose
the European force, together with a proportionate
body of Horse and Foot Artillery. This army was
to be brigaded near Kurrachee by the first week in
November. Already we have seen the detail of the
large Army of Observation to be assembled at Sir-
hind, under the Commander-in-Chief; and we have
since learned that General Nott is to proceed to Der
Ismail Khan with 8,000 of his force, and will probably
be united to the troops now under Pollock and Sale.
To us it appears quite evident that Hyderabad, in
Scinde,--Lahore, in the Punjab,—and Caubul, in
Affghanistan,—will before long be in the possession of
the British.— Naval and Military Gazette.
UNAPPRECIATED GENIUS.—The Marquis of Lon-
donderry is an ill-used author. His last performance,
as our readers are aware, was rejected, the other day,
by the Conservative Committee of the Sunderland
Library. Slighted, therefore, on the Wear, it proceeded
,in a huff to the Tees, and knocked at the door of the
public library in Stockton. Well I the question was
put to the vote whether the work should be admitted.
Tivo gentlemen said "Aye! " the remainder said
!` No!! " The Noes have it," said the Chairman ;
and ,the book vies turned from the door. " Too
bad "--Gateshead Observer,