The Sun. — 1840-12-09 (London, England)

OLD SOLDIER.  The 2.11 Regiment, now under orders for Bombay, 'rcturtwd frorp, the East in 1819 after twenty sertiee ;from Jamaica, in 1837, after a service of el. yen ytars ; and have to go back to the East for anurfter ,o,jourri, of twenty or more years. Way tVere riot one, or icor.., or all, if necesiary th:4. a. necessity of sending out troops to India rclid ex;st for many months, 1 fancy the authorities can:not deny) of the, corps which I shall enumerate for you, selected, and anon, corps lately returned from bad stations to take a turn of good ones ? The 4=2d, Colonel Sir G. Murray ! last station, Corfu, returned, August, 1836, again 'going to the Melliterranean ! Head-quarters still at Cork, and availAble for any duty.. 88th—Ireland's font corps, Colonel Sir J. A. Wallace, returned from Mediterranean in S,:ptcarther, 1836, returning to same place, 1840! Head-quarters still at Cork, equally available for any w.ner station, although the Ist division of both these aorps. fare sailed, still they are not past recal. 97th— las7. station Ceylon (a good one), returned, September, Co'otiel Sir H. Hardinge, under orders for the List lot;e-triontbs toe the Mediterranean, now in Limerick, and -Perfectly available for Bombay, instead of the 22d. Rift s, Ist battalion—returned from America, Sept ember, 1836, Colonel-Commandant Sir A. Howard, and. just sailed for the Mediterranean, in a ship of the within reach of having their destination changed by ,teaurtu.ki 79th Highlanders, from Canada, October, 1636, Gttlonel Sir R. C. Ferguson, at this moment reauy.tos sail for the Mediterranean, and stationed at their very door ? Why should not they change places with the 22d Regiment? I have here enumerated five corps, who could not consider it a hardship to go to a bad station, and who might have expected their present tour would have been such. Lest it might be Ar.ia that the destination of these corps, being under orierS, cannot now be altered, I will enumerate for you a few mere, the who could not consider it a hardship to replace e 22d, although the latter returned to Europe a few months earlier,' and is now, unfOrtunately, first on the roll fhr foreign service. 98th, from the Cape, June, 1837, Col. Sir W. Cotton ; Rifles 2d battalion, lonian line, 1837, Col. Sir J.' S. Barnes ; 99th, from Mauritius, counted a good station, Oct., 1837, Col. Sir T. Arbuthnot ; and 10th, from lonian Isles, Dec., lez37, Col. Sir J. Lambert. There is here a report that t are ee toform 86th, last part of the from the West Indies in April, 1837, force destined for India, and the 20th, also last from Bombay, May, 1837. Why the very bungaloesof the latter will have scarcely cooled before they re-inhabit  tlicm. Now, nut of 12 regiments, why should the only three, .which came last from a bad station, be selected for othirs equally bad ? Probably, you may divine the cause. I throw these rough memoranda together, teleetett .from the new Army List, to endeavour, and induce you to use your caustic pen in the aid of justice. IAY w npoor fellow, like myself, might imagine that favi ouritisnt.overrulei right. I suppose it is not so ? :when o dattis of the British Army will ever hold back takeountryshare calls, but out loPtii ionalevery corps will look Horse !ME-ad or of still justice. Which is it, the the Quartermaster-General's office, that or `e tte ...4 sq things? S d 1  ,U1,,---,0; ---Lasteven—ing, about six o'clock, a respeotAlgAreised female eoni-Mitted suicide by jumping' from one of the recesses of Waterloo-bridge, on the Surto,/ and immediately ; 1 tsappeared. The unfortunate 4(;r an was seen to leave her bonnet and cloak on the balustrade of the bridge, by a gentleman who was passing at the time, previous to committing the rash act.