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Xclwards, S. K. L. 8,116 6,721 3,438 Now ready, with illugrations by„ BiRKET FOSTErt, 10s.. Ca bound, The Admiralty, in a letter dated Dec: 5, gives order for a further inquiry into the matter, adding : " It does not appear distinctly clear to their lordships, from any of the statements enclosed,'why the order was given for the men who had been granted leave and were at the dockyard gates to return on board, and who, it appears up to that time had not been guilty of any misconduct or shown any discontent."' This inquiry was conducted by Admiral the Hon. George Grey, Captain Gordon, and Captain irewle:t, and the cor• respondence closes with the two following documents, theii report, and the:Admiralty's decision: thereon " Portsmouth Dockyard, Dec. 6. " Sir,—ln compliance with your memorandum of this day's date we have the honour to report that we proceeded to examine Captain Commander Joslino- ° , and I.ieut. Prattent, anti subsequently Admiral Bowles, C. 8., Com mander-in-Chief% • " 2. A sufficient knowledge of a chart to enable him to place thereon the position of the ship by observation as Well as by cross-bearings ;: and to lay off the true and compass courses. "3. Such knowledge of nautical surveying as may enablelim to measure a base line and determine positions by angles, and the mituncr of ascertaining heights and dis tances. (Tio;4 tl,O ncs' Special Correspondent.) ; UNSUCCESSFUL BOYS. hurley , A. 1,566 Goldney, P. G tie rley, R. C ItYder, B. W. IN. • UNSUCCESSFUL GIRLS. 0,063 ' -B, ugliam, E. S. ~,LParkhall, TT. IT. , allo w, xr m .2,197 ALFRED LENCU SAUL, Secretary. Offl —ces, 81, Cheapside, Dec. 28, 1559. POEMS. 113: . 7 the Author -of " John Halifax, • • Gentleman," ." A Life for a Life," &c. " We are well pleased with these poems by our popular novelist. 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R. will, on receipt of the price in stamps, gladly assist and protect the afflicted public by forwarding the same. " Captain Baillie explains the discrepancy botween his letter :Ind his evidence by stating he was in error in im puting in the former the discontent to the whole ship's company, instead of the men retained on board. " Making every excuse for the disappointment caused by this unfortunate misunderstanding it is impossible to con ccal the fact that the ship's company throuchout the pro ceedings evinced an unreasonable disposition, followed by conduct which nothing can justify.—We have, &c., " GEORGE GREY, Admiral Superintendent. " G. T. GORDON, Captain of her Majesty's ship Asia. " R. S. HEWLETT, Captain of her Majesty's ship Excellent." " To Admiral Bowles, C. 8." " Admiralty, Dec. 7. " Sir,—My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, hav ing received the report of the officers who were ordered to inquire into the .-circumstances under which leave was granted to the men of the Princess Royal, consider that the apparent discrepancy which exisied between Capt. Baillie's evidence and his written report did not arise from any in tentional misrepresentation. • . . " It is, however, the duty of my Lords to state, that on a review of all the facts (Imploded with this mutinous out break, they are of opinion that Capt. Millie has displayed a great want of judgment and firmness in dealing with every circumstance of the case; and my Lords consider further that to his conduct the painful occurrences which took place on board the ship on the 12th of November, 1859, may be mainly traced, and that he has deserved the grave censure of their Lordships.--TI " W. G. ROMAINg. "Admiral Botllea, Portsmouth." NAVAL CADETS AND MIDSHIPMEN. A circular addressed to all connianders in chief, captains, commanders, and commanding officers of her Majesty's ships and vessels, by Lord Clarence Paget, the Secretary of the Admiralty, has just been promulgated by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who have esta blished the following regulations for the entry of naval cadets, and for the examination of mates, midskipmen, naval cadets, &c., which will come into operation in April next, instead of those now in force : • " CADETS. " I. No person will bo nominated to a cadetship in the Royal navy who shall be under 12, or above 14 year,: of age, at the time of his first examination. " 11. Every candidate, on obtaining a nomination, will be required to pass an examination at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, within three mouths.of nomination.* In the special cases of nomination granted to the sons of natives of her Majesty's colonies a candidate will bo allowed to pass a preliminary examination on board the flag or senior officer's ship on the station. But such an examination must bo passed in strict accordance with these regulations, and should the candidate bo found qualified, it will be necessary that ho should be sent to England, to be entered on board a training ship, where ho will be subject to the same'regu lations as other cadets. " 111. The candidate must produce a certificate of birth, or a declaration thereof made before a magistrate. "IV. The candidate must be in good health and fit for the service—that is, free from impediment of speech, defect of speech, rupture, or other physical inefficiency. " Candidates will be required— " 1. To write English correctly from dictation, and in a legible hand. "2. TO read, translate, and parse an easy passage from Latin, or from some foreign living language. " N.B. The aid of a dictionary will be allowed for these ranslations. " And to have a satisfactory knowledge of— " 3. The 'ceding- facts of Scripture and English history. " 4. Modern geography, in so far as relates to a knowledge of the principal countries, capitals, mountains, and rivers. To be able to point out the position of a place on a map, when its latitude and longitude is given. "5. Arithmetic, including proportion, and a Lir know ledge of vulgar and decimal fractions. "6. A knowledge of the definitions and axioms of the First Book of Euclid. "As drawing will prove a most useful qualification for naval officers, it is recommended that candidates for the service should be instructed therein. " V. If the candidate be found unqualified at his first examination he will be allowed a second trial at the next quarterly examination. Should he not pass this second examination he will be finally rejected. " VI. If the candidate succeeds in passing the required examination he will be at once appointed to a training ship for the purpose of instruction in the subjects contained in sheet No. I,t as well as in the rigging of ships, seamanship, the use of nautical instruments, &c. " VII. Quarterly examinations will be held on board the training ship, when any candidate may be examined in the subjects contained in sheet No. 1, and also, in the course of instruction, in the rigging of ships, seamanship, &c. " VIII. Tf a candidate be found at the quarterly exami nations not to have made sufficient progtess, or if, by in different conduct or idle habits on board the training ship, •he shall show his unfitness for the service. it will be the duty of the captain to make a special report thereof to the Admiralty, in order that the cadet may be at once removed from the . navy. " IX. When the candidate shall have completed twelve months' instruction, exclusive of vacations, in the harbour training ship, ha will be examined, and should ho obtain a certificate of proficiency he will be discharged into the sea going training ship. " A first-class certificate will entitle him to count twelve months' sea-time. " A second-class certificate will entitle him to count six months' sea-time. " A third-class certificate will entitle him to count three mouths' sea-time. • But should he not obtain a certificate he 'will be discharged as unfit for the service. " X. On leaving the harbour training ship it is intended that the cadet shall pass three months in a sea-going train ing ship for practical instruction in seamanship and navi gation, which period will count for sea-time, and at the end of this period, if his conduct has been satisfactory, he will be appointed to a ship with the rating of a midshipman. " MIDSHIPMEN. "To qualify a midshipman for a lieutenant's commis sion he must have attained the full ago of 19 years, and have completed 51 years' actual service in her Majesty's navy, including the time awarded to him on leaving the training ship. " XI. All midshipmen until they shall have passed their examinations for lieutenants are to kcal) a book in which the ship's reckoning is to be worked out and noted, and when they are at sea this book is to be sent in every day to the captain, instead of the slip of paper containing a day's work, which is now usually prasented. It is also to be produced at their examinations ; and during the last six months of their service as midshipmen it must contain the working of the observations. " X 11. A midshipman when he shall have served two years and a half in that.rank will be required to pass the following examination : " 1. In practical navigation, showbig that he under stands the principle of navigating a ship from one distant THE CASE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. Tho official correspondence on this subject has been published. In a despatch dated Victory, Portsmouth Harbour, Dec. 13, Admiral Bowles- thus narrates the circum stances preceding the riot : " Soon after her Majesty had quitted the yard Captain Baillie came to me and reported that his ship's company were very eager and anxious to be allowed leave to go on shore, and much dissatisfied at its being withheld. (I should remark that this was the first application to me on the subject.) I asked hint if he felt sufficient confidence in his men to answer for their returning to their work steadily on Monday morning ; and on his:replying in the affirmative I fold him I would take on myself the responsibility of per, raffling one watch to go on shore ; but he returned in a alert tine to report that the whole crew were in a very et cited state, and highly dissatisfied at any of them being kept on board. I immediately saw that it was time to be firm and decisive, and directed him to inform them that, as they were so unreasonable in their demands, and so unwill ing to accept the limited indulgence which the custom of the service authorises, I should revoke the permission pre viously given and grant no leave at all, and such of the men as had already been improperly allowed to quit the ship were directed to return." Heihen describes the riot, and says : " Tho whole of the prisoners may, however, be considered as taken in the fact,' and I recommend that the severest measures shall be taken to crush this rising spirit of insub ordination in the British navy." The letter from Captain Baillie thus describes the orders given before the riot : " Having been authorised by you to allow one watch to go on shore till Monday morning I gave instructions to that effect ; and on their being mustered to go on shore the petty officers came aft, and said the ship's company wanted all to go, and showed dissatisfaction at the arrangement. On my representing this to you, you gave instructions that their leave should be stopped altogether; and, accordingly, the liberty men, who had already reached the dockyard gates, were ordered back." A letter from Captain Farquhar describes the state of the ship during the riot; but the facts of the riot have been frequently described before. In a letter dated Nov. 20 Admiral Bowles expresses his opinion as to the order at present in force tending to restrict the granting of leave of absence. Re says " In my opinion' nothing could be more injudicious or un just than to treat the officers and men returning from lengthened foreign service as culprits in whom no confidence could be placed, and who were to be imprisoned on board their ships lying alongside the dockyard while every possible indulgence was extended to all around them. Ido not con sider such a reception either just or prudent ; and, although I am entirely of opinion that the captain and all the officers should continue to reside on board, and that order end dis cipline should be strictly enforced, see no cause why res.. sellable leave of absence should not be granted, on condition that the men returned steadily to their work in the morn ing, and that no time was lost in dismantling the ship and returning the stores. If this indulgence were abused, it must, of course, be withheld ; but, iu my opinion, this would not often occur, and as a general rule the ship will be found ready before the books come down. In the pre sent case of the Princess Royal, although one watch has beercpermitted to go on shore every evening during the past week, the ship was completely dismantled last night (November 19), while the books will not be received here until the 26th, and the ship cannot be paid off before the 29th inst. lam convinced that if Captain Baillie had asked my permission to give leave sooner the disturbance which took place would never have occurred." On November 28th the following new regulation as to lea.vo was issued by tho Admiralty : " Admiralty, Nov. 28. " Sir,—l am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that the following directions are to be observed for the future in all cases of ships paying off at Portsmouth : _ " The captain and officers aro to continue to reside on board ships until they are paid off, and such orders and regulations as have been acted on during the commission are to be kept in force, and no leave is to be granted to either officers or men, unless a Sunday should intervene, in which case you will exercise your discretion in granting such leave as you may consider advisable. " Should anything occur to prevent a ship being paid off when ready, or to prolong the period of her commission, the cause of such delay is to be reported at once to their Lord ships, so that orders may be given on that subject. "Arrangements have been made at the Accountant-Gene ral's-office, by which the books of a line-of-battle ship will be made up for payment in one week after their receipt; so that when a ship is ordered to be paid off the crow may be enabled to go to their homes as soon as possible. "I am, &c., "C. PAGET. "Admiral Bowles, C. 8., Portsmouth." In a letter dated Decemb'r 3 the Admiralty calls for ex planation as to the discrepancy bete eon the account of the circumstances preceding the riot, given by Captain Baillie in his evidence on the court-martial, and that given in his first letter to Admiral Bowles. In reply to this letter Admiral Bowles writes :-- "I beg you will acquaint their Lordships that, in my opinion, the statement of Captain Baillie in his letter of the 13th ult., reporting the circumstances of the disturbance of th e previous day, is more clear and correct than that in his viva race evidence before the court-martial. When Captain Baillie came to me to report that the whole crew were in a very excited state, and highly dissatisfied at any of them being kept on board, I fully understood him to mean that these expressions applied to the whole ship's company, and therefore considered it my duty to decide immediately, as reported in the third paragraph of my letter, that no leave should be given. It appears, however, by the minutes of evidence, that the part of the crew to whom leave had already been given were not in any way mixed up with this unreasonable demand ; and if I had known this at the time I should have directed the liberty men to proceed according, to ray original intention ; and it will be seen by Com mander Josling's evidence that when the petty officers, re presenting the men remaining on board, asked for leave for the remainder, he at once refused to entertain or forward such an application. I can only regret that Captain Baillie did not adept the same course ; if he had, I am persuaded no serious disturbance would have occurred. It has sub sequently appeared that, during tha time the dockyard gates were open to the public, in consequence of the launch of the Victoria, a large quantity of spirits found its way into the yard, and doubtless on board the Princess Royal ; this accounts for the excited state of the ship's company * These examinations will take place on the first Wed nesdays in the months of March, June, September, and December. _ _ t The examination on leaving the training ship will em brace all the subjects of the former examination, except Latin, and in addition to thorn it will include, in algebra, simple equations; the elements of geometry, piano trigo nometry, and the solution, &c., as in the circular No. 288, dated Peb. 23, 1827, and in addition, the use of the globes, with correct definitions of latitude, longitude, azimuth, amplitude, and other circles of the sphere, and drawing. " 4. If he has served in a steam vessel an acquaintance with the different parts - ant working of the steara engine. "Is. A proficiency in French to be attained if he has had an opportunity. "6. He must be a good practical obs'rver, and his sex tant must be producad in good order. " 7. He must produce log-books . kept by himself from the time of his entry into a sea-going ship and certificates of good conduct. "8. lie will likewiss be examined as to his progress in the knowleige of rigging masts, bowsprits, &c., in getting tops over and placing a lower cap ; in setting up rigging, and especially as to the precautions required in staying lower masts ; in hoisting a quarter or stern boat up in a strong breeze with a sea on; in making up a course and topsail for bending at soa ; in shifting topmasts, yards, and sails, at son ; and the effect of the sails on the ship both in tacking and wearing; in the detail arrangements for mooring and unmooring ships and getting under way, and the use of the hand and deep-sea leads. He must also know the groat gun and small arm exorcises, the use of tangent sights, the charges for the guns of the ship, and be able to exercise the men at quarters. A report of the progress he has made in each of the above subjects is to be made to the Secretary of the Admiralty in tho half-yearly return. " This examination is to be conducted by the officer in command, not below the rank of commander, and the next senior officer in the ship, and the examinations in navigation in the presence of a captain or commander, by two naval instructors, when it may be practicable, or by a naval in strustor and a master, or where there is no naval instructor by two masters ; that in gunnery by a gunnery or other competent officer ; and the candidate is to be made to take and work oat his own observations for latitude, longitude, variation, &c., as the case may be. First or second class certificates are to be given according to the merit of the candidate, in the form A, page 8, or he is to be rejected if found incompetent. " XIII. A midshipman, having completed his term of service, and being 19 years of age, may be provisionally examined by the captain or commander of such ship or vessel with the aid of other competent officers, lieutenant, master, or second master, when no other ships are present; and if they find him to be duly qualified they are to give him a certificate to that effect, dated on the day of such examina tion, and the captain may forthwith give him an acting order as mate; but he must be re-examined on the first op portunity that shall afterwards offer by three captains or commanders, and if he passes successfully he will receive from the commander-in-chief, or senior officer, an acting order as mate, to take rank according to the date of the first certificate. "The examining officers are to be most strict in their in vestigation of the qualifications of officers, and they are to see that everything required by these regulations has been complied with by the candidate, and that he produces cer tificates of good conduct from captains he has served under from the time of his discharge from the training ship. " XI V. All acting mates and midshipmen will be required to undergo the following final examinations "1. In SearaanshipLOn board the training ship at Portsmouth. "2. In Gunnery—On board the Excellent. "3, In Navigation and the Steam-engine—At the loyal Naval College. " Acting mates, who have already passed abroad, are to present themselves for examination, on board the training ship at Portsmouth, at the first examination day after their arrival in England, or after being paid off, and having passed in gunnery they are then at liberty to sciect either the first ; second, or third examination day at the Royal Naval Col lege. "X V. Any offices rejected on his first examination at the Rollege will incur the forreituro of three months' seniority in rnk as mate. He then may present himself on the next exanuraion day, but a see rejection will incur the for feiture of three months' more ieniofily ; he may again pre sent himself on the next examination day, but a third re jection will cause his name to be removed from the list of the navy. " XVI. Officers, when they have passed their final exami nation at the Royal Naval College, as provided for in those regulations, will be confirmed from the date of their first certificate. The non-appearance of an officer for examina tion at the Royal Naval College at the times required by these regulations will be considered as an acknowledgment of his not being qualified, and ho will be dealt with in the same manner as if he had been actually rejected on each day on which he may leave omitted to appear, unless under cer tified ill health, to be duly reported at the time. " XVII. Naval instructors are to keep a school journal, or register, which is to be producted when required by the captain of the ship or the examining officers, and the captain is to allow them reasonable access to the charts and chrono meters, for the furposo of instructing the officers in their use. " XVIII. Tho captains of. her Majesty's ships are to take care that a convenient place is set apart and proper hours are fixed for instruction by the naval instructor; and all acting mates and acting second masters, as well as all executive officers under that rank, are to attend ; and care is also to be taken that they aro regularly instructed in practical seamanship, rigging, and the steam-engine, and a monthly examination day is to be " XIX. This circular is to come into force on the Ist of April, 1860, and is to apply to all cadets who may enter the service after that date." N.B. A list of instruments and books which each cadet will be required to have on entry being the same as specified in Circular No. 288, dated Feb. 23, 1857, it is unnecessary to repeat them on this occasion. TB TIMONIAL TO SIR I. RIKINGTON. WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY EYENTNG. A large party, including several members of both Houses of Parliament, attended a public dinner held in this city this evening, for the purpose of takin ,, part in the presentation of a te s tim o nial to Sir John Pakington, by the inhabitants of Worces tershire and others, for his public services. About, 200 noblemen and gentlemen assembled at the Guild hall at five o'clock, under the presidency of Lord Lyttelton, lord lieutenant of the county ; and among those present were Earl Beauchamp, Lord Ward, Lord Northwick, Hon. F. Lygoe, M.P., Mr. Foley, M.P., Sir T. E. Winnington, M.P., Mr. Westhead, M.P., Mr. Ricardo, M.P., and a large number of the gentry of the county and city. The testimonial consisted of a magnificent silver gilt shield, 40 inches in diameter, and of elaborate design, intended to illustrate those branches of the public service to which the right hon. baronet had specially devoted himself—in the colonies, the navy, education, and justice. The shield, which is de- , signed and modelled by Mr. 11. H. Armisted, was lately submitted to the inspection of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, who expressed his admiration of the design and execution of it. The subject selected to illustrate education is the presentation of the first book printed in England to Edward IV., by Lord Rivers and Caxton. The navy is illustrated by figures representing the death of Nelson ; the colonies, by the landing of Captain Cook upon New Holland ; and justice, by Prince Henry and Judge Gascoigne. There are a lso portraits of men famous in the admini stration of justice—Lord Lyttleton, Lord Somers, and Lord-Keeper Coventry (all Worcestershire men); in the navy, King Alfred, Blake, and Nelson ; and for maritime discovery, Drake, Cooke, and Frank lin ; in education, King Henry VI., Cardinal Wol sey, and Sir Thomas Bodley. The outer border of the shield is decorated with acorns and oak leaves, and in the border is the following :—" Presented to the Right Hon. Sir John S. Pakington, Bt., G.C.8., M.P., by the county and city of Worcester, in grate ful recognition of hie services for 20 years as chair man of the County Quarter Sessions. 'The shield also illustrates his public career as First Lord of the Admiralty. Secretary of State for the Colonies, and an able advocate of general education. LARGE SEIZURE OF GOVERNMENT METAL.- Two sergeants of the Portsmouth dockyard police seized at the Luidport railway station, on Monday evening, a cask containing 3001 b. weight of ships' copper bolts (the greater part new), cut up into different lengths, and which had evi dently been reduced to their present lengths before leaving the dockyard. The greater portion—about three-fourths —have had the " broad arrow" removed by the application of the file, but the remainder have the broad arrow still upon them. The cask was directed on the back of one of the sender's own cards—" A Morris Harris, glass merchant and marine store dealer, adjoining the police station, Landport •road," and was directed to " Mr. Marks, Tilley-street, Spitalfields, London." Mr. Morris Harris, it is almost needless to say, is "not at home." The plundering of copper in this shape from the Portsmouth yard has been carried on now for some time to a very great extent. It is known that upwards of a ton was sent on one occasion by rail from this town to London only a short time since; but the information came to hand too late to be of any service. At the Portsmouth Police-court yesterday (Tuesday) a hired labourer named George Harvey, em ployed in the yard in breaking up the Drynd hulk, was convicted of stealing a copper bolt weighing 21b., and sen tenced to 21 days' hard labour. The prisoner had been stopped on leaving the d.ickyard, and the bolt found secured by two pieces of spunyarn round his waist in a perpendi cular position. CAMP IN FRON r OF CEUTA, DEC. 16. The skirmish which was commencing yesterday morning when I sent off my let tor lasted until dark, ,but was !not of sufficient importance for a detailed account of it to be interesting out of Spain. These small fights occur every two or three days, and since I' first arrived here they have been invariably provoked by the enemy, excepting on the 12th lust., when General Prim brought on an efiliir. The Moors advance firing and menace 'et- line, and, of course, wen.re obliged to repulse them Their ob ject is probably only to harass us, for they cannot expect, with the forces they present, to gain an ad vantage over those we have. I\re had just as soon they kept quiet, for they. give us trouble and cost us men, and there is no profit and little glory to be gained. Yesterday a sort of strategical idea seemed to have struck them, but it was so clumsy a one, a manoeuvre so easily ,detected, that, if they expected it to succeed, they must have art exceed ingly low opinionTof Spanish intelligence. They brought down about 800 to 1,000 cavalry, appa rently expecting that the attack of their infantry would tempt us out of our lineS to ground where the horse could act. Of course they were dis appointed; our artillery drove away the cavalry, and the musketry fire nearly ceased for an hour or two, but breezed up about 3 o'clock and lasted till night. The shots were rather long, but, neverthe less, some of them told, and we had upwards of 100 killed and wounded. In the early part of the day the Moors planted a flag on an eminence consider ably in our frott, and it is supposed there was some General or great personage among them, whese banner it was. The evening skirmish was on an eminence in front of the Isabel 11. redoubt (right of all), a hill the summit of which is a long level ridge. At the further extremity of the ridge a number of pieces of rock and large stones afford cover to Moorish sharp-shooters.: It . is a very favourite position of theirs, and I call it Tombstone-hill, in order to distinguish it. At one end of the hill the Spanish • skirmishers lay down upon the slope which runs down. into the valley immediately in front of the redoubt; their object was, not to fight, but merely to hold the ground until night, so they kept just below the brow, and returned the enemy's fire only occasion ally. Their practice while thus recumbent did not do them much eredit ; and I understand they are not accustomed to fire in that posture. A rifled four-pounder on the redoubt occasionally sent a shot among the Moors and set some of them running, but upon the whole they stood their ground very . stoutly, and sonic of them gave proof of great cou rage, advancing singly along the ridge until they caught sight of the first Spaniards posted below it, when they discharged their espingardas and re treated. If they had had better shots to deal with,. not one of those who played this hazardous trick ought to have returned alise to his friends. One or two only were hit, and two of , three of their comrades made gallant efforts and exposed them selves very much to cony them off. These small incidents afforded some amusement' to the lookers on, who could not, however, but think it dearly purchased when they saw sundry poor fellows, in cluding two or three officers, carried by wounded, and some deal bodies taken to the rear in blankets. As to the loss of the Moors it were idle to hazard conjecture. although it is the fashion here, as in most armies under similar circumstances, to make them—the loss of the enemy being, of course, always estimatedi . greatly to exceed our own. It is pro bable, however, that the Moors do generally suffer considerably more than the Spaniards, for the simple reason that the latter have artillery and their op ponents have not. In the early part of yesterday the rifled mountain battery of Major Lopez Domin iusz, a cousin of Marshal Serrano, made scmegood practice, ane hvast have been unpleasant, to the Moors. 4!. • While fi,gliking, even when only exchanging long shots, the 'Moors keep up a mostilideous howling and shrieking, vituperating theit.enemiee in had Spanish, and making the mountains resound with the often-repeated epithet of "perros" (dogs). To this the Spaniards condescend not to reply, except with bullets, although in the civil war it was no un usual thing to hear Carlist and Christina skir mishers abusing each other, and especially indulg ing_ in anthaudsome reflections upon each others' Sovereign. • During the lull in the middle of the day, when there was almost a cessation of firing, the Com mander-in-Chief rode to our extreme left to visit the corps of General Ros de Olano, which has esta blished its camp in a picturesque recess of the Shore, formed iss- two wooded hills that slope sown towards- each other's base almost into a dell. The tents are pitehed with much regularity ; the sur rounding cork trees afford abundant fuel, and last night the place was in a blaze of light from the camp fires. The nights, and especially the early mornings for two or three hours before daybreak, have now become so cold that it is most fortunate that wood is plentiful hereabouts. On O'Donnell's arrival the corps was drawn up to receive him, V& band playing the Marcia Real (which has becOme the Spanish national air since the follies of the •Progresista party disgusted people with Reigo's hymn and other Liberal melodies); sonic battalions were in advance, with skirmishers thrown out, as a little firing was still going on, and the enemy visible on various points at no great distance from our line. The sun shone brightly, and the coup dceil was good, as was also the appearance of the troops. The corps is said to be about 11,000 strong. This morning General Prim went out with his division, consisting of seven battalions, over the hills on our left .along shore, to protect the men working at the continuation of the road, which is to be completed as far as the level beach in the direction of Tetuan. With him went a battalion of engineers and another of artillerymen, who are to cut the road. The move is to a considerable distance beyond our lines, but the Moors have made no attempt to molest the Spanish troops, which were protected in the early part of the day by two steamers and a gunboat. The enemy has a whole some dread of the fire from the ships. Other roads are in progress connecting -the redoubts, and it is probable that when the next skirmish occurs the wounded will be conveyed along them to the shore, and sent off in boats to vessels waiting there. It will be a shorter and easier transit than taking them through the tedious wind- ings of the fortifications into Ceuta, and it will, moreover, serve as practice previous to the ship ment of wounded in the fighting we may expect as we proceed along the coast to Tetuan. Up to Cape Negro it is expected, as I think I have already men tioned, that there will be small difficulty or opposi tion to our march, but there the ground again be comes difficult (it is said that there is a deep and rugged ravine), and we may possibly have to form an entrenched camp and abide there until the en gineers have overcome obstacles. Meanwhile we are menaced with a change of weather; the sailors predict rain, which would retard our operations, and probably increase the amount of sickness, lately sensibly diminished under the beneficial influence of a few fine days. The transitions here are great and rapid ; to-day, at 2 o'clock, the sun was so hot as td render exposure to it, when in exercise, by no means pleasant ; it is now half-past 4, and one is very glad to put on a warm greatcoat, even under the shelter of a tent. Of our life in camp there is not much to tell you that would have the charm of novelty. Of the hardships and pleasures (the latter not numerous), the disagreeables, the shifts, and the fun of that mode of existence you heard much, even to the minutest details, during the still recent compaign in the Crimea, and now to enlarge upon them would be but to repeat a thrice-told tale. With fine weather, things are endurable enough for persons not over delicate ; wind and rain sadly mar our comparative happiness. Here only for a few days, it is not worth while to do many things which would contribute to comfort and greatly improve our con dition. We rough it, and hope for an early move, a successful fight, and a period of repose at Tetuan. Ceuta having within the last few days been made a free port, except for articles of estance (Government monopoly), such as tobacco and salt, supplies begin to improve, although as yet but slowly. A restaurant has just- been opened at head-quarters of the productions of which I can not yet speak from personal knowledge, but which, I am assured, far surpasses in the prices, although not in the quality, of its dishes, the Freres Pro vengaux or the lamented Verrey. I suspect its habitues will not be numeius, for the Spanish officer is generally frugal, and sets no great store by the pleasures of the palate. Generally speak ing, as far as I have observed, the officers mess to gether in small groups, a tent forming but a limited dining-room, and nearly the largest of those we have here being pretty well crowded with half-a dozen persons. Tables, too, are rather a difficulty, since we brought little furniture with us, aed have not as yet had opportunities of borrowing any from Moorish palaces. About a fourth part of the furni ture that the British army left behind it in the ~..t-'!---- - - - f - 7 •-._,,,, -,...41,44... . 1,0: , , • ' - 4 ,,p 0 4 Critnea (and much of which will doubtle -e . : r , :: 'ere- ,474 highly 'prized 'in Tartar', lints for 'a- c en t t '' ' V i'' 177 ' --' .44 , ' , come), would place this camp in-a state of perfect a - S luxury.. As it is, we have a few camp-stools, and -'''- A'' we sit On boxes, and trunks, and - 1 eds, and manage -• pretty well. The accommodation is not such as to tempt to late sittings, and Spaniards are not in the habit-Of lingering over their-bottle, while toddy or - grog is to most of them a thing abhorrent. So after ' ' dinner they generally content themselves with a cup of Coffee or tea (the use of the latter has of late years become widely spread in Spain), and when they ka--.,:, -- -- , "lted a cigar or two, or a dozen :pape/iios, u , m. , . . :.: -7 'their past. ciimpaigns, and (- aiming trim: , • ' '•.. : 7, enerally ret trekarly tkr.bed. I suspect. .e ni.. j .,..ity- are-- wrapped- in, -their b7ankets, rugs, or cloaks between 9 and 10, and to - • • sit up habitually till 11 would almost :;oilice to give one the reputation of a " fast man." , The night here is not the pleasantest part of the 24 hours. The best canvas is impotent to exclude the fresh breezes that sometimes whistle over this nook of Northern Africa, and lucky is he who sleeps so soundly as not to be pretty frt quentlyawaketted by the :cold. Lspeak of those situated as the great majority ate here, not of a very few fortunate and foresighted individuals who have spared nothinj that can conduce to comfort, and who may almost • be said to carry, snail-like, their homes upon their backs, or at least upon Ihe backs of their sumptcr mules. 1 know one officer, fur instance—on a cor ner of whose tent I detected the well-known name of Edgington—wha nightly tucks himself into a bed than which, barring sheets, a more comfortable he could hardly have in his house at Madrid. But he is one in a hundred, and the great majority, Gene rals included, are content with much rougher Couches. More or less well or ill, the night passes, One's slumbers only occasionally broken by a chilly blast, the tramp of a relief, by an escaped mule running up against the tent, or by the baying of sundry dogs who have attached themselves to the army and apparently intend going through the campaign. At 6 o'clock it is still dark night, but sleep is at an end for all whose repose is not proof against every variety of noise. The man-of-war in the harbour has hardly fired the morning gun when a solitary trumpet, which, in the stillness that, pro- Hkils, •seems sound e d withiira- foot' ofelatre's -tent; ' clangs out a call. Sometimes its notes are a little false and languid, as if the trumpeter were still half asleep and felt a compassionate hesitation in rousing his comrades. No sooner does it cease than a brass band—a eltaranga, as it is expressively called— strikes up the liana, the reveille. The next regi ment takes it up, and the next, and the next, till the whole camp is din and clamour. Harmony • there is none ; infantry, cavalry, and artillery each sound their own particular tune, and the three, each of which alone would be pleasing. blend into ear splitting discord. Quick, high, sharp, no other music, no roar of cannon, no uproar of any kind, could so effectually achieve the purpose of awaking people. The crash of the brass seems to strike into the very inmost recess of the ear, to act upon every fibre in one's frame, and not only to awaken, but to force one to rise. It turns one out of bed as effectually as a pail of cold water on a frosty morning. Up you ' jump, as if galvanized, and, as an indispensable pre liminary to moving in the close packed tent., the servants are summoned te'clear away the beds or such substitutes for them as there may be. These obstacles to egress removed, and on the principle that a plunge is less trying than gradual entrance, you rush out of the tent in the attire in which you hare slept, which is generally pretty nearly the same in which you passed the previous day. It is as good as a cold douche, and most effectually removes any slight- somniferous cobwebs the abo minable blasts G f the brazen musicians may have left about your eyes and brain. The stars are shining brightly ; 'the moon casts her broad clear light over sea and mountain ; here and there in the difflment camps and guards waiehtires are still blazing, the figures of the soldiers around them standing out dark against the flame ; down in the bend of the coast south of Ceuta a steamer floats motionless and seemingly deserted; a few officers on guard, or early rising aides-de-camp,pace rapidly up and down, wrapped in their cloaks, and with cigars in their mouths, looking grim and blue ; servants are already hurrying about lighting finis in their alfresco kitchens to prepare their masters' early cup of chocolate or tea; here stands my luxu rious friend, he of the Sybarite bed, in the flannel trousers and jacket iu whisk he habitually s Jeeps, looking as if he were going out to play at cricket, and with a fur cap on his head as if he had just returned from a visit to the Esquimaux. He seems to find it more chilly than pleasant, for he quickly vanishes again beneath the Edgington marquee, shouting for Antonio and hot water. And, as a little of this temperature is enough, you soon follow his example, the tent, which you were cursing for its coldness ten minutes ago, now seems delightfully warm, a perfect conservatory in comparison with the outer air ; and you proceed to struggle against the difficulties inseparable from dressing 'by the light of a single candle or dint lamp, and of shaving with water just a quarter of a degree above the freezing point—if shave you do, which many here do not, or do it bat rarely—and you, probably, while going through these unpleasant operations, heap • maledictions upon your- own head for ever having been idiot enough to be tempted by hope of glory, or love of lucre, or an Irish penchant for fighting or a truant disposition, or any other inducement wriatso- . ever,to come out to Barbary in the winter season and associate yourself with such an insane, Quixotic business as this crusade against the infidel. By the time you are dressed, however, and have swal lowed that minute calker of brandy as protection against the morning mist, or to keep off the cholera, or because your doctor recommends it, or perhaps merely because you like it—and smoked that media regalia, and washed as well ste_you can in a tent 11 feet square at the base, andltt which three persons sleep, and inveighed a little (of course 'without ex pletion) against those fellows who sat smoking so late last night, and converted your horsehair mat into an ashbox and spittoon, you find on looking out that the sky is brightening and the stars are gradually fading away, and there are red streaks in the East and good promise of a fine day. Where upon you begin to feel blander, and less disposed brutally to assault the first fellow-creature who comes in your way, and you say a civil word to the young aide-de-camp whom you lately consigned to the keeping of the Evil One merely because, poor fellow, he stands six feet one in his stockings, and has a habit of always getting .in your way, and you suspend your savage sarcasms upon him of the flannel breeks and Capuan couch, and begin to won der whether there will be any lett ers for you by ' the morning post, and whether the Moritos (little Moors, as they are here affectionately termed) will afford any sport that day, or whether they will re main in their earths and sulk, and you order your horse to be in readiness to go into Ceusa, or out to the lines, as circumstances may dictate. And so each day passes, with little to vary the monotony of skirmishing, shiftmaking, and speculating as to 1 the coming events of the campaign. . DEC. 17. Just after 12 o'clock last night firing was heard upon our extreme left. There was a pretty general turn out of officers, although here, at headquar ters, we are a long way off, and there could be no immediate menace to us. So the troops were left quiet. On stepping out of my tent, wishing any thing but good to the restless Moors who thus added to the difficulty, already not small of getting a good night's rest, I saw• the bright flashes of small arms spangling the darkness at two points of the front of Ros do Olano's camp, one looking towards the mountains and the other down by the beach. The firing, however, lasted but a very short time, and may possibly not have proceeded frsm the Moors at all, but from our own outposts under the influence of a false alarm. That corps has only just arrived, and the men are quite new to the work. Such alarms, however, are not without their uses, as accustoming the soldier to the more serious ones he may hereafter have. At the same time the out posts should be cautioned against firing until they are sure there is a sufficient cause, for the army has plenty to fatigue it without having its sleep un necessarily broken. This morning all is quiet as yet (10 o'clock), but the skirmishes do not in general begin quite so early, the Moritos apparently thinking that six hours' activity (from 11 till 5) is sufficient. We have as yet had five skirmishes, two, at least, of which may merit the name of little combats. The dates arc the 25th and 30th of November, and the 9th, 12th, 15th of December. I do not reckon the trfiing affairs that took place within the first five days of the landing of the first corps under General Echague who is now, I am glad to say, nearly well of his wound, and was out with the Staff on the 15th. I have not the exact number of our losses, but they cannot be less than 1,200 killed and wounded. They are published regularly and pretty correctly in the Madrid papers. In the affair of the 15th seven officers were wounded besides three or four con tused. The wounded, I learn from the doctors, were under 100, but from what I saw I should think the proportion of killed rather larger than usual. This is a gray cold day, and I fear the weather is sickening for rain. It feels almost cold enough for snow, but I believe that 'hardly ever falls here, except on the mountains. WEDDING AMONGST RUINS.—On Monday week, at ten o'clock, a bride and bridegroom made their appearance at the front gates of the old Bethnal-green Church, London to bo married ; aud, to their great dis may, found nothing remaining of the church but the bare walls, not having beard of the fire by which the church has been destroyed. 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