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of next year—what do you mean to do with the
Crimea ? Every creature shirks this question. One
says, " Oh, it will be time enough to think of that
when we hive got it." Another, " Oh, no matter
what is done with it, so Russia does not have IL"
But a rational answer, a well.coneidered plan for
disposing of the Crimea when we have conquered it,
I never yet saw or heard.
The exceeding difficulty of this question is suffi-
ciently proved by the fact that an able and acute
Ministerial journal, the Manchester Guardian, en-
deavouring to find an answer, discusses every
possible plan, and at last comes to the conoluslop
that the Crimea must be given to Sardinia ! The
fact is, that the question cannot be answered. Of
the four allied powers, neither Turkey, nor England,
nor Sardinia can pretend to hold the Crimea by
military force against the power of Russia. France
might do it : but have we carried on this war for the
purpose of settling a French army within two days
sail of Constantinople?
I repeat, therefore, that my heart is saddened to
see the British Government and people carrying on
war blindfold; striving to conquer a territory, the
possession of which would terribly embarrass them ;
and, when they are besought to consider what they
really mean to do, preferring to shut their eyes, and
say, " It will be time enough to think of that when
the time comes." But I may be asked whether I
myself have any clearer view of our position and our
duties. I answer, that I have no other view now
than I have entertained all along. And this may
be thus stated :

1. We have a sufficient ground of quarrel with
Russia.

2. But we ere not likely to bring that great and
haughty power to terms by invading her territory.
Even Napoleon the First lived to repent this ex-
periment.
3. Our strength lies in our navy. Employing this
arm, we might imprison Russia within her own terri-
tory and render her very wretched.
4. At a comparatively small expense we might
carry on such a warfare for seven years, losing few
men and little money, but perplexing Russia ex-
ceedingly.
5. Russia's last resort is always patient endurance.
Show her that you are prepared, and intend, to carry
on a blockading system for seven years, or for seven-
teen if necessary, and she will begin to think of
finding out some way of accommodation. But
wound her pride by absolute invasion, and engage in
a warfare which costs you great sacrifices, then Rus-
sia says, "You will soon grow tired of this. I will
never treat with you till you evacuate my territory."
I have now probably sufficiently trespassed on
your patience, and shall only subscribe myself in
conclusion, sir, your obedient servant,
Oct. 10, 1855. ' A RECORDITE.

SLAVE LABOUR.
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS."

Sir,—ln your paper of the 29th September you did
me the favour to insert a letter containing an extract
from the Jamaica Morning Journal of August 4,—a
journal which promulgates free-trade ideas, and
which intimated that if the planters of Jamaica had
to pay their labourers wages, "however low such
wages may be," they could not compete with slave-
owners. In another part of the same journal I find
an article from the Anti-Slavery Reporter inserted,
respecting an experiment which bad been made, with
the object of reducing ordinary cane•juice to the form
of a concrete, and which winds up thus:—

To the friends of the negro this important discovery
recommends itself chiefly because one hundred labourers are
made equal to two hundred We submit that the
foregoing facts are a sufficient reply to the charge that has
been brought against us of having puffed off a process
practically worthless.
That the discovery would be practically worthless,
so far as giving the employer of free labour in the
West Indies, or in any tropical climate, an advantage
over the slave-owner, must, I think, be at once ad-
mitted even by the most prejudiced, as, if the dis-
covery could make one hundred free labourers
equal to two hundred, it is evident the same result
would be obtained from a like number of slaves; and
if the Jamaica Morning Journal be correct, "that
planters there could not compete with slave-owners,
if they have to pay their labourers wages," any
process by which free labour can be made more
e dent will, in proportion, give similar advantage`to
the slave-owner, and to a very much larger extent,
inasmuch as he can get from twelve to eighteen
hours of steady, continuous, and efficient labour per
day from an able slave at a cost of tenpcnce, while
the employer of the free negro has to pay him from
ls. to Is. 3d. for six or eight ,hours of uncertain,
often scampish, and desultory work. ,
The Morning Journal•also says. t' that the emigra •
tion of more day labourers to Jamaica to cultivate
sugar has signally failed," and " that the negro
is the only legitimate labourer for that climate."
Will not this statement make the Yankee slave-
owners more pertinacious than ever in the retention

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of their vile system, fostered and encouraged as that
system has been by the noble lord the member for
London, to his lasting disgrace and those who aided
and abetted him in his iniquitous Slave-Produce
Admission. Act of 1848? Aud is not Lord John
Russell, in his present fallen state, already receiving
• foretaste of that denunciation with which posterity
will assail his insatiable thirst for power and place
at any price and at all hazards, in order that pure
and immaculate Whigs of the house of Bedford
might have the patronage and hold the purse strings
of the kingdom'—Yours, sir, most obediently,
October 1. 1855. ANTI-SLAVERY.

•.• " Arm " should apply to a respectable solicitor.
We can give her the name of one if she rushes IL

tttibtuts an (abuts.

TIM SOUTHAMPTON MURDER which occurred last
Sunday appears to have been one of a singularly
determined and revengeful nature. The poor girl
Kingswell, who was 'engaged to her fellow-servant
and murderer, Baker, appears to have taken otience
at some act of his, and positively relused to look upon
him any longer as her suitor. Baker, it is said,
endeavoured to explain away whatever it was which
had given her so much otfence, but she resolutely re-
fused to have anything more to do with him. The
estrangement appears to have lasted for some days
previous to Sunday, when, about one p.m., while
Kingswell and another female servant were in the
kitchen occupied in the duties of the house, Baker
came behind the deceased, and, placing a loaded
pistol at the back of her ear, deliberately blew her
brains out, killing her on the spot. An alarm was
immediately raised by the other servant, who at
once rushed to the front doorin a state of the greatest
alarm, and, a policeman having arrived, the murderer
was taken into custody, and lodged in the police-station.
As soon as Baker had murdered his victim he re-
mained perfectly still, and never attempted in the
slightest degree to make his escape, or excuse him-
self for his horrible conduct. The next morning the
prisoner was brought up for examination before the
mayor and bench of magistrates, and the following
evidence as to the fact of the murder was adduced :

Charlotte Lacy, the cook, stated : The prisoner was
footman in the same servioe, and that on Sunday, shortly
after one p.m., he came into the kitchen, when I asked
him if he would lay the luncheon for me. His answer
was yes. He then went into the pantry from the kitchen,
and prepared the luncheon•trays. He returned into the
kitchen, but did not speak. He again went into the pantry)
and a third time re-entered the kitchen. Naomi Kings.
well (the deceased 1 and myself were talking at one end of
the screen which stands before the tire. I had hold of the
semen. Batter came up and rested his left elbow on the
other side of the screen. He did not speak. His right
hand was behind him under his coat.

A Magistrate : Were your eyes fixed upon him at this
time ?

Witness : They were not. I did not look at him.
Reexamined : I saw his arm move (ruin behind his back,
and immediately heard the report of a pistol. The weapon
was pointed in the direction of the deceased. I was so
near that I felt the heat from the flash. I then saw the
deceased drop. As she was falling she said "Oh I" and
the blood flowed from under her left ear.

Mr. Welch, a surgeon, stated in evidence that he saw the
deceased lying on the door, partly on her back and partly
on her side. He felt the pulse, but there was no pulsatiott.
He put his ear to the chest, but the heart had ceased to beat.
He then examined her head, and observed discoloration
of the skin from grains of powder, on the face and neck
(left side). She was quite dead. He did not examine the
size of the wound. It might have been occasioned by
something passing through the head, which might have
been a bullet. The wound on the right side was much the
largest.

Some further evidence having been taken, the pri-
soner in reply stated that be had "nothing to say at
present," and was accordingly committed to take his
trial at Winchester upon the charge of "Wilful
murder." The establishment in which this dreadful
event has occurred is that of a retired clergyman, who
was away on a visit, but his lady was at home at the
time. The event has caused the greatest excitement
in the town.

• AT NOTTINGHAM, last Saturday, Johanna Dutton,
the wife of a farmer residing at the village of Carlton,
near Nottingham, was brought before the county
magistrates, charged with wilfully murdering her
daughter Mary, a child three years old, by throwing
her into a pond near Carlton. The investigation was
a very protracted one, and from the evidence adduced
it appeared that the prisoner had uniformly ill-treated
this, her youngest child, constantly beating her
severely, kicking her, and using great cruelty towards
her. On the evening of the murder, the child not
being found in the house a search was made, and the
body at length found in a neighbouring pond. The
prisoner was committed to take her trial at the nett
assizes upon the charge of " Wilful murder." •

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WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 16.
(Ely purchase, if not otherwise stated.)
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Ge,
Wardlaw to be Captain.
4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant C. A. G. Bro•ene to be
Captain, without purchase ; Cornet E. W. Blackett to be
Lieutenant, without purchase.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Charles Neville Lovell
to be Captain ' • Lieutenant Robert Horsley Ricketts Rowley
o be Second Captain; Lieutenant Wm. Geo. Le Mesurier
• be Second Captain.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Geo. Ranken to be Second
Captain.
4th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Charles S. Conrtenay to
be Lieutenant, without purchase ; Fitzmaurice Beauchamp,
tient., to be Ensign, without purchase.
9th Foot—William Frederick Field, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
20th Foot—Captain George Steevens to be Major, with-
out purchase. To be Captains, without purchase—Lieu-
tenants Francis Padfield and W. L• 1). Mears. To be
Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigns W. D. Munn
and Hon. Adolphus E. P. Vereker. To be Lieutenants—
Ifinsigns George B. Duffin and George Gethin. To be
Ensign—Robert Blount, Gent. To be Ensigns, without
purchase—Frederick Augustus Ramsay, Gent.
22nd Foot—Graham Palisser, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase.
23rd Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En-
signs Edwin Utterton and W. D. Bloxsome. To be En•
signs, without purchase—Lieutenant J. W. W. Costley and
George Packe, Gent.
27th Foot—Lieutenant Christophilus Garston to be
Lieutenant, without purchase.
28th Foot—Napoleon FitzStubbs, Gent., to be Ensign.
29th Foot—Captain Frederick Edward Sorell to be
Captain. To be Lieutenants, without purchase--Ensigns
Warrington Taylor and N. P. Ledgard. To be Ensign,
without purchase--Ensign George F. Hart.
31st Foot—Lieutenant Hubert C.Gould to be Lieutenant.
83rd Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—
Ensigns Richard Statham; R. L. Bayliff, and It. H.
Roberts. To be Ensigns, without purchase—James Man-
:lice Shipton, Gent., Marcus Lynch, Gent., Frederick
Easton, Gent.
40th Foot—Samuel Roden Handy, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
41st Foot—Major Robert Pratt to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
wi hout purchase; Captain R. 0. F. Steward to be Major,
wi ,ho u t purchase.
43rd Foot—Ensign F. G. E. Glover to be Lieutenant,
without purchase.
47th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Palmer to be Adjutant.
48th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—
Ensigns J. Rawlins, G. G. G. F. Piggott, H. J. W. Wilkin-
son, and 'L. de Montmorency Prior. To be Lieutenant,
Ensign C. Campbell. To be Ensigns, without purchase—
Renry Theophilus Sheppard, Gent. ; Charles Henry
Chauncey, Gent.; Henry O'Brien, Gent.
49th Foot—Ensign E. F. Burrowes to be Lieutenant,
wi bout purchase.
55th Foot—Ensign W. F. Le Poer Trench to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase.
62nd Foot—Ensign John A.Chippindall to be Lieutenant,
without purchase.
81st Foot—Captain Valens Tonnochy to be Captain.
83rd Foot—Ensign G. W. H. Wardell to be Ensign,
without purchase.
84th Foot—The name of the Ensign appointed on May
14, 1855, is J. B. Maclennan, and not J. B. Macleman, as
pieviously stated.
85th Foot—Captain William Williamson to be Major ;
Lieutenant Charles Weils Hogge to be captain.
88th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—
Ensigns J. D. G. Dodgin, E. C. Mallet, and M. N. Woodard.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Ensign Douglas Ni-
cholson, Quartermaster Edmund de Illacquiere.
90th Foot—Lieutenant P. A. L. Phipps to be Captain,
without purchase; Ensign James Barr to be Lieutenant,
without purchase ; Henry Wm. Hassard, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase.
92nd Foot—Lieutenant G. P. Drought to be Captain,
without purchase.
96th Foot—Lieutenant Octavins Lowry to be Captain ;
Ensign John Whitty to be Lieutenant, without purchase ;
Lieutenant William Cameron Geddes to be Ensign, with-
.out purchase; William Edward Cookson, Gent., to be
Ensign.
97th Foot—First Lieutenant Richard Butler Hamilton
Lowe, to be Ensign, without purchase.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieut. G. R. Fitzmaurice to
be Lieutenant.
Brd West India Regiment—Staff Sergeant-Major Thos.
Dunn to be Ensign, without purchase ; Sergeant Martin
Doorley to be Quartermaster.
UNATTACRED.—Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. Francis Colborne, to have the substantive rank
of Major, in conformity with the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6,
1854.
un
Lieutenant J. Theodore Ling to be Captain.
'Lieutenant Alexander Hawtrey to be Captain, without
base.
STAFF.—Paymaster Alexis Corcoran, to be Paymaster of
a depot.
William Summerfield, Esq., to be Paymaster of the
East India depots, at Chatham.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Alexander
Stewart has been permitted to resign his appointment.

PR

Major Edward Falconer nay to mite ---
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army while so employed.
Captain Stephen James Stevens, C. 8., to have the local
rank of major while so employed.
Ahck John Fraser, Esq., to have the local and temporary
rank of Major in Turkey while employed on a special
service with the Turkish forces.
The under-mentioned gentlemen, having been attached
to the Medical Staff of the Turkish Contingent, to have
the local rank of Acting Assistant-Surgeon in Turkey
while so employed—S. H. Marshall, Gent.; William
Boyd, Gent.

For Lieutenant-Colonel W. Turner, Bengal Retired List.,
recruiting for the East India Company's Service, at Liver-
pool, to have the rank of Captain in the army while so em-
ployed, read Lieutenant-Colonel W. Turner, &c., &c., to
have the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the army while so
employed.
ltrevet•Major T. S. Begbie to be Lieutenant• Colonel in

the Army.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel T. S. Begbie to be Colonel in
the Army.
Major M. Andrews to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Army, the rank being honorary only.
Lieutenant J. Lyons, Royal Artillery, to have the local
rank of Captain in Turkey while employed es Aide-de-
Camp to Capt. Dickson, commanding the Artillery Force
of the Turkish Contingent.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. Creagh to be Colonel.
Colonel Baron Vou Statterheim to have the temporary
rank of Brigadier General in the British German Legion.
The undermentioned officers, having been appointed to
the Field Train of the Turkish Contingent, to have a step
of local rank while so employed :
To be Assistant Commissaries of the First Class—T. St.
G. C. R. Thomson, Esq. ; F. C. L. Wraxall, Esq.
To be Assistant Commissaries of the Second Class—
!, C. Tarn, Esq.; T. Collins, Esq.
To be Deputy Assistant Commissaries—J. G. Brans-
combe, Gent.; F. G. Vick, Gent.; J. M. Lloyd, Gent.; J.
M. Rudd, Gent ; T. Pye, Gent.; W. S. Hernsby, Esq.,
late Captain British Legion ; E. A. Ibberts, Gent.; E. P.
Fletcher, Gent. ; W. C. Gordon, Gent.; C. C. R. Harrison,
Gent. ; H. Taunton, Gent.
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent upon the death of the following General officers,
viz.,—Major-General Sir R. Nickle, General Sir George
Napier, and General H. D'Oyly :—Major-General Sir W.
Eyre, K.C.8., the senior supernumerary General Officer,
to be placed on the fixed establishment of General Offi-
cers ; Lieutenant-Colonel F. Seymour, Scots Fusilier
Guards, to be Colonel ; Major B. E. M. Gordon, 91st Foot,
to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Captain V. F. Story, Unattached,
staff officer of pensioners, to be Major; Lieutenant-Colonel
E. Watt, late Bengal Light Cavalry, who has been attached
to the Irregular Cavalry under Major-General Bestaon, to
have the local rank of Colonel in Turkey while so
employed; Captain J. Young, of the 4th Bengal Native
Infantry, who has been appointed to the Turkish Con-
tingent, to have the local rank of Major in Turkey while
an employed.
MEMORANDUM.—Brigadier-General R. Burnley, from a
depot battalion, has been permitted to retire upon half.
pay, Unattached, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, from the 26th
January, 1855.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel James Wells
Armstrong and Brevet Major William Hardy to have their
brevet rank converted into substantive rank.
Hospr'rAL STAFF.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Joseph
Johnston, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon; Henry Kelsall,
Henry Brook, Charles Christopher Piper, William Collis,
and Thomas William Spink Locke, Gents., to be Acting
Assistant-Surgeons ; Acting Assistant-Surgeon Richard
Branwell has been permitted to resign his commission.
LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.
Sergeant-Major John Granger and
geant Richard Neville to be

termaater-Ser-
of Brigade.

TURKISFI CONTINGENT.
Henry William Vyuer, Esq., to be Paymaster; W. Fran-
kish, Gent., to have the local rank of Acting Assistant-
Surgeon in Turkey while employed with the Turkish Con-
tingent; J. Falls, Gent., to be Paymaster to the Irregular
Cavalry attached to the Turkish Contingent.
The undermentioned gentlemen having been selected
for service with the Turkish Contingent, to have a step of
local rank while so employed:—
William Paton, Esq., to have the local rank of Surgeon;
A. Gibson Hamilton, Gent., to have the local rank of As-
sistant• Surgeon ; James Todd, James Carney, James
Aliston Rae, William Litster, Charles Macpherson, J. A.
Dewar, George M'Coull, Peter M`Leish Dewar, and Ste-
phen Marshall, Gents., to have the local rank of Acting
Assistant-Surgeons.

BRITISH GERMAN LEGION.
2nd Jagir Corps—Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. J. Strange
Jocelyn to be Commandant; John Montresor and Frede-
rick von Jess to be Majors ; Henry Barrett Bromley, Esq.,
to be Paymaster; John James M`Donald to be Quarter-
master; Julius Heinrich Steinau to be Surgeon.
2nd Light Infantry—Major Hans H. Van Aller to be
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant.
3rd Light Infantry—George Talbot, Esq., to be Major.
Ist Light Dragoons—Hugo Von Hirsch and Robert
Charles Clipperton to be Lieutenants; Pierre Mejanel and
Anthony Francis Mannock to be Cornets; Hugo Senftle-
ben to be Assistant-Surgeon.
2nd Light Dragoons—Edmund Sanders, Andreas Volger,
and Cornet Christian Johannsen to be Lieutenants ; Cornet
Hermann Von Dettmer to to Lieutenant and Adjutant;
Baron Otto Von Reischack to be Cornet; Carl Winsell to
be Assistant-Surgeon ; Lewis Robert Haslewood, Esq.

- - -
BRITISH SWISS LEGION.
Ist Light Infantry Regiment—William Goldby to be
Quartermaster ; William Berkley Beattie, Esq., to be Pay-
master of the Second. Battalion.

BRITISH ITALIAN LEGION.
Major Constantine Read to have the temporary rank of
Lieutenant• Colonel in the Army while attached to the
British Italian Legion; li. W. Chasseaud, tient:, to be
Paymaster.
L The appointment of Major Carl Ludwig Hifelin, which
appeared in the Gazette of the 7th of September, 1855, is
to bear date the la of July, 185.5.]
IThe designation of the gentlemen appointed Staff.
Paymaster on the Ist of May, 1850, is Richard Alliston
Bowman, and not Richard Allister Bowyer,fts then stated.]

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ADMIRALTY, OCT. 8.

The following promotions, dated the 3rd inst, have this
day taken place, consequent on the death, on the 2nd inst.,
of Admiral of the White Sir Samuel Pym,
of the Blue Edward Hawker to be Admiral of the White ;
Vice Admiral of the Red Johu tyscough to be Admiral of
the Bltie ; Vice-Admiral of the White Wiftiath • Bowles.
C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red; Vice-Admiral of the
Blue the Hon. William Gordon to be Vice-Admiral of the
White ; Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Joshua Ricketts
Rowley, Bart., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue; hear-Ad-
miral of the White Provo Win. Parry wawa to be Rear-
Admiral of the Red; Rear-Admiral of the Blue Charles
Howe Fremantle to be Rear-Admiral of the 'White ; Cap-
tain the Hon. Thomas Best to be a Rear-Admiral on the
Reserved List; Captain Charles Ramsay Drinkwater
Bethune, C. 8., to be a Rear-Admiral of the Blue.,
OCTOBER 19.
The following appointments have been made at the
Admiralty this day :—Clerk John G. Richards to the
Impregnable. Master's Assistant W. H. ranter to the
Russell. Master's Assistant Jos. B. Doyle to the Simoom.
Master's Assistant Robert J. Ellis to the Hastings.
Master's Assistant Edward W. Yearn to the Calcutta.
Master's Assistant Frederick K. Taylor to the 111 alacea.
Naiel Cadet Edward B. P. Kelso to the Calcutta. Naval
Cadet Hyde Parker to the Russell. Naval Cadet Spencer
M. Weston to the Hawke. Naval Cadet George H. Law-
son to the Hastings. Naval Cadet Maddock R. M.
Griffith to the Hastings. Naval Cadet William E. Mitchell
to thd Penelope. Naval Cadet John Ingles to the Penelope.
Naval Cadet Charles L. M. lanes to the. Malacca. Naval
Cadet Archer J. W. Musgrave to the Russell. Naval Cadet
Cow H. Hawkins to the Hawke.

NAVAL AND AIILITARY.
Major-General Sir J. Pennefather, Commander-
in-Chief of the forces at Malta, with the local rank
of Lieutenant-General, arrived there from Marseilles,

on the 7th inst.
Major-General the Earl of Cardigan spent several
days in the inspection of the various cavalry depots
at Newbndge. The noble and gallant earl was en•
tertained at dinner by the officers quartered there.
Good-service pensions have been bestowed by the
Admiralty upon the following officers i—Capts. James
Hope, C.B. (1838), the Right Hon. Lord Clarence
Paget (1839), Thomas Henderson (1840), and
Lewis I'. Jones, C.B. (1840). The gallant services
of Captain Hope, C. 8., have well earned for him this
distinguished honour.
A grand field-day took place in the Phoenix-park,
Dublin, on Tuesday. About 2,000 men were present.
The manoeuvres were executed with the greatest
precision and rapidity. The steadiness of the in-
fantry, composed, as they principally are, of militia
regiments, elicited the approbation of the general in
command. The 15th Regiment, which headed the
infantry, was the only regiment of the line on the
ground.
The insubordination of the Berry Militia was
inquired into last week by a military court. Several
witnesses were examined, and their evidence has
been forwarded to the Horse Guards. On Monday
the mbitia were inspected by Major-General Sir J.
Chatterton. The regiment went through the usual
evolutions with great precision, and at the conclu-
sion of the inspection the gallant general, forming
the troops in hollow square, addressed them upon
the subject of their late insubordinate conduct. The
gallant general, in concluding his address, inquired
if the men had any complaint to make, and none
being offered, the troops were informed that any
future misbehaviour would be punished with severity,
and then dismissed to quarters.
Reinforcements for the Crimea, to the amount of
1,700 men and officers, from the depots of the various
regiments in Ireland, are waiting at Dublin for
I embarkation.
The parliamentary grant of 5,0001. to the officers
and crew of H.M.S. Investigator, Captain APClure,
engaged in the Arctic expedition, will be ready for
payment on Thursday next, at the department of the
Accountant-General Nay, Somerset-house.
Mortar-boats for next year have been contracted
for by the Admiralty with various ship-builders, to
be ready in the spring. They will be upwards of
seventy feet in length, and are to be constructed in
a very strong and substantial manner, and to be of
a light draught of water. Their armament will con-
sist of a 13-inch mortar, fitted on a platform of
great strength placed amidships ; they will be cutter
rigged, thus carrying little canvas, as, when brought
into use, they will be attended by steamers, which
will tow them into position.

BREVET.
Major Henry Crawley to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Army, the rank being honorary only.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Thomas Leslie, C. 8., to have
the local rook of Colonel in the Army while so employal.