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marines was voted by acclamation in Parlia-
ment. A screw squadron was sent, under the
orders of Captain Robinson, to test the quali-
ties of the several vessels, and a committee
was appointed which fully proved the incom-
petency of steam-packets and merchant vessels
fur the purposes of war. It was shown that
out of 700 merchant vessels only three were
capable of war service. Another commission
was employed on the question of manning the
navy, and the measures recommended in that
report have been adopted and carried out by
the present Government. The pensioners of
Greenwich Hospital received the boon of ad-
ditional comfort, whilst the personal liberality
of the duke was displayed in the princely do-
nation he presented to the Sailors' Homes.
These are services real and substantial—
these are administrative achievements em-
blazoned by the light of their own virtue. No
First Lord of the Admiralty ever entered upon
office with a purer resolve to perform its duties,
and no one more loyally and nobly fulfilled
them. It were easy to amplify where the
materials of merit are profuse, but a plain
recital of valuable service without comment,
and beyond contradiction, will best illustrate
the claims of the Duke of Northumberland to
the gratitude of his country.

CHAPLAINS FOR THE ARMY OF THE EAST.
SEVERAL erroneous statements having appeared with
reference to the provision that has been made for the
religious wants of our army in the East, we are in-
duced to published a nominal list of the chaplains
of all denominations who have been appointed:—

CLERGYHRN or TRZ CHURCH or ENOLAND.—Rey. H. 0.
Wright, Principal Chaplain—Rev. R. Halpin—Rev. R.
Hamilton—Rev. G. Lawleee—Rev. J. Egan—Rev. T.
Sabine--Rev. J. L. Gilborne—Rey. J. M. Lewee--Rev. H.
Hulcatt—Rev. Mr. Hayward—Rev. C. E. Hadow—Rey.
E. Owen—Rev. E. G. Parker—Rev. G. B. Eade—Rev. R.
Freeman.

Of these fifteen, the last five named were sent out
undor the auspices of the Gospel Propagation So-
ciety :
ROMAN CATHOLIC PIIIIESTS.—Rey. J. J. Wheble—Rev.
D. Sheahan—Rev. M. ('uffe—Rev. F. 0. Dwyer—Rev. J.
Butt—Rev. J. Baireliawe—Rev. T. Molony—Rev. M.
Cantry—Rev. J. Doyle--Rev. H. Clark.
PREBBYTEBIAN MINISTICHIL—Rev. J. Campbell—Rev. H.
Drennan.

We may add that there are vacancies in the
regular body of chaplains of the Church of England,
and that two more clergymen will probably leave
England in the course of the ensuing week, on the
same footing as those already despatched by the
Society for Propagating the Gospel. Another Pres-
byterian minister will also be sent out forthwith.

PRINCE EDWARD OF SAXE WEIMAR.
THE Crimea expedition has been fertile in examples
of courage and gallantry never surpassed in our mi-
litary annals ; and among the most illustrious of
these examples may fairly be ranked the heroic con-
duct of I'rince EDWARD of Saxs Weimar. He went
on duty in the trenches at four a.m.; at ten a.m. he
was severely wounded from the bursting of a shell,
receiving a severe contusion on the outer part of the
left thigh ; a second injury on the inside of the left
thigh ; and a third on the right arm. Although
stunned by this treble blow, he positively declined
to abandon his post, nor did he leave the trenches
till he was relieved at the usual time, four next
morning ; thus having remained on duty wounded
for sixteen hours. For the two following days he
was compelled to lie by, but at the last accounts
was going on well. His life, in all probability, was
saved by his having a thick silk wrapper and
letter-case in his pocket, both of which were cut to
pieces!

IN the public correspondence from the Black Sea
fleet the want of ASSISTANT-SURGEONS IN THE NAVY
is justly and forlibly complained of. After the action
with the forts these gentlemen were handed round,
as it were, from one ship to another, performing
their functions as rapidly as possible, and yet so
largo was the demand for their services that the
dying and wounded of the most distant vessels had
to wait several hours without the proper attention to
their needs or sufferings. The Admiralty has fre-
quently been memorialised on the anomalous position
of the members of this valuable branch of the
service : it has been suggested for the last dozen
years that they should be treated as officers, and
should mess in the gun-room. It is no longer a fact
that their ranks are supplied, as in the days of Com-
modore Trunnion, from behind the apothecaries'