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portant, consideration. After a two months' voyage
on board a sailing vessel, unable all that time to lie
down even for an hour, the horses will be put on
shore out of condition, with their limbs cramped,
very unfit for immediate service, and probably with
the loss of a considerable number. On board steam-
ers arrangements could be made for enabling them
to lie down, and they would be landed in high condi-
tion, fit to take the field immediately. The asser-
tion was hazarded some time ago from the Treasury
bench in the House of Commons that considerations
of economy have induced the preference given to
sailing-transports. There is no real economy in the
matter. The additional length of time consumed on
the voyage, and on shore till the horses recover the
use of their legs—the additional consumption of feed
and forage by man and beast while kept in a state of
compulsory idleness—the probable allowance of irre-
coverable opportunities being lost before the cavalry
are fit to take the field—all these drawbacks will
make the sailing-transports in the long run infinitely
more expensive than the steamers.

The Colombo, with Commissary-General Filder
and suite, arrived at Malta on the 13th inst.
Colenel Ardent, who accompanied Sir John Bur-
goyne to the East, has arrived at Marseilles, on
board the Louqaor. That vessel fell in with a great
number of English and French transports, full of
troops, on their way to Gallipoli. There only re-
mained one regiment at Malta to be embarked.
A proposal has been made on the part of the Poles
to form a Polish Legion, which, being supplied with
the munitions of war, shall fight side by side with the
English and French troops against the common
enemy. An address to that effect was sent to the
Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury, for. his
approval, and received the usual official notification,
stating that it had been received, and referred to the
Secretary for War and the Colonies.

THE RENDEZVOUS AT GALLIPOLI.
The first detachment of the Bntish forces reached
Gallipola in the night of the sth instant, onboard the
steamer Golden Fleece. They left Malta on the 31st ult.,
and performed the voyage in about five and a half days.
The detachment consisted of a large number of
officers and about a thousand rank and file of the
Rifles, Sappers and Miners. Owing to the want of
preparations they did not land until the Bth. By the
11th instant the 03rd Highlanders, the 44th Regi-
ment, and three companies of the 50th, had arrived
at Gallipoli from Malta. The Sappers had mean
while laid out a camp. Some inconvenience, but
which was by no means unexpected, had been occa-
tioned by the want of horses.
Several officers of the commissariat department
and medical staff arrived in the Kangaroo on the
11th.
The total number of British that has reached
Gallipoli was 2,400. Of the French General Broconi
and suite bad arrived, with two companies of Sappers,
seven companies of Rifles, and 2,810 Frenchmen.
Total of the allied forces arrived, 5,200.
The Monitcur announces officially that the
" Government has received reports from General Can-
robert, on the arrival of the French troops at Gallipoli,
and on their installation in the environs of that town.
These first accounts are very satisfactory. A Turkish
commission, presided over by Ibrahim Pacha, had pre-
ceded at Gallipoli the arrival of our first detachments, in
order to make itself acquainted with our necessities, and
to satisfy them as far as possible. The general has had
much cause to be satisfied with this intervention. The
Pacha of Adrianople had come at the same time to Galli-
poli to support with his authority the execution of the
measures to be taken; thus all the resources were turned
to use, and our soldiers at their disembarkation received
all that was necessary for them. A proportional part of
the resources of the town had been reserved for the
English army. This division has been effected between
them with the most cordial understanding. General
Canrobert has reconnoitred all the peninsula; he has •
fixed upon the spots where the different corps will encamp,
and will form themselves into brigades as they disembark.
The troops will be there in good condition, at the smallest
distance possible from Gallipoli, and in localities abound-
ing with water end wood. The country is very healthy,
and the necessities of the sick have been provided for
by the installation of a tempory hospital at Gallipoli.
Localities have also been prepared in the town to serve
as magazines, and to receive provisions of all kinds sent
from France for the army. Onr installation has therefore
commenced on the best. conditions, and in a short time
the first three divisions will be united in the camp of
Gallipoli, with all the materiel of artillery, engineers, pro-
visions, hospitals, and encampment destined for the
expeditionary corps. All those immense stores have been
embarked from the shores of France and Algeria, and,
without doubt, the greater portion has by this time arrived
at its destination."
Two thousand French soldiers, under the orders
of General Canrobert, are encamped at Conrail,
three leagues from Gallipoli. The hest under-
standing exists among the allied troops. The Sap-
per; have begun to fortify the isthmus.
The villages of Yeni-Keni, about five miles from
Old Troy, and Yeni-shaar and Erin-Keni, between
that and the Dardanelles, also the latter town, have

WAR OFFICE, Amin. 21.
(From Last Night's tisane.)
2nd Regiment of Life Guards—Ensign Lord Ernest
M`Donnell Vane, from the 57th Foot, to be Cornet and
Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Honourable C. S. B.
Hanbury, promoted.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Captain Richard
Henry Richard Howard Vyse to be Major, by purchase,
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, vice
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Horace Pitt,
who retires ; Lieutenant Francis Howard Vyse to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Trelawney, who retires ; Lieutenant
Duncan James liaillie to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Vyse ; Cornet the Honourable John Baptiste Joseph
Dormer to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vyse ; Cornet
John Inglis Jones to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Baillie.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Charles Crawford
Fraser to be Captain, by purchase, vice the Duke of Beau-
fort, promoted, by purchase, to an Unattached Majority;
Cornet Musgrave Dyne liiisco to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Fraser.
13th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon Lancelot Arm-
strong, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice bum-
breck, who exchanges.
16th Light Dragoons—Cornet Walter Barrett Lennard
has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of
his commission.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign
and Lieutenant Frederick Charles Koppel to be Ad-
jutant, vice Ralph Bradforl, who resigns the Adjutancy
only.
2nd Regiment of Foot—Henry Pyne Hiffernan, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Laurie, appointed to the
4th Foot.
4th Foot—Ensign John Wimburn Laurie, from the 2nd
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Winter, who retires.
12th Foot—Sergeant-Major Robert Laver to be Quarter-
termaster, vice Cowell, appointed to the Depot Battalion at
Parkhurst.
16th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Cockell
to be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice Luxmoore,
who retires upon full pay; Captain Alexander Munro
to be Major, without purchase, vice Cockell ; Lieutenant
John Octavius Chichester, to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Munro ; Ensign John King Rendall to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Chichester; Gentle-
man Cadet William Henry Carter, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Hendon.

19th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant Thomas Palmer to
be Quartermaster, vice Hendry, appointed to the Depot
Battalion at Winchester.
20th Foot—Thomas Wright, Gent., to be Assistant.
Surgeon, vice Howard, promoted on the Staff.
26th Foot—Lieutenant William Edward Wallace to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Cameron, who retires.
43d Foot—Lieut.-Colonel James Brown, from the 94th
Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Phihpps, who exchanges.
57th Foot—George Mitchell, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Lord Ernest M`Donnell Vane, promoted iu
the 2nd Life Guards.
613th Foot—Ensign Charles Frederick Wheeler Cuffe to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bowles, who retires; Charles
James Thornton Duesbury, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Cuffe.
84th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Hyde Page, from half-
pay 76th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell Barber
Browne, appointed to the 30th Foot.
94th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Newton Phillips,
from 43rd Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brown, who
exchanges.
Depot Battalion at Winchester—Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel William Slater, from half-pay unattached, to be
Major.
Depot Battalion of Templemore—Major Henry George
Hart, from half-pay unattached, to be Major.
UNATTACHED.—Captain Henry Duke of Beaufort, from
the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Major, by purchase.
BlLEVET.—Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dive Townsend,
of the Dep6t Battalion at Templemore, to be Colonel in
the Army ; Lieutenant-Colonel William Fergusson Beateon,
of the East India Company's Service, to have the local rank
of Colonel, while employed in the Turkish dominions.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, April 18.

BANKRUPTS.—JAMES HENRY THOMAS VAUGHAN HUGHES,
Westbourne-grove, Bayswater, chemist—JOHN KUMMARSELL,
Little York-place, Marylebone, carpenter—HENßY ANSTEY and
WILLIAM WALTON, Birmingham, draper—CHARLES BRAMER,
Sheffield. wood dealer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—WILLIAM IRVINE HOWELL,
Glasgow, merchant—Joan KING CLARK, Glasgow, merchant.

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Friday, April 21.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—THOMAS LANORIDOE, Tun-
bridge Wells, auctioneer—WlLLlAM HENRY COOPER, Bedford-
row, upholsterer.
BANKTUPTS.—GEormi HARTSHORNE. and GEORGE HARTS-
HORNE, the younger, Great Dover-street, ironmongers—
THOMAS WAITERS, Goswell-road. grocer—CHARLES BIRCHALL,
Maidstone, pipe manufacturer—ELlAs MOLYNEUX, Liverpool,
tavern-keeper—Rolle/a WILLIAMS, Mold, Flintahire, draper—
HENRY CRANE, Dudley, grocer and innkeeper—CHAßLES
THOMAS, Gloucester, StittiOner---HENRY EVEN HARRIES, Mon-
mouth, draper—HENßY CARTER, Liverpool, brewer—JoHN
AMES, West Tarring. Sussex, market gardener—WlLLlAM
GEORGE TRANOMAR and JOHN TRANOMAR, Brighton, grocers—
FREDERICK WILLIAM WRIGHT, Brighton, chemist and drugrt—
SAMVEL CLARKSON PETERS, Southampton,draper—JOHN 'H IL-
LIPS BRIERLY and GEORGE BRIERLY, Oldham, cotton spinners—
BENJAMIN REDHEAD WAITE, Wormwood - street, butcher—
GEORGE LAWRENCE, Abingdon, saddler and harness maker—
down PENSION, Bradford, woolstapler—THOMAS CLEMENTS,
Saint Helen's, Lancashire, grocer—CHARLES EDWARD MALLAN,
Tunbridge Wells, innkeeper—PETEß PEnsitio Thome, New-
gate-street, printer.
SCOTCHS EQUESTRATIONA.—THIRD, AnAms, and Cc:fli-
msy, Glasgow, warehousemen—GroßoE M'DoNALb, Teawig,
Ross-shire, lately farmer—CancsettAN and BROWN, Wasp*
tailors—JAMES WAGSTM, Paisley, dyer.