The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-12 00:00:00

THE E \PRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1848.

three months, Dr. HOWLRY lived long enough to
witness great changes of feeling and opinion in the
church and in the public. It is twenty years since
he became primate of all England, and fora long
period before his elevation he had presided over the
see of London. In early life, at Oxford, be must have
been familiar with doctrines of civil and ecclesiastical
policy which differed w'dely from those which
now prevail both in theory and practice. The
evangelical party in these days, as an unpopular
and pushing minority, held a position corresponding
to that which is now occupied by the hoe ile and
more modern sect of the Anglo-catholics. The highest
churchmanship was in close alliance with the
government; the sanctity of the existing division of
church property was as yet held inviolable ; and there
were many relics of the old theory, which, from the
middle ages downwards, had represented an incum-
bent as a freeholder, and a bishop as a baron—who
differed from the laity rather in the nature of the ser-
vices by which they held their estates, than in the
security or independence of their tenure. Dr.
HOWLEY saw without participation, but apparently
without disapproval, the revival of activity among
the clergy, which was caused partly by their share in
the general movement of the age, and in a great mea-
sure from the necessity of counteracting the unpopu-
larity to which they were subjected about the
era of the Reform Bill. As the views of
the great bulk of the clergy and of the friendly
portion of the laity changed, they found a
discreet representative in the archbishop. From the
establishment of the ecclesiastical commission he took
an active part in its operat one, presiding at the board
with remarkable regularity. In dealing with the
question of education he also formed a suitable organ
for that portion of public opinion which he might
fairly be supposed to represent. Some years ago he
objected to the innovation of government inspection
in church schools, and to the equal participation of the
public bounty by schools of all denominations. But
the clergy and laity of the church rapidly modified
their views; and no personal bigotry. on the part of
the primate interfered with the introduction of a
wiser and juster policy. Ile never originated or
headed any innovation; but he was willing to assist
in the practical introduction of changes which
were generally thought to be reasonable. For his
conduct in the difficult question of Puseyiem
he incurred much censure in various quarters.
The high-church party claimed his support for the
assertors of episcopal power, and of the forms of the
church ; their opponents would willingly have ex-
communicated their antagonists by the aid of any
power ecclesiastical or secular. The archbishop,
according to his custom, was passive for a time.
Threescore and ten is not the age for taking up a new
fanaticism, even in favour of rubrics and resurree-
tionised antiquities ; nor, on the other hand, was Dr.
HOWLEY of a character to join in the persecution of a
minority at the dictate of a noisy majority. After
waiting until he was appealed to for a decision,
he published one which was certainly no decision;
bat which, perhaps, was as useful. lie appealed to
all parties to be calm. lie requested the rubrical
fanatics to let well alone; to be content without
using ceremonies which had grown obsolete, and not
to disturb the church by changes based on a theory
that change was sacrilegious. The alarmists were
obliged to be satisfied with tho partial countenance
given to their complaints, and to postpone their hopes
of forcing on a definite schism or secession.
It was perhaps a just charge against Dr. HOWLEY
that he allowed the reins of power to pass from his
hands into those of his active and ambitious suffragan
of London. Twenty years ago the minister of the
day was strongly urged to place the then Bishop of
CHESTER at the head of the church. Without hold-
ing that station Dr. HLOMFIELD has no doubt since
exercised much of the authority which belongs to it ;
but few churchmen and fewer politicians have regretted
the limits placed on his activity by his secondary posi-
tion. There has seldom been an archbishop more
acceptable to the statesmen, who had occasion
to deal with him in ecc:rsiastical matters, than
the late prelate. Neither encroaching nor obsti-
nate, he never throw petty difficulties in the
way of arrangements to which he assented in
substance; but at the same time he maintained
opinions which, IT not entitled to weight on their own
account, required consideration as facto from their'
general prevalence in the church. lie was an excel-
lent ecclesiometer. Whatever he approved, the church
was certain not to disapprove ; and the general confi-
dence which he enjoyed among his own order often
smoothed the path of government. The general un-
derstanding that he was consulted as to the personal
qualifications of persons selected for high church Fe-
ferment, prevented in almost all cases dissatisfaction
with the choice of the government. In his own dice
cese, we believe, he was considered, in later life at
least, too lax; and he was by no means exempt from
I the universal fault of bishops—inattention to the merits
of the clergy in disposing of his preferment.
The rumours as to the appointment of a successor
are various. The subject must, no doubt. I- ave been
fully considered during the long illness of Dr. How-
LEY. Some years ago the Bishop
Luepos, as the
most active and best known of the episcopal bench,
would most probably have been selected fur the
primacy ; but for many reasons, which it is hardly
necessary to urge, such an appointment at present
would be most improbable. With much talent for
the details of business, Dr. BLOMFIF.LD has never
shown largeness of view, consistency. of opinion, or
tact and right feeling in dealing with individuals.
Ile would not, like Dr. HowLEY, keep matters
smooth ; and he would not command public con-
fidence if he adopted any active course. Dr. KAYE,
of Lincoln, has often been mentioned as a possible
successor to the late archbishop. He was early
distinguished by academical attainments, and
has passed as a prosperous scholar through the
headship of a college to the government of
a see, where his best recommendation is that little has
been heard of the diocese of Lincoln in his time. If
it has heretics within its bosom it tolerates them •, if
it has agitators, they are kept from agitation. The
clergy, we may euspose, attend to their functions, in-
stead of discussing what these functions are, and the
bishop enjoys the reputation of being a judicious pre-
late and a man of sense and business. He has, how-
ever, signed the late letter to Lord Jon RUSSELL ,
and in politics has not generally supported the party
represented by the present government.
Toe Bishop of OXFORD, from his name, his elo-
quence, his general reputation fur ability, and his
favour at court, hue for some time been considered a
not improbable candidate. There can be, however, no
doubt that the " Hnmpden" correspondence has put an
end to his claims. It is impossible tojuatify his conduct
in the matter; and we have never heard disputants
on that many-sided controversy while some
blamed one party, some another—dispute the pre-
tensions of the Bishop of OXFORD to have got into
the mire deepest of all. It is unnecessary to enter
farther into the c,ance of his being promoted to Can-
terbury. The Bishop of SALIRBURY, as a man of
ability and a member of an influential Whig family,
has sometimes been pointed out by rumour as
the future primate; but we believe that the
feeling of the government is far from favour-
able
to him ; and he was one of the writers
of the "Hampden" letter. Dr. SUMNER, I3ishop of
CHESTER, who is mentioned by report, is a very
active and zealous prelate, and his promotion would
give satisfaction to a numerous party in the church.
We should regret to see him selected for the arch-
bishopric on the ground that he is a strong partisan.
It is very desirable that a primate should be above
the internal controversies of the body over which he
presides : and that all parties should have a confidence
in his fairness. We think, however, that Dr. SUMNER'S
appointment is by no means an impossible contin-
gency. To Dr. Parts and I/r. STANLEY there are
similar objection., and we have not heard either of
them mentioned in common rumour. The Arch-
bishop of YORK has, we suppose, reached his destined
height of elevation.
The most general report which has lately prevailed
has pointed to Dr. LONSDALE, Bishop el LICHFIELD,
who is well known as a practical and sensible man
ci business, and who enjoys a good general reputa-
tion. We doubt whether any report on such a sub-
jftt is likely to be founded on sufficient authority ;
but from internal evidence, we should attach great
weight to a rumour that Dr. THIRLWALL, the Bishop
of St. it ivin's is to be the new Archbishop. As the
first of English scholars, as • politician of enlarged
and statesmanlike views, and es a person entirely
exempt from bigotry, fanaticism, and hypocrisy, Dr.
THIItLWALL would probably be the best candidate
whom the crown could select. In questions of educa-
tion, or of the establishment of religious equality, a wise
administration would find in him, not an impediment
or a clog, but a stkady and determined supporter. The

charges of the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S are by far the
most complete and satisfactory answers which have
been given to the Tractarian party. Instead of join-
ing in the ignorant clamour against their Romanising
tendencies, he confronted them with a calmness and
security of learning superior to their own. On the
Maynooth question and on the corn laws, he spoke in
the House of Lords with greater effect perhaps on
those who read his speeches, than on his immediate
audience. He is, however, we believe, an effective
preacher. Sometimes, when he has preached in
Welsh in remote parts of his diocese, the dissenting
chapels have been dosed to enable their congregations
to hear him.
We hope at any rate that the crown will select a
man of sense for the office. Orthodox divines are as
plenty as blackberries ; saints are sprinkled here and
there ; statesmen are rarely to be found in the higher
ranks of the church. The demand of the public upon
them for hypocrisy is so easily and profitably an-
swered, that few of them fail to cultivate or plant
prejudices as if they were virtues. With a popular
Pope at Rome, it would be • discredit to protes-
tentisro, if it could not fled some reasonable portion
of wisdom to occupy the humbler throne of nter-
bury.

THE reduction of the duty on tea cannot be tro...
as purely a question of revenue : it involves the
extension—perhaps even the continuation, of our trade
with China. The value of cotton cloths exported from
this country to China amounted,inlB44,to 1,464,0001.,
and in 1845 to 1,543,000!. In 1846 it bad fallen to
940,000!., and in 1847 it was only 880,0001. This de-
cline was not owing to any unwillingness on the part of
the Chinese torematn our customers, but to the difficulty
of finding commercial returns in China; and this die-
' culty was created in a great measure, if not altogether,
by the taxation of Great Britain. The export of tea
to this country is arrested, not by a short supply of
the commodity, but by the impossibility of findinsw:
market here for the whole quantity
could be supplied—an impossibility created
solely by the heavy customs duty levied upon
tea, and which would disappear with the reduction of
the duty. The tax upon tea varies with the value of
the article from 300 to 200 per cent. Whole classes
of the community are thus compelled to abstain from
its use, and others to consume less of it than they are
disposed to do. Hence the market is already glutted,
the stocks of tea are increasing, and weak holders are
obliged to sell at unremunerative prices. The Chinese
cannot take as much of our manufactures as they wish
because we cannot take the necessary quantity of tea
in exchange ; and we cannot take the tea because
government makes us pay twice or thrice as much
again as the natural price of the commodity on every
pound we consume.
To this view of the question the CHANCELLOR OF
THE EXCHEQUER objected, on Thursday evening, that
the exports to Chins in 1814 and 1845 were unnaturally
and improvidently large, and could nut be expected to
continue at so high an amount. There is a little truth
in this allegation and much fallacy. There can be no
doubt that, considering how very little we knew about
China, there was great risk iu the large consignments
which a great number of our manufacturers made,
and for some time kept making, to that market at its
first opening. But what were the circumstances under
which the manufacturers plunged headlong into this
risk ? As observed by Mr. CARDWELL, on Thursday :
" The trade was at first in the hands of British mer-
chants, who, when it ceased to be remunerative, dis-
continued it ; but it was then taken up by the manu-
facturers, anxious to find an increasing market for the
produce of their manufactories." Manufactures in this
country have for a long tract of yearshad their market
limited by artificial means—by the pressure of
protective and prohibitive duties on corn, ou sugar,
and on many other commodities. In this unnatural
state of affairs, capital and population, and skill—in
short, all the elements of production—had increased
much more rapidly than the means of finding a vent
for produce. The nation was labouring under a ple-
thora of production, and producers naturally and ne-
cessarily rushed in headlong haste to every new open-
ing, and choked it up by their struggles to be first.
Our manufacturers elbowed, jostled, and fought with
each other, to threw themselves and their goods into
the Chinese market, just as the prisoners in the black
hole of Calcutta trampled each other down to get to
the window—from an instinct of self-preservation.
The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. with his 200
and 300 per cent. duty upon tea, is the humane
sentry, with his bayonet, driving those who reach the
window back to be stifled in the crowd.
Another set of objectors to the reduction of the
tea-duties affect scepticism as to the possibility of an
increased consumption of tea even at much lower
prices than now prevail. This scepticism, if real,
must be based on utter ignorance of the habits of the
population. In a large manufacturing town in the
north there are two large and flourishing tea esta-
blishments supported almost exclusively by the
custom of the females who work at tambouring or
for the employers of hand-loom weavers in the imme-
disiely
adjoining country: On the days when these
poor creatures receive their wages, the immense num-
ber of small packages of tea and sugar prepared before-
hand is wonderful, as well as the rapidity with which
they disappear. Yet the tea is infused in the very
smallest quantities, and generally the leaves are pre-
served and dried to be used over again. In the same
way it is a common practice in London and many other
places, to allow female domestics so much in name of
wages, and so much as tea and sugar money. In
comparatively few cases is this money expended on
tea, and almost never on auger. Such is the economy
used with what is still a luxury. These are but indica
flow; of the extent to which the quantity of tea used
by the already tea-consuming classes is kept down by
the high duties. And there are many classes who
now never use it at all, although it never
has been known that any people ever tried it,
without contracting a taste for it. The average rates
of consumption in different countries corroborate the
natural inferences from the facts we have mentioned.
In Australia, where tea is abundant and cheap, the
average annual consumption is 81b. per head ; in this
country it is only III). 10oz. per head ; although in
families where expense is nn consideration it has been
known to rise as high as 131 b. per head, and although
the allowance in the navy is tilb. 40z., and in work-
houses 31lb. per head.
The declining state of our trade with China, the
intimate association between that decline and the
anomalously small consumption of tea in this country,
the enormous addition made to the price of tea by our
customs duties, and the immense latent power of tea
consumption in the country, all point to a large re-
duction of the tea duty as a matter of inevitable
necessity mite qu'il codte—whether the revenue be a
loser or not.
The reduction must he made without loss of time—
before the Americans or other rivals get in and take
possession of the ground we now occupy in China.
h t-Auction must be large so as to occasion a sensi-
ble diminution in price, and render possible a large and
immediate increase of consumption. These who are best
acquainted with the trade, sleek of any change short of
a reduction to Is. ner ib , as certain to be utterly ineffi-
cacious ; and notwithstanding that Mr. JAMES WIL,riN
sticks out for Is. 61, we believe their view to be I
sound. A duty of Is. 6d. per lb. would keep prices
at a range which would still afford a motive to the
present pinching self-denial of tea-drinkers, and to
keep back the yet uninitiated.
Some few have talked of an ad valorem duty. The
dealers have always been opposed to it as unworkable.
As to the validity of this objection we confess our-
selves not altogether convinced , but there is another
which weighs with us. It has been remarked that
those of the working classes who indulge in tea rarely
, consume the low class kinds. This it is easy to ac-
count for. The agreeableandbeneficial stimulus which
I good tea supplies cannot be produced by the low price
teas, which are either deficient in strength or adnl-
terated (in the country of their growth). The very
low priced class of teas will not be consumed,
and ought nut to .be consumed, in any
I circumstances. Again, the fancy, or exquisitely
flavoured teas are limited in quantity, are
1 dear even in China, and many of them cannot
stand a sea voyage ; their consumption will always
be so limited as to render a higher duty upon them
as a source of revenue entirely illusory. The range of
prioes of teas in general consumption will vary so
little as to cause the inequality of a uniform duty on
teas of differing values almost to disappear in practice.
The additional coat of perception rendered n
by an ad valorem tax would occasion more loaeseet:aZ
than the nice adjustment of the rate of duty to value
would occasion gain to any.
On these grounds we rest our conviction that the
parties moving for a reduction of the tea duty have
Judged wisely in discarding the idea of any but a
uniform duty, and in insisting that at the utmost it

shall not exceed Is. per pound. We believe, in
addition to the mercantile considerations we
have hitherto been adverting to, that in such a bold
and extensive reduction, there is most security against
any great falling off in the revenue. A small and
timid change can produce no sensible increase of con-
sumption ; it is only a very great reduction that
affords any likelihood of as immediate and marked
increase ; and it is only a great and rapid increase
that can compensate for diminished rates. Lord
GEORGE BENTINCK was singularly infelicitous in
adverting to the case of the Post-office as a proof that
greatly reduced rates did not necessarily lead to aug-
mented returns. The Post-office is not a mere taxing,
it is also a working department. The gentlemen who
for many years contracted to furnish coaches and
horses to the mail, never expected that their profits
I would bear the same proportion to their expenditure,
as the returns of the window duty to the cost of col-
lection. In judging of the success of the new post-
office system we must take into account the accom-
modation afforded to the public as well 811 the surplus
profit of that government monopoly which is paid
over to the Exchequer. A tax upon tea is a tax, and
nothing else; the aggregate returns may be increased
amazingly, without any sensible increase in the cost
of collection. The post-office is a trading specula-
tion as well as a source of revenue ; the outlay must
be greatly increased before the income can begin to
increase.
But we again repeat, that in arguing for an imme-
diate and great reduction of the duty on tea we are
prepared to leave considerations of revenue entirely
out of the question. The maintenance and ex tension
of our trade with China are at stake, and for such an
object, especially in the present state of our commer-
cial relations, much may be risked. Ministers, it is
understood, have made np their minds to lay on an
additional 5 per cent of income and property tax, and
, for such an augmentation of our burdens, they owe
us same compensation. Remission in a tax so calcu-
lated to depress the productive ii.dustry of the coun-
try as the existing tea duty, is a most legitimate kind
of compensation. The reluctance with which we
swallow an additional dose of the income and property
tax is too well known to require further allusion to
it at present; but we have some words to say as to
the principle of its assessment, and will say them
soon.

Cbt utt.
The Queen held a court and privy council at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The
council was attended by Prince Albert, the Lord President,
the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Se-
cretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, arid Colonial Dos
pertinent', the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Board of
Control for the Affairs of India, the Lord Steward, the
Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince
Albert. At the council, her Majesty havi-g been pleased to
appoint the Right Hon. Charles lord Sudeley to be lord-
' lieutenant of the county of Montgomery, his lordship took
the usual oaths. The Archbishop of York and William
Goodenough Hayter, Esq., were by command of the Queen
sworn of her Majesty's most honourable privy council, and
took their respective places at the boar 1. The Right Hon.
W. G. Ilayter had the honour of kissing hands on ,aing
appointed Judge Advocate General. The Qaeen pricked
the list of sheriffs for the present year. A Seal for
the general government of New Zealand, a Seal for
the province of New Ulster in New Zealand. a Seal
for the province of New Munger in New Zealand,
and a Seal for the island of Labuan, which had
been prepared by Mr. B. Wyon, chief cog f her Ma-
jesty's seals, were submitted to the Queen in council, and
were approved of. The Hon. W. Bathurst was the clerk of
the council in waiting at the court Viscount k'alklaud had
an audience of the Queen, and resigned his gold stick of
office as captain of the yeomen guard. The Marquis of
Donegal had an audience of her Majesty, and kissed hands
on being appointed captain of the yeomen guard. The noble
marquis received from the Queen his gold !tick of office.
Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, had
an audience of the Queen, when her Majesty appointed a
sheriff for Lancashire. The Queen gave audiences to the
Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord J. Russell. The court was
attended by the Marquis of Anglesey. gold stick in waiting,
the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice•ChamlserLain, the
Comptroller of the Household, .the Earl of Morley, lord is
waiting, and Col. Drummond, groom in waiting.
At the close of the performance of the " (Ediptur at
Buckingham Palace on Thursday (the anniversary of bee
Majesty's marriage), the Queen and Prince Albert wen
pleased to express to Mr. Bartley their most gracious appro-
bation of the admirable manner in which he had officiated as
reader of the tragedy. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness
were alma pleased to express to Mr. Bartholomew their gra-
cious approval of his translation of the work.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace
yesterday included the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cohourg,
Count Arthur Momdorff, Madame de Wangenheim, Mr. G.
H. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Baron Fritsch.

A deputation from the Steam Shipowners Associa-
lion, consisting of Mr. Anderson, M.P., Mr. Williams, Mr. ;
Wilson, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Morgan (secretary), and accom-
panied by Mr. Patti.on, M.P., Mr Browne, M.P., Mr.
Duncan, M P., Mr. Guinness, M.P., Mr. Willrox. M.P.,
and Mr. Bryden, parliamentary agent, had an interview yes-
terday with the Commissioners of Railways. at the Board of
Trade.—l,r,l Portman had au interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
A deputation from the candle manufacturers of the
City, headt d by Alderman Humph( ry, M.P., and attended
by Mr. Wire, their solicitor, and Mr. Bryden, parliamen-
tary agent, had an interview with the President of the Board
of Trade yesterday, on the subject of the opposition to
" Price's Patent Candle Company's Bill." The deputation
consisted of the following gentlemen •. Mr. Warrec, Mr.
Hale, Mr. Humphries, Mr. Tindall, and Mr. Davis.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the North American
provinces.
Dr. Lushington had an interview yesterday with
Sir G. Grey: Mr. Matthew Bell, M.P. for Northumberland,
had also an interview with the right lion. baronet.
Mr. T. W. Webster had an interview Yesterday
with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, at the office of the
Commissioners of Railways, on the subject of the lease of the
Dundee and Arbroath Railway, accompanied by Mr. Sheill,
of Dundee, the secretary to the company.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat
yesterday, and heard an appeal from Jamaica, Davis v.

HEAurn OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—We under-
stand that the Lord Bishop of London is in a weak state of
health, and that his lordship is frequently obliged to have
recourse to galvanism as a remedy.—CAttreA and State
Gazette.
DEATH OF SIR ALEXANDER C. G. MAITLAND,
BART —nth venerable baronet died, on Monday last, at
Etlinliurgh, at the great age of 9'2 yearn, having been bern
in 17."; i. He was eldest son of the Hon. G,n. Sir A. Mait-
land, Bart., son of the sixth Earl of Lauderdale, who ob-
tained the baronetcy for hii military services. He is suc-
ceeded by his grandson, Alexander Charles, born in 1820.

(From last night's Gazette.)
WAR-OFFICY, F; R. 11.
7th Drag. Gds.—J. Thomson, M.D., to be aa5.41.11., vice lock, killed
at the Cape of Good Hope..
3rd It. Draga.—H. F. Dimniole, gent., to be car., by par., doe
Campbell, prom. to 6th Drag. Gds.
9th U. Drank—A. E. Wilkinson, gent., to be ear., by pur., vice
Richards, prom.
2nd F.—Capt. Lord H. F. Chichester, from 9th Fto be cam.,
vice G. N. K. A. Yang, who exch. ; Lieut. G. E. A. Tobin, to be
CAbOPt"be Ibleyupwt, bjvpiteuriAri., vleenToFil aChk; Kh.eskli.rhusswill,mrin;t.,Eton'beLensing.,l63:
par, vice Inglis.
9th F.—Lout. W. T. De Wilton, from 22nd F., to be lieut., vice
Whiteside, who each.
22nd I.—Lieut.-Col. S. J. Cotton, from 28th F., to be lieut.-col.,
vice Peonetather, who each.; Lieut. .1. Whiteside, from 9th F., to be
lieut., vice Ito Wilms, who each.
24th I'.—Gent. Cadet C. W. St. John, from Royal MU. Col., to be
cm., without par., vice Bull, dee. •
27th E.—Maj :am. W. F. P. Napier, C. 8., to be col., vice Lieut.-Gen.
Sir J. Maclean, K.C.8., dee.
26th of. J. L. Pennefather, C.A., from 22nd F., to be
lout vice Cotten, who exch.
40th F.—Ens. F. B. thew, to be adj., on Snelling, who rot. the
adjutancy only.
4 let F.—Maj.-Gen. C. A. A'Court, C. 0., to be col., vice Gen. Sir
R. Darliog, app. to 69th F
46th F.—Age.—Surg. W. .
S. Johnstone, M.D., from 87th F., to be
aen-surg., vice Wray, who exch.
28th F.—Maj.-Ger. G. C. D'Aguilar, GB., to be ml., vice Gen. F.
Maitland, deo.
62nd F.—Lieut. L. B. Tyler, to be cant., by par., vice Graves, who
rot; Ens. W. Rudman, to be lieut., by pur., vice Tyler ; H. S. Ad.
lington, gent., to be eon, by pur., no, Rudman.
69th F. Gen. Bir R. Darling, from 41st F., to be col., T/01 Gen. J.
Vincent, dec.
73rd Bro te be maj., by vice Baker, whose
prom. hsa been cane.; Lieut. J. F. Murray, to be opt, without par
vice Baker, Idlled at the Cape of Good Hope; Lieut. J. R. 8. Via:
gerald, from h.+. 62nd F., to be lieut., vice Murray; Assist-Surg.
J. Poynter, from Rine Brig., to be surg., vice Oompbell, killed at the
Cape of Good Hope.
75th F.--Gent Flatlet R. Carter, from Royal Mil. Col, to be ens.
without pur., vice Milks, app. adj.; Ens. T. Milks, to be , vice
Brooks, prom.
82nd F.—Quartermast.-Serj. R. Hate, to be qoartamast., vice B.
Grant, who ret upm h..p.
87th F.—Asitst. -Sun. C. W. Wray, from 46th F., to be assist..rarg.,
vice Johnstone, who exch.
93rd I.—Ens. W. F. A. to be lieut., by vice ghutsr,
who ret..; .1. Dalyell, roc, babe ens., by our. nee Mop.
96th I.—Ens. J. V. O'Donnell, to be lieut., by par., vice Campbell,
who rot; W. A. Swift, gent., to be ens., by par., woe O'Donnell.
Ride Brigade--. 1. It. 31. Lewia, M.D., to be ssaist..surg., vice
Poynter, prom. in .73rd F.
fad West India Regt.—Quartermaet. T. Birley, to be adj., with
rank dens., viee Darragh, dec.
3rd Weet India Regt.—Ens. R. W. Devise, to be heat., without
PF., Woe Gardner, dee.; W. IL Walsh, gent., to be ens., vice
Dapne,eylon Bide Rest —Gar...Serj.-Maj. T. Miller, late 96th F., to be
see.-lieut., without par., vice Dixon. dec.
toed H. F. Claithcater, of lad F., to be mai. in the

army.
Einem' in the Gazette u. Noe 1517.-73rd Foot—Far Lent.
C. Littl.rtslee, to be apt.. by po •:ea Baker, prom" reed, Mee
Broten, pram
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Fca. D.
Corps of Royal Finghteers.—bret.-tral. C. C. Alearmder, to be lieut.-
rice Piper, ret cm f.-p.; Set. ("Apt. B. 0. Ilemiltoo. to be apt.
Mee Aloanftr; Pine Lett T. L. I. Chdlwey, Co be let apt, wen
Ilannitan ; bee. Lieut. IL Manors be drat beat, Moe Gainer