The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

SHE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL soasrrs

MEETING AT CHESTSI.

The country meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Society for the ensuing yen has been find to he held at
Chester, and, Crow the amine/manta in progress, there an
geed grenade for believing that it will be one of the largest
and r tot frporteat which have ever takes plan. A very in-
lkential keel ennottme was appointed some months ago ;
ink kairing shently °Maimed mast literal promises of cup-
ped, Mie eommittee has Wan a list of special prior.,
arreterl te the aggregate to about 1,6001., and fuming, in
Rid, • simml leeks of prima, of neatly equal value to those
rimed 17 the museil of the society. Foremost amount
lien well piss., r might have been expected, we And
=amlerree prarleaso offend Inc chime, and todairy-
The assomminntr.
quid mime Mr stock are also most liberal in amount
First en the list are these for cattle best adapted for dairy
panne'—no Menem being sena to any particular Men,
Thomism ere for bulb of different ems, for pairs of cows
end heifers in calf min milk, and for yearling Mikes ; the
total fot Ave dames being 1701. Th. general regulations
relating to the asocial poises have Dot yet been determfoed
WO, and
principle me not in s position to state on
elms be awar. No one eriU,
owever, be if In our great dairy county a strong
opinion is swami ea dr reerity for requiring that milk-
ing properties Mend be mere distinctly taken into wenn
than they bam Whet% hem in competition. of this nature,
elan large premiums imenbred for animals in whirl, these
emi enknekle proprties are exhibited, and are
sagliell awed elm ha their produce.
suretear 301. to 51, are offered for agricultural
dniroueb-bed horses, mountain ponies,
benne of rattle prizes amounting in
the whets is 1761. en approprivied end ten calm prima
of 161. nil re eat dews for the winners of the society's
prraa fee belle at established breeds other than shorthorns,
en Devoe*, the local committee remarking that
dry bare rots then additions to the society's prises in
erase is White competition from the west highlands and
aborbsts. Thu sum of 2301. is appropriated in
prima for deem the breeds eligible- for -these prism=
the Welsh mountain, the Shropshire, and Cheviot. It fa
explained that the prizes for horses, cattle, and sh are
open to competition from any part of the United K';
but with regard to the prizes for cheese the Weiss an te
be limited, ea explained in our extracts above, to any part
of the Nola Wales district of the Royal Agricultural
sa
Beaty_ wide& comprises the comities of Chester,
eltionl, art the vine of North Wells, "or y ort
ceendoeultair the county of Cheeter.".ll tdland Cows-
Noe Bw

Tit NEw " Swiss:Tit BIUGADZ."—A portion of
ths "freepw Brigade " Snead yertaday morning art their
for their &dart stations real
oulrapalls. Tkay on &resod in a blue east, sad wrr
pine MR air &solar to carry their food sad
asp sin wear a We IS limb onto with the wads"PaMb

LIVINGSTORINI !SCAT'S FROM TON LION.
tfessting end loan. half round, I sow the lion jeer be
the aot et spening_upon me. I was upon a little height
be aught y shosigre se he sprang, and we both mane to
the pond below together. Growling horribly close to my
oar le sleek me as • Vanier dog does a rat. This shock pro-
dam* • dew similar to that which seems to be felt by •
mew she the first shake of the nt. It caused
a met of ileusininees, in which then was no sense oLiel2
tar of twat, though quite conscious
that enstrogesibg. It was like what patient. partially under
the idneortiof Welchem describe who we ell the op
bet feel net the knife. This singular condition was not the
reel of es, metal process. The shake simihilated
vowed as sere of horror in looking round at the least
• pesallir Mae is probably produced in all animals killed
bythe menheen; and, if so, is a merciful provision by our
Imernises Creator for lessening the pain of death. Turning
wand Is sieve myself at the watOt, ea he had one paw is
the look of my lead, I maw his eyes directed kwri
Msbahreywbe weses4ogys dust him at diereses et isw
Weed
Nem cites s less sr, eitessi en he
Weds ; Mt me, lad,
lishalem lie lb thigh Amebae nay, whose lib I la=
▪ se la hot ben lesset by • buffalo, attempted to
spot lie Isle whir hews biting Merbehre. Re left Ilibakere
and esagbit this men by the shoulder, but at this moment the
bullets be Mt waived Mk effect, and he fell down dead.
The whole wee the work et • few minutes, and most have
been hie piney= of dyhtgrage. la order to take out the
charm from him, the BF.ia on the following day made •
bugs nears over the carcass, which was declared to be that
of the largest lion they had ever seem. Besides crunching
the bone into splinters, he left eleven teeth wounds on the
upper part of ray arm. A wound from this animal's tooth
rennables a gun-shot wound; it le generally followed by a
great deal of sloughing and discharge, and pains are felt
periodically ever dterweeds. I had on a tartan jacket on
the coorion, and I believe that it wiped off all the vine
from the teeth that peened the flesh, for my two companions
in this any hove both suffered nom the peculiar pains,
while I have escaped with only the inconvenience of a false
joint in the limb. The man whose shoulder err wounded
showed me his wound actually bunt forth afresh on the
erne math of the following year. This curious point de-
serves the attention of impure..."

" • paw. WIT.

"In our second year no rain fall. In the third the rue I
extraordinary drought followed. Indeed, not ten inches d
water fell during these two years and the Kalamai ma dry ;
so many fish were killed that the hyenas from the whois
country round collected to the heat, and were unable to finish
the putrid mamma A large old alligator, which bedppnnww
been known to commit any depredations, was found high I
and dry in the toad among the victims. The fourth yew
was equally unpropitions, the fall of rain being insufileirt
to being the grain to maturity. Nothing could be move try-
ing. We dug down in the bed of the river deeper and deeper
as the water receded, striring to get a little to keep the fruit
taus alive for better time, but in vain. Needles lying out
of doors for months did not rust ,• and a mixture
ef sulphitic acid and water, used in • galvimies
battery, ported with all its water to the air, imbed of tree
Wag mate from it, is it would have dons in England. The
Matra of Indigenous trees were all drooping, soft, and
shrivelled, though not dead ; and those of the mimoem wire
closed at midday, the same se they are at *ht. In the
midst of this dreary drought, it we wonderful to see those
tiny creatures the ants ruaninfr about with their sectrioened
vivacity. I pet the bulb of • thermometer there inches ender
the sod in the sun at midday, and found the sorcery to
Mead at 132 deg. to 134 deg. , and if certain kinds of beetles
were placed on the muter, they ran about a few seccads sad
aspired. But thie broiling heat only augmented the activity
of the long-legged black ants, they never tire ; their cares
of motion seem endowed with the come power es is ascribed
by plueielogiets to the muscles of the human heart, by which
that part of the frame never becomes fatigued, end which
may be imported to all our bodily organs In that higher
which we fondly hope to rise. Where do
=ante to
get their moisture? Our hones was built on a
hard ferruginous conglomerate, in ceder to be out of the way
of the Whit° ant, but they came in despite the precautin;
end not only were they in thie sultry weather ebb individu-
ally to mtraten mil to the consistency of mortar for the for-
mation of galleries, which in their way of working ie done by
night (so that they are screened from the obeenwtion of
birds by day is paring and repelling towards say vegetable
matter they may wish to devour), but, when their inner
chambers ware laid open, thaw were also eurprisingly humid ;
yet there was no dew, and, the hoar being elated on a rock,
they could bans no eubterranean pas,age to the bed of the
, rine' which tea shoat SOO yards below tho hill. Can it be
, that they lave the power of combining the oxygen and
, hydrogen at their vegetable food by vital force so as to form
, water? "

AIIOUTIENTS OT THE RAIN ITN TOR.
" Rain Defier. I use my medicine, and you employ
yours; we are both doctors, end doctor; are not deceivers.
You give a patient medicine. Sometimes God la pleased to
heal him by maw ef your ,medicine: sometimes not—he
dies. When he le sand, you take the credit of what God
doss. Ido the asme. fleenstbnes God grant. us rain, wins-
those not. Whim ha does, we take tho credit of the charm.
When a patient dins, you don't give op trust In your medi.
clue, neither do I wham rain fails. If yon wish me to leave
off my medicines, why cantinue your own ?—lfedieel Doctor
[Livingstone). I give medicine to living within my
reach, and mles the effects no cure follows;
you pretend to them the clouds, h arses ter above
us that your medicine. never reach them. The clouds lawny
lie in one direction, and your smoke goes In another. God
alone can command the clo .as. Only try and wait patiently
—God w 111 give as rain without )our toedichtes.—R. D.
lia-bals-rea-kaps-a-a ! Well. I always thought whits men
were wise till this awning, Who ever thought of making
trial of starvation! Is death pleasant, then P—Jf. D.
Could you make it rain on one epot and not on smother ?
R. D. I wouldn't think of trying. I like to see the whole
country green, and all the people glad ; the women clapping
their hands and giving me their ernements for thankful-nem,
and kali/mem for joy.—N. D. I think you deceive both
them and youreelf.—R. D. Weil, than, there is a pair of us
(meaning both are rogues)."
"VIZ TANTA or LSAT

"These am vseybataiiKl,Meerrailing closely many parts
of the River Clyde above Ole.gow. The formation is soft
eekereous tufa, mobs forms the bottom of all this Wein.
Phu beaks am perpendicular on the side to which the water
=and and grassy on the other. The slopes are
ke tho designed by the Repays to entrap
the animas ea were to drink. These are about seven
or eight feet deep, three or four feet wide at the mouth, and
decrews till they are only about a foot wide at the
boUam. The month is an oblong square (the only square
thing made by the Bechuansa, for everything sleets round),
and the law es eetr. at the surface is about' equal to the
depth. The isereseing width toward. the bottom is in-
tended to make the animal wedge himself mere firmly in
by his weight and struggles. The pitfalls am nasally in
pairs, with a wall a foot thick left uncut between the
ends of each. 8o that if the beset, when it feels its
forelegs descending, should try to gave itself freon
going in altogether by striding the bind-legs, ho would
spring forward and leap into the sawed with a form which
ensures the fall of hie whole body into the trap. They are
coveted with great rue; all the excavated earth is removed
to a distance' so as not to excite suspicion in the minds of
the animals. Reeds and grew are bud saws the top ; above
this the sand Is thrown, and watered so as to appear exactly
like the rest of the spot. Sane of war party plumped into
these pi falls more than once, even when in search of them,
in order to open them to prevent the lose of our cattle. If
en on sees a hole, be carefully avoids it. And old elephants
have been known to recede the herd and wiek off the cover.
Inge of the pitfall" on each side an the way down to the
water. We have known instances in which the old among
these sagacious animals have actually lifted the young
out of the trap. The trees which adorn the hanks
we magnificent. Two enormous baobab' (sfdateemis
digiteta), or mimes, grow near Its confluence with
the lake where we took the observations for the latitude (20
deg. 20 min. 8.) We were unable to sectertein the longitude
of the lake, as our watches were welt.. ; It may be between
22 deg. and 23 deg. E. The largest of the two lacibehe wee
76 feet In girth. The palmyra appears here and there among
trees net met with in the south. The moknchong or mo-
shoma bean an edible fruit of Indifferent quality, but the
tree keel( would he a fine specimen of arboreal beauty in any
part of the world. The trunk is often converted into canoes.
The moteourl, which been a pink plum containing a plewant
add inice, resembles en orange-tree In its dark evergreen
foliage, and a cypress in its form. It we now winter-time,
and we saw nothing of the Flora. The plants and bushes
were dry; but wild indigo abounded, as Mcleod It does over
lugs tracts of Africa. It Is called 74 ohetillo, or the
' changer,' by the boys, who dye their ornaments of straw
with the pies. There are two Weds of cotton
in the country, end the Mealtona, who convert it
into cloth, dye It blew with this pleat. We found
the elephants in peodigions numbers on the south
era bank. They come to drink by night, and aft.-
havhig Asked their thirst—in doing whkh they throw leer
qualities of water over themselves, and Sr. heard, while
eMlng the refreshment, screaming with delight—they.
.n,
their homer of pitfalls by setting off in a straight
mai to the desert, and never diverge till they are eight or
tag sulks off. They are smaller twee than in the countries
farther math. At the Limpopo, tor Inatance, they are
Ninepin of twelve feet high; hen, lady eleven; further
north we shell lei then sine feet only. The koodoo, or
•141•14 NEAL lee, then these we had been eeetutomed
le SW WO taw svidim of tin loalreba, oe stnigial.

keened Thiamin:a (R. Onedlo, which is a variety of the
white (B. these); sad we found that, from the born being
=downwards, It did not obstruct the line of vision,
his specie* is able to be much more wary than its
Methane."
"LIFE AMONGST THE BSCHt'ANAS.
" The Bechuanea are universally much attached to chil-
dren. A little child toddling near • party of men while they
are eating is Me to get • handful of the food. This love of
children may arise, in a great measure, from the patriarchal
gleam under which they dwell. Every little stranger forms
an increased proprty to the whole community, and is duly
Trlrto the- ehid—boys being re mo welcome than girls.
p:rd ente take the nem of the child, and often address
their children as Ma (mother), or Re (father). Our eldest
boy being named Robert, Mrs. Livinetone was, after hie
birth, always addressed as Ma-Robert, Maid of M.
her Chriatian more. I have examined several caw In
which a grandmother has taken upon herself to suckle a
grandchild. Manna of Kurtzman had no children after
the birth of her daughter Shia, and had no milk after
Sine was weaned, an event which usually is deferred till the
child I. two or three warm old. Sine mewled when she was
seventeen or eighteen, and had twine ; Menne, after at least
fifteen years interval ones she last suckled • child, took pos.
seesion of one of them, applied it to her breast and milk
flowed, ao that she was able to auras the child entirely.
Manna was at this time at least forty years of age. I have
trimmed several other cease analogous to this. A pmd-
mother of forty, or even lees, for they bloom withers( at sit
early age, when left at home with • young child, sfeeles It
to her own &evened breast, end milk soon follows. la seem
aM as that of Ma-becoming, the chief wile of
whoa about thiety-flve yam of age, themeliklte=
entirely dependent on the grand.nothar's M. se Ile
mother suckled it too. I had witnessed the gesillnelienag
milk so frequently by abeam* application of the lips alas
child, that I was not therefore surprised when told Yrills
Portuguese to Easton Africa of • native doctor TM, by
applying a poultice of the pounded larva of hassle le Ike
breast of a woman, sided by the attempt& of the MK Mid
bring back the milk."
" DK. LIVINGSTON'S MEDICAL SKILL.
" A woman cams a disarm of 100 miles for relief in a
complaint which seemed to have baffled the native doctors ;
a complete care was the result. Some twelve months after
she returned to her huaband, she bate a son. Her husband
having previously reproached bee for being barren, she sent
me a handsome present, and proclaimed all over the country
that I Farma medicine for the cure of sterility. The
consequence was,e that I was teamed with applications from
husbands and wives from all parte of the country. Some
came upwards of 200 miles to purchase the pat boon, and
it was in vain for me to explain that I had only cured the
disease of the other me. The more I denied, the higher
their offers rose; they would give any money for the 'child
medicine and it was really heert-rending to hear the
earnest entreaty, and sue the tearful eye, which spoke the in-
tenee desire for offspring I ant getting old, you see grey
bairn here and there on my head, and I have no child; pm
know how Heehaws& husbands cast their old wives away;
what can Ido h I have no child to bring water to me when
I am ink,' M."
" Tic-rent or A JUNGLE.
"Neat =ming, by climbing the highest trees, we could
s• Ins large sheet of water, bat surrounded on all sides
by the awe impenetrable belt of reeds. This is the broad
Fart et the river ChM*, and is called Zelda'. Two tra-
mmed islands seemed to be much newer to the water than
the shore on which we were, so we made an attempt
to get to them first. It was not the reeds alone we had to
pass through ; a peculiar serrated grass, which at certain
angles cut the hands like • corer, was mingled with the reed,
and the climbing convolvolus, with Walks which felt es
strong as whipcord, bound the mass together. We felt
like pigmies in it, sad often the only way we could
get on was by both of us laming against • pert end
bending it down till we could stand upon it. The
perspiration streamed off our bodies, and as the sun
rose high, there being no ventilation among the
reeds, the hest was stifling, and the water, which was up to
the kneed., felt agreeably refreshing. After some hours' toil
we remixed one of the letwzds. Here we met an old friend,
the bramble bush. My strong moleskins were quite
worn through at the knees, and the leather trousers
of my companion were to ad his legs bleed-
ing. Tearing my handkerchief in two, I tied the
pieces round my Mesa, and then encountered malt. r
difficulty. We was still forty er fifty yards from
the clear water, bet sow we were opposed by great masses of
papyrus, which we like paha in miniature, sight or ten feet
high and an inch wed &half in diameter. These were laced
together by twining mavolvalus, so strongly that the weight
of both of us could not make way Into the clear water. At
last.we fortunately isend •e imp prepared by &hippopota-
mus Eager as asen as wi nailed the bland look along
the vista to ollemeeraew, I mapped in and Mud It took me at
once up to the neck."
DR. LIVINGSTONE:A TEOPoSITIONS.
"Am far as I am myself concerned, the opening of the
new central country is • stetter for congratulation only in
so tar as it opens up • prospect for the elemtion of the in-
habitants. Am I have elsewhere remarked, I view the end
of the geogniphial feat as the beginning of the mieaionary
enterprise. I take the latter term in its most extended
signification, and include every effort made for the SlLlei/OES.
boa of our ram ; the promotion of all those means by which
God in His providence is working, and bringing all BB
denims with man to • glorious consummation. Each man
In his sphere, either knowingly or unwittingly, Is perform-
ing the will of our Father in heaven. Men of science,
smelting after hidden truth., which when discovered will,
ins the electric telegraph, bind men more closely together
—soldiers battling for the right spinet tyranny—aailors
ramming the victims of oppremon from the gm, of heart-
/ea mss-steakirs—merchants tembing the nation. lemons of
mutual dependenos—and many others, as well ea mianon-
arks, all work in the same direction, and all efforts are
overruled for one glorious end.
" It is in the hops of working out this idea that I P
the formation of stations on the Zarobmi beyond thirror-'
terms territory, but having communication through them
with the waft. A chain of stations admitting of easy and
speedy intercourse, such as might be formed along the flank
of the eastern ridge, would be in a favourable pennon for
tarrying out the objects in view. The London Missionary
Society has resolved to have a station among the Makololo
on the north bank, sad another ma the south among the
Matebele. The Church, Wesleyan, Baptist, and that mast
energetic body, the Free Church, mild each find desirable
loathes among the Betake and adjacent tribes. The coun-
try aso extensive there ie no fear of clashing. Aft clams of
Christians find that sectarian rancour soon dies out when
they are werldng together among and for the real heathen.
Only let the healthy locality be searched for, and fixed upon,
and then there will be free mope to work in the same cause
in various ditections, without that is of men which the
system of missions on the unhealthy coasts entails. While
respectfully embattling the plan to the influential societies, I
can positively state that, when fairly in the interior, then is
perfect moray for life and property among • people who will
at least listen and reason."

Tile ROYAL SOCIETY.—The learned bodies of
London are commencing their winter semion, and the coun-
cil of the Royal Society is deliberating, at Burlington }1.11.14
in what manner the means at its dispual may be rendered
more aysiiiiide for the purposes of 'deuce. After the cry
of ppooverty that has been raised by many of the learned
our readers will bear with 'sunrise that the head
of them respectable thatitutione le suffering hem • plethora
of riches. The Royal Society pommies • neat egg of
29,6181. three per cent consols, excludes of bands held In
trust for aped= objects, derived from many year.' excels of
boom= over upe=iture, and It will shortly be in receipt of
shout 80.0001. arising from two legacies, besides an =crew
ins revenue of rents from the society's estate at Acton.
The preeident end council of the Royal Society are at this
moment deliberating " whether a moreadvaniageous employ-
ment might not be found for this annual surplus of income
over expenditure, more beneficial to ecience, and to the
society itself," and we trust the result of that deliberation
will be such es to utilise not only the excess of income over
expenditure, beta portion of the needlessly imp amount of
capital which is kept laid up in a napkin.—Lifirrary 0 sortie.
ME NETHERLANDS LAND CONPANY.—A special
meeting =a held yesterday afternoon of the Netherlands
Land Company, Yr. T. Maxon in the chair, for the purpose
of conaidning the financial position of the undertaking, and
to give the directors new powers to raise money. Since the
meeting In July last, a call has been made upon the ordinary
shares, which Inaa been very inadequately responded to, end
none of the 12,164 preference sham proposed to be trued
have been token up. In their negotiations with the Dutch
government the board, however, have been more succerefid,
and have obtained en extension of one year—to the let of
January, 1860—In the time fixed for the completion of the
canal works. A protracted discussion took place principally
upon the heavy expellee the company had incurred in
reclaiming the Krabbeadyke polder, and the en-
gineer explained that this cross out of their under-
taking the works themselves, and from the subsequent mis-
management of the superintendent. It was stated that •
tender had been made to enclose • polder of 1,000 scree for
13,6001., or 131.10 e. per vie (on the Krabbendyka then=
amounted to about 401.) and that in future all works will be
executed by contract. It arse resolved, finally, to isms
10,000 obligations of 101. each, with 7 per cent. interest;
that in the sale of land the obligations may be tendered in-
stead of cash' and that thaws last may be =Weed only in
the event of the edelitional endoeures twin made equal la
quantity to the land so dispored of.
biesms.CurroN AND M'ILLYERIOAN.SAITAIREL
A meeting of the orwlitore of this firm was bald cm Thus,
at whiob it washed that the liabilities amount to 21,,
while the smuts somewhat emoted 5h 0001.enh ad, This, lowevek
is esolvebe ot their modem Bitei.: eg
width elm remate somest filicultles. rtA ems
Omens& to the 16th Lend, to enable the fln:l,Str the
misters of hisetle, to make tome definite yeepealien,
Menem Clefts sod MiCsmeleme coodotted very Wend.,
helitftm eat gratis, operettas@ et Btrkmhri, ad
their teed &Ipso Todd be • grad loss ts tttaB ]dame

(non Lair mouton eimirren)
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 6.
had Regiment of Life Otarde—Lientesent H. Dalton Wittit
Lyon to be captain, without purchase, vice Fountains
Rogge Allen, &email. Cornet end Sub-Lieutenant
John Graham Smith ham been permitted to retire from the
service by the male of his commiesion.
let Dragoon Onarde—Constantine fd.Dengall Ideermen,
gent., to be cornet without purchase.
6th Deal Guarde—Captain Robert Bickerstaff to be
major, purchase, vice Lad George Augustus Besuclerk,
who . Lieutenant Francis Nathaniel Astley to 09
co=cl.7=, vice Bickeestaff.
7th Clavering Redman, gent., to Moore*
without purchase.
let Dregoess—Cornet Edward France Weaver, from the7th
Demean Guards, to be cornet, vim Tucker, appointed to
the 17th Light Dragoons.
3rd Light Dragoons—Captain Honourable A. T. Mouton,
from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be captain, vice Rayne,
removed to the Bth Wht
4th Light Dregoone—Cap=min Aylett
from the lath Light -Dr
to to be captain vice Honour-
able A. T. Moreton ranonal to the 3rd Light Dragoons.
Bth Light Drogoone2Captain T. L. Mayne, from the 3rd
Light goons, to be captein vice BranU, removed to the
4th Light ma.
Mary Train— taunt John Wel* from half-pay of
the late Lend T to be lientemnt, vice
1111Loughlie, appoin=oritheCnt Light Dnamss-
Royal Artillery Asisbust-sargeea Gyarge Davidson
Milne, M.D., from the Staff to be aeletent-surgeon, vice
Allinson, promoted on the staff.
Scots Fusilier Otiarde—Ensign and Lieutenant Buena V.
Stephenson to be instructor of musketry, vim Liailenent
and Captain Hon. Roger Moetyn, who has resigned that
appointment; the appointment of Acting- Quartermeeter
William Smith to be quartermaster. vice Jones, resigned,
to be dated 6th September, 1856, and not 16th October,
1851. l as previously stated.
4th Wiginent of Foot—Ensign C. R. Dumont, from 33d
Foot, to be ensign, vice Kuper, deceased.
6th Foot—The promotion of Major Walter Crawford Ken-
nedy to be lieutenant-oolocial, without purchase, to bear
date 29th August, 1867, instead of 4th Sept. 1857, but each
antedate is not to carry lock pay.
7th Foot—Captain William Vimah Meakolyne, from ball-
pay 20th Foot, to be auto* vice Brevet-Major Bibbed,
whoa brevet teak hag been converted into substantive
rank, under the royal warrant 6th October,
_lB Foot,-
tenant William Medway Keats hom the 84th to
be captaie, without purchase; Ensign Joseph Smith,
from the Military Train, to be ensign and adjutant.
Bth Foot—t3ergeent-MMor Edward Emerson, from tie 96th
Foot, to be ensign, without purchase, and adjutant ; the
transfer of Ensign Thomas Stanley Mitchell, from the
89th foot, as notified in the Gault* of the 23rd October,
1867, has been cancelled.
9th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur F. Biagi am Wright to be ad-
jutant; Quartermaster Jams Parrott Arromisnith, from
half-pay of the late 3rd Rifts Regiment, British Dallas
li' to be quartermaster.
24th Von' Foote-Lieutenant Robert Halahan to he captain, with-
out purchase, vice Greenmail, deceased ; Emogn John
Johnstone to be lieutenant, without purchase, vice John
29th Foot—Aseistant-Surgeon William Langford Foram,
from the staff, to be assistant-surgeon, vice M'Oregor, pro-
moted on the staff.
ISM foot—Christopher Ratan Darren, gent., to be ensign,
by purchase, vice Cozen, promoted.
37th Foot Sergeant-Minor William Hodgkineen, to be
ensign, without purchase, vice GRAMM, promoted ; Alas-
tant-Surgeon William Samuel Chapman, from the staff, to
be assistant-surgeon, vice Fleming, promoted on the ant
' The promotion of the undermentioned officers in suocession
to Lieutenants Bateman and Birkett, killed in action on '
' the 30th July, 1857, to bear date 31st July, 1857, instead
of 301 h July 1867, as previously stated :—Ensign J. D.
Groeme ; Ensign G. G. Framer.
40th Foot—Lieutenant William Olteon to be instructor

- musketry.
41at Foot—Captain Arthur Robert Fowler, from helf-pay
unattached, to be captain, vice Brevet-Major Hugh Row-
lands, whose brevet rank has been converted into sub-
stantive rank, under the royal warrant 6th October, 1864.
47th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Bowles George Blokes to be
captain, by perchers, vice Philips, who retires.
60th Foot—George Feed Lamest, Esq., late paymantre of
the led Rifle Regiment, British Italian Legion, to Lem-
mata. ; Asietant-Surgeon William Silver Oliver, M.D
from the staff, to be assistant-surgeon, vies Biddle, who
haa reigned.
67th Foot—Lieutenant George Tumour Hoist Aitchison to
be adjutant, vice Graham, promoted in the 9th Foot.
68th Foot—Captain Herbert Vaughan, from half-pay 68th
Foot, to be captain, vice Brevet-Major Hoe. Daniel G.
Pinch, whose brevet rank has been converted into sub-
daily° rank, under the royal warrant of 6th October,
1854; Assistant-Surgeon Augustin Oliver Applin, from
the staff, to be aseistast-surgeon. The Chriiisn name'
of Ensign Craig, appointed from the Military Train, on
the 23rd October, 1857, are "Robert Guthrie," and not
" Jame'," as previously stated.
69th Foot—Enna Thomas Hyde Crawley Boevey, from the
23rd Foot, to be ensign, vice Eustace, superseded, being
*beret without leave ; Assistant-Surgeon John Hendon=
Whittaker, from the staff, to be assistant-surgeon.
75th Foot—Ensign Augustria L'Estrenge, from the 17th
Foot, to be ensign, vice Row, promoted.
78th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Walt Beveridge,
M.D., from the staff, to be assistant-surgeon, vice Will
promoted on the staff.
Slat Foot—Aristaat•rargeon William James Mullen, from
the staff, to be assistant-surgeon, vice Auchinleck, pro-
moted on the staff.
82nd Foot—The undermentioned officers have bees permitted
to resign their commissions Ensign Charts Tholes. B.
; Ensign Gordon Cowper.
83rd Foot—Ansitant Surgeon Thomas Rawlins Mould,
from the staff, to be eaeletant-eurgeon, vice Touch, pro-
moted on the staff.
84th Foot—.
to be -

germ James Crake, from the staff,
via La prods, promoted cm the

staff.
126th Foot—Aesistent•florgeon Charles Henry Broome, from
the staff, to be mutate:a-servals, via KWee, promoted on

the staff. ,
87th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon David Chambers M'Fall, from
the staff, to be aesistant-surgeon, vice Jona, promoted on
the staff.
89th Foot—Emigre Thomas Stanley Mitchell has been re-
moved from the army, bee Majesty having no further occa-
sion for his services.
92nd Foot—Lieutenant Henry Ritchie Wallace to be captain,
by purchase, vice Lyon, who retiree; Caulfield French,
gent., to be ensign, by purchase, in lIICOOI6OII to Lieu-
tenant Wallace, promoted.
94th Foot—Entagn Caulfield French, from the 92nd Foot,
to be ensign, vies Shirreff, appointed to the Bth Foot.
let West India Regiment—Captain John De LanceL frig
ca
half•pay unattached, to be ptain, paying the d.
vice i'orster, appointed to the 18th Foot ; Lituttemat
Henry Frantic Lake to be captain, by purchase, eke De
Unary, who reline.
2nd West India Regiment—William Henry Atte, gent., to
be ensign, without purchase, vice M•Coy, promoted;
Edward M 'Mahon Forbes, gent., to be ensign, without
purchase, vice Cradock, promoted.
UNATTACHED.
The undermentioned officers to have their brevet rank con-
verted into enbatentive rank, under the royal warrant of the
6th October, 1864 :—Brevet-Major Hon. Daniel Greenlet
Finch, 08th Foot; Brevet-Major Hugh Rowlands, 41st
Foot ; Lieutenant Frederick Boehmer, Item the 91st Foot,
to be captain without purchase.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
The name of Mr. Hodgson, appointed a staff assistant-sur-
geon, in the Casette of the 16th October, It Decimus Filing
de Hodgson, and not Decieutte Hodgson only, as previously
stated. To be Acting Assietant-Surgeons : James Gideon
Cressy, gent.: Charles O'Callaghan, gent
BREVET._ . .

Captain John De Lanny, let Westlndia Regiment, to be
major in the ;army; Brevet-Major John De Lowey, let
West India Regiment, to be ilautemant-colonel in the
arm
Erratumy. in Gazette of October 23.—Roya1 Marines—For
Quartermaster Thome Coops to have the honorary nick
of captain, &c., de., read Quartermaster Thomas Cooper
to lutes the honorary rank of captain, de., etc.
THE MILITIA.
Commissions signed by the Lords Lieutenant of their respec-
tive counties
Dent

Abighabire Yeomanry Cavalry—The Hon. William Ed-
ward Fitzmaurice (late Brevet-Major in the let Life
Guards) to be captain, vice Hughes, promoted.
th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Henry
Edgerton King, gent, late lieutenant 32nd Foot, to be
lieutenant, vice Hooper, resigned.
4th or Royal RlR:torn. Regiment of Middlesex Militia—
ArchibaM Cochrane Forster, Eeq., late of the 64th Foot,
to be captain, vim Hoare, resigned ; George Peirce, Eaq.,
M.D. Glasgow, to be aesistant-surgeon, vim Sawyer, re-
signed.
let Somerset Regiment of Militia—Charles Kemeys Kemp-
Tynte the younger, Req., late captain Grenadier Guards,
to be colonel, elm Vere Fouled, commonly Viscount Hin-
ton, dem
Shropshire Re.ginsent of Militia—Thomu Kynneteley
Gardner, gent., to be lieutenant, vice Gibbon,
rmi ;
Joseph Venable. Loves, gent., to be lieutenant, vioedx,
flotilla
Regiment of Royal Pereishhe Rifle Militia—Benjamin Hal-
lowell Boum Alston Stuart, Req., to be captain, vice Mac-
ililtTiriiiintp, &c., Militia: lillgeiland Borderers' Light
Tubstry—Edwin Grrn,..grit., late lieutenant 6th Foot,
to M lieutenant, vine
Roxburgh Militia —William Robert trboenbin. gent., to be
=vim Strachaa, appointed to the 44th Foot ;
Few, Roche, gent., to be ensign, vice Orr
Ws.

CHATHAM, S.V. I.
The following reinforcements eve ordered to be in
neadhseas to embark at Gravesend for Cakanta, via : 23rd
Royal Welsh Pmethers, 20 wen 96th Regiment, 11 semi
63rd Regiment, 19 men ; 61st Regiment, 18 men; 84
=l/10124 12 men; 90th Light Johnny, 718 men *I IA

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. lk

His Royal Highness the Commanderin-Chief,
after the termination of the presentation of the new colourato
the 68th Regiment,left yesterday afternoon for Landon.
In the evening the oilcan of the regiment gave • splendid
dinner to a distinguished party, including the Cessna:Wer-
th-Chief, Admiral Sir George Seymour the Lientenent-
Governor, Major-General the Her. J. Y.,Scarlett ; Admiral
Superintendent Martin, Major-General Lord W. Yenisei, the
commanding offices of troops in garrison, the flag and staff
officers of the port and garrison, Sic. 'The dinner took place
in the mom room at the regiment's quarters, Anglemy Bar-
' reeks ; the room being very tastdully decorated. A superb
service of plate was supplied by Messrs. E. and E. Emanuel,
pldanitha to the Queen, of Portsmouth and Portaea.
The officers are arranging to give to the whole regiment a
day's trip to the Crystal Palace on Thursday next, providing
them with a rod dottier there, whilst the officers themselves
will have luncheon. Two special trains will of course be re-
tualror.n.to convey the regiment, which numbers mots than
The Urgent, 12, anew troop ship, Commander MiDozald,
went out of harbour yesterday and anchored at Spithesd,
where she took to powder and shell. To-day she sailed for
Plymouth and Ireland, where she takes in drafts for the
Mediterranean.
The Vulcan Bacrew troop ship, Commander Secoonste,
sidled to-day for Plymouth to undergo repairs. There ia NO
roach work at this port that hands cannot be spared.
The Sharpshooter, 8, screw vessel, received new boilers
to-day.
The, screw gun boat, Lieutenant Murray, and
the Frew gun boat, Lieutenant Davies, left Spit-
hied yesterday afternoon for the West Indies, calling at

PRINCE ALFRED'S VISIT TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS.—
His Royal Hiatuses Prints Alfred visited the Illustrious
training ship en Monday. The young Prince, who, it is
euppoeed, will join the ship in March next u a cadet, atten-
tively examined the drawings, workbooks, Etc., of the naval
deaden* and appeared much interested us what will, it is
presumed, be hie future studies. The Rev. W. R. Jolley,
who is the chaplain—not " chaplain and naval instructor "
of the Illustrioua, has charge of His Royal Highness as hie
naval instructor.— United Service Gazette.
RECRUITING DURING OCTOBER.—We RTC gratified
So find that recruiting for the army la proceeding in a satis-
factory manner. No lee than 8,040 men have been attested
daring the month of October and joiaed their respective
corps. This is exclusive of those enlisted for the household
brigades of cavalry and infantry.— Vetted Soviet Gaulle.
IRISH MILITIA MOVEMENTS.—The Secretary-at-
War has issued orders, directing that the following Irish
militia regiments shall forthwith embark for England, viz.—
The Antrim Rides, Cork Roles, North Down Ritter, Limerick
Artillery, and Dublin (City) Militia. The latter corps writ
proceed to Mdershott, and the others will take garrison duty
for the purpose of relieving regiments of the line ordered on
Indian service.
ARRIVAL OF MILITARY INVALIDS FROM INDIA.—
T'he Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan,
Captain Cook, arrived at Southampton yesterday. She took
out lan month Id Alexandria some companies of Royal En-
und for Bombay and Calcutta, cal Egypt. On her
tnaamees bound
passage the Sultan left Alexandria- October 21 ;
Malta, 26 ; and- Gibraltar, the 31st. She brought home been
Alexandria a cargo of silk, end from Malta Lieutenant Day,
28th Regiment, in command, and Dr. Price, assistant-stag
in charge of 6 sergeants, 106 MI, 7 women, and 10
Vdatc'n' min,
(military invalids), Mr. Torbett, R.N., 6 naval
invalids, and 3 deck passengers—in all 141 passengers.
Major CollingwOod, of the 2lat Regiment, formerly
of the Transport Corps, and Captain 'Wrack, of
the 14th Regiment, have been ordered from Malta to Akre
andria, to join and aerial Colonel Pocklington in the convey-
ance of troops through Egypt.