The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-28 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1855.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, FEBRUARY 21, 11155.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the an-
nexed CODE of REGULATIONS for the ADMISSION of
CANDIDATES at the EXAMINATIONS to be held for the
APPOINTMENT of ASSISTANT SURGEONS in the SERVICE of
the EAST INDIA COMPANY, has Leen framed by the Board of
Commissioners for the Affairs of India, under the provisions of the
Act 16th and 17th Viet., cap. 95, sec. 38.

REGULATIONS FOR TIM ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE APPOINT-
MENT OF ASSISTANT-SURGEON IN THE SERVICE OF THE EAST INDIA

C.O3IPANT.

All natural-born subjects other Majesty between 22 and 28 years
of age, and of rourd bodily health, may be candidates for admission
into the service of the East India Company as Assistant Surgeons.
'They must subscribe and tend into Dr. Sc tt, the rhysiclan to the
Honourable East India Company, 10 days before the period fixed for
each examination, a declaration to the following effect:—
"I (Christimi and surname at full length), a candidate for cm.
ployinent as an Assistant-Surgeon in the service of the East India
Company, do hereby declare, that I was years of age on the
day of last, and that I labour under no constitu-
tional disease or physical disability that can interfere with the due
di-charge of the ditties of a medical officer ; and I also attest my
readiness to proceed on duty to India within three months of receiv-
ing my appointment."
This declaration must be accompanied by the following docu-
ments :

I. Proof of age, either by extract from the register of the parish
in which the candidate was born, or by his own declaration pursuant
to the Act 5 and 6 Win. IV., c. 62.
2. A certificate of moral character from a magistrate, or a minis-
ter of the religious denomination to which the candidate beloags,
who has previously k•iown him for at least two preceding years.
3. A diploma in surgery, or a degree in medicine, provhfed an ex-
amination in surgery be required for such degree, from some body
competent by law to grant or confer such diploma or degree.
4. A certificate of having attended two courses of lectures, of six
months each, on the practice of physic, and of having attended for
six months the practice and clinical instruction of the physicians at
some hospital, containing at least, on an average, one hundred in-
patients ; or of having attended one course of lectures of six months
on the practice of physic, and clinical instruction for twelve months.
5. A certificate of having attended for three months the practical
instruction given at one of the public asylums for the treatment of
the insane.

6. A certificate of having attended for three months one of the in-
stitutions or wards of ass hospital especially devoted to the treat-
ment of ophthalmic disease.
Candidates who may not have been able to attend the practice of
an asylum for the insane, or of an ophthalmic hospital, for 3 months
previous to their offering themselves for examination, will not be
excluded from examination, but will, if successful in obtaining re-
commendation for appointments, be required to produce certificated
of haying attended such practice daring the interval between the
examination and the time of proceeding to India.
7. A certificate of having attended a course of lectures on mid-
wifery, and of having conducted at least six labours.

7. A certificate of-having acquired a practical ktowledge of cup-
ping.
Candidates may also, at their option, send in certificates of attend-
ance at any hospitals, or on any course of lectures, in addition to the
above. Attendance on a course of military surgery, and the practi-
cal study of surgical operations on the dead body, are recommended.
The Examination will include the following subjects :-
1. Surgery in all its departments.
2. Medicine, including the diseases of women and children, The-
rapeutics, Pharmacy, an I Hygiene.
3. Anatomy and Ph} siology, including Comparative Anatomy.
4. Natural History, including Botany and Zoology.
The following are the books recommended in—
Zoology and Comparative Anatomy—
Outline of the Structure of the Animal Kingdom, by RymerJones.
Cours Elemsutaire d'Histoire Naturelle, par Milne Edwards.
Botany—
Lindley's School Botany.
Lindley's Elements of Botany.
The Examination will be conducted—

1. By means of written questions and answers.
2. By object examinations and experiments, when the subject ad-
mits of such tests.

3. By practical examination of patients, and by operations on the
dead body.
4. By viva voce examination.
The persons who shall be pronounced by the examiners to he the
best qualified in all respects, will De appointed to fill the requisite
number of appointments as assistant-surgeons in the East India
Company's Service, and, so far, as the requirements of tko service
will permit, they will have the choice of the Presidency in India to
which they shall be appointed, according to the order of merit in
which they stand on the list resulting from such examination.
All assistant-surgeons are required to stibacribe to the military or
medial, and medical retiring funds, at the presidencies to which
they may be respectively appointed, and, to the Military Orphan So-
ciety also, if appointed to Bengal.
All assistant-surgeons who shall neglect or refuse to proceed to
India under the orders of the Court of Directors, within three months
from the date of their appointment, will be considered as having for-
feited it, unless special circumstances shall justify a departure from
this regulation. _ . .

A copy of these regulations, and any flirther information, may be
obtained on application to the Secretary of the Military Department,
East India House.

The examinations will take place in the months of January and
July in each year; and due notice will be given by public adver-
tisement of the days appointed, and of the probable number of can-
didates to be selected.
It is now announced that the next examination will be held at
this house in the month of July next, and that the probable number
of vacancies in the medical establishment of the East India Com-
pany, to be then tilled up, will be 50.
JAMS C. KELVILL, Secretary.

PATRON-H.R.11. PRINCE ALBERT.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
TWO LAST SHAKESPERIAN READINGS by Miss GLYN.
Thursday Evening, March Ist, KING JOHN. Thursday Evening,
March 8, ANTON Y and CLEOPATRA.

During LENT, on Wednesday and Friday Evenings, at Eight,
LECTURES on ASTRONOMY, by Dr. BACIIMOFFNER, illustrated by
a Splendid DISSOLVING ORRERY, and on Wednesday Evenings
only, with appropriate Music 11-om Haydn's Oratorio of the Creation,
by a Rand and Chorus of Fl ty Performers, under the direction of Mr.
W. W. Wand, of the Royal Italian Opera. Principal Vocal Perfor-
mers:—silos Julia Eleaden, Mr. Montem Smith, and Mr. Henry
Buckland.

The STEAM GUN, DISSOLVING VIEWS of the WAR, DIO-
RAMA. of SINBAD tho SAILOR, COS MORANIAB, the CONCERT
by INVISIBLE PERFORMERS, cud all the LECTURES, on the
NEW BANK NOTE, &c., as usual.

14.6.gT GRAN BALMASQUE,Lho On.ohlo
de vein., High Holborn.—The Proprietor of the above very
popular and magnificent estab ishment begs to announce that his
LAST BAL AtASQUE this season is fixed for THURSDAY NEXT,
March 1, and will be on a scale of unrivalled splendour. Mr. W. M.
Packer's famed Band will perform a programme, including all the
new and popular works of the day. Doors open at ha t-past 9, and
dancing will commence at 10 o'c'ock punctually. Suppe at 1
o'clock. Gentlemen's Tickets, ss. ; Lady's ditto, 3s. each. Mr.
Castle-street, Leicester-square, the appoint -d costumier to
the Bal.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
MONDAY, Feb. 26th, 1855.—During the course of this week
the following Music will be played by Laurent's Orchestra:—Over.
tore, Semiramide ( Ist time), Rossini; Waltzes: Wellen and Wogen,
Strauss; Kuall-liugerlu, Strauss ; Vermahlung's Toaste, Strauss; La
Sultane Bosisio ; Le Carnaval de Veniso kby desire), 11. Laurent,
with Variations for all the principal per.onners ; Quadrilles : Le Comte
Ory, Jullien ; Le Collier d'Or, Bougnol ; the Ilighlanders, IL Laurent;
Lucia, Tinney ; Schottische, Mathilde, Bonniseau ; Polkas: Etta,
A. Wagner; La Menagerie Bousquet ; The Zouaves, H. Laurent; the
Wellington Streather ; Gallop, Dover Express, T. Browne. Principal
Cornet-a-Piston, 51. Boulcourt. All information relative to music to
be obtained at the music repository under the orchestra. Doors open
at Eight; commence at half-past. —Admission,One Shilling.

COAL DEPARTMENT, NORTH LONDON
RAlLWAY.—llighbury and Kingsland Depots.—lletton's
Wall's-end, the best House Coals in the world, are brought to the
do. ks of this Railway at Poplar by new screw steamers—Cochrane,
750 tons, Hatton, 750, and the Northumberland, 650 tons, chartered
expressly for these depots, and delivered thoroughly screened, to any
part of London, within 24 hours after the receipt of order, at 30s. per
ton. Orders to be addressed to Lea and Co., Chief Offices, Railway
Stations, Ilighbury, Islington, or Kingsland. Terms, cash, on or
betore delivery.

OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM FIZLD-
MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN.

(From lost Night's Gazette.)
WAR-DEPARTMENT, FEB. 27.
Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and its
enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to
his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Field-Marshal the
Lord Raglan, G.C.B.
Before Sebastopol, Feb. 13, 1855.
My Lord Duke,—l mentioned to your grace in my de-
spatch of the 10th inst. that there had been a return of
bad weather, and that the country was again saturated
with wet.

...._ .. __.
On Sunday it rained or snowed from morning till night,
and the wind was very high, and though it was fine yes-
terday, still the ground was in a worse state than I had
seen it for some time.

The enemy has made no movement.
Major-General Jones, Royal Engineers, arrived a few
days ago, and is busily engaged in making himself ac-
quainted with the position occupied by both armies.
Lieutenant-General Sir Georgeßrown has also returned,
and I have groat satisfaction in adding in excellent
health. His wound is healed, and with the exception of
not having entirely regained the full use of his elbow, he
no longer suffers any inconvenience from it.
He will resume the command of his division without
loss of time.

I inclose the return of the casualties to the 11th inst. I
have, &c.,

RAGLAN.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle,
&c. &c. &c.

Enclosure I.
NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED OF-
FICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED, FROM 9TH
TO 11T4 FEBRUARY, 1855, INCLUSIVE.

KILLED.
FEB. 10.
47th Regiment of Foot.
Serjeant Joseph Godfrey.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutant-General.

Enclosure 2.

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED, FROM
THE 9rn TO 11TH FEBR
NDED. UARY, 1855, INCLUSIVE.
WOU
FEB. 9.
B'zth Regiment of Foot.
Private Daniel 31`11fahon, severely.
FEB. 10.
55th Regiment of Foot.
Lance-Corporal Joseph Blee, slightly.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutant-General.

Placards have been posted in Southampton stating
that 500 labourers are wanted at the intended military
camp at .A.ldershott, in Surrey. Labourers applying for
employment must each bring a pickaxe and shovel.
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday—The South-Western Com-
pany's steam-boat Wonder, Captain John S. Goodridge,
with the Jersey and Guernsey mails, arrived in dock
this morning at five o'clock, having been detained on her
voyage nine hours beyond her usual time. The Wonder
bad shipped heavy seas while crossing the Channel, and
carried away her jolly-beat, starboard fore-balwarks,
fore-cabin skylights, and part of her port bulwark, and
dpirnaged her paddle-box.

DEATHS AT SCUTARI, &c.

The following is the return of deaths since the 7th
inclusive :

OFFICERS DEAD.
Assist.-Surg. E. Wason, on Feb. 7, remittent typhus

AT KUMMER.
First-class Staff Surg. John Marshall, Feb. 10, fever
Dr. Alibert, Feb. 11, fever

AT SCUTAFI.
Assist.-Staff Surg. F. A. .IVlacartney, Feb. 12, fever
NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Serjeaut Thomas Winlove, Grenadier Guards, ditto, Feb. 7
Serjeaut Walter Maher, 34th Regt., stricture, Feb. 7
Sergeant William Thoinas, 38th Ile,-:t., gelatio, Feb. 8
Sergeant Thomas Madden 88th Regt., rheum., Feb. 9
Sergeant John Cullen, Regt., diarrhcea, Feb. 10
Sergeant John Bartlett, Col, Guards, febris, Feb.l3
Sergeant James Fallow. 88th Regt. diarr. Feb. 12
Sergeant C. M'Ferson, Royal Artillery, dysentery, Feb. 14
Corporal Charles Cook, Ist Regt. anasarca, Feb. 7
Corporal William Walker, 63d Regt., ditto, Feb. 7
Corporal Thomas Card, 95th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 7
Corporal W. Groves, sth Dragoon Guards, febris, Fe b.B
Corporal Thomas Fairs, Gren. Guards, febris, Feb. 8
Corporal William Chadwick, 9th Regt., diarr., Feb. 8
Corporal James Reilles, 17th Regt., orobitis, Feb. 8
Corporal William Hyatt, 89th Regt., diarr., Feb. 8
Corporal John Divine, 47th Regt., do., Feb. 9
Corporal Patrick Kiltaurray, 13th Lt. Drags., ditto, Feb. 9
Corporal Leonard Davison' Gr. Guaids, dysentery, Feb. 9
Corporal John Isaacs, 7th Regt., diarrhcea, Feb. 10.
Corporal John Downs, Ist Rifles, febris, Feb. 10
Corporal William Trull, 2d Rifles, febrig, Feb. 11
Corporal John Briggins, 50th Regt. ditto, Feb. 12
Corporal Edward Hall, Ist Dragoons, ditto Feb.l2
Corporal D. Thompson, 89th Regt. palpitatio, Feb. 12.
Corporal George Simpson, Royal Artil. wound, Feb. 13
Corporal John Daniels 50th Regt. rheum. Feb. 13
Corporal Samuel Walsh, 77th Regt. ditto, Feb. 13
Corporal John Boxall, 7th Regt. dysentery, Feb. 13
Corporal Thomas Garrett, 2d Rifles, ditto, Feb. 13
PRIVATES.
Wm. Rossiter, 63d Regt., inter. febrig, Feb. 7
Andrew Owen, 90th Regt., febris and diarr., Feb. 8
Robert Allison, Coldstream Gds., scorbutis, Feb. 7
Richard White, 9th Regt., diarr., Feb. 7
Robert Blissett, 21st Regt., gelatin and dysentery,
Feb. 7
Samuel Farmer, 46th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 7
John Russell, 50th Regt., itto, Feb. 7
George Ready, 38th Regt., ditto, Feb. 7
Michael Roberts, 21st Regt., diarr., Feb. 7
Edward Moxom, 62d Regt., rheumatism, Feb. 7
James Clarke, let Dragoons, diarr., Feb. 7
James Edwards, 20th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 7
Josiah Henning, 30th Regt., diarr., Feb. 7
Patrick Mullins, 38th Regt., ditto, Feb. 8
David Cross, 38th Regt., scorbutis, Feb. 7
George Haywood, let Dragoons, diarr., Feb. 7
Thomas Humphries, Royal Artillery, ditto Feb. 7
John Adkins, Royal Artillery, ditto, Feb. 7
John Tankard, Coldstream Guards, ditto, Feb. 7
George Mayhew, Coldstream Guards, vulnus, Feb. 7
Henry Carter, 7th Regt„ gelatio, Feb. 7
Frederick Bullock, 9th ILegt., diarr., Feb. 7
Wm. Hayes, 21st Regt., febris, Feb. 7
Thomas Ireton, 31th Regt., gelatin, Feb. 7
Thomas Henry, 44th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 7
Thomas Gerty, 46th Regt., rheumatism, Feb. 7
James M'Cummings, 50th Regt., scorbutis, Feb. 7
George Brown, 50th Regt., gelatin, Feb. 7
John Moffat, 55th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 7
Daniel Mallingtoni 55th Rest., diarr., Feb. 7
Joseph Shandy, 63d Regt., ria, Feb. 7
Charles Bowston, 63d ltegt., diarr., Feb. 7
Thomas Wright, 63d Regt., ditto, Feb. 7
Bartholomew Melba, 88th tegt., dysentery, Feb. 7
John Ryan, 88th Regt., febris, Feb. 7
John Foyle, 89th Regt., ditto, Feb. 7
Robert Atkins, 90th Regt., gelatin, Feb. 7
Henry Bustle, 90th Regt., ditto, Feb. 7
Thomas Duggan, 90th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 7
John Jermin, 95th Regt., ditto, Feb. 7
Thomas Ayers, 97th Regt., gelatin, Feb. 7
James Langley, 97th Regt., febris, Feb. 7
R. Carter, Grenadier Guards, ditto, Feb. 7
Henry Gardner, 2d Rifles, gelatio, Feb. 7
William Hales, Ist Rifles, febris, Feb. 8
William Woodward, 28th Regt., ditto, Feb. 8
Henry Matthers, 57th Regt., gelatio, Feb. 8
John Mahoney, 80th Regt., ditto, Feb. 8
Thomas Ryan, 05th Regt., dysentery, Fob. 8
John Reynolds, 34th Regt., rheum., Feb. 8
Patrick Whalin, 77th Regt., diarr., Feb. 8
Elijah Manuel, Coldstream Gds., gelatin, Feb. 8
John Stiles, ditto, phagedona, Feb. 8
William Blake, ditto, dysentery, Feb. 8
William Bastin, Ist, Foot, rheum., Feb. 8
Thomas Feehan, ditto, dysentery, Feb.. 8
Michael Angling, 21st Regt., ditto, Feb. 8
John Squires, 44th Regt., ditto, Feb. 8
Joseph o.d, 44th Regt., diarr., Feb. 7
James Varney, Gren. Guards, febris, Feb. 8
H. Fisher, Scots Fusilier Guards, dysentery, Feb. 8
Samuel Atkins, Ist Foot, rheum., Feb. 8
Frederick Fellett, 17th Regt., gelatio, Feb. 8
William Comfort, 20th Rent., dysentery, Feb. 8
James Rose, 20th Regt., do., Feb. 8
Michael Carty, 33d Regt., diarr., Feb. 8
Robert Jermin, 28th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 8
Charles Maxfield, 41st Rent ,!ebris, Web.
.mai.uew wa141.. 41st itezt., diarr., Feb. pi
Daniel M'Garthy, 44th Regt., dysentery. Feb. 8
George West, 46th Regt., (Harr., Feb. 8
William Roberts, 50th Regt., gelatio, Feb. 8
Robert Walsh, 57th Regt., febris, Feb. 8
William Destrond, 63d Regt., do., Feb. 8
George Middy, 77th Regt., gelatin, Feb. 8
William Archer, 95th Regt., febris, Fob. 8
William Fairbrass, 2d Rides, diarr., Feb. 8
John Colefichl, 44th Regt., do., Feb. 8
George Waller, Sappers and Min., dysentery, Feb. 9
David Kompt, Scots Fusilr. Gds., diarr., Feb. 8
James Kennedy, 3 id Regt,, dysentery, Fob. 9
Archibald Campbell, 42d Regt., phthisis and diarr.,
Feb. 8
John Wyatt, 46th Regt., chronic rheumatism, Feb. 9
Mark M'Noill, 46 Regt., gelatio, Feb. 9
Thomas Shelton, 50th Regt. diarr., Feb. 9
Thomas Mahoney, 50th Regt., vulnus, Feb. 9
John Wells, 9th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 9
William Ferguson,
93,1 Regt., gelatin, Feb. 9
Richard Wally, R.A., gelatio, Feb. 9
William Ward, R.A., diarr., Feb. 10
Henry Sykes, R.A., gelatin, Feb. 10
Evan Evans, Fusilier Gds., diarr., Feb. 9
Robert Higgins, 23d Regt., cholera Feb. 9
John Nias, 38th Regt., geatio, Pub. 10
John Haggie, 42d Regt., dysentery, Feb. 9
G. Wheatley, 68th Regt,, ditto, F
James Richardson, 11th Hus-ars, diarr., Feb. 9
William Smith, R.A., febris, Feb. 9
Thomas Rolphus, Gr. Guards, diarr., Feb. 9
James Ames, Grenadier Guards, vulnns, Feb. 9
Alexander Gordon, Scots Fos. Guards, gelatio, Feb. 9
William King, let Foot, scorbatis, Feb. 9
Herbert Bennett, 4th Regt.,, rheumatism, Feb. 9
Nathaniel Jennings, 20th Regt., febris, Feb. 9
Jeremiah Mahoney, 28th Regt., ditto, Feb. 9
John M'Key, 38th Regt., diarr. Feb. Feb. 9
James Weeuwright, 42d Regt., ditto, Feb. 9
Alexander Campbell, 42d Regt., ditto Feb. 9
Alexander Dick, 42d Regt,, gelatio Feb. 9
John Morton, 46th Regt., diarr, 9
Edward Grice, 63d Regt., ditto, Feb. 9
Francis Lawler, 63d Regt., febris* Feb 9
James Gaffey, 68th Regt., diarr, Feb.. 9
Thomas Aherin, 79th Regt., ditio, Feb. 9
Thomas Christie, 79th Regt., laryngitis, Feb. 9
Patrick M'Evoy, 89th Regt. febris- Feb. 9
Patrick Cashman, 90th Rea. gelatlo, Feb. 9
William Harris, 97th Regtcdysentery, Feb. 9
Matthew Lougherane, 97th Regt , Feb. 9
Henry Pegler, 13th Light Drag Regt
'F b. 10
William Stevenson, Cold. Guards
, diarr,, 0
Rebel t McCann, 7tl Regt. Yulnus Feb.l4 Feb.*
Joha Doaoshoe, 30thRegt., diarr,, Feb. 10
John Sabine, R.A., amentia, Feb: 10
James Jessopp, Grenadier Oct.., dysentery, Feb. 10
Alfred Peckans, Scots Fusilier Gds gelatio, Feb. 11
James Moodie, Scots slier Gds,,dysentery, Feb. 11
Richard Taylor, 33d Reegto gelatio, Feb. 10
John Taylor, 44th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 10.
Robert Sheen, 49th Regt., febris, Feb. 10
William Long, 77th Regt., gelatio, Feb. 10
William Deedman, 38th Regt., febris Feb. 11
Joseph Priag, 95th Regt., diarrheas., Feb. 9
.Alexander Scott, 2d Rifles, febris inter, Feb. 10
Samuel Noseworthy, 55th Regt., diarrhoea Feb. 10
John Holt, 20th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 10'
George Lovett, 7th Regt., febris, Feb. 11
William Robinson, 4th Lt. Drag., phlegmon, Feb. 10
Francis Lee 17th Lancers, abscess, Feb.
10
henry Neville, Grenadier Guards, diarrhoea, Feb. 10
William Dyde, Scots Fus. Gds., dysentery, Feb. 10
Thomas Finch, ditto, gelatio, Feb. 10
John Morris, ditto, dysentery, Feb. 10
Thomas Addaes, ditto, gastritis, Feb. 10
John Green, Ist Foot, febris, Feb. 10
Edward Williams, 4th Regt., ch. dysentery,
Feb. 10
Charles M'Cartney, ditto, ditto, Feb. 10,
Samuel Edge, 9th Regt., ditto, Feb. 10
Peter Bristow, 21st Regt., ditto, Feb. 10
Thomas Batesby, 28th Regt., gelatio, Feb. 10
Daniel Maher, 33d Regt., febris, Feb. 10
Richard Sharples, 44th Regt., ditto, Feb. 10
Thomas Sheridan, 46th Regt., diarrhcea, Feb. 10
Timothy ley
47th Regt., gelatio, Feb. 10
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William Bell, 55th Regt., febris Feb. 10Thomas Thompson, 57th Regt., gelatin, Feb. 10
Thomas Shehan, 63d Regt., febris, Feb. 10
William Dean, ditto, ditto, Feb. 10
Michael Cassidy, ,
se ditto, diarrhceaF,eFbe.bl.olo
James Devlin, 89th, dyntery,
ige tswostb, 28th Regtßenjamin ~ ditto, Feb. 10
Henry Woolley, R.H.A., ditto, Feb. 12 y
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William Wholt, R.H.A., d senter, Feb. 11
James M'Ketterick, R.A., catarrh, Feb. 11
William Appleton, Gren. Gds., rheumatism, Feb. 11
George Taysun, 4th Foot, Diarr., Feb. 12
Jonathan Bowridge, 63rd Regt., gelatio, Feb. 11
William Collins, 88th Regt., diarr., Feb. 12
Richard Hawkins, 97th Regt.., dysentery, Feb. 11.
John Absalom, Cold. Gds., diarr., Feb. 1,1
William Danson, 4th Regt., ditto, Feb. 12
John Robinson, 18th Regt., febris, Feb. 11
Edward Turner, 44th Regt.,
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David Bordenson, 41st Regt., g
John Torrent Cold.
t Cold• Gds., diarr., Feb. 11
William Moore, 50th Regt., ditto, Feb. 11
William Davis; Feb.old. Gds., ditto,
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William Hamilton, Amb. Co • , .
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George Sutton, let Rifles,_ gelaptio,d Fe to
William 11b 11
William O'Brien, Amb.
Corps, febris, Feb. 11
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John Quinlan, 34th Roe: fe
William Themes, 4th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 11
William Barkett,
R.A.R.A., febris Feb. 11
James Campbell, Cold. de"
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John Mizen, let Foot, ditto, e •
John Donnell, 19th Regt., gelatio, Feb. 11
Edward Leat, 21st Regt., g
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Feb. 11
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Thomas Jackson, 30th Regt.,
John Towhey, 33d Regt.,Feb. 11
febris,
Enoch Cross, 55th Regt., febris, Feb. 11
Michael Coad, 63d Regt., rheumatism, F....eb. 11
George Payne, 77th Regt„ febris,, Feb, 1

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William Mason, 77th Regt., gelatio, Feb. 11
Robert Ingham, 79th Regt., Feb. 11
Fenton Rourke, 88th Regt., rheumatism, Feb. 11
James Spearman, 119th Regt., diarr., Feb. 11
Thomas M'Allister, 89th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 11
William Sheppard, 95th Regt., febris, Feb. 11
John Sewer, 97th Regt. ditto, 11
John Collins, lst Rifles, ditto, Feb. 11
David Kislingbay, Ist Rifles, ditto, Feb. 11
Thomas Braybrook, let Rifles, gelatio, Feb. 11
Job West, Amb Corps, rheumatism, Feb. 12
John Tickle, R.A., dysentery, Feb. 12
William L'iherty, 32d Regt. diarr. Feb. 12
Thomas Carleton, 89th Regt. dysentery, Feb. 12
Samuel Brooks, 90th Regt. gelatio, Feb. 12
Richard Hawkins, 41st Regt., diary., Feb. 12
William Stacey, 9th Regt. diarr. Feb. 13
William L avaley, 41th Regt. rheumatism, Feb. 13
Thomas Richardson, Ist Rifles, darr. Feb. 12
William Edwards, 55th Regt. ditto, Feb. 12
William Edwards, Gren. Guards, ditto, Feb. 12
Robert Galbraith, R.A. dysentery, Feb. 12
James Dicks, Ist Foot, ditto, Feb. 12
John Hobbs, let Foot, diarr. Feb. 12
Moses Roukes, 9th Foot, dylentorv, Feb. 12
John Campin, 17th Foot, febris, Feb. 12
Henry Moore, 20th Regt. ditto, Feb. 12
John Deaca.rle, 30th Regt. dysentery, Feb.l2
William Rogers, 44th Regt. ditto, Feb. 12
John Miller, 46th Regt. febris, Feb. 12
Michael Connell, 63d Regt. ditto, Feb. 12
George Foster, 68th Regt. ditto, Feb. 12
Joseph Kemp, 68th Regt. dysentery, Feb. 12
Joshua Penny, 89th Regt. dysentery, Feb. 12
Caleb Croft, Ist Rifles, dysentery, Feb. 12
William Berness, Sap. and Min. febris, Feb. 12
Thomas Heardon, S. M. Corps, ditto, Feb. 12
James HaNby, Ist Foot, gelatio, Feb. 14
John Lemons, let Foot, diarr. Feb. 13
Henry Williams, 23d Regt. ditto, Feb. 14
George Lougknan, 38th Regt. febris, Feb. 14
Michael White, 63d Regt. diarr. Feb. 13
Michael Stringer, 77th Regt. amputation, Feb. 13
Henry Thompson, Ist Rifles, amputation, Feb.l3
Charles Carr, R. H. Artil. ditto, Feb. 13
Robert Coulter, 42d Regt. dysentery, Feb. 13• •
Francis Lawler, 28th Regt. diarr. Feb. 11
William Tailor, Bth Hussars, ditto, Feb. 13
Charles Finney, Royal Artil. ditto, Feb. 13
Edward Bosking, Royal Artil. febris, Feb. 13
John Jeffs, Royal Artil. diarr. Feb. 13
John Hall, Coldstm. Guards, febris, Feb. 13
John Webster, Ist Foot, ditto, Feb. 13
David Middleton, 21st Regt. febris, Feb. 13
Robert Burrows, 23d Regt. ditto, Feb. 13
John Joyce, 46th Regt. erysipelas, Feb. 13
George Drake, 62d Regt. febris, Feb. 13
Cornelius Sweeney, 63d Regt. dysentery, Feb. 13
George Everett, 68th Regt., diarr. Feb. 13
Charles Baker, let Rifles, dysentery, Feb. 13
Robert Norman, 2d Rifles, febris, Feb. 13
Jehn Trevitt, Sappers and Miners, ditto, Feb. 13
William Wood, 2d Bat. Rifle B. erysipelas, Feb. 14
William Liptrott, 2d Rifles, febris, Feb. 13
John Ready, 28th Regt. ditto, Feb. 13
John Vickery, R.A., ditto, Feb. 13
AT ICULULEE.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant William Asti*, 97th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 6
Sergeant John Ramsclen, 7th Regt., febris, Feb. 6
Sergeant Join Shinners, Ist Regt., dysentery, Feb. 7
Sergeant James Reeling, Grenadier Gds., diarr., Feb. 8
Corporal John Williams, Ist Rifles, ditto, Feb. 10

PRIVARES.
Angus Sinclair, 79th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 8
Thomas Wheeler, 23d Regt., febris, Feb. 8
John Osborne, 49th Regt., ditto, Feb. 8.
George Cowen, 2d Dragoons, diarr., Feb. 8
James M'Sweeney, 63d Regt., febris, Feb. 9
William Harris, 41st Regt, ysentery, Feb. 9
Henry Hoy, 46th Regt., gelatio Feb. 9
James Creckford, 97th Regt., diarr., Feb. 9
William Mills, Coldstream Gds., dysentery, Feb. 9
Henry Smith, 33d Regt. diarr., Feb. 6
Alfred Vigor, 38th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 6
John Madden, 95th Regt., diarr., Feb. 6
Nathan Dennison, 2d Rifles, febris, Feb. 7
Francis Kerrigan, 19th Regt., diarr. Feb. 6
Thomas Hiles, 97th Regt., febris, Feb. 6
John Pine, let Rifles, dysentery, Feb. 6
William Knott, Scots Fos. Gds., diarr., Feb. 7
John M‘Grath, 2d Rifles, febris, Feb. 7
James Rampton, Grenadier Gds., diarr., Feb. 7
George Harding, Coldstream Gds., ditto, Feb. 8
Frederick Henderson, Grenadier Gds., diarr., Feb. 7
Richard Andrews, Grenadier Gds., ditto, Feb. 7
Henry Lewis, 68th Regt., febris, Feb. 8
Patrick Kelly, 63d Regt., ditto, Feb. 7
John Austin, Scots Fusilier Gds., diarr., Feb. 7
John Butler, 20th Regt., ditto, Feb. 7
Bryan Mahon, 47th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 7
James Hart, Grenadier ds., dysentery, Feb. 8
Samuel Miller, Grenadier Gds., febris, Feb. 8
John Holmes, Grenadier Gds., ditto, Feb. 8
George Spencer, let Rifles, diarr., Feb. 8
John Ingram, Grenadier Guards, ditto, Feb. 7
Walter Blaney, 41st Regt., dysentery Feb. 7
James Buckley, Amb. Corps, diarr., Feb. 9
John Taylor, Scots Fusilier Guards, gelatio, Feb. 8
Henry Tuston, Rifles, gelatio, Feb. 8
Edward Lukos, 7th Regt.„ dysentery, Fob. 8
Thomas Moulson, Scots Fusilier Guards, ditto, Feb. 9
John Rehr 49th Regt., ditto, Feb. 9
Wm. wad i% Grenadier Guards, ditto, Feb. 9
Thomas Brats, 46th Regt., ditto, Feb. 9
Charles Westrop, Royal Artillery, dia.., Feb. 9
lti in. Cotbet, 97th Regt„ ditto, Feb. 8
John Lewis, 33d Regt., febris, Feb. 8
Henry Franklin, Grenadier Guards, ditto, Feb. 8
Francis Anderson, Grenadier auards' diarr., Feb. 8
James Gordon, 05th Regt., ditto, Feb. 10
Dam d Orchard, Coldstream Guards, ditto, Feb. 10
David Hill, 95th Rogt., ditto, Feb. 10
Frederick Cook, 20th Regt., ditto, Feb. 11
John Whitehill, 17th Regt., ditto, Feb. 11
Robert Fricker, 95th Regt., ditto, Feb. 11.
George Dunkley, Grenadier Guards, diarr., Feb. 10
Frederick Barham, Ist Foot, ditto, Feb. 10
George Whittington Grenadier Guards, Feb. 11
James Campbell, R.A., ditto, Feb. 11
James Inden, 46th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 10
Edward Jenkins, 38th Regt., febris, Feb. 10
Thomas Whybrow, 95th Regt., diarr., Feb. 10
George Wardfleld, Gren. Guards, catarrh, Feb. 11
Henry Lawrence, R.A., diarr., Feb. 11
NOMINAL ROLE OF DEATHS ON THE PASSAGE FROM THE
CRIMEA.
ON BOARD THE ROBERT LOWE.

Private Patrick M`Namara, 89th Regt., diarr., Feb. 8

ON BOARD THE RIPON.
PRIVATES.

John Roberts, 6th Dragoons. dysentery and gelatio,
Feb. 4
Charles Steckley, Royal Artillery, gelatio, Feb. 3
Jeremiah Regan, 4th Foot, dysentery, Feb. 4
James Walsh, Royal Artillery, ditto, Feb. 6
ON BOARD THE ANDES.
Corporal N. Mallin, ditto, diarr., Feb. 4
Corporal Edward Woodfine, 50th Regt., de., Jan. 30
PRIVATES.
John Taylor, Coldstream Gds., dysentery, Feb. 8
William Hapzood, Scots Fus. Gds., do., Feb. 1 '
Malcolm Cameron, ditto, febris, Feb. 2
Alex. Manary, 38th Regt., diarr., Feb. 4
Joseph Cowdan, 41st Regt., febris, Feb. 3
Thomas M'Cue, 44th Regt., do., Feb. 4
Bernard Hart, 55th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 5
Michael M‘Mahon, 95th Regt., febris, Fob. 4
William Bish, 95th Regt., do., Feb. 4
'
- Shore, 95th Regt. do., eb. 2
Robert Sandback, 97th Regt., de., Feb. 4
ON BOARD THE MERU.
Private James Watt, 93d Regt., diarr., Feb. 9
ON BOARD THE ADELAIDE.
PRIVATES.
Thomas Smith, 20th Regt., diarr., Feb. 10
William Brompten, 21st Regt., do., Feb. 9
John Cooknell, 95th Regt., do., Feb. 10
ON BOARD THE QOAIELZA.
Sergeant Hugh M`Dermid, 90th Regt., de., Feb. 6
PRIVATES.
William Morgan, 41st Regt., dysentery, Feb. 5
George Proatt, 97th Regt., diarr., Feb. 6
William Cramsey, 9th Regt., febris typh., Feb. 6
James Birdes, let Dragoons, febris, Feb. 7
- Narney, 9th Foot, diarr., Feb. 8
Joseph Man, Coldstream Gds., scorbatis, Feb. 9
James M'Crenner, 97th Regt., febris, Feb. 9
Wm. Horton, 97th Regt., gelatio and febris, Feb. 9
Wm. Sedgewick, 55th Regt., dysentery, Feb. 10
John Young, 2d Dra. Gds., febris typhus, Feb. 10

ON BOARD THE MELBOURNE.
PRIVATES.
John Delaney, 88tk Regt., dysentery, Feb. 10
Elam Pearce, 2tl Rifles, do., Feb. 10

Powle ICvane, Royal Artillery, do., Feb. 12
Joseph Sugcliff, 77th Regt., do., Feb. 12
William Weedon, 2d Rifles, diarr., Feb. 12
ON BOARD THE OTTAWA.
Private James Conolly, 90th Regt., diarr., Feb. 13

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOU.R.N.ALS.

THE INDIAN ARMY.
(From the Times of this day.)

. -
A number of concurrent circumstances unite at this
moment to call public attention to the sale and pur-
chase of commissions in the army. Our troops are fight-
ing by side with the French, suffering the same
hardships, participating in the same dangers, but not
animated by the hope of the same rewards. The ex-
traordinary disasters and miseries they have . suffered
have led them and their friends in England to inquire
into the manner in which that service is filled to which
is intrusted the custody of so many precious lives.
Thinking men also seem to have come with marvellous
unanimity to the conclusion that the strict line of sepa-
ration which divides the Indian from the English service
ought, to be broken down, and that the talents of a
Mayne, an Outram, or an Edwardes, should no longer be
withheld by a silly exclusivenesss from serving in other
fields than those of India or Affgbanistan. But the Indian
service is a service of seniority, and cannot be amalga-
mated with our own, except through the abolition of the
system of purchase. The promotion, also, of so many ser-
jeants for meritorious conduct to the rank of ensign has
induced men to consider how questionable is the benefit
which such promotion implies, and to doubt whether
placing these gallant soldiers in contact with gay and
expensive young men, to live upon pay quite inadequate
for the position they have to support, and with little
hope of further promotion,- from the want of the means
of purchase, be not a cruel kindness, and a benefit
carrying with it many of the attributes of an injury. All
these causes have combined to fix popular attention on
this subject, and to occasion meetings such as that re-
cently assembled at Newcastle to beheld for the purpose
of demanding that the obnoxious privilege of purchase
shall be swept away.
. We trust that this may be regarded as a symptom of
the gradual awakening efthe publio -mind..toythe meetta,
sity of the substitution of merit for every other criterion,
net only inthe army and navy, but in every other branch
of the public service. The first dawning of this neces-
sity in the public mind has manifested itself with some
inconsistency, since, whatever be the evils of purchase
in the army, they are, no doubt, less than those of job-
bery, which, under the name of patronage, pervades
every public department, withholds the most powerful
stimulus from education, and deprives the public service
of that amount of talent which it might command. Nor
are we without apprehension that, when the advocates
of the existing system in the army come to employ argu-
ment in answer to the objections that are popularly
urged against purchase, there will be many who, per-
plexed by the intricacy of the subject, and dazzled by
the array of authority and the amount of specious
sophistry that can be brought to bear upon it, will dis-
trust their first convictions, and, feeling they have ven-
tured out of their depth, renounce the attempt to form
or support an opinion ; yet in the matter of sale and
purchase of commissions, as in so many others which
trench on the boundaries of the science of political eco-
nomy, the popular and superficial view is the correct
one, and the most refined analysis only brings us round
to The conclusions of unassisted common sense. A little
reasoning seems to support the system of purchase—a
little more effectually demolishes it.
The arguments in favour of purchase all assume as
their basis the pre-existence of a system of seniority, and
derive their force from the necessity of remedying the in-
tolerable abuses to which the unmitgated system of seni-
ority, as we have it in the Engineer and Artillery Corps,
gives rise. Seniority has in it a certain degree of
fairness, since it is the fate of all men, noble or
plebeian, rich or poor, to grow old, but it buys this
single advantage at the expense of every ether defect to
which a criterion of promotion can be liable. For the
first twenty years of military service increased age may
be some indication of increased efficiency, but after that
period this congruity gradually ceases, till every year
that is added to the age of the officer detracts from his
utility, and seniority declares him fit for the highest
command just when the inexorable hand of time has
stripped him of his last qualification for any. Besides,
seniority, by annexing the highest rewards to the longest
service, strengthens the inducement to continue in the
army after health, strength, and faculties have failed,
thus keeping down rising merit, and applying the
strongest incentives to old men to undertake duties
which they cannot fulfil. It is a vivid perception of
these enormous evils which has induced mankind to be-
take themselves to the system of purchase, as involving,
with all its absurdity and injustice, a less practical mis-
chief than seniority ; and certainly, if the alternative
lies wholly between the two, we shall not be disposed
to doubt the wisdom of the selection. In favour of
purchase it may truly be said that it places com-
missions in the hands of men of easy circumstances,
bound by the ties of property and relationship to
the upper classes; thus, even in the ranks of our
army itself causing the feeling of the citizen to predomi-
nate over that of the soldier, arid securin4 us from the
dread which all free Governments have instinctively felt
of the mercenary leaders of a hireling soldiery. Neither
can it be denied that by offering a ready retreat from the
army to those whose health is unequal to its fatigues,
or whose taste points out to them other walks of life, the
system of purchase tends to relieve the service of much
that is useles and incapable, arid to attract men into it
by the very facility of getting out of it. We are anxious
not to uirdwritate these advantages, because we are
a gate that in military circles to dispute the excellence
of sale and purchase is often regarded as the result of a
one-sided and careless consider ition ; but, giving full
weight to these advantages, we do not hesitate to say
that the evils of the system of purchase far preponderate
over its benefits, and make its abolition absolutely requi-
site to the consolidation of our army and the regeneration
of our military strength. We believe that the assumption
that there is no alternative between purchase and seni-
ority is fallacious ; and that in war with much ease, and
in peace without insurmountable difficulties, a system of
promotion by merit might be devised which would super-
sede both the one and the other. The service of a man who
purchases his commission is gratuitous, for his pay is
but the interestof his perchase•money ;'.and this:country,
rich as it is, cannot afford to be gratuitously served.
Purchase is but a rude expedient for removing the in-
capable and promoting the able, since able men may
find it their interest to sell out, and inefficient men be
induced to buy in. It banishes poor men relying on
merit alone from the army, or condemns them, if they
enter it, to a career of perpetual disappointment and
discouragement. It deters from enlistment, and unduly
lowers the private soldier, by withholding from his best
efforts the prospect of advancement. It deprives the
officer of all inducement to study and improvement, and
encourages a low tone of feeling, by the habitual pre-
ference of money to merit; it makes our officers regard
themselves rather as annuitants than as soldiers, and
visits with the heaviest penalties the gallant loss of lite
on the field of battle. These things we have left our-
selves no space to exp!ain now, but we propose to eluci-
date them and their effects on the mixed system of pur-
chase and seniority in the English army on a future
occasion.

TREE NEW MINISTRY.
(From the Morning Hermld of this day.)

We are now fairly under the rule of the new Ministry.
Nobody anticipates for it any lengthened duration ;
some allowing it a few weeks, others a few months, of
life ; but something like a fair trial it will undoubtedly
have.

There are three aspects in which the Palmerston Mi-
nistry may be ♦iewed. In the first point of ♦iew, it
strikes the mind favourably; in the second, doubtfully;
in the third, as most objectionable and full of danger.
We will devote a few moments to each.

1. The new Cabinet has one feature which gives it a
great advantage over the Ministry which it succeeds.
It is more of one mind and of one class. It is more
purely Whig. It has thrown eff the peril and the de-
filement of the Free-trade-Tractarian sect commonly
known as "the Peelites." Hence it will not excite the
alarm and jealousy which was so often aroused, within
the last two years, by the Gladstones and Sidney Her-
berts, whenever any Church question sprung up. Neither
will it be imperilled by the internal intrigues or the
l
ex-
ternal unpopularity of these now defunct politicians..llbemore
all these respects the Palmerston Ministry will
likely to last than the Cabinet which preceded it.
2. In the second point of view we can only speak
doubtfully. Lord Aberdeen and his friends carried on
the war with Russia as if it were a quarrel which they
had accidentally got into, and out of which they hoped
to emerge in the course f a few weeks. They sent out
an
expedition, it is true ; but Mr. Gladstone told the
Housaof Commons that he had provided for its trans-
port out, and transport home, all in the current year !
And accordingly many of the officers, imbued with the
War-office spirit, gave their friends hopes of seeing them
back again before Christmas--the Christmas of 1854!
Now this was not making war wisely, for it was not
making war in earnest. Whatever Government chooses
to declare war against Russia ought to mature its plans
for a seven years' struggle. So great and unassailable
and proud an empire will not be brought to succumb in
one or two campaigns. Does any one seriously think
that the conquest of the Crimea would bring Nicholas
upon his knees ? Let such au one ask himself what
would be En.:land's feeling if she heard that a Russian
army had landed in Inverness and had overrun six of
the northern counties of Scotland ? Would the gene-
ral
Would '
voice be for peace—fur submission ?
it not
rather be fur first driving the Muscovites out of the
country, before a word was listened to about peace ?
And we ought to give the arrogant Czar credit fur
quite as much pride and stubbornness as we ourselves
should show if we were the invaded and he the invader.
Our doubt, then, as t' the character of the new
Cabinet is this—Whether it Las so entirely for,aken the
policy and tone of thinking observable in Lcrd Aber-
deen's Government as to have laid its plans and taken
its measures for a long war. If it has not done this—if
it still dreams of bringing Russia to submission by such
feats as we have already witnessed in the Baltic and
the Black Sea, then we can only forbode for our country
the lamentable future of wasted treasures,
The sacrificed
eids
Armies, and resultless campaigns.
already indelibly inscribed in our annals yaseonre of loss,
disgrace, and shame. But if the policys as
1.854 is not
I
utterly changed we shall have to look back, in the next