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ADMIRALTY, DEC. 3

The following promotions, dated 26th October, 1852,
have this day taken place consequent on the decease, on
the 7th October last, of Rear-Admiral of the Red,
Charles J. Austen, C.B. :—Rear-Admiral of the White,
Peter John Douglas, to be Rear-Admiral of the Red ;
Rear-Admiral of the Blue, Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart.,
to be Rear-Admiral of the White ; Captnin Sir Thomas
Herbert, K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
COMMISSIONS BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

Sir Francis Edward Scott, Bart., to be Deputy
Lieutenant of the county of Stafford.
King's Own Regiment of Staffordshire Militia.—
Sidney Leveson Lane, Esq., to be Captain, vice Fitz-
herbert, resigned—Cecil Newton Lane, Gent., to be
Lieutenant.

The Right Hon. Horatio Earl of Orford, the Right
Hon. Henry Valentine Stafford Lord Stafford, the
Right Hon. Brownlow North Osborne de Grey, Robert
John Harvey Harvey, Esq., Sir Eaton Stanard Travers,
Knt., Henry Rainy Upeher, Esq., Thomas
Brightwen, Esq., John Thomas Mott, Esq., Vincent
Edward Eyre, Clerk, Henry William Bartholomew Ed-
wards, Esq., John Calthrop, Esq., John Wyndham
Dalling, Esq., George Blomefield, Esq., Roger Kerri-
son, Esq., Ferdinand Ives, Eiq., Albemarle Cator,
Esq., James Dott Hulton, Esq., Anthony Hudson, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenants of the county of Norfolk.
2nd or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia.—George
Grenville Glove; Esq., late 7th Fusiliers, to be Captain,
vice Franklin, deceased. Frederick John Reyne, Gen-
tleman, to be Lieutenant, vice Roper, who retires.
Royal Wiltshire Militia—Edmund Lewis Clutterbuck,
Esq., to be Captain. Frederick Breton, Gentleman, to
be Lieutenant.

Warwickshire Militia, Ensign Joseph Howe to be
Lieutenant.

Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry,— Thos. Robert Brooke Cartwright, Gentleman,
to be Cornet, vice Fitzroy, promoted.
Hertfordshire Militia—Adolphus Meetkerke, Esq., to
be Lieutenant.

INDIA BOARD, DEC 2.
A dispatch, from which the following is an extract,
has been this day received at the East India House :
From the Governor-General of India in Council to the
Secret Committee of the East India Company, dated
Fort-William, October 25, 1852.

From the General Order, and the dispatches published
on the 23d inst., you will learn with satisfaction of the
capture of Prome, on the 9th and 10th idem, with but a
triflng loss on our side.

GENEBAL ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA
IN COUNCIL.

Fort-William, Foreign Department,
October 23, 1852
The Most Noble the Governor-General in Council has
much gratification in publishing, for general information,
dispatches received from Commodore Lambert and from
Major-General Godwin, which report the capture and
occupation of the city of Prome, after some resistance,
and with comparatively trifling loss.
The steam squadron and the boats of her Majesty's
ships, conveying the troops upon the Irrawaddy, an-
chored off Prome on_ the 9th of October. A fire from
the shore was silenced by the fire of the steamers and of
the boats. The troops having been landed, drove the
enemy, some three or four thousand strong, from the
suburbs ; and on subsequently advancing to the great
pagoda and to the heights beyond, they found the posi-
tion wholly abandoned by the Burman force.
The Governor-General in Council desires to express in
the strongest terms his obligations to Commodore Lam-
bert, for the care, the energy, and unwearied zeal which
he has shown in directing ,the naval preparations for ad-
vance,' and which have conduced so largely to the' early
and successful renewal of operations in the field.
His lordship in council begs to offer his thanks to
Captain Loch, and to Commander Shadwell, for their
conduct of the service on the river ' • and to Commander
Rice, for his direction of the body of 'Seamen upon shore.
His thanks are also due to Commander Campbell, of
the Indian navy, whose merit has been acknowledged by
the Commodore.

The Governor-General in Council has viewed with
high approbation the services of the officers and men,
who, upon this occasion and for several months past,
have been employed in boats upon the river, subjected
to severe exposure, and engaged in harassing duties,
which they have performed with the utmost alacrity and
cheerfulness, and with conspicuous advantage to the
public service.
To the officers, seamen, and marines of her Majesty's
ships, of the Indian navy, and of the Bengal marine,
who have been serving upon the Irrawaddo, and to
Commander Tarlaton, who long commanded them, the
Governor-General in Council is desirous of offering his
hearty thanks.
The Governor-General in Council has in like manner
to assure Major-General Godwin of the satisfaction with
which he has viewed the skill and judgment by which
the Major-General enabled the troops to obtain posses-
sion of an important post, without delay, and with but
little loss.

To Major Mayhew, Deputy Adjutant-Ceneral ; to
Major Allan, Deputy Quarter-Master General ; to Cap-
tain Smith, Interpreter ; to Captain Bume, Military-
Secretary ; and Captain Chads, A.D.C., the Governor-
General in Council tenders his thanks.

Especially to Captain Christie and to Captain Welsh,
of her Majesty's 80th Regiment, for the gallant manner
in which they led their men to the attack, and to all the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers of the
force, the Governor-General in Council desires to give
assurance of his cordial approbation.
While thus congratulating the naval and military
forces on the first result of their advance, the Governor-
General in Council feels it to be due to the memory of an
old and gallant sailor, that he should add a public ex-
pression of the deep regret with which he has received
intimation of the death of his Excellency the Comman-
der-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships in the Indian Seas.
Although Admiral Austen did not survive to witness
the successful conclusion of the operations in which he
had shared, the Governor-General in Council desires to
record his admiration of the staunch high spirit which,
notwithstanding his age and previous suffering, had led
the Rear-Admiral to take his part in the trying service
which has closed his career.

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The Governor-General in Council has been grateful for
his services, and laments his death.
C. ALLEN, Secretary to the Government of India.

Commodore Lambert, R.N., to Charles Allen, Esq.
H.M.S. Fox's Boat, on Board the Fire Queen,
at Prome, October 11th, 1852.
Sin,— I request you may be pleased to inform the
Governor-General in Council that, having embarked on
board the East India Company's steam-vessels under my
orders H.M. 18th and 80th Begiments, the 35th Regi-
ment Madras Native Infantry, a detachment of Sappers
and Miners, and of the Bengal Artillery with their field-
guns, I dispatched them as they were ready to rendez-
vous off Yangernsiah, a town situated at the upper end
of the Panglang Creek, which joins the Irrawaddy to
Rangoon River.
2. The Commissariat, Ordnance, and Engineers'
stores, and about 1,010 followers attached to the regi-
ments, were conveyed in steamers, large Burmese
cargo boats, five small schooners, and a barque.
The cargo boats, manned by Burmese crews, ad-
vanced in three divisions under convoy of the barges
and pinnaces of her Majesty's ships, Fox, Winchester,
and Hastings ; the barque and schooners were towed by
the steamers.

3. These arrangements being completed, I left Ran-
goon on the 24th ultimo, and Major-General Godwin
joined me on the following day at Yangernsiah.
4. Having hoisted my broad pendant on board
the Fire Queen, the steamer in which the Major-
General embarked, I weighed from Yangernsiah
on September 27th with the steam squadron specified in
inclosure No. 1, and proceeded up the Irrawaddy to
Prome, calling at llenzadah on my way.
5. On the morning of the 9th of October, Prome was
in sight, and on the squadron nearing the city, the
enemy opened fire with a couple of guns and musketry,
which was returned by-the steamers as we proceeded
into the bay, where I anchored in a convenient position
abreast of the town for landing the troops.
6. The enemy continuing to keep up a fire after we
had anchored, I sent the boats of the squadron, under
the command of Captain Loch, C. 8., of her Majesty's
ship Winchester, to throw in a few shells and canist,7
shot amongst them, which had the effect of silencing it
for a time, although they kept up a very spirited fire on
the boats, which wounded two seamen.
7. They then brought a gun down abreastofhtefor
the Fire
it
Queen, but had only time to give us one shotmers,
which
was dismounted by the fire from the sea
effectually cleared a landing place.
of artillery with two
8. Major-General Godwin nowtexpressed his wish to
land the 80th Regiment and a
party
seffected without any
guns, at half-past four, which
opposition, and the lower
ro-viini
0. clearedthe roe
remainder
ne
denemy.
the
9. At daylight next
_ma
brigade of 50 seamen-being
troops were landed, and
formed under Commander Rice, at the Major-General's
the guns, the pagoda and
request, to assist in 1
other parts of the city were taken possession of, the
Prome was occupied
asthe forces
city of
Burmese flying
10. Thus the important y.
by British troops with the trifling loss of one killed and
three wounded on the part of the army, while in the
squadron only four were wounded, who are named in
enclosure No. 2.
11. My thanks are due to Captain Loch, C. 8.,
for the assistance he rendered me throughout these
operations • also to Commanders Shadwell and Rice,
of her Majesty's ships Sphinx and Hastings, the
former for his unremitting attentions to the instructions
I had sent him previously to my entering the Irrawaddy,
and to the latter officer for the part h took when on
shore with the brigade of seamen. Nor can I speak too
highly of Commander Campbell, the officers and men of
the Indian navy and Bengal marine.
The skill and perseverance displayed by the officers
and men belonging to the boats appointed to convoy the
cargo-boats from Rangoon to Prome, a distance of more
than 200 miles, against a rapid stream, exposed occa-
sionally to a fire from the enemy, is deserving of my
highest praise.—I have, &c.

GEORGE R. LAMBERT,
Commodore let Class, Commander-in-Chief.

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List of Wounded in the Flotilla, under
Commodore Lambert, at Prome, 9th 0 141.0344
H. M. S. Fox's barge, David Reid, A.B. itidirjA,---;--**
H.M.S. Winchester's pinnace, David Evais, A.B.
E.I.C. S.V. Mahanuddy, 2 natives of India.
GEORGE R. LAMBERT, Commodore.
BANKRUPTS. -
Richard Collsf builder, Charlton, to surrender, Dec.
10, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 13, at two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basiughall-
street ; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbury.
John Edward Spicer; paper manufacturer, Guildford,
Dec. 15, at eleven, and Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Ivimey, Chancery-lane.
Richard Eaton Noble, painter, Down-street, Picca-
dilly, Dec. 14, at one, and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Col-
lins, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
Thomas Corby, bulider, Lower Eaton-street, Pimlico,
Dec. 14, and Jan. 18, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Rixon, King Wil-
liam-street.

Daniel Coe, grocer, Ardwick, Manchester, Dec. 17,
and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Manchester District
'Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester ; Higson aad
Robinson, Manchester.

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Patrick Cowan' brassfounder and gas fitter, Skinner-
street, Snow-hill, Dec. 14, at two, and Jan. 13, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee ;
Appleton, Philpot-lane.
Henry Capper, licensed victualler, Gravesend, Dec.
9, and Jan. 22, at half-past twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Wilkinson, Gurney, and Stevens, Nicholas-lane.
Richard Jones, hatter, Oswestry, Salop, Dec. 16, and
Jan. 13 following, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court of Bankruptcy. Christie, official assignee, Bir-
mingham ; Hodgson, Birmingham.
Charlotte Julia Pickford, upholsterer and fringe and
tassel manufacturer, Cheltenham, Dec. 14 and ilan. 11,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, offi-
cial assignee, Bristol ; Bevan, Bristol.

Thom-as Wheeler, jun., cattle dealer, Cirencestsr;
Dec. 14 and Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Bristol District
Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevtaa,
Bristol.

DIVIDENDS.
In the Country.

J. A. C. Reimann, Liverpool, Dec. 24, at eleven, at
the Court, Liverpool—A. Smith, Liverpool, merchant,
Dec. 24, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—A. Smith
and T. Irvine, Liverpool, merchants, Dec. 24, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—R. Goolden, Welehpool, Mont-
gomeryshire, carrier, Dec. 24, at eleven, at the Court,
Liverpool—J. Broom (and not Brown, as before adver-
tised), Kidderminster, and St. Mildred's-court, Poultry,
carpet manufacturer, Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Court,
Birmingham—F. James, Walsall, Staffordshire, iron
founder, Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham
—W. H. Armitage, Marsden, Yorkshire, woollen cloth
manufacturer, Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—
J. Armitage, Marsden, Yorkshire, woollen cloth manu-
facturer, Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds.