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EVENING, OCTOBER 15. 1852.

vein, a second more copious and of superior quality
may be found. But this favourable conjecture, re •
quires corroboration by boring, before the discovery
of coal near the coast can be pronounced important.
I have made arrangements for the COnveyance of
six waggon-loads of coal to the Custom House at
D'Urban, in order that the officers of the steamer,
now daily expected, may have it in their power to
test its quality and value for steam navigation.—l have
the honour, &c.
Jozar BIRD, Acting Surveyor-General.
The Honourable the Acting Secretary to
Government, Pietermaritzburg.
Fine samples of coal from this newly-discovered
bed have been exhibited in Pietermaritzburg, during
the past week. Certainly the thing, to all appear-
ance, augurs something real, and the coal wa have
seen is as pure as any we have seen from Europe.
A quantity is to be shipped for trial on board the
steamer.

A fine vein of coal, equal to any from Newcastle,
has been discovered upon the farm of Mr. J. C.
Boshof, at the Mad river, abaut forty miles from
Pietermaritzburg. Several other mineral productions
of value, as sal,petre, &c., have been found in the
same vicinity. These, with other indisputable signs
of wealth in the Natal territory, stamp the country
with an importance that can se.cweely be overrated.
GOLD AT NATAL—TaIk about gold, copper, and
the other valuable minerals of Natal! Ho can
they be found to avail if they are not sought for ?
That thu country is rich in all the useful minerals
is already demonstrated ; but what of this knowledge
unless it be turned to practical use ? Mr. Herschel
Babbage was sent out to Australia to undertake a
minearological and geological survey of the colony,
and a reward of 1,0001. was offered for the discovery
of gold. Let such encouragement be held out to
Natal, and we will not limit the result. The coal of
Mr. Morewood's is infinitely better than the big
lumps of gold. We find nothing in the papers to
confirm the discovery of gold in the Water I(loof.

SALE OF THE MANORS AND ESTATES

OF GOSFORTH.

BY MB, ALDERMAN FAREBROTBER, AT NEWCASTLE.

The sale by auction, under decrees of the High Court
of Chancery, of the important, extensive, and valuable
estates and manors of North and South Gosforth, with
the capital mansions called Gosforth House and Low
Gosforth House, the Seaton Barn and Coxlodge Estates,
with a number of valuable farms, comprising upwards of
4,500 acres of land, also Gosforth Colliery and part of
Coxlodge Colliery, with mines, way leaves, and other
rents, took place on Wednesday and Thursday, 6th
and 7th October, at the Queen's Head Hotel at
Newcastle. This domain, one of the most important
in the county of Northumberland, was the property of
the Rev. Ralph Henry Brandling, who inherited it on
the death of his brother, Charles John Brandling, Esq ,
M.P. for the county of Northumberland, which took
place in 1826.

Lot 1. Comprising ithe manors of North and South
Gosforth, capital mansion called Gosforth House, with
the park, gardens, lake, woods, seven hundred and
ninety acres of valuable land, of which three hundred
and sixty-two are in wood, and forty. nine in lakes, &c.,
&c., were put up at 22,0001. The biddings were spirited
till the sum of 25,1001. was reached, when Thomas
Smith, Esq., tenant of the mansion, was declared the
purchaser.
Lot 2. A desirable and highly valuable freehold
estate and mansion called Low Gosforth, with forty
acres of park-like land, gardens, extensive out-offices,
&c., together with two hundred and eighty-seven acres
of rich land, of which forty-nine are in wood, &c., were
put up at 15,0001., and it was finally knocked down to
Jos,ph Laycock, Esq, of Winlaton, for 20,1001.1
The purchase money of each of these lots will be
greatly increased in consequence of the timber grow-
ing upon them, which is both extensive and valuable,
and which, ' according to the conditions of sale, is to
be taken at a valuation. Lots 5 to 39 realised sums
amounting in the aggregate to 149,8901.
Lots 3 and 4 were put up together. The former com-
prised the freehold estate and residence called Seaton
3urn House, with pleasure grounds, garden, &c., and
cee hundred and thirty•three acres of rich land; the
latter the freehold estate called the Six Mile Bridge
Kral, containing one hundred and ninety-Dine acres of
lard, a number of cottages, houses, three parcels of
lan( containing seven acres, &c., was put up:at 10,000/,
and knocked down, after spirited competition, to Riddell
Robson, Esq., of Wheaton, for 15,0001.
Let 40. Gusforth Colliery, reserved at 22,5001.
Lot4l. Gosforth Colliery Royalty, reserved at 21,500/.
Lot f 2. 4-9 ths of Coxlodge Colliery, reserved at 5,4001.
Lot k 3. Royalty of Seaton Barn, reserved at 4,5001.
The amount altogether produced by the stale was
184,920'4, exclusive of the value of the timber, realised
by absoute sales; whilst the value of the reserved pro-
perty of the biddings in the aggregate amounts to
79,0701. It would thus appear that the market value
of this file property in its entirety cannot be far short
of 300,0011.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
BOW-STREET.
John Lothland, a young man of ruffianly aspect,
who said he was a shoemaker, was charged with a
series of murderous assaults upon Mirth's, Williams.
The prisoner bad been remanded twice, owing to
the inability of the proseeutrix, from the injuries sus-
tained, to attend and give evidence.
Williams now stated that she was a married woman,
but had separated from her husband, and was living
with her sister in Brownlow.street, Drury-lane.
The defendant had immediately wished her to live
with him, but owing to his violence on previous occa-
sions, she refused to have anything to do with him.
On the 29:h of September last he met her in Drury-
lane, and follovred bar home. Ile said that he was
going for a soldier, but wished to see her first. She
tried to avoid him, but he pursued her to the yard at
the back of herlodging°7 end there commenced a vio-
lent attack upoe her, blackening her eyes and knock-
ing her down, sad afterwards breaking two of her
ribs by jumping upon her, and kicking her in the
back and side.
of the prosecutrix,
Elizabethwho Fitzgibbon,witnessedtlieasas sisternd her best to keep
1 did
ti a
the defendant from her, confirmed the above state-
ment. She said Qat he first struck her in the temples,
causing the blood to gush out of them ; and when
she was down he jumped twice upon her, and then
knelt over her, and struck her repeatedly in the
ok,i,ce in holding him
side, breast, and face. She covered her face partly
with her hands, but ho struck under them ; and
then,
Witnessjamad pningotheuP w Licked
succeeded her
again in the side.
back a little while, and she managed to get to black-
smith's forge opposite ; but he tore from them, and
fellowed her to the forge, where the prosecutrix was
protected from further violence by three men.
Mr. Clarke, surgeon at Charing. cross Hospital,
stated that he attended the young woman Williams
at her lodgings. Tie injuries which she bad received
were very severe, and she continued in some danger
for ten days, one of her ribs being broken, if not two.
There were symptoms of other internal injuries, and
she was still in a greet state of debility, increased by
the medicine which had been given her to prevent in-
flammation in the lungs.
The prisoner, who could not keep his ' temper in
court, asked the prwecutrix several questions as to
her having previously lived with him, in a tone fero•
city which seemed to indicate a strong desire to re-
new the attack upon Ler; and he was with difficulty
restrained by the magistrate.
John Dennis, the warrant officer, stated that the
defendant was brought up once before for a similar
assault upon the prosecutrix, who then forgave him.
The defendant admitted striking her " a matter of
a dozen times or so," but denied jumping upon her.
Mr. JARDINE oemmitted him for trial at the next
Westminster sessions.
SOUTe/WARK.

George Minns,costermooger, Thomas Kelly, com-
positor, William Fisher, carpenter, ,Sophia Field,
shoebinder, and Mary Ann Brown, bracemaker, were
placed at the bar before Mr. Seeker, charged with
being found in a house in Unicorn-court, Kent-
street, engaged in the manufacture of counterfeit
coin.

Sergeant Richards, 10 M, stated that on the pre!.
vious afternoon, between five and six o'clock, he went
accompanied by Sergeant Woodhouse, and also a boy
to the house, No. 1, in the above court, the door of
which, leading to the court, was open. The boy then
walked up stairs, and knocked at the door of a bank
room on the first floor, and a voice from within called
out, " Who's there ?" The boy answered, "It's all
right," upon which the door, which was barred and
bolted, was undone, and the two sergeants, who were
standing outside, rushed into the room, and saw the
five prisoners, three men and two women, all sitting
round the fireplace busily engaged, some attending to
a pipkin filled with hot metal, while others were
employed in arranging plaster of Paris moulds for
the reception of metal to strike off counterfeit half-

crowns, shillings, and sixpences. Before,however, the
officers had time to make a seizure of the whole of
the implements used in the manufacture of base coin,
the prisoners, on finding they were discovered, dashed
down on the hearth several plaster of Path moulds,
and smashed them to pieces; but enough were saved
to exhibit the unlawful nature of the business in
which they
were engaged. In Kelly's possession was
found a mould with a genuine half-crown in it, and
several counterfeit half-crowns and shillings were
picked up off the floor, all of which were quite hot,
showing that they had been recently manufactured.
Amongst the various articles used by the prisoners,
several bottles containing spirits of wine and other
liquids, together with pounded plaster of Paris, files,
small hammers, moulds for mal,:in,, different coins to
imitate the current coin of the raw, were discovered
in the room, and now produced in court for the ma-
gistrate's inspection. Some broken spoons were also
discovered, made of metal of a white description.
Fisher made sea attempt to escape,_ but ho was over-
taken and secured. The woman Field, who had her
bonnet and shawl on when the officers entered the
room, asserted her innocence, said that she lived in
Slaoreditch, and that she only came from thence to
see the prisoners, and to be shown the way in which
they 0144 e the counterfeit money.

Mr. SECICER asked the prisoners if they had any
questions to put, but they all replied in the negative,
saying that they had nothing to tr:k.
Air. SEdrtta said that he should commit them all
for trial, but that they should be brought up there
again on that day week, in order to have the autho-
rities of the Mint present.
THAMES.

A poor woman, named Mary Ann Hewitt, who ap-
peared in a very weak condition, was brought before
Mr. Ingham, charged with attempting self-destruction.
James White Davis, a labourer, said he was stand-
ing on a wharf on the banks of the River Lea Cut at
Limehouse on Tuesday evening, when a gentleman
from the opposite side called to him, and said that a
female had just thrown herself into the stream. He
looked about, and suddenly the head of a woman tip-
peered above the water, and her clothes wero blown
up by the wind. He pulled off his hat and jacket,
and went into the water and caught hold of her. The
bank was perpendicular, and he had great difficulty
in keeping bar up until he reached the edge of the
wharf, when a man laid down and held his hand out
He caught hold of the hand, and others then knelt.
down and profered their hands, and he put the woman
on shore, and then climbed the bank and saved him-
self. The prisoner was the woman he saved. She
was apparently dead when he took hold of her. Means
were used to restore animation ; but it was a long
Urals before she exhibited any signs of life, and she
was then removed to Ratcliff workhouse, where she
had since been under medical treatment.

The prisoner, who stared wildly, and appeared
almost unconscious of what was going on, was called
upon by the MAGISTZATE for her defence, and the
words having been repeated by Roche, the gaoler, she
said, in a low tone, that she had no recollection of
what had taken place, and could not tell how she got
into the water.

Mr. INotiAat asked if the prisoner was sober when
she was taken out of the water, to which the witness
replied in the affirmative.
A poor man, who appeared to have endured great
anxiety and privations, here got into the witness-box
and said, " Please your Worship, its trouble that has
brought my poor wife to this."
Mr. Iriou&at—O'a, you are the husband. Tell me
all about it.

The Husband—l am a Spitalfields weaver, and I
was out of employment some time, but have got a
little work lately. Last week my poor wife was
troubled in her mind in consequence of her daughter,
who is married, having lost her first child. About
two months ago her mother died, and that preyed
very much on her mind. We could not bury her
without applying to the parish, and that distressed her
more than anything else. She has looked very wild
and haggard ever since. From conversation I have
had with my wife, I know she is very sorry for what
she has done, but distress and a broken heart caused
her to do it.

Mr. INGHAM said there was no doubt this was a
case of distress, and that the woman was an object of
pity. He would allow the unfortunate woman to
depart with her husband, and ordered that Davis
should be remunerated for his good conduct and
bravery from the poor-box fund.

THE SUICIDE AT ST. ALBAIV'S HOTEL.
An inquest was held at the St. James's workhouse,
Poland street, yesterday, by Mr. Langham, the de-
puty coroner for Westminster, and a jury, to inquire
into the cause of the death of Henry Joseph Brad-
field, who committed suicide three days ago, in the
coffee-room of the St. Alban's Hotel, Charles-street,
St. James's.
The following witnesses were called :
William Friodley, Peckham—l have been in the
army, and was a magistrate in the West Indies. I
kaew the deceased Henry Joseph Bradfield. I don't
know where he was living of late. He had, some
time ago, a lodging in the Waterloo-road. He had
been educated as a medical men—he told me so; and
was a surgeon with Lord Cochrane in Greece. After
that he was in the Belgian service, in the Hussars ;
but I knew nothing of him till 1835, when he went
out with me to Trinidad; we went in the same ship,
and I have known him since. I left him, at the time the
magistrates were dismissed at a moment's warning, in
Trinidad. He was not a magistrate they, but he was a
magistrate up to that time. I don't know on what
ground he was dismissed. We were all dismissed by
the Governor, Sir George Hill, at a moment's notice.
I did not see or hear of him for some. years after-
wards. I understood he went to Barbadoes after-
wards as colonial secretary. I saw him afterwards in
London. He was not pursuing any profession, but I
understood he wanted to be restored as a magistrate
in the colonies. He then had an appointment in St.
Dominica, under the Governor, Colonel M‘Donald.
I saw nothing of him from that time till this time
twelve month,. He called on me at my house. He
was then doing nothing, and I understood he had
been very ill, and was trying to do the best he could.
He was then in distressed circumstances, and living
on his friends. His wife and child followed him to
Trinidad. I saw him frequently within the last
twelve months. He generally came to me on a Sun-
day, more than once a month on the average. I saw
him last on Monday morning, about half-past
one ; nothing particular took place on that occasion,
hut he was very much depressed in consequence of
the injustice done to him by the Colonial-office, and
he always laboured under that impression. He
dined and slept at my house on Sunday, and he ap-
peared much depressed. When he lived in the Wa-
terloo-road his effects were there, and they were kept
for rent which he owed. He told me so himself.
He never made any observations to me to indicate
that he was likely to commit suicide. He was mainly
supported by a friend, and be went out for four
months to Belgium, to see the King of the Belgians,
who know him well. Upon his return I saw him
for a few Sundays, and I learnt afterwards that he
had been to Osborne, endeavouring to see the Queen,
who had some knowledge of him. [A packet of
papers was here produced and opened. In the packet
were several poems and other works of the deceased.
One of the books bad on the cover, "To her Majesty
Queen Victoria," and on another, "To H. M. the
King of the Belgians."] The gentleman who was in
the habit of assisting nim, Mr. Winstanley, put an
end to himself on the Friday previous. Several pa-
pers were identified as in the handwriting of the de-
ceased. I know that the deceased had published se-
veral works. I have seen the paper with the name of
Lord John Russell in his possession. Ido not know
that he had lived in Park-street, Grosvenor-square.
I have never before seen the letter dated from
Downing-street produced. I think that is all I
have to state. I did not see the deceased after
Monday last. On Monday, October 11, he wrote
to me a letter from the Junior United Service
Club. In the letter he accused the Colonial-office of
murdering himself and me.. This paper contains a
statement of his case, drawn up by another person.
(The packet of papers was addressed to the coroner,
to Mr. Charles Dickens, and his gallant friends
Colonel M'Donald and Captain Grindley.) I cannot
answer whether he had any means of support but
from the gentleman who destroyed himself. On
Monday I recommended him to go out to Australia,
and to go to Westminster with the view of obtaining
a passage. When he left me on Monday I bad no
notion that he was going to destroy himself. For
some time he was not himself; in fact, he was
insane, and had been at one of the hospitals, as I un-
derstood.
The CORONER said it was right that the documents
should be laid before the jury. One of them was
from Lord John Russell, and dated 28th August,
1841, to the Governor of Trinidad, stating that the
deceased had made charges against the • authorities
in Trinidad, and that en inquiry into the charges
should immediately be instituted ; and saying that
if injustice had bean committed, the deceased should
be reinstated in his office. The coroner read to the
jury a long statement published by the deceased of
his case, containing a correspondence with Lord
John Russell, the Earl of Derby, Sir John Puking-
ton, and a number of other distinguished men, and an
article in a weekly paper setting forth his case.
Mr. George Godwin, 24, Alexander-square,
Brompton, architect—l did not see the deceased, and
never saw him. I received from the summoning
officer a letter addressed to me, on Tuesday evening
last. [The letter was in the handwriting of the de-
ceased.] The letter was written at my house, and
addresses me as an intimate friend, and refers to the
cruelties perpetrated against him, and the desertion
of his wife. He wishes to be buried by the side of
his mother, in St. Margaret's Churchyard. He dis-
poses of his works—mentions the names of gentlemen
who assisted him—and states that he had two boxes
containing MSS., one at Mr. Mayhall's, in the
Waterloo-road. He came to see me to offer an in-
terior !view of the church at Waterloo. He ap-
peared very faint when he called—he got some wine
and half-a-crown, and he called on the Saturday and
had some more wine and water. I declined the draw-
ings which he wished to leave. This is all I know of
the matter.
Alfred Hammond, St. Alban's Hotel, Charles-
stre et—l am a waiter. I did not know the deceased.
I fit st saw him last week at the hotel. He came into
the retail department. lie did not stop long. I did
not speak to him. He had something, but I did not
serve him. I next saw him on Monday evening
ab ot.t half-past ten. He came into the coffee•room
pan d had sixpenny-worth of brandy and water, and he
asi Led for pen and ink, and sat writing for about an
ho ur and a half. He ordered. a sausage-roil and a
glt ,ss of ale after. I left the room, and when I re-
tie: .ned I found him on the floor. There was no one
els ein the room at the time. There was a phial on
th a table. I sent for assistance immediately. There
v ma a glass on the table, which he topic from the side-
b os.rd. Is was a smell glass. There wee nothing in
t: !.,e glass, but it smelt as if poison had been in it. It I
we a quite empty. He left a parcel on the table. I
Heel• up the parcel for him. 1 saw an address on it,
hn4 did not read it. This is the card which was on I
is '

th 3 top of the parcel. There was writing on ti -o
card. I picked him up. In less then five minutes
mpulicll non clme in. H 4 told rue that if he •;:hop.ld
fall AThep, or anything happen, to send him
next door to the Junior United Service. Only five
minutes elapsed between my leaving him and finding
him dead.

Mr. Frederick Tuthill, Charles-street, St. James's-
square, surgeon—l did not know the deceased. I
was called into the St. Alban's Hotel on Monday,
between eleven and twelve o'clock at night. He was
quite dead. There were no marks OF external vio-
lence. I saw the glass, which smelt of prussic acid.
'lle general appearance of the body was healthy. On
opening the body there was a strong smell of prussic
acid.

Captain Grindley—l have no idea of his age ; but
he has a father and wife and daughter in London, but
Ido not know where they are. Ido not know whe-
ther he deserted his wife or she deserted him.
Mr. Tothill said—l removed the stomach, which
contained about half a pint of fluid, two-thirds of
which were subjected to analysis, which left nodouht
th,lt poison had been swallowed. I analysed the
contents of the stomach, with the assistance of Mr.
Taylor. I made three analyses' from all of which
the presence of prussic acid discovered would he
enough to cau3l the death of fifty persons. I did
not examine, the brain. The prussic acid was the
cause of death. _ _ _

The Coroner then summed up the evidence to the
jury, and left it to them to say whether the death
was the result of his own act, and whether, if he
committed the act, he was at the time in a sound
state of mind•

The jury, after a short consultation, returned their
verdict to the effect that the deceased had died by
his own hand, while in a state of temporary insanity.

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE•

Ajax, 56, screw guard-ship, Captain Quin, hauled
off from the jetty at Portsmouth, yesterday morning,
to the Camperdown, where she will complete her
fitting.

Bittern, 12, Commander Vansittart, and Daring,
12, Commander Napier, sailed from Spithead on
Wednesday evening, with a fine breeze down Chan-
nel, for their respective destinations..
Inflexible, 6, steam sloop, went out of Portsmouth
harbour yesterday morning, and hove to at Spithead,
to take in her powder and shells. She sailed in the
afternoon for the Mediterranean, calling at Lisbon.
SHOALING OF THE DOGGERBANS.—The Lightning,
steam-tender, Master-Commander Allen, with Capt,
Washington, on Monday left the Tyne, having taken
in a supply of coals, and proceeded on a second survey
on the North Sea. Much alarm has been felt at the
shoaling on the Doggerbank, which lies some 60
miles off the north coast of England, and the Admi-
ralty have given instructions for the bank to be
sounded. On the last occasion the Lightning was
out surveying, those on board succeeded in carrying
a line of soundings across the North Sea to the coast
of Denmark, in the parallel of 55 deg. north, return-
ing in the latitude of 54 deg. north to Flamborough
Head, sounding every quarter of an hour, night and
day. We believe as small a depth as 7 fathoms was
found, but information was received from several
fishermen that they have struck bottom at 5f fathoms
on the tail of the Doggerbank, and this within 60 or
70 miles of our own coast—a depth that might be
fatal to a deeply laden vessel crossing from the Baltic.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Fairy Royal yacht,
Captain Crispin, embarked the younger members of
the Queen's family, who have been sojourning at Os-
borne during her Majesty's visit to the Highlands,
this morning, and took them to Gosport, en route to
join her Majesty at Windsor. Their Royal High-
nesses disembarked at about a quarter to ten at the
Royal Clarence yard, where Admiral Sir Thomas
Briggs, G.C.M,G., the Commander-in- Chief, and
Flag-Lieutenant Pasley, Captain-Superintendent
Johnson, Mr. John Davies, R.N., Master-Attendant ;
Mr. Pinhorn, R.N., and Mr. R, W. Stevens, of the
South-Western Railway Company, were waiting to
receive them and see them safely into the train, which
left for London shortly before ten o'clock.
The Daring, 12, Commander Napier, and the Bit-
tern, 12, Commander Vansittart, sailed from Spit-
head, the former for the West, and the latter for the
East Indies, last night.
The Termagant, 24, screw-frigate, Captain Gifford,
hauled into the stream, and commenced swinging for
the adjustment of her compasses this morning.
PLYMOUTH, THTIRSDAY.—This morning the First
Lord of the Admiralty (his Grace the Duke of Nor-
thumberland), accompanied by Sir Thomas Herbert,
M.P., Mr. Secretary Stafford, M.P., Captain Pelham,
R.N., M.P. (private secretary), and Colonel Greene,
went direct from Devonport to the Royal Marine
Barracks at Stonehouse, where the Marines, under
their commanding officer (Colonel Coryton), were
drawn up in line to receive their Lordships. After
making a close inspection of the men they proceeded
to their rooms, every one of which was minutely ex-
amined, and then visited the infirmary and the boys'
and girls' schools. They subsequently went to Bun-
ker's-hill, behind the barracks, and saw the Marine
Artillerymen exercise at the great gun practice-
gallery. Their Lordships expressed their satisfac-
tion at the good discipline and excellent condition
of the Plymouth division of this able arm of the
naval service. From the barracks they went to the
Royal Naval Hospital, and then returned to the dock-
yard, where the First Lord held a levee, from 1 to 3
o'clock,in the office of Commodore Superintendent Say -
mour. At half-past three o'clock the Duke of Nor-
thumberland, Sir Thomas Herbert, the Hon. Captain
Duncornbe, M.P., Mr. Stafford, Captain Pelham,
Colonel Greene, and Colonel Williams entered the
Admiral's barge, and proceeded to the Royal William
Victualling-yard, where, about four o'clock, they
were received on landing by Captain-Superintendent
Rich, R.N., Mr. Samuel Triscott, Storekeeper, and
Mr. Armstrong, Master-Attendant. Their Lord-
ships at once visited the bakehouse and mills' which
they inspected most minutely, and then went through
the provision and slop-stores and the other branches
of this fine establishment, expressing their approval
as they proceeded. The workmen were not mustered.
At half-past five o'clock the Board returned in the
barge to Devonport.
In the course of the day the Duke of Northumber-
land accompanied Mr. L. Tripe, Honorary Secretary,
to the Royal British Orphan Asylum, and examined
the children as to their education, clothing, comfort,
&c. His Grace then made a similar examination of
the Military School. Each of these valuable institu-
tions received the munificent donation of 100/. from
the First Lord, who also gave 2001. to the New
Sailors' Horne at Devonporr, of which Lieutenant
Sumpter, R N., is the honorary secretary.
All the members of the Board left by the express
train for London.

APPOINTMENTS.

Woomvicu, Ocx. 14.—Lieutenant Sir Henry
Black wood (1851), to the Leander, 50, at Ports-
mouth.
Paymaster Thomas C. Thomas (1851), to the
Volcano steam-vessel, on the West Coast of Africa
station, and not the Vulcan, as stated yesterday.
Midshipman Wm. Samwell, to the Linnet 8, brig,
at Devonport.
Master's-Assistant Sherlock Creak, to the London,
90, at Sheerness.
Boatswain Philip Brown, to the Leander.
Tne Atlante, Dutch man-of-war schooner, arrived
at Woolwich yesterday on special service.