The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-21 00:00:00

TB TELEGRAPH TO INDIA.

T' he las t ships of the squadron appointed to con-
vey this cable, which in a few months will connect
Englan d with the remotest provinces of our Indian
empire, have either sailed this week or will leave
now it L a few days more. Unforeseen causes, stress
of we ether, difficulty in obtaining all the varied
appli antes and apparatus necessary for so remote
and important an expedition, have delayed the start-
ing of some of the ships beyond the time at first
co atemplated. The Assaye left Plymouth on Satur-
day, the Tweed dropped down the river on Monday
Is et, the Marian Moore and Kirkham are well on
their voyage out. Only one more cable ship, the
Cospatrick, remains to follow. As they are all ra-
ther behind time, they will touch at no intermediate
ports, but at once make all sail for Bombay. The
public is, therefore, not likely to hear much of them
till the great labour is completed, and the first inti-
mation of success will most probably appear in our
own columns in the telegram that will announce the
state of the Bombay and Calcutta markets of the
previous evening. It is only a few weeks since we
gave a very long account of the mode of manufac-
ture of this cable at Mr. Henley's factory—of the
careful way in which it was almost hourly tested
for insulation and resistance till it finally passed
out from all the machines sheathed with galvanised
iron wire to protect it from rust, swathed in hemp
and tar over this, and, finally, coated over all with
a mixture of asphalt, tar, and silica, laid on in a
melted state and allowed to cool into a coating hav-
ing almost the hardness of flint, and the flexibility
of rope. In this completed state, nearly le; in.
in
diameter, weighing nearly 4 to the mile, and 2e-
tons in water, it has been shipped in huge black-
looking coils on board the vessels we have mention,.
ed. The Marian Moore has taken about 700 tons,
or 174 miles of the cable ; the Kirkham, 183 miles;
the Tweed, 350 miles ; the Assaye, 370 miles ;
and the Cospatrick will have 173 miles; or, in all,
1,250 nautical miles of submarine wire. In addition,
each ship takes out complete telegraph stores for
one station in the Persian Gulf. The little steamer
Charente, to be hereafter called the Amber Witch,
and to be permanently employed between the sta-
tions in the Persian Gulf, will carry out some 30 or
40 miles of shore ends of great strength, and this
completes the tale of the scientific expedition, than
which a more perfectly equipped one never left this
country. The whole responsibility of superinten-
dence, from the moment the cable was begun, down
to the proper fitment of every ship chosen to carry
it, has devolved upon Colonel Patrick Stewart, R.E.,
as well known for his high militaryservices in India
as for his superintendence of the admirably worked
land lines through that country. Sir Chas. Bright
and Mr. Latimer Clark have been electrical engi-
neiers under Colonel Stewart, and have undertaken
the whole responsibility of laying it successfully,
but the principal, labour has fallen to Colon();
Stewart's lot, and to him will be due the great merit
of the success of this national achievement.
Each ship, as we have said, has been most per-
fectly fitted out, and each, as far as equipment goes
forms a perfect expedition in itself—a complete link
in the chain of stations which is to connect Bombay
with the head of the Gulf. The Assaye and the
Tweed, the vessels which have just started with the
greatest lengths of cable, may be taken as fair
samples of the whole squadron. These vessels are
sister ships built of Malabar teak, and intended as
frigates for the old India Company. Both are of
great speed, and both are of such prodigious
strength that there are probably no wooden vessels
in her Majesty's navy so strongly bound together.
In each of these, as in all the other ships of the
expedition, three massive wrought-iron tanks have
been built from the bottom up to the main deck
—one forward, one amidships, and one aft. In
these the cable is carefully stowed away in three
coils, the beginning and end of. each coil being car-
ried along the ships to the testing room, and the
Yanks are then filled with water by a small steam
pump. A member of Sir Charles Bright's electri-
cal staff goes with each ship, and has sole charge of
the cable, which he can thus test through while
under water in the tanks daily, and in case of any
leakage being discovered have time to watch and
localise the fault in the insulation, if any should
occur, long before the time for submerging arrives.
Being thus able to watch the condition of the wire
from day to day was of the utmost possible import-
ance, though from various causes it has not been
practicable till now to adopt the precaution. With
each section of the cable is also sent the appliances
:necessary for paying out and buoying, with a staff
of skilled workmen for making joints and cutting
out faulty places, if any should be discovered in the
voyage out, iron posts for land lines, grappling
irons for raising the wire, and most perfect and
costly sets of instruments, some of the most delicate
kind, which will be kept either at the stations or
at the headquarters at Kurrachee, in case of any un-
foreseen difficulties in working.; As far, however, as
the most anxious care and forethought can guard
against accidents none are likely to arise. In fact,
the same delicate system of testing adopted during
the manufacture, which could detect and record the
loss of one thousandth millionth part of the current
by leakage, shows that, if possible, the cable now
in the tanks on board the Assaye is in even better
electrical condition than when it left Mr. Henley's
Nve "ks. The Assaye was driven into Plymouth by
desperately heavy weather ; yet El) strong was the
ship,
last and. so well was the cable stowed that the
Zit: taken before the vessel sailed on Satur-
daywed. each section to be in a higher con-
dition. of
ever insulation than any submarine cable
exhibited before. On board each of the
ships go a
Certain
hereafter to portion of the staff which is
kthe line from station to station
along the Grail At each station will be a superin-
tendent and deputye-etilerintendent, with six clerks
be procured ; the fosrmaetiartsahtlrlument hands that could
12 years' experiencet. gentlemen of from 10 to
e e large stations in Eng-
land. At some of
Stationsxnbasttb the staff will have
but a dull time; at
inietthe lonely point of rock
off the Arabian coast, for
.where the hosti-
lity of the Arabs may possiblancee',
leYititteleee'lltiirest distance from the
all to live on
board a hulk moored at
A some little
rocky desolate shore.
eibrary of about
edition, and
2,000 volumes goes out with theav:
et Gulf stations.
these will be divided between the
between the sta-
The Amber Witch, which will ply ID
tiOne, will bring letters and papers, and
none of the
staff will be kept more than two or three months at
a time at one station, so that there will at least be
constant variety.
chagg©, if there is not much
The
five stations will be from Kurrachee to Gwadel,
distance ofthe Gulf
to the peninsula of Khasab, from Khasab to %shire,
and, from Bushire to a place called Paw, a smell
on the estuary at the mouth of the
eastern township
Euphrates, where •
the submarine wire meets the land.
lines which carry it to Bagdad, thence to Mossul
(the ancient Nineveh),
thence to Diabeker, and
thence to Scutari, on the
Bosphorus, where it joins
a dozen European land routes. Dr. Esselbach, so
well known among scientific men in this country
for his high attainments, is to
be chief superinten-
dent in charge of the whole line, and at his disposal
• •
will be a regular staff of mechanicians Sec., at the
headquarters at Kurrachee. The reason for going
to the gieat expense and trouble of
making five
breaks or stations in the Gulf, on a length of 1,200
miles of Wire, is, of course, the great dii
culty
which would otherwise be exnerienced in tele-
graphing through an unbroken circuit of 1,200
miles. It was for
the same reason that the Malta and
Alexandria line w •
as laid in three sections. Elec-
tricians are
sanguine in their hopes that, in the
course of time, and
wit • h increases) knowledge and
experience in submarine
or rather obstacle, may be
mitigated. As far, how-
ever, as present knowledge goes, nothing appears
more certain than that messages cannot be sent
through long, unbroken circuits of
submarine wires
with sufficient rapidity and d' • istinetness to make
such undertakings profitable, even if there were
ro risk of loss while being laid across deep seas.
Even with the short circuits in which the Persian
G nit line is being laid, Dr. Esselbach is taking out
with him some beautiful instruments specially made
by Professor Wheatstone, Professor Thompson, Mr.
Jeeken, and others, in order to mitigate with them
the influence of the electric wave in the conductor,
ich
esh
tow certain extent, will interfere with rapi-

dity and clearness of telegraphing, even along a
wire where the longest unbroken submarine stretch
is only 400 miles.

The work of submerging this line will, it is ex-
pected, commence about the end of next January.
The wire will be laid from the sailing ships on
which it is on board, towed by steamers lashed
alongside. The mere work of sinking is not likely
to take more than a fortnight, but to land the three
ends and make all the connections perfect may pro-
bably occupy a fortnight or so more. The weak
point of the line is decidedly that which passes
from the head of the Galf to Scutari—the land line.
The first length up to Bagdad is across a conntry
which may be said to be in possession of the Arabs,
and all the worse for the occupancy,
and the second
-
length, from Bagdad to Scutari, is in the bands of
Turkish operators, who work only as long and as
often as it pleases them, andntohen:or
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against by Col. Stewart taking another land line
from Bushire to Teheran, and from Teheran to Bag.
dad. This length, therefore, renders the line partly
independent of the Arabs, though it leaves the evil
of the Turks as rampant as ever. Bat to have some
check on these latter also another land-line is being
set up from Teheran to Teflis, and from Teflis it
will be in communication with the Russian lines.
These routes, however, are really valuable only as
auxiliaries, the great object to be arrived at being,
of course, to get English operators along the Asia
Minor route, as we have already succeeded in get-
ting English operators along the Persian routes
from Bushire to Bagdad and Teflis. A little diplo-
matic management at Constantinople would be suf-
ficient, one would think, to secure this slight favour,
from which the Turks would reap as much benefit as
ourselves in the quick transmission of messages and
all the benefits in a pecuniary point of view.
In a few days Col. Stewart leaves for Constanti-
nople, to see that their Asia Minor lines are all in
good working order before starting overland for
India to meet the cable ships at Bombay. Sir Chas.
Bright and Mr. Latimer Clark, with the rest of the
staff, will also start early next month to make all
the arrangements for their responsibility of laying
the wire. Most heartily do we wish Col. Stewart
and his able engineers all the success to which their
unwearied care so justly entitles them.

New City Traffic Regulations.

Yesterday the magistrates of the City of London,
with the Lord Mayor at their head, at a meeting at
Guildhall, were engaged in considering a code of
bylaws for the future regulation of the traffic within
their jurisdiction, under the provisions of the Act
of Parliament of last session, which applies ex-
clusively to the City, and which was passed
at the express instance of the Court of Common
Council. The Act empowers the Court of Aldermen
to make from time to time such regulations for faci-
litating the traffic as they may think necessary, and
these are to apply to three principal subjects. First,
they may prescribe the routes to be followed and the
particular streets or parts of streets to be used by
omnibuses, cabs, and vans; secondly the height and
width to which the heavier vehicles for the convey-
ance of merchandise using the streets of the city
between nine in the morning and six in the even-
ing may be laden ; and, thirdly, the pericid of the
day or night during which carts and waggons,
wholly or partially laden with timber, metal, and
the like, may be allowed to pass or be prohibited
from passing. It is but due to the Aldermen to
state that, alive to the pressing necessity of the mat-
ter, they have, with creditable alacrity, assumed the
functions which the Act devolves upon them, having
at their very first meeting after its passing taken
steps for putting it in force. This was the more in-
cumbent upon them, inasmuch as fully two months
must, according to the statute, elapse before any by-
laws they might propound could come into prac-
tical operation, for such bylaws are not to take effect
until, first, one month after their approval by one of
her IVlajesty's principal Secretaries of State, and
again, until another month shall have followed a
pablic notification of the intention to apply for that
approval. Originally, a Court of Aldermen em-
powered a committee of their body to devise a code
of regulations, with the assistance of the law officers
of the corporation, and this they had under their
consideration and eventually adopted yesterday.
Of this document we now present a summary.
The first and principal regulation makes it obliga-
tory upon the driver of every omnibus and cab
going eastwards through St. Paul's. churchyard, the
destination of which is London-bridge or any place
beyond the bridge to pass along Cannon-street, and
to take the same route in making the reverse
journey. The effect of this rule will be greatly to
relieve the traffic of Cheapside and the narrow gorge
of the Poultry. Again, between 9in the morning
and 6 in the evening no one is to drive a vehicle
through the streets so heavily laden as to require
more than four horses to draw it, nor laden with
merchandise to a greater height than 16ft. from the
ground, or a greater width than 7ft. or the breadth
between the outsides of the wheels of which shall be
greater than 7ft., except a vehicle of such breadth
shall have been in use before the 28th of July last.
Between 6 in the morning and 10 at night the con-
ducting of any kind of locomotive propelled by
steam, except a steam fire engine actually going to
or returning from a fire, is strictly prohibited ; as
is also the driving, between 9 in the morning and 6
in the evening, of any cart or waggon wholly or
partially laden with timber or any other material
exceeding 25ft. in length or Bft. Gin. in breadth.
No coals, beer, wine, or other liquid in casks, con-
veyed in carts, waggons, or vans, will be allowed to
be delivered in 24 of the principal streets of the city
between 9 a..m. and 5 p.m—viz., Gracechurch-street,
Bishopsgate-street -within, Threadneedle-street,
Cornhill, Lombard-street, Leadenhall-street, Fen-
church-street, Tower-street, Eastcheap, Cannon-
street, King William-street, Upper or Lower
Thames-street, Fleet-street, Ludgate-gill, Ludgate-
street, Newgate-street, Che apside, Poultry, Gresham-
street, Princes-street, Lothbury, Throgmorton-
street, or Old Broad-street. The sale of vegetables,
fruit, fish, or other articles carried upon any truck
or vehicle is prohibited between 9 in the morning
and 6 in the evening in the same streets, and on
London and Blackfriars bridges. Every waggon,
van, and the like is to be placed with its side
parallel with the foot pavement when being
loaded or unloaded, or stopped for any other
Purpose. Upwards of 700 principal places are in-
dicated at which in the whole 88 shoe-lelacks may
ply their calling. At by far the greater num-
ber of places one shooblack will be stationed, and in
many two; • b
Dbut at the Royal Exchange, by the
uke's Statue, therewill be •
the pablic eof
seeneampost
office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, four. The
COMmission
the City Police is empowered for
bet of standing ;I.
stand-
inks or the conveniencenumber
to alter or increase the stand-
number of shoeblalekes
of shoeblacks, so that the num-
does not exceed 150, and the
the principal reguitttaio3" in the whole. These are
the obst
nunaraof Streets and footways by
;but there are others pro-
hibitingpersons with variortieestet
goods or merchandise daring
articles for sale,or by
passe
removal, so as to hin-
der or incommode a free
enalt'
age- By the Act each
alternative
les not exceeding
of
of the bylaws, when sanctioned by
a term
which the Ald
State, may be enforced by p the Secretary of
40s. for each offence, with the
of imprisonment.
when empty
A power is conferred by the Act
men have not exercised—namely, to r er-
egulate the
mcde of distinguishing hackney cabs
for hire. It sayer t 1 •t e tor
of the new Solicitor, who
the acumen -
and when actually plying
was mainly
charged
preparing the hill, and as I)
eputy
iternbr With
with additional pay, Watching its
pm:r,
pr. press through Parliament, that, while taking the
tense was not inserted
empowering the Court of
clittle Bhoebiacks under his especial protection, a
Aldermen to recognise the corps of Commissionaires,
a useful and meritorious body of men with a dis-
tinct
tinct organisation and with many guarantees for
fidelity and good behaviour. In the city espe-
cially they are subjected daily to many inconveni-
ences and annoyances. Worthless and disreputable
men in some cases copy their distinctive dress, with
just so little variation as to prove their own

ning and deceive casual observers. These people
hang about the Bank of England, the Stock Ex-
change, and all the principal mercantile quarters
of the city, and, sailing under false colours, often
filch the emoluments which would otherwise fall to
the share of the real Commissionaires and of private
messengers of good repute. The City Solicitor has
taken power, in the regulations under consideration
for the Commissioner of Police to discountenance
and drive away unaccredited shoeblacks, but none to
prevent people obstructing the thoroughfares who
can only earn a living by assuming the good charac-
ter of others, and whose dress they ad opt as a test
of respectability. Possibly the Court of Aldermen
m
yet
find a
mrmeadaereof sure, if they have remedyingthe
the
power, omission o
ttchhoaeemyyirmdiossi manoon servant.tailraecsktyhe will ; but, failing them, the
still find a friend in Sir George
Grey, the Home Secretary, who has the power of
altering and approving.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
VALETTA, Oct. 16.—There is very little naval and
military news to report. Her Majesty's ship Revenge, 73,
bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H, R. Yelverton, C. 8.,
Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley, left port at noon on the 12th
inst., under steam and sail, for Toulon, to form part of the
squadron which is to escort the King of the Greeks to
Athens. The Malacca, 17, screw corvette, Capt. G. J.
Napier, which arrived here on the 10th from Missolonghi,
got under way on the 14th for- Gibraltar, there to await
orders which it is expected will send her to England. In
quitting the dockyard creek she grounded on Fort St.
Angelo point, but was got off in a few hours without
damage. She left on the following day for her destination.
The Trident, 3, iron paddlewheel sloop, Commander C. J.
Balfour, proceeded yesterday morning, after the arrival of
the Marseilles mail for Athens, with despatches for the
Commander-in-Chief and a mail for the English squadron
now in Greek waters. Her Majesty's ships at Malta
are—the Hibernia, flagship of Rear-Admiral H, T. Austin,
C.B. ; the Phoebe, 35; the Chanticleer, 17 ; the Psyche,
2; the Medina, surveying ship; and the Growler,
tender. Major-General W. J. Ridley arrived here
yesterday in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Vectis from Marseilles, and assumed the com-
mand of the Ist Brigade in this garrison, in the place of
Major-Gen. B. Wood, C.B. Capt. Bowden, Scots Fusilier
Guards, aide-de-camp to Gen. Ridley, also arrived in the
same packet. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Ellora, arrived this morning from Alexandria for
Southampton, has on board 65 non-commissioned officers
and men of the 6th Dragoons to give evidence in the case of
Col. Crawley.

The Vulture, paddle steamer, 1,190 tons, with 470-horse
power engine, and fitted to carry six guns on her upper deck,
left Portsmouth yesterday in tow of the Victor, steamtug)
for the Thames. She has been purchased by a private firm
in London from the Admiralty for £4.600. The sale of this
vessel is one of the necessary consequences of the paddle
being superseded by the screw and wood by iron in the con-
struction of our ships of war. The sale, although apparently
made at an "alarming sacrifice," was in reality the only
sensible course left for the Admiralty under the circum-
stances, and is one which it will be true economy to repeat
until the whole of such useless stock is cleared out of our
harbours, and the space they now occupy rendered available
for really serviceable ships. As it is one ship the less crowds
Portsmouth harbour, and an additional pair of moorings
may by a little management be added to those kept for the
service of ships in commission. The Vtilture was built at
Pembroke, from the designs of Sir W. Symonds, in 1813,
and is therefore not a very old ship. If she is broken 1-1 P by
her new owners, the copper on her bottom, her metal fasten-
ings and fittings, with the timber of her hull, will cover her
purchase-money from the Admiralty. This will leave her
machinery as a net pi ofit on the transact,on, and its value
cannot be less than £lO,OOO.

The Hornet and Atalanta, hired sailing transports, ar-
rived at Portsmouth yesterday from the Thames, and were
berthed alongside the transport jetty of the dockyard, where
they h e were
garrisonsu surveyed. y eid
hbeyhtehaev3 baggage military andmedical m, it
afterwards shipped on board the two vessels. The regiment
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of
the 7G th authorities
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will arrive at Portsmouth this morning by special train from
Aldershot and immediately embark, under the superin-
tendence of the Quartermaster-General's Department and
the embarkation officer to the Hon. Council for:lndia, for
conveyance to Madras. Both vessels will sail this evening
or early to-motrow morning.
The line-of-battle ship launch, which has been fitted by
the steam factory department of Portsmouth Dockyard with
a pair of small engines, driving
two four-bladed screws,
realised on her recent preliminary trial at the measured
mile in Stokes Bay a speed of 61 knots, and was found to
possess the same power of turning upon her own centre that
has been exhibited by larger vessels in recent trials of twin
screws on the Thames. A more complete trial of the boat's
capabilities will be made shortly.
By. Admiralty circular, dated the 12th of October, it is
directed that in future "engineer boys" in the steam facto-
ries of her Majesty's dockyards shall be termed "engineer
students." Candidates for entry (by public competition)
must be between 15 and 16 years of age. Examinations
will be held in January and June, when the subjects and
maximum number of marks for each will be as follows :
Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions, square
and cube roots, 250; orthography, 100 ; handwriting, 100 ;
grammar and English composition, 200; geography, 100;
translation of French into English, 100 ; Euclid, first six
books, 200 ; and algebra, including quadratic equations,
200 ; the total number being 1,250. Candidates passing
will be selected for entry in the dockyards according to the
number of their passing marks. Failing to pass they will
be allowed a second examination if not over age. The term
of service is six years.
The Dauntless steam frigate, Capt. J. B. Dickson, having
completed the exchange of a portion of her armament at
Spithead, sailed, again yesterday morning
for her moerings
in Sekthampton water. • s •
The screw steam .corvette,Pelorus, 21, Capt. Boys, which
left FlYraouth on Thursday last, the 15th inst., for the East
Indies and China, put back yesterday morning, having
been on fire in the Bay of Biscay. It appears that on
Saturday last at 6 15 p.m., when she was 320 miles south-
west half west of the Lizard Point, the chief engineer, Mr
James W. Steil, reported to the captain that the foremost
starboard boiler was red-hot, and that the felt over it was
on fire. That part of the maindeck immediately contiguous
was at once scuttled in two places, eo as to allow water to pass
on and behind the boiler, and, a plentiful supply being sent
down from the pumps and by buckets from over the side,
the boiler was completely cooled by 9 a.m. One of the
stokers first discovered the accident by the smell from the
burning felt. The crowns of the furnaces have dropped,
and the boiler is so much injured that it must be rem,ved
All the boats were lowered, and every other arrangement
made for the safety of the crew, lest it should become necee-
sary to abandon the Pelorus. During the fire a full-rigged
ship was observed five miles distant on the port tack, outward
bound. Three distress guns were fired, and rockets and blue
lights were exhibited, but with no response excepting from
the report of a single gun. The stranger continued her
course. It is supposed that she was a Federal ship, and
that she mistook the Pelorus for a Confederate ship of war.
The Kingston valves of the corvette are damaged. She
returned under canvas, but used steam when entering the
Sound, On Sunday, at 5 a.m., she observed a large screw
steamship under all sail, homeward bound, which signalised
that her machinery was damaged; she appeared to be one
of the mail ships on the Peninsular and Oriental line. The
powder and shell will be at once removed from the Pelorus,
and she will be placed in Keyham steamyard to receive the
necessary repairs.
The screw steam gunvessel Speedwell, 4, Commander
Cottam, from Sheerness, arrived at Plymouth on Monday
evening, and is now in the Sound receiving coal preparatory
to her departure for the West Coast of Africa.
Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Narcissus, Captain
Joseph S. Bickford, had been appointed at the date of the
last mail from the Cape to leave Simon's Bay shortly for a
cruise, and Admiral Sir B. Walker was to hoist his flag on
board the paddlewheel steam frigate Valorous, 16, Captain
Charles C. Forsyth. Tho screw steam gunvessel Penguin,
5, Lieut. John G. G. M' Hardy, sailed from Simon's Bay on
the 22d August for the Mozambique. The iron screw steam
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It was yesterday stated in Chatham Dockyard that Capt.
E. G. Fanshawe, the superintendent of that establishment—
who is the senior Captain for promotion to the active list
of Rear-Admirals—will be retained as superintendent at
Chatham until the completion of his five years' period of
service in that capacity. This arrangement, although con-
trary to the recognised regulations, which would oblige him
on promotion to flag rank to give up his present appoint..
ment, has, it is understood, been decided upon by the Ad-
miralty in consequence of the inconvenience which would be
likely to ensue from any change occurring just now in the
superintendence of the naval establishments at Chatham.
Lieut. George Wm. Frederick Snell (eldest son of the
late Commander George Snell, Royal Navy), has been ap-
pointed Captain in her Majesty's 38th Regiment, without
purchase.

The following appointments have been made at the Ad-
miralty :—Commander G. H. Parkin to the Falcon; Lieut.
C. 11. Mansell to the Cornwallis ; Sydney Morgan Puddi-
corribe, nominated to a naval cadetship ; John. G. Shepherd,
Paymaster, to the Falcon; William E. P. Sear, a•sist.-
Paymaster, to the Royal Adelaide; Walmisley A. Danger-
field, assist...paymaster to the Rattlesnake, as supernume-
rary ; V. P. Thompson, first-class assist.-engineer, to
the Rattlesnake ; John. H. Willis, assist.-engineer, to the
Cumberland, as supernumerary ' • Thomas C. Russell,
cic
to the Falcon; and Charles H. Baker, clerk, to the "fk'
Full bene .4dgar.
fit of reduced dut obtain
chasing Horniman's pure Tea; Y 4ed by 4s. "High "High Standard'. 4s. 4d V.
(formerly ch °JCS
at 3s. 4d. and
strongest and most delicious im,o„,°z_l4exly 4s. Bd.), is the
town supply it in packets, 'ca. Agents in every