The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Before the Lord Chief Baron and Barons Bramwell,

Channell, and Pigott.)

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. SILLIAN AND OTHERS.--THE

SEIZURE OF TIIE ALEXANDRA.

Sir Hugh Cairns continued his argument against the rule,
with a view to maintaining that the finding of the jury at
the trial should stand. He said the question he was con-
sidering at the adjournment yesterday was whether, sup-
posing you could show any point of evidence that there was
being built in this country a ship wholly unarmed and wholly
unequipped, that it could be proved that there was an arma-
ment prepared, and made ready for that ship (the armament
being at the time stored up in some repository)and.if at the
same time you had conclusive and distinct evidence that
there was:no intention to put that equipment on board in this
country, but, °a the contrary, the intention was to put it on
board out of the Queen's dominions,—whether that could
be an equipment, furnishing, or fitting out ? That was the
question put by Mr. Baron Bramwell in the way of sug-
gestion. The learned counsel contended, that if it were
intended to ship the armament on the high sea outside the
neutral port, it was au attempt to arm, and did not come
within the grasp of the Act, not even if it were
clearly proved that the intention was to ship the arma-
ment. The learned couusel then referred to the cases
of the Oreto and the Alabama. Both ships were built at
Liverpool, boch left our shores without proceedings having
teen taken against them. No proceedings were taken
against the Oreto until she arrived at Nassau, and there
the case was brought before the Vice-Admiralty Court there.
The gravamen of the charge was that she took in munitions
of war while in the waters of Nassau. The Oreto was tried
and acquitted. Clearly the view taken by those who took
proceedings against the ship was that short of something
that could be considered a warlike proceeding they could
not take proceedings against the ship. The Alabama ease
is exactly similar in respect to its building. It was 'not
till the Alabama reached the Azores that she received
her stoles, her captain, or her papers and hoisted the Con-
federate flag. It was not until after she had parted from
our shores that she became a ship of war. The case
against the Oreto broke down because there was an absence
of evidence of warlike equipment, The present Attorney-
General, in a speech during the last session of Parliament,
admitted that though there were grounds of suspicion
against the Oreto, there was an absence of that kind
of equipment which would have justified her seizure.
The law advisers of the Crown considered that something
must be done in the shape of armament before proceedings
could be taken. Mr. Huskisson said that was a combi-
nation of ship and armament that constituted the offence.
The ;earned counsel then said he would consider the
evidence heard in the case of the Alexandra—the
actual evidence in the case, about the condition of
the ship, not with respect to the intent, but with
respect to the condition of the ship. Having read the evi-
dence, he intended commenting on it; he said that the
questions arising on the evidence resolved themselves into
very simple elements. The question of a hull, he appre-
hended, was altogether placed on one side. There was no
suggestion that there was anything in preparation which
was not on board, except that a part of the machinery which
might have been required to complete the whole machinery
of the ship was in course of preparation. He contended
that nothing in the ship at the time was an equipment of
any kind. Machinery, masts, and hammock nettings,
which were on board, could not be called an equipment--they
were common to all ships. An attempt had been made to
prove that guns were in preparation for the ship. He pro-
ceeded to read the evidence given at the trial in support of
the point; after which he contended that there was not a
scintilla of evidence there connecting the guns (spoken of as
in course of preparation) with the Alexandra.
Baron Bramwell—What is your intention in this argu-
ment ?—that there was no evidence to go to the jury.

Sir Hugh Cairns--I say there was no evidence at all con-
necting these guns with the ship.

Ba ;On Bramwell—Could these defendants be called to
give evidence ?
The Attorney-General--No doubt they could.
Baron Bramwell—l am very glad to hear you say that,
Mr. Attorney-General.
The Attorney-General—That is my impression. I mean
to say that we have never entertained a doubt on the question
The Lord Chief Baron, after some consideration and con-
sultation on the bench, said that there was a diff.,rence of
opinion on the question.

The case was proceeding when wo went to press.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
ROOKER Y. ROOKER AND NE'VTON.

This was a suit by the Rev. William Yates Rooker for
divorce from his wife (who entered no appearance), on the
ground of her adultery,with Henry Skipmore Newton.
The petitioner, who was in orders, married the respondent
in Virginia, where he was officiating in 1842. After co-
habiting till 1862, during which period there were four
children, a separation took place in this country, in conse-
qaence of the intemperance of his wife., and the connection
between her and the co-respondent was then formed.
A letter from the respondent to the Rev. James Rooker,
brother of the petitioner, in which she admitted her guilt,
stating that she had been taken advantage of while under
the influence of drink, and inclosing a letter to her husband
entreating forgiveness, was read as a confession of guilt.
The Rev. James Rooker said he was incumbent of Lower
Gornill, in Staffordshire, and a magistrate. His brother,
the petitioner, had a cure at Christchurch, Winchester,
Virginia, and afterwards at St. Paul's, Louisville, K en-
tucky. His brother returned to England in 1853, and he
and his wife lived for some time in Mornington-crescent.
Mrs. Rooker was constantly drunk. She went back to
America in 1861, but on the breaking out of the war she
returned to England; but from her intemperate habits it
was arranged that she should leave her husband and
come to his neighbourhood. She lived in his house for
some time, but eventually she occupied a cottage near it.
She had an advance from her husband, which was paid re-
gularly. About the end of 1862 he heard rumours in the
parish, which induced him to have her residence watched.
The result was that the co-respondent, who was leader of his
church choir and superintendent of the Sunday school, was
in the habit of constantly visiting the respondent and
taking supper there. In January, 1863, he (witness) visited
Mrs. Rooker's house unexpectedly, and there found the re-
spondent and co-respondent enjoying themselves at supper,
and immediately after that the present proceedings were
instituted..

Mr. Staveley llill took an objection to the legality of the
marriage in Virginia, and the identity of the two persons
(the petitioner and respondent) mentioned in the certificate.
Mary Bates said she lived at Lower Gornill, and knew
Mrs. 'William Rooker. On the 31st of December, 1862, she
saw Mr. Newton in her house. He came in while she
(witness) was there. Some other persons came hi with
him. They had been practicing singing for a tea party that
was to take place the next day. Mr. Newton did not leave
when the other parties did, because Mrs. Rooker took his
hat off and put it over her own head. When he was going
he asked Mrs. Rocker for his hat, but she said she had a
word or two to say to him before he left. Mrs. Rooker
ordered her (witness) to leave the room, but she refu:ed at
first, saying she should not go till Mr. Newton did, because
he had got a wife. Mrs. Rooker got up her temper, and then
she thought she had better go out. She went home and got
her shawl, and then went round to the window of the house,
and after listening some time, sho heard Mr. Newton and
Mrs. Rooker kissing and very comfortable together.
(Laughter.) She could not hear what they were talking
about, but they were very comfortable, that was certain.
(Laughter.)

The counsel for the respondent said he should not further
resist the petition, and, therefore, as far as he was con-
cerned, there was an end of the case.
The Judge-Ordinary said he considered the allegations
had been substantiated, and therefore he was satisfied
adultery had been committed ; but ha would consider
whether the evidence was sufficient to prove the marriage.

regard to the rights of others. Here the bankrupt was
present. and was entitled to be heard. He (his Honour)
thought that in all cases where learned counsel could not
attend they ought to hand over their brief to some other
gentleman at the bar. In this case nothing appeared in the
procee.lings to show any ground for opposing the bankrupt
passing his examination, as the official assignee reported
that the accounts were verified by the books.
Mr. Bazley said he knew nothing of the facts.
His Honour said tha bankrupt would pass his examina-
tion, and perhaps Mr. Preston would consent that the dis-
charge should stand.

shlotulci veasstaunldtiomvaetrelfyoraarrlayneegk.ed the question of discharge
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
RELEASES.

His Honour said that there were three cases for release
before him in this court, and in neither of which had the
rule of court been complied with for filing the affidavit of
service of notice with the registrar ; and the cases ought to
be struck out, and they would on future occasions.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
ROBERT'S Y. WILSON -HEIL MAJESTY'S PROCLAMATION

AGAINST SMOKING.
This was an action to recover damages for the breakage
of a certain pipe belonging to plaintiff.
Plaintiff said that some time ago a friend in Aberdeen
presented him with a very handsome pipe, and he had
smoked it. Thinking it would look all the better for a
mounting, ho intrusted it to defendant, who broke it all to
pieces.

His Honour—Well, defendant, did you break this pipe?
Defendant—l could not help it. I put a piece of silver on
it, and was just wiping it when it fell all to atoms.
Plaintiff—lt was worth quite 12s.
Defendant—l caa only say that I showed it to a person
who knew all about pipes, and he said it was not worth
more than 3s.

Ills Honour—Well, I shall award plaintiff Is.
Verdict for ls.

As the parties were having the box his Honour said—
" Don't you know that the Queen has forbidden smoking
in Windsor Castle? I suppose after this the young men
who are now so fond of it will be giving it up."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
STABBING A LICENSED VICTITA.LLER.-Wm. Jones, a
baker, was charged before ➢lr. Yardley with stabbing Mr.
Arthur Thos. Groom, landlord of the Angel, High -street,
St. Giles's.

The prisoner, it appears, went into the house of the pro-
secutor last night and greatly annoyed the customers. Mr.
Groom put the prisoner out of his house, and while doing
so felt himself stabbed in the arm—the wound having been
inflicted with a pair of scissors. Mr. Groom then gave the
the prisoner into the custody of John Wright, 82 E, who
said the prisoner, after he had been in custody, said " I'll
do for the -- yet."
Prisoner said that Mr. Groom kicked him in the stomach.
He hoped the magistrate would deal mercifully with him.
Mr. Groom also asked that the prisoner might be leniently
dealt with.

Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for a month, with
hard labour, stating that but for the recommendation to
mercy from the prosecutor he should have committed the
prisoner for two months.
SELLING FIREWORKS WITHOUT A LICENSE.—WiIIiam
Wilson, of 74, Bolsover•street, attended to answer the com-
plaint of Inspector Garforth, of the E division, of selling
fireworks without a license, contrary to the 23d and 24th
Vic., cap, 139, sec. 8, which enacts that any person selling
fireworks without a license shall, for every such offence,
forfeit any sum not exceeding £5.
The case having been proved by Chapple, 46 E,
The defendant said he was not aware that a license was
required for the sale of a few small fireworks to boys.
_ _

Mr. Yardley said the defendant ought to have informed
himself of the fact that a license was required, and fined the
defendant 10s. and costs.

COMMITTED WITHOUT A FINE.—A NARROW ESCAPE.
—William Street, a man who refused his address, was
charged before Mr. Yardley with assaulting Mr. Charles
Reuben Smith, landlord of the King and Prince of Wales
Tavern, Brick-street, Piccadilly, and also with wilfully
damaging a spirit cask.
Mr. Smith said about 10 o'clock the previous night the
prisoner came into his house and made use of vile language
towards his (prisoner's) two brothers. He told the prisoner
to desist, when he Belted up a large metal water jug and
flung it at him, but fortunately it missed him, and such
as the violence with which it was hurled that it broke a
spirit cask.

Mr. Yardley asked the prisoner what he had to say.
Prisoner said ho was drunk.

Mr. Smith said the prisoner told him that if he had
hit him where he intended, he would have smashed his
head, and that when he came out of prison he would
"do for him." He knew the prisoner as a man that
never worked.

Prisoner again said he was drunk at the time.
Mr. Yardley said that was no excuse, as he might have
killed the complainant.

Carl, 35 0, said in taking the prisoner into custody,
he said if he had hit the complainant where he intended,
he would not have been there to charge him.
Mr. Yardley said it was a fortunate thing the prisoner
had not killed the complainant.

The prisoner was then committed for two months, with
hard labour.

THAMES.

BREAKING A WOMAN'S ARM.—Mary Leary, a young
woman, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with
assaulting Mary M‘Grath, an elderly woman, whose right
arm was in a splint.

Both women are natives of Ireland and next-door neigh-
bours. They had quarrelled on Wednesday last in conse-
quence of Mrs. M'Grath refusing to take care of some goods
for a countrywoman, and putting them into the street. Mrs.
Leary said sho would have satisfaction, and on meeting her
neighbour next day in St. Anne's-lane, Limehouse, .she
gave her a push and knocked her down. The old woman
fell on her arm and sustained a compound fracture. She
has been under medical treatment ever since, and is not
likely to recover the use of her arm for a long time.
Eliza Smith, living in the same house as the complainant,
was coming down the street, and saw Mrs. M•Grath fall.
Mrs. Leary ran away, and she heard her exclaim, " I have
had satisfaction."

Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, who defended the prisoner, said
the prisoner was passing along the street where both
women lived with a large basket on her arm, and acciden-
tally pushed against the complainant, who was carrying a
can of milk. The complainant was about to strike the
prisoner with the can, and to save herself from the intended
blow she pushed the old woman away from her, and she
fell down. He was instructed the old woman was subject
to fits. He was unable to call any witnesses.
Mr. Woolrych, who took great pains in eliciting the
truth and closely interrogated the witnesses, said he was
quite satisfied of the truth of the complainant's statement.
The prisoner said she would have satisfaction on Wednes-
day, and meeting with the old woman, pushed her down
and broke her arm. He did not believe that the prisoner
intended to break the woman's arm. If he believed she
had any such intention he would have committed her for
trial. He must however punish the pi ismer with some
considerable severity, for she was answerable for the injury
she had done, though she did not intend to break the old
woman's arm. He sentenced the prisoner to' be imprisoned
for three months in the House of Correction and kept to
hard labour.

MAGNIFICENT ORIENTAL GIFTS were presented
to the Emperor and Empress of the French on the
day of the official reception, by the Annainite ambassadors.
Several articles of furniture in lacker ; workboxes ivo in • ry •
two enormous elephant's tusks mounted in silver •
.two
rhinoceros' similar to
rhinoceros' horns mounted in gold; a
that used by the Emperor of Annam, and destined for the
Prince Imperial ; a handsome sabre mounted in gold, with
the hilt in jade and the scabbard in transparent tortoise-
shell; a dragon in gold, under glass; and a block of eagle
wood which has a delicious perfume, and representing a
celebrated and sacred grotto in the country. The moacin.
teresting object of all, however, is a large carpet of red
cloth, on which is embroidered the one hundred transforma-
tions of the character of the Cochin Chinese alphabet, which
signifies longevity.
A POLISH LADY, enceinte, was the week before
last sentenced to five lashes. On the husband r,monstrat-
ing, the number was raised to ten. What English gentle-
man would sit at the same Board of Congress with those
who, if they do not perform, countenance these acts of bar-
barity ? Certainly, an English ruffian would feel dishon-
oured by the contact. The offence of the lady was that she
did not carry a lantern.
lASTLEY'S THEATRE.--Mr. E. T. Smith has
taken the Royal Astley's Theatre for a term of years, and
will open at Christmas.
The French mount into a fort by an entire regi-
ment climbing over a living ladder of six men, one on the
shoulders of the other, against the wall.
The iron-clad ship Caledonia has been removed
from the Victoria Docks to Sheerness, in order to hasten
her completion for sea.
Her Majesty the Queen has remitted a donation
of £3 to Mrs. Mitchell Robertson, Carnoustie, on account
of her having had three children at one birth.
DR. 1) UNCAN MACPHERSON, INSPECTOR-GENE-
RAJ, or HOSPITALS IN TUC MADRAS PRESIDENCY, has
made a very satisfactory report of the system of giving use-
ful employment to the soldiers in barracks, and the inguenee
produced thereby on the health and condition of the men.
TUE LATE WRECKS ON THE CORNISH COAST.--
The bodies of three more unfortunates have been
washed ashore on the north coast of Cornwall. One was
also picked up on Saturday near Zennor. On his left
arm was a representation of a full-rigged ship, and a
sailor having the English ensign over his shoulder. On
Friday and Saturday /dr. Ilickens, coroner, presided at
inqw.sts upon the men who were wrecked from the Lon-
don and Adrian. Open verdicts were returned in each case .

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening,
.•--
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 10.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
following gentlemen, now attaches at the undermentioned
places, to be Third Secretaries in her Majesty's Diplomatic
Service:—
The Hon. Power Henry Le Poer Trench, Munich,
Audley Charles Gosling, Esq , Stockholm.
Henry Nevin Dering, Esq., Berne.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 17.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Lieut. Eustace J. Wilson
Patten to be Captain, by purchase, vice Henry, Earl
Beauchamp, who retires—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
Algernon William Fulke Greville to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Patten—Charles Needham, Gent,, to be
Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Greville.
4th Dragoon Guards—James Cunningham Douglas, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Downie, transferred to the
18th Foot.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Arthur George Smith to
be Cai.,tain, by purchase, vice W. 0. Met, woo retires—
Cornet Percy Hughes dewitt to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Smith—Cornet George Schwabe, from the
16th Lancers, to be Cornet, vice Hewitt.
let Dragoons—Cornet Egerton Leigh to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Tottenham, who retires—Genttenr.na Cadet
George Brown Russell, from the Royal Military College,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Leigh.
2d Dragoons—Cornet John 'Wallace oozier, to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice C. Hill, who retires—Patrick
Sanderson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Hozier.
9th Lancers—Henry William Edwards, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Watkins, transferred to the 18th

Hussars.
13th Hussars—Henry Stephen Walker, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Ford, promoted.
16th Lancers—John Daye Barker, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Baldwin, transferred to the sth
Lancers.
18th Hussars—Major and Brevet-Colonel Sir Frederick
Leopold Arthur, Bart., from half-pay, Unattached, to be
Major, vice Henry Brett, who retires upon temporary
half-pay, receiving the former difference between the
value of a Majority of Cavalry and Infantry—Captain
Wedderburn Arbuthnot to be Major, by purchase,

viceßrevet•Colonel Sir F. L. Arthur, i3ar:t.,who retire
—Lieutenant Charles Arthur Tisdall, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Arbuthnot—Cornet Frederick John Geo.
Murray to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tisdall—
James Poynter, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice

_
Murray.
Royal Artillery—Lieut.-Colonel William Henry Dela-
main to be Colonel, vice William Barr, retired upon
full-pay—Lieut.-Colonel 'William Kinnaird Worster to
be Colonel, vice Bladen West Black, retired upon full-
pay—Lieut.-Colonel George Prince Sealy to be Colonel,
vice Robert Croft Wormald, retired upon full-pay—
Lieut.-Colonel Arnold Burrows Kemball, C. 8., to be
Colonel, vice John Pottinger, C. 8., retired upon full-
pay—Captain Walter King Fooks to be Lieut.-Colonel
vice Delamain—Captain Robert George Hunter Grant
to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Worster—Captain Hill Wal-
lace to be Lieut.• Colonel, vice Sealy—Captain and
Brevet-Major George Gleig Brown to be Lieut.-Colonel
vice Kemball—Captain and Brevet-Major Augustus
Frederick Francis Lennox, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice
Charles Wright Younghusband, removed to the Super-
numerary List—Second Captain William Dixon to
be Captain, vice Fooks—Second Captain John Fre-
derick Adolphus M'Nair, to be Captain, vice Grant—
Second Captain Charles Shaw de Neufville Lucas to be
captain, vice Wallace—Second Captain John Henry
Porter Malcomson to be Captain, vice Brown—Second
Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Strover to be Captain,
vice Brevet-Major Lennox—Lieut. Henry Archibald
Mallock to be Second Captain, vice Dixon—Lieut.
Charles Edward Watson to be Second Captain—Lieut.
Christopher Edward Newport to be Second Captain, vice
Frederick Alexander Which, resigned—Lieut. John
Vibart to be Second Captain, vice Lucas—Lieut. Henry
Tanfield Vachell to be Second Captain, vice Malcolmson
—Lieut. William Smith to be Second Captain, vice
Brevet-Major Strover. The undermentioned Gen-
tlemen Cadets are to be Lieutenants .—Richard
Thomas Roberts, vice Newport—John William
Buckle, vice Mallock—William Bucke, vice Watson—
William Villeneuve Gregory, vice Vibart—Richard
Corbett, vice Smith—Charles Senhouse Graham, vice
Vachell—and Arthur James Pearson, vice Archibald
William Frederick Campbell, deceased.
Royal Eng ineers—Lieut.-Colonel Chas. Cornwallis John-
ston to be Colonel, vice Birdwood, who retires upon full-
pry—Lieut.-Colonel Archibald John Maddy Boileau to
be Colonel, vice Ludlow, who retires upon full-pay—
Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Charles Frederick
North to be Colonel, vice Margery, who retires upon full
pay—Lieut.-Colonel James Henry Burke to be Colonel,
vice Munbee, who retires upon full-pay—Lieut.-Colonel
Alexander David Turnbull to be Colonel, vice Om-
manney, who retires upon full-pay—Lieut.-Col. Alfred
George Goodwyn to be Colonel, vice Young, who re-
tires upon full-pay—Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
Charles Erskine Ford to be Colonel, vice Crawley, who
retires upon full-pay—Lieut. 'Colonel W. Driscoll Gos-
set, from the Supernumerary List, to be Lieut.-Colonel,
vice Brevet-Colonel C. E. Ford—Copt Edward Archi-
bald Foord to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Johnston—
Captain Osborne William Samuel Chambers to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Boileau—Captain James George
Fife to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel North
--Captain Jenkin Jones to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Burke—Captain Charles Waterloo Hutchinson to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Turnbull—Captain and Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Taylor, C. 8., to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Goodwyn—Second Captain Henry
Thomas Rogers to be Captain, vice Foord—Second Cap-
tain Richard Francis Oakes to be Captain, vice Chambers
—Second Captain Edward Davidson to be Captain, vice
Hutchinson—Second Captain Lindsay Russell to be
Captain, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor—Second
Captain and Brevet-Major Robert Preston Malcolm to be
Captain, vice Fife—Second Captain Alexander Urquhart
Hamilton Finch to be Captain, vice Jones—Lieutenant
Wm. Henry Burton to be Second Captain, vice Rogers—
Lieutenant Harvey Rhodes Faber to be Second Captain,
vice Oakes—Lieutenant John Lidstone Watts to be Second
Captain, vice Davidson—Lieutenant John Underwood
Champain to be Second Captain, vice Russell—Lieutenant
John Hills to be Second Captain, vice Brevet- Major
Malcolm—L'eutenant Charles Brodie Forman Penny to
be Second Captain, vice Finch.
Military Train—LieuteLant Robert Warner Stone to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Fletcher, who retires—En-
sign Samuel Masters Davies to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Stone—Ensign William Sloane Elderton,
from the 4th West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice
Kennedy, transferred to the 9Jth Foot--Staff Assistant-
Surgeon Robert Menzies to be Surgeon, vice O'Connor
D'Areey, M.D., placed upon halt-pay—Staff Assistant-
Surgeon Robert Watson to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant and Captain the Hon.
Richard Monck tot be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice.he Hon. H. W. J. Byng, who retires
—Ensign and Lieut. Reginald A. E. Cathcart to be
Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. R.
Monck—Lieut. and Capt. Hugh Granville Fortescue to
be Adjutant, vice Lieut. and Capt. Seymour, who resigns
the appointment.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. John Fenton Boughey to be
Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieut, Haldane, who has
taken up the duties of Lieutenant Instructor of Mus-
ketry at Fleetwood—Staff Assistant-Surgeon. Edward
Noott to be Surgeon, vice Fitz Gerald, appointed to the

Staff.
6th Foot—Quartermaster Robert Smith, from Depot Bat-
talion, to be Quartermaster, vice Maloney, who ex-

changes.
7th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Errol Hope to be Captain,
with purchase, vice R. Barter, transterred to the Bengal
Staff Corps—Ensign Morris James Fawcett, to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice liope—John. Hosack,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fawcett.
Bth Foot—Captain Horace Durrant, from late sth Bengal
European Light Cavalry, to be Captain, vice E, Sandi-
lands, transferred to the Bengal Staff Corps.
12th Foot—Ensign Simon Bagge Triphook to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase. vice T, G. Gun, who retires—Henry
Skey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Triphook
—Lieutenant Gilbert de Lacy Lacy to be Adjutant, vice
Lieutenant Richardson, promoted.
13ttr Foot—Staff-Surgeon John Small to be Surgeon, vice
Surgeon-Major W. G. Trousdell, M.D., who exchanges.
18th Foot--Captain William O'Bryen Taylor to be Major,
by purchase, vice John Borrow, who retires—Lieutenant
Malcolm John Robert Macgregor to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Taylor—Ensign Octavius Ridley Lawson to
be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Macgregor—Cornet
John Downie, from the 4th Dragoon Guards, to be En-
sign, vice Lawson—Staff-Surgeon William Stewart,
M.D., to be Surgeon, vice J. A. Fraser, M.D., promoted
on the Staff.
20th Foot--Lieutenant Conroy Fahie to be Captain without
en
ssvfeeer
nr transferred tobe
Lieutenant,
purchase, *FrQedueiliricktrDa
vice Fahie—Philip Albert Robinson,
purchase,pev_iceEelleigEn
wStiathffeCuotrpurebase,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Dawson.
21st Foot—John F. A. Hartle, E.g., late Captain, Unat-
tached, to be Paymaster, vice George Thompson) who
retires upon half-pay.
24th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred William Adcock to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice 11. 11. Godwin-Austen, trans-
ferred to the Bengal Staff Corps.
29th Foot—Lieutenant John Nicholas, from half .pay, late
95th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bailey, appointed Pay-
master 31st Foot—Ensign Wm. Sydney Hilton Jolliffe to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nicholas, who retires—
The Hon. Henry Edward Dcrrner to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Jolliffe—Lieutenant William Winn to be
Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Bailey, appointed Paymaster
31st Foot,
39th Foot—Lieutenant James Gibbons Smyth to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant Colonel A. C.
Snodgrass, who retires—Ensign Hugh Stewart to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smyth; Edmund Henry
Berkeley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stewart.
43d Foot—Ensign Arthur Campbell Money to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Thomas M'Goun, who retires—
Frederic Simon Armfelt, Gent., to be Ensign, b 9 pur-
chase, vice Money.
46th Foot—Ensign Edward Gambier Serie, from the Ben-
gal General List, to be Ensign, vice A. C. klenneesy,
transferred to the Bengal Staff Corps.
tires.
47th Foot—Ensign William Wooldridge Dunlop, from the
65th Foot, to be Ensign, vice C. F. Surplice,
w"Feorbes,
51st Foot—Captain and Brevet• Major Lachlan G.
from the Bengal Staff Corps, to be Captain, urea T.
Souter, transferred to the Bengal Staff Corp
i who
nant, by purchase, vice C. F. Massingbeisl
53d Foot—Ensign William Norman Lesli:_ ''(:)llll:.:(Lyi,eute-
-6tent.:na des Henry
retires—Thomas Burnett llitchcock,
by purchase, vice Leslie—Lieutenant to be Ensign,
Eyre, who has resigned the appointment.
Morton to be Captain,
Bonney to be Instructor of Muskey,vice Lieutenant
55th Foot—Lieut. James Francis _ by
t purchase, vice
Cargill to be Lieutenant,
purchase, vice F. F. T. Hobbs, who retires—Ensign Sid-
ney,
vice W. F. Le Peer Trench, who Mortou—
Ensignretires—En-
John Eastlake Lee to be Lieutenant, by pur-
csihn-anseß.latch, ft-owl/9th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Cat gill
'Alfred J °Wing, Gtnt., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Lee.
56th Foot--Lieutenant Albert Greenland, from the B'tni-
bay General List, to be Lieutenant, vice R. Bythell,
transferred to the Bombay Staff Corps.
58th Foot—Captain Edward Daubeny, from 67th Foot, to
be Captain, vice Jones, who exchanges,
60th Foot—Lieutenant Augustus Morgan to be Captain,
without purchase, vice F. Dawson, transferred to the
Madras Staff Corps—Ensign Richard FleminzStAd
Nt. John, to be Lieutenant, Without - row
purchase, vice
Morgan.
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, tDoer,ransf eGr reendt "t
ot ot
hbee 4.E7nt 11-
658thig Foot—pluVrielbliaasnei,Gveierevasne
Foot.
67th Foot—Captain Thomas Egerton
69th Foot—Ensign Williamjai F. Butler jtonbeesBth
Foot, to be Captain, vice
E. Daubeny, who exchanges.
purchase, vice J. Lieutenant,from the
5
Whitford who retires— Gentleman
Cadet John Berton, fbe Ensign, by
purchase, vice rom
the Royal Military College, to
74th Foot—Lut vice Butler.
‘nant \N Shapter Hunt to be Captain,

without purchase, vice Priestley, transferred to the Ma-
dras Staff Corps—Ensign Thomas Oliver Wingate to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hunt—Frederick
Henry Bridgman, (font., to De Ensign, without purchase,
vice Wingate.
77th Foot—Lieutenant William M. Dixwell Alderson to
be Captain, by purchase, vice William Joseph Carden,
who retires—Lieutenant Philip Secklemore Dauncey to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Matthew William Dickson,
who retires—Ensign William Samuel Henderson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alderson—Ensign George
Cook to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dauncey—
J ames Colebrooke Carter, Gent„ to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Henderson—Henry Jervis White, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cooke.
78th Foot—Ensign Robert Lockhart Dalglish to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice R. Clay, who retires—George
John Pitt Taylor, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Dalglish.
81st Foot—Serrant-Major Peter Curry to be Ensign,
without purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Fitzßoy,
deceased,
82d Foot—Licht Cecil James East to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Major 11. T. Macpherson, trans-
ferred to the Bengal Staff Corps—Ensign Charles
Worthy to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Elst—
Robert Robertson Reyne, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Worthy.
83d Foot—Lieutenant James 'N. Colthurst to be Captain,
without purchase, vice T. M. Baumgartner, transferred
to the Bombay Staff Corps.
86th Foot—Captain Robert Lewis G. M'Grigor, from the
92d Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Stewart, who
exchanges.
87th Foot—Benjamin Geo. Humfrey, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice C. T. Osborne, deceased.
88t.h Foot—Captain Sir Morison Barlow, Bart., from the
late 4th Bengal European Light Cavalry, to be Captain,
vice A. R. Blyly, transferred to the Bengal Staff Corps
—Ensign John Beveridge Gladw.n Jebb to be Lieu.
tenant, by purchase, vice W. H. Brewer, who retires—
John William Moffett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Jebb.
89th Foot—Acheson William Smyth, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice J
90th Foot—Captain AaTee; King'
wh retirs.
Alexander Charles Grant, from the
Bengal Staff Corps, to be Captain, vice NV; T. M'Grigor,
transferred to the Bengal Staff Corps.
92d Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Duncan Stewart,
from the 86th Foot, to be Captain, vice M'Grigor, who
exchanges.
93d Foot—Ensign Thomas Cockburn Hood, from the 3d
West India Regiment, to be Ensign, in succession to
Lieutenant Butler, deceased.
94th Foot—Captain Hon. Francis Algernon James Chi-
chaster from late sth Bengal EuropeanT Light Cavalry,
to be 'Captain, vice J. T. transferred to the
vgltimreere
Bengal Staff Corps—Lieutenant° Ridgway to
be Captain, without purchase, vice B Aalajor J. B.
Thelwall. C. 8., transferred to
styberaeßsentgoavlbeetit Corps—
Ensign William Alexander
Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Ridgway—Robert Edwd
lace, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice SylaVesal-
95th Foot—Herbert Llywelyn Parry, Gent., to be Ens' ,
without purchase, vice L. T. K. Gustavinski, transferredn
to the Bengal Staff Corps.
97th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Arthur N. Gould to be
Captain, without purchase, vise J. Hudson, transferred
to the Bengal Staff Corps—Ensign William Patrick
Oliphant Boulderson to be Lieutenant,without purchase,
vice Gould.
99th Foot—Lieut. Thomas Lowrie Grenville to be Captain,
without purchase, vice George Clayton, deceased—En-
sign Joseph Arthur Stanford to be Lieutenant, without
put chase, vice Grenville—Ensign Charles Henry Scott
Kennedy, from the Military Train, to be Ensign, vice
Stanford—Gentleman Cadet Francis Hincks, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Patch, transferred to 55th Foot,
101st Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon John Barlow Han-
nah, M.D„ to be assistant-surgeon—Staff Assistant
Surgeon William Pile, M. 8., to be assistant-surgeon.
102 d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William James Tyr-
rell, to be assistant-surgeon—Staff Assistant-Surgeon
Gough Ashton, M,8., to be assistant-surgeon.
103 d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon John Edward Fannin,
to be assistant-surgeon—Staff Askistant-Surgeon, R.
Hall. M.D., to be assistant-surgeon.
104th Foot—Lieutenant Lionel Smith to be captain, vice
Joseph Hind, who retires—Ensign Henry J. Woodward
to be lieutenant, vice Smith—Frederick Sherman
Buchanan, gent., to be ensign, vice Woodward—Staff
Assistant-Surgeon Emil Becher, M.D., to be assistant-
surgeon—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Thos. Parker Smith,
M.D. to be assistant-surgeon,
105th Foot—Staff Assistant-SurgeonThomas Cecil Morgan
to be assistant-surgeon—Staff Assistant-Surgeon John
Langdon to be assistant-surgeon.
106th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Stephen Flood, M. 8.,
to be assistant-surgeon—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Wm.

Folliott to be assistant-surgeon.
107th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Johtt Ross Murray,
M.D., to be assistant-surgeon—Staff Assistant-Surgeon
John Dunstan to be assistant-surgeon.
108th Foot—Staff Assistant. Surgeon Thomas Dodd Mil-
burn to be assistant-surgeon—Staff Assistant-Surgeon
Ignatius M'Donogh O'Farrell to be assistant-surgeon.
109th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Ferrier
Churchill, M.D., to be assistant-surgeon—Staff Assis-
tant-Surgeon Nicol Carter to be assistant-surgeon.
3d West India Regiment—Ensia n Henry Graves to be lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice R. K. Little, who retires ; En-
sign Brownlow Villiers Layard to be lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice D. F. Murray, who retires; Gentleman
Cadet Thomas Cockburn Hood, from the Royal Military
College, to be ensign, without purchase. vice Layard—
Allwin Shutt Bell, gent., to be ensign, without purchase,
vice Hood, transferred to 93d Foot.
4th West India Regiment—William Cairns, gent., to be
ensign, without purchase, vice Elderton, transferred to
the Military Train.
DEPOT BATTALION.

Quartermaster William Malony, from Gth Foot, to be
quartermaster, vice Smith, who exchanges.

-MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals Thomas Ross
Jameson, M.D., to be inspector-general of hospitals, vice
Williams,placed upon halt pay.
Surgeon-Major James Alexander Fraser, M.D , from the
18th Foot, to be deputy inspector-general of hospitals, vice
Jameson.
Surgeon-Major William Green Trousdell, M.D„ from
13th Foot, to be staff surgeon-major, vice Surgeon J. Small,
who exchanges.
Staff Surgeons John Mullins and Vere Webb, having
completed 20 years' full-pay service, to be staff surgeons-
majors, under the royal warrant of October 1, 18118.
surgeon Francis Lewis Fitz Gerald, from 2d Foot, to be
staff-surgeon, vice W. Stewart, M.D., appointed to the 18th
Foot.

To be Staff Assistant-Surgeons :
Staff Assistant-Surgeon David Ogilvie Hoile, M.D., from
half-pay, vice W. 11. Jenkins, placed on half-pay.
Assistant-Surgeon John Macartney, from half-pay, late
76th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Kilgour, from 79th Foot, vice
Mackay, cashiered by sentence of a general court martial.
Assistant-Surgeon William Henry Muscharri, from the 82d
Foot, vice Robt. Menze, promoted in the Military Train.
Assistant-Surgeon Richard William Berkeley, from half-
pay, late 23d Foot, vice Noott, promoted in 2d Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Edwin Granville Ley, M.D., from 21st
Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Henry Lamb, from 50th Foot, vice
William Ligertwood, M.D., deceased.

BREVET.
Capt. Andrew Clarke, Royal Engineers, to have the local
rank of major while employed on the West Coast of Africa.
Paymaster Richard Rodd Robinson, 11th Foot, to have
the honorary rank of captain.
The following promotions to take place consequent on the
decease of General Roderick Macneil, colonel of the 78th
Foot, on October 22, 1863 :
L Duke of Cleveland, K.G.,
Lieutenant-General Henry,
on half-pay as lieutenant-colonel unattached, to have the
rank of general.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Augustus We et
the
erall,
K.C.8,, colonel 84th Foot, commanding the troops in
northern district, to be general.
Lieutenant-Colonel. and Brevot-C the stain
olonel John acdutf,
C. 8., half-pay, late 74th Foot, serving on
eneral, to be
ff the
East Indies, with the local rank of major-g
major-general.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Peyton,
98th Foot, to be colonel.
Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Maor Charles Edwarl
Conyers, half-pay 97th Foot, to be liejtenant-colonel.
Captain Millington Henry Synge, Royal Engineers, to
be major.
The undermentioned officers who have retired upon full-
pay, Royal Artillery, to be major-generals, the rank being
honorary only :—Colonels Vincent Eyre, C. 8,, John Max-
well Glasse, Robert Croft Wormald, John Pottinger, C. 8.,
Edward William Smyth Scott, William Barr, and Bladen
West Black.
The undermentioned officers who have retired upon full-
pay, Royal Engineers, to be major-generals, the rank being
honorary only : —Colonels Edward Lacon Ommanney,
ary, Gore Boland Munbee, William
Henry Joshua Marg
Ilbert Birdwood, Charles Becher Young, Samuel Edgar
Owen Ludlow, and Henry Owen Crawley.
The undermentioned officers to have the honorary rank
of lieutenant:—Assistant Commissary George Warder,
;rces,
Ordnance Depot, Madras—Riding-Master George Butfov
Madras Establishment Deputy-Assistant Commissary.
o
Thomas Bingham, Ordnance Depot, Bombay.
The undermentioned medical officers, who have ?tired
upon full pay, from her Majesty's Indian military")
to have a step of honorary rank, as follows : eput y-
Inspector-General of Hospitals John Balfour to be inspector .
general of hospitals—Surgeon-Major William Henry Brad_
ley
.to be deputy inspector-general of hospitals—Surgeon-
Major James Sanderson to be deputy jus,ect
hospitals. p or-general of
The promotion of the late Quartermaster William Young,
Royal Engineers, to the honorary rank of captain, which
appeared in the Gazette of 16th ult., has been cancelled.

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Nov. 18.—Wind this day at noon—South;
light breeze, and find Weather.
PonTsmovrit, Nov. 17.—Wind N.W.—Arrivod—Pon-
guin, from Hamburg.

(BY ISIAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVEtiEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 17—Governor General, from Mani Tin;
Er taga, from Christianstadt ; Richard and William, a
Lagos; Anne Jewett, from I)inan.
Sailed, Nov. 18—Clara, from Newport for Dordt;
Rain-
bow, steamer, for Calais,
DEAL,
day Morning.
War" ; Able' ity,
Passed—Vyshe, schooner, from Si. Michael'szp from
from Algoa Bay; Tm asania, from Queb;e Mi
Newtoundland; John Sydney, from Alousineiuineeirr v,oinnnttehse,
screw steamer, and Sydney Hall, screw steamer,
west—all for London. from plymouthfor
Anchored—Masquido, Prussian brig,
the Baltic.

,FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CLYDE.—On Friday
morning, while the tug rounding Garvel
Vixen was
Point, on her way downwards with Ole lighter Marys, ofr, which was
Greenock, in tow, the Belfast mail steqme
passing upwards crime into collison with the lighter, era-
ting her down to the water's edge close to the stern. The
lighter—which Was deeply laden with coal—immediately
began to fill, and sank in a few minutes. There were ou
board at the time Taylor, the master, and his wife, and a
man named Halliday. The tug backed to the lighter, ang
Taylor was pulled on board with a boathook, and by means
of a rope Mrs. Taylor, who was floating on a hatch
rescued, but Halliday-sank and was droisnad, IT' wasas
about 40
years of sge.—Greenock Advertiser. W