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the whole question. For example, Austria and
Prussia being already committed to the Treaty of
1852, it would be extremely difficult, at the least,
for those Powers to commence hostilities with
Denmark on the avowed ground of supporting the
House of Augustenburg ; although the intelli-
gence of our correspondent at Paris, as will be seen
in another column, is that they have actually
adopted the pretensions of Prince Frederic. But
there would still remain the question of the alleged
infraction of her engagements by Denmark i❑ Hol-
stein and Lauenburg ; and the new question started
only a week ago, of the incorporation of Schleswig
into the Danish monarchy, by virtue of the common
constitution granted on the 18th inst. to Denmark
and Schleswig. It is difficult to suppose that a
Federal invasion, to which Austria and Prussia
should be parties, would openly bear the character
of an act designed to violate the Treaty of
1852 ; but it is not so difficult to entertain the
contingency of an invasion, under a specious as-
sumption of Federal prerogative, which should
at last have the result of enforcing the claims
of the present pretender or some other play-
thing in the hands of the Frankfort Diet.
Thus we learn that the Courts of Vienna and
Berlin have already delivered a protest to this
Federal body against the common constitution just
granted to Denmark and Schleswig. This act of
Christian IX. they resent as a violation of German
rights, inasmuch as they claim Schleswig as an ap-
panage of Holstein, and disavow its constitutional
connection with Denmark. Independently, more-
over, of this new grievance, there were, as we all
know, anterior grounds of complaint on which a
Federal execution in Holstein, and not improbably
an invasion of Schleswig also, was designed before
the recent death of Frederic VII. If, therefore, the
Germans now resolve to invade Denmark in earnest,,
it is with them rather a case of an embarrass de
rieliesse as to which pretext they shall adopt, than
one in which they are absolutely driven upon an
outward adoption of that capat mortuum the Prince
of Augustenburg. King Christian himself, although
acting with rectitude and boldness, appears to have
felt the full force of the danger he was incurring at
the hands of Germany in adopting the new consti-
tution ; and, whatever may be the ultimate accep-
tance or rejection of the claims of Prince Frederic,
it is already apparent that Austria and Prussia per-
ceive that this new grievance affords them the ad-
vantage of a pretext on which they have in no way
committed themselves. Meanwhile, there is too
much reason to apprehend that the temper of the
German and Holstein people will urge them to acts
of vioience, unless this movement is repressed by an
administrative rigour of which, in Germany at least,
there is at present no indication ; but, unfortunately,
altogether the reverse. In Holstein there is already
a civil mutiny, Nearly all the officials have de-
clared against King Christian ; and the deputies,
dislodged from their treasonable meeting at Kiel,
have already gone to breathe a freer air at Frank-
fort. On the German side of the frontier a branch
of the National Verein has already declared the
necessity of dethroning the Danish Monarch in the
three Duchies claimed by the Prince of Angus-
tenburg ; and the number of German Grand
Dukes who are thronging to his standard is in-
creasing. Public meetings are everywhere foment-
ing this agitation; and it bids fair to become a
serious question with the German Sovereigns
whether they will not be incurring greater danger
from their own subjects in restraining themselves
from an invasion than from the foreign Powers
who might present themselvea as the allies of Den-
mark. There appears to be little doubt that King
Christian will be obliged to maintain his rights
against the Holsteiners by vigorous measures, as
well as against the Germans. Impelled by revolu-
tionary influences from the left bank of the Elbe,
the Holsteiners appear as though nothing but mili-
tary force would restrain them from open rebellion.
If we coneider what the force of the enthusiasm in
behalf of an invasion of the Danish dominions
already is throughout Germany, we may well ima-
gine how it will be intensified by the not improbable
spectacle of an active conflict between the King of
Denmark and his Holstein subjects. If the German
Governments shall then pretend that they are led
on by the force of the public will to actual warfare,
that plea, far from being entertained as any defence
of the fatal course they mey then have assumed, will
reflect upon them the severest moral censure for
having failed to restrain the enthusiasm of the
public while it was yet possible to do so. But
whether Austria and Prussia shall openly adopt
the pretensions of the Prince of Augustenburg, or
whether they shall fall back upon other pretexts
fur an invasion of Holstein—which, whether it ex-
tend to Schleswig or not, can now be nothing less
than a war with Denmark both at sea and by land
—they may be certain that the Western Powers
will stand by the Canvention of 1852, and they
will feel equally bound in honour and by policy to
defend Denmark in the trying situation in which
she will then be placed. It is therefore for the
Germans to bear in mind that the danger as well as
the responsibility, of the situation rests with them-
selves rather than with the Danes.

THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.

The protest of Denmark against the motion of the
Envoy of Baden :

" The Envoy is obliged to energetically protest,
in the name of his Government, against all the pre-
tensions of the members of the ducal line of Angus-
tenburg to the succession in the Duchies of Holstein
and Lauenburg, these pretensions being utterly de-
void of foundation. The Envoy hastens to add—
with the view of meeting, once for all, any eventual
pretensions of this kind—that Duke Christian
Augustus of Augustenburg, by an act of the 30th of
December, 1852, has given to the royal Government
the assurances set forth as follows in Articles 2 and
3 :

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to
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word and honour of aduke, for us and our family,
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to undertake nothing which may disturb or im-
peril the tranquillity of the kingdom and country
of your Majesty, and also in no manner to
oppose the measures taken, or to be taken, by your
royal Majesty relative to the dorer of succession in
the countries actually united dun er your sceptre, or
the eventual organisation of the Danish monarchy.'
"The Envoy may further refer
to the treaty
passed in London, May 8, 1852, between all the
great Powers, with the intention of preserving the
peace and integrity of the Danish monarchy, which
treaty regulates the order of succession in this
monarchy. The two great German Powers took
part in the conclusion of this treaty, Which is the
result of the most conscientious examination of all
the questions implicated in the order of succession.
Several German Governments have adhered to this
treaty, and if others have had scruples in antici-
pating the decision of the Germanic Confederation,
almost all of those which have declared themselves
on this subject have expressly recognised the legi-
timacy and opportuneness of the conclusion of this
treaty for the purpose of maintaining the peace and
equilibrium of Europe, and they are satisfied with
the execution of the treaty.
"The Envoy, in protecting in the most formal
manner the rights thus originating, and all the
other rights of his very august Sovereign, reserves
himself the right of making ulterior declarations in
the name of his Government."
The protest of Denmark against the motion of
Oldenburg, Anhalt, and Schwarzhurg is as follows

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by the Envoy of Baden of the part of Plenipoten-
tiary of the Duke of Augustenburg :
"DENMARK FOR HOLSTEIN AND LAUENBURG.

" The Envoy is obliged to protest solemnly here,
and now in the name of his most high Government,
sgaicst the acceptance of the plenipotentiary of a
prince whose claims to the succession in the Duchies
of Holstein and Lauenburg are completely void of
foundation. While doing this the Envoy expressly
refers to the declarations to be afterwards formu-
lated in the course of to•day's session."

Protest of Denmark relative to the declaration
of the grand-ducal and ducal houses of Saxony,
especially of Saxe-Coburg :
" DENMARK FOR HOLSTEIN AND LAUENBURG.
The Envoy, referring to the declarations and
reserves which he made on the subject of the motion
of the grand-ducal Envoy of Baden, takes the
liberty of calling the attention of the Germanic
Diet to the disastrous consequences which might
result from the non-admission to this high assem-
bly of the representative of his Majesty the King of
Denmark, as A member of the Germanic Confede-
ration, after the King of Denmark has assumed the
reins of Government in his countries which are
part of the Germanic Confederation. Conse-
quently the Envoy is obliged to protest solemnly
against the proposed exclusion."
The Cologne Gazette says :—" The question of
Lauenburg offers certain difficulties. This duchy,
which formed part of Hanover since 1689, was
ceded by Hanover to Prussia in virtue of a treaty
of May 29,.1815, and by another treaty of June 4
in the same year Prussia ceded the duchy to Den-
mark in exchange for Swedish Pomerania and the
Island of Hagen. In all these acts all the rights
and privileges were reserved to the country
as well as the male succession founded on the ancient
German right. At present, it is true, the male line
reigns in Denmark in virtue of the protocol of Lon-
don; but if this document did not exist the throne
would have been inherited by the female line, a line
which could not succeed in Le.uenburg, because in
all cases the rights of more ancient branches, and
especiallya asserted."
e rthose of the Augustenburg branch, should
be

The Secretary of State for War has received
despatches from Lieutenant-General Cameron,
C,8., commanding the troops in New Zealand, of
which thefollowing
-quarters, Queen's Redoubt,
Aug. 31, 1863.
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Head-quarters,
are copies:—

My Lord,—l have the honour to report that I
have not been able to undertake any operation of
importance since the date of my last despatch.
having received intelligence that a body of in-
surgents had collected at the villages of Paparoa
and Paparata, about 14 miles to the east of our
position on the Koheroa, I marched a force of about
700 men there on the night of the Ist August, with
the intention of surprising them ; but on reaching
the villages we found them deserted, the natives
having retired into the dense bush behind them,
which is of such vast extent that it would have been
useless to have followed them into it.
I herewith inclose a report which I made of this
movement to his Excellency Sir George Grey.
On the 14th August I advanced the head-qaarters
of the 14th Regiment from our first position on the
Koheroa to one about four miles up the Waikato,
close to the Whangamarino, a small tributary of the
former river.
About two miles higher up the -Waikato, and on
a place called Meri-meri, the
the same bank, at
Waikato tribes and their allies are assembled in
considerable numbers, under William Thompson,
one of their principal chief,, and have posted the
selves on a height commanding the river, which
they have fortified with much skill and care.
• This position is ouc of great natural strength, as a
force attacking it by land must advance along a
narrow strip of scrub and bush, until it reaches the
foot of the position; or, if the attack be made by
water, the force must be landed out of boats imme-
diately under the fire of 'se veral lines of rifle pits.
There is no point on the bank of the river from
which the position can be shelled with effect.
I consider it would not be prudent to attack
under these disadvantages without the aid of artil-
lery, and I have therefore ordered four cargo boats
to be fitted to carry an Armstrong gun in each ; and
I intend to defer the attack until they are ready.
when I hope the iron steamer will also have arrived
from Sydney.
Working parties of civilians and soldiers have
been employed for some time past, at the expense
of the Colonial Government, in clearing the bush
on each side of our line of communication, in order

that our convoys may pass with greater safety.
When finished I hope to reduce the strength of the
escorts and of the posts along the road, which entail
very severe duties upon the troops, and diminish
the force available for active operations.
On the 26th inst. one of these working parties
which, contrary to orders, had no covering party
for its protection, was surprised by a large body of
natives, and lost two men killed and 21 stand of
arms, five of which were afterwards found in the
bush. The report of this occurrence, which I for-
warded to his Excellency Sir George Grey, is
enclosed.

Nothing of consequence has taken place in the
other provinces of the Northern Island.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) D. A. CAMERON, Lieut.-General.
The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for
War, &a., London.

Headquarters, Queen's Redoubt, Aug. 3, 1863.
Sir, —I have the honour to inform your excel-
lency that on the night of the Ist inst. I left the
Queen's Redoubt with a force of 700 men, including
a party of seamen and marines of her Majesty's
steamer Harrier, for the purpose of reconnoitring
the villages of Paparoa and Paparata, where I had
reason to believe that a large body of rebels had
collected ; Captain Sullivan, commanding her Ma-
jesty's ship Harrier, accompanied the force.
After a fatiguing night march, the last mile of
which was through very high and thick scrub, we
reached Paparoa at daybreak, and found it entirely
deserted, though it had evidently been recently 0e:
cupied, and I have little doubt that the natives lied
received some notice of our movements.
After searching this village, we proceeded along
d led
a bush track, which I was afterwards informs
to Hanrake, having missed the track to PaPrata•
Some natives, concealed so far within the bush on
e
our right as to be perfectly invisibledir
, opened fire on
cf the 12th
the leading files, and wounded a fsre for some time,
Regiment. We replied to their ii
but as, from the character of
the bush and scrub
et within reach of
near it, it was impossible to
it advisable to lox©
g
them, and 1 did not consider
time in searching for a track, I withdrew the force
attempt on the part of the
leisurely, without any
natives to follow us.
When we had reached the open ground a large
body of natives came down from the ranges, and,
joining the party in the bush, commenced a rapid
and continuous fire of musketry in the most absurd
manner, as though they had been closely engaged
with an enemy, although at that time we must have
been fully a mile and a half from them.
The troops returned to the Queen's Redoubt about
three o'clock in the afternoon, baying been under
arms since half-past seven the previous evening, and
having marched nearly 30 miles.

I have every reason to be satisfied with the cheer-
ful manner in which this arduous duty was per-
formed by the troops, and with the conduct of all
the officers and men composing the force, particu-
larly of the detachment of the 12th Regiment, under
Major Miller, for the bold and intelligent manner

(Signed)

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that a party, consisting of 25 men of thk-40tert,4,W 4,41
mont, u.nder a non-commissioned officer;kileA34:, '
ployed in felling bush near the road. They 410111 S
their arms piled on the edge of the road under cluarge
of a sentry. Suddenly a number of Maories rushed
upon the arms and too'k possession of them, the sen-
try firing at them. Tfr Maories had surrout tiled
the men in the bush, and had shot two men ilead
when my advanced guard (lame up and engaVed
t born. Reinforcements from "Villiamson's Clearivg,
escort proceeding
Alartyn's Farm, Kerr's Farm, ter.'d Rizor's Back, ,es
welf ae a party of 30 men of the
to 130..nry under the command of ;:i
iptain Bishopp,
'Transport Corps, with Assist an t-Surs4
,
eon Carberry.
2d Battalion, 14th Regiment, joined
me shortly
after the firing commenced, and we skirmished
with the erneray for about an hour and .a quarter,
driving them into the bush, and follow.,:itg them
in for a short -way. A party of the 65th Regi-
ment, under Capt. Ord, endeavoured to get i-x ',bind
the Maories and cut off their retreat, but Vere
unsuccessful. The casualties of the troops urt.ler
my command consisted of one man 2d Battalicfrt 7
18th Regiment, woundk.d. The los4 of the Maorie,;l
appears to have been once man killed and left on the '
field, and five men wouuded and carried away.
Two rifles, a few muskets, some tomahawks, am-
! Munition, &c., fell into our hands.
I beg to bring to the notice of the Lieutenant-
General Commanding the services of Captain Ord,
65th regiment; Captain Bishopp, 2d Battalion, 18th
Regime,nt ; Lieutenant Warren, 65th Regiment,
commanding at Kerr's Farm; Lieutenant Thacker_
2d Battalici.
-t, 18th Regiment, commanding at wil:
liamson's Clexing ; Lieutenant Clarke, Madras
Cavalry, attached to Transport Corps; and Lieu-
tenant Pagan, 65ti: Regiment, and Ensign Haines,
the
.2cl Battalion, 18th Regiment, who were with
escort under my command.
The whole of the officers and men behaved ea-
The
well.
there
Judging from the enemy's fire, I should say
were at least 200 of them.—l have, &c.
~(Signed) A. COOK, Captain 40th Regt •
The Assistant Military Secretary, Head-
Quarters, Queen's Redoubt.,

STAMPED ....sd.

in which they covered the advance over difficult
ground.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) 1). A. CAMERON, Lieut.-General.
His Excellency Sir G. Grey, &c.

Headquarters, Queen's Redoubt,
Sept. 6, 1863.
My Lord,—l have the honour to forward the
copy of a despatch to his Excellency the Governor,
enclosing reports from Capt. the Hon. F. Le Poer
Trench, 40th Regt., and Ensign Dawson, 2d bat-
talion, 18th Regiment, relative to an attack upon a
patrol is the village of Polcono, on the 2d inst.,
about a mile and a half from this post. Nothing
else of any importance has occurred since the date
of my despatch. Two detachments, 12th and 40th
Regiments, have arrived from Sydney and Tas..
mania, amounting to about 160 men.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) D. A. CAMERON, Lieut.-Gen.
The Right Hon. the Secretary of State

for War, &c., London.

Headquarters, Queen's Redoubt, Sept. 4,1863.
Sir,—l have the honour to forward, for your ex-
cellency's information, the copy of a report from
Ensign Dawson, 2d Battalion Royal Irish, of an
attack made upon the patrol under his command,
near the village of Pokeno, on the morning of the
2d inst, with one from Captain the Hon. F. Le Poer
Trench, 40th Regiment, whom, on hearing the firing,
I ordered to proceed in support with the inlying
piquet from the Queen's Redoubt.
The gallantry of Ensign Dawson and his patrol,
in charging the enemy,without hesitation when fired
upon suddenly from the bush, their steadiness when
they found themselveS- neatly surrounded- by supe-
rior numbers, and the manner in which Captain
Trench brought up his support, and assisted in put-
ting the enemy to flight, reflect great credit upon
those two officers and the detachments under their
command, which consisted of parties of the 2d Bat-
talion 18th, 40th, and 65th Regiments.—l have, &e.,
(Signed) D. A. CAMERON.
His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.O B„ &c.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The screw steam corvette Pelorns, 21, Captain
Henry Boys, left Plymouth Sound on MothleY
evening for the Cape of Good Hope and China.
The screw steamsloop Cordelia, 11, and the
paddlewheel steamsloop Gladiator, 6, at Devonport,
are nearly ready for the first division of the Steam
Reserve in Hamosze.

Queen's Redoubt, Sept. 4, 1863.

Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the infor-
mation of the Lieutenant-General Commanding,
that on the morning of Sept. 2 I was subaltern in
charge of the Pokeno piquet, of two sergeants and
60 rank and file, leaving Queen's Redoubt at about
seven o'clock a.m., when within about half a mile of
the village I was attacked in my rear by a body of
Maories. I ordered my men to face about and
charge them. We drove them down a gully towards
the swamp into the bush on the right of Pokeno
village. I followed them for about half a mile along
the track towards Paparoa. Hearing yells in the
direction of the village, I returned along the track
to the open ground where I was first fired on.
On arriving there I was received with a volley
from the enemy, who were extended across the whole
of the clearing, then between me and the village,
and also from the bush on the right. I cannot too
highly praise the steady conduct of the men at this
moment. The enemy appearing in great force, I
ordered the men to remain in skirmishing order,
and to keep a steady fire, taking advantage of any
cover the ground afforded. From the commotion I
occasionally perceived, I concluded that our fire was
effectual, and that the Maories were removing their
wounded. I remained in the position I had taken
up until reinforced by Captain the Hon. F. Le P.
Trench, 40th Regiment, who then assumed the com-
mand, and by h s order I advanced with the skit.-
mishers.—l have, &C.,

(Signed) CHARLTON DAWSON,
Ensign, 2d Battalion, 18th Royal Irish
The Assistant Military Secretary, Sze.,

Head-quarters.

Queen's Redoubt, Sept. 4, 1863.

The Bermuda Royal Gazette of October the 27th
states that it was the intention of Rear-Admiral of
the Red Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.8., to make his
usual cruise in the Nile to the West India portion
of his station about Christmas, and then return to
Bermuda, where he will meet his successor, Rear-
Admiral of the Red Sir Jas. Hope, K.C.8., shortly
after that season. The screw steam frigate Immo:-
talite, 35, Captain George Hancock, was appointed
to leave Bermuda on the 28th of October, for Bar-
badoes. The Italian line-of-battle ship Re Galan-
tuomo, Capt. Ulisse Isola, from Italy for New York,
arrived at Bermuda on the 22d of October. She
had on board officers and a crew for an ironclad
frigate, recently built at Now York for the Italian
Government.

Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham
directing that the iron plated frigate Caledonia, 35,
1,000 horse power, is not to be sent to that dock-
yard, as was at first ordered, but is to be fitted at
Sheerness for the first division of the Steam Reserve,
A subsequent order directs her to be brought for-
ward with all despatch, as she is intended to join
the iron squadron of the Channel fleet. The Cale-
donia has been taken under the masting shears to
take in her masts. _ _

The Bombay, 67, 400 horse power, has had her
lower masts put in under the floating shears in
Chatham harbour; and will to-day occupy the dock
vacated yesterday by the iron paddlewheel steamer
Recruit, in order to undergo some extensive repairs,
and to be fitted for a flagship. The Bombay is to
be ready for sea by the 30th of March next.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. Christopher C. Hassell to
the Duke of Wellington; Walter milatone, mid-
shipman, to the Wasp ; Dr. Christopher K. Ord
surgeon, to the Euryalus, additional, for ser-
vice with tho Royal Marines ; Daniel Saunders
surgeon, to the Conqueror; Angus Robertson and
Gabriel M. Eyles, assistant-surgeons, to the Eurya-
ius, for service with the Royal Matines ; Henry
Hadlow, assistant-surgeon, to the Conqueror; J.
T. Comerford, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Con-
queror ; Captain W. G. Luard to the Conqueror ;
Commander E. T. Nott to the Conqueror; Lieut.
Alfred T. Dale to the Excellent, for study; Lieut.
J. F. Lenon to the Wasp ; Lieut. Hubert H. Ed-
wards to the Resistance ; Lieut. H. G. Belson and
Lieut. S. G. Prioe to the Conqueror ; John C. Sal.
fleet, master, to the Conqueror ; James W. Ashton,
and Sub-Lieut. Toßhn.
BH.ayßeesrteosftohrae,CcohnaciruieersoEr
r Gordon
ntt
ihjbceo.
Young,
,ult dn.
Pierre
ge:r;
Henry
eSr midshipman,yuGbH. - L. i
Jus-
tice, t
master,
Hto.
H.
Robert
the
W.
William Wilson and John A. Campbell, midship-
men, Asia,
;alGtCornwall,eorf
to the Edgar; Henry
Evans, P-
and Charles W. Last,
NmVe.nii,t.oHthuettloVna, Wasp;
midshipmen, to the Con-
queror; Robert H. Davies anJohn Macdaunt,
naval cadets, to the Was •
the Rev. E. J. Hitch-
ings, chaplain and naval—i
nstructor, to the Con-
queror; Samuel Smyth, paymaster to the Archer;
Richard Evans, surgeonl to the Rosario; Charles
F, Williams, assistant surgeon, to the Cambridge ;
second John F. Barnes,
master, to the Conqueror;
W. H. Panter, second
master, to the Weser; Wm.
H. James, second
second master, to the Dee; Thomas Ro-
bertson,master, to the Sealark ; Thurston.
Stringer, second master, to the Black Prince; Fred.
K. Taylor, second master, to the Lizard ; Herbert
D. Walker,
G. second master, to the Tamar ; William
Atkinson, second master, to the Sparrow; A. H.
Henry C. Mills, and Richard Golden, mas-
ter's
assistants, to the Aurora ; W. A. R. Ryan,
master's assistant, to the Adventure ; E. Kearns,
master's assistant, to the Dee; J. R. Hayden, mas-
ter's assistant, to the Wasp ; and C. K. S. Young,
master's assistant, to the Dasher.
The undernamed second masters were on Mon-
day promoted to the rank of master :—Joha
O'Connell, Frederick A. Johnston, Henry B.
J.
Peareh, Henry Aguilar, James W. Ashton, B°l
min S. Jackson, Stafford C. Tracey, and 10", •
Gowlland. esterday
A private letter received at Plymouth 9
states that the Government has issued orders' for
preparing 500 rank and file Royal
wineg„,,a_ri Lrs,l,gh,t
Infantry for service in japan• l'uy "
atChatham, Ports..
selected from the head-quarters Itw
first
mouth, Plymouth, and Woolwich- as at
reported that 1,000 light infantry would be re-
wired have be
uired for this service. Inquiries en made
Q
capable ofconveying
at Devonport for a ehiP
distant point, supposed
body of Marines to a very
to be Japan.
Yesterday morning the left wingthe
mouth by the South Devon Rail.
Regiment left
P Yat Aldurshott.
vay for the camp

Sir,—l havo the honour to report, for the infor-
mation of the Lieutenant-General Commanding, that
at about half-past seven o'clock on the morning of
the 2d, I was ordered to march the iulying picket
to the support of the patrol at Pokeno village.'
When within about half a mile from the village I,
found the patrol, under command of Ensign Daw-
son, 2d Battalion, 18th Royal Irish, engaged with a
body of Maories, who at that time occupied the
bush on the right of the village, and the clearing on
this side of it, which is covered with fallen timber.
I immediately reinforced the skirmishers, who ad-
vanced, driving the Maories from the clearing, and
out of the village into the bush. After scouring
the bush on the right of the village, the enemy
having made their retreat in that direction, and
deeming that further pursuit was useless, I re-
turned to the Queen's Redoubt: In the meantime
the force under my command had been augmented
by the arrival of the escort under the command of
Captain Noblett, 2d Battalion, 18th Regiment. I
am happy to be able to state that there were no
casualties on our side, and that both officers and
men behaved with the greatest steadiness. lam
unable to compute the loss on the part of the
Maories. Two flint guns and some ammunition fell
into our hands.
I beg to bring to the notice of the Lieutennt
General Commanding the services of Ensign Spillert,
65th Regiment, Ensign Gomez, 40th
Lieut. Croft, 2d Battalion, 18th
Beginien
invent,
accompanied the inlying picket, and more especially.
Regiment, who had to contend against the conduct of Ensign Dawson, 2d B.atttalatofno,roleBtohf
Mttooroiesfaarnsuperiohravine,e.,
numbers to the patrol under
his mind.—l
(Signed) F. LE P. TRENCH,
Captain 40th Regiment,
The Assistant Military Secretary, &a.
Headquarters.

Headquarters, Queen's Redoubt,
Aug. 25, 1863. I
Sir —1 have the honour to forward, for your ex.
eelleney's information, the copy of a report which
I have received from Capt. Cook, 40th Regiment,
sudden attack made by a large body of
party of 25 men of the 40th
re
Regiment, employed under Mr. Martyn in felling
bush on the Great South,road, near Wilr
blaetliveeertioveas
upon a
la-maws
I Giearin •
I regret to state that two men were killed, and
lostbby the enemy, and
for the timely
more but nearly the whole of the arms belonging
to the
party were
musttaken
haveposseebseieon
n o f
assistance rendered by the escort under the command
of Capt. Cook, whose conduct on the occasion was
most praiseworthy.

The officers mentioned in Capt. Cook's report,
who commanded the different posts along the road,
deserve great credit for the promptitude with which
they hastened in support.
Your excellency will observe that we had only
ono man hit after the arrival of the escort, although
the enemy continued firing for upwards of au hour.
Had the men employed in felling the bush been
protected, according to my directions, this occur-
rence in all probability would not have taken
place.--I have, &c.,

D. A. CAMERON,
Lieutenant .General.

His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.8., &c•
Nominal return of killed and wounded at the
Fifth Bridge, on August 25, 1863.—Private John
Gidney, 40th corps, bullet wound in left side:—
fatal ; Private Brien Flannorv, do., bullet wound in
left breast, and bullet wound through right thigh—
fatal; Private Liuroncti Plover, 2-1.5 b, bullet wound
in right leg.

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Queen's Redoubt, A'ig. 25. 1863.
Sir,--I have the honour to report, for the infor-
mation of the Lieutenant-General Commanding,
that when returning from Baird,s Farm, in command
of the escort with the convoy from Drury, this chi,
on arriving at Williamson 's Clearing, I heard firing
in in my front, and on proceeding to the spot, found
that my advanced guard was engaged, in the iintne_
diate vicinity of the road, with a party of Maeries.