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HENRY B. MORSE,
Deputy c()Mnlit3sary-Ueneral,

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Inoorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—IIer Most Graeious Majesty the Queen.
IRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G.,
CHAIRMAN—Tbos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., P.R.S. V.p,
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., P.h.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments On the Coasts of Eng'and, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Lite-boats of the
Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-carriages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the
generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
ot 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and i screws practised in the managemert of their
boats, whi-r, can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating se
great and truly national a work.
'the Committee gratefuliy acknowledge the following con-
tributions:—

Her Majesty the Queen
• • annual 1 1 0
£ s. d
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. • . annual 50 C 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • . • •• • • rainual 50 0
oli.,s3qle,ssrs.,..Bank.e.ra •
..... • •
annual 10 0 0
(.7Tiurrtites,
Erie, Lord C'hiet Justice • „ • •
.. d
-• 4th don.lo 0 0
Puutillawe, Vice-AdmiralKe.B.
.. 2_914; 10 10 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat _
il _ :01rut(1)11. 25 0 0
sporting Carriatre • • • • • • ,• a r _
arrnC.
Harvey. Rev. G. G. and •Mrs. • • 250 0 0
•• •• don. 3 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • . .. .. 7th don.lo °
Moore, Rev. G. B. • • •" • • • don. 0 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • .• 15 15 0
3 0 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.R. . • .. annual 2
Thomas, Lady, W estop-super-3lare, collected by her 0 0
Ladship • • • • • • • •
• • • • 16 16 0
0
Willoughby d'Eresby ord • • .. annual 5 0
I.•L
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re ..
eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and lii, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Co.,essrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by all the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the Unitedltingdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of th 6 Institution, ?I,
John-street, .6..tielohi. London, 11.1. .

shall endeavour to be as impartial as possible, ant to avoid
saying anything which may unfairly prejudice a prisoner
who has yet to be tried for one of the most serious offences
known to the military, or indeed to the general law of the
land.

To begin with the beginning, we find that Lieut.-Col.
Crawley joined the Inniskillings as commanding officer
at Ahmednuggur, in April, 1861. At that time the regi-
ment was in the state of perfect discipline at which it had

been maintained by the skilful handling of Colonel
Shute, since transferred toothe 4th Dragoon Guards, ex•
pressly for the purpose of restoring order in that once dis-
tracted regiment. The high disci line of the 6th at the time
of Lieut -Col. Crawley's joining is proved by the confidential
reports of the local commanders, and the minutes of Field-
Marshal the Commander-in-Chief of the Army based on
those reports certifying to the satisfactory state of the regi-
ment in the most eulogistic terms. When Lieut,-Colonel
Crawley joined the regiment his reception from the officers
was of the most friendly character, and it is specially to be
noticed that none were more anxious to conciliate the new
colonel than the paymaster who subsequently became the
object of the most relentless persecution. Capt. Bmales ten-
dered the use of his house and servants, and the other
officer were not less cordial in their demonstrations, the story
about the refusal of the mess plate being pronounced by
Major Swindley, the officer principally responsible for such
an act of discourtesy, if it had been committed, to have no
foundation except in the lieut.-colonel's imagination. Very
shortly, however, after the arrival of the new commanding
officers symptoms began to show themselves in his deport..
meat which augured anything but an unbroken countenance
for the internal harmony of the regiment. Lieutenant-
Colonel Crawley, in the words of a competent witness, began
"to condemn everything in the regiment," and when on
parade would " rise in the stirrups, shake his whip at the
officers, and tell them that their backs were up, but he
would soon straighten them." The combustibles necessary
for a proximate explosion of discontent were thus rapidly
accumulated, when an accidental circumstance served as a
spark to the pile. A copy of the Times newspaper contain-
ing the report of a rather remarkable trial which had taken
place in one of our superior courts at. home was received in
the regiment, and as that report intimately concerned one
of its officers, other officers (married ones) considered it
their duty to submit the report to the colonel. For obvious
reasons, we glance at this portion of the case in the most
distant and rapid manner. It will be sufficient to say that
the lieutenant-colonel's point of view in looing at it was
different from that of his officers, and that when the latter
appealed to him his characteristic reply was, " Look at that
box (pointing to a tin box which lay close at hand) ; if I
were to turn out the contents of that box, which is Colonel
Shute's legacy to me, few officers in the regiment would be
able to stand up against it." It is said that a certain un-
popular personage can quote Scripture to his purpose, and
it is evident that Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley had a well-
known passage in the New Testament in his naiad when he
gave this discouraging reply. The consequences may be
anticipated—the "hot water" in which the regiment had
been so suddenly placed now began to boil over,
and " scaldings " became the war-cry of the regiment.
Leaves, exchanges, everything were obstructed and
interfered with, until at length the lieutenant-•colonel's
rage, seeking for a single object, seemed to concentrate
itself on the unhappy paymaster. A brother officer, he whose
name had occurred in the newspaper report which had first
thrown the regiment into a ferment, was set on to watch him,
and a demand was made and refused for troop-money, at 8
o'clock in the evening, when his office had long been closed
and locked up for the day. This was the opening of the
first parallel. The recusant paymaster was put under arrest,
a court of inquiry was held, and the result submitted to Sir
William Manefield, who gave Lieut.-Col. Crawley a severe
wigging for his pains. The system of espionage was still
carried on by the same persons, who were alone the colonel's
confidants and advisers. A second charge was got up against
Capt. Smales about sending his clerk beyond the limits of
. .

the cantonment ; and this time Lieut.-Col. Crawley's pro-
ceedings were confirmed by Major- General Farrel, although
the clerk had been sent beyond the bounds in order to get a
cheque for Lieut.-Col. Crawley himself. The system of
worry continued. Lieut. and Adjutant Fitzsimon was
sent to Capt. Smales s quarters to see what he could find
out, and even the bandmaster was required to report such
broken scraps of conservations as might come to his know-
ledge. There is a curious bit of evidence in the proceedings
of the court-martial about an officer who, by accident, was
was hid behind a pillar whilst the paymaster chatted
with his commanding officer ; and a coincident
accident, through which an exact written report of the
conversation thus overheard was produced by the prosecu-
tor. We select the above from scores of similar facts, as
showing the circumstances which led up to the writing of
the now celebrated letter for which Paymaster Smales was
finally brought to court-martial.

That letter, which charged Lieut.-Colonel Crawley with
systematic absence from the monthly musters of the regi-
ment, was written on the 26th Feb., 1861 ; but it must be
noted that Capt. Smales, as was perfectly competent and
proper for an officer in his regimental position to do, had
previously reported Col. Crawley's absence from parade to
the War-office. Lieut.-Col. Crawley kept the letter a month
in his possession before he took any official notice of its con-
tents; but, in the meantime, it is alleged, took frequent and
intimate counsel with Col. Payne, who was subsequently
president of the court-martial. At the end of that time the
paymaster was placed in arrest, without the intervention,
as is usual, of a court of inquiry, and finally was brought to
a court-martial on the charge of making false and mali-
cious charges against his commanding officer. The charges
he had made referred to Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley's
frequent absence from the monthly musters, and the
paymaster's sta'ements on that point were confirmed by
an overwhelming mass of evidence on the trial. During
the court-martial, which lasted for two months, and which
during its progress threw public opinion in India into a
officers,
to side, 3
his
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perfect hurricane of excitement as against the prosecutor,
five or six witnesses were found to depose to the general
seen their lieu-
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and two
witnesses,tenant
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soldiers,
regimental
tsaofficers, ,
the
deposed other
non-
commissioned officers, and private
systematic absence, and amongst these latter witnesses were
Lieutenant and Adjutant Fitzsimon, whom the lieutenant-
colonel has since benevolently endeavoured to deprive of his
eyesight, and the three non-commissioned officers, namely,
ewn t aalk
eSfieerlgdaanndt Regime-Major
Duval
Lwibl loesye.
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treodo
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Majorsrseeution s
have concentrated English public opinion on the proceed-
ings at Mhow, and compelled the government to grant a re-
opening of the whole case at Chelsea.
When it became known to the lieutenant-colonel that
these non-commissioned officers were to bo calied as wit-
nesses for the defence, he immediately ordered them all
into close arrest, on the following very grave and definite
charges :—Unhappy Lilley was accused of having, in
familiar conversation with brother non-commissioned
officers, applied an offensive epithet to his colonel ; Duval
of saying that ho had not heard the epithet applied ; and
and Wakefield for saying, over hik beer, that he would do
something to Morton [another non-commissioned officer] for
having reported him." Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley had
repeatedly and extrajudicially examined these men at his
own quarters, in the presence of his friends Renshaw and
Davies, whilst the field officers present with the regiment
were excluded, and the adjutant was obliged to remain out-
side in the verandah. Lieut.-Col. Crawley having somehow
obtained the sanction of Brigadier Farrel for his proceedings,
placed the three non-commissioned officers in close arrest,
raider circumstances which in Lilley's case produced the
premature death of a brave, honest, and high-charactered
soldier; and, secondly, disturbed Wakefield's mental balance
and induced him to escape from the regiment by obtaining his
discharge. Notwithstanding a positive Indian military order
to that effect, there was no inquest held on poor Lilley;
but the whole circumstances of that awful case are too
familiar to a shuddering public to require further detail in
so brief an outline as the present. There will be time
enough, as the trial approaches, to give it in all its dark
and tragic proportions, and no attempt to narrow the
charges into petty technicalities will prevent a full and
searching investigation of the whole affair.
The trial and Mhow terminated on the 21st of June, and
the finding was read to Captain Smales on the 13th of July,
when he was :formally cashiered and taken off the
strength of the regiment. He thus became, of course,
free man, loft the cantonment, and at oTnhcees:a::::
sforteEng-
land vie Bombay, with a view of applying to the ultimate
court of appeal for redress. Lieut.- Col. Crawley had hot,
however,overtaken qenuirteoudteonbey with
leghriammyoertd.oring
his was
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civil power on a charge of having abscondeil, from his
rogi.
one information that
went, was subsequently released, with
the arrest had been a mistake, a-
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Bombay on charges _ finally thrown into pil-
accounts, although
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The foreplating of the iron frigate Achilles,
building at Chatham, will be completed in the course
of the present week, when, with the exception of a
few plates required to be fixed beneath the stern,
the whole of the exterior of the vessel will be in-
cased in armour-plating varying from three inches
to four and half inches in thickness carried to five
feet below her water line. On board the same
energy is being used in constructing the armour-
plated and other bulkheads, together with the ma-
gazines and shell-rooms, the latter of which are to
be constructed of a size sufficient to contain 180
filled and 120 empty common 110-pounders, 60 filled
and 50 empty common 20-pounder Armstrongs, 120
filled and 180 empty 110-pounder segment Arm-
strongs, 50 filled and 50 empty segment 20-pounder
Armstrongs, 25 boxes filled and 100 empty segment
12-pounder Armstrongs, and 25 boxes of filled and
100 empty of the 9-pounder segment Armstrongs.
The magazines are made to hold 456 whole penta-
gon cases of poweer, and 75 metal lined half-cases,
together with charges of 440 8-inch or 68-pounder
shells. _ _

On the recommendation of Capt. Hall, C. 8., of
the Cumberland, 74, the screw gunboat Thrasher,
80-horse power, is being fitted up to be used in con-
veying the officers and men of the Chatham Steam
Reserve to and from the ships in harbour to the
shore.

Her Majesty's screw steam gunvessel Wrangler,
4 guns, 477 tons, 80-horse power, Commander Henry
the
Sheernessed only the
short space of 50 minutes, and the commander and
officers were addressed in congratulatory terms on
the efficiency and discipline manifested by the crew.
The Wrangler has been fortunate in making several
prizes, some of which had slaves on board. She will
be placed in the 3d division of the Steam Reserve at
Sheerness.

A Naval court-martial assembled on board her
Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, on
Friday, for the trial of Patrick O'Brian, an able
seaman in her Majesty's service, on the following
charges :—Fiest, for having, while borne on the
books of her Majesty's ship Pioneer for passage to
England as a prisoner from her Majesty's ship
Eclipse, on the sth of September last, disobeyed the
commands of Lieut. Meyer, of her Majesty's ship
Pioneer, by refusing to return a pair of boots to the
chief of the ship's police when ordered to do so, and
for using threatening and insulting language to
Lieut. Meyer and a corporal of Marines, and for
resisting efforts made to compel his obedience;
second, for offering to strike on the same date Ser-
geant John Carter, Royal Marines, the acting chief
of the ship's police. The Court, under the presidency
of Capt. Scott, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Victory,
found the charges proved, and sentenced the pri-
soner to be imprisoned in Lewes Gaol for 12 months
with hard labour, and to be dismissed from her Ma-
jesty's service. The same Court assembled on board
the Victory, on Saturday morning, for the trial of
Mr. J. A. Leicester, Assist.-Surgeon of the Ist
class on board herMajesty'sship Pioneer, on a charge
of having between the Ist of October, 1861, and
the 30th of June, 1862, lent certain sums of
money to seamen belonging to the Pioneer, the said
sums being made repayable to his (the prisoner's)
son with usurious interest, such conduct being a
breach of the 34th article of war. The trial lasted
the whole day, a number of witnesses were exa-
mined, and the evidence was of a very voluminous
character. The Court found the charge proved and
sentenced the prisoner to be reduced to second-class
assistant, and put at the bottom of the list. The
paymaster of the Pioneer is under arrest for an al-
leged serious defalcation in his accounts, and is ex-
pected to be put on his trial on board the Victory
to morrow_ This will cause a further delay in the
paying of the ship out of commission, which was
originally fixed for Saturday last.

By an Admiralty order issued in Woolwich dock-
yard, the shipwright establishment is to be re-
duced by a discharge of 300 hired mechanics and
labourers in the following weekly ratio :-24 ship-
wrights, 10 joiners, 14 smiths, and 20 labourers, the
discharge to commence on Saturday next, the first
batch having already received notices to that effect.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Edwin C.
Symons, additional to the Cornwallis, for service
in the Coastguard ; Commander Charles Fairholme,
additional to the Colossus, for service in the coast-
guard ; Silas W. Parker, paymaster to the Pelorus ;
B, G. Little, assist.-engineer to the Fisgard, as
supernumerary ; and R. H. East, assist-engineer to
the Indus as supernumerary.

THE ARMY.

Owing to the continued fine weather the troops
at Aldershott were enabled to have another " divi-
sional field•day" on Wednesday. At 9 o'clock the
division was formed upon Claycirt-ridge in line of
contiguous columns, to resist an enemy approaching
in great strength from the north-west, his right
resting upon Bedridden-copse and his left upon
Pyestock-hill. The object of the General appeared
to be to attack both flanks of the advancing army,
and for this purpose the 3d brigade was directed to
the right flank of the enemy, and the Ist, 2d, and
cavalry brigades on the left. The 3cl brigade, con-
sisting of the 24th, 3d, and 64th Regiments covered
by the 13th and one squadron of the 18th Hussars,
first came into action, the advanced trcops opening
fire on arriving at Bickey-copse, and keeping up a
warm engagement within its coverts. The let and
2d brigades advanced upon Long-hill, and opened
a very heavy fusillade, while the 6th Dragoon
Guards and the Ist Royals executed some splendid
charges on the right, supported by I)" battery
Royal Horse Artillery. The 13th and 18th Hussars
advanced to the front, and pursued the right of the
enemy, which was already routed and retiring in
confusion. A general advance followed, under
cover of two batteries of artillery, which were posted
in an excellent position on Long-hill, and from
which a tremendous cannonade was kept up. At
this juncture the infantry threw in an overwhelm-
ing fire, and before this concentrated attack the
enemy gave way, and fled in disorder. After the
tnauceuvres the troops marched past, the cavalry
and artillery in open column of squadrons and bat-
teries, and the infantry in open column of grand
divisions in quick time. The cavalry afterwards
passed from the reverse flank left in front, at a
gallop. The trcops returned to their quarters about
half-past 1 o'clock. The movements throughout
were of a very animat©d description, and attracted
a large concourse of spectators.
The Project for connecting AkTershott camp with
London by a railway junction is now assuming a
more definite form. According to the it preliminary
prospectus" just issued, the proposed line will be
about "LI- miles in extent, commencing from the
South Western Railway between the Woking and
Farnborough stations, proceeding by a direct route
to Alderehott and thence to a point near to the
Pernham station of the IJoadoa and South Western
Railway Company. It can be connected also with
the South Eastern Railway at or no.tir Novo -„i:14

The squadron of the 18th Hussars, which, under
the command of Captain Peyton, has been stationed
in the North Camp'since the departure of the head
quarters and six troops to Norwich, removed on
Friday into the cavalry barracks at Aldershott.
The D, E, F, and G batteries of Horse Artillery,
comprising the entire portion of that brigade at
present at headquarters, were yesterday drawn out
on Woolwich Common for the inspection of General
Sir Richard Dacres, commanding the garrison.
The General was attended by Major Reilly, aide-
de-camp, Major Milward, brigade-major, and Cap-
tain Mangle, deputy assistant quarter-master
general. The strength of the batteries consisted
of 750 men, 550 horses, and 24 guns, the whole in
command of Col. D'Aguilar, C. 8., in the absence of
Coi. Sir David Wood, K.C.8., on sick leave. The
inspection commenced at 10, and terminated about

1, upwards of an hour being occupied in marching
past and undergoing a general and searching exami-
nation. The batteries afterwards formed in various
positions, and went through a number of movements,
firing 15 rounds of blank ammunition, the steadi-
ness and regularity of which could not be surpassed.
At the close of the evolutions, the General expressed
his satisfaction with the discipline and efficiency of
the brigade, and informed Col. D'Agnilar, that he
should do them justice in his forthcoming half-
yearly report to his Royal Highness the Field
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief.
I frwo regiments of infantry, the 55th and 76th,
will very shortly embark for India. The 55th will
be succeeded in their present quarters in Ports-
mouth garrison by the 26th Cameronians, from
Gosport, the latter regiment being relieved by a re-
giment from Aldershott.