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London, England, 1862-03-26 00:00:00

THE S {TN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E VENI G, MARCH 26, 18621

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

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A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to
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MRS. MACREADY, the Eminent American
Artiste, will give one of her ENTERTAINMENTS,
consisting* of Dramatic and Poetical Selections. at WILLIS'S
ROOMS,THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, 26th, commenc-
ing at 8 o'clock—Reserved seats, 55.: Unreserved, 3s. Re-
served seats, numbered, can be procured at Mitchell's Royal
Library, Bond-street; Sams'A Royal Library, St. James's
street ; Austin's Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly ; and at Willis's
Rooms.

CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. The Original,
Well-known, and only CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS are
performing nightly to crowded houses at the POLYGRA-
PHIC HALL, King William-street, Strand. Tickets to be
had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ;
Mr. Austin's Ticket Office, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.—
Morning Performance every Saturday at three o'clock.—
W. P. COLLINS, Sole Proprietor.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-.Series of New Music,
Valses, Quadrilles, and Polkas, by the unrivalled Band
of 50 performers, under the sole direction of Mons. Bout,-
CORT, Conductor and Composer. This gentleman will play
every evening at 11 o'clock, until further notice, variations
arranged by himself on the Cornet-a-Piston.—The free-list
will be open for the profession by leaving their card at the
door. By order of the Proprietor.---Manager, Mona. P.
Grenet. Admission is.

THE INDIAN ARMY.

(From the Gazette of last evening.)
BREVET.

Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Michael Wm. Smith,
C. 8., 3d Dragoon Guards, to have the local rank of Major-
General in India while in command of a sub-division of the
army in Bengal.
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Lieut.-Colonel Reginald Yonge Shipley, 7th Foot, hav-
ing completed five years' service as Lieut.-Coloael, to be
Colonel in the army, under the Bth clause of the royal war-
rant of 14th October, 1858.

Captain Thomas Edmund Miller, 12th Foot, to be Major
in the Army. _ a

The undermentioned officers of the Royal Marines, retired
upon full pay, to have a step of honorary rank, under her
Majesty's Older in Council of Nov. 13, 1858:--
Col. Edward Rea to be Major-General.
Col. Sandys Stamen Walsh, C. 8., to be Major-General.
Lieut.-Col. Charles Joseph Hadfield to be Colonel.
The following promotions to take place in her Majesty's
Indian Military Forces, consequent on the retirement of :
Major-General Sir Richard James Holwell Birch,
K. C. 8., Bengal Infantry.
Major-General Clement Clemons, Madras Infantry.
Major-General John Kennedy M'Causland, C. 8., Ben-
gal Infantry; and
Major-General William Cotton, Madras Infantry; on the
31st December.

Lieutenant-Colonel Chas. Robt. Hogg, Bombay Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel James H Tapp, Madras Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Strange, Madras Cavalry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Cotgrave Honnor, Bom-
bay Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel James William Gammell Kenny,
Madras Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Taylor, Madras Cavalry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ibenry Alexander Thompson, Madras
Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Stewart, Madras Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Andrews, Bombay Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Bromley Boulderson Groubo,
Madras Cavalry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Morrieson, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Boyd Kerr, Madras In-
fantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Warren Stokes, Bengal In-
fantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Lamb, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William George Arrow, Bombay In-
fantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Walter Williams, C. 8., Ben-
gal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Lydiard, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Baynes, Bombay Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Robert Whitelock, Bombay
Infantry.

TO BE LIBUTENANT.OOLONELS.
Major Frederick Westbrook, Bombay Infantry.
Major Theodore F. Broughton Beatson, Bengal Cavalry,
Major Augustus Russell, Madras Infantry.
Ma* David Gaussen, Bengal Infantry.
Major Clement Read Browne, Bengal Infantry.
Major Alexander Strange, Madras Cavalry.
Major Henry Matthew Nation, Bengal Infantry.
Major Keith Jopp, Bombay Infantry.
Major Tames Jackson, Madras Infantry.
Major Robert Gordon, Madras Infantry.
Major William Barnabas Legard, Bengal Infantry.
Major James Townahend Daniell Bengal Infantry.
Major Robert Thatcher, Bengal Infantry.
Major William Lovell Bouldewn, Madras Infantry.
Major Henry Rodney. Philletcmadras Infantry.
Major Anthony Martin, Bengal Infantry.
Major Andrew Crawford, Bombay Infantry.
Major John Stewart, Madras Infantry.
Major Henry Lewis Bird, Bengal Infantry.
sh, Bengal Infantry.
Major Jonathan Fowler, Madras,
Madras Infantry.
Major
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Major Ambrose Edward Saunders, Bombay Infantry.
Major Edmund Liesmore, Bengal Infantry.
Major Frederick Moffatt Baker, Bengal Infantry.
Major Thomas Francis Hobday, Bengal infantry.
Major Wm. M'Culloch, Bengal Infantry.
Major Wm. Henry Oakes, Bengal Infantry.
Major Thomas Loughran Jameson, Bombay Infantry.

out dropping her anchor proceeded up the river.
She followed the example of the Minnesota and the
Roanoke in firing upon Sewall's Point, but like
theirs her shot fell short. The gunboat Mystic was
also towed up in the afternoon, but at sunset the
Roanoke, the St. Lawrence, and the Mystic all
returned.
After four o'clock the Merrimac continued to
throw shells into the camp at Newport News, while
the Jamestown and other rebel gunboats commenced
firing upon the Minnesota. The latter replied as
vigorously as possible, and the conflict was con-
tinued without any apparent effect until dark.
During the evening the Congas:3 was set on fire,
and at midnight she was blown up.
The Monitor arrived very opportunely during the
evening. She proceeded up the river, although not
prepared to take her part in the action. During the
night only an occasional gun was fired. Reinforce-
ments of men and ammunition were sent to New-
port News early in the afternoon, but little serious
damage was done there, and no one was killed.
This morning the conflict was renewed. Until

the presence of the Monitor was known to the Mer-
rimac the latter was engaged with the Minnesota,
and but for the fortunate arrival of the Monitor the
Minnesota might have been lost..
The iron-clad vessels, the Merrimac and the

Monitor, engaged each for two or three hours ai

long and short range. No perceptible effect was
produced upon either. They went alongside each
other once or twice, and seemed almost to run each
other down ; but they soon re-appeared, to renew
the action. The Ericsson battery finally succeeded
in forcing a long hole in the port side of the Merri-
mac, and she retired with the whole rebel fleet to
Norfolk about one o'clock.

The United States gunboat Oregon was struck by

the Merrimac in her boiler, and was blown up this
morning. The United States gunboat Zouave was
also seriously damaged, and was obliged to return.

The principal loss of life was on board the Cum-
berland, where, it is thought, as many as 150 men
must have been killed or drowned. But six lives
were lost on board the Minnesota, according to the
report of one of her officers. A rebel gunboat was
cut in two yesterday afternoon by the Cumberland.
The crew of the Minnesota were brought on here

this afternoon. With the assistance of the steamer
S. B. Spalding, the Minnesota has been got off, and
she is now on her way here. She has received
numerous shots, but no serious damage. The escaped
crews of the Cumberland and Congress have arrived
at the Fortress Monroe.

The Monitor has come up to the expectations
that were formed of her, and has proved being im-
pregnable to the heaviest shot at close quarters.
She behaved remarkably well on her passage from
New York, and although the sea covered her decks
completely at times, her speed did not seem to be at
all diminished. To her presence here may be attri-
buted the safety of the Minnesota and other vessels
in port, and the final disabling of the Merrimac,
which had previously been proof against everything.
Captain Worden, of the Monitor, was wounded in
the head while looking out of.the wheel-house. No
other accident of any kind occurred to the battery
or crew.

We have not yet any list of the killed and
wounded. Naval men here are generally of opinion
that, considering everything, the rebels had the
worst time of it. Without the Monitor the damage
might have been much more serious.
FORTRESS MONROE, MARCH 10.
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The :Minnesota was ifinally got off during the
night, and returned to her usual station at the en-
trance to the roads. She is again ready for action.
The Monitor came down this morning, and was
greeted with enthusiastic cheers by the variousves-
sels of the harbour. General Wool and staff and
Assistant• Secretary Fox went on board this after-
noon. She was found not to be damaged in the
slightest degree, and is as well prepared as ever for
another conflict. Her performance was perfectly
satisfactory to her officers and men, and they all
speak of her in the highest terms.
The gunboat Whitehall took fire at 2 o'clock this
morning, and was totally destroyed. Three of her
guns, which were shotted, went off at intervals, and
a shell burst in the air, scattering its fragments
about the fort, without, however, doing any da-
mage. Another gun was saved by the harbour
crew.

The British sldop of war Rinaldo arrived here
this forenoon from off Charleston. She bring no news.

The latest estimates of the number killed on the
Congress is 50, including three officers, Lieut. Jo. B.
Smith, commanding ; acting master Thomas Moore,
and coast pilot William Rhodes. 27 are reported
wounded, and 40 more were taken prisoners, none
of them officers.

On board the Cumberland, the Rev. Mr. Lam-
bart, the chaplain, was drowned, and master's mate,
John M. Harrington, was killed. But few of the
wounded escaped to the shore. The number of
killed and wounded is stated at about 150.
On the Whitehall three were killed, and two or
three were wounded.
On the Oregon, which received a shot in her
boiler, three men were wounded, not officers.
The Wm. Wheldon received a shot in her boiler,
and the Rescue was damaged in her machinery.
The former was towed to Baltimore.
The Minnesota lost six men killed and 17
wounded, not including any officers,as far as known.
She is said to have received quite a number of
shots, The Roanoke received but two shots, and
little damage was occasioned by them.
It is generally believed now that the Merrimac
must have received serious damage. It is the testi-
mony of some that she was considerably listed on
one side as she went behind Sewall's Point, probably
to repair some leak above the water-line.
On the 10th, on the line of the Potomac, the Fe-
deral gun-boats captured the battery Cockpit Point.
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- Gen. Hooker reports from Budd's Ferry that all
the enemy's batteries in front of his line are aban-
doned and their guns spiked. This raises the block-
ade of the Potomac.

The army of the Potomac, by order of the Presi-
dent, has been divided into five army corps, the first
commanded by Major-General M'Dowell, and the
others by Brigadiers-General Sumner, Heintzelman,
Keyes, and Major• General Banks.
Col. Geary left Lovettesville on Friday night, 7th
inst., and, marching through Wheatland and Water-
ford, put the rebel forces to flight. Early the nest
morning he took unresisted possession of Leesburg,
which they considered one of their greatest strong-
holds, and the stars and stripes now wave over the
town and the surrounding forts. The Confederate
army, under Gen. Hill, fell back towards Middle-
burg.
The New York; Herald publishes the following
details of the evacuation of Manassas—
WASHINGTON, MARCIE 11.
The advance of a portion of the grand army of the
Potomac on Monday produced in the city and
throughout the camps a scene of indescribable ex-
citement.
The reveille was sounded at 2 a.m., and the pre-
parations for the march began. Few, even among
the officers, knew whither they were going. There
was no shrinking, no hesitation, no skulking. Many
who were on the sick list sprang from their beds
and took their places in the ranks, although some,
unable to sustain the fatigue of the march, were
subsequently placed upon the baggage waggons.
The movement was not attended with the noisy de-
monstration which charactered the advance to Cen-
treville last summer, but was marked with an ex-
pression of cool determination and confidence,
manifested in the step and bearing, and perfect dis-
cipline of the men.
The advance was really begun several days ago.
Since Friday last regular approaches have been
made daily towards Centreville by portions of Gen.