The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The crew of her Majesty's late ship Bombay were
paid wages on Saturday on board the Duke of
Wellington, three-decked seamen's training-ship, in
Portsmouth harbour, Capt. J. Seccombe, and were
afterwards granted leave, passes being provided for
them at the expense of the Admiralty by rail or
steamboat to and from their respective homes. On
Saturday morning, previous to the payment com-
mencing on board the Duke of Wellington, the
following Admiralty letter was read to the Bombay's
officers and crew by Admiral Sir Michael Seymour,
G.C.8., the Port Admiral and Naval Commander-
in-Chief at Portsmouth :

" Admiralty, Feb. 17, 1865.

" Sir,—My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, not
having yet received the minutes of the court-martial on the
officers and men of her Majesty's late ship Bombay, are
not in possession of those details to which their attention has
been directed by the sentence of the Court, but their Lord-
ships cannot allow the ship's company to be broken up
without expressing their admiration of the noble conduct
of both officers and men under the trying circumstances in
which they wero placed.
" The judgment and foresight of Captain Campbell and
Commander Wilson were admirably seconded by the officers
under them, and the manner in which their orders were
carried out affords the most conclusive proof of the high
state of discipline to which the ship had been brought, and
of the confidence which the conduct of their officers had
inspired in the men under their command.
"My Lords are satisfledthat if human efforts could have
saved the Bombay from destruction they would not now
have had to lament the loss of a ship, which, under any cir-
cumstances in which she might have been placed, would
have reflected the highest credit on the British navy.
"My lords desire that you will read this letter to the
ship's company, and announce that Commander Wilson has
been promoted to the rank of captain.

" I am, &c.,

"C. PAGET."

"To Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., Sze., Portsmouth."

The Imperial Ottoman squadron, consisting of the
screw line-of-battle ship Kossova, 80 guns and 100
horse-power of engines, and the screw frigates Er-
togroul and Khudevendigar, of 50 guns and 700

horse-power of engines each, under the command of
Admiral Edhem Pasha, sailed from Spithead at 10
a.m. on Saturday for the Dardanelles, calling en
route at Cherbourg and Gibraltar. During the stay
of the Ottoman ships at Portsmouth Admiral Edhem
Pasha and his officers renewed their acquaintance
with many officers of her Majesty's naval and mili-
tary services whose friendship they had previously
made at Constantinople or in the Black Sea dur-
ing the period of the war between the allies and
Russia. On Friday last M. Musurus, the Turkish
Ambassador, arrived at Portsmouth from London,
and embarking in the steam tender Pigmy, Master-
Commander Vine, paid a visit to the Ottoman fleet
then lying at Spithead. On leaving his Excellency
was saluted with 17 guns.
The Research, 4, iron-cased sloop, 1,253 tons and
200 horse-power, Capt. Arthur Wihnshurst, arrived
at Spithead on Saturday from guard duty off Os-
borne, on the departure of her Majesty from her
marine palace for Windsor.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. G. Douglas, to the
Royal George ; Lieut. R. E. Buller, to the Irresis-
tible ; C. H. Herring, midshipman, to the Sutlej ;
R. J. Hay, chief engineer, to the Indus, for the
Narcissus ; W. Beck, engineer, to the Prince Con-
sort ; W. H. Grove, engineer, to the Cambridge, for
the Redwing ; and James Elwess, assist-engineer, to
the Indus, for the Narcissus.

TIIE LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—The
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, feeling deeply
the loss which the lifeboat cause has sustained by the
lamented demise of its late valued president, Admiral the
Duko of Northumberland, K.G., who for the past fourteen
years actively co-operated with its committee of manage-
ment to carry out the philanthropic objects of the institu-
tion, and desiring to show a mark of respect to the late
duke's memory, has instructed all its branches throughout
the British isles to hoist the flag of the lifeboat half mast
high from daylight to sunset on Saturday next, the 25th
inst., when his grace is to be buried in Westminster
Abbey.
THE "LEAF WEARERS" OF INDIA.—At the meet-
ing of the Anthropological Society on Tuesday even-
ing, a communication was read from Dr. Shortt Zillah, sur-
geon, at Chingleput, giving an account of certain wild
tribes of India, the most remarkable were a tribe inhabit-
ing some parts of Orissa, called "Leaf Wearers." Their
chief physical peculiarity consists in the conformation of
the lower jaw, which, like that of the bulldogunderhangs.
Dr. Shortt stated that he had not observed or read of a
similar malformation in any other race. The men are con-
siderably under the size of Europeans—the tallest of 20 that
he measured not being more than sft. 3iin., and one was
4ft. Blin. In other respects they are well formed, and they
wear clothing to a certain extent ; but the woman wear
no clothes—a few leafy twigs collected from the jungles
being employed instead. The leaves are tied in conical
bundles, and are placed one before and one behind, and
are fastened by a string of clay beads, which goes round
the waist several times. This tribe is looked upon as`the
outcast race of the province, they inhabit the most distant
and wild parts, and cultivate the soil on the declivity of the
hills. They have the Mongolian type of countenance, a
well-formed globular head, with an expanded forehead, and
rather high cheek bones. The bodies of the dead are uni-
versally subjected to cremation, no ceremonies being per-
formed beyond that of bathing and fasting, and the ashes
are thrown into some stream. They have alanguage of their
own which seems to belong to the Ooryah dialect, and most
of them can talk Ooryah ; they have no priests, their children
flav untaught, and they have no written language. Traditional
stories and songs are handed down from generation to gene-
ration. They have only one cooked meal, which consists of
boiled rice seasoned with herbs, and is eaten at night. In the
morning the men, women, and children start for the jungles
in search of wild fruits, roots, &c. which they use for food.
Several varieties of the wild yam are abundant in those
parts, and are eaten roasted. They sometimes cultivate
a few of the common vegetables, as also tobacco, of which
they are particularly fond. It is powdered and placed be-
tween the lower lip and incisor teeth, when, from the pres-
sure and irritation caused perhaps by the tobacco, the gums
appear to get absorbed and the lower incisors fall out at a
very early age. One of the stories current amongst them
is that Juggernauth, or the supreme ruler of the universe,
formed a male and female at the creation of the world, and
placed them on one of these hills ; in course of time the
woman disobeyed her husband's command, for which the
goddess Parvuttee cursed the women and enjoined her to
wear leaves all her life instead of clothes. The religion of
this tribe can scarcely be said to belong to any system ; they
entertain some indistinct ideas which they carry out in trifling
superstitious ceremonies; they have no idols, nor have they
any particular mode or place of worship ; they have some
rude notions of a Supreme Being, who is said to be present
everywhere; they are fond of animals and rear cattle, goats,
pigs, and dogs, and the villages abound with poultry,which are
a very small kind ; they make use of animal food of all sorts,
not excepting even the cow. They are evidently of a peace-
ful character ; the only weapons about them being the bow
and 417017, and a tanghee, au axe for cutting wood,