The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-23 00:00:00

FEBRUARY.
Birmingham l6 I Nottingham Spring 2B
Lincoln Spring 2l

KA
Derby Sprin 2
Liverpool Spring 7
Shrewsbury Spring
Doncaster Spring
Warwick Spring

Chelmsford Spring 2B
Lichfield Spring
Barham 3O
Lewes Spring 3O

Northampton AP:
4
Croxton Park 7
Newmarket Craven l7
Durham
Knighton

Cattelick Bridge l9
Abergavenny 2O
Thirsk 2l
Epsom Spring

Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB

Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O

Manchester 7
Chelmsford 7
Ascot l3
Beverley, Hull, and East
Biding l4
Liverpool
Alexandra Park 2O

Hampton 2l
Newton
Newcastle
Odiham
Bidbury
Stockbridge ... 29

JULY.

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Worcester

Pontefract
Abingdon
Stamford l3 Goodwood

AUGUST.

Brighton ---1-
Brighton Club 3
Knutsford 3
Huntingdon 8
Wolverhampton 8
Reading 10
Egham l5

Oxford l7
York 22
Plymouth 24
Lichfield 2B
Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summor 3O
Weymouth 3l

THE CONVICT KOHL.—This convict, awaiting
sentence of death in Springfield Gaol, Chelmsford,
continues to protest his innocence. The convict had an
interview, in the course of last week with his wife and
sister-in law. The wife, a respectable young woman, was
deeply affected, indeed she fainted twice during the painful
meeting. The conversation which passed related chiefly to
family matters. The convict expressed himself highly
pleased at seeing his wife, and offered up an earnest prayer
for her future well-being. The sentence of the law will be
carried out on Thursday.
THE NAPOLEONS IN THE IRISH COURTS.—The
Lord Chancellor pronounced a decree yesterday on
the petition of Mr. Napoleon A. Bonaparte Wyse, eldest
son of the late Sir Thomas Wyse, praying for a specific
performance of certain marriage articles on the occasion of
the marriage of the deceased, at Paris, with Madame
Letitia Bonaparte. The object of the petitioner was to esta-
blish his right to the estates of his father in the Queen's
county and the county of Waterford. There is another
suit pending as to the amount of jointure to which Madame
Wyse is entitled, but that is not affected by the decree.

THE RECENT GALE.—The Royal National Life-
boat Institution, having had its attention drawn to
the want of a liteboat station somewhere on the embayed
line of coast between Selsea Bill and Poitsmouth harbour
by the account of the wreck of the schooner Ocean on the
dangerous shoals off Hayling Island, which appeared in
The Sun of the 16th inst., has already taken the prelimi-
nary steps for the establishment of a lifeboat station on

,he island, and has commenced for that purpose, through

_ •
the secretary of the institution, Mr. Richard Lewes, a
correspondence with the Rev. Charles Hardy, vicar of
Hayling. Mr. Hardy has been resident 30 years on the
island, and his long experience will therefore necessarily
render him a valuable coadjutor in the good work taken in
hand by the National Lifeboat Institution. Previous to the
communication from the institution having been received,
Mr. Hardy had appealed through the local press for aid to
'assist in the establishment of a lifeboat on the island, and
the offer of aid from the National Lifeboat Institution
came, therefore, very opportunely for the perfection and
completion of a scheme for the saving of human life
which has been a well-known matter of necessity since
lifeboat stations were first established on our coasts. The
close vicinity of the harbour and dockyard of Portsmouth
has, perhaps, by the false feeling of " help always at
hand " which their near neighbourhood has somewhat
naturally inspired, prevented the placing of a lifeboat at
any previous time on this part of the coast ; but the recent
wreck of the Ocean, and the proved inability of the dock-
yard authorities to render any aid, even with the smallest
of their tug steamers, have at length brought action as well
as conviction, and a certain means of help will now always
be at the service of shipwrecked seamen, and provided from
a legitimate and never-failing source. There appears to bo
an excellent site for the boathouse on the beach, which
there will not be much difficulty in obtaining for the pur-
pose ; there are a.sufficient number of fishermen within
hail always to man the boat ; and last, but not the least
important fact, a very unanimous and excellent spirit is
prevailing among the resident inhabitants on the subject.

DESERTIONS.—A correspondent of the New York
Times writes in an article at the close of the year as
follows :—" We hear of the President calling for a force of
several hundred thousand men. The papers tell us gleefully
of the rapidity with which enrolments are taking place.
Presently we hear every town and village boasting that it
has filled up its quota ; but where are the soldiers ? As an
illustration of how some disappear, here is therecord of ono
single regiment among those that have come to my notice.
Of three detachments of substitutes sent from Concord,
New Hampshire, to join the sth New Hampshire Volunteers,
amounting to 625 men, 137 deserted on the passage, leaving
only 488 to arrive at the regiment. Of the 488 who got to the
regiment and were consigned to companies, 82 deserted to
the enemy from picket line, 36 deserted to the rear, fourhavo
been discharged as utterly worthless, their physical incapa-
city being so glaring and of such long standing that it
must have been known at the time of enlistment ; five have
been sent back to Concord to have their cases of enlist-
ment investigated by order of the War Department ;
and two have been discharged by order of the War Depart-
ment. Thus, out of 625 of these bounty-tempted warriors
sent to one regiment only since August last, there are only
359 left, and, as these have come to the army through the
same venal influences, and probably gone through the same
loose or fraudulent examination, it is impossible to tell how
many more may follow suit, in spite of the death penalty bof
fore. them. I use the term fraudulent advisedly,
forono
out
the four discharged as utterly worthless, one man had d
hernia,
leg several inches shorter than the other; one .
and the two
that had made him a cripple for many Y
ethat'any imbecile
others were such impracticable imbeciles
1:11(13t sotf haanvye dseuetay
atwi tahgoluatnocenetphaartt itchleeyofwmoreedi
These are shameful revela-
tions, mental or phy
us abuses the sooner do we
the ethigeb.set
2,856
6cipal
rectified."
c.
children, of whom
them
D
tsitaonns,d baucthanthecesoofonseeerinthgespicUbllic are made acquainted with
owilcaedpg:
HEALTH OF SCOTLAND. --During
istered ing the month of
fem
11.0 births, The the existence of such monstrous abuses
legitimate Dec.,swn9 slowerefB 6
a4t
Eight
Scotland2he eBshrs3 et
waweretandsellhundredo' birthswsr illegitimate, e4egatni
ncif indicating a proportion of
one illegitimate in every
e proportion of
t
i
ofcolk,uhrwhere. igtewsaswe4iiBe
illegitimateo'
per cent., while in Aberdeen 18.3 per cent. of the births were
illegitimate.
registered ih the eight towns duringythe month, being by
far the highest number registered in December duringgthye
nine previous years. The deaths of 2,411 persons were
registered. Allowing for increase of population, the deaths
Nould be the exact average of the corresponding period
during the nine preceding years. Forty-four per cent. of
the deaths were of children under five years of age. In Aber-
deen the proportion was 10 per cent. below this average
and in Dundee the average was exceeded by seven per cent
The zymotic class of diseases proved fatal to 756 persons, ct
31 per cent. of the deaths. Typhus fever was the most fatal
epidemic ; it caused 244 deaths, or 104 per cant. of the
whole deaths. In Glasgow the proportion of deaths from
typhus was 11.7 per cent. ; in Paisley, 12.5 ; and in Greenock,
20.1 per cent. This is the most severe epidemic of typhus
fever experienced in Scotland for many years. Scarlatina
caused 153 deaths ; measles, 102 ; hooping-cough, 89; small
pox, 15 ; diarrhoaa and dysentery, 31; diphtheria, 30 ;
croup, 47 ; metria, 9 ; erysipelas, 13 ; apoplexy, 23 ; para-
lysis, 52 ; diseases of the heart, 92 ; inflammatory affections
of the respiratory organs, 202 ; bronchitis, 276 ; consump-
tion, 222. Seven of the persons who died (one male and
six females) had exceeded the age of 95 years;
the tv‘
eldest (females) were aged 95 years respectively.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA,

(From the. Times' Correspondent.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.

The failure of the attack upon Fort Fisher and
the defences of Wilmington has led to one impor-
tant and unexpected result. It has ended the mili-
tary career of General Butler. Pending an oppor-
tunity which will, doubtless, in due time be found
or made to appoint him to such purely administra-
tive functions as he exercised at New Orleans, and
which it was the earnest desire of his party that he
should exercise at New York, the disgraced Major-
General has been ordered to report himself at
Lowell, his home in Massachusetts, there to medi-
tate at leisure on the mutability of fortune and the
ingratitude of Republics, and to await, with what
patience he may command, the passing of the
eclipse in which his fame and usefulness have been
temporarily shrouded.
Though there is, and will be, much rejoicing on
the fall of Gen. Butler,-there is too great a sense of
justice in the community not to admit that he has
been unfairly treated ; that if the naval and mili-
tary attack on Fort Fisher was to have been simul-
taneous, the blame of disobedience and consequent
failure ought to rest upon Admiral Porter, who
commenced his part of the operations without
waiting for the arrival of the troops. But Porter
was in no one's way. He was not a politician ; he
was not the darling of the Abolition party—he had
not been nominated by the Loyal League and the
Rev. Mr. Beecher for the Presidency; he had not
made a host of enemies in every quarter, and he
was not, as Butler, an amateur in the business of
arms, and consequently distasteful to the regularly-
educated and trained members of the profession.
Therefore Porter, the really guilty person, if there
were one guilt in the matter, has been let . alone,
and Butler made to play the penalty of his own
unpopularity and of another man's transgression.
But, though some people are found to deplore the
result, none are surprised at it. The mass of the
people had long ago come to the conclusion that
Butler's true position is not in the field, but at
the desk, and he is by far too able and valuable,
as well as too unscrupulous, a public servant to be
left in permanent obscurity.
The expedition against Wilmington is' to be im-
mediately renewed, with Gen. Ord in command of
Butler's corps, and with a largely increased military
force to co-operate from the rear. In this city on
Sunday last and yesterday great numbers of soldiers,
looking sorely fatigued, dirty, haggard, unkempt,
and travel-worn, were seen to arrive in regiments
and detachments by railways, and to march through
the streets for embarcation on board traports
waiting in the bay and harbour to receive them. In
answer to inquiries, they said they belonged to the
army of the Tennessee under General Thomas, but
whither bound no one knew except the officer in
command. It appears, although the New York press
has not been permitted to publish the facts, lest in-
formation should thereby be conveyed to the enemy,
that these troops, spared for the purpose from the
main army of Gen. Thomas, are to land at Beaufort,
or some other part of the shore of North Carolina,
and having effected a junction with the Federal
army at Newberne, under Gen. Terry, are thence to
march on Wilmington, and attack the city in the
rear, while Admiral Porter, assisted by a larger
force than that- commanded by Butler, and this
time under the charge of a fighting officer, is to at-
tack Fort Fisher and the other maritime defences
that guard the entrances of the Wilmington river.
It is expected that the city will be unable to resist
so formidable an assault, and that it will fall a cer-
tain, though possibly not an easy prey to its assail-
ants, and that the pride of the North will receive
the greatest gratification next to the capture of
Richmond which it at this moment desires, the clos-
ing up of the last port open to the intercourse of
the South with Europe.
Congress is busying itself with the discussion of
the abolition of slavery, by legal amendment of the
Constitution, thereby confessing, what all the world,
except the fanatics of abolition, knew perfectly well,
that Mr. Lincoln's proclamations and edicts to that
effect were nugatory and invalid, and, unsupported
by force of arms, of no more value than waste
paper. But the deliberations of Congress to this end
excite but little interest. The all but certainty that
the South will arm and free its able-bodied slaves,
and the possibility, or at least the chance, that the
European Powers will be thereby induced to recog-
nise the Confederacy, occupies the attention of men
of all parties. Those who know the South best be-
lieve most implicitly that both people and leaders are
willing, if not anxious, to make the experiment.
Those who know little or nothing of the South, and
who think that the Union is a fetish as dear to
Southern as it is to Northern superstition, cherish
the delusion that there is a great Unionist party in
the " rebellions" States, which is silenced and in-
timidated by the Southern President and the armies
which he controls, and that there only needs
another great victory of the Northern arms—such
as that expected at Wilmington—or, pending the
preparations necessary to achieve it, an offer
of everything that the South can desire, short
of independence, to induce both army and the
people to submit to a reconstruction of the Union.
To all assertions that there is no Union party in the
South ; that the opposition to the Government or
the measures of Mr. Jefferson Davis, however vio-
lent it may appear, is nothing but the natural op-
position in which all constitutional nations indulge,
and must not be mistaken for treason to the cause,
however exacerbated ill-fortune may make it, these
patriots turn a deaf ear. Their belief in the Union,
as superior to all other considerations, and advan-
tages, and blessings, amounts to a fanaticism, and
might almost be dignified with the name of a reli-
gion. No adverse circumstances shake their faith in
the holy thing. The more unattainable it appears the
more fondly and reverentially they cling to it, and
that anyone, except an Englishman, or other preju-
diced foreigner, should imagine that it has perished
irretrievably seems to their minds to be madness
in the many and crime in the few. As these ideolo-
gists form so large a portion of the American people,
it is not surprising that some of them should at
every supposed favourable moment for the ad-
vocacy of their views obtain possession of Mr. Lin-
coln's attention, and that to get rid of their impor-
tunity, if he do not share their opinions, he should
allow them to try their " 'prentice hands" on the
great art and mystery of pacification. All previous
attempts of the kind have been signal failures. Aft..
Lincoln has never deputed any person of known
character and responsibility to discover the real sen-
timents of the Southern Government, and such fifth
rate envoys as, he has either permitted or encou-
raged, but never authoritatively authorised, to visit
the South for this purpose have invariably returned
with the same answer—that the South desired inde-
pendence and would fight for it to the last extre-
mity. Nothing daunted, however, by these discoin-
fitures, and nursing the baseless hope that the war
has created no such bitterness of hate as to prevent
reconciliation, and that the South is really at its
wit's end, and in the position of a drowning man
who will accept life, if he would accept no other fa-
vour, at the hands of an enemy, Mr. Francis P.
Blair, the iqedo,
of American Whi polic
t has re-
newed his attern g y,
foiled in this pp
to
reach Richmond. He was
eraore than a week ago. by the
refusal of the Southernd
wPresident to receive any
ries
missiona of the
puted by Mr. Lincoln, andhohwere not expressly de-
s
newed the effort under more a filowa, it appears,
auspic, es-
though under what exact conditions
not known
ourablcgr
to the public. It is idle to SpCCUlate is
Richmourn the re-
su. Mr. Blair ay
notlt m reach
; he may be empowered to make oarbhe 'nay
proposition, or he may go for a Northern ona Me
rathern than for a Southern one, and have calculated
upon failure before he set out, and courted •
with
* a view to ulterior objects of his own and Mr. Lin-
coln's party. But if he returns with the news that
the South is ready to negotiate for re-union, he will
return with the most astounding and incredible in-
telligence of our time. _ _ _

The possible European recognition of Mr. Lin-
coln on the 4th of March as President only of
those States by whose vote he was re-elected is the
fear that sets this singular machinery in motion,
and that seems to render necessary an effort of some
kind to learn from the South whether it is irrevoca-

bly determined on separation. As among indivi-
duals so it is among nations. The sins of early days
rise up in after times to clamour for judgment
against the wrongdoer. The leading politicians of
the dominant party recall their former utterances
on the subject of the recognition by the United States
of all de facto Governments, whether in Europe or
America, and feel uneasy lest the European Powers
should apply to them the doctrines they applied to
others. In the celebrated case of the United States
against Peru, in which the Government of Mr.
Buchanan hastily, but peremptorily, recognised the
revolutionary Government of that State, Mr. Black,
the then Attorney-General, emphatically declared
that " it was the duty, the interest, and the invaria-
ble policy of the United States to recognise all de
facto Governments." Though the pamphlet in
which Mr. Black's argument was widely circulated
has been as far as possible bought up and suppressed
by the existing Government, it is to be found in the
library of LCongress, to give the weight of Mr.
Black's then unquestioned, and, as it appears, un-
questionable authority to the doctrine when the
Powers of Europe may now or hereafter see fit to
embrace with reference to the South. Mr. Seward
himself too—a more important witness than Attor-
ney-General Black—may be placed in the witness-
, box to testify what his opinions were on a similar
subject before he trammelled himself with the re-
sponsibilities of office. On the 9th of March, 1852,
he proposed a resolution to the Senate, in which he
set forth that the United States, "in consideration
of the exigencies of society, habitually recognised de
facto Governments," and that a certain people, whom
he named, had in the " exercise of a right secured to
them by the laws of nations, in a solemn and legi-
timate manner asserted their national independence,
and established a Government by their own volun-
tary act, and successfully maintained it against all
opposition by parties lawfully interested in the
question, were fully entitled to their recognition by
the United States ;" and that the Government which
denied and combated their independence, which he
also named, " would have no cases belli against the
" United States," if this recognition were forthwith
and solemnly proclaimed. The people struggling
at that time for independence were the Hungarians,
and the opposing Government was that of Austria,
and if the Mr. Seward of 1865 were the Mr. Seward
of 1852 in principles and opinions, and looked upon
facts with a vision undisturbed by party exigencies,
or national pride, it would task all his well-known
ingenuity to prove that the Southern people had not
even more solemnly and legitimately than the Hun-
garians asserted their national independence ; and
that they had not far more brilliantly and success-
fully, and for a longer period of time, maintained it
" against all opposition by parties lawfully interested
in the question." The hope of one section of the
Northern people and the fear of another that Euro-
pean recognition will shorkly follow the entrance of
the South into the path of negro emancipation lends
additional interest to the bygone opinions of a
statesman in the position of Mr. Seward. Doubtless,
however, should the contingency arise, it will be
discovered that the circumstances are not parallel,
and that it was perfectly right for a republic to do
against a monarchy that which it would be utterly
wrong for a monarchy to do against a republic.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

110-

It has been decided that the camp at Colchester
shall accommodate two depot battalions of eight
depots each, and the following depots have been
ordered to Colchester :—The depot, 41st Regiment,
from Preston, Capt. Peddie, Capt. Lowry, Lieut.
Brook, Lieut. Taylor, Lieut. Michell, and Ensign
Duncombe, to join the 4th depot battalion ; the de-
pot 63d Regiment, from Belfast, Capt. Fitzroy,
Capt. Moore, Lieut. Smyth, Lieut. Burton, Lieut.
Beere, and Lieut. Bayle, to join the 4th depot bat-
talion ; and the depot 84th Regiment, from Pem-
broke, Brevet-Major O'Brien, Capt, Heley, Lieut.
Simpson, Lieut. Murray, and Ensign Reckitt, to '
join the 10th depot battalion. The two battalions
stationed at Colchester will therefore be composed as
follows :-4th depot battalion, comprising the de-
pots 41st, 54th, 56th, 63d, 70th, 82d, 08th, and 103 d
Regiments ; and 10th depot battalion, comprising
the depots Ist battalion Ist Foot, 2d battalion 6th
Foot, 34th, 38th, 44th, 66th, 84th, and 97th Regi-
ments.

Some experiments have been made on the Royal
Engineer field-works, Chatham, during the last few
days, with the view of testing the resisting powers
offered by targets covered with coatings of com-
pressed paper of different degrees of thickness. The
experiments produced some rather surprising and in-
teresting results, and would appear to prove that
paper presents a remarkable power of resistance to
shot. Until now it has not received that attention
which it would seem to demand. The official re-
port of the trials will be transmitted to the Ord-
nance Select Committee, under whose directions
they were carried out.

Major-Gen. R. S. Armstrong, of the Royal Ar-
tillery, is to have the " distinguished service" re-
ward of 1100 per annum, vacated by the appoint-
ment :of Major-_Gen. Dupuis, C. 8., Col.-Com-
mandant of a Brigade ; and a similar reward, va-
cated by the death of Major-Gen. Palliser, has been
conferred on Major-Gen. Francis Warde. The an-
nual pensions of £9l 55., held by Major-Gen. Arm-
strong and Major-Gen. Warde, have been bestowed
on Major-Gen. Burke Cuppage and Major-Gen.-J.
St. George, C.B.
The screw steam gunboat Hind, tender to the
Coastguard ship St. George, arrived at Plymouth
on Friday to embark stores.

The screw steam corvette Cadmus, 21, Capt.
Alexander Gordon, which arrived on Friday at
Plymouth, will probably leave the Sound to-day for
the West Indies.

The screw steam-frigate Aurora, 3, Capt. Sir F.
Leopold M'Clintock, left Plymouth Sound, at 4 on
Saturday afternoon for Bermuda, en route to the
West Indies. •

The paddlewheel steam-sloop Geyser, 6, Com-
mander Arthur T. Thrupp, left Plymouth on Friday
night for Portsmouth, to embark supernumerary
officers and men for Gibraltar.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander William G. H. Johnstone, from Bermuda,
arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday evening.
When entering Bermuda from Halifax, about four
p.m. December 4, and being about eight or nine
miles from the island, she struck on an outlying
rock, one of the Bermuda Reef. The Virago was
as the time under steam, and going from six to
seven knots per hour. Her timbers were started
from the stempost as far up as the 6-foot mark,
the keel of her stem was started, and the bolts
driven back ; two or three streaks of copper were
ripped off, and the whole of the starboard side
severely shaken. Had the sloop been a sailing ves-
sel she would have sunk in less than three hours,
but being a steamer she was kept afloat by the action
of her bilge ejection pipes. She entered Bermuda
the next morning, and was repaired by a diver
alongside the jetty. The Virago left December 31,
for England, in company with the screw corvettebut
Challenger, 22, Capt. John J. Kennedy, C. 8.,
parted from her four days afterwards. •On the
homeward voyage heavy gales from south-west,
veering to north-west, were experienced, and
on Saturday, Jannary 14, the first gig was
washed away, carrying with it part of the
starboard paddlebox. On Thursday last, when
off Ushant, about thirty bales of cotton were
passed. The ,Virago was commissioned July 26,
1861, was engaged in the Channel until August,
1863, when she left Plymouth for the West India
station. Her engines are in very bad repair, and
on Saturday some of the Staff of the Steam Reserve
at Devonport were sent on hoard to inspect them.
Should they be found capable of further duty the
Virago will receive additional coal and proceed to
one ninulfvfiltalhe eastern ports, where it
crew
be is probable her
court-martialon assembled at
thpeairdeefoffa. consequence of her
wander Johnstone James F. B. Wainwright, of
.the
Terror, Presialt. The Court reprimanded Com-
power, Capt. J.
the 1\11"-oneclY'
The screw
corvette
ReChallenger, 22, 400-horse
C. 8., just arrived
at the Nore from
Indian station, will, in
acertohrd American and West
put out of com-
with orders re-
ceived at Chatham, be paid offallarel

mission without any of her bulkheads or internal
fittings being disturbed, while the whole of her
stores are to be returned in such a manner that they
may be available at the shortest notice should the
vessel be required for early commission. The crew
have commenced dismantling her and returning her
stores into the dockyard. The Challenger has been
in commission nearly four years.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Dee, Master Com-
mander Raymond, sailed from Woolwich Dockyard
on Saturday morning at six o'clock, her hold filled
with naval stores, for Liverpool, and boilers, &c.,
on her deck for the 24-gun iron ship Lord Clyde,
4,067 tons, and 1,000-horse power, building at
Pembroke. Soon after her departure the river and
the town of Woolwich and neighbourhood became
enveloped in a dense fog. From the well-known
experience of her commander it was expected that
the Dee would not proceed, but would lay to in
the river until the following morning. Prepa-
rations were in perfect readiness at an early hour
on Saturday for hoisting the new iron sheers in
their place, but the work could not be carried out
on account of the fog.

A telegraphic notice from the Admiralty to the
Naval Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth (Admi-
ral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8.), relative to the
loss of her Majesty's ship Bombay at Montevideo,
was posted outside Portsmouth dockyard gates on
Friday evening. Shortly afterwards Lieut. Stirling,
late of the Bombay, arrived at the official residence
of Admiral Seymour with despatches from the Ad-
miralty, which were forwarded to her Majesty at
Osborne by the Fire Queen, Staff-Commander Paul.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander John D'Arcy
to the Osborne, commissioned; H. D. Sarratt, master,
to the Osborne ; G. B. Hill, surg., to the Osborne ;
Alexander Murphy, assist.-Burg., to the Cumberland;
J. E. Skinner, assist.-surg., to the Osborne ; N.
Stearn, engineer, to the Osborne; and J. B. Stevens,
assist.-engineer, to the Osborne.