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Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer.
(from the Levant herald.)
Seldom has the formality of an address had sincerer
meaning or been bettor earned than that which gives ex-
pression to the sentiment not merely, we believe, of the
British community of Constantinople, but of Englishmen
of every class throughout Turkey, to Sir Henry Lytton
Bulwer. The value of such compliments may generally be
measured by their cost; and, as that is intrinsically repre-
sented by tho paper on which they aro written, they are,
as a rulo, evidence neither of merit on the part of those to
whom they are paid nor of real esteem on that of those
from whom they come. But the unanimous sentiment of
our countrymen in the Turkish capital will bear us out
when we affirm that this tribute to the eminent statesman
who has now for nearly eight years represented England
in the East has no such doubtful meaning. So far as our
collective testimony can certify it, we do certify that he
has worthily fulfilled his high mission amongst us, and
that in retiring from it he &sides with him the respect and
gratitude of us all, coupled with such a measure of personal
esteem as probably no British ambassador in Turkey ever
won before. Of this high praise the best and sufficient jus-
tification will be a sketch of his eminent services in this
country, prefaced, for the sake of historical completeness,
by a brief notice of his antecedent career.
After serving for a short time in the army—first in the
2d Life Guards, and subsequently in the 58th Foot—Mr.
.Bulwer was named attach 6 to the legation at Berlin in 1827.
Thence, two years later, he was transferred to the embassy
at Vienna, and shortly afterwards to the Hague. In 1832
he was removed from the latterlekation to Paris, whence,
after a residence of three years, he went as Secretary of
Legation to Brussels, where, in 1835-6, he acted as charge
d'affaires. A year later he was appointed Secretary of Em-
bassy at Constantinople, and afew months after his arrival
in Pera framed the commercial treaty which, in 1838, re-
duced to order the confusion of the old conventions, and
prepared the way for the still more equitable and compre-
hensive tariff • reforms now in force. The value of Mr.
Belwer's services in the negotiation of this treaty—which
was subsequently adopted by the whole of the other
Powers—was warmly acknowledged by Lord Palmerston
in Parliament at the time. In 1839 he was named Secretary
of Embassy—and became, by the absence of Lord Granville,
Minister—at Paris, where, in the eventful year following,
he detected and defeated the ambitious projects of M.
Thiers with an ability which again elicited high eulogy in
the House of Commons. From Paris he was, in 1843,
removed to Madrid, where he may be truly said to have
saved Europe from war by his timely intervention in the
quarrel with Morocco, when the Spanish Government, in
concert with that of France, was on the point of attempt-
ing the conquest of that country. For his very able diplo-
macy on that occasion he was, in 1845, made a Privy
Councilor. Three years later occurred his historic quarrel
with Narvaez, for—in obedience to his instructions—re-
sisting whose arbitrary acts he received his passports.
Diplomatic relations were broken off with Spain, the ex-
pelled Minister was made a K.C.8., and in Parliament Sir
R. Peel, Lord Palmerston, Lord J. Russell, Mr. Disraeli,
Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Hums expressed the unanimous senti-
ment of the house in approving every detail of his conduct.
In the following year Sir Henry was sent to the United
States. The moment was a critical one, the Washington
authorities having shortly before entered into a compact
with the Republic of Nicaragua for taking possession of the
territory from which our own Government had expelled
the Nicaraguans in the interest of the King of the Mos-
quitos. By a series of able negotiations, and even more
perhaps by rendering himself popular during their continu-
ance not merely with the American Government, but with
the Senate and the American people, Sir Henry Bulwer
contrived to arrange this complicated " difficulty " in the
Bulwer-Clayton treaty, and to leave Washington, in 1851,
the most popular English Minister who had, till then, ever
represented Great Britain in the Great Republic. For his
successful diplomacy on this occasion Sir Henry was made
a G.C.B. His health having suffered seriously from
the fatigues of this Washington mission, as also from those
undergone at Madrid, he was, by his own request, sent, in
1852, as Minister to Florence, with the superintendence of
our relations with Rome. In the discharge of these latter
delicate duties he again earned high compliments in Par-
liament for his management in the affairs of Mr. Mather,
who had boon brutally assaulted by some Austrian soldiers
at Florence; and later for his successful' efforts on behalf
of Mr. Murray, who had been condemned to death by a
secret Roman Tribunal. His health continuing feeble, Sir
Henry resigned the Tuscan mission at the end of 1854, and
remained for some time out of employment. In 185 G, how-
ever, he again resumed official harness as commissioner to
the Danubian Principalities, under the 23d Article of the
Treaty of Paris, and in discharge of this mission made a
series of valuable reports on the condition and wants of
those provinces which, had they been acted upon, would,
we believe, have done much to prevent the anarchy that
has since prevailed beyond the Danube. It is, however,
more than probable that the political pundits who formed
the Paris Conference never even read these carefully com- 1
piled papers; and as they--with the exception of A'ali
Pasha—knew, possibly, even less of modern than of ancient
Dacia, the result of their deliberations was the impracti-
cable constitution under colour of which Prince Couza has
now gone on, for nearly seven years, burlesquing the ideds
Napoleoniennes. It is curious, however, to note that when,
last year, tire Hospodar and his party took it upon them-
selves to modify this Paris charter, they adopted not a few
of tin very principles which are to be found in Sir Henry's
report as furnishing the only basis on which a constitution
suited to the country could be framed.
In this rapid glance of the diplomatic services of Sir
Henry Bulwer, previously to his appointment as Ambassa-
dor to the Porte, we have purposely omitted allusion to his
interpolated parliamentary and literary career. For the
completeness of our sketch, however, it may be mentioned
that he sat as M.P. for Walton in 1830, for Coventry
in 1834, and for Marylebone from 1834 to 1837. His "Life
of Lord Byron," prefixed to Galignani's admirable edition
of the poems; "France and the French," with its continua-
tion of " Monarchy in the Middle Classes ;" "An Autumn
in Greece ;" a " Life of Lord Melbourne," contributed to
the Edinburgh review ; " The Eastern Question in 1840 ;"
and "The Belgian Revolution," in the Westminster Review
—are also not unworthy of a name which, in the person of
a still more distinguished owner, will live as long as poetry
and fiction form part of English letters.
Few of our readers need be reminded of the peculiar
difficulties under which Sir Henry Bulwer succeeded to
the Pera embassy in the spring of 1851. Ilis predecessor
was a man of great ability, but "troubled," to use Bunyan's
phrase, "with the ill-condition" of a domineering temper,
which he had exercised for years without opposition or re-
straint, Up to the Crimean war there had, in fact, been but
two parties at Constantinople—the one Russian, which
looked to its fleet at Sebastopol ; the other English, which
looked squally to its liners and frigates at the Dardanelles.
For the Turks, the former was the party of fear, the latter
of hope ; and in the influence of this last had for years lain
the power of Lord Stratford de Radcliffe. With Redchid
Pasha himself, and the knot of men who surrounded him,
his lordship became almost omnipotent, feeling as the whole
did, that in England--which to their minds he personified
—lay their only protection at once against their foreign
enemy and their domestic rivals. The Crimean war, how-
ever, changed all this. France and Italy rose from their
previous political nothingness at the Porte to dispute, or at
least to share in, the British protectorate, and the spell
of the "great Elchee's" power was broken. The peace, in
short, substituted a sort of confederate influence of five
tFluirraonwerse'inltatolytheßsuhsasdiae by the results
Powers for the almost suzerain sway of one ;anadndprwuhsseina_in
combinationenacted together, only the highest skill
England from the humiliation of play-
ingaoAt that
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subordinate part. This was, of course, speedily felt
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by Lord Stratford do Radcliffe, but his instinct of domina-
tion forbade acceptance of the new order of things, and in
ing
the affair of the Moldo-Wallachian elections he accordingly
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carried matters with so high a hand that all four of the
rival Ministers struck their flags. Our own Government
having in consequence refused to ratify his policy, and the
Porte to retrace its steps, his lordship was virtually driven
to resign. His successor, it need hardly be said, found the
prestige of the British Embassy greatly weakened by this
defeat. The Turkish Government feared to follow its in-
spirations, and there was a sort of tacit confederacy against
it amongst the other representatives, who, suspecting that
it still had the wish to dictate laws to them, now felt that
it no longer possessed the power. The public, too, which
had been so long used to the coups de theatre of Lord Strat-
ford de Redcliffe, and which forgot or did not perceive the
change of circumstances to which that diplomatist had
been the first to succumb, expected his successor to continuo
to dominate as visibly as his lordship had done when he
of local empire in his hands.
virtually held the reins
which the new
Very difficult, cult, therefore, was the game
and wein no way descend to
ambassador had to play,
flattery when we say that public opinion has long ago pro-
nounced that he played it well. Little by little he
won the confidence
not merely of the Porto, :rut of even
the most jealous of his rivals, whom he conciliated by
his evident purpose to aim at neither more:nor less in-
fluence than his Government had just title to enjoy. He
thus won the very predominance which would have been
refused to overt assertion of the right to lead, and so gra-
dually built up an authority that has long been accepted
as decisive in nearly every question of collective local
diplomacy. To illustrate this by examples would be to
write the political history of Turkey during the past half-
dozen of years. In the very grave matter of the Syrian
outbreak it was his sagacity which foresaw, and warned
the Porte of, the catastrophe months before it occurred ;
and later, in the conferences which settled the new form of
administration for the pacified province, it was ho who

spoiled the French game of a quasi-independent Govern-
ment to be exercised by a native Emir under the protection
of France. Again, when Russia, bent on compassing by
intrigue what she had failed to achieve by arms, proposed
that foreign commissioners should be sent round to control
and report on Turkish administration in tho provinces—
which would have simply incited a general uprising of the
Christian population—it was Sir Henry Bulwer who more
than any one else contributed to defeat this sinister design
—doubly so, by inducing the Porte itself to institute the
very corrective investigations which the representative of
the Czar had so speciously proposed that its " friends"
should make for it. Later still, when Prince Napoleon, in
concert with the Italian Government, planned an outbreak I
in the Principalities, which was to have extended to Hun-
gary, and so have embarrassed Austria, Sir Henry, by a
series of bold and politic steps—detailed in our columns at
the time—obtained possession of the arms which had been
shipped to Galatz with the view indicated, and thus again
staved off anotherperil to the Porte. The combined tact and
energy of his conduct on this occasion deservedly received
the warm approval of her Majesty's Government. In the
summer of 1862 occurred the collision between the Servians
and the Pasha of Belgrade—next to the Syrian outbreak
the gravest incident in Turkish politics since the Russian
war. Here again the promptitude of Sir Henry Bulwer
saved the Ottoman Government from not a mere diplo-
matic embarrassment, as the public imagined at the time,
but from the disastrous results of an intrigue favoured by
France, Russia, and Italy, the object of which was not alone
to secure the independence of Servia, but, by expelling the
Turks altogether from the chain of frontier fortresses, to
open a passage in the heart of the empire for a semi-bar-
barian movement of the Sclavonic races upon Constanti-
' nople itself. Wild as this averment may now read, there is
abundant evidence of its truth, as also of the fact that but
for the vigorous action of the British Ambassador at the
time, and for his firmness during the conferences which
followed, a heavy blow would have been struck at this
juncture against the power of the Sultan's Government in
Europe.
Thus far Sir Henry's energy and sagacity had boon mainly
exercised on questions in which ourown Governmentcould
hardly be said to have any but a remote and contingent in-
terest. In the affair of the Suez Canal, however, which
next challenges notice, ho had to deal with a subject in
which our national interest is both lively and direct ; and
without entering into detail which is in part already known
to our readers, it may be affirmed thatin this again hegave
proof of eminent diplomatic ability. For years this project
had been shrouded in mystery. Few except M. de Lesseps
and his patrons imagined that it was more than an imprac-
ticable scheme started and carried on with the vulgar ob-
ject of victimising shareholders for the benefit of its plau-
sible fintdateur and his partners in the bubble—allied in
some remote way with the advancement of French, at the
expense of English, influence in Egypt. Our own Go-
vernment, there is too much reason to believe, largely
shared this view of the enterprise, and offered to it such
an oppositionas an estimate of this kind might bo expected
to suggest. This, we can afford to confess, was neither
very dignified nor effective. In 1863, however, Sir
Henry Bulwer visited Egypt, and then for the first time
threw light on the real character of the scheme. In
common with Mr. Hawkshaw and many other competent
observers, he saw that the completion of the work was
merely a question of time and money ; but he perceived
too—what they had failed to see—that the project, as then
being carried out, was in both its immediate and ultimate
results fraught with the gravest mischief to the Egyptian
Government itself, to the suzerain rights of the Porte, and
to British interests in the country. Our readers know what
followed. The system of corvies—which, to say nothing of
its inherent barbarity, was rapidly ruining Egyptian agri-
culture by depriving it of labour, and was at the same time
permeating the entire Fellah population with a sense of
French, and only French, power—was abolished ; the Com-
pagnie Universelle was forced to disgorge its vast land
grants from Said Pasha ; and the whole territorial question
was placed in train of a solution which, if the Porte but
act firmly, will effectually safeguard the just rights of all
concerned. These are great results, and it is simple his-
torical truth that the merit of them belongs mainly to the
British Ambassador.
We have thus run rapidly through Sir Henry Bulwer's
diplomatic career 'at Constantinople. It is not, however,
merely as a diplomatist that his reputation in Turkey will
live after him. Valuable as were the services wo have
noted, few who know the country will set them above his
share in the financial reforms which have rescued the em-
pire from still graver peril. He it was who suggested the
first stop towards the reduction of the Treasury's chaos
into order by the appointment of the mixed native and
foreign commission, which first made the state of the
Turkish finances intelligible to the Turks themselves.
Then followed the consent of the Porte—also by Sir
Henry's advice—to have its monetary system further
examined and set right by the efforts of Lord Hobart
and Mr. Forster, from whose mission dates the immense
increase in the customs revenue through an improved
administration. The redemption of the cainzes—instead of
the issue of a new paper currency for the whole empire, as
had positively been decided on—was the next result of his
financial counsels to Fuad Pasha, and operated more than
any other single measure of the past 10 years to raise the
credit of the Porte both at home and abroad. Sir Henry's
embassy has further witnessed what may fairly be termed
the financial prodigy of a Turkish budget, which, whatever
may be the precise accuracy of its figures, is at least a hope-
ful recognition of the value of publicity in the Government
accounts, and if persisted in must end in checking abuses
not a few. Tho establishment of a national bank oppor-
tunely contributed to relieve the Treasury from the pres-
sure of usurious rates of interest on local loans ; and the
great measure of conversion now in progress—with which,
however, Sir Henry being absent had nothing to do—will
further regularise and simplify the financial system of the
country. Nor is it monetary reforms alone which have
rendered memorable the past seven years of Turkish his-
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encouraging progress; and a now spirit has been infused
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into almost every branch of the administration. Much,
very much it is true, still remains to bo accomplished ;
but for what has been achieved the Porte and the country
owe a large debt of gratitude to the wise counsels and
steady support of the retiring British Ambassador.
Rapidly sketched, such have been the chief acts of solid
friendship to the Porto by which Sir Henry Bulwer has
worthily upheld British influence, and maintained British
rights and interests, in this country. In view of them, the
grateful testimony of the addresses needs no endorsement.
Ho has indeed earned for his name "a distingushed place
on the roll of eminent statesment imperishably identified
with the embassy," and leaves behind him a reputation
which is not likely soon to bo eclipsed.

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QTODARE.--203RD REPRESENTATION.-
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Every evening at 8 ; Wednesday and Saturday at 3. Stalls
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The Evictions at Crainlington.

No evictions took place at Cramlington on Monday (says
the Newcastle Journal), and the place had a comparatively
quiet appearance. Should it be found necessary to proceed
with the evictions till all the houses have become tenant-
less, it is probable that the disturbances on the part of the
miners will not again be indulged in. The more enlightened
of the men, feeling that such procedure is likelier to
damage their cause than anything else, are altogether
opposed to it, and are doing their best to enforce upon
their fellows the expediency of submitting quietly to the
powers that be. On some of the days of last
week as soon as the bailiffs and policemen had with-
drawn from the houses, some of the families who had
been evicted, replaced their furniture ; but this was a step
which was only taken in a very few cases. Already a num-
berzerfnu
ing a meeting of the men on strike and others, was to have
of families seeing the turn matters are taking, have
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begun voluntarily to remove, and have had their furniture
conveyed to places at a distance, while several of the men,
tired of the strike, have sought for and obtained employ-
ment at other collieries. There is common sense in this at
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any rate, and it gives reason for the hope that there will
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been held in the village, when speeches were to have been
delivered in favour of the maintenance of order, but the
meeting did not take place.

The rioters who had been apprehended Were brought up
at the Moot Hall Court on Monday, before G. C. Atkinson,
and R. B. Sanderson, Esqrs., and Captain Blackett. The
prisoners were six in number, and aro named Alexander
Barrage, East Cramlington ; Thomas Dodds, East Cram-
lington;\ Thomas Pringle, East Cramlington; Thomas
Wanless, West-Cramlington ; David Moore, Seghill ; and
Henry M'Lean, Seghill. Thirteen men, who are set down
as the ringleaders in the disturbances, concerned in the
same charge, only six of whom (those mentioned) were
apprehended in time to be brought up on Monday.
Tho men wore charged by Sergeant Matthew Taylor,
"in so far as on the 13th of October, at the chapelry of
Cramlington, together with divers other persons, to the
number of 100, they unlawfully and notoriously did
assemble togei.h:z to disturb the peace, and then and there
did make a great riot and disturbance, to the terror and
alarm of her Majesty's subjects then and there being and
residing, and passing and repaying, and then and there
unlawfully and riotously, as aforesaid, did assault, beat,
wound, and maltreat the said Matthew Taylor, sergeant
of police."

Mr. W. S. Daglish appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. J. G. Jool for the defence.

Tho Bench wore about to inquire into the charge, when
Mr. Daglish applied for a remand till yesterday that tho
prisoners might have time to consult their professional
advisers.

After some conversation this course was agreed to.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The half-yearly inspections at Aldershot were
continued during the past week. The Ist Infantry
Brigade, under the command of Major-General D.
Russell, C. 8., were inspected on Monday week by
Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.8.,
commanding the Aldershot division. The brigade,
consisting of the 21st, 31st, and 69th Regiments,
marched past in line of contiguous columns at quar-
ter distance, and was afterwards exercised in a
variety of field manoeuvres by Gen. Russell. The
regiments acquitted themselves most creditably, and
elicited the high approbation of the Lieut.-General
commanding. The 3d Hussars, under the command
of Lieut.-Col. E. H. Vyse, were inspected by Major
General Hodge, C. 8., commanding the Cavalry
Brigade, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
On Monday the men were put through their riding
exercise ; on Tuesday the internal economy of the
regiment was examined ; on Wednesday a foot
parade was held, when the regiment marched past
in slow and quick time, and was afterwards put
through the sword and carbine drill by Major Bell.
The regiment next advanced in parade order and
gave a general salute. The Military train (four
troops), under the command of Major Wyatt,
was inspected on Monday by General Hodge.
The men presented a clean appearance and
marched past welt, and the non-commissioned
officers exhibited a commendable proficiency in
sword drill. A parade took place in the after-
Awn odasoanmi.zspTcehleted. PomrinoconemdeapAlyanb;Bhs)arv;niaggdihterlnf_Gaenneraitry,
been first
under the command of Col. Lord Mark Kerr, C. 8.,
13thoTnw(
inspected were despatched to Eehnoor on outpost
duty, under Major Peel, and the inspection of the
remainder of the regiment was then proceeded with,
the men being put through several field and battalion
movements by Capte. Montgomery and Bainbrigge
and Lieut. Cox. General Adams then proceeded to
Eelmoor and inspected the companies on outpost
duty. On his return to the barracks he saw the
officers and non-commissioned officers go through
their sword drill. In the afternoon the regiment
formed line on Claycart-ridge in review order, when
the General inspected the ranks. The regiment was
put through the manual and platoon exercises by
Major Cleve, marched past in slow and quick time,
and was exercised in several battalion and field
movements by Col. Lord Mark Kerr, C.B. Three
companies were then detached in skirmishing order,
the remainder forming supports. The regiment
aftewards formed close column and was addressed
by the Brigadier General in some commendatory
remarks. On Tuesday the internal economy of the
regiment was examined and found satisfactory. The
3d Infantry Brigade, under the command of Major-
General Lord 11. Percy, V.C., consisting of the Ist
battalion 17th Regiment, the 85th (King's) Light
Infantry, the 74th Highlanders, and the92d Gordon
Highlanders, was inspected on Monday by Lieut.-
General the Hon. Sir J. Y. Scarlett. The brigade
was inspected in line, after which it marched past in
open column of grand divisions ix quick time. As
the regiments successively passed the saluting base
they formed companies from grand divisions, wheeled
to left, again marched in line of contiguous
columns at quarter distance, wheeled to left, formed
direct echelon on the march, wheeled to right, and
formed line on the 74th Regiment. The brigade
was advancing in line when a heavy shower of
rain put a stop to further manoeuvres, and the
troops marched to quarters. The 63d Regiment,
under the command of Col. W. F. Carter, was
inspected on Tuesday and Wednesday by Brigadier-
General Adams. On Tuesday the general inspected
the books of the regiment, the hospital, school,
library, recreation-room, and canteen. On Wed-
nesday the regiment, formed up in open column of
companies, was inspected on the parade. Three
companies, after being inspected, were sent to the
Long Valley to be exercised in outpost duty under
Major Bowles. After the general had finished his
inspection of the remaining companies the regiment
was put through the bayonet exercise by Major
Harrison, and through various battalion movements
by Captains Fitzroy and Dumaresq and Lieut.
Knowles. One company then fell out, and was
drilled by Ensign Bigg and Lieut. Terrot. The
brigadier-general then proceeded to Claycart-ridge,
and inspected the companies on outpost duties, the
regiment meanwhile returning to barracks. On his
return the general saw the officers and non-com-
missioned officers go through their sword drill, after
which he inspected the men's kits, the barrack rooms,
the sergeants' mess, and the men's dinners. In the
afternoon the regiment was formed up on the Clay-
cart-ridge in review order, in line, and was inspected
in that order, after which it marched past in slo
and quick time, and was put through the usual bat-
talion movements by Col. Carter, to the entire sa-
tisfaction of the brigadier-general.
The Commissariate Staff Corps, under the com-
mand of Major Irvine, was inspected on Tuesday
by Brigadier-General Adams.
On Thursday the Cavalry Brigade, under the
command of Major-Gen. Hodge, C.B.,was inspected
by Lieut.-Gen. tho Hon. Sir J. Y. Scarlett. The
brigade, which consisted of the 3d, Bth, and 14th Hus-
sars, after marching, trotting, and galloping past,
was put through a variety of field movements by
Major-Gen. Hodge, the performance of which eli-
cited high encomiums from the lieut.-general.
B and F Batteries 9th Brigade, Royal Artillery,
have also been inspected during the week by Col.
Philpotts. The men acquitted themselves in a
most satisfactory manner, and evinced a perfect
knowledge of their drill and duties. The inspec-
tions have served to demonstrate the efficiency
and good order of every branch of the service ,and
have afforded great gratification to the Generals and
commanding officers of the Aldershott Division.
On Tuesday Brevet-Major F. G. Py , m with two
non-commissioned officers, one drummer, and 51
privates of the Royal Marine Light Infantry com-
panies,
and Second Lieut. F. Browne, one sergeant,
one bombardier, and 12 gunners of the Royal
Marine Artillery, embarked at Chatham for service
on board her Majesty's frigate Bristol, 39, 600-
horse power, flagship of Commodore G. T. ITornbY,
which is- intended to relieve the Rattlesnake, 21,
400-home power, Commodore A. P. E. Wilmot,
C. 8., as senior officer's ship on the West Coast of
Africa. The Bristol is complete in her fitments
aloft, and the crew have nearly completed the rig-
ging. There is little remaining to be completed
inboard, and about a fortnight will see this fine
frigate—one of the smartest of her class in the
Royal Navy—complete and ready to take her de-
parture. Nearly the whole of her officers and most
of her crew have joined.
The funeral of Capt. Thomas L. Gaussen, late
Commander of her Majesty's ship Formidable, 84,
Capt. J. Fulford, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir C.
Talbot, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at the Nore,
took place at Chatham on Monday, and was con-
ducted with the full naval honours.

The two troops of the 13th Hussars stationed for
the last few weeks in Ipswich Barrlarciksee.l.aAavdemriercaelivsedir
orders to proceed to Birmingham. The troops
were to leave Ipswich yesterday morning.
Chief at
The Zebra, 17, screw steam sloop, 951 tons, 200-
horse power, Commander Charles G. Lindsay, re-
,ecCodmbny Commander-in-Chief re-
cently returned from the West Coast of Africa,
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Sheernesseii stationedon Saturday since th
e evening
early part of
last,
and saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief.
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.
Sheerness, after which she was taken into the large
basin in Sheerness dockyard, and is being
dismantled
preparatory to being paid out of commission.

The Cornwallis, GO, 200-horse power, formerly
attached to the third division of the Chatham Steam
Reserve, which a short time since had her upper
deck taken off and the whole of her machinery and
engines removed, preparatory to being sunk near the

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entrance to the dockyard for the pu. -.9f
tating the docking and undocking of ships, teas been
again taken into dock for some farther alterations
to be effected, after which she will be sunk at the
end of the jetty.
The Reindeer, 250-horse power, screw corvette,
the only wooden vessel at Chatham on which any
hands are now employed, is being brought forward
for launching, but, according to her present rate of
progress, several months will elapse before she is
completed. Nearly the whole of her keel has been
cut out and removed, in consequence of its being
rotten, from the length of time the vessel has been
lying idle on the building slips. In order to enable
her to carry the few heavy guns intended to carry
on her upper deck she is being strengthened through-
out, while her deck beams will be laid with the
wrought-iron Butterly beams. For some distance
along her midships bulwarks angle iron is introduced
to impart increased strength and rigidity to the ves-
sel. She is now being fitted with a topgallant fore-
castle for the protection of the crew in inclement
weather.