The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 18 5 4

Nov. 27.
Sappers.
Private John Giles, slightly
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade.
Private William Burwell, slightly
Private Patrick Keough, slightly

Nov. 23.
38th Regiment of Foot.
Serjeant Samuel Winden, slightly.
Private John Nugent, slightly.
Private John Haunaforth, slightly.
Private William Ibbs,
Nov. 29.
28th Regiment of Foot.
Private James Steals, slightly.

Nov. 30.
Ist Regiment of Foot.
Private John Walsh, slightly.

46th Regiment of Foot. -
Private Oliver Crowley, slightly
50th Regiment of Foot.
Private John Macdonald, slightly
95th Regiment of Foot.
Serjeant John Murphy, slightly

DECEMBER 2.
20th Regiment of Foot.
Private Thos. 31`Cormack„ severely ;since dead)
Private George Eonlston, severely
Private Robert Wilson, slightly
47th Regiment of Foot.
Private Thomas Creechan, slightly
50th Regiment of Foot.
Corporal Benjamin Inglefield, slightly
Private William Cooney, dangerously
Private George Coombe, severely
Private Peter Duncan, dangerously
Private Thomas Harryman, dangerously
Private Miles Groom, dangerously
Private John Hunter, slightly
68th Regiment of Foot.

Private Thomas Johnstone, slightly
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade.
Private Edwin Hudson, severely
Private Ellis Brown, slightly
Ambulance Corps.
Private James M`Devitt, severely

DECBMBER 3.
49th Regiment of Foot.
Private Michael Farrell, severely

DECEMBER 4.

let Regiment of Foot.
Private Martin Hogan, slightly
Private Henry Dew, slightly

20th Regiment of Foot.
Private William Davis, slightly
Private Enoch Pinder, slightly
28th Regiment of Foot.
Private Thomas Lee, severely

DECEMBER 5.
9th Regiment of Foot.
Private Joseph Crowther, slightly
Private John Hoare, severely
Private Thomas M'Clure, Tightly
21st Regiment of Foot.
Colour-Serjeant Thomas Rutherford, severely
Private John Barrett, severely.
Private Daniel Ryan, slightly
28th Regiment of Foot.
Private Joseph Take, severely
Private Michael Hagerty, severely.
Private Patrick Kelly, slightly
Private Samuel Mountain, severely
Private T. G. Irwin, slightly
38th Regiment of Foot.
Serjeant James Neill, severely
44th Regiment of Foot.
Corporal Win. Courteney, severely
Private Wm. Stephenson, severely
46th Regiment of Foot.
Private John Griffith; severely
Private John Holmes, severely
Private Wm. Cook, slightly
Private Nicholas Connor, slightly
Private. Peter Aldridge, slightly
Private Arthur Hawthorn, slightly
57th Regiment of Foot.
Private Richard Sewell, slightly
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade.
Private John Coakley, dangerously
Private Jehn Barker, severely
Private George Hammond, slightly.

MISSING.
2D DECEMBER, 1854.
Private Patrick Curnery
Private George Btysin
Private James Howarth
J. B. BIICKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adj utant-General.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Dmo. 28.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet-Colonel Henry
Palliser to be a Colonel, vice Jones, promoted to be a
General Officer • Brevet-Major Walter Raleigh Gilbert to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Palliser; Second Captain
George Shaw to be Captain, vice Gilbert ; First Lieutenant
Patrick John Campbell to be Second Captain, vice Shaw ;
Second Lieut. Edward John Ward to be First Lieut.' vice
Campbell; Brevet-Col. John A. Wilson to be Colonel, vice
Grantham, retired; Brevet-Major Henry Aylmer to be
Lieut.-Colonel, vice Wilson ; Second Captain Augustus
Vvedendelc. /Francis Lennox to be Captain, vice Aylmer ;
First Lieut. A. W. Twiss to be Second Capt., vice Lennox;
Second Lieutenant Alexander Dickson Burnaby to be First
i Lieutenant, vice Twins; Brevet-Major Alex. Irving to he
I Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Grant, retired on full-pay; Se-
cond Captain Chas. Stuart Henry to be Captain, vice
Irving; First Lieutenant Reginald Curtis to be Second
Captain, vice Henry; Second Lieutenant Wilmot Bur-
rows Edward Ellis to be First Lieutenant, vice Curtis;
Brevet-Major St. John Thomas Browne to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Beresford, retired on full-pay ; Second Ca-
tain Edmund Henry Reece Flint to be Captain, vice
Browne ; First Lieutenant Allan Sievwright to be Second
Captain, vice Flint ; Second Lieutenant Charles George
Luard to be First Lieutenant, vice Sievwright ;
Second Captain Philip Gosset Pipon to be Captain, vice
the Honourable R. C. H. Spencer, retired on full-pay ;
First Lieutenant Frederick Sonthcote Seale to be Second
Captain, vice Pipon ; Second Lieutenant Henry Auriol
Douglas de Vismes to be First Lieutenant, vice Seale,
Dec. 13.

respective full powers, found in good and due form, have
agreed upon the following articles :

ARTICLE I.

The postake to be collected in Fdance and Algeria upon
paid letters addressed to the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, as well as upon unpaid letters origi-
nating in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, shall be as follows :-
1. For every paid letter, forty centimes per seven
grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes and a
half.

2. And for every unpaid letter, eighty centimes per
seven grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes
and a half.

Reciprooally, the postage to be collected in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon paid letters
addressed to France and Algeria, as well as upon unpaid
letters originating in France and Algeria, shall be as fol-
lows :

1. For every paid letter, four pence per quarter of an
ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British.
2. And for every unpaid letter, eight penee per quarter
of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce
British.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 28.

MANSION-HOUSE.---It wild be remembered that
some days ago Sir R. W. Carden. fined Pound, the re-
lieving officer of the City of L 0734 lon Union, for having
refused to relieve a poor young v 'Oman who had applied
for assistance in her destitution, and in consequence of
the refusal rang the bell of the Mansion-house. It is
proper to state that the anemia:a gave directions to one
of the Mansion-house officers to inquire into the par-
ticulars of the statement made -by the woman, and that
immediately afterwards a situ a tion of an eligible kind
was offered to and gratefully ac c opted by her.
Sir R. W. Carden mention° 1 to Alderman Wilson,
who presided in the justice-roof Et, that he had received a
letter, of which the following is, a copy, from the clerk
to the City of London Union -
" City of London -Union,. No. 51, St. Mary-axe,
Dec.: , 1854.
"My Lord—l am directed by•-che Board of Guardians
of the City of London Union to inform you that they
heat(' with 'egret that their is sistant relieving officer,
Mr. J. Pound, has been fined tv.'e aty shillings by Allier-
man Sir R. W. Carden,sitting as ;/our local tenons, on Fri-
day, the 15th instant, for not at ts ,nding to the case of An❑
Smith, a poor woman in a state' destitution.
"The guardians considered it :right to institute an in-
quiry into the circumstances of t.la .° case, and they arrived
at the same conclusion as Ald..Hrrnan Carden—that the
necessary relief bad not been ad r dnistered.
" The guardians desire at the same time to inform your
lordship and the magistrates go nerally that it is their
desire and their orders that such: relief shall be given to
every destitute person that the nature of the case may
require.
" They be however, to say, at in the administration
of this relief they meet with ato ny cases of imposition,
and it is frequently very difficult, 4,0 discriminate between
such imposture and oases of real d istress.
" The guardians think it due to their officer, air. Pound,
to say that he has held his office for seven years and has
given theta great satisfaction; ti 'tat many thousands of
cases have received his attentia n, and until the above-
named case of Ana Smith he h as never been fined for
neglect or inattention.

7.` The guardians believe that ins tance to have arisen from
an error of judgment, and not from any wilful or inten-
tional neglect, _

"In carrying out the difficult 4 uty of relieving casual
distress the guardians rely on tin 7 continued support of
your lordship and the other is agistrates.—l have the
honour to be, my lord,,y, ojuorHinNels4
,00bsedkeonNtvsseErczte,lerk.
" 11. the Right Hon. the Lord. Mayor."
Sir R. W. Carden said it was :satisfactory to find that
the guardians agreed that the ma e was one upon which
the magistrate had decided ace 0 rding to their view of
the question. He believed tha t the decision, public as
it had been, would produce an ei:collent effect all over
the country, for it would not o al y show that the reliev-
ing officers were bound to make, inquiry into the cases
of poor applicants for relief, butt it would show the let-
ter that if proper attention wen not paid to them in
their destitute condition, they h only to complain to a
magistrate to obtain the necessr it y care.
Alderman Wilson—lt should go forth that the desti-
tute must apply to the magistra t. of the district in which
they are, and that they will by no means be acknow-
ledged here if they come from a 11 parts of the country
seeking relief.
Sir R. W. Garden—Certainly it is essential that they
should know that persons of the description alluded to
will receive anything but encoui ;ement in the city of
London.

Alderman Wilson said he could sot imagine how Pound
could, with his experience, have f. lien into such an error.
The relieving officers of the City unions had, as far as
he was capable of observing, been in the habit of most
efficiently as well as humanely p.s rforining their duty,
and lie trusted no other instance is f deviation from that
course would again occur.
The Lord Mayor requested that. the press would ac-
knowledge his receipt of 101., the ►nrt.ual contribution of
Wm. P. for the poor-box.

.....t..c:x
BIIIPPING INTE L.LIGENCE.

CUSTOM HOUSE, LI:Ec. 28.
ENTERED INWARDS.—The Vesta, fr em Oporto ;
Terceira; Spirit, ditto ; Dominion, Calcutta; Ann .I;ria-
son, ditto ; Kossuth, dittos ; Helmuth, Rostock ;
St. Michael's ; Prince Albert Edward, ditto ; Danneborg,
Aalborg ; Lady Rebow, Tarragona ; Jenny Lind, Mauri-
tius ; Eagle's Wing, -Messina, ; Dora, ditto ; St. Abbs,
Calcutta ; Teaser, St. Malo ; Louisa, ditto ; San Francisco,
Canallo ; Duke of Portland, Colono ; Phoenician, More-
ton Bay ; Bello Leaadra, Lagos.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Tyishoon, for Bombay;
Stork, Constantinoplo ; Jessey, Ba thurst R.G. ; Salva-
dora, Valparaiso ; Sari Francisco, Constantinople.
CLEARED OUT WITH CARGO.—The Typhoon for Bombay;
Demetrius, Constantinople ; Brougham, ditto ; Reliance,
South Sea; George Lord, Malts, Corfu, and Pa‘rals ;
Prince Albert, Jamaica; Olivia, Part Philip.

REPORT OF THE AMERICAN COMMIS-

SIONER OF lADIAN AFFAIRS.

The remnants of the Six Nations remaining in the
State of New York present the interesting spectacle of
one of the most renowned portions of the aboriginal race
of this continent, still adhering, with traditional tenacity
and veneration, to the homes of their forefathers. Sub-
jected to many trying and adverse vicissitudes, by which
their numbers and territorial possessions have been
greatly diminished, this once barbarous and heathen
people, devoted only to war and the chase, have under-
gone one gratifying change, and now generally acknow-
, ledge and partially practice the more ennobling and
'-eneficial principles and pursuits of Christianity and
vilisation. Internal dissension have materially inter-
fered with their advancement and welfare, but these,
it is hoped, will all soon cease and never hereafter
be renewed.

The peculiar and unfortunate situation of the
Indians in the State of Michigan, consisting mainly of
the confederated bands of Ottowas and Chippewas has
been fully stated heretofore, and the measure deemed
best for their preservation and welfare suggested. It is
requisite that there be new conventional arrangements
with them, providing for material changes in their
affairs, and in their relations with the United States and
the State of Michigan. Such arrangements could not
be effected without more or less expense ; and, on the
application of the Department, the sum of $lO,OOO was
appropriated therefor by Congress ; but, in consequence
of the late period at which the appropriation was made,
and other circumstanees, it has been deemed advisable
to postpone further proceedings until the next year.
In the convention with the Menomonees of the 12th
of May last they relinquish their right to a large
tract of country in Minnesota, west of the Mississippi
river, set apart for their permanent home by the treaty
of 1848, but which, proving to be unsuitable for that
purpose, was, therefore, unacceptable for them. In ex-
change, therefore, they were confirmed in the possession
of a portion of a tract on the Wolf and Oconto rivers
in Wisconsin, which, with the assent of the authorities
of that State, had been assigned for their use, and to
which they had removed. The tract granted them by
the treaty of 1848 was guaranteed to contain not less
than 600,000 acres ; that secured to them by the con-
vention of May last embraces only 276,480 acres, and is
deemed to be more than ample for their comfortable
accommodation. The lands, retroceded by them, though
not suitable for their purposes, will be equally valuable
to the Government, if not'more so than those granted in
exchange.
In consideration of the great difference in the quanti-
ties of the lands thus exchanged, and because it was be-
lieved that the consideration stipulated for the lands
they have been induced to cede by the treaty of 1845
was inadequate ; in addition to the pecuniary and other
beneficial provisions of that treaty which-were continued
to them, the sum of 150,000 dols, was stipulated to-be
paid in 15 annual instalments, commencing with the
year 1857, when the payments in fulfilment of the treaty
of 1848 will expire. This consideration was increased
by the Senate in the additional sum of 92,686 dollars,
making the aggregate amount of 242,686 dollars. Hav-
ing thus been permanently and most liberally provided
for, and all causes of discontent removed, it is hoped
and believed that in a few years the Menomonees will
will exhibit some evidence of moral and social advance-
ment.

The Department has been perplexed and embarrassed
by the refusal of that portion of the Stockbridge Indians,
of Wisconsin, parties to the treaty of 1848, to accept the
tract of land selected for them in accordance with that
treaty, and to which selection they at one time gave
their assent. They are, or pretend to be, anxious to
remain where they now are, at Lake Winnebago, and
individual members of the band have repekedly visited
this city to urge an arrangement to that effect. For
reasons stated in my special report to you of the 25th
ult., their application could not be granted. The only
alternative seems to be to find them a suitable home
within the limits of Wisconsin, and, ag they require but
a very small tract, this can be accomplished with-
out prejudice to the interests of the white population
of the State.
The only other Indians having territorial rights in
Wisconsin are the band of Oneidas, who occupy a small
reservation near Green Bay, and are so far advanced in
civilization as to justify the presumption that, like the
Brothertous, they will, at no distant day, dissolve their
tribal organisation and become citizens.
There are, however, within the limits of Wisconsin,
and also within the northern peninsula of Michigan, a
few small bands of Chippewas of Lake Superior, who
still occupy their former locations on lands ceded by the
treaties of 1837 and 1842. It has not thus far been
found necessary or practicable to remove them.
The Chippewas who reside in Minnesota, west of
the Mississippi, are not, it is understood, desirous of
ceding any portion of their country west of that river ;
nor is such a cession at this time deemed absolutely ne-
cessary, so far as the wants of our citizens are immedi-
ately concerned. There are also bands of Chippewa
Indians residing in the region north of the headwaters
of the Mississippi, who, from the imperfection of former
treaties, do not participate in their benefits, and are,
therefore, in a very destitute condition.
It having been found that the country proposed to be
given to the Winnebagoes, by the agreement made with
them last year for an gxchange of lands, would, in many
respects, be an improper location for them, it was re-
)ouuemencled by the Department that they agreement
should be so amended as to assign them a location on
the southern branch of the Crow River, to include Red
Cedar Island Lake.
The difficulties connected with our relations with the
Sioux Indians of Minnesota were, a year ago, as ex-
plained in the last annual report, of a serious character;
but they have happily been surmounted.

During the fait season articles of agreement and con•
vention were concluded with the Omaha, Ottoe Mis•
souria, Sacs and Fox of Missouri; loway, Kickapoo
Delaware, Shawnee, Kaskaskia, Peoria, Welt, Pianke•
shaw, and Miami Indians, all residing within the con,
tral superintendency, and in the newly organised terri
tories of Nebraska and Kansas.

Congress appropriated the funds necessary to fulfil
the stipulation% of these conventions—the Senate having
ratified all without amendment, except those with the
Miamees and Shawnees.

There are several other tribes in Kansas Territory
with which it will be necessary to have new conventions
at an early day ; and it is also very important that
arrangements be made as soon as practicable with the
Pawnee and Poncah Indians of Nebraska, by which
their limits may be restricted and defined, and their as-
saults upon emiarants, and their hostile excursions
against other tribes terminated.
Within the central superintendency no perceptible
im-
provement has taken place during the year in the moral
condition of the Indian tribes ; while the unusual and pro-
tracted drouth that has prevailed in that region of coun-
try has caused, in many instances, an almost total failure
of the crops of some of those who have heretofore at-
tempted to cultivate the soil.
Some of the tribes will have corn sufficient to supply
their necessities ; and, to guard against inevitable suffer-
ing and want, it has been determined to retain a portion
of the annuities of the present year due to such as are
destitute of provisions, and thus afford them the means
necessary to procure food during the approaching winter
and spring.
The residences of the tribes who have recently ceded
their lands Bhould be considered (subject in a few cases
to a contraction of limits) as permanently fixed.
The ()sages, Pawnees, and others, have also annoyed
the emigrants, and committed depradatious upon them.
The roads on the principal routes to the Pacific coast
have become very important thoroughfares. Thousands
of emigrants' and many merchants who, with their
property to the amount of several millions in value,
pass annually over the plains, are entitled to the protec-
tion of the Government. The weakness of the present
military force operates injuriously in various ways, and
it would be much better to withdraw entirely and let
emigrants have notice that they must protect themselves
and their property, and leave the Indians to be dealt
with by our agents alone, than to permit the posts to
remain in their present weak and enfeebled condition.
The four principal tribes within the southern superin-
tendency—the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and Chick-
asaws—continue gradually to improve their condition.
Having generally adopted the habits and puruits of civi-
lised life, they are probably more prosperous and happy
than any of the other tribes within our borders.
The Seminoles within this superintendency are in a
much less satisfactory condition, be'ng ignorant and
more or less debased, idle and addicted to dissipation.
The Greeks, within whose boundaries they reside,
complain that they are the instruments and agents
through whom most of the ardent spirits brought into
the country are introduced, and they have appealed to
the Government to interpose to abate this nuisance, which
is attended with much injury to their people.
T'se United Senecas and Shawnees, and other small
bands of Quapaws and Senecas, also within the southern
superintendency, are in comparatively comfortable cir-
cumstances ; but the Osages in the same district who
not yet abandoned the chase, are in much less favour-
able condition.

The Choctaw authorities are anxious to put into ope-
ration a general system of neighbourhood or common
schools among the people, but have not the means neces-
sary for its accomplishment. They have requested that
the balance of the orphan fund remaining in the hands
of their agent, unclaimed, may be appropriated for that
purpose, but, under existing laws, the department is
unable to comply.
The Indians in Texas are represented to be now more
peaceful and orderly than they have been during a great
portion of the year. Thpy have committed many out•
rages upon frontier citizins, and continue their forays
beyond our boundaries, in spite of the military force in
that quarter, and the efforts of the agents of this de-
partment to restrain them. It is in contemplation to
collect and colonize them on three reservations which
the State of Texas has granted for the purpose, and
where they are to bo partially subsisted at the expense
of the United States for a year or two, until they
can be induced to turn their attention to agriculture
and the raising of stock, and thus provide for their
own subsistence. The duty of making the necessary
explorations of the country, and of selecting and sur-
veying the boundaries of the reservations, was confided
to R. S. Neighbors, the principal agent of the depart-
ment in Texas, and to Captain R. B. Marcy, of the
army, who were instructed to make a joint report of the
result of their proceedings, with the plans of the reser-
crations.
Conventional arrangements are necessary with all the
Indt:ans in New Mexico and Utah, except the Pueblos,
for the' purpose of fixing them in proper locations, and
of giving to the department such influence and con-
trol over them as will enable it, as far as possible, to
confine tiiem thereon, and to induce them to resort to
agriculture and kindred pursuits, instead of relying,
a s they 110,W do, for support upon the uncertain and
precariocus supplies of the ch:: se, and when that fails,

upon the more hazardous and injurious practice of thef-P
and plunder.
Appropriations were made at the late session of Con-
gress, to enable the department to negotiate treaties
with the Indians of these territories, in which provision
should be made for the inauguration of the policy re-
ferred to. It is to be regretted that these appropriations
were delayed until it was too late in the season to send
out the goods and other presents, without which the ne-
gotiations cannot be attempted with a reasonable pro-
spect of success.
Our Indian relations in California began to wear a
more encouraging aspect. No serious disturbance has
occurred there during the past year.
On the 17th of August last, a train of Mormon emi-
grants passed an encampment of certain bands of the
Sioux Indiana, who were waiting near Fort Laramie,
for their annuity goods. One of the cattle belonging
to the train made its way into the Sioux village, and
was killed and consumed by the Indians. The Mormons
complained to the commandant of the fort, who de-
spatched Lieut. Grattan, with 29 men, and an interpre-
ter, to demand the person of the Indian who killed the
animal ; he was not delivered up, and upon the refusal,
or idling to do so, a fight ensued, in which the
lieutenant, his entire command, and the interpreter
were killed.

Of the various evils which beset our Indian population
there is none more alarming than the traffic in ardent
spirits. In spite of the laws of the Government, the
vigilance and exertions of its officers, and the efforts of
the truly philanthropic, the evil still exists, and has its
sway. Considerable reflection has confirmed me in the
opinion that much may be done towards abating this
vile trade by a co•eperation with the Government on
the part of the States and territories bordering on the
frontier. Earnest appeals have been made to them for
proper legislation, but only with partial success. It is
hoped that this important subject will arrest the atten-
tion of the people and their representatives in the States
and territories referred to, and that something efficient
will yet be done l3y them towards aiding the Government
in relieving the poor Indians from the evils arising from
the use of ardent spirits, and the power of the whisky
trader.