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No. 19,251.]

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUN .E 7, 1854.

Tenth Edition, with 15 Illustrations, 102. 6d. bound,

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Faulconer Morgan, June 6. To be Ensigns without pur-
chase—Gentleman Cadet Francis Brodigan, from (he Royal
Military College, vice Haworth, June 6; William Alfred
Steward, Gent., vice Morgan, June 7.
30th Foot—Lieutenant M. Pennefather to be Captain,
without purchase,. To be Lieutenants without purchase.
Ensign John Dillon Ross-Lewin, vice Tennefather ; Ensign
John Charles Newcombe Stevenson. To be Ensigns with-
out purchase—Gentleman Cadet Starner Gubbins. from
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fred John Austin, Gent., vice Stevenson, June 7.
31st Foot—Lieutenant Robert Law to be Captain with-
out purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase—En-
sign Alexander Mitchell, vice Law ; Ensign Annesley Cary.
To be Ensign without purchase—George Nicholson Pepper,
Gent., vice Mitchell, June 6.

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33rd Foot—Lieutenant Richard Lacy to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase—
Ensign William Senhouse Worthington, vice Lac♦ ; En-
sign Hans Stevenson St. Vincent Marsh. To bo Ensigns
without purchase—Gentleman Cadet Ltngford Rowley
Heyland, from the Royal Military College, vice Wor-
thington ; James Mitchell M`Kie, Gent., vice Marsh,
June 7.

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34th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Edward Bale to be Cap-
tain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase—Ensign Edmund Powell Lettice Mathew, vice Bale ;
Ensign William Walker Jordan. To be Ensign without
purchase—John F. Wyse, Gent, vice Mathew, Juno 6.
36th Foot—Lieutenant Rickard Lloyd to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase
—Ensign Arthur Manning Tuck, vice Lloyd ; Ensign
John Mandeville Hugo. To be Ensign without purchase
—Francis Xavier De Courcy Orange, Gent., vice Tuck,
June 6.
37th Foot—Lieutenant William Jpseph Bazalgette, to
be Captain, without purchase. To beLieutenants without
purchase—Ensign William Henry Henzell, vice Bazal-
gette; Ensign Edward Abbot Anderson. To be Ensign
without purchase—James Frederick Rayne, Gent. vice
Hensall, June 6.
3Sth Foot—Lieutenant ehlirles Edward Johns to be
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase—Ensign Sidney Godolphin Quicke, vice Johns ;
Ensign Henry Broome Feilden. To be Ensigns without
purchase—Gentleman Cadet William Kidaton Elles, from
tho Royal Military College, vice Quirke, June 6 ; George
William Frederick Snell, Gent., vice Feilden, June 7.
39th Foot—Lieut. Simon George Newport to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase—
Ensigns Charles Burch Phillipps, vice Newport ; Thomas
Westropp Bennett. To be Ensign without purchase—
Andrew David Geddes, Gent., vice Phillipps, June 6.
40th Foot—Lieut. Edward Hungerford Eager, to be
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase—Ensigns Theophilus Bolton, vice E %gar ; Arthur
Frederick Fitz Simons, June 6. To be Ensign without
purchase—Walter Blake Burke, Gent., vice Bolton,

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June 6.
41st Foot-Lieut. Edwin Robert Wethered to be Cap-
tain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase- Ensigns Frederick Ball Dixon, vice Wethered ;
James Augustus Lockhart. To be Ensigns without pur-
chase-Gentleman Cadet Charles Vane Fitzroy, from the
Royal Military College, vice Dixon, June 6 ; Henry Sey.
mour Hill, Gent., vice Lockhart, June 7.
42d Foot-Lieutenant Archibald Macra Chisholm to be
Captain, without purchase ; Ensign Joseph Charles Ross
Grove, vice Chisholm, and Ensign Duecan Macpherson, to
be Lieutenants without purchase, June 6 ; Gentleman
Cadet Robert Whigham from the Royal Military College,
vice Grove, June 6, and Marcus Hill, Gent' vice Macpher-
son, to be Ensigns without purchase, June 7.
44th Foot-Lieutenant Astley Greene to be Captain,
without purchase ; Ensign George Ingham, rice Greene,
and Ensign Richard Fitzßichard Eyre, to be Lieutenants
without purchase, June 6; Gentleman Cadet Francis Dal-
rymple Walters, from the Royal Military College, vice
Ingham, Juno 6, and Mathew Skinner Smith, Gent., vice
Eyre, to be Ensigns without purchase, June 7.
45th Foot-Lieutenant Seines Iti`Crea to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase-
Ensigns Alexander Walker, vice M`Crea • Henry Lucas,
June 6. To be Ensign without purchase-James Alexander
Stubbs, Gent., vice Walker, June 6.
46th Foot- Lieutenant Henry Fuller Sand with to be
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase-Ensigns Geerge Henry Knapp, vice Sandwith ,
William Thomas Welder. To he Ensign without purchase
-Thomas George Brutton Atkinson, Gent., vice Knapp,
June 6.
47th Foot-Lieutenant Thomas Roper to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase-
Ensigns John Sherwood Gaynor, vice Roper ; Charles
Finnerty. To be Ensigns without purchase-Gentleman
Cadet James Arthur Bloomfield, from the Royal Military
College, vice Gaynor, June 6 ; John Fleming Whitmore
Mullen, Gent., vice Finnerty, June 7.
48th Foot-Lieutenant William Roberts Williamson to
be Captain, without purchase • Ensign Edward Feneran,
vice Williamson, and Ensign Edmund Garland Horne, to
be Lieutenants, without purchase; Tristram Chas. Sawyer
Speedy, Gent., vice Feneran, to be Ensign without pur-
chase, Juno 6.
49th Foot-Lieut. Marcus Wylly de la Poer Beresford
to be Captain, without purchase ; Ensign Thomas Priaulx
St. George Armstrong, vice Beresford, and Ensign Wm.
Earle, to be Lieutenants without purchase ; Gentleman
Cadet Donald M`Donald, from the Royal Military College,
vice Armstrong, Juno 6, and John Ramsay Manic, Gent.,
vice Earl, June 7, to be Ensigns without purchase.
50th Foot-Lieut. Tindall to bo Captain, with-
out purchase; Ensigns Wm. Theodore Hickman, vice Heb-
den, and Wm. Montague Leeds, to be Lieutenants, with-
out purchase, June 6; Gentleman Cadet Robert H. Patrick
Doran, from the Royal Military College, vice Hickman,
June 6, and Thomas Denote Lee, Gent., vice Leeds, June
7, to be Ensigns without purchase.
51st Foot-Lieutenant Samuel Alexander Madden to be
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase-Ensign Henry Trafford Trafford, vice Madden ;
Ensign Charles Acton, June 6.
54th Foot-Lieutenant Thomas 'Hungerford Powell to
be Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase-Ensigns Edward Cliff, vice Powell ; Robert
Baret Stokes, June 6. To be Ensign without purchase-
George Lewis Whyte, Gent., vice Cliffe, June 6.
55th Foot-Lieutenant John Frond to be Captain, with-
out purchase-June 6. To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase-Ensigns George Anthony Morgan, vice Freud ;
William Mansel Taylor, June 6. To be Ensigns without
purchase-Gentleman adet William Byrne Johnson, from
the Royal Military College, vice Morgan, June 6 ; John
William Trevor, Gent., vice Taylor, June 7.
56th Foot-Lieutenant William Watkin Bassett to be
Captain, without purchase, June 6. To be Lieutenants
without purchase-Ensigns Patrick Alexander Robertson,
vice Bassett ; James Fleming Baxter, June 6. To be En-
sign without purchase-George Sims, Gent., vice Robert-
son, June 6.
58th Foot-Lieutenant Henry Colin Balneavis to be
Captain, without purchase ; Ensign Sidney Withingtou,
vice Balneavis, and Ensign Kenneth Robert Murchison to
be Lieutenants, without purchase ; William Edward Tay-
lor, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Writhing
ton, June 6.
59th Foot-Lieutenant George Newcomen to be Captain,
without purchase ; Ensign Robert Jefferson Spofforth,
vice Newcomen, and Ensign Isaac Bomford Bomford, to
be Lieutenants, without purchase ; Samuel Lee Hamilton
Ffinney, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Spofforth, June 6.
60th Foot-Lieutenant Dunbar Douglas Muter to be
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase-Second Lieutenant Francis Fitzpatrick, vice
Muter; Second Lieutenant Tristiam Squire Richardson,
June 6.
62d Foot-Lieutenant-George Hampden Wilkieson to
be Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants with-
out purchase-Ensign Alexander George Dickson, vice
Wilkieson ; Ensign Lawrence Blakiston. To bo Ensign
without purchase-William Carrol Kelly, Gent., vice
Dickson, June 6.
63d Foot-Lieutenant Arthur J. Lo Grand to bo Cap-
tain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase-Ensigns Robert Bennett, vice Le Grand ; Charles
Augustus Hand. To be Ensign without purchase-Henry
Francis Broke, Gent., vice Bennett, June 6.
65th Foot-Lieutenant John Gordon to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase-
Ensigns Andrew Nicholson Magrath, vice Gordon ; Frede-
rick Baillie. To be Ensign without purchase-Joseph Wil-
liam Lewis, Gent., vice Magrath, June 6.
66th Foot-Lieutenant David Robert Ross to be Cap-
tain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase-Ensigns William Henry Jones Westby, vice Ross ;
James Galbraith. To be Ensign withoutpurchase -
Charles Augustus Shortt, Gent., vice Westby, 6.
67th Foot-Lieutenant Robert Follett Synge to be Cap-
tain, without purchase. To bo Lieutenants without pur-
chase-Ensigns Robert Philip Armstrong, vice Synge;
George Tumour Horton Aitchison. -To be Ensign without
purchase-Joseph Harry Francklyn Blyth, Gent., vice
Armstrong, June 6.
68th Foot-Lieutenant Thomas Whitmore Storer to be
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase-Ensigns Richard Lloyd Edwards, vice Storer ;
John Cator. To be Ensign without purchase-Edward
Deshon, Gent., vice Edwards, June 6.
68th Foot -Lieutenant James Smyth to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase-
Ensigns Winniett Lockhart Melville, vice Smyth ; Charles
West Hill. To be Ensign without purchase-Romain
Fleming Stirke, Gent, vice Melville, June 6.
71st Foot-Ensign William John Denny to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase ; William O'Malley, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Denny, June 6.
72d Foot-Lieut. Alexander Crombie to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase-
Ensigns Charles Cymric Wellesley Tesey, vice Crombie ;
John Thomas Campbell, June 6. To be Ensign without
purchase-Stapleton Dresing Barges, Gent., vice Vesey,
June 6.
73d Foot-Lieut. Frederick Reeve to be Captain, with-
out purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase-En-
signs James Alexander Caldwell, vice Reeve ; Philip
Gibaut. To be Ensign without purchase-William John
Lane Milligan, Gent., vice Caldwell, June 6.
76th Foot-Lieutenant. Henry Hearne Lacy to be Cap-
tain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase-Ensigns John Geddes, vice Lacy ; Henry Jeffery
Robinson. To be Ensign without purchase-Gentleman
Cadet Clifton Gascoigne, from the Royal Military College,
vice Geddes, June 6.
77th Foot-Lieutenant Thomas Oriel Forster to be Cap-
tain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase-Ensigns William Joseph Carden, vice Forster;
Francis Alder - Gentleman Cadet Charles Ernest Knight,
from the Royal Military College, vice Carden, to be En-
sign, without purchase, June 6.
79th Foot-Lieutenant Henry Mackay to be Captain,
without purchase; Ensign Philip Percival, vice Mackay,
and Ensign Francis Charles Turner, to be Lieutenants,
without purchase ; Gentleman Cadet George Thomas Sco-
veil, from the Royal Military College, vice Percival, to be
Ensign, 'without purchase' June 6.
80th Foot-Lieutenant the Hon. John Howe Montague
Browne to bo Captain, without purchase ; Ensign Frede-
rick Brown Nuwa Craufurd, vice Browne, and Ensign
Horatio Pettus Batchelor, to be Lieutenants, without
purchase, June 6.
82d Foot-Lieutenant Henry Bruce to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase-
Ensign James White, vice Bruce ; Ensign John Frederick
Pilkington, Juno 6.
85th Foot-Lieutenant James Brown Young to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, To be Lieutenants without par.

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chase—Ensign William Hallowes, vice Young ; Ensign
James Scott, June 6.
88th Foot—Lieutenant John Hardman Burke to be
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase—Ensign Arthur Dillon Maule, vice Burke , • En
sign Richard Grace. Gentleman Cadet Henry Hooper
Day, from the Royal Military College, vice Maule, to be
Ensign without purchase, Juno 6.
89th Foot—Lieutenant George Marshall Knipe to be
Captain, without purchase ; Ensign John Longfield, vice
Knipe, and Ensign Francis Knatchbull, to be Lieutenants
without purchase; Mountifort Heyliger Trant Lloyd,
Gent., vice Longfield, to be Ensign without purchase,
Juno 6.
90th Foot—Lieutenant John Christopher Guise to be
Captain, without purchase; Ensign Henry Preston, vice
Guise, and Ensign Walter Blakeney Persse, to be Lieu-
tenants, without purchase, June 6.
92nd Foot—Lieutenant Alastair M'lan M'Donald, io bo
Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase—Ensign William Humphreys, vice McDonald ;
Ensign John Thomas Evans, June 6.
93rd Boot—Lieutenant William Gustavus Alexander
Middleton to be Captain, without purchase. To be Lieu-
tenants without purchase—Ensign Robert Crowe, vice
Middleton ; Ensign James Wemyss. To be Ensign without
purchase—Gentleman Cadet Ed ward Alfred Ball, front
the Royal Military College, vice Crowe, June 6.
95th Foot—Lieutenant Lionel Fraser to be Captain,
without purchase. To be Lieutenants without purchase—
Ensigns Frederick Henry Dymock, vice Fraser; Edmund
Davidson Smith. To be Ensign without purchase—Gentle-
man Cadet Jonathan Benison, from the Royal Military
College, vice Dymock, June 6.
97th Foot—Lieutenant Archibald Richard Harenc to be
Captain without purehase. To be Lieutenants without
purchase—Ensign Ernest Randolph Mackesy, vice Harenc;
Ensign Edward Denne Nares. To be Ensign without
purchase --George Henry Hibbert Ware, Gent., vise
Mackesy, June 6.
99th Foot—Lieutenant Lempater R. Elliot, to be Cap-
tain without purchase • Ensign William Henry Dowling
Reeves Welman, vice Elliot, and Ensign Henry Frederick
Winchelsea Ely, to be Lieutenants without purchase ;
Charles William Quin, Gent., vice Welman, to be Ensign
without purchase, June 6.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenants the Honourable William
Draper Mortimer Best and Charles Vernon Oxenden, to
be Captains without purchase ; Second Lieutenants
Thomas Harvey Bramston, vice Best, Claude Thomas
Bourchier, vice Oxenden, Honourable George Bar-
rington Legge ; Edward William Blackett, to be Lieu-
tenant without purchase, June 6.

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THE WAR.

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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
By our Malta correspondence, dated May 30, WO
learn that French and English troops continued to
arrive, but less frequently.
The Harbinger and Sydney had arrived in safety with
artillery, and a considerable addition to the commissa-
riat department had come by the Colombo, after a beau.
tiful passage of less than nine days.
The arrivals by the Harbinger on the 25th were Cap•
tains Gambier and Taswell, Lieutenants Lyons and
Rideout, Assistant-Surgeon Bowen, and 145 rank and
file Royal Artillery, Assistant-Commissary Richardson,
Deputy-Assistant-Commissaries Russell, Hewell, ren-
sill, Yeager, and Hayter, attached to the Ordnance.
By the Sydney, on the 29th, Colonel Flude, Captains
D'Aguilar, Strange, Henderson, Mowbray, and (Them_
side, Lieuten mts Singer, Hope, Harward, Watson,
Park. and Yellow, and 240 rank and file of the Royal
Artillery.
By the Colombo, also on the 29th, Deputy-Assistant
Commissary-Generals Uniacke, Sutherland, Murray, Le
Maitre, Barker, Wilkinson, Crichton, and Sonebaldi,
and Captain Small, R.N.
By the Glendalough, on the 30th, 21 days out, 50
horses, Captain E. Peel, Lieutenant Saltmarshe, Assis-
tant-Surgeon Wilkin, and 49 troopers of the 11th
Hussars.
No. 39, transport Harkaway, 21 days out, brought
Captain Maude, Lieutenant Whinyates, Assistant-
Surgeon Thornton, 55 troopers, and 56 horses of the
Royal Horse Battalion.
The Simla, after completing her repairs, was to leave
on the 31st, via Gibraltar. The Rubicon, No. 38, and
the Mary Anne, No. 42, had just arrived, bringing 97
horses.
The French frigates Laplace, Caffarelli, and L'Eclai-
reur reached Malta on the 30th, on their return from
Athens.
Mails were made up and sent off from the General
Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, last evening for the
Baltic fleet. They will be conveyed through Denmark
to Dantzic, and placed in charge of the British Consul ;
a steamer will arrive at Dantzic on Friday and carry on
the correspondence to the fleet.
Advices have been received at the Admiralty that on
the 16th of April the Russian ship of war Aurora arrived
at Callao from Rio Janeiro. It is supposed that she
will endeavour to make for the White Sea in order to
avoid the British fleet on the India station.
Advices have been received at the Admiralty from
Stockholm that two more Russian ships had been cap-
tured by her Majesty's cruisers, and brought into that
port. They are named the Franciska, Michelson master,
laden with salt, and the Union, Captain Barni, freighted
with potatoes, and have been forwarded to London in
charge of prize masters.
Yesterday the Gebroeders, Lindholm master, prize
to her Majesty's steamers Amphion and Cruiser, taken
off Riga, and the Najaden, Jorneborg master, taken by
her Majesty's ship Odin off Aland, were brought into
the West India Docks to be condemned as lawful prizes
to their captors.
Yesterday the French ship of war Psyche worked
through the Downs from Brest, to join the allied fleets In
the Baltic.
The Janus, 4, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander Colin C. Kane, arrived at Sheerness on the
sth, at 6 30 p.m., from her Channel cruise, under sealed
orders.
The Royal Albert has taken all her engine boilers on
board, and they are being fixed in their respective places
in the engine-room. Her bowsprit and masts are being
put in their places, and she will be put into No. 3 dry
dock for her further fitment.
The African steam-vessel has been taken into basin at
Sheerness to undergo repairs, and make good defects in
her boilers, &c.
The Formidable, 84, guardship of ordinary, Captain
Superintendent Christopher Wyvill, is now advancing
with her equipment, under the directions of Commander
Josiah Thompson.
The Scourge, 6, paddle-wheel steam sloop, Commo-
dore Adams, went out of Portsmouth harbour to Spit-
head on Monday afternoon, and anchored. She was
inspected yesterday afternoon by Vice-Admiral Sir T.
Cochrane, K.C.B. the Commander-in-Chief. Her crew
will be pail to-day, and she leaves in a day or two for
the coast of Africa, where Commodore Adams has been
appointed Commander-in-Chief.
The Locust, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Day, recently from the Brazil station, weighed from
Spithead on Monday, and, after making a few runs along
the measured mile in Stokes-bay, steamed into the basin
to refit.
The crew of the Calcutta, 84, Captain Stopford, at
Plymouth, got up topmasts on Saturday.
The Zephyr steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Crawley, is under orders to leave Woolwich to-day, and
will take out a large mail addressed to the Admiral of
the Baltic fleet. Two mail carts, with a number of
large bags and three mail guards, arrived at Woolwich
yesterday from the General Post-office and were put on
board the Alecto, where the crew of the Zephyr are to be
accommodated until she is out of the hands of the ship-
wrights, which will be to-day.
The following appointments have been made :
Lieutenant.—Thomas Gooch (1854), recently from
Acting-Lieutenant of the Fox, 42, when serving on the
East India station, to the Meander, 44, at Devonport.
Maters'-Assistants.—John E. Chapple, to the
Wizard, 6, brig, tender to the flagship at Cork ; C. R.
Haswell, to the St. George, 120, with the Baltic fleet.
Clerk.---John Adams (1852), to the Wolverine, 12,
sloop. at Chatham.
Clerks'-Assistant.—John H. Mooney, to the Vulcan
screw steam troop-ship, at Portsmouth.
Yesterday the Admiralty took up ships for the con-
veyance of troops to the eve of Good Hope; from Cey-
lon home to Cork ; to Halifax, Nova Scotia ; and to
Melbourne, New South Wales, as also for the con-
veyance of cannon, weighing 146 tons, to Constantinople.
The Kangaroo, steam transport ship, loading with
siege artillery at the Royal Arsenal, will, when she re-
ceives it all on board, embark Captain Brandling's Ist
company of the 12th battalion, under orders for the
East.
The Rhada,manthus, steam transport, Master Com-
mander Belarn, is landing the machinery for the Colussus
and boilers for the Centaur, &c., in Portsmouth Dock-
yard.
The transport Sutlej, No. 90, Captain Sinclair, em-
barked at Plymouth the fourth troop of Enniskillens on
Tuesday. 0 wing to the activity of the dockyard au-
thorities and the docility of the horses, 57 were em-
barked in one hour and 45 minutes. The Sutlej was
immediately taken in tow by the Confiance and Pike
steamers, which left her in the Channel at two o'clock
in the afternoon with a fair wind from the north-east.
The transport Libertas, No. 95, Captain Kean), ar-
rived from Woolwich on Tuesday morning with stores
for the Devonport Dockyard and the Royal William
Victualling-yard.
The Wellesley East Indianian, one of Green's ships,
was off Plymouth on Tuesday morning. She left Graves-
end on the 31st of May, for Bengal, with passengers
and 277 soldiers, 20 women, and 7 children, under the
command of Captain Thompson.
Captain Irving's 3d company of the 12th battalion
left the garrison at Woolwich at 6 o'clock a.m. yester-
day, and embarked at Roff's-wharf for Southend, en
route to Shoeburyness, for practice with the Minie car-
bines in the mornings, and with the large guns at long
ranges in the afternoons. Captain Brandling's com-
pany will return to Woolwich immediately for embarka-
tion, being first on the roster for foreign service.
Brigade Major Bingham, of the Royal Artillery, in-
spected the Tynemouth yesterday, as she is to take out
to the seat of war about 20 horses, in addition to the
men of the ambulance corps, under the command of
Captain Grant.
Lieutenant Alexander M'Pherson, of the Riding-
house Department, Royal Artillery, has been superseded
by Sergeant-Major Win. Boylin, promoted to be Lieu-
tenant. Lieutenant M'Pherson has served in the Rid-
ing-house Department for the last 43 years, and pre-
vious to his appointment as a Lieutenant-riding master
in 1835 passed through the depot for cavalry at Maid-
stone to test his qualifications as an instructor in horse-
manship. It is understood he will be allowed then full
I pay retirement of his rank, to which he is justly
hetitled held
for his long and zealous services. succe
the appointment of sergeant-major His
at Woolwicheerfur about
19 years.
At eight o'clock on Monday morning the last division
of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was paraded in
full marching order in Portobello Barracks, Dublin, and
underwent inspection. The fine bands of
the 16th
Lancers, 3d Dragoons, and Royal Artillery being in at-
tendance to play them out, at a quarter to eight the word
was given, and to the stirring sounds of their national
air, Patrick's-day," the brave fellows began their
march in excellent health and spirits, and attended by a
vast concourse of civilians of all classes. The detach-
ment took the line of Richmond-street and Harcourt-
street, through the south and east side of St. Stephen's-
green, Bagot-street, Fitzwilliam-street, Merrion-square,
and by-the Rock-road to Kingstown, where it arrived at
10 o'clock. The work of embarkation commenced at
once, and was speedily completed without any accident.
The transport was towed out of harbour on the follow.
ing morning.

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