The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-13 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1853.

THOMAS HOOD'S GRAVE.—At a General
Meeting of the Subscribers to the HOOD MEMORIAL, held
Dec. 2d. at the Whittington Club, it was resolved that the Subscrip-
tion List be CLOSED on the lst of February, 1853, and
Miss ELIZA COOK,
Ma. MURDO YOUNG, and
Ma. JOHN WATKINS,
Were appointed Trustees to the Fund.
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The amounts subscribed are deposited at interest in the Loudon
and Commercial Bank.
Contributions are received by Mr. William Strudwicke, at the
Whittington Club, strand ; by Miss Eliza Cook, Treasurer, 54
Great Ormonde-street, Bloomsbury ; and by Mr. John Watkins
Hon. Sec., 34, Parliament-street.
Among the subscribers are the following :
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G £2s 0
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The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P 5 0 0
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P ••..• • • • 5 0 0
The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P.... ..... • 5 0 0
Sir William Frazer, Bart.••
James Harmer, E5q........................... 5 0 0
John Macgregor, Esq., M.P •• • • ..... .••• • .. 5 0 0
Arnold Rogers, Esq...
Mrs. Robert Elliot .. •••••••• • • • • •• •• •• • . 5 0 0
Richard Dawson, Esq., M.D... ••••• • • • •• 0 0
George Peabody, Esq..• ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 5 5 0
Edward Moorman, Esq. ..... ••• • • 5 0 0
David Salomons, Esq.. ..... •• • • •• • • 5 5 0
Messrs. Spalding and Hodge..... ••••••• • • • • • • • 5 5 0
Miss Eliza Cook. ..... .• • • ......
Miss Cushman.... • • ..... •••••• • • • • • .... ••• • • • 5 0 0
Proceeds of an "Evening with Hood" at the
Whittington Club.. •••••••••• • • • .• • • • . . 8 8 0
Murdo Young, Esq., and family ..... 4 4 0
Samuel Rogers, Esq.• ..... •• •
C. W. Dike, Esq... •••• .. • • ..... ••••• • • • • 3 3 0
Charles Lushington, Esq.. • ... •• • • ..... ....• 3 0 0
Elias Davis, Esq.... •••••• • • .•
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere .. 2 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P...... 2 0 0
Sir James Duke. Bart., M.P..... .... 2 2 0
R. Monckton Mines, Esq., .........2M.P.. . 2 0 0
B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall) •••. • • •- 2 2 0
Douglas Jerrold, Esq....
T. K. Hervey, Esq. • • ••.. • • •• •• .. 22 0
Rowland 11111, Esq., General Post-office ••..• • .. 2 2 0
C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. •• ..
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i oxon, Esq.... .. •••• • • •• •• .. • • 22 0
James Coppock, Esq.• ••• • •
Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham • • ...• ••••• • • • • 2 2 0
Collected by M. J. O'Conner, Esq., Morpeth,
Northumberland ••..••••••.•• • • • • • • • • • • • 22 9
Jas. Wyld, Esq., and family.... .• • .. 2 0 0
Mrs. Theodore Martin (Miss Helen Faucit) •. 2 2 0
A few Young Men at Simpkin and Marshall's.. 15 6
Nine half crowns from Manchester.... ..... 1 2 6
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle ••• • • • .... 1 1 0
The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans.• • • 1 1 0
The Right Hon. Lord Brougham ••..••.• • . • • • • 1 0
The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. 1 1 0
The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne ••••• • • • • • 1 0 0
Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate)..... •
Lady Sandys.. ••--• • • • ••
W. M. Thackeray, Esq.• •• •
Charles Swain, Esq, •••••• • • • • • • •• • • ...• .. 1 0 0
W. C. Macready, E•q •• • ••••• • • • • • 1 1 0
J. Westland Marston, Esq
Albert Smith, Esq. •• • • ••• • • • •• .. 1 1 0
Lady Morgan.... ••• • • • .......... ...... 1 1 0
W. CM. Kent. Esq. •..••• . • • • •
Alfred Crowquill, Esq. ••• • ..
William Jerdan, Esq.. ....... • • 1 1 0
Hepworth Dixon, Esq • • .... •• • •
Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., M.P.. ••• • • • •• • • 1 0 0
R. Swift, Esq., M.P.... ••••..••.• .. • • • •
James Macgregor, Esq., M.P •• ..
B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. •• • • •••• • • • •
W. J. Fox, Esq., M.P.... ......
Sir John Kerle Haberfield, Knt.. Bristol •• • •
Mrs Miner Gibson ... • • •••••• • • • • • ..... •• • • 1 0 0
Thomas Creswick, Esq. R.A ..... ...... 1 1 0
J. B. Buckstone, Esq... ...• ...• • ••. •• •• 1 1 0
Mrs. Fitzwilliam • • •••• • • • • •• •.. • • 1 1 0
Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning .... •• . ...... 1 1 0
Horace Mayhew, E5q.....• ••••••• • •• • • • 1 1 0
C. Cowden Clarke, Esq.• •..• • • • • .• . 1 0 0
Dr. Robert Elliot, Stratford ••••• • • • • • 1 1 0
Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution.. 1 1 0
Temple and Win50u........ ...... ............ 1 1 0
Rev. J. C. Collins ..
Eight half crowns from Preston •
In pence from Bideford . .
In Half-crowns, from Bristol.. • .......... 1 2 6
In Half-crowns and Shillings ...... •• • • .... 011 0
In pence from Bristol .• .. ••••• • • • • • .......... 012 6
Jacob Brett, Esq., Par 15........ ...... •....... 010 0
John L. Burnard, Esq.. Bath • • .....• • • 0 10 0
H. F. Lawes, Esq 0 10 0
Mrs. E. L. Wilkinson ...• • ..... ............ • • 010 0
Miss E. Ebsworth •• .. •• • • 0 10 0
E. L. Blanchard, Esq.... • • .................. 010 6
A few Poor Needlewomen...... . • ... 0 10 6
Frederick Hogg. Esq. ••.. • • .......... 010 6
W. C. Bennett, Esq. ••..•••.••••• • • . • • • • • • • • 010 0
Christopher Cook
H. H. Whipple ...
Miss Ebsworth ...... • • ••••• • .. • • .......... 0 5 0
W. H. Somerton, 0 5 0
F. Adam5.................................050
0 5 0
E. B. Tripp ...... .................... 0 5 a
••• • • 0 5 0
Charles F. Ivens ... 0 5 0
W. Rumsey •• ........... • • 0 5 0
F. a. Dowty ........ ............ 0 6 0
F. W., of Oxford ....... .
In other SUMS ... ....... ~...... 182 19 0

£393 7 5

Future subscriptions will be announced in The Times and other
papers. Every subscriber's name will appear in Eliza Cook's Jour-
nal. JOHN WATKINS. Hon. Sec.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

Yesterday, the half yearly general court of this insti-
tution was held at the offices in Trafalgar-square ; B.
Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., presiding.
The SECRETARY read the minutes of the several monthly
committee meetings held during the half-year, detailing
several cases in which persons had been saved from
drowning, and in consideration of which rewards and
medals had been awarded by the society. The secretary
also reported that the great proportion of fatal accidents
in the Serpentine occurred in the bathing season late in
the evening, after the society's boats were withdrawn,
and that an application had been made to the police au-
thorities, and also to the Office of Works, to prevent
bathing at late hours, but the answer in both instances
was that they had no power to interfere.
The CHAIRMAN suggested that the ranger should be
orfmotlem thetvieneegstuh be j ep ctar, ka s
constables th ere wa s n
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silverrmefeezelds
were awarded : Mr. George L. Sullivan, Midshipman,
H.M.S. Megera, saved William Tizzard, A. 8., at sea
Rev. James O'Reilly, curate of St. Peter's Walworth,
saved Mr. Jesse Oldfield, publisher, of Fleet-street, at
St. Paul's-wharf ; Master Herbert Campbell (age 12),
saved his brother, Sidney Campbell, off the Isle of
Wight ; Henry Bowden (age 17), saved James F. Cock-
burn, in the Thames, at Eton ; William Pope, (age 17),
H.M.S. Impregnable, saved two children, who had
fallen into the Regent's Canal ; George Webber saved
George Lowe in the Bristol Channel ; James Hearne
saved four persona in the river Suir ; Captain H. M.
Dougall, R.N., saved J. Swadle, at Dundee ; Edward
B. Reeves, quartermaster of H.M.S. Bellerophon, saved
William Williamson,
A. 8., at sea, off Malta; E. V.
James and J. Quintin, saved Miss Baldock, off the coast
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Captain Tarlton had previously saved the life of a painter
at Genoa, and received the silver medal for the same ini
January, 1851; Captain John R. Ward, R.N., saved
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The total number of cases reported for the year was
165 ; comprising 190 persons, of whom 180 had been
successfully treated. The number of attempted suicides
was 29, being a considerable diminution from the num-
ber in previous years. The total number of bathers in
the Serpentine during the year had been 273,800 ; the
number of casualties 30, of which 5 that had occurred
after the hour at which the society's boats were with-
drawn, had terminated fatally.
The financial statement showed receipts for-the year,
including a balance left from the previous year of 941.
is. sd. to the amount of 1,9951. 3s. lid. ; and a total
expenditure of 1,9601. is. 6d., leaving a balance of
351. 2s. sd. in hand.

Resolutions thanking and re-appointing the trustees,
committee, chaplain, and secretary were then passed,
and the usual compliments having been paid to the
chairman and acknowledged, the meeting separated.

SINGULAR CASE. —A very singular case has just been
decided by the Civil Tribunal at Paris. The circum-
stances were these :—A young married woman named
Martin was in the service of a Madame Durand, of Mont-
martre, whose son Edouard had been for some time con-
fined in a lunatic asylum, but having apparently re-
covered, had returned home, and on the death of that
lady, she continued in his service. He had been specially
ordered by a doctor to refrain from drinking spirituous
liquors, and as long as he did so he was reasonable
enough ; but in April last he began drinking, and he
became exceedingly excited, and after a while raving
mad. In the night of the 29th of that month he rose,
armed himself with a poignard, and going into the cham-
ber in-which the woman was sleeping with her husband,
plunged the weapon into his throat, and wounded her.
The man died immediately. Durand then hastened to
his own chamber, and began crying from the window,
"It was a mistake ! I have killed a little girl !
the bandits—the brigands ! But I have done well, for
why did they rob me 1" He also used other incoherent
expressions. The commissary of police having been in-
formed of what had taken place, hastened up, and on
seeing him, Durand made a gesture of submission, and
presented him, with all the dignity of a, vanquished
general, with a sword, which he had seized. The com-
missary proceeded to question him, but he could only
murmur a few unintelligible sentences, and then fell
dead ; he had stabbed himself with a poignard. Madame
Martin called on M. Charles Durand, nephew, and heir
of the deceased, to make her some compensation for the
death of her husband ; but as he refused, she brought an
action against him, and it was argued before the Civil
Tribunal on Saturday. Her advocate insisted she was
decidedH
clearly entitled to compensation ; whilst the advocate of
M. Durand maintained the contrary ; because she,
knowing the state of mind in which the lunatic had
been, ought to have prevented him from taking drink, in
which
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curances, fixed them at 5,000 fr.
and uninterrupted line of electric telegraph has
just been established between Berlin and Milan. The
first experiment was made a few days ago, a message
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having been sent from Berlin, and less than an hour
the reply
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that of Prussia for the
, which was
"Bravo Berlino I " arrived. The
Russian Government has entered into negotiations with
continuation of its line of tele-
graphs to the frontier o
Petersburg in Russia, in order to place St.
and with France, communication with the German capitals

THE MADIAI.

(From the Times.)
Death has at last terminated the sufferings of
M. Madiai, and set a mark of infamy upon his
persecutors which no time will efface. We have
seen in the last few years many events to make us
question the progress of mankind, and even to
doubt the security of the noblest conquests of
liberty, of knowledge, and of toleration. The pro-
gress of free government has been brutally'arrested
by anarchy and by despotism. The most culti-
vated and energetic nations of Europe have shrunk
into so servile a condition that liberty is denied to
every power of society, except to the arrogant pre-
tensions of spiritual domination. But, in the long
list of these follies and crimes, we have read of
nothing more extraordinary than that a humble
and inoffensive Christian man should have been
brought to a lingering death, by the will of his
Sovereign, because he dared to profess that evan-
gelical faith which is the sacred consolation and
firm hope of the most religious and educated por-
tion of Europe. The Sovereign on whom the ulti-
mate responsibility of this atrocious consequence
must fall was not originally a severe or a cruel
ruler. On the contrary, till a recent period, his
dominions were the freest and happiest portion" of
Italy, and the acts which have since rendered
Florence the scene of persecution and oppression
are attributable, in great measure, to the terror
taus d in the mind of the Grand Duke by the
revolution, and the bigotry with which he is taught
by the Romish clergy to regard the circumstances
of his restoration. The Pope and the Virgin
Mary are, in his estimation, the authors of that
miraculous event,) and his gratitude to these
supernatural patrons is expressed by a stupid per-
secution of those who place their religious faith
upon the promises and the protection of a purer
faith. For this reason Madiai and his wife were
selected to be the first victims of what must be
called the Florentine Inquisition, for the whole
proceeding was in its nature and its results iden -
tical with the jurisdiction of that most holy
tribunal. The law itself, under which they were
charged with impiety, was wrested from its true
meaning, for the Leopoldine code was designed. by
its authors to be the barrier of the religious liber-
ties of Tuscany, and not an instrument of Romish
persecution. These unfortunate and innocent per-
sons were judged with intolerance, and condemned
with extreme severity. The object of the Court,
or rather of the priests who instigated the prose-
cution, was to make an example of them, and, if
possible, to strike terror into those who, in this age
and in the heart of Italy, are compelled to gain ac-
cess to the Bible with as much secrecy and peril as
the early disciples. The result of that trial aston-
ished and shocked every thinking man in Europe.
It seemed as if the whole battle of bigotry and
toleration was to be fought over again, if such acts
as these could be done by a Grand Duke of Tus-
cany in the middle of the 19th century. The strong-
est personal appeals were made to that Prince,
especially by the Courts of England and Prussia,
A body of eminent, pious, and conscientious men,
deputed by large multitudes of their' countrymen
in England, France, Germany, and Switzerland,
proceeded to Florence to plead for innocence, if not
to remonstrate against injustice. All these exer-
tions were vain, for the keys of the Madiais' prison
were held in the grasp of superstition itself; and
the Tuscan Government affected a revolting insen-
sibility to the public opinion of Europe.
Hopes of pardon were still entertained at the
season which closes the year, and might dispose
even the Church of Rome to forgiveness.
Yet the Madiais themselves supplicated for no in-
dulgence but the reeognition of their Christian
rights, and they awaited their liberation from
the power which guides the issues of life and death.
In that form, to one of them at least, freedom came.
The husband Madiai, less strong in body and less
vigorous in mind than his wife, but not less con-
stant in his faith, expired a few days in captivity.
It is satisfactory to know that within a short time
of his departure he received the visit of M. Colombe
a Swiss pastor, who administered to him the conso-
lations of that faith for which he died, and that the
unceasing efforts of the Romish priests to obtain
his recantation entirely failed. The trials and
the virtue of martyrdom are not common in this
age, for the greater liberty of professing the truth
has lessened the danger and the honour of adhering
to it. But the examples of this firmness and
fidelity under persecution are but the more inesti-
mable when they are contrasted with the frivolity
and indifference of modern society. The strem.gth
which enabled this poor Italian courier to resist the
authority of an unjust court, and t. die under the
rigour of persecution, is the same which reformed
the church and changed the face of the world. We
know not with what feelings Leopold, Grand Duke
of Tuscany, received the intelligence that his victim
was beyond the control of human laws, but hence-
forth the name of Madiai is indissolubly associated
with his own. It was to satisfy his personal bigotry
and superstition that he allowed the course of
justice to be turned aside, the source of clemency
to be sealed, and the remonstrances of Europe to
be repelled. The church of Rome, acting through
his authority and mistress of his will, has shown
herself as unrelenting as in the worst ages of her
dominion ; and this Grand Duke stands last in the
detestable list of those rulers who have taken away
the lives of their subjects for conscience sake.
This, then, is the state of Italy. We confess that
the occurrence of such an event under the Tuscan
Government, supported by Austria and directed
by Rome, is more ominous and intolerable in our
eyes than all that we have heard of political repres-
sion. When the Government of this very Grand
Duke was overthrown in 1848, it was justly consi-
dered an act of strange ingratitude towards a
Sovereign who seemed to have had the welfare of
his subjects much at heart. All such sympathy is
henceforth extinguished ; he has staked his power
and his existence on the force which protects his
palace ; and either on him or on his heirs an account
will one day be taken of his government. We have
little confidence certainly in the revolutionary party
In Italy, whose misconduct and incapacity disgraced
in every way the momentary interval of power
they enjoyed. The effect of that convulsion was
to extend the occupation of the Austrian troops
from the Po to the Roman Marshes, and to anni-
hilate the last traces of independence in the
smaller states. But we can conceive no greater
infatuation than that of the Italian Governments,
which have done nothing since their restoration
but heap up the materials for another and a
more destructive crisis. The consequence is, that
all hope of improvement, or even of toleration
for the progress of public opinion under such
rulers, is at an end—that they are viewed with
feelings of unmingled detestation by their subjects
—and that, with the solo exception of Piedmont,
which is prosperous and contented, because it is
free, even the invasion of a foreign enemy would
be regarded as an era of joyful liberation. Such,
too, is their ignorance and impolicy, that at the
very time when they have most to apprehend from
the uncertain designs of France, these Govern-
ments have done everything that could degrade
themselves in the eyes of England, and to render
us indifferent, if not hostile, to their wretched ex-
istence. The Papal Court has ventured on an act
of audacious impertinence to Great Britain ; the
Tuscan Government allows British subjects to be
cut down with impunity, and punishes men and
women for reading the Book of Common Prayer ;
the Neapolitans relax none of their severity to-
, wards prisoners whose sufferings have excited the
compassion of all Europe ; and Marshal Radetzky
carries into effect more capital executions for poli-
tical charges than he ventured upon after the
great rising of 1848. We know not whether these
States may ever stand in need of the countenance
of England, but assuredly they have a long score
of past offences to wipe off before they will obtain
it ; we view the fate of their victims with sincere
commiseration, and we doubt not that those who
have had the weakness and cruelty to govern by
such means as these will one day pay the penalty
of the rights they have outraged and the authority
they have abused.

THE EVELYN DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE. - The
literary world will hail with much satisfaction the long
looked for publication of the third and fourth volumes of
the Diary and Correspondence of the celebrated John
Evelyn. " Next to the Diary of Pepys, which is unique,
this Diary of John Evelyn is the most valuable contri-
bution to our knowledge of the social life of England in
the seventeenth century that our literature can boast.
It wants, indeed, the quaintness, the inimitable candour
of confession, that makes the Diary of Pepys the most
amusing book in the world ; but it is a perfect picture of
the same society by a more philosophical observer, as
accurate a record of the sayings and doings of a more
select class, and therefore affording equally valuable
materials to the historian and the philosopher. This
new edition of a work which has taken a permanent
place upon the book-shelf, has been considerably im-
proved ; explanatory notes have been given to obscure
passages, errors have been corrected, and much corres-
pondence of Evelyn and his wife, almost as full of curious
revelations as the Diary, have been added by the pre-
I sent editor."—Critic.

[PRICE SD.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.
Commander George B. Jeffreys, of Gosport, late of
the Driver steam-sloop, and flag-lieutenant to the Com-
mander-in-Chief on the Irish station, received an ap-
pointment this morning as Admiralty agent in charge of
mails, and has left this afternoon by railway for Ply-
mouth to take up his appointment.
Tho Medea, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
C. Bailey, has been undocked this afternoon, after
having had her bottom cleaned and her defects repaired.
The " British Lion," a noble carving of which formed
the figurehead of the Windsor Castle, now the Duke of
Wellington, 131, screw three-decker, fitting for sea at
this dockyard, was removed to-day, to make room for a
colossal bust of the great warrior after whom she has
been re-named by the Queen's command.
The Marlborough, 120, sailing three-decker, under
conversion to a screw-ship, will be parted for lengthen-
ing amidships on Thursday.
The pay-books of the Phaeton, 50, Captain Elliott,
have been landed to-day for transmission to the Admi-
ralty. She will be sent hence to Sheerness, where she
is ordered to proceed as soon as the weather moderates.
The weather is still frightful. It has been blowing a
gale the whole day from south-west, and at the turn of
the ebb the sea looked " mountains." There has been
but little communication with the ships at Spithead, nor
is there any chance for the next 24 hours, according to
present appearances.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 11.
The Lizard parted from her harbour moorings at about
3.30 a.m. this day, and drifted past several vessels
moored in the same range of moorings. The watch on
I deck let go her anchor, but she was not brought up until
she drove down abreast of the guard-ship of ordinary
the Monarch, from which ship assistance was sent, and
a hawser carried away from that ship by the cutter's
crew, under charge of Mr. Mugford, second master.
Shortly after this both anchors were let go froili. the
Lizard, and she was brought up off the Basin Moorings
Buoy. The cause of the Lizard's parting was the break-
ing of the mooring ring, which unites the pendant to the
mooring bridles. _ _

The Imp6rieuse' Capt. Randle B. Watson, from Wool-
wich, after trying her speed between the Mouse and the
White Buoy off the Nore in Sea-reach, passed the Gar-
rison Point at 11.45 a.m., and at 12.5 passed Kitty-hole
Point at the head of Saltpan-reach, a distaike of quite
four miles, in the 20 minutes, during which time her en-
gines were stopped dead to allow the Myrtle to go along-
side to put the pilot on board, giving her a rate of speed
of fully 15 knots, with a strong gale dead an end. Mr.
Isaac Watt, Assistant-Surveyor of the Navy, went on
board the Impfrieuse on her arrival in harbour, and pro-
ceeded to Chatham.

All the available force of the shipwrights and joiners
is to be put on the Rattlesnake, Commander Henry Trol-
lope, so as to get her ready to leave on the Ist of Feb-
ruary next.

It has blown a hard gale here from south-west since
last evening, which has continued all day, and in con-
sequence the Tribune has not been launched.

An order has arrived to receive the frigate Phaeton,
Captain George Elliott, from Portsmouth, for paying
off here as per Admiralty order.
The joiners of this yard have sent in a petition to the
Captain• Superintendent to be forwarded to the Admi-
ralty, humbly craving their lordships to raise their rate
of day pay, which will in due course be forwarded from
here by Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, Acting-
Captain-Superintendent.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 12.

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.
Chaplain and Natal Instructor Rev. Frederick W.
Smith, B.A. (1849), to the Odin steam-frigate, at Ports-
mouth.

Assistant-Engineers.—Noah D. Fry, to the Sidon
steam-frigate, at Portsmouth ; Thomas Patterson, to the
Horatio (24), screw steam-guard-ship) at Sheerness.
Master's Assistant—Edwin Wise,fto the Leander, 50,
at Portsmouth.
Midshipmen.—W. G. Anneley, to the Prince Regent,
90, at Devonport ; A. J. Kennedy and H. E. Stephens,
to the London, 90, at Portsmouth.
Gunners.—Abraham Kingston, to the Calypso, 18,
on the North America and West India station ; James
Oliver, to the Rattlesnake, fitting at Sheerness to convey
stores to the Behring's Straits expeditions ; Richard
Rowe, to the Leander, 50 ; and Alfred Ward, to the
Fury steam-sloop.

William King, John Devonshire, and Henry Williams,
from the second class, to be gunners of the first class.
Owen Hickey, George Wills, William Chapman,
Charles Blanch, Ison Such, and John Archbold, gunners
of the third class, to be gunners of the second class.
Henry Keown and William Chaff, to be acting gunners.
Captain Charles Farrel Hillyer (1852), and Commander
William Montagu Isaacson George Pasco (1846), have
been appointed to study steam at the factory at Wool-
wich Dockyard. _ -

Her Majesty's ship Vestal, 2G, Captain Cospatrick
Baillie Hamilton, serving on the North America and
West India station, was at Havannah on the 10th of
December last, all well ; and a squadron of steam-ships
under his orders were cruising in the neighbourhood.