The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, .LON DON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 18.5.

SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS AN
IMPROVED SYSTEM OF VOTING AND OF
CONDUCTING ELECTIONS.
BY JAMES N. KENT, SURGE;N, STANTON, SUFFOLK.
In submitting the following plan of voting and conducting
of elections to the notice of the public, I beg leave to state that
I am not so vain as to presume that it is a perfect one, but, on the
contrary, I offer it as the outline of a system which when per-
fected by wiser heads than my own, will, I believe, be found
to be far superior to our present system, and of great use to
the voter, the Member of Parliament, and the public in ge-
neral. I flatter myself that the lovers of peace and good
order will readily acquiesce in a plan which has for its base
justice, peace, and order; but those persons who are great
admirers of the present "good old English system," as they
term it, of conducting election: by bribery, treating, drunken-
ness, riot, and bloodshed, and forcing electors to travel
miles to give their votes, amidst threats, insults, and as-
saults from hired bullies, armed with bludgeons, to overawe
and intimidate the peaceable voters, will instantly reject a
proposition from their " exalted minds," which is diametri-
cally opposed to their refined taste and sordid interests.
The following is the plan which I would propose, which
resembles, in some few respects, the system adopted for test-
ing votes at municipal elections:-
1. The registration of voters to remain as at present.
2. That an office be established by Government called the
" General Electoral Register Office," to be conducted by a
suitable officer, or officers, for the purpose of annually regis-
tering the total number of all the voters in every county,
city, and borough in the United Kingdom; and also for
printing, making, and distributing voting papers and enve-
lopes to enclose them for all the voters.
3. The voting papers to be ornamented with marks, Scc.,
like bank-notes, to prevent forgery, and a blank space
should be left, in the centre of them for containing the names
of the candidates—and, if deemed advisable, the name of
the county, city, or borough, might be printed on the voting
papers, and a supply for all the counties, cities, and boroughs,
in the United Kingdom might always be kept printed, so
that only the names of the candidates would want to be
printed on them. In all other respects the voting papers for
the whole kingdom should be precisely similar; and when
they are delivered to the voters, they should not contain the
voter's name, initials, residence, trade or profession, number
of his house, or of his registration ; nor should the officers
appointed to deliver or collect them, or any other person
affix the name, number, or initials, of the voter, or other
mark, w'iether on the voting paper or the envelope, for the
purpose of rocognising them again, under penalty of flee, im-
prisonment, and disfranchisement. The voter, also, shall not
affix his name, abode, seal, or other mark, to the voting
papers or envelopes; but there shall be printed instructicns
given on each paper, directing the voter to draw a line with
a pen across the names of the candidates that he does not in-
tend to vote for.
A notice should be printed on the voting paper requesting
the voter to have his voting paper ready by eight o'clock on
the morning previous to the day of election, as the officers
might possibly collect the voting papers on that day if the
high sheriff or mayor thought it expedient.
The voter may seal up the voting paper in its envelope
with a wafer or sealing-wax, but must not affix any seal to
it; and, in case of his not sealing it up, the officer who col-
lects the voting papers shall seal it with his seal of office.
With respect to the probability of forging the voting
papers, it seems to me to be a matter of impossibility, be-
cause the officers, who deliver them in company with the
friends of the candidates, would take special care when col-
lecting them to receive only the same number of voting
papers, and at the same places where they delivered them.
Even supposing it to be possible for them to be forged, would
not the fear of the law of transportation for forging operate
powerfully as a check upon those whose dishonest motives
might incite them to attempt it.
4. Wflen a writ is issued for the election of a Member or
Members of Parliament for any county, city, or borough, the
high sheriff or mayor, as soon as he has ascertained the names
of the candidates who intend to offer themselves for the
choice of the voters, shall forthwith transmit the names of
such candidates to the general register officer, who shall
cause their names to be printed on the voting papers of such
county, city, or borough, and forward them to the high
sheriff or mayor, which latter shall appoint a sufficient num-
ber of respectable officers to deliver a voting paper in its en-
velope to every voter six days previous to the day of polling,
or collecting the voting papers; and each candidate shall be
allowed to send a friend with the above officers at the time
when they deliver out the voting papers, and likewise when
they collect them again, in order to see that the officers exe-
cute their duty with justice and efficiency. And the officers
and candidates' friends with them shall not enter into any
political conversation with the voters, or persuade them to
vote for any particular candidate, under a severe penalty.
Should the officers find that any of the voters on the regis-
tered list are dead, in foreign lands, incapacitated from voting
by insanity, or by crime, or any other natural or legal pro-
hibition, they shall return such papers to the high sheriff or
mayor, stating the cause of their returning them, and such
voting papers shall then be destroyed in the presence of the
candidates,

5. On the morning of the election or polling, the above
officers, with the friends of the candidates, shall proceed to
each voter's residence to collect the voting papers; the voter
must deliver his paper in its envelope to the officer, and if
not sealed, the officer shall affix his seal of office to it, and
put it into the box appointed for that purpose, which box
shall be locked, and the high sheriff or mayor shall keep the
key of it; and a small narrow opening shall be made in the
lid of the box, just sufficient to allow of the voting paper be-
ing slipped in. In county elections, or large towns, in order
to facilitate the collecting of the voting papers, it might be
deemed necessary for the officers to be supplied with horses
and vehicles, and they might commence collecting the papers
on the day previous to polling, taking due care at night
that the boxes are placed in a safe place, under a guard ap-
pointed by each candidate, to prevent their being interfered
with or stolen.
6. Oa the day of polling or election, efficient officers ap-
pointed by the high sheriff or mayor, shall open the boxes
one by one, and shall open each voting paper and proclaim
in an audible voice for what candidates the votes are given,
and the polling clerks shall enter each vote properly against
the name of the candidate for whom it is given.
The voting papers being all delivered in and written down,
the high sheriff, mayor, or their deputy, might proclaim the
state of the poll on the same day, or wait till the following
morning. _ _

Respecting polling booths, in consequence of the voters
not appearing in person to give their votes, these places would
not be required, except in county elections, where the polling
places are sometimes fixed in villages, and even here a good
large magistrate's room, or club-room at a public-house,
would suffice; and in towns, the town-hall would be suffi-
ciently capacious.
7. The payment of the officer.; who distribute and collect
the voting papers, polling clerks, and other expenses in-
curred in conducting the election on this system, to be paid
by the county or borough where the election may take place.
8. Candidates not to be allowed to canvass personally, or
by agents, under a severe penalty; but voters may wait upon
them to learn their political principles, or elicit the like in-
formation from them.

9. Bribery, on the part of a candidate, or any one else, to
be punished by a heavy fine, imprisonment, incapacitation
for filling any office, and disfranchisement. Persons endea-
vouring, also, by dishonourable means, threats, treating, and
the like, to induce a voter to vote for a particular candidate,
or demanding to see him sign his voting paper, or to see it
after it is signed, or opening it after it is sealed up, or making
any mark upon it, shall in each and all such cases be subject
to fine, imprisonment, and disfranchisement.
10. On the day of election no flags, banners, colours,
music, or processions to be allowed, or other party demonstra-
tions tending to excite the passions of the people to dis-
orderly conduct and breach of the peace.
At elections conducted on the foregoing system every
voter, whether sick, bed• ridden, infirm, or absent from home,
would be capable of exercising his privilege of voting; and
every voter would rote at Ms own house in a peaceable man-
ner. There would be no intoxicating of voters, feasting
them at public-houses, shutting them up or stealing them
away to prevent their voting conscientiously; no bullying,
insulting, and assaulting of voters when going to give their
votes • no false swearing; no hiring of bullies armed with
bludgeons to intimidate the peaceable voters ; no breaking
of windows, mobs and rioting, and calling in the aid of the
police and mi:itary, because the publicsafety was endangered.
The town and neighbourhood would be left in as quiet a state
as before the election ; personal animosities would be lessened,
and the injurious and malicious system of exclusive dealing
arising therefrom would be much less frequent. There would
be no mischievous and demoralising system of exciting the
passions of the populace by music, flags, drunkenness, and
processions; and public-houses would not be opened for
dining and treating of voters who came from a distance, thus
incurring a double expense on the candidates for conveyance
and treating. And lastly, but not least, the Members' ex-
penses incurred in elections carried on in this way would be
merely nominal, and their constituents would therefore have
better grounds for hoping they would do their duty more
honestly by them in Parliament, and not turn and sell them
for pecuniary considerations or office, as it is feared has too
frequently been done where the Member has been put to an
unreasonable expense. The respect and good feeling between
Member and voter would become real and not affected.

All these advantages, and many more, would be gained by
the foregoing plan of conducting elections and taking votes,
and which are not enjoyed by the method of voting now in
use, and which cannot be enjoyed even under the system of
vote by ballot as hitherto proposed. It is likewise superior
to the ballot, because it would have a double advantage of
being exercised both openly and secretly. To his neighbour
or friend, the voter might, if he pleased, disclose his senti-
ments, and show him for whom he had voted; the voter
who needed secrecy or protection in exercising his privilege
of voting conscientiously would be benefited by it, because
the wretch who would like to influence him in voting dare
not attempt to coerce the voter to vote for whom he pleased,
nor yet demand to see his voting paper signed, or to see it
after it was signed, for fear of the law which would fine, im-
prison, and disfranchise him. Besides, the timid voter might
mark his voting paper soon after he received it and seal it
up, and no one would dare to open it.
It is superior to the ballot, also, in another respect—that
is, the voter can vote at his own house ; but by the ballot
system the voter must go to the ballot-box which may be
miles from his house, and in the confusion which prevails at
elections, an ignorant or timid voter might as well put his
ballot into the wrong as into the right part of the ballet-box,
whereas at his own house, by the system proposed, he would
have five or six days to reflect on before he marked his voting
paper. By adopting this foregoing plan, we should approach
much nearer to the so-much vaunted "purity of election"
than we yet have, or ever can, by our present disgraceful and
unjust method of conducting elections.
In conclusion, I would say to those who approve of the
ballot, "Can you state any objections to this plan as not
being capable of giving all the security to the voter which
the ballot offers, and that it does not secure much greater
benefits to the voter, Member of Parliament, and the public ?"
To those who dislike the ballot, "Would you not prefer the
method proposed to that of the ballot?"—and to those who
so much admire the present manner of voting and conduct-
ing of elections, " Tell me why you prefer driving the honest
and respectable voter to give his vote personally at the
polling-booth (and, perhaps, driven up to vote against his
own conscience and the interests of his fellow-subjects),
amidst the yells, insults, assaults,' riots, and bloodshed, of
ruffianly and fiendish mobs, hired for the unholy work of
carrying the election by brute force, in order to get some
corrupt Member returned, who, in return for the infamous
support they have given him, will, as soon as he is seated,
vote away their and their honest neighbours' birthrights?"
JAMES H. KENT.
Staunton, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk,
March 17, 1846. •

* " Nothing could exceed the state of excitement into which,
throughout the whole of the day, the borough had been thrown by,
this severe contest. Every elector, as he came up to the poll, under-
went a severe hustling, and lights came off among the crowd every
half hour. At one period the polling-booth was invaded, and the
august presence of the mayor, who presided at the further end, sur-
rounded by wine, decanters, and poll-books, rudely outraged, &c."—
Election at Bridport—Time, Monday, March 9, 1846.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, yesterday
afternoon, at a meeting of the Commissioners for Promoting and En-
couraging the Fine Arts in the Rebuilding the Palace of Westminster.
His Royal Highness arrived at Gwydyr House, Whitehall, at a
quarter before three o'clock, attended by Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater. The Commissioners present were Viscount Mahon, Sir
Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Henry liallam,3lr. Wyse, and the Secretary,
Mr. Eastlake, The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(YESTERDAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP IX.

rim GLASGOW HARBOUR MINERAL
TERMINUS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Mr. Andrew Gray, comptroller of customs, Glasgow, gave evi-
lence as to the crowded state of the harbour. He had been in the
Ake since 1842. To show the increase sf the trade in the harbour,
'se might state that the customs, in 1812, were 3,1201. ; in 1545,
589,000/. He objected to the rails running along the quays, and was
)f opinion that the haying of these down would so increase the mi-
oeral traffic as to block up the harbour. He considered the Harbour
Ittneral much better for the purposes of the mineral traffic than the
Ether two lines.
in cross examination the witness admitted he had been a director
of the Grand Junction scheme, and attended some meetings, but that,
he intimated, was before the Harbour Mineral came on, and ere he
knew the merits of the two schemes.
_ _ _

Mr. M`Leod, shipbroke;;;;;erally corroborated the evidence of
the previous witnesses as to the superiority of the Harbour Mineral
scheme over the other two, in separating the mineral from the general
traffic.
Mr. Williamson, mining engineer, examined—Said he knew the
coal fields of the west of Scotland well—Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and
ltenfrewshire. On the east skis of Glasgow there were eighty-three
iron furnaces. seventy-six of them in blast—fourteen new ones were
proposed. A great number of new coal works were also opening up.
West of Glasgow there were fifteen furnaces, ten of them in blast—
twenty-nine new ones were proposed. He estimated the traffic in
minerals, on the Mineral Harbour line, to be 400,000 tons yearly,
which would yield 5,0001. He calculated that 7501. would be realised
from coal and lime. He preferred the Harbour Mineral to the
other two.

Cross-examined by Mr. HOPE, on behalf of the General Terminus—
The new iron works in Ayrshire were opening up in districts, which
to some extent would be accommodated by the Ayrshire ports ;
still, a considerable portion would come to Glasgow.
Mr. Bald, civil engineer, was called and examined by Mr. Mem-
TEITII—Re had had extensive engineering practice in mines
and harbours, as well as in the making of railways. Ile
had been employed in several mines in Ireland, and
recently by the French Government on the river Seine, at Havre. He
had also been engineer for the River Trust from 1839 to 1845, six
years in all. His estimate of the present scheme was 101,268/., of
which the basin would cost 42,9851. The land in this estimate was
set down at 35,0001., but it had since been contracted for at 19,5421. ;
.o that this would make a considerable deduction. There were no
engineering difficulties. The severest gradient was 1 in 64, a descend-
ing one; and the other lin 312. There were but two. The curves
were but slight, the heaviest was one of a radius of 1 furlong 2 chains.
He generally agreed with Captain Washington as to the objection
to laying down rails along the quays. The tidal harbour he pro •
posed would accommodate, well packed together, I,bout from 8,000
to 10,008 tons of shipping. The urea is three and a third acres, with
a frontage of 16.000 feet. The basin will be quite sufficient for all
the mineral traffic at present in the harbour, and it could easily be
enlarged if required.
The cross-examination of the witnesses was then taken up, and
had not finished when the Cemmittee rose. The only point elicited
was, that at high water large ships could not ship coals in the basin,
but ships of from 150 to 200 tons could.
' Me. Sergeant HELLASIS suggested to the Chairman that he should
give notice to-nighb to move on Monday next, for leave to the Grand
Junction Harbour Bill to proceed in Committee. This arose from a
standing order of the House, which required that seven days' notice
should be given before proceeding in Committee. The notice had
been given, but it was before the second reading, and held to be in-
valid. A second notice, to make sure, had been given since the
second reading, but the seven days' notice would not terminate till
next Thursday, whereas, by obtaining leave to proceed; they could
enter on that Bill on Tuesday morning.
No objection was offered to this course, and the Chairman said he
would give the required notice of motion.
The Committee then adjourned till Monday, at Twelve o'clock.
In 'the course of the day, at the request of Mr. Talbot, the Chair-
man said he would apply to the Admiralty for the report of Mr.
Walker respecting the Harbour Mineral scheme, in order to place the
Committee in possession of the information it contained.

GROUP XIV.
NORTH RENT LINE.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Nearly the whole of the day was occupied with similar cross-eta•
minatlons.

Mr. Sergeant MURPHY said the next step was to proceed with tho
South-Eastern cross-examination on the detailed estimates, but he
regretted to say, that although it had been arranged some ten days
ago between Mr. Vignoles and Mr. Stephenson what items should be
given, Mr. Vignoles had not yet had time to prepare his document.
Mr. MEREWEAMEA replied that the South-Eastern estimates were
ready.

The CHAIRMAN suggested that under the circumstances the Com•
mittee had better adjourn.

Ultimately this suggestion was adopted, and the Committee ad•
iourned till twelve o'clock on Monday.

(Sub-Committee, No. 2.)
CHELMSFORD AND 337YRY.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

The next allegation was that a field in the parish of Halstead,
between sections 117 and 118, was not marked on the plans, which
was not sustained.

The next allegation was, that the boundary line of the parish of
Mary St. Cuthbert, Thetford, was omitted on the same plans, which
was sustained.

It was alleged that there was a similar omission with respect to
the boundary between the parishes of St. Peter, Thetford, and St.
Mary, which was not sustained.
The next class of allegations was, that there were.inaccuracies in
describing the owners, lessees, Sec., of divers properties along the
line.

In the following instance this allegation was sustained, viz., the
property marked 8, 10, 13, 14, in the parish of Ackton.
The nest class of allegations stated that there were various inac-
curacies in the plans and sections, with respect to vertical height,
levels, and other engineering points.

The first instance adduced was at the third mile first furlong of the
Stowmarket Branch, in which it was stated that there was an error
of three feet.

Two witnesses were examined in support of this particular allege.
tion, but the Committee decided that it was not sustained.

There was a sithilar allegation with respect to the sth mile, 4th
furlong, and sth chain, on the same branch.
A great deal of evidence wa., adduced to show that the mode
adopted by the surveyors employed by the petitioners of checking the
levels, namely, the two parties checking going together twice, would
be likely to arrive at more correct results than when they went
separately-.

Several witnesses were examined to negative the same, and the
Committee found that the allegation was not sustained.

The Committee then adjourned till Monday,

Sub-Committee No 4.
LONDON AND "WINDSOR.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

The evidence of Mr. Thompson was confirmed by two other
engineers from the offices of that gentleman and Sir John M`N
The allegations were not sustained, and the standing orders were
declared to have been complied with.
HULL AND LINCOLN.
The object of this Bill is to construct a railroad from Barton-on-
Humber to Lincoln. The length of the line is 36 miles ; the esti-
mated cost, 350,0001. The engineer Is Mr. S. Birkenshaw ; agents
Messrs. Bulmer and Durnford ; the solicitor, Mr. Ayre,of Hull.
Mr. Partszs appeared in support of a petition from Mr. Gainsford,
a proprietor, within the limits of deviation.

The first allegation, that the plans and sections deposited at the
various offices required were not copies of each other, was sustained.
Other allegations of the same nature were also sustained.
Mr. DURNFORD, on the part of the promoters, applied to the Com-
mittee to adjourn the case, in order that he might be able to produce
Mr. Birkenshaw, the engineer, who could explain the discrepancies.
The CHAIRMAN said that there was no question raised by those alle-
gations which an engineer could explain. The Committee could
judge by their own eyes of the discrepancy between the plans and
sections deposited with the Board of Trade and those deposited with
the Clerks of the Peace of the City of Lincoln and of Lincolnshire.
Other similar allegations were then gone into and sustained.
Standing orders not complied with.
The Committee then adjourned at a quarter to five o'clock.

SO-Committee No. 5

nzamnvalcam AND OXFORD JUNCTION.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Two or three minute discrepancies in the plans were explained by
Mr. Brunel as being occasioned by shrinking of the paper.
An allegation as to an inaccuracy in the mileage—a distance de.
scribed as one mile being, according to the scale, much more than a
mile—was declared to be proved.
It was next alleged that a field belonging to a Mr. Wyse, and ad-
joining one marked No. 1, also his property, was not numbered in
the plan.
It was represented by the promoters of the Bill that this field and
that marked No. I were in fact the same, and that a brook, said by
the petitioner to be the boundary, was in fact no boundary at all.
The figure " 1" was intended to apply to the whole field.

A witness was called to prove that the brook served as a boundary,
and prevented the cattle from paising into one field from the other.
He knew the owner to be the same, but had " an impression" that
there were two occupiers.

Mr. BURKE said it was clear that the field in question was num-
bered, but might be numbered improperly, being numbered as one.
The Committee, however, confirmed the allegation, and declared
the standing orders not complied with.
The next point raised was one as to the omission of a certain house
from the book of reference. A witness was called to prove the exist-
enc fof a house which he saw in January last, but it was then un-
finished, an I he admitted on cross•examination that it might have
been begun after the 30th of November. The allegation fell to the
ground.

Several ether allegations were then read and disposed of, the
standing orders being declared not complied with in more than one
instance.

At four o'clock the Speaker being announced at prayers, the Com-
mittee adjourned to Tueeday next.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES.
HOUSE OF LORDS..
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.))
MIDLAND (SWINSTON AND LINCOLN).
The Committee decided that the Company had complied with the
standing orders as soon as they had inserted a clause fixing the
datum line.

The Rev. Edward Francis, BA., of St. John's College, to
the curacy of Great Poringland, Norfolk.
The Rev. John England Rudd, BA., of Trinity College, to
the curacy of St. Mark's Church, Birmingham.
The Rev. Josiah John Prickett, M.A., of Trinity College,
to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Lonsdale.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of
-March, 1846, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.
This day the Right Hon. Charles John Viscount Canning
was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's
most honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the
Board accordingly.
WAR-OFFICE, Daum 20.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieut. S. F. Jacson, from 54th Foot,
to be Paymaster, vice G. V. Jackson, who reverts to the
half-pay of his former commission as Lieutenant of the 85th
Foot, March 20.
9th Light Dragoons—Captain C. Deacon, from the 13th
Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Nicholson, who ex-
changes, March 20.
10th Light Dragoons—Cornet C. H. S. G. Lord Garvagh
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pate, who retires;
J. W. Clarke, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Lord
Garvagh ; Surgeon M. J. M. Ross, from 44th Foot, to
be Surgeon, vice Murray, who exchanges, March 20.
13th Light Dragoons—Capt. G. T. Nicholson, from 9th
Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Deacon, who exchanges,
March 20.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Capt. W. Eccles,
from the 82d Foot, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice Ellice,
who exchanges, March 20.
7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant W. Monck, to be Ad-
jutant, vice Dickinson, retired upon half-pay, March 20.
39th Foot— J. F. Draper, Gent., to be ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Hume, appointed to the 62d Foot, March 20.
44th Foot—Surgeon D. Murray, M.D., from the 10th
Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Ross, who exchanges,
March 20.
62d Foot—Ensign B. J. Hume, from the 39th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Cross, deceased, March 20.
65th Foot—J. J. Dudgeon, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Pemberton, appointed to the 94th Foot,
March 20.
82d Foot—Lieutenant and Captain C. H. Ellice, from the
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice
Eccles, who exchanges, March 20,
94th Foot—Lieut. W. H. Kirby to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Magee, deceased, Dec. 7, 1845; Ensign W.
W. Campbell to be Lieutenant, vice Kirby; Ensign G. C.
Pemberton, from the 65th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Camp-
bell, March 20.
2d West India Regiment—Capt. J. St. Leger, from half-
pay Portuguese officers, to be Captain, vice E S. N. Campbell,
who exchanges ; Lieut. C. C. Rookes, to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice St. Leger, who retires ; Ensign J. S. Gordon, to be
Lieutenant by purchase, vice Roekes ; A. W. Dickson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gordon, March 20.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Paymaster S. Blake, from
the 65th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Cameron, deceased.
March 20th.
Staff—Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. B. Gough, of the 3d Light
Dragoons, to be Quartermaster-General to the Queen's Forces
in the East Indies, vice Colonel Sir R. H. Sale, G.C.8., killed
in action.
BREVET.—Capt. J. St. Leger, of the 2d West India Regi-
ment, to be Major in the Army, June 28, 1838 ; Capt. T,
Hurdle, of the Royal Marines, to be Major in the Army
March 20, 1846.