The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-19 00:00:00

THE DRAINAGE OF LONDON.
It will be remembered that at the close of the year
1850 the then existing Commissioners of Sewers de-
cided upon a plan for the general drainage of London.
This plan was divided into three portions, viz.—the
northern, the southern sides of the Thames, and the
Westminster division; and it comprised works of no
ordinary magnitude, the cost of which was estimated
at 1,080,0001. It was the intentio❑ of the commis-
sioners to commence the formation of this vast system
of intercepting sewers without delay, but a serious
difficulty has arisen, and one which, without the in-
tervention of Parliament, will prevent them from
doing more than executing smaller works, ancillary
to the greater ones hereafter to be undertaken. The
difficulty which presents itself is the absolute want
of funds, and the inability of the commissioners to
offer such security as would enable them to raise the
money, or even a portion of it. Under the old Act
the commissioners were empowered to raise a rate of
Is. in the pound, yearly, on all the rateable pro-
perty under their jurisdiction, but, during the last
session of Parliament, Mr. Henley succeeded in car-
rying a motion for the insertion of a clause in the
Act preventing the commissioners from raising a
rate of more than 3d. in the pound. This assess-
ment, if enforced throughout the whole of the dis-
trict rateable to the commission, would produce
only 103,000/. yearly ; but, as at present carried out,
it produces about 80,0001. This sum is very little
more than is necessary for the present functions
of the commission, viz., the formation of the
smaller lines of sewers, the abatement of nui-
sances from open drains and ditches, repairs,
gullies, &c., leaving but a very small amount to be
applied to the general drainage system. The com-
missioners recently attempted to borrow 80,0001. on
the security of the rates, and one of the principal in-
surance offices in London expressed its readiness to
grant the loan ; but upon an examination of the
security, it became evident that it was of compara-
tively little ♦alue, the proportion of the 3d. rate
required by the commission for its active functions
being so large as to leave a trifling residue. Ap-
plications were also made in other quarters,
but with the like success. It becomes evident,
therefore, that even if the whole of the money
which the commissioners could raise were to be at
once applied to the execution of the general drainage
system—leaving uncared-for the daily requirements
of the metropolitan districts—these works would oc-
cupy a period of 11 years in their execution; and, in
the meantine, the sanitary condition of London would
be far from progressing favourably. If the balance
remaining to the commissioners, after the due execu-
tion of all their minor functions, were to be applied,
London would remain imperfectly drained, and the
Thames perfectly polluted for 30 or 40 years to come.
Under these circumstances, nothing effectual can be
done until the assembling of Parliament, when some
extended powers of rating, and raising money must be
granted to the commission ; or else the Government
must take into their consideration the propriety of
assisting the commission to obtain the necessary funds,
by those means and upon those terms of repayment
which may be agreed upon. The utmost anxiety,
exists in the minds of the commissioners to com-
mence the execution of their gigantic scheme
without delay ; but they are now prevented
from doing more than merely keeping the sewers of
London in as good condition as possible, and forming
new ones whenever they are required, in such a man .
ner as to render them hereafter portions of the more
comprehensive system. Under any circumstances,
even supposing the most favourable, the formation of
the enormous conduits which will be required to con-
vey the 120,000 tons of sewage daily flowing under
the city to the mouth of the river Roding, the time
required will be between four and five years ; and
the present delay, arising from the insertion of a mis-
chievous clause in the Sewers Act, will probably
cause a much longer delay. It is the intention of
the commissioners to perform works by contractors
for different portions of them. The sewage will be
collected in enormous reservoirs at Barking-creek,
to be discharged into the river at such periods of
the tide as will prevent its return to London,
or to be disposed of, if practicable, for sewage
manure, and thus converted into a source of
revenue. There is little doubt of the partial success,
at any rate, of the last proposition, as offers have
already been made to the commissioners to lease from
them certain sewage outlets, with the view of using
the soil for agricultural purposes. These offers have
been declined because the duration of the present
commission is limited, and it is deemed inexpedient to
bind their successors by any contract which might
impede them in the free construction of any system
of sewage. The recently-formed commission has, up
to the present time, given unlimited satisfaction to
the ratepayers by its effisctual and prompt working
—Morning Paper.

BURIAL GROUNDS.
In the new City Sewers Act are the following
clauses relating to burial grounds :—" That after any
churchyard or burial-ground shall have ceased to be
used for the interment of the dead, it shall be lawful
for the Commissioners, with the consent of the Bishop
of London, to be signified by any instrument in
writing under his hand and seal, to enter into such
arrangements as may be agreed upon with the
incumbent and churchwardens of the parish in
which such churchyard or burial-ground may
be situated for the appropriation thereof, or of any
part thereof, to public improvements, or to enlarge and
improve the public streets. That it shall be lawful
for the relative of any deceased person, with the
consent of the incumbent or other person having
the care or control of any such churchyard or.burial-
ground as aforesaid, in which the body of such
deceased person has been interred or deposited, but
subject to the regulations of the Commissioners, to
cause such body to be removed to, and interred in, any
burial ground or in any cemetery without the City,
without any faculty for that purpose. That it shall
be lawful for the Commissioners, with the consent of
the Bishop of London, to cause any churchyard or
burial-ground within the City, after the same shall
have been finally closed, to be planted, paved, or
otherwise covered over, or any part thereof ; and it
the surface of such churchyard or burial-ground
shall be above the level of the adjoining ground,
to cause the same to be lowered, and for such
purpose to dig and carry away the soil of
such churchyard or burial-ground. Provided
always, that if the Commissioners shall
cause any churchyard or burial- ground to he
lowered, the graves and vaults shall be as little dis-
turbed as possible; and it shall be lawful for the
relatives of any deceased person whose body may within
the last twenty years have been interred or deposited
in any grave or vault which may be so disturbed, to
cause the remains of such person to be removed,
carried away, and placed
i❑
in some other church-
yard, or burial-ground, n such manner as the
Bishop of London, or such person as he may appoint,
shall direct, and the expenses of such removing, carry-
ing away, and placing (not exceeding iu any one
case the sum of 101.) shall be paid by the Com-
missioners, and the remains of such persons as shall
have been interred or deposited in the graves
removedor vaultsor carried so
(except such graves
or vaults as shall be finally closed up) at the expense of
disturbed, which shall not be
the Commissioners, be removed from such graves or
d away, shall
vaults, and interred in such manner as the Bishop of
London, or such person as he shall appoint, shall direct.
That if the Commissioners shall cause the soil of
any churchyard or burial-ground to be planted,
paved,
or covered over, it shall be lawful for the rela-
tives of any deceased person, who may have been bu-
ried therein, or to whose memory any tomb, monu-
ment, or inscription may have been erected or placed,
to cause such tomb, monument, or inscription to be
removed or taken away, but such removal shall be at
the expense of the person causing the same to be done,

SEABORNE MAILS.
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by the night—and M by tho morning--dispatch.)

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Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth Oct. 3
• Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Sept. 18
Belgium .. .. .. N Daily • • • • • • Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. . • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
Buenos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
Califomia(viaChagres)M 2d &17thef month Southampt. Sept. 20
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. Oct. 3
Constantinople* .. • • *7th 17th 27th of mo Dover ..'Sept. 20
Central America .. Mi2d 86 17th of won. Southampt. Sept. 20
Channel Isles .. .. I.T Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tn. Tia.Sa
Chili .. .. .. Mil7th of the month Southampt. Oct, 5
France .. .. M & *Twice daily .. .. Dover • . Twicodaily
Greece* .. .. .. Nl7th 17th27th of mo Dover .. Sept. 20
Hamhurgh .. .. Ni Tuesday & Friday London .. Tees. Sat.
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Honduras .. .. • . N 17th of the month Southampt. Sept. 20
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India (via Sonthamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Sept. 23
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Mediterranean (via
Southampton) •• M 20th of the month Southampt. ,Sept. 23
Mediterranean (via i 1
Marseilles) .. .. N 7th&24th ofmonth Dover .• Sept, 15
Mexico .. .. .. M2d of the month.. Southampt. Oct. 5
Madeira .. .. .. M:9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 1 i
Dover Sept. 18
Malta,* .. ..
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Peninsular.. .. Mr7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Sept. 26
Peru • • •• •• •• Mll7th of the month Southampt. Oct. 5
Tuscany-* .. .. .. Nlsth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. Sept. 21
West Indies .. .. M 17th of the month Southampt. Sept. 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Southampt. 'Sept. 20

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ECONOMICAL MODE OF REFINING SUGAR. M.
Boissenot, a distinguished chemist at Chalon, has, it is slid,
discovered a mode of refining sugar by which the use of
animal charcoal is replaced by that of a less costly article—.
river sand.— Gaitiptsni.

INDIA.

THE INDIAN ARMY.—THE RELIEF.
(From the Eastern Star, Aug. 2 )
Subjoined is the General Order containing the re-
lief of the Bengal army for the present year, and we
believe the most limited that has been known since
that army attained anything near its present magni-
tude. This is the first real step towards protecting
the junior officers from the marching, building, and
selling off expenses and losses to which they have for
years been subject, and which have in many cases
been productive of debt and distress, and possibly, as
is asserted, of great involvement and ruin. These
small reliefs will in any event prove a great relief to
the army, and we are confident will not, in the pre-
sent state of our dominions, be attended with or fol-
lowed by the dangers and evil consequences for the
avoidance or prevention of which the vast reliefs and
frequent changes of regiments were heretofore consi-
dered necessary and prudent. This relief, as will be
seen, includes but two troops of Horse Artillery which
change stations ; moves head-quarters of two batta-
lions of Foot,,Artillery, ten companies, and one battery
of the same arm, three regiments of Irregular
Cavalry, six of European, and twelve of Native In-
fantry. Only two of the regiments in the Barrack-
pore brigade move : viz., the 44th Native Infantry to
Dinapore, and the 54th Native Infantry to Allyghur,
to he relieved by the 30th and 67th Native Infantry,
from the above stations :
"BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER-IN•CHIEF.
"Head-quarters Simla, July 24, 1851.
" With the sanction of the Most Noble the Governor-
General of India, the following movements of the corps
and detachments for 1851-52, are directed to take place
on the dates and in the order specified:—
" HORSE ARTILLERY.
" Ist troop, Ist brigade, from Sealkote to Peshawur,
October 20.
"2d troop, 2d brigade, from Peshawar to Sealkote,
when relieved by Ist troop, Ist brigade.
" FOOT ARTILLERY.
" Head-quarters, Ist battalion, from Agra to Jullun-
der, when relieved by the head-quarters, 6th battalion.
"24 company, Ist battatlion, from Mooltan to Jul-
lunder, November 1 ; No. 14 light field battery to be
transferred to the 4th company, 6th battalion.
" 4th company, Ist battalion, from Agra to Hoshear-
pore, when relieved by Ist company, 6th battalion, to
which No. 8 light field battery will be transferred.
"2d company, 2d battalion, from Peshawur to Lahore,
on arrival of the Ist and 3d companies, 4th battalion.
" Ist company, 4th battalion, from Umballa to Pesha-
wur, October 20.
"3d company, 4th battalion, from Lahore to Pesha-
war, to join Ist company, 4th battalion, on its arrival at
Lahore; No. 7 light field battery to be transferred to
lit company, 2d battalion.
"4th company, sth battalion, from Cawnpore to Um-
balla, November 1.
" Head-quarters, 6th battalion, from Jullunder to
Agra, 21st of October, and on the march to join the Ist
company at Loodianah.
" let company, 6tis hattalion, from Hoshearpore to
Agra, 20th of October, and to join head-quarters of the
oattalion at Loodianah.
"2d. company, 6th battalion,from Jullunder to Cann-
pore, on being relieved by 2d company, Ist battalion, to
which No. 9 light field battery will be transferred.
"4th company, 6th battalion, from Peshawur to Mool-
tan, on arrival of the Ist and id companies, 4th batta-
lion; No. 19 light field battery to be transferred to the
3d company, 4th battalion.
" 2d company, 7th battalion, and No. 6 battery, from
Boodee Pind to Goordaspore, to join the 43d Regiment
Native Infantry on its arrival at Boodee Pind.
"IRREGULAR CAVALRY.
"Bth Regiment, from Sultanpore, Benares to Hansi,
3d of November.
" 11th Regiment, from Hansi to Sultanpore, Benares,
when relieved by the Bth Regiment.
" 13:h Regiment, from Mookerian to Goordaspore, to
join the 43d Regiment Native Infantry and 2d company,
7th battalion, on their arrival at Mokerian.
" EUROPEAN INFANTRY.
" Her Majesty's 224 Regiment, from Dugahai to Rawul
Pindee, 3d of November.
"Her Majesty's 32d Regiment, from Jullunder to
Peshawur, 17th of November.
" Her Majesty 53d Regiment, from Rawul Pindee to
Posbawur, on being relieved by the 22d Regiment.
" Her Majesty's 60th Royal Rifles, from Kussowlie
and Subathoo to Jullunder, 17th of November.
"Her Majesty's 61st Regiment, from Peshawur to
Kussowlie and Subathoo, on being relieved by the 32d
Regiment.
" Her Majesty's 98th Regiment, from Peshawur to
Dagshai, on being relieved by the 53d Regiment.
" NATIVE INFANTRY.
" 2d Regiment (Grenadiers) from Rawul Pindee to
Futtehghur, when relieved by the Khelat-i-Ghilzie
Regiment.
" 25th Native Infantry, from Hadjipore to Shahjehan-
pore. 2d of December.
" 30th Native Infantry, from Allyghur to Barrack-
pore, 6th of October. A wing from one of the Regi-
ments at Agra to take the duties of Allyghur, until the
arrival of the 54th Regiment.
" 37th Native Infantry, from Jhelum to Berhampore,
6th of October; by land to Cawnpore, and thence by
water.
" 431 Native Infantry, from Shajhehanpore to Goor-
daspore, 14th of October. A wing from one of the re.
;invents at Bareilly to take the duties of Shahjehanpore
until the arrival of the 25th Regiment.
" 44th Native Infantry, from Barrackpore to Dina-
pore, when relieved by the 67th Regiment.
" 46th Native Infantry, from Loodianah to Meerut, to
be at Umballa on the 15th of October, and thence escort
the camp of the Most Noble the Governor-General until
the camp is broken up.
"47th Native Infantry, from Cawnpore to Jhelum,
14th of October.
"54th Native Infantry, from Barrackpore to Allyghur,
when relieved by the 30th Regiment.
" 59th Native Infantry, from Berhampore to Cawn-
pore, when relieved by the 37th Regiment.
" 67th Native Infantry, from Dinapore to Barrack-
pore, 3d of November.
" Khelat.i-Ghilzie Regiment, from Futteghur to
Rawul Pindie, 14th of October; a wing of the 151 Oude
Local Infantry, at Seetapore, to take the duties of
Fattehghur until the arrival of the 24 Regiment
(Grenadiers).
" Routes of their corps or detachments may lie to the
,ransmission of progress and other reports to head-quar-
ters; and during the absence of his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief from the Presidency, of duplicates
)f all such reports to the officers in charge of the Adju-
tant-General's and Quartermaster-General's officers in
Calcutta.
" Routes will be furnished from the office of the Quar-
termaster-General of the army.
" By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
"H. T. TUCKER, Lieutenant-Colonel,
" Adjutant• General of the Army."
COURTS-MARTIAL.
" Head-quarters, Simla, July 12, 1851.
At a general court-martial assembled at Meerut on
Thursday, the 26th day of June, 1851, Lieut. Anstruther
elactier, of the 6th L. C., was arraigned on the following
charge:—
For unbecoming conduct in the following instances:-
Ist. In having, at Cawnpore, on the 27th of April,
1851, caused Byjoo, a servant in his employ, to be
beaten with a horsewhip by Bhowance Sing, trooper of
the said regiment.
21 In having, at the same time and place, himself
struck with a horsewhip and with his fist the said
Bhowance Sing, trooper, because the latter did not beat
severely enough the said Byjoo.
Finding.—The Court, having duly considered the evi-
dence which has been brought before it, are of opinion
that the prisoner, Lieutenant Anstruther Mactier, of the
6th L. C., is guilty of both instances of the charge, and
guilty of unbecoming conduct, as set forth in the pre-
amble of the said charge.
Sentence.—The Court having found the prisoner
guilty of the charge preferred against him, as above re-
corded, do sentence him, Lieutenant Anstruther Mactier
of the 6th L. C., to be severely reprimanded.
Revised Sentence.—The Court, having maturely con-
sidered the observations made by his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief, beg most respectfully to adhere
to their former sentence.
Confirmed,
W. M. Gomm, General,
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.
REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER-IN-
CHIEF.
The Commander-in-Chief considers that he cannot
more effectually discharge the office which devolves upon
him, at the requisition of the Court, in this instance,
than by requiring that the observations which accom-
panied his orders for the reassembly of the Court,
should be read to Lientenant Mactier in its presence;
evincing to him, as they have already done to the
Court, in how grave a light his conduct is viewed by the
Commander-in-Chief, and how inadequate to the
offences proved he regards the sentence awarded and
adhered to by the Court:—
" 1. The Commander-in-Chief cannot rest satisfied
with the sentence passed by the Court in this case.
"2. It is not only the positive injunction of the Court
of Directors, but it is the.obvious duty of all vested with
authority in India, to visit with marked severity the ill-
treatment of natives by British residents or functionaries
of whatever description.
"3. Yet here is an officer of 12 years' standing in the
Hon. Company's service, who permits himself in a fit of
ill-humour to summon his trooper to horsewhip his
native servant; and, the infliction falling short of hie
desire, the trooper himself—one of the detachment em-
ployed on a special duty under the immediate command
of the lieutenant arraigned—becomes the victim of the
moment, and is violently assaulted with fist and whip;
and all this outrageous proceeding would seem to be in
a great measure excused in the eyes of the Court by the
prisoner's plea of infirmity of temper.
4. The Commander-in-Chief cannot be prevailed
upon to show such indulgence to proved misconduct,
which, by the 103 d article of war, renders an officer lia-
ble to be cashiered, and he, therefore, recommends the
Court, in the interest of the service, and of the public at
large, to reconsider its sentence."
After having heard these observations Lieutenant
Mactier will be released from arrest and directed to re-
turn to his duty.

Head-quarters, Simla, July 18.
At a general court-martial assembled at Govindgurh,
on Tuesday, the Ist of July, 1351, private John Rooney,
No. 2,378, of her Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot, was
arraigned on the following charge:—
For having, at Umritsir, on the 10th day of June,
1851, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought,
killed and murder©d Jewan Sing, Commandant of the
Shore Dil Regiment, or police Inttalion, stationed M

Umritsir, by striking him on the neck with a sword, and
thereby inflicting a mortal wound, whereof the said Jee-
wan Sing then there immediately died.
Finding—The Court is of opinion that the prisoner,
private John Rosney, No. 2,378, of her Majesty's 10th
Regiment of Foot, is guilty of the charge preferred
against him.

Sentence—The Court sentence the prisoner, private
John Rosney, No. 2,378, of her Majesty's 10th Regiment
of Foot, to suffer death as a felon, by being hanged by
the neck till he be dead.
Approved and confirmed,
W. M. Gomm, General,
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.
liead-quarters, Simla, July 14, 1851.
RECOMMENDATION.
The Court, having performed its painful duty, begs
unanimously to recommend the prisoner to the mercy
of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, on the
grounds of the highly excited and irritated state of the
prisoner's mind arising out of his unexpected detention
by the native police, and also on account of the unhappy
facility afforded by the vicinity of the weapon. The
Court likewise desires to record its conviction that had
not the prisoner been stopped at the gate he would have
returned peaceably to his barracks.
REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE CO3IMANDER-IN-

CHIEF.
I respect the feeling which has prompted the Cour
to put in its recommendation to mercy iu this distress.
ing case.

trust the Court will appreciate my feeling while re-
fraining, under a paramount sans:3 of duty, from ex-
tending my support to the appeal so made on submitting
the case for final adjudication to the Supreme Go-
v2rnment.

W. M. Gomm, General,
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.
The most noble the Governor-General of India con-
curs in the confirmation by his Excellency the Cum•
mander-in-Chief of the sentence of death passed on
private Joh❑ Rosney, of her Majesty's loth Regiment
of Foot, and in the said sentence being carried into ex-
ecution.

J. STUART, Colonel, Secretary to the Govern-
ment of India, Military Department, with
the Governor-General.
Simla, July 14, 1851.

Head-quarters, Simla, July 18.
No. 53-1. The Commander-in-Chief feels confident
that the army at large will have been looking forward
with a painful interest to the result of the proceedings of
a general court-martial assembled at Govindgurh, for
the trial of private John Roney, of hat. Majesty's 10th
Regiment of Foot, charged with wilful murder, on the
10th of June last, of Colonel Jeewan Sing, Comman-
dant of the Shere Dil police battalion, stationed at Una-
ritair.

2. Tho crime charged has been fully proved against
the prisoner; he has been sentenced by the Court to
suffer the extreme penalty of the law—death by hang-
ing; and the sentence has been ordered to be carried
into execution.
3. These are the lamentable issues to which, with
more or less of aggravation in the circumstances, the
fatal propensity to drink, too prevalent in our European
ranks, must over, by too certain courses, lead.
4. In the present instance, a valuable and honourable
life has been savagely sacrificed to the blind fury of a
British soldier, naturally of excitable temper, inflamed
by drink into a reckless desperado.
The character of our arms and nation has, it is much
to be feared, incurred a blight in the eyes of the gallant
and generous people recently gathered under the shelter
of our rule, and in the midst of whom we are living in the
strictest bonds of amity and mutual trust.
And the perpetrator of the crime has been promptly
summoned—as promptly as circumstances would admit
--to answer with his life to the aroused vengeance of the
law and the sacred claims of British justice.
5. The Commander•in-Chief feels well assured that
all good and sound-hearted British solders—whether of
her Majesty's or of the East India Company's army—
serving in India will mourn with him over the unworthy
fate of the veteran and distinguished commandant,
Jeewan Sing, and will join with the chief British autho-
rities in India and with his kindred, with his faithful
corps and fellow citizens and countrymen, in lamenting
his loss.
6. They will also grieve with the Commander-in-
Chief o►er the fate of the fair charactered young soldier
who, by the besotted act of his own hands—those hands
borne honourable witness to as having been strenuously
employed in his country's cause on the field of victory—
has miserably brought himself to this untimely end.
7. And they will unite with the Commander-in-Chief
in an earnest and reiterated exhortation to such of their
youthful comrades as may be found still addicted to, or
in danger of falling into, the debasing habit of intem-
perance, to take timely warning from this sad example,
and resolutely turn to courses far safer for themselves,
and more honourable to our arms.
W. M. GOMM, General,
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.
Head-quarters, Simla, July 17, 1851.
By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
ARMINE S. H. MOUNTAIN, Colonel,
Adjutant-General H. M. Forces in India.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTIONS.
Three commanders have been promoted to the rank
of captain, namely, Commanders Frederick Patten
(1837), A. D. Jerningham (1841), and Archibald
M'Murdo (1843).
Captain Patten came home acting flag-captain to
Rear-Admiral Fanshawe, C. 8., in the Centaur steam-
frigate, coast of Africa, having been appointed to
that ship from the Hound, 8, which he had previ-
ously commanded on the coast on the invaliding of
Captain Buckle. He entered the navy in 1814, was
made a lieutenant in 1822, and commander in 1837.
Commander Jerningham is nephew of the present
Lord Stafford. He entered the navy in 1823, and
has been on full pay, with the exception of a couple
of years, in one way or other ever since he entered
the service. He passed his examination in Septem-
ber, 1829, and was promoted in 1832. As a lieu-
tenant, he served in the Raleigh, 16, and Excellent,
and was promoted to the rank of commander from
gunnery lieutenant of the Wellesley, 72, during the
early portion of the Chinese war. As a commander,
he has not seen any sea service; he has been an in-
specting-commander of the coast guard ; and latterly,
to give him sea time, he has been borne on the books
of the Excellent whilst be has been drilling the coast-
guard.
Commander M'Murdo's name we mentioned yester-
day as having served about nineteen years afloat in all
kinds of service. He is the son of Lieut.-Colonel
M'Murdo, who lost his eyesight and ultimately his
life from the effects of a wound received in an action
in the 'West Indies. He entered the navy in 1824 in
the Pylades, and went to the West Indies. He was
in the Blonde, 46, with Sir E. Lyons, at the blockade
of Navarin, and at the reduction of Mores Castle, the
last stronghold of the Turks. He passed his examina-
tion in Nov., 1830, and as a mate served in the Alli-
gator, 28, in the East Indies, and was promoted in
1836 for services in recovering the crew of a wrecked
whaler from the natives of New Zealand. As a
lieutenant he served in the Terror, in Sir G. Back's
disastrous voyage of discovery; then in the Volage,
26, in the E ist Indies, whence he invalided, and from
1839 to 1842, as first of the Terror, under Captain
Crozier, in the Antarctic discovery expedition. He
was promoted in 1843, and from June, 1844, com-
manded for nearly three years the Contest, 12, on the
coast of Africa, on which station he was most success-
ful in his captures, having taken more vessels then the
steamers.
Lieutenant Charles Bampfield Yule (1842), who
has commanded the Bramble tender for nearly ten
years in surveying Torres Straits, has been promoted
to the rank of commander.
Captain-Superintendent Hon. R. S. Dundas, C. 8.,
mustered the artisans of the Deptford yard on 'Wed•
nesday, and those of the victualling-yard on Tuesday.
Aid lighter, Smallman, Master, sailed from De-
vonport, on Wednesday, with stores for Chatham and
Sheerness.
Avon steam-tender, Second Master-Commander
Veitch, sailed from Devonport on Wednesday, with
supernumeraries for Portsmouth.
Bellerophon, 78, Captain Lord George Paulet,
sailed from Devonport, for Portsmouth, on Wednes-
day morning, at nine o'clock. Wind light and
easterly She was in sight at one P.M.
Dauntless, 33, Captain Halsted, is under the sheers,
at Portsmouth, to receive her new armament. She
is all ataunt in her rigging.
Defence convict-ship, is still at St. Helen's, not
being able to compete against the strong easterly
wind that blows.
Pike steamer, with Mr. Mills, the Master-Atten-
dant, on hoard, returned to Devonport, from Liver-
pool, on 'Wednesday morning, having surveyed the
moorings in that harbour.
Rolla, apprentice tender, Lieut.-Commander Fen-
wick, returned into Portsmouth harbour on Wednes-
day afternoon, having been recalled by signal. She
took in extra provisions and water, and sailed for the
chops of the Channel, to supply homeward-bound
vessels that may require provisions during the preva-
lence of east winds.
Tortoise lighter, Shearman, master, arrived at
Devonport with stores from Pembroke, on Wednesday
morning.
Tyne store-ship, Master-Commander Peter Wil-
lington, from Rio, with old stores and a small freight,
anchored at Spithead yesterday morning. Her ar-
rival in the Channel has already been reported. She
has had to contend for the last 30 days against adverse
easterly winds. She brought to England Lieutenant
Portugal, of the Brazilian navy (and lady), from Rio,
who comes over to contract for steam machinery. The
Tyne will probably proceed to Woolwich to land her
old stores.
Vulcan iron screw steam troop-ship, Master-
Commander Penn, has had as many men placed on
her as can find room to work. She will probably be
at Spithead in a week or less time. She is receiving
the second coating of Mr. Buchan's composition on
her bottom.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 17. Her Majesty's
Grecian, 12, Commander Hon. G. D.
Deane,
A.
on Monday evening for the coast of Africa.
Her Majesty's frigate Calypso, 20, (
Captain
Forbes, sailed yesterday for the West Indies.
78, Captain the
Her Majesty's ship Bellerophon,