The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-07 00:00:00

ROCHESTER.

The nomination of the two candidates for the reprs.
'mutation of this city,—namely, Mr. W. H. Bodkin and
Mr. P. Wykeham Martin, takes place to-day in the
Guildhall, and the polling to-morrow. There is no
doubt that the contest will be the closest which has been
known in Rochester for many years, the friends of both
candidates feeling confident of success. The popularity
of Mr. Martin has been daily on the increase, and, his
political principles being in accordance with those of the
large majority of the electors, his friends are perfectly
satisfied that he will obtain a majority on the day of
election. A large and crowded meeting of the Liberal
electors was held last evening, on which occasion
speeches were delivered by Mr. Lee, M.P. for Maid-
stone ; Mr. C. W. Martin, of Leeds-castle ; and Mr. P.
W. Martin ; and a resolution unanimously passed pledg-
ing the meeting to support Mr. Martin. Mr. Bodkin
has been busy canvassing, and has received additional
promises of support. The Mayor has issued notices
cautioning the electors against resorting to bribery and
intimidation.

Fitzgerald that his orders were to keep the volunteering
open for a week. Major Fitzgerald informed Captain
Scott that he denied the power of the Government to
issue such an order, and declined having the volunteer-
ing kept open beyond the evening of the 2Sth, on the
ground that a week's volunteering was in fact turning
the regiment under his command into a drunken rabble
for that period, and that his desire to preserve the disci-
pline of the regiment and the peace of the town in which

he was quartered alike forbade his giving his sanction to
such proceedings. Major Fitzgerald further informed.
Captain Scott that in the event of his persisting in try-
ing to keep the volunteering open for a week he would
refuse to sign the discharge.of any man who volunteered,
and would confine his men to barracks until after Cap-
tain Scott's departure. Captain Scott then wrote to
Limerick for fresh instructions, and received orders to
complete the attesting of the men who had already vo•
lunteered and return to Limerick."

THE NEW PROMOTIONS IN TIE ARMY
AND NAVY.

In the Gazttte of Tuesday appear the names of some
20 or 30 military and naval officers, most of whom have
been promoted for their services, either in the Peninsu-
lar or in the present war, to the second and third divi-
sions of the Order of the Bath. The British public will
recognise among them with satisfaction Major-General
William Fenwic Williams, the gallant defender of Bars.
The following brief account of the services of the most
distinguished of those officers who have been thus ho-

nourea by her Majesty will not be out of place. It will
be observed that some of the honours now bestowed are

rather tardy recognition;;lse;;;;inthe field :
General James Wallace Sleigh, C. 8., attained the
rank of full General in 1855, and is Colonel of the 9th
Lancers. He entered the army in February, 1795, as
Cornet in the 11th Dragoons, became Lieutenant in the
same year, a Captain in 1798, and obtained his majority
in June, 1805. He had previously served in Flanders
in the campaigns of 1795 and 1796, and was present at
the actions in Northern Holland and the Helder, on the
10th and 19th of September, and 2d and 6th of October,
1799. Having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-
. .

Colonel in 1809, he was again ordered on foreign service,
and served in the Peninsular campaigns of 1811 and
1812. He commanded the 11th Dragoons at Waterloo,
towards the close of which battle the command of the
Fourth Brigade devolved upon him. Attaining the rank
of Colonel in 1819, he proceeded with his regiment to
India, and commanded the Cavalry Division at the siege
of Bhurtporei in 1825 and the following year. He ob-
tained the Waterloo medal and the war medal with one
clasp for Salamanca. He became Major-General in
July, 1830 ; Lieutenant-General in 1841 ; and was ap-
pointed to the Colonelcy of the 9th Lancers in 1839. Ia
1810 he was nominated a Companion of the Bath for his
services in the Peninsula and India.

Lieutenant. General Richard Goddard Hare-Clarges,
C. 8., entered the army in 1796 as Ensign in the 14th
Foot ; became Lieutenant the same year, and Captain
in 1303. He served in Egypt under Sir Ralph Aber-
_

•
cromby, in Hanover under the late General Lord Cath-
cart, and in Spain under Sir John Moore, where he ren-
dered good service during the retreat to Cormna. He
was on the staff of Sir Thomas Graham (afterwards
better known as Lord Lynedocb) in the Walcheren Ex-
pedition, and Assistant-Adjutant-General of a division
in the Duke of Wellington's army in the Peninsula.
He received the gold medal and one clasp for Neville
and Nive, and the silver war medal, with nine clasps,
for Egypt, Corunna, Busaco, Barossa, Ciudad Rodrigo,
Badajoz, 6alamanca, the Pyrenees, and San Sebastian.
In 1813 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel,
and that of full Colonel in 1831, became a field officer in
1841, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General
in 1851, and succeeded the Hon. General Meade in the
following year as Colonel of the 12th Foot.
BrLadier-General William Fenwick Williams, whose
name is so familiar to our readers for his gallant defence
of Bars, was born about the year 1809, and educated,
we believe, at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,
from which he entered the Artillery as Second Liente•
want in 1825. Two years later he was promoted to the
rank of First Lieutenant, and to that of Captain in
1840. Young as he is, comparatively, in the service,
he has considerable military and diplomatic experience,
having been employed in Turkey from 1840 to 1843 in
the latter capacity, when he was sent as British Com-
missioner to meet the Turkish and Persian Plenipoten-
tiaries at Erzeroum, and took part in the conferences
preceding the treaty signed at that place in May,
1347. In the June of the following year he was
appointed British Commissioner for the settlement
of the Turco-Persian boundary. In May, 1846,
he received the brevet rank of Major for his
military and diplomatic services in Turkey, and the
brevet rank of Colonel in March, 1848, for his political
services at Erzeroum. In December, 1852, be was
honoured with the Companionship of the Order of the
Bath. In August, 1354, while the British Army was at
Varna, he was appointed her Majesty's Commissioner
with the Turkish forces in those parts, with the local
rank of Colonel in the army, and while so occupied he
was rai,,ed to the local rank of Brigadier• General on the
ltth of December last.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Richard S. Dundas, C. 8., is
the next brother and heir presumptive to Major-General
Viscount Melville, 1( 0.h., who is at present General in
command of the Scottish district. He is second son of
the late Viscount, by his wife, the daughter and co heir
of Richard H. Saunders, Esq., M.D. He was born at
Melville Castle in 1302, and entered the naval service
in 1815 ; he acted as private secretary to his father when
First Lerd of the Admiralty from 1828 to 1830. He was
engaged in the early part of the. Chinese war of 1841,
and received the Companionship of tke Bath for his ser-
vices on the coast of China. Ho held the post of Super-
intendent of the Deptford Dockyard for a short time in
1851.2, and in December, 1852, was appointed a Lord
of the Admiralty by Lord Aberdeen, a post which be
continued to hold under Lord Palmerston, until he was
appointed to the command of the Balticfleet in the spring
of last year.
Sir lx. Maclean, Commissary-General, is also of Scot-
tish extraction, being the son of one of the magistrates of
Dysart, North Britain, and captain in the local militia.
He entered the Commissariat service in 1812, and served
in the Peninsula and South of France till the close of
the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 ; thence he proceeded to
America, but, returning to France, was present with the
army of occupation from 1815 to 1818. He was subse-
quently employed in the same capacity on the West Coast
of Africa, in Canada, aed the West Indies, and while
stationed at Sierra Leone became a member of the Exe-
cutive Council there. He afterwards served in Van
Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), and was made a
Commissary-General for his services there. In the same
capacity he afterwards served at the head-quarters of the
forces in the field during the Kafir war of 1852-3, and
accompanied the expedition across the Orange River to
Flatsberg. He received the honour of knighthood early
in 1854, for his African services, immediately upon his
return to England.
Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.8., whose elevation to a
baronetcy for his services in the siege of Sebastopol we
briefly mentioned yesterday, entered the Rayal Engineers
in 1798, and served in the blockade of Malta and sur-
render of Valetta in ISOO, and also in the campaign in
Egypt of 1801, under Sir R. Abercromby, including the
capture of Alexandria and the attack on Rosetta. He
also took part in the Peninsular campaigns, including
the retreat to Corunna, the passage of the Douro, and
the affair of Salaruonde, when he blew up Fort Concep-
tion in the presence of the enemy. He was also present
at the battle of Busaco, the retreat to and occupation of
the lines of Lisbon, and the siege of Badajoz in 1811,
the action of Elbodon, the siege and storm of Ciudad
Rodrigo, the second siege and storming of Badajoz, the
siege and capture of the forts at Salamanca, the battle
of Salamanca, the advance to Madrid and capture of
the Retiro. He was also wounded at the siege of Bur-
gos. He was present at the battle of Vittoria and the
sieg,e and storming of San Sebastian, where he was again
wounded. He also took an active part in the siege of
the Castle of Sebastian in September, 1813, as well as
in the passage of Bidassoa, the battles of Nivelle and
Nive, the passage of the Adour, the blockade of Bay-
onne, and repu:se of the sortie. He afterwards served
in the American war, and was present at the attack
on the lines before New Orleans in January, 1815,
and at the capture of Fort Bowyer. Sir John has re-
ceived the gold cross and one clasp for 13adajoz, Sala-
fovrteStourige:
aso,ancdiudtande
silverm anca,
wara n d
medalthe woitthhe rt
hPr
eeen i no
lsauslpa
sr
Rodrigo, and Nivelle. When the
.war broke out in
1854 Sir John Burgoyne accompanied the forces sent
out in aid of Turkey ; and 'when the British army
landed in the Crimea and sat down before Sebastopol,
it was to Sir John Burgoyne that Lord Raglan in-
trusted the conduct of the siege. In April of last year
he was superseded by Sir parry Jones, and soon after-
wards returned to England. The University of Oxford
conferred
.upon him last year the honorary degree of
D.C.L., and at the same time he received from the
Sultan the Order of the Medjidie of the first class, and
was also appointed to the Colonelcy of the Royal En-
gineers. Sir John Burgoyne's services, however, are
not entirely of a military character ; in 1849 he was
appointed Inspector-General to the Metropolitan Com-
missioners of Sewers, having for several years previously
held the post of Chairman of the Board of Public
Works in Ireland. He has, also, since 1845 held the
appointment of Inspector-General of Military Fortifica-
tions.

A very large sailing. ship, called Arthur the Great, is
appointed to leave Southampton, on the 18th, with Go-
vernment emigrants for Geelong. She is 1,389 tons
burden. No ship is allowed to take more than 400