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NAV A I:4 INTELLIGENC
capture, MEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL TAINCOCK.
tinguished veteran officer's death has been rep
He was one of the few remaining relics cf the s v
periods of the war, having served 21 years afloat.a
1846 he accepted the retired flag rank, and if not em-
blazoned with decorations beyond his medal with
bars, he has departed this life full of years, honours,
and respect.
his career :- The
following is O'Byrne's sketch
" This officer entered the navy in January, 17
as midshipman, on board the Crescent, of 42 guns a
2,57 men, Captain James Sautnarez ; and on 0 h
1 the following October assisted at the after „.L9l.
close action of two hours, of La Reunion, of gu •
and 320 men, 120 of whom were either killed or
wounded, without any casualty whatever to the
British. He next accompanied an expedition e Int
under the orders of Earl MJira and Rear-A drniall
M'Bride, to co-operate with the French Royalists on
the coasts of Normandy and Brittany ; and ou June
8, 1794, he was present when the Crescent, by a hold
and int.sterly manceavre, effected her escape from a
French squadron, consisting of two cut-down 74',
each mounting 54 guns, too frigates, and a nrig.
Following Sir James Saumarez (who had been
knighted for the capture of La Reunion), hi
master's mate, into the Orion, 74, Mr. Tancock
was afforded an opportunity of sharing, in that
ship, in Lord Bridport's action, June 23, 1795: in
the battle fought off Cape St. Vincent, Fwb. 14,
1797; and in the victory of the Nile, August 1.1798.
He also, in command of the Orion's launch, afforded
very gallant support to Sir, Horatio Nelson in an
attack made upon the Cadiz flotilla, July 3, 1797.
Having, through the recommendation of Sir Jan:us
Saumarez, been ordered to act as lieutenant of the
Orion immediately subsequent to the St. Vincent
action, he was confirmed in that rank March 9, 1799.
After serving at Sheerness and in the North Sea and
Baltic in the Rosario fire-ship and Iris frigate, in
one of whose boats he assisted in the capture of a
Danish privateer of 10 guns and 30 men, he was
appointed in January, 1801, to the Caesar, SO, bear•
ing the flag, off Cadiz, of his friend and patron, Sir
James Saumarez, with whom he continued employed
as signcooapmlhelireutenant on the home station in the Zee,-
Clahanrddies,t
m 64, Kite sloop, Grampus, 50, Diomede, 50,
Cerberus, 32, and Diomede again, from 1802 until
m
ansldoeairlAuln
gust
the 1806,1,560esarhe intowas
pthreeseSatt:
July 6 and 12, 1801, in the actions fought off Alge-
ciras and in the gut of Gibraltar; he co-operated, in
the Cerebus, in the bombardment of Granville in
September, 1803 ; and while attached to the oth{ r
ships he commanded for a short period the Sylph
brig, and effected one recapture. During his servi•
tude in the St. Christopher, Captain Tancock
made prize, on the 'West India station, of several
small Spanish vessels, detained a Danish ship
which was condemned as a droit of Admiralty,
t
and re-took a British merchantman, laden with bald
gwoaosdasl,sofr, Dec.omGl2assfloBwo,7b,opurnedsen at the surrender of the
St. Thomas's. Ile
Danish island Ste. Croix to the military and navel
forces under General Bowyer and Sir Alexander
Cochrane. An attack of yellow fever obliging him,
in 1808, to invalid, he next, for a few months in 1809,
obtained command of the Curlew, 10, in which yeast 1
he was very actively employed in the Sound in
affording protection to the trade between Malmo and
Gottenburg. Inj May, 1810, and November, 1811,
he was !Appointed to the Mercury troop-ship, and
Griffon brig; he attained post rank Feb., 1, 1812 ;
and he served afterwards-in August and September,
1814, in the Bann, 20, fitting at Chatham ; from Oct.
1, 1814, until September, 22, 1816, in the Conway,
24; and from the latter date until February, 1818, in
the Iphigenia, 42. While commanding the Conway
he escorted a large convoy to a certain latitude, was
for some time senior officer at Madeira, and, after
cruising in the Channel for the interception of Napoleon
Bonaparte, sailed for India ; where, on his removal, ae
above, to the Iphigenia, he was for several months
employed at Bombay in superintending the equip•
ment of the Melville, a new 74. He brought the
Iphigenia home in December, 1817, and left her, as
stated, in February, 1818. He accepted his present
rank Oct. 1, 1846. The rear-admiral married, in
August, 1805, Elizabeth Catherine, eldest daughter
of Samuel Goodwin, Esq., merchant, of the island of
Guernsey, by whom he has issue."
Dauntless, 33, steam-frigate, Captain Halstead,
sailed from Spithead under steam, yesterday, at noon,
for Lisbon. She hoisted the blue peter at ten o'clock,
and fired several guns, one of her officers being on
shore. Ho got on board, however, before she
weighed.
Rattler screw-sloop, Commander Mellersh, left
Woolwich yesterday en route to the East Indies,
calling at the ports down channel.
Vulcan screw troop-ship, Master-Commander
Penn, having embarked a detachment of the 12 II
Lancers, went out of harbour on Thursday and eve
chored at Spithead, where she remained on accow t
of the bad weather till yesterday evening, when she
proceeded under steam fur Cork en route to the Cepe.
Victoria and Albert, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
G.C.H., left Portland Roads on Thursday for Liver-
pool.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Sutlej Indiaman,
outward bound, is at anchor at the Motherbank.
Wind variable from the southward, with unsettled
weather.
DEVONPORT, THURSDAY.—We have bad strong
wind, with a heavy sea, for some days. A Few mer-
chant vessels have arrived, but none sailed. No move.
ments amongst commissioned ships. No accidents
have occurred at this port ; all vessels have held on
well.

PRESERVED MEATS FOR THE NAVY.—The agent
of the late contractor for preserved meats has removed
from the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard upwards
of 17,0001b5. of meat, on account of its being putrid
' or likely to become so. This is the preserved meet
for which the Captain-Superintendent and the Store-
keeper were summoned to appear before the megise
trates of the Alverstoke bench, for keeping on the
premises, as being injurious to the health of the inha-
bitants.
The following official circular has also been pro-
mulgated :
" ISSUE OF PRESERVED MEATS, Sc,C.—My Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty are pleased to direct
that the issue of preserved meat, preserved potato,
and rice, as a naval ration, shall for the future be
limited to ships employed in the Pacific, on the coast
of Africa and at the Cape of Good Hope ; and that so
soon as those articles which are now on board her
Majesty's ships and vessels, or in hired vessels vic-
tualled from her Majesty's stores or in charge of the
respective storekeepers at other stations than those
above-mentioned, shall have been expended, such ships
and vessels shall commence the issue, skernately, of
salt pork with peas and salt beef with flour, when
fresh meat cannot be obtained."
APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 3.—Lieutenants Charles D. B.
Kennedy (1846), from the Excellent gunnerysbip, at
Portsmouth, to the Fox, 42, on the East India station ;
John W. Pike (l 848), to study steam at the factory
at Woolwich Dockyard.
Second-Master Albert Collier (1849), from the
Fisgard flagship, at Woolwich, to the Monarch, 84,
guardship of ordinary, Sheerness.
Master-Assistant C. G. Johnston to the Rattler
steam-sloop for the East India station.
The Right Hon. Sir Francis T. Baring, Bart.,
First Lord of the Admiralty ; Rear-Admiral F. M.
Berkeley, C.B. ; Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart,
C.B. ; and Captain Alexander Milne—Lords of the
Admiralty ; Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker,
K.O 8., Surveyor of the Navy, and Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Godfrey Thomas Greene, Director of Engineer-
ing and Architectural Works, arrived at Woolwich
Dockyard at 11 o'clock AM. to-day, and were received
by Ccmmodore-Superintendent Henry Eden,
baccom-
panied by Commander Arthur Mellersh, off
thet
Rattler steam-sloop; Lieutenant Robertson,
U.
master-
steam department afloat; Flag-Lieutenantoidf
Gure, of the Fisgard ; Mr. Bean, Master of b
Fis-
gard, and acting master-attendant
Ro-
berts, Master of the Blenheims;s.sTa n t
to the master-
Commander Petley, of the Blac_k_ro.En Eagle; Mr.
shipwright; Mr. Chatfield,
a Mr. Morgan,
shipwright; Mr. Gottlieb,
storekeeper;Atherton chief • engineer ,
store-receiver ; Mr. Charles
assistant to the chief engineer;
Mr. John Frickett,
works. Th •
and Mr. Bernays, clerk of . Their Lordships
immediately proceeded to view the Lady Franklin
and Sophia, vessels recently employed under Captain
in the Arctic Expedition, and witnessed the
Penny
which excellent condition in they arrived from that
hazardous service, without having sustained the
least injury from the ice in the Polar regions.
3tr-I.eastelri
These vessels are now entirely dismantled, and ready
to be towed to Chatham to be laid up for the winter.

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predict, be an especial favourite. The pungent humour, the
caustic satire, the keen knowledge of society and the world
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our weaknesses, our indiscretions (for " Family Mysteries "
touch on very tender subjects) too roughly handled, We
must acknowledge that it is done with the best intentions,
and in a manner to make us laugh at our own infirmities.
The love scenes are worked up with Mrs. Trollope's usual
power and address, and the interest of the story is sustained
to the last.- United Service Magazine.
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GORHAM V. ExETEit.--Frorn a privately cir-
culated of contributions to the Brampford Speke fund, for
defraying the expenses incurred by the Rev. Mr. Gotham in
this celebrated cause, we learn that the total expenses of tha
contest were 3,604/. 7s. Bd., and the total contributions 3,857/.
9s. 10d. leaving a balance in the treasurer's hands of 2531.
2s. 2d. The auditors, in presenting their statement, ob-.
serve, "We have no hesitation in paying the balaneo oe
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