The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-17 00:00:00

LON DON, SAT UR DA Y 14;V LoIVINC3r., MA

LORD STANLOY AND HIS CON-
STITUENTS.

On Wednesday Lord Stanley, M. P„ addressed a large and
enthusiastic meeting of his constituents at King's Lynn, on
the present aspect of foreign and domestic politics, with the
view, as he stated, of informing them of the political aims
and ideas of their representative, and of hearing from them
their wishes on public matters. With regard to the war, the
hope he had about a year ago expressed, that it would be of
no long duration, had been justified. There was no reeotd,
be believed, of any European struggle of equal magnitude
ending so quickly—a circumstance which indicated that peace
had become, or was becoming, the natural condition of mo-
dern society. Mr. Pitt was stated to have once said, when
accused of making undue concessions in a commercial treaty
with France, that it was a matter of no great importance, be-
cause a treaty was only binding during peace, and peace with
France c „uld not be expected to last a very long time. We
had now got beyond that state of things, and though we were.
yet far from the realisation of universal peace, there were:in-
ternational interests growing up which tended slowly, ,but
certainly, to link nation to nation, until a gradual diminution
of armaments should take place, and Europe be spared the
reproach of keeping more than 2,000,000 men in idleness
and arms—a standing burden on their fellow-citizens, a per-
petual check to material progress, a "pertual danger to free-
dom, and cause of jealousy and mistrust betwedn people and
people. The treaty of peace, he thought, had been received
with satisfaction, but without enthusiasm, which was all
that reasonable people expected ; but he thought its terms
svcrefar less important than the spirit in which the parties
mutually negotiated. A treaty, though morally binding and

sacred, was not legally enforceable, for there was law

court to take cognis tuco of its breach ; or, if there ware,
there was no international police to enforce its decrees. Trea-

ties, therefore, could always be broken by those-. who
made them ; excuses were sever wanting ; and neither princes
nor people eared much for the 'public opinion of any nation
but their own, which was generally with them iu such mat-
ters. Terms of peace to be lasting must be not only honour-
able, but such that neither party should have an interest to
break them. With regard to the present prospects of
Europe on this subject he said that, diplomatically, there

were four continental powers which had assumed to stand in

the first rank, but practically Austria and Prussia had played
a secondary part. France and Russia were the only two a!,le
to involve E rope in war. Russia had a certain kind of public
opinion, but was mainly governed by the personal will of its
ruler; and he believed that the Czar's love of peace and desire
for social progress was really a part of his character, and not
assumed for a temporary purpose. With regard to Franco,
although it was an article of belief with some that her restless
ambition and warlike temper were still a cause of danger to
Europe, yet during the last year there had been a general desire
in France for peace, and a very strong pressure upon the Go-
vernment, by its own subjects, to make peace. Napoleon
had, by directing the attention of his subjects to industrial en-
terprise rather than foreign Conquests, given another proof that
he understood their temper and tendency. In the disposi Awl
of those foreign Powers, therefore, there was seen re 'son to
hope for a continuance of peace. The , general course which
this country ought to pursue in her future foreign policy
was plain. No doubt there were cases, such as those of
some of the present Italian Governments, where the acts of
cruelty perpetrated in the name of law justified, and even de-
manded, the remonstrance of foreign countries, on the ground
of common humanity; others, again, like that of Sardinia,
where we were bound to protect a faithful ally;. but as a
general rule he was opposed to much interference iu the
internal affairs of foreign countries, because, among other
reasons, it afforded despotic Governments their best excuse
for keeping up the immense standing armies which gave
them the power of doing mischief. The duty of England,
as an empire, lay beyond the limits of Europe. Her
people were eminently a colOnising people. Half our trade
at present was with the United States, the colonies, and
India,----with States which now are or have been our
colonies, and with territories which we held by conquest.
Canada and Australia were doubling their population in
25 years, and every acre reclaimed, every colonist who
went out to our colonies, was an accession to the cause of
freedom and self-government. The successful and con-
tinued existence of one free and great empire, like England,
under constitutional government, was standing and in-

destructible evidence against absolutism in all forms.
England, so constituted, was destined to lead mankind
out of their present transitional state to a better and
happier future, destroying abuses, not by direct attack,
but by the irresistible attraction of example. Turn-
ing to our internal policy, there were many questions of deep
interest which could at present be stirred with advantage. It
would be premature to speak of financial reform until our
war taxes wero paid off; but there were two taxes so objec-
tionable, on social and economic grounds, that they might
well be remitted, even at the expense of maiutaining a higher
income tax than would be otherwise necessary. The insurance
duty was a fine on prudence, was not felt by the very rich or
the very reckless, and was now driving business from our
own into foreign bands ; and the paper duty was vexatious in
collection, checked improvement in manufacture, tended to
raise the price of an article of which the demand exceeded the
supply, and hisidered the diffusion of cheap literature and
news. Parliamentary reform must necessarily be deferred.
He believed a general apathy prevailed respecting it ; but he
would say that either the thing ought not to be done or it
ought to be done effectually—no small measure could or ought
to pass ; and no Government ought to take up that subject
unloo they determined to stand or fall by it. It was Litoler•
able that a Minister should be enabled to keep on agitation
hanging over the country, merely because his party was dis•
satisfied, and he wished to content them. A third topic
which, ho regretted, could not be raised for the moment,
was that of education. He was less sanguine than last year
of any general measure on the subject; but the late
majority against Lord John Russell's scheme was no test
of the general feeling, the measure being not ono com-
plete in all its details, but merely a series of resolutions,
some very good, some doubtful, but all put together
without much appearance of care or consideration,
and put forward without much external support. But there
was no cause for permanent discouragement, for there were
causes in operation on which, in the long run, the friends of
education might confidently rely—the cheap press, called into
existence by the legislation of last year, cheap literature,
libraries, reading•rooms, institutes, and, more than all, the
gradual opening of the civil service to intellectual competi-
tion. Sooner or later the adoption by this country of a sound
system of school teaching was certain. But the practical
subjects which at the present moment ought to engage at-
tention were mainly three—army reform, administrative re-
form, and the amendment of the law. The first was a duty
imperatively called for by the experience of the war. lie
believed the Crimean disasters were caused much more by
want of plan and foresight in the executive at home than by
want of administrative ability on the spot ; but it was only
natural that two years of war should have taught us that
which 40 years of peace had led us to forget. Now was the
time for action ; if the opportunity was lost it was not likely
to return. For years before this war the House of Commons
could hardly be got to listen to a discussion on military. affairs
—the expense of the army, and not its efficiency, was alone
thought of. That state of things, natural in time of peace,
was certain to recur, and if it did the victories of the war
would be cited in defence of every system, notwithstanding
which they were obtained. No doubt the Government
or its friends would say that before the reduction
was carried too far, and that it was necessary to
keep under arms a numerically largo force in time
of peace. There would always be crafty men to hold
that language, and credulous men to believe it.
and that
frompp ose
ing that advice had been acted upon in 1815,
that time to the present we had spent two or three millions
more early than we had done on our army, wo should have
had a larger number of retired officers, or, worse, officers
who ought to be retired but were not—two generations of
soldiers trained in arms without even firing a sot against an
enemy—and a vast stock accumulated of weapons obsolete
without being employed, and the cost of which would have
been lost to the country. Taking at the highest estimate
(100,000,0001.) the cost of the late war, 2,500,000/, yearly
from 1815 to 1854 would have conic to the same sum, with
the addition of interest, while it was not at all certain that
increased preparation would have prevented the war. But
what was wanted in time of peace was rather the nucleus
round which an army might be readily formed than a great
army itself ; and he pointed to the militia, disembodied, but
called out for short intervals of training, as supplying such a
want. The army should be, to a great extent, relieved of
the duty of guarding the colonies, Canada and Australia
especially being well able to do that by local militia ; and
for what was retained of the standing armyats:saetttii;
mhestropmh
alocciner sopPiaonsf
of instruction should be formed, no expense grudged in their
o
training, all means used to develope the scientific branch of
the service, and, above all, ss:a7mathutchleractegvaotrihdlce
the discharge of their ordinary duties that the profession
should be really a working one, and not a mere excuse
for wearing
rallel, rs'n'inhroiestdhleocrrodasth.ip countries or in other branches of the
public service in this, that it was anomalous in theory, un-
just between man and man, and that the principle on which
alone it could be defended would also justify the selling of
judgeships and secrotaryships of State. Its one sole defence
was, that the abolition of purchase would put too much
patronage into the hands of Government. But the patronage
of the civil service had been taken from Government, some'
branches of the military service had been opened to compe-
tition, a numerous force was not required, and, further, a
fixed proportion of commissions might be given away to the
sons of deserving officers, if the social class from which
officers were taken were changed b 3 this measure, to any
great extent, it would be a misfortune— a constitutional I
danger. An army whose officers solely, depended upon the I
Crown for means of subsistence might become in troubled
times a dangerous instrument in the hands of an unscru-
pulous Government against the people. But he believed
that result was quite out of the question ; the army was
never a lucrative profession ; it afforded, during peace, very
little scope for ambition ; it was apt to lead to habits of
expense, and the education required for it was costly to ob-
tain • it was not likely, therefore, to be selected by parents
in the less wealthy classes. The preponderance of ono class
among officers depended, in fact, more on the general tastes
and habits of the community, than upon any exclusive
system at the Horse Guards. The objection' to military
reform by Parliament, on the ground of its interfering with
the Crown, Lord Stanley combated by printing to the navy,
which was represented in the House of Commons, and
governed like any other department responsible to Parlia-
ment ; and by arguing that Parliament voted money for
the army, it had the right of ascertaining how that money
was applied. But he only claimed for the Commons the right
of settling the general principles of military administration,
anddeprecated those debates on the merits of •n lividual
officers, and criticisms on military operations, of which there-
had been too many. The house (lid not sit to revise time sen-
tences of courts-martial, or to give opportunity for eulogising
particularwith Mr. Gladstone, that it was not overpaid, I lit that
men. With regard to the civil service, lieo,ttLibouenllgaiehyhtee,
necessarynoi•e pei
if
persons
leiveeyr employedowere
better to s
edloe
ethe d work.
lie than itn
that it often happened that candidates known to be unfit
were appointed with that knowledge, but the fair ground of
complaint was that uo care was taken to choose the fittest.
All, lie believed, agreed that there ought to be a check to
this, and the only question was, whether the test to be im-
posed should be merely an excluding test or a competitive
one. He was in favour of the latter, as tending to promote
self-respect in the employed, relieving public men of the re-
sponsibility of selection, which was treated lightly by the
careless, but weighed heavily upon time conscientious. A
system, on the other hand, which merely excluded those
below a mental standard, relieved the :Minister or responsi-

bility without securing the :ablest applicant. lie believed
(contrary to au objection which was urged) that the test of
knowledge applied to persons entering life, was to .a great
extent a moral as well as an intellectual test, proving the
existence of industry, perseverance, and steady habits
mush more than of mere talent, which was -not by
• any means the first quality required for success in such
examinations. He admitted that this: question should be
I looked at on its own merits, and not with reference to its in-
' direct bearing on the question of education that in exami-
nations carried too far there was a risk of pedantry; that
ac-
curacy of knowledge, not extent of tettaintrients, should be
aimed at ; mid that care should be taken to give as -far as
possible an equal value to attainments of different kinds, but
' while there was no infallible way of judging men's abilities
and characters, on the whole the competitive plan was the -
best. He enpported it because it excluded absolute ineffi-
ciency, favouritiSm, or suspicion of favouritism, and carried
out that great and sound idea—au open career to all. He
advocated a more ready transfer of civil servants from depert-
meat and department, so as to facilitate promotion by mete-
instead of 'seniority, without exciting jealousy; and the se-
paration of merely mechanical from mental labour, thus re-
ducingethe number of servants required in the higher grades,
and rendering Their work of a hightir character, and, there-
fore, more attractive. With reference tatty, amendment, he
believed that the great majority of 'thinking
.men wore
agreed that the ecclesiastical courts, with their cumbrous and
antiquated Machinery, ought to be done away, with, and
probate of wills decided ie a new court._ The only difference
of opinion was, as to the constitution of this new court ; but
he hoped that difference between the two bills before Parlia-
ment would be settled and an effective measure brought into
. operation. Greater facilities were required in the tranSfer of
landed property, and for trio tote of agrioultnral improve-
ment, the actual possessor of land ought as far as possible
to be the absolute mastir, of it, independently of the claims
Of others. Asirecommeuded by the statute .I.rew Commis•
sion, a board was requit-31 to examine now bills before and
during theii passage through Parliament, to insure their
being clear in meaning and not repugnant to
w fOitem
The consolidation, also, ph the_statae
a
—the separation of obsolete laws from those actually in force,
;s required
—the
ts
and reduction of the whole within comparatively small
bulk. Oa one subject—that of marriage and divorce—the
present state of the law was absolutely disgraceful. He
did net wish: to extend the right of divorce beyond the
cause of adultery ; but it was monstrous that a husband
who had been deserted and wronged could only be released
by a special act of Parliament, costing about 10001. The
Lord Chancellor had a bill on that subject before Parlia-
ment, and it was t.t be hoped that the session would not
pas/ without the establishment of a cheap and simple
tribunal for cases of the kind. Lastly, a Minister of Justice
was required. Without some such central controlling autho-
rity all projects for law amendment would be fragmentary and
imperfect. That wane it would not be difficult to supply.
He advised a division of the numerous duties now devolving
on the Lord Chancellor in this respect as Speaker to the House
of Lords and as the highest judicial authority in the realm.
Passing over numerous minor matters his lordship spoke of
his vote on the Sunday question, confessing himself ashamed,
not of any vote that he had given, but that such a vote
should be held to require apology or explanation. He had
maintained, and would maintain through life, the prin-
ciple that individual conviction should be free ; that the laws
existed for the maintenance of social order, for the protection
of man against man, and not for the enforcement of any real
or supposed religious obligation. He expressed his surprise
at the state of feeling evinced on this subject in a Protestant
country, showing, as it did, that there were many who in
theory would admit the right of private judgment, but who
in practice, when the private judgment of their neighbours
differed from their own, were very ready to adopt the theories
of former times. His lordship concluded by Observing on
the general question of reform, that if we wished to go far
we must not go fast ; but while he deprecated all hasty or
violent change, he believed there was in the and no policy so
revolutionary as that which had been called the conservatism
of immobility—the resolution that "happen what may after-
wards, things shall not be altered in our time." He would
not use party names, because, at the present time, they had
little meaning ; but he would say (not as a paradox, bat as a
truth) that in England there was much which all must wish
to see altered, much which all must wish to see retained ;
and in England, therefore, no man could be a reformer who
was not in some sense a Conservative, and no man could be a
true Conservative who was not in some sense a reformer.
His lordship's address, which was most attentively listened
to aed frequently applauded, concluded amid enthusiastic
cheering., and a vote of thanks to him, proposed by Mr.
Bagge, was given with three times three

A vote of thanks to the mayor for presiding concluded the
proceedings.

SUICIDE OF MI?. arIARLES RUSSELL.

Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, held an in-
quest yesterday at 2 o'clock oa the body of Mr. C. Russell,
late chairman of the Great Westera Railway, at his late resi-
dence in Argyle street, Regent-street
Mr. G. L. Russell, of the Chancery bar, identified the
body as that of his brother. He knew of no cause except
mental disease for his committing suicide.
Robert Howard, valet to the deceased, deposed that he had
two or three days before complained of pains in the chest ;
and on Tuesday morning had called for a cup of tea—a fact
quite unusual with him, and still complained of the pain he
was labouring under, and said he had sentfor medical advice.
He left him at 10 o'clock at night, awl went to his room at a
quarter before 7on Thursday morning. He then found the
deceased lying on the bed in his dressing-gowg,eit his side.
Ills face was covered with blood ; two pistol 'were lying by
his side ; he was not dead at that thee, but breathing hard.
He (witne,,s) ran for the nearest medical man, and Mr. M'Os-
car, of Tyler-street, attended, and a physician was sent for.
He heard no report of a pistol during tho night, and no one
was in the house except the deceased, witness, and the female
housekeeper. The pistols found on the bed ho had never
seen before. One had-been discharged, the other appeared to
have missed fire. The deceased never spoke, and died about
2 o'c ock.

Mr. J. MgOscar deposed I hat when he was called to see the
deceased he found him bleeding from_the mouth and nostrils.
The blood on his face was quite hard ; and, on examining the
mouth, he found a large fissure in the centre of the palate,
evidently caused by a pistol-shot, the bullet, in al probability
lodging near the brain. Ho was perfectly unconscious and
had bad no power of motion, and the act might have been
committed one or two hours before he was calledin. He had
11(4 doubt that death was caused by effusion of blood on the
brain from the wound, and that, the deceased committed the
act himself, which appeared, from the direction of the wound,
to have been done with the left hand. In his opinion, from
the marks of blood ou the floor, the deceased must have fired
the pistol standing, and then thrown himself on to the bed.
Both pistols bad not been discharged, but, one bein un-
screwed, the powder had dropped out, the bullet remaining
in the barrel.
Mr. Morton, of i2d, Stanhope•place, Surgeon, said he had
known the deceased for seine years ; he had latterly been suf-
fering from oppression on the chest, which would tend to de-
press the brain and cause mental derangement.
After some further evidence the jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity."

RAILIV AY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Milos I
opened,)lBs6.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

BRITISH.

115
37%

Aberdeen .. • .

Belfast and County Down..
Birke.nhea,,, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, filaek burn, and West York ....
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian. ......... ............

26
117
191 4
9'4
'64
20

Chester and Holyhead...
Cork, Blackroek, and Passage •• •• ••
Cork and Bandon .... „ ........ „
Dublin and Belfast T unction
Dublin and Drogheda...—. .........
Dublin and Kinq'stown ..............
Dundee and Arbroath .......• • • .. ••

Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junetioi•
Dundalk an.: Enniskillen...... • • • • • •
East Anglian.... • ............. • •

67%
93
417

East Lancashire.. • • ....

Eastern Conn tis!s and Norfolk ...•
Eastern Union

Edinburgh and Glfts:x.ly ...........
Edinburgh, Perth. and Dundee.• ••
Exeter cud Creditor.. •• •• •• ••

Farness Railway . • ......

lB3li
283
203Y4
365
251 A
90
286►,!

Glasgow, an-1 South-Western.......
Great Northern.....

Great Southern and Western (Ireland'
Great Western ...................•

163
553%
1143%
267

173%
498%
126!4
52
781,4
149
233

87%
32
2934

5744
289
162%

Irish South Eastern ................
Lancaster and Car1i51e.............
Lancashire and Yorkshire..•• • • .• • • • .
Leeds Northern
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport...
London and North Western .•• • • •••,
London and Blackm- .• .• •• •• •• •• ••
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South Western....••.••
Londonderry and Enniskillen
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Shellichl,and Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Junction.•....
Maryport and Carlisle .........• ••
Midland .....• ........ •••••••• •• • •
Midland Groat Western (Irish) •• . • ..
Monlilands

Newcastle and Carll4le..•• •• •• •• •
North British •• •• •• •• •• •
North Staffordshire •• •• •• •• •• •• •

north-Western •• •• •• ••

-leo:Ugh C9ntral • • •• •• • • •• •

icottish Midland •• •• ..!• ••

.
a
ihrewstrary na Birmingham ••• • ••
ihrewsbnry and Chester •• •• •• •• •• ••
ihropshire Union .. •• ••••'• • • •• •'

Aollth nevon ....... •••• •• •• •• ••
South Ea5tera......................
iouth ...• •• •• •• " •"• •• •• ••
-loath York., Doncaster, and Goole ..
Taff Vale ........ ..... .•• •• •••• •• ••

Receipts

1856.

3,164
931

6,286
11,695
5,193
176

291
1,059
1,498
743

573
1,002

889
6,189
23.499

1,183
5,772
20,603
6,943
29,169
249
5,873
22,318

60,110
1,377
12,72 G
16,199
637

3,108
827

9,009
808
787
29,613
3,721

M5ter...........•••• •••• •••• ""•'
Waterford .ni Limerick •• •• •• •• •• •.
West Cornwall •• •• •• '•• • • ••• •••'

Whltehaven Junction .•• • •• " • • •' "
York and Ne wcastle, and Berwick Sr
York and North Midland & Leeds.,

6,011
11,392
5,131
157

270
1,007
1,391
749
460
839

931
5.149

22,137
5,010
5,4411

4,878
7,111
1,035

747
5,375
20.119
6,480
26,173
316
5 916
19,102

54,822
1,212
12,312
13,427
641

8,834
G 34
912
26,346
3,114

4.815
6,443
1,008

1,967
3,3,7

1,429
2,206

860
2,433
16,863
6,235
2,283
4,055
1,422
1,001
578
318

TOIEIGN.
Dutch Rhenish •••••••• •• •• •• ••
Lyons and Mediterranean •• •••• •• ••
Nfontereau and Troyes •• •• •• •"• •• ••
Namur and Liege ..•• •• •• "•"• .••
Northern of France •• •• "••" '• •'
Orleans and eeatral ..... •• •• •"•
Paris and Lyons .• •• "•• •• •• •• •
Paris and Ronen. •• -•••••••
Paris and Strasburgh •••• •• ••"••
ttonen and HAvre•• •• •• •• •• '• •• '
Western of France .•••••••••..

2,009

34,231

891
2,269
16,82.1
5,382
1,8')7
3,610
1,409
984
60.5
263

1,135

35,549

STARVATION AT THE CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS,—The
people of these islands, particularly St. Antonio, are at
present in the very depths of
ni-i sFry, dying literally by
hundreds from starvation, and it is anticipated by well-
informed people that at least one-half of the population
(.vhich at present is 30,000) will perish. Philanthropists
may find ample scope for their generosity, but it must be
prompt, as tin-ir case is now all but hopeless,and a little
seasonable relief save thousands of poor wretches
from a miserable death ; or better, perhaps, than any-
thing else, would be the giving them the chance to leave
the islands, from which the favour of the Almighty ap-
pears to hay, been removed, there having been no rain
fcr Vireo years.—Alcr,2ing Herald.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

CROWN-OFEICE, MAY IG.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TELE PRESENT PARLIA.
WENT.
County of Longford —Henry George Hughes, of Cornad•
rung in the cminty of Longford. Esq., Queen's Counsel,
in the' room of Richard MAxwell Fox, Esq., deceased.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, MAT 16.

Gth Regiment of Dragoon Guards— John William
Doering, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Bruce, promoted.
' 7th Dragoon Gnards--Christopher Barton, to be Cornet,
without purchase,' vice Nicholl, promoted.
lat, Dragoons.--Cernet Godfrey Tliomas Hallifax has
boon permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
commission,

11th Light Dragoons—Robert Dunmore Napier, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Cockburn, promoted ;
Thomas Marshall Cockerill, Esq., to be Paymaster, vice
Rely, appointed Paymaster of a Cavalry Depot.
12th Light Dragoons—Cornet John Charles Le Quesne,
from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, without pur-
chase, vice Goff, appointed to the 3d Light Dragoon!.
15th Light Dragoons— Edmund Buckley, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Walker, promoted.
Royal Regiment of Artillery--Lieutenant James Peattie
Morgan, with temporary rank, to be Lieutenant, with
permament rank ; Staff-Serjeant Schoolmaster Charles
%Vharry to have the rank and pay of a Quartermaster of
Royal Artillery, on being appointed Superintendtnt of the
Regimental Schools at Woolwich.
Royal Engineers—Second Captain Francis Fowke to be
Captain, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Burmester, de-
ceased ; Lieutenant Robert Mann Parso:a to be Second
Captain, vice Fowke.

Coldstream Guards—Honourable William Henry Bruce
Ogilvy to ba Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Rose, promoted; Hugh Gr ,nville Fortescue, Gent., to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Whitshed,
prom oted,

9th Regiment of Foot—The nndermentionad of have
been permitted to resign their commistions :—Lietenants
Andrew Fitz James C. Rollo, and Win. Henry Rainsford'
12th Foot —Ensign Francis Augustus Fitzgerald to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Adams, who retires; Win.
Edward Whelan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Fitz Gerald.

224 Foot—Charles Watkins, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Carter, who retires.
35th Foot—Brevet-Major Frederick English to be
Major, without purchase, vice Tedlie, who retires upon
full pay ; Lieutenant Samuel F. Blyth to be Captain,
without purchase, vice English ; Ensign Richard Trimen
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Blyth ; Lieute-
nant Robert Hill Ross, from the sth Middlesex Militia,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Trimen.
43d Foot—Lieut. Rathes Lennox Daubar to be Captain;
by purchase, vice J. G. Campbell, who retires.
52d Foot—Ensign Stephen Murphy to be Lieutenant,
by Purchase, vice Crosse, promoted; Thos. Simpson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Murphy.
51th Foot—Ensign Sir C. W. Burdett, Bart., from the
55th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Whyte, who exchanges.
55th Foot—Ensign George Lewis Whyte, from the 54th
Foot, to be Eusign, vice Sir C. W. Burdett, Bart., who
exchanges.
56th Foot—Major R. W. Lacy to bo Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Cox, who retires ; Brevet-Major John
James Bull to be Major, by purchase, vice Lacy.
60th Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase—Lieute-
nant Stanley Mortimer, from the sth Middlesex Militia ;
Lieutenant William John Everett Poole, from the 2d So-
merset Militia ; Ensign Alfred Spencer Heathcote, from
the Ist Surrey Militia.

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83d Foot—Major John Kelsall to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel W. H. Law, who
retires upon full-pay; Capt. Charles Wilson Austen to be
Major, without purchase, vice Kelsall ; Lieut. Samuel
Read to be Captain, without purchase, vice Austen ; En-
sign Peter Clifford Browne to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Read.

00th Foot—Ensign William Henry Hassard has been
permitted to, resign his commission.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Watson Stott has been per-
mitted to resign his commission.
Gold Coast Corps—Edmond Morphy Elgee, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Lazenby, promoted.
LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.—To be Second Captains—
Lieut. Henry Miller; Lieut. J. Cheese; Lieut. J.
Granger; Lieut. Wm. Smith ; Lieut. John Mackenzie ;
Lieut. Ralph Norman; Lieut. John Addy ; Lieut. Geo.
Donnelly ; Lieut. John Smith ; To be Lieutenants—Cor-
net Goorge Hall ; Cornet Jatnes Pettigrew.
CAVALRY DEPOT.—Paymaster !oliti Hely, from the 11th
Light Dragoons, to be Paymaster.
UNATTACHED.—Lieut. Rodney Payne O'Shea, from the
75th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.
The Commissions of the following officers appointed to
the British German. British Swiss, and British Italian Le-
gion, to bear the dates opposite their respective names,
viz. :

BRITISH GERMAN LEGION.
sth Ligbt Infantry—Major James Bathurst to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Commandant.

To be Captains—Gottfried Hartmann, Joseph de Inhasz,
Edward Boner, Heinrich de Bresler, Oscar von Kropff,
Carl von Brandis, Gustav Hovet, Gustav von titawitzky.
To be Lieutenants—Arthur S. do Wehlyez, Hermann
Kuhl., Carl Sergel, Wilhelm von Pentz, Oscar Maischall
von Biebsrstein, Hugo von Baddenbrock, Otto Setzer,
CIE Siefert. To be Ensigns—Carl Stoll, Edward A.
)binson, Alalbert Caspbri. Benjamin Simn.r, niermont
H Costobadie, Henry Mansergh, George von Brandis,
Anton Stuhr, Franz Fohringer. To be Adjutant— Ensign
A. Robinson.

6th Light Dragoons—to be Captains—Colin Maxwell,
Emil Schultz, Wilhelm von Goenuer, Carl Spraul, Schutz
von Brandis, Michael Thumser, Wm Gibbon, Ludwig
Raven, Count Rudolph von Ronow, Alfred von Diebitch,
To be Lieutenants—Anton Wascelewsky, Franz Strang,
Ju!ins von Kursinger, Heinrich Krauseneck, Bsptiste de
Packh, Carl von Tettonborn. To be Ensigns—Oscar Ebrt,
Theodor Ditttnann, Friedrich Doesd, Edward von Scha-
den, Richard Weitstein, Friedrich Kempe, Alfred von
Mauntz, Alexander Gordon. To be Adjutant—Ensign
Richard Wettstein.