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my men, as I did not consider the ship safe without them
at this exposed anchorage.
8. I cannot speak too highly of the conduct of all engaged
in this sharp and decisive affair, more especially the conduct
of William Odgers, leading seaman, to which I shall bring
your more particular notice in another letter.
9. I beg to enclose the surgeon's report of casualties in
the party landed.—l have, &c.
(Signed) P. dRACROFT,
Captain and Senior Officer in New Zealand.
Commodore Wm. Loring, C. 8., Senior Officer.
List of Casualties in the party from her Majesty's ship
Niger, at tho attack and capture of the Maori Pah, on
the 28th March, 1860.
Robert Glanville, captain foretop, severely wounded in
the leg.

George Tozer, ordinary 2d class, severely shot through
the thigh.

William Palmer, private KM., severely wounded in the
knee.

William Clark, private R.M., severely wounded in the
knee,

(Signed) W PATRICK,
Surgeon, H.M.S. Niger.
(Signed) P. CRACROFT.
Captain and Senior Officer, New Zealand.

(Copy
Her Majesty's.) ship Niger, Taranaki,
New Zealand, Maroh 31, 1860.
Sir,--With reference to paragraph No. 4 of my letter No.
10, 1860, 1 beg leave most respectfully to lay before you a
statement of the conspicuous gallantry of William Odgers,
leading seaman, upon the occasion of the capture of the
Pah, in having been the first to enter it, in the face of the
heavy fire opened upon us.
He also assisted in hauling down the enemy's colours, in
which act of daring, which was performed under my own
eye, three other men equally participated, viz : Robert
Glanville, captain foretop, William Older, A. 8., and Wil-
liam Clarke, supernumerary marine, belonging to the Iris
carrying your broad pendant.
And I should wish to submit for your consideration,
whether all these men are entitled equally with William
Odgers to the decoration of the Victoria Cross, and if not,
then I should beg leave to recommend William Odgers for
it, as being the most deserving, for the reason first men-
tioned.

It would be proper to add that Robert Glanville and
Wm. Clarke were both severely wounded in the Pah.—l
have, &c.
eSigned) P. CRACROFT,
Captain and Senior Officer in New Zealand.
Commodore Wm. Loring, C. 8., Senior officer.

(Copy.)
Her Majesty's ship Niger, Taranaki,
March 31, 1860.
• Sir,—Referring to my letter No. 10 of this day, reporting
the service upon which Lieutenant 'W. 11. Blake, senior
lieutenant in charge of a detachment of seamen and ma
rines, had been employed with the force under the com-
mand of Lieutenant Colonel Murray, 65th Regiment—
I have now the honour to enclose a letter and its en-
closure, received from the Lieutenant-Colonel, expressing
his high sense of the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Blake,
at the action at Omata, on the 20th inst., in which that
officer was dangerously wounded, as also of the steady good
conduct of the petty officers, seamen, and marines upon
this occasion, under Mr. C. B. Theobald, midshipman,
upon whom the command had devolved.

In requesting you to bring the gallant conduct of Lieut.
Blake to the favourable notice of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, I beg to recommend him to their lord-
ships as a most zealous, active officer, who has always
merited my entire confidence, and is well worthy of pro-
motion.

The name of Lieutenant Blake has been before mentioned
to their lordships in despatches, as being the Senior Lieu-
tenant present at the destruction of a formidable Chinese
piratical stronghold and junks in March, 1859.—1 have, &c.,
(Signed) P. CRACROFT, Captain.
Commodore, Loring, C. 8., &c. &c.

(Copy.)
New Plymouth, March 31, 1860.
Sir,—l consider it due to you to express the high sense I
entertain of the gallant services rendered by Lieutenant
Blake, and the officers and men of her Majesty's ship Niger,
who formed part of the force under my command employed
against the rebel natives at the village of Omata, on the
28th inst.

I was myself an eye-witness of the steadiness with which
the gallant blue jackets advanced in skirmishing order over
a difficult piece of country, compelling their opponents to
retire before them ; and, from the information that has
reached me since, their force told severely.
I beg to add that it was with extreme regret that I be-
held their gallant leader taken to the rear dangerously
wounded. My regret was the greater, from the feeling of
friendship I entertained for that officer, occasioned by the
perfect cordiality which existed between us on all matters
of duty since he has been attached to the garrison under
my command.
I beg further to inform you that the men of the Niger, when
ordered to retire, displayed the same steadiness under the
command of Mr. Theobald, who seemed to possess the cool-
ness of a veteran.

I herewith enclose a return of casualties in the Naval
Brigade.---I have, &c.,(igned) G. F. MURRAY,
Brevet -Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain P. Cracroft, R.N.,
Commanding her Majesty's ship Niger.
Lieutenant W. H. Blake, dangerous bullet wound in
right breast.

Thomas Millard, Royal Marines, shot through, the head,
since dead.

(Copy.)

Brigade-office, Taranaki,
March 29, 1860.
Colonel Gold, commanding the forces, wishes to express
to Captain Cracroft, of her Majesty's ship Niger, senior
naval officer on the station, Lieut.-Col. Murray, 65th
Regiment, and Captain Brown, of the New Plymouth.
Militia, and the officers, non-commissioned officers, war-
rant and petty officers and men, who were engaged yester-
day with the enemy his high sense of the gallantry dis-
played, which led not only to the rapid destruction of a Pah,
but also to a considerable loss on the part of the insurgents.
The Colonel commanding will not fail to report most fa-
vourably to higher authority their distinguished valour and
most active exertions.—By command,
(Signed) JOHN PAUL,
Captain 65th Regt., Acting Major of Brigade.

In consideration of his services, as mentioned in these
despatches, Lieutenant William Hans Blake has been pro-
moted to the rank of Commander, with Seniority, from 26th
June, 1860.
Wiliam Ogders has also been offered a warrant as a
Gunner or Boatswain, provided ke be found competent.

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING),

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 3.

2nd Regiment of DragOons—Lieutenani-General A. K.
Clark Kennedy, C. 8., from Colonel 6th Dragoon Guards,
to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General the Lord Sandys,
deceased.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant-General Sir
James Jackson, K.C.8., from Colonel 6th Dragoons, to
be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General A. K. Clark Ken-
nedy, C. 8., removed to the 2nd Dragoons.
6th Regiment of Dragoons—Major-General William Beck-
with to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir James
Jackson, K.C.8., removed to the 6th Dragoon Guards.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-General Sir John
Mark Frederic Smith to be Colonel-Commandant vice
Sir George Judd Harding, K.C.8., deceased.
WAR.-OFFICE, PALL MALL, AuG. 3.
Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Thomas Joseph Walker, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Glyn, promoted.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant 'Colonel and Brevet-
Celonel Charles William Morley Balders, C. 8., from the
12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Royal Artillery—Brevet-Colonel John Henry Francklyn,
C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Pickering, retired on full pay;
Brevet-Major James Robert Gibbon, C. 8., to be Lieut.-
Colonel, vice Francklyn; Second Captain William
Morris to be Captain, vice Gibbon; Lieutenant Henry
Whitby Briscoe to be Second Captain, vice Morris.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant John Barrett Lennard has
been permitted to resign his Commission ; Lieutenant
George Goodall has peen. permitted to resign his Com-

mission.
Military Train—Captain George Joy, from the 59th Foot,
to be Captain,' vice.Wolridge, who exchanges.
3d Regiment of Foot—Henry Drinkrow Harrison, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Elwes, promoted.
4th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Moreton Frederick Thrupp,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Wright, appointed to the 83d Foot.
7th Foot—Robert Henry Mande, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice John Graydon Smith, promoted.
11th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Frederick Fitzroy Gibbons,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Dick appointed to the 37th Foot.
14th Foot—George Frederick Green, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Day, who retires.
18th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel John
Thornton Grant, C. 8., from the 49th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-
Colonel Clement Alexander Edwards, C. 8., ,who ex-
changes.
22d Foot—Wm. Thomas Slater Hull, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Pilsworth, promoted.
25th Foot—Ensign Richard Webster to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Terry, promoted to a Company.
30th Foot—Jame Cooke, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Nagle, promoted.
33d Foot—Francis Wilmot, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Shipton, promoted.
35th Foot—Williara Angier Brock, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Massey, deceased.
40th Foot—Albert Simeon, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Clarke. promoted.
41st Foot--Arthur Drummond Currie, Gent., to be Ensign
by purchase, vice Boulderson, appointed to the 97th
Foot.
47th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Van Renen Conway-Gor-
don to be Captain, by purchase, vice Palmer, who retires;
Ensign John Frederic Bell to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Conway-Gordon.
48th Foot—Lieutenant James Farquhar to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Latham who retires ; Ensign John Wal-
ter Keyworth to be I,ieutenant, by purchase, vice Far-
quhar.

49th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Cle-
ment Alexander Edwards, C. 8., from the 18th Foot, to
I be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lieutenant-Colonel and
Brevet-Colonel John Thornton Grant, C. 8., who ex-
changes.
55th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Sidney Cargill, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Nunn, who resigns.
56th Foot—Ensign Caleb Coote Lloyd to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice. Hill, promotea ; Gentleman Cadet
William Frederick Hillat Jones, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lloyd.
58th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Arnold Boyle, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Worthington, who
exchanges.
59th Foot—Captain Henry RidgeWolridge, from the Mili-
tary Train, to be Captain, vice Joy, who exchanges.
76th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Douglas Campbell De Wend,
Ilfruormehta4se,RvoicyeaAl MusitliintarpyroCmololteegde., to be Ensign,
Without
ma Foot—Ensign Frederick Augustus Wright, from 4th
appointed to the Staff.
Henryßobert from
Foot,
9,3 th Foot—Surgeon William.Lapsley, from the Staff, to be
to be Ensign, vice Healey, promoted.
nke
Cadet
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
91sStuErgoeoot—n,Gvie.cnet1Cemlaar
without pur-
chase, vice Harvey, promoted ; Lieute,t Charles Lacon.
Harvey to be instructor of Musketry, vice Hall, who
has resigned that appointment.
e 1,,.... Foot—Charles Hausman Haycock, Gent,, to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Pilkington, promoted.
99th Foot—Gentleman QadA Asiary Robert
Eyre from the