The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDA Y EVENINri, AUGUST 2, 1856

recd filled with dead -and dyirlg—poor young Burgoyne
going past on his litter, crying out cheerily, "It's all right
—it's only my foot;" "Billy Fi:z;erald" shot through
b <th legs lying up against the wall, and chatting any as
if he bad just sat down after a quadrille ; a whiteihaired
field officer (of the 55th), whose name I don't know; badly
wounded through the body, who could only moan laitterly
"Oh my poor men ! oh my poor men ! they 1141ti't a
chance ;" then the river stained here and there with blood
still flowing from the dead and dying who lay 6n the
shallows and the banks, lined nevertheless by huiidreds,
who drank its waters eagerly ; the horrid proces on of
the dripping litters going to the rear of the fight ;
the solid mama of Adams' brigade, . halted by Lord
Raglan's orders, as it emerged from the smoke of tour-
honk ; the Staff itself and the Commander•in-Chief,
gathered on the rising ground close by ; that ghastly
battle-field where so many lay in so small a spade pu-
trescent with heat and wounds, the grey blocks o( Rus-
sians melting away like :clouds, and drifted off lay the
fierce breath of battle ; the shriek and rush of theisbells
from the brims howitzers in the battery, the patter 'of the
frantic rifle, the rattling roll of the musketry, the fr.an tic
cheers of our men as they stood victors on the heights,
drowning the_groans and cries which for a moment sue-

ceeded the roar of battle ; the shrill 11.mrish o(.1 the
French bugles, and the kiyous clamour of their rums
from the other side of the ravine,—all came back upon
the ear azain, and the eye renewed its p!easure ias it
gazed from the ridge upon the Wain where it had liefora
~een the Russians flying in disorder, with their rear
still covered by the threatening squalrons of their
cavalry. Then one recalled the spot where one had

seen some friend lying dead, or some one—friend
foe—whom it were no mercy to strive to keep alive
Watkin Wynn, stretched on the ground in front of t'

trench, with a smile on his face—Colonel Cbester,l wi
a scornful frown, and his sword clenched in the leaf
grasp—Monck, with the anger of battle fixed on pvei
feature—the3e and many another friend in the pe4cef
camp of Aladyn or Devno rose up as they lived i 6 ti
memory. The scowling Russians who glared so fikrce
on their conquerors and seemed to hate them even
hey supplied their want!, then seen for the first
left an impression respecting the type of the Muscovi__
character which has scarcely been effaced now that they
Isave ceased to be " messieurs nos amia rennemi." ;I re-
called the two days passed as no army ought to pass
vo days—on the field of battle, amid the dead.--the
hors id labours of those hours of /despondency and Frief,
where alt should have been triumph and rejoicing,; and
the awakened vigour with which the army broke from
its bivouac on the Alma and set out with no certain aim,
no fixed project, on its chance march which fate has made
so successful and so prosperous.

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Toe intrenchinent can be distinctly seen for a mile
north of the river. It is placed halfway down the slope cf
the little hillside. There were no other works, trenches,
redoubts, or fieldwolks of any description, and all the
accounts of such defences filled with riflemen and guns
which have been made public were erroneous. The
enemy had very few riflemen, and the ground, except on
the extreme left, was of such a nature that good cover
for guns could be had for the seeking. For many
years to come the battle-field is likely to remain as
it is now, the only difference being that the vines which
flourished on the 20th of September, 1854, may be'cul.
tivated once more. On ascending from the river towards
the intrenchments, you find yourself on the left com-
pletely covered by a rise of the bill in front from the
parapet, so that men could form in this hollow for the
attack without being exposed to fire ; but the Russians
aware of this, sent down on their extreme right large
bodies of infantry, who fired at the loft brigade of
the Light Infantry as they were trying to get into
b)rder after crossing the river. Oa the right, nearer to
the bridge, the ground is more exposed to guns from
the parapet of thalrenah, and on advancing a few yards
the fair open glacis, gently sloping upwards to their
muzzles, gives a terrible solution of the reason why for
a time the Light Division was held in check, and lost in
few moments upwards of 1,000 men. At the base of
this glacie, and scattered along the ridge towards the
river, are mounts of earth about 30 feet long by 15 in
breadth, which are covered with large stones and sla.)s
of slate. There are 15 or 16 of these mounds, and many
of them contain the remains of friends and foes. Some
small black wooden crosses are placed here and there
among these mounds, which rise to the height of two or
three feet above the level of the plain, and are all covered
with rank vegetation and wig I flowers. The par tp st of
the work is still about three feet outside, and a foot
deeper in the trench inside. Near the centre is placed a
handsome monument of white stone, with the follo wing
inscription :

" During the attack on these heights, 20th September,
1851, her Britannic Majesty's 231 R. iyal Welsh Fu)iliera
lost their commanding officer, Lieutenant CJlonel 11.
Chester, Captains A. W. Wynn, F. Evans, J. C )nolly,
Lieutenants P. Radcliffe, Sir W. Young, Bart., .T. Ae-
,triither, and J. Butler, all killed on the fiild ; also
Lieutenant Applettiwaite, mortal!), wounded, who died
Sept. 22, 1854. Tins stone is erected to their memory."
On the other side,

" The regiment xlso lost Serjeant. J. H. Jones, Colou:•
ierj,mnti It. Hitchcock, J. F. F 'wards, 1 drummer,
and 40 privateo, killed on the field."

' In the ditch of the field work there are about 20 large
graves covered with long grass and wild flowers. The
trench is about 150 yards long, and it is filled with earth
which has tumbled down into it from the parapet ; the
traces of the embrasures still remain. There are two
,t me crosses erected inside the trench on heaps of deal.
This is all that remains to betoken the scene- of the ac-
tion on our side, except a few pieces of threadbare rags
and bits of accoutrements, leather straps, old shakos,
and fragments of cowhide knapsacks. And so I take
leave of the Alma, which henceforth shall be celebrated
in history to the and of time.

DR. SCORESBY ON IRON SHIPS, THE
AUXILIA IzY SCREW, AND A USTRA-
LIAN CO 11111UiVICATION.

TO THE BDITOR OP THE MELBOURNE ARGUS.
Sir,—lt may not be uninteresting or unuseful, per-
haps, notwithstanding what bas already appeared in the
public papers of the rapid and extraordinary passage
of the It iyal Charter, that your readers and the
colonists generally should learn something respecting
the performance and capabilities of this splendid ship
from an observer on board, in no way connected with
commercial adventure, or otherwise, than fir an impor-
tint scientific purpose (deeply connected, indeed, with
the action of the compa-s in our ships), with the Liver-
pool Company, of whose enterprise and views the Royal
Charter comes as an exposition and type.
The local papers of Melbourne have well anticipated
mush of what I might say, oa the experimental evidence
thus Cr obtained of the correctness of their views
in respect to the auxiliary steam appliance for the
rapid accomplishment of an uninterrupted progress to
pretty nearly our relative arr ipodee. Three systems of
nautical appiancee for progress and speed were obviously
in question with a view to rapid and remunerating in-
tercommunication with these remota colonies. F rat,
Speed in sailing, by the adoption of a clipper class of
ships of large tonnage and great capabilities in masts,
rigging, and sails. Secondly, Steam-ships of full pro-
pelling powers. Thirdly, The combination of a Finial
or moderate screw steam power with the beet appliances
in ship model and sails fur speed and sailing, and rapt-
bilitiee of carrying canvas- The first of these plane his
been admirably tested and carried out by the dif-
ferent lines of splendid sailing-ships trading bet mean
England and Australia ; but their various delays,
by calms and light variable winds, necessarily leave
more to be accomplished. The _next plan, of full
steamers, from the -abridgment of the room for stowage,
by the requirements for coals, together with the .o .8
of time and cost for c taling by the way, could
scarcely prove remunerating, nor in the route lute I-
ful to be adopted for casing has it succeeded in
gaining any adequate• advantage in the length of the
voyage. The third plan, as alopte 1, and so tar success-
fully tested, in the first passage of the Royal Charter now
stands out conspicuously as the plan—the practicable,
and, I doubt net, fairly remunerating plan —for the con-
veyance of passengers, mails, and valuable, or mo fe-
ra.tely valuable, freight aed propeety. For not only is
the nomit.al power of the engine of this ship small, and
its requirements fur speed, &c., moderate, hut the eon-
eumption of coal is, comparatively, so trifling, that 13 or
14 tons rare generally sefEeient for a day's steaming,
whilst the while consumption for the recent pas age has
scarcely exceeded 200 tons ! Yt t this po ever of steam is
capable of giving a speed of from 7 o 8 knots, or if a e
ship bad been lighter, 9 knots, and actually carried us
through, the reiderade winds, halt of cants —where off in
weeks are spent in-helpless delays—in about 3 days. lii
cried' or in making the best of a Rued breeze un-
d-r etay•sane, or advancing head to wind in calms, and,
if required in proceedingin und:out of port, the auxiliary
eteain is found to do admirable service. And now the
priaciple is. established no doubt this auxiiiary steam ap-
pliance will be made still more effective,
Tu e performance of the R eyal Charter in her progress
to this put affords, as to certain notable particulars,
some striking facts in maritime history. •
In 25 days from Plymouth we had passed through
the tropics and traie winds, with their bean of variables
and calms, and reached the la.t. of 25 deg. S.. In 40
days we had made a distance (notwithstanding unu.mal
light and short trade winds) of about 8,000 miles, or
200 miles a day. In 50. days out, we had mads good,.
in the usual and best track of Progress, adistance of up
wards of 11,000 miles, or more than half the circumfer•
once of the glebe ; in 12 consecutive days, in one part of
our voyage, the Royal Charter made 3,522 miles of dis-
tance by log, or. 202 miles a day ; or, taking .strictly
the extent of. longitude accomplished within the
time, the distance iu geographical miles cornea out
at 3,439,. or 286 - miles a day. • On four or five,
eeefesionsi: fie-e. altered our time half an hour from
coca to
,uoo4—iu other weeds, ,brought the !go I
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on the meridian in 23i hours. On six different
days we made by sailing 300 miles and upwards a
day, averaging 13 1 fi knots, the greatest run in one
day being 346 miles, or, in 24 hours, 353 reilert being at
the average speed of 14 2.3 knots. Yet in the-e adinir
able performances, it should be observed, the full capa-
bilities of the Royal Charter were by no means brought
out, the ship being at least two feet deep, for the due
development of her sailing qualities. Moderately loaded,
as I expect she mill be fur the return passage, and a ith
some alteration subsequently, for the more complete
raising up of the screw when not in use, so as not to
prove a retarding drag by 'dipping into the surface of
the water in heavy seas, my conviction is that the Royal
Charter may sail at least a knot faster, and might as
well accomplish a distance of 380 or 390 miles, under
like circumstances, as she has already made good 358
miles in a 24 hours' run.
The " behaviour" of the Royal Charter as a "sea-
boat" indicates a model in naval architecture, I think,
as nearly as possible, perfect. Not having before,
indeed, sailed in a ship of this peculiar and elegant
build and magnitude, which, as a class, is now employed
in traversing all the great oceans of the globe, end
giving through the enterprise of our shipowners, and
the improved skill in our naval engineers and ship.
builders in Great Britain and America, a totally new
character to commercial navigation, .1 should naturally
be more deeply impressed with the magnificent qualities
of the Royal Charter individually as a ship than had I
been familiar with the performance in bad weather, by
personal exuerience, of many of the splendid models in
naval architecture which I have seen at Livio pool, Glas-
gow, and elsewhere. Sill I shall be safe, I doubt not,
in asserting that, whatever may be the superiority of
action and behaviour of our larger clipper ships gene-
rally, in all the properties which characterise the most,
perfect sea-boats, the performance and behaviour
of the B. lel Charter in the severest testing of
these qualities, was magnificent. Her buoyancy, liveli-
ness, ease of motion in the most cross and tremen-

dons seas, and in the vssess on of that extraordi-
he nary quality of all but intelligent efforts and yielding.,
;th like an endowment of instinct, for the avoidance of the
highest waves .50....thelofty_breaking peaks of cros,ing
seas, were as astonish'al as they were admirable. Su
was her behaviour in sou lding, not only before heavy
gales generally, but in the hard trial of scudding before
a cyclone, for some hours of hurricane fury (which we
eialountered on the 6th of April, in latitude 47 deg. S.,
longitude 90 deg. to 94 d•-g E.), when it was intens.dy
interesting to look abroad and mark her action under
seas, as measured by myself two or three hours after
the fiercest of the hurricane was over, of the prevailing
height of 30 feet, with numerous higher waves of broad
extensive 'solid water crests or summits of 40 to 42
feet or more, with knots and broken crests, from
the crossings of westerly and southerly seas, some yards
higher. It would hardly be doing justice to my own
feelings and observation if I were here to neglect to re-
fer to the able and seaman-like manner, combining judi-
cious ptudence with effective perseverance ald laborious
watchfulness, with which Captain Bayce performed the
navigator's part under the severe testing of a new and
untried ship. In ordinary gales, it may be mentioned,
in the way of illustration, when we were running befcr:
4e wind tnder a large spread of canvas, and, as hap-
pened on the let of April, with waves of forty feet
and upwards, the ship was so lively, steady, and
dry, that most of the ladies participated in the
pleasant promenade of the poop-deck, and to
astonished admiration of the ship's avoidance
of the fearfully threatening waves. On this oc-
casion Mrs. Scoresby accompanied me forward along the
gangways and deck-house to the forecastle (a splendid
platform of the area of at least 190 square yards), and
for some time viewed from there the magnificent sight of
the ships' progress, as often, for some minutes together,
she was so quiet, that neither the lofty waves nor her
considerable speed seemed to affest her —without dis-
comfort or the encountering of a fling spray—the whole
space we traversed, of above 300 feet in length, being
then perfectly dry. In other case', indeed, when blow-
ing very hard and with still more cross and tremendous
seas, knots of seas came occasionally over the deck, in
every part of it, but their avoidance in any ship was im-
possible.

In conclusion, I may adJ, as a subject of some interest
in science, and of, I trust, no small practical consequence
in commerce, and in the passages betwixt the antipo-
des of the globe, that all my theoretic views previously
published in respect to the nature of iron ships' wag-
seism and its changes, with the practical plan for safe
and accurate compass guidance, the adoption of which
I have for a long time been urging on the builders and
owners of iron ships, have received distinct and beau-
tiful verifications of the experiments thus far made
on board of . the Royal Charter. As to the first
point, the matter of interest in science, it may not be
unfitting to say that, exactly as I had predicted in
"Illustrations of the Megretisin of Iron Ships,"
printed just before leaving England, and notified also
in " Magnetical Investigations," published in 1852,
6%, I have found the changes in the general :nagnet-
Use], as tried externally, of the Royal Charter. The
upper wet ke of ships built in England and other north-
ern cue tries have, consistently wiih theory, southern
polerity, attracting the north pole of the compass, as
also the upper parts of bulkheads, iron stmidards,
cranes, or davits, capstans, &c, ; and the lower
parts of the ships and such bulkhead,i, standards, he.,
northern; but her-, as I had announcer( my expectation,
the polarities are reversed. The top plating of the ship,
fr m -tern te roe rn, has changed to northern poleri y,
attracting the south pole of the compass, in which change
the uppr r parts of iren standards, cranes, capstans, he.,
about the decks and bulwarks ter si teetly participate.
That the lower parts of the ship's hull in its external at.
tractions barrels. chaeged may be confidently inferred from
tgrietic print p'es. And so far experitue gaily as I have
a ready asc,rtaiesd, the fact ie brautituliy indicated by
the diminutten of the northerly attractive force, on de
sctn ling outside towards the fl rating level, uniil (in
accordance also with the iry and prediction), a position
is found, some 16 to 18 feet downward, where the slip
ceases to p-o lug, an, aotioa wha.ever on the compass
needle, and be oe! which the contrary or northern pole
of the needle begins obviously to be attracted towarJs
Atte ship's side.
As to the second point, so important in its practical
bear ng on commerce and navigation, it may be
seated that during our pas,age to Australia, such was
the effectiveness of the arrangement I had suggested.
as very well put into operation in a compass raised
about forty-two
,feet high on. the. miz Taste, that we
never bad any perplexity ordifficulty, if any of
,the
compasses were steady, in knowing the -course we
were actually steering. Nothing more,• therefore, is
necessary, I am perfectly convinced, for correct or
safe compass guidance in iron ship than a compass for
reference duly elevated and properly arranged on a
wooden mast. And such compass, as the experience of
our recent passage and a great deal of heavy weather for
the latter fernieht has demonstrated, can, by the simple
method which I adopted on the voyage, be satisfactorily
consulted and compared in the hardest gales—that is,
whenever the compasses on deck are tolerably steady for
being steered by. Wat. SCORESBY.
Royal Charter, Hobscn's Bay, 20th A prii, 1856.
The learned doctor on subsequently being entertained
at the Philosophical Institute of Bavaria, of which he was
male an honorary member, added on this subject :—He
should thus feel that he was an humble connecting link
With many others between the science of the old coun.
try and that of the antipodes. It was doubly interest
ing to him to mark in the present assembly the same
feelings and sentiments as were manifested by erni'ar so
cieties at home. He felt in reference to the importance
of an institution of this kind that whilst the enterprise
and commerce of a country might raise it into a high po-
sition in the wealth of nations, yet it was the cultivation
tlif yet higher things which raised a nation, and made its
greatness in future history. Next to religion there was
in science a consecrating influer:ce which raised a man
beyond sordid considerations to a better contemplation
and intelligence of the Creator's works in the creation
—which placed him ab )ve selfishness, and into an at-
mosphere at once more pure and intelligent. It bad
always been interesting to him to watch institutions
like this in their efforts for the promotion of science
and literature. He might be permitted to say, in re-
ference to even the humblest pursuits of science, that
although they might lead to new, or previously known
re-ults which might seem to many to be of no profit,
yet no man could tell or predict the importance of
even that which might seem to be only a scientific cu•
rioeity. It was • a great satisfaction in making scien-
tific researches even of the slightest nature, that they
knew not to what results they might attain. Let them
lo:k at the effect of the discovery that a wire
placed between these of the two poles of a ba' tau became
magnetic—thought at Vier -tithe to be a mere scientific
curiosity. What was the result? 'They had their messages
now conveyed by the electric telegraph with a speed in-
ferior only to that of light. Even n ow they did not know
what progress might be made in the invention, nor could
they say that the old country might net within a
few years be united to Australia by the telegraph.
This was within the range of demonstration as one
of the probabilities of science, and was °ivy a question
of means and expense. When he saw the costly edifices
springing up in this new city be could not but feel that
the means were not wanting, and that it would be
nothing surprising to see a telegraph between "E•ie.
land and Australia in a few years. lt was a project
of no greater difficulty than that which had been
&ready accomplished in laying down the telegraph
in the Black Sea. It was contemplated to dist'ibute
the electric currents over the Atlantic between
England and America. He would not pass any
opinion as to the practicability of that project,
but be could say that as regarded Australia it was quite
practicable. It also he might be permitted to speak of
himself as an humble experimenter, he would state that
it was in 1828 that be first discovered the phenomenon
that magnetism was developed in iron by percussion
and mechanical action. He published his experi-
ments in the Philosophical Transactions in 1834—but
what was thought of the discovery beyond that it
was a scientific curiosity ? When, however, it be-
came the fashion and interest of England that ships
should be built of iron, and these ships were
found to be intensely magnetic beyond the ordinary
inductive influences of masses of iron, a question arose—
how was the effect on the compass to be remedied ? He
contended that this magnetism arose from the hammering
and other mechanical actions impressed on the plates in
the course of their construction, and he was right. He
applied to these ships the same laws which he found
to prevail in magnetised iron in his experiments of
1820, and be ventured to anticipate what had since
occurred. He alluded to this not in vanity, but ail an
encourag4ment to • men of science to proceed in their
investigations, for they could never tel! the. import.
ance of the results they might attain. His investiga-
tions, however, •had gone further. When be had deter-
mined the fact that an iron ship was a magnet with its
power enormously_ developed .by percussive and me-
chanical action, it seemed natural that according to the
inset utahle laws of nature they ehousiel b enabled to

reguiate its poles as in a bar 'Of magnetised iron. As-
suming these laws to be identical, he had ventured to
prAict that a vessel coming _ii4o--these -regions would
1,,,v0 her magnetic condition inverted, for the magnetism
of the southern polar ty was 'downward. Most •f the
scientific men in England were agano,t this view,
burg he had tried this experiment in the Royal Charter,
and had found that her magnetism was so affected by
the magnetic- attraction of Australia. It might be
deemed that the discovery was one of abqract science ;
but it was one deeply affecting their interests, and the
Ik-es and properties of men who ventured on the wide
ocean. Their commerce was rap!diy going into iron
ships, and wooden ships were becoming more scarce,
and the question of their magnetic condition as affecting
the compasses on board of them was of deep import-
ance. How were these enormous fabrics, endowed with
an intense degree of magnetism, to he controlled in this
influence ? It was to determine that point that he had
come out here, and he had, he hoped, determined a
mode in which an iron ship might be guided as safely
and as securely as shipping of any other material.
There was no practical difficulty in so arranging com-
passes on iron ships that they conld be navigated with
safety and certainty. This was an important bet, and
the inferences on which he had arrived at it were con-
teiAtent with all his previous theoretic deductions. His
simple contrivance was to have the compass in iron
ships elevated beyond the magnetic influence of the
irm, and during the whole voyage of the Royal Char-
ter there was no embarrassment whatever with regard
to her compasses arranged on this plan.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

CROWN-OFFICE, AUG. 23.
MESITEIt RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIANENT.
Town of Nottingham—Charles Paget, of Ruddington
Grange, in the county of Nottingham, Esq., in the room
of the Right lion. E I ward Strutt, who has accepted the
office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme,
the county of York.
WAR DEPARTMENT, AUG. 1.
Bth Light Dragoons—Lieut. Edward Phillips to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice the Hon. S. J. G Calthorpe,
whose Brevet R•►nk has been converted into Substantive
Rank under the Royal Warraet of 6th Oct. 1854 ; Cornet
and Adjutant Robert Harding to have the rank of Lieu-
tenant; :ornet Henry Harrison to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Phillips ; Cot net James Baker has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commis-
sion.

10th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Randal Wilmer Hatfield
Ills been permitted to retire from the sorvice by the sale of
his commission.

12th Light Dragoons—Captain Thomas G. Alexander
Oakes to be Major, by purchase, vice Munro, who retires;
Lieutenant Valentine Bbker to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Oakes ; Cornet George Francis Morant to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Baker.

Bth Regin:lent of Foot—Ensign Forster Long6eld to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Litherm), who retires ;
Alfred Downie Corfield, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Longfield.
. _

15th Foot--Assistant-Surgeon John Denia Healey, from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Wishart, promoted
on the Staff.

20th Foot—Lieutenant Harry Wormald Mason has been
Permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
Commission.

2lth Foot—Lieutenant Edmund Prideaux Chichester,
from the 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice White, ap-
pointed Paymaster.
32.1 Foot—Ensign Henry Sparke Stahl) to ba Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Primrose, who retires; William
Humphrey Studdy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
S tabb.

46th Foot—Captain William Shepherd Milner, from the
69th Foot, to be Captain, vice the Hon. William Henry
Herbert, who exchanges ; Lieutenant James Cross has
been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
Commission.

52d Foot—Ensign Reginald G. Wilberforce, from the
9th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Burroughs,
promoted.
67th Foot —Ensign Albert. Stanley Welland to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice D'Arcy, promoted.
69th Font—Captain the Hon. William Henry Herbert,
from the 46th Foot, to be Captain, vice Milner, who ex-
changes.
821 Foot—Ensign James Baker Robertson has been
superseded, be being absent without leave.
83d Foot—Lieutenant George Gant Beazley, from the
3,1 West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Nunn,
appointed to the '26th Foot.
Mt!' Foot —Lieutenant John E van 3 to be Adjutant, vice
Little, promoted.

~2dF;oot —Lientenant Rob'rb Macpherson has been pest.-
naitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Com-
mission.

95th Foot—Lieutenant G. 11. Langford Brooke to he
Captain, without purchase, vice Henley, retired from full
Pay._

2d West India Regiment Ensign Edward D. Lye to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carter, who has retired ;
Henry John Barker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice King, promoted.
3d West India Regiment—Lieut. Charles Nayler, from
the half-pay of the 63.1 Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Beaz-
ley, appointed to the 83d Foot; Ensign Spencer Cobbold
Page to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nayler, who re-
tires ; Charles Frederick Lloyd, Gent'., to be Ensign, by
purehas':., vice Green, promoted in the Ist West India
Regiment.

Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ensign Frederick Blair Staples
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rutherford, promoted.

HOSPITAL STAFF.

To be Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces—Assistant-Sur-
geons Angus John Mackay, superunmerary in the let Foot ;
Albert Hawkins, supernumerary in the 4th Foot ; Wil-
liam Henry Price, supernunierary in the 14th Foot ; Sa-
muel Joseph Baytield, supernumerary in the 19th Foot;
Richard Wolseley, supernumerary in the 20th Foot; James
Caster Smith, supernumerary in the 21st Foot ; John Ver-
non Sherldall, M.D., supernumerary in the 33,1 Foot ; Wil-
iiam Younge Jeeves. supernumerary in the 3 <th Foot :
' .James P. Street, M.D , supernumerary in the 39th Foot
A. D. Gull:m.l, supernumerary in the 41st Foot ; Alfred
Hooper, supernumerary in the 42 1 Foot; J. Johnson, su-
pernumerary in the 44th Foot ; J. J. Adrian, supernu-
merary in the 49th Foot ; W. Bradmhaw, supernumerary
in the 53th Foot; S. S. Skipton, M.D., supernumerary in
the 56th Foot ; H. L. Randell, supernumerary in the 62 1
Foot ; Peter Joseph Hoey, supernumerary in the 631
Font; W. T. Pal ologus, supernumerary in the 77th Foot ;
Richard William Meade, supernumerary in the 88th Foot ;
Charles Robert NAson. supernumerary in the 90th Foot ;
Henry William Pollard, supernumerary in the 93,1 Foot;
George Money Swinhoe, supernumerary in the 95th Foot ;
Allen Bryson, M.D., supernumerary in the 97th Foot ;
George Henry Finlay, supernumerary in the let Battalion
of the Rifle Brigade; Francis Stephen Bennet Francois de
Chanmont, M.D., supernumerary in the 3d Battalion of
the Rifle Brigade; Acting Assistant-Surgeon Henry Jere-
miah Mayhew has been permitted to resign his Commis-
sion.

The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have
ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their
services:— William Collis, Francis Reynolds, William Can•
niffe, and James Cruice.

UNATTACHED.--Lieutenant George Barrington Price,
from the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Brevet-Major Horatio Fenwick, who retires.
BREVET—Colonel John Mitchell to have the local rank
of .Majnr-General at the Cape of Good Hope; Lieutenant
aines Shaw Gibb, of the Bengal Artillery, to have the
rank of Lieutenant in the Army, while employed at the
East India Company's Recruiting Depot at Walley.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieut. John
beHamilton to Captain, vice Boyle, resigned; Cornet
,Tohn Spier to be Lieutenant, vice Hamilton, promoted ;
Claude Alexander, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Cathcart,
resigned ; John Crichton, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Sir
James Fergusson, promoted.

(The following appointment h substituted for that(
which apoeared in the Gazette of the 11th June.)
Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery—Second Lieutenant
Chas. Beauclerk to be Lieutenant, vice Waring, promoted.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.

Daniel Davies, provision dealer, Cardiff.
William Norfolk, tanner, Dunkeswick, Yorkshire.

BANKRUPTS.

Joseph Eyke and Richard Whiffen, carmen, George-yard,
Milton-street, to surrender, Aug. 12, at half-past two, and
Sept. 17, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee; Bayliss, Rod Cross-street ;
Hensinan, College-hill.
William Button, builder, Erith, Aug. 12, at eleven,
and Sept. 17, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Maddox and Wyatt,
Ciernent's-lane, City.
James Gathercole, envelope manufacturer, Eltham,
Kent, August 12, at two, and Sept. 10, at half-past one,
al, the Court of Bankruntcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ;
Maddox and Wyatt, Clernene4-lane, City.
Thomas Sternberg, wine merchant, Northampton, Aug.
8, at one, and Sept. 12, at half-past one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Braham, Furnival's-inn.
-Frederick Wm. Mss, veterinary surgeon, Vauxhall-
walk, Aug. 7, at one, and. Sept.' 12, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ;
Swale, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside.
Jonathan Bircurnshaw, lace manufacturer, New Lenton,
Aug. 12, and Sept. 2, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ;
Wells, Notting'nam.
Benj. Brown, grocer, Bruton, S'amersatshire, Ang. 11
and Sept. 8, at eleven, at the Bristol-District Court. Acra-
man, official assignee, Bristol ; Balch, Bruton, Somerset-
shire ; Bridges, Bristol.
Henry Peard Reed and Richard Ivens, ship brokers,
Biistol, Aug. 12, and Sept. 9, •at eleven, at the Bristol
District Count. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Brittan
and Son, Bristol.
Duncan Hair, seedsman and florist, Saint Martin's-lane,
Aug. 14 and Sept. 12, at one, at the'Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, .13asing.hall-street; Lawrence,
Flews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers, City.
Henry Jonas Smith and Benjamin Crane, dealers, Mil-
ton-street, City, August 15, at half past twelve, ant Sep-
tember 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Can-
nan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Smith, Tokenhouse-
yard.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. and J. Fatt, Eddington, Wiltshire, Blacksmith—H.
T. W. Ellis and M. G. B. Harbord, Blue Anchor-road, Ro-
thorhithe, brick manufacturers—J. Green, E. Pepper,
anti G. Mills, Shelton, rape manufacturers—W. Butches
and T. Hodgkinson, Heywood and Manchester, cotton
spinners —J. Coleman an :1 J. Williams, Coleford, Glou-
c9ter, grocers—V. and ,T. Challoner, Liverpool, ship-
builders and blacksmiths—W. and D. Smith, Hambledon-
brrace West, New Cross, 'coal and corn dealers—A. Wil-
mot and R. H. Singlehuret, Derby, makers of elastic ho-
siery for surgical purposes—W. P. and A. Chilcott, Bris-
tol, silversmiths and pawnhrekers—W. May and H. and
A. Stoessiger----W. and J. Redfern, Warwick, plasterers
J, Millington and H. Baker, Nottingham, lace manufae-
t urers-44. Milner and T. Cowdery, Paternoster-row, whole-
sale chemists and druggists—J. Fitzmaurice and W. War-
r burst, Manchester, medical fitters—N. Hermann and J.
M. Frost, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, scampers in
g .1d and silver on
_textile fabrics—G. B. Goodman and
W. M. Lightfoot,' Little York-place, St. Marylebone,
manufacturers or certain patent apparatus for holding
letters and musio sheet-3.- Conyers, jun., and J. Caw-
thorn, Leeds,, oUrriers—G.Rogers, S. Cox, W. Score, and
G. Oolthurst, Briitol, alkali and chemical manufacturers
—R Saul and T.' Kirby, ProciOn, joiners *. ibuilders
Sta ford, W. Standing, and J. Duckworth, Over Dar wen,
paper stainer—R. Addenbroo) and W. J. Edwards, Bir-
mingham, gun urannfacturers-LA Flexon and G.
High Wycombe,. priutere, etttioners, bookbinders, and •
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