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London, England, 1860-08-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY

FROM TilE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 3.
2d Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant-General A. K.
Clark Kennedy, C. 8., from Colonel 6th Dragoon Guards,
to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General the Lord Sandys,

deßegiceased.
6thßegiment 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-
Colonel Charles William Morley Balders, C. 8., from the
12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Rnyal 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 Wofridge, 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 Maude, 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 Terfy, promoted to a Company.
30th Foot—Jame Cooke, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,

vice Nagle, promotes.
33d Foot—Francis Wilmot, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Shipton, promoted.
35th Foot—William 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 Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Far-

quhar.
49th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Cle-
ment Alexander Edwards, C. 8., from the 18th Foot, to
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 Lieuteiant,
without purchase, vice Hill, promotect ; Gentleman Cadet
William Frederick Hillat Jones, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign. without purchase, vice Lloyd.
58th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Arnold Royle, 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,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Austin, promoted.
83d Foot—Ensign Frederick Augustus Wright, from 4th
Foot, to be. Ensign, vice Healey, promoted.
90th Foot—Surgeon William Lapsley, from the Staff, to be
Surgeon, vice Clarke, appointed to the Staff.
91st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Robert Rolfe, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Harvey, promoted ; Lieutenant Charles Lacon
Harvey to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Hall, who
has resigned that appointment.
94th Foot—Charles Hensman Heycock, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Pilkington, promoted.
99th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Robert Eyre from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase
vice Walker, promoted.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Francis Sandys Dug-
more, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wilson,
promoted ; Capel Henry Miers, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Whyte, promoted.
DEPOT BATTALION.—Major and Brevet .Colonel Edward
Angier Godfrey Muller to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without
purchase, vice Brevet Colonel Deverell, retired upon full-
pay, under the 37th clause of the Royal Warrant of 14th
October, 1858 ; Captain and Adjutant and Brevet Major
Hercules A. Welman to be Major, without purchase, vice
Brevet-Colonel Muller.
HOSPITAL STAPP—Surgeon Patrick Joseph Clarke, from
the 90th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Lapsley, appointed to
the 90th Foot ; Assistant-Surgeon Richard Jukes Worth-
ington, from the 58th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forces, vice Roylo, who exchanges.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT—COMMiSSariat Clerk
Thomas Hume to be Deputy Assistant-Commissary-
General.

BREVET.
Colonel William Henry Pickering, retired full-pay
Royal Artillery, to be Major-General, the rank being
honorary only.
Lieut.-Colonel Charles Clement Deacon, C. 8., 46th Foot,
having completed five years' service in the rank of Lieut.-
Colonel Commanding a Regiment, to be Colonel in the
Army.
The undermentioned promotions to take place, consequent
on the death of Lieutenant-General Thomas J. Wemyss,
C. 8., Colonel of the 17th Foot, on the 12th July, 1860 :
Major-General Henry Colvile to be Lieutenant-General.
Brevet Colonel George Congreve, C. 8., Lieutenant-
Colonel half-pay 29th Foot, Quartermaster-General in the
East Indies to be Major-General.
Brevet. Lieutenant-Colonel James Ramsay, Major half-
pay Unattached, to be Colonel.
Major Edward Lynch Blosse, half-pay Unattached, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Edward Arthur Williams, Royal Artillery. to be
Major.

ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 1, 1860.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Michael de
Courcy Meade to be Captain, vice J. B. Butcher to half-
pay; Second Lieutenant John Dudley Fosbroke to be
First Lieutenant, vice Meade, promoted.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Job Goodman Sheppard, brewer, Towcester.
John Bamford, grocer, Stainland, Yorkshire.
BANKRUPTS.
Josiah Dickens ingrave and Thomas William Wood,
straw plait manufactW urers, St. Albans, Herts.
Frederick Appleyard, tanner, Bradford.
Edward Jones, horse dealer, Marlborough.
James Evans Pillinger, draper, Tredegar, Monmouth.
shire.
Edmund Hayman, fruiterer, youth Molton-street, Gros,
Tenor-square, Middlesex.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
George Schrader, leather hide and bark factor, Glasgow.
Mrs. Bethia or Betsy Smith, merchant, Stirlingshire.
David Walker, builder, Glasgow.
Alexander Macintosh, leather merchant, Glasgow.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the Ist day
of Aug., 1860 :

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £29,496,420 Government Debt X 11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 15,021,420
Silver Bullion .... -

429,496,420

£29,496,4201
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Secu-
tal .............. £14.553,000 rities (including
Rest .............. 3,422,213 Dead WeightAn-
Public Deposits (in- nutty) 0,758,795
eluding Exche- Other Securities 19,712,700
quer, Savings' Notes 7426,610
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver
missioners of Na- Coin 737,460
lona' Debt, and

Dividend Ac-
counts) 4,234,969
Other Deposits 14,717,654
Seven Day and
other Bills 707,729

£37,635,565
AI. 1

£37,635,565
RSHA LL, Chief Cashier.

Dated Aug. 2,1860.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Suour, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending th:3lst day
of July, 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :

Muscovado, the produce of the British pos-
sessions in America
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies --13
Average price of the foregoing 26s 8d

Mr. Augustus Paget, Secretary of Legation at
Berlin, left town last evening to resume his duties in that
capital.

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TRE BATTLE OF MELAZZO.

(From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
MELAZZO, JULY 24.
Another leaf has been added to Garibaldi's laurel
crown, neither the least weighty or the least bril-
liant which it contains. The Battle of Melazzo is
one of those rare fights comprising all the grandeur
of a great victory of modern times with all the
exciting incidents of a heroic combat of antiquity.
I have tried to explain to you in my letters the
situation of things before -Melazzo. Medici with
his column, consisting of about 2,500 men, had ad-
vanced along the northern shores of Sicily to Bar-
cellona, where the Governor and committee of the
province of Messina had established their residence
and were organising the military forces of the pro-
vince ; but with the capital of the province strongly
occupied by the enemy, and with the fortress of
Melazzo not more than seven miles distant, and
forming a strong nucleus of reaction, the task was
not easy. The great majority of men are always
more influenced by what is near home than by any-
thing which may occur a little further off. Thus,
in spite of the successes gained in the rest of the
island, the strength of the Neapolitans in the
eastern corner formed a strong argument in the
eyes of the great mass against going too far in this
direction, and compromising themselves before all
danger was over. A number of employes, too,
driven away from their posts in the interior, had
found refuge within the walls of Melazzo and
Messina, and exerted all tlsair influence to con-
vince people of the risk which they were incur-
ring in coming* forward and taking a prominent
part, while not a few of their colleagues, whom the
magnanimity of the Dictatorial Government had
left in their places and homes, contributed to spread
timidity and hesitation. Yet in spite of these cir-
cumstances, which were calculated to damp enthu-
siasm and benumb energy, the call of the Govern-
ment for volunteers was not without effect, and
several hundreds, most of them belonging to the
better classes, responded to the appeal. They were
organised into a body, and provided as far as was
possible with arms and uniforms. This was almost
more difficult than getting the men, for all had to
be brought across the mountains from Catania, the
sea in the neighbourhood being still insecure. The
handful of men thus collected was augmented by a
battalion of a few hundreds whom Col. Fabrizi had
collected on his passage from Noto to Catania, .and
from this latter place to Barcellona. Both together
probably did not amount to more than 7,800 men.
Medici, named military commandant of the pro-
vince, took the whole direction of affairs from the
moment of his arrival on the 12th inst. He led
the column, and went out himself to reconnoitre
the ground where he would take up his position
against Melazzo. The Neapolitans, scarcely ap-
prised of his arrival, sent a column under the com-
mand of Col. Bosco against this force advancing
or Melazzo, The garrison of this latter place con-
sisted of the Ist Regiment of the Line and of a com-
pany of artillery, which, in spite of the armament
of the citadel and the walls of enclosure of the
town, were thought insufficient to make head
against Medici's force. The column started from
Messina on the 14th inst., and consisted of four
battalions of riflemen, each above 1,000 strong, a
squadron of Chasseurs-a-Cheval, and a battery of
field artillery. The road which leads from Messina
to Melazzo ascends the mountains in the rear of
Messina immediately after leaving the town, and
having reached the summit of them at La Scala,
descends towards the opposite or northern shore of
the island. Just before reaching this it winds
round the last spur of the mountain, which ends
rather precipitously at the town of Gesso. This
latter point therefore commands the road towards
Messina, and it was important to keep it in case of
a reverse. The 4th battalion of riflemen was left
behind for this purpose, with the order to guard
the main road with four companies, and to send the
remaining four to observe the mountain paths by
which the position of Gesso could be turned. The
rest of the column advanced on the same day to
Spadafora-Samniartino, and reached Melazzo the
next day, the 15th.
Medici had been apprized of the intention of the
Neapolitans to send a column against him several
days before the column actually started; this know-
ledge of the plans and movements of the enemy is
one of the great advantages which a national army
has. What the Neapolitans can only obtain by bri-
bery, and frequently not by this means, we can get
almost without an effort on our side. Nay, the de-
sire to inform us of anything which passes in the
enemy's camp is so great that the difficulty lies in dis-
tinguishing what is important and what is not, No
paid spy ever observed all the slightest indications
so closely as this Argus-eyed popular police. In this
special instance the very telegraph, that powerful
engine of warfare, turned against the Neapolitans.
'rhe electric wire along the coast had been destroyed
by the people, in whose eyes that black wire passes
for one of tie most dangerous weapons of the
Neapolitans, and only the aerial telegraph remained,
the movements of which could be seen and inter-
preted.

Medici, apprised of the approach of Bosco's
column, almost double the strength of his own, had
time to choose his position. He fixed it at Meri,
about three miles in front of Barcellona, on the
taking high road to Messina, the river bed of the
torrent of Santa Lucia as the base of his line. The
mountain slopes in this part of Sicily are so steep,
and the torrents so rapid and full of pebbles, that
they fill up the whole space intervening between
the mountain spurs. The torrent of Santa Lucia
exhibits this character better than any other of the
torrents which I have s
of 200 to 300 yards een. It forms an even space
in width,
which you might
almost think prepared for a garden walk. It forms
in summer time the only road to several of the
mountain passes. In the lower part of it, near
Merl, where the hills fall off, both sides of the tor-
rent are guarded by walls several feet in breadth
and from five to six
road feet high, leaving only a pas-
sage for the highwhich traverses Meri. If
you were in the middle you would almost imagine
yourself to be in a regularly constructed fortifi-
cation.
Medici having taken up his head-quarters in the
village, had the houses close to the river provided
the
with loop-holes, andbreak in the wall which
admits the road regularly fortified with gabions and
sandbags. The wall itself
riflemen, and this line was likewise prepared for
rcsotnsidered as the really defen-
sive position. The fi
wooded, d
the spur to the right, which is
steep and well
ed, was occupied by a battalion,
while furthersteep slopes of Santa Lucia
flanked the extreme right of the position. On the
left the wall by whicheriver is enclosed continues
for about half-a-mile, protecting
ecting the luxuriant gar-
dens which extend Meri towards the sea.
Where the wall ends an broad shelving beach begins,
several hundred yards width. The position was
as good as any that could be desired, its only draw-
back being the length of
it, which is scarcely short
could
of three miles. Thisnot be helped, for if
Santa Lucia was not occupied there was a danger
of the right being turned.
The
'e river bed in front of
il
the position was occupied by one battalion, and
the wall on the other side fortified like that one
on the other side towards Meri. Immediately
after crossing the river theroaddnifvides in two, the
ene to the left leading straight to Melazzo, while
the other to the right, formln
road, goes through Corioli g part of the main
to Archi, at which
point the road coming from
main road. On these two roads, which run among
Melazzo strikes the
a succession of gardens,
mostly
and thickly studded' with enclosed by walls,
fig-
trees, were the outposts, the olives, vines, and
extreme points being
about a mile from the river at Corioli and San
Pietro.
The 16th passed without any encounter. Bosco had
withdrawn into Melazzo, and Medici was still busy
with his preparations. On the morning of the 17th
Medici sent out a reconnaissance from Corioli to
observe the movements of the enemy. This recon-
naissance met two companies
of the enemy's rifle-
men, which had been sent
convoy
ostrengthen two other
companies in charge of a of flour from the a
neighbouring mills. After few shots had been
exchanged the enemy's riflemen thought it wise to
abandon their project, and Withdrew hastily to-
wards Melazzo.
In the afternoon, about three o'clock, Medici re-
ceived notice of the advanceof
hacolumn in the direc-
tion of Corioli, and soon after avant garde was
attacked at Corioli. Withdrawingl within the vil-
lage, the Neapolitans made an attempt to penetrate,
forward
and actually succeeded in pushing towards
the centre of the village. A charge with the bayonet
dislodged them, and from that moment the combat
on that side degenerated into a line of desultory
firing, the Neapolitans not renewing their attempt,
to orders,
according
and ours keeping, likewise on
the defensive. This order was due to the know-
ledge that the attack towards Corioli was a mere
feint, the chief effort being towards our right to
get possession of Santa Lucia, and thus turn the
position. This effort was to be made by a column
of three battalions, with half a battery, under the
command of Bosco himself. The colunit; had moved
up the torrent of San Nocito, which runs down
parallel to that of Santa Lucia, and skirts the oppo-