The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-07 00:00:00

ME ARMY.

The colonelcy of the 78th Highland Regiment of
Foot has become vacant by the demise of Lieu-
tenant-General Sir William Chalmers, C.B. and
K.C.H., who died on Saturday last at his seat near
Dundee. The deceased General was the eldest son
of the lath Mr. William Chalmers, of Glenericht,
Perthshire, and was born in 1787. Soon after
completing his 16th year he entered the army. He
served in Sicily in 1806 and 1807, and the follow-
ing year accompanied his regiment to Portugal, and
served during the campaigns of 1808 in that coun-
try and in Spain. He was in the expedition to
Walchern, including the bombardment of Flushing.
In 1810 he proceeded to Cadiz, and took part all
the succeeding campaigns in the Peninsula, includ-
ing the battle of Barossa, attack of the enemy on
the heights near Moresco, affair at Senhora de la
Pena, battle of Salamanca, action of San Munos,
battle of Vittoria, attack at Maya, battles of the
Pyrenees on the 30th and 31st of July, repulse of
the enemy in his attack of the heights of St. An-
tonio on the 31st of August, attack of the enemy's
forts near Sarre on the 9th of October, 1813 ; battle
of Nivelle, besides many other minor affairs and
skirmishes on the advance to Madrid and capture
of Retiro. He was present in almost all the sieges
and was engaged during the retreat from Burgos
in the affairs of Oimos, Monasterio, bridge of Valla-
dolid, and the passage of the Huebra. He was
employed on the staff in the above campaigns in
the Peninsula, and was severely wounded in the
assault of the entrenchments at Sarre, and during
his services in Portugal and Spain he had six
horses killed or wounded under him in action.
During the four years he was engaged in active
service, from the sth of March, 1811, to the 18th
of June, 1815, he was present in seventeen engage-
ments, six of them general actions, exclusive of
sieges, &c. The gallant deceased also served in the
campaign of 1814 in the Netherlands, and was pre-
sent at Waterloo. At that battle he commanded a
wing of the 52d Regiment, of which he was Major,
and had three horses shot under him. He was at the
capture of Paris, and did not return from France until

1817. In 1837 he was nominated a Knight Corn.-
wander of the Royal Hanoverian Order of Knight-
hood; was in 1838 made a Companion of the Order
of the Bath, and was, by letters patent, made a
Knight Bachelor in 1847. The deceased veteran
had received the silver war medal and eight clasps
for Barossa, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajcz, Salamanca,
Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, and Nivelle.
His commissions bore date as follows :—Ensign,
the 9th of July, 1803 ; Lieut., the 25th of October,
1803 ; Capt., the 27th of August, 1807 ; Major, the
26th of August, 1813; Lieut.-Col., the 18th of June,
1815; Col., the 10th of January, '1837 ; Major-
General, the 9th of November, 1846 ; and Lieut.-
Gen., the 20th of June, 1854. He was appointed
Colonel of the 78th Regiment the 30th of Septem-
ber, 1853.

The Foyle and Iberia steamers arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday morning from Dublin with the
sth Regiment on board, which disembarked at the
north corner of the dockyard and left for Alder-
shott Camp at 4.40 p.m.

The annual field-day and inspection of the Chat-
ham (Ist) division of Royal Marine Light Infan-
try, was held yesterday by Major-General S. R.
Wesley, Deputy Adjt.-Gen. The battalion, in
consequence of the success which has recently at-
tended the efforts of the various recruiting parties,
is now very strong, the number of men present
yesterday being only a few short of 1,100, exclu-
sive of several hundred men absent either in hospi-
tal, doing duty afloat, or on the recruiting service.
The division was formed at 10 a.m. in the barrack
square, awaiting the arrival of Major-Gen. Wesley,
who was received by Col. E. Rea, commandant,
Col. G. E. Hunt, second commandant, and the staff
at head-quarters. The days proceedings commenced
by General Wesley making an individual inspec-
tion of each company, after which the men's kits
were inspected, and found to be in very excellent
order and condition. Owing to the limited space
in the barrack square, the battalion was unable
to execute any extended movements, conse-
quently General Wesley merely gave the usual
invitation to those who had complaints to make
to step forward, when, there being no
response, the officers and men were dis-
missed until the afternoon. General Wesley then
made a tour of the barracks, inspecting the barrack-
rooms, school-rooms, non-commissioned officers'
mess-rooms, library, and the other offices, with tbse
appearance of which he expressed himself well sa',is-
fied. At 1 o'clock a portion of the Marines were
selected for inspection at working the great, guns,
the whole battalion being regularly rustructed
at gun drill in order to be able to word: the great
guns on board a vessel of war when serving afloat.
The men having been marched to the ship gun bat-
tery, which is fitted up to resemble exactly the
broadside of a line-of-battle ship, and fitted with
the largest guns, General Wesley spent some time
in this portion of the inspection, the Marines being
' exercised by Capt. C. B. Parke. The ease and ra-
pidity with which the guns were worked and served
were particularly worthy of commendation, and,
after about two hours at the battery, the men were
dismissed and marched back to their quarters, and
General Wesley proceeded to Chatham lines, where.

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the whole of the officers and men of the division
were drawn up, to inspect the division in battalion
drill, each man having been furnished with 20
tonuds of blank ammunition. On the arrival of
the General on the ground he was received by the
division in line, and after riding up and down the
front and rear General Wesley took up his position
at the saluting flag, when the companies marched
past in slow and quick time. The columns were
again reformed and the battalion put through a
variety of mancouvres by Col. Rea, who commanded,
many of them being of a difficult and complicated
character. The steadiness of the battalion under
arms and the superior manner in which the various
manoeuvres of the day were executed elicited the
highest praise from the military officers and others
present, and fully confirmed the praises previously
passed on the Chatham division of Marines as being
one of the best disciplined corps in her Majesty's
service. At the conclusion of the field-day
movements General Wesley expressed to Col. Rea
his unqualified approbation of ihe manner in
which both officers and men had acquitted
themselves. General Wesley during the day visited
and inspected Kelville Hospital, over which he
was conducted by Deputy Inspector-Gen. J. W
Johnston, M.D. This hospital is a perfect model
establishment, the highest encomiums having been
passed on it by Miss Nightingale on the last occa„
sion of her visiting it. Last night Gen. Wesley was
entertained by the officers of the division at dinner
in their commodious mess-room, and this morning
will continue his inspection of the battalion by wit-
nessing the Marines at rifle firing, and exercising
the officers in the bayonet and sword exercises.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir S. F. Love has, during the past
week, made his usual periodical inspection of the
troops stationed in the camp at Colchester. On
Tuesday a review of all the troops in camp took
place on Middlewick Farm. Gen. Love is expected
to leave Colchester to-day.
The I Battery of Artillery ha left Norwich for
Woolwich.
Capt. Phelips, Lieut. Leacock, Lieut. Schack, and
103 non-commis Toned officers and gunners belong-
ing to the Ist brigade Garrison Artillery, yester-
day returnr.ld to Woolwich, having terminated a
course of experimental gun practice at Shoebury-
ness,

The squadron of Dragoons (the 10th Hussars) in
command of Capt. Sawbridge, on duty at Wool-
wich since February last, yesterday received orders
to hold themselves in readiness to march for Houns-
low-heath, to go under canvas as soon as the stormy
state of the weather shall have somewhat abated.
Their short sojourn at Woolwich has apparently
completely renovated the condition of both men
and horses, the latter on entering the garrison
having been designated as " a remnant of the Cri-
mean campaign," in consequence of their peculiarly
meagre and half-starved appearance. Their quar-
ters at Woolwich will be immediately taken up by
Capt. Saunders's troop of Horse Artillery (the I
battery), who have commenced their march from
Norwich for head-quarters.

ANCIIORS AND SHIPTVIZEC'KS.

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The grave has just closed over anotlier—it might
almost be said the last—of those representatives of
the old school of Indian statesmanship who served
under the two Welleslcys at the dawn of the pre-
sent century, and rose through all the padatiens
of the once famous Company's service to high • sta-
tion and to high honour by their own successful
exertions. William Butterworth Bayley died last
week, full of years, at St. Leonard's. History may
not place bim in the 'front rank with Metcalfe,
.Elphiost one, Malcolm, and Munro; but lie!wati in
many respects a remarkable mar,, and as he Supple-
malted his 3t) years of Indian service by another
quarter of a century spent in the councils of Lead-
enhall-strect, he was a truer type of the genuine
Company's servant than any one of the conteuipo-
rm•ks whom we have named.

A younger son of a Lancashire gentleman of
high character and position, William Butterworth
Bayley was educated at Eton, where he acquired a
large stock of classical learning, subsequently aug-
ment by a brief residence at Cambridge. VThese
studies, in which he dearly delighted, were btelien
in upon by the announcement of au appointment to
the Indian Civil Service, at a time when such ap-
pointments were of substantial value; and a few
weeks before the close of the last century he •en-
tered upon his career of Indian service at Calcutta.
Lord Wellesley was at that time incubating- his
darling project of the College of Fort William, and
in the course of the following year the institution
was established. Young Bayley was one of its
earliest and most distinguished alumni. He passed
out with great honour, and was one of the " boys "
selected by the Governor-General for the confiden-
tial duties of his own office, in one of the most
momentous epochs of our Indian history. He did
not, however, in that situation though brought
face to face with the stirring incidents of a great
political crisis, generate, as did some of bis
associates, an ambitious desire to take part in the
strenuous activities of diplomacy, but chose the
judicial line of the public service and adhered to
it throughout all the earlier part of his career.
In 1814 he was appointed to officiate as secretary
in the Revenue and Judicial Departments, in which
situation he was confirmed in the following year ;
and in 1819 he was nominated Chief Secretary to
the Supreme Government of India. In 1522, a
temporary vacancy occurring in the Supreme
Council, he was appointed to fill it, and in 1825 he
was permanently appointed a member of the Go-
vernment. Lord Amherst was then Governor-Ge-
neral of India. In March, 1828, that nobleman
embarked for England. Lord Wm. Bentinck had
been appointed his successor, but had not yet ar-
rived, so Mr. Bayley, as senior member of Council,
succeeded to the highest place in the Government
of India. He filled the office of Governor-General
for some months, and then resumed his seat as a
member of Council. In the autumn of 1830 Lord
William Bentinck quitted the Presidency on a tour
to the Upper Provinces, and then Mr. Bayley be-
came President of the Council and Deputy-Gover-
nor of Bengal. But‘his five years in Council had
now nearly expired, and on the 11th of November
he ceased to be a member of the Government. In
the course of the following month he took ship and
sailed for England.

His career in India had been a distinguished and
a most useful, but it had not been an eventful one.
He had not been the hero of any of those exciting
episodes which have surrounded with an atmo-
sphere of romance the lives of Elphinstone and
Metcalfe. His work was not in the camp or at the
durbar; it was almost exclusively in the bureau or
the cutcherry. His service was administrative
service of the most valuable kind, but not such as
affords materials to the biographer ; and when he
returned to England, after 30 years of this service,
still in the prime of life, with an unbroken consti-
tution and an unimpaired capacity for work, his
ambition sought nothing higher than a seat in the
Council of that " Company of merchants trading to
the East Indies" which he had served with so much
fidelity and zeal.
It is a striking proof of the high character which
he brought with him from India that he was re-
lieved from much of the drudgery of the canvass,
and obtained the coveted seat in the Direction two
years after his return from India. He then applied
himself assiduously to the duties of his office, gain
ing a high reputation in the Leadenhall-street
Council, as a man of large general experience in
Indian affairs, a remarkably sound judgment, and
of a temper which was seldom disturbed. Among
his colleagues he was always peculiarly popular.
Their affection was exalted by respect. They
loved the man, and they deferred to his opinions.
He was neither frequent nor fluent in debate, but a
few weighty, well-directed Words from him often
determined a long-protracted contest. In 1539 he
was Deputy-Chairman, and in the following year
Chairman of the Company ; and it is believed that
at more than one subsequent period the chair was
offered to him and declined, for he was essentially
of an unambitious nature, and he shrank from
public displays. He continued, however, to take
an active part in the administration ; and when, in

1854, it was decreed that the Court of Directors
should select their worthiest members for conti-
nuance in office, and conjectural lists of those mem-
bers were made in anticipation of the event, the
name of Mr. Bayley was uniformly to be found at
the head of them as the man whom every one of
his colleagues was certain to select. But when, four
years afterwards, the East India Company were
deprived of their political powers, and another act
of self-election was decreed, Mr. Bayley intimated
his intention of withdrawing altogether from
public life. It was time, indeed, for him to retire,
after 60 years of good service. The great Indian
mutiny had been a severe blow to him, and his
health had sensibly declined from the time of its
first outbreak. He looked with distrust upon the
new form of Government, and still more so upon the
new-school opinions which were making their way,
and said that it was time for him to be gone. His
great natural vigour, however, was not easily sub-
dued, and he lingered until the 29th of May, 1860,
retaining his intellectual faculties, and the sweet-
ness of disposition for which he was so distin-
guished, to the last.
He was a model of a " Company's servant," as
Company's servants were in their best days. In
that sense he was a " representative man," and
there are few of his class not proud to be so repre-
sented—not because his name is associated with any
lustrous exploits, but because he was a useful public
servant, an honourable gentleman, and altogether a
fine specimen of manhood. Had he been of a more
ambitious temper he might have done more for
himself, but probably in that case he would have
done less for India; for it is not by individual efforts
of wisdom or heroism that England has reared the
great fabric of her Indian empire, and musthop
hope
to maintain it, but by sending forth a constant suc-
cession of high-principled English gentlemen,
sercon-
tent to labour quietly and obscurely, and to con-
tribute their unappreciated share to the great sum
itsny 's
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but whatever may be the result of the experiment,'
whatever the character and career of the new race
of Indian statesmen, history will not refuse to honour
the memory of those public servants, the growth of
an exclusive system, who sought no higher distinc-
tion than that of being accounted worthy exemplars
in their generation of the genuine " Kainpani-ka-
nuokur."

AID TO GARIBALDL—A meeting, called by cir-
cular, was held at Edinburgh on Tuesday, "to consider
the propriety of commencing a subscription in aid of Gari-
baldi and the Italians." Mr. Mossman, Dean of Guild,
presided. The following resolution, drawn out by Mr. Dun-
can M'Laren, was proposed and seconded :—" That this
'meeting deeply sympathises with the inhabitauts of Sicily
in their efforts to free themselves from the cruel oppression
to which they have been so long subjected, and resolve to
open a subscription in testimony of their sympathy, and to
remit the amount of the same to the patriot Garibaldi,
through the London committee, with the least possible de-
lay." Mr. Richardson proposed the omission of the words
through th© London committee," on the ground that it
was desirable not to merge Scotland with England in this
matter, but to show the people of Sicily that Scotland, I.s a
nation that had herself struggled for freedom, sympathy; led
with their exertions to throw off the tyrant's yoke. Sev o-
ral of the speakers expressed anxiety to keep their procee ,d-
-ings unchallenged as regards legality in point of inter, ra-
tional law ; but the statements that had been made in P or-
nament by Ministers, and the steps that had been to ken
elsewhere, were held as fully warranting the resolution A.
committee was appointed to institute a publicsubscript ,ion,
and the sum of 4i2 oubscribed et the table.

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Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baskstone.
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To. be followed by THE FAMILY SECRET. Messrs.
Chipopendale, Rowe, W. Farren, Villiers, Buckstonc, Mrs. B.
White, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss Amy
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After which, a new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF
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Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade.
To conclude with THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By
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