The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-26 00:00:00

THE NEW K. C. B's.

Colonel S3aton, of the 35th Bengal Native
Infantry, is a veteran of 35 years' duration, his first
commission as ensign dating from February 1823.
He was present at the capture of Bhurtpore, for
which he has received the Indian medal. He also
served in Affghanistan in the campaigns of 1840-41
and 1841 42, and took part in the forcing of the
Khoord Cabul and Jugdulluck Passes, and also in
the re-occupation of Cabul and the actions in the
Mazeena Valley, for which he bears the usual
medal. He has been frequently mentioned in the
despatches for his gallantry, and our readers will
not have forgotten the recent services of "Seaton's
Column," which wasmade a light infantry regiment
(the first, we believe, in the Bengal army) for its
services at Jellalabad. Colonel Sea'on is the son
of a merchant at Clapham, and was born in 1800.
Colonel Sydney John Cotton, of the 221 (Che-
shire) Regiment of Foot, is a relative, we believe,
of Field Marshal Lord Combermere, G.C.B. He
entered the army as cornet in a horse regiment in
1816. He is about 63 or 64 years of age. He
became brevet-lieutenant-colonel in November,
1841, and lieutenant-colonel is January, 1843. He
has served in various parts el the world for 45
years on full pay, but Hart's Army List contains
no special mention of his services. .
Colonel William R rye Mansfield, of the 53d
(Shropshire) Regiment of Foot, would appear to be
i a much younger man than either of his colleagues
in hnnonr. An an c•ront3 Cll.* the army as
ensign so recently as 1835, and it is rather sineu-
' ler that so lately as iu 1854 his name stood in the
Army list as lieutenant-colonel next above that of
plain Major Henry Havelock. C. B , whose first
commission bore date from 1815, jest twenty years
his senior. However, the services of Colonel Mans-
field have not been few, nor undieguisbed. He
took part with the 53d Foot in the campaign in the
Sutlej in 1846, and was present at Build i Aliwal,
and S abraon, at which last engagement he acte,l as
aide-de-camp to the Commander in-Chef, Load
Gough. He commanded that iegimetat also in the
Punjaub campaign of 1849, and to k part, in the
battle of Goojerat, for which, as al4o for Sobraon,
he bears tie medal and claps. He was also con-
stantly employed on the Peshawur frontier in
1851-52, whether his regiment was in the fi-ld or
not, and was present at the affairs of Nawadaud,
Prangpur, and Skealkote, where be had his horse
shot under him.

THE MURDER ON Ma LEIGH SEAS.—At the South
Lanca.hire Assizes, yesterday, the grand jury found a
true bill against John Anderton Christie and James
Millard for the murder of the Portuguese seaman named
Roderigo, on the high seas, on board of a British ship,
while on the voyage from the coast of Africa to Liver-
pool,. The trial of the prisoners is expected to come to-
day (Friday).

ASSASSINATION OF A TRADESMAN AT PORTSMOUTH.
—.The inquest upon the body of Mr. Daniel Howard,
alias Hart, draper of Portsmouth, who was shot dead
with an air-gun last Thursday evening at the door of the
house of Mrs. Vick, with who Y 1 he lodg.d, was
I tinned oa Tuesday evening, rid again adjourned to
Wednesday, but the evidence given by George William
Vick, the landlady's son, and Richard Barnes, a lad
in the employ of the deceased, did not much serve to
clear up the mystery of the affair. They corroborated
Mrs. Vick's statement as to the manner in which the
deceased received his death wound, and as to the stranger
who had called him into the passage. It appeared that
the younger Mrs. Vick, the son's wife, had a quarrel
with the deceased on the Lit of March, when ho called
her a street-walker and she called him a bastard, but
George Vick states that he laughed at it a 3 a trifling
matter. The deceased was executor to the will of the
late Mr. Vick, who, however, did not leave any pro-
perty.