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l',lo THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.
Sir,—l ar tt instructed by the directors to forward
for publication the annexed report from Mr. Var-
ley, the electrician to the Electric and International
Telegraph Co mpany. He is one of the gentlemen
who has been consulted by the Board in reference
to the present t state of the Atlantic Cable.
Yours truly,
IGEORGE SAWARD, Secretary.
Atlantic Telegraph Company, 22, Old
Broitd-street, Sept. 21.

London, Sept. 18.
REPORT ON TIM STATE OF THE ATLANTIC TELE
GRAFI! CABLE.

I arrived at Valentia on the evening of the sth
inst., when I found that no words had for many
days been received through the cable from New-
foundland.
On she 6th, 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th I tested. the
cable at intervals in four different ways, to ascer-
tain its condition. The following are the results :-
1. There is a faultof great magnitude at a distance
of between 245 and 300 statute miles from Valontia,
but the locality cannot be more accurately ascer-
tained until a portion of the cable, 20 or 30 miles in
length, has been tested against my standard of re-
sistance, and until the log has been consulted to
ascertain the amount of slack paid out. I would
suggest-that the piece of cable at Greenwich be
carefully measured and tested against my standard,
in order to obtain the most correct estimate of the
distance of the fault. Assuming, however, that it
is 270 miles, and allowing 22 per cent. for slack, it
is possible that the chief defect is in shallow water
—4lO fathoms. • .

2. The copper wire at the faulty place above
alluded to does not touch the iron covering of the
cable, as is proved by its forming a voltaic element,
which gives rise to a continuous positive current
from the copper wireNarying very little in tension.
3. The- nsiflation of the wire between Valentia
and the fault is perfect, or at least contains no de-
fect of sufficient importance to be perceptible, or to
materially influence the working were the cable
otherwise perfect.
4.Th
signals, or re-
versals, are still received from Newfoundland, but
copperhas not wi re
parted. is c continuous, inu ous
the cabel eFaint, and consequently
the power used will shortly eat away the exposed
copper wire in the faulty place by electrolytic de-
composition.
The actual resistance of the fault appears to be
at least equal to 10 miles of the cable, but is most
probably greater.

Taking it at its lowest resistance, viz., 10 miles,
and assuming that Newfoundland is only using 180
cells of Daniells' battery, the strongest current re-
ceived thence during my stay was only 1-24th part
of the force that it should be were there but this
one fault. When it is, however, borne in mind
that on the other side they are probably using more
power, and also that the defect first alluded to pro-
bably offers more resistahce than that assumed, viz.
10 miles, it is evident that there is another and
more distant fault, the approximate locality of which
I could '
not preteud to estimate at this end without
being able to speak to Newfoundland.
From authentic data shoWn to me at Valentia I
am of opinion that there was a fault on board the
Agamemnon, before the cable was submerged, at a
distance of about 560 miles from one end and 640
from the other.

The following are the data in question, but on
what occasion they were obtained I am unable to
state. They were, however, probably taken when
the ships were at Queenstown:—
.
TESTING OF COILS ON BOARD TILE AGAMEMNON, CON-

SISTING OF ABOUT 1,200 STATUTE MILES OF CABLE.

1. When the upper end was disconnected the cur-

rent entering the cable from a battery was 8.5 parts.
2. When upper end was put to earth current
entering the cable was
3. Current going out of upper end of cable to the
earth
5 ?,
4. When the lower end was disconnected the
current entering the cable was... 8.5 ~
5. 'When lower end to earth 10.5 „
6. Current going out of upper end of cable to

earth 4.5 „
showing that if there were a fault it was nearer to
upper end, but not far from the middle of the
coil.

When 200 miles had been removed from one end
of the coil (but from which end I am not at present
aware), leaving 1,000 miles, the amounts were—

1.
2. 10.25 ~ 5,
3.
indicating that there was a fault, by rough calcula-
tion, at about 560 miles from one end, and 440 from
the 'other,

With the 200 miles of cable amounts were-
1.
2.
3.
TEST' OF THE ENTIRE CABLE ON BOARD THE AG A.
MEMNON AND NIAGAR.V—TIZ., 2,500 MILES.
Battery at Agamemnon end.
1. Current entering the cable, the Niagara end
being disconnected ..
2. Niagara end to earth -
2
3. Current flowing out at Niagara end to earth 15i 7„
Battery at Niagara End.
4. Current, entering cable, Agamemnon end being
disconnected
5. Agamemnon end to earth
6. Current flowing out at Agamemnon end to 37 ~
earth
14 „
indicating considerable leakage on board the Aga-
memnon.

, lam also informed that the currents through the
cable, even immediately after it was submerged,
were so weak that relays were useless, and that not
one perfect message was recorded by them, every-
thing that was received being read from the deflec-
tions of a galvanometer.

By comparing the above data with those of the
new cable now making by Messrs. Glasse and
Elliott for the Electric and International Telegraph
Company, the amount of current which entered the
1,000 miles of cable when disconnected at one end
should not have exceeded 2 or 2.5 parts instead of
7.5 and 8.5 parts.

therefore, is
The inference by rough calculation,
that there was a fault offering a resistance equal to
1,000 or 1,200 miles of cable situated at a distance
about 560 miles from one end of the 1,200 mile coil
on board the Agamemnon.
This, however, cannot be the fault first alluded
to, situate at about 270 miles from Valentia, but
may have been the one which caused such alarm
Ireland and
500 miles from
when the ships were
when the signals ceased altogether and never cer-
tainly recovered.
It is not at all improbable that the powerful cur-
rents from the large induction coils have impaired
the insulation, and that had more moderate power
been used the cable would still have been capable
of transmitting messages.
To satisfy myself on this point, I attached to the
cable a piece of gutta percha•covered wire, having
first made a slight incision in the gutta, percha to
let the water reach the wire ; the wire was then

bent so as to close up the defect. The defective wire
was then placed in a jug of sea-water and the lat-
ter connected with the " earth." After a few
_ .

signals had been sent from the induction coils into
the cable, and, consequently, into the test wire, the
electricity burnt through the incision, rapidly
burning a hole nearly one-tenth of an inch in
diameter.

When the full force of the coils was brought to
bear on tke test wire by removing them from the

cable and allowing the electricity only one chan-

nel—viz., that of the test wire, the discharges, as
might be expected, burnt a hole in the gutta percha
under the water, half an inch in length, and
the burnt gutta percha came `floating up to the
surface.

The foregoing expeiiments prove that when
here are imperfections in the insulating covering

noon."

shore.

The size of the present conducting strand is too
small to have worked satisfactorily even had the
insulation been sound. With a strand of larger
dimensions less intense currents would be required,
and both speed and certainty increased.
It is not, however, altogether impossible that
some intelligible signals may yet be received
through the cable, as stated in my previous com-
munication.

C. F. VARLET,
Electrician of the Electric and Internationa
-- Telegraph Company.
To the Chairmariand Directors of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company.

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS IN TIIF. ITI.ANTIC
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The Board of Directors think it the most
judicious course to communicate to the shareholders
the following in refutation of the assertions ad-
vanced by Mr. Whitehouse in his letters of the 6th
and 15th respectively, he having expressly desired
to appeal to the shareholders to judge of the
merits of his complaints. Mr. Whitehouse's state-
ments would have received earlier notice had it not
been necessary to make investigations on the
subject at Valentia and in London. It must be
understood that the present directors arc in no way
responsible for the introduction of Mr. Whitehouse
into the electrical concerns of this company, by-
which introduction he has derived an absolute
bonus of £12,000 in free shares and a hand;ome
salary-.
On the election of the present board they found
him installed as the adviser of the company, and
believing from the representation made to them by
his associates that he was the proper person for
that position, they agreed to the salary proposed
for him, and confirmed his appointment to the
charge of the electrical department, and to attend
to the construction of apparatus for working the
Atlantic cable, the arrangement being that such
engagement should cease upon the cable being
successfully laid.
The folloWing are the reasons which led the
board to the decision complained of by Mr. White-
house.
Although engaged as above, and paid to conduct
the company's electrical operations, Mr. White-
house expressed himself prevented by " indisposi-
tion" from attending to by far the most important
of his duties—that of accompanying the various
expeditions, and ascertaining day by day the elec-
trical condition of the cable when paid out.
The charge of his department was on the last two
occasions, as is well known, most kindly undertaken
by Professor Thomson, who with a courage and de-
termination which did him great honour, unflinch-
ingly, and, as Mr. Whitehouse may well say, " most
handsomely," took charge of the electrical arrange-
ments on board the Agamemnon during all the pri-
vations incident to her two stormy expeditions, in
order to relieve the paid electrician of the company,
who Was unfortunately prevented this year, as he
was also in August, 1857, from accompanying the
squadron on, the plea referred to.
On the arrival of the Agamemnot on the sth of
August at Valentia, after successfully laying the
cable, summonses were at once sent out for a full
meeting of the board to be held on the 9th, for the
purpose of receiving the reports of the scientific
officers, and for the discussion of important matters
involved in the success of the enterprise.
A telegram wets subsequently sent to Mr. White-
house, at Valentia, requesting him to report fully
to the board on all points requiring attention.
The board. met on the 9th, again onthe 10th, and
again on the 11th, but no report whatever was re-
ceived froM Mr. Whitehouse, nor any other com-
munication . except some telegrams informing the
directors that signals were highly satisfactory, that
the adjustment of instruments-was-progressing, and
that it was necessary (a fact to which the directors
were fully alive) that the shore ends of the cable
should be laid as soon as possible. • •
During all the time intervening between the lay-
ing of the cable and the 10th, the general body of
directors, though deliberating in London, were most
effectually represented at Valentia, by their col-
league Professor Thomson.
Professor Thomson left Valcntia on the 10th to
visit his family in Glasgow; prior to his doing so
Mr. Whitehouse expressed an opinion to him that
a defect existed in the cable in the harbour.
Professor Thomson, who knew intimately the
state of all the cable as it emerged from the *As in
the Agamemnon, advised and strongly urged upon
Mr. Whitehouse that this was not the case, and
pointed to some considerable distance as the place
where the fault would be discovered.
He had not, however, left Valentia much more
than 48 hours before his advice and the facts he had
communicated were altogether disregarded, and
measures were taken by Mr. Whitehouse for under-
running the cable from the shore to Dowlas Head,
without any communication with, or authority from
the directors.

The board in London, during all this time, and
up to the morning of the 14th, were kept in
ignorance of Mr. Whitehouse's acts or opinions
as to any faults in the cable, and received no written
communication from him on the subject until the
19th, and then only in reply to repeated telegrams
and a letter of remonstrance as to his inexplicable
ptoceedings.
Up to the 14th the telegrams from Mr. White-
house had all given satisfactory assurances, though
it did appear to the directors, until the 13th, that
there was some mechanical difficulty and some un-
necessary delay, in the adjustment of the instru'
ments. On the 13th, however, at mid-day, the
board received the following telegram from Mr.
Whitehouse, from which they were led to hope that
all difficulty was at an end :
" Whitehouse to the Directors.

" The receipt of a message of 26 words, yesterday
evening, from Laws, relative to signals and instru-
ments,has satisfied me as to the cause of delay in
the full and free interchange of messages. He now
reads and acknowledges our words accurately. We
can receive, at very good speed, from him, while he
can as yet only receive from us slowly. I hope to
be able to transmit the Queen's message this after-

This message gave great encouragement, and was
considered to be so highly satisfactory that the
directors published it; little thinking that at the
very time they received it Mr. Whitehouse was
secretly telegraphing to Mr. CanninB whose engage-
ment with the company had ceased when the cable
was laid, stating that there was a fault in the
cable, and asking him to csmc and underrun it.
Mr. Canning proceeded at once to Valentia at
Mr. Whitehouse's bidding ; but the directors having
heard by mere accident that the cable was about to
be raised, telegraphed to Mr. Whitehouse to ab-
stain from any operation of the kind until they
could ascertain the grounds upon which he had
thought it right to interfere with the duties of the
engineering staff of the company without either.
consulting or asking the permission of the directors.
with whom he could have communicated by tele-
graph, and whose reply he could have received iu
less than two hours.

After this, and not sooner, the board began
to receive telegrams from Mr. Whitehouse,
stating (incorrectly) that the cable had received
serious injury in the harbour, and that it showed
" dead earth" close at home, whereas the entry
made in his own log on the 18th, when the cable
was cut, and tested (after permission had been
given to complete the underrunning, inconsequence
of the cable having been buoyed at Dowlas Head,
without authority, and so left), shows that there
was no loss of insulation between that point and
the office which could at all explain any imagin-
able difficulty of work.
That there was no need for thc.. precipitation
showed by Mr. Whitehouse in interfering with the
cable is evident from the daily records kept at Va-
lentia, which show that several long messages
were read and repeated with perfect accuracy by
Professor Thomson's apparatus, during the time
that the underrunning of the cable was in progress
until it was cut by order of Mr. Whitehouse, the
only result being that of serious and unnecessary
injury to the company's property.
Professor Thomson having returned to Valentia

on the 21st, made a careful test of the cable, which
showed it to be in worse condition than before Mr.
Whitehouse had underrun it.
The facts of the case, which Mr. Whitehouse
seems to have been incapable of discovering, though
fully pointed out to him by Professor Thomson,
were that what is technically known as a " vari-
able defect" existed in the cable, which at certain
hours of the day caused enfeeblement of the trans-

mitted current ; while the testing by the regular
methods known to practical telegraphists gave in-
dications of such a character as should have shown

to Mr. Whitehouse, as they did to Professor Thom-
son, that the fault to which these obstructions were

due was at some considerable distance from the

But it must not be supposed that Professor Thom-

son's opinion alone has been allowed to weigh
against that of Mr. Whitehouse in this important
question. The directors have called to their aid
several other gentlemen, all of whom have been for
many years practically connected with the working
of telegraphs, and these gentlemen, after having
severally made their tests, concurred with Pro-
fessor Thomson in stating that the variable fault
referred to was the cause of the obstruction, and
that it exists at a distance of from 240 to 300 miles
from Valentia.
Some days previous to the 13th of August the
directors, feeling convinced that Mr. Whitehouse
was embarrassed by some practical difficulties in
the nature or adjustment of his instruments, towards
the solving of which the assistance of some person
experienced in the use of recording apparatus and
the testing of submarine cables would be valuable,
desired that Mr. Whitehouse and the company
should have the advantage of the aid in this respect
of Mr. France, of the Submarine and Mediterranean
Companies (a practical telegraphist of very long
experience in the testing and working of submarine
cables), in the hope that thereby the line would the
sooner be available for public traffic.
After considerable difficuty they obtained Mr.
France's services, and on the 13th of August he left
for Valentia, the directors having previously advised
Mr. Whitehouse that he was coming.
Mr. France bore a letter of introduction to Mr.
Whitehouse, signed by the chairman, at the request
of the board, directing him to accept his aid, but,
on his arrival at Valentia, he was prohibited by
Mr. Whitehouse from entering the company's pre-
mises, and on the same day the following telegram
was addressed by Mr. Whitehouse to the Secretary
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, through the
"wires of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph
Company :
_
" Whitehouse to Sward.
_

"I find that we shall require immediately several
more instrument clerks. Mr. France has arrived
Opportunely in this respect. With your sanction
I shall be glad to engage him in this capacity-. I
cannot recognise him in any other. The adjust-
ment of receiving instruments at Newfoundland is
now perfect by the detailed account from Laws,
and at this end no such difficulty has ever existed.
The insulation of the cable at this end is now the
only source of delay."
This message, proposing to employ Mr. France
in the most subordinate capacity, was felt by the
directors to be a gross insult to themselves and
Mr. France.
A meeting of directors was therefore summoned
for the 17th of. August, at.which, after perusal and
consideration of all the documents relating to the
circumstances mentioned, a resolution was passed,
intimating that as Mr. Whitehouse's engagement
as a paid officer ceased on the successful laying of
the cable, the directors desired to terminate his
further connection with the company in that
capacity.
Mr. liThitehouse was summoned to town to attend
the managing committee on the 20th, on which oc-
casion two members, and not one director only, as
stated by Mr. Whitehouse, were present.
He was questioned by the vice-chairman in the
most gentle manner as to his reasons for acting as
he had done, but instead of explanation or apology,
he only dealt in a sweeping abuse of the board and
their proceedings, and distinctly intimated that on
any future occasion he should act in precisely a
similar manner ; the committee, therefore, had no
alternative but to hand him a resolution passed by
the board on the 17th.

As regards the statement contained in Mr.
Whitehouse's letter of the 6th, that the President's
reply to' her Majesty was received at Valentia and
recorded under his own patent, which he reiterates
with some modification in his letter of the 15th, the
following are the facts :—There is no evidence at
present as to the form of battery power used in
transmitting the current from America, but at Va-
lentia not a word could be recorded through the
cable by means of Mr. Whitehouse's apparatus at
the time to which he alludes; and the directors have
the evidence of the person there on duty, and by
whom it was worked off, that as the words com- '
posing that message came through the cable they
were read off by means of the instrument invented
by Professor Thomson.

It was after those words had passed through the
cable, and after they had been -so read from Pro-
fessor Thomson's galvanometer, that they were
recorded by the clerk from one end of the room to
the other, only on an electro-chemical marking ap-
paratus.
This process was continually carried on with regard
to other messages, and slips from the local recording
being sent up to London without explanation, the
directors were led to infer that the work had been
performed by Mr. Whitehouse's instrument, which
was not the case.

Indeed, notwithstanding an expenditure of some
£13,000 in the department under Mr. Whitehouse's
charge, the directors andshareholders have obtained
no results in any way commensurate to those con-
fidently promised by him.
It appears from the evidence of those engaged
on the spot that from the hour when the cable was
laid until the present it has not been possible for
the currents from Newfoandland, when communi-
cated direct to his apparatus, to work off unaided a
single complete message, and it has been necessary,
in consequence, to apply instead the apparatus of
Professor Thomson, and these facts, in conjunction
with the other matters of which they have had to
complain, appeared, and do appear to them, to
fully justify the course they have adopted.
Before concluding, it is the desire of the directors
to communicate their views, so far as the present
position of things enables them to judge, as to the
state of the company's property.
That a serious fault exists in the cable at some
point between 200 and 300 miles from Valentia
cannot be doubted ; but as Mr. Whitehouse had
established no means of conceited action between
the Valentia and Newfoundland stations in case of
difficulty, it is not altogether possible to say
whether the entire embarrassment arises from the
fault referred to.
They have therefore sent with full instructions
one of the staff, and they are encouraged to hope
that some communication may possibly yet be esta-
blished through the cable for a time, even in its
present state, and that so soon as the weather and
other circumstances are such as to encourage the
making an attempt with some chance of success to
raise and repair the injured part, it is not beyond
probability that the existing cable might be ren-
dered permanently useful.
It was hoped that by this time the undertaking
would be in process of earning a dividend, by which
its rank and position might be consolidated.
This legitimate result has been postponed by
-adverse circumstances, but the directors, in spite
of this piece of evil fortune' cannot remember other-
wise than with an honourable feeling of pride and
satisfaction that the primary and ruling motive
which actuated them and their brother shareholders
in entering upon the first epoch of this great work
was not altogether of a sordid or mercenary cha-
racter and that one at least of the great objects of
the shareholders has been fully successful.
The means then supplied have proved that it is
perfectly possible to communicate with America.
By a careful adaptation of appliances available it
would even seem comparatively easy to do so.
The very first business message transmitted (that
relating to the collision of the Europa) was one
which was not only, in a pecuniary point, of great
commercial consequence, but the news of safety
which it conveyed to many an anxious heart must
have caused the advent of the Atlantic wire to be
hailed with fervent blessing.
Other messages of almost equal import have
passed to the other side, and the result has been
the establishment of one of those undying facts in
the world's history which, though chronicled with
wonder at the present hour, will be the ordinary
and expecte' event of future generations.—By
order and on behalf of the Board of Directors,
GEo. SAWARD, Secretary.

A new undertaking, to be called the National
Bank of Australasia, has lately been introduced at Mel-
bourne, the proposed capital being a million in 200,000
shares of £.5 each. Of these, it is stated, 180,000 (repre-
senting £900,000) have been taken up in the colony, and
the remaining 20,000 (representing £100,000) are now
offered for allotment in London.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCHESTER,
Tuesday.—The market is very firm again to-day, with
prices rather higher. than on last Tuesday. Buyers only
supply their immedt tte and pressing wants, and the busi-
ness done is consequently curtailed. On the other hand,
spinners are quite at ease as to selling because of the con-
tracts already made.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Far below the eruptions, boils, sores, and other excrescences
that disfigure the surface of the body, lies the acrid poison
which sustains and aggravates them. This virus, which
usually lurks in the large vessels, springing from the great
internal organs, can only be followed to its hidden recesses
by a preparation like Holloway's Ointment, of which the
penetrating properties are irresistible. Having reached the
poison, its chemical action immediately destroys or neutral-
ises it: It acts with equal speed and safety, and its cures
are radical. The Pills, from their purifying effect upon the
blood, are an admirable auxiliary to the Ointment, and as
they are composed entirely of vegetable extracts, they are
as *de as they are eilleaciouse

(1' •om
The moi
was in the _
deaths ranged
ending last Sal wept. 18) the deaths declined
to 1,046, of which 555 were deaths of males and
491• those of females. In the ten years 1848-57 the
-*age number of deaths in the weeks correspond-
ing with last week. was 1,351; but as the deaths
now returned occurred in an increased popula-
tion the average, to admit of comparison, should
be raised proportionally to the increase, a correction
which will make it 1,486. The AO-ye average,
however, is derived in part from the extraordinary
mortality of two cholera epidemics ; and by ex-
cluding such exceptional periods from the compari-
son it will be found that the present mortality
differs not widely From the average in the middle
of September.
If the deaths of last week had been according to
the rate which prevails in the healthiest districts
of England they would have been 799. The excess
above this number, which the return shows, is 247,
and forms what may be called the " unnatural"
part of the mortality.
Diarrhoea shows a further decrease. The deaths
from this complaint in the last four weeks have
been successively 146, 120, 69, and 53. But scarla-
tina is increasingly fatal, and the deaths from it
last week were 178, of which 30 occurred in the
east and 44 in the south districts. Four fatal cases
of this disease are recorded in each of the following
sub-districts :—Christchurch (Marylebone) Isling-
ton East, St. George (Bloomsbury), the Green (Beth-
nal-green), Poplar, Trinity (Newington), and Clap-
ham; and sin St. Peter (Walworth). Three children
in one family d ied on the 12th and 13th inst. of scarla-
tina, at 19, Theobald-street, in the sub-district of
Trinity, Newington. Four deaths are referred to
cholera, all of them, with one exception, amongst
infants. Eight infants and one adult died from
syphilitic diseases. Only two persons, both of
whom were widows, attained the age of 90 years.
Last week the births of 829 boys and 812 girls,
in all 1,641 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1848-57, the average number cArrected for increase
of population, was 1472'.
At the Royal Observatary, Greehwie,h, the mean
height of the barometer in the week Was 29.917 in.
On three days the mean reading. was above 30 in.
The highest barometrical readino. was 30.06 in.
The mean temperature of the week was 63.4 deg.,
which is 6.6 deg. above the average of the same
week in 43 years, as determined by Mr. Glaisher.
The mean daily temperature was above the average
throughout the week, and the excess on the first
three days was 8 deg. The thermometers in the
sun and the shade attained their highest points on
Sunday, the 12th inst., which were respectively
105 deg. and 83.8 deg. ; the lowest point was
attained on the same day, and was 48.7 deg.; the
entire range of the day and the week was therefore
35.1 deg. (in the shade.) The mean daily range
was 25.3 deg. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 7.8
deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was
74. The mean temperature of the water of the
Thames was 63.7 deg. On Monday and three
following days the wind blew from the north-east.
The rain-fall of the week was 0.13 in. There was
heavy rain on Friday night, accompanied by fre-
quent lightning..

FROM THE GAZETTE OF YESTERDAY.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 21.

The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Cap-
tain James Rawstorne, of the Royal Navy, her Majesty's
royal licence and permission that he may aesept and wear
the Imperial Order of the Medjidie, of the fourth class,
which the Sultan has been pleased to confer upon him, as
a mark of his Imperial Majesty's approbation of his 'dis-
tinguished services before the enemy during the late War.
The Queen has also been pleased to give and grant unto
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James Vaughan Hughes, -.D., her Majesty's royal licence
and permission that he may accept and wear the Cross of a
Knight of the Order of • Saint Maurice and Saint Lazanis,
which the Kin.. Sardinia hath been pleased to confer
upon him in testimonyb of his Majesty's approbation of his
distinguished services before the enemy during the late
war.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Rev.
Dr. Rigaud, Bishop of Antzgua, to be a Member of the
Council for that Island; •Galvan L. Bellot, Esq.? to be a
Member of the Council .for the Island of Dominica ; and
Edwin D. Baynes and John F. Kirwan, Esqrs., to be
Members of the Council for the Island of Montserrat.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John
Clements, Esq., to be Inspector-General of Police for the
Island of Barbadoes.
INDIAN-OFFICE, SEPT. 21.
It is hereby notified that, in compliance with the enact-
ment contained in the eighth clause of the Act of Parlia-
ment "for the better government of India," passed in the
session holden in the 21st and 224 year of her Majesty's
reign, ehapter-106, the late Court of Directors of the East
India Company certified to the late Board of Commissioners
for the Affairs of India, under the seal of the said company,
that they had elected—
Charles Mills, Esq.
John Shepherd, Esq.
Sir James Weir Hogg, Baronet.
Elliot Macnaghten, Esq.
Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esq.
William Joseph Eastwick, Esq., and
Henry Thoby Prinsep, Esq.
to be Members of the Council of India, established by the
said Act.

It is further notified that, in compliance with the enact-
ment aforesaid, her Majesty has been pleased, by warrant
under her Royal Sign Manual, to appoint to be Members of
such Council the following eight persons :
Sir Henry Conynghain Montgomery, Baronet ;
Sir Frederick Currie, Baronet ;
Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, Baronet, Knight Grand
Cross of the Chief Division of the Most Honourable Order
of the Bath ;
Sir Robert John Hussey Vivian, Major-General of the
Forces of the East India Company, and Knight Com-
mander of the Military Division of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath ;
Sir Proby Thomas Cautley, formerly Colonel of the
Forces of the East India Company, and Knight Com-
mander of the Civil Division of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath;
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, formerly Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Forces of the East India Company, and
Knight Commander of the- Civil Division of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath;
John Pollard Willoughby, Esq., and
William Arbuthnot, Esq.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 21.
The Itight Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at St. Peters-
burg, announcing that a quarantine of four days will be
imposed on all vessels arriving at the ports of Soukoum
Redout Kal6, and Poti, from ports in the Turkish
d ominions.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 21.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Frome,
from the Seconded List, to be Supernumerary Lieutenant

Colonel.
MEMORANDUM.—Lieutenant John Sargent, from half-pay
of the Royal Artillery, to be Paymaster in the Royal
Artillery and Royal Engineers.

AISMIILALTY, SEPT. 17.

In consideration of the successful operations on the Pei
Ho, as recorded in the supplement to the London Gdzetec
of July 27, 1858, the following promotions have this day
taken place :
To be Captains—Commander Charles C. Leckie, and
Commander Samuel G. Cresswell.
To be Commanders—Lieutenant Mleyne Bland, Lieute-
nant Ralph P. Catori and Lieutenant Arthur T. Thrupp.
Mr. Charles Prickett, Second Master, to be Master.
Staff-Surgeon Charles A. Anderson, M.D., to be Deputy
Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets.
Mr. William H. M. Arnold, Assistant-Paymaster, to be
Paymaster.

And for general services during the *rations in China,
the following promotions have been made
Deputy Inspector George Burn, M.D., to be Inspector of
Hospitals and Fleets ; and
Mr. John T. Gabriel, AssistantiSurgeon, to be Surgeon.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Alfred Herbert Lucas,
Gent., to be Ensign ; Ensign Stephen Kent Winkworth to
be Lieutenant.

Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Thomas Rainforth,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
Wm. Batley, Gent., to be Surgeon, vice Young, resigned.
2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlesex
Militia—Lieut. Jervoise Smith to be Captain, vice Glyn,
resigned.

Royal Monmouthshire Militia—Rhys Brychan
Gent., to be Ensign.

BANKRUPTS.

Edwia Logsdon, carriage builder, Hitchin, Hertfordshire,
to surrender Sept. 30, at two, and Nov. 4, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
John Hargreaves. coal and lime merchant, Bradford,
Oct. 5 and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Frances Evans Bailey, eating-house keeper, Birming-
ham, Oct. 2 and 22, at half-past eleven, at the Birming-
ham District Court.
Henry Nott Hobday, tinplate worker, Birmingham,
Oct. 1 and 22, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court.
William Gowland and Son, nautical instrument makers,
Oct. 5 and 25, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
James Ford, butcher, Wolverhampton, Oct. 1 and 22, at
half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Henry Milner Cockburn, tobacconist, Middlesex, Oct. 5
at twelve, and Nov. 2 at half-past two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Rowland Parkinson, innkeeper, Blackburn, Lancaster,
Oct. 14, and Nov. 5, atl-twelve, at the Manchester District
Court.

_
Edward Thomas Gover, stationer, Bull's Head-court,
Newgate-street, Oct. 5, at half-past twelve, and Nov. 6, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

Edward Legh, wine merchant, Gourock.
George W. Phillips, bookseller, Itothesay.
John Wilson, cattle dealer, Crieff.
Walter Fowlie, tailor and clothier, Edinburgh.
_ .

Mark Davis, clothier, Trongate, Glasgow. -_Robert M'Gaw, farmer, Kilstay, Kirkinaiden.
Alexander Moir, farmer,-Woodhill and Tarrholm, Tar-
bolton.

Thomas Ward, wine merchant, Glasgow

FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. WEIR.—The mortal
remains of the late Mr. Weir were yesterday interred in the
family vault, at the Kensal-green Cemetery. The funeral
was conducted in a strictly private manner, but, the last
rites were attended by a large number of friends of the de-
ceased, who had assembled at the cemetery to pay the last
tribute of respect to one so worthy of their esteem.

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.1 DON &pN NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.
JLA CHEAP EXCURSION between LONDON and HUD-
DERSFIELD, 'MAN-CHESTER, and LIVERPOOL.
TO LONDON, ON SATURDAY, SEPT. 25.
FARES.
A.K. Ist Classi. 2d Class.
118tley depart 930
Dewsbury ~ 935
Huddersfield
Marsden
Greenfield
Staley Bridge „ 10 40
Manchester
Stockport
Liverpool
Warrington
London (Euston Station)
arrive about . 445
Returning Wednesday, Sept. 29th, at 9.30 a.m., from Enaton
Station.
FROM LONDON ON SATURDAY, O CT . 2.
FARES.