The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-08 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF

ADMIRALTY, Oc-r. 6.
The Chamber of Commerce and citizens of New York
having presented gold medals to the officers of her Majesty's
navy who took part in depositing the Atlantic Telegraphic
Cable, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty hereby
give notice that they have received the medals in question,
and that they are ready for delivery at the Admiralty,
Whitehall. Each officer must apply personally or through
his agent.
List of officers in her Britannic Majesty's navy to whom
medals have been awarded :
Captains George W Preedy, William C. Aldham, Henry
C. Otter: Commander Joseph Dayman ; William Henry
Woodhouse; Lieutenants the Hon. Frederick O'B. Fitz -
maurice, Robert Gibson, Elibank H. Murray, Frederick C.
B. Robinson; Henry A. Moriarty, master; First Lieute.
nant Ussher L. Morris, Royal Marines • William D. Kerr,
surgeon; James B. Moorman, paymaster; James Brown,
chief engineer; Benjamin Hoare, chief engineer; Clarke A.
Ducket, assist ant surgeon ; Samuel Libby, second master ;
Charles Moore, assistant engineer; John Brown, assistant
engineer; Samuel Clements, assistant engineer; Wil-
liam Swiley, assistant engineer; William B. Harvey,
assistant engineer ; John Hefferman, assistant engineer ;
Edwin Pearce, assistant engineer • Richard Williamson,
assistant engineer; William Farquharson, assistant engi.
neer ; Robert E. Horne, chief engineer; Lieutenant R
Moore' Lieutenant Gilbert T. Key ; Lieutenant the Hon.
James T. Fitzmaurice ; Lieutenant Howard Kerr; Samuel
Braddon, master ; Rev. Douglas J. Boutflower, chaplain ;
Andrew Murray, surgeon; William M. Shanks, paymas-
ter; First Lieut. Colpoys P. Heaslop, Royal Marines;
Lieutenant John B. Butler ; Lieutenant John B. Mitchell ;
Christopher Albert, master; Hart Grinlett, surgeon ;
Albert T. M. Roberts, paymaster.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 7.
3d Regiment of,Dragoon Guards—Cornet Edwin Brett to
be Instructor of Musketry.
7th Light Dragoons—Cornet Edward Metcalfe to be In-
structor of Musketry.
16th Light Dragoons—William John Wauchope, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Harmer, promoted.
Royal Artillery—Brevet-Colonel Charles James Dalton to
be, Colonel, vice Bloomfield, removed as a general officer ;
Brevet-Major Arnold Thompson, to be Lieutenant -
Colonel, vice Dalton; Brevet-Major Charles Edward
Oldershaw to be Captain, vice Thompson; Lieutenant
Frederick Sidney Maude to be Second Captain, vice 01-
dershaw ; Lieutenant Richard Henry Dansey Vivian has
been permitted to resign his commission ; Lieutenant
Joseph Haythorne Edgar has been permitted to resign
his commission; Surgeon John Riggs Miller Lewis,
M.D., from the 60th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Savage,
placed upon half pay.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant George Longley to be second
Captain, vice Bailey, placed on the Seconded List.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign Artemas Thomas Aglen to
be Instructor of Musketry.
sth Foot—Ensign John Cottingham Waffling to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Mason, promoted.
9th Foot—Lieutenant Charles-James Borton to be Adju-
tant, vice M'Queen. promoted without purchase to an
unattached company.
13th Foot—Ensign Alexander Macmanus Rowan to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Moffett, whose promotion,
by purchase, on the 4th March, 1859, has been cancelled;
John Arthur Powell Kyte Harwood, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Rowan.
15th Foot—Fos Captain Augustus Barton White, from the
12th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Allen, who ex-
changes, receiving the difference between infantry and
cavalry, as stated in the Gazette of 30th ult., read, vice
Allen, who exchanges, paying the difference between
infantry and cavalry.
16th Foot—For Captain Andrew Gemmel], from the sth
Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice John King Ren-
dall, who exchanges, receiving the difference between in-
fantry and cavalry, as stated in the Gazette of the 30th
ult.,read, vice John King Rendall, who exchanges, pay-
ing the difference between infantry and cavalry.
22d Foot—Ensign Ernest A. Carey to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Oswald Peter Leigh, who retires.
25th Foot—Major Francis Fane, from half-pay unattached,
to be Major, vice Stanhope M. Gildea, who exchanges ;
Alexander Bain Chisholm, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Legh, promoted.
33d Foot—Ensign Marcus Lynch to be Instructor of Mus-
ketry, vice Aylmer, promoted in the Bth Foot.
42d Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant John Simpson to be
Quartermaster, vice Alexander M'Gregor, appointed to a
Depot Battalion.
60th Foot—Ensign Richard Russell Gubbins to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Wigg, who retires ; John Wm.
Rhodes, Gent., to be, Ensign, by purchase, vice Lovell,
promoted; Surgeon James Crerar, from the Staff, to be
Surgeon, vice Lewis, appointed to the Royal Artillery.
75th Foot—Brevet-Lieut. -Colonel Legendre C. Bourchier
to be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-
Colonel Jardine, who retires upon fullf pay ; Brevet-
Lieut.-Colonel William Campbell Mollan, C. 8., to be
Major, without purchase, Ace Bourchier.
78th Foot—Lieut. Henry B. Savory, from the 90th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Hunt Bindon, who ex-
changes.
.S2d...Foat—Enaign William Reeves Bunbury to be Instruc-
tor of Musketry. - • • - -
90th Foot—Lieut. Charles Hunt Bindon, from. the 78th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry B. Savory, who ex-
changes.
96th Foot—Lieut. Edmund John Scovell to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Barron, who retires ; Ensign Edward
Hogg to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Browning, who
retires ; Ensign Francis Reid to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Scovell.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieut. James Dickson -Macken-
zie to be Captain, by purchase, vice_ltrown,-,whe retires,
HOSPITAL STAFF.
To be Assistant-Surgeons—Assistant-Surgeon 'Peter
Davidson, M.D., from half-pay, vice Harris, appointed to
the 2d West India Regiment ; Assistant-Surgeon Robert
Wm. Jackson, from the 84th Foot, vice Grant, appointed to
the Royal Artillery.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. Alfred;West to
be Chaplain to the Forces •of the Fourth Class, vice 'the
Rev. Joseph D'Arcy Sirr, resigned.
BREVET.
Lieut.-General Frederick Campbell to be General, vice
Evelegh, deceased.
Lieut.-General Robert Douglas, C. 8., on retired full-
pay, to be General, in consequence of the promotion of
Lieut.-General Frederick Campbell, who stood next below
him on the effective list of the Royal Artillery at the date
of his retirement.
Major-General Wm. Cater to be Lieut.-Genoral, vice
Campbell.
Colonel John Bloomfield, of the Royal Artillery, to be
Major-General, vice Cater.
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent on the promotion of Colonel Bloomfield, Royal Artil-
lery, to be Major-General, in succession to General Eve-
legh, Royal Artillery, deceased.
Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell George Sparks, 10th Foot,
to be Colonel.
Brevet-Major James Travers, 3d West India Regiment,
to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Samuel William Henry Hawker, 21st Foot, to
be Major.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Alexander Jar-
dine, having retired upon full-pay, 75th Foot, to have the
honorary rank of Major-General.
Captain Cecil Rice, of the 72d Foot to be Major in the
Army.
Captain George Gooch Clowes, Bth Light Dragoons to
to be Major in the Army.
Major John Edward Hughes, 47th Regiment Madras
Native Infantry to be Lieutenant Colonel in the Army.
Captain William Malcolm Leckie, 13th Bombay Native
Infantry to be Major in the Army.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
City of Edinburgh Artillery Regiment of Militia—Cap-
tain John Moulton to be Adjutant, vice Griffiths, appointed
to the Royal Artillery.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.

County of Lincoln—John Walter Dudding, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant ;. Thomas Garfit, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant ; Augustus Charles Johnson, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant; John Edward Sanders, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
Tower Hamlets— David Chapman, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant.
County of Linlithgow—Major Walter Ferrier Hamilton,
M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant; William Forbes, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Henry Cadent Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant; Thomas Durham Weir, Esq., to be,
Deputy Lieutenant ; Adam Dawson, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant.
West Riding of Yorkshire Volunteer Rifles-2d Com-
pany (Sheffield)—James George Antrobus Creawiok, Esq.,
to be Captain; William Prest, Gent., to be Lieutenant ;
Charles Smith Gent., to be Ensign. 3d Company—
T. Edw.Vickers, Eal„to be Captain; Albert Vickers, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant; Marcus Flockton, Gent., to be Ensign.
4th Company—Nathaniel Creswick, Esq., to be Captain;
Henry Webster, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Thomas Mar-
shall, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Company of Staffordshire Volunteer Rffies—LieuTe-
nant William Kenwright Harvey to be Captain ; Ensign
Edwin Clarke to be Lieutenant ; William Goddard, Gent.,
to be Ensign. 3d Company _Thomas C. Brown Westhead,
Esq., to be Captain.
9th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—John
Richard Pickmere, the younger, Gent., to be Lieutenant;
Sylvanus Reynolds, Gent., to be Ensign.
Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers—lst Company (Glasgow
Western, Ist)—Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, Bart., to be
Captain; Charles Hutchinson Smith, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant ; John Ellison Cowan, Gent., to be Ensign ;
2d Company (Glasgow University, Ist)—William John
Macquorn Rankine, Esq., to be Captain; James McGhie,
Gent„ to be Lieutenant ; John George Sinclair Cog,nill,
Gent., to be Ensign. 3d Company (Glasgow Southern, Ist)
—David Dreghorn, Esq., to be Captain ; William Cochran,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; William Mactear, Gent., to be
Ensign.

Ist- Company of Northumberland Rifle Volunteers—
William Bonnie, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Surgeon.

BANE OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria.
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the sth day
of October, 1859:

Notes Issued ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
£31,500,930 Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion :17,025,930
Silver Bullion ....

X 31,500,9301,

531,500,920

BANKING D:
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

EPARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £11,219,969
Other Securities 19,792,356
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin .

597,360

counts) 8,528,088
Other Deposits...
Seven Day and
other Bills

909,006

£40,998,215 1 £40,998,215
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated Oct. 6,1859.

BANKRUPTS.
Alonzo Augustus Wildbore, chemist, Old-street, Middle-

Subjoined is Mr. Bourne's report on the perform-
ance of steam trains on the Indus, addressed to the
directors of the Oriental Inland Steam Company
(limited) :
"I have now the honour, on my return from India, of
reporting for your information the progress we have made
is establishing our steam trains AperLthp Indus. Some of
this informatiefchas been already communicated to you in
detached statements which I from time to time forwarded.
But I had toe little leisure to enable me to make these
statements as detailed as I should have wished, and it may
be useful, therefore, now to give a connected narrative of
our proceedings and experiences. I arrived in Kurrachee
in the end of March last. The vessels and our staff of
workmen had arrived in the beginning of the year. These
workmen had been carefully selected. A large part of them
had previously been in my employment, and I felt assured
that they would do their duty. Never before has there
been such vigour manifested in India in getting vessels
completed. In Kurrachee, to lay the ways and launch a
river steamer after she has been rivetted together and com-
pleted, has usually been a business of three months. With
us the operation did not occupy a period of three days.
When the steamer was launched, instead of consuming a
day in jollification, as is usual on such occasions, we com-
menced that very moment to transfer the launching ways
to the passenger barge ; and by working all night, we were
able to launch the passenger barge the day after the
steamer. To prepare the ways for another of the barges,
and to place her safely in the water, occupied a period of
only four hours. The same barge was rivetted, caulked,
painted, and made ready for launching in a period of five
days. Never have I seen men work in any country with
the same energy and enthusiasm that has been displayed
by your men in Kurrachee. Since the beginning of the
year you have had your vessels and machinery landed—
workshops erected, with lathes, punching presses, and
other suitable tools driven by a steam engine—you have
had houses built for the reception of the workmen, and
storehouses for the reception of the various articles sent
out—you have had your vessels put together, launched,
and set to work, and you have me back here again in
Eng-
land to communicate this information. I think it must be
admitted that we have not let the grass grow under our
feet. The port of Gisree, which forms the terminus of the
Indus navigation, is situated about four miles from Kur-
rachee ; and the Point of Menem, where:our vessels were
landed and put together, is about five miles from Kurra-
chee, and forms the remote side of Kurrachee harbour. It
is never necessary for vessels plying between Gisree and
Moultan, or any other part of the Indus, to proceed to sea ;
but, in order to enable vessels in Kurrachee harbour to
reach Gisree, they must proceed along the coast a few
miles, and enter tho Gisree mouth of the Indus. As, how-
ever:heavily-laden ships from England cannot enter the
Gisree mouth of the Indus, but must be unloaded in Kur-
rachee harbour, it was, as you will remember, a matter of
consideration with the board whether it would be the best
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the decision. It must have been a most tedious
and expensive operation to take the barges in
pieces to Gisree, whereas we found that, except
in the rough season, they could be towed round with-
out difficulty. At the time we made the voyage, we were
driven so far into the unfavourable season by the longvoyag•
of the sailing-ship out to Kurrachee, that we had to encoun-
ter a very considerable amount of sea, and we broke one of
the tow-ropes in consequence, which proved to be of insuffi-
cient strength for the strain to which it was subjected ; but,
excepting this accident, the voyage was performed without
difficulty or disaster, and we reached Gisree in safety.
Immediately after the steamer was launched the boilers
were placed on board, and the train was very speedily ready
for trial, and was tried in Kurrachee harbour with the most
satisfactory results. Mr. Wood and Captain Gillett were
`absent at the time, but Mr. Leys was present, as was also
Captain Giles, the captain of the port at Kurrachee, and
_whe.avermly
,cppgratulatcd me on the success of the experi-
ment. The train was under the management of Mr. Mas-
terton, the governmerit pilot in Kurrachee, who exhibited
a far greater dexterity in the management of it than I
could have expected. Although the vessel and the arrange-
ments were so novel to him, he at once perceived the whole
scope and purpose of the design, and he performed a series
of evolutions with the train, causing it to wind round and
among buoys and ships in the harbour with the same ease
as if he had been all his life accustomed to the management
of vessels of this character. So far, therefore, the perform-
ance of the train was. all we could desire. The engines
worked in the most satisfactory manner—the boilers primed
a little, as is usual with new boilers, but gave abundance o f
steam; and the speed of the vessel, though it could not be
conclusively ascertained in so contracted a space, was
judged to be satisfactory. There was one point, however,
which I was still anxious to investigate--namely, in what
way the train would be affected by the wind, and I seized
the occasion of a windy day to get the train taken out to
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that instead of turning round when we had reached the
end of the harbour, they had carried the train in the con-
nected state of the barges, suited only for the river, into the
heavy sea on the bar. The barges, under such circumstances,
jumped and rolled so much that they inflicted some damage
upon themselves and upon one another ; and it is to this
event, I imagine, that Mr. Andrew refers in a recent speech!
to the shareholders of the Scinde Railway Company, when
he states that our vessels had knocked themselves to pieces'
in consequence of having attempted to combine the hetero-
geneous conditions of sea and river navigation. I acquit Mr.
Andrew of all desire to mislead the pub& by wilful mis-
statements. No doubt he spoke according to his information.
But this information is totally erroneous. So opposite to the
fact is it that wo have sought to render the same vessels
suitable both for river and sea navigation, that before the
arrival of the vessels in India at all you had been in commu-
nication with the Government respecting the execution of
the canal long since projected for connecting the ports of
Gisree and Kurrachee, whereby under no circumstances
would it be necessary to proceed to sea to reach the Indus
from Kurrachee harbour. The line of that canal was ex-
amined by Colonel Cotton and myself immediately after my
arrival in India and before our vessels were launched; and
Colonel Cotton, in a report to the commissioner of Scind et
urges upon the Government the immediate execution of the
work. It is not to be supposed that we should have in any
way concerned ourselves about this canal if we had intended
our vessels to proceed from the one place to the other by
sea. Until the canal is made, we have always intended to
make Gisree the terminus of our navigation, as is at pre.-
sent done by the Government vessels. You acquired land
for the erection of the storehouses and works of Gismo re,
quired for this purpose, at the same time that you acquired
land at Mailora • and all this was done and was reported by
you to the shareholders as having been done long before
the arrival of our vessels in India. It is totally inconsis-
tent with the fact, therefore, to say that we had intended
our vessels to navigate the sea. The only time that it is
necessary for our vessels to go to sea at all is when
they are first placed upon the Indus. But during half
the year the sea between Kurrachee harbour and the Gisree
mouth of the Indus is liko a mill-pond, and a favourable
time for performing the brief voyage may easily be selected.
Mr. Andrew's vessels, to reach the Indus, must equally
perform this voyage; and it is surprising it didnot occur to
him, that if no vessel suited to the river can under any
circumstances proceed to sea, and if his vessels are suited to
the river, his vessels must be unable to proceed to sea, and
consequently unable to reach the Indus. So far as regards
your vessels, we have no occasion to deal with theories, as
we have the fact before us, that they did proceed from Kur-
rachee harbour to the Indus at a season that was by no
means favourable, and this within a few days of the time at
which Mr. Andi ewsays they were broken to pieces. The one
part of the statement is as inaccurate as the other, as it is no
more true that the vessels were broken to pieces than that
they were intended to navigate the sea, and the vessels al-
leged to have been so broken up have been ever since at work.
The test to which the train was accidentally subjected on
Kurrachee bar was one to which I should never have thought
of subjecting it. The occurrence originated, in fact, in a
mistake of the pilot. That the train came out of so extreme
an ordeal with such little damage is, it seems to me, a fair
subject of congratulation, and a fair ground of confidence.
It also seems to me thaelittle can be found to say against
the train, when all Mr. Andrew can find to allege in its
disparagement is this slight accident, originating altogether
in a mistake. Upon our arrival at Gisree we found that we
should be unable to get any accommodation for our vessel
at the Government pier. We had therefore to erect a
wooden pier GOO feet long, to carry us clear of the mud, and
timewayes could;
enable us to embark coal and cargo. This occupied a puled
of ten
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both to the vessel and the river. The train, itis true, wasno
longer so well handled as when managed by Mr. Masterton,
and I had much to find fault with in many respects. We
passed through these winding channels, however, without
material difficulty, and we then commenced to ascend the
Indus. The river at the time we commenced the ascent
was in flood, and was running with its greatest velocity.