The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1859.

BANK OF BRITISH :NORTH AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
Notice is Hereby Given, That a GENERAL M EETING of
the:Proprietors of the Bank of British North America will be
held on TUESDAY, the 6th day of December next, at the office
of the Corporation, 7, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-htreet,
at One:o'clock precisely, to receive a report from the Directors.
By order of the Court.
C. McNAB, Secretary.
7, St. Helen's-place, London, I th Nov., 1859. .

OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
LA) INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institutioi
earnestly appeal to the public for pecuniary ass:stancv to aid
them to meet the present heavy demands on the limited
funds of the Society.
THOMAS BARING, Chairman.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman.

Nov. 8, 1859.
Contributions will be thankfully rewired by Messrs. Willis
and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Coutta and Co. ; and at the office
of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adeiphi, W.C.

CARDS FOR THE MILLION.—A Copper
Plate, engraved in any Style, Is. 50 Best Cards (any
kind) printed for ls., post free—MITHUR GRANGER, Sta-
tioner, 308, High Holborn.

letters and packets to and from foreign stations
under cover to the War-office shall be discontinued;
and the same is therefore notified for the informa-
tion of commanding officers concerned. Field guns
will in future be fitted, with attached elevating
screws, as recommended by the Ordnance Select
Committee. Until further orders all discharges by
purchase are suspended.—By command of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
" C. BINGHAM, Deputy-Adjutant-General."

The. Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, as Secretary of
State for War, has just issued the following rules
and regulations, approved of by her Majesty, in the
permanent employment of soldiers selected from
the army in the recently-formed Commissariat Staff
Corps:-

1. The Commissariat Staff Corps shall consist of
the ranks, receive the rates of pay, and be subject
to the rules and regulations hereinafter specified.
2.. The Commissariat Staff Corps shall be liable to
serve in all situations, both at home and abroad.
3. The ranks and rates'of pay shall be as fol-
lows :

Sergeant-Major
Colour-Sergeant 3s. 2d. „
Sergeant 2s. 4d. „
Corporal ls.7}d. f f
Second Corporal ls. 6d. ~
Private le. 3d. „

Bugler . is. 3d.
4. The subordinate appointments in the commis-
sariat department at home and abroad shall, as far
as it is practicable, be filled by deserving and pro-
perly qualified ion-commissioned officers and pri-
vates of this corps. In the event of ineakacity or
misconduct, soldiers holding. such appointments
shall be liable to be sent back to do duty in the
corps in the ranks which they held previously to
such appointment, or in the rank to which they may
be reduced by the sentence of a court martial.
These appointments shall be considered as the
staff appointments of the corps, and the classifica-
tion and rates of pay shall be as follows :
On appoint- After 3 years'
ment, per service, per
diem. diem.
Ist class clerk or storekeeper, with s. d. a. d.
the rank of Sergeant-Major .... 4 6 .. 5 0
2d ditto, with the rank of Quarter-
master-Sergeant .. 4 0 .. 4 6
3d ditto. clerk or assistant store-

keeper, with the rank of 2d class
Staff-Sergeant 3 6 .... 4 0
Issuers, with the rank of Corporal 2 0 .... 2 6

Men holding the above staff appointments will
not be entitled to any other pay nor to beer-money.
Temporary clerks, while so employed, will be
allowed is. per day in addition to the pay of their
rank.
The classification of these non-commissioned offi-
cers will depend upon the extent and importance of
the duties on which they are employed.
5. The several ranks will be distinguished as
follows :

Sergeant-Major—Four chevrons and crown on
each arm.

First-class Clerk or Storekeeper—Four chevrons
and crown on right arm.
econd ditto—Four chevrons on right arm.
Third ditto, or Assistant Storekeeper—Three
chevrons and crown on right arm.
Colour-Sergeant—One chevron, laurel wreath,
crossed swords, and crown on right arm.
' Sergeants—Three chevrons on right arm.
Corporals or Issuers—Two chevrons on right arm.
Second Corporals—One chevron on right arm.
The chevrons for non-commissioned officers,
clerks, storekeepers, and issuers of this corps to be
of gold lace.
6. Working pay shall be allowed to each non-
commissioned officer, private, and bugler, for such.
number of days and parts of a day as ho may be
actually employed on other than military duty ;
but working pay will not be issued for holidays,
nor when on the march, nor in hospital, nor on
board ship, unless in the last-mentioned case when
employed on some trade or occupation to be spe-
cially certified.
7. Working pay shall be divided into four
classes, and be paid according to the talen and in-
dustry of the individual.
Ist class, at the rate of ls. 6d. per diem.
2d class, /t ls. Od. ff 1
3d class, f) Os. 9d. ff
4th class, ff Os. 6d. ), 1
8. The Ist class or working pay, shall be consi-
dered an extraordinary rate, and reserved, as a re-
muneration for skilled labour 'of a superior order,
or fora situation of trust, and not merely for long
service or exemplary conduct. And in no case
shall any man be placed in it without a strict in-
vestigation into his qualifications, which must be
recorded and submitted for the approval of the
Commissary-General in Chief. 1
9. The 2d, 3d, and 4th desks shall be deter-
mined by the senior •Commissariat officer at the
home station, upon a written report from the junior
officer under whose immediate directionithe men
may have been employed.
10. All non-commissioned officers an privates
of this corps shall be entitled to clothing, ations of
1
provisions (for which the usual deductio shall be
made), together with lodging, fuel, and light, or an
allowance in lieu thereof, according to rank.
11. All non-commissioned officers and privates of
this corps shall be entitled to the benits of the
good-conduct and pension regulations, o the same
conditions as other soldiers of our army. Ilhe period
of service shall be the same as that of thel infantry,
and shall include service as soldiers in other corps
before entering the Commissariat Staff Cdrps.
12. The ranks of this corps shall be filled by sol-
diers volunteering from the ranks of other corps of
our army. ._
13. Volunteers should not, as a general rule, be
under 20 nor above 30 years of age, with at least
two years' service as soldiers before entering the
Commissariat Staff Corps.
14. Soldiers who have served two years in the
embodied militia, and subsequently enlisted into
any regiment or corps of our army, shall be eligible
on the same terms as soldiers of two years' service
in our army. -
15. Volunteers must be of good character, and be
recommended by their commanding officers. They
should be acquainted with the first four rules of
arithmetic, and write a fair legible hand.,
16. Volunteers shall be received on probation for
a period not exceeding three months, and at the
expiration of the period of probation shalt be either
permanently accepted or returned to their regiments
or corps ; if accepted, their names shall be retained
on the lists of their former corps as supernume-
raries, in order that they may be sent back, at the
order of our Commander-in-Chief, for misconduct,
unfitness, or any other cause which our Ccimmander-
in-Chief may deem sufficient.
17. Non-commissioned officers and privates on
probation shall remain on the strengths and pay-
ment of their respective regiments or corps, receiv-
ing only from the Commissariatadditional or work-
ing pay, according to their class, qualification; and
time of employment.
18. All non-commissioned officers and privates of
this corps shall be liable to be discharged from the
service at any time that our Commander-in-Chief
shall think fit, without any claim for compensation
beyond that mentioned in Article 11.
19. In all points not specifically detailed, nor pro-
vided for in these rules and regulations, the non-
commissioned officers and privates of this corps
shall be subject to all the rules and regulations
affecting the other corps of our army.
20. The Commissariat Staff Corps shall be under
the direction of the Commissary-General-in-Chief,
who shall select an officer of the ComMissariat to
act as General Staff Officer of the corps. This offi-
cer shall be charged with the general superinten-
dence of the corps, and the preservation of its re-
cords, and all correspondence connected with the
corps shall be addressed to him.
21. Commissariat officers in charge of companies
of the corps, shall receive the rates of: contingent
allowance prescribed for infantry in the War-office
Regulations. i
The hired troopship Earl of Eglinton, Captain
Laughton, was towed into Portsmouth harbour yes-
terdiy from Spithead, and the English invalids on
board landed at the dockyard. The 'former will
leave by train this morning for Chatham and Wool-
wich • the naval invalids were sent to the Victory
and flaslar Hospital. The French officers and in-
valided soldiers and seamen will be conveyed to
Cherbourg by the Dasher paddle-steamer, Limit.-
Commander Horn.
The hired troop-ship Earl of Eglinton, Captain
Laughton, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from
Hongkong, with English and French military and
naval invalids. She sailed from Hongkong on Juno
9, touched at Anjer and Simon's Bay, sailing from
the latter place on September 20. The last eight
days of her passage home she experienced heavy
westerly
at
her gales,be i
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31t8riahboluer.s iTnhtehefoChannel
the we
passengers have arrived on board :—Dr. O'Hal-
loran,r. Bouchier, Mr. Morris, R.N.,Capt. Wig-
gins, 70th Bombay Native infantry, lady and child ;
Mr. M'Williams, engineer, R.N.; Mr. Braxton,
R.N. from H.M.S. Acteeon ; Mr. A. Wilson, Mr.
and Mrs. Harding and child, seven French mili-
tary and naval officers, and a number of invalids.
The English military invalids comprise :—Royal

Engineers-1 corporal and 9 sappers; Royal
Artillery-1 sergeant, 1 bomtardier, 8 gunners
2d battalion Ist Foot--1 sergeant, 2 corporals,
21 privates ; Medical Staff Corps.-4 orderly and
1 staff armourer : the whole in the military charge
of Ensign Macnamara, 15th Foot. 40 deaths have
occurred on the passage home, but only one since
leaving the Cape. The ship will,be towed into har-
bour this morning if the wind moderates, and the
invalids landed. The French invalids, among whom
are seven officers, will be forwarded by steamer, it
is expected to Cherbourg.
On Friday the Royal Sussex Infantry Militia,
stationed for the last five months in Glasgow, was
reviewed on Glasgow-green by Major-General Lord
Viscount Melville, Commander-in-Chief of the
Forces in Scotland. The Duke of Richmond, the
commander of the regiment, and his brother, Lord
Arthur Lennox, the lieut.-colonel, were both pre-
sent. The regiment, which is 600 strong, is a fine
body of active men, and went through the various
evolutions and manoeuvres in a most creditable
manner.

A party of the Donegal Militia have arrival at
the Soutlitown Barracks, Great Yarmouth, from
the camp at Colchester.

THE GREAT EASTERN.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY EVENING.

The Mayor and Corporation paid an official visit
to the Great Eastern to-day, for the purpose of pre-
senting the directors of the Great Ship Company
with a congratulatory address. The civic body
assembled at the Audit-house, which they left at
noon, arrayed in their robes of office and accom-
panied by all the corporate regalia, and walked to
the Royal Pier, where they embarked on board the
Medina steamer, which had been kindly placed at
their disposal by Capt. Corke. The gallant little
steamer was gaily dressed out in colours, and as
soon as the Corporation were on board the borough
flag was hoisted at the mast-head, and in a short
time she lay alongside her giant compeer, to whom
she bore about the same proportion as to size that
a mouse would to a lion. At the top of the gang-
way the corporate authorities were received by Mr
IL J. R. Campbell (chairman of the company), Mr.
J. Bold (a director), and Capt. Harrisoit and the
principal officers of the ship, and were at once es-
corted to the grand saloon, where the presentation
took place.
The MAYOR (Mr. Alderman Palk) said he would
first take the opportunity of expressing the great
gratification he felt in his present position, as chief
magistrate of Southampton, in being called upon to
present such an address as this, now that the pro-
blem was solved, of which he himself had no pre-
vious doubt, as to the capacities of the port of
Southampton for the reception of this magnificent
ship. It was unnecessary for him to dilate on the
natural advantages of the harbour, which hat been
so strongly and unmistakeably marked during the
tempestuous weather of the past fortnight, when
almost every other port in the kingdom was ravaged
and desolated by the storm, but not the slightest
accident had occurred in these waters from first to

last. (Hear, hear.) His worship then paid a high
compliment to the nautical skill and ability of
Captain Harrison; and also the indomitable cour-
age and energy with which Mr. Campbell had
from the first devoted himself to the great work
which he had set himself to accomplish. This
was not a merely local question, but the repu-
tation of the nation was involved in the successful
realisation of the undertaking. When they looked
around the magnificent apartment in which they
were then assembled they might well imagine
themselves in the national palace of Windsor, so
gorgeous were the decorations, and so perfectly
free was it from those unpleasant smellls which
more or less pervaded other steamships. The
Mayor briefly traced the advent to these waters of
the first steamship belonging to the Peninsular and
Oriental Company, the whole of whose immense
fleet now rendezvous here; the construction of
their fine docks, and the selection of the port by the

Royal Mail Company for the arrival and depaiture
of their ships. Various other steam vessels fre-
quented the place, and- they had at least a weekly
departure here to New York. In fact, all the faci-
lities of a port requisite for a ship like the Great
Eastern could be found here available. (Applause.)
The fact that a powerful company like the Penin-
sular and Oriental had located itself here might
be something towards inducing, the Great Ship
Company to come here also ; and he could promise
them on the part of the municipal authorities, the
Chamber of Commerce, and the inhabitants gene-
rally, all the facilities which an active and ener-
getic people could provide. The harbour was so
protected by the Isle of Night that the whole of
its water was one great dock. He most heartily
welcomed the Great Ship here, and was much
pleased to have met Captain Harrison, who he
hoped had already found the still waters of South-
ampton more pleasant than the stormy, tempestuous
waters of Holyhead. (Applause.)
Mr. C. E. DEACON, the Town Clerk, read the
following address :
" To ROBERT JAMES ROY CAMPBELL, ESQ., CHAIRMAN,
AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE GREAT SHIP
COMPANY.

" Sir, and Gentlemen,—We, the Mayor, aldermen, and
burgesses of the ancient borough of Southampton, avail
ourselves of the earliest opportunity afforded by the arrival
of the Great Eastern steamship, within our waters, under
the judicious guidance of her able and skilful commander,
Captain Harrison, to give you a hearty welcome to the
town and port of Southampton, and to express the great
satisfaction with which we view the occurrence of an event
so important in our local history.
"It is to us and the municipality a source of pride and
gratification that you have, in the exercise of your clear and
deliberate judgment, selected this port for tne purpose of
completing such arrangements as you may consider neces-
sary for sending your noble vessel on her first and, as we
trust, prosperous voyage.
" Addressing, as we do, the chairman of the company,
who has taken so great an interest in this vast enterprise,
and has been connected with the undertaking from its com-
mencement, we are sure that he and his able and indefatig-
able colleagues will appreciate file advantages of this port,
and the profitable extension which all shipping interests
adopting it have acquired, and which cannot but be consi-
dered as a favourable augury for the Great Eastern.
" In offering this expression of our feelings and gratifica-
tion on this most interesting occasion, we have only to re-
peat our cordial welcome to Southampton and the expres-
sion of our earnest hope that your noble undertaking will
be attended with every prosperity, and that your exertions
may be successful in a commercial point of view, as they
have been a source of pleasure to all who have seen the pre-
sent state of perfection of the grandest specimen of naval
architecture the world has ever produced.
" Given under our common seal at Southampton this 4th
day of November, in the pear of our Lord 1869."
The address, which was handsomely engrossed on
vellum, with the ancient seal of the borough affixed
to it, was then handed by the Town Clerk to Mr.
Campbell, amid loud applause.
Mr. CAMPBELL said he would first personally
tender his thanks to the Mayor for the kind manner
in which his worship had spoken of himself, and
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then read the subjoined reply to the address :
" Sir,—Tho sentiments you have given utterance to
and the consideration you have shown us, are worthy 01
the liberal and enlightened. community you represent, and
place myself and colleagues under no ordinary obligations to
you. When I look at the rapid strides in commercial and ma-
terial progress which your ancient borough exhibits—when
I see the finest steam fleets inEurope leave your waters, and
return to them laden with the most valuable products of the
world, there can be no doubt that one of the chief require-
ments of a port is supplied in Southampton ; and as it is
the combination in one place of the greatest amount of
facility and adaptation to our rather novel vessel, which will
carry success to our enterprise and the port we adopt, I need
not assure you that it will be a source of regret to us,
considering the persevering and enterprising spirit of your
people, if in all respects your port does not answer this de-
scription. It will be a source of satisfaction to myself and
colleagues to place at your disposal, for suchcharity as you
may consider most deserving of it, the receipts of any one
day specially set apart for this purpose before wo leave your
port ; and, in conclusion, we cordially reciprocate your
kind sentiments with every feeling of regard and considera-
tion."
Loud applause followed the reading of this docu-
ment, which Mr. Campbell immediately placed in
the hands of the Mayor.
Mr. CAMPBELL said he was sure that his brother
director, Mr. Bold, and also Captain Harrison,
would favour them with a few remarks.
Mr. BOLD said the best thing he could say was
" ditto" to what their chairman had said, as he could
fully bear testimony to the truth of all he had given
expression to.
' Captain HARRISON could assure the Mayor and
Corporation that he only felt too happy now he was
at last in a place where he could lay down his head
in safety and peace. (Loud applause.) The way
in which the moorings had been laid down was
very satisfactory, and he felt much indebted to Mr.
Stebbing and Mr. lledger, who had done all, and
even more than they undertook to do. As to the
ease with which the ship was brought into the
water to her moorings, he was, of course, assisted
by that clever pilot, Mr. Bowyer ; but, having once
been here, he could only say that she could be
brought in or out with the aid of any ordinary man,
so great were the facilities. (Hear.) He hoped
this would not be the last time by many ho should
see them on board. (Loud applause.)
The corporate visitors were then taken into the
ladies' saloon, where wines and refreshments were
served, and were subsequently conducted over the
whole of the magnificent vessel to enable them to
inspect the saloon and bed cabin arrangements, the
machinery in the screw .and paddle-engine rooms,