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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OC FOBER 10, 1859.

USER VICES OF CIVIL OFFICERS DUR-
ING TILE INDIAN REBELLION.

(From the London Gazette.)

India Office, Oct. 3, 1859.
The Secretary of State for India has received the follow-
ing paper from the Government of India :
MINUTE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA REGARD-
ING THE SERVICES OF CIVIL OFFICERS AND OTHERS
DURING THE MUTINY AND REBELLION.
1. The bloodshed, strife, and general disorganisation con-
sequent upon the mutiny of the Bengal army, which de-
clared itself two years ago, are drawn to a close.
Here and there a few bands of turbulent and disaffected
marauders still remain in arms, but there is no unity
amongst the enemies of the state; and although the com-
plete and universal security which prevailed before the out-
break has not in all places returned, there is no part of the
Queen's Indian possessions to which civil government has
not been restored.
A day of solemn thanksgiving for this happy result has
been appointed.
2. This being so, it becomes my grateful duty fo bring to
the notice of her Majesty's Secretary of State the names of
those earnest, devoted men, by whose abilities, sound judg-
ment, and unexampled labours, the civil authority of the
British Government has been upheld or re-established.
3 Although civilians by profession, or holding for the
time civil offices, the duties which they have performed
have been for the most part full of peril and toil.
Only some few of them have been called on occasionally
to tako part in the operations of the army, and have thereby
had the satisfaction of seeing honour done to their names
in the gazettes of the day. But there are others who have
been distinguished by conduct in front of an enemy which
would make any army proud of them.
They have organised levies and led them ; defended sta-
tions; kept in check large -disaffected communities; re-
assured the wavering ; and given confidence to the loyal.
Many of them have, in the service of the State, carried
their lives in their hands for months together.
Their position has been such as to try not only their phy-
sical courage, but the judgment, intelligence, and self-
reliance of each individual, and to keep these qualities un-
ceasingly on the strain.
4. The most anxious part of their long task is now at an
end, and I confidently claim for them from her Majesty's
Government the same respect, admiration, and gratitude as
have been so deservedly bestowed upon their fellow labourers
of the army.
5. The return which accompanies this minute shows
some of the services of those who have been most actively
engaged, but very briefly and imperfectly.
6. I will speak first of Bengal.
The value of the services rendered by the late lieut.-go-
vernor, Mr. Halliday, is as well known to the home govern-
ment as to myself. With a charge of enormous extent and
responsibility, and called upon to take a large share of the
work by which troops and munitions of war were forwarded
from Calcutta to other local governments, Mr. Halliday was
the right hand of the government of India for many months.
The efficient aid given by Mr. Halliday to the government,
the watchfulness and sound judgment which marked his
advice in regard to affairs within his own jurisdiction, and
the promptitude and completeness with which he carried
out all the precautionary and defensive measures sanctioned
by the government of India, effectually checked, the spread
of rebellion in Bengal. And although in this province the
people are for the most part less warlike and turbulent
than those of Upper India, there are in it many dangerous
centres of fanaticism, and many wide and not easily acces-
sible tracts, where an outburst of rebellion would have sorely
crippled the small means at the disposal of government,
and where peace was to be maintained more by good ma-
nagement than by show of force.
As the head of the Government, I feel myself deeply
indebted to Mr. Halliday for his most useful aid, and I con-
fidently trust that the Secretary of State will not be forge
ful of his services.

7. Of the officers of the Bengal Government who have
been brought to notice by Mr. Halliday, I wish to recom-
mend to the favourable consideration of her Majesty's Go-
vernment Mr. G. Yule, the commissioner of Bhaugulpore ;
Mr. A. Money, magistrate of Shahabad and Gya, whose
good service has already attracted the notice of the Home
Government ; Mr. S. Wauchope, commissioner of police in
Calcutta, who has had a most irksome and difficult post,
and has discharged the duties of it fearlessly and excel-
lently; Mr. E. A. Samuells, the late commissioner of
Patna; and Mr. H. C. Wake, magistrate of Shahabad.
8. The following officers have also well deserved the no-
tice of her Majesty's Government :—Mr. W. J. Allen,
member of the Board of Revenue, on deputation at Cheers
Poonjee; Mr. G. F. Cockburn, commissioner of Cuttack ;
Mr. R. L. Mangles, assistant in Shahabad; Mr. E. Jack-
son, the superintendent of supplies on the Trunk-road ;
Mr. C. Hollings, sub-deputy opium agent at Gya; Mr.
F. B. Drummond, magistrate of Puineah ; Mr. E.
M'Donnell, sub-deputy opium agent in Sarun; Mr. E.
Baker, deputy magistrate of Sasser= • Mr. C.
Carnac, magistrate of Dacca ; Mr. W. M'Don-
nell, magistrate of Sarun, and attached to Sir E.
Lugard's column ; Mr J. D. Gordon, assistant magistrate
of Jelpigoree ; Mr. W. Brodhurst, magistrate of Shahabad ;
Mr. Garstin, deputy magistrate of Sasseram ; Mr. Boyle,
Mr. R. de Courcy, Mr. J. Cockburn, and Mr. J. Wemyss,
gentlemen not connected with the Government, but wh•
have given to it valuable aid ; and Mr. J. Todhunter and
Mr. W. M'lntyre, both of the telegraph department.
9. In respect of military officers in civil employ, I have to
call to notice the excellent services of Captain Dalton, com-
missioner -at Chota Nagpore ; of Lieutenant J. Graham,
assistant commissioner in Palamew ; of Lieutenant Birch,
assistant commissioner in Chota Nagpore ; Lieutenant R.
Stuart, superintendent of Cacbar ; and Lieutenant Stanton,
executive engineer of the grand trunk road at Shergotty.
10. Of the value of the assistance received from Mr. A. R.
Young, secretary to the Government of Bengal, Mr. Halli-
day has spoken forcibly. I can add nothag to what he has
said on this head: but I have pleasure in confirming it.
11. I proceed to mention the services of the officers of the
North-West Provinces.

The lamented death of the late lieutenant governor, Mr.
Colvin, under the weight of his great and anxious labours,
was not only a heavy loss to the Government of India, but
the cause of throwing upon many of its officers an unusual
but unavoidable responsibility.
12. In the central provinces the government, for some
months availed itself most beneficially of the ability and
energy of the Hon. Mr. J. P. Grant, then a member of tho
Supreme Council, and now lieutenant governor of Bengal,
whose exertions contributed greatly to recall things to order.
13. In the upper provinces at Agra the government was
long cut off from regular communication with the govern-
meat of India; and during that time, and subsequently, the
experience and public spirit of Mr. E. A. Reade, senior
member-of the Board of Revenue ; and when military au
thority became necessary, the zealous services of Colonel
Fraser, who unhappily has not survived, were of great value.
14. The central and upper provinces were reunited from
the beginning of February, 1858, when I assumed the go-
vernment of the north-west provinces, at Allahabad.
15. The pressure of the revolt upon these provinces was
severer and longer than in any other part of India, Oude
alone excepted ; but, whilst in Oude our government was
entirely swept away, in the north-west provinces it retained
its hold of many chief points of the country. These were
held singleandisolated in a sea of rebellion, and that this was
possible is due to the indomitable courage, devotion to duty,
and fertility of resource which have marked the conduct of
the officers of the civil service of India throughout this ter-
rible time.

They have been worthily aided and rivalled by military
officers on detached employ, and by many gentlemen not
connected with the Government ; but it is due, primarily,
to the officers of the civil service that the landmarks of
British authority throughout the districts of the north-west
provinces were not everborne in the flood.
16. It is now my duty to recommend to the favourable
consideration of her Majesty's Government the following
officers :

Mr. J. Cracroft Wilson, judge of Maradabad. I name
this gentleman first because he has the enviable distinction
of having, by his own obstinate courage and perseverance,
saved more Christian lives than any man in India. He did
this at the repeatedly imminent peril of his own life. He
has since left the service of the Indian Government, and is
retired to New Zealand, whether I respectfully hope that
the favour of the Crown may follow him.
Mr. H. C. Tucker, late commissioner, and Mr. F. B.
Gubbins, judge (and now commissioner) of Benares. The
firmness, calmness, and exeellont judgment of Mr. F. Gub-
bins in dealing with the great dangers which beset that city
were most remarkable. Mr. C. J. Wingfield, commissioner
of Goruckpore, since raised to the chief conmissionership
of Oude, where there is a wider field for the exercise of
his high qualities ; Mr. A. H. Cocks, judge of Mynpoorie ;
Mr. B. Sapte, magistrate of Bolundshuhur ; Mr. R. Alex-
ander, commissioner of Rohilcund; Mr. R. H. Dunlop,
magistrate of Meerut; Mr. F. 0. Mayne, magistrate of
Banda; Mr. A. 0. Hume, magistrate of Etawah ; Mr.
J. H. Bax, joint magistrate of Ghazeepore ; Majore Ers-
kine, commissioner of Saugor ; Major G. Williams, com-
manding the volunteers, and afterwards the head of the
whole police of the' north-western provinces ; Major H.
Ramsay, commissioner of Kumaon ; and Captain Pinckney,
commissioner of Jhansi.

17. I would also invite the notice of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to the excellent services of Mr. C. Chester, com-
missioner of Allahabad ; Mr. M. H. Court, magistrate of
Allahabad ; Mr. G. F. Harvey, commissioner of Agra;
Mr. C. Raikes, civil commissioner in the camp of the com-
mander in chief; Mr. F. Williams, commissioner of Meerut ;
Mr. C. Daniell, assistant magistrate of Etah; Mr. A. Lyall
assistant magistrate at Bolundshuhur ; Mr. A. Shakespear,
magistrate of Bijnour ; Mr. G. D. Turnbull, judge of
Meerut ; Mr. M. B. Thornhill, magistrate of Muttr Mr.
F. M. Lind, magistrate of Benares ; Mr. St. George Tucker,
magistrate ofMirzapore ; Mr. H. Vansittart, officiating judge
of Agra ; the Hon. R: J. Drummond, magistrate of Agra ;
Mr. J. Power, magistrate of Mynpoorie ; Mr. R. 11. Davis,
magistrate of Aziingurh ; Mr. R. Spaukie, magistrate of
Saharunpore ; Mr. A. R. Pollock, joint magistrate of Bo-
nares ; Mr. W. Probyn, officiating magistrate of Furrucka-
bad ; Sir T. Metcalfe assistant magistrate at Delhi; Mr.
R. M. Edwards, joint magistrate of Mozuffurnugger ; Mr.
G. Palmer, joint magistrate of Bijnoor ; Mr. F. Bird, joint
magistrate of Goruckpore ; Mr. H. Robertson, assistant
magistrate of Saharunpore ; Mr. H. Willock, assistant
magistrate at Allahabad ; Mr. L. Probyn, assistant magis-
trate at Ghazeepore ; Mr. S. S. Melville, assistant magistrate
at I3olundshuhur ; Mr. A. L. Phillips, joint magistrate of
Etah ; Mr. C. Jenkinson, assistant magistrate of Jounpore ;
Mr. G. Freeling, joint magistrate of Azimghur ; Mr. J.
Simson, joint magistrate of Mirzapore ; Mr. C. Grant,
joint magistrate of Mozuffernuggur ; Mr. G. Lane, acting
magistrate at Etawah ; Mr. W. M. Law, assistant magis-
trate at Bareilly ; and Mr. H. G. Ross, assistant magistrate
at Azimghur.

18. Of military officers in civil employ notice is first due
to Lieut.-Col. B. Smith, superintendent of Roorkee ; but
this officer's most signal services were rendered in a mili-
tary capacity, and are already known and appreciated by
her Majesty's Government.

There are, besides, Captain Waddington, deputy com-
missioner of Mundia ; Captain Teran, deputy commissioner
of Jaleun ; Captain Drummond, superintendent of the
Ganges Canal ; Captain Read, superintendent of Forest
Agency ; Captain Maclean, deputy commissioner of Bai-
tool ; Lieutenant Fenton, deputy commissioner of Chan-
deree ; and Lieut. 13rownlow, deputy superintendent of
the Jumna Canal; Lieut. Eckford, of the Mynpoorie
Levy ; and Lieut. De Kantzow, whose service in the field
has been partly under civil, partly under military authority.
19. Of gentlemen not in the covenanted service of the
Indian Government, notice is claimed especially for Mr, P,

Carnegy, deputy collector of Jounpore ; Mr. P. Saunders,
and Mr. A. Tonnochy.
20. The valuable services rendered by Mr. Dunne, Mr.
Walewski, Mr. A. Walewski, Mr. Legge, Mr. D. Churcher,
and Mr. G. Jones—gentlemen upon whose aid the govern-
ment had no claim—are also deserving of the notice of her
Majesty's Government.
21. If it be thought that the number of officers whom I
have brought to the attention of her Majesty's Government
for distinguished services in the north-west provinces
is large, I beg that it may be remembered that the services
have been rendered over a countryof 73,000 square miles in
area, and peopled by 30,000,000 of inhabitants, nearly every
corner of which has been searched out by rebellion.
22. It only remains for me, as regards the northwest pro-
vincee, to bring before the Secretary of State the able and
indefatigable services of the secretary to the Government,
Mr. W. Muir. I cannot speak too highly of them.
The services of Mr. C. B. Thornhill, who acted as secre-
tary to the Government at Agra during the first nine
months of the mutiny, and subsequently as commissioner
of Allahabad, also claim notice.
23. In Central. India the officers of Government were
tried by great and long-continued difficulties and dangers.
I desire to bring prominently before her Majesty's
Government the very important services of the two dis-
tinguished men who have had charge of the affairs of Cen-
tral India during that time.
24. The first thanks of the Government are due to Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Durand, C. 8., who at the time of the out-
break was officiating as the agent of the Governer General.
Colonel Durand's conduct was marked by great foresight
and the soundest judgment, as well in military as in civil
matters. He had many points to guard, and the trust-
worthy force at his disposal was almost hopelessly small ;
but, by a judicious use of it, and the closest personal super-
vision of its movements, Colonel Durand saved our interests
in Central India, until support could arrive.
25. In December, 1857, Sir Robert Hamilton returned to
Indore, and Colonel Durand resigned his charge. At the
same time Sir Hugh Rosemoved into central India.
Throughout the campaign in that country, and through the
hot season of 18.58, Sir Robert Hamilton, accompanied Sir
Hugh Rose's force to the Jumna and Gwalior, and was
present in several actions. By his thorough knowledge of
the chief and peoples with whom he has to deal, and by the
personal influence which he has known how to establish
with them, he contributed largely to the rapid movement
and general successes of the troops, and laid the ground-
work of the general pacification of that part of India.
26. I recommend to the favourable consideration of her
Majesty's Government the services of Major MTherson,
political agent at Gwalior. Holding a post of great import-
ance, far removed from his immediate superior at Indere,
and often struggling against sickness, he has discharged
his difficult duties with complete success.
As also the very remarkable services of Capt. Willoughby
Osborne, political agent in Hawaii. Few servants of the
Government have laboured more courageously or success-
fully against difficulties of every kind, to maintain the in-
fluence of the British Government and to repress disloyalty,
than this distinguished officer.
27. Of other political officers whose services in Central
India deserve notice there are Major Ellis, political agent
in Bundelcund ; Major Nixon, political agent at Bhurt-
pore •' Major Keating, political agent in Nimar ; Lieut.
Hutchinson, lately Bheel agent; pt. Gordon Cumming,
deputy Bheel agent; Capt. Shakespeare, first a•tsistant at
Indere ; and Mr. G. Coles, assistant to the political agent
in Rewah.
28. In Rajpootana I have to recommend to the favour-
able consideration of the Secretary of State the claims of
Col. George Lawrence, who has acted as agent for the Go-
Vel nor-General throughout the disturbed times.
29. The services in those states of Major Eden, political
agent in Jyepore, and now officiating for Col. Lawrence;
of Capt. Lloyd, the superintendent at Neemuch ; and of
Major Brooke, commanding the Meywar Corps, well de-
serve the notice of her Majesty's Government.
30. The difficulty of the position which the resident at
Hyderabad, Lieut.-Col. Davidson; has had to maintain is
well known to the home Government. I trust that favour-
able consideration may be given to the merits of this able
officer, whose courage and good judgment have been con-
spicuously shown on more than one critical occasion during
the last two years.
31. He has been most efficiently aided by Major Briggs,
the military secretary, and Captain Thornhill, the first as-
sistant; to the former of whom the successful defence of
the residency was mainly due in 1857, when its fall would
have led to the rising of the whole Deccan.
I beg to ask that the merits of these officers may not pass
without notice.
32. To Sir Richmond Shakespear, the Government of
India is indebted for the perfectly good understanding
maintained with the Guicowar and the Baroda Durbar, at
a time when the disaffection and intrigues of the Mahrat-
tas in Western India threatened to be most dangerous to
our hold of that part of the country. It has given me plea-
sure to advance Sir R. Shakespear, from his late post of
Resident at Baroda, to the inure important charge of Central
India; but I would further ask, that his good service may
receive favourable consideration from the Queen's Govern-
meat
33. Of the respective claims of the officers in Nagpore I
am unable to speak with sufficient certainty. The commis-
sioner has not yet furnished me with satisfactory means of
doing so.
34. There remains the large and important province of
the Punjaub.
The merits of the officers to whose courage and ability the
preservation of that country it due have been set forth by
the distinguished chief, Sir John Lawrence, with a fulness
which leaves little to be added.
Of what is due to Sir John Lawrence himself, no man is
ignorant. Through him Delhi fell, and the Panjaub, no
longer a weakness, became a source of strength; and but
for him, the hold of England over Upper India would have
had to be recovered at a cost of English blood and treasure
which defies calculation. It is difficult to exaggerate the
value of such ability, vigilance, and energy, at such a time.
35. Next, but not inferior to any man in his claim to the
gratitude of his country is Mr. Montgomery, the present
lieutenant-governor of the Punjaub. I know but one opi-
nion of the value of his prompt and courageous counsels,
tempered as they always have been with the soundest and
most generous judgment. Before he received charge of the
great'government of the Punjaub I claimed the benefit of
his experience and ability in the re-organisation of Oude. I
shall have to speak elsewhere of his services as chief com-
missioner of that province : here it is sufficient to say that
they have largely enhanced its high reputation, and his
claim to the favour of the government.
The officers for whose services I solicit the favour-
able consideration of her Majesty's Government are Mr.
Macleod, the financial commissioner; Lieut.-Col. Herbert
Ed wardes, the able and fearless commissioner of Peshawur;
General Van Cortlandt, who, with a small force of police,
recovered and held Hurrianah ; Capt. James, the deputy-
comnifssioner of Peshawar; Major Beecher, the deputy-
commissioner of Hazara ; Capt. Henderson in Kohat ; Mr.
G. C. Barnes, the experienced commissioner of the Cis-
Sutlej testga Mr. G. H. M Ricketts, deputy commis-
sioner ao..oodianah, for whom I earnestly request that an
error committed elsewhere in quieter times may not be an
obstacle to the acknowledgment of his remarkable services
in the crisis of the Punjaub's danger; Mr. A. Roberts, the
commissioner of Lahore ; Mr. F. Cooper, the deputy-com-
missioner of Umritsur, who, I hope,
will be judged by his
acts Clone under stern necessity, rather than by the narra-
tive of them ; Lieut.-Col. Macpherson, military secretary
and Lieut.-Col. R. Lawrence, at first captain of the Lahore
police, ani afterwards commanding the Cashmere Contin-
gent ; Mr. T. Forsyth, deputy-commissioner of Umballa;
and Major Marsden, deputy-commissioner at Ferozepore.
37. Sir John Lawrence has borne grateful testimony to
the manner in which the officers of the Punjaub of all grades
did their duty.
Major Hamilton, commissioner of Meehan Captain
Briggs, Captain Lewis, and Lieut. Dobbin, rendered ser-
vice in the transport of troops and stores which deserves
special notice.
38. There is one department of the civil government
which, though established in Calcutta, has concern with all
parts of Bengal where troops are in the field or in move•
ment—the department of the superintendent of marine.
The calls for exertion and watchfulness in this depart-
ment have been constant from the time when the transports
with English troops began to arrive in the river, up to the
present moment, when the dispatch of supplies and stores
by the inland steamers is only just slackening.
To Mr. Howe, in the first instance, and to Capt. Rennie,
from the time when he took up his appointment at the be-
ginning of 1858, great praise is due for the manner in which
the duties of the office have been discharged.
I trust that the services of these two officers will receive
notice from her Majesty's Government.
39. Lastly, I must request that due acknowledgment and
honour be given to the gentlemen who, during these times
• " difficulty and anxiety, have discharged the onerous duties
of the secretariat of the Government of India.
40. As might be expected, the heaviest burden has, per-
haps, fallen upon the secretary to Government in the mili-
tary department, Major-General Birch, C.B. I cannot
speak too highly of the ability and assiduity with which
his work has been performed. For the clearness and preci-
sion with which he has conducted very complicated duties,
and the hearty zeal with which he has given his days and
nights to the extraordinary press of labour that has come
upon, and still rests upon, his department, he has my
warmest thanks.
Major Atkinson, the under secretary in the same depart 7
ment, had responsibilities thrown upon him, during this
year, when his superior was absent with me from Calcutta,
which were much beyond the ordinary scope of his duties ;
and he discharged them in a manner which has given great
satisfaction to the Government of India.
41. The pest of secretary to the Foreign Department was
filled, up to the 20th of January, 1859, by Mr. G. F. Edmon-
stone, now the lieutenant governor of the north-west pro-
vinces. I can give to this valuable servant of the govern-
ment no higher praise than to say that the performance of
the duties which fell upon him, and whichwere heavily in-
creased by the state of affairs that has prevailed in the many
large and important districts superintended through the
Foreign-office' has been exactly what might have been ex-
pected from those who knew the character of his former ser-
vices. It has been admirable, and I rejoice to have been-
able to mark my own sense of it, and my confidence in him,
by naming him to the highest office which the Governor
General of India in Council can bestow.
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and with the despatch of the naval brigades, beginning with
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44. There remains the office of secretary in the department
of Public Works.
From the moment that it became certain that a vast in-
crease of accommodation, temporary and permanent, for the
English troops, would be necessary, the labours of this
office in prescribing the work, and in directing and control-

ling the staff of engineers engaged upon it, have been
greatly augmented. _

The staff has, for various reasons, been shorthanded, and
*ere Is no branch of the duties of the Government in which
rapid and judicious action has been more necessary, and in
which we have been compelled so contsantlyto have recourse
to makeshifts, and to make the best of imperfect means, both
in agency and materials. In surmounting these difficulties,
the intelligence and eartnestness of Lieut.-Col. Yule have
been the main help of the Government, and the thanks, not
only of the Governor-Generai in Council, but of the English
army in Bengal, are well deserved by him.
July 2, 1859.

CANNING.

2.118 NAVY.

The Channel flea was in the offing of Falmouth
on Wednesday and Thursday, heavy gunnery prac-
tice being distinctly heard on both days for pro-
longed periods.
Sveral changes have recently been made in the
fleet of the steam reserve at Chatham and Sheer-
ness, and the following are the vessels now attached
to the steam reserve squadron in the Medway-
viz., the Hood, 90, 600-horse power; the Queen,
80, 500-horse power ; the Goliah, 80, 400-horse
power; the Majestic, 80, 400 horse power ; the
Meanee, 80, 400-horse power ; the Forte, 51,
400-horse power ; the Phaeton, 51, 400-
horse power ; the Challenger, 21, 400-horse
power ; the Charybdis, 21, 400-horse power;
the Fawn, 17, 100-horse power; the Thunderbolt,
16, floating battery, 200-horse power ; the Miranda,
15, 250-horse power; the Thunderer, 14, floating bat-
tery, 150-horse power; .the Trusty, 14, floating bat-
tery, 150-horse power : the Swallow, 9, 60-horse
power ; the Wasp; 13, 100-horse power ; the Driver,
6, 280-horse power ; the Eurotas, 12, 200-horse
power ; the Phoenix, 6, 260-horse power ; the Vic-
tor, 6, 350-horse power; the Dragon, 6, 560-horse
power ; the Alacrity, 4, 200-horse power ; the Fox-
hound, 4, 200-horse power; the Jackall, 4, 150-
horse power ; the Wrangler, 4, 160-horse power;
the Otter, 3, 120-horse power; and the Fearless, 76-
horse power; in addition to the above the Waterloo,
90, 500-horse power; the Renard, 4, 200-horse
power; and the Snake, 4, 160-horse power, are sta-
tioned at Sheerness ; and the Rodney, 91, 500- horse
power; the Severn, 51, 500 horse power; the
Ariadne, 32, 800-horse power ; and the Etna, 16,
200-horse power, are stationed at Chatham. The
above vessels give an aggregate of 1,000 guns, and
9,976 horse power.
Yesterday (Sunday) there were in Plymouth
Sound ships of war belonging to five different na-
tions, a circumstance said to be unprecedented :-
The English ships of the line •Aboukir, Algiers,
Donegal, Hero, and Nile; frigates Diadem, Eme-
rald, Melpomene, Mersey, and Topaz° ; corvette
Pearl; the Dutch frigate Admiral Koopman, and
sloops Vesuvius and Reimer;: the Russian sloop
Razboynik ; the Brazillian. corvette Bahiana ; and
the Turkish line-of-battle ship Shadia. In all 17
pennants. The whole of the ships, with the excep-
tion of the Brazilian corvette, have steam power.
The paddlewheel steamer Vivid, 2, tender-to the
Fisgard, 42, Master Commander H. W. Allen, left
Chatham on Saturday .morning with the Commis-
sioners on the Coast Defences for the purpose of pro-
secuting their investigations. The visit of the Com-
missioners to Chatham was exceedingly short.
The Clio, 30, screw, Capt.. Miller, left Spithead
yesterday at 10.30 a.m., under canvas, by the
western channel for the China station, calling at
Plymc uth Sound. The wind at the time was fresh,
easterly.
The Russian screw despatch vessel Naezdik,
Commander Sillavoff, arrived .at Spithead from
Cronstadt for the Amoor River, at sunset on Friday
evening.

Thetrgent, screw troopship, Commander Hire,
sent down her topsail yards on Saturday alongside
the dockyard at Portsmouth, orders having been
received from the Admiralty to fit her With Cun•
ningham's patent topsails and gear for reefing from
the deck.

The Dee, steam transport, Master Commander
Pullen, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday with
boilers, machinery, &c.'
The Virago, 6, paddle, Commander Ti. B. Dunn,
is expected to leave Spithead this morning, for
Gibraltar.

The Perseverance, screw transport, Commander
Power, was swung for the adjustment of her com-
passes in Portsmouth harbour, on Saturday.
The Russian steam schooner Razboynik, 3, Com-
mander Battkoff, 30 days from Cronstadt, on a
cruise, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday.
The screw steamship Agamemnon, 91, Capt. T.
Hope, left on Friday for the Mediterranean.
It is expected that the Imperieuse and Pearl will
leave Plymouth to day for China.
The screw steam frigate Topazo, 51, Captain the
Hon. W. S. Spencer, at Plymouth, is under imme-
diate orders to sail for Vancouver's Island.

The screw steamship Nile, 90, Captain A. P. E.
Wilmot, C.B , in Plymouth Sound, is ordered to
prepare for foreign service. She was stationed at
Queenstown, where she bore the flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Sir C. Talbot, and prior to the receipt of this
order it was fully expected that she would have
returned to that station.
The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :—Capt. J. H. Cockburn,
to the Diadem, vice Capt. Moorsom, superseded at
his own request ; Lieut. E. S. Mearn to the Renard ;
James Buchanan, midshipman, to the Pearl; John
W. Burnett, Second Master, additional, to the Cum •
berland ; and Russell Hill, clerk, to the Topaze.
The contract for timber for the new docks at
Falmouth has been taken by Messrs. R. Wade, Son,
and Co., of Hull, and the work will be forthwith
commenced, the eastern breakwater of upwards of
400 feet being the first portion to be constructed.
The apparatus for creosoting the piles and other
timber has arrived, and will be speedily fixed in
position for operation.
In consequence of orders received from the Ad-
miralty at Chatham Dockyard, a numerous body
,shipwrights have been placed on the screw cor-
vettes Rattlesnake, 21, and Orpheus, 21, in order
to proceed with the construction of those vessels,
the works connected with which having been at a
standstill for some time. There is now considerable
activity at Chatham Dockyard, especially in the
shipbuilding department, in consequence of the
orders for building t additional ships, the Royal
Oak, 91, and the Belvedere, 51, both screw steamers.
The vessels now on the stocks at that establish-
ment are the Atlas, 91, the Bulwark, 91, and the
Irresistible, 80, in addition to which the Rodney,
90, and the Severn, 51, are in dock to be converted
into screw steamers.
A court-martial was held at Plymouth, on Satur-
day, on board the flagship Impregnable, 101, Capt.
W. Houston Stewart, for the trial of David Wale,
private, Royal Marines, and serving on board the
Donegal, for having, on the 9th of September, be-
tween the hours of 5 and 6 p.m., deliberately and
maliciously stabbed with a knife Henry Fireash,
sergeant of the same corps, accompanying the deed
with threats that he would take his life. A
second charge laid against the prisoner was of
having rushed after First-Lieutenant Henry Col-
ton, R.M., with a drawn knife in his hand,
saying, " That is the I want," or words to
that effect. The 'court was composed of the
following officers !—Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley,
Superintendent of the Dockyard, president ; G.
Elliott, captain of the Channel fleet; Capts. R. S.
Robinson, 'Wellington ; W. J. Williams, Royal Ade-
laide ; G. H. Seymour, Hero ; G. W. Douglas, Al-
giers; W. Moorsom, Diadem ; C. F. Schomberg,
Aboukir ; A. W. Jerningham, Cambridge ; H. Cald-
well, Mersey ; A. P. E. Wilmot, Nile '• W. H.
Stewart, Impregnable ; and the Hon. J. W.S. Spen-
cer, Topaze. Mr. W. Eastlake officiated as Judge
Advocate. The wounds inflicted were not of a na-
nature to endanger life. The prisoner's defence was
that he committed the act in a state of frenzy, and
that he did not know what he was doing. The
court found the first and more serious charge proved,
but not the second, and sentenced the prisoner to be
mulcted of pay, receive 50 lashes, to be imp' isoned
in the county gaol at Exeter for two years with
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