The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1859.

ful candidates, and after the healths of the Duke
of Buckingham, the Mayor and Corporation of the
Borough, the Judges, and several other toasts had
been given, the party separated.

NORFOLK.
NORWICH, SEPT. 22.

A well-attended meeting of the Wayland Agri-
cultural Society, an association formed in the south-
west of Norfolk, was held last evening at Watton.
Lord Walsingham presided at the dinner, and was
supported by the Duke of Wellington, R. J.
Buxton (who recently contested Bury St. Edmund's
in the Conservative interest), Mr. Brampton Gur-
don, M.P., the Hon. B. N. 0. De-Grey, the Rev.
Canon Parker, and about 100 other gentlemen.
Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Gurdon's colleague in the
representation of West Norfolk, was unavoidably
absent. _ _

The usual loyal and complimentary toasts having
been given,
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The Army and
Navy." His lordship observed that great diffi-
culty was sometimes experienced at such
meetings in finding gentlemen to respond
to this toast ; but he was now in a position to couple
with it the name of a nobleman who had recently
come to reside in Norfolk, and who, he was sure,
would be welcomed with the utmost cordiality.
The son of the illustrious Wellington, that greatest
of British heroes—(cheers)—needed no introduc-
tion. With reference to the formation of volunteer
corps, he (Lord Walsingham) believed the necessity
for them was not quite so urgent at the present
moment as it appeared to be some time since ; but
he was quite sure that, if England ever should be
seriously threatened with invasion, the people of
England—and especially the men of Norfolk—
would not be willing to depart one jot from that
grprious and high position which was earned for
them by the great Duke of Wellington and the im-
mortal Nelson. • (Cheers.)
The Duke of WELLINGTON, on rising to respond
to the toast, was warmly applauded. His grace re-
marked that he would not use the hackneyed ex-
pression that the Army and Navy of England would
always do their duty, because during the last few
days an instance had been afforded of its perform.
ance. Never had greater heroism been displayed
than in the expedition up the Peiho. He could
not, however, but regret that such a decided pre-
judice prevailed, particularly in the agricultural
clas3, against service in the Army and Navy. If a
villager turned out a poacher, his friends no doubt
regretted it; but if he " went for a soldier" the
family distress was enormous. It was not generally
known, he believed, that the naval and military
services were not now what they used to be. The
period of enlistment in the Army was now only for
10 years, and during that decade a man's time was
much better spent than it would be either at home
or in his village. He had opportunities for learn-
ing a great deal, and a grateful country was only too
anxious to do everything for his benefit. With re-
gard to the volunteer rifle corps, he might, perhaps,
as an iuhabitant of the county, be allowed to say a
few words. He had the honour to command
the corps, called the Victoria Rifles, and he
thought they had committed an error in making
themselves too numerous. They had also a
fine uniform, and the consequence was that they
were always desirous to show it off—(a laugh)—
and to become officers. A volunteer corps should
not, under any circumstances, comprise more than
100 men ; but that number acting as a company,
and in subordination to the regular troops, might
be of the greatest utility. (Hear.)
The CHaIRMAN proposed " The Members for the
County."
The Duke of WELLINGTON proposed the health
of the Chairman, whose friendship, he said, he had
gained at school.
The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compli-
ment, said he believed Eton boys, wherever they
met, were always friends. At a subsequent period
of the evening the noble lord touched upon the pro-
gress made with regard to steam-ploughing, and
added that he felt confident that the time would
also come when country labourers would be able to
sit down to a dinner of meat every day. This was
an improvement in their social condition which he
was very anxious to witness, and he believed that
in this part of Norfolk the labouring classes now
ate a great deal more meat than they consumed 10
or 15 years ago.
The other speeches delivered during the evening
presented no features of general interest.

TILE STRIKE.

A negotiation is now in progress calculated, in
the event of success, to detach a large and respect-
able section of the skilled artisans in the building
trades from the nine hours' movement, and, even in
the case of failure, to have an important bearing
upon the future course of the strike. Emanating,
too, as it does from that particular body of men
themselves, and making a concession on their part,
while it asks one from the other side in return,
with the view to an amicable termination of this
unhappy quarrel, the proposal appears to be one
which, on its merites, deserves a favourable consi-
deration from the Masters' Executive Committee.
Yesterday a deputation from the Society of Opera-
tive Afasons—a trade association having, perhaps,
the most perfect organisation of any in the kingdom,
and extending over the whole country—waited by
appointment upon Mr. Myers, the eminent master
builder in the York-road, Lambeth, and in the
course of a long interview submitted through him
to the Masters' Executive Committee, who are to
meet again on Tuesday, a proposition for ending the
strike so far as the masons as a body are concerned.
The deputation consisted of Mr. Richard Harnott,
secretary of the Central Committee of Operative
Masons, which is located at Bristol, another mason
from that city, and two other members of their
craft resident in London. The proposal they made
to Mr. Myers is understood to have been this—that,
speaking for their constituents/who are presumed
to be the whole of the masons on strike, they are
prepared to abandon the nine hours' movement, and
to work ten hours a day as usual, provided the
members of the Central Association of Master
.Builders agree to withdraw the declaration. It is
said, also, that should there be any customs regu-
lating their handicraft, which the masters regard as
grievances, they express their willingness to dis-
cuss them with their employers in'afriendly spirit,
and with a view to their mutual interests. This
is the substance of the reconciliation which the
masons submit to the Masters' Executive Com-
mittee, and it is understood that Mr. Myers
will undertake to bring it under notice at their next
meeting. The mode in which it has been proprosed,
and especially the channel through which it has
been made, augur much in favour of its success.
Originally rising from the rahks himself, Mr. Myers
thoroughly understands all the peculiarities and
feelings of the numerous body of working men en-
gaged in this extensive field of industry, and re-
spects and appreciates their trade associations when
conducted within legitimate
_bounds and for pur-
poses of common relief against misfortune. The in-
terview was managed with the utmost frankness
and good nature on both sides, and afforded an in-
stance of how much of long standing and mutual
jealousy, distrust, and misunderstanding may be
instantly dispelled by persons in the relation of
masters and men being brought face to faco, instead
of negotiating through a third party. The masons,
unlike the bricklayers in this respect, are under-
stood never to have taken any decided part in favour
of the nine hours agitation, though they would
have countenanced it to a certain extent. As a body
of working men uncommonly shrewd, it is believed
they never thought it tenable from the beginning.
This at all events is certain, that they have never
been supported during the strike out of the accumu-
lated funds of the trade society in general to which
they belong, which they would have been, in a
liberal and systematic manner, had that society re-
cognised it as what they call in their own language
a " legal strike," though they have received occa-
sional donations of money made voluntarily from
the members at large.
The circumstances connected with the interview
with Mr. Myers afford a curious illustration of the
distrustful feelings imported into this particular
stike, and of the tyrannical restraint which a trade
society often imposes upon its own members. Chas.
Henry Pomeroy., a confidential foreman in the
service of Mr. Myers, of his own motion and un-
kaown to his employer, wrote a letter about
the middle of last week to Richard Harnott, the
Secretary of the Central Committee of Operative
Masons at Bristol, pointing out to him in some
detail the disastrous character which the strike had
assumed to both masters and men, and appealing
to him to use his influence among the body with
which he was so intimately connected, with the
view to an amicable settlement of the quarrel. Mr.
Harnett, it appears, is a man of great good sense,
with a quiet persuasive manner and a good pre-
sence, and he is justytespected by the fraternity at
large of which he is the leading member. Pomeroy
knew all this, and, moreover that ho had been in-
strumental in terminating a strike among the masons
at Netley Abbey. Harnott, on his good offices being
so sought, took the opinion of the committee at
Bristol, and the result was that he and another of
the members were deputed to come to London on a
mission of reconciliation. The Paviors' Arms com-
mittee were early apprised of this circumstance,
and when Mr. Harnott reached the Paddington sta-
tion on Monday morning he was met by several of
the London masons on strike, who were awaiting
his arrival, and whiskel away in a cab to a com-
mittee-room if one of their lodges at the Sun Ta-
vern in Lambeth, in sight of Mr. Pomeroy, who had
gone to meet him. Two of them slept in the same
room with him, and the surveillance over him dur-
ing the day has been equally systematic. At first
the committee of this particular lodge of the metro-
politan masons were exceedingly wroth at the pre-
sumption of a man coming from Bristol in the hope
of settling a quarrel between them and their em-
ployers. In vain did Mr. Harnott produce the let-
ter he had received from Mr. Myers's foreman, or
state his own good intentions. They met in, the
Bower Saloon, and stigmatised his mission by a vote
of censure. But he was not to be diverted from his
purpose in that way. He immediately convened a
general meeting of the whole of the London masons,
and having explained his errand to them, and the
reasons for it, they rescinded the vote of censure
passed at the previous sectional meeting, and gave
their sanction to his attempt at a negotiation.
More than that, the committee at the Sun, who at
first took great umbrage at his interference, have
since approved his errand, and are understood to be
assisting in carrying it out through the agency of
Mr. Myers, though all his intercourse with the
enemy is watched with some amount of distrust.
The sinews of war in support of the men on strike
appear far from being exhausted. Money flows into
the hands of the Paviors' Arms Committee from
sympathising artisans in London and the provinces
at the rate or about £l,OOO a week. The sum re-
ceived yesterday amounted to £145 odd, and in-
cluded contributions from Weston-super-Marc, £3
2s. ; Bristol Carpenters' Society, £3O ; Cardiff Car-
penters' and Masons' Society,
£10; Glasgow Cloth-
-1 ppers, Democratic-rooms, Nclson-street, £2O ;
Oxford, £3 9s. 4d. ; Yorktown, £2 ; Middleton,
14s. 2d. ; St. Helen's, Lancaster, glass bottlemakers,
£5 ; Worcester, £8 ; Portsea, £7 10s. ; Southamp-
ton, 13s. 10d. ; Blue Boar, Long-acre, coachpainters,
£lO ; London Coachmakers' Friendly Society,
, Crown, Broad-street, Golden-square, £25; United
Flintglass-makers' Society, £2O. Total, £145 9s. 4d.
The committee have originated a system of enu-
merating the men actually at work in the various
masters' establishments, but as the results are yet
far from perfect, and might possibly, though unin-
tentionally mislead, we forbear to give the figures
for yesterday, the first day on which it has been
put in practice. Perhaps the best criterion of the
extent to which the men still refuse to return to
work will be again furnished on Monday by the
number of recipients of the relief fund at the Paviors'
Arms.
The new library in the Temple, with the wood
work of the roof half finished, the Palace Hotel,
Westminster, and many other extensive building
operations suspended at critical points in their pro-
gress, with winter eoming on, still attest the pro-
tracted duration of the strike ; and hands at work
on " jobs" of minor extent in all directions may be
literally summed up in the figure of speech, " a
man and a boy."

STEEL-PLATED SHIPS.—The Moniteur de la
Flotte says :—" There is going to be put upon the stocks at
Cherbourg a second blinde (steel-plated) vessel of the first
class, which will be called the Solferino, and will be on the
model of the Magenta, now constructing at Brest. The
trials of the steel-plated gunboats just made off the Islands
of Hyeres having completely succeeded, the Emperor has,
it is said, decided that after some corrections, pointed out
by experience, have been made in the first model, 50 of
these gunboats shall be constructed."

SHOCKING DEATH.—On Tuesday evening last
Mr. J. Lister, the coroner for the borough of Doncaster,
held an inquest at the Guildhall in that town, relative to
the death of Mrs. Dickson, aged 67 years, the sister of the
Rev. Joseph Atkinson, whose death was caused by burns
accidentally received. The deceased lady entered the kitchen
of her house on the 11th inst., and requested the cook to
fetch her some article. The cook did so, and in her ab-
sence the deceased stood by the fire and stirred some milk
that the cook was boiling. Her light muslin dress caught
fire, and, the servant's attention being attracted by her
mistress's screams, she ran to her assistance, and endea-
voured to extinguish the flames by folding or overlaying
the dress. The steel of a crinoline skirt prevented this
being done, and she then took some water and put out the
flames. Assistance, medical and otherwise, was soon at
hand, and the deceased lady was removed to her bedroova ;
but, newithstanding the able medical skill of Mr. F. C.
Fairbank, she never rallied, and death ensued on Monday.
Her dress was completely destroyed, and the action of the
fire was most apparent in the upper part of her body, her
head, hands, arms, and face, ears, nose, chin, and breast
being frightfully scotched. The coroner said that this
fatality was another instance against the use of crinoline
near the fire, but he directed the fury that the facts were so
clear that they would have no difficulty in arriving at their
verdict. A verdict of "Accidentally burnt" was returned.

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CRIMINAL CO URT, Sept. 23.

OLD COURT.
(Before R. M. Kerr, EN..)

. ,
Robert Westley, 58, a respectable-looking man,
was indicted for misdemeanour.

Mr. Pearce conducted the prosecution, Mr. Met-
calfe was counsel for the defendant.

The offence imputed to the defendant was that in
the course of his examination before Mr. Murphy,
the Commissioner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court,
he committed wilful and corrupt perjury, and the
circumstances under which the alleged offence was
committed were of a somewhat peculiar character.
The prosecutor was Mr. Gilman, an extensive
wholesale boot and shoe manufacturer at Norwich,
and who also has an establishment in London, and
it appeared that in the year 1853 one of his travel-
lers, a Mr. Barnes, was at Reading in the course of
his journey soliciting orders, and he saw the pri-
soner, who at that time kept a boot and shoe shop
in Minster-street, Reading, and he ordered goods
of him to the amount of between £6O and £7O, and
these goods were subsequently supplied. Mr. Barnes
upon a subsequent journey applied to the prisoner
for payment of the account, but he made some ex-
cuse, and promised to call at the London establish-
ment in a short time and pay the bill. He did not,
however, do so, and when Mr. Barnes next went to
Reading he found that the shop was closed and the
prisoner had decamped, and he could learn no tid-
ings of him. From this time until the beginning
of the present year nothing transpired relating to
the prisoner ; but Mr. Barnes happening by acci-
dent to be in-the shop of a shoe manufacturer in
White Cross-street, the prisoner came in, and he
immediately recc•gnised him as the person who had
favoured him with the order at Reading. He
made some inquiries, and ultimately traced the pri-
soner to Cambridge•strect, Hackney, where he ap-
peared to be carrying'on the business of a baker,
and upon information being given to Mr. Gilman,
he commenced an action against him to re-
cover the amount of his debt, and the action
was subsequently tried at Westminster, and re-
sulted in the jury giving Mr. Gilman a verdict
for the amount of his debt. The prisoner, it ap-
peared, immediately after the action had been dis-
posed of, filed a petition in the Insolvent Court,
and on his schedule he disputed the debt of Mr.
Gilman, and when he was examined by the Com-
missioner he swore that he had not kept the shop
at Reading, that it was the business of his brother,
Charles Westley, and that he had merqly' ordered
the goods from Mr. Barnes as his agent ; and it was
upon these statements that perjury was alleged
against the defendant. Several witnesses were exa-
mined, from whose evidence it appeared that the
defendant had lived for two years at Reading, and
that he was always known as Charles Westley, and
that ho took the shop where the goods were sup-
plied and signed an agreement in that name, and
that no other person was seen in the transaction,
and no one had ever heard of a brothor ; and, in
fact, every-one of the statements made by the de-
fendant before the Commissioner was distinctly dis-
proved.
Mr. Metcalfe, at the close of the case for the pro-
secution, raised several technical objections to the
indictment, some of which the learned Commissioner
consented to reserve for consideration by the Court
of Criminal Appeal, in case it should become neces-
sary to do so.

The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned
a verdict of guilty.
Judgment was respited, and the Court made an
order that the defendant might be at large pending
the decree of the Court of Appeal, upon his enter-
ing into a personal recognisance in £3OO, and find-
ing sureties in £l5O each, to appear and receive
judgment if he' should be required to do so.
An application was made to the Court to reduce
the amount of the bail, but it was refused.
This case concluded the business of the session,
and the Court adjourned to Monday, Oct. 25.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept. 23.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)

The bail cases were taken to-day.
Henry Waller was indicted for having assaulted
Ellen Bradbury, the wife of James Bradbury, 5,
New Peter-street, Westminster. The parties lived
in the house, and there was contfadictoryevidence.
There had been a quarrel between the prisoner's
wife and the prosecutrix.
The jury found the prisoner not guilty.
Mr. Hawthorne was for the prosecution ; Mr.
Ribton defended.

Robert Downs, convicted of feloniously receiving
articles stolen by female shoplifters, his associates,
and disposing of them, was brought up, and sen-
tenced to three years' penal servitude.
Frederick Leach, journeyman baker, convicted of
embezzlement, after a previous conviction, was
brought up for judgment.
The learned Judge said the ordinary rule in such
a case as this would be to pass a sentence of penal
servitude ; but, in consequence of representations
which had been made respecting the prisoner, the
attention of the medical officers of the prison had
been called to him, and, acting upon information
received from them, he should desist from passing
a sentence of that sort. At the same time, he had
to observe that he had received letters and docu-
ments respecting this case from persons, what or
whoever the - might be, who clearly little under-
stood the position of one filling a judicial
situation; Lad such a course as they had
adopted was an error against propriety and good.
sense. He had an anxious and serious duty to per-
form in discriminating the sentences to be passed
upon persons convicted of crime, and utterly disre-
garding the communications he had received, but
acting upon the information he had received from
the medical officer of the gaol, and careful consi-
deration of the circumstances of the case, he should
sentence the prisoner to 12 months' hard labour.
It was not only indecorous, but highly improper
for persons to address communications to a judge
upon a matter of which he had to form an opinion
upon the circumstances, publicly and openly inves-
tigated before him, and for the sake of decency he
hoped it would not be repeated.
Elijah Cattlin, 19, a footman, who was convicted
on his own confession of stealing three bottles of
wine, was brought up for judgment.
The learned Judge said it appeared the prisoner
had been in the habit of robbing his master, a gen-
tleman living at Highgate, by making use of false
keys. It was a very bad case indeed, bet the prose-
cutor had kindly and most earnestly recommended
him to mercy, on account of which he should pass
upon him a sentence of eight months' hard labour.
An application was made to the Court for an
order of restitution of some wood which had been
stolen by a man named Box, convicted last session.
The assistant-judge ordered at the time that it was
to be restored, but two persons to whom portions
had been sold now attended, and said they bought
the wood for what it was worth, and had it worked
up in trade, and could not therefore give it back.
The learned Judge said they had been directed to
give up the property and had not done so. They
could have given the value of it to the poor man
who had been robbed of it, but instead they chose
to set their own opinions and notions against the
lawof the land. They would find thrt too strong
for them. He should not make an impers-
tire and immediate order, as the matter was
originally before Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-Judge,
who would be here next sessions, bat he should ad-
vise them to give to the prosecutor the value of
the property of which he had been robbed, and they
had received, before next session, or they might find
that the Court was not only not to be set at defiance,
but that it had ample power to enforce its order, and
further to direct a prosecution for retarding the due
administration of justice.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
Patrick Farrell, late a policeman of the S division,
No. 366, surrendered to take his trial upon an in-
dictment for an assault upon Susannah, the wife of
Henry Jenkins, a lamplighter, living at 17, John-
street, Portland-town.
Mr. Lawrance was counsel for the prisoner, and
said the circumstances of this case were of a some-
what extraordinary character. The prisoner was on
the beat where the prosecutrix lived, and had been
in the habit of calling her husband up at early hours
of the morning, as he had to put lamps out for the
Imperial Gas ompany ; for that he was paid 9d.
a-week. One morning he called him up at about
half-past three, and he went on his rounds. Mrs.
Jenkins remained in bed after her husband had gone
out, and dropped off to sleep. To her astonishment
she was awoke by the head of a strange man being
placed on her breast and the word "'Holism!" being
said to her in a very soft and whispering manner.
She looked, and, finding it was not her husband,
screamed out, and the prisoner (for he it was) ran
out of the room. He had his uniform clothes on,
and the bed clothes were not disturbed ; he was
lying on the outside. He got away for the moment,
but an alarm was given, and he was brought back,
singularly enough, by he husband, who had been
informed of the circumstance by a lodger in the
house who had gone in pursuit.
Mr. Ribtor, who appeared as counsel for the pri-
soner, said he could not resist a verdict of common
assault, and to that charge the prisoner, by his ad-
vice, would plead guilty. At the same time he had
to say that there was not the slightest imputation
upon Mrs. Jenkins, who, there was no doubt, was
a highly respectable moral woman, and the prisoner
offered his humble apologies to her for an insult lie
had undoubtedly. though unintentionally, put upon
her. Thu real circumstances were these :--The
prisoner, while on the beat, had formed an ac-
quaintance with a woman who lived in this house,
and used to visit her on terms of intimacy. She

lodged in the very parlour -where this transaction
occurred up to within three days of its taking place,
the Jenkinses took to it, and when the prisoner
went into the house he, not knowing that the woman
Was no Idnger the tenant of the room, conducted
himself in the way stated, but the instant he found
out his mistake he rashed-away, and in no manlier
offered any further insult to Mrs. Jenkins. Unfor-
tunately, as it was, the prisoner MO been severely
punished by the loss of his situation, but he must
bear the consequences of what it could not be dis-
puted he had been guilty of—a common assault
upon one person whom he mistook for another,
without any previously conceived intention with
respect to that person.
The prisoner then pleaded guilty to the common
assault, and he was found not guilty on the other
counts of the indictment charging the more serious
offence. Certificates of good character were pro-
duced.
The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said he
had consulted his learned colleague, Mr. Creasy,
upon the case, and they both agreed that the proper
sentence to pass would beimprisonment for a month.
According to the statement in his favour, the pri-
soner's conduct had been very immoral and disgrace-
ful. Sentence was one month's imprisonment, and
no fine.
Albert Altman, a respectable-looking and well-
connected young man, surrendered to take his trial
for embezzling the sum of £5, received by him for
and on account of his master, Alfred Syer.
Mr. Langford and Mr. Poland were for the pro.
secution ; Mr. Metcalfe defended the prisoner.
The issue raised in this case was a serious one,
and one painful for the jury to decide, either the
guilt of the prisoner or the non-genuineness of are-
ceipt produced against him for the sum stated. The
prosecutor was a glass and lead dealer in Penton-
ville-road, and the prisoner was his collecting
clerk. It was alleged that he had received £5
from Michael Comerford, of 26, Russell-place,
Islington, oil and colourman, for which he had not
accounted, and a receipt for which was pro-
duced. There had 'been business transactions
between Mr. Syer and Mr. Comerford. The body
of the receipt was written in the ink of a different
hue to that of the signature across the penny
stamp, and the name of " Horton" was written, in-
stead of " Altman."
The prosecutor said he thought the writing
looked like the prisoner's.
After a long trial, the learned Judge summed up
and told the jury that they need not say absolutely
that the prisoner was guilty or that the receipt
was a forgery ; but if this case was so insufficiently
proved as to leave any fair and honest doubt on
their minds they would acquit the prisoner.
The jury, after a quarter of an hour's delibera-
tion, found the prisoner not guilty.
The learned Judge said he was very much satis-
fied with the verdict ; under the circumstances it
was the best and safest course that could bo taken.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Richard
Cowell as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the King of
the Belgians.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 23.
Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet John George
Stopford, from the 18th Light Dragoon, to be Cornet,
vice William Norris Franklyn, who has been superseded,

being absent without leave.
12th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant William Lloyd Browne,
from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, paying the difference
between Infantry and Cavalry, vice Stoddart, who ex-
changes.
15th Light Dragoons—Brevet-Colonel Henry Skipwith,
from half-pay, 44th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Brevet-Colonel George William Key, who exchanges,
receiving the difference between Infantry and Cavalry ;
Major Thomas R. Crawley to be Lieutenant-Colonel; by
purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Skipwith, who retires ;
Captain Henry Lee to be Major, by purchase, vice Craw-
ley; Lieutenant Edwyn Walker to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Lee ; Cornet Bryan Burrell to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Walker.
Ist 'Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon. Mathew Law-
rence White, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice O'Grady, cashiered.
6th Foot—Captain John Arthur Brockman, from the 28th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Preston, who exchanges; En-
sign David Barry Moriarty to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice James, deceased.
7th Foot—Lieutenant J. Herbert Randall Stoddart, from
the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Browne,
who exchanges.
Bth Foot—Captain William Edward Newall, from the 92d
Foot, to be Captain, vice M'Grigor, who exchanges ; Ser-
geant-Major John Keatinge to be Quartermaster, vice
Hamilton, deceased.
16th Foot--Captain James John Gordon, from the 86th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Branfil, who exchanges.
17th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Archibald, Macreight to
be Captain, by purchase; vice. Brevet-Major O'Connor,
promoted ; Ensign Richard Follett Bros to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Macreight.
21st Foot—Lieutenant Robert Cook to be adjutant, vice
Thos. Henry Sherwood, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
28th Foot—Captain John Wm. Preston, from the 6th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Brockman, who exchanges.
55th Foot—Ensign Loftus Nunn, from the 66th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Addison, who exchanges.
63d Foot :Ensign Wm. Lancelot Knowles to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vice Twiston, deceased.
66th Foot—Ensign Alfred Chamberlain Addison, from the
65th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Nunn, who exchanges.
60th Foot—Captain George John Arata Oakley, from the
84th Foot, to be Captain, vice Sparke, who exchanges.
70th Foot—Ensigh Charles Roger to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Whigham, promoted.
79th Foot—Ensign Thomas Ballard Dougal to be Lieuten-
ant, without ptirchase vice Howkins, deceased.
84th Foot—Captain John F. Sparke, from the 68th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Oakley, who exchanges.
86th Foot—Captain Benjamin Aylett Branfill, from the 16th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Gordon, who exchanges.
92d Foot—Captain Robert Lewis G. M'Grigor, from the
Bth Foot, to be Captain, vice Newall, who exchanges.
94th Foot—Captain Courtenay W. A. T. Kenny, from
half-pay Gold Coast Artillery Corps, to be Captain, vice
Drew, appoineed Adjutant of a Depot Battalion.
97th Foot—Major James William Dewar, from a Depot
Battalion, to be Major, vice Chichester, who exchanges.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Herbert Gauntlett
Panter to be Adjutant, vice Edmunds, who resigns the
Adjutancy only.
3d West India Regiment—Captain Walter George Nugent,
from half-pay 33d Foot, to be Captain, vice O'Flanagan,
who exchanges; Lieutenant Frederick William John
Dugmore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Nugent, who

retires.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Ensign James Henry Randell, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Crossman, who retires.
HOSPITAL STAEF.—Staff-Surgeon John Donald, having
completed twenty yeais' full-pay service, to bo Surgeon-
Major under the Royal Warrant of the Ist October, 1858 ;
'Assistant-Surgeon Charles Henry Browne, from the 86th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice White,
appointed to the Ist Foot.
DEPOT BATTALION.—Major Charles Raleigh Chichester,
from the 97th Foot, to be Major, vice Dewar, who ex-
changes.
UNATTACHED. - Lieutenant and Adjutant John
M‘Queeen, from the 9th Foot, to be Captain, withour
purchase