The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1857.

From the London Gazette of Last Ni; '

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 19.
This day had audienceof the Queen—Their Excellencies
Phya, Montri Suriywongse, First Ambassador, and Chau
Mun Sarbbodh Bhacty, Second Ambassador, from the
First King of Siam; also his Excellency Chamun Minder
Bidacks, Ambassador from the Second King of Siam, to
present their credentials and autograph letters from their
Majesties : to which audience they were introduced by the
Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, K.G. her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Aiftirs, and con-
ducted by Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast,
K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
DO WNING-STREET, Nov. 18.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint F. Spencer Wig-
ley, Esq., to be Senior Member of the Council of the Island
of St. Christopher; Amedee de Brossard, Esq., to be an
Official Member of the Legislative Council of the Island
of St. Lucia ; Celecourt Antelme, Esq., to be a Member
of the Council of Government of Mauritius ; and T. A.
Finnirnore, Esq., to ba Medical Officer at Grand Port, in
that island.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Captain
George Crispin, late Quartermaster 67th Regiment, to be
Quartermaster.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

Tower Hamlets—Charles Skipper, Esq., to be Deputy-
Lieutenant.

King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—To be
Captain—Charles Adams, late Major German Legion, vice
Strong, resigned. To bo Lieutenants—Andrew Frederi33l
Dunsterville, late Lieutenant Royal Pembroke Artillery ;
Charles Mackinnon Walmesley, late Captain Royal Lon-
don Militia, vice Gordon, resigned. To be Ensigns—Wm.
Lewis Kulback, Gent. ; Frederick Greatore; Gent. ;
Frederick Ludwig Mathews, Gent ; Walter Ormerod
Beales, late Ensign Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment
of Tower Hamlets Militia.

East Kent Regiment of Militia—William Wray Mann-
sell, Esq., late Captain 85th Light Infantry and 6(ith
Foot, to be Major, vice Dering, promoted.
Oxford-hira Regiment of Militia -- Edward Trevor
A.rney, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Brown, pr omoted.
Warwickshire Militia, 2d Regiment.—Charles Atty,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Frederick John Granville, re-
signed ; Malcolm Ronalds, Gent., to be Ensign, vice J.
Blacksley, promoted ; Percival Richards, Gent., to be En-
sign, •ice M. W. Furness, promoted ; Bowyer Wenbam
Give Browne Cave, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice John
Wynne, resigned ; Arundell de Penthoney O'Kelley,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice George Woodvatt, promoted;
Harcourt James Lees, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Henry
Leftwich FrJer, promoted.
Northamptonshire Militia-Thomas Henry Pares, Gent.,

is be Lieutenant ; George Alfred Lawrence, Gent., to be
Ensign ; Nesbit Willoughby Wallace, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Francis Collins, resigned ; Lieutenant Henry Mins-
hull Stockdale, to be Captain, vice William Langham
Christie, resigned ; Henry Chalers Chavez Lucena, Gent.,
to be Ensign ; Gerard Septinaus Burton, Gent., to be En-
sign.
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—William Taylor,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Birchill, resigned.
Dumfries, Roxburgh, and S,lkirkshire Regiment of Mi-
litia—Andrew Mercer Adam, Esq., Doctor of Medicine,
to be Surgeon, vice Grieve, resigned, with permission to
r.4ain his rank ; Charles Rattray, Esq., Doctor of Medi-
cine, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Adam, promoted.
Forfar and Kincardine Militia Artillery—Thomas
M` Whannel, Gent., to be second Lieutenant, vice Duguid,
resigned.
City of Edinburgh Regiment of Artillery Militia—Ro-
bert Nicol, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Bruce,
promoted.
The following is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of the 13th October, 1857 :
John Jekin Cockburn, Esq., late of the 63d Regiment,
to be Lieutenant, vice Dods, resigned.
Thomas Hugh Dalrymple Vans Hay, Esq., to be En-
sign, vice Cavendish, resigned.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Alfred Joseph Chitenden Cawthorn, stock dealer, Stock-
Exchange.
Solomon Cross, factor, West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
BANKRUPTS. _ _ _

Owen Sparrow, grocer, Shoreditch, to surrender, Dec. 1,
at half-past two, and Jan. 1, at half-past one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
John Lawler Begot, woollen draper, Liverpool, Dec. 8
and 30, at obven, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Midaleton, leather merchant, Manchester, Dec.
7 and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
James Horrox, drysalter, Chadderton, Dec. 2, and Dec.
23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Lawrenc' Woolf, oil cloth manufacturer, Manchester,
Dec. 15, and Jan. 14, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict tour .

John Cure, builder, Bristol, Dec. 1 and Jar. 4, at
eleven, at Bristol District Court.
Charles Isaacs, merchant, Bristol, Dec. 1 and Jan. 4, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Jonathan Watson, printseller' Vera-street, Marylebone,
Dec. 2, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 4, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
James Edser, builder, Vincent-square, Dec. 4, and 29,
at two, at the Court of B inkruptcy.
Martin Nunn, laceman, Regent's-circus, Nov. 30, at
half-past two, and Jan.. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
James Cappel, warehouseman, Gutter-lane, Nov. 30, at
two, and jan. 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
William Collier Wells, stationer, Swaffham, county of
Norfolk, Dec. 1, at half-past eleven, and Dee. 23, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Anderson, stone mason, Lisson-grove, Dec. 1
and 31, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
James Michel Polak, picture dealer, Birmingham, Dec.
21, and Jan. 11, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
o:iver Appleton, dyer, Leicester, Dec. 8 and Jan. 5, at
ten, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham.
Jalries MacLennan, thaw and cloak warehouseman, Liver-
pool, Dec. 8 and :30, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court.

Edward Southwell Ruthven' commission
lington-place, Hercules-buildings, Lambeth, agent, Pen-
Dec. 1, at
half-I),st twelve, and Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy,
Tull, grocer, Andover, Nov. 27 and Dec. 31, at
William
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
James Millington and Charles Clave, lace manufac-
turers, Nottingham, Dec. 1, and Jan. 5, at half-past ten,
at the Shirehall, Nottingham.
Harrison Bontoft, bookseller, Boston, Lincolnshire,
Doc. 1, and Jan. 5, at half-past ten, at the Sbirahall, Not-
tingham.
Mary Hindhaugh and Arthur Ferdinand de Ne umann,
tin ber merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
John Woodhead, innkeeper, York, Dec. 4 and Jan. 15,
at ten, at the Leeds District Court.
Thomas Moorhouse and John Hook, linendrapers, Hali-
fax, D 'C. Bat half-past eleven, and Jan. 11 at eleven, at
the Lee,ls District Cour'.
John Peterson, ship chandler, Rotherhithe, Dec. 4, at
twelve, and Jan. 8, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
William Jarvis, innkeeper, Newmarket Saint Mary,
Dec. 2, at one, and Jan. 8, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
William King Monk, cheesemongor, High-street, South-
wark, Dec. 4, ac half-past two, and Dec, 29, at half-past
one, at the Court of Blnkruptcy.
Chas. Henry Pnrday, music publisher, Maddox-street,
Hanover-,quare, Dec. 4, at three, and Dec. 25, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy,
Wm. Pavitt, Daniel Pavitt, and George Pavitt, millers,
Mark-lane, Dec. 4, at eleven, and Jan. 11, at half-past two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Robert Morrow, John Morrow, and Clarkson Garbutt,
merchants, Liverpool, Dec. 3 and 30, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court.
Thomas Turner and Thomas Turner they ounger, cord-
wainers, Liverpool, Doc. 7 and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court.
Henry Lamb, bookseller, stationer, and printer. Norbi-
ton, Surrey, Jan. 2 and 11, at two, at the Ccurt of Bank-
ruptcy.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending ou Wednesday, the 18th day of November, 1857.

THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

(From the Sierra Leone Era, Sept. 24.)
The evil effects attending the policy lately adop-
ted by the Fi ench Emperor, in seeding vessels to
the coast of Africa, for the purpose of procuring and
carrying emigrants to the French colonies in the
West Indies, is thus given in the last number of the
African, furnished by a correspondent at Lagos,
under date September 6*
:
* Information has been received that the
Emperor of the Fren::.l), through a contract made
with the house of Regis at Marseilles, who have a
factory at Whydah, is actually carrying out the sug-
gestions of the West India deputation by sending
a screw steamer called the Stella to Whydah to pur-
chase 1,200 slaves, ship them on board, and call
them free emigrants. But the Emperor's intention
having evidently been made known in Havaunah,
Brazil, and New York, several months since, a copy
of his contract with Monsieur Regis having been
published in a Bahia commercial paper, the slave-
dealers, their agents, and accomplices have, under
French auspices, largely renewed their inhuman
traffic at Whydah, but as they give much higher
prices for prime slaves than the Emperor's agent,
Monsieur Regis, can by bits contract aff )rd to do,
the Spaniards are actually driving the French agent
out of his own market—the highest price the
French agent is able to pay for slaves is
50 dollars, while the Spanish supercargoes
pay as high as 90 dollars for an able-bodied

slave, consequently the Freneh can only purchase
what the Spaniards reject, and even then cannot ob-
tain a full cargo for the Stella, which vessel it is
stated is gone to another factory of M. Regis, at the
River Gaboon, to try and get slayes cheaper, and
complete her full cargo of 1,200. This is what is
wished to be palmed off on the people of England
as free emigration from Africa !
The great stimulus to the stave trade given by
this most discreditable transaction on the part of a
leading power in Europe, the people of which coun-
try, when their voices were free, declared slavery
at an end for ever in the colonial possessions of
France, is producing great evil in the Yoruba and
other counties where its influence is felt, and up-
rooting all the good done in three years of peace
and freedom from slave trade in the Bight of
Benin. Already the Abbeokutans who last year
brought 1,500 tons of palm oil to Lagos to sell
have this year scarcdy brought 500 tons, and the
unwilling people have been forced to follow their
chiefs to war, in order to feed the demand for
slaves at Whydah.
The unwillingness of the bulk of the inhabitants
of that interesting town to abandon their legiti-
mate commerce and their cotton plantations may
be gathered from the following proclamation of the
war chiefs of Abbeokuta, made public at a large
meeting convened by them on Saturday, the 13th
of June last :

"1. That in order to procure a large army for
the Abio war soon to be undertaken trade must be
stopped now and during the war, nothing must be
sold and nothing bought.
"2. In order to th,s, the passages by land and
the river to Igai, Ilaaddau, I li..arrodo, Illorin,
Lago, and other adjacent towns that trade with
Aloheokuta, must be stopped.
"3. That no canoe or canoes be allowed to ap-
pear in the river, excepting tie missionaries who
are no traders.

"4. That instant death on the spot be the
penalty inflicted upon violation of any of these
rules."

This is the result of the revival of the slave trade
by Franc©. The people of Ibaddan, a town larger
and more populous than Abbeokuta, but who have
not felt to the same extent the beneficial influences
of legitimate commerce, are now preparing to attack
the people of Jaboo, the markets of which country,
held every eighth day, produce during the palm-oil
season from 100 to 150 tons of oil each market day.
One evil feature in the French slave-trade is that
we'have no treaty with Fiance for the suppression
of the slave trade. The last convention with France,
concluded in May, 1845, to last ten years, having
expired in May 1855 ; and even if there existed a
treaty, this being a government speculation, could
not be interfered with, and that while the natives
(who cannot understand the reeson why) see our
English ships of war seize the Spanish vessels en-
gaged in the slave trade, remark that they do not in-
terfere with the French vessels, no explanation
ago at free emigration could be understood by them.
They see in both cases money paid for slave., and
no talking to them could ever make them compre•
hend that any thing else can possibly be iuteeded
by the white man, when he buys slaves and goes
to a great expense in transhipping them to a country
to these poor people being brought back at the across the leg sea, but to work them as slaves. As
ex-
piration of ten years (that is, such of them as should
be alive at that period) as free men, the proposition
is absurd to those who have lived in Africa. If
brought back again to the country from whence they
were shipped, they would in a short time be all
made slaves again, and probably resold for another
ten years, should the iniquitous system to
supply labour to the West India plantations
endure. Even those emigrants from Havannah and
Brazil, who, after purchasing their own free-
dom in those countries are, if they return and land
elsewhere than at Lagos (where they come under
British protection)immediately plundered of every-
thing,nwho
pl plundered u hadde r
and either sold or put to deaths as was tee
case ten years siuce, when a Brutal Poi tuguese cap-
tcans at Bahia, under promise of lauding them at
ed embarked
of
f 46 self-emancipated Afri-
Ligos, forced them on shore at Why,iah. They
werea
everything as soon as landed,
and then marched up to Abomy, and the only tid-
ings ever beard of these poor people were that the
monster Nero, Icing Gezo, had enslaved all the
children and put the adults to death.
Another slaver, an American brigantine, the
Eliza Jane, was brought into this port on. Satur-
day,
her Majesty's ship
et ening last, in charge of one of the officers -,fAlecto, by a boat of which ves-
sel she was captured on the 24th August last, off
Malemba, cerrying
the usual equipments for the
of them,hydab,
sieve trade, and two slaves.
Several other vessels are reported to have been
captured on the coast and on their way to this co-
l
to
akny
en.
Two
r theo nConclt e
suspicion,ta, a Sapnadn itshe brig
h b
William Clarke, American, without colours or
papers, with from 700/. to 8001. in money, by the
Firefly. Another, a schooner reported to have been
taken about five or six weeks since in the Bights,
by the Antelope, with 190 slaves ; and a brig taken
off Cabenda, by the Myrmidon, the clptain and
greater part of the crew having previously aban-
doned her, taking with them a large amount of
money which was on board.
Two Spanish vessels, a schooner and barque,
ere also reported to have been captured off Ben-
gola, and taken into Loando.
A canoe, with upwards of forty slaves, has also
been brought in during the past week, taken off the
Bannanas by
, the Manager of Kent, after some re-
sistance, the party iu charge of the canoe having
fired into their pursuers on their nearing them, and
doing considerable damage to their boat, when they
in return were fired into and the captain wounded.
This boat is said to have been taken under tee very
nose of H.M.S. Brune, cruising there at the time.

(From the Colonisation Herald.)
Several of the most powerful nations of the earth
have made an effort to put an end to tho iniquitous
slave trade. Much has been accomplished, but it
appears, however, that the illicit commerce is by i
no means extinguished• A gentleman, who re-
cently arrived at New York from the coast of Africa,
states that he learned from good authority that there
waiting for cargo-s of slaves, and seeking
were thirty vessels, all sailing under the Portuguese
to get to sea, unperceived by the
flag, lying in the creek at the mouth of the Congo
oons were stationed near the mouth
give warning of the vicinity of
and thusg tto
eaiffiencotuntcheeoiprpoerstcuanpeitieisn,
night and a fair wind these traders
a brig (supposed to be an
ctilowlniahirutveiitesiollerinational
opportunities
hrpudarkriver,iere itrs
American craft) was making her way out of the
safety.iniluman
mouth of the Congo River, with 400 negroes on
board, when she was espied by a British steamer, ,
which promptly gave chase. The brig slipped away
from her pursuer with the greatest ease. The steamer I
Not beingslong amg
oi
fired several shots at her, but without success.
When the brig had got out of reach of the steamer's
guns, the captain, by way of tantalising the baffled
cruiser, ordered a negro to be pulled up to the yard-
arm, where he was allowed to hang for some time,
as an insulting token of the acknowledged
character of the vessel. The captain also signified
his exultation by standing at the stern fiddling as
his brig scudded away. This statement is well cal-
culated to produce a thrill of indignation and hor-
ror.. It might he doubted, but that we have con•
stant accounts of the seizure of suspected slavers at.
some of the leading ports of the United States,
while it is well known that thousands of slaves are
landed every year on the Island of Cuba. The
very perils that beset the trade make the tempta-
tion to the mercenary the stronger, because when

they manage to escape with a cargo of slaves the
profits are enormous. The governments imme-
diately concerned, and bound together by treaties,
should not permit themselves to be baffled by the
infamous and desperwo men who are engaged in
this abomination. They should make still more
vigorous efforts, and thus vindicate the principles
of humanity.
Let the reader imagine the scenes that are likely
to be enacted on board the thirty vessels above re-
ferred to, the incidents, as well on land as on the
sea—the anguish, the agony, the resistance, the
stripes, the suffocation, the death, and if not the
death, the life-long bondage ; and he may then
form some faint idea of this modern horror. And
yet we have, in the United. States, an executive
who has recommended a revival of the trade by
authority of law, and who has even endeavoured to
persuade his fellow-citizens that the system is every
way commendable and justifiable. This, `loo, in
the nineteenth century, and in the age of the steam
engine. the railroad, and the electric telegraph ! The
fact affords a bitter commentary upon the force of
prejudice, and the weakness of poor human nature.
Theidea that tbe chtefmagistrate of aflourishing Com
monwealth should coolly recommend one class of hu-
man beings to enter into an organised planto seize and
bear away from their homes anoth€r class, and then
to sell them into perpetual bondage, is inde.?d
monstrous. Such an outrage detailed in the pages
of romance would be ridiculed as preposterous and
unnatural ; or, if believed, the nation recommend-
or sustaining it would be regarded as worse than
barbarian.
We have looked. with special interest to see in
what light the thinking men, and especially the
religious men of the south would regard this effort
to revive the slave trade. We rejoice that nearly
all denounce it, were it practicable, in no mistake-
able terms of condemnation. Even the committee
of a South Carolina Legislature, to whom the re-
commendation of their Governor to this effect was
referred, have declined to make any report upon
it, thus virtually rejecting it—a fact that brings
honour to South Carolina. The recent Southern
Convention hid the subject on the table by a vote
of 68 to 16, equivalent to unanimity. The news-
paper press of the entire north and of a large por-
tion of the south, have simultaneously turned their
engines cf cold. water upon it, and so utterly extiu-
tzuishing it that it scarcely emits a smoke. And at
the motion of a southern member the House of
Representatives hare resolved, by a large majority
that they "regard all suggestions or propositions
of every kind, by whomsoever made, for the re-
vival of the African slave trade, as shoct.ing to the
moral sentiment of the enlightened portion of man-
kind, or any act on the part of Congress, legislating
or concurring in, or lega,liing that horrid and in-
human traffic, would justly subject the Unttcd
States to the reproach of all civilised and Christian
people throughout the world." Thus both govern-
ment and people promptly refuse to engage in or
countenance it. On the contrary, it is gratifying
to find that in the estimates of appropriations for
t'e ensuing year, provision is made for a liberal
sum to aid in the suppression of this illegal traffic ;
and there is good reason to believe that the general
government is in earnest in its efforts in this
direction.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of Col.
Dabiel Lysons, C. B , of the 25th Regiment, being
placed on the staff of the army in Great Britain and
Ireland, as an Assistant Adjutant-General, with the
view to his being attached in that capacity to the
office of Inspector-General of Infantry, vice Colonel
A. C. Sterling, C. 8., appoin' ed. to the staff of Gen.
Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief
in India.

The following troops will move from Cauterbury
this morning for Parkhurst, Isle of Wight :-6tta
depot, 12 officers and 213 men ; 45th depot, 9
officers and 106 men ; 50th depot, 15 officers end
195 men ; total, 36 officers and 514 men.
Her Majesty's steamship Urgent sailed from
C. rk. Harbour on the 13th inst. fur the Mediter-
ranean, with the following draughts on board :
For Gibraltar-2d Battalion, Ist Foot, Capt. J.
WKeitna, 1 sergeant, and 50 privates 48th Foot,
Captain W. R. Williamson, Ensign H. O'Brien,
1 sergeant, and 33 men ; 92d Foo', Ia eut. E. S
Tritton, Ensigns W. G. Hicks and J. Thompson,
1 sergeant, and 30 men. For Malta, 14th Foot,
Lieut. G. H. Dwyer, Ensigns J. Wilson and G. L.
Bryce, 1 sergeant, and 50 men ; 21st Foot, Capt.
J. G. Image, Ensign E. W. Pearman, 8 sergeants,
and 40 men ; 28th Foot, Lieut. E. P. Vaughan
1 sergeant, and 41 men ; 57th Foot, 2 sergeants,
and 50 men ; 71st Foot, Capt. Sir L. E. Smith,
Bart. ; Ensign R. J. Lacke, 1 sergeant, and 4U
men. For Corfu-46th Foot, Capt. R. Llewllyn
and 32 men. Staff Assistant Surgeon O'Callaghan
in medical charge of the troops.
In consequence of the crowded state of Chatham
garrison, caused by the large arrival); of recruits for
the purpose of joining the several depots attached
to the Indian battalions, an order was yesterday
received by Captain G. W. Stackpol, command-
ing the depot of the 18th Royal Ins'', attached
to the 3d battalion, directing him to hold in
readiness the companies of that depot to proceed
from St. Mary's Barracks as soon as a s'ation can
be found to accommodate them. The depot c nn-
panies consist of 7 officers and about 500 men of WI
ranks.
Accounts have been received of tlie arrival of
the Liverpool, troop-ship, at Rio Janeiro, all well,
on the 20th Sept., after experiencing some rattier
bad weather.
The Brilliant, 20, Captain J. A. Paynter, at
Chatham, has been stripped, and the whole of her
internal fittings and stores removed. Sire will be
paid off this day, when her officers and crew will be
granted leave, previously to joining the Racoon,
22, steam corvette.
The Cadmus, 21, screw corvette, at Chatham, is
ordered to be brought forward for commission.
The Heron, 12, sloop, Commander W. H. True-
Cott, for the coast of Africa, is ready for sea, and is
awaiting her sailing orders from the Admiralty.
She is expected to leave Chatham on the 26th.
The court martial which sat on board the St.
Vincent in Portsmouth harbour, on Thursday,
to try Lieutenant Bradshaw, ot the Juno, on
the charge published in The Sun of that
day, did not conclude its sitting until very
late ; the charge was declared partly proved, and
the prisoner sentenced to be severely reprimanded.
He was ably assisted by Mr. James Hoskins, soli-
citor, of Gosport, ex-deputy-judge-advocate of the
fleet. The same court proceeded yesterday to try
Mr. Drew, late acting master of the Juno,
_on the
two charges publishes on Thursday. Mr. Hoskins
also assisted this officer. The trial was not over
when this report left.
Rear-Admiral ot the White C. Graham, C. 8.,
died at his residence on Thursday last, aged 61. By
his dew h Rear-Admiral of the Blue H. F. Greville,
C. 8., becomes Roar-Admiral of the White ; Capt.
R. Elliott (1838) becomes Rear-Admiral on the re-
served half-pay list, and Capt. J. E. Erskine, C. 8.,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.
Captain the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., Aide-de-
Camp to the Queen, is nominated to the vacant
seat at the Admiralty caused by the retire-
ment of Vice-Admiral Berkeley. Captain G. T.
-Gordon, C. 8., late of the Victory, it is reported,
will succeed to the command of her Majesty's
ship Blenheim, and the superintendence of the
steam fleet iu reserve at Portsmouth, on the re-
moval of Captain Pelham.
The new screw-steam line-of-battle ship Renown
of 11 guns at Sheerness, is to be immediately com-
missioned. Her complement ordered is 860 officers
and men.
The new screw-steam line-of-battle slip Meeanee
of 80 guns, now in the fitting basin at Sheerness, is
being also prepared for commission.
The screw steam line-of-battle ship Cressy, of 80
guns, ha 4 been taken into No. 2 Dry Dock at Sheer-
' nes, to be brought forward for immediate service.
The Rep 1 George, 102, screw steamship, at
Sheerness, has been taken into No. 3 Dry Dock,
and is vow being rigged by the Seamen of the For-
midable and Edinburgh under the superintendence
' of the master-attendant of the yard.
The Persian, 12, gun sloop, Commander Chads,
has been put out of dry dock at Sheerness, and is
now moored at the swinging-buoy ready for ad-
justing her compasses, preparatory to her depar-
ture for the coast.
An order has been received at Sheerness from the
Admiralty to send the screw line-of-battle ship Co-
lossus, 80, to Chatham, where she is to be fitted
for commission forthwith.
A general court-martial was held last week in the
Assembly-room of the Royal Artillery Barracks,
Woolwich, for the trial of gunner and driver John
Day, of the Ist company, 7th bat., Royal Artillery,
on charges of scandalous and mutinous conduct to-
wards Capt. Fisher, who was in command of the
company, and for having refused, with au oath, to
obey his orders. The whole of the charges having been
proved, and the aentence ratified and apK9ved by