The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-14 00:00:00

HE SUN, LONDON, MONDA EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1851.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLJGENCE.

His Royal Highness the Commando: v-ia-Chief
having signified his intention of inspecting' the gar-
rison of Woolwich on Saturday morni ug, the
Royal Artillery and Militia regiments were I, aarched
out at an early hour, and were drawn up in rank
and file throughout the parade adjoining the bar-
rack field, the battalions of Artillery in command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Franklyn, Bth battalion, the
49th East Kent Militia in command of Colonel
Brockman, and the 51st Oxford Militia in com-
mand of Colonel Bowles. The Duke entered the
parade at 10 o'clock, accompanied by Major Clif-
ton, one of his aides-de-camp, when the usual re-
ception was given, and the Royal standard hoisted
in the saluting battery. His Royal Highness
was received by the Commandant of the gar-
rison, Major-General Sir W. F. Williams,
M.P. ; General Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, G. C. 8.,
Adjutant-General to the Royal Artillery ; and a staff
of 30 mounted officers of the Artillery and Engi-
neers, among whom were Lieutenant-Colonel
Bingham, Assistant-Adjutant-General ; Lieut.-
Colonel Maude, C. 8., extra aide-de-camp to the
Commander-in-Chief ; Brigade-Major Shaw, Brevet-
Major Davis, Captain Ross, Royal Engineers, aide-
de-camp to the Adjutant-General, ci:c. His Royal
Highness, accompanied by General Ross and Gen.
Williams, and followed bythe above-named retinue,
rode down the front of the lines to the extremity
of the parade, where the inspection commenced by
a minute and close examination of the two regi-
ments of Militia. Having completed the inspection

of the battalions, his Royal Highness and suite
thence galloped over the barrack field to the
furthest point of the common, where the whole of
the mounted corps, in chief command of Colonel
Teesdale, were drawn up in review order. On the
approach of the Commander-in-Chief a shout of
welcome resounded through the ranks, and the na-
tional anthem having been performed by the mounted
band, the entire corps was individually inspected,
and marched past in slow and quick time. They
consisted of the troop company, the Riding-house
establishment, four troops of Royal Horse Artillery,
two field batteries, and five battalions of the
Military Train. The wholy party then proceeded to
the encampment, visiting the meu's huts and sta-
bling, and went over the Royal Repository. They
afterwards proceeded to the battery range, where
his Royal Highness inspected the reserved horses,
forage stores, fodder, Jrc.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
General Commanding-in-Chief, had a levee at the
Horse Guards on Saturday, which was fully attended,
On Saturday the second draught (460 men) of the
East India Company's cavalry marched into Brent-
wood under the command of Captain Towers, East
India Company's service, from Warley Barracks,
and proceeded to Tilbury Fort, at which place the
draught, with four officers, embarked for convey-
ance to Calcutta. Orders were received by Colonel
Somerset, commandant of the East India Com-
pany's depot, to hold in readiness 500 men (Artil-
lery, Cavalry, and Infan‘ry), for immediate em-
barkation for India.
Captain W. Nott, 83d Regiment, instructor of
musketry to the 3d battalion at the Chatham gar-
rison, who has been recently undergoing medical
treatment in Fort Pitt Hospital for an illness
produced by over attention to his military duties,
has been granted 6 months' leave of absence for the
'recovery of his health.
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Mackinnon has been re-
lieved from duty at Chatham, for the purpose of
embarking on board the Nimrod in medical charge
of troops proceeding to Bengal. Staff Assistant
Surgeon Wall has been directed to proceed to
Dublin garrison for medical duty.
The following officers have joined their depots at
Chatham, previously to embarking with their corps
for service in India :—Lieut. J. H. H. St. John,
20th Regiment ; and Lieut. Flood, Gist Regiment.
Lieut. W. H. Urquhart, 75th Regiment, has been
granted leave of absence from his depot until re-
quired for embarkation.
The Cuckoo, 3, paddlewheel steamer, Lieutenant
Commander A. G. E. Murray, is returning stores
into Chatham Dockyard preparatory to being paid
oil and placed in the fourth divisioa of the steam-
vessels in ordinary at Chatham,.
The Wellesley-, 72, Captain G. Goldsmith, C. 8.,
guard-ship of ordinary at Chatham, has been paid
wages down for six months.

Major S. G. Bunbury, commanding the depot of
the Medical Staff Corps at Chatham, has received
orders to hold in readiness a detachment of 30 or-
derlies and assistant-stewards of that corps to em-
bark for Calcutta on the 20th inst., for the purpose
of being employed as assistant dispensers in the mi-
litary hospitals of India.

The steamship Argo, Capt. Benson, arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday, to embark the headquarters
of the 68th Light Infantry, but after about five
weeks of ordering and countermanding relative to
this ship and the Australasian, the original
orders (i. e.) those first issued) were yesterday
again re-ordered to stand good—namely, that
the Australasian shall take the head quarters of
the 68th, and the Argo draughts of other troops
as follows : 6th Dragoon Guards, 10 men ;
12th Lancers, 25 men ; Royal Artillery, 48 men ;
Bth Foot, 1 officer and 14 men ; 10th, 1 officer
and 6 men ; 13th, 71 men ; 19th, 33 men ; 20th,
11 men ; 23d, 8 men ; 24th, 1 officer and 6
men ; 32d, 19 men ; 34th, 1 officer and 39 men ;
37th, 1 officer and 28 men ; 43d, 6 men • 60th
Rifles, 3d battalion, 1 officer and 17 men ; d6th, 1
officer and 23 men ; 82d, 8 men ; 90th, 5 men—
total, 26 officers and 750 men. The Argo will haul
alongside the dcckyard jetty at Portsmouth this
morning, and take in baggage, &c., and embark
the troops to-morrow as they arrive. The Austra-
lasian will go into dock at Southampton to-day,
and proceed to Portsmouth to take in her allot-
ment of troops on or about the 18th inst.
The depot of the 33d, comprising Major Wick-
ham, Lieuts. Benwell, Brown, and Coxon, Eisig-n
Lynch, 3 sergeants, 4 drummers, 4 corporals, 51
privates, 9 women, and 27 children ; and the depot
of the 89t'1, comprising Major Cuppage, Lieutenants
liiwness and Helme' Ensigns Harrison and liar-
dingo, 5 sergeants, 5 drummers, 10 corporals, 57
privates, 10 women, and 49 children, embarked
iu the Preussi.-icher Adler at Portsmouth, on Fri-
day morning, for Cork.

The Heron, 16, steam-sloop, Commander Trus-
cott, hag left Spithead for the Coast of Africa.
The Spitfire, 5, paddle-sloop, Lieut.-Commander
Campbell, has also left Spithead for the Coast of
Africa.

At the quarterly examination of the officers
studying the marine steam-engine a►t the Royal
Naval College, Portsmouth, which terminated on
Friday, the following passed and received certifi-
cates of proficiency :—Lieuts. H. Rogers and the
lion. J. Carnegie, R.N. ; Corns. the Right Hon.
Lord E. H. Cecil and J. R. Veitch, and Lieut. W.
Younghusband, R.M. On the previous day the fol-
lowing officers also passel :—Mate, for
Lieutenant, Mr. J. N. Croke ; Second Masters,
R.N., for Mastenl, MessrP. Colb_xne, Browne, and
Roberts ; for Assistant-Clerks, R,N., Messrs. Hirt-
zell, Scriven, Wynne, Sueter, and Bradley.
The 31st depot at Winchester is under orders to
proceed on the 15th inst. to Pembrokeito join the
battalion there.

Admiral Sir G. Seymour returned from leave,
and rah° sted his flag in the Blenheim on Saturday.
The Pigmy steamves3el, Master-Coin. Johnston,
arrived at Portsmouth from the We3tward. on Sa-

,urday.

The following appointments have been made at
ilia Admiralty :
Lieut. W. F. Gregory, to the Blenheim ; A. W.
L. Brown, mate, to the Lyra ; G. W. Bloxome,
mate, to the Alert ; B. A. A. Lapel, midshipman,
to the Cambrian ; and Secales, midshipman, to
the Cambrian.

The following second masters were ou S.►tu day
promoted to be masters :

R. Coen, J. J. P. HiteMeld, J. W. Reed, T.
Oyler, E. H. Hills, H. L. Kelly, and W H.
Bradley.

THE MILITIA.

The Worcestershire Regiment of Militia received
orders to march on Monday (this day) for Liver-
pool, on the way to Dublin. It is expected that
their ultimate destination is Armagh, to replace an
Irish regiment there.

The Northimptcnshire Regiment of Militia,
48th, which left Northampton on Wednet d of er-
noon, arrived at Plymouthon Thursday, at twelve
o'clock. A fatal accident occurred in the train on
the South Devon line, by which Captain Watkins,
No. 8 Company, unfortunately !lost his life. He
was reaching out of the carriage window fur the
purpose of communicating with eons officers in the
adjoining compartment, when his head came in con-
tact with the side masonry of a bridge about a
mile below Newton, and he was killed instantane-
ously. In the compartment with him wet e Cap-
tains Smith, Rundle, and Stockda'e, and Dr. Barr,
who drew the body into the carriage, or it would
have fallen on the road. Deceased lx longed fo--
rawly to the 33d Regiment of the line. He has
left a wife and three children, who were to have
cllowecl h m from Bristol on Friday.

THE EXETER HALL SERVlCES.—Yesterday evening
the fourth of the Nonconformist services, designed for
tie benefit of the working classes, was held at Exeter
Hal', the large building being completely filled. The
services were conducted by the Rev. John Stoughton,
AL A., minister of the Congregational chapel at Ken-
sington. The sermon next Sunday evening will be
p ,ed by the Rev. William Landells, of Regent's-
-rea-,h
k chapel, and the Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel w It
par
oftciate at the last service, which will be held on Sun-
.
day, December 27.

TUE HEALTH OE EUROPEAN SOLDIERS

IN INDIA.*

The following suggestion•, which have been ap-
proved by his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, the
COMM ader-in-Chief, are made for the use of officers
who have had no Indian experience :
On a campaign the mortality caused by sickness
is sometimes more than double, or even treble,
that caused by the weapons of the enemy. Disease
may so paralyse an army that the best efforts of a
General are thwarted and rendered abortive. An
originally large force dwindles away to a mere
shadow without constant reinforcements. This
happens in all countries, but perhaps to a greater
extent in India than elsewhere.

When men are disease-stricken they come under
the hands of the surgeon, and it is then his duty
to treat them, and to apply what remedies are
required ; but before they are thus struck down
everything depends upon the commanding-officer.
" Prevention is much better than cure," is an old
and most true axiom, and one which every man in
India ought always to bear in mind. In nine cases
out of ten sickness may be traced to imprudence—
imprudence arising from recklessness, from want of
thought, or from ignorance. Knowledge on the
part of those in authority may do much to hinder
the imprudence of those under their power ; and
it is the object of these memoranda to point out
common things, easy to remember and easy to en-
force, which will have a marked influence in pre-
venting the stealthy approaches of the worst of foes.
Trifles constitute the sum of human life ; thousands
of human lives have been lost by the neglect of
trifles. Let officers carry out the trifling directions
in the following few pages, and they will quickly
see their good effect.
The instructions are very brief, and are purposely
put into terse and stringent language, to make them
more impressive. They treat only of those few
points with which every officer, if he does his duty,
must become acquainted.

MARCHING.
When practicaMe, the beet time for marching is
undoubtedly in the early morning. The march
should be finished by two hours after sunrise. The
pernicious custom of serving out a dram on the line
of march sows the seeds of disease, and should be
avoided ; but, as it is injurious to undergo fatigue
after a night's rest upon an empty stomach, food
of some kind should be given to soldiers either
before starting or at the first halt—tea, coffee,
chocolate, or milk, with bread, biscuits, or chapatis.
In warm weather every precaution should be
adopted to enable the European to stand fatigue,
and to prevent heating of the blood. The neck
should be bare, to allow of the free return of blood
from the head. A flannel roller round the belly
and loins is all the woollen material required. All
other superfluous articles of clothing should be
dispensed with. _ _ _

In cold weather a flannel shirt, cloth coat, dzc.,
should be worn, in accordance with the temperature.
Every soldier should be strongly impressed with
the danger of exposing the head, uncovered, to the
direct rays of the sun. A light, cool, and comfort-
able cap, which at the same time allows of evapora-
tion from tho surface of the head and shades the
eyes, temples, and back of the neck, should be
provided.
The men should be instructed never to throw this
off, under any circumstances ; and they should be
told. on the first symptoms of giddiness, flushing
of the face, fulness of blood in the head, or dimness
of vision, to pour cold water over the head, and to
keep it wet (with the cap on) for some hours. Strict
adherence to these instructions would prevent th•
large majority of cases of coup de soleil.
No soldier should be allowed to remain in wet
clothes longer than can be avoided. While in
exercise no danger results ; but, from lying down
in damp clothes, fever, dysentery, or disease of the
liver inevitably ensue.

When in tents, the kanatst on the shady side
should be thrown down, and the air be allowed to
circulate freely. At night, unless the weather is
-very cold, the kanats on two sides of every tent
should be removed. Protection from dew and rain
is all that is required. More harm is caused by the
respiration of contaminated, close, and impure air
than is ever brought about by exposure to the night
wind.

Dry straw, grass, karbi, or any of the stalks used
in thatching, make excellent bedding, when covered
with blankets.

BATHING.

The urgent necessity of keeping the pores of the
skin open in a hot climate is only recognised by
officers in reference to themselves; its paramount
importance is not impressed upon the men. Sol-
diers should be made to bathe at least three times
a week in cold water. This operation shouldalways
be performed upon an empty stomach, and th•
morning before breakfast is the best time.

It is not safe to bathe when the body is much
heated, if at the same time it is fatigued. Hence,
on the march, the evening, about four hours after
dinner, would be an appropriate time.
The skin should be thoroughly dried and rubbed.
Water can generally be procured from some
stream or tank ; if these are not convenient, the
wells will always furnish abundance.
If every soldier were provided with a metal ves-
sel, with a long slender cord attached to it, for
getting water up from wells, he would be inde-
pendent of the services of a bhisti:.
At present no European can get water, either for
drinking or washing, without the aid of a bhisti.

indigestible. The oranges, strawberries, custard-
apples, loquat, musk-melons, pineapple•, grapes,
and.lichis can be partaken of with advantage.
STIMULANTS.

The spirit procured by soldiers in the bazaars is
most injurious to the health, and the most stringent
measures should be enforced to prevent its intro-
duction. It is made and got up by the camp fol-
lowers from every village, and is sold sub rosa to
the men. If men will drink it would be much better
to supply them with spirits from the canteen than
to allow them to get it elsewhere. Soldiers should
be persuaded in every way to take money allowance
instead of the dram, or to drink beer instead of
rum. It would be very desirable to mix the spirit
with water where practicable. The same amount
of spirit undiluted is much more injurious than
when mixed with water.

Great attention should be paid to the time of
serving out drams. They should never be given on
an empty stomach, when the system is heated, or
when exposed to the sun. To give men raw
spirits early in the morning, before any food is
taken, is the surest way to lay the foundation of
disease. After a meal, with some hours of rest
in the shade in prospect, is the best period.
The foregoing recommendations, simply and
easily carried out, are the results of considerable
experience and observation. They are dictated
by common sense, and at first sight would ap-
pear to be what would occur to every officer ;
the fact that they do not do so is the cause of
their being brought prominently to their notice.
Of seers on coming to India for the first time find
themselves surrounded by entirely new influences.
The diseases of the country are formidable and ra-
pid in their progress, and prevents the due exer-
cise of the reasoning powers. The climate is
found to be exhausting and debilitating ; exposure
to the sun is understood to be dangerous ; and
there are many other circumstances which combine
to depress the mind and body, and to pre-dispose
to the belief that some extraordinary course must
be pursued to ward off any evil circumstances.
Recourse is had in too many cases to stimulants ;
brandy is taken in large quantities to prevent the
approach of sickness ; exercise and the ordinary
methods adopted in other countries to keep the
frame sound and vigorous are neglected. Many
become the victims of their own imprudence and
rashness, and their premature death is erroneously
ascribed to the effect of the Indian climate.

With ordinary precaution and attention to the
common laws of hygiene Europeans may li.va as
long and preserve their health as well in India as
in Britain,

The neglect of these precautions rapidly produces
fatal results. The mortality from disease far ex-
ceeds that caused by the enemy, and it behoves
every officer to study carefully the means of pre-
venting sickness.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(SATURDAY.)

The house assembled at 3 o'clock to hear the Royal
assent given by commission to the Bank Issues In•
demnity Bill.
The Royal Commissioners on the occasion were the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the Marquis of
Breadalbane.

The Commons having been summoned to the bar, the
Royal assent was given to the bill in question with the
usual formalities.

The Commons having retired,
Earl GRANVILLE moved that the house do adjourn
until Thursday, Feb. 4.
REPORTED DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LORD
CANNING AND SIR COLIN CAMPBELL.

Lord PANMURE rose and said,—My lords, before
the
_house adjourns I wish to perform what I consider
to be a public duty on my part, but which would have
been performed by the illeetrious duke at the head of
the army had he not unfortunately mistaken the hour at
which this house was to meet, supposing it to be five
instead of three o'clock, and he had therefore appointed
a levee, which he cannot interrupt, and which detain
him at this time. It bad been his Royal Highness's
intention, in order to set right with the public a di.tin-
guished and gallant officer in the army, to make to your
lordships the statement which I am now about to
make, and which he has authorised me in his absence
to make. The gallant officer I refer to is Sir Colin
Campbell. I am about to make this statement, not
only in justice to that distinguished officer, but as a
member of the Government ; and as a colleague of my
noble friend Lord Canning, also in justice to the
Governor-General of India. Your lordships are well
aware that, for reasons which I shall not attempt to
divine, certain parties have endeavoured most indus-
triously to persuade the public that disagreements ex-
isted between Lord Canning and Sir Cohn Campbell. It
has been almost in vain that a distinct denial to these
statements has been given on the part of the Govern-
ment. Such denials have been made, and, I am happy
to say, have been generally believed, but I shall now
read to your lordships an extract from a letter from Sir
Colin Campbell himself. which will put the matter be-
yond a doubt, and convince the public mind of England
of the malignant intentions of those who have invented
this story. It is an txtract from a letter dated Oct. 26,
1857, written to his Royal Highness the lommander-in•
Chief upon the occasion of the gallant writer quitting
Calcutta to take the field at the head of his troops, with,
I hope a certain prospect of leading them to victory.
The extract from this letter to which I refer is this :
" Now that I am on the point of leaving Calcutta, I would
beg, with the greatest respect to the Governor-General, to
record the deep sense of the obligation I entertain towards his
lordship. Our intercourse has been most cordial, intimate,
and unreserved. I cannot be sufficientlythaukful for his lord-
ship's confidence andsupportand the kindly manner in which
they have been afforded, to my great personal satisfaction.
One at a distance, and unacquainted with the ordinary mode
of transacting business inthis country, could hardly estimate
the gain to the public service which has thus been made. But
I allude principally to my own feelings of gratification."
Thus, my lords, Sir Colin Campbell tears testimony
that Lord Canning, setting aside the ordinary mode of
transacting military business in thatcountry, has afforded
him a support which has tended greatly to the advan-
tage of the public service. (Hear, hear.) My lords I
thought it was my duty to make this statement to you
and to the public before Parliament was adjourned, in
order that we might set at rest for ever the calumay
which has been circulated, that between the Governor-
General and the Commander-in-Chief in India any dis-
agreements bad existed. (Hear, bear.)
The motion for the adjournment until Thursday, the
4th of February, 1853, was then agreed to, and their
lordships separated.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(SATURDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter to three
o'clock.

NEW WRIT.

On the motion of Mr. IIAYTER, a new writ was
ordered for the election of a knight of the shire for the
county of Buckingham, in the room of the Hon. Mr. Ca-
vendish, who had accepted the office of bailiff of the
stewardship of Nortbfleet in the county of York.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE,
Lord PALMERSTON moved the adjournment of the
house till the 4th February nsst.
EVIDENCE OF MR TWELLS BEFORE THE

our trade surely should not suffer because America wants
gold."
Again, be asked—
Do you think that that currency would run the risk of
ever being depreciated in value—that is to say, that incon-
vertible 5/. notes would not exchange for five sovereigns I—l
do not know as compared with sovereigns ; that, I think, is of
no consequence in the world. We want it for our internal
commerce, and we want it to pay Government for taxes."
But the next questton asked, and not given by the right
hoe. gentleman, was—
" How would you determine the value of a 5/. note do
not want any value beyond its passing for 51. for taxes ; what-
ever the Government demands from use as a tax of 50
What his friend Mr. Twells meant was that he wanted
nothing more than that the Government should take the
51. note in payment of taxes. He was afterwards asked
his opinion as to the cause of the depreciation of the
French assignats at the time of the Revolution, and his
reply was—
" What I stated a little while ago, that a Government may
issue in excess, is very possible ; and supposing it is a corrupt
Government they have the power of doing it ; but such an
institution as our Bank of England cannot do it, because they
only issue against property, against something of equal value
with their own notes, and we consider that tho further value
of their own notes is secured by the sanction of a well-estab-
lished Government ; that the guarantee of our Government,
taking it as it is in England, is quite equal to 20,000,000/. of
gold deposited in a vault. I should be very sorry to think
otherwise of it."

There was enough in that answer to explain the difficulty
of his right hon. friend about the matter, and which ex-
cited so much mirth and merriment in the house. It
showed that Mr. Twells meant all his answers to apply
not to notes issued by the Bank of England, but to notes
guaranteed by the Government. He hoped this state-
ment, which he had deemed it his duty to make, would
receive as wide a publicity as that which had been made
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Twells was
next asked—
" Under what does the country suffer, and why under a
drain of bullion ?—Because it cannot aire supplied to it a
sufficient circulation. The House of Commons was congratu-
lated in the year 1811 upon the adoption of a measure for
supplying the country with a circulating medium of un-
doubted credit proportioned to its wants ;' now I take it
that to secure that is the object of a sound currency,
" From what is that an extract I—That was stated on Mr.
Hornet's motion for the Bullion Committee. A circulating
medium of undoubted credit, proportioned to the wants of
the country, I conceive, must embrace everything that can
be required of a currency.
"Whose opinion is that ?—That is what was stated by
Lord Castlereagh, and he observed upon it that this circulat-
ing medium of undoubted credit had for the first time solved
the problem of reconciling national prosperity with a state of
war; that the country had risen in manufactures, internal
improvement, revenue, and commerce with a velocity which
had never been experienced in a year of profound peace."
The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod here entered the
house, and with the usual formalities summoned the
Speaker to the House of Lords to hear the Royal assent
given to a bill.
The SPEAKER on his return, announced that the
Royal assent had been give') by commission to the Bank
Issues Indernity Bill.
Mr. SPOONER, resuming his statement, procoededto
real the following extracts from Mr. Twella' evidence:—
" The gap which is created in the circulating medium by
sending out bullion to purchase corn would be filled up for
the time by the inconvertible note till the exchange is turned,
and then gold would naturally flow in ? Yes, it would
naturally flow in just as any other commodity.
" But the bank-note, if issued ent•roly by the Bank upon
the Bank's own responsibility,gyou would still keep liable to
be paid in gold ; you do not want to make any change in that?
—Not at all.
" There would be no necessity for Hl—None whatever.
" There aro notes to the extent of 14,500,0001. now issued
upon so 2UritieS ?—Yes.

" Do not they, upon the face of them, bear a promise to pay
on demand?—Yes.

" Supposing the demand was to extend to them, and to pay
upon that 14,500,0001., would they be able to be paid!—No,
they would not be able to be paid; but the country is now put
in such a position that they cannot demand it.
" Then paper is issued which is not capable of being paid
on dethaud, but it is done in the confidence that the country
would be in such a state before that demand could bo made
that it would be utterly impossible for the country to de-
mand it?—Yes, quite so.

"Then it bears upon the fats of it a fallacy, just as much
as an inconvertible note ?—Yes, just the same. Therefore I
think it would be only tho fair and judicious and hoenst
cours3 to take that these notes should bear an impress upon
them of what they were intended to be.

" You therefore recommend that those notes, instead of
being issued upon securities, and pretending that they are
issued on gold, should bear upon the face of them that they
are issued upon securities, and you would recommend that
those notes, so issued upon securities, should be made a legal
tender ?—Quite so,

"And whether the amount should be 14,000,000/. or
20,000,000/. is a question upon which you do not give a posi-
tive opinion ?—Not at all.
"But your experience has shown you that when there was
a steady issue of about 20,000,000/. the trade was carried on
steadily and prosperously in the country ?—Yes ; that is why
I say 20,000,000/. ; but it is quite possible that 14,000,0001.
would effect a great deal ; that is a matter which experience
only can decide."
Mr. Twells was a man of great experience and sound
knowledge, and was mixed up with no particular party.
He came before the committee to tell them the result
of his observations, and it was not treating fairly a
gentleman now nearly 80 years of age to attack him by
ridicule and joke, and to take up garbled statements of
the questions put to him and the answers he had given.

door or panel in the ship that was not cracked or de-
stroyed. There were no bulwarks whatever on the
upper deck, and of the light iron roiling used as a sub-
stitute for bulwarks two-thirds had been washed away.
Four out of the six boats ou her deck had also been
washed away—(hear)--and the vessel had been as nearly
wrecked as could be with all her troops and crew. In-
deed, one of the men of the 04th Regiment was washed
overboard. The gallant colonel had not stated the
number of crew and engineers on board the ship, and
he (Sir W. Fraser) would endeavour to supply the de-
ficiency. The number of the crew of this vessel of 2,300
tons, which had on board one of the finest regiments in
her Majesty's service, was 18 ; the number of engineers,
stokers, and other persons employed in working the en-
gines was 22 ; acd out of the whole of those 40 men only
three could speak the English language. He was bound
to say that the captain seemed to be a most intelligent man
and to have acted with the greatest intrepidity during
those trying emergencies, He (Sir W. Fraser) was
told that for 48 hours he never left the deck—(hear)—
and that it was mainly owing to his conspicuous energy
and prowess that the vessel was able to reach Ply-
mouth. There was a story circulating in Plymouth
when he (Sir W. Fraser) was there, though he would
not vouch for the accuracy of it, that during the storm
in the B_ty of Biscay the greater part of the men em-
ployed in the engine-room declared that it was no use
working any longer, because they saw no chance of
saving the vessel, upon which the first engineer, pro-
curing his pistols, said, " The first man that goes up
that ladder," meaning the ladder leading from the
engine-room to the deck, "I will blow his brains out."
It was owing, it was said, to that circumstance and to
the energy of the captain that the vessel was brought
back to Plymouth. He (lid not know much of ship-
building, but he did not think a regiment could have
been conveyed to India in such a vessel. (Rear, hear.)
Mr. AYRTON said a great deal of dissatisfaction
was expressed last session at the manner in which the
East India Company hired, transports, and he was then
induced to move for a return on the subject, but that
return had not yet been laid on the table, which was
much to be regretted, as it was only in that way that
the house could form a just opinion on the subject.
The motion of Colonel SYKES was then agreed to.
TRANSMISSION OF TROOPS TO INDIA.
Mr. AYRTON complained that returns, moved for
by him last session, relative to the transmission of troops
to India had not been published.