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

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1857.

From the London Gazette of Last Nig i÷

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nor. 19.

I This day had andienceof the Queen—Their Excellencies
Phya Montri Suriywongse, First Ambassador, and Chau
Mun Sarbbedh 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 Affairs, 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 be 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 be Lieutenants—Andrew Frederint
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 Greatorex, 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 66th
Foot, to be Major, vice Dering, promoted.
Oxford, hir) Regiment of Militia Edward Trevor
Arney, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Brown, pr.)moted.
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, vice IC W. Furness, promoted ; Bowyer Wenham
Owe Browne Cave, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice John
Wynne, resigned ; Arundell de Pentheney O'Kelley,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice George Woodyatt, 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 Septimus Burton, Gent., to be En-
sign, _ _ _

-Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—William Taylor,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Birchill, resigned.
Dumfries, Roxburgh, and Selkirkshiro Regiment of Mi-
litia—Androw Mercer Adam, Esq., Doctor of Medicine,
to be Surgeon, vice Grieve, resigned, with permission to
retain 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-
sie, 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.l,
at half-past two, and Jan. 1, at half-past one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.
John Lawler Bagot, woollen draper, Liverpool, Dec. 8
and 30, at elTven, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Midaleton, leather merchant, Manchester, Deo.
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 Cuurt.
Lawrence Woolf, oil cloth manufacturer, Manchester,
Dec. 15, and Jan. 14, at twelve, at the Alanchester Dis-,
trict tour

John Cure, builder, Bristol, Dec. 1 and Jan. 4, at
eleven, at Bristol District Court.

Charles Isaacs, merchant, Bristo], Dec. 1 and Jan. 4, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Court.

Jonathan Watson, printsel!or' Vere-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 Bankruptcy.
Martin Nunn, laceman, Regent's-circus, Nov. 30, at
half-past two, and Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.

Jamea
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.2t, 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.
Oliver Appleton, dyer, Leicester, Dee. 8 and Jan. 5, at
ten, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham.
James MacLennan, shag and cloak warehouseman. Liver-
pool, Dec. 8 and at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court.

Edward Southwell Ruthven, commission agent, Pen-
lington-nlace. Hercules-buildings, Lambeth, Dec. 1, at
half-plst twelve, and Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy,
William Tull, grocer, Andover, Nov. 27 and Dec. 31, at
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 Shireball, Nottingham.
Harrison Bontoft, bookseller, Boston, Lincolnshire,
Dec. 1, and Jan. 5, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Not-
tingham.

Mary Hindbaugh and Arthur Ferdinand de Ne nmann,
timber 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 Leeds District Court-.
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, cheesemonger, High-street, South-
wark, Dec. 4, at half-past two, and Dec, 29, at half-past
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Chas. Henry Purday, music publisher, Maddox-street,
Hanover-square, 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 the younger, cord-
wainers, Liverpool, Dec. 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 Court of Bank-
ruptcy.

BANK OF
An Account, pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Wednesday,

ENGLAND.
7th and Bth Tlctorla, cap. 32, for
the 18th day of November, 1857.
.ARTMENT.

ISSUE DEP.

Notes issued
N.B. Of which two
millions are issued un-
der the authority of
the letter front the
First Lord of the Trea-
sury and the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer.

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities .... 5,459,900
Gold coin and bullion 6,079,595
Slyer bullion ........

£22,554,595

Dated the 19th day of Novemb:

I £22,554,595
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
oer, 1857.

PAILTMENT.

o,overnment securities
(includ4.DeadWeight
Annuity).. •• . 6,40',134
Other Securities 30,299,•/70
Notes ....... ..... „ 1,14•4,185
Gold and Silver Coin 404,501

434,259,090
1. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
,7.

THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

(From the Sierra Leone Era, Sept. 24.)
The evil effects attending the policy lately adop-
ted by the Frenca Emperor, in sending 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 0 :
* Information has been received that the
Emperor of the French, 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 Havannah,
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 anspicas, largely renewed their inhuman
traffic at Whydah, but as they give much higher
prices for
Monsieurpße
prime slaves
can by
slavestban the Emperor's agent,
the Spaniards are actual! yh
di sr
icvoinntgr at chtafford e
Fre French
ht
agentto do,
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 Sollars for an able-bodied
slave, consequently the French 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 slaves 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 slave trade given by
this moat 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 countries where its influence is felt, and up-
rooting all the good done iu three years of peace
and freedom from slave trade in the Bight of
Benin. Already the Abbeokutaus who last year
brought 1,500 tons of palm oil to Lagos to sell
have this year starchy brought 500 tons, and the
unwilling people have been forced to follow their
chiefs to war, in order to fee-d- 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 bo
sold and nothing bought.
"2. In order to th!s, the passages by land and
the river to Igai, Ibaddan, I Korrodo, Illorin,
Lagoa, and other adjacent towns that trade with
Abbeokuta, must be stopped.
"3. That no canoe or canoes be allowed to ap-
pear in the river, excepting t'le 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 France. 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 preparieg to attack
the people of Jaboo, the markets of winch 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 France for the suppression
of the slave trade. The last convention with Fiance,
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 reason 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
about free emigration could be understood by Ahem.
They see in both cases money paid for slaves, and
no talking to them could ever make them compre-
hend that any thing else can possibly be intended
by the white man, When he buys elaves and goes
to a great expense in traushipping them to a country
across the leg sea, but to work them as slaves. As
to these poor people being brought back at the ex-
piration of ten ye Ira (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 countryfrom whence they
were shipped, they would in a short time be ail
made slaves
labourslavesagainto, probablyantdhe\vestln
resold for another
avpalnanuatahtio
and
ns
ten years, should the iniquitous system to
endure. Even those emigrants fromda
Hi
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, and either sold or put to death as was the
case ten years since, when a Brutal Poituguese cap-
ta'n, who had embarked 46 self-emancipated Afri-
cans at Bahia, under promise of landing them at
Lagos, forced them on shore at Whydah. They
were plundered of everything as soon as landed,
and then marched up to Abomy, and the only tid-
ings ever heard of these poor
people were that the
monster Nero, King 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 evening last, in charge of one of the officers of
her Majesty's ship Alecto, by a boat of which ves-
sel she was captured on the 24th August last, off
Malemba, carrying the usual equipments for the
slave trade, and two slaves.
Several other vessels are reported to have been
captured
Twoonotfhe them,co as tt andheen on
eli het esi,r way
to this co-
lony.taken near Whydah, on suspicion, and the brig
a Spanish bark,
William Clarke, American, without colours or
ot
papers, with from 7001. 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 Cahenda, by the Myrmidon, the captain 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 schconer and barque,
are 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 M anager of Kent, after some re-
sistance, the party in 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 the very
nose of H.M.S. Brune, cruising there at the time. I

(From the Colonisation Heral.l.)
Several of the most powerful nations of the earth
have made an effort to put an end to the iniquitous
slave trade. Much has been accomplished, but it
appears, however, that the illicit commerce is by
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
were thirty vessels, all sailing under the Portuguese
flag, lying in the creek at the mouth of the Congo
River, waiting for cargoes of slaves, and seeking
for
u
s iers. opportunitiespers on
Persons were
get
stationedto sea
near the mouth
of the river, to give warning of the vicinity of, unperceived by the
cr
national cruisers and thus to announceopportunities,
when with dark night and a fair wind these traders
inhuman beings might effect their escape in
safety. Not long ago a brig (supposed to be an
American craft) was making her way out of the
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
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. .T
This statement is well cal-
culated to produce a thrill of indignation and hor-
ror. It might be 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 a cargo of slaves the
prAits are enormous. The governments imme-
diately concerned, and bound together by treaties,
should not permit themselves to be baffled by the
infamous and despera'e 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 ho may then
form some faint idea of this modern horror. And
yet we have, iu 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, isoo, in
the niaeteenth century, and in the age of the steam
engine, the railroad, and tha electric telegraph ! The
fact affords a bitter commentary upon the force of
prejudice, and the weakness of poor human nature.
Theidea t ha t the chiefmagistrate of a flourishing Com
monwealth should coolly recommend ono class of hu-
man beings to enter into an organised plan to seize and
bear away from their homes another class, and then
to sell them into perpetual bondage, is indeed
monstrous. Such an outrage detailed in the pages

of romance would bo ridienled 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 6overnor 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 recant Southern
Convention laid 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 of cold water upon it, and so utterly extin -
guishing it that it scarcely emits a smoke. And at

the motion of a soutlArn member the House of
Representatives hate 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 shocking to the
moral sentiment of the enlightened portion of man-
kind, or any act on the part of Congress, legislating

or concurring in, or 1e,,0u-liminff that horrid and in:
human traffic, would justly subje3t the Unit.%l
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
the ensuieg 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 iu earnest in its efforts in this

direction.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of Col.
' Daniel Lysons, C. 8., of the 25th Regiment, being
placed on the staff of the army is 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., appointed to the staff of Gen.
Sir Colin Campbell, G. C. 8., Commander-in-Chief
in India.

The following troops will move from Canterbury
this morning for Parkhurst, Isle of Wight
depot, 12 officers and 213 men ; 45th depot, 9
officers and 106 men ; 50th depot, 15 officers and
195 men ; total, 36 officers and 514 men.

--
Her Majesty's steamship Urg-mt sailed from
C,)ric Harbour on the 13th inst. for the Mediter-
ranean, with the following draughts on board :
For Gibraltar-2d Battalion, Ist Foot, Capt. J.
M'Keinia, 1 sergeant, and 50 privates ; 48th Foot,
Captain W. R. Williamson, Ensign H. O'Brien,
1 sergeant, and 33 men ; 92d Foot, Lieut. 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 meu ; 71st Foot, Capt. Sir L. E. Smith,
Bart. ; Ensign R. J. Luke, 1 sergeant, and 40
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 arrivals of recruits for
the purpose of joining the several depots attached
to the Indian battalions, an order was yesterday
received by Captain G. W. Stackpool, command-
ing the depot of the 18th Royal Irish, 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 station can
be found to accommodate them. The depot com-
panies consist of 7 officers and about 500 men of all
ranks.

Accounts have been received of tlJe arrival of
the Liverpool, troop-ship, at Rio Janeiro, all well,
on the 20th Sept., afar experiencing some rather
bad weather.

The Brilliant, 20, Captain J. A. Paynter, at
Chatham, has been strippel, and the whole of her
internal fittings and stores removed. She will be
paid off this day, whet 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 ti 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, of 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. Draw, 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 of the White C. Graham, C. 8.,
died at his residence on Thursday last, aced 61. By
his death Rear-Admiral of the Blue H. F. Greville,
C. 8., becomes Rear-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-
Catrp 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 superintendeuce 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 ship 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 been taken into No. 2 Dry Dock at Sheer-
ness, to be brought forward for immediate service.
The Royal George, 102, screw steamship, at
Sheerness, has been taken into No. 3 Dry Dock,
and is now 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 an oath, to
obey his orders. The whole of the chargesbaving been
proved, and the sentence ratified and approved by

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the Cornmandin--in-Chief, the first portion of the
judgment was yesterday morning carried out,
when the prisoner WIS marched to the Royal
Artillery riding establishment, and in the pre-
sence of the usual numb -r of his comrades and
their officers he underwent the allotted puniQh-
ment of 50 lashes ; af. er which ho was removed
to the infirmary for medical treatment. He was
likewise sentenced to be imprisoned in Fort Clarence
for two years. The hardened deportment displayed
by the prisoner during the infliction of the punish-
ment is scarcely conceivable.
Her Majesty's troop-ship Rhadamanthus, Master
Commander Sturdee, is ordered to be paid off on
her return to Woolwich from Portsmouth, after
which she is to be fitted out and recommissioned
with a complement of 69 hands.
The following appointments were made at the
Admiralty yesterday :

Commander—A. Wodeheuse, to the Alacrity.

Lieutenants—E. G. Kirby, to the Lapwing ; Hon,
F. W. Charteris, and Robert Sterne, to the Renown.
Masters—John Scott, to the Renowia ; W. P. Haines,
to the Lapwing ; B. B. Stuart, to the Syra, and John
S. Smith, to the Racoon.
Masters-Assistants—P. F. Milman, to the Alert ; E.
K. 13Arnes, to the Ardent ; C. P. M'Conachy, to the
Syra; J. A G. Morgan, to the Lynx; Henry Castle,
to the Sharpshooter ; J. Southwick, to the Viper ; F.
Ayler, to the B:enbeim.
Paymasters—J. N. Andrew., to the Renown ; C. D.
Lindsey, to the Lapwing ; E. J. Gite4:4ollititacoon.

Assistant-Paymaster John Sheppard, to the Corn

wallis.

Surgeons—Samuel SD. Wells, to the Rae-an ; John
Galiiger, to the Conqueror ; Hugh J. S. Beveridge, to
the Cornwallis.

Assistant-Surgeon—John L. Sands, to the Racoon.
Clerks—John G. Franklyn, to the Alert ; Silas Way-
moutb, to the Racoon ; John Bremner, to the Racoon ;
Charles M`Kean, to tho Renown ; Bertram Mitford, to
the Renown.
Assistant-Clerks —Frederick B. Williams to the Re-
nown, Thomas Silk to the Lapwing.