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London, England, 1857-11-24 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEYMER 24, 1857.

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CRIMINAL CO CJR,T.—(Thi3 Day. )

(Before the Recorder.)

John Colbrath, a most determined-looking young
man, was charged with unlawfully cutting and wounding
Charles Aldons, with intent to do grievous bodily
harm. Mr. Poland appeared for the prosecution.

The prosecutor is an out-warder in the Coldbath-
fields Prison ; the prisoner was an inmate under sen-
tence from Clsrkenwell Sessions. On the morning of
the 11th Nov. the prosecutor was engaged watching
the prisoners as they loft their cslis, to prevent their
speaking to each other. At this time of day the
prisoners bad to bring out the utensils left in the
cell for their use, which was a heavy vessel, bound
with iron at the rim. The prisoner bad this vessel in
his band, and as he passed the . prosecutor, he
raised his arm and struck him a tremendous blow on
the forehead with it. The effect of the blow was to cut
through the leathern front of a cap the prisoner was
wearing at the time, and to inflict a very severe wound
and but for the circumstance of having the cap on at
the time,the prosecutor's skull would, in all probability,
have been fractured ; as it was he was so severely
injured, that he had been unable to do his duty since
the occurrence. The reason for the act appears to be
that the prosecutor had reported the prisoner a few days
before, and was ordered on bread and water for two
days.

The prisoner was found Guilty.
The priSoner has been twice sentenced for felony, and
had repeatedly threatened the officers with violence.
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to four years'
penal servitude.

John Kirby, a respectable-looking young man, pleaded
guilty to forging cheques on the London and Westmins-
ter Bank, and Messrs. Deacon and Clo.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
MINT PROSECUTIONS.

There were several cases of uttering counterfeit coin.
In some of the cases the prisoners—old off3nders—were
sentenced to six years' penal servitude. Scarcely have
three weeks elapsed since last sessions, and there are 18
prisoners for trial at the present sessions charged with
uttering counterfeit coin.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A DRUNKENPUGILIST.—WiIIiatn Banks, a pugilist,
was charged before Mr. Beadon with being drunk and
creating a disturbance at Benjamin Caunt',, the well-
known pugilist, and landlord of the Coach and Horses,
St. Martin's-lane.

Mr. Caunt stated that about eleven o'clock on the
previous night the prisoner came into his house and
called for something to drink. Seeing that he was very
much in liquor he refused to serve him, and advised him
to go home. The prisoner refused to do so, made use of
very bad language, and said he had broken into his house
once before, and stole a silver cup, and would do so again
the first chance be got. The prisoner then beCame so
violent, and made use of such beastly language, that he
took him by the collar, put him out of the place, and
gave him into custody.
The prisoner pleaded intoxication as the cause of his
so committing himself, and promised not to repeat the
offence. _ _ _

Mr. Beadon told him he had better not, as it would
be the worse for him. For the present offence he would
fine prisoner 53,, or commit him in default to seven
days.

lier, fiolemn ohE.Tquiee; were a
time at, ITo,:rc; and with 1.. h

The Vika voliaue.opei,l3 with

rious and so close together, of the Due an.; Du h a e
de Bourgoyne, which cast a shadow over even t. lat
heartless circle, and which the King himself felt
severely. They were the bright exceptions to the
rest of the Royal family, and the nation built hrpes
on the young duke, who was the heir to the throne
of his grandtailer.• His wife, Adelaide of Savoy,
though p )litic and less highminded than the
Duke, had won the hearts of the King and Madame
de Maintenon, and they never recovered the gloom
occasioned by her loss. St. Simon himself, who
had been out of favour, was building on the in-
fluence of the Dauphin, with whom ho was on most
intimate terms, and his sudden death clouded
all his prospects. A similar misfortune betel
h'm in the dealt of the Regent, M. D'Orleans,
to whom he alone had been constant during the
ill-will aga'nst him on account of the deaths of the
Duke and Duchess. " For," says he, with an
honourable independence which makes him an ex-
ception to the servility of the Count, " T thought
that when we did not believe our friends guilty we
ought not to desert them, but, on the contrary, to
draw closer to them, as by honour bound, give the:n
the consolation due from us, and show thus to the
world our hatred of calumny." Unfortunately for
him, the Duke died suddenly a few years after his
accession to the regency, and St. Simon withdrew
from the court altogether. The affairs of the Spa-
nish Court under Philip V. are also chronic!ed in
these volume, and • the origin and downfal of the
schemes of Law are related at length. We are glad
to find Mr. St. John is not so prodigal of his notes
and criticisms in these volumes as in the former.
The translation will probably be. popular among
English readers who wish to gain some knowledge
of th's celebrated work.

A Digest on Pure Family Bread. By E. Stevens,
Sole Inventor of the Bread-Making Machine,
Carnbr;dge-road.

Stevens's bread-making machine is one of the
most useful and valuable agents in the service of
our Domestic Reform—proving tlrAt sanitary laws
may be most advantageously applied t,) the high-
ways and byways of the grand " Intestinal Canal,"
as well as to the preservation and conservation of
" Old Father Thames."
The machine alluded to effects the manufacture
of bread without the objectionable manipulatim
which it usually undergoes from men's hands and
arms—moreover--the bread manufactured has
gained ample testimonials of being analytically
proved wholesome and unadulterated. For years
,we have been accustomed to partake of this bread,
and can honestly pronounce it to be at once an
economical and nutritious article of food, alike de-
sirable for. the " large young family," and the
fistidious dyspep'ic.

:ayt t)

•r ?!1,70 r)r a

)i • - =
soul i b.. supposed would ta se place w, re ;t p•-ssiole
to cure a case of colour blindness.' The perftct
freer]. >ss with which the pardon of all cur guilt
is offered in God's book drew forth feelings of affec-
tionate love to Him who bought us with his blood,
anda sense of deep obligation to Him, for His mercy
has influenced, in some s nail measure, my.conduct
ever since. But I shall not again refer to the inner
ite which I Relieve then began, nor do I
spiritual • •
intend to sly-city with eny prominence the evan-
gelistic labours to which the love of Christ has
since impelled me ; this book will speak not so much
of what has been done, as of what still remains to
be performed before the Gospel can be said to • be
preached to all nations. •
"In the glow of love which Christianity inspires,
I soon resolved to devote my life to the alleviation
of human misery. Turning this idea over in my
mind, I felt that to be a pioneer of Christianity in
China might lead to the material benefit of some
ppr,ions of that immense empire ; and therefore set
myself to obtain a medical education, in order to
be qualified for that enterprise.
" In recognising the plants pointed out in my
first medical book, that extraordinary old work on
astrological med'cine, Culpepper's "Herbal," I had
the guidance of a book oa the plants of Lanark-
shire, by Patrick. Limi Led. as my time was, I found.
opportunities to scour the whole country Side,
collecting samples.' Deep and anxious were my
studies on the still deeper and more perplexing
profundities of astrology, and I believe I got an
f.,r into that abyss of fantasies as my author z-inicthe
dared to lead rue. [t seemed perilous ground to
tread on farther, for the dark hint seemed to my
youthful mind t loom towards selling soul and
body to the devil," as the price of the unfathomable
knowledge of the stars. These excursions, often
iu company with brothers, one now in Canada,
and the other, a clergyman in the United States,
gratified my intense love of nature ; and though we
generally returned so unmercifully hungry and
fatigued that the embryo person shed tearr, yet we
discovered so many to us new and interesting
things, that he was always as eager to join us next
time as he was the last.

" On one of these exploring tours we entered a
limestone quarry—long before geology was so popu-
lhr as it is now. It is impossible to describe the
delight and wonder with which I began to collect
the shells found in- the carboniferous limestone
which craps out in High Blantyre and Cambuslatig.
A quarryman, seeing a Mile boy so engaged, looked
with that pitying eye which the benevolent assume
when viewing the insane. Addt easing him with,
How ever did these shells come into these rocks I'
When God made the rocks he made the shells in
them,' was the damping reply. What a►
,deal of
trouble geologists might have saved thetwelves .by
adopting" the Turk-like philosophy of this Scotch-
man

"My reading while at work was carried on by
placing the book on a portion of the spinning-jenny,
so that I could catch sentence after sentence as I
passad at my work ; I thus kept up a pretty constant
study undisturbed by ths roar of the machinery.
To this part of my education I owe my preseut
power of compleley abitractiug the mind from sur-
rounding noises, so as to read and write with perfect
comfort amidst the play of children or near the
dancing and songs of savages. The toil of cotton-;
spinning, to which I was promoted in my nineteenth
year, was excessively-severe on a slim, loose-jointed
lad, but it was vrtli paid for ; and it enabled me to
support myself while at'ending medical and Greek
classes in Glasgoiv in winter, as also the divinity
lectures of Dr. Wardlaw, by working with my hands
in summer. I never received a farthing of aid
from any one, and should have accomplished
my project of 'going to China as a medical mis-
sionary in the course of time by my own efforts,
had not acme friends advised my joining the
Loudon Missionary Society, on account of its per-
fect u sectarian character. It sends nei titer Epis-
copacy, nor Pre-byterianisin, nor Indepsndency,
but the Gospel of Christ to the heathen.' This
exactly agreed with my ideas of what a missionary
ought to do ; but it was not without a pang that
I offered myself, for it was not quite agreeable to
one accustomed to work his own way to become in
a measure dependent on others. And I would not
have been much put about though my offer had
been rejected.
" Looking back now on that life of toil, I can-
not but feel thankful that it formed such a mate-
rial part of my early education ; and, were it pos-
sible, I should like to begin life over again in the
same lowly style, and to pass through the same
hardy training."

LIEUTENANT SALKELD.—At a meeting held at Stur-
minster Newton, in Dorsetehire, onTharsday afternoon,
to express sympathy kith the sufferers iu India, and
subscribe to the Indian Relief Fund, the chairman,
Mr. Key Seymer, took occasion to remark that a
Dereetehire man was the hero in the assault on Delhi,
for Lieut,nant Salkeld, the son of a neighbour of his
(the chairman's) was the first to enter the city. One
of the speakers who followed, the Rev. G. F. St. John,
stated that be believed his young friend, Philip Salkeld,
the hero of Delhi, had la'd up 7001 in the Delhi bank,
that he had scut means for a younger brother to bring
him out to India, that he had always given 1001. a-year
towards the education of his other younger brother ;
and he not only lost by the plundering of the Delhi
bank the whole of his savings and the whole of his
income, but he actually lost his clothes and everything
he paseeesed. The rev. speaker saw Mr. Salkeld, Lieu-
tenant Saleeld's father, on the previous day, and he
was deeply affected by the late occurrences in India.
Young Salkeld at the taking of Delhi having escaped
across the ditch of 18 feet into which the soldier fell who
jumped to save himself from being blown up, then, after
he had scaled the wall, heard the cry of women ; in-
stantly he went back, saved the women, and it was into
that very ditch he fell, being wounded by a ball. Re
afterwards was stripped of Ins clothes by a marauding
party, and had not a single farthing left to bring him
back to England to cure him o' his wounds.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN OFTICEE.
—CANTERBURY, Moaday.—Last evening a sad accident
occurred here to a rung cornet of the 7th Dragoon
Guarde, of the name of Richard Charles- Ecbalaz, which
has terminated in his death, which took place this
teeming shortly after five o'cllck. It appears
that the deceased, with Revere' other officers, went
on a visit to Herne Bay. They were returning
in the evening and hail reached the Sturry-road, about
half a mile from the cavalry barraclue when they in.
ere& -ed the speed at wlsich they were proceeding (they
were on horseback). Here there is a turnpike gate,
known as the Vaulaall-gate. They attempted to leap the
gate, in which the first horse succeeded ; but the second,
upon which the deceased was riding, missed, caught his
fore legs in the top bar, anl went a complete summer 7
sault, falling with great force upon the unfortunate young
man. At this moment, it is stated, a third horse dashed
on to to the deceased, as he lay on the ground, and threw
its rider, who narrowly escaped sustaining a very serious
injury ; as it was, his head was injured, and he was very
much shaken. Cornet Echalaz was removed to the bar-
racks almost in a lifeless state. The poor young' man
lingered until this morning, when be expired. His friends
are said to reside in the ne'ghbourbood of Warwick,
where his father is a clergyman. An inquest was to
have been opened on the body this afternoon, but it
has been postponed at the suggestion of the military
autliori tie..

DRAM OF PROFESSOR FLEMING —We learn with deep
regret that Dr. John Fleming, the distinguished Profes-
sor of Natural Science in the Free Church College here,
died on Wednesday at two o'clock, of a spasmodic com•
plaint. He had been rather unwell for a few days, but
his death was sudden and unexpected. He has long
held a place in the first rank of British naturalists.
From an early age he was a patient stud nt of nature,
and an able and original observer, while he spared no
. _

labour to store his mind with all that had been written
on the science in this and other countries, He, pos-
sessed a vigorous intellect, was distrustful of specu-
lation, cautious and practical in his views. His
" History of British Animals," and "Philosophy of Zoo-
-I,gy," though written 30 years ag', are stil standard
hooks. lie was besides the author of a great variety of
papers and treatises in the Et,cyclopre iia Britannica,
the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, and other publi-
cations. He had reached his 73 1 year, and until within
a few days his activity seemed unaosted. Dr. Fleming
was till 1834 minister of the parish of Flisk, in Fife-
shire, when he was appointed Professor of Natural Phi.
losophy in King's College, Aberdeen. To the Profes-
sorship in the Free Church College he removed from
Aberdeen in 1845.—Scotsman.

THE DELHI PRINCES.—We have been favoured with
the following extracts from the letter of a young officer
to his friends in England. It is dated Dugshale, a place
about 40 miles from Delhi, the 29th of September last :
A few days ago Captain Hodgson (of ours) went out
and captured the Sing, and brought him in a prisoner.
He is at present confined in his own palace. A few days
later he went out again, and came up with the King'd
sons and grandson. He had only 100 native horsemen
of his own regiment with him, and the enemy about
10,000, 3,000 of whom were fully armed Senor.
Hodgson saw it was of no use attacking thew, sowba:
sent an emissary to tell the princes that the g
up with them, and that they had better surrender,ae
which they did after some time, andcamcaerrivapge
with his
to Hodg-
d
son, who immediately surround the
men. He sent for arms, and, after hesitating some
time, these also were h the gaol Hodgson
giveneari,Dgwith seven elephants
and lots of stores.
ordered the winces ouOtin:efFr,tbe vehicle ; they, imagining
began (native-like) to talk,
all was right for theinshe
,e.rde mighthee pbr-ok-ne i n(qb
eu i rciyuline
ttc_t_thaenidr
and say they hoped t
conduct. Hodgson e•
all their fine clothes. When
ordered them to take off,
this
a done be said, Now get in again,' and ordered
the wdrivers to proceed. He then beckoned to one of his
men, and asked for a carabine, and with his own hand
:hot each and all of the three princes. He thenitook
their bodies into the city, and laid them out for inspec-
tion in front of the Kotswallie, where these wretches
had laid out their victims during the massacre. There
bra lacy upon lass of treasure and prize property in the
city, and if the city itself was put up for ransom it
would fetch upwards of 0 biog.—Ayrshire Express.

DESPATCHES FROM INDIA•

(Prom the Gazette of this evening.)
INDIA BOARD, Nov. 20.
The following despatches have been received at the East
India House, at various times, since October 13, 1857, and
are now inserted in the London Gazette, in continuation
of those published on that day :
The Acting Adjutant-General of the Army to the Secre-
tary to the Government of India.
Head-quarters, Camp before Delhi,
July 6, 1857.
Sir,—ln forwarding, for submission to the 'Governor-
General in Council, the enclosed copy of a report from
Major-General Sir H. Barnard, K.C.8., dated the 28th
nituno, relative to the attacks of the mutineers on the out-
posts of the force on the 23d idem, I am directed by the
Provincial Commander-in-chief to add his testimony to
that of Sir H. Barnard as to the persevering gallantry and
endurance of the troops engaged, both European and
Native, of which Major-General Reed was himself, for a
portion of the day, a witness.
2. The endurance displayed by the troops throughout
the whole day, under a scorching sun, and without food,
the Provincial Commander-in-Chief considers to have been
most praiseworthy, and well deserving the spacial com-
menlation the Government.--I have, &c.,

N. CHAMBERLAIN, Brigadier-General.

Major-General Sir H. Barnard to the Adjutant-General
of the Army.

Camp, above Delhi, June 28,1857.

Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information
of the Commander-in-Chief, that, on the 23d instant, the
insurgents renewed their attack upon us ; and, owing to
some religions feeling, kept it up during the whole day.
Knowing they had come out of the town the day before,
and had not been seen returning at night, I bacame anxious
for the safety of a valuable convoy, which was to march
into camp on the morning of the 23d, and sent a
strong escort out to meet it. This was successful ; but the
convoy had scarcely arrived in camp, ere my attention was
called to the right or Hindoo Rao position, whera, during
the whole of the rest of the day, the combat was main-
tained. The enemy basing lodged themselves in some
loop-holed houses, and a semi and mosque, occasioned some
loss ; and I regret to say Col. Welchman, of the Ist Bengal
European Fusiliers, was severely wounded.
The loss on the part of the rebels was very serious.
I submit a casualty raturn.—l have, &c.,

A. W. BA.RNARD.

Nominal roll of the officers killed and wounded :
Lieut. Jackson, 2d European Bengal Fusiliers, killed.
Colonel J. Welchman, Ist European Bengal Fusiliers,
wonnded.

Captain C. Jones, her Majesty's 60th Rifles, wounded,
severely.
Lieutenant Murray, Guide Corps, wounded.
H. W. BARNARD, Major-Genera].

The Acting Adjutant-General of the Army to the Secretary
to the Government of India.
Head-Quarters, Camp before Delhi,
July 9, 1857.
Sir,—l have the honour, by direction of the Provincial
Commander-in-Chief, to forward, for submission to the
Governor-General in Council, copy of a report, dated the
sth inst, from Brevet-Major J. Coke, Ist Puejanb Infan-
try, who was employed, on the 4th instant, in command
of a detachment against a body of mutineers from Delhi.—
I have, kc., N. CHAMBERLAIN,
Brigadier-General.

Brevet-Major Coke to Major Ewart.
Camp before Delhi, July 5, 1837.
Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information
of Major-General Sir H. Barnard, K.C.B , commanding
the force before Delhi, that, in accordance with orders, the
force as per margin, (2 guns sth Troop, Ist Brigade Horse
Artillery; 4 guns 2d Troop, 3d Brigade Horse Artillery;
3 Companies 3d Bengal Artillery, and No. 14 Light Field
Battery ; Squadron of her Majesty's 6th Dragoon Guards;
Squadron of her Majesty's 9th Lancers ; the Guide
Cavalry ; Head-Quarters Wing of her Majesty's 61st Re-
giment ; let Punjaub Infantry), marched at half-past two
o'clock a.m. yesterday, to attack tho body of mutineers
wh had left Delhi on the previous evening.
On arriving at the junction of the roads from the city
and cantonments, it seemed very doubtful whether the
reb.ls would return by the right or left bank of toe Canal
from Allipore; I therefore sent on Lieutenant Roberts by
the main road to feel for the enemy, and Captain Hodson,
of the Guides, to the tight bank of tie canal.
I found the enemy were retiring by the Robtuck road to
Delhi, but spread all over the country.
On crossing the canal, a considerable body, with guns,
were seen at a village about a mile from the bridge, when
lat once proceeded to attack them. After a few rounds
from their guns they carried them off in the direction of
the city, before we could get up to them, which they were
enabled to do, as they were on a road, whereas we had to
advance over the open country, which was in many plaeus
a swamp, through which our guns and troops could only
ma';:a their way with much difficulty.
A number of the enemy were killed who had thrown
themselves into the village on our front ; the rest fled in
evcry direction. The Cavalry of the Guides followed them
with the greatest spirit, and succeeded in cutt'ng up some
more of the enemy.
It was useless to attempt any further pursuit, for the
heat was great, and the European soldiers exhausted ; I
flu refora returned to the banks of the canal, and allowed
the men to rest under the shade of the trees.
While I was bringing the Infantry back, the Artillery,
by some misconception, returned to camp.
During the time we were resting under the trees on the
caws!, the enemy had collected their forces, and, coming
up under cover of the canal, made an attack on the Infan-
try. We beat them back, and pursued them for a consi-
derable distance, but seeing there was a larger force col-
lecting behind them, I withdrew the Infantry, and took up
a position that commanded the bridge, and, as I expected
thi'y were bringing up guns, I soot into camp for artill-
-18/.7% Before the guns arrived, however, the enemy made
a second attack, and were beaten back with considerable
lose. Soon after, the artillery and cavalry came up, and
followed the enemy, who again dispersed, and fled in all
dir .cti

I left the guns and cavalry at the canal bridge, and
brought back the infantry to camp, where we arrived
about 4 o'clock.

There were about 100 of the enemy killed in these at-
tacks.

I uclosed is a return of our loss, which was very small.

Return of Killed and Wounded of the Detachments em-
ployed against the enemy, under command of Major
John Coke, on the 4th July, 1857.
2,1 troop 3d brigade Horse artillery-1 rank and file, 2
her ses, killed.
3d company 3d battalion Artillery, and No. 14, Light
Field Battery--1 rank and file, 1 horse killed ; 2 horses
wounded.
Detachment 6th Dragoon Guards—Carabiniers —2 horses
killed ; 2 rank and filo wounded.
Detachment her Majesty's 9th Lancers —1 horse wounded.
Head-quarters and wing of her Majesty's 61st Regiment
—1 rank and file wounded.
Guide Cavalry-2 horses killed ; 1 non-commissioned
officer, 7 rank and file, 4 horses, wounded.
let Punjaub Infantry-1 non-commissioned officer, 7
rank and file wounded.
Total-2 rank and file, 7 horses, killed ; 2 non-com-
missioned officers, 7 rank and file, 7 horses wounded.
JOHN COKE, Brevet-Major,
Commanding detachment.

The Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army to the
Secretary to the Government of India.
Heal-Quarters, Camp before Delhi,
July 17, 1857.
have the honour, by de.ira of the Provincial
Commander-in-Chief, to inclose, for submission to the
Governor-General in Council, copy of the Order issued
this day by Major-General Reed, on quitting the Delhi
fiell force.
2. I am further to inclose, for his Lordship's informa-
tion, a state of the force, dated the 16th inst.—l hc.ve, &c.,
H. W. NORMAN, Lieutenant.

General Orders by Major-General Reed, Provincial
Commander-in-Chief.

Head-Quarters, Camp before Delhi,
July 17 1857.

Lieutenant-General Sir P. Grant, K.C.8., having in a
General Order, dated the 17th June, at Calcutta, an
Bounced his having assumed command of the Bengal army
frona that date, Major• General Reed has ceased to exercise
the duties of Provincial Commander-in-chief.

Mlajor•General Reed having been recommended by his
medical advisers to avail himself of a sick certificate to
rep eir to the hills, as the only chance of recovering his
shattered health, which has latterly prevented him from
taking an active part in the field operation•, has made over
the enmmand and charge of this force to Brigadier-General
A. Wilson.

It is with the greatest reluctance the Major-General has
cone to the determination to take this step, but his duty
to his country must he paramount to any selfish considera-
tion ; and being incapacitated himself for the post by
disease and weakness, he has no alternative than to devolve
his erduous duties upon another.
Of Brigadier-General Wilson's merits it is unnecessary
for lajor-General Reed to speak ; his judgment, gallantry
anti conduct have been conspicuous since he led his small
but victorious band from Meerut up to this day.
It only remains for the Major-General ito congratulate
the forces before Delhi on being placed under so able a
conenander as Brigadier-General Wilson.
11.ejer-General Reed takes this opportunity of request-
in% head-inarters and divisional staff to accept his
Als,__P:utt.!o_r the great assistance received by him and by his
insZ,l.Upredecesser, Major-General Sir H. Barnard,
du' ; not_ only in the exercise of their departmental
but Also in the operations in the field.
efilh'°6l3Arrigmay'll;er6Goc doCnhamberlain, Acting Adjutant-Gen.
her Majesty's Forces C. 8., Acting Adjutant-Gen.,
; Lieut..co;• Becher, Quartermaster-General
of the Army
Geonneel the Hon. R. W. P. Curzon,
A log Quartermaster- ral, Her Majesty's Forces ;
Lieut.-Colonel Young, Judge Advocate-General ; Captain
Norman, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army; NAP.
Geistin and Hodson, Officiating De
put
art'
Assistant Deputy Quty
uer-
w
tea masters-General of the Army ; I
Assistant Adjutant-General,
and Captain Stewart,Mani cia-
ting Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General ; Captai oep
Deputy Judge Advocate-General ; and Captain Sh3tietY-'
Deprsty Aseistr Qusrter master-General of Division ;
his
..cknowlotigrnt nts ars erni Neely due.
Ttas lalejor,Gtneral's warmest thanks aro due to the
wb.fle Ai tiller', of the Force, who have on all oeca,,i,,n9
41 ved with ce nspicuou3 'l3 eallantry, and have ever mail.-
, ,
tailed the reputation of their tiis!inguished corps.
Lieut-camei Baird Smith, and the Engineer De-
Nu'Acent, Mej r General Reed offers his most sincere ac-
kneavredgruenes fsr Vie valuable services they have ten-
sli tred.

T 0 Lieutenant-Colonel Thomson, Deputy Com rn•ssary-
General, and his assistants ; to Superintending Surgeon
Trtt^'n. and an the officers of the Medical Department,
the Major-General's best thanks are due for their indefati-
gal le and successful exertions.
To Bri,,'a.liers Loogrield, Jones, and Showers,
an I to the gallant officers and troops, both European and
native, under his orders, the Major-General begs toaward
his tribute of admiration for their brilliant and distill-
guAied conduct in a succession of attacks, in which the
enemy have, on every occasion, been repulsed. The baha-
vii.nr of the troops bas been beyond all praise.
Major-General Reed cannot forbear from recording the
name of Major Reid, as having commanded the post which