The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-01 00:00:00

TIIE NAVY.

Yesterday the 'War Department transports
Marlborough and Bomarsund left Chatham for
Sheerness, to receive the shot, shell, powder, and
guns from the line-of-battle ship Ganges, 84. The
powder and shell will be deposited in the magazine
at Upnor Castle, and the shot and guns landed at

Chatham.
The Escort and Raven gunboats, at the Haslar
Gunboat-yard, are ordered to be placed in the first-
class steam reserve, replacing the Snapper and
Brazen. The Amelia gunboat was launched from
the slipway yesterday.
The Icarus, 11, screw, Commander N. Salmon,
V.C., bent sails yesterday, on the completion of her
refit, prior to swinging for the adjustment of her
compasses and proceeding out of the harbour to

Spithead.
The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8.,
has her rigging rattlined and blacked down, and is

nearly ready for bending sails.
The Duncan, 101, screw, was admitted into the
steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday, but, as had
been anticipated, she could not be placed in dock,
owing to the want of water on the invert at the

dock entrance.
The Chanticleer, 17, screw, was placed in sock
at Portsmouth yesterday, to take off her launching
gear, fit valves, and receive her copper.
The Royal screw yacht Fairy was Wan
into the
steam basin at Portsmouth yesteraaf, to have her
repairs carried out by the steam factory.
The Marlborough, 131, ,crew, Capt. W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., fitting out in the steam basin at
Portsmouth, has her new wire lower rigging over
her mastheads and temporarily turned in, and tops
on. It is reported that this ship will be placed in
dock on the rt.th inst., but it is exceedingly doubt•
ful whether the dock (No. 7) will be sufficiently
advanced to receive her by that time. It may, how-
ever, be decided to place her in the new No. 10
dock, a continuation of No. 7.
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The Jasper, 1, screw gunboat, Lieut.-Comman
der Pym, dismantling in the old fitting basin a'
Portsmouth, is expected to pay off on Friday or
Saturday. • She was commissioned by Lieut. Pym
on the 28th of July, 1857, and has been exceedingly
healthy during her service since that time on the
North America and West India station, having
lost only two of her crew—one dying from old age,
and the other being accidentally drowned. She
has taken one prize, a Spanish ship-rigged vessel,
on the 22d of March off Havannah, without name,
papers, or slaves, but with 2,260 doubloons on board
for the purchase of the latter commodity. At the
moment of making the capture her Majesty's
steamer Styx hove in sight, and of course became
entitled to share, cutting down the Jasper's prize
money considerably.
The wind at Portsmouth yesterday had gone
round to S.W., but up to 7 p.m. none of the other
transports had made their appearance from China,
although, from their close proximity, they were
momentarily expected.
The steam floating battery Thunderbolt, 16, 200
horse-power, having completed the shipment of her
shot, stores, cables, &c., got up steam in Chatham
harbour yesterday morning, and shortly afterwards
steamed down the river, attended by the paddle-
wheel steamer Adder, tender to the Wellesley, 72,
and the paddlewheel steamer Otter, 3. The Thun-
derbolt was expected to bring up at the Nore last
evening, and this morning will proceed up the
Thames to take up her position at Shornmeade, a
few miles below Gravesend, where moorings have
been laid down for her. The Thunderbolt is armed
with 16 10-inch guns, each of 95 cwt., and the
same armament has been supplied to the -steam
floating battery 'Etna, 16, 200 horse-power, sta-
tioned on the opposite side of the river.
The screw steam 'frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. A.
Cumming, flag of Rear-Admiral F. Warren, from
Spithead, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
morning, at seven o'clock. A vessel with coal was
sent alongside immediately, and steam tugs to
receive supernumerary seamen and marines brought
home from China by the Inflexible. The Emerald
was supplied with a draught of boys from the Royal
Adelaide, and a number of artisans from Keyham
steamyard joined her for passage to South America.
The customary salutes were exchanged with Port
Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, who received Ad-
miral Warren at Mount Wise during the forenoon.
The merchant schooner Sir Thomas Mansell,
Capt. De Garis, from Corunna, with cattle, which
arrived at Plymouth on Monday, reports a very
narrow escape from being run down by a ship of
war in the channel, when half-way between Lizard
and Start Point, on Sunday morning at two o'clock.
The schooner, which lost her foretopmast in the
Bay of Biscay, was under fore and aft canvass only,
on the starboard tack, going about 2 knots; wind
E.N.E., light. The stranger, a line-of-battle ship,
and supposed from her exhibiting a light at the
mizentop head to be the Donegal, 101, Capt. Henry
Broadhead, was under all plain sail, except royals ;
squaresail hauled up, topsails reefed on the port
tack. It was her place, being on that tack, to have
ported her helm, which Capt. De Garis called on
her to do, but without effect. He then starboarded
his own helm, by which time his position appears
to have been descried on board the stranger, fore
starboarded her helm and luffed up in the wind,
and by this means a collision was barely avoided.
She was followed by four ships of about the same
size, and supposed to be the Centurion, the Con-
queror, the Abouker, and the Hero.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—J. C. Weeks, second-class
assistant-engineer, to the Cumberland, for charge
of the Fly ; Julian Taplin, second-class assistant-
engineer, to the Cornwallis, for charge of the Griper;
J. Nihilt, M.D., surgeon, to the Hastings ; C. J.
Bigley, second master, to the Cumberland, for the
Griffin
; and H. -Knight, assistant Tay master, to the
Trafalgar.

VITAL STATISTICS OF 1860.—The Registrar-
General for England has issued his annual tables of the
number of births, deaths, and marriages in 1860. The
number of births and deaths had been already stated in the
last quarterly report, but the number of marriages (170,305)
had not then been ascertained. It is larger than in apy
previous year ; the nearest approach to it was in 1859, when
the number was 167,723. The births in 1860 (683,440) were
fewer by 6,441 than in 1859, but that is the only year in
which they were exceeded; the deaths :(422,472) were
happily less by 18,777 than in 1859, and less also than in
1858, 1855, or 1854. Allowing for the estimated increase of
population, the births in 1860 were slightly above the average
rate of the preceding 10 years, the marriages vier° more
above it, and the deaths were still more below it—all move-
menta in the right direction. As usual the first half of the
year saw the greatest number of births, about 10 per cent.
more than the last half, and the deaths in the first moiety
were greater than in the last by the large ratio of 23 per
cent. The last quarter was, as usual, the marrying season;
there were 50,702 marriages, and only 35,198 in the first
quarter. Lincolnshire is always a notable exception to this
last rule ; there the spring quarter is the chief time for
marriage. The termination of the ordinary periods of ser-
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TILE IVAR IN NEW ZEALAND.

WAR-OFFICE, ArRIL_29

A despatch and its inclosures, of which the following are
copies, have been received at the War-Office from Major
General Pratt, C.B. ;
Head-quarters, Camp Waitara, New Zealand,
23d January, 1861.
Sir,—ln continuation of my despatch of the 19th inst.,
I have the honour to state, for the information of his Royal
Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief, that since
that date, the 19th, 20th, and 21st instant, have been em-
ployed in increasing and completing No. 3 Redoubt, and
commencing a double sap in a direct line towards the
enemy's position in the bush, and on the
morning of the
22d I proceeded, with the Head-quarters of the 40th Regi-
ment, to the new redoubt, in order to its occupation, with
numbers amounting to 290 rank toa file.
A little before daylight tble morning (23rd instant)
heavy firing heard from the front ; a report soon reached
me that No. 3 Redoubt ht,d been attacked by the enemy in
great force, and that they had been repulsed with severe
loss. I reached the advance with an addition of 120 men,
and found that the enemy had made a most daring attack
on the advanced redoubt, which had been met in the most
determined in all ne r and a long line of dead and dying
Maoriej, lay on the ground ; whilst there is little doubt at
least double the number of the enemy have crept away
ended, to die.
W I enclose Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie's very clear account
of the affair, and I coincide with that officer most cordially
in his opinion of the gallantry of the troops and their officers.
The two companies of the 65th Regiment under Captain
M'Gregor, were most effective in driving the enemy out of
the ditch of the front face ; whilst the company of the 12th
Regiment, under Captain Miller (until wounded), after-
wards under Lieutenant Lowry, assisted in driving the
enemy from the ditch in the left face, and then charged
them with the bayonet through the high fern. I regret ex-
' ceedingly the death of that gallant young officer Lieut.
Jackson, of the 40th Regiment, who fell in the zealous
i performance of his duty, and am happy to find that the
wound of Captain Miller, 12th Regiment, is not severe;
I beg to bring to his Royal Highness's notice the officers

named by myself, and also Lieut.-Colonel Leslie, together

with the officers named in this report, and to add that in
this as well as on all other occasions in which the troops
have been employed here, officers and men vie with
each other who will do their duty most efficiently.

I enclose a nominal roturn of our casualties, which are
not many considering the desperate character of the attack.
I also enclose a roll of the Maories, who up to this hour
have been recognised, and with regard to them I have pur-
sued the same course as at Mahoetahi ; that is, have brought
in the chiefs (noted in the margin)* for interment in
New Plymouth ; the inferior chiefs and followers have
been buried on the ground, and the wounded natives
brought into this camp for treatment in hospital, but it is
known that many chiefs of high rank were killed and
buried on the ground as minor chiefs.
I trust that the severe losses this manly and high-
spirited race are so continually receiving will teach them
how unavailing are the efforts against her Majesty's supre-
macy, and will lead soon to a termination of this unhappy
internecine war.—l have, &c.,
G. S. PRATT,
Major •General Commanding

To the Military Secretary,
Horse Guards, London.
*Poara To Uata and Wirimu Hoeta Kumete.

No. 3 Redoubt in front of Huirangi
Jan. 23, 1861.

Sir,—I have the honour to report for the information of
the Major-General Commanding, that a most determined
attack was made by the enemy on No. 3 .Redoubt this
morning, which, after about one and a-half hours' hard
fighting, was gallantly repulsed by the troops under my
command, supported by a detachment sent to my assistance
by Colonel Wyatt, Gsth Regiment, commanding No. 1
Redoubt.

The attack commenced at half-past three o'clock, a.m. A
storming party of the enemy having crept up through the
fern, and effected a lodgment in the ditch of the left face of
the redoubt, and having a strong support about 100 yards in
their rear, as well as a line of skirmishers on all flanks of
the redoubt.
The plan of the enemy
appeared to be to keep down the
fire of our men onthe parapets by their supports and by
their line of skirmishers, while the storming party scaled
the left face of the redoubt.
The force under my command was under arms previous
to the attack, and quickly replied to the fire of the enemy,
who, in the most determined and desperate manner, rushed
up the sides of the parapet, and, in some instances,
seized hold of the men's bayonets, while others crept
round to the rear of the redoubt and fired through the gabions
which had been placed to fill up the entrances to the work,
and one of the Royal Engineers was in this manner killed
while coming out of his tent.
A perfect storm of bullets was poured on us from all sides
for a considerable time, and I deemed it advisable to call for
assistance from Col. Wyatt, 65th Regiment, commanding
No. 1 Redoubt, for the purpose of dislodging the enemy
_ _

from our Glitch as I had no hand-grenades. I accordingly
directed the regimental call of the 65 Regiment to be soundest
followed by the advance, which signal was promptly re-
sponded to by Col. Wyatt, who despatched two companies
of the 65th Regiment, under Capt. Macgregor and Lieut.
Urquhart, as well as one company of the 12th under Capt.
Miller ; one company of the 65th crept round the front face
of the redoubt and lined the sap at present being thrown out
in advance of the redoubt, the other crept up the rear face,
at the same time I directed Capt. Miller to charge the ditch
where the enemy was lodged ; Capt. Miller was, I regret to
say, wounded while carrying out my orders, but his company
was led on by Lieut. Lowry, and it charged in a most gallant
and effective manner, while the 65th, under Lieut. Urquhar
on the front, and Capt. Macgregor on the rear face, advanced
and fired on the enemy, who immediately retired on this
combined attack. A heavy fire was then kept up on the re-
treating Maories by the 40th from the parapets, by the 24-
pounder howitzer under Lieut. Macnaughten, Royal Artil-
lery, and by the 8-inch gun in charge of a detachment of
the Royal Naval Brigade.
The enemy completely routed, retired in great confusion,
leaving their dead and wounded, together with arms and
accoutrements, in our hands ; they were pursued for some
distance by part of the 65th and 12th until they were re-
called by me to the redoubt.
I cannot speak too highly of the conduct of the 40th
Regiment, and of the troops of all arms, who showed the
greatest steadiness throughout the engagement, and who
although the attack of the enemy commenced under cover
of darkness, never tlewed the slightest symptom of confu-
sion, the officers equalling their men in gallantry and steadi-
ness ; and I would wish particularly to bring to the natice
of the Major-General the assistance I received from Major
Nelson, Captains Messenger and Richards, 40th Regiment,

and would also desire to bring before him the names of
Capt. MacGregor and Lieut. Urquhart, 65th Regiment, as
well as that of Capt. Miller, 12th:Regt., and Capt. Mould,
Royal Engineers, and Lieut. Macnaghten, Royal Artillery.

Of the losses of the enemy I cannot form an exact es

mate, but they must have been very heavy ; they left in our
hands 34 killed, two mortally wounded, and four prisoners
wounded.

I beg to enclose casualty returns, and have to deplore the
loss of Lieut. Jackson, 40th Regiment, who was mortally
wounded, and died soon after the engagement ; he was an
officer of very great promise, and on all occasions had evinced
the greatest coolness, judgment, and gall antry.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) 'Airrnun LESLIE, Lt.-Col. 40th Regt••
Commanding the Troops in No. 3 Redoubt.
The Deputy Adjutant-General, Head Quarters, Waitara.