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Cornet W. T. Snell, by Major W. H. Snell.
Lieutenant-Colonel Chetwynd Stapylton, by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Lieutenant A. A. Stewart, on appointment Royal Horse
Artillery, by Colonel Charles Bingham.
Major Van Straubenzee, on promotion and return from
China, by Major-General Sir C. Van Straubenzee.
Colonel Sutton, on return from China, by the Adjutant-
General.

Lieutenant J. Sutton, by Major-General Cater.
Captain F. Swanson, by the Secretary of State for India.

Mr. J. G. Talbot, by Lord Lyttleton.

Cornet C. A. P. Talbot, on his appointment to the 14th
Light Dragoons, by his father, the Hon. Gerald C. Talbot.
Colonel Taylor, C. 8., on appointment as Assistant Ad -
jotant-General, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge.

Captain Meadows Taylor, Deputy Commissioner, East
Berpar, on return from India, by the Secretary of State for
India.

Mr. R. Ferguson Thompson, attache to her Majesty's
Legation in Persia, on arrival from Persia, by Lord John
Russell.

Ensign F. Todd, by Lieutenant-Colonel Perceval.
Captain S. Leith Tomkins, by Lord Truro.
Lieutenant W. Perceval Tomkins, by Sir Charles Wood.

Lieutenant-Colonel Travers, on return from China, and
appointment as Assistant-Adjutant-General Royal Marines,
by the Duke of Somerset.
. Mr. IL W. Valiance, on appointment as one of her Ma-
jesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy for London, by Vis-
count Palmerston.
Mr. Vernon, on being appointed a Deputy- Lieutenant of
the county of Worcester, by Lord Lyttleton.
Lieutenant-Colonel Verschoyle, on promotion, by Col.
the Hon. James Lindsay.
Rev. William Vincent, by the Earl of Rosebery.
Captain E. Waddington, by the Secretary of State for
India.

Lieutenant 11.:Pendril Waddington, by Mr. Horatio
Waddington.

Colonel Walker, by his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge.

Lieutenant A. Walker on his return from India and
appointment to the School of Musketry, Hythe, by the
Adjutaht-General.
Lieutenant N. W. Wallace, by Colonel Sir John Jones.
Lieutenant W. J. Watson, on return from India, by
Colonel Greathed.

Mr. Henry NV ebster, by Sir Charles Wood.
Lieutenant-Colonel Westropp, by his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge.

Lieutenant Whelan, on return from India, by Colonel
Groathed.

Colonel Whimper, on promotion, by his Royal Highness
the General Commanding-in-Chief. _ _ _

Lieutenant It, G. Wilberforee, on return from India, by
Lord llerbert.

Ensign and Lieutenant A. Wilbraham, on appointment,
Coldstream Guards, by Colonel Newton.
Major-General M. F. Willoughby, on promotion, by the
Secretary of State for India. _
Major. General Robert Wood, on promotion, by his Royal
Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief.
Lieut. W. F. Wright, by the Secretary of State for India.
Cornet Wright, on appointment to the 18th Hussars, by
Major-Geperal Maclean.
Major Wyatt, on being made a Companion of the Bath,
by Colonel J. Clark Kennedy.
Capt. W. R. Ximenes, on return from India, by Colonel
Greathed.

Assistant-Surgeon Yates, by Lord Leigh.
The Queen and Prince Consort returned to Buckingham
Palace after the levee. His Royal Highness afterwards
rode out on horseback attended by his Equerry in Waiting.

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) construction of this jetty, in thrierowoti Ict4','
row being 50ft. in length, the miadle-row lONA
le inner row 35ft. The head o each doable`_.
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fitted with an iron cap weighing early ,- ,
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which supports the ends of iron girders etieVater7-, ' ~..,
aging 37cwt. There is a girder to each pileAtoutz-
joists on the girders carry the '4l-inch planking of
the jetty. The whole is diagonally braced under-
neath with 131-inch timbers, and longitudinally by
walling of the same substance. When complete,
the Warrior and Black Prince may both lie along-
side and coal at the same time. In addition to the
erection of the hydraulic cranes, the ground along-
side has yet to be dredged out. When the whole
is finished and the jetty comes into use, the moor-
ings of the Victory, which are now on the Ports-
mouth side of the harbour, wilt be removed to the
Gosport side, to give ships free ingress and egress
to the jetty from Spithead.
Mr. D. Clark's patent apparatus for the proven.
Lion of smoke as a nuisance on board ship, recently
tried in her Majesty's ship Vivid, from Woolwich,
is ordered to be retained on board the Vivid for
further trials, which are authorised to take place
shortly, with a view to improvements which it is
confidently expected that it is capable of. During
the late trials the boilers were stoked expressly to
emit as much smoke as possible, for the purpose of
experiments, and were worked singly under the
influence of the jets of steam intended to reduce
the nuisance. The comparison of the amount of
smoke issuing from the chimneys was at all times
greatly in favour of the apparatus, the boiler with
the steam jet shut off producing a dense black
cloud of smoke, while the one with the jets work-
ing gave but a small blue vapour.
Mr. Fnllom, principal clerk in the Royal carriage
department of Woolwich Arsenal, yesterday trans-
mitted to the Rev. D. Davis, incumbent at
_Rises,
near Monmouth, a cheque for the sum of £35
123. 9d,, being the amount collected from the
clerks and mechanics of that department in
aid of the distressed widows and orphans suffering
from the late explosion. This is the third collec-
tion which has been contributed by the establish-
ment of Woolwich Arsenal for that purpose; the
sums from the Royal gun factories and laboratory
having been already announced.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander D. Miller,
to be an inspecting commander of the Coastguard,
vice Norman, whose period nf•service has expired ;
J. C. &Affect, master, to the Aboukir; W. B. Cal.
ver, master additional, to the Imaum ; T. W. Web-
ster, second master, to the Procris ; J. Munchin,
acting second master, to the Pembroke, for the
Coastguard ; W. Blakey, acting second master, to
the Wellesley; and It. Archibald M.Murdo has been
nominated to a naval cadetship.

THE ARMY.

The augmentation which the Government has
deeded on making in the corps of Royal Engineers,
consequent on the amalgamation of the Royal and
Indian Engineers, will take effect on the Ist of
April, on which date two additional companies
will be added to the corps, making the number of
companies belonging to this branch of the service
38. The two new companies will be formed from
the Chatham detachments now at headquarters,
and each will consist of 100 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men. By direction of the Adjutant-
Gcneral of the Royal Engineers, the 37th and 38th
companies will, on their formation, be attached to
headquarters until they are required to embark for
foreign service. The recruiting parties recently
despatched from Brompton to raise additional men
for the corps of Royal Engineers have been very
successful, and a number of fine young men, most
of them skilled mechanics, have been sent up to
headquarters.

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During the whole of yesterday a district court-
martial, of which Major F. G. T. Deshon was the
president, was engaged at Chatham garrison in
trying a number of non-commissioned officers and
men belonging to various regiments now serving in
India on a charge of having, on their arrival from
India, reached Chatham in a disgraceful state of
intoxication. The prisoners during the time they
were travelling to Chatham from the port at which
they disembarked became entirely unmanageable,
setting the non-commissioned officers of the staff
who had them in charge at complete defiance.
Their conduct during the journey was most dis-
graceful, nearly the whole of them becoming help-
lessly intoxicated, and iu that condition fighting
and behaving in the most improper manner. On
their arrival at Fort Pitt Hospital many of them
had black eyes and their faces covered With blood.
Immediately on the facts being reported to the
Major-General commanding the forces at Chatham
a district court-martial was ordered to assemble to
try the delinquents. The prisoners, in their de-
fence, urged that they had been in India a
great number of years, and the liquor they par-
took of on landing in England took an extraordi-
nary effect upon them. Several of the prisoners
tried have been in the service upwards of 21 years,
and had been sent home from India to be granted
pensions and discharged, most of them being men
of very good character. By their conduct, however,
they have placed their pensions in jeopardy, be-
sides making themselves amenable to other punish-
ments. The sentences passed on the prisoners will
not be promulgated until the proceedings and find-
ing of the Court have been confirmed by Major-
General Eyre.
The colonelcy of the 6th (Royal Ist Warwick-
shire) Regiment has become vacant by the death of
Gen. H. J. Riddell, which took place at Ox-
endon, Dunse, Berwickshire, on the Bth inst. The
gallant deceased served as deputy assistant quarter-
master-general at the capture of Copenhagen, in
1807, and as assistant quartermaster-general on the
eastern coast of Spain and at Genoa, with the army
under Lord W. Bentinck. His commissions bore
date—Ensign, March, 1798 ; lieut., April 19, 1798;
capt., Dec. 24, 1802 ; major, Dec. 10, 1807; lieut.-
col., June 4, 1813; colonel, July 22. 1830; major-
gen., Nov. 23, 1841 ; lieut.-gen., Nov. 11, 1851;
general, Sept. 26, 1857 ; and colonel of the 6th Fool♦
June 25, 1851.

A detachment of the depot Royal Artillery left
headquarters, Woolwich, yesterday morning at
a.m. by special train for Sheerness, to take up the
garrison duties performed by the Tipperary Militia.