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percussion capq,
rounds of ball cattrike, 603,175
and 1,049 rifles. Major Wilkinson, Captains
Ward and Baird, Lieutenants M'Leod and Stewart,
10 sergeants, 2 drummers, 6 corporals, and 160
privates of the 42d Highlanders, also have gone in
the James Baines.
The following troops went in the Champion of
the Seas :—Lieutenant-Colonel Evelegh, Majois
Radcliffe and Buller, Captains Bennett, Parkinson,
Dickens Warren, Hewett, Lyons, Dashwood, and
Francis • Lieu, enants Vaughan, Mitchell, Li tle,
Patricksn, Holmes, Edri'lge, M'Donough, Cal den,
Gordon, Rimer, Vereker, Duffin, and Gethin ;
RisignsFahie, Byrne, aid Johnstone ; Lieutenant
and Adjutant Geraghty, Surgeon E. Howard, As-
sistant-Surgeons Kelsall, Short, and Munday ;
and Quartermaster Aylett. 53 sergeants, 20 drum-
mers, 38 corporals, and 705 privates of the 20th
Foot. All are armed with the rifle musket of the
pattern of 1853. They carry out 480,140 rounds
of ball cartridge, and 600,175 percussion caps.
The following officers of the 20th not embarked with
the regiment for want of room will probably go out
overlan,l—Lieut. -Col. Lys, Ensigns Hoblvn and
Hone, Paymaster Mossley, Ensigns Egan, Blount.
Major Priestley, and Capts. Fraser and Mose'..ey,
10 sergeants, 5 drummers, 11 corporals, and 154
privates of the 42d were added to the troops in the
Champion of the Seas.
The Golden Fleece, one of the European and
American Steam Shipping Company's flotilla, also
left Spitbead on Saturday for India with the follow-
ing troops :—Lieut. -Cols. Kelly and Simpson, Brevet
Lieut.-Col. G wilt, Capt. Best, Brevet-Major Wally,
Capt. Bale, Cassidy, Steuart, Puget, and Shawe ;
Brevet Major Harman, Capt. Marsh, Lieuts.Boyce,
Moore, Byron, Saunders, Peel, Cochrane, Jordan,
Dunbar, Holroyd, Lampen; Ensigns Applegate and
Grier, Paymaster Roche, Lieut. and Adj. Leeson,
Quartermaster Rowan, urgeon Chalmers, Assist.-
Sutgeons Worthington and Haward, 47 sergeants,
22 drummers, 37 corporals, and 649 privates of the
34th Regiment; also Capt. Scott, Lieuts. Wilson,
Douglas, and Bayley, 9 sergeants, 7 corporals, 2
drummers, and 126 privates of the 42d. Lieut.-Col.
Wright, Assist. Quartermaster-General ofthe south-
west district, with Capt. Locke, Inspector of Trans-
ports for the Hon. East India Company, steamed
out with the Golden Fleece.

The Imperatriz screw steamship arrived at Spit-
head on Saturday morning and steamed into har-
bour and moored alongside the dockyard. She will
embark about 7uo of the Royal Marine battalion
ordered for China, together with a number of naval
supernumeraries for disposal by Admiral Sir M.
Seymour among his fleet. She also takes out a
large quantity of arms and ammunition.
The Chesapeake, 51, screw, fitting at Chatham
for the flag of Commodore R. B. Watson, C. 8.,
for the East India station, has nearly completed her
repairs, and will be put out of dock during the next
spring tides. Her machinery and boilers have been
overhauled, and defects made good. The following
officers have taken on their commissions :—Lieut.
J. C. Wilson ; J. Worsley, second master ; C. J.
Brownrigg, J. B. Warren, and C. G. S. Stanley,
mates ; Rev. J. W. Bamfield, chaplain ; T. S. Os-
borne, naval instructor ; G. C. Masters, midship-
man ; and C. Hobart, naval cadet.
The Government troopship Waterloo, Young
commander, has arrived in the Thames from Aus-
tralia, having on board a number of troops who
have been sent home from that colony. The Wa-
terloo sailed from Sydney on the 19th April, with
69 non-commissi.ned officers and men on board, be-
hinging to the 11th, 40th, 58th, and 65th Regts.,
together with some men of the Royal Engineers,
and seven women and children, the whole under
the command of Lieut. W. H. Clarkson, 11th Foot.
During the voyage, which occupied 110 days, five
deaths and one birth occurred on board. On reach-
iug Gravesend the troops disembarked and pro-
ceeded to Fort Pitt, Chatham, where they were
medically inspected on Saturday, when seven men
were ordered to be taken into hospital for medical
treatment, and the remainder sent to St. Mary's
invalid depot to await their discharge from the ser-
vice.

At the special annual examination held at the
11)yal Naval College, Portsmouth, and which ter-
minated on Saturday last, the following gentlemen
passed into the navy under the new regulations,
which CAMO into operation for the first time :

For Naval Cadets.—C. Johnstone, W. J. L.
Wharton, J. Hope, C. W. Jones, J. W. Bracken-
bury, A. E. Hutchinson, A. D. Douglas, W. G. Le
Cocq, A. H. Du Boulay, W. H. Jocelyn, V. L.
Cameron, E. R. Mathias, F. D. E. Jerningham,
J. T. Kellett, J. Hext, H. H. Justice, F. S. Dods
worth, A. Grenfell, N. H. Ward, A. Little, C. J.
Scholefield, G. W. Mill, R. B. Trollope.
For Masters'-Assistants—J. Aylen, V. H. Lys,
J. Southwick, E. K. Barnes.
For Marine Cadets—J. S. Derrimau, G. H. T.
Colwell, F. E. Begbie, H. Everitt, H. W. Bamber,
E. Kinsman, S. V. Alston, 11. E. Sturt, F. A.
Ogle, D. D. Fosbroke, G. S. Nash, H. W. Framp-
ton, W. H. V. Tom, E. E. Hill, L. P. Shawl.
Sixteen of the above passed from the preparatory
naval establishment of Mr. Eastman, R.N.,
Southsea.

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands' frigate
Admiral Van Wassenaer, Captain Van Brokell,
from the Texel, put into Plymouth Sound on Fri-
day for fuel, and will sail again to-morrow for Lis-
bon, where she will join the frigate Groningen for
a cruise up the Mediterranean. The Groningen
left the Texel the day before the frigate, and has
on board his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange.
Her Majesty's steam corvette Curacao, from th•
Mediterranean, and the Sarah Sands steam trans-
port, from the Thames, arrived last night at Ports-
mouth to embark the head-quarters of the 54th
Foot for India ; and the Warrior Queen, Indiaman
(off St. Helen's), from London for Bombay, with
troops on board. Lloyd's agents at this port re-
ceived a despatch yesterday, stating that the fol-
lowing eight ships have been taken up to convey
troops :or India, the majority of which will embark
at this port :—Steamers—The Queen of the South,
the City of Manchester, the Bombay Castle, and
the Chersonese. Sailing ships—The Waterloo, the
Sedgmoor, the Lightning, the Southampton, and
the Hersilia.