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THE
.617 N, LONDON, rtTESDAY _EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8 1887-

tit° my- head. -We have- had a, few deaths from
cholera, the last day or two, One tl.tousand men are
expected in hourly. As soon as they arrve we
assault. We tried it once' ►but it woo no go, infor-
mation having been given to the Rajate.
"Our rations, with the exception of rum and
bread, are very bad—indeed, scarcely ea-table. We
get a gallon of rum to every 13 men, rand some-
times a gallon to 10, with a pound of broad each
man daily. We should be a long time star ring on
that. The rations cost, including the rum, five
annas—ab )ut 7d. per.dietn.
" Inf,,,rmltion has just been received that the
bridge of boats has been burned, so that we are
now entirely cut off.
" I am here bard up for paper, and can't buy
any.
'' F. IC."

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The following letters have been addressed to the
editor of the Times
Sir,—Now that the services of the militia are
again required, and likely to be so for some time,
permit me, while indorsing the letters of " A Mili-
tia Captain" which have lately appeared in your
columns, to add a few remarks of my own, as I be-
lieve I am privileged to do, having held a commis-
sion in the militia since its enrolment in 1852. In
the first place, it does not appear to be known to
(or, at any rate, apprecia•ed by) Government that
the success of a militia regiment depends chiefly on
the adjutant and captains, on the latter of whom
the responsibility of the companies in every way
falls, as well as the chief expenses ; yet at the dis-
embodiment the captains were entirely overlooked,
—why I am at a loss to understand, unless Govern-
ment thought we were so rich we could afford to
throw our money away. If so, I beg to undeceive
it.

And now I would suggest in what manner the
new battalions of the Line may be at once formed,
and of tra'ned soldiers, ready for immediate duty,
instead of raw recuits, whose services, if they can
be procured, will not be available for at least six or
eight months, and that is, by allowing militia cap-
tains who may be in all respects eligible to volun-
teer with their companies. This would be a great
encouragement to the militia ; and something is
surely required after our recent treatment as com-
pared with the foreign legions ; nor would any
injury be inflicted on officers of the Line. The
only obstacle I can see is, I confess, a formid-
able one,—viz., the dreadful shock such a course
would give to venerable " Red Tapists" and their
ancient customs. The gift of an ensigncy in the
Line for every 75 men is no inducement for captains
of militia, and they alone have sufficient influence
in their regiments to take over their men by com-
panies. I may instance that although the men
of my company were offered a handsome present
each in addition to the bounty, and also en-
couraged by me to go into the Line with young
officers who wished them, only two or three volun-
teered who had not previously done s'). Yet to a
man they were willing and anxious to accompany
their captain, to whom they had very properly be-
come attached.

In conclusion, I would not recommend any gen-
tleman to accept a captaincy of Militia unless he
has money to spare and does not mind spending it
for his country's good ; nor, above all, would I
advise young men intended for, or following other
professions, to at'empt soldiering, as it totally un-
ti►s them for returning to their necessary avoca-
tions, and gives them expensive habits and tastes
thoy cannot probably afterwards keep up.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Sept. 5. ANOTHER MILITIA CAPTAIN.

Sir,—Fifteen regiments of Militia are to be em-
bodied immediately for the purpose of supplying
the vacancies caused by regiments of the Line pro-
ceeding to India. The selection made by the au-
thorities of the regiments they propose calliog out
could not be better, ay when these regiments were
disembodied they were equal in discipline to any
regiment of the Line, and will therefore garrison
the different towns most admirably ; but in addi-
tion to this, sir, will they be able to supply the
army in India with recruits sufficiently fast ? In
this duty I am afraid they will fail, and lam
therefore desirous to know why some of the Mid-
dlesex regiments are not called out ; they did good
service during the last war ; for instance, the regi-
ment in which I have the honour of doing duty
with, gave as many as 700 men to the Line, and
will be able to do the same again if called out.
The county regiments, well disciplined as they are,
cannot furnish men so quickly as the metropolitan
regiments are able to do, and this is especially the
time to call them out, in consequence of orders
having been received to pay the training bounty
for the present year, which will be the very means
of bringing all the men together. Pay the bounty
first, embody the regiments afterwards, and then,
sir, I admit very few met} will join ; but there is a
balance of some 10s. due to them, and until that
is paid they will not quit their regiments. Draw
them out, then, first, and when out pay them.
There is still one more question I am desirous of
urging on your attention, which is, if these regi-
ments are not embodied, why should not the per-
manent staff be allowed to recruit for the Line.
A circular was issued, some short time ago, direct-
ing adjutants to state whether the staff under their
command were willing to perform this duty, and
although a reply in the affirmative was forwarded
to the authorities, still, up to the present moment,
no orders have been received to commence this
duty. The harvest is in, the men will soon be
requiring work ; should not, therefore, the Govern-
ment seize the opportunity of trying to induce
_these men to enlist at once ? This is the very time
to get recruits if proper means are used. Should
you, therefore, sir, consider these remarks worth
noticing, I shall feel obliged to you by your giving
publicity to them.
I have the honour to be, sir,
your obedient servant,

Sept. 5.

Sir,—When shall we cease to do things by
driblets?
Man by man is our army stepping on board
transports for the East, and what are we doing to
fill the fearful gap, which pestilence, the sword,
and the expiration of the term of service will
shortly cause in the ranks of our army serving iu
that quarter of fie globe ?
My opinion may not be worth much, but the
experience derived from a few years' residence in
India prompts me to sly that I think we are not
yet within sight of the " beginning of the end" of
our so-called Sepoy difficulty ; and what, I will
repeat, are we doing to meet it
We are enlisting some 1,500 or 2,000 men per
month ; but the 15 new bAttalions and the aug-
mentation of the establishment of other regiments
will absorb all recruits for many months to come.
Why is not the whole of the Militia, or every
regiment of eight companies and upwards, at once
embodied. Should India demand further rein-,
forcements, let the army standard be reduced to
5 feet 4 inches, volunteering from the Militia be
invited, and Government will seen have at its dis-
posal something like 20 000 efficient men. A couple
of months will suffice for these Men evho were em-
bodied during the late war to pick up their drill,
while an equal number will be in an advanced state,
and willing to volunteer as soon as they have
warmed to their work. I know full well that a
very large proportion of men join the Militia to
"",,see" as they say, "how they like soldiering."
They will not at oece plunge into the Line.
There could not be a more favourable oppor-
tunity for calling cut the Militia. The men have
(ivory inducement to coma forward. There is the
annual bounty of one guinea due to them, as well
as a b dance varying in amount front 4s. to 12s. on
the gitatuity -allowed by Government last year sub-
sequent to the mee being sent to their homes.
Should Bengal be shortly tranquilli4ed the Militia,
can be disembodied, its in 1856, at a few days'
notice, and not be called out for their annual train-
ing next year.
I will pledge mysol4 as commandant of a Militia
regiment, to encourage to the utmost my men to
volunteer should their extended services be re-
quired, and every rightrainded commanding officer
will do the same.
I am, Sir, your obedient servanf,
C. B.

STI-. 5.

REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA.

Sir;-1 dare say several of your readers will be
glad to hear that the Golden Fleece, Captain Mai,
with the 34th Regiment, and two companies of the,
42d On board, has got thus far on its tang voyage in,
safety.
- • - _ _ . . _ _ _

We arrived here at eleven o'clock last night,
after a fine run of 10 clays,six hours from Spitbetd,
which,milt considering the dist:lna-3- is about 2,350 miles,
troopseotii a 1
ioont
Ices to show what the ship is capable of per-
forming.On the 15th • inst , we paved the Odtavia with
the 2d aatottrd (the number- of C. 13 regiment we
Dr., coertAut), and also the Monarch, with
passed a ialg.,,eonhcuards. On the 17th we a'so
board, but edi3Otl3, with apparently troops on
ot-.)ai,umunicate.
• We found here
wall the head-quarters of
board, .which left Kin,,,,t°,
6th inst., and reached tZilis
noon,: and
,havinff-
United Kingdom ,
the John Bull steamer,
the 38th Regiment on
coaled,
neoartyhte esymex 1
nsto,:l,t leinrd,diranf.
which left
the sth with another detachment of the 3'B"'
thc}witen on
oaffTttethlre;
mattori Board, hie also (1 p.m.) ust. arrived. ali
tillaxe only to add that all are well, and that our
:iiiiiibar, ever since leaving. England has been
aelighttiit, and tint nothing can exceed the ,corn_
iVrt and acconnicxlation, enjoyed by all raulte on

board. After completing our stock of coal we hope
to leave to-morrow for Point de Galle.
I am, Sir, your obedient Eervant,
R. D. KELLY, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding
Troops, 34th Regitaeut,
Steamer Golden Fleece,' Aug. 19.
St. Vincent, Cape Verde.

Sir, —As it may be of interest to the public
generally, I have the pleasure to inform you that
I have this morning received advices from this
company's vessels Australian and Sydney, stating
that the former, with 290 men and 16 officers of
Her Majesty's 42d Regiment Royal -lighlanders,
under the command of- Lientenant.Colonel
Cameron, had reached Et. Vincent's, Cape
Verde, on the 25th ult., in nine days and 22
hours, from Spithead ; also the Sydney, with 288
men and 12 officers of the Royal Artillery, under
the command of Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, in nine
days five hours, from Spithead—all verycomfortabla
and well.

Tho vessels would proceed as soon as coaled—
say in 30 hours after arrival.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
MATTHEW R. SCOTT, Secretary.
Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co.,
167, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, Sept. 7.

HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.

The territories over which the Hudson's Bay

Company claims to exercise, and does actually exer--
cite, exclusive rights of jurisdiction, exclusive title
to land, and a monopoly of trade, extend from
Hudson's Bay across the Rocky Mountains to the
shores of the Pacific. In addition, the Company
holds under lease from the •Crown, Vancouver's
Island—a British possession destined, it can hardly
lee doubted, to become the most valuable and im-
portant colony in the Pacific, a great naval station,
and the point whence the adjacent coast will one
day be settled and peopled.
These extensive territories are held by the Com-
pany under various and different titles. Its oldest
title is, of course, the charter of Charles 11. Under
it the company now claims in fee simple all the
lands the waters from which run into Hudson's
Bay. But here a serious question at once arises.
The colony of Canada contests this pretension. At
the time the Charter was granted, all of the
lands so watered did not, it is clear, belong
to the British Crown to grant jurisdiction over. In
the reign of Charles 11. Hudson's Bay itself and its
coasts were claimed by France as well as England.
And, although the English claim so far prevailed,
the French colony of Canada extended over a large
portion of these territories which the Company now
possesses. The English colony of Canada, therefore
contends that this portion of the Hudson's Bay
'Company's territories belongs not to that corpora-
tion, but to the colony of Canada. Now, the terri-
tory in dispute between the company and the colony
comprises not the least valuable of the fur-bearing
districts out of the profits of which the dividends of
10 per cent. on the stock of the company are paid.
The question is one of the highest importance. If
the colony be right, it will regain a portion at least
of the fur trade. If the Company be wrong, its com-
mercial prosperity will be endangered.
At first the Company only formed forts or facto-
ries on Hudson's Bay, to attract thither the Indian
fur trade. As, however, that trade was vigorously
pursued by the French in Canada, the English
Company, very naturally and laudably, pushed
into the interior ; and as the two advancing rivals
approached each other, the company, as well as the
French, properly desired to have their boundaries
defined. Negotiations ensued as well at and after
the Peace of Ryswick as that of Utrecht. But, say
tte Canadians, although, during the French domi-
nion in Canada, the company sought a delimitation,
it was by a defined and positive line, to be acquired
by negotiation. The C rporation neither then pre-
tended that there was anything in its charter which
gave it a rule by which it could insist that the extent
of its territories to the southward should be ascer-
tained ; nor then asserted a right to all the coun-
tries the waters of which flow into Hudson's Bay.
Tho colony of Canada, now claiming to enjoy allthe
territorial rights which the French had when it was
ceded to England, altogether denies the indefinite
pretensions of the Hudson's Bay Company. It
points out to the Queen's Government that the
claim now advanced is at variance with the boun-
dary line which the Company endeavoured to ob-
tain by negotiation from the French after the
Peace of Utrecht, and that, had France accepted
'the line then proposed by the Company, that boun-
dary would have made a large part of the territory
now occupied by the Company a portion of the
province of Canada. It insists on the infinite im-
portance to Canada of knowing accurately where
the boundary is ; and as plans for internal commu-
nication connected with schemes for agricultural
settlements and for opening new fields for commer-
cial enterprise are all more or less dependent on the
question, the people of Canada call on the Queen's
Government for a solution of it."
The question is, then, what the Charter did give
the Company. The Colony requires that the Charter
shall be strictly construed. The Company contends
that, in grants of a considerable age, where the lan-
guage is indefinite and ambiguous, usage and enjoy-
ment are essential elements of consideration. In
this position of affairs, where the Crown has at
once to protect the property of the Company, and
to satisfy its colonial subjects, its law officers have
proposed that the question of the boundary, as be-
tween the Company and Canada, should be referred
to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,
and that the determination of the committee,
which would not of itself have any binding effect,
should be confirmed by an act of Parliament. This
is probably the course that will be adopted, unless,
indeed, the larger question of the continuance of
the Hudson's Bay Company at all, •should be de-
cided adversely to the Corporation by the political
advisers of the Crown and the Imperial Legislature.
The Hudson's Bay Company's territories are,
however, much more cxtensive than those which
they exercise jurisdiction over tinder their own
construction of the charter. There is, however, a
distinction between the two classes of territory.
Whatever rights the Company possesses under the
charter, the Crown can of course resume only by its
surrender or on purchase and compensation. It has
no power to override the rights of the Hudson's
Bay Company within its own chartered territories,
unless it first of all establish the illegality of the
Charter it elf. The case is very different with the
other or non-chartered districts. They can be re-
sume Iby the Crown in the year 1859. The ques-
tion of their resumption, therefore, equally presses
for decision.
The history of those districts is briefly this :
When Mr. Ellice, at the request of Lord Bathurst,
then Colonial Minister, negotiated the amalgama-
tion between the Hudson's 'Bay and North-West
Companies, it became an important object of the
united body to avoid all rivalry and competition
within British territories. But a considerable tract
to the east of the Rocky Mountains and all the
British possessions (then more extensive than
now) between that range and the Pacific to
the West,' were not within the Charter. United
States Fur Companies were, moreover, pushing
forward in that direction. As a counterpoise to
American enterprise, and as a means of preserving
the peace of these countries, Mr. Ellice, with that
forethought and sagacity which so eminently dis-
tinguish him, suggested to Lord Bathurst that an
Act of Parliament should be obtained giving the
Queen's Government authority to grant a license of
exclusive trade over this district to the east and west
of the Rocky Mountains. Lord Bathurst acted on
this suggestion. The statute was passed, and under
its provisions two licenses of 21 years' duration each
have been granted to the Hudson's Bay Conipany.
It is the latter which termivatel in 1859.
At the time when Mr. Ellice's suggestion was
adep' od and first acted on, the regions to the west
of the Rocky Mountains, and the shores of the
Pacific were comparatively unkown, and were re-
garded only as fur-bearing countries ; and it was in
reference to that capacity and character that the
act was passed. Time and the spirit of enterprise
have, however, changed their destination. A largo
part of the Oregon territory, then included in the
purview of the British Statute, was transferred in
1846 to the United States. Settlement and civilisa-
tion a e driving onward. to the Pacific ; and Mr.
Ellice himself is now foremost in advocating the
withdrawal of a large part at least of this territory
from the Hudson's Bay Company ; while Mr. Roe-
buck, more ardent if les3 astute, pictures another
,Clermany arising under the auspices of England in
this &strict, to preserve the equilibrium of North
Amei ica.

Lastly, the Hudson's Bay Company have been
entrusted with the temporary charge of Vancouver's
Island. The Nor h Western Boundary Treaty,
Which do rived England of Oregon, finally secured
to it this island ; and, important though its position
is, Lord Grey was in 1849 not a little embarrassed
by its legal acquisition. Afraid of the expenss of
constituting a British colony, yet desirous of utilis-
ing it to some extent, Lord Grey, notwithstanding
the prophetic objections of Mr. Gladstone, trans-
ferral it to the Hudson's Bay Company, which had
already some es'ablishments ou it, and carried sup-
plies-thence to their exclusive territories on the
mainland.

The transfer has in every respect proved unfor-
tunate. Under the company, Vancouver's Island
had made scarcely any progress. Possessing on the
opposite coast a trading monopoly, the company
has not invited settlers to the island. Indeed had
it been so inclined, the terms which Lord Grey im-
posed on it as to the price of land would have effec-
tually repelled settlement. Lord Grey gave, too,
freeinstitutions to the island. But ho fixed the

stiffraga so high that scarcely any but the company's
dependents participate in the elections of the logiS-
lature. He assigned all the patronage to the com-
pany ; and the judge it has appointed is one of its
clerks, who wa originally a draper's apprentice.
No douLt the vicinity of California has in come
respects retarded the settlement of Vancouver's
Island. But had the treaty of Washington estab-
lished that reciprocity of trade on the side of tho Pa-
cific which it did on tha Atlantic and the Canadian
frontier, a large and valuable market for the bread-
stuff.; and coal of Vancouver's Island would have
been found in California. As it is, Lord Grey's
experiment has wholly and entirely failed ; and, to
regain possession of the island, this country will
have to pay a large sum of money to the Hudson's
Bay Bempany for its expenditure on a district
which Mr. Ellice wisely objected to their ever
meddling

Such are the territories of the Hudson's thy
Comp any. How that company his managed them
is next to be ascertained.

A REFRACTORY AM BASS ODOR.

(From the Times.)

What are wo to do with a refractory Ambas-
sador ? France and England are now perfectly
agreed on the Danubian Principalities question ;
the countries are agreed, the Sovereigns are agreed,
the Prime Ministers are agreed, and everybody is
satisfied, but Lord Stratford de Redcliffe will not
consent. If this is not a strong case of ego et Rex
rneus, it is at any rate ultra-patriotism. Our
Ambassadot differs in opinion from his country,
and of course it is bettor for the country that it
should give way. He will not let us expose our-
selves, or discredit ourselves ; he loves his country
too much to let it judge for itself. No, he knows
much better than we do how to manage things iu
the East, and we shall. whether we will or not,
have the benefit of his great experience. He is
aware that he is throwing pearls before swine, that
we shall not thank him for it, and that we simply
want him to obey orders, but he will not let us
command him to our own injury.
Now, everybody knows that Lord Stratford is
a kind of Sultan at Constantinople, that trembling,
Pashas lick the dust'at his feet, and feel their pro-
motion secured or their fate sealed according as he
smiles or frowns. He has now lived in the East
some fifty years, he has devoted himself to a
thorough acquaintance with all the intricacies and
disguises, the frauds, the chicanery, and whole
subterranean machinery of the Ottoman Court.
He has stuck to his work •, he has carried his head
high, as well from natural temper as from policy.
NO one has known better the maxim that an
Asiatic will respect you in proportion as you re-
spect yourself, or has used it to more advantage.
He has carried this policy a little too far at times
ineeed even for Asiatics, and has treated the
Sultan himself with a dignity which the latter
mistook for insolence ; but, whatever mistakes he
may have made, he has had about as much' of
his own way as any Ambassador ever had, and it
is a reward which industry and perseverance have
earned. Lord Stratford has talents which would
have justified an entrance upon the home arena,
and the aim at a loss local name and influence than
he has acquired ; he was, indeed, t tlked of for Fo-
reign Minister under Lord Derby's Government,
and public report for a short time hinted at a recall
from Constantinople for this higher post. How he
would have borne the unceremonious conflicts of
our home field of politics is indeed a question ; his
dignity would have boon sorely put to the test, and
he would have found a great difference between one
of our Parliamentary debates and a tete-a-tete with
a Pasha. He would have been knocked about a
good deal, for we are rather an irreverent race ;
we do not allow ourselves to be put down by a
look, we are not annihilated by majestic disdain,
and the airs of greatness aro a good deal thrown
away upon us. We measure a man, as pugilists do,
by his strength, rather than by his air or grandeur
of carriage, and this many a great man very soon
finds out to his cost, when, notwithstanding his im-
posing manners and his stately carriage, his inef-
fable bows and his Olympian smiles, his Serene
Highness finds himself rolling in the dust from an
encounter with some quick-witted antagonist who
has simply asked him a few plain questions and re-
quested an immediate answer. It is to Lord Strat-
ford's credit, however, that he has not made his
Turkish mission a mere stepping-stone to home
power or office, but has made it the work of bis life,
though it is to be feared that so long an Eastern re-
sidence has not been without its injurious effects
upon him. As the representative of a great Power
he has been surrounded by flatterers, and those
flatterers who do not spare the seasoning. It is
said that a man is first disgusted with flattery,
then tolerates it, and then relishes it, such frail
creatures are we and so little do we know our
weaknesses. One might think Asiatic flattery was
too strong to be hurtful, but it tells in time ; th
dram which almost burnt our throat at first be-
comes mild by repetition, and is soon necessary to
soothe our humours and make us feel contented with
ourselves. Fifty years of Asiatic flattery are no
joke ; a man gets to thiok by that time that there
must be some truth in what people tell him about
himself. In ancient times the issue of this long
process of adulation would have been mythological ;
Lord Stratford would have had a celestial pedi-
gree presented to him, or been assigned a place in
the &Alec, or been made a sea god, in compliment
to his insular extraction. But, as we do not live in
mythological days, and as Mahomedan flattery is
net idolatrous, our Ambassador has been content
to be thought the greatest earthly potentate next
to the Sultan. This is, as we say, trying to a man,
and Lord Stratford is probably now the most im-
perious subject that Her Majesty has. His sphere
of power is indeed a local one, and his subjects are
not the most respectable in the world ; but he
makes up for the quality of the subject material
by the remorseless sternness with which he con-
trols it. He rules his Court with a rod of iron ;
he is•a King among the Pashas, a Triton among
the minnows. Some tempers are so constituted
that they prefer being despotic in their own sphere,
however small it may be, to having to meet the
claims of equals in a much larger one, and Lord
Stratford would doubtless rather be first in Con-
stantinople than second in England.
Well, this is Lord Stratford, and we should be
prepared for a little awke ard Hess in such a potentate
on things not going exactly his own way in the
East. ie is also an old servant, and should be
humoured to a certain extent. But there is a limit
to good humour. When two Sovereigns have met,
and their Ministers have met, and the issue of this
conference is that the elections in the Danubian
Principalities must be repeated, the English Am-
bassador at the Porte really ought to support this
resolution, or else withdraw. Lord Stratford, we
believe, does actually disobey orders; as Am-
bassador he must communicate the message from
our Government to the Porte, and he does
so. But he simply communicates it, and does
not support it. He allows it to be seen that
he is opposed himself to his own instructions, of
which he will only consent to be the official and
formal channel. This is intolerable in an Ambas-
sador, and, though Government might find Lord
Stratford an awkward and impracticable man in
the House of Lords, such an inconvenience attend-
ing his recall ought to be submitted to rather than
such sue'i an anomaly as that of an Ambassador
opposing his own instructions. What our corres-
pondent has said is probably true, that the diplo-
matic ground at Const intinople wants clearing.
" It is useless to give orders and ins'reetions ; they
will not change old aninicsities and bad traditions."
The French and English Embassies will quarrel so
long as the present men stay, and when an Ambas-
sador disdkes his insttucti, ns he can: always im-
pede them by stirring up minor questions. There ,
is nothing, now really to impede the settlement of
affairs in the East but the animosities of Ambas-
sadors, and the sooner, therefore, both English and
French are recalled and the it functions committed
to a couple of Charges d'Affaires who will simply
do what the Governments at home tell them to do,
the better. Lord Stratford will make a second re-
jected and ill-used great man in the house, nor can
we promise Government that they will soon hear
the last of it. But it is better that the Upper
House should listen to another great man's wrongs,
and Government feel his retaliations, than that this
country should be thwarted by its own Ambassador
on such an important subject as that of the settle
ment of the Eastern difficulty.

SEAmazes WAGIBB.—A peculiar case came on for
hearing before the Southampton borough magistrates on
Friday, being a claim for 30/. 6s. 103. for wages claimed
by the quartermaster of the steam•ship Oneida, of the
European and .Atutralian Company. It appears that the
plaintiff, in conjunction with the remainder of the crew,
signed articles to serve in the Oneida for 3 years. The
vesstls left this port for Sydney
with her Majesty's
wails, where she arrived on the 31st of December, 1855
and from that time to January 31, from 12 to 15
men were daily absent from the ship, and about
30 deserted. With the view of remedying this evil,
Capt. Hyde (commander of the Oneida) promised the
men more wages—an increase of nearly one-half, and
double to the fire department. The promise was formally
endorsed on the articles befbre the magistrates, and duly
signed by the captain. On the arrival of the ship at
Southampton the company refused to pay the men the
advanced wages. After the evidence had been given the
belich decided that the claim could not be enforced, on
the ground that the increased, wages were offered to
keep the mon from leaving the ship, and that their lives
were not endangered by staying in her; but they re-
commended the company to give a substantial bonus to
every man who had not made an attempt to desert.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Jura steam-transport arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from Gibraltar, in 98 hours only, with
the following troops :-1 field officer, 2 captain, 4
subalterns, 1 staff, 11 sergoant4, 5 drummers, 229
rank and file, 1 officer's wife and child, 17 soldiers'
wives and 32 children, of the 55th Foot; 2 field offi-
cers, 5 captains, 18 subaltern; 5 staff, 46 sergeants,
20 drummers, 677 rank and file, 2 officers' wives, 1
child, 50 soldiers' wives, and 57 children of the
30th Regiment. The Jura went alongside Ports-
mouth Dockyard, but at the despatch of this report
last night (7 p.m.) there were no orders for their
disembarcation ; on the contrary, an order to de-
tint them on board pending the determination of
the War-office.

Tho Sylph steam-vessel went into Portsmouth
yesterday from the Thames, to embark relief's of
Royal Artillery for the Channel Islands, whence
she returns with three companies, who ara ordered
to embark for India.

The detachment of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
which has baen sta.tiolied at the Leeds Barracks for
some months past, left Leeds yesterday morning for
Sheffield, where they will join the head-quarters,
on the way for embarcation for India.
On Friday a troop of the 16th Lancers arrived in
Belfast on the way from Kilkenny to Edinburgh.
They left for Glasgow by the Lynx steamer, which
had .seen specially chartered to convey them across
the Channel. The remainder of the regiment will
follow in the course of this week. The Bth (Royal
Irish) Hussars are under orders of readiness to em-
bark for India. The troop under the command of
Captain Seagar, a Crimean officer, wore inspected
on Thursday by Dr. Lockwood, the regimental sur-
geon, w:th a view to the selection of the men fitted
for service in the East.

The Scotia, iron screw transport, with the head-
quarters of the 72d Highlanders on board, and
which ship attempted to sail from Portsmouth on
Saturday, has been obliged to be detained, owing
to a stiffness in her screw propeller. She is still
alongside the Bellerophon, receivinglhulk, to which
she was obliged to moor.

The Gloriana, transport, Captain Toynbee,
F. R.A. S., received a portion of the 66th Foot on
board yesterday morning, alongside the dockyard
jetty at Portsmouth, and will sail to-day for India.
This vessel has established an extraordinary reputa-
tion, inasmuch as on her last return from Table
Bay she left one day before her Msjesty's ship Vul-
can, whose arrival in England she anticipated by
not less than 23 days. Her accommodation is of
first-class character, and her decks are amply ven-
tilated.

In consequence of the small number of Royal
Artillery now at Sheerness, about 120 marines aro
expected to arrive there from Portsmouth to do
dockyard duty. Captain John Desborough's com-
pany of Royal Artillery are daily expecting orders
to embark for India.

Yesterday morning, drafts of the 43d Light In-
fantry, 60th Rifles, and 3d battalion 74th High-
landers, left Chatham for Portsmouth to embark in
the freight ship Gloriana, for conveyance to Madras
and Cannanore.

The Britannia, 120, recently converted into an
hospital ship afloat, is to bo re-converted into a
traming ship for naval cadets, under the command
of Captain Robert Harris ; and the Illustrious is
to be sent to Devonport for the like purpose.
Buzzard, 6, paddle, got up steam at Devon-
port on Saturday afternoon, to go out of harbour,
when some derangement took place in her ma-
chinery, which will be again made good imme-
dia,' el y.
_ _ _

Chesapeake, 50, screw frigate, Captain R. C.
B. Watson, C. 8., is reported ready for sea, and
is reported to leave Sheerness for Portsmou'h to-
day. Yesterday, at 10 a.m., she was inspected
by Vice-Admiral Edwai d Harvey, accompanied by
his flag lieutenant, Douglas, and secretary,
Mr. William Dyer. She manned yards upon the
gallant admiral's barge heaving in sight. She is
now down to her proper sailing trim, and looks
remarkably grand.
Ganges, 84, Flag Captain John Fulford, is still
at Sheerness, waiting Admiralty orders, when she
is to leave for Portsmouth.

Harrier, 17, screw, Commander Derriman, ar-
rived at Bahia, from Rio Janeiro, on the 16th ult.
Orion, 91, about to be paid off at Plymouth by
Captain J. E. Erskine, is to be kept in a state of
readiness in the event of her being required to be
re-commissioned immediately.
Waterloo, 120, flag ship, Captain Henry Har-
vey, in Sheerness Harbour, is daily open to in-
spection, and this summer has had an unusual
number of visitors. She is at present very short
of her proper complement of able-bodied seamen.
The Termagant, 24, steam frigate, Lieutenant C.
C. A. Kane in command, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday from the West Indies. She left Bermuda
on the 4th of August with 24 invalids from sundry
regiments, under Lieut. Collins, of the 26th Foot.
Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett,
K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of the South-West
District, will inspect the 47th Foot, this forenoon
on Southsea Common, and the third battalion of
the Scots Fusilier Guards about half-past 2 this
afternoon, weather perrnitthlg.
Her Majesty's steam troop frigate Vulcan, 6,
Commander John Seccombe, w.ll ba officially in-
spected this day on being reported ready for sea and
to receive troops, by Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour,
K.C. 8., the Port Admiral at Portsmouth. She is
in all respects ready for sea, having provisione on
board for 1,000 men for three months, Arc.
The Curacoa, 31, Capt. Forbes, will be paid off
at Portsmouth on Wednesday.
The Nile, convict ship, arrived yesterday at Spit-
head with convicts from the eastward, and to take
in more from Portsmouth.

The convict-hulk Defence, having been skillfully
lifted from her sunken position in the bed of the
river, was yesterday released from her moorings off
Woolwich Arsenal, and, having been lashed to a
powerful steamer on either side, she was conveyed
to the dockyard, and successfully hauled into dock,
where she will undergo a careful survey by the
shipwright department.
Captain Thring's company of the 2d battalion
Royal Artillery arrived at head-quarters, Woolwich,
yesterday, having been recalled to prepare for ser-
vice in India. Major-General Williams yesterday
inspected the three batteries of Artillery about to
embark for the East. They were accordingly drawn
up on Woolwich-common, and put through a field
day's mauesuvres. The steam transport Hydaspes
went down to Woolwich by last night's tide, and
moored alongside the Arsenal pier, for the embar-
kation of the above-namod batteries, together with
a troop of horse artillery. The 10th battalion, on
account of its extra s'rength having been ap-
pointed to the garrison duties during the annual
inspection of last week, was yesterday morning as-
sembled on the barrack field and inspected by the
Commandant, Major-General Sir W. F. Williams,
and staff.

The naval transport Diligence has arrived at
WoJlwich, andis moored alongside the Arsenal pier
to discharge her cargo of raturne4l slore3 from
Gibraltar.

The screw stem vessel Rifleman, from the
South-East Coast of America, was yesterday warped
iuto basin at Woolwichto be paid off.

THE MILITIA.

The E.rl of Abingdon, Lord Lieutenant of the
county, has ordered the Royal Berks Militia to as-
semble on the Ist of Oct. It is not yet knownwhat
the destination of the corps willbe. Oa the last oc-
casion of its embodiment it was sent to Corfu.
Yesterday morning the East Middlesex Militia,
Colonel Wood, met at Hampstead. E ►ch man re-
ceived one guinea and gratuities. The 4th Middle-
sex rezeive theirs to-morrow, :at Hounslow. Both
are to be embodied.

Yesterday morning the 3d Royal Surrey Militia,
Challouer, commanthut, mustered at
Kng=ton-on-Thame,, for training, and to be em-
bodied. The volunteers began to arrive early, and
by eleven o'clock nearly 300 bad reached head-
quarters ; there are upwards of 500 on the muster
roll, and all who absent themselves are to be treated
as deserters'. The regiment moves to Aldershot in
a few days:

The City of Edinburgh Militia have volunteered
their services to recruit for the regular army, and
have received authority to enlist for 17 different
regiments.

Notices have been issue 1, calling upon the 4th
Royal Lancashire Militia to assemble for embodi-
ment at the Militil Storehouses, Warrington, on
Tuesday, Sept. 22.

The Durham Artillery, under Lieut.-Colonel
Stobort, will assemble at Sunderland during this
month for training. The regiment is said to be
very efficient.

The 2d Regiment of Staffordshire Militia will be
embodied without delay, but inconsequence of the
absence of the Lord-Lieutenant (Lord Hatherton)
no preilse day for' The assembling of the regiment
has been notified. It is expected that shortly after
its emi'odiment the regiment will proceed to the
south of England to perform garrison duty.
The Rival Wiltshire Regiment of Militia will be
embodied in about three weeks.
The 6th West Yorkshire Militia are to assemble
at Halifax for training on theist of Oct., the same
day as the sth are to assemble at Knaresborough.
In addition to the six Irish Regiments of Militia
ordered to be forthwith embodied, the Armagh
Light infantry, the Royal Tyrone Fusiliers, and
the Tipperary Artillery have also received warrants
of embodiment.

The Journal de Constantinople contains an advertise-
ment of the issue of the shares of the Danube and Black
Sea Railway reserved for Turkey.