The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-09 00:00:00

THE NEW FIELD-211 A RSHALS.

" Dod's Peerage" gives the following brief
memoirs of the four distinguished soldiers who have
just been gazetted Field-Marshals :

" WooDFonn, G.C.B. Created 1852, G.C.NI.G.
1832.—Sir Alexander George Woodford, son of
Lieutenant - Colonel John Woodford, by the
eldest daughter of the third Duke of Gordon,
and relict of the ninth Earl of Westmoreland.
Born 1782 ; married, 1820, the eldest daughter
of the late Mr. Charles henry Fraser, Bri4
tish Minister at Hamburg. Entered the army
as ensign 9th Foot, 1794 ; served in Holland
and Denmark ; was aide-de-camp to Lord For-
bes on the staff in Sicily in 1809, and subse-
quently with the Coldstream Guards in Por-
tugal and Spain ; was at Waterloo in command of
that regiment, at the capture of Paris, and at Cam-
brai during the three years' occupation of France ;
became a general in 1854 ; was colonel of the 40th
Foot from 1842 to 1862, when he was appointed
colonel of the Grenadier Guards ; received a medal
and two clasps for his services at Salamanca, Vit-
toria, and .Nive ; was lieutenant-governor of Malta
in 1825 ; was subsequently commander of the forces
in the lonian Islands ; was governor of Gibraltar
from 1835 to 1842 ; appointed lieutenant-governor
of Chelsea Hospital, November, 1856 ; received the
Orders of Maria Theresa and St. George, 4th class,
for his services at Waterloo ; was aide-de-camp to
George IV.

" GOMM, G.C.B. Created 1859. Sir Wm. May-
nard Gomm, D.C.L. (Oxon and Cantab), son of
Lieutenant-Colonel William Gomm, by the daugh-
ter of Mr. Joseph Maynard. Born 1784; married,
first, the daughter of Mr. Granville Penn, of Stoke
Park, Bucks ; secondly, 1830, eldest daughter of
Lord Robert Kerr, granddaughter of sth Marquis
of Lothian (she was born 1807) ; entered the army
in 1794 ; served with the 9th Foot at the Helder
1799; at the battles of the 19th Sept. and 2d Oct. ;
and on the coast of France in:1800 ; served in Hano-
ver 1805, at Stralsund and the siege of Copenhagen
1807, in the Peninsular campaign of 1808-9, in-
cluding the battles of Rolica, Vitniera, and Corunna,
at Walcheren, and the siege of Flushing, 1809 ;
was assistant quartermaster-general from Busaco
to the close of the Spanish war, 1814, and
also at Quatre Bras and Waterloo ; appointed
lieut.-colonel Coldstream Guards, 1829 ; major-
general, 1837 .;commander of the forces, lieute-
nant-governor, and member of council in Jamaica,
1840-41 (where he established the mountain-bar-
rack of. Newcastle) ; appointed to command the
northern district of England, 1842 ; governor and
commander in chief in Mauritius from 1843 to 1849;
colonel of the 13th Foot, 1846 ; colonel of the Cold-
stream Guards, 1863 ; general and commander in
chief, and extraordinary member of council, froin
January, 1851, to Decemter, 1855 ; has received
for his military services the gold cross and one
clasp, the silver war medal and six clasps, the
Waterloo medal, and was made a knight of St•
Anne of Russia, 2d class, for the last-named battle
" Ross, G.C.B. Created 1855.—Sir Hew Dal-
rymple Ross, third son of Major John Ross, of Bal-
kail, county of Galloway, by the daughter of Mr.
John Buchan, of Lcitham, Haddingtonshire. Born
at Balkail, 1779 ; m irried 1816, only daughter of
Mr. Richard Graham, of Stonehouse, Cumberland ;
entered the Royal Artillery in 1795 ; became a
general in the army in 1854 ; lieutenant-general of
the ordnance, 1854 ; adjutant-general of the Royal
Artillery in 1855 ; received a cross and two clasps
for his services at Busaco, Badajoz, Salamanca,
Vittoria, Nivelle, and Nive ; was at Waterloo, for
his services at which battle he received the order of
St. Anne, 2d class ; was nominated a Knight of the
Tower and Sword in 1815, for his services in the
Peninsular war.

" BURGOYNE, Ist Bart. (United Kingdom).
Created 1856. G.C.B. 1852--Sir John Fox Bur-
goyne, son of the late Lieutenant-General the
Right Hon. John Burgoyne, who was well known
in relation to the American war. Born 1782 ;
married, 1820, the second daughter of Mr. Hugh
Rose, of Holme, county of Nairn, lieutenant-colonel,
E.I.C.S. ; entered the Engineers 1798 ; served at
Malta, in Egypt, and at Corunna ; served in the
Peninsula from 1809 to 1814 and in North America
in 18.15 ; was wounded at Burgos and St. Sebas-
tian ; has received the gold cross and one clasp, as
well as the silver war medal and three clasps ; was
for several years chairman of the Board of
Public Works in Ireland ; appointed inspec-
tor-general of fortifications' in England, July,
1845, salary £1,500 ; metropolitan commis-
sioner of sewers, 1849 ; lieutenant-general of the
force sent to the Crimea, 1854 ; colonel-command-
ant Royal Engineers, 1855 ; Constable of the
Tower of London, Lord-Lieutenant and Custos
Rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets, 1865 ; received
the honorary degree of D.C.L. from Oxford, the
Order of the Medjidie of the first class from the
Sultan; the rank of general, a baronet, and Grand
Officer of the Legion of Honour for his services in
conducting the siege operations at Sebastopol up to
April, 1855. Heir, his son, Hugh Talbot, born iu
Dublin, 1833 ; entered the navy in 1847 ; married
daughter of Sir Baldwin Walker, Bart. ; made a
commander in the royal navy in 1856 ; commanded
the Wrangler gunboat at the taking of Kinburn ;
received the Victoria Cross for personal bravery,
1857 ; also the Order of the Medjidie fifth class,
and the Legion of Honour."

LUNACY IN ESSEX.—One of the most painful sub-
jects coming under the consideration of the Essex quarter
sessions this month has been the constant increase in the
number of patients in the County Lunatic Asylum. Thus,
at the close of 1867, the number of patients in the asylum
was 587, as compared with 573 at the close of 1866, 541 at
the close of 1865, 550 at the close of 1864, 521 at the close
of 1863, 498 at the close of 1862, and 467 at the close of
1861. It is satisfactory to note that 101 patients under
treatment recovered their reason last year.

THE SALE OF BREAD.—The police in Cornwall
are paying much attention to the sale of bread, and bakers
and shopkeepers are being weekly brought before the
magistrates and charged with selling bread otherwise than
by weight. The county Bench at Truro on Monday fined
three shopkeepers sums varying from 10s. to £2 and cost
for this offence; during last week there were seven similar
convictions in different parts of Cornwall. in every case
the bread was proved to be below the weight which should
have been given for the money paid.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—.—APPOINTMENTS.—Mr.
Henry Holbrook, to be copying clerk in the Inland
Revenue ; Messrs. James Birse, Thomas Mullin, John
Henry Warren, P. Bannister, E. Bucklow, H. Fisher, G.
Gould, G. Hartrick, H. Magowan, and T. Radmore, to
be assistants of Exc so ; Mr. Francis Henry Hendre, to be
temporary clerk in the Friendly Societies Registry ; Mr.
George Ellis Cooper, to be clerk in the Post-office, Rother-
ham ; Mr. Edward Lynan, to be clerk in the Post-office,
S he ffiel d.

SINGULAR CASE OF Loss AND RECOVERY.--
About three years ago Mrs. Stewart, Montboy, while feed-
ing her calves, allowed :one of them to suck her fingers,
but on withdrawing her hand beheld with consternation
that her marriage ring and another which she wore as a
keeper had disappeared, the calf having apparently swal-
lowed them. In consequence of this the animal was kept
at Montboy, where it was reared, fattened, and slaugh-
tered last week, when a proper search was made for the
missing treasure, and at the first incision made upon the
intestines, both rings were found as clean and as bright as
they were when they went amissing three years before.—
Brechin Advertiser.

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