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NOTICE.—THE NEW MILITARY NOVEL.
Now ready at all the Libraries, with I'ortrait and Memoir, in 3 vols.
OUNTRY QUARTERS.
By the COUNTESS of BLESOIN3TON.
" Will be more keenly relished upon a second than upon a first
perusal."--Jelin Bull.
" A simple and life-like drama."_ Sunday Times.
" We congratulate the novel-loving public on the appearance of a
work which will altogether so charm and interest."—Morning Ad-
vertiser.
W. Shoberl, Publisher, 20, Great Marlborough-street.

YEARSLEY'S NEW MODE OF

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The following acting-lieu -
nant and midshipmen passed their examination for
lieutenants last week, at the Royal. Naval College :
Mr. Charles A. Wise, Mr. R. P. Pearse, and Mr.
Frederick Parke.
Vice-Admiral Sir John Louis struck his flag on
board the Agincourt in Herat:we, on Friday, and
closed his duties as Admiral-Superintendent of De-
vonport ordinary and dockyard, giving place to Cap-
tain Lord John Hay, C.E., who hoisted a broad
pendant as commodore of the first class (!) and com-
menced his control of the dockyard, offices, &c.
[What a farce and a humbug has this appointment
been at* er all ! The public, galled by the appear-
ance of a captain to succeed an admiral under the
guise of economy, are ignorant of the fact that a first-
class commodore's pay, staff, and allowances are the
same to the uttermost farthing as an admiral-super-
intendent's.],— Times.
The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Grey Skip-
with, was paid off at Sheerness on Friday in a most
orderly manner, all her business being over in an hour.
The new regulation for the examination of candi-
dates for the appointment of master in the Royal
Navy came into operation this month. The follow-
ing were examined at the Royal Naval College last
week and passed :—Mr. William Stanton, Mr.
James. Pyper, and Mr. Glreorge Richard Barnes;; Mr.
Stanton had full numbers, and was deservedly com-
plimented thereon by the President.
ROYAL MARINES.
Her Majesty has, by order in Council dated sth
instant, been pleased to direct that the corps of Royal
Marines shall consist of 102 divisional and 19 artil-
lery companies. And her Majesty is also graciously
pleased to allow 10 from the senior captains of the
corps to retire upon the full pay of their rank in con-
sequence of their long and meritorious services.
The establishment of the several divisions will,
therefore, be in accordance with the annexed
schedule :
Each divisional company to consist of 1 captain, 2
subalterns, 5 sergeants, 5 corporals, 3 drummers, 76
privates ; total, 92.
Each artillery company to consist of l captain, 4
subalterns, 7 sergeants, 7 corporals, 3 bombadiers, 3
drummers 125 gunners; total, 150. Making the
whole establishment—
Divisional companies
Artillery companies
Staff

10,954
To effect this reduction and re-distribution, 10
companies—from 103 to 112, are to be broken
up, and the remaining companies to be com-
plete to their numerically established strength
therefrom, leaving the excess of non-com-
missioned officers, drummers, and privates as super-
numeraries, until cleared off by casualties.
The 102 divisional companies are to be distributed
at the several divisions as follows :—Chatham, 25
companies; Portsmouth, 27 companies ; Artillery,
10 companies; Plymouth, 25 companies; Wool-
wich, 25 companies.
This re-distribution and new arrangement of divi-
sional companies is in no way to effect either non-
commissioned officer, drummer, or private as regards
their transfer from one division to another : the whole
are to continue attached as at present, but, removed
to new companies as cases arise out of the altered

numbers.
The names of the captains to be retired are not yet
known.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. IG.—Vice-Admiral Sir John
Louis, Bart , Lady and the Misses Louis, have left
the official residence in the Dockyard, and we under-
stand will remain for a short time at Moorshead's
Royal Hotel, preparatory to their leaving for the
Baronet's seat in this county. An assault of a dis-
graceful and serious nature was committed on the
Gallant Admiral on Tuesday evening last, from the
effects of which his frame was so much shaken that he
was obliged to call in medical assistance, and has since
been confined to his room. It appears that the Ad-
miral was walking towards Devonport, and was on
the causeway on the hill between that town and Stone-
house, when he was run violently against by three
men, in the uniform of marines, and knocked. into
the roadway. From the very wet weather that we
have lately experienced in this part of the world, the
mud on the road was several inches deep, and the
miscreants, catching hold of the fallen Admiral, rolled
him therein, and then decamped. As soon as he had
sufficiently recovered to be able to walk, he proceed
to the mainguard, and a file of men were immediately
sent out, to trace, if possible, the whereabouts of the
parties who committed the offence. In the search,
however, they were unsuccessful ; and though an in-
vestigation has since taken place, the men have not
been detected.
An accident, which it is feared will prove fatal,
occurred yesterday on board her Majesty's ship
Arethusa. A party of marines were engaged in
hoisting on board one of her masts, which was just
brought on a level with the deck, when one of the
marines turned with a handspike the direction of the
crane. By some accident he let go his hold, when
the crane burst back to its former place, and caught
the men who were at the windlass, the handle of
which, it is said, penetrated the bowels of one of the
unfortunate men. Two others were severely injured,
and were immediately carried to the hospital, were
they are now doing well. It is not expected, how-
ever, that the other man will survive.
The Stromboli, Commander Lord Amelius Beau-
clerk, having had defects made good, left Hamoaze for
the Sound on Tuesday, and sailed on Thursday for a
cruise in the Channel, to assist the homeward-bound.
The steam-frigate gladiator, Capt. Adams, having
been repaired, dropped down harbour into the Sound
on Tuesday. II:tr tender, the Jackal steam-vessel,
was warped alongside the jetty on Tuesday for repair.
The Gladiator continues in the Sound.
The Philomel, 6, was commissioned on Monday by
Commander F. G. Forbes. She is destined to take
the March mails to the coast of Africa.
All the copper has been taken off the brig Brito-
mart, to be replaced with new. She is to be lifted
for the purpose of fixing a new false keel.
Fifty riggers and seamen riggers are employed on
her Mejesty's ship Albion.
Ten boys were on Monday entered as shipwrights'
apprentices, and two to ropemakers.
THE fiIEAMAN'S COMMITTEE.—The Seaman Com-
mittee, of which the Admiral of the Fleet is chair-
mar, concluded the collection of evidence on Thurs-
day, and adjourned for ten days, when they will
meet for the purpose of agreeing on the report. The
officer who has stepped forward with a view of making
a salutary alteration is the senior naval lord, Rear-
Admiral Deans Dundas, who, in a written minute
to the other members of the hoard, submits the fol-
lowing proposition to them officially :—He proposes,
we believe, in 1851, to decrease the issue of spirits
one half, and to allow none whatever to persons
under eighteen years of age ; but in lieu thereof, to
give an increased pay of 33. per month. The fol-
lowing is a list of punishments in the navy for three
years, and the reasons thereof:—
For drunken- For other
mess only. offences. Total.
517 560 1,377
405 428 833
527 526 1,353

1846
1847
1848
—Rants Advertiser.

APPOINTMENT.
Wooi.wicu, FEB. 17.—Mite Robert A. Stupart,
from the Excellent gunnery ship to the Sphynx steam-
sloop, at Portsmouth.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
The Eider steam• vessel, in charge of Lieutenant
Sherard and o)born, with Mr. Trickett, assistant to
the chiEf engineer at Woolwich dockyard, arrived
here this afternoon from Southampton, and was
brought up at moorings opposite the East dock, ad-
joining the saw-mills. The Eider is to be taken into
the East dock, to be got ready for sea with the least
possible delay, Captain Austin, C. 8., having expressed
to the heads of the working departments here his most
anxious wish that all the vessels of the expedition
should be completed by the first week in April.
Tne Eider made a most excellent passage round to
Woolwich,
having left Southampton at 1 30 P.M. yes
terday and arrived here at three P.M. to-day. She is
represented as being a good sailer as well as steamer,
and must be very familiar to many on the river, as
she has the same kind of figurehead as her sister
vessel, the Free-Trader, both being "Bull-heads."

THE GOLD FINDER. —A work of a very remark-
able charact>r has just issued from the press, called
" The Adventures of a Gold Finder." It assumes to be
the personal narrative of an Englishman who, whilt
exploring unfrequented portions of the new El Dorado,
undergoner various extraordinary adventures amongst the
aborigines, and in the society of the motly assemblage
from all cations that forms the population of " the dig-
gins." Encounters with wild beasts, elk shooting, and
the other sports of this singular country, are interspersed
with so many characteristic anecdotes of Yankee specu-
Litor2 and Indian chiefs, as to afford one of the most
animated pictures of California that has hithei to been
published, whilst equal entertainment may be drawn
from the author's vivid descriptions of the vicissitudes
in the life of a gollbunter.
It gives us much pleasure to learn, on good autho-
rity, that by a new system of medical treatment the
l)uke of Sutherland has been relieved from the deafness
mulcr which his Grace so long suffered.

DEATH— OF LORD GODOLPHIN.
We regret • to announce the death of the Right
Hon. Francis Godolphin Osborne, Baron Godolphin,
of Farnham•Royal, in the county of Bucks, and (Tog-
magog, in the county of Cambridge. The deceased
peer was second son cf Francis Godolphin, fifth Duke
of Leeds, and was born on the 18th of October, 1777.
He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and
was admitted honorary M.A., 1811. He espoused
on March 31, .1800, the Hon. Elizabeth Charlotte
Eden (deceased), daughter of William, first Baron
Auckland, by whom his Lordship had issue five sons
and one daughter ; of these, three sons only survive.
His Lordship.is succeeded, by his second, but eldest
surviving son; the Hon. George Godolphin Osborne,
now Lord Godolphin, and cousin and heir presurnp._
tive to the Duke of Leeds, and who was married on
the 21st. of October, 1824, to Miss Steward. The
Honourable William Godolphin Osborne' third son
of the deceased, was aide de-camp to his uncle,
Lord Auckland, when Governor-General of India;
the fourth son, the Hon. and Reverend Sydney
Godolphin Osborne, is rector of Durweston with
Bryanston, Dorsetshire. The youngest, the Hon.
D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, is deceased. The late
Lord Godolphin was returned to the House of Com-
mons for the' borough of Helstone, in Cornwall, in
1798, and sat as Member therefor until the general
election in 1802, when he was returned for Lewes,
the numbers being—Osborne, 114, Shelley, 179,
Kemp, 173. .At the dissolution in 1806, Lord Osborne
retired from Parliament, until in the month of
March, 1810, he was returned for the county of Cam-
bridge in the room of the Right Hon. Philip Yorke,
who had accepted the office of Teller of the Exche-
quer, and who rather abruptly retired from the con-
test with his Lordship. Trt 1e26, his Lordship was
again returned as the colleague of Lord Charles
Somerset Manners, the late Mr. Adeane having been
nominated against his expressed wish. In 1830,
Lord Osborne and Mr. Adeane were returned,
Lord C. S. Manners, the third candidate, being at
the bottom of the poll ; the numbrs then were—Os-
borne, 2,339 ; Adeane, 2,086 ; Manners,ll,7s7. Lord
Osborne was again elected for the county without
opposition in 1831, and vacated his seat shortly after-
wards on his elevation to the Peerage, to which he
was called on the 13th of May, 1832, by the title of
Baron Godolphin. Oa the Ist of January, 1836, he
was appointed High Steward of the town of Cam-
bridge, which office he held up to his decease. His
Lordship's health had been breaking for some time
past, but it was not till lately that serious appre-
hensions were entertained. The deceased, however,
sunk under what perhaps may most properly be called
a gradual decay of nature, and expired at half-past
twelve on Friday night last, at his seat at Gogmagog,
Cambridgeshire. In politics the deceased Lord was
a Whig, and up to within a short period of his death
he took an active part in 'the discharge of the duties
appertaining to a county magistrate. It is already
rumoured that the High Stewardship of the borough
of Cambridge will be offered t) Lord Campbell,
whose son is already its representative in the House
of Commons.

SIR JOHN ROSS AND SLEDGING
BY DOGS.
TO TUE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—One at least of the peculiar advantages claimed
by Sir John Ross over other Arctic navigators is of
so extraordinary a nature, that I cannot refrain from
sending you a f....5v lines on the subject.
Advantage No. .5.—" From having been six years
Consul in Sweden I am well acquainted with sledging
by dogs, which can be procured in Greenland."
Now this paragraph, though rather awkwardly
worded, would, of course, amply that the Swedes
are in the habit of driving dogs in sledges, and that
the gallant ex-Consul had derived his knowledge of
that mode of travelling from what he saw going. on
around him every day of the six winters during
which he filled the duties of that important post.
Tne imaginative part of your readers have doubtless
already conjured up before their minds' eye the form
of the gallant veteran dashing at full speed through
the streets of Stockholm at• the heels of a dozen
thorough-bred bull-dogs, and like a born Kams-
chatkadale, alternately cheering them on with his
voice, or reminding the unruly of his authority by
hurling a short stick at them with unerring aim.
Alas for the gullibility of the public and the capa-
city of its swallow I Is it not plain that the true
Greenland is England ? It does not require six
winter?, or half a winter's, residence in Sweden to
ascertain that "sledging bydogs" is utterly unknown
in any part of that country ; and, after some years'
experience, I do not scruple to affirm that such a
mode of conveyance would create even more excite-
ment in Scandinavia than in England. Out of Lon-
don our English dogs are used to the yoke, and if we
had hard winters, no doubt our tinkers and dog's-
meat-men would soon become initiated into the mys-
teries of " sledging by dogs ;" but in Sweden, where
the breed of dogs is poor and currish, the tinkers are
content to carry their own pots and pans; nor do I
remember ever to have seen a dog drawing any ve-
hicle whatsoever. In short, this " sledging by dogs" is
all humbug, and for a very good reason. Your
Swedes having excellent horses are not driven to
"sledge by dogs ;" and when you get towards the
Arctic circle, the. benighted Laplanders, most pro-
vokingly for the assertion of Sir John Ross, obsti-
nately continue to "sledge by reindeer," employing
their dogs, of which they have a fine breed, in the
more honourable occupation of looking after their
herds and in protecting them from the wolves.
If Sir John Henry Pelly and his friends are of
what is called on the turf a speculative turn, and
wish to back Sir John Ross's assertion, and at the
same time to raise money for this expedition, let them
stake their 3,0001. on the fact that "sledging by dogs'
is usual in Sweden, and I will give them 6,0001. if
they can produce two credible witnesses who will
declare that this kind of conveyance is commonly
practised in Stockholm. My own belief is, that there
is not a single team of dogs so employed between the
North Cape and Elsinore ; and I can affirm on oath
that during four out of the six winters in which Sir
Jahn Ross was acquiring his experience I have seen
him hundreds of times driving, not a dozen dogs, but
one substantial horse, in an ordinary Swedish sledge.
I am not one of those who think that all efforts to
rescue Sir John Franklin's expedition should be re-
linquished. On the contrary, I conceive it to be our
bounden duty in a case like this to hope even against
hope, and to leave no stone unturned for the deliver-
ance of those devoted men. But as the emergency
is great so is it absolutely necessary that neither
public nor private money should be wasted in ill-
directed efforts ;
and after this exposition of SrJohn Ross's fif,la advantage, who can say whether all
the others may not be equally illusory ? Of one
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qualification of the gallant veteran I do not doubt—l
mean his courage--for the man who can gravely state
that from six
years' resi hence in Sweden he left that
country well acquainted with sledging by dogs, will
stick at nothing in the way of assertion, and were an
expedition announced to explore the Moon and colo-
nize Saturn, he would not scruple to become a candi-
date for the command.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
PIMLICOLA.
P.S. As the buckhounds are about to be put down,
would it not be as well if Sir John Henry Pelly and
his friends were to make a handsome offer for the
,A hole pack, and send them out with their new expe-
dition ? As soon as they took to the ice the pace
would be killing, and there would be no stopping
,them till they reached the North Pole.

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EXHINITION OF AVORItS OF INDUSTRY IN 1851.
On Saturday last (February 16) a public meeting was
held in the Tolsey in Gloucester (the Mayor in the
chair), to determine what steps shall be taken to co-
operate with the Royal Commissioners in promoting the
objects of the proposed Exhibition of the Works of In-
dustry of all Nations next year. A number of gentle-
men attended and supported resolutions in favour of the
above object, and a pretty liberal sum was collected for
transmission to the treasurer of the Royal Commision.
One of the speakers, Mr. T. M. Sturge, a member of
the Society of Friends, spoke most sanguinely cf the
great objects to be realised by the exhibition. Ile anti-
eipated that the example thus set by England would, in
after years, be followed by most of the European and
civilized nations, and that it would afford the means of
more frequent international ineercourse and of contri-
buting largely to the happiness and comfort of eivi-
l'zed society. Above all, he thought it would create
such unity of sentiment among peoples and nations as to
render European wars utterly impossible. A committee
was appointed to cooperate with the Royal Commission
G:oucester city is celebrated for its pin manufactures,
and the county for its cloth manuittetut es and dairy and
other agricultural produce.
TIM CHARTIST SPY.—We have this week to an-
nounce the arrival of the ship Caroline, from London
(15th April), with 179 passengers; and the ship Louisa
Millie, from London and Plymouth (29th April and 9th
May), with 161 passengers. Amongst the passengers
by the Caroline is a person whose proper name is
Thomas Powell, but who shipped himself in the name of
Thomas Richards. It seems that having been one of
the principal witnesses against the English Chartists,
the English Governireut have secretly provided him with
the necessary funds for removing. himself and his family
t) this colony. Another passenger, named John Morley,
from A,liford, Kent, jumped overboard on the 22d of
May. It was :aid that he ha 1 parted from his friends
in anger, and having been subject to bitter compunctions,
his remorse became insupportable.--Adelaide Observer
f Sept. 8.