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l commander at the disposal of Vioe-^miral D.mdaajnd 
t of R r^r;omoS u 8 Th d o a r sa £St 
sions in blank to l*e transmitted te Vice-Admiral Dundas to 
be filled up by the promotion of officers, according to the 
following directions, provided that during the action the 
conduct g of the officers to be selected was to the satisfaction 
Tthe several captains, but otherwise to be filled up with 
the names ->f any officers of the rank most distinguished 
in action. The senior commander of the slup-of-the-hue 
on board during the action ; the senior commander of 
a sloop engaged; the four senior lieutenants actually 
outraged the eight senior .mates ; the two senior assistant- 
surgeons on board and engaged ; the two senior second 
masters actually engaged ; the three senior clerks actually 
engaged ; three chief engineers of the second and third class, 
provided they were actually eugageil, will bo advanced one 
grade each and three assistant-engineers of each class will 
also be advanced one grade provided they were in the action ; 
the three senior gunners, boatswains, and carpenters of the 
second class will be advanced to the fi.stcla.ss, and the three 
seniors of the third will be advanced to the second. The 
promotion of those officers selected by their lordships who 
have not served the required period at sea, or who may not 
have passed their examinations, is contingent on their 
subsequently qualifying themselves according to existing 
regulations. The Royal Marines of the fleet having been 
employed at the time of the action with the besieging army 
these naval promotions have necessarily been made without 
reference to that branch of the service or to the Naval 
Brigade similarly employed on shore. 
MILITARY. 
The Army in India. — Casualtiesby Death since the Depar- 
ture of the Mail on the Uth October.— Bombay : Assistant- 
Surgeon John Crawford, at Gogo, on the 4th October. 
Madras Captain George Simpson, 22nd Regiment, N.I.. on 
board the steamer Sir F. Currie, on the 6th October. 
Bengal : Surgeon Elderton, at Murree, on the 3rd October. 
Superintendiug-Surgeon Charles Bransby Franscis, at Cal- 
cutta, on the 25th September. Lieutenant John Brown, 
27th Regiment, N.I., at Agra, on the 27th September. 
Arrival of Wounded Officers.— The following wounded 
officers have arrived at Liverpool by the screw steamer 
Belbek — Lieutenant-Colonel W. Smith, 95tli Regiment, 
wounded severely ; Major Lindsey, 63rd Regiment, 
wounded severely ; Captain Creagh, 41st Regiment, ill ; Cap- 
tain Pakenham, 30th Regiment, wounded severely ; Captain 
Fitzgerald, 33rd Regiment, wounded severely ; Lieutenant 
Phillips, Royal Artillery, ill ; Lieutenant Knight, 17th 
Lancers, ill ; Lieutenant Light, 68th Regiment, ill ; Assistant- 
Surgeon Ekins, 4th Regiment., ill ; Lieutenant Persse, 7th 
Regiment, wounded severely ; and Lieutenant Braybrooke, 
95th Regiment, wounded severely. Left at Malta : Colonel 
Laurenson, 17th Lancers, ill ; Captain Wethered, 95th Regi- 
ment, ill ; Captain Fitzgerald, 7th Regiment, wounded 
severely ; Lieutenant. Lane, 50tli Regiment, wounded ; 
Lieutenant Uuett, 19tli Regiment, ill ; Lieutenant Purcell, 
13th Light Dragoons, wounded ; and Lieutenant Phillips, 
47th Regiment, wounded severely. Left at Smyrna : 
Assistant-Commissary-General Strickland, ill ; and five 
officers' servants, ill and wounded. Left at Gibraltar : Lieu- 
tenant Bazalgette, 95th Regiment, wounded severely. 
Medals.— The following General Order lias been issued 
from the Horse Guards, dated November 22:—" The Queen 
having been pleased to command that a medal shall be pre- 
pared to commemorate the success of her Majesty’s forces 
in the wars- iu which they were engaged against the Caffres 
in the years 1834-5, 1846-7, and in the course of the period 
between the 24th of December, 1850, and the 6th of February, 
1853 ; and to direct that one of the said medals shall be con- 
ferred on every surviving officer, non-commissioned officer, 
and soldier of the regular forces, including the officers of the 
staff, and the officers and men of the Royal Artillery, and 
Royal Engineers, and Sappers and Minors, who actually 
served in the field against the enemy iu South Africa at the 
periods alluded to, excluding all who have been dismissed for 
subsequent misconduct, or who have deserted and are 
absent ; the General Commanding-in-Chief desires that all 
claims for the medal in question may be addressed to the 
Secretary to the Board of General Officers, Whitehall-yard, 
Loudon- Officers who served on the staff of the army, as 
well as those now on half-pay, or who may have retired 
from the 'service by the sale of their commissions, are to ad- 
dress their applications direct to the Board. The claims of 
regimental officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers 
now serving, are to be forwarded through their respective 
commanding officers ; and pensioners and men who have 
purchased their discharge are to transmit their applications 
to the board (the former through the staff-officers of pen- 
sioners), duly certified according to the annexed form. By 
command of the Right Hon. General Viscount Hardinge, 
Commanding-in-Chief, G. A. Wetherall, Deputy-Adjutunt- 
General.” 
The whole of the troops now proceeding to the seat of 
war arc to be armed with the Minid rifle. During their 
passage out to the Crimea, those unaccustomed to the 
weapon will be instructed in its management, and, whenever 
practicable, be exercised at firing at a target, to be hoisted 
at the foretop-gallant-inast. 
The contemplated augmentation of thf. army, which 
is expected to take place immediately after the assembling 
of Parliament, will, it isolated, embrace the whole of the 
infantry regiments of the line. The manner in which the 
increase is to be effected is stated to be as follows, viz : — 
The regiments of infantry serving in the East, Gibraltar, 
Malta, and the Ionian Islands, will have additional 
battalions of 800 rank and file respectively, to bo termed 
2nd or 3 rd battalions, as in the case of the 1st Royal and 
Rifle Brigades ; those regimentB in the colonies and East 
Indies to have each a reserve battalion of 600 bayonets ; 
and the regiments on Lome service to bo placed, as re- 
gards their numerical strength, on the war establishment 
The regiments to have additional battalions of 800 men are 
the 1st Royals, 3rd Buffs, 4th Regiment of Foot, 7th 
Fusiliers, 9th Foot, 13th ditto, 14th ditto, 17th ditto, 18th 
Royal Irish, 19th Foot, 20th ditto, 21st ditto, 23rd Fusiliers, 
28th Foot, 30th ditto, 31st ditto, 33rd ditto, 34th ditto, 38th 
ditto, 41«t ditto, 42nd Highlanders, 44th Foot, 46th ditto, 
47th ditto, 48th ditto, 49th ditto, 50th ditto, 65th ditto, 62nd 
ditto, 63rd ditto, 68th Light Infantry, 71st Highland Light 
Infantry, 72nd Highlanders, 77th Foot, 79th ditto, 88th Con- 
naught Hangers, 89th Foot, 90th ditto, 92nd ditto, 93rd High- 
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landers 95th Foot, 97th ditto, and the Rifle Brigade. The 
remaining regiments will be augmented as stated above. An 
additional battalion of Royal Artillery, and eight companies 
of Royal Marines, are also to be raised. 
Soldiers' Wives.—*' Sir,— I am desired by the Committee 
of the Central Association, which was specially summoned 
this day for the purpose of reconsidering their rule No. 14, 
(which enacts— " That no woman married before her husband 
enlisted, unless afterwards placed on the strength of the 
regiment, can be allowed relief,”) to state, that it was 
resolved that the rule No. 14 be expunged from the standing 
orders of the association.— By order of the committee, H. L. 
Powys, Major, Hon. Secretary. 
YEOMANRY AND MILITIA. 
Matrimony v. the Militia.— A priest in a neighbouring 
parish has fallen on a singular, and, as it would seem, succes- 
ful device, for replenishing his pocket at the expense of her 
Majesty's service. He has announced from the altar that no 
married man will be taken in the militia, while all bachelors 
are liable to be balloted for, or even impressed. Acting on 
this hint, backed by his strongest recommendation to do so, 
the eligible bachelors of his flock have very extensively 
entered into the matrimonial state. As each marriage secures 
a handsome fee to his reverence, his advice was not very dis- 
interested. — Connaught Watchman. 
Eton and the Army. — It is a frequent subject of remark 
among Etonians how large a proportion of the officers who 
have fallen in the Crimea were educated at Eton. Lord 
Garin gton acknowledged this fact on Tuesday by a very 
graceful compliment to the school, which will not soon be 
forgotten. In the course of their morning’s march he led 
his regiment (the Royal Bucks Militia, now quartered in 
Windsor) into the Eton playing-fields. The boys soon col- 
lected there in great numbers, much struck by the fine ap- 
pearance of the regiment. In the meantime Lord Cariugtou 
went to the head master’s house to ask, iu the name of the 
regiment, for a holiday for the school. On his return, being 
surrounded by the boys, be told them bo, and added a few 
words something to the following effect : — “ Boys, I cannot 
see what a large proportion of the officers who have fallen in 
the war are Etonians, without feeling how much the country 
owes to this school. At all times Eton has been foremost iu 
giving her sons to the service of their country, both in the 
army and navy, but never more tbau in the present war ; 
and I am sure that you who are before me now are of the 
same stamp as those who are so nobly maintaining the 
honour of their country, or have fallen cheering their men 
on to victory ; and Eton will, I am persuaded, continue to 
send forth those who will be the honour and boast of their 
country. To testify how much I think is owed to Eton, I 
will order my men to present arms to you." Upon this, he 
advanced to the front of his regiment, which was drawn up 
in line, and, giving the preparatory words of command, he 
added, “Royal Bucks Militia, present arms to the Eton boys." 
So novel and unexpected a compliment, mingling os it did 
with the recollection of those — fathers, brothers, or former 
companions— to whose gallantry Lord Carington had alluded, 
affected very deeply all that were present. As if by one 
impulse, every hat was Liken off, and, after a moment's deep 
silence, a cheer burst forth, deep, prolonged, and ringing, 
such as Eton boys give when they feel deeply. When the 
cheer had at length subsided, Mr. Buckle, captain of the 
school, called on his companions to give another cheer for 
Lord Carington, after which they accompanied the regiment 
as it marched through and out of the playing-fields. The 
parents and friends of the officers here alluded to will not 
read without emotion of this exceedingly well-timed and 
graceful act of homage paid by Lord Carington and his regi- 
ment to the heroic conduct of those still engaged, as well as 
to the memory of those for whose loss they are now 
mourning. 
SCOTLAND. 
Cabs on Sunday. — As we anticipated, the rigid rule laid 
down by the cab-owners and drivers, that there should be no 
public vehicular conveyance in our city on the Sabbath, has 
only held good for one day, simply because the public would 
not tolerate the inconvenience to which it led. Cabmen are 
now to be allowed every alternate Sunday as a day of rest.— 
North British Daily Mail. 
Murder at Maryhill. — Information was, on Monday, 
communicated to the authorities that a brutal and unac- 
countable murder had been perpetrated at Maryhill, in the 
neighbourhood of Glasgow, on the previous evening, the 
victim being a man about fifty years of age, named John 
Welsh. It appears that Welsh had been employed in 
watching the surface works at Kelvinside ironstone pit, 
Jean's Bridge, near to Maryhill, on Sunday last, and not 
arriving at home for supper in the evening, as he was accus- 
tomed to do, hia family sought him at the works, where they 
found him lying in a state of insensibility, from various 
recent and severe wounds about the head. He was imuie- 
mediately conveyed home, where consciousness gradually 
• .•turned, but upon medical examination, liis wounds were 
mnd to be of a fatal character ; and, as he appeared to be 
ist sinking, his dying deposition was taken, which is said 
j amount iu substance to the following : He was watching 
t the works at eight o’clock on Sunday evening, when a 
ouug inau, a coal-drawer, named Alexander Stewart, came 
a him and asked for a light of his pipe. He gave him a 
ght, and they talked together for some time, when Stewart 
fted one of the workmen's picks from among a number, and, 
l a half-jesting mood, said, " John, would that kill a man t 
Velsh answered, " Yes, and it would kill a horse.” Scarcely 
ad the words been uttered, when Steward struck Welsh 
D ur severe blows on the head, face, and neck, with the pick, 
3 veiling him to the ground in a Btete of insensibility, and 
hus was he found as already described. The poor man died 
corn the wounds about four o’clock on Monday morning, 
t is difficult to guess at the motive which led to the bar- 
barous act, unless it was plunder. A strict search has since 
teen making for Stewart, who is said to have been last seen 
icar Sheepmount, coming in the direction of Glasgow, at six 
•’clock on Monday morning. He is described as about eighteen 
o twenty years of age, Irish accent, dark hair, prominent 
nouth, and wore a pilot-cloth jacket, with large wooden but- 
ons, moleskin trousers, and 6inall cloth cap with skip. He 
laased by the cognomen of “ Collier Stewart/’ and worked oc- 
:asionally at one of the contiguous pits belonging to the same 
iroprietor, but was of loose habits, and very often lounged 
>ver night about the pit-heads. The unfortunate man Welsh 
las left a widow and a family. — North British Daily Mail. 
IRELAND. 
A Good Riddance. — One of the members of the Cork 
Chamber of Commerce, a Mr. Thomas Mason Jones, was 
publicly expelled on Monday last, for having treasonably 
expressed in the Chamber liis wish for the success of the 
Russians in the Crimea. A general meeting of the directors 
and subscribers was summoned on the occasion, and an in- 
quiry having been instituted into the charge of the alleged 
disreputable and disloyal language, Mr. J. B. Perrier, the 
secretary, entered the great room, and said : — “ Gentlemen, I 
am instructed by the directors to report to you, that they 
have taken your requisition into consideration, and having 
heard evidence on the subject, have unanimously resolved to 
expunge the name of Thomas Jo ues from the list of sub- 
scribers to the Commercial Buildings — (loud cheering)— and 
he is hereby expelled, and no longer to be admitted a mem- 
ber (Great cheering.) I am fuither instructed to return 
him his subscription-money.” (Increased cheering and waving 
of hats.) It is understood that tin name of the expelled ia 
Thomas Mason Jones, by trade a baker. He is not a native 
of Cork. He was not in attendaucJ, nor was any explanation 
required in his behalf. 
The Late Cart. Stanley’, 57yh Regiment. — The Kil- 
kenny Moderator, of Saturday last, relates the following i n . 
te re sting anecdote, relative to the above gallant officer, who 
was mortally wounded on the 5th lilt., at the battle of Inker- 
man • — " Captain Stanley waB a native of Dublin, and was con- 
nected with the family of the late Sir Edward Stanley. When 
very young, being fond of a milita y life, he entered the ser- 
vice of the Queen of Portugal, and distinguished himself in 
action at Oporto, iu July, 1833, where he received a severe 
wound iu the arm. He continued to serve iu Portugal and 
Spain until 1835, when the order of the Tower and Sword 
(of Portugal) was conferred on him as a reward for his gal- 
lantry. The following anecdote connected with his appoint- 
ment to the British army is authentic Prince William Henry, 
when a midshipman, was present at a ball at Halilax, Nova 
Scotia, and being struck with the charms of a young lady pre- 
sent, selected her for liis partner in a country-dance, at the 
conclusion of which he laughingly told her that if he should 
ever attain power, she need only send him a copy of the 
music of that dauce, accompanied by a request, and that he 
would, if possible, attend to any demand so authenticated. 
Years rolled on ; the lady married, became a widow, and a 
grandmother. Prince William H-ury became King Wil- 
liam IV.; and on the return of Mr. Stanley from Spain in 
1835, he’ expressed a wish to enter the British army, ou 
which his grandmother forwarded a copy of the music to his 
Majesty, accompanied by a letter reminding him of his pro- 
mise, and concluding by asking for in eusigney, without pur- 
chase, for her grandson. In a very few days she was honoured 
with au autograph letter from the king, stating his perfect 
remembrance of the dance and the promise referred to, and 
his intention to accede to her wish w th respect to the nomina- 
tion of her grandson to an eusigney, which accordingly took 
place in May, 1 835. Captain Stanley joined the 57 th Regiment 
at Madras that same year, and served with it ever since. Had 
he survived this battle, he would have succeeded to a majority 
without purchase. A man of refined tastes and elevating 
pursuits, he became a member of the Kilkenny Archaeolo- 
gical Society, whilst amongst us, and took a deep interest in 
that institution up to the period of his untimely death." 
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. 
Suicide by Strychnine.— On Tujsday afternoon a gentle- 
man destroyed himself at the Bell Hotel, Thomas-street, 
Bristol, by taking strychnine. Upon inquiries being made 
it was found that the deceased was Mr. Henry Samuel 
Parker innkeeper, of Lucy-street, l irmingham, a gentleman 
well-known on the turf and in betting-circles, but who, being 
much embarrassed, had come to Bristol, according to liis 
statement to the landlord of the B. 11, to have a little quiet- 
ness. Au inquest was held before Mr. J. B. Grindon, coroner 
for the city of Bristol, and a respectable jury, at which the 
following evidence was adduced : — James Collins, of the Bell 
Hotel, deposed that the deceased came to his house on Satur- 
day evening last, the porter of the hotel fetching from the 
railway station his box, which had no direction on it, De- 
ceased did not say when he came l e was a commercial tra- 
veller, but that he had been recommended to witness s 
house’, where he should sbiy probab y for a week. He com- 
plained of distress in money matters, and said it was no joke 
to be so pressed as to be obliged to be continually signing 
his name for £500, £300, and £200, and that lie had come 
to Bristol to be quiet. He dined and slept at witness s 
bouse on Saturday and Sunday, leading for Birmingham in 
the evening saying that he had been elegraphed to appear at 
the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court and receive hia protec 
tion. He returned on Monday evening and showed witness 
his protection-paper from the Court. He appeared then 
much more cheerful, and took tea md a mutton-chop, and 
one glassful of spirit and water. He told witness he was 
married, and had a family of son* and daughters. He 
appeared to court conversation, ami retired to bed about 
twelve o'clock. Prior to his retiring for the night, he asked 
witness what time he breakfasted in the morning, and, on 
being told nine o’clock, said, "Oh, well, don t call me, 
and, as he did not rise on the Sunday morning until between 
twelve and one o'clock, they were not uneasy at Lus not 
making liis appearance on Tuesday, until about two o clock, 
when the waiter went to liis room. Witness was absent at 
the time ; he, however, was sent for, and on his coming home 
he went to the room and found deceased lying dead, du 
still warm. Witness immediately sent for a surgeon an 
the police authorities, the latter taki ig charge of the room. 
Williiam Turner, one of the waiters at the hotel, went 
the bedroom in which deceased was about half-past tw 
o'clock on Tuesday. Not obtaining a a answer to lus knoca. 
at the door, be effected an entrance by the window, an 
found deceased (lead. Witness called the ostler, mid imme 
diately sent for his master. There was nothing in deceaseu 
conduct the previous night which Jed to any susp.eion tna 
he was about to destroy himself. Silas Perratt, ppUce-con 
stable, 199, searched the room, and m deceased s box » 
found a letter. The box was unlocked by keys taken iron 
the pocket of the deceased. In deceased a cigar-case, he iouu 
a paper marked " Poison, strychnin >, ten grains j a 8° 
watch with silver chain, and one Bllvt r watch with a g 
chain, a £5 Bonk of England note, £3 in gold, and lbs- - 
in silver and copper, three American dollars, teu piece* 
foreign silver coins, and sundry letters making applicau ^ 
fur money from creditors, a bankruptcy protection paper, 
silver snuff-box, two purses, aud othir articles, lne ie 
