ARMY LIST.

New Zealander, Volume XXII, Issue 2327, 14 January 1865, Page 5

ARMY LIST.

COLONIAL FORCES. Corrected to 30th November, 1864. (Continued from Yesterday.') WANGANUI. WA.NGA.NOI MILITIA. Major ; Charles Cecil Rookes. Captains : Thomas Kells, John Nixon, John Jordan, Alfred Ross, James Duff Hewitt, Henry Shafto Harrison, George Fisk. Lieutenants : Frederick Parks, Henry Boyden Roberts. Henry Peake, Arthur Wicksteed. Henry Ircson Jones, John Peake, William Finnimore, Wilmot Powell. Ensigns; J. W. Jordan, John Liddell, Robert Campbell, John Tylson Wicksteed, George Nichols, William Sergeant, William Weston. Paymaster : Hora io de Courcey Martelli. Quartermaster : Thomas Powell (Captain). Surgeon : George 11. Gibson. WANGANUI CAVALRY VOLUNTEERS. Major Commanding : Charles Cecil Rookes (Com. District). Captains ; John Cameron (Wanganui), Henry S. Harrison (Alexandria Troop). Lieutenants : William Thomas Owen (Wanganui), Stephen Towgood (Alexandra troop.) Cornets : Henry Harpur (Wanganui), John Howie (Alexandria Troop). Surgeon : Philip Mussen, WANGANUI RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Captains : David Porter (Victoria Co.), James Allison (Caledonian Rangers), Henry Roberts (Prince of Wales), Nathaniel E. Beamish (Union Co ), Joseph Willcox (Union Co.), John Hunt Hurst (Union Co.). Lieutenants : William Davidson (Victoria Co.), Alexander McGregor (Caledonian Co), Archibald Cameron (Union Co), Charles Hulke (Prince of Wales), Henry Willcox (Union Co.), Hamilton Moore (Union Co.). Ensigns : Allan Lees (Caledonian Rangers), Dugald Cameron (Union Co), James Johnston (Union Co.), Robert Wilson (Union Co.). Surgeon : Samuel Matthew Curl, M.D. NAPIER. NAPIER MILITIA. Lieutenant-Colonel. George Stoddart Whitmoic. Major : Char'es Lambert. Captains : George Guavas Carlyon, Edward Withers ( Adjt), Joseph Rhodes, Alexander Kennedy, Michael Fitz Gerald, Jasper Lucas Herrick, Azin Salvator Birch, Donald Gollan, Henry Robert Russell, James Fraser. Lieutenants: Edward Spencer Curling. James Anderson, John Nathaniel Wilson, Edward Take, George Edward Gordon Richardson, Alexander Grant, James Nelson Williams, Vautier Janisch. Ensigns : William Maltby. Cartwright Brown, William Ferguson, Michael Brown, Boswell Danby Danvers, Sydney Johnston, James Wilson, William Routledge, Alexander Inglis. Adjutant: E. Withers (Capt). Surgeon ; Thomas Ditchings. Assistant-Surgeon ; Alexander Todd, M.D. NAPIER CAVALRY VOLUNTEERS. Lieutenant-Colonel: G. S. Whitmore, Captains : Thomas Edward Gordon (Napier), William Henry Hunter (Porongahau), Thomas Tanner (Waipawa), Lieutenants: William Rich (Napier), John Nairn (Porongahau) John Russell Duncan (Waipawa). Cornets; Frederick ' Martin Chapman (Waipawa) Arthur Take (Napier). NAPIER RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Captain . John Buchanan. Lieutenant : Alexander Browne. Ensign: James Irvine. TARANAKI. TARANKI MILITIA. Majors; Henry Albert Atkinson, Charles Brown. Captains : John Henry Armstrong, James Hirst, Robert Chisenhall Hammcrton. Lieutenants. William McKechney,CharleiEverett, Arthur Standish, Garland William Woon. Ensigns: Courtenay Melmoth Kingdon, Arthur Bayley. Thomas Humphries. Paymaster; Thomas Hcmpton (Capt.) Quarter-Master : Henry Jones. Surgeon ; Thomas Rawson, M.D. MILITARY SETTLERS. Lieutenant-Colonel : Maxwell Lepper.

Major: Frederick Clinton Herman Stuart Badri eley. Captains: Charl-s Stapp (Adjutant), Walter John Morrison, William Baz're Messenger, James Scott McKellar, Francis Joseph Mace, John Glasfurd Corbett, Edward Carthe.v. Andrew Matthew Adolph Page, Willoughby Brassey, William Percival, Daniel Pen.iefather.

Lieutenants : John Kelly, Robert Pitcairn, William Hussey, Charles P. Sisson, Joseph Hines Clarke, Daintier Gascoirne, John Richard Jackson, John Thomas Vausjha i Kirhv, George Johnson Gossling, hhomas Wilson, William George Pring O’Callaghan. Ensigns : Charles James Messenger. William Newland, Peter McFarlune, Arthur Harley, Martin G. Roddy, Albert C. Fookes, William Eiphinstoae Dalrymple, Henry Allen derv, Jonathan Bear. Paymaster : Thomas Hernpton (Captain.) Adjutant : Charles Stapp (Captain.) Quarter-Master : Robert Collins. Surgeon : Richard George Clarke Spence. Assistant Surgeons: Hulton Joseph Webber, James Benjamin Fraser Suth-r. TARANAKI MOUNTED VOLUNTEERS. Lieutenant : Thomas McGuiness. Cornet : William Johnstone. TARANAKI RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Major: Harry A. Atkinson (Taranaki Militia). Captains : Thomas Good, Matthew Jonas. Lieutenants : William Black, William Free. Ensigns: Matthew Garrick, Matthew Jenkin Jones. NELSON. NELSON MILITIA. Captains: Donald Sinclair, John W. Lockett (A,djt.), William Thomas Locke Travers, Frederick Horniman, James MacKay, Nathaniel Morse, John Barnicoat, Samuel Kingdon, Hugh Martin. Lieutenants : Frederick Huddlestone, Robert Evelyn Curtis, Andrew James Richmond, William Wells, John Fedor Augustus Kelling, Robert Cressy, John Agers, William Norris Franklyn. Ensigns : Maxwell Bury, Arthur Collins, John Oldham, Conrad Saxton, Charles Redwood, Augustus Wyergang, Francis T. M. D. Walmsley. Paymaster : John Poynter, Adjutant: John W. Lockett (Capt.) Quartermaster : John Poynter. Surgeon : Thomas Renwick. NELSON RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Captains : Frederick E. Horniman (Motueka No. 4), Robert Malcolm (Richmond No. 2), Joshua Bird (Waitnea S. No. 3), William Charles Hodgson (City No. 1), Henry E. Tuckey (Waimea W. No. 5). Lieutenants : William Everett (City No. 1), Fredk. Guerin (Motueka No. 4), Thomas Hunt (Richmond No. 2), Alfred Baigent (Waimea S. No. 3), Frederick Blundell (Waimea W. No. 5). Ensign-: : Daniel Slater (City No. 1), George Harding (Motueka No. 4), James Taylor (Richmond No. 2), George Rutherford (Waimea S. No. 3), William Kent (Waimea W. No. 5). Surgeon ; William H. Dakers (Nos. 2, 3, and 4 Co.) Surgeon : Samuel Athanasius Cusack (No. 1 Co.) Adjutant ; J. W. Lockett (Capt.) MARLBOROUGH. MARLBOROUGH MILITIA. Commandant: Capt. William D. H. Baillie (Adjt.) Captain : AVilliam Aylmer Thomas Kenny. Adjutant: William Douglass Hail B .illie (Capt,) MARLBOROUGH RANgERS VOLUNTEERS. Captain : William Douglass Hall Baillie. Lieutenants: John Tucker Robinson, Thomas George Baillie. CANTERBURY. CANTERBURY MILITIA. Captain : George Armstrong (Adjt.) Adjutant : George Armstrong (Capt.) Surgeon : Thomas Fisher, M.D. CANTERBURY YEOMANRY CAVALRY. Captain-Commandant: Henry Elrahirst Reader. Captains: John Cracroft Wilson, C.8., William Thomson, Edward Jerningham Wakefield. Lieutenants: Llewelyn Price Traherne, Colin Campbell Aikmnn, William Sefton Moorhouse. Cornets : William Musgrave Anderson, John Campbell Aikman, The Honourable Henry John Tattered. CANTERBURY RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Major : Thomas Wollaston White. Captains: John Fuller (No. 5), Hugh Percy Murray Aynsley (No. 3), Crosbie Ward (No. 1), George Packe (No. 2). Lieutenants : AVilliam Smart (No. 5 C>.), Charles Cooke (No. 1), Richard J. S. Harman (No. 2). Ensigns : Edward AVatson Tippetts (No. 1), Sydney E. Wright (No. 3), Joseph Beswicic (No. 5), Benjamin W. Mountfort (No. 2). Surgeons : Samuel Beswick, M.D., (No. 5), John Thomas Rouse (No. 3). Courteney Nedwill, M.D. (No. 2). Adjutant: George Armstrong (Capt.) OTAGO. OTAGO MILITIA. Major: John Cargill. Captain : William Blake Graham (Adjt.A DUNEDIN ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS. Captain : Charles Gordon Ross. OTAGO RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Captains : Frederick Joseph Moss, John Bathgate. lieutenant: William C. Kirkaldy. Ensigns : James Henry O’Loughlin, John Fargie, Robert J. M. Hunter. j DUNEDIN VOLUNTEER NAVAL BRIGADE. Captain : Robert Paterson. Lieutenant : AVilliam Stavely. Sub-Lieutenant : AVilliam Henry Mumford. Adjutant: W. B, Graham (Capt.) SOUTHLAND. INVERCARGILL MILITIA. Captain ; William James Balfour Junor (Adjt.) Adjutant: William James Balfour Junor (Capt.) INVERCARGILL VOLUNTEERS. Captain James Harvey. Lieutenant : John McDonald. Ensign: Archibald Bonar,junior. Adjutant : AVilliam James Balfour Junor (Capt.)

COLONIAL DEFENCE FORCE. Major-General Commanding : Thomas James Galloway E. Commandants : George Stoddart Whitmore, (Napier) E, James T. Edwards (Wellington) E, James Walmslcy (Auckland). Inspectors : Charles W. R. La Serre (Napier) E, Richard B. Leatham (Welligton) E, Charles Pye, V.C. (Auckland) E, William Robertson (Wellington), Samuel Deighton (Wellington), Charles James Anderson (Napier), Maillard Noake Wellington), Maurice Norman Bower (Auckland). Sub-Inspectors : John Chapman George E, Frederick John W, Gascoigne (Napier). Sub-Inspectors: Charles Hudson (Napier) E; Charles James Wilson (Auckland) E ; John Alexander Percy (Wellington); Paul Kingdon (do.); Thomas M'Donnell ('Auckland) ; David Hutchinson (do.) ; Andrew MTherson (do.) ; George Ross (Wellington). Assistant-Surgeon : Alexander Johnston (Wellington). Officers holding Unattached Commissions, also Holding Appointments under the General Government. Mrjors : Charles Ileapy (A.R.V.) ; David Stark Durie (Wang. M.) Captains. James Coutts Crawford (W.M.); William Robert Edward Brown (W. M.) ; Charles Hunter M’lntosh (A.M); George Eliott Eliott (A.M.); John Mitchell (A.R.V.); John Curling (N.M.); Alexander Charles Phipps Macdonald (A.M.); George Sisson Cooper (Waipawa C.V.) Lieutenants : John Sharp (N.M.) ; George Taylor (A.R.V.); William Donald (C.R.V.); Charles Melsop (A.M.); Joseph Moliere Tabuteau (A.RV.); linntly John Harry E'iott (A. M.) ; Benjamin Tohks (A.R.V.) Ensigns: James Dennis Kelly (A.M.) ; Henry Freeman Andrews (A.R.V.) ; Charles Durie (Wang. M.) Officers holding Unattached Commissions in the New Zealand Militia, Employed on Special Service. Captains: Edward King (S., A.M.) ; William Thomas Hunt (A.M.) Lieutenant: William Evans Turner (A.M.) Ensign : Henri John Jones (A.M.) Officers on the Unattached List of the Militia in New Zealand— Unemployed. Colonels: Thomas Rawlings Mould, C.B, (A.M.) ; Charles Sillery (A.M.) Lieutenant-Colonels : Henry Matson (A. M.) ; William Henry Kenny (A.M.) Majors: Charles St. John Herbert, C.B. (T.M.) ; G. W. D. Hay (A.M.) Captains : Jonn Jcrmyn Symonds (A.M.) ; Robert Parris (T.M.); Thomas Good (T.M.) ; William Smith Atkinson (T.M); Wellington Carrington (T.M.) ; Goldwin Roberts Breton (A.M.) ; Charles Chamberlain (A.M.); George Patrick Pierce (A.M.); Hugh Reid (A.M.); Daniel Henderson Lusk (A.M.); Thomas M'Dannell (A.M.) Lieutenants: Henry Eyre Kenny (A.M.) ; Fred. Duke Young (A.M.) Surgeon: Thomas Moore Philson, M.D. (A.M.)

LANCASHIRE DISTRESS. [from THE “ TIMES,” OCTOBER 4.] The report of the Blackburn Relief Committee appears opportunely, at the moment of a temporary revival of distress, to remind us of the almost incredible dangers through which we safely passed two years ago. Notwithstanding the present partial relapse into distress, the cotton famine, strictly speaking, is a thing of the past. I he present distress is not due to any scarcity of cotton. It was ascribed by one of the Town Council of Blackburn, the other day, to the pressure in the money market ; and there is, at all events, every prospect that it will be relieved in six weeks or two months. The distress of two years ago was a very different thing. Having now got beyoud its deepest shadow, we are able to form some conception of its magnitude and character. In the depth of it Ave were only able to attend to the demand immediately before us, but, by means of the careful statistics which have been laboriously collected, we can now form an estimate of the vast labors and dangers which have been safely endured. The report which we publish this morning is a valuable contribution to this object, and it will serve as an encouragement in the presence of the comparatively small difficulties which are now threatening us. It details the extent and progress of the distress town of Blackburn from its commencement in 1861 to May in the present year, when the committee were enabled for the time to cease distributing relief. It gives an account of the amount of money which has been received and expended, and describes the various channels through which public and private charity was dispensed to the suffering population. The borough of Blackburn, in 1861, contained a population of 63,127 persons. Of this number, 27,854 were, in one form or another, actually engaged upon the cotton trade. If, therefore, we only assume that each worker had one person dependent upon him, it follows that there were upwards of 55,000 persons who depended entirely upon the prosperity of this one trade. It may be hojoetd that the pressure of necessify has already done something to carry out the reflection of the committee upon these statistics, and that some at least of the enterprise and skill of Blackburn has been directed to the introduction of other manufactures. The weekly wages earned by "this army of cotton operatives amounted to £ 17,965 a week, and the value of the weekly production of their labor is estimated at £69,912. This laborious and productive industry was suddenly checked towards the close of 1861. In November of that year it was first found necessary to call for a public meeting of the inhabitants in the town hall to consider the distress, and on the 9th of December an executive committee was appointed. Matters rapidly grew worse as the winter advanced, and though spring brought relaxation to tile sufferings of the population, it brought no alleviation of the famine. In July 1862, about half the population were’’ without work, and of the rest, half were working short time. The distress deepened through the autumn, reaching its maximum in October and November, when two-thirds of the population were out of work, and twothirds of the remainder were working short time. In fact, instead of 27,273—the number usually at work—only 3,857 were at full work in October, 1862. In May of the same'year the committee bad begun to receive grants from the Lord Mayor’s relief fund, but notwithstanding this assistance it was necessary in October to call a second public meeting. After November, 1862, however, the distress gradually but steadily decreased. In March, April, and May of 1863, the committee had to deal with operatives who preferred to remain idle rather than earn small wages, and in June relief was withdrawn as a rule from some classes. A heavy time followed during the last winter, hut employment soon recovered itself with the spring, and, on the 28th of May last, the committee brought their distribution of relief to a temporary close. The committee are able to say that, “ during this trying and distressing crisis, there has not been one single case of death from starvation at Blackburn.” When we recollect how common an occurrence death from starvation is in London, at least during winter, without any exceptional distress, such a result is a wonderful and admirable achievement Money alone cannot have been sufficient to produce it. It must have been accomplished by immense personal labor'and extraordinary prudence. Some conception of this may be conveyed by an enumeration of the many and various agencies which were organised for relief. First, of course, there was the central committee for the whole town, with separate committees for every ward; and the ward committees organised themselves into visiting committees. The amount of labor undertaken by these committees may be understood from the statement that for “ nearly two years the whole labor of visiting the homes of the workpeople and reporting upon their cases, as well as an active participation in the distribution of relief, was the work of upwards of one hundred voluntary visitors,” This visiting could be no merely formal work. It was necessary to exercise a rigid supervision over the representations of some applicants, while for others, whose pride forbade their applying for relief, it was necessary to search. The labor of these official committees, however, was lightened by numerous other voluntary agencies. Some classes of the operatives took upon themselves the responsibility of obtaining from the public their own relief. Young men’s educational and industrial schools and young women's sewing classes were the first of the series of minor organisations. Numerous private enterprises relieved the monotony of idleness, and formed useful channels for the distributiouof relief. M rs. Gladstone set on foot an industrial school in which at one time 600 men were received. The establishment of a sick kitchen followed a visit of Lord Radstock. Straw-plaiting and mat-making classes, established at the suggestion of Mr. Surtees, gave a variety of occupation to the young women attending the sewing schools. Mrs. Potter supplied a pressing want by the establishment of mothers’ kitchens, in which, during two winters, 112,595 dinners were distributed to 3,750 persons. Dr. Robinson started a reading class, at which any person who came for an hour received a penny, and subsequent! v, through Mrs. Gladstone’s help, an excellent meal of coffee, soup, or Irish stew, with bread ; the whole costing on an average, 2d. Last, not least, in this list of subsidiary agencies, comes the Public Works Act, by which the men were provided with the satisfaction of useful employment, the public property of the town has been bene • fitted to the amount of about £2,000, and the

committee have due to them by contracts no less than £1,500. The amount of money which has passed through the hands of the committee in these various ways amounts to £94,646, principally derived from public subscriptions. Of this sum £18,728 has been spent upon clothing, £14,052 in the educational department, £13,186 in the labor department, £5,010 upon coals, and £2,202 upon the infirmary and medical kitchen. The expenses of do not seem to amount to more than about f 1,500. The general ndief in cash and kind amounts to 135,938. In food the principal items of expense seem to have been soup, bread, flour, and oatmeal. The relief was at first confined to cases where the inome of the family fell short of one shilling a week per head, but in August, 1862, it was extended to cases where the amount of income was less than Is. 6d. per, head. The vast sums of money, however, thus regularly dispensed are but a portion of the whole amount distributed. It will be evident from the character of the subsidiary agencies which we have enumerated how large an expenditure of private money they must have required. No one in fact, as the committee say, will ever be able to realise the amount of money spent upon the operatives of Blackburn. To all these sums must be added the amount of the Poor Law relief. The board of guardians and the committee worked together in confidence and relieved each other’s labors. For a while they were helping the same persons to such an extent that, while the whole number relieved was 32,000, the apparent number on the books of the guardians and relief committee combined was 41,000. But after the first week of 1863, not without some risk of disturbance the two bodies divided their relief, and each had its own class of recipients. At the temporary close of their distribution the committee had still a balance to their credit to the amount of £1,175. When we remember that those statistics refer to only one town out of the whole cotton district, they produce an impression stronger than could be conveyed by any description of the terrible danger which threatened the operatives and of the immense labor by which it was averted. Another and more pleasant reflection, indeed," cannot fail to be aroused. On the one hand, th 3 patience of the operatives is beyond all praise, and on the other hand the facts we have quoted, disclose an amount not of mere charity only, but of real benevolence and laborious selfdenial, which is an honor to our country and our time, and which cannot fail to have its appropriate reward in a deeper and stronger uuion between all classes. Few public bodies can look back upon their labors with such uumixed satisfaction as the Blackburn Relief Committee. A short time ago this satisfaction might have been increased by the hope that they were not likely to have to renew their labors. But this hope has, unhappily, been already disappointed. The committee had to recommence the distribution of relief last Thursday. The increase of distress is for the time both rapid and serious. The unemployed last Saturday were no fewer than 7000, against 4394 a fortnight previously, and a similar relapse prevails over the greater part of East Lancashire. The means however of meeting the distress are now ready at hand, and its prospects are very different from thosa of two years ago. The relief committee was on the spot ready to commence operations at once, and through the Public Works Act the corporation have an invaluable auxiliary at their command. Above all, as we have said, whatever may be the temporary pressure, owing to a fall in the price of cotton goods or to monetary difficulties, the cotton trade is no longer in danger of any such collapse as that which overwhelmed us two years ago. The recovery has, on the whole, been as steady as it has been gradual, and there is no sign whatever of a check, but rather the contrary. The cultivation of cotton has been so stimulated all over the world that our cotton population will never again be dependent upon , peace or war. the wisdom or madness of any one country. Their prosperity is now based upon a broader and firmer foundation, they have every reason for the confidence they display that their few remaining difficulties will soon be over, and they may soon look back upon the cotton famine of 1861-63 as upon a dream from which they awoke to a new and a more vigorous life.