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PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY BARRACKS AND HALF BILLET STATIONS IN IRELAND, distinguishing whether Fuel and Candles are or are not issued in kind to the Troops stationed therein.

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OCCUPIED PERMANENT BARRACKS.

ISSUES OF FUEL, CANDLES, AND STRAW, TO THE TROOPS MADE IN KIND.

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FUEL, CANDLES, AND STRAW, ISSUED TO THE TROOPS IN KIND.

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FEMALE REVENGE.-Extract of a letter from Calcutta, May 31st, 1831. -You may have seen by the papers that Lieut. Talbot, of the 8th Native Infantry, was tried about two months ago, at Delhi, on a charge of making infamous disclosures to the wife of Lieut. Ramsay, of the same corps, and behaving with indecency towards her, and that he was fully and honourably acquitted. This, however, was not the termination of the affair. The liberated officer was dining with a friend at the mess of the 1st Native Infantry, when a stranger entered the room in a surtout and foraging cap, and stalking up behind Lieut. Talbot, attempted to discharge two pistols at his head, which, however, both flashed in the pan! A scuffle was instantly kicked up, and the stranger being "floored" was discovered to be Mrs. Ramsay, thus disguised, and her face darkened with chalk. Here was a pretty tomb of hatred and revenge! She was immediately secured, testimonies taken, and the whole affair well sifted. In some of the evidences taken, it appeared too plainly that the weak and unfortunate husband was aware of her intention,―for, on the Commandingofficer repairing to his quarter, and asking Ramsay if he knew where his wife had gone, he replied, "To revenge herself on Lieut. Talbot." This was sufficient presumption of his being an accessary before the fact, and he was instantly arrested. The lady was sent off, under a military escort, and is to take her trial in the Supreme Court, here. This outrage has occasioned a great sensation.

THE INHABITANT OF THE PEARLY NAUTILUS (Nautilus Pompilius). The inhabitant of this shell, which has so long been a desideratum in natural science, was discovered by Mr. George Bennett, on the 24th of Aug. 1829, in a bay of the Island of Erromanga, one of the New Hebrides Group. The animal had only before been noticed by Rumphius, and some further remarks had been made upon it by Sonnini, in his edition of Buffon, but great doubt has been expressed if any reliance could be placed on these accounts. Mr. Bennett's sketch of the animal, taken immediately after it was removed from the shell, fully con

firms the general accuracy of Rumphius's figure. A detailed examination of the animal is in progress.

CHANGES IN THE STATIONS OF CORPS SINCE OUR LAST.—

3rd Dragoon Guards from Weymouth to Dorchester.

2nd Batt. Coldstream Guards from Windsor to Brighton.

5th Foot Depot at Fermoy-Service Companies, Gibraltar.

7th Ditto Ditto from Winchester to Portsmouth.

9th Ditto from Limerick to Galway. 11th Ditto Depôt from Cardiff to Swansea.

12th Ditto Ditto from Cork to Drogheda.

18th Ditto Ditto from Manchester to Nottingham.

19th Ditto Ditto from Weedon to Tynemouth and to Grantham. 21st Ditto from Liverpool to Weedon.

30th Ditto from Newry to Belfast. 36th Ditto Depôt from Spike Island to Charles Fort.

47th Ditto from Edinburgh to Glasgow.

50th Ditto from Athlone to Dublin. 52nd Ditto from Halifax to Gosport, and to Bath and to Bristol.

58th Ditto Depôt from Londonderry to Mullingar.

59th Ditto from Birr to Enniskillen. 61st Ditto Depôt from Boyle to Londonderry.

65th Ditto Ditto from Kinsale to Buttevant.

66th Ditto Ditto from Clare Castle to Naas.

73rd Ditto Ditto from Devonport to Jersey.

75th Ditto Ditto from Devonport to Exeter.

83rd Ditto from Enniskillen to Castlebar.

85th Ditto Service Companies from Malta to Winchester.

88th Ditto Service Companies from Corfu to Vido..

91st Ditto from Weedon to Oxford. 92nd Ditto from Dublin to Clare Castle.

99th Ditto Depôt from Naas to Armagh.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

THE ARMY.

RETURN of the Total Number of Officers in the Army, on the 1st July 1831; stating those on Full Pay and Half Pay, including Generals and all Ranks.

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ARRIVALS, SAILINGS, AND IN

CIDENTS IN THE FLEET. Portsmouth.-Oct. 23rd. Arrived the Falcon, 10, Com. Garrett (acting), from Bermuda.

A squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Warren, consisting of the Talavera, Revenge, and Wellesley, of 74 guns each, Stag, 46, Galatea, 42, Tribune, 42, Curaçoa, 24, Tweed, 20, Imogene, 28, Magicienne, 24, Pantaloon, Brisk, Onyx, Recruit, and Charybdis gun-brigs, and Viper schooner, weighed anchor from the Downs on the 29th of Oct. for the Scheldt: but, on approaching the Dutch coast, the squadron met with a severe gale and thick weather, when the Admiral ordered them to disperse and make the best of their way back to the Downs, where the Stag, Galatea, Tribune, Curaçoa, Imogene, Tweed, and Brisk, arrived on the 1st and 2nd of Nov. and the three line-of-battle ships with the rest of the squadron shortly after.

Nov. 10th. Arrived the Revenge, 78, Capt. Hillyer, C. B. and Magicienne, 24, Capt. Plumridge, from the squadron un der Rear-Admiral Warren, which they left in the Downs on the 9th. The Onyx had been dispatched on the 7th to superintend the Quarantine at Sunderland; the

H. PARNELL.

Recruit sailed the same day for Helvoetsluys.

Nov. 12th. Sailed the Magicienne, 24, Capt. J. H. Plumridge, for Rio Janeiro, and the East Indies.

Nov. 15th. Arrived the Madagascar, 46, Capt. E. Lyons, from Malta.

Nov. 16th. Arrived the Kent, 78, Capt. Pym, C.B. from Malta.

Nov. 20th. Arrived the Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. Dawson, from Woolwich, to replace the Onyx as Tender to the Royal George (yacht).

Nov. 22nd. Arrived the Shannon, 46, Capt. B. Clement, from the West Indies, last from the Havannah.

Nov. 24th. Sailed the Caledonia, 120, Capt. Hillyar, C.B. for Plymouth.

Nov. 25th. Arrived the Success, 28, Capt. Jervoise, from the East Indies. She sailed from Madras on the 17th July, the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th Sept. St. Helena on the 13th, and Ascension on the 19th of October.

Nov. 26th. Sailed the Kent, 74, Capt. Pym, for Plymouth.

At Spithead.-Revenge, Success, Leonidas, Maitland, Lord Wellington, Roslyn Castle, Marshal Bennet, Sylvia, and Marquis Huntley, transports.

In Harbour.-Victory, Britannia, Royal George, Melville, Madagascar, Ætna, Pan

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