arduous nature of the service, will be favourably considered.

I wish to mention for favourable notice, Captain C. Gordon, commanding Royal Engineers; Captain Mansergh, Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General; Captain Gammell, Deputy Assistant-Quartermaster-General; Dr. Rennie, 31st Regiment, Senior Medical Officer; Assistant-Commissary-General Thompson, in charge of Commissariat; Lieutenant Jebb, 31st Regiment; and the Prince Witgenstein, of the 1st Prussian Lancer Guard Regiment, who acted as my Aides-de-Camp.

I take this opportunity of recording the great assistance I have invariably received on the occasions of the various expeditions from Mr. Consul Medhurst, and Mr. C. Alabaster, of the Consular service.

I also wish to mention the services performed by Commander Strode, of Her Majesty's ship "Vulcan," who was employed during the whole of the operations against the Tai-pings, and whose name was inadvertently omitted in my recommendatory despatch; also of his first lieutenant, Lieutenant Grant.

Commander Strode had the working of the naval 32-pounders on all occasions when they were used, and was assisted by Lieutenant Grant.

In transmitting a list of casualties marked (B), I have much satisfaction in calling your attention to the Senior Medical Officer's report (herewith forwarded) on the health of the field force.

I have, &c.,

C. STAVELEY, Brigadier-General, Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China.

The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War, War Office,

Pall Mall, London.

A.

RETURN showing the Strength of Field Force under command of Brigadier-General Staveley, C.B., employed at the Capture of Ka-ding.

Head-Quarters, near Ka-ding,

24th October, 1862.

Royal Artillery-2 captains, 5 subalterns, 1 staff, 5 serjeants, 120 rank and file, commanded by Captain French, R.A.

Royal Engineers-1 captain, 1 subaltern, 10 rank and file, commanded by Captain Gordon, R.E. 31st Regiment-1 field officer, 6 captains, 6 subalterns, 3 staff officers, 29 serjeants, 10 drummers, 413 rank and file, commanded by Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Eagar, 31st Regiment.

67th Regiment-1 field officer, 2 captains, 7 subalterns, 2 staff, 16 serjeants, 14 drummers, 318 rank and file, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas, C.B., 67th Regiment.

5th Regiment B.N.L I.-1 field officer, 2 subalterns, 12 serjeants, 3 drummers, 150 rank and file, commanded by Major Taylor, 5th Regiment B.N.L.I.

Royal Marines-140 rank and file, commanded by Captain Borlase, Royal Navy

Royal Navy-416 rank and file, commanded by Captain Borlase, Royal Navy.

French Troops-400 rank and file, commanded by Captain Fancón, H.I.M.S.

Chinese Troops under

Lieutenant Cane, R. A. Artillery-50 rank and file. Lieutenant Kingsley, 67th Infantry-500 rank and file.

Colonel Burgovene, Infantry-1300 rank and file. Total-3 field officers, 11 captains, 21 subalterns, 6 staff, 64 serjeants, 27 drummers, 3817 rank and file.

1863.

H

ORDNANCE.

Royal Artillery.

Two 24-pr. howitzers, two 12 pr. howitzers, two 43-inch howitzers, two 8-inch mortars, ten 5-inch mortars.

Royal Navy.

Two 32-pounders, five field pieces.

French.

Two 30-pounders, three 12-pounders.

Colonel Burgovene's.

Two 32-pounders, four 12-pounders, 2 mountain guns.

Total-38.

(Correct.) LOFTUS MANSERGH, Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General.

B.

Return of Casualties at the Storming and Capture of Kahding, 24th October, 1862.

Royal Artillery,

No. 3 Battery, 14th Brigade-Gunner John Doolan, severe wound of face; 1 gun lascar, slight wound of hand.

No. 8 Battery, 14th Brigade-Gunner John Leonnard, killed; Gunner George Green, slight wound of shoulder.

31st Regiment-Captain A. Mitchell, slight wound of hip; Private William Cripps, slight wound

of head.

67th Regiment-Private William Mason, severe wound of leg.

NAVAL BRIGADE.

Her Majesty's ship Impérieuse-1 petty officer and 1 seaman, severely, and I seaman, slightly, wounded.

Her Majesty's ship Euryalus-1 petty officer and 2 marines, severely, and 1 seaman, slightly, wounded.

Her Majesty's ship Pearl-1 seaman, mortally, 1 Marine Artilleryman, severely, and 1 seaman, slightly wounded.

FRENCH FORCE.

1 Chasseur, severely wounded, I sailor, slightly, and 1 Corps Chenois, severely wounded.

Lieutenant Kingsley's (67th Regiment) Corps of Disciplined Chinese.

1 serjeant and 2 rank and file, severely wounded.

Ward's Force of Disciplined Chinese, now under Colonel Burgevine.

3 killed; 2 dangerously and 5 severely wounded.

Recapitulation.

1 officer wounded; 4 men killed; 1 mortally, 2 dangerously, 18 severely, and 8 slightly, wounded. Total casualties 34.

SIR,

D. F. RENNIE, M.D.,

Surgeon, 31st Regiment,

Senior Medical Officer, Shanghai Field Force.

Camp, before Kahding,

October 24, 1862. I HAVE the honour to forward the annexed list of casualties amongst the allied forces engaged this morning, at the assault and capture of

Kahding; in transmitting which, it affords me much pleasure to be able to report for the infor mation of the Brigadier-General Commanding, that nothing could be more satisfactory than the sanitary state of Her Majesty's Troops since leaving Shanghai, there being at the present time but two men non-effective from sickness, namely, soldiers of the 67th Regiment, suffering from ophthalmia.

I have, &c.,

D. F. RENNIE, M.D.,

Surgeon, 31st Regiment, Senior Medical Officer, Shanghai Field Force. The Deputy Assistant-AdjutantGeneral, China.

Admiralty, January 9, 1863.

A DESPATCH, of which the following is a copy, has been received from Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.B., the Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Ships on the East India and China Station, relating to the recapture of Kading, near Shanghae :

No. 409.

MY LORD,

RECAPTURE OF KADING.

Head-Quarters, near Kading, 24th October, 1862. YOU will be pleased to acquaint the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the force noted underneath moved out of Shanghae on the 22nd instant, under the command of BrigadierGeneral Staveley, Captain Faucon, and Colonel Burgevine, of Ward's Chinese Corps; and that