356. In December, 1834, James M‘Kay was appointed acting quartermaster-sergeant with the pay of the rank. Entrusted with the care and issue of the engravings of the survey, more than 180,000 passed through his hands, amounting in value to 35,500l., the accounts for which, rendered half-yearly to the Irish Government, were never found to contain a single error. So extensive a responsibility rarely falls to a non-commissioned officer. Upwards of forty years he served in the corps, and, for his merits, received a gratuity and medal. He was discharged in July, 1844, with a pension of 2s. 4d. a-day, and afterwards obtained a quiet unpretending situation at Birmingham, where his business habits made him of essential service in the promotion of a scheme for a loan society on liberal principles.

357. The above detail does not exhibit a true exposition of the acquirements and usefulness of the survey companies, as many of those not advanced to the classes, had been reduced from the higher to the lower rates for irregularity; and others, on the higher rates, were not advanced as soon as their qualifications merited, it being a principle with the Colonel, not to exhaust the limited power he possessed of awarding working pay, because he wisely considered nothing was more discouraging to human exertions than the knowledge, that those whose duty it was to reward, had no further power to grant them encouragement.

358. ‘United Service Journal,’ i, 1840, p. 74.

359. Ibid., 1840, p. 74.

360. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 76. “The sergeant-major’s composition was simply pitch softened by bees'-wax and tallow. He had tried a great number of experiments for ascertaining the best sort of waterproof composition for bags of gunpowder in 1832, when Bickford’s fuses were first used by the corps at Chatham. He also at the same period discovered the means for imitating Bickford’s fuses in an efficient manner. His imitation fuses, however, were not precisely the same, as Bickford’s fuses were evidently made by machinery.”—‘United Service Journal,’ ii. 1839, p. 192-193.

361. By this catastrophe, Admiral Kempenfeldt and a crew of many hundreds of seamen, with nearly 100 women and 200 Jews, then on board, perished.—‘Haydn’s Dates.’

362. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 164.

363. Ibid., i. 1840, p. 338.

364. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 153.

365. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 156. Brabant was discharged in April, 1841, on a pension of 6d. a-day. He was quite lame, but shortly after obtained the situation of turnkey to Maidstone gaol.

366. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 320.

367. Ibid., p. 323, 324.

368. A man of varied acquirements, a good surveyor, and an expert draughtsman and clerk, and assisted in executing the wood engravings in Colonel Pasley’s ‘Practical Operations of a Siege,’ for which his name is recorded at page 76 of the first edition of that work. Disposed to habits of irregularity, he never received promotion, and was pensioned at 1s. a-day in January, 1850.

369. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 333.

370. Now sergeant-major at the royal engineer establishment, Chatham.

371. ‘United Service Journal,’ 1840, p. 337. A minute and faithful record of the operations will be found in the ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, pp. 72-83, 149-164, 319-338.

372. Ambrose Cottingham was the first sergeant detached from Ireland for the survey of England, and he assisted in superintending a large force of field surveyors. It is recorded that “he performed this arduous and important duty in a manner highly advantageous to the service, and caused considerable saving of expense in that branch of the work.” Beyond, however, his zeal, industry, and the capability of keeping large bodies of men in full activity, he possessed no available acquirements. In April, 1844, he quitted the service on a pension of 1s. 8d a-day, and having amassed some property by his frugality, retired to Mayfield in Sussex.

373. On quitting the college became a clerk to the military prison at Gosport.

374. Now sergeant-major of the royal engineer establishment.

375. ‘Corps Orders,’ Chatham, 29th October, 1840. ‘Manuscript Journal of the Operations.’

376. His career in the corps was somewhat eventful. A noble soldier, with a spirit that nothing could depress, he was often selected for unusual enterprises. He received a medal for the Kaffir war of 1846-7. Another he received, and a second-class prize of five pounds, for his services at the Great Exhibition. Was also honoured with the order of the Medjidie for his heroic conduct at the battle of Guirgevo, and wore a medal for the Crimea. After serving a period in the trenches before Sebastopol, his life was sacrificed to his excesses. One morning, to the deep regret of his officers and his comrades, he was found dead in his tent.

377. Was recorded for distinguished conduct in the Kaffir war of 1846. Accompanying that portion of the corps which served at Gallipoli and Bulgaria, he was, on account of his experience and soldier-like deportment, appointed sergeant-major to the expedition. Through sickness his strong-built frame had become so weak and attenuated, that when the cholera seized him he was carried off in a few hours. He died on board the ‘Andes,’ when sailing for the Crimea.

378. Will be found noted on the same page with his late comrade, sergeant Cook, for the determination and intelligence he displayed in the Kaffir war of 1846.

379. Both were discharged from the corps by request at the Cape of Good Hope.

380. ‘Prof. Papers,’ New Series, i. p. 32.

381. ‘Prof. Papers,’ Royal Engineers, vi. p. 47.

382. This non-commissioned officer afterwards broke his leg at Beirout in falling from the roof of the ordnance store in endeavouring to get access to a building adjoining it which was on fire. In January, 1843, he was pensioned at 1s. 9d. a-day, and emigrated to Canada.

383. Was a clever mechanic and a handsome soldier, but his constitution eventually gave way under the influence of the Syrian fever, and he died in October, 1847.

384. Was discharged in October, 1850, and pensioned at 1s. 9d. a-day. Out of a service of thirteen years in the corps, he was eleven abroad, at Gibraltar, in Syria, and China. From the last station he returned in a distressing state of emaciation and weakness. There, though a sergeant, the necessities of the service required that he should labour at the anvil, and the skilfulness of his work was superior to anything that could be procured at Hong Kong.

385. See a representation of the encampment in the ‘Professional Papers, R.E.’ vi., p. 22. This was the note affixed to the first edition, but the plate referred to is on so small a scale, it would need more than the assistance of a powerful glass to discover the site of the tents.

386. Was pensioned at 2s. a-day in January, 1851. In the corps he served nearly twenty-four years, of which period he was seventeen and a-half abroad, at Corfu, the Euphrates, Gibraltar, Syria, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. His great merits obtained for him the grant of an annuity of 10l. a-year, and a silver medal, and an appointment as messenger to the commanding royal engineer’s office, in the London district. Through Lieutenant-Colonel Aldrich, his commanding-officer in Syria, he was also appointed a yeoman of the Queen’s Guard. The emoluments derived by him from these different sources, amounting to about 160l. a-year, with excellent quarters, are the hard and just earnings of a life full of vicissitude and devotion to the service.

387. Now a quartermaster-sergeant in the corps; and besides serving a second tour at Gibraltar, was present at the reduction of Bomarsund and the siege of Sebastopol. Is in receipt of an annuity of 10l. a-year, and wears five medals and a clasp for his active services.

388. The medals were copper, but washed, at the expense of the wearers, with a preparation that gave them the appearance of gold. In 1848, the British Government awarded them silver medals for the same campaign.

389. An anecdote may be given of this non-commissioned officer. One of the princesses of Iddah conceiving a liking for Edmonds, who was a handsome, dark-complexioned man, with a brilliant black eye, solicited the king, her father, to beg his retention there. Captain Trotter consented to let the corporal remain until the return of the expedition. Edmonds was not averse to the arrangement provided he was permitted to have with him a comrade from the ‘Albert.’ This, however, was not conceded, and the corporal rejoined his ship; but before doing so, the love-stricken princess contrived not to part with her paramour without easing him of his silk handkerchief!—to keep, perhaps, in remembrance of the interesting feeling he had unwittingly awakened in the royal breast. Edmonds served two stations, at Bermuda and Gibraltar, became a sergeant, and, on his discharge in 1854, was appointed foreman of works under the Inspector-General of Prisons in the convict establishment at Portland.

390. Sergeant March was two seasons at Spitbead. Many of the sketches of the wreck were executed by him with the assistance of the camera lucida, kindly lent for the purpose by the late Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from whom he received much useful instruction. Almost the whole of his service has been passed in the professional office of the director of the royal engineer establishment at Chatham, in which, either as a draughtsman or a confidential leading clerk, he has always been found, from his attainments and constitutional energy of mind and body, efficient and valuable. From time to time he has drawn the plates forming the architectural course of the study of the junior officers of the corps and the East India Company’s engineers, and also the plans and other drawings and projects comprised in the military branch of the course. He is an excellent colourist, and has a good conception of light and shade. As an artist in water-colours, he possesses undoubted talent and merit. Sergeant March is moreover an intellectual man and well informed. His controversial letters in reply to the calumnious attacks on the royal engineer establishment at Chatham have been remarked for their honesty and boldness; and his series of communications in the ‘United Service Gazette,’ in answer to the forcible animadversions of the celebrated ‘Emeritus’ in the ‘Times,’ concerning Ordnance finance, were not only well and truthfully written, but deserve for their vigour and appositeness as prominent a place in the columns of the ‘Times,’ as the communications of the more favoured ‘Emeritus.’ This non-commissioned officer is now quartermaster-sergeant of the corps at Chatham.

391. Three feet of the heel of it, with clamps attached, had been recovered in the previous year by George Hall the civil diver.

392. When corporal Jones first heard the voice, Skelton was singing,—

This simple incident sufficiently shows the confidence and coolness of the diver in so novel and hazardous a duty.

393. Much of the information about the labours of this summer has been collected from the ‘Hampshire Telegraph,’ ‘Army and Navy Register ‘Manuscript Journal of the Operations.’

394. Afterwards became a sergeant, and served at Gibraltar. In October, 1852, he was pensioned at 1s. 9d. a-day. Being a skilful mechanic, he obtained on the day of his discharge, employment as a blacksmith in the royal carriage department in the arsenal.

395. Fraser was a successful modeller, and although a carpenter by trade, made himself useful as a wood engraver. Many of the wood-cuts in Colonel Pasley’s ‘Practical Operations of a Siege,’ were executed by him, and although they exhibit but little artistic merit, they yet afford scope to show how he adapted himself to circumstances. He also assisted in the task of engraving the most difficult of the plates to the ‘Architectural Course.’ None of his works in this line betray any ambition, but his models were put out of hand in a skilful and workmanlike manner. As a whole, he was a man of singular simplicity. In July, 1849, he was pensioned at 2s. 3d. a-day, and retiring to Kilochunagan, settled down as a farmer.

396. Became a sergeant, and after serving at Corfu and China, was employed in the expedition under Lord Raglan to Turkey, Bulgaria, and the Crimea, where, from disease contracted in the trenches in front of Sebastopol, he died in camp before the conclusion of the siege.

397. ‘United Service Journal,’ ii., 1841, p. 267.

398. ‘United Service Journal,’ iii., 1841, p. 563. Carlin became a colour-sergeant, and prior to his discharge had served at Gibraltar and Malta, Turkey and the Crimea. When at Portsmouth, he received from Lord Frederick Fitzclarence a gold pen and engineering pencil-case, in return “for his most useful services in carrying out instruction in musketry, in which he proved himself to be exceedingly clever in calculations of a rather puzzling nature, and to be a most zealous, active, and painstaking non-commissioned officer.”

399. The names of the succeeding directors of the royal engineer establishment are given in the Appendix III.

400. ‘Military Policy.’

401. ‘United Service Journal,’ i., 1842, pp. 26, 27.

402. ‘United Service Journal,’ i., 1841, p. 443.

403. Jones’s ‘Sieges,’ ii. p. 391, 2nd edit.

404. Gleig’s ‘Mil. Hist.,’ ch. xxvii., pp. 286, 287.

405. Much of the above information is taken from Captain Gibb’s ‘Memoranda in Corps Papers,’ i., pp. 230-238.

406. Young, as a sergeant, was overseer of the works at Natal, at 2s. 6d. a-day, in addition to his regimental allowances; and, for his gallant conduct in action and useful services, was awarded a silver medal and an annuity of 10l. a-year. In July, 1850, he retired to Charleston, of Aberlour, in Banffshire, on a pension of 2s. a-day. He was a stern and an abrupt soldier, but an example of faithfulness, accuracy, and exertion.

407. This weapon was proposed for adoption in the corps both as a sword for personal defence and an instrument for removing obstructions on active service; but Sir George Murray, then Master-General, refused to sanction its introduction, considering it to be an improper weapon to be used in civilized warfare.

408. Such as auctioneer, excise-officer, &c. In carrying on the former duty, among his many sales, he disposed of the ‘Melville’ schooner, a vessel belonging to four partners, obtaining for it, from one of the partners, only 720 dollars! This may be taken as a fair specimen of the wealth of the colonists.

409. All had horses, as travelling on horseback was frequently necessary. The Governor presented one, with harness complete, to sergeant Hearnden. The men made themselves very expert in the management of horses, and throwing aside the rude thongs of raw hide by which they were controlled, quickly adapted the draught-horses to the use of artillery harness and collars.

410. ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ i., 1843, p. 45.

411. Reference would not have been made to this service only for the accident which attended it. Often it is the lot of the corps at the various stations to distinguish themselves at fires, and by their promptitude and cheerful exertions, to save both lives and property.

412. An insurance company, in no respect under obligations to the parties who assisted at the fire, felt interested in the exertions of the sappers and awarded them 5l. As the sum was too small for distribution, it was well expended in the purchase of a clock for the barracks at Woolwich.

413. After serving a station in China, died at Woolwich, in July, 1847.

414. The nine men of the East India Company’s sappers, whose names are appended, dived more or less as occasion offered. Lance-corporal Thomas Sherstone, privates James Hewitt, James Beale, George Taylor, William Brabazon, John Hunt, William England, John McIvor, and John A. Goodfellow. Hewitt was the best, Sherstone the next, and Beale and Taylor were very promising.

415. ‘United Service Journal,’ iii. 1843, p. 139.

416. Much of the information given about the wreck of the ‘Royal George,’ has been gleaned from the ‘Hampshire Telegraph,’ ‘Army and Navy Register,’ and the ‘Manuscript Journal of the Operations.’

417. Afterwards a sergeant. Was generally employed in duties of importance far exceeding his rank, at the Cape of Good Hope, Isle of France, and Hong-Kong. In 1847 he was present in the expedition to Canton, blew up the Zigzag Fort, and otherwise conspicuously distinguished himself. He died at Hong-Kong, after five years' service there, in 1848. Blaik had been brought up at the royal military asylum, Chelsea.

418. Four years previously, August, 1838, sergeant-major Jones was presented with a silver tankard, “by the sergeants of Chatham garrison, in testimony of their gratitude for the undeviating attention he evinced in superintending the formation of a military swimming-bath at that station.”

419. Ante, pp. 307-310. At the new barracks built for the dragoons at Niagara, sergeant Lanyon successfully constructed a circular well, about thirty feet deep, after two or three contractors had attempted it and failed. He laboured himself in laying the stones up to his hips in water, and afforded ample work for a strong party above in preparing the stones for placement, and pumping up the water. The service was effected under many difficulties and hazards, and while the weather was intensely cold. As an instance of his great strength it may be remarked, that six men complained to him of the heavy task they were subjected to in removing timbers about 15 feet long and 12 inches square for constructing a stockade at Fort Mississaqua. Lanyon made no observation, but shouldered one of the unwieldy logs, and, to the amazement of the grumblers, carried it to the spot unassisted.

420. ‘Second Report Army and Ordnance Expenditure,’ 1849, p. 500. To such an extent was the diminution in the number of the officers subsequently carried, that in 1849 the amount of expense incurred by the superintendence of officers was reduced to one twenty-second part of the total expenditure; therefore by the more general employment of sappers in the direction of the work, the amount of superintendence was reduced from one-third and one-fourth, to one twenty-second part.

421. ii., 1835, p. 154.

422. Frome’s ‘Surveying,’ 1840, p. 40. Simms' ‘Math. Inst.,’ 1st edit.

423. Frome’s ‘Surveying,’ 1840, p. 44.

424. ‘British Companion and Almanack,’ 1843, p. 38.

425. First published in a series of letters to the ‘Morning Chronicle,’ and then collected, with additional matter, in a pamphlet.

426. Synges’s ‘Great Britain—one Empire.’

427. These he patented in November, 1851. A description of the improvements, with sixteen illustrations, is given in the ‘Civil Engineer and Architects’ Journal,' xv., pp. 164, 165.

428. In consideration of this event, the Board of Ordnance granted his widow a donation of 20l.; and she was, moreover, assisted by a very handsome subscription from the officers and men of the district in which her husband had served.

429. Became in time the quartermaster of the royal engineer establishment at Chatham, and when the siege of Sebastopol was at its highest, was removed from the corps by promotion into the Turkish contingent engineers with the rank of Captain.

430. Sir Howard Douglas, ‘On Military Bridges,’ 3rd edit., p. 32.

431. Ibid., 33.

432. Ibid., 33.

433. It is simply a half-cylinder, 20 feet long by 1 foot 9 inches wide, and 3 feet deep, strengthened internally by hollow tubes, and deriving its buoyancy from an ingenious distribution of water-tight compartments, which not only preserve the flotation but provide seats for the troops. To render the contrivance more efficient for rafts or bridging purposes, a similar half-cylinder is attached to its consort by strong hinges and bolts. When shut its form is cylindrical; when open, two boats in rigid connection, taking the same swing in the water—the same motion on the wave. In this Siamese connection it is intended always to be used; and fitted as it is with all the necessary details, and the means of applying a rudder or an oar for steerage at any end, it appears to be adequate for all the uses and contingencies, not only of a pontoon, but of an ordinary passage-boat. It moreover aspires to the merciful functions of a lifeboat, being capable, without risk of capsizing or sinking, of venturing out in heavy seas to save human life imperilled by squalls or shipwreck.

434. ‘United Service Journal,’ iii., 1843, p. 139.

435. Ibid., p. 139.

436. Ibid., p. 138.

437. ‘United Service Journal,’ iii., 1843, p. 139.

438. Ibid., pp. 137, 140.

439. Quitted 28th August, 1843.

440. ‘United Service Journal,’ i., 1844, p. 143.

441. Ibid., p. 146.

442. This ill-fated ship, built by Bailey of Bristol in 1668, was wrecked by an explosion in 1711, and every soul on board perished.—‘United Service Journal,’ i., 1844, p. 146.

443. ‘United Service Journal,’ i., 1844, pp. 145, 146.

444. Ibid., p. 146.

445. ‘United Service Journal,’ iii., 1843, p. 141.

446. Airy’s ‘Longitude of Valentia,’ p. xi.

447. Owing to a rumour that the castle at Dublin could be entered by a subterranean passage or sewer from the Liffey, colour-sergeant Lanyon was directed to explore it. He did so, and found that a strong iron grating existed in the passage, which would effectually prevent the supposed entrance. In this duty, being much exposed to the influence of noxious vapours, he soon afterwards was seized with fever and jaundice, which shortened his days.

448. Mr. James Dawson, foreman of masons, formerly colour-sergeant in the corps, also died during the fever. He was a clever tradesman and overseer, and while in the sappers did good service at St. Helena, Corfu, and Bermuda. He was succeeded as foreman by sergeant John McKean, who was discharged in November, 1843, and still fills the appointment with ability and faithfulness.

449. In May, 1851, when the tour of service of the detachment had expired, only six men were at the station to be relieved. The remainder comprised one discharged in China, who soon afterwards died, twelve invalided to England, and fifteen deaths.

450. Arms of the percussion principle had been on trial in the corps since July, 1840.

451. These figures would seem to make the carbine and sword 1½ inches longer than the old musket, but the loss of the supposed additional length was occasioned by the greater depth of the socket required to give strength and stability to the weapon. The comparative weight of the two arms gave a reduction in favour of the carbine of 2 lbs. 3½ ozs.

452. The idea for this ornament was taken from the martial custom among the Romans of presenting a mural coronet of gold or silver to the undaunted soldier who should first scale the walls of a city and enter the place. Bailey in his Dictionary of 1727 says, “It was given to the meanest soldier as well as the greatest commander.” As the assault of fortresses in sieges is the chief business of the sappers, the round tower with its mural crown on the sergeant’s appointments, is an appropriate symbol for the corps.

453. ‘Professional Papers,’ N. S., i., p. 32.

454. ‘Professional Papers,’ N. S., i., p. 32.

455. About twelve miles from the sea ice was found three-eighths of an inch thick.

456. ‘Professional Papers,’ i., N. S., p. 32.

457. Ibid., p. 33.

458. These particulars are chiefly collected from a paper by sergeant Hemming in the ‘Royal Engineer Professional Papers,’ i., pp. 31-39. This non-commissioned officer was pensioned at 1s. 8d. a-day, in May, 1845. Of his survey services Colonel Portlock gives an interesting outline in his prefatory remarks to the sergeant’s paper. His duties appear to have been confined chiefly to the mountains of Ireland, where in winter he was exposed to fearful inclemency and subjected to much hardship. “On one occasion,” says the Colonel, “I had to place a young gentleman, who had graduated at Cambridge, under the sergeant for instruction, to whose zeal, intelligence, and respectability the pupil warmly bore testimony. Before receiving his discharge, he was appointed clerk and storekeeper to the road department in Cape Town, and some idea of the responsibility of his office may be inferred from the fact that he expended in four years, 1844-48, upwards of 36,000l.!”

459. A few minutes elapsed before Jones quitted the hobby-horse he was exultingly riding. Meanwhile curious to explore the gun, he thrust his hand up the bore, where a member of the crustacean family, already in quiet possession of the apartment, and not over-pleased with the unceremonious intrusion, fiercely disputed the passage. Jones, unwilling to yield, did his best to capture the exasperated crab, but its inveterate shears had so nipped and lacerated his hand, he was forced, at last, to beat a retreat. Ever after, the cruel wounds inflicted upon him by this peevish red-coat, had the effect of fixing in Jones’s memory, the date of his discovery of the ‘Edgar.’

It may strike the reader as remarkable that for the six summers of the operations at Spithead the divers were seldom attacked by any of the finny tribe; nor was it their privilege ever to meet in their subaqueous labours with any fishes larger than those ordinarily supplied for traffic in the markets. A lobster, a crab, or a conger-eel would now and then exhibit a wish to break lances with the intruders, but beyond these few instances of piscatorial interference, the under-water men had little reason to complain of the ungenerous treatment of the inhabitants of the deep.

More than once Jones was threatened or assaulted by crustacea. As on one occasion he was traversing for guns, a lobster, measuring not less than sixteen inches in length, approached him with so quick a motion, it seemed as if a bird were hovering round him. Thus attracted, he stood still to learn a fact or two in the history of its habits. The lobster stared inquisitively at Jones, as if to discover what the strange phenomenon could be. Apparently dissatisfied with the extent of the information it had acquired, it darted off like an arrow, using its fanlike tail as a rudder to shape its course. Its movements were sharp and rapid—its track in circles, each less than the other, till poising for a while within a few feet of the diver, it settled warily on the ground to resume observations. Startled by an action of the phenomenon, the lobster sailed off again in concentric circles, swishing the fan furiously to augment its speed; then, reaching the ground it spread out its feelers and claws and was soon engrossed in a brown study. Accepting the series of evolutions as a challenge, Jones prepared for the combat. Gently lifting his pricker, so as not to excite the instinctive suspicions of the lobster, he suddenly plunged it forward and pinned his antagonist to the earth. Instantly grasping it with his powerful hand behind the claws, Jones hurried on deck, and its body, weighing as much as a young goose, furnished a luxurious banquet for the captor and his friends.

Another lobster, less inquisitive but more combatative, advanced upon Jones with true military boldness. Having performed the magic circles, it was evident that the fish in armour had taken the measure of its opponent. Pushing out its claws in front like a couple of blunt spears, the lobster furiously battered against Jones’s legs, which, being cased in flannel, Mackintosh cloth, and impenetrable canvas, were proof against scars and punctures. Thick and fast came the blows, as from a ram or catapult; and it occurring to Jones that there was a chance of damage to his shins if the contest were prolonged, he turned upon his intrepid enemy, and with one kick from his leaden toe, broke up its morion and cuirass and gained the victory.

At another time, when Jones was busy making fast to a gun, a conger eel curled up in its muzzle forced out its slimy head to reconnoitre. Not relishing its savage attitude, Jones considered it best to make short work of the interview, and striking it on the cranium, the eel recoiled within its lurking place. A tompion being handy, Jones took it up and plugged up the bore. The gun in due time was hauled on deck, and on removing the tompion, the eel floundered out, and though small for a conger—about four feet long—it fought desperately, and was with great difficulty captured and decapitated.

460. The ‘Times,’ August 19, 1844.

461. These were sergeants Reid and Clarke, and privates Sticklen, Herbert, McDonald, Vallely, Canard, Robertson, Gillies, Mais, and Whelan. Clarke sent up two guns, Sticklen six, Herbert five and a half, and McDonald two. Sticklen, the most successful diver of the batch, met with an accident. In pulling him up from the bottom, he was drawn against some hard substance, which broke one of the side eyes of his helmet. His dress instantly filled, and the water rushed into his mouth. So quickly however was his removal to the deck accomplished, that his struggles for relief were short, and the injury he received was scarcely more than a temporary inconvenience.