The Express. — London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

gibe Oxpreoo. TO CORRUPONDII TB. trorlimmurir br .11k• lame Whim Wean poper. sea be at Or Mo. beerred. try Two AM* is lb, &Fat publlarlia. HIGH WATS& AT LONDON BRIDOII. T im I:4 T —nenfig. 416 441. Altman. I. SM. To.rtrusw—Msmiss. ft. Via.—...Attasson. le. Yak LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTO3II 16. A Barony has lately been published by the Meet Committee appointed, in the mares of bet liersion,' • "to conaider the cheapest, most expeditious, and most diciest mode of providing for the Printing re quired for the Howse of Pariismsst and the Public Parries." The gnat mass of oar readers, to whom a Blue Book is seranch of a 'otiosity as the =Wi lful= musters in the gardens at Splashes, will be surprised to hear of the enormous spew annually incurred by the British taxpayers la this department. The work is pretty equally divided among five diffe rent printers—Mem% Reza and flearftswooas, HANSARD, NICHOLS, HARRISON, and HAMILL. Of these, Meows Rem and SPOTTISWOODB, with Whale names the peddle I. net familiar, are Queen's printers seder patent, and contrast printers, es well as printers for the Huse of Lords. In the first sop parity, they have the exclusive right of printing for thirty years, from the 21st of January, 1830, all statutes and sets of parliament, end all abridgments thereof. For this work they received, in 1863-64, about 10,0001. As matron printery, they print all reports end papers ordered by the Trearary and most of the public departrosets; end the Committee report that, while the expenses under the patent are capable of some reductioc, the soot:est, entered into in 1861, was then pot as a reasonable foot ing. We may add that the charges for the printing required for the House of Lords have recently been reduced nearly to the level of the contract printing. In the House of Commas, Mr. Kumar) prints the Journal., Returns, Reports of Select Committees, and other papers; Messrs. NICHOLS and Boa the Votes sad Prosodies,. Between the years 1860 sad 1864 there has bees a reduction in the profits of them printers of ant less than 30 per seat., so that whereas in the year 1860 they received 60 per out., they now receive only 20 per cent.= work does by order of the House. Mr. HARRISON, the fourth on the list, is the confidential printer for the Government, and the printer of the London Gesegle. His receipts are said to average from 3,0001. to 4,0001. a year, " and though the profit may be larger, in proprieties to the work done, than that which is made by other printers, it mast be borne in mind that the peculiar • nature sad clureeter of his week will mot admit of its being put up to contrast." It does not appear, therefore, that so far se these four printers are emerged, the pay is very nosh out of peeped= to the work. We some them to Mr. Haartirita, who has the entire assagement et what is tailed job-work printing for Ragland. Is ether words, be prints all meaner of recurs% heathsgs of ledgers, tax papers, ageism letters, and forms of every kind foe the several departments of Govern ment ; the cost, exclusive of the paper, amounting to 14,0001. a year. This branch of the public printing k at once the most diScalt to manage, the most ax pensive, sod that which stands most in need of re form. The truth b, that the work is too mach for • one firm. "The forms are constantly aging; thousands, eves millions, are often required; the denude are usually saddle; and they must be furnished in a short period." The result is that the work is dome in so slovenly a meaner, that it would be rejected, were not the Go- vernment entirely at the mercy of the contractor; and the Committee recommead the adoption of a suggestion made by Mr. M'Cum.oca, that four or . Ire job printers should be employed instead of one, and on condition that, unless the work was done satisfactorily, the Government should have the power to change them. To conaladi this portion of the sub jest, the exposes incurred lest year, in the Public Printing department, was 431,980/., and the estimates for the present year are about oramixth lees. Now there can be no doubt that this item in the public expenditure ought to be very mush reduced, and it is not difficult to point out whale and with whom the reform should amuses. It is not the printers wile are to be blamed. We will not pretend to any that their charges are meetly in proportion to the amount of work performed; but, anyhow, no other arrangeareatean be made, except with Mr. HARTNRIL, until the year 1880, on the expiration of the Quinn's Printers' Patent. It is clear, thee, that the reform mast be began in the Committee-rooms of the Henn of Commons. There is the ewes and fountain-head of the printing 'Unease. Themes it Is that the Qoxert's Printers, undo, patent, derive their annual thousands, for whisk the British tax payer does not receive value of any kind whatever. Take the ease of the Hull Election Report. Some body who was not elected for that pens and in dependent borough brought a charge of bribery and corruption against the suoiseful candidate. A Com ' mines of the House of Commons was elected to decide whether Mr. —had, or had not, purchased . hie sleet in Parliament by ministering to the phy sical wants of his sonetiteents. Day after day a doom British senators essenibled to decide upon this important question, and after many a weary week they came to a conclusion, and pub lished the result of their inquiries in two enonsose • Mee Books, whisk east the country not a Birthing lees than 3,0001. We don't invitee that a single human being ever &seed through one of the thou sand pope of that report, and thus were thouande of pounds spent which, for all the good derived from their expenditure by the British public, might just as well have been thrown into the see. Then, spirt, there was the Wine Duties Revert. If we look into the appeu di: to the 'emend volume, we find a table of 234 pages about vetting, of wine in different "docks." This table is perfectly melees, can never have been read by any one is the world —except perhaps the " reader" of proofs--end yet 1,760 copies were printed and circulated at the public express. We might go on quoting instances till doomsday. We voider that the shelvea of the Commons' library do • not crack under the weight of human folly which yeas by year is soosigued to their sate and undisturbed glardianship. We soy, then, to the Huss of Commons, Heal thyself." There is apparently mop/epee ebeek imposed upon the Chairmen of Committees. Whatever be the subject of investigation—whether a matter in which the whole Bathe; takes an interest, ere one about which as one cares an atom, except the seer tor who gets the committee appointed—there seems to be no metrketion as to whiter how mach should be printed. The chairman eansults, or does not consult, with the secretary, sod gets authority to print as away espies as are thought advisable. Since, however, It iseely the patella parse that is to he smoldered, and slue it is not likely that any me will take . the treelele to makes fan in Parliament about it, we don't ise thei either &shun se secretary "Vs"' much Men the refeet. And so at the T'HE EXPRESS, TIIrSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1855. end angry session then is namtmulated nth a 1111.0 I . LATEST a rabble!' as was sever esseitentad tegetang s minept, perhaps, at the Taipei' fair. Beene shechistralti be 11 17ROM 1464004 put upon this system withasidenr , p iVPmed by thsOommitles ths,t should 41 , 0, I t conferred on the Print** Met disKRAE AN • and Mr.VAtinow suggest thanks:sport aloes should be D SINUATA.NEO IJB printed is the first instance ; bea d ye Committee think that the widens shouldd, the nbia j ADVANCE OF THE ALLIES. net, in their evince, consisting in the balk of the appesdiess. We are strongly inclined to agree with Mr. Wetrunca, and to leave the decision as to the printing of anything but the report in the hands of the Printing . Committee, who Sr.,at lent, likely to be more impartial judges of what should be printed and simulated. It is clear that, in many cam, it would not be meresary to circulate more than a few espies: bet dradate many or few, the not hi not in deraiades e bet in printing. wYtyhs it is of great impartment that the ind of pointing publie documents should be din& Aid as mock as possible, it would be unwise to gm Moths aptelas wane. The decision, indeed, listnnen dal 11 sedum NA what is necessary to be palatal will call Ise no 4esNiimable moist of red judgment. Ia ease esese the Blue Books issued by Oommittets OI the Mina of Parliament ma nia an among of -Information, on social and polidoel idle s% which it would be impossible to led elemebsee ; and we should be glad to see seer plan adopted whereby they could be made more emeseible to the community. Lot all public information of a useful kind be printed and 4a/- related as widely as possible. For the rest, let it never be men or bard of, =apt in the shorthand writer's MBB. This printing reformation is one which can be accomplished in a day, and we hope that the Com mittee may en the fruit of their labours very early in the taming session. Vic Court. BALMORAL. Oer. 14. The Queen, soemayasied by the Pruner Royal, Prins. Bekaa, Panne Loans, eaot attimodsil by the Dubow of Wellington, &ere oat I. ea epee Gurley yes terday &Ronson. Mr - . aad NW Paulsboro's, of laversaild, bed Me berm of Mara( tie royal dimmer potty yesterday. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-cam It was attended by Viscount Pal merston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon. Lord Penman, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, air Charism Wood, the Right Hos. R. Vernon !faith, Visoottot Canning, and the Berl of Harrowby. The Conned eat two hours and a half. Visional Palmerston arrived la tows from his mat, Breadloads. Haas, yerterday aseenfig, is order to wad Me Cabiaet Comae& ?ha Cimasslior of the izeiregar arrived Is terns yesterday from Oleamear, to Man/ she, arenas et the Wait. Disparate hem Me Gamier of Canada ware meshed' yeaseday at the Celinisi-eMee. Her Majesty the Queen Amelia, their Royal Mah atmas. the Duke mad Dasher of Ileatpeasier, with their family, left Presides, ea the flth, for Italy. Her Royal Highness the Design et Orleans, the Coma of Paris, the Duke of Chartres, the Dabs sad Duchess of fleas Coburg Gotha, sad the Duke Ale:ander Philip of Werteabarg, seeempealed the aeries travellers is far se Heidelberg. OR Friday last the Xing of Prowls received Bona &sem erkombeseadee et aerie et t►e Min of Landes. Buss Enemy boa bees elayhtit *best a fettaight is Berlta, at t►e Boyd Hotel. It has bees ealealated that the birth et the Empe ror Napelees'e And will take plus at a pale& set very resew trent t►e esaiwnstry et tie iirtli sir the Lag et Raw mil tie fetus tram the Islsad of Elbe. The Spada goverment appears detenehted apes the sweadea id great while weeks. Is oddities to the railway item Madrid to Bayou", whirls is ea We eve se sow mein, tbe gases, it le said, bee jut pleated to a mews- I Spanish esepasy We easel of Osedorraw, eswasesed by Charm 111., and witieb, wbes ibilabed, will fertilise ea west of sere Woe Sweaty lespere sawed Madrid. The vast of lister era preened the istabilabaset of several vertu bibs sopltal et eSsia. The Messiterr de Undo aaaaaasee that 217 pspib of do Book Spackle MiMaim sad eke pupils of the Polytodiato %Mei. at Path, have just biota notalsaaml sub lioatoaaats la infantry missal.. The neeipts of the theatres, balls, aad coaesrts of Paris is September lest amosated to 1.658,997 f., Were 96,8001. more than Mae of Asiost, and doable t►ae of :September, 1854. We lama, by litters has liamberg. that the adjoaramest of the trial far blab teasers of Use mealier* of the let. Neigh GOAN* wet at the request el the ma nlier fee the atesesd—saile after be had MUM la Weis/ a formal 'Wades to ass of the judges. TbM is.. of Nov. 10 smart, beware. be again eveleesed. At Gambian the esechteasatios of the amend it still orasidered se so improbable avast It was reported at Ousel oa the Bth that the Woken* Retesapleg, Value. tad Baaatbeel led ha uled their reeigsadsaa Their ......sere me said to be Tea eitselatea In Petits Aisle. Tea Brat tee the laterb►. Tea Hesitate for the Names, sad Moja Vea lade in the Wu Depertauot. ..-.0.- • (IIT ILNOTILIO TIL3lllaPli.) WADAIAW, Oar. 14. M. Dietskr. the chief mete hi the pariah of St. :sues, at ♦stwsrp, was travelliag a few days data from Bette t. Civita Taub% whoa three method boadite, althessh it Ives bread daylight, Mopped the Meade, la which the mate sad debt other pastaagen were sitting. The beadles etnapelled the eseehmea sad guard te Ile with their too to the gonad. while they 'limbed up to the top of the olds* sad abet/sited the is.. of 7,000 foams from a parcel. Net sae of the pompon wee mimed l a lady, kowtow, at the tasteat the deer was opined ►y a robber, belay very =soh *thorned, Wood him s pm of SOO frame is theveebeete, ebb* was &aseptic". ea oho was • mallet sea Isadeeed broodier of the possesses. AU the .thee Imavellsre Neaps* with Naar* a Melt. Despatches from Prince Gadolmhoff to hints Paddewiteh confirm the news of a demitasse= organised nieseatris advance of the Allies from Bigoted*, Bader, Berteb, and Labors, with the Went of surrounding and ending off the Bioko %Ma Td, trustees of the lite United Service Ann and Bellelleidei laminating (the Berl of Hardwick', Si, Theses Cochrane, and General Cater), is Invades of the halance l of the lead, of Nil nasty, whirl wee pregeeted is 1839, bat never Ineasht to insterity, have granted 1001., *met the wuvlviag lambert of the wasevaittes (Cassia Owes, sad 81, B. Ifie,ll,), Is emelt of the ',navies inetitadese, via., the Royal Navel Scheel, Newnan! the Wenktites Cones*, sad the Royal Navel Female &heel. LONDOX 010111117SZL—It is said that a meeting of the Loads. Omnibus proprietors wee held loot sight is Heaseetarl Nall. for the parpose of taking into eandsteratka eveeknee whist' hod bees wade to thou by the " neenti da Cridit Kebilles," for the pushes, of their property and leaflet la their onalbseee, Mem. sad the satire setsblnheieste ateaseted therewith. The dkenwien was very pretreated, tuning skied, ea the pledge SIMI whisk onset to be aseepted. Ultimately it appeared to be the general "sena, that the &misty shield be required be pay 6001. for seek melbas, with its beau, that nun to Wind. the seed.will ea well to the stork. There are, it is stated, 700 seasibunee plying ea the dine:vat roses I. sad kasedletely monad the s► impel* sad If WOW are agreed apes, the &Met, woes piste wicking the, apes the Pads ayes= ef evreepost anie," by sure of whisk a poseinger eon paw hos ese vehicle to asether with the ease tisk" and in the sane tam to 6U patio of the mina No doubt, when the Seolety hare mossoded le orpoielog the osalbuosk they will ton shalt Womb* to the sib.. The OWernsichische Cbrrospoodru, of Vienna. published yesterday (the 16th), states that intelli gence remind from Odom up to the 10th reprennts that 00 ships werestill in sight of the harbour ; and that either a dement or a bombardment was then folly ra peseed. Under these circumstances it was aka& art the Tap= would not visit the place. Oa the 11th ft was reported in Odom that the &Wens intended to abandon the north side of 81110elepol, and to retire to Perekop. !fn ships of the Allis. on that day still reasined Is their former position. SAILING OF THE ALLIED FLEETS FROM ODESSA. (IT IMMO 112411111APIL) - BT. PZTERSBIIIIO. Oft. U. Despatches just remind state that the Allied Fiesta sailed yesterday from Odessa, sad anchored three mike from Kiabors. [Blabs= is situated it t mamas wasters point of go soul wild Woods the lima ter ottiary of the Daloper, am musk] FAILURE 0? m MAINE LIQI7Oi LAW tit POZTLAND. —Ties Make Lhasa Law h sew ao Wager mimed to lb. elty d PartiewL Saw ON Melt of the lest sieselee. Wash lbws wee a lestiod peptise majority web* the kw, Mitlee Dow, the nodose .f the prebibiesey peaky sad prawn .wt eighties*, Is repotted by the Parboil' Arm, w bees isienelawl to seeks as hribee spoil ears ea sakies it tae.., sb. is,. OM "Ow people velei Iw no se4 wow Obey key Invert." The *we pager Idle to dos dee Meyer kw 'titbits's IVO is Wheer the Obtain ..wad there w kWh ter IS VA agligul et as Sifts simaam—Wiallealli TER TURKISH VICTORY AT BARS. The Mcnsaeur of yesterday metals. the fellowieg: " CONSTANTINOPLE, Oar. 13. "Oa Sept. 29th the Rusk= attempted a general attack on Kars. The combat lasted Mill hours with extreme desperation. The enemy at length was repulsed, and his retreat became a ample% rout. On the 30th they had already buried 4,000 dead, and the field of battle was strewed with dead bodies. The loss of the Turks is only shoat 1,000 men." THE CRIMEA. A despatch trots Prises Gortehakog dated the 13th, says,' , This 'morning the enemy abandoned the Upper Vary of the Belbeek, and returned to the hills between it and the Valley of Balder. EL retreat wu probably tamed by our movement upon ilavri and Abate According to a despatch received at Vienne. Mar shii Potholer had already maga the rear guard of the Itemise army: azgairr marr OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (nom OUR SPECIAL CORIMPONDINT.) CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, Oot. 1. No move has taken place among the British divi• dose sines the mail left on September the 29th. There is a rumour that a oombined French and English forge, of 30,000 men, is to embark in a fow l days, but the destination is kept entirely secret. It would be idle to mention the various places named, where all is so completely matter of surmise. The necessuy arrangements have been made for four of the English divisions to take the field, should they be required to do so. It is generally understood, however, that the execution of such a movement a■ is anticipated by many, will depend more upon in structions from the respective governments, than upon the will of the generals in the Aeld. In the meantime we are being most favourable weather to campaigning operations. Darius the last few days we have been enjoying a kind of mond summer—the atmosphere has been bright and clear, and th; sun's power very considerable by day, while the nights have been less chilly than they were a short period ago, sad at the suss the still and luminous with a brilliant moonlight. Altogether, the weather is now very similar to what the allied army was providentially favoured with during the march last year from the Alma to its present position. News has been received today of successes at Eupatoria. It is said that neon guns have been taken, as well as a considerable number of horses and a large amount of stores, and without any merlons loss on our side. The of appears to have been brought about by seeidente.at least the version brought here gives 'that colouring to it. A large body of Irene and Ottoman cavalry started to make a ressmainianse, bat, a fog coming on, lost their way, and luddsnly found themselvei upon the amp of the Bud= army observing Enpatoria. The enemy was surprised, and concluding that a large body of infantry and artillery was at hand to rapport the cavalry, quickly retreated, leaving a number of pri soners and a large quantity of amp slatfriel in the bands of oar allies. If this ocourenes be u described, it will be, at the present moment, another reveres severely felt by the Remises. Part of the army encamped on the north heights' beyond Inkermann is apparently leaving, for the nuiber of tenth has greedy diminished of late. The scouts say that the troops are only taking up a more sheltered position in the neighbouring valleys. The fire, however, from the forts and batteries on the earth side has increased, both against the town axerpied by the Wrench and the Harahelnaia suburb in our posseedon. There have been remark. ably few casualties on our side, notwithstanding that &tips parties for fetching wood and other purposes have beset very frequent. An active lire has been kept up from one of the French mortar-batteries spinet the Star Fort ; sud s as the shells have fallen with great presides into the enceinte of the work, and the enclosed buildings are very numerous. then; is no doubt that they have mused very considerable damage. We deo am constructing a battery to act against the worth side. It is in • very advanced po sition in the larabeleala suburb ; and, se the work ing perdu are strong in number, it will no doubt be shortly Sabha. A very Ehatigietive are occurred yesterday (Sep tember Pith) fa the long white building known u the Barrack building, in the Barabelnais. This pile had escaped the general conflagration at the time of the Remises deserting Sebastopol Although greatly injured by abet, them was an immense amount of timber contained in the building, which wee of the meet solid easetreetion. Batiks the port able bedsteads now need in our barracks, the bed steads in then were fixtures, and so arranged that the part aa which the bedding was pissed served also as a lid to a capacious wooden enciesarm in which everything belonging to the soldier could be depo sited. These peculiar combinations of a chest and bedstead were in double lines down each apartment, and were made of the most substantial timber. Beneath the whole building were vaults of solid masonry, with embed roofs, which were used ea stores. Some of them were found to be filled with accoutrements, and various appointments connected with the uni form and dress of the soldiers. Large quantities of furniture bad been deposited in these bomb-proof vaults. The building itself had been loopholed and prepared for defence: in some parts it bad been armed with senronades. Immediately in front, and conneetc.d with it, a strong 6-gun battery bad been raised. About 3 p.m., when at least forty or fifty persons were engaged about the building in removing wood, two or three being on the roof for the purpose of getting some of the skeet-iron plates with which it is covered, some drunken sailors who were rambling shout were observed to enter, and one of then, it is asserted, set fire to some loose powder by the lighted ashes of his pipe. No farther mischief seemingly occurred at the time beyond the explosion of the loose powder alluded to; but a short time afterwards a tremendous explosion mooned, driving in a large part of the wall in the front of the building, not far from one sad of the 6-gun battery. It appears that previous to the explosion the woodwork of a stair ease and adjoining apartments had caught fire, so that the persons near that part of the building received warning enough to enable them to make their escape. A sentry of the 41st Regiment of Fusiliers was killed at the time of the principal explosion, whieh is np posed to have been at a magazine Monist to the 6-gun battery already mentioned. Immediately after this took place, the fin spread with wonderful rapidity, and at four o'clock the whole of the im mense pile of building, from one end to the other, was enveloped in names; The ensues of windows and the free sensate ef air in consequence in all direction, and the eirountstaace of part of the roof having been removed, favoured the progress of the combustion. The timber was old sad dry. It was only two days before, that permiesioa had been panted for the final destruction of the building, with • view to procuring planks, flossing, and roofing from it, for constructing huts and cooking-places in the amp ; and orders were then given that the upper part only of the building in the first instance should be pulled to pines, so that the demolition might be gradual and soodueted with sahty. While the fire was fiercest, the flames rose high above the building and showed through every open space in the walls, bat much of its grandeur as a spectacle was lost by its occurring in the day-time. At night, when the fire had in some degree subsided, it had the appear ance from a distance of one of the huge factories ass after dark in some of the manufacturing districts d &gland when lighted withis by gas. The enemy kept up a very active ore, both of shot and shell, in the direction of the burning structure, to impede any attempts that might be made to extinguish the fiancee and prevent their extension to other buildings in the neighbourhood. The Are is not yet extinct. The following general order has ben issued this swain : Naval sad military sins and soldiers may are to be permitted to men my pert of the British parties of the Larabolsoil robes% or tho Dookyard buildlaµ Ns Wien or *dikes oro to be admitted without a pees has the Adjohuti Gomarirelloo, houlloortora liskaNer Omuta Windham, tbl., mad the same le esseasead of the guard et the Hodes, .at eve orders easordiser. In addition to danger front the quantities of loose powder sad ammunition scattered about the towel the fire from the north side is sufficiently hazardous, and the sight of a group of persons about the Dock yard is always a signal for the Russians to send • shell or shot in that direction. Captain W. F. Hooke, 47th Regiment, died this morning from the effects of a wound received at the attack upon the Redsn on the 6th of September. He was Brigade Major of the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, and was with Colonel Windham, C. 8., who then commanded that Brigade, at the time he received the injury. He was struck on the head, early in the day, by a piece of shell, and as there was no fracture of bone, the wound was not considered to be of s very serious character. The misobief subsequently proved to be deeper than was anticipated, and though for some time under orders to leave for England at the recommendation of a medical board, he was not in a fit state to bear the removal. He was an active, in telligent °Meer, and, from his industry and expe rience, the loss of his services as Brigade Major will be much felt. He is deeply regretted, not only in his own, but in all the regiments of the brigade. A few days since there was a grand distribution by General Pelissier of awns and medals to the lit —formerly General Oanrobert's—Division, which distinguished itself at the taking of the Melskhoff on the Bth of September. About 100 of these ho- nourable marks of distinction were given. The dis tribution was accompanied with the usual military Mat and enthusiasm. The division wee commanded by one of the brigadiers; General Whlabou, who commanded on the day of the attack. having no carded to the command of the 2nd corps d'orrnee, in the abloom of General Boaquet, who was wounded. The General-in-Chief told the division that arrange ments were being made for their early return to Frans. It cannot be said the announcement that the fall of Sebastopol is to be marked by an additional clasp to the Crimean medal has produced satidaction among those most interested in the subject. The men and officers of those divisions which have been con tinuously engaged in the arduous duties of the trenches throughout the long siege —who have felt each time that they went in for their turn of duty that they were encountering all the risk, without the excitement, of a general action—consider that some more distinctive deeoratioa was their doe. According to the terms of Lord Panssareie despatch, every officer of the army who has served in the Crimea during the siege, though he might never have seen the trenches of Sebutopol—ofilan who have joined their regi- meats in front and quitted them almost as soon as they arrived—will be entitled to claim the decoration as much as those who have honestly performed their duties from the opening of the siege last October to the day of its final cooolusion nearly a twelvemonth afterwards. The following is the announcement as issued in Oemeral Orders : Head quarts, Sehoetopol, Sept. 30, 1855. The Commander of the PeUes has the highest satisfaction in publishing to the army a despatch which be has received from the Minister at War, *messing the Queen's suet 'mins approbation of the troops *upped in socomplishiag the reduction of Sebastopol, on the Bth September. War Department, Sept. 16, 1855. Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you that her Majesty, in order to mark her high sense of the services of her army is aceomplishing the roduedon of Sebastopol, boa been pleased to command that a ship should b• added to the Crimean medal, bearing upon it the lameiption, " Sebes toy! ;" and further, her Majesty has boon pleased to com mand that all thou of her regiments of cavalry and infantry which have been engaged In the war, should bier es their standards and (solutes the name of " flabastopel."-1 have the hawse to be. Sir, your obedient humble mutant. General &mum. Runeuaa. As a matter of policy, as well as of jostioe, some mark, in addition to what is indicated above, should be conferred on those who have distinguished them selves in this protracted siege, not only by individual sets of heroism, but also by steady adherence to their digits during a time when so many others left their places vacant. A siege medal, to lee given only to those actively engaged in the operations of the siege, and bearing some characteristic device OT mark of distinction according to the length of time employed —the whole siege being divided into three or more Periods—world have been a valued gift, because it could have been obtained by now but a legitimate and deserving claimant, and its possessiers would have been a comparatively limited number. THE DESTINATION OF THE ALLIED FLEETS. ♦IENNA, Oct. 9. Intelligence has been received here that the secret expediting of the allied fleets is destined for the Liman of the Dnieper, a bay or estuary of which but little is known. The entrains is guarded by the towns of Otacbakowon the northern side and Kinbere on the month, and is not much more than a mil. wide. The former is known In history, for it was here that the Turkish garrison defended themselves in the campaign of 1788 with great bravery and success against the Russian,. and it was only after a siege of several months that Potemkin, the eccentric favourite of Catherine, was enabled to take it. There are, it is true, Russian charts of the Liman of the Dnieper, but mush reliance cannot be placed ea their correct ness, partly from the annual alterations in the tide way formed by the fitful discharge of Its waters. and partly from the surVeys not having been confided to very accurate and conscientious persons. It is, how ever, expected that this is a difficulty whisk the science and intelligence of the naval dims of the allies will soon find means to overcome, and if the shallowness of the water precludes the entrance of the line-of-battls ships, it must, on the other hand, pre vent the coming out of the Russian liner vessels, whilst there is nothing to hinder the sailboats and other small craft of the allies from eateries, and making a sweep of the coast, es they did in the Sea of Asoff. At the extreme eastern end of the gulf and on the north bank of the Dnieper is situated Cherson, the principal town and seat of government of the province, celebrated for the famous vaunt of the Empress Catherine, who wrote on the gate of the city "Road to Constantinople." This prov ince, which was torn from Turkey and incorporated with Russia ten years later than the Crimea (1792), is a mush more extensive territory this Tenets. Nieolaieff appears at present to be the especial object of the Emparm's paternal affection, and the most gig tie efforts are being made to render it a 'mond I, es it is now the principal naval establishment in the south. Five-and-twenty years ago it had never been heard of out of Russia, and owes its sudden rise to the genius and energy of Ad miral Lazareff. It is situated at the *influence of the Bag and the Ingo', and surrounded by a barren and flat steppe. There is no bridge here across the rivers, and the communication between the two shores is kept up by means of flat-bottomed boats or ferries. The population at present amounts to 38,087 persons, inhabiting 4,998 houses. The town contains six licueo-Oreek churches, besides a catholic and a Lu theran one, and two synegogues (one for the Jews and the other for the Karaites). Amongst the more important end striking buildings are the Admiralty and several magnificent barracks of three stories each, capable of accommodating 26,000 men. Within the I.st few years an immense quantity of guns and ammunition had bean accumulated at Nicolaieff, but a great part of them were sent to Sebastopol, and are now lost to the Russians. On the banks of the Ingul ao esplanade has been planted. which leads to an oasis in the desert called Soho! Feet** a pic toren.* spot, three miles from Nicol wogs , there is the public garden of Speak, and a Wpit et pare water, which is coadoeted by as eqeeinsB bite the town, and supplies the inhabitants endeetmely, as there are no welle,end the water of the when is ter- TO PARIS. NT 1193N8ZINII AND DM= 1111.1011121 L (PION 003 OWN 0011DIPONDINT.) PARIS. TURMAN 110111NINO. Th. Conefihnsimmel publishes a oommanicatioa from M. Collet Meygret, entradieting the it &temente which have appeared in it with regard to the dada% of Baron Proiueeh.Oeten to Perim. The Baron, it mays, had no ukase. AN AUSTRIAN CREDIT MOBILIER. It is roseaced frees Vines, that the hew of Rothschild is to establish thing as Aestriset beak of Credit Mobilise, with a capital of 80 sillioa florins. FARIS, KOMDAT The quostion of the :coal of M, de Perim, Ain bassador at London, is said to be undorAperions eon sideration. The French Goveruntsat is. reported not to approve of the political Hoe which he has fol lowed at the English Coact. It is &M. 4 thit Count Warmish' will return to London, and that M. Drouyo de Lime will sesame the Ministry of /Foreign Affairs. The decree relative to the supireesieo of the Cleats Chao has bees slimed by the Emma. CONSTA2iTINOPLI, 13.7 T. 27. The submarine able to be laid down hem Coo. etantisople to Varna was brought from Ragland to She Ribs about three wmke does, the directors expectiag to fled all SlTSllleinents made preview to iti arrival. In tills they were cliingpisted. bet by great exertions they have get the ahem or Lied part WA down from Therapia to the Black Bat and tomorrow the Ribs, proceeds to lay the cable down, preceded by HALL Terrible to guide the wpy, for,' owing to the Lamas* quantity et electric ilbe ea board the Elbe;her empaicer ere alraost way. In three days, the work, it is =patrol, will be finished. and we shel be able to triegrapb to Ragland from' Gmetaatinople via Yam. The Naval Brigade having been sent book to their ships on effsming the redaction of the south side of Sebastopol. H.M.B. Albion, new having her crew oe board, will in • few days return to Ragland. tier late captain, Sir Stephen Lvehiagtoe, having bad the command of the Naval Brigade up to within few weeks, at its dispersal, took nearly the whole of the Albion's mew to the trenches with him, since which the vessel hes been lying at Coastantimple. Tbe Cheliff hes arrived at Marseilles fres Ociestes dimple with advioes from Ow Cavan litho fa IMAM. Itusaiax Was MMIIITIONIL—Maay parelsassa of lead kayo bass made lately by AMINIAOSIIS ie LOW mad lea... It Is alleged %kat these pastimes bays besot alai. oa assegai et Rassia. Ybr Asehibed Aline bee two wee in the Highland &foie *the Crime, ere et whoa was fa the Rode. et theam pp. ...pie leek passe, tbe totber yr is tbe divides Ind& ma be bow bees oiled apes le mew b. Week ant weeralsi. Oeleael wramisadeat. hes pdd as olkeial Ott le 0. Ofn.el lieepheir Ton Pia. foe the psrpeee d pwasatka — . enem =Web te these wended bere ft who 11 / 0 MOW la Itilealst. The eeesaweolart wee reeetolly Dr. Dartee ll osswea . oil ober s aw is the The too mood elude. n ewt ll Mw withdraw, heelorstaaa. sal Deleklere. to Mese when MIMI but Al..,;ma tawaseuttei es hiee. Wag fa these thiewaapreerata The IllanalaiGlie gen to Dr. Deana an aerie's her are ohs us boa% obi& wale he Om Ora es their Lobs the tut. BARON BROX' bid and unwholesome. The distanoe of Nieolde from Odessa is 121 yenta and from ; from Simpheropol 3401 Sebastopol, 401 . Immediately on the arrival of the Empero r Nioolaieff, the principal officer of the engineers at Odessa, Captain Yolokoff, was sent for by a r i d,. graphic message, and orders were given him for th immediate construction of five large redoubts, cap s % of mounting 400 pieces of artill er y. At the anal time the building of five hundred gunboats wen m op tufted in the dockyards, under the personal hap % Lion of the Grand Duke Admiral Constantin*, oh s has brought with him trom Cronstadt +auto bcaly r i working shipwrights and mechanics. These pa, boats are to be each armed with two and font. pu of heavy calibre, which have already arrived N o the great Gannon foundry at Blew. The p as the armament of the two new frigates, //hp. g m Tiger, have also arrived from Mew. The Grand Duke Constantine left Nieolsieff ea the 27th ult., for Sebastopol —or as near as he eta smell to it—and will return with Prim p m . , when the great council of war will he 1 1 in which the future military operations wi h a definitively settled. As far as is known hers, th wino* wishes to evacuate his present position on th north side of Sebastopol u perfectly untenable dor. lug the winter, and proposes to take up a strong defensive position between Baktchi-Serai and Sap& tuna. NAVIGATION OF THE BALTIC. COURT MARTIAL. PORTSMOUTH, Ocr. 16. A court-martial was held on board the Victory tta day to inquire into the calve. by which the Hastisgs,‘ screw, got on shore in the Baltic, at the move of the us of Finland, on the 20th of September, on her return but the Bahia to this port. The mart consisted of Captains Raw, of the SLY' 103 (presiden t Stopford, Calcites, 84 ; Seymour, Pm. woke, 60; Wallaby, Cornwallis, 60; Gordon, Vittoty: Ommanney, Hawke, 60; Saline, Bireepo , la Russell, 60; Harris, Illustrious; Crisp* Vie:wig—PA Albert; Sir W. Wiseman, P.nelope, 17• and Mr. O. L Greathans, Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet. Captain Fanshawe, H.M.S. Hubris, deposed—Oate r morning of the 20th of Sivember the Hominy wis werkieg out of the Oulf of Finland. On the previous mole', suss after 6 o'clock, the master showed me the polities el the skip csa the chart, end I being at that time too unwell to remain es deck defies the gib, I told the master he would ban ebiesp — a the pilotage of the ship daring the night. & pointed out to me the course he proposed to adapt damps the night. We were standing on the starboard tack te the southward, which he proposed to do till 9 o'clock, whs.* would alter his warn to the north-west, to any a doll— the Schedule Share shoals—of which Os was *Urals Mad going within six miles, giving as his ream be withal Is run no rise whatever. Having arrived in that posit*, be propued to tack sad stand to the south. When hem* dered the ship had gone a proper distance to tbe seeth, again to tech, after which it would be daylight lost hod* the ship would again touch the northern side. In *teems of a shift of wind, or the wind and see telling sn®eieetly le steam against them effectually, the °Hoer of the *A would get the eoune from him, and sail would be thoettell sad furled. The ship wee under single reef toms/lewd counee, with the assistance of stein. Sableqvat t. conversation I left my written cordon with the tmasrdes watch, to comply with the master's wishes at to At" during the eight. I stationed him ad to kcepirg the lad going briskly during the Light on appithching either dices, and I ordered myself to be called at two o'clock, is °ldol be swaged aa to thing@ going right. At that time limit from theoMmerof the watch that the wind and wselMr bd sea sheep/, and that he was in commusioation with * SWIM as le as piletsge. At or about a quarter to thew I was called Ilad teamed the [ship was on shore, sod 1* mediatargremeeded on deck, when I found the naiad weaken Ward up previous to tasking when she *kb by the Churt—l quite *peed with the master as livid was to bedews. In my mostrerestion with him I did eft disagree with him on one point. From the tins of variance at eight o'clock I had tae commaniestiaa wines nester till she got on shore, but I bad ebb the Awed the watch at two. To the best of my knowledge the aims of the wastes were carried out &inept the night. Vey is. estate bowlegs were obtained just after sunset on the 18th on the northern shore. We judged ens paten et eight o'clock by the distance run according to the peed log from those bearings. I cannot give a mama why the ship was on shore. The course and distance ought Min* taken the ship at least five miles from where she mud& There was a short sea, but with the screw going net WI i to rse a t f i l on eot o t i b t e b. sh w its d cauree n. . mi T a he sp se n a boat I observed It drifted to the outward, at about marl, w ap ti s ig " fill ta tna lli mile an boar. A small allowance war made for the nail set of the ship. It was daylight about ball-past 6. I ear muoiested the eirounistasess to the admiral at Memel* the direc ti on mediate) after IMAM after the master bad souttood roundround to o t This I did at the of the muter. At we saw the Lathed of Bodeuholm, and the mainland et* sosthward. John ratriMson, mats on board the Ewa. —Was Maser of the middle watch on the 20th of &pasha I signed the log of that watch. Its pretreat towline I secroct. I relieved Lieutenant Colomb. His orders u m wan the captain's written orders to keep a very toed 11l out, sedan ludo going briskly, and tack directly assail was mutured. When I rebind him steam wu ap, isi we wen trader single-reefed topsails, topgallant sail, her sail. jib mad foretopmast, wad staysail. We had load one I. this watch-10 minutes past 12. At about 6 Medi to throe I was on the starboard gangway hurrying the wash up to haul up the mainsail preparatory to going about, lam 1 felt the ship strike. I than gan the order to shortie s ai l, and nu sit to the tube and stopped the engines. lam went on the bridge for the purpose of aiming on the day, where I found the master. I was dim relieved by the AM 11,taseat._ By the — Court—Tho master left orders to be called at • quarter to 3—this was a little before 2—and to have snip thing ready for tacking by 3. Hs did not PIN up at to time he said. Ho was salted by the quartermaster. I did not oft him on deck till after the ship had struck, bat M might have been them without my awing him. The hod was smastantly kept going the whole watch at emit Math Thep leadsmen were constantly relieved. The deep sea had ow not mod during the watch. The speed of the sot increased but distressed !rawest' 2 tad 3. The bad not given any soundings during my watch. Wins the ship grounded ao depth of water seen reported. At I o'clock the ship was going about 6 knots. The atestmline wen buy, we could me about a quarter of a mile. The struck about the middle of the keel. I did not evenly order to beck the Alp off, as I was relieved by the AM lieutenant la about three minute. after the ship 'huh The orders to keep the leads going briskly were attendst The muter left orders to he called in case the speed of dr /hip increased. I did not require to know from them gineer every hour the number of revolutions of Menem/. I did not do so at two o'clock. I jadgsd of tie Mama speed of the ship by the log sail my own judgment. lath wind decreased, I did not expeot Mainlines bad mondlth on the speed of the ship. Idu not remember that the rem lotions were entered in the log. I ascertained that thee was no diff rem* in the ammo revolutions of the sogiseb or rather I Guppies there was no difference. The lesdemo.,, ROM relieved hown y. and bad to report. I think they me as two Velma. The Moseege woo sandy and satithaill, whoa I observed the torewm. Bewasmaimel—The smotor did Lave orders to be WWI the speed of the alinsinsenassel. Le reply to the psi essr—lfos gave me orders who I went below to shorten sail tea quarter to three prepeddif to tacking at three, and not to In after that time ; to Medd very grid lookout, tholeade soros tiii4ly,and scud the lOnEllella to sell you ass gamble to gum Also n 7 08 W my parthealar thew* in wind, or weather, or quid evened. PM', M larking no took in the fore and sths 11 7 1 4 lei the dethathel woo mtno than half up. Itourendamt—l frequently during the watch mused the Madmen to heave saorsfrequently. lam quits sena OP soundings were obtained be dna* struck. The *Mums of the mews who wertemempied is MOM the land at the tins in %motion was then tabus. skdely ssershotatim of what we haveven above frisk' other witnesses. The summary of it Troves that the Meth loge were up to Ave minutes of the ship striking about 10 fathoms, aadjabout 3} after she struck. The men ea tits look-out could not see the breakers. Lieutenant Writs, Ant-lieutenant, gam it as his Ml 6 * that the sense of the accident was the varieWeame d the anthem known to bet ronniog at the mouth of the Mr. Tone l then read his defence, in which he ceded his services of 13 years, and appealed to the endue* feral justification. Ho then called as witnesses to eharastor, Captain Catlin, who described him as a skillet, navigator, of whom be had entertained so high an e w e nine as to inducts Admiral Dundee to appoint liken Hastings. Under Are Mr. Towel bed always displayed the greatest skill, customs, and bravery, aid he (Captain Cab) believed there was not a better affirm' in the service. Commander Crofton, who bed served with hie is am so Alecto en the omit, spoke in similar terms of 'slap had heels selected by Admiral Brum es master of t;i n e:j ship Penelope, and the Commander-ice-Chief had es the highest opinion of his abilities. Captain Favehawe spoke equally high of Mr. Yowl% abilities and Modistes. The Court, having been cleared and opened na•—• judged that there was no evidence beyond the variable'!" of the currents of the see in question that could accost SI! the Hastings gentles on shoe,. They acquitted Mr. Tam of 'II him., and adjudged him mho sally acquitted. Shortly after the mart broke op for this day. • taw of the ship Alletfoo, of B a . devised, oat otos days frost Liveepool, booed for Kat* satiated had raised to work the ship, lessees she as a leaky. The weds was eesseeptsatly obliged to Oa O W stew to Sip her Otto Q•seesteen. EXTRAORDINARY SALK OF Li OPs.---Me. F4l ig ,ll l : lugs plaster is West Heat, bee sold bit whole aM 1111 esserissa boost, rtslisiag in sae payment sPww"" 93,0001.