The Express. — London, England, 1855-12-10 00:00:00

CII•P PUI 8' P♦TINT& am dr DATLIOUT lIMIALTOIS el sway poodle ilwarddes. sid et ell Oar Is episodes at dr Peadiee's Werdieesto ilk lbeisisiel. Ilsodoekey, IS, It. Urpassi ine expreos. TO CORICISTONDINTS. - - brow lir ~M Ilwalospoper. am If. Ihrivid. toy Iv* Visit ea SW IN • !UGH WAIT= AT LONDON DAIDON. Tan Dat—Woribg. 1116 16 Ow Ibaiesiiir—Masing. 11. 1126 LONDON, MONDAY, DECAMBHit 10. Tim resolutions adopted by the shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway. on Friday, are good as far as they go; the means* of peening them might have been improved. Mr. WADDINGTON and the pecout directors are doubtless great offenders; bet the share holders are not themselves entirely free from blame. We recollect being present at the first meeting of this Company, over which Mr. Henson presided as Chairman of the Board of Direst:es. A more painful spectacle of gross Mammon worship we never wit nessed. No Mandarins ever ko-toosd before the throne of the Hamann of the Box and Moos with sore intense servility and utter forgetful's.' of @str eamed than did the dense crowd of bread-clothed. pro vincial respectability which crammed the large rum of the London Tavern on that occasion, belay the ex-Railway King. It was not batman they thought Mr. HUDSON a high•siaded man above jobbing and pecalatiou ; it was not bemuse they had confides.* be his ability to manage their railway for their own and the public benefit ; it was simply because they had faith in his skill In " rigging the market" and W easeling the pries of shares. Disappointed is their mutations of Mr. HUDSON, they deposed him sad satiated Mr. WADDINOTON in his plate. Mr. WADDINGTON had been the abject tool of Mr. HUDSON as long as Mr. HUDSON was pompanos; but when the day of Hr. Hopson's adversity sues Mr. WADDINGTON thread hie heel against him. This appears to have bees Mr. WADDINGTON'S great recommendation to the shareholders of Eastern Comities Railway. They imagined they saw a cleverer HUDSON IS WADDINOTON, and therefore they made him Chairman of their Board of Dinners. Their choice of directors appears, in some oases at least, to have been realised by similar °pandered's& LordA. POINT was never understood to know anything of railway business, and his Court duties essupisd mush of his time; bat then he was supposed to possess Parliamentary intones, and he was elected a director to do the Company's jobbing in Parliament. Th. truth is that the railway Jeered has never got free of the taint that it contrasted at the time of " the railway mania.* At that en, railway scrip and railway shares were bought and begged, not with a view to hold them as a property that would yield a fair reasonable income, bat to sell thus at a premium and thus realise a sudden fortune. Notwithstanding the bitter lessons taught so many of then gambler', railway property has continued to be regarded by the great mem as something quite exceptional; as a wares of profit by indirect means, net by watchful steady industry in its management. The consequence has been that the value of railway property has been sought to be bolstered up by Parliamentary jobbing to secure exclusive privileges; by factitious dividends to spread a false impression of its productiveness; by every insane, in abort, except good management of railway in ceder tuners a lucrative traffic, sad good keeping of on counts in order to wore the intimate of the shire holders. The condition of the Eastern Counties Rail- way is a pregnant illustration of the necessary results of stein a system, by which it is to be hoped all rail way proprietors will take warming. The truth is that there is no " royal road" to wealth by railways, any more than then is a " royal road" to learning by quack systems of doodles. If railways are to be made profitable, it must be in the same way that any ether stook in trade is made profitable—by painstak ing, persevering attention to besieges; by judicious Homy g by clear accounts ; by the employment of honest and able servants. By deposing their Chair man, sad Galling upon oboe:does directors to resign. the shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway have only cleared the ground foe laying the fonder dim of a better system of maaagement. They must themselves put their shoulders to the wheel; they meet in future mind their own businses—if they would see their annual income and the value of their, property improve; and even then they mast have pati ne& forit is not one or two years that will develop the great natural resources of their line, after snob a long perseverance in a false and delusive policy. They must have the courage to estimate their property at its real present value, and set themselves to work to improve it by judicious and honest means. Moth will depend upon their choice of Directors and a Chairman at the next annual election. They have had ample experience of the oonseqsenews of choosing sharp men and Massada' men to fill these °Moss ; let them now, were it only for a variety, try what can be done by choosing good, steady men of Ulises& with high moral principle. More may be done by improving the organisation of their administrative body, with a view to ensure a thorough responsibility on the part of dada* and judicious motion en the part of share holders. Much has been sesomplished in our day by associated capital and associated labour, but the organisation of joint stook companies is yet in its infancy. The shareholders mad in future attend to their own business, and keep a sharp eye over their servants, instead of trusting everything to a few individhals who, they are told, are knowing fellows, and possessed of influence. Clear. truthful reports the year's operation, and fell " uncooked' w omb of income and expenditure, ought to be cir- Gelded before the statutory meetings, lug enough to suede the most remote shareholders to be present, if need be. The system of giving proxies to direc tors, or any central committee, ought to be dimes tinned. Let the shareholders in every locality, as soon as they receive the periodical semen* meet and prepare a report upon them to be pre sented to the general meeting, if son of them find it convenient or necessary to attend. If deemed advisable, let the proxies of these loss' share hoiden be given to one se more of their suenber.with in to attend the gourd meeting and set en their behalf. Let a Chairman or Managing Bime tal be appointed, with undivided authority, and un divided responsibility t let him receive such a salary es will free him from the aseessity 1 attending to any other business, sad raise him then di Issopta tion to jab his patrousge, or seek baked reale by eateries, into entrusts peejedisial to the intsesthe of the Company; let him have a mad' to amid with their stein but let him have fell pewee to set es ►is own dieted's. slier meshing that ad vise; Ist him appoint all the Made of departments, sad be iseposeible for their dkissey mad integrity; and let the heads of departments in tars snout their subordisates, and he responsible to the shalt mas for their elledesey sad integrity ; let theshsir mon have the power to dislike mg Mad et a &MO: must, the head of a dope:twat 11! ' dismiss art sabirdinate, at a moment's gift and it the Oempany retain to itself the power of West dismissal by the Tots it a tp4dettir, with' Tigard to the &einem. It is not to be minted, aor is it aseessory, that the shareholders should 'ham a minute prestige& knowledge of railway mausgemest. They can judge by the balance of looms and expenditure whether their affairs are wall seadasted; they sae judge by the whole bearing of their Managing Director, whether he is to be re lied apts. It is not gesessary that the Managing Director have an intimate actimintanoe with practical engineering, its; enough if he have snob general notions of these matters as will enable him to choose easiest beads of departments, sod an exten sive and intimate ampaintasee with the trails of the district through which the railway passes The smalgamatiga of many lime if railway is to be de precated as Melding to introduce a somplioation of rival and irrsoonsileable interests into the Company. Them hints are thrown out merely as indicating the considerations by which the shareholders ought to be guided in their attempts to perfect the orga nisation of their Company, and improve the character of their *Saab. There is no hope for them unites they improve their system and infuse new and better blood into their management. It these points are aufacieatly attended to, a son pros perous era may be opened for their railway than they hammer yet known. Bat time will be required to deve lop the advantages of the improved system. "Boise was not built in a day." It may take years to extri cate railway property from the slough of despond into which it has been plunged. But it would be madness is shareholders to throw away their property at its present price. They who can afford to hold on may rest assured that by judicious management and patient perseverance it may be made as valuable a property as any in the kingdom. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1861. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. (Free a ektniesseat to the Ossetic) BY TRI QUILIIN.---A PROCLAMATION. Varga*, R. Whereas oar Parliament stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 11th day of this instant December ; we, with the advise of our Privy Council, do hereby pub lish sad declare that the said Parliament shall be farther prorogued, on the said 11th day of December instant, to Thursday, the 31st day of January next ; sad we have shim order to oar Chancellor of that part of oar Untied Lindens called Great Britain to =fta mile' for Foregaiag the eases so et7ly : and awls hereby farther, with the advice afaesa4 dosage at Royal will and *seam that the said Parlismest shill, oa the said Thursday, the 31st day ef Jemmy next, assemble and be holden for the dent ' damn urgent and important affairs; and the limb and temporal, ad the knights, either, sal irm t ee, and the eommirdonses for shirrs sad burghs of the Hoses of Commons, are hereby regalia and commanded to give their atten dance amordingly. at Westminster, is the said Thursday, the 31st day of January next.--Given at our Court, at Windsor, this 7th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1863, and in the nineteenth year of oar Trigs.—God save the Qom% gte Court. I WINDSOR, Dia. S. There was iso addition to the royal 'baser party yesterday. . . .. . Pr(no Albert wesst oat bimodal" this ISOM'S& Como Leona, (the Portuguese Milder), Id. Pastes, sad MajorGeseral Sir Richard Airily (Quartenasster thaws' t. the Amy is the Ewe), arrived at the Castle this afternoon, es a visit to her Majesty. Calmat Boilsea ' Conalsadtag Miser 22. d Regional. had the hewer of dialog with the Clam The bead if the 2ed Life Guards played during dinner. Her Majesty's private bead .Waded sad perforated after dieser. _ _ Ds°. 9. The Caen sad Prism, the Primo of Wes, the Prisms Royal, Prime Alfred, Prises AIM, sod the D rebus of Is. the ladies sod geotlessea of the apart, and the dementia homehold, attended Divine movies this soseolog la the Private OM* of tie Castle. TM Bea. sad Very am. the Dela of Whaler olleietad. Sir Alosaador Spann& had as latorviow with the:Char. Wier of the itzshoquor as Saturday, at his oflicial miasma llotor-Geasool Bit itishord Obey retuned to tows rr talky, boa Window PAIL The neighbourhood of Hattield has been in a state of great beetle and refeledeg daring the last fee days, in eressqueees of the Malt of the Donbass of Cambridge sad the Princess Mery of Cambridge to the Marquis sad Ihrebiouses of Salisbury, et their asagaiflosat country red• deuce, Habil Howe, Herts. _ _ _ The Earl and Countess Delswur have left town foe Baekbsnt Park, Kest, when they are is hourly ezpeo tasks of ressiviss Colossi Lard West, C. 8., who, after his loss sad sawearied military dodos I. the Crimes, has ob. talsed a short lease of sheens, to visit BoileaL The Dab of Hamilton is still at Brodie& Cottle, Isis of Arras, astartaimisi a whet party of Meads with the sweets of the /Mid. The Duchess (Primo.' Mario el Bsdes) sad her youthful family have lett Emilia& Palms foe Nisi. - Ws regret to leans that the Marchionses of Ely is strain his ladhpaitka at the family ataatioa Batoa- The Marquis of Exeter has left town foe Boribley,l tar Steufari. Tbs Barl of Lama cams to town from Lalslam, on Illatudey masks, sad k the analog retuned te the same eget. Ma Earl of Cardigan lift town on Saturday, for Deena Park, war Kettering. _ _ _ Bir Havanna Beysioar has taken the apartments at Visa's whish were cosepied Irp X. Drays d. Lbw darts, the eesistssess. Lord and Lady John Russ% together with a dis tiuguisked pony, were expeeted to visit Lavetsteke Hew, tie seat .1 111. Portal, In., this day, sad to roasts fee several dep. Ste Jams Foramens. d Hiliterran, Bert., BLP., has eomplied with a militia eelleitatios, forwarded to Wu by the *tabula' leittletiespOirveit, to deliver:: pulls hetes* there en the wee. It is rumoured (ways Notes and Queries) that tweetr•lra theasead gilder of Macaulay width hare been labeled will set meet the supply ea the day of pablicattea, sad that the peal already et work ea a ',Goad lepreeeka. Oar readers will share ear ea:pries when they bear that the I weight at tke llaartalays to he lewd to the trade es the 17th it eetimetist et se lets thsa Altr•i= tow Suety Y a teetsaperelleled is tie Wary of paltlieldist 1 Os esti:day o sapplasset to tits London Geodes yes ;WOW devoted to so dada aceentat of the limed tore of the Mai et Berdlate with the amigos et the Order of the Orem The Sardinian Minister has placed inths hands of the Lead Kam s louse, essveyisig the *oaks oldie Kiss of flesdiwis fee tke sordid sad stessilleost empties We Majesty bed net with hos the serperstlea of Lemke The Xiskissi proses's& to the Lord Meyer, as the mews time, s mid istalf4tem. sesweted with Mammas, es s mask of esesideestisa boa hi Majesty to kb Isaiah* sod e Whew et the high grodllosties osperieseri by the royal Anises at the spleadhl smut is 'blob the whole sere nosy was psefrred, sail the estkesisses whisk wee se Tersely oshiblied by Ike idiom of lisodes. Tb. &envy Illawlard mode the death of Charles lert., el Ileopkin. wad Isrossly sweshee tee West Iforrey. The Oriteeeme el Terla taasemess the spiral there of M. &milk Olisfra, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. nazeirmai 4 imANcipAincor or TRE • ' MIKAN BIREFIL • . • (sir swarm TamaArr.) 1 (MOM oinvoing mama= HAICIVEO, Mornay. The Oses Mates podtively that it la the intention of the Bamian government to effect the inunediato emonsipation of the este of the. whole empire. The Emperor personally le favourable to the swan, and the land-owning aristocracy, who limbos mounded, offer no oppodtion• MARSEILLES, 8111 DAT. Aeoording to the latest news, Ears, though closely blockaded, had not surreadsrod. Oa November 9, an B:paid's of 10,000 (insgu-s lass for the meet part) oommanded by Bella Pasha had left Emmaus to sumer Kars. At the last dates Omer Pasha was on the banks of the Marini, three hoots' marsh from Hatais, and was expeting from Usughete Mostapha Paoba's divi sion, and also an Egyptian division of from 12,000 to 13,000 picked men, which we. to be sent to him from the Crimea. The news trout the Danube is favourable. It annousces th►t the river had attained the height of nine feet, and that in consequenes 400 ships laden with grain, which were waiting for the Soak had raised their anchors. At Sebastopol the snow had fallen, and the Allied troops had been furnished with weals clothing and furs. The branch railway from &labia's to Kaman, which is terminated, is to be continued toward' Kaddroui. The saborarine telegraph troy Baez to Bombay is to be laid down at the expense of the Peet India, Company. (YROX OWL OWN 001.11111PONDINT.) BIBLIN, Dso. 9. At the Grand Council at Bt. Petarsbutg it has been ntsolved to fortify St. Petersburg and Moscow, and coannistions of engineers have been appointed to make plans of defence. General Doha is the president of the commission for St. Petersbarg, and General Todtleben of that for Moscow. THE OVERLAND MAIL TRIESTE. MO =AL The steamer Australia arrived at 5 o'clock a.m., in 132 Imam from Alazaadria. Dn. 4. The India mail is at Alexandria, with intelligence from Caketta,November 8; Bombay, Nov. 18. The Sandal Jammed= is bring put down by inertial law. The Bengal army has bees stresithened by 6,000 The GM to Berm& was at Madras, on his way Money scarce. Trade dull. Freights low. Exehanp at Bombay. 29.1 9-16. The India mils sonnet leave Alexandria before the 6th. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. -•••--••••• affix OVA OWN 0011 PAM% SUNDAY iIATININCI. The King of Sardinia, who with the Emperor, ar rived at Paris from his sporting visit to Compiegne, only at a quarter to seven yesterday evening, left the Tuileries at nine this morning for Turin. In the interval he was " Med" up to a very late hear lest night by the Emperor. There was a grand dinner at the Palace. I happened to ernes the Pleas du Carrousel at midnight, and I observed every window in the long facade of the Tuileries blaring with light. The moment of the King's departure was announced by the firing of Gannon at the Invalids', and nothing that the French Government could do to show respect to the Royal visitor as taking leave of him was left undoes. Bat owing partly to the early hoar, partly. to the intense cold, and in a great degree to the short node, given of the change of route, the demonstra tioas were chiefly of an ofileial character, and the ge neral public took little part in them. Some flags, but mot many,were hung out from private houses along the line of the Rue de la Pair and the Boulevarda However, the theatres, clans, and publics baild• legs were very fairly decorated. The streets were not lined with soldiery, bat there was as im posing mass of troops, chiefly of the Im perial Gaud, drawn up in review order in the Carrousel when the King left. Prince Napoleon accompanied his Majesty to the railway station, where b• was received with the same oereasoey as on the occasion of his arrival. The King took a cordial leave of the Prince and several high °Moors of state as he got into the carriage prepared for him, and the train started for Lyons at half-pest ten. His Majesty is to leave the latter city for Chambery at nine this evening. The lihatrationsaya that the King of Sardinia has been invited to Vienna by the Emperor of Ana trim, and that it is hoped to extract from him some demonstration in favour of the altramontene chora l party, sad against the policy so happily followed by the Cavonr-Aseglio Ministry. The Pram says, in its weekly ccontereial re view: The dull Mate of slain is the trade of Paris matisme, wad we de sot get pensive the slightest symptoms of that movement shish I. west to be observed la the begisaieg of December, is expectatias of New Ifeer's-day ; these is, however, se west of work is the greater part of the bets rlee Tlie abeam of workima draws fee the war is felt to a emaidaesble eztest. At Lyons there ere gnat oamplaista of the west of beads. The »maim of Admiral Beat will arrive is Paris by the Lyme Railway at four o'clock to-morrow at- Itaroasa. A room at the Madam has been tramformed into a chaps& ardent*, where the body will lie in state. SPAIN. MADRID, Dui. 7. The Marquis de Target has appealed to the law tribunals relative to an article inserted in 'journal, issoltisg to the Empress Eugenie. We mead is the Madrid Epoes of the 4th: At the swesest whoa tiss:Csoitees was about to weft the this of meadows in hear.( General 011esisell, the Dee a. /Astoria preentod himself as a staple depth, spas the bossism of the Clousber, and is as eaphatis Take desisted that he had fall esoldosee is Osumi Cl`Dassell. Wainer of Wes. The althea redwood by the Laptev of General isperthre is sot to be easily ilstheibed. The Prat that of the Cassell did set seas to exercise as .stair lassoes apes the opiates, of the npreassta• tithe of the sesstry, he eons to give a peblis sad soluss teetiessay Is hie ales with the hors of Vieelsere, • asks white throws the sissies of the resod state of thump into despair. Ose itswired sad thirty two value against eight bath gives their semplate adhesion to (Mural OThssell's penes ma polity. It wee wisetlithod yeetemby make is pithilssi elides that Omer& O'Dessell sod Ilsperthre heathy net efts, the altdog, the latter seised the bad of the Pitwaler. }ad eseisiosd, " Itse, we will snit be asfba, awl itithCths ad hesion el the Carlos }ad the oaths are will gins tp this smalry tir9 4. fib. siti wdd mkt r viratio The Isieral Assembly is convoked for Jan. 21, in soneequense of the differmates of opinion prevailing in several sestoss, mon especially in lifesehlte/, Fri boaria and Vanities the subjeet of the pooposed lines of railway to waits Western and Central Switzerland. A friendly treaty between the Swim Confederation and England will be 'Omitted to the Assembly. PRIVATE AFFAIRS." 11171 ACT 01 • : AS 0771011 WITS 751 411111 T. Camp before Sebastopol, Nov. 21. • • • • • In wits of General Simpeon's order regarding leave of chemise, urgeat private drabs" 0012110 to Oka away • greet number of oar oaken rime General Oodriagno task esermead. Daring the last seven days— from the Mite the 10th lash—se less then seven isolonels and lienteneat colonels, three males% fin captains, two lieutenants, as Eifel's% and as eminent surgeon, have found "urgent private affairs" salleisat muse to obtain leave ben the asap foe longer fir shorter periods, some for two, use for three mouths. The emir, division appears to have fewer of them marvellous " urgent private affairs" than the rest of the arny ; the brigade of Guards ennuis deniably the most. 8o mesh or Is this the ems, that what with oaken shunt is sick lean, is staff employmast, and n" *mat private affairs," is. battalion of Guard', the. of the Coldstream, has hardly say Moan doing duty with it. A liesteaant is the regiment (although of souses a sap tale la the assay), Thelisson,who my entered the melee is' 1847, is in order. to set as a field seen with his corps, so few effective °Seers of rank are then present. This is the ease with almost every mensal, end the unfortunates sir remain doing duty with their seeps instead of Minks II 111 Christmas parties in Esglead, an very hard weird IsieeL Still the evil is contiased, for, as I said above, 19 Mein have is 7 days get leave of abuses en " urgent points affairs." All this mums a great deal of diesontant and grumbling, as you may suppose. • • • • • Bend use as many newspapers es you esa bun bog, bor- row or steal, par iesluly the noes, Dolly News, Iliustraki Now, PrivA. Hosashold Words, and Charebers. After reading tbsinl seed then to the sergeants, sad then to the sea. Send sae ales lour pounds of the best Lopes °lgen. Tea will get thus very good at in Osford-street, sad the maimed elder will pay for these. There are only bats far about ens-third of the sea as yet, sad for two-thirds of the Moen. The rot of the army ars loosely is very sossiertable double-rads& teats ; sad all Law pitied any wriakles ha soaking themselves easy since last whiter, ;partly by dialog oat holes wider their teats, sad thus pttiag sots epos sad more warmth top - I lhor• Ties winter &this( of the MS is most essellest—sething meld bo better. We Alien have to pay very highly for *ors; mine has east me IL 10e, and I is not yet escapists. What I have told yea about the great another of oflcers obtain's' ism of abloom will, sad does, tell epos the dissipUse of sits army. Ilawyregbasat is fall of remits, sad the marries@ of all are reqpind to get them late something like sedge before the spring. Bat how sea this be dose if so many often are snowed to rash book to Bogland when ever the faasy takes than ? And what makes this worse is, Mat whilst many same who have been out here from the very drat have bee. refused leave to England, others who maw at twelve maths later have obtained the indulgesee. Bat here, as in Loados, sad everywhere elm, Hems Guards interest dose every- Wag. When refasod leave (by either his Wesel, his Mfgailer, his essainsader of division, or eve* by the osamaailse-Mekief of this army), the man who " has good Warman writes home. His father, brother, wade, wife, ass; mother, or nista, manages to " get at some ems is the Emu Seise." Oat soma a latter to the soap (a private Liter, Manus% bat onside:ad dead-oMeial, and something more), saying that Captain Se•aled-so may have leave home apes " aural private affairs," provided Chanel Cedriag- Ma so limpa s s se whoever may be the aosainaader, " has no partisehr "—a hist, la abort, that " there Lao a sompublea, amt." Of owns the obstructive out kare mos "as 4 " &fitly ; and so, es Mr. —asp, 0 natters are pisonamt " tarthwith. Thus it is that the Guards get so ask bass, sotwitbstanding the very few often pretest he Eel/ Ira seek battalion,. If a coastal Aker goes home, all his pereosal gage with him, sad the allow who takes his Ow tam more °Moen sway from regimental duty to make up his staff, and Um the member of wetting son is farther Mused. No matter. The old pate of interest is kept up, sad the pkbidans taught their p erm pi amm .. • • • • • • OF WAR AT HAMBURG, Dim 6. It is now several weeks sines the British coned- ' general here, Colonel Hodges, was instructed by the government to present to the Senate of Hamburg an energetic note, strongly protesting against the laxity with which the government of this city observed their so-celled neutrality, and the glaring and open ' as in which contraband of war (and more tape sialb articles of sulphur and saltpetre) was sent Irani here by the Premien railroad to Russia. Within the last ten days large quantities of these ' utilise have been imported here without any notice ' being taken of it, or protest raised from any aide whatever, and it is ao secret here that the purchasers are the agents of St. Petersburg houses, and that the goods have been sent on by railroad to Russia. That your readers may judge for themselves of the Tian tity of sulphur and saltpetre imported into Ham burg within the last few days, I beg to subjoin the following particulars, taken from our official import lists: Antagonist (British barque), Blake, master, from Terra nova4l,l2o.ooolb. sulphur. Labors (Danish schooner),Captain Muhl, from Marseilles, 160 chests of sulphur. Albis (Bamberg brig), Captain Ahrens, from Iquique, 1,769 begs of saltpetre. Johann Julies (Holstein barque), Captain HUM, from Iquique, 3,116 bags of saltpetre. Jane knee (British mbooner), Bunt, master, from Pa- Maki%llastela 630 ouster. (cwt .) of c lis agat r ileyer, from Girgenti, 1,665 sentare of sulphur. Huts Yriedridt (Danish brig), Captain Brand, from 'lquique, 3,167 bags of saltpetre. Alden Hied' (Norwegian brig), Captain Bruhn, frees Lions, 2,880 mum of sulphur. Blida (Humbug brig), Captain Jachtmann, from New York, 1,68833 bags of saltpetre. Here thou we have, in the short space of ten days, no leas than five argots of sulphur and four of salt petre, with the certain knowledge that they are sent on to Russia, and converted into gunpowder to be used against us. Within the last few days a large demand has sprung up hem for empty sugar chests, particularly lee those from Hammitt' and the Brazils. These sheets are conveyed to the so-called Theerhof—a large isolated stack of warehouses used exclusively for warehousing tar, turpentine, oulphur, saltpetre, pile, and other @sally inflammable articles of merehamiles --where they are filled with sulphur. As large quantities of Brasil and Havanna h sugars are sent every day to Russia by the railroad, it is not irratiooal le suspect that this sulphur, packed in old sugar oases, is else intended for transit to Rama—probably to be mixed up with other and similar chests of real eager, to meek the real nature of the transaction, and satisfy dm soy soNdsecat of the Premien offici:ils. THE BALTIC. (mom ova ow mai. M 0.3. The Dragon arrived here from IPiro — liound on Saturday evening. When she left that anchorage, the weather had beams somewhat milder, and Admiral Baynes, with the Retribution, was still in the inner haven, and the rations cruisers continued at their appointed stations, maintaining the blockade in all its rigour. TM Dragon hes been pretty moms tat in captures. In addition to the Lubeck mead, already 'motioned, she had taken sod destroyed a large number dem& coasting craft. The cargoes of rye, &0., were, however, removed, and subeequently sold by section by the septets, at the seat conve nient Swedish pert. M. Pres Pia applied /Ably dog pandedeo to pub laik a sea id% Nebo. reationg be anion two rattiest insole. Tbs authseteadea wee in the peen of ben, permed wins the snidest inked sublimed, " YOB, lee ley review appear, sod Ware eighteen nestite an ever Wady wit bane la a Oinelie pion" TM eittbselties, Medea by thie. lames* pot a eels epos Me ones& THE °C lON OF M CORN NEAR °REH ro sun ensarra.) ADMIRALTY, Dec. 7. Despatches, with enclosures, of which the following are copies, have bees received from Admiral Sir Edmund Lyme, Bart., 0.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the Mediter ranean and Black Sea, Royal Albert, Kazakh Bay, Nov. 24, 1866. Sir, —Theo lordships are aware that when the small gunboats were no longer required at Kinburn I sent them back to Captain Osborn, to afford him the means of destroying, at the latest period of the season, the harvest of this year, which I understood to be collecting in the neighbourhood of Oheisk- Liman, for the purpose of being transported in the winter months, partly to the enemy's army in the Crimea over the frozen Gulf of Axoff, and partly to his ' , army in the Caimans by the military road. 2. The enclosed copy of a letter from Captain Osborn will show their lordships that in this, as on many former occasions, he has fully justified the con fidence I have placed in him. The skilfulness of the arrangements made by him, and the admirable manner in which they were executed by himself, by Commander Kennedy, of the Curlew. and by the officers and men under their orders, completely frus trated the efforts of the large force that was brought against them in defence of the stores, which the =appears . to have considered safe from any atm* m consequence of the shallowness of the water. I. The effects of this brilliant enterprise, in the doolnitien of so much corn and forage at the cam. msessmient of winter, cannot fail to be severely felt u lte asu lusidan armies both in the Crimea and the 4. Commander Kennedy, in reporting his large share in the proceedings of the day in the command of the Curlew, states to Captain Osborn that at one place alone the rows of stacks were six deep and ex tended two miles, and it appears that for economy in transport and storage the straw was cut near to the ears of the corn. 5. As the ice is now forming on the shores of the Sea of Asoff and the squadron is withdrawn, I feel it to be due to Captain Osborn to reseed that under circumstances of great difficulty, occasioned by unu sually tempestuous weather, he hoe most ably con tinued through the summer, and brought to a saw. woeful close in the autumn, operations novel in their nature and extremely detrimental to the enemy,which commenced auspiciously in the spring under the direction of the late Captain Lyons, of the Miranda ; nor is it too much to say, that both commanding officers were supported throughout by sa dashing and as intelligent a band of young officers, seamen, and marines, as ever shone in the British Navy. I am, Re., (Signed) EDMUND LYONS, Bear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. The Secretary of the Admiralty, London. (P2* A Her Majesty's Stearn-doer Vesuvius, off Ghent, Nov. 7. Mr,—After dark on the evening of the Erd instant, the squadron seder my command was assembled and anchored la 16 fest water, off Gheisk-Lbasa, sad I made arragements foe the morrow to operate against the extensive collection of sore, forage, and feel, belooging to the enemy, stacked along its shores, so se to distract the atteatios of the large terse which, from previous observation, I knew to be in the neighbourhood. Under Lieunnant Rom, of the Weser, I pissed the Curlew in the temporary charge of Lientensat Mall, and the Ardent I. charge of Kr. Tilly, second master, each vessel basin antheitat ass left in her to weigh an anchor, or' light a gun, and man • few baste, giving orders to Lieu tenant Roes to close in on the northern fees of °heist, and to be prepared to too-operate with me Guide the Liman. The Vesuvius I left in the din, demoted of every avail able pomp. Embarking officers and men as is the sneezed list, from the Vesuvius, Curlew, Weser, sad Ardent, with their beats, we left at daylight, towed by bar Majesty's gun beets, Recruit, Lieutenant G. Day; Boxer, Lieutenant S. P. Townsend; Cracker, Lieutenant J. H. Muryst ; Clinker, Lleuteaant J. 8. Hudson. By 6.30 a.m. the flotilla was off Vodina, three miles north of Olefin ; here long lien of carnation, and much fuel were stored along the onst,with a Cossack guard for their prone tioa. I immediately detached Commander Kennedy with the boats, covering him with the gun vessels, sad in a short time all was in ileums and the party cleverly re.embarked at the moment that slugs body of Cossacks rode up from Lesanite. . The town of Glofln became the next point of attack ; it was greatly changed in appearance dime visited by Captain Rowley Lambert in July leaf. Corn stacks, for some miles is extent, might sow be wen along its southern and intern face, placed close to the water's edge ready for transport; and between the rows of houses the on tier were to be seen. Au entrenchment had been eat along the edge of the cliff ,eornmanding the spit; large Wise of dismousted cavalry were seen lining it, and mud me* showed la the rear of even boon. To endeavour to flank the defences, as well as destroy the 001141 stooks stored on a high hill east of (Refits, I despatched Commander Kennedy, with the boats of her Majesty's ship Curlew, a paddie•boz boat and eatter of the Vesuvius, the whole towed by the Clinker, Lieutenant Hudson, with orders to turn the spit end, and then attack is that direction, after giving a certain time to allow the enemy's attention to be divided by the other attack. The gunboats Recruit, Grinder, Boxer, and Cracker opening fire os the entrench meats with Slirspuell shall, and on the corn ricks with caresses. As the way meld only be dislodged frees the satzense west, and the esteems did not well answer, and moreover endangered the whole town, I despatched Lieutenants Day sad Campion with the small form of 1111112411 available, a hewitser boat sad two rocket boas, to aid more effectually In 'saying out my object. Lisatenent Campion, with Mr. 'Piny, gunner, charging *Me bad of the Mariam, supported by Lieateaant Day Ind lbs sessen, all Wag ender a sharp fire of musketry, entleesiled in driving the enemy, with emaidereble loss, sot likek tenth work, and captured a small brass piece, and Om steadily forced them back, with lose, from store to verse, until the whole of the vast quantity of corn, stacked ready for thrashing and transport, was in dames. The gallant saannu in which Lieutenant Campion led the Marines deserves to be brought under your notice. Eleeiag the enemy collecting a number of men, ready to barge our men if they advanced boned a ravine on the sue sines e( the town, I recalled my form, and had the eater ibeliss of seeing all embarked, with oily use mast wounded. TM versals off Obelisk were now seas to be engaged, Letelemat PAW. of the Weser, having placed them in capital pesitione ; and, is the satiny moved down lair bodies of Weeps, especially cavalry, to resist hie landing, and opened Ito on hies, he very unwillingly had to Are On the town to dislodge them. The proceedings of Lieutenant Roes were ably executed, sad he fully sueeseded in keeping is shook a heavy body of eavalry which might have meth issommeded the small form ender Commander Kennedy, who, by the mast strenuous inertias, bad reached bis politica. sad finding the cliff too steep to male in the fuse of a large number of troops, who were firing on him from its meet, ►e very jediciously eszeented the duty I had entrusted to him, with the gun and the carcase rockets of the ship's boats, setting every store in flames, except one large government build. log cossiderably in the rear. Commander Kennedy speaks in the highest teems of his party, for the shells seem of the water obliged the crews of the bests to be rowing and wading through t►e water from zeros until midnight, the mean too bMeg sow very *old. Tereegboat the night the stores were busing fiercely, a sheet of flame intending fully two miles; bet the town of Glofin, except where the troops bad mod the houses sgaiast us, remained entombed. At an early hour on the 6th of November we weighed and peesseded late the Listen, steering towards Gheisk. Tie valuable monism of Mr. George Perry, Acting Master eg Me VIIIIIIViIS. and Mr. Parker, &end Master of the Reessit ease ken into play ; and, at an early period, I bet the eadelestion of seeing all the gas-boats anchored hustle theft ems draught or water, within keg gnaohot of the east extreme of O►eisk and the neighbouring steppe, along the edge of whkb, for four idles, sera sad hay was sucked la rosadties fir beyond whet I had esaseived to be penile* sad at the be.. of the steppe, as well as that pert of the spit saninisadsd by the lowa, auks, yards, Ash stores, boats, lbs., in numbers were eessinaleted. To attack upon is many pasts as possible was, I &mit, the ealy way to foil the troops that hod sow bed t►irty.siz boars to peepers for as ; t►e gust- baste (Mader, Boar. Crasher, and Clinker, were left to rows the landing party. To Lieutenant Rees end to Wear, I signalised to pews to had, sad divided s e toms la the Lassa tato three bodies ; the left nadir Lew & wants Day sad Townsend, emaisted of boats and swig Beensit sad Borer ; the seats* I entrusted to Comm,* Kennedy, bsviag under him Lieutenants Hamilton, Og le pion, Mama% sad Mayne, with all the boats of the e el * , Ardour, Grinder, and Cracker, end port rocket sad gee I boats of the Vesuvius, in charge of the oScms named in M margin! the right division under Lieutenant Clime" Strode sad Lieutenant Hudson, consisted of the Subset gumboots of Vesuvius and those of Clinker, together egg soma Marines—Mr. R. Farquharson, midshipmen,'` charge of the latter. Lieutenant Rom, on the wen site of Obsisk Bpit, had the boats and smaWars sea et ge Weser, with a small tome from Curlew and Ardent, me w Lieutenant KW, and Mr. TWy, second masts, in radians to eo-operato. _ _ The - differeat parties palled in, and effected a lam* g appointed plasm, fully • mile apart. The Randle Im • . widths light bresetworke, attempted to prevent that, b al failed, and is • few moments • semen ef team lad seeks rolling from oar as. towards the enemy, preveated Oa latter mein whore or bow to meneenvre in order to at off any of ear small detachments. 0a tho right sled main the enemy mustered etroogie, sad at ace time, observing a alum of some 1,600 Comets moving rapidly off the late, I directed Commuda Ha, nedy (who by that time had connected his fins with as.. of Lisataaaat Day) to re-embark all but the MMUS, I§l with thus to mond to his right, and I ralaformd hia with the Mariam of the Ramis and Water, leader IMs. taaaat Campion. This =mond perfectly ; the many arrived too late to save anything on the left whilst ou rasa steadily worked towards the eight divides. Imam Lis tsaaata Strode and Rees, who, in spite of a Macy bat badly directed fire from ths houses on the heights, stasgll, held their ground. and effectually destroyed a gnat aim ululation of materials for boats sad ship building, tik atom, cavalry camp gear, and graaariss. When emrithhig bathe town of Oltenia was dans*, I ordered the embarkation to take place, and dowel some boats to .over Liantenant lion, between elintan Ws boat the enemy were throwing a body of mia,vbe,b, their uniform, I believed to be regular infantry. By 2 p.m. everything was iiniihed, and all the yams 'eh], re•embarhed on board their respective papule, p is casualties amounting to only six ram wounded in 111, eu of them dangerously, and another severely. Nothing further being left within our null In Liman, except the store of corn which escaped ea the go vioas day at Mehra, 1 therefore ordered Ccmosed. Kennedy, with the moiety of the boats, to retain to WO respective skips, and remained with the Bank, Arlo, Boxer, and Crasher's boats, to finish what bad Impel Ng of Olofira. Oa the 6th the weather, which had favound el IN providentially, changed ; fogs and strong brume Cain e; but directly I was Ole, the rocket boats and esrew van again employed upon Gloilra until the fires utiegailei yesterday were re lighted, and another extiolini aeeenah• Lion of corn in lames. I then weighed and retuned le as Vesuvius. reashiss her the same afternoon. I Impair of being able to °Davey to you Eul64 Of Gs extraordinary quantity of aeon, rye, bay, wood, and sMet supplies, so nemesuy for the existence of Barka sada both in the Cassano and the Crimea, which it has ben al good fortune to destroy. That these vest stores should have been oolleetal hies, too clam to the sea, whilst we were still is the neighbour. hood, is only to be accounted for by their supra* Vet they oonld not be reached by us, and judging by the position the squadron under t►e late Captain Bumf Lyons took up in May last, the Maoism had establishst s amp and fortified their town only to meet a aisle attack. - Daring these proceedings we never had more the M 3 men engaged; the enemy had, from the ooneurnet ad. molly of Lieetenants Ross and Strode, and my owe ohms lion, from 3,000 to 4,000 men in Obeid alone. Where every officer exerted himself to the utmet,sed ' did all and mod than I expected of them, it 'raid is invidious foe me to mention one more than another; b was their oedema, seal, and example, that rendered stssey many of the younger men, who for the first time well wader Are, and bat for their 'general intelligence sad asM the enemy would have easily frustrated oar opentioan The WA, good oonduet,And gallantry of the sea, was deserving of every praise. Commander Keanedy, my sicced in command, gave as the most valuable aroperatioa, and from hue, se well es the reports of the other often, I feel juthfied in before you the name of the following warrant oflioen sad men, who, under Are, behaved remarkably well, vis.:— Mr. Richard Verey, acting gunner of her Majesty's dip Ardent; Thomas Kerr, gunner, Royal Marine Artillery, her Majesty's ship Vesuvius; Peter Mudd, A 8., her Ma jesty's ship Curlew ; David Barry, A. 8., her Majesty's ship Cracker. The enclosed plan, illustrative of our operations, by Mr. George Perry, acting maste .m ow the Vesuvius, will, I trad. be of ase ; sad I bog you will me te all your awed' to the unvarying mil of that oflioer.—l have, de, (Signed) SHEPARD Ostrom, Captain and Senior Officer in the Sea of Asi Bear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., G.C.8., do. Return of Men Wounded during the operation of th" 4th, sth, and Bth November, 1855, in Oboist Limo. — Thomas Middleton, Vesuvius, gunner R M.A., slightly; John Cook, Vesuvius, ord., alight.y ; Peter asalen , ClP kw, A. 8., dangerously ; Th om as Cuddehey, Carlow, private severely ; John Burke, Recruit, LB., se verely ; Robert Atwood, Wooer, private R.M.. slightly. (Signed) Snsakan Ossons, Captain and Senior Mem A Return of Officer and Men of her Majesty's slip ta Vesuvius, Curlew, Ardent, and Weser, detached sad CM ployed destroing the enemy's resources in GbeislAinu , during the 4t h , 6th, and Bth November, 1855.—Vssuries: Gig—Captain 8. Osborn, senior officer; Mr. O. D. Perry, acting master. Rocket Boat—Lientessat Chetham Strode ; Mr. Joseph Scott, gunner. Paddle bon Bost— Mr. R. R. Armstrong, mate. Paddle boa Bont—Mr. Gilbert King, essistant.surgeon ; Mr. B. D. Farquharson, midshipman. Boats' crews, all smaltena men and Marines. Curlew : Gig —Commander J. J. New nedy. Pinnace—Limetenent Mayne. Gig—Undated MIMI. Pinnace—Mr. George Mutant, midshipman. Al small-arm men and Marines. Ardent : Cutter, rocket boat, end gig—Lieutenant Campion ; Mr. Vera, Wiggunner, gunner, 20 blue juke% and 11 Marines. Wager :11 Marinas belonging to Weser. (Signed) Samsun Ossoste, Captain and Senior Officer. In toneideratioa of the services mentioned in the ebore despatches, Commander John James Kennedy will be pre. meted to the rank of captain so soon as he shall be qusib tied; and Lieutenant Hubert Campion has been promoted to the rank of Commander. • Mr. Armetraig. its ; Mr. kat, rumor ; Mr. Verty, gunman An order of the day of the Grand Dale Conetaa• the published at St. Petenburg on the 28th ult., wanes that the crews of the Stet who have taken pert is dude fence of Sebastopol may carry upon their helmets the fol lowing isieriptino. " For Seb a stopol, from Sept, 18, lato to Aug. 27, 1856." A letter from Berlin, of Friday last, n7l. " Busies Ambassador has been received to-day is WI" audience by the Ring, and has presented to his Maienfol autograph letter from the Emperor Alexander, in WA the latter misnames the betrothing of the Grand Duke Nicholu." The town of Fano, in the Roman States, the liftb• place of Generalfitontereachio. has just celebrated the feu ral rime for the repose of the soul of the deceased selfish The Rum polite at first attempted to interfere, bat side stately gave way. The coacourse of the people Wav l e great. The fenenl inscriptions recalled the briniest Mr• vices of the General, and one of them proclaimed him se first holocaust of Italian valour (prim oiocausto del ease hatiesso) in the war against Russia. There are at present five political journals appou'• daily at St. Petenburg. They ars the Invalids fie" the Godes de N. Pelorsbesay, the A&. 1. de Nord Ole are printed is the Russia* langeage), the Joursai Petersbany (Preach), and the Pedevebury•Zsitent Ran). A letter from Moinow states that the EnSpinet retaraiog through that city, devoted the short tied b . stopped there solely to religious este. He visited Id set esseion the nuassoes churches of the Kremlin, sad 1 011 _, V14 devotions to the relics, end at his departure be filiT un from the bishop the lunge of a saint. AIM! MISMANAGIIIIT.NT.—As a proof of the Weans with which matters relating to opustisu Crises are eoadaoted at hose, we may state, on the set* city of a private letter, that seventy fine eat boost wort lately shipped foe the railway at Halals's without sow risary surge= to look after them. It is warm l y to bow.' dered at that four of the number died on the psestiM, FIUNKFORT.—The Natiasol Gazette of How states frees Frankfort that the Bank of this latter Ail reamed its ate at &mat ben 41 to 4 per cast. Tkis .del to the I L s 91 TM vd. 10 - Its. Oh I W steel Deal Pen W Aldo fro. undo Sub Mr. TI Mr. labo Mr. oho' livs MP Pea Wel oak