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Ldvortisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. :I!.rlrgg• LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1854. POSTSCRIPT. THE WAR. The arrival of the Fury steamer at Marseilles was telegraphed yesterday afternoon. Lot d Burghersh, senior aide-de-camp to Lord Raglan, has arrived in her, bringing home the detailed despatches relating to the battle of Alma, with the list of casualties. His lordship cannot be expected to arrive in town before Sunday morning. The Fury brings news from Constantinople to the 27th, together with a few additional particulars of the operations in the Crimea. Sebastopol was commanded by the allies. The Russian naval division had made an unsuccessful endeavour to push out with fourteen sail. Up to the 24th there had been no further fighting in the Crimea. The 23rd Regiment lost all its officers except three, of whom Captain Bell was the senior. Colonel Ainslie was killed in planting a standard on the heights of Alma. General Brown had a horse killed under him. Sebastopol is invested. The French steamer Nil has also reached Marseilles. Her intelligence is merely to the effect that the loss of the Engligh at the battle of the Alma amounts to 2,000 men ; that of the French was not so great. General Bonet is among the killed. Yesterday's Moniteur announces the occupation of Bala Cleve, of which the allies have already made a considerable place. The allied armies were in communication with the fleets. A safe and practicable road leads to Sebas topol. The allies are now firmly established in the Crimea. The various columns of the army had to cross several rivers in succession, in order to turn the Gulf of Sebastopol, and enter the mountain country, before they could arrive at Bala Cleve. Menschikotf had been driven to a distance with the wreck of his army. Another memorandum has been issued from the War office, in which the Duke of Newcastle "thinks it right to make known that he fears the account of the casualties on that occasion cannot be published before Monday, at the earliest." The Stockholm journal, Aftonbladet, asserts that the fortifications of Bomarsund are now in the pos session of a Swedish sailor, named Clas Berggren, who acted as an interpreter to the French Com mander-in Chief, Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers, who made him a present of the ruins in acknowledgment of his services. He is now in treaty with some builders at Stockholm for the purchase of the blocks of huge granite not destroyed by the British and French artillery. The Canadian Parliament has voted the paragraph relating to the clergy reserves by 80 against 33, and his Excellency Lord Elgin is to give the royal assent to the bill before his departure from that colony. In consideration of the possibility of our fleets in the White Sea and the Baltic being driven towards the rugged shores of the Shetland Isles, the Govern ment determined to exhibit lights on the eastern and northern points of Shetland. We are glad to he able to state that the Commissioners of Northern Light houses have now succeeded in establishing these THE PRESS. lights, which are of a temporary construction, in order to meet the emergency.—Scotsman. Mr. G. J. R. Gordon, Consul-General at Monte Video, has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne, in the room of the Hon. Charles A. Murray, now her Majesty's representative at the Court of Persia. The members of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights entertained their pre• sident, the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, on Wednes day, in the City-hall, Glasgow, in testimony of their gratitude to his lordship for his able advocacy of their cause. About 600 gentlemen were present. The Duke of Montrose occupied the chair. MR. DISRAELI. Mn. DISRAMLI, M.P., with Mrs. Disraeli, left Ply mouth towards the close of last week, and proceeded to Trevina, the seat of Michael Williams, Esq., M.P. The right honourable gentleman has addressed the following letter to the Blackburn Protestant Associa tion, which was read at the last meeting of that Society : " Hughenden Manor, Sept. 15. " Sir,—l have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 7th inst., communicating to me the thanks of the Blackburn Protestant Association, for certain observations made by me at the close of the late session of Parliament, with respect to the present anomalous con dition of the constitution of these realms, and the great dangers which may consequently ensue to the rights of all classes of her Majesty's subjects, both Protestant and Roman Catholic. " I beg you to offer the association my thanks for this mark of their approbation, which I value. Public men, in this country, depend upon public confidence. Without that they are nothing. " Far from wishing to make the settlement of this all important question a means of obtaining power, I would observe that I mentioned at the same time, in my place, the var:ous and eminent qualifications which I thought Lord John Russell possessed for the office, and my hope that he would feel it his duty to undertake it. " In that case I should extend to him the same support which I did at the time of the Papal aggression, when he attempted to grapple with a great evil; though he was de feated in his purpose by the intrigues of the Jesuit party, whose policy was on that occasion upheld in Parliament with eminent ability and unhappy success by Lord Aber deen, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Gladstone. " I still retain the hope that Lord John Russell will seize the opportunity, which he unfortunately lost in 1851, and deal with the relations in all their bearings of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects to our Protestant constitu tion. But, however this may be, there can be no doubt that, sooner or later, the work must be done, with gravity, I trust, and with as little heat as possible in so great a controversy, but with earnestness and without equivoca tion ; for the continuance of the present state of affairs must lead inevitably to civil discord, and, perhaps, to rational disaster. " Believe me, air, your very faithful servant, " 11. Disitaitia. " The Rev. Christopher Robinson." MR. SERGEANT O'BRIEN, it is stated, has deter mined to offer himself as a candidate for Limerick city, to fill the vacancy in the representation caused by the death of Mr. Potter. The learned sergeant, who is a Roman Catholic and a moderate Liberal, was a candidate for Limerick at the last general elec tion, when he was defeated by a very small majority. THE CONSECRATION OF THE VERY REV. DR. LEAHY, a friar of the Dominican order, as coadjutor to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dromore, took place on Sunday in Cork, the proceedings baying been con ducted with great pomp and magnificence. THE collections in the several Roman Catholic churches of Dublin on Sunday in aid of the Roman Catholic University amounted to nearly 1,2001. THE following announcement appears in the Free man's Journal:— " His Grace the Archbishop of Tuain proceeds to Rome at the close of this week, on the invitation of his Holiness, to attend the great meeting of the prelates of the Church, where the Irish hierarchy will be represented also by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin and his Grace the Arch bishop of Armagh, Primate." A COURT-MARTIAL has tried the first lieutenant, Glover, H.M.S. Rosamond, Captain Wodehouse, on a charge preferred against him by the surgeon Littleton. It appears that Mr. Littleton, speaking of the navy, used the expression " Any pig will fatten in a sty," to which Lieutenant Glover replied, " You ought to have your t ingue pulled out for speaking of your service in that way." Lieutenant Glover was reprimanded, but the court considered the charge unnecessary and frivolously preferred. A SERIOUS FIRE broke out on Monday morning, about three o'clock in Goswell-street, on the premises of Mr. Pedroli, a tobacconist. A thick'fog prevailed at the time, and prevented the flames from being seen at any great distance, so that messengers had to he sent off to the various engine stations. The fog was so dense that the firemen had to walk in front of the horses, with lights in their hands. Ere they arrived at Goswell-street, the fire had seized on the whole of Mr. Pedroli's premises, and ultimately extended to some of the houses adjacent. Nearly five hours elapsed before the flames could be extinguished. SATURDAY, Xato an Voila. THE DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR on board the Dauntless has undergone a thorough investigation by the civil authorities of Portsmouth, before whom Lieutenants Knight and Seymour were placed on a charge of manslaughter. The details preceding and attending the death of the girl Lodge, of which an abstract was given in last week's Pitess,were recapitulated at great length, four entire clays being occgpied in the pro ceedings. Finally, the Mayor pronounced the deci sion of the court, absolving Lieutenant Seymour from all blame in the affair. Respecting the other defendant, while pronouncing his acquittal, as far as legal criminality was concerned, the Mayor said : "The charge is the ht avy charge of manslaughter against Lieutenant Knight, and should be accompa nied with a corresponding amount of evidence, if the case is to be sent before a jury. It has been said, justly sail, that there is no point on which we can put our finger and say there is a point to show that the deceased received a sufficient amount of damage from any one individual to cause a fatal in jury. No blow appears to have been struck by any one hand, as far as we can see. It appears she fell twice out of the bed ; and according to medical testi mony those falls might have given such a shock or caused such a concussion as to produce the internal rupture from which she died. l'lnerefore Lieutenant Knight, however reprehensible his conduct might have been—however wrong he might have been in introducing this girl on board contrary to the rules of the service—however wrongly he might have acted —and he did act wrongly—in supplying them with stimulating drinks—however wrong it might be in him to have let her out of the ship without stating what was to be done for her, and putting her into a boat without saying where she was to be sent on shore—though he may not have displayed any of those feelings of humanity that ought to have affected him when sending her out of the ship in the state she was, he having brought her into that place—however reprehensible he may have been, we say, and we are unanimous in that opinion, that there is no one point on which we can lint our hand and say that there is a sufficient amount of evidence before us for the pur pose of sending Lieutenant Knight to take his trial on a charge of manslaughter. While we most strongly condemn the course Lieut. Knight took on this occasion, and think there is no excuse for him in the conduct that was pursued by him, we still feel that, in discharging our duty, we should anxiously look to do that which is just and right. While we feel his conduct to be leprehensible, we also feel that we cannot, in justice to ourselves, on the evidence placed before us, send him to take his trial on the charge now made against him. Therefore, while we express our strong opinion of the gross impropriety of the conduct pursued towards the unhappy girl, we must dismiss the charge of manslaughter against Lieut. Knight. A court-martial, convened at his own in stance, will again review the conduct of Lieut. Knight in relation to the occurrence." Two CONFEDERATES, by name Sharp and Taylor, have been examined on charges alleging that they had obtained goods from divers tradesmen to the value of 5001., by false representations. The plan pursued by the prisoners was very ingenious. Sharp assumed the character of a young tradesman just starting in business. His first step was to take a house, and, by representing that he was in daily ex pectation of receiving 500/. from a lately-deceased uncle, induced some carpenter to fit up the shop on credit. He then applied to some wholesale houses to supply him with goods, hut, as it was necessary in such instances to give references, Taylor established himself in respectable quarters as a surveyor, for the purpose of satisfactorily answering all inquiries rela tive to Sharp. The consequence of this arrangement was, that goods were supplied to different amounts, varying from 201. to 1501., all of which, in every in stance, disappeared with the prisoners a few days after delivery. Both prisoners were fully identified, and, evidence in two cases having been given, were ordered for committal in order to their being tried for the fraud. The gross cost of all prosecutions in England anal Wales during the year 1853 amounted to 195,3881. Bs. 7d. Of this sum, 92,3981. Is. 7d. was incurred by cases prosecuted on the circuits, 105,4401. 18s. 3d. in counties, and 28,5401. Bs. 9d. in cities and boroughs. The number of prisoners tried on circuits was 4,084; in counties, 15,595; in cities and boroughs, 23,998. Of these, 19,448 were indicted for felony, and 2,083 for misdemeanour. The number of pro secutors amounted to 19,858, and of witnesses to 70,807. This return is exclusive of the Chester and South Wales Circuit, of the county of Bucks, and of about a score of cities and boroughs, of which Derby, Salford, and Wor cester are the chief. The sllowance to prosecutors and witnesses is stated in most of the returns to be on the scale sanctioned by Lord John Russell when Home Seere• tary. The sums paid to counsel and solicitors, iu respect of prosecutions by the Mint and Post-odice, amount to 6,2121. 1 la. 11 Ii