The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocz. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday mani fested a firm and healthy aspect. Holders were very firm in their demands, so that full prices had to be paid. The sales were estimated at 10,000 bales, of which speculators and exporters took 3,000. The market closed stiffly. In the Railway Share Market there was an improved tone. The Bank of England return is rather less fa- vourable than many had anticipated. The decline of the bullion is to a very small extent, but it was expected there would be an increase in this item. The material augmentation of the private deposits is rather an important feature : Active Circulation.._ Decrease Bullion Decrease Rest ... - £20,096,855 339 045 ..-. 4,299,634 3,731 3,178,169 Increase Public Deposits..... Decrease Other Deposits Increase Seven-Day and other Bills Decrease. Government Securities Decrease.... Other Securities • 7,443 3,369,984 330,860 11,694,200 366,879 964,250 14,879 10,201,276 127,679 18,355,548 Decrease Notes unemployed Increase 179,052 4,644,465 281,905 The shipments of bullion direct from London, during the week ending last Thursday, comprised 134,000 ounces of silver and 7,210 ounces of gold, all to the continent. The official statement of the Bank of France, for the month ending the Bth instant, • exhibits a less favourable appearance than many had anticipated. There is a falling off in bullion, as we perceive by the following figures :—Cash and ingots for the present month 104,985,082 f. 31c., and at the Branch Banks 106,985,082 f. ; while the specie for the previous month amounted to 111,708,936 f. 5c., and at the Branch Banks 120,638,046 f. The Continental Stock Markets continue to re main quiet, in the absence of any important news from the seat of war. On the Vienna Bourse con siderable firmness is manifested in all securities, which has been caused by the Government an nouncing that the public funds would form the guarantee to subscribers in shares of the New sank of Credit. The particulars of the sta tute forming that bank have received mo difications at the last moment, which are of importance. In the original draft of the project, a year was the limit allowed for the payment of the proposed capital of GO million florins. The time has been extended to eighteen months, and the payments to be made in three instalments, viz.-30 per cent. on the 15th January, 1856, 35 per cent. about the close of that year, and 35 per cent. some time in the first six months of 1857. Also that bank „notes will be taken in payment, instead of restricting the deposits to coin so pro posed at first. The Paris grain and flour markets have again risen. Purchasers who were buying for immediate use only, in the expectancy of a fall, have been obliged to pay as high an 109 fr. and 110 fr. for the qualities of flour, and the millers have to submit to a rise of lfr. and lfr. 500. on the hectolitre and a-half of wheat. Rather a flatter tone pervaded the English Stock market this morning, owing to the slightly in creased demand for money, and the diminution in the Bank bullion, but subsequently more firmness was exhibited. Consols, after being 881 for money, and 881 for account, closed at 88i for the former, and at 881 to 89 for December 6. The public are still coming forward as purchasers of small amounts of stock, and this materially checks the influence which a few speculative saleswould other wise have. The New Three per Cents. brought 88} 4, and the Roduced 87i Bank Stock is 207. Exchequer Bills were steady at 7 to 4 discount. There has not been many transactions in the Foreign Market, but prices have been firmly sup ported. Turkish 6 per Cents. were rather weak in the morning, but afterwards rose 1 per cent., namely, to 801, and the New Scrip was 2i dis count. There were bargains in Chilian 6 per Cents. at 101, Danish 5 per Cents. 1001, Great Mexican 191, Peruvian 753, Spanish Passive 6/, ditto Cer tificates Turkish Bonds 791 to 801 for ac count, and Dutch 2i per Cents. 631, which were generally the previous prices. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6k to 7/ ; Mexican, 191 to 1 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, 191 to 20i ; ditto Three per Cents., 38 to ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 5f ; ditto Pas sive, 6 to 61. Railway shares have been dull, and in most cases without particular alteration. East Lancashire rose 11., South-Western 55., and Northern 103. South -Eastern were 105. lower. The Foreign and and Colonial undertakings were inactive. Mining and Banking Shares have not attracted much notice. Union of Australia advanced 103. Canada Land Shares ruled flat. The Steam Shares still tended upwards. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLC' ( Prom the Ofticial List. ) Puniness don. Bank Stook .. ... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Console Annuities 88! 11 i New 3 per Cent. Annuities I , mg Annuities, Expire 6th Jan., 1860 -16 Dittc, 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1850 34 Outgo's :or Account ~ 88iiiiii Exchequer Bills, 24d. . C 2lOOO . 500 Small 3 73 1 4 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO( K. Ch' 'an Bonds, 6 per Cont.. ........ ............ 101 Dath Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent — Ditto for the account 7sd Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Passive 6l Eipani• li Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 43 p 0 Terkh.h Bonds, 6 par cent — Ditto for the Account 79i i 801 Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account,., ' 24 d Swedish 4 par Cant. .. . Dividends on the above payable In London. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Gull 631 TWO O'CLOCK. • BBi i 884 89 Consols Ditto for Account._ THE BIRTHDAY OP HISIROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.—Yesterday, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales having attained the age of fourteen years, oyous peals rang from the bells of the metropolitan and üburban churches. At eight o'clock the Royal Standard was hoisted at S.imerset-house, the Admiralty, the Tower, the General Post-office, and at the towers of the Royal parish churches of St. Mary Abbot, Kensington, St. Martin-in-the-fields, and St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster. The customary inspection of the h ouse _ old infantry took place, and the Tower garrison was rapected in the Wellington-square within the fortress. Res Majesty's ship Crocodile, off the Tower, and the merchant shipping iu the river and the docks, were dressed with the flags of all nations. At Woolwich and other garrison towns, and at Aldershott camp military inspections took place, and the customary Royal salutes fired. The Duke of Rutland and Lord John Manners have left the Clarendon for St. Leonard's-on - Sea. The Duke of Beaufort intends in future to undertake the duties of the office of huntsman himself. His grace has led his hounds three days already, and on each occa sion has killed a fox. He means to hunt, it is said, five days every week.—Bath, paper. Lieutenant -General Sir H. Bentinck, K.C.8., is on his way to England in the French packet the Carmel. The King of Prussia intends shortly to raise Baron vonMantentfel to th e ran k an d di gn i ty o f C ount, an d to bestow on him a landed property, which shall remain for ever entail e d i n his family. Sir Colin Campbell is, it said, about to return from the Crimea on "urgent privat e In Glasgow it is rumoured that the command-in-chief was offered to Sir Colin on the condition that he be subordinate to the command of General Pelissier, and this condition was indignantly rejected. An advertisement in the Journal de St. Petersburg of Nov. 1, announces that Colt's revolvers have arrived in that city in "immense quantities." MINES.—The mining share market has been more than ordinarily brisk this week. Almost every variety of stock !,as been largely dealt in, and there are still many orders in the market for dividend shares, which cannot be executed in consequence of the difficulty of finding sellers, even at considerably advanced rates.— Journal of this day. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. 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London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminster National Pro.of Eng. 110. Now gational of Irelaud. Now South wales..., ?Mental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Ireland [)o. New Royal Australn.Bkg. Gol(3 Royal 8riti5h......... ionth Australia Union of Australia... I).. New....... ....... Union o Londo 1 ,I ,, Rinesa e this day. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY RvENING, NOVEIM:BEIV . 10, 1855. r 1. 4; 4 if- 111 * 4 441 -At s I s tt-eli a p woundeJ 631, The townspeople, who also fought with spirit, lost 101 men. Hit Excellency the Mushir has reported to his Go vernment those cificeri Nch,) particularly distinguished themselves ; difficult tak in an army which has shown such desperate valour throughout the unusual period of seven hours of uninterrupted combat.--I have, &c , (Signed) W, F. WILLIAKS. The E irl of Clarendon, &c. Naval aud Ter'litTry Tntellt,rence. Lieutenftzit-Colcnel the Ron. P , 31 - cy 1 - Icrbeit will suc ceed Sir R. Airey Quarterraßs!er-General of the British Army hi the Ei,st. C. - 10nel Tierf.x.rt.serced with the 43d in the L,E;t Catiro war. lnd as AFsisto,nt-Qlarter master-Genrai to the Second Di iisien hi the Crioia. up ::TAT OFFICE, Seven o ' Clo ck. to Vie time of his appt.intruent to the very inrcortant place which he n')`•Y fill. 0 , )lonel Herbert is a most, z:alous and intelligent officer, and we believe that his ap pointment will be universally approved by the army. It is reported that 'Major-General Sir. B. Airey, K. 0.8., will, on his return to London, succeed Major- Generel James Preeth as Quartermaster-General at the tG i o f :T: c r yo ll B :e r vi. G G se Great e a r : d r , t d e4 :B o . e o r d i :taro. troops n (11. ep s fis t t e t a ti o r t-btor Portsmouthacn Crimea. n a to e r a t ~ No.with 187, Captain despatch, The Sampson, 6, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain Hand, is progressing fast with her rigging in the steam basin at Portsmouth, and has entered good seamen to the extent of half her complement. The whole of her lower rigging is fitted, The Polyphemus, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com mander Warren, is also progressing rapidly with her rigging in the fitting balin at Portsmouth, where four of the mortar vessels are under refit. The screw blockships Hawke, 60, Captain E. Omman- ' ney, and Hastings, 60, Captain E. C. Fanshawe, ure ordered to be hastened as much as possible in their refit at Portsmouth, as they are wanted for service imme diately. The Salamander, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com mander Mecham, has had her defects made good, and undergone a thorough refit at Portsmouth, and is being prepared for sea with all despatch. The Perseverance screw steam-transport, No. 7, Capt. Harris, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Queenstown with the Armagh Regiment of Militia, whom she went into harbour to land at the dockyard, whence they were escorted by the staff of the garrison and the bands of the 80th Foot and South Lincoln Militia to the quarters lately vacated by the 4th Middlesex Militia, in Clarence Barracks, Portsmouth. The Essex Indiaman mid the Oriental packetship sailed from Spithead yesterday—the former for Madras and Calcutta, and the latter for Auckland and Canter. THE RUSSIAN ATTACK ON KARS. General Williams's Despatch. (From a Supplement to Friday's Gazette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 10. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL. (Before Chief Justice Jervis, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Erie, Mr. Justice Crompton, and Mr. Justice Wales.) The Earl of Clarendon has received a despatch from Major-General Williams, her Majesty's Commissioner with the Turkish Army in Asia, of which the following is a copy : Kars, October 3, 1855. My Lord,—l had the honour to announce to your Lordship, on the evening of the 29th ultimo, the glorious victory gained on the morning of that day by the Sul. tan's troops on the heights above Kars, over the Russian army commanded by General Muravieff, and I now beg to furnish your Lordship with the principal incidents of that sanguinary battle. Your lordship will perhaps recollect that, in my de spatch No. 123 of the 28th June, I stated that the Rus sian General, after his second demonstration against the southern face of our entr,ncliments, which is flanked by Hafiz Pasha Tabia and Katili Tabia, marched south, and established his camp at Bugah Mine, a village situated ab o ut four miles from Kars. Knowing that General Muravieff raved in the army whieh took Karr in 1823, I conceived his last manceuvre to be preparatory either to a reconnaisance, or an attack upon the heiAts of Tahmasb, from whence the Russians successfully pushed their approaches in the year above cited. Whilst, therefore the enemy's columns were in ma rc h towards Bugah Tikm6, I visited those heights with Lieut.-Culonel Lake, and after studying the ground de cided upon the nature of the works to be thrown up ; these were planned and executed by Lieut.-Colonel Lake with great skill and energy. I enclose for your lordship's information a plan made by that officer of the town and its neighbouring heights, which are situated on the opposite side of the river of Kars Chai, over which three temporary bridges had been thrown to keep up our communications. As all verbal descriptions, or bird's-eye views, of ground convey but an imperfect idea of any locality, I beg to enclose a sketch made by Mr. Churchill, which will, I trust, tend to elue',date my description. bury, New Zealand. The screw corvette Malacca, 17, Captain Farquhar, left Spithead yesterday for Bermuda. The Queen Victoria steam transport, No. 1, with huts and other stores for the Crimea, left Portsmouth harbour yesterday, but brought up at Spithead. The City of London paddlewheel transport, with 300 sets of harness, a number of carts and waggons, ammu nition, and general stores for the Turkish Contingent, passed Woolwich yesterday morning from Deptford, bound for Kel tch. Several officers newly appointed to Your lordship will observe that whilst our camp and magazines in the town were rendered as safe as circum stances would allow, the hills above Kars commanded all, and were, therefore, the keys of our position, The intrenchments of Tahmasb, being those nearest the enemy's camp, demanded the greatest vigilance from all entrusted in their defence. General Ninety, a gal lant Hungarian officer, commanded the division which occupied this eminence ; he was assisted by Major- General Hussein Pacha and my aide-de-camp, Major Teesdale, who has acted as his Chief of the Staff. Throughout the investment, which has now lasted four months, the troops in all the redoubts and intrench meets have kept a vigilant lookout during the night, and, at their appointed stations, stood to their arms long before day-dawn. In my despatch, No. 155, of the 29th ult , I informed your lordship of the arrival of the news of the fall of Sebastopol, mad of the landing of Oincr Pacha at Batoom. I also acquainted your lordship with the fact that the Russian General was engaged in send ing, off immense .trains of heavy baggage into Georgia, and showing every inlication of a speedy retreat • this in nowise threw us off our gaurd, an d Li eu tenant-Colo nel Lake was directed to strengthen many points in our extensive and undermanned lines, and amongst other works the tabia bearing my name was constructed. At four o'clock on the eventful morning of the 29th the enemy's columns were reported to be advancing on the Ta.hrnasb front. They were three in number, sup ported by 24 guns ; the first or right column being di rected on Tahrnasb Tabia, the second on Yukseh Tabia, and the third on the breastwork called Rennison Lines. As soon as the first guns announced the approach of the enemy the reserves were put under arms in a central position, from which succours could be despatched either to Tahniasb or the English lines. The mist and imperfect light of the dawning day in duced the enemy to believe that he was about to sur prise us ; he advanced with his usual steadiness and intrepedity ; but on getting within range he was saluted with a crushing fire of artillery from all points of the line. This unexpected reception, however, only drew forth loud hurrahs from the Russian infantry as it rushed up the ,bill on the redoubts and breastworks. These works poured forth a fire of musketry and rifles, which told with fearful effects on the close columns of attack, mora especially on the left one, which, being opposed by a battalion of 450 Chasseuis, armed with Minie rifles, was, after long and desperate fighting, com pletely broken, and sent headlong duwu the hill, leaving 850 dead,:on the field, besides those carried off by their comrades. that corps took passage by the City of London to join there, and some horses belonging to General Dixon. The Hooper transport bas gone dowi: the river from Woolwich to test her fitness for sea, and is to proceed thence to Deptford to embark huts for the Crimea. The Caradoc is still off Woolwich dockyard, awaiting her orders for sea. Yesterday morning a large quantity of Lord Canning's baggage was shipped on board. The Phoenix, 6, screw steam-sloop, was taken into the basin at Sheerness yesterday for a general overhaul of hull and machinery. All the five years' service seamen on board her whose period of service has expired have memorialised the Admiralty, or rather demanded their discharge. They all state that it is not from a desire to leave the service, but entirely owing to the dangerous rolling qualities of the Plicenix when becalmed in a heavy seaway, at which time it has been repeatedly proved that she has rolled her masts over the side. The memorial has been received by the Commander-in-Chief to be forwarded to the Admiralty, each seaman stating the ship he last served in previous to joining the Phoenix. They all speak in the highest terms of their officers. The men are willing to volunteer (immediately on receiving their discharge) fur some other ship in active service. The Chatham sheer-hulk, having raised the boilers and machinery of the screw steam-ship Mars, sunk io the Waterwitch in the fitting-basin, Sheerness (as re portedl, was taken out, and towed to Chatham yester day. She is in the stone dock, preparing far commis sion. She is having her bottom coppered. Her timber is well seasoned, she having been lying in the River Medway for about eight years. She will go out of dock to-morrow, and will immediately Le towed away by two steamers to Sheerness, to have her boilers put in place. The dock which this ship lies been in is being consider ably lengthened, as much as 60 feet, so as to make it available to receive ships of the largest class ; and the dock from which the Chesapeake was put out is also to be lengthened 60 feet. The dock hat been built for many years, and the wood with which it was erected is completely rotten. It is to be rebuilt with stone. A large number of workmen are employed in removing the mud, to get a foundation to work upon. The Otter, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant. Commander John H. Glover, has had her defects re paired, and was put out of the fitting-basin, Sheerness, yesterday. The new screw steam-frigate Chesapeake, of 50 guns, is ordered to be towed from Sheerness to Chatham, to be fitted for commission ; she is to be brought forward immediately. The Ranown, 90, sorew steam ship, which commenced building in December, 1854, is orlered to be brought forward for launching as soon as possible. She is the longest war :hip in the Royal service, being in length 244 feet 9 inches between the perpendiculars ; her ex• treine breadth 54 feet 4 inches, with a tonnage of 3,317 12.94 of now measurement. The Severn, 50, sailing frigate, designed byJ. Finchaw, Esq., late master sbipwright of Chatham Dockyard, is out of the hands of the workmea. Her launch is up for launching, and ski, is only waiting for an order from the Admiralty. She is a splendid-built ship. She is sister ship to the Raleigh, with the exception she is lengthened in her bow four feet, which will increase her sailing qua lities, and give additional room for stowage. She com menced building on the slip No. 3, in August, 1849. The Elk, 12, was put out of dock on the 9th inet., for commission. She is painted and fitted up, and will go into dock to be masted and rigged to-morrow. The Heron, 12, was taken into dock to-day to befitted for commission. The central column precipitated itself on the redoubts of Tahmab and Yuksek Tabias, where desperate fighting occurred and lasted for several hours, the enemy being repulsed in all his attempts to enter the closed redoubts, which mutually flanked each other with their artillery and musketry, and made terrible havoc in the ranks of the assailants - ; and it was here that Generals Kmety and Hussein Pacha, together with Major Teesdale, so conspicuously displayed their courage and conduct. Lieut. General Kereen Pacha also repaired to the scene of desperate strife to encourage the troops, and was wounded in the shoulder,•and had two horses killed un• der him. The right column of the Russian infantry, supported by a battery, eventually turned the left flank of the in trenched wing of the Tahmasb defences, and whilst the Russian battery opened in the rear of the closed re doubt at its valiant angle, their infantry penetrated con siderably behind our position. Observing the commencement of this movement, and anticipating its consequences, Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, who ha .1 taken the direction of affairs in the English Tabias, was instructed to send a battalion from Fort Lake to the asistance of the defenders of Tahmasb, and at the same time two battalions of the reserves were moved across the fling bridge and upon the rocky height of Laz Jepp6 Tabia. These three reinforcing columns met each other at that point, and being hidden by the enemy by the rocky nature of the ground, confronted him at a most opportune moment ; they deployed, opened their fire, which stopped and soon drove back the enemy's reserves, which were then vigorously charged with the bayonet, at the same moment when General Kmety and Major Teesdale issued front the redoubts at Tahmasb and charged the assailants. The whole of that portion of the enemy's infantry and artillery now broke and fled down the heights under a murderous fire of musketry ; this occured at half•past eleven, after a combat of seven hours. The Cadmus, 20, screw corvette, building in No. 1 dock, is ordered to be got ready for launching on the Ist of February next. A large number of hands from the Severn are put on this ship to expedite her build. She is nearly skinned over, and she will be ready by the time ordered by the Admiralty. The brig Alexander has discharged at the Arsenal wharf, at Woolwich, 1,900 13-inch shells, the Lively schooner 1,100, and the Arica schooner 189 tons of mixed shells, from the Vauxhall foundries, at Liverpool. The number of men and boys now employed at the Arsenal exceeds 9,000. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—John Way, Master, to the Horatio ; John D. Switzer, Second-Master, to the Sampsnn ; and D. M. Anderson, Midshipman, to the Pulyphemu4 The annexed circular memorandum has just bees is sued to officers commanding depots and regiments of cavalry and infantry at home and abroad : In this part of the field the enemy had, including his reserves, 22 battalions of infantry, a large force of dra goons and cossacks, together with 32 guns. Whilst this struggle, which I have attempted to describe, was occurring at Tahmasb, a most severe combat was going on at the eastern position of the line, called the English Tabias. About half-past five o'clock, a.m., a Russian column, consisting of 8 battalions of infantry, 3 regiments of ca valry, and 16 guns, advanced from the valley of Tehak mak, and assaulted those small redoubts, which after as stout a resistance as their unavoidably feeble garrisons could oppose, fell into their hands, together with the connecting breastworks, defended by townsmen and mountaineers from Lazistan, whose clannish flags ac cording to their custom, were planted before them on the epaulmenss, and, consequently fell into the enemy s hands ; but ere t h e firing had begun ',in this portion of the field, Captain Thompson had re ceived orders to send a battalion of infantry from each of the heights of Karadagh abd Arap Tabia to reinforce the English lines. This reinforcement descended the deep gully through which flows the Kars River, passed a bridge, recently thrown across it, and ascended the opposite precipitous bank by a zigzag path which led into the line of works, named by the Turks, Ingliz Tablas (the .English Batteries). Their arrival was as opportune as that of the reserves directed towards Tahmasb, which I have had the honour to de scribe in the former part of this despatch ; these batta lions, joined to those directed by Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, gallantly attacked and. drove the Russians out of the redoubts at the point of the bayonet, after the artil lery of the enemy had been driven from those lines by the cross fire directed from Fort Lake and from Arab Tabia and Karadagh, by Captain Thompson. This officer deserves my best thanks for having seized a favourable moment to remove a heavy gun from the eastern to the western extremity of Karadagh, and with it inflicted severe loss on the enemy. • After the Russian infantry was driven from the Eng lish redoubts, the whole of their attacking force of ca valry, artillery, and infantry retreated with precipi:a tion, plied with round shot from all the batteries bearing on their columns. During their temporary success, how ever, the enemy captured two of our light guns, which the mortality amongst our horses from famine prevented our withdrawing from their advanced positions. He also carried off his wounded, and many of his dead ; yet be left 363 of the latter within and in front of these en trenchments ; and his retreat occurred at least an hour before the assailants of Tahmasb were put to flight. During this combat, which lasted nearly seven hours, the Turkish infantry, as well as artillery fought with the most determined courage ; and when it is recollected that they had worked on their intrench ments, and guarded them by night throughout a period extending to nearly four months, I think your Lordship will admit that they have proved themselves worthy of the admiration of Europe, and established an undoubted claim to be placed amongst the most dis tinguished of its troops. With regard to the enemy, as long as there was a chance of success he persevered with undaunted cour age, and the Russian officers displayed the greatest gal lantry. Their loss was immense ; they left on the field more than 5,000 dead, which it took the Turkish infan try four days to bury. Their wounded and prisoners in our possession amount to 160, whilst those who were carried off are said to he upwards of 7,000. As the garrison was afflicted with cholera, and I was apprehensive of a great increase of the malady, should this melancholy duty of the burial of the dead be not pushed forward with every pos,ible vigour by our fa tigued and jaded soldiers, I daily visited the scene of strife to encourage them in their almost endless task ; and I can assure your lordship that the whole battle field presented a scene which is more easy to conceive than to describe, being literally covered with the ene my's dead and dying. The Turkish dead and wounded were removed on the night of the battle. The dead numbered 362, the " Horse Guards, Oct. 31. "It appealing that the promotions of non-commissioned officers at the depots of regiments serving in the East have in several instances taken place without the previous ap proval of the officer commanding the regiment abroad, con trary to the instruction contained in the circular memo randum of the 6th of December, 1854, which directed that the provisional promotions, intended for carrying on the duties of the depots, were to be subject to the approval of the aforesaid regimental authority, the Field-Marshal Commanding-in -Chief reminds the officers commanding depots that all such promotions are to be considered as act ing only pending the approval and confirmation thereof by the officer commanding the service troops or companies. "` By command, - " G. A. WETHERALL." Twenty-eight non-commissioned officers and privates of the Royal Artillery arrived at Woolwich, from Sheer ness, yesterday morning. They were immediately ad mitted into the Military Hospital, and will be submitted to an examination by the medical board at the quarterly meeting about to take place. Some of these men had zustained severe injuries at the commer.cement of the war with Russia, and are stiil in a very weak state of health ; one of them has completely lost his sight. A number of new cartridge-sheds are in the course of construction at the extremity of the Royal Arsenal-yard, Woolwich. t POST-OFFICE LOHDON DIRECTORY leo,. 1856. A wonderful work, becoming every successive year more and more wonderful—altogether the hugest and the most accurate of all our popular compilations—at once official, commercial, postal, legal, political, and topographical ! E x t raor di nary as the book is, however, as a detailed and micros copic Index to LONDON, it is scarcely surprising, after all, that it should be so, considering the en terprise lavished upon the undertaking by itc pro prietor—one who has, from first to last, shown himself to be altogether as energetic and adven turous as he has at length proved himself to be triumphantly successful. Frederick Kelly's Post (Ace London Directory for the year of our Lord 1856, being the " fifty-seventh" of its annual pub lication, appears now wholly without any rival whatsoever. It walks over the course without a competitor. It long ago " turned the Corner," as the phrase is, leaving the rest of the field at first in the nick, and at last, nowadays, tailed away "nowhere." Consequently it wins the race easily enough henceforth, coming iu at a canter, without ever turning a hair, and always, as we umpires (the reviewers) are compelled to de clare in the most beautiful condition. And this although carrying weight, remember I the weight of 2,650 octavo pages—printed, some of them in double columns, some triple, some actually quad ruple ! The mere "reading "of the work (techni cally) is something quite bewildering to contem plate, to say nothing of the compositor's labour of massing all these millions of types together in duo order—minion, brevier, bourgoise ; putting, be sides, entirely out of account the vast preliminary toil of revision, of scrupulous and minute revision, every year, in regard to each atom of information conveyed to the public through the medium of this enormous tome under the twelve ample divisions into which its contents are now very judiciously apportioned. Prior to the commencement of these twelve remarkable divisions, however, there are no less than xxviii. precursory pages, within whose limits are condensed extraordinary con geries, so to speak, of eminently useful and ac ceptable intelligence. Comprising among them, for example, in the particular volume now lying before us for examination, an almanac for the ensuing year leap year, as it happens —1856. Followed by a "General Index" of the most com prehensive character, together with a page of notes upon the matter of " Bill and Receipt Stamps," as recently modified by the Imperial Legislature, besides an astonishingly extended catalogue of the principal hotels and inns through out England and Wales, mentioning the names of the occupiers, and particularising, according to the records of last census, the precise amount of the local population. Beyond which another, .the last, of these precursory pages of memo randa gives a list of the forty-four English, Irish, and Scotch " Chambers of Commerce." Then " comes the tug of war "—the Post- Office London Directory, beginning at length in real earnest with the first of its twelve broad divisions. The Post-Office London OFFICIAL Di rectory for 1856—comprising an alphabetical list of persons holding situations under the Crown, in the East India House, in the Bank of England, in the various law, city, and all other public offices. A catalogue, including within it every official per son in the land, from the highest to the lowest, from the Lord High Chancellor, in his solemn and almost awful responsibility as keeper of her Majesty's con science, down to the obscurest clerk in a back room at Somerset-house, nibbing his pen, cracking his knuckles, or yawning over his newspaper. After wards a catalogue of the "Royal Family," fol lowed by another of the "Princes and Princesses," and then in proper sequence by a list of " Her Majesty's Chief Officers of State"—a list display ing two notable blanks, yet to be filled up, opposite the title of " Postmaster Gene ral" and that of "Secretary of State for the Colonial Department :" posts vacant, as we most of us grieve to remember, by reason of the death of Sir William Molesworth and of the nomination of Viscount Canning to the great proconsulate of Hindostan. "Her Majesty's Household" affords the materials for the next extended catalogue— after which follow the "Privy Councillors," and after these in turn the various "Lords-Lieutenant." Subsequently come the " Government and other Public Offices" alphabetically arranged — a cata logue extending from the occupants . the Adju tant-General's Office down to those in the different offices embraced within the category of the War Department. Whereupon succeed, in duo course, lists (.4 Ambassadors, and of Consuls, and particulars worthy of remembrance in regard to Passports and to Foreign-office Regulations. Immediately afterwards we have the secon portion of this gigantic and elaborate compilation—The Post-office London STREET Directory for 1856 alphabetically leading us through all the mazes of our vast metropolis, from Abbey-lane, West Ham, to Zoar-place, East Brixton. Next we have the largest Directory in the volume, spreading over a surface as extended as from page 813 to page 1,501 —The Post-office London COMMERCIAL Directory for 1856—from one, Benjamin Aaron, a watch maker, to another, Nicholas Zygomalas, a corn merchant. Afterwards comes the fourth instal ment—The Post-office London TRADES' Directory for 1856—beginning with acadamies and makers of accordions, and ending with zycographic printers and lithographers, reminding us of the babel of the industry of our ever-toiling population of two millions and a-half—the clash and clang and roaring din and hubbub resounding from all kinds of strangely-diversified avocations. Fifthly, there spreads out before ns the sufficiently ample catalogue of—The Post-office London LAW Directory forlBs6—embracing within it, Attorneys and Solicitors, Barristers-at-Law, Sergeants, Queen's Counsel, Recorders, and Judges, ascend ing the rungs of the ladder indeed from among a throng of court-keepers and train-hearers—up from the junior aspirants, fumbling at the first, to the topmost round of all, where, perched on the ample cushion of the woolsack, sits in ermine, and scarlet, and gold, the dingy student of law glori fied into Chancellor. Sixthly, we have—The Post office London COURT Directory for 1856—encum bered with all the pomps of the alphabet, inti mated through such potent initials as are the re cognised symbols of dignity in civilised life— D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., G.C.8., H.R.H., and the like stars of honour, and ribbons of cour tesy, the tags and spangles of personal distinction. Subsequently, and seventhly, comes—The Post office London PARLIAMENTARY Directory for 1856—giving us the House of Lords from the Chancellor downwards, and the House of Com mons from the Speaker to the very door-keepers. Eighthly, we have The POSTAL Directory—ninthly, The CITY Directory—tenthly, The CONVEYANCE Directory—eleventhly, The BANKING Directoru— and, twelfthly and lastly, The ASSURANCE Direc tory for 1856—completing the entire work up to the advertisements appended under the title of "Miscellaneous." Such, rapidly epitomised, is Kelly's Post-Office London Directory for the ensu ing year of grace, 1856, the only London Directory published for 1856—" Watkins's Directory" having been at length definitively abandoned, after a loss, it appears, more serious than has over before been experienced in the futile endeavour to establish a publication of this particular kind. The utter inutility of any such attempt, supposing it to have proved in the end successful, is vividly enough forced upon the popular apprehension by the re mark here put forth by the Messrs. Kelly to the effect that Two London Directories, if both were accurate and comprehensive, would be, after all, nothing more nor les s tha n counterparts of o each other. Arguing from which point is observed, not unreasonably, that theeffort establish another nowadays, with Kelly to firmly established as at present upon be thels idle, in : broad and solid basis of its reputation, would re gard to any notion of such an effort P e r n o d v o i ang env construct tuo nerative, as would be a quixotic London toßrighton construct a second railway his huge volume parallel with the costly and sufficient line already Remembering that t in existence. of from 2,000 to closely-printed pages, in, columns of letterpresst,rspolme,etimes, as we have said, and sometimes even double, sometimes trip our hands yesterday evening, quadruple, came! the 9th som ewhat astonishin g t o l earn from the "Preface"instant, that the whole vast t ome has and bound since the sth been entirely printed It is especially observable, in addition to ultimo I we have already remarked upon the magni tudewhat the same time the • at and yet minuteness of thi s astonishing publication, that the extinction of all o pposition consequent upon the non-continu ance of " Watkins's Directory " does not appear to have in any way relaxed the efforts made by the proprietor of Kelly's Post-office London Direc tory to sustain the reputation of his unrivalled pub lication for novelty and exactitude of intelligence. In testimony of which it is b o servable that the open ing of the West Eud Branch of the Bank of Eng land, has caused alterations in the Street Direc tory, p. 204 ; Commercial ditto, p. 842; Banking ditto, p. 2,458, and official, p. 43. The establish ment of the "Jews' College," ou the IstOctober, iu Finsbury -square, being notified in the Street Direc tory, p. 340, in the commercial ditto, p. 1,146, and in the Trades, p. 1,887. The death of Lord Dela- as the mere —mention e d i n Th e Sun as recently . 4th of October—b e i n g intimated here by c 2 ll 2 a B ll * ge t s t in at the Parliam en t ar y Di r ectory at page 9 of John Ha r dy, E s q., a retired Q.O•- - announced in The Sun, also on the 4th o f October—erasing his name from the Street D irector y , p. 618 (as lace) and from the Court occupant of 3, Portland-place) QUEEN V. GORDON. This case came before the court this morning on an appeal. The case was tried before Mr. Justice Erie at the Central Criminal Court, where the prisoner was found guilty of felpny in not surrendering as a bankrupt pursuant to the 12 and 13 Vic., chap. 106, sec. 251. The case arose out of the extensive frauds committed by Davidson and Gordon, for which they are to be tried on the 28th inst., it having been arranged that the point re served on the trial of Gordon should be first disposed of. The Gazette described the' bankrupts as colonial brokers and metal agents, of Mincing-lane, and Cousins lane, Upper Thames-street, and distillers, dealers, and ohapueen, of West Ham-lone, Middlesex, and that they were to surrender themselves and make a full disclosure and discovery of their estate. The proceedings described the bankrupts as of West Ham-lane, Essex, and not Middlesex, and therefore it was contended the notice in the Gazette was insufficient in consequence. Tke other objection was that the service of the summons was in sufficient, being issued alter the 7th July, the day fixed by Mr. Commissioner Holroyd for the first examination of the bankrupts ; and also that the commissioner had no authority to issue the sum mons, therefore there was in fact no summons and no felony. It was also objected that the duplicate of the adjudicalon in bankruptcy, and one duplicate sum mons to surrender, which were served, was insufficient ; that on tlee trial there was no evidence of the actual knowledge by the prisoner of the adjudication and sum mons to surrender, and on that ground it was objected that the absence of evidence of actual knowledge of the contents of those documents, or of the bankruptcy was insufficient to support a conviction ; but the learned judge Who tried the case stated that the jury must be taken to have found that the prisoner went and remained abroad to avoid, and with full belief of the bank ruptcy, and with intent to defraud the creditors. Mr. Chambers, Q C., Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Parry appeared fir the prisoner. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Poland in support of the conviction. The case is one of great c mnuercial importance, and the arguments of counsel on both sides are likely to oc cupy the court the whole of this day and Monday. QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. WILLIAMS. Thisiwas a special case, and was an appeal from a con viction under the Waterman Act in reference to an ancient ferry from the Isle of Dogs to Greenwich. The society possessing the fee simple of the ferry leased it to a person named Dowse, who employed the appellant as his servant. Since 1850 Messrs. Cubitt have erected a building near the ferry which made it necessary to re move the landing point a distance of 800 feet further down. From this point the defendant ferried over some persons, upon which information v,-as given, and a conviction took place under the above act. It was con tended by the appellant the 800 feet were within the limit of the ancient ferry. The court confirmed the conviction. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings in Banco.) GRAVE V. BISUOP. —Mr. Prideaux moved for a rule calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the defen dant should not be discharged out of custody in respect of a debt not proveable under the bankruptcy. ,The de fendant was a bankrupt in 1849, and in May, 1854, the court granted hint a certificate after the expiration of three years, with protection, renewable every six months. During the protection the defendant con tracted the plaintiff's debt, and was arrested on the day of the expiration of his protection, and before he could appear before the Commissioners in Bankruptcy for a renewal of it. The learned counsel contended that, under the 112th section of the present Bankruptcy Act, the defendant was free from arrest. The court took time to consider the point. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—(This Day.) MAR YLEBONE. John Longworth, 4 boy aged 15, was this morning committed for a month, with bard labour, for stealing than loaves from a baker's truck. Another boy, aged ten, was also sentenced to a similar imprisonment for stealing 101bs. of fat. THAMES. Three sailors were placed :C;he bar, charged with stealing a watch. The watch, it appeared, was offered them for sale by a man who had the appearance of a "duffer," and they, knowing the character of the man, ran off with the watch for a lark. Evidence having been offered to prove the respectability of the sailors, they were discharged with a caution. TEE METROPOLIS ACT. The following important decision has been given b . y the Attorney-Gen era l. It will be seen that he is opposed entirely to the construction lately put upon the Gth section of the act by the Solicitor- General, and that the Solicitor-General has with drawn his opinion. The law, therefore, is clear upon the point as set forth in the letter whi c h was addressed by Sir Benjamin Hall to one of his constituents, I,nd which was published in our columns : " I concur in the opinion g i ven by the Solicit -r- General in my absenc e from town, and of which a copy has been furnished to me, with the following excep- tions In regard to question 4, the decision of the Court o Queen's Bench in the case of Rex v. the Churchwardens of S. Pancras' (1, Ad. and El:is), upon an act similarly worded, appears to me immediately applicable, and to be conclusive that where a person is rated for a house in his own occupation, and also for houses compounded for, his qualification may be established by adding the amount of the assessments in respect of the latter. " With reference to question 12, I am of opinion that by the operation of the Hackney Local Act, the land lord is to be considered the occupier under the circum stances stated in the question. " With reference to questions 7 and 8, as to the sup. plemental election of vestrymen on casual vacancies under sections 36 and 37, I entertain considerable doubt, seeing that the eligibility to the , office on the regular periodical vacancies, arising uncler section 35, is con fined to vestrymen whether other than vestrymen can be elected on such casual vacanci'ts. " Oct. 29. E. COCKBURN." " FURTHER OPINION OF THE SOLIOITOR-GENERAL AS TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE 6TiL SECTION OF THE ME TROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT. " The construction which, in my former opinion (dated the 15th of October), I put: upon the 6th section of the Metropolis Local Managernient Act, still appears to me to be the natural meaning of the words employed, and the proper inference resultinf ;from their collocation. " The difficulty arises from the concluding words, and be rated and assessed as aforesaid upon such rental as aforesaid within such parish,' which words were un• necessary if the intention of the framer of the act was to make the qualification consist of two distinct ele ments—viz., the being rated upon a certain rental, and the being also the occupier of so me house or tenements within the parish. In that cas e the concluding words ought to have been omitted, and I;he section should have been thus worded, unless ho b e rated or assessed as aforesaid, and be also the occupie r of some house, lands, or tenements within such parish. "My opiii m was written in the country upon a case making no mention whatever of the decision in The King v. the Churchwardens of St. Pancras' (1, Ad. and Ellis, 80), or containing any information beyond a state ment of the sections of the act, and the numerous ques tions which had arisen upon it. "That opinion was given immediately in compliance with urgent entreaty, and was founded upon what ap pears to me to be the natural reading of the act of Par liament. " Upon considering the cas e of the The King v. St. Pancras,' I think that the words of the 6th section of the Metropolitan Act will admit of the construction which was there put on a similar expression contained in section 26 of the Ist and 2d of William IV., chap. 60. "And, having regard to the consequences of a dif ferent reading, I quite admit that the construction adopted by the judges in that case is the more desirable and beneficial construction. Strictly speaking, that case is no authority conclud ing the present question, because the lang cage of the two acts is different ; but I think it reasonable to expect that it would be fillowed by the judges in con strnin ,, tht Metropolis Act, and I k ho n k' recommend tin It it be ac cepted as furnishing the proper rule for the i. riterpreta • Lion of the 6th section. " RICHARD BA TLIELL. " Lincoln's-inn, Nov. 5." Among the last arrivals at Malta from Constaa itinople is General Beatson, who intends passing the w:mter in the island with his family. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, and Mrs. Disvaeli, are now on a visit - to Mr. Gore Lan g t on , M.P . , an d La ly Anna Gore Langton, at their sf at, Haehe-p. irk, near Taunton. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) • LONDON, Nov. 10.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.; light, with fine sunshiny weather. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning. Arrived—Wonder and South• Western (s.), from Jer sey ; Argyll (s.), Carentan ; La Poule, Cherbourg ; Anne Elizabeth, Newport. Sailed—Despatch (s.), for Jersey; Atalanta (a.), Havre WY SUBMARINE AND 'BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.53 a.m. Wind calm ; tido two hours' flood ; woather cloudy. Arrived, Nov. 9.-I.lydra, from Malaga; Butiadongen, (s), Bremen. DEAL, Saturday,. 9.30 a.m. Wind, W.S.W. light. Passsed—O. T. Chappo, from Quebec, for London, Earl of Shaftesbury, from westward, for north. APOTHECAILIES'-HALL.—The following are the names of the gentlemen who passed their examination in the sci ence and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practice, on Thursday, Nov. 8 :—John Redfern Davies, Birmingham ; Wm. Horsfall Hinchcliff, Holmfirth, York ; Edward Humpage, Bristol ; and Wm. Joseph Dawes, Langton, Stafford. ALLEGED MURDER AT AYLESBURT.—A protracted investigation, which has been going on for the last fort night before the Aylesbury magistrates, terminated on Thursday in the committal of two persons, Elizabeth Allen and John Frost, on a charge of the wilful murder of an old man named Wiles. The female prisoner keeps a low beer shop, and the deceased made his home there, and was supposed to have an improper connection withf o Mrs. Allen. The prisoner Frost was a lso suspected an intimacy with her. On the night of the Sth of Oct.: her, Wiles, who bad been in the house several times that ( 1 2y, and bad had a quarrel with the two prisoners, t wat found at the foot of the stairs leading to Mrs. Allen's bed-room, with his skull and arm severely fractured, Frost was upstairs at the time, as was also another man It named Rodwell, since apprehended, but discharged. appea rs likely that the injuries (of which deceased died a few days afterwards at the infirmary) were inflicted by a paker found in the house ; it is certain they could not have been caused by failing down stairs. Great excite ment has been caused in the town, and various rumours are afloat, but with the exception of some noises heard by the neighbours, the above are all the material facts elicited. 73 2; 120 4 20 102 sli 64j j 5 ex d 73 41 24 Directory, p. 2,166 B. Furth er t h an this—th 6 death of Frederick Lucas, Esq., th e l ate l amented M.P. for the borough of Meath —whose demise was recorded in The Sun as recently as the 25th ultimo—we find has led here to the erasure of the name of Mr. Lucas from the Parliamentary Directory, pp. 2,247 and 2,256, and from the Court Ditto, p. 2,174 D. Wilde the death of Mr. John May, of the Police Force (mentioned in The Sun of the same date, namely, the 25th ult.), has, in like manner, led to the erasure of his name also in as many as three different places, in the Law Directory, p. 2,046, in the Official Index, p. 21, and in the Court Directory, p. 2,176 D. Again, the Scottish Amicable Life Office having removed from Lombard. street to 1, Threadneedle street, on the sth of October, the alteration is here duly notified in the Street Directory, p. 727, in the Commercial ditto, p. 1,352, and in the Trades ditto, p. 1,750. These being only a few specimens out of many similar examples which might, had we either the leisure or the space, be also here specified. The motto of the proprietor of the Post-office London Directory has throughout mani festly been—Nil action eredens, d uin quid superes stage stonendun — never allowing hi m to leave a singleunturned in his researches, and thus enabling him to present to us at last in this extraordinary volume for " 1856," scarcely so much a London Directory as a compendium of the intellect and industry, the wealth and enter prise+ of the British Empire : hardly so much a book of reference as a veritable microcosm—a world in little, that world the busy and densely compacted throng of 2,500,000 souls, making up the vast aggregate of our London population. PROVI,DENTIAL ARRIVAL OF THE BB 9A DSTAI RS LIFE-BOAT. E.T.GEIT LIVES SATED. Those who hate read Eliz t Cook's song of "Ti e Young Mariners" ,Tay very readily apply the simile to the boatmen of Bro.stistairs:— " We long had borrow ed sail and skiff—obliged to be con tent With any crazy, slrsg.ish hull that kindly fisher lent : At last our spirits, our limbs, all strong and broad had grown, And all our thoughts were centred in a `Life-boat' of our own .1" With this introduction v, '0 have to narrate the various incidents connected with t.`te rescue of a brig's crew from a wreck which occurred o ff Broadstairs on Saturday last (Nov. 3). The circun xstances are so much con nected with the welfare of ,`,he port of Cowes, and the talented shipbuilders which iblabit it, that by referring to the mere effect without na wing the cause would be partial justice to the merits of Cie case. " The Boatmen of the Downs;." or, in other words, the Kentish mariners, are ,•:allcd upon, "amid the pelt ing of the pitiless storm," to render succour to their fellow-creatures, whose vessel Inay perchance have got entangled in the net of quicksank is which nature seems to have formed as a break wate r for the numberless shipping who seek an anchorage it: that celebrated ren dezvous—the Downs. The licrrAt and daring c on d uct of these men have often found a record in the daily journals, yet, probably, no circu,'n.stance has occurred more deserving of notice than the tecent adventure of the life-boat . , which, within 36 hours from her being out of her builders' hands at Cowes, had .teached the haven of her future adventures, and was the us eans of rescuing eight pkasons, forming the crew of the brig Hope, of Portsmouth, from the danger which sotsned to await them—either to be engulphed in the .breakers, or to perish in the flames which shortly after their rescue de stroyed their vessel. Before, however, u , o relate the circumstances attending this providential res.ltle, we can not but refer rte the means by which the c ame was accomplished. Some ten years ago public attention was m e imme diately called to the number of wrecks which annually occur on our coast, in the hope that the talents of our scientific builders would be directed to the coast ruction of a life-boat on such principles as would possess All the necessary qualifications which a life-boat ought toe have —in the hope thereby that the loss of life from ahip wreck mid,ht be lessened. A short time afterwards the Duke of Northumberl tnd very humanely took the subject up, and a premium was offered for the best life-boat. There were several cotn• petitors for the prize, and various life-boats were witted, possessing, as was imagined, the principles' elicited by the prize offered by bis Grace, for the " best model of a life-boat." Without entering into detail of the proceedings which followed, or - the reasons which led the committee to award the palm to one par . Ocular model over the others—enough that we say that Mr. Beeching's life-boat was selected as the prize boat, and which has singularly proved to be on more than two „ . or three occasions most disastrously unfortunate—yet, we believe, it had the sine qua nob merit of promptly rightening itself after being capsized ; which qualifica tion was nev,r taken notice of by the designers of ” Lamb and White's life-boat," inasmuch as they had constructed a lifeboat which it was almost utterly im possible to capsize. So confident were the projectors of their lifeboat in the superiority over others, that they (we believe) were not found to be among the list of com petitors, believing, as we suppose, they had obtained the philosopher's atone, or in oth , l. %-. - ords, had combined the whole principles on which a "lifeboat" ought to be con structed. The prize boat was subsequently stationed at Ramsgate, and in order to afford the men of Broadstairs the opportunity of competing with their neighbours in the cause of humanity Mr. Thomas White, (the respected parent of the present firm at Cowes), presented to his native town, Broadstairs, a small lifeboat, which act was followed by the donation of a larger boat by the song, and it must be gratifying to know that these boats have been the means of saving many lives when other boats in the vicinity " would not show to it." It now appears that owing to the success which attended the " Broadstairs life-boat,", as it was named, some of the inhabitants there were induced to cause Messrs. John and Robert White to con• struct for them a "lugger" on the lines of the Deal boats, but to which their principle as a life-boat should be embodied. Accordingly a lugger of about 40 tons was constructed by that firm, and launched only last week. Her intended crew arrived here (Cowes) over land to convey her to the site from whence her future operations were to occur. They took their departure in her from hence on Friday morning last, and we are gratified to add that within 30 hours from her departure she arrived at Broadstlirs, and succeeded in saving eight persons, the crew of the above-named brig, which bad just driven on shore in the easterly gale which pre vailed. The following is a copy of the log of the life boat, which has been called the Dreadnought :—" We left Cowes at 5 a.m. of Friday, the 2d of November, and ran to the eastward under storm sails till daylight, and then hoisted the mainsail and went away at a slashing pace, sighting vessels ono after the other, and soon leav ing them out of sight. About 1 p.m., oft Brighton. passed close in to the chain pier. A few boats came off to look at us ; among them was a yacht's boat, thinking it was Lord Harborough's lugger, as we had all colours flyitig ' • rather light wi n d. S too d away f or B us hy Head with .e fine breeze, then steered for Fairleigh and Dunge ness. Now and then speaking a boat from the shore. Asdark - ness came on fast and the weather looking bad, took in the mainsail, but scarcely had we succeeded in securing it when it came on to blow and rain tremor. dously, wino; about west. Lights all round us from . vr sels and fishins-boats ; succeeded in c learinger . , 4 l ; 3 ll o ,l in good style. Gale continued to increase, an d t kited the South the weather ver,,T dark. Sight ace. At 10 p.m, behaved beautifully—rain coming down in torrents, and Lights, and kept ou at a ra ttliog ou p ght up under San passed through the Downs and br the tA • it being l ow ' run for Broadstairs, down Castle ; our a nclior . benn rat i n g, proceeded on, wind at morning, weather made sinsa.alltewre w A er t e a 2 fra in id north. At # o'ci,ock (24 hours gale of wind, sea very at E.S.E. and blew a 2.4 out), the wind flew out a bout 2 miles from Ramsgate. en to a vithin half a mile of Broad- When cause the clasp of the . n a o one was hurt. :nd r\ stairs, V ou b g et w throughßornee * ha e d w f e e r t ti t e b d u . ne d down came the mast, mizenmast came unhook 4, uni ,, , tely w w it a h y th ari e d br g e o a t ke t X to s a foresail, l o r inc . w t le P r w t o e h f e we g r ; c nc w e c ‘ lo e as close mastOs abi s a i l Obliged u n e d d p a very heavy sea running —got the fo, st:sail up again, and arrived safely into harbour MAL s t six, after shipp i ng two seas over the quarter, whb 11, drenched us through. The ga t e We. At continued to inci ' three p.m., the lerir, TT i jo parted Eris 'l°P of Portsmout" from her anchor and drove en the rocks at the' back of the pier. We immediately hoisted out our 50k. 42 life boat on to the pier, and launche d it over the back" part through a tretnend • fore the sea, and gained the vessel be. re the V other crew life-boat could get there, an d we rescued t :h e of eight person s who with six of our own peoplW in safety were landed f ' ety (the boat full of water), in the re• sauce of a large in the concourse of people. At 6in the even. , ,g bri g took fire, and continued b urn ing until 8 o clock this morning (Sunday), and is completely gutted; she lies in the south locker. This day hundreds of people h ave b een over to look at the wreck, a nd th e 13road s t a i rs lif e -b oat w hi c h h as save d t h e crew. Both boats are the admiration of every one.—J. COWIE', Master of Dreadnought." On Sunday last Marshal Radetzky reached his 90th year. o f C a rlisle, accom- On Thursday morning the Earlt secre tary, and Lady parried by Mr. F. Howard, priv at e on board the Prince F. Howard, sailed from Ding is Excellency's desti- Arthur mail c intraot steame r. re ." e will stay t for some to remain last ni g ht a d a , r Wh n ti a m ti e o . n TheisCastle viceregal party weree at Manchester, L OF INDIA.—It h b een finally now TEE GOVVINort-GENBR d that Lord Canning is to leave Afar finally arrange and proce ed northward today. 4 o f December. His lordship proceeds I.B n her Majesty's steamer Caradoc, where arrive about the 7th. We understand that it is he will intention to make a stay of about three weeks in his . steoliAlelsexoanndla i E g ypt, and at the expiration of that time he wiil em bark on board the Ferozepore at Suez for Calcutta. Dr. Leckie has been appinted as surgeon in attendance up on his lordship, and will f orm one o f the su i te acoom - panying him to India.—llome News. THE MURDER AT NEWCASTLE.—The Durham 4 dvertiser states that the day on which Mr. Stirling was robbed and murdered was the rent day of Mr. Hutt, M.P., and it is generally supposed in the neighbourhood that the. murderer or murderers, being aware that it was e r e t , day, had laid in wait in the wood for some.°l_ o %, :ns of Dant% who would go that way with oonsidemraaNg every money on their persons. The petra p t o o l r ic s e o ire tchine ;wing out.. exertion to find out the per Secretary an d the -Ad rage, but as yet without effect, has been written to on the subject. to a COM once u t is VA Ilr 25 4 12 p 10 100 3! 20 5 20 18 20i 20 , LOU 20 16 20 20 100 100 100 20 100 100 100 20 50 76 81 94 i li 861 / 22 1/ 22 11 15} zt~ 4 8~ 110 i 21j i r IMP i