The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed with a hardening tendency at the extreme prices of last week. The sales were 8,000 bales, 500 for export and 1,000 on speculation, comprising 100 Pernam and Maranham at 61d. to '7ld., 240 Bahia at 6d., 500 Egyptian at 64d. to aid., 800 Surat at ald. to 41d., and 80 Sea Islands 10d. to 13d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was steady at an advance on Saturday's rates. At the close of business on the Paris Bourse yes terday the quotations of the French Rentes showed a remarkable improvement on those of Saturday. The Three per Cents, were 'firm at 67 for the ac count, being a rise of If. 30c.; and for money they were done at an advance of lf. 25c. In the Share Market the same buoyancy prevailed, and the rise in shares of the Credit Mobilier Bank was energetic, adding a further value of 27f. 50c. to the advanced price of last week. Railway shares were likewise ad vanced a step. North of France Bf. 75c. West of do. 7f. 50c. Lyons lf. 20c. Geneva 2f. 50c. Mid land 7f. 50c., and Austrian Society sf. Accounts from Vienna inform us that the founders of the Austrian Bank of Credit have submitted to the Minister of Finance a list of names, twenty in number, to fill the office of Directors to the Bank, conformably with the terms of the statute granting them the concession. Before these names can be confirmed they must receive the Imperial sanction. Amongst them figure the heads of some of the principal banking houses in Vienna, in addition to the founders, and other notabilities in the commercial world. From Spain we learn that the position of the manufacturers of Barcelona and Catalonia is such that many will be obliged to reduce their estab lishments, and consequently throw a large number of hands out of employment, which has produced much inquietude and fears of new troubles. It ap pears that for some time past their sales of goods have been much restricted in consequence of the gene ral depression, and the stocks are accumulating, so that they have been necessitated to stop their works. Contributions are being collected for the relief of those out of employment ; notwithstanding which much distress prevails, and the authorities are taking steps to suppress any riots, while they are endeavouring to alleviate the sufferings of the poor. Every one is waiting with interest the final discussion on the items of the budget ; and there are fears that the Minister of Finance, Signor Bruil, will persist in not admitting any modifica tions in his scheme, especially on the subject of the octroi duties, otherwise, it is said, ho will tender his resignation. The grain markets throughout France evince an inclination to fall this week. Prices, however, have not yet varied much from the closing quota tions of last week, but it is expected that from the continued supply of grain exceeding the demand, and adding to stocks on hand that a fall will take place. The arrivals of wheat at the Paris Corn Exchange, on the Ist inst., amounted to 2,613 kilogrammes, and the sales effected 2,527 kilos., leaving on hand 20,157. The average price of sales was 67f. 92c. per hectolitre. The amount of commercial paper falling due this day, the 4th of the month, although known to be very heavy, is expected to be met without difficulty. For discount accommodation, however, the de mand is very active, at late rates, but no pres sure is experienced. At this season of the year there is always an increased inquiry, but the recent arrivals of gold from Australia, together with favourable statements regarding the proba bility of an early peace, have produced a feeling of greater confidence in monetary as well as com mercial circles. An important advance, viz., Ito per cent. has taken place in the English Stock market, but the Ring of Sardinia's visit to the City has in a great measure restricted business. The buoyancy is al most wholly attributable to the current rumours of au early peace, and the letters received from France state most distinctly that arrangements are in progress for the purpose, if possible, of preventing further hostilities, It is not mentioned, however, in what precise way such a result can be obtained, but the impression is gaining ground, both here and in Paris, that negotiations will speedily com mence, and that before the spring some satisfactory measures will have been adopted. The immediate effect of this supposition has been a material improvement on the French Bourse as well as in our Stock Exchange, but the high quotations now prevailing induce caution among the dealers. As the account is now so near its termination specula tive engagements aro in course of adjustment, so that the markets as regards fresh dealing is in a quiescent state. Consols for money and Dec. 6, after being 89i to 90 have risen to 90i 4, but for Jan. next the quotations have reached 90. The New Three per Cents. have been 894 to 89k, and the Reduced 881 to 89/. Bank Stock is steady at 209 to 210. The Unfunded Debt tends upwards, being Os. to 2s. discount. The 30 Years' Annuity of 1855, is 161. There have been numerous transactions in Turk ish Securities at enhanced values, owing to the up ward movement in the Funds. The 6 per Cents. have ruled as high as 85i 1, but these prices have not been fully supported. The New Scrip is about 2 discount. French 3 per Cents. are 68f., with the exchange at 25 25. Spanish 3 per Cents. are 401, the New Deferred 204 to 21, and the Passive 7i. Russian 41 per Cents. are 90, and Sardinian Bonds 831. Equador have been marked s' B ', and Dutch 21 per Cents. 64. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, GI to 7 ; Mexican, 191 to 20 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 41 to 46 ; Russian Five per Cents., 96 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 86 to 88; Spanish New Deferred, 21 to 211; ditto Three per Cents., 40 to 40i ; ditto Certificates, 41 to 41 ; ditto Pas sive, 61 to 7. There has been a moderate business transacted in Railway Shares, and prices all have an upward tendency. Great Northern are 1 per cent. bettor, Lancashire and Yorkshire 10s. to 155., and Mid land' 10s. Great Western of Canada have further risen 54., and Antwerp and Rotterdam as well as the other foreign lines are at fuller quotations. Mining Shares are steady but quiet, and the same may be stated of Joint-Stock Securities, but the Oriental are advanced 10s. The Miscellaneous undertakings are without any general alteration that calls for special notice. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. ( From, the Oficial List.) liuslnosh done /talk Stock . ...... 3 per Uent. Reduced Annuities , BBi 01 3 per Cent. Console Annuities 894 904 i New :3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1850... Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 154 Qon-ols for A.ccount 9) 891 904 i 90 Exchequer Bills, 261 1000 . .... _ _ _ 2 1 5 Small Ditto Bonds, 1458, 3a per Cent.. 1859 ......••• s 98 1 8 PP PP PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 99 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent SSA Chilian Bouds, 6 per Cent IOI - A Bonds si Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto Account l9k Peruvian Bonds, 4i p er C ent. Russian B on d s, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 4; per Cent Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. by Lmab Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto Account 404 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto for the account ............. . Ditto Passive Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent ............. .... _ Ditto for the Account B5l 5 i 4 1 i 6 sia Ditto New gcrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account 22 iiii bividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 43 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. DAteh Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Ga... 64 THREE 0 04()C ii. Consols (money) f Ditto for Account Dec. 6 , tO THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1855 this to any severe punishment for a crime which 31111nos's jurymen would have called heroic. We have heard of Captain Osborn's renewed successes in the Sea of Azoff with the greatest satis faction. Sir E. Lyons will remain with the Royal Albert in Kazatch or Kamiesh for the winter. The Cyclops is in Kazatch, dismantled ; and if matters can be arranged with the French, the post establishment will be removed to Kamiesh, in which case the Firebrand will be stationed there till the spring opens. It has rained during the night, but the sky is now clear. We are in great want of water. The generals' passes are st o pp e d t o t h e wells, and no water slims are,allowed to be filled, except for the hospitals, THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Front the Times Special Correspondent.) (Before Lord Campbell and a Common Jury.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, LEWIS V. EVANS. TUESDAY, Nov. 20. As if to mock us for our se lf-i n fli cte d miseries of This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a coke and coal merchant, of Vauxhall-street, to recover of last year, the weather con ti nues to present the most the defendant, a veterinary surgeon of the borough, the delightful contrast t o th e s t orms and rains of this ' value of a horse alleged t o h ave di e d f rom th e unskilful time twelvemonth. How many lives, how many treatment of the defendant. The defendant pleaded not reputations, might have been saved if the Novem guilty. ber of 1854 in th e C r i mea h a d b een at all like the Mr . Sergeant for same month in thi s p resent year ! Up to the mo ment at which I wr it e t h ere h as not been a day the plaintiff; g d l e e f v e i n e d w an e t r . e counsel Air. S . hee Chitty and for I r. the O since last April in whi c h military operations could The plaintiff's case was that the defendant, who pro fessionally attended his horses, saw not have been un d er t a k en. Ei ther last year was the horse in ques- remarkable in the an na l s o f th e C r i mea f or it s se verity, or we are enjoying a season of exceptional be suffering from the mange, which he said he could mildness. Storms have lowered over us .and cure. The horse was sent on the following morning to passed away ; d ar k s ki es have threatened us and the defendant's infirmary, where its head, neck, chest, melted into floods of golden sunbeams. The wind and belly were rubbed with something prepared by him. seems to be busied in tossing the French steamers The horse was taken home and became restless, rubbing at sea and keeping the mail late, which it succeeds his head, pawing the ground, and showing symptoms of in doing very happily, so that our letters are be great pain, which increased during the night and con- hind time with the greatest regularity. Up to this tinned the whole of Monday. The defendant was sent period nothing has happened which could have for, and on his seeing the horse he admitted it was in affected the health or efficiency of the army—the great danger, and according to his instructions it.was of November 14 could not have occurred washed with soap and warm water and taken great care disaster of, but the symptoms of irritation and pain increased, - 7 -none of those poor fellows would have perished , the horse foaming at th e mou th, rear i ng, ki c ki ng, in the mud b e t ween ' the front" and the harbour and destroying th e manger . Th e h orse was on ; whose bones are now turned up by the labourer's Wednesday taken out for exercise, when it fell spade as he works on the roads. The country is down and died. It was taken to the knacker's-yard open in very direction to carriage, man, or beast ; and opened, and the intestines found to be perfectly the trenches are dry; in fact, the weather presents healthy. The plaintiff's brother in-law who attended I contrasts of endless variety to that which prevailed to the horses, said the horse in question was purchased last year, and affords ground for infinite specula lame for 301., which complaint the defendant cured, and I tion and comment. There is no reason, however, that the horse when it died was worth 701. to suppose that the English army would have had The defence was that the plaintiff did not take proper I much reason to congratulate itself on the fact that care of the horse after it had been rubbed with the I clemency of the season had averted the evils which liniment, which consisted of train 'oil, sulphur, and tur want of roads, excessive f a ti gue , an d a f a l se posi purchased lame was wor th a b ou t 171. or 18/. A horse tur pentine. The defendant considered the horse when tion would have entail e d u p on th em , i nasmuc h as it . is certain the bad weather paralysed the enemy, suffering with the mange was considered to be value off th • cut reserves, impeded their transport of less, because the disease could not always he cured, Mr. Vines, a member of the Royal College of Veterinary food and of reinforcements, and prevented their Surgeons, examined the horse at the knacker's yard, and making another attempt—not at Inkerman, of considered it died from inflammation of the bowels and which they had to their cost learnt the strength, stomach, which complaint arises from a variety of causes. but from the Traktir bridge, or at some other The defendant now said, that when he saw the horse, point of the Tchernaya then in their possession, after it ha‘i been dressed, he found it in the yard, ex- from which they could have debouched into the posed to the cold March winds. plain of Balaklava, and made a grand attack on Lord Campbell, in summing up, said be thought the the rear of our lines. Although those lines plaintiff had failed to make out a case of negligence and were greatly strengthened, and the profile altered want of skill on the part of the defendant. The jury returned a verdict for th e d e f en d an t. and improved, wh en th e rumours o f t h e R uss i ans gathering force towards Baidar with the intention of assaulting us prevailed, they were far from being perfect or unassailable last November. We now learn that the country between Tchongar, Perekop, and Simpheropol was in such a state that it was with , the utmost difficulty the garrison of Sebastopolcould be fed, and that very strong reinforcements were kept for weeks waiting at Odessa, Nicolaieff, and Cherson, till they could march into the Crimea, and were, finally, detained till the spring of this year. But for these impediments the Russians would have had a prodigious army about Sebastopol this time twelvemonth or early in December, and if they were indisposed to try another Inkerman they could certainly have pressed us much harder in the trenches and tried our men by strong and repeated sorties, to which, as it now appears, their hard worked and exhausted garrison was not adequate. At times it was difficult to march even a battalion from the army of the Belbek or Mackenzie's Farm into the city or to effect the usual reliefs. If to these considerations be added the notorious senti ments and opinions of persons high in authority, who advocated the abandonment of the siege, and the retreat of the army from the Crimea after the battle of Inkerman, it will be seen that our pros pects would not have been much better had weather like that we now enjoy prevailed last winter. One of the best soldiers in the army, and our only general —a veteran of great and varied experience —was so struck with the dangers and falsity of our position that he strongly advised the Commander in-Chief to withdraw our army, and renew the at tempt on Sebastopol in another form this year. Theinconveniences to which the famous flank march had subjected the army became more apparent every dayafter the failure of the first bombardment. The flank march was opposed, or was viewed with disfavour, by officers of great authority, and by one whose sagacity and skill are seldom deceived in military operations, although he is not a soldier, and does not command on laud. It is now evident, at all events, that if we were where the Russians were last year, not one of them could ever leave the Crimea. The descent on the Crimea itself was a bold stroke towards the capture of Sebastopol. The battle of the Alma left the approach to the city open to us whenever we liked. Prince Menschi koff's flank march to Bakshi-Serai and Simpheropol, although somewhat ridiculed at the time, is now considered a judicious and daring movement, but it certainly uncovered the north of Sebastopol, the Tchernaya, and Balaklava ; and as it was deter mined by our generals to abandon the dashing cha racter of the expedition, and to assume for our operations a strategical character, to which they had no previous pretensions, we wore obliged to look out for harbou rs , an d the inlets of Balaklava, Kamiesh, and Kazatch met the eye and fixed our destiny. Then came the period during which, without let or hindrance, or attempt at interfer ence or prevention, the Russians, recovering from their surprise and alarm and flocking back to Se bastopol, under the directions of a man of extra ordinary genius began the rudiments of the vast works which baffled our efforts for 11 long months of toil, suffering, and bloodshed, heroically endured and overcome. Now it is perceived that if the ad vice of Sir George Cathcart had been followed the city might have been ours by a vigorous assault on the day after we arrived on this plateau, for the ships alone could never have defended the place, and the greater portion of the feeble garrison, such as it was, consisted of the equipages, or crews, of those very ships. The enemy when they retreated to the north side would have been as impotent as they are now, and Sebastopol, in all its beauty, and with all its vast stores and riches, would have been in our possession. That is the hypothesis as to the result of vigorous action from the south side. But had we approached the city from the north side, there can be no d ou bt t h at the forts would speedily have fallen, the fire of the shipping could have affected our operations very slightly, and the only inconve nience would h ave been ie want of a harbour. The anchorage is good all along the coast up to Eupatoria, and, except on the great gale of the 14th of November, no damage would have occurred to our merchantmen or men-of-war riding off the coast. The mouths of the Katcha, or even of the Belbek, when the fire of the battery which just reached the water was reduced, could have been made available for landing such stores and ma teriel as we required. With the northern forts the whole city of Sebastopol and the remainder of the fleet would hare been ours, our army could have reposed on its laurels for the winter in an im pregnable position, a year would have been saved in the war, and the Crimea would have been cleared of the Russians early in the spring of this year. Such is the hypothesis respecting operations from the north side. Such are the discussions which arise in tho army now that it rests from its labours and sees a vanquished army gathering strength in a position which appears to us impregnable or un assailable. As to future operations it is not be coming in me to speak, but the Russian General must be a man of extraordinary confidence if he thinks he can extricate his army when the spring comes from the grasp of an enemy which already clutches the whole of his coast, is esta blished at two points in his rear, and has four dis tinct bases of operations, with sufficient troops to use them all, and to concentrate a prodigious force on any point he pleases. He may err, and if he does, and the blot is hit, the result will be fatal. The Russian infantry, in spite of his stubborn en durance and passive courage, is not equal to either French, Sardinian, English, or Turkish troops. Every day shows us that it has no chance even against the latter when they are led and officered by Englishmen or brave and skilful European soldiers. Their cavalry in equal numbers will be ridden down like grass whenever they stand against English or French squadrons ; and, notwithstanding the excellence of their artil lery compared with other arms of their ser vice, it cannot compete with ours for an instant as regards rapidity of motion or precision of fire.. Prince:Gortschakoff will be a grand strategist opposed to very weak generals if he succeeds in saving his army and marching them scatheless from the Crimea. The health of our troops is excellent ; the draughts which arrive are rather younger than is desirable, but they will get experience and in struction during the winter. They are admirably clothed, and fed as no army was ever fed before —fresh meat, bread, and vegetables are issued to all. Henceforth the men are to get fresh meat only three times a week, and bread only three times a week, instead of every day. On the other days they will receive pork or salt beef, and excel lent biscuit. Ix respect of winter clothing, hut ting, and feeding, our men are immeasurably bet ter off than our allies, and it is not unusual to see the latter eating in the English camp of the excess of our soldiers' cooking kettles. Little friendships have sprung up in this way. " Fran ceese" comes over with his spoon, a smile, an onion, and a bit of salt, or savoury condiment, to some sapper or grenadier, day after day, about dinner time, indulges in pantomimic conversation, o inter larded with many " bones," an d regales n good soup and broth, to the great delight of the enter tainer. Thus both are satisfied—a true entente cordiale is established through the medium of the stomach, and no one is a loser. The reinforcements to our ally contain, like our own, many very young SURREY SESSIONS.—(This Day.) (Before Thomas Puckle and a Bench of Magistrates.) IMPUDENT ROBBERY AT A LINENDRAPER'S.—Josepit Slack, 18, described on the charge sheet as a slater's labourer, was indicted for stealing 27 yards of flannel, the property of John Noakes, linendraper, Kennington• Cross. Mr. Samuel Waite, a mason, residing in Marlborough place, Kennington-cross, stated that on the afternoon of the 25th ult. he was standing at his door, when he saw the prisoner deliberately walk into the lobby and seize up a roll of flannel, which he ran off with. Wit ness pursued him, and, after a smart chase, secured him, and handed him over to the custody of a constable. The police-constable said he was on dnty in the Lower Kennington road on the afternoon in question, when he heard cries of " Stop thief," and " Police" proceed from the Triangle. Witness went there and raw the prisoner struggling with Mr. Waite, who said that he had stolen a roll of flannel from Mr. Noakes's shop. Witness then took him into custody. The jury, without the least hesitation, returned a ver dict of guilty. The Chairman asked what was known of the prisoner. Sergeant Romaine, 14 L, said that he bad known the prisoner as a thief for ten years. At the December sessions last year he was tried and sentenced to six months' hard labour at Wandsworth for a similar rob bery. He was connected also with a gang of notorious thieves. The Chairman said that the court must pass a heavy sentence on such a dangerous person as the prisoner. He sentenced him to six years' penal servitude. John Jones, 28, collier, was indicted for stealing at Wey bridge, a coat, the property of Joseph Purnell. Verdict, guility. Sentence, two months at Wandsworth. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) THE SUICIDE MANlA.—Elizabeth, Parsons, a young married woman, who appeared in a state of very great exhaustion and debility, and with a face as pale as a spectre, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with attempting to commit self-destruction. Thomas Allwood, a police-constable, No. 422 K, stated that on Friday last he saw the prisoner lying on the foot-path, in the Mile-end road, surrounded by a mob of persons, who said she had taken poison. The poor creature was moaning, and in great pain, and he lost no time in conveying her to the London Hospital, where she had ever since remained. Mr. John Porter, acting resident medical officer of the London Hospital, said the prisoner was brought there on Friday last. Some medicine, and an antidote, was administered to her, which dislodged the contents of her stomach, and she had since been under medical treatment. She appeared to have something which pressed more heavily on her mind than her body, and was in a very depressed state. Mr. Yardley—Were the contents of her stomach analysed ? _ _ Mr. Porter—No, sir. I wish it to be publicly known that people who attempt to commit suicide are amenable to the law. People are being continually brought to the hospital labouring under the effects of poison. Mr. Yardley said there was no direct proof that the young woman had taken poison, and for the want of proof he could not commit he*for trial. B es id es s h e appeare d cohavb suffered much al' ,ady, and as h er h us b an d was pre sent and would lake home he w ou ld di sc h arge her. He was sorry the sui de mania amon g women was so prevalent. Females another class were almost daily brought before him, , ::111.1arged with atte m pti ng to d rown themselves in the London Dock, whil e t h ey were labouring under exciteinent or intoxication, and it was a dreadful state of thtligs. Self-murder was a felony; and to attempt to commit a felony was a misdemeanour, punishable by fine or; mprisonment, or both, Ile b a d frequently explaine hat the law was to unfortunate creatures brought be e him. In this ca,ie he would permit the husband`, the prisoner to take her home, and he hoped her na ow escape would be a warning to her. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) r,ounorr, Dec. 4.—Wind chis day at noon, W. light breeze, and dull hazy Weather. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 3.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Hector, from Moulmein. Sailed—Negotiator, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Queen VictoriaAterra Leone. DARTMOUTH, Dec. 3.—Winch', N.E.— Off the port--Ze phyr, from Rio Janeiro, for Gothenburg. FALMOUTH, Dec. 3.—Wind X.E.—Arrived—Rob Roy, from Callao ; Earl of Leicester, Yarmouth, fcr Trieste, with cutwater started, and with loss of bulwarks, sze., from contact with the Montcalm, of Llanolly. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 3 .—Arrivectr-Hermann (s.), from Bremen for New York. Sailed—La Plata (s.), for the West Indies. The Harriet, from Newport, reports having fallen in with a steamer, in a sinkin g -M a t o, 30th N ov ., off the Ram Head of Plymouth, apparently fruit laden. She is supposed to have been run down the night previ ous. She disappeared in half an hour after being fallen in with. COWES, Dec. 3.—Wind N. — Arrived—bon Antonia, from Surinam, for Hamburg. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 3 . — Arrived — Conqueror;from Alex andi ia, for Amsterdam, to stop a leak ; Amazon, London, for Adelaide ; Berwick (Ls.), London, for the Crimea. Sailed—Alfred, for Jamaica. PILL, Dec. 3.—Wind S.E. by E. — Arrived--W9rthy of Devon, from Quebec; Nicolaus, Rio Grande. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. '2.— Arrived -- Try Again and Urania, from Quebec. Off the port—Lord Ashburton, from Miremichi, and sailed for Liverpool. men, and I was particularly struckwith the youth ful appearance of the men of a regiment which arrived at Kamiesh on Monday. There is scarcely any use in keeping up an appearance of a diary, for one day is uncommonly like another. Prepara tions for the winter are evident on every side. Wood, canvass, little bits of glass, tar, and pitch, and, above all, nails and tacks, are eagerly sought after. At the head-quarters' sale, on General Simpson's departure the other day, a hammer, hatchet, and saw sold for 2/. 15i. A bag of nails was disposed of by auction the same week for 405., and on counting the contents it was found there were only 130 nails iu the bag. Friendly little felonies of planking and such things are not unheard-of, and the greatest favour you can do a friend is " to let him have a piece of board about six feet long by a foot wide ; ' or, " The captain says, sir, as how he'd be very grateful if you could give him a bit of glass about three inches square, sir, for his winder." The heart soon grows har dened under such constant pressure, and one is obliged to refuse " a couple of tenpenny nails" or " the loan of the hammer for an hour" with the sternness of a Brutus. Mr. Stafford is going, it is understood, to move for/an inquiry into the grievances of the medical department on the meeting of Parliament. I will now proceed with my diary, which is ne cessarily very meagre in incident, and, indeed, there was no event to chronicle subsequent to the terrible catastrophe of the 15th. The manner in which this great disaster was caused is said to be this :—" Some French artil lerymen were engaged in shifting powder from case to case in the park, and, as the operation is rather dangerous, every care was taken to pre vent accidents. The powder was poured from one case into the other through copper funnels, and no fire was allowed near the place whore the men were so employed. As one of the soldiers was pouring the powder out of a case he perceived a fragment of shell gliding out of it into the funnel, and, not wishing to let it get into the other case, he jerked the funnel to one side; the piece of shell fell on the stones, which were covered with loose powder, and is supposed to have struck fire in its fall, for the explosion took place at once. Miraculous as it may appear, the aitilleryman who was, as it were, in the focus o f the explosion, escaped alive, and is only slightly burned and scorched. His comrade, who held the other case, was blown to atoms. Another strange incident was the death of the commandant of the artillery for the day. He was in or near the park at the time of the explosion, and as soon as he had seen everything in order as far as possible he went off to have a look at the French batteries in and about Sebastopol, on which the Russians had opened a heavy fire. As he rode along a cannon shot struck off his head. Such is the story. The escapes that day were astounding. Clothes were torn off men's backs ; the chairs or beds on which they sat, the tables at which they were eating, the earth where they stood, were broken and torn by shot, shell, rocket irons, shrapnel, grape, canister, and musket balls, which literally rained down upon them. It was fully two minutes ere the heavy volleys of bursting shells ceased, and then sullen explosions for an hour afterwards warned the spec tator from the scene. Some of the balls and pieces of shrapnel, which must have been pro jected a prodigious height into the air, did hot fall to the ground for a minute and a-half after the last of the explosions. For two minutes, which seemed as many hours, the terrible shower endured, and descended on the camp. The distance to which fragments flew exceeds belief. It is difficult to explain it by mere ,names of locali ties. One piece of shell flew over Cathcart's-hill ; another killed a horse in New Kadikoi. Some struck men and horses in the Guards' camp. One flew over my but ; another struck the ground close to it ; another went into the camp of the Land Transport Corps, behind it. Mrs. Seacole, who keeps a restaurant near the Col, avers that a piece of stone struck her door, which is three and a half or four miles from the park. In the Laud Transport Corps of the Light Division 14 horses were killed and 17 were wounded. Pieces struck and damaged the huts in New Kadikoi. Appalling as was the shock to those who were near, the effect was little diminished by distance. The roar and concussion were so great in Balaklava that the ships in harbour and outside at anchor trembled and quivered, and the houses shook to their founda tions. The ships at Kamiesh and Kazatch reeled and rolled from side to side. Mules and horses seven and eight miles away broke loose, and galloped across the country wild with fright. The noises pealed through the passes at Baidar like the loudest thunder. In fact, the effect resembled some great convulsion of nature. Many thought it was an earthquake ; others fancied it was the out burst of a volcano ; others that the Russians had got hold of Lord Dundonald's invention, and that they had just given it a first trial. Indeed, one officer said to another, as soon as he recovered breath and could speak, " I say, that's a nice sort of thing, is it not ? The sooner we go after that the better." He was persuaded the Russians had thrown some new and. unheard-of instrument of destruction into the camp. The sense of hearing was quite dead ened in many persons, and their nervous systems have not yet recovered the shock, so that any sudden noise startles them. The French had six officers killed and 13 officers wounded ; 65 of their men, mostly of the artillery, were killed, and 170 men were wounded, of whom many will never recover. The destruction in money value of articles appertaining to the siege train was very great, and if the cost of the import of fresh articles be added the sum will be considerable. But when we come to men—to those gallant fellows who survive the battles and the dangers of the campaign—we fear the loss is irreparable. What value can be placed on those noble artillerymen of the siege train who, with little praise or encouragement, have stood by their guns iu so many bombardments, and who have ac quired skill, practice, and hardihood in the greatest siege the world ever saw ? It is to be hoped that the non - commissioned officers of the artillery will be rewarded for their exertions by the selection of one of their body to fill Mr. Yellon's place. He rose from the ranks of the corps, and when ho and Mr. Hayt er were appo i nted as Commissaries of the Land Train great was the commotion in Wool wich at such unusual promotions. Latterly, indeed, they are better off, so far as their pro spects of rising in the service are concerned, for many sergeants of artillery have received com missions in the Land Transport Corps, and are found most valuable and efficient officers as quartermasters of brigade. The day before the explosion an accident took place in the Redan, which was also attended 'with melancholy re sults. The following are the particulars. On the 14th Samuel Goodram, No. 6 Company C aid streams, another old soldier of the same regiment, named Betts, and a serjeant, were on duty in the Redan, and the two men went into one of the casemates to remove some powder and rubbish while the serjeant remained outside. Scarcely had the men entered before an explosion took place, which blew up the magazine and covered the men and the serjeant with earth and sand. Goodram was blown into the air and was then thrown down amid fragments of gabions and falling earth, which buried him to the depth of five or six feet, and Betts was so terribly burnt that he died within an hour after the explosion. Goodram was dug out quite dead, and both men were buried in the Guards' cemetery next day. Thus were two excellent soldiers lost to the country, and I am the more particular in giving the names, in order that I may relate an anecdote of poor Goodram at the attack on the Redan which I heard at the time, but forgot to mention till this moment. The night before the. attack the Coldstreams were on duty in the trenches, and were relieved some hours before the assault took place. On arriving at camp it was found that a private named Samuel Goodram, a butcher by trade, was missing ; a n d it was feared that he had gone away to some canteen to indulge in unfathomable potations, or had been hit in some mysterious way as he came from the trenches. But great wrong had been done to the gallant soldier, who had remained behind from pure love of fighting and from a desire " to hav e a go in at the Roosians." Knowing that the assault would take place in a few hours, Goodram had secreted himself in the trenches as the regi ment mustered and marched off, and employed at leisure time before his comrades left in filling the breast of his coat and every avail able place about his person with cartridges from their boxes, fearing that his private supply o f o• rounds would fail him before he had got his fill of fighting. When the storming party was advancing from the fifth parallel Goodram appeared rifle in hand and joined it as a volunteer, and his regiment claim him as being the first private soldier in the Redan on that memorable day. H e was twice driven out of the Redan, and was over and over again engaged individually with the Russians, and in these encounters he received two wounds—one in the side and one in the arm—but still kept up a fire when driven back by the last rush of the enemy's infantry and forced over the parapet with the rest of our men into the ditch. Instead, how ever, of retiring with the others, as opportunity in the ditch or getting under offered, and keeping cover in the parallels, Goodram made an im promptu rifle pit on the broken glacis outside the ditch, and there he maintained his fire on the enemy till his ammunition became exhausted, and his wounds so painful that he could no longer use his rifle. Then be shouldered his arms and marched stiffly up through the trenches and across the open till he reported himself to his regiment. He was, we believe, tried for being absent without leave and for stealing his comrade's cartridges, but Minos moll could not have condemned a gaifg like (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—Wonder (s.), from Jersey; Alliance (s.), Ha vre ; Millicent and Purveyor, Swanage ; Novel (s.), Havre. Sailed—Despatch (s.), for Jersey ; Atalanta (s.), Havre. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived—Markwell, from Rio Janeiro; Australia, Em pire, Constitution, and Ececranton, New York ; Helen, Quebec ; Cypress, Alexandria ; Orwell, Marseilles ; El vine, Malaga; Hero, Cadiz; Ellen, Konigsberg; Union, Ostend. Sailed—Stranger, for Alexandria. DUBLIN, Dec. 4. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Rio, from Alexandria. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 2. Wind N.N.E Arrived.—Nonpareil, from Girgenti ; Marennollo and Driving Mist, from Byra ; Sarah Boyd, Cuba; Triton, Galatz. (BY SUBMARINE AN'D BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) WindSGRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.51 a.m. ; tide, first hour's ebb; weather cloudy. Sailed—Governor APLean, for the Cap e Castle. In a case in Chancery on Friday, a solicitor who was allowed 51. for his costs said he would accept only of 41., a circumstance which aroused the wonderment of Lord Justice Knight Brace and the praise of Lord Justice Turner. EDINBURGH CALEDONIAN YOUTHS' FRIENDLY SO. CIETY.—The annual dinner in connection with this Society took place on Saturday evening in White's Coffee house, Royal Exchange—Mr.David Lyon, the President of the society, performing the duties of chairman, and Mr. T. Stewart, the treasurer, those of croupier. Various addresses were delivered in the course of the evening, from which it appeared that the society was in a highly prosperous condition. "Prosperity to the Youths' Society " having been proposed in a few introductory remarks by William Pike, Esq., silk mercer, the Chairman, after passing a high eulogium on Mr. Thomas Wood, presented him, in the name of the members, with a valuable watch as an evidence of the respect which they enter tained for him, and for the zeal which he had, for twenty v..ars, performed his duties as officer to the society. Mr. \Vood expressed his gratification at the honour con ferral on him, after which the company separated, hav ing passed a most harmonious evening.--Calcdomian Mercury. IRELAND. THE ELECTIONS. DUBLIN, Monday Morning.— A. meeting of Roman Catholic electors, friends of Mr. Meredyth, was held yesterday in the Chapel•yard of Duleek, when, among resolutions, one was proposed to the effect that the meeting emphatically deprecated and condemned the employment of all undue means, whether clerical or landlord, in subsidising the independent expression of opinion, or swaying the free exercise of the elective franchise ; and they held that, if ever there could exist any justification for resorting to such means, there was no necessity on the present occasion for dictation or co ercion of any kind, and they therefore committed the claims of Mr. Meredyth to the dispassionate good sense of the constituency. From this it is quite clear that Bishop Cantwell is about to be treated to a sample of the independent opposition Hof which he is so warm an an advocate. The election for the borough of Armagh com mences to-day, and the polling is fixed for Wednesday. The contest will be between two Derbyites (Messrs. Miller and Bond). The Liberals made a faint effort to bring their old favourite (Major-General Rawdon) into the field, but on a comparison of notes they discovered that the number of pledges given to the other candidates was so numerous as to preclude the possibility of the gallant General's return. THE INDIAN SERVICE. The Right Hon. R. V. Smith has conferred an India cadetship upon Mr. William Edward West, who ob tained the first place at the last October entrance exa mination in Trinity College. Mr. West, who is but 17 years of age, is son of the late Dr. West, of Dublin, a distinguished scholar, and one of the most accomplished linguists of the day. THE WATERFORD MURDER. The three persons against whom'a verdict of " Wilful murder" has been returned for the recent murder at Tallow have been committed to the county of Water ford gaol. Conway is described as a ferocious-looking man of about 35 years of age ; his mother is an old wo man over 70, and his sister about 30. They are all ex tremely ignorant, and seem unaware of the conse quences of a conviction of the offence with which they stand charged. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AT WOOLWICH. At about 20 minutes past 11 o'clock yesterday morn ing, a terrible explosion took place in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, and produced a great amount of consterna tion and alarm in the town and neighbourhood. An im mense volume of smoke immediately arose from the loca lity whence the sound proceeded, and the rockets which were flying about indicated the immediate source of the mischief—namely, a shed used by Mr. Hales, the con tractor, for the making of those destructive mheiles of war. The police were instantly on the alert, and fire engines without delay were brought to bear upon the burning niass. We regret to say that the damage done was net con fined to combustible material—several men working in the shed, to the number of eight, were all more or less injured—of whom one was so shockingly burned and mutilated as t() require the amputation of both his legs. The poor fellow, however, died subsequently to the ope ration. The names of the sufferers are as follows : Collins, labourer, aged 26 years, single ; had been employed in the arsenal about six years. Henry Langham, 2d foreman, aged 25 years, married ; 14 years in the arsenal. David Bryant, labourer, aged 30 years, married. Thomas Wheelwright, labourer, aged 19 years, single ; five years in the arsenal. Phillip Bullock, labourer, aged 43 years, married ; six years in the arsenal. John Kirwin, who was in such a mangled state as not to be able to give his name, died, after amputation of his legs, at half-past two o'clock. Thomas Holland, labourer, aged 40 years, married ; about 11 years in the arsenal. The poor creatures were carried to the hospital, some in one of the ambulance waggons, the others on stretchers. The sight Wm truly horrible. In the shed which is destroyed the workmen were en gaged in painting the rockets after they had been filled ; and on the end of the rocket is a sort of cap made of iron, with a number of small holes in the top, which sometimes get filled up, but must be kept cleaned out, and, as one of them was engaged in this operation, made use of a gimblet, which is contrary to rules, and in working the instrument about caused the iron to heat, and the com bustibles of which the rocket is composed to explode with such force as to send soma of them as far as the butt in the arsenal, and in all directions ; one of them struck a Russian gun-carriage which bas been brought from Bomarsund, and exploded with such force as to break the wheels, and otherwise injure it. A number of other sheds of precisely the same descrip tion are built all round it, but fortunately none of them took fire, although the sides show the force with which the rockets struck. MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS. The following is from the Committee of Mexican Bondholders : " The committee are in receipt of advice from Mr. Whitehead, dated Mexico, the 2d ult. The President still remained at Cuernavaca, but Mr. Whitehead had had a first interview with the Minister of Finance, Senor Don Guillermo Prieto, who assured him that the Govern ment was most anxious to act justly and honourably towards the bondholders. Mr. Whitehead left a memo rial with him as regards the principal points connected with the foreign debt which would require his Excel lency's attention. The election of members of Congress was appointed to take place on the 16th inst., and their first session was to open on the 14th of February next at Dolores Hidalgo. In the meantime Vidaurri still kept aloof at the head of his followers in the north, and was endeavouring to prevail on Tampico to adopt his plan (which includes the disbanding of the army), and not that of Ayutla. The r e mit' ance f or th e di v idend fund from Vera Cruz is only 12,000 dole., but the agents of the bondholders write that the next packet will bring more. This packet brings nothing from Tampico, but the agents of the bondholders there had got 6,000 Bois. in small money and an order on the Custom-house for 9,597 dole, in their hands on acc3unt of the dividend fund." DREADFOL CATASTROPHE AT cwm- AVON, ABERDARE. We much regret that it is our duty to announce one of the most me l anc h o l y occurrences wh i ch have h appene d in this neighbourhood for a long time past. It appears that Messrs. Carr and Morrison have a pit in work at Cr/maven, which is about 250 yards deep. The men are conveyed to and from their work by an engine at the top of the shaft, which lifts and lets down a large box or tram for this purpose. The same shaft and engine are used for bringing up the minerals, horses, coo. On Wed nesday evening last, the man in charge of the engines left his post about five o'clock, and another engineman, named Solomon Lloyd, took his place, it being his turn to work that night. We ought to have stated that as soon as the tram approaches the top from below it touches a bell, which gives the engine-driver timely in timation in order to stop the ascent. In this case the unfortunate man in charge says the bell did not ring as usual; but however this may be, the engine continued its speed, and the train, containing eight men who were leaving work, was in a momenthurled against the pulley at the top, and the next minute it was, with its living freight, falling with frightful velocity down the shaft they had just ascended. The chain which lifted the tram coming in contact with the pulley had snapped, and the consequence was as we have related. The scene presented at the bottom of the pit, a few minutes afterwards, was of the most harrowing description. The tram had dashed itself against the edge of a deep bank at the bottom of the pit, knocking the name-work into pieces; and in the immediate neighbourhood were the.remains of five muti lated bodies. The other three must have fallen into the water, as they have not yet been found. Solomon Lloyd was brought before the magistrates on Thursday, but no evidence was gone into, and he was remanded. The unfortunate man appeared to feel very much the awful havoc of human life which had been caused. The coro ner's inquest was expected to be held yesterday (Friday). --Monmouthshire Merlin. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). HAY MARKETS. Mirrilarno.—Meadow hay, 4/ 03 to 6/ Gs ; cloves ditto, 41 15s to 71 7s; and straw, 11 4s Od to 11 is lad per load. Both bay and straw sold slowly, on former terms. UIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 414 s to Cl 103: cloves do., 41 12s to 71 7s; and straw, 1/ 5s to 11 10s per load. A moderate supply, and a fair demand. WHITEOHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 41 Os to Cl Gs; elikver do. 41 lOs to 7175; an d s t raw, 1/ 4s to 1/10s per load. Trade rather dull. COLONIAL. Tas.—The market has been steady and prices have re mained unaltered. SUGAR.--A small business has been done in this article, and several parcels have changed hands, but prices have rat been allowed to transpire. Havanaah, No. 12 and 121, have been sold at 54s 6d per cwt. COFFEE. —A fair demand has been experienced for Plan tation Ceylon at about previous rates. RICE remains steady at previous rates. A cargo of Ran goon has been sold to arrive at 14s. 3d per cwt. Rum.—The market is firm, with no alteration in prices. TALLOW.—The market has been dull, and owing to the heavy arrivals from the Baltic, combined with rumoure of negotiations for peace, prices have declined. Y.C. on the spot 68s 6d, and for the spring delivery. The latest prices were 67s 9d for the month, and 68s 6d on the spot. South American 695. Beef Australian 675. Town tallow 68s per cwt. nett cash. We understand that Prince Albert will present new colours to the British German Legion at Sliornclifie, on Thurfiday next, at twolv9 o'clock, MR. WILLIAMS AND HIS CO TT I TUENTS. Yesterday evening, Mr. W. Williams, UP. for Lam beth, met a numerous body of his constituency at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, for the purpose of explain ing his political conduct during the last session. The large room of the tavern was filled, and the hon. gentle man met with a very warm reception. Mr. John Groves was called to the chair, and, after a few preli minary observations, introduced Mr. Williams to the fleeting. Mr. WILLIAMS said he had invited his constituents to meet him that night, as he had done at the termination of every session since he had had the honour of being their representative in Parliament, to give them an op portunity of demanding any explanation of his conduct during the last session. He would now state what his conduct had been. He hoped his constituents required it, and that they looked sharp after him, as that was the best means of keeping men honest and true to their duty. In the first place, he would tell them that he was to be found in his place in the House of Commons every night during the past session, with the exception of five only, when he was prevented by severe illness, (Cheers.) He took part consequently in all the proceedings of the session, and he could conscientiously state that in every vote he gave, and in every opinion he expressed, which he did upon some importent mea sures in the House of Commons, he had acted to the best of his judgment, and in strict conformity to the principles that he had upon former occasions laid before his constituents, and which principles induced them to place him in the position of their representative. (Cheers.) In proof of what he stated he would mention a very im portant fact. The Administrative Reform Association —of which they had doubtless heard a great deal, and which association had effected some good, and would, he dare say, do a great deal more—that association bad looked through the proceedings of thelast session, and had selected eight votes that most carried out the principles of Admininistrative Reform. Of the 654 members which constituted the House of Commons, only four voted for those eight questions, and he was one of those four. (Cheers.) The session was a very long one, but yet he was sorry to say that not many important measures be came law. A great amount of time was wasted in con tests for place and power. Those that were in were anxious to keep in, and those that were out were as anxious to get in, and the time of the country was wasted to an enormous extent between the contests of these two parties. (Shame.) He would first call the attention of his constituents to a matter in which they had all taken some interest, namely, the Metropolitan Local Management Bill. That was a most important measure. Before the passing of the bill there were 276 different public bodies carrying out the local manage ment of the affairs of the various parishes of the me• tropolis. Many of those bodice were self nominative ; others appointed by the Crown ; and all (Athena levying very heavy rates upon the householders, which they ex pended, and to a very great extent squandered, without any responsibility or accountability to any person what soever. Now this bill placed the election of the vestry and the board of works in the hands of every rate payer. No person who paid a rate would have to do so without having a voice in the appointment of the per sons who levied and expended that rate. The bill when it cane into operation would of course require several alterations—few bills that passed the House of Commons did not. If, however, that should be so, he should be most happy to place any service he could render his con stituents at their disposal. (Cheers.) A hill was also passed last session to abolish the duty upon newspapers. That was a question in which the public had taken great interest for several years, and was now accom plished. (Cheers.) There was another bill which created sonic sensation—a bill to regulate the closing of public houses on Sundays. (Hear, hear.) That bill had been considerably ameliorated, and he hoped to such an extent as would satisfy all parties. There was another bill which had been deemed one of great importance, with reference to limited liability in partnerships. That bill passed the House of Commons ; but, as soon as it entered the House of Lords, it was ruined, and he now attached but little importance to it. There was also a bill upon which he had expressed his opinion, and he should state the reason he did so. They had heard a great deal about the Turkish loan. (Hear.) Now, he voted for that —wad he did so because, having, in the earlier part of his life, been actively engaged in commercial pursuits, he had visited Turkey, and could state that the Turks were as honest and fair dealing a set of people as any in the world. (Loud cheers.) Again, the advantage of the loan hal been seen in the glorious victory obtained by the Turks over the army of that great despot the Czar of Russia. (Loud cheers.) There was another bill, called the Foreign Enlistment Bill. Now, he had a great objection to introducing foreigners into the army, but, after hear ing of the great hardships to which our army was ex posed in the Crimea—(hear, hear)—he thought there could be no reasonable objection to it, and ho gave his vote accordingly. (Cheers.) There were several other measures of importance brought before Parliament. The ballot—(hear, hear)— was another question which had occupied the attention of Parliament. He bad always voted for the ballot, and he was glad that it had been in troduced into the new bill for the management of the me tropolis. The abolition of Church-rates had received a great impetus in Parliament during the last session ; and he believed enough had been done to lay a foundation for the total abolition of those imposts at no distant day. Another important question on which he had voted was Mr. Roebucks committee to inquire into the state of the army before Sebastopol. After that committee made its report, there was so much g round proved for inculpa ting the Government of Lord Aberdeen that Mr. Roe buck proposed to censure the members of that Govern ment, and he had voted with much satisfaction for that motion. They were aware that he had always made it a point to canvass the votes in supply relating to the army and navy ; but as he believed that the best way to put an end to the aar was to make the army as efficient as possible, he had not opposed a single vote last session. Some of the items of the civil service expenditure he re garded as monstrous and uncalled-for, and he had opposed them. He had opposed a vote of 1r,0,0001. for royal pa laces and buildings, and also the annual vote for the sup port of the Presbyterian clergy in the North of Ireland called the Reg ion Dooms. He had opposed the latter vote especially on the ground that the people of the North of Ireland were quite as well able to support, their clergy as the people of either England or Scotland. He had opposed the vote, but, he regretted, without much success. There was another important motion which he had brought forward, namely, to iinposethe same amount of probate duty upon land as was paid upon all other de scriptions of property. By the law, as it at presentstood, a great landowner, who had an income of 100,000/. a-3 ear from land, paid nothing in the shape of probate duty, while the labourer had to pay 21 percent. upon the bed on which he died and the smock-frock he left after him. This tax would yield 2,000,00A1. a-year, which would be a ca- 1 pital thing to carry on the war w ith too'. Mr. Gladstone, who was the most honest Chancellor of the Exchequer he had ever known, had consented to tax legacies, and as long as lie (Mr. Williams) had a seat in the House of Com mons, he would support him in that object. Then, agate, corporations, such as universities, and deans and chap ters, paid no legacy duty, on the ground that a corpora tion never died ; but he bed obtained a promise from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he woul.l tax them for the future. (Hear.) Now, with regard to the subject which, like Aaron's rod, swallowed up all others—the war—he was bound to say, that, heretofore, it had been conducted without thought and without feeling. (Hear, hear.) The brave army which we had sent from our shores to invade the territory of the enemy was as fine an army as ever left the country ; but it was despatched in a condition wholly inadequate for the duty required of it. The Government hangers-on said it was not to be expected that everything could be efficient during the first year of a war ; but did they know that, since the last war, .the people of Great Britain had expended 300,000,000/. on the army since the last general peace ? A finer army never left the shores of England than that which fought the battle of the Alma, and yet they were left without shelter for three weeks. When they got into the trenches they had neither food, clothing, nor shelter, but thanks to the correspondents of the London newspapers—(hear)—their condition was made known, and supplies were sent out. The supplies, however, were stowed away in ships which were wrecked on a lee shore, when they ought to have been in the open sea, and all were lost. When he heard of what had happened, and of the state of the roads, he said, " Good God ! is it possi ble there is no way of making a road from Balaklavn to the camp ?" The answer he got was, the men are wanted for the trenches. Why, at that very moment the Sultan could have sent as many thousand Turks as were wanted to work on the roads, and the Consul at Bucharest could have sent thousands of Wallachians, who were doing nothin to assist the Turks. When the conditio n of thearmy became known in Eng land, all cl asses un i ted to sen d ou t clothes.ved inthe sup plies to the army, but when they arrived l Crimea, th e y were flung in the mud at rn Balaklava. The Government of Lord Aberderecnorrdeesnied the correspondents, truth of the statements of the new i s i tT_P e e t fellow— (hear)-- moved and Mr. Roebuck, that p lucky a ige - e into those allegations. moved for a committee to ir and the result of its la- The committee was appointed, bours was to reveal a . worse state oft things than even re portn on y then, It was ee, a d had stated to exist. that Lord Aberdeen admitted that he had never reall y known what was the true s tate of the army. (Cries o f "Shame.") Since that time another Gover nment had come into office, and whatever might beits shortcomings at least it could not be charged witk leaving the army without food and shelter. Now, with regard to the navy, a Lord of the Admiralty had lately stated that the Baltic fleet b ad cost the cou ntry 9,000,0001 . ;that fleet, although manned b y Sir Ch arles Napier, had d one very little except to bombard. Butnarsund but th e French could have done that without the assistance of the fleet at all. Another admiral bad been appointed to the command of the fleet this year, and he had come home after doing very little better. In fact, the fleets wer e not allowed to go nearer th an 2,000 yards, , while Nelson went in at 200 yards, an d knocked forts and stone walls about the ears of the enemy in a very short time. (Hear.) The Black Sea fleet had done something better. The enemy had retired from that sea, and the ships had done ser v i ce b y destroying the stores' and re sources of the enemy. There was no man in the com munity who loved peace more than he did. He abhorred war, but he abhorred the hoof of the Cossack still more. (Hear.) There was a peace party in this country, the leaders of whom were his old political friends ; but he did not agre e w i t h them on this question. That party were in favour of not touching a sod of Russian soil, on the ground that if she were despoiled of any of her possessions, she wo u ld never make peace. Why, dur ing the last eighty years Russia had doubled her original territory by despoiling the possessions of her neighbours. For years past she had been making arrangements for the absorption of Turkey. In the year 1844, the Emperor of Russia came over here, and actually made a proposal for a partition of Tur key, promising that England should have Egypt and some of the islands of the Mediterranean, and that h• would take all the rest himself. The war which Eng- land and France were now waging was a war of civili sation, and he was sure the people of England would never cry " Hold, enough" until the ambition of the Northern despot was effectually checked. Russia had already lost 300,000 men. She had raised eight levies, and she was now *ling out her population en maim. Ile was for peace, lost not for such a peace as would en able Russia to make fresh arrangements for attacking Turkey again. This, then, was the moment for obtain , ing terms. We had the Emperor of the French with us —honest, faithful, and chivalrous—(tremendous cheers) —and with such an ally the only course was to prose cute the war with energy, so as to procure an honour able and durable peace. (Loud cheers.) The hon. gen tleman, after alluding to some matters of a purely local character, concluded by thanking the meeting for the kindness with which they had heard him. In reply to an elector, Mr. WILLIAMS pledged him self to oppose any attempt to introduce an alien bill. He would divide the house upon every stage of any such measure if it were proposed. After some other questions had been put, for the most part having reference to local interests, a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Williams for his Parliamentary ser vices, and the meeting separated. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following is from a letter dated Malta,Nov.2B: " The Falcon steamer arrived from London, Lowe stoft, and Gibraltar on the 26th, and left on the setae day for Balaklava. " The Peninsnlar and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ripon, in the transport service, arrived on the 27th from Southampton and Plymouth, bringing Lieut. Bond, 12th Lancers ; Lieut. Cuthbert, Bth Hussars ; the Hon. Cornet Ellis, Bth Dragoons ; Lieut. Moorhead, 92d; Dr. and Mrs. Hughes, Dr. Hulsh, Dr. Hume, Rev. Mr. Smith, Rev. Mr. Harris, Mr. Wiltshire, two Russian prisoners to be exchanged, Ensigns Dickinson, Martin, and Tood, of the 4th ; Ensign Daly, 46th ; Lieut.-Col. Erskine and wife, Purveyor Lee, Major Moore, 97th ; Capt. Rowland and Ensign Keogh, Ist Royals ; Capt. Cannon and one private of the 87th ; Capt. Annesley and two privates of the 18th ; Capt. Van Straubenzee, 9th ; I Capt. Jervoise and Ensign Bill, 23d; Capt. Clegg, 92d; Lieut. Wolseley, 18th ; Commandant Robertson, Quar termaster Williams, and 604 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Land Transport Corps, and 95 non commissioned officers and privates of the Medical Staff Corps, and four servants. " The Great Britain steamer, from Portsmouth, with the Ist Regiment of the British Swiss Legion, is just entering the harbour. " The City of London steam-transport left for Con stantinople on the 24th, conveying Mr. Bake, Com mander-In-Chief of the Land Transport Corps, with his assistants, Sir E. Graham, Messrs. Branscombe, Collins Fletcher, Gordon, H arr i son, Hornsby, Lloyd, Pye Ro berts, Rudd, Tarn, Th ompson, Taunton, Vick:,, and \Vraxall ; Brigadier-General Watt, Capt. Smith, aide-de camp ; Dr. Rankin, Captains Hill, Lynch, Netherwood, Pearce, and Thompson ; Assistant-Surgeon Quallet, and Mr. Mann, all of the Land Transport Corps ; Messrs. Conratt and Poole, and 114 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Turkish Contingent. "The Hydas•pcs steam transport arrived from Kazatch, Constantinople, and Kululee on the 26th, with the greater portion of the cargo of ordnance stores and am munition which she carred out to the Crimea from Eng land in September last, and which she is now under orders to convey to Spithead ; but, in consequence of her cargo having been found very heavy in bad weather experienced on the 24th of Nov., when she strained and laboured very greatly, a portion will be taken out at Malta. The Duke of Newcastle, Lord West, Captain Sanderson and wife, Mr. Adam and the Misses Halford, Hutton, Taylor, and Windthropp came passengers by the Hydaspes. llis Grace attended a review of the troops at Matta by Lieut.-General Sir J. Pennefatker on the 27th. " The English sailing transport Northfleet, from Con stantinople, and Dunbar, from Kertch and Scutari, ar rived on the 26th. " The Hamburg steam transport arrived from Con stantinople on the 25th, bringing Assistant• Storekeeper Jove. " Her Majesty's frigate Diamond arrived from Eupa :oria on the 26th. "Her Majesty's screw steam transport Industry ar rived from Kinbourn and Constantinople on the 26th, with condemned stores. "The Progress steam transport left for Gibraltar on the 25th. " The Queen of the South steam transport left for England on the same day with nine horses, amrnuni!ion, and ordnance stores, returned from the Crimea, and con veyed Mr. Petch, R.N., and the same passengers she brought down from the East, with the exception of Ge neral Sir R. Airey, Majors Brandling and M`Kenzie, Captain Carr, who landed at Malta. " Her Majesty's steam-ship Assistance left for Gib raltar on the 26th. Col. Douglas left for Marseilles on the 26th in the Osiris, French postal steamer. "The Edina steam-transport left for England on the 26th, conveying Surgeon Macnaughton and Captain Uewgill, of the Turkish Contingent. "The Euxine, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam packet, arrived from Alexandria on the 25th with the India mail, with the heavy portion of which she proceeded on the 26th to Southampton, calling at Gib raltar, after landino. at Malta, among other passengers, Sir J. Cheape, and the following, destined for Marseilles, who went on the evening of the 25th in the steam-packet AlahamLra, belonging to the same company, carrying the overland portion of the mail for England, namely : Captains Abbott, Brooke, M‘Vicar, and Major Ken nedy. The Alhatnbra also embarked at Malta Colonel Sillery, Capt. Carr, and Lieut. and Mrs. Robinson. The Enxine conveyed to Southampton the lion. Mr. Gibson and family, Commander Fellowes, R.N., Lieut. Lornan, R.N., Major Hamilton, Capt. Whittingham, R.E., Lieut. Haumer, and Ensign Wiliianas. "The American ships Edgar P. Stringer and Titan, in the French transport service, arrived from Kamiesh and Constantinople on the 26th, the former bringing 550, and the latter 1,174 officers, non-commisoned officers, and privates. This last-named vessel, in letting go her anchor near the Government powder magazine in Valetta Harbour, narrowly escapel running on the Point, and came in collision with the Marley-hill iron screw steam-transport, occasioning her (images to the amount of 2501. to 300/., the repair of which will occa sion her at least a week's detention. " The Cleator, English steam-transport, in the French service, left for hlarseilles on the 24th, with S 4 military invalids, and the Briton, steam-transport, in the same service, for England on the 25th. "The Fulton, French steam-corvette, left for Mar seilles on the 26th, and on the 27th the Prirnauguet, French steam-corvette, for Toulon, the latter conveying 2 0 0 officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates. "The Arthur the Great steamer, from the East, with French troops, is this moment telegraphed. "The Ottoman schooner-of-war Sajah arrived from Tripoli on the 25th. "The Propbete, French steamer, arrived on the 25th from Marseilles and Toulon. " The Thessalia steamer, from Sm3rna, with a general cargo for Liverpool, left on the 25th. " I t erd and Lady Portarlington left for Alexandria in the Meta on the 25th. ;'The English bark Napoleon 111., with hay from Al geria, left for Constantinople on the 27th. "The Sardinian frigate San Giovanni, `maim, with oornin i ssar i at supplies, the Carmel, F , re m nh , a postal-steam er , f rom t h e E ast, and the Propont signalled." u s n t lled." e er from Lo n d on , w i t h a general cargo, from Var c ig- Charles Grah am , C.8.,A.D.C. By the d ea th o f Reserved-AdmtoirattlierCeQarjudesisetsivp becomes,geaaptain Rear-Admiral on the active list. The Colossus, 80, Captain Robinson, arrived at Ports• e ti r c. Luce, arriv e d The Ariel, 9, steam -sloop, Spithead from the White Sea, mouth yesterday morn ing ta f i r n o c o ll it o o t ti t a ß n a d l yesterday afternoon at erno fr o o n m to thel and er i i n m va ea li , invalids, which The Sydney, No. 76, s t e am-transport, went i n t o Ports mouth harbour yesterday Marine landed on Saturday at Portsmouth, under th e command of Lieutenant-C o lonel Thomas Holl oway, was yesterday battalion aft comp l im ented by the following letter from the Com mander-in. Chief of the Fleet in the Crimea, which was etbhaeol, Nov- 11. men on par a d e: — put into gene L a i l l o o r y d a e i r A s andlb Albert, read ff to sto s Sir,—The Lord s Commissioners., p of the Admiralty hav i ng directed me to send the battalion of Royal Ma rines under your command to England, I cannot allow the officers and men to quit the Black Sea without ex• pressing my warmest approbation of their admirable con duct and bearing throughout the memorable events of the last 13 months. " Wherever this noble corps has been employed it has called forth the approbation of the Generals in command, and the manner in which the officers and men overcame the trials and difficulties of last winter was the theme of universal admiration. " The late Lord Laglan, Sir James Simpson, Sir Colin Campbell, and Brigadier-General Spencer have repeatedly borne testimony to the exemplary conduct of the bat talion, and it will be my pleasing duty to bear similar testimony in my report to their Lordships. " I have already had the pleasure of expressing 0 1 71 _Y . acknowledgments to Colonel Hurdle, who so ably m at mamded the battalion uctil his services were re t g that you his divisional head-quarters ; and I only regret to reap have not had a longer opportunity in some reward for the invaluable a ssistance have In. variably afforded your late co mmanr . livpl i m , E. LYONS, Commander-in-Chief. " Lieutenant-Colonel Holloway, Commanding Battalion Royal Marines." The gunboat Bustard, launched last week from M enr Pritchard's yard at Northtleet, arrived at Woolwich ot Saturday to be rigged and fitted for service, for which a number of hands are busily engaged on board The b re aking-up of the Janus is still being continued. The first of the ne w g un and despatch boats at Pen]. broke is rapidly nearing completion, and will be launched in a few week s . The sec ond will sh ottlyTfollovr. The new s i gn al -stations down the h averi are immediately to be made available, and Lieut. Parkes has b een a pp o i n t e d t o the post at St. Ann's Head. Mr. Frazer, naval sur g eon, has succeeded Mr. Jo nes as medical attend an t t o th e Pembroke establishment and there ha ve b een sever al r moves among the clerks in n consequence torekpeeer of the went of Mr. Chevaliereks be s toatHalifaapxpot Halifax. The e new barracks • are now ordnance stores have completed, and the whole of the to bring the m arrived, vessels having been hired round It is 'll be expected that they wi imme • diately occupied . by a portion of the militia, as, i n consequence of the arrival of another company of the Militia Artillery from Haverfordwest abo ut 50 of the Monmouth s hi re Militia are billeted in the town. Captain Charles Eden, RN., is appointed Controller- General of the Coastguard, Ties Henderson, deceased. pa all ral ral