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EAST INDIA TIOUQE, 25TH OCT., 104. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that a QUAR TERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Company will bps held at their House in Leadenhall-street, en WF:DNESDAY, the 20th De cember next, at Elevan u'clo,k in the Forenoon. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. EAST INDIA lIOUgE, 25TH OCT., 1854. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that the Transfer !looks of the said Company's Stock will be shut on THURSDAY, the 7th of December next, at Three o'clock, and opened again on TUESDAY, the 16th of January, 1855. That the Warrant , : for the Dividends on the said stock, navable on SAIURD AY, the 6th lanuar%, 855, under the 11th section of the Act 3d and 4th, Williain4tli, can. 85, will be re=edy to be delivered on UM day. JAMES C. MELVILLE, Secretary. CirYSTAL PALACE.—B.AND Of the GUIDES. " The Band of the Imperial Isegimeut of Guides halie arrived from Paha expires...ly to take part hi the Concert At "the' Crystal on Saturday, the 28th inst.. in aid of the Funds for the tele! , of .1m Sick and Wounded and Wido•vs and Orphan.; of her Alijesty's .7orces in the War. _ _ By order. G. GROVE, Secretary. Crstal Palace, Oct. 26, 1854. •,OHOLERA ORPHANS.-NATIONAL lJ , IIPHAN 11054 E, Ram common. Li=t;tuted 1849 —On Sundriy Morning next, October 29. a Sermon wit , be preached .it St. Relict's, Gracechurch street, on behalf of the above Orphan Home, by the Bev. M. W. LUSIGN'AN, M.A., Lecturer of All-Hallows the G'eat argl Len. The Home has new 40 Orphan 011ie, and 20 Moro are to be elected if possible nn the 13th— fo-rteen to be Cholera pr, bans. JOSEPH BROWN 1.1. A ' Hon. Secretaries. J M MORGAN`. — Esq , Every infornsaticst will ba given by the llonbrary.Secretary, the Rev. Joseph Itrown, Vector of Cbrist Church, Blaeltolar's-road, to whom subscriptions maybe forwarder . ; also to the Treasurer, Henry Ifingscote, 1, Parliament-street; or to the a count of the National Orphan Home, London and Westminster Bank, City ; to Dalton's, Cockspur-street ; HatchurrS, Piccadilly ; Nesbitt's, llernZrs street ; Rivington's, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Waterloo-place,`Poll-Mull ; Seeley's, 54, Fleet-street, and Hanover street, Hanover sopare. • • LONDON and NOR TR-W E.STERN RAIL .A„ - Y.—CON TRACTS for STORE foT, the Year, 1855. —Tne Direetortare prepared to receive TENDERS for the SUPPLY of the undermakitioned aTORES, viz No. of Contrast.... 1. Brass Sheet and Tubes for Locomotives 3. Copper • 4. Canvas B. Carpet and hugs • (6. 01 , •th 7. Axles • 9. Crucibles ]q. Curler; H air Cp4lsys FUlllitlitte, Brass 12. Cqipero 12a. Hyysiltery 113.. Coach 1-t• 'CottOn Waste - 5. Bags, Rope, Hemp, gm 16. Glass, Plate Ira. Glass, various 17. Hardware and Station Stores 17a. Brushes and rencile -18. Leather 18a. Leather, various Svecifications and Forms of Tender may be had on and after Mon- Ilk', October 23d, on application, in a riting, tJ the Secretary, Eust n 'station, London. Forms of Tender for each Contract are printed separately, and parties aprlying should state the particular Contract or Contracts for which they propose to tender. Patte,ns may also be inspected on and after Rio day, October 23d, from Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Euston Station ; and any further information' required may be obtained on Application to the Heads of the several Departments. Tenders may be sent in on or t elore Ten o'clock on Monday, November 6th., _ . wo of Contract -19. Lead, White and Red 9a. (.e :id. R• 05.4 and Pipe 10. Iron, Yorkshire 20a. Iron Staffordshire 20b. Iron, Pig , • 21. Iron Castings 22. Iron Wo:k 23. Wheels , 4. 011, Burning, &c. 25. Oils (various), Tallow, and Turpe ntin: 2G. 011 Cloth 27. Steel 2R. Seel Springs and Files 29. Tin Blocks 30 Tin Sheet and Spelter 31. yaril , hes 42. Sundries . - 34. Bab; 35. Cape By order of the Directors • CDA• 4 . E. STEWART, Secretary. Euston Station, October" 15 , 4: --- - COSMORAMA OF ST. PETERSBURG - , ROYAL PAN )I.TICIN, eicesn•r-square.— COSMQR .of ST. PETERSBURG, includinz a Portr it of ill. Empe , oi Nigh= laa. that; been added to th' many attractions at the Royal l':=norticon of Potence ft d Art. amonast tiles- are:—the Lu inovs and Vbroniatio "'Fountain. throning INuminst d Water 10(1 feet high—Panorama and •.Dioramic Views of Ve'rona— A selendid collection of -. broth,. tripe. , - Heincße's Diving Arp.ininis, the Stinactueoui fig - 44&c. =Scientific lectures and Demons.rations by. en inen,t, ProfeAsors— and-Pc . for imnces on the Grand Orgtn by 3t. Best, and iiistin's Pugel Horn - Union every evening. Bourg of exhibition .12to 5 ; even- Ing• 7to 1 0 , Saturday evenings excepte;l. Admision, Is. ;.; schools and children under 10, half-price. , Season admission, ono. guinea ; life admission, ten guineas. . . . RAND BAL MASQUE at the 'CASINO DE. VENTSFI, [Ugh o I born. It is resnectfullY announced' that an compliance with the oft-expressed , oish of the numerous f fitrons‘ , of this superbly decorated and magnificent estabikhment; a Grand 'Bel Masque, upon the Oame liberal scale that rendered s. I previous , -ones,given here so extremely potiu!ar, w1:1 take plaee • To-kitctir, October 26. Mr. W. If. Packee4 renowned Rand .will petgorm programme of the most favourite compos , tions in Dance VuslC 'Gentlemen's Tickets, 5s ; Ladies' do., 3s. Doors open .at ha' f-past, .Nine; to commence at Ten o'clock punctually. Mr. Nathan, Castle- Street, is the appointed Costumier. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S GRAND CASINO.—Open Every Evening.—Principal Cornet a Piston, M. lionlcourt.—The Baud will perform during the week th • following Progiamine:— Overture, Zanetta ; Waltz, Les Gandoles de la Tamise; 'Polka, Bulgarian ; Quadrille, Le Joli Postilion ; Polka. La Cornete ; ...Waltz, Stars of the west; Quadrille, Les Italiens ; Schottische, ;Henrietta; Galop, Corsican Brothers; Waltz, Hare; Quadrile, Les ;Francaise ; Polka, Etoile du Nord ; Waltz, Solon Spruche ; Quadrille, Vonstantinoplo ; Galop, L'Oranzo. Admi-sion, One Shilling. Altera of Time—Doors open at tt ; commence at half-past. OPAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. 369, REGENTATREET.—Wnder the sole Direction of J. 31, PEPPER, Esq., F.C.S. A. Inst. C.E. • GOOD DRAMATIC READINGS are now added to the other] settractions of the Institution. Miss GLYN ',vi 1 read NEAf!RETH on Thursday Evening, the 26th :teat at Elzht o'clock, the MERCHANT of VENICE on Saturday 'Evening, the 28th inst., at Eight o'clock; HAMLET on the 2d of November, at Eight o'clock; and ROMEO and JULIET on the 4th :of November. at ight. . • LECTURE specially addressed to the INDUSTRIAL CLASSEI ,on Monday Eveninzs. Every NOVELTY in GENERAL SCIENCE will be secured to the An ever-varied succession of LECTURES, MECIINNICAL and COSISIOUAMIC EXIIIBITIONS, MUSIC, the MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, &c is maintained daily, from Twelve till rive; Evenings, Seven VII Ten. A dmisslon, Is ; falls, 2s • Cven 0 'ZATURDAY EVENINGS from half-past seven till ten, fel:Kiss GLYN'S DRAIIATIC READINGS ONLY. T o LOVERS OF FISH.- 100 real YARMOUTH BLOATERS for Gs., package included. 'The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps, or P. 0. 0. (preferred) for the amount. Send plain address, county, and nearest station.—Address, Thomas Lettis, jun., Fish-curer, Great Yarmouth. ORISON'S PILLS. —The VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE of the BRITIAII CJLLCGE of HEALTH, New-road, London. Read the MeRISONIANA and ether Hygelan publications, to be lad gratis of all the agents. 'o chemist or druggist is allowed to sell i , forison's Pills 'JACKSON'S PATENT PREPARATION for the PRE-tERVATION of POTATOES, SEEDS, &c.—This 'Valuable discovery, for which Letters Patent have been obtained, is the result of fourteen ye , re' study and experiments in the preserva tion of vegetable matters. It imparts health anti vigour to ihe Plants and Seeds subjected to its action, and effectually prevents the POTATO DISEASE, the SMUT in WHEAT, MILDEW and ROT, all FUNGAL DI4E ASEs, and 'he attacks of INSECTS and VER . MIN, and further r'commends itself to the farmer, th , planter, and the public generally, by the extreme simplicity of the mode M its application. It is sold by all seedsmen and Chemists, in packets of one, two, three, and four pounds each, with instructions for its use, and parties requiring larger quantities for their own use or for extiortatjen, can be supplied on advantageous terms, by addressing to Mr. Jackson, the Patentee, IS, Carmen-street,- London-bridge, whet , the article is always on sale, and the full st particulars and directions for its use tan be obtained. G R A VESEND STAR PACKVITS. • vo other Packets call at the Greenhithe and Purfleet Piers. NOTIJE.—Day Tickets are issued upon the , ravesend- Star Packets, available for return y them or by the London and Tilbury Railway ; the R,turn Tickets by the Railway will also be available tor return by the St+r Packets. The Packets ctil (t the P+e , s as underlined (weather perrnitthlz • FROM TERRACE PEER, GRAVESZNTD. WEER DAYS, Terrace E Pier 0 4 , . 2 B 3 g I z. - - Direct Omnit every qt if t. fr? SUNDAYS Time IF, 4 . 5 . ! . .1 1 ! 8 Q 4) Trains from the Boats marked t tses from Fenchurch-street Station to sit parts of London inter of an hoar. TICK wa A.RF. BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the fol. [owing Trains from the Fenehurch-street Station. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. p. ' 2 2. Fen- . 4 _: 2. ► E Fen- 3 -, 2 "s -2 church - - = ' . church 5 . 2 t= 1.1 , -,.. ,-. z - 7 Street .", 0 .4treet ' • ';.• L' i f a z., $-. o ' ~,. .... 0.--. -- - - -- II - 11 2 U 5 4 - direct. Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and L0nd0n.......... 10d, Is. 2d. Gravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10d. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. -BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5 .Os.; Six Months, 37. Os.; Three Months, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on board the Packets or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. 'Oct. 23. 1054. • Passages marked • are 'ME SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Jut published, price 25., illustrated with eases; free by post for 30 IN -ER V oUgtamps' DEBILITY; Its. Causee, Practical" a Cure.—An Essay on SPer enatonhcea, with Practical .obEedrrions on a sitter and more successful mode of treatment ;:liseases of the Generative System, obtained by the use of the Tfil p roseope in detecting and distinguishing, by urinary ex amination, wi ti in real cause and effect of cveiy variety of complaint, whether ex cesses, accident, or climate. followed en twenty years' experience in g permatorr e h n ee t of Impuissance. by p r f :Inn Solitary habits, cal remarks, founded the treatment e. To which Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, . of It a rr .B' iage, with pre are added, Commentaries on the Physiology cautionary hints on the evils emanating from and on the eq.ngerous remedies advocated by various ?Meal practice, these importsue. disorders. writers on oy tSA.ItUEL LA J MERT. M.D. ST, BEDFORD -SQUARE, LONDO N, INctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of ve t , hurt h, honorary Menther at the London Hoepitat Medic iEi - Licentiate of Auoth wanes' Hell, London. se., Am, a evetN The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearfhl cone Sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have pro:faced more misery in Youth, degradation In Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is Particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having 'hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary theta man should know, that there are Principles of personal management which Cannot be Violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self -Indulgence, how these penalties unity be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, !aid how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there lisclreely any decree of physical infirmity or flinctional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. TbSAuthor has fora series of years been engaged in an extensive practice unfo in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have ain„P„,tmat9l37 been too generally confided to the care of ignorant faith in who inflict great injury on those Whe are induced to picce N m ß.,, their pretensions. Beet), 4' QC'S ill4 - .81i.1T Ymey be had, price `..`,s, of Messrs. ex. 'ad (..) - , e Home, 6: - I 4 e -.., PaternoAter-row : Hannay, C 3, ONford-strt , thirty sr,. 'eic'ester-syn..re: Yann, 39, Cornbill ; cr free !...y post for fordesqusse. l'e to any address from the Author's resii.euce. 37, Bea - Al fo home _. r consultation daily thorn eleven till Two, stul from six till PISA, ' -r. , „ .• • • •, / 'it OP —• •/ C ' t \:, • „ ;4; , e ; 111 P. • ••,• N. ' , . Ut . A: • : k • V•-•' •';t , 1 14 'll ' ' I . Z. 5 41L,„ •S‘ • '.!•;;* • • c 2, • rcwii A.: .s , l' r 11 ..• . 1 , 6 91'• • • -s - • • " 4.`•••, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1854. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Eurydice, 26, Captain Ommanney, will go into Portsmouth harbour this day to refit. • The Niter, screw gunboat, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning after her trial cruise in. the Channel, which has fully developed her seaworthy and gunnery qualities to the satisfaction of the inspecting officers, who have made their report to the Admiralty. She Went into Portimouth harbour to replenish coal. The Cossack left Sheerness yesterday for Devonport. There is a private leak from some of the through pipes, by which she has lately been snaking 30 inches every 24 hour 4. She is to be docked there, in order to make good this defect ; she takes with her despatches for the Black Sea fleet, to be transferred to another ship either at Portsmouth or Devonport, her destination under her former orders having been counterma,nded. It is re ported that she is to proceed towards the North Pole under sealed orders ; certain it is several of her officers nave given their orders for warm clothing to be sent to them at Devonport. The Curlew remains in harbour at Sheerness, wait ing orders. Surgeon William T. Domville, M.D. (1852), recently serving, as surgeon of the Resolute discovery-ship in the Arctic regions, has been appointed to the Royal Marine Infirmary, Woolwich, vice Dr. Jenkins, appointed to the Britannia, 120, flagship on the Mediterranean and Black Sea station, for service with the seamen on shore at Sebastopol.• Lieutenant-Colonel William Jolliffe, of the Woolwich division, has been the first officer promoted to the rank Of Colonel of the Royal Marines under the new regula tions, after serving three years as Lieutenant-Coloriel, his promotion to that rank having taken place on the 6th of October, 1851. • • . ral officers for five years during peace, or for any sholl er period durio;g war, which may appear to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with the sanction of your Majesty, to giie a just claim to have their tem p o rary rank made permanent. 11 That any first lieutenant, captain, or lieutenf - tit colonel of Marines may be rewarded by promotion :for brilliant service in the field or afloat ; such promot ion to be by brevet., and to he converted into raak on Coe strength of the Marine corps, at the earliest period t b at consideration for the claims of other officers, who have been senior, will admit, at the discretion of Coe Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. " 'l2. That the command of divisions of Marines be given, without reference to seniority, to officers holding the rank of colonel, whose services and qualificati e - ns may seem best to justify their selection. " 13. That the Lords Commissioners of the Ad a ii ralty, with the sanction of your Majesty, and with tl'ie concurrence of the Commander in-Chief of the Force e, should exercise the power of selecting officers of Mari nes for special services abroad, and to give such local r: in k or promotion, by brevet, to such officers as their me ri is may appear to require, without regard to seniority . in the corps. " 'l4. That the command of a general officer or ( >f`a division of Marines, and situations on the staff of the corps', shall not be held for more than five yefirs, except by reappointment. " 15. That the names of all officers who may q ttit the Marine corps in the rank of field officers, or havi cog the Order of the Bath, may be retained on the list in italics. " 16. That the retired full-pay list be prospectiv , Ily fixed for the Marine corps at 35,0001., being 6,00 N. more than the actual expense now incurred, for the fui'l pay retirement of officers of all ranks in the corps, a rid being only a reasonable compensation for the loss of a,n annual retirement- of two lieutenant-colonels and t Tro i captains recently granted, bnt not as yet in practical operation, though it may not be necessary to reach tlle maximum amount for some years. " 17. Each officer to receive a step of rank, togeth,cr with the full-pay of the rank from Which he retires, ma d the existing restrictions as to the number in each rani k on the full-pay retired list, and the numbers who na4 y annually retire, to be done away with. . " 'ln addition to the foregoing recommendations, b: 7 which the general regulations for the army may be mad e applicable to the Royal Marines, it is 'suggested that tiae field officers of the marine corps in its present stremg th should be established as follows, viz.:—Four colon) ils commandants, four colonels second commandants, 18 lieutenant-colonels, with one deputy-adjutant goners d, with rank not inferior to that of colonel ; one assistal .t -adjutant-general, with rank not inferior to that of lie u tenant-colonel ; two officers of Marines to hold the a p pointment of aides-de-camp to your Majesty to • be selected from the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and p:ro moted to be full colonel. "' In conclusion, we beg leave humbly to present to your Majesty that the Lords of your Majesty's Treasi ry have signified their concurrence in the proposed arrange ment.' ' " Her Majesty having taken the said memorial into consideration; was pleased, and by the advice of I ier Privy Council, to approve of the propositions therein contained ; and the Right Honourable the Lords Co m missieners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. " C. GREVILLE." peller, we passed twice round her, and then saw between two and three hundred people on her deck. By order of Captain Luce, ono boat, containing the first officer, Mr. Gourlie, the boatswain, and four or five sailors, was sent to her relief; but before they returned he ascertained the fearfulextent of the damage to our own veseel. The pro peller had struck her with terrible force, making a large bole in her starboard bow, through which the water was pouring in a torrent. Soon after the collision, I, with others, rushed upon deck, having no apprehensions, how ever, as to her safety; but in a very short time we were made aware of the terrible reality. The boat arrived from the propeller, but Captain Luce refused to take the men on board, as he knew they could be of no assistance, and that it was better to keep them in readiness to receive the passengers. The firemen and engineers, driven from their post by the water, now^ came on deck, increasing the num ber of the terror-stricken crowd. Every one now prepared himself for the worst. The life-preservers wero !Drought into requisition, and a portion of the crew set themselves to work in the construction of rafts. The two fore-yard arms wero cut down and lashed together ' making a raft about forty feet long and three or four feet wide. I was engaged with the rest in making this raft, and Mr. Dorian, the third mate,.took.a most ac tive part in the work. When it was finished, - we launched it on the Larboard side, and in a few minutes after there wee about 70 persons clinging to it, four of whom were women. Several other rafts, Were made, but none of them so large as that on which I was engaged. Doors, barrels, and, in fact, everything that floated was used. On some of these there were two or three, but the largest could not support more than four or five. _ _ _ I remained on the vessel till she sank, when I went down with her. I had been employed a few minutes before with two others, one of whom was called `` Tom the store keeper," in lashing some ca' aka together, when I was driven away bythe water, which was now rushing in with fear ful impetuosity. Jumping upon the paddle-box, I sprang osi the saloon deck, and in an instant was engulphed in the surging waters, which soon closed over our heads. Down, down wo sank with our noble vessel into the bosom of the ocean, and the terrible thought took possession of my mind that I was drowning; that I shouldnever see Thy dear friends and my home again. I retained my conscious • nese, however, all the time I was under the water, and it was with a feeling of intense joy that I found, after . about half a minute, that I was rapidly rising towards the sur face. It was all darkness before, but now I could see a dim light above me, and in a few seconds I was on the top of the water struggling for life. Being a good swimmer, and having besides the support of a life-preserver, I succeeded in reaching a door, which was floating a few feet from wherB I rose. I looked around me, but there was no trace of the vessel except a few loose timbers and the rafts which. were floating about, some with and others without passen geis. Finding I could not retain my hold of the door with safety, I left it, and swam to a barrel which lay a few feet from me : from this I again swam to the large raft, which had, as I have said, about seventy persons clinging to it. The sea, though not strong, was rough, and the waves, as they dashed over it, washed away a portion of its living freight. I shall never forget the awful scene. There we wore, in the midst of the ocean, without the slightest hope of assistance, while every minute one or more of our unfor tunate fellow passengers were dropping into their watery grave from sheer exhaustion. Those who had life pre servers did not sink, but floated with their ghastly faces upwards, reminding those who still remained alive of the fate that awaited them. In the midst of all this, thank heaven, I never lost hope, but retained my courago to the last. One by one I saw my unfortunate companions drop off; some of them floated oft; and were eaten and gnawed by fishes, while others were washed under the raft, and remained with me till I was rescued. I could see their faces in the openings as they were swayed to and fro by the waves, which threatened every moment to wash them off. The raft at one time was so crowded that many had to hold on by one hand. Very few words were spoken by any, and the only sound we heard was the splash of the waters or the heavy breathing of the poor sufferers, as they tried to recover their breath after a wave had passed over them. Nearly all were sub merged to the arm-pits, while a few could with great diffi culty keep their heads above the surface. The women were the first to go. They were unable to stand the exposure more than three or four hours. They all fell off the raft without a word, except one poor girl, who cried out, in intense agony, " Oh, my poor mother and sisters." When I was about 18 hours on the raft there were not more than three or four left. One of these gave me what appeared to be a small map, but which I understood him to say was a sort of title-deed to his property. In a few moments after I took it, he too unloosed his hold and was added to the number that floated about the raft. . I endeavoured to get the paper into my pocket, but found this impossible ,on account of my cramped posi tion, so I placed it between my teeth, and held there till I was overwhelmed by a wave, when I lost my hold of it, and it was washed away. Another, who had an oiled skin coat on, called on me, for Heaven's sake, to assist him, as his strength was rapidly failing, and he must fall off if not relieved. As he was about four or five feet from me it was difficult to reach him ; but, after considerable exertions, I succeeded in doing so, and helped hina with one of my knees until I become quite faint, when I was obliged to leave him to his fate. Poor fellow, ho promised me, if he ever got to New York alive, he would reward me well. He clung with terrible tenacity to life, but he, too, dropped off in his turn. I was now left alone on the raft ; not a solitary being was alive, out of seventy ; but still my hope con tinued strong. The night of the second - day was about closing on me, and daring the whole time I had been in the water I had not eaten a particle of anything or drunk a drop. My strength I found was beginning to give way, and my sight had become so dim that I could not perceive objects a few feet off; even the ghastly faces of the dead, that looked up at me from under the raft, were hardly discernible. I determined on making ono more effort for life; I raised myself on. , my knees upon the raft, and through the dusk of the even ing I saw, or thought I saw, a vessel. My strength seemed to revive, and In a few minutes I heard the voices of per sons in a boat approaching me. Ten minutes more and I too would have gene, but Providence had mercy on me, and after twenty-six hours' exposure I was by its mercy preserved from a watery grave. The boat, I afterwards learned, belonged to the Huron, and was manned by Mr. Dorian, the third mate of the Arctic, Captain Green, one of the passengers, and some sailors. One of the men caught hold of me by the collar, and dragged me into the bow of the boat, where I lay in the last stage of exhaustion till I was transferred on board the Huron, from which vessel I was placed on the Lebanon , and finally on the pilot boat Christian Berg, on board of which I arrived at this port. ~ - , , a '-c-d y [PRICE SD. Stillman, Allen and Co., and consisted of two side lev^v engines, of 1,000 horse power. Each cylinder was 9's: inches in diameter, with a stroke of 10 feet. She cost in building $600,000, and was insured in England for 60,0001. sterling, and in this country for t 310,000. making a total of 1600,000. She wise provided with boats snfficient far 500 . perons. ' Her cargo was light— probably not more than half an average—as 'osir►l at this season of the year—and was insured for $300,000, principally in Wall-street. ' OFFICIAL VISIT TO CEATHAISL- The Black Eagle, Admiralty 'steam yacht, arrived at Sheerness from Chatham yesterday at 12.30 p.m., with Captain Peter Richards, C. 8., &c., and the Hon. Wm. Francis Cowper, M.P., Lords of the Admiralty, accom panied by Colonel Green, of the engineer department. Their lordships landed at the dockyard, and were re ceived by the Captain-Superintendent, John J. Tucker, and the principal officers. Their lordships, with the Captain-Superintendent, first proceeded to the Admi ral's-offices, and there inspected the electric telegraph ; they afterwards, attended by theprincipal officers, visited the victualling stores, the smithery, and the ships' galley range workshops, and took their departure at 3 p.m. THE ENGINE•ROOM TELEGRAPH. Captain Crispin's, R.N., patent engine-room telegraph is completed on board the Royal Albert. It comnauni cates'from the conning stations on both sides of the poop direct to the engine-room by a connecting galvanized wire of sufficient strength to insure security. On Tues day last a satisfactory trial took• place under the imme diate superintendence of Mr. Rumbel, - chief engineer. This ship is also fitted with Mr. Bonney's patent gutta percha speaking tubes, which together must giVe every security in communications from the poop to the engine room. Capt. Crispin's. engine-room telegraph is now in use on board the above ship, the Colossus, and Malacca. INSPECTION OF SHIPS. Captain Sir Balwin Walker, Surveyor of the Navy, visited Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday, and made a cursory inspection of the ships in pt•ogress, espe cially the Wrangler gun-boat, and the Pelter. GUN PRACTICE. The Artillery gun target practice has been going on now from the saluting battery at Sheerness, on the cen tre bastion, for several days past. The practice has been highly creditable. The guns are long 32-pounders. The practice on Wednesday was by Captain Romer's company, who weie engaged at the Cape last Kaffir war. Lieuts. Batchelor and Carey were the working officers: The target was at 1,600 yards, and not one of the shots fell five yards over or short, right or left, of the target. This company are daily expected to receive orders to proceed to the seat of war in the East. ADMIRAL DUNDAS. The following letters have been published by the Morning Herald : The Editor of the Times presents his compliments to the Editor of the Morning _Herald, and has to request that the Editor of the Morning Herald will publish with equal prominence his reply to the letter from Mr. Dundas which appears in the Morning Herald of this day. . It would have been more consistent with the " fair play" which Mr. Duadas claims to have waited to re ceive this reply before publishing his own letter. Printing house-square, Oct. 25. (Copy.) - . Printing-house-square, Oct. 24. The Editor of the Times presents his compliments to- Mr. Dundas, and begs to assure him that hip father shall receive all the " fair play" that even his son can " claim" at his hands. As to the "private motive" of which Mr. Dundas writes, the Editor is aware of none but a strong desire to put the most favourable construction upon the con duct of an old acquaintance, from whom he has received many civilities, and generally on that of every officer holding so responsible a post. Mr. Dundas invokes the "code of honour among the officers of her Majesty's navy" against the correspondent who writes from her Majesty's ship Agamemnon. The Editor is content to leave him under the juris diction of the same code, equally confident with Mr. Dundas of a directly opposite conclusion. • Mr. Dundas need not be informed that the acts of an admiral, to whom is entrusted a principal share in one of the greatest expeditions of modern times, are neces sarily amenable to public criticism. Nothing which has ever appeared in the Times has over-stepped the fair limits of such criticism, and Mr. Dundas ►nay rest assurred that nothing will ever ap pear which will deserve from less partial judges such epithets as " persecuting venom," or " continued abuse." The Rev. J. W. Dundas. ROYAL MARINES. We are glad to find the recommendations of the mili- ' tart' commission, in reference to this gallant branch of the public service, have been confirmed by the following order in council:— " At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of Sept., 1854. Present, the Queen's Most Ex cellent Majesty in Council. "Whereas there was this day read at the board a memorial of the Right Honourable the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, dated the sth day of August last, in the words following, viz.:—' Whereas we have had under our consideration the report of the commis sioners appointed by your Majesty to inquire into the several modes of promotion and retirement in your Ma jesty's military forces, and it being highly desirable that in any changes that may be adopted in reference to pro motion in the army the condition of the Royal Marine corps should not be overlooked, we would venture, most humbly, to submit to your Majesty, with the view of keeping alive in that meritorious corps the spirit and zeal so essential to their efficiency, the following propo- CAVERCOATS, PALETOTS, AUTUMN and WINTER CLOTHING FOR Al L CLASSES. 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MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the antradesman-like falvehoort of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they havo sitions : " 1. That officers, after actually serving in the rank of lieutenant-colonel, or on the staff, in situations neces sarily held by lieutenant-colonels for three years, be given the rank of colonel. " 2. That field officers, whine commissons as such date prior to the 19th June, 1854, be allowed to rise by brevet, as under the regulations now in force ; but no officer, not then of the rank of lieutenant.colonel, to rise to that of colonel, otherwise than by three years' ser►ice in the former rank, or as's reward for distinguished ser vice, or by appointment as aide-de-camp to your Ma- lished. " 5. That there shall be a fixed establishment of 10 general officers of Marines, of whom two may be gene rals, three lieutenant•generale, and five major-generals. " 6. That in addition to the above established list of general officers of Marines, the rank of major-general shall be given to all qualified officers holding the rank of colonel on retired full pay of the rank in which they were last serving, whenever any officer, originally junior to there in the rank of colonel, may become major-gene ral on the established list of general officers of Marines, but without further increase of pay. ." 7. That those general officers who may henceforth be allowed to receive the retired full p a y of the rank in which be with the other general , according to t in s served, shall m s e hal l l ist officers of Marines, but their names, for conv enience of their seniority, l a s reference, to have an asterisk prefixed to them, or to be printed in italics. THE LANCASTER GUN.—A correspondent observes : "8. That every vacan c y on the fixedlist of general "There i s one possi bl e cause o f the tendency of the Lan- officers be filled either by the senior major-general, or by caster guns to burst which I have not seen noticed. Any the senior colonel serving on the strength of the corps, inequality in the thickness of a gun barrel, it is well unless ther e should be a supernumerary officer (as here known, ren d ers i t li a bl e to burst. Now, it would seem after explained), in which case the supernumerary should that the Lancaster, like other great guns, is originally fill the vac anc y ; and if there be more than one super cast,and b ore d o f a circular form. Th e internal ' ellipse nurnerary, a promotion shall take place in every second is then produced by an additional hallowing out above vacancy only, until the supernumerary number be re and below. The upper and lower parts of the gun must duceel. consequently b e thi nner t h an the sides. This must occa- "9. That promotions skall be made in the ranks of sion unequal resistance to the explosive force of the pow- field officers below the rank of colonel, from time to der, and of course a liability to give way at the points time, or as vacancies occur in the major-generals' list, of least resistance. Might not the defect be obviated by with a view to secure to those officers that promotion giving an elliptical form to th e ou t s id e as well as to the in the Marines which they would have obtained under inside of the gun ?" the present system. Tin: LATE COURT-MART IAL AT WINDRO R ,—U " 10. That an addition to the colonels promoted to • p to last t i.,iectenant Perry's Defence and Testimonial Fund be major-generals under the foregoing rules, colonels of ted to 2,4251., and although the Mayor of Wind- Marines shall be eligible for- promotion to the rank - of vi.o.) is the treasurer, is extremely anxious to close major-general, lieutenant-geuerai, or general, either for the subscription, every post brings further ' remittances, brilliant service in the field or afloat, or in co nsequence from all parts of the kingdom! of haying held commands with temporary rank, 45 gene , - -1 - jesty. _ _ " 3. That the Lords Commissioners of the Admi ralty, with the sanction of your Majesty, or the Com mander-in-Chief of the Forces, should exercise the power of appointing colonels of Marines to commands as major generals, without reference to seniority ; or that colo nels or lieutenant-colonels may be selected to serve as field-officers of Marines, embarked in the fleet, without reference to seniority. " 4. That periodical brevets be prospectively abo- NO CONNEXION WITII ANT OTHER HOUSE IN 01 OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : Lencl , n City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Istinories, 64, 45, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. Lcndon West-end Branch, 606, 507, 593, New Oxford-street, 1,2, anal 3, Hart-street, all consmuicating. 13radtord (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. sbefileld Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Australia. Merchant , Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from suns. on Fridays to sunset on .aturdays, when business Is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book for Ant= and Winter. " The Commercial Cornu copia," containing full lists of price?, our system el self-measure ment. Rc., &c., may be had on application, or post-free. let "on purle Franca s. QUI gi parla Italian. Tiler spricht man Deutsch Aqua sa hahla Espano. rugil THE LOSS OF THE ARCTIC. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—1 t was not until the clay after the mails left for the late steamer froni Boston to Liverpool that the appalling news reached us of the loss of the steam-ship Arctic, by collision, wear Cape Race ; and'as we did not hear of the almost unparalleled calamity until fourteen days after it occurred it is probable that you received the mournful intelligence in England as soon as we , did here. Never do I remember an event that created a greater sensation. The entire community was in a moment plunged into grief and sorrow. The courts were closed, business at, the Exchange was sus pended, and' the flags of all the shipping in the harbour were at half-mast. Many families mourn the loss of near relatives, and even up to to-day the offices of the Messrs. Collins and Co. are be sieged by bereaved fathers, mothers, sisters, wives, and children—all anxious to learn whether any hope remains of the safety of those who were so near and dear to them. The Arctic left Liver pool with 256 passen g ers and a crew of 175 men, making 431 souls. According to the reliable accounts thus far received, more than 300 would appear to be certainly lost,' 64 of whom were swept by the sea from a hastily constructed raft. But as there are two, if not three, boats yet to be heard of, there is a possibility that more may have been saved than we have now any idea of. The hope is faint ; still, it may be , cherished. The Arctic was run into, during a. dense fog, by the French' steam-propeller *Vesta, whick had 300 mon on board, nearly thirty of whom were lost in a boat by getting too near the Arctic's wheel. Otherwise the Vesta is safe at St. John's, Newfoundland, with loss of foremast and other damage. But read the enclosed accounts. And here I would remark that great blame is justly at tributed to both the st eamers , i n c onsequence of their going at speed acr oss th e ever foggy banks of Newfoundland without th e r i ng i ng of bells, the screaming of the ste am - vesse l , or the firinz of minute guns. The consumption of a few hundred weight of gunpowder would save life and prevent disaster. But all pr ecau ti ons o f th e kind appear to have been ne g l ec t e d, w hil e, i nstea d, a s pirit of racing across the Atl an ti c h as b een i n dulged in, to the utter disreg ar d o f h uman l i fe. A g ain, when the collision occ urre d th e crew soon b eca me unma nageable, and, in mos t cases, thought on ly of saving their own lives, without even an attempt to rescue the passengers. Thus it will be seen that out of the first seventy whose names reached us as saved only twenty passengers are included. Indeed, it is said that one boat left the scene of horror with but eight or nine persons on board, refusing to take more, although they might have saved between thirty and forty ; nay, a rumour obtains credence that revolvers were threatened by the unmanly ruffians in the boat to prevent others from board ing. One thing is certain, namely, that there w ere boats eno ug h t o save 500' people, and yet a majo rity, mostly passengers, perished. The large boat on deck, owing to the panic and confusion, was not launched, and went down with the ship. Hopes are expressed that she would float as the vessel sank, and she was, seen to he filled with passengers. But such hopes are pronounced by all shipmasters to be vain, as the suction caused by the sinking steamer would infallibly draw - down the boat, espe cially as she was covered with a crowd of people. Captain Luce behaved nobly, refused a rescue, and went down with his ship. Mr. Dorian, the second mate, exerted himself with humanity and courage firemen, and and saved m any . B ut the conduct o f th e cre w, engineers was with a very few ex ceptions, perfectly disgraceful, cowardly, and atro cious. All di sc i pline was set at defiance, an d, in stead of th e vaunted courage of the generous sa il or , a mean, sneaking, and unmanly course of conduct, fright, panic, and selfishness were displayed. THE VERY LATEST. PORTIONS OF THE WRECK PASSED AT SRA. BosToN, Oct. 12, 1854.--By the arrival of the Europa we hays received the Newfoundler, published at St. Johns, Oct. 5. It censures the conduct of Governor Hamilton and the American Consul, in not taking speedy aid e ffi cient measures to s earc h for the survivors of the Arctic. The news of Ler loss reached St. John's, Sept- 30. The ship Nautilus, which arrived at St. John's, Oct. 4th from Miramichi, reports that, about twenty-five miles southeast of Cape Race, she saw a quantity of wrecked materials, viz :—A portion of the railing and painted deck of a large vessel, with a number of sheets, cases, casks, &c. There can be little doubt that those were portions of the wreck of the Arctic. The wind blew too hard to allow the Nautilus to save any of them. BOSTON, Oct. 13, 1854.—The Newfoundland papers re ceived here by the Europa make no mention of the pro peller Vesta having rescued thirty-one of the crew of the Arctic. We have therefore no confirmation, as yet, of the despatch received from Halifax yesterday. HALIFAX, Oct. 13, Noon.—Nothing further as to the Arctic has reached this port up to the present time. THE PROPELLER VESTA AND THE ARCTIC'S CREW. The fact that the Newfoundland papers of as late a date as the sth inst. make no mention of the Vesta's having brought in any of the crew of the Arctic, induces the be lief that the despatch from Halifax, on Thursday afternoon, referred to the persons who were previously reported as having been landed near St. John's. Efforts were made yesterday to have this point cleared up, but the Halifax line closed last evening before an answer could be obtained from our correspondent at that place. TWENTY-SIX HOURS ON A RAFT. STATEMENT OF PETER M'CABE. We left Liverpool on the 20th of September, and up to Wednesday, the 27th, nothing particularly worthy of note occurred. About twelve o'clock of that day, when we were about 40 miles off Cape Race, and enveloped in a fog, we came in collision with some unknown vessel, which was afterwards, however, found to be a propeller. The Arctic was running at the rate of thirteen knots an hour, but the concussion appeared so slight that no one on beard, not even the captain, supposed that the damage was so exten sive. His fears were only excited by the condition of the other vessel, which it was believed must be in a sinking state. Immediately after the collision, the propeller passed us on the starboard side, when it was discovered that her Lows wore completely stove in; and that she was otherwise extensively damaged. Our course was instantly reversed, by orders of the captain, and we went in ptirsuit of the vessel, for the purpose of rendering her all the assistance in our power, little imagining that we were so much in need of it oureelyen at the time, On coming up with_the pre• STATIIMINT OF MR. FRANCIS DORIAN. If the officers and men had remained by the ship, all or nearly all of the passengers would have been saved. They fled, and it was only until two hours after their desertion that the main yard was lowered to enable them to,form a raft. He says that with the masts, spars, and the cutting off of the hurricane deck, a raft could have been formed capable of carrying the whole of them. He further states, that among the passengers on board the Arctic he never saw men more coolly courageous, and that their quiet resignation and implicit confidence in the captain and officers of the ship were such as it is impossible to surpass. One incident particularly attracted his attention, and that was the fidelity exhibited by a young gentleman named Holland, of Washington, who was on board the Arctic for the purpose of gaining instruction in engineer ing. He had been deputed by the captain to fire the signal gun (when all others had fled), and amid the melancholy wail he pursued his duty. When all hope had fled, and the vessel nearly level with the sea, Hol land was seen busy at his gun. His last shot boomed out as the Arctic sank, and he went down with her— persevering in the strict performance of his duty. To the wholesale desertion of the officers and men Dorian attributes the great loss of life that followed. Captain Luce, he says, behaved nobly throughout, but towards the close his voice lost its power, and he could scarcely find utterance for his words. The last he saw of him he was standing on the star board paddle-box, and when the Arctic was engulphed he looked long, but looked in vain, for the floating form of his commander, When, finally, they left the ship, with thirty-one in one of Francis' metallic life-boats, it was necessary to use despotic means to keep every man in the bottom of the boat to prevent an upset. In this crouching position they were kept, with the water within six inches of the gunwale, for twenty-six hours, and the majority, when rescued by the Huron, were unable to walk. On board that ship they were treated with the greatest kindness, the captain and sailors sharing everything they had with the unfortunate men. The New Yok Herald gives the following number : Total number of passengers .• officers and crew Total 4Ol Saved Missing, supposed lost from the Arctic The New York .Herald says :—When we announced the terrible news, the metropolis assumed the appear ance of one great funeral. This feeling spread through all classes of the community. The business streets, usually so gay and bustling, were filled with little groups of men whose solemn countenances showed that they were fully impressed with the belief that no common disaster had befallen the city. In the home circle the matter was talked over in whispers, and everywhere was expressed the deepest regret at the occurrence, and the most profound sympathy for the relatives and friends of those on hoard. The ship Cambria arrived at Quebec (not Montreal). 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The Journal des Dawts gives the following very in teresting account of the fortifications of Sebastopol. It is from the pen of a distinguished officer, Colonel St. Auge, now one of the redacteurs of the Djbats, but for merly the head of the staff to Marshal Sachet, Duke d'Albulera. He was with the Marshal throughout the Spanish campaign, and was the first to enter the breach at the storming of Aragon : "It is the fortificatione at present attacked to the south of the town which we intend speaking of, and net the forts of the harbour. . It will suffice for us to remind our readers that these farts, to the number of 11, line both sides of the harbour, and that six of them, running along the town itself, belong to the military pert and to the southern shore, the side on which the combined army is operating. We shall start from the west, the side of the Quarantine, to follow the profile of the town and of the port to the river Tchernaya on the east, a circuit which takes in the double front of attack of the English and the French. Let us first give an idea of the general aspect of the place. The site of Sebastopol consists of a series of platforms running up a steep accli vity from the sea to the high hills which tower over it at the distance of a league and a half, and from the top of which is unfolded the whole panorama of the town and harbour. Nearer, that ensemble ceases to be visible, and even the tops of the masts are no longer seen, so deeply does the site sink down to the level of the road sted and of the port. From this configuration of the ground, it comes to pass that the town is built one part over the other, so as to form an amphitheatre, like Al giers, but better built, as its construction is quite modern, dating from 1790. The transverse streets, parallel to the roadstead, communicate with each other only by steep ascents ; but at their extremities there are lines of communication of a less abrupt character for vehicles. The town contains several monuments, and amongst others, the churches, and principally all the buildings of the navy, the arsenal, the barracks, and the hospitals. The population is about 40,000 in ordinary times, including 20,000 soldiers or sailors. The 20,000 civil inhabitants are employee of all kinds, persons from the navy and the army on half-pay, a few shop-keepers, and some workmen and fishermen. The reader must hear in mind this fact, that not one of the great forts situated outside the town on the harbour cam protect it against attacks by land, and that the two batteries of the Quarantine, situated at the lower part of the out ward ground, cannot aid in its defence. When the Russian Government conceived the plan of a great for tified place to command the Mack Sea, it had all these ports constructed at an immense expense, and the double and triple storeys of their caseinated batteries give them such a formidable aspect that they have been even com pared to the fortifications at Malta. The roadsted and port are, in fact, almost unattackable by sea, but the town itself was never fortified ; all that was done being to draw round it a weak wall, merely intended to pro tect it against a coup de main. The Russian Cabinet could never have imagined that an Anglo-French army of 100,000 men would one day land in the Crimea, to lay siege to Sebastopol. At present that that extraordinary fact is being realised in the meet serious manner, it has been necessary to think of fortifying the town on the land-side, arid that is what the Russians have been doing for the last three months. The Quarantine bay on the west (the extreme left of the attack), is defended by the double battery of the same name. Near that spot is Fort Alexander, and by the side of that fort, a battery, called the battery of Sebastopol, because it forms part of the town itself. From this battery runs a crenelated wall for musketry, about a kilometre (Wis of an English mile) in length, which runs up the steep bill to the top, where is a large round fort, with twenty guns on the platform, and surrounded below with a bat tery, the rampart of which PI 20 feet high. The wall and the bastion have a ditch in front, but there is nether coverNl way nor glacis tat front of this ditch. The French being charged with the attack on the left, will probably have to bombard the fort, after which they will command the bay as well as the Quarantine battery, and even the whole of the western side of the town. But they will have other obstacles to overcome before arriving there. Under the . cannon of the round fort is situated h large fortified barrack, which has been lately flanked by several strong works. From that barrack runs a wail entirely surrounding the town, the port, the arsenal, to beyond the careenin g basin, to wards the Tchernaya, at the extremity of the roadsted, which gives a development of from 6 to S kilometres (from 3; . , to 5 English miles), including the sinuosities. This wall is three feet thick, is crenelated, and has in front a ditch, the earth of which has been thrown in front to form a glacis, covering the mason-work in many places. This wall is not terraced, that is, does not form a rampart above on which artillery can be placed. But on the points where, in a regular fortification, there would be bastions, the Russians have raised batteries, in the form of cavaliers,- firing above the wall. The dis arming of their line-of-battle ships has furnished them with the means of providing all their works with artil lery of large calibre, and they have without doubt plenty of men to serve them, more or less expert. This imper fect system of fortification cannot have any value, except by the tenacity of the besieged, by their great number, and by the ability of the engineers. The entrance of the line is defended by the Fort of Aktiar, raised en a high point at the top of the town. At p, little distance from this fort commence three ravines descending to the road sted. One, on the west, terminates by the Quarantine Bay ; another, in the centre, cuts the town into two un equal parts ; and, the third, on the east, descends right to the north to form the port, which is the prolongation of that same ravine, into the sea. It is principally at the lower opening of this ravine, and on the western side of the port, that are accumulated the defences, for (even should the ships-of-the-line be burned by the Russians) it is still important for them to prevent all access to this ; port, particularly that of the Faubourg of lierbelnaia, on the eastern side. If the besiegers on the right, the English, seize on this fauhourg, whilst the French have made themselves masters of the round fort, the town would find itself between two fires, and so overwhelmed with bombs, balls, and sheik, that no garrison could remain there. But it is to be noted that this garrison cannot be ferced to capitulate, not being blockaded, and that the Russians, when at the end of their efforts in the town, will always be at liberty to cross the roadsted, and take refuge in the forts of the northern side. Amongst the works destined to defend the ravine of the port, two great batteries in the form of towers are mentioned—a recent construction, said to be built of stone and brick. From want of time to raise a third tower at the bottom of the fort the Russians have placed a line-of-battle ship to perform the duty of a battery against the mouth of the ravine. Besides, the works are still going on, night and day, without inter ruption. One-half of the garrison is occupied with them, and all the able-bodied inhabitants are obliged to take part in them. Sebastopol is commanded almost on every side by hills rising one over the other to a great height, as already stated. But the nearest hills have been for a long time back levelled by works which lasted 12 years ; and the earth taken from them was removed to the side of the Quarantine or to certain hol lows which might facilitate the approaches. There is not consequently any height now commanding the town within .500 or 600 yards of the place. But beyond that radius, the Russians occupied with strong redoubts seve ral elevated positions which have forced the besiegers to open the trenches at an unusual distance, 1,500 to 1,800 metres from the place, it is said. Although these posi tions were only fortified by earthworks where a sudden wsault might be attempted, the Allied generals have pre ferred operating by rule to sacrificing good soldiers, whose devotedness awl bravery will be required at a later period for decisive blows. The redoubts of which we are speaking were to have been battered in breach and taken, we cannot say at what date. The besieging army will then be pushed forward on that ground to make its trenches against the place itself. However, outside the wall round the town it will be necessary to batter down and destroy some works protecting it on the weak est points. In fine, all these works and constructions raised in haste cannot have the stability and resistance of a real permanent fortification. Although the Russians are provided with largo cannons, such pieces are not sufficient without good ramparts. It is, besides, proved by the experience of all sieges that the fire of the be sieging party has always an advantage over that of the very strong place, because the fire of the attack is al ways convergent, whereas that of the defence is, on the contrary, divergent. Such is the sketch which we have considered it right to give of the fortifications of a place, the the inevit a bl e f a ll o f w hich, under the efforts of the brave armies of England and France, cannot fail to pro duce a great sensation in Europe." . . ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF TELE POOR IN LAMBETH WORKHOUSE.—Yesterday Mr. Alfred Austin and Mr. R. Cane, poor-law inspectors, opened an inquiry in the board-room of St. Mary's Workhouse, Lambeth, by order of the Poor-law Board, relative to the alleged ill treatment of the inmates by the master and other oil ; eials. Most of the principal parochial officers were pre sent, also several gentlemen representatives of a meeting of parishioners held some time ago at the vestry-hall, and deputed to support the complaints against the work house authorities.. The witnesses examined were Mary Males, John Mea des, and Geor g e Arnol d , inmates Cf the workhouse, and Nathaniel King, the porter. I\lv Mead had been shut u p i n the surgery next to the r-dead house, and was so frightened that she broke the win dows, for which she was charged before the magistrates, atten John Mendes, a There were six bodies in the dead-house, and on l y a door Unitarian, between was s t h n a o t t a a n l d l 0 r t the s urgery. t o hischapel ek day,enorto. go out of the house at any time, Sunday or w He had frequently complained to the master on the sub ject. Had been 17 ye, in the hous e , w ith no com tphlaeniptauapgearinsethes against him. George Ar no ld comp l a i ned that given s him w ere fil t h y an d f u ll o f vermin. The inqu ir . y ~ then adjourned. MISSIONARY SCANDALS. The public sense of decorum, which has pronounced such a stern judgment in the case of recent mili tary scandals, cannot refuse to mete the same mea sure to offenders in any other profession. An in quiry of painful interest is now in progress, before Mr. Whately, Q.C., acting as arbiter by appoint ment of the Court of Exchequer, in a libel suit insti tuted by the foreign secretary of the London Mis sionary Society. England has reason to be proud of its missionary exertions. The sums which are raised and in support of its foreign m i ss i ons ex expended annually ceed the revenues of many second-rate states. The per sistence in such efforts is a proof of deep-rooted and sin cere religious conviction ; and even those who do not participate in these convictions have been obliged to admit the valuable services of our mitsionntiee as agents and heralds of • higher civilisation. Bat the more important and sacred the character of these mis sionary eff,rtih the. more the paeessity th aat l eose en• trusted with the direction of Chet:Lie-flu:lW themselves he pure. Our organised missionary .sueieties, with their approach to th e Charac numeroUs: permanent suheeriters.aroid th e i r well are -powerful b o di es ; ter of 'wealthy chnrcbee. They disciehned staffs of .officials.. and if s e lf-seekers and impure men can insinuate them- Selves into their nranageinent they may do incalculable mischief. The.very statement of the case of the foreign secretary of the London Miesioeary Society suggests a fear that malpractices have crepe in among its agents, and Leen connived at from a fear of worldly censure. Into the case of the Rev. Mr. Tidman (the forehpi Rev. secretory in question) against the •Re • Rob srt Ainslie, it would be premature to enter while the inves tigation is-still incompleee. But some features in the con troversy out of which the suit has erieen already char.enge comment. Towards the close of 1852 a .Rev. Mr. Davies was expelled from the Board of the London Mis . E . ionary Society. Among other charges against him were one of improper connections with females during the time he was acting as a missionary in Berbice, and an oth:r of writing an indecent letter to his own scife. The story of the letter appears to have been first publicly brought forward as indirect testimony against him, when the first-mentioned charge was gone into. The essential passages of this story are these : —ln October, 1845, Mr. Davies is said to have dropped a letter he had written to his wife on the floor of the Mission-latinse in London. In February, 1846, Mr. Davies sailed for Berbice, as a missionary in the employment of the Lon don Society, and continued there till 1848, when he re turned- to this country. In 1850 reports of misconduct towards females on the part of Mr. Davies, both in Berbice and England, having gained ciarreney, inquiries were set on foot by several gentlemen. A Mr. Stacey, who had been, and possibly still is, one of the clerks of the mission, now produced what be asserts is the copy of the letter from Mr. Davies to his wife, dropped on the floor of the Mission-house. Mx. Stacey, by his own story, appears to have read a letter which he knew to be addressed by another man to that man's own wife ; to have copied the letter and kept the copy, and to have put the letter into an envelope and forwarded it to its destination. This letter, which is said to be of such a shameless character as to unfit. the writer to discharge the duties of the ministry, is kept secret from 1345 to 1850. In the interim Mr. Stacey allows the Mission ary Society, of which he is a confidential agent, to send out the writer of this horrible letter as a missionary. It does not as yet clearly appear at what time the other members of the missionary board, or how many of them, were mace cognisant of the letter. But at least one agent of the missipn, and, it may b e m ore , h as , accord ing- to his own account, connived at• the employment of an impure character as a clergyman and missionary, and only revealed the secret of the man's culpabi iity to blacken hint when charged with other offences. In OM personal conflict between. the Rev. Dr. Tic!. man and the Rev. Robert Ainslie the public will take marvellous little interest ; but in the character and conduct of the managers of a powerful and wealthy missionary society the public has muck at stake. It will insist upon a full explanation of the mysterious and suspicious story of the Davies' letter, and the clerk to the missionary society's connexion with it. The influ ence of the clergy of all denominations over the female portion of society is immense ; and it is of the utmost consequence that no perversion of that irfluence to im moral purposes should be allowed to creep in. And if colleagues are allowed to east a veil over the lapses of offending brethren, for fear of bringing an evil report upon " the connexion," such abuses will inevitably creep in. The case of Messrs. Davies, Stacey, and others, re quires at least as searching an examination as the case of the bauntiess.—D atly Acws. THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL. With the fall of Sebastopol the grasp of Russia on the Crimea will be effectually loosened. There is no other fortress that can offer any resistance to the Allies. The strong defensible ground in the Crimea is of no great extent. And on an open field, which offers no advan tage to either party, what chance have the soldiers who could not maintain above three hours the strong position of the Alma when opposed to those who stormed and. carried the heights in that short time ? The question of the ultimate disposal of the Crimea may not be free from difficulties ; but one thing is ole • !ions, that it must lie'retain'&l at present by' the victors as a material guarantee." We will not, therefore, believe that there can be any intention, after the corn -I)letien of the siege of Sebastopol, to withdraw the Allied forces to winter elsewhere. Better winter quarters than in the Crimea cannot be found within such a distance as will admit of the French end English troops being at hand to resume hostilities in the early spring, if it shall be decided to suspend them during the winter. With due attention to the sheltering of the troops from rain and cold, and to forward regularly such necessary stores as can only be procured from home, the Crimea will be found to afford much more eligible winter quarters than the Bosphorus or Bulgaria. It is (during the winter and spring) more healthy than the latter, and provi sions can be obtained in greater abundance and at more reasonable rates than in either. And the continued presence of the Allies in the Crimea wiil be a constant Memento to the wavering or inimical Governments of Central Europe of the might of France and England. It is to be hoped that after the fall ef Sebastopol the Allied Governments will adopt a more peremptory tone iu their intercourse with the German sovereigns—large and small. The pretexts of Austria for evading an im mediate and final breach with Russia ought no longer to be listened to ; its underhand manoeuvres to check and paralyse the advance of the Turks into Bessarabia ought no longer to be tolerated. Sebastopol once fallen the French and English fleets will have it in their power to assist materially the operations of Omer Pacha in Bessarabia. They can blockade every town and har bour, every Lay and creek, on the coast of the Black Sea between the mouths of the Danube and the Crimea. They can land troops at Selina or Akermann to take in flank or rear the Russian foices" assailed in front by the Turks. In the course of a winter campaign the Russians may be driven out of Bessarabia and Kherson and compelled to fall back and establish their outposts in the vicinity of Tiiew. Tn the apprehensions enter tained at Vienna of a march upon that capital by the Russian forces now mustering in Poland and the ad joining provinces we do nut participate. Such a move ment, if successful, might postpone the fate now im pending over Russia, but a reverse, or even a mere failure, would accelerate it. A Bonaparte might plan and execute such an audacious movement, but it is be yond the commonplace conceptions and pigmy powers of any Russian leader that has yet appeared in the field. It is to be hoped, for the sake of Turkey, that its forces may soon take a snore active and prominent part in the war than they have of late been doing. Si nce the advance of the Austrians into the Principalities, Omer Pacha has been paralysed ; in the Crimea the. Turkish contingent has been kept in the background ; and during the tune occupied in changing commanders in the army of Asia nothing whatever has been done in that quarter. But a time has come when Omer Pacha may resume his advance with a fair prospect of being effectively supported by the Allies. The latest news from Batoum, too, are encouraging. The lieutenant of the new Cominituder-in-Chief seems to be taking judi cious measures for facilitating the operations of his chief when he shall arrive. It is alleged that the dis position of the army of Asia made by its late commander in-chief was objectionable not so much on mere tactical or strategical grounds as because of his neglecting to pay due attention to the requirements for provisioning the troops. To this is now attributed in a great measure the fatal insubordinati on an d excesses of the irregular e troops, and the difficulty found in bringing t even the regulars effectively into the field. An te en h i t r . el i y u new die tribution of the army ie understood with a view to remedy these evils. A t the sameprtoimgreesas great number of foreign officers — erne say all—are being removed, it being productive of much mischief, incapa bleif t s h e list of removals, per and quarrels have alleged that their mutual jealousies been and inveterate ae whom ' this prealenh reproach does not touch are found on have . been found necessary to include them t N ri o gu d e o r u s b a t m t e h n e g re t a h r e e in s7aned e h n ap a seietehaving, though by no fault of • becorae rallying words of faction. There is, theirs, therefore, some appearance of a better day being about may t y of their names to dawn on the Turkish army of Anatolia. In Asia, as ; a ir sli e r l e ik s e - 13,, to con fi ne themselves to defensive in E ur ope, it is evident that the Russians are disposed , their sold L ie m rs e s ' urrounded ' asthey Asia even more than in Europe, are by Caucasian Guerillas and to be in dispirited by rumours of Russian essential to the independence of u r i e k verses. It is most should soon again be felt in the 'turkey that its prowess dense of that country s field, for the indepen ever be a mere name which !Peres its Allies to fight all its b News.battles for it.—Daily EFFECT OF CIIIPAIGNING UPON e Many of our senses are considerably altered "SENSES. "— edby urcam- Pigning. Smell, f rom colds, is quite t g gone —a great blessing i n thi s country ; taste, from want of practice, cunsiderably blunted ; sight, from sleeping with one eye open and looking out for number one and shells, very • acute. Although, many have escaped from the fire of the • enemy, we have all bled in our country's cause, as we are devoured byins,ects of the most vulgardescription, which in former days we associated with paupers and the other • tribes belonging to the large body of the unwashed ; but in this respect the British officer has descended from his high estate, and when we rememberhim in all the pride of gold and red cloth, it would be difficult to recognise him in the faded and tattered object seated by the bivouac fir* smoking his pipe contentedly, and dreaming of home and happier days. • That young gentlem an Norval ( he glad to return to p t e o et, fol b lo e w sa th tisfi th ed e (fi)feittliie.s(GmralenwipairainikeHliolrled): wl%o•huold,lolngse:lis er's Letter in a , f w e i e t d h h a l s s ht father'so trial fi o o fc Soaks r_w m or i k o i , c a a ti and O h; c • Beaman. 1 )