The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-23 00:00:00

THRITRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. tinder the management of Mr. Bnekstone. THIS EVENDW, OcT. 23, Will be performed the comedy of P JUL PRY. Principal cha racters by Mr. Wright, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. Fortier, and Miss E. Chaplin. Alter which, the First Part of the Ballet of TIM STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Followed by HIS LAST LEGS. Principal chancier by Mr. Iludson. To conclude with the FLOWER OF THE PORT. ROYAL naNcgss's THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. 'Under the Management of Mr. Callum Sias. _ISIIM THIS EVENING, OcT. 23, ---...— _ ---.°- ' 2 " ------ - -------- Will be performed the highly poPulsrcomedietta, ent itled LIVING -.-. ----: -. TOO FAST.I "-...-- _ After which, THE COURTER OF LYONS. Principal characters by Mr. C. Kean, Messrs. J. Vining. Addison, Graham, D. Fisher, Ca.hcart, and Saker ; Misses C. Leclerc., Heath, lonian, and K. Terry. To conclude with THE HALT OF THE BALLET. _------- ..r~- THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Prorietor, Mr. B. Vrebster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Ccr. 23, Will he perfbrme d a n origi al Drama In Four Acts, called THE IiUMMEit STORNI, with new scenery, draises, apiointments, & Arta which, A MOVING TALE. To conclude with the screaming Burlesque of FORMA. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEITRE Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EYNING, Ocr. 23, vr ui b e perrormei THE TRU3TEE. Charactors by Messrs. A. vigan. F. Vining, Emery. and Leslie; Miss Masker, and Miss ftePhen s • To be followed by a Farce, sailed A BLIGHTED BEING, in fsbich Mr. Robson will appear. To concicds with TO OBLIGE BENNE. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft. THIS EVENING, Oar. 23, WM bt performed SUNSET AT SEA. After which, THE NEW WAGS OF wrinon. To conclude with DON GIOVANNI. Stalls, 45.; Boxes, 2 s. 6d.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.; Private Be xe XI Is., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, lb, New Bond-street. AsTrzrs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. r First night of the new GRAND WAR SPECTACLhe E, SICK and and a BENEFIT in AID of the FUND for the RELIEF of CRIMEAt WOUNDED SOLDIERS of the Army in the . THIS RYENING, First Time, a GRAND MILITARY SPECTACLE, called THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA, in which both the Stage and the Ring will be simultaneously employed. After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a SUPERB NATIONAL ENTREE and a variety of Grand Tableaux. Boa-o,ftce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.. Acting Manager, Mr. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. Wm. Cooke, Jun. HI3H WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY —Morning 9 min.after 2 I Evening 48 min.sft. 2 To Xonnow—Morning 7 min.e.fter 3 1 Evening 23 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—Sui Owns, Om 22. THERMODITEB, IN THE SHADS. 58—highest since noon on Saturday. 81—lowest this morning and during the night. 56—this day, at noon. BA.BOMETF.II, down to 2 9.40 ; now 29.48. Virirm,W.N.W.—Blowing fresh and strong, with cloudy weather in the morning ; sunshine in the afternoon. OCTOBER 23. 51 —highest since noon yesterday. 47 —lowest this morning and during the night. 55 —this day at noon. BAROMETER. 29.43—falling again. W.N.W.—Light, with fine sunshiny weather. 7. Afternoon, very cloudy, threatening rain; wind, W.S.W. -rain. THE "COMING" CAPTURE Or, SEBASTOPOL WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AN EXTRAORDINARY EDITION "THE SUN" THE MOMENT THE EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE IS ISSUED, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OE THE ••••••• in tleir possession at the time of their dreadful deaths ; but further search would have en dangered his return during the present year, should he have remained another winter in these dreary and inhospitable regions, and certainly have delayed, possibly have alto gether lost the opportunity, of transmitting the highly important information he had 'obtained. Rightly conjecturing that the clue which he had obtained would be more actively followed up than the means at his disposal would have allowed him to do personally, with the small party under his command, he started homewards, charged with the harrowing intelligence. Dr. RAE exonerates the Esquimaux from any act of aggression on the unfortunate victims. He says that—" From what we could learn, there is no reason to suspect that any act of violence had been offered to the sufferers by the natives ;" adding, " It seems but too evident that they had perished from hunger, aggravated by the extreme severity of the weather." It was in Pelly Bay that Dr. RAE met the party of Esquimaux from whom he obtained the sad tidings that " a party of white men had perished from want of food some distance to the westward, and not far beyond a large river con taining many falls and rapids." This interesting communication induced further inquiries. The results whereof are thus epitomised by Dr. Ran " In the spring , f o ur winters past (spring, 1850), a party of white men,' amounting to about 40, were seen travelling southward over the ice and dragging a boat with them, by some Esquimaux, who were killing seals near the north shore of King William's Land, which is a large island. None of the party could speak the Esquimaux language in telligibly, but by signs the natives were made to understand that their ship, or ships, had been crushed by ice, and that they were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom except one officer looked thin, they were then supposed to be getting short of provisions, and they purchased a small seal from the natives. At a later date the same season, but previously to the breaking up of the ice, the bodies of some 30 persons were dis covered on the continent, and five on an island near it, about a long day's journey to the N. W. of a large stream, which can be no other than BACK'S Great Fish River (named by the Esqui maux Oot-ko-hi-ca-lik), as its description and that of the low shore in the neighbourhood of Point Ogle and Montreal Island agree exactly with that of Sir GEORGE BACK. Some of the bodies had been buried (probably those of the first victims of famine) ; some were in a tent or tents ; others under the boat, which had been turned over to form a shelter, and several lay scattered about in different directions. Of those found on the island one was supposed to have been an offi cer, as he had a telescope strapped over his shoulders and his double-barrelled gun." This was sufficiently painful. It proved that our gallant fellows had perished in the same manner as Captain GARDINER, R.N., and his unfortunate comrades, and nearly about the same time, with the aggravation of enduring the most intense cold during the period of their anguish. But the most horrible part of the thrilling narrative re mains behind. How dearly they loved life may be estimated from the pains they took to preserve it. There must have been a desperate struggle for existence, when we read the following : From the mutilated state of many- of the corpses, and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to tho last resource—cannibalism I—as a means of prolonging existence." They had some chance, too, for it appears that they Lad plenty of powder and shot remaining. Dr. RAE said :—" There appeared to have been an abundant stock of ammunition, as the powd©r was emptied in a heap on the ground by the natives out of the kegs or cases containing it ; and a quantity of ball and shot was found below high water mark, having probably been left on the ice close to the beach. There must have been a num ber of watches, compasses, telescopes, guns (seve ral double-barrelled), &c., all of which appear to have been broken up, as I saw pieces of these different articles with the Esquimoux, and, toge ther with some silver spoons and forks, purchased as many as I could get." A catalogue of some of the articles thus re covered has been forwarded, and will be read with painful interest. It is strange that there was no survivor, as some must have witnessed the arrival of the wildfowl, which usually occurs about the end of May, for shots had been heard, and fresh bones and feathers of geese had been found near the locality where the bodies were discovered. It would also seem that Sir JOHN Ross and Lieu tenant BELLOT must have nearly reached the scene of the dreadful catastrophe. The clue thus obtained will doubtless be closely followed up. Every relic that can possibly be obtained must be recovered. We hear that there were many books ; amongst them may be the journals of the deceased, which would be of inestimable value. We cannot now hope to see them restored is this life ; but it would afford a melancholy satisfaction to their relatives and friends to know that the last sad honours had been paid to their mutilated remains. The investigation and the necessary assistance to Captain Comsnr sort and his crew will close the history of Arctic discoveries, to which some few pages of absorbing interest remain to be added. We trust the Ad miralty may not slight the opinion of Di. RAE, because he has not the magic initials R.N. attached to his name, as in the ease of Captain Par NY. The Moniteur of last night announces that the Consular Agent at Varna had written to Mr. COLQUHOUN at Bucharest, stating that he had received a letter, dated the 13th, from the heights of Sebastopol, containing the following words :—" We shall open our fire with 200 guns. The place cannot hold out five days." With that extraordinary vagueness that seems to be regarded as the great desideratum by every person for ' warding communications from the scene of war, the writer does nothing to dispel the mystery in which matters are Involved. Ho says nothing as to the time when the fire is to be opened—whether in a few hours, or few days, or a few weeks. That appears to be looked on as a matter of perfect indifference re specting which it is not worth his while to offer any observation. All we can gather from it, sup posing it to be authentic, a matter had by not nomean s clear, is that the bombardment com menced up to the 13th. There may, therefore, be some truth in the accounts received from Prince MENSCHIKOFF, and published on the 20th at St. Petersburg, that "up to the 14th all was going on // at Sebastopol ;" that is to say, if by all going on well we are to understand that th t e hou a gia ttack had not absolutely commenced, every possible effort had been made to insure a decisive and unequivocal triumph. Indeed .from the mapitudo of these preparations, and the tremendous force brought to bear on the doomed fortifications, we cannot consider the resu l t as in any degree doubtful. There arc, however, many reasons for not yielding implicit credence to the despatch above referred to. We cannot forget that the impudent hoax already perpetrated in reference to the fall of Sebastopol came through Varna and Bucharest ; and that it was so artfully contrived as to deceive the Otto man Minister, and even FRANCIS JOSEPH himself, inducing him to send o ff his " congra tulations" to NAPOLEON 111. on the success of the French arms in the Crimea. It was certainly possible that the letter might have reached Varna in three days (or even less) from the Crimea, supposing that the intelligence came direct without passing through Constantinople, and that four days more would afford ample time to transmit it from Varna to Bucharest. We attach no weight to the circumstance that it was dated Bucharest, the 16th. We have seen a similar mistake in the despatches of the 30th September, which were dated Bucharest, Sep tember 30, three p.m., although they only left Constantinople at nine a.m. on the same 30th. Indeed it seems the prevailing impression on the mind of the party in charge of the telegraph at Bucharest, that he is to repeat the date of the original despatch, whatever it might be. We can thus understand, that the date of the 16th refer red to was applicable to Varna, and not Bucha rest, which would fully account for all the appa rent difficulties. Still, we must doubt anything coming through such a quarter. The shepherd's boy was not believed when the wolf really came, in consequence of the mendacity in which he had previously in dulged. So our Bucharest friends must be, con tented to submit to the natural consequences of their previous mistakes, to use the mildest terms. From what we know, on certain tidings, we may state that the Russians have been occupied in throwing shells, with scarcely any result, into the encampments of the Allies. The latter, disre garding these futile demonstrations, were en gaged in bringing up the siege train from Balaklava to the scene of action. In this the sailors lent invaluable assistance, which was more servieeable, as many of the guns having belonged to the shipping, from whence they could easily be spared, in consequence of the stupid mistake of Prince MENSCRIKOFF in blocking up the entrance of the harbour by sinking seven ships-of-the-line, a barrier for the present impassable by either friend or foe, and which prevents the possibility of escape to any of the vessels cooped up within the harbour. One of these vessels, a three-decker, has been moored across an inlet, running some distance inland (and which divides the French and English armies), so as to threaten our camp. It is, however, probable that it will be speedily disposed of, when it can receive a full share of our polite attentions. We scarcely suppose that it can long withstand the shower of red-hot shot that will be poured on it from the heights above the town. KILLED AND WOUNDED Orders received by all News Agents, and at " THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, Strand, London. 1. LONDON, MONDAY, •CTOIDER 23, 1854, FATE OF SIR J. FRANKLIN Poor Sir Joni FRANKLIN ! The melancholy fate of the intrepid navigator and his gallant companions has at length been manifested. It has been more horrible than had ever been anti- cipated. The most gloomy apprehensions have been verified. And what renders the fearful result even more deplorable is, that we now know that a large proportion of the party might have been rescued had the authorities at home displayed any degree of energy or activity. Our unfor tunate countrymen struggled hard for their lives. During five dreary winters they sustained all the accumulated horrors of the ice-bound prison. On each succeeding spring the throb of hopeful anti cipation must have thrilled through their hearts, in the expectation of the succour and comfort they were never destined to receive. What stores of important and interesting information might we not have received if even a few of these adventurous men had been restored to their expectant friends. But, alas ! a more awful and heart-rending catastrophe than any that ever occurred under similar circumstances was about to happen. One by one they perished by the most fearful of all deaths. The strength which they had endeavoured to sustain by the dreadful expedient of eating the flesh of their dead comrades gradually wasted away, and the last survivor drooped, and died probably in the sum mer of 1850 ! The evidence by which this heart-rending nar rative has been established is so clear and dis tinct as to leave no possible doubt as to its accu racy. To Dr. RAE, the well-known and distin guished Arctic traveller, the honour of the discovery is to be ascribed. He was not engaged at the time in searching for our unfortunate countrymen. He was occupied in completing the survey of the coast of Boothia, where he casually obtained the information that placed the vexata qu-estio respecting the fate of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN and his followers beyond the posasibility of doubt, and was enabled to purchase different articles which but too clearly identified the parties to whom they had belonged. These heart-rending relics will be en dowed with a melancholy interest. The y are to be delivered by the enterprising discoverer to the Secretary of the Hudson's Bay Company, b y whom, doubtless, they will be restored to th e families of the departed heroes. Dr. Ilan, well aware of the painful excitement amongst all classes in this country for any information respecting Sir JOHN FRANKLIN judiciously determined on com ing home with all possible dispatch, so as to pre vent any other valuable lives from being endan gered in the too tardy search after those long since dead and ;one. He thinks it very probable that he might have obtained many additional par ticulars, and other articles belonging to the ex hausted par ty.....everythin, indeed that remained THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1854, LATEST NEWS. OPENIN G OF THE FIRE ON S EBASTOPOL. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. Th e m en itear announces that the Consular agent at Varna, has written to Mr. Colprhoun, at Bucharest, that he had received a letter, dated the 13th, from the heights of Sebastopol, containing the following words :—" We shall open our fire with 200 guns. The place cannot hold out five days." Seventeen battalions of the Turkish army are marching from Shuml9. on Varna and Pravadi. VIENNA, SUNDAY EVENING. Letters from Odessa of the 18th state that the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael had passed through Nicolaieff, on their way to Kichenev, in Bessarabia. This morning the Emperor of Austria signed the railroad contract with the French company. Its representative leaves for Paris to-morrow. The following Russian official despatch, dated St. Petersburg, the 20th, is published in the Krettz Zeitung : " Prince Menschikoff announces that on the 14th of October all was going on well at Sebas- tcpol." The Austrian papers assert that Russian rein forcements had entered the Crimea. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, SATURDAY, OCT. 21. The King's reply to the deputation is a procla mation dissolving the House of Commons, for the third time within twenty months. The new elec tions aro fixed for the Ist December. An address to the Danish people calls upon them to support the whole state plans of the Ministry, and threatens all persons in public em ployment, especially the clergy, should they op pose or refuse to support the Cabinet. _ _ After Oersted had read the decree for the dis solution of the house, Lindberg,. proposed, " The Constitution unchanged for ever I" which was rap turously applauded, with nine cheers for the Speaker. The galleries then gave 'enthusiastic cheers for the Danish Parliament, and loud cries of " Down with the Ministry !" THE BALTIC. DANTZIC, SATURDAY, OCT. 21. The Basilisk has arrived. She left the screw squadron at Nargen on the 17th." There is nothing new. There is awful weather in the Baltic. A telegraphic despatch from the Baltic Fleet, dated the 17th, has also been received. It states that Sir Charles Napier, Rith 12 screw ships, was off Nargen. The Wrangler gun-boat was at Baro Sound re pairing damages received during the gales. The Odin, Captain Scott, was cruising in the Gulf of Bothnia. During the latter part of November the fleet will leave the Baltic, •and may be expected home by the sth of December. tachments were embarked, and on the morning of the sth were re-landed under the command of one of the French captains and Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, of the Tribune. They marched some distance inland without meeting any of the objects of which they were in search, until they came to a small chateau of Prince Woronzoff, where they piled arms and rested. The troops returned to the town in the afternoon, and finding all solicitations useless to procure either wine or bullocks, re-embarked at eight p.m., and the ships returned to their respective stations. THE CRIMEA. The following is two days later news than tha published on Saturday BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Oct. 7.—Ten days have the Allied Forces now been in sight of Sebastopol, and not a cannon has been fired. Our heavy siege guns are up, and apparently only waiting for ground to be broken to commence their work of destruction. The Russians have not allowed oven a single day to pass without firing either round shot or shell. The ominous silence which reigns in the Allied camp must strike them with terror, and Lord Raglan has wisely determined not to fire a shot until all the guns are in position. Three hun dred cannon will open their fire at once, and the town will be in ruins, it is calculated, before twelve hours' bombardment. The fire will be directed on the extreme right by the British guns , and on the left b y the French. The centre, where the Russians have directed all their late efforts, and which is commanded by seve ral forts and ships' broadsides, will not be faced. I believe it has been determined to bring Sebas topol into subjection, and thus avoid, if possible, the bloodshed of an assault. The Ist Royal and 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons have arrived since my last. B o thregimentssufferedseverelyatsea. Theist lost not . e e s g s i ra t h e a n n e t sr i o g s h s t e y s s h i n o g r s s e p s and a , r eh h or s t es e 6th ab ove sixty. lh a y sixty eo remount the forlorn dragoon. The health of the army is a little better, but the improvement is not so great as could be desired. In the light division cholera has broken out again after a temporary respite, but in other divisions that and dysentery have diminished. OCT. B.—This morning the Russians have com menced throwing in shells with considerable activity, but with their usual unsuccess. Cholera has slightly increased. A little alarm was caused yesterday by tjie re port of Cossacks having been seen in great num bers in the neighbourhood of Balaklava. In con sequence of this, all officers belonging to the ships in harbour were refused leave to go on shore, but to day the usual permission has been granted. It is im possible to say when the guns will be planted, and the bombardment of Sebastopol commenced. I trust my next letter will report the opening of our siege batteries. We have been hitherto favoured with magnificent weather, and it is to be hoped that the rainy season, almost duo, will delay its unwelcome presence a fortnight longer. By that time Sebastopol will have fallen. man y privations which our officers have had to support and are sill suffering have been borne with the greatest cheerfulness. The most severe privation is undoubtedly that of clean linen and a change of uniform. It is a touching spec tacle to see a young " sub " shivering in his coat, whilst his solitary shirt, which he had just finished washing, hangs drying on a bush. Notwithstanding the care and attention bestowed on the uniforms, these have fallen victims to damp bivouacs and dusty marches, and have now a . particularly'seedy a ppearance, which the tarnished gold lace certainly does not redeem. These, however, are minor evils, which the medal of Sebastopol will soon obliterate. To-day the enemy has confined himself to a few shells only, all of which have fallen short. The sailors attached to the ship guns have broken up their encampment outside of Balaklava, and have moved up towards Sebastopol. Jack, to amuse himself, had scribbled with charcoal, over the tents sundry ferocious devices, such as "Tra falgar lambs," " The Tiger's revenge, " Sinope marines still occupy the heights Above Balaklava, Tvah, e and will probably remain there to act as a rear-guard. The Himalaya, under the experienced command of Captain Kellock, sustained her well-earned repu tation in the last trip from Varna. The Himalaya left Varna on the sth with 330 horses on board, and arrived at Balaklava on the 6th without having lost a single animal. DESCENT AT YALTA. On the representation of the French generals communicated to the British Commander -in-Chief, a joint expedition, consisting of the French ships of war Napoleon, Pomona, and Megere, and the English ships Sanspareil, Tribune, and Vesuvius, were directed on the 2d of October towards the littlo town of Yalta, on the south shore of the Crimea for the purpose of obtaining bullocks and other necessaries, including wine for the use of the French troops. This expedition arrived off their destination at nime a.m. on the 4th, and, meeting with no opposi- landed their detachments of marines and small-arm men, and took possession of the town, the English taking the right and their allies the left. The former established themselves on a plateau of ground commanding the approaches and overlooking the town, and the French sent out a small body on the roads to gain intelligence, &C. Little Government property was found in the town, the Eussian cinp/oyes having removed them selves and everything that was portable some days previously. Timber for the construction of plat forms was brought off and landed at Balaklava , , and thirty-five tons of Government coals were seized and sent on board the Vesuvius. Neither bullocks nor wine were to be found, and so far the expedi tion was ttil colty masque, At eight pan, the THE ATTACK ON SEBASTOPOL. The Debats, in a notice of the last accounts from the Allied Army of the Crimea, says : "The special line of the siege has been divided equally between the two armies from the fort on the south, which is the centre. This fort is a new construction, and is built on a height a little to the south-west of the extremity of the military post. The town at this part forms a point, and this locality has retained the name of Ak-Tiar (the white rock), the old Tartar name of Sebas topol, which was formerly a small town of no impor tance. We may, therefore, designate the south fort by the name of Fort Ak-Tiar, and we have seen a letter which calls it by that name. Sebastopol is about to be hemmed in by two simultaneous attacks. By the word attack, in military parlance, is meant the works which are undertaken, and the batteries which are mounted in order to dismantle the fortifications on a deterrai- nate point. When the circuit cf a place can be made at will, a front is chosen against which the attack is directed. Sebastopol, however, cannot be thus sur rounded, on account of its harbour, unless by means of two armies of 80,000 men each, one for the north side, and the other for the south, and who would be strong enough to keep up their mutual communication by the circuit of a harbour about four miles in depth. From the moment when circumstances or a concerted plan led the combined army to the south side, the choice of a front attack no longer re quired discussion. The line is pointed out by the town itself from the Quarantine port on the left, where the French are posted, to the careening port on the right, where the English are stationed, and which extends also as far as the Tchernaya, and even as far as the ruins of Inkerman, or the lower town, although these ruins are on the other side of the river. Each of the two armies will execute its attack by its own workmen and its own batteries, and each with its own troops, engineers, and materiel. It is rarely that a place is subject to two great attacks at the same time, on account of the great number of workmen and guns which would be required to obtain success. In the present case the means of attack are immense, the spirit of the troops is most energetic, each soldier is fully aware of .the grandeur of the enterprise—in short, a first victory, and the emulation of two great warlike nations, are pledges of success, in spite of all obstacles which are to be surmounted, and all the attempts which the enemy may make to impede the siege. A BRUSH WITH THE RUSSIANS. The Lloyd, of Vienna, of the 16th, says : " According to accounts which have been received to day from the Crimea, the general attack, which had been announced for the 9th, did not take place on that day, the preparations of the allies not having been completed. On the 6th there was a rather smart combat of advanced posts on the road from Khaur to the south of Sebastopol. An English picket of about 120 men be gan to retire before a patrol of 200 Russian cavalry, but afterwards, when on more favourable ground attacked them, and after a short combat put them to flight, and pursued them as far as the walls of Sebastopol. The Russians had ten killed and several wounded ; the Eng lish only lost two men. The cholera is said to be still making considerable ravages among the Russians. The attack on Sebastopol may be expected to begin every moment, as all the batteries are now ready." navigation have been long since removed, and a dredging machine is constantly at work deepening the Channel. A letter from Bucharest states that all the bridge equipage which was in that place had been sent to Matchin. All the troops of the Danube, with the exception of the garrisons of the fortresses, are marching towards the Dobrudscha. Omer Pacha is to commence on the 23d a tour of inspection as far as Ibrail ; he will afterwards return to Schumla, where he wll establish his head-quarters. The best understanding prevails between Omer Pacha and the Austrian generals who are at Bucharest. They communicate all important news to each other by despatcheF. According to a commercial letter from Belzi, in Bessarabia, not far from the Bukowine, the officers of the garrison have recently received orders not to quit their post, even for an hour ; one-third of the garrison is kept constantly ready to march at a moment's notice. Fortified winter quarters are being established on the Pruth. Prince Gortscha kolf is at Odessa. Fortifications. continue to be raised on the Danube, particularly at Ismail. THE TURKISH ARMY. Letters from Sohumla of the Bth state that 7,000 infantry with 28 field guns had passed through that town for Varna, while 4,000 recruits from Adrianople had also marched to reinforce the army-corps on the Danube. Important draughts from the new levies were also on their way to Schumla, where a corps of reserve to consist of 20,000 men is forming. From Schumla troops can be most conveniently directed either on the Danube or to Varna, to join the belli gerents before Sebastopol, as need shall arise. The troops composing the garrison there are de scribed as nobly emulous of a position, either. in the Crimea or with Omer Pacha on the Danube, but the first is preferred. DEPARTURE OF BARON HESS. A letter from Jassy, 9th, in the Moniteur, says :—" Baron de Hess left yesterday for Austria, escorted as far as the gates of this place by a squad ron of Moldavian cavalry. The general has, in conjunction with the Government commission, de 'cided on the 'establishment of a line of electric telegraph from Jassy to the Austrian frontier. Tho Russian Government has just officially re demanded from the old Hetman Mavrocordato the decorations which he had received from the Em peror Nicholas. This fact is attributed to the friendly feelings which M. Mavrocordato has shown towards the Ottoman authorities." PROCLAMATION OF PRINCE STIRBEY. The proclamation of Prince Stirbey, dated the 23d ult., has been published at Bucharest. It says : " y dear fellow-countrymen, we have known each other for a long time. You know with what care we visited the country in all directions to ascertain your wants, and to satisfy them by all the means in our power. All know the sad circum stances we had to pass through, especially in the two first years of our government in 1849 and 1850. You know that we have always entertained paternal love for you. You have not forgotten the repose and prosperity enjoyed by the country in the latter years. W e return amongst you as a father. We feel the greatest sympathy for your sufferings. We deeply feel the immensity and difficulty of our task. Rest assured that all our efforts shall be directed towards restoring proper order, an d making every one happy." The following has also been published, under the same date : " TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. " We have seen, en entering the capital, the love and joy with which the inhabitants have received us, and we appreciate the confidence which is placed in us, and the general conviction that we shall provide for the public weal, and act for the interests of all. We see therein an encouragement which will make us redouble our zeal for all that concerns public prosperity ; and we do not fail to express our full satisfaction and gratitude to the inhabitants of this capital." THE REINFORCEMENTS. The Debats says :—.‘ If the Russians have already received reinforcements, and if those which are an nounced to be on the road arrive in time, our army is also receiving theirs. 20,000 men must have re cently landed at Balaklava from Varna ; the 4,000 men from Athens are on their way, and at Toulon and in the Thames troops are daily embarking. The Allied Army will soon, therefore, amount to 120,000 men ; there were not more at Austerlitz, at Friedland, or at Moskowa." CONFLAGRATION AT SEBASTOPOL. The Press of Vienna, of the 17th, says :—" The news of a great fire having taken place at Sebas topol is confirmed. The principal of the provision stores has been burnt down, and a great portion of the supplies which it contained has been de stroyed." The following telegraphic despatch has been received at Vienna : " VARNA, Oct. 7.—The Irrench police organised here has made several important arrests, the con sequence of the discovery of the correspondence of Prince Menschikoff at the battle on the Alma. It is generally reported here that the allies will make an expedition to Georgia next spring." A letter, dated the 7th, from the heights of Se bastopol, states that at that date the army had taken up its position before the place, and had. been for some days at the distance of 2,000 metres from the town ; that the first parallel had been opened, and that guns of large calibre continued to be landed from the ships for the batteries. On the 6th, a battalion of the 19th Regiment of the line (French) had been sent on a reconnaissance, and an officer of engineers, Capt. Schmitt, brother of the aide-de-camp of General Forey, had been killed by a cannon ball. A strong Russian division was perceived on the 7th at three leagues' distance from the allies. An affair was expected to take place ; but it was considered that the divisions of General Canrobert and Bosquet, charged more par ticularly with the duty of repelling an attack, together with two English divisions, would suffice for the occasion. Nevertheless, the whole army had been ordered to be ready for any emergency. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. OF/ SEBASTOPOL, BLACK SEA, Oct. B.—We have lately been told again and again that the increased civilisation and humanity of modern times will greatly mitigate the horrors of war. To a certain extent this is undoubtedly true. Our list of Russian prisoners proves it. On the Danube the Turks made no prisoners, and Russians equally got rid of such encumbrances by the summary method of the bayonet. I felt proud of my country when I saw little groups of English soldiers tenderly nn sing wounded and dying Rus sians on the field of Alma the day after the battle, particularly when my indignation was hardly calmed at the well-proved stories of ferocious feeling manifested by these same wounded. In several instances they treacherously fired at or stabbed the doctor who had just dressed their wounds or the kind Samaritan who had slaked their parched throats with a draught of water, thus showing all the inextinguishable hatred of a dying wild beast and none of the noble chivalry of a civilised soldier. Notwithstanding the ingrati tude of these poor Russian slaves, an English doc tor, to his eternal honour, volunteered to remain behind and endeavour to alleviate the sufferings of the 700 wounded Russians who had been removed from the field of battle on the south bank of .the Alma to the deserted village on its north bank. Dr. James Thomson, Assistant Surgeon of the 44th Regiment, and his soldier servant, deserve to be held up as heroes. For four or five days they and they alone, had to wait upon and support this enormous mass of severely wounded men. The task was in many respects a most dangerous one. As we have seen, the patients them selves were not to be trusted. The Cossacks might also at any time make prisoners of them wer on the retreat of the A llied armies. The dead e festering in heaps around the sick and dying. These two men frequently had to bury a horrible mass of carcases and fragments positively before they could get at some poor wounded wretches. In this way they must have with their own hands have dragged out and buried some 200. There was no food of any kind for the sick, so the soldiers managed to drive in a stray bullock, and with the aid of some Russian convalescents (their misfor tunes seem to have humoured them) he killed it and made some soup for _ them. At length her Majesty's ships Albion, Vesuvius, and the screw transport Avon arrived. The e hole crew of the first landed and removed the wounded on board the Avon, while the Vesuvius guarded the shore. In the midst of this humane o c c upation a Russian force of some 4,000 or 5,00 were men approached the village, and the sailors obliged to hasten on bOard, as it was beyond the range of the ships' guns. However 340 wounded were put on board the Avon under the charge of their heroic preservers, Dr. Thomson and his ser vant. About 40 were left behind, and many of these poor fellows who had previously seemed unable to walk, en deavoured, with all their might , to hobble after their more fortunate comrades. The next day the Avon proceeded with them to Odessa. Now, surely, when the Humane Society rewards a man who saves one single individual, society will not fail to do something for two men who, under such dreadful trials, saved the lives of 340. THE WAR ON THE DANUBE. A letter from Galatz, of the 7th, states that the allies have established an important fortified posi tion at the mouth of the Sulina. In a few (lays some French troops coming directly from France will laud near that place, in order to support on the flank the offensive operations of Omer Pasha. The fortification s raised at the mouth of the Sulina are very extensive and well sup plied with cannon. Three small tore steamers aretre cons t an tly moving on the river obstacles which a cnnoi the positions of the enemy. The the Ittwiano had placed in the river to /impede the PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Oct. 20.—The most note-worthy event or circumstance that has come to, my knowledge for the last few days is the insertion of a piece of stale news in the Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 14th instant, and which I have thought important enough to telegraph to you. The number of that date contained a telegraphic despatch from Vienna, of the 4th, as follows : " A Commission, consisting of Commissioners of the Western Powers, Austria, and Turkey, has come toge ther in Constantinople for the purpose of settling the question of the Protectorate on the basis of propositions made by the Cabinet of Vienna." When we bear in mind that the telegraph can forward from St. Petersburg to Berlin and Vienna in less than one day, the veracious reports of Prince Menschikoff's movements, and the total inactivity of the enemy, we may reckon that this Constanti nople news did not take all the 10 days from the 4th to 14th to reach St. Petersburg from Vienna. Its insertion at all in that journal, and still more its insertion after such mature deliberation, will intimate to the Russian public and the world in general, that the Government of the Czar is desir ous of preparing the minds of his subjects for the information, that Aut is is not on the whole act ing- exactly as the Emperor had reason to expect from the faithful ally, who is indebted to him for the empire he rules and the crown he wears. FRANCE. Most of the Paris journals of yesterday appear without, leading articles, and what there is in the original columns is destitute of interest for the general reader. The Emperor has just nominated Admiral Her noux to the command of the naval division of the Adniiral Guerin to that of the Indo- Chinese division, and Admiral Larocque de Cliau fray to that of the division of Brazil and La Plata. Count Theodore de Lameth, general-de-brigade and officer of the Legion of Honour, has just died, aged 99, at the chateau of Busagny, near Pontoise. He was the senior general in the French army. Vicomte Lemercier, deputy in the Legislative Body for the department of the Charente, died on Thursday. His funeral took place yesterday. and a rush was male to the raft ; a large number trot upon it and into the boats. The sea was then flush with the dead lights ' and in a few mo ments more the Arctic sank, and all on board perished. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of th 3 28th the survivors in the boat espied a sail, and raised a handkerchief to attract attention, which they succeeded in doing, and found the vessel to be the bark Huron, bound for Quebec, which took them all on board. The raft was seen in the distance with one man clinging to it ; he was rescued, and stated that after the steamship sank he counted 72 men and four women on the raft, but at half past eight he was the sole survivor. During the night of the 28th Captain Wall, of the Huron, fired rockets, and kept a horn blowing, but no others were found. He afterwards fell in with a vessel, which took 18 of the survivors from the Huron, and afterwards transferred them to a pilot-boat, which landed them at Boston. The fate of the other boats was not known. - The captain of the Huron, on the morning of the 28th, saw a singular looking craft bear to leeward, but was unable to tell whether she was a steamer or a sailing vessel. The following is a list of those saved in the sixth boat, and taken to Quebec by the Huron : The ship's cook, 15 firemen, Thos. Watson, as sistant-engineer, three waiters, passengers—Nicolls, Henry Jenkins, James Thompson, Captain Graan, George H. Burns, Francis Doran, third officer of the Arctic, Thomas Brennan, assistant-engineer, and five waiters were also saved: the persons known to be in the ship's boat, but who had not turned up, were,—Gurley, first officer ; Baalham, second officer ; Graham, fourth officer ; W. Moon, pas senger, the boatswain, the chief and seven assistant engineers, and four firemen. The accounts in the Boston papers are very in complete and unsatisfactory ; some of the boats remain unaccounted for. A David Cannon is re ported saved, but it requires confirmation. The following is the latest by telegraph via Halifax : " NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—There is good reason to believe that the Collins family and many additional passengers are saved. " The ship Harvest Queen had 74 deaths on her passage to New York. " The Government had consented to admit 0010-; nial fish free immediately. " The boilers of the lake steamer E. K. Collins had exploded, killing 23 persons. " The Indiana free banks paper had been refused. " On the Ist of October .everything was quiet at San Juan. In the interior Chomono still held his position in the Plaza of Grenada, and had taken the three schooners on the lake, constituting Cas tillon's fleet. " The democrats had been successful in the Cali fornian State elections. " Nearly two million dollars in specie had been shipped from San Francisco by two steamers. " Business at San Francisco had improved. On the 10th there was a further decline in the New York stock-market, which was in a depressed state. " Foreign exchange was inactive—on London 109 to 110; there was an active demand for money, but the increasing rakes of interest and the falling off in stock speculation had brought out more capi tal, and business paper was current at 12 per cent. " No change had occurred in the cotton market. The corn market had advanced. Freights to Li verpool steady, with rather more offering. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY NIGHT. The United States' mail steam-ship Hermann, Captain E. Higgins, arrived off Cowes this even ing on her way to Bremen, having left New York the morning of the Bth inst. She brings 94 passengers, and specie value 218,000 dols., for England and the continent. On the Bth inst. the Hermann spoke the Bremen mail steamer Hansa, 50 miles east of Sandy Hook, and on the 19th the steam-ship Germania, from New York bound to Brrmen, in latitude 49 30, longi• tude 15 50 W. The Cunard steam-ship Canada arrived at Nevr York from Liverpool on the morning of the 6th inst. We regret to say that the Hermann brings no news whatever respecting the ill-fated steamer Arctic. Her loss was not known in New York when the Hermann lelt, although considerable anxiety was felt at her non-arrival. There is no news of great political importance by this steamer, but the Herald announces a new expedition to San Juan Nicaragua. With regard to the revolution in Mexico, we read in the Herald : "Our accounts of the progress of the insurgents in the northern departments of Mexico are very conflict ing. On the ono hand it is stated that the revolutionists have taken possession of several important towns in New Leon, including Monterey, the stronghold which General Ta)lor found it so difficult to capture ; and, on the other hand, it is reported by private letters received at New Orleans that the rebels have been dispersed. The probability, however, is that the popular cause is making considerable progress, although the material aid rendered to Santa Anna by our Government may enable him to protract the struggle." No change of note had occurred in the New York money-market, and prices had not further declined. THE INDIA MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, 12.30 p.m. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Indus, with the heavy portion of the East India and China mails, passed Hurst Castle a. little after eleven a.m. She will therefore shortly arrive, and her mails will be forwarded by an early train this afternoon. On Saturday, Mr. B ricer held an inquest at the Three Mariners, Ropemaker's•fields, Lirnehouse, on view of the body of Elizabeth Horne, aged 45, a married wo man, who resided in White's-rents adjoining, and whose death was the effect of an attack of Asiatic cholera. — Verdict, "That the deceased appeared to have died from natural causes." FRAUDS BY A PRETENDED NEWSPAPER AGENT.-0 11 Saturday a reward of 301. was offered for the apprehen sion of a fellow of the name of Rudolph Nicholas Free man, with other names, who, independent of obtatning goods by false pretences, has, in some instances, repre sented to his "sufferers" that he had long been an adver tising newspaper agent and proprietor. About 27 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, hair very black and long, dark ey es and complexion, speaks tolerably good English, with a Germau, or rather Jewish expression of coun ter ance. PLATE ROBBERY IN THE HAYMARIKET.-00 Saturday information was given that on the previous day an ex tensive robbery had been effected at the store-rooms of Messrs. Hibbert and Co., James'-street, Haymarket, and the following articles stolen :—A. silver teapot and create jug, a silver coffeepot, engraved ; a silver saucepan, two salt-spoons, two dessert-spoons, a gold ring set with diamonds, and a great many other valuable articles. The Liverpool papers announce the arrival of Father Mathew in that town on Thursday night from Cork preparatory to his departure for Madeira, the genial climate of which, it is hoped, will have the effect of re invigorating his constitution. CLOSUTG OF BURIAL GROUNDS.—Friday's Gazette contains numerous orders in council, passed on Wednes day the 18th inst., for the closing of a great number of burial-grounds in different parts of the country. Burials are to be discontinued in the following places in Lon don Wesleyan Chapel burial-ground, Stafford-street, Camberwell, and the Roman Catholic burial-ground, St. Mary, Islington, after the 28th inst. In Mortlake churchyard, after the Ist of December, 1854. In the burial-ground of St. George the Martyr, Queen-square, after the Ist of April, 1855. In the Quakers' burial ground, Long-lane, Bermondsey, after the let of June, 1855. In the vaults of St. Peter's, Bethnal-green, after the Ist of January, 1855. In the church of St. Mary, Stoke Newington, and the Abney Chapel-ground, from the present date, and in the churchyard of St, Mary, after the Ist of August, 1855. In Tottenham Church, from the present date ; and in the churchyard, the Wes leyan Methodist Chapel and Brook-street grounds, after the Ist of July, 1855. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES HULSB, BART.—We have to announce the demise of the above venerable baronet, nephew of the late Field-Marshal the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Hulse, who died on Wednesday, at his seat, near Southampton. He was son of Sir Edward, the third baronet, whom he succeeded in September, 1816. He was born in 1771, and married, July 5, 1808, Maria, second daughter of the late Mr. John Buller, of Morval, Cornwall, by whom he loaves a large family. The de ceased baronet is succeeded by his eldest son Edward, born in 1809. The late baronet was a deputy lieutenant of Hants. Married, at the cathedral chu rch of Lismore, b y the Venerable Ambrose Power, archdeacon of the diocese, and cousin of the bridegroom, Gervase Henry Busher, Esq., son of the late Rev. William Bushe, rector of St. George's Church, Dublin, to Isabella, eldest daughter of Ballysaggartmore. The lovely of Arthur Usher, Esq., bride was attired in a magnificent dress of Chantilly lace over white satin trimmed with white lilies and orange blossoms, with veil and wreath to correspond, and was attended to the altar by nine youthful bridesmaids. The bridegroom was accompanied by his brother, Captain Bushe, of the 7th Hussars. After the dejeuner, the happy pair started for Killarney. THE PATRIOTIC FUND.—It is in contemplation that a large meeting should be held in the city, in the middle of the ensuing week, in aid of the Patriotic Fund for the widows and orphans of those who may fall in the pre sent war. The step would have been taken earlier but for the absence from town of some of the very few per sons connected with the city included in the Royal corn mission. Considering that several of the members of the Old Patriotic Fund still remain, and that it is from the mercantile classes of London that the largest amounts arc received in almost all public subscriptions, the mis take in limiting the present commission so as not to in. elude any proportion of merchants and bankers has been a subject of remark,—Tinter. 1:6 • ATTSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE LIGHTNING. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The magnificent clipper ship Lightning, Forbes, Commander, has just arrived from Melbourne with advices to the 20th August, after a most ex traordinary run of 63 days mean time. The Lightning has brought 80 passengers, 'and 40,000 ounces of gold dust on freight, besides a large amount in the hands of passengers. The steamer Great Britain arrived at Melbourne on the 18th August, and was shortly afterwards placed in quarantine. The Lightning has brought answers to the letters of Jude 13 per Great Britain, making a course of post of only 132 days. The clipper ship John Banks sailed from Mel bourne for Loudon on the 15th August, with a large amount of gold dust on freight. The screw steamer, Lady Jocelyn, with the mails of the 4th June, from Southampton, arrived at Melbourne on the 12th August. The clipper ship Ocean Chief, belonging to the Black Ball line, had arrived at Melbourne, after a splendid run of 74 days. The clipper ship Frances Henty sailed from Melbourne, for London, on the 17th of August, with 83,876 ounces of gold (value 135,5041.), and 4,400 sovereigns on freight. The Mermaid sailed for Liverpool on the 17th, with 10,000 ounces (value 40,0001 ) in gold dust on freight. The clipper ship Ballarat was to sail for London from Melbourne on the 22d August. The Portland Bay Guardian, states that new gold diggings had been discovered about 12 miles from that town. Our advices from Hobart Town are to the 15th August. The Gazette of the 11th announces that Sir John Lewes Pedder had resigned his office as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land on account of impaired health ; the appoint ment of Valentine Fleming, Esq., to the vacancy, and of Francis Smith, Esq., to the Attorney-Gene ralship, was also gazetted. Sir Charles Hotham, the Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, was very popular with all classes. The Melbourne commercial accounts were still very unsatisfactory, the markets being glutted with all kinds of goods. Gold was in good demand at 41. per ounce. The Shipments of the 20 the precious metal during th e seven days prior to 20th had amounted to nearly half a million sterling. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The America has arrived with advices from Bos ton to the 11th, and $437,863 in specie. The Northern Light had arrived at New York with the California mails, and nearly $1,000,000 in specie. From Boston we have some advanced particulars respecting the loss of the Arctic. After the first boat, under the charge of the chief mate, left the wreck, the other lifeboats were lowered, and were filled with the engineers, sailors, and a few pas sengers, and all the officers, except the captain and third mate. When the boat left a majority of the passengers were working at the pumps and firing signal guns, and others launching spars, under the direction of Captain Luce and the third mate, to n beard, form a raft, .4 panic suddenly seized All 0 ' SUN" EXT.RAORDINAY EXPRESS. • STOCKPORT, OCT. 19.—Messrs. Thomas Claye and Son received through Messrs. Clayton and Son, by the early post this morning, six copies of the third edition of The Sun, with the names of killed and wounded. This early information set at rest the minds of many people here who have relatives at the seat of war. One of them being put outside the door has had crowds of people spelling it over all day. SURGEONS FOR THE ARMY AND THE FLEET.—The appointment of so many as four surgeons and four assis tant-surgeons to the Britannia, which were made at the Admiralty yesterday afternoon, is intended for general service at the seat of war, and not for the Admiral's ship only, which is already provided with the allow ance of two surgeons and four assistant-surgeons, usual fir a flag-ship of 120 guns. Thirty surgeons—additional —for the army will proceed to Constantinople by the Vectis on the 26th inst., from Marseilles, for service with the army in the Bast.—Observer. TEIS WOUNDED AT THE ALMA.—The following is an official return of the wounded admitted from the geld into the general hospital at Scutari, from the 22d to 28th September, 1854 : Amputation, upper extremity, primary lB ,1 lower ,1 If If upper extremity, secondary 3 It lower ft f) Fractures of upper extremity lower „ ), Wounds of upper extremity 98 lower „ 295 Woun"ds in various parts of the body, viz. : Head, face, and jaw 25 Neck - Back and Buttocks Cisest Abdomen Groin Testicle Miscellaneous . 14 . 16 Total 582 Five hundred more have been admitted since the 28th. Four aluputatione at the hip-joint were performed on the field of battle.— Medical Times and Gazette. GRAND MILITARY FISTE AT THE CRYSTAL PALICILT-- Saturday next has been set aside by the directors of the Crystal Palace fir a grand military fete, in aid of the fund for the relief of the sick and wounded and the widows and orphans in the East. In addition to the excellent band of the company, the bands of the let and 2d Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards, the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstreanie, the Scots Fusiliers, the Royal Artillery, the Royal Marines, the Royal Sappers and Miners, and the 94th Regiment, will take part in the fete. The price of admission will be only 2s. fid. ; and the Brighton and South-Coast Railway Company have made most liberal arrangements for conveying the com pany to and from the Palace, which will doubtl(sa be on this occasion better attended than on any day since the opening. Though season-tickets will be admissible, we hope very few of the holders will avail themselrea of their privilege. MAJOR BERESPORD AND SIR JAMES GRAHAM ; OP, How A MAN MAY EAT HIS OWN WORDS.—At the Col cheater Oyster Feast, on Friday—an ancient corporation banquet—at which the mayor of the borough entertained a company of upwards of 300 with an ad libitum supply of the famous " Colchester natives," Major Beresford, M.P., and Mr. Hawkins, M.P., were among the guests; and the former, in returning thanks to the toast of "The County Members," took the opportunity of following up the correspondence which has appeared in the Morning Post, by publicly making the amende honorable to Sir J. Graham, for the personal attack upon him at the late Hediugham Conservative dinner :—He knew (he said) that politics were excluded from a board like that, and he had no desire to open that wide field of discussion, but he wished to take that public opportunity of ex pressing his regret that at a recent Essex meeting he was led by the warmth of the moment to a length which no one regretted more than he did himself. (Hear, bear.) He honestly admitted that, speaking hastily and unprepared, he gave vent to expressions which no provocation could justify, which were unbecoming in one gentleman towards another, and which, in his calmer moments, lie should not have thought of making use of. (Hear, and cheers ) It was due also to Sir Jas. Graham to say, that his conduct was marked at once by manli ness and moderation—(hear, hear)— and he (Major B.) had thereby been put in the situation of feeling more re gret than any other course could have inspired him with, that he should have been betrayed by the warmth and excitement of the moment into saying what otherwise he should never have thought of. (Hear, hear.) A man who felt himself wrong was bound to make the most ample amends ; it was the impulse of every honourable mind to do so ; and in taking advantage of the present occasion by adverting to the subject he trusted he had not trespassed beyond fair limits. (Loud cheers.) This frank confession of the hon. member greatly improved his reception by the meeting, which, iu the first instance, was anything but cordial. DEATH FROM LAUDANUM.-- On Saturday Mr. Baker, the coroner, held an inquest at the Smiths' Arms, Beth nal-green-road, respecting the death of James George Richardson, aged sixteen months, who died from the effects of laudanum. it appeared from the evidence that the deceased was the son of a weaver, and on the evening of Wednesday last he was seized with pain in the stomach. The mother sent a little girl for a penny worth of " stuff out of the barrel" to the shop of Mr. Hughes, the chemist, of Bethnal-green-road. Mr. Hol royd, the assistant, sent a dark liquid, a portion of which the mother gave the deceased in a teaspoon. Shortly afterwards the child was taken very ill, and when seen by a surgeon the deceased was pronounced to be Flittering from a powerful narcotic. The deceased was placed in a warm bath, but never rallied, and died from the effects of poison ha an hour afterwards. Mr. Benjamin Vale, surgeon, stated that when he saw the child it eves quite. unconscious ; the eyes were con tracted, and there was no pulse. Witness bad examined the mixture, and he found that it contained a quantity of laudanum, and a teaspoonful was sufficient to destroy the life of a child of that ago. Witnees believed the liquid was syrup of poppies. Mr. Holroyd snid, in answer to the coroner, that the girl must have asked for syrup of poppies. The coroner said he was guilty of gross neglect in sending out such a poiso nous mixture without a proper label, and his conduct amounted to manslaughter. Mr. Holroyd acknowledged that he had done wrong in not placing a label, but he differed from the opinion of Mr. Vale. One teaspoonful of the mixture was not sufficient to produce death. The fol lowing special verdict was returned :—" That the des ceased died from an overdose of syrup of poppies, ad ministered as a sedative, and the jurors cannot separate without expressing as their - opinion that serious blame attaches to Mr. Holroyd." THE QUEEN AS AN EARLY Risme—The occasion of the Queen's visit to Hull, says the Packet, formed an exception to her Majesty's habit of early rising. her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and all the royal children had breakfasted, and the table was cleared before seven o'clock had struck. Byhalf-past six the pages of her household were executing th tl e e sh la o t l e 's t t r h a e de r s o m ya e l n. com T n h i of the Queen's visit is estimated at about 65,0001., in eluding a o u o r n n t a h o e s t oeea stirring sn eluding the travelling expe nses of visitors for that special e an c d o s st in of occasion. It is stated that one man received 8001. for the use of variegated lamps, which he let out at 4d. a-piece,