The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-29 00:00:00

ARREST OF A GREEK SPY.

JAN. 7.—A Greek has been for three days in confinement at
head-quarters on strong suspicions of being a spy. He was
sent away from Karanyi last August, and warned not to come
back. He lately returned to the Crimea with a French pass-
port, but instead of remaining in the French lines, went to
Karanyi. He is to receive 25 lashes, and be sent home to his
own country, with due dotice that if he shows himself here
again he will be hung,
AN OFFICER OF A TRANSPORT SHIP
FLOGGED.

There has been considerable excitement daring the past
week among the masters and officers of transports in Bala-
klava harbour, on account of the second officer of the Star of
the South, a large steam transport of 1,800 tons, having been
flogged by the Provost-Marshal. It appears that he was taken
to the guard-house on Sunday night last by a policeman, who
charged him with being drunk. He had resisted capture, and
his clothes were torn and soiled in the struggle. The next
morning Capt. Frayne, of the Star of the South, and Captain
Champion, of Her Majesty's steam transport Melbourne, went
to the guard-house to intercede for him, and to request he
might have a hearing, as be denied having been drunk, and
said he could produce witnesses to prove his sobriety when
taken up. Their efforts, however, were in vain, and he re-
ceived eighteen lashes ; and one of the two transport captains
having been overheard by a soldier to remark to his companion
that this was brutal treatment, he was threatened with the
like if he did not go on board his ship. A complaint was made
to Admiral Fremantle, and some correspondence has taken
place on the subject between the naval and military authori-
ties and Captains Champion and Frayne, who, as highly re-
spectable men, holding very responsible situations, and well
known to and esteemed by many officers out here, naturally
feel aggrieved by the menace of a disgraceful punishment. The
second mate's friends deny that he was drunk. It appears that
he stutters, which may have coniributed to a mistake as to his
state. However, whether drunk or sober, his case is a hard
one, for, besides the lashes, he loses his situation, which he at
once gave up, feeling himself disgraced and that he could not
in future expect respect from the crew.

The correspondent of the Daily News, writing on the 7th
of January, says in reference to the
INTENDED DESTRUCTION OF THE SUNK

SHIPS.

It is understood that, as soon as practicable, steps will be
taken to blow up and completely destroy the ships which were
sunk by the Russians at the time of the evacuation of the
south side of Sebastopol. The masts of some of the line•of.
battle ships remain visible above the water, just as when the
vessels were first submerged, If the opportunity were given,
there seems but little doubt but that some of the sunken ships
could be hereafter raised by the Russians, and, at any rate,
much valuable property could be recovered by them without
much expenditure of labour or money. The sunken line of
ships across the mouth of the harbour serves as a breakwater
and protects the vessels which were submerged further up the
roadstead from a great deal of injury to which they would
otherwise be occasionally subjected by the agitation of the
waves during the westerly gales.