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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY

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Eastern Counties
East Lancashire 76 S
Edinburgh & Glasgow 57 9
Great Northern 9l 2
Do. A. 7O 2
Do. B. 126 8
Great Western
Lanc.and Yorkshire Bll /
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Leeds Northern l3i 44

LAND SHARES.
Australian Agricultural 28 9 Peel River
S. Australian Invest.... N. B. Australian
Crystal Palace
On 'Change, Tallow, 535. 3d. to 535. 6d. on the spot; Lin-
seed Oil, 425. 9d. to 435.; Scotch Pig Iron, 735. Gd. to 745.;
Spelter, £23 ; Tin active, and Banca, 115 s. ; Cotton quiet;
1,000 bags of Native Ceylon Coffee sold at 48s.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—(From Kingsford and Lay's
Circular.)—A better attendance than of late. The supply of
English Wheat is small, and sold at ls. to 2s. over the prices
•of Monday last. A similar advance in general qualities of
Foreign, but fine commanded a greater improvement ; buyers
'are, however, cautious. Barley, Beans, and Peas bring last
week's prices. Oats are slow of sale at 6d. decline. Country
Flan brings an advance of is. to 25., but other sorts are un-
altered. ARRIVALS.
English. Irish. Scotch. Foreign.
Wheat 5147 9450
Barley 1436 7564
Malt 7368 66
Oats 306 170 41 49987
Beans
Peas
Flour

2592 sks. &
155 brls.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—Trade is dull for all
sorts, and Friday's prices are barely maintained :—Beef, 4s. to
ss. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. to 55.; Pork, 3s. led. to
4s. 10d.; Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6s.—Beasts, 3,309 ; Sheep and
Lambs, 24,242 ; Calves, 242 ; Pigs, 750.
LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—NO change in value. Sugar
is wanted, but Tea, Coffee, and Rice are dealt in cautiously.
Linseed Oil, sales at 425. 9d. to 435. Few sellers of Saltpetre,
at former prices. Tallow brisker : new P. Y. C., 535. 3d. to
535. ed. on the spot.—Stock, 44,824 casks, against 34,288 casks
same time last year; deliveries, 1,295 casks, against 1,109
casks same time last year.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—Lancashire and York-
shire, 811 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 25.-} a ; South
Eastern, 18 7-16.

GLASGOW PIG IRON MARRET.—Market dull at 748. 3d.,
sellers ; no business.

LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Cocanda, of Madras, totally wrecked at Coringa, May 31.
Earl of Derby, from Bristol, at Calcutta, June 2—must
dock after discharging.
The Golcondar, from Callao, and Aspasia, from Trinidad—
at Deal, 16th inst.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MONDAY.

The Royal assent was given by commission to a number of

bills.

A long discussion took place upon the presentation of a
petition from certain native inhabitants of the presidency of
Madras, praying for a change in the mode of Indian govern-
ment.

The bills on the table were advanced a stage.
The House adjourned at 6.55 p.m.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY.

The house met at four o'clock.
Mr. Grenville Berkeley took the oaths and his seat for
Cheltenham.

The house was summoned to the House of Lords, to hear
the royal assent given by commission to a number of public
and private bills.
Lord J. Russell entered the house shortly before half-past
four o'clock, and took his seat at the back of the ministerial
benches, just below Lord Seymour.
In reply to Captain Duncombe, Sir C. WOOD said the
release of the British officers and seamen taken at Hango had
been formally demanded on the part of Her Majesty's govern-
ment, but no answer had yet been received. The prisoners,
he understood, were well treated.
Lord PALMERSTON, ill answer to a question from Mr.
Moffatt, stated that, it would not be for the interests of the
public to place the Post-office upon the same footing as the
Customs or the Excise ; and, on consideration, he saw no rea-
son for proposing such a change.
Captain DIINCOMDE asked the noble lord whether, at any
time, a subsidy was contemplated for Austria by the British
government ?
Lord PALMERSTON replied : No, Sir ! Never !
LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S EXPLANATIONS.
On the motion that the order of the day be postponed, for
the purpose of proceeding with Sir E. B. Lytton's motion,
LORD J. RUSSELL rose and said, that on Thursday last he
had stated to Lord Palmerston that he wished to retire from
office, and he had to state that Her Majesty had been pleased
to accept his resignation, and he now held office only until
his successor was appointed. He then entered at great length
into an account of his proceedings at ,Vienna, and upon his
return, observing that it was true he had promised to lay
before the Government in the most favourable manner the
propositions that had been made to him by Austria. He i
did so :in conjunction with other persons of great weight and
authority, and acted in conjunction with the Ministers of Fo-
reign Affairs for France and Turkey. He brought this proposal
to this country upon the 29th of April. On the 30th, a Cabinet
Council was held, the result of which was that the propositions
not adopted by Her Majesty's Government. He then justi-
fied his conduct in recommending the adoption of these pro-
positions, stating that the rejection of them did not alter his
opinion of their merits; and replied to Mr. Disraeli's objections,
that if they were received, there was no great issue at stake
to justify the exertions which this country was making to
carry on the war. It was because the war was necessary that
these exertions should be made, and he was the bearer
chioautedghtthtehmeyagwneitruedaetoftthhaet
peril to Turkey; he conceived the power of the project of
toifmteh
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Russia to be such that it was necessary, if possible, to combine
tcicoenpstedb.ecallusee appreciated
all the great powers of Europe against her, in order that peace
might be secured. Such was the foundation of his opinions—
not formed suddenly upon the merits of the proposition ; but
when Lord Westmoreland wrote, on the 16th May, a despatch
stating that the Austrian Government conceived they had
fulfilled the conditions of the treaty of December 2nd, and
that they would not make the refusal of Russia to accept the
proposition a casus belli, but only a ground for breaking off
the Conferences. When the government received that de-
spatch, tllere was no doubt, on their part, that it was not
worth their while to go into Conference to support a prove-
sition of the kind there stated? which was less favourable to

the Allies than that proposed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys, which
it was nearly certain, Russia would reject, and which Austria
would not go to war to support. From that time, therefore,
there was altogether an end to negociations with Austria
for the purpose of proposing an ultimatum to Russia,,
and that the war must be continued in order to
maintain the obeets of the Allies. It had been made a-
reproach to him by Mr. Disraeli and others, that though he
had been the bearer of the Austrian propositions, he had
spoken in favour of a vigourous prosecution of the war. He
could not see what else he could possibly do. The govern-
ment had determined that the negotiations must be put an
end to, and what other means were there left for obtaining
for a solution to the third point. The government were
quite right in not making a communication to the house of
the Austrian propositions at that time. The decision of
Austria not to interfere by force nor to move her armies upon
Russian trritory, but on the contrary to withdraw from any
participation in the the contest, and even" to diminish and..
reduce here froces having been taken, it was evident from that
moment that Russia which had been threatened, and has felt
lgpressure of the great increase of the Austrian army, feel-
What preessure taken off, would immediately feel herself
at liberty to detatch some of the best troops in her army to
the shores of the Crimea, to oppose the armies of Great Britain
and France, render these circumstances, it would have been
most unjustifiable for the government to have stated prema-
turely the decision of Austria not to propose an ultimatum to
Russia. He could not conceive a greater dereliction of duty in
such acase. The noble lord further defended his opinion in this
respect, adding that the government were united in the course
that had been taken. He further stated that when Mr. Gib-
son brought forward his question last Friday, after all that
had then occurred, he should have been totally unworthy of
his opinion if he had shrunk from meeting it with the expla-
nation which he then made. What else could he do than own
and admit the part he had taken in these transactions, He
should have been ashamed of himself if he had denied that
which he had done, and that whieh was his conscientious
opinion. The hon. baronet (Sir E. Lytton) thought that the
course he had taken was a ground for want of confidence in
the whole Administration, and he was of opinion that because
he (Lord J. Russell) held these views in May, he was incapable
of serving Her Majesty. Now that impression appeared to
preuail generally, and he consequently thought it necessary to-
tender his resignation. Lord Palmerston having taken this
course, he did not feel at all discontented with the position in
which he found himself. He saw no reason to do so. He had
always acted from what he believed to be for the benefit of the
country. He had turned over this question again and again
with a view to the public interest. He had advised that
which he thought expedient for the eountry, and, whatever
might happen, he had the satisfaction of having acted accord.
ing to his conscience-
SIR E. B. LYTTON'S MOTION.

Sir E. B. LYTTON then rose and said that, in bringing for.
ward his resolution he hoped the house would be as indulgent
to him as they had been to the noble lord, placed as he was
under the necessity of bringing forward a motioe against a
government which, but for the conduct of one of its members,
was entitled to their indulgence and commpassion. He then
proceeded to criticies the noble lord's speech, who, he said, as
a member of the government, had called upon the country to
spill its best blood in a war which he, as a negotiator, believed
unnecessary. Adverting to the Vienna correspondence, he
expressed surprise that the noble lord had not retired from
the cabinet within a week after he returned. It was surpris-
ing that the noble lord at the head of the government had not
seen that his government could not go on while its members
were so completely divided in opinion, as was apparent from
the correspondence that the Secretaay for the Colonies and the
Secretary for Foreign Affairs were wholly at variance on the
question of counterpoise. He (Sir. E. B. Lytton) gave a hearty
concurrence to the sound and healthy tone of Lord Claren-
don's correspondence, but how could Lord Palmerstone think
of going on when he contrasted the opinions of that nobleman
with those of Lord J. Russell. Was Lord Clarendon to be
considered the specimen of the Cabinet? Were they all
united—were the first Lord of the Admiralty and the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer in unison with the rest of the Cabinet
in carrying on the war ? The Cabinet was said to be united
last May, yet it was now admitted that there were differences
of opinion ; and he would remark that a discussion like this
would scarcely be excused by the plea of expediency. He
would withdraw his motion, for all its objects had been at-
tained.

Mr. BOUVERIE said that, as the motion had vanished into
thin air, he would offer a few words upon a subject personal
to himself. He had seen a statement that he was one of some
members of the government who had waited upon Lord Pal-
merston, to say that they could not resist the motion of the
hon. baaonet. The very reverse of that statement was the
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of the noble lord, he was ready, however painful it might be,
to convey to him the general impression among his colleagues.
In this he thought he was acting as a true friend of the
noble lord—(a laugh)—and he was satisfied that his noble
friend fully appreciated the motives which led him to take
such a step. (A langh.)
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THE WAR.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

ADDITIONAL details of the events connected with
the unfortunate attacks by the Allies, on Sebastopol,
on the 18th of last month, continue to be received.
They do not much alter the general complexion of
affairs in relation to those proceedings as they have
been already stated. Some misapprehension appears
to have prevailed in reference to a sortie made by the
Russian garrison on the morning of that day, at a very
early hour, and which, according to some reports, is
said to have precipitated the French attack on the
Malakhoff, and so to have led to the disasters which
attended that attack. The discussions on this subject
have not tended in any great degree to clear up the
point, which is now of less moment. According to
the latest accounts received, the progress of the Allies
in their measured advance upon the defences of the
town have not been materially retarded by the reverses
referred to. On the contrary, they seem to be pro-
ceeding with renewed energy ; and, if we may judge
from the accounts transmitted, with a degree of su
cess which augurs ultimate and not distant triump
On Saturday, the 23rd of June, the allied position and
its neighbourhood was visited by a thunderstorm of ,
great severity, accompanied by a very heavy fall of
rain, which did a great deal of injury. All reports
concur in representing the health of the Allies as good.
Concerning the thunderstorm and the general state
of affairs,the Times correspondent, writing on the 25th,
says:

The storm which burst over the south-eastern portion of
the Chersonese on Saturday night has done more damage than
we could have anticipated. Men were drowned in ravines
converted by the tornado into watercourses, were carried off
roads by mountain torrents, and dashed against hill sides ;
beasts were swept away into the harbour and borne to sea;
huts were broken up and floated into the ocean ; the burial-
grounds near Balaklava were swept bare, and disclosed their
grim army of the dead in ghastly resurrection, washed into
strange shapes from out their shallow graves ; and, greatest
calamity of all, the railway was in various places decomposed,
ripped up and broken down, so as to be unserviceable at our
greatest need. Orders have been sent down to urge on the
necessary repairs, for the demands of the batteries for shot and
shell are pressing, and the electric telegraph has been repeatedly
in use to-day to force on the attention of the authorities at
Balaklava the necessity there is for their promptest exertions,
and to order them to send up supplies of materriel
for our fifth bombardment as speedily as possible The
French say they are quite ready, and they have
received from us 1,500 32-pound shot for their guns
to-day. The railway fails at a critical period, but even
if it were in its usual state we could not hope to be in a con-
dition to begin a heavy fire for some time to come, and I
believe it will be fully a fortnight or three weeks before the
necessary supplies will be brought up to the front. The
repairs to the railway will be effected in ten days. Mr. Beatty
and Mr. Campbell are away at Heraclea surveying the coal
district, but their representatives are men of energy, and the
only obstructions to be dreaded will arise from the " navvies,"
some of whom have been behaving very badly lately. They
nearly all " struck work" a short time back, on the plea that
they were not properly rationed or paid, or that, in other words,
they were starved and cheated ; but the provost-marshal brought
some of them to a sense of their situation, and, indeed, the
office of that active and worthy person and of his myrmidon
sergeants has been by no means a sinecure between " navvies,"
Greeks, and scoundrels, of all sorts. The Croat insurrection is
suppressed, but the Croat idleness has not been by any means
stimulated into usefulness. No wonder Col. M'Murdo finds it
difficult to get men for the Land Transport Corps, although
even he is obliged to pay 2s. 6d. and 3s. a-day to native surid-
jees, so completely have we ruined the market. The losses in
the Land Transport Corps by death would be extraordinary
did we not find a parallel to them in the •Sardinian army of
Tchorgoun, which has lost in three weeks nearly 1,000 men by
cholera, dysentery, and diarrhoea. The Turks and French en-
camped in the valley suffer somewhat from the same diseases,
but it is observable that the men who die are recruits and old
men who are mostly unacclimatized. To understand the diffi-
culties in the way of what is called at home " taking the field,"
one must come out and stay out here. It would be much easier
to take Sebastopol thanto take the field. There are only three ac-
cessible passes, up the precipitous wall of rock which rises on
the north side of the Tchernaya, to the plateau on which the
Russians are encamped, and the precipice runs round to the
Belbek. These passes are so steep that an army would have
some difficulty in ascending them at its leisure, without re-
sistance from any enemy. But they are occupied wherever
engineering eyes detect the smallest weakness—they are com-
manded by batteries, intersected by positions threatened by
everhanging cliffs all ready for the lever. March round and
turn them ! Where and how ! We have no transport even
if we could march, and we cannot march, because Napoleon
himself would never lead an army into such defiles as guards
the Russian position. Whether we are not strong enough to
detach a great corps of 40,000 or 50,000 men to operate
against the Russians north of Sebastopol is not for me to
say; but it is certain that the base of operations for any such
corps must be the sea, till ample transport is provided. The
Crimea is to all intents and purports a desert—a Sahara,
waterless and foodless before an invading army. A long train
of provisions came into Sebastopol to-day, and the mirror tele-
graph, which works by flashes from a mound over the Belbeck,
was exceedingly busy all the forenoon. Troops were also ob-
served in motion on the hills opposite Inkerman. The weather
is warm, but there is a strong breeze of wind, which tempers
its heat. The rain has developed horrible effluvia in camp,
and sickness is rather on the increase. With great regret and
surprise we heard of Captain Lyons's death this evening.
THE ARMISTICE.

Concerning the armistice, the same correspondent,
writing on the 26th, says :

The sad history of the 19th, which 1 was obliged to inter-
rupt on the departure of the mail, is soon finished. The bodies
of many a brave officer whom I knew in old times—old times
of the war, for men's lives are short here, and the events of a
life are compressed into a few hours—were borne past us in
silence, and now and then, wonderful to relate, men with severe
wounds were still living, and able to give expression to their
sufferings by moans and sighs of pain. The spirit of some of
these noble fellows triumphed over all their bodily agonies.
" General !" exclaimed a sergeant of the 18th Royal Irish to
Brigadier Eyre, as he came near the place. in the cemetery
where the poor fellow lay with both his legs broken by a round
shot; " thank God, we did our work, any way. Had I another
pair of legs, the country and you would be welcome to them !"
Many men in hospital, after losing leg or arm, said they "would
not have cared if they had only beaten the Russians." The tor-
tures endured by the wounded were very great ; they lay in
holes made by shells, and were frequently fired at by the Rus-
sian riflemen when they rolled about in their misery. Some of
our men, however, report that the enemy treated them kindly,
and even brought them water out of the embrasures. They
pulled all the bodies of our officers which lay within reach up
to the abattis, and took off their epaulettes, when they had
any, and their boots, but did not strip them. It was observed
that the ditch of the abattis was in excellent order—that the
chevaux-de-frise had been repaired, and were very strong, and
that every effort had been used up to the moment before we
assaulted to render it, as it was, a formidahle obstacle to our
advance. It is said that the bottom of the ditch was filled
with bayonets, fixed firmly in the earth; and there is a report
that the Russians were employed during the night of the 17th
in repairing the abattis itself where it was injured by our
cannon. I have already tried to describe the nature of the
ground in the front of the abattis. It was in itself a con-
siderable impediment to regularity of formation. A line of
sentries was formed by the Russians as our burying parties
came out, and they advanced so far in front of the abattis that
General Airey was obliged to ;remonstrate with an aide-de-
camp of General Osten-Sacken, who ordered them to retire
nearer to the abattis. It was observed that these men were fine
tall, muscular, and soldierlike fellows. They were unusually
well dressed, in clean new uniforms, and were no doubt picked
out to impose upon us. Many of them wore medals, and seemed
veteran soldiers. Their officers had also turned out with unusal
care, and wore white kid gloves, patent leather boots, and white
linen. The mass of the Russians were gathered on the
towering parapets of the Redan and Malakhoff, and were not
permitted to come to the front. Their working parties
brought out all our dead, and laid them in front of their line
of sentries, whence our people carried them away. The
precautions which had been taken to prevent officers and men
getting through the lines sufficed to keep any crowd away,
but the officers on duty and the lucky men, and some
amateurs, who managed to get through the lines, formed
groups in front of the Redan, and entered into con-
versation with a few of the Russian officers. There was,
however, more reserve and gravity in the interview than has
been the case on former occasions of the kind. One stout
elderly Russian of rank asked one of our officers " How are
you off for food ?" " Oh ! we get everything we want ; our
fleet secures that." " Yes," remarked the Russian, with a
knowing wink, "yes ; but there's one thing you're not so
well off for, and your fleet can't supply you, and that's
sleep." " We're at least as well off for that as you are," was
the rejoinder. Another officer, in the coarse of conversation,
asked if we really thought, after our experience of the de-
fence they could make, that we could take Sebastopol. " We
must ; France and England are determined to take it." " Ah !
well," said the other, " Russia is determined France
and England shall not have it, and we'll see who has
the strongest will, and can lose most men." In the
midst of these brief interviews, beginning and ending
with bows and salutes, and inaugurated by the concession
of favours relating to cigars and lights, the soldiers bore
dead bodies by, consigning the privates to the burial grounds
near the trenches, and carrying off the wounded and the
bodies of the officers to the camp. Poor Forman's body was
one of the first found ; it was far in advance of where he came
out of the trench with his company of the Rifle Brigade, and
it was terribly torn with shot. It was generally observed by
some of the surgeons, however, that the wounds were cleaner
than they have been in previous engagements. This is some-
what remarkable, for the Russians fired all kinds of missiles—
bags of nails and fragments of bullets, shells, and balls, as
well as grape
. and canister. They were seen as we advanced
" shovelling" the shot into the muzzles of the guns. No
one can deny many of the officers the praise of extreme
bravery and devotion. In the midst of our fire they got up
oil the top and on the outside of the parapets, and directed
the fire of their men upon us. Several of them were knocked
over by round shot, shell, and rifle balls, while exposing them-
selves in this manner, but it scarcely speaks well for their
soldiers that they felt it necessary to set them such examples.
Colonel Dickson succeeded in obtaining Lord Raglan's per-
mission to open on the Russians from the 21-gun battery, and
swept them away in numbers as they crowded out to fire on
our broken columns and on our wounded men and fugitives.
The armistice lasted for upwards of two hours, and when it
was over we retired from the spot so moistened with our
blood.
RETENTION OP THE CEMETERY.
All the advantage we gained by the assault was the capture
of the Cemetery, and even that we had nearly abandoned,
owing to the timidity of
the
eof our generals. As you have
already learnt, the men in Cemetery and houses suffered
severely during the
18th t om. the enemy's fire, and the
soldiers in the latter were not able to withdraw till nightfall.
It was left to one of the Generals of Division to say what
should be done with the Cemetery, and he gave orders to
abandon it. On the following morning an officer of Engineers,
Lieutenant Donnelly, heard to his extreme surprise that the
position for which we had paid so dearly was not in our
possession. Re appreciated ita value—he saw that the

Russians bad not yet advanced to re-occupy it. With the
utmost zeal and energy he set to work among the officers in
the trenches, and begged and borrowed some 30 men with
whom he crept down into the Cemetery, just before the flag
of truce was hoisted. As soon as the armistice began the
Russians flocked down to the Cemetery, which they supposed
to be undefended, but to their great surprise they found our 30
men posted there as sentries, who warned them back, and in the
evening the party was strengthened, and we are now construct-
ing most valuable works and batteries there, in spite of a heavy
fire, which occasions us considerable loss. Such is the storythat
is going the round of the camp. Lord Raglan is said to have
found fault with General Eyre for -losing SO many men, but
the latter observed, that he had done what he was .ordered,
and that he had taken the Cemetery. There can be no doubt
but that our troops could have got into the town in the rear
of the Redan from the houses on the 18th, had they been
strong enough to advance from the Cemetery. Whether they
could have maintained themselves there under the fire of forts,
ships, and batteries, is another question. It is now shrewdly
suspected that inside the Redan, behind those outward and
visible walls of earth, there is another very strong work—a
kind of star fort of earth with sunken batteries—and it is
certain that inside the Malakoff works there are several lines
of battery which have never been unmasked. The enemy
have probably constructed large funnel-shaped pits behind
these works, into which shells roll and burst, as such a " dodge"
was found in the Mamelon. Inside the latter work were
splendid bombproofs for the men to retire into when our fire
became hot. They were large pits with 10 feet of earth, and
beams of wood across them, and were capable of holding a
strong body of men. In one some new sacks marked with
the broad arrow and B. 0. were found, in which were packets
of cartridges ready for use. Where did these sacks come
from P It is almost as strange as the English bread found at
Tchorgoun. There is talk of a spy being taken, or rather
discovered, in a sub-interpreter to the Commissariat, who
confesses he has been in communication with the Russians,
and revealed our attack to them. He will be shot, if this be
true.