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CORN•EXCHANGE Great excitement has prevailed in our
market this week. The show of English wheat has been small,
and the demand for all kinds has ruled brisk, at an advance in
the value of Essex samples, compared with Monday week, of 6s
per quarter. Kant red wheats have produced 6s to tle per
quarter more money. The supply of foreign wheat has been
small, and sales have taken place at from 6s to 6s per quarter
more money. The same amount of improvement has been paid
for Boating cargoes. The barley trade has not been to say
brisk, yet prices have risen Is per quarter. In tile value of malt
we have no change to notice. Oats have realised au advance of
23 per quarter. There has been a good demand for beans, at 2s
per quarter more money. White peas have improved in value 3s
to 4s per quarter, and grey and maple parcels have ruled in
favour of sellers. The flour trade has been brisk, at the advance
of from 3s to eis per sack noticed in our last report.
Ewousx—Wheat, Essex and Kent white, 77s to 88s; red
7(41 to 793; Norfolk and Lincoln red, 70s to 775. Malting barley.
3Us to 355; grinding ditto, 20s to Sls ; distilling, 29s to 325.
Malt, 65s to 725. Feed oats, 40s to 28s ; potato, 27s to 30s.
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Grey peas, 36s to 39s ; maple, 39s to 41s ; white boilers, 40s to
ifis per quarter. Town-made tlour,6ss to 70s; country marks,
52a to gits per 2801bs.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
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Foreign.. G6BO .. 880 . • .. *0760 .. 860 eke.
London, England, 1855-10-13

THE PRESS.

After leaving Cologne the King proceeded to
Hanover, and from thence to Berlin.
A letter from Vienna states that the accounts re-
ceived of the "complete understanding between the
King of Prussia, the King of Wurtemburg, the
Prince Regent of Baden, the Duke of Nassau, &c.,"
have produced no very agreeable impression in the
highest Austrian circles.
The new Prussian Gazette, the avowed organ of
the Russian Embassy at Berlin, has lately published
a violent article against the Western powers. M.
De Gerlslh, the writer, is known as the leader of th•
extreme Right in Prussia. The article may be thus
briefly summed up:—
Europe is at this moment within two steps of disgrace
and of servitude ; its independence, its honour, and its
faith now incur the same dangers as from 1810 to 1812,
and perhaps greater; 45 years ago the first Napoleon under-
took to strike, in Russia, the last hope of European liberty,
and he drew with him, as victims condemned to the sacri-
lege, the nations already conquered, and Germany herself:
now revived Bonapartism again conspires for the triumph
of revolution, and the establishment of universal monarchy ;
it is liberty, it is right, it is Christianity itself, which it
wishes to destroy by annihilating Russia ; it has already
got for accomplices, England, which has become its aux-
iliary from fear of conquest; Sardinia, which has descended
to the rank of vassal; and Spain and Portugal, aspiring to
the same servitude ; and it still requires the co-operation
of Germany. Must Prussia in her turn enter into this
alliance, which is only a vassalage slightly disguised ; must
she rebuild with her hands the domination of Bonapartism;
must the French reign in Germany—yes, or no ?"
London, England, 1855-10-13

OCTOBER 13, 1855.

SOCIETY FOR THE DISCHARGE AND
RELIEF OF PERSONS IMPRISONED FOR SMALL
DEBTS THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES.
Established 1772.
Passromr—The EARL of ROMNET.

TnEtsuitEn--170IAM11;iiiOND CABBELL,Esq., M.P., F.R.S.
AUDITORS-CAPEL CURE, Esq., and H. HARWOOD
HARWOOD, Esq.
At a MEETING of GOVERNORS, held in Craven-street, on
Wednesday, the 9rd day of October, 1855, the cases of Thirty-
three Petitioners were considered, of which twenty-five were
approved, three rejected, four inadmissible, and one deferred
for inquiry.
Since the Meeting held on the Ist of August, FORTY SIX
DEBTORS, of whom forty-two had Wives and one hundred and
thirteen Children, have been discharged from the Prisons of
England and Wales, the expense of whose liberation, in.
eluding every charge connected with the Society, wee
420 L 2s. 6d.; and the following
London, England, 1855-10-13

THE REDAN DITCH ON THE Brn.

In confirmation of everything which has been told
of the personal heroism of Lieut. Massy, of the 19th,
an extract from a letter of an officer in the light
division has appeared this week, and gives a touching
account of the noble spirit this young hero evinced
as he lay wounded in the Redan ditch :
Sebastopol, September 18.
By the way, I must give you the history, in a few words,
of a few hours in the life of a hero, and depend upon it of
a future great man, if he lives. He is in the next regiment
to us, and 1 have the details from a wounded sergeant of
ours who lay next him during the day and night of the Bth.
I allude to young Dunham Massy, of the 19th-1 believe
the youngest officer of the army. He is now known as
" Roden Massy," for there are three of the same name in
the regiment. This noble boy, in the absence of his cou-
sin, led the grenadier company, and was about the first
man of the corps to jump into the ditch of the Redan,
waving his sword and calling on his men, who nobly stood
by him till, left for nearly two hours without support, and
seised by a fear of being blown up, they retired. Young
Massy, borne along, endeavoured to disengage from the
crowd, and stood almost alone, facing round frequently to
the batteries, with head erect, and with a calm, proud, dis-
dainful eye. Hundreds of shot were aimed at him, and at
last, when climbing the ditch, he was struck and his thigh
broken. Being the last, he was of course left there. Now,
listen to this. The wounded around were groaning, and
some even loudly crying out. A voice called out, faintly at
first, loudly afterwards," Are you Queen Victoria's soldiers"
Some voices answered, "I am ! lam !" "Then," said
the gallant boy, " let us not shame ourselves ; let us show
those Russians that we can bear pain as well as fight like
men." There was a silence as of death, and more than
once he bad it renewed by similar appeals. The unquailing
spirit of that beardless boy ruled all around him. As
evening came on the Russians crept out of the Redan and
plundered some of the wounded, at the same time showing
kindness, and in some cases giving water. Men with
bayonets fixed frequently came over the body of young
Massy. One fellow took away his havreaack. Sometimes
he feigned death—at other times the pain of his wound
would not permit him. A Russian officer with a drawn
sword came to him, and endeavoured to disengage the
sword which the young hero still grasped. Seeing that
resistance was in vain he gave it up. The Russian smiled
gently and compassionately on him, fascinated probably by
his youth, and by the bold, unfaltering glance which met
his. When the works of the Redan were blown up in the
night by the retreating Russians, the poor boy had his right
leg fearfully crushed by a falling stone. He was found in
the morning by some Highlanders, and brought to hi■
regiment almost dead from loss of blood. Great was the
joy of all at seeing him, as he was about to be returned as
" killed " or " missing." " Dangerously wounded " was
substituted, but he is now doing well.
London, England, 1855-10-13

SINGULAR EVIDENCE.

Tim Blue Book containing the proceedings and Report of the Select
Committee on Metropolitan Communications has been published
during the past week. It comprises a great deal of interesting matter
to which we may hereafter have occasion to revert. At present we
would call attention to some of the evidence given before the Com-
mittee, and especially to the following :-
146. (Lord PALMERSTON examined.) Do you think London re-
quires any new communications ?
Well, I don't know that it does. I find no difficulty in getting
about. _ _ .

147. But your Lordship's route is usually through aristocratic
streets, not crowded by commerce.
It seems to me that there is a practical remedy for practical men.
If they are likely to be delayed in their way to an appointment, why
let 'em start half an hour earlier. If a bird wants to catch worms, he
must be an early bird, you know. I don't like pulling down. I like
stare super vial antiquas—to stare at the old streets.
148. Then your Lordship has no particular cut to recommend?
No, except the cut which I always recommended to the late Chief
Commissioner of Works.
140. And what was that ?

Two-thirds of all his speeches. (Great laughter.)
270. (The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.) Have you formed
any opinion upon the subject before the Committee?
I have considered the history of communications, ancient and
!MAIM with some care) and with the permission of the Committee I
London, England, 1855-10-13

THE PRESS.

delivered in the Viscount's rattling style of
Wizard of the North sleight-of-hand ; but
abroad—ah ! there, indeed, it is painful to
reflect on the reception of such an aggressive,
swaggering, contemptuous address from the
Prigte Minister of England. His words will
be interpreted as sbesning more than the
Viscount intended. Here we take a large
discount of from his bills on opinion drawn
as a. British dictator. We know that his
political credit is only that of an accidental
Prime Minister. But on the Continent his
rhetorical self-conceit will look bigger in the
idiom of foreign countries. It is not of the
small great man of Romsey—the lord of the
manor—the owner of Broadlands, with its
sunny lawns, and pleasant hospitable house,
and its amiable hostess—that the readers at
Berlin, Vienna, and Paris, will be thinking.
They will have no distinct vision before them
of the jolly old gentleman acting " great man,"
not stamping on Russia, but standing on the
comfortable carriage-mat, avoiding cold Baltic
timber foi the sake of his venerable gouty
toes, and blandly thanking the " people " of
Romsey for their cheers for the Queen and the
Emperor of the FRENCH. and for himself, and
for " Lady PALM ERSTON," and for the Corpora-
tion of Romsey. The neighbourly hospitality
at Broadlands in the evening, and the noisy
rejoicing over flowing cups of the persons
whom his Lordship entertained at the hotels
of the town, cannot be appreciated abroad as,
doubtless, they were at home in Hants.
Here we are all content to smile at such a
scene as a phase in the rural life of England
where small boroughs are assiduous in offering
copious incense to the 'magnates of their
vicinity. But the whole exhibition will be
viewed with different feelings abroad. In any
case the scene had much that was con-
temptibly small. Only try to imagine a Wal-
pole, b. Chatham, a Pitt, or a Canning, stooping
in a great European war to hear their
toadies chaunt their praises through the
" corporations " of such a Lilliputian town as
Romsey !
But, apart from the petty absurdity of such
trumpery ovations—such pop gun hurricanes
of mock applause—the mischief remains, that
a blustering speech was made utterly un•
worthy of the First Minister of the Queen of
ENGLAND. At such a critical time its language
will only inflame national animosities, and
embitter hostilities. It is by such taunts and
boasts that wars are indefinitely prolonged,
and their original purposes forgotten, amidst
the passions aroused by men of unscrupulous—
ambition, we were about to write, but we must
substitute vanity.
London, England, 1855-10-13

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive
Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter
and when omitted, It is frequently from reasons quite nude
pendent of the merits of the communication
We cannot undertake to return cannutunicatiot
not avail ourselves.

1 of which we do

Communications should always be legibly 'mitten, and on 0011
side of the paper only. if long it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publicit-
tioa, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment in town.
London, England, 1855-10-13

THE POSITION OF THE RUSSIANS.

The Russians do not show any signs of that
" speedy retreat" which was so generally anticipated
last month. On the contrary, they obstinately per-
sist in remaining just where they were on the morn-
ing of the 9th of September, continue to throw up
redoubts, and have opened fire upon the south side
with no little effect.
London, England, 1855-10-13

OCTOBER 13, 1855•

Is told to fire steady;
But the Times can " pot"
At a random shot,
For its game has fallen already.
Oh, the Leader,
The self•elected Leader,
The vilest cause
Wins your applause,
And finds in you a pleader!

It never spares—
Yet only dares
When cowards may be hardy;
But if it make
A slight mistake
Repentance is not tardy,
For every day

'Twill mouth away
Some dictum of the past day,
Nor ever stint
New lies to print,
Nor keep from wrong a Fast Day.
Oh, the Leader,
The self-elected Leader,
The vilest cause
Wins your applause,
And finds in you a pleader !

It told us once
Peel was a dunce,
And fools were all his party;

But, Peel in place, - -
Thought no disgrace
To give him aid most hearty.
It aye decried
The losing side,
And called old Pam a traitor ;
But to pow'r he's raised,
And so he's praised
By his old calumniator.
Oh, the Leader,
The self-elected Leader,
The vilest cause
Wins your applause,
And finds in you a pleader!

Disraeli,
It used to cry,
Was the greatest of financiers
Till Lord Derby fell,
When it 'gan to tell
Of his " gross extravagance," sirs.
High Church and Low,
War's friend and foe,
A Protestant and Papist—
With Peel a prig,
With Lord John a Whig,
And with Gladstone a red-tapist.
Oh, the Leader,
The self-elected Leader,
There's not a cause
But's had your applause,
And found in you a pleader !
London, England, 1855-10-13

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MINNESOTA AND THE FAR WEST.
BY LAURENCE OLIPHANT, ESQ.,
Late Civil Secretary and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in Canada.
AUTHOR OF " THE RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA," &c.
(Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine.)
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IT H E PRESs.I [SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1855.

The Roving Englishman's New Work.
Price be., cloth lettered,
EMBASSIES AND FOREIGN COURTS.
A History of Diplomacy. By THE ROVING ENGLISH-
MAN.
The Roving Englishman' is a satirical chronicler. His
style is not less lively than severe, not subtle enough for irony,
but caustic, free, and full of earnest meaning. The salt of the
book is to be found in the keen allusions which cluster around
every anecdote, the light struck from ancient and modern in-
stances to illustrate the events of our own times, and the ridi-
cule bestowed on mediteval feelings and manners. Beyond
this, the volume is an admirable manual, skilfully adapted to
the purpose of diffusing a general knowledge of history and the
working of diplomacy."—The Athenaeum, Sept. 22, 1865.
London: UEoaOE ROUTLEUtitt and Co., Farringdou-street
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London, England, 1855-10-13

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OH! THE LEADER!

AIR—" Oh, the Shamrock."
The Times's file
I read erewhile,
And as I read I wonder'd
To see the might
And brazen spite
With which its godship thunder d
At every page
Its factious rage
Some reputation mangles;
With words immense
And little sense
It wrangles and it jangles.
Oh, the Leader,
The self-elected Leader,
The vilest cause
Wins your applause,
And finds in you a pleader !

Its types of lead
Strike men as dead
As bullets from a rifle ;
But they're seldom aim'd
Till the foe's quite maim'd—i
But that you know's a trifle.
4_,young recruit,
Whit) taught to shoot,
London, England, 1855-10-13

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the 4th publishes the pre-
amble of the bill presented to the Cortes for fixing
the force of the army at 70,000 men. In this
preamble the Minister of War, after stating that it is
absolutely necessary to maintain a force sufficient to
quell Carlist disturbances, says :

There are considerations of another kind which also
merit the serious attention of the Cortes. The war in the
East, by complicating the general situation of Europe,
may become, if it has not already done so, of a nature to
affect the policy and the interests of Spain. In conse-
quence, the eventual chance of having to take, according to
the march of events, a decided attitude relative to the
state of the Continent, and to the wants of the interior,
will require for next year a more numerous army than we
have at present on foot.

The Queen, on the occasion of the King's birth-
day, bad given 20,000 reals to the poor. A letter of
the sth says:—

No period has yet been fixed for bringing the question of
the alliance with France and England before the Cortes.
The cholera has again become very severe, and prayers are
being offered up in all the churches for the cessation of it.

NAPLES AND ITALY.

Matters are tranquil at Naples. The lazzaroni
who were suddenly called upon by the Government,
and armed, are now being rapidly disarmed. The
dispute with France and England had been patched
up for the present. At Palermo numerous arrests
had taken place, a wide-spread conspiracy having
been discovered, according to the authorities.
From Turin we hear that the embarkation of the
reinforcements for the Sardinian army of the East
commenced on the Bth instant, at Genoa. They will
consist of one major, six captains, and several sub-
alterns, and about three thousand men.
London, England, 1855-10-13

GREECE.

M. Mavrocordato and General Kalergi have given
in their resignations. The new Ministers have taken
the oaths, M. Tricoupi, Foreign Affairs; M. Bulga-
ris, President of the Council and Minister of Inte-
rior; M. Miaulis, Marine; M. Smolenki, War; M.
Silivergos, Finance.
DENMARK.

Letters from Copenhagen say that the banishment
of Prince Ferdinand from the capital—should he
persist in his refusal to sign the new constitution—
is spoken of. Rumour even assigns to him a forced
place of residence, viz., the fortified city of Frede-
ricia.
London, England, 1855-10-13

HUNT ON STAMMERING.

Just published, price Ss. ed. ; by post, 45.,
4
TREATISE on the CURE of STAMMER-
ING ; with a Memoir of the late T. Hunt, Esq., Author of
"The System for the Cure of Defective Articulation," byJAMES
HUNT, M.H.S.L, &c.
" Mr. Hunt's cases are proofs of his skill in curing this rna-
lady."—A the warn.
" The mass of evidence is sufficient to satisfy the most seep-
tical."—Morning Post.

"A valuable treatise."—John Bull.
Loudon: LONGMAN and Co.; and by poet only from the
Author, at his institution for the Cure of Stammering, No. 6,
New Burlington•etreet (late of Regent•street).
London, England, 1855-10-13

Friday, October 12.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.—Vona &meow, Brick-lane,
Spite'fields, wholesale boot and shoe manufacturer—NE/1E111.4H
Jonw Rutin, Marlborough, Wilts, licensed common brewer and
milker.

BAN K RUPTS. ALVRID WATTS and THOMAS WHITNEY,
Bletchynden•terrace, Southampton, carpenters RICHARD
BRIZRLSY FTETCHER, Crompton, Lancashire, cotton spinner—
DANIEL BENJAMIN Hum, Sidnersquare, commission agent—
Jossrm Ltrmuroan, Marylebone, coach-builder and livery.
stablekeeper— W. WRIGHT, Loughborough, miller and Born-
factor—ROßEßT JOHN ENGLAND and THOMAS AUGUSTUS GAR.
HARD, wholesale druggists, &c.—JoaN THOMAS ARCHES, Not-
ting•hill, Bayswater, licensed victualler PHILIP SLarrzn,
Woodstock, innkeeper and coal merchant.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.-Wm. FLEXING KENNEDY,
Glasgow, metal broker—Davln M'Dorcti.u, Dunfermline, grocer
-WM. HETHERINGTON RAE, Glasgow, commission merchant.

RUSSIAN TAR was landed at Portsmouth on Tues-
day for the use of H.M. dockyard. The cargo,
amounting to 2,000 barrels, each containing from
four to five cwt., was shipped at Stockholm, having
been sent there from various places in Finland.
AN ENGINE AND CARRIAGE fell into the street at
Bermondsey, off the London-bridge Railway, on
Wednesday morning. It appears that a train of
fifteen empty carriages was in the act of being with-
drawn from the Brighton platform for transmission
to New-cross, when, in consequence of the points on
the main line being set for a turn-table siding, the
engine took the wrong direction, and notwithstanding
both the driver and stoker instantly discovered the
error, and endeavoured by every possible means to
stay the progress of the train, the engine burst
through the boundary-wall and fell into the street
below, dragging after it the guard's break and one
first-class carriage, and completely blocking up the
thoroughfare of College-street, Bermondsey. The
driver and stoker leaped off just as the engine fell
over, and escaped unhurt, and as no passengers were
in the street below not the slightest personal casualty
occurred.
London, England, 1855-10-13

SOUTH AMERICA.

The Brazilian mails have arrived, with dates from
Buenos Ayres, Ist Sept. ; Monte Video, sth ; Rio de
Janeiro, 14th ; Bahai, 18th ; Pernambuco, 20th ; St.
Vincent, 27th; Teneriffe, Ist Oct.; Madeira, 2nd;
Lisbon, sth. _ _

The cholera bad broken out at Rio Janeiro, and a
revolution had occurred at Monte Videos General

SATURDAY,

Flores, the President, had retired from the town,
and, after the manner of Oribe, had immediately
commenced to collect troops in order to besiege the
town, and to insure his return to power. The factious
Basques of Monte Video will listen to no offers of
Flores, and persist in preparing for a continued de-
fence of the town.
London, England, 1855-10-13

MOVEMENTS OF THE FRENCH ARMY.

A letter of the 27th from the camp, in the Presse
d'Orient, speaks of the great activity and preparation
of our allies; nevertheless we are inclined to be-
lieve that little will be done this year. The weather
is breaking up fast, the roads will soon become im-
practicable for artillery, and a week or two will
scarcely be found time enough to force the Russian
position, or materially alter the face of affairs :
In the camp the chief movements have been the
- " •

following:—
The whole of the Ist corps, commanded by General de
Salles, has marched into the plain ; it is stationed in front
of Baidar. One division alone of this corps has remained
behind; it is that which forms the garrison of Sebastopol.
The head-quarters of the Ist corps are at Raider.
General M`Mahon, who has just resumed his command,
has descended with the 3rd corps into the Tschernaya
valley, where he has set up his head-quarters.
The division of the Guard has again entered its old
encampment.
All these movements were executed during a shocking
state of the weather. We have had a great deal of rain. and
this is not calculated to facilitate the conveyance of stores
into these valleys. We are actively collecting the vehicles
and carts required for the march of the army. Sinope and
Samsoun have supplied two thousand of the latter.
But the Times correspondent of the 29th does not
anticipate any real advance from these recon-
naissances :

The position of the armies, with the exception of the

•
movement of the troops towards Raider, of which you will
hear accounts from another hand, remains unchanged in
its larger features. Even Pelissier seems inclined to rest
upon his baton for the time. His gaze is fixed, no doubt,
upon the Mackenzie plateau, but his courage fails him ;
nor does he care to repeat his little proverb, which was in
his mouth when slaughter and bloodshed were spoken of
in his presence in reference to our grand assaults—" On ne
pent pas faire des omelettes sans casser des ceufs." The
marshal appears to have given up the manufacture of ome-
lettes for the present; he has plenty of eggs if he likes to
break them.

The same correspondent asserts that General
Rose's opinion was that the Russian position was too
strong to be forced at present :

General Rose, our excellent Commissioner to the French
army, has been out at Baidar and towards Aitodor with the

and the opinion formed after a
London, England, 1855-10-13

THE POSITION OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH

ARMIES.

The position of the allied armies has in reality
been very slightly altered since the fall of Sebas-
topol:—

They form now on this side one long line, which runs
nearly straight from west to east, beginning at the har-
bour of Sebastopol, and following the course of the
Tschernaya to Alsu, then going over to the plateau to the
south of Ozembash, and crowning the heights which
inclose the valley of Baidar to the north, up to the point
where the road leads from Bazu over the Siurinkaia Moun-
tain to the Upper Belbeck. The French, who occupy
this position to our extreme right, are thus in possession
of the heights which lead out of the valley of liaidar to
the rear of the Russians. They hold the only two roads,
one to the right, which goes to Markoul and Kolnluz, and
the other to the left, which runs by Ozembash into the
Tchouliou valley, and from there to the defiles of Aitodar
and Mangup Kaleh.
Our position at Baidar is therefore only a convenient
point for approaching the Russian position. In that line
of plateaux which extends from Baktchi-Serai down to the
north plateau of Sebastopol, from north-east to south-west,
there are five approaches. First, the double road leading
up from Inkermann, the one straight, near the first Inker-
mann het, the other through the Trestrena valley, joining
the Mackenzie road. The second is the Mackenzie road.
The third is the pass of Aitodor and Mangup Kaleh. The
fourth is the passage of the Belbeck, by Kutshuk•Sivren.
The fifth the defile of the Katcha, by Katchil Kaleh and
Pitshku. Then come the rocky heights of Tshifut Kaleh
and the Upper Alma, over which there are no roads except
mountain passes to the north. One or more of these posi-
tions have to be forced if we wish to turn the Russian
position to the north of Sebastopol from our position,
unless we begin from the north.—Times Cos., Sept. 29th.
London, England, 1855-10-13

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THE PRESS.

serious inconvenience ; these letters narrate the operations
and describe the positions, forces, and preparations in every
kind of way; they are prejudicial by their revealing to the
enemy what it concerns us that be should not know; if
they discuss what has happened or what has been done,
they trench upon criticism, which is adverse to discipline,
and such an abuse cannot be tolerated in a well•organised
army ; if they speak of the armies of the powers with whom
we are allied, they give rise to complaints, and they disturb
that harmony without which it is impossible for the alliance
to bear fruit.
If, in order to remedy the inconvenience detailed above,
they endeavour to write on matters altogether ambiguous,
and do so through want of ideas and positive information,
the letters for the most part are reduced to a state of in•
completeness and inaccuracy that reflects but little credit
on the military and civilians belonging to the army from
whom such letters proceed.
For these reasons I feel it my duty to warn all the mili-
tary and civilians attached to the expeditionary corps, and
to the naval division, that I will severely punish k tuli as I
shall know to be the authors of any letters that shall have
occasioned the inconvenience above specified.

The General•in-Chief,
ALPHONSO LA MARMORA.
There is a great deal of good sense in the general's
remarks, but we question if anything of any impor-
tance is ever revealed to the enemy by correspon-
dents' letters.

Marshal Pelissier, it is stated in letters from Paris,
has also had a conference with General Simpson
upon the subject of " Our Own Correspondents"
being allowed in the camp. The result of the con-
ference has not transpired.
London, England, 1855-10-13

No. 128.—VoL. 111.

Vrtss.

LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1855,

ONE great point has been gained by THE Puma.
The gravity of the existing situation is recog-
nised. On every side the question is asked—
For what purpose is the war to be continued?
This is a question which cannot be shirked.
' Those persons should be best prepared to
answer it who are most anxious for the con-
tinuance of hostilities. But every man pre•
tending to have an opinion of his own, and
much more to guide or represent opinion, is
bound to put this question to himself, and
answer it to the satisfaction of his mind and
conscience.
We address ourselves to the plain sense of
our countrymen. If peace cannot be concluded
now, it is very unlikely that peace will ever be
known in your time. You have to consider
whether you wish to pass your lives in a state
of peace or a state of war. If you determine to
achieve the destruction of Russia Es a great
Power, be sure that a war for that purpose will
last out a generation. Every new European
war since the artificial system of carrying on
hostilities by funding debt begun, has been
more desperate and more expensive than the
last. Do not believe those who tell you that
Russia will be exhausted in a year or two.
She is rich in the first necessaries of warfare—
food and men. She has not your capability of
raising loans, but for that very reason she may
be able to sustain hostilities for a longer term.
Long wars were maintained before the funded
system was known ; they will probably be
waged after it has ceased to exist. Force
Russia to battle for her existence as a great
Power, and you enter on a contest of which no
one can pretend to predict the result. It may
materially alter the relations of Europe,
though more probably it will follow the course
of most modern wars, and leave the bellige-
rents at its close in nearly the same state in
which it found them when it began ; but it will
assuredly be long and desperate. There is
great vitality in nations. They are rarely to
be crushed by foreign force. One of the most
powerful confederacies ever formed—France,
Russia, and Austria—could not by the utmost
exercise of their power succeed in vanquishing
Prussia, though the forces of that kingdom
were then scarcely consolidated.
There may be reasons which should induce
you to enter on a war of extremity against
Russia. You must maintain the Right at all
hazards—you must not abandon a Cause which
you have once deliberately taken up. But
you are entitled to know what those reasons
are. Do not be satisfied with vague replies.
Insist on a plain and explicit answer to the
plain and explicit question—For what end is
the war to be continued? On that vital ques
tion we are without any information whatever.
A journal of Wednesday last, in reply to
THE PRESS, states that the war is to be prose-
cuted with Russia until " the intestine forces
" at work in that vast empire are developed
" into activity." Is it to be supposed that the
plain sense of Englishmen is to be imposed on
by such vague, problematical nonsense as
London, England, 1855-03-31

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—Famey.

Earl GRANVILLE having moved the adjournment of
the house till the 16th of April,
The Earl of ELLENDOROUGH, after complaining of
the length of the recess, took occasion to arraign at
length the conduct of the Government in the prose-
cution of the war. He urged the Government to in-
crease the force in the Black Sea, as we could not
depend on ships from France, and said that it would
be necessary to create a new Sebastopol for the de-
fence of Turkey.

Earl GRANNMLE said that our reverses were coun-
terbalanced by our successes. He promised every
exertion in the prosecution of the war, and every care
in the honourable conclusion of peace.
The Earl of MALMESBUBY and the Duke of ARGYLL
continued the discussion, after which the motion was
agreed to.
The house adjourned at half-past seven.
London, England, 1855-03-31

294

"and incapable Administration" with those
of the nat on. The nation is sound. On no
occas.on hai England shown a higher spirit,
the possession of more abundant resources, or
a deeper and more eiheore apptkiation of to
value and character 01 ker nattirai ally. id'
these circumstances She dust final ctlitsolatirni
and future success.
At all events .d the taskrn plastisu" is not
understood by the peerpie. It is tike out bf
the mere domain of dreamy pamphleteers and
political charlatans. Its solution is recog-
nised in the reduction of the Russian empire
in the South ; and no war with that Power for
the vindication of political equilibriums will
be again permitted that has not this consum-
mation for its avowed and inexorable end.
London, England, 1855-03-31

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UNITED STATES.

The Canada steamer reached Liverpool on Thurs-
day with New York dates of the 17th. She had
1,800,000 dollars on freight.
There is no intelligence of moment from the
United States. The news of the Emperor of Rus-
sia's death had been received. The Russian Mi-
nister, however, considered the report to be a hoax.
The Illinois had arrived at New York, with ac-
counts from San Francisco to the 18th February,
and 1,161,248 dollars in specie and gold dust.
A bill had been introduced into the Legislature to
exclude from the mines all persons who are not
eligible to citizenship. This bill, if it become law,
will drive from the mines many thousands of the
Chinese.
New gold mines had been discovered on Kern
River, and large numbers were going to the new
diggings.
News from the Sandwich Islands, of the 27th
January, state that the King bad discontinued the
negotiations for the annexation of the Islands to the
United States.
London, England, 1855-03-31

MARCH 31, 1855.

donee in the people of the country, and had no fears
that the anticipated evils from the existence of a
cheap press would be realised. At all events, the
question, in its present anomalous state, should be
finally arranged one way or the other.
The second reading was carried by 215 to 161.
London, England, 1855-03-31

THE SARDINIAN LOAN.

THZ question of the Sardinian Loan is a very
simple one. Is it to be regarded as a subsidy—
an aid rendered in the shape of money—or as
a commercial transaction ? In other words,
do we bribe Sardinia to employ her troops as
we wish, or do we merely hack her bill in a
friendly manner, satisfied that she is in a
position to meet her engagements? In our
opinion the loan is a subsidy in disguise, and
a subsidy of a very bad kind too.

We must be permitted to argue this ques-
tion quite apart from any sympathies for or
against Sardinia. We admire the stand made
by that State against Papal domination, and
we should be happy to hail the rise of any
really independent power in Italy. But how
is it that the parties who are most noisy in
their congratulations upon Sardinia, being ad-
mitted to the family of European nations by
her participation in the treaty of December 2,
say not a word on her exclusion from the
Congress of Vienna? She has become a party
to the quarrel, but is to be allowed no share in
the negotiations entered on to settle it. The
explanation, we imagine, is to be found in the

711
London, England, 1855-03-31

THE PRESS.

R. Stevens, G. T. S. Carruthers, E W. &tidier, C. w,
Duffin, J. E. Mayne, W. C. Alexander, J. G. Stephen, H•
Stanley, R. B. Brett, E. Wray, E. W. C. Plowden, R.
Richardson, A. G. Austen.

To have the Local Rank of Captains is Turkey.—Lieute-
nants M. A. Garstin, A. H. Campbell, F. A. V. Thurburu,
E. H. M. Owen, A. L.Rishton, W. H. Cumin, H. Francis,
D. M`NeW, G. Milligan, E. Smyth, W. W. Browne, A.
Broome, W. Walker, J. Baillie, C. C. Mason, C. P. Lucas,
C. Desborough, A. R. Clephane, E. B. Ramsay, C. A rm-
strong, H. J. Harness, W. A. Armstrong, C. S. Hearne, R.
C Battiscombe, C. Wyndham, C. W. Quin, C. G. Brodie,
F. E. Gannnell, H. J. R. Low, R. S. Sherwood, W. M.
Grierson, J. Hastie, T. B. Heathorn, A. H. Bogle, H. G.
Robison, S. H. J. Parry, D. J. Smith.
To hare the Local Rank of Lieutenants is Turksy.--Second
Lieutenants W. H. Malden, E. L. Hawkins, G. J. Glan-
ville, H. D. Jackson, and Ensign C. G. Smith.
Brevet Lient..Colonel William Calder, retired full-pay,
Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Colonel in the Army, tha
rank being honorary only.
Brevet Major Benjamin Beaufoy, retired full pay, Staff
Oiliest. of Pensioners, to be Lieut.-Colonel in the Army, the
rank being honorary only.
Captain Richard Plunkett Ireland, of the 3rd West
India Regiment, attached as Major to the Land Transport
Corps, to have the local rank of Major in Turkey.
Colonel Richard James Dacres, commanding the Royal
Artillery with the Army in Turkey, to have the local rank
of Brigadier-General in Turkey.
First Lieutenant John M`Kenzie Macintyre, of the
Madras Artillery, employed on a particular service in
Turkey, to have the local rank of Captain in Turkey while
so employed.

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Jervis to the Caesar ; Hartwell to the Royal George ; J. W.
Vaughan to the James Watt ; J. H. Marryatt to the Cuckoo;
H. J. Grant to the Dapper ; F. T. Hamilton to the Grinder ;
W. H. Truscott to the Jasper.
Mate—Frederick P. Doughty to the Centaur.
Assistant•Surgeon—H. G. Realy to the Bulldog.
Midshipman—Lord Ashley to the Pembroke.
Naval Cadet—E. C. Drummond to the James Watt.

Clerks—H. J. Read to the Clesar ; E. A. Bnrmeston to
the Majestic ; A. D. Albertson to the Duke of Wellington.
Acting Clerx—A. F. Gain to the Geyser.
Temporary Clerk—W. R. Watson to the Exmouth.
London, England, 1855-03-31

THE PRESS.

great guilt lies where the great punishment
must fall, namely, upon the heads of those
who, as General EVANS has distinctly stated,
sent out an expedition to the Crimea, in the
conviction that there would be no war. For
the sake either of a political juggle or a hollow
menace, the Aberdeen Administration dared
to run the frightful risk of ruining the noblest
army ever despatched from England. They
sent it out unprovided with what we have
called the necessaries of military life. It
fought gloriously, despite starvation, priva-
tion, and the disease occasioned by the cruel
treatment to which it has been exposed—it
won for us three victories, whose names will
die only with the name of England—and it has
half perished before the eyes of an indignant
nation. Neither to the voice of its deeds, nor
of its blood, will the nation's ears be closed.
Meantime it is well that the fearful account
should be steadily and accurately made up.
London, England, 1855-03-31

SHARES.

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