The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1855.

• PIEDMONT.
TURIN, AN. 4.
The galleries of the Chamber of Deputies were
crowded to-day, in the expectation that the great
debate on the Convent Suppression Bill would come
oft but they were soon vacated when Count Cavoer
announced the postponement of tie discussion till
Monday, January 8. The better opinion is that the
exertions of the Court of Rome have not materially
changed the King's determination. There is no
doubt of a majority in the Lower House, although
the opposition will be formidable as well u violent.
The question is, what will be the fate of the measure
in the Senate. If the members of that body were
to vote according to their wishes, there could be no
doubt of its rejection. But the crisis is so grave
as to involve possibly the very existence of their
order, ebould they persist in playing the part of ob-
structive'. It is impossible to say what may be the
result of the various influences that will weigh upon
their deliberations.

Ine Court.

OSBORNB, Jaw. 8.

•
The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the
Prineau Royal sad Primate Alice, arrived at Osborne from
Windsor Castle pieta:day, at a quarter put 12 o'clock.

JAN. 7.

The Qmees and Prices, the Pfizer's Royal, and Prioeess
Alit*, walked 'ad drove is the peed& et o.borne yes-
lerday._

The Rev. George Prather° performed divine service this
niarnisg before her Majesty and the royal family.

1 The Duchess of Lent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard
I and Sir George Cowper, arrived in town on Saturday morn-
ing, from her rendenoe, Frogenore-boam, Windsor. Her
Royal Higlinen visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at
Gloneeiter-tiouse, in the afternoon, and afterwards re-
turned to 7:ignore.

Despatches from the GOVOTIIOIII of Hong-Kong and Coy-
-11 lon were received on Saturday at the Colonial caw.

evidence is the put of the ter, sad that Slither he
nor the counsel for the archdeaon should make reference
to any doctrinal porta
Dr. PhiMarra asked whether the decision of the court
applied to kis client r well aa to his (Ida emurel), be
care, if so, the archdeacon would retire.
Dr. Haggard replied that the commissioner had already
so raided.

Archdeacon Dellieen—My lord, as I should not, under
any circumstances, have appeared to give any sanction to
this Genet Of to its proceeding., so now the ealy one thing
I came for is not allowed, I beg leave to withdraw.
The Yen. Archdeacon, accompanied by several of his
friends, then left the court.
Dr. Bayford proceeded to sum up the evidence adduced'
on the part of the pronifter, contaniing, at great length,
that it had been fully established, that the patronage of the
livings held by the Archdeacon of Taunton was in the Lord
Bishop of the Diocese, that the necessary statutory notices
bad been given, and that the sermons which formed the'
subject of inquiry had been preached and published in the
diocese of Bath and Wells; and arguing also that even
without the evidence of the various witnesses, there was
sufficient upon the sermons of the archdeacon and upon his
own aflldavit to warrant the commissioners in coming to the
conclusion that prima facie grounds were made out for
further inquiry.
Dr. Phillimore then called as witnesses—
The Rev. Wilson Pedder, the late vice principal of the
Theological College, Wells, during a portion of which time
the Archdeacon of Taunton was examining chaplain of the
Bishop of Bath and Well,. 'Be deposed that he had been
in the habit for two years of seeing the examination papers
put before the candidates for holy orders by the archdeacon.
Those papers did not show any tendency, in the least r:ot-
gee*, to adopt the doctrine of the church of Rome in refer-
ence to the Rol/ Eucharist, or any other doctrine in which
that church differs from the church of England.
The Rev. Joseph Wolff, LL D , D.D., Vicar of Isle
Brewers, considered that Archdeacon Denison was a sound
protestant member of the Church of England. Re was
decidedly an evangelical—(laughterj—in the best sense of
he word.

Dr. Bsyford detihisil to put any question is cross-oxagoi.
notion t, this witness.

The Rev. Richard v Court Beechen, Prebendary of Wells
and Vicar of Cheddar, examined by Dr. Pbillimore—l base
known Archdeacon Denison ever since he boa resided in the
diocese. Hie theological opinions in nay humble judgment
have no tendency to what is called the Roman doctrine
respecting the Holy Eucharist.
The Yen. Archdeacon Law was examined by Dr. PhiUl-
mer' at great length as to the part he was 'apposed to have
taken in assisting the promoters of this inquiry, but nothing
important was elicited. •
At the conclusion of Archdeacon Law's examination, Dr.
Phiannoys intend upon his defence of Archdeacon De-
nison, stigmatising rivet the act under which these proceed
iota were held, and next the animus of the promoters.
He contended that there was such a want of security in the
indictment itself that the commissioners could not go on.
The citation set out certain passages which were complained
of by the promoter, among which were the following :
tt Tnat the body and blood of Christ are really present in the
consecrated ►read and wine; it is also true that the body
and blood of Christ are gives in and by the consecrated
bread and wine to all, and are received by all who come to
the Lord's table." Now, that puaage began in the middle
of a sentence, with the omission of the moat important
word which could be conceived—the word " and "—which
connected it with the preceding sentence, and which de-
motstrated the monstrous character of the doctrine here set
forth. The 1 d counsel then quoted other instances if
alleged misquotation, in one of which be said there was an
omission of not less than fourteen pages, without the
-lightest notice of any inch omission in the charge.
It further appeared that the original complaint did not
agree with the commissions and the notices, and, upon this
discovery being made, Dr. Phillisnort asked for the judg-
ment of the coed.

Dr. Haggard said he should not advise the commissioners
to stop the inquiry upoa this objection, bat certainly to re-
port ape°

The further hearing of the cam was then adjourned.
At the opening of the court this morning, the 4th day of
the inquiry,
Dr. Phillimore inquired whether the commissieners bad
coins to any decision on the technical objection he had rained
yesterday ?
Dr. Haggard said the commissioners were advised that
as there was no variation between the terms ot the commis
'ion under which they sat and the notices which had been
issued the objection could not be held to effect the pro-
ceedings.

Dr. PhiDimon requested that a note might be taken of
his objection, if he should think it advisable to notice
it hereafter. The learned counsel then proceeded with
his defence of Archdeacon Deniaon, contending that
in the charges on which this highly penal inquiry
was founded there wars such material variations,
omissions, and discrepancies as he trusted would war-
rant the commissioners in not acting upon such
indecently gabled statements, but would induce
them to say that they vitiated the whole preceediup
Tbe archdeacon was charged with holding and teaching
doctrines which would render him criminally liable; and
could it for a moment be justified that in support of that
charge a number of passages were torn from their context,
and intervening words left out, which negatived or qualified
the mesnieg of the passage cited? Dr. Phillimore then
proceeded to that head of his argumeat which related to
the publication of the sermons in this diocese, and his posi-
tion was that it was the bounden duty of the prosecutor to
establish by legal and formal evidence that the publication
had so taken place. The preaching a sermon in a pariah
church was not a publication ; a sermon was a privileged
communication. He contended that Archdeacon Denison
had not even been shown to be the author of the sermons,
or to have sort or published them in any way, end that
there was no direct evidence of the reception of any one of
them by any canon within the diocese. Even if it were
established that the archdeacon had made gifts of these ser•
mons to certain persons, that would not amount to a publi-
cation; and the proof of the identity :between the sermon
preached aid the sermon published, he argued, was of
the weakest kind, heir g attempted to be proved only
by Everett, the grocer, and another lay witness.
Some dean, some canon, some minor canon, same priest,
even some tithing man, might have been called; but the
prosecutor had not brought them forward, because he knew
they would not establish his case. When he had gone at
some length into doctrinal refinements and subtle distinc-
tions, the learned counsel concluded by saying that his
client would disown him, and justly so, if he put his defeats
upon the emend that his opinions should be merely tole•
rated Unquestionably he held his doctrines as the right
doctrines of tN church to which he belonged ; but he had
shown any with or disposition to narrow the commu-
nion of the Ethlish church, and to exclude from it those who
differed from himself. He (the learned counsel) said again,
therefore, to the commissioner*' "Do not deceive yourselves
by the specious sophistry that the finding a prima facie case
spinet the arohdescon inflicts no injury upon my client. I
say, my lord, to you, ss president of this commiation, judge
him by that golden rule upon which every Christian is sup-
posed to act. Suppose yourself, my lord, in the archdea-
con's position. Suppose that you had been before a tribunal
such as this for four or five days, that evidence had been
' gone into, and that orpiment' had been used at great length,
and that at the conclusion your judges passed on you a deci•
sion that there were prima facie grounds for considering
you such a heretic as the Church of England would not
tolerate within her pals. I ask your lordships, and I feel a
strong othsciousneu that I shall not ask in vain, whether
I you would not feel that your character was blasted to a
great extent, that your peace of mind was injured, and that
your estate was overthrown by such a verdict P And what-
ever the ultimate result of this inquiry may be, I implore
you to give that judgment in my client's case which you
would wish to receive is your own."
Dr. Beyford hardly thought he was called upon to offer
any reply, as the arguments he had offered uNan the con-
struction of the statute and the publication of the sermons
had not been answered by his learned friend. He thought
it right, however, to state that the notice which had been
served upon the Archdeacon of Taunton to produce the
manuscript of his sermons had been considered due to him
when the promoter of the suit was about to prove what he
had done; but that no attempt had been made to enforce
their production. As to the Gorham case, to which re-
ference had bees made, and which seemed suddenly to have
come into greet favour, he could only say that its effect on
the archdeseen seemed to have been, that he was now
willing to gine a latitude to persons who did not enjoy it
before ; for is the very first passage of the preface to the
first sermon, ne (the learned counsel) found these words—
" I have been charged publicly by Bishop Spencer with
maintaining doctrine which is not the doctrine of the church
of England, end with having imposed upon candidates for
the office of priest the acceptance of that doctrine."

Dr. Phillimore having briefly denied the charge on the
part of the archdeacon, and spologired to the comsiosioners
end their rumor for any error or ezcess of latitude into
which he might have fallen in the conduct et the case,
Bishop Can announced that his brother commissionen
and himself had given, and would continue to give, their
best attention to the evidence and arguments which had
been adduced, and that the inquiry was now adjourned till
Wednerial neat.

A SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH FOR THE
eorreapondent informs us that Mr. Liddell, the engineer of
the new Leicester and Hitchin Railway, has been engaged
by the government to lay down a submarine cable for tele-
graphic purposes from 'Varna to either Cape Charmer" or
Balaklava. The cable is ready, and Mr. Liddell is also on
on Liu paint of sailing to oomplete his commission of thus
bridging the Ealing for the flight of intelligence between
the allied armies in tle Crimea and their respective govern-
ments. It is expected that by the time this work is mom-
pliahed the telegraphic line across Europe will also be
ready ; and the enterprising engineer, who has already laid
cables in the Mediterranean and other seas, confidently

anticipate that withia two months the new telegraphie Ea;
may be t• fall operation. Ws shall be glad to be enabled
to emenannleats further wile:alms 011.1111flkiffig so important
undertaking, the ntegaitude of which mess to soggeet the
inteation of something more than a temporary oosupatica
of the Crimea by the forges of Franca and Elegised.
MIL COBDEN, ALP.—it is stated that Mr. Cobden
steads paying Leeds a visit ►elms peellemeat re-eseentbles,
to give mewed *west= to rehab he bis views el the
moat @spate of the war.-1,41‘e

ANOTHER DOUBLE MURDER IN MARY-

LEBONE.

A MAN AND HIS WIPE SHOT.—ATTEMPTED
SUICIDE OF TEE MURDERER.
Before the public mind can have well recovered
from the shock occasioned by the horrible tragedy in
Warren-street, it is our duty to record the occurrence of •'
second catastrophe very similar in its results, and in some of
the main features marking its perpetration.
The victims in the present can are a man and his wife,
named Lambert, residing at No. 6, Foley-place, Portland-
road; and the assassin is an Italian Named Luigi B aaaaa
formerly valet in the service of Thomas Stewart Drum-
mond, Esq., a gentleman of fortune residing in Scotland.
The circumstances under which the murder took place
may be briefly narrated as follows:—About a quarter past
9 o'clock yesterday (Sunday) moraieo, Police.censtable 36
E, who was on duty at the corner of Foley-place and Port-
land-road was called by a woman in a state of great alum
to the house No. 6, Foley-place. The woman having stated
that her master had been shot, the officer instantly accom-
panied her to the house, and, upon entering the hack parlour
on the ground &or, he discovered a remarkably fine man
lying in bed quite dead, and by his side a woman, who, in a
half Greet posture, described herself to have been shot by an
Italian, who, having first murdered her husband while
asleep, bad subsequently discharged a second pistol at her-
self, and then rushed up stain.
The officer at this moment was joined by Sergeant Hayes,
14 E, and rightly considering the apprehension of the
assassin the most important business to be accomplished,
they together hastened upstairs in the direction indicated.
As they amended the staircase they heard the noise of some
person knocking at one of the attic doors and calling out,
but before they could reach the third their it bad ceased,
and the sudden closing of another door on the same Sight
led to • presumption that the mesa of whom they were in
pursuit bad shut himself within this apartment. Before
the door could be forced the report of a pistol, succeeded by
a heavy fall, was heard by the officers, and on breaking
open the door they discovered the body of a young man, of
foreign aspect, extended at length on the floor, the blood
flowing rapidly from &bullet wound on the right side of the
check, and a pistol, with the barrel still warm, lying by his
aide.

Sergeant Hayes at once despatched the constable for
medical aid, and for such other assistance as the terrible
asters of the einem:am:es seemed to require. Within a
very short period several medical gentlemen arrived, among
whom were Mr. B. W. Boffin and Mr. Bridges, of Lang
ham place, Mr. Norman, of Ducheu-street, Mr. Thompson.
and Mr. Allen (surgeon to the police force of t►e B division),
of Dean-street, Oxford-street. The attention of these
gentlemen was first directed to Mr. and Mrs. Lambert.
Mr. Lambert was found to be quite dead, from the effects
of a bullet wound at the base of the skull, immediately
under the right ear. He did not appear to have raised
himself or even moved after receiving the shot, and be lay
dead, with his head redlining a little to the left, as undis.
'tubed as if in a calm sleep. The pillow upon which his
head rested was saturated with blood, end a portion of its
linen ease had had been burnt by the explosion from the
discharge. Mrs. Lambert was found to be suffering
from a dangerous bullet wound in t►e chest.
She bad been awoke by the discharge of the
pistol which had killed her husband, and terrified at
observing Bu Ili with a second pistol in his band
levelled at herself, she beefily sprang up in bed, and raised
her right arm in the hope of shielding herself from his
attack. In this she was not successful, and the aosassio,
discharging the pistol, the bullet passed through the thick
part of the right forearm, struck the collar bone, and then
took a direction downwards, lodging in the unfortunate
woman's chest.

The assassin was nest examined, and a very cursory
glance at his wound sufficed to show that be had inflicted
upon himself' wound of a most dangerous character. The
bullet had entered the back part of the right cheek a little
in front of and below the lobe of the right ear, from whence
it had passed upwards and forwards through the deep
structures et the face and lodged in the floor of the right
orbit, which was closed by its compression. The wretched
man was not even stunned by this tremendous injury, and
although the floor of the room for the space of three or four
feet was covered with his blood, he retained perfect sen.
sibility. Mr. Dunk and the other medical gentleman in
attendance thought it better that Buranelli should be re-
moved to the hospital at once, and a stretcher having been
procured he was conveyed, under charge of a body of police
officers, to the Middlesex Hospital.

As soon as possible after the removal of the assassin from
the house a consultation was held on the case of Mrs. Lam-
bert, who was brought carefully out of the room in which
her husband was lying dead and plated upon an easy couch
in an adjoining parlour. The wound in the chest was
probed and an unsuccessful attempt made to extract the
bullet, which the medical gentlemen in attendance agree is
believing must have found its way into the chest. This of
course renders her CM extremely dangerous, and small
hope is entertained of her life being saved. In consequence
of her perilous condition the Rev. Charles Baring. M.A.,
rector of Alls Souls Church, attended the unfortunate
woman immediately after morning service yesterday, and
administered such spiritual consolation u her case required.
While the medical men were engaged in their painful
and anxious duty, the polio., under Mr. Superintt odent
Fossil, employed themselves In endeavouring to ascertain
the motives which had led to so deplorable a tragedy. The
investigation was chiefly entrusted to Sergeant Smith and
Sergeant Hayes, two clever officers of the E division, the
latter of whom, as already stated, had been one of the first
to arrive at the scene of the disaster. The inmates of the
house were of course the first persons questioned, and from
one of them, a married woman of the name of Jane Wil-
liamson, residing apart from her husband, enough was
gleaned to discover the existence of very bad feeling be-
tween the assusin and the murdered man Lambert and his
wife.

Truth obliges us to say that if the house in which this
tragedy has taken place was not of a questionable cha.
ratter, then certainly its occupants are most cruelly
maligned in the neighbourhood. From information given
to the officers, it ',Tears that Lambert and his wife entered
upon the testacy of the house shout three weeks before
Christmas last removing into it from 3.5, Newman-street,
Oxford-street, where they had formerly lived. Associated
with Mrs. Lambert in the tenancy of the house was Jane
Williamson; the two ladies intending, it is said, to carry en
basins*, as milliners and dressmakers. They bad lodged
together Nommen-street, and while there had formed an
intimacy with Luiel Buranelli. By advice, it is said, of
Lambert, B lit came to lodge with them when the
house in Foley-place was taken, and while here, as well as
previeusiy, the wretched man seemed to have conceived a
sort of wild passion for Mrs. Williamson, pursuing her with
his attentions in a very unmistakable manner, and carrying II
matters to such lengths on a recent occasion that Mrs. Wit.
liamson felt compelled to appeal to Mr. Lambert to protect
her from his importunities. The course Lambert took
was to speak to Buranelli on the first oppor-
tunity, and to tell him that in consequence of his
offensive conduct to Mrs. Williamson, he could not he
allowed to reside with them any longer, and that he must
leave the house. This happened on Thursday se'nnight.
Buranelli seemed much hurt at the intimation, and
replied to Lambert that he was sure that Mrs. Williamson
did not wish that he should be turned out. Upon this
Lambert called Mrs. Williamson into his room, and his
wife appealed to her as to whether she bad not requested
to be protected from Boranelli's annoyance by his dismissal
from the house. Mrs. Williamson at ones stated that she
had expressed such a wish, and Buranelli now consented to
leave, bidding both Lambert and his wife, as well as Mrs.
Williamson, a friendly farewell. A very few days later,
Buranelli, writing from a lodging in Newman-street, ad-
dressed Jane WiUismson in terms of affection, and im-
plored her to receive him spin. Mrs. Williamson, per-
plexed, and not knowing what to do, showed the letter
to Mr. Lambert, who strongly advised her to have
nothing more to say to him, and to burn his letter, advice
which she seems to hays followed. Nothing more is known
to have been heard of Buranelli until Saturday last, on the
evening of which day he met Harriet Miller, a domestic
servant in the employ of the Lamberts, in Foley-plea, and
told her to present his compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Lam.
bert, and to say that he was going to Paris on the following
morning.

At ten minutes after niae o'clock yesterday morniag,
Sunnelli presented himself at the door of No. 6, Foley-
place, and rang the area bell. He was admitted by a char_
woman named Sophie De Veen:, who had herself been let
nio the house by Mn. Lambert only au hour previously,
De Vets: knew that he had lodged in the house, and
therefore was not surprised on being requested t •
to take downstain a great coat, of which the assassin
divested himself as he entered the boom, and to reesim for
I[n. Williamson two small parcels which he placed in her
Maids at the same time. She was, however, surprised 4.

IMN descended the kitchen stairs to hear the door of the beck
parlour where the Lamberts were in bed opened by Bora-
nelli ; and while is the act of ascendiog to satisfy herself
what could be meant by this intrusion, she was horrorstruck
at bearing the report of a pistol and the next moment a
loud shriek from her mistress. She instantly ran to the front
doer, and seeing a policeman on the opposite side of the
road obtained his assistance as above described. From
Mrs. Williamson it was aseertained that she was in bed in
one of the attics together with Harriet Miller, the maid-
servant, when she was aroused from a sound sleep
by a loud knocking at and trying the handle of her
door. At the same time she heard the voice of
Galling out to her to admit him. She
was in the act of jumping out of bed to do so, when
Harriet Miller implored her not to let him in, as she feared
something might happen. Mrs. Williamson checked her-
self for a moment, and called out " Where is Lambert ? "
Buranelli immediately replied in broken Basil h, " Lam-
bert is dead, and lam his assassin." Mrs. Williamson was
of course greatly terrified, but the sound of approaching
footsteps up the stairs relieved her, snd at the slime instant
Bursaelli retired from her door and shut himself into en
adjoining attic, where the next moment the discharge of a
pistol and a heavy fall were beard. This was all that
could be personally ascertained of the assassin's visit to the
house yesterday gaming. Bat upon opening the parcels
addressed to Mrs. Williamson and placed in the charwo-
man's hands by Buranelli, some extraordinary facts were
disclosed. One of these parcels contained • small daguerre-
otype likeness of Buranelli in a morocco case within which
were enclosed two papers, upon one of which was written as
follows:

" To Mrs. J. Williamson.
" Ressember this miserable man."
An =intelligible word follows here, apparently signify-
ing—
" (The victim) of love !
"5, 1, 55. "From LT/101 BCRANILLI.
"Adieu, my dear !
"Adieu, my love I
" Adieu, for ever !"

The other paper inclosed wu a note written in a patois,
something between Italian and Spanish, but which the
effor:s of the reporter failed to decipher completely. It
commenced—. Alnico Cavissimo," and concluded—. II tao
infelice alnico." The following is a translation of the
letter, as fu 45 it was possible to decipher it:
"The night of the 6th of January, 1855.
'• My Dearest Love,—l have been to the residence of
Lambert, and have had wort! with him. He called me a
tkief and an assassin. He did se several times. I did
aothing to offend him. I leave you my portrait, my dearest
wife ! lam sorry to low your friendship, and more sorry to
give you so mush trouble.

" Adieu for ever,
" Your unfortunate friend,
" Lino' Bunattnui."
Thus much of what could be ascertained in reference to
the tragedy at the scene of its recurrence. It kes been
already stated that the 1811 Will was rammed to ?diddleaex
Hospital. Sergeant Hayes undertook the charge, and the
wretched man was received at the institution by Mr.
Chambre It. C. Vigor's, house surgeon, who immediately
caused him to be placed upon a bed in the accident ward.
On entering, Buranelli recognised Mr. Vignre, and actually
addressed him in famili,r terms, remarking that
he knew him very well, and upon Mr. Vigor. ex-
pressing a doubt upon the subject, the amnia re-
plied, " Oh, yea, I do know you, you are the
house surgeon, and I was a patient in this hospital a very
bort while sines." Mr. Shaw, one of the surgeons to the
hospital, saw B Ili very shortly altar his admission. This
coon* the ball (or slug, for it is uncertain which) had taken
has been already described, and upon Mr. Shaw's arrival an
attempt was made to extract it. Up to this time, however,
all surgical efforts have failed to reach it, and it Is supposed
to be lodged somewhere in the roof of the month.
Information of the dreadful °newsroom has been for-
warded to Mr. Wsktey, and an inquest will be empanelled
at the earliest possible moment.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE

GOVERNMENT.

It appears almost impossible (ssys the Hampshire
Telegraph) any longer to conceal tbe fact, that considerable
misunderstanding boss arisen between the government on the
one hand and Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier on the
other, in reference to the character and results of the
operations in the Baltic. It is no secret that Sir Charles
does not consider full justice has been done him by some
members of the government in reference to the amount of
discretion he was empowered to exercise and the with-
holding of permission to undertake certain enterprises
when they were proposed to him. The various speeches
made at the Reform dinner, in parliament, and at other
places, left no question but that the Baltic fleet was ex-
pected by ministers to perform greater exploit* than they
have performed, whilst it is also pretty well known that Sir
Charles Napier himself shared if he did not excite these
anticipations. The determined skulking of the Russian
diet in harbour of itself was sufficient to prevent t heir real isa-
tion, whilst the unexpected strength of the Russian foetal-
cations, and the difficulties of navigation in the waters of
the Baltic, also further prevented the achievement of any
brilliant operations. We are not, however, disposed to
join in any indiscriminate grumbling at the results of the
Baltic campaign, for after all they have been by no means in-
significant, whilst they have been obtained with compara-
tively little loss of either life or treasure.
With regard to the thief operation in the Baltic—the de-
structionist' Bonsarsund—complaints have been made that it
was not effected by an attack by the great fleet under
the Admiral's orders and the landing of the strong
force of marines belonging to the English and
French squadrons. Some persons have even gone
so far as to assert that this was actually owing
to the want of enterprise on the part of the admirals,
and that Sir Charles himself was the person who applied to
the governments of England and France for a military force
to effect the capture of the rapidly-rising Sebastopol of the
Baltic. But, if we are correctly informed, it was Sir
Charles Napier who pointed out the necessity of the cap-
ture and destruction of Bomarsund, owing to its menacing
position as regarded Northern Europe; and also declared
his readiness to carry his proposal into effect with the fleet
and marines alone. The soundness of Sir Charles's advice
was., we understand, acquiesced in, but he was directed not
to undertake the siege until the arrival of a French military
force. This, it is said, caused as much annoyance to the
gallant admiral as to any other officer or man in the fleet,
as he believed the trouble and expense of sending a military
forte for such a purpose to be unnecessary. Again, we are
informed that Sir Charles Napier applied for, and was
refused, permission to attack and destroy Abe, Mango, and
,Revd.

With regard to the expectations that were formed of an
attack on Sweaborg, it appeared that a council of war was
held on the subject, and that among others who gave their
opinion, the French officer of engineers, General Nea', ex-
premed his belief that it could be reduced in tour days.
Other views as to the time the operation would require
were given, a general unanimity of opinion being enter-
tained es to its practicability. One captain of the navy
offered to lead his fine screw two-decker into the harbour
and run stem on to a Russian three-decker moored with her
bro►dside commanding the harbour c:.annel, by which he
declared he would sink the Russian although he might get
his own ship much damaged. A distinguished flog officer,
however, gave it as his opinion that the place was nest to
impreguable so far as a naval attack alone was concerned,
the destruction of a greater part of the Meet being inevitable.
Weight being attached to this opiuion, the attack was de-
cided not to be made.

Other facts will doubtlessly shortly transpire in reference
to the peat Baltic campaign, as t►e matter will be brought
before parliament on its meeting.
Sir Charles Napier, viewing the order to strike his Bag
as denoting disapproval of his conduct, has demanded a
court martial, for the purpose of its being thoroughly
sifted ; but we much doubt whether this demand will be ac-
ceded to. In all probability it will be refused on the ground
that as Sir Charles has received no censure, direct or im-
plied, from the Admiralty, in reference to his performances
in the Baltic, there is no charge against him to investigate.

ARRIVAL OP THE IRRRLt.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steam packet Iberia, Captain Edward
Christian, Admiralty Agent Lieutenant .1. B. Striven, R.N.,
arrived at Southampton on Saturday, with the Gibraltar,
Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo mails. Here dates are
Gibraltar, Deo. 28 ; Cadiz, 29 ; Lisbon, 31; Oporto, Jan.
1 ; Vigo, lan. 2. The Iberia brings 26 passengers, amongst
whom are his Excellency Baron de Pelvis, Portugal*,
minister at Paris, and 16 non-comminioned officers of the
92nd Begt. Her cargo consists of wine, prunes, almonds,
raisins, data, birdseed, oranges, lemons, tangerines, eggs,
and specie value 19,8971. There is al political news of
im-
portance. The troops are in good health at Gibraltar,
where are four, or parts of four, regiments—via., 92nd, 66th,
64th, and 13th—besides Artillery, the commanding officer
of which latter corps (now), Major General Gordon, IS
coming home in February, his successor being appointed.
L ise weather has been very line and moderate on the voyage
home, except on January 2, when it blew hard from the
N.B. Oa the 23rd of December saw the Royal Mail
steelier Madrid, standing to the northward, On the 23r4
wreams.exualt.
Hicefor:coLilt.haitHbSo.iblib.rairliarldi:lftfraldieg Vip, wb•:e she bad
wr war in the Tagaz.
hine, the Himalaya
sailed on the morning of the 26th. She had pat in for
Goals.