The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19. 1865.

NAVAL /ND MILITARY.
ArIiZTT, JAL 18.—Paomanoss.--Lierb W.
I.os. t p 847); J. Froba•M (1847); H. W. Midge
asszisaa. F. Polka (1847), proatotoll to WA rook of
mulls&
ArPOUlTKlNTS.—Lleotosaato A. lima (IBM) to tk.

Penelope. 16, paddle-whoa mat Sigmas of OH h sew
power, at Poolsaiesth ; aad J. B. Grove WHO to thy sue,
90, weer MGM ship of 600 koree-power, at Dereareere,
Adis; Amides* Samosas L W. thews to the Radar
Hospital; sad 0. Con to the Dragon, 6. padsh.whool
Mau frigid', of 660 horseiower, la the Baltic
Natal Cadets D. B. Y. Great, to the Hogue, 60, MOW
Moos gaud ship, of 460 lecoorpowit, at Perasioath ; J.
W. D'Arey, to the Amorist, 47, sorsa atom frigate, of
360 lioree-power, at Perteaoath ; P. De B. Hainan, H.
sad W. S. Gorden, to the Delos, SO, mew sties
I ship of SOO has-paws:, at Itheerassa.

N OF THB 82ND.
LIVERPOOL, TZVISDAT.

This morning, at helf-peet 11 o'clock, the 82nd, or
Prune of Wales's Volanton Enema, under the Lams-
dist* ornanand of Lieut.-Col. James A. Robertson, arrived
from Prince by the Bast Lesseskint Railway. Too men
736 rink and sin, and the odious Wended Kalov Walnut,
Captain Marriott, Captain Warren, Captain J. J. Wood,
Captain D. G. Collins, Captain Jarvis, Captain Farmer
Lieutenant C. N. Biggs, Adjutant Ilarle, Cleartenuistor

Clinton, Paymaster ElVenard.-Es. The enthusiastic charge-
ter of their reception was fully sepal to that which was
saaaifested ea the departure of the various other regi-
ments whisk have left this town for foreign en-
vie*, and the cordiality with w►lch they were welcomed
was in ao degree less. At the railway statism they were
met by the mayor (J. A. Tobin, Esq.), Colonel Di Riney,
and the other civil and military fanstionaries connected
with the various local deportment,. Large crowds of the
intiabitaats usembled ea the sesseion to de honour to the
deporting soldier, sad no sooner hod they emerged from
the statioa that good hearty English chewing was beard on
every ad., and u it was taken up by the multitudes at •
distance it was replied to by the soldien In the liveliest
yammer. For the preseat the 82nd only NWT'S the regi-
ment at Corfu whisk is destined for active service, end there
having recruited, the 82nd will doubtless take a more direct
part in the war, and add to the honours which they have
already pined at Eoleia, Vittoria, Mulls, Vimiera, Pyre-
nees, °ethos, and Niagara. Yesterday each man was sup-
' plied, through the liberality of Mr. Godfrey, of the Town
Council, with warm spiced ale, the morning Wag an ca-
' osedingly cold coo. The troops, having been marched to
the leading sup, embarked in tugs for conveyance to the
steam ship Bahian, for Corfu. The Bettina will sail about
noon tiraonow.

81111ERNE88. J'Ax. 18.

The Cressy, screw steam line of ettle ship, is to be
pet oat of dry dock to-morrow at flood tide, llpoeslble, sad
the sew strew steam corvette the Pyladee will be taken into
the saes dock for sosapletiag her bettors, etippgriott, to.
The Molesting is nearly ready for Saving the Basin—she
has intend sows very flee follows .. bluejackets." Ithe
is destined for Constantinople, there to resale as a depot
for provisioas, stores, to., for the use of the Black Bea
fleet.

The Russell, now is No. 2 dry dock, has nearly ems-
pleted her avowing, and will be ready to leave the desitin
two or three days from this date. She is ordered to be
Stied with all possible despatch. Ref masts, spars, sad
rigging are being hastened for her at this yard.
The Majestic, screw line of battle ship, remains is No. $
dry dock, repairing machinery connected with the main
shaft of the screw propeller.
A farther trial of the sea service mortar, weighing over
6 tans, sad throwiag s 13-ineh shell of 2001 be weight with
a charge of 201 b of powder, fitted on the principle proposed
by Capt. I. Roberts of the Royal Marine Artillery, has
taken place at Bhoeburyness, in the presence of several
scientific officers connected with the service. The trial has
fully established the usefulness of this mortar (fitted as it
is) for batteries, trenches, or any land fortifications, aa well
as afloat. Twenty rounds were fired most successfully, the
former isealcieney of the maul* lashing strap' having been
remedied. Forty seconds only were required to load and
are each shell; sad ft was found, after twenty rounds, the
body of the mortar was not in the least heated by quick
firing.
The

of the garrison here hes re-
Mitred orders to prepare barrack &MOMS for 400 newly-
imbed nen in the Artillery corps.

DUBLIN, JAN. 18.
The following are the numbers of men and officers
who sailed from Queenstown In the Princess Royal, for the
Crimea, on the 13th inst. :—.oth Foot : 2 captains, 6 sub•
alterns, 2 sergeants, 65 rank and Me. 14th Foot : 1 field
officer, 1 captain, 7 subalterns, 4 sergeants, 1 drummer, 135
rank and ale. 391 h Regiment-1 field officer, 2 captains,
subalterns, 6 sergeants, 4 drummers, 173 rank and file.
Embarked on board the Princess Royal in Engli.nd :
Major-General Jones and staff, 4 officers, and 100 men of
the Royal Sappers and Miners, and a number of hospital
orderlies.

HORRIBLE MASSACRE AND BURNING OF A

BRITISH SHIP.
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Information has been received of a tragical ow

tens oa board t►e British ship Berenice, the master of
which (Captain Candy), with his wife, chief mate, and
others have been massacred by t►e crew, who after wards
set Are to the ship and destroyed her, to prevent detection.
The &mice sailed from Shanghai on the 15th of July,
1852, with a cargo of tea for Sydney. Her crew, shipped
at Singapore, consisted almost entirely of men from dif-
ferent parts of Netherland India. During the voyage two
of the sailors, believing there was gild to a large amount
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on board, spoke of it to their comrades, and a plan was
forthwith concocted for taking porenion of the vessel (thin.
near Anger) and assaseisating the Europeans who were on
board. The ringleaders, as far as could be proved, were the
Smug, or boatsman's mate, known as " Ali.," and seven
of his tribe. Mr. Roberts, the mate, was =Ulna to the fore.
part of the ship by Ali., where he was instantly murdered.
Captain Coady, the commander, who ran to his 'mistime,
met with a similar fate ; as also did three seamen, who in-
terfered to save the captain's life. Ere. Candy war taken
from between decks, whither she had flown for refuge, and
thrown overboard. A French passenger, name unknown
who had joined at Shanghai, was not found on board
neither were three Bengalees and Amboyna men who were

among the crew. They must either have thrown them-
.se:ves into theses, or have been thrown overboard by others.
This tragical scene completed, the mord threw the
bodies overburd, washed away all traces of blood,
and then commenced searching for the gold sup-
vied to be on board. All the money on board,
however, consisted of about 100 Snipe and forty
Spanish dollen. The pleader was equally divided by Alie,
and it was agreed among them to set sail for Tauban, there
to abandon the vessel, after having eat fire toit. The ship
gaining Tagel, which was taken for Tauban by Alio and his
party, eke was set on fin, and they took to the boats.
Several were left behind, and were burned in the ruse].
Finding their mistake an pining the heights of Tagil,
they were compelled to get rid of most of the plunder by
throwing it overboard. They, however, by their plausible
story deceived the authorities of the place, who showed
them every fooling of companion, and provided them with
means. Afterwards the discovery of the wreck of the burnt
ship, and the bodies dome of the crew, excited suspicion ;
and after a esarahing investigation before the magisterial
Moen of the place, the whole of the diabolical affair was
elicited by Solle of the inspected eonfusing to the charges
brought against them. The riaglesden, nisi in number,
were brought to trial la September last, when the entire of
t►em were found guilty. rive of the prisoners were sea"
tensed to 20 years' banishment, and she °then were axe.
Gated on the 13th of last October, in the public square in
the principal part of Tagil. The things which during the
trial helped to convict the prisoners, were a gold watch and
chain, sad some ornaments and clothing belonging to the
late captain and his wife.

THE LATE Maros Gusaaoon, of the 49th,
whose death we recorded come days ago, had been, it
appsan by a letter from Major Gabbles A.D.C. to Bir De
Lacy Evans, serieasly Imolai sustained a corn-
poud fracture of the thigh bone hen a splinter of a shell
He received it while superintending the construction of the
redoubt ow the top of the Knoll, not many days after the
battle of 'shorans. In speaking of Mejor Olsabrook to
his brother, Sir Di Lacy Evans (to whose division he be-
longed) nys :—" Many noble and gallant men have, in-
deed, to sty knowledge, fallen in this war, bat few, I think,
who did more true credit to his friends and fatally, or who
was more likely,if be had been spared, to attain distiaguished
bosons in his profession, then your brother."
We regret to notice the death of Rear-Admiral
Forbes, which occurred on the 13th in The gallant
deceased was younpr Ma of the late General Gordon
Forbear Colow4 of the Rith Rothman.

THE WAR.

The alerts Gasett• pablights adviets form Berlin
stating Hist " in diplomatic circles no dou►rt is enter-
tained that Mania and Magda will come to an
agreement, the latter having taken no positive mi-
sogamist to enter upon hostilities. In the freedom of
the Danube and the cessation of the Rambo protec-
torate in the Principalities, MIS& has gained the
object about which she was really anxious."
. . .

In agreement with thin iat.l ipnos ars accounts
from Weimar, according to which the Austrian

goverumenthas signified to the Princes of the Thurin-
gian States, that after the pacific declarations of
Russia it appears advisable not to proofed with the
mobilisation of the military contingents of the
Germanic state., and that Austria will not, therefore,
bring the question before the Diet.
The notorious organ of the Russian party at Berlin,
the Zr... Zeffsing, proclaims that the belligerents
bare effected a compromise. Atter laying great
stress upon this last word, it proceeds:
The public will do us the justice to say
that we are not in the habit of making announce-
ments without being precisely informed on our
subject; and our readers may rely on us implicitly
when we say that the account of the recent conference
published in the Mkt. is almost entirely false. For
instance, nothing was said to Prince Gortchakoff
about the destruction of Ismail or the construction of
a neutral fortress on the Danube, nor does Russia
give up her sovereign rights on the Danube, and much
less those she possesses in the Crimea. Thus neither
was anything said about the destruction of Sebes-
topol or the limitation of the number of Russian ships
in the Black Sea." •

A letter from Bucharest, in the Presse of Vienna,
says "the English Consul has remitted to Prince I
Stirbey a note, calling upon him to repudiate the
Russian protectorate by • public act. The French
Consul will send the Hospodar a similar note."
Letters from Odessa, of the 6th, state that a hard
frost equal to 9 or 10 degrees below the freezing
point had succeeded to gusts of wind and falls of
snow, which prevailed throughout nearly the entire
month of December, and the roads had thus been
brought into a fit state for the conveyance of tronpe
and monitions of war to Perekop. Enormous masses
of breadstuff' were accumulated in the country,
without the possibility of effecting sales at the pre-
sent moment. There was no business doing what-
ever. The Russian government has established at
Theodosia some 'eat hospital, to which the
wounded and sick were being sent from the
Crimea. The works on the new fortifica-
tions which are being erected round Odessa on
the land side, axe carried on with the greatest pos-
sible activity. Between ten and twelve hundred
workmen are employed on them daily, and great
confidence is felt that the space traced out by the
military engineers will be completely finished and
armed in the course of next February. Every ar-
rangement has been made for collecting near Perekop
an army of reserve eighty thousand strong. The
order came from St. Petersburg to make as formidable
as possible the position of the isthmus, which it is
desired to hold at every cost. A large number of
Russian troops now there were forced by the incle-
mency of the weather to leave the camp they occu-
pied in front of Perekop, and to take up winter
quarters for the moment in the town of Armjanks
and its adjacent villages. Generals Dannenberg and
Read were at Odessa on the 6th ; the former was on
the point of setting off for Bt. Petersburg, where he
is going to take his new• seat as member of the
Upper Council of War; the latter was going to
assume the command of the third army corps of
infantry.
The writer of one of the letters quoted says :

There has been a great deal written during the last few
months about the bad food given to the Russian soldiers
when in the field; permit me, by referring to authentic
documents, to re-establish the truth in this matter. Each
eoldirrreeeivee daily three ROM= pounds weighs of bread
and one pound of beef. A drove of 180 and up to 200 of
horned cattle constantly follows every Russian regiment of
4,000 men, in order that they may be used wherever the
troops may happen to find the supplies fall short. A
cavalry regiment has always in its train, and as a resource,
60 head of horned cattle, which amber the commissariat is
specially bound to keep up at all times.
The Lithographed Correspondence of Vienna, under
date of the 13th inst., has the following paragraph
respecting the recent visit of a Russian corps to the
Ottoman territory :
On the Bth the Russians effected a passage of the Danube
near Tultscha. In the darkness of the night they reached
the right hank in boats, surprised the Turkish garrison, and
caused a great carnage. They then retired, laden with
booty, and carrying off their prisoners. Having gained the
left bank, they destroyed the head of the bridge. On both
sides the lose was heavy, for the Turks, surprised in this
manner, defended themselves with all the energy of despair.
There was a pasha among the slain, but his name has not
transpired. The inhabitants of Tultscha fled into the fields,
and did not ratans to their pillaged homes till after the
Russians had left.
The Byanden-Blatt of Vienna, of the 13th, gives
the following from Varna, of the Ist. On the 25th
Prince Mentchikoff issued a general order, which has
been also published at Simpheropol and Baktchi-
Send. It concludes with these words : "By the
help of God and our indomitable force we shall van-
quish
and annihilate our enemies." General Mont-
rose commands at Perekop, General Korff before
Eupatoria, General Pawloff at Simpheropol, and Ge-
neral Osten-Sacken at Baktchi-Serai. The lut
named officer received a reinforcement of 12,000
men on the 28th ult. General Liprandi, who had
received orders to advance against the gorge of the
Valley of Balaklava, where the Turks are posted,
executed the order with success.
"We have received," says the Pays, "a letter of
the 6th from Constantinople. A column of Riflemen
has taken possession of the important position at
Camara, near Balaklava, after driving out the Ru►
sians who occupied it. The enemy in this affair
experienced severe losses, they were completely put
to the rout and fled precipitately. burning their
forage and tents. The loss of the Russians at Bebop-
topot and the neighbourhood during the last days at
December is estimated at more than 8,000 men.
The Indipendance, confirming our original an-
nouncement, says :
Our correspondent at Frankfort, who information is
always so exact, confirms not only the fact, that Puma le
not disposed to adhere at present to the treaty of Des. S.
but also that the Western Powers having made this alk
hesion the express condition of her admission to the sea.
ferences, the cabinet of Berlin has protested against this
resolution. Prussia maintains that is her quality as a greet
power, and as one of the parties to the treaty of 1841, she
has the right to interfere In negotiations relative to the
abolition of that treaty, whatever may be in other respells
the resolution she may adopt concerning the treaty d
Dec. 2. There the matter rests for the present.