The Press.
London, England, 1854-07-08 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

a musket to be used, like any other machine, as long as it
was supplied with material. Although there may be room
for improvement in the mechanical construction of small
arms, the mechanical objections to the small arms are by
no means so great as the chemical objections to the gun-
powder."

Adv.loes from San Francisco state that the Russian 04-
gun frigate Diana had left Valparaiso, and was spoken Ist
10 8., long. 93 W., by the Isabella, from Glasgow, arrived at
San Francisco, which had been seventeen days in company
with her. Her destination was not known, nor had the
declaration of war against Russia arrived at Valparaiso
before she sailed.

A number of Russian hussar regiments are immediately
to be armed with lances. It is stated that a smith of Bu-
charest is making 6,000 lance•heads under orders from
the Russian general.

An officer of the fleet in the Baltic has communicated with
his friends in Edinburgh in rather a novel way. When cruising
about he throws his letters into the sea in a bottle, trusting
to their being picked up by some English home•going
vessel and forwarded to their address. Two of his epistles
thus consigned to Father Neptune's direct custody have
come to hand without delay, and it is questionable whether
if sent by regular course they would have arrived at their
destination within the same period.

Amongst the midshipmennof the ill-fated Tiger was Mr.
Henry Eglinton Robinson, whose father, Captain Charles
U. Robinson, R.N., commanded her Majesty's ship Shear.
water in 1847, then engaged in the survey of the coast of
Scotland, and had the honour of conducting his Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke Constantine amongst the West•
ern Highlands. This fact having become known at Odessa,
it appears, procured for the youthful prisoner the most
marked attention, more particularly from the Baroness
Osten Sacken, the lady of the Governor-General, who at
once made Mr. Robinson a guest at the palace, where, it is
understood, he remained until his departure for the Uni-
versity at Moscow—an institution under the especial
patronage of the Emperor.

THE FRENCH ADMIRAL OF THE BALTIC.
VICE-ADMUIAL PARSEVAL DESCHENES, who commands the
French squadron in the Baltic, was born in 1790, He
made his first voyage in the Buceilleur line-of•battle-ship,
in which he was present at the battle of Trafalgar. In
1814 he served iu the Scheldt squadron. In 1815 he was
charged with special missions to the coast of Brazil, to the
Amazon, the Antilles, and Guiana. During this last
voyage his vessel was wrecked, and he escaped almost by a
miracle. A most favourable report was made of his con-
duct by Admiral Itosamel in lit 44, on the occasson of the
capitulation of Barcelona. In 1830 he was promoted to
the command of a frigate, and went to Algiers with the
expeditionary army ; and in 1833 ho commanded the
Victuire, which was the first that cannonaded the fortified
town of Boudjeiah (Bougie), when taken by the French.
He was soon after promoted, and commanded the Iphiglisie
line-of-battle-ship at the seige of Ulloa. In his report on
that compaign, the late Admiral Baudin spoke of Captain
Parseval Deschenes as one of the first among the officials
to whom he owed gratitude for their cordial devotedness,
their skilful arrangements, and the excellent spirit they
had infused into their crews. In 1841 he was named
Maritime Prefect of Cherbourg. In 1844 he was decorated
with the cross of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour;
in 1840 he was promoted to Vice-Admiral; in 1847 named
member of the Mixed Commission of Public Works, in
place of Vioe•Admiral de la Susse, and in the same year
Maritime Prefect of Toulon, in place of Vice• Admiral
Baudin; in 1848 he was appointed luspeotor•General of
the forts of lirest, Loriont, and Cherbourg; in 1831
member of the Admiralty Board ; and finally, in May, 1854,
he was named to the command of the third squadron, that
of the Baltic. He is said to be very popular with the men
and officers that have been under his command.

A BRITISH BRIG CAPTURED BY PIRATES.
THE capture of the Cuthbert Young, a British brig,
by Ruffian pirates, is related in the Gibraltar Chro-
nicle of June 24. The brig was from Newcastle,
John G. Marshall commander, of 293 tons register.
She was out twenty-five days from Malta, in ballast,
beund to Falmouth for orders, and was unfortunately
becalmed and driven by the current to within ten
miles off Cape Tres Forcas, on the coast of Riff, on
the night of the 21st of June, when, to the astonish-
ment of the master and crew, they were suddenly
alarmed by the fire of musketry, and immediately
afterwards observed a number of boats approaching,
which proved to be full of pirates. By ten o'clock,
finding little chance of escape, the night being rather
dark, and the pirates increasing their fire and closing
upon the brig, the stern-boat was lowered, six of the
crew got in, and pushed off in the greatest confusion :
twenty minutes elapsed ere the remaining portion of
the crew could launch the skiff, when they jumped
into it and made away as fast as they could, hotly
pursued for three hours by two piratical boats, who
kept up a constant fire on them until they were out
of reach. It was not until five p.m. on the following
day (seventeen hours after leaving the brig) that
the skiff was fallen in with by the Austrian barque
Vincenzo, whose captain took them on board and
treated them with every kindness, they being in a
state of great exhaustion, not having tasted food
during that time. The stern-boat, with the other
six, has not been heard of. Her Majesty's steam-
sloop Prometheus, which arrived on the evening of
the 25th, received instructions to take on board the
master of the Cuthbert Young, and proceed to the
Riff coast in search of the captured vessel.

Customs
Excise

SLaagos
Taxes

Property Tax
Post °Mee
Crown Land*
1114cellauLeou%

Total Ord. Rev.
Imprest and other
Moneys
Repayments of

Advances

Total Income ..
The Amount ap-
plied to Consoli-
dated Fund, ex-
clusive of Ad-

Tarim;
Ditto applied as

..
Advances
Do. ay part of
Waysand Means
of Year

Tot *1

Customs
Excise
Mumps
Taxed
Property Tax
Poet Office
Crown Lands
Miscellaneous...

Total Ord. Rev.
Im_pregt and other
Moneys
Repayments of
Advances

Total Income ..

July 5,
1a53.

4,94i,337
8,796,617
1,875,18
1,610,483
1,063,027
951,000
A/0"B
90,587

113,520,07

256,759

424,573

114,201,369

3,239,1135

999,027

7,962,407

114,201,369

48,076

435,165
166,0041

649,241

68,477

707.718
I Deduct
1 Increase

{Decree.
on the
Year.