The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

good Ohio extra 6 dole to 6 dole 50c ; extra Genesee 7 dole to
8 dole 25c; Southern firm; sales,s,ooo brie; mixed to good
brands 6 dotsOd to 6 dole 60c , fancy and extra 6 dole 55c to
6 dots '9oc Canadian firm ; superfine 6 dole to 6 dole 0&c ;
extra, 6 dole 30c to 7 dole 60c. Wheat unsettled ; sales 17,000
bushels; white 1 dol 60c; Spring 1 dot 30c to 1 dol 40c for
Canadian • Illineis white 1 dol 58c ; Southern white 1 del 68c
to 1 dol elc• Indian Corn lc better; sales 60,000 Isusbels;
ringed 69c, in store; white 67c to 68c for new; yelloW
do do ; round yellow 69c to 71e for old.
PROVISIONS : Pork closet firm ; sales 660 brls. ; mess
23 dots 95c to 24 (lois ; prime better at 19 dole 25c to
19 dols 30c. Beef better; sales 450 brls ; country mess,
12 dots 75e to 14 dols ; prime, 10 dole 75c to 11 dols 50c ;
repacked Chicago 16 dole to 25 dots. Lard better : sales
1275 pkgs ; kegs, 15c to 15ic per lb ; brls at 141 c to
14 9-16 c. Bacon firm, at up to 12c; sales 600 boxes;
hams at 11e to 114 c ; shoulders, 9c to 94c.
SUNDRIES : Oils steady ; sales 60,000 gallons ; linerel is
quiet at 85 to 86c ; whale active at 70 to 73c per gallon ;
lard firm at. 1 dol 10c to 1 dol 15e, cash and 6 mos sperm
quiet but firm. Spirits turpentine better; sales 200 brls
at 46c, cash and 30 days s; crude dull. Rosin quiet but
firm at 1 dot 72c to 1 dit 75c. Tar inactive. Hides
firm ; sales 20,000 ; Buenos Ayres 361 to 37 ; salted
Californian 151 c ; Angostura 34c. Iron firmer ; sales
170 tons; Scotch pig at 33 dole to 34 dots, to'arrive and
from yard. Lead quiet. Tobacco firm ; sales 50 hhds ;
Kentucky 18 to 21c. Rice quiet; sales 150 tierces at 31
to 41c. Tallow heavy; sales 5,000 lbs at 11i to 12c.
FREIGHTS : To Liverpool easier for grain ; cotton k to
5.32 d; flour 2s , grain 61 to 7,td.
CHARLESTON, March 27. Cotton Sales to-day 1,700
bales, at full prices.

and has been evoked by years of injustice and
cruelty. Let nd one imagine, ther*re, that a mere
ttehwork arrangement will quell that spirit. The
Neapolitan question is as simple as it can be—it
lies in a nutshell—is is one of humanity and of
guarantees ; laws, institutions, Governmental
wachinery; Neapolitans have in. perfection, but all
are paralyzed.

THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

BERLIN, APRIL 7.

While in my preceding letter I described the
abolition of a peculiar corps in the Russian army,
and the renunciation of a system apparently about
to biti revived by the late Erliperor, you Will find in
the following the rapid extension by the present
Emperor of an organisation commenced b his
father. I allude to the Rides or Aharphootters.
This body is not to be confounded with the Jager
regiments, which existed previously, but were
however nothing else than Fusileer regiments,
standing in the same relation to the Musketeer
regiments as infanterie legere does to infanterie de
la linge—i. e , they differed from each other in
little more than in their htittona and iiieinga.
All the forty two regiments of Jagers, it may be
mentioned here, have ceased to exist as a separate
arm, and have been ranged in the sane list with
the 42nd infantry, or Musketeer regiments, with
Which they now form eighty four regiments.
They have, in consequence of this new arrange-
:lent, all received fresh serial numbers, and
the Jagers have been _allowed to retain the
names they bore of eertaierkovfne,s, towns, or
battles. '1 he Carabineers have also met with the
same fate as the Jagers. They stood in the same
relation to the Grenadiers as the Jagers did to the
Musketeers (they wore black facings, while the
Grenadiers and Musketeers wore white), but in all
essential matters they were as near as possible the
same.

To return, hovireVer, to the 'tiles. Out of the
one single regithent that the Emperor Nicholas had
at the commencement of his reign, viz., the Finland
Rifles of the Body Guard, have arisen no less
than 54 battalions; beside the company of Rifles
or Sharpshooters attached to every battalion of
infantry as a fifth company. Gen. Ramsay, the
present commander of the separate Grenadier
corps, was the Emperor's right hand in the forma

tion of these battalions of rifles. An ardent and
enthusiastic votary of the rifles, he devoted him
self to the task with such ardour that results were
obtained totally disproportioned to the time they
occupied. His first attempts, however, were
rendered futile by the Emperor Nicholas's notion,
that these battalions of rifles could best be raised
among the cantonists, or enfane de troupe founded
on the supposition that their better educa-
tion and habits of life would render them
specially apt at this weapon,. which, more than any
other, requires smartness, alertness, and a certain
degree of handiness. A very short experience
having shovVn these youths
.to be totally unequal
to the exertions General Ramsay required of them,
the Emperor, though with great regret, abandoned
his idea of thus turning them to good account ;
and, perceiving that nothing but the hardiest ma-
terials would answer the purpose, he allowed the
battalions to be raised among the Tschuwasches,
theTscheremises, and other tribes whose.occupation
is more especially the chase ; and this time the ex-
periment succeeded entirely. The Rifle companies
attached to the different infantry regiments were,on
the other hand, formed by selecting from each com-
pany first of all the six best marksmen, and then
increasing this number gradually to 2l per corn
pany. The aggregate of these picked marksmen
forms now the sth company attached to every
battalion regiment of infantry under the name of
Rifles or Sharpshooters.
Over and above these, there remains to be men

tioned the Rifle regiment of the Imperial family,
originally projected to consist of four battalions, but
subsequently confined to three. This regiment re-
ceived a peculiar ....a exceptional posttithu iu tiie
military system, inasmuch as it was placed neither
under the Minister of War nor under the inspector
of the Rifle force, but under the Minister of the
Imperial House. It was raised on the Crown
domains from among the Crown peasantry, and
numbered in its muster roll a large portion of the
officials of the domains, the foresters, rangers, &e.
Now, let us see how these recent creations of the
late and present emperor have been adjusted into
the new organization which Alexander 11. has given
to his army.

Of the three battalions of the Rifle Regiment of
the Imperial family only one has been retained,
chiefly as a memento of the occasion which led to its
being raised. It is held to belong to the Guard,
but is not attached to any particular division. Its
commander is Prince Galatzin, and the list of its
officers contains many brilliant names. _

In the place of the one Finland battalion of the
Rifles of the Guard there are now three, the first
of which is attached to the Ist division of the

Infantry of the Guard, the second to the 2d
division, and the third (which retains the name
Finland) to the Si division.
Each of the three Grenadier divisions of the
Grenadier corps has now a battalion of Grenadier
Rifles attached to it.
In addition to these, the Emperor has just lately,
while at Zarskoe Selo, ordered the formation of a
normal company of Rifles, under the command
of Captain Baron von Korff, who has spent much
time of late in studying the most recent improve-
ments made in this arm in other countries.
A reserve to these eighteen battalions there
exists at present only two reserve Rifle battalions
in consequence of the men composing the original
four reserve and two supplementary Rifle batta-
lions having been draughted off to make up the
complement of the eighteen Rifle battalions of the
main army.
Attached to the separate Caucasian Corps there
are now one Caucasian Grenadier Rifle battalion,
the 19, 20th, and 21st Rifle battalions attached to
the infantry divisions bearirigithe same serial num-
ber; and one Caucasian Reserve Rifle battalion.
Out of the six rifle battalions of the six infantry
corps (now called Armee Corps) there have been
formed 18 battalions, one of which is attached to
each of the 18 infantry divisions of the so-called
0 First Army," or main army.
The six battalions of rifles that were raised in
Finland out of the ci devant Swed,sh Indelta
troops have been increased to nine ; they stand
under the inspectorship of Major-General von
Koden, and, in addition to their own serial
number, bear the names of the towns where their
headquarters are stationed—Abe, Wasa, Uleaborg,
Kuopa, St. Michael, Tawarthus, Bjerneborg,
Njuland, and Wiborg. A normal rifle battalion
is the school in which these nine battalions are
trained.
Although the four ci devant normal Carbineer
regiments are not reckoned officially as belonging
to the rifles or sharpshooters, they must, neverthe-
less, be mentioned here as forming pert of that
force; inasmuch as the Emperor has taken away
from them their former serial number which they
bore as Carbineers, awl has nam. d th, m Normal
Rifle regiments. They were raised among the
cantonists of the Nowogrod military colonies, and
form a separate body, under the instruction of
Lieutenant General Troloff.
The rifle force of the Russian army consists
then of the following :

Battalions
1. Attached to the Guard 4
2. Attached to the Grenadier Corps ... 3
3. Attached to the Sixth Armee Corps IS
4. Attached to the Caucasian Corps .... 4
5. Reserve battalions . 3
6. Finland battalions (Indelta), including
Normal Battalion
7. Normal Rifle Battalion

Total,
Simply taken numerically, this rifle force far
exceeds that of all other armies ; but, with regard
to its professional efficiency and skill in the use of
its arms, some time must yet elapse, as those who
know it well and are disposed to form no unfavour-
able opinion of it maintain, before the Russian
Rifles or t-.harpshooters will be able to vie with
those of older formation in other armies. In the
meantime no pains are being spared to bring it
rapidly forward in efficiency and military skill.
On one preliminary question, however, military

men in Russia haVe by no means arrived at a
harmonious conelusiOn as yet, viz , whether such
troops, poase3Sed of peculiarly good aim and long
range, should be used rather as infantry of position
or as light infantry. As fax as the consideration
of the question hai been carried g,t, present the
majority of authorities seem, in consequence Cif the
want of alertness in the Ruasian infantry of the
line, to incline to the very natural view, that the
rifles, the good shots par excellence, should be
employed as tirailleurs and eclaireurs. One strong
conviction, however, they all of them seem to
entertain in common—viz., that should Russia be
involved in another war her army will, in the use
of small arms, not be found so inferior to the rest
of Europe as it was in the last.

Pashas, and Captains of the fleet. He was con-
tucted to the upper deck by the ambassador, who
wis obliged to help him up the ladders. He wore
the fez, with a button on the top, a loose overcoat,
the collar and cuffs of which were a mass of
diamonds worth about X 50,000. He appeared very
much exhausted and nervous, and did not seem to
-be at all at his ease. After he had recovered a
little he threw open his coat so as to show the
Riband and Star of the Garter, telling the Admiral
that he felt proud to be able to wear it before so
'many "brave aoldiers and sailors." A chair was
brought out for him which he refused, saying in
French which he speaks fairly, "Je pie suis pas
fatigue."
After the usual complimentary speeclicts had
been exchanged, the Admiral conducted him to the
cabin, and after a short rest he again came on deck
and walked forward. Returning he noticed the
Crimean medal on the breast of one of the marines,
and said he observed that all the men .wore the
same decoration. The marine, poor fellow, was
evidently very uncomfortable at having become so
conspicuous. While on deck this time the Sultan
had evidently got over his nervousness, and laughed
and chatted a good deal, apparently taking consi-
derable interest in all he saw. On returning to the
Admiral's cabin he requested the Admiial, Ambas
sadori and Pasha to be seated, a thing that I believe
has never before taken place. The Sultan then
begged Lord Lyons W inform her Majesty the
Queen how grateful he felt for the prompt
assistance that had been rendered to his country,
and for having,sent such a man as the Admiral to
be one of the defenders of Turkey. He afterwards
paid the Admiral a very handsome compliment.
His Majesty said :—" I loved youi when I first saw
you, and that affection and regard has since been
increased by the nobleness of your conduct, and I
feel that it is no small thing to com 6 on board
such a ship to see such a man ; arid I trust
that, if again England becomes the defender
of Turkey, your Sovereign may choose you, if
your services can be spared, to again command
the fleet, and I hope that you may long live
to adorn the profession of which you are such a
bright ornament" The captains and commanders
of the fleet were then presented, as also the officer
of the guard of honotir, captain Adair, R.M., of
this ship Before leaving, the Sultan walked along
the main deck, and after having been gn board
about three quarters of an hour, left the ship, the
same honours being paid to him, with the addition '
of the ships' companies giving three such hearty
cheers as his Majesty probably never heard before.
The calque in which the Sultan came off was very
handsome, painted white, the to inside and out i
being richly carved and gilded. In the bows was
the figure of a white dove. This Marks the Sul-
tan's caique.
We left the Bosphorus on the following evening.
The squadron weighed together and steamed a
short distance up the Bosphorus ; then turning,
came down, passing the Palace quite close, all
ships as they passed manning yards and rigging
and dressing with flags, the Curacoa and ourselves
firing a Royal salute. The Ambassador was on
board during the time, and on his leaving the ship
off Seraglio Point was saluted with 19 guns. In
the morning, before leaving, Lord Lyons had a
farewell audience of the Sultan, who received him
without the slightest ceremony, and without any
one being present except the flag-lieutenant, a
nephew of the Admiral, and the Turkish interpre-
ter, Mr. Sarrell, one of the dragomans to the Bri-
tish Embassy.

The squi;dron are at present anchored in
Bashika Bay, about nine miles out of the Dar-
danelles, where we remain for two or three days,
and then leave for Smyrna ; thence to Malta.