The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1855

rine telegraphic cable has been put down in the Sound,
south of the island of Hoen, from Hillesborg, on the
Swedish side, to Vedbeck, on the coast of Seeland ; that,
in order to point out the position of the line, the follow-
ing small buoys have been put up, viz., two at Vedbeck,
showing the direction of the line from there to the S. of
Hoen, being E.iN. and w.qs. ; and two at Hillesborg, in
the direction of the south point of Hoen' being E. by
N. }N. and W. by S. .IS. ; also at the south end of Hoen,
where the line forms an angle, is situated a larger buoy,
smaller buoys with flags indicating the line at this part.
This the Royal College has been graciously commanded
hereby to proclaim, and to give notice that any one who
injures the telegraph apparatus in any way is to be answer-
able for the same, as, in consequence thereof, no vessels or
boats in the Sound are allowed to cast anchor in the above-
mentioned direction.

Stockholm, Dec. 12.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 16.

7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Charles Errol Hope, from
the 10th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, Jan. 16.

TO BE ENSIGNS, BY PURCHASE.
9th Foot—Richard Charles Henry Germon, Gent., Jan.
16.
14th Foot—Henry Theodore Vernede, Gent., Jan. 16.
18th Foot—Alfred Cottee, Gent., Jan. 16.
21st Foot—Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, Geut., Jan. 16.
42d Foot—William Green, Gent., Jan. 16.
44th Foot—Edward Charles Pemberton Pigott, Gent.,
Jan. 16.

46th Foot Charles John Burgess. Gent., Jan. 16.
4Jth Foot—Christopher Michell, Gent., Jan. 16.
50th Foot— Robert Charles Goff, Gent., Jan. 16.
55th Foot—Percy Lytton Bellamy, Gent., Jan. 16.
57th Foot—Hickman Rose Russell, Gent., Jan. lb.
6Sth Foot —Henry John Richard Villiers Stuart,
Jan. 16.

71st Foot—Robert Lewis, Gent., Jan. 16.
77th Foot William Marmaduke Dixwell Alderson,
Gent., Jan. 16.

79th Foot—Edward Gawne, Gent., Jan. 16.
88th Foot—Lucs,s Clements Scott, Gent., Jan. 16.
89th Foot—Montagu Charles Browning, Gent., Jan. 14;
William Darge, Gent., Jan. 15 ; Robert Johnston, Gent.,
Jan. 16.

93d Foot Andrew Fitaames Cunningham Rollo,
Gent., Jan. 15 ; William Gordon Alexander, Gent.,
Jan. 16.

97th Foot—Edward Mott Alderson, Gent., Jan. 15 ;
Maurice George Beaufoy Fitz Gerald, Gent., Jan. 16.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 15.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Captain Arthur
Comyn Pigou to be Captain, vice Hamilton, retired upon
full pay • First Lieutenant Francis Cornwallis Maude, to
be Second Captain, vice Pigou ; Second Lieutenant Fran-
cis Arthur Whinyates to be First Lieutenant, vice Maude,
Dec. 27 ; Second Captain the Honourable David MeDowall
Fraser to be Captain, vice Brettingham, retired upon half-
pay ' • First Lieutenant Aneas Clarke to be Second Captain,
vice the Honourable D. M. Fraser; Second Lieutenant
Frederick Coulthurst Elton to be First Lieutenant, vice
Clarke, Jan. 1.

Corps of Royal Engineers.--Lientenant-General Sir
John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.8., to be Colonel-Consmandant,
vice Sir Henry Goldfinch, K.C.8., deceased, Nov. 22.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Francis Mostyn Owen,
Esq., late Captain in the 44th Regiment, to be Paymaster,
Dec. 12.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.

County of Essex—Cardinal Brewster, Esq., to be De-
puty-Lieutenant, Jan. 10 ; Arthur Tawke, Esq., to be
Deputy-Lieutenant, Jan. 10 ; James Edward Boggis,
Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Jan. 11.
est Essex Militia—John Thos. Eustace, Esq., late of
the 60th Rifles, to be Captain, vice Jervis, resigned,
Jan. 10.

West Suffolk Regiment of Militia—Wm. Hall, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, Jan. 11.
Ist or South Durham Regiment of Militia of the County
of Durham—George Webb, Gent., to be Ensign ; William
Winn, Gent., to be Ensigi, Jan. 10.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Edward Sumnor Colpoys, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Atkinson, promoted, Jan. 11; Edward Russell Daunt,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Edward Ffraser Ward, Gent.,
to be Ensign, Jan. 12.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia
Ensign Francis Wright to be Lieutenant, vice Preston,
resigned, Jan. 12; Ensign Henry Morewood to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Pilkington, resigned; Samuel Johnston,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Wright, promoted, Jan. 13 ;
George Malcolm, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Morewood,
.promoted; William Bourne, Gent., to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Desmond, resigned, Jan. 15.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Robert Buckley Baldwin, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 11.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Richard H.
Thursby, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Jan. 10.
lst Battalion of the Artillery Corps of the Royal Lanca-
shire Militia—Frederick Augustine Lynam, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant, Jan. 12.
Aberdeenshire Regiment of Militia—John Gordon Cum-
ming Skene, Esq., to be Captain; Wm. Hutchison, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, Jan. 1.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Lieutenant George Carnaby to be Captain, vice Granville,
resigned, Jan. 8.

3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Herbert Hale Forbes Gifford, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, Deo. 26 ; Frank William Dundee, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant ; George Chapman, Gent., late Lieutenant
West Essex Militia, to be Lieutenant, Jan. 8.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant
Thomas Light Elwon to be Captain, vice Milbank, retired ;
Second Lieutenant George Richard Withington to be
Lieutenant, vice Elwon, promoted, Jan. 12.
let Devon Regiment of Militia—Heath Haviland
Chanter to be Ensign, Dec. 6 ; Hon. Dudley Francis
Fortescue to bo Captain, vice Elton resigned, Dec. 16;
Serjeant-Major John Macdonald to be Lieutenant and
Quartermaster, Dec. 16 ; Ferdinand Yates to be Ensign,
Dec. 16 ; Frederick Wright to be Ensign, Deo. 18.
2d Devonshire Regiment of Militia.—Robert Bent Far-
well to be Ensign, Dec. '29 ; Arthur Parsons to be Ensign,
Dec. 30 ; John Gore Hawkins to be Lieutenant, Dee. 29;
John Pitt Briggs to be Lieutenant, Dec. 28 ; Matthew
Henry Stewart to be Ensign, Deo. 31; John Thomas
Soltan to be Ensign. Dec.2B ; Augustus Willoughby Rodd
to be Ensign, Jan. 1.

I Royal North Lincoln Militia.—Charles Deane, Gent., to
be Lieutenant, Jan. 2 ; Douglas Wimberley, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, Jan. 3 ; Edward Snow Mason, Gout., to be
Ensign, Dec. 25; Welter Stewart Brown, Gent., to be
Ensign, Jan. 2.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia.—Neil Ogilvy Drummond, Esq., to be Lieute-
nant.

Hampshire Regiment of Militia Infantry—Bertie
Shiff-
ner, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Thomas Edward Pinkett,
Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 6.
Rifle Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
John Fox Fitz-Giffard Mytton, Esq. late 89th Regiment,
to be Captain, Jan. 12 ; William Thomas Greeley, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Knight, resigned, Jan. 11.
Edinburgh or Mid-Lothian Regiment of Militia—George
Andrew Coventry, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Lang,
deceased ; Archibald Scott, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Watson, deceased ; Charles William Cowan, Gent to bo
Lieutenant, vice Mills, deceased ; William Hunter,
to be Lieutenant, vice Paterson, deceased; John Fowler
Kemp, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Shaw, promoted, Jan. 5.
MEMORANLIIIC—City of Edinburgh Artillery Regiment
of Militia—Thomas Alexander Hill, Geni. ; Francis
Montague Smith, Gent. ; John Maodongall, Gent.—now
rank as Second Lieutenants in this regiment, instead of
Ensigns, as formerly stated.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Cossack, Captain Fanshawe, is under orders to
sail from Devonport for Scotland, taking provisions for
the ships on that coast.
The Avon, tender, Master Commander Veitch, re-
turned to Devonport, from Portsmouth, on Sunday.
The Esk, 20, screw corvette, Captain Birch, returned
to Spithead on Sunday night. It is reported that she
will go into Portsmouth harbour to have her mainmast
replaced, as the step interferes with the shaft.

DESCRIPTION OF BALAKLAVA.

BALAKLAVA, DEC. 27.—And now for a description, if
possible, though I fear I shall fail in the attempt. Until
you almost touch the rocks you can barely perceive an
opening ; and when you at last reach the mouth of the
harbour of Balaklava, it is not above 60 yards wide, a
short quarter of a mile ; and after passing several men-
of-war, transports, &c., all with the ends of their bow-
sprits nearly touching you, you get into rank and add
another to the number. And now the scene changes.
About 40 yards from our stern is the landing-place.
The town—did you say town ?- -no, I mean a scattered
number of wretched hovels, say 150. In the rear
and in the front high precipitous rocks ; on the face
of the latter several tents with Marines, and a body
of Highlanders. In fact, suppose a basin, one quar-
ter full of water, placed on the table, and drop a
wafer into it, and then you have a good idea of the
position of a ship in the harbour of Balaklava, Yester-
day being a beautiful day, I thought it a good opportu-
nity to pay a visit to the camp, and, as I had under-
stood that the Light Division of the army occupied, to-
gether with the French, the nearest point to Sebastopol,
to that place I determined to set out. An officer of the
19th belonging to the division, who had come on board,
amongst a host of others, "foraging," purchasing geese
and turkeys a guinea a piece, and fowls 12s. 6d. a
couple, kindly offered to put me on the right road, and
invited me to dine with him in his tent. Now for't. I
landed, the first step up to the very knees in mud—
French, Turks, English, and camp-sutlers in glorious
confusion. Such swearing, shouting, and row you never
heard in your life ; artillery waggons, six and 12 horses
attached to each, others with half-starved camels ; cav-
alry horses, whose riders and hard-worked steeds have
Probably not seen a comb or a brush for a month ; to-
gether with Turks every here and there bearing the dead
upon stretchers, all wading through a sea of mud, com-
plete this picture, until you emerge from the town. The
crowd appears then to deploy over an interminable space.
In the distance, on the right, are the mountains of the
Crimea, covered with snow ; at the foot, several Russian
encampments ; nearer to us, the Balaklava battle-
ground. On one of the slopes, you see the remains of
our Light Cavalry, and their horse hospital—net 100
effective animals left ! the Scots Greys nearly as bad.
How. can it be otherwise? The poor creatures are
worked all day with the artillery, in dragging heavy
loads to the trenches and camps, fastened up to posts
driven into the ground, and scarcely a morning breaks
ere the troopers drag 14 or 15 out of the " slush" as they
term it. On the left you see Lord Raglan's quarters,
and having proceeded over destroyed vineyards, every
here and there dotted with dead horses, emitting a most
delightful perfume, you at last get upon higher ground,
and approach the French camp, extending miles on the
left, having the Turks between them and the British.
Skirting the latter, I thought. I would have a look at
the French ; so, having paid a visit to several of the
huts, and been very hospitably invited to partake of
their contents, I passed on towards the Light Division.
A little on the left of the French is the Picquet House,
about a mile and a half from Sebastopol, into which a
shell often drops, to the danger of all who are in it ; and,
being a good look-out place, is seldom unoccupied by
the curious, endeavouring to get a glimpse of what is
going on in the far-famed fortress in the distance.
Being determined on exploring I still proceeded, and
presently I heard firing right below me. The French
were pitching their shot into the town, and the Rus-
sians returning them three to one. Within 300 yards is
the 40-gun battery, and directly opposite is the Russian,
mounting much heavier metal. From this spot I first
saw what they call the " trenches," I mean the actual
working trenches. Now, suppose a soldier, six feet
high, in the trench—in some places, if he stands upright,
he gets shot at—his head appearing over the parapet,
and then he is obliged to kneel down with the mud and
water to his middle to avoid the danger. This state of
the trenches and the laborious work that the poor sol-
diers undergo, being sometimes 30 hours thus employed,
badly fed, badly clothed, and, I fear, much dispirited,
tends to engender disease. We are losing on an average
150 men a day, not including those that fall from the
enemy's guns. I now had an opportunity of a good
view into Sebastopol. Its appearance is both pictures-
que and beautiful, and though I was within half a mile
of it, and had a capital seven-guinea glass, I could not
perceive any damage that had as yet occurred. From
what I had seen in the Times and other papers I had
supposed the place a heap of 'ruins, or nearly so ; but,
on the contrary, I could see no marks of the cannonade
that has now been going on for upwards of two months,
though I believe that the portion directly opposite the
French batteries is much cut up. After satisfying my
curiosity I returned to the Light Division camp ; and
now for a description of Mr. Gorham's tent (19th
Regiment); The tent inside is eight feet in diameter.
Round the circumference were a medley of boots, caps,
kettles, empty bottles, and many other things consti-
tuting the general daily utility. Next was a soldier's
bayonet struck into the ground for the purpose of a can-
dlestick ; next two beds, or rather hard-stuffed straw
mattresses, with a scanty eoverlid' each, on the bare
ground. Dinner at length was brought in—two tin panne
kins with soup meagre that would frighten S—, fol-
lowed by two pieces of hard salt beef of about half a
pound each, a little rice (this was good), and a very, very
hard biscuit. However, exercise sharpens appetite, so
I set to, and having, as a finale, taken a glass of bad
rum with my entertainers, I bid good-bye to the officers
of the Light Division, and taking a building in the dis-
tance as my landmark, I started for Balaklava. Tho
sun had melted the hitherto execrable roads, and, to-
gether with the traffic, I shall never, to the longest day
of my life, forget the walk back ; suffice it to say that,
having passed several fellows who were endeavouring to
urge their worn-out horses to get up out of the mud,
where they had dropped down for the last time, I reached
the Charity. Now, my impressions on the whole are
these :—ln the first place, the commissariat is badly,
nay, wretchedly, supplied with the means for carrying
stores and provisions from Balaklava to the various
camps, all the horses, with the exception of the few sup-
plied by the artillery, being dead The storehouses and
many ships are full of creature comforts, and the half-
starving men cannot get them. lof course cannot sup-
pose but that, in the end, the allied forces will be vic-
torious ; but take my word for it, Sebastopol is not yet
taken, and if I am right in my prognostications will not
►e for some to come. And now I must say farewell
for the present, for the Medway is just getting under
weigh. When I shall get home God only knows.
How long we may remain in this infernal hole is equally
as uncertain. We heard a great deal of firing last night,
but I hear it is of usual occurrence, and that nightly.
The French, who are nearest to the enemy-on the left,
have a shindy of an hour or two's duration. No one
knows what is to come next—the many rumours afloat
show that all are wrong. If anything of importance
should happen I will write by the next packet.—Yours,
&c., W. AGNICW, M.D.

the parties cannot eome to an amicable understanding as
to the sum.

Art. 9. The statutes and bye-laws of the company
must be laid before us by the directors of the company,
and receive our sanction before being promulgated and
becoming binding. Any modifications or alterations of
the same at any later period also require our sanction.
The before-mentioned statutes must contain the names
of the founders of the undertaking, and we reser to
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ourselves the right of giving them our sanction. They
will contain a nominal return of those persons who
mainly contributed to the execution of the important en-
terprise by their capital, -counsel, or personal assistance.
Art. 10. Lastly, we promise for ourselves and for all
our Egyptian officials, our honest and hearty co-opera-
tion in the execution of this useful and great undertaking.
Given at Cairo, Nov. 30, 1854.