The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-06 00:00:00

"A HAPPY NEW YEAR."

HOWEVER we may value past enjoyments, it
must be admitted that present hopes have a greater influence
than bygone recollections. There are some pleasing reminiscences of
the past year which will sweeten the events of the present. The
Old Year, loaded with the precious fruit, of the earth, like a provi-
dent and industrious predecessor, has left us the legacy of good food,
which we hope, notwithstanding adverse circumstances, to have at a
cheap rate.
Reviewing the past year, we have the highest gratification in re-
cording our success, and expressing our thanks for the vast amount
of patronage and support which our business in all its departments
has received. We think it no presumption to say we have laboured
to merit the distinction we have gained. Business—practical, ener-
getic, constant, punctual, and unwavering—has been our daily ob-
ject. We have visited every market ; we have employed the skill
and experience with which many years of boundless trade have
gifted us ; we have encouraged talent, and patronised industry, and
have made all our resources available to friends patrons, and the
public, in presenting them with superior and fashionable Dress, at
very reasonable charges. We have received our reward in the innu-
merable instances of satisfaction expressed toward our besiness and
our manufactures—in the vast increaso o: our Trade in London, the
United Kingdom, the Colonies, and throughout the World.
The Ready-made Clothing Department has been publicly acknow-
ledged the boon of society, and an advantage to individuals and
families. Our ambition to furnish the best, most fashionable, and
comfortable Clothing, at the lowest possible prices. has met with a
most conspicuous response ; and we owe to our friends, patrons, aid
the public, a grateful acknowledgment of success which has not been
equalled on any former season. We have received the attention of
all classes and of all professions—our productions have been declared
the most popular, the most gentlemanly, the most comfortable, and
the cheapest. Our system of business, now universally known, has
been as extensively praised ; and through the past Year, the cordial
congratulations we have received have been a source of satisfaction,
which we esteem the most brilliant triumph of Trade.
As Hatters, we have supplied elegant articles for the intellectual
developments of our fellow-subjects, and have neither contracted
their benevolent propensities by comfortless hats, nor distorted
their apprehensions with exorbitant prices ; but the best productions
of London and Paris have been transferred from our Establishments
to their proper places—the Heads of families and all the young hope-
fuls of a future generation.
In the Hosiery Department such encouragement hai been expe-
rienced as has exceeded the most sanguine expectation, and at the
repeated solicitation of a vast number of patrons we have been in-
duced to add a Hosiery section to our Oxford-street Branch Establish-
ment. Being the largest Manufacturers of Shirts and Underclothing,
and having commercial transactions with every Nation and King-
dom in the World, we have the pleasure of offering such articles in
Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen as are not equalled for supe-
riority, variety, elegance, or cheapness.
Our Wholesale Clothing, Shirt, and Boot and Shoe Business, for
which the most extensive premises are kept at our City Establish •
ment, has had the most liberal encouragement from Merchants,
Shippers, Captains, and others ; and we have the greatest satisfac-
tion in the uniform testimony which has been awarded to our pro-
ductions from tho celebrity they have gained in all parts of the
world, and the conviction that they have proved the most pro-
fitable investments which were ever made for the export or home
trade.

We most gratefully acknowledge the distinguished patronage which
has been conferred on our Branch Establishments at Sheffield and
Bradford, Yorkshire, where we rursus the same plans of business,
charge the same reasonable prices, and furni,ll goods of the same
fashionable and excellent order. Though every colony of the Briti:h
Empire has in it our patrons, Australia, that home of English in-
dustry, has a large and flourishing Wholesale Branch of our well-
known business ; and we are persuaded that in every place that
business will always be worthy of the name and celebrity of E.
MOSES and SON.
However, as it is E. MosEs and SON'S custom annually to recapi-
tulate the progress of their business, and to express their good
wishes towards their natrens and the public, they do so with an ex-
traordinary degree of pleasure at the commencement of the year
1855 ; satisfied that the name of E. MOSES and SON is identified
with good, fashionable, and cheap clothing ; that E. MOSES and SON
have the greatest celebrity as Merchant Tailors, llosiers, and Out-
fitters; that there is not a branch of business they profess, but in
it indefatigable perseverance enables them to succeed ; and in the
moat animated hopes of securing numberless advantages to all
classes of patrons, and of preserving distinction and celebrity in all
nations, E. MOSES and SON most sincerely wish every body in all
parts of the world

A HAPPY NEB' TEAR.

TREATMENT OF THE WOUNDED SOL-
DIERS AT PORTSMOUTH.

The conduct of our official establishments at Balaklava,
Scutari, and elsewhere, may well earn for us the title of
"the European Chinese." Incapable of anything but
the merest routine, unequal to the slighest emergency,
our officials have contrived to do as much to discredit
our national character as the conduct of our regimental
officers and private soldiers has done towards
rds
agonized,elevating
it. Three hours wore occupied by the wounded disem-
barked at Scutari in struggling, weak
over the quarter of a mile of ground that separated them
from our inhospitable receptacle of misery. Flesh and
blood were embarked and disembarked, tossed and ban-
died about, with no more regard to quivering nerves
and bleeding wounds than if they had been so many
bales of wool or cotton. But why do we speak of the
miseries thus endured in places the remoteness of whose '
situation, the newness of whose establishments, offer
some excuse for inhumanity and some paliation for neg-
lect ! Let our readers consider the case of the Himalaya
at Portsmouth, and then say whether they know of any
Christian people so inhuman as those to whom England
delegates the care of welcoming back to their native soil
the bravest and hest-deserving of her sons.
On Tuesday last the Himalaya arrived at Ports-
mouth, and, after a delay of 24 hours, ranged alongside
the jetty, and began to unload her melancholy cargo of
sick and wounded—the shaken and mutilated remnants
of the heroes of Alma, of Inkerman, and of Balaklava.
It must have been in itself a touching and moving spec-
tacle, such as the sternest nature could scarcely witness
without pity, T-Tsre were men who, exposed to every
hardship, and urged on by no Incentive but fooling of
honour-and devotion, by the mere efre'rt of unconquer-
rible will and unflinching li'ardiliood had saved our army
from destruction and our country from disaster, and
what now WAS left of thin tremendous infantry, this gal-
lant and dashing cavalry ? Armless, eyeless, footless,
as our correspondent describes them, rent with shot or
shell, pierced by bayonets, and hacked by sabres, they
staggered on, supporting each other in this melancholy
march, till t'Aey stood once more on that sacred soil
which had sent them forth to conquer, and which might
almost be supposed to throb under the feet of its re-
turning protectors.
They came ; but who was there to welcome them ?
Everybody knows that Portsmouth swarms with officials,
naval and military, and that, if the Queen had been
landing from Osborne instead of our helpless and crip-
pled soldiers from the Crimes, there would not have
been wanted one of the tale to swell the unmeaning
pomp and idle ceremony. We should have had the
Admiral Superintendent, the Port Admiral, the Lieute
nent-Governor, and a host of other officials whose titles
it is not worth now recording, as none of them could
find time to attend to this ordinary duty of hospitality
and humanity, or to see that the noble freight of the
Himalaya was received with all honour, all gratitude,
and all tenderness. The officials were not there, al-
though they had 24 hours' notice, and the disembarel
kation was left to be effected by the invalids
themselves, with such aid as the crew of the
steamer could afford them. But there is one class of
officials never wanting to the duty of saluting ao English-
man on his return to his native land. If fee Generals
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eluded no soldier or officer was allowed to leave the spot.
They sat and crouched as best they might in the bleak
January afternoon, those shivering and mutilated relics
of the strong and the brave, and pondered, doubtless
with thoughts too bitter for words, on the welcome
which the country for which they had given all ex-
tended to them in return. There were no ambu-
lances, no stretchers ; there was no one to care
for them, or to conduct them to their allotted
home, until, at last, after the matter seemed almost
desperate, help came ia the shape of ouaribuses for
those who could sit, and stretchers for those who
could not ; and the miserable scene was thus
brought to a tardy end. With such a specimen of Ports-
mouth, it were vain indeed to waste criticisees or indig-
nation on the miseries of Balaklava or Scutari. How
has war already hardened our hearts and dealened our
sympathies ! Six months ago we were met with the
most violent disclaimers when our correspondent asserted
that our troops were ill fed and ill cared for on their
arrival at the wild and remote shore of Gallipoli, and
now such a scene as we have described can pass at our
principal seaport and arsenal without comment, and al-
most without notice !

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Singularly enough, on the very day on which this
account appeared a contemporary published a letter
from the Queen to Mrs. Herbert most honourable to the
feelings of her Majesty, and calculated to ioothe the
miseries and alleviate the sufferings of . her wounded
soldiers and sailors. The Queen requests to bi furnished
with details of the wounded—more interestiig to her
than to any one. Her Majesty begs that these )oor noble
men should be told of her interest and feeling for their
sufferings, and her admiration of their coirage and
heroism. She knows the value of her sympathy, and she
is anxious it may not be withheld. Yesterday her Ma-
jesty passed through Portsmouth on her wpy ti Osborne,
and those who could find no time to wecome her
wounded soldiers home attended on her arrival with
their usual punctuality. Had she asked the rentlensen
who surrounded her on the station :with the keys of the
fortress where they were when her poor invalifs lauded
from the Himalaya, the question might, perhaps, have
obtained for the next draught of invalids that shall ar-
rive a reception more in harmony with their nerits to-
wards us, and the enthusiastic gratitude of tin country
towards them.
Her Majesty has broken through official reserve in
order to testify in the most signal manner tie warmth
of the feeling which unites the Sovereign of the country
to the men to whom our defence is entrusted. It would
be highly gracous in her, and at any rate it ii the boun-
den duty of her Ministers, so to notice the recent scene
at Portsmouth as effectually to provide for he humane
and careful reception of the next. cargo of hunan misery
which the blast of war may fling upon the coats of Eng-
land . Times.

THE CIVIL SERVICH.-Mr. Francis Knollys has been
appointed assistant examiner, in the Audit-office, Som-
erset-house, vice Bidwell, resigned. Mr. George Moori-
son has been appointed surveyor-general of tonnage,
under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, in London.
Mr. F. Puffin has been appointed draughtsman to the
surveyor-general of tonnage, in London. Mr. J. Paxton
has been appointed t• be landing waiter in London. Mr.
A. Angelo has been appointed clerk for general business
in London. Mr. W. H. Keeling has been appointed clerk
in the Comptroller of Account's-office, London Docks.
Mr. W. C. Maclean, whose promotion from the control-
lership at Dover to the collectorship at Truro we an-
nounced last week, has exchanged situations with Mr.
Ferris the collector at Portsmouth. Mr. Robert Monro
has been promoted from the second to the first class of
searchers at Leith. Mr. Peter H. Hardie has been pro-
moted from the third class to the second class of searchers
at Leith. Mr. Valentine Knight has been promoted
from the fourth to the third class of searchers at Leith.
Ni-. F. A. Galledy, clerk at Corfu, has been appointed
deputy ordnance storekeeper at Malta, vice Pierse.
Messrs. Mitchell and Baker have been appointed tem-
porary clerks at the Tower. A clerkship is vacant at
Co rfu. —Civil Service Gazette.

DESECRATION OF VIE TO3II3.—WEIMAR, sec. 31.
Tt is generally known that the bodies of C-oethe and
Schiller repose in the vault of the reigninglunily. A
few days ago a stranger was conducted to vist the vault,
when to his dismay the guide found that the .econd door
was broken open, as also were the coffins of I-rand Duke
Charles Augustus, his wife, and the last Dike Charles
Frederick. The gold brocade above the cer-cloth, and
the rings from the corpses themselves, thegold of the
epaulettes, and indeed whatever was valuabl, had been
carried off. It was evident that several ersnns had
been concerned ha this robbery of the illuErious dead,
and the whole town is moved with the gre.test indig-
nation.

FOREIGN SPIRITS.—During tho eleven months termi-
nating on the sth of December last no less than
10,182,817 gallons of foreign spirits have been imported.
In the like period of 1853 the quantity imported was
8,497,197 gallons, and in 1852, 8,237,027. This in-
crease is, of course, attributable to the circumstances of
the war ; for of rum, with which our sailors and soldiers
are supplied, out of 7,586,685 gallons imported in the
eleven months of last year, only 2,843,331 gallons paid
duty for home consumption. In the eleven months of
1853, 2,841,916 gallons, and in 1852, 2,575,269 gallons
were entered for home consumption.

lII.—An Account showing the Net Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended sth January, 1855; the Application of the same, and the Charge of the
Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Surplus or Deficiency upon such Charge.
Surplus Ita'ance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended £ Amount applied out of the Net Income for the Quarter ended January 5, 1855, to £
Oct. 10, 1854, viz.: redemption .of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) for the Quarter enthd Oct. 10, 1854,
exclusive of £264,670, the surplus charged to the Sinking Fund for the said Quarter,
Great Britain £ similarly applied 2,195,912
Amount applied t. Supply Services in the Quarter ended January 5, 1855: •
Ireland
134,363 Out of Exchequer Bonds
Out of Exchequer Bills
--- , 8,598,228
Balance of Instalraents of Exchequer Bonds appropriated by Parliament to Supply Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended January 5, 1858, viz.:—
Services, remaining unissued on Oct. 10, 1854 10,597 Interest of the Permanent Debt £5,807,996
Terminable Debt 673,212
Income received in the Quarter ended January 5, 1855, as shown in Account I. .. 14,458,177 Interest on Deficiency Bills -
The Civil List • 100,205
•••• ••••••
Amount received in the Quarter eliding January 5, 1855, for Exchequer Bonds issued .. 1,449,849 Other Charges on Consolidated Fund 367,756
Advances for Public Works, &C. ...... „ . .........
Amount of Exchequer Bills (Supply) issued in the Quarter ending January 5, 1855 .. • • 655,500 7,145,216
Balance of Amount received for Exchequer Bonds appropriated by Parliament to Supply
Amount received in the Quarter ending January 5, 1855, in repayment of Advances for Services, remaining in the Exchequer on January 5, 1855 . .... .. . ...
Public Works ...........................................425,920 Surplus liaiance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund; for the Quarter ended
January 5, 1855, viz.:
17,134,406 Great Britain .... ..... •• ••••• • •• • ••• • .............. • . ..£ ....
Balance, being the deficiency upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund in Great Britain, Ireland ....• • ....
and for which Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) will be issued ...... ............. . 1,519,531 464,068
18,653,940 ' 18,653,940

NATAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE•

The Cesar, 91, Captain Robb, Devonport.—Her
copper has been put all to rights, and she has been taken
out of dock at Keyham.

The Monarch will be paid to-day, and the Princess
Royal, 91, screw, Captain Lord C. Paget, will be paid
on Monday.
The Ajax, 60, screw, Captain Ramsay, hauled out of
the fitting basin yesterday, at Portsmouth, alongside
the jetty.
The lmperieuse, 51, screw, Captain R. B. Watson,
C. 8., received wages at Portsmouth yesterday.
The Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds, has been taken
into Devonport harbour by the Avon and Sprightly
steamers (the Confiance being under sepair), and the
Monarch, 84, Captain Patey, was towed out by the same
two vessels.

The Arrogant, 46, screw, Captain Yelverton, hauled
into the basin, at Portsmouth, yesterday, and will go
into No. 2 Dock, for examination and to repair defects.
The Dragon, 6, paddle, Captain Willcox, left Cro-
marty, Jan. 3, for Leith.
The Geyser, 6, paddle, Commander Roderick Dew,
will proceed in a day or two from Portsmouth, to
assist in navigating the new Royal yacht to that port.
The Bellona, transport, has sailed from Devonport
with victualling stores for Malta.
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complete in all their details, and it has been difficult
to arrange this in consequence of detached portions
being received at times and by different trains. The
whole care of the operation of shipping has devolved
upon Mr. Hedger, the Superintendent of the South.
ampton Dock Company, who has displayed great energy
under the circumstances.

The Great Northern and the Lady Alice Lambton are
not at Greenhithe, as stated, both these vessels having
left the river on Saturday last. They encountered the
heavy gale of Sunday night and Monday in the Chan-
nel. The Great Northern put in for shelter at Torbay,
and the Lady Alice Lambton into Portlands Reads.
When the gale abated both vessels proceeded on their
voyage to the Crimea, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that by this time they have reached Gibraltar.
The brig Bellona, with stores from the Royal William
Victualling-yard, sailed from Plymouth Sound on Thurs.
day from Malta.
The merchant ship Whirlwind, with bounty-ticket
emigrants, sailed from Plymouth at 4 p.m. on Thursday
for Diemen's Land.

THE QUEEN'S NEW YACHT.
Lucifer, paddle, having filled up with jury-masts and
spars and rigging for the Queen's new yacht, to be
named Victoria and Albert, and not Windsor Castle,
will proceed from Portsmouth to Pembroke to-day, with
the Hon. Lieutenant Foley, Mr. Aylen, master of the
Queen's yacht, a lieutenant, and 20 men, belonging to
the Ajar, and in all 120 sailers and riggers.

The Black Prince, transport, having received a supply
of fuel at Falmouth on Thursday, proceeded to the
Crimea.
The crew of the Majestic were yesterday paid down to
the 31st of October, and they have been granted 18 clear
days' leave, allowing four days additional for going t..)
and returning from their respective homes.
Tliti crew of the Amphion are to be paid doitit'irn
Monday next, when they will be granted leave of ab-
sence.