The Sun.
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1855.

TESTIMONIAL to the late LORD DUDLEY
COUTTS STUART.
At a Pubnz Meeting held at Willis's Rooms, on Friday, the 23d
March ;

The Right Hon. the Earl of SHAFTESBURY in the Chair;
It was ttesolved,—That a subscription be opened for the purpose of
erecting a Testimonial to Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, in commemora-
tion of his persevering advocacy of the rights of the Polish Nation,
itnd of hii incessant ant beneyolent labours iu succouring the afflicted
and oppressed of every country and condition.
lontributions will be received at NI mrs. Coutts and Co., a 9.
Strand; Messrs. Ilanbury, Taylor, and Lloyd, 60, Lombard-street:
and by the ttecretary of the Literary Association of the Friends of
Poland, 10, Duke-street, St. James's.
MONCK roN MILNES, Chairman.
W. L. BIRKBECK, 1 Hon.
CHARLES SZHLCZEWSKT, Secretarie'.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE NECESSITY FOR IMMEDIATE
ACTION IN THE CRIMEA.
(Front the' Times of this dall. )

It is exactly half a year since England learnt the
truth of the battle of the Alma, and the falsehood
of the capture of Sebastopol, At that time we had
all been kept on the tenterhooks of expectation for
three months, that being the period occupied in
collecting, embarking, conveying, disembarking,
and marching the army from Varna to its present
position. Somewhat fidgetty at this ,delay, and
dreading a campaign so late in the season, the Bri-
tish public were requested to " suspend their judg-
ment," and wait for the result of the next week or
two. But the prevailing thought in everybody's
mind was, that if the work was not done in Octo-
ber it would not be done at all in that year, and
then we should have a winter campaign. " Mos-
cow" was on .everybody's tongue, and there was
hardly a man who did not say that the assault
ought to be attempted-nt-tenf ri-shOattier than in
cur the certain horrors of a winter in the Crimea.
These forebodings became stronger when, at the
end of the month, it came out that the batteries
had failed, and that what it had cost more than a
fortnight to make it would take a month to renew
and improve. It was evident, indeed, that another
month would be expended in repairing the short-
comings of October the 17th, and that when the
batteries were ready to open fire it would be mid-
winter. So quickly did the season for action slip
out of our hands. Now, at thii moment we are in
precisely the same situation as we were on the 4th
of October last year, with the immaterial difference
that then we had winter fast approaching and now
we have summer.' Of the two it is hard to say
which is the more formidable in the Crimea. We
shall probably settle the question by suffering both.
But that is our present prospect. By the Ist of
May the sun will strike with terrible power on
the moist soil of our camp, and on the vast area
of half-buried corruption, and no mortal man can
say what our armies will not suffer. There is,
then, this month for work. We do not speak of
hte Russian reinforcements and supplies poured
into the Crimea in one continuous stream ; we are
speaking only of times and seasons. By the end
of this month fever, thirst, prostration, and all the
more violent or more insidious forms of disease
will begin to attack our army, and it will be found
quite as much as we can do to maintain our posi-
tion and our numbers, which at this moment we
do not believe to amount to more than 15,000
bayonets—perhaps 25,000 men in all—for the work
before us.

As Parliament is not sitting and there is nobody
else to put - the question, we think we may ask
Lord Panmure and his colleagues whether they are
satisfied with the present state of things, with
the prospect of April slipping away, as October
slipped away last year, with the slow pace of our
own preparations and the quick pace of the Rus-
sians, or with tlae fact that all this time the Rus-
sians are actually gaining ground on the allies and
pushing them into a corner, not here or there
only, but along the whole line, so that we can
neither get our batteries up nearer nor even make
a reconnaissance to see what the Russians are doing
in our rear ? There is not a single point on which
we can look with satisfaction or hope, unless it be
that at the date Of the vernal equinox the army
was in better health than it had been at the sum-

mer solstice in Bulgaria, or at the winter
solstice in the Crimea. For that, of course, we
were entirely prepared, and therefore see in it
small matter for congratulation. But, if we
look to what is out of the 'calendar, to what
depends upon presence of mind, forethought,
energy, and courage, and not on the ordinary ope-
ration of the elements, then we look in vain fc.r
anything to reassure us. We see only the greatest
probability that this year will be as the last, and
that before the end of the session we shall have our
Ministers deprecating censure, on the ground that
nobody expected a summer campaign, and that the
summer had turned out rather hotter than the aver-
age of summers in the Crimea. We are forced to this
uuploasant importunity, because when Parliament
meets again on Monday, the 16th inst., it will then
be vain to urge preparations for the spring cam-
paign. - Before a single regiment or piece of ord-
nance, sent on that suggestion, could reach the
Crimea, the spring of that climate will be past, and
the sun will be in fearful ascendancy. The present,
the present is the time ; now is the day for doing
something ; and what is being done there ? What
are we doing here ?
We don't want to croak about our own position
on the heights of Sebastopol. We will assume that
it is very strong ; that, after the result of the 25th
of October, the Russians will net hastily attack
Balaklava, and after the sth'of November, they
will be shy of attempting to surprise our camp.
We will assume that they have generally a judici-
ous reluctance to come to close quarters with us,
and that, though they seem to have nightly colli-
sions with our allies, thanks to the greater nume-
rical force of the French, and thanks also to those
excellent Zouaves, they are not likely to drive their
besiegers yet into the sea. We will assume that
the railwky will do wonders,—that there will be no
more deaths by mere famine and nakedness. We
will assume that the new Turkish contingent and
the Piedmontese army will find their way into the
Crimea in time at least for an autumnal cam-
paign ; we will assume everything that may
reasonably be required. What we want to know
is this :—Supposing everything to be done that has
been promised or promulgated hitherto, what more
likelihood is there of taking Sebastopol before the
Dog-days than there ever was ? What more chance
is there of our taking Sebastopol during the Dog-
days than there was durihg the dead of last win-
ter ? What more chance is there of taking Sebas-
topol next October than there was last Otcober ?
In fine, what chance is there of our taking the
place at all, under existing auspices, and as long
as the present estimate of the odds of war prevails
at head-quarters ? Has Lord Panmure any reason
to believe that something will be done this April ?
It is for this April—for the very purpose of being
on the spot, in position, and with our supplies
about us by this month—that the Allies determined
to stand the rigour of a Crimean winter in their
then unprepared state, instead of re-embarking
after the failure of the 17th of October. If this

month is passed in inaction, in vapouring, in wait-
ing idly upon Providence, or in expecting successes
that never will come of themselves, it is evident
that the fearful sacrifices of the winter campaign
will be entirely thrown away, and our army might
as well have passed the winter pleasantly on the
Bosphorus, and returned to the Crimea last month
as fresh as if it had just come from barracks in
England. If the Government at home has no as-
surance, and can give no assurance, that April will
be made use of before it is added to the months that
have been lost, we have one more question to
ask, and that is, how long they mean to leave
the conduct of the war in the present hands ? It
cannot be our design to spend‘ twenty millions of
money year by year, and 20,000 lives, merely to
maintain a position in the Crimea. The British
people do not contemplate a second siege of Troy,
which, at the present rate, will cost us 200,000,0001.
and 200,000 men. They expect something to
be done. They are not satisfied with a more
exhibition in the Crimea of those excellent de-
fensive qualities which have won so much respect
at the Horse Guards. They want something to
be done; and, if something is not done before long
the same public impatience which has already
effected great things will certainly insist on some
radical change in our present system of Govern-
ment.

MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE.
(Prom the Daily News of this day.)

Mr. Roebuck's Committee stands adjourned to
the 17th inst. On Friday—when the Committee
held its last sitting before the holidays—a good deal
of time was wasted before a quorum could be got
together. Three or four of the members had sys-
tematically absented themselves forsome days pre-
vious. These symptoms ought not to be passed over
without comment. Our readers cannot have for-
gotten how, at the time when the Committee was
nominated, several members rose in their places iu
the House of Commons to declare that though they
had consented to serve upon it, they disapproved
of the inquiry. Those who have closely watched the
proceedings of the Committee have been struck
with the obvious efforts of one member to turn the

Inquiry in the direction of the French army, it
having been. made °lie of the main objections to the
appointment of the Committee that it must neces-
sarily touch upon th‘iproceedingsof our Allies, and
thereby give umbrat to the French Government.
Nay, some who havp access behind the scenes do
not scruple to insinuate that the same member of

the Committee has
~been insidiously labouring to
work upon the persOnal susceptibilities of some of
his oolleagues, wallah° view to produce an ex-.
plosion that might bring the inquiry to a prema-
ture close. Without pausing to inquire how far
the symptoms of relaxed interest evinced by some
members of the Committee may be taken as forerun-
ners of a cessation of its researches, or to what ex-
tent the reluctant participators in the investigation
may be trying to obstruct theirmore zealous 'Confreres,
thus much may be taken for granted, that the Com-
mittee looked upon with unfriendly eyes in high
quarters, and that preparations are being made to
inaugurate a system "of pooh-poohing it during the
recess, preparatory to clapping an extinguisher
upon it.

The sagacity and persevering disposition of Mr.
Roebuck afford good security that this insidious
game will be played in vain. There is no harm,
however, in directing the attention of the public to
this manoeuvring of party coteries, in order that
public opinion may be prepared to support Mr.
Roebuck, if necessary. We have felt it our duty
to remonstrate, on more than one occas:on, with
the committee for the unsystematic manner in which
its inquiries have been conducted ; still it must be
admitted-that an invaluable mass of facts has al-
ready betn dragged to light through its instrumen-
tality. Already has it lawn made apparent that
tittaae atant4af... syatent i*ervdtlea-=the ndrninistra- •
tion of our army and of all the auxiliary civil de-
partments. Already bas' it been made apparent
that men are habitually thrust into appointments
of the highest trust and responsibility without any
attempt beinz made to test their official aptitude.
We are engaged in a war in which the enemy has
never confronted our troops in the field without
receiving a signal defeat. Hitherto our operations
have been confined to the sea-coast, to which our
numerous transports have had safe and uninter-
rupted access, and yet food, clothing, fuel, shelter,
medicine—all have been witkheld from our soldiers
to an extent that has produced disease and death
in their most hideous forms. The mismanagement
has been as glaring at home as abroad ; over-
crowded barracks have engendered disease among
the troops of the line, and our militia appears to beb
melting away like snow heaps before the breath of
spring. The efforts of the honest members of the
committee which are throwing light on the causes
that have produced this lamentable state of affairs
deserve the support and encouragement of public
sympathy and approbation.
We cau pardon our Government officials for the
dismay with which the progress of the committee's
inquiries inspires them. Its sacrilegious hands are
withdrawing the veil which screened their indolent
imbecility. And the insight obtained into the secrets
of the prison-house of the War Department is setting
men to conjecture how matters'may stand in other
Government offices. Luckless individuals connected
with-the colonies—West Indians, Canadians, Aus-
tralians, natives of the Cape—all, in short, who
have at auy time waited for an interview with the
Secretary or Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in
" the chamber of sighs," shrug their shoulders,
and mutter that. ti,e War-office and the Colonial-
office are " as like as two peas." They recollect how
long the 'Home Colonial Administration was in a
state of perennial feud with the Colonies ; they re-
collect flow the representations of men long practi•
cally conversant with the affairs of these settle-
ments were scouted because clerks, accustomed
only to copy and register letters, could not compre-
bend them ; they recollect how the wayward in-
competency of Colonial-office employ-es drove the
Canadas into Tebellion, drove the Cape to the verge
of insurrection, beggared the West Indies, and
brought .bankruptcy over Australia. The recesses
of the Foreign-office have yet to be explored, but
the conduct of our diplomatic and consular agents
abroad suggests ugly suspicions that affairs are no
better managed there. In short, John Bull is
awakening to an uncomfortable suspicion that the
whole of his Executive Government is little better
than a sham ; that his public affairs were admi-
nistered he has believed simply and solely because
he never allowed himself to examine the matter.
The growth of this opinion among the public out
of doors is an awkward affair for those who have
hitherto enjoyed the exclusive entrée to administra-
tive employment. Party divisions among them are
almost entirely effaced—only a microscopic eye can
detect any difference between their professions of
principle. The Duke of Argyll protests that Lord
Palmerston entertains the same views, is follow-

ing out the same policy, as the Earl of Aberdeen.
The Earl of Derby is a Whig turned Tory", as Lord
Palmerston is a Tory turned Whig, There is no-
thing to prevent a man of any party among them
acting in concert with a man of any other party ;
and yet no Premier can collect a sufficient number
of competent men out of the whole batch,to make
up an efficient Ministry. Government in the
hands of the lordly exclusives is waxing daily more
feeble ; and apparently the machine must come to
a stand unless the unprivileged classes—Cromwell-
like—shoulder the incapables out of office, telling
them to "make way for better men." The recent
exposures of scandalous nepotism in appointments
to lucrative offices have taken from the exclusives
their last argument in defence of the system by
which they have so long profited. We have
been told by them that statesmanship is a trade
which men learn ; and that only members of the
aristocracy can afford the expense of the long un-
remunerative apprenticeship. Which branch of
state-craft has Sir Charles Wood studied ? He is
transferred from the Exchequer to the Board of
Control,
and from the Board of Control to the Ad-
miralty, as if the same education could train a man
for employment so entirely distinct. And as for
the unremunerated political adventurers of noble
families, where are we to, seek for them, when peers
gorged with wealth unscrupulously quarter their
callow broods of unfledged statesmen—sons, sons-
in-law, and nephews—on the public purse ? Only
the middle-class representatives of the people in
the House of Commons serve their country with-
out prospect of fee or reward : for every appoint-
ment that has a salary attached to it is secured in
reversion—three deep—for the scions of the aris-
tocracy.

act, destined to form the invariable basis of the
preliniinaries of peace. The last two sittings have,
I am happy to state, strengthened the hopes which
were entertained of the re-establishment of a solid
and durable peace. It appears that matters have
so far advanced that the task of the negotiators is
almost accomplished, except so far as regards the
third guarantee, which must be settled by the
sword—in fact, by the result of the attack of the
Allied forces on Sebastopol. Ido not mean to say
that peace is to be considered as completely assured,
for as long as the protocol c mtaining the un-
alterable bases of the preliminaries of peace
shall not have been signed by the Russian pleni-
potentaries, many difficulties may arise to check
the favourable progress which the Congress has'
hitherto made. But' still the Russian plenipo-
tentiaries-would not have consented in principle
to the important concessions which have been
the object of the deliberations of the first six
sittings of the congress if their government had
not formally authorised them, and if they did not
really intend to sign the final protocol. Russia is
certainly free, up to the last moment, to sign or
not sign that document. Nevertheless, Count
Nesselrode is too consummate a statesman to give
reason to suppose that he has authorised Prince
Gortschakoff and M. de Titoffto display the greatest
=Aeration and the most conciliatory spirit during
the discussion, if determined to retract their con-
cessions
at the moment of signing the protocol. A
circumstance which increases the hopes of peace is
that in the last sitting the congress discussed the
propriety of increasing the number of its members,
in order to form committees charged to examine •
questions of detail, such as the special institutions
-txr-be ive3i to ttirrEfatintitSlSSiira.fltiiectignb
mation of a syndicate for preserving the free navi-
gation of the Danube, &c., &c. This development
of the conferences will give them the impor-
tance of a bona fide congress, and that, in the eyes
of any man-experienced in diplomacy, appears a
certain indication that the negotiations have taken
a decided turn in favour of peace."
A letter from Berlin of the 30th ult., in the
Debats, says :—" There is no doubt that on the
third point a strong opposition of principles has
arisen between the reciprocal pretensions ; and
that up to this time no understanding has been
come to. The representatives of the Western
Powers on the one hand have not declared them-
selves satisfied with the proposition of their
also establishing naval stations iu the Black
Sea ; and on tho other hand Prince Gorts-
chakoff decidedly refuses to accept the reduc-
tion of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea to a
limited•number of vessels, and the transformation
of Sebastopol into a commercial port. According
to his opinion, the sanctioning of any third power
to exercise a control over what takes place within
the port of Sebastopol would be to allow an inter-
ference with the rights of sovereignty of the Em-
peror. Prince Gortschakoff has declared that he
will not, on this point, depart one iota *from the
precise instructions which he has received. The
difference of opinions was at length so strongly
manifested that no other resource was left but to
postpone the discussion in order to apply for fresh
instructions, and in the meantime to discuss the
fourth point. This information comes from a source
on which reliance can be placed. All the letters
from St. Petersburg agree in stating that the feeling
in favour of war has strongly increased in Russiaof
late. Notwithstanding this, the hopes of peace
have become so predominant here, and indeed
throughout Pruss?a, that people talk of nothing
less than an immediate armistice, a congress •of
sovereigns, &c., and the Bourse has risen consi-
derably in consequence."

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Bellerophon, 84, Captain Lord G. Paula, arrived
at Spithead yesterday morning, having invalids on
board from the Black Sea. She has been detained a
great length of time owing to co-Itrary windS.
One of the new screw gun-boats (Grinder) came into
harbour t.)-day, and will go into dock to be coppered
and completed for the Baltic.
The Avon, paddle.tender, Master CornmanCer Veitch,
sailed yesterday from Portsmouth for Devonport.
The Harbinger, screw transp.rt, left the Downs on
the 2d instant.

A. boat in going off to the Nile, 91, at Spithead, on
Monday afternoon, being heavily laden with provision-,
filled, and went ilown ; and but for the timely, arrival of
the Little Bee, engineers' instruction vessel, three or
four would have met a watery grave. One roan bad
sunk for the last time, and was got on board quite in-
sensible ; 'however, by prompt measures and judicious
treatment, he recovered. Tuo touch praise cannot be
given to the offic:m-s on board the Bee tor their active
exertions iu rescuing their fellow-creatures from an un-
timely end. Ahuut 1501. worth ofirovisions went down
with the boat.

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander.—J. Tudor, to be Agent for Transports.
-

Lieutenants.—John Cartwright, ) the Orion ;.T. W.
Oliver, to the James Watt ; Alexander C. B►rtwhistle,
from the Coastguard to the St. (4corge ; Ti-iomas M.
Campbell, from the Archer tl the Nile ; Samuel T.
Dickens, from the Waterloo t• the Neptune ; George
T. S. Winthorp, from the Cameleon, revenue vessel, to
the Waterloo; Henry Rodgers, to the Hastings ; Sid-
mouth S. Skipwith, to the Powerful.
Masters.—Cornelius T. A. Noddali, to be Master-At-
tendant at Malta Dockyard; G. F. M‘Douga, to the
Meander.

Mate.—Hon. H. C. Lascelles, to the Hecate.
Second-Masters.—Henry G. Kelley, to the Pylades ;
Charles Duckett, to the Janus ; Denton H. Speer, to
the Otter ; Samuel Sibley, to the Locust.
Acting Second-Master.—Joseph W. Higgs, to the
Tyne.
Temporary Clerks.—Henry W. Potts and Edward E.
Keovil, to the Duke of Wellington.
Acting Clerk.—Samuel G. Robinson, to the Ex-
mouth.

Clerks' Assistants.—Edwin D. Green, to the Royal
George; W. H. Martin, Edward H. Jolly Thomas Clay-
ton, and Thomas B. Johnston, to the Royal Albert.
The following gentlemen have been appointed as-
sistant-surgeons on the Hospital staff :—Acting•assist-
ant-surgeon George Henry Finlay, vice Poison, de-
ceased ; Acting-assistant-surgeon Henry Sherlock, vica
Boyle, deceased. Mr. John N. Shipton has been ap-
pointed an acting-assistant-surgeen.

It is intended to establish a depot of seamen, artifi-
cers, stokers, &c., fur service in the Baltic and White
Sea fleets in Leith-roads, for which purpose, in addition
to her Majesty's ship Athol, the guardship in the roads,
a 50-gun frigate, is to be stationed there to, afford ac-
commodation to volunteers.

Yesterday a large quantity of medical and surgical
stores, &c., was shipped from the Tower for convey-
ance to Smyrna and Scutari. Among the stores are
500 hospital bedsteads with bedding complete, hip
and slipper baths, pails, &c., for the new hospital at
Smyrna.
In the 36 days just past, 35 hired transports, having
a measurement of 52,830 tons, have left the port of
Southampton, with 12,000 troops, 500 horses, several
thousand tons of stores, and 641 wooden houses, suffi-
cient to shelter 20,000 men. At a rate of 50e. per ton
per month, the hire of these 35 vessels costs the Govern-
ment 132,0751. monthly.
Yesterday upwards of 2,000 Minie and Pritchett
rifles, rifled muskets, and carbines, were delivered from
the manufacturers at Birmingham into the Ordnance
stores at the Tower. Great activity exists in the Small
Arms Department at the Tower and at the Ordnance
Works at Enfield, in getting the rifles ready for the
reinforcements proceeding to the Crimea. The Go-
vernment Ordnance Factory, for the manufacture of
muskets and small arms, at Enfield-lock, having
been found inadequate for the extensive supply
at present required, is about to he increased to a
considerable extent, the Government having entered into
several contracts for the erection of a very fine building
with adjoining premises. The walls of the new building
will enclose an area of about two acres.
Two officers and 261 privates of the Land Transport
Corps will leave Bristol this morning and arrive at Ply-
mouth in the afternoon.

Mr. P. L. Pascoe, of the Cossack, 20, screw, met his
death last week under the following circumstances :
The ship was off the North Foreland and the sea was
running very high, when Mr. Pascoe, who had been
engaged aloft, lost his hold, fell overboard, and was
drowned. He had just completed 21 years' service in
the navy, and was engaged List summer in the Baltic.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Parana, Capt.
Elhston, has been chartered by the French Government
for five months for the conveyance of troops. she is
being speedily prepared for sca, and will leave South-
ampton fur Marseilles on Friday morning.

ARRIVALS, &c., AT MA LTA.
A letter froim Malta, dated March 23, gives the fol-
lowing account of arrivals of,military at that island :
"Per Cleopa4r 1, front the Et,t- -Lieutenant P. Ra-
venhill, loyal Efigineers, on sick leavM or-General the
e.
"Per Vatican,f•o:n Marseilles—aj
Chevalier P. de eavero, Capt. Oueliterlony, Royal Engi-
neer; ; Lieut. Lockhart, 41st Reviment C. Pyri9.
" Per Itriperalor, from the East—Capt. Leslie, 9th
Regiment.
Carmel, from Marseilles—The Rev. Mr. Glee-
Commissary-GeneralMaclean, 1 staff officer,
ssclopffi, oars, 1 nori-oornniissioned officer, and 254 rank and
file (French).
"Per .Avenir, from Marseilles—Lord Kennedy, Can-
tain Lord Crowley, Captain James, and 80 FrenCh
troops.
"Per Indian, from Liverpool—Captains Percival,
Ward, and Bloss ; Lieutenant 'rredcroft and Wings •
Surgeons Williamson and Fogo, Royal Artillery ; Quar:

I
termaster Drago, Scots Fusiliers • 173 rank and file of
the Royal Artillery, and troops of the line, and 14 com-
missariat clerks.
" Per Canterbury, from the East-4th Light Dra-
goons, Assistant-Surgeon Crichton ; 7th Foot, Lieut.
Disney ; 49tb, Assistant-Surgeon J. Y. Jephson ; 50th,
Capt. R. IL Murchison ; Ensign Vorscien of the 214
Regiment, 148 rank and file of various regiments, 19
women, and 1 child. -
"Per Emeu, from Athens—Her Majesty's 3d Foot,
Colonel Van Straubenzie ; Major Paterson ; Captains
Pownall, Hood, AmbrOse, Ross, Gore, and Warburton ;
Lieutenants A plin, Dunbar, and Sidebottotn ; Adju-
tants Burninghain, Wainman, Turner, and Newton ;
Surgeon J. Burke ' • Assistant-Surgeons T. Teevan and
Day ; Paymaster F. G. Syms ; and Quartermaster
Stillwell-633 rank and file, and 3 men of the 97th
Regiment.
" Per Prince Jerome, from the Crimea (French line-
of-battle ship)—Capt. Perigaud with 138 French troops.
" Per 'Crcems, from Portsmeuth-20th Foot : Capt.
Turner ; Lieutenants Hewett, O'Neill, Little, and Kirby ;
Ensign Young; 127 rank and file. 95th Regiment
Lieutenants Parkinson, Hon. C. M. H. Forbes, Knatch-
bull, and Baron ; 128 rank and file.
"The above arrivals, per Emeu and Creesus, the Buffs,
under orders for the Crimea, and the 20th and 95th, to
form part of the depot, having been quartered as
follows '.—
"The Buffs in the Strada Torre Barracks ; officers in
the Auberge de Castille.
" 20th—At the Lazaretto.
"95th—New barracks at Verdala.
" Royal Wiltshire Militia Regiment, en route to Corfu,
to which garrison they have proceeded—Lieutenant.
Colonel Lord Methuen ; Captains Prower, Breton,
Bathurst, Reed, and Robinson ; Lieutenants Archer,
Black, Goble, Mahon, Pearse, and Mouthrer ; Ensigns
Paton (Quartermaster), Mant, Benson, Penkit, Wynd-
, ani,-Wrckarry-atrd' B6ttero, 'Adjutant ; Surgton Irli".
Nicholls, Assistant-Surgeon H. Bishopp ; 646 rank and
file, 47 women, and 36 children.
1,1
" Per Medway, from Balaklava (22d), Lieutenant-
' Colonel Vaughan, Dr. Johnston, and Dr. Seddall, of
the 33d Regiment.
" Per Sinai, from the Levant (22d), four English
officers (names not given), nine French officers, and
176 rank and file.
" The Niagara, 24th inst., from Constantinople, has
arrived this morning, but brings no passengers.
The subjoined items of military news are from a Malta
letter dated March 26 :
" The Great Britain, only nine days from Queens.
town, arrived here on the afternoon of the 22d, having a
great many men and officers belonging to regiments in
the Crimea. The following is the strength :
" 17th Foot—Captains Armstrong and Macpherson ;
• Lieutenants Dyer, Versturme, and Macrsight ; Ensign
Utterson ; 128 rank and file.
" 21st—Captains Collingwood and Hawker ; Lieute-
nant Hon. R. R. Best, Bruce, Hollway, and Coakley ;
132 rank and file.
" nth—Captains Pennefather and Stevenson ; Lieu-
tenants Singleton, Fleming, Wood, and Feild ; 130
rank and file.
" 41st—Majors Pratt and Bardard ; Lieutenants
Johnson, Byam, and Wavell ; 130 rank and file.
" 47th—Captains Armit and Roper ; Lieutenants
Croker, Bloomfield, Gamier, and Hawkes ; 130 rank
and file.
" 49th—Captain Nason ; Lieutenants Mauls, Scoones,
Savary, and Davies ; 130 rank and file.
" 55th—Captain Curs ; Lieutenants Richards, Stone,
Evans, and Temple ; 130 rank and file.
" 57th—Lieutenants Coope, Bird, Macartney, and
Wilmot ; Ensign Waugh ; 131 rank and.file.
" 62d—Captains Rynd and Cox ; Lieutenants Clarke,
Hughes, Ternpleman, and Ramsay • 130 rank and file.
63d—Major Higginbotham ; Lieutenants Benyon,
Knox, Dumaresque, and Bruce ; 137 rank and file.
" 68th—Captain Trent ; Lieutenants Grace, Sparke,
Ethelstone, and Seymour ; 130 rank and file.
"'Medical—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Pinkerton and
Surgeon W. Gordon.
"The troops were quartered, on their arrival, the 2d
Division, comprising the 30th, 41st, 47th, 49th, 55th,
62d, and 95th, at the barracks recently erected at Ver-
dalah ; the 4th Division, comprising the 17th, 21st,
57th, 63d, and 68th, with the staff, at the Lazaretto.
Temporary barracks are being built outside the town
for other troops expected for the depot.
"The draughts were so kindly treated by Captain
Gray on their passage out, that, besides a complimen-
tary letter from the officers of the several draughts by
Major Heyland in their name, a more substantial ac-
knowledgment was given in the shape of a handsome
piece of plate.
"On Saturday, the 24th, the Great Britain sailed for
England, having received on board the following pas-
sengers : —The Hon. W. C. Yelverton, RA., Messrs.
Lean, Phillips, Roberts, and Wilkinson ; 62 soldiers and
sailors, invalids.
"On the 24th, the vestal English steamer left the
harbour for Balaklava, with stares and Mr. Hewson on
board."