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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1855.

I purchase. The commission of Lieut.-Col. Alexander Max-
well to be antedated to Dec. 12, 1854, but not to carry
back pay.
47th Foot—Captain Robert Wm. Lowry to be Major,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieut-Colonel Fordyce, pro-
moted, without purchase, to an Unattached Lieutenant-
Colonelcy. Lieutenant H. J. Buchanan to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Lowry.
48th Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase—Gentle-
man Cadet Colin Campbell, from the Royal Military Col-
lege ; Pembroke O'Mord'ha Hutchinson Marshall, Gent.
49th Foot—Captain Daniel O'Connell, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major White, pro-
moted, without purchase, to an Unattached Majority.
55th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Mark M. Gillies, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase.
57th Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase- Gentle-
man Cadet Samuel F. Sewell, from the Royal Military

College ; John Shaw Phelps, Gent. The 'appointment of
Assistant-Surgeon John Shaw Phelps, as stated in tho
Gazette of 11th August, 1854, has been cancelled.
59th Foot—Robert Gaming, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Morgan, appointed to the 4th Foot.
60th Foot—For Frederick Simon A. Orchard, Gent., to
be Ensign without purchase, vice Austin, appointed to the
56th Foot, which appeared in the Gazette of the Bth June,
read, to be Ensign, without purchase, towards completing
the establishment.

--63-d-i-o—oiLlYe—Lancey Radcliffe Anderson, Gent„ to be

Ensign, without purchase ; Assistant-Surgeon -William
Henry Flower has been permitted to resign his Commis-
sion.

65th Foot—Arthur Henry Lewis, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
67th Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase--Robert
Reginald Luard, Gent. ; Edmund Henry Lenon, Gent.
79th Foot—Lieut. F. C. Turner to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Harrisson, who retires.
80th Foot—Henry Grattan, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase. _ . _ _ _ •

81st Foot—Lieut. George Betts to be Captain, by pAr-
chase, vice Goodwin, who retires; Ensign W. N. Frank-
lyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Betts.
82d Foot—Ensign C. J. East to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Apreece. deceased. _
88th 114 ot—Brevet-Major Edward Day7ey to be 3b.jor,
without purchase, vice Norton, deceased ; Lieut. G. R.
Beresford to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bayley;
Ensign L. C. Scott to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Beresford ; Frederick Fox, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase.
89th Foot—Henry Bishop, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase.
98th Foot—Ensign Charles Mills to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Batt, promoted.
_ _

Rifle Brigade—To be Ensigns, without purchase—John
Hillary Allaire, Gantt and Edward John Fryer, Gent. .

Gold Coast Corps—James Lazenby, Gent., to be Ensign
without purchase, vice Taylor, promoted.

wall, June 28, and. July 19, at one, at the Exeter District
Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Simmons and
Cock, Truro ; Stogdon, Exeter.
John Fenton, apothecary, Liverpool, July 2d and 23d,
at eleven, At the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, offi-
cial assignee, Liverpool ; Dodge, Liverpool.
Thomas Punshon, builder, Durham, June 29, at eleven,
and July 20, at one. at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon Tyne ;
Hartley, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury; Brignal,
Durham.

Hyams Fienburg, clothier and outfitter, Newport, Mon-
mouthshire June 26, and July 24, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Mon-
mouthshire,
Acraman, official assignee, Bristol;
Blakey; Newport ; Bevan and Girling Bristol.
William Needham and Samuel White, silk and velvet
manufacturers, Friday-street, Cheapside, city, June 26, at
two, and July 28, at half-past twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Sheard and
Baker, Old Jewry.
Benjamin Kent, hotel keeper, Norfolk-street, Strand,
June 22, at half-past twelve, and July 27, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gannett, official
assignee, Aldermanbury ; Wetherfield, Basinghall-street.
William Davis, boot and shoe naannfacturer, Birming-
ham, June 23 and July 20, at the Birmingham bistrict
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Hodg-
son, Birmingham.
ohn Barton, George Barton, and John Parks, copper
roller manufacturers, Manchester, 4th and 25th July, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official
assignee, Manchester ; Slater and Heelis, Manchester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Alexr. Cameron,- merchant, Glasgow, June 25, at two,
within the Globe Hotel, George-square, Glasgow. - -
John Stark, glass and perfumery manufacturer, Glas-
gow, June 28, at twelve, within the Waverlay Notel,
George-square, Glasgow.
James and Charles Alexander, tea merchants, Glasgow,
June 29, at twelve, within the Glasgow Stock Exchange.
A. Knox and Co., wine and spirit merchants, Glasgow,
July 2, at twelve, within the Globe Hotel.
James Hood, draper, Newmilns, Ayrshire.

NEUTRALS IN TII.E B4LTIC.

CIRCULAR DESPATCH OF LORD CLARENDON.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Juxu 6, 1855.
The Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg
has recently put in circulation a statement purporting to ho a
representation of a communication made by Captain Watson,
of her Majesty's ship Impel ieuse, to the Russian authorities
at Baltic port, in one clause of which Captain Watson is al-
leged to .have notified " that foreign, that is to say, neutral
vessels, which might at that time be in Baltic port, might
quit the port, but only in ballast, or with cargoes which
might not be Russian property;" and from this represent t-
tion of the notification made by Captain Watson, the Imperial
Ministry of Foreign Affairs draws, and publishes as a warning
to neutrals, the inference that the British Government has
abandoned the principle proclaimed last year by her Majesty,
in her declaration of the 28th of March last, that " her Ma-
jesty will waive the right of seizing enemy's property laden
on board a neutral vessel, unless it be contraband of war."
In another passage of the statement of tho Imperial Minis
try of Foreign Affairs Captain Watson is represented to have
declared, in answer to the inquiry whether neutral vessels
allowed by him to depart from Baltic Port after the establish.
ment of the blockade, in ballast or with cargoes, would be at
liberty te pursue their•voyage.without risk o' being detained
by any of her Majesty's cruisers which they night fall in with
at sea, that he could not undertake that such would be the
case, inasmuch as the admiral commanding the British fleet
might hereafter make other arrangements.
Her Majesty', Government are not surprised that such a
publicationbn the part of the' Imperial Ministry of Foreign
Affairs at St. Petersburg has been the cause ,)f some anxiety
to neutral powers, who could not reasonab:y suppose that
the Imperial Government of Russia would resort to the ex-
pedient of misrepresenting a notification made to Russian
authorities on a point so deeply interesting to the commerce
of states in amity with Russia._

Fortunately for the cause of truth, and ror the relief of
neutral powers from the embarrassment which the statement
put forth by the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs was
calculated to occasion, her Majesty's ship Imperieuse is at
the present moment in Portsmouth harbour, having been
obliged to return to England to repair damages sustained by
her in a collision with another of her Majesty's ships in the
Baltic. Her Majesty's Government have therefore had the
opportunity of communicating directly with Captain Watson,
and of ascertaining from him exactly what passed on the
occasion in question ; and neutral nations will learn that the
Imperial Government of Russia has published to the world,
as true, a statement which, as well as the inference that the
Imperial Government has drawn from it, is wholly un-
founded.

In regard to the first point, namely, the alleged pro-
hibition to neutrals to export Ritssian produce on departing
from a port placed under blockade by her Dlajesty's cruisers,
Captain Watson has laid before her Majesty's Government a
letter, dated the Ist inst., from Lieut. De Kantzow, of her
Majesty's ship Imperieuse, the officer employed by Captain
Watson to communicate with the Russian authorities at Baltic
Port, which states as follows :

" Neutral ships lying in the harbour laden with Russian
produce (rye and gin) were permitted to, and did actually,
proceed on their respective voyages. The goiernor asked if
I could promise that they would never be molested or inter-
fered with. In answer I stated that the proclamation of her
Majesty was clear and concise, that he must abide by it, and
in the event of their being captured the case would be judged
by the Admiralty Court."
On the second point, namely, that Captain Watson declined
to give an assurance that vessels allowed.fby him to depart
from Baltic Port would not bo molested on their voyage, the
same officer, Lieut. Do Kantzow, states "that the governor
asked permission for four fishing boats, without leeks, to be
permitted to proceed to Riga, and that after 1 had acquainted
you (Captain Watson) with the same, as well as with the
names of the neutral ships lying in the port, and their respec-
tive cargoes, I conveyed to him your permission that they
might proceed, at the same time stating that yon had no in-
tention of molesting the town, or any fishing boats, but that
you could not guarantee that boats of that description would
never be molested, as the commander-in-chief was expected,
and might issue different orders".",, . :

Her Majesty's Governmentabstiiii from Commuting upon
the course pursued by the IMperial Government of Russia in
this matter; but I have to instruct you to give all possible
publicity to this despatch in the country in which you reside.
-Tam, &c.,

(Signed)

CLARENDON.

THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

The following will be found a correct statement of tho re-
organisation of the several civil departments under the Mi-
nister of War :

In future the Clerk of the Ordnance will havo a salary of
2,001./. per annum. He will be the chief of the civil staff of

the War Department, and the executive officer of the Minis-
ter of War, directing all the ordinary business of the subor-*
dinate departments.
There wi,l be an Inspector• General of Fortifications, at
1,5001. per annum ; two Deputy-Inspectors-General, at 6541.
each ; and two Assistant-Deputy•lnspectors-General, at 5(101.
The titles of those officers indicate the nature of their duties,
but we may state that one of the Deputy Inspectors- General
will have under his superintendence fortresses and defensive
works, while the other will take charge of the barrack
service.

The Director-General of Artillery, with 1,0001. a year, will
have complete control over the artillery materiel, and will be
always prepared to furnish the Minister of War with guns
and ammunition in a proper state of efficiency. He is also,
among other things, to make suggestions to the Minister of
War regarding improvements in gunnery, drc. The Naval
Director of Artillery will have 5001. per annum.
Besides the Clerk of the Ordnance, the four principal civil
officers will be the Di,Tetor-General of Stores, of Contracts,
of Army Clothing, and of Accounts. All these are new offices,
and we subjoin the statement of their duties.
The duties of. the Director-General of Stores, whose salary
is fixed at 1,0001. per annum--1. In superintending the re-
ceipt, survey, and arrangements of all stores consigned to the
custody of his department-2. In directing the custody of
those stores by the officers of his department. 3. In re-
ceiving and controlling all demands made upon the stores de-
partment, whether by storekeepers at home and abroad, or
by other departments of her Majesty's service. 4. In taking
the proper steps to meet the demands, either by ordering the
issue of stores, or by making requisitions for what is wanted

if it be not in store. 5. In superintending the issue and
shipment of stores required for carrying on the sever al ser-
vices. 6. In superintending the examination of accounts of
all officers in charge of Ordnance stores. 7. •In causing stock
to be taken of stores in the custody of the department from
time to time, as he may be directed.

.The Director-Generil of Contracts will have 1,5001. per
annum. His duties will consist-1„ In providing, by means
of public competition and contracts, for the supply of all
military and other stores, and for the execution of such other
services as may be required by the various civil departments
of the army. 2. In making purchases and agreements when
required by private treaty, on special written instructions
from the Minister at War. 3. In superintending the execu-
tion of all agreements made by him up to the time of their
final completion, and in taking all necessary steps for enforc-
ing the fulfilment of all contracts.

The Army Clothing Department will be managed by
Director-General at 1,0001., and an Assistant-Director-
General at 800/. per annum. The Duties of Director-General
of Army Clothing will comprise-1.. Taking charge of all
patterns of cloth, clothing, or materials for the same, which
have been approved by her Majesty, and scaled by Royal
order by the Secretary of State. 2. All requisitions for
clothing, when approved by the Secretary of State, will be
sent to the Director-General, who will make the necessary
arrangements with the Director of Contracts to have the
articles contracted for. 3. The Director-General will be as-
sisted in the discharge of his duties by an Assistant Director-
General, who will be specially charged with conducting all
correspondence with the clothiers. The Director-General of
Clothing will be informed by the Adjutant-General of the
clothing required for the army, and it will be his duty to
make the necessary 4rrangements to insure its delivery at the
proper periods and fn the proper localities.
The Accountant-General will have 1,200'. a year. The
nature of his duties are sufficiently expressed by his title.
The military officers at Woolwich will comprise—the Su-
perinten lent of Royal Gun Factories, at pO/. a year; the
Superintendent of Royal Carriage Factories, at 500/. ; the
at
tnd o theol
Superintendent of the Royal Laboratories, at 500/. ; the
Superintendent of the Royal Factory of Small Arms, at 5001.;
per anSuperintendentnum.
of the Royal Factory of Gunpowder,

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

( the Times of m
tthis y.)
Intelligence has From
reached us frohe Baltic fleet which will
no doubt be read with the deepest indignation throughout the
civilised world. It is to the effect that the Russians have
murdered in cold blood a boat's crew who were engaged in
landing at Hangoe, under a flag of truce, a party of Russian
prisoners. Such is the substance of the intelligence which
has reached us by electric telegraph ; for further particulars we
must await the slower movements of the post. We fear,
however, that the news must be accepted as true. We are
informed that 24 men have been killed, three of whom were
officers, and that out of the boat's crew only one survived.
The very names of the unfortunate gentlemen who have fallen
victims to the dastardly attack while engaged in an errand
of charity and mercy are given by our correspondent. Any
hope, therefore, that this shameful occurrence can be at all
explained away into anything less tragical is slight indeed.
This is just a second edition of Sinope on a small scale. The
Russian ships of war cannot be trusted away from the protec-
tion of their shore batteries ; their crews cannot be brought
to meet the allies in fair contest; but when there is question
of making an onslaught upon a small boat which is advanc-
ing to meet them under the protection of a flag of truce,
who so brave and so terrible as these heroes of shal-
low water and stone walls ? The experience of the
Euxine has been thrown away upon these champions of the
Baltic. They might have remembered that, flattering as the
massacre of Sinope might be to their national vanity, it has
been fearfully avenged. Even now, when this fresh act of
barbarity has been perpetrated, the drag-net is being drawn
closer and closer round the heads of their countrymen in the
Crimea. It would cost the allied commanders but a word,
and 'e hundred Russians could be put to death for every one
of these unfortunate Englishmen who have been so treacher-
ously and inhumanly murdered. The game, we should
imagine, is far from a safe one as far as the Russians are con-
cerned, even if the Generals and Admirals of the allies en-
deavour to prevent reprisals. It will be difficult to restrain
the passions and the hands of men flushed with victory, who
are burning with indignation at the thought that their country-
men have been literally murdered in a most barbarous man-
ner by the countrymen of those whose lives have been left at
their mercy by the fortune of war. The English have not yet
`acted upon the system of reprisals even when provoked by
the assassination of their wounded soldiers on the battle-fields
of the Crimea. It would seem as though the Russians were
determined to carry provocation to its highest point—an un-
safe idea at the present critical moment of the Crimean cam-
paign, when so many Russian towns are at the mercy of the
allies.

That the Russians are ashamed of these sanguinary proceed-
ings when they are brought before the notice of the eiv.lised
world we fully believe. They are so far ashamed of them
that they endeavour to explain them away. They would en-
joy at the same time the satisfaction of slaughtering a defence-
less foe, and that of a character for humanity and good feel.
ing. We have little doubt that this disgraceful occurrence
will be treated as a trifling mistake :—" The officer in com-
mand had not observed he flag of truce, or, if he had observed
it, he mistook it for a signal of defiance. Was there not rea-
son for the most energetic measures when a single small boat
pulled in to the Russian coast ? This wag evidently not the
time for hesitation or delay. The empire must be saved, at
whetever cost of human life. ' At such a moment it was im-
possible to think of parley, or to warn the intruders back.
Had the handful of men in the Cossack's boat succeeded in
effecting a 1 tnding, the consequence to the defence of Cron-
stadt might have been of the most alarming description." It
will, however, be a little difficult to give any satisfactory ex-
planatio;• of such an occurrence as this. A small boat, carry-
ing a flag of truce, in broad daylight, is pulled on to the Rus-

Sian coast, whereupon the crew are summarily fired upon
with most fatal effect. Even if they could ,succeed
in establishing a doubt as to their knowledge that
the boat was covered by a flag of truce, it would still remain

a most sanguinary stain upon their military escucheon that
the Russians deliberately fired upon so small a boat without
giving the crew the option of surrender. This is making war
a la Cosaque with a witness, and no doubt the Russians will
ere long get the benefit of their vigour. As the first fruits of
their system of action they will, no doubt, enjoy for the
future a perfect immunity from flags of truce and the restora-
tion of prisoners.

(From the Morning Herald of this day.)
Last night Mr. Layard moved in the House of Commons
his long-promised resolution on the subject of administrative
reform and unfolded his plan for achieving that very desir-
able object before a large and attentive house. The scope of
the reform projected by the member for Aylesbury is, at all
events, sufficiently extensive. It embraces the army, the
navy, the diplomatic, and the consular and civil services. In
all of these departments he has discovered inherent disorder,
and for each of them ho has suggested such improvements as
he thinks calculated to remedy, as far as may be, existing
defects.

It would hardly be possible within the limits of a single
article to follow Mr. Layard through all his highly-interesting
speech, tokliscuss his plan, and do justice to the propositions
connected with this very largo subject, brought forward by
the various speakers. Mr. Layard asserts that the evils of
the existing system are not only to be remedied by pressure
from without, but disclaims all intention •of directing that
pressure against the aristocracy ; he has no desire, so he as-
serts, to touch vested interests ; no intention to wound, or
to offer in any direction a personal offence. Mr. Layard
knows best how far this general avowal is called for by the
language he has thought proper to use on former occasions,
and the charges he has been induced to make affecting the
characters of brave and honourable men ; the house seemed
to feel this, and accepted his disclaimer with befitting reserve.
The general proposition laid down by Mr. Layard is one
indisputable in theory, however it may be violated in prac-
tice—it is this, that merit should be the only passport to ad-
vanesiment in the public service. To the disregard of this
simple, but most righteous rule, may be traced most of the
disasters which have befallen our army, and the general de
terioration of our systems, civil and military. The facts
—and striking facts they are adduced by the member
for Aylesbury, are not to be got rid of; any one who gives
himself the trouble may collect them. There is no doubt
nepotism is the curse of the public service of this country.
The Cabinet is a family clique, and the heads of all the great
departments of the' state are guided in the choice of their
anploges by favouritism, not by fitness. There are regula-
tions, it is true, which, if adhered to, would to a great ex-
tent control the evil ; but the regulations are disregarded,
and there is no one to call the delinquents to account, and so
the mischief has gone on increasing till the day of trial comes,
and the whole administrative system breaks down under the
smallest extraordinary pressure. It is, however, in the army
that the evil of the present system is most apparent, and
fraught with the greatest danger. The cases of neglected
service and unrecognised merit brought forward by Mr.
Layard are to be found, for the most part, by a reference to
Hart's Army List. There they- stand on record- in that
chronicle of disappointment are to be found the names of
brave men who have served their country with the best blood
in their veins ; but, destitute of the means of purchasing
promotion, and without interest at the Horse Guards, are
condemned to see the rank they are entitled to—it merit con-
veyed a title—monopolised by those who were not in existence
when that rank was earned as the soldier should always earn
it.