The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

LONDON, riUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1855.

CHEADLE (STAFFORDSHIRE) RAILWAY
COMPANY—(RAILWAY from CRESS-
WELL to CHEADLE, with BRANCHES to HOLLINGTON
and DILHORN, all in the County of Stafford). (Incorpora-
tion of Company— Powers to construct Railway, Branches,
and Tramways, and to Amalgamate with, or to Sell or
Lease to, or to make Traffic Arrangements with the North
Staffordshire Railway Company, and for Amendment of
Acts.)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an
Act to incorporate a Company, and to give such Company
power to make and maintain the Railway, Branches, and Tram-
ways, or any or either of them hereinafter mentioned, and all
necessary and proper works and conveniences connected
therewith (that is to say)
First, a Main Line of Railway, commencing-by a Junction
with the North Staffordshire Railway (Uttoxeter Branch) in
the parish of Checkley, in the county of Stafford, at or near
a point on the said Railway, being Five Furlongs East of a
certain level crossing in the parish of Draycot, in the Moors
in the said county, known as the Newton Level Crossing, and
terminating in a field called the end of the Brook Meadow,
owned and occupied by William Bowers, junior, situate in
the Town End Quarter of the parish of Cheadle, in the said
county, which said intended Railway will pass from, in,
through, or into, or be situated within the several parishes,
township, and extra parochial, or other places following, or
some of them, that is to say, Draycot in the Moors, Cresswell,
Checkley, Upper Tean, Lower Tean, Totmanslow, Tenford
Huntley Quarter, Mobberley, Town End Quarter, Cheadle
Mill, and Cheadle, all in the said county of Stafford.
Secondly—A Branch Railway or Tramway, commencing by
a Junction with the said intended Main Line of Railway in a
field called Bohemia Field, situate near to Tenford Mill, in
the parish of Cheadle aforesaid, and terminating at or near a
certain piece or parcel of land known as the Freeholders
allotment at Hollington, situate near or adjoining a certain
Stone Quarry, owned and occupied by William Seal, at Hol-
lington aforesaid, in the township of Madeley Holme, in the
said parish of Checkley, and which intended Branch Rail-
way or Tramway will pass from, in, through, or into, or
be situate within the several parishes, townships, .extra Rare-
chial and other places following, or some of them, that is to
say, Draycot in the Moors, Totmanslow, Tenford, Cheadle,
Upper Tean, Lower Tean, Checkley, Hollington and Madeley
Holme, all in the said county of Sta ord.
"CinnuTelllfiltrir
Junction with the said intended Main Liao of Railway at or
near the north end of an occupation road at Mobberley, in
the Huntley quarter of the parish of Cheadle, numbered
1,595 on the parish plan of the Huntley quarter of the said
parish, and terminating in or near to a certain field called
the Mill Pool Meadow, adjoining the Whympney Wood, be-
linging to and occupied by Edward Buller, Esquire, in the
parish• of Dilhorn, in the said county, and which last-men-
tioned Branch Railway or Tramway will pass through, in,
from, or into, or be situate within the several parishes, town-
ships, extra parochial or other places following, or some of
them, that is to say, Cheadle, Tenford, Huntley, Mob-
berley, Cheadle-mill, Brookistone, Foresbrook, and Dilhorn,
all in the said county of Stafford.
And it is intended by the said Act to take powers for all
or some of the following purposes, that is to say :—To sell
and transfer, or to let on lease the said undertaking to the
North Staffordshire Railway Company, and to enable the said
North Staffordshire Railway Company to purchase or take a
lease of the same, or otherwise to enable the said intended
Company and the North Staffordshire Railway Company to
make and carry into effect such contracts and arrangements,
with respect to the working and management of the traffic
upon the said intended Railway and Branches, upon such
terms and conditions, and subject to such restrictions as may
be nuitually agreed upon or be specified in the said intended
Act, and for the purposes aforesaid to amend, vary, and en-
large the provisions of the several Acts of Parliament follow-
ing, or some of them, that is to say :—The Acts relating to
the North Staffordshire Railway Company (local and personal),
namely, 9 and 10 Vitt., cap. 85 ; 10th and 11th Viet., cap.
108; 11th and 12th Vict., caps. 66 and 83; 13th and 14th
Viet. cap. 55; and 1 William IV., cap. 55. And it is pro-
posed by the said intended Act to take powers to purchase,
by compulsion or otherwise, the Lands and Buildings reqr4red
for the purposes of the said undertaking, and to levy Tolls,
Rates, and Charges, for or in respect of the use of the said
intended Railways, Tramways, and Works, and of the Car-
riages and Engines used thereon, and to grant exemptions
from all or any of such Tolls, Rates, and Charges, and to
raise money on the credit of the said Tolls, Rates, and
charges or otherwise for the purposes of the said undertaking.
Also,to alter, vary, stop up, or divert, whether temporarily
or permanently, all turnpike and other roads and highways,
railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams, rivers,
sewers, mains, pipes, and other works situate within or near
to the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or
other places, or any of them with which it may be necessary
to interfere in the construction of the said intended works or
any of them.
And it is intended by such act to vary, repeal, or extin-
guish all existing rights, privileges, or exemptions in any
manner connected with the lands and buildings, or other
property or works proposed to be purchased or taken or in-
terfered with, o: which would in any manner impede or int-ir-
fere with the construction, maintenance, or use of the said
intended railway and works or any of them, and to confer
other rights, privileges, and exemptions.
And it is intended by the said act for the purpose of carry-
ing the said undertaking into effect, to create a joint stock or
capital, and to confer on the said company so to be incorpo-
rated, and to make applicable to the objects of the said bill all
or sone of the powers and provisions of " The Companies'
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1815," " The Lauds' Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845," and " The Railways Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845," and all other necessary powers
and provisions.
And Notice is Hereby Given that a map, plans, and sec-
tions, describing the line or situation and levels of the said
intended Railway and Branch Railways respectively, and the
Lands and Buildings proposed to be taken for the purposes
thereof, together with books of reference to such plans,
containing the names of the owners or reputed owners,
lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of such lands and
buildings, and a copy of this notice, as published in the
London Gazette, will be deposited, on or before the 30th day
of Nvember in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace
for the county of Stafford, at his office in Stafford ; and that
a copy of the said notice, and a copy of so much of the said
plans, sections, and book of reference as relate to each of the
parishes or extra parochial places in or through which the
said intended Railway and Branch Railways respectively are
intended to be made, will be deposited, on or before the said
30th day of November instant, in the case of each parish with
the Parish Clerk of such parish, at his res'dence, and in the
case of each extra parochial place with tbe Parish Clerk of
soine adjoining parish, at his residence ; and that copies of
the paid Bill will be deposited at the Private Bill office of the
House of Commons, on or before the 31st day of December
next,

Dated this Eighth day of November, 1855.
BLAGG and SON, / Joint Solicitors to
CATTLOW and DANIEL, f the Promoters.

CONTRACT FOR PIG LEAD.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 17th Nov., 1855.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
1 Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
nd Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, tile
4th December next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
.nch persons as may he willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's
Dockyard at Chatham with

PIG LEAD.
A form of the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender will
be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be
noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised
in writing.

Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and hear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Eg Lead,"
and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a setter
signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with
the person tendering in the sum of 1,000/. for the due performance of
the contract.

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THE STORY of the CAMPAIGN of
SEBASTOPOL. Written in the Camp.
By Lieut.-Col. E. BRUCE HAMLEY, Capt.,Royal Artillery.
(Originally published In Blackwood's Magazine)

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EAST INDIA HOUSE, THE 17TH Nor., 1855.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
probable number of Vacancies In the Me heal Establishment
of the East lulls Company to be filled up at the Examination to be
held at the House on the 11th of January next, and following days,
will be Forty.

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY.
ROPING TO HULT.
Notice is hereby given that all Shares in this Company, upon
which the Final Call of 21. per Share became due and payable on the
Ist October, 1855, will, according to the Statutes of the Company, be
liable to Forfeiture if the Call be not paid on or before the Ist day of
December next.

JOHN SADLEIR, Chatrman.
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NOW OPEN for the winter season. The folloWing
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he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes—The Lily
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TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE
YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package included.
THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP

ARTICLE OF FOOD
forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0
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„This is the third season Mr. Laths hits supplied us with Yo--
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house steward, Blenheim Pal ace. —Oct. 20, 1854."
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It R. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet-
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rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At
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the genuine Beading Sauce. This sauce is patronised and recom-
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"J. and C. COCKS, Reading," on the seal and label of each bottle :
without this none are genuine.

_TOZEAIT'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED
tfi CAPSULES, approved of by the trench College of Physicians,
successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and
ecknuwledged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder.
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cation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the inventor,
GABRIEL JOZ,EAU, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, ,London,
and all the principal chemists.

TESTIMONIAL TO CAPTAIN DEVEY, OF
THE MERMAID.

Yesterday, at the Underwriters' News-rooms, Liver-
pool, the ceremony took place of the presentation of a
service of plate from the shipowners and merchants of
Liverpool to Captain Devey, of the Royal Mail clipper-
ship Mermaid, belonging to Messrs. Pilkington and
Wilson. The circumstances which occasioned the testi-
monial in question have been lately detailed in the form
of a judicial investigation, the particulars of which were
reported at the time in The Sun. It will be recollected
that Mr. Cooper, her Majesty's consul at Pernambuco,
wished to detain the Mermaid at that port, on the
ground of its being unseaworthy, but Captain Devey,
relying on his own skill and judgment, refused to yield
to the consul's representations, and brought the vessel
to England, thereby doing great service to the owners
of the ship, and saving the underwriters a large sum of
money. The service of plate, valued at 1701., was
presented to Cap -ain Devey by Mr. Charles Turner,
chairman of the dock committee, who, after passing
a high compliment npon the ability, judgment, and
firmness displayed by the captain, observed that the
conduct of her Majesty's consul at Pernambuco af-
forded ample proof that it was most desirable the
question of remuneration derived from the misfor-
tunes of shipowners should be inquired into, and the
custom abolished, in reference to her Majesty's repre-
sentative at that port (Pernambuco). Had Cap-
tain Devey yielded to the consul's representations
the loss to the shipowners and underwriters would have
been extremely heavy—indeed there was good reason to
fear that if the vessel had once gone into port she would
never have left it again.
Mr. Turner then read a tasti-
monial, numerously signed by shipowners and members
of the Underwriters' Association, conveying the hearty
concurrence of the subscribers with the decision arrived
at by Captain Robertson, who had investigated the case
on behalf of the Board of Trade, and which had proved
that the injurious representations of Mr. Augustus
Cooper, her Majesty's consul at Pernambuco, with re-
ference to the state of the ship Mermaid, were totally
unfounded. Captain Devey having suitably expressed
his acknowledgments, Mr. Turner read a letter from the
manager of the Great Western Insurance Society, stating
that, though the Mermaid was not insured in that so-
ciety, he had been directed to acknowledge the praise-
worthy conduct of .Captain Devey in opposing the
authority of the British Consul at Pernambuco—a place,
it is stated, known to all underwriters for its impositions.
(Cheers and a laugh.) The letter was accompanied with
a cheque for 101., which the underwriters of that associ-
ation hoped that Captain Devey would accept. Arr.
Turner, in conclusion, stated that the underwriters with
whom the ship was insured had determined to present
Captain Devey with 1,000/. The proceedings then
closed.

THE MOIISTACHE.—The directors of the Northumber-
land and Durham District Bank have, we understand,
ordered all the employes who adorned their faces with a
naoutatache W ohm or resign,—/Sanclorlanoi anca.

THE BRITISH ARMY.

( From the Times Special Correspondent.)

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 3.—1 was
obliged to omit in my last despatch some particu-
lars with respect to the Kinbourn expedition, which
may prove interesting even now.
_ _ _

When the fleet was off Odessa the advice of the
highest person in France on the project of bom-
barding the town was sought by the French Ad-
miral, and it is believed that his reply implied a
" radical opposition" t 3 any such proceeding, nor
was our Admiral authorised by the home authori-

ties to attack Odessa unless he was certain of suc-
cess. Sir E. Lyons and Admiral Bruat have acted
all along in the most perfect accord, but there has
been this difficulty in their mutual relations; that
Admiral Lyons is not under the orders of the Bri-
tish Commander-in-Chief of the army, while Ad-
miral Bruat is directly under the control of Mar-
shal Pelissier, and it is known that the latter is
opposed to any operations which would require
large detachments from the French army. It was
proposed at one time to send in a flag of truce to
Odessa with some such proposition as this to the
Governor—" Are you the Governor of a commer-
cial town or of a military station ? If you say Odessa
is purely a commercial town, destroy your forts,
abandon your efforts to fortify it, deliver up your
gun-boats, if any, and we promise to respect the
place. If you say Odessa is a military station, you
must expect to see it treated as such by the Allied
fleets." However, in case of the Russians refusing,
to give up their guns, &c., and setting us at
defiance, it would have been necessary for us to
attack the town '
coute qui coute, and there were
many reasons why at that particular time such
a course would not have been desirable. It
may be doubted—indeed, it is, I believe doubted
—by the English Admiral that we could de-
stroy -Odessa from the sea by such' Means' as we
at present possess. It is a town of stone, of
wide streets, of places, and squares, offering little
combustible matter, and placed at such a distance
behind the batteries as to be accessible only to
mortar vessels and horizontal fire at a very long
and, therefore, at a very uncertain, range. The
houses are roofed with iron, and, in many cases,
there is no woodwork in the flooring or ceiling of
the different storeys, but iron girders and til s and
slabs of stone are used instead of planks and rafters.
Many of the houses are detached, and stand like so
many palazzi in their own grounds. Under these
circumstances a general fire would be almost out
of the question, and the damage caused by a bom-
bardment would not be very decisive or extensive.
With all the efforts of friends and foes to destroy

it, how much of Sebastopol still remains ? The
Russians, by the agency of powder, of piles of
wood, of tar, of turpentine, and of all sorts of com-
bustibles, tried to get into a blaze, but they failed,
notwithstanding a favourable breeze ; and we
rained shells on it for months, and never succeeded
in creating any conflagration of importance. Well,
Sebastopol contained much more wood than
Odessa, and was much more accessible to our fire.
The inference is, that we could not, by any bom-
bardment the fleet could inflict on Odessa set the
town in a blaze, or inflict damage which would
compensate the Allies for the expenditure of all
their shell. It is evident that, at some period or
another, our fire would cease from exhaustion of
means. Even a line-of-battle-ship's powder maga-
zines and shot and shell rooms are not illimitable.
It is equally clear that a line-ef-battle steam-ship
could not try to come in close enough to the forts
to develope her fire, without running the greatest
risk of being disabled before she could get into
position. The moment would come eventually when
our bomb.vessels and gun-boats and heavy steam-
frigates would be compelled to cease firing, and that
probably before much injury was done to a large
distant stone-built town like Odessa ; and then, if
the Russians could fire even one gun as we re-
treated, they would claim, and with some colouring
—which would seem very bright and decided in
some circles in England and in many cities and
towns of despotic Germany and of free America—
the credit of having beaten off the Allied fleets I
If Odessa is to be destroyed, it can only be done,
first, either by great numbers of floating batteries
to reduce the forts and enable the liners to ap-
proach within broadside distance ; secondly, by a
sustained fire, constantly renewed for several days,
of a flotilla of gun-boats, bomb-ketches and mor-
tar-vessels, fed by continuous supplies of ammuni-
tion, and even of new guns and mortars; thirdly,
by the disembarkation on the coast below the city
of a force sufficiently strong to defeat the garrison
and the outlying army defending the place, in
which case the city would be open to the conque-
rors, and all the defences taken in reverse; or,
fourthly, by some unknown operation of war,
locked up the Admiralty key in Lord Dundonald's
bosom. Of these plans the third alone seems to
insure the certainty of destroying Odessa. The
wear and tear of materiel in a protracted bombard-
ment is incredible. Even in our affair at Kinbourn
numerous guns were disabled—as an example, I
may state that both of the Arrow's heavy Lancas-
ter guns burst after a few rounds, so that the gun-
boat was rendered quite useless. (It should be
added by parenthesis that these guns were not fur-
nished by Mr. Lancaster, but were ordinary heavy
guns bored out in conformity with his principle )
The mortar-beds also underwent heavy strains on
the occasion, although those suspended on Julius
Robert's principle were found to answer very well,
and to give less shock to the vessel than those
mounted on the old plan. Although Sir Howard
Douglas declares that a 13-inch mortar ought to
hit a large object such as a fort at the distance of
4,000 yards, I know that many of our bombs
missed Kinbourn from a distance of less than 3,000
and 3,600 yards. The whole of the glacis and of
the ground before the fort for some hun-
dred yards was burrowed up and pitted by
the craters of bombs which made prodigi-
ous holes in the soft sand on which they ex-
pended their force. For one shell which would fall
through the roof of a house in Odessa three or four
would fall in the public streets, squares, and yards,
where they would. be comparatively harmless.
These large missiles take up great space, and the
fleet could not hold enough to lay Odessa in ruins.'"
Even had the Admirals been provided with all the
appliances for destroying Odessa, the project would
not have had the concurrence at present of one Go-
vernment, at all events ; and so the fleets, after
approaching the town, lay quietly before it. They
might have caused great damage to property and
loss of life by firing on the place during their stay,
for, though complete destruction is often difficult
where damage and loss are easily to be effected,
there can be no doubt that a vigorous fire would
have occasioned the enemy a considerable amount
of both. The French Admiral, indeed, suggested
that a certain number of gun-boats and mortar-
vessels should go in every night and throw shell
into the town ; but Sir Edmund Lyons was of
opinion probably—and if ho was, there can be but
little question in English minds that he was right
—that such a petty measure of warfare was un-
worthy of us ; that we ought to destroy Odessa,
and at all events assail it with all our strength, or
refrain from a partial attack, which, on its cessa-
tion, the Russians would say, and not without
pretence, was repulsed.
The soldiers and sailors who are doomed to stay
at or off Kinbourn for the winter will have a
dreary time of it. The sea on both sides of the
spit is frozen to some distance from the shore, but
Major-General Kokonovitch, the late Russian Go-
vernor, who was there for four years, said he had
never known the sea to be frozen right across to
Oczakoff. By the by, it is believed General Lu-
ders was in Kinbourn just before our arrival, and
that he only crossed to Oczakoff in a small boat
the night we arrived off the spit, leaving behind
him assurances of relief to the garrison, and in-
forming the Governor he ought to hold out
at least for a fortnight. The Glatton is at Ka-
miesh, and will not, I believe, take part in the
defence. As to the blockade of the Boug and the
Dnieper, it will, I presume, be raised by the first
frost, and the guu-boats engaged in that service
will drop down and join the flotilla at Kinbourn.
The only thing to look forward to is a liberal en-
joyment of shooting, if the Cossacks will permit it,
as the whole of the shores abound with multitudes
of wild fowl. Before the expedition started nearly
aall the smaller gun-boats were despatched to rein-
force Captain Sheiard Osborne's flotilla the Sea
of Azoff, where that active and energetic ofhcer is
harrying the Russians as a hawk perturbsib a field
of larks. The Fancy, Lieutenant Gry
h
was still
with the fleet ; indeed she is so badly uilt that
waves in
she is scarcly fit for the short !lacking

* The impression in the Crimea, which no doubt our
correspondent faithfully echoes, SCNXIS to be that Odessa
should have been destroyed, whereas we believe that an
attack on Odessa would have been considered throughout
Europe as a barbarous outrage, which the aggressors would
have been heartily ashamed of after the heat of conflict had
passed away. If Odessa were really. a military station, the
stern laws of war would, no doubt, justify itthsedehsturruncitnigen;i
but an attack on a great commercial city, on the pretext
that its stores supplied provisions to the Russian army,
could only be classed in history with
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that sea, and she strains and leaks iu bad weather
Ito a dangerous degree. The attention of all naval
officers is turned noes to the navigation of shallow
waters, by vessels with heavy armament, and Com-
mander
Cowper Colas, of the Stromboli, who in-
vented the raft Lady Nancy, which did such good
service at Taganrog, has constructed models of two
very ingenious rafts, which have been sent to the
' Admiralty, and which are highly approved of by
the Admirals out here. Rafts of this construction
would do immense service in the Sea of Azoff, and
one model provides for the adaptation of steam
power, which would give the raft a moderate pro-
pulsive agency of its own.
As to the ascent of the Boug or the Dnieper it is
only to be attempted by vessels with shotproof
screens and proof decks, inasmuch as every man
could be picked off the decks by Almie riflemen
unless the banks of the river were cleared by troops
in numbers sufficient to beat back the enemy as
they advanced. Captain Coles's raft is provided
with a shot-proof screen which shelters the gun and
every soul on board, helmsman and all. In spite
of our operations in the Sea of Azoff let it be re-
membered that we have not reduced Arabat or
Genitchi, and that the Russians will soon have free
use of the Spit. The moment the frost compels
our boats to retire the Spit of Arabat is in the
hands of the Russians, for the water of the sea is
frozen to the distance of several miles, so that no
boat can approach to prevent the passage of troops
or convoys. Had Arabat fallen, and an expedi-
tion landed at Kaffa or Theodosia, we should have
been masters of the Peninsula of Kertch.

NOVEMBER G.

The regiments which came from Kinbourn are
still on board the fleet at Kamiesh. It is known
that the English Admirals are most anxious that
they, with a sufficient body of French troops or
with reinforcements of English troops, shotild pro-
ceed at once to Theodosia, to undertake the Opera-
tion I have indicated. But they are opposed by
men of great weight and authority, and it is be-
lieved that reference has been made by electric
telegraph to France and England to know what is
to be done. The weather has been fine to a mar-
' vel. It is so far back as October 27 that prepara-
tions were made to embark the English troops, and
it was then whispered that they would certainly
go to Kaffa, and march on Arabat, which is only 10
miles across at the other side.

On Sunday, the 28th, Captain Paris came up to
the allied squadron blockading the Boug and
Dnieper, with orders to take the command as soon
as Admiral Stewart left, and when we sailed on
Tuesday we left that officer in charge, with the
Beagle, Viper, Snake, and another English gun-
boat, and four French gun-boats, to keep up that
dismal duty. For several days previously the
weather had shown symptoms of making itself un-
pleasant--enveloped us in fogs in the morning with
stiff breezes of wind, and in a muggy smothering
atmosphere at midday ; but the cold had by no
means set in, and the air was indeed rather dis-
agreeably warm.
On Monday, the 20th, the order to embark was
given, and Brigadier-General Spencer came up in
the Danube and made a short reconnaissance up the
Boug. He did not go as far as the little battery
with which we had a brush on our arrival ; and
indeed the Danube would very likely go to the
bottom at once if hit by a shot, for she is only a river
steamer, little larger than a Greenwich or Wool-
wich Waterman. However, her appearance created
an immense stir among the Russians. Cossacks
galloped about on all sides and in every direction.
The battery at the point was manned at once, and
a field gun was detached from the small camp be-
hind it, and kept along the west bank rani passe
with the steamer, in hope of sending the little
Danube to the bottom of the Bong ; but she kept
out of range, and as soon as the General had seen
all ho could he returned. That evening three large
bodies of infantry marched down from Nicolaieff,
and occupied the villages on the east bank near the
sea. One battalion set at once to work on a high
cliff, about six miles up the river, and threw up an
earthwork, either to cover riflemen or receive guns.
No doubt the enemy saw our preparations at Oen-
koff, and. were persuaded the troops were coming
up to attack Nicolaieff. The infantry we saw wei e
fine solid-looking masses of men. On Tuesday
morning before we left they were seen in the vari-
ous villages or hamlets oh the east bank, so that
there must have been a good fore z ready for us when
they had united with the troops about Stanislaus.
Admiral Stewart sailed from the Boug on Tuesday
morning, and joined the fleet at Kinbourn, and a
portion of the fleet which had gun-boats to tow
started for Kamiesb the same evening. The allied
fleets under Sir E. Lyons and Admiral Bruat, Sir
H. Stewart and Admiral Pellion, sailed the follow-
ing day for the same anchorage, and encountered
a strong breeze of wind.
The wisdom and foresight of most of our mili-
tary operations in burning, laying waste, and
blowing up was never better exemplified than at
Kertch. There was a very fine barrack near the
quarantine sta ion, on the Bay of Kertch, recently
built, provided with every comfort, and well sup-
plied with water from a deep well, and with capa-
cious tanks. In the ordinary exercise of reason
ono would have preserved these buildings, inas-
much as it was determined to keep a British force
at Kertch, but before Sir George Brown left they
were burnt by order and reduced to a heap of
blackened ruins. We are now, with infinite labour
and trouble, and at prodigious expense, sending
the materials for huts to Kertch, and dragging
them up close to the site of the barracks, where
they will form a very poor protection against the
weather in comparison with the substantial build-
ings which we destroyed. As the tanks are ruined
and the well spoiled, the men will have to drag
water a distance of three miles to their new resi-
dence. Provisions are now tolerably abundant.
The Highflyer returned yesterday from Circassia
and a cruise alone. the Turkish coast, having on
board the Duke of 'Newcastle and Mr. Simpson, the
artist, who accompanied him on the excursion. His
Grace will find things greatly changed since he
went, roads made, huts erected, Generals gone.
Sir Colin Campbell, Colonel Sterling, Sir H. Ben-
thick, and Brigadier Shirley have left the camp
during his absence. The Duke's trip is said to have
been most agreeable, and to have afforded a pleas-
ant melange of hunting, shooting, visiting, travel-
ling, sight-seeing, and Circassian adventv_ire.
The Bth Hussars, with the exception of a troop
ordered up as an escort to head-quarters, will em-
bark to-day for winter quarters at Ismir.