The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDONI,„stIyIONDAY EVENING) APRIL 23, 1855.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENOE.

This evening mails for the naval forces and vessels em•
ployed in the transport service in the Black Sea, the
troops in Greece, Turkey, and the Crimea, and the sick
and wounded and medical staff at the hospitals at
Smyrna and Scutari, will be despatched via Marseilles.
Letters, &c., must be prepaid.
Sir John Liddell, M.D., C. 8., F.A.S., Medical In-
spector of Hospitals and Fleets, and at present in the
Royal Hospital, Greenwich, is appointed to succeed Sir
William Burnett, M.D., K.C.8., K.C.H., F.R S., as
Director-General of the Medical Department of the
Navy, in consequence of which Sir John Richardson,
M.D., C. 8., Medical Inspector of the Royal Naval Hos-
pital at Haslar, has sent in his resignation, he being the
senior medical officer of the service, and not liking to
serve under a junior, Sir John Liddell standing two be-
low him on the list.

A letter from the flack Sea Fleet, dated Balaklava,
April 6, gives the following movements :—" In harbour
—the Leander, 50 ; Diamond, 28 ; Wasp, 14 ; and Ca-
radoe, despatch boat. In addition to the Diamond, the
Wasp has been ordered to prepare for the reception of
wounded consequent on the bombardment and expected
assault, and the transports St. Hilda, Orient, William
Jackson, and Sir George Pollock are also being fitted
with cots for a like purpose. The St. Jean d'Acre arrived
off here on the morning of the 4th, and sailed five hours
afterwards. She came for the purpose of embarking
huts, which will be erected near the Lighthouse for the
reception of some cases of smallpox which she has on
board. Mr. Elliott, surgeon, attached to the Marine
Brigade, is suspended from duty pending the decision of
the Admiralty on an alleged charge of neglect of duty.
Mr. Lapidge, of the Royal Albeit, is appointed clerk in
charge of the Royal Albert, vice Arlidge, to be supernu-
merary paymaster of the Diamond for service, as secre-
tary to Captain Heath, principal agent for transports ;
Dr. Hill to be assistant-surgeon of the Hannibal, vice
Preston, to the Agamemnon. The Triton arm ed to-
day. The Principal Agent for Transports will hoist his
pendant in her and live on board."
Rear Admiral Baynes, third in command of the Baltic
fleet, again struck his flag on board the Retribution,
steam-frigate, at Portsmouth, 'and went on leave for an-
other week on Friday evening. The Retribution will
be ready for sea on Saturday next.
The Cruiser, 14, screw sloop, Commander the Hon.
G. S. Douglas, returned to Spithead from Dover Roads
yesterday morning.
The Great Tasmania, steam transport, taken up to
convey troops to the Black Sea, is hourly expected at
Portsmouth from Liverpool to embark 1,000 troops of
the 7th, 23d, 88th, and 77th Regiments, and the Ist and
2d battalions of the Rifle Brigade.
The Hecate, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Glynn,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from Woolwich.
The hired screw steam•transport Albatross, Captain
Lyal, belonging to the Cork Steam-ship Company, from
the Crimea, entered Plymouth Sound on Saturday, and
landed there five invalid merchant seamen. She has
been chiefly employed, during her 12 months' engage-
ment, in the conveyance of cattle to Varna and Bala-
k'ava, and has brought home some returned stores. The
Cormorant, Captain Burns, belonging to the rave com-
pany, which left Malta 10 hours after the Albatross,
with 80 pipes of lirnejuice on Goverumeut account, was
off Plymouth on Saturday, bound up Channel.
The schooner Walla, Captain Knowles, from London,
is unloading pork arid beef at the Royal William Vic-
tualling-yard, Plymouth. The 'brigantine Mary, Captain
James, from London, is discharging ruin and iron tanks ;
and the schooner Alexandrina Victoria, from Ireland. is
unloading beef and pork. The schooner Argo,l Captain
Dicks, is loading 5,000 gallons of rum, and a quantity
of salt beef, pork, and bread for Balaklava. The schooner
Susan, of Cardigan, is to load provisions for Malta. The
transport Moultan sailed on Friday with provisions for
the Crimea.

The transport Chalmer', No. 38, sai'ed from Ply-
mouth Sound on Saturday with a troop of Ilus,,:ars, who
arrived the previous day Irom Exeter.
The paddle-wheel steamer Sultan, Captain Gladstone,
72 hours from Shields, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday
evening, bound to Constantinople.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell,
was towed from Plymouth Sound yesterday morning
into Hamoaze.

TIIE CONDUCT OF THE WAR,.

(From the Times of this day.)
The war continues, and is likely to continue. Our
money and our blood are poured forth like water. We
desire no peace but an honourable peace, and are willing
*to endure all the sufferings, all the privations, and all
the losses, that may be necessary to obtain•it. Whether
with or without the assistance of those Powers to whom
we have been taught to look for support, we hold that
the country ought to be prepared to stand to those terms
and to insist on those conditions which we required be-
fore we took up arms ; but we have a right to demand
from our Government that our sacrifices and our devo-
tion shall he met by them in a corresponding spirit. We
have a right to ask that our statesmen shall rise t's the
height of the emergency, and shake off those miserable
Practices which might be tolerated in the quiet times of
peace, but whch become absolutely insupportable under
the iron pressure of war. Of all the persons who have
I been pointed out as guilty of the disa-ters which have
befallen our army, who has been recalled, w hat effsrt
has been made to replace their proved inefficiency, what
exertion to supply their acknowledged negligence? They
remain, to ruin a SE cund army as they have done a first.,
and to overwhelm the millions of this year in the same
bottomless abyss as the millions c f last.

he a statesman, and Mr. Gladstone a man of business.
The people "know better" tow. Sir G. C. Lewis reaps
the disadvantage of coining after a Chancellor of petty
"sharpness," finesse, and chicanery. The French have
got their loan of 20 millions under circumstances which
do credit to the nation, and confer stability on the Go.
vernment. We write before the event ; but it appears
more than probable that there will be cansiderable diffi.
culty in obtaining our loan, unless Government make
great sacrifices. They have already greatly modified
their plans, arid have placed themselves in the hands of
Messrs. Rothschild. It remains to be seen what the
City will do for them. It is, however, quite certain
that the country will now borrow at a great disadvan-
tage, and that the loan, like everything connected with
the war, comes too late.

SPORTING NOTES.

THE FIRST SPRING.-LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.

The game which has been so long and perplexingly
played with St. Hubert and Lord of the Isles, for the
Two Thousand and Derby, will he soon brought to a
conclusion. Its result is already somewhat significantly
indicated, if there be any faith in the assurances and
actions of St. Hubert's supporters. Still people mutter
ominous sayings ahout e7ark horses, and despite the fact
of Mr. Howard's believing that in St. Hubert he pos-
sesses a " rb.tt!ing animal," the investments in the turf
market have been calculated to strengthen their sus-
picions, and to show that the ring entertain a contrary
opinion. The demonstration which was made at
Tattersall's on Thursday, however, produced a
telling effect, for it was sustained with an
evident earnestness which indicated that its origin was
not derived from what, in the slang of the ring, is called
" kid." The offer made by a noble lord to take 7,000
to 1,000 about him fur the Derby, and 700 to 400 for the
Two Thousand, caused almost Ili much consternation and
dismay among his opponents as the descent of a shell
amidst a "quiet" bivouack-party before Sebastipol.
Hostility against St. Hubert, indeed, was temporarily
st eyed when the " stable commissioner" followed up his
well-directed blow by taking 1,400 to 200 for the Derby,
and expressing a desire to do business at the same odds to
the amount of 500/.

Despite the bolstering, bonnett7ng, and boastings of
his party, and notwithstanding the incontestible merit
which the horse displayed last year at Goodwood, I am
disinclined to regard the Lord of the Isles with favour,
and I am fully prepared to see him disgracefully beaten.
This conviction is honest, and if I have made an error
of judgment in forming it I will honestly acknowledge
it, but I must first have ocular proof that my opinion is
unsound. At York Lord of the Isles was backed, by his
owner both for the Twn Thousand and Derby, with
seemingly unshaken confidence, but the eager desire
which existed to accommodate him to any amount was
not a little significant. Indeed the question is naturally
suggested "If either St. Hubert or Lord of the Isles
win the double event, where are the backers of the suc-
cessful horse to get their money from ? "
Curious anecdotes are told respecting the manage-
ment of both St. Hubert and Lord of the Isles, but I
trust for the credit of certain personi they are only
founded on idle gossip. • That there has been a row at
Findon all people seem agreed, but I shall at present re-
main silent with regard to the alleged facts of the case.
By the way, some sty fellows pretend to an exact know-
ledge of St. Hubert's trial, and state, with evident be-
lief in the goodness of the joke, that Mr. H. rode. St.
Hubert, and Mr. G. Oulston, and that St. Hubert won
" ever so far." Not satisfied with this, however, it is
further asserted that a second trial took place, and that
Mr. G. then rode St. Hubert, and Mr. P. Oulston, and
that the "Saint" won by nearly double the distance he
accomplished on the first occasion!
Only two horses seem to be backed for the Two
Thousand. Claret is, at the time I write, third favourite.
Polydore, who has been betted against throughout the
winter "as if he were dead," is now talked about
most 'ominously, and the tone of the market in reference
to him is decidedly unfavourable. He was, it is cur-
rently reported, tried on Saturday, and found wa.uting.
Some persons even regard his starting as doubtful.
Rumour states that the Cave Adullam will be brought
out for this race. She is, lam informed, a fine mare, of
much mark and likelihood. So far, however, as she is
concerned, I belong to the " know-nothing" sect. Baron
Rothschild's interest, too, will, it is reported, be repre-
sented by a dark horse named Hampden. The folio wing
list comprises the most probable