The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-29 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday.
This morning the Royal mail steam-ship Canada,
Captain Stone, arrived in the Mersey, with the
usual mails from the United States and British
North America. Sha sailed from Boston on the
17th inst. and Halifax on the 19th, three days
later than her appointed time ; and has brought,
besides the mails, 80 passengers and $1,600,000 in
specie on freight.
The Royal mail steam-ship Africa, from hence on
the 3d inst., arrived at Halifax on the 15th inst.,
and the United States steamer Pacific, from hence
on the 27th ult., arrived at New York on the 13th
inst. The news of the Emperor of Russia's death
created a profound sensation.
The latest date from California, per the Illinois,
is Feb. 16th. She brought over a million dollars
in gold dust. New diggings had been discovered.
The trade was in a depressed state.
From the Havannah we hear that tranquillity
continues. ,

A bill had been introduced iuto the Legislature
to exclude from the mines all persons who are not
eligible to citizenship. This bill, if it becomes law,
will drive from the mines many thousands of the
Chinese.

A new political party had sprung up in San
Francisco, whose ulterior designs were supposed to
aim at the formation of a Great Western Republic.
It proposed immediately to organise Oregon and
California into States, and to annex the Sandwich
Islands and Senora, anctas much more of the terri-
tory of Mexico as can be conquered or_purehased.
News from the Sandwich Islands, of the 27th
January, state that the King had discontinued the
negotiations for the annexation of the Islands to
the United States.
The British steamer Bogota arrived at Panama
on the 15th ult., with $430,670 on freight, and the
mails from Valparaiso to the Ist of February.
Chili remained tranquil. The revolution at
Para was at an end. The question of the Presi-
dency occupied the public mind, General Castilla
having refused the post.
The accounts from Jamaica of the 26th ult. are
unimportant.
Letters from Mexico of the 12th inst. report that
Santa Anna had returned to the capital after having
defeated the insurgents near Marenes, and forced
the main body, under Alvarez, to retire after a
desperate battle.
The steamer Nashville would leave New York for
Liverpool on the 21st inst., instead of the Pacific.
At the departure of the steamer money was
easier at New York, and stocks firm.
The cotton market was unsettled.
The market for broad,tuff f1ll:11 and rather
easier. Pork had declined.

Freight a trifle lower.
Exchange PP. Englancl Las slightly Advanced
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Bills on London, 1091 to 1091 ; on Paris, 5.11.1 to
5.131.
Cotton, breadstuffs, and provisions were dull,
but prices remained without material alteration.
Iron was drooping ; 50 tons Scotch pig had been
sold at 30 dols. for six months.

THE NAVVIES AT TEFE TREiVCITES.-
TDB SANITARY COMMISSIONER&

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The'public will learn with scarcely less surprise than
satisfaction that the main object of the Ciimean Rail-
way Expedition is already completed, and that the
munitions of war are now being conveyed direct
from Balaklava to the trenches. It is needless t
say how vast a remission of toil to the overtaxed
strength of the troops is thus effected, and with what
increase of vigour and animation they now address them-
selves to the legitimate prosecution of the business of
the siege, without the exhaustion consequent on lab urs
wholly alien to those of an ordinary military nature.
Moreover, the line is now laid and worked from Bala-
klava to the French camp, at the top of the steep in-
cline hitherto by horses, but at the date of the last al-
vices the engine had begun to supersede animal power,
which was gladly, used for other purposes. Thanks
to the agency of the railway, we have now begun to re-
ciprocate the services the French had bestowed upon
us in our extremity, for a large quantity of hut and
hospital timber bad been forwarded as long ago as the
10th, and such aid was highly appreciated by our allies,
who are enthusiastic in their admiration of the system-
atised application and endurance of the navvies, and
delighted by the methodical order and regularity that
prevail threueh all the arrangements cf the corps.
This recognition on the part of the French is the
more remarkable as they themselves now are, and have
all along been, well provided with horses and other means
of transport. The branch to the opposite side of the
harbour has for some time been completed, and available
for removing the heavy guns and mortars on the Dia-
mond wharf, and by rendering both sides of the bar-
beur available is of the greatest utility. The issue de-
partment of the commissariat for fuel en 1 barley bas
for tome time back been removed from Balaklava to
Kadikoi, where the navvies had likewise constructed
a proper depot and platform, with the requisite sheds
and conveniences. Of the assistance which the rail-
way corps are to the Commissariat, aed of -the immene
say of the operations of the latter department, some idea
may be formed when it is stated that of barley alone
nearly 1,000 sacks are required by the army daily ; and
in the conveyance of this vast quantity Mr. Daily, the
Officer who looks after the matter, gladly acknowledges
the assistance he receives from the navvies, and does
everything in his power to facilitate its being rendered.
So, indeed; do most of the heads and subordinates in
all the other departments at Balaklava, the condition Of
which has undergone a most beneficial change since
the railway has begun to lighten it of some of tho
enormous traffic, or rather impediments b traffic and
aggravation of confusion, which had so long rendered it
the isynonne of everything that was chaotic and distract-
ing. The removal of the issue department for all descrip-
tions of army requirements, as well as of forage and fuel
from Balaklava, would, of course, still further contribute
to relieve the town, and it is t) be hoped that by this time
the Quartermaster-General has adopted' this course, es-
pecially as to the issue of food in the camp, which would
save the men the necessity of coining all the distance
to the town for provisions, and marching back with
them. As further instances of the miscellaneous utility
of the navvies, it may be mentioned that the Naval Bri-
gade falling short of water, the well-sinkers belonging
to the railway corps had been sent to bore to obtain
water in the neighbourhood of the camp, and it was ex,
pected‘that their researches would be speedily efficacious.
The" limekilns continue in full operation, and two more
were being in course of construction near the Third
Division in the front. The washing place for the hos-
pital had likewise been completed, and altogether the
whole sphere embraced in or influenced by the opera-
tions of the railway corps was assuming= aspect in every
way the reverse of what had prevailed a very short time
ago. As late as the 17th, the date of the most recent ad-
vices we are now quoting from, the weather had been oc-
casionally extremely warm and enervating, and the navvies
had begun to complainof a decree of lassitude which they
had never experienced in England oven when the ther-
mometer bad ranged considerably .higher. This natu-
rally begets alarm as,to health, when the heat shall
have really begun to act upon the prodigious area now
affected by 'the process of animal decomposition of all
kinds going on within several miles of the British po-
sition on either side ; and proportionate anxiety is be-
ginning to be feet for the arrival in the Crimea Mr.
.Ra wlinson, the engineer ofthe sanitary commission, whose
preliminary labours are so indispensable to the benefi-
cial exercise of the skill 'of his medical coadjutors—Drs.
Sutherland and Gavin. As regards the commission, it
has already done some good, and paved the way for an
infinite deal more, at Constantinople. The hospitals on
shore at Scutari and Kululee, and the floating one at
Seraglio Point, have been inspected and reported on.
The authorities have given the commissioners every as-
sistance, and the works recommended are already com-
menced.

Mr. Wilson, one of the inspectors of nuisances, from
Liverpool, is stationed at Scutari, and has about 20 Turks
and Greeks employed under him as scavengers. Lord W.
Pawlttt was to have given bins an interpreter, but at
present it is amusing to hear him directing in English,
n,,t one word of which is understood by his squad, who,
nevertheless, manage to get on very effectively. The
place Ind begun to wear a decidedly improved appear-
ance. Dead dogs had been buried, rubbish was being
swept up and removed, and this was being done daily
and continuously, and not by fits and starts, and it
would be vigilantly persevered in. The corridors within
the barrack hospitals were being lime-washed, privies
anshed and ventilated, water tanks emptied, cleansed,
and roofed over, sewers cleansed and trapped, and
better ventilation provided wherever practicable.
Miss Nightingale, with whom Mr. Rawlinson had
had several interviews, was delighted at the pros-
pect of a change for the better, for nurses, military
officers, and all had suffered nom fever, which ought
to have been, . and whose recurrence most probably
will be, prevented. .A..fine young man, the fore-
man of the carpenters, sent out by Sir Morton,Peto,
died ()Hever on the 17th. Miss Nightingale attended
his bedside at the time of his decease, and was indefati-
gable in her services, as she is in all such cases where
there is the smallest possibility of her offering assistance
or consolation. But how limited must her utmost be
when it is remembered how multitudinous are the calls
upon her, no less than 4,000 sick men at a time need-
ing the Ministration of 'this heroic woman, and the
few ladies whom her example inspires and her counsel
guides. The Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity con-
tinue .to co-operate most cordially with her and her
nurses, 20 out of 22 of whims have been laid up with
sickness, some having died. Mr. Newland and two
of the Liverpool inspectors of nu:sances, who would
prove most useful adjuncts to Mr. Rawlinson's staff,
were to have arrived in the Crimea on the 17th, to be
followed by Dr. Gavin on the 20th, and by Mr. Raw-
linson on the 24th. Dr. Sutherland, who had been con-
fined to his bed with low fever for a week previous
to the 17th, was to return as soon as he recovered, from
Constantinople to Smyrna, where his presen ei cannot
fail to be of great value. Towards the prosecution and
completion of all the works in the Turkish capital ,and
neighbourhood, recommended by the commission, Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe had promised all needful assist-
ance. -

BANK OF ENGLAND.

1855.

The following is the House List of Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing,

viz. :-

FOR GOVERNORS.
Thomas Matthias Weguelin, Esq., Governor.
Sheffield Neave, Esq., Deputy Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.

Thomas Baring, Esq.
Henry Wollaston Blake,

Charles Frederick Huth,
Esq.
Alfred Latham, Esq.
George Lyall, Esq.
James Malcolmson, Esq.
Thomas Masterman, Esq.
Alexander Matheson, Esq.
James Morris, Esq.
George Warde Norman,
Esq.
John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Henry James Prescott, Esq.
Thomas Charles Smith, Esq.
Thomas Tuoke, jun., Esq.
Francis Wilson, Esq.

Esq.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq.
Arthur Edward Campbell,
Esq.
William Cotton, Esq.
*James Pattison Currie,
Esq.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq.
Charles Pascoe Grenfell,
Esq.
ThomsonHankey, jun., Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq.
John Gellibrand Hubbard,
Esq.
* N.B.—The gentleman against whose name an
asterisk is placed is a new candidate for the Direction.
The election for Governor and Deputy Governor will
be held at the Bank, on Tuesday, the 10th April, and
for Directors on Wednesday, the 11th April, from ten
o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon.