The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-04 00:00:00

THE TRANSPORT SERVICE.

The Edwin Fox transport, No. 109, Captain Ferguson,
arrived at Spithead from the East yesterday with sick
and wounded. She sailed from Kazatch Aug. 11, Con-
stantinople Aug. 28, Malta Sept. 9, and Gibraltar, Sept.
22. On the 17th, off Cape de Gatt, she spok the barque
Tigris from Portsmouth to Constantinople ; at the same
time the brig Emerald, from Syra to Cork. On the 24th
spoke the schooner Marchioness, from Cadiz for London,
off Cape Trafalgar ; on the 26th, off •Cape St. Vincent,
spoke the Lady M`Naghten, No. 36 transport, for Spit-
head. The Edwin Fox has brought 149 invalids from
51 different regiments, 1 woman, 1 deserter, from the
24th Regiment, found on board one of her Majesty's
ships, 1 civil servant, and 1 convict, sentenced by Court-
martial to 14 years' transportation for attempting to de-
sert from the 12th Lancers to the Russian outposts
before Sebastopol.
The General Screw Company's steam-ship Queen of the
South, Captain Beal, transport No. 135, will sail from
Southampton to-day for Plymouth, where she will em-
bark 100 men of the Land Transport Corps and about 35
tons of stores for the Crimea. The Queen of the South
has taken on board at Southampton about 800 tons
measurement of wooden huts, 30 tons weight of shell,
and the following officers :—Lieut.-Colonel Hon. R.
Dalzell, Major Studdart, Transport Corps ; Captains
T. Budd, F. G. Saunders, C. F. Mackenzie, Transport
Corps ; Lieutenants Irby' 90th Regiment; Maclean,
13th Dragoons ; Cordon, 19th Regiment ; Lieut.-Col.
Daubenny, 55th Regiment ' • Captain Higham, 17th
Foot ; R. A. Macquire, Roman Catholic chaplain,
&c. 107 men of the Medical Staff Corps will also em-
bark at Southampton.

The Killingworth screw-transport, 607 tons register,
and 120-horse power, has put to sea from Greenhithe
with military stores from the East. The Scamander,
having discharged her shot and shell, went up yesterday
from Woolwich to reload at Deptford.

Five Lieutenants of the Royal At tillery force at Wool-
wich—namely, Lieutenants Cavendish, Miller, Noeman,
Parsons, and Phipps—with 100 men from different
battalions, and 20 gunners and drivers, with some
smiths, wheelers, and collar-makers, are ordered to' hold
themselves in readiness to embark for service in the
Crimea.

Lieutenant and Adjutant Lempriere, of the Royal
Sappers and Miners, has returned to head-quarters at
Woolwich, from a short stay at, Leicester, whence he has
received a number of volunteers for that corps. In con-
sequence of the augmentation of that body of her Ma-
jesty's service, the barrack accommodation there has be-
come ißa,dequate to the increasing demand ; a number
of huts have consequently been built at Chatham
to house 500 of the men, and many more men are under
canvass in the drill-ground—a confined space at the back
of the hospital at Woolwich. •
Among the passengers who returned from the Criniea,
by the Indiana, on Monday, was Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis Seymour, Scots Fusilier Guards, who was
severely wounded in the trenches on the night of the
24th of August. This officer has served throughout the
whole of the campaign with his regiment, has been pre-
sent in every action, and was wounded at the battle of
Inkerman.

The Pays of Monday remarks that the real cir-
cumstances of the intervention attributed to Lord
Stratford de Radcliffe are as yet but very imper-
fectly known, and that up to the present time the
evidence adduced to fix the proceeding of 31- Pi-
sani on Lord Stratford's shoulders is not by any
means conclusive or satisfactory. If we recollect
rightly, also, his lordship was absent in the Crimea
when the incident alluded to took place, conse-
quently if there ever was a case in which the sound
maxim of Audi alteram partem ought to be acted
on, it is surely the ono to which the Pays devotes
its leading article. Our contemporary says
Our private information enables us to confirm
the exactitude of this incident. It is only too true
that the British Ambassador endeavoured to exer-
cise a sort of moral restraint on the Sultan, in
order to induce him to modify the choice which the
sovereign authority has the exclusive right to make.
It is true also that this unfortunate attempt has failed in
presence of the ligitimate irritation and offended dignity
of the Emperor. We are assurcl that the English Go-
vernment will formally disavow the conduct of its repre-
sentative ; perhaps even a more severs measure w:ll be
applied to his forgetfulness of propriety and diplomatic
duties. We have already had occasion several tunes in
this journal to notice the conduct of Lord Redcliffe. He
is the oldest of European diplomatists in Turkey ; he no
doubt knows the East better than any one else, and the
questions connected therewith; but he entirely belongs
to the epoch now happily very distant, at which Con-
stantinople was a field of conflict of rival influences, and
at which each ambassador endeavoured to obtain abso-
lute preponderance in the councils and over the decisions
of the Porte. He has not yet cast off the old man ;he
still believes himself in presence of the same rivalries ;
he wishes still to reign as before ; he has not seen, or at
least he seems not to have accepted, the fortunate revo-
lution which has taken place, and which has given to
the Turkish Government all its independence. The last
incident of this fatal diplomatic war, and which nearly
caused the ruin of Turkey, was the famous embassy of
Prince Menschikoff. The consequences of it are known.
The West has taken arms to free the Ottoman Empire
from the yoke under which it was bowed down,
and to restore it to the sultan, with the guarantee
of the Ottoman territory, and the plenitude and free
exercise of his sovereign rights. The Eastern war, apart
from its high European importance, had principally that
character and that object. Is it then becoming in the
representative of one of the two great nations which de-
vote their gold and the blood of their soldiers to the sup-
port of this cause—in the Minister charged to make the
all-powerful authority of the Sultan respected—to him-
self forget the respect and the deference due to the chief
of an allied nation ? In so doing, he most certainly dis.
regarded the intentions, and forget the friendly instruc-
tions, of his Government."
Our contemporary then proceeds with great satis-
faction to show that not only was Lord Stratford
de Redcliffe completely foiled in his interference,
but that the very contrary to what his lordship de-
sired has taken place in the Turkish Government.
The following is the language used :
"This thoughtless proceeding appears, after all, to
have had a result diametrically contrary to that which
hq, expected. The Ministry to which Mehemet Ali Pacha
belongs is said to have been strengthened instead of
all great questions,
weakened by it, if, indeed, it had need to be strength.
ened, and if the confidence of the Sultan
uw:irteednoint,
thefor
no
all its members, sufficient title and authority. We are
assured i
smost
oin c thatple allte
the
Ottoman Ministers,understanding
on
form henceforth a united body which nothing seems
capable of destroying ; all consider themselves as bound
up one with another, and the retirement of one would
assuredly cause the dislocation of all the Cabinet. All
have, besides, frankly engaged to second the Sultan in
his civilising views, and to labour in common for the re-
' generation, the progress, and the consolidation of the
empire. We must congratulate ourselves on this new
situation, which rescues Turkey from the lamentable
THE GOOD-SERVICE PENSION. intrigues by which all the activity of that inportant
By the death of Admiral John Giffard the First Lord nation has been so long paralysed ; and we must hope
of the Admiralty has caused Admiral the Hon. George that the public welfare will henceforth be the scle object
Elliot, C. 8., to be placed on the reserved half-pay list, and sole ambition of her statesmen. And it is because
in the receipt of the good service pension. The follow- this wise and generous policy appears to have triumphed
ing short account of his services is extracted from Allen's in the councils of the Sultan that it is doubly melancholy
New Navy List : to see it embarrassed or opposed by the representative
`` He was midshipman of the Britannia, off Cape St. of an allied government—by the man who ought to
Vincent, 1797; of the Croliab, at Nelson's bombardment second it with the greatest pleasure and devotedness.",

Major-General Lord Cardigan, Inspector• General of
Cavalry, arrived in Dublin on Saturday evening. On
Monday be inspected the 2d Dragoon Guards at the
Royal Barracks, and on Tuesday the 16th Lancers at
Portobello Barracks. The gallant General rode the
horse which bore him at the celebrated charge at Bala-
klava. Lord Cardigan expressed his entire satisfaction
at the admirable condition of these two fine cavalry re-
giments.

The commanding officer of the Royal Engineers and
other authorities of the Ordnance Department in Ireland
have just entered into an extensive conti act with Mr.
Conolly, of Dublin, for the complete drainage of the
camp on the Curragb. Several gangs of skilful workmen
have been already engaged for the work.
Captain Taddy, for some time in command of the
Royal Artillery in the Kilkenny Military District, bas
received the appointment of instructor at the Royal Re-
pository, Woolwich. Lieutenant-Colonel Buchannan,
R.A., will replace Captain Taddy in Kilkenny, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Rowan, who was to have taken the com-
mand of the Artillery there, having been appointed
second in command at Woolwich.
The Land Transport Corps raised by Capt. Hudson for
the camp at the Curragh marched from Dublin on Tues-
day morning. The men comprising the corps ere volun-
teers from, the Dublin Militia Artillery. The luirses have
been transferred from the Royal Artillery and 2d and 3d
Dragoon Guards. •