The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

EVENINCti OCTOBER 80, lB6B.

displayed that strategical talent for which he .is re-
nowned. The earthworks on the north side of Kars were
assailed, and the it poQ9ession would ba7o barred ali pos-
sibility of further resistance. Against these works were
despatched three Russian columns who at once engaged
with the garrison, whilst a fourth column, commanded
by General Bazine, ru-lied under cover of their fire into
the works, and drove out then. defenders. The Turks re-
turned, led on by Kmeti, and drove out the assailants.
A. second time and a third did the Russians enter the
works, only to he driven out by the bayonet with fright-
ful slaughter. The commanders of the three assailing
columns were wounded ii the commencement of the ac-
tion, and this reduced the chances of success possessed
by their troops. These were Prince Gagarine, Lieut. Gen.
Kovalewsky, Major-General De Maydel, Major-General
Count Nyrod, and Major-General Bronowsky. Above
6,000 killed and wounded was the price of the defeat
paid by the Russians, whilst the loss of the garrison of
Kars was under 1,500 killed and wounded. General
Mouravieff was engaged as a commanding officer in the
war of 1529, when Prince Paskiewitch overran the table
lariOe of. Armenia, and he is, therefore, thoroughly ac-
quainted with the terrain. It cannot be said that he is
to blame for the check sustained by his army ; and his
troops fought bravely and with obstinacy. The dogged
courage of the Turks, however, effectively overcame the
superior discipline and unbounded confidence of the
Russian battalions. A few days will decide the fate of
Kars ; for winter will compel General Mouravieff either
to abandon the blockade, and return to Gumri, or to
attempt another assault on some more vulnerable por-
tion of the defences.

The Orinoco steam•transport, Captain Wilson, em-
barked the following detachments of troops yesterday at
Portsmouth Dockyard, and will leave with them this
day for the Crimea :-2 officers and 55 men of the Ist
Royal Regiment of Foot ; 3 officers and 87 men of the
2d ; 2 officers and 97 men of the 4th ; 3 officers and 104
men of the 7th ; 1 officer and 63 men of the 19th ; 73
men of the 20th ; 3 officers and 138 men of the 23.1 ; 4
officers and 61 men of the 28th ; 2 officers and 51 men
of the 44th ; 3 officers and 70 wen Of the 45th ; 2 offi-
cers and 54 men of the 48th ; 2 officers and 53 men of
the 77th ; 50 men of the 88th ; 2 officers and 59 men of
the 95th—total, 15 sergeants, 12 drummers, and 1,015
rank and file. The officers were Lieutenant Maxwell,
and Ensign Gardener, of the let ; Captain King, Lieu-
tenants Coussmaker and Parnell, of the 3d ; Lieutenant
Tanner, and Ensign Billington, of the 4th ; Lieutenant
the Hon. Howard Moreton, and Ensign Cole and Mont-
gomery, of the 7th ; Ensign Rogers, of the 19th ; Capt.
Heigbam, and Ensigns Gosling and Hutton, of the 23d ;
Captains Maunsell and Shute, Lieut. Mackenzie and En-
sign Page, of the 28th ; Major Browne and Lieut. Birch,
of the 44th ; Captain Lyons, Lieut. Waldy, and Ensign
Cone, of the 46th ; Captain Spencer and Lieut. Kippen,
of the 48th ; Lieuts. Smith and Dauncey, of the 77th ;
Captain Foster and Ensign Holbrook, of the 95th ; and
Assistant Surgeon NVoolfreys, of the 10th Foot, and
Acting Assistant-Surgeon Holyland.
The steam-transport Perseverance, No. 7, Captain
Harris, embarked at Portsmouth yesterday morning, fur
Armagh, 3 field officers, 0 captains, 11 subalterns, 4
staff; 40 serjeants, 12 drummers, 31 corporals, 696 pri-
vates, 49 women, 67 children, and 4 horses of the 4th
Middlesex Militia, with whom she proceeded at noon for
Queenstown. The officers were Lieut.-Colonel Scriven,
Majors Kirby and Blackford ; Captains Fitz-James,
Goodbold, Parker, Finney, Boulton, Cholmondeley,
Mortimer, Fauntoe, and Elliott ; Lieutenants Bris-
ley, Blencowe, Hooper, Constable, Slade, and Ruther-
ford ; Ensigns Golding, Bourke, Keane, Hall, and
Standid,ge ; Paymaster Magill, Quartermaster Hope,
Surgeon George, and Asistaht-Surgeon Bryant.
The City of London, steam-transport No. 66, arrived
at Portsmouth yesterday to ship a further number of
huts for the Crimea.

Her Majesty's steam-transport Dee, Master-Com-
mander Pullen, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morn-
ing with boilers and machinery for the line-of-battle ship
Repulse.

The Royal Charley freight-ship arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday, to embark the troops before reported for the
East.

A court-martial, consisting of Captain Sir Thomas
Maitland, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Excellent, Pre-
sident ; Captains G. A. Eliot, of the St. Vincent ; J. J.
Stopford, of the Calcutta ; G. T. Gordon, of the Victory;
T. E. Sulivan, of the Simoorn : F. Scott, of the Russell;
R. Harris, of the Illustrious; A. Farquhar, of the
Malacca ; G. S. Hand, of the Sampson ; and
Mr. G. L. Greethatn, Deputy Judge Advocate
of the Fleet, assembled yesterday morning on
b 'ard the Victory flag-ship, in Portsmouth har-
bour, to try Mr. William Ridoutt, boatswain of her
Majesty's ship Penelope, for returning to that ship from
her Majesty's dockyard, Simon's Town, Cape of Good
Hope, on the 7th of July last, in a state of intoxication ;
and for having, while under arrest at Spithead, awaiting
his trial by court-martial, broken his arrest, on the 13th
of October, not returning until the 15th, when he was
taken into custody in a state of intoxication. The Court
declared both charges proved, and adjudged the prisoner
to be imprisoned six months in the county gaol at Win-
chester, and to be dismissed from her Majesty's service.
The hired steam-transport Indiana, Commander Lam-
bert, with troops for the Clitnea, sailed from Plymouth
on Saturday afternoon.
The fore royal of the ship burnt at sea, and picked up
by her Majesty's brig Britomart, is made of cotter,' can-
vas, white as snow, from which it was concluded that
she was a❑ American. By the intensity of the light and
fierceness of the fire, and the fact that on the day after
a quantity of palm-oil nuts were observed floating about,
it is supposed that she was laden with oil from the
west coast of Africa, and that the nuts escaped from
the hull after it went down. Of the fate of her crew
there is no intelligence. At the tune of the occurrence
a strong gale prevailed from the north-east, and a very
heavy sea was running. Supposing that they had time
to get out the boats, the Isle of Flores, 200 miles dis-
tance, lay to windward, and New York, at a great dis-
tance, was right before the wind. The state of the
weather would preclude the hope of their making either
place, but as two barks were seen in her company be-
fore the fire it is possible they got on board one of them.
Previous to the conflagration, the Britomart lost all her
boats but the first gig, and in her, about 10 o'clock, on
the 10th, when the gale had somewhat subsided, Mr.
Moore, first lieutenant, went to the brig Corbeille, the
ma-ter of which had see❑ the lost ship and the two barks
on the 9th. The Corbeille, was from Jersey, bound for
the Mediterranean, and the Britomart left her most in-
dustriously occupied, securing the half-burnt sails and
rigging. The remains of the three masts and all the spars
were still attached and knocking about together ; the
value of that which could be saved was estimated at
4001.

The fortune of war has enabled a British seaman to
evince his gratitude for valuable service of many years'
standing. In 1534, Mr. Burney, master, R.N., jumped
overboard and saved the life of one of the crew who had
fallen from the gangway of the hulk Ocean, of Sheer-
ness. From that period Mr. Burney never met nor
heard of the man rescued until a short time since, when
he received a letter full of grateful expressions, and beg-
ging acceptance of a number of very ancient and curious
coins taken from the museum at Kertch by this gallant
and true-hearted sailor when that place fell to the allies.
The steam corvette Ariel, 9, Commander Luce, from
the White Sea and; Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth
Sound yesterday morning, and the store-ship Tyne, from
Woolwich for South America, arrived in the afternoon.

By reason of the insubordinate state of the crew of
the Euphrates freight ship, and the consequent discharge
of some of the men, the master, Capt. Mitchell, pro-
ceeded to London on Saturday to make up the deficiency
of hands. She has been towed down from Woolwich to
Gravesend with an effective mew, and will sail direct
thence for Balikklava. The Collingwood sailing vessel and
the Sardinia screw are the only transports at anchor at
Woolwich at present. Several cases of machinery are
being landed on the Arsenal Quay, manufactured at
Windsor and at Vermont, United States of America.
The Caradoc is coaling, and has received orders to be
ready for sea by Thursday. She will go down the river
on Friday to try her engines, and it is expected that she
will sail the same evening. Her destination is Marseilles,
where she is to await the arrival of Lord Canning, whom
the Caradoc is to embark thence for Alexandria and In-
dia. The Inflexible is in the basin, being laden for Ports-
mouth. She is receiving a number of barrels of oil and
tallow in her lower hold, and will have boilers in her
upper berth.
The 16th depot, in Cork garrison, have given 115
volunteers to the 88th Regiment, serving in the Crimea.
Detachments, amounting altogether to 46 officers and
1,230 rank and file, have been appropriated for convey-
ance in the Gollonda and Culloden steamers from Cork
to Malta. The Culloden will be inspected in Liverpool,
where a portion of the troops will embark in her, whence
she will proceed to Cork to take up the remainder.
The officers of the Royal Cork City Artillery having
applied to the Lord-Lieutenant to obtain increased pay,
equal to that of the officers of the Royal Artillery, his
Excellency, considering that the subject had probably
been already under consideration in reference to the Mi-
litia Artillery in England, has in reply stated that he had
caused inquiry to be made at the War-office, and had
bee❑ informed that there was no intention of assimilat-
ing the rates of pay, as the question was very fully con-
sidered last December, and the existing rates were then
determined on. As at present advised, therefore, his
Excellency saw no grounds for departing from the system
which prevails in England.

The following appointments, made at the Admiralty
yesterday, appeared in our late editiou last night :

COMMANDERS.
George E. Hore to the Vesuvius.
E. H. K. Hallett to the Ceylon, vice Hore.

LIEUTENANTS.
T. N. Underwood to the Arachne.
lion. It. A. Capel to the Sampson.
PAYMASTER.
Sydney E. Wright to the Sphinx.
ASSISTANT-PAYMASTER.
John Wotten, iu charge, to the Sphinx.

DINNER TO LIEUTBNANT PALMER, OP
THE 11Th HUSSARS.

The return (FL the only son of Sir Roger Palmer, Bart.,
was celebrated on Thursday last, the 25th inst. (that
day baying been chosen as the anniversary of the battle
of Balaklava), at the WynustayArms, Wrexham, when
upwards of 200 of the neighbouring gentry and tenantry,
together with the most influential inhabitants of the town,
were present.

Lieut. Palmer formed one of the gallant 600 in the
memorable charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade at Bala-
klara, on which occasion he distinguished himself
greatly, and had several narrow escapes.
Shortly before 5 o'clock an escort of the Royal Den-
bighshire Yeomanry Cavalry arrived at Cefn Park, the
seat of Lieut. Palmer, and proffered their services to
conduct him to Wrexham, where the houses were deco-
rated with flags and laurels, and several triumphal arches
thrown across the streets through which the procession
had to pass.

The dinner was served in the ball-room, which was
very tastefully adorned with appropriate military em-
blems, mottoes, &c.
'rho chair was ably filled by Col. Sir W. Lloyd, on
whose right was placed Lieut. Palmer, the guest of the
evening. Among those present were Col. Myddleton
Biddhloh, M.P., the lord-lieutenant of the county, Col.
the Earl of Harrington, T. L. Fitzhugh, Esq., Captain
Cotton, Rev. G. Cunliffe, Major Wynne, SirT. Erskine,
Bart., Lieut.-Colonel Jones, Captains Myddelton and
M'Coy, Cust, Esq., W. Beach, Esq., G. Fitzhugh,
Esq., Heskett, Esq., T. Hughes, Esq., Revs. J.
Dixon and W. Davis, Captain Edgeworth, Lieutenants
Wynn, Drake, Harrison, Newcombe, and Humphreys,
&c.
Letters were read from Sir Watkin W. Wynn, Bart.,
Sir R. Cunliffe, Bart., and Major Tottenham, regretting
their inability to be present, in consequence of their ab-
sence from the country.
The CHAIRMAN gave the usual loyal toasts. The band
of the Royal Denbighshire Rifles attended, and played
various appropriate airs.
The CHAIRMAN then gave the " Army and Navy,"
which was responded to by Col. the Earl of HARRING-
TON, who said that he wished to deviate a little, not
from the object, but from the words of the toast, in order
to speak of his gallant young friend. (Loud cheers.) He,
and his father before him, had been on terms of the
warmest friendship with the Palmer family for many
years. It was on a fair ancestress of the present baronet
that the celebrated Lord Chesterfield had bestowed the
name of the "dangerous Papist," owing to her beauty
and fascination. He (the noble lord) would remind them
that there was at present a daughter of that house, in no
way inferior to the enchantress he had named, who had
braved the ocean, crossed the principalities, and gone
even to the pestiferous field of Balaklava, to see and
carry comforts to an only and cheriseed brother.
(Cheers.) The brother, to serve his country, had volun-
tarily sacrified all the pleasures of London and Parisian
society—all the luxuries of home, for the dangers and
privations of the camp. After a few more observations
the noble earl resumed his seat amidst loud cheers.
The CHAIRMAN then called upon the company to stand
up and fill a bumper to "The health of Lieut. Palmer."
(This request was instantly complied with, and was fol-
lowed by several rounds of deafening applause.) After
silence was restored, the Chairman said that he had not
prepared any set speech for the occasion, but preferred
using the language prompted by the feelings of admira-
tion which he entertained, in common with all present,
for the courage which his gallant young friend had so
prominently displayed on the bloody field of Balaklava.
To do justice to Lieut. Palmer, it would be necessary to
remind them that he was the only son, and heir to large
estates ; that from his infancy upwards he had been
brought up in the enjoyment of every luxury ; and
yet that he hesitated not to leave the comforts of
home, where his presence was so necessary, in order
to accompany his regiment on active service. In
this perilous campaign he had undergone privations
of a nature scarcely equalled by those of the poorest
person in this country, and had passed a long and
severe winter without a murmur of discontent. The
chairman then gave a graphic description of the first
landing in the Crimea, and of the fatal charge so glo-
rious, though so disastrous in its result, to which no re-
port could do justice, and concluded by calling upon the
company to drink the health of Lieutenant Palmer, and
long life, happiness, and prosperity to him. (Cheers.)
The band then struck up the " Balaklava Galop," com-
posed expressly for the occasion, at the close of which
Lieut. PALMER rose, amidst long-continued bursts of
applause, and spoke as follows—l thank you most sin-
cerely for your kindness. It was more than I expected,
far more than I had any right to expect. As a
soldier I thank you for your approbation of my
conduct, and more especially do I thank those my
brothers in arms, of the militia and yeomanry, who
have so kindly come forward to meet rue today.
With some of them I have the misfortune of only
being recently acquainted, but that is a fault which I
trust it will only take time to amend. (Cheers.) There
are some, however, hero, old friends of mine, to whom
I owe a double debt of gratitude, both for their presence
here now, and upon a former occasion when they invited
me to meet them upon my coming of age. Thougk pre-
vented at that time by my military duties from attend-
ing and thanking them in person for their kindness, I
cannot let this opportunity pass without assuring them
that I was not the less grateful for it. It is not much
more than two years ago, and yet how little could any
of us have anticipated the events which these two years
would bring forth. I allude especially to the latter por-
tion of them. It is about 13 months since we first landed
in the Crimea, Kalamita, Bay. A few days afterwards the
affair of l3alganac took place, in which my regiment and
the 13th had the honour of firing the first shots at the
enemy. (Cheers.) The next day was the battle of Alma, at
which, however, the cavalry were little more than spec-
tators. But our time was coming. On the anniversary of
this very day was fought the battle of Balaklava, with
which you have done me the honour of connecting my
name. (Loud cheers.) I thank you for it, and I own that
I am proud of having been a participator in that day's
action, but I must say that I consider the credit of that
day was due more to the soldiers than to the officers. In
foreign armies one would have found plenty of officers to
lead such a charge, but in what army would one have
found soldiers to follow as ours did ! (Tremendous
cheering.) Though surrounded on every side by the
enemy, though apparently all was over with them, though
suffering under a withering fire, and seeing their com-
rades falling in heaps around them, not a man flinched
or thought of shifting for himself, but all looked to their
officers, and followed them as if they bad been on an or-
dinary parade. (Cheers.) It was this that saved us,
for when the Russians, who had got to our rear in greatly
superior force, saw that, though diminished in numbers,
we still kept some sort of order, instead of charging us,
which if they hed done I should probably not have
been here to-day to tell the tale, they got out of our
way and let us pass. When I returned to the ground
from which we had moved off I saw a sight such as
I trust I shall never see again, for out of five entire
regiments, which but one short half hour before had re-
ceived the order to advance, you could not then have
formed as many troops. (Loud applause.) Soon after
this came the battle of Inkerman, in which, however, the
cavalry can claim but a small share, for the credit of that
day was due to those few thousand gallant men who for
so many hours held at bay au enormously superior force of
the enemy. (Cheers.) Once, and only once, during that
day did I fear for the result, when I saw the Russians come
over the crest of a hill about half a mile from where we
were drawn up, but the English charged them with the
bayonet and soon drove them back. When I went over the
ground the next morning on duty, a line of dead Russians,
like the trace that a wave leaves upon the sea-shore marked
the precise spot to which they had advanced. Immedi-
ately after this, winter set in with all its horrors. Living l
a
in our tents without any means of making fire,
our clothes in rags, with hardly a boot bt
ing to sleep in the mud with nothing.ife. But all this
blanket to protect us—such was oar
with the on tca l r
cloak ee t , haa nvd -
sank into insignificance when compared to these hardships,
suffer-
ings of our infantry, who, in additionday, and some of
bad to go, some of them every third
them every other day,
into
only
applies to the earlier
the trenches. (Cheers.)
This description, however, '
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portion of the winter,or.e, e
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ameliorate our condition, and succeeded, for in the month
of February we were e
(Loud and repeated cheers.) Since then we have suffered
little except sickness, under which many a poor fellow
sank who had escaped all the perils of the battle and all
the hardships of the winter. Through all this it has
pleased God to preserve me,
and, in addition, to grant
me the blessings of al
most uninterrupted good health and
a safe return home. (Cheers.) The latter is one which
only those who have felt can fully appreciate. I have
endeavoured—l fear in vain—to speak my gratitude; but
I am sure you will extend your kindness a little further
and give me credit for all that which I really feel, and
which want of words alone prevents me from express.
ianngt
upon
. assure you that among all the pleasures attend-
my return home, and they were many—there
is none greater—none for which I feel more truly and
sincerely grateful—than for the honour which you have
this day done me. Lieut. Palmer then resumed his seat
amidst prolonged and vehement cheering.
"The Health of Sir Roger and Miss Palmer " wail
then given, to which
Lieut. PALMER responded, and Paid that his
to
regretted that his delicate health did not permit
be present among them. f the Lord-
The CHAIRMAN then gave "The Health o
Lieutenant of the County," to which
lied with assure
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OF A
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CONVICTION'
John Worley, of CLAgLro'avMe.,—Mwar;
charged at the Bromsgrove Petty Sessions with having
in his corn•mill 6001 b. of alum, for the purpose of being
used in adulterating flour. Police-superintendent Bevan
having on the 10th inst. proceeded with a warrant to the
defendant's mill to search for ingredients for adulterating
flour found three bags of alum, which he seized. Ha
asked the miller if there was any alum or other ingre-
dient in the mill for the purpose of mixing with the flour,
and the miller replied that there was some, and that be
supposed it was for grinding with the wheat. The de-_
fence was that the alum was used for the purpose
olaf
dressing the millstones, that is, stopping the hol?s
the surface, but more especially for " backing
stones, because they were too light. The bench v
.rey
mously decided that the charge was made out, a a "
fined the defendant 5t., and 1/. 17s. 6d. costs.