The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-02 00:00:00

THE S tin LONDON, TUESDAY EVIT.',NING; OCTOBER 2, lBlm

Second-Master, in command, arrived at Sheerness on
Sunday last from th^ after a west boisterous
passage ficroms the _.•;ei a Sea, having had on. several
I occasions to lie to from 21 to ';3s' hours. She arrived at
the Great Nore on Sawrdwy evening. Tue Havoc has
been nearly six weeks on her passage since she left the
fleet. She was yesterday taken into the basin for the
purpose of landing her mortar ; she is then ordered to
be sent round to Portsmouth to be refitted during the
winter.
At 12.30 p.m. yesterday the screw steam-transport
Jackal, of Newcastle, Edwin Fincham. commander,
arrived at Sheerness in a leaky state. The Jackal is
bound to Balaklava, with transport stores, ammunition,
&c., for the use of the ar.ny in the Crimea. She was
assisted in by Mr. Thomas Marshall, Supernumerary
Chief Officer of her Majesty's steam troop-ship Perse-
verance, a petty officer, and 12 men to keep the pumps,
as water came in to the extent of 14 inches per hour.
When fallen in with byakhe Perseverance,'Coromander
Harris, she was off Dover, and signalled the Perseve-
rance that she had sprung a leak, but that there was no
danger. The leak was first discovered when the Jackal
was in the Downs, and, on proceeding down Channel,
finding it increased, they considered it prudent to put
back and make the nearest port. On her arrival at
Sheerness Captain Fincham immediately put himself in
personal communication with the Commander-in-Chief,

and at present waits instructions.
At 12.15 p.m. yesterday the screw steam troop-ship
Perseverance, Commander Harris, arrived at Sheerness
from Havre and Plymouth. She left Havre on Friday
last, where she embarked 95 Russians, 15 women, and 5
children, prisoners of war taken at Bomarsund. She
arrived at Plymouth on Saturday, where she embarked
10 officers, 1 civilian (the Governor of the Aland Isles),
2 wives of Russian officers, 296 men, and 34 women and
children, all prisoners of war taken at Bomarsund. She
has a lieutenant's guard of Marines, consisting of 1 ser-
geant, 2 corporals, and 25 Marines, under command of
Lieut. Dalby. She proceeded immediately to the float-
ing coal depot at Saltpan Reach, and after coaling will
receive the prisoners from the Devonshire. She will
then proceed direct for Liboa, where they are all to be
landed in exchange for English and French prisoners.
She will leave Sheerness to-day.
The Indiana steam transport, No. 147, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday morning from the East with officers and
soldiers invalids. Captain the Hon. Drummond died
oa board on Sunday ; his remains were landed at Ports-
mouth yesterday before the ship went into harbour.
Her general passengers and dates have already appeared.
Two other deaths have also occurred on the passage.
She went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon
to land her sick, Scc.
The Sir George Pollock and Imperatriz transports
landed their sick and wounded at Portsmouth dockyard
yesterday.

Her Majesty's ship Bellerophon, 78, sailing two decker,
was taken into the fitting basin at Portsmouth dockyard
yesterday, to be converted into a receiving hulk, instead
of the Prince Regent, 90.
No. 23 mortar-vessel arrived at Spithead yesterday
from the eastward.

The Alfred, Indiaman, arrived at Spithead outward
bound yesterday.
The Tyne, Master Commander Peter Wellington, was
taken into dock yesterday at Woolwich yard to undergo
general repairs. The Baron Von Humboldt screw steamer,
of 300 tons burden, having completed her repairs, was
taken from the dock to the basin. The Dee, Commander
Pullen, was taken out of the basin and sailed yesterday
with machinery for Portsmouth. The transport Imperial,
No. 188, went down to Greenhithe yesterday morning to
have her compasses regulated for sea, and is to sail
thence for the Crimea to-morrow.

The Scamander, off Woolwich Arsenal, is discharging
her cargo of shells to make room for hospital and am-
bulance carts and huts, which have been for some time
past the principal freights embarked thence. Up to the
present time from 900 to 1,000 huts have been shipped
from the Arsenal wharf under charge of two sappers to
each vessel. These huts vary in their capabilities of ac-
commodating from 15 to 30 persons each.
The landing-stage for the river steamers on the Mer-
sey presented an animated spectacle throughout the
whole of yesterday in consequence of the embarkation,
at frequent intervals, on board the screw-steamer Jura,
of detachments from various horse and foot regiments.
In addition to the officers whose names have been given
there were Major Shakapeare, Lieutenants Martin and
Dawsay, Of the Royal Artillery, Captain Hancock, of
the 12th Lancers, Captain Holmes and Lieutenant Gif-
ford, of the 10th Hussars, Lieutenant Bacon, of the
Berkshire Militia, &c. Additional attachments will ar-
rive in Liverpool from Ireland this morning, and will
immediately embark on board the Jura. She is ex-
r ected to sail to-day for the Crimea, calling at Corfu.
Orders were received on Saturday to accelerate the
preparations for the embarkation of draughts from the
depot battalion in Limerick garrison for foreign service.
The draughts wi!l embark early in the present month.
The last draught ordered will be the first to move for
Malta ; the second will move direct for the Crimea.

The following officers now in Limerick garrison are
under orders for foreign ser vic- :—9 th Regiment—Major
Vane, Captains Taylor and Leslie, Lieutenants Elm-
hurst and Germon, Ensigns Wright and Rollo. 17th—
Lieutenant Segram, Ensigns Houghton, Presgrave,
Maycock, and Bradburne. 39th—Major Herbert, Lieu-
tenants Daunt, Arbucle, Smith, and Prichard ; Ensigns
Chambers and Hoare. 89th—Ensigns Manners, Bar-
ron, Helmes, and Bowness. . . .

THE MAGAZINES.

Tilaci:2.oo. The eleventh instalment of the
charming. romance of "Zaidee" brings us at last to
that crisis in the plot in which the great secret of
the story trembles on the verge of revelation. So
imminently, indeed, that the poor little brown
Zaidee that was, grown now, after the lapse of these
seven years of concealment, into the beautiful
Elizabeth Cumberland, half meditates ruuniwi
away again, and hiding herself this time if possible
effectually from the chance of recognition. Tile
truth is—Mary has become the betrothed of Percy
Vivian, the Great Author ; and Percy, in one of
their lovers' " confidences," has told the whole ro-
mantic history of the family to the adopted sister
of the unknown Zaidee, the heroine of the narra-
tive. The incidents recounted in the present in-
stalment take place at Malvern, whither Mr. Cum-
berland's family have removed after a brief sojourn
in London, subsequent to their staying for a while
at " Sylvo's-place, ' where they see the wonderful
Mr. Mansfield. Why they go to Sylvo's-place at
all is to us altogether unaccountable. Nothing
comes of it. We are just told that they go, and
that they return, and are then hurried with them
through town to the heights of Malvern. There it I
is that Percy woos and wins Mary Cumberland.
And there it is that poor beautiful Elizabeth Cum-
berland -- otherwise Zaidee Vivian suddenly
wakens to the terror of being discovered by Percy,
and carried back after all her unavailing self-sacri-
fice to be the wealthy heiress of the dear old Grange
in Cheshire. The next part will probably bring
the whole story to a conclusion. " North and the
Noctes," a tribute from Maga to the shade of
Christopher, opens the October number of Black-
wood. It is a strange rambling comment upon the
introductory volume (recently published) of Pro-
fessor John Wilson's Noctes Ambrosiana —the
earliest and, all things considered, the greatest of
the glories of old Ebony ! This we say in no for-
getfulness of Warren's "Diary of a Late Physician,"
or of his glorious " Ten Thousand a-Year ! ' Any
more than in failing memory of Lytton's exquisite
" Oaxtons' " or of his immortal chef dceuvre " My
Novel I" These, however, be it remembered, were
merely conveyed to us through Maga. Black-
wood's Magazine was only in their regard the
revered medium, the .glorified vehicle for their
first publication. They never constituted an
integral portion of Maga herself bone of
her bone and flesh of her flesh—as was, in very
deed, the. case with Wilson's inimitable " odes !"
They, as works, were simply presented to us, we
repeat, through Maga. ' It, whether as an entire
masterpiece, or originally as a piecemeal pub-
lication, was Maga herself Maga in all her
terrors and with all her charms—Maga in her

Major-General the Earl of Cardigan has arrived in
Dublin on a tour of military inspection, commencing
with the cavalry in that garrison, consisting of the 2d
Dragoon Guards and the 16th Lancers. Newbridge and
the Camp at Curragh will be the next stations to be
inspected.

wit and her wisdom—Maga sublimated and trans-
figured. Samuel Philips with his coarse but vigor-
ous " Caleb Stukely "—Douglas Jerrold- with his
queer fantastic "Men of Character "—Thomas
Barham (the laughter-moving Ingoldsby) with his
" Cousin Nicholas "—cum ceteris paribus were at

the best but brilliant contributors -to Blackwood.
Professor Wilson—without ever having been its
editor—was its veritable impersonation. As he
himself in his proper person was the indubitable
incarnation of that " king of men," rare old Chris-
topher North. His crutch was the sceptre Of
Maga. His great laugh of derision was her thun-
der. His flashes of wit her lightning. Remem-
bering all which, we turn with interest to Black-
wood's own tribute of love and admiration for his
memory, and read the paper "North and the
Noctes ' through to the last word, and close it—
strange to tell—only with a sense of bitterest dis-
appointment. The reason for which may in some
measure be discernible through the date appended
to the article by its writer, viz., " Camp before
Sebastopol, Ist September." A date which, in our
eyes, looks like an insufferable affectation. As
though the nameless contributor said to us—See
what a clever fellow I am, to be cracking jokes
like this in the midst of the roar of a bombardment.
When all the while, to ourselves, the flippant
chatter of the contribution reads like a heartless
impertinence, scribbled by vanity in the nlidst of
the blood and tears of a strife such as the world
has seldom before witnessed. Bearing in mind
where it was written, we have scarcely pa-
tience to listen to the errant gabble of this
Most gossipping and garrulous of commenta-
tors. He pays due homage, of course, to each
of the three grand interlocutors of the Noctes

—North, and Tickler, and Shepherd ! He speaks
of the three great masters of humour in these
modern times in England, as no other than Chris-
topher North, Sam Slick, and Charles Dickens.

dolonel Crutchley, the commandant of the Depot Bat-
talion at Parsonstown, on Wednesday last received an
order to have in readiness a draught from each de-
pot, to proceed for embarkation to the seat of war.
The draught is to consist of 1 captain, 4 subalterns, 3
sergeants, 10 drummers, and 153 rank and file from the
21st Fusileers ; 2 subalterns, 1 sergeant, 6 drummers,
and 54 rank and- file from the 57th Regiment ; and 1
captain, 4 subalterns, 3 sergeants, 6 drummers, aid 77
rank and file from the 63d Regiment. Total, 12 officers,
7 sergeants, 22 drummers, and 295 rank and file ; grand
total, 326. The following are the names of the officers
who are under orders to proceed with this draught,
viz.:-21st Fusileers—Captain Burnside, Ensigns
Reade, Ker, Cooke, and Bainbridge. 57th Regiment
—Ensigns Thompson and Wagger,. 63d Regiment—
Captain Arbuthnot, Lieutenant Clutterbuck, Ensigns
Byron, Tuyston, and Greves.

And so forth. But the article, though clever here
and there, is altogether an egregious failure. Not
so Major Hamley's "Story of the Campaign," the
tenth portion of which brings us this month later
down than the battle variously known as that of
the Traktir-bridge or of the Tchernaya.- Besides
the last-mentioned there are two other "continua-

tions" in Blackwood for October—part two of " The
Baltic in 1855," and part two of " Books for the
Holidays." In the last-mentioned of which serial
contributions there is a delicious sketch of the
seekers of praise, who pester the life almost out of
any well-known writers for the magazine of maga-
zines. We could almost fancy the sketch to have
been drawn in burning lines by the caustic pencil
of Professor Aytouu ! as we could positively
swear to it that the learned Recorder of Hull, and
no other, is discernible a little further on in "An
Old Contributor at the Sea-side." We can hardly
mistake the bold hand of the master, any more than
his subtle humour, his keen and watchful observa-
tion, his sly, quaint drollery, and (with evidences
like these too) his reverential awe (when occasion
permits) before Nature and her God. Other con-
tributions there are—a paper on "Centralisation,"
one on " Modern Light Literature," and another
descriptive of a journey made by Vedette from
" Madrid. to Balaklava' —enough in regard to all
which is said by their mere enumeration. Some-
what curious, by the way, it is to find in this one
number of Blackwood no less than throe separate
articles, dated by their writers from the Camp
before Sebastopol !

The Dub/iA, of course, Sias its say about " The
Plan of the War," and says it well. Disapproval
is expressed of the past, and useful suggestions made
for the future.- " The Fortunes of Glencore" ad-
vances three chapters (the last sufficiently exciting)
without making much, progress. The writer of
" The Civil Service" regards the late semi-official
plan of reform somewhat distrustingly, and intimates
that desirable as competitive examination may be,
more will be required to cure the evils that prevail
in the service, and which have been prodUctive of
so much mischief. "Notes of a Yacht Cruise from
Forth to Clyde" will be interesting to amateur
sailors. In " The Dramatic Writers of Ireland,
No. VEIL," we are presented with nervous
sketches of Thomas Moore, the Rev. C. R. Maturm,
and Sir Aubrey De Vere, Bart., and notices of
their dramatic works, the productions of the latter
studded here and there with rich poetic fancies,
being exclusively confined to the unacted drama.
A paper on the "Origin of the Russians" is quite
apropos at the present time. A lady contributor,
Mary C. J. March, supplies some stirring lines ;
besides which there is a variety of matter of a more
or loss entertaining nature.

Colburn's United Service.—" The Disastrous
Storming of Sebastopol " is the subject of severe
comment. " The attack," it is said, " was not only
a mistake : it was a botch, badly planned, badly
directed, and wholly unsustained." What is now
wanted for the conduct of the war, the indignant
writer declares, is secrecy, or at any cost a practi-
cable administration at home, and the reconstruc-
tion of the War Department, which, with the
Ordnance, should be placed in the charge of an
experienced soldier. Nothing like leather! Exeunt
Lord Panmurc and Mr. Russel of the Times I In
addition to a number of professional articles will
be found an interesting description of ono which
was witnessed in " The Woolwich Arsenal and the
Marshes," on the occasion of the visit of Lord
Panmure, Mr. F. Peel, and Mr. Monsell, and the
other of "Liverpool Twenty-five Years Ago," (a
continuation). The editor, in his " Portfolio,"
suggests that the Duko of Cambridge has fairly
earned a Field-Marshalship, and that the claims of
Sir G. Brown, Sir J. Burgoyne, and others who
have distinguished themselves during the siege of
Sebastopol, should not be overlooked.

Bentley's Miscellany presents its accustomed
variety, an article on the fall of Sebastopol leading
the way. " Woman in Turkey " describes the un-
enviable condition of the sex there. " War Critics"
demonstrates that discordances of opinion in rela-
tion to the war have not been confined to ama-
teurs, but have at once as amusingly and painfully
been exhibited by military authorities. "The
Wehr Wolf of Wilton-crescent" is an amusing and
somewhat extravagant contribution by Dudley
Costello. "Another Passage in a Dark Story
possesses a painful and suggestive interest. "Music
and Song " is the title of a charming ode by T: E.
Carpenter. Some instructive particulars are given„
respecting " Nicholaief, Kherson, and Perecop.
In connection with the former, it would appear
that though it is the seat of immense storehouses
and dockyards, in which all the Russian fleet in
the Black Sea is built, and which give support to
a population of 10,000 or 12,000 souls, the timber
for ship-building comes chiefly down the Dnieper,
and thus has to be conveyed down to the sea before
it can be passed into the Bug, and upwards to
Nicolaief. " The town of Nicolaief was, before
the war," we are told, "quite undefended, except
but for police
by a wall, built, not for military,