The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-18 00:00:00

WAREHOUSEMEN FOR BALAKLAVA.

In consequence of the absence of proper persons at
Balaklava to warehouse the vast quantity of goods lying
at the above port, a communication has been forwarded
from the 'War-office to the directors of the London and
St. Katharine Dock Companies, requesting them to pro-
vide a number of men who are to be despatched to the
Crimea, and who are to be engaged in unloading the ves-
sels upon their arrival,, and in placing the various articles
in storerooms that will be provided for that purpose.
About 400 men will be required, the wages will be 245.
a week, with rations for the labourers, and 21., with
rations, a week, for the foremen, and the men will be
under an engagement for two years. A large number of
men have offered their services, and above 100 have
been approved of. Some of them will be conveyed im-
mediately in the vessels that are bound for the Crimea,
and the whole of them will as fast as possible be shipped
to that dpstination, as their services are most urgently
req aired.

DEATH OF GENERAL SIR A. F. BARNARD,
G.C.B, G.C.11., LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF
CHELSEA BOSP ITAL.

We regret to announce the death of this venerable
and gallant General, who expired yesterday morning,
at his residence at Chelsea Hospital. Sir Andrew had
been in indifferent health for the last fortnight, but it
was only within the last few days that his disease threat.
ened an early dissolution. He continued from Sunday
last to gradually sink, and died at six a.m. yesterday.
The deceased General was son of the Rev. Henry Bar-
nard by the daughter of Dr. Robertson, and grandson
of the late Bishop of Barnard, of Deny. He was born
in 1773, and entered the army as Ensign of the
90th Foot in 1794. The gallant General served at
St. Domingo from April to August in 1795' and
accompanied the expedition under General Sir Ralph
Abercromby to the West Indies, and was at the reduc-
tion of Morrie, Fortunee. -in 1799 he also accompanied
the expedition to the Helder, and was present in the
actions of the 27th of August, 10th of September, and
2d and 6th of October. He subsequently took a dis-
tinguished part in the Peninsular, and was engaged
at Barrossa (where he was severely wounded), Ciudad
Rodrigo, Badajoz, the battles of Salamanca, and
Vittoria, Neville (where he was again severely
wounded), Orthes, and Toulouse. During the last
four years of the war in the Peninsula, he commanded
the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade. Sir Andrew
was in the receipt of a medal and four clasps,
for his services in Portugal and Spain. He after-
war is shared the dangers and glories of the campaign of
1815, and vtAs slightly wounded at Waterloo. His
great captain, the Duke of Wellington, had such a high
opinion of his military services, that in the capitulation
of Paris he was appointed by that illustrious general
Commandant of the British division occupying the
French capital. In 1821 George IV. appointed him a
Groom of the Bedchamber, and in 1826 he was made
Equerry to his Majesty. On the accession of William
IV. he was appointed Clerk Marshal in the Royal
Household, and was for many years, indeed up to her de-
cease, Clerk Marshal to Queen Adelaide. The gallant de-
ceased was a knight of the Order of St. George of Russia and
of Maria Theresa of Austria, for his military services at
Waterloo ; and obtained the honour of a Grand Cross
of the Order of the Bath, in 1842, having passed through
all the grades of that order, and a Knight Grand Cross
of the Royal Hanoverian Guelpic Order in 1834. Sir
Andrew was appointed. Colonel of the Ist battalion of
the Rifle Brigade on the 25th of August, 1822, which is
now in the gift of the General Commanding in Chief, by
his decease. On the death of General Sir George Anson,
a few years back, he was selected by the Duke of Wel-
lington as Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital.
He had the honorary degree of M.A. conferred on him
by the University of Cambridge in 1842, and was one of
the early promoters of the Royal Academy of Music, of
which institution he was one of the Governors.

CAYSTAL Pareen, Tan. 17.—Shilling Dpr—A.dmis-
4ion at the doors, 626 ; admission by season tickets, 133 ;
total, 759.
PARIS BOURSE.—Tha last accounts from the Paris
Bourse show a further average rise of 1 per cent., with a
preponderance of money purchases. From Vienna also
the accounts are rather more favourable.
CITY DISPENSARY.—At the usual half-yearly meeting
of the governors of the City Dispensary, held yesterday
at the offices, Queen-street, Cheapside, the minutes of
previous meetings were read and confirmed, and the
committee, auditors, and house-visitors elected. The
chairman (Mr. Alderman Kennedy) urged in the course
of the proceedings that no charity could be more de-
serving of support than that which afforded instant
relief to the sick poor.
Yesterday it was freeing all day at Southampton and
its neighbourhood. Tie wind was north-east, and
there was a cocsiderablefall of snow. This weather has
been long wished for in the south by the farmer and
gardener to check the forwardness of vegetation.
NAVAL COURT-MARTI/L.—A court-martial was held
on board her Majesty's ship Impregnable yesterday,
composed of the following officers :—Rear-Admiral
Seymour, president; Captains Mundy, Kiagcome, Robb,
Stopford, Wise, Fanshawe, and G. Ramsay ; Mr. John
Eastlake, acting deputy judge advocate, for the trial of
Mr. John Mackeigh, first•class engineer, of her Majes-
ty's ship Cossack, on temporary service, on charges of
assaulting Mr. John Henderson, third-class engineer,
and with using disgusting language. To the latter
chaige the prisoner pleaded guilty ; and the former
being proved, and the court having given the matter
their consideration, sentenced the prisoner to be dis-
missed the service.
WARD OF FARRINGDON-WITHOUT.— CORPORATION
REFORM.—A meeting of the inhabitants of this ward
was summoned for Wednesday, the 10th inst., to take
into consideration the report lately made by the Consol-
idated Committee of the Court of Common Council
touching the reform of the corporation. That meeting
was adjourned on account of the small attendance, and
a second meeting is, in consequence, announced for
Thursday evening, the 18th inst., at the New Court,
Old Bailey, at which it is expected that the committee's
report and the whole question of the proposed corporate
reform will be fully entered upon. A handbill is in cir-
culation among the inhabitants of the ward, pressing
them to attend the meeting, and to give their hearty
support to the Court of Common Council in the impera-
tive duty of resisting the mischievous experiments of
those who are seeking to destroy all the reality of muni-
cipal government, under cover of the mere name of "cor-
poration reform."
DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION AT BALL'S-POND.—
Yesterday morning, shortly after 12 o'clock, a most de-
structive fire broke out on the extensive premises of Mr.
Catlin, builder, Albion-place, Dorset-street, Ball's-
pond. The police on duty observed an unusual glare of
light through the windows of the workshop, 45 feet long
by 20 wide, and immediately raised an alarm, when the
flames shot forth with terrific fury. The mounted police
were despatched to Watling-street, Fsrringdon-street,
fire-engine stations, and promptly arrived with a power-
ful body of firemen. The New River mains afforded a
copious supply of water, when the engines got to work
in an admirable manner, under the direction of Mr.
Bridges, the district foreman. The flames, however,
spread with amazing rapidity, and were not subdued
till the building and its valuable contents, with the
workmen's tools, were entirely destroyed, thus reducing
the poor, carpenters to a state of distress for the want of
tools to support their families. The origin of the fire is
unknown. The building and contents belonging to Mr.
W. T. Catling are insured in the Royal Exchange to a
large amount.
THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday, Jan. 17.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Atrato (Captain
Woolley), left this afternoon with the usual semi-
monthly West Indian and Pacific mails. She has on
board 73 passengers, among whom are Count de Bour-
mont, Le Baron du Teil, Drs.Luyanston and Davonens,
Colonel Ashmore, Lieutenants Goodman and Quill,
&c. On freight the Atrato has specie value 6,6001. and
a full cargo. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Madrid (Captain N. Cook) also left this
afternoon with mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz,
and Gibraltar, 160 passengers, 70,9491. 10s. in specie,
of which 27,8541. 10s. is for Lisbon, and an average
general cargo. The Indus (Captain Soy), with the heavy
portion of the India and China mail, is expected on or
about the 23d inst. The Euxine will take the outward
India and China mails of the 20th, and the Iberia the
Peninsular mails of the 27th. The Parana, with the
West India mail, is hourly expected. The United
States' snail steam-ship Union (Captain Adams), left
Havre and Southampton this day with mails, pas-
sengers, and a very full cargo, direct for New York.
EMBEZZLE3IENT AT LIVERPOOL.—At the Liverpool
police court yesterday, John Bevan Donaldson, late
collector at the Liverpool Mercury office, was committed
for trial for embezzling several large sums which he col-
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APPREHENSION OF LIVERPOOL BROKERS.—At the
Frith,
aoldPoAlicrch
Police Court yesterday,urbtrokers,ofa
lre Messrs.er - h uCi
Water-street, Liverpool, were brought before Mr.
Joseph C. Ewart, on the charge of having pledged a
quantity of tar placed in their hands as brokers for
sale. The case was about being heard, when Mr.
Ewart expressed a desire that, owing to its import-
ance, and as it involved points of law, Mr. Mansfield
should hear it, and the case was adjourned until this
day (Thursday), at one o'clock, and the parties ad-
mitted to bail. Mr. Aepinall, banister, who appeared
for the accused, stated that he had in his possession a
document containing the fullest authority for their con-
duct.

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An imperial decree promotes to the rank of
general of brigade Colonels Beuret of the 39th,
Verge of the 27th, and Niol of the 26th regiments
of the line, now serving in the Crimea.
General Diettman has just died at Nancy of
cholera in his 65th year.
The Constitutionne/ publishes a telegraphic des-
patch from Ibrail, which states that the Russian force
which had lately entered the Dobrudscha amounted
to 15,000 men, with 50 pieces of artillery. This
news is in direct opposition to that given by the
Moniteur, from which it would appear that
although a body of Russians did pass the Danube
on the 7th or Bth, they retreated to their old quar-
ters at Ismail on .the 10th. The above despatch,
to be sure, is of the 12th, so that, after making
the reconnaissance, they may have returned in
force ; but this is not thought probable.
Cardinal do Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons, and
the Bishops of Agen and Montauban have arrived
at their respective episcopal residences from Rome.
A letter from Toulon; 12th, says :—" The Ville
de Marseille, line of battle ship, arrived here te-
day, from Constantinople. The Suffren is hourly
expected. The Hercule has landed all her guns,
except eight, i 4 order to have more room for the