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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1855.

TEE .LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST .NIGHT,

WAR DEPARTMENT, JULY 5.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of the following officers, of her Majesty's
Land and Naval Forces, to be ordinary members of the
Military Divisions of the first, second, and third classes of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath respectively.

General Sir Hew Dalryinple Ross; K.C.B.
TO BE KNIGHTS COMIIANDBRS.
Admiral Frederick William Lord Aylmer, 7.8.
General Edward Nicollr, Royal Marines.
Lieutenant-General James Fergusson, C.B.
Lieutenant-General Thomas William Brothrton, C.B.
Vice-Admiral Henry Hope, C. 8...
Vice-Admiral John Henry, Coode C.B.
Rear-Admiral Maurice Frederick Fitzhadinge Ber-
keley, C.B.
Roar-Admiral Fairfax Moresby, C.B.
TO BE A COMPANION.
William Rae, Esq., M.D., Inspector of Dspitala and
Fleets.

FOSTAGE DUTIES ON PACK c, T'S TO STD FROM
WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
By a Treasury warrant, dated the 7th Of aaly inst., it
is ordered that all packets consisting of boks, publica-
tions, and works of literature or art, print°, votes and
proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, or an' of the Co-
lonial Legislature, maybe transmitted by the pst between
any part of the United Kingdom and any part of the
colony of Western Australia, at the uniforn single rate
of postage of 6d. ; and that on every 'such paket exceed-
ing half-a-pound in weight thaw shall be etorged such
progressive and additional rates as are diroted to bo
charged under the provisions of the warrant dated the
221 day cf February, 1855, and liable to th exceptions
set forth in the said last-mentioned warrant. The postage
duty ordered in the warrant doled-111e 7th of :.uly inst. is
to come into operation on the Ist of September next on
packets posted in the United Kingdom, and of the Ist of
November next on packets posted in Western kustralia.
MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE, JuLv 9.
The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade
and Foreign Plantations have nominated 'the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere, M.P., to be a Juror for Scripture, and
Joseph Locke, Esq., M.P., to be a Juror for civil Engi-
neering, at the Paris Universal Exhibition.
WAR OFFICE, Jtni.v 10.
12th Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George Allan
Hutton, from the Staff, to be Asaistanii-dargeon, vice
Small, promoted in the Cape Mounted Rifles.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Assistant-Surgeon John Small,
from the 12th Foot, to be Surgeon,. vice James Clephane
Minto, who retires upon half-pay.
UNATTACHED.—Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
the Honourable J. P. Maxwell, 50th Foot, to have his Bre-
vet converted into Substantive Rank, in conformity with
the Royal Warrant, dated 6th October, 1854.
BREVET.—The undermentioned officers, having been
selected for service with the Turkish Contingent, to have
local rank while so employed :—To have the local rank of
Colonel—Lieut.-Colonel James John Graham, unattached,
Military Secretary to the Lieut.-General Vivian ; Lieut.-
Colonel Forbes, late 4th Regiment Madras Cavalry. To
have the local rank of Lieutenant•Colonel—Major E. R.
Wetherall, Scots Fusilier Guards, appointed Deputy-
Quartermaster-General to the Turkish Contingent. To
have the local rank of Major—Captain Crease, Royal En-
gineers. To have the local rank of Captain—Captain
Methuen Edmund Stedman, late Captain 10th Light
Dragoons. To have the local rank of Veterinary-Surgeon
—Thomas Walton Mayer, Gent.
The undermentioned officers, having been selected for
service with the Irregular Cavalry, under Major-General
Beatson, to have local rank while so employed :—To have
the local rank of Majors—Captain Alexander Theophilus
Blakeley ; Captain G. Colclough, Royal Artillery. To have
the local rank of Captain—Lieutenant George Carleton,
Madras Artillery. To have the local rank of Staff-Surgeon,
of the First Class—Doctor Alderson, Surgeon, Second
Class, vice Doctor Gilborne.
MEMORANDUM.—For Colonel John Subzberger and
Lieut.-Colonel Charles Edward Funck to have the tempo-
rary rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the British Army ; and
Captain John Baumgartner temporary rank of Major,
while serving in the British Foreign Legion.--Read Colonel
John Sulzberger and Lieut. •Colonel Charles Edward Funek
to have the temporary rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the British
Army ; and Captain John Baumgartner temporary rank
of Major, while serving in the British Swiss Legion.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 9.
The following promotions, dated the 3d instant, have
this day taken place, consequent on the death, on the 2d
instant, of Admiral of the Red Sir Charles Ekins, G.C.B.
Admiral of the White Sir Francis William Austen,
K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Red.
Admiral of the Blue Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.8., to be
Admiral of the White.
Vice-Admiral John Snrman Carden, on the Reserved
Half-pay List, to be Admiral on the Reserved Half-pay
List.
Vice-Admiral of the Red John Sykes to be Admiral of
the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White the Right Honourable Gran-
ville George, Lord Radstock, C. 8.. to be Vice-Admiral of
the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Honourable Sir Fleetwood
Broughton Reynolds Pellew, C. 8., K.C.H., to be Vice-
Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral the Honourable Alexander Jones, on the
Reserved Half-pay List, to be Vice-Admiral on the Re-
served Half-pay List.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Peter John Douglas to be
Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Edward Collier, C. 8., to be
Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Dundas to be Rear-
Admiral of the White.
Captain Henry Gossett,
Captain John Furneaux,
Captain Jodrell Leigh,
Josep6,l?
to be R... s on the Reserved Halt-pay List.
Captain Henry Smith, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.
The following Captains, on the Retired List, have also
been promoted to be Retired Rear-Admirals on the terms
proposed in the London Gazette of the let September,
1846, without increase of pay :
Captain Robert White Parsons.
Captain Abraham Crawford.
Captain Russell Henry Manners.
Captain James Thorne.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 9.
The following promotions, dated the 4th inst., have this
day taken place consequent on the death, on the 3d inst.,
of Admiral of the Red the Marquis of Thomond :
Admiral of the White Sir John Acworth Ommanney,
K.C.B , to be Admiral of the Red.
Admiral of the Blue the Hon. George Elliot, C. 8., to be
Admiral of the White.
Vice-Admirals John Impey, Henry Manaton Omman-
ney, and Archibald Duff, on the Reserved Half-pay List,
to be Admirals on the Reserved Half-pay List.
Vice-Admiral of the Red Thomas Brown to be Admiral
of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White the Right Honourable
George Earl Cadogan, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the

Red:
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Charles Napier, KOJI,
to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Barrington Reynolds, C. 8., to
be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Arthur Fanshawe, to
be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. Montagu Stopfora
to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain Stephen Lushington to be Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 5.
Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant John
Cairncross to be First Lieutenant, vice Richards, de-
ceased.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—George Cubitt, Esq., to be Paymaster.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Royal Aberdeenshire Regiment of Militia—Major Henry
Knight Erskine to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vies Lord Sal-
toun, resigned ; Captain John Paton to be Major, vice
Erskine • Lieut. John Turner to be Captain; Ensign Wm.
Marshall' Priest to be Lieutenant • James Charles Hender-
son, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; George Robertson, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—En-
sign John Malcolm Sewell to be Lieutenant, vice Wells,
who retires. Francis
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia Endgn
Frederic Richard Mansell Morgan to be Lieutenant, vice
Naborne Gilpin Smith, appointed Paymaster.

BANKRUPTS.
Emilio Pistrucci, general commission agent, Pimlico, to
surrender, July 23, at half-past eleven, and Aupt 20, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assig-
nee Aldermanbury ; Barton, Essex-street,
John Taylor, chemist, Rochdale-road, Manchester, July
25, and August 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Wise,
Manchester.
Thomas Wade, stone merchant, Newlay, Leeds,
_ July
30, at twelve, and Aug. 20, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Blackburn, Leeds;
Preston, Leeds.
James Henry Langdon, merchant and shipowner, Exeter,
July 19 and Aug. 16, at eleven, at the Exeter District
Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon,
Exeter.
David Mackechnie, chemist and diuggist, West Hartle-
pool, Durham, July 20, and Aug. 17, at half-past twelve,
at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker oft.
cial assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Hartley, Soutliamp-
ton-street, Bloomsbury ; Brignal, Durham.
Aaron Marks and Naham Salamon, merchants, Sheffield,
July 21 and Aug. 25, at ten, at the Leeds District Court.
Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Fretson, Sheffield.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Norman Morrison, provision merchant, Partiok, near
Glasgow, July 12, at one, within Brown and Maciadoe's
Rooms, St. Vincent-street, Glasgow.
James Tarbat, tailor, Duadee, July 19, at two, within
the Royal Hotel, Dundee.
Thomas C. M'lndoe and Co., commission agents, Glas-
gow, July 20, at one, within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow.
Messrs. Neill, Heerup, and Co., merchants, Leith, July
19, at two, within the New Ship Hotel, Leith.non
John Christie, clothier and hatter, as Christie
and Company, Glasgow, July 23, at twelve, within the
Waverley Hotel, George-square, Glasgow.
Robert Hodge, coppersmith and brassfounder, Edin-
burgh, July 20, at two, within Stevenson's Sale Rooms,
St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about at par (according to the last tariff), which, at the
English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 103 d. per ounce for stand-
ard gold, gives an exchange of 25.17 ; and, the exchange
at Paris on London at short being
.25'05, it follows that
gold is about o'4B per cent. dearer in Paris than in Lon-
don. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is
4261 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 13.-5 a ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on
London at short being 13'5/, it follows that gold is 0.06
per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg. The
course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 110 per cent. ; and, the par of ex-
change between England and America being 109 23-40
per cent., it follows that the exchange is n"minally 0'67
iper cent, in favour of England; and, after making allow-
ance for charges of transport and difference of interest,
the present rate leaves a small profit on the importation
of gold from the United Staters,

TILE' SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JUNE 26.
The sad history of the 19th, which I was obliged
to interrur t on the departure of the mail, is soon
finished. The bodies of many a brave officer whom
I knew in old times—old times of the war, for men's
lives are short here, and the events of a life are
compressed into a few hours—were borne past us in
silence, and now and then,' wonderful to relate,
men with severe wounds were found still living and
able to give expression to their sufferings by moans
and sighs of pain. The spirit of some of these
noble fellows triumphed over all their bodily
agonies. " General exclaimed a seant of the
18th Royal Irish to Brigadier Eyro ao he came near
the place in the Cemetery where the poor fellow
lay with both his legs broken by a round shot,
" thank God, we did our work any way. Had I
another pair of legs, the country and you would be
welcome to them !" Many men in hospital, after
losing leg or arm, said they " would not have cared
if they had only beaten the Russians." The tortures
endured by the wounded were very great ; they
lay in holes made by shells, and were frequently
fired at by the Russian riflemen when they rolled
about in their misery. Some of our men, however,
report that the enemy treated them kindly, and even
brought them water out of the embrasures. They
pulled all the bodies of our officers which lay within
reach up to the abattis, and took off their epaulettes,
when they had any, and their boots, but did not strip
them. It was observed that the ditch of the abattis
was in excellent order—that the chevaux-de-frise
had been repaired, and were very strong, and that
_ every effort had been used up to the Moment before
we assaulted to render it, as it was, a formidable"
obstacle to our advance. It is said that the bottom
of the ditch was filled with bayonets, fixed firmly in
the earth ; and there is a report that the Russians
were employed during the night of the 17th in re-
pairing the abattis itself where it was injured by
our cannon. I have already tried to describe the
nature of the ground in the front of the abattis.
It was in itself a considerable impediment to regu-
larity of formation. A line of sentries was formed
by the Russians as our burying parties came out,
and they advanced so far in front of the abattis
that General Airey was obliged to remonstrate
with au aide-de-camp of General Osten-Sacken,
who ordered them to retire nearer to the abattis.
It was observed that these men were remarkably
fine, tall, muscular, and soldierlike fellows, and
one could not but contrast them with some of
the poor weakly-looking boys who were acting
as privates in our regiments, or with the small
undergrown men of the French line. They were
unusually well dressed, in clean new uniforms,
and were no doubt picked out to imposo upon us.
Many of them wore medals, and seemed veteran
soldiers. Their officers had also turned out with
unusual care, and wore white kid gloves, patent
leather boots, and white linen. The mass of the
Russians were gathered on the towering parapets of
the Redan and Malakhoff, and were not permitted
to come to our front. Their working parties brought
out all our dead, and laid them in front of their
line of sentries, whence our people carried them
away. The precautions which had been taken to
prevent officers and men getting through the lines
sufficed to keep any great crowd away, but the offi-
cers on duty and the lucky men, and some ama-
teurs,who managed to get through the lines, formed
groups in front of the Redan, and entered into con-
versation with a few of the Russian officers. There
was, however, more reserve and gravity in the in-
terview than has been the case on former occasions
of the kind. One stout elderly Russian of rank
asked one of our officers "How are you off for food?"
" Oh! we get everything we want; our fleet secures
that." " Yes," remarked the Russian, with a know-
ing wink, " but there's one thing you're not so
well off for, and your fleet can't supply you, and
that's sleep." " We're at least as well off for that
as you are," was the rejoinder. Another officer, in
the course of conversation, asked if we really
thought, after our experience of the defence they
could make, that we could take Sebastopol. "We
must; France and England are determined to take
it." " Ah, well," said the other, " Russia is deter-
mined France and England shall not have it, and
we'll see who has the strongest will, and can lose
most men." In the midst of these brief interviews,
beginning and ending with bows and salutes, and
inaugurated by the concession of favours relating
to cizars and lights, the soldiers bore dead bodies
by, consigning pLivitLeS IA) zne burial grounds
near the trenches, and carrying off the wounded
and the bodies of the officers to the camp. Poor
Forman's body was one of the first found ; it was
far in advance of where he came out of the trench
with his company of the Rifle Brigade, and it was
terribly torn with shot. It was generally observed
by some of the surgeons, however, that the wounds
were cleaner than they have been in previous engage-
ments. This is somewhat remarkable, for the Russians
fired all kinds of missiles—bags of nails and frag-
ments of bullets, shells, and balls, as well as grape
and canister. They were seen as we advanced
"shovelling" the shot into the muzzles of the guns.
No one can deny many of their officers the praise of
extreme bravery and devotion. In the midst of
our fire they got up on the top and on the outside
of the parapets and directed the fire of their men
upon us. Several of them were knocked over by
round shot, shell, and rifle balls, while exposing
themselves in this manner, but it scarcely speaks
well for their soldiers that they felt it necessary to
set them such examples. Colonel Dickson suc-
ceeded in obtaining Lord Raglan's permission to
open on the Russians from the 21-gun battery, and
swept them away in numbers as they crowded out
to fire on our broken columns and on our wounded
men and fugitives.
The armistice lasted for upwards of two hours,
and when it was over we retired from the spot so
moistened with our blood. All the advantage we
gained by the assault was the capture of the Ceme-
tery, and even that we had nearly abandoned,
owing to the timidity of one of our generals. As
you have already learnt,_ the men in the Cemetery
and houses suffered severely during the 18th from
the enemy's fire, and the soldiers in the latter were
not able to withdraw till nightfall. It was left to
one of the Generals of Division to say what should
be done with the Cemetery, and he gave orders to
abandon it. On the following morning an officer
of Engineers, Lieutenant Donnelly, heard to his
extreme surprise that the position for which we had
paid so dearly was not in our possession. He ap-
preciated its value—he saw that the Russians had
not yet advanced to re-occupy it. With the
utmost zeal and energy he set to work among the
officers in the trenches, and begged and borrowed
some 30 men, with whom he crept down into the
Cemetery, just before the flag of truce was hoisted.
As soon as the armistice began the Russians flocked
down to the Cemetery, which they supposed to be
undefended, but to their great surprise they found
our 30 men posted there as sentries, who warned
them back, and in the evening the party was
strengthened, and we are now constructing most valu-
able works and batteries there, in spite of a heavy
fire, which occasions us considerable loss. Such is
the story that is going the round of the camp. Lord
Raglan is said to have found fault with General
Eyrefor losing so many men,but thelatter observed,
that he had done what he was ordered, and that
he had taken the Cemetery." There can be no
doubt but that our troops could have got into the
town in the rear of the Redan from the houses
on the 18th, had they been strong enough
to advance from the Cemetery. Whether they
could have maintained themselves there under the
fire of forts, ships, and batteries is another question.
It is now shrewdly suspected that inside the Re-
dan, behind those outward and visible walls of
earth, there is another very strong work—a kind of
star fort of earth with sunken batteries—and it is
certain that inside the Malakhoff works there are
several lines of battery which have never been un-
masked. The enemy have probably constructed
large funnel-shaped pits behind these works, into
which shells roll and burst, as such a " dodge" was
found in the Mamelon. Inside the latter work
were splendid bombproofs for the men to retire into
when our fire became hot. They were large pits
with 10 feet of earth, and beams of wood across
them, and were capable of holding a strong body of
men. In one some new sacks marked with the
broad arrow and B. 0. were found, in which were
packets of cartridges ready for use. Where did
these sacks come from ? It is almost as strange as
the English bread found at Tchorgoun. There is
talk of a spy being taken, or rather discovered,
in a sub-interpreter to the Commissariat, who con-
fesses he has been in communication with the Rus-
sians, and revealed our attack to them. He will
be shot if this be true.

SATURDAY, JUNE 23.

There is no symptom of any activity on ourpart
or on that of the enemy. They can, however, work
without our seeing them. At 8 o'clock this even-
ing a thunderstorm, advancing from the moun-
tain ranges over Balaklava and Mackenzie's-farm,
burst on the valley of the Tchernaya and on the
southern portion of the camp. I never beheld
such incessant lightning. For two hours the sky
was a blaze of fire. The rain fell like a great wall
of water behind us, Not a drop descended over

the camp iu front, but we could see it in a steep
glistening cascade, illuminated by the lightning,
falling all across the camp from sea to land, just in
front of Lord Raglan's, and nearly in a straight
line, as if marked out by a ruler. The rain is a
great relief to our parched reservoirs. _

SUNDAY, JUNE 24.
General Estcourt, Adjutant-General of the Army,
died this morning at half-past 9 o'clock, after three
days' illness. His death has produced a profound
impression of regret on' all who knew him, for a
kinder or more amiable man did not exist. ie was
unremitting in the discharge of his duties, and no
officer ever applied • himself to the labours of the
desk, which constitute so large a portion of the
business of the department over which he presided,
with more assiduity and devOtion. When others
were gloomy and desponding General Estcourt was
cheerful and calm, and he possessed that equanimity
in adverse circumstances which antiquity admired,
and which we at least respect, and so long as the
General Orders issued from his office they were
written in pure English, and justified the pride
which General Estcourt felt in the roundness of his
periods, the choiceness of his phraseology, and the
clearness of his directions. His loss is felt by the
army—by none more than by the General who
commands it, whose affection for the deceased has
been so rudely tested by death almost within his
very doors. general Estcourt was taken ill with
diarrhcea six days before he died, and at the end of
the third day was attacked with cholera, which his
strength of constitution and powerful frame en-
abled him to resist for three days more, but on
Saturday night a crisis came on, a dangerous
change supervened, and ho expired in the morning,
soothed by the presence of his wife and of a near
female relative. Every care and attention were
paid to him. He was attended by Dr, Prender-
gast and Dr. F. Smith with the utmost solicitud.b
and skill.

MONDAY, JUNE 25.

The storm which burst over the south-eastern
portion of the Chersonese on Saturday night has
done more damage than we could have anticipated.
Men were drowned in ravines converted by the tor-
nado into angry watercourses, were carried off roads
by mountain torrents, and dashed against hill-sides;
beasts were swept away into the harbour and borne
to sea ; huts were broken up and floated out into
the ocean ; the burial-grounds near Balakiava were
swept bare, and disclosed their grim army of the
dead in ghastly resurrection, washed into strange
shapes from out their shallow graves; and, greatest
calamity of all, the railway was in various places
decomposed, ripped up and broken down so as to
be unserviceable at our greatest need. Orders
have been sent down to urge on the necessary re-
pairs, for the demands of the batteries for shot and
shell are pressing, and the electric telegraph has
been repeatedly in use to-day to force on the atten-
tion of the authorities at Balakiava the necessity
there is for their promptest exertions, and to order
them to send up supplies of materiel for our fifth
bombardment as speedily as possible. The French say
they are quite ready, and they have received from us
1,500 32-lb. shot for their guns to-day. The railway
fails at a critical period, but even if it were in its
usual state we could not hope to be in a condition
to begin a heavy fire for some time to come, and I
believe it will be fully a fortnight or three weeks
before the necessary supplies will be brought up to
the front. The repairs to the railway will be ef-
fected in ten days. Mr. Beatty and Mr. Campbell
are away at Heraclea surveying the coal district,
but their representatives aro men of energy, and
the only obstructions to be dreaded will arise from
the " navvies," some of whom have been behaving
very badly lately. They nearly all " struck work"
a short time back, on the plea that they were not
properly rationed or paid, or that, in other words,
they were starved and cheated ; but the Provost-
Marshal brought some of them to a sense of
their situation, and, indeed, the office of that
active and worthy person and of his myrmidon
sergeants has been by no means a sinecure
between " navvies," Greeks, and scoundrels of
all sorts. The Croat insurrection is suppressed,
but the Croat idleness has not been by any
means stimulated into usefulness. How Eng-
land is squandering her money broadcast all over
this part of the world ! The Eupatorians with
their 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. a day, and the Croat with
the same stipend, are indeed " beggars set on
horseback," and they fulfil the rest of the proverb.
The poor
whet o.+ ornmf. my Ray
that it would be much better for them to be those
dogs of Croats, who receive as much as their own
bimbashis, or majors, than to march in the armies
of the Sultan ; but Lord Stratford's hard bargain
for us must be accomplished ; and it was he
who was the benevolent genius who deluged
Croatian and Tartar hordes with this flood of
wealth. No wonder Colonel M'Murdo finds it
difficult to get men for the Land Transport Corps,
although even he is obliged to pay 2s. Gd. and 3s.
a day to native suridjees, so completely have we
ruined the market.

The losses in the Land Transport Corps by
death would be extraordinary did we not find a
parallel to them in the Sardinian army of Tchor-
goun, which has lost in three weeks nearly 1,000
men by cholera, dysentery, and diarrhoea. The Turks
and French encamped in the valley suffer some-
what from the same diseases, but it is observable
that the men who die are recruits and old men who
are mostly unaclimatised. At Yenikale the de-
tachment of Land Transport Corps lost in a fort-
night 50 men, of whom 25 were English and 25
native drivers. In its present state it cannot supply
all the wants of our army. We could not advance
any body of troops without running risks of star-
vation, and even the 10th Hussars are said to have
been unable to keep their horses so far from Bala-
klava, owing to the want of forage, and their re-
treat from their advanced position is attributed to
that cause rather than to the field-pieces which the
Russians brought to bear upon them from an ad-
joining height. To understand the difficulties in the
way of what is called at home " taking the field" one
must come out and stay out here. It would be much
easier to take Sebastopol than to take the field.
There are only three accessible passes, up the preci-
pitous wall of rock which rises on the north side of
the Tchernay a, to the plateau on which the Russians
are encamped, and the precipice runs round to the
Belbek. These passes are so steep that an army
would have some difficulty in ascending them at
its leisure, without resistance from any enemy.
But they are occupied wherever engineering eyes
detect the smallest weakness—they are commanded
by batteries, intersected by positions threatened by
overhanging cliffs all ready for the lever. March
round and turn them ! Where and how ? We
have no transport even if we could march, and we
cannot march,
.because Napoleon himself would
never lead an army into such defiles as guard the
Russian position. Whether we are not strong
enough to detach a great corps of 40,000 or 50,000
men to operate against the Russians north of Sebas-
topol is not for me to say; but it is certain that the
base of operation for any such corps must be the
sea, till ample transport is provided. The Crimea is
to all intents and purports a desert—a Sahra, water-
less and foodless before an invading army. There is
no news of importance to-day. A long train of provi-
sions came into Sebastopol to-day, and the mirror
telegraph, which works by flashes from a mound
over the Belbek, was exceedingly busy all the fore-
noon. Troops were observed in motion on the hills
opposite Inkerman. The weather is warm, but
there is a strong breeze of wind, which tempers its
beat. The rain has developed horrible effluvia in
camp, and sickness is rather on the increase. With
great regret and surprise we heard of Captain
Lyons's death this evening.
Lord Raglan is indisposed. A reconnaissance
will be made, or has already been effected, to-day
on the Russian left, towards the ridges beyond
Mackenzie's-farm and the Belbek, if it can be
effected. If not, the troops will make an explo-
ration towards Yalta. The mail is closing. There
is no firing or anything of consequence in the
front. _ _

Among the general orders promulgatedjuynesete2r9d.ay
afternoon was the following:—
" The Field-Marshal has the satisfaction of publish-
ing to the army the following extract from a tele-
graphic despatch from Lord Panmure, dated the 22d of
June.
" I have her Majesty's command to express her grief
that so much bravery should not have been rewarded
with merited suceess, and to assure her brave troops that
her Majesty's confidence in them is entire."'
Within a very few hours after this order had ap-
peared, the electric telegraph brought the melan-
choly and startling intelligence fromhead-quarters
to the various divisions that the Field-Marshal,
was dead. It would appear that he has latelYno
doubt from the constant strain on his mental and
bodily energies—been far from 11, and the death
of General Estcourt, to whom we
he Was much
at-
tached, the unsatisfactory result of the attack
the 18th inst., and the unhealthy weather since
on
broke down a constitution already enfeebled
and long service. The follow' by age
m
melancholy story : g tells its own
"MORNING GENERA
"Head-quarters before L ORDERS.
No. I. It becomeri
Sebastopol, June 29.
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nounce to the army the 4
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a Zi t lof the troops devolves-en-
me,
Field-Marshal Lord Rag' an , G.C.8., whichme Ilin fr-44,5 T-. 1;.--;., ,
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" No. 2. In the abset t k) of Lieutenant-Ge era..l Sir '
George Brown, the conon
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me, as the next senior all C aye present, until further or: .
ders are received from gal, giai id.
depart-
ments wo.il3l.bGe
pleasedenerals otfoc'i: " ins and heads of depart-
'duties
as heretofore.
".T. SIMP SO T, Lieutenant• General."
There is great feeling of i 'egret evinced through-
out the camp at the loss of 1 ford Raglan. His death
appears to have at once st ill ed every other feeling
but that of respect for b is :memory and remem-
brance of the many y oii t j -ears he faithfully and
untiringly served his c-ou tit ,ry.
I in choler4.l .:The body
The cause of his dea th . is stated ,to have been
whole of his late lord-
shortly. , It. will, I
idsiatrorhbcee
cao,nwvheiycehdtteormEirg,,:4te.4,l 7
then, of
I in-laercillajesty's ship
akenham
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course,s h ilord-
ship's
pceerassoen.al
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yes.
Lw.ilpl
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will conduct for the pr eset it the duties of the
Adjutant-General's office.
We have now but very sew generals left to com-
mand divisions or to act a: ; bii,gadiers. Sir George
Brown left Kamiesh thi; s nao riling for England;
he had, I believe, previous ii y heard of the death of
the Field-Marshal, but his x le clical advisars_insisted,
on the necessity of his at o ice leaving the gritnea„
General Pennefather, as ye a are aware, has been
gone for some days. Gene rals Estcourt,Sir*John
Campbell, and Colonels Yel I, Shadforth, &c., are
no more. General Codring)l on, on whom the corn-
mond of the Light Divisia n now devolves, is in
anything but a satisfactory s tate of health, and is
at present on board a man--t )f-war at Chersonese.
The Division provisionally it ; under the orders of
Colonel Shirley of the 88tb, t he only Colonel of the
Division who remains of th ose who led on their
gallant men from 'Colonial t Bay to Alma and
Inkerman.
General Barnard, it is um derstood, takes com-
mand of the Fourth Division
~ and, for the present,
the duties of Brigadiers-Gene ;ral will, with few ex-
ceptions, devolve on the said° r officers commanding
regiments.
The siege is " dragging 0n.." The firing for the
last two or three days has been a little more active
on the part of the enemy, ;pa rticularly at daylight. *
, - A report on the supply of water in the tanks of
the different divisions has, I.:believe, been forwarded
by the commanding engine to head-quarters, and
it is in contemplation, in co nsequence, to move a
portion of the Land Trans-yOrt Corps to the neigh-
bourhood of Koranni ; but if, seems to me that the
supply, though not of the purest or most pellucid
kind, is •not reasonably to b e complained of, and
continues in sufficiently ampl; 3 abundance.
I regret to hear that there .are complaints on the
part o the Commissariat mad Land Transport
Corps respecting the " navvies.," It seems the term
for which their services were engaged has expired,
and they will now only only work- when they please,
and have, in fact, become exceedingly idle. The
consequence is, that the whole system of getting up
provisions by the railway for the divisions in front
is deranged, and much valuable time is lost in also
bringing up shot and shell to the trenches.

(FROM ANOTHER CORENSPONDENT.)
FRIDAY, JUNE 29.
There are to be great changes of commanders
among the different divisions :-
Ist Division—Sir Colin Campbell ; Brigadiers
Major-General Lord Rokeby, and CoL Cameron.
2d Division.—General Barnard ; Brigadiers
Colonel Lockyer, and Colonel Trollope.
3d Division.—Sir R. England ; Brigadiers Ge-
neral Eyre, and Colonel Barlow.
sth Division—General Bentinck ; Brigadiers
Colonel Spence, and Colonel Garrett.
Light Division—General Codrington ; Brigadiers
Colonel Van Straubenzee, and Colonel Shirley.
General Barnard has hitherto commanded a bri-
gade in the 3d Division, and takes the 2d Division
on account of General Pennefather having gone to
England from ill-health.
Colonel Spencer is promoted from the command
of the 44th Regiment to
.a brigade in the 4th Divi-
sion. Colonel Van Straubenzee, who is colonel of
the 3d Buffs, and has commanded the Reserve
Brigade, consisting of the 3d, 31st, and 72d Regi-
ments, is to have the Ist brigade in the Light
Division, in place pf General Codrington, who com-
mands the division.

The Reserve Brigade is attached to the 2d Divi-
sion.

The 13th Regiment has just arrived. It is not
yet known to what division it will be attached.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM REAR-
ADMIRAL DUNDAS.

( From last Evening's Gazette.)
Despatches, of which the following are copies or ex-
tracts, have been received at this office from Rear-Ad-
iv. a. Ch.mUU.i4l.laCi..ll4-ljnia Ur
her Majesty's ships and vessels on the Baltic Station.
Duke of Wellington, at anchor off Tolboukin
Lighthouse, July 2, 1855.
The Arrogant] arrived here from the neighbourhood
of Biorko on the 28th ultimo, and returns to-day to the
same station. I have directed Captain Yelverton to
extend his examination of the coast as far westward as
Lovisa ; and I beg leave to direct their Lordships'
attention to a report, herewith transmitted, which I
have this day received from Captain Vansittart, of the
Magicienne, through whose activity and zeal, with the
aid of the Ruby gun-boat, a large number of vessels,
laden with granite blocks, have been successfully de-
stroyed in Werolax Bay.
Her Majesty's ship Magicienne,
Off Nerva Beacon, July 1.

Sir,—l have the honour to report that, in obedience
to orders received from Captain Yelverton, I left the an-
chorage of Biorka on the 28th of June, with her Ma-
jesty's ship Magicienne under my command, and Ruby
gun-boat, in search of a number of vessels said to be
freighted by the Russian Government to carry blocks of
granite, and in the neighbourhood of the Island of
Lukar.

Having arrived off the Island of Kyskykyla the same
evening, early on the 29th I proceeded in her Majesty's
gun-boat Ruby, and boats of her Majesty's ship. Magi-
cionne, under' the First Lieutenant H. B. King, to the
very end of the bay, looking well in about the Island of
Lukar, and in boats ascending some little distance up
the River of Kyskykyla, finding only four vessels, which
being both new and empty, I left unhurt.
The following morning, the 30th, I proceeded with
her Majesty's ship Magicienne and Ruby gun-boat, to
the next large Bay of Werolax, where anchoring her
Majesty's ship Magicienne at the entrance, I proceeded
to the very end of Werolax Bay, a distance of about
nine miles, where I found a large granite quarry with
near two hundred men at work, who at our approach
went off. '

Anchoring the Ruby, so as to command the whole
place with the boats, I had the various vessels at anchor,
consisting of thirty large galiots, boarded.
Twenty-nine being laden with granite blocks, I bad
them destroyed by fire.

With theeiception of three or four rifle shots being
fired upon us, which were quickly returned by rockets
and rifles, welmet with no resistance.

The head of Werolax Bay was evidently the rendez-
vous for the granite vessels, as, with the exception of
one, all their sails were unbent, colours and papers se-
cured, and mot of their vessels were slung and buoyed,
so as to be ready for scuttling if discovered, which many
had commenced doing on the present occasion.—l have,
&0., (Signed) NICHOLAS VANSITTART,
Captain.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C.D.

Her Majesty's Ship Arrogant,
off Biorka, June 25, 1855.
Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you with my pro-
ceedings since the 18th instant.
On the 20th I anchored at Rotsinshalm and took im-
mediate steps for blowing up the fort, which was accom-
plished on the following day.
On the afternoon of the 20th I made a careful recon-
naissance of Kotka, in the Ruby, ani discovered at the
back of the island, where I had not been before, large
government bdildings, with barracks fit to contain about
5,000 men, stables, storehouses, and hospital, of
which I destroyed. The buildings bad evidently
. been
very recently occupied. I met no troops except a few
Cossacks, whd retired on our approachL_ _ ace,
(Signed) H. B. YBLVERTuN, Captain.

been l
heretoforey petrified
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pB.O or
ImNa
disco
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thousandb yN G
bringing
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IhFle FOSSILISED s
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sat . Ly—l, s
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nabili las Ai
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et tioguft
light a considerableremains, that must have
b.theeebones, of that some frag-
ments
bed of solid gravel, and
merits of the stupendous animal, the
It appears that 31amtnotb.Sorge excavators, employed
in digging a trench to the depth of about twenty feet,
in a
about two hundred feet from the marginofthe '
Thames,
came upon a quantity of small fragments of very large
in •
bones, a petrified state, '
and in the midst of which
were two large and weighty substances, having
the appearance ofpetrified fungi. On showing these
. .
substances, 2however, to Dr. Roots, whose residence is
close to the spot, he at once. recognised them as th
molares, or grinders, of the Antediluvian
Mammoth, ore
Elephas Primo in'and forthwith placed them before
his friend,gius'
-
Professor Owen, of the Royal College of Sur-
geons, who entirely bore out Dr. Boots's opinion, by
observing that they were most valuable specimens of
the grinders of this gigantic animal, which must have
been above 12 feet in height, from the portion of
the thigh-bone, which was in a good state of preserva-
tion, and about 150 years of age, from the marks re-
maining visible on the inalarcs. Professor Owen was
likewise of opinion that these valuable remains must
have been resting in this same spot for a great many
thousand years, which must be considered only as a
matter of yesterday in the geological age of our planet,
and that but for this accidental disturbance they might
possibly have continued there during many more such
ages yet to come. Dr. Roots has placed these truly
valuable relics in the museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons! Lincoln's-inn-fields, where they will be thus
prelerfed in laiotys for future wad public oburvatiou.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, TULY 11, 1855.

The opinion of the popular branch of the Legis-
lature will be formally asked oa the extraordinary
inconsistency of the ex-Plenipotentiary
sent Secretary of State for the Colonies ! That
of the country has been clearly and unequivocally
pronounced. Among independent men, not de-
voted to the Ministerial will, nor subjected to
even less constitutional influences, there has been
neither doubt nor hesitation. The duplicity and
insincerity of one who had previously enjoyed an
unblemished reputation, an irreproachable cha-
racter, have excited indignation and disgust.
They feel that the person who has so brought
such serious discredit on all public men _
who has so completely shaken confidence in
Ministerial professions, can no longer occupy a
place in the Cabinet with credit to himself or ad-
vantage to the community, and that othile he does
so, the condemnation must also fall on all his col-
leagues, who must either shake off the inauspici-
ous co-operation, or make up their minds to sink
with him in ptibto
themselves to estimation, and to expose
the imputation of being not the
Ministers of En.,L,-
°'11(13 but of Austria or of
Coburg.

Sir EDWARD BtJLWP "LYTTON' it is Who ha`
undertaken the important duty of
era," who has boldly and manfully
cc belling the
--"nu'llY flung dowL
the gauntlet against " Gertuanisr,s,,
rtes,to.na:rlciihdaepyullntelileitl:
AIAJEATY'S Government to the
Baronet has given notice that he win
on the motion for going into supply
5 or on the
earliest opportunity that may present itself, move
a resolution to the following effect, viz. That
the conduct of the Minister charged with the ne_
gotiations at Vienna, and his continuance in office'
as a responsible adviser of the Crown, have shaken
the confidence which the country should place in
those to whom the administration of public affair',,,
is entrustecl." Tliko Can he no doubt that the
EL,nouraLle-B-imiet will fully redeem hip pledge,
and that lie will perform his self-imposed tasl.:
with ability, fidelity, and zeal. But when will
he have the opportunity of so doing ? That is
the question, and it is one of no ordinary iln-

portance. In the olden time, when the conduct
of her MAJESTY'S Government was in any degree
called in question, when a vote of censure on
Ministers, collectively or individually, was even
hinted at, there was a laudable anxiety to meet
and to repel the charges. They were champions
who held their posts against all comers, and who
could not venture to disregard a challenge, no
matter from what quarter it proceeded—from
high or low—from a doughty and vigorous as-
sailant—or from an unknown and undistinguished
knight. Any one " who had gained his spurs"
was entitled to hurl forth his defiance to mortal
combat—any one who had a seat in Parliament,
to fling down his gauge, which Ministers were
I bound to accept.

But the days of chivalry have gone by.' Minis-
ters are contented to remain exposed to obloquy
and censure—well contented if they can postpone
the evil day, and continue in the enjoyment of
their unmerited power. In place of eagerly
grasping at the challenge—one, too, from so
worthy, so renowned an adversary—they strive to
obtain an ignominious respite by adjourning the
intended Committee of Supply, and trying to drift
over the session without abiding the formidable
onslaught or engaging in the conflict, at the result
whereof they tremble. The Premier tells us that
it is not the intention of the Government to take
Supply on Friday, but to proceed with the
" Limited Liability and Partnership Amendment
Bills in Committee." Now, we are by no means
disposed to underrate the value of the modicum
of justice—the small instalment offered by these
measures, the chief utility whereof is that they
may be regarded as " the introduction of the small
end of the wedge," the entry on a course in
which more rapid progress must speedily be
made. But no person can for a moment
allege that they are of importance suffi-
cient to justify a single day's delay in a matter
which strikes at the very existence of the Ministry
—which calls for a Parliamentary declaration of
want of confidence in those to whom the adminis-
tration of public affairs is entrusted, and directly
inculpates at least one, if not many, of the most
influential members of the Cabinet. That is a
point on which there can be no second opinion.
The community should then demand an immediate
decision on this all-important topic, for
how can the maintenance of the national
honour be confided to those who seem so
strangely indifferent to their own ? How
can it be supposed that they would brave
every danger and make every sacrifice to avert
disgrace from the British name, when they are so
careless and apathetic with respect to the ignomi-
nious position in which they themselves are placed,
and to circumstances which English statesmen
were wont to consider of the most vital and urgent
consequence. The mere procrastination is alone
sufficient to prove them unworthy of the position
they now occupy, and of the confidence and re-
spect of the country.

What are we fighting for ? Mr. M. GIBSON
and Mr. COBDEN reply no one knows. They
convict the successive Premiers and their Govern-
ments of ignorance, or aimlessness, and infer that
all England is in the dilemma of its Cabinets.
The Cabinets say the honourable members are halt-
ing between two opinions, or between some opinion
and none at all, and therefore the country is in
the like perplexity. We regret to admit the pre-
mises most completely, but entirely deny the
conclusion. We must, however, at the same time
allow that there ought to be less plausibility in
such a conclusion. If the country knows its
mind it ought to furnish her MAJESTY with ser-
vants who know their mind also.

Perhaps we hardly put the case in its right
light in accusing the two War Cabinets of vacil-
Lau.. lAA Oft dense they nave both had a
definite purpose and pursued it steadily—
the purpose of pleasing Germany as much as pos-
sible, and, therefore, of weakening Russia as
little as possible. The ABERDEEN Ministry are
now confessed to have begun the War as a de-
monstration, not as an earnest reality ; and even
their most warlike orator, Lord JOHN, he of the
dash at Sebastopol, uttered the famous encourage-
ment to the enemy that we did not mean to de-
prive her of any of her territories, not even of
the Crimea, and the den of the pirates of Sinope.
The PALMERSTON Cabinet, especially considering
the conditions of its installation, has evinced the
same fear of doing too much, the same desire to
please the perfidious and slippery Government
at Vienna. It consented, apparently with plea-
sure, to the negotiations on the basis of the
worthless Four Points, and endured to the last
all the sarcasms of Prince GORTSCHAKOFF, and all
the assumptions and evasions of Count BuoL. It
was not unwilling to have accepted the useless con-
dition of limiting the Russian fleet, as the grand
compensation for all the cost of the War.

The drift of our Cabinets then has been, in
this respect, plain enough. The hereditary des-
pots from him of Moscow, to his slaves at Berlin
and Vienna, were the true object of their solici-
tude. Our lordly Cabinets of Lords have all
along dreaded suggesting the idea of liberty to
oppressed peoples. To balance comfortably the
relations of crowned tyrants has been their sole
)bject. The annoyance to our aristocracy has
been that one of the sacred batch would persist
in engrossing more than his share of beloved
absolutism. Like his great prototype too of
Macedon he was hardly emerged from the
shell of barbarism, and it was provoking to
iee a Tartar Czar strutting before all the
'd Palaces of Europe in his borrowed
plumes. With all that they would not have
trawn a trigger at him if they could have helped
:t, but the people here compelled them to take to
~rhaart
if
whether
etelpieley
setlik them to work they would
liked or not, their fear being
:hat if
to do more of the
people's work than they
t iked.

Here, then, begins their real vacillation ; not
a vacillation in their own purpose—that was
dways distinct enough—but between carrying out
their own purpose and also that of the people.
Phey must do the latter to a considerable extent,
)r quit the helm : the former they of course really
timed at while professing to act for the nation.
aence all the obvious inconsistencies. Now
tallying with Austria till the blood ofEne
ishmen almost reached fever heat ; next casting
ter off because the pro-Russian condition of
race she would have forced upon us could not
ue told to an English House of Commons. Lord
ToMN indeed secretly nursed it and kept it warm,
till Count BvoL, to wriggle himself out of a posi-
tion too bad even for him, compelled him to un-
rold his toga, and produce, to the scoffs of the
nation, the illegitimate bantling with which he
returned from Vienna. The atmosphere of
Vienna is renowned for seduction of all sorts ;
j°rd
Joss himself seems to have evidenced the
.tstice of fame. At one time talking of
th: n quaking for Austrian hold
her plant?cm,
Poor Poland, foul eulisting the
as a Turkish 1,-. •
4tahon, depriving tilo6° who
served in it of half •r
ardour, and more than half
:heir strategical value.thel One while descanting with
us on Warsaw being a standing menace to Germany I

—a continental Sebastopol—and when challenged,
as on Friday, with an English feeling for Poland, ex-
claiming—" Who ever heard me talk of a crusade
in behalf of Poland, except with the aid of Aus-
tria V' Austria, of course, being in the way again
as usual. Hardly a week passes that does not
reveal some military or diplomatic mishap or
omission from this attempt to serve two masters—
Aristocracy and the despots, the people and Euro-
pean liberty.
As to the people, however, nothing but sophistry
can misconstrue for what it is that they are willing
to pay the GLADSTONE Budget, and to bear all the
anxieties and burdens of War. They demand
the utmost possible curtailment of Russian
territory and strength, they want to see
Turkey free, Circassia free, the Crimea free,
the Provinces and Bessarabia free, Poland free,
and Sweden regaining her own. This is what the
people want. The means they think, with all
the money they provide, the genius of Govern-
ment ought to devise. They are not foolishly
impatient, but they are indignant when they see
their leaders more concerned to soothe Austria and
the Coburgs than to do the work of the English
public—when they see that disgraceful waiting
on Austrian jugglery, and sparing Russian
honour, territory, or anything else, protract the
war and sacrifice our troops. If auy tolerably
informed Englishman then were asked what the
War is for ?—we affirm he would at once answer,
all we can get in the direction indicated—i. e.,
liberation of the nations, with certain consolatory
stipulations of a financial kind.

The Honourable Gentleman the member for
the county of Cork has brought forward a tangi-
ble and. practical instalment of Administrative
Reform, and it has been rejected by a majority of
15 ! all, doubtless, honourable men all
firmly imbued with the wholesome principle of
getting " the right men in the right places"
—all supporters of the amendment of the Ho-
nourable Baronet the member for Hertfordshire,
which was carried as a substantive resolution.

There is, however, that strong objection to
details, that implicit reliance on Ministers, that,
for the time being, prevents any direct or prac-
tical application of the doctrine so generally con-
ceded, and unanimously affirmed in the House of
Commons. Examinations are to be held, but they
are not to be thrown open to all corners, nor to
be competitive. A candidate must still be nomi-
nated by Government influence before he can be
allowed to give evidence of his qualifications. It
is scarcely necessary to show how completely ridi-
culous is an examination merely required to pass
a person already selected, and conducted under
the direction of the head of the department, or of
those who have just exercised a right of patronage
in favour of the person who, having conquered
the first difficulty, has but a very trivial impedi-
ment to surmount—who is assured of the sympa-
thies of the judges, and whose rejection would be
a very invidious and unpleasant duty. It may
stop the smaller fry who have no influential
friends to sustain them, but it will scarcely arrest
the progress of the men with aristocratic con-
nexions, who can bring lordly influence to bear
on the judges. We believe it was Captain MAR-
RIOTT who gave an instance of a model examina-
tion, where the only questions asked were—
" How is your noble father ?" and " Will you
give me the pleasure of your company to dinner
at half-past seven o'clock to-day." There may
be a slight caricature in this, but who can say
that it would not be possible under the system
so highly lauded by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and which he thinks so far superior
to any in which the objectionable principles of
publicity or competition are fairly developed.
The Administrative Reform Association has a
difficult game to play. We only trust that it
may prove competent to the arduous task which
it has undertaken. The impediment which they
have to encounter, although apparently smoothed
down by Ministerial compliments and vague
promises, is really rendered more diffi-
, cult by that which seemingly offers the
prospect of an easy triumph. The zeal and
Anprgy of thn working men are abatpri
by the hope that it will not be necessary to make
many sacrifices where the adversaries exhibit such
unequivocal symptoms of yielding, and At putting
the assailants to the difficulty of capturing the
position. But the white flag they hung out is
perhaps the chief obstacle to their ultimate
triumph. The old tale of Sir BALAAM tells us—
" That Satan, now grown wiser than of yore,
_

More often tempts by making rich than making poor."
Our wily defenders of corruption find that they
can do better by pretending to yield, and assent-
ing to abstract propositions that lead to no prac-
tical results, than by sturdy opposition. The
lessons of Austrian duplicity and insincerity have
not been altogether thrown away on the garrison
of jobbery, while those who so manfully opened
the trenches are already slumbering on their
self-assumed posts. It was not thus that the
original Committee of " the League" discharged
their task. They left no stone unturned—did
not spare their labour or their pockets ; but they
received salutary lessons in the school of adver-
sity. The name of Anti-Corn-Law Reformer had
not become fashionable at the very commencement
of the struggle. They had to achieve every posi-
tion by a fierce contest, and hence came their ulti-
mate and complete triumph. But the Admini-
strative Reformers have apparently taken a leaf
from the Government book. They are waiting
for " the Ministerial Austria," and seem to think
that a demonstration will be sufficient without a
real conflict—that a transient success will enable
them to patch up an ignominious peace without
having accomplished the objects for which the
struggle was undertaken. We would em-
phatically urge them, while there is yet
time, to shake off this dangerous apathy—to
show that they are really in earnest, and
that they merit from the country the support
they demand. As yet we cannot say that
they do so. Let us hope that they will take the
hint while there is yet time, and avoid the too
palpable nets spread for their reception by those
to whom the vary name of reform is hateful, and
whose seeming acquiescence in their objects is no-
thing but a " mockery, a delusion, and a snare."