The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-01 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

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SUGAR.—There has been an increased demand for foreign,
and prices have been tending upwards. Of unclayed
Manilla 20,000 bags have been sold privately at a price not
transpired. A cargo of No. 14 has been sold at 25s for
mid. Refined brown lumps have been at 46s 6d, and gro-
cery at 47s to 52s 6d per cwt. There were landed last
week at the East and West India Docks 518 hhds 59 tree
434 brie, there were taken for home use 1,330 hhds 91 tree
441 brls ; and the stock is 7,963 hhds 741 tree 1,514 brie.
COFFEE.—Plantation Ceylon has been well supported,
and of colony descriptions the supply is scarcely adequate.
Fine Mocha is much in request. Foreign is fully supported.
Native Ceylon has been firm at 47s to 47s 6d.
ILICE.—A. large business has been done at fuller prices.
three cargoes of Arracan have realised 12s 6d to 12s 9d.
Rum.—The demand has been very active at a slight ad-
vance. There were landed last week at the above named
docks 208 puns, 3 hhds, there were taken for home use 231
puns, 23 hhds, and there were exported 177 hhds and 278
puns. The stock is 7,691 puns, 542 hhds.
CINNAMON.—The sale began heavily, but afterwards
improved for the good and fine. First sorts realised 24 to
44 advance. Seconds were lil dearer, and fourths went at
previous rates. The total quantity sold was 1,800 bales.
TEA. —The demand has been limited. Common Cougou
has been sold at 94 per lb.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is steady at 55s per cwt on the spot.

COUNTRY MARRETF.

p-APRIL 27.

~ and samples found ready
!s to 3s per qr. Spring corn

s. s.
Oats, per qr 27 38
Peas, Partridge 36 40
White 38 41

Boiling 42 48
Dun 11 37
Beans, Tick 37 43
Harrow ticks 43 45
Mazagan 35 38
Ditto, new 35 37

ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM-
MITTEE. •

Continued from our
.first impression of yesterday.)

Captain Milne; at the request of Lord Seymour, then
proceeded to read a letter from Admiral Boxer, dated in
January of the present year, in which it was stated that
the labour at his command for cording vessels at Con-
stantinople was very inadequate.
Capt. Milne then went on to state that the Balaklava
harbour was under the direction of different authorities at
different times. Admiral Lyons first of all had the con-
trol, assisted by Captain Mens ; Captain Keith fol-
lowed, and subsequently Capt. Dacres. Captain Powell
had the command, and ultimately. Admiral Boxer, who
was transferred thither from Scutari, on the 29th of
January last.
The Chairman—Was the transfer of Admiral Boxer
from Scutari to Balaklava, considered as promotion ?
Witness—No ; merely a change of duty.
Chairman—Were the Admiralty, then, so well satisfied
with the manner in which Admiral Boxer had dis-
charged his duties at Constantinople that they considered
it expedient to send hint to B tlak lava ?
Witness—He was a very zealous officer.
The Chairtnan—That is not an answer to my ques-

lion.
Witness—l am not aware under what circumstances
:he First Lord of the Admiralty was induced to send

him to Balakiava.
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not aware of any'detention having arisen in the case of
transport vessels which had returned from the Crimea
sick and wounded. There was, it was true, one in-
stance in which delay had taken place ; but that might
have been owing to the tide preventing the ship from
getting into harbour. The sick, on their arrival,
were sent to the different hospitals at Portsmouth,
Plymouth, and Chatham ; those that were not
hospital cases were sent on board the flag ship. The
Admiralty bad never received any information to the
effect that the naval contingent had been badly fed and
clothed. They were fed and clothed the same as on
board, and drew their rations from a store established for
their especial use at Balaklava: They were stationed
about six miles from that place.
By Mr. Drummond—With regard to Admiral Boxer
there was not a more able, hard-working, or meritorious
officer in the service ; and he had risen to his present
position entirely through his own merits. He was not
placed in his present position on account of his being
related to any peer. (Laughter.) He was first rated
at sea as an able seamen ; but that did not imply that
he served before the mast in that capacity. He was
harbour-master, at one time, at Quebec.
This having concluded the evidence of Capt. Milne,
Sir Charles Trevelyan, who had in the meanwhile ar-
rive'l, in compliance with the request-of the. co 'Una...
was called, and
In reply to Mr. Layard, who read an extract from the
official copy of the evidence of Sir Charles,' the latter
said that he had stated before the committee that it was
" only as wants were found out that they were provided
for," and admitted that the report of this portion of his
evidence was correctly given by the shorthand writer.
Sir Charles Trevelyan—l beg to observe, however,
that in the answer to the next question put to me by
Mr. Layard, I explained what I really meant by that
remark. The questions were put to me so closely one
after the other that I had not at the moment an oppor-
tunity of explaining my meaning.
The Chairman.—Lfind in the Times of the 28th April
a paragraph to the following effect :—" Sir Charles Tre-
velyan has forwarded • the following communication to
the committee," and then follows the communication.
Did you ever forward any communication to the com-
mittee ? _ _ _

Sir Charles Trevelyan.—l did ; to Lord Seymour ?
The Chairman.—. Did you supply that statement to
;he Times?

Sir C. Trevelyan.—l did. I felt very keenly the
imputation implied by a question put. ,by Mr. Layard
to the Duke of Newcastle, because it'went directly to
impugn my fitness for the duty in which I have been
employed for the last 15 years. I have during that
period devoted myself entirely to them, and I felt it was
a great grievance that my management of the depart-
ment under my charge should be impugned in the most
vital point of all others, namely, the exercise of a reason-
able foresight. I also supposed that as my, evidence
given before the committee was published in all the
papers there could be no objection to my sending a
statement to the Times, as I had already furnished one
to Lord Seymour to be submitted to the committee.
Mr. Layard—Are you aware of the decision cone to
by the Committee in consequence of that communication
to Lord Seymour ?
Sir C. Trevelyan—l know it to be the practice of all
Parliamentary committees to receive statements in ex-
planation, and I took it for granted that mine would be
received.
Mr. Layard—But did you not consider that, having
communicated it to the Committee, it would have been
made public to the press, and that therefore it was unne-
cessary to write to the Times.
Sir C. Trevelyan—My only object was to convey to

the public a correct representation of what I really
meant. If I have committed any irregularity I make
my submission to the committee, and sincerely regret
having done so.
General Peel remarked that if the statement bad not
been made to the Times the public would never have
known that any explanation had been received by the
committee.

Sir C. Trevelyan, in reply to Mr. Layard, then said
he had not been attacl:ed in the public press in conse-
quence of the answer he had given, but almost every
person be met had spoken to him respecting it.
The Chairman—But you say in this communication
" I distinctly deny having made any such statement."
To say that is to impute incorrectness to the words
already quoted.
Sir 0. Trevelyan—l have no doubt the committee•
would receive my explanation as I intended, but I bad
some doubts that it would appear in the public prints,
and therefore I sent the communication referred to to
the _Times. _ _

Thu Chairman—You should not have disclaimed the
statement contained in your answer ; you should have
said that you did make that statement, but that it re-
quired explanation. -
Sir Charles Trevelyan then rose and withdrew.
The room was afterwards cleared for consultation, and
the doors remained :closed for nearly half-an-hour. On
the re-admission of the public,
Captain Tullock, commander of the Sea Nymph trans-
port vessel, was called, and was examined by Mr. Lay-
ard. His examination, however, did mot occupy many
minutes, and his evidence presented no features of par-
ticular interest.
Capt. Hillyer, of the Nhval Brigade, was next called,
but he had scarcely commenced his evidence, when

The committee adjuurned, it being close upon four
o'clock.

RAILIV.A.Y INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA.
The halflearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the offices, New Broad-street, Mr. WAJ.

Hamilton in the chair,

Mr. NICHOLSON, the managing director, read the
report.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said it was so full that he had but little to add to it.

The traffic continued to increase, particulaily that in
passengers, which had increased in proportion to the
additional mileage opened. They would perceive that
the net profit paid into the treasury of the East India
Company for the last half-year was not so much as in the
two preceding half-years. This did not arise from any
falling off in the traffic, but from an increase of ex-
penditure. The reason of this was, they had taken
the maintenance of the permanent way into their
own hands, to accommodate the contractor, who re-
turned to England. The contractor being bound to
keep it in repair for 12 months, he of course al-
lowed the company a certain sum for it, which .the
parties in India placed to the credit of capital instead of
to that of working expenses. The extra expenses thus
incurred by the rebanasting and maintenance of way were
charged to revenue, and the consequence was that they
amounted to 21 per cent. of the receipts, instead of to 10
per cent., the ordinary amount. This was an exceptional
course, and would not happen again. They would not
have the goods traffic from the interior until the exten-
sion lines from Callian towards the north-east and south-
east were completed some distance towards haw bad
on the one band, and Poonah on the other. They Icid
received reports from their engineers that morning
ozziiiiel
respecting the surveys of the extension 1
that the probable expense of the portion
oor
a length
were very satisfactory. They stated in
ethflethirerseepuotrtsh.
east extension line from Poonah to Sbolaepf ie
th pernaa-
of 165 miles, for a double line, exclusive ,
and the steepest gradient
This would be a first-class line,s
Great credit was due
anietnetvpsvaatiyv,e wlionuel dw
ebueido only sa,
t6tlhoe/. v pteeret.!if i 15,e78a no
Ldp tat:
mils. al I
on it would not exceed 1 in 1
ability
tteheaysehenadd
exerted in improving the cur
they would be perfectly
and be had no doubt.
the ghauts,
difficulties bad been thrown
ioConsiderable .
1 successful..
in respect to their extension towards the
to the engineers for the enveersg
!,,i3r of the Thull-ghaut, in consequence of
'in their way , iindangdr aadbi
it, but he believed.
the supposed difficulty
could prove to the authorities that it
their engineers
ticable. Ey t is means t
the
would be enabled,
was prac . of ascending
ns tided to get into
i e , . great cotton-fields
and from which they
of Berar, expected angoorrtilig-ienaasit b y
hptorthtieonreo:otrhtesirattirsafaffictco.ry ;
and in doing so said
the most remu-
but be hoped in future
111 r. FIELD seconded the motion,
that whatever expenses fairly belonged to capital would
not be charged to revenue.
Mr. Tin, said it
bnee rtahtoi vueg
~ was very undesirable to release the
1
contractor from the mainten
end
cf.
tlielilac
4ipu,a+ed two ot the way before the
, wlncli vs z:s generally twelve
n;.,ntlis from the complaion of the works. By doing so
it was probable that, throut;li the i,eyiect in construction,
or !rout some other cause, the shareholders would have
to bear heavy expenses that would otherwise fall upon
the comractor.
The CuAißmiN said, the directors had sent out posi-
tive instructions that the contractors should not be re-
leased in Mule.
Resolutions were glen passed, adopting the report and
re,eiecting the retiring directors and auditor.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors con-
cluded the proceedings.

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Previous to taking his departure from Buckingham
Palace, the Emperor of the French left 1,5001. to be di.
vided among the royal servant s, f
in the Lord n the fllowin
d's
g pro-
portions :-5001. to those employedStewar
department ; 5001. to those in the Lord Chamberlain's
department ; and 5001. to the grooms and servants in
the department of the Master of the Horse.