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London, England, 1855-01-03 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1855.

MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC
TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock, and ErerylNight (but Saturday).
Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 25.; Gallery, Is. The 3forninx Representations
take place every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.—
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

ORNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM,
LIBRARY, and DINING-ROOM, consisting of a new and
elegant assortment of Vases, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks,
Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper-weights, Sec., in Italian
Alabaster, Marbles, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imrorted and
manufactured by JAMES TENNANT (late Mawe), 149, Strand,
London.

Mr. TENNANT arranges elementary Collections of Shells, Minerals,
and Fossils, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of
Conchology, Mineralogy, and Geology, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100
guineas each.

Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part
thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of
not contracting for any. _ _

No Tender will be received unless made on the Printed Form pro-
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at
the acid Office, at. the Victualling Ysrds at Gosport and Plymouth,
or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liver-
pool, or to the Collector of customs at Bristol.

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Tenders will be admitted for any portion of the above quantities,
but separate tenders must be made for each place, and no attention
will be paid to any offer not so made.
Samples of the articles may be seen at the said office, between the
hours of eleven and two cnly, and also at the Victualling Yards, at
Gosport and Plymouth. . _ .

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The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten-
tion is calved, may be seers at the said Office, at the said Victualling
Yards at Gosport and Plymouth. and also at Liverpool and Bristol.
No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, and
it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his
behalf should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the
result of the offer received from each person will be communicated 10
him and his proposed sureties in writing.

Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Pt
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and must also be delivered at Somerset House.

SPEECH OF TILE KING OF GREECE.

We have already given an extract from the
speech delivered by the King of Greece, on open-
ing the Chambers ; we now give the entire text of
that document :

" Senators and Deputies—After the painful trials
which we have just passed through, and which have
compelled us to defer your meeting beyond the period
at first fixed, let us return thanks to the Most High,
who hag delivered us from a cruel disease. In addition
to the public misfortunes which have so deeply afflicted
our heart, we have had to deplore the premature loss of
our august and well-beloved mother. The regrets testi-
fied on that occasion by all among you who were present
in the capital proved to us in a very consolatory manner
the part which the nation itself took in our affliction.
Well known circumstances, accompanied by deplorable
acts, have for some time past led to the interruption
of relations with a neighbouring state, and ooca-
,sistursoi Jo/aerial -losses to-alui,xsessisessaia&Assteliests
baliPnuntrieg- . 'My goverlESlßLlll.l,lllasisoaki•

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Cs;ihope that, thanks to the sincere and hind operation
of the great powers, the allies of the neighbouring state,
and whose noble and generous sentiments in favour of
Greece have been strongly manifested, our desires will
be happily realised. In presence of the formidable
struggle which had broken out in the East, considera-
tions of a superior order, derived from the manifest in-
terests of the nation, as well as from a feeling of grati-
tude towards the powers alluded to have dictated to us
the declaration of a strict neutrality. In firmly adhering
to this system, we will neither permit nor tolerate any-
thingcontrary to the honour and true interests of the coun-
try. We keep up friendly relations with all the powers,
without forgetting that the paramount interest of Greece
is to draw from the springs of European civilisation
all the benefits which result from them for society.
Nothing, in fact, can be better suited to our situation, or
more powerfully contribute to the national glory, than a
good internal organisltion, by the aid of the moral and
religious education of youth, of legislative and govern.
mental arrangements, having for object the development
of agriculture, industry, and commerce, as well as the
observance of the strictest good faith in all transactions,
either public or private. We feel a conviction that you
will eagerly give your approbation to all the measures
which my government will lay beforeyou for this object.
We especially call your serious attention to the bills,
which will be presented to you, relative to modifications
to be made in certain parts of the communal and electoral
law, and the necessity of which modifications has been
admitted by long experience. The organisationof acorps
of infantry on a uniform principle promises the best re-
sults for the strength and discipline of the army. There
will be a bill presented relative to the engineers which
unites the scientific works of the army to the
technical works undertaken by the state. Brigandage,
which frequently desolates several points of the territory,
attacks not only the interests of honest and peaceable
citizens by compromising their lives, their honour, and
their fortune, but also unjustly exposes the reputation of
the nation, which rejects with indignation the guilty acts
of a small number of evil-doers. You will, we are sure,
give your energetic support to the legal means which
will be proposed to you with a view to repress and extir-
pate so dangerous an evil.

"Deputies,—The budget of next year will be sub-
mitted to you. The grape malady, which for the last three
years has destroyed one of the most valuable productions
of Greece, and the stagnation of commerce and navigation
caused by it and by political circumstances, have occa-
sioned a notable decrease i❑ the public revenue, and at
the same time-imposes on my Government very consider-
able expenses. The deficit which has been the result
cannot be filled up except by the regularisation of the
receipts, and the severe repression of every kind of abuse.
The po veers who have guaranteed the loan this year
again furnished the funds for the payment of the interest
and the sinking fund of it. Relying on their friendly
dispositions, we are convinced that they will not claim
anything beyond our strength. But, inspired by good
faith and national honour, we roust, gentleman, in
our turn, endeavour to establish with them some ar-
rangement in the execution of which we shall observe
the most scrupulous exactitude. We recommend to
your solicitude the vote in a proper time of the budget
of next year, in order to avoid as much as possible the
provisional credits founded on that budget, and also to
vote the budget of 1856, which will be presented to you
in the course of this session. Bills relative to the finance
will also be submitted to your deliberations. It is in
contemplation to extend the system of taxation par
stremmer to the greater part of the land now taxed by
valuation. The establishment of a fixed duty on cur-
rants will relieve the growers and dealers from the incone
veniences attached to the fluctuation in value. The
customs tariff, revised and completed on liberal prin-
ciples, will also call for your attention. The idea,
long entertained by the Government, of rendering
citizens landowners, will be at length accomplished by
the aid of laws offering facilities to those who owe
arrears to the Treasury for lands acquired by way
of dotation to citizens who have built houses on
ground belonging to the public domain, and to those
who wish to purchase portions of olive-grounds and
other perishable property of the state.

" Senators and Deputies,---At all times harmony and
confidence between the executive powers and the legisla-
tive bodies guarantee the success of public affairs ; but at
extraordinary periods like those in which we now live
such an accord becomes imperiously necessary, for it is
only by it that we can ward off the immense dangers
with which we are surrounded. We rely on your pa-
triotism, and we expect with confidence from the session
which is about to open results agreeable to our wishes
and to our hopes. It is thus that the Most High will
bless your labours. We proclaim the opening of the
second session of the fourth legislature."

TAMAR CONGOLS MINING ComPa/ff.—Thera was a
meeting this day of the proprietors of this company,
when a long discussion took place in respect to the
mismanagement of the affairs under the auspices of
Mr. Stainsby, whom it was eventually agreed to re-
move from the management, with several of the direc-
tors, by the votes of the whole of the adventurers then
present,

NAVAL A'•ITD MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw, Captain Hon. H. Kep-
pel, has been paid wages in Plymouth Sound.
-Princess Royal, 91, screw, Captain Lord C. Paget,
lying at Devonport, is appropriated for the conveyance
of 47 hospital orderlies to Scutari, and from Cork, 50
commiasariat drivers, 1 inspector, and two sub-inspec-
tors, to the Crimea ; besides the following troops, viz. :
14th foot— 9 officers, and 140 men ; 9th, 9 officers, and
57 men ; 39th, 9 officers, 183 men ; and a detachment
of the Royal Sappers and Miners, consisting of 5 officers
and 100 men. Colonel Lord G. A. Paget, 4th Light
Dragoons, will sail in this ship for the Crimea, and she
will also convey 25 tons of camp equipage and a small
quantity of warm clothing..
Nile, 91, screw, Captain Munday, has been taken into
Devonport harbour and placed in the basin at Keyham,
preparatory to being taken into dock.
The Blenheim, 60, screw .blockship, Captain W. H.
Hall, has stripped ship in Portsmouth harbour, and will
move into the steam basin to morrow, to have a thorough
refit. She has already cost from first to last between
200,0001. and 300,0001., and is now, it is said, all adrift
in her boilers and machinery.
Isnperieuse, 51, screw, Captain R. B. Watson, C. 8.,
will haul into the steam basin at Portsmouth to-day.
The Amphion screw steam-frigate was taken into ,the.
fitting-basin at Sheerness 'yesterday, placed under the
masting sheers, and her masts were taken out for in-
spection.
Cossack, 21, screw, Captain Fanshawe, has been taken
out for a cruise.

Esk, 21, screw, Captain Birch, takes her trial at Stokes
Bay to-day, under Griffiths• screw. It is said she made
nine knots in going round under favourable circus).-
stances.

Falcon, 17, screw, Oberon, 3, paddle, and Myrmidon,
2, paddle, will haul out of the steam basin into the fitting
basin at Portsmentltto:* , ,
he Ponek•po, - • -it e44-40devetiptain Caffin; was
Paid wages at Portmouth yesterday, and her crew granted
two months' leave.

The Lucifer, paddle, is taking in jurymasts, spars, and
rigging, and will proceed to Pembroke, with a party of
riggers, to bring round the Queen's new yacht, Windsor
Castle, shortly to be launched at that arsenal.

APPOINTMENTS.
Master—George Gilpin (1854), to the Perseverance,
fire-ship, at Inverness.
Chaplain—John B. Ilurbard, to the Diamond, 28, -on
the Mediterranean station.

Surgeon—Henry Piers (1854), recently serving in the
Investigator, to the Plymouth Hospital,
Second Master—George J. Whitehouse (1847), re•
cently serving in the Monarch, to the Caesar, 91, screw,
at Devoaport.
Inspector of Machinery afloat—John Ward (1854),
recently serving in the Duke of Wellington, to the St.
Vincent, 102, ordinary guard-ship at Portsmouth.

been Captain
distinguished
iGn
theßci scientific department .N who has long
of the
navy, has been selected by Sir Jaynes Graham to proceed
upon special service to Malta, and we feel satisfied that
Sir James has used a wise discretion in fixing upon an
officer so well known and popular, to carry out any par-
ticular duties which the Government may have in view.
Captain RoLinsea w;11 be borne as supernumerary cap-
tain on the books of the Ceylon, the flag-ship of Rear-
Admiral Houston Stewart.

THE TRANSPORT SERVICE.
The Clyde steam•transport, No. 154, laden with storca
for the Mack Sea, went cut of Portsm6uth harbour yes-
terday to Spithead, to ship her powder, priur to leaving
for the seat of war.

Yesterday the Black Prince steam-transport took 50
tons of powder on board, at Greenhithe ; she has an
immense quantity of warm clothing and general stores,
and sails this day for the Crimea.
Yesterday the Lady Eglinten transport took several
hundred bales of warm clothing, Canada stoveq, &c.,
on board, at Woolwich, for conveyance to the Crimea.
The Admiralty have taken up the Prompt, Leith
steamer, to convey troops and stores to the Crimea.
Yesterday the Oscar steam-transport left Falmouth,
with 158 tons of shot, shell, and ammunition, and a
vast quantity of stores for the Crimea.
The William, 703 tons, engaged by Government for the
conveyance of 300 male convicts from Ireland to Ber-
muda, will leave Deptford on the sth inst. for Queens-
town, to receive them on board, Surgeon Superintend-
ent Charles Smith will have charge of the prisoners, and
a military guard of two officers and 50 men will accom-
pany them.
The Director-General of the Array and Ordnance
Medical Department has given notice to the transport
office of the immediate want of a steamer for conveyance
of 300 tons of medical stores to the Crimea, to follow
those sent out in the Eagle steamer of 480 tons.
The Peninsula, screw steam-transport No. 172, 508
tons, is loading at Deptford with sappers' clothing, for
delivery at Constantinople, and rifled muskets and am-
munition for Scutari and tie Black Sea fleet.

moos 'w-brok
theTyrades has just been launched at Sheerness.
Orders arrived at Sheerness yesterday for the crew of
the Royal George to be hulked on board the Wellington,
ordinary victualling depot.
Some idea may be formed of the late gale in the Black
Sea *hen it is positively stated, upon good authority,
that the three-deckers actually pitched their figure-heads
under water at anchor, and that one of them, the Bri-
tannia, had the " blue robe of her figure-head (Britannia)
washed away."
The decree of sale in respect of the Russian vessel
Atlantic, of which Starkings was late the master, seized
in the port of Leith under simulated papers, having
been issued by the Admiralty, she has been sold for the
benefit of the captors, and realised 2,240/. Her cargo
and effects also brought a considerable sum. The Court
of Admiralty have also condemned the Russian vessel
Sooglassie and her cargo as a lawful prize. She belonged
to Elise Jeff, a merchant of Cronstadt, and was seized
in the port of Leith on the 24th of June, sailing under
Danish colours, and she and her cargo (wheat) are to be
captors forthwith.
sold for the benefit of her

yourself and the Deputy-Lieutenants generally in giving
effect to the resolution of the meeting.
" I. much regret that the state of my health renders it
impossible for me to attend the meeting personally, but
Lord Burlington has kindly undertaken at my request to
be present, and I shall regard it as a favour to myself if
you will give Lord Burlington the advantage of your
presence and advice upon the occasion.---I have the
honour to be, sir, your obedient humble servant,

DEVONSHIRE."
The men of the West Essex Militia, now assembled
at Chelmsford, are kept at constant drill. On Friday,
Lieutenant-Colonel Brise, the commandant, addressed
the men, when between 30 and 40 at once came from
the ranks and volunteered for regiments in the line ; 55
had previously joined the regulars. There is a deficiency
in the complement of upwars of 300, but it is hoped
this will ere len.. be made up.
The 3d West York has given 200 volunteers to the
line; an equal number of fresh men have already joined
them.

ARRIVAL OP THE .HIMALAYA.

Her Majesty's steam-ship Himalaya, under the corn-
maid of Captain T. Russell, arrived at Spithead from
Malta and Gibraltar yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
She left Malta on the 19th of December, at 6 p.m., and
experienced a most tempestuous passage to Gibraltar,
having encountered for three days a heavy westerly and
north-west gale with much confused sea, and, being ex-
tremely light, having only 410 tons of coal with about
i 0 tons of old iron, could not make the way against it
which she usually does. She averaged, however, 74
knots. From Gibraltar, which she left at 4 a.m. on the
28th, she has met with a sneeession of hard gales from
E., N.E., N., and IT.N.W., with a very heavy sea
!toren.% the bay, fuld..lip .chappei,
liitatelitteffefiittY-6-6-6.--a;i4a iimist an impractica-
bility to repair her in Malta so as to enable her to at-
tempt with safety a winter passage to England, owing to
there being no dock there sufficiently long to take her
in ; but Rear-Admiral Stewart and his able assistants
thought otherwise, and the result has proved that they
were right and the general opinion wrong. The fol-
lowing account will give some idea how it was managed,
and for the success with which it has been attended
every one must admit that the highest praise has been
justly earned by the Admiral and by those who carried
out the details of certainly a most extraordinary scienti-
fic experiment, viz. :—Messrs. Ladd, master shipwright;
Heapshaw, superintending engineer of the dockyard ;
and Mr. Hannah, foreman of engineers, and his help-
mates ; at the same time they received from Mr. Gray,
chief engineer of the Himalaya, and his juniors, most
valuable assistance.
She was taken to the dock about noon on the let of
December. Her fore compartment was filled or kept
filling by four siphons, for about two hours. At that
time a powerful purchase was fixed aft to four derricks,
hove taut, and she started up 18 inches. Three hours
later the purchase was hove again, when she moved up
12 inches, and so continued till half-past 11 p.m., when
it was found her shaft-ho!e was 15 inches out of the
water. At this time her immersion was 7ft. 10in. aft,
and 27ft. forward, with about 2ft. of water under her
forefoot ; and this was acc3mplished so easily that per-
sons witnessing the operation almost doubted their own
eyes. She strained nothing whatever, and when her
defects had been made good she was let down, the water
in her fore compartments pumped out, and in 12 hours
she regained her natural position, and looked as trim on
the water as she ever did—that is after she got her
inizenmast in and topgallantmast pointed, yards squared,
&c. It will be seen that she was water-borne the whole
time, and that by destroying the buoyancy forward the
assistanee she required aft to raise her was compara-
tively small.
She brings home from Malta several wounded and in-
valided officers from both services, among whom are
Capt. Graham, R.N., late of the Rodney, and Lieut.
Bridge, R.N., late first of the Vengeance, but serving
lately with great zeal in the trenches, invalided ; the
gallant Capt. White, of the 17th Lancers, severely
wounded in the rash but noble Light Cavalry charge on
the 25th of October ; Major (now Lieut.-Col.) Hume,
95th, badly wounded at Inkerman ; Lieut.-Colonel
Berkeley, Scots Fusilier Guards, also severely wounded
at Alma ; Dr. Manifold, in medical charge of the
; Captains Stour and Knollys commanding them ;
Mr. Cotgrave, midshipman, the fortunate and only sur-
viving officer of the ill-fated steam-ship Prince ; also Mr.
Owen, the only officer saved from the Resolute transport.
She also brings invalided and wounded men, women, and
children from no less than 42 different regiments, thus—
men, 140; women, 225; children, 295 ; naval invalids, 12;
shipwrecked seamen from the Black Sea, 116; second
class passengers and servants, 35—making a total of 845
souls, besides her own crew, of whom one man has died
during the passage, and five children have been
born. Sa anxious was Admiral Stewart to get the
Himalaya to England that she was hurried off from
Malta in by no means a very fit state for sea, and
meeting. jvith the bad Weather she encountered for the
first three days caused necessarily a great deal of dis-
comfort to the invalids, women, 4.adchildre firgnet
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as the circumstances would admit of was done by the
officer in charge, as well as the medical officer (Dr.
Manifold, staff surgeon), assisted by the surgeon of the
ship (Dr. .111`Cann) and by the different officers on
board.
She was detained at Gibraltar from the morning of
the 25th to early on the 2Sth getting a supply of coal.
She coaled in the New Mole, which for a ship of her
great length is not a very convenient place for the pur-
pose. This may have been in some measure the cause
of her apparently long detention at that port.
At Gibraltar her Majesty's steam-ship Ueda, Com-
mander Hawker. The Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's ship Indus, Captain Soy, arrived at the Rock at
noon on the 25th, after a fine passage of four days 21
hours, and proceeded to Malta and Alexandria at G
p.m. the same day, all well. The same company's
ship Iberia arrived at 6 p.m. on the 27th. On the 24th,
off Cape de Gatt, the Himalaya exchanged signals with
her Majesty's ship Neptune, bound to the East. The
screw transport Gothenburgh, No. 133, left Gibraltar
for the East on the 25th.

The Sprightly, steam tender, went out from Ports-
mouth harbour to Spithead immediately the Himalaya
anchored, and took in a few of the most urgent cases,
whom she landed at Haslar, after disembarking at
Portsmouth dockyard Captain Graham, R.N., Colonel
Berkeley, Captain White, and Lieutenant Saunderson,
of the 62,1, who went to the George Hotel, where they
remained for the night. The rest of the Himalaya's melan-
choly freight will be disembarked to-morrow, most pro-
bably at this port. She came up to Spithead with the
yellow flag flying, but soon hauled it down.

THE METROPOLITAN' COMMISSION OF
SEWERS.

Yesterday a Court of Sewers was held at the office of
the commission, Greek-street, Soho. Mr. Jebb was in
the chair.

With a view to shorten the duration of the proceed-
ings of the court on its ordinary clays of meeting, it was
arranged that courts, which only a portion of the com-
missioners should be expected to attend, should in future
Le held on alternate Wednesdays, for the transaction of
routine or formal business.

Sir J. SHELLEY inquired of the chairman whether the
commission had power to take land for outfall works at
Barking-creek ?
Tile CHAIRMAN replied that as the commission was
empowered to take land for such purposes only within
the limits of its own jurisdiction, and as her Majesty
had been pleased to include within those limits no past
of the county of Essex, the commission could not take
land for the purposes referred to at Barking-creek, which
was in that county.
Sir J. SHELLEY gave notice that he should, at the first
court held in the month of February, move resolutions
declaring that for the drainage of the metropolis there
ought to be two sewers, one on the north and the other
on the south side of the Thames, whose outfalls sheuti
be so near the mouth of the river as to prevent the
filth, when once discharged, being brought back by the
tide ; and that it was necessary that the commission
should be empowered to purchase Lend for the purpose o
constructing the required outfall works.
In reply to Mr. OFFER,

The CHAIRMAN stated that a sewer, about two hun-
dred feet in length, had been constructed by the late
commissioners, under Sir George Duckett's canal, at an
expense of frorn 1,5001. to 2,0001. The work was exe-
cuted because the canal was at the time emptied for the
purpose of being cleaned. Had not this golden oppor-
tunity been seized, it would, in order to pass under the
canal, have been necessary, at a great expense, to stop
the traffic.

In answer to another question from Mr. OFFER,
The CHAIRMAN said that he had no doubt that the
officers of the commission held their offices during plea-
sure, and that it was competent to the commissioners to
dismiss them or reduce their salaries.

Mr. OFFER gave notice th:►t 110— should, at a future
court, move the appointment of a committee to inquire
into the salaries, which, though he did not know what
wcrk was performed by them, were, he thought, too
high.
The CHAIRMAN denied that the salaries paid were ex-
cesive, but should be glad that an inquiry should take

place.
Mr. WADE gave notice that, on the 16th January, he
should propose to the Coutt to offer a premium of 5001.
for the best plan of ventilating the sewers under the
control of the commission.

Mr. TnwATTEs gave notice that at the same Court he
should move a series of resolutions expressing approval
of the "Great London Drainage Scheme" (as opposed
to the plan proposed by Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer to
t!le commission) for the drainage of that part of the me-
tropolis south of the Thames.

The question of the liability to rates of tithes in the
hands of ecclesiastics having been mentioned,
Mr. OFFER gave notice of his intention to move its
consideration as early es possible, with a view to the
consultation upon it by the law officers of the Crown.
After the transaction of some other business, the
Court adjourned.