The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-07 00:00:00

THE Su Isis LONDON, PRIDAY EVEIVINGI,..s.gPTEMI3Eit 11 1855,

INI S qir,D u' 4r"

THE APIIIIRATTY BOA PD AND THE
BALTIC OPERATIONS.

THE OTRO 4SSIANS.

Les.
"u'"11" CiornpaiL, yesteriay. this ~ay.
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St. 100 ClydesdaleJc. Caledon... 100 102
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10 all Lon. mi., &S. Pet° IL
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64 54 Newmarket
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MINES.
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I 12e. Worthing Mining of
Australia
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The subjoined are extracts from a letter written by
Mr. W. S. France, a native of Leeds, now of her Ma-
jesty's transport William Beckett. The letter is dated
" Off Anapa, July 29 :"
" From BAlaklava we bad a splendid passage to Con-
stantinople, from which place we were sent out here. I
shall, therefore, endeavour to give you some idea of the
place. Anapa is situated on a long tongue of land,
which runs into the sea about hal a mile, and is at the
foot of the range of the Caucasian mountains. It for-
merly belonged to the Circassiane, who exported large
quantities of grain, &c., but after it was taken by the
Russians it was closed to the commercial world. The
town is large and well laid out,and is defended on the sea
side by a high stout stone wall, with towers, and on the
land side by a very wide ditch and fosse wall, which is
topped all round by earthworks. The Russians tried
to destroy these on their departure, but did not suc-
ceed. They were more fortunate in destroying the can-
non, do.. although a good many fine pieces still remaic
entire. In destroying the houses they succeeded most
effectually, for there is not a house in the whole town
but has been sacked and burnt. Tbey left a great quan-
tity of shot and shell, and other material of war. The
place is now occupied by 50 Frenchmen, 100 Turks, and
a large body of Circassians, who are coming down from
the mountain with their women, children, and flocks.
The Circassians are a fine body of men, very tall, and
well made; they wear high hats, made of sheep skin and
coarse woollen, which give them a very fierce appear-
ance. They always carry arms about them, and it is
quite common to see one with the following set out :'
Two pistols about two feet long, a gun slung across the
hack, a king sword, and an ornamental knife about 18
inches long, together with cartridges, which they always
carry in small ivory or wooden tubes across the breast,
about twenty in number. Only picture what a conster-
nation one of these fellows, six feet high (without shoes)
would cause in walking down Briggate. Some of
them never saw a steamer before, and made me
understand they would like to come on board.
I took about a dozen, and showed them over the vessel.
They were very intelligent, and wished to know the use
of almost everything ; but the things that astonished
them most were the engines, our waterproof coats, &c.,
and a revolver, 6 barrels. In return they took us in the
country a few miles, lent us their horses, which are fine
Arabians, and never were shod. They also lent us their
pistols to fire at a mark with, and showed us many of their
tricks, such as picking up a stick when the horses were at
full gallop, firing at marks, &a. They perform duty as
videttes, similar to the Cossacks, and are first-rate riders.
"The French are busy haymaking; that is to say, they
are employing the Circassians in fetching and mowing
the hay in the valleys, which they are stacking in the
principal square in the town, and intend to remove
it to the Crimea in a short time. It is rather singu-
lar our commanders have never thought of such a
plan in getting supplies, but depend solely and en-
tirely upon home supplies. The Turks are, as usual, dirty
and idle, and are doing duty in guarding the entrench.
ments on the land side. They are commanded by a
pacha of one tail, whom I went to pay my respects to
yesterday. He is an old, jolly-looking fellow, and was
very polite ; but as I cannot talk Turkish, and he very
little French, and cno English, we were obliged to part
without any conversation or anything else, except eye-
ing one another down very well and shaking hands.
The only thing I fell in love with about his establish-
ment was a beautiful pipe-stick, eight or nine feet long,
which was handsomely mounted with gold, stones, and
silver, and his long white beard and moustache."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Any person who reads the Russian account of
the bombardment of Sweaborg will see with half an eye
that had Admiral Dundas been furnished with a suffi-
cient number of mortar-vessels Sveaborg must have been
destroyed. The Times talks of sparemortars—Nonsense !
Who would think of changing mortars in action ? It
was not the mortars that were wanted ; it was a sufficient
number of mortar-vessels, to enable Admiral Dundas to
keep up a steady fire as long as was necessary, without
destroying his mortars, mortar beds, and shaking his
vessels to pieces.
The Times has begun to attack Admiral Dundas
as they did me. Let them put the saddle en the
right horse. I understand all the mortars except six
were hors de combat, that was the reason the bom-
bardment was not continued ; and I dare say, if the
truth was known the shells became short also. If the
Admiralty had real my letters they would have seen
that I never foresaw that Sweaborg was to be destroyed
in a couple of days. I stated it might take all the
summer, and summer
, in the Baltic begins in the middle
of June and elms in the middle of August. Why did
not the Admiralty take care that the mortar vessels
were in the Baltic by that time, and enough of them ?
It appears by Admiral Dundas's despatch be had no
men either killed or wounded. It is then clear had he
bad 100 or 150 mortars, be could have kept up a con-
stant fire till the works,i island and all, were nearly
destroyed, and the ships would have completed the
work. And why was he not furnished with mortars
for all the islands ? Will the nation believe that
after the millions of money spent in the Navyllince
the year 1815 that we did not possess one mortar vessel
at the beginning of the war ? The Scourge steamer was
fitted with a swinging 13-inch mortar by Lieutenant
Roberts, which answered perfectly well ; but it was re-
moved. Wily, I don't know. Who is responsible ?
Nobody. The First Lords and the Boards have been
so often changed that it is impossible to get at the delin-
quents ; and as long as the navy is ruled by a civilian,
who knows nothing about it, and who has the power of
turning out the naval colleagues, ii they do not do what
he bids them, things will never mend.
It is clear that a great opportunity of destroying
Sweaborg has been lost by the imbecility of the Ad-
miralty ; the work will have to be begun again next year
under disadvantages, and the sooner a couple of hundred
mortar-vessels are built the better. The Russians are
more active than we are, and will cover the Biltic next
year with gun-boats. They already haye, thirty steam
gnu-boats at Cronstadt, besides a great number of other
gun-boats.
If we do not begin at once, we shall be driven out of
the Baltic with disgrace. There are many other things
necessary for success. If steam has given us a great ad-
vantage for attack, we must not forget that large shell
guns and red-hot shot have given great alrantagns for
defence. Last year I recommended that every ship
should be fitted with hose to lead water fore and aft and
down below, worked by the engine, to extinguish fire ;
it has not been done. Have the Admiralty ever inquired
from the officers at the attack of Sebastopol the effects
of shells below ? If they have inquired, why bays they
not provided against it? If the large engines cannot be
adapted for the purpose, fit small ones.
If they go on as usual, it will require hal a-dozen
years for consideration. I tell the country, the Board
of Admiralty, constituted as it is, is not fit to carry on
the war. The Minister for the War Department has
been changed. Let the Admiralty be changed also. I
have shown before, and now, that they are not fit for
their work.

Sir George Cockburn, who had been at the Admiralty,
I believe, sixteen years, left a legacy to the country
showing how the Admiralty was conducted, and how it
ought to be conducted.
Lord Palmerston is a decided man—he does not like
Boards. I believe it does not even require an act of
Pdrliatnent to reform it—Reform ! did I say ? It is not
reformable. Abolish it altogether, and put an active
intelligent officer at the head of the Surveyor Depart-
ment, with the title of Vice-Admiral of Great Britain ;
put another at the head of the Victualling Department,
with the title of Rear-Admiral of Great Britain (abolish
the sinecures of that name, and give those who hold them
compensation), and let each be responsible for his own
department, and make the Account int-General respon-
sible for his ; put over the whole an Admiral as Com-
o:ander-in-Chief, with a Captain of the fleet to assist
him, and 114 many secretaries and clerks as are neces-
sary ; and if you must have a civilian to control the ex-
pens.q., make him Minister of Marine, but let him have
nothing to do with the promotions or the management
of the navy, and change him with the Ministry, if neces-
sary. Let this be done,'and the navy will be well-con-
ducted and millions saved. Take care the right men
are in the right places, and if they do not do their duty
turn them out and get others.
CHARLES NAPIER.
Merchistoun, Sept, 4, 1855.

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MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXutiANGE.

Since Monday we have hail a slight, increase in the ar-
rivals of English wheat coastwise—the supply being 1,390
quarters, but the quantity received put up to-day was li-
mited. The show of samples was, therefore, trifling. For
all kinds the demand was steady, and, in some instances,
fine old wheats produced a tride more money than on
Monday.
The supply of foreign wheat was but moderate. Holders
held most kinds above the views of buyers, consequently
only a limited business was done.
We were well supplied with foreign barley, but the
show of English was limited. The trade was steady at
fall quotations.
Malt moved off steadily at full prices.
Although the imports of oats have been large, tho oat
trade was steady at Monday's currency.
Beans, peas, and flour supported former terms.

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