The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

SAXON LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

The first annual general meeting of the Saxon Life
Assurance Society was held yesterday afternoon, at the
offices of the Society, 25, Old Jewry.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read,
The CHAIRMAN called upon the Secretary (Me. W. R.
Roberts) to read the report.
The SECRETARY then read the following report :
" The directors of the Saxon 'Life Assurance Society
have much pleasure in meeting the shareholders at this the
first annual meeting of this society.
"In accordance with the provisions of the deed of settle-
ment, such meeting is convened for the purpose of receiving
the report of the directors, and the balance sheet as up-
proved by the auditors, showing the receipts and disburse-
ments of the first financial year; aad in laying which be-
fore the shareholders, the directors have great satisfaction
in stating, that although the society can be said to have
been bat little more than eight months in active operation,
yet an amount of business has been done, connections se-
cured, and influence established, far beyond their most
sanguine anticipations.

''Though originated at a period of great depression, and
though the certainty of increased taxation arising out of
the present war brought with it an additional obstacle to
the progress of a new institution in acquiring business of
purely a provident character, yet the directors did not
flinch from the task committed to them by the promoters
of the society. Relying upon the intrinsic merits of
the office, and feeling confident that in all times, and
under all circumstances, the great provident principles of
Life Assurance, when rightly advocated, are capable of
being still better understood and appreciated, and the
sphere of their operations more widely diffused than even
it is at present, they addressed themselves boldly to pub-
lic consideration. they
by the zealous efforts and
activity of the secretary and the other officers attached,
as well as the very valuable exertions and influence of an
extensive and highly respectable body of agents, the di-
rectors have no hesitation in stating that the Saxon Life
Assurance Society has secured for itself such a position in
public estimation, and excited so general an interest in its
welfare and progress wherever it has extended its opera-
tions, as to fairly entitle it to take its stand among the
most flourishing offices of the day. To secure this desir-
able result, unremitting energy and perseverance has been
used, and, at the same time, it has ever been a constant
thought with the directors so to adapt the means to the
end, as to exercise a sound and judicious economy in all
the financial operations of the society.
" It is of course readily understood that in the first year
of a society's progress considerable expenses must neces-
sarily be incurred in preparing the way, effecting arrange-
ments, and laying the foundation for future business. The
directors felt that if the office were to be worked success-
fully and well, it mast appeal to the public, and to do that
efficiently a properly-organised staff of agents and other
persons who could be interested in the society must be ap-
pointed throughout the various provincial districts; and
the only expenditure of large amount in which they have
ventured since the formation of the society has been in-
curred in this respect. It is their satisfaction to report
that the society is represented in nearly every town of 1
importance in the United Kingdom ; and, in addition,
district branches, with local offices, have been established
at Manchester, Birmingham, IT.uddersfield, Hull, New-
port (Monmouthshire), Todmorden, and the Potteries,
under the management of most energetic and persevering
_agents. The society's operations have likewise been ex-
tended to Berlin, Frankfort, Ffanalmrgh, and the northern
parts of Germany, at all of which places a very large
measure of the general success has been reaped. It, neces-
salily took 80M?, time to bring the various agencies of the
society, which now amount to nearly 250, into working
order ; and it was not till the last, month of the financial
year that the results became apps.rent, during that period
silty policies having been completed from the agencies
alone. Any future expense that may arise on this head,
will merely have reference to measures extending the effi-
ciency of the above agency appointments, which have this
year been so advantageously called into operation.
" The directors now proceed to notice the basiness tran-
sactions of the 3 ear, of which, to give the shareholders the
fullest information of the society's progress, the following
return has been made up to the 2241. inst., viz.:—

No. Agit. Amount.

Income.

Number of proposals made to
the Society from the 9th
of August, 1854, to 22a of
of October, 1855
Policies complete and issued 254 64,233 2,010 11 3
Proposals declined ...... 23 24,634 624 511
Proposalsunder consideration 23 9,400 156 11 9

559 £98,272 £2,791 15 11
" Of the above, 30 are reassurance policies, the remain-
ing ourtion corning from the ge noral body of the public-
" The directors congratulate the shareholders upon this
statement,•as they feel that it must be evident to all in-
terested that it exhibits a mar. Iced amount of vitality and
snecesa, and they trust at the n ext meeting it may be their
pleasure to report the same amo ant, of public-support and
good fortune.
" The directors are particul ►rly gratified in recording
that no claim on account of des th has been made upon the
society, an evidence of the extr emo care and discrimina-
tion with which the board, and or the advice of their able
and experienced chief medical officer, Dr. Cockle, have
selected the lives submitted to them for assurance.
Though the directors have hitherto confined their
considerations to the accept ante of first-class lives,
yet they feel it would be it ajust to limit the opera-
tions of the society entiray within that sphere,
and they have, therefore, determined to give the fullest at-
tention to every proposal involving the contingency of
human existence, and where th ore may be no evidence of
immediate disease, but on acco nut of hereditary or tem-
porary causes, the lives may be, considered more uncertain

than with the; generality eii:),lividuals, to make an ad!ti-
tion to the usual rate. Such extra premium, howeter,
. may not become a permanent addition, for a re-examina-
tion is always open to the mast trod, and should the cause of
the increased charge be remos .od, the life will eventually
be taken at the tabular rate.
-" The directors allude with s atisfaction to the establieh-
ment of the Saxon Fire and C oneral Assurance Society,
not only from the circumstances that the two societies are
calculated very materially to ez :tend the operations of the
office, and to render it the mo, It complete and popular of
the assurance institutions, but as a moans of large saving
in the general expen littire of 'the establishment, the ex-
penses being borne by the ten societies proportionately.
At the same time the director) wish it to be understood
that the two societies are qui. be separate and distinct in
their deeds of constitution, working, and proprietary.
"In pursuance of the provii ions of the deed of settle-
ment, the two following direc t ors retire, but, being eligi-
ble, present themselves for re• election, viz., Richard 11.
Bing, Esq., Rev. James T. Pal tison.
The following anditerslikewi se retire, viz., John Wilson,
Esq., Thomas Alfred Pott, Es( 1., Charles Stanbridge, Esq.
" An account of the attends ;laces made by the directors
at the weekly board is likewist ) open to your inspection ;
but, in addition thereto, an alt nest daily attendance at tho
office has been given by some ( me or more of the directors,
as consistent with that prom' )t and careful supervision
of the society's affairs which they have from the first
manifested.

THE CAPTURE OF SEBASTOPOL.

[FROM A SOLDIER.]

BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Oct. I.—l have escaped five
bombardments, having been in the trenches during the
first and during the last, besides two intermediate ones.
The last one it is wholly out of my power to describe to
yott. Captain M— and I were together in the fifth
parallel during the night, with 70 men. I volunteered
to go, as a subaltern had to be there, and he (Captain
M—) was there as being the junior of the two, and I
was the senior of the subalterns, the others being mere
boys. We were close to the Redan, and were exposed
to a continual fire of musketry from the Russians for
about five ho-irs, and our fourth parallel opened a fire
from behind us ; than, being in this dark, the fire was all
chance and hap-hazard, and consequently we were as
much in danger from our own men as the enemy. The
fifth parallel is too close for the Redan to play upon us,
but they fired grape and bouquets from other batteries.
We withdrew to the fourth at daylight. I judged from
the appearance and air of things that we were in for it
--that the following day would become memorable.
I judged aright. At six o'clock a terrific volley or
salvos of guns opened on the left by the French.
Imagine, if you can, 200 guns and mortars of
the largest calibre firing as one gun ; the Eng-
lish in the centre did the same. The French,
again, on the right, the same. This frightful affair
laAsd three hours. The Russians applied all their re-
sources, and they also fired fearfully. Fancy, I say, if
you can, having a fire overhead. The men were cleared
from all the parallels except the fourth, which was to re-
sist any attack that might be made—an unwilling sacri-
fice of a few, as was thought by all, for the good of the
whole. The guns having cooled, a rocket from the
French, at 12 o'clock, was the signal for a recommence.
ment, and the entire number of guns, French and Eng-
lish, gave a volley, enough to shake the Crimea to its
centre. This lasted about two hours and a-half. At 5
o'clock it commenced again and lasted till 7. Night
closed in before the high wind which was blowing cleared
the earth and heavens for miles around from dust and
smoke. We miraculously escaped with only about two
casualties, and got out of the trenches by 9 o'clock. At
10 the following morning every man of the army was
under arms, and the bombardment once more began and
continued throughout the entire day, excepting intervals
of an hour or two for the guns to cool, as on the day pre-
vious. The Third Division was formed in reserve in front
of the 28th camp. Thecorps werethe Ist Royals, 4th, 14th,
18th, 28th, 38th, 44th, 50th, and 89th, and were under
arms till 9 o'clock. The French had gained the Malakhoff
by this, while the French and English had been driven
twice each respectirely from the Redan and Flagstaff bat-
teries. By 10 o'clock flames appeared in the town at dif-
ferent points ;by 3 a.m. it was in a furious blaze—a sure
sign that the Russians had evacuated the town and gone
to the north. Never shall I forget the sight that was
presented at daybreak. The men, guessing that the
town was taken, and knowing the plundering pro-
pensities of our friends the French on such occa-
sions' sallied forth and brought away whatever they could
lay hands upon. But the Russians had removed every-
thing of any value, and what they could not remove
they destroyed ; therefore what was captured was only
lumber. Cavalry pickets, French and English, soon formed
a barrier to prevent anything being brought away. The
two chairs I have sent you were taken from some one by
the cavalry ; and I happening to be at the spot where
they were just as they were being relieved at night, I had
them brought away under nightfall. I first visited the
town. What a sight ! Every step you took the mind be-
came overwhelmed at what you saw, until one's ideas
were staggered. Here you saw what had been a street
of gorgeous palaces ; there you saw a mighty but solemn
temple ; yonder a ponderous line of classic buildings acid
terraces—all in a pile of blackened, smouldering ruins.
Some houses that I entered presented an appearance
which would almost grieve one to look at, for pity sal(e,
from their irremediable ruin and desolation. The dwel-
lings of the upper classes appear to have been built and
fitted up to the utmost degree of comfort, convenience,
and chasteness. But the chaos in which everything was
found I cannot describe. In what had been a drawing-
room would lie the broken shaft of a column of polished
marble, the Corinthian capital of which shone with bur-
nished gold, while the upper part of its fellow still ad-
hered to the ceiling, which it was intended to support, and
• the weight of which now brought the ceiling nearly do, n
•1 to the flooring. Close beside would be a large block of
stone that had crushed to pieces a piano of extraordinary
1 beauty and dimensions, a shot or shell having shattered
it from the wall of mascnry. Fragments of marble
[ chimneypieces, gilded picture-frames, music, pieces of
• polished mahogany of elegant forms belonging to tables,
sideboards, sofas, &e. were everywhere strewn 4hout.
The beautiful places Of worship were all ruinous empty
shells, riddled, like all the houses and 'ouildings, with
shot and shell. One thing, however, went to show that
the inhabitants had long left their dwellings, probably
as long ago as the first bombar,lmen'i, for every house
appeared to have been in occupatiou of the military from
the debris of clothing and appointmenta everywhere
seen. Those inhabitants, it is probable, too, who bad
left with the forlorn hope of aver returning, doubtless,
with a true Russian spirit and feeling, spread about them
what ruin and damage they could before leaving ; and
what they failed to do the soldiers did for them before
they left. •

" In conclusion, the directs re beg to assure the share-
holders that it shall be their c onsta.at endeavour to exer-
cise the utmost care and nonce ny in the application of the
society's funds, and to promot 3 by every means in their
power the prosperity of the ins titution committed to their
management But, at the same 3 time, they beg most ear-
nestly to impress upon the slam eholders, policyholders, and
every one interested in the wel fare of the office, that the
sure and true way to sustain t se successful results which
have already been achieved, an• i to increase the beteiness of
the society, is for each one to be active and energetic in
canvassing his friends and cur i exions, making apparert
the great and manifold advent ages which the adoption of
the provident principles of Lif a Assurance presents to all
classes of the community, and Thoroughly revolving, with
that perseverance and energy s o characteristic of the race
whose name the office bears, to contribute his proportion
to the general success which ma) • be predicted for the Saxon
Life Assurance Society during L aany ensuing years."
The Cuentetax, in moving tl to adoption of the report
just read, said that the yucca 13 that had attended the
operations of the society had be en exceedingly gratifying,
considering the fact that the society had been only in
operation eight months. le expenses of the first
year of a society were generally the greatest, but they
now had a body of agents in the e irovinces that few offices
could boast of, and the fruits c f the expenditure would
be found in an increased and ie aereasing business. The
society possessed as an agent abroad a gentleman of
great ability. lie had forwards d between 40 and. 50 pc).
licies, and on his return to Berl en ho had no doubt that
his exertions would not be relaxed. The Chairman
then urged the importance of life assurance, and con-
cluded by moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. UTTING seconded the re solution.
The CHAIRMAN then pet ty,e resolution, which was
passed unanimously.
It. Bing, Esq., and the Rev. James Pattisen, the
*retiring directors, were meanierionely re-elected.
Mr. R. H. BING then mewed the re-election of the
auditors, which, having ben agreed to,
Mr. Purr returned thar.ks, and bore testimony to the
admirable manner in which the accounts of this society
were kept. He begged leave, as a proprietor, to move
a vote of thanks to the directc rs for the great success
with which they had conducted the operations of the
society, and that the sum of three hundred guineas be
placed at their disposal.
The motion having been 'entitled, it was put to the
meeting and carried unanimously.
Mr. M'Aereee moved that interest at the rate of 5 per
cent. upon the paid-up capital be paid at Christmas next,
free of income tax.
This resolution was also carried unaninnuely
• The CHAIRMAN then moved a vote cf thanks .to their
excellent secretary, Mr. Ru'oerte, and assured the meet-
ing that the directors felt they had got the right man in
the right place.
The SECRETARY returned thanks, and stated to the
meeting that his best endeavours would be exercised for
the interest and prosperity of the society.
Thanks having been voted to the other officers of the
society,
The proceedings then terminated.

required—a broad, deep ditch, of 20 feet wide, in some
places 50, and as many in depth, from the crest of the
second parapet. All these were covered with an abattis
of large branches of trees, with tops outwards, and a
chevaiex de frise.
You may now fancy the difference of difficulty in the
attack on their lines and ours. The difference in other
things is in the same ratio. Our men lay in the trenches
when they were half-filled with sleet and snow, with
scarcely anything to cover them—nothing but the
ragged remnants of a spongy old greatcoat, not fit at best
for house flannel. The Russian had huts ; no, not huts,
but positively barracks, all along the line of batteries
and under them, and, therefore, bombproof. Here they
appear to have been very snug and comfortable. Imple-
ments of tailoring, shoe lasts, and other etceteras, told
that each handicraftsman worked at his leisure hours,
although in the trenches, cards, too, were plentiful.
Brandy bottles there were plenty, and from the label on
several bottles it showed that they had an affection for
English " Old Tom." To stand on the summit of the
Flagstaff Bastion you see a sight worth beholding. The
wnole of the works of the English and French left at-
tack are seen at one view, besides the whole of the
southern Crimea. But a visit to the Russian lines is
offensive to one's feelings and humanity ; you cannot
place your foot upon any loose soil but you may be stand-
ing upon the half-buried body of a dead comrade or
Russian, and the stifling odour
.that rises everywhere
makes one almost shudder.

BRAD RIOTS Ili
SPAIN.—A letter from Valencia
(Spain), 16th,
:says :--‘• Yesterday this city began to
present an alarming and threatening aspect. It was in
the afternoon when the working people commenced meet.
ing in minatory crowds, whieb-increased every
moment.
They assigned two ostensible reasons for doing so—the
low amount of their wages, and the sudden increase in
the price of bread. As soon as the fact became known
to the mayor the cyndic and others hastened to the spot
of the tumult, and endeavoured to cal= the rioters, in
which they succeeded, and agreed to appoint a commit-
tee, half of workmen and half of mcre wealthy persons.
That body decided to add one Spanish real every day to
the wages *of the working ' People, and the municipal
body bound itself to make bread out of some 6,000 bushels
of wheat which it possessed, and to Hell it cheap, obliging
the bakers to sell it Cheap also. A.ll was settled quickly
and peaceably".

But without this, our projectiles would have destroyed I
nearly every stone and stick. Taos° nobie buildings
which are seen from our heights with smooth, white ex-
terior walls and green roofs, which smile and look plea-
sant as a sun-bank in the distance, on approaching them
are found to be cold, forbidding ruins—pierced from top
to bottom in every direction. The effect of our 13-inch
shell can everywhere be seen, weighing as they do 2001 b;
and, falling from an altitude of a mile and a-half, or
about 3,000 yards, tbeir concussion is equal to 70
tons. Large gaps or empty spaces in rows or clusters
of buildings tell that a shell has penetrated the roof or
wail, and descended to a.depth below the foundations,
and in an instant not a vestige remained—nearly every
atom scattered to the winds in all directions. The
mind cannot picture anything; equal in point of beauty
to what this city has been. It seems to me to have
been a place where one would wish to live and die. The
hills behind, stretchins; radius-like for miles, must have
been a beautiful lauesscape before we spread desolation ;
while in front the. sun setting in a yellow mellowness on
the watery horizon makes it appear to be a sea of liquid
gold, and the soft richness of the shining waters, re-
flected on a western sky, makes it illusory, and such as
one reads of or fancies only in fairy scenes. But Sebas-
topol has been known and feared more as an arsenal ;
and an arsenal we found it. No one is prepared to hear
of the extent of warlike resources, naval and military.
As you leave the camp and thread your way down the
ravines—the ravines and valleys of death—you enter a
faubourg or suburban village, most beautifully situated
on the slopes of the opposite hills of the Great Redan and
Flagstaff Bastions; but now scarcely one stone remains on
rnother. Leaving this, you wind at once upon the creek
adjoining the great harbour ; here frowns a formidable
battery of ships' guns. The left of this creek is the
main city sloping up to a height of about 500 feet above
the level of the sea. This is called the " French side,"
as it was commanded by the Flagstaff Battery, which
the French captured. The Redan, the most formidable
of ail, covered the public works and the harracks—im-
meleee buildings, plain, but beautiful structures of hewn
stone of marble whiteness. The immense store buildings,
of the some appearance, form a grand quay not equalled
anywhere. The quay is terminated by Fort Paul, now
destroyed, having been blown up by the Russians on the
night of the Bth before leaving.
The studendous docks I cannot describe, I never saw
anything, the work of men's hands, that can bear the
slightest comparison. There are six capable of receiving
the largest of the collossal ships that float, and they are
as neat as they are large and mighty. The man who
planned these was an Englishman—a Mr. Upton, a
road surveyor and a defaulter. The Emperor rewarded
him with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel • and I was
told by a Russ—an English prisoner at the Monastery
of St. George—that the Emperor always shook him by
the band warmly whenever he visited Sebastopol.
These works and buildings are held by the English,
and we have shafts sunk all round the docks to blow
them to destruction whenever instructions arrive to
that effect from home. The guns and ammunition that
have fallen into English bands are almost incalculable.
Around the docks there are not less than 2,000 guns, a
vast number of which are of the largest calibre ; and of
shot there are piles of tens of thousands. The masts of
the Shipping slanting upwards above the waters in all di-
rections Suggest a train of strangely speculative ideas.
The two Imperial forts (Nicholas and Constantine), now
enemies, frown antagonistically at each other, and the
cross fire from these over the harbour causes a reverbera-
tion that strikes with a mournful cadence upon the ear.
def Let this
s pof a
thethat own The scientific principles displayed
in them surpass all that ever has been done before at
sieges, and totally eclipses our best engineering tactics. I
hesitate not to say—and I mean it with no disparagement
—but were the Russian engineer officers to see our works
etertenanchyeasndazepryarez
exigency.
these
Their
they would laugh at them. The Russian works were ap-
parallels and trenches were their one line of batteries,
in ranges which had mountains for their
forming mountain patently
batteries
wereme d theirm
altogether natural advantages,h base. There wore not
principles of art as were best suitcitnt
they applied such
ture offered. Our principles (II
i - whatever advantage Da
Could cur trenches be faced about we
fered its tote. .
should then do something near the principles upon
which the Russian works were constructed. A person
walking from the front can walk nicely into our
works by reason of the earth being thrown to Cab
front, making it a simple
incline or small eountq-
scarp. The Russians knew better; they made the
perpendicular towards the enemy, rivetting it wits
,
Behind
1 gabions in order to do it effectually.
men
ana
they had all kinds of shelter for the
gunners, quite indep open, butendent of, but contiguous to, the
battery, round, square, and triangular—some p .
of
most of them bombpi large tract bombproof. Behind also lay a .
ground, worked up to be a grand auxiliary to their epeero
rations. Tunnel-formed pits to receive our shell we
numerous. Deep square pits were sunk immediately
behind the batteries and in unlooked-for places to re=
ceive oar men in hundreds as they scaled the ramparti
—here a bill, there a ladder placed here, steppes formed
there. Sharp pointed uprights of ghbions and broker)
bayonets stared you in the face as you looked down
these pits and hollows. Disabled guns were consigned
to their graves as ours were, but the breech of then
lowered in a hole behind the batteries with the fort
part resting on wood, thus giving them an • eleva-
tion of about forty-five degrees. These they fired with
an overcharge by a train, and these we now discover
sent those numerous messengers to the distance of the
camps. But in front of the batteries of which I aril
writing they had another, a little lower dowa the hill,
and to make this of immense strength the earth was
raised from between the two lines of batteries, both in-
dependent of each ,
other but of mutual asoiltance if

._.s.,

.

J.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1855.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following notice has been issued from the Admi-
ralty respecting the admission of persons from the mer-
chant service into the Royal Navy :
"The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, being de-
sirous to encourage gentlemen from the merchant service to
enter the Royal Navy in the rank of second-master, are
pleased to invite such officers as can comply with the re-
quirements of the Queen's regulations to offer themselves
for such appointments.
" The Admiralty are also pleased to invite officers who
may not be able fully to comply with these requirements
to offer themselves for the appointment of acting second-
master, provided they shall have completed four years' ser-
vice at sea, have filled some of the ratings required by the
Queen's regulations before mentioned, shall have completed
the full ago of 18 years, and shall 'produce satisfactory
proof of diligence, sobriety, and good conduct. The Board
of Admiralty are willing to guarantee to them on their
completing the necessary period of service in the Royal
Navy, and on their conforming in all respects to the re-
quirements at such time existing, their confirmation to
the rank of second master in her Majesty's service, with
all the further advantages to be derived from such rank,
both as regards half-pay and the prospect of future ad-
vancement to the rank of master, &c. Details of the ex-
amination which candidates for the appointment of acting
second master must pass are subjoined.
" Officers making application must state distinctly their
age, the ships in which theyhave served, length of service,
ratings, &c., addressing such application to the Secretary
of the Admiralty, when their claims will receive imme-
diate attention.
" To qualify an officer to receive a commission as second
master he must, have served at least six years at sea, three
of which in her Majesty's navy as midshipman or master's
assistant ; or, having served six years at sea, shall hare
actually been one year or more master, or two years chief
mate, or three years inferior mate of a merchant vessel; or
shall have served in the two former capacities in a mer-
chant vessel for a period, when combined, of 18 months;
or in the two latter, or in the three capacities, for a period
combined of two years and a-half. He shall produce cer-
tificates of diligence, sobriety, and good conduct, as re-
quired in the case of masters, and shall pass examination
as the Admiralty may from time to time direct; but no
candidate shall be examined before he shall have attained
the ago of 19 years, or after the ago of 35.
"It will be required of candidates who present them-
selves at the Admiralty for examination for the appoint-
ment of acting second-masters-
1. That they shall be 18 years old ; shall have been 4
years at sea ' • shall produce satisfactory testimonials.
.4" 2. Shall have a tolerahlegeneral knowledge of the pilot-
age of the Channel from the North Foreland to the Land's-
end, including the Downs, Spithead, and Plymouth-sound.
" 3. A fair knowledge of seamanship at the discretion of
the examining-officere, also of the stowage of the ship's hold.
" 1. In navigation they must be able to work a day's
work; to find the latitude by meridian altitude of the sun,
longitude by chronometer, and variation of the compass by
amplitude azimuth.
' 5. A competent knowledge of the tides, so as to be able
to find the time of high water on any given day at any
given place."

The Baraguay d'Hilliers, sailing transport No. 124,
Capt. Sharp, arrived at Spithoad yesterday morning from
the East.: She sailed from Malta Sept. 12, and Gibral-
tar Sept. 29. On the '29th, off the Rock, she passed the
transport Camperdown ; on the 30th, in the Gut, passed
the screw steam-transport No. 183 ; on 13th Oct., in
lat. 39'30 No., long. 11 W., signalled the screw steam-
transport Clyde ; on the 20th, in lat. 46.30 N., long,.
8.20 W., spoke the brig Ware ; on the 21st, in lat. 46.39'
N., long 8.23 W., signalled the steamer Persian, with a
bark in tow, steering S.W. She brought. no invalids or
passengers.

Crimea. The Earl of Dalhousie called on Tuesday for
her destination.

The following draughts arrived in Cork on Tuesday
evening from Limerick, and await their embarkation for
the Crimea :-17th Regiment, 180 men and 4 officers,
under the command of Lieutenant Travers ; 39th Regi-
ment, 100 men and 4 officers, under Captain Priteband ;
90th Regiment, 150 men awl 4 officers, under the com-
mand of Captain Taylor; 89th Regiment, 126 men and
3 officers, under Lieutenant Hoare. A transport is ex-
pected to arrive in Cork Harbour in the course of the
week to convey those troops to the seat of war.

The following appointments, made at the Admiralty
yesterday, appeared in our late edition last night :
LIEUTENANTS.
Thom C. Bruce, to the Sampson.
Denis B. Pack, to the Russell.
Edward White, to the Penelope.
PAYMASTER.
Alex. C. Yule, to the Araohne.

Sporting Intelligence.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

THE SUBSCRIPTION ROOM. - WEDNESDAY

NIGHT,

Her Majesty's steam troophip &mown, 18, Capt. T.
Sulivan, hauled alongside off Portsmouth yesterday
morning, itt readiness to embark her allotment of the
British German Legion (the Ist Light Infantry Regi-
ment, consisting of 45 officers and 1,000 men) who are
expected to arrive to-day from Shorncliffe for transpoe;
to Balaklava. •

The publication of the weights for the Nursery Stakes,
and the subsequent declaration of the acceptances, im-
parted no activity to speculation-6 to 1 was offered on
the field for either class..

The steam-transport Lady Eglinton, No. 165, will
leave Portsmouth to-day with a cargo of the huts built
by Mr. Luke Carnw,ell, the contractor with the Govern-
ment, for the Crimea.

The steam-transport Perseverance, Capt. Harris, will
take on board the 4th Middlesex Militia at Portsmouth
on the 29th inst., for Ireland, and returns with the Ar-
magh Militia, to replace the Middlesex, in garrison at
Portsmouth.

For the Derby, 10 to 1 was taken to 1001. about Yel-
low Jack ; 13 to 1 to 4001. about Elington ; 1,000 to
30 and 35 to 1 about Sugar Plum ; and 40 to 1 to 1001.
about West Langton.

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Ori-
noco has been again appropriated for transport service,
and taken up to convey draughts to Malta from Ports-
mouth ; she will be ready in a few days to receive her
allotment of troops, which, consisting of British regulars
and British Swiss Jager:, will number about 1,400 or
1,500 men.

The Royal Charlie, sailing transport, appropriated to
convey draughts from Portsmouth, has not yet arrived
at that port, owing to the strong contrary winds expe-
rienced in her passage from the Thames.
Very heavy westerly gales blew all day yesterday at
Portsmouth, and there was much sea on. In the morn-
ing a barge, laden with ballast, filled and went down off
the Spur Redoubt, but the crew were saved. At 7 p.m.
the gale seemed on the increase, attended by squalls and
rain.

The steam-vessel Inflexible left Plymouth on Monday
for Woolwich, to return with machinery for the Satellite.
The frigate Arachne and the steam-vessel Hecla have
been placed alongside the dockyard, Davenport, prepa-
ratory to their being put i❑ commission.
The African mail steam-packet Ethiope, Commander
Barnwell, sailed from Plymouth for Madeira and the
West Coast of Africa on Wednesday afternoon. Among
her passengers are Dr. Weeks, the newly-appointed
Bishop of Sierra Leone, and 14 clergymen. She has a
full cargo of general merchandise, including nearly one
ton of specie for the different ports on the coast. The
next mail home, the Gambia, is probably between
Bathurst and Teneriffe, and the Candacs between Lagos
and Fernando Po.

The passenger ship
.Kent, Capt. Coleman, belonging
to Messrs. Money, Wigram, and Co., London, which
sailed from Plymouth for Melbourne on the evening of
the 13th of May, made the passage in 69 days, having
arrived on the 20th of July, up to which date there was
no appearance of the mail contract ship Oliver Laing,
which left Liverpool on the 25th of July, eight days be-
fore the Kent.

Her Majesty's brig Britomart, 8, Commander Hessel-
tine, which has been engaged upwards of three years on
the West Coast of Africa, arrived at Plymouth yesterday
afternoon, short of provisions and water, having been 49
days from Ascension. Spoke, Sept. 13, in lat. 7.30 N.,
long. 21 W.. the Dutch hark Castor, and the English
hark Burmah, from London for Calcutta; 19th, the
Hamburg brig No. 33 ; 29th, the American bark Rhona,
39 days from New Yurk, for Rio de la Plata ; Oct. 1,
the Spanish brigantine Abace, from Santander ; 3d, in
lat. 28.46 N., long. 33.3 W., the Golden Age, from Old
Calabar for Liverpool ; 14th, in let. 37.25 N., long. 34.7
W.' the ship Phoebe Dunbar, 85 days from Mauritius,
fur London ; on the 25th, 20 miles S.S.E. off the Lizard,
the Norwegian bark Argo, outward bound ; en the 10th
of Oct., at sunset, saw the glare of a fire in the north-
west, made all sail, and at 11 p.m. came up, in lat.
35.51 N., long. 30,54 W., with the hull of a ship, about
1,200 to 1,400 tons, burnt half-way down to the water's
edge. The Britomart cruised near during the night, and
fired guns, but no vestige of a boat or crew was seen.
rhe brig Corbeille, of Jerseee, also joined in the effort to
identify the vessel. Her fore-royal yard and sparsail
were picked up by the Britomart.
The hired screw-transport Indiana, Captain Lambert,
which left Southampton on Wednesday with troops for
the East, encounted a heavy south-west gale when off
the Eddystone, and put back to Plymouth-sound yes-
terday afternoon.
The Nicholas Wood, screw-transport, was to leave
Woolwich last evening for Portsmouth, to take in provi-
sions for the army in the Crimea.
Yesterday at half-past 1 p.m. an explosion took place
in the fuse department of the Royal Arsenal at Wool-
wich, but no loss of life resulted from it. A considerable
quantity of prepared fusee had been collected and depo-
sited in the drying-house. The men and boys employed
there had not returned from dinner when the explosion
occurred. Tne only person injured was a policeman,
whose beat was on that spot, and who was suddenly em-
bedded in a portion of the ruins. Assistance was imme-
diately at hand, and he was conveyed to the surgery.
His injuries, although severe, are not of a dangerous
nature. The drying-room, it appears, was heated by
steam, conveyed through the building by means of vari-
ousand Capt. Fraser, belong-
enrge instantly on the spot, and
thupCeiltN. Fr nPeeeinectk,iermediately in full play on the
pipes, but how the accident occurred has not been
di
belong-
ing otfiovreetrh.eeedn.dg
ruins, the adjeining buildings, the model room, and the
chemical laboratory, into which some fragments of burn-
ing fuses had been forced through the broken windows.
The fire wasspeedily quenched, and the amount of damage
was very slight, considering the quantity of combustible
matter collected there.
Forty-one wounded and disabled soldiers arrived in
Dublin by the Outline serew•steamer, from London, on
Wednesday morning. On the wounded soldiers arriving
at the North-wall, they were conveyed to the Crimean
Hotel, where they were carefully attended to. It having
been intimated to the Lord-Lieutenant that these poor fel-
lows had arrived, he immediately expressed his determi-
nation to visit them. His Excellency arrived shortly after
4 o'clock, accompanied by toe Hon. Agar Ellis, Aide-de-
Camp in Waiting, and immediately proceeded to inspect
the wounded soldiers. Among them were numbers of men
ing him-
self im
.
an
who were severely wounded in the different one:leen:lents
in the Crimea, and who had been in hospital fur some
time. Their wounds, speaking generally, were of a fright-
amosttsympathy
with satisfying
y minutely
fright-
ful character—some being on crutches, others on wooden
legs, and others bearing marks of severe injuries received
d evidenced
tho
p oor
ftohieto tiviso:e.st
in action. His Excellency questioned
tio:aen.cd,idkindly
them
f
t
self that ail their wants were properly attended to he
returned to the Vice-regal Lodge.
Colonel Gordon Higgins, commanding the Royal Ar-
tillery, has left Dublin on a tour of inspection in the
North of Ireland.
Lieutenant T. F. Mande, 15th Hussars, has offered
his services at the seat of war. This gallant young eefi.
ter sailed on Tuesday, from Southampton, he the Indi-
ana steam transport. He is a cousin of the three Maudes
who were wounded at the Redan and at Balaklava.
On Monday morning the following draughts, amount-
ing to 19 officers, 5 serjeants, 2 drummers, and 390 rank
and fihr, were conveyed to Queenstown, where they em-
barked on board the transport Dalhousie :-41st Regi-
ment, 2 officers and 49 men, under the command of
Major Meredith ; 55th Reaireent, 3 ofFcere and 55 men,
commanded! by C iptain Barnston ; 47th Regiment, 3
officers, 2 serjeants, 1 drummer, and 130 men, under
Captain Pileington ; 14th Re-J,rirriant, 1 officer, 1 F41.1`
jaW'it, 1 di Mann—, a:AI 86 lawn ;
cars, 3 serjeants, and 153 men. Major Peaty, of the
latter regiment, had the command of the several
draughts. The Dalhousie will convey them to the

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