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

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Grinding 23 So
Malt 68 72
Chevalier 70 74

COLCHESTER— APRIL 28.
We had a small supply orwheat, which met a brisk sale
at 5s to 6s per qr. advance on the prices of last week ; bar-
ley the.turn dearer, and beans and peas were also 2s per
qr. dearer.

Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 70s to 765;
red, 64s to 70s ' • barley, 32s to 34s ; oats, 28s to 32 ; heal a
Mazagan, 36s to 38s ; middle and small, 40s to 44s ; peas,
white, 42s to 465 ; grey, 36s to 40s.

Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., received
in the port of London, from the following, ports, from
the 22d to the•3oth April, both inclusive. • -

1 A -, .
1 'A l''
70 22-002707
150 - ( 560 -
282 120 - -
,294 - 100 -1

Colchester .
Harwich
Leigh
Maidea

KIRKI
We had very small s
Sales brisk. Wheat at
and oats of is per qr.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First 7Bs Od 37s 01 32s Od
I
Second
Third 66s Od I 32s Od 263 Ocl

,ALDY—AI
tpplies of all
an advance

.3

33 -
118 -

'13,1L 28.

kinds of grain to-day.
of 33 per qr. ; barley

Beads.
Os Oa
Os 0:1
Os 0(1

, ' COAL MARS
Prices of Coal per ton at t
s. d.
Buddle W. Hartley lB € 0
18 6 Eden Main 19
Cam's Hartley
Jonassohn's Hartley l7 0 Lambton PrimroselBB 3
6
Davison's West' Hartley 18 6 Bell. 1
18 6
20 0
Hiloaslytiwuogi'is..ll..ar..tl.e.3:..: .... .. :178
06
Haswell
Howard's Wes't Hartley Kepler Grange l9 0
Netherton .. . .. . ... 18 6 North Hetton
Hartlepool West ......... 18 0 Plummer l9 0
.
North Percy Hartley _l7 6 Russeplitr:s.s.H..e..t.t.o..n.
......................... 60
15 611 Stews
Ta Westnfi e P 1
de I iMoor°n But o s 16
16 0 '3,
ISouth\:e:isgt
hKHIe,
it.
ait..o. n. . ..
..
1 1 II: 4.
11.... ..2109 09
Hart1ep001........... 1199 t
Walker Primrose . ..... l5 3'
Grey's West Hartley lB 3,CCasaosrautdhoe
Wylam
Whitworthii. ...........
....
..
..
..
.....
':
• Wallsend, Zsz,•.,.
Gibson
uton
...................... 6°Deeerws e.ll"at.e—r..H.;lOyi-11-1; 6
Heaton
Riddell

ET.—Arath 30.
;be close of the market.
Wallsend, &c.

- -1
Ships at market 82 I 501 d.... 53

( Continued from, ett?' first impression of ycs`,?.daY.)
Captain Milne, at the request of Lord Seymour, then.
proceeded to read a letter from AdMiral ;r, dated in
January of the present year, in which it was stated that
the labour at his command for coaling 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 him to Balaklava
Witness—He was a very zealous officer.
The Chairman—That is not an answer to my ques-
tion.

Witness—l am not aware under what circumstances
Captain
the First Lord of the Admiralty was induced t. send
him to Balaklava. •
M Seymour,il afterwardse, i n reply toa
wente
seriesLlte ofa state
sbefrowasra
Lord
not aware of any detention having arisen in the Can
transport vessels which had returned from the' Crimea
with 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 had 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
y wasM r.
nDetr uemmmoorne d—
able, W iht ha r
d regard
-w orr
risen
Admiral mmh
meritorious
ra
ipl t
erße
sr Boxer
ex
ne rt - • '
about six miles from that place.
miterietsv.m:fiers
thereoffißcer in the service ; and he had
position entirely throug:Lhuigshterow.;
placed in his present position on account of his being
was
ratednot
related
ast:adastoananaybipeeseera.men ; 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 bad in the meanwhile ar-
riverl, in compliance with the request of the committee,
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
fur," 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 net at the moment an oppor-
tunity of explaining my meaning.
The Chairman.—l find in the Times of the 28th April
a paragraph to the following effect :—" Sir Charles
tTre-
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
the 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 sears. I have during that
period devoted myself entirely
.to them, and I felt it was
a great grievance that my management of the depart-
►nent under my charge should be impugned in the most
vital point of ail 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 objecti,,n to my sending a
statement to the Times, as I had already furuished one
to Lord Seymour to be submitted to the committee.
Mr. Layard—Are you aware of the decision come to
by the Committee inconsequence 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 had 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 bad not been attacked in the public press in conse-
quence of the answer he had given, but almost every
person he 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 quuted.
Sir C. 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.
The 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 not occupy many
minutes, and bis evidence presented no features of par-
ticular interest.
Capt. Hillyer, of the Naval Brigade, was next called,
but he had scarcely commenced his evidence, when
The committee adjourned, it being close. upon four
o'clock.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the offices, New Broad-street, Mr. W. J.
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, particularly 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 hi 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 reballasting and maintenance of way were
charged to revenue, and the consequence was tbat 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 Calliau towards tbenortbeast and south-
east were completed some distance towards Shawpoor
on the one hand, and Poonah on the other. They had
received reports from their engineers tbat morningwhe
respecting the surveys of the extension lir!es i bt
were very Fatisfactory. They stated in theirthereports
that the the probable expense of the portion o
r a length
east extension line from Poonah to Shola
of the perms-
of 165 miles, for a double line, exclusivemile, and that an
nent way, would be only 5,6101.
steepest gradient
This would be a first-class line, and the
credit was due
on it would not exceed 1 in 150.
and ability they had
alternative line would cost at the rdaptteetitrof 5,780/.
to' the engineers for the energysgayn
d gradients to ascend
that oi tt
per mile.
exerted in improving the curves
t.,-, the ghauts, and he
difficulties bad been thrown
successful. Considerable .
togdhi na
theugt ' authoritiesiis
consequence
io succes • .
spect to their extension towards the
in their way in re had no doubt they would be perfectly
difficulty it, but he believed
the supposed
from they expected the most their engineers could . _
was practica • ble. By this means they would be enabled,
la
onfoprtehr-aera,stanhdy
as originallyintended, toget into wayofthpoefr To
avhseue I le -n
which
remu-
nerative portion of their traffic.
Mr. FIELD seconded the motion, and in doing so said
he thought the report satisfactory ; but be hoped in future
that whatever Expenses fairly belonged to capital would
not be charged to revenue.
Mr. TITE said it was very undesirable to release the
contractor from the
end of the time maintenance of the way before the
months from stipulated, which was generally twelve
the completion of the works By doing so
it was probable that, throughthe .
neglect in construction,
or from some other cause, the shareholders would cthi ave
to hear heavy expenses that would otherwise fall upon
the contractor.
The CHAIRMAN said, the directors had sent out posi-
tive instructions that the contractors h id not be re-
leased in future. ,
Resolutions were then passed, adopting the report and
re-electing the retiring directors and auditor.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors con-
cluded the proceedings.

Previous to taking his departure from Buckingham
Palace, the Emperor of the French left 1,5001. to be di-
vided among the royal servants, in the following pro.
portions :-5001. to those employed in the Lord Steward's
department ; 5001. to those in the Lord Chamberlain's
department ; and'soo/, to the grooms and servants in
the department of the Master of the Horse.

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