The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-18 00:00:00

PRIZE MONEY.

(From the London Gazette of July 16.)
'Admiralty, Somerset-house, July 16.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that in conse-
quence of some further claims having been preferred for
unliquidated expenses attending the prizes Aina and Na-
desehda, captured on tho 21st April, 1855, byherMajesty's
ship Alban, the individual shares advertised for distribu-
tion in the London Gazette of the 13th inst. will be liable
to alteration, and further notice of distribution will be
given as soon as possible.

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset House, July 16.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma■
rives, and to all persons interested therein that the dis-
tribution of proceeds arising from the Russian armed
vessel Vengeur, captured on the 27th of June, 1854, by
her Majesty's ship Cuckoo, will commence on Thursday,
the 26th July, 1855, in the Prize Branch cf the Department
of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty,
Somerset House."
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim tho share
of any captor, serving in the above-namod ship, aro re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs
or of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is re-
quired to intimate the same by letter to be addressed " On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lou-
don,"—in which letter his own place of residence is to bo
precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collector
of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be
convenient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :--

£ s. d.

£ s. d.

Lieut. Command-
ing
Fourth class lB 12 5
Fifth class

Sixth class
Eighth class 3 2 1
Ninth class
I Tenth class

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION.
(From the Times of this day. )
Judicial vengeance, in the language of the poets, halts
and lags, though it generally runs down its victim in the
end. In the hands of man it almost as often miscarri
as not ; in the hands of Heaven its path is circuitous,
sometimes wholly inscrutable ; and all that we have to
show are a few moral laws, as we are pleased to call
them, and wonderful instances of Divine vengeauce—
wonderful, because they are rare. If justice itself makes
such poor work of it in its severest and most tangible
form, and in the case of enormous crimes and palpable
wrongs, we cannot expect more speed, more certainty
and exactness, in the moral retribution to come upon
faults of temper, errors of judgment, and the minor vices
of carelessness, indolence, excessive confidence, and pre-
sumptior. We don't expect the time will ever come
when man can devise nets of exactly the right meshes,
and throw them so cleverly over the waters of political
life as just to secure the offenders at the very nick of
time, without damaging anybody else. They will go on
escaping, breaking through, leaping over, or slipping
under, just as they have always done. That is what Mr.
Roebuck has still to learn. He presented himself as a
judge in Israel, to detect, and to chastise the bad admi-
nistration.of the war. 11l would it become us, who sup-
ported him throughout, and who gratefully recognised
in him the dauntless and indefatigable champion of our
own battles, to say one word as to Mr. Roebuck's dis-
charge of his mission. There is only this to be added—
that, with all the sail he could press, and all the steam
he could put into his committee, he has only illustrated,
for the millionth time, the tartiness and imperfection of
all human justice. His whole speech comes to this :
According to his own division of the Cabinet which
undertook the war, the chief has already fallen, and is
therefore removed from the reach of Parliamentary jus-
tice ; the like fate has overtaken the Secretary of War
and the Secretary at War, and the First Lord of the
Admiralty, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; in
fact, all who had a hand in the affair. They have escaped
Mr. Roebuck as criminals occasionally cheat the hang-
man, by being their own executioners'. On Mr. Roe-
buck's own showing, the others are most of them insig.
nificant, and, as it happened, too, had nothing to do
with the war. There was one exception, and that is
Lord John Russell. But justice has overtaken him at
last, though all that Mr. Roebuck can say of him is
that he did not stay in town in August and
September, and take the responsibility of summon-
ing Cabinet meetings to overhaul the operations
of the War Minister. But which of them does Mr.
Roebuck want to nail to the barn-door ? Lord Aberdeen ?
His lordebip,as Mr. Roebuck himself admit=, did his best.
The Duke of Newcastle ? Mr. Roebuck himself vo-
lunteers an apology. The Duke was plodding, consult.
ing, giving interviews, making calculations, and issuing
orders all the autumn. Mr. Sidney Herbert? Here,
again, Mr. Roebuck is not merely apologetic, but
even kind. He commends not only the diligence of
the criminal at the bar, but even his humanity. Sir
James Graham ? But how could the Admiralty have
failed, when it did not even attempt ? Mr. Gladstone ?
But he was summing up the " tottle of the whole," and
expecting to conquer all the Russias, as well as con-
vert the South Sea Stock, out of the year's income.
7 For the rest Mr. Roebuck himself says they were In-
significant. What more could he say ? There
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a
I two offenders left. The first of these, Lord J h