The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-10 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1855,

BOW-STREET.-(TBIS DAY.)

APPOINTMENTS AND eItANG'ES IN THE
ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

Pahl.] RAIMAYS,

Leasing
Compans

Closing Prices
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Basinass
this day.

Three young girls, named Emma Smith., Mary A

Rede, and Emma Greenwood, were placed at the bar this
morning, charged with creating a disturbance outside
St. Giles'a Workhouse lust night.
Phillips, the watchman, having been sworn, said--

DEC. 22.—The following appointments and changes
have occurred in the army :

Capt. Elrington, 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, succeeds
Capt. Mackenzie, 92d Highlanders, as Brigade Major
to the First Brigade of the Light Division ; Brevet
Lieut.-Col Mayow, late Brigade Major to the Light
Cavalry Brigade, is transferred to the Quartermaster-
General's Department, and is appointed Assistant Quar-
termaster-General to the Cavalry Division ; Captain
Tomlinson, Bth Hussars, takes the place of Lieut.-Colo-
nel Mayow as Major of Brigade to the Brigade of Light
Cavalry ; Capt. the Hon. Gilbsrt tiliot, Ist Battalion
Rifle Brigade, and Capt. the Hon. A. M. Cathcart, 93d
Regiment, who both acted as aides-de-camp to the late
Lieutenant-General Sir George Cathcart, and Captain
W. Bellairs, 49th Regiment, are appointed to act as
Deputy Assistants in the Adjutant and Quartermaster-
General's Department, as their services may bs required ;
Captain Mackenzie, 92d Regiment, has gone to Bala.
kiava, as Assistant Quartermaster-General ; Major T.
W. M‘Ma,hon, late Assistant Quartermaster-General in
the Division of Cavalry, proceeds to England on account
of ill health.

About a quarter past seven last night the throe girls
applied for admission as casral paupers, and were told
to wait till the accommodation of the aged and those
having children had been provided. On hearing
this intimation they commenced abusing him, and
after doing so for some time they each threw a large stone
at the windows of the infirmary ; they were then given
in charge to the police. On Redo being conveyed to
the station she told the constable that she would put
the parish to more expense than merely breaking the
windows before she had done with it.

Rede—And so I will.
On the magistrate asking them what they had to say
to the charge,

Greenwood, who acted as spokeswoman, said if they
had taken us in and given us a bit of bread we should
not have acted as we have done. If we are sent to pri-
son we shall do exactly the same thing when we come
out if they refuse to give us shelter. We had. all been
walking about for two nights.
The Magistrate fined them each four shillings, the
amount of the damage, or, in default, imprisonment for
one month.

The following officers also have leave to proceed to
England for the recovery of health at the recommenda-
tion of medical boards :—Captains G. Bingham Jen-
ings, 19th Regiment ' • T. Yorko Dallas, 11th Hussars ;
J. G. Gould, 63d Regiment ; E. G. Buliver, 23d
Royal Welsh Fusiliers; and Captain and Paymaster J.
Telford, 17th Regiment ; Paymaster Wheatley, 42d
Highlanders ; First-class Staff-surgeon George Carr ;
Lieutenants Emilius Radcliffe, 88th Regiment ; Robert
Macneil, the Buffs, but attached to the 13th Light
Dragoons ; J. O'Brien, 30th Regiment ; J. Chandos
Harcourt, 30th Regiment ; and H. Mitford, 19th
Regiment. Cornet H. Booth, 4th Light Dragoons.
There is also a long list of officers to whom leave of
absence has been granted at the recommendation of
Medical Boards, to proceed during limited periods to
Scutari for the benefit of health.

The prisoners left the bar vowing vengeance against
Phillips and the workhouse windows.

THE UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OFTHE PACIFIC.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
Early this morning the United States mail steam-
shipw Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived in the Mersey
with the usual mails from the United States and
British North America. She sailed from New York
on the 28th ult., having been detained one day by
fog, and has brought besides the mails 97 passen-
gers, but no spooio. Lord Elgin was one of the
passengers.
• A proposition has been made to the Senate offer-
ing mediation to the United States upon the East-
ern question.
We have dates from California to Dec. 1, and
one million and a half of dollars in gold dust has
reached New York. An attempt has been made at
San Francisco to liberate the Russian prisoners on
board the prize ship Sitka.
Business was dull at New York.
The cotton market was dull at the opening, and
cottons had fallen a quarter cent, but recovered
again, closing firmly.
The breadstuff market was quiet and firm; flour
was duller and rather dearer • in consequence of the
small stock of wheat, prices had' advanced ten cents.
Indian corn was brisk at a trifling rise.
The market for provisions was quiet and without
alteration.

At the general court-martial held on the 18th
December, No. 3505, Private Francis Hagerty, 4th
Regiment, was tried for having struck an officer
and a sergeant, while in the execution of their duty.
The prisoner was drunk. He was found guilty, and
sentenced to 50 lashes and 12 months' imprison-
ment with hard labour, which Lord Raglan con-
firmed ; but remarks :

"The offences of which the prisoner has been very
properly found guilty are of so serious a character as to
justify the infliction of the whole punishment awarded
by the Court ; but, in consideration of the youth and
inexperience of the prisoner, and the circumstance under
which the crimes were committed, and in the hope that
his expressions of sorrow and contrition are sincere, the
commander of the forces is induced to remit all punish-
ment, and to award his pardon, thus affording him an
immediate opportunity of showing, by his conduct, that
he is not unworthy of the lenity that is now extended to
him."

The following copy of a letter from the Military
Secretary to Viscount Hardinge, General Com-
manding-in-Chief, has been published for the infor-
mation of the troops :
" Horse Guards, Nov. 24, 1854.
"My Lord—l have received the directions of the
General Commanding-in-Chief to acquaint your lordship
that her Majesty has been pleased to approve of the ad-
dition of three supernumerary Lieutenants and three
supernumerary Ensigns to each of the regiments of the
line serving with the army under your lordship's cora-
mand.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's
most obedient humble servant,
(Signed)
"Field-Marshal the Right lion. the
Lord Raglan, G.C.8."

Freights were steady and unchanged.
The royal mail steam-ship Washington, from
Bremen and Southampton on the 6th ult., arrived
at New York on the 24th.

The Pacific, on entering the Mersey, ran down
the Corinthian, bound for Algoa Bay ; all the crew
wero saved.

ROY AL INSTITUTE OP BRITISH

ARCRITECTS.

" C. YORKE.

At the usual hi-monthly meeting at their rooms, 17
Grosvenor-street,.Mr. Betjarnin Perry in the chair;
Professor DONALDSON, hen. BCC I on layer, on the
table the several donations presented to the library and
museum since the last meeting, mentioned that a new
process of oil painting was at present being tried
at Metz, whereby, without any previous preparation
of the plaster, the whole effect of fresco was obtained.
The decorations were painted on an exceedingly thin
medium, and then made adherent to the walls. lie also
referred to the new blocks of houses in course of erection
in the neighbourhood of the Louvre, and stated that the
municipality of Paris have lately voted a million of mo-
ney to improve and ornament that city, in order to bring
to it a concourse of strangers, and thereby promote the
welfare of every-class of tradesmen.
Mr. BAKER then exhibited an, elegant model of the
dome of the tomb of Ibrahim Elijah at Beegepoor, which,
even under disadvantageous circumstances, showed that
the equilibrium of that structure was so perfect that no
abutment was required to counteract a lateral thrust.
appearance Mr. C ALDr
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eresad piraen interesting
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Chruorncht,he warped
appearance of the spire of All Saints' Church, Chester-
Chester-
field. There were(he said) different opinions entertained
about it in the neighbourhood of the town. Some persons
maintained that it had been built awry, whilst others, in
contradiction to their eyesight, maintained that it was
perfectly straight. He found, in reference to the his-
tory of the church, that it bad been dedicated in
1232 ; but he had been unable to discover at what
time the spire assumed its present twisted ap-
pearance. A. work, published in 1753, descriptive of
Derbyshire, referred to the circumstance of its beino•
warped, but gave no clue as to the time it became so.b
By correct measurement, the top of the spire had a de-
flection of seven feet from the perpendicular, in a south-
western direction. He had himself recently examined
it, and found that the tower supporting it had never
in the least settled, but he also found that the sus-
taining timbers had been put up on a bad system
of construction, so that a set of columns on the
weather side of the spire contracted ; and it was his
opinion that the other seta were twisted by the weight
of the superincumbent lead, so as to accommodate that
subsidence, and that the lead itself thereby was made to
assume the warped appearance which it at present
presents.

THE INVALIDS FROM THE CRIMEA.

33 detachments of regiments serving in the Crimea
arrived at 3 p.m. yesterday at the Invalid Depot Fort
Pitt, Chatham, from Portsmouth. They consist of the
2d, sth, 6th Dragoons, Bth Hussars, 4th Foot, 13th
Light Dragocins, 13th Foot, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 23d,
28th, 30th, 33d, 39th, 41st, 44th, 47th, 50th, 63d,
55th, 68:.b, 79th, 88th, 89th, 95th, 92d HighlanderP,
Rifle Brigade, and seven Fusiliers, making a total of
103 non-commissioned officers and men, under the
command of Captain Edward Streatfield, 44th Regt.,
with Staff-Surgeon Reid. The troops, owing to the
greater number being wounded and with loss of limbs,
were immediately attended to by the chief medical
officer of the hospital, Dr. Taylor, when, after the in-
spection, 72 men were taken into hospital, and 36 were
sent down to the Invalid Depot Barracks, St. Mary's.
With the above invalids there were several of the
Guards • they went to London to join the head-quar-
ters, and those of the Royal Artillery proceeded to
Woolwich, These invalids came home in the ship
Candia ; they left Scut: tri on the 24th of December last,
were for 15 clays on the ship's rations ; yesterday they
came to London.

An interesting conversation followed the reading of
Mr. Caldwell's paper, for which he received the thanks
of the meeting.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jan. a.—The prospects of negotiations
' for peace have had a beneficial influence upon the mar-
ket this morning, and there has been a good deal of in-
quiry both for yarn and cloth. At the same time sellers
have attempted slightly to improve prices, and this has
somewhat checked sales, which have consequently been
to a moderate extent only. In cop yarns buyers report
an advance of nearly ad. per lb. India goods are rather
neglected, but holders are firm. In cloths for the Me-
diterranean and the Levant there has been a rather
better demand at last prices.
LEEDS, Jan. 9.—There has been a fair business done
in the cloth markets this morning. A better feeling is
manifested, and the expectation that a considerable por-
tion of the navy contracts that are to be sent in to•mor-
row, will find their way into this district is infusing
more vigour into this market.

MILITARY CONVENTION BETWEEN
AU,TI?IA AND PRUSSIA•

For some days past the German papers have been
speaking of a military convention concluded be-
tween Prussia and Austria, which the latter Power
hld called upon Prussia to fulfil. The version
which the papers give of this convention being,
erroneous, we are glad to be enabled to lay the text
of the article before our readers. It is as follows :
cc MILITARY CONVENTION ANNEXED TO TIIE CONVEN-
TION CONCLUDED BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA,
ON THE 20TH OF APRIL, 1854.
" Art. 1. Austria engages herself to add to the
150,000 men who are assembled in Hungary, on the
Danube, and on the Saur, 100,000 men, who will
together compose a second army—and that as soon
as the necessity of the measure shall be felt, and at
periods which she will appoint in accordance with
Prussia. The troops mobilised in Gallicia, in Tran-
sylvania, in Moravia, and joined in Gallicia, as a
corps d'armee, or in separate bodies, will remain in
intimate relations with the military forces of
Prussia.

" Art. 2. Prussia engages herself, on her side, to
concentrate, according to the circumstances, 100,000
men within the space of thirty-six days ; to wit,
one-third of these forces in Eastern Prussia, and
the two others at Posen or at Breslau. Besides
this, she binds herself to raise her army to the
number of 200,000 men, if the circumstances should
require it, in coming to an understanding each time
in that respect with Austria.
"Art. 3. The military convention of the Ger-
manic Confederation preserves all its force as re-
spects Prussia and Austria.
"Art. 4. The Minister of War in Prussia and
the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial army
engage themselves mutually to make to each other
all the communications necessary to insure the
maintenance of the troops at the amount deter-
mined on above, their organisation, and their
meeting at the periods fixed, as well as the places
of their meeting.
" Art. 5. Austria and Prussia will reciprocally
accredit superior officers to the two contracting
States, as soon as Prussia shall have commenced
placing her army on a war-footing, in order to
arrive at a complete understanding with respect to
the measures which they will have to adopt.
Superior officers will be afterwards accredited to
the two armies.

"Art. 6. The direction to be given to these
armies when united shall be based on this prin-
ciple, that the object of the support which the two
Powers are to afford each other reciprocally is
merely to repulse an attack.
" The present convention has been passed at
Berlin on this 20th of April, 1854.
(Signed) "0. TH. DE MANTEUFFEL.
"HENRY BARON DE HESS,
General of Artillery."

RUSSIAN MODE OF _FIGHTING IN THE
CRIMEA.

A letter from Sebastopol, dated the 24th ult., in
he Constitutionnel, says :—" The battles of the
Alma and Inkerman, and the siege of Sebastopol,
have enabled us to study the Russian army em-
ployed in the Crimea. Although this army is partly
composed of troops from the Danube and the Canes -
sus, it is clunsy, not easily handled, and mama It-
vres badly in presence of an enterprising enemy.
Its generals always place it for bivouac's, as in
the field of battle, in great masses, anl they
do not know how to deploy it after an at-
tack, nor when to make it resist in a thin
line. The Russian inflantly is very badly armed.
Seine companies only have carbines made at Liege ;
the muskets, only recently transformed, badly
kept,and with butt-ends in white wood, do not
last long in a campaign. This infantry will never
attain the level of the French infantry, which is
really the first iu the world for making war in
woody or hilly countries, where the generals-in-
chief leaves a great deal to the initiative of the sol-
diers and to the chiefs of corps and battalions. In
the defensive, the preference must be given to the
English infantry, who, under the fire of the
enemy, rest immovable as a rampart. In a level and
exposed country, our infantry will have to modify
its manner of combatting, and to resume its old
one. This consists in employing compact or thin
order (epais on mince), but it can only he employed
with intelligent and experienced troops. Its
superiority in arms and intelligence will, however,
always give to our infantry the advantage over the
Russian infantry, which will always lose half its
value when obliged to change its place rapidly.
On the Alma, entire Russian battalions took to
flight in surprise at the Zouaves' way of fighting—
they having.advanced erg Isism in large bodies de-
ployed, having taken advantage of all the accidents
of the ground to shelter themselves and to rally, end
having made against the masses a terrible use of
the peculiar arms confided to their skill. At In-
kerman, in the upper part of the battle-field, and
on the line of the English, the Russian infantry
bravely attacked the enemy, but did not know how
to deploy its masses so as to bring more muskets
into play, and when the French attacked their left
flank entire battalions did not know how to change
their position. The first ranks bravely resisted,
but the following ranks fired in presenting arms.
Surprised afterwards by the sharp attack of the
Chasseurs d'Afrique, masses of men, instead of
effecting their retreat by the crests of the hills, de-
scended slowly to the lower parts of the ground
and the ravines, where they allowed themselves
to be crushed almost without defence by from
1,000 to 1,200 French. The English have so well
understood the advantages which troops would have
in attacking either artillery or masses of infantry,
in woody or hilly countries, whilst preserving the
order deployed by the first line, that at Inkerman
they did not employ the order in columns, which
caused the' to lose so great a number of men on
the Alma. On the Alma, the Russian cavalry was
worse than timid; not a charge did it attempt. At
Inkerman, the nature of the ground prevented it
from taking part in the affair. At Balaklava, it
did not dare to await the charge of two squadrons
of Chasseurs d'Afrique. The famous Cossacks
have, in fact, never attempted, even in the plain,
to carry off our advanced posts, or the marauders
who pass our lines ; but it is said that this
cavalry is but little esteemed, even in Russia. As
a set-off to this the Russians really possess a great
superiority both over the French and the English,
and especially over the French, in their artillery.
The Emperor Nicholas, no doubt in the expecta-
tion of a war against all the nations of the south of
Europe, occupied himself a good deal with that
arm, which has male great progress since the wars
at the beginning of the century. The cannon are
of a large calibre, the carriages and caissons well
made and easily moved ; the artillerymen are
brave and accustomed to their service ; the officers
know perfectly well how to choose offensive and
defensive positions ; they occupy them with bold
ness, hold them a long time, and know how to
leave them without leaving their nuns. You will
now understand why we are still before the walls
of Sebastopol, and a by that place would cost us so
much blood if we were to make an assault before
its unextinguished batteries. But we hope the
town will surrender in consequence of the difficulty
it is under of obtainingsupplies of provisions, orthat
we shall obtain its keys b.), giving a grand battle to
the army in the field. The stores of ammunition
in Sebastopol aro inexhaustible, and as the invest-
ment is not complete, the garrison can be relieved
and increased every day. Without being initiated
in the secrets of the generals-in-chief, everything
causes us to believe that they are waiting the
arrival of reinforcements which aro on the way, in
order to resume the attacks which, so to speak,
have been suspended since the day of the battle of
Inkerman. We shall have in the French and
English trgnches at least 300 pieces which will open
their fire, and it is more than probable that in the
meantime the army of observation will destroy in a
battle the Russian army in the field."

DIE MAIM—SOUTRAMPTON, Tuesday, Jan. 9.—The
Royal mail steam-ship Great Western, Captain T. A.
Bevis, sailed this afternoon with the usual monthly mails
for Lisbon,
Madeira, Teneriffe, Cape Verdes, Pernam-
buco, Rio Janeirio, Monte Video, and Buenos
Ayres. The Great Western has a valuable cargo of Bri-
tish and French merchandise, specie valued at 32,000/.
sterling, and 92 passengers, among whom are the Duke
of Saxe Coburg and suite for Lisbon, and Mr. Souvi-
leithnew, Austrian Minister at Rio. The next home-
ward mails from the. Brazils and River Plate are due
here on the 16th inst., by the Royal mail steamer
Great Western. The Atrato is to take out the West
India and Pacific mails of the 17th inst., and it is ex
pected the Solent will arrive about the same date with
the inward mails from the West Indies. The United
States mail steamer Union, Captain Adams, is to take
out the American mails from Southampton for New
York on the 17th inst. The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Euxine is to leave on the 20th inst.
with the mails for India, China, and the Mediterranean.
LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.—The half-yearly'
meeting of this company was held yesterday at the
offices, Coleman-street; Mr. J. Wilson in the chair. The
accounts showed that the receipts for the half-year end-
ing the 31st of December last amounted to 22,9951., in-
chiding 2771. from the last account, and 22,5001., the
half-year's rent of the railway received from the South-
Eastern Company. The payments amounted to 11,4291.,
including 4,7001. -for interest on loans, and 5,5681. for
interest on preference shares, leaving a balans.w of
11,5661., out of which it was proposed to declare a divi.
dend of ss. 3d, per ordinary share, free of income tax.
Resolutions were passed, adopting the accounts, de
Glaring a dividend of ss. 3d. per share, free of income
tax, and re-electing the retiring directors, The meeting
then separated,