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

MORE NAVVIES FOR BALAKLAVA.

Yesterday the Prince of Wales steamer took on
board the remainder of the navvies who are about to
make the new road from Balaklava to the English camp
before Sebastopol.
Among these men, the number of whom amounts •
altogether to 500, ars included besides common navvies,
smiths, fitters, riveters, carpenters, plate layers, and..
engineers ; and as each of them is provided with every,
requisite of his calling necessary to the speedy following,
up of the work about to 'be commenced, there can ba
little or no delay when the men arrive at their destira-.
tion. According to the arrangement of Messrs. Peto,
Brassey, and Betts, every man was required to he in a
sound and healthy condition, not only in appearance,
but to be proved so by the thorough examination of a
medical man, in addition to which the candidate was to
be of good character and tried steadinesss.
Under such circumstances, and with the further pro-
visions already made for their comfort, it cannot be
doubted that this corps will stand less chance of being
" knocked urs" and becoming comparatively useless by
exposure to the weather and the difficulties of unceasing
labour than our own soldiers, who, unfortunately for
themselves, have been the means of teaching us a few
useful lessons in the art of campaigning.
A finer body cf working men than were assembled
yesterday on the Brunswick-pier, Biackwall, could not
be produced by any, other nation in the world ; and,
from tho' unbounded enthusiasm displayed by them on
their departure, it is evident that these " miserable
islanders" intend to show his Majesty the Emperor of
Russia what can, and, we trust, shall be done, in a
period of time so incredibly. short as that in which ilia
proposed to construct the works to the camp.
A staff of surgeons and nurses,. under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Howse, surgeon to the New Victoria
Docks, has proceeded to the hospital ship at Balaklava,
and no want of medical comforts is at all likely to be felt
by our brave fellows, without whose assistance, as Cap..
tain Andrews has said, Sebastopol cannot be taken.
HOw far the heavy duties now necessarily imposed
upon our troops will be lightened by the aid of this effi-
cleat body of men remains to be seen, but there is every
reason to believe that. throuola such welt-considered
arrangements as have been made,' and under such ma-
nagement as that of Messrs. Pete, Brassey, and Betts
Captain Andrews, and the other gentlemen concerned
in this undertaking, it will prove successful.

THE _NEXT HEIR TO THE THRONE OF

RUSSIA.

(Front GaVgnetai's Messenger.)
Our readers will Lave observed a paragraph from the
Leo,clon Press quoted in our paper on Wednesday, mys-
teriously alluding to an event "likely to open a new
phase in the complications of the Eastern question,"
and hinting that a dynastic change is likely to take
place "in one' of the great European monarchies."
This mystical announcement has exeited some at-
tention, and it was supposed that one of the great
German States was the " European monarchy
alluded to. A correspondence from .St. Petersburg,
supplied from a source the authenticity of which cannot
we think be doubted, conveys, however, an impression
that Russia is the Power to which reference is made by
the Press. It is known that the two eldest sons of the
Czar, the Grand Dukes Alexander and Constantine, are
at the head, the first of the petice, the second of the
war, garties. Just now the partisans of peaol are
de-cribed as unpopular in Russia, and the Grand
Duke Constantine, whose active and ambitious spirit
has had, it is said, no small share in bringing
about the present war, has availed himself of the
state of public feeling, as far as it may be said to
exist in the Emperor's dominions, to assert his claims as
heir to the Rus,ian throne, in the place of his elder
brother, bringing forward as a precedent the mode in
which tile sceptre descended to the hands of his father,
the present Einperor ; and. moreover, a ukase of Peter
the Great, which states that the crown belongs de jure to
the eldest son of a deceased monarch. According to the
interpretation he pats upon it, Prince Constantine avers
that, as when his elder brother was born his father,
then Prince Nicholas, was not evsn heir to the throne,
he cannot be considered as the sou of an Emperor,
while he (Constantine), as born after the accession,
has a clear right to the title. It is hardly necessary to
say that Prince Alexander does not agree with this view
of the case. As to the opinions of the Czar on the mat-
ter, w© are left in the dark ; but, according to some ac-
counts, it would appear that the present war is due to
his attempts to split the difference between his two suc-
cessors, his encroachments upon Turkey being ascribed
to his desire to establish in the south an empire with
Constantinople for its capital, thus to satisfy the am•
bitious aspirations of Constantine, and avoid a civil war
waged agaicst each other by the two brothers.