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Captain Peter Fisher, borne out on the books of the
Fisgard, 42 guns, at Woolwich, is at present at Sheer-
ness with Mr. E. H. perriinan,.:M.D.,..aud Ms. G.- W,
PickthOrrie, pay Master, enrolling volunteers for the
Coast Volunteer service. Few have entered, as most
of the men eligible have previously entered into sea-
going vessels.
The Waterwitch, 8 guns, sloop, Commander Alan H.
Gardner, was yesterday taken into the basin ; the crew
are dismantling her, and she will be stripped to a gaunt-
line by Wednesday night.
The Widgeon, steam-tender at Deptford Dockyard,
brought down a large quantity of blankets to Woolwich
on Friday, for the use of the Artillerymen embarked in
the Sydney steam-vessel for conveyance to the East.
The Widoeon remained until yesterday, and after tow-
ing the Fisgard flag-ship at this port to her former
moorings left on her return to Deptford.
The Jason screw steam-ship, of 2,500 tons burden,
with engines of 300-horse power, returned to Woolwich
yesterday from Greenhithe, having gone there to have
her coinpas,es adjusted previous to embarking 250 horses
and the whole of Captain iWoodhouse's field battery,
with a division of Captain Turner's field battery, for ser-
viae in the East. The horses and troops commenced
embarking in the afternoon.
A number of the gunners and drivers of the Royal
Artillery commenced at the early hour of five a.m. yes-
terday putting on board the Sydney steamer a number
of siege guns, with their heavy carriages. When they
are all on board, Captain DAguiiar's field-battery of
men and horses will embark in her for Turkey.
Captain Gambier's Company, 11th Battalion, marched
from Woolwich garrison at six o'clock a.m. ou Saturday
last, headed by the band, to the Royal Arsenal, and
embarked on board the Harbieger screw-steamer, for
oonveya ce to the Exst. Toe Harbinger had previously
taken on board a number of siege guns and carriages,
with other military stores. She left the Royal Arsenal
on Saturday afternoon, fur Purffeet, to take on board 50
tons of gunpowder, fur the service of the troops in
Turkey.
Captain Taylor's troop of Royal Horse Artillery,
lately arrived at Woolwich garrison, from Canterbury,
has been placed under orders to hold itself in readiness
to embark for service in Turkey, being the third troop of
Royal Horse Artillery for that destination.
Lieutenant Chrighton, one serjeant, one corporal,
one drummer, and 50 privates of the Woolwich division
of Royal Marines marched from their barracks yesterday
morning to the Dockyard station of the North Kent
Railway, en route for Devonport, to embark for service
in the Calcutta, 84, commisAioned at that port.
Captain Gibbons's Company of Royal Artillery ar-
rived at Portsmouth on Saturday from Woolwich.
The service companies of the 97th embark at South-
ampton on Saturday next fur Candia.
THE 42D HIGHLANDERS.—This gallant and famed
regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
Cameron, was inspected officially yesterday, in the Cam-
bridge Barracks, Portsmouth, by Major-General Sirup-
son, the commandant of the south-western district, The
regiment were put through all their movements, their
kits and accoutrements were inspected, and a full exa-
mination made into the state and fitness for the field of
the truly noted "gallant 42d." At the conclusion of
the official inspection, the Commandant in-Chief ex-
pressed to Colonel Cameron his admiration of the high
state of discipline and efficiency of the regiment, and the
good conduct of all since they had been under his com-
mand ; wishing them God speed on their journey to the
East, for which they will embark in the steam-packet
Hydaspes, at Portsmouth Dockyard, on Thursday next.

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slussu IN THE WRONG.Two hundred
years ago Russia had no potts but Archangel, for which she
was inde, ted to English discovery. Ila:ing founded 't. Peterslinnz.
she gained connexion with the was ern world; after that, made a
southward passa e to the 'Clack Fee, and thought Constantmoule.-
the Meolterranean, and the East Indies v o he va iia' le acquisi
tions ; but the Russians are bad calculators; Viey should have taken
the example o, E. MOSES and sort. who have extended their busi, ess
over the wide world. and th ouzhout all ports, citi s. and to
the un'verse, but they have done that by fair trading—
valueaine for
—novelty, super,or qua i y. a d cheapness. expressed in every
form in every aricle required tor the salve of Ladies, ()eat, men.
and Juvendes, in all stations of society -their i rear, ss has been
visible, and marked wi h the appr Thation of thousands ; thee have
h d the most glorious success, and their ricg and Summer Attire
carries the victorious palm in e,sry instance. end their vast prcria-
rations continue to the Mlles extent available tor Noble n. Pro.
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TEE IVE-BURST ON THE NEVA

The crisis of the Baltic enterprise seems near at hand.
Under date of the 3d of May we hear of bitter east
winds and thick-falling snow ; of the 4th, of Saeckbolin
steamers running, with crowds of citizens to see the
fleet ; on the sth, of fog so thick, that the. ships could
not stir. In Finland, meantime the seamen is mild, and.
vegetation is rapidly advancing. The rhonth of May is
always the season of suspense at St. Petersburg--the time
when it is said the restless Carr, who. 'sleeps only by
snatches, looks out, or goes forth, almost before anybody
else is stirring, to observe the aspect of his watery realm,
amid see which way the wind is. The suspense is about
the wind ; and even now, in this most solemn spring
season of all the fifty-seven he has known, the move-
ments of the wind are of more consequence to Nicholas
than even those of the allies. A long continuance of
strong east winds would do more for him than all the
preparations he can make. A rush of west wind would
ruin him more speedily and thoroughly than all his
united enemies could without its help. The surpense
is about this. The fog is the token that the crisis is
at hand. The fog precedes the breaking up of the ice
in the Neva ; and it will be succeeded by those sin-
gular twilight nights, of unequalled beauty, which
are the only charm of the desolate region in which
St. Petersburg stands. While the fog lasts the sen-
tinels on the watchtowers in the city look Out in vain,
some towards Lake Ladoga, some up the Neva, some
towards the sea. They can hear something, but see
nothing. So it is with the Czar, listening in his bal-
cony ; and with the commandants at Sweaborg and at
Cronstadt : and perhaps with our " Charley" walking'
the deck, and talking to himself. What he is listening
fur is the arrival of the French squadron, which will
enable himeto proceed to his work when the fogrciurtaitt,
rises. Whitt the Ruesians .are listening Joel's, fret, the
wind. To some it comes sighing over the peaty plains
which stretch to the margin of the gulf, whence they
look like a mere drift upon the waters. Over that bar-
ren bleak expanse the wind comes sighing through the
rushes, with an occasional bark of the wolt; or bursts of
the din of the waterfowl in the pools which are already.
melted. To others the wind comes vibrating like mourn-
ful music through the pine forests, which, surrounding
the capital with their black belt, nowhere further off
than 20 miles, approach much nearer in some directions.
'refire are sounds which come to the ear on May nights
when the wind is from any pointof the compass; for there
are swamps and pine forests every where. It is the voice
of the waters that the watchers listen for with hearts that
Aimed still. As long as the hollow moaning goes on, the
moaning of the imprisoned winds below the ice, the sus-
pense is complete. Sooner or later comes the crack, which
tells that the hour of crisis has come. The cracks of the ice
are naturally most impressive and sound the loudest in
the night. Tne Czar and his sentries are already on the
watch ; but now the citizens rise, and look out in vain
through the fog. Some dress and go to the wharves,
though it is much too soon to conjecture how high the
waters will rise. Next comes the crash of the ice, driven
up in heaps in the river, or against the wharves ; and
then the more anxious sound—the swash of the driven
waters. The thing most desired is a moderate east wind
—and this is what usually happens. A violent east wind
brings down the inland ice and flood too fast; and every
inch that the waters rise above the iron rings in the granite
embankment is so much danger. But the fearful thing is
a strong west wind, turning back the flood on its way to
the Gulf. Then it is less the awash of waters pouring down
than the roar of the sea owning up; and when the tides
meet, the consequence is weat the world saw in 1824. The
veseels that were not capsized by the meeting of the floods
were carried over the wharves, and stranded on the sands
which were arable fields the day before. The nine rivers
and seven canals on which St. Petersburgh is seated
all overflowed at once ; and the flood poured into the
upper chambers of the best houses in the capital. At
Cronstadt, a large vessel was drifted into the main
street of the town, and left there. Every successive
year adds to the peril of such a chance; fur every year
does St. Petersburg settle lower in the swamp. Amidst
the stagnant silence maintained there about all disagree.
able facts, this very disagreeable fact is well understood.
The mallet is heard, driving new piles incessantly—that
is a sound that cannot be muffled. The blocks of granite
settle unequally; that is an irregularity which the mar-
tinet Czar himself cannot prohibit or punish. The wails
of palaces crack, and hovels sink down endways into the
bog, and all the world may see them melt down or be
shored up. The destruction will be horrible some day;
and every inhabitant knows it, and only hopes that the
place may last his time. But if a west wind should
carry up—not the sea only, but those who are now rid-
ing that sea—what then ? This is what the Czar is lis-
tening for ; the one other sound—the boom of cannon—
which might for on'-e rival in terror the roar of the sea.
From Cronstadt, 16 miles off, the spire of the Admiralty
and the glittering cupola; of St. Petersburg may be seen
on a clear day. Cronstadt is nearer to St. Petersburg
than Gravesend is to London. From St. Petersburg
the hoods of such cannon as we have sent there may.
-be-heart' from Cronstadt, if we have the west -stud
for our herald of approach. By that time the
fog will be gone, and the transparent twilight
of that latitude will have set in. The admirals will
then have no more time for listening like the Czar.
Such a chance as that wind would fill the channels for
them, end obviate their chief difficulty. A very few
hours of such a tide would suffice for their attempt upon
Croustadt. The gun-boats of the enemy, ambushed
among the Wands, and watching with intense curiosity
and awe the great floating fortifications that we have
sent against their stationary one, must not, in such a
case, come out, unless they would be run down ; and the
sentries on the bastions at Cronstadt would see with
dismay how rapidly the ordinary watermarks are disap-
pearing. Such a wind would be the best of allies. But,
without it, we are disposed to believe that Cronstadt is,
as is now hinted from the scene of action, " not im-
pregnable." We hear much of the shallows there ; but
it is certain that the largest Russian ships of war are
built at St. Petersburg, as far as the hulls are concerned,
and then brought into the Cronstadt herbaurs to he
finished. Tney are brought by the old-fashioned machin-
ery of "camels" down the river, and then by means of the
great ship canal at Cronstadt, Into the heart of that place.
That cleat—the one running from the Middle Harbour
—holds ten large ships of war at once. The shallows
before Acre were thought. to be an insurmountable diffi-
culty before Sir C. Napier mole a wreck of that mar-
vellous fortification. We shall soon see whether, with
the added resources of 14 years of naval improvement,
he cannot deal with the shallows of Cronstadt. The
Czar permits no sounding of the Neva. To sound the
Neva is death to Russian subjects ; but it is given out
that the average depth is nine feet on the bar and twelve
within. We all know what Russian figures are worth,
and we may be sure that the shallowest depth that can
be believed will be the one reported. We know, too,
that the range of difference between the highest and the
lo west water is very great, and that the period of highest
water is just at hand. " Charley" knows all this, and
very much more ; and while he is walking the deck, and
talking to himself, he has his own plans fur making wind
and tide serve him we may be sure. Everything is said
to serve the Napiers (as it generally serves other people)
when they are at their work.
And the watcher at the other end of that Gulf, who
knows all this, and very much more, how is it
with him ? Thus far in life, he has never heard the
truth on ethical subjects—has never conceived that
he could be in the wrong—has never doubted his
being able, if he chose his time well, to do what he would,
in and with the world. Is the transparent twilight of
the spring night the time when the reality of his own
mind and life is to dawn upon him ? As the fog draws
off, is it carrying away the mists of passion and delusion
which have hitherto clouded his mind ? In that dim light
do time ghosts of his evil deeds rise before him, and pro-
mise to sit heavy on his soul to-morrow ? Do the hanged
come down from their gallows, and the knouted up from
the depths of the mine; and the exiled from the shores of
the Polar Sea ? Are the women of Warsaw there, de-
manding their children with heart-broken voices ? Do
the insane shake their chains at him ? Can noble and
serf for once speak their minds to him ? Does the "sick
man," not dead, come and show bin his brawny arm 'I
Is this the vigil that the despet keeps while listening for
the boom of our cannon f If so' he is calling on all his
saints to help hiss. But to the hollow-hearted, saints,
and diviner beings than saints, are but ghosts also. To
so great a sinner, in the hour when tear brings convic-
tion, there is nothing present but his sins—the whole
array of them—proinising to " sit heavy on his soul."—
Daily News.

EXPLOSION OF A BALTIC GUN BOAT. BRIGHTON
Monday.—The Government gun-boat the Jasper, with
33 hands on board, blew up this morning, twelve miles off
Beachy Head, but happily no life was lost. The Jasper EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—A clerk in the employ
left Portsmouth harbour on Saturday morning for the ment of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lancaster Rail-
Baltic, under the command of Lieutenant Crawley, way some time a4o appropriated to his own purposes
having about two tons of powder on board, and other several thousand pounds, which he had received on ac-
ammunition. She had proceeded as far as Beachy I count of the company, and absconded from this country.
Head, when, about half-past six this morning, they 1 A warrant was issued for his apprehension and lodged
discovered a fire between the boiler and the powder in the hands of Daniel Forrester, by whose vigilance and
magazine. Every effort was made to extinguish the perseverance be was traced to Cologne, where he was
flames, but without avail. For nearly two hours apprehended. The officer succeeded in getting his pri-
they remained in the vessel, exerting themselves to soner, whose name is Stable, and who, it is believed, has
arrest the progress of the fire, hut, finding that there been speculating largely in shares, committed to prison
was no prospect of getting it under, and that the for 14 days, arid is in communication with the Prussian
flames were rapidly app.oaching the magazine, they authorities with the view of obtaining the permission of
quit the ship in their three that Government to bring the accused to England, to
boats, They'i)
thet vessel at a safe distance for take his trial for the embezzlement.
nearly half an hour, when the flames and smoke sub MEDICAL STAFF OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN TURKEY.
deemedsiodaetds it expedient
and some of the crew volunteered to return to —The following is a correct statement of the personnel
the vessel. Almost at the same instant the flames of the medical department of the army of 27,000 men
burst forth with renewed violence, and in a few moments ordered to Turkey under the command of Lord Raglan :
more, at half-past nine o'clock, the vessel blew up. The ' --Staff: 1 inspector-general of hospitals, 4 deputy in-
crew were picked up by the Vanguard, of Liverpool, spectors-general of hospitals, 12 staff .surgeona of the
Crosby master, which took them within about three first class, 13 staff surgeons of the second class, 48 staff
miles of Brighton, where they safely landed in their assistant-surgeons, 1 chief apothecary, 3 dispensers of
boats at seven p.m., and proceeded forthwith to Ports- medicines, 3 purveyors, 6 purveyors clerk,, 2 medical
mouth, having lost nearly everything on board. They clerks, and 1 cutler and his assistant. Regimental : 1
were received on landing by Lieutenant Pratt, R.N., of surgeon and 3 assistant-surgeons to each regiment of
the Coast guard station, who made the necessary ar- infantry (850 men), 1 surgeon and 1 assistant surgeon to
raregenients for sending them to Portsmouth. every 2 squadrons of cavalry (250 men), 1 assistant
MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.—Oti Saturday, the inquiry surgeon to every troop of horse artillery, 1 assistant-
into the cause of the death of a seaman named John surgeon to every field battery, and 1 surgeon ordnance
Kelly, was resumed before the borough coroner, P. F. medical department for general duties. Total number
Curry, Esq.. and witnesses fully substantiating the facts, of medical officers, 203. During the Peninsular war
as we have already given them, were examined, and the rather more than one-third, but not quite one.half, of the
prisoner, Antonio Zablache. was fully committed to take medical officers of the army were generally ineffective
his trial at the as-izes. He is a Swiss emigrant, and from sickness, &c. ; therefore, as there is no reason ,o
had taken a passage on board the Great Britain for expect less disease will occur in Turkey, there must be
Australia, in which ship he had left, but returned when a reserve of 68 medical officers to supply the places of
the accident occurred to her. A large number of the such as beCome unfit for duty,--Medical 'Times and
passengers were in the court during the investigation. ' Gazette.