The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-20 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20,. 1854.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

ALLIANCE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND •
FRANCE.
•
( From the Times.)
No man who listened on Friday night •to the
spirited and energetic language addressed by Lord
John Russell to the House of Commons could en-

tertain a doubt that such a speech in the mouth of
a leading member of the Government is equivalent
to a declaration of war ; no one who heard the
unanimous acclamations with which that speech
was received could deny that her Majesty's Go-
vernment enter on this war with the entire support

of Parliament and of the people. We have reached
then, by slow hilt unwavering and continuous steps,
that point at which the last scheme of reconcilia-
tion is lost in• the note of defiance, and the pro-
priety of discussion is to a great degree merged in
the duty of action. For the first time in the re-

membrance of men of this century, that peace in
which we have been brought up appears to be at

an end, and the Government are driven to arms to
vindicate the rights and interests of this country,
and of our allies, against the wanton disturber of
the tranquillity of Europe. The conscious pride with
which the nation puts forth her strength—the con-
viction that no other course remains consistent with

that position we aspire to maintain in the world—
the knowledge that every resource of diplomacy has
been exhausted—the belief that we may rely on

the support and goodwill of all the greatest
States of Europe, but more especially of France,
conspire to encourage the Government in its
course. If it be war, it is a war to which every

party in the State,' and almost every man in
the country gives assent, for, with instinctive una-
nimity, we are resolved to try the real strength of
that power which has sought to extend its ascend-
ancy over the East and over the West, until she
thinks herself a match for the combined resistance

of the world. Lord John Russell spoke on Friday
night like astatesman in a great conjuncture of pub-
lic affairs, and the House of Commons gave him
and the Government the support which has never
been withheld from a British Minister on a mu-

mentous occasion and in a just cause. Mr. Layard
had attempted, in an able, but ill-judged speech,
to circumscribe the debate within a review of past
diplomatic transactions, but, in his eageiness to
detect what he conceives to be the errors and omis-

sions of the Government, he entirely lost sight of
the measures they had actually taken, and of the
important objects they have now in view. No
member of the Tory Opposition has yet followed
Mr. Layard in this invidious task, but Mr. Roe-
buck, whose reappearance was cordially greeted. by
the house, raised the real question now before the
country in a few distinct and manly sentences.
That qtestion is not so much what has been done,
as what is now to do. And to that question Lord
J. Russell gave an answer without disguise or re-
servation, amounting virtually to a declaration that
if we do not obtain the immediate acceptance of the
terms offered to the Emperor of Russia, we shall
resort to hostilities to enforce his submission. We
may here add that, although no direct information
has arrived in London from St. Petersburg since

the recall of Sir H. Seymour, an answer has been
received by the French Government to the last
communications, and that it is unsatisfactory.
The intimation on the part of the Government of
the policy they are resolved to pursue was accom-
panied by the announcement of certain definite
measures calculated to promote its objects. In the
first place, we are informed that there has now been
an exchange of Notes between England and France,
in which those Powers undertake to co-operate in
giving assistance to Turkey, and declaring, on the
part of both Powers, that no selfish interests and
no increase of territory or power are sought for.
Our readers may recollect that on several occasions,
and as much as months ago, we endeavoured to
point out the necessity of definite engagements
with our allies, for the purpose of establishing the
objects of our common intervention and the means
of effecting them. It would be rash indeed to
send the fleets and armies of England on an expe-
dition that may lead to war in defence of a foreign
Power, without having previously regulated by
convention the position in which our forces are to
be placed. It seems, therefore, that, in addition
to the exchange of Notes with France (which we
take to be a provisional arrangement), "an engage-
ment has been proposed to Turkey, by which we
shall be assured, besides other things which are
necessary on such occasions, that Turkey will
not agree to any peace with Russia, while we
are giving our aid and assistance, without our
consent and concurrence." In other words, we
understand Lord John Russell to mean that a de-
fensive treaty of alliance between England, France,
and Turkey, has been presented to the acceptance
of the Porte, to secure to the allies of Turkey
access to the theatre of war, conditions for carry-
ing it on, and powers to bring it to a termination.
It is extremely fitting that such a treaty be con-
cluded before we engage in active operations in
the dominions of a foreign Sovereign ; and, with
the objects we have exclusively in view, there is
no reason that this engagement should not be of
the most public nature, to be acceded to, now or
hereafter, by the other great Powers of Europe.
It now remains for us to mention a measure
which has already been taken, and which has com-
monly been adopted shortly before the outbreak of
hostilities. At a Privy Council, held on Saturday
afternoon, the Queen was pleased to issue a Pro-
clamation, which we publish elsewdere, prohibiting
under a clause of the Customs Consolidation Act,
the export or carrying coastwise of arms, gun-
powder, and all other stores of war, and also of
marine engines, screw-propellers, and all other
machinery or parts of machinery which may be
used in steam-vessels. This prohibition is general
and absolute, and the officers of Customs are
thereby authorised to stop all such commodities or
merchandise from leaving our ports. The suspen-
sion of the trade in gunpowder and the stores of
war is a measure always resorted to in or before war,
and was first legalised by an act of Charles 11. The
Customs Consolsdation Act of last year has vested
in the Crown more general powers of the same
nature ; and it will at once be seen that the expor-
tation of steam alachinery for ships would supply to
our adversary a most important implement of war,
and precisely of that species which this country pro-
duces in the highest perfection. Without entering
into details, we have reason to believe that the
Government have information that certain con-
signments of warlike stores and marine steam ma-
chinery were about to be despatched to Holland on
account of the Russian Government, and these it
became important to the public service to stop.
To accomplish this necessary object, it is of course
necessary that the export trade in these articles
should be interrupted altogether; but it is pro-
bably the intention of the Government to issue
licenses of export under certain well-ascertained
circumstances, though on this point we have as yet
no information.

( Front the Morning Herald.)

Those of our readers who remember the part
taken by this journal with reference to the French
Emperor in the spring of last year, will, perhaps,
pardon us for the expression of a natural and cer-
tainly excusable pride. Against the influence of
most of our contemporaries at the press—against
what at first was popular opinion, we earnestly
urged the absolute necessity of a cordial union be-
tween this nation and the chosen ruler of the French
people. While day after day the Times thundered
its anathemas against Louis Napoleon, and by its
indiscreet invective was stirring up national anti-
pathieS, we laboured as sedulously to point out that
the natural alliance of England was with France—
that upon that alliance rested the hopes of Euro-
pean liberty, and that if England and France were
once so estranged as to be incapable of cordial ope-
ration, Europe was at the mercy of the first com-
bination of the clespotic'powers which Russia might
be able to organise for her subjugation.
The alliance with France is now become a part
of our national policy. The Queen has announced
it from the Throne. Every Minister who speaks
upon foreign politics goes out of his way to pro-
nounce a eulogium upon the Emperor of France.
Every journal in the Empire now treats the union
between England and France as the safety of Eu-
ropean independence. It is not easy, in this uni-
versal enthusiasm of the French alliance, to recal
the state of things that existed this time twelve-
month. Men forget that Sir Charles Wood then
selected Louis Napoleon as the object of the not
very respectable ribaldry of a hustings speech—
that day after day the columns of the Times teemed
with the most insulting abuse of the French_ So-
vereign and nation Nay, when our efforts had
been at last successful in evoking that magnificent
demonstration of amity with France in which the
merchant princes of Loudon conveyed to that So-
vereign the true sentiments of England—the con-
sistent and patriotic Times sneered at that demon-
stration as one representing only ti:e servility of
railway speculators anxious for "concessions."
The short space of a year has done ample, justice
to our policy. As. we .pointed out at the time, if
the efforts of the Tones had succeeded in separating

France and England, Nicholas would at this mo-
ment be master of continental Europe. What
share this journal may have had in averting such
a catastrophe, it, perhaps, does not become us to
say. It is, however, impossible for us not to feel
pride in the recollection that our efforts were then
strenuously, and, as the result proved, not unsuc-
cessfully directed to prevent the invectives of the
Times being mistaken for the voice of the English
nation.

Our policy was founded, not upon the personal
character of Louis Napoleon, high as was our esti-
mate of that character : it certainly was not founded
upon any sympathy with the form of government
which national exigencies bad necessitated in
France. We sought the alliance with France be-

cause we saw thal in intelligence, in feeling, in
true liberality of opinion, the two nations were
already united. We cordially accepted the alliance
of Louis Napoleon, because he was freely and fairly
chosen to* be the Sovereign of the great and en-
lightened nation with which, for the sake of free-
dom and civilisation, we desired England to be
cordially united.
These views, we say, have now, become so general
that no one any longer ventures to dispute them.
The only contest Is who shall be most zealous and
most energetic in expressing them. This we do
not disguise is our triumph. We may safely exult
in it,. because it is the triumph of the cause of

England.
It does, however, add to that triumph if we can
feel that those who assailed Louis Napoleon were
as unjust to the individual p they were false to the
cause of England. This, too, is now beginninc, to
be thoroughly understogd. The character of Louis
Napoleon is now rightly estimated, and those who
twelve months ago donounced him are now to be
classed among the admirers of his integrity, his

energy, and his courage.
A pamphlet is now before us which attempts to
do justice to this extraordinary man. It deals with
the personal character of Louis Napoleon. It dis-
cusses that character freely, and with the skill of a

writer intimately acquainted with the Emperor's
career. It is utterly impossible to rise from its
perusal without the conviction that the ruling So-
vereign of France possesses qualities which in
themselves attract us to his alliance, and that re-
spect for the French Sovereign fortunately coincides
with our sympathy with the French nation.
The pamphlet to which we refer is published
under the title of " Napoleon the Third." It is in
the form of a letter to Lord Londonderry, and

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bears the signature of " A Man of the World"—a
signature that we suspect conceals a name of autho-
rity and influence. The writer professes to have
had personal opportunities of forming the estimate
which he now gives to the world
" It was during this visit in 1839 I formed an ac-
quaintance with the present Emperor—an event in one's
life not to be forgotten. I was introduced to him by
his uncle Joseph, the es-King of Naples and Spain, a
man of the kindliest nature the world ever saw. Ma-
dame Junot calls him well and truly, 'the good Joseph.'
and he was wise and gracious as well as good. With
such an introduction, opportunities were not wanting
for studying the character of Napoleon Louis—a spe-
cies of study to which much of my time has been neces-
sarily devoted. The problem was difficult—for a long
time its solution seemed impossible. Frigidly affable
and repulsively polite he avoided either offence or
familiarity, but seemed instinctively to coil up his
nature from observation. In phrase and demeanour
all that became his birth, still the man was perfectly in-
accessible. It was scarcely to be wondered at. Even
from his boyhood beset by espionage, reserve became an
armour. Scarcely at home in the household of his uncle,
the object of homage as much as of respect, he stood
isolated and original. None presumed to interrupt his
reveries, and to few, if indeed to any, did he accord his
confidence. Yet even through thathabitual reserve there
would at times gleam forth indications of a character
replete with kindness, and of a disposition generous and
noble. There was much of peculiarity—much of con-
trast—abstracted yet vigilant - inquisitive in everything
but studiously incommunicative—diligen't in acquiring
all men's knowledge, retentive of his own—cold and im-
passive, but full of latent energy—cautious in decision,
but once in action, prompt, rapid, and impetuous—al-
most intuitive in grasping opportunity or detecting
weakness— improved by study, steeled by adversity,
disciplined for every vicissitude of fortune—he has ines-
timable qualifications for his high position. Nor in
private life is he at all deficient in commanding respect
or captivating sympathy -of themost winning manners
when minded to assume them ; perfectly munificent by
nature and by habit ; chivalrous, sincere, constant—of
him, my lord, rely on it, it never will be said that he
forgot a kindness or abandoned a friend. The ingra-
titude which stained our English Restoration will find
no imitator in him. The sharers in his sorrows are as-
sociated with his prosperity, and the claims alike of
Ham and St..- Helena found no tardy welcome in the
Palace of the Elys6e. The companion of his prison is
now the first physician of his Court, and the legatees of
his uncle were amongst the object of his earliest solici-
tude. Let ignorance mistake, and prejudice misconstrue
and animosity misrepresent him, his life has been, and
wfll be, their refutation. While strangers paint him,
fashioning the portrait from rumour or from impulse,
my appliances are more authentic. He sat for the pie-
' tore. To those who have studied him and known him
• best I appeal, as to your lordship, for the fidelity of the
! likeness."

It is not only in sketching with truthful justice
the character of Louis Napoleon that the writer of
this pamphlet has done good service to the cause of
Europe. He has happily recalled the far-seeing
predictions of the first Napoleon—predictions which
speak to France from his grave :
"In a few days (said Napoleon) Russia will have
Constantinople, the greatest part of Turkey, and all
Greece. This I hold to be as as certain as if it had
already taken place. Almost all the cajolling and flattery
which Alexander used towards me was to effect this
lobject. Above all the powers Russia is most to be
I feared, especially by you. In the natural course of
things Turkey must fall to Russia. The greatest part
of the population arc Greeks, who, you may say, are
Russians." "The only hypothesis that France and
England may ever be allied with sincerity will be in
order to prevent this."
Upon this the writer of the pamphlet observes,
with equal eloquence of truth :
"How strangely, how curiously prophetic, appear at
this moment these conversations of Napoleon, uttered
upwards of 30 years ago ! The alliance does exist, and
we have now upon the French throne a monarch capable
of appreciating ite value to the whole civilised world.
For the first time in our history we may confide in the
good faith of that alliance. The Bourbons ever had a
jealousy of England."
Those who see in the revolutions of dynasties
something more than the mere movements of poli-
tical chance, may perhaps regard as providential
the fact that such a Sovereign should at this mo-
ment occupy the throne of France. Singular, at
all events, the fortune which, after so many changes
and chances, has left it to the nephew to verify the
prophecy of the uncle, and placed in the hand of
Napoleon the Third the sceptre of the First, when
France and England are allied with sincerity in
order to prevent the subjugation of Europe by
• Russia.

duly made for the contingent military and naval
forces to be supplied by each State. The engage-
ment is fully made and entered into, but the form
of it will be doubtless changed, as soon as conve-
niently may be, for the more solemn though not
more binding international treaty signed by the
Sovereigns.
At th union of England and France for purposes
so just, and with views so disinterested, the whole
civilised world may well rejoice ; for the cordial
and united action of the two most enterprising,
most wealthy, and most liberal nations of the earth,
cannot fail to produce effects fraught with the
greatest advantage to the swift and wholesome pro-
gress of civilisation, and be therefore productive of
blessings for humanity.

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

The important appointments of Quartermaster and
Adjutant-General under Lord Raglan are not finally
settled. Colonel Sullivan is to be Assistant-Adjutant-
General, and it is stated that Colonel Somerset and Lord
Burghersh, of the Coldstreams, and Captain Kingscote,
of the Scots Fusilier Guards, are to be Lord Raglan's
aides-de-camp.
The first division of the British auxiliary force will
consist of the brigade of Guards, the 4th, 28th, 33d,
50th, 77th, and 93d Regiments, amounting to 10,000
men. A certain proportion of cavalry and artillery will
be told off to this division.

Instead of 500 troopers, an effective brigade of cavalry
is to be immediately formed, consisting of the Scots
Greys, the Carabineers, 17th Lancers, and Bth and 11th
Hussars.

Should the 17th Lancers be one of the cavalry regi-
ments ordered to the East, it is to be hoped that they
will leave behind theca their unwieldy weapon, and make
use of the sabre. The 16th Lancers, who earned for
themselves imperishable distinction at the battle of Ali-
wal, found their lances such a damaging incumbrance
that many of the men threw them away and fought with
their sabres, as, while they shot out their lance, the
Sikhs rushed to their horses' heads and cut away the
bridles. Many of that gallant band who survived the
charges of that memorable fight have been heard to ex-
press their unqualified condemnation of the modern
javelin, which is nine feet long, and which no man of
ordinary size and strength can possibly use with ad-
vantage.
We understand that the authorities of the Horse
Guards have been quite inundated with volunteers prof-
fering their services in every rank of the military pro-
fession.

The whole of the baggage of the Grenadier battalion,
as well as the horses belonging to the officers, and also
the horses belonging to the staff of the Guards brigade,
are to be shipped on the 21st instant.
On Wednesday morning the 3d battalion of Grenadier
Guards will proceed by the London and South-Western
Railway to Southampton, at which port they are to
arrive at ten o'clock a.m. The battalion will immediately
embark in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ships the Ripon and Manilla.
The troops, on their arrival at Southampton, will be
under the orders of Major-General Simpson, the general
commanding the South-Western district, who will super-
intend the arrangements of the embarkation.
A regimental order reminds officers that their servants
are to be equipped in every respect as men serving in
the ranks.

Great efforts are now making for organising a good
working field hospital, the want of which has been
severely felt in every campaign, and even in India of late

years.
The 23d Fusiliers and 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade
are under orders for immediate embarkation. Two hun-
dred volunteers have joined the latter regiment.

WARLIKE STORES.

:From the Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday.

BY THE QUEEN. -A PROCLAMATION.

Victoria R. Whereas by the Customs Consolidation
Act, 1853, section 150, certain goods may, by proclama-
tion or order of her Majesty in Council, be prohibited
either to be exported or carried coastwise ; and whereas
we, by and with tne advice of our Privy Council, deem
it expedient and necessary to prohibit the goods herein-
after mentioned either to be exported or carried coast-
wise ; we, by and with the advice aforesaid, do hereby
order and direct, that from and after the date hereof, all
arms, ammunition and, gunpowder, military and naval
stores, and the following articles, being articles which we
have judged capable of being converted into, or made
useful in increasing the quantity of, military or naval
stores—that is to say, marine engines, screw propellers,
paddle-wheels, cylinders, cranks, shafts, boilers, tubes
for boilers, boiler plates, fire bars, and every article, or
any other component part of an engine or boiler, or any
article whatsoever which is, can, or may become appli-
cable for the manufacture of marine machinery, shall be,
and the same are hereby, prohibited either to be exported
from the United Kingdom or carried coastwise.
Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this 18th
day of February, in the year of our Lord 1854, and in
the 17th year of our reign.—God save the Queen.

CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM.
The general commanding in chief has deemed it essen-
tial that a soldier, when actually in the field, should
carry no more kit in his knapsack than is absolutely
necessary for his efficiency. The remainder is to be
carried in a square bag (four of which will be allowed
to each company), at the public expense. The articles
carried in the knapsack will be :

2 Pair flannel drawers
2 Flannel shirts
2 Pair trousers
2 Shirts
2 Pair socks
1 Pair boots
1 Forage cap
1 Pair mitts
1 Brush
1 Account-book
=
1 Box blacking
1 Towel

lb. oz.
... 2 2
... 2 0
... 1 11i
... 2 1
... 0 9
... 210
... 010
0 2

... o 41
... o lk
... 010
... 0 7,!"
... 0 :II

Total l3 101:
To which must be added, as borne on the man :-
1 Knapsack, &c.
1 Firelock and sling
1 Bayonet and scabbard
Belts and pouch
60 Rounds of ammunition
Great coat ...

lb. oz.
... i 0A
... 10 2
... 1 10A
5 10
ti 10
... 6

Add kit

'J'otal

3 7.-'.
13 10A

40

The square bag to be carried at the public expense
will contain—

1 Shell pocket
1 Shirt
1 Pair of socks
1 Towel
2 Brushes

lb oz.
1 Cq
0 4i
0 3i
0

Total 3 1.0? i,
which, added to the above, will make the total requisite
for each soldier 521 b. 12/oz.
It will be observed this emuneration does not include
either blanket, canteen, or white trousers, the addition
of which would complete an aggregate weight of nearly
701 b.

[PRICE SD.

Company's steamer Orinoco, 2,750 tons, 800-horse
power (paddle) ; and the Australasian Pacific Mail
Packet Company's steamer Emu, 1,660 tons, 350-horse
power (screw). Of these, the Ripon, Manilla, Orinoco,
and Emu are to embark troops and sail on Wednesday.
It is expected the Himalaya will proceed to Plymouth
to take on board 1,300 men from that port, and that she
will leave on Wednesday or Thursday.
Besides the above steamers, there are two others in
port, which have been placed at the disposal of the Ad-
miralty, but are not yet taken up—viz., the Royal mail
steamer Thames, 1,800 tons, 450-horse power; and the
General Screw Company's steamer Propontis, of 500
tons, and 100-horse power. The Royal mail steamer
Atrato, the largest paddle-wheel steamer in the world,
will reach this port, from the Clyde, about Saturday
next, and it is understood has been engaged by the Go-
, vernment. The General Screw Company's steamer
Golden Fleece, of 2,500 tons, and 400-horse power, will
be ready to embark troops from Southampton by the
Ist of March.

Large quantities of baggage, provisions„ military
stores, bedding, blankets, &c., have arrived here to-day
for shipment. On Monday detachments from the several
regiments will come down, charged with the task of
shipping and stowing away all the heavy baggage.
Next in importance to the proper equipment
.of our
naval and military forces, and their speedy direction to-
wards the scene of war, is the necessity for rapid and
regular channels of communication, so that instruc-
tions may instantly be transmitted to our adtnirals
and generals, and intelligence of the progress of events
forwarded in return to the seat of Government. The
present communications between London and Constan-
tinople are extremely unsatisfactory and uncertain,
and are susceptible of great imprOvement; The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company have, as is well known,
two steamers running between Malta and Marseilles
which are the fastest ocean going steamers afloat. We
allude to the Vectis and Valetta, the voyages of which
between Marseilles and Malta have been constantly per-
formed in 40 to 46 hours. If the Government were to
arrange with the Peninsular and Oriental Company to
use these two beautiful packets as despatch boats, to
run direct from Marseilles to Constantinople, without
calling at Malta, we have little doubt the voyages would
be regularly accomplished in four days. Allowing 48
hours for couriers to proceed from London to Marseilles
via Folkestone and Paris, it would be quite possible to
reach Constantinople in six days from London, and very
pressing instructions transmitted from London by sub-
marine telegraph to Marseilles, and conveyed thence by
the Vectis or Valetta, might be placed in Constanti-
nople in little over four days. It is thus quite practi-
cable, by using this route, to arrange for a regular ser-
vice of special couriers between London, Paris, and
Constantinople in six days. The value of such a cer-
tain and speedy method of communicating with the
Black Sea during the approaching war can be scarcely
estimated ; and we have no doubt.that the Peninsular
and Oriental Company would be very willing to lend
their two unrivalled steam clippers to the Government
for this purpose, and to make in the meantime some
temporary arrangements for carrying the branch mail
• service between Malta and Marseilles.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 19.

In anticipation of the immediate arrival of the Channe'
fleet, orders have been sent down by the Admiralty to
the authorities here to communicate with Admiral Corry,
directing him to have the pay books on board each ship
belonging to the fleet made up, with the least possible
delay, to the 31st of January last. Orders have also
been received at the Royal William Victualling-yard at
Stonehouse to prepare for the victualling of the whole of
the ships with provisions for six months, and the supply
of other necessary stores. The different crews will be
" paid down," and in all probability at this port. The
Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain Martin, C. 8., will be
docked at the Keyham steam-yard, to be overhauled and
to have her machinery examined. The Desperate, 8,
screw corvette, Captain W. W. Chambers, one of the fleet
which arrived hers on Friday morning to have a new
mainmast, had her powder taken out on Friday, and yester-
day came into harbour. She was taken alongside the sheer
hulk. She sprang her mainmast, a few days before she left
the Tagus, in an endeavour to assist a Russian merchant-
ship, which had been deserted by her crew. She will be
taken into dock at Keyham to-morrow, to have her
bottom examined and other defects made good. It is
thought that her copper has been slightly injured by
her having touched the ground. The whole of the work
to be done to her will not, it is supposed, occupy more
than four or five days, as every exertion will be made to
get her out of hand. The Desperate will be also pro-
visicined for six months, and will take a sufficient quan-
tity of fuel for that period.
The Magicienne, 16, paddle-wheel steamer, Captain
Fisher, which arrived here on Friday from Ireland,
brought 136 coast-guardmen from the different stations
on the coast of Ireland. They embarked in the after-
noon on board the Impregnable, 104, flag ship, Captai❑
Lowe, which is at present the receiving ship. Seventy-
two coast-guardmen arrived on Friday night by railway
from the eastward, and went on board the flagship,
where are now 560 of these experienced men.
During the last fortnight about 100 school apprentices
have been entered on board the Impregnable, where
they are daily instructed in the duties of the service.
There were previously 70 boys on board, who are ready
to be drafted into sea-going ships. These boys have not
only been instructed in the art of seamanship, but in all
ordinary learning received by boys at school on shore,
and the practice has been found to answer admirably in
every respect. There are altogether about a thousand
souls on hoard the Impregnable.
The Admiralty have directed that lists of those coast-
guards who desire to leave some portion of their pay for
their relatives and friends may be made out without
delay. The maximum which they can so appropriate is
2s. a-day, and the minimum ls. 6d.
The 93d Regiment (Sutherland Highlanders) is daily
exercised in front of the Government-house, Plymouth
Citadel, in the practice of the Mini 6 rifle, with which
the men are to be supplied. The regiment is to be
strengthened with 70 volunteers from the 42d, and 73
from the 79th, both Highland regiments at Portsmouth.
This addition will place it above its strength, 880. On
departure they will leave a depot of two companies,
No. 1 and 2, consisting of about 50 or 60 men, whose
time of service is within a year or two of expiring.
The '2oth Regiment, under Col. Horne, stationed at
Devonport, is eight over its full strength of 1,000 men.

LIVERPOOL, FEE. 18,

The Cunard steamer Niargara, Captain Leitch, will
take her departure from the Mersey, in her now charac-
ter as one of her Majesty's troopships, on Wct;nesday,
with the 28th Regiment, fully 1,000 strong, on board.
She is now in the river, her fittings having been com-
pleted and received the approbation of the Admiralty
agent. On the exciting occasion of the embarkation she
will probably be anchored in the Sloyne, and the troops
will be taken-on board by the Cunard tenders SateHit':
and Jackall, either from the Prince's-pier or the Great
Landing-stage. The greater part of the regiment is now
at Preston, but the troops will enter the town, it is
thought, on Wednesday, when they will, no doubt, re-
ceive an enthusiastic reception.

The Cambria, Captain 'Douglas, will leave Liverpool
for Kingstown on Wednesday, where she will take on
board the 50th Regiment on Thursday, and will sail
thence on Friday. Captain Bevis, R.N., the Admiralty
agent who is superintending the enrolment of naval
volunteers, will accompany the Cambria to Kingstown,
to superintend the embarkation of the troops. Recruit-
ink parties from the following regiments are now actively
engaged in the town :-sth Dragoons, 11th Hussars,
16th Lancers, and the 10th, 24th, 25th, 44th, 51st, 56th,
61st, 65th, 75th, 81st, 83d, 98th, 'and 99th Foot. The
standard height for men has been reduced to five feet
and a-half, while lads of 18 are taken if they reach five
feet five inches. On Saturday evening a troop of Artil-
lery, under the command of Captain Mackey, entered
the town from Dublin en route for London.

MANCHESTER, FEB. 18.
Fifty-six artillery horses were withdrawn from the
Hulme Cavalry Barracks, Manchester, on Thursday,
and went to London per London and North-Western
Railway, to make up the increased complement for
companies under orders for the East.

SOUTH WALES, FEB. 18.
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hcand aaetllall the principal ports volunteers have been en-
rolled. At Newport, Cardiff,
fCoorads,t-Tguenabrd3s picked
called out. The walls have been placarded
with bills calling upon men to join the various ships now
fitting out. Officers on behalf of the Royal Marines
have also been on the look out, a lieutenant having taken
up his residence at Cardiff. The army likewise has re-
ceived a number of recruits. At Bristol a large number
of volunteers for the naval service have been enrolled,
the walls having been placarded for the Pique 40, fitting
at Plymouth, and a number of men have joined

Lagos, while serving as acting-mate of the Penelope
steam-frigate, flag-ship on the west coast of Africa sta.
tion, is appointed Lieutenant of the Excellent ' • Thos.
11. Downes (1838), from the Coast-guard to the..Majestie,
Si, screw steam-ship at Sheerness ; George W. P. Ed-
wardes (1853), recently promoted from mate of the Lin-
net brig, on the west coast of Africa station, to the
Nile, 91, screw steam-ship at Devonport ; John 0.
Freeland (1838), from the Dasher steam-vessel, to the
Neptune, 120, at Portsmouth ; Edward Lang (1842), to
the Neptune ; Charles Sullivan (1844), recently serv-
ing in the St. George, 121, at Devonport, to the Nep-
tune ; Charles 0. H. P. St. John (1846), to the Nep-
tune ; Thomas C. Bruce (1846), from the Enryalus, 50,
screw steam frigate, at Chatham, to the Neptune ; Wil-
liam E. A. Gordon (1842), recently serving as first lieu-
tenant of the Styx, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, on the
Last Indies station, to the St. George, 121, at Devon.
port ; George Marriott (1842), to the St. George ; Wil-
liam A. J. Heath (1844), to the St. George ; William
A. R. Lee (1815), to the St. George; Augustus Cheethatn
Strode (1847), to the St. George; William K. Bush
(1850), to the St. George.
Paymaster John Brickwood (1840), to the St. George.
Mate—Hon. W. C. Talbot (1854), to the Monarch,
84, at Sheerness ; Edward F. Lodder (1851), to the
Edinburgh, 58, screw steam flag-ship of Rcar-Admiral
C h ads, C. 8., at Portsmouth.
Midshipman—Charles H. Stevens, to the Edinburgh,
58, screw steam-ship.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon—Frederick V. Sandford to
the Monarch, 84, at Sheerness.
Clerk—E. S. Cooke (1849), who went with. Captain
Denham in the Herald, surveying vessel, to the Fejee
Islands in the South Seas, to search for a location for
convicts, is appointed to the Impregnable flag-ship at
Devonport.
Clerks'-Assistants—William Carter to the Neptune,
120, at Portsmouth ; A. D. M'Arthur to the Majestic,
81, at Sheerness ; Robert K: Harriot to the Nile, 91,
screw steam-ship, at Devonport.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 19.
The Neptune, 120, at this port, is ordered to be com-
missioned by Captain Henry Smith, C.B. (1829), for sea-
service. She is to have a complement of 970, including
officers and men.

The St. Vincent, 101, three-decker, is ordered to be
commissioned at this port by Captain E. H. Scott, of the
Neptune, for the ordinary Lag-ship, with the usual ordi-
nary complement of officers and men.
The Blenheim, 60, Captain the Hon. F. T. Pelham, is
being completed by the Coast-guard draught while her
crew are on leave for seven days. First-Lieutenant
Wriford, of the Marine Artillery detachment on board,
was disembarked on Thursday. Surgeon Charles A.
Anderson has been appointed to her, vice WLaren,
superseded at his own request.
Coals are ordered to Copenhagen for the Hecla, sur-
veying-vessel, Master-Commander Peter Wellington,
which left this port yesterday week with a large staff of
surveying cfficers to sound the way for the Baltic fleet.
Mr. G. H. Blakey, master, R.N., is appointed to the
Edinburgh, 58. _ _ _

Rear-Admiral Corry's squadron is daily expected here
from the westward. While at sea, on the night of the
26th ult., the squadron exercised at general night quar-
ters, without previous notice of the admiral's intention.
The first gun was fired in three minutes and a-half from
the time of the drums beating the call to action, and at
the end of six minutes every gun in the ships was fired.
On the 28th the squadron had a trial of sailing for
about 14 miles, wind N.E., force 2.103, course S.W.
The Tribune beat all—and the Imperieuse beat all but
the Tribune. On the 7th the squadron was exercised in
shifting topsailyards, which was done most creditably by
every ship, the Amphion being first. The Duke of
Wellington executed this manoauvre in the following
time :—mizentopsailyard in_29.l minutes ; fore 35i mi-
nutes ; main, 53 minutes.
Extra shipwrights were put on the Caesar, 91, Capt.
Robb, yesterday, to hasten her equipment.
The Basilisk, 6, paddle sloop, Commander the Hon.
F. Egerton, left yesterday for the North. She drew
charts for the Baltic, we believe. The Sealark, tender
to the Victory, Lieut. Fenwick in charge, returned yes-
terday from the westward, where she had been to seek
seamen for the fleet. Every exertion is being made to
complete the steam troop-ship Vulcan, Commander Von
Donop ; she is being coabd from the dockyard store ; a
number of carts were engaged in conveying fuel to her
as late as half-past 11 last night, and they commenced
again at half-past 5 this morning, and have been hard at
work ever since.

The Resistance, troop-ship, Master Com. Bradahawe,
is standing in to Spithead from abroad with troops, at
4 p.m.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 18.

Her Majesty's steamship Desperate, 8, Capt. W. W.
Chambers, went up harbour this morning, and had her
mainmast taken out. She is ordered to be got ready
with all despatch.

The crew; of the steam-frigate Vulture, 6, Captain
F. H. H. Glasse, were paid wages to-day up to the 31st
of December. The crews of the Duke of Wellington
(on arrival from Lisbon) and of the Desperate will be
paid up to the same date.
The Avon sailed this morning with seamen for Ports-
mouth.

The Royal William, 120, will be commissioned, on
Monday, by Captain Kingcombe (late of the St. George),
and fitted as guard-ship in ordinary.
The St. George, 121, will be commissioned on Mon-
day by Captain Eyre.
The screw steam-ship Ajax, 58, Captain Warden,
fitting for service at Cork, is nearly ready. The wing
passages between her coal bunkers and the ship's sides
are half completed in their construction. The Hogue
and Blenheim have undergone similar alterations. It
is suggested that the attention of the Admiralty should
be called to the fact that, in the event of a paddle-wheel
ship being penetrated in the coal bunkers by the enemy's
shot, she must run the risk of sinking, as the shot holes
cannot be stopped without clearing away hundreds of
tons of coal. Besides this, the paddle-wheel itself would
prevent the hole from being stopped outside, by ob-
structing any approach to the damaged part. It is to
be hoped that the necessity of gully supplying all com-
missioned ships with patent or other shot plugs will not
be overlooked by the proper authorities.

SHEERNESS, FEB. 18.

The Majestic, 80 guns, screw steam-ship, Captain
Hope—The following officers have this day taken up
their commissions and joined this ship :—Frederick
Brady, paymaster, 19th of January, 1842, and Lieu-
tenant James S. Davison, 21st of September, 1842.
Great exertions are being made to get this ship, the
Cressy, and the Monarch, ready for sea. A number of
artificers are working until 10 o'clock at night to hasten
the completion of the ironwork required for the ship-
wrights engaged in the equipment of the hulls, &c., of
these ships.
The Monarch, 84 guns, Captain John E. Erskine,
getting ready for active service ender orders to join the
Baltic squadron, will shortly be ready for sea. Com-
mander Alexander C. Gordon, 22d of October, 1,85,
and Lieutenant the Hon. William L. H. Anson, have
taken up their commissions to this ship, and joined yes-
terday.
The Janus, I guns, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, arrived
here yesterday at 5.15 p.m., from Woolwich, with the
Marines for the Majestic. The Marines are under the
command of Captain I I erriott. No instructions have
arrived here as to the appropriation of this vessel at
present ; she is therefore under charge of the Captain-
Superintendent Charles hope, of the 'Wellington.
The Wellington, third-rate guard-ship of ordinary,
Captain Charles Hope.—Mr. Albert Wood, late clerk,
has been promoted to the rank of paymaster, and has
taken up his commission as clerk again, in which capacity
he has been serving in the guard-ship of ordinary for
many years at this port. Mr. T. Hockings, paymaster
(Aug. 18, 1843), has taken up his' commission as addi-
tional paymaster to this ship, to take charge of the
victualling stores deposited at this yard for the use of
the navy.
The Cressy, 80, new screw steam-ship, Captain Richard
L. Warren.—This ship is now rigged all-a-taut, topsail
yards crossed, and ready to bend sails ; she remains in
the Basin, receiving her armament, stores, &c., and will
be ready for sea at the time appointed by the Admiralty.
The Royal Dockyard Infantry battalion at this yard
is (by an Admiralty order) abolished, and they are in
future to form one battalion of artillery. Under the
present orders no man is permitted to serve, under any
circumstances, whose age exceeds 45 years. In conse-
quence of this order several of the most experienced
musicians belonging to the band will be rendered inca-
pable of serving. Lieutenant-Colonel Read, commander
of this corps, being on leave of absence, the command
devolves on Major Freeman.
We have this day had a most extraordinary high tide.
At high water the tide had risen to within one course of
stone around the dockyard wharves and wall ; the wind
has been blowing very strong from the northward and
westward, and a considerable quantity of snow has
fallen. We have during the day had several very heavy
squalls of wind, with thick snow showers. The baro-
meter stands at 29.45, and the thermometer at 38 in
the shade ; during the last night the thermometer fell
to 29.0.
.The bark Rosalind, W. Richardson, master, arrived
here this morning, laden with steam coals for the use of
her Majesty's steam navy at this port. An additional
demand has been made for steam coals for the use of
the Baltic fleet squadron, which is to rendezvous‘at the
Nore. The Rosalind will commence her discharge into
the floating depot Fortitude on Monday morning next,
the coal depot Ocean being full of steam ooals and ready
for immediately supplying any steam-ships of war putting
into this port in want of coals.

WOOLWICH, FEB. 16.

The Rhadamanthus, steam store-ship, Master-Com-
mander Belam, arrived at this port yesterday, and was
taken into the basin to-day, and has had a screw put on
board for the Caesar, 91, screw steam-ship at Ports-
mouth ; boilers for the Colossus, 81, screw steam-ship at
Portsmouth, and a funnel and portions of the machinery
of the screw steam-ships at Devonport. The Rhada-
tuanthus, after delivering the mahogany she conveyed
round from Chatham to Pembroke to be used in the
construction of the new Royal steam-yacht Windsor
Castle, proceeded to Cork, where she took on board a
quantity of provisions for conveyance to Deptford, but •
a telegraph communication, sent by the Admiralty to
Sheerness, altered the order, and the Rhadamanthus
landed the provisions at Sheerness, as they are intended
to be put on board the Baltic squadron when the ships
arrive at the Nore. The Rhadamanthus is to be paid
down here on Wednesday next, and will then be ready
to leave for the western ports.
One serjeant, one corporal, and 40 privates of tho
Woolwich division of Royal Marines have been ordered
to hold themselves in readiness top
they will rerrmiroceed to Portsmouth
in charge of Lieutenant Webb, where
at that division until further orders..n