The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-11 00:00:00

A REMARKABLE "P.ROPHECY."

The public journals having lately announced the reli-
gious exactness with which the Emperor of the French,
Napoleon 111., is dispensing the bequests of Napoleon I.
to his old soldiers, and other leiratees, this seems tie suit-
able occasion for recording a passage which I met with
lately, containing a prophecy which, standing above
all suspicion of having been made for the occasion,
appears to me to be perhaps as singular a coincidence of
anticipation with event as history furnishes.
The London Magazine for January, 1823, in the "Ab-
stract of Foreign and Domestic Occurrences," records
the death of Letitia Bonaparte, commonly called " Ma-
dame Mere," with the remark that—" Her last words
were singular, and, as it is not impossible that they may
one day turn out prophetic, we give them a place in our
record for more purposes than mere amusement.
The narrative then goes on to state that the evening
before her death she called together her household, and
one after another gave them her hand to kiss ; and
among the rest—" To Martha Belgrade, her wasting
maid, she said—' Go to Jerome, he will take care of
thee ; when my grandson is Emperor of France, he will
make thee a great woman.'
She then called Colonel Darley to her bedside. He
had attended her in all her fortunes, and, in Napoleon's
will was assigned to have a donation of 14,0001. "'You,
said she, have been a good friend to me and my family.
I have left you what will make you happy. Never for-
get my grand-son. And what he and you may arrive
at is beyond my discerning—but you will both be
great.' "
When she had dismissed her servants, she then de-
clared that she had done with this world, and demanded
some water, in which she washed her hands :
" Her attendants found her dead, with her hand under
her head, and a prayer-book on her breast."
So far a narrative to which events have given a cha-
racter of mysterious significance. It would be desirable
to ascertain if any of the parties indicated in it, besides
Napoleon 111., still survive ; and one would like to
know if their faith in the prediction stood the shocks
of the last 30 years : for Louis Napoleon himself, it is
well known that, through all the improbabilities of
the case—through the ludicrous failure at Boulogne—
the desperate attempt at Strasburg—and the dreary
captivity of Ham—he always held, and avowed his
own belief, that he had a yet unfulfilled mission to ac-
complish.—From. "Notes and Queries."

THE .NATIONAL BALANCE-SHEET.

From the Daily News.
We are now in possession of the Revenue Returns
for the quarter and the year ending yesterday, the
10th of October. The document itself is given in
another column, and fully confirms the anticipatory
statement we made on the 27th ult. The details, in
fact, show even more vigorous life in the national
resources than we had reason to hope for.

fortnight later, as 54,439,2511. This is another example
of old slovenliness, or old mystification, now happily got
rid of.
The present returns are also made more complete
by exhibiting in the third table all the heads of ex-
pense. Till now the sums appropriated by Parlia-
ment to the payment of other nubile services than
those charged . permanently on the Consolidated
Fund were omitted. No account was rendered in
the quarterly returns of the money applied to sup-
ply services, and after stating the permanent charges
on the 'consolidated fund, there appeared an item
called "surplus," no less than 6,164,5311., and might
make the the public fairly fancy that a huge sum was
annually misappropriated. The balance-sheet published
generally a fortnight after the revenue returns, explained
the circumstance, but only by one public account flatly
contradicting Ole other. The present accounts, includ-
ing the total revenue, also include the total expense,
and, so far as we know, nothing is kept in reserve ; a
complete debtor and creditor statement of all public
monies received in the quarter, and of the appropriation
of the same." We are not inclined•to compliment pub-
lic men for their zeal in introducing improvements. It
cannot, in fact, be too continually impressed on the
multitude, not being public men, that almost all
improvements originate outside the sphere of the
Government, which, being Conservative, or at-
tached by nature to the past, is always in hos-
tility to change, and always slow to adopt, in
its administration of affairs, the improvements made by
society at large. We have no doubt, therefore, that the
authors of,the present change have net been educated in
the Government offices, and that they have met with
great opposition even in procuring the adoption •i the
•bvious and just improvements now made. Knowing
what they had to contend against, we look with much
satisfaction, and some admiration, on the zeal and cou-
rage of those who have overcome the vis inertice of the
subalterns of the Exchequer. It is a great improvement,
too, that the returns are now printe I, and the Govern-
ment has considerately sent two printei copies to each
journal, in place of the old pen-and•ink statement, the
blunders of which we had occasion more than once to
expose.

The Revenue for the quarter shows a net increase
of 550,188/. ; and for the year, 16,5801. The increase
in the Quarter is made up of Excise, 354,9121. ;
Stamps, 12,096/. ; Property tax, 569,686/. ; Poet-office,
109,000 ; Crown lands, 11,5721. ; total, 1,056,2661.
Against this we have to setoff a decrease in the Customs
of 140,1071. ; in the Taxes, of 12,5391. ; in Miscellane-
ous, of 20,411. ; of Imprest and other Moneys,
15,5431. ; of Repayments of Advances, 307,1481. ;
total, 506,078/. ; leaving a net increase of 550,1881. in
the quarter.
In the Year the increase in the Excise is 128,1631.
in the Property-tax, 1,351,241/. ; in the Post-office,
999,0001. ; in the Imprest and other monies, 25,4231. ;
total, 1,803,8271. Against this we must set off the
decrease, in the Customs, 839,255/. ; in the Stamps,
68,148/. ; in the Taxes, 16,4451. ; in Crown Lauds,
131,3161. ; Miscellaneous, 36,143/. ; Re-payments of
Advance, 695,940/. ; total, 1,787,2471. ; leaving a net
increase of 16,580/. in the year.
Both on the quarter and on the year it will be
notioed that there is a great decrease in the repay-
ments of advances, deducting which, and deducting
the imprest monies, the total increase of the ordi-
nary revenue was in the quarter 872,8791., and in the
year, 687,0971. It will also be seen that the principal
increase in the quarter and in the year is in the
Excise, in the Property Tax, and the Post-office, and
the principal decrease is in the Customs. Our readers
will recollect thrt in '1853 the Property Tax was ex-
tended ; in 1854 the rate was raised, but none of the
produce'of the increased rate, which only begins to be
due now, comes into the present returns, and the great
sum of 1,351,2411., the increase in the year, is wholly
the result of the extension of the tax in 1853 and of the (Front the Times.)
Succession Tax then imposed. It was estimated to The Revenue accounts for the quarter ending yester-
yield 750,0001., and the produce therefore exceeds ex- day have been published in a 'completer and more sensi-
pectation ble form than those we have hitherto had to deal with.
As to the increase in the excise, the new spirit duties To the Submarine Telegraph, which will enable the
were in full operation in the quarters both of 1853 and Treasury to know the -state of the Irish revenue to as
1854, and all other duties were in both alike. The in- late a date as that for this island, and also, we must
crease in the year and the quarter of the cise revenue is add, to the light of common sense now adMitted into
a gratifying proof of the increasing power of consump- these matters, we are indebted for the novelty that the
tion on the part of the people. The Post-office, ofwhich return of the Revenue, which has hitherto been confined
the service has been continually extended, and which to Great Britain, is to-day a complete account of the
has become more expensive, and of which the servants net revenue of the United Kingdom. The partial cha'
have been better paid, bears the same testimony. There Teeter of the return has always been felt to be a great
is no part of the revenue the increase of which is a surer imperfection, and even discreditable to a Government
sign of the activity and of the enjoyments of the people. which professes to keep the nation thoroughly and con-
stantly acquainted with the public accounts. This de-
The only diminution of income is—as we have seen— fect is now removed. Another novelty is introduced,
in the Customs. The reduction of 4d, per lb. on tea opera-
ting for half a year, on a consumption of 60,000,0001b5. which, though only a matter of form, is very conve-
will account for 500,0001. in the revenue of the year, nient. The only comparison hitherto made has been
and for 250,0001. in the revenue of the quarter. Then that of quarter with quarter, and year with year. A
there has been abolished in the present year a number fairer and more important period of comparison is added
of small customs duties, all of which gave something in the return before us—viz., the six months of the
to the revenue. A. disease in the grapes and currants financial year from its commencement up to the date of
has led to a diminution in the consumption of wine, the return. The third and last alteration relates to that
spirits, and dried fruits. The war has enhanced the mysterious document, which but few of our readers, we
price •of tallow, and led to a diminished consumption, are well assured, have hitherto possessed the confidence
its place being supplied by oils, which pay no duty. ev the hardihood to approach—viz., the table hitherto
Fund,"
Last year also the condition of our own harvests led appended to the revenue return, andurorting to tell
to very large imports of grain in the quarter, while an us "the income and charge of the Consolidated
excellent harvest this year has checked the import— as compared with that of the previous corresponding
these circumstances making in the quarter a difference quarter. A. new style and title has 'been adopted, or,
intro-
duced, ender the title, "An Account showing the Net
in the duties collected on grain of nearly 90,0001. We rather, a new form of return altogether has been intro-
it_
ben
_ and_ other Receipts of the Quarter ended Octoe-
anticipated a greater reduction in the Customs revenue
1_854 ;
f r
tineo methe
cocoa,dis t u rsbuagnacre,
tea,of war,t
itimber,
butber, the
ttobacco-
bi
anecer
()teal csopnesaukmi
speaking
the application of the same, and th
°
of the well-being of the people—have kept up this arge of the Consolidated Fund for the said quarter,
together with the surplus or deficiency upon such
branch of the revenue, charge." In fact, it is a " and creditor
The difference in the yielel of the stamp duties andarge. complete debtor
statement of all b•pu he moneys received in the quarter,
of the taxes, both in the quarter and the year, is too
and
of the
small to merit attention ; but the diminution in the
There appropriation of the same."
former may be in part due to the agitation which the is a net increase of 550,188/. on the quarter,
subject has lately undergone, which has checked per- 16,580/. on the year, and 77,897/. on the last six
sons from buying stamps in advance to the customary months, as compared with the previous corresponding
extent. periods. In all these cases the increase would be much
The Expenditure of the quarter, it will be seen, more but for the very great decrease in the repayments
amounts to 20,906,9951. This includes a sum of of advances. The Customs of the quarter are less by
3,148,0911. of deficiency bills for the preceding quarter, 150,1071. than in the corresponding quarter last year.
part of which went to supply revenue that had been al). There has been so great a falling off in the importation
plied to pay off debts, and the amonnt to be issued in of corn, owing chiefly to our own excellent harvest that
the ensuing quarter is 2,460,5821., or 687,5121. less in the very moderate duties still levied on it there is a
than the quarter just expired. decrease of 95,0001. -The diminished duty on tea is
The Income of the quarter, including 2,324,7621. as answerable for 190,000/., while there is a fall of 10,0001.
instalments from Exchequer Bonds, is actually in the duty on tobacco, and 55,0001. in the duty on wine.
18,446,413/. If in future quarters the expense of our These losses are counterbalanced to some extent by an
military armaments does not exceed the present expense, increase of 184,0001. in the receipts from sugar, and
the increasing revenue we may expectfrom the increased 50,0001. from brandy and rum. On the whole six
rate of the property tax, and the increasing sum which months of the financial year there has been a decrease
will be yielded by the succession tax, will go far to pay in the receipts from corn, currants, and
tea, raisins, rum,
•
all our increased expenses. and w• , and an increase from sugar-and tobacco.
We must say a few words about the very much The result is a decrease of about half a million in the
improved form of the accounts. The old form was Customs for the half-year.
not merely incomplete, it was perplexed and mis- In the Excise the quarter shows an increase amount-
leading. Referring to the last return for the illus- ing to 344,912/. This is chiefly owing to greater re-
tration,.it will be seen that the revenue for the Cus- ceipts in malt, counterbalanced by a falling -off in the
toms in the quarter ending July 5, 1854, is stated spirit duties. On the whole year an increase of 601,0001.
twice over and differently—in the first table as on malt, and greater receipts from licenses, paper, post-
-4,575,8431.. and in the second as 4,597,8021. So horse duties, and spirits, have been largely connterba-
with the Excise ; in one it is 3,624,0081., in the other Lanced by the duty on
soap. It' be observed that
3,633,7991. Thus in the second table the amount of there is no variation worth notice in the revenue from
the revenue of the Customs and Excise for every quarter Stamps. On the whole year there has been a decrease of
was stated differently from the amount in the first table ;. 160,000/, from advertisements, 20,0001. from newspaper
and this-was the more perplexing, inasmuch as the other supplementss,and 40,0001. from attorneys' certificates,is
r
item of the two accounts were the same, except -that in while from fire insurances, legacy duties, and receipt
the one the imprest and other monies were mingled with stamps there is an increase amounting to 155,0001.
the produce of old store, and separated in the other. The slight variation in the item of "Taxes" is ascribed
In every quarter's return there were these manifest con- to the redemption of the land tax, the proceeds of which
tradictions, occasioned by some payments made from the are paid over to the National Debt Commissioners.
revenue in the course of collection being excluded from But, perhaps, the most interesting figures of the return
the first table and included in the second. This is now are those of the property-tax, on the one hand as the
remedied, and the Customs and Excise revenue for the main sinew of war, on the other as the particular
quarter is put down at the same sums in both the first impost on which the bulk of our readers are probably
and the third tables, and constitutes an essential im. most sensitive. Those figures represent MI increase of
provement. 569,686/. on the quarter, 1,351,241/. on the year, and
Then the present returns are made more complete by 854,7901. on the first six months of the financial year.
including Ireland. The late form must have been We have been favoured with an explanation of these
adopted when the two countries had different Ex- figures, giving the following results :—The additional
chequers, and till we had rails and telegraphs there duty of 5(1. has produced about 140,0001. in the quarter,
might have been a plausible justification for not pub- and 280,0001. in the year. The extension of the duty
lishing in London on the 10th of October the revenue to Ireland has produced about 126,0001. in the quarter,
which had accrued in Ireland to that day, Now 496,000/. in the year, and 370,000/. in the half-year.
there can be no pretext for any delay ; and only the , The double duty, as yet paid only on dividends and pub-
slowness of the Civil Service to recognise and adopt lie salaries, has produced 267,0001. The rest of the in-
the improvements made by practical men of business, crease in the Property-tax is referred to improved assess-
can
explain the facts that the accounts of the national ments. The only other increase that calls for remark is
revenue have been published every quarter to the last certainly remarkable. The Post-office exhibits an ills-
-sth July, and have excluded the revenue of Ireland. provement of 108,000/. in the quarter, and still more in
henceforth this, to the amount of about 4,000,0001., proportion for the first six months of the financial year.
viii 1r,3 :iicityled in the gearterty returns, and tho public We will not weary the- public with fr.. 11 cougratula-
will not be puzzled to conjecture why the national in- tions on the financial condition this table discloses. Its
come should appear, as published on July 5, as true character cannot be understood without much exa-
-51,185,0731., and as published in the balance-sheet, a ruination, and the net totals aro the result of taxes rem

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25.081, it follows that gold is about 0.04 per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg,
the price of gold is 4241 per mark, which, at the English
Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exchange of 13.4; ; and, the exchange at Ham-
burg on London at short being 13,41, it follows that
gold is 0.06 per cent. dearer in London than in Ham-
burg. The course of exchange at New York on London
for bills at 60 days' sight is 110 per cent., and, the par
of Exchange between England and America being
109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nomi-
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making allowance for charges of transport and difference
of interest, the present rate leaves a profit on the impor-
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lII.—Au Account showing the Net Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended 10th October, 1851; the Application of the same, and the Charge of the
Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Surplus or Deficiency upon such Charge.
•
Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended £ Amount applied out of the Net income for the Quarter ended October 10, 1854, to £
July 5, 1854, viz.: redemption of Exchequer Rills (Deficiency) for the Quarter ended July 5, 1854,
exclusive of £881,196, the surplus charged to the Sinking Funl for the said Quarter,
Great Britain £ similarly applied 3,148,694
Amount applied to pay off Excheiper Bills (Ways and Means) issued in the Quarter
Ireland
166,555 Amount applied to Supply Services in the Quarter ended October 10, 1854 :
Out of the Consolidated Fund £6,106,975
Out of Exchequer Bonds
-
Balance of Instalments of Exchequer Bonds appropriated by Parliament to Supply
85,000 Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended October 10, 1854, viz.:—
8,505,140
Services, remaining unissued on July 5, 1854
Permanent Debt £5,846,194
Income received in the Quarter ended October 10, 1854, as shown in Account I. .... 15,870,096 • Terminable Annuities 1,365,884
Interest on Deficiency Bills
Instalments received in the Quarter ending October 10, 1854, for Exchequer Bonds issued 2,324,762 Sinking Fund
The Civil List
Amount of Exchequer Bills (Supply) issued in the Quarter ending October 10, 1854 .... Nil. Other Charges on Consolidated Fund
Advances for Public Works, &c. ••••.. .. . ... .
18,446,413 8,607,801
Balance of Instalments of Exchequer Bonds appropriated by Parliament to Supply
Services, remaining unissued on October 10, 1851 . +. 10,597
Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter enaed
Balance, being the deficiency upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund in Great Britain,
amount which Exchequer Bi is (D, ficiency) will be issued, but reducible by the Cctober id), 1854, viz.
Great Britain .... • • .... • • ...... •• •• .. •• •• ......... •• ••• •.X • ...
at of the Sinking Fund (£264,6 i 0) included in the said Charge, to the • Ireland •,.........,..„,„ ............ ............. 134,363
stun of £2,195,912. 2,460,582 -------- 134,363_
20,906,995 20,906,595

moved, taxes reimposed,,consumption and importation
rising and falling as may be. If we are among► the fore-
most to proclaim the remission of a tax, a welcome boon
to the country, we cannot in consistency pretend that
the imposition or increase of a tax is an indifferent affair.
No. It must be admitted that we have lately taken
hold steps in the taxation of the higher and middle
classes, for that which, in the shape of indirect taxation,
used to fall on the people at large. But, whatever
drawbacks there may be in the method, it is, at all
events, very clear that we are able to keep up the re-
venue, and probably to pay out of it the expenses of the
war, without retracing our steps in that course of com-
mercial emancipation which has brought us to our
present pitch of prosperity. To that prosperity we owe
our revenue, and to that revenue we owe that we
can carry on a war unparalleled in the distance
and magnitude of its operations, without adding to the
debt or even to the general taxation of the country.
The table before us is the record of a financial victory
not less formidable to the enemies of this country than
that recently won by the valour of our soldiers and the
skill of their chiefs. We have before us the assurance
that in the industry of this country, and its great natu-
ral resources, there will ever be found the means of
maintaining our fleets and our army in any cause we
may thick proper to embrace ; and the history of this
nation leaves no reason to doubt that when we are once
compelled to undertake a cause we shall not be in a hurry
to lay it down.

THE ADMIRALTY KISSING THE TOE
THAT KICKS TIIE3I.

( From she Daily News. )
Yesterday evening two despatches from Lord Raglan
were, by order of the War Minister, the Duke of New-
castle, published in the London Gazette. Yesterday fore-
noon two despatches from Admiral Dundas, and one
from Vice-Admiral Boxer, were, by order of the Admi-
ralty, published in a third edition of a daily paper. By
thus giving the journal in. question a priority in the an-
nouncement of public news—news about public affairs
obtained at the public cost—the Admiialty have jobbed
away what has been procured by the expenditure of the
people's money. Perhaps we shall be told that it was
intended to communicate the despatches to all the morn-
ing papers, and that to this end the journal in question
was instructed to impart the news to the rest. But the
Admiralty must knowl—and does know, for the subject
has been mentioned more than once—that such commu-
nication of the despatches to all papers alike could only
be effected by first putting the documents in type, and
then sending " slips" of them to the other newspapers.
In this case the despatches got into type and into circu-
lation—as it was known they would do. In fact, the
third edition of the journal in question was sent to the
City, and the " slips" of the despatches to the other offices
at the same time. The cause of this favouritism is
obvious : it has its origin not in love, but in unmanly
cowardice. On Saturday the journal we refer to at-
tacked the Foreign and War-offices, for publishing Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe's despatch in a Gazette, instead
of sending it to a newspaper. On Monday this blow
was feliowed up by an onslaught on all the Ministers
who aro out of town, and by a superadded fawning,
hypocritical, calumnious inuendo, against her Majesty
herself. This bullying has had its effect upon the de-
partment confided to Sir J. Graham, which seeks to buy
off the wrath of this journalist by supplying him with
early intelligence at the public expense ! It is neither
more nor less than bribery out of the public money for
libelling the Queen. Nor perhaps is this the meanest
feature in the case. In the paper thus propitiated, Ad-
miral Dundas was yesterday directly accused of sloth,
cowardice, and incapacity. Was the favour shown by
Sir James Graham's department meant to repay this
service—this libel on Admiral Dundas I The Knight of
Netherby has ere now dealt backhanded blows to former
friends, and it may be worth while—when space permits
—to call some of these traits to light again as illustra-
tions of the spirit and way in which Sir J. Graham's
department seem now prepared to use the public de-
spatches entrusted to them.
The Duke of Newcastle, greatly to his honour, has
placed the news of the war at the earliest possible mo-
ment before the whole public, through the London Ga-
zette, or by rapid communications to all journals alike ;
just as an upright Minister ought to do. The Admiralty
has followed the old corrupt plan of sending public news
through one channel—" for reasons best known" to
these guilty of this gross abuse of their public position.
The plan of the Duke of Newcastle ought to be followed
by all public departments, and if the Cabinet are wise
they will take this matter into their special consideration
with a view to the correction of the abuse we point out.

From the Morning Chronicle.
We regret to have to complain that the Admiralty
have yet to learn that simple rule of justice and fair
dealing, in its communication of important documents to
the public press, which has been so honourably adopted
by the War Department. While the Minister of War
—acting on the broad and plain piinciple that public
despatches belong to the nation, and not to a
particular newspaper—gives copies of all such docu-
ments simultaneously to all the metropolitan daily
journals, the Admiralty systematically selects one
of our contemporaries as the sole recipient of its com-
munications. All despatches given to the public by that
department are sent exclusively to one journal ; and
though it is understood that, as soon as they are in type,
slips shall be transmitted by the journal so favoured to
its contemporaries, it will readily be perceived that the
time necessarily occupied in printing the documents
gives a most unfair advantage to the newspaper thus
singled out for the private whim of a Government
officer. Some recent Arctic despatches were, in this
manner,l made, during an entire day, the private pro-
perty of one journal ; and the important despatches from
Admiral Dundas, which we published yesterday in a
Third Edition, were, as usual, given exclusively, in the
first instance, to the same journal, to be communicated,
at its leisure, to ourselves and our other contempora-
ries. We shall never cease to denounce this pitiful sys-
tem of favouritism or unfairness ; and should it be con-
tinued, the Parliamentary representatives of the Admi-
ralty may find themselves called upon to explain to the
House of Commons by what right they employ the ma-
chinery of a Government department in promoting the
private interests of particular newspapers.

MOUSTACHES FOR THE MARINES.—The following
memorandum has just been issued :—" Royal Ma-
rine Office, October 3, 1854.—The Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty having had under consi-
deration the circular memorandum from the Horse
Guards, dated July 21, 1854, notifying her Ma-
jesty's permission to the army to wear the mou-
stache, are pleased to extend this permission to the
corps of Royal Marines, whether on shore or afloat, from
the desire that there shall be no distinction between the
British soldier aad the marine, who are constantly joined
in the syne service and share the same . honours .and
'dangers. Tue colonels commandant will therefore sig-
nify the pleasure of their lordships to their respective
divisions accordingly.—Siugun R. WESLEY, A A G
Tho Colonole Commandant Ito* Marip)o.7,

'lt is now understood that the Pelter, light draught of
water screw steam gun-boat, and the others of her class,
when completed, will not be commissioned, brit they will
be appointed as tenders to line-of-battle men-of-war sailing
vessels for their protection, and to assist in bringing them
into action when necessary. The workmen are actively
employed, and work until 11 o'clock at night on board the
Pelter to have her ready for sea with all despatch, and
when ready she will be a most appropriate tender to send
with .the Royal Albert, 121, screw steam-ship, to the Black
Sea.

DEPARTURE OF THE BEAGLE FOR SEBASTOPOL.

Yesterday advices were received that her Majesty's
steam despatch gun-boat Beagle, armed with Lancaster's
oval guns, having a range of 4,000 yards, had arrived at
Constantinople on the 29th of September, and immedi-
ately proceeded to join the fleet off Sebastopol.