The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 12. 1854.

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CITY, TWO o'CLOCK,

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,500 American
taken for export and on speculation. The market
closed firmly, and prices of all kinds fully sup-
ported. The sales comprised 5,500 American, 100
Pernam and Maranham at 61d. to sid., 250 Bahia
at sid., 300 Egyptian at 6d. to Bd., and 800 Surat
at 3d. to 3id. per lb. Railway shares were dull.
Colonial produce has been quiet this week.
Business in sugar has been checked, in consequence
of Mr. Gladstone's proposals. Coffee has been in-
active, and tea firm. Tallow is lower, on account
of there being a prospect of getting a portion of
this year's supply from Russia overland. Rice has
tended upwards. Rum is firm, and saltpetre at
fuller rates. _ _ _

The public sales of colonial and foreign wool have
commenced, about 37,000 bales of the first-named
having to be offered. The attendance of buyers
has been good, but the prices rule id. to ld. per
lb. lower than at the last auctions.

The report of the Mexican Bondholders' Com-
mittee, to be presented to the general meeting next
Monday, is encouraging in some respects, notwith-
standing past arrears and shortcomings on the part
of the Mexican Government. The passing of the
Gadsden treaty by the United States Senate, must
stimulate the creditors to vigorous exertion in at-
tempting to obtain a portion of the indemnity
money, we have the assurance of the committee
that $3,000,000 would liquidate the unpaid divi-
dends, and provide for that which will be due next
January. The report states :

"The Mexican Agency in London has appropriated,
under instructions from its Government, from the divi-
dend fund here 6,0831. ss. 3d., being charges on a loan
for the payment of the first dividend.
" The appropriations which can be specified, amount,
therefore, to about a half-yearly dividend, and the list is
far from being complete. •
"The result of the statement in the sixth paragraph is,
that the dividend fund has an available balance of
50,2011. Bs. 10d., to which will have to be added the
eventual balance on Messrs. Jecker, Torre, and Co.'s
account, which may be estimated at 15,0001.
"On the other hand, three half-yearly dividends are
overdue, viz.: those of the Ist January and Ist July,
1853, and of the Ist January, 1854, amounting together
to 460,8741., and a fourth will due in six weeks hence,
on the Ist July next, requiring 153,6251. more.
" Now, at the present price of silver, little more
than 2,900,000 dollars would be required to pay the
whole four without touching the dividend fund, and
that, being thus allowed to accumulate, would ensure
the punctual payment also of a fifth dividend, due on
the Ist January, 1855. At the cost of 2,900,000
dollars, the Mexican Government would thus be
able to perform a great act of justice, which
could not fail to make an immense sensation in favor of
its present distinguished head, and being thereby re-
lieved from all care about the foreign debt till towards
the middle of next year, it would gain sufficient time to
secure, by the establishment of the projected National
Bank, or other equivalent financial arrangements, the
more punctual payment of future dividends, and with it
the complete re-establishment of Mexican credit in
Europe. It is impossible that an object of equal mag-
nitude and importance to the nation could be attained
at a less cost out of the means which it is supposed
that the treaty with the United States of North Ame-
rica, referred to in the fifth paragraph of this section,
will place at the disposal of the Government.
"Apart, however, from the expectations raised by the
Mexican treaty with the United States of North America,
the bondholders have mainly to depend upon the
revenue assigned to the foreign debt in Mexico, by the
decree of the 14th October, 1850. Your committee have,
therefore, been continuously endeavouring to obtain a clear
view of the annual produce of this assignment, butfor want
of complete accounts, as yet in vain. From the Appendix,
No. 7, Lr. g. p. 37, it will be seen that the remittances
from Mexico to the dividend fund since the beginning of
1851, have averaged only about 805,000 dols. annually,
but it will also have been seen in the preceding seventh
paragraph, that the whole produce has not been duly
remitted. If it had, -the remittances would probably
have reached an average of 1,100,000 dols. per annum,
which alone would have provided for a dividend of 14
per cent, every seven or eight months. Your committee
have, moreover, reason to suppose, that the President's
intimation of the improvement of the revenue is perfectly
correct, and that the produce of that portion which is
assigned to the foreign debt, partakes in it."

Now time is afforded for a consideration of the
measure adopted by the Bank of England in ad-
vancing the rate of discount, the opinion of the
mercantile community can be better elicited, and
it would certainly appear that the advance was
not so generally expected as a fortnight since, for the
reason that the Bank of France yesterday lowered
its rate to 4 per cent., that the foreign exchanges
have this week been rather more favourable, and
that corn has declined. There may, howevei, be
other reasons to actuate the Bank, however open
to suspicion its conduct appears in reference to the
project of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for his
ihsue of bonds. He has obtained his first two mil-

lions, and, as we presume, will not be likely to get
much more, until the money market grows
easier again. The question to be answered is
whether it will be likely to get easier under the
present measure. The higher value of money may
certainly check shipments of bullion and attract it
from abroad, in which case there would be a change
for the better; but a preliminary process involving
some pressure has to be gone through ere we arrive
at this. Perhaps the rumour that France is about
to make a new loan, and the fact that Austria has
contracted one, may have had its weight, and the
Bank possibly found itself called upon this week
by parties who were preparing to ship specie again.
There has been a very quiet market for English
stocks after the excitement of yesterday, but some
recovery from the depression which then occurred
is to be noted. Consols have been 871 to 88, both
for money and June, neither " backwardation" nor
" contango" any longer existing. Exchequer Bills
have been 2s. dis. to 2s. prem., and India Bonds 10s.
to 11s. dis. East India Stock has been heavy at
233. Nothing has been done in Bank Stock.
The Foreign Securities have been very dull,
with a want of buoyancy. Mexican are 24 to I,
and Peruvian 60. Russian 4i per Cents. have
realised 801 to 81±, and Dutc2l per Cents. 58.
Spanish 3 per Cents. have been at 37.
The Railway Share Market has been flat for the
English lines, but without many sales. The French
shares are up ss. to 10s. in some instances, owing
to the advance at Paris.

Gold Mine shares are dull, Banks dull, and
Land Companies' higher.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES,
( Prom the Official Lint. )

Rumness done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B7 6k + 7
3 per Cent Consols Annuities B7/ 8
New 31 per Cent. Annuities B7i i 8 7/ 8
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Stock 233 5
India Bonds, £lOOO .
,Ditto, under 21000 7 11 15 d
Console for Account Cth June B7+ 8 7+
Exchequer Bills, 2d.
£lOOO
small
Exchequer Bonds Scrip

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent... ............. 101
v,exican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 6O
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St —
Dia) 4i per Cent Bl4 80.4 1
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 37 6i

Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil..„, 58
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .....

L EST FOREIGN :NEWS,

E WA iL

THE BOMBARDMENT OF ODESSA.
DESPATCHES OF THE FRENCH ADMIRAL
AND OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE FURIOUS.

The Moniteur of yesterday evening publishes,
the official report of Vice-Admiral Hamelin, Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Black Sea squadron, of the
bombardment and destruction of the military port
of Odessa. Subjoined is the report, together with
the principal documents accompanying it :
" Ville de Paris, Odessa Roads, April 24.

" Monsieur le Ministre,—As I had the honour to
inform your Excellency by my telegraphic despatch of
the 16th of April instant, the two squadrons proceeded
from Kavarna to Odessa to exact reparation from the
authorities of that town on the subject of the unheard-
of aggression committed by the batteries of the port
against an English frigate and boat bearing a flag of
truce.

" After a good passage of three days, our vessels an•
chored on April 20, three miles to the east of Odessa,
whose roads, on account of the little elbow room they
offer, are not very accessible to squadrons•

"On April2l, Admiral Dundal received, by an Eng-
lish steam-frigate on the look out for him, a letter dated
the 14th, addressed to him by General Baron d'Osten-
Sacken, aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas, and
Governor-General of Odessa. This letter is annexed
(Enclosure No. 1).

" In casting your eyes over this letter, your Excel-
lency will see that this general officer adopted for his
defence a system of denial, at variance with all we had
learned, not only from the mouth of the captain and
officers of the frigate fired upon (see enclosure No. 2
annxed), but also from the captains of the merchantmen
moored in the Odessa roads. It only remained for us,
therefore, to summon Governor Osten-Sacken categori-
cally to give us, within a few hours, reparation for the
proceedings he had adopted towards a vessel belonging
to the combined squadron. Annexed (Enclosure No.
3) is the joint letter which Admiral Dundas and I sent
to this general officer en April 21, in the form of an
ultimatum.

" We had then to prepare for the eventuality of an
attack to be commenced the next morning, April 22,
against the Imperial port of Odessa and all it contained,
in case our ultimatum should remain unanswered at
sunset.

" We could have no thought of doing the least harm
either to the town of Odessa or its commercial port,
swarming with ships of all maritime nations.
" The delegate of the Emperor of Russia was alone
guilty of an outrage on the law of nations ; it was
therefore the Imperial port alone, the warehouses and
ships which it contained, and the batteries which pro-
tected them, that Admiral Dundas and I resolved to
attack and destroy.
" To accomplish this result we thought it best to em-
ploy steamers only, and in particular five English
frigates, and the three French steam-frigates, which for
the moment were left me, after, by Government orders,
the other steam-frigates of our squadron were employed
in transporting troops between Algeria and Gallipoli.
" In the evening of April 21, General d'Osten Sacken
having made no answer to our summons, the attack was
resolved upon for the next morning. Pursuant to com-
binations adopted by Admiral Dundas and myself in
concert, the two French frigates le Vauban, Captain
d'Herbinghen ; le Descartes. Captain Darrican ; toge-
ther with the two English frigates Tiger, Capt. Giffard,
and Sampson, Captain Jones, the senior of this division,
arrived 'at half-past six in the morning, within nine
or ten cables distance, before the battery of the
Imperial port, which received them with a first
cannon-shot ; the frigates briskly replied, but the calibre
of our guns being larger than that of the enemy's bat-
teries, our shots were more true than theirs. While
this first engagement was going on, the Engiish ship of
the line Sanspareil, with the steam corvette Highflyer,
moored at the extreme limit of gun-shot from the bat-
teries, not to take part in the fight, but to serve in case
of need as a point d'appui to the frigates engaged. At
the same time the French steam frigate le Mogador,
Captain de Wailly, the English steam frigate Terrible,
Captain M'Cleverty, the Furious, Capt. Loring, and the
Retribution, Captain Drummond, the senior officer, ap-
proached the scene of action, to take part in it as soon
as the Admiral should make the signal.
" When the firing had continued for an hour and a
half, the Vauban received three red-hot shots, one of
which broke some spokes of her paddle-wheels, and the
others set fire to her windward side ; the pumps were
had recourse to to extinguish the fire, but in vain ; one
of the red-hot cannon balls had penetrated the outer
coating of her timbers, and was slowly burning in-
ternally.
" Captain Count Bouet-Willaumez, head of the staff
of the squadron, whom I had ordered to remain on board
the Caton to watch all the phases of the affair on the
spot, and take measures for cases of urgency, then went
on board the Vauban, and ordered the commander of
that frigate to quit the theatre of action for a time, and
join the squadrons to receive the necessary assistance.
" A little while afterwards the second division of four
steam-frigates received orders to support the three others
first engaged, and towards half-past 10 they began to
execute these orders with vigour. The shells from the
seven frigates fall like hail upon the battery of the Im-
perial port, and the warehouses and ships it contains.
Very serious symptoms of a conflagration begin to show
themselves already. Batteries established on the Odessa
heights join their fire to that of the guns of the Imperial
port. Not far from the frigate six English shallops near
the port on the north-west quarter of the mole, where
the enemy has no guns, and throw a great number of
Congreve rockets, which appear to produce a very good
effect.

" It is noon, the Vauban, having extinguished the
fire, has just left the squadron to rejoin the other French
and English frigates which rival each other in ardour
and the excellence of their fire. The French steam
corvette Caton, Captain Pothuan, joins them in firing
for a while.

" At one o'clock the warehouses and barracks of the
Imperial port are all in flames. The burning roofs fall
in. Almost at the same moment the powder magazine
on the port battery blows up to cries of Vivel'Ern-
pereur' by the French crews, accompanied by the
'Hurrahs' of the English sailors.
"The work of destruction of the Imperial port goes
on rapidly under the redoubled blows from the frigates,
which take advantage of the confusion produced on land
by the blowing up of the powder magazine to advance
two cables' length nearer the shore, the better to de-
stroy some 15 Russian ships ensconced in the harbour.
While they thus advance nearer to the batteries of the
commercial port, these batteries, which had ceased firing
for an instant, recommence pretty smarty, and are sup-
ported by mortars on the heights ; but the frigates,
nevertheless, do not slacken their work of destruction,
and emulate each other in the accuracy of their evolu-
tions and firing, sometimes fighting at anchor, and some-
times while in motion. In that small space, continually
becoming smaller still, where nine steamers are ma-
noeuvring, not a false movement is to be observed. Some
of the frigates change the direction of their fire in order
to drive back a battery brought by the enemy on their
right, on the beach near which the shallops approached
with the Congreve rockets. At four o'clock this battery,
routed by the shells from the frigates, fell back inland,
after having been the cause of our shells setting fire to
some houses in a village. All our fire is now di-
rected against the Russian ships that yet remain
afloat in the Imperial port. Towards half-past four
they have fallen a prey to the flames. In short the
destruction of the port is complete, and that of the town
of Odessa, at this moment at our mercy, would speedily
follow if we were to give the signal to our steam squad-
ron to go on. But the end we aimed at is completely
attained, and, on the contrary, the signal which Admiral
Dundas and I give is to cease firing and to join our
flags.
" Such, Monsieur le Ministre, is the chastisement
which we have thought fit to inflict, not upon the town,
but upon the military authorities of Odessa, for the out-
rage of which they were guilty towards one of our ships
bearing a flag of truce. Neither the thirty thousand
men of the garrison of Odessa, nor the seventy guns of
her fortress and batteries, could preserve the Imperial
Port from the disaster we had in store for it, by the at-
tack of our steam frigates.
"It is not without astonishment, moreover, that we
remarked the absence of any Russian flag, either on the
batteries or on the establishments of the port, while our
colours were all hoisted. Such a forgetfulness of mili-
tary rules can only be attributed to the disorder which
reigned in the town from the beginning of the attack.
"The loss of the enemy in men must be very con-
siderable, in consequence of the explosions and fires
which broke out on all sides. On board our steamers
the loss was nil. although the Descartes received five
shots, and the Vauban and Mogador four each. How-
ever, the Vauban has to regret two men killed and two
wounded, from an accident with one of her guns.
" The loss of the English steam frigates is only one
man killed and ten wounded.
" Such a result, Monsieur le Ministre, loudly attests
the immense superiority of our steam frigate guns—both
as respects calibre and accuracy of fire—over those of
the enemy ; and if the perfection of the art of war con-
sists in doing a great deal of injury without receiving
any, this maxim never received a more complete
application.
46" I must add that several commercial vessels availed
themselves of the disorder occasioned by the attack to
quit the commercial port, and among them the only
two French ships that were there.
" Yesterday (the 23d) the establishments of the Im-
perial port were still burning. The corvette Fury,
Captain Edward Tatham, on board which I bad sent
my first aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Garnault, was sent to
ascertain the damage done in the Imperial port. She
reports that with the exception of two or three, all the
ships in the port were either burnt or sunk, that the
battery constructed at the end of the mole no longer
existed, and that the admiralty establishments were de-
stroyed or completely devastated. During this excur-
sion the Fury sent a few shells upon the beach where the
field battery had been brought, and where some trenches
were being made. These shells brought down some of
the workmen, and put the rest to fight.
" I will not cite any name to your Excellency, because
in this little affair every one did his duty well. The
ardour and enthusiasm of both officers and men were
,extreme. Under the head of direction of personnel, your
Excellency will allow me to send a list of promotions
extraordinary among the crews, and some recommenda-
,

tions for decorations for the ships that took part in the
affair.

"3 am, with pmf:)tind. repeet. the Viee-A&ni-
rad Commander-in-Chiet of t'ne Mediterranean Squadren.
(Signed) "B.AMELIN.".

ENCLOSURE No. 1.

LETTER OF OSTEN-SACKEN TO ADMITLALS

DUNDAS AND HAMELIN.

" ODESSA, April 14, 1854.—Aide-de-Camp General
Baron D'Osten Sacken thinks it right to express to Ad-
iniral. Dundas his surprise at hearing that shots were
fired from the port of Odessa upon the frigate the Furi-
ous, bearing a flag of truce.
"At the arrival of the Furious two guns were fired
without ball, in consequence of which the vessel hoisted
its national flag, and stopped her course beyond the
reach of cannon shot. Immediately a boat was sent
out with a white flag in the direction of the mole,
and the officer on duty, in answer to the question
of the English officer, said that the English consul had
already left Odessa. Without further question, the
boat took the direction of the ship, when the frigate,
without waiting for it, advanced towards the mole,
leaving the boat at its left, and approached the batteries
within cannon shot. It was then that the commander
of the battery of the mole, faithful to his order
to prevent any vessel from coming within reach of the
guns, thought it his duty to fire, not upon the flag of
truce, which had been respected to the end of its mis-
sion, but upon a vessel of the enemy which had ap-
proached the land too nearly after having been twice
fired upon without ball, the signal to stop.
" This simple explanation of facts, as they have been
related to the Emperor, ought of itself to destroy the
supposition otherwise inadmissible, that in the ports of
Russia there is no respect paid to the flag of truce, the
inviolability of which is guaranteed by the laws common
to all civilised nations.

" Baron OSTEN-SACKEN,

ENCLOSURE No. 2.

DESPATCH OF CAPTAIN LORING, OF THE
FURIOUS.

"On board the Furious, before Odessa,
April 21, 1854.
_ _

" Admiral,—l have read carefully the Governor of
Odessa's letter on the subject of the fire directed against
the flag of truce, on Saturday, the Bth of April. The
contents are totally untrue. The facts are that her Ma-
jesty's vessel under my 'command reached Odessa at
break of day, about ten minutes to six o'clock. At four
or five miles' distance the English colours and the flag
of truce were hoisted.

" Only about twenty m;nutes at least afterwards (at
about a quarter past six) two guns—blank cartridges—,
were fired from the battery.
" Considering that the fire was an intimation not to
proceed, I stopped the ship's course immediately and
drifted to larboard.
" From this moment until the return of the boat the
wheels made not a single revolution, and the vessel
floated off by degrees, a moderate breeze from the north-
west blowing off shore. The stern was towards the
quarantine harbour, and I took care not to open the
portholes of the main deck, and to guard against any
manceuvre which might give rise to the slightest suspi-
cion of hostile intentions on my part.
" Seven shots were fired. The first was evidently
directed against the boat, then at about a mile distant
from the shore. It fell within about 60 or 70 yards
from her, she being then south of a line drawn from the
battery to the vessel.
"The others followed close, and may have been di-
rected against the boat or against the vessel, for they
were more in the straight line from that direction.
" Lieutenant Alexander, as soon as he reached the
mole, asked to see the English consul. He was told
that be was not there ; that it was too early ; that
they were going to send for the harbour captain, and
they requested him to return to his ship. He asked if
the English consul was still at Odessa. The officer on
duty replied by begging him to return to his ship ; and
a person, who was there as English interpreter, added
that it was not permitted him to say anything more.
" During all this time the English colours and the
flag of truce were conspicuously displayed on board the
ship and its boat.
" What I attest here can be corroborated by the evi-
dence of the officer on duty, the head engineer, the en-
gineer on duty. and every man on board. —I amL&C,
" WILLIAM LORING, Capt. R.N."

ENCLOSURE No. 3.

JOINT LETTER OF ADMIRALS HAMELIN
AND DUNDAS.

"Sir,—lnasmuch as the letter of your Excellency, dated
the 14th of April, which has only reached us this morning,
which sets forth erroneous statements to justify the in-
describable aggression committed by the authorities of
Odessa upon one of our frigates and her boat, both car-
rying a flag of truce ;
" Inasmuch as, notwithstanding this flag, the bat-
teries of the town fired several shots on the frigate as well
as on the boat, at the moment when this boat was leaving
the quay of the mole, to which it had repaired with con-
fidence ;
" The two Vice-Admirals commanding the combined
squadrons of France and England think themselves
entitled to demand a reparation from your Excellency.
" Consequently, all the British, French, and Russian
vessels now at anchor near the citadel or the batteries
of Odessa must forthwith be delivered up to the com-
bined squadrons.
"If, at sunset, the two Vice-Admirals have received
no answer, or a negative answer to this communication,
they will be compelled to resort to force to avenge
the flag of one of the combined squadrons for the affront
offered to it, although the interests of humanity induce
them to adopt this alternative with regret, and they
cast the responsibility of such an act on those to whom
it belongs.

"HAMELIN, Vice-Admiral.

"D. DUNDAS, Vice• Admiral."
NAUES OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED ON BOARD THE

VAUBAN.
Killed—Boisserieux, seaman : Papo, seaman.
Wounded—Ram4e, seaman ; .Soyer, gunner.

THE BALTIC.

STETTIN, Thursday.—Sir C. Napier's fleet, after
going towards Sando, off Gothland, was proceeding
towards the Gulf of Finland. Ten French ships
had come up. The weather was fine. Russian
vessels had been moving in the gulf. The Norwe-
gian navy was in Swedish waters.
The Swedish court was thought to be leaning to
the Western Powers. Frequent meetings of the
Council of State had taken place. Great meetings
had occurred.

COPENHAGEN, Thursday.--The French fleet was
yesterday evening in sight of Nyborg, in the Great
Belt.

A letter from Copenhagen says :—" M. Bluhme
has informed the French Minister that formal or-
ders had been transmitted to the Governor of the
Danish Antilles to prevent the fitting out of priva-
teers in the colonies of Denmark, and that a ves-
sel of war of 46 guns, the Kordenskjolds, had just
sailed for St. Thomas, with instructions to that
effect."

BOLDERAA, May 2.—The ice still lies packed to
the northward ; but the John Bull is to-day under
sail, and working her way out of it.
RIGA, May 4.—The ships lately arrived here
have nearly all been overhauled by English cruisers ;
and a vessel under Danish colours was overhauled
in the Sound, and has been ordered off.

REVEL, April 13.—The following communication,
addressed by the Vice-Consul at Revel to her
Majesty's Consul at St. Petersburg, respecting the
detention of the English brig, William Broderick,
and crew, by the military authorities at Revel,
has been forwarded to the Earl of Clarendon, the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs :
"Sir, - I hasten to inform you that his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief of this province, General Berg,
considering it a measure of necessary military precau-
tion, advised me to-day that he intends sending Captain
Warman and the crew of the William Broderick to Ples-
kow. At the same time his Excellency has made me
the following communications respecting these men,
which I copy verbatim:---
" I. The captain and crew of the William Broderick
will not be considered as prisoners of war. 2. The men
are led away from the coast, because they passed several
months in a military port which can be attacked by the
English fleet. 3. Government will take care of the men,
their health, and food. 4. The men are allowed to take
all their money and effects with them. 5. The William
Broderick will not be confiscated, nor any embargo put
upon her, but will be given under the care of the Eng-
lish Consul. 6. The vessel, with all the cargo, will
be restored to the owners. 7. The crew will be al-
lowed to return to England at the first possibi-
lity. Captain J. H. Warman, his crew of ten
men and a boy (the latter left behind in the hospi-
tal), from the Rival, Captain Jackson, and who has
now to return home in the William Broderick,
departed this morning for Pleskow, in good covered
vehicles, accompanied by an officer of the governor,
who has the strictest orders to furnish them, at the ex-
pense of the Russian Government, with everything neces-
sary for their maintenance and comfort during the time
of their journey and their stay at Pleskow. I have
given to Captain Warman a letter to my correspondent
at that place, instructing him to take due care of them
and assist them with what they may require. lam con-
tent, therefore, that their well-being is perfectly assured.
The names of the crew are John H. Warman, captain ;
John Hobbs, mate ; Wm. Watts, carpenter ; Thomas
Barton, boatswain ; and John Kenney, Richard Fren-
ningham, William Draycott, Henry Gilders, Henry
Tweed, Henry Holmes, seamen ; and Alfred Page, and
Samuel H—, from the Rival, of Belfast. Our roads are
closed, and the ice is getting more solid again, from the
sharp frosts we have bad for some days. The present is
forwarded by a courier of his Excellency General Berg,
to whom I have communicated its contents.—l have,
&C. " ED. GIRARD.
"To C. E. Michalo, H.M. Consul, St. Petersburg."

CONSTANTINOPLE.
DEPARTURE OF TROOPS FOR
ADRIANOPLE.

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We learn by a Constantinople letter of the 30th
ult. that part of the troops in the camp of Hayder
Pasha were under immediate orders for Adrianople.
The first detachments were to leave the camp early
next morning. The order was given on the pre_
vious night, after Lord Raglan had communicated
with the ambassadors, the Porte, and Generals
Adams and Evans in Scutari. Many of the staff-
officers were then not mounted. The greatest

anxiety-prevailed. for horses, and enormous sums
IV Io offered and refused—the order came so sudden
and unexpected.

SETTLEMENT OF THE LITE
DIFFERENCES.

The following is the substance of a note-embody-
ing- the proposed arrangement between the Porte
and M. Barraguy d'Hilliers. It was ratified by
signature on both sides on the 30th ult.

The Sublime Porte, in the preamble, expresses
its gratitude to the French Government for the
friendship and solicitude manifested in the present
exigency, as well as the highest consideration for its
representative at Constantinople, and continues to
propose the adoption by mutual consent of the fol-
lowing resolutions :
" The list of Hellenic subjects, in whose behalf was
demanded a permission to remain, to be considered null
and void— in order to exclude all idea of a religious ele-
ment in this question.

"In lieu of that, the present arrangement will com-
prise Hellenic subjects generally, without distinction of
rite—and whose names ate to be notified to a commis-
sion appointed to examine into the securities offered by
each, in respect to morality and good conduct.
"Permission to remain will be granted to all those
possessing the requisite qualifications.

" His Excellency Mouchtar Bey, member of the High
Council, will be charged to preside over the acts of this
commission, in order that it may present all the charac-
ters of justice and security.

" In the provinces, all matters relating to this subject
are to be conducted precisely in the same manner.
"The Sublime Porte will confer with the French am-
bassador, in the first instance, should any modification
of this measure be required by the exigencies of the pre-
sent juncture.
"All documents relating to this momentary difficulty
to be considered null and void ( non avenus)."