The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

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THE COMMAND IN THE PACIFIC.

As we anticipated yesterday Rear-Admiral Bruce has
been appointed to succeed the late Rear-Admiral Price as
Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific. It is said be will
leave in a, few days, in the screw sloop Brisk, 15, Corn.
wander Seymour.
In Admiral Bruce's late and early gallant career we
have a guarantee that whatever be undertakes he will thoroughly accemplishond the country may confidently
rely on his carrying out to a successful issue those mon.
sures so well and daringly planned by Admiral Price.
The following is O'Byrne's epitome of the service.
of Admiral Bruce :=-" bleary William Bruce,- born
February 9, 1792, is third and only surviving sow
of the late Reverend Sir Henry Hervey A.sten Bruce,
Bart., by Letitia, daughter of the late Reverend
Dr. Henry Barnard, granddaughter of W. Barnard,
Bishop of Derry, and niece of Thos. Barnard, Bishop of
Limerick. He is uncle of the present Henry Hervey
Bruce, Bart.

" This officer entered the navy towards the close of
1803, as a boy, on beard the Euryalus, 36, Capt. Hon.
Henry Blackwood, and on Oct. 21, 1805, was present,
as midshipman, at the Battle of Trafalgar. In 1806
he joined the Ajax, 74, commanded by the same offioer,
and on her destruction by fire off the Dardanelles, Feb.
14, 1807, became attached to the Endymion, 40,
Captain Hon. Thomas Bladen Capel, part of Sir John
Thomas Duckworth's force at the passage of those
straits. After further assisting at the embarkation
of Sir John Moore's army at Corunna, in January,
1809, Mr. Bruce rejoined Captain Blackwood in the
Warspite, 74, stationed in the North Sea, and on Jan.
5, 1810, he was promoted from the Bellona, 74, Captain
John Erskine Douglas, into the Prospero sloop, Cap-
tain John Hardy Godby, from which he was, how-
ever, removed on the 17th of the same month to the Bell
videra, 36, Captain Rich. Byron. While in that ship
he in part commanded her boats, in conjunction with
those of the Nemesis, 28, at the very gallant capture,
off the coast of Norway, of two Danish gun-vessels,
the Bolder and Thor, of 8 guns and 45 men each,
and destruction of a third, July 23, 1810 ; obtained
the official notice of his captain for his skilful manage-
ment of the Belvidere's main deck stern-chasers, when
she ably escaped, after a long running fight, and a loaf
of 2 men killed and 22 wounded, from a powerful Ame•
rican squadron under Commodore Rogers, Jane 23,
1812, on which occasion he was himself slightly
wounded ; again served in the boats, with these of a
squadron under Lieut. Kelly Nazar, at the boarding and
capture, on Feb. 8, 1813, after a most obstinate resis-
tance, of the American letter-of-marque Lottery, of six
12-pounder carronades and 28 men, an exploit which
was acknowledged by the especial thanks of the coin.
wander-in-chief, and subsequently aided in taking and
destroying the privateers Bunker's-hill, 7 gang and 72
men, and Mars of 15 guns and 70 men. Captain
Bruce, who was advanced to the command of the Manly
brig, May 27, 1814, next, in August of that year,
accompanied Rear-Admiral Cockburn up the Patuxent
as far as Nottingham, and, on the return of the
British army from Washington, there heisted the
flag of that gallant officer, whose acknowledgments
for his services he had the honour with others to re-
ceive. In September following the Manly wai employed
up the Patapsto River during the advance of Major-
General Ross on Baltimore. We soon afterwards find
Captain Bruce returning to England with despatches in
the Rover sloop and, until paid off in September, 1815,
successively employed in escorting the outward-bound
East fndia trade to the southward of the equator, in
conveying home a fleet of merchantmen from Barba-
does, and cruising off Dieppe for the purpose of in-
tercepting Napoleon Bonaparte, should occasion offer.
On March 16, 1821, he was appointed to the Sappho,
sloop, and being the senior commander on the Cork
station at the time of George IV.'s visit to Ireland, was
promoted to post rank by commission dated Nov. 16, in
the same year. He subsequently, from Oot. 4, 1823,
until April 3, 1824, officiated as lag captain in the Bri-
tannia, 120, to the Hon. Sir Alex. Inglis Cochrane, oom-
reander-in-chief at Plymouth ; commanded the Imogene,
26, on the South American Station, from June 7, 1836, ,
until paid off at the close of 1839, and on Feb. 1, 1842,
was selected by his brother-in-law, Sir T. J. Cochrane,
to be his flag captain in the Agincourt, 72, on the Ent
India station.
" Captain Bruce married first, Feb. 9, 1822, Jane,
second daughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Alex. Inglis
Cochrane, sister of Rear-Admiral Sir T. John Cochrane,
and sister-in-law of-Rear-Admiral Sir E. Thomas Trow-
bridge, Bart., by whom, who died June 22, 1830, he has
issue two sons and two daughters, He espoused, se-
condly, March 13, 1832, Mary Miechin, youngest
daughter of the late Colonel George Dalrymple, and by
that lady also he has issue."
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TI3E WOUNDED AT SCUTARI. •

Two British officers arrived in Paris late last night
from Constantinople on their return to England. After
the battle of the Alma they were sent to hospital at
Scutari, which they left to embark in the Emen. They
speak in the highest terms of Miss Nightinghale and
the nurses who have so nobly devoted themselves to the
cause of humanity. The day before they left Constan-
tinople about 600 of the British troops, who had been
wounded at Inkermann, arrived at the hospital. Their
wounds and bodies were washed by these ladies, clean
linen supplied to them, and everything which the most
tender care could suggest was at hand in abundance.
One stalwart guardsman who had received three severe
wounds appeared deeply affected when he found himself
the object of so much sslicitude. "Ah !" said he,
" now I see there are people in England who care for us
poor soldiers." Many comforts and luxuries have also
been supplied by means of the sick fund transmitted by
the agency of The Times. Surgeons are neoi.e abundant,
and altogether our wounded heroes are better cared for
than they were at the commencement of hostilities.

FRENCH CO-OPERATION WITH OMER
PACHA.

Wo find the following in a letter received this
morning from Paris :

" The news which I sent last night of the deterrnina
tion of the IFreach Government to send two divisions
the army into the principalities to co-operate with Ome
Pasha in the aggressive operations about to b
commenced
against theßussians en the Pruth and
in Bessarabia, has given great satisfaction here,; and
and has renewed confidence to such an extent that
the French funds have risen one-and-a-half per cent.
It is understood that this important resolution is fully
approved of by the English Government, and that it
was adopted after a consultation with Lord Palmerston.
The Russian party in Paris have endeavoured to repre-
sent this great measure as a hostile demonstration
against Austria, but I have reason to believe that it has
been adopted with the full approbation of the Austrian
Government.

" I understand that in answer to a demand made
by Russia, as to the attitude to be taken by the Aus-
trian troops in the Principalities, in case of an attack by
the Turks against the Russians, the Cabinet of Vienna
has sent a note to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, in
which it declares that orders have been sent to General
Coronini, to the effect that he is not to do anything
that may impede the operations of the Turks, or even
an invasion on their part of the Russian territories, if
such a scheme should happen to come within their plan
of operations. On the contrary, the Austrian troops are
directed to give to the Turks all possible facility for
their movements, even if they should be of an aggres-
sive character against Russia.
"Bavaria has also positively intimated her determi-
nation to adhere to the policy of Austria, and her readi-
ness to vote ,in the Diet, or sign any' proposition by
which she would sanction that policy.
Another letter contains the following
"It is believed in quarters generally well informed
that before long Austria will be forced to declare un-
equivocally whether she really means or not to take an
active part with the Allies in the operations now going
on. To a note that has been received within the last
few days from Vienna, and which purports to explain
the position of that Power, and which declares
her continued adherence to the principles of the notes of
the Bth of April, an answer of a decidedly categorical
kind will be returned by this Government. Indeed,
matters have reached such a point as that a formal nip-
tore with Austria is not considered as improbable or
distant. In the meantime it is asserted that a resolu-
tion has been adopted by this Govermnent, in concur-
rence with England, which will bring matters to a test
--namely, to send two divisions of French troops into
the Danubian Principalities independently of the two
which were embarking at Toulon for the Crimea."