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OFFICIAL DESPATCHES

FROM
GENERAL LORD RAGLAN.

(FROM THIS EVENING'S GAZETTE.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, OCT. 10.

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this day
received two Despatches, of which the following
are copies, addressed to lis Grace by General the
Lord Raglan, G.C.B.
BALABLAVA, Sept. 28.

My Lord Duke,—ln continuation of my De-
spatch of the 23d inst., I beg leave to lay before
your Grace the names of the officers whose names
have been brought to my notice by the Generals of
Division, and the Heads of Departments.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown speaks
in the highest terms of Lieutenant-Colonel Yea, of
the Royal Fusiliers ; Lieutenant-Colonel Chester,
of the 23d, who was unfortunately killed, and of
Captain Bell, who succeeded to the command, and
brought the regiment out of action, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Blake of the 33d. Lieutenant-
Colonel Sanders, of the 19th, who was severely
wounded ; Lieutenant-Colonel Egerton, of the 77th
Regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel Shirley, of the
88th ; also of Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence and
Major Norcott, of the Rifle Brigade, each com-
manding a wing of that corps ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Lake, commanding the Artillery, of Captain Brand-
ling, commanding a 9-pounder troop of Horse Ar-
tillery, and Captain Anderson, commanding a Field,
Battery, and Captain Gordon, of the Royal En-
gineers ; likewise of Lieutenant-Colonel Sullivan,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Airey, of the Adjutant and
Quartermaster-General's Department, and Captain
Hallowell of the latter, and Captain Whitmore and
the other officers of his personal Staff ; and Cap-
tains Glyn and Mackenzie, the Brigade-Majors
serving with the division.
Lieutenant-General his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge recommends Colonel the Honourable
Francis Hood, of the Grenadier Guards, Colonel
the Honourable George Upton, of the Coldstream
Guards, and Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton, of the
Scots Fusilier Guards ; Lieutenant-Colonel Came-
ron, of the 42d, Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas, of the
79th, and Lieutenant-Colonel Ainslie, of the 93d ;
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Alexander Gor-
don, and Lieutenant-Colonel Cunynghame, the As-
aistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Cap-
tain Butler and the Honourable Arthur Hardinge,
the Deputy Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-
General of the Division, and Major the Honour-
able James Macdonald, and the other officers of his
personal Staff ; also Lieutenant-Colonel Dacres
commanding, and Captains Punter and Wood-
house of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Chap-
man of the Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Stirling, and Captain the Honourable
Percy Fielding, the Brigade-Major of the division.
Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans eulogises
the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable
Percy Herbert of the Quartermaster-General's De-
partment, who was wounded, I hope not severely ;
Major Lysons of the 23d, acting as Assistant-Adju-
tant-General in the absence from sickness of Lieute-
nant-Colonel Wilbraham, Captain Lane Fox; and
Captain Thompson, Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant
and Quartermaster-General, and Captain Allix and
the other officers of his personal Staff. He also praises
the exertions of Lieutenant-Colonels Hoey, of the
30th, Lieutenant-Colonel Warren, of the 55th, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Webber Smith, of the 95th,
who was severely wounded ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Carpenter, of the 41st, Lieutenant-Colonel Haly,
of the 47th, and Maj tr Dalton, of the 49th, Lieu-
tenant-Colonels Fitzmayer and Dupuis, and Cap-
tains Turner and Swinton, of the Royal Artillery,
and to these I may add Captain Lovell, of the
Royal Engineers, Brevet-Majors Thackwell and
Armstrong, the Brigade-Majors of the division.
I consider it my duty especially to recommend
Captain Adye, of the Royal Artillery, the princi-
pal staff officer of that branch of the service, and
Captain the Honourable Edward Gage, Brigade-
Major of Artillery, and Major Tylden, Brigade-
Major of the Royal Engineers, and Major the
Honourable Edward Pakenham, and Captain
'Weare, who was wounded, of the Adjutant-
General's, and of Captains Wetherall, Woodford,
Sankey, and Hamilton, of the Quartermaster-
General's Department.
Mr. Commissary-General Filder, and Dr. Hall,
the principal Medical Officer, were in the field the
whole time, and merit my approbation for their
exertions in discharging their onerous duties.—l
Lave, &0., (Signed) RAGLAN. -
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle,
&c., &c., &c.

BALAKLAVA, Sept. 28.

My Lord Duke,—l have the greatest satisfaction
in acquainting your grace that the army under my
command obtained possession of this important
place on the 26th instant, and thus established a
-new and secure base for our future operations.
The Allied Armies quitted their position above
the Alma on the morning of the 23d, and moved
across the Katcha, where they halted for the
night, and on the following day passed the Belbeck.
It then appeared that the enemy had established
a work, which commanded the entrance of the
river, and debarred its use for the disembarkation
of troops, provision, arid materiel ; and it became
expedient to consider whether the line of attack
upon the north side should not be abandoned, and
another course of operation adopted.
It having, after duo deliberation, been deter-
mined by Marshal St. Arnaud and myself, that we
should relinquish our communication with the
Katcha, and the hope of establishing it by the
Belbeck, and endeavour by a flank march to the
left to go round Sebastopol and seize Balaklava,
the movement was commenced on the 25th, and
completed on the following day by the capture of
this place by her Majesty's troops, which led the ad-
v ince. The march was attended with great diffi-
culties. On leaving the high road from the Belbeck
to Sebastopol, the Army had to traverse a dens©
wood, in which there was but one road that led in
the direction it was necessary to take. That road
was left in the first instance to the Cavalry and Ar-
tillery ; and the divisions were ordered to march by
compass and make a way for themselves as well as
they could ; and, indeed, the Artillery of the Light
Division pursued the same course as long as it was
found to be possible, but, as the wood became more
impracticable, the batteries could not proceed other-
wise than by getting into the road above men-
tioned.
The head-quarters of the Army, followed by seve-
ral batteries of Artillery, were the first to clear the
forest, near what is called, in Major Jarvis's map,
Mtckenzie's Farm, and at once found themselves on
the flank and rear of a Russian division, on the march
to Bashi-Serai.

This Way Attacked as 60011 a the cavalry' 'which

had diverged a little into a bye and intricate' path,
could be brought up. A vast quantity of ammu-
nition and much valuable baggage fell into our
hands, and the pursuit was discontinued after about
:t mile and a half, it being a great object to reach the
Ttiehernaya that evening.
The Russians lost a few men, and some prisoners
wene taken, amongst whom was a Captain of

Artillery.
The march was then resumed by the descent of
a steep and difficult defile into the plains, through
which runs the Tscherdaya river, and this the
cavalry succeeded in reaching shortly before dark,
followed in the course of the night by the Light,
First, Second, and Third Divisions ; the Fourth
Division having been left on the heights above the
Belbeck till the following day, to maintain our com-
munication with the Katcha.
This march, which took the enemy quite by sur-
prise, was a very long and toilsome one, and, ex-
cept at Mackenzie's Farm, where two wells, yield-
ing a scanty supply, were found, the troops were
without water, but they supported their fatigues
and privations with the utmost cheerfulness, and
resumed their march to this place on the morning
of the 26th.

As they approached Balaklava nothing indicated
that it was held in force ; but as resistance was
offered to the advance of the Rifle Brigade, and
guns were opened from an old castle, as the head
of the column showed itself on the road leadinginto the town, I deemed it prudent to occupy the
two two flanking heights by the Light Division and
a portion of Captain Brandling's troop of Horse
Artillery on the left ; movements terminated by
the surrender of the place, which had been occu-
pied by very inconsiderable numbers of the enemy.
Shortly after we had taken possession we were
greeted by Captain Mends, of the Agamemnon, and
soon after by Sir Edmund Lyons himself.
His co-operation was secured to us by the ac-
tivity and enterprise of Lieutenant Maxse, of her
Majesty's ship Agamemnon, who reached my camp
on the Tschernaya, on the night of the 25th with
despatches, and who volunteered immediately to
retrace his steps through the forest, and to commu-
nicate to Sir Edmund the importance I attached to
his presence at the mouth of the harbour of Bala-
klava the next morning, which difficult service
(from the intricacy of the country infested by Cos-
sacks) he accomplished so effectually that the Ad-
miral was enabled to appear off this harbour at the
very moment that our troops showed themselves
upon the heights.
Nothing could be more opportune than his arri-
val, and yesterday the magnificent ship that bears li
his flag entered this beautiful harbour ; and the
Admiral, as has been his invariable practice, co-
operated with the army iu every way possible.
We are busily engaged in disembarking our siege
train and provisions, and we are most desirous of
undertaking the attack of Sebastopol without the
loss of a day. I moved up two divisions yesterday
to its immediate neighbourhood, when I was en-
abled to have a good view of the place ; and Lieu-
tenant-General Sir John Burgoyne, and General
Bisot, the French Chef de Genie, are occupied in
reconnoitring- it closely to-day.
The march of the French army on the 25th was
still more fatiguing and prolonged than ours.
Being behind our columns they could not reach
Tschernaya till the next day, and I fear must have
suffered sadly from want of water.
I regret to have to acquaint your grace, that
Marshal St. Arnaud has been compelled, by severe
illness, to relinquish the command of the army. I
saw him on the 25th, when he was suffering very
much, and he felt it his duty to resign the next
morning. I view his retirement with deep concern,
having always found in him every disposition to act
in concert with me. Ho has since become much
worse, and is I fear in a very precarious state.
Fortunately he is succeeded by an officer of high
reputation, General Canrobert, with whom I am
satisfied I shall have great pleasure in acting, and
who is equally desirous of maintaining the most
friendly relations with me.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) RAGLAN.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle,

Sze.,

4,7 c.,

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 9.

The Queen has been pleased t• approve of Don Mariano
Carsi as Consul-General in the United Kingdom for the
Queen of Spain.
CROWN OFFICE, OCT. 7.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Wigan.—Joseph Acton, of Wigan, Esq., in
le root* of Ralph Anthony Thicknesse, Esq., deceased.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.

Kirkcudbright and Wigton Regiment of Sillitia—Wil-
liam Munro, Esq., to be Adjutant, July 7.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
George Hope, Gent., to be Quartermaster from 2d Aug.,
Aug. 3.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Ross--Thomas Mackenzie, Esq., one of the
Deputy Lieutenants of the county of Ross, to be Vice-
Lieutenant, Oct. 6.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—En-
sign Frederick Barnes to b 3 Lieutenant, vice Ibbetson, re-
signed, Sept. 27.
3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Hugh Beauchamp Halswell, Gent., to
be Lieutenant ; James Henry McEwen, Gent., to be En-
sign ; Henry Bulkeley, Gent., to be Ensign, Sept.' 27.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Lieutenant William Browne Ponsonby, half-pay 22d Bom-
bay Native Infantry, to be Lieutenant, vice Morrah, ap-
pointed to the 3d West India Regiment, Sept. 27 ; Percy
Charles Smyth, Gent., to be Ensign; Edward Hamilton
Finney, Esq., late Ist Royal Regiment, to be Captain,
vice Masterson, resigned, Sept. 20.
Artillery Regiment of Militia of the County of Durham
Major Henry Stobart to be Lieutenant-Colonel Com-
mandant ; Captain William Cookson, of the South Dur-
ham Regiment, to be Major ; Charles Frederick Perkins,
Esq., to be Captain; William Stobart, Esq., to be Cap-
tain ; Second Lieutenants Charles William Bell and
George Hodgson, to be First Lieutenants ; Edward
Featherstonhaigh, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, Oct. 4.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury hay-
ing certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt, 10 G-co. IV., c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual
surplus revenue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof for the
year ended the sth day of July, 1654, amounted to the
sum of one million and fifty-eight thousand six hundred
and seventy-eight pounds eleven shillings and tenpence.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of two hundred and
sixty-four thousand six hundred and sixty-nine pounds,
twelve shillings and eleven pence, being quo-fourth part of
the said surplus of one million and fifty-eight thousand
six hundred and seventy-eight pounds eleven shillings and
ten pence will be applied under the provisions of the said
act, between the 11th day of October, 1854, and the sth
day of January, 1855, to the following purposes, viz. :
To be applied towards the reduction of
the National Debt
Add interest receivable on account of
donations and bequests, to be applied
to the purchase of stock • 2,729 11 1

£267,399 4 0

National Debt Office, Oct. 6, 1854.
A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller-General.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULED.
Francis Burrow, draper and tailor, Redruth.
William Beckett, cattle dealer and salesman, Gilling-
ham.
Henry Kerfoot, silk manufacturer, Bedford.