The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-18 00:00:00

THE WAR

THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

The members of the cavalry staff will levy for their
destination either to-morrow or on Thursday, although
at the last moment an alteration may take place. It
was intended that the departure should have taken place
to-day. They will proceed through Paris for Marseilles,
where one of her Majesty's steam-vessels will be in
readiness to convey them to Gallipoli. The aides-de-
camp to Major-General the Earl of Lucan, Commander
of the Cavalry, have already left. The servants, with
the baggage of the noble and gallant earl, left yester-
day. The staff will reach the East some considerable
time before the 'horses and men.
Brigadier Airey, the last of the Infantry Staff, leaves,
it is understood, on Thursday.
We may add that the delay in the departure of the
cavalry has arisen solely out of a determination on the
part of the Secretary of *ar, the Duke of Newcastle, to
render the brigade as 'efficient as possible—a -consumma-
tion which could not have been attained had there been
the slightest precipitancy. _ .

A large staff of veterinary surgeons proceed to the seat
of war, with a proper supply of medicines and other
requirements necessary for the safety of the horses.
Contracts have been entered into with persons in Turkey,
recommended by the Ottoman Government, for a pe•
riodical supply of,forage for the horses.
The infantry and cavalwaie to be unencumbered
with their heavY caps,ll44-nioit appropriate pattern as
the • substitute. The war or fighting cap is about half
the size of an ordinary hat; with a peak in front and a
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lap behind to ward -off the heat:
- The Earl of Lucan;tommander of the cavalry, entered

the army in-1816. He wassfor some time, as Lord Bing-
ham, Colonel commandant of the 17th Lancers, now en
route for Turkey, for the seniority in which he paid, it is
generally stated in military oircles, no less a sum than
20,0001. Lord Lucan was born in 1800, and is conse-
quently the junior by three years of his well-known kins-
man, Lord Cardigan. The noble lord served as a volun-
teer with the Russians against the nation he is now
supporting in 1828' and 1829, and was under General
Diebitsch at Varna, Schumla, Widdin, and, indeed, at
the gates of Adrianople, where the Turks consented to a
humiliating peace. For these services he was honoured
with the thanks of the Emperor Nicholas, who created
him a military knight of the order of St. Anne of Russia,
second class. His lordship's eldest son, Lord Bingham,
lieutenant in the Coldstreams, who is on his noble father's
staff, has left with his regiment.
Brigadier the Earl of Cardigan, commander of the
light division of cavalry, entered the service in 1824, and
Brigadier the Hon. Yorke Scarlett, commander of the
heavy division under Lord Lucan, joined the service in
1824. The gallant colonel is son of the late Lord
Abinger, so well knuwn in legal circles at one tim6 as
Sir James Scarlett. It is worthy of remark that the
three gallant officers paid heavy sums for their commis-
sions, and in departing to lead their country's troops
they leave behind them large properties as well as rela-
tives and friends. •

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGNCE.
The Nile, 90, Commander Booth, bearing the blue
broad pendant of Commodore 11. B. Martin, C. 8., ar-
rived at Spithead yesterda-Y morning from Plymouth, to
complete her crew for`the Baltic.
The Gladiator, 0, paddlewheel frigate, Capt. Broke,
having repaired her starting- gear;went yesterday to test
her speed at stokes Bay.
The Harpy, 4, iron paddlewheel steam-vessel, Lieut.
Corn.. Lindsay, and the Pigmy, paddlewheel steam-ves-
sel, fitting at Portsmouth, as a gunboat for service in the
Baltic, will be rigged and ready for service by Saturday
next.
The Hornet, 16, screw steam sloop, built at Deptford,
and launched last week at that dockyard, was brought
down to Woolwich yesterday to be made ready for sea.
The Cossack, screw steam frigate, launched from Mr.
Pitcher's dockyard at Northfleet on Saturday last, was
towed up the river yesterday, to have her engines put
on board by the contractors.
Upwards of 8,000, visitors were in Woolwich dockyard
during the day, and as many as 3,000 were on board the
Royal Albert, 131, screw steamship, at one time in the
afternoon. Booths are to be erected for the accommoda-
tion of 5,000 persons to witness the launch on May 13.
The number of visitors to the Royal Arsenal was also
very great.
By letters from the Baltic fleet we learn that it has
been ascertained the Russian force afloat in those waters
amounts to 30 sail of the line, and a corresponding num-
ber of frigates, steamers, and smaller craft, whose crews
are well trained and have been together six or seven
years, also 800 gunboats.
The Simoom iron steam troop-ship, Captain Smith,
steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday to refit for
further troop service.
The Rhad-amanthus steam-transport, Master-Com-
mander Belam, having landed the machinery of the
Colossus at Portsmouth, left yesterday evening for Ply-
mouth with part of the machinery for the Exmouth, 90.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's fine
steam-ship Euxine, laden with munitions of ester and
other freight, and persAages, left Portsmouth yeday
afternos'm for Turkey.
All the transports which have arrived at Portsmouth
(nine sail) are being victualled with every, description
of provisions, stores, and forage for horses, for four
months. The Royal Clarence Victualling Establish-
ment, Gosport, under the superintendence of Cap-
tain Courtenay, is in full work from 8 a.tn. till 8 p.m.,
and the meu were employed until one o'clock on Sunday
in victualling the Euxine. The crews in that and the
other transports refused to work on Sunday, and struck
at 6 p.m. on the Saturday night ; nor could they be in-
duced to help in the emergency. In this strait the con-
victs of the Portsea Prison, under Captain and Governor
'Knight, volunteered to do the work of stowage in the
'Euxine, &c., and did it well, being employed the whole
day in the dockyard and ships of their own free will.
This is hot the first time these prisoners have exhibited
similar praiseworthy conduct.
The Clarence-yard has now in its victualling stores
upwards of 10,000 casks of beef and pork, and all other
kinds of provisions in proportion, ready for shipment—
more than ever the storehouses contained before. Master
Attendant Davies and Storekeeper Pinhorn, are inces-
santly employed in superintending the work of storing or
shipment, and the whole staff of the establishment is
alike active.
The transport-ships Wilson Kennedy and Shooting
Star (the latter a fine American clipper) sailed on Sunday
from Liverpool for Plymouth. They have been ready
for sea for some days past, but delayed for want of men,
some of those previously shipped having at the instiga-
tion of the crimps refused to do their duty. There are
about 12 more transports preparing for sea under the
inspection of Captain Bevis, R.N. It has been stated
that the French Government had purchased two screw-
steamers at Liverpool and sent down a corps of French
sailors to navigate, them, but up to yesterday no official
intimation of the fact had reached the French Consul
there.
By electric telegraph we learn from Plymouth that the
Andes screw-steamer, Captain Moodie, 33 hours from
Liverpool, arrived in the Sound yesterday afternoon to
embark the Ist Royals, and that the Echunga trans-
port, with the first troop of the Bth Hussars, had sailed
for the Mediterranean.
Yesterday the 'Commissioners of the Admiralty gave
notice at Lloyd's that they required an additional num-
ber of transports,• of from 650 to 800 tons burden, for
the conveyance of troops and stores to the seat of war.
They are to be hired for four months certain. The
Commissioners have determined not to take up' any
vessel for transport service that has discharged a cargo
of guano. " Council-office, April 13-
Yesterday morning another detachment of the 19th " Sir,—l am directed by the Lord President of
thethe
Yesterday
Foot left the Tower for Liverpool, there to embark in Vouidicilctio transmit to you, for the informsretiaTiroyf
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charge of commissariat stores for Gallipoli. In the Lords of her 'Ma-
course of the day the regimental depot marched from jesty's Most permission Council, with reference to the
the Tower, and proceeded by railway tc, waimer. prohibited by her Majesty's order in Council of the D‘th
of February last.
course of the week, and will be relieved by the 35th
" The Lords of the Council are of opinion that, within
Foot. the geographical limits
Captain W. Swinton's 3d company, of the 11th bat- assigned by this order, permis-
sion should still be granted tiy the Lords Commissioners
talion of Artillery, - Captain J. Turner's 4th company, of her Majesty's Treasury
for the exportation of such
11th battalion, and Captain Wodehouse's sth company, articles upon taking a bond from the persons exporting
of the 11th battalion, have been formed into field bat- such prohibited articles that they shall be landed and
entered at the port of destination ; but in. all other canes
V
teries and placed under orders with the second divisionapplication for permission to export such articles must
of Royal Artillery for service in the East. The whole tellmade to the Lords of the Council, who will consider
of these batteries assembled in heavy marching order each case on
political grounds, and will transmit to the
yesterday morning at half past nine o'clock, under the Lords Commissioners of her lel. ajesty's Treasury an order
of the Privy Council, authorising the officers of her Ma-
command of Lieut.-Colonel , Anderson, and were in-
's Customs to permit.-such export upon taking
spected by Colonel C. E. Whinyates as they marched i?st7
similar bond from the shippers, whicCom
h bond will be a-
eut of the Gun-park, Woolwich. I pleted in the same manner now in use. —.I have the
Captain d'Aguilar's 6th company, of the 11th bat- bon our to be, P.,
"Ct °lmmix,
talion, Captain J. Trarerem 7th company, of the 11th " The Secretary to the Tressury,'! „

" Since war has arisen between several of the great
European Powers, and the cbmmencement of active
hostilities has been declared by land and•sea,
"The Senate feels itself called upon, under the exist-
ing circumstances, and in.order to prevent damage and
loss accruing to Bremen property, and to secure the
neutral position of Bremen against all risks, to call the
attention of every one, but more particularly'of those
engaged in trade, and of shipowners in their mercantile
transactions to and from places belonging to a belligerent
State, should the same be in a state of blockade or
otherwise, that they might be most careful, if they
would not act in their own prejudice, to avoid any con-
travention of those duties which the law of nations and
the Bremen State treaties impose upon them in war
time.
" Although the Senate feels assured that a reference
to the obligations due equally to the friendly Powers as
to their own city, will be sufficient to preveik the citizens
of Bremen for the future, just as well as heretofore,
from undertaking anything in contravention of the prin-
ciples of public law (otrentliches rechs), nevertheless the
Senate, without prejudice to any further necessary mea
sures for the preservation of the neutrality of Bremen,
takes this opportunity of calling general attention to the
following orders :
" L The exportation of all articles deemed contra-
band of war by the law of nations and by 'the existing
Bremen State treaties, but particularly of all ammuni-
tion, powder, balls, (kugeln), percussion-- caps (aund-
hutchen), of brimstone and saltpetre, of ordnance and
arms of every description, and generally of articles
which can be immediately used in war, to the territory
of the belligerent Powers, is forbidden until farther no-
tice either by land or by water, and that, too, equally
under the Bremen or a foreign flag.
" The transgression of this prohibition will entail the
confiscation of the articles in question, and the infliction
of an appropriate fine and imprisonment, according to
circumstances.

" 2. In .all cases of exportation to the belligerent
States the goods must be accurately specified, and the
_superscription merchandise,' or any similar general de-
.
scription, will not be admitted.
" 3. No Bremen vessel is permitted to carry two sets
of ships' papers or a foreign flag.
" 4. The duties incumbent on sworn shipbrokers, in
compliance with former enactments, to notify the in-
tended shipment of merchandise to be regarded as con-
traband of war, as also the care they must exetcise in
seeing that the ship's documents and ship's papers are
in order, remain in full force, and their, attention is
hereby again particularly called to thein.
" Decreed at Bremen, in the Assembly of the Senate
on the 12th, and published, on the 13th of April, 1854."