The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1854.

I East ; but the men they now intended to engage
were not to be placed upon the same footing as those
brave fellows who fought for common feelings of
nationality against a- power that was overrunning the
whole continent. These men's sympathies would only be
enlisted for pecuniary purposes. (Hear, hear.) He
suggested that if we made our service more attractive we
should have no difficulty in raising any given
number of men, and he would remind the house that at
Waterloo our bravest men in the ranks were not the old
Peninsular heroes, but raw recruits. He also suggested
that we should at once set about a proper organisation
of the Turks whose daring at Silistria had shown that they
were not to be made the subject of ridicule which they
had by ono hon. member of this house. (Hear, hear.) At
the conclusion of this gentlesmans speech Mr. Cohdeu and
another member rose at the same time, and, amidst calls
from several hon. members for Cobden, the other gentle.
man gave way.
Mr. COBDEN then rose and said, that this sub-
ject had been so fully discussed that he should avoid
as far as possible trenching upon those points which had
been so fully entered into. They had heard that honour-
able members in this house had voted against their con-
science upon this measure, and favourable to it, to record
it as a vote of confidence in Government. If this was to be
taken as one of the effects of the war, he muret say it was
a very demoralising one. He did not mean to say any-
thing upon the question of the necessity of this unhappy
war, but if it was to be one of invasion by land he could
only say it must be carried on upon very different grounds
than we have hitherto done. He contended that he had
not yet in this house or out of it, met any who could give
him any clear definition of what we were now fighting
for. If this was to bo a war to stop the
spread of barbaric despotism over all continental
nationalities and freedom, then we should not be called
upon to bs the Anacharsis Cloots of the world, and do all
the fighting ourselves. Much of the popularity of this
war was to be attributed to the generally prevailing
opinion that this was a war to crush the power of Russia,
and prevent its further interference with the freedom of
Poland and Hungary. :We had already checked the in-
tention of Russia in invading the dominions of the Turk.
He thought it was highly desirable that negotiations
should be opened upon the terms last issued from St. Peters-
burg, because both Prussia and Austria agreed with those
terms, and these powers were essentially interested in
their maintenance of trickery. (Hear, hear.) Why,
then, should we seek stronger guarantees from Russia
than these two Powers were satisfied with? For his part
he thought the intentions of Russia to invade Europe had
been greatly exaggerated in this country, or Austria and
Prussia would have been more sensitive upon the point.
They had more to fear than we, and he was therefore at a
lo3s to understand why we should require better terms
than would content either of those two powers. No doubt
the people of Prussia sympathised with England, but he
very much questioned if they were ready to go to
war to support her ; indeed, if they could be
polled on the subject, he believed nineteen-twen-
tieths of them would uphold the peaceful policy of
their King, There would be neither honour nor
interest involved in our agreeing to these terns. He admitted
that we might succeed in subduing Sebastopol, but it
was its subjugation, with the cost we should have to
pay for it. Could we ever hope for peace with Russia
so long as he held any portion of her territory, and consi-
dering that no object could be attained by our getting pos-
sion of Sebastopol, he thought it was a waste of life and
treasure to keep up the siege. The fall of Sebastopol would
not destroy Russian power, because thought it night lead
to immediate peace within ten years afterwards,
Russia could have made it more impregnable than ever.
Dunquirk should be a warning to us upon this head ; we
sought once to destroy their fortress as we were now
seeking to destroy Sebastopol, and we succeeded, but in a
very short time afterwards France had made it
far stronger than it was before. (Hear, hear.) The
war was demoralising Turkey rather than regenerating her,
and he trusted Parliament and the people would shortly
become convinced that more could be done for her in a
time of peace in reforming her Government and internal
condition than in a time of war.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 20.
31E3IBERS:RETURNED TO SERVE IN TILE PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.

County of Gloucester—Eastern Division—Robert Stay-
rer Holford, Esq., in the room of Sir Michael Hicks
Hicks Beach, Bart., deceased.
Borough of Marylebone—Hugh Forteszne, Esq., com-
monly called Viscount Ebrington, in the room of Dudley
Coutts Stuart, Esq., commonly Lord. Dudley Coutts
Stuart, deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 22.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Veterinary-Surgeon Thos.
Jex, 2d Dragoons, now serving on the Staff in Turkey, to
be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Percival, deceased, Deo. 22.
2d Life Guards—Lieutenant Henry Dalton Wittit Lyon
to be Adjutant, vice Sherwan, who resigns the Adjutantcy
only, Dec. 22.
sth Dragoon Guards—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Thos.
W. McMahon to be Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase,
vice Brevet-Colonel Scarlett, promoted to the rank of
Major-General ; Captain Richard Thompson to be Major,
without purchase, vice McMahon ; Lieutenant Alexander
James Hardy Elliott to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Thompson ' • Cornet Richard G. B. Bolton to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Elliott ; Sir Edward Synge
Hutchinson, Bart. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice
Honourable Grey Neville, deceased, Dec. 22.
let Dragoons—Lieutenant Walter John Coney to be
Captain, without purchase, Dec. 22. ,
Bth Light Dragoons—Cornet James Baker, from the
"Royal Horse ' Guards, to Le Cornet, without purchase.
Dec. 22.

)Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—To be 1
Lieutenants and Captains without purchase—Ensign and
Lieutenant W. -Verschoyle ; Ensign and Lieutenant Fdk.
T. A. H. Bathurst; Ensign and Lieutenant Honourable
Wyndham H. Wyndham Quin, Doc., 22. To be
Ensigns and Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieute-
nant the Hon. John B. J. Dormer, from the Royal Horse
Guards, vice Fergusson, promoted, Dec. 18; Henry Fan- ,
shawe Davies,
.Gent., vice Davies, died of his wounds,
Dec. 19 ; Patrick Keith Murray, Sent., vice Verschole,
Dec. 20 ; Sudeley Charles George Hanbnry Tracy, Gent.,
vice Bathurst, Dec. 21; William Henry Parnell, Gent.,
vice Quin, Dec. 22.
Scots usilier Regiment of Foot Guards—To be Ensigns
and Lieutenants, without purchase—The Hon. Edward
Brownlow, vice Knollys, promoted, Dec. 21 • Henry Jeff
Sharpe, Gent., vice Lindsay, promoted, Dec. 22.
let linimet of Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Henry Bree-
don to be Captain, without purchase, vice Carter, de-
ceased ; Ensign George Rowe Fenwick to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Breedon, Nov. 28 ; Ensign James
William Hassell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice
Fenwick, whose promotion on the Bth December, 1854, has
been cancelled, Dec. 8.
3d Foot—Ensign George Noble Roe t) be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vica Macneil, appointed to the 13th
Light Dragoons, Dec. 22.
7th Foot—Brevet-Major Arthur John Pack to be Major,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Wilbra-
ham, whose Brevet rank has been converted into substan-
tive rank, in accordance with the Royal Warrant, 6th
Oct. ; Lieutenant Hugh Robert Hibbert to be Captain
without purchase, vice Pack ; Ensign George Henry Wal-
ler to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hibbert ;
Lieutenant H. N. C. Thurstone, from the 31 West York
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lord R. H.
Browne, promoted, Dec. 22.
11th Foot—Acting-Assistant-Surgeon Francis Henry
Macfadin, from the °Staff, to bo Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Young, promoted on the Staff, Dec. 22.
12th Foot —Henry Nesbitt, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purcase, vice Stirke, promoted, Dec. 22.
13th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Mark Kerr, from
half-pay Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to bo Lieutenant-Colonel
vice Brevet-Colonel Stuart, who exchanges, Dec. 22.
24th Foot—Ensign Henry William Heaton, from the 3d
West York Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase,
Dec. 22.

21st Foot—Major John Ramsay Stuart to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Ainslie, died of his
wounds: Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Paul Haines
to be Major, without purchase, vice Stuart; Lieutenant
Edwin Ashley Tucker Steward to lee Captain, without
purchase, vice Haines; Ensign Richard Stephens to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice steward, Nov. 15 ;
Ensign William Cairnes to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Stephens, whose promotion, on the Bth De-
cember, 1854, has been cancelled, Dec. 8; Isaac Tristam
Coffin, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Caii nes,
Dec. 22.

31st Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Francis Ball to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Minnitt, who retires ; Ensign
William George Herbert Taylor Fairfax to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Ball; Thomas Christian Rycroft, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fairfax, Dec. 22.
37th Foot—Johnl George Jervis, Gent., to bo Ensign,
without purchase, vice Evened, promoted, Dec. 22.
38th Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Jackson
Louth to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice
Sir John Campbell, Bart., promoted to be Major General ;
Brevet-Major Joseph Samuel Adamson to he Major, with-
out purchase, vice Lowth ; Lieutenant J. T. Craster to
bo Captain, without purchase, vice Adamson ; Ensign
John Bolton French to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Craster, Dec. 22.
41st Foot—Lieutenant Isaac King, from the Royal
Bucks (King's Own) Militia, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Fitz Roy, promoted, Dec. 22.
49th Foot—Major John Thornton Grant to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel
Adams, promoted, to be Major-General; Brevet-Major C.
S. Glazbrook, to be Major, without purchase, vice Grant ;
Lieutenant J. A. Conolly to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Glazbrook; Ensign Patrick Cahill to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Conolly, Dec. 22.
50th Foot—Edward John Miller, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Antrobus, promoted, Dec. 22.
60th Foot—Ensign James Arthur Morrah, from the
Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Ensign, vice Fox, pro-
moted, Dec. 22.
73d Foot—Ensign Bryan George Davies Cooke to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Evans, who retires ; James
Frederick Henley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Cooke, Doc. 22.
77th Foot—Lieutenant William Seward Le Feuvre,
from the Hampshire Militia, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Carden, promoted, Dec. 22.
78th Foot—Captain Jacob Meek, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice Bentley, who exchanges ; Lieu-
tenant Lawrence Fleidell-Bouverio to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Meek, who retires; Ensign John Finlay to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bouverie ; Montagu Alex-
ander Kirby, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fin-
lay. Dec. 22.
88th Foot—Ensign Courtenay William Aylmer Thomas
Kenny to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Maule,
died of his wounds, Nov. 16.
Ensign William Lambert to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Kenny, whose promotion on the Bth Decem-
ber, 1854, has been cancelled, Dec. 8.
Lieutenant William Little to be Adjutant, vice Mania,
died of his wounds; Berkeley Mitchell, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Lambert, Doc. 22.
89th Foot--Captain Daniel Tom, from half-pay 36th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Knipe, who exchanges, Dec. 22.
90th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur D. Swift, from the Hamp-
shire Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Jack-
son, appointed Quartermaster, Dec. 22.
93d Foot—Ensign Maxwell Wither Hyslop, from the
39th Foot, to be Ensign, Dec. 22.
Rifle Brigade—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel W. S. R.
Norcott to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice
Brevet-Colonel Buller, promoted to be Major-General
Brevet-Major Alexander Macdonell to be Major, without
purchase, vice Norcott; Lieutenant the Hon. Leicester
Curzon to be Captain, without purchase, vice Macdonell,
Dec. 22 ; Second Lieutenant the Hon. H. Walter Camp-
bell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Tryon, killed