The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-07 00:00:00

S.HIPPINGa.RETDBAr-s.

as compared with,
although al-
lowance must be made for the activity of transport The shipping returns of the Board of Trade for the
month ending the sth of June again show a consider-
able increase of arrivals and departures both of British
athned
correspondingforeign
m 0 ne
txhc except t
last
year Russian,er a
;
nd
ves-
sels, they confirm the evidence furnished by the declared
value of our exportations as to the uninterrupted pro-
gress of the country in the face of war. Last month
there were no clearances to Russia, and only two arrivals
thence ; but on the present occasion, owing, it is pre-
sumed, to the prizes brought in, 22 Russian ships appear
to have entered, of an aggregate capacity of 4,732 tons.
Subjoined are the general entries and clearances of all
classes of vessels : u
Entered inward :
TONNAGE FOR MONTH ENDIlia JUNE 5.
1852. 1853. 1854.
British vessels 303,218 351,166 407,416
United States' vessels
Othe4countries 126,590 243,218 259,463

500,056 643,614 716,904
The clearances outward were :
1852. 1853. 1854.
British vessels 430,063 423,549 428,816
United States' vessels
Other countries 126,815 186,000 241,114

631,392 666,416 768,626
With regard to the coasting trade, the returns show
that the tonnage entered inward was 1,093,791 in the
month ending June 5, 1852 ; 1,149,239 in 1853 ; and
1,126,388 in 1854. The clearances outward were
1,181,022 in June, 1852; 1,141,877 in 1853; and
1,2591233 in 1854.

1839 PP
1844 PP
1849 JP
1854
"This great decrease, however, has taken place princi•
pally in the lower ranks; thus, the number of field officers
on half and retired full pay has fallen since 1840 from 554
to 390, while the number of captains on half and retired
full pay has decreased during the same from 1,401 to 988;
the lieutenants, from 2,679 to 929; and the ensigns and
cornets, from 435 to 134.
"The cause of this," it is added, "is obvious. In the
lower regimental ranks employment is certain for any of-
ficer desiring it.
"But the moment an officer attains field officers' rank,
his chances of employment are very much diminished.
This necessarily results from the constitution of a regiment,
which consists, for the most part, of ten companies, with
their ranks of officers, each numerically the same. Thus
the ten ensigns become ten lieutenants, and the ten lieu-
tenants become ten captains ; but from that rank upwards
the •quality of proportion is of course lost. For the ten
captains there are but two majorities to be attained; and
for the two majors but one lieutenant-colonelcy. A pro-
portion of these ten captains must, therefore, ultimately
retire on half-pay, if they do not sell out, in which case
they merely substitute another person to stand in the same
position as themselves.

" However much, therefore, time may relieve the ser-
vice of redundancy of officers caused by the reduction after
the war, there will always be in process of creation a fresh
though a more limited redundancy of field officers, who
will stand between the captains' and the generals' list,
forming a bar to promotion after the former rank, and
becoming themselves too old for active service by the time
they are absorbed into the generals' list.
" The progress made, however, in reducing the half-pay
list since 1838.9, even iu the upper ranks, has been most
satisfactory; and there is every reason to expect, unless
some great disturbing cause should arise, that the ratio of
that reduction will continue for some years to come."
As regards the ages of the officers now serving, and
those in the general officers' list, or in immediate prox-
imity to it, the results of the researches made by the
commissioners have been by no means so satisfactory.
They state that a comparison of the War-office returns
for the year 1838 and 1854 shows that, in the lower
ranks of the army, the age of the officers is less, but that
in the upper ranks it is greater, than it was in the same
grades at the former period. And they proceed to sub-
stantiate their assertion by tabular statements of the
ages of officers of different ranks. We extract the
portions relating to the highest and lowest grades of
which the particulars are given, which are as follows :
" In Juno 1838 there were 1,852 lieutenants on full pay.
There are now 1,966.
" Their ages in 1838 were as follows :-
1,235 were below 30 years of age.
285 between 30 and 35
128 „ 35 and 40
118 „ 40 and 45
86 „ 45 and 65

1,852
" In 1854 there aro 1,966.
1,882 aro below 30 years of age.
72 between 30 and 35
8 2, 35 and 40
3 ~ 40 and 45
I „ 45 and G 5

1,966
There wer. in 1838, 177 lieutenant-colonels on full pay.
Of whom 16 were below 40 years of age.
29 between 40 and 45
54 „ 45 and 50
78 „ 50 and 65

177
" In 1854 there are 112.
Of whom 38 are below 40 years of age.
45 between 40 and 45
46 „ 45 and 50
53 „ 50 and 65

182
These results they proceed to observe—
" Are no doubt mainly owing to the greater prevalence
of sale and purchase in the lower regimental ranks as com-
pared with the upper, which prevalence again has been
more marked in 1853 than it was in 1539, as will be shown
by the following table, giving the number of officers of
each rank who retired from the army by the sale of their
commissions in those two years :
In 1839. In 1853.

___ __
Maj or-generals -
...... 1
Colonels
Lieutenant-colonels l 2
Majors
Captains 93
Lieutenants
Cornet; second-lieutenants, and ensigns 37

269 311
" It is obvious that under tho present system, by which
all promotion iu the upper ranks, with exceptions too con-
fined in their operations to have much influence on general
results, is given to seniority alone, irrespective of service;
the larger the number of field officers on half-pay the
slower the promotion to the rank of major-general must be,
inasmuch as the amount of that promotion is necessarily
regulated not by the numbers and requirements of the
rank from which the promotion is made, but by the num-
bers of the then existing general officers' list.
" It follows again as a matter of course that the slower
the promotion is the greater is the age of the officers pro-
moted.
"If, therefore, we find that, instead of an increase in
the numbers of the officers on half-pay, there is an actual
decrease, the number on full pay remaining generally
about the same, the circumstances are, pro tanto, more
favourable to an earlier promotion from field officer rank
to that of major-general ; yet although the field officers
on half-pay have diminished from 554 to 390 during the
ten years which elapsed between the brevets of 1841 and
1851, yet upon an examination of the returns of the ages
and services of the colonels promoted to be major-generals
at those two
periods,
promoted
mwoiltledb einfoulnB4dLtheaxteltutexcluding
average
ago of major-generals
frac-
tions, was 59, and that of the major-generals promoted in
1851 was 60."
The following passage, which expresses the views of
the Commissioners as to the age best suited to active
service and heavy responsibilities, is exceedingly im-
portant :
4' The army cannot be said to be efficient in all its ranks
when, in the grade from which the commander must bo
chosen, upon whose vigour and energy the success of a
campaign may mainly depend, there are no officers below
that age after which but few possess the physical
strength necessary to endure thempertiva ions and fatigues
incidental to service in the field. Nor is the evil limited

Before explaining their views as to the changes which
it may be expedient to effect, the commissioners com-
ment on the existing mode of advancing officers by brevet
to the rank of major-general, which, they observe, is
intended to answer two distinct objects—first, to create
a class of officers eligible for commands ; and secondly,
to reward past service by conferring on those who have
performed them an honorary distinction combined with
certain pecuniary advantages. Only a small proportion
of the officers who become major-ganerals, and subse-
quently lieutenant-generals and generals, are ever ac-
tually employed in these ranks ; and it is obvious that
the advancement of those who are not so can only be
regarded as a reward for their past services.
As to the first and most important of these objects,
that of furnishing officers fit to hold commands, the
details contained in earlier pages of the report prove
that the system has not worked well, and the commis-
sioners apprehend that it could not be made to do so
by any abridgment of the time at which the rank of
major-general is usually attained. One obvious incon-
venience resulting from such a course would be an acces-
sion to the list of general officers so great as to impose
a heavy burden upon the finances of the country.
The commissioners proceed to point out the remedy
which they recommend, and express their opinion that
it should be sought in a more free exercise of the power
vested in her Majesty of giving temporary rank to
officers, with a view to their being appointed to com-
mands which cannot otherwise be so satisfactorily
filled up.
"It has," they observe, "long been the practice of the
British army to confer, when occasion requires it, local and
temporary rank on officers selected for certain duties. But
the advantage to be derived from this practice has, for
many years past, been materially diminished by its having
been regarded as a rule, to which very few exceptions have
been admitted, not to confer rank of this kind in such a
manner as to alter the relative position of officers, as deter-
mined by the dates at which they have respectively at-
tained the rank of colonel. It has not been thought ad-
visable that temporary rank as major or lieutenant-general
should be given to any officer where he is likely to meet on
service officers standing above himself in the strict order
of seniority, and there have been but few instances of
officers being appointed to command as major-generals,
until they have reached that rank in the ordinary manner.
They therefore recommend that in future, when the ser-
vices of an officer are required to take the command of any
portion of your Majesty's troops as a general officer, the
fittest officer that can be found for the particular I
should be selected, without reference to seniority, from the
whole list of officers who have attained the rank of colonel
or a superior rank."
The commissioners add their belief that—
"By adopting this rule, together with a further change
in the mode of advancing officers from the rank of lieut.-
colonel to that of colonel, which we shall propose in a later
paragraph of this report, we believe that those whose duty
it is to submit the names of officers to be appointed to im-
portant commands, would always have it in their power to
recommend for such employment officers properly qualified
for it by their age, their vigour of body, and their profes-
sional knowledge and ability."
The selection of colonels for major-generals' com-
mands will not, it is added, be an innovation in the Bri-
tish army, but rather the revival of a system which for-
merly prevailed, but has, during the last century, fallen
into desuetude ; and any objection which may be made
on the ground of possible partiality in selection, may be
urged with equal force against the practice of selection
from the list of major-generals.
The promotion of lieutenant-colonels to the rank of
colonel is at present regulated

" According to the strict rule of seniority, without re-
ference to the service performed by the officers promoted,
except in the case of officers appointed to be aides-de-camp
to the Queen, who become full colonels by virtue of that
appointment. All other officers obtain this rank by general
brevets, which include equally lieutenant-colonels on full or
on half pay. It is recommended that, in future, this prac-
tice should be altered ; and that, except when promotion is
given as a reward for very distinguished conduct in war, or
by appointment as aide-do-camp to the Queen, officers should
rise from the rank of lieutenant-colonel to hat of colonel
by service alone. The commissioners propose that the rank
of full colonel should be given to all officers on their com-
pleting three years of service with the rank of lieutenant-
colonel, in the command of regiments, or the field officers
and senior captains and lieutenant-colonels of battalions of
the Guards, termed mounted officers, or to lieutenant-colo-
nels on the staff, in situations necessarily held by officers
of that rank ; or lastly, as field officers of the Artillery or
Engineers. By giving the rank of full colonel to lieutenant-
colonels, after three years' service in any of the above ca-
pacities, the interval between tho acquisition of the former
and of the latter rank would be greatly abridged in favour
of officers who served in active employment after being
promoted to be lieutenant-colonels, and would thus bring
them into a position in which, according to the recommen-
dation above submitted, they would be eligible for employ-
ment as major-generals. It is believed that by this arrange-
ment ample facilities would be afforded for obtaining the
services of general officers less advanced in life than those
to whom employment in this rank has of late years been
restricted ; with the further advantage of offering a strong
inducement to exertion to officers holding the command of
regiments, or any of the other situations which, according
to our suggestion, would give the same title to advance-
ment ; since distinguished merit in the discharge of their
duties by officers so employed, would naturally lead to
higher commands under the system of which we have ad-
vised the adoption."
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which allows officers having obtained brevet rank of
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They regard,harhinowever, as
lieutenant colonel,
ultimately to become major-generals if
merely expressed to the comm d '
they havean er-m-chief
their readiness to serve when called upon ; and they
propose the advancement
propose should be enforced on
who have actually
those served for three
years as lieute-
nant-colonels.
With respect to brevets, and the substitute to be
recommended in their
place,
the commissioners explain
their opinion in the following paragraphs .
"We are also of opinion D •
that the resent practice of
having general brevets s
at uncertain intervals of time, and
of an extent determined by no positive rule shouldpro-
spectively be abandoned. It is obvious ' that, to any service,
an alternation of 1 •
largo promotions and complete stagnation
must be injurious, especially when the promotions come at
capricious and unforeseen periods, depending not on the
wants of the service so much as on the occurrence of events
totally unconnected with the state or requirements of the
army. Tlms there was a brevet in 1830, then for six years
an entire stagnation of promotion in the upper ranks ; in
1837 and 1838 brevets two years running ; again a stagna-
tion till IS4I, in which there was a brevet ; since which
there have been two brevets, at intervals of about five
years.

"We attach much importance, therefore, to the abolition
in future years of general periodical brevet promotions, and
we recommend the creation of a fixed establishment of
general officers, each vacancy in which should be filled up
as it occurs by the advancement of the senior colonel on the
list, except when there may be a supernumerary general
officer (appointed as we shall recommend in the succeeding
paragraphs) to fall into it. With regard to the number of
general officers which should form the fixed establishment,
we have had some difficulty in coming to a satisfactory
conclusion. Upon the whole it has appeared to us that the
best course would be, to take the actual number of general
officers as our guide. We find that on the 30th of April
last, the general officers' list comprised 134 colonels of re-
giments ; 92 on unattached pay,
and 7 on half -pay, or
in all. We propose that in future there should be 100

Into this retired list it is proposed to absorb as many
of the lieutenant-colonels as choose to accept the terms,
giving them 1001. a year in addition to their half-pay.
" The cost of the existing full-pay retirement is as fol-
lows :—The full pay of their ranks to 25 lieutenant-
colonels, 25 majors, 61 brevet-majors, and 37 captains,
amounts to 37,990/. 10s. 10d. ; but, in order to arrive at
the net cost to the country, it is necessary to deduct the
cost of the half-pay of which they would be in the receipt
were they not on retired full pay ; this amounts, in the
case of the officers above enumerated, to 22,985/. 17s. Gd.,
which, being deducted from the 37,990/. 10s. 10d., leaves
a net cost to the public of 15,013/. 13s. 4d.
" To this net cost of 15,0131. we propose to add an esti-
mated net cost, in round numbers, of about 8,0001. a year."
The exact net cost it is for several reasons difficult to
ascertain, but the estimate given is supposed to be an
approximation as near as can be made to the increase in
expense which would have to be provided for.
Such are the recommendations of the commissioners
with regard to the household troops, and the infantry
and cavalry of the line. The same alterations are sug-
gested in the mode of promotion in the Royal Artillery
and Engineers, but the difference between their organi-
sation and that of the rest of the army renders separate
consideration necessary. In the Royal Artillery
"The command of battalions, corresponding to the
colonelcies of regiments, is given to general officers, not by
selection but by seniority. There has been but one excep-
tion to this rule in the present century, and the practice of
conferring these commands according to seniority, without
reference to services, is nowinever departed from.
" The engineers aro also considered to form only a
single regiment, and the officers of this corps likewise are
promoted only by seniority ; but the services required
from engineer officers are of a very different nature from
those of any other officers in the army. Except when in
command of detachments of the sappers and miners, the
officers of the engineers have no privates under their
orders, and the duties imposed upon them require that
they should most commonly be employed singly, or not
more than two or three together, throughout the extensive
dominions of the Crown."

From the peculiar reputation of these two services it
has resulted that

" The average of the officers in the different ranks of
Ordnance corps is 'far greater than that of officers in the
corresponding ranks of tha army, nor is the average made
up of that variety of ages which, -within certain limits, is
to be found in the ranks of the army, and which gives to
the public service the advantage of having a few officers in
each of the higher ranks of greater physical vigour than
the rest."
By a detailed comparision it appears that

" The ages of the officers below field officers' rank are, as
in the rest of the army, younger now than they were in
1838, but from a different cause. In the other branches of
the army this arose from the increased sale of commis-
sions; in the Ordnance corps it has arisen from the great
impetu3 given to promotion by the frequent augmentations
which the Ordnance corps have received of late years.
But, on the other hand, the increase of age in the upper
ranks of the Ordnance corps is far greater than that in the
army. There is not now in the Royal Artillery one full-
pay colonel under 65, and very few lieutenant-colonels
under 55 ; while in the rest of the army, during the period
intervening between 1838 and 1854, the age of the field
officers has but slightly increased. In the Ordnance corps,
taking the ten senior colonels in each year, the increase is
not less than seven years in the artillery and six in the en-
gineers.

" Again, in the brevet of 1841, no colonel in the Royal
Artillery, promoted to be a major-general, was above 70
years old ; in the brevet of 1831 there was no colonel pro-
moted who was under 70."

The commissioners are therefore of opinion that, in
order to bring forward the officers of the Ordnance corps
to the rank of lieutenant-colonel at an earlier period of

life, it will be absolutely necessary to increase consider-
ably the provision which is now made for the retire-
ment of officers from this branch of the service ; and
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of all ranks in the Ordnance corps for service, and should
give them for that purpose such rank and promotion as
their merits and the duties entrusted to them may appear
to entitle them to, without regard to their seniority in
the corps." It has been felt, however, that the principle
of selection for promotion cannot be introduced, even to
this extent, into the Ordnance service, without rendering
more obvious the necessity, which exists on othergrounds,
n;owanmade
is, f otrh rhee-
fore, proposed, in the first place, that a larger and more
rfoertirinemcreenastionfg
othffieoeprrsovfriosimon
thesewhic which
corpsi
certain amount of promotion to the rank of major-ge-
neral should be assigned to the Ordnance service, and
the following changes are also suggested
‘,l. With a view to render the retirement at once more
honourable and more attractive, to give a step of rank to
each officer retiring.
the restriction f
n any oneyear,
imposed
number ‘2too do
oe
away
allowed h
w it
to retire
"-
portion of officers of each rank.
To invest the master-general with the
ercised by the command • chief same
powerex.
namel fromBl'lll- in parallel cases ;
y, that of selecting among the candidates for re-
tirement those cases which, from peculiar circamstancea,
may be the most pressing.
" 4. To fix the gross sum which the retirement shall not
exceed, augmenting it, however, considerably beyond the
amount now voted, in order to facilitate the retirement of
a larger number of officers."
The amount at present voted is 33,9311., and an addi-
tional sum of about 14,0001. would probably be requisite
to carry out the plan suggested by the commissioners.
The report concludes with a recapitulation of the altera-
tions suggested, and a hope is expressed that the ulti-
mate tendency of the changes recommended will be to
reduce the numbers of the ineffective portion of the army,
and consequently in future years to reduce the cost of its
maintenance ; while the accelerated promotion of officers,
whose services and capacity entitle them to such advance-
ment, will ensure the presence, in all ranks of min to
whose unimpaired energy and vigour may be entrusted
the safety of the country and the honour of her &fajesty's
arms.

SAVINGS'-BANKS.—A bill has just been introduced by
the Government for continuing for four years the Irish
Savings'-banks Act of the 11th and 12th of Victoria, and
for allowing the funds of friendly societies to be depo-
sited in savings'- banks, without restrictions as to amount,
under such regulations as shall he prescribed by the Com-
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
CAUSE AND EFFECT—WELLER's•COURT, KING'S-CROSS.
—lt may be worth while to state that since the articles
on the neighbourhood of King's-cross appeared, the cess-
pools in Weller's-court and in "Paradise-row" have been
removed, and the closets drained. Mr. Sutherin, the
district surgeon, states that since this has been done he
has been called comparatively seldom into the houses.
In Ashby-stfcet, and other strereettssht.ewhAne
stiaggllioeedd,by
yp
twhietlichsitlodnreens
children. The
hoetohtehr neighbourhood,
go
hut
bth
ote
ue nr drain-hdaysoo d
noui\Veller's-court, where
i '
wematterss unaltered,hada db eeena :blue
p inspectionl
on vsesdti ltwolin
and saw with regret that
of the closets had been
j utors called again at Weller's-courbtbiswhh,
other day one of our coad-
were overflowing, and the smell most ffeelnustit‘h,iene: ciltsoewsveuets.
o
Seve-
ral women who live adjoining
. complained of the place,
and regretted that after pains had been taken the work
should have been thus destroyed. "Is any one ill ?"
be asked. " Yes, sir ; a little girl is dying there,"
pointing to a wind
ow above the two closets. She had
been ill about a week, and was then sinking from an
attack of typhus fever.— OTh
Builder.

.7

• • • * OttLDHALL, JULY 3, 1854.
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LONDON and. SOUTH-WESTERN
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THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, JULY 7,

win be performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame
carsdort. Madame Sedlazek, Madame Heinrich; and Signors Pa-
vesd. Sant, and Arnoldi.
To conclude with the popular Ballet, entitled TINE PETE EN
°VOLPE.

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Notice.—Doors open at Half-past Seven. Performance commences
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Will be performed the Drama of TEL KNIGHTS OF THE
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After which, THE COURIER OF LYONS. Principal characters
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After which will be presented the New Extravaganza, entitled
A ROVING TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed by WAITING FOR AN OMNIBUS IY THE
LOWTHER ARCADE IN A RAINY DAY.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
trader the management of Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENING, ,Turr 7,
*ill be presented THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. Characters
by Misses. C. baritheits, Baker, and Swan; Miss Talbot, and Mrs.
F. Matthews. - • -•
Followed by a new lirarns, entitled SUNSHINE THROUG'i
THE ,CLQUDS, , Characters by; Nlestra. Rosiere, Gladstone, F.
Matthews; Madame Vestris, Hughes, and Mies Oliver.
To conclude with THE RAciIELOR OF ARTS.

ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIIIXTRE
• Luseti and Manage:, Mr. A. Wigan.

THIS EVENING, Jur. 7.
Will be performed the Comediatta, Cl led HEADS Olt TAILS.
Characters by Mr Emery and Miss Marstm, Sca.
To be followed by the Comic Drama called HUSH MONEY.
naraCters by Messrs. F it-Also:1, Emery, White, and Vincent ;
Dormer, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
After which, THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Chi.
!miters by Messrs. F. Robson, J. IL Waite, Leslie, and Vincent ;
Mrs.. Chatterley, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Marston.

STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft.
THIS EVENING, JULY 7,
WM be presented THE GARDENER OF VERSAILLES. Cha-
Yenta by Messrs. Bedford and Sidney; and Misses Beaumont and
iMarton. .

which. THE MARBLE LOVER.
Molutfolioved ter MRS. WHITE. '
To conclude wide THE-CbEBLER CONIVROR.

fa.; Boxes, Pit; 64; Gallery, 6(1.; Private Boa: s,
6d., to be had of *r. Alleroft,, lb, New Bond-street.

ASTLET'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL ANPIIITTIEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, JCTLY 7,

WM be presented the new Grand Historical 31i'Itary spectacle, en-
titled THE COISACKS ; or, Vivela France.
followed by a series of Chef d'Ouvres of Art, or Equitation DE
LA HAUTE ECOLE devetoped In tha Rennes in the CIRCLE, the
whole arranged and conducted by Mr. William Cooke.

10 conclude with RUSSIA AGAIN3I TURKEY, NOW ON
TRIAL.

Box-office open from Eleven till boar. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN 3.
Open for the Season.
THIS EVENING, JULY 7,

Will be repeated the entirely NEW and BRILLIANT PIECE
of FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion
and Gallic Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous
attractions of the gardens as usual, including the beautiful Panorama
of Chnsan, by- Danson—the extensive and interesting Menagerie—
Vocal and Instrumental Caincert : Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, and
Mr. Manvers, &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet
on Chtisan—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand
Display of Fireworks, by Souttily. Feeding the animals, Half-past
Five. Concert; Half-past Six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad-
mission to the whole, Is. - •

On TuandaY, WadneadaY. and Thursday Next, Jnly llth, 12th,
and 13th. TRUER- OftuND FETES, ander the Patronage of his
Excellency Count WALEWSKI. the French Ambassador, in ho-
nour of the cordial atlunce between France and England.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tnts DAy —Morning 49 min.eiter 10 I Evening 22 min.aft. 11
To•Moasow—Morning 0 tain.after 0 Evening 50 min.aft. 11

THE WEATHER.--Sus Orrin, Jinx 7,
TEINNIIOI.INTER, IN THE SNADIC.-
69 highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29'82.
WIND, S. to S. S.W.—Fresh breeze, with dirty, rainy
weather.

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