The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-11 00:00:00

MILITARY.

The colonelcy of the Bth King's Regiment has become
vacant by the death of General Sir Gordon Drummond,
which took place yesterday.
Thirty men are to be added to each cavalry regiment
serving at home.
We regret to announce the death of Lientenat-Colonel
Cox, Grenadier Guards.

Captain Younghusband, whose company of the Bth bat-
talion Royal Artillery is stationed at Gibraltar, with Lieu-
tenant Tucker and 100 non-commissioned officers and men
of the Royal Artillery, marched at seven o'clock a.m. on
Monday, from the garrison to the Royal Arsenal station of
the North Kent Railway, and proceeded by it to London,
en route by railway to Portsmouth, where they are to em-
bark for the seat of war in the East. Captain Young-
husband returns to Gibraltar to take the command of his
company at that station, and Lieutenant Tucker remains
with the Royal Artillery in the Crimea, the company to
which he is attached being stationed at Malta.
Letters have been received at Woolwich from several
officers, non-commissioned officers, and men engaged in the
battle of Alma. Colonel Lake, of the Royal Horse Artil-
lery, had a fine horse, which he greatly valued, shot dead
under him. It is impossible to describe the enthusiasm
and courage of the officers and men of the Royal Artillery
under the most trying circumstances, owing to the nature
of the approaches to the strongly fortified position whore
the Russians were posted on the Alma. As an instance,
it may be mentioned that one of the first of the Artillery
• guns that attempted to cross the river Alma had one of the
wheels of the gun carriage completely destroyed by the shot
from the Russian guns, while'the officers and men wore up
to their middles in water. Nothing daunted by their posi-
tion, and the heavy fire kept up on them, they promptly
set to work, and in an incredibly short space of time at-
tached another wheel to the gun carriage, and marched
forward to the scene of action almost as soon as the others,
and as if nothing had occurred to interrupt their progress,
Officers, non-commissioned officers, and men knew no dis-
tinction on the occasion, every one lending a helping-hand ;
and it is stated as a fact that one of the officers of the
Royal Artillery killed in action was serving tho gun as No.
3 gunner at the time he was killed. •
Captain Gibbon's company, 12th battalion, have been
placed under orders to hold themselves in readiness to pro-
ceed to Norwich with their 9-pounder field battery guns,
and Captain Smyth's company, 6th battalion, to Ipswich,
with their 9-pounder field battery guns, to make room for
a large number of horses from the country, and two bat-
teries of artillery, daily expected, with their horses, from
Canada. Captain Broughton's company, 2d battalion, and
Captain Graydon's company, Ist battalion, are now the
two companies first on the roster for foreign service with
siege guns. . .

The greatest activity exists in the garrison at Woolwich,
in the Royal Engineer department, and a messenger was
sent express to Chatham, on Monday morning, with orders
to the commanding officer of the engineer establishment
at Chatham to forward all non-commissioned officers or
privates of the Royal Sappers and Miners who arc practi-
cal divers for the purpose of their being sent to the army
under the command of Lord Raglan in the Crimea, to
assist in bringing up the guns and removing the vessels
sunk at tho entrance of the harbour of Sebastopol.
The 2d company of the Royal Sappers and Miners, that
left Chatham for the Baltic, are daily expected to return
to head-quarters here at Woolwich.
The whole of the Royal Sappers and Miners recently sta-
tioned at Hong Kong have left in the freight ship Blen-
heim, and are now on their way to England, to join head-
quarters at Woolwich.
A reinforcement of medical officers being required for

the seat of war, the following gentlemen are selected from
the medical staff at Chatham, to proceed forthwith for
service in the Crimea and. at Constantinople Newton,
J. Summer, and Rutter, being 2d class staff•surgeous at
the invalid depot, Fort Pitt Hospital ; those gentlemen
proceed to Constantinople, and Assistant-Surgeon John-
stone, 68th Foot, proceeds from Chatham garrison to Ports-
mouth, there to embark with artillery for the Crimea. It
is expected that another draft of medical gentlemen will
be required from the hospital, for the seat of war.
The Ipswich cavalry barracks are about to be occupied
immediately by a body of Horse Artillery. Orders were
received on Saturday for the barracks to be ready by Wed-
nesday, and it is anticipated that the men and horses are
to take their winter quarters at Ipswich, preparatory to
embarking at Harwich next spring for the shores of the
Baltic.—lpswich Express.

Cong, Oct. 10.—At five o'clock on Friday evening the

baggage of the draft of the 13th Regiment, stationed here
for the past month, accompanied by 6 privates and 1 ser-
geant, sailed from Merchants'-quay, in one of the river
steamers for Queenstown, to be embarked in the Poictiers
transport, for conveyance to Malta. Four women went
with the baggage. On the following morning at eight
o'clock 200 of the same regiment, and 70 of ,the 92d High-
landers, under the command of Lieutenant Leith, left is
the Royal Alice for the same destination. The band of
the 91st accompanied them down the river, playing, as they
proceeded, suitable and lively airs.—Cork Examiner.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The annual examination
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in this university is
to commence on Monday, the 23d instant, and will ex-
tend over the three following days. The subjects in
which the candidates who present themselves will be ex-
amined are mathematics and natural philosophy, animal
physiology, classics, logic and moral philosophy, French
and German. The examination for the degree of Bache•
for of Medicine will commence on Monday, November
6, the subjects being physiology, comparative anatomy,
surgery, medicine, and midwifery.. The examination for
the degree of Doctor of Medicine will commence on
Monday, November 27.
THE DISPUTE AS TO LONDON-BRIDGE STAIRS.—The
steamboat companies who land passengers from their
boats at the south end of London-bridge have at length
succeeded, with the sanct of the City authorities, in
making good a icelanding-Pl for their passengers
at the
stairs on the east side of that end of the bridge.
effect this a barge has been placed underneath tli e first
arch, connected at one end with the barge on which the
passengers step from the steamboats, and at the other
end by a gangway which lands them on the stairs. By
this arrangement passengers proceeding to the railway
station and other places eastward of the bridge avoid the
dangerous crossing on the roadway
THE PUBLIC REVENUES. _The principal above.
United
officers at the
several ports throughout the Kingdom have been
supplied by the Commissioners of Customs with copies
of the act of Parliament
forment of the last session, 17th and
18th Viet., chap. 94,
their information and govern-
ment, entitled "An Act to alter the Mode of Providing
for certain Expenses now charged upon certain Branches
of the Public lieyenuea and upon the Conaolidatod Fund."

• _
The following Austrian Note is in reply lb the
Prussian 'Circular of the 14th: This document is
addressed by Count Buol to Count G. Esterhazy,
the Austrian Ambassador at 'Berlin and bears date
Vienna, Sept, 30 1854 :
;
" Count Arnini has cororni.Miciasno me a &Pals' cd
which the annexed is a copy, containing the 'reply, his
Court to our declarations of the 14th. LliavQ not delayed
to submit the same to the Enaperor„our. most...gracious
master, and I obey the commands of his Majesty in ad-
dressing the following observations; ter you._ ~E_iret, of all,
we must take the liberty of correcting, in some points, the
construction which has been put uppn our declarations of
the 14th instant by the Prussian Cabinet. The more sin-
cerely desirous we are of a union with Prussia and the
other Governments of Germany, the greater worth we
must attach to the securing of our declarations against
nor could we state, that the
every
vine ihSllavlledenTSetinihnderinsg.
tated,
danger of a conflict between the two empires (Austria and
Russia) has been removed by the retreat of the Russian
troops from the Danubian Principalities. We have said
this only in speaking of such an immediate danger.
"If we have taken occasion to remind you that the oc-
cupation of the Principalities by Russia was the cause of
the war and that the German Courts had declared its
continuance as irreconcilable with the interests of Austria
and Germany —if we have acknowledged the naturally
consequent importance of the fact of the evacuation—we
were neverth6less far from recognising therein the security
of those important interests. On the contrary, we consi-
dered them gravely prejudiced, as long as Russia does not
give guarantees for the restoration of a sure 'and lasting
peace.
" We made mention of the restriction of the scene of war,
as an immediate consequence of the evacuation of the Prin-
cipalities. In doing so we bore in mind that Russia had
syithdrawn her army frathWallachia and Moldavia, and that
Austria was called upon to protect these countries against
second invasion. But 'we never- ascribed to ourselVesis'
right to separate the principalities froin the territory uchieh
accessible, for warlike operations, nor are we in a posi-
t on to claim such a -
" Just as little had the suggestion been madehy us that
Austria and Prussii. should refrain from making a
of
proposition' at the Germanic Diet for the adoption of the
guarantees which were agreed to by the exchange of the
notes of the Bth of August. As for ourselves, we consider
that this proposition has been already executed by the
communication of the note of the Imperial Cabinet of that
date, and we shall only then consider the resolutions which
the committee will have to submit to the Federal Assembly
after the examination of the documents that have been
placed before them, as quite satisfactory, if, in the ques-
tion of the guarantees, they assign to the Bnnd the same
position which we already hold. Only for the sake of not
unnecessarily permitting that the difference in the attitude
of Austria and Prussia should become prominent, have we
declared ourselves inclined, precisely as we did on the oc-
casion of the exchange of the notes being communicated
to the Bund, so also now, in communicating the answer
of Russia, to abstain from a formal motion to the effect
that the adoption of the four points be decided upon, and
only to await the fitting resolution from the initiative of
the Bund.
" If, lastly, it has been declared by us that we have not
taken upon ourselves any responsibility to enforce the four
points by active hostilities against Russia, the same decla-
rations manifest, nevertheless, in the most positive man-
ner, that his Majesty the Emperor has reserved to himself
full liberty of action in respect of his ulterior resolutions.
"Starting from the views which are here once more pointed
out, we proposed to the Berlin Cabinet to submit the answer
of Russia conjointly to the Bend, from whom the knowledge
of and consultation upon the same cannot well be withheld
without prejudice to its dignity, and to combine there-
with the proposition (motion)—the declaration that an
attack on the part of Russia against Austria in cense-
qusnce of our occupation of the principalities would cause
the entire Confederation to take up arms for our defence
(cur abwehr)—a declaration which Prussia for herself has
already given us. It can therefore only call forth our sin-
cere regret that the royal Cabinet now raises difficulties
against this proposition.
"On the part of Prussia, new explanations to our note
of the 14th of September are being claimed. The Royal
Government will consent to consider the interests of Ger-
many on the Lower Danube secured, only if the entry of
the Imperial troops into the principalities prevents the
establishment of other elements there. It demands expla-
nations as to whether the principalities shall be closed
against warlike operations generally by the Austrian occu-
pation ; that Russia consequently shall from thence not be
exposed to an attack from any other than Austrian troops;
and the Prussian Cabinet intimates that, if Russia should
have to repulse such an attack, and by so doing her forces
should come into contact with our troops, Germany would
then have to weigh in the balance its local interests against
the general interest which pertains to the question of par-
ticipation in a European war.
Prussia has already assured us of her support, provided
we do not take up the offensive against Russia. We can-
not therefore assume that she will now subject this assu-
rance to a limitation. Independently hereof, we can only
remark that the Government of Prussia is perfectly ac-
quainted with the nature of the engagements entered into
by all the powers concerned, as well as with the manner
in which we have declared ourselves concerning our advance
into the principalities. It knows that the treaty of the
Porte with the maritime powers cedes to the latter the
choice of any point of the Ottoman territory for the ope-
rations of the allied troops ; that consequently the Porte,
even if she should have wished to close the entry to the
principalities to her own Danubian army, was not at all
in a position to cede to us a right of exclusive occupation ;
and that we, on the other hand, have also laid no claim
thereto. We may in respect hereof bring to bear both
military and political exped'ences. We can make it the
object of our peculiar care that these countries, already so
sorely visited, shall ho spared a new infliction of the cala-
mities of war, and from being too heavily taxed. We can
also make it our aim that we may not be driven merely by
hostile events to a debision which might not appear to us
to be justified by a voluntary resolution. Here, however,
our right in the principalities has its limits.
" As, however, the Berlin Cabinet has returned to this
point, subsequently to the exposition of our views in our
communications of the 14th inst., we cannot therefore but
express the conviction, with the candour which we owe to
the allied Court, that Prussia is not in a position to de-
clare the security of the interests of Germany in the Danu-
bian principalities to be dependent upon an exclusive oc-
cupation by Austria. We aro far from wishing to evoke
discussions upon past events ; but if the Berlin Cabinet
consults its remembrances, its must confess to itself that
in the question of our advance into the principalities it
has observed an attitude which fairly excludes it from an±
title to make the objection that the principalities are not
occupied by us exclusively.
" If the foregoing offers no opportunity to more precise
explanations of our former communications, on the other
hand wo do not find in the declaration of Baron von Man-
teuffel any guarantee for an adequate result to a negotia-
tion of both Powers in common at Frankfort. To the
European Powers the Prussian Cabinet expresses itself ac-
cording to its declarations of the Gth inst., and continually
engages to give its moral support td the four points, and
is willing to use its influence in the Bund, that the com-
mittee of the Bund may declare itself willing to contribute
its moral support in favour of these points immediately
that any opportunity should offer to open negotiations upon
the basis of the same. The Prussian Cabinet, however, at
the same time repeats the assertion that it has some scruples
in respect to these points, and besides advances the doubt
whether at this period a negotiation hereon promises any
practical result to the Brand. The Prussian Courtwill cer•
tainly, however, find it only just if, on our side, we can re-
solve to bring forward at Frankfort only such propositions
as are adapted to accord the situation of the Bund with our
own, and if we in any case regard the promise of the moral
support of the four points not to be accordant with objec-
tions to the same.

" In such a positionof things we can only, though with
sorrow, share the doubt of Prussia of the possibility of the
establishment of a common proposition of both Powers.
We will therefore take counsel whether it is advisable that
we should bring our propositions before the council at
Frankfort separately, by the imperial presidia' ambassador,
and evoke a decision of the Bund, when we shall be in the
position to act accordingly ; or whether it Its better to
wait till the Governments of the German Confederation
find it in their interest to resume the negotiations upon a
question which so deeply affects Europe.
" All the proceedings of the Emperor bear witness to
his Majesty's deep impression how incalculably important
it is that in the present crisis Austria should remain united
with Prussia and the German Bund. The labours of<Aue-
trio., however, do not insure the attainment of this end.
It requires the co-operation of the Governments of Ger-
many, and, above all, of his Majesty the King of Prussia,
in whose exhaulted character (personal disposition—
gcraillhe), and highly-enlightened sense (siane), repoie 'the
best guarantee for salutary resolutions. You will acquaint
Baron Mantenffel with the present note.— We stall make
a confidential communication of the same to the Gettnarce
Courts.—Receive, &c.,

iluoL."

SUICIDE OF A MERCHANTS CLE*;---
PAINFUL ,CASE:.

hd bore Mr.
Yesterday morning an inquest vialen el
the of
body of
W. Carter, coroner for. East Surreay,:derk in the
Mr. William Bailey, jun.,
em-
ploymentEastcheap.of Mr. Ilardcaastgleed,
Mr. William Bailey, the fatherlc9ji o‘Df 'merchant,
the In er
deceased,chant d f-
half-past ten o'clock, when
said, " Well, father, you
posed he saw his son alivehoonledTfthvbueiryrmsddianeypterhVeeseanceiodnmgi,r amnbyionuodti,
hanisdmwohtehner.be Hfiresttchauemstineaaplh,pc;maer,e
and appeared ill.
have not met me as
After a great deal
the
ef pforellsoswinighgbystthatee=t7Laindwjouuryla,
Mr. Bailey made
character 'of my wife if possible, but I cannot
do shieldso
justice to the memory of my son. His feelings
have
fearfully worked upon in consequence of the
nde int h
e
übeectonf his mother. (The witness was here very
muchca affected, and was allowed to give the rest of his.
evidence sitting.) She neglected her home, and made
away with all her son's clothes and my furniture to
procure drink ; in fact, she parted with every article,
however trifling, to indulge in her propensity. I have
endeavoured to prevent her from drinking by becoming
a total abstainer myself, but without effect, and my son
was a young man of sober, kind, and steady habits. On
Thursday last, when I left the el-ceased with his mother
in the parlour she was fearfully intoxicated, and a short
time afterwards she cried out that her son was going to
leave her. When I went into the parlour again the de-
ceased was greatly affected, and ran out of the house,
saying that he cculd not bear it any longer. I never
slw my child again alive. The great dread of my son
was that his mother would, in one of her fits of drunk- .
enness, go to his place of business and disgrace him. I
have no doubt that his mind being wrought to a pitch
of madness he committed suicide.
_ _

The Coroner said that the case was one of the most
affecting he had ever heard, and ho hoped that Mr.
Bailey would, if possible, get the rector, or one of the
curates of the parish of St. Mary, Newington, to point
out to the mother of the poor youth the fearful conse-
quences of her depravity.
Mr. Bailey said he would do so, but he felt the death
of his only child was a dreadful price to pay for the re-
formation of his wife.
After a short consultation, the jury returned a ver-
dict of " Temporary insanity."

In the action on the Alma the colours of the Scotch
Fusilier Guards had 26 bullets through them. The staff
of the colours was broken ; but Mr. Lindsay held fast,
as cool as a cucumber, and escaped WithOlt Po wood.