The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-11 00:00:00

ME WAR-THE GERMAN SOVEREIGNS.

A French journal of repute, which reckons among. its I
sources of information the Russian agents who still
linger on the frontiers of France and in Western Ger.
many, draws a strange and humiliating picture of the
attitude assumed by the German Sovereigns towards the
Court of St. Petersburg, and of the last negotiations
between these personages. According to this narrative
of the Journal des .Ds'bats, the official communications
Made by the German Cabinets to the Russian Govern-
ment subsequent to the Convention of Berlin and the
interview at Tetschen were in each case accompanied
by confidential autograph letters, in which the Imperial
and Royal correspondents addressed the Emperor
Nicholas in the most affectionate terms, protested that
they had no inclination to make war, entreated his
Majesty to condescend to accede to their solicitations
for peace, and offered is that case to constitute them-
selves the mediators at a congress at which all pending
questions were to be discussed and arranged. It is even
added that the King of Prussia had the inexpressible
meanrwss to beg his Imperial brother-in-law to honour
him with a personal interview on his recent visit to the
frontiers of East Prussia—a request to which the Emperor
Nicholas sent a flat refusal by one of his Aides-de-Camp,
—and indeed the Czar, if this account is at all to be be-
lieved, appears to have taken no further notice of these
puerile appeals to his compassion than to give fresh in-
structions for the movements of his' troops, and to
send as his representative to Vienna a man well known
to be a partisan of the war, and a member of the ultra-
Muscovite party, while he reminded the Sovereigns of
Austria and Prussia that they owed their existence to
his protection, and threatened to punish their ingra-
titude by some tremendous manifestation of his power
and vengeance.
%It is not for us to discuss the motives which can in-
duce a journal like that from which we quote these -de-
tails'to accredit and disseminate statements of this na-
ture. But it is obvious that the effect of such distorted
Versions of the facts which have taken place is to throw
discredit and contempt upon the German Feelers, and
to forward the scheme of a Congress, or of renewed ne-
gotiations, on which Russia rests her hopes of escaping
' from her present embarrassments. Whatever may have
been the secret relations of Prussia with the Court of
St. Petersburg, we Certainly do not believe, without
further proof, that at the very time when Austria was
concluding a treaty of military operations with the
Porte, and exchanging the most confidential com-
innuications with the belligerent Powers, she was ten-
dering to Russia, for Russian purposes, a mediation
which the Western States had not shown the slightest
disposition to accept. On thecontrary, the latest intent-
gance we receive from Vienna Shows that it is now chiefly'
agalust Austria that the fury of, the Emperor Nicholas
is excited, and against her frontiers that his principal
armies are arrayed., No one, therefore, knows better
than the Emperor of Austria and his Ministers what they'
would have to eknect fro:n n negotiation begun under
suph auspices.. 'We can only regard publicationeref- this
kind as in.shlious attempts to shake.tbat confidence which
ought to exist between at least three of the great powers
and to injure the general cause of Europe, to which the-
Emperor of Russia and his adherents are alone opposed;
for, we repeat, it is from Russia, and by Russian agents
alone, that these rumours of renewed negotiation have
obtained currency in Europe.
Let any one, however, compare the probability of such
reports With" the terms of the last communication ad-
dressed .by the Czar to Vienna and Berlin. We stated
yesterday that the conditions annexed by Russia to the
evacuation'of the Principalities were not then fully known
--to tie. According to ail the principal journals of the
Continent these conditions are, that the Western Powers
should' simultaneously evacuate the Ottoman territory
and that Austria should not enter it ; that Russia
should retain the line of the Sereth, that is, the
greater- part of Moldavia and Ws capital, Jassy,
" for strategical reasons ;" and that nothing un-
favourable to Russia should be undertaken pend-
ing the negotiation, a condition which would
virtually amount to a* armistice. These condi-
tions are obviously inadmissible, and inconsistent
with all -the principles laid down in the treaties, the pro-
tocols, and elsewhere. France—and England have en-
tered the Ottoman territory by virtue of conventions
with the Sultan ; Russia has, on the contrary, seized and
invaded a portion of that territory in defiance of right
and law. There is therefore no parity in the two sktua-
tions. 'But, even while she speaks of evacuation, Russia
claims the line of the Sereth "for strategical reasons"—
that is, she announces her intention to hold a large por-
tion of Moldavia, and the best military position which
the Principalities afford, in order that wbeh the next
opportunity offers she may again advance to the best ad=
vantage. Thirdly, she annexes- to these inconclusive
proposals a condition which would practically suspend
the operations of war during a negotiation which might
be indefinitely prolonged. It is needlesato comment on
such a scheme. Russia, in making it, most have known
that she was asking that to which no Mieisters of-the
Western Powers could by possibility consent ; and she
must have formed a very low opinion of the capacity
and energy of the Austrian Government if she ima-
gined that it would be_imposed upon by such language
as t4ia. The whole course of modern Russian policy
seems to be an p.m...n0:t0 intimidate the vSorla by
exaggerated demonstrations, none of which have as yet
supported the touch of reality. The Empercif Is re-
ported to say that the war is not yet begun in earnest,
but that sooner or later we shall see him at the head of
half a million of men, scattering the nations before him
like another Attila. This bombast is all intended for
the Same object-to cover his retreat;, and to press and
terrify the timid into„negotiations, at which the Em-
peror is to preserve his exalted position, and magnani-
mously to vouchsafe that,peace which England, France,
Germany, and the East are supposed to be anxiously.
awaiting at his hands. Even these fictions are not' new
to us. They are precisely similar to the language of
Tippoo Sahib, the Emperor of China, or the King of
Ava, and show how largely the ussian nation and
GovernMent partake of the Oriental character. The
truth-is; as every one knows, that for many. months
past the whole resources of the Russian empire have
been strained to excess, though with results far below
what was expected of the Imperial armies ; and the
contrary statements which are put forward are so no-
toriously untrue, that we wish nothing better than to
see them brought to the proof by the most efficient and
decided' measures that can be employed by the Allied
Powers.—rimes.

THE FIRE IT OLNEY.—The extent of loss is esti-
mated to be at least 10,0001., of which scarcely one-
fourth is covered by insurances, the greater portion
of the sufferers being small tradesmen and labour-
ers. A very liberal subscription has been entered
into, and more than 300/. realised, yet very far from
the amount necessary to supply even the immediate
necessity of more than 300 persons. Several families
were obliged to go at once to the workhouse, but the
remainder have manaed to remain at home, with
such assistance as could be given them. The ladies fer
miles round have been engaged in makino. shirts, &e.,
for the destitute. Appeals have also been made from
the pulpits of the churches and chapels at neighboueinc,
parishes. A poor woman named Perkins, her husband's
house being destroyed, was removed to Weston,
and the same night (the 26th ult.) was safely delivered
of two boys, all doing well. Thomas Hubband, mat-
maker, who was very ill and obliged to be removed (in
an unconscious state) in the midst of the fire, died on
the ,following Thursday, aged 74.—Northamptom Herald.
SICKNESS.—At the last ordinary meeting of the In-
stitute of Actuaries, held at the rooms of the institute
in St. James's-square, John Finlaison, Esq., president,
in the chair, a paper was read entitled "Observations
upon the sickness and mortality experienced in friendly
societies," by Henry Tompkins, Esq. The author com-
menced by urging the importance of correct data as to
the law of sickness. It was more difficult to determine
than the law of mortality. Mr. A. G. Finlaison, in his
recent report made by order of the House of Commons,
upon the sickness in friendly societies, in which associa-
tions nearly three millions of persons were enrolled, had
determined the ratio of sickness with a greater ap-
proach to accuracy than had ever been accomplished
before. Previous investigations had included claims
made on account of old ago with those of sick-
ness. This had led to erroneous results. Thus
at age 60 every man had been stated to
be ill on an average one month in the year ; at 70, two
and a halrmonths ; at 75, four months ; at 80, five
months ; and at 85, six months. In consequence of the
promulgation of this erroneous data it was supposed by
many that Friendly Societies in general were in an in-
solvent state, The author proceeded to analyse Mr.
Finlaison's report, from which it appeared that between
the ages of 20 and 30 each person had on an average
nearly seven days illness a year ; at 40 it increased to
8 days ; at 45, to 9 ; at 50 to 111 ; at 55, to 14 ; at 60,
elapsing
es s
to 184 ; at 65, to 27i ;
tehlaepS:
at R
-0, to 971, It was stated that the total amount of
at 70, to 43,1 ; at 75, to 66 ; and
18 anti 50, was 260 days ; in the
experienced by each person in the 32 years
10 years betweenbetween -
and 60, I.li days ; between
Go and 70,,5,, 50
and 80, 712.
Locality had -4`;_le9 and between 70
little to do with the .
ratio
of
sickness. It had alsory
sickness was in the been found that the duration of
tack, as shown in the
ratio to susceptibility of at-
with sickness. Thusti proportion of persons attacked
nearly 20 per cent. in the northern parts of England •
while in the midlarawdei: early attacked with illness,
tacked ; but, on the othertlretl 30
per cent. were so at-
ness to each sick man in atte, the proportion of sick-
average to .50 days, while ine north amounted on the
reached only to 36 days : the tli''e midland districts it
balanced by the duration, thus rniattlity to attack being
once in the amount of sickness experiencedig verY
little differ-
, England when compared with another, in one part of
the mortality experienced in Friendly Societies,
regard to
very light, there being at age 20, only onoedieties, it was
at 30, one in 130 ; at 40, one in 47 ;at seo,eoath in
135
;; '
at 60, one in 33; at 70, one in 13, and at 80neonin'67 - I
This part of the inquiry coincided with previous investi-
gations mB.
almost to repetition. The Report divided labour
into two classes—viz,, light labour and heavy laboeuur, 1
and each of these again into the two sections—labour I
in the open air, and labour under shelter ; and the re- i
sults sh)wed a great difference in their ratios of sickness
and mortality., The most healthy condition of existence
appeared to be ," light labour in the open air." The I
author concluded by enunciating the theory that the I
duration of sickness was in direct proportion to the vital
power.. Thus, let Stc, the sickness, be multiplied into
the numbers out of which one will die, or intensity IT,
it should produce a constant number C. It was stated
that tables of payments required in Friendly Societies,
calculated from the Report by I\lr, Finlaison, were in
the press.

ANOTHER,‘‘COALX4OS" BILL

ABANDONED.

The "Divorce anirMairimonial Causes Bill" was last
night-forsaken by the Goizernrnent. It forms another
item in the list of CoalitTa. failures. Ifs professed ob-
ject was to remedy some of the evils which at'present
cling to ,the law of divorce. But it must be confessed
that instead of doing anything to remove the evils of
impartial legislation,as far as the question between the
two sexes is involved, it would have aggravated them.
A clever letter signed " Margaret Hellen," which ap-
peared in yesterday's Daily Rescs, adverts to this fact
with a bitterness of feeling thattan
_only proceed from
a strong sense of injury. The proposed Bill, if it had
become the law of the land, would 'really legalise or
crystallise a wrong under which women have long been
suffering. The Bill proposed to, give the husband the
right of suing for divorce on occasions of the adultery of
the wife, but only allowed the'saine remedy to the wife
in the event of the commission hy the husband of crimes
which to the credit of society are 4o uncommon that
they might, to all intents and purposes, be left without
notice in the statutehools, , This- fact is quite sufficient
to account for the indignation of our correspondent, and
to justify the upset of the7BilL
" Hardly as our sex has been treated by the matri-
monial statutes of previous ages in England," said our
lady-correspondent, "-it- is reserved for the boasted
civilisation of the nineteenth century to endeavour to de-
privo us of the einall protection against insult and indig-
nity which law and public opinion have afforded us
hitherto ; for, whilst by the measure proposed facilities
are afforded to the husband to dissolve his union with an
unfaithful wife, -should the cane. be reversed, and the
wife the injured party, no re'dresivoLgrievences, no sun-
dering of the marriage 'bond except under the most ex-
treme cases of villany, is procurable." This is without
doubt a valid case of grievance. While we are obliged
to confess, with contrition, that in this wicked world
" the weakest always go to the wall," we agree-with
Margaret-. Hallea that. it is a disgrace to a nation to
make laws to 'compel the weaker to go to the wall—to
strengthen by legislation: what is already too strong in
fact. It crnot bedebied, either, that our correspondent's
objection to the reasoning of the Chancellor is unexcep-
rithra-tre: say the least of it, rather strange
to that legalaligaitary. declare in the House of
Lords, on the occasion of the debate on the second read-
ily, of the bill, that, -" though it might be bad morality,
there was no blinking the fact that a husband would
scarcely lose caste fcrr an-offence of: this kind (adultery),
whereas a wife would forfeit her station in society."
This may be, and probably, is, very true as a statement
,of facts, but it is not a statement which the highest legal
authority in the land should put forward as a basis for
legislation. It may be allowedthat it is not expedient
that the laws of divorce shnuld be too much relaxed ;
but let us exercise some fairness in our legislation on the
subject. Do not say insolently to women. We men
may break a mare' precept' without voilating the laws
of the country, whereas if you break it you slial,l be
ruined. We ,Zll thrust you out of society fel-Commit-
tiiLg an offence whi•ch we consider venial when Corn-
initted by our*ves.. This surely would be the.very in-
aotence of legislation. It may be allowed that the legis-
lation regarding sexual relations is to the. last degree
auomalous in England- already, hut do not endeavour to
increase the anomaly. -What we ought to do is to assimi-
late the law of divorce in-England to the Scotch law on
the same subject. Daily Nom,.

OUR MECILINIC4.L..POTVER. AND THE

R.

TO THE EDITOI OF THE DAILY NEWS.
Sir—Yokir leader of to-dayoirthe adoption of improved
mechanical means in attacking' the Russian maritime
fortresses sounds a note which it is to be hoped will be
taken up by the people and the press from one end of
the country to the other. " •

It cannot be denied that this, the greatest mechanical
country in the world, ill conducting the war whiCh is
now upon its bands, has not, the full advantage of the
immense mechanical resources which lie absolutely at
its disposal. Indeed, how should it have, when those
who have the conduct of its operations are for the most
part men whose minds Imre beenilrst warped by routine
and then stiffened by the, pride of official impractica-
bility.
During the lastlen yeai.a the mechanical genius of the
country, which had previously achieved some splendid
triumphs, has acquired .a development which, whether
measured by the number of minds brought to bear upon
the subject, the, greatness of the ingenuity,displayed, or
the variety ancLgrandenr of the-works which have been
achieved, must be regarded as absolutely without paral-
lel in the history of the world. One after another every
mechanical problem•Which-theiwants or wishes of man-
kind have forced upon our engineers—whether the diffi-
culty to be overcome was terrestrial or nautical—has re-
ceived its solution. And
,s.ow, when we have to deal
with the ultimo ratio-reggna, what is to be done with
this great mass of mechanical ability ?
Some people no doubt will say---k' Oh, but these gen-
tlemen have ail 'along-been occupiell with civil engineer-
ing. What we are in want of ie military engineers.'"
An answer displaying, certainly, a large Amount of ig-
norance, as if the problem submitted to civil and. mitt
tarp engineers was not
,essentially one and the same, viz.
the overcoming of obstacles-by the applica.tieh of force.
Mechanical superiority may be made available to the
party,possessine it in two ways, viz., by improved rani-'
In-dation, and by improved contrivance. Thus 'by our
superior manipulation, castings for steam engines are
dally made in all parts of Great Britain of a magnitude
which nowhere, else in the world can be attempted ; but
it remains to be shown that the smile superiority of cast-
ing has been.taken advantage of to increase the bore of
our guns beyond what is attainable by other nations.
Again, as,regards-contrivance.. Experirdents have of
late years been made; and important results arrived at,
as to the effect of particular mixtures of metal and parti-
Cular modes of cooling in producing tenacity in iron
under certain circumstances. gas any proper system of
such experiments ever been extended to our cannon
foundries ? or to take a more exalted example of contriv-
ance ? It is well linown that we can construct' steamboats
of any degree of Strength, of any degree of lightness, cf
any degree of speed. Does the country in the present
war reap thWfull benefit of our mechanical superiority
in this respect •
If the Government wish to know what can be done in
the present state 'of mechanical science and its kindred
arts in relation to the above and similar particulars, let
them not trust implicitly to their ibutine advisers. Let
them cause it to be known that suggestions froin parties
possessing a prima facie claim to attention will undergo
a proper examination, instead of being systematically
snubbed. If-there is. no staff at present available for
the purpose, let one be created. Under such a system,
it would be unnecessary to 'advertise rewards for inven-
tions. Amor paliqce and an honourable emulation would
alone do-the- bttsiness. -

Hoping that you will not let tho matter deep, I am,
ctc., ARGUS.
• July G.

THE FATAL PARACHUTE DESCENT.

The inquest upon the body of Moo=ieur Henri Letour,
whose death was eacasieiled by injuries sustained in at-
tempting a descent in a parachute, was held yesterday be-
fore Mr. Baker, the coroner. Tho inquiry excited much
interest. The parachute, which was exhibited to the jury,
is in the form of' a largo umbrella, constructed of white and
blue cotton, bound with rope line, and when expanded is
about forty feet in; circumference. In lieu of a car is a kind
of saddle, with a Pair of treadles for the feet to rest upon,
and above is some machiaory propelling three long canvas
fans, or wings, intended to guide the parachute in de-
sce,n:ling.
Mr. Adams, the, reronaut st Cremorne-gardens, deposed
that he was ordered by Mr. Simpson, the proprietor, to
take the deceased np in his parachute on the evening of the
27th ult., and he ascended from the gardens about 7 p.m.
He had taken up deceased once before, on which occasion
he (Mr. Adams) liberated the parachute, and it fell safely
somewhere near Blackheath. The machine was attached
to the balloon by a rope, and was liberated by a trigger
iron, which held one of the ends. Having prepared for
the Clescent, and descended some distance, he looked over
to see if the parachute bad expanded, but saw that it had
not, and was all twisted, so that it would have been cer-
tain death to deCeased to have liberated it. He therefore
continued to descend, and when passing over a meadow
near Tottenham, the grapnel. was caught by some boys,
who could not hold it, and the balloon took a course over
some land 'until the grapnel caught bythe sideof a ditch when
it was brought up. Before then the parachute struck the
ground several times; he heard the deceased call out, but ho
did not understand what he said. He expected that the de-
ceaseclwould have cut the belt and thushavoliberated himself
the moment he touched the ground, but he did not do so.
Assistance came up, and lie saw the deceased carried away.
In answer to the jury as to why he did not detach the
parachute when so close to the ground, and so have given
the deceased a chance of escaping, he said that he did not
know but what tho machine had by that time got away,
but even had it been so, ho thought that the grapnel,
which was trailing along, would either have picked it up
or the man. He (witness) did not understand French, nor
did the deceased understand English.
Mr. Marshall, of Brook-place, Tottenham, deposed that
he saw the parachute to which deceased waslashed dragged
over the ground for about half a mile. He heard the de-
ceased call out, and a young gentleman who was with wit-
ness, and who understood French, said that he was calling
to those in the balloon to cut him away.
Some other witnesses having been examined, including
Mr. Green, the reronaut, who attributed the twisting of the
machine and the rope to its being spun instead of plaited,
the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death.

THE NEGROES AT THE DIGGINGS.—An American cor-
respondent of the Williamsburg Times writes from Mel-
bourne : -" The coloured people, almost without excep-
tion, are doinr, well here ; they are lucky as diggers,
and always fined employment as cooks, and at good wages.
Close by us, two men took out $lB,OOO from their claim.
Mrs. Stove's work having reached the colony, a good
deal of sympathy is manifested for the coloured people
who come from America, while those from the East
Indies perish like animals. The first step of a coloured
man when he arrivcs is to get married to a white woman,
and a pretty one too. Oa Sundays no black man is seen
without a white lady hanging on his arm. If English men
were but only one-half as democratic as English women,
Victoria would soon be a republic. I asked a very
poor re-
about .' ' 1
speetable•looking woman why she married a coloured
man, and she replied, ' because he would treat me better
than an Englishman ; all the Americans do.' Do
tthat
what r ' Why, treat women well.' What makes you
think sol
see it ; there are a good many Americans
i
wiv e s
~herei saidm ar,ri,eldn, and the
e y ttlhoen strikeloatboii
r ilabouring
men
.1
eknick alwaystlieir
give their money to their wives ; in America they seldom
do. I though
, is
a great compliment to women.
She replied,` Mayn En
be that is what makes the labouring
classes-scxgland ; at any rate, I would sooner
be the wife Of a black
man than the slave of a white one.
Ee ides, my husband just as much of an American as
you are ; he was born in. the State of Massachussetts.
I suppose you thought to
feet Aplurned., ". bhanao mo ; but, no, I do not 1

v

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THE WAR.

THE EMBARKATION OF THE FRENCH
• TROOPS AT CALMS.

We have already stated that the Hannibal, 91, screw,
Commodore the Hon. F. W. (hey, and the Algiers, 91,
screw, Captain Talbot, had returned to the Downs from
Sheerness,

The St.--Vineent, 102, Captain Mansel,‘ towed by the
Sphinx, 6, paddle-sloop, Captain Clifford, and the
Royal William, 120, Captain Kingcorne, in tow of the
Gladiator, 6, paddle, Captain Broke, have joined these
ships and now they form a_ squadron of four powerful'
vessels.

This morning the Vivid, Admiralty yacht, Master-
Commander Allenj with Captain Smithett; proceeds to
the Downs, and conveys Commadore Grey to Calais, to
confer with Admiral La Pierre and the French autho-
rities there as to the arrangements.

It is expected that Admiral Berkeley, C:B., will pro-
ceed from the Admiralty, on Wednesday or Thursday,
to Dover and thence to Calais, and the embarkation,
which we understand is to be completed in one day, will
take place under his personal superintendence. It is
intended that the line-of-battle ships, with their atten-
dant steamers Sphynx, Gladiator, and Termagant, 24,
screw, Capt. the Hon. J. K. Stewart, shall drop down'to
Calais roads on Thursday night, and if possible they will
return to the Downs on Friday night, after the troops
and their equipages are on.board.
The Termagant, the Hon. Keith Stewart, got up
steam at Portsmouth on Sunday evening late, and work-
ed her engines for some time. Everything was' most
satisfactory, and she afterwards steamed out of the basin
into the stream,;where she has been swung to ascertain
the deviation Of 'her compass. She proceeded to Spit-
head last evening, and will take in her powcler and shell,
and be paid advance wages, after which she proceeds to
Calais roads, to receive on board 500 of the French
troops.
The Widgeon and Sprightly, steam-tenders, have pro-
ceeded to Calais from Sheerness and Portsmouth, and
other ships will follow theth, to assist in the embarka-
tion.
_ _

The Dashei, 3, paddle, Capt. Le Febre ; Fire Queen,
paddle-teuder ; and. Comet and Echo, steam-tugs, are also
ordered from Portsmouth to Calais, to assist in embark-
ing the troops. The Dasher left last evening.
It is expected that thousands of Englishmen will pro-
ceed from Doirer to Calais on Thursday night to-witness
the embaikation on Friday. Steamers will run from
Dover several times during,the day, and the last packet
(the mail steamer) will leave Dover shortly after eleven
o'clock on Thursday night for the other side of the
Channel. .

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Wildfire, paddlewheelsteam-vessel,stender to the
Waterloo, George Brockman master ; the Myrtle, pad-
Alewheel .steaih-vessel, tender to the Formidable, W. S.
Bourcbier,maSter ; and the Fearless, paddlewheel steam-
vessel, charles Aiistey (acting master) in command, are.
ordered to be temporarily fitted for the conveyance of
the French troop, to be embarked •at Calais on board
the English line-e4-battle ships•which take them to the
Ba:tie. They are to leave Sheerness for Calais this day.
Each vessel is to have her name painted conspicuously
on the quarter and on the stern, so as to enable the
Commodore the mere readily to communicate with them
by signal;flags, as reqUired.
Yesterday intelligence was received at the Admiralty,
under date July the 3d, that her Majesty's steamer Con-
flict had just taken three prizes, namely the Reinhardt,
of Papenburgh, bound from London to 'Cronstadt, and
two Courland decked boats. They have bown sent in
charge of prize crews home to England.
By a letter received from Memel, dated July 6, the
Anaphion was there refitting in the roads. The Con-
flict had also arrived on the previous Sunday from her
cruising ground. The Amphion had taken her wizen-
mast out, and was making a new one. This is the
second spar that has been fouled defective since she
left England,
The funeral of the late Captain Foote took place at
Memel on the sth, apd was conducted with much solem-
nity. The procession started from the British Consul's,
Mr. Herslett's, house, and was announced by nine guns
/from the Castle, the Amphion firing minute guns. Great
numbers of the military attended in uniform ; the Con-
suls also, and numbers of masters from ships in port.
The Conflict left on the 6th for the northward. Hers
First LiSutenant. (Bore)' goes home overland, to com-
mand one of the newly-built gun-boats. There are now
at Memel 17 vessels, prizes to the squadron, waiting
orders either to be sent hpme or to be sold there, which
is considered much the safeA plan.

One of the Lieutenants of the Amphion and a party
had a very narrow escape when returning on board in
crossing the bar. The boat was swamped, but, being
favoured by a lull, they managed to get her head round
and pushed for the beach, where the boat capsized.
Sappily, all escaped with a few bruises. It was in ex-
actly the same spot that Captain Foote lost hi:
At 7 30 p.m. yesterday the Vulture steam-ship, from
the Baltic, was just coining into Sheerness, and also the
Gladiator from Portsmouth.

A' new vessel was put out of dock at Sheerness yester-
day, adapted for carrying heavy ordnance and stores.
Her registered tonnage (builders' adineasui ement) is 130
tons ;:-her 41rau41it of water is only three feet aft ; sae
is most substantially built, is appropriately named the-
Stauccb, and is ..of: extremely large scantling throughout.
The crew of the Formidable, 84, are again set on to
get her ready for sea. Her rigging is being fitted and
her marines are getting her tanks, &c., on board and
stowing the hold. •
The Portuguese war-steamer Mindello arrived at'
'Southampton on Sunday. from Ostend, having landed at
that port the King. of Portugal, the Duke of Oporto,
;and suite. i.

Commander Calver, R.N. who has- been employed
by the Admiralty during tho past three years, making
surveys on the north-east coast, has been selected by the
First Lord of the Admira!ty to pilot the fleet about to
proceed with French troops to the Baltic.
The Janus, paddle-wheel steam-vesftl, Lieutenant-
Commander Colin C. I. Kane, arrived at Woolwich at
10 o'clock p.m. on Saturday, and on Monday received a
number 'of buoys and metal buoy-holders for conveyance
to the Baltic. She will leave'Woolwich to-day for her
destination.

The Industry screw steam store-vessel, Commander
Bradley, will be ready at 'Woolwich on Thursday to pro-
ceed up the river to Deptford to take on board stores
for conveyance to the Black Sea.
Thi following appointments have been made :--
Lieutenant William C. Geary (1846), from the coast-
guard, to be agent for transports.
Paymaster Stuart Watson (1850), from the St. Vin-
cent to the Termagant, 24, sere Ar steam-frigate, for ser-
vice in conveying French troops to the Baltic.
Master's-Assistant R. Cooke, to the Sphinx, paddle-
wheel steam-sloop, at Portsmouth.
Acting-Clerk Charles A. Goodyer, to the Hornet, 17,
screw steam-sloop, at Woolwich.
We understand that two martello towers are to be
erected in the south docks at the entrance of Sunderland
harbour, and that several cannon of large calibre are to
be placed upon the piers and un the heights to defend
the port.
Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty gave notice at
Lloyd's that a sailing vessel was required to carry 500
tons of naval provisions, as also a steam-vessel to carry
a similar quantity, to the Baltic, for the use of the fleet
under Sir C. Napier ; also a ship for the conveyance of
300 tons of naval provisions to Malta ; and also two
steamers to carry 500 tons of bread from Gosport and
Plymouth to Varna, calling on the voyage out at Con-
stantinople for orders from the Commissariat.
Ninety-two cases 4-4 swords, each containing 120, or
altogether about 10,000, and 2,000 barrels of ball
cartridges, are being shipped for Constantinople for the
use of Omer Pasha's cavalry.

The Flora, Dummet master, which arrived at Fal-
mouth on Sunday, spoke the transport No. 28, bound
to Varna, on the 3d inst. She had encountered a gale,
and lost fore and main topmasts.

Yesterday the Lords of the A.dtniralty gave notice on
the Royal Exchange that ships were required to convey 7
officers and 560 men from the river Thames and Cork to
Malta, the owners of the vessels to find the necessary
provisions for the troops ; also another ship to carry 150
tons of naval provisions to Varna, _ _

Notices were also given yesterday by the Admiralty
that their Lordships were prepared to enter into con-
tracts for the supply of 3,000 quarters of wheat, the
whole to be delivered at the Royal Victualling-yard,
Deptford, within six weeks. Their Lordships undertake
to make a proportionate allowance for each bushel ex-
ceeding 601 b. in weight.
From Southampton we are informed that the Royal
mail steam-ship Orinoco, Captain Wilson, left that port
yesterday to embark the 60th Rifles at Portsmouth for
the East. The Medway, just arrived from the Black Sea,
will probably be made available for further Government
service without delay. Tho Avon, also belonging to the
Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, is expected to be
ready in a few days, and will it is said proceed to the
Downs to embark a portion of the French auxiliary force
for the Baltic. Telegraphic instructions were received
in Southampton yesterday to expedite in every possible
way the fittings of the Himalaya, Simla, and other steam-
ers belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company.
The Himalaya is now in the graving dock, having gone
in there on Saturday to he coated with Messrs. Peacock
and Buchan's composition for the preservation of iron
ships. She has not sustained the least damage from the
accidental grounding on Sconce Point, Isle of Wight.
During the time this' leviathan ship has been in
the dry dock she has been visited by great numbers of
persons anxious to view her enormous proportions and
beautiful lines. Sir Baldwin Walker and Captain Milne
inspected her on Saturday, and we understand have re-
ported favourably to the Admiralty as to the propriety
of purchasing the vessel for the Government. The Go-
vernment are also in treaty with the General Screw
Steam Shipping Company forthe purchase of the Prince
of 2,760 tons, and two other iron steamships of nearly
equal size, the whole to be used as troop and transport
vessels. Allthe steamers chartered by the Government
from the Peninsular and Oriental Company will start
from Southampton on Saturday next ; the Himalaya
for Plymouth, the Stade, for Liverpool, the Rajah and
Colombo for the Baltic. The Candia cannot be made
available, as She requires to go to London to have her
screw shaft adjusted. All the great stearn-packet com-
panies belonging to the port of Southampton have shown
an honourable rivalry
in handing over to the Govern-
ment, at great inconvenience to their regular business -
traffic, so many ships, and those of such large tonnirge.
Now that the GoVernment is in an emergency and is
understood to be Mill in want of steam tonnage, some
dissatisfaction is expressed among the Government
authorities that a similar readiness to that exhibited
at Southampton has not been shown by other com-
panies. The Cunard Company is instanced, and it ,
is remarked that during the past week, although
the emergency
of the public service is evident to
all, not a single steamer has been forthcoming

s.

from this powerful association. One of the great apo-
logies for the heavily subsidised companies is, that the
ships should be available for Government servic3 in case
of war. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Cunard
Company will not continue to be an exception to the
general rule, but that efforts Will be immediately made
to accommodate the Government, and thus to remove
all grounds for the dissatisfaction which now appears to
exist.

The Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital assembled at
the board-room of the Ordnance Hospital at 11 o'clock
a.m. yesterday, to pension' the rzen returned unfit for
duty, according to their respective services.
Captain Mountain, who marched his company, the Ist
of the 13th battalion of Artillery, all ypung recruits,
into Brompton Barracks, Chatham, in March last, has
dismisied them from marching, carbine, and field-gun
drill, and a part of them from garrison, gun, and mortar
drill, and they aranow attached to horses. The whole
company will be dismissed from all drills that can be
carried on at Chatham by the end of the month. .Cap-
tain Mountain and his non-Commissioned officers have
been indefatigable and successful in bringing the com-
pany so quickly forward.
Major C: C. Young's No. 2 company, 12th battalion,
and Captain Alexander Irving's No. 3 company, 12th
battalion, assembled on the Guard Mounting-parade of
the Royal Artillery at Woolwich garrison yesterday
forenoon in service marching-order,iand were inspected
by Major-General E. C. Whinyates, commandant of the
garrison. These companies are ready to embark for the
East on the shortest notice.

Colonel William Campbell, commanding the 2d Dra-
goon Guards ("Bays") at Dundalk, has been recently
called on to furnish fifteen serviceable troop horses for,
the 15th (King's)Regimentof Light Dragoons(Hussars)o
The latter corps has just returned from India, after 15
years' service there, and yet it is said that it is about to'
be equipped for Turkey with the least possible delay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Warde, of the Royal Artillery, is-
to take the command of the artillery at Charlemont, in-
stead of Lieutenant-Colonel Beresford, wbo has been
appointed second• field-officer to the field batte'ries nt
Woolwich. Captain the Honourable D. Fraser, sta-
tioned at Charlemont, has been ordered to the East in-
stanter.

Orders have been issued that men who, on medical
inspection, shall be found fit, for duty, may be enlisted
for military service up to the age of 30. As an induce-
ment to. the persons engaged in recruiting to exert them-
solves, the bounty to the bringers of good recruits is now
increased to 12s. 6d.

The 4th Dragoons will move this daY from Dorchester
and Trowbridge to Exeter, -en route for Plym.mth, to
embark for Turkey.
The army in Ireland is now reduced to four regiments
and four depots of cavalry, and four regiments and .28
depots of infantry. They are thus distributed :-2d
Dragoon Guards, Duridalk ; 3d, Dublin ; 4th depot,
Newbridge ; sth depot, Nowbridge-; 7th Dragoons,
Longford ; Bth depot (Hussars}, Newbridge ; 11th de-
pot ,(Eltissars), Newbridge ; 16th Lancers, Cahir ; 2d
battalion Ist depot Foot, Castlebar ; 2d depot Foot,
Athlone ' • 3d depot,- Newry ; 9th , do. Foot, Traleo ;
12th do. Foot, Cork ; l3th do. Foot, Clonmel ; 14th do.
Foot, Birr ; 15th do. Foot, Londonderry ; 16th do.
Foot Athlone ; 17th do. Foot, Kilkenny;- 21st Foot,
Dublin ; 30th-depot Foot, Fermoy ; 38d de. Foot. For-
mby.; 39th do-. Foot, Kinsale ; 40th do. Foot, Limerick;
41st do. Foot, Templemore ; 47th. do. Foot, Temple-
more ; 49th do. Foot, Fermoy ; 50th do. Fornioy ;
54th d 0.,, Enniskillen ; 55th do., Templemore ; 57th
do., Limerick ; •59th depot Foot, Kinsale ; 2d battalion
60th Rifles; do. Buttevant ; 52d do. Foot, Belfast ; 63d
Foot, Dublin ; 68th depot Foot, Belfast • 72d do. Foot,
Galway ; 89th Foot,' Waterford ; 9Jth 'Foot, Dablin ;
Ist battalion 91st Foot, Cork ;- 92d depot Foot, Galway.
This forte, exclusive of artillery, might be estimated at
about 12,000, men.

When the 21st Fusileers and 63d Regiment embark
from Cork for the'East there will be only two regiments
and 28 depots of infantry in Ireland--La smaller force
than has lren in that country for many years, not ex-
cepting the period of the Peninsular war.

QUARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY.

(From the Navy List fog• July. )

Flag Officers.—Vice-Adiniral —Hyde Parker, C.B.
Rear Admiral—Sir John Franklin, Kt. K.C.H.
Admiral (on reserved half-pay in receipt of service
pension)—John Mackeilar.
Rear-Admiral (on reserved half-pay) -James Erskine
Wemygs:

Retired Rear-Admirals (with pay of Captain)—Abra-
bam Lowe, Archibald Tisdall.
Captains—Francis P. Blackwood, H. W. Giffard, F.
R. M. Crozier, William Hayden, James Fitzjames, J.,
Foote.

Reired Captains—J. P. Parkin, William P. .Roberts
.dward Johnson.

- Commanders—George W. Smith, Charles H. Baker,
J. H..Noreock, Graham Gore, Edward Little, Robert
B. Stephens.
Commanders (on reserved half-pay) ; Sir Thomas S.
Dyer ; Richard Bluett, Andrew Kennedy.
' Retired Commanders—G. Wilson (a), G. W. Brown,
James Lamont, George. S. Piirsons Thomas A. Simkin,
Robert Hughes (b), .Tlkomas Edmonds, Richard C.
Mould, Edward G. Palmer,. James P., Arnold, Wm.
Nowell.

Lieutenants—H. W. Clare, J. Allen, H. T. D. Le
Vesconte, James W. Fairholme, George H. Hodgson,
J. Irvings, George Kerr, Charles Pechell, Frederick J.
Hornby, Robert 0. Sargent, Charles F. De Veux, -R.
Thomas, Edward Oration, Wm. 11- lioopor, 11-10 bow a
31. Moorman, Sir H. Blackwood, Bart., James Sam-
nerey, Nevinson De C. Blennerh asset.
Lieutenants (dn Reserved Half-pay)—John Smith (e),
J. C. Chesnaye, George Cordry, Thomas P. Wheeler.
Master—Richard Thompson. •
. _

Masters (on Reserved Half-pay)—J. Cook, J. Tilhy.
Mate—William J. Johnstone.

Second Masters- Gillies A. Macbean, H. F. Collins.
Medic.-1 OVeers—Surgeons—Edward Leah, Stephen
S. Stanley, J. S. Peddie, Ales. M‘Donald,
Retired Surgeons—David, Cowan, William Oastler,
Thomas Jones (b), H. W. Bull, Charles Carter, M.D.
Assistant-Surgeon—John Bluett.
Paymasters—Charles H. Osmer,' Walter B. Gordon,
E. J. H. Helpman. •
Retired Paymasters—Benjamin Jennings, J. C.
Court, William' Wyuter, Benjamin Chimmo, William
Finlayson. _
Royal Marines. —let Lieutenant—Henry Freeland.
Retired Lieutenants—Colonel Commandant, David
James Ballingall.