The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-21 00:00:00

THE AFFAIR AT BOM

A RS UND

Return of the killed and wounded on board H.M.
ship Penelope, when under the fire of Bomarsund
Fort, 10th August, 1854 :

George Privitt, aged 29, Cap. main-top, killed.
Thomas Barber, 22, Ordinary, killed.
Wm. Robinson, aged 23, Pt. R.M., wounded.

Owen Carrol, Termagant, aged 23, Ord., wounded.
J. Hancock, Belleisle, aged 26, A. 8., wounded.
A French seaman killed belonging to the Duperre.

THE TURKISH LOAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
1, Bryanstone-square, Aug. 21, 1854.
Sir,-1 shall feel greatly obliged by your inserting the
enclosed communication in a prominent part of your in-
fluential journal, in Monday's edition.—l am, &c.,
C. MUSURUS.

A letter of Messrs. Trouvg-Chauvel and Stanley, in-
serted in various Paris journals, has a tendency to ques-
tion the power of applying a portion of the Egyptian
tribute to the guarantee of the loan in course of negotia-
tion in London and Paris ; these parties pretending
that the said tribute is already made over for the benefit
of a bank alleged to be established at Constantinople.
As this pretension has evidently an aim hostile to
the loan, and may induce the public into error, the
Embassy of the Sublime Porte in London gives the most
formal denial to this unjustifiable assertion.
It is true that about two years since a contract had
been passed between the Sublime Porte and some Otto-
man bankers at Constantinople for the formation of a
bank, but the projectors of that establishment having
failed to fulfil their engagements, asked themselves and
obtained the cancelling of the contract ; and all engage-
ments on both sides became null and void.

Messrs. Trouv6-Chauvel and Stanley, cannot, there-
fore, be furnished with powers from a society which was
never constituted, and whose ci-devant members are,
moreover, domiciled at Constantinople.
A similar declaration to the present has also been
made by the Ottoman Embassy at Paris.
An official article, published
.in the Journal de Con-
stantinople of the 14th of July last, is herewith annexed
in support of the above denial :
_.

"Plusieurs journaux de France et d'Angleterre ont an-
nonce par erreur que Mons. Trouve-Chauvel etait charge
d'une mission financiere par le Gouvernement Ottoman ;
c'est 1k une erreur qtie nous nous hAtons de dementir de la
maniere la plus formelle, en ajoutant que Mona. Trouve-
Chauvel jamais ete charge d'aucune mission quel-
conque de la part du Gonvernement Imperiel. Pour
ce qui est de la negociation d'un emprunt pour le compte
du Gouvernement Ottoman, ce sont, ainsi qu'il a ete
dejh ports hla connaissance du public. Messrs. Black
et Durand qui ont ete designes par le Gouvernement
Imperial dans ce but et qui se trouvent dans ce mo-
menta Paris et k Londres pour remplir cette mission.
(Communique.)
"1, Bryanstone-square, August 19."

The Countess of Shrewsbury, with Miss Talbot, have
arrived at Kingston.

The Earl of Zetland will entertain a large party of
noblemen and gentlemen at Aske Hall, near Richmond,
during the August meeting at York, which commences
on Wednesday.
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth have left
Upper Brook-street for Holywood, Kent, for the long
vacation.
The Baroness de Clifford and the Hon. Miss Russell
have left the St. George's Hotel for Kirkby Mallory,
Leicestershire.

Viscount Harding° has left for South Park, Pens-
hurst, Kent.

The Hon. Lady and Miss Doughty have left Man-
chester-square, for the country.
TURKISH EXHIBITION.—His Excellency M. Musurua,
the Turkish Minister, the Countess of Jersey, &c.,
visited on Saturday the Turkish Exhibition, Hyde-park-
corner. His Excellency expressed his satisfaction as to
the correctness of the different characters represented,
also was much pleased with all the minute details pour-
trayed in the various groups, and was wonderfully struck
with the completeness of the tout ensemble. On leaving
the gallery his Excellency promised the managers a
second visit and his strong recommendation.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and the Lady
Mayoress left the Mansion-house on Saturday evening,
and proceeded by special train to Stafford, the mayor of
which has invited his lordship to be present at a grand
banquet to be given on Tuesday next. The mayor of
Bradford also entertains the Lord Mayor on Friday
next, and the mayors and magistrates of the West Riding
are invited to meet his lordship on the occasion. The
Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress then proceed on a tour
to the lakes, and intend returning by way of Sheffield,
the Master of the Cutlers' Association having invited his
lordship to their annual feast.
THE FRENCH Ex-Rovit. FAMlLY.—During the past
week her Majesty Queen Marie Amelia, the Duke de
Nemours, the Duchess de Nemours, the Count D'Eu,
the Duke d'Alencen, the Princess Margaret, Countess
Mollieu, and others of the Royal suite have paid a visit
to Teignmouth, a fashionable watering-place on the
south coast of Devon. The Royal party were received
with great enthusiasm by the inhabitants, who were
honoured last year by a similar visit.
FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF BEAUFORT.
—The mortal remains of this venerable and estimable
noble lady were removed from the seat of her son-in-
law, the Hon. Granville Ryder, at Westbrook Hay,
Herts, on Friday, for Badinington Park, where they
were interred in the family mausoleum, in the presence
of the Marquis Cholmondeley, Mr. Walter R. Farquhar,
the present Duke, who came express from Scotland, and
other relatives.

EAST INDIA COMPANY.—On Saturday a very splendid
banquet was given by the, Hon. the East India Com-
pany, at the London Tavern. Covers were laid for 100,
and the room and tables were profusely decorated with
the silver-gilt plate, &c., of the establishnient. The
plateaux which,embellished the tables were of the most
beautiful and classical character, and the whole affair
was alike worthy of the princely liberality of the com-
pany, and highly creditable to the taste of the proprie-
tor of the tavern. Among the company present, w•
observed the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of th•
East India Company, Col. Sir F. Abbott, Lieutenant
Colonel Adams, Lieutenant Colonel Bygrave, Colonel
Campbell, Colonel A. Darville, Colonel Hay, Colonel
Justice, Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Pond, Sir James
Duke, Bart., M.P., Sir Henry Willock, Major Moore,
Colonel Roberts, Sir George Pollock, Sir R. Campbell,
W. J. Eastwick. Esq., W. B. Bayley, Esq., W. H.
Plowden, Esq., William Dent, Esq., the Masters of the
Merchant Tailors Company, the Drapers' Company,
the Fishmongers' Company, &c.

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA.—With the Par-
liamentary papers on Saturday was published a letter
from the East India Directors to the Government of
Bengal, of which the following is an extract :—"We
do, whenever the necessity may arise, from your not
being able to procure the services of duly qualified officers
of the Company's army, sanction, agreeably to the re-
commendation in your present despatch, the employ-
ment as surveyors, revenue surveyors, and in thee:lepart-
nient of Public Works, of such well qualified officers of
her Majesty's regiments as can be spared from their
regiments for these purposes, provided the limitation in
the number of officers to be so employed be at all times
subject to such regulations as her Majesty may think
fit to issue. We need not add that officers must first
have passed the examination in the native languages
prescribed for the general staff."
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Edward Giffard is
appointed to be first class clerk, Mr. Robert Bell to be
second class clerk, Hon. W. Moreton to be third class
clerk, in the Admiralty, "Whitehall ' • Mr. Selby De Vera
Spencer, Mr. C. G. Turner, Mr. Joseph Senior, Mr.
Henry Bly tie Mr. Andrew Armstrong, and Mr. F. T.
Pearsall, are appointed to the Accountant-General's de-
partment of the Admiralty, at Somerset-house ; Mr. J.
Vivian Hampton and Mr. James Gambier are appointed
to the Storekeeper-General's department of the Ad-
miralty, at Somerset-house ; Mr. W. F. Robson, Mr.
F. A. Miles, Mr. F. S. Jerningham, Mr. Evans, Mr.
John Pigou, and Mr. Henry C. Alley, are appointed to
the Comptroller of Victualling's department of the Ad-
miralty, at Somerset-house ; Messrs. Zanti Lemaitre
and Edward E. Ede are appointed to the Director-Gene-
ral's department of the Admiralty, Somerset-house.
THE LYCETJII THEATRE.—Two more nights yet re-
main of the farewell performances of Mr. and Mrs. Sims
Reeves, previous to their departure from London for
the season, and judging from the interest which their
last appearance here excited, we should say thst Mr.
Allcroft will have no reason to regret his engagement
with these two eminent artistes. To-night, Lucia di
Lammermoor is announced, "by special desire," and on
Wednesday, Balfe's fine opera, The Bohemian Girl,
which was so well received the other evening, will be
repeated. Among the other members of Mr. Allcroft's
small but able operatic corps, are Mr. Weiss and Mr.
Farquharson Smith. On each of the above evenings,
the performances will conclude with the new grand
ballet, entitled Les Paysannes du Nord, supported by
Mdlles. D'Antonie, E. Horn, Martin, Buffton, Marie
Charles, and an efficient corps de ballet.
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OF 1855.—The fol-
lowing states have expressed their intention of taking
part in the Universal Exhibition to be held in Paris next
year :—Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, Bremen, Denmark,
Frankfort, Great Britain, Greece, Hamburg, Hanover,
Hesse Darmstadt, Holland, Lubeck, Morocco, Meek-
let:burgh Schwerin, Mexico, Naples, Peru. Portugal,
Rome, Sardinia, Saxony, Saxe Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-
Weimar, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland,
Tunis, Turkey, Tuscany, and United States. The only
states of any importance which do not appear on the
list are Russia, and, strangely enough, Prussia. The
fine arts department of the Exhibition will be held in
those portions of the Louvre which are newly-completed
or which are rapidly approaching completion. The en-
tire space at the disposal of the French commission is
about 900,000 superficial feet for the industrial section,
of which 150,000 superfioial feet have been allotted to
Great Britain, her colonies, and dependencies. The
fine arts department will consist of about 130,000 inper-
ficiai feet hanging space, of which about one-tenth part
will be allotted to this country, together with a certain
space for sculpture.
LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—This afternoon, at 4 o'clock,
the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship
Europa, Captain John Leitch, sailed front the Mersey
for Boston and Halifax, with the usual mails for the
United States and British possessions in North America,
160 passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on
freight. The White Star packet-ship Arabian, Captain
Ba.nnatyne, sailed for Melbourne, with 308 passengers, a
large mail,
sud a full cargo.

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