The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

STEAMERS FOR THE CRIMEA.

LIVERPOOL, Friday.—The agents for the British and
North American Thyal Mail Steam-ship Company,
Messrs. D. and C. M'lver, received a telegraphic de-
spatch from the Admiralty this morning, announcing
that Government required the services of the steam-ship
Niagara, expected from Boston on Sunday, for the con-
veyance of troops to the Crimea. Owing to the arrange-
ment an interruption in the mail service to America will
take place, and the usual mails will not be forwarded on
the 25th inst., but will be delayed until the 29th inst., and
will be despatched in the United mail steam-ship Pacific
on that day fir New York. The Niagara wa,, the
first vessel which sailed from this port in the early
part of the year with troops for the East. The Canadian
steamer Charity is at present fitting up for the convey-
ance of troops in Birkenhead Dock. Notices are posted
in the Exchange and Underwriters' Rooms requiring
tenders immediately for steamers to convey troops.
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—The Tamar (paddle), belong.
ing to the Royal Mail Company, has been chartered by
Government for the conveyance of troops. She returned
yesterday with the West India and Pacific mails, and
will be got ready for sea as quickly as possible. The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Nubia,
which is expected to arrive on Monday from Alexandria,
will sail on Wednesday under a similar contract. Each
of these fine steamers can with ease convey 1,200 in-
fantry to the Crimea, and they are to carry 15 horses
each for officers. It is expected, however, that about
4,000 troops will be sent on board them. Captain
Engledue, the able naval superintendent of the company,
leaves London for Toulon this morning, to ensure the
best arrangements for the embarkation of the soldiers.

THE LATE GENERALS CATHCART AND
ST.RANGIVAYS.

War is in all things hazardous, capricious, and cruel,
disappointing expectations, shifting the scene, varying
the parts, and changing the fortunes. In no point does
it baffle the fond expectations of man so much as in its
choice of victims. It is proverbial that the best are
taken tie first, and that those great souls which we
vainly count upon as an enduring property fleeb first to
their home in the skies. This has been so in a thousand

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lingering strifes between faction and faction, between
people and people ; yet again we choose our favourite.
from the crowd, and in our forward thoughts picture
him the hero of many a future field—perhaps as the very
man whose fresh powers and unexhansted fortunes are
to preside over the last victorious hour. It was but the
other day that Cathcart returned from the Cape, where
he had brought a difficult war to a wise and honourable
conclusion, to assume the high post of Adjutant-General.
His claims had been warmly contested, on some grounds
or other, but the result showed that ho was the last man
to care for office, when he could serve his country in the
field. Others thought it a waste of power that a
man fit for the first command should go out merely
as General of a Division. However, on his re-
turn to England, he went out straight to the Black
Sea, and landed in the Crimea in the same tattered
uniform that he had worn through the Caffre
war. Everybody looked upon him as the masa
who, being only a year or two over sixty, and possess-
ing all the activity, geaius, and endurance of youth,.
might some day have the command-in-chief. In his
youth he had served on the staff at Leipsic and most of
the great battles at the conclusion of the war. He had
been at Waterloo, he had contributed materially to put
down the Canadian rebellion, and had wound up the
Caffre war. He was that rare and precious character in
the British service—a soldier devoted to the science and
experienced in the practice of his profession. There was
nothing that might not be expected from him, and, with
each as he to fall back on, there was no fear that the
army would ever be at a loss for commanders. He now
lies, one of thousands, slain by a chance bullet in the
tempest of war. One other of the three Generals slain
we cannot help recurring to again. About a week ago
1 we nhanced to insert separately a record of the services
of General Strangways. This is seldom done, except on
the occasion of an appointment or after death, and some
of our readers concluded from its appearance that the
subject of it had fallen in the war. As it happened he
had fallen, and the accidental publication of his services
in that form was but the shadow of an event then past,
dbnretanmott ywehtenknwo published th
we nintliiscoune ervtrysic.eare ftaoinl;
Generalwelite
leading a division in the Crimea that it was, in fact, his
obituary.—Times.

SPIRITED CONDUCT OF MR. W. N. TV.
"JEWETT, ACTING MATE OF THE BEAGLE.

(Copy.)

No. 548. Britannia, off the Katcha, Nev. 1, 1854.
have much pleasure in transmitting for the in-
formation and favourable consideration of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, the accompanying ezi
tract of a letter I have received from Captain Lushing-
ton, in command of the naval brigade, employed in the
siege operations before Sebastopol.
Mr. Hewett, of whom Captain Lushington reports so
highly, has been actively serving on shore since the 4th
of October, with the guns, &c., landed from the Beagle.
—I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servart,
(Signed) J. IV. D. DUNDAS, A ice-Admirol.
The Secretary of the Admiralty.

Admiralty, Nov. 7, 1854.
As a mark of tkeir approbation of the gallant conduct
of Mr. Hewett, the Lords of the Admiralty have pro.
meted that officer to the rank of lieutenant, dating his
commission the day on which he showed so worthy an
example.

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from
to the spirited conduct
mat© of the Beagle, in charge of the
Hewett, the Ma
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of Mr. Lancaster battery, now containing one gun. On
right
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our right, placing our Lancaster gun in
06th inst. the Russians made a sortie in force, about
S,OOO men, on
skirmishers approached within
orders of the officer own.
"e yards of it, pouring in a sharp fire of liini6 rifles.
300 jeopardy--indeed :de c
u somerre. a
in. the
Some psis
manding the picket, and the order was passed to spike
the gun and retreat ; but Hewett replied ' that such an
order did not comae from Captain Lushington, and he
i opardy.—
would not do so till it (lid.' (He was aware 'I
was in
the vicinity.) Ile then pulled down the parapet, and,
with the assistance of some soldiers, got his gun round,
and poured a 'swat destructive fire of grape into a large
column of Russians ; and, on their retreating from the
British troops, followed them down the hill with solid
6Slb shot, fired with fatal precision. I am happyi to
say there were no casualties among the sail_oruss,biaaindl ro•
port says only 71 among the troops. The n
was very severe, as we saw the bodies lying
authenticon the hill ;
sfl.
but I am not in a position to give you an
count,"
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The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the
province of Canterbury was yesterday prorogued in the
Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, pursuant to the
Queen's writ, by the Vicar-General, under a commission
trom his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primfita
and Metropolitan, to Friday, Dec. 15.
SYMPTOMS OF A WINTER. CAMPAIGN.--We under-
stand that contracts were accepted yesterday by the
War-office for wooden houses for the army in the Crimea.
The houses are to be of a size sufficient to accommodate
twenty men in each house, and on the whole are to pro-
vide lodging for twenty thousand nien. So pressing are
the authorities in enforcing expedition on the contractors,
that the }Ater have undertaken to have two hundred
ready for ehipraeqt on Monday neat,