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nesday morning,. at 7 &chick, the first division of thii
PITA. under command of Lieutenarit4Yolonel W. Munro,
left the barracks for Penrose's-quay, Where officers and
men w:!rit on board. the Royal Alice steAmer for con!
veyance to Queenstown, and in- theseotirse Of the day
the second and -divisions followed. The- Bead
quarters. the 89th Regiment; _under command- of.
Lieutenant-Colenel Ferryman, will leaveTenro'se's-quay-
ou Thursday- morning ernbarkiition on bOard the,
Timandra tranpprt, Queenstown. Largej)odies
6.`• recruits; ‘Vho bave cmliiited- it England continue to
arilve in" Cork to join gepots at
,present
serving in Irelal:d. , •

• 'IfIEi3.A.RTURE OF THE EA .RL OF LUCAN.
We have at length to record.the departure for the
East of Major-General the. Earl of Lucan, Commander-
. in-Chief of the British expeditionary-cavalry; which, when
,mounted, to.u.se a military t..rm, will nurnberaboht 2.00
men - The noble earl left the South-Eastern terminus
last evening for Dover, from which he will ,proosed, as
_quickly as possible,. to M,arseilles,•where ho will 'embark.
for Gallipoli.
Lord Lucan ;was accompanied to the station by his
daughters, Lady Augusta Gerard Sturt and Lady Lavinia
Bingham, also byylii4 youngi.st son, the Hen. G. Bing-
ham. His lordship was received . by the officers of the
company, who bad.set aside a.special compartment for
,his use.
..Lord Bingham, son to the-noble earl, and oil
his-staff:is already in Turkey.; and Captains-Walker and
Charteris; also aides-de-damp, started on Sunday' last. i"
Brigadier S,...arlett.and Brigadier the Earl r.f CarAligan,
commanders of divisions under the noble earl, have not-
yi-t left, it being -desirable" for the public benefit that
some of the staff should remain tultillhd -Must moment.

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The Ist Weat Yotk under the cOnimand Of
:Lieut..Colonel- tire-Hon: M(Mckton, assembled
for their second perio,l. training at Pontefract yesterday
(Wednes‘lay).' The. regirnent, -which Consists principally
.of recruits from .Bradford, ILilifax,--and Huddersfield,-
umsterstnearly 1.000 strong, notwithStanding that seve-:
ral have renliAtedAnto: the, line. The full complement
of the corps is -1.040, so that it is about 100 'short:
Several
_.91 the force have' recently-been
,undergoing a
private drill prepatatoty to the a.ssenibiing of the'corps:
The North Lincolnshire Regiment of Militia Will as-
semblefor training on the 16th prOxitno. —Oa Tuesday
70 men-belonging to the corps were brought up fordrill.
This number are to betaught the art of drilling,. sothat
they may be able to.examitie the rest of the regiment'
when they are called up; 'Therd is an 'excellent brass
band attached to the corps.- .
The Nottg 'Regiment of Militia, assembled atNeWark,
has now conipleted a third-of the time allotted for--its
training, and has made the nest surprising progress hi
military manoeuvres. On liOriday a special train troni
Nottingham conveyed a vast multitude of persons to
vritpess the drill.

Lori Luean had prolonged interviews on Tuesday and
yesterday with the Secretary of War, the Duke of New-
castle. He also-visited the general fit command of the
home, troops, Lord flardirge.

NAVAL • AND MILITARY • INTELLIGENCE.
The St. Vincent,- 101, Otpt. •E- IL Scott, removed
out of the fitting basin to Portsmouth harbour yester-
d ty for painting. •
The• Nile; '9l (screw), Commander Booth, pendant of
Commodore Martiii, C. B got up her steam yeatlrday
at Spithead, and went to-Stokes' Biy to try her speed.
She has taken -in packaies and supernuineraries, and
sailed -last • evening -to reinforce Sir, Charles Napiees
fleet., ,

~The .PeneloPe,.l6,.'.paddle-wheel. frigate; Capt.; Caffin,
left the steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday, and will
proceed,to the Baltic in a few days:-
The Harpy, 4, iron paddle-wheel vessel, Lieutenant-
CoMinandrr Lindsay, has been completed ifi the ma-
chinery depariment and partly rigged, . and will be re-
moved to-Portsmouth harbour to-day for service - in the

CHEVALIER BUNSEN'S _RECALL-THE
STOCK EXCHANGE.

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On the 11th of the present month the Times, in one
of its leading articles, intimated that an attempt had
been made by the Russian faction at Berlin to di4place
, the rcpresentative of Prussia at the Court of England.
The journalist, after pronouncing a glowing eulogium on
the services •rendered by the Chevalier Bunsen to the
Liberal cause, breathed a prayer that the attempt might
not' be successful ; and, finally expressed a hope that "if
the Chevalier Bunsen withdraws at all from the
public thitieta he has so long and so* ably discharged
in this country, the interruption will be a very tran-
sient one." The perusal of such a paragraph at break-
fast time was not, in the case of those who •deal in
stocks, favourable to digestion ; accordingly not a few
of them made their appearance on 'Change in a rather
desponding:and nervous mood. They had' only been
there an hour or two when a second 'edition of their
oracle confirmed their misgivings by publishing an
"electric telegraph" from Berlin in these words The
Russian party has triumphed, and Chevalier Bunsen,
the Prussian Minister in England,. has -been recalled.
Nothing but decisive and successful action on the part
of the Allies will ever change • the vacillating policy of
the King." In the evening of the same day Lord Cla-
T•endon, in his place in the House of Lords; with Out•
directly contradicting this report,, assigned good reasons
for choelieying it. Next morning, however—the 12th
--:the Times, in _the most peremptory and unequivocal
language, affirmed the truth and. literary accuracy of its
telegraphic news.' These are its words : •
" The allusion we made yeqerday, morning to the
possibility of Chevalier Bunsen withdrawal from, tire-
post of ,Prussian-filinister t this Conn, was followed, •
after a very brief interval, by the announcement, tele-
gra,phed from Berlin by our own Correspondent, thit the
Prussian Minister is actually recalled; • It appears that
no formal :communication to this effect' had reached
London yesterday evening, but there is no doubt that
our statement ie correct, and that a courier isnow °utile
road with despatches to this effect." _ -- •
Eight days have elapsed since the publidation of the
above vositive aierment, and vet the despatches have•
not made their appearance. The tardy courier who wag
" en the road" on the 12th of April has not yet readied
London, although it is now the 20th. And, what is
more strange, the Times has not once recurred to the
subject since--has offere4 no explanation of the cause of
his tarrying. In fact the 7imes, anqing it has been
egregiously' gulled, is unwilling to revert to the
subject. •

The Scourge, 6, paddle-wheel sloop, Captain Adams,
fitting at Portsmouth for the Coast of Africa station,
is flaying her steam department attended to. Externally
she makes no show in equipment at present.
The Pigmy steam -vessel, fitting as a gunboat for the
Baltic,-was- undneked yesterday at Portsmouth, and
will be completely equipped in a few days more.
The Sphynx, 6,. paddle-wheel steam-sloop, has been;
thoroughly repaired, and received her upper 'works. She
will be the next, paddle-wheel sloop commissioned at
Portsmouth for the war service.

The Geyser, 6, paddle•wheel sloop, at Portsinouth,
has bad some additional workmen put mpon her to expe-
dite her for further .service. This vessel was about to be
broken up some time since.
The Eurydice, 20, sailing frigate, Captain Erasmus
Ommanney, is receiving ballast and taking in light stores
—her rigging is nearly complete, and also her necessary
repairs, and she will be ?Cady to leave the dock for the
sea-fitting basin to-morrow. •
The Colossus, 80, new ship under conversion for the
screw, has a great number of viorkmen employed on her
to hasten her for commission.

The Rhadamanthus,, steam transport, _Master-Com-
manderlam, -with inahinery for the Algiers. '9l, and
boilers for the Exmouth, 91, art ived at Plymouth at .9 on'
Thesday morning. • •
• The Eiride of the Opean transport, with the first troop..
of the 17th Lancers on board,. sailed from Spithead _yes-
terday miming for Turkey.
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The_Ganges transport, with the ,second troop of the"
17th Lancers, left Portsmouth harbour yesterday after,:
noon for Turkey.
Nos. 23 and 24 transports sailed from Spithead yes-
terday for Queenstown to take in troops for the East.
• ThP Sitnoorn.„ 18, iron screw troopship, Captain Smith,
will be docked thicday, to be brought forward with the'
:east possible delay, for the conveyance of more troops to
he East.' ,
The Albatross hired screw transport is being fitted as
in armed vessel at Ports Mouth, and, among pther War
stores for the Black Sea fl,-.!et, She will :convey about 80
cases of gunpowder, for which a magazine will have to
be fitted. • _ _- _

The-Megmra, 6, screw troop ship, Commander J. 0.
.Tohnson. having refitted ►machinery, will leave the basin
at Portsmouth'to-day.
The transport No. 30 went doWn the river on Tuesday
mi her way from Deptford to Portsmouth. to embark
ruop liqrse3 for-the

The Mangerton, No. 19' bore • tratsport•ship, when
•iie left Woolwich early -on Saturday morning last was
,liort of her, crew, and had to aohor at Gravesend until
he obtained more able seamen. She ultimately 'left
;ravesend on Sunday evening, and passed through the
lo,,vris on Toes lay, on her, way to the Niedlterraneau.
Tne,St. Yioceot, No. 18 horse transpot-ship. arrived
t Woolwich on Tuesday evening from Deptfoid, and
,V:l4 at once taken into the and at half-past one
.'clock p.m. yesterday about 'lO men and 46 horses. the
,upernumeraries of the lst.division of.the Royal Artillery
for service in the East, commenced embarking, and were.
all on board in the afternoon.

Yet there were circumstances attendant upon the
publication of the startling report that the Prussian
Ambassador in London had been recalled at the instiga-
tion of asßu sign part'; in Berlin, which render it de-
sirable that thii:ritneiiihould4nB,tituto some inquiry into
means, and the persons, by whom its " own corres-
pondentat.Berlin (it it:deed it was sent by that gen-
inan) was so' egregiously hoaxed.. The alarming electric
telegraph,.:atid what alniost appears a preparatory nate
of expectation sounded in the early edition of the Times,
were pubiished on the 11th inst. Their effect upon the
course of.the funds'will be best explained by an extract'
from the City. letter of • the Times itself-of the 12th
inst. . .

Seamen for the transports have been offered U. per
.nonth, with other advantages, and the freights of these
vessels is now 30s and upwards per ton, when similar
vessels might have been engaged this time last year at
,e,4s than half that sum per ton. The number of trans-
oorts required already for _the war service is upwards
170.

" The fluctuations in the English funds to-day (the
11th) have again been rather violent, and, after having
opened at a decline of three-quarters per cent., they ex-
perienced a further severe fall, from which, up to the
close of business; there was only a slight recovery. Con-
eolfy Which left off yesterday at 88-:, were first quoted
this moriring-at :871 -toil- the decline in the Frenoh
funds, and the general character of the news, especially
as regards the disbelief still prevalent at Vienna of any
sincere co-operation' on the part;
,of Austria with the
Western Powers; hWfug caused considerable heaviness.
Nevertheless, a good demand for atock was still observ-
able, and a reaction therefore took plaee,-:almost imme-
diately-10 :85, at which 'quotation the market for some'
time showed steadines< The intelligence from Berlin of
the recall of Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister in
England, on the ground, it is presumed, of his earnest
appreciation of the contitibt, of this country, and conse-
quently as a concession to the animosity of the Emperor-
Nicholas, then produced a very decided effect, and the
price dropped rapidly to 87. Sensitive as the market
was, however, some tendency to recovery continued to`
exhibited,' and the final transactions were at 871 to E for
both money and accouriC"' •
In connexion with this history of a day's vicissitudes
on the Stock Exchange, it must be borne in mind that
the price. of the funds has been singularly supported
since -the declaration Of ..war. On the morning of the
11th the market opened it is true; rather heavily, but
the effeet otruinurs from Paris, the lugubriouS .antici-
yation of the Times about Chevalier ButiSen's recall;
evaporated as the day wore on, till. a portentous tele-
graphic message was received,' and then the funds went
down at once—like the' barometer before a hurricane—
lower than they had yet been. Next day, however, they
rallied—more "faith was, reposed upon Lord Clarendon's
statement that'no intimation of recall had reached either
DJwning-street' or the Prussian embassy than upon the.
Times' story of a courier' on the road bringing the re
call—and they have never again fallen siilow. In con-
sequence;'however, of unexpected, sudden, momentary
oscillation, immense stuns Of money were lost and won.-
The dissemination of .an incorrect and ;groundless'
rumour- dogmatically affirmed for four-and-tWenty
hours, and then consigned to obliVioli- has entailed crip-
pling losses upon many, to, the great gain of a few. The
story of the Prussian Minister's recall was the sole cause,
for the elasticity of the prices of the funds has sustained
every other shock and. pressurehefore and since. Who
palmed off this mirack-working story upon the " own
correspondent" of the Times? Who profited by the im-
plicit belief accorded to the fiction by that journal. It
is obvious that the story is not one of those common
canards, let . loose without any definite ann or lope,
perhaps out 'of mere Stupid credulity. Great pains.
must have been taken to pre-occupy the minds of the
journalists with an expectation of the Chevalier. Bun-
sen's recall, and with faith in the infallibility of the.
source whence the knowledge that he actually had
been recalled, was alleged to have been derived. The
task must have been dexterously gone about, and' must
have been a wprk of time ; the agents must have shown
themselves sufficiently to be easily recognised. The
Times—whieh of late has been boasting in such magni-
loquent phrase of the perfect organisation and enormous
reach of its Means of obtaining news—must surely find
it easy to fix upon the culprits who have so audaciously
worked upon its credUlity- Their exposure is a duty
it owes to the public and the press of England ; to the
public, for there have of late been strong indications of a
Systematic invention and diffusion of false news with a view
to operate on the Stock Eichange ; to thepress, for deeply
tainted as many foreign journals have been with participa-
tion in frau& of the BoUrse, it is desirable that it should
be demenstrated an English journal may occasionally
be made the dupe of such -machinations, but never an
accomplice in them. 'rears agothe : Tiraec acquired
immense ,6c/at by its boll and dexterous ,exposure of
a piece of continental swindling, and was rewarded for
its services by a commemorative marble tablet, and the
foundation of a ".Tines scholarship." It has now an
opportunity of again rendering a similar service, by fez.,
retting out and exposing the fraudulent speculators
in , stocks, who have made its own columns the
involuntary instrument of creating a twelve hburs' panic
upon 'Change, that has gone nigh to beggar some, and
may have placed' others, who were tottering on the verge
of bankruptcy, in a state of afiluence, at least for a time.
_-7-Daily. News. - •
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Major Colborne, on the staff of kis Excellency-General
Rowan, left Quebec on March 24, en route kir Constan-
innple, having received anappointinent on the general
-taff of the expeditiOnary army. . .
Captain Inglefiell's 3d campany of the 13th battalion
narched achalf-past 6 o'clock a.m. yesterday to Roffs-
vharf, and proceeded • by boat to London, and thence,
railway to. Devonport, to relieve Captain Kennedy's
:,rtripatiy (7th battaliop), the latter being under orders
ro move from Devonport to Dublin, to 'relieve Captain
Freese's company (12th i battalion), under orders to re-
turn to Woolwich. Captain E M. Boxer's 4th company
of the newly-formed 13th battalion left 'the garrison at
4 o'clock p.m. yesterday, for London, and ;proceeded by
the night 'train from • guston-square to Liverpool, en
route to Dublin, to relieve Captain Cleaveland'acom-
any (12th battalion), wider orders to return to head-
• orarters at Woolwich. On the return of Capt. Freese's
end Captain Cleaveland'a companies to WoolWieli, the
whole of the eight companies of the 12th battaliOn will
kt!, at headAuarters, and will be the, first eight Corepa-
iies for foreign when the second diiision embarks
for the East.
• Sixteen non-commissioned officers and gunnera arrived
at the garrison at Wool wich, frorri Malta, on Tuesday=
the non-cotnmis,ioned officers on promotion, and the
.runners as invalids unfit for further service.
Lieutenant-Colonel Shuttleworth, Royal Artillery, is
under orders to proceed to Barbadoes, to take the corn-
rnand of the Royal Artilleryatthat station, in the room:
of Lieutenant-Colonel Wilford, it present inCorninand,‘.
as he' has been appointed to be Assistant-InspeCtor of
Artillery at the ROyal'Arsenal at Woolwich, vice Lien-
tenant-Colonel 'Burn, einidoyed abroad on a special
,erviee.
Lieutenant colonol"P. Benn, Royal 'Artilleiy, is under
',.irders to proceed to jainaiea; to
.relieve Lieutenant
"Colonel R. G. Wilson, at present in command at that
sta,tion, as he is appointed to take the command of the
Royal Artillery at ShOeburyness. •
Yesterday a detachment of the 35th Font, consisting
of 180 rank and fib, arrived from Gosport at the,ToWer,
to relieve the 19th Foot. The 19th Foot are expected
to leave the Tower this day en route for Gallipoli. It
is understood they will embark on board the transports
Lich-
field, at Woolwich. The main body of the 35th, according to
present arrangements, will, arrive from Gospirt and
oiarch into the Tower on Friday. ' •
A great-concourse of persons assembled in Bitinirag-.
ham yesterday morning to witness the departure of the
11.,trluivEi,ituinsi7,nkigilhletntDheragnoieonn,s
aerterrotteirfoarrrtihvealEfrat
field, were pretty freely entertained by Old acquaintances
hron2hout the town, yet, notwithstanding, they inns-''
tared punctually at an early hour. and passed inspection,
..ve were informed, without a complaint. Head-quarters
:vere at the Hen and Chiekens. Hotel, awl from High-
reet to Cannon-street New-street was, densely crowded:
When the order to march virai: g, yen the multitude raised
hearty cheers, 'which were continually repeated as the
troops -ptsed down the Bullring and along Oheapside
to the environs of the town. Nothing could exceed the
-people. The route of the regiment,. as previously de-
scribed, is not exactly accurate. Yesterday one por-
tion of the regiment marehed from. Birmingham to Hen-
ley.in.Arden, and the other to Alcester,. on their way
westward for. Exeter. They will. embark, it is under-
stood, at Plymouth, and thence proceed tathe Darda-
nelles by sea. • ,
The second ,troop of the atlrliussars' -under command
of Major deSalis, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday from
Exeter, anti yesterday proceeded to the DeVonPort
yard to embark in the transport Mary Ann.
Forty enrolled penaioners are ordered to proceed to
the prison at Dartmoor tarelipve a.company of the 20th,
which regiment is under orders for embarkation.
It, is reported—for even yet it is nothing but report—
' that the 11th Hussars are to embark on Thursday, at
the Northwall, on board steamers, for conveyance" to
Liverpool, -Where transports will be provided for the con-
veyance of the regiment to the seat Of. war. The 'oiler-
ails of the officers have been rendered somewhat more fit
raiugh.service by the insertion of leather death the
'inner sides and allyeund the legs,
.about half-way up to
the' nees. This necessary change has not yet been ex-
tended to* the privates. ; • •
In addition to the three. vessels,: the Courier, - Ti-
mandra„ and SterUf the South; which arrived in Queens-
town, last week 'to await orders for departure with troops
tor the Kist,- five. 'other -vessels. are `daily 'expected to
airrifi3 th fhat-haibour for. the transport of troops' to
Milti-,';en, route to the ,East. Their names are the
Cornwall; Diiiihar, Melbourne, and Bombay.
The transpOrts will
which -are to arrive convey the last
division of the 89th, detachments of the 30th and; 55th
Regiments, and the service 'companies of the 14tb Re-
giment,.4 present statioaed ,at Limerick. iThe baggate-
cf the.49th Regiment was-on,Tnetalay placed on .board
the transports Courier and Star of the South, lying at
Queenstown, for conrysuce to Gibraltar, On we 47

THE ST. FERGUS CASE..—We understand that the
-division in the jury in reference to this case was II
" not 'proveni' and 4 for "guilty.". The prisoner, on
being liberated, left Edinburgh the same evening, and
was not, as was currently reported, again apprehended.
On another charge. Wehave been requested to supply
An omission 'in our report of the examination of the
witness Aden, namely, that the, Solicitor-General said
he 'had seen 'and tirecognosced the witness himself, and
that he had then told the story as to meeting Smith and
11,1`Donald' together about 20 minutes past' 7 o'clock)
'subitantially as he bad repeated it in the witness-box.
Theicondrietvof Men, though leading.t6 the impression
of prevarication=and- Concealment,' WO' probably attri-
butable to confusion and misapprehensiou arising from
:his novel position. ,

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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 201 1854.

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