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The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-17

MAIL FOR THE BLACK SEA.

A notice has been posted at the gate of Woolwich
dockyard, stating that letters fur the Black Sea and
Malta will be despatched by her Majesty's screw steam-
ship Miranda, Captain Edmund M. Lyons, from Devon-
port, on the 18th inst.

COMMANDER RICRARD E. VIDAL.—This officer; who
died on 31st August at Port Sarnia, Canada West, en-
tered the navy May 1, 1799, on board the Princess,
guard-ship, at Waterford. From September, 1800,
until May, 1801, he cruised on the coast of Ireland in
the Glom:sore, and in August of the latter year he be-
came midshipman of the Vengeance. In her, besides
witnessing the mutiny in Bantry Bay, he served at the
blockade of Brest and Rochefort, and visited the West
Indies. Joining next, in July, 1802, the Glutton, he
made a voyage in that ship round the world. On his
return to England he removed, in November, 1803, to
the Seaflower. In the course of the service in the Sea-
flower he was captured in an attempt to cut a French
privateer from the road of St. Denis, in the Isle of
Bourbon, with a loss of one-half of the men under his
command ; he was wounded, and was in consequence
promoted to the rank of lieutenant by Sir E. Pellew, on
his liberation from a French prison in the Isle of France
in 1808. His release from captivity took place Feb. 29,
1808 ; in the following March and June he joined the
Russell and Culloden ; and on Oct. 24, in the same year,
he was nominated acting lieutenant of the Corn wallia.
After his return from the West Indies he was employed
from January, 1812, until January, 1814, in the Asia,
74, on the Channel and West India stations ; from Nov.
5,1814, until Oct. 7, 1815, as first lieutenant, in the
Griffon, in the Channel ; from Nov. 1822, until January,
1826, in command of the Eagle, revenue cruiser ; and
from Feb. 2, 1827, until Oct. 26, 1828, again as senior,
in the Eden, on the coast of Africa. He attained
the rank of retired commander July 22, 1830.
Lieutenant Henry Duncan Blanckley (1844) died Sept.
25. He was son of the late Captain Edward Blanckley,
R.N., and grand nephew of the first Lord Nelson. He
entered the navy in 1532 ; .passed his examination May
1839 ; and served as mate on the home, Cape of Good
Hope, and Mediterranean stations ; of Salamander and
Devastation, steam-vessels, both commanded by Captain
H. IL Henry ; Heroine, brig, Lieut. Commander T. D.
Stewart ; Isis, 44, Captain Sir J. Marshall ; Caledonia,
120, flag-ship of Sir D. Milne • and Flamer, steamer,
Lieut. Commander C. J. Pestle. He was appointed
soon after his promotion, which took place Dec. 2,
_ _ . . . .

1844, to Rattler, ateam-sloop, Captain H. Smith ; June
12, 134 G, was appointed to Inflexible,a similar vessel,
Captain John Cochrane Hoseason, on the East India
station ; and May 3, 1854, to Belleisle, hospital•ship in
the Baltic.
London, England, 1854-10-17

THE RUSSIANS AT ALMA.

The Triester Zeitung says that the loss of the
Russians at the battle of Alma was 12,000 men ;
2,500 were wounded, and 700 taken prisoners ;
and nine pieces of cannon, and a large quantity of
munitions, fell into the hands of the victors. On
their advance from the Alma to the Katcha, the
allies were guided by a Tartar Prince, Achmed
Girai, a descendant of the Khans of Tartary, with a
troop of followers. They passed the fortifications of
Belbeck, and advanced to the Balaklava road south
of Sebastopol. It will be observed that nothing is
said here of fighting havine, occurred from the en-
gagement on the Alma to the occupation of the posi-
tion south of Sebastopol. During the advance of
the allies, Prince Menschikoff left Sebastopol with
a corps, part of which was cut off, and many taken
prisoners. Twenty of the Prince's own waggons
were captured, and it is said that papers were
found in one of them in which Menschikoff declared
Sebastopol to be untenable. On their way from
the Alma to Sebastopol the Russians burnt all the
villages through which they passed. The force of
the allies at the date of this intelligence, the 2d of
October, numbered 100,000 men, inclusive of sailors
(25,000). They have been since reinforced by more
than 20,000 troops. 2,500 French, 2,000 English
and 350 Russians, wounded, have already arrived
at Constantinople.

STORES AND CLOTHING FOR THE EAST.
The Sentinelle Toulonnaise announces that the
Sane steam-frigate has received orders to leave the
port of Toulon without delay. She has taken on
board a large number of packages of clothing for
i
the troops and sailors n the East. She is to
proceed first to Marseilles, to take a number
of troops on board for Constantinople. Private
letters state that large supplies of provisions,
principally of malted meats, are being got ready at
Toulon for the troops. The Rhin transport cor-
vette, which lately served in that port as a floating
barrack, is about to be transformed into a store-
ship to receive the articles of every kind which are
at present being collected for the troops in the
East. The Therese trading sloop, the Aristide
brig, and the Independent brig, are also taking
in provisions at Castignan for the army.

MENSCHIKOFF'S LATEST BLUNDER.
The Constantinople correspondent of tho Triest
Zeitung, says :—" Scientific officers consider the
closing of the port of Sebastopol, by means of the
sunken vessels, a great blunder on the part of
Prince Menschikoff. By doing it, the Prince got
the assistance of 15,000 sailors, but ho forgot that
the allies can, if necessary, land 25,000 marines
and sailors."
London, England, 1854-10-17

Wall send, &c.

Gibson 23 61
Killingsworth E. l9 6,

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 16.

STOCK EXCEIANGE.—The settlement of the account in
shares has been completed to-day. " Contangos " have
again ruled heavy, and the new account opens without
animation. Caledonian, 30i; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
71Ci ; London and North-Western, 1011 c. ; Midland,
69a )1; Berwick Capital Stock, 19 1-16 ; south Eastern,
1813-16.

MANCHESTER, OCT. 16.,
STOCK EXCHANGI.—Prices a shade firmer, and transac' 111
tions again limited. East Lancashire, 16i n.; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 711 ; London and N.-Western, 1011 '
Isialton and Driffield, 48c.; Manchester, Sheffield, WA"'
Lincoln, 248; South Eastern, 184.
London, England, 1854-10-17

CIIELIISORD-Our. 13.

lire had to-day about an average supply of wheat, which
met a more ready sale than of late at an advance of is to 2s
psr qr. Oats is per qr. dearer. All other k inds of spring
Sem firm at last quotations.
Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, wkite, old 48s Od
to GSs Od, new 49s to 68s ; red, old 43s to 61 s, new 43s to
61s ; barley, 26s to 32s ; chevalier, 29s to 3.2 s ; grinding,
21s to 27s ; malt, 71s to 75s ; chevaliei, 74s to 78s • oats,
27s to 33s ; peas, partridge, 38s to 42s ; white , 40s to 43s ;
boiling 46s to 52s ; dun, new, 31s to 37s ; bea.us, tick, 41s
to 44s ; Harrow ticks, 39s to 47s ; Mazagan, 4A's to 413.

COLCHESTER— OCT. 14.
A fair supply of wheat, for which there was a• brisk de-
mand, at fell), 4s per qr. over last week's prices. Barley,
beans, and peas wore each is to 24 per qr. dearer.
Prices to-day were as follow :—Wbeat, whito, 611 to 72i;
red, 58s to 61s ; barley, 28s to 34s ; oats, 23s to 28s ;, beans,
Mazagan, 42s to 448 ; middle and small, 44s to 48s ; peas,
white, 483 to 50s ; grey, 3lis to 424.

Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., rc ,ceive.l
in the port of London, from the following ports, from
the Bth to the 14th Oct., both inclusive.

4-4 7

0 pq

6.1 751 915
1 l
214 361 921' -•-
1541- - 23
944 220) 43 -

Colchester
Harwich
Leigh
Mahlon

KIRKCALDY-O,

ICT. 14.

Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. 1' Beans.
First
Second
30s Od 30s Od 1 Os Od
I Third s2s Od 27s Od 275 Od I Os Od
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 00s Od to 0)135 Od.
London, England, 1854-10-17

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

The clever and ingenious acting of Mr. Robson has
never been more strikingly exhibited than in a new farce
brought out at this theatre last night under the title of
A Blighted Being. The worthy in question fancies him-
self the especial victim of an opposing fate. He is con.
signed to a brewery when he would court the muses.
His great epic poem in sixteen books is rejected by the
booksellers, and is equally rejected by the public when
be publishes it on his own account. His expectations
of fortune are frustrated bran untimely marriage ; and
he is at length reduced to the verge of despair. There
is no consolation sufficiently potent to comfort him, and
suicide is the only prospect in which he sees relief. The
explanations which of course ensue revive Job Wort,
and under the influence of love and medicine his cure is
completed.
The tragic quality which enters so essentially into
farces of this description has often been embodied by
Mr. Robson. His delineation of mental suffering, built
on a comic basis, is perfection itself. His haggard look,
nervous irritation, and distraught utterance last night
made up a minute portraiture of hopeless affliction—
such we believe that no one on the stage at the present
moment could even remotely rival. The piece, written
solely for him, was thus inimitably sustained; and its suc-
cess was unquestionable. The Irish apothecary was filled
by Mr. Danvers, we may add, with a upeful and pro-
mising vivacity ; and the perky smartness of Mr. Har-
wood Cooper, the representative of a tavern waiter, was
equally suggestive of notice.
This farce, which is founded on a French vaudeville
of not very recent date, owes its authorship to Mr. Tom
Taylor.
- • -
London, England, 1854-10-17

SALE OF THE MIRANDA'S PRIZE.

Yesterday notices was given on the Royal Exchange
that the Russian vessel Bognoja Nadischa, of which
George Jorgetstein was late the master, a prize to her
Majesty's steamer Miranda, in the White Sea, would
within 20 days be condemned as a lawful prize, and sold
for the benefit of her captors. The Court of Ad►uiralty
has issued a decree for the sale of the Russian vessel
Johan Cliristof, seized at Grimsby by the Customs'
authorities, as a Crown droit. The next Russian vessels
to be sold are the Abo, prize to the Tribune, and the
Augusta, captured by the Arrogant and the Hecla, at
Ekness.
London, England, 1854-10-17

TURKEY,

The two Russian generals, Gilkanoff and Tschil-
kanoff, who were taken prisoners to Constanti-
nople, have since died of their wounds. Their
deaths were announced by the guns of the ships of
war lying off Scutari. The unfortunate generals
were followed to the grave by English, French,
and Turkish troops, English soldiers bearing the
coffin.
London, England, 1854-10-17

DIZD.

—- -
On the 14th inst., at Brighton, very suddenly, from the
rupture of a vessel en the lungs, Samuel Phillips, Esq.,
LL D.,•late of Sydenham-hill, aged 39.
On the 28th ult., Charlotte Budd, eldest daughter of
Henry Rudd, Esq., of Russell-square.
On the 23d ult., on board H.M.'s ship Sidon, off the
Alma river, coast of the Crimea, John Mitchell, M.D.,
Staff Surgeon, Lord Lucan's Cavalry Division.
On the 4th August, at his residence, Malabar-hill, Boa'
bay, Professor Green, aged 43.
On the 20th ult., killed in the battle of the Alma, John
Charles Conolly, Captain in the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
•
third son of the late Captain James Conolly, of the 18th
Hussars.
On the 20tla ult., in camp, at Varna, Lieutenant Win.
Mansel Taylor, of the 55th Regiment, aged 29.
On the 13th inst., at Littlebourn Rectory, Kent, Captain
Wm. James, half-pay, 3d or Scots Fusilier Guards, aged
58.
On the 13th inst., at 40, Marine-parade, Lowestoft,
Charlotte, wife of Charles Latter, of Kensal-house
row-road, aged 21.

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London, England, 1854-10-17

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London, England, 1854-10-17

puny embellish ers must henceforward hide their
diminishe d heads, and yield the palm to the princely
professor ol t'ne art of mendacity, to whom FER-
DINAND MIINDEZ PINTO was but " a type." The
English sheltered themselves at sea I the French
declined the, proffered combat, and abandoned their
position at the north of Sebastopol, leaving the
triumphant armyto establish themselves there so as
to be able to foil any attempts that may be made
against the invincible fortress of the EMPEROR.
These palpable falsehoods may appear supremely
ridiculous, and may affect not only the besotted
Russians, but even some of her neighbours.
Prussia may be influenced, just as Austria was
on the other side. It would almost seem as if
CLICQUOT was no longer wavering, but disposed
to cast his lot, for good or evil, with his despotic
brother-in-law. Be it so. We should be far
better able to contend with his open hostility
than his pretended friendship, or specious neu-
trality. We must, however, still repeat that
Europe should receive more frequent accounts
from the seat of war, so that it would. be impos-
sible for MENSCHIKOFF to obtain even a moment's
credence for his ridiculous canards.

It has long been remarked that everything in
England is left to " private enterprise." Many
duties that in other nations devolve on Govern-
ment, are in this country discharged by private
capitalists, who enter on the construction of im-
portant public works, not only without assistance
from the authorities, but regarding them as the

chief impediment to the successful issue of the
enterprise. The Red-tapist principle appears to
be, to oppose everything that promises to be bene-

ficial to the community, and national advantages
are forced on reluctant officials as nauseous, but
London, England, 1854-10-17

FOR THE BLACK SEA.

We believe that the fall of Sebastopol and the destruc-
tion or capture of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea are
looked upon as so 'certain to take place that no reinforce-
ments of ships, with the exception of a steanx-frignte or
two, is to be despatched thither at present. The fol-
lowing, however, will proceed to the Black Sea at

once :
The Miranda, 17, screw, Captain Lyons (son of Sir
E. Lyons). She was swung for the adjustment of her
compasses yesterday, and rebent her sails. She will
call at Davenport for a mail, and leave there about the
10th.

The Valorous, 16, paddle, Captain Buckle.—She left
Sheerness yesterday, and passed through the Downs en
route.

The four screw despatch cruisers, Arrow, Beagle,
Lynx, and Viper, are by this time with the fleet in the
Black Sea, with eight of Lancaster's guns, to assist in
the bombardment of Sebastopol. Three of these vessels
were built by Mare and Co. ; engines by Penn and
Humphreys. And the fourth was built by Messrs.
Green, engines by Maudslay.
The General Screw Company's fine 1,800 tons screw
ship Queen of the South, commanded by Captain Nor-
mon, has been chartered by Government for the convey.
ance of troops to the Black Sea. Ordefs have been
issued at Southampton that she be got ready for sea
with the greatest possible despatch, but, in consequence
of her having just returned from Australia, thereby
completing a voyage round the world, she will require
docking and cleaning. We understand, she is to
be re-coated with Peacock and Buchan s patent coin.

position.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw-ship
Manilla, Captain Evans, will probably take her de-
parture for Portsmouth to-day, there to take in a
cargo of ship biscuit for conveyance to the Black Sea,
for the use of the numerous Government vessels en-
gaged there.

TRIAL OF THE PELTED,.
The Pelter, screw steam light draught of water gun-
boat, had her steam up yesterday in tho basin, under the
superintendence of Mr. liartreo, of the firm of John
Penn and Son, the makers of the engines on the high
Prtnuro P.4l6Plet 8110 has four boiltrg, each indepen•

dent of the other, and will be tried down the river in a
few days.

TRIAL OF THE TARTAR.

The steam was got up in the Tartar, 20, screw steam
leervette, sister ship to the Cossack, and originally
built by Mr. Pitcher, and fitted with engines of 250-
horse power by Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, on
their. patent horizontal cylinder, double piston rod
principle, for the purpose of having her navigated to
Chatham, to be completed at that port for sea, but
in consequence of the lowntss of the neap tide she
could not be taken out of the basin. Mr. Henry
Mdudslay, having been on board to superintend the
working of the engines on her passage round, had
them tried at her moorings in the basin, and they
worked admirably, making 43 to 49 revolutions per
minute.
London, England, 1854-10-17

RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATIONS.

The assembling of Russian troops along the frontier
of Gallicia, with an entrenched camp at Kielce, as the
pivot of their operations, was a tolerably significant hint.
But the news from St. Petersburg, which reached us
last night by telegraph, leaves not a shadow of doubt
on the meaning of this movement. An ukase was pro-
mulgated at Petersburg, on the 14th inst., by which the
three provinces nearest Austria (this designation we
presume indicates Podolia, Volhynia, and the Kingdom
a
of Poland) are declared in state of siege, and Gorstcha-
koff appointed generalissimo of the army concentrated
in them. While the Czar thus plainly intimates that he
considers the congratulations presented by the Emperor
of Austria to the Courts of the Tuileries and St. James's
on their successes in the Crimea as tantamount to a de-
claration of war against Russia, be, by leaving his fron-
tier towards Prussia entirely denuded of troops, ex-
presses quite as unequivocally his entire confidence is
tke Court of Berlin. In a Monarch like the Czar, so
notoriously addicted to suspect every person he deals
with of treachery, this withdrawal of his troops
from the Prussian frontier appears to imply some
peculiarly strong reason for his confidence. It lends
probability to a report which has began to be current
in Germany, that a secret treaty has been concluded
between the Sing of Prussia and the Emperor of
Russ!%. If this be true, Prussia can no longer be con-
sidered in any other light than as a frontier province of
the Russian Empire. All the Prussian ports on the
Baltic will in this case have to be blockaded next spring
as well as the Russian. The merchants of Memel,
Daatzic, Konigsberg, Stettin, and Pillau, are warned in
time of what is awaiting them if some check is not placed
upon the infatuated determination of their King to act
as a vassal of the Czar. In 1812 the people of Prussia
compelled their reluctant King to place himself at the
head of the national movement for the emancipation of
the country ; and what has been done once can be done
again. Or f Frederick William prove of less malleable
materials than his father, the Prussians need only look
across the frontier to Brunswick, in order to see a
younger brother occupying the throne from which his
elder brother was expelled for unfitness to govern, and
that by the instrumentality of the Diet of the Germanic
Confederation.
London, England, 1854-10-17

OP A DAUGHTBR.

;:!

On the 13th inst., at Ewell-house, Surrey, Mrs. James
J. Blake.
On the 14th inst., at 12, Ca.vendish-square, the wife of
Colonel Thomas Wood.

I

Md.R.111111).
On the 12th inst., at St. Andrew's Chum'll, Aberdeen,
the Rev. William Temple, Cuminestone, to :Martha Lyell
Whitecross, eldest daughter of Mr. William. Whitecross,
Crown-street, Aberdeen.
On the 12th inst., at the Friends' Meeting House, Ips-
wich, John Eliot Hodgkin, of Birmingham, son of John
Hodgkin, of Tottenham, barrister-at•law, to Sarah Jane,
daughter of Robert Rausomo, of Ipswich.
London, England, 1854-10-17

THE AMERICANS IN CHINA.

The Americans have not less than 13 ships of war, of
all classes, in the China seas, and of these five are
steamers. There are only the same number of British
men of war there, whilst the French have only a 44-gun
frigate and a steam•sloop.

• ARRIVALS FROM THE BALTIC.
No 2 company of the Royal Sappers and Miners,
under the command of Captain F. W. King, Royal En-
gineers, arrived at head-quarters at Woolwich yesterday.
They landed at Roff's Wharf at one o'clock p.m., from
the Baltic, and were played up to barracks by the brass
band of that branch of the ordnance service at Woolwich.
London, England, 1854-10-17

MEANS FOR THE CONVEYA

FIE
Bearers, or stretchers, 780
Spring carts, on two wheels,
built according to the direc-
tion of ➢7r. Guthrie, 20.
In addition to the before-mentioned supply, each corps
is provided with a regimental, and with a detachment, me-
dicine chest, each chest amply furnished with medicines
and surgical materials, according to the regulations of the
service, also with a box of apparatus f )r fractures and dis-
locations.
The surgeon of the corps has a full set of capital instru-
ments ; the senior assistant a portable set ; the surgeon
and three assistants each a case of pocket instruments, and
a case of lancets; there are likewise, for general use, a set
of cupping instruments and a stomach pump.
The slightly wounded are accommodated towards the
front of the carriage, placed back to back, separated from
each other by wooden partitions, and prevented from fall-
ing outwards by each compartment being provided with a
chain covered with leather, to be passed across the chest,
when the seat is occupied, with a view as well to safety as
support. The badly wounded, extended on elastic stretch-
ers, 6 feet 6 inches long and 2 wide, are placed behind,
and, as already stated, in separate compartments, into or
out of which the stretchers glide with facility, from their
being provided with rollers. Each of the compartments is
fitted with a ventilator from end to end, which can be
closed or opened by the person lying on the stretcher.
A waterproof roof, supported oa wood hoops, covers the
body of the carriage, and under it is a depository for firo-
locks, knapsacks, caps, accoutrements, &e. There is also
under the seats for the slightly wounded men a large capa-
cious locker, in which may bo placed water sacks—for
barrels soon become useless, especially if exposed to wea-
ther and iinn—bedding, and other articles, which the me-
dical officers of the army may consider as likely to be use-
ful; and under the hinder part of the waggon is a con-
♦enient box, in which medicines, instruments, &c., can be
carried if required.
At the back part of each vehicle, there are two iron
brackets, which fold down to support a stretcher, and so
afford the means of forming a convenient table. This
plan I from the first preferred, to one which was strongly
urged on me, namely, to form a table by placing a stretcher
across two panniers.
London, England, 1854-10-17

MAIL FOR THE BLACK SEA.

A. notice has been posted at the gate of Woolwich
dockyard, stating that letters for the Black Sea and
Malta will be despatched by her Majesty's screw steam-
ship Miranda, Captain Edmund M. Lyons, from De►on-
port, on the 18th inst.

COMMANDER RICHARD E. VIDAL.-This officer, who
died on 31,:t August at Port Sarnia, Canada West, en-
tered the navy May 1, 1799, on board the Princess,
guard-ship, at Waterford. From September, 1800,
until May, 1801, he cruised on the coast of Ireland in
the Glenmore, and in August of the latter year he be-
came midshipman of the Vengeance. • In her, besides
witnessing the mutiny in Bantry Bay, he served at the
blockade of Brest and Rochefort, aiid visited the West
Indies. Joining next, in July, 1802, the Glutton, he
made a voyage in that ship round the world. On his
return to England he removed, in November, 1803, to
the Seaflower. In the course of the service in the Sea-
flower he was captured in an attempt to cut a French
privateer from the road of St. Denis, in the Isle of
Bourbon, with a loss of one-half of the men under his
command ; he was wounded, and was in consequence
promoted to the rank of lieutenant by Sir E. Pellew, on
his liberation from a French prison in the Isle of France
in 1808. the release from captivity took place Feb. 29,
1808 ; in the following March and June he joined the
Russell and Culloden ; and on Oct. 24, in the same year,
he was nominated acting lieutenant of the Cornwallis.
After his return from the Wet Indies he was employed
from January, 1812, until January, 1814, in the Asia,
74, on the Channel and West India stations ; from Nov.
5, 1814, until Oct. 7, 1815, as first lieutenant, in the
Griffon, in the Caanuel ; from Nov. 1822, until January,
1826, in command of the Eagle, revenue cruiser; and
from Feb. 2, 1827, until Oct. 26, 1828, again as senior,
in the Eden, on the coast of Africa. He attained
the rank of retired commander July 22, 1830.
Lieutenant Henry Duncan Blanckley (1844) died Sept.
25. He was son of the late Captain Edward Blanckley,
R.N., and grand nephew of the first Lord Nelson. He
entered the navy in 1832 ; passed his examination May
1839 ; and served as mate on the home, Clips of Good
Hope, and Mediterranean stations ; of Salamander and
Devastation, steam-vessels, both commanded by Captain
11. R. Henry ; Heroine, brig, Lieut. CoMmander"T. D.
Stewart ; Isis, 44, Captain Sir J. Marshall ; Caledonia,
120, flag-ship of Sir D. Milne ; and Flamer, steamer,
Lieut. Commander C. J. Poetic. He was appointed
soon after his promotion, which took place Dec. 2,
1844, to Rattler, steam-sloop, Captain H. Smith ; June
12, 1846, was appointed to Inflexible, a similar vessel,
Captain John Cochrane Hoseason, on the East India
station ; and May 3, 1854, to Belleisle, hospital•ship in
the Baltic.
London, England, 1854-10-17

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London, England, 1854-10-17

110SPITAL

Axes, felling, 51
Adzes, coopers', 51
Border tap, small size, 51
Bedding, blankets, single,
10,404
Bedding, rugs, 5,202
', paillasses, 5,202
~ bolster cases, 5,202
sheets, white, 15,606
fuie or mattresses, hair,
2,010
Aids, tit, 00
Bolstirgi,o4 j
BiloelatrlchanYtarestriCls, consist-
ing each of two tressles
and three boards, 2,550
Cases for beds, waterproof,
1)020
Baths, tin slipper, 51
to. slipper, India-rubber,
zit, 5
Basins, pewter and tine, 408
Bridles for bat hotses, 80
Brushes, long scrubbing, 204
hand ditto, 204
f/0 long sweeping, 204
PP hand ditto, 102
white-washing, 204
Boxes lucifer matches, 612
Candlesticks, with snuflers,
iron, 408
Chisel sockets, 1 and l ineh,
102
Cocks, with keys, brass,
inch, 102
Coppers, 20 gallons, 51
„ 12 ditto, 101
„ trivets for do., 153
Choppers for meat, 102
Carts, hand, 4

Cups, drinking, tin, quarts,
918

pints, 6,120
Dishes, tin, 13 inch, 1,020
Dresses, woollens, gowns,
serge 3,060
~ trousers do., 3,060
„ waistcoats do., 3,060
„ caps, worsted, 3,060
„ flannel shirts, 1,530
„ half stockings, wor-
sted, 1,530 pairs
slippers, leather,
2,550
„ linen shirts, 1,530
„ cotton gowns, 3,060
trousers, 3,060
„ waistcoats, 3,060
„ caps, 3,060
Filtering machines, 20
Funnels, tin, 6-inch, 102
)1 8-inch, 102
Frames, iron close stool, 480
Forks, flesh, 102

Cintl;k, a;,,:q.e:l, 204
London, England, 1854-10-17

MEDICAL

Port wine, 600 doz
Brandy 300 gall
Preserved meat. of various
kinds, 10 cwt
Hogarth's essence of beef,
10 cwt

BOORS, STATIONERY,
Hospital regulations, 102
Medical registers, 186
Historical registers, 66
Admission and discharge
books, 66
Guard books for hospital re-
turn, 6

„ for circular letters
(for staff only), 3
Defaulter books, 4
Annual sick returns' 228
Quarterly ditto, 450
Bed-head tickets 25,000
Returns _of medicines, regi-1

mental, 200
Returns of medicines, gene-
ral, 46
Requisitions for medicines,

regimental, 256
Requisitions for medicines,
general, 42
Requisitions for instruments,
regimental, 256
Requisitionsfor instruments,

general, 42
Requisitions for steel trusses,
450
Abstracts of medicines, ge-
neral, 51
Boards of survey, 58
Inspection reports of trans-
ports, 248
Returns of arrivals and de-

partures, 174
Returns of deaths, Nos. 1,
2,3, 100 each
Returns of casualties, 299
„ invalids, 1,2, 3, 210 each
Medical comforts, Nos. 1 and
2, 450 each
Quarterly account—outside
sheet, 200
„ insido sheet, 400
Abstract of ditto, 12
Annual requisition for blank
forms, 12
Quarterly statement of ex-
penditure. 20
„ of sums paid to com-
missariat, 40
„ return of sick seamen

and marines, 100 ---
Annual general abstract, 10
10 return of medical staff,

of pay and allowance of
ditto, 10

Monthly diet tables, 50
„ abstract of extras, 50
London, England, 1854-10-17

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

_
A letter from Bucharest of the sth says :
" Prince Stirbey made his solemn entry into this
place to-day. Detachments of all the Austrian
corps in garrison here had been echeloned ou his
passage. His cortege consisted of a dozen mounted
clorobantz,_ and a squadron of Wallachian lancers,
iu the midst of which came the Prince's car-
riage, drawn by eight horses. He was accompa-
nied by his wife. Tile rrefoot of Police) in full
London, England, 1854-10-17

THE ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET,

Our Portsmouth correspondent, writing yesterday at
six p.m., says, we regret to state that Admiral of the
Fleet, Sir Byain Martin, is in a very precarious state,
and but little hopes entertained of his surviving the
night.

sir Byam Martin has been in the navy since 1782,
consequently he must be a very old man. Two of his
sons are admirals, namely, Rear-Admiral Superintendent
W. E. Martin and Rear-Admiral H. B. Martin,
the junior flag officer of the Baltic fleet.

ADMIRAL BERKELEY'S VISIT TO THE
COLOSSUS.
Rear-Admiral Berkeley, C. 8., the senior sea lord of
the Admiralty, arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard pater.
day morning at a little before eleven. The et).lut
iii.tho V 1,1114 'Muter- CommanderAltin, ifeitt
on board the Colossus, 80, screw, Captain Spencer
Robinson, which ship had been under weigh early in the
morning, to prove her engines and boilers at the run
through Stokes Bay. The Colossus will, in all probability,
leave for the West Indies this day (Tuesday), after re-
ceiving advance.
London, England, 1854-10-17

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PROMOTION AND REWARD TO LORD
RAGLAN.

It is understood that Lord Raglan will be raised to
the rank of Field-Marshal after the operations at Sebas-
topol. The committee of the House of Commons re-
ported in favour of additional field-marshals of repute
being made. We believe it is decided to give his lord-
ship 50,0001. in lieu of pension; his private fortune was
merely 10,0001.

SURMARINE SERVICE IN THE BLACK SEA.
Serjeant William Carne, Ist Company Royal Sappers
and Miners, left Chatham on Saturday afternoon, to
embark on board the Prince, steam-ship, for the
Crimea. This non-commissioned officer is joined
by Privates Lewis, Price, and Toohey, of the same
company, and also with two civilians, selected by
Government: These men are well known for their
ability in the duties of submarine explosions, and are
excellent divers. They go out for the purpose of re-
moving the five ships of war that are sunk by the Rus-
sians at the mouth of the harbour of Sebastopol. They
take with them four sets of diving apparatus and all
other necessary implements, and twenty galvanic batte-
ties, with five miles of copper wire. The charges to be
used will be from one and a half to two tons of gun•
powder, and will be fired at a distance of about two
miles. The operations will be confined to the special
charge of Serjeant Carne. Messengers will be at his
command to transmit every inf. ,rmation to Lord Raglan
'as the works of the submarine siege proceeds. Serjeant
Carne left the head-quarters at Chatham full of spirits,
having parted with his friends, being in full confidence
of his success, not only of his completing the destruction
of the ships, but also in removing and recovering the
gulls.
It appears that a number of divers, supplied with the
diving apparatus of Messrs. Heincke, have been ordered
to Sebastopol, for the purpose of removing the obstruc-
tion caused by the sinking of several Russian vessels at
the entrance of the harbour. So pressing was the de-
mand that the diver of the Royal Panopticon, who since
the re-opening of that institution has astonished the
public by the display of the brilliant subaqueous light,
has been put in requisition, and sent off at a few hours'
notice.. 'Whilst the promptitude of the Government in
providing the means of re-opening the harbour is deserv-
ing of all commendation, the fact that our fleet was sent
ont unprovided with so essential an appendage as a suf-
ficient staff of divers, affords a singular instance of the
supineness which has prevailed in official quarters in
making—or rather neglecting to make—preparations for
the war with Russia.
London, England, 1854-10-17

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TOO KNOWING BY HALE.

The following story, for which we are indebted to a
Frankfort paper shrewdly suspected of being in the pay
of Russia is, if true, an amusing illustration of the
manner in which deceivers are sometimes misled by as-
suming all the world to be as mendacious as themselves :
" Russia has closely watched the armaments prepared
by the Allies for the invasion of the Crimea ; it was in-
formed by correspondents at Varna of every step and
measure taken by them. There was one thing, how-
ever, which the Russian government could not be brought
to believe—and that because no mystery was made of it
—the destination of the expedition. The Russian go-
vernment did not believe that Sebastopol, so openly
spoken of, was really to be attacked ; but persuaded
itself that the admirals and generals of the allies had
sealed orders, not to be opened till they were at sea, which
when opened would be found to direct them to attack
some other port." We have here a corroboration of a
favourite maxim of Talleyrand (and we believe of Lord
Malmesbury before him), that the wiliest diplomatists
may, be effectually deceived by frankly telling them the
plain and simple truth. Diplomatists and metaphysi-
cians resemble each other in this, that while laboriously
digging to reach some recondite truth, they overlook the
truth that stares them in the face on the surface.
London, England, 1854-10-17

THE NEW WATER WEED IN IRELAND.—This trouble-
some water plant, the Anacharis Alcinastrum, which
has recently, and even at this time, occasioning so much
annoyance by seriously impeding the navigation of the
Trent and other waters in England, is referred to, on its
introduction into Ireland, in the "Annals and Magazine
of Natural Ristory." It is rather remarkalila that it
should have been noticed in England and Ireland about
the same time. It was first seen growing in a small
pond in the garden of the chairman of the committee of
botany for the Royal Dublin Society, at Booterstown,
near Dublin. From this place some of it was conveyed
to the Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, Dublin, and little was
thought of it until its rapid growth in the rivers in Eng-
land drew attention to it. Where it does exist in Ireland
it increases as rapidly as it does in England. There are
now some millions of plants in the pond of the Botanic
Garden, and as many more have been destroyed since it
was first introduced.

CAMBRIDGE.—Gnnens.—At the congregation to-rnor-
i,,w, Oct. 116, tile following grace will Le offered to th 4
:—ToSna confer the degree of Doctor of Divinity on
theolle v. Frederic Barker, M.A., of Jesus College, by
royal rnAndate.
London, England, 1854-10-17

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London, England, 1854-10-17

ITALY.

Letters from Florence of the 10th state that the
Government has published the necessary instruc-
tions for Tuscan subjects, who, having served in
the French armies from 1792 to 1815, may have
claims on the funds left by the will of the Emperor
Napoleon.
Accounts from Turin of the 12th of October state
that the works of the submarine telegraph between
Corsica and Sardinia are to be continued under the
direction of Chevalier Bonelli.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR MTN CORIMPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY, 6 P.M.

The following military promotions are announced
by the Moniteur :—Brigade General Bouat, com-
manding the 2d Brigade of the 2d division of in-
fantry of the army of the East, to be General of
Division ; Col. Bourbaki, commanding the let
regiment of Zouaves of the army of the East, and
Col. Eble, Director of the Artillery at Metz, to be
Generals of Brigade. Gen. Bouat is appointed to
command the Ist division of infantry of the army
of the East, and Gen. Bourkaki is to replace him
in the command of the 2d brigade of the 2d divi-
sion. Gen. Eble is appointed to the command of
the Imperial Polytechnic School.
By a decree in the Moniteur, the Abbe Glo-
riot, chaplain to the French army in the East,
is made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour as a
reward for his services during the cholera at Galli-
poli. Another decree raises to the rank of Officer
in the Legion of Honour Lieut.-Colonel Susane, of
the artillery, for his improvements in projectiles of
war ; and a third decree awards the military medal
to a gendarme named Farges, for his zeal in pre-
venting the destruction by fire of a wood in the
Cantal.
Dr. J. V. Dorado has presented to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs his credentials as Chargé
d'Affaires of the Bolivian Republic.
The Minister of War has decided that a military
hospital shall be established at Avignon, and that
an additional one shall be built at Marseilles.
The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 75f.
75c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 98f. 50c. ; Orleans Railway
Shares, 1,197 f. 50c.; Rouen, 985 f. ; Havre, 562 f.
50c. ; Great Northern, 871 f. 25c ' • Strasburg, 833 f.
75c. ; New Shares, 648 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons,
1,038 f. 75c. ; Lyons and the Mediterranean, 850 f.;
Western of France, ' 675 f. • Bordeaux and Cette,
620 f. ; Great Central
of France, 520 f. ; Lyons
and Genova, 535 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 75Af.
London, England, 1854-10-17

Army Medical Department, 13, St. James's-
place, Oct. 16.
Dr. Smith, Director-General of the Army and
Ordnance Medical Department, presents his com-
pliments to the editor of The Sun, and as much
misapprehension seems to exist as to the sufficiency
of medical. attendants, and of medical stores and
supplies with the army and in the hospitals in the
East, and as great anxiety has thereby been caused
to the relatives of the sick and wounded, lie sends
the accompanying papers, showing the number of
medical officers, and the quantity of medicine and
hospital stores, which have been forwarded from
this country at different times since the 24th
February last.
In a memorandum, respecting medical stores
supplied to the army in the East, the Director-
General also states that :

" The number of medical officers with the British
forces in the East, at the time of the battle of the
Alma, was 276—being 1 to every 97 of strength.
In the Peninsula the number of medical officers
was 1 to every 154 of strength.
"At the present moment theie are 30 more
medical officers on their way to Constantinople,
and 15 more are waiting embarkation.
" Dr. Smith is happy in being able to state con-
fidently that the medical officers at Scutari (he
believes 21 in number) have at their command
everything necessary to the treatment of the
wounded soldier; hence there is no necessity what-
ever for any effort being made by the public to
send out to Constantinople lint, old linen, &c."
London, England, 1854-10-17

DIED.

On the 14th inst., at Brighton, very suddenly, from the
rupture of a vessel on the lungs, Samuel Phillips, Esq.,
LL.D., late of Sydenham-hill, aged 39.
On the 28th ult., Charlotte Budd, -eldest daughter of
Henry Budd, Esq., of Russell-square.
On the 23d ult., on board H.M.'s ship Sidon, off the
Alma river, coast of the Crimea, John Mitchell, M.D.,
Staff Surgeon, Lord Lucan's Cavalry Division.
On the 4th August, at his residence, Malabar-hill, Bom-
bay, Professor Green, aged 43.
On the 20th ult., killed in the battle of the Alma, John
Charles Conolly, Captain in the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
third son of the late Captain James Conolly, of the 18th
Hussars.
On the 20th ult., in camp, at Varna, Lieutenant Win.
Manual Tayler, of the 55th Regiment, aged 29.
On the 13th inst., at Littlebnurn Rectory, Kent, Captain
Wm. James, half-pay, 3d or Scots Fusilier Guards, aged
58.
On the 13th inst., at 40, Marine-parade, Lowestoft,
Charlotte, wife of Charles Latter, of Mensal-house Hap.
row-road, aged '2l. ,

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