The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-18 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1854.

COSMORAMA.—DIORAMIO and
PANORAMIC EXHIBITION.—Reopened the 17th instant,
at the PRI \CE OF WALES', BAZAAR, 209, Regent strei.t, with a
Series of New and Splendid Views. Among them are the Rains of
Pompeii and the Valley of Chamouny, with dioramic effect,. Florence,
New York, the Hippodrome at Constantinople, &c., &c.—Open from
10 till 6. Admission, Is. ; children half price.

QOUTRWARK BRlDGE.—Nqtice is hereby
given, that the Annual General Assembly of the Proprietors of
the Southwark Bridge will be holden at the Company's Office,
Queen-street-place, on. Tuesday, the 2d May next, at Twelve for
One o'clock. The chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
JAMES LEITH, Secretary.

Queenitreet-Place, April 18, 1854.

p URS SELL S. —BALL SUPPERS and
WE ()DING BREAKFASTS SUPPLIED In the first
style ;
public breakfasts, dinners, and promenade suppers supplied by con-
tracts a large stock of bride Cakes for immediate use, from one to
twenty guineas each ; a handsome cake for five guineas, packed and
sent to any part of the country Ifrequired, and warranted to keep 12
months.—JOHN R. PuassEaL, 162, Regent-street, and 20, Ludgate-
h:ll, only.

THE BEST FIT WEARS BEST.
" Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy;
But not expressed in fancy ; rich, net kaudy ;
• For the apparel oft proclairns the man."—SHARSPEARS.
HEMMENT and CO., Practical Tailors, 73, Cornhill.

HEMMENT and CO., Tailors, 73, Cornhill,
study the peculiarities of every figure, and, by satisfying its
requirements, invariably produce a garment, whether a Lady's Rid-
ing Habit, Mantle, Cloak, &c., or a Gentleman's Coat, Trousers,
Waistooato &c., that is specially suited for the purpose it is intended
to serve, economy and quality being duly regarded.—Liveries,

BARON .LIEBIG on ALLSOPPS. PALE
ALE.—" I nut myself an admirer of this beverage, and my
own experience enables me to recommend it, in accordance with
the opinion of the most eminent English physicians, as a very agree-
able and efficient tonic, and as a general beverage, both for the
invalid and the robust.—Giessen, May 6.
ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE ONLY is BOTTLED by PARKER and
TWINING, Beer Merchants, 534, PALL-MALL.
IMPERIAL MEASURE. - Quarts, Bs. ' • Pints, 55.; Half-pints
(for luncheon), 3s. per dozen, Also in Casks of 16 gallons and
wards.

SALT and CO.'S, EAST INDIA PALE ALE.
In consequence of the REDUCTION in price of Hops, the 6s.
per barrel advanced on this Ale in October last, is taken off.
BURTON-ON-TRENT, Miacu 27th, 1854.
STORES.
London.• • • .. 22, Hungerford-wharf.
Liverpool ............ 52, Henry-street.
Manchester • • ........ 37, Brown-street.
Birmingham • • 26%, Bull-street.
Bristol .... • • ........ Back Hall, Baldwin-street.
Nottingham .. .• ...... 44, Greyhound street.
Dublin • • 4, Crown-alley.
Edinburgh .... • 17, Downie-place.
Dundee 13, New Inn Entry, High-street.

THE WAR.

THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

The members of the cavalry staff will leave for their
destination either to-morrow or on Thursday, although
at the last moment an alteration may take place. It
was intended that the departure should have taken place
to-day. They will proceed through Paris for Marseilles,
where one of her Majesty's steam-vessels will be in
readiness to convey them to Gallipoli. The aides-de-
camp to Major-General the Earl of Lucan, Commander
of the Cavalry, have already left. The servants, with
the baggage of the noble and gallant earl, left yester-
day. The staff will reach the East some considerable
time before the horses and men.

Brigadier Airey, the last of the Infantry Staff, leaves,

it is understood, on Thursday.
We may add that the delay in the departure of the
cavalry has arisen solely out of a determination on the
part of the Secretary of War, the Duke of Newcastle, to
render the brigade as efficient as 'possible—a consumma-
tion which could not have been attained had there been
the slightest precipitancy.

A large staff of veterinary surgeons proceed to the seat
of war, with a proper supply of medicines and other
requirements necessary for the safety of the horses.
Contracts have been entered into with persons in Turkey,
recommended by the Ottoman Government, for a pe-
riodical supply of forage for the horses.
The infantry and cavalry are to,..tse unencumbered
with their heavy caps, and a most appropriate pattern as
the substitute. The war or fighting cap is about half
the size of an ordinary hat, with a peak in front, and a
lap-behind to ward off the heat.
The Earl of Lucan, commander of the cavalry, entered
the army in 1816. He was for some time, as Lord Bing-
ham, colonel commandant of the 17th Lancers, now en
route for Turkey, for the seniority in which he paid, it is
generally stated in military circles, no less a sum than
20,0001. Lord Lucan was born in 1800, and is conse-
quently the junior by three years of his well-known kins-
man, Lord Cardigan. The noble lord served as a volun-
teer with the Russians against the nation he is now
supporting in 1828 and 1829, and was under General
Diebitsch at Varna, Schumla, Widdin, and indeed, at
the gates of Adrianople, where the Turks consented to a
humiliating peace. For these services he was honoured
with the thanks of the Emperor Nicholas, who created
him a military knight of the order of St. Aline of Russia,
second class. His lordship's eldest son, Lord Bingham,
lieutenant in the Coldstreams, who is on his noble father's
staff, has left with his regiment.
Brigadier the Earl of Cardigan, commander of the
light division of cavalry, entered the service in 1824, and
Brigadier the Hon. Yorke Scarlett, commander of the
heavy division under Lord Lucan, joined the service in
1824. The gallant colonel is son of the late Lord
Abinger, so well known in. legal circles at one time as
Sir James Scarlett. It is worthy of remark that the
three gallant officers paid heavy sums for their commis-
sions, and in departing to lead their country's troops
they leave behind them large' properties as well as
rela-
tives and friends.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Nile, 90, Commander Booth, bearing the blue
broad pendant of Commodore H. B. Martin, C. 8., ar-
rived at Spithead yesterday morning from Plymouth, to
complete her crew for the Baltic.
The Gladiator, 6, paddlewheel frigate, Capt. Broke,
having repaired her starting gear, went yesterday to test
her speed at Stokes Bay. •
The !law, 4, iron paddlervieel steam-vessel, Lieut.
Corn. Lindsay, and the Pignii, paddlewheel steam-ves-
sel, fitting at Portsmoutli as a gunboat for service in the
Baltic, will be rigged and ready for service by Saturday
next.

The Hornet, 16, screw steam sloop, built at Deptford,
and launched last week at that dockyard, was brought
down to Woolwich yesterday to be made ready for sea.
The Cossack, screw steam frigate, launched from Mr.
Pitcher's dockyard at Northfleet on Saturday last, was
towed up the river yesterday, to have her engines put
on board by the contractors.
Upwards of 8,000 visitors were in Woolwich dockyard
during the day, and as many as 3,000 were on board the
Royal Albert, 131, screw steamship, at one time in the
afternoon. Booths are to be erected for the accommoda-
tion of 5,000 persons to witness the launch on May 13.
The number of visitors to the Royal Arsenal was also
very great.
By letters from the Baltic fleet we learn that it has
been ascertained the Russian force afloat in those waters
amounts to 30 sail of the line, and a corresponding num-
ber of frigates, steamers, and smaller craft, whose crews
are well trained and have been together six or seven
years, also 800 gunboats.
The Simoom iron steam troop-ship, Captain Smith,
steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday to refit for
further troop service.
The Rhadamanthus steam-transport, Master-Com-
mander Belem, having landed the machinery of the
Colossus at Portsmouth, left yesterday evening for Ply-
mouth with part of the machinery for the Exmouth, 90.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's fine
steam-ship Euxine, laden with munitions of war and
other freight, and personages, left Portsmouth yesterday
afternoon for Turkey.
All the transports which have arrived at Portsmouth
(nine sail) are being victualled with every description
of provisions, stores, and forage for horses, for four
months. The Royal Clarence Victualling Establish-
ment, Gosport, under the superintendence of Cap-
tain Courtenay, is in full work from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m.,
and the men were employed until one o'clock on Sunday
in victualling the Euxine. The crews in that arid the
other transports refused to work on Sunday, and struck
at 6 p.m. on the Saturday night ; nor could they be in-
duced to help in the emergency. In this strait the con-
victs of the Portsea Prison, under Captain and Governor
Knight, volunteered to do the work of stowage in the
Euxine, &c., and did it well, being employed the whole
day in the dockyard and ships of their own free will.
This is not the first time these prisoners have exhibited
similar praiseworthy conduct.
The Clarence-yard has now in its victualling stores
upwards of 10,000 casks of beef and pork, and all other
kinds of provisions in proportion, ready for shipment—
more than ever the storehouses contained before. Master
Attendant Davies and Storekeeper Pinhorn are inces-
santly employed in superintending the work of storing or
shipment, and the whole staff of the establishment is
alike active.
The transport-ships Wilson Kennedy and Shooting
Star (the latter a fine American clipper) sailed on Sunday
from Liverpool for Plymouth. They have been ready
for sea for some days past, but delayed for want of men,
some of those previously shipped having at the instiga-
tion of the crimps refused to do their duty. There are
about 12 more transports preparing for sea under the
inspection of Captain Bevis, R.N. It has been stated
that the French Government had purchased two screw-
steamers at Liverpool and sent down a corps of French
sailors to navigate them, but up to yesterday no official
intimation of the fact had reached the French Consul
there.
By electric telegraph we learn from Plymouth that the
Andes screw-steamer, Captain Moodie, 33 hours from
Liverpool, arrived in the Sound yesterday afternoon to
embark the Ist Royals, and that the Echunga trans-
port, with the first troop of the Bth Hussars, had sailed
for the Mediterranean.
Yesterday the Commissioners of the Admiralty gave
notice at Lloyd's that they required an additional num-
ber of transports, of from 650 to 800 tons burden, for
the conveyance of troops and stores to the seat of war.
They are to be hired for four months certain. The
Commissioners have determined not to take up any
vessel for transport service that has discharged a cargo
of guano.
Yesterday morning another detachment of the 19th
Foot left the Tower for Liverpool, there to embark in
charge of commissariat stores for Gallipoli. In the
course of the day the regimental depot marched from
the Tower, and proceeded by railway to Weimer.
The main body of the regiment will leave in the
course of the week, and will be relieved by the 35th
Foot.

Captain W. Swinton's 3d company, of the 11th bat-
talion of Artillery, Captain J. Turner's 4th company,
11th battalion, and Captain Wodehouse's 6th company,
of the 11th battalion, have been formed into field bat-
teries and placed under orders with the second division
of Royal Artillery for service in the East. The whole
of these batteries assembled in heavy marching order
yesterday morning at half past nine o'clock, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Anderson, and were in-
spected by Colonel C. E. Whinyates as they marched
out of the Gun-park, Woolwich.
Captain d'Aguilar's Gth company, of the 11th bat-
talion, Captain J. Travera's 7th company, of the 11th

battalion, and Captain Fitzroy's Bth company, of the
11th battalion, have been formed. into a siege battery,
and have been supplied with new blillikets, havresanks,
and wooden canteens, for service in the East.
Colour-Sergeant Henry, of the Royal. Artillery, is to
be appointed Adjutant of the Pensioners who have volun-
teered for service in Turkey. _ _

A second troop of the Bth Hussars left Exeter at half-
past 9 o'cloCk yesterday morning en route for Plymouth,
where the whole regiment will embark for the East.
The troop mustered at the Artillery barracks.at 9 o'clock,
and, after a brief inspection, marched into Exeter, pre-
ceded by the band of the 3d Dragoons,, On arriving in
the city, the soldiers were greeted with hearty cheers
L. a large concourse of people. On reaching Fore-street
they were again cheered lustily, some of the soldiers re-
sponding by waving their caps. Several of the officers
of the. 3d Dragoons accompanied the troop, and the
whole of the men seemed in excellent spirits.
At one o'clock yesterday the squadron of Royal Horse
Guards (Blue), which took the duty at'Hampton Court
barracks on Monday last returned to the Spital barracks,
Windsor, and again completed the full strength of the
regiment in, garrison there. The Blues have been re-
lieved at Hampton Court by two troops of the 13th
Light Dragoons from Hounslow.
The number of rank and file of the 39th and 89th
Regiments, with the draughts of the 30th and 55th
Regiments, that will leave Queenstown, in five trans-
ports, for Gibraltar, during the present week, will be
2,150, exclusive of officers, staff, tic :' The depots of
several regiments are being concentrated at Fermoy,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Townsend,
for the 'purpose of military instruction and receiving re-
cruits for the service companies. The depot of the 49th
has left Cork for that station, and the depots of the 33d
(Duke of Wellington' own) and 50th Regiments have
also arrived there. The depOts of the 30th and 89th
Regiments are also lying in that garrison. On the de-
parture of the infantry from Cork barracks the head-
quarters division of the 46th Regiment, under the com-
mand of Lieut.-Colonel Robert Garrett, K.H., will
arrive from Kilkenny. The 14th Regiment, stationed
at Limerick, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Maurice Barlow, is under orders for foreign service, and
will embark at Queenstown.
Arrangements are in progress for placing the commis-
sariat department of the service in Ireland under a staff
responsible for the proper an\l regular supply of food and
forage for the cavalry and infantry. In 1846, when the
progress of the Irish famine made it necessary to distri-
bute food to large masses of the people, a branch of the
commissariat was originated in Dublin, and found to
work well and it has now been determined to recon-
struct this board, with a full and efficient working body
of officers. Deputy-Commissary-General Watt and
Assistant-Commissary-General Carpenter arrived in
Dublin on Wednesday last, and are busied in taking the
preliminary► steps to carry out the views of the Govern-
ment.

THE FREE TOWN OF BREMEN AND
TilE WAR.'

The following is a translation of a notice from the
authorities of this town respecting the trade and
navigation of the belligerent Powers :

" BREMEN, APRIL 13.
" Since war has arisen between several of the great
European Powers, and the commencement of active
hostilities has been declared by land and sea,
"The Senate feels itself called upon, under the exist-
ing circumstances, and in order to prevent damage and
loss accruing to Bremen property, and to secure the
neutral position of Bremen against all risks, to call the
attention of every one, but more particularly of those
engaged in trade, and of shipowners in their mercantile
transactions to and from places belonging to a belligerent
State, should the same be in a state of blockade or
otherwise, that they might be most careful, if they
would not act in their own prejudice, to avoid any con-
travention of those duties which the law of nations and
the Bremen State treaties impose upon them in war
time.

Although the Senate feels assured that a reference
to the obligations due equally to the friendly Powers as
to their own city, will be sufficient to prevent the citizens
of Bremen for the future, just as well as heretofore,
from undertaking anything in contravention of the prin-
ciples of public law (offentliches redo), nevertheless the
Senate, without prejudice to any further necessary mea-
sures for the preservation of the neutrality of Bremen,
takes this opportunity of calling general attention to the
following orders :
" 1. The exportation of all articles deemed contra-
band of war by the law of nations and by the existing
Bremen State treaties, but particularly of all ammuni-
tion, powder, balls, (latgeN), percussion caps (aund-
hutchen), of brimstone and saltpetre, of ordnance and
arms of every description, and generally of all articles
which can be immediately used in war, to the territory
of the belligerent Powers, is forbidden until further no-
tice, either by land or by water, and that, too, equally
under the Bremen or a foreign flag.
" The transgression of this prohibition will entail the
confiscation of the articles in question, and the infliction
of an appropriate fine and imprisonment, according to
circumstances.

" 2. In all cases of exportation to the belligerent
States the goods must be accurately specified, and the
superscription merchandise,' or any similar general de-
scription, will not be admitted.
" 3. No Bremen vessel is permitted to carry two sets
of ships' papers or a foreign flag.
" 4. The duties incumbent on sworn shipbiokers, in
compliance with former enactments, to notify the in-
tended shipment of merchandise to be regarded as con-
traband of war, as also the care they must exercise in
seeing that the ship's documents and ship's papers are
in order, remain in full force, and their attention is
hereby again particularly called to them.
" Decreed at Bremen, in the Assembly of the Senate
on the 12th, and published on the 13th of April, 1854."