The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-16 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1854.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

ilag•ship of Sir Josias Rowley, both in the Mediterranean,
whence he retuned, in the autumn of 1837. He has been
in command, since Nov. 4, 1844, of the Eagle, 50, in which
ship he at first. conveyed Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood
Inglefield to the South• East Coast of America, was then
employed in North America and the West Indies, and
afterwards in the performance of a particular service. Ho
was stibsequently appointed . Captain-Superintendent of
Deptford Victualling and Dockyards on Jan. 10, 1853.

OUR SCREW MEN OF WAR.
'The Colossus, 80, screw, Captain R. S. Robinson, left
according to present orders on Wednesday, for the East
:India station, to reinforce the squadron there. Her crew

:are to be paid wages to-morrow, and the vessel- is to try

:the measured mile, to try her engines. Her crew has been
made up by a draft of 150 men from the Dauntless, 33,

.
screw, Captain Ryder. - . MISCELLANEOUS.
The Cornwallis, 74, in No. 4 Dock, Devonport, has been I The Danish schooner Gcfion, P.B. Briechtsen, master,
suspended, and her two false keels taken out ; the poop from Cardiff, with a cargo of the best quality Welsh coals,
has been taken off, and she will be cut, down to be fitted is alongside the Royal Albert, delivering into bar. Other
cargoes of the same quality, to the amount of 400 tons, are
with a screw. Every preparation is made to commence
with the aperture to receive the propeller. to be received. Most of these are shipped in foreign bot-
The Centurion, 84 guns, in No. 5 Dock, Devonport, has toms, at a much lower rate of freight than could be taken
also been suspended, for the necessary alterations for her upon charter by our own coasting vessels. The Gefion de-
being fitted for the screw ; although nearly a new ship, livered a cargo of barley from Odense at Gloucester, and
symptoms of the rot have been met with in her frame. proceeded to Cardiff in ballast.
The Ajax, 60, screw steam-ship, Captain Warden, ar- SHEERNESS. - Considerable improvements are about
rived at Spithead yesterday morning from the Baltic.
being made •at this yard for the
here. Glass-
masts of boiler
masThtse
putin
Tartar,a at Woolwich
screw c
hst, eiasmto cboervneatvtieg,atheadvti nogehhaatdhahmer making and marine-engine making
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roofed buildings and glass-covered stores are about
She is to be rigged and fitted for sea as soon as possible. being 'erected here on a very extensive scale. The
The Miranda, 14, screw corvette, Captain Lyons, had
Quadrangle Store Houses-yard is to be covered in with
steam up yesterday to try her engines. She will adjust . glass, and largo work sheds ahead of the docks are also to
compasses to-day, ready to go to SPithead- be erected for the convenience of shipwrights, ship-joiners,
The Brisk, 14, screw steam-sloop, with the Eurydice, &0., working during the winteimouths. Gas is being laid
sailing corvette, in tow, arrived yesterday morning from I on to the smitherieg, millwrights' workshops, &c., to enable
the White Sea, and anchored-at Spithead. ' long hours to be worked during the *inter, and everything
The Swallow, 9, screw sloop, Commander Craufurd, will here bespeaks going to work in right good earnest to pre-
be ready to go to Spithead the latter emf of the week ; pare our steam and sailing fleet to be all ready to leaveagain
she will swing, to test deviation of compasses, ou Wed- early in the forthcoming spring.
nesday. The Cossack has completed her coaling from the floating
coal depot in Salt Pan Reach. She will be inspected by
the commander-ix-chief to-day, 'preparatory to her depar-
ture for the Black Sea.
The commander-in-chief returned from his leave of ab-
sence on Saturday last, and at three p.m. the commodore's
'goad pendant was struck on board the Royal Albert, and
the admiral's flag (blue at the fore) hoisted again on board
the Waterloo. .

The Volcano, paddle-wheel steam floating factory, has
arrived at Woolwich en her return from the Baltic, and
has been brought alongside of the wharf wall to undergo
some slight repairs preparatory to her proceeding to the
Black Sea, under the charge of her present commander,
Second Master George Gilp,n.

The Cuckoo is being prepared for immediate and parti=
cular service.

The Marlborough, Indlnman, sailed from Spithead last
evening for Madras.
....

WOOLWICH, OCT. 14

The Members of the Old Naval Club of 1765 intend cele-
brating the day of the year on which the battle of Trafal-
gar took place, agreeably to long established usage, at- the
Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, ou Saturday
next, the 21st instant ; and it is expected that many mem-
bers of the club, who were youths or young commissioned
officers in the battle, will be present at this, the 49th anni-
versary, to meet a distinguished guest invited by the pre-
sident for the occasion.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants—Gegrge Macintosh Balfour (1846), from
the Ajax, 40, screw steam-ship, on the Baltic station, to
the Hannibal, 91, screw. steam-ship, .at Sheerness. ,Hon.
Arthur Hay (1853), from the Vestal, 26, on the North
America and West Indies station, to the, Ajax, vice Bal-
four.

Master's-Assistant—John W. Harding, to the Indefati-
gable, 50, on the south-east of America station.
Master—Samuel S. Flinn (1825), to be a retired com-
mander of 1846.

MILITARY.

SUPPLIES FOR THE WOUNDEb .IN THE CRIME.L.—Tho
following interesting .and well-timed- communication ap-
pears in the Dublin Sews Letter

It was inadvertently stated that acting assistant-surgeon
Arthur Gordon had been appointed 'to the Cossack; it
should have been Arthur 111`lienna..

" anxiety being , expressed by those having
friends at the seat of war, in consequence of the statements
that there is no provision made for the wounded,' I beg
you will kindly insert, for the information of the, public,
the following list of articles that to my own knowledge
have been despatched to Tuikey, and must -have arrived
there long since.--Your obedient servant,

ARRIVAL OF THE CUMBERLAND FROM THE

BALTIC.

The Cumberland, 70, Capt. George H. Seymour, arrived
at the Great Nore yesterday morning from the Baltic. She
will be towed into harbour to-day. Silo will be immedi-
ately taken into the fitting basin. The officers and ship's
company will be transferred to the victualling stores pre-
pared for the reception of ships' crews returning from the
Baltic, and the ship will be taken into dry dock to make
good damage sustained by her having been in collision with
a French man-of-war.

" JOLIPFE TUFNELL.

"Port wine, 600 doz. ; brandy, 300 gallons; preserved
meat, 10 cwt..; essence of beef, 10 cwt. ; preserved potatoes,
45 cwt. ; sago, .6 cwt. ; arrowroot, 6 cwt. ; barley, 15 cwt. ;
sugar, 5,000 lbs. ; tea, 2,5001b5. ; cholera belts, 40,000;
blankets, 10,000; rugs, 5,000; palliasses, 5,000; bolsters
5,000; sheets, 15,000; hair mattresses, 2,000; bedstalls,
2,500 ; waterproof beds, 1,000 ; water filters, 20 ; muslin
for musquito curtains, 2,000 yards ; sponges, 2,000; calico
bandages; 37,000; flannel ditto; 9,500 ; splints in sets,
1,000; lint, 3,3001b5. ; surgeon's tow, 4,0001b5. ; old linen li
sheets, 700 pair; with other matters, surgical and medical,
in similar proportion, but which it is needless to insert, as
the above list of necessaries will afford to the public some
idea of the provision already made."
MILITARY INSI'ECTIONS.—Major-General Eden, C. 8., in
the course of his half-yearly inspection of the Kilkenny
Military district, inspected the following stations during
the week :—Oa Tuesday, Captain O'Gorman's company of
the 90th Light Infantry at Maryborough ; same day, the
depot battalion, consisting of the 41st, 47th, and 55th de-
pets, under the command of Colonel Townsend, at Tem-
plemore ; on Wednesday, the depot of the 13th Light In-
fantry, under Major Burslem, and Captain Grant's troop
IGth Lancers, at Clonmel ; on Thursday, the depot of the
89th Regiment, under Brevet Lieuteuant-Colonel Graham,
at Waterford ; on Friday, the garrison of Kilkenny, con-
sisting of the depot of the 17th Regiment, under Major
Cole, Captain Smith's troop of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
and the demi-battery of artillery, under Lieutenant-Colonel
Nedhara. • Tho inspection at our barracks commenced at
11 o'clock and ended at noon, after which the general visited
the regimental schools, &c., and express3d himself perfectly
pleased with the entire efficiency of the interior economy
of the depot and garrison generally.—Kilkenny Moderator.
A battery of artillery will shortly arrive in Norwich.
It will consist of 195 rank and file, 183 horses, and six
guns. Orders have been given to have the barracks ready
for their reception.—Norfolk, Chronicle.
In addition to the draughts of the Guards, the follow-
ing detachments will embark next week in the Robert
Lowe for the Crimea : —7th Fusileers, 2 sergeants, and 80
men ; 19th Regiment, 2 sorggonts and 80 men ; 23d Fusi-
leers, 2 sergeants and 100 men ; 33d Regiment, 2 sergeants
and 100 men ; 88th, Ensigns Kenny and Preston, and about
80 men.; 95th, Lieut. Probart, 2 sergeants, and 80 men.
Major-General Hay, who succeeds. Lieutenant-General
Sutherland in the command at the Mauritius, is to sail on
the 22d inst.

Viscount Melville having accepted the command of the
forces in North Britain, Major-General Allen Maclean, an
old and meritorious Waterloo officer, succeeds to his lord-
ship's command in India.
A circular has just been issued to commanding officers
from the Horse Guards, to the effect that the General
Commanding•in-Chief has decided that the distribution
into service and depot troops, when employed in the field
abroad, shall bo as follows, viz.:—
Four Service Troops :-26 sergeants, 4 trumpeters, 4
farriers, 16 corporals, 290 privates, and 300 horses. Two
Depot Troops :-8 sergeants, 3 trumpeters, 2 farriers, 7
corporals, 123 privates, and 72 horses. Total, 31 sergeants,
7 trumpeters, 6 farriers, 23 corporals, 427 privates, and
372 horses.

We regret to have to add to the list of deaths from cholera
in the army in the Crimea the name of Lieut.-Colonel
Beckwith, of tho Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade. Colonel
Beckwith had landed at the Crimea, but was compelled by
indisposition to return to the ship. He somewhat rallied
from the disease, and seemed likely to recover, but experi-
enced a relapse on the 23d, which terminated his life on the
24th. He was interred on the shores of the Crimea with
military honours.

THE MILITIA.
PRESENTATION OF COLOURS TO TUR SECOND SOMERSET

MILITIA.
The 2d Somerset Regiment of Militia being about to
leave Bath, for garrison duty at Cork, the ceremony of
presenting colours to it took place on Saturday. Lord
Auckland, tho Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Lord Port-
man, the lord-lieutenant of the county, the Hon. Miss
Portman (by whom the colours were presented), the mayor
and magistrates of the borough, and a large body of clergy,
took part in the proceedings.

THE LANCASHIRE MILITIA AND THE WAR.—An in-
teresting scone occurred this (Saturday) afternoon in Cana-
bridge Barrack-square, the quarters of the Lancashire
militia, Col. Clinton, the commanding officer of the regi-
ment, calling the men out and telling them that
their services might be valuable, under present cir-
cumstances, abroad, and asking them where they would
prefer to go—whether Corfu, Malta, or any other place.
The reply was spontaneous that they would prefer to go at
once to the seat of war and to no other place ; although it
was afterwards generally added that they were ready to go
to any place wherever their officers would lead them—an
evidence of confidence in, and the good feeling they enter-
tain towards, their officers. They gave three hearty cheers
for their colonel aid officers, and then throe for his lady.
This latter demonstration of good feeling may well bo
accounted for from the warm interest this lady has ever
displayed in the welfare of the men, and which has very
recently been exhibited in Mrs. Clifton's giving to the
children of all the men in the regiment a quantity of winter
clothing. It must bo gratifying to the country to know of
the courageous disposition manifested by the Lancashire
Regiment, and we fool sure that the Hampshire, Wilt-
shire, and Middlesex Regiments, also in this garrison, will
display the same disposition when called upon. We be-
lieve that recruiting parties have gone out to-night from
the Lancashire and Wiltshire Regiments to their respective
counties to augment them from 600 to 930 men each. -
Portsinout4 Times.

DEPARTURE OF THE VIFREDO. •
MALTA, OCT. 10.
The Vifredo, screw steam transport, which arrived from
Portsmouth on the Gth, as already reported, with detach-
ments of the 79th and 88th, several military and commis-
sariat officers and employes, left again on the same day for
the seat of war, followed on the morning of the Bth by the
Sphynx, steam frigate, which arrived from Plymouth on
the evening of tho 7th with supernumeraries for the Black
Sea fleet. The Stromboli and Salamander steam frigates
arrived from England on the Bth, the former laden with
cordage and other stores, the latter with shot and shells,
for the fleet. The Stromboli left for the Black Sea on the
macuilag o the XObh, Who Lynn..loMY &44-boat Kam

from Plymouth on the Bth; and left for the Black Sea on
the oth, followed on the 10th by the Viper, which arrived
from England and Lisbon on the night of. the" 9th. The
Balbec, screw merchant steamer, arrived from Liverpool
on the Bth, and left for Conitantinople on the 9th, having
on board Lieutenant oreville, Lieutenant Heneage, and
the Hon. W. A. Amherst, of Ple Coldstream Guards ;
Messrs. Carte, Taylor, Kellett, and Titterdon, of the Staff.
Dr. Walsh went passenger by the
.Stromboli. The Ara-
bian screw steamer arrived from Alexandria on the Bth,
and left for Liverpool on the 9th. The Army and Navy
screw steamer arrived from Smyrna on the 9th, and left
for England on the 10th, fruit laden.

EXTANSION OF THE EGYPTIAN
RAILWAY TO' SUEZ.

We extract the following from a despatch re-
ceived via Marseilles in anticipation of the Over-
land Mail:--

The extension of the Egyptian Railway to Suez would
materially reduce the cost of steam navgation in the
Red Sea. At the present rates of freight the Peninsular
and Oriental Company find it cheaper to c3nvey their
supply of coal on the backs of camels across the desert
than to' ship it round' the Cape. The extension of the
.Bombay Great Indian. Peninsular Railway to the Ner-
budda coalfields is also a desideratum, but the progress
of that line,has been.stopped by Lord Dalhousie, at the
advice of Colonel Kennedy, late consulting engineer to
the Pcv.ernn3ent alhdia, in favour of a competing line
got up by that officer, of which.he is himself the manager,
and of which two of his nephews are respectively engineer
and secretary. The expensei of the preliminary surreys of
this new company are to be paid by the Court of Direc-
tors, while those of the Great Indian Peninsular. Com-
pany have been paid by its shareholders. •At Bombay
the general opinion is that Colonel Kennedy's scheme
will ultimately fall to the ground. The engineering
advisers of the local Government are strongly opposed
to it, and it is evident to the merest tiro in railway en-
gineering that the grounds on which the Colonel bases
his scheme are entirely erroneous. He advises that the
steepest gradient admissible on trunk lines should be.

lin 2,000, the ruling gradient of the English Great
Western being as steep as about 1 in 330. With such
views, an ascent of the Ghauts is, of course, out of the
question, and the Colonel thinks it worth while to ,go
round by Surat and the Taptee-160 miles out of the
direct line—to - avoid them. Thu} ignorant dread
of the Ghauts is one of the greatest difficulties
that railway engineers have had to contend
with on this side of India. The Thull Ghaut
ascent would be only five miles in length ;
its cost only 47,0001. per mile ; its inclination the same
as that of the Lickey incline on the Birmingham and
Glocestor Railroad ; its curves double the radius of those
found to be unobjectionable 'at equal inclinations on the
Somerring ; and, as regards the cost of working, the lo-
comotive and traffic manager of the Bombay Railway
(taking into consideration the fact of the bulk of the
traffic being downwards) offers to work the five miles of
the Ghaut ascent at the average cost of twice that dis-
tance (11 miles) of the other portion of the line • econo-
mically, therefore, it would not be worth while to go
even 10 miles round to avoid the Ghauts. As re-
gards the local accommodation it would afford or the
facility of construction, the superiority of the direct
line surveyed by the Great Indian Peninsular Com-
pany over Colonel Kennedy's roundabout line is
decided and unquestionable. From Bombay to
Surat Colonel Kennedy's line would run along
the coast and have to compete with one of the
cheapest lines of water-carriage in the world. The pro-
pesed crossing of the arm of the sea dividing Salsette
from the main land I believe to be economically imprac-
ticable, and thence to Surat tidal creeks running far
inland are of frequent occurrence. From a few miles
above Surat to Candeish the course of Colonel Kennedy's
line would be through a rocky and almost uninhabited
jungle, the deadly malaria of which is proverbial in
Western India, and its course would be much obstructed
by the frequent and terrible ravines which break down
into the bed of the Taptee, and which are so well known
to every sportsman who has shot along its banks. On
the other hand, the course of the direct line effects an
enormous saving in distance, and presents no engineering
difficulties besides the Ghaut ascent; it traverses the rocky
belt of country separating the productive plains and valleys
of the interior from the Bombay coast, and blocking up the
lower portion of the Taptee and Nerbudda valleys, taps
the great plains of the Godavery at the most eligible
point. For 45 or 50 miles its course lies over these
plains, which stretch thence without a 'break to the
Madras coast. Leaving these plains, the line enters the
valley of Candeish through a complete gap some miles
wide—the Indegadree range, without any considerable
earthwork. Thence it follows the Girua, crosses the
Taptee, and reaches Burhampore, the old capital of a
province as fertile as Bengal, which, in the time of the
Moguls, is said to have yielded a revenue of 3,000,000
sterling. Thence it crosses, at Asseerghur, the water
shed separating the Taptee and Nerhudda valleys. This
country for a few miles is uneven, but it presents no
engineering difficulties ; no tunnelling is necessary, and
not much earthwork, and the gradients are unobjection-
able. It then enters the valley of the Nerbudda, which it
taps close to the western extremity of the fertile plain that
runs along its southern bank throughout G ocndwana—the
country that supplies Malwa with wheat and Europe
and America with white linseed, the straw of which (at
present only used for burning) would be thus rendered
available in quantities exceeding the former supply of
hemp from Russia. The hills on each side of the valley
abound in iron, and those on the southern side in coal.
The latter has been proved in the furnaces of the Bombay
steamers and factories to be of better quality than any
hitherto imported from Wales or Scotland, and it crops
out close to the line in beds of a thickness altogether
unprecedented in any European or American coal-field.
The working surveys and estimates of the Groat India
Peninsular Railway are now completed as far as Jub-
bulpore (I have lately had an opportunity of examin-
ing them), and they are now being extended to meet
the Calcutta line at Mirzapore. A branch between
50 or 60 miles long would connect the line between
Asseerghur and Ilossungabad with Indore, the
capital of the rich State of Malwa ; and this branch
might ultimately he extended to Rajpootana and Delhi.
I have no personal predilections whatever in respect to
any one concerned in either of these competing lines,
and have no shares in either, but I am well acquainted
with the districts they traverse. I was formerly en-
gaged in examining the engineering capabilities and
collecting their traffic statistics, with a view to the ex-
tension of railway communication between Bombay and
the interior, and, in common with all those acquainted
with the productive resources and the engineering ca-
pabilities of the Gunga.thuree (or plain of the Godavery),
the valley of Candeish and Ellichpore, Goondwana, and
Maims, I cannot but regard the introduction of the
principle of competing lines, and the consequent delay
of the direct Bombay and Mirzapore line by the Thull
Ghaut and the Nerbudda coal fields, as the greatest
blow to the progress of Western India that has been
struck since the subjection of the Bombay Government
(even in matters of the minutest detail), to the distant
authority and often petty and jealous interference of
the Supreme Government of India.

[PRICE SD.

80,000 men, under a leader in whom they havei
justly 'the greatest confidence., has now remained
inactive since the combat at' diurgevo, except that a,
gradual advance has been made.along, the whole line of
the Principalities. 'We know with certainty, that the
Russian forces lately opposed to Oiner Pasha,havej been
reduced, for some of them had arrived before the battle
of the Alma by forced marches in the Crimea ; and
more of these troops are probably hurrying to the assist-
• mice of General Osten-Sacken, who is said to have the
chief command in the northern portion of the Peninsula.
It therefore becomes of great moment to the armies
operating against Sebastopol that the Turkish forces
should attempt a diversion, in order to prevent the con-
cettration of the Russian armies, and this may be
effected either by entering Bessarabia or by throwing
a Turkish expedition on some other part of the
coast. The former of these plans would be at
once the easiest and most effective, and it would
have the additional advantage of bringing matters
to a crisis between Austria and Russia, as well as
between Austria and the German, States. In the pre-
sent position of those two empires, neither of them will
attack the other, but both of them are so very near the
brink of war that the slightest incident would probably
be followed by declared hostilities. Omer Pasha operating
on the frontier of Bessarabia would practically have the
Austrian army to support him, for Austria has declared
that she mill in no case suffer Russian troops to re-cross
the Pruth, even to avenge an attack Upon themselves. ,
He has, therefore, every inducement to advance with
confidence. No Turkish military commander or states-
man ever made war against Russia under 'circumstances ;
equally favourable, and the more extensive these corn-
bitted operations of the allies may become, the more cer-
tain will be their result.—Times.