The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

ARMY AND NAVY PRIZE MONEY.

(From the London Gazwe of last Evening.)
BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.
Victoria R.
Whereas by our Royal Proclamation, bearing date the
twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four, we have ordered and directed, that the net
proceeds of all prizes taken during the present war with
Russia, by any of our ships or vessels of war, after the
same shall have been to us finally adjudged lawful prize,
shall he for the entire benefit of the officers and crows of
such ships and vessels of war (save as therein excepted) ;
in which proclamation wo have directed in what propor-
tion the land forces, doing duty as marines, shall be en-
titled to share : and whereas, in the said proclamation, we
have reserved to ourselves the division and distribution of
all prize and booty taken on any conjunct expedition o:
our shins and vessels of war with our army ; and it is de-
sirahlo that we should provide for the distribution of all
prize and booty taken on such.conjunct expedition, as als,,
by our army alone : we, therefore, hereby order and direct
that, in such cases, the net proceeds of the share whici
shall he assigned by us to our army, under our Royal sign
manual, shall be divided and distributed in the following
manner and proportions, viz :
Commander of the Forces— _

One-fourth of one-tenth part of the not proceeds.
General Officers—
First Class —Genetal offiUrs'com'man,lin,g divisions, and
other officers, s:c., holding equivalent staff appoint-
ments :
Second Class—Other general officers, and all other offi
core. itc., holding equivalent staff appointments :
The remaining three fourths of one-teeth part of the
net proceeds ; the same to be so divided that .
general officer, &c., of the first class shall receiv,
one-half more in amount than a general officer,
S:c., of the second class.
Field Officers—

First Cl's's Colonels, lieutenant-colonels, and brevet
lieutenant-colonels, and the other officers holden.,;
staff appointments equivalent thereto :
Second Class—Br,vet lieutenant-colonels not holding
and appointment qualifying them to share in the e-
eing class of field officers, and all majors, regimental
or brevet, and all other officers hulding appointments
equivalent thereto :
One-eighth of the remainder of the net proceeds ;
the same to be so divided that a field officer, iS,:c ,
of the first class, shall
receive one-half more in
amount than a field cfficer, of the d dtss.
The remainder of the net proc-.!e is Rhall besecon distributed in
the follo,ving classes, so that every officer, Non-commis-
sioned officer, &c., shall receive shares, or a share, accord-
ing to his cl iss, as set forth in the following scale :
First Class—Captains, and all other officers entitled ac-
cording to the usage of our army to share in thtt rank
—Thirty-five shares each.
Secont, Class—Subalterns, and all other officers entitled
according to the usage of our army to share in that
rank—Twenty shares each.
Third Class—Serjeant-majors, quartermaster-serjeants,
and all other staff serjeants, aad others holding equi-
valent rank - Tea shares each.
Fourth Class—Serjeauts, and others holding
rank—Eight shares each.
Fifth Class—Corporals, four shares esch.r
drummers,
d
Sixth Class—Private soldiers, trumpeters,
&o.—Three shares each. equivalent
And in the event of any difficulty arising
the class in which any officer, &c., shall
.hall ,_,er.
0/ Our
share, our will and pleasure is that the samen.,.,3l„)e_°°'
mined and adjusted by the Commander.; um
vrbitolinrteistrieedct
toto
land forces for the time being.
4100 Alorroa4
.0 %you at our Coo,-t, at LisacilaiGr.L 3614

(From O'Byrne's "Naval Biograp4l.9),,
Rear-Admiral Maurice obtained an appointment in Sept.
1802, in the Centaur, 72, bearing the broad pendant of
Commodore Sam. Hood, he aided in that ship at the cap-
ture of St. Lucie, Tobago, Demerara, and Eeaequibo, and
oa 2*6iliNtTi: 1803-,--he landed at the head of 40 seamen,
with the greater part of the marines undereaPtai*Crorier,
Martinique, And mated in de•
at Petite Anne d'Arlette,
' stroying a battery of six 24-pounders. In the performance,
however, of this service, he received a wound, occasioned
by the explosion of the magazine, and was in consequence
presented by the Patriotic Society with a sword 'valued at
501. On 3d Feb., 1804, after nearly a month/ad been ex.
pended in planting five guns (three 24ppandprs and two
long iB's), and placing provisions, stores; &c., upon an all
but inaccessible eminence, situated in the sea near the
south-west eud of Martinique, and called the Diamond
Rock, the rating was assigned it of a sloop of war, and the
command given to Lieutenant Maurice, as a reward for the
arduous and prominent part he had borne in the equip-
ment. Being confirmed in his new appointment, May 7th,
in the same year, he continued to hold it until the 2d June,
1801, when, owing to a want oflatatemiitien shad water, he
W. under the necessity of surrendering to a French squa-
(lron of two sail-of-the-line, one frigate, one brig, a schooner,
and eleven. gun-boats, together with 1,500 troops, after
"staining a three days' attack with a degree of gallantry
[-oHaTtfbhhiotsahutnetehei3nrxaoetdfatinkthpsile • effect of subsequently procuring him not only
the honourable acquittal, but the high admiration of a
__c2uort martial, and the warm applause of Isord Nelson.
appointmentead Burinnand
d ii 4.
40
tt h
Iv: operations,:uddntewounded
h::all appearstiooit;ilo i
governorship
to
ep
opt:lived-or
sob
uoiht2siai had
jann,ilytsowo,
7.168w1 ),
ofat thes.
1811, be renders(' his name - .- - - •
ani:d ofo' Awnvheoltos,-*her three
e. isiglimMere ;
who, after a closelnYi°°"tiug
Mariner in which. ire e for ever famous by•the brilliant
-Muskete,i47oillsw
.14.6y.t, Daniik,fieti"defeated an attempt made to reduce
4,000 men,
musket-ball cartridges, and upwardasoo
half, were driven back to theirwukhat of
four
hours
and
a
ports, with the loss of three
pieces of cAnnon, 14 shells, 484
greater number by-150 than the •
the loss of the assailants was moat seveureit"
alit-, Although
tish was c•Jufined to two killed and 30 watndltofT•hhe Bri-
ri)us defence of Anholt, indeed, became the °gi
thetne of praise, and its gallant conductor, as a lila
universaltof
course, received the warmest plaudits of the Admiralty.
.s°° Pall liord,:sn,enxll76o2arly

AN AMERICAN'S OPINION OF ENGLISB
TRAVELLERS..

The following hearty denunciation of English travel-
ling. weaknesses is taken from Memoranda of European
Travels, published in the New York Evening Pose :
TRAVELIASGL.RABBLZ —Such is the appellation
(in German, Reisepcebel) now universally applied to that
herd of travellers which are annually let loose from Great
Britain upon the continent of Europe. They are easily
distinguished by their arrogance, superciliousness, and
kirorance of anything except h'Engiand, its manners and
customs. They travel on foot, by stage, in steam-boats,
and on railroads, " solitary" among crowds, with no
companions except their ever present friend—the red
Morocco-bound " Murray." They eat, sleep, drink, sin
and act as Murray says. That book is the last thing
they read at night, and the first they consult as they
rise. It never leaves their hands, except at breakfast,
dinner, and supper, and even then it has a place by their
Lida. No Englishman is ever seen at a place not noted
down in Murray, nor will he stop at a hotel not recom-
mended by Murray. An Englishman abroad is, therefore,
but a quantity of flesh and bones sent adrift, to keep tra-
velling, fora time, by route prescribed. He carries his
direction in his hand, and it is a well-understood agree-
ment on the part of hotel-keepers, steam-boat agents,
&c., that Johnny Bull is to be at the trouble of stopping
from place to place, and to have the privilege of swear-
ing and grUmbling at everything and everybody, and to
find it all again in his
" I have long made it a rule not to stop at hotels
where the English stop, and in every possible way to
avoid them and their company, on the Continent. lam
equally careful to speak English as little as possible
while travelling, so that no hotel-keeper, waiter, stage-
driver, or others of the predatory tribes,' shall take
,me to be an Englishman, and think me, therefore, 'to
be preyed upon.'
The following anecdote is a case in point, to show the
perverseness of English travellers, and the disposition of
the public generally, to let them get their fill of travel-
ling. It was given me by a young German, who re-
sides in the southern statea, and I will give it to you in
his own words, as near as I can recollect :
I was going, said he, from Aarau to Zurich. While
in the st Age th_tween Aaru and Baden, my wife and my-
self were conversing in English. This attracted the at-
tention of an Englishman, and he said inquiringly :
" From England, sir ?"
" No, sir. From the United States !"
" But you speak German, too, like a native ?"
"Exactly. lam a native German, but American by
adoption."

" well, next year I am going to travel in Ame-
rica, and I expect to be treated better than here in this
country."
" What's the matter ?" asked I.
"Why, just think Of it.' I have tried twice before
this—and this is the third time—to get from A eau to
84.51 e, and every tine they take me the wrung route."
At this time we were entering Lendsburg. the .half-
w;ty place between Baden and Aarau, and I was on the
',int of telling the po;,r fellow that he find'got wrong
when he jumped up, of his own accord, in a per-
fect frenzy.
" )top, stop 1 0. kind sir, do tell these infernal ras-
cals to stop the stage, for here I am again at that
iernal station, which will appear, let me try to get out
of Aarau as I will."

Tile stage stopped. and I informed the conductor of
the perplexing; predicament my English friend was in.
• " Is that the fellow !" asked he, pointing at the almost
districted Englishman as he stood near the stage,
swearing and cursing most vociferously.
" Yes," said I. " Do, Mr. Conductor, get the poor
fellow on the, riqht track. 7 .• •
" It's no use, sir ; the conductors in this part of the
c mntry know him. We will always get into the wrong
stage. 'This is the second time that I have taken him out
of Aarau, but in spite of us he would at the halfway
station get into the coach that rune back to Aaiun.
fie pays well, hut he is surely bewitched. He won't
suffer anybody to interpret for him, but insists on speak-
He may go, far as lam -concerned. in t; his broken German, which .7iobody understands.
L where be pleases.
We call him the crazy Engiishinan ; and, in fact," added
the conductor, "it makes no difference with these Eng-
lishmen where they go ; they come to travel, and surely
this fellow gets enough of it."
I tried to explain matters to the Englishman, but it
was useless. He had ceased swearing in English. and
was then racking his brains for all the French and Dutch
oaths he could remember.
I looked at his post-card, and it was, as the conductor •
lad told me, from Aarau to Zurich. The mistake was,
.0 all appearances in the Englishman, and not the
&facials. How it happened I could not learn. The
stage started, and left our disconsolate friend behind,
who would not get in, as I advised him, and then start
from Zurich to Basle, since there he would find plenty
of English friends who would get him right.
He, no doubt, that night went back to Aarau—Mur-
rav in hand ; whether he evrr get away from it, and
where he now is, I know not. I trust be will remember
my parting advice, to stay away from America ; for as
sure as he gets out upon our railroad lines our runners
will keep him travelling until they send him on a
journey where " Murray " has not been, and "from
which no traveller returns."

A KNOTTY POINT UNDER THE SILK ACT.--John
Afaosnbdraoyu,ght chargedup i n
withetus.
t
iA:tilikYi ,i,an:t„touhfneGd Ca iri tr,dye thenP-ostl ircpeeoe-tsceoeSusasr iltol,°nro'dn'w
of silk supp o , e d to have
been embezzled. The prisoner was apprehended in
Fountain•street, at about two o'clock on Saturday after-
noon. He then had in the pocket of his coat a quantity
i,f silk in the gum (China organzine), evidently from
three or four different parcels, which he said he had
found in Chapel-street, Salford. Mr. F. Robinson, who
appeared on the part of the Silk Trade Protection
Society, said that the 10th section of the Silk Act au-
thorised the seizure of material supposed to have been ens-
bezzled, when found in a house under a search warrant,
and the apprehension of the person in whol.e house
it was so found ; and that the 11th section authorised
seizure and apprehension when a person was found
carrying such a material in the street between sunset and
-unrise. He submitted that, inasmuch as Lord Den-
lan bad, in the case of the Queen v. \Villcock (14 Law
Journal, M.C. 104), decided that the offence under the
act was the being in p ,ssemsion, the bench were bound
to call upon the prisoner in this cruse, to account, with-
out inquiring how he came l efo-e them. Mr. Maude
said it was true that, in the case referred to, Loeti Den-
,:an hail spoken of poi-session rather 10.,selY ; still.
_b_e.
meant suA poß,ession as was specified in the act; There-
fore, fore, it seemed to him (Mr. Maude) that he
.bni
he had been taken into custody between sur
Power to call upon the prisoner to account. seeing
silk
stunhat.
Aet. There was no offence in carrying embezzleda._
___
-.long the street between sunrise and sunset,.,eoati.uds was
Ile drawn under the act. Mr. Robinson.he
should therefore
Hof op'nion that a conviction
point was of great importance
1,
in.,:
in thisc‘'ssaeid thati the
y to the Court of
,onsider the propriety
call upon theptohse,ebsegniechn to
Atkin was thensol omit for his
.. to appear at the Conrt on
o.sanCe 01 .
own recog i
d that he wai appre!nAed
b'peeilnligngbound in his
():ee e
silk. ' s Bench
prisonerfor a mandamus
oclf.i,liberated, being
He complained ,
Friday next.
at two o'clock
anything to eat
tasted food since that time. [Ac-
that
en e Saturday, teui r,i
11
jaty, o'clockand keenp ts. inee prisonda3,
ni
night, and
never
that be had
meal in ft • h ]
ours !
Atkin lint been allowed.
cordi„g to this staeinente,noefwhich'noonroyti.os_eevwe-nas taken,
Vancliester Guardtan.
A' BOHDEACON WILBERFORCE —ln accordance with his
intimation, that he wou.d interpose no tecnnical opposi-
tion to the proceeding I,ecetzsary to obtain a judicial deci-
sion upon the doctrines con'ained in his late work, A rob-
deaz,on Will, -rf,,ree has furnished the Rev. W. Brock, of
Bishop's Walthlin, with the following document : "Burton
Agnes, Sun.! ,y,July 16 —I any the author of a work entitled
' The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist,' recently pub-
lished by J. and C Mozley, Paternoster-row, and J. H.
P,
azclarker,l Oxford. They had my authority for publishing
it rhall he willing to take any steps by which I
may make myself legally respozsitio for it* coitbezti, ilk try CC *ay cl64e: dicovea.