The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-20 00:00:00

PAIRS:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,,--The Duke of 'Newcastle, with a strange presumption
told his brother lords that, except Lord Hardinge, uo officer
of capacity and experience remained in England with whom
he could consult to avoid the etrors 'he had committed as a
War Minister—all were in the Crimea! Ho must now be
taught that there are officers still iu England with sagacity
enough to see through his incapacity, and with indignation
enough to rebuke the grovelling spirit which has dictated the
degradation of the country and the army by the introduction
of foreign soldiers to fight our• battles at the very moment
when the steam of heroic big:A from Inkerman makes Eng-
land snort and start like a warhorse in the midst of carnage.
I will not say that. the German Legion in the last war were
not good and trusty soldiers—their cavalry was excellent;
but, despite of the Duke of Richmond's generous eulogium, I
will, with Lord Elleuborough, say, that neither they, nor any
foreign troops, were ab!o to equal the fighting of the British
soldier. That legion was well composed ;it was, indeed,
a national force, with high moral motives, and with the
gentlemen of their own country as officers ; they were
thus presented in the best . possible.' form that foreigners
could assume in another nation's service ; and gallant
things they con d and did de; but emulate, the terrible
at
ooli d
theiet her
s combattila
a theys
fighting of the British soldier they could •not. And
shall a mere mercenary band, picked up for gold, without
national feeling—poor miserable hirelings, Bening their limbs
and lives, aye ! their very souls for lucre - ready, without a
cause, if paid, to murder, to' slay, or be shin, and, of course,
ready to change sides for higher pay if good occasion offer—
shall such varlets stand in the line beside our noble soldiers
who fight shouting " England ! England !" and dying mur-
mur, ",We have done our duty ?"
When did. German or Switzer, Prussian or Austrian, stand
before the gallant French in equal battle ? And those bril-
liant,impetuous French, could even they sus-
tain and over
a s
waveshave
beating been,
rock
fierce,mig and terror of British battle, though, glorious
s
Such as they are indeed fit and worthy to stand abreast with
the unconquerable " red line that never yields," and, to-
gether, they will trample in the dust any troops in the
world that presume to oppose them. But let them not be
shamed by finding a hired third-rate selection from in-
ferior sources between themselves and their British' coin:
rades. Let them not be told to depend on the dressed-
up
foreigners—Poor frauds, like the camels of Semi-
ramis, accoutred as elephants, and sure to leave dark
silent gaps where loudest shouts and fiercest fires
should stream forth in the hour of need. Shall the stern
infantry of Inkerman, striding in blood ; shall the proud
cavalry of Balaklava—those noble horsemen who accepted,
not an order, but a doubtful sign only, to go bounding on as
it were to the open jaws of death ; shall they have as comrades
the refuse hirelings of Germany and Switzerland? God
forbid
You, sir, say that the Ministers will go out if the country
refucs to accept their degrading measure. So let it be. Let
them slink away, while the universal shout arises of "iGod
and our right."--I am, sir, Your
yeuNrlorbl:cn,
obedient
tiesetiu'tia
servant,

The Sumroo,a tine ship of 1,000 tons, under the com-
mand of Captain Henderson, arrived in the Southamp-
tontain I..rice, of 1,800 tons, is expected for the
Docks yesterday afternoon to take on board vooden
houses for the French troops in the Crimea. The Swift-
pose in a day or two, and several other ships
:Tonnage have been engaged to follow as soon as
sospailfoillneaselrbgCpleeu'. As soon as ready for sea they will be towed
across the Bay of Biscay and to their destination by
French war-steamers, which are to come to South,
ampton for the .purpose. Several French officers
have arrived at Southampton, who are specially cie-
putedby the French. Minister of War to superintend
the embarkation and despatch of these houses, which
are being manufactured at Gloucester. The quantity
ordered will provide accommodation for 15,000 men.

For.
Mr. Macaulay.
M. Rice.
Hon. W. 0. Stanley.
Mr. Foley.
General Buckley.
Mr. Sheridan.
Mr. E. Ellice, jun:
Mr. Langston.
Sir J. Johnstone.
lir. Mackie.
Mr. Strutt.
-Viscount Monck.
Mr. Heard.
Lord Goderich.
Mr. Beaumont.
Mr. G. Cavendish.
Sir W. Somerville.
Mr. W. Marshall.
Viscount Dalrymple.
Lord Emlyn.

- • Against.
Mr. S. Child.
Mr. Dod.
Mr. Wynne.
Mr. H. S. Waddington.
Mr. Compton.
Mr. Clive.
Mr. Long.
Mr. Davison.
Lord Ossulston.
Mr. H. Gwyn.
Mr. Buck.
Mr. H. Liddell.
Lord Bernard.
Marquis of Granby.
Mr. Forbes.
Mr. E. Laseelles.
Sir G. Forster.
Mr. Irton.
Mr. Duple.
Mr. Greavos.

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT,

FOREIGN T-OFFICE, DEC. 19.
NkpTIVICATION.

It is hereby notified that the Rigbt. Honourable the Earl
of Clarendon, her MajekAy's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, haJi received from the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty a copy of a despatch,
dated her Majesty's s7s.ip Edinburgh, Kiel, December
8, from Rear-Admiral Chads, commanding her Ma-
jesty's Naval forces in the Baltic, informing their
Lordships that the, blockade of the Russian ports
under-mentioned had been raised from that date, "Liban,
Windau, Riga, and r iernau, and all Russian ports, road!,
havens and creeks, fr ern latitude 55 deg. 53 min. N., bong"'
tulle 21 deg. 0 min. 3 sec. E., to Cape Dager Ort,
latitude 58 deg. 55 N. longitude 22 deg. 0 mil.
_.
5
sec. E., the ports of 11-taspal, Waiinso Islands, Port Bal_
tick, Revel, and all ,Itussiaa ports, roads, havens, and
creeks, from Cape Dr aer Ort to Eckholm Light, situated
in latitude 59 deg. 4 3 min. N., and longitude 25 deg. 48
min. E."
" The ports of Heroingfors and Sweaberg, and all Rus-
sian ports, roads, ha v ens, and creeks to the westward of
Helsingfors as far as Ff_ango Head (inclusive), in latitude
59 deg. 48 min. N., Longitude 22 deg. 53 min. E. ; the
ports of Are and Abo, and lastly, the whole of the ports,
roads, havens, and ere e.ks eastward of Helsingfors, on the
Finland Shore and Eel tholm Light on the coast of Estho-
nia, to Cronstadt and t. Petereburgh, both inclusive."
FOREIG = N.-OFFICE, DEC. 16.
The Queen has bee o. graciously pleased to appoint the
Most Hon. Constanti pie Henry, Marquis of Normanby,
K.G., to be her Majes f,y's Envoy Eraordinary and Mini-
ster Plenipotentiary t, ► the-Grand Duke of Tuscany.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 18.
The Queen has been • pleased to approve of Mr. Hermann
Von Roan as Consul s 1, Port Elizabeth for the Free Han-
seatic City of Hambu ri;l2.

WAR . OFFICE, DEc. 19.
BREVET.
Colonel:William Fe nwick illiams, C.B ,of the Royal
Artillery, now acting as her Majesty's Commissioner with
tho Turkish army in .1 1 Ala, to have the local rank of Briga-
dier-General while so employed, Dec. 19.

The under-mention, PI officers, who retired upon full pay
of the Royal Regimes tt of Artillery and the corps of Royal
Engineers, previously • to her Majesty's Royal Warrant of
the 6th October, 1854 , to.be promoted to a step of brevet
rank, in order to plat. 43 them in as favourable a position as
those of their ranks ►ho may hereafter obtain retirememl,
under the provisions et the said warrant, the rank in bot' a
cases being only hot iorary, viz.,—
RO- IrAL ARTILLERY.
TO BE LIEUTEI LANT•COLONELS IN THE ARMY:
Brevet-Major Fredei,'Lck Wiight
James Robe] t Colebrooko
Lewis Simla! lan] Barrington Robertson
James Smith Law
John Pascoe
George apillf r
William Greim• good, C. B.
George Mai kb aid
TO BE 3IAJORS 11l THE ARMY.
Captain Oliver Fry
Second Captain Jean %with
Oliver Flemi-,,g
Henry Cliv),on Martin
Robert Fryer Philips.
Captain John. Morse Stephens
Lemoiu
Charles Manners
Andrew Orcber William Schalch
Hugh Morgan
Riehard Robinson Drew
Even Morgan
Lewis Edward Walsh
Frederick Augustus Grifftelts
Francis Holconiim
William John ;;token •
John Dyson
William Bernera

Willi VO4INI ratiViial4‘--- --
John Sidney Farrell
Henry Higgins Donatns O'Brien
, Arthur Genet .
Second Caytain Samuel Jambs Skinner

Robert Luard
Captain James Turner
John Low
' Richard Matthews PouMon
Second Captain Patrick Scott Campbell
Captain Henry Stephen Tireman
Robert Roe Fisher
William Baird Young
Charles Cheetham
Alexander Frederick William Papillon
William Fulford
Charles Robert Wynne
George Drought Warburton
ROYAL ENGINEERS.
TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS IN TOE AM'.
Brevet-Major Richard John Baron
Charles Rivers
Richard Howorth
James Lynn

TO BE MAJOR'S IN THE ARMY.
Captain Edward Fyers
Henry Augustus Colby
Samuel Camplin Melbuish
John 4yonlme
John Watson Pringle
Ives Stocker
George Vaughan Tinling
James Hunter Rutherford
Colin Mackenzie
George Charles Degen Lewis
Francis Win. Pettiugal
William, Lancey
Charles Oldershaw
Charles Stuart Miller
The above commissions to bear date Nov. 28.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEO. 18.
Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant viceLientenawnt.Lobiu. isiisuJgoihn.
Auntie() Armit to be second Capa
deceased ; Second Lieutenant Constantine Phipps Carey to
be First Lieutenant, vice Armit, promoted, goy. is.
Ordnance Medical Department—Edward Willis Camp-
bell, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Wahhe, nr,o•
rooted into the Army Medical Department, Dec. 8.
COMMISSION'S SIGNED BY LORD-LIELTENANTs
.
The Tower Hamlets—Arthur Boileau)°, Esq.. .to be
Deputy-Lieutena.tit.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—liemy
Bishop, Gent, to he Ensign.
Royal Bucks Kin'g's Own Militia— John Maddyildoore
Hewett to be Adjutanit with the rank of Captain ovin.
Wanklyn, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry--Cor-
net Charles Patrick to be Lieutenant, vice Northey, re-
signed; John Compton Maul, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Levi, promoted.
West Suffolk Militia—Frederick William John Hervey,
commonly called Lord Hervey, to be Lieutenant, Dec 14 ;
James Holmes Gent., to be 4nsign, Dec. 15.
Royal CumberlAnd Regiment of Militia—William John
Robinson, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 12.
Exeter and South Devon Volunteer Rifle Battalion—
Thomns Pearson to be Captain; Frederick Gifford to be
Ensign, Nov. 23.
Royal North 01ot-tenter Regiment of Militia—Major
John Williams Wallington to be Lieuteuant-Colionel, vice
Sir DS. H. Beach, deceased ; Henry Bourchier Osborne Sa-
vile, Esq., late Captain Royal Artillery, to be Major, vice
Wallington, promoted ; Charles Mansfield, Gent., 'bomas
Merrett, Gent., and Elliott Arthur Raymond, Gent., to be
Ensigns, Dec. 16.
East Kent Regiment of Militia.—Ensign David White
Griffith to be Lieutenant, vice Kebbel, promoted, Dec.. 8 ;
Ensign Stanilas Zaba to be Lieutenant, vice Bourne, %rho
retires, Dec. 10.
West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—Tho-
mas John Popplewell, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Dec. 10.
Kent Militia Regiment f Artillery.—Second-Liento-
nant Walter Thomas Waring to be First-Lieutenant, vise
Leslie, who retires, Dec. 10.
2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia.—
Archibald George Keen, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Iver,
promoted, Dec. 15.

Warwickshire Militia-21 Regiment—Arthur William
Arkwright, Gent:, to be Lieutenant, Deo. 9.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—William Constable
Brown Constable, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 15.'
Royal Perthshire Rifle Regiment of Militia—John Wal-
ter Wedderburn, Esq., late Captain 42d Royal Highlanders,
to be Captain ; Thomas Milks Riddell, Esq., late Lieute-
nant 7th Regiment Dragoon Guards, to be Captain,
Dec. 13.

4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—Edward Worrall, Gent., to be Ensign,
Deo.'l4.
Royal Breakneck Rifle Regiment of Militia—John Win.
Neville Billiugsby Parry, Gent., to be Lieut., Doc. 11.
Wigtonshire and Kirkcudbright Regiment of Militia,
called "The Galloway Rifle Corps"—Colvin Stewart, Esq.,
younger' to be Lieutenant, vice John M`Crackan, retired;
Thomas Hugh Vans Dalrymple Hay, Esq., to be Ensign,
vice Walter Laurie, Esq., resigned, Doc. 7.
Northamptonshire Militia --Lewis Percival, Gent., to be
Ensign, Dec. 11; Hewitt Linton, Gent., to be nsign,
Dec .1.3.

This article ifvati.batituted for that which appeared in.
the Gazette of the 2lth Nov. :

Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia—William Talbot
Molloy, Esq., M.D., to be Assi;tant-Surgeon, vice Neville
Jackson, Esq., M.D., resigned, Nov. 20.

BA K

Joshua, Vines and 'limes Smith, builders, Dover-re ad,
Borough, to surrender, Dec. 2i at half-past twelve, and
Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Hall, Moor-
;ate-street.__.. _ _ _

George Wilson and William RAynbani, builders, Wail-
iner-road, Notting-hill, Dec. 3:) 1111,1 Feb. 10, at one, at the
Court, of 'Bankruptcy. Pennell, official asaignee,
Guihl-
h:all-cha:nbera; Rushbury, 6[lmy-street, Strand.
Charles Musett, chemist and druggist, Dies, Norfolk,
Jan. 2, at two, Feb, 2, at, nvelvo, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court;
Hutton, 41, Noble-stree, Chea,pside; Cream, Suffolk.
John P. White, merchant, Mark lane, City, Dec. 27, at
half-past one, and Jan. 31, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfield, official assignee ; Crowder and May-
nard, Colemen-street, City.
Gcorge Climance, baker, St. Albans, Hertfordshire,
Dec. 22, and Jan. 24, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stanifeld, official.assignee ; Crossley and Barn, Lombard-
stieLt ; Simpson, St. Albans.
William Allaway, dentist, Southport, Lancashire, Jan.
4 and 22, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Mor-
gan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Dodge, Liverpool.
Jabez Cooper, linendraper, Blackheath, Staffordshire,
Jan. 3 and 24, at half-part ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Plea-
'cot, Stourbridge; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
James Sothern Tonge, commission agent, Liverpool,
Dec. 29 and Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee,Liverpeol; Roby, Liver-
Robert Wilson Wyllie, dealer in music and musical in-
struments, Saint Leonard, Dovon,Dec. 28, and Jan. 24, at
one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official
assignee, Exeter; Bishop and Pitts, Ex ter.
Frederick Reeves Barratt, music seller, Stamford, Jan.
2, and Feb. 6, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Harris, official assignee, Nottingham; Law, Stamford;
Hodgson, Birmingham.

Jo7satlian Wriiht,WilliamWright, and Lupton Wright,
worsted spinners, Oxenhope, Yorkshire, Dec. 29 and Jan-
-26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official
assignee, Leeds ; Wavell, Philbi ick, and Foster, Halifax.
William Yates, cotton broker, Liverpool, Dec. 29 and
Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Grit;
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans and on
Liverpool.
Betty Baron, Henry
William Knowles, and James Hey-
worth,r cashire, Dec. 19 and Jan.
manufacturers, Bacup,
Rowley and Son, Man-
i official assignee, Manchester;
17, at twelve, at the Manchester'au
District Court. Fraser,

cheater. -
John Fletcher, cotton manufacturer, Manchester, jam.
10 and 31, at the Manchester Distriet Court. Fraser, offi-
cial assignee; Grundy, Manchester.
Joseph Lough, blacking manufacturer, Great Queen-
street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and John James Limebeer,
blacking manufacturer, Saint James-street, Dec. 30, a
dleven, and Feb. 10, at twelve, at the Court ofßankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; C. and J.
Allen and Sons, Carlisle-street.
Joseph Gibb, livery stable keeper, Gray's-inn-road, Jaz.
2, at one, and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
reptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Young and
Plows, Mark-lane.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Thomas Waddell, contractor, Gartcraig.
Charles Staples, wine and spirit merchant, Glasgow.
James Herbertson and Brothers, builders, Glasgow.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The James Watt, 91, screw-steamship, Captain Elliot,
went into the steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday to

have her defects made good.
The Penelope, 16, paddle frigate, Captain Caffin, that
arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon, from the Baltic,
came into harbour yesterday to have repairs effected.
As the Penelope was coming in a shocking accident
happened to a seaman named George Powell. Whilst
engaged in his duty on the maintop, he loot his hold and
fell on deck, receiving most severe injuries, from which
there is little hope of his recovering. The Penelope was,
it will be remembered, the ship that got ashore under
the guns of Bomarsund, and had to threw all her own
guns overboard to lighten her and get her afloat, the
Russian artillery playing upon her with great danger to
her. She got off, and, on the capture of the place, re-
covered her guns. Many of them, however, are i•
Bp IV
1 and of no further use.
The Royal Victoria steam-transport, laden with stores
for the Crimea, hauled off from the dockyard at Prt-
mouth yesterday, and will leave this day or to-morrow
into S
for her destination.
Denisf
Tire smoratkonDdaorni,ngp,uot ito
f Jersey,
37' Captain Wouanrdb c'oYna' fromTu•
es
D
day, and reported that in lat. 43 56 N., long. 9 28 Vv-e
she passed the brig Caton, of North Shields. water-
: iaft‘ivn.l-
il
kt aßtcchaersri
carried away
and
lgoogngee,ddecks
as bwaenpto trilenda,
1t
aft. Remains of closerceftd topsails were hanging to
fhow:e and
wpor
I the yards.

APPOI NT MENTS.
Captain John -Fraser (1841), to be borne on the books
of the Fogua,
nag-ship, Woolwich, tor service in
the Royal Naval Coast I,r,3lun:oers.
Lieutenant Edward Scott (1847), recently serving in
the Cumbei land, 70, to-the 1\! (march, 84, at Devonport.
Paymasters—Charles S. Giles (1346), from the
Arupliion, 24, perov steam-frigate, to the Inaperieuse,
51, screw Fteam-friga:te James F. Phillips (1850), to
the Amphion, vice
Clerk William Richa ds (Piymastera-s of 1853), to
the James Watt, 91 screw, stk hip.

screw steam-corvette, Captain Birch,
lefTt iNlireoEolswki 21, screw
yesterday, for Greenbithe, where she is
to take on board about 250 tons of shot, shall, and
munitions of war, for conveyance to Balaklava. . After
(
landing these stores there, 010 will return through the
Straits of Gibraltar, and proceed to Hong Kong, for
service in the China seas. Should she meet with any
Russian frigates, she will give a good conduct of them,
ias she carries a powerful arena Went of 20 8-inch aud one
18 -inch gun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tina DAY —Morning 39 min.after 1 Evening 4 min.aft. 2
o-toast, zning 28 min.after 2, Evening 52 raft. 2