The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-29 00:00:00

such as to afford but few opportunities to fleets or large
ships to take any prominent or distinguished part. Ia
the Black Sea the Russian lest hes been self-annihilated,
wad we had the mortification of seeing their chips of war
sunk beneath the waves by their own hands instead of by
our broadsides. In the B lithe again, the enemy's fleet
has lain at anchor, secure under the shadow of their own
granite walls and stupendous batteries. The command-
ers-iu•chief in the Baltic have -lied to report many daring
and successful exploits performer" by the officers and men
under their command, and I, ea my pert, have had tae
satiefa.etiott of
vreportirig what
,has taken place in the
Sea of Azoif, where I think I may say, without any
fear of contradiction, and with perfect safety, -that the
exertions of the commanders-iii-chief have been seconded
b y as gallant a band of young officers as ever went forth
in tTe service of their country. And here, perhaps, it
may nut be irrelevant to say that, is the course of our
expedition there, a letter 'WM% intercepted from the Em-
peror, in which his Imperial Majesty emphatically de-
clared that he would elneiet as some see the allies in his
palace at St. Petersburg as in the Sea of Azoff. I should
be ungrateful if I did not on this occasion adtnowledge
the good service of the officer's and men under my com-
mand, which showed itself in nothing. more than in a
hearty co-operation with the army. They conveyed the
troops to the ehotee of the Crimea; they landed them
there ; they supplied them with food and materiel to
carryon the siege for 11 months; nor was their sympathy
ever wanting in the hour of sickness and suffering ; and
thus was fostered that kindly feeling between the two
services which has from time to timebrotteht forth such
good fruits during this menterelde campaign. We saw
from the docks of our ship' the battle of the Alma.
General Bosquet, with the French division, passed al-
most withitt hail of the Agamemnon, and anythiag finer
than his attack on the envoy's lines could scarcely be
conceived. We saw the British army ford the Alma and
form on the opposite bank Roder cover of the ar-
tillery, which on that cccaeton, as on all others,
peels' arty distinguished them, elves 'throughout the
Crimean campaign. We sae, them also capture the
position of the enemy, which the Russians thought im-
possible to be carried by any troops in the world. We
saw them advance to the attack, and so striking was
that movement that Gen. Canrobert, at that time second
in command of the French army, told me afterwards
that he could only compare it to an English red brick
wall supernaturally lifted up from the ground and pro-
pelled ferward, so steady, so unwavering, and so irresis-
tible wae'that attack. (Cheers.) I saw likewise theobarge
at Balaklava, and, however that may be criticised in
a strategical point of view, I believe that it will go down
to history as one of the finest and most brilliant cavalry
c'aarges that was ever made since the world began.
(Cheers.) No man could have seen that chivalrous ac-
tion, s J did, without feeling proud of his country, and
grateful to the gallant band who engaged in it. At the
battle of Inkerman, again, I bad a closer view of that
memorable conflict. On that day great and heroic deeds
were performed. Each man in the French and English
army fought as if the fate of the battle and the honour
of the Allies depended on his own individual exertions.
A i el great and glorious were the results, and I should
think of it to the end of my days with the greatest plea-
sure and satisfaction, did there not come with it the alloy
of the battlefield ; but that, is the natural and insepar-
ablocencomitant of war. We too,f rom the decks
of our ships the final atta'li. on Sebastopol, in which,
however, a violent gels of wind prevented us taking
part. We saw all the alternations of the struggle of
three boors which tirminatel so triumphantly fur the
alike. We saw the French ruse out from their trenches
into the Malakoff. We also claw their attack ou the
Little Redan, where, after performing prodigies of va-
lour, they were unable to maintain a position. The at=
tack on the Great Redan was to some extent concealed
from our view by the-intervening -hills, but an -well
acquainted with the position and the circumstances of
the attack ; and here I may perhaps be permitted to Fay
in reference to it, that while our lirave allies, the French,
favoured by the nature of the ground and protected. by
Vitt-fire'ef the Enelish batteries, were eaabled to carry
their say within .O or 40 yards ef .the Malakoff; it was
no n ith our troops. Every (..tep they took was en-
filaded I y the enemy's batteries. aunt they were unable
to appioaeh nearer than from -220 to 240. yards of the
Great Roden. Nevertheless, our troops, when called
upon, rushed out cf the trenche ; to the, attack, and
although decimated, and more than decimated, in
their passage across the intervening ground, they
succeeded in .eflecting a lodgment in the battery.
and would probably have retained ij, but they fouud that,
unlike the Malakoff, which wee clond all ronnit, the
Redact was open in the rear, and thus the enemy was en-
ahlet to pour in an overvshelmirg b .dy of troops, and so
to recover the position as often as it was wrenched from
them. There is another ch-cutieesr ca, ales. which is not
general'y known, hut the truth of which I assure," my-.
self by asking Gen. N. it the other day in Paris. Wkaete
the French a ado their erFuccioefal attack on the ISth
of Jun it was d'scoveted afterwards that they, bad
only spiked tf.e enemy's guns imperfectly, which in their
retreat were tn avoidab'y turned upon ourallies. A more
positive order on this subject was subsequently issued,
and on ti e Bth of September all the guns in the Roden
were too effectually spiked by the English, and thus reo-
&red ueelose to leeel the advance of the enemy's hordes
from the rear. It was utter'y immessible to withstand
the ove:pnwering numbers thee. ruelieel in. But I gory
in being able to say that net a wss Britieh courage more
conspicuously displayed than oe ehne day. The example
of the gallant Welsfotel, who fell gloriously in the action,
and of the brave Hendcock, who was killed at the head
of his corps, will never he forgottoi ; still less that of
Gen. Windham, who amid a F bower of bullets, and, as
if he had a charmed life, stand on the ramparts', urging on
hie men to the attack. It may he said of them, as Lord
St. Vincent said to Lord Nelson after his temporary
want of success in his attack vii h gun-boats en Bou-
logne :—" It is not in mortals to command success, but
you have done more, you have deserved it." The re-
sult of all these heroic deeds is that the allies stand on
vantage ground on the eve of negotiations. If these
nevotiations terminate in a safe and honourable peace,
aed comprise effectual guarantees fit insuring its per-
manence, then all the objecce c f the war will be Es
tained. But we roust not forget the prorerb—" Si via
paccia, parts bellunt." There will be no relaxation ow
our parts in preparing for a crtntieteence of the war, so
that, if the enemy will not listen to reason and shall
prevent peace being made, we may look confidently,
through the blessing of God :tad a righteous cease, to
another glorious campaign. .(Chetrs.) My lords and
gentlemen, I have spoken hitherto of the horrors and
glories of war. I would new venture to mention an
episode in the last campaign of a character that will
come home to the hearts of all persons residing in Hamp-
shire and this immediate neighbourhood with peculiar
interest. I speak of the benevolent acts of Miss Night-
ingale and of the ladies with whom she has been associ-
ated in her work of mercy in the East. (Cheers.) I
speak with knowledge of the facts when I tell you that
it has fallen to the lot of but few women to do the good
that they have done. To dilate on those acts would be
superfluous ; no tongue can do justice to them; but I
trust they are registered in Heaven, as I know they are
engraved on the hetrts or thoesands of their country-
men. (Loud cheers.) I hope yon will do me the justice
to believe that it is impossible for any man to feel more
sensible than I do of the honour which has been paid to
me, not only in this room but out of doors, and I shall
return to my command with an increased desire, if that
be possible, to do my duty. (Cheers.)

Several Other toasts were drunk and responded to,
and, on the separation of the company, Admiral Lyon•
returned to the residence of his relative, Admiral Wal-
cott.

CORN.—The increasing expectations of peace caused
the corn market to he extremely dull yesterday morning
at the decline of Monday last.
MIDDLE TBNIPLE.-11ilary Term, Jan. 2e3.—The un-
dermentioned gentlemen were this day called to the de-
gree of the utter Bar by the hon, society of the Middle
Temple :—Robert Marshall Straight, Esq., Henry Gaw-
tress, Eeq., John Pickle, Esq., Quell's College. Cam-
bridge; Thomas Healy Derhishire, Eeq., Wm. Thowaspes
Image, Esq., 8.A., Trinity-hall, Cambridge ; Thomas
Eyre Foakes, Esq., Henry Gardner, Egg., and John
Richard Andrews, Esq.
ALARMING COLLISION ON TIM SOVTN JUNCTION AND
was not attended with which fortunately,
A LTRINCIIAM IZAILWAY.--A collision occurred on this
Line u ofgh
alarmingrailway
oinn
its
cbSaturdayaraan i
,
any very serious results. It should he understood that
the main line of this railway in the South Junction line,
and that at the Oxford-road Station a siding, the length
of the platform, receives the trains from the Altrincham
line, which are shunted upon the main line by points
some :30 yards from the station. At the last train at
night, it i 3 the duty of a. porter at the station to relieve
the regular pointsman at-this place. On the starting of
wpohritestlre%
three
the
floes
last train from Maneheeter on Saturday night, at 11
eloch
oni
°althe g
he a ritthe
enginea driver,cces
t ran out edsignal of
steam of
the station to turn the points, but unfortunately he turned
the wrong ones, by which mans the train, when not
more than 40 or 50 yards from the station, and advancing
at the rate of about two miles an hour, ran into the en-
gine of a goods train which was waiting to come forward
towards Maucheeter, when the passenger train Lad passed.
The carriages of the latter train were tolerably well filled
with passengers, and it heing the last Saturday night
train, the greater part of them were thrown off their
seats by the collision and some ei or 8 were more or less
but t. Amongtheee, Mr.:end-Mrs. Ropereon, farmer', Tim-
pet ley, who were travelling .in re third-alas' carnage,were injured. Mr. Rogerson received some hurt in the
knee ; and Mrs. Rogerson received so severe in
the a blown
the head as to induce concrwien of the brain. airs.
Palmer, of Sale Moor, was also eevetely hurt, and it was
necessary to detain both those ladies in Manchester till
yesterday (Sunday.) Alr. and Mrs. Rogerson proceeded
,
to their home in the afternoon of yeesterday con iderahli
better. Mrs. Palmer,
who „aseetaveyed to Foulkes 's
Temperance Hotel, Piccadilly, was in a state of collapse
on Saturday night, but last evcriin;:-, she was a good deal
better. Mr. Gaskarth, spn it plea ler, Altrincham, re-
ceived a
smart blow on the foreieead, and a broken
nose ; a lady from Timperley er Sale, whose name
was not known, received a flesh mound over the eye ;
and a eel vant man of Air. Gunge, Fitaith's, of Timporley
was hurt about the knees. There were severa
black eyes and other bruises au) mg the passengers
but nothing deo of a. wr'on'g cies eription. Mr. Pete
noyle, surgeon, Lever-street., who 'asides at Vernon
Lodge, Sale Moor, was in the ti; dn, and he rendered
prompt assistance to the sufferer s ; and Dr. J. G.
Ilarrisoe, of Piccadilly, was sent aid immediately
attended, and took every care of the injetred rerroue
Most of the passengers proceeded berths train to Altria.
chars about midnight. The porter t vho act dac point•
man has only been a few months :c i the service of the
company, and was not sufficiently i acquainted with th.,)
duties assigned to him. Had the train been going at
the ordinaty railway speed, when s .‘ e collision occurred',
the conecquences would have heel tof the most serion ►
. and fatal description.--hfarteac2. IC;ucti'ditm.