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414,

(Prom the Times of this day.)
Before Parliament rises there is one publics,
to which we would gladly Call the attention of
our readers, and when we add that it is a Parlia-
mentary paper, presented by the Queen's command
to both Houses we shall stand acquitted of •
tendency to extol it from interested motives. This
" Paper" contains the names of the non-commis-
sioned officers and sOldiers who have been selected
for recommendation to the Emperor of the French
to receive the French military war medal. As
many per Sons as desire to mitigate the feelings of
-• •
disgustwhich they must have felt on perusing the
proceedings of.the Clielsea Board would do well to
turn to this proud head-roil of heroic achieveMent.
Here we have the
.names of the men who did the
work, while, in too many instances, the so-called
leaders looked on and left the army to its LW:
NO]: must it b 3 take , as, any reflection upon the
conduct and cOurage.of thehtnany thousands of gal-
lant soldiers whose names` are necessarily unmen-
tioned in a record of this kind. The praise of di3-
tinguished valour could only be assigned to tho-se
who .had conspicuous opportunity for its display.
It was impossible to lay before the French Govern-
merit the names of all the individuals in a regiment
who may have distinguished themselveS by peculiar
gallantry in the field or by extraordinary endurance
under the extremities of human suffering. These
few words we write 'lest tia.2:re should be any sore-
ness Of feeling among the .many stout soldiers
whose deserts were great, buLf/br.whose names ,no
place could here be found. We should ahi that
these are theammes of the living—not, of the dead: -
There is no French medal for the .men who
toiled up the hill at the Alma; for those who Paved
the allied armies from destruction upon the
terrible day of Inkerman,• and then succumbed. •
They sleep in their Russian graves. Of the living
we will now give a few names—we can do no more,
for they occupy 34 closely-printed pages of a Par-
;.

LONDON, MON DAY EVENING,, J ULY 28, 1856.

[PRIOE 4D. STAMPED D.

PUBLICATIONS.

CITY OF I ONDONI-SeliOOL.

lists 1
tainin
polletriCed

y force, and prevent peaceable citizensfrom ascer
g in a lr whit manner the true number of voter
at our elections • and have used cunningly con-
ballot boxes, with false sides. and bottoms, so pre-
that by, means, of a spring the spurious ticket,
tied there previous to the election could be ming'ef.
;Toni,- El V,/

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
THE NEW NOVEL entitled " HORATIO
HOWARD BRENTON'," by Capt. Sir EDWARD BE VHI,R,
lt.N., C 8., &e., in 3 vols., is published• this day by I;desars. Hurst
and Blackett, successors to Mr. Colburn. Orders received at all the
libraries.

1 .
• ' ' I
The annual distrihtiti:in of prizes—always an occasion
lf. some interest•--jameng: the pupils79f 'this seminary, •
one of the most useful and valuable in the metropolis,
took , place yesterday At the schoa, 'vaunted in the
vicinity of Cheispaide, and the Lord,N,Oor presided at
the ceremony; aseisted by the seho4clommittee, of
shore Mr. Deputy Hale' is' ahairniali . •is bY,the Rev.
Dr. Mortimer, the Ilea), -Mastery.. ".• rest of the .
Nia..Aers, and the Rev. W. Ethiery, i,: 2ot the Era-
niners. From -,n, staterniint. r ipb.leet;--Ait the Head
`ester it ,appears that the average nutith?r of boy,
in attendance at- the sellout 'l.,Crottehthret year has
been' 570, and -that during the -teen) '' - closed. there .
has been the fdll centpletnetit to rced.
hying
iear'Mr. Watson had vacated 'the' 'od Mastership'
for an appointment at King's P011eg44,1 fad been suc-
tteeded by Mr.'Cbtbbertson ; atitl Mr.. rVing resigned.
',;the Second Classical Mastership in cepti4euence of. being
appciinted Classical Professor in thettaiversity of Mel'.
• ;bourne. and had been succercteciiry Mr. Townshend.
Additional benefaction's, had also bee stewed on the
school. by Mr, Alderman and Short tr Kt-needy, 20
. . M
ofineas fur an essay `prize ;' O Wateon, late
• ',eeond master, 51. for mathematr 1 proficiency ;
11r. R. N. Phillips, the diyiclenda. sing from 501.
for •Latin composition ; and Mr. pert Lloyd, a
"member of the Pilinfition; 14 gelnearotor encouraging
the study of tngliSh.. The number and value of the
prizes bestowed jreefirday, which' were, larger than ,on
any former oceasiop, con,isted of five' scholarships and
' exhibition's; seven medal prizes; one gold pen prize; four
essay prizes, and4l6o other prizes for various' sAhjeets,
ranging througp every class, in the school. The total
number of prizes was 17,7, cortiprisiiT2'besi:lea medult;
ite.i, 2,40 volumes, of Welts, abd,
.tn-ia-444w,that every-de-
4eritingli6y hatite.-Cliatie4 Of gaining- me prize, it was
etated that the 177 Pi!-.1./ • • ' ,among: 124
`boge. • Declamations in ,praise of o `Carpenter,
the; founder, Were delivered—itr—German by Edwin
Abbott Carpenter, scholar,„ And . captain of the
school ; in Latin, by Edgar .Sanderson, scholar
of Clare Colle4e, Cambridge ' • in French, by W. S.
Aldia, classical medallist ; in Greek, by J. 'Y. Pater-
eon, Carpenter scholar.; and, in English, by H. Candler,
Beaufoy scholar. The German and French' declatna-
dons were exceedingly spirited. The Beaufoy Scholar-.
ship was awarded to H. Candler ; the Goldsmiths' Eit
hibition to Edgar Sanderson ; ,the Times Scholarship to
A..,Mortitner, son of the Bead Master; and the Carpen-
ter. Scholarships to E. 'Ledger and A. R. Vardy. Of the
remainder Of the prizes E. Abbott, the .captain of the
zchool, took no leas than seven. It would be invidious
to single out from a long list any of the rest of there
cipients. As the'bOy.i came up to the table the 'Lord
Mayor accompanied the presentation of each prize with
some happy compliment or some kindly word of encovi-
ragement. The ceremony, at which a great number of
persons were present, was altogether one of considerable
interest and well calculated to sustain the high reputa-
tion of the school. '

If all• ti-ds yv,.; have7the mast irrefragable
it,m other land 3 and States' and ui.convicted•
ccirra.llY 43 bad, baxiii thus controlled pubile
and property, and have often amaysed sudden for•
without having done an
,hnitest dais Work' Nvitb
or hand!i, and the fait inheritance of 'clip -64 has
?,mbeizlvd and squandered, our streets nd hal
ruin.s and the miserable entailment of an enormous
avill bequeath sorrow and poverty to 'anothei gene-
h.

THE NEW NQVEL,
HEYOUN.G LORD,
By the Author of "The Discipline of Ltfe," &e.,

Is now rep.dy at all the lihrari, s;in"2 vols., 21s.
" This new novel by Lady Emily Ponsonby is interesting as a story,
and still more to be commended for the tone of high principle with
which it is pervaded, and the profitable lessons it inculcates."—Lite-
rary Gazette. •
' Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn.

tie jury box has been tampered with, adi.i our
;rials have been made to shield the hbridreds of
erers whose red hands have cemented this tyrlmny,
deuced with the bowie knife and the pistol,,nat only
se voice of an indignant press,' but the shuddiring
e of the outraged citizen.
o our shame be it said that the inhabitants of dis-
ands alrewly know that corrupt men in Office, as
s grtiniblersi shoulder strikers, and other vile tools
crupulous leaders, beat, maiul, .and shoot down
impunity as well peaceable and unoffending citi-
as those earnest refoimers who, at the known
id of their live,, and with singleness of heart, have
-
't, in a lawful manner, to thwart schemes of public
ler or to.awakeninvestigatidn.
Embodied in the principles of republican Govern-
s are the truths that the majority should,rale ; and
corrupt officials, who have fraululently seized the
of authority; designedly thwart the execution of the
and avert punishment from the notoriously guilty,
over they. usurp reverts 'hack to the people from
ait was wrested. Realising these truths,:and con-

Complete ins Voluises, "
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J With nUmerons Engfavin& on Wood, price 115.6 d. •-
" Mr. Johnston's book is a book for the people; there is hardly ra
fact or a principle that i; would not be for the benefit of the richest
as well as the poorest to know.",- thenteum.
William Blackwood and Sons,' Edinburgh and London.. -• '

liarnentary paper.
Serjeant Seth Bond, of the 11th.Hus4itrs, served
in the Bulgarian campaign of 1854. He bore his
part in the affair of Boulganals and in the battles
of the Alma, -Balaklava,, and Inkerman—that is to
say, in all the principal actions in which a cavalry
soldier could bear a part throughout the war.
"At the Alma, when ordered to pursue and cap-
ture prisoners, he exhibited great subordination in
sparing (at the suggestion of a staff officer) a Rus-
sian who had wounded him ; and also at the action
of Balaklava his coolness and gallantry were no-
ticed." Might not Colonel Peel have found a bet-
ter word than " subordination" to characterise
such an action ? A man who could so conduct
himself was not likly to act inhumanly even to an
enemy who had wounded him. Serjeant Seth
Bond, of the 11th Hussars, served in the whole of
the campaign from 1854 to 1856. Driver Robert
Smeaton, R.H.A., was present at the battles of
the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, the Tchernaya,
and throughout the siege of Sebastopol. "On the
25th Sept., 1854, this man gallantly jumped into
the river Belbek, and succeeded in saving the life
of a French soldier, who would have been drowned
but for the timely assistance rendered by Driver
Smeaton." Here is a pretty little incident of Gun-
ner and Driver John M'Ardle of the same regi-
ment :—" On the 18th of June, during the storm-
ing of the Redan, Gunner Glass left the advanced
trenches of the right attack with a few men,
and advanced towards the Redan. On getting
about half way he was badly wounded iu three
places. Gunner M'Ardle crept out of the
trenches on his hands and knees, managed to
get Gunner Glass on his back, and brought him
back into the trenches." Bombardier Angus
Sutherland in the first bombardment of Sebastopol
'was severely wounded in both legs by the bursting
of a shell. This untoward incident, however, does
not seam to have slackened the zeal of the gallant
Bombardier. We find him serving again in the
April and subsequent bombardments. "At the
explosion of the French gun-park he was one of
the first men to volunteer to carry away a number
of live shells and carcases." This article should
consist of extracts, and yet so uniform is this record
of courage and devotion that we are utterly at a
loss to establish any principle of selection. We find
that Colour-Seijeaut Charles Sargeant, of t
Grenadier Guards, embarked with the battalion in
February, 1854, and served throughout the whole
campaign without intermission. No urgent pri-
vate affairs claimed the presence of the worthy
Colour-Serjeant in England. He served at the
battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman,
where he was wounded, and was present through-
out the siege and at the capture of Sebastopol.
This is to say a good deal in a very few words. We
earnestly trust this brave soldier has returned in
health and strength to England, and is at this mo-
ment resting happily from the toils of war. Pri-
vates Philip-Balls and Charles Tutt joined the first
battalion of Coldstreams in Turkey in July, _185.4.
They were actually engaged at the Alma and In-
kerman, "and did duty in the trenches. without any
intermission throughout the siege." Corporal Jo- •
seph Coulter, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, "parti-
cularly distinguished himself at the Alma, continu-
ing to fire on 'the enemy after being severely
wounded." Corporal. Horsfall, and Privates
Daniel Moran and James Colver, of the Ist
(Royal) Regiment, are recommended, for con-
tinual faithful service in the trenches during the
whole of the siege operations. Corporal John
Clarkson, of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment, was
at hedd-quarters during the-whole of the Eastern
campaign, " zealous and active in the performance
of his duties in the trenches ; twice wounded,—
viz., on the 14th of April and 22d of June, 1855."
A short note tells us that Colour-Serjeant John
Watts, of the 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment,
landed in the Crimea on the 14th of September
with his regiment, and remained with it until the
war was at an end. Here is a note of this brave
soldier's achievements S--" Was engaged at the
Alma, and brought the company out of action •
engaged with the enemy on the 26th of October,
1854, also at Inkerman on the sth of November,
1854, and brought the company out of action ; at
the taking of the Quarries and both the assaults on
the Redan ; never absent from his regiment."
We can only regret that considerations of space
forbid us to extract more names and notes from this
glorious record.
This Parliamentary document is as interesting
as any novel or romance, and has the merit, more-.
over, of containing simple truth. It is highly de-
sirable that every publicity should be given to it,
in order that the brave men whose names are men-
tioned, and whose achievements are so briefly
summed up in it, should feel that the remembrance
of their deeds will not perish from the memory of
their countrymen. In remarks of itis kind Ne
can do nothing more than take the regiments in.
order as they are set down, and pick a name or
two from each, not as being the names of the most
distinguished where the services of all are so emi-
nent, but in order to call public attention to the.
existence of the list. The publication of such a
list may be the beginning of a better system. We
admit that it is fair and reasonable that every
soldier actually engaged in a victorious conflict
with`the enemy should receive some mark of his
presence in the conflict. Nothing, however, would
excite greater emulation among the soldiers than
the knowledge that those among them who showed
themselves most conspicuous for courage and forti-
tude would also be most distinguished by the ad-.
miration of their country.

that ithey were carrying the. wilt oftb? vast
:ty of -the citizens of this country; the Committee
I,gilance; under a solemn sense of the.r2sponiability
}rested upon them, have caltsly and dispassionately
fined the evidences before them, and decreed the
In of some -and banishment to ethers who by their

6 and villanies had stained our fair land.

With

tho. la that, were b ,
anished, this comparatively moderate
pun shment was choien not because ighominious death
was not deserved, but that the error, if any,,might surely
be t you the side of mercy to the criminal. There are
others scarcely less 'guilty against whom the same prinish• '
meet has been decreed, but they have been allowed fur-
ther, time to arrange for their final departure, and with
the dope that . pehnission to depart voluntarily Might
induce repdritance, and repentance amendment, they
have been suffered to choose within limits their own time
and! method of going.
"Thus far, and throughout their arduous duties, they
havebeen and will guided by the most conscientious
conlvictions of imperative duty ; and they earnestly liop,-
that, in endeavouring to mete out merciful justice to the
guiky, their counsels may be so guided by that Power
before whose tribunal we shall all stand that in the
vicissitudes of after life, amid the calm reflections of old
agq, and in the clear view of dying conscience, there may
be found nothing we would regret or wish to change.
14 We have no friends to reward, no enemies to punish,
no private ends to accomplish.
"Our single, heartfelt aim is the public good ; the
pui-giug from our counnunity of those abandoned charac.
ter whose actions have been evil continually, and have
finally forced upon us the efforts we are now making.
Wit have no, favouritism as a body, nor shall there be
evinced in any of our acts either partially for or prejudice
, .
against any race, sect, or party.
#‘ While thus far we have not discovered on the part
of our constituents any indications of lack of confidence,
and have no reason to doubt that the mejority of the in-
habitants of the couniory endorse our acts and desire us to
coitinue the work of weeding out the irreclaimable cha-
racters from the community, we have with deep regret
seen that some of the State authorities have felt it their
chit), to organise a force to resist us: It is not impos-
sible for mil° realise that not only those who have
sought place with a view to public plunder, but also
those gentlemen who, in accepting offices to which they
wire honestly elected, have sworn to support the laws of
the State of California, find it difficult to reconcile their
.supposed duties with acquiescence in the acts of the
Chminittee cf Vieilance, since they do not reflect that,
perhaps, more than three-fourths of the people of the
entire State sympathise with and endorse our efl,rts,
and as that all law emanates from the people, so when
the laws thus enacted are not executed, the power re-
turns to the people, an* is theirs whenever they may
choose to exercise it. These gentlemen would not have
hesitated to acknowledge the self-evident truth had the
peep'e chosen to make their present. movement a corn-
plete revolution, recalled all the power they had dele-
gated, and reissued it to new agents under new forms.
" Now, because the people have not seen fit to resume
all the powers they have confided to executive or legisla-
tive officers, it certainly does not follow that they cannot,
in thm eYerciso of their inhere 4 sovereig4.poves, with-
draw -from corrupt and unfaithful servants the autgority
hey have used to thwart the ends of justice. •
"Those officers whose mistaken sense of duty leads

them-to array themselves against the determined action
cf the people, whose servants they hive become, may be
respected, while their errors may be regretted ; but
none can envy the future reflections of that man who,
whether in the heat of malignant passion, or with the
vain hope of.preserving by violence a position obtained
through fraud and bribery, seeks, .under the colour of
law, to enlist the outcasts of society as a hireling soldiery
in the service of the State, or urges criminals, by hopes
of plunder, to continue, at the cost of civil war, the reign
of ballot-bax stuffera, suborners of witnesses, and tam-
perer 3 with the jury-box.
"The Committee of Vigilance believe that the people
have intrusted to them the duty of gathering evidence,
and, alter due trial, expelling from the community those
ruffians and assassins who have so long outraged the
peace and good order of society, violated the ballot box,
overridden law and thwarted justice.
"Beyond the duties incident to this we do not desire
to interfere with the details of Government.
" We have spared and shall spare no effort to avoid
bloodshed or civil war, hut, undeterred by threats or
opposing organisations, shall continue, peaceably if we
can, forcibly if we must, this work of reform, to which
we have pledged our lives, our fortunes, and our sacnid
honour.

" Our labours have been arduous, our deliberations
have been cautious, our determinations firm, our counsels
prudent, our motives pure ; and, while regretting the
imperious necessity which called us into action, we are
anxious that this necessity should exist no longer, and
when our labours shall have been accomplished—when
the community Oat' be freed from the evils it has so
'long endured—when we have insured to our citizens an
honest and vigorous protection of their rights—then the
Committee of Vigilance will find great pleasure in re•
signing their power into the hands of the people from
whom it was received.
"Published by order of the CJaimittee.
(Seal of the committee.) " SECRETARY."
Walker has deposed Rivas in Nicaragua, and
had himself elected President in his place. In
Costa Rica, General Mora, the Commander.in-Chief
of the army, and the Secretary of State, had all
died of the cholera. The Cuban dates are to the
6th inst. The yellow fever continued to prevail.

"Th'e
.storm of Ti:ursday morning," Bays the Sieele
"appears to have raged with great violence at Nantes.
Towards miduight a looking glass manufactory at
Sautron, four storeys high, belonging to M. Miozd, was
struck by lightning, and set on fire. A wall .speedily
crumbled away, and was followed by the fall of the entire
building. The premises wereinsured for only 305000 C
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE
CIVIL SERVICE.—The Admiralty : Mr. A. D. William-,
son has been appointed one of the assistant clerks to
the Commissioners of Income tax for the Naval Depart-
ment, in the vacancy in the department of the Account-
ant-General of the Navy, caused by the promotion of
of Mr. W. E. P. Hooper. University of London : Mr.
Ferguson, Professor of Surgery in King's College, has
been appointed examiner in surgery at the Londonlrti;
versiky. vice Mr. Hodgson, appointed examiner at
Royal College of Surgeons. Mr, T. H. Huxley, of
the't
Government School of Mines, has bean appointed
Exa-
miner in Comparative Anatomy and Physiology in the
University of London, vice r. Carpenter, appointed
has
Customs : Mr. T. Smartbeen,tppoinir
t_ed
.
clerk in the Receiver General's Office . inLondon. m
appoin‘tvethieeclltterrlhzasforbegeerint,:arapl
E. Webster has been
inG. the
business in
.Londonr.auMezrFk-
' supernumerary Receiver-General'a.
Office in London. Mr. James Baxter has been ap-
wijureii a clerk in the Lang-rooat at Liverpool. Coast-
Guard : Mr. Hugh Dymond Beach has been appointed
a chief officer. Mr. W. T. Newnhaeo, lieutenant coin-
manding, has been renioved ,ftom Sheeniest to Lyme,
vice Mr. M'Kerlie, previously,removed.• Mr. Horatio
Hill Garrett, chief officer, has been removed from
Haven 1-I.ole'to Barking Creek, 'vice Mr. Willis, R: N.;
~uhereetle l• Inland Revenue Departmcut, . Excise
Litatich—Mes,ts. F. S. Johnson, officer of Paisley filth
livieion, Ayr collection ; George- Compton, officer of
eleventh division, Glasgow collection ;- J. P.
'ibtborPe, officer of Glasgow seventh division, Glasgow.
,lketinn ; E. Birchnell, officer of Haddington
collection ; and -J. S. Heti, of Hull; have

eeti proinot.ed to the rank of examiner at Someret-
hous',4. But Indies.—Mr.•ElijAlt Impey, of the Bmn-
-1,3y Medical Establishment, has been appointed P,st-
liactLr-Gcueral of Bombay. Mr. Cudbert. Bensley
'No hill has been appointed t., °Mei:A.3.w., Secretary to
aivetwpent, North-Western provin,:es. Lieutenant E.
G.,,,0r.,e has been a pointed to officiate as ‘ertlt4lry.
the- Board of Buttitioes s.—Civil Service Cicactfe,