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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY' m 1356.

BIA N K OF LONDON,
! Threadneedle-street, and Charing-cross.
CHAXRMAN—Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., M.P.
VICE•CHAtRMAN—JOFIN GRIFFITH FRITH, Esq.
Current Accounts are received, and interest allowed on Balances.
51. pet cent. Interest is at present allowed on deposits, with 10
days' notice of withdrawal on sums of 101. and upwards.
By order.
MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager.
BENJAMIN SCOTT, Secretary,
Threadneedle-street, April 21, 1856.

EiE ROYAL BRITISH BANK
it allows INTEREST on the DAILY BALANCES of Drawing
Accounts, if not under 1001., and on DEPO;ITS of any amount.
Cash Credits are granted to its regular Customers on suitable secu-
rities, on the Scottish system; and Circular Bills, &c., are issued
without charge, payable in every town abroad, free of Commission.
The HOLBORN BRANC a of the Bank, at the corner of Chancery-
lane, was opened for business on the let May current.
The Interest allowNi at present on Deposits is 5 per Cent.
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ANK• OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
The DIRECTORS of the BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
do hereby given notice that the YEARLY GENERAL MEETING
of Proprietors will be held, pursuant to the Deed of Settlement, on
TUE*,,DAY, the 13th June next, at the Office of the Corporation, 7,
St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street, at 1 o'clock precisely, when
the FleCtion of Three Directors, In the room of those going out by
the proltisions of the Deed, will take place. - •
,By order of the Court. , .
A. GRAHAM DUNLOP, Secretary. .
London, Sth, May 1556.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, XAY 8.

This day had audience of her Majesty ;
His Highness Aali Pacba, Grand Vizir of the °Um:QUI
Empire, to deliver to her Majesty a letter from the Sultan;,
The Grand. Vizir•was accompanied to this atdrence by
his Eleellener Mons. itherarns, Ambassador
and Plenipotentiary from the Sublime Porte ; and his
Highness was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G.,
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
conducted by Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust,
K e.n., her Majesty's 14.1a::ter of the Ceremonies.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAT 6.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
A. Everitt as Consul at Birmingham for his Majesty the
King of the Belgians.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Luis
Y. Santamaria as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of
New Granada.

WHITEHALL, MAY 7.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Wm. Charles Aliddlotou Grant to the church and parish of
Durness, in thepresbytery of Tongue, and county of Suther-
land, vacant by the death of the Reverend Alex. M'Coll,
late Minister thereof.
CROWN-OFEICE, MAY 9.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIA-

MENT.

Borough of Cheltenham—Francis William Fitzhardinge
Berkeley, Esq., Captain in her Majesty's Regiment of
Horse Guards, in the room of Grenville Charles Lennox
Berkeley, 11,q., who has accepted the office of Steward of
her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 9.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en-
closing copy of a French Imperial Decree, regulating as
follows the import duties upon cocoa (in the bean and

.ask) :
From the French colonies
From countries west of Cape Horn present duties.
From elsewhere out of Europe
In French ships 65f.
From the entrepots per 100 kilog.
In foreign ships 75f.
Also, copy of another Imperial decree, fixing the import
duty upon iron tubes at 30f. per 100 kilogs.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL MALL, MAT 9.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Samuel
Wentworth Stevenson has been permitted to resign his
commission.
7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant A. G. Montgomery
Moore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major
Macartney, who retires; Cornet and Adjutant David
Scotland to have the rank of Lieutenant ; Cornet James
Vance Cleland to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Moore.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant David Philip Brown to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir Lydston Newman, Bart.,
who retires ; Cornet William Henry Seymour to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Brows.
15th Light Dragoons Lieutenant George Travers
Macartney to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brett, who
retires ; Cornet Charles William Bell to bo Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Macartney.
Royal Engineers—The surname of the Lieutenant ap-
pointed on 7th April, 185 G, in the Gazette of the 29th ult.,
is Home, and not Horne, as previously stated.
7th Regiment of Foot—The first Christian name of En-
sign Follett is Harding° and not Harding, as previously
stated.
10th Foot— The second Christian name of Ensign Erskine
appointed on the 18th of April, 1856, is Jones.
25th Foot—Major Samuel Wells to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Strange, who retires upon
full pay; Brevet-Major George Holt to be Major, without
purchase, vice Wells ; Lieutonant Astley Canapb4lll.2keith
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Holt • Ensign'
Richard Ross to be Lieutenant, without purchase,l vice
Smith; Ensign Raymond South Paley, from the 4th Mid-
lesek Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vico Ross.
28th Foot—Lieutenant Henry C. Worthington to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Huey, who retires.
32d Foot—Ensign Nathaniel T.. Crane to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Power, promoted.
35th Foot—Ensign Woodford Wright Sherlock to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dundas, who retires ;
Richard Parsouc, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice

Sherlock.
50th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Charles Goff to be Ad-
jutant, vice Ensign Gordon, who resigns the Adjutancy
only.
53d Foot—Ensign John Maxwell Macneill to bo Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Follows, deceased.
Lieut. Joseph C. Smythe, from the Perthshire Militia,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Macneill.
57th Foot—Lieut. Blake Goble has been permitted to
retire from the service by the sale of his commission.
60th Foot—To be Lieutenants, by purchase—Ensigns
Frederick A ustin, vice Add erley, who has retired ; Edward
C. Ainsley, vice Robertson. promoted ; James S. H. Al-
gar, vice Fox, promoted • E. R. Ktng-Harman, vice Ellis,
promoted ; Joseph Bradshaw, vice Liddell, promoted. To
be Ensigns, by purchase—George Henry Mackenzie, Gent.
vice King-Harman ; Richard Jephson Verschoyle, Gent.,
vice Bradshaw. -

63,1 Foot—Lieutenant F. V. M. Raynes has bean per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his com-
mission; the appointment of Quartermaster-Sergeant
James Linford to the Quartermastership to bear date 28th
December, 1855, instead of 18th January, 1850, as previ-
ously stated.

Oth Foot—Ensign Peter Shuttleworth, from the Sligo
Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.
70th Foot—Lieutenant Charles William Quin, from the
99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wilson, who exchanges.
83d Foot—Ensign Edward Dickson Picard, from the
18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzßoy,
promoted in the 63d Foot ; Braithwaite Chamley, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant
Meade, promoted in 30th Foot.
84th Foot—Ensign William Poole to be Liehtenant,
without purchase, vice Kenny, deceased ; Ensign Hugh
Pearson, front the 57th Foot, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Poole.
85th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Henry Drage, from the
Essex Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.
99th Foot—Lieutenant Falconer Wilson, from the 70th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Quin, who exchanges.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Geo. James Ivey
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Harger, deceased ;
aa,n
to
0 b e Charles
Ensign, B u ywCirtandoouctk ,from
purchase,the
Ensign Edmond Frederick Tarts to be Lieutenant, with.
6th
vice Tarto. i:reL Mieuiltietni
out prittaincheLshe

HOSPITALhenry T i
tSteTrAto7
Assistant-Surgero
from the
89th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice
Browne, who resigns ; Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class
George William Powell has been placed upon half-pay for
one year
for the recove BREVET health.
.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Francis Strange, retired full
pay 25th Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, the rank being
honorary only.
Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Henry Frederick Hawker, retired
full-pay (staff-Officer of Pensioners), to be Colonel in the
Army, the rank being honorary only.
The promotion of Dr. Bruce to be Staff-Surgeon, Os-
manli Irregular Cavalry, to bear date 19th October, 1855,
instead of Ist May, 1855, as previously stated.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
South Herts Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet Abel Smith to
be Lieutenant, vice Sir Joha Henry Pelly, Bart, resirmed;
Robert Smith, Esq., to be Cornet, vice Abel Smith:pro-
moted.
Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry—The Honourable Ed-
ward Chandes Leigh to be Captain, vice Captain Lord
Leigh, resigued.
Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—
john
Neville Billiogsly Parry, Esq., late in the Royal Breck-
nook Rifles Militia, to be Captain.
The Essex Rifles—Bertram Aynsley James Mitford,
Gent., to be Ensign. vice Bennet, removed to the line.
Merionethshire Militia—Rice Hugh Anwyl, Esq., to be
Surgeon, vice Thomas Parry, Esq., placed on the retired
list.

BANKRUPTS.
William Ford, innkeeper, Chipping Lambourne, Berk-
shire, to surrender May 21, at half-past one, and June
17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee; Bishop and Son, New Bridge-street ; Astley,
Hungerford, Berkshire.
Uriab Gitcard, cabinet maker and upholsterer, King.N
Lynn, Norfolk, May 24 and June 27, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street • Clowes, Son, and Hickley, King's Bench-walk,
Temple; Jeffery, King's Lynn.
Henry Charles Broers, metal and general merchant,
Leadenhall-street, May 24, at half-past eleven, and June
27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan,
official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Walter and Pemberton,
Southampton-street, Bloomsbury.
Aspin, junr., carrier, Tooley-street, Southwark,
May 16, at one, and Juno 18, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Bothamly and
Freeman, Coleman-street, City.
Maxfield Honey, grocer, Maidstone, May 17, and June
28, at the Court of Banktuptcy. potters ands,
official assignee,
Guildhall-chambers; Lofty, Potter, and Son, King-street,
Cheapside.
Peter Patch Buck, cattle dealer, Jervaux Abbey, York-
shire, May 26, at one, and June 23, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Bond and
Barwick, Leeds ; Mucks, Leeds.
Thomas Davies, merchant, Liverpool, May 28 and
June 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caze-
nove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bagshaw and Son, Man-
chester.
Patrick McDonnell, cabinetmaker, Manchester, May 19
and June 18, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Taylor, Manchester.
Wm. Fryer, wholesale draper, Nottingham, May 27 and

Juue 17, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Harris, offmial assignee, Nottingham ; Sykes,
Nottingham.
John Jenkinson, china and earthenware dealer, Mugs-
ton-upon-Hull, Jane 4 and 25, at twelve, at the Leeds
District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Roilit,
Hull.

Benjamin Wilson, money scrivener, Gresham-street,
City, May 20, at half-past two, and June 17, et twelve. at
tho Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Lawrence, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-
chambers.

George Frederick Owen, butcher, Lewisham, Utty 20,
at half-past two, and June 17, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ;
Stubbs, Moorgate-street.

George Harding, innkeeper, Shepton Mallet, Somerset-
shire, May 20 and June 17, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Naider,
Shepton Mallet ; Ed wards and Naldor, Bristol.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Horatio NelEon John Goldin, manufacturer, Glasgow.
James Leggat, saddler, Turiff, Aberdeenshire.
David Stewart. draper, Dalkeith.

Miles I Receipts.
opened. I NAME OF RAILWAY.
1856. 1855.
1856. '
- -- ----.•
I
BRITISII. £ £
1 115 i Aterdeen -.••••••••••• .. .• .. . •• .. 3,419 3,178
37% Belfast and Ballymena ••••••.. .• •• •• 1,046 916
I
17 Belfast and County Down.. - _
•• •• - -
33 1 Birkenhead, Lanea7hlre, and Cheshire - -
26 1 Bolton. Biackburn, and West York .... - -
117 I Bristol and Exeter ••••••••- • • . • • . • • 5,629 6,128
191!! Caledonian.- ••••• • • • • -..•.•• • • • • 11,637 11,553
944 ! Chester and Itolyhead..• .. ••_.„ • . .. 5,144 4,804
64"1 Cork, Blackrock, and. Passage ...... 159 170
20 Cork and Bandon .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • .
.. 303 253
56 Dublin and Belfast 1 unction .. .• •. •• 1,032 997
63 Dublin and Droglieda• ••••••.• • . _ •• 1,518 1,613
7% Dublin and Kingstown • • ••• • ••• ••• „. 1,720 1,373
16% Dundee and Arbroath •••••• _ .. • •
•• 524 470
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 1,08(1 895
36 Dundalk an? Enniskillen.. •... • • ••
•• 337 337
67% East Anglian.... •••.•••.•• • • • • • • • • • • 897 8153
76
93 East Lanca.shire •••••• • • • • • • .... ••.• 5,466 5,
417 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. .. •• 22 471 21,817
Ea5ternUni0n.................... i
142 Edinburgh and Glasgow ........ 5,469 5,147
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.. •••• 6,033 5,75
6 Exeter and Cr0ut0n................- _
22 Furness Itaily/ay •.-••••••• • • .• • • • • 907 873
183% Glasgow, and South-Western- - _ ... 5,785 5,37235
2t3 Great Northern ••• ..
203 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 7,363 6,6
365 Great Western .• •. • .... ••• • • ...... 26,098 25,79817
25A Irish South Eastern •••••••••• •• •• •• 255 260
90 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••• • • . • • ••• . 6,165 5,054
286 Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ 21,649 19,321
' - Leeds Northern .. ••••••••- • • • • • • • • _ -
161 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... - -
553% London and North Western .••.. .• ••56,275 57,478
5% London and 131ackat all .• •••••• .. • . • • 1,3 i 6 1,3619
02
180% London, Brighton, and South Coast_ 13,03 G 12,
267 London and South Western. •••• • • •• 15,606 14,561
60 Londonderry and Enniskillen •••• • • • • 582 614
- Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - •,-
173% Manchester, Sheffield,and Lincolnshire 8,702 8,6493
9j,i Manchester and South Junction ••• • .. 744 7
9422
28 Maryport and Carlisle ..... ••••• • • • • 829
•
498% Midland ••.• • ....... ...... •••• •• • 29,369 26,556
1264 Midland Great Western (Irish) .• •.. 3,28 G 2,924
52 Monklands • • • • • • • • •• • • • " - '• • • '' ' • - -
78% Newcastle and Carlisle.. •••••• - • • • • • - -
149 North British • • • • • • • • • • • • •' • • • • •••
• 4,754 4,588
233 North Staffordshire •••••••• • • • • • • • 6,981 6,426
47 Worth 854 936
8714 Scottish Central •••••••••• • • • • • • • ' • - -
• -
32 Scottish Midland ••••••••• • • • • • - • •
1,728 1,538
2914 i Shrewsbury and Birmingham ••• • .. 2
48 Shrewsbury and Chester •••••• • • " • • ,540 2,814
•
30 Shropshire Union •.•• •••••• • " " • • 2,394 - 874 7
2,2'3146
57% South Devon.. .. .. •• •• ••••••• • • • "
289 South Eastern .• •• ••• • • ............. 16,417 15,809
I 1623 South Wales ...• ••••••••• • " • • • • • 2,096 ••• 5,990 5,403620
97 South York., Doncaster, and Goole 1,
4,002 3,619
' 36 Ulster. .. 1,362 1,311
.......... ...... • • • • • •• • • ..
• 77 Waterford and Limerick •••••• • • •• • • 1,036 1.b99
060
27% West Cornwall ••••••'•• • • • • •• • • 517
12 Whitehav en Junction . • • • • • • "
, "•• '• 322 3)5
682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds.. - -
a
I FOREIGN.
89 Dutch Rhenish .................... 2,010 1,207
328 Lyons and Mediterranean • • •• •• • • ••
-
63 Montereau and Troyes •• •• •••"• •• .• - -
- - Namur and Liege .. • • • • • • •• • ' • • - .. - -
0 497 Northern of France ••• • .• ,'• ••• .• 36,062 37,191
.1 - Orleans and Central .. •• ••••• • • • • " - -
-
359 Paris and Lyors .•••• • ' • " -
• • • • • ''
84 Paris and Rouen. •. •
,• • • •• • ' • • • • .• - -
-
,8 566 Paris and Strasburgh •• • • .... • ''' " - -
-
t - c. Roun and 'Havre .• .. ••••• • " ' • •
... _ • • -
Western of France ........ ....... -
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37,191

Le Nord publishes the following despatch :—" Ham-
burg, Tuesday—Two steamers, one from Kiel, the
other from Korsoer, came into collision last night out
at sea. The shock was so violent that both vessels im-
mediately sunk, but the passengers were saved."
THE WRECK OF TUE BOOIIERAN?.—GALLANT CON-
DUCT.—Capt. Williams, of the American line of packet-
ship American Congress, on his passage from New York
to London, fell in with the wreck of the British ship
Boomerang, from Mobile for Liverpool, and by his
exertions, assisted by the second officer, Mr. Haw-
kins, was eqabled to save the chief officer and four
seamen, remaining on the wreck. In 130 doing he
lost his life boat, and, upon representing the same
to the Marine Department of the Beard of Trade,
received in answer a very handsome letter, thanking
him and Mr. Hawkins for their gallant conduct, with
an order for the payment of the loss of his boat, and
stating it to be their lordships' intention to bring the
matter before the Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
fairs, in order that his lordship may consider the pro-
priety of acknowledging, by some mark of approbation
on the part of the British Government, the services ren-
dered by the officers.

TH.42YK3 TO THE ARMY .A.7DITAP-

(From the Times of this day.)
Tho occasion on which Lords Panmure and Palmerston
addressed the two Houses of Parliament on Thursday
night was suggestive of mixed emotions, in which we
readily admit those of a pleasurable nature predominated.
A vote of thanks to a great army is a rare event nowadays.
Vest expeditions and grand achievement are neither the oc-
currence nor daydream of the present age. Since the peace
of 1815 till the last two years we have beard little of war,
. .

save its distant mutterings from the banks of the Sutlej or
the river of Canton. At ese period, indeed, a sulall por-
tion—perhaps an interested portion—of our community
acknowledged au unusual fear of the dangers which me-
naced our huge empire in the East. But the slight alarm
was soon dispelled, and made way for the much more gene-
ral enthusiasm which greeted the triumph of the veterans
who, at short intervals of time, had routed-the fierce tribes

of the Sikhs at Sobraon and Guzerat. .A.nd though the few
who knew the value of the prize that had been con:ested

there, and the valour which bad conquered against such
desperate odds, recognised the justice of the panegyric pro-
nounce l in either .House of Parliament, it may be ques-
tioned whether the heart of the whole nation was deeply
touched by a prowess which, however great, was displayed
on a remote scene and for a distant object.
Now the case is changed. On no obscure or far-off
theatre—for no inconsiderable or indifferent object—in no
selfish er-unworthy cause—against no contemptible or un-
warlike foe—have the armies and navies of England fought,
triumphed, and won an honourable peace. True, our triumph
might have been more brilliant, our success mere perfect, our
pride more satisfied, our glury more enhanced, the humi-
liation of the enemy more complete. True that defy let-
ter from the Crimea tells us of opportunities oveilonked
or foregone which would, if seized, have crowned tha (Pm-
paign with greater lustre and higher renown ; true that' in
the conduct of the war mistakes have been committed both
on our side and that of our allies, which have filched from
us and them some of those advantages which. Englishmen
hid ventured to anticipate as the fruits of national enter-
prise and patriotic devotion ; true that there have been
mismanagement, bad organisation, and the sad results of
both. Yet, still, when all is measured and cast up, there
is a largo balance to the credit of the achievements and the
exploits of our forces, which speaks intelligibly and forcibly
to all who appreciate the worth of national character and
the grandeur of national enterprise.
That army, 70,000 strong, grew out of the nucleus of
10,000 men whom our rulers sent on " a military promen-
ade" in Bulgaria. It is the remnant and the successor of
that high-hearted force which in successive battalions sailed
to the Crimea in the summer and autumn of 1854. Arriv-

ingon the scene of their service in a period far shorter than
would have sufficed to convey them half the distance thirty
years ago, our soldiers have concentrated into one cam-
paign of two years the trials, the labours, the losses, and
the results of ten years. Battle, pestilence, famine, death
in the field, and death in the hospital have been their lot.

. . .
And well have they done their duty, and well have they
braved their lot in every crisis of the war. In the first
flash of the ardour that bore them, hitherto untried, against
the strong position of the Alma, they showed that the muscle
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and the "pluck" which Talavera, and Vittoria had seen
were still unweakened and undegenerated. It was then,
as in the days of the Peninsula, "no sudden out-
burst of undisciplined enthusiasm," which, would grow
cold as the battle waxed hotter—no ardour which would
pale as the contest and the danger thickened around them,
but the irresistible might of British courage. gathering
strength and impulse from the clash and collision of the
fray, that impelled our soldiers. And, again, when the
novelty of the war had ceased—when its illusions had
darkened into realities, and the bright sun and clear skies
had been dimmed by the rains and snows of the Crimean
November—not less stern and stubborn was the compo-
sure which welded fragments of shattered regiments in
terrible resistance against overwhelming hosts at Joker-
man than the plains of Spain and Belgium had witnessed
in olden days. And, if military service censured the fatal
charge of Balaklava, the survivors and the friends of the
fallen may find some, though inadequate, consolation in
the admiration which that daring death-i ide won from
our allies and extorted from our foes. And if to these
gallant regiments, which so well supported the traditionary
honour of their time-worn colours—if to the brave officers
who fought round Cathcart, Strangways, Torrens, and
Yea—if to them were denied the crowning honours of the
supreme struggle, still the one failure should not deaden
the memories of Englishmen to all they have done and
suffered before. As Lord Palmerston well observed, the
praise of bravery we claim in common with other nations.
The English soldier is brave in the heat of battle—in the '
bayonet or the sabre charge. But so are the soldiers of
other nations; this, though an indispensable and an
eminent attribute, is not his highest quality. It is not
for that alone that Parliament has thanked, that Eng-
land will thank, her soldiers when they set foot again
on the bores which they left with such high hopes
and such exulting hearts two years ago. It is for the
courage with which they bore up against the combined
assaults of cold, famine, and disease ; for the discipline
which kept them to their duty so long as, and even after,
strength remained ; which resisted every privation, and
which did not desert those who were fated to die in the
trench or the camp. And how many of those who went
out in the confidence and vigour of youth, health, courage,
and strength—whose manly cheers echoed along the river's
crowded banks in answer to the loud hurrahs of farewell

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blood has won ? The mortality of war has its statistics
no less than that of peace. It is known that in the two
years of the siege 19,000 men and 276 officers have died.
Statisticians will tell us that this is not much—not more
than an outbreak of destructive cholera carried off simul-
taneously in two small colonies, one an Eastern and the
other a West Indian colony, during the summer of 1854.
But how many a home has this loss saddened ! How large
a hecatomb of youth, valour, and spirit has been offered
to the exacting Genius of War ! When that brilliant
army, now reckoning 70,000 men, which by the bravery
of its equipments, the solidity of its discipline, and the
unequalled condition of its health, excites so much praise
and admiration, disembarks at Portsmouth, Gravesend,
and Southampton, how many an eye will turn from that
gorgeous array, dimmed with the recollection of those who
should be there, but who have not returned with the re-
turning peace ! How many a humble hearth will then
miss its best support ! how many a high and noble house
will recall, amid the pageantry of national joy, that form
which, with its 270 fellows, lies entombed on Cathcart's-
hill or the cemetery of Scutari !
These and other reflections mingle with the restoration
of peace and the return of the army. They are the amari
aliq ',kid which embitters the flowing cup of a people's exul-
tation. But they are inseparable from the conditions both
of our glory and our joy. It is the sacrifice of the home
affections, the pcwer of subordinating the ties and the
sentiments of family to national exigencies and public
duties, that constitutes the strength and solidity of
national greatness. And when it is remembered that the
army which fought at Alma and Inkerman, or died in
the trenches, and that which will return under General
Codrington in a few weeks, were each filled with volun-
teers • that no conscription and no ballot have been em-
ployed to recruit it ; that, when its numbers were reduced
by the contingencies of war, the Militia, itself all volun-
teers, supplied voluntary recruits, and, in many instances,
performed the duties of foreign service, Englishmen may
feel proud of a force which carries the seeds of liberty in
its first organisation, and spontaneously responds to the
necessities of the empire.
If we say less of tho Fleet than of the Army, it is not
because less is substantially due to the former than to the
latter. Without that Fleet the Army would have been of
no effect. It would have been a small contingent, hemmed
in by a large and increasing hostile force, to which in time
it must have helplessly surrendered. It is owing to the
services—un-brilliant though they were—of the Navy that
the Army could turn the siege of Sebastopol into the one
great act of the war. It was the arm which stretched out
from England to the Crimea, bringing stores, provisions,
subsidies. It made England and France nearer to the
allies than Moscow to the besieged Russians. It neutralised,
in fact, most of the advantages which the enemy derived
from his free communication with the interior. It brought
more than 400,000 men to the theatre of war, besides
driving the enemy's fleet to inaction and furnishing men
and batteries on shore. At Sebastopol its co operation
was most precious to the land forces; while in the naval
services of the Black Sea and the Baltic Kinbourn, Bomar-
sund, and Sweaborg testify its power and influence on the
fortunes of the war. This gigantic armament, which now
numbers near 600 vessels, is the creation of the same
spontaneous energy which has filled the ranks of the
army.
On this occasion we forbear to mix censure with ealogy
and admiration. But what Englishman, when be sees
those costly armaments reposing in peace, can be indifferent
to the management and supervision which may be required
to recall them into efficient activity, to organise them with
promptitude and skill, and save them unnecessary loss,
when the interests or honour of the country shall again
proclaim the deplorable necessity of war ?

THE BARD IN THE PARIC.

The following answer bag been returned by Sir Benja-
min Hall to a memorial lately presented to him :
" Office of Works, May 9, 1856.

" Sir,—l am directed by Sir Benjamin Hall to
acknowledge the receipt of a memorial to which your
signature is attached, and in which a desire is expressed
that he should review the whole subject of a band being
permitted to play in the Parks on Sundays, and that he
will not authorise the renewal of such performances.
" Sir B. Hall bad already anticipated the desire of the
memorialists—the result of which has been to confirm
him in the conviction that temperate and innocent re-
creations during some part of each Sunday are most
desirable, and are calculated to counteract the rapid in-
erea.sse of drunkneness, and the dreadful crimes conse-
quent upon that vice.
" Sir B. Hall begs to remind the memorialists that be
is actuated by the same desire as themselves to benefit
the real cause of sincere religion and morality ; and that
though the memorialists and himself may differ, he has
the same legitimate right to his own opinions as them-
selves, and that it is not impossible that his views of the
means to that end may be correct. He has purposely
selected such hours for the band to play as need not
prevent persons desirous of hearing it from attending
divine service twice, or even three times on Sunday.
None are obliged to hear it who do not desire to do so.
"The memorialists seem to consider that all who go
to hear the band on Sunday must be steeped in sin, and
delight only in iniquity. If such is the case, they must
indeed have a very bad opinion of their fellow-inhabitants
of this metropolis, when they are informed that no less
than 147,852 persons assembled last Sunday in Ken-
sington-gardens and the Regent's-park, and soberly,
peaceably, and happily enjoyed themselves. These
numbers formed one-tenth of the whole population north
of the Thames, and represented all classes of society,
from the highest peer of the realm to the hard-working
mechanic.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient

servant,

!`A. D. BERRINGTON."