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guage that is by no means tempting to enter into
controversy with him. Nevertheless, being well
acquainted with the circumstances of the case, I
cannot forbear saying a few words respecting the
yacht affair—a question which, I must admit, his
Lordship seems willing enough to discuss.
At the time Lord Cardigan took up his quarters
on board the Dryad, R.Y.S., the brigade which he
commanded was stationed on the heights before
Sebastopol, seven and a-half miles from their leader.
So imminent was the danger of an attack from the
Russians on our weakened army that when the
question arose whether it was better to allow the
Light
Brigade to perish from starvation on the
heights or permit a portion of them to go down
daily and fetch up food for the remainder Lord.
Cardigan decided that not a man or horse could
be spared from the front, and that they must starvo
gnonfr his Lordship's
own pen that ho visited his brigade on the heights
;one on
on board ship to
and die—as they did—where they were posted.
And having come to this stern decision Lord
Cardigan rode down to Balakiava and went corn-
comfortably to bed on board the Dryad, R.Y.S.
His Lordship says he did this because he was not
well, and that he did it with Lord Raglan's
sanction and approval. If he was not well, he
might have done as Sir Do Lacy Evans and other
officers did—handed his brigade over to some
recruit bu officer
rit w;
howt
" almost every day, and sometimes twice a-day,"
it would not appear that an illness which allowed
him to side on Crimean roads in November, 1854,
from 15 to 30 miles a-day, could have been very
awshe well, el
weh andle learn
serious. Moreover, other officers were not allowed
to plead illness unless their plea was confirmed by
a Medical Board ; we hear of no such board hav-
ing reported on Lord Cardigan.
If Lord Raglan really allowed Lord Cardigan to
retain at such a moment the command of a brigade
on the heights while he slept seven and a-half
miles away on board his yacht every night, it is
indeed a grievous stain on the Commander-in-
Chief's character, but it in no way exonerates Lord
Cardigan, who ought to have known as well as
Lord Raglan what a soldier's duty at such a time
was.

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RUSSIAN SrEAIII BOAT AND TRADING
COM PA NY.

Advices from St. Petersburg furnish full particu-
lars of the Russian scheme for establishing steam
lines in the Black Sea and elsewhere. The statutes
of the association upon which the privileges are con-
ferred were dated the 3d of August, and its title is to
be the Russian Steamboat and Trading Company.
The coMmunications to be formed are :
1. Between Odessa, Constantinople, Athens Smyrna,
Rhodes, Alexandretta, Beyrout, Jaffa, and Alexandria ;
three times a-month.
2. Between Odessa, Yalta, Redout Kaleh, and Kertch,
three times a-month.*
3. Between Odessa and Galatz, calling, if expedient, at
Sulina, Ismail, Reni, and other ports up the Danube ;
every week.
4. Between Odessa, Eupatoria, Sebastopol, Yalta,
Theodusia, and Kertch every week.
b. Between Odessa, Kinbourn, Oschakoff, Nicolaieff,
and higher up the Bong if necessary ; every week.
6. Between Odessa, Kinburn, O,chakoff, and Cherson,
and higher up the Dnieper if necessary; every week.
7. Between Kertch, Marioupol, Berdiansk, Eisk, and
Taganrog ; every week.
8. Between Kertch and Tamar ; as cften each day as
necessary.
9. Between Ovidiopol and Akermann, along the Liman
of the Dniester; as often daily as necessary.
10. Between Odessa, Constantinople, the islands of
Syra, Pincus, Messina, Naples, Leghorn, Genoa, and
Marseilles ; about 18 trips annually.
11. Between Odessa, Constantinople, the islands of
Syra, Zante, Cephalonia, and Curlu ; Bari, Ancona, and
Trieste ; ithout 18 trips annually.
The above lines are to be opened by degrees, but
in five years the whole must be in regular opera-
tion. The company aro also to have the right of
establishing steam tugs on the Dnieper, Bong, and
Don, and on the seaboard. They may likewise
open an insurance department for the insurance of
any merchandise conveyed by their own vessels.
The steamers hitherto employed by the Government
in keeping up postal and commercial communica-
tions are to be taken by the company at a valuation,
the amount to be paid in five annual instalments
without interest. Any unoccupied Government
lands that may be required for wharves, quay;
warehouses, &,0., are to be granted rent free.
Schools may also be established for the education of
pilots, engineers, and mechanics. The company
are to ran as belonging to the first guild, and are
to receive the following extraordinary rates of
subsidy :
Between Odessa, Constantinople, Athens, Smyrna,
Rhodes, Alexandretta, Beyrout, Joppa, and Alexandria,
5 s. r. 22 cop. per or about 16s. 7d. sterling.
Between Odessa, Yalta, Redout Kaleh, and Kertch,
4 s. r. 56 cop.
Between Odessa and Galatz, 4 s. r. 34 cop,
Between Odessa, Eupaturia, Sebastopol, Theodosia,
and Kertch, 3 s. r. 25 cop.
Betwem Odessa, Kinburn, Oechakcff, and Nicolaieff,
3s. r. 63 cop.
Between Odessa, Kinburn, Oschakoff, and Cherson,
3 s. r. cop.

It would be well, too, that Lord Cardigan should
explain how it came to pass that he sought Lord
Raglan's approval at all. Lord Lucan was his im-
mediate commanding officer, and it was Barely
irregular that such a matter should be settled
between the officer second in command of the
cavalry and the Commauder-in-Chief, passing over
the General officer in command of the whole
cavalry, who, himself at his post with his officers
and men, must have been much embarrassed at
having to look for his second in command in bed
afloat.

Lord Lucan has recently published his " Divi•
sional Orders and Correspondence while in com-
mand of the Cavalry in the Crimea,".and among
the correspondence will be found a letter from his
Lordship to Lord Cardigan, forbidding him to
harass the unhappy division which he commanded
by compelling them, at a time when he would not
allow them to come down to Balaklava for provi-
sions, to furnish a supply of orderlies to convey
messages to and fro between his yacht and his bri-
gade, each trip covering 15 miles.
I can assure Lord Cardigan that the idea of the
Inspector-General of the British Cavalry gravely
maintaining the propriety of his residence on
board his yacht during the worst part of the crisis
of 1854, while he was in command of a brigade of
cavalry stationed and starving some seven and
a-half miles off, close to the enemy, and expecting
momentarily an attack, affords much merriment in
foreign military circles, and brings many a blush
of shame to the cheeks of Englishmen who hear
what foreign officers say of it.

Between . Kerte!), Marioupol, Berdiansk, Eisk, and
Taganrog, 2 s. r. 501- cop.
Between Odesea and Marseilles 3s.r. 49 cop.
Between Odessa and Trieste, 4 s. r. 74 cup.
These payments are to continue for 10 years. At
the expiration of that period they are to be reduced
5 percent. per annum for 10 years, so that at the
end of 20 years they will amount to 50 per cent. of
the original sum. In all except unavoidable cases
the company are to pay a fine of 12 s. r. for every
hour's delay in starting, and of 1,000 s. r. for touch-
' ing at ports out of their course. In addition to the
subsidy the Government are to pay 61,000 s. r.
annually for 20 years for repair of the steamers,
and the company are likewise to have an exclusive
grant of anthracite coal mines on the banks of the
Don. All military and civil governors and Russian
Consuls abroad are to give them their highest sup-
port and protection. Tee capital of the company at
the commencement is to be 6,000,000 s. r. (about
1,000,0001. sterling), in 20,000 shares of 300 s. r.
each, of which half is to be paid up at once. Sub-
sequently it may be raised to 9,000,000 s. r. As a
further special encouragement the Government
subscribe for one-third of the original shares, and
forego all dividend on them for the first five years.
Great part of the business of the company being
coasting trade, in which, by the existing laws, fo-
reigners are not allowed to participate, none but
Russian subjects are to be permitted to become
shareholders. Upon the organisation of the com-
pany being completed they are to commence ope-
rations forthwith, by the purchase of steamers and
other necessary arrangements. During the first
year the head office is to be at St. Petersburg, but
it may afterwards be transferred to Odessa. The
founders, MM. Nicholas Arkas, captain of the first
rank andflugel-adjutant, and Nicholas Novoselsky,
councillor in the civil service, are to receive 1,000
s. r. (1661.) per month, and at the end of five years
a grant of 330 shares each from the Government.
The business of the company, it is stated, is to be
transacted " upon a commercial footing." No
term is fixed for its duration, and it can be wound
up only by a decision of a majority of shareholders
holding three-fourths of the capital. The permanent
board will consist of six directors, of whom two
are to be nominated by the Government. The
main objects of the undertaking are obviously to
create under the show of a commercial company
large fleets of Government ships and transports in
the neutral waters of the Black Sea, and at the same
time by high bounties to prevent foreign com-
petition on equal terms, and thus to keep the whole
traffic of that region in Russian hands or under
Russian surveillance.

* If expedient and practicable this line will be hereafter
changed to a communication between Odessa, Yalta,
Kertch, Rodout Kaleh, and further on to the ports of the
Anatolian coast, as far as Constantinople, to meet and ex-
change passengers and cargoes with the steamers of a new
line of communication which in that case will be formed
between Odessa, Galatz, and further on between the ports
on the Roumelian coast as far as Constantinople.
± It is believed nautical miles are intended.

Advices from St. Petersburg mention that, although
the rate of exchange is nearly at a point to attract gold
from this country, none is for the moment expected. In
a short time there will be less probability of its trans-
mission, since the steamers will cease to run, and there
will be only the expensive overland medium.
ENGLISH DEAD LETTERS IN THE UNITED STATES.—
The number of "dead letters" from foreign countries
that have accumulated in the post-offices in the United
States during the past three months is very large, em-
bracing 150,000 from England,7,soo from Canada, 5,374.
from Cologne, 2,617 from Bremen, 439 from Nova
Scotia, and 619 from New Brunswick. These letters
will be returned by the Asia. Every means were used
to have them delivered to the persons to whom they
were addressed, but without success, and this is probably
in a great measure owing to the fact that the majority
of emigrants, immediately on landing, make their way
ample
theirle
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CANTERBURY HALL.—This is the last week of the
Hungarian Band at this well-conducted place of enter-
tainment. After a highly successful engagement, con-
tinued for no less than six months, they put in their last
appearance on Saturday evening, and we earnestly
counsel those wh have
extraor-
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time yet remaining before they bid farewell to London.
The spirited proprietor (Mr. C. Morton) will not, how-
ever, permit his patrons to suffer by their de-
parture. not
He
has
a alreadyveas
made yet
heard
p
fcr their entertainment. His staff of vocalists
was never more complete. Those who were
starring in the provinces during the summer months
have returned to their old allegiance, and Sam
Cowell, Herr Jonghmans, Mackie, St. Clair Jones, and
other well known singers lend their potent aid in tick-
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pleasing the palate by his admirable cuisine and undeni-
able cellar. Mr. Morton has well merited the abundant
success he has attained. Sam Cowell has in, roduced a
new serio-comic song, respecting one "R.,uben Brown."
Although good in its way, it is by no means calcu-
lated to displace the " Rate t h 'Daughter," "Lord
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