The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, 'THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH__.I3, 1856.

despots overreach itself, and the short-sighted
policy of humanitarians ends in greater sufferings
than those it seeks to avert. If the whole brood
of perjured despots, upheld at present by each
other's standing armies, die quietly in their beds
for fifty years longer, it will be evidence of a
future state of retribution enough to convince the
most sceptical. There must be a place somewhere
for such incarnations of the attributes appropriate
to perdition. PROVIDENCE appears, however, to
deem it necessary to vindicate its present equally
with its future reign. Hence our hope that the
handiwork of Vienna and Paris negotiations may
be shattered before the eyes which witnessed its
construction.

The monthly Report of the National Sunday
League, adopted on Friday last, and given in
another column, is deserving of thoughtful con-
sideration by all who are interested in the libera-
tion of the working classes from the Judaical

ramnaels which, alike unwarranted by Revelation

and reason, deprivo them of the means of much
innocent enjoyment and intellectual cultivation

by closing the doors of a number of our national
institutions on the only.day on which they have
an opportunity to visit them.
The principal lessons to be learned from the
Report are the necessity of greater and more com-
bined effort on the part of the masses, and the
nature of the opposition with which they have to
contend, which is shown to be of the most un- i
scrupulous sort. Wherever public meetings have
been convened by the League, their success, it will
be seen, has been complete ; and wherever the
Sabbatarian party have been confronted at public
meetings on the subject on anything like fair
terms It has been subjected to defeat. Thus
at Bermondsey ; CALDWELL'S Assembly Rooms,
Dean-street, Soho; and at the Philpott-street
Institution, Commercial-road East, where the
League held important meetings, they carried all
before them. So at Newcastle, Leicester, New-
port, and other places in the provinces.
On the other hand, the Sabbatarians were de-

feated at their own meetings in Kentish-tewn,
Chelsea, Bermondsey, Islington, Farringdon-hall,
City, Hackney, and the Borough. While at
Dover, Huddersfield, and Durham, where the in-
telligent working classes spontaneously encountered
them, resolutions were carried by large majorities
in favour of the objects of the League. A con-
vincing proof of what success might be achieved
throughout the country, if ordinary pains were
taken to give expression to the wishes of the po-
pulation.

As a set-off against these facts, the Sabbatarian
party point to the small number of petitions in
favour of the opening of the British Museum and
National Gallery, ',and the comparatively few
signatures attached to them, contrasting these
with the multitudinous petitions and signatures
against it. The fallaciousness of their conclusions
on this 'head is, however, sufficiently obvious,
even at the first blush. He would indeed be bold
who would undertake to say that not more than
18,548 individuals are to be found throughout the
kingdom favourable to the objects of the League,
while the small number of meetings to promote
them palpably testifies to the want of organisation.
On the other hand, when the agencies put in ope-
ration,
and the means employed to get up meet-
ings and obtain signatures against the motion of
Sir JOSHUA W-ALMSLEY are taken. into account,
all surprise must cease at the success of the Sab•
ba.tarian party. It was not against a spontaneou4,
but au organised movement—not against fair ar-
gument, but misrepresentation—the League had
to contend. Clerical gentlemen in Loudon, who
carry about with them the consciences and the in-
telligence of the respective religious organisations
to which they belong—at leash in such matters—
took counsel together, and having concocted a
tissue of misrepresentations, despatched secret in-
structions to their tools throughout the country,
and straightway from every pulpit denuuciations
were fulminated against the sons of perdition
who dared to menace the sanctity of the Sabbath,
while from every platform where a public meeting
could be packed, arose the cry that the working
man's day of rest was in danger, and if he did not
bestir himself he would shortly have to work on
a Sunday as well as on the other days of the
week. This, however, was not all. Not content
with obtaining a. host of signatures by false pre-
tences and intimidation, the children-of the Sun-
day schools were invited to record their deliberate
opinions on the motion ; and, in some instances,
there is reason t;) apprehend, where the result was
unsatisfactory, the fabrication as well as duplica-
tion of signatures was resorted to. A triumph,
however signal, obtained by such means, can only
herald an ignominious defeat. Let but the ope-
rations of the League be extended, and the nature
of the objects they have in view be brought fairly be-
fore the people, and the tyranny of the Sabbatarian
party, we are persuaded) will speedily be overpast.
Already the interest excited by the poorness of
their case, the means adopted to promote it, and
the signal majority they obtained, is leading the
general public to inquire more deeply into the
subject, and to the result of that inquiry, if pro-
perly directed, the friends of the League have
every reason to look forward with the utmost
confidence. It requires no extraordinary fore-
sight to recognise in the signal triumph of Sab-
batarianism this session the elements of as signal
a defeat in a succeeding one. Evermore beaten
in argument the weight of numbers will not much
longer serve it.

TILE CONFIRMATION OF THE PRINCESS

ROYAL.

The confirmation of her Royal Highness the Princeqi
Royal will take place in her Majesty's Private Chapel,
in Windsor Castle, upon Thursday, tie 20th inGt.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, who is god-
father to her Royal Highness, the members of the Royal
family, and a select circle, have been invited to be pre-
gout at the ceremony, which will be performed by his
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had a
distinguished party to dinner last evening, at her resi-
dence at St. James's Palace.
TUE EARL AND COUNTESS OF DERBY'S DINNER.—Yet.
terday evening the Earl and Countess '44 Derby enter-
tained a select circle of friends at dinner at the family
mansion in St. James's-square.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma
Stanley will leave town on Saturday next for Knowsley
Hall, where they will remain until after the Easter
holidays.
The Countess of Galloway, who has been suffering
from indifferent health, is, we are happy to say, much
better, and hopes are entertained of her early restoration
to health.
The Governors of the Dreadnought Hospital ship have
appointed as their physician, Dr. Robt. Barnes, M.D.,
who is candidate also for the appointment of Health
°Meer of the Shoreditch District Board.
Small amounts of gold coin continue to be remitted
front Paris, and the rate of exchange is very firm. At
Hamburg there is a renewed pressure for money, and
the rate of discount has again advanced to 51 per cent.

THE MONEY MARKET.—The East India Company lent
300,000/. yesterday upon stock at 5 per cent., and the
demand for money in the Stock Exchange was conse-
quently much mitigated. At the Bank of Eng!awl,
likewise, although the applications were numerous, there
,vas an absence of any serious pressure. In the discount
market generally there was no particular alteration. This
day, in consequence of 2,000,0001. being duo on the new
loan, an extraordinary demand was anticipated.
TYPHUS AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—About 10,000 patients
are in the different hospitals around Constantinople, a
fifth of whom are suffering from typhus fever.
The Russian garrison in Kars does net consist of more
than two battalions, with six pieces of cannon it, the
citadel. All was tranquil there at the beginning of tLie
immth.

LATEST NEWS.

"VIENNA, WEDNESDAY EYBNING.
b has been definitively settled that Prussia

shall be admitted to the conferences.

BERLIN, MARCH 12.

Prussia has been invited, in the name of the

Congress, and for reasons of European interest, to

scud representatives to the Paris couferences, and
she will accept the invitation.
Prince Gortscbakoff goes to St. Petersburg, to

take part in the deliberations relative to the diplo-
matic attitude to be assumed by Russia after the

conclusion of peace.

M. de Titoff, the Russian ambassador at Stud•
gardt, has been summoned to St. Petersburg for

she same purpose.

The Military Tribunal has been charged with
the excunination into the duel of M. de Hinckeldy.
M. de Rochow, who had been arrested, has been
set at liberty on giving bail for his appearance if
required. •

MADRID, MARCH 11.

The Cortes yesterday adopted the first six
articles of the municipal bill. The discussion on
the budget of receipts will commence to-morrow.

The Gazette publishes the newly reformed tariff-3.

THE ARMISTICE IN THE CRIMEA.
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, FEB. 28.
This morning brought us news of the conclusion
of an armistice. The Russians had it first, by tele-
graph from St. Petersburg. At 8 a.m. a boat, bear-
ing a flag of truce, put off from the north side, and
was met half-way across the harbour by one from
the French. The Russians brought a communica-
tion of the armistice from Gen. Luders, and the
mail from Constantinople, which arrived early to-
day, brought its confirrlaation to the allies. To-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock there is to be a
meeting of the Russian and allied officers at Trak-
tir-bridge, to arrange the details of the truce. It
is believed that this will amount to very little more
than a cessation of fire, and that a line of demarca-
tion will be drawn midway between the advanced
posts, which will limit walks, rides, shooting par-
ties, &c. People here seem generally well pleased
that the suspension of arms is to be only until the
31st of March. Previously to that date little could
be done in the way of military operations. Mean-
while, and as if to celebrate the armistice, the so-
called White Buildings were blown up this after-
noon. It became known in the course of the morn-
ing that the exploision was fixed for half-past 3 ;
and that the brig in the Dockyard Creek was also
to be blown up, by way of experiment, and for the
particular gratification of Mr. Deane, " the infer-
nal diver." So, soon after 3 o'clock, spectators be-
gan to assemble at the Redan, in front of Picket-
houSe-hill, on Cathcart's-hill, and iu other
commanding positions. There was not a very
strong muster at any of these places, for
we are rather blase in the matter of explo-
sions ; and, although the day was bright and
sunny, the ground was very heavy with mud and
snow, and the cold too sharp to be pleasant.
There was a certain amount of snowballing among
the pedestrians, which, doubtless, contributed to
keep up a supply of caloric, and one or two base
attacks were made upon unfortunate equestrians
who, not having snow within their reach, or a
supply of ready-made snowballs in their pockets,
had no choice but to charge their assailants or re-
sort to ignominious flight. The majority of the
horsemen sat ruefully awaiting the blow up ; a
canter for warmth would have been desirable, but
the ground was most unfavourable—deep and
spread with a sheet of snow, concealing holes.
Half-an-hour passed ; feet were very cold, noses
very blue, fingers hardly felt the reins, grumbling
was heard :—" It is nearly 4 o'clock ; why the
deuce doesn't it go off ?" Patience is, I fear, not a
very common virtue in the Crimean army. An
impromptu "shave," suggested by the circum-
stances of the moment, was passed about.
" Pelissier is coming ; they wait for him." Now,
it so happened that Pelissier was not coming. The
armistice gives him something to do and think of,
and, moreover, he came a few days ago, it having
been notified to him that the White Buildings
were then to blow up, which they did not. So he no
longer put his faith in the unpunctual engineers of
perfidious Albion, but stayed away. Some French
and other foreign officers came ; some of them were
in the Redan, and others, who came from the
French head-quarters, were on the slope in front
of Picket-house-hill, just over the ravine, waiting
patiently and confidingly. Another half-hour
passed. A quarter-past four, and no explosion.
Strong language began to be used ; wishes were
uttered whose fulfilment would certainly not
be desired by the engineers, at whose door,
rightly or wrongly, the delay was laid. The
third half-hour had not quite elapsed when a
report spread that the explosion w: s put off. Ac-
cording to some accounts, it would occur in an
hour and a half ; according to others, to-morrow,
while a third party talked of next week; and there
was a general movement campwards. A few Ar-
tillery officers still stuck to the Redan ; Picket-
house-hill was quickly cleared, except of one or
two obstinate expectants' and Cathcart's was aban-
doned by many ; when, behold ! just at a quarter
to 5, when few of the weary who had departed
could have reached their quarters, and some could
have been but a hundred or two yards on the wrong
side of the hill-crests, out gushed a small puff of
white smoke from the White Buildings, then a big
puff of black smoke • there was a slight explosion,
a grumbling roar; ;tones were hurled into the air
and pitched high above the eastern wall into the
docks, and then, after a silence which seemed to
last nearly a minute, came a series of pops and
puffs as the mines went off in rapid succession, and
au immense volume of smoke arose, not in dense
sluggish masses slowly surging up, as at the explo-
sion of Fort Nicholas, but in a thinner cloud,
which rose so high that the summit of the murky
column was visible over Picket-house-hill to persons
some way down the Woronzoff-road, where it
passes through the Light Division camp. When
the smoke cleared off the damage did not appear
so great as was expected. The walls of the build.
ings still stood, except the north-east corner.
Doubtless the inside had suffered, and, indeed,
there were appearances indicating that much damage
had been done. Later, at about a quarter to 0,
when it was supposed that all was over, and every-
body had abandoned the points of observation,
another series of explosions was heard. Of these
I have not yet ascertained the result. After the
explosion of the buildings Fort Constantine sent a
solitary shell into the French side, so I suppose
the armistice is not considered to be perfect until
after to-morrow's conference.

FEBRUARY 29

There was a lively and novel scene at 10 o'clock
this morning at Traktir-bridge. At itsfurther end
the white flag was hoisted, and just beyond it were
halted some five-and-twenty Cossacks, who had
escorted thither the Russian General Timoieff and
his staff. The generals, who had met to arrange the
details of the armistice, occupied two tents, pitched
on a strip of green sward in the rear of the bridge.
At a few minutes past 10 General Barnard and
some staff officers rode down through the ravine
between the two hills on which the battle of the
Tchernaya was chiefly fought, and crossed to the
other side of the river. There were, perhaps, half-
a-dozen other English officers, about as many
French, and a much larger number of Sardinians.
All these went over the bridge, and a sort of frater-
nisation ensued between them and some Russian
officers—that is to say, there was a good deal of
civility, and some ill-treatment of the French and
German languages; but, as to carrying on much con-
versation with our Muscovite friends, it was not an
easy matter, for there seemed a mutual enabarrass-
meut as to what subject to pitch upon. Horses
were a natural theme, and the Russians expressed
much admiration of some of those present, and were
probably rather astonished at their good condition.
But the great object of curiosity to us was the fur-
capped Cossacks, around whom the allied officers
assembled, examining their arms and equipments
and entering into conversation, which, in most
cases, was carried on by signs. They were slen-
der, wiry men,—ugly enough, most of them—
mounted on small, rough, active horses, and
carrying, besides sword and carbine, flagless lances,
whose long black poles terminated in a small
but very sharp pointed steel head. They seemed
well pleased to cultivate the acquaintance of their
enemies, and also had evidently an eye to the
main chance. One of the first things I saw was a
Cossack corporal proposing a barter to a Sardinian
officer. The latter had a tolerably good riding-
whip, for which the astute child of the Don insisted
on swapping a shabby sort of instrument of torture,
of which his pony is doubtless rejoiced to be rid.
The Sardinian hesitated, the Cossack persisted, and

the exchange was effected, the officer looking, as I

thought, rather ruefully after his departed cravache,
and somewhat contemptuously at the shabby but

characteristic stick and thong he had received for
it. The signal thus given, the whip trade soon ac-
quired great activity. Probably some of the
officers present wore ready enough to give a tole-
rably good whip for a bad Cossack one, as a souvenir
of the day's proceedings and of the commencement
of the armistice: It had been expected that vi-
dettes would be placed, and that vary little freedom
of intercourse would be allowed beyond the bridge
of Traktir, and people at first thought themselves

fortunate in getting Over the bridge—and having a
good view of the Cossacks and a chat with some
stray Russian officer. Presently, however, as the
morning, which had previously been cold and raw,
advance, and the sun shone bright and warm, and
the dry, grassy, and shrub-grown plain of the
Tchernaya looked tempting for a canter, officers
began to get restless, and to more away from the
bridge across a small stream or ditch, and up a
strip of level ground leading to a sort of monu-
ment, a square pedestal of rough stones sur-
mounted by a d,varf pillar, of no particular order
of architecture, and concerning whose origin and
object the Russians, of whom inquiry was made,
could say nothing. Some more Sardinian and
French officers had by this time come down,

.•
but, besides those engaged in the conference and
attached to General Windham's Staff, Ido not

think there were a dozen English officers on the
ground. The general disposition of all seemed to
be to move outwards in the direction of the Rus-
sian lines. People did not know how far they
might go, and accordingly felt their way, cantering
across a bit of level ground, and up a hill, and then
pausing to look about them and reconnoitre the
country and sqe whether there was any sign of ob-
stacles to further progress. The soil was of a
lighter and more sandy nature than it generally is
found to be within our lines ; in some places it was
rather thickly sprinkled with bushes, saplings, and
tall weeds. Several brace of red-legged partridges
were sprung, some of them so near our horses' feet
that a hunting-whip would have reached them. As
the morning advanced the field grew larger. A
French General was there with his Staff and seve-
ral French Hussar officers. Numbers of Sardinians
came, but the English were detained in camp by a
muster parade, and many also had been misin-
formed that the meeting of the Generals was not
to take place until 12 or 1. By this time wo were
getting far on towards the Russian lines and bat-
teries, when the field began to spread out, some
taking to the right, and getting very near to a Cos-
sack vidette, who seemed rather puzzled to account
for the presence of so many strange horsemen with-
in musket shot of his post, and who, after once or
twice beginning to circle in signal of an enemy's
approach, received a reinforcement in the shape of
another Cossack, who rode down the hill as if to
warn the intruders off forbidden ground. An-
other party of gallopers went close up to the
battery known as No. 49, and held communion
' with some videttes, with whom they smoked an
amicable cigarette, until a Russian officer came up
and politely informed them in French that his
orders were to allow no one to come any further,
and that he hoped they would retire, which they of
course did. More to the left, a numerous body
of horsemen, followed by a straggling array of
Zouaves, Chasseurs, Bersagheri, and other in-
fantry soldiers, who had made their way to the
ground, rode up to the ridge just below the spur
of the hill to the south-east of Inkerman. Hero
they were very near the Russian pickets, and
within particularly convenient shot of various bat-
teries, had these thought proper to open, and there
most of them paused, for to go further really looked
like abusing the good-nature of the enemy, who
thus allowed us to profit by the conference to enjoy
a ride further into the Russian territory than any
one has been since this camp was formed, and to
take a near view of their positions and defences.
Only half- a- dozen adventurous and inqusitive spirits
pushed ahead, and seemed as if they intended
charging a Russian battery, and the videttes began
to move uneasily about in this direction also, when
up came a Sardinian Staff officer at full speed, his
blue plume streaming in the wind, and gave chase to
the forward gentlemen, shouting to them toreturn.
They, seeing themselves thus cut off in the rear,
and perhaps to avoid a rebuke, made a retrograde
flank movement, escaped their pursuer, and rejoined
the main body ; and, as orders were now given
that no one should go further, a return towards
the bridge became pretty general. The horses,
long accustomed to sink to the fetlock in horrid
Balaklavan and Sebastopolian mire, seemed to en-
joy the change to the firm, springy turf beyond
the Tehernaya ; more partridges were sprung, to
the immense tantalisation of some there present,
who would have given a month's pay for a day's
shooting over such ground ; some hares wore also
started, and one of them was vigorously pursued
by a subaltern of a sporting turn, whose baggage
pony, however, was soon left far in the rear by
puss's active bounds. On reaching the bridge a
halt was again called round the group of Cossacks,
and all eyes were fixed on the two neat blue and
white-striped tents, with awnings over their en-
trances. Some of the generals were standing out-
side, and it was evident the conference was draw-
ing to a close. A short delay ensued, which I per-
ceived that the Cossack corporal availed himself of
to exchange his Sardinian whip for a much better
French one, the receiver of the former doubtle,s
imagining he had secured a genuine Russian
article. 'Then cocked hats and feathers were seen
moving among the horses near the tents ; or-
derlies and escorts mounted ; the Cossacks did the
same, and presently English, French, Sardinian,
and ussian Generals and Staff rode over the bridge
and between a double line formed by the spectators.
General Timoieff, a soldierly-looking man of agree-
able physiognomy, rodefirst, and sunlinglyreturmd
the salutes with which he was received. General
Windham was close beside him, a little in rear.
There was an escort of French Chasseurs-a-Cheval
and a small one of the 11th Hussars, and the big
horses and tall well-fed men of the latter strikingly
contrasted with the puny, although hardy steeds,
and with the meagre frames of the Cossacks, who
seemed to regard them with some wonderment,
while the Hussars glanced at them as if they
thought that ono squadron of theirs would have an
easy bargain of half a dozen sotnias of such antago-
nists. The cortege proceeded a short distance into
the plain, and then the allied portion of it took
leave of " nos amis les ennemis,"and retraced
their steps to the bridge. They t astspassed over
it, and the crowd of spectators was following, sr hen
they were met by a throng of officers from the
English camp, coming down to see the fun, which,
unfortunately, was over. Nevertheless, they were
pressing forward across the bridge, and would
doubtless, had they been allowed, have ridden
up to the Bilboquet battery, or across to
Mackenzie's Farm, for it is an axiom out
here that nothing will stop an English infantry
officer, mounted on his favourite baggager ; but a
French staff captain, seeing what was likely to ensue
ordered the sentries to allow no one to cross the
bridge. As we rode up the ravine between the two
mamelons which witnessed such sharp fighting on
the 17th of August last we met scores more of
English officers coming down, only to be turned
back. There were still a great number of the allied
officers and soldiers scattered over the valley, but
doubtless they will all have returned to our lines
without annoyance, judging from the indulgence
and courtesy shown throughout the morning by
theßussians to ramblers somewhat beyond bounds.
The General officers who met to-day were—Gene
ral Timoieff,•Chief of the Staff of the 4th Corps of
the Russian army, which is in front, and furnishes
the advanced posts ; Generals de Martimprey and
Windham and Co'onel Count Petitti, Chiefs of the
Staffs of the French, English, and Sardinian armies.
The three latter were deputed by their Generals-in-
Chief to present the proposals of armistice which
these had discussed and decided upon. Their mis-
sion extended no further, and General Timoieff,
not being authorised to accept those proposals,
without referring them to his General-in-Chief,
merely took a copy of them, which he will trans-
mit to General Luders, who is said to be now close
at hand. It is probable, therefore, that there will
be another interview for the definitive arrange-
ment of the terms.
Altogether there were a good number of Russian
officers at and near Traktir-bridge to-day. Some
of them were strolling' by twos and threes in the
fields at a short distance beyond, and when these
were descried there was usually a regular charge
down upon them by the allied officers, eager to
make their acquaintance. Their manner was
generally grave and rather reserved, but they car,
versed readily, and all had the tone and appear-
ance of well-bred men. Some of them were very
young. There was one youth of 18, who named
to us the regiment of Hussars in which he was an
officer, and seemed knowing about horses, pointing
out the English ones from among the French;
Italians, and Arabs that stood around. All—ca-
valry as well as infantry, and the General and his
Staff—wore the long uniform great-coat of a sort
of brown and grey mixture, and seemed to have
no other insignia of rank than the different colours
and lice of the shoulder strap. There was also a
difference of fineness in the cloth of their coats
from that of the soldiers, but this at a very short
distance was not apparent. The Staff wore white
kid gloves, and I noticed some of them with smart
patent leather boots—elegances rarely seen in our
part of the Crimea.
To return to yesterday's explosions :—The White
Buildings blown up were formerly barracks, and
form the north and west sides of a square, whose
third side is merely a wall. Within this square (to
which the fourth side is wanting) were buildings of

minor importance—among them one surmounted
by a clock-tower. The intention was, as I under-
stand, to bloW up the buildings, but to leave the
outer walls standing, so as to mask the operations
of any workmen or fatigue parties that might
afterwards be employed inside. The buildings
being very extensive, a large number of mines were
prepared, but it appears that the snow-water fil-
tered in and damped some of the charges. I have
not heard the cause of the delay in the first explo-
sion, but the interval between the two arose from
accidents having happened to the fuses. Parts of
.the inner wall of the building still remain. Some
of the buildings in the centre of the square have
been overthrown ; among others, the clock-tower,
which yesterday morning was a conspicuous object,
was levelled with the dust by one of the second
series of explosions. As far as the explosions took
place, I believe their result to have been satisfac-
tory ; but there is by no means that clean sweep
and total downfall of the whole of the buildings
which was anticipated, and which we now learn
was, for the reason above assigned, never intended.
Mr. Deane's experitnent with the brig failed ; the
reason why has yet to be ascertained. It is said that
Mr. Deane attributes his occasional failures to the
state of the wires, which have been patched and
joined, and are no kngel to be implicitly relied
upon. Re appears to be indefatigable in his en-
deavours to overcome difficulties and perfect his
apparatus.
During the first four weeks that money-orders
have been issued in the Crimea more than '7,0001.
has been transmitted to England. But for the
facility afforded by the Post-office there can be no
doubt that by far the larger part of this consider-
able sum would have been squandered here in,
vicious indulgence, instead of contributing to the
,comfort of many a humble home. Credit is certainly
due to the Post-office officials in the East and in
England,.by whom, as I understand, the innova-
tion was first proposed, with the certainty of its
occasioning them much additional labour and re-
sponsibility. One can but regret that the plan was
not adopted at the commencement of the war, for
it assuredly would have greatly diminished drunk-
enness, and have had a beneficial effect upon the
army. It. is to be observed that hitherto the de-
mand for orders has progressively increased, and as
yet show no symptoms of slackening. '7,0001. in
four weeks is at the rate of about 90,0001. a-year ;
and, as the money. received is paid to the Commis-
sariat, it would have been so much less to remit
from England for' the wants of the army, and the
greater part of it would have been rescued from
the sutlers and Greek venders of abominable spirits,
who, up to a month ago, have benefitted by the
soldiers' superfluous cash.