The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-08 00:00:00

THE ll NI LONDON, TUESDAY 1V NINE, SEP t EMBER 8 iHN7

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.

THE SIEGE OF DEMI.

The following is a copy of a letter re2eived from
a young soldier, sergeant in the GOth Royal, Rifles.
" Camp Guznee do Nuggur, June 3.

"My dear Father,—We left Meerut on the 17th
ult. Our force was 400 rank and file, 24 sergeants,
12 buglers, and 20 officers of our battalion, 200
troopers of the 6th Dragoon Guards, one battery
and half a troop of Artillery—of all ranks under
1,000 ; arrived here on the morning of the 30th.
At about 4 the same day the insurgents took up a
most capital position, about a mile from our camp,
and commenced -operations with some very heavy
guns. My company, D,'.was ordered in advance,-
got under a wall, and returned the fire in first rate
order. I fired the first shot on our side. We re-
mained under cover and unsupported for about
half an hour, when the remainder of Our boys came
up at the double, and our captain was ordered to
charge
.the guns. Off we galloped. They sent
several rounds of grape and cannister into us, but
we dodged them. As soon as we saw the explo-
sion down we went flat on our faces, and up, off,
and down again before we could say 'Jack Robin-
son.' We got up to the guns, drove the niggers
to the devil, and thought we were all right, when
off went their ammunition. They had put a slow
match to lit. Our captain (J. Andrews) and four
men were killed by the explosion, and several
wounded. We captured the 24-pounder siege gun
and five others. The field batteries they took away.
Thsy next took up their position in front of a large
walled village, and fought like devils. We drove
them into the village, and set fire to it. We were
obliged afterwards to go through the fire and drive
them out. At last we broke them. A small band,
about 30, got together at the back of the village,
and stood their ground till the whole were
killed. They actually crossed bayonets with
ours, and mat their death like Trojans. We
returned to camp about nine p.m. At two
o'clock the next day they came out again, and
fought the same battle over again. We drove them
from their position, and that was all. They numbered
about 6,000, with a great many guns. Their cavalry
charged our guns over and over again. Both men
and officers who have fought side by side with them
say they could not have imagined that any of the
native troops could have fought so well. I had
several very narrow escapes, but one particularly
so. In the village I went into a but ; one of the
gents was behind the door ; as soon as I showed
my nose he made a chop. I twigged him in time,
took a seep to rear, fired through the door, and
cooked his goose. The officer commanding the com-
pany, Lieut. Napier, the second day was shot in the
leg, which has since been amputated. We expect
to join the forces of the officiating Commander-in-
Chief to-day or to-morrow. As soon as that takes
place we're off for Delhi • no quarter to be given,
as they give U 3 none. Vire were obliged to shoot
their wounded. They fought more desperately when
hurt than when whole. We picked up several of
our old rifles, which were lodged in the Delhi ma-
gazine. Delhi Fort now mounts upwards of 150
heavy guns and field pieces innumerable, ammuni-
tion, shot, and shell in abundance, so that we may
expect rather warm work. The Commander-in-
Chief Anson died of cholera at Kurnaul about 10
days ago. General Barnard is officiating. We have
been reinforced this morning by 100 rank and file
of ours from Meerut, and the Ghoorka Regiment.
(natives) from the hills, 600 men. On account of
the difficulty in procuring carriage we could only
bring one change of clothing, and no white outer
clothing. We are wearing the same as we did on
Christmas-day, and what we have is as ragged as it
can be ; bolting through brambles and briars does
not much improve one's outward appearance. Our
greatest difficulty is in procuring water, and what
we do get is very bad. The river is so very muddy
that we cannot possibly use it. In case of accidents
I have written a letter, which you will only receive
in the event of my getting a gooser.' My initials
are on the outside of the envelope.
" I have written this squatting on the ground ;
.we don't deal in tables, and I must leave off for a
sleep, as we expect a row this evening. T enclose
a copy of our battalion order after the actions, also
a rough plan of the battle field.
" Camp before Delhi, June 14.
"No soldiers' letters have been sent from camp
since I commenced this. We left Guznea de Nug-
gur at 5 p.m. 'on the 3d en route to join the head-
quarters camp, and marched 21 hours without
halting more than 10 minutes at a time, through
mountains and jungle ; joined head-quarters on the
morning of the 6th, having made a circuit of 60
miles andupwards, nearly the whole road too steep
and rugged for a billy-goat, the whole force consist-
ing of the 9tn Lancers, two squadrons of 6th Dra-
goon Guards, two troops and a half and one battery
of Artillery, 21 siege guns and mortars, 60th Rifids,
75th Foot, Ist Bengal Europeans, four companies
2d Bengal Europeans, the ChoorlEco3, 100 Sapputs
and 50 Irregular Horse. Commenced the march to
Delhi at 2 a.m., distance 10 miles. At 4 p.m. we
came upon a line of batteries of the enemy, which
were served with the greatest precision. After
three hours very hard fighting we drove them from
their position witu great loss. We ourselves lost
considerably. The secondishell fired by the enemy
killed the Adjutant-General, Col. Chester. The
75th lost about 70 men. Our regiment has been
very fortunate, for since we joined head-quarters
the loss has been about six or eight killed and 20
to 25 wounded. alibi lies in a hollow, surrounded
on three sides by very high and steep walls ; on the
fourth side is the river Jumna. After we got the
gentlemen out of their first line they retired, dis-
puting every inch of ground for eight miles ; at
the sixth we halted, had a drain of rum and a bis-
cuit served out to us, rested for half an hour, and
then followed them up • in the meantime they had
lined the tops of the bills. The Rifles were ordered
to advance in skirrni,hing order, which we did in
fine style, and by an able flank movement, which
does our commanders who planned it the greatest
credit, we took pos,ession of the whole range, cap-
tured the gun', awl drove the enemy into the city.
It was fine sport for our fellows. We kept
behind the reeks as we advanced, and all the
Huggers coul I 5,,) was the flash of our pieces.
Our first point is to look out for cover—up a
tree, behind a tree or rock, in a hole, or, in
fact, any wh re where we can see without b jug
seen. Wo t ,ok and shot t .vo Europeans
this day ; one of them confessed that there were
10 more in the service of the King of Delhi. Cap-
tured 17 guns this day, with a very large store of
ammunition, shot, &c. They came out in great
force at. 7 p.m. the s 11113 day and tried very bard to
dislodge us, but it was no go.' They have been
ou sec times since, driven back with great 10,,s
each firm.. They are getting reinforcements every
day ; the 60th Native Infantry and 4th Native Re-
gular Lancers j-dnecl them from the waterside the
day before yesterday, at 2 p.m., and gave us as
tight a fit as we have hid yet. If it had not beau
for a stratagem t think they would have taken our
heavy guns and ammunition. Our colonel ordered
us to hide just as it was getting dusk, and then he
souuded the retire the niggers,' who, of
course, know our bugle sounds as well as we do,
thinking that we ha 1 actually gone back, came up
at the double in thousands, all of a mob. When
about 20 yards distance it was boys and at
them.' They were greatly astonished, and cut
their sticks as fast as they could. I have had a
slight bayonet wound in the right side, and a ball
through the sleeve of my jacket. The old soldiers
who were at Moo!t an, Goojerat, and other battles
in India, say that this far surpasses anything they
have ever witnessed
" Our siege guns have been at work since the 9th
but as yet they have not displaced a brick. Our
re is anything but good, while the shots of the
nemy are flying about our batteries like hail.
" 10 a. ne —A messenger Iris been k ent from the
Delhi artillerymen that if pardoned they will sur-
render. Of courses a favourable answer has been
sent them.

r into my_ head. WO have had a few deaths from
cholera the last-day or two. One thousand men are
expected in hourly. As soon as they arr ye we
assault. We tried it once, but it was no go, infor-
mation having been given to the Rajah.
"Our rations, with the exception of rum and
bread, are very bad—indeed, scarcely eaLble. We
get a gallon of rum to every 13 men, and some-
times a gallon to 10) with a pound of bread each
man daily. We should be a long time starving on
that. The rations cost, including the rum, five
annas—about 7d. per diem.
" Information has just been received that the
bridge of boats has been burned, so that we are
now entirely cut off.

" I am here hard up for paper, -and caul buy
any.

"F. K."

The following letters have been addressed to the
editor of the Times :

Sir,—Now that the services of the militia are
again required, and likely to be so for some time,
permit me, while indorsing the letters of " A Mili-
tia Captain" which hive lately appeared in your
columns; to add a few remarks of my own, as I be-
lieve I am privileged to do, having held a commis-
sion in the militia since its enrolment in 1852. In
-the first place, it does not appear to be known to
(or, at any rate, apprecia'ed by) Government that
the success of a militia regiment depends chiefly on
the adjutant and captains, on the latter of whom
the responsibility of the companies in every way
falls, as well as-the chef expenses ; yet at the dis-
embodiment the captains were entirely overlooked,
—why lamat a to understand, unless Govern-
ment thought we were so rich we could afford to
throw our money away. If so, I beg to undeceive
it.

And now I would suggest in what manner the
new battalions of the Line may be at once formed,
and of trained soldiers, ready for immediate duty,
instead of raw recuits, whose services, if they can
be procured, will not be available for at least six or
eight months, and that is, by allowing militia cap-
tains who may be in all respects eligible to volun-
teer with their companies. This would be a great
encouragement to the militia; and something is
surely required after our recent treatment as com-
pared with the foreign legions ; nor would any
injury be inflicted on officers of the Line. The
only obstacle I can see is, I confess, a formid-
able one,—viz., the dreadful shozli such a course
would give to venerable " Red Tapists" and their
ancient customs. The gift of an ensigncy in the
Line for every 75 men is no inducement for captains
of militia, and they alone have sufficient influence
in their-regiments to take over their men by com-
panies. I may instance that although the men
of my Company were offered a handsome present
each in addition to the bounty, and also en-
couraged by me to go into the Line with young
officers who wished them, ouly two or three volun-
teered who had not previously done so. Yet to a
man they were willing and anxious to accompany
their captain, to whom they had very properly be-
come attached.

In conclusion, I would not recommend any gen-
tleman to accept a captaincy of Militia unless he
has money to spare and does not mind spending it
for his country's good ; nor, above all, would I
advise young men intended for, or following other
professions, to attempt soldiering, as it totally un-
fits them for returning to their necessary avoca-
tions, and gives them expensive habits and tastes
they cannot probably afterwards keep up.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Sept. 5. ANOTHER MILITIA- CAPTAIN.

Sir,---Fifteen regiments of Militia are to be em-
bodied immediately for the purpose of supplying
the vacancies caused by regiments of the Line pro-
ceeding to India. The selection made by the au-
thorities of the regiments they propose calling out
could not be better, as when these regiments were
disembodied they were equal in discipline to any
regiment of the Line, and will therefore garrison
the different towns most admirably; but in addi-
tion to this, sir, will they be able to-supply the
army in India with recruits sufficiently fast ? In
this duty I am afraid they will fail, and lam
therefore desirous to know why some of the Mid-
dlesex regiments are not called out ; they did good
service during the last war ; for instance, the regi-
ment in ,which I have the honour of doing duty
with, gave as many as 700 men to the Line, and
will be able to do the same again if called out.
The county regiments, well disciplined as they are,
cannot furnish men so quickly as the metropolitan
regiments are able to do, and this is especially the
time to call them out, in consequence of orders
having been received to pay the training bounty
for the present year, which will be the very means
of bringinc, all the men together. Pay the bounty
first, embody the regiments afterwards, and then,
sir, I admit very few men will join ; but there is a
balance of some 10s. due to them, and until that
is paid they will not quit their regiments. Draw
them out, then, first, and, when out pay them.
There is still one more question I am desirous of
urging on your attention, which is, if these regi-
ments are not embodied, why should not the per-
manent staff be allowed to recruit for the Line.
A. circular was issued, some shoat time ago, direct-
ing adjutants to state whether the staff under their
command were willing to perform this duty, and
although a reply in the affirmative was forwarded
to the authorities, still, up to the present moment,
no orders have been received to commence this
duty. The harvest is in, the men will soon be
requiring work ; should not, therefore, the Govern-
ment se.ze the opportunity of tryin; to induce
these men to enlist at once ? This is the very time
to get recruits if proper means are used. Should
you, therefore, sir, consider these remarks worth
noticing, I shall feel obliged to you by your giving
publicity to them.
I have the honour to be, sir,
your obedient servant,
Sept. 5. B.

Sir,—When shall we cease to do thing 3 by
driblets ?

Man by man is our army stepping on board
transports for the East, and what are we doing to
the fearful gap, which pestilence, the sword,
and the expiration- of the term of service will
shortly cause in the ranks of our army serving in
that quarter of the globe ?
My op:nion may not be wet th much, but the
experience derived ft orn a few years' residence in
India prompts me to say that I think we are not
yet within s'glit of the "beginning of the end" of
our ro-c tiled Sepoy difficulty ; and what, I will
repeat, aro we doing to meet it ?
We are enlisting sone 1,500 or 2,0)0 men per
month ; but the 15 ne4r b Attalions and the aug-
mentation of the establishment of other regimen's
will absorb all recruits for many months to come.
Why is not the whole of the Militia, or every
regiment of eight companies and upwards, at once
embodied. Should India demand further rein-
forcernents, let the army standard be reduced to
5. feet 4 inches, volunteering from the Militia be
invited, and Government will soon have at its dis-
posal something like.20;000 efficient men. A couple
of months will suffice for these men who were em-
bodied during the late war to pick up their drill,
while an equal number will be in an advanced state,
and willing to volunteer as soon as they have
warmed to their work. I know full well that a
very large proportion of men join the Militia to
"isee" as they say, "how they like soldiering."
They will not at once plunge into the Line.
There could not be a more, favourable oppor-
tunity for calling out the Militia. The men have
every inducement to come forward. There is the
annual bounty of one guinea due to them, as well
as a laJlan.ce varying in amount from 4s. to 12s. on
the gratuity allowed by Government last year sub-
sequent to the men being sent to their homes.
Should Bengal be shortly tranquillised the Militia
can be disembodied, as in 1856, at a few days' •
notice, and not be called out for their annual train-
ing next year.

I
will pledge myself, as commandant of a Militia
regimeht, to encourage to the tithost my men to
volunteer should their extended services be re-
quired, and every rightminded commanding officer
will do the same.

June 17.
"All (pi tt'l .e i I this day. At 5 p.m." the whole of
the force, pieliet
by different rouit:nd guards excepted, proceede 1
dislodge a battery 3 iOn two columns to attack and
ur companies arrived first at
the place, knockeddown the front crate (Tate and ,--
. rushed in in front of a vety Lea ,:, a ,'. REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA.
walls, and then forced two othervy fire from behind Sir —I dare say several of your readers.will be
about 10 of ours Were ordered ibnartrhicaded gates ; glad io hear that the Golden Fleece, Captain-Hall,
6,110,e rest being with the 34th Regiment, and two companies of the
posted outside the inner walls to
the
aitlall who at- 42d on board, has got thus far on its long voyage in
tempted to ecare. We drove them
ethers
a cor- safety. -
nor, and shot 41, all that remained,..
We arrived here at eleven o'clock last night,
ing e,caped by a gate which we had not g,:ae,rsdehd.7"
after a fine run of 10 days six hours from Spithead,
"On the 19th the enemy were reinforced with which considering the distance is about 2,350 miles,
one regiment of infantry and one troop of artillery.
forming,
ces to show
.what the ship is capable of per-
Dutimg the day the whole force made a wide cir-
cuit and got within a mile of the rear of our camp (Tintget
15th inst., wo pawed the' Octavia with
before they were discovered. The artillery and treollps-" hoard (the number of the regiment we
cavalry went out to check them ; three companies could noton
2d Dragoonacertai")' and also the Monarch, with
hr,,e,lGuards. On the 17th we a!so
of out battalion were the first infantry force on the the 2d a
board, but did''
field. After a very hard fight, which lasted till 10
not communicate.
with apparently: troops on
p.m., we were obliged to retire for the nigh., owing
to the darkness, the 75th and ono of our guns fired We found here on arrival
three rounde into our company. Wo had ono with the head-quartersrrival the John 801 l ,
officer killed,and about men
two wounded, 30 board, which left Kin of
gstovvn
the 38th Reei.
~ went on
killed and wounded. Some o f the wounded could 6th inst., and reached th' on the morning of the
not be feted ; they were picked the morn- noon,' and having
next coal_
,te port yesterda,y after-
, ieexes
ing most horribly mutilated. uP
United Kingdom
steamer, which left to-day. The
Two of them (one awith
married man with a large • •another detachment Kingstown on
family were skinned, the sth
of the 38th Itegi-
We went out the next morning ),20th),they' t board, has also (1
but men on p.m.) just arrived I
retired after a heavy artillery acti(addthatall
On. have only to
"The weather is very hot. I had 72 hours out- weather ever since leaving England basbeenour
posh duty on a plain, without the slightestshelter. delightful,andthat
. nothing can exceed the coni
1 felt duping the day as if .L had a hotiron going fort and accommodation enjoyed by, all ranks on
0

Sept. 5.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
C. B.

board. After completing our stock of coal we Lope
to leave tomorrow for Point de Galle.
t am, Sir, your Obedient servant;
R. D. KELLY, Lieutenant-Colonel Commaqding
Troops, 34th Regiment!
Steamer Golden Fleece, Aug. 19.
St. Vincent, Cape Verde,

Sir,—AF; it May be of interest to the public
generally, I have the pleasure to inroad you that
I have this morning received advices from this
company's vessels Australian and Sydney, stating
that the former, with 290 men and 16 officers of
Her Majesty's 42d Regiment Royal Highlanders,
under the command of Lientenant -Colonel
Cameron, had reached St. Vincent's, Cape
Verde, on the 25th ult., in nine days an 1 22
hours, from Spithead ; also the Sydney, with2BB
men and 12 officers of the Royal Artillery, under
the command of Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, in nine
days five hours, from Spithead—all very comfortable
and well.

The vessels would proceed as soon as coaled—
say in 30 hours after, arrival.

suffrage so high that Fcarcely any but the company's
dependents participate in the elections of the legis-
lAture: He asoigned all tIA3 patronage to the com-
pany ; and t':e ju lge it haS .plioiuted is ono. of it-i
clerk., who was originally a draper's apprcii'ice.
No daul:t tho vicinity of Californra•has in some
tespeets retarded the settlement of Vancouver's
Island. But had the treaty of Washington estab-
lished that reciprocity of trade on the side of the Pa-
cific which it did on the Atlantic and the ,Canadian
frontier, a large and Valuable market for the bread-
stuffs and coal of Vancouver's Island would have
been found in California. As it is, Lord Grey's
experiment has wholly and entirely failed ; and, to
regain possession of the island, this country will
have to pay a large sum of money to the Hudson's
Bay Bompany for its expenditure on a district
which Mr. Ellice wisely objected to their ever
meddling with.
Such are the territories of the Hudson's Bay
Company. How that company has mhnaged them
is next to be ascertained.

A REFRACTORY AMBASSADOR.

- I am, sir, your obedient servant, ' -
MATTHEW R. SCOTT, Sboretary.
Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co.'
167, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, Sept. 7.

(From the Times.)

What are we to do with a refractory Ambas-
sador ? France and England are now perfectly
agreed on the Danubian Principalities question ;
the countries are agreed, the Sovereigns are agreed,
the Prime Ministers are agreed, and everybody is
satisfied, but Lord Stratford de Redcliffe will not
consent. If this is not a strong case of ego et Rex
mews, it is at any rate ultra-patriotism. Our
Ambassador differs in opinion from his country,
and of course it is bettor for the country that it
should give way. He will not let us expose our-
selves, or discredit ourselves • he loves his country
too much to let it judge for Aself. No, he knows
much better than we do how to manage things in
the East, and we shall, whether we will or not,
have the benefit of his great experience. He is
aware that he is throwing pearls before swine, that
we shall not thank him for it, and that we simply
want him to obey orders, but he will not let us
command him to our own injury.
Now, everybody knows that Lord Stratford is
a kind of Sultan at Constantinople, that trembling
Pashas lick the dust at his feet, and feel their pro-
motion secured or their fate sealed according as be
smiles or frowns. He has now lived in the East
some fifty years, he has devoted himself to a
thorough acquaintance with all the intricacies and
disguises, the frauds, the chicanery, and whole
subterranean machinery of the Ottoman Court.
He has stuck to his work ; be has carried his bead
high, as well from natural temper as from policy.
No one has known better the maxim that an
Asiatic will respect you in proportion as you re-
spect yourself, or has used it to more advantage.
He has carried this policy a.little too far at times
ineeed even for Asiatics, and has treated the
Sultan himself with a dignity which the latter
mistook for insolence ; but, whatever mistakes he
may have made, he has had about as much of
his own way as any Ambassador ever had, and it
is a reward which industry and perseverance have
earned. Lord Stratford has talents which would
have justified an entrance upon the home arena,
and the aim at a less local name and influence than
he has acquired ; he was, indeed, talked of for Fo-
reiga Minister under Lord Derby's Government,
and public report for a short time hinted at a recall
from Constantinople for this higher post. How he
would have borne the unceremonious conflicts of
oar home field of politics is indeed a question ; his
dignity would have been sorely put to the test, and
he would have found a great difference between one
of our Parliamentary debates and a tete-a-tete with
a Pasha. He would have been knocked about a
good deal, for we are rather an irreverent race ;
we do not allow ourselves -to be put down by a
look, we are not annihilated by majestic disdain,
and the airs of greatness are a good deal thrown
away upon us. We measure a man, as pugilists do,
by his strength, rather than by his air or grandeur
of carriage, and this many a great man very soon
finds out to his cost, when, notwithstanding his im-
posing manners and his stately carriage, his inef-
fable bows and his Olympian smiles, his Serene
Highness finds himself rolling in the dust from an
encounter with some quick-witted antagonist who
has simply asked him a few plain questions and re-
quested an immediate answer. It is to Lord Strat-
ford's credit, however, that he has not made his
Turkish mission a mere stepping-stone to home
power or office, but has made it the work of his life,
though it is to be feared that so long an Eastern re-
sidence has not been without its injurious effects
upon him. As the representative of a great Power
he has been surrounded by flatterers, and those
flatterers who do not spare the seasoning. It is
said that a man is first disgusted with flattery,
then tolerates it, and then relishes it, such frail
creatures are-we and so little do we know our
weaknesses. One might think Asiatic flattery was
too strong to be hurtful, but it tells in time ; th -
dram which almost burnt our throat at first be-
comes mild by repetition, and is soon necessary to
soo tba.o ur humours and make us feel contented with
ourselves. Fifty years of Asiatic flattery are no
joke ; a man gets to think by that time that there
must be some truth in what people tell, him about
himself. In ancient times the issue of this long
process of adulation would have been mythological ;
Lord Stratford would have had a celestial pedi-
gree presented to him, or been assigned a place in
the Zodiac, or been made a sea god, in compliment
to his insular extraction. But, as we do not live in
mythological days, and as Mahomedan flattery is
not idolatrous, our Ambassador has been content
to be thought the greatest earthly potentate next
to the Sultan. This is, as we say, trying to a man,
and Lord Stratford is probably now the most im-
perious subject that Her Majesty has. His sphere
of power is indeed a local one, and his subjects are
not the most respectable in the world ; but he
makes up for the quality of the subject material
by the remorseless sternness with which he con-
trols it. He rules his Court with a rod of iron ;
he is a King among the Pashas, a Triton among
the minnows. Some tempers are so constituted
that they prefer being despotic in their own sphere,
however small it may be, to harving to meet the
claims of equals in a much larger one, and Lord
Stratford would doubtless rather be first iu Con-
stantinople than second in England.
Well, this is Lord Stratford, and we should be
prepared for a little awk ardness in such a potentate
on things not going exactly Lis own way in the
East. He is also an old servant, and should be
humoured to a certain extent. But there is a limit
to goad humour. When two Sovereigns have met,
and their Ministers have met, and the issue of this
conference is that the elections in the Danubian
Principalities must be repeated, the English Am-
bassador at the Porte really ought to snpport this
resolution, or else withdraw. Lord Stratford, we
believe, does actually disobey orders; as Am-
bassador he must communicate the message from
our Government to the Porte, and he does
so. But he simply communicates it, and does
not support it. He allows it to be seen that
he is opposed himself to his own instructions, of
which he will only consent to be the official and
formal channel. This is intolerable in an Ambas-
sador, and, though Government might find Lord
Stratford an awkward and impracticable man in
the House of Lords, such an inconvenience attend-
ing his recall ought to be submitted to rather than
such such an anomaly as that of an Ambassador
opposing his own instructions. What our corres-
pondent has said is probably true, that, the diplo-
matic ground at Constantinople wants clearing.
' it is useless to give orders and instructions ; they
will not change old animosities and bad traditions."
The French and English Embassies will quarrel so
long as the present men stay, and when an Ambas-
sador dislikes his instructions he can: always im-
pede them by stirring up minor questions. There
is nothing now really to impede the settlement of
affairs in the East but the animosities of Ambas-
sadors, and the sooner, therefore, both English and
French are recalled andi their functions committed
to a couple of Charges d'Affaires who will simply
do what the Governments at home tell them to do,
the better. Lord Stratford will make a second re-
jected and ill-used great man in the house, nor can
we promise Government that they will soon hear
the last of it. But it is better that the Upper
House should listen to another great man's wrongs,
and Government feel his retaliations, than that this
country should be thwarted by its own Ambassador
on such an important subject as that of the settle-
ment of the Eastern difficulty.

SEAMEN'S WAGES.—A peculiar case came on fur
hearing before the Southampton borough magistrates on
Friday, being a claim for 301.65. 10d. for wages claimed
by the quartermaster of the steam-ship Oneida, of the
European. and Australian Company. It appears that the
plaintiff, in conjunction with the remainder of the crew,
signed articles to serve in the Oneida for 3 years. The
vessels left this port for Sydney with ber Majesty's
mails, where she arrived on the 31st of December, 1856
and from that time to January 31, from 12 to 15
men were daily absent from the ship, and about
30 deserted. With the view of remedying this evil,
Capt. Hyde (commander of the Oneida) promised the
men more wages—an increase of nearly one-half, and
double to the fire department. The promise was formally
endorsed on the articles before the magistrates, and duly
signed by the captain. •On tho arrival of the ship at
Southampton the company refused to pay the men the
advanced wages. After the evidence had been given the
bench decided that the claim could not be enforced, on
the ground that the increased wages were offered to
keep the men from leaving the ship, and that their lives
were not endangered by staying in her ; but they re-
commended the company to giye a substantial banns to a
every man who had not wade au attempt to desert:,

Naval and rrliiitny Intelligence.

The Jura steam-transpo t arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from Gibral'ar, in 98 hour.; only, with
tie following troops :-1 field officer,'2 captains, 4
subalterns, 1 staff, 11 sergeants, 5 drummers, 229
rank and file, 1 officer's wife and child, 17 soldiers'
wives and 32 children, of the 55th Foot;•2 field offi-
cers, 5 captains, 18 subalterns, 5 staff, 46 sergeant.,
20 drummers, 677 rank and file, 2 officers' wives, 1
child, 50 soldiers' wive;, and 57 children of the
30th Regiment. The Jura went alongside Ports-
mouth Dockyard, but at the despatch of this report
last night (7 p.m.) there were no orders for their
disembarcation. ; on the contrary, an order to de-
tain them on board pending the determination of
the War-office.
The Sylph steam-vessel went into Portsmouth
yesterday from the Thames, to embark reliefs of
Royal Artillery for the Channel Islands, whence
she returns with three companies, who are ordered
to embark for India.
The detachment of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
which has been stationed at the Leeds Barracks for
some month 3 past, left Leeds yesterday morning for
Sheffield, where they will join the head-quarters,
on the way for embarcation for India.
On Friday a troop of the 16th Lancers arrived in
Belfast on the way from Kilkenny to Edinburgh.
They left for Glasgow by the Lynx steamer, which
had seen specially chartered to convey them across
the Channel. The remainder of the regiment will
follow in the course of this week. The Bth (Royal
Irish) Hussars are under orders of readiness to em-
bark for The troop under the command of
Captain Seagar, a Crimean officer, were inspected
on Thursday by Dr. Lockwood, the regimental sur-
geon, with a view to the selection of the men fitted
for service in the East.
The Scotia, iron screw transport, with the head-
quarters of the 72d Highlanders on board, and
which ship attempted to sail from Portsmouth on
Saturday, has been obliged to be detained, owing
to a stiffness in her screw propeller. She is still
alongside the Bellerophon, receivingjhulk, to which
she was obliged to moor.
The Gloriana, transport, Captain Toynbee,
F.R.A.S., received a portion of the 66th Foot on
board yesterday morning, alongside the dockyard
jetty at Portsmouth, and will sail to-day for India.
This vessel has established an extraordinary reputa-
tion, inasmuch as on her last return from Table
Bay she left one day before her Majesty's ship Vul-
can, whose arrival in England she anticipated by
not less than 23 days. Her accommodation is of
first-class character, and her decks are amply ven-
tilated.

In consequence -of the small number of Royal
Artillery now at Sheerness, about 120 marines are
expected to arrive there from Portsmouth to do
dockyard duty. Captain John Desborough's com-
pany of Royal Artillery are daily expecting orders
to embark for India.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL'S -MONDAY.

Yesterday morning, drafts of the 43d Light In-
fantry, 60th Rifles, and 3d battalion 74th High-
lander; left Chatham for Portsmouth to embark in
the freight ship Gloriana, for conveyance to Madras
and Cannanore.

The Britannia, 120, recently converted into an
hospital ship afloat, is to be re-converted into a
tra'ning ship for naval cadets, under the command
of Captain Robert Harris ; and the Illustrious is
to be sent to Devonport for the like purpose.
Buzzard, 6, paddle, got up steam at Devon-
port on Saturday afternoon, to go out of harbour,
when some derangement took place in her ma-
chinery, which will be again made good imme-
diately.
Chesapeake, 50, screw frigate, Captain R. C.
B. Watson, C. 8., is reported ready for sea, and
is reported to leave Sheerness for Portsmoult. to-
day. Yesterday, at 10 a.m., she was inspected
by Vice-Admiral Edward Harvey, accompanied by
his flag lieutenant, Douglas, and secretary,
Mr. William Dyer. She manned yards upon the
gallant admiral's barge heaving in sight. She is
now down to her proper sailing trim, and l9oks
remarkably grand.
Ganges, 84, Flag Captain John Fulford, is still
at Sheerness, waiting Admiralty orders, when she
is to leave for Portsmouth.

Harrier, 17, screw, Commander Derriman, ar-
rived at Bahia, from Rio Janeiro, on the 16th ult.
Orion, 91, about to be paid off at Plymouth by
Captain J. R Erskine, is to be kept in a state of
readiness in the event of her being required to be
re-commissioned immediately.
Waterloo, 120, flag ship, Captain Henry Har-
vey, in Sheerness Harbour, is daily open to in-
spection, and this summer has had •an unusual
number of visitors. she is at present very short
of her proper complement of able-bodied seamen.
The Termagant, 24, steam frigate, Lieutenant C.
C. A. Kane in command, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday from the West Indies. She left Bermuda
on the 4th of August with 24 invalids from sundry
regiments, under Lieut. Coiling, of the 26th Foot.
Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett,
K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of the South-West
District, will inspect the 47th Foot this forenoon
on Southsea Common, and the third battalion of
the Scots Fusilier Guards about half-past 2 this
afternoon, weather permitting.
Her Majesty's steam troop frigate Vulcan, 6,
Commander John Seccombe, w.ll be officially in-
spected this day on being reported ready for sea and
to receive troops, by Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour,
K.C. 8., the Port Admiral at Portsmouth. She is
in all respects ready for sea, having provisions on
board for 1,000 men for three months,
The Curacoa, 31, Capt. Forbes, will be paid off
at Portsmouth on Wednesday.
. .

The Nile, convict ship, arrived yesterday at Spit-
head with convicts from the eastward, and to take
in more from Portsmouth.
The convict-hulk Defence, having been skillfully
lifted from her sunken position in the bed of the
river, was yesterday released from her moorings off
Woolwich Arsenal, and, having been lashed to a
powerful steamer on either side, she was conveyed
to the dockyard, and successfully hauled into dock,
where she will undergo a careful survey by the
shipwright department.
Capt tin Thring's company of the 2d battalion
Royal Artillery arrived at head-quarters, Woolwich,
yesterday, having been recalled to prepare for ter-
vice in India. Major-General Williams yesterday
inspected the three batteries of Artillery ab ult to
embark for the E te. They were accordingly drawn
up' on Woolwich-common, and put through a field
day's manoeuvres. The steam transport llydaspes
went down to Woolwich by last night's tide, and
moored alongside the Arsenal pier, for the embar-
kation of the above-named batteries, .together with
a troop of horse artillery. The 10th battalion', on
account of its extra s'rength having bean ap-
pointed to the garrison duties during the annual
inspection of last week, was yesterday morning as-
sembled on the barrack field and inspected by the
Commandant, Major-General Sir W. F. Williams,
and staff.

The naval transport Diligence has arrived at
Woolwich, andis moored alongside the Arsenal pier
to discharge her cargo of returned stores from
Gibraltar.

The screw steam vessel Rifleman, from the
South-East Coast of America, was yesterday warped
into basin at Woolwichto be paid off.

Settling the events of the pa,it week chiefly en'gros,ed
attention during the early part of the :&;erro:in, 'and spe-
culation, which was eventually reaumed, was mui.ked by
no movement of importance. For the St. Leger both
Blink Bonny and Ignoramus were very firm; 6 to 4 was
offered on the field, and repeated offers were made to
take 65 to 40 about the mare; 600 to 400 was taken once.
Aoy price over 2 to 1 would have been taken eagerly
about Ignoramus; 20 to 1 was offered, "bar three." For
the Cesarewitch 1,000 to 40 was offered on the field. In
the City, during the morning Aster and the Plush colt
were the leading favourites, 25 to 1 being taken about
each. At "the Corner," however, they were not in great
request. Apathy was perhaps in most demand ; 1,000 to
30 was taken freely about him, which price was not ob-
tainable at the close. Nothing wag (:one on the Derby
worth quotation. Closing prices

THE MILITIA.

GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
sto 2 apt Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Tasmania
sto 1 agst Lord Clifden's Melissa.
6 to 1 agst Mr. H. Ivey's Hobgoblin (off)
100 to 7 agst Mr. A. Newman's Relapse
ST. LEGER.
6 to 4 agst Mr, W. I'Ailson's Blink Bonny
and off)
2to 1 agst Lord Milton's Ignoramus (t and off) -
9 to 1 agst Mr. J. S. Douglas's Tournament (t)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Barber's Commotion (t and oil)
25 to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Sir Colin
40 to 1 agst Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Bashi Bazluk
40 to •1 agst Mr Mellish's Adamas
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
25 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's Aster, 3 yrs, sst 81b
25 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's colt by Alarm out of Plush,
3 yrs, sst 7th
30 to 1 agst Mr. Clive's Apathy, 3 yrs, 6st 10Ib (33
to 1 t freely)
33 to 1 agst Mr. A. Newinaa's Relapse, 3 yrs, sst
121 b
33 to 1 agst Mr. T. Hunt's Limi ' 3 yrs, sst 121 b
40 to 1 agst Mr. S. Williams's c by Epirus—Elcot's
dam, 3 yrs, Est 41b
40 to 1 aget Lord W. Powlett's Martinet, 3 yrs,
sst 91b
50 to 1 aget Captain Christie's Kestrel, 4 yrs, 7st lib
50 to 1 agst Mr. R. T. Broeck's Pryor, 5 yra, 7st 121 b
50 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Turbit, 3 yrs, 7st
50 to 1 aget Mr. Morris's Artillery, 4 yrs, 7st 6lb
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.

The Earl of Abingdon, Lord Lieutenant of the
county, has ordered the Royal Berks Militia to as-
semble on the Ist of Oct. It is not yet known what
the destination of the corps willbe. On the last oc-
casion of its embodiment it was sent to Corfu.

Yesterday morning the East Middlesex Militia,
Coldnel Wood, met at Hampstead. Each man re-
ceived one guinea and gratuities. The 4th Middle-
sex receive theirs to-morrow, at Hounslow. Both
are to be embodied.

30 to 1 agst Mr. J. Dixon's Dunbe.yne, 3 yrs, 54101 b
We are requested to state that the Racing Calendar of
this week will not be published until to-morrow (Wed-
nesday).

Yesterday morning the 3d Royal Surrey Militia,
Lieut.-Col. Challouer, commandant, mustered at
Kingiton-on-Thames, for training, and to be em-
bodied. The volunteers began to arrive early, and
by eleven o'clock nearly 300 had reached head-
quarters; there are upwards of 500 on the muster
rol!, and_all who absent themselves are to be treated
I.as deserters. The regiment moves to Aldershot in
a few dayd.
The• City of Edinburgh Militia have volunteered
their services to recruit for the regular army, and
have received authority to enlist for 17 different
regiments.
Notices have been issue 1, calling upon the 4th
Royal Lancashire Militia to assemble for embodi-
ment at the Militia Storehouses, Warrington, on
Tuesday, Sept. 22.

Tho Durham Artillery, under Lieut.-Colonel
Stobort, will assemble at Sunderland during this
month for training. The regiment is said to be
very efficient.

The 2d Regiment of Staffordshire Militia will be
embodied without delay, but in'consequenco of the
absence of the Lord-Lieutenant (Lord Hatherton)
no precise day for the assembling of the regiment
has been notified. It is expected that shortly after
its emhodiment the regiment will proceed to the
south of England to pei form garrison duty.
The Royal WiltAire Regiment of Militia will be
embodied in about three weeks.
The Gth West Yorkshire Militia are to assemble
at Halifax for training on the Ist of Oct., the same
day as the sth are to wsemble at Knaresborough.
In addition to the six Irish Regiments of Militia
ordered to be forthwith embodied, the Armagh
Light Infantry, the Royal Tyrone Fusiliers, and
the Tipperary Artillery have also received warrants
of ern bodirw: nt.

LICHFIELD RACES—MONDAY.
Copeland Handicap. One mile and a quarter.
Master Bagot, 3 yra, bat 21b (Plumb) 1
Huntingdon, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (Fordham) 2
Timotheus, aged, 6st 1011) (Prior) 3
Flyaway, 4 yrs, Bdt 10;b , (Cliff) 4
Four ran.
Maiden Plate. One mile.

Pyrrhus the Second . , 1
Mary Lovell
Two ran.
Staffordshire Handicap. Two miles.
Miss Harkaway, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Arnott) 1
Moonshine, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b (Fordharn) 2
Moose, 3' yrs, Est 131 b
Hamlet, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (Aldcroft) 4
Shadow, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b
Five ran.
Champagne. Stake 9. Half a mile
Trot, Bat (Kendall) 1
Archibald, Bst 41b (Prior) 2
Repute, 9at (Denman) $
Perseverance, Bst 31b (Aldcroft) 4
Wild Honey, Bst 31b

Five ran.
Tamworth Plate. Six furlongs.

Eardrop
. 1
Jane
Amorous Boy — 3
Prince's Mixture
The following also ran—Duchess of Sutherland, Echo,
Stormy Petrel, Mary Lovell, and Waterer.

Tho Journal de Constantinople contains an advertise-
ment of the issue of the shares of the Danube and Black
S;;3 Railway reserved for Turkey.