The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

FITTING-OUT ARMED VESSELS.

Tuu followuig appeared in the London Gazette of
Friday :—BY THE 4417EEN.-A PROCLIMATION.
Victoria, R.—Whereas, by an Act of Parliament passed
in the 59th year of the reign of his late .Majesty, King
George 111., entitled "An act to prevent the enlisting or
engagement of His Majesty's subjects to serve in foreign
service, and the fitting-out or equipping in His Majesty's
dominions vessels for warlike purposes without His Ma-
jesty's license," it is, among other things, enacted that if
any person within any part of the United Kingdom, or in
any part of His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas,
shall, without the leave or license of His Majesty, his
heirs, or successors for that purpose first had and obtained,
under the sign manual of His Majesty, his heirs, or suc-
cessors, or signified by order in Council or by proclamation
of His Majesty, his heirs, or successors, equip, furnish, fit
out, or arm, or attempt or endeavour to equip, furnish,
fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted
out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be con-
cerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming
of any ship or vessel, with intent, or in order that, such
ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of any
foreign prince, state, or potentate, or of any foreign colony,
province, or part of any province or people, or of any per-
son or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any
powers of government in or over any foreign state, colony,
province, or part of any province or people, as a transport
or store-ship, or with intent to cruise or commit hostilities
against any prince, state, or potentate, or against the sub-
jects or citizens of any prince, state, or potentate, or against
the persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers
of government in any colony, province, or part of any
province or -country, or against the inhabitants of any
foreign colony, province, or part of any province or coun-
try, with whom His Majesty shall not then be at war; or
shall, within the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's
dominions, or in any settlement, colony, territory, island,
or place belonging or subject to His Majesty, issue or de-
liver any commission for any ship or vessel to the intent
that such ship or vessel shall be employed as aforesaid,
every such Person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanour, and shall, upon conviction thereof, upon
any information or indictment, be punished by fine and
imprisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the
court in which such offender shall be convicted, and every
such _ship or vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furnittire,
together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and
' stores which may belong to or be on board of any such
ship or vessel shall be forfeited ' • and whereas it has been
represented to us that ships and vessels are being built in
several places within the United Kingdom, and are being
equipped, furnished, and fitted out, especially with steam
machinery, with intent that they shall be employed as
aforesaid without our royal leave or license for that pur-
pose first had or obtained, or signified, as aforesaid ;—we
have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of our
Privy Council, to issue this our royal proclamation, warn-
ing all our subjects against taking part in such proceedings,
which we are determined to prevent and repress, and
which cannot fail to bring upon the parties engaged in
them the punishments which attend the violation of the
laws.

Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace this 9th day
of March, in the year of our Lord 18&4, and in the 17th
year af OlLr reign.—`o-OD SAVE THE QUEEN.

THE RUSSIA' AILTY in TVALLACHIA.

THE Vienna correspondent of the Times says,
"An Austrian, who has just returned from Bucharest,
has given me some perfectly credible information relative
to the state of things in the unfortunate principality of
Wallachia. The people, Boyards and peasants, hate the
Russians with a deadly hatred, and can hardly suppress
their satisfaction when they see, by the large consign-
ments of wounded men, that their oppressors are making
no progress. 'The foreign public has no idea of the losses
which the Russians have sustained, and are continually.
sustaining. Bucharest is little better than an immense
hospital.' This information is confirmed by a letter of
the 27th of February, received by the Medical Journal
from WallaPhia. Wounded men are continually brought
in from the bank of the river, and as almost all the wounds
are inflicted with the bayonet or the sword, it is evident
that the men fight hand to hand. The complaint is made
that the continual inroads of the Turks, by day and
night,' prevent all regular operations. Ague, dysentery,
and typhus are more prevalent than ever, and the sick
list for January showed thirteen per cent. The February
list, however, will give more than fifteen per cent., as the
engagements at Brailow and Olteuitza cost us 517
wounded men' By the time the men reach the regular'
hospitals the wounds are generally gangrenous. The
skirmishes in Little Wallachia are so continual, that in.
Krajova and Slatina there is not an empty bed to be
found in the hospitals. The spring, which is now rapidly
approaching, cannotfail to bring with it the usual epidemic
and endemic complaints. In the countries on the left or
low bank of the Danube this season of the year is always
most trying to the constitution, and now symptoms of a
dearth are beginning to appear, which will naturally make
matters worse. The army cannot but feel this most."
The correspondent adds :—" The men could not have
suffered more from the most sanguinary pitched battles
than they have during the last seven months from forced
marches, sudden advances, still more sudden retreats, con-
tinual alarms, unexpected changes of garrison, and over-
filled lodgings. Add to this that the above-mentioned
manoeuvres took place on ground which frequently had a
covering of snow three feet deep, where the roads were
regular sloughs, the quarters miserable beyond concep-
tion, the men often without good bread and water, and
oftener without a bit of wood with which to kindle a fire.
To the foregoing evils comes another. We are nowhere
welcome, because we must share the house with the pro-
prietor, take his cattle for transport service, and Ins fresh
provide= whenever and wherever we can get at them."

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL.

Ax adjourned meeting of the Council was held on
Wednesday, his worship the Mayor presiding.

WATCH, LIGHTTEG, &C. COMMITTER.

The proceedings of the Watch, Lighting, Fire-police,
and Fire-prevention Committee comprised resolutions
awarding (subject to the approbation of the Council)
several sums, to be paid out of the Borough Fund, to
persons belonging to the constabularly force of the
borough, as compensation for wounds and severe injuries
received by them in the performance of their duty, and as
allowances to such of them as have been disabled by
bodily injuries received in the service. The Committee
also recommended that the sticks should be taken from
the night-men, with the exception of the superintendents,
and that batons with whistles, as in the Glasgow force,
and rattles should be served out to the force instead.
After a short discussion the resolution was withdrawn, the
Chairman promising that the subject should be recon-
sidered by the Committee.—On the motion of Mr. TOBIN,
seconded by Mr. GREGOR, the report was unanimously
adopted.—ln answer to Mr. Alderman PARKER it was
stated that the Engineers' Report upon the. Gas justified
the Committee in stating that a great improvement could
be made in the quality of the gas, which would involve
also a great saving in the quantity used.--Applications
fo.r allowances made by several officers who had been
disabled by bodily injuries received in the service were
conceded.

COURTS OF LAW AND ST. GEORGE'S HALL COMMITTEE.
Mr. Alderman TITRIMR moved the adoption of the
proceedings of this Committee, and in doing so said, the
Committee were desirous that the proceedings in connexion
with the opening of St. George's Hall should be conducted
by the Council in a manner worthy of the Corporation
and of the edifice, which commanded the admiration of
all who saw it. To effect this object the Committee hoped
the Council would continue confidence in them a little
longer. The motion having been seconded by Mr. Alder-
man HOLME, was unanimously agreed to.—A letter from
Dr. Dickenson, local secretary to the British Association,
announcing that the meeting is to be opened on the 20th
September, was read and referred to the Committee.