The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

THE WAR.

COLONEL COLT has received a government order fOr
4,000 of his revolvers, which, it is understood, are to be
supplied to the fleet.
STEAM COAL.—An ample supply has gone off from
Shields to the Baltic, for the use of the English fleet.
Between 30 and 4) collier vessels are employed carrying
out coals.

THE DUKE OF CAMBEIDGE and Lord Raglan start to-
day for Paris, en route for Constantinople. A very large
portion of the staff, with several medical officers, embarked
on Friday, at Woolwich, on board the Emperor.
THE Press says, " A report is current in London that
orders have been given by the Emperor Nicholas forbid-
ding the removal from Russia of the heavy baggage and
effects belonging to Sir Hamilton Seymour.',
THIETY-TWO army assistant-surgeons belonging to
depots of regiments have been ordered to attend in Loudon
to receive instructions previously to their immediate
embarkation lbr the East. _ _ _

THE BALTIC FLEET, when complete, will consist of
about 29 screw-vessels, of 12,400 horse-power, and carry-
ing 1,917 guns, and 19,580 men ; 5 ships without steam,
carrying 434 guns, and 3,940 men ; 16 paddle-wheel steam-
frigates and sloops, of 5,980 horse-power, and carrying
2,970 men, and :147 guns.
CAvAnn-r.---llt is intended to make as little display .as
possible with the cavalry, or indeed any portion of the
troops proceeding to the theatre of war. Each regiment
will proceed at once from the post nearest to which it has
been stationed to the destination intended by the secretary-
at-war, the Duke of Newcastle.
VISCOUNT HARDINOE, as General Commanding-in-
Chief, gave a farewell banquet on Thursday, at his man-
sion, in Great Stanhope-street, to the officers about to
proceed on active -service to the East. The guests included
the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Raglan, the Earl of:Lucan,
the Earl of Cardigan, Lord de Ros, &c. '
DA: V- oYr FRA:YEE.--From a statement made byAhe Earl
of Aberdeen in the House of Lords, it appears that the
government have -referred the appointment of - a day of
humiliation and prayer, on account of the war, to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and that his Grace-has fixed
on Wednesday, the 26th instant, for the pm-pose.
It is stated that the arrangement for sending all the
cavalry regimento through France has undergone some
modifications, and that the Bth Hussars and 17th Lancers
are to take the long sea voyage from Portsmouth to Ply-
mouth. The 4th and sth Dragoon Guards and 11th Hus-
sars will, if is said, go from Ireland to Dover, and thence
to the continent, while the Ist and 6th Dragoons and the
13th Light Dragoons will cross the Channel .from Folk-
stone to Calais.

The.following vessels are to be immediatelyltted, and
will proceed 'to the Baltic :—The Pigmy, paddle-wheel
steam-vessel ,of 100 horse power; the Prospero, paddle-
wheel steara,vessel of 144 horse-power ; the Medina, 4
guns, paddle-wheel steam-vessel of 312 horsepower; the
Medusa,4 guns, paddle-wheel steam-vessel .of 312 horse-
power ; the 'Minx, 3 guns, iron screw steam vessel of 10
horse-p-ower ; the Harpy, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel
of 200 horse-power; and the Jackall, iron .paddle-wheel
steam-vessilii of 150 horse-power. All these are to have
their arrimment considerably increased, and are to be
under the, command of Captain Ommaney, of the Eurydice,
26 guns,.6t'Portsmouth, for service in the Baltic.
IlisronscAL FACT.—In the year 1543 the Sultan, Selim
11., at the.request of the King of France, sent a large
army andlleet to his assistance, under the -.command of
the celebrated Turkish Admiral Barbarossa, who, accor-
ding' to the record, was the grandson of a French rene-
gade. This army and fleet occupied the town and port
of Toulon.at the express wish of Francis I. from the end
of September, 1543, to the end of March, 14.4. And, on
this last day of March, a French army and fleet has sailed
from the same port of Toulon to succour the descendant
of the Srdtau Salim in his distress.

TAE SECRET "AIEMORAI DIT3I AGAIN. —We (Press)
have received an authorative commuuicatioa from an
individual who " desires to be -described" as "one compe-
tent to md-Ice a statement with respect to ..the secret
memorandum 0f1844." This communication-refers to a
speech delivered in the House of Lords by the Earl of
Aberdeen, on 'Friday, the 31st ult., in reply tea leading
article which appeased in this journal on the 2:6th of the
same month. Our correspondent states that the descrip-
tion of the secret memorandum, as " the key of the re-
lations between England and Russia," werenot contained, as
stated by us,'in a private letter from the Emperor of
Russia to the present Prime Minister of England, but in
a private letter ,addressed by. Count Nesselrotle to hisi
Excellency Baron Brunnow, then Russian minister at
the Court of St.. James's. This letter our correpondent
assures us he has the best reasons for believing was com-
municated to Lord'Aberdeen, and he cannot don,lit that
a copy of it mnst,exist in England. Our correspondent
adds; that there is no other portion of the article in the
Press which he :is prepared to question, and which
article, in his belief, " conveys an accurate picture of a
diplomatic transaction, that was not only intended to be
secret, but the secrecy of which, until this year, :1854,
had been successfully prekrved," _ - _

•
RUSSIAN MEEZDANTMEN.—The London Gazette, con-
tains an order in canna dated April 7, stating. that Rus-
sian merchant vessdla which at this date shall be in any.
port or place in Her Majesty's Indian territories, under
the government of the'East India Company, or within any
of Her Majesty's foreign or colonial possessions, shall be
allowed thirty days from the time of the publication ofthis
-order for loading and departing; and if met at sea lay .any
.*..f Her Majesty's ships shall be permitted to proceed if,
-upon examination, it shall cppear that their cargoes were
taken on board before the .expiration of the above term,
providing they have not onboard any officer in the naval
or,military service of the enemy, or any article prohibited,
or. contraband of war, or despatch to the Russian govern-
ment. Also, that any Rusgian vessel which, prior to the
29th.vf March, shall have sailed from any foreign port,
and for Her Majesty's Indian -territories or colonial pos-
sessions, shall be permittedto enter such port or place and
,dischaive their cargoes, and afterwards forthwith depart
without,molestation ; and that any such vessel, if met at
sea by any of Her Majesty's ships, shall be permitted to
continue-their voyage to any port net blockaded.
MrTINT.-- An occurrence of a Tel,' exceptional kind has
thrown a dioud over the prospects of naval matters. The
Cumberland, 72, Captain Seymour, arrived on Wednesday
at Portsmouth, from the North-American station. The
intelligence that the vessel was to be sent at once to the
Baltic was received in a manner almost mutinous. On
Rear-Admiral Berkeley informing the crew that the
country required their immediate service,-some of the men
asked for 48 hours' leave, and six months' pay, and on his
saying that the country required them to go up the Baltic
instituter, they asked for 24 hours' leave and three months'
pay. Ile replied-that he could not grant a .single hours'
leave, on which -some of the them shouted out—" No
money, no work." After he left, some of till crew re-
sorted t 6 violence, throwing shot about the deck, and
refusing to clean the lighters alongside. After a good
deal of trouble five of the ringleaders were place in
chains, and three of them were then selected and sent
prisoners to the Victory, flag-ship, where they were kept
on board all night in irons. The following morning they
were returned to their ship, and each had administered to
him three dozen lashes. Two of them were also sent to
Winchester gaol, and are, after their imprisonment, to he
turned out of the service. On Thursday all was quiet on
board, and it is not expected that further trouble will
arise. The Cumberland has been taking twelve months'
Mores on board, and will sail for the Baltic at once.