The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-12 00:00:00

No. I.—GRAND ATTACK UNDER DANNENBERG
iTIE CORPS, 10TH DIVISION—SOIXONOPP.
Batt. Men

Regiments.
Brigade I—Tkaterinburg, 19th line .....
2 —Temsk, 19th light
Koliwan, 20th ditto . . .... ........
11TH DIVISION—PAITLOPF
Brigade•l-3elinginsk, 21st line
Fakntsk, 22nd ditto...
„ 2—Ochotsk, 21st light ....... .....
4th Rifles

2,800
2,800
700

25 17,500

6TII CORPS, 16TH DIVISION—KWITSENSRI
Brigade I—'Vladimir, 31st 1ine........
Susdal, 32nd ditto ..
„ 2—Ugtitz, 31st light . .
17TH DIVISION—KIRJAVOFF
Brigade I—Butirsk, 34th line .
„ 2—Borodino, 33rd light
Tarutin, 34th ditto

6th Rifles .
6th Sappers

4 2,200

2,800
2,800
700
400

25 17,900

RESERVI

Batt. Men.
Belonging to 10th Division, Tobolsk, 20th hue 4 2,800
„ 11th „ Kamchatzka, 22d light 4 2,800
_ _

lath „ Kasan, 32nd light
13th „ reserve battalions.

4 2,800
4 2,800

16, 11,200

RECAPITULATION

4th Corps, 25 battalions
6th Corps, 251- battalions
Reserve, 16 battalions 11,200 „

4.6;600

NOTA.—The 33rd (Moscow) line, of ISt -hrigade;jl7th
division, detached to strengthen Liprandi's division,under
Gortschakoff; on the extreme Russian left. Battalions are
averaged according to the Russian, although it is notorious
that the general effective average cannot, and does not,
exceed 600. The 18th division, 6th corps, is in Asia Minor.

No. 3.—SORTIE FROM BASTION No. 6.
STH CORPS, 14TH DIVISION.
Regiment Batt. Men-
Brigade I—yolhyniar 27th line 4 2,800

*Nthisk, .Bth line

800
4 2,
..---
A 5,600

* The sortie was made by the 28th, with 27th in reserve.
No. 4—DEMONSTRATION UPON BRITISH. RIGHT.

12TH DIVISION—LIPRANDI
Regiment.
Brigade I—Asoff, 23rd 1ine.....
Dnieper, 24th line .........
2—Ukrain, 23rd light
Odessa, 24th light
*Moscow, 33rd line
Tchermonow Rifles

Batt,
~. 4
.. 4
..- 4
.. 1.

Men.
2,800
2,800
2,800
2,800
2,800
700

21 14,700
*Detached from Ist Brigade, 17th Division.
GENERAL RECAPITULATION.
Men.. Battalions.
35,400 50k
11,200 16
5,600 8
14,900 21

No. 1. Grand attack
2. Reserve

3. Sortie and Reserve
4. Demonstration

6&,900 954-
Thus leaving); only 4 battalions reserves, of the 13th divi-
sion, 8 battalions of marines, and 2i- of sappers,. or 144
battalions of 110, not brought forward.

THE ROYkL KOH-I-NOOK BATTERY.—A writer of a
letter from the seat of war says :—" Our blue jackets'
batteries, particularly that of the Diamond, Captain Peel,
have done great execution. The Diamond's. batteries
attracts the attention of the Russians by having a large
board up in front of it, with ' The Royal Koh-i-noor Bat-
tery' painted on it. The Russians, our tars say, cannot
make it out. They have attacked it several times, and
each time-they have been driven back with severe loss.
They say they lose a great many blue jackets, as Jack will
jump up after he fires to see whether or not the shot tells
well, at which time he ought (under orders) to be lying
down flat upon his face."
HUTS FOR THE FRENCH ARMY.—The manufacture of
these huts is proceeding with rapidity. The Emperor
made a selection from many models of a but 81 metres
long and 4m. 80c. wide, 3 metres high in the centre, and
capable of accommodating 26 men. In the middle of the
house runs a passage lm. 20c. wide, and on each side of it
are placed camp beds; each of the beds. is Im. 80c., and
above are shelves for placing the bread and haversacks of
the men. In each gable-end there is a door 80c. wide and
lm. 90c. high, surmounted by a window 45c. high, and
30e. wide. The houses can be easily constructed-20 car-
penters erected one in three hours. in the reserved garden
of the Tuileries. Before the end of the month a number
sufficient for the accommodation of 30,000 men will have
been despatched. In addition, a great quantity of planks
and pieces of woodwork, destined for different wants of
the army, have also been pent from,Marseilles and Toulon.
Moreover, wooden stables for 10,000 horses are being con-
structed by a contractor in Paris, on• a model supplied by
the Emperor. Each stable is to, be 24m. 72c. long, and
sm. 60c. wide, and is to accommodate 48 horses. The in-
ternal arrangements are such, that thehorses can be duly
attended to,.,and the men can mount immediately in casa
of alarm. On the whole, towards the 16th of January
next, a sufficient number of houses to lodge 3,000 officers,
80,000 soldiers, and 10,000, horses will have reached the
army in the Crimea.
THE BRITISH FLEET`, IN OLDEN THOS.—The fleet of
Richard I. of England, when he weighed anchor feu the
Holy War, from Messina, in Sicily, where he -passed, the
winter, A.D. 1190-1, is said to have consisted of 13 dr,°-
mones or ships of the largest size ; 250 ships of second'
rate.. 53 galleys, and. a vast number of barques and other
vessels used as transports. Edward lll.'s fleet bel°„
Calais in 1347 consisted of 738 ships, carrying 14,956 104
niners, being an average of only about 20 in each ship;
ships and 495 mariners from Bayonne, being, 30 to ea9l;
ship; 7 ships and 184 men from Spain; 1 from Irelano
carrying 25 men; 14 from Flanders, with 133 Ine„r4
scarcely 10 to each ship; 1 fro& Guelderland, with 24 In'-
riners. Fifteen of these were called the King's own ships'
. and were manned by 419 mariners. It would thus besfeZ.
that the British vessels of that period were of a small
SlZAbout the middle of the fifteenth century, ships of larger
proportions began to be constructed. William Cannu'.g.'
the eminent merchant, who was five times mayor of nit:
tol, A.D. 1474, having forfeited the king's peace, w 0
demned to pay 300 marks, in lieu of which sum Edw._ e
took of him 2,470 tons of shipping, amongst which th
were one ship of 900 tons burden, one of 500 tons,
one of 400 tons. In 1506, Jamee IV. of Scotland ban') "•
large ship, which was lost on her way to France. Inthe
fleet fitted out by Henry VIII. there was one
Regent, of 1,000 tons. The Henri Grace Dieu was
still still larger size, and said to have been the first vessel
present
accomplished a voyage round the world. At thepar_ 1J
time, when so much attention is directed to naval
pit
i
it may not be without interest to give the follovring, rn.
culars of our navy of former days, and which
sisted of only 24 ships, and the number of merene.,7s virss
sels of above 100 tons, and 656 between 40 an
belonging to England amounted to no more tbdanioo.l.
four merchant ships of 400 tons each.
tons,The and carried
Queen Elizabeth's ships of war was 1,000
At Queen Elizabeth's death, in 1603, there were ragroei
340 men and 40 guns, and the
a 150 m clynn
b Sir Willitun
smallest., 600 tons, carrYing
tons-

au guns. me accoui. b.•
Monsen, 'about the time of the death of Queen Elie
is as follows

ships of 1000 tons, carrying each 600 me
-- 900 If 1, {5OO „

I 2
10

8 smaller vessels

f 350

2,2,
II
in lOO ,
9 the whole.—Theb uilder