The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

A shocking accident occurred to a general officer,
whose horse made a snap at him, while carelessly standing
near it, and completely bit off his lower lip.

Varna have several times fired on our
ut any effect or bad result whatever;
they were immediately pursued and brought to trial, and
sentenced to be shot. Two Greeks were shot, on the 23th,
for firing at some officers who were walking in the
vicinity of the camps. Another suffered a similar fate
on the 27th; and on the 28th six more Greeks were taken
for firing on our artillery, and would be shot. It appears
that the Greeks lie in ambush and wait their opportunity.

Two artillerymen and one woman, who went to enjoy a
walk, have not been heared of for three days.

Telegraphic despatches from Dantzic announce that
Admiral Sir Chas. Napier, after spending above a fort-
night before Cronstadt, endeavouring to tempt the Rus-
sians into action, has returned with his ships to Barosund.
The cholera was raging at Cronstadt, and the Admiral
was unwilling to keep his men unnecessarily in its
neighbourhood.

The following are a few extracts from a letter just re-
ceived from Varna :—" Camp at Varna, June 27. We
arrived here on the 18th, having left Scutari o

ie after-

noon of the 17th. A large body of French troops, amount-
ing to some 50,000 or 60,000, are a little to our north. We
occupy a large plain eight or nine miles broad, with a
large fresh water lake in the southern part of it. I have
seen a good deal of the French officers and men, and see
much in their system to admire, though I must say I con-
shier the balance to be in our favour. What pleases me
most with them is, that by merit and ability a man is sure
of promotion, whatever his rank. The French line regi-
ments which are here have not bfinie rifles, but very
clumsy firelocks, worse than our old ones. The Zouaves
are armed with rifles and I suspect know how to use them
pretty well. One of best articles of their equipment is
the water-bottle. Ours is a heavy, lumbering wooden
thing, fit to carry beer for haymakers, which chafes the
leg on the march, and interferes with the handling
of the musket, and makes a man cover at least four
inches mor eground. Theirs is made of metal, covered
with cloth, fitting to the body, and by the curving
way it is adjusted is no impediment to the man. Their
commissariat and staff are better able by their experience
to carry out the intentions of their Government than ours
Notwithstanding all that is said in the newspapers
sewhere about the liberality of the Government, our

men get no tea or groceries of any sort, and those in the
town are too dear for them to buy. The officers of course
can carry a small supply of things about with them from
place to place, but the men can do nothing of the kind,
and suffer a good deal if they do not get the breakfast and
supper, which is so carefully looked to in barracks, and
which, here at least, they might have just as easily as
there. The climate at Scutari was much like England, only
drier, and I never had my health better. Here, of course,
it is colder, but we are not annoyed by the dust which
used to sweep the plains of Haidee Pasha. Since you
wrote, the first step towards reform of military abuses has
been taken. The tailor-colonels have been abolished,
though, from the way the warrant is worded, I am not.
over sure that the reform is not more apparent than real,
at least so far as any improvement in materials is to be ex-
pected. In all our endeavours:to benefit our soldiers, we
fail in our mode of working. Plenty of money is spent—
perhaps more than enough—but we give what we do give
in a way to neutralize the good of it. The soldier's clothing
costs enough, but he gets articles which are not only of no
use, but positively uncomfortable to him. Our tents are
much better than those of the French, but we must pitch
them exactly in a straight line, regardless of ants' nests,
furze bushes, or steep inclines. In this, and in many
other cases, real utility and the comfort of the men are
disregarded for the purpose of satisfyinc, an absurd craving
for an unattainable uniformity. So about whiskers and
moustaches. God gives one man red whiskers and
another black ; some can grow moustaches

Ld some can-

not; so, do what we will, we cannot make

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with stocks entirely ;
not so in General Brown's, which is absurd, mid shows the
folly of reforming at the wrong time. We hear that The
Times reporter has had notice to quit in 24 hours. I
think Lord Raglan will be sorry for this afterwards, if it
he so. Besides, I think it will be a great pity, for whatever
aen lately done for the army, has been done, undoubt-
by the press, and in spite of professional .
:E DRAT:TORT OF WATER AT AND ABOVE CRONSTADT.
—The following has been addressed to the Wonting
Herald :—Sir,--It is stated in your paper of this day that
13 feet water may be found above Cronstadt, or Crown
Port, leading to St. Petersburg; but it will be found that
there is a bar formed of sand aout five miles above Cron-
stadt on which are not more than seven or eight feet, and
with a continuance of dry weather and easterly winds not
as much. I have been at Cronstadt under these circum-
stances, when small vessels, only drawing 11 feet water,
have been aground in the merchant ships' mole, and the
mole full of ships all detained, as it is well known it is a
tideless sea, and the currents are under the influence of
the wind, the depth of water increasing or decreasing as
the case may be; south-west gales causing inundations,
and easterly much less depth of water. When the present
Lightning steamer accompanied the Glocester, 74, to
Cronstadt, this ship conveying the Duke of Devonshire to
be present at the coronation of the Emperor, there was
not water over this bar by two or three feet for the Light-
ning to cross it, and the duke and his suite, &c., had to get
into a small Russian passenger steamboat on the west side
of the bar, and proceed to St. Petersburg. The consis-
tency of the water is 74 per cent. less than that of the
British Channel, so that if our large ships composing the
fleet would drop in buoyant waters 27 feet, they will sink
there to a depth of upwards of 28. Off Cronstadt the
depth in the mid-channel leading to it is five fathoms, or
30 feet. The channel is bounded by sands on either side,
and bendinr, as you approach the port and come within
range of the forts, so that ships would be exposed to a
raking fire, &c.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, the
Officer that superintended the pilotage of the Glocester,
the first British line-of-battle ship that . anchored in the-
Cronstadt roads, and drew when she left Sheerness 22 feet
6 inches.

SEALING-UP CRON STADT.—A proposition has been
sent to the Admiralty, by an officer of the navy of high
standing, for the perfect sealing-up the entrance to
Cronstadt, by doing, which the Russian fleet could be kept
there for years, and if necessary for ever. Should the
plan be adopted and prove effectual, it is natural to sup-
pose that Helsingfors would be afterwards subjected to the
same process.
The extent of the weekly mail for the Baltic fleet has
astonished the weak nerves of the Post-office authorities
at Dantzic : it is mentioned with astonishment that in the
course of 14 days 8,500 English letters passed through
their hands. On the 28th of June the police report of
the cholera gave the number of cases in treatment iu St.
Petersburg at 405, the day previously it was only 114 •' on
the Ist of July there were 680. It is understood that it
is making greatravages among the garrison of Cronstadt.
The Press, of Saturday, says, "The secret negotiations
which we announced on the 27th of May last as in active
operation, and the object and very existence of which
have been denied by so many of our contemporaries, have
unceasingly proceeded since that period, and have already
accomplished considerable results. The Court of Berlin has
signified its opinion that the reply of the Court of St.
Petersburg to the Prussian note is satisfactory, and indi-
cates the basis on which the peace of Europe and the
political equilibrium may be successfully and permanently
secured. The Court of Vienna has declared that if the
occupation of the Principalities by the Austrian armies
takes place, that occupation is to be considered in the
light of 'an act of armed mediation.' It is probable that
the altered aspect of circumstances will lead, in due time,
to considerable changes in the personnel employed at this
moment in the transaction of affairs. It is convenient at
a period of probable transition from that of active, of pro-
visional, hostilities to one of friendly negotiation and
peace, that those:who have taken a prominent part in the
prosecution or recommendation of hostilities should with-
draw, if only for a period, from the scene. The retirement
of M. Persigny has been commented on in the public
journals. The appointment of M. Drouyn de l'Huys to a
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ford de Redcliffe will retire from Her Majesty's Embassy at
Constantinople. We have reason to believe that Sir
Henry Bulwer will be his lordship's successor. The post
will require not only previous experience of the scene and
*-,inal actors, which Sir Henry Bulwer possesses, bar-
t.ary of the Embassy at Constauti-
'amides of conciliation without which
tae of affairs is often insufficient. We
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be the most noble the Marquis of Normanby, K.G.
The withdrawal of Sir Charles Napier's fleet from Cron-
stadt is the chief news fro:n the Baltic, unless we give
precedence to the statement that cholera has taken a
formidable hold on our seamen. A telegraphic despatch
from Stettin dated Thursday, after stating that the fleets
had returned from Cronstadt to Barosund, says that
diarrhoea of a bad kind had broken out. Thirty had died
in the Austerlitz, seven in the Duke, and a few in other
shins.

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drawal of the ships from Cronstadt -int.
the prevalence of cholera in that I rec

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AN EMINENT PAINTER was asked who
!olours with to produce such wonderful of
iraB, "I mix them with brahis, sir."

FASHION.

8 COMBEEMERE has introduced ig
pleasing innovation in aristocratic reunions, having, last
week, held at her mansion an exhibition of works of art/
the whole being executed by members of the highest
circles of rank and fashion.

THE HoN. Mrss MoxcluoN MILNES, a member of
the noble house of•Gaiway, died a few days since, at oil
advanced age. She was aunt to the present Viscount
Galway, M.P,

LADY ➢IARIANNE STUET died a few days since at the
advanced age of 88. Her ladyship was daughter of the
fourth Earl of Shaftesbury, the grandmother of Mr.
Gerard Shirt, 31. P., and was therefore connected with
the noble houses of Cardigan, Lucan, and Shaftesbury.

APPROACHING MARRIAGEB.—We understand that S
matrimonial alliance is arrarged, and will shortly take'
place, between the Lady Dalmeny, widow of the late Lord
Dalmeny, eldest son of the Earl of Rosebery and only
daughter of the Earl Stanhope, and the Lord Harry
Vane, younger brother of the Duke of Cleveland. We'
are also authorised to state that a marriage will shorty*
take place between Arthur Macnamara, Esq., and the
Lady Sophia Hare, third daughter of the Earl and
Countess of Listowel. We also understand that a marriage
is on the eve of taking place between Mr. Howard Feather-
stonhaugh, of Bracklyn, county Westmeath, nephew of
the Earl of Wicklow, and Miss Lucy Wingfield, daughter
of Mr. Wingfield Baker, of Orsett, Essex, and sister a
the Countess of Cottenham.—Morning Post.