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

No. 2.—IN RESERVE.

______..
Batt.
Belonging to 10th Division, Toboisk, 20th line 4 ,n
„ 11th „ Kamchatzka, 22d light 4 2,°'-'",n
39 16th „ Kasan, 32nd light ... 4 2,M
13th. „- reserve battalions 4, 2,B''
16 11,20°

RECAPITULATION,

4th Corps, 25 battalions..
6th Corps, 252 battalions
Reserve, 16 battalions ..

17,500 bnYOnet°'
17,900 37
11,200 ~

46,600
NoTA.—The 33td (Moscow) line, of Ist brigade,
division, detached to strengthen Liprandi's division,der
Gortschakoff, on the extreme Russian left. Battalions are
averaged according to the Russian, althoughit is-notoricus
that the general effective average cannot, and does 1101,
exceed 600. The 18th division, 6th corps, isin Asia Minor'

No. 3.—SORTIE FROM BASTION,No. 6,
STIL CORPS, 14TH DIVISION
Regiment.
Brigade I—Volhynia, 27th line
*Minsk, 28th line

Batt. Men'
4. %BC°
.1_ 4, 2,90°

•
* The sortie was made by the 28th, with 27th ill reserve.
No. 4—DEMONSTRATION UPON BRITISH RIGHT.
12TH DIVISION—LIPRANDI

Regunent.
Brigade I—Asoff, 23rd line—
Dnieper, 24th line
2—Ukrain, 23rd light
Odessa, 24th light
*Moscow, 33rd line
Tchermonow Bilks

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

Bye
2,SN
2,800
2,80,
2,800
70a
1.4,100

21
* Detached from Ist Brigade, 17th• Division
GENERAL RECAPITULATION.
Men. Battalions
35,400 501
11,200 10
5,000 8
14,900 21

No. 1. Grand attack
2. Reserve

3. Sortie and Reserve
4. Demonstration

66,900 9 •
Thus leaving only 4 battalions reserves, of the 13t1tdl
sion, 8 battalions of marines, and 2+ of sappers, or 1
battalions of 110, not brought forward.

THE ROYAM KOH-I-1400R BA.TTERL—A writer ef,.s
letter from the seat of war says :—" Our blue- jackets
batteries, particularly that of the Diamond, Captain Pee
have done great execution. The Diamond's batteries
attracts the attention of the Russians by having a lame
v.
board up in front of it, with ' The Royal Koh-i-noon t
tery' painted on it. The Russians, our tars say, earn
„ed
make it out. They have attacked-it several times, a'a
each time they have been driven back with severe let;
They say they lose a great many blue jackets, as Jack iv!:`,
jump up after he fires to see whether or not the- shot tens
well, at which time he ought (under orders). to be lying
down flat upon his face."
**A Of
Hum. NOR THE FRENCH AUNT.—The manufacture
huts is proceeding with rapidity.. The Emperl'
made a selection from many models of a hut 81- met
long and 4m. 80c. wide, 3 metres high in the centre, a%
capable of accommodating 26 men. In the middle of t",
house runs a passage lm. 20c. wide, and on each side of
are placed camp beds; each of the beds. is Im. 80c., and
above•are shelves for placing the bread and haversacks a
the men. In each gable-end there is a door 80c. wide and
lm. 90c. high, surmounted- by a window 45c. high, an
30c. wide. The houses can be easily. constructed-20 car"
penters erected one in three hours in the reserved garde7
of the Tuileries. Before- the eud of the month a untbeie
sufficient for the accommodation of 30,000 men will LS' g
been despatched. In addition, a great quantity of Plitliuof
and pieces of woodwork, destined for different
'the army, have also been sent from Marseilles and Totile:_
Moreover, wooden stables for 10,000 horses are being Se
strueted by a contractor in. Paris, on a model supplie" ll
the Emperor. Each stable is to- be 24m. 72c. long', an
am. 60c. wide, and is.to accommodate 48 horses. The
al teru arrangements Ze
are such that the horses can be n:,
attended to, and the men can mount immediately
of alarm. On the-, whole, towards the 15th of .110,7,4,
next, a sufficient number of houses to lodge 3,000 ell tile
80,000 soldiers, and 10,000 horses will have reached
army in the Crimea. wants

tha fi o
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,her

seissilnasaarige'disntto
THE BRITISH FLEET IN OLDEN TIMES.—The- -
winter,Hm oo
mosses
ye sl VoAra r. frompisp 1;x0M.
Richard I. of England, when he weighed anchor 011. the
Sicily,shzasize
e where2so consistedships h
oopffa 13
ge 1.
rate ; 53 galleys,, and a vast number of baraues and fore
vessels used as transports. Edward fleet g—A
Calais in 1347 consisted of 738 ships, carrying 14,?_":,-; lo
riners, being an average of only about 20 in each er-esch
ships and 495 mariners from Bayonne, being 30 o oa,
ship ;
ships and 184 men from Spaiii; 1 from
carrying 25 men ;14 from Flanders,. with 4, 13'-'„ oia-
scareely 10 to:each ship; 1 from Guelderland, with 'sbips,
riners. Fifteen of these were called the King's ow seen
and were manned by 419 mariners., It would thue size•
that the British vessels of that period were of a ST :roger
About the middle of the fifteenth century, shilo „ion(' fling,
proportions began to be constructed. William `"-13ri$'
the eminent merchant, who was five times mayor ° con-
tol, A.D. 1474, having forfeited the king's peace, vw.,t,.
demned to pay 300 marks, in lieu of which sum "
toys, there
took of him 2,470 tons of shipping, amongst w
were one ship of 900 tons burden, one of 600
one of 400 tons. In 1506, James IV.. of Scotland 10. the
large ship, which was lost on her way to France.
sluP, the
fleet fitted out by Henry VIII. there was one of ilk
Regent, of 1,000 tons. The Henri Grace Dieu wag
still larger size, and said to have been the first vessel:'escot
accomplished a voyage round the world. At tl3'..mdco
time, when so much attention is directed to nave
it may not be without interest to give the fo s76llowinr, r cou
culars of our navy of former days, and which i n 1
sisted of only 24 ships, and the number of mere' cos
• __... i . —a.

belongin

to England amore:

OVA. 01 dAIJV V G 1.1,,, tAILA., A 1.,. ,a•-• .—.-
At Queen Elizabeth's death, in 1603, there were
four merchant ships of 400 tons each. The largest
Queen Elizabeth's ships of war was 1,000 tons, and earri.lg
340 men and 40 guns, and the smallest 600 tons? c_.3lT, in
150 men and 30 guns. The account given by Sir Ay ul',,
lbetm
Monsen, about the time of the death of Queen Eliza
is as follows :-
2 ships of 1000 tons, carry

each 500 men

{
400
400

l 400 ~
j 350 21
1 300 "

I 4

13 { X6OlOO ;Builder
vessels; 39 in the' The whole,—