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February 23, 1856',] THE L^E ADiiifT. ty...
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THE NEW .GOVERNMENT LOAN. A vert large n...
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WAR MISCELLANEA. Siustiua,—Tho Sultan li...
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LORDS CARDIGAN AND LUCAN. Lord Cardigan ...
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^ Thejwab. A Few Dropping Shots Of War N...
The day was magnifieently clear ; every sentry on the opposite side could be seen , " every wdrking partywatched , every soldier that was lounging in the sun ; occasional shot and shell were sent from the enemy to the Karabelnaia aud the town , but otherwise nothing disturbed the usual appearance of quiet , almost of desolation . On our ( the south ) side , we looked down on the large ruined barracks in front , on the inner creek of the Dockyard ; the Quay , and the renminB of Fort Paul , the spacious inlet from the harbour-cm our left , beyond which stand the rrooflesa buildings of Sebastbpol ; itself . There also is the well-remembered long line of pointed arches , the casemates of the interior of Fort Nicholas , of which the embrasures in double tier pointed to seaward and away from us .. - It ^ iats out into the harbour built on an inner tongue of laud ; Fort Constantino forrhirig a similar but' more oiitvvard defence for the sea approach on the n ' ortbi , ' ' ¦ ! 'The scene and feeliug of expectation were of great interest , for another tangible proof of pdwer and success was to take place , and' 106 , 000 lbs . of powder were in the several mines . •¦• ¦¦ ¦ At the hour named a burst of smoke , dark and thick , ¦ ' rolled from our left of the building ; it was followed by . another ; the heavy sound arrived , the stones were shot into the air and to the sea ; the explosions of the extreme right aud the centre mingled at little intervals into ooie drifting cloud , which veiled the destruction below .
The light of the sum played beautifully on the mass of smoke , of which the lower part lay long and heavily on its victim . The breeze passing it away over the remains of the town ^ showed that a low line of ruin was all that remained of the pride of Fort Nicholas , and one standing menace of the harbour lay buried under its waters . The state or * the docks has been given in detail in my letters . They are all destroyed , whilst the earth surrounding them is" shaken into cracks ; basins , docks , masses of broken granite , capstans , gates , beams of " iron , and of timber , are tumbled into one mass of destruction .- ^— I have , & c . \ V . J . Codrikgton , The Lord Bauniure , & c . General Commanding-Some other -striking details are furnished by the Times' correspondent : —7 " The day was esztreinely fine , the sky nearly cloudless ; the white masonry of Sebastopol , beautiful even in those ruins with which the well-preserved but doomed fort conspicuously contrasted , lay Bilent and seemingly abandoned , in the embrace of the bright green sea . Suddenly , forth , gushed the out in uitiows
smoke , not rapidly , neavy , rising anu rolling one above the other as if the vapour were so dense that it had a struggle to ascend . -Slowly it rose ; so slowly that it was easy to imagine fantastical forms melting away but gradually . Immediately over the eastern explosion there hung for some seconds what seemed a mighty grey lion , With head , mane , and body perfectly denned in shadowy delineation . Others besides myself recognised the fanciful image , acceptable as the emblem of dissolving Russian strength , and presently replaced by other vague shapes . Upwards of twenty seconds elapsed before the explosions were audible in front of Pickethouse-hill . There was so little wind that the smoke rose to a considerable height before it began to drift off in a south-westerly direction , and it rose , n ot in columns , but rather in heaps or domes such as are sometimes seen in the sky when clouds are piled on each other . The lower part of these heaps of vapour joined , and the scattered summits dispersed and mingled before the light north-easterly current , sooner and tnoro remained
than the contreB blended , so a sort of loophole in'the smoke , through which was seen a patch . of tho emerald wator glittering in tho brilliant sunbeams . Tlxo effect , of course very transient , was oxtromely beautiful . Tho whole mass of smoke then , began , to clear off , and tho spectators impatiently awaited tho moment when tho windvynrd extremity of the fort should bo disclosed to their gaze . A sort of low grey sp it waa presently seen , but was almost immediately frgain ovovolouded by other explosions wWoh now rapidly succeeded each othor . There were eovon in till , acme of tliom much louder than the report of a very heavy piece of ordnance . When all the mines had boon ftrod and tho smoke cleared off , we saw how completely the French engineers had done thoiv work . The long , massive , stone fortcertainly tho moat prominent object in a bird ' s-eye viow of Southern ' Sobastopol - * -had totally disappeared , aud in its plaoo wno a low flat bank of grey ruins , as nearly as might bo , of tho same colour oa tho smoke thftl ; had just been blown ' away from it , and of which some lingering re mains still oozed and curled out from tho rubbUh . So important a feature was this fort , that its removal has made quite a oluuigo in tho physiognomy of tho town . "
February 23, 1856',] The L^E Adiiift. Ty...
February 23 , 1856 ' , ] THE L ^ E ADiiifT . ty 3
The New .Government Loan. A Vert Large N...
THE NEW . GOVERNMENT LOAN . A vert large number of influential gentlemen connected with the monetai ^ y world attended the Treasuiy on Monday at one o ' clock , for the purpose of heal" ing from the Chancellor of the Exchequer the particulars of . the proposednew loan . The right hon . gentleman was accompani-ed by Lord Pal merston , and ill ' . James Wilson , Secretary to the 'Treasury / Among those present were Baron Lionel de Rothschild , Sir J . \ L . Gdldsiaid , and Messrs . Cazenove , It . Thornton , Mullens , «& c . The interview : commenced with the reading by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the PARTICULARS OF THE PROPOSED LOAN . 1 . The loan to be for the sum of five million pounds . 2 . For every £ 100 sxibscribed in money , the contractors to receive Three per Cent . Consolidated Annuities ; and the biddings to be made in such annuities . a Thfi intereston the Three ner Cent . Consolidated
, Annuities to commence from the 5 th January > 1856 . 4 . The days of payment , and the proportions of the contributions to be paid , to be as follows : On Tuesday , February 26 th , 1856 , deposit of £ 20 p . c . Thursday , March 13 , „ payment of 25 „ Saturday , March 29 , „ „ 25 „ Thursday , April 10 , „ „ 15 „ Thursday , April 24 , „ „ 15 „ 5 . For each instalment after the deposit , a proportional amount of stock to be created for the contributors . The stock for the deposit to be created at the same time with that which will be due on the last instalment . 6 . Scrip receipts will be issued by the bank in the usual manner . 7 . The biddings to be made at the Treasury , on Friday morning , the 22 nd of February , 1856 , at ten o ' clock . The Chancellor of the Exoheqtier observed that so •^ iis > ~ h v . ^ l < i + or 1 t . rk t . V » A nrm rl i t . iciiiR of t \ tPi lonn . The
Palrnerston replied , " Of course we are in want of money , or we should not ask for a loan ; " and Sir Cdrriewall Lewis said the public might draw whs _ t conclusion it liked . The interview then terminated . The smallnes * of the loan , and of the amount of Exchequer' Bills' to be funded , caused considerable surprise . ' The Chancellor ' of the Exchequer has since announced tha * , in consequence of representations made to him / the deposits will be fixed at ten , instead of twenty , per "cent . ; the additional ten per cent , to be payable as an instalment on Monday , March 3 rd . ' '• ¦ i
Government further proposed to convert a portion of the unfunded debt into stock ; but that operation would consist merely of the conversion of one clasa of securities into another . He then read the following particulars : FUNDING . Tlie amovmt of Exchequer bills to be funded Avill bo three millions . The deposit will bo twenty per cout ., on the 26 th of February . The instalments : — 20 per cent March 13 . 80 per cent March 29 . 20 per cent April 10 . 10 ] ior cent . ,......, April 24 . The contractor for tho loan to have the option of contracting for the Exoheqnor Bill funding on tho samo torm » ns shall bo accepted for the loan . In tho ovout of tho contractors wishing / ° i' <) n ° Ption to pay money instead of Exchequer Bills , it will bo roooivod at £ 100 5 b . inonoy for ovory £ 100 of lilxchoquor Bills . Iu the course of tho conversation that onHuod , the Chancellor of tho Exchequer several tunes utatod , in answer to questiona that were pu t to him , that tho Government did not intend to mnko another loan while tho present is in ooureo of payment ; . Mr . Thornton having remarked that it waa evident tho Government muht bo very much iu want of mouoy , Lord
War Miscellanea. Siustiua,—Tho Sultan Li...
WAR MISCELLANEA . Siustiua , —Tho Sultan liae decreed that in romaomqmnoo of tho courage and perseverance displayed by
the inhabitants of Silistria in 1854 , they shall not he I liable for three years to any taxes , nor to furnish recruits to the army . The surviving wounded are to receive a money indemnity , and all who took part in the defence a military medal . The NTightinoaije Fotsd in the Crimea . —The subscription to tha Nightingale Fund collected from the ' army in the Crimea amounted , on the 5 th of , the present month , to £ 4 , 195 15 s . 6 d ., which sum was on that day transmitted to England . M . db Gigandes , Colonel of Artillery , who lately arrived from the Crimea , where he took an active part in . the labours and perils of the siege of Sebastopol , died at Marseilles on the 15 th hist . He had been dangerously wounded , and when convalescent had obtained leave to return to France for the complete recovery of his liealth . Mtjkder in the Crimea . —A * soldier named Day , has murdered one of his sick comrades while in bed —a man , moreover , from whom he had just received a kindness . He has been found guilty , and sentenced to be hanged . " There was difficulty , " says the Times correspondent , " in finding a hangman ; but a btitcher of the First Division has come forward and offered his services . He is to receive £ 15 , his discharge , aud a passage home to England . We hear that he refuses his discharge , and wants only the money ; but it 'will probably not be deemed proper to retain lim in the service after his performance of so odious a task . " There has been a report to the effect that Day will get off , owing to a flaw in the indictincredible
ment . This , however , appears , tnough a strange leniency has lately been shown in courts martiaX
Lords Cardigan And Lucan. Lord Cardigan ...
LORDS CARDIGAN AND LUCAN . Lord Cardigan has published a long answer to the allegations made against him by the Crimean Commissioners , the results of which may he stated briefly . His Lordship 'is charged with declining to accede to a proposal " itiade to him by Lieutenant-Colonel Mayow , Assistant-Qdarterinaster-General of Cavalry , to the effect that a detachment of th ' e horses should be allowed to go down to Balaklava , where ^ there was ; plenty of barley . In his reply , Lord Cardigan admits the want of forage , but asserts that there was ndhe at Balaklava , and that , even had there been any , the troop-horses were unfit to perform the duties' of fetching it . He also emphatically denies , in direct contradiction to the evidence taken before the Commissioner , the Commissary-General ever applied to'him officially to send down troop-horses , or that any re-. , ¦ '¦ , .- ¦¦ 1 ** - * T _ ¦* ji . _ 1 _ Jl I ation maaeto Liora i ejpaila
present was jctagan oy- wax u ..--ment , or that the same proposal was made to him either by Colonel Douglas , Colonel Salis , or any officer of the brigade . But he admits that , on the 24 th of November , the Commissariat ofl & cer of tue brigade proposed verbally to Colonel JVEayow , for his Lordship ' s information , that the troop-horses should be sent for forage—a proposal he rejected , on account of the enfeebled state of the horses . Bis Lordship asks why , on the 18 th of November , " wheu t , the Lieutenant-General of the Cavalry Division gave a variety of orders to the cocamanduig officers of regiments as to the details of the duties of the brigade , " Colonel , Shewell , or any other officer , did not seize the opportunity to ask for permission , to send the * troop-horses for forage . Other opportunities , he asserts , were equally lost sight of . '' . Quoting astatement of Colonel Doherty , that sixteen troop-horses fell dead while mai . 'chingfroni one encampment to anqther ^ Lord Cardigan asks if this ^ doesjnot' confirm Mm in asserting that the horses were not ina'ftt condition to bring up forage . On the 16 th November , his . Lord--ship adds , he suggested to the pfficeis of th « Idght Brigade the necessity of their furnishing him with
reports with respect to the condition of their men ana animals , which was done , but very } ittle mention was ^ made of the condition of the latter ; aud he quotes a letter from Sir Edmund Lyons to show that he had made endeavours to obtain nosebags for the "horses . The statement concludes by the productio n of several documents from Lord Raglan and others , testifying to his services while with the army , Lord Cardigan has also communicated a statement to the Times , in reply to certain allegations contained in the letter of "A Civilian , " addressed to that paper : He here says that he had no authority to move the Light Cavalry Brigade , unless he had an , order to that effect from the Commander-in-Chiefof the army transmitted to him through the General of Division . He also asserts th at he generally visited the ca mp at least once a day , and sometimes twice ; that it was not his duty to attend the sentries either by night or day , as they were only the usual camp sentries who ought to bo visited by the orderly officer ; that Lord Raglan advised him , when n friend of his brought a yacht ,
to sleep on board it , " which , " adds the Earl , was a sufficient authority for me to do so , aud to feel confident that there was nothing improper in tlxe measure . " His Lordship concludes his letter by saying that there is " no correspondence in existence which can in the slightest degroe reflect upon him . " Lord Lucan , as well as Lord Cardigan , has published a statement . Tho chief assertions lie puts forth ore , in the first place , that , contrary to tho statement in tne Report of the Commission of Inquiry , the stables for the horses of the cavalry wore flrefc begun curly m December , " so hoou aa Lord Raglan could bo prevailed upon to movo thorn from the heights before Sebastopol to a pormanout camp ; and , instead ot only completing iu tlio middle of March , the eight hundred horses , of which tho cavalry then con sisted , w ero every one of them stabled on tho 11 th of February . ' His Lordship moreover states , in contradiction to tho Commissioners' R eport , that tho service * f « vory man available were employed in tho erection of theBtablos ; but that it was not always possible to obtain hands for that purpose , ho much were tho m en occupied with other duties . Ho adds , that no '" < j <™^ viaitod tho different camps hnnsolf . " and that being somewhat dissatisfied at the spood with which tho men performed their wprk ., he made them report progr « BH daily to him . " I venture to observe ndds his Lordship , " that it was luost orpditivblo to the cavalry that , against every difficulty and obstruction , they
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 23, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23021856/page/5/
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