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tbo missing Arctio Expedition, for a result not yet ascertained. 
Sir John Franklin, I suppose, went through Wellington Channel ; 
1, 0 (hen would make for Behring 8troit. But in doing so he 
would probably be compelled to go on as for west as the meridian 
of that Strait, and perhaps farther, before he found an oppor- 
tunity to got south. He then would make a bold push — in this 
he has got outangled by the ice, and cannot extricate himself. 
Until that barrier of ice is well explored, I shall not entertain 
anything like despair. Where the missing ones are supposed to 
be, no one has visited. No judge or jury could say, from the evi- 
dence now before us, that they no longer exist.” 
Tub Enrolled Naval Pensioners. — Portsmouth Wed- 
nesday Evenino.— An order, has been promulgated at this port 
this afternoon, of which the following is a copy : — “ All Greenwich 
pensioners under sixty years of age, no mutter how employed or 
engaged, are directed to attend at the Pension-office between this 
day and Saturday next, for the purpose of receiving a printed 
form to attend on Tuesday, the 14th instant, for inspection by 
officers from the Admiralty, to ascertain their fitness for service. 
If this notice is not attended to, they will bo subject to loss of 
pension. — Feb. 8, 1854 .” — Times of Thursday. 
FRENCH NAVY AND MERCHANT SERVICE. 
Tub Late Lieutenant Bbllot.— The family of the late 
Lieutenant Bellot have just given to the mayor of Rochefort, ns n 
striking proof of their gratitude for his having proposed and 
promoted a subsorption for a monumont to their relative, the 
Cross of the Legion of Honour, which Lieutenant Bellot had with 
him on hoard the Phrenix at the time of his lost and disastrous 
expedition to the Arctic Seas. 
TROors for Constantinople Orders are givon to the At- 
lantic squadron to proceed to Toulon,— it is supposed to take 
troops on board. 
STEAMERS. 
The Himalaya. — Advices from Gibraltar dated the 29th nit., 
state that the new screw steam-ship Himalaya, Captain A. Kel- 
lock, had arrived there on her way to Alexandria, after a passage 
of six and a quarter days from Southampton. The result of the 
first run of this great steam-ship across the Boy of Biscay, under 
most unfavourable circumstances of weather, ic., is rather n 
disappointment, inasmuch as the time occupied in performing it 
has been greater than that of many other steamers. Consider- 
ing, however, the tremendous weather, with a constant succes- 
sion of adverse gales, which were encountered from Southampton 
to Cape Finisterre, and the fact that stoppages to the extent of 
twenty-four hours had to be made on account of hot bearings and 
other minor derangements incident to the first working of new 
engines, the progress of the Himalaya must in evory point of 
view be remarkable, and is one of the greatest triumphs ever yet 
accomplished by a screw steamer. The Himalaya left the 
Needles on the 20th ult., in the teeth of a hard gale from the 
southward, through which she steamed eleven and a-half to 
twelve knots an hour. As she went down Channel the breeze 
kept increasing, till, as she stretched towards the Bay of Biscay, 
the wind veered sufficiently for the foro and aft canvass to be 
set, the sheets being hauled fiat aft. This increased her speed 
considerably, but in crossing the bay the wind was nearly dead 
ahead, blowing furiously, and with such a heavy sea as can only 
be experienced in the Bay of Biscay ; but the noble ship, even 
against these difficulties, never went less than from nine and a 
quarter to ten and a-half knots, while her easy motion, and the 
almost entire absence of any unpleasantly perceptible vibration, 
from the working of the propeller, surprised every one on board. 
After rounding Cape Finisterre, the wind changed to the N.W., 
and then, under main, fore, and mizen topsails (cloeo reefed), 
foro and main trysails, and jib nnd fore courses, she ran ofl' thir- 
teen and a-half, fourteen and a-half, and fifteen knots, the latter 
being equal to eighteen miles an hour. Tho test which has boon 
applied to the Himalaya on this her maiden voyngo has been a 
severo one, nnd the fnrthor progress of this steamor will be 
watched with great interest. It hns yet to be proved whether 
ships on so gigantic a scale will answer, in a commercial sense, 
so woll ns vessels of more moderate tonnago ; but there can bo no 
doubt of the great advantages in point of rapidity, comfort, nnd 
luxury, which suoli magnificent packets offer for the convenience 
of the travelling publio. 
War. — Positive Facts. — Several of Cunard's steamers nro 
taken up by Government to carry troops to Constantinople; 
6.000 men go from England; others will be taken on from the 
different stations. About 10,000 will soon bo collected to form 
the first expedition. There i9 no doubt a brigade of Guards will 
form port of the expedition. Tho 46th Regimont, that was under 
orders for Australia — leaving the old soldiers at home, whoso time 
would have been up in a few years — is now to hold itself in readi- 
ness for foreign service, taking all their best men, and leaving tho 
young soldiers and recruits at home. 
Marseilles, Feb. 3. — The Caradoc, Captain Derriman, loft us 
late last evening with despatches for Constantinople. Sir John 
Burgoyne and four engineer officers went by the Caradoc to join 
the fleet. Four French officers were also passengers. 
The Australasian Pacific Steam Packet Company's 
Bteamer Emu arrived at Southampton on Tuesday. This is tho 
first of that company's steamers which has been built. She 
hoisted the West India Company's flag, with tho ground colour 
different only. The Emu proceeds to Australia, on the 21st of 
this month, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, in ordor to 
take up her station on the Pacifio between Australia and Panama. 
The Australasian Pacific Company’s steamers will run in con- 
nection with the West India Company’9 steamers. They will 
complete the steam-packet line around the globe, and that by 
English ships, manned by Englishmen, which will bo ono of the 
greatest feats ever accomplished by any nation, ancient or 
modern. In about four months lienco Australian news will 
reaoh England by moans of the Emu from tho westward. 
Mail for India. — The General Screw Steam Shipping Com- 
pany’s steamer, Argo, is to leave Southampton on tho 14th inst., 
for the Cape, Mauritius, Madras, and Calcutta. 
Silitari. 
WAR OFFICE, Fed. 7. 
[From the London Gazette of Tuesday.] 
17th Light Dragoons. — Major-General Sir James Maxwell 
Wallace to bo Colonel, vice Major-Gonoral Thomas William Taylor, 
C.B., deceased. 
10th Regimont of Foot. — Major General Thomas Erskine 
Napier, C.B., to be Colonel, vice General William Carr, Visoount 
Beresford, G.C.B., deceased. 
I 60th Foot.— -Lieutenant-General Visoount Gough, G.C.B., to be 
I Uolonel-in-Chief, vice Genoral Visoount Boresford, Q.C.B., de- 
• ceased. 
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. Feb. 6. 
Royal Regiment of Artillery. 
Brevet-Colonol William Brereton, to be Colonel, vioo Gore 
Browne, deceased. 
Captain John M'Coy, to bo Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brereton. 
Second Captain Henry Clark to be Captain, vice M‘Coy. 
First Lieutenant George Sydney Robortaon to bo Second 
Captain, vice Clark. 
I Second Lieutenant Edward Keato to bo First Lioutonnnt, vico 
Robertson. 
v ® I ®f ,lp,rAN T.— Recruitingpartieswerosentoutfrom thosocond 
battalion of the Rifle Brigade, the 35th Regiment, and tho 79th 
Highlanders, stationed at Portsmouth, on Saturday, orders having 
reached them to fill up to 1,000 strong forthwith. 
Cavalry Swords. — I n the Sikh war, arms, heads, hands, 
i ana logs of British soldiers, were loppod off by tho enemy on nil 
sides, whilo English swordsmen laboured often in vain even to 
draw blood. Yet tho Sikhs, ns it was found, used chiefly our own 
cast-off dragoon blades, fitted into new handles, sharpened until 
they had a razor edgo,and worn in wooden scabbards, from which 
they were never drawn except in action. In such scabbards they 
wore never blnnted, and they were noiseless; they made none 
of that incessant clanking which almost drowns the trumpet or 
bugle, nnd quiets tho word of command, in tho ranks of our own 
cavalry regiments ; and which, unless tho men wrap hay about 
tho steel, renders any attempt at surprise by cavalry perfectly 
absurd. Tho wooden scabbards, it was found upon inquiry, ore 
even les9 brittle than steel ones. A squadron of tho 3rd dragoons 
ohargod a band of Sikh horsemon under Major Unett. The Sikhs 
let the squadron enter. A dragoon of the front rank thrust with 
his sword point at the nearest Sikh. The weapon broke into the 
skin, but did not penetrate so for as to do any serious mischief. 
The Sikh, in return, struck the dragoon across tho mouth, and 
took his head off. A Sikh atChillianwollah gallopped up to the 
horse artillery, out down the two first men, and attacked the 
third. Ho, seeing that his comrades wore unable to save their 
lives by tho use of their blunt swords, left bis sword in tho scab- 
bard, and fought oft' the assailant with his riding whip — flogging 
awny the Sikh’s horse to kcop tho fatal arm at a safe distance. 
So ho saved himself. There can be no doubt that heavy riding- 
whips would bo more formidable weapons in all warfare than the 
cavalry swords now in use — Dickens' Household Words. 
Militia Cami* at Chorham. — It is intended early in the 
ensuing month that a camp, consisting of 30,000 English militia, 
shall bo formed either at Chobham, or such other place as the 
genoral in command of tho nrmy shall deem fit . — Daily News. 
Deputation to Lord Palmerston. — A deputation on the 
subject of tho militia, consisting of tho Mayor of Lynn, Viscount 
Jocelyn, M.P., Lord Stanley, M.P., Mr. W. Bagge, M.P., Mr. 
Bentinck, M P., Mr. R. Bagge, and Mr. Trotrnan, had an inter- 
view with Viscount Palmerston on Tuesday, at his residenoe in 
Carlton-gnrdons. 
The Guards.— The Coldstream Guards, at present doing duty 
at Deptford Dockyard, are to bo relieved by a detachment of the 
38th Foot, from Chatham. 
ftaimtitnr ait!) ftilitra. 
Commissions signed by tho Lord-Lieutenant of tho County Palatine 
of Durham. 
( From the London Oarettc of Tuesday.) 
North Durham Regiment of Militia of the County of Durham George 
Pearson Wilkinson, Esq., to he captain; William Jonathan De 
Pledge, gentleman, to he lieutenant. 
Commission signed by tho Lokd-Lieutenant of tho County of 
Oxford. 
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia. — Assistant-Surgeon John James 
Ireland, to be surgeou, vico Henry Thomas Tltley Palmer, re- 
signed. 
Commission signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of 
Monmouth. 
Royal Monmouthshire Militia.— Henry Somers Morgan Clifford, gen- 
tleman, to be ensign. 
Commissions signed by tho Lord-Lieutenant of the County of 
Southampton. 
Hampshire Militia Artillery.— Ensign Frederick Brodle, late of the 
East Middlesex Militia, to be first lieutenant; Richard Clay, gentle- 
man, to be second lieutenant. 
East Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. — Her Majesty 
has been pleased to approve that the East Kent Regiment of 
Yeomanry Cavalry shall bo made Mounted Riflemen, and that 
tho title of tho said regiment shall he changed, and that the corps 
shall henceforth be styled “The East Kent Mounted Rifles.”— 
Maidstono Journal. 
Training the Militia. — B y an order in Council, dated Jan. 
30, 1854, tho period of training and oxeroise of all the regiments 
and corps of militia in England and Wales, is extended for and 
during the present year, so that the whole period shall not in 
any ease exceed 56 days, nor be less than three. 
Suicide op a Surobon at Limbhou9b.— On Saturday an 
inquest was taken by Mr. Baker, and a most respectable jury, 
on view of the body of Mr. Edward Melville Dolman, agod 38, 
a surgeon in extensive practice at Limohouso, who precipitated 
himself from the second storyjwindow of his residence in Norway- 
terrace, Commercial-road, in tho parlour of whioh house the 
evidence was received. The jury having viewed the body, Mr. 
Arthur Henry Dolman, deceased’s brother, said that deceased 
about a fortnight ago was attacked with a fever, whioh it is 
supposed he caught from a patient that he had been attending, 
and was confined to his bed on Friday the 27th ult. Witness 
saw his brother last alive ou Tuesday afternoon, between the 
hours of three nnd four o’clock, when he was in bed. Witness 
left him and went into the parlour. In about three-quarters of 
an hour, while ho was sitting there, ho heard a heavy fall in 
the back-yard ; witness went there, and found deceased lying 
upon the stones. He was insensible, and was conveyed in 
doors with assistance. He died in about half an hour. — Mr. 
R. Healey, surgeon, who was called in after the melancholy 
occurrence, said that deceasod's spine and both legs were frac- 
tured, as was also his jaw-bone. He had a deep cut extending 
from the left sido of Ins forehead to his cho9t, which was caused 
by coming in collision with the scraper. These injuries caused 
death. — Verdict, “Temporary insanity.” 
Royal College of Surgeons. — The following gentlemen 
having undergone tho necessary examination for tho diploma, 
were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court 
of Examiners on the 3rd inst. : — Messrs. Thomas Webb Fryer, 
Bristol; Robort Gibson Brown, Whitby, Yorkshire; Hugh 
Davies Jonos, Hon. East India Company’s service, Bengal; Wil- 
liam Thompson, Gronf Reinott, Cape of Good Hope; George 
Stopford Taylor, Sheffield; John Theophilus Jenkins, Prince 
Edward’s Island; Alfred William Stocks, Salford ; and Walter 
Crisp, Norwich. At tho samo meeting of tho court, Mr. John 
Rudall Holman passed his examination for naval surgeon ; this 
gentleman had previously been admitted a member of the college, 
his diploma bearing dato January 2, 1846. 
Royal Navy. — Surgeon. — Charles K. Nutt (1840), from the 
Excellent, gunnery ship, nt Portsmouth, to tho Edinburgh, 58, 
screw steam flagship of Rear-Admiral Henry D. Chads, C.B., at 
Devonport. Assistant Surgeon. — Joseph Coulter, M.D. (1845), 
from the Excellent, gunnery ship, at Portsmouth, to the Edinburgh, 
58, screw steamship, at Devonport. 
Intelligence. 
The Mercantile Letters from Paris state that 
tho Government has concluded a loan for an amount equal 
to 8,000,000/. with the Credit Mobilier against Treasury 
Bonds, bearing 5.J per cent, interest, the option boing al- 
lowed of exchanging them for Three per Cent. Rentes at the 
price of 72. It is also said that the Bank of France have 
made an advance to the Government of 2 , 400 , 000 /., so that 
Louis Napoleon is already pretty well provided with the 
sinews of war. It appears by a private letter, dated Sydney, 
Nov. 1, that “The French have taken possession of New 
Caledonia. There is plenty of gold there, — at least so it has 
always been bolioved from tho large granite regions among 
the group. If such be the case, Great Britain ought to 
have been beforehand with them, as it lies so near New 
South Wales. Tho French Commander-in-Chief in the 
South Pacific has sent a vessel here (to Sydney) to take 
a cargo of supplies to the new colony immediately. The 
islands are situate in lat. 23 S., long. 165 E." 
The Oppicial Journal op Naplbs of the 25th ult., 
publishes the following notice: — “The Supreme Sanitary 
Board being officially informed of the total cessation of 
cholera at Odessa, has ordored that, in future, vessels arriving 
from the ports of tho Black Soa in these Royal States shall 
be admitted to free pratique. Tho sanitary measures, how- 
ever, shall continue in forco for vessels coming from ports of 
the Danubian provinces.” 
Letters from Mexico give details of the treaty just con- 
cluded for tho sale of the Mesilla Valley to the United States. 
The surrender of tho territory has apparently oxcited no 
popular dissatisfaction, since in its existing state It was worse 
thau useless, the Indians having long mado It ono of their 
principal retreats, whenco thoy ravaged the surrounding 
country. Meanwhile the cash to bo received will it is 
thought, establish Santa Anna so as to enable him to main- 
tain his power for some years. Tho boundary limits between 
Mexico and America are now definitively settled. Tho Rio 
Bravo constitutes part of it, as formerly ; but one lo >guo 
above tho Paso del Norte a line is drawn south, with a 
westerly inclination to latitude 31°. It then follows that 
line to a small village called San Lorenzo, whence it ascends 
north, still with a westerly inclination, and joins tho confluence 
of the Rio Gila with the Colorado. Lake Guzman is thus 
ceded to the United States, but no point upon tho Gulf of 
California. The village of Paso del Norte still belongs to 
Mexico. These advices also mention, that an official report 
has been published by the Mexican Government proving be- 
yond a doubt tho discovery of gold “ placers” in five or six 
different rivers running through the State of Guerrero. Tho 
localities are said to agree with those described in the letter 
of Cortez to the King of Spain as the spots from which gold 
was washed for Montezuma. 
THE TURKS AND RUSSIANS. 
( Continued from Page 111.) 
Rejection of the Second Vienna Proposition. — 
This fact is now officially confirmed. The French govern- 
ment (and, doubtless, also that of England) has received tho 
notification that the Czar does not accept the teriu9 agreed 
to by the Porte, by tho note of Rescind Pacha, and dated 
Dec. 31, and pronounced satisfactory by the Vienna Con- 
ference, as certified in the protocol of Jan. 13. The counter 
propositions of Russia, it will be remembered, have already 
been rejected by France and England. 
Constantinople, Jan. 23.— Yesterday tho combined 
French and English fleets returned to their anchorago in 
Beicos Bay, having completed their cruise in the Black Sea. 
With the exception of two merchant vessels, they did not 
see a Russian sail while out. They were six days beating 
up from Sinope to the mouth of the Bosphorus. During tho 
last day or two the Vesuvius, Captain Powell, tho Highflyer, 
Captain Moore, and the Sidon, Captain Goldsmith, have 
arrived here to join the fleet. The fleets confined them- 
selves to the Turkish waters. The weather is fine, and not 
very cold. Mr. Purdle, Queen’s messenger, arrived yester- 
day in Her Majesty’s ship Spitfire, from Malta, bearing 
despatches from England (9th) for Lord Stratford de Red- 
cliffe. Cavalry volunteers from Asia are pouring in daily — 
fine fellows occasionally, but badly armed and indifferently 
mounted. 
THE WAR IN EUROPE. 
Distribution op Honours at Kalapat. — Kalapat, 
Jan. 22. — An aide-do-camp, says the special correspondent 
of the Daily News, arrived here tho day bofore yesterday, 
bringing with him an order of the day from Omar Pushu, 
congratulating Achmet Pasha and the troops under his 
command upon the victory of Csitate, as well us a number 
of presents and decorations bestowed by the Sultan, on the 
recommendation of the commander-in-chief, upon those 
who distinguished themselves in the action. Some of tho 
presents are of the most gorgeous and costly description, 
amongst others, two shawls, each worth 10,000 piastres 
(100/.), and three sabres for the three pashas, Achmet 
Pasha, Ismail Pasha, and Mustapha Pasha, tho hilts of 
which were of gold, and cost each 7,000 piastres (70/.) 
There were eight or nine other 6abres of less pretensions, for 
officers of lower grade. The decorations are twenty in 
number : — three of the third class, of the Order of Medjidie, 
for the three pashas ; and the remainder of the fourth uud 
fifth classes, for the chefs de battalion and subalterns. They 
are all much alike — a silver medal of exceedingly hand-ome 
design and workmanship, with the word “ Fidelity," in 
Turkish characters, in the centre. Medals will no doubt be 
bestowed upon the soldiors hereafter. A battalion of the 
troops was drawn up yesterday (2 1 at) morning in tho court- 
yard opposite Achmet Pasha’s quarters, to witness the dis- 
tribution of the newly-arrived honours. Tho band stood in 
the rear and played the finest airs, while crowds of loiterer* 
and peasants thronged the gateway, and peeped through tho 
palisades to catch a glimpse of the spectacle Arab horses, 
with gorgeous and gaudy trappings, led by grooms, trotted 
up and down in the background, while their masters lounged 
on the doorsteps, or chatted in groups over tho news from 
the outposts or from Constantinople ; while orderlies rushed 
in and out from the general’s room, big with the importance 
of their messages. At last tho various officers who hud 
been selected for the reception of the rewards, were called 
in, and, as the “radiant and adored glaive" was handed to 
each of them, he kissed it reverently, touched with it his 
chin and forehead, and then placed it on his breast. This 
over, Achmet Pa6ha, accompanied by Ismail and Mustaplwi,. 
issued forth, the troops presented arms, and the bund ceased 
playing. The generals then passed down the line, halting 
every ten paces, while Achmet Pasha conveyed to them tho 
substance of the despatch of the coinmauder-in-chlei, thank- 
ing them for their courage and good conduct, and congratu- 
lating them upon their triumph. The officers and non- 
commissioned officers and colours were next ordored out in 
front, and the same ceremony repeated to them alone. This 
over, the band struck up the national air, “ God save the Sul- 
tan,”— a wild and martial strain, brokon at intervals by long 
rolls of the drum. Assoon as each of these rolls died away, the 
troops began to chaunt the litany for the Sultan, in uuited 
chorus, euding in a slow and prolonged cheer, accompanied 
by tho usual saluto from all present. This was three times 
repeated, and then they marched out to the sound of a 
lively polka, Ioaviug overy one in the best humour possible. 
I have entered into tho minutiro of tho ceremony rather 
because it forms the only relic of tho old Turkish military 
regime which is still to be fouud in the army, aud its conse- 
quently somewhat oriental character, than for any splendour 
In its display. For a military man, few sights could posse*' 
