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THE FIELD. 
. -e the reserve of Odessa, down tbe stream, and placing 
them at once at their station at tbe scene of action, when the 
moment of danger ahull arrive. 
Tl.c Anglo-French vessels at Baldchik and Varna arc in 
>nlinual correspondence with the Turks ut lJassardschik, 
towards which place Mustupha Pasha must have retreated 
n °fler having evacuated Kosteudje. 
Baldchik is a place of anything but prepossessing appear- 
ance with usually much swell mid surf ou tho beach. From 
Cape Culagriali to the town there are chalky-looking cliff-*, 
close to the sea ; above them a confusion of hollows and 
mounds, S| rinklel with dark thorn-bushes, reaching back 
a short distance, till an abrupt white-faced cliff rises to the 
edge of the plain at the height of about 400 or 500 feet from 
the wider. From the ships there seein but few breaks in the 
long A' 1 * outline ; hilt on landing, deep wide gullios are here 
and tliore found, and Baldchik is on the western side of a 
valley which is connected with several such — a miserable 
place beginning in detached houses near the beach, owning 
some* pieces of streets, going first to the right, and then 
extending up to the left in a promiscuous manner along tho 
e d ''0 of a cliff until near the plain. Its population is about 
5 000. In tbe table land there are vineyards, and cherry- 
trees, and brushwood; and outside this begins tho great 
grazing-ground for the cattle whose folds surround the 
furni-houses. From Baldchik towards Varna there is a 
gieutor variety of outline, more wood is to be seen, 
and the country is evid-ntly much more interesting. The 
inhabitants of Baldchik are all ready to leave for Varna, 
or some placo on the other side of the Balkan range. There 
supply for servico in the royal navy. This relio of the feudal 
system was striotly observed during the last war, nndtlio required 
number is completed as follows : — Lists of tho apprentices of 
three, four, five, and six years’ standing are filed, And the num- 
ber is balloted for, first from tho junior classes ; and should the 
list of apprentices In; expended before a sufficiency has been 
obtained, tbe free watermen then take their turn on tho ballot, 
or provide substitutes. 
Tub Black Sea. — Odessa, April 12. — A division of tho Allied 
Fleet has re-appeared in force before this town. A blookado is 
evidently intended; and the inhabitants fully expect it 
Lisbon, April 19. — The French corvette Zelt?o has loft this 
with sailors for tho tleot at Toulon. Tho Nowton, Fronch stoamor 
of war, is still in harbour. 
Transports. — A letter from Marseilles of tho 31st snya :— 
1 1 Independently of tho eighteen vessels laden with troops, stores, 
and matiriel of war, which snilod from this port for Constanti- 
nople on Monday last, others nro immediately to follow. There 
still remains at the port of La Jolielto about one huudrod mer- 
chant vessels ohnrtored by tho Government. Each of them has 
a ting flying from its masthead, bearing its number, as fixed for 
departure. 
Philadelphia, April 11. — The immonse holds, borgs, and I Ship Abandoned. — Dbyonpoiit. — Tho sloop Solide, of Pniui- 
mountains of ice which have been floating near the Grand Bank, pol, was picked up off the Island of Caldy, on tho morning of 
and ns far south as hit. 40 dog., at distances varying from 100 tho 13th instant, abandoned, having boon run into. She was 
to 500 miles from tho coast of America, have produced much towed into Milford by the rovonuo cutter Adder. 
anxiety and alarm for the fate of many Liverpool and other 
vessels from Europe, now long overdue. At Now York, six or RUSSIAN PRIZES, 
eight damaged vessels have arrived, and two at Boston. Tho Two more Russian Phizes. — Portsmouth, Tuosday. — Tho 
descent of such vast bodies of ice from the Arctic seas, at so 1 prt/.q towed in this morning was tho brig Livonia, of Riga, 232 
eurly a period ns the end of February and beginning of March, tons, ten men, George Mutxkait master, from Lisbon, with 890 
is hero regarded as a phenomenon; and scientific men nro ol I tons 0 f 9 nit, bound to Elsinoro for orders. Sho sailed from 
opinion that eitlior terrible gales or a terrene disruption must Lisbon on tho 30th ult , the Russian Consul there assuring tho 
have occurred towards tho pole. master lie might proceed In safety, us England would never 
Constantinople, ArniL 10. — Tho British Government ought I doolaro war against Russia. Sho has no great guns or ammuni- 
to bo mude aware of tho fact that tho Greek Archipelago will 1 tion oa board, and was fallen in with twenty miles off tho Owors 
very soon swarm with pirates, and that somo Clover naval men bust night, tho light at the time bearing W.N.W. Tho Argus, 
ought to bo sent thoro in small steamers to protect our shipping, screw revonuo cruiser, Commander Granny, tired two pistols to 
Already we hear of some acts of piracy, but it is not too much to bring her to; the master of tho brig immediately obeyed the 
suppose that the greater part of the oil and olive craft that lately signal, and Imvo to on the port tack at nine p in,, when an officer 
crowded the port of Constantinople will soon bo engaged in # L T ’ * ' - ” * 1 - 1 1 1 ’ - ’- — -•*— 
pursuit by no means uncongenial to tho Greek. — Morning )y 
Chronicle. maudor of tho Argus ordered tho brig to prooeod under sail for 
. Tiuvbmundb, April 13. — To day a securely-corked bottle was this port, off which she appeared, Willi tho Argus apparently in 
me neither defences nor soldiers, and the pasha bus applied I picked up on the strand containing a slip of pnpor with the fol- abase, at nine o'clock this morning, soon nftor whlqh hour the 
. HftmiraU to land tlm marines for the orotection of the lowing in pencil written on it:— “J. Joromias Liudquistono, latter ranged up and look her pnzo in tow oil Bomndgo LodfcO, 
, . I mate of tho five-masted schooner Heckla, of Marstall, writes this | Iin a brought her into harbour, whore she anchored her at eleven. 
a sound vessel, throe years old, and worth 
cutter Fanny, Lieutenant Q. B. 
April 5, 1354.” N.B. The llcckln, from Stavanger to | Runkcy commanding, was reported “ iu sight” at tho tlnio of 
t0 the mate of tho five-masted schooner Heckla, of Marstall, writes this and brought her into harbour, 
town, which has not been granted ; but prudent Mures ^ 0 ar death. The ship will sink in a .purser of nn The brig Appears a sound vc 
have been nevertheless taken to secure the snlety of British | , anJ t])e boat ja lojt< Whoevot finds this will please publish £;),000. Tho Port-Admiral's 
aud French watering parties, should it he threatened. Foul- ; t , (C )rt A jj B) 185 4 >» n.B. The llcckln, from Stavanger to ii lin koy commanding, was ro; 
try and eggs aro procurable, but oxen have to be brought 
from Varna. 
The Sidon, Firebrand, and Magellan were despatched on 
the 27th of March, to prevent any supplies being landed for 
tho Russian force which crossed the Danube on the 23rd. 
They went along the Turkish coast, seeing nothing until they 
reached the Suliua mouth of the river, where they found 
that an 18-gun battery had been erected by tho Russians, 
who have a schooner of war lying near it ; and a number of 
English vessels were lying outside the bar, the masters of 
which were counselled to leave. Returning to Kostendje, 
the town was found deserted; but falling in with a 
boat putting back through stress of weather, it was ascer- 
tained that a number of the inhabitants had been killed, and 
others most brutally treated, by the bushi-bozouks, or Turk- 
ish irregulars. Some wounded ware taken on hoard the 
Firebrand, which conveyed them to Baldchik ; and among 
others, one man with a sad gash across his throat, a woman 
badly wounded in the breast and side, and even two children 
badly wounded, one not more than eight months old, the 
other 2£ years of ago; so that these poor wretches have not 
only to four the enemy, but their very defenders, those 
bashi-bozouks ! The people of Buzarjik liavo sent to Varna 
for means of transport to remove what little property they 
have before these plundering irregulars despoil them of it. 
The Journal de St. Petersbourg contains a notico by 
which the Minuter of Finance allows English and French 
vessels six weeks from the 19th of April to clear out of 
Russian ports in the Black Sea and the sea of Azoff, and 
six weeks from the 7 ill of May to clear out of Russian ports 
in the Baltic. Enemies’ property in neutral bottoms will be 
regarded as inviolable, and may bo imported into Russia. 
Tho subjects of ucutral Powers on board enemies’ ships will 
be unmolested. 
The fleets at Bahlgik and Kavarna were illuminated on 
the 10th, when the Banshee brought the order to com- 
mence hostilities. 
The Furious, having been sent to Odessa to bring off the 
Engli'h Consul, was tired into, notwithstanding her flag of 
truce. 
Stbaji Communication hbtwben Limerick and New 
York. — The Galway Packet states that “ the London and 
Limerick Steam Company's vessel Brandon, 250 horse power, 
which is now being completed in Glasgow, will bo ready for sea 
about the middle of June, when she will leave tho Shannon for 
New York w ith goods and pnssengers. 
been 
the Baltic, passed EUlncur April 4. 
Madrid, April 19.— The Minister of Marine, having 
authorised by a royal decree to purchase coal for the supply of 
the navy, had ordered two frigates to proceed to Cardiff to tuko | 
in cargoes of that article. 
Vai MAiTTir a ni'ii TToi* MnifiAtv s steamer Alooto* Ooni- 
the capture. Orders have oomo down to send Commander 
Grundy's two prizes to tho London Docks, 
Portsmouth, Wednesday. — T his morning nil) o’clock, 
the screw revenue cruiser Mermaid, Lieutenant Stokes, 
R.N , commanding, tawud Into this harbour a remarkably 
which sho boarded and 
tho Isle 
guns, 1 1 
w«th <i0() 
to sailing 
ecoived orders for Gottouburg. Sho sailed from Micros ou 
Sierra Leone, on the zstn ot luarcu, ioi un^iuuu, m... mo * 
mail steamer Water Witch left Sierra Leone on tho 1st of April, 
and had not reached Teneriffo when the Aleoto left, lhc Alec to s I Q1) tbe nth ult., passed Gibraltar on tho 20th (it 8 p.m , and 
boiler being out of order, and meeting a strong east wind in the ut B 0 ,| Tuosduy, just a month, was taken by the Mermaid. 
Channel, obliged her to put in here. No. 13 transport, bound .p (jo jvierinaid took hor prize iu tow and anchored inside tho 
out of the Channel, passed the Lizard this morning, at 0 30 p.m., weighed at 8 this morning, and anchored 
Shipbuilding in Devonshire.— The greatest a v,ty capture \ £ ai . t * n oui h harbour at 11. Tho v-ssol is 
vails in the shipbuilding trade in South Devon, me impetus i ,. . ..i build, 
given to the mercantile shipping interest by the repeal ot the seven years old, not at nil nnhke a man 10 
Navigation Laws has had the effect of opening several new ship- clean sparred, and valued ut £2,600 . without the cargo , 
yards in the west of England. A new shipyard was opened at | i s copper fastened up to 1 1 ftot, uud^ ehoathod wUn yeUOW 
full employment. A fine new vessel, the largest over built at . t |, 0 l 00 \t-out. 
Teignmoulh, was launched frpin Mr. Mansfleld’a yard, at that Xu rhrnesb, April 20.— Two Russian morclmnt ships, 
port, a few days since. She is intended for the WmboM tlie Alban, 4 guns, paddle- wheal steam- 
trade, and was built tor Messrs. Walker and Son, and Air. <1. P > •> : i i 1M1 , n ,i.ju mornlinz 
Whatolay, London. Tho vessel has been named tho Donna Anna, vessel, Commander Henry ^ 
and is now being coppered by her builder in Teigmnouth harbour, between 8 aud 0 o clock. Lieutenant JohnUui \ b) ’ 1 
Stic will shortly leavo that port with a cargo for Liverpool, the Alban, come home iu charge of tho barque Aina, amt 
whence she will sail up tho Baltic, having been hired by the go- jyj r . j 0 |,„ 1J U \I, Second Muster of the Alban, cume homo In 
verninent for the conveyance of stores to the Baltic fleet, lhe I of tho brig Nadosohda ; botli of them vessels woro 
Mount Lebanon is now on the slip, and a number of smaller f,. 0lll Lisbon, laden with salt. The Nadosohda was bound 
vessels aro approaching completion. t „„„r „ | for Ilolsingfors, and tho Ainu was bound for. Christiaiisund. 
ADMIRALTY, April 19. 
[From Tuesday’s London Qatellc .] 
Corps of Royal Marines— Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Compton 
Pratt to be Colonel Second Commandant, vice McAdam, retired; 
Captain Henry William Parke, of the Artillery Companies, to be 
Lieutenant-Colonel, yiee Pratt, promoted; First Lieutenant Oeorge 
Webb, to be Captain, vice Parke, promoted; Second Lieutenant John 
Frederick Sanders to be first Lieutenant, vice Webb, promoted. 
ADMIRALTY, April 20. 
Corps of Royal Marines -Gentlemen Cadets Henry Brasncll Tnson, 
Gustnvus Francis Munro, Arthur Huntly Hill Walsh, Alexander lias- 
sett Stephen Sliairp, John Cairneross, Henry Dixon, Henry Townsend 
Morris Dodgin, and Charles Stark, to be Second Lieutenants. 
Plymouth, Tuesdny Morning. — Last evening a Brixlmin trawl 
sloop arrived hero with intelligence that she had left a second 
sloop in company with a Russian bark off Sturt Point; upon 
which report the Government steam-tug Confianeo was des- 
patched, at an early hour, to secure the prize. She is reported 
to be laden with suit and saltpetre, from St. Ubcs for Finland, 
with a complement of thirteen men. 
Smuggling on Board Her Majesty’s Ship Simoom.— On 
Monday afternoon 1 cwt. of tobacco was unshipped and attempted 
to be “run” from her Majesty’3 steam troopship Simoom, 
Captain Smith, in course of relit at Portsmouth. The tobacco 
was stopped by the dockyard police, under the direction of Lieu- 
tenant Hall, R.N. ; and Admiral Superintendent Martin imme- 
diately appiised tho Customs' authorities of the seizure, when 
, Trcstrail, the senior tide surveyor of the port, went on hoard 
the Simoom and seized 1001l>. more. 
4icb Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.B., G.C.H., has 
been appointed to succeed Vice Admiral Hyde Parker, C.B., os 
fieiiior naval Lord of the Admiralty . — Morning Herald. 
vice Admiral Hyde Parker has been appointed to succeed 
Yico Admirul tlie Hon. J. Percy, C.B., as commander-in-chief at 
SheerncBs. 
Admiral Sin William Parker, Bart., G.C.B., lias been ap- 
pointed to succeed Admirul Sir J. A. Oinmanncy, Iv.C.B., ns 
commander-in-chief nt Devonport. 
In consequence oT increasing ill-health and infirmity, Captain 
R- H. Scott, of tlie St. Vincent, has resigned the command of 
that ship. Tlie Miranda, 15 guns, screw steamship, Captain 
Rdinond M. Lyons, will bo ready to leavo for the Baltic on the 1st 
of May. 
Watbrmbn’s Company.— On Tuesday considerable excitement 
was created nmong tlie apprentices to free lightermen and wn'er- 
™ en t it having been announced that it is tho intention of the 
Watermen's Company immediately to provido a portion of tho 
quota (000 men) that the company is coinpellod by its charter to 
the flag of Admiraf Fairfax Moresby, late Oommamlor-in-Chiel' e hargo of Lieutenant Edward Burslul. The brig Nudosehda 
iu the 5 Pacific, was outside Plymouth harbour ou Wednesday |,uving u very smart, rakish appearance in the (II.Manco, wi 
morning, 46 days from Valparaiso; all well. Sho saluted, and fl r3t ^ aben f ol . a Russian man-of-war brig ol 10 guns, which 
proceeded to Portsmouth. Off Scilly on tho 20th she landeftJtlj® | iad been reported to liavo been scon out, und the Album* 
Admiral’s secretary with despatches for tlie Admiralty. . llie Cl . ew were boat to quarters, und fully prepared for ootion. 
Portland brings an interesting present to Queen Victoria trout British sailors in tlio Alban were much disappointed 
Hor Majesty’s loyal subjects at Pitcairn s Island, consisting of a j her to see tlio Swedish colours smartly run up, 
specimen of native industry in Cabinetwork. The frigate has o n^rmg ne t e « en# 0H 1)oard the A i btt „. 
also on board two fine specimens of tho llama, a male and female, | oil her g is..,i ii.m 
from the Andes of Chili. ’ ^ ' -»*>—■"«* 
c-imo homo on promotion, 
the Turkish service), 
Virago, returns i 
nI1 " y ’ “ “ “ 1 n-.. “ uu “* 1 IJJe captain, boatswain, two soamen, and one boy. The 
cantain’s wife was on board with him. The owners of the 
.... English Consul and English subjects there. Blio was urea I > direeliooa to the captain at Lisbon to soli tho 
into and driven back, despite her flag of truce The Fury cap- ‘ Bhi ao4 w ‘ a8 0D her first voyage, hut 
tured a Russian schooner, but was chased by five Russian vessels | . ® C0ll V e q U0QCe of hifl „„t b-ing able to obtain 3,000(. for her 
schooner. Rim Went Urn orew ns hostages. The irritation on | lie refused to sell her; 2,5001. was offered forhurutLiaborb 
board the 
ou the 10th i 
brought the order to commence hostilities. 
Foreign Suits or War in tub Channel. — Plymouth, 
April 20.—' The Wilson Ivonnedv, transport, arrived to-duy from 
tured a unssian seuoonor, uui was cnnoeu **>l 
of war from Sebastopol, and was compelled to abandon tho in cou> 
at- She Lit the crew ns hostages. Tho irritation on lie refused to sell her; *<0WK. was oiiereu .««•••«. *» 
fleets, is extreme. There was a general illumination and tlie master now regrets that he had not put her > 
, on board the vessels of tho flout, when the Banshee pocket ” at that price ; hut lie very philosophically remaiKO, 
j ]iockot ’ 
‘ It is too late now.” 
I and the captain. 
Tho bark Aina had u crew of 10 men 
Tub Coast Dbpencbs in Sussbx.-Two bnUefiea are now ’m 
arse of erection at tlio month of Littk-hampton l.aibour noai 
1.1 nn i n .a or nK.*h*il liv Mr. Lobb, who is superintending 
Russian ships from Rio tor uussia. ivy ‘vuss.u.i luei-uuuuy i Arundel, and it is oxpcu'.a * y be comifiCvd by tlie com. nonce- 
vessels were reported to bo in the Channel tins afternoon, and their con«‘r.iot.on ^ that r ^ Vlll ‘, nount jruns, cacU gun 
the Avon, Master A. Veitch, was sent out to look for them. | men tof^ July It E also propSed 
“ “ w to erect spacious barracks near these batteries, for tbo uccoinmo- 
FRENCU ^AVV AND MERCHANT SERVICE. Jation or ‘ 00 mftrinW| oxolusivo of officers for manu.ng tho gun. 
P,„,s, Wedn«d.v -TLe SU Lo.is, a ship of 90 guns, .1 ^ ^ ^ 0MlJ , M j „„ 
was launched yesterday, at • . 1fi ,. . board tho Ilydaspes, wbilo she woe lying in Table Day. Arrange- 
Adbn.— (R eceived from Alexandria, under date the of > 1 | f raigin „ t ho screw, in order to supply a 
Aprtl, on the 25th of April, at forty m mutes P" 1 ;,' P Q n r nn el ?f r ‘° I nc^fan whon tho shears, which do not’apr-cr to have 
telegraph via Trieste). The trench war steamer Caiman o c ouppl )ko(1 in Ul0 Boe ket, nlfbetcd l»y the weight, gave 
shore ut Zeyla ; people saved. 1 } 
The Fuenou Baltic Flee 1 
Tlie squadron seen off this por 
sail of the line, two frigates 
machinery fell upon ^ ^ .pi dUU. 
Sir. Dryer was held in high 
injuries were sustained by others. 
on a wind under reefed top*, I, rt. wind 
been 
b r reueu war seourcly j ix0(1 in t | 10 80C ket, nlibcted by l, '° 
ibt. -Plymouth. Monday evening.- ^ a tan jlng ^ Bk^hgbt^ushe w.wd° to endeavour to 
.ort on Sunday afternoon included six 'Xma tho^faR and emuing loo near, u part of tho heavy 
0 .... v,, and a steamer. By elcctrio telegraph P fe j\ „ DOn hiin . ao a | 10 was killed ou the spot. Hie 
from Torquay we learn that the Brunswick steam packet, Captain ^ 
Russell, which left Plymouth at 1.15 this afternoon, saw t .e ?“‘®‘. en b 01 
French squadron off tho Bolt. It consisted of seven slops and a | ® 
steamer, sailing on a wind under reefed topsails. The wind 
dropping light, tho head ship would not stay, and therefore wore 
round. Alt the others folio wod in lino, then loosed topgallant 
sails, and stood away to tho southward with a very light breeze. 
The British and Irish Steam Company's packet Nile, Captaiu 
Moppelt, which arrived here tins evening ut 9 o’clock, reports 
that, at half-past 5, the Start bearing north-west, distant 12 
miles, she saw eight sail of the lino and a paddlewlieol frigate. 
The sailing vessels were under topgallant sails and Royals, tho 
steamer under easy steam and fore and aft canvass. They were 
all reaching off in a south-east direotion. Wind E.N.K., very 
light. 
w unin- 
hna been effected of late 
terosting to remark, that vast progress .. .. — 
years. The Danube Steam Navigation Company is uow in pus- 
iKrtSl MS? «t !«»•««.» conmedy ll,o 
currency. 
