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THE FIELD 
in eloquent and feeling terms the conduct of a portion of 
those on board the Arctic. It says “ According to the 
statement of one of the saved (Captain Crann), no sooner was 
the ship found to be sinking than two of the quarterboata 
were taken possession of by the second and fourth officers 
and crew ; another boat (making the third) was taken pos- 
session of by the engineers, supplied with provisions, water, 
&c. In this last boat it seems there were but eight or nine 
porsous. It could hove safely accommodated mauy more, 
but revolvers wore drawn by those on board against those 
who were shrieking and struggling to got on board. In that 
fearful struggle were many helpless women and children, but 
their pitiful appeals for life wore unheeded by the robust 
cowards who had stolen the boats, and turned their backs 
upon those whom it was their duty to preserve, or at least 
to endoavour to preserve. Oh, what a manly spectacle that 
must have been ! Hardy, rough-handed, broad-shouldered, 
Btrong-framed men — accustomed to a business, too, the con- 
stant hazard of which one would naturally think deadens in 
some degree everything like personal fear — men like these 
treacherously deserting feeble and delicate women, and shut- 
ting their ears to cries from little children that should have 
touched hearts of adamant ! It is enough to make us all 
ashamed of humanity, and envy the better nature of the 
beasts of the field. Not one woman saved ! — not one child ! 
— at least wo have at the moment we write this no assurance 
of the fact. The circumstances connected with the loss of 
the British steamer, Birkenhead, on the coast of Africa, not 
many months since, are still fresh in the memories of all. The 
steamer struck on a hidden rock, stove a plank at the bows, 
and went to the bottom, wc believe, in half an hour’s time. 
There were was a regiment of troops on board. As soon as 
the alarm was given, and it became apparent that the ship’s 
fate was Healed, the roll of the drum called the soldiers to 
arms on the upper deck. That call was promptly obeyed, 
though every gallant heart there knew that it was his death 
aummons. There they stood as if in battle array — amotion- 
less moss of brave men — men who were men indeed. The 
ship every moment was going down and down — but there 
were no traitors, no deserters, no cravens there ! The wo- 
men and children were got into the boats, and were all, or 
nearly all, saved. There were no boats for the troops — but 
there was no panic, no blanched, pale quivering lips among 
them. Down went the ship, and down went that heroic 
band, shoulder to shoulder, firing a feu. de joie as they sank 
beneath the waves. Men like these never perish ; their 
bodies may be given to the fishes of the sea, but their memo- 
ries are, as they ought to be, immortal." 
Malta, Nov. 11. — The Miranda, Jura, and Queen of the 
South have sailed lienee for the Crimea. 
FRENCH NAVY AND MERCHANT SERVICE. 
The Moniteur dt la Flotte quotes a letter from the Crimea 
of the 28th ult. The allied squadrons had resumed the 
stations they occupied previous to the attack of the 17th. 
The Ville de Paris was repairing the damages she hatTsus- 
tained, and all the Bhips were in the best possible condition 
as respected their materiel and personnel. The Charlemagne 
was to return to France ; a shell had exploded in the 
engine room, and rendered some repairs indispensable. The 
Jena, Ville de Marseille, and Suffren had boeu ordered to 
Toulon, to be employed in conveying troops nnd warlike 
stores. The Jena lias consequently been relieved before 
Eupatoria by the ship Henri IV. The duties of the steamers 
were extremely arduous, being kept constantly moving, 
carrying troops provisions, and the mails, between Constan- 
tinople, Gallipoli, Vania, and the Crimea. They likewise 
effected continual reconnoissances along the coast, watching 
the movements of the enemy from Perekop to Kertch. The 
crews of the ships anchored at Katscha and Kamiesch, on the 
othor hand, were not idle. They every day supplied fatigue 
parties, they prepared earth-bags as well as the men of the 
corps of engineers, and when commanded by the General-in- 
Chief, or the Admirals, they conveyed, as if by enchantment, 
to the top of the steepest heights, the powerful guns of the 
ships, to enable the besiegers to compete with the Russian 
68 and 74 -pounders, and their howitzers of 130. 
The Steam-transport Emu left Toulon on Friday, Nov. 
10, for Sebastopol, with 1,000 French troops on board. 
On the 15Tn op October the whole French army at Sebasto- 
pol consisted of 4 8.000 including 5,300 horse. Of the additional 
reinforcements from Varna and Gallipoli, 9,000 had already 
arrived at the date of General Canrobert’s last despatch after 
the battle of the 5th, which, with other reinforcements 
before Sebastopol, gave the French general 68,000 troops. 
The effective number is of course less. General Levaillant 
bad arrived. 
The two Russian guns taken at Bomarsuud have arrived 
in Paris. They are of bronze, and of small calibre, as the 
diameter of one is only fifteen centimetres, and of the otlior 
sixteen centimetres (about six inches) ; their length is not 
quite a metre. They have on them the following inscription 
in Russian : — “ St. Petersburg, 1811,” and “ St. Petersburg, 
1807.” The carriages present nothing worth notice. These 
guns are intended for the Marine Museum. 
ffiilitnrq. 
Lord Hardings and the 23rd3Fcsiliers. — Tho pro- 
moters of the special subscription on behalf of the bereaved 
survivors of the 23rd have felt the declaration of those who 
oppose the scheme (that the regiment is chiefly composed of 
Irishmen and Scotch) almost as a libel upon their country- 
men. Their sense of injustice has reached the ear of the 
Commander-in-Chief, who iu a private letter to a friend thus 
refers to the subject — “ I send the last return of the 
elsh Fusiliers, signed by its gallant and distinguished 
leader, who fell so nobly at its bead in tho action of the 
Alma. I wish the return had specified Welshmen, and I 
shall give directions that in the Welsh Fusiliers the four 
countries shall be separately and distinctly recorded. Tho 
number was 969, and of which only eight were Scotch and 
182 were Irish. But the Welsh Fusiliers have always been 
a remarkable regiment, and their conduct on every occasion 
has shown that they have iu no instance degenerated from 
their former fame. The Welsh Fusiliers were engaged at 
Albuera, and, by a curious coincidence, they lost fourteen 
officers, killed and wounded, the same as at Alma; but the 
loss of men was greater at Albuera, namely, 824 men, and at 
tLe Alma 197 men.’’ The above has given the greatest 
satisfaction to those who felt that the bravery of the Welsh 
was detracted from by being draughted into other regiments 
instead of that which bears its name. 
The regiments which are expected to reinforce the British 
cavalry in the Crimea are the 7th Hussars, tho 16th Lancers, 
and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th Regiments of Dragoons. 
A St. Petersburg official despatch fuller than those pr e * 
viously to baud states that in the engagement of the 5th th e 
Russian Lieutenant-General Soimonoff was killed. Letters from 
Sebastopol bave been received at Vienna, stating that Admiral 
Nachimoff, who hod been wounded, and whose death was 
erroneously reported iu some despatches, had recovered, and 
was taking an active part in the defence of the place. 
Lead shipped from Hull for Russia. — Last week fifty 
tons of lead were shipped from London to Memel, viu Hull, 
which it was known would be taken from thence to St. 
Petersburg. The Custom-house authorities at Hull refused 
to pass it, but a telegraphic message was received from Lou- 
don authorising them to forward it, and that was accordiugly 
done . — Staffordshire Advertiser of Nov. 11. 
4th Queen’s Own Light Dragoons. — List of killed and 
missing iu the action of the 25tU October, 1854 : — Major 
Halkett, Lieutenant Sparke, Sergeant-Major Fowler (married, 
four children), Sergeant-Major Herbert (married, one child), 
Sergeant Campbell (married, two children), Sergeant Thomas, 
Sergeant Lynch, Trumpet-Major Crawford (married, four 
children), Trumpeter Lovelock, Corporal Armstrong, Cor- 
poral Spence ; Privates Parks, Phelan, Nemoyle, Waight, 
Thomsett, Michael O'Brien, Donaldson (married), llexall, 
Boxall, Lucas, Moody (married), George Robinson, Swan, 
Frederick, Bagshaw, Farquharson, King (married), Hutton, 
Marshall, Barnes, Bolton, Fletcher. Forty-eight horses 
killed, one died of wounds, eight destroyed in consequence 
of injuries, eighteen wounded, still living. 
REINFORCEMENTS AND STORES FOR LORD 
RAGLAN. 
Accounts received from Limerick state that orders had 
been received there by the 16th Lancers and the 72nd High- 
landers to hold themselves in instant readiness for war 
service in the Crimea. Both regiments are in admirable con- 
dition for Bharing iu tho honours of the campaign. 
The following infantry battalions will be added to 
the reinforcements to bo dispatched immediately to the 
Crimea : — The 1st Battalion of Grenadier Gusrds ; the 34th 
Regiment, now at Corfu ; the 62nd Regiment from Malta ; 
the 71st Highland Light Infantry' from Corfu ; the 90th 
Light Infantry from Dublin ; the 97th Regiment from Athens; 
the 82nd Regiment, now at Edinburgh, will not be sent to 
the East, as stated. 
The Battalion of the Guards will be attached to 
Major-General Bentinck's brigades, which will then consist 
of four battalions ; but, in point of number, it will not differ 
much from the other infantry brigades. There will thus 
be left on home service the 2nd battalion of each of the 
three regiments of Foot Guards, which may be looked upon 
as so many strong depflts to keep up the war battalions to 
their effective strength. The five battalions of tho line 
mentioned above will be joined by the 6Sth Light Infantry, 
which is now in the Crimea, but is not attached permanently 
to any division. These six battalions will be formed into 
the Fifth Division of the British army ; and, as three of the 
regiments are light, the 68th, 71st, and 90th, will pro- 
bably constitute a Light Infantry Brigade. We believe no 
arrangements have been yet made as to the command of this 
division, but it is not unlikely that Colonel Lockyer, of the 
97th (who held a command at Chobham), and Colonel 
Denny, of the 71st, will be the Brigadier-Generals. 
As regards the cavalry, an arrangement has been come 
to different from what was originally intended. Instead of 
sending out the cavalry regiments on home service as regi- 
ments, the effective men of those corps will be incorporated 
with the regiments now in the Crimea, so as to bring them 
up to such a strength as a cavalry regiment in time of war 
should possess. With the exception of the King's Dragoon 
Guards, our cavalry regiments of the line consist of six troops 
of forty-five men each, the regimental staff’ and officers 
making up the entire number to something over 300. The 
officers of the cavalry regiments at home will not be trans- 
ferred to those abroad, but will remain with their own corps, 
and will be usefully employed in keeping up an effective 
supply of trained men and horses to the regiments abroad. 
Owing to the recent losses, the ten cavalry regiments now 
in the Crimea cannot be said to muster 1,000 men. When 
the new arrangements are carried into effect they will be in- 
creased by 5,000 men, and from the regiments at home there 
will be no difficulty in at once supplying 2,000 of this 
number. 
The Europa steamer is expected to be in Kingstown 
harbour to day (Saturday), to receive on boat'd the 90th 
Regiment, 1,000 strong, for conveyance to the Crimea. 
The Blake transport, 811 tons, having on board draughts 
belonging to the 9th, 14th, and 92nd Regiments, destined, 
the two former for Malta, and the latter for Gibraltar, 
sailed from Queenstown on Saturday last for her destination. 
The Hannibal, 90, Captain the Hon. Frederick Gray, left 
Plymouth Sound on Tuesday afternoon for Malta and tho 
Black Sea. She is very deeply laden, and has 1,200 men on 
board. 
The Snake screw steam despatch gun-boat, Lieutenant- 
Commander M‘Killop, was paid in advance at Woolwich on 
Tuesday, and proceeds Vith all dispatch to Sebastopol. The 
Snake, now ready for active service, completes the six 
dispatch gun-boats, each mounting two of Lancaster’s 
68-pounder oval guns, and all for service in the Black Sea. 
The Government transport Edward is being laden with 
provisions at the Royal William Victualling-yard, Plymouth, 
for Constantinople aud the Black Sea. 
The Aliport transport, 811 tons, having on board draughts 
belonging to thl 3rd, 14th, and 62nd Regiments, sailed from 
Queenstown on Saturday last for Malta. 
The Cleopatra steamed out of Cork harbour in the after- 
noon of Saturday last for the Crimea, having on board 
draughts for various regiments now serving there. 
Mr. Penfold, from the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, is 
appointed agent to the Naval Hospital, Therapia. 
The Rajah steamship, one of the Peninsular and Oriental 
Company’s fleet, has arrived in Portsmouth harbour to fill 
up with provisions and war stores for Constantinople. 
Captain Broughton’s company, 2nd battalion of Royal 
Artillery, at Woolwich, have been placed under orders to hold 
themselves iu readiness to embark for Malta, to do duty there 
in place of a company sent on to the Crimea, aud, when 
further reinforcements of artillery are sent to Malta, they 
will proceed to the scat of war, in the event of their services 
being required. 
The Royal Albert, 121, screw three-decker, Captain Sir 
Thomas l’asley, Bart., is ordered from Sheemess to Ports- 
mouth, with all dispatch. Tho better to expedite her, a 
party of sixty able seamen, selected from the Neptune, 120. 
and Prince Regent, 90, under the direction of Lieutenants 
Thomas Brandreth and R. J. Wynniatt, of those ships, were 
dispatched from Portsmouth to Sheerness, to assist in navi 
gating the Royal Albert to Spithead, she being short-handed 
of A.B’s. Orders were received at the same time at Ports- 
mouth to prepare bedding, hammocks, &c., for 2,000 men 
as the steam three-decker is about to carry a battalion of 
Foot Guards and the whole of their equipments to the 
seat of war in the Crimea, together with a large supply of 
warlike stores. Her crew will be made up to 1,000 men by 
draughts, it is reported, before starting. When out Bhe will 
take the flag of the Commander-in-Chief. Tho Royal Albert 
will be at sea before the close of next week. 
We are recruiting at the rate of 1,000 men a-week, and 
hare as little fear of wanting the raw material of soldiers as 
if we had a legion of spies and a whole army of crimps to 
enforce the utmost rigours of conscription. The martial 
and adventurous spirit of the nation is roused by the stirring 
tidings which almost every post brings to our shores ; and 
the service has regained in the midst of a bloody and desper- 
ate war that popularity which it was in some danger of 
losing in the piping times of peace. The cavalry regiments 
at home will not be sent abroad, but will serve as training 
schools for the recruits of the regiments on foreign service. 
It is intended to raise each troop to seventy-five men, nnd 
to add two troops to each regiment, which will give a total 
increase of 1,500 sabres to the force in the Crimea ; and, 
besides, all deficiency occasioned by casualties is to be 
made up. It is proposed to purchase for the use of the 
cavalry seasoned horses instead of three-year-olds, as better 
able to bear the fatigues and privations of a campaign, and 
less liable to injury by a long voyage. 
It appears that in addition to the various mail contract 
steamers already chartered, the Government have just 
taken up the Europa, of 1,800 tons, and the Alps screw- 
steamer, of 1,500 tons, belonging to the Cunard Company, 
together with the Indiana, of 2,367 tons, belonging to the 
General Screw Company, from New York, whence she sailed 
on the 31st ult. last, aud the Thames, of 1,889 tons, belong- 
ing to the Brazil line of the Royal Mail Steam Company. 
The Peninsular Company’s steamer Candia lias pro- 
ceeded from Southampton to Toulon, to take iu French 
troops for the Crimea. The royal mail steamer Thames 
proceeded to Toulon for the same purpose. The Ripou 
proceeds, and the Indiana and Nubia as soon as they can be 
got ready. The Candia is victualled for 1,200 men, for forty- 
two days. The Nubia will take as many, and the Ripon 
above 1,000. The Indiana is to be victualled for 1,400 men. 
The Government will pay £1,600 a month more for her 
than for the other steamers of the General Screw Company, 
on account of the larger number of troops she will carry. 
The Messrs. Cooksey, Brothers’, establishment, at Southamp- 
ton, has been working night and day victualling the Candia 
and the other troop steamers. The mail packets will go to 
Toulon from Southampton victualled, coaled, aud provided 
with hammocks. Everything else that is necessary for the 
troops will be furnished by the French Government. 
Immense Shipment of Military Stores for the East. 
— The officers, mechanics, and police of the H division, at 
present stationed iu the Tower of London, are most actively 
engaged iu the shipment of naval and military stores from 
that ancient garrison. The principal portion consists of 
warm clothing, bedding, patent iron bedsteads, preserved 
food, and various articles of consumption for the sick, 
together with a number of large tents. Orders were received 
from the Admiralty, to prepare, with all possible speed, an 
immense number of stores, and several thousand stand of 
arms, with ammunition, which are intended for the several 
regiments about to depart to the seat of war. Such is the 
great amount of the orders forwarded from the Government 
authorities, to be completed in a few days, that additional 
hands have to be employed day and night, in getting the 
goods on board the vessels, which are at present moored off 
the river frontage of the Tower. 
ARTILLERY FOR BALAKLAVA. 
On Thursday, Captain Broughton’s company, 2nd bat- 
talion, proceeded by the North Woolwich Railway to Eustou- 
square, and thence by railway to Liverpool, to embark at 
that port in the Europa, under orders to proceed at once to 
Balaklava, the previous order, to remain at Malta iu the first 
instance, having been countermanded. Captain Broughton's 
company has been sent out 150 strong, including all ranks. 
Captain Graydon’s company, 1st battalion, the next on the 
roster for foreign service, expects to leave Woolwich about 
Monday next for Balaklava ; and Captain Gibbons’s 9-pounder 
field battery at Norwich, and Captain Smyth's 9-pounder 
field battery at Ipswich, with two other companies, are all 
expected to eml#irk before the end of the present month for 
service in the Crimea. A report is iu circulation in the 
garrison, that, including Captain Broughton’s company, which 
left yesterday, 'eleven additional companies will be on their way 
or arrive at the seat of war in the East before Christmas 
^roiimnrttjini ®ilitin. 
Several of our gallant uiilitia regiments are now well- 
trained, and have offered their services in the Crimea. Wo 
may especially mention the Monmouthshire, 2nd West York- 
shire, ami several others. 
Several men of the Somerset Militia at Cork have volun- 
teered into the regiments proceeding on active service, and 
they are now beating up for recruits in Cork. 
(finjrftf. 
[From Tuesdays Gazette.] 
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 10- 
Corps of Royal Murines. — Second Lieut Howard Sutton Jones, to bo 
First Lieut., vice J. E. W. Scott to half-pay. 
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY I.ORDS-LIEUTENANT. 
Ikvekness-shibe. — Janies Murray Grant, Esq., to be Vice-Lieut. ; The 
Right Hon. Robert Campbell, Baron Abingcr, to be Deputy Lieut. ; John 
Walker, to be Deputy Lieut. ; William Robertson, to be Deputy Lieut. ; 
Alexander Matheson, M.P., to be Deputy Lieut ; Edward Ellice, M.P., 
to be Deputy Lieut. ; Henry William White, to be Deputy Lieut ; 
Alexander MacRa, to be Deputy Lieut ; Andrew Belford, to be Deputy 
Lieut ; Licut-Col. Hugh Inglis, to be Deputy Lieut ; Arthur John 
Robertson, to be Deputy Lieut ; Francis Dueklnfleld Palmer Astley, to 
lie Deputy Lieut ; Huntly George Gordon Duff, to be Deputy Lieut. ; 
Duncan Cameron, to be Deputy Lieut ; Angus Macdonald, to be Deputy 
Lieut. ; John Fraser, to be Deputy Lieut. ; Liout.-Col. Alexander 
Mackintosh, to be Deputy Lieut ; Arthur Thomas Malkin, to be Deputy 
Lieut ; jEneas Mackintosh, to be Deputy Lieut. ; Miyor Duncan 
Macplierson, to be Deputy Lieut 
7 Cth Inverness-shire Regiment of Militia — William Fraser, Esq , 
to be Capt, vice Gordon, resigned. 
County and City or Edinbihou. — City of Edinburgh Artillery 
Regiment of Militia. — Lieut. -Col. William Geddes, C.B., to bo Lieut.- 
