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    mediately after broke up the camp . For a punishment , the whole regiment was sent back to Naples on foot , instead of returning , as usual , by railway . On Monday last , a large Piedmontese steam-frigate , laden with troops , came nearly into port , and , after making the round of the shore , went off again . The Sardinian colours were flying , and the band was playing the national air . General Marmora was , it is added , on board . There was no communication with the shore . This demonstration is the more remarkable at the present moment when the Consttk-General of Naples at Genoa has just been deprived of his " exequatur , " and the Corriere Mercantile speaks of the conduct of the consul as declaring the two countries to be in a state of war . — Daily News Correspondent .

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    NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . A Russianised Englishman . —Among some troops recently embarked for the Crimea is Corporal Cumpton , of the 77 th Regiment , who has been seventeen years in Russia as a civil engineer , and in almost every important place in the empire . He had in his knapsack ten Russian ( good ) characters from officers and departments in which he has been employed . He is a native of Maidstone , a fine , hale , stalwart fellow , and says he has 2000 dollars in a Russian bank . He asserts he was three days in one of the battalions of British Guards three months ago , but not entered , because the colonel suspected him of being a Russian spy—he speaks and writes Russian so perfectly ; he was consequently rejected , and has only been enlisted in England three months . He came over from Parkhurst depot , with the detachment of the 77 th . He is a well-spoken , respectable-looking soldier , and bears a good character among those whom he has so recently joined .

    The late Stormy Weather on the Coasts . —The Pylades and "Volcano , which left Sheerness on Thursday week with the gunboats Redwing , Thistle , Starling , Dapper , and Badger , were obliged ( in consequence of the gale of wind which came on suddenly in the evening ) to cast off the gunboats , and all anchored under the Gunfleet between 10 and 11 p . m . John Barnett , master of the smack Concord , of Colchester , then riding near the Gunfleet , had his attention called to a number of rockets that were sent up in a south-easterly direc tion , apparently from some vessel in distress in the Black Deeps . Shortly afterwards , five guns were fired from the same vessel , and both the Kentish Knock and the Sunk Light-vessels continued at intervals during

    the night to fire rockets and burn blue lights . At midnight , the master of the Concord slipped from his anchor and seventy fathoms of chain , for the purpose of going into the Black Deeps to ascertain what vessel it was , and to render assistance to her . "While under waj * - , she passed two large steamers , the Pylades and Volcano , also two gunboats , then riding very heavily under the Gunfleet . At dawn of day , she boarded the vessel in the Black Deeps , which proved to be the Redwing gunboat , commanded by Lieutenant Forbes . The Redwing was then under steam , proceeding up from the Sunk Light-vessel , steering for the Gunfleet Light . The Redwing spoke the Pylades , and obtained leave to proceed to Sheerness , having lost both bower anchors , when

    Barnett was engaged to pilot her to Sheerness . He boarded the Redwing about four miles above the Gunfleet , and piloted her into Sheerness , arriving there about 9 . 80 A . M . The Badger spoke the Dapper , the latter then being on shore , witli the sea making a breach over her . The weather at the time prevented the Badger rendering any assistance to the Dapper , the officer in command of the Dapper stating that ahe was on shore , ( Striking heavily . It appears that the Volcano , when towing , fouled several of the gunboats by driving athwart their hawse , nnd did damage to each of them . The Redwing , to prevent damage , cut her towing hawser and cleared . On the Port-Admiral at Shecrness boing

    informed on Friday week of the situation in which the gunboat Dapper was last seen , ho immediately ordered the stoamvessel Lizard to proceed in search of her . The Lizard fell in with the Dapper near the Gunflcet-sand , and they arrived at Shecrness at 1 L . iiO i \ m . o > t the same day . The Dapper was in a very leaky state . The saving of tho vessel is entirely OAving to the indefatigable labour , zeal , and judicious nianagoment , of her commander , engineers , officers , and crow , nil of whom were in a perfectly exhausted state on her arrival at Sheerness . Several attempts were mado to got tho largo gun overboard ; but , owing to tho heavy sea , the strength of tho crow wan insufficient to accomplish it . 1

    AituivAr . onTitn Ahctio Discovery Shu * EntkhrniSK . —Ilor Majesty ' s whip Enterprise , Captain Collin-Bon , arrived at Spithoad hint Sunday evening , after sun-Bot , from the Arctic Kegions , China , and tho Capo of Good Hope . She sailed from tho latter station ( Tal ) lo Bay ) on tho 18 th of I ' ebruary , and St . Helena on tho 2 nd of March . Tho only mown tho Enterprise has brought confirms tho reports which have preceded her arrival aa to tho hostile relations between her captain and his officers . it , in quite true that all the executive Officers of the ship ( Cominiinder Phayro , Lieutenants Tago nnd Parks , and Mr . ttkoud , the muster ) aro under arrest , and have been ho for terms varying from three years to lessor periods . Mr . Skoad has been under arrest . < ivoi' three years , and Me . Parks moro than two years

    and a half . The ship was navigated home by Mr . Wise , acting mate of the Comus sloop , who was charged with that duty by Sir James Stirling , the Commander-in-Chief of the China squadron . The arrested officers will be tried by court-martial at the instance of Captain Collinson , who will also be tried at the demand of those whom he has , so long kept in confinement . The Enterprise was commissioned by Captain Collinson to go in search of Sir John Franklin on the 20 f ! h of December , 1849 , in concert with the Investigator , Captain M'Clure , but has achieved nothing in the way of discovery of the lost expedition . Sergeant Brodhs : More Persecution . — This honest and excellent-hearted soldier has been again placed under arrest , and subjected to a week ' s confinement , on a charge of " making false statements affecting the character of an officer . " The facts are thus stated :

    —Cornet Baumgarten , a few weeks since , represented to the sergeant that he was in want of money ; and ultimately Brodie handed over to him 207 ., upon receiving as security Mr . Baumgarten ' s watch . The cornet , however , chose to regard the transaction as a purchase . "When questioned on the subject , he denied that he had borrowed money of a non-commissioned officer , and was induced by his companions to bring the present charge against Brodie . Last Tuesday morning , the latter was brought before the acting colonel , who , having read the usual preliminary form of a court-martial , told Brodie that he was discharged from arrest by order of the Adjutant-General , who expressed his opinion that Baumgarten ought not to have been on such terms with a noncommissioned officer .

    The Foreign Legion . —A party of Polish prisoners , who are about to serve against Russia , were on Saturday embarked on board the Dunbar by the Confiance steamer . Before embarking , they were visited by several distinguished Polish residents . Military Camps . —It is said that the Government intend forming three more camps besides that at Aldershott—namely , one near Hull , one near Carlisle , and one at Beverley in Yorkshire . Frightful Shipwreck on the Manacles . —A shipwreck , attended with loss of life to a most appalling extent , has taken place on the south coast . The bark John , of Plymouth , bound from that port to Quebec , struck on the Manacles on the night of Thursday week . She had

    sailed on the day of the accident , laden with emigrants , and , after having struck , drove into Godrevy Cove , and sank in about four or five fathoms water , at nearly low tide , it being then about half-past ten o ' clock , wind E . N . E . The greatest confusion must have immediately followed ; and , although for the instant the crew and passengers were enabled to keep the deck and poop , yet for five or six hours no help was afforded , owing to the coast thereabout being quite uninhabited ; but , as day dawned , a fishing boat came out from Porthallow Cove , and succeeded in materially assisting in the preservation of the crew and about fifty of the passengers . It appears that there were embarked no less than three hundred

    emigrants , men , women and children ; and , judging from those who have been saved , it seems that the loss in round numbers reaches nearly two hundred . Not far short of a hundred corpses have been brought to St . Kaverne . When the vessel struck , only one passenger was on deck , who succeeded in getting , ashore ; the others were , for ttic most part , in bed . At the time of the catastrophe the wind was fair , and the weather tolerably clear ; but the passengers assert that the Lizard Light had not been opened . The male emigrants on board were chiefly mechanics and labourers from the north of Devon , Somerset , and Cornwall , accompanied hv n vnrv Innm number of children . The steam-tug

    Avon was despatched to the wreck as soon as possible ; and Lieutenant Carcw , R . N ., emigration agent at Plymouth , arrived at the scene of the calamity , and provided fur the wants of tho survivors . The coroner ' s inquest upon the bodies has terminated in a verdict of manslaughter against Captain Rawle , who is in custody at Bodinin . The jury expressed surprise that tho vessel wus not furnished with blue lights , and recommended that a light should bo placed ou tho Manacles . They considered that there avus not one extenuating circumstance , beforo or after the ship struck , in tho conduct of tho captain and the crow , all of whom are considered blumcable , except a seaman named Elder .

    Tun Baltic . — Risvia ,, Armi . 20 . — Her Majesty's steamers Conflict , lmporieuac , and Arrogant , appeared Oil' Baltic l ' ort yesterday and notified tho blockade , at tho same time stating that a term of seven days would bo allowed neutral ships to depart with the goods they then had on board , but that from the moment of the declaration of blockado no goods must be taken in , but

    ballast only . A letter irom Hamburg oi uiq / ., in tho 1 ndependance Be / ye , says : — " Lottors from Riga , road to Uay on 'Change , ' state four stoainors of tho ( lying squadron , commanded by Commodore Watson , hail entcml thu Gulf of Finland , in spite of the ice , which still rondo rod the navigation perilous . Some of those cruisers had oven shown themselves before Kuvul . This circumstance is accounted for by tho fact that the Uussian fleet is blocked up in the ports hy ico , three or four foot thick , which obstructs their entrance . It . was also said that auroral of those steamers , which had thus ventured into the Gulf , had be < m sadly damaged by the lluuting i < ro . Tho steam corvette Conflict had succeeded in reaching tho Danish habour of Elsinoro , where sho is

    now undergoing repairs . Hitherto , the only mission o those cruisers appears to have been to give chase t Russian merchant vessels . In the course of a few day the Bulldog appeared twice before the neutral port o Lubeck , jf tid the Archer before that of Memel . Tin flying squadron will successively visit all the com mercial harbours in the north . "

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    MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen on Wednesday evening gave a State Ball , to which a party of between 1600 and 1700 were invited , and for which the whole of the State rooms of Buckingham Palace were brilliantly illuminated . —On Thursday evening , her Majesty , accompanied by Prince Albert and the royal children , honoured the Polytechnic with a visit . More Incendiary Fires . —The Cambridge Independent reports two more extensive incendiary fires near St . Ives . About twenty houses , together with numerous barnsj stables , granaries , and outbuildings , have been destroyed ; and . a great many milch cows , pigs , domestic fowl , and two horses , perished in the flames . There appears to be no doubt that the act was that of an incendiary .

    A Distressing Accident , which resulted in the loss of three lives , occurred in Birmingham on Saturday night , at a concert room , at the Spread Eagle Inn . There was an escape of gas , and a cry of " Fire" ensued ; the company instantly rushed to the staircase , and in the crush a policeman on duty , a boy , and a girl , were trampled to death . Five others , dreadfully injured , were conveyed to the hospital . The Weather . —The snow was three inches deep in

    the Isle of Purbeck on the morning of Friday week . The Winchester hills were also covered with snow , which , although not so beneficial as warm rain , afforded by its moisture some relief to the dried-up ground . On Friday night , the frost was very severe throughout the south of England , and ice was a quarter of an inch thick . On the same day , the whole of the Northumberland coast was covered with snow , which in some places drifted several inches in height . The frost was intense , and the ice before sunrise was half an inch thick .

    Funeral of Sir Henry Bishop . —This lamented composer was buried on Saturday in the new cemetery at Finchley . Several musical gentlemen assembled at the entrance of the chapel ; and a full choir performed Croft ' s Burial Service . The vocalists were dressed in surplices . The Annual Royal Academy Dinner took place last Saturday within the walls of the Academy . The chair was taken by the President , Sir C . L . Eastlake ;

    and about one hundred and eighty gentlemen , including many of the ministerial and political celebrities of the day , as well as several noblemen and persons connected with science and art , sat down to dinner . The speakers comprised the President , Lord Hardinge , Lord Cardigan , Sir Charles Wood , Mr . Buchanan ( the American ambassador ) , the Duke of Argyll , Lord Palmers ton , Lord Stanley of Alderley , Lord Campbell , the Lord Mayor , Earl de Grey , and Lord Wrottesley . The speeches were not of a nature to call for analysation .

    St . Pancras and Maryi . ebo . ne Reformatory Institution . —The first public meeting of this institution was held on Thursday . week . The report was read by the Rev . W . Norman , and stated that the institution was opened in December , 1852 , with six inmates , that there was now room for forty . The building was ill adapted to the purpose , but one capable of containing one hundred might bo erected for 1000 / . Applicants were constantly rejected from want of room and funds . Thirty-fivo had left , four of whom had gone , after a short trial , unable to bear the discipline . Two had emigrated . Fifteen had been set up in trade , with whom correspondence was maintained , two had been provided for by friends , eleven had gone into tho army and navy , one had been dismissed for misconduct , and thirty-one

    are now inmates . Tho secretary adduced some striking instances of improvement among the inmates , and the remarkable and beautiful fact of their having voluntarily deprived themselves of their supper for live weeks for the purpose of subscribing to tho Patriotic Fund , and that , unknown to tho governor , they had given a portion of their daily broad during tho late high prices to the neighbouring poor . Tins new Planet lately discovered at Dussoldorf has received the name of Leukothea . Its distinctive sign will bo an ancient light tower . ' . ' .,. 1 ork Cotwr

    Washington Ikvin . i , says the New , x * suffering from a casualty rmHtained on tho lHth of April . Mr . Irving was ruling " on tho river road near Sunny Side , when his horse took friK ht and rim away . Iho animal ' s head wns towards home for which ho ,. ado at a terrible pace . Mr . Irving kept his scat and mi tf hthave escaped unhurt , but , as the horse turned from the ma n road he f .-ll and throw his rider , who was taken up s " mod by the fall . Mr . Irving remained insensible for several hours , and , though for some time in danger , is now fApril 21 ) considerably bettor . Hkati . ok Sik KohkktUakky Im . ws .- Thw gentleman-lontf known to the Parliamentary world and respected « v , « by those who difler < M irom Ins 1 L « UcIiiiitIi and Conservative principle !*—died on Satuiuatf niulit it I his town residence in Bedford-square , lie was born on the 12 th of January , 178 G , aud was conao-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 12, 1855, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2090/page/11/