The Express. — London, England, 1855-09-12 00:00:00

MIIIIP" - 31 :P 11 Egg ( . . r: 466.‘ 1 v_ • 4 -411 's !O.:b.' • k l tlV‘W.itisi t exantol%. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAT—lllerslog. 36. 47a. Afteraose, lb. ea. I.ressaw—Marsiag. q. Illea...—..Attemas. lb. NM t •••• TO CORRESPONDENTS. Imembet for " The [sprier," Leedom Itembey mar, al lielVerlbe Mee. 10. Boaverbreereet, by Two Ode* ea tile eg pialluille. LONDON, TERDSJSDAY, 811 5 TBMBER 12• TRW is a cool, self-complasent 'elfreetery, is the lielletins sod despatches of Prises Goevcruion that has never been surpassed. He can make a defeat a theme of soegratulation ; and, when be has nothing else to brag of, will bout of the alacrity and prudence he has displayed in running away. He appears to thick that his Imperial muter will be reconciled to hits mum loss, by being told that "The enemy found • enthlng ea the soothers side but blood-stained ruins." He ansounees that "the pussy of the garrison from the southern to the northern part was accomplished with extraordinary encase; with as jaunty an air as if be were talking of an advance, and not of a retreat. A man of this elisraoter—who is equally proud of drubbing and being drubbed—due not take much pains to conceal his lama. It is true Prime Goes euseorr—Or the officials at St. Petersburg who publish as much of his reports as is deemed tape& ent—does not go the length of telling explicitly bow many of his men bare been pet hors de combat, but he gives a tolerable inkling of it. He seknowkdges to the lees of a hundred men while crossing the bridge ; and adds that he was obliged to leave " Ave kindred men grievously wounded on the southern side." If the wounded, whom it was found impossible to carry along with the retreating army, amounted to so many, 'those who were able to secompany it, or who were sent away before the retreat corn -11111111114, mud have been much mere numerous ; MI if 100 men were killed in crossing the Image, the number of those who fell during the bombardment and I. the moult must have been rink greater. The epithet. two, which the PIM. applies to the fire of the Allies ( for Amfer —infernal fire) would seem to indicate that his nerves had been little shaken by it. It is equivalent to what decorous Englishmen would call an admission that the Allies bad made the place too hot t• hold him; or, as more plain.spoken people might my, that they had played the devil with him. Prince Gorrensiorv'e despatch implies that the whole of the southern side has been abandoned by the Russians. This is a point as to which some—to us unaccountable—doubts were expressed in certain quarters during the early part of yesterday. The croakers would have it that only the town and the KlLTS belusis suburb bad been evacuated. But, even before Prises GORTCHANOTT'S report was received, all doubts were cleared up by the explicit statement of Admiral BILUAT :—" I approached, this morning, the Quarantine batteries, on board the Brenda', and am:ermined myself that they are now evacuated. They have just blown up. Oar soldiers have left their trencher, and are spreading themselves is groups over the fortifications of the town, which sum to be totally deserted." The blow which his just been struck by the allied armies is sufficient to ensure our ultimate triumph, if it is promptly and vigorously followed sip. This is what the English public must now look to and insist upon. There is a natural indolence in all men that prompts them to withdraw from any difficult undertaking provided they can do so with Mat and our Ministers—no disrespect to them is meant—are, after all, mere men. Besides, they will immediately be besieged by all who have an interest in letting Russia down as softly as possible. There will be renewed offers of mediation from Austria; and the Aberdeenites, and the whole of the peace-at-any-price party, will be breaking net into choral chaunts in honour of magnani. mous forbearance in the hour of victory, and into demeastrations that we can now " pot an end to the war with honour." It Is not enough that we can do so with honour; we must do so with profit; we mot gain something by the efforts we have made. When the French and English Govern ments recognised the fur points u a possible labia of negotiation, they expressly reserved to them selves a right to modify their demands in accordance with the progress of warlike events—that is, to in crease their demands if OEMs should put it in their power to exact more. Russia is now in a much worse condition to stand out for easy terms than she was then. We say this in no vindictive spirit towards Russia, but with a view to the permanent peace and security of Europe. It is our business to render the Government at St. Petersburg as innocuous as possible. We must not allow °omelets to be deluded by such vague talk as that " the war was commenced to dimi nish the ascendancy of Russia in the Black Sea." That may mean anything, or nothing. The war was undertaken in the first place to compel Rus sia to abstain from appropriating territory that of right belonged to the Porte, and from usurping a de facto sozerainete over the SULTAN ; and, in the second place, to establish the general principle, that the Great Powers of Europe will no longer tolerate the wresting of territory from the weak by the strong by force of arms. The war will have been waged in vain if Russia is not compelled, in the treaty by which it is terminated, to renounce in express terms all enemies in future to extend its territories by conquest at the expense of any member of the European system of states; and to promise to abstain in future from all interfer ence in the domestic concerns of the Ottoman Empire. Nay more, as the good faith of Russia cannot safely be relied upon, material guarantees must be exacted from her for the fulfilment of thaw promisee. The nature of these material georambees is a consideration of some delicacy and difficulty. They must be such as to impress Russia with the danger of breaking faith, and at the same time such as are least likely to emend the motional pride et the Russian pimple. Wean any pardon of the Semilla territory—properly se ealki—asvilisi ban Ilhe Empire, the seem el Waged matiesollty would expose Europe to the duper of a speedy renewal of hostilities. But there are large tracts of territory subject to the Government of St. Peters burg, which the Russians have not yet leaved to sew eider as their own ; these might safely be semeadl from the Empire. Again, it has been the indium practice of Russia, when victorious. to make the sew Ruud bear in a great mason the expenses of the war; she Gould not resoonably owlish' at barks "her own meanre meted to her again," were Frano4 l England and Turkey to exact an indemnity at the close of the present war. If Russia is unwed in one or ether of these ways she will •be chary of again provoking a collision with the Western Powers ; if she is let off more easily, such tive 'impunity will eneourap her to assess, her ` tune mamas without delay. Oesthing it eertale t" : ghat alt "memos to negotiation ought to be made by the Allies until Ruda peace en their own time on the part of tartly rejected. We ma Government is " negotiation" throw never hear of Englielk mordant:idled to our mind ie made by Bcorr to cddrees to her moos after homing that ber husband has been entrapped by hie amortise. " You say read your father," said Hamm ItackGazoos, turning to her sons, "in what this yang lazes tells us. Wise only when the bonnet is se la iaad ea the sword is his bend, he 'never enelhaeges the tartan for the broadcloth, bat be runs himself into the miserable intrigues of the Low lenders, and becomes again, after all he has suffered, their agent—their tool—their slave." And even so it is with JOHN BULL in his foreign policy. lie never desists from a victorious war to negotiate, but he allows himself to be outwitted. This was the ease with hint in 1812 and 1816; and was very nearly l being again the case with him at the late Vienna Conferences. In the battle-field he is irresistible; in the diplomatic salons he has uniformly earned for himself the sarcastic description of BlrliON-" the fond ally, who bleeds for all, and ever bleeds in vain." Jaa. 26, DM. I h•P• to nosh*. as eel dips gager, authority to ex ra *amp the tilionlawretills Wady Of the 16th, esetlag to the altars of Wiliam !Ys is the great asses of sir mew dysasty. Boglamd mese goes slug with us, mid has the seams Stares se we ewe. The other pawns would him desalts us. If *key da met amassed is that we aro safe, aotwithstaadiog all our dilkalties ; Utley do mooed, Ido not believe that we sea stand. The other power ap pear to approach as at Case : this is pare tales !nod: at bottom our existence displeases ties; aad Se is the moos that their Cabinets attempt 1011111- thing every swans that say lead to a oases between us sad Beglamd. Charles X. sought, sad we right is seeking, support is Spain, to Austria, and is Basta; our support is her. Ss how Lori Abortions snack us; that se his pees. • • • • • To return to politics. Metternich is tryiag to emba►. m y Its. As steel, he holds three differ's% laspages... ni l aim is to embroil us with 'inland. sad to emmilief A Bush to himself, by eoujimiset up before her the mu o sm i um of revolution with which he mutable& the pose b o p' o f th e Emperor Alszaader. • • • • CEEMORNE AND SEBASTOPOL. THE .EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1855. increased, perhaps from the same cause; bat it had been gamely believed that an intention existed of driving back a Russian pioquet in advance of Ole proper right curtain of the Malakhoff, which impeded the progress of the new works tending in that direc tion. Tide attack was not made. At the time of the explosion the moon was shining, but there was a considerable haze over the surface of the ground, which rendered objects very uncertain and indis tinct. As might be expected after such a catastrophe, and the sudden occurrence of so many casualties, there was some temporary confusion l i among the French troops in the Mameloa Vert, and in the approaches on the Malakoff. The extent 1 of the mischief was supposed to be greater than it was in reality. Nothing was more probable than that the enemy would take advantage of the cir cumstance of each an explosion to make a sortie. The French General, therefore, requested the assist ance of the English in making arrangements to repel an assault of the enemy, should one occur. To meet this demand, a body of the Rifle Brigade was thrown out to the right, aid took up a position near the advanced works of the Allies on the Ma lakhoff hill. No sortie was, however, made. The French Engineers say that within three days the magazines in the Memelon Vert will be fully restored, and the supply of powder and ammunition as large as before the explosion. The fire was very heavy all night, both in our ad vanced works and those of our allies. A constant musketry fire was kept up by our sharpshooters, to keep down the fire from the enemy's embrasures. Large numbers of shells and grenades were thrown by the B.ussiass, and the discharges of grape in the direction of our working parties were numerous. In spite of the fire, and the disadvantages of the moon light, progress was made with our sixth parallel in the right attack. Behind the salient angle of the Redan, and extending in mid-distance across it towards either face of the work, the Russians have raised a commanding " cavalier." This earthwork, which is covered at top by rows of sandbags, and is particularly conspicuous, not only has a commanding position, but affords an almost secure protection for the Russian sharpshooters against the fire of oar riflemen. They fire through the openings made in the ordinary way between the sandbags. From this cavalier the Russians kept up a constant rifle firs during the night. Oar casualties were numerous, and it is intended to destroy this work by the fire of our heavy guns to-day. The French have made a considerable advance also in their approaches toward the Little Redan and Korniloff Bastion. During the last two nights another parallel has been commenced from the right, and already extends half way in distance of the length of the parallel last oonetructed. The approaches are now so high up the incline that no harm can be done to them by any flanking fire which the Russians have it in their power to use. The large guns of the bastion have been silenced long since, and, it they existed, could not be depressed against these advanced works. The shells of the Allies and the constant fire of heavy guns prevent any active opposition against the approaches from the nearest part of the enciente, and the enemy is now chiefly depending on the destructive effect of mortar batteries established in rear of the old works. Lord Stratford de Radcliffe and suite, Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, General Rose, and others visited the front of the camp to-day. It is understood that the Ambassador will return to Constantinople to morrow. The Duke of Newcastle has been visiting some of the camp hospitals, and has expressed him self much pleased with the arrangements made for the sick and wounded. The Highland division still remain in the plain, a short distance beyond Kamera. There are still rumours of another attack being contemplated. The Russian camps on the north side, stretching from Khutor Mackenzie heights as far as the Belbec river, are still on the increase. The new earthworks between the Wasp Fort and Fort Constantine are progressing. Thirty-six em brasures have been pierced, but no guns have yet been brought to them. The bridge forms a constantly frequented thoroughfare between the two sides of the roadstead. The military purposes for which it may be employed are doubtless carried out at night. All the waggons and carriages which are observed passing along it appear to be in private em ploy. Not unfrequently carriages pass, similar in form to those in use at Constantinople. The horsemen and foot passengers are always numerous. The carts are usually drawn by two horses; occasionally waggons ' pass with four horses attached. No swaying or move ment of the bridge can be noticed with the aid of the most powerful glasses. It appears to be most sub- I stantially constructed in every particular. It is said that it has been struck by a shot from a sunk gun on the left attack, and several passengers knocked over. If true, the damage to the bridge was very quickly repaired, but the fact of the alleged occurrence is very doubtful. As seen by the naked eye at the distant* of the battery in the left attack alluded to, the bridge shows little more than a narrow ribbon across the spacious water of the harbour, and a mistake in supposing it to be struck might be easily made, even when observed by a telescope. Some of our engineers doubt its being able to withstand the in fluence of a strong wind blowing from the westward. An active fire has been kept up in the batteries. The sand-bags of the Cavalier, within the Reda°, have been scattered in all directions, and the work appears to be greatly disabled. The night is very clear. A strong light from the moon illuminates all the works. Aug. 30.—The usual fire was kept up in front. Our casualties were less numerous than on the pre vious night. Our sixth parallel, notwithstanding the light, made progress. The French have also pro ceeded actively with their approaches. They have not extended their last parallel farther to the left, but have connected it by a direct sap nearly at right angles with the parallel immediately behind, at the same time that they have commenced two boys% one on the extreme right, the other near the end to the left, towards the abattis. Oar Allies have already a way into the ditch. The Rus sians had in front of the abattis a rifle pit, the entrant* to which was effected by a subterranean passage for the fors. The ambuscade has been sapped up to by the French, and the passage to the ditch was found •o be still open. The perseverance and courage of our allies in thus completing their approach, under the disadvantages to which they have been exposed in respect to the terrain, and heavy fire from the enemy, deserve every praise.. Their working parties can now be seen to be busily occupied in deepening the new approaches which have just been effected. In the direction of the Little Redan the approaches have also been carried almost to the ditch. Already oar allies are so close in their direction that from it they eon ire in reverse into the Korniloff bastion. The Little Redan itself is a mere ruin. The pas of position are all destroyed; field guns, charged with grape, are occasionally employed. Milers it is intended to wait for the arrival of the mortars, which are expected daily by the French, the assault cannot now be long delayed. Oor nightly Woe mob the men impatient for its occurrent*. We hops soon to haverhe Barabolnain in our possession. win saes to them to grant her at the commencement of the reign of Napoloon 111 li e n teems. Any insidious a for nip shows that a change y kes alleged im ' Aastrim-tsght to p-Ifexiikkiallilati • anwattiail awl it is - coshes tipt in so g to t ; true I _*upsts of pgrijUs ta iou of F and land Meognie4hya mush ka col . We • _Rublie in 1 fp our bast guarantee i diptessany withon g the the contiti friendship yid - 10.opiestios of the mind which RaLL! Msalazooft two most powerful and enlid nations of En- _ THE NEXT MOVE IN THE CRIMEA. GREAT and glorious as is the triumph the Allies have achieved by the destruction of the southern side of Sebastopol, a still grander triumph, as it seems, remains. Doubtless we have now gained a great victory, but the Russian army still exists. Indomitable aed dashing courage has performed its, task ; the hour for generalship is at hand. The soverior officers in the Crimea have been taunted with the fact that, except perhaps at the Alms, the battles bare been won by the common soldiers. Inkermann has been baptised "the battle of the soldiers." Now, at least, the commanders have an opportunity of retriev ing their reputation. Ignorant as we must confess ourselves to be of many circumstances which will probably modify and even embarrass the military plan of operations, still to an on-looker it does appear as it it were impossible to imagine an opportunity more perfect for a display of strategic power. By the victory just won, 200,000 hardened soldiers are set free from the harassing work of open trenches, the nightly alarms of sorties, and an attack on their flank. Moreover, the Russian fleet being anni hilated, the Allied fleets are at the absolute disposal of the Allied commanders, to transport any number of troops to any point they please. The Russians, on the other hand, having lost probably not leer than 10,000 men, must either hold the heights of Mackenzie, with Simpheropol fur their base, or must retreat with all speed northward to Perekop, which is the oily line now open to them ; for it is scarcely necessary to observe, that Prince GORTCHAROFP will hardly be absurd enough to coop up his army with in the lines on the northern side of the harbour. If the PIUNCS retires at once from the Mackenzie plateau, he will be observed by the Allies, and they will imme diately pursue him up the gorges of the Tehernaya, which, if only defended by guns, without an army behind them, would offer no effectual resistance. The Allies, with their overwhelming numbers, and elated with success, will cruelly harass his retreat, and having driven hies headlong into the barren steppe which stretches between Simpheropol and Perekop, will leave him to struggle for life with his famished and thirsty thousands. But if the PRINCE should delay for some few days, and permit the Allies to transport a corps (Torras of some 50,000 or 100,000 to Eupatoria, with all their cavalry, the PEIRCE and his army must be utterly destroyed. As we observed some few days ago, the great road from Simpheropol northwards is distant from Bupatoria but twenty miles. Plant this corps rearm& across this road, and the PRINCE must either fight a field battle or make a precipitate retreat, exposed to an attack on his left flank. But in either cue the pro babilities are he must suffer defeat—and, in such a ease as this, defeat is annihilation. It would be impru dent, and even foolhardy, to enter upon any minute speculation of the future movements of the Allies. A few days, or even a few hones, will probably enlighten us. Certainly the situation of the Rue- Sian army is most precarious, and indeed such as to inspire a man of genie. and strategic power. The military situation is simple enough, and in the remarks we have just made we have done little more than point out the obvious and necessary cones _ quotas which seem to miss out of the relative position of the two armies.—Dailg News. The Times of to-clay nye: We infer that the aerators forts will either be beM for a time by a limited Russian 'theism, or, more probably, alto gather almadased, la the hope of saving the army. Never was as army I. a men withal position. They an confined within a pealassla whisk affords them no other fortified position, so asetosawas for the troops, sod so water ►eyoad a certain has. The Rsesthas are is a trap, from which the Tchosgar road and the Isthmus of Penkop an the only means of escape, and eves there their telllallniCa- tions may passiWy be intercepted. Fighting, as they are, in elated lists, without the mauls of escape, the defeated Ruskin army should be compelled to lay dolma its arms, or to light a general make, whisk would crows the series of our SUONSB4I by a still more decisive victory. The peninsula itself is besieged sad well-aigb invested by our limits sad ' armies, sad if the command of a single road ha lost, tiler whole natio( wettest, and the only line by whisk supplies sad casanuateatione can reach the Russians, is gone. Beek we take to be Ike relative position of the belligerents is the Crimea, sad, with the IMAM of action at the disposal of the Treads end English assegais, we have oonAdeat hope s o f • glorious result. Oa the other bend, the Brussels Nord of yester day, whose Russian tendencies are well knows, writes is reference to the evacuation of the south of Sebastopol, as follows : The resolaticui of Prince Gortebakoff displays the energy of ain't eossinsader. It sane Russia from the difficult posit's& in which • false interpretetiew of the point of honour would have exposed her. The Sebestopol of the eolith is replaced by the Sebastopol of the north —a fonsidebbs polities, !Motile' with batteries—which a conestrand army, Iteneefortrard ha;ing of acticn tad movement, will defend. Impartial history will 'peak of the debase of Sebastopol as well u of the attack upon it, by assignisg to besiegers sod besieged thole doe share (Woodsman sad obstinate courage. It will also do jesting to the »solstice' of Prism Gertoltakolf. who, by main a momentary sacriles and avoidiag a useless effu sion of blood, has presumed for Enna as 'ray trained to war by a straggle of a year's thirsting, which for intensity has se parallel is military assals, and placid that army is a position which eaablee bits to csmmasd the situation. THE ALLIANCE OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND. The identity of the interests of France and Eng land in the politics of Europe has been recognised by the most disowning French statesmen for fall half a watery. The miasmas of the actual entests serails between the two nations is the result of thei graded diffedea of this opinion from the en lightened few to the whole eceueenity : it is no mere ephemeral expansion of sentiment. The following letter, addressed by Talleyrand to the Primers de Valium:et, at the sombeeessiat of the reign of Louis Philippe, were the mass and date eoppeneei, might be apposed to ham bees written . .ta.. • TO m IDITOI 07 SIEZ WSW. shall feel obliged by yourlnes:tin the ea. °load loin, ate odescseoption Mt* mined pond the tabjust to trbialt it alludes, aad May taliddu having been aside is Warns thereto.—Yort. THOS. B. BIMPSON. Royal Cromone, Us. 11. " Meth Glom, Brampton, Sept. 8, 1856. " Dear beg to acknowledge the receipt of your cheque for 8491. 17e. 116., making, with the sum paid for disbursements, a total of 1,0061. 141.8 d., as the proem& of the fete given at CreinerseCiardene on the 18th alt., In aid of the funds of the Wellington College ; and I have to express to you the Oinks of the committee for your liberality and public spirit in giving on that occasion the gratuitous ass of your gardens and the various entertain manta, by which so handsome a sum has been realised for the benefit of the College. " I have also the pleasure of informing you the. the accident which occurred to the soldiers on the evening of the fete, and which the committee are satisfied was not attributable to any defects in the arrangements, or want of care on your part, has proved to be far less serious than it was represented at the time. No bones were broken in any ease. Most of the men were able to return to their duty in a few days after the accident, and the ethers, It is expected, will soon be able to do so.—Your,, . . " 03011.08 CHANCI, Secretary to the Wellingtoa College. " To T. B. Simpson, BK., Proprietor of Cremate' Gardens." ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES IN DENMARK. A correspondent writes : lEN, Bzre. 8. The king is gone to Rippled, the ancient capital of the kingdom, to be present at the opening of certain tumuli, containing, according to the popular legend, the graves of the first kings of Denmark. The first that was opened was supposed to be that of King Canute Laward, bat nothing of Importance was found in it. The next tumults opened was the grave of Canute VI., where was discovered a long box er coffin with • leaden cover, which was immediately ' opened in the presentee of the king. There is no doubt that the remains were those of the above named king, from various regal emblems and the sins of the skeleton, for his tory records hi. to have bees a very tall and powerful man. Is the grove of Ring Waldemar I. a very interesting disco very was made. Under the head of the body, which was enveloped In a monk's cowl, was found a square leaden slab, not only confirming We es the grave of King Waldemar, but recording the reignited ante of hie k On the memo day the graves were opened of King Waldemar the Viets dons, and his queens Sophia end Benguela. Yesterday the graves of Quell Darner and Queen Regina (the latter the wifeef Canute VI.) were to be opened. The king .s dill at Risgatad. It is dtuated in the centre of the Wand of See land, on the line of the Copenhagen and Corfosr Railroad. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is at Brodhsk Castle, as the guest of the Lake of Rushton. The Duchess of Sutherland has joined the noble Duke at Danrobia Castle, and a select family party, in cluding the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford, the I Sul and Lady Constants Grosvenor, and Lady Blantyre, will shortly swat at the ducal seat. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane will receive a esecessies of visitors at Tayatoata Castle during Vie stasis. The Marquis of Tweedsle has arrived at Tester Seen from Hisaolton Castle, Huntingdon, where the noble and gallant Margaie proceeded to attend the 'sacral of the late Dake of Manchester. The Marquis sod Marebioneee of Stafford passed Unapel es Thanday for Rbidarrools. • Tha Rad of Cardigan arrived at Douglas' Hotel 'yesterday eveniag, front nsibmseashire, sad Isamu t h is amnia' by azpress train for Doneaskr. Lore and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, who have arrived at Drummond Castle, Porthshint, from Dover, will Imetertain eorapaay at that anoint baronial rmidosos until the elms of ant montb. A female pedestrian, Miss Isabella Melrose, per formed lest week at Neath the astonishing feat of walking 600 half-miles la 600 half-hours, and 600 quarter-miles in 600 quarter-home. The event same off apoa the green wear the railwaystation, in the musses of a lugs number l of persons. The Earl of Stamford and Warrington killed, on Friday, the 7th September, with his own gee, at Whittles tow, war Ravine Hall, 219 partridges, sent harts, four leaded* and three rabbits—together, 233 head. The Morning Post of yesterday oontained the following paragraph :—" We deeply regret to state that oar lose in the assault on the Radius, last Saluda', unmated to two thousoad killed sod woudeeL" Front a return Woad thin morning, it appears that is 1861 the population of Bogisad sad Wales was 17,827,487 s while the amount et workhouse asoonunodaden kw the past ending Deo. 81, 1854, was 211,6f9. lei Ireland the population was 6,632,036, and the ammatnedation 214,281. The Right Hon. Mr. Shaw Lefern), Speaker of the Sew of CSOIIIOII9, has rotund to the South from Beetlead. The Rey. R. Lee, one of the Deana of the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, has been appointed to preach before her liekety is the course of her residence In the north. The Rev. W. Blackleg, M.A., Bt. John's College, Cambridge, hes been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Lick. field to the vicarage of Stanton-upon-Hine Heath, &lop, on the presentation of the Right Hon. Lord Vheennt Hill. The Duke of Northumberland has been expending eaormlus sons of 50,0001. sitar fa rebuilding oottegss, farm-hosees, and buildings, and is draining leads la his vat estates in Northumberland, to say nothing of the .Undid ielpfoMlllllllll geiag es la the stately eaales of Aimed& sad Wringer*. Major J. W. Blacks.% of Ilia Langford Militia demise a statseseat la the Freeman's Jowls/II that the reseed of three ultimate of militia front the Carragh a Kildare wan attributable es religious dissensions or a Mamas of epiaisa bourses the sestassadiag al kar sad tie ma. Another letter in eoettaaation of the Nvpier sad thrabasee earrespeadease appears ia a son* paper of ibis day, whir& esataias sethlat sew bat "yet Rote extra ordlaary &mama this *see already published are promised." DEATH OF CAPTAIN 1317LEELEY, SCOTCH FEMUR Goma:le.—We regret to samosa the loss of a very pro. asking your oilier, Capt. Damonabe Bs&sky, Scotch Padlies (lauds, who was killed is the Nesebes before Sebastopol ea the 4th. He was Boa of Major Goan& Balk isy, (ose of the Chtoes'a egawies) sad Lady Catbuiso r i ILATEST FROM ABROAD. (nom ova r ie ,4 VIEr.424A. Monnev. The Austrian Consul writes OA th e Alu m have taken possession of the south side of Sebastopol, which the Russians had yo l mitarily evacuated. The fleet is burned or sunk. DESPATCH I P EC/11 PRINCE BERLIN, Barr. 10. , Prim P.eittehakoff writes : "SATOIDAT, SRPT. 8, 8 IN TUB MORNING. "me enemy constantly receives reinforcements of fresh troops. The bombardment is fiercely violent." "10 A? NIONT. "The prison of Sebastopol, after sustaining an infer sal fire, repulsed six assaults, bat could not drive the enemy from the Borniloff Bastion (the Istalakholf batteries). " Our brave troops, who resisted to the last extre mity, are now crossing over to the Northern part of Sebastopol. "The enemy will And nothing in the Southern part but blood-stained ruins." SUNDAY, Sari. 9, Noox. " This morning the passage of the garrison from the Southern to the Northern part was accomplished with extraordinary success, our loss on the occasion being but 100 men. "We left, I regret to say, nearly 600 am, grievously wounded, on the Southern aide." OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (FROM 017 R IIINT.) CAMP ABOVE BIBASTOPOL. am. 1. There is very little general news to communicate by this mail, but the details of the gradual and sure progress made in the siege operatioas are highly in teresting. There is a general belief that the assault must take plane very shortly, for the approaches of the French against the Malakheff and associated line of works are now actually in contact, and the more prominent points of the enemy'. liae of defence are nearly silenced. Our casualties are numerous, but happily the general health of the army continues good, notwithstanding that the greater put of it is exposed to the severe and harassing exposure and duties of the trenches at very frequent intervals. The destruction of the great magazine and its con tents in the Mamelon Vert might have led to very serious results as regarded the progress of the siege operations ; fortunately, not a battery was injured, and already the mischief has been fully repaired. I coatings my journal : Aug. 29.—A terrific explosion occurred last night, about twelve o'clock, which, unfortunately, is found to have taken place in the works of our allies. No catastrophe of a like kind, pro duciog so powerful and widely spread an agita tion of the earth and atmosphere, has happened since the commencement of the siege. Happily, though sufficiently fatal in its immediate effects to the brave troops both in its neighbourhood and at a distance, the accident has caused but little detriment to the batteries, and will not for one hour interrupt the progress of the siege operations. It took place in the Mamelon Vert. All the gun powder in the large magazine formed by the Russians when the Kamchatka Itedoubt was in their pos eision, and in the construction of which a natural cave was taken advantage of, was exploded. The contents of two smaller magazine. near at hand were also destroyed in a similar manner. The position of this magazine was on the north east aspect of the hill, and it is said that, at the time the disaster occurred, mortar powder, packed in casks, was being conveyed in an artillery waggon to be deposited in this store. The door of the magazine was therefore open. The particular cause of the explosion is not known, and, in all proba bility, never will be known. Every thing and per son near the place were destroyed, and no evidence on the subject can be obtained. Whether some pow der escaped, and an accidental spark from a pipe or other source, set fire to the explosive material, or whether a shell from the enemy bursting among the contents of the waggon, caused the fearful mischief, must remain a mystery. Both causes are mentioned. Altogether the quantity of powder exploded is said to be 7,000 kilogrammes, or about 15,000 pounds avoirdupois. The casualties amount to four French officers killed, and two wounded, thirty-three men killed and 140 wounded. To theme must be added fourteen men in the British right attack killed and wounded by falling timbers and stones. The effect which followed the sudden destruction of this vast mass of gunpowder, was very similar to that of an ordinary earthquake in a volcanic region. Be fore the explosive report was heard, those who were awake in the trenches felt the agitation and trembling of the earth. In the camp the undulation of the ground was equally felt by those who were awake. The sleepers, though used to the constant reports of the gene, were startled from their sleep by the sound of the explosion and the concussion of the air. The general impression seems to have been that a shell had been thrown into camp and had burst, close at hand. The conclusion was equally felt at Baleklava, and the sound there was so startling and forcible, that many persons turned out to discover the cause of the distur bance. It was hoped by many that a large mine had I been sprung beneath the Malakhof4 and that a great part of its works had been destroyed. Large beams of wood, which had been employed by the Russian en gineers in strengthening the principal magazine, and hags stooge were hurled to amazing distances. An immense log of wood fell in the advanced 13-inch mortar battery of the right attack. A man was killed, as far to the left as the approach in front of the Quarry Battery, near the Woronzoff ravine, by a falling fragment of stone. The piles of shot, arranged in pyramids, in various parts of the Mamelon Vert, were thrown down, and the shot rolled about in all directions. It is not improbable that many of the enemy in the left flank and curtain of the Korniioff Bastion, and the works beyond, were injured by the shower of stones and heavy materials which must have fallen in that direction. After the immediate effect explosion of the had pawed away, the Russians from Careening Bay to the Redan set ups loud cheer. It is strange that so little mischief should have been done to the guns and batteries near the powder maga zine; perhaps their very propinquity saved them, from the chief man of the materials , forced up in the air being carried so high as to' fall beyond them. The French loon in wounded would sot have been so great, had not increased provision been made the night before against au attack by the enemy. (Tir onmetaness had led to the expectation that the Rus sians contemplated making a sortie from the Malak hoff nab* the French works, and large insures had been posted behind the Mamelon Vert. It was among these reserves that the falling stones and timber caused so many essualties. The voltigeure of the Imperial Guard particularly suffered. The guards of the trombonist tb English right attack had also been Considerable difficulty has been experienced is preserving a proper degree of cleanliness and ane w lion to sanitary measures, among the mixed Gad now crowded population of Kadikoi. At last, th e Commandant, Colonel Harding, determined to 'deo stringent measures, and two days ago all the * pi were ordertd to be closed, and to remain aimed e l % the required purification was completed. T e , stap page of business caused some inoonvenitn ee , b et t i; restriction had the desired effect. The place hasbete cleaned, and arrangements entered into for its Men good order, and to-day ordinary business hu bas resumed. The temperature has been much diminilhed is comparison with our late weather. The nee te i ep and evenings are becoming cool. This evening the re has been a gathering of elands, and a fall of rain h threatened. Aug. 31.—The rell — wisrak was expected Ma eves. ing did not fall over the camp. The clouds pin e d over toward the mountains, and a vivid display si lightning followed. The night became clear, with the exception of a light hazy fog on the whet c i the ground, over the work. The moon's light ws from time to time obscured by clouds. This monis( is so cool as to give the sensation of winter. Fshres• heit's thermometer within shelter of the tents, at 9 a.m., indicates 64 degrees—a striking difference with the temperature only a few mornings ago. The Russians made several attempts lest night to interrupt the progress of our new paw. lel ; unfortunately, in the tint instance, with some success. The first attempt was mad e before midnight. The working party were ern p'oyed on the extreme right of the new parall e l, not far from Karabelnaia ravine. It was to light that it was not thought prudent to put out &coveting party, who, from their very advanced position, would have been seriously exposed to the enemy's fire. Moreover, the enemy had contrived to throw up ill front of the parallel a small line of trench, which wee occupied by sharpshooters, and several ounbusoadee had been established by them in the opposite lids of the ravine. The Russians appeared to be merely relieving sentries; but it subsequently was shovers that in this way they were, without attracting suf. ficient notice on oar part, managing to collect small force among the long grass and rocks, sad under shelter of the sloping side of the ravine. near to the edge of which the men were working. Having formed in sufficient numbers, the Ruske, suddenly, while the moon was temporarily shaded by a cloud, rushed on our working party, which was composed of men of the Rifle Brigade, sod 23rd Fusiliers. They fell upon the men before they could exchange their working tools for their firearms, and nothing could be done bat hastily to retire. The Russians quickly pulled down some of the Rabin; and collecting a few muskets left by our men, sad some working tools, most have carried them off to the ravine. One man of the 23rd regiment, and two riflemen, are missing, and are supposed to Dave been made prisoners. The enemy commenced destroying our work which was in progress at the time of the assault. Some men of the 77th regiment occupied the parallel immediately in the rear of the spot from which the working party had been driven, and leap. log over the parapet, they in turn rushed upon the Russians, compelled them to desist from their work, and drove them back to their hiding places in the ravine. An actin fire of musketry had been kept up against the direction of the Redan and its left curtain, to prevent any assistance coming to the enemy from that quarter. The Russians were seen to make the attempt once or twice. At one time a large *elite appeared, but the heavy musketryffire drove them back. A party of the 97th regiment was now brought down to cover and reiu force the working party. Aboot two o'clock the enemy made a second attempt, but were at onoe checked by the active fire from the men of tlis 97th regiment. A third attempt, equally unsucaiss ful, was made by them subsequently. Unfortunately they were not repulsed without lose os our side. Lieutenant George Berthon _Preston, of the 97th regiment, a very young officer, not having completed a year'. service, went boldly forward, and received a mortal wound from a rifle ball. It penetrated hie chest, and he died 'shortly afterwards. He had only joined the head quarters of his regiment about three weeks previ- only. In April of the present year, a younger brother, Horatio Preston, in the Connaught Rangers, fell be fore the enemy. He also was slain by a ball from one of the Russian riflemen in the trenches of the right attack. Both of these brothers, although so young in the service, had endeared themselves to all around them, and the death of the elder, following but so few months after the death of the ether brother, has made a painful impression. Lieutenant Matthew Brinkley, 97th Regiment, was wounded in the neck, but not dangerously, and Lisa. tenant George H. Hibbert-Ware, of the same regiment received a ball through the arm, which passed, however, without breaking the bone. Cap taro Garnet Weiseley, of the 90th Regiment, wee was doing duty as Acting Engineer, and superin tending the work, also received two severe wound. from stones driven against him by a round shot. The French still further extended their approaches. The left boy an from their most advanced parallel is close upon the abattis. The adjoining approaches have been strengthened and widened. There do not appear to be so many working parties employed by the Russians on the north side to-day. Embrasures for 40 guns in addition to those which previously existed can now be counted. The bridge is covered by passengers and vehicles, but, es before mentioned, no movement can be noticed indicative of military operation. A strong wind bas been blowing all day from the north-west; but the water in the roadstead hes enntin ova mmont h. being shielded by Cape Constantine and the northern heights from its influence. The temperature has continued cold and almost wintry; slight rain is falling this evening. 1 Sept. 1. The night became clear and bright. There was a particularly heavy fire, until the moon rose in the direction of the working parties, but it afterwards subsided Into the ordinary detached "popping" of musketry, and occasional gun and mortar discharge from the batteries. Captain William Henry Cecil George Pechell, of the 77th Regiment, and eon of Sir George Pechell, the her nourable member for Brighton, died on the eight of the 3rd September whilst serving in the trenches before Sebastopol. Daring the winter campaign in the Crimea, he cheerfully shared in the arduous services in which the 77th Regiment was engaged. After the attack on the Redact on the 18th June, a gracious offer was made by Prince A.lbeth to r/sec hien:in his Royal Highness's IV 'sigma of Gl ard4 which would have been the mess/ of elpeditiolt hie return to England; but the high position be held in his Regiment and the zeal which stimulated him in the en seientions discharge of his duties would not allow him at such a moment to quit the post of honour and of danger W which he had so nobly devoted himself; he, therefore, re• quested permission to remain the 77th, and he had these? faction of being informed that his decbion was 1 approved and appreciated by his Royal Highness. Sir Dane and Lady Peahen have received a commanication feat B amoral, rioressing the deep and unfeigned concern with which her Majesty maths Prince heard of the m 444400. fallen upon them by the loss of their pliant son lap treaches.