The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-10 00:00:00

fine expreoo. A lr %....11.•Mlias vam a......• .... A 011141111•111411 banded bar T. barks Evades law, mg be at the OM" 10. Sou by Two °Week cm th• ilq of piblkmaks. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tem DAT—M , ruing, Oh. 220 a Afternoom, Oh. 19m. tramorr—liarriag, IL Afternoon, lb. Cva. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10. WE are mot ashamed to confess that the result, co: the postponed Polish Meeting has deeply mortified us. An opportunity was afforded to the inhabitants of the metropolis of doing • real service to Poland and Europe, and nothing has come of it. We are told by some optimists that the sentiment of the meeting was unanimous iu favour of Poland : why, the senti ment ot England bee all along been unanimous in favour of Poland ; but what is the used a vague een timent that, after so many long years, cane x ,a prompt a tangible act? The meeting was os'A e o upon solemuly to declare that the r ,t a i m of Poland to have its nationality re estab lished WAS indefeasible ; and that, as a first step to the re-establishment of its nationr,lity. th e enrolment of a Polish Legion ought to be n xged upon Parliament and the Government. A petition to Parliament, based upon such resolution e, eman atin g from a respectable 'metropolitan moetinp,, could not pos sibly have remained without effect. It • would have been the first step towards the re-appears Ace of the White Eagle in the ranks of European war, as that would is turn have been towards 'die resuscitation of Poland. Bet instead of these resolutions the meet ing, after a tedious scene of gesticulation, inarticu late noise, and anger, voted that nothing should or could be done until Lord PALMERSTON was turned oat of office. As if the task of promotiog the resus citation of Poland were not in itself sufficiently arduous, it was resolved that it should be linked with the teak of bringing about • Ministerial crisis in England. The advocates of such a policy remind ooe irresistibly of CHARLES LAMB'S legend ot the Chinese, who, in the infancy of the culinary art, ►eroed down a hoese whenever they wished to roast • Pig. The no-result of the meeting has been attributed to a conspiracy, and as usual the blame has been laid upon the Chartists. We have been so long accus tomed to the " preternatural suspicion " (as CAR. ist.E calls it) with which dissentient parties regard each other in matters political that we have become slow of belief in conspiracies in such cases. We be lieve that in nine cases out of ten what is believed to be the result of profound design, has in reality been merely the effect of folly and pragmatical presumption. At all events, whatever may have been the cause of the disturbance of Wednesday's meeting, we cannot see the shadow of a reason for attributing it to the Chartists. That epithet, indeed, is applied by many in a manner most indiscriminating, and calculated to lead to mischievous misapprehen sions. We believe, it is true, that the great mass of the onenfranchised hold the doctrines of " the Char ter," but they must not on this account be confounded with the unwise end turbulent knot of politicians who Dave seen fit to adopt the name of Chartists as their distinctive denomination. And even the Chartists proper, when they have interrupted meetings, as the meeting of Wednesday was interrupted, have done so by interposing amendments in favour of " the six points." But the slogan of the mover and seconder of the amendment on Wednesday was the impeach ment of Lord Permensiost, and that is sufficient to denote that they are sectaries of the unintelligible political creed of Mr. URQUHART. Were we as ready to believe in conspiracies as some people are, we con fess that some coincidences would turn our suspicions in a direction widely apart from that of the Chartists. Mr. CoLtErr, the mover of the amendment, is only known to the public as the indefatigable secretary of an association for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, of which Miners. BRIGHT, COBDEN, and MILNER GIBSON were the most influential members; and the gentleman who first moved Lord HAuturctorr out of the chair, and then got himself moved into it, was Mr. GEORGE THOMPIION—au itinerant missionary of the principles of the peace-at-any-price party. Bat we repeat that we see no proof of any conspiracy, and that we be lieve the presumption and conceit of a few pragma tical individuals are quite sufficient to account for the contretemps that we regret. It would be sheer waste of time to seek to prove by argument the senselessness and irrelevancy of the amendment that was carried. The meeting was composed of men of almost every political leaning, united, however, in their desire to see a beginning made to some course of action that might ulti mately lead to the re-establishment of Polish na tionality. What right then had any section of the meeting to disturb its unanimity by insisting that every man in it should pronounce their political Shibboleth? What had the meeting to do with Lord Psuititsrox or Lord Anybody ? Its business was to declare that it was the duty of whoever held the reins of Government in England to avail himself of Polish valour in the prosecution of the war in which we are now engaged. It may indeed be alleged that the chairman and the seconder of the first resolution went out of their way to white wash Lord Pststextrox. This we freely admit was ill-judged on their part, but it did not affect the resolutions or the petition band upon them, which were neither friendly to Lord PALMERSTON nor otherwise. Besides, the mover and seconder of the amendment had not the wit to catch at such a pre text for their interference; their speeches, like their motion, were prepared beforehand ; the one would have been delivered and the other made, even though Lord Psusaarron'e name bad been mentioned by the other party. The most provoking feature of the whole affair is that tho party which was allowed to have all its own way was in reality a minority. Had the chairman and the rational portion of the meeting stood firm, the supporters of the amendment must have been beaten. But, as is too often the case on such occasions, they got disgusted with the squab ble, and dropped off one by one, until the minority became • majority. It is this lukewarmness and superoilionsness of the earnest and sensible part of the public that constitutes the power of the distwbers of public meetings; and unless that portion of the community whose opinion is best entitled to have weight learn to be a little less finical, it will soon become impossible to hold public meetings on any important question. Of this hereafter; the consideration that iron* distil, presses upon us is what ought to be done in the present emergency. The public recognition of the indestructible nationality of Poland and the ex pediency of enrolliog a Polish legion for service in the present war, is an object of too great impoitanee to be ,abandosted because a few presumptuous Jodi :ideals have made a public meeting break up in most admired disorder." We do not, indeed, recommend that another meeting be attempted at present ; it is char that the THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1855. far from Dover a camp in which thirty thousead n. are daily being taught all those arts and coa -1 trivances T w i r fit them for ron ing it on 3 h ...• .. .4' eamT ' lope, altn en ly the y the so. henmel The to . 0 of tar Whits the on 1p the me On their tree. gat so wally pand fielividuals there is hardly one who does no ractise some trade, handicraft, or calling, ender proper supervision, and ...' the general good of the whole body. When the amp was constructed, roads were made, wells sunk, camp-kitchens raised, and hospitals erected—all by the soldiers themselves. The cost of the Honvault vamp to the public purse, as compared with that at Aldershott, is as nil when placed side by side with a million sterling; and yet the former would hold treble the number of men which wild be contained in the latter. The very know ledge of having been the builders of their own habi tations cannot fail of gi ring the French soldiers that feeling of confidence end self-reliance so valuable in all troops when on tamvice. What they learn on the north coast of Frsr.ce can be easily carried out before Sebastopol, and men join General PELISBIER'S camp .with that practical experience for the field which ours only learn after months of hardship and suffering. Might we not have followed the example set us beyond the Channel ? We might, but have not done so. Another summer has passed, half of the autumn is over, but the practical teaching of our troops in all that is required to be known by men taking the field Ls yet to be commenotd. Incompetency and obsti nacy still reign supreme, both at the Horse Guards and War office. VOt Court. OSBORNE, AUGIIIIT 9. His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Duke of Oporto, attended by their suite, lelt the royal yacht yesterday for Southampton, and embarked on board the Mi dello on their return to LisbJo. The Queen took leave of his Majesty early yesterday morning, and Prints Albert accompanied the King to Southampton. The Queenaad Prince cruised in the Fairy in the after noon. This morning, at S o'clock, her Majesty and bie Royal Highness, attended by the Countess of Desert, the Ron. Mary Seymour, Major. General Bouveric, and Captain Da Plat, left o,borne for Bhorncliffe, where her Majesty is to inspect tee Foreign Legion. Prince Arthur has taken carriage citing on Monday last and previously. Tee Dacbeu of Lent left Frogmore yesterday In Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. A deputation, consiseng of Dr. Goneey, Mr. Barker, Mr. Emmanuel, Mr. Mat:Adam, the Rev. Mr. Surest, and ' Mr. Levy, had an interview with Sir Benjamin Hall yester day at the office of Works and Public Buildings, in White ball-plea. The deputation was introduced by Dr. Gourley. A deputation from the Hull Dock Company, consisting of Mr. John Tall (deputy chairmen). Messrs. Wm. CoMason and West (directors), Mr. Charles Frost (+abettor), and Mr. W. H. Huffara (ssuetary), bad an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley, at the Board of Trade on Wednesday. Meetings of the Oxford University Commiuion were held at No.lB, Great Queen-street, Westminster, an Teesday and Wednesday. The Commissioners present were the Berl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Ripon, the Dean of Wells, and Sir John W. Awdry, with the Secretaries. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-offiee yesterday to the Governor of Malta, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and the Governors of Mauritius, Hong Kong, and Ceylon. beim of the friends of Poland are &fidget is that' bet and experience which are required to keep a 1 public meeting to the bailees before i a' But we beg li • 1 1 grmly believe that were all— dull . &gland polled it wadi be faun t nine ie t 411 wary twenty approve do 1 , .. r . meat that was to have , sub ietted ' ... ion on Wednesday eveilig, linkk\ pin ,s•"*. - it having its substance embodied in a memlrial to the Crown, and put 4 .0 circulation ' , with a view to obtain signatures, in order that it wAy be preactted without'' low of timeZ, Surely one among the many noblemen situ Peor eia .to have ' the rouge of Poland at heart would be found willing to undertake the charge of brio ging it under the cognisance of her MaiverT. Or if this •.node of proceeding be deemed nnadvisable what lzineiers their nireulating the petition itselt ter sig natures, in order that it may be presented to Parlia ment s• soon as the Legislature reAssembles? SINCe the war began, how fearful:l has that been Pasted which could least be spared—time. Granting that the termination of forty years' peace found us with an army unsuited for campaigning, what has Government done to remedy the evil since it was first admitted? If General SIMPSON'S army leave their present scene of action, and take the field against the Russian corps outside, will our military administrative departments be found in more serviceable order than they were before Alma was fought ? Or will our new levies be more au fa/ in everything that concerns their comfort and health in the field, than were the thousands of their brave comrades who died last winter of absolute want P In fewer words, what have those in power done towards improving the condition of our troops on service, even since the official light was cast upon the Crimean horrors by Mr. ROEBUCK'S committee? The answer can be but one. Much has been achieved within the walls of public offices, but little or nothing outside. Some of the army departments have been handed over from the care and charge of Incapacity A to the tender mercies of Incapability B; but how will such changes better the actual condition of the soldier, or what will it teach him in the way of making the most of every situation he can possibly be placed in during a campaign ? And yet much—very much— might have been done towards training our men des tined for the seat of war, even since the spring and summer set in. Months ago we drew attention to the camp then in course of construction at Aldershott, sad pointed out what blunders were being committed not only in the construction of the hate, but still more in the objects which the military authorities seemed bent in carrying out when everything would be ready for the reception of the troops. Have our predictions been verified ? What has the soldier been taught at Aldershott which he could not have learnt equally well in any of the numerous barracks now standing empty throughout the kingdom ? Less awful even than Chobham, the present camp has been used through our short English summer as a huge drill ground, upon which to teach militia recruits the elementary parts of their exercise ; and Low that we are getting on in the autumn, and shorter days begin to show that the fair weather will ere long come to an end, Aldershott is to be the scene of field days on a large scale—an extra novelty for pleasure-hunter s during the long vacation. Was it fur this that immense sums of money were voted by Parliament for the erection of the camp ? Did not all England believe and expect that whenever the huts were ready for the troops Aldershott would be used as a sort of Stashing school for regiments and detachments about to embark for the seat of war? What were we told, or given to understand, respect ing the construction of fieldworks, which every pri vate soldier was to have a practical knowledge of before leaving this country for the Crimea? Has one man joined the army in the East carrying with him the fruits of any such tuition ? Or what has been taught any one of the several corps which have lately left for Sebastopol, in the art of cooking in the field ? Nothing—truly and literally nothing whatever has been done as to instructing our troops in the art of campaigning—the knowledge by which one man is healthy, comfortable at .d well fed, whilst hi 4 more ignorant neighbour is sick and feeble from diarrhma— eating his food nearly raw, and unable to raise a' shelter for his head, even where the materials abound. As we pointed out at the time, the errors of the undertaking commenced with the first planks that were laid together for the construction of the Aldershott huts. It was not requisite that hundreds of car penters should erect summer habitations for our troops, but it was absolutely necessary that the men should be taught to build huts for themselves. There was, and always is in the English army, the right stuff to work upon. In every regiment there are to be found numbers of individuals who, before their enlistment, worked at some trade or handicraft, Amongst these there are quite enough carpenters, joiners, blacksmiths, and masons to erect any sort of , building required in the field. But to be effective they must be organised into something like a body of workmen accustomed to help each other, every man having his own task to perform. We have the means at oar disposal, but we neglect to avail ourselves of them, and the consequence is, that, except for the purpose of actual fighting, our soldiers are utterly melees, they cannot even take care of themselves. But not even is the use of their weapons taught the troops now at Aldershott. The school of mus ketry at Myths is far too distant from the camp to be of the slightest use in furnishing instructors for the troops; and, marvellous to relate, with the ex ception of the battalions of Guards lately gone there, every regiment in the place is armed with that re spectable old gun called " Brown Bess." When to this is added the fact that not a battery of artillery nor • single troop of cavalry has yet been sent to Alder shott, our readers will perhaps wonder for what use a million of money has been expended : we will try and solve the problem. A few days hence the form in camp is to be reviewed by her Messer. Two troops of jack-booted giants are to be sent from each etf tho mounted household corps to take part in the pageant. A battery of guns is to come up express from Woolwich. Three battalions of Foot Guards have already joined the force. The militia corps in the camp have been drilled up to a point which will enable them to take a part is the proceed ings. Thousands of people will go down from Lon don to witness the review. The railway companies will run extra trains, and add greedy to their usual profits. There will be grand salute for the QUEEN. Lord CULDIGAN will dash about at the head of the Cavalry, riding at that pace for which he is so dis tinguished. There will be much dust if the weather is fine, and more mud if the contrary. Muskets, big guns, and carbines will be fired in great profusion ; and a grand charge of horse will end the military entertainment —men, women, and chil dren returning to town under the firm con viction that they now know a vast deal about military man% sad wondering very much why such fine troops dealt take Sebastopol. But for this 'hew, Jonn Dm has paid a million of money; and it mods no great amount of wisdom to perceive did nothing has been done in teaching our men that of which they are so ignorant—the art of campaigning. Yet we might have dose this without much tree hie, and at infinitely less =moo. There is not very VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO SIIORNCLIFFE. PORTSMOUTH, Allover 9. Hee Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and nit., embarked on board the Fairy, at eight o'clock this morning, for this port, es route to tlhoracliffe, to review the Foreign Legion there. The St. George, 120, and Nep tune, 120, at Spithead, had dressed in coionrs at 6 o'clock, and on her Majesty's approach they fired the customary salute of 21 guns each. This was followed by another tram the garrison, which was repeated by the Victory and other ships in harbour. The Fairy steered for the dockyard where her Majesty disembarked, being received by the Commander•in-Chief Vice-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, the Lieut. GovernorMajor-Gen Bretonoidasiral Superintendent Martin, the captains of the ships in harbour and at Spithead, the flog and staf officers of the port and garrison, and • guard of honour from the 80th regiment, with the band of that regiment. A detachment of the 4th Middlesex Mili , ia were also present to receive her Majesty. Two of the royal , carriages wets in waiting in the Dockyard, and her Majesty and the Prince and suite having taken their seats, left for the railway station at Landport, preceded by outriders, and accompanied by the chief naval and military autheritiea named above. At the terminus the entrance had been tastefully decorated with flags, itc., and here was also a • guard of honour of the Royal Marines and of the • South Lincoln regiment of Militia. Captains Laws, one of the directors of the Brighton and Sauth Coast Railway, and Messrs. Hawkins, Craven, and Farmer, !nada of departments of that railway, and Mr. Mountain, superintendent of the Portsmouth station, were 0 in attendance. A specisl train with a royal carriage wit r In readiness to receive her Majesty, who immediately took her seat and left for Shoracliffe at about a quarter past nine, vA Brighton, Rainey, Ashford, &o. 6.45 p m.—The royal train bringing her Majesty back has just returned, and her Majesty has again embarked from the dockyard on beard the Fairy, and proceeded to Os ' borne under the usual salutes. THE REVIEW. Her Majesty arrived at the camp at about half-put 12, and was received oft the ground by the Duke of Cambridge, &,rd Penner', the (Viscount kir- dioge), the Adjutant-Hamra Wetherell, and Mr. F. Peel, sad by the officers of the Foreign Legion. Anampan'ed by a brilliant staff, the Royal carriage drove up to the centre of the hats, where, on a flarstar, the Royal standard was Wined. After remaining for a few moments, her Majesty, I accompanied by the Duce of Cambridge, Viscount Her• dingo, and the members of the staff, drove along the whole liar, minutely inspecting tub regiment as she passed. Returning to the flag-stiff, her Majesty and the Prince alighted from the Royal carriage, while the troops marched past, the band of the Yagers playing some popular German marches. First nom the Yager', then the infantry, and then the Sass. It was very amusing to observe the gallant fellows, as they marched past the lag-staff, eagerly endea vouring to latch a glimpse of the Qosen by strain ing their " eyes right," while military discipline kept their heads erect. As they passed round they reformed line on the old ground, end then in ,accession the officers of the staff and field officers were each presented to her Majesty, the Oahe of Cambridge first presenting Baron Btutterhetm, Colonel Kinloch, Colonel Wooldridge, Ika., and the others in turn by the baron. Her Majesty conversed is German with 1 of the officers, and complimented them very graciously on the efficient state of their regiments. The Qeeen now, resting ea the arm of Prince Albert, and accompanied by the Staff, walked from the fisg-staff to the huts of the let German Regiment, use of which her Ma jesty entered, minutely inspecting Its internal arraogetatiatA, and asking several questions in relation to the comfort of the soldiers. The Quell then proceeded to the oßcen' metsvoom, where as elegast luncheon bad been provided. The pri‘- cipalodicen of the Bt. were limited to sit at the Royal table. At time o'clock her Majesty re-entered the Boyd car riage, and on het return access the camp ground, again passed along the line of troops, by whoa she was received with much enthusiasm. Her Royal Highness the Duohess of Gloucester eaatisses, we en glad to Isere, is good health. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford have arrived in tows, from visiting t h e Doke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle. The large picture, "The Horse Fair," by Madlle. Rosa Beellewr, was ebbed yesterday by Earl Grey, the Lord Cheaseller sad Lady Craewortb, Lady Bader, Lady E. Foley, Lord Walter sad Lord George Campbell, with a large amber of mature and artists. 7 TEST FROM ABROAD`„I . r VI , 'W A R INT ASIATIC TURKEY. R USSIAN - DESPAI4IIO.'' We have this morning rr,oeieed die St. Petersburg journal. of August I and 2. , The /eyelids Busse of August 2 contains the fol lowing NEWSFROM ASIATIC TURKEY. Aide-dto camp enneral lloaravieff sends the following report, dated from the camp at the village of Kony-Keui, July 11: " On July 8. I informed you that on returning on the 4th from Saghttrlong to Ken I left upon the western side of that chair, of mountains a flying detsebment, commanded by Colonel Prince Dondoukoff Kopek .ff of the regiment of Prince de Wurtemberg'a dragons. Thanks to the able and judicious arrangement of this worthy superior cater, this detachment fully achieved its object*, and engaged in two very fortunate affairs. " Towards noon on July 8, a party of Buhl-Bazouks, 200 strong, appeared before the entrenchment, at the pass near Berdous, which had been abandoned by the Turks, and ea countered our detachment. Prince Dondoukoff.Korsakoff immediately despatched against them a detachment of militia mountaineers and Kurds, who, by a vigorous charge, threw the enemy into confusion, killed two men, and brought off 24 horses and 39 head of cattle belonging to the Turkish Kurds. One of our militiamen was wounded. " In the night of July 7 Prince Doniunkoff-Korsakoff, learning when near Midjinglatt that another party of Basiti-Basouks, from 150 to 200 strong, seat by Vely Pacha from Kerpi•Keuv, were bivouacking in the neighbour. hood, attacked them unexpectedly at daybreak with two somas of militia mountaineers, and a sotnia of the Cossacks I of the line. After a brief resistance, the enemy were com pletely dispersed, leaving some 40 dead, including a com• mender of a sotnia and the standard beater upon the field, We captured their flag, took 34 prisoners, and carried away several of their horses and other booty. A commander of .a sotnia, a subaltern, and the secretary of Vely Mahmoud, Pasha of Brunets, were among the prisoners. We lost an inferior °facer, a commander of the Kaborda sotnia killed, and 7 militiamen wounded. We also had five hones killed.* "It appears from the depoeitiona of, the Secretory, whom we took prisoner, that this party of Bashi-Bazake formed the escort, correctly speaking, of the functionaries sent by Vely Pacha to inspect the magazines of the army of Ana tolia, destroyed by us in our movement on the other side of the t3agtianlong between the let and 4th. "The Turkish authorities, it seems, estimated their lows at a much greater amount than given by me in my previous reports. According to their caleela• tions, we destroyed or carried off from Bardons to Ka raourghan, 16,000 samara, equal jto 36,000 tehelverts, of different kinds of grain, exclusive of that taken by Major- General Soesloff. The operations of our flying detachment on the other side of the Saghanloug have spread fat and wide the first strong impression caused by the unexpected appearance of our main bodyat more than 100 versts behind Kan. From a crowd of villages the elders have come to us, putting themselves and their property at our disposal, fore seeing that it would not be long before we reappeared on the other side of the mountain. Yesterday Prince Don. douttoff•Korsankoff 's flying detachment rejoined the prin• eipal camp for the purpose of obtaining fresh provisions, and munition, and also for depositing the sick and the pri mate. "The majority of our troops, resting encamped sea. Kany-Keel, have continued, by the detached position of Major-General Baklanoff 's column near the village of Tikene, to command the route to Erseroum. Our patrols keep a careful watch on all, even single individuals, they encounter. Thus on July 7 a hone patrol of 10 Cossacks of the line, and half a sotnia of the Karabakh regiment, observed a party of Turks upon the right of the road, and pursuieg them, captured three men and some horses, the rest hiding in the villages. " On July 10 Major-General Baklanoff, whose column 1 had reinforced, accompanied by Col. Rqudanovsky, Quarter. master-in-chief of the corps of operations, made a recon naissance of the fortifications of Kars, situated upon the lilt shore of the Kars Taal, which had not before been examined. " With this object General Baklanoff craned the Kars Tchir with a portion of his detschment, and amended the heights of Tcheklmakb. When approaching the fortress he met a convoy of carte laden with hay, guarded by &chi. Basonks. At the sight of our troops the latter fled, leaving Its whole convoy, consisting of 30 earn, 45 beasts, and four homes in our hands. We also took 27 Bashi-Bazonks and the drivers accompanying the carts prisoners. "Daring the two hours necessary to enable us to satisfac t irily examine the fortifications and form a plan of the situation, the garrieen of Kars was in a state of extreme agitation. A portion of its troops, numbering 7 battalions of infantry, 2 regiments of regular cavalry, with some Bashi-Bs:oaks, decided even to leave their entrenchments, but did not advance set of the range of their batteries, nor even dare to disturb our retreat when, after the reconnais mane, General Baklanoff returned to the camp. The Bashi- Bea .uks skirmished with our Cossacks, but without causing any other lose than killing a hone. "On the same day, I receive 4 from Lient.-General Keys. lenity the following report relative to a defeat experienced ay a portion of the enemy's cavalry, in the arrondissement of Akhalkelaki on July 5 : "The Monate of the army of Anatolia, finding a pressing need of provisions and cattle for the garrison of Kan, sant a strong party of cavalry, consisting of more than 1,000 men, commanded by a certain Dinkier Pasha, and under the direction of two Englishmen, in the sandjsk of Tchaldyr. , This force was ordered to drive back the posts of our cavalry stationed upon this frontier, and to collect some grain and busts for the garrison. " Colonel Prince Menu, commander of the N0.,3 Rest , meat of Mausoleum cavalry, who held these frontier poets, having been informed of the movement of the enemy's cavalry, collected, near the village of Souldy, all his regi ment, two sondes of the No. 2 Regiment of the Don Cossacks and the 2nd company of Chaumont of the regiment of Vilna Chemises, and stationed himself with these troops upon the hills before the village. "At 8 o'clock in the morning of July 5, the enemy's es- vairy approached the position occupied by our troops, and being divided into four columns, charged in front with three columns, while the fourth, which was the strongest, attacked our left flank. " Prince Othelian had at his centre the company of Mas seurs, at the right flank, two ootnias end a half of the regiment No. 3 of Mumulman cavalry ; at the left flank, the Cossacks, and in reserve, the Ist sotnia of the regiment of !Suleiman& cavalry. Receiving the c , iumns who charged In front by a well sustained fire, l Prince Orbellan sent the Coinrcks and the Male of reserve against the enemy, who had turned our left flack. The Turk ish column which enacted this royeament, being f'ur times as numerous as ours, charged resolutely ; but owing to the in trepidity of the Cossacks, and the exemplary courage as well as tact of the sotnik Bamsonoff, were driven hack after returning several times to the charge. Repulsed in this manner, the Turks occupied a very uneven ground, from whence they opened a vigorous fire. The sotnik Ssm sonoff, dismounting a portion of his Cossacks and some militiamen, drove the enemy from his ambuscades, end then ordering his troops to mount, charged with the lance in hand. Priem °ebonite, who had In the interval succeeded in repelling several attacks, in his turn took the offensive. The enemy, driven back on all points, then took to flight in disorder, were pursued a distance of 8 vents, and corm pletely dispersed. " Our lose in this affair was of very slight importance, consisting of two officers, seven men of the No. 3 Regiment of Mussalman cavalry, and five Cossacks of the Don, wounded—in all, two officers and twelve man. Aecording to the report of soles end other aocounte, the Turks had 70 men killed and 100 wouaded. We, moreover, took 14 pri soners and seised a standard." • In the letter from Kars. which we printed yesterday free a oorrespondeaos of La Prue*, the Bashi•Buoeks were stated to have gained a decided advantage. RUSSIAN REPORTS FROM THE CRIMEA. PRINCE GORTCHAROFFS JOURNAL. The Journal de St. Peterabourg of Aug. 2 contains the following trims FROM THE CRIMEA. The journal of the military operations between July 17 1 end 22, resolved from Aidedweesp Prince Gortetekoff, ocetains the Mewls' additional details reepeeting the pro grew of the siege works before Sebastopol, sad the situation of stain to the Crimea dada; that period : Ilinanotou—Deries the day the way , cede a Find during the night a bootberdneent now end then redoubling their efforts lof our line of defence. A very rigour. leis fire of Wulleura•eerebiniers wes kept up incessantly on both sides both day and night. Our artillery energetically replied to the besiegers, concentrating its fits upon the batteries newly unyoked, or upon the lodgements or approaches in ooa of coostruetion. This fire, ably di rected, often silenced the enemy's artillery and compelled the besiegers to abandon their unfinished trenches. "Besides repairing the damage caused to our fortifications, we have laboured with much success to reinforce oar line of defence, and also to establish new ba . " The folloising are the most remarkable details of the siege operations : "' JOLT 17.—Following a very rigorous canunnsde against several parts of the fortress, the besiegers, towards 6 o'clock in the evening, concentrated their fire upon the gostislaff redoubt and the -Bellaire battery ;the fire from our works compelled the enemy to stop his. His works to day consisted in finishiag his approaches against the Komi loff bution ; constructing a battery upon the left of the ancient Kamtchatka lunette for acting upon the No. 3 Bastion, commencing a lodgement above the Dock ravine, before the Gervais batteries, and in finishing his entonnoirs before Butioa No. 4. _ . " Tim maxi' OF JULY 17,—Some volunteers of the regiment of Okhotsk Chasseun, 120 in number, commanded by Lieutenant Rytoff, and supported by three com panies of the same regiment, leaving the ;battery ' near Peressype, scaled the Msmelon Vert, and taking advantage of the enemy's attention being drawn towards the part called the Pain-de-Sucre, upon which 60 volunteers, taken from the Chanson, directed themselves, commanded by Major Saloff, our brave men occupied and destroyed two lodgements upon the Mamelon Vert. The enemy retreated upon his bath trenches; audible secret post, situated at the Pain-de-Sucre, took to flight. Our men succeeded even in demolishing the lodgement which had been occupied by the secret post, and returned with • total loss of 12 wounded. ." JOLT 18.—Throughout today, excepting a few short intervals, the enemy kept up a cannonade, and in the night threw some bombs, directed chiefly against Bastions Nos. 5 and 6, and against the Schwarts sod Tchesme redoubts, which replied vigorously. The batteries on the northern side also took part in this cannonade. " ' JULY 19.—Towards three o'clock in the afternoon the French batteries situated upon the left flank of the attack, commenced a well•sustained fire against the Rostislaff re doubt and against the Bastion No. 5. On our side all the works on the right Sack of the line of defence kept up a fire out less sustained against the be siegers. At the end of a cannonade of two hours, the artil lery of the place silenced that of the adversary, after dis mounting several pieces, and damaging a part of hie embrasures. Throughout the following night our works kept up an incessant fire upon the works of the besiegers. The observations made this day from the Volokboff Tower led to. the discovery that the enemy had supplied with artillery the batteries erected before Kamiesch Bey. " Jut"' 20.—The fire of the besiegers was principally directed against the first, third, and fifth sections of the line of defence; in the night he threw a great quantity of bombs upon the works and in the city. At 9 in the morning the enemy fired a globe de oompressiox, and at 3 in the afternoon a foornorna of an ordinary mine, both directed against Bastion No. 4, but they did us no great harm. Against the other parts of the Hoe of defence the works of the besiegers consisted in open ing some embrasures in the English battery created against Bastion No. 3; pushing on his approach towards the Korni loff Bastion, and is constructing two more:new ►odgements before that work. The fire from the works mentioned consi derably impeded their labours. " ' JULY 21.—We have not observed any new approaches on the part cf the enemy, but his advanced trenches were considerably increased in depth, width, and height. At 10 o'clock in the morning be sprang a mine from his eaten noire against Bastion No. 4, which slightly damaged a por tion of our galleries. "'JULY 28, HALF PAST Tax, P.ll.—Yesterday the enemy opened a violent canuonade upon Bastion No. 4; his ' fire lasted two hours and a half, and we replied with equal effact. " The Jou►nal de Se. Pelersbourg also contains an account of the third bombardment of Genitchi, on July 19. The Russian Prince Labanoff-Rostovsky withdrew his troops, it says, in order to avoid nunc canary loss of life. Genitcbi was thus exposed, elm net without defence, to a third bombardment. The Allies, strong by their fleet, after destroying with impunity the farms and the fishermen's huts on the shore, drew nearer the city, evacuated by the by the troops, and abandoned by its inhabitants, and directed their pxjectiles against the temple of God, built on this place, and upon which they concentrated their fire. Towards 9 o'clock in the evening, several bombs thrown upon the church burst in the roof, and canted a fire, from which the WI alone escaped. On July 20, the two steamers and the two goo-buts, keeping Genital in sight, took to sea. AN ORDER OF THE DAY BY PRINCE OORTCHAKOFF. A letter from ()Jesse gives the following curious order of the day, issued by General Gortehakoff In the time of the earliest wars of the Russians, the arch priests and other ecciesiutica of the Orthodox church, have given their benedictions to the troops who were armed for the defence of the country. This benediction, which called for the presence of the sacred images in the midst of our regiments, was the source of all our successes against the enemy of the country. Thus the sacred and mirscolous image of the Holy Virgin, the Mother) of God, from Smolensk°, gave by its presence in ' th, army a aeries of victories to our arms, and led our soldiers from Moscow to Paris. Now that all our coun trymen pray with fervour for us, his Eminence, the Metro polite Philarete de Kijeff, after the example of ancient times, has just blessed the troops confided to my command, by taking from the catacombs of Kijeff the sacred and mi raculous image, which represents the ascension of th e mother of God, our celestial intercessor, and which in bye gene times was conferred by the mother of God on that temple as a pledge of the eternal protection which is granted to orthodox Howie. By a particular disposition of God, the arrival of the sacred image took place simultaneously with that of his High Eminence lanokenti, Archbishop of Kherson and Taurido, whom the dangers of war have not prevented from visiting his flock, and giving his benediction to the troops who defend Sebastopol with so much heroism- On the Sth of this month, his Eminence, in the besieged e:ty,while the enemy's cannon were roaring, bleated the troops of the garrison and of tte forts; he blessed them with the sacred image of St. Mitophan, and in eloquent words wished them fresh successes and victory. In the firm conviction that the present made to the city of Sebastopol reproduces the sacred and miraculous picture Jf the ascension of the mother of God, which is in the catacombs of Kijeff, and that the bene dictions of our erchpriesta will be for as the pledge of fresh triumphs, let us add to our strength, valiant comrades, by the idea that our cause is just, and that the Emperor and the country found on your heroism and your inflexi bility a well-justified hope. Paine' GOATCHAI.OFF 11. The above order of the day wes read on the 220 d tilt. to the garrison of the Northern Fort, and after wards to all the troops who occupy the south of Sebastopol. BERLIN, THURSDAY. The Prince of Prussia arrived here yesterday from St. Petersburg. The Prince left in the evening for Erdmansdorff, where he will give an acoonnt to the King of his in terview with the Emperor Alexander. TRIESTE, THURSDAY. The Allies are demolishing the fortifications of Anapa, contrary to the wishes of the Circassians, who are, however, unable to oppose the fleet. General Vivian has gone to the Black Sea, to choose a landing place for troops somewhere near Batoum. TURIN, THURSDAY. General Guillaume Pepe is dead. General Percy, who is appointed by the British Government to organise the Italian Legion, has suited. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE ARAGO. (air aLserato rum:um) (FROM OUR OWN CORRIMONDINT.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The Arago has arrived from New York, bringin g news from that city to July 29. We learn from Washington that the outside pre* sore on the President to fill the vacant offices is tremendous. The Kansas legislature have passed a memorial to President Pierce for the removal of Governor Reeder. A portion of the Boston and Cape Ccd Telegraph has been opened. Two American ships of war have been ordered t o the Fejee Island, on an important service. The invasion of Nicaragua by Walker and his Fillihneters has proved disastrous ; the hatred Of the Nicaraguans for the Fillibusters was intense. Santa Anna was granting concessions to the revo. lutioniste. His family was leaving Mexico. The sales of cotton on the 27th reached 1,200 bales, based on 10/ c. for middling uplands. Common grades of flour were firmer, higher grad es unchanged. Sales of corn limited. Pork firm. Coffee active and firm. Sugars active and firm. Freights heavy. Exchange, 109 to 110. At New Orlsanit, cotton was unchanged, but prices irregular. From Chili we learn that the Copiapo Mines were improving. At Peru, Castilla was likely to be elected President, and it was thought Beiza would not resign. A famine was probable in Utah. The yellow fever raged at New Orleans. FRANCE. -A.- (MOM 0171 OWN 008 PARIS, THURSDAY EVRNING. A correspondent of the Indipenaance Beige stij; I believe I can assure you in the most positive manner that a foreign minister at the Frem..h court has been Who rised to transmit to his government the officio: intelli gence that the Empress is enceinte. This fact accounts for the probable absence of the Empress from the plat to be given in honour of the Queen of England. I hear it said to-day that a chamberlain has been sent to London to make the announcement of this great news to the Queen, and to inform her Majesty that it will not be thought prudent for the Empress to attend all the fetes, but that she hopes to be pre. sent at those of St. Cloud and Versaillee. The Independance reports that a letter from Ge neral Pelimier to a high functionary contains the following post scripturn : I have a weighty and difficult task, whi h was not of my seeking, to fulfil. I hope to get thron,gh with it, but what difficulties, &c. _ _ A mot is attributed to General Pelissier, which tersely describes the skill of the Russians is fortifica tion, and the dogged perseverance of their deface. Alluding to the fresh works thrown up with marvel lout rapidity by the besieged, within the radius of the positions that the Allies have taken from time to time, and which give occasion to croakers to say that when the present fortress is subdued, it will be found that a new Sebastopol has grown up beyond it, the go neral is reported to have written to the Minister at War, "Lesßusses ne reculent pas, ils se deplarent" Letters from the Crimea contradict the'statement that the Russian Imperial Guard has already arrived at Sebastopol. The Russian dead bodies found in the uniform of the Guard must, it is said, have been those of officers who had been long attached to the army of the Crimea. A letter dated Abo, July 27, in the Ncttional Ge• mite of Berlin, says: Oa the 19th the corpse of an Englishman was feud in the water at Trangsund. lie hau received a ball in the head in the affair of the 13th From has uniform he mast have beast a lieutenant on board the Arrogant. The Bee. shins mermen to bury him on the 21st with military honours. The Patrie, under the head of " Latest News" says: Private despatches arrived in Paris announce that on Aug. 4 the allied fleets operated with success easiest Revel. No despatch of more recent date has yet confirmed this fact... I have already told of the failure on the first trial at Vincennes of an incendiary balloon of immense i size, destined to be employed n the siege of Sebis topol. A second experiment was made on Monday last. The balloon was filled at the gas-works near the Barriere du Trone, and was dragged by sixty soldiers to the Polygon; but just as it arrived there it burst. Yesterday a third experiment was made, with no better result than on the two former occa alone. This balloon is said to have been invented by Mr. Green. . The Rents was very heavy at the opening of the Bourse, but it rallied towards the close, and old• mately rose 10c., closing at 67fr. 311 t. There were considerable oscillations in the railways, but most of them were firmer in the afternoon. To-day took place the ceremony of inaugurating'a bust of Marshal St. Arnaud in the Court of Honotr of the Lycde Napoleon. at which establishment the late French oommander-in-chief in the Crimea was educated. The bust was subscribed for by some per sonal friends of the Marshal, and the old and present scholars of the college. Marshal Magnan, MMs Abbattucci, Fortoul, and Hanemann, several digit!. taries of the university, the pupils of the Lycite, and many old schoolfellows of the deceased, were preseet on the occasion. The Minister of Public Instruction made a speech laudatory of the public and privies life of the late Marshal. The bust is placed exactly opposite that of Casimir Delavigne, which wM erected by subscription some years ego. SPAIN. MADRID, AM 8. Two cabecillas of the faction of the brothers Him have stied for pardon. This faction is crushed. There is a talk of the first payment on account of the Do. menech loan. Nothing is yet concluded with respect to the Werner loan. THE CRIMEA. A letter from Kuntieech of the 20th ult., in the lifonileur de la Flotte, aye : Malakhoff commends ell the lower part of Sebastopol, and dominates the passage of the Boy of Inkermana, by which the town obtains its supplies from the north side- When this tower falls into our hands we shall be able to sweep the ba buro the Revolts fleet, bombard the low* town, and almost immediately steer instal ourselves in the latter, for it can then no leneer be held by the Russigni. From the hialskhoff Tower, Insides, we can silence the Rd Constantine, destroy the stockade, and open the port to old vessels. The Rosining know that well—as well as we doi and hence the terrible energy which is displayed on both sides in forming approaches, and in the per tial combats which are renewed almost every night. Oct newly constructed batteries are rosily moat formidable -, especially those of Quarantine Bay, and of what we call the Bay des Calfats, which are armed with guns of the largest calibre, and which are destined to force the Russian fleet * seek a refuge behind Fitt Catherine, the sole Ogee idol they will be unable to injure us. The Russians multiPti their sorties; sometimes it is the English, but more fre quently ourselves, who have the honour of reviving them, end acoompanying them on their return. One tact worth, of remark, which proves bow muck the siege of Sebald** has already cost Russia in men, ie that the prisoners whoa we make almost always wear new uniform.. This tires** stance causes us to believe that all the army of the Cris* must have been employed in the defence of the place. KERTCH AND THE SEA OF AZOFF. (From the Press d'Orient.) KERTCB, JOLT 22. Since the return of the Lucifer and of Captahr Boast, commander of the naval station, we have received t no news from the flotilla in the Sea of Asnff. If it be trot, as it was reported here, that several Russian Tomb, whin. had sought refuge in the Don, have reappeared in that east, it is very probable that our light vessels are gone in p arson of them. This would account for the total shame* ,0 1 sews from that quarter, our cruisers opera ti n g at sat farthest eztramity of that sea. The flotilla consists of seem, vowels, five English bomb vessels sad two French Meg mhos. Two Varian are stationed off Genitchi to prey: the penin Russians sending anything from the continent to A su l a . Others are constantly moving about, keepists Close watch along the Spit, which is upwards of 80 miles 11$