The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

Vie l'‘ xvrcoxi• Altotomato Intended kr " fl. Ezprov.. Lca Evening repo% moot to it tie Oa" 10. Bootorloolmt. 0 7 Two 010001 an Ina dot ot pubboados. HIGH WATZIR AT LONDON BRIDOR. Dat—MOrdag. 31. Iles Alternoue, 10 NIS sow —Morning, 31. 42a Afternoon. 31. sllle. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14. Ir poor dear Madame DE SIB ONE were to be restored to life at this moment, she would be sorely seand.liaed. Madame does not often get political in her charming letters ; hut there are exceptional eases, and the exiled King of ENOLAND is one of them. Madam., De &stoma never wearies of eulogising that Royal saint, and expatiating on the hospitality afforded him by Lotus XIV., and offering op vows for his restoration to his throne. How she would be shocked, on revisiting this nether world, to find pre parations making at St. Cloud for the reception of the representative of that heretical dynasty which took, and has kept, the place of the descendants of him who lost three kingdoms for a man. And wore, than that,—she would find the Frer ch dynasty which patronised the Royal family vomited forth by indignant Eugland swept away in its turn. Her own France would be iu the eyes of Mad :me no better than England. The change from a pretender to the English Crown holding a mackery of a court at St. Germain, to a real bona fide English Queen residing, for however brief a period, at St. Cloud, may appear to some a trivial matter ; a theme for fine writers to turn smart sentences about: it has a deeper meaning. The desire to be Lord Paramount of Europe, which prompted the whole foreign polley of Louts XIV., was never wholly abandoned by his successors. With a view to realise it they extended a cold and shabby hospitality to the successive English Pretenders, until the last 13y man of the raca became too hopeless a sot to be of any use to them. When this card be came too dirty for them to play any longer with c3mmon decency they betook themselves—they the absolute monarchs—to coquetting with democracy. They rocked the cradle of the young American re public ; they subsidised the ultra-demonrate of Geneva; they became the ringleaders of the demo cratic opposition to the House of ORANGE in the United Provinces. The tools used by the BOURBONS at different times were tliffereut ; but their aim in using them was the same throughout—to put down the Engli.h constitution—of a monarchy with a par- liameotary title—which rendered England too powerful to be brought under the influence of any foreign power. In those days there was no French nation ; there was merely an aggregate of provinces subject to a king, a:.(1 an army officered by the nobility. That nobility—the only portion of their subjects whose existence the BOURHONS condescended to recognise—took its tone from the monarch, and thus hostility to England became the conventional sentiment of France—a sentiment which the French clergy, in their hatred of heretics, did their best to confirm. In those days, therefore, there was and could be no peace between France and Eng:and ; brief and hollow truces were the only lulls in a war which, when not actually waging, was in preparation for renewal. A friendly visit of a King or Queen reg nant of England to the court of France would in such circumstances have been a mockery, if not unsafe. When in 1/89 the French made themselves a nation, on both sides of the Channel for a time prevented this Mate of affairs from changing. Tho earlier leaden of the national movement were, indeed, most of them Anglo-maniacs, but the habit of railing at England and the English, which had been encouraged for centuries, was too powerful to be overcome in a day. Then it pleased the KING and borougbmongers of England to set themselves up as the champions of the principle of absolute monarchy, and that made matters worse. England and France, the only two nations in Europe deserving the name—whose interests as opposed to the politics of the old despotisms, by and ecclesiastical, were identical—were involved in an internecine war, which lasted for thirty years, and left behind it rancorous feelings, which it has taken nearly the same time to simusa. The terms on which our SOVEREIGN has lived with the present Monarch of the French and his pm& censor show that these unnatural relations between the two greatest and most enlightened nations in thel old world have ceased to exist. We believe, indsell e that the occupants of thrones are quite as asps* of friendship as private citizens. We believe that the well-acted bonhommie of Louis PIIILIPPIR did make a deep impression upon Qui& VICTORIA, and that the tact and talent of the EMPEROR have inspired her with a personal atom for him, while the fascinating qualities of his sese• sort have awakened a warmer interest. Bat a thrones personal feelings must give way to resales of state. And that our SOVEREIGN is able to indulge the desire—innate in all human beings—to live on a footing of familiar friendship with her nearest neighbours of equal rank, proves that such intercourse between their rulers is equally swept able to both nations. The visit of the QUIPS of ENGLAND to St. Cloud is an additional proof that the foolish hereditary antagonism of France and England is over and gone. Our Quzati and her royal Consort are well read in the literature of the Continent as in that of their own land. To their cultivated intellects a visit to Paris and St. Cloud will be replete with interest. And their accomplished host, with his taste for elegant display, will know how to cater for them. This is a matter of no slight consequence, for if anywhere in England relics of the old antipathy to France can be supposed to survive, it may well be supposed to be among the high aristocracy to whom the revolu tionary origin of all existing French institutions b perhaps still a little repulsive. There never can be a securely established harmony until sentiment is brought into entire accordance with rational con viction. It is of consequence that a class which still possesses, and will, in the ordinary course of nature, long possess, great political influence in England, should be as entirely reconciled to France and Frenchmen as the great body of the English people already are. We should belie our convictions were we to pretend that the existing constitution of government in France is in all things to our taste, but that is the concern of the French nation—a question in which foreigners have no right to a voice. Enough for as that upon the continued good understanding of France and England depends the suocessfel assertion of national independence and bye civilisation in Europe. These nations are at this moment the nucleus of a growing league against the encroaching propensities of the lid despotisms. Their Governments are, perhaps, not, aware of the full importance of their high vocation, or of the extent to which they stand committed to it., Bat they have entered upon a coarse from which they ssnaot recede, even though—which we do not believe —they wished to do so. IT seems certain that our army will have to spend at least • portion of the next cold season in the Crimes. Even should Sebastopol be taken before the more severe portion of the winter' commenees,ihe troops must pass some weeks, if not months, exposed to a very rigorous climate. By the end of September the change of seasons will have begun in earnest, and ere October is over, the alteration from extreme heat to rain, sleet, snow, sod wind, will be most trying to the whole force, more especially to the recruits end reinforcements lately arrived from England. On all accounts it therefore be) one Government to be in time with the huts and warm clothing destined for Sebastopol, and not to allow our brave soldiers to suffer all the honors of a second winter's starva tion from cold and hunger. The fact of contracts for the supply of hub having been entered into by several respectable firms has been pompously set forth of late, but how comes it, after all that was said and written, respecting the past cold season and the mismanagement of every department connected with the supplies for the army, there are not now in the Crimes sufficient huts to house the whole force assembled before Sebastopol? That not one tenth of the army is under any other cover but the most wretched tents, is a perfectly well-known fact. Even the sick and wounded have not room for all their number in the hospital huts. To this nearly every private letter from the camp bears witness. What has become of the materials for hundreds of these wooden buildings which were last year sent—or said to have been sent—from this country for the use of the army ? Were they despatched at all to the seat of war ? And if they were,why do the troops not have the bene fit of them ? If not sent, where are they—and what is the reason they were kept in this country P All these are questions which will be asked, and which Minis ters must answer, should the next two months prove that our troops in the Crimea have not a very different prospect before them for the winter than happened during the past cold season. But this is not the time for etimination. What has passed should serve as a warning for the future, although we cannot Low help former errors. The housing of the troops is not the only matter of health and comfort which should be looked to forthwith. It seems to be much doubted in the camp whether even half the supply of warm clothing which was put aside when the warm weather commenced will be forthcoming for next winter. The almost total want of anything like store-rooms, in which the blankets, boots, and fur coats can be placed for safety, will cause much—if not all—the bales to be more or less de stroyed by damp or vermin. These are no vague or idle conjectures, but positive facts mentioned in pri vate communications from the camp. Officially speaking, Ministers and their subordinates would be absolved from blame, if every particle of warm clothing was found to be spoiled when next wanted for issue, but would the country pardon them if our troops were left again a whole winter, starving from cold, and dying from neglect? The late Lord I RAotew issued orders at the commencement of the spring, to the effect that all the warm clothing was to be returned by the men to the quartermasters of regiments, and that these officers were to store it up in case of its being wanted again. To a great extent—indeed, as far as possible—this has been done; but the late Field-Marrhal could neither erect proper store-rooms to preserve the goods, nor himself ere that his orders were carried into effect. Those who know all that the quartermaster of a regi ment has to do, whilst his regiment is in camp, will per ceive how utterly impossible it must be for either these men or their few hard-worked subordinates to look properly after immense stores of clothing which from its very texture is most susceptible of injury in a warm climate. "In my regiment," writes a cap tain of a regiment now serving before Sebastopol, " there are at least from three to four thousand articles of warm clothing—boots, fur coats, blankets, caps, gloves, and comforters—in store. To look after them, and keep them clear from vermin, and fit to wear next winter, there ought to be at least a dozen men con stantly at work airing and brushing them. But where or how can we spare so many, when we are so hard pressed for men to take the ordinary duties of camp and trenches. The whole of last winter's clothing— much of it never having been worn—is now fast spoiling, and I am told that what the Quartermaster- General's Department has in charge is still less ser viceable than what is stored by regimental quarter masters. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof ; ' and no sooner was the cold weather fairly ended than every person in camp seemed only too glad to get rid of all thought and can concerning the warm clothing." This is a bad look-out for the future, unless steps be immediately taken to find out the deficiencies in the win ' ter clothing, and to remedy the evil without delay. Ministers will not again be allowed the excuse that no official report was made to them of the wants of the army. Here is a clear and explicit warning of what will happen when the inclement season commences, unless care be taken to prevent it. If the War Department be in earnest, a fall and complete state ment of the condition of the winter clothing might be known in London by means of the electric tele graph, in less than four days, that time being amply sufficient for officers in the camp to inspect minutely the stores in their charge, and to make a detailed report upon them. A week hence, and the various manu facturers might be at work, making up supplies to take the place of what has been spoilt, used, worn out, or otherwise rendered unserviceable. The nation will pay cheerfully for whatever comforts the army requires, but it will not allow that army to be again decimated by official incapacity, or pretended igno taco of the true state of affairs. In addition to the huts and clothing, immediate care should be taken that a proper supply of food (with the means of cooking the same) should be emit out for use during winter. Unless this is done, we shall most likely have a repetition of all that happened during last November and the four following months. The facilities for procuring every sort of preserved meat and vegetable are now so great in England that there can be no valid excuse whatever for a depot of these provisions not being continually on hand in the camp. The prac tice, so pernicious to the health of the men, of sup plying troops with salt meat day after day should be at once abandoned. Continuing it in the present day, when means of taking fresh provisions to any cli mate and distance are so common, is about as sensible as it would be to arm our fi ghting men with bows . _ _ and arrows instead of Minie rifle; One half of on soldiers who during the last year died in the kepi tale of theaamp, Balaklava, and Scutari. were first made ill by having nothing but nit meat to feed upon. And lastly, Government should take care to pro. vide for the army a proper supply of wholesome liquor for consumption. There is no reason what ever why good porter and beer should not be sold in the Sebastopol camp at a very slight advance upon London wholesale prices. If migrants were made with respectable firms in this country,the soldier in the Crimea might have a better pint of malt liquor—and for lees money—before going on duty in the trenches, than be could procure in the ordinary run of publio- houses in England. All these may seem individually matters of small moment, but when taken together they make the soldier's comfort and health, or the contrary, according to the way in which he is or is, not supplied with them. With men who have these comfortaaupplied them, we shall have a healthy and —what is more to the purpose—a contented and a fighting army. Brave our soldiers undoubtedly are, but no man an do his duty properly if unhoused, ill•clad, and badly fed throughout a severe winter. The powers that be have now been warned in time, and should a mood cold season find us again unpre pared for the climate of the Crimea, the consequences will be felt in 1 7 .7.-I , NI as well as before Sebastopel, although in a very different manner. The country will not stand a repetition of last year's dins :!era : of that, Lord PAIIIIURE and Lis colleagues may rest assured. THE EXPRESS. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1855. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) Parliament was this day prorogued by Royal Commission. The Royal CommissionUs, who were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl Granville, Duke of Argyle, Earl of Harrowby, and Lord Stanley of Alderley, haring taken their seats on the woolsack at the foot of the throne, the Usher of the Blur Rod wu directed to summon the Roue of Com mons to the bar. In a few minutes the Speaker, attended by the Serpent at-Anne, Lord Palmerston, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Wood, and several other memben of the Roue, appeared at the bar, when the Royal Commission was read by the clerk at the table. The Royal Assent was then given in pursuance of the commission, to the following bills:—Turkish Loan Bill, Exchequer Bills (7,000,000 L) Bill, Metropolis Local Manage ment Bill, Sale of Beer Bill, Limited Liability Bill, Ord- nano. Board Bill, Customs Law Consolidation Bill, Customs Tariff Acts Amendment and Consolidation Bill, Criminal Janice Bill, Charitable Trusts Bill, Despatch of Business Bill, Court of Chancery Bill, Crown Suits Bill, Court of Ju dicature (Prince of Wales Island) Bill, Schools Grants Securities Application Bill, Dwellings for Labouring Classes Bill, Office of Speaker Bill, Merchant Shipping Bill, Fisheries Bill, Chinese Passengers' Ships Amendment Bill, Passengers' Act Amendment Bill, Turnpike Acts Con tinuance (Ireland) Bill, Sale of SArits (Ireland) Bill, Na vigation Works (Ireland) Bill, Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill, Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Advance Bill, Public Houses (Ireland) Bill, Disessee Prevention Bill, Public Health Act Bill, Metropolitan Buildings Bill, Militiaßallots 'Suspension Bill, Militia Pay Bill, Militia Officer.' Qualifi cation Bill, Lunatic Asylums Registration Act Amendment Bill, Turnpike Trusts Arrangement Bill, Turnpike Acta Continuance (No. 2) Bill, L.dbury Prebend Bill, Dissenters' Marriages Bill, Haddenfield Band Ground Act Amendment Bill, Coal Mines Inspection Bill, Burials Bill, Inverness Bridge Bill, Westminster Land Bill, Royal Conical Flour Mill Company Bill, New River Company and Trustees of River Lea (No. 2) Bill, Westmin ster Terminus (Clapham to Norwood) Bill, and the Conso- lidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, Slave Trade (Sberbro') Bill, Religious Worship Bill, Trinity College, Dublin, Bill, Union of Contiguous Benefices Bill, Westminster Improve ment Bill, Island of Tobago Loan Bill, Youthful Offenders (No. 2) Bill. Th. LORD Cl Speech as follows: IR then read the Quean's " MT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " We are commended b) her Majesty to release you from fcrther attendance in Puliament, and, at the ramp time, to express the warm acknowledgments of her Majesty for the seal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the discharge of your public duties during a long and laborious session. •, Her Majesty has even with great satisfaction that, while yon have occupied yourselves in providing means for the vigorous prosecution of the war, you have given your attention to many measures of great public utility. Her Majesty is convinced that you will share ter satisfaction at finding that the progress of events has tended to cement more firmly that union which has so happily been established between her Government and that of her ally the Emperor of the French; and her Majesty trusts that an alliance founded on a sense of the geaeral interest, of Europe, and con• solidated by good faith, will long survive the events which have given rise to it, and will contribute to the permanent wellbeing and prosperity of the two great nations whom it has linked together in the bonds of honourable friendship. " Toe accession of the King of Sardinia to the treaty between her Majesty, the Emperor of the French, 'and the Sultan, has given additional importance and strength to that alliance, and the efficient force which his Sardinian Majesty has sent to the seat of war to co-operate with the allied armies will not fail to maintain the high reputation by which the army of Sardinia has ever been cistinguished. " Her Majesty has commanded us to thank you for having enabled her to avail herself, as far as has been found to be required, of those patriotic offers of extended service which she has received from the militia of the United Kingdom, and for the means of rein forcing her brave army in the Crimea by an enlistment of nitration from abroad. " Her Majesty acknowledges with satisfaction the measure which you have adopted for giving effect to the convention by which, in conjunction with her Ally the Emperor of the French, she has made arrangements for assisting the Sultan to provide the means necessary to enable him to maintain in efficiency the Turkish army which has so gal lantly withstood the assaults of its enemies. Her Majesty, in giving her assent to the bill which you presented to her for the local management of the metropolis, trusts that the arrangements provided by that measure will lead to many improvements conducive to the convenience and health of this great city. "The abolition of the duty on newspapers will tend to diffuse useful inf orme lion among the poorer classes of her Majesty's subjects. " The principle of limited liability which you have judi ciously applied to joint-stock associations will afford ad ditional facilities for the employment of capital; and the improvements which you have made in the laws which regulate Friendly Societies will encourage habits of industry and thrift among the labossiing classes of the com munity. _ _ "Her Majesty traits that the measures to which she has gives her assent for improving the constitutions of New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, and for bestowing as the important and flourishing ooknise of Australia elteaded powers of self-government will assist the develop. meat of their great natural reeourose, and will promote the contentment and happiness of the inhabitants. Her Majesty coutosaads as to say that she has been deeply gratified by the seal for the success of her Majesty's arms and by the sympathy for her soldiers and sailors 'manifested throughout her Indian end Cola alai Empire, and Her Majesty acknowledges with gnat satisfaction the generous contributions which her subjects is India, end the legislatures and inhabitants of the colonies, have seat for the relief of the waterers by the oasuelties of wet." " OIXTLIKEN OF TEE 1101,81 OF COl[llo2ol, " Her Majesty commands us to massy to you her email _ _ . _ thanks for the readiness and seal with whickyou have pro vided _ the necessary supplies for carrying on the war in which her Majesty Is engaged. " Her Majesty laments the hartheas and samillees which it has biome necessary to impose epos her faithful people ; but she acknowledges the wisdom with which you have alleviated the weight of those burthens by the mixed ar rangements which you have made for providing those supplies. I. MY LORDS AND GIXTLIKIW, " Her Majesty has commanded us to say that she has seen with sincere regret that t►e endeavours which, in conjunc tion with her ally the Emperor of the French, she made at the recent conferences at Vienna to bring the war to a conelusice. on conditions consis tent with the honour of the allies, and with the future security of Barer, have proved ineffestaal. Bat those en deavours having failed, no ot►er souses is left to her Ma- _ . jsety but the prosecution of the war with all possible , 1111011 T ; and her Majesty, relying upon the support of Parliansat, upon the manly spirit sad patriotism& of her people, upon the raver-failing courage of her crap sad her navy, whose patients under irufferhig, and whom power of endures's hoe Majesty bee whammed with admiration, upon tb," stead fast fidelity of the Allies, and above all, upon the *sties) of her cause, humbly puts her trust in the Almighty Die , poesy of events for such an issue of the great outset in which she is engaged as may secure to Europe the blessings of a firm sad lasting peace. "On your return to your several counties you will have duties to perform little lees important than those belonging to your attendance In Parliament. " Her Majesty trade that your powerful influence will be exerted for the welfare and happicess of her people, the je..uotion of which is the object et her Majesty . stint care and the soli:us desire of her heart." The LORD CHANCELLOR then announced it to be her Majesty's Royal will and pleasure that the Parliament should be prorogued until the 23rd day of October, and in the name of her Mejesty he declared it to stand adjourned orieMdMily. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.) The SPILLS' took the chair et haft-put 1 o'clock: Amoog those present on the Ministerial ride of the house were Lord Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir B. Hall, Mr. Vernon Smith, Sir B. Peel, Mr. F. Peel, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Wilson, Sir J. Duke, Mr. Williams, &a. There was also a full attendance on the Op position side. THE WAR. Sir DE LACY EVANS wished to make some observa tions with a view to elicit from the government a declaration that during the mess they would prosecute the war with the utmost vigour; and he did so because he saw a great deficiency as yet in the exertions made for the prosecution of the war. Lord PALMERSTON said that the suggestions of the hoe. and gallant member should receive every consideration from the givernment. The efforts for the prosecution of this war were far greater than those made for the last war. After some unimportant questions, The Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the bar and summoned the Speaker to the House of Lords. The SPEAKER accordingly left the house, end was absent about half en hour. On his return, he read the speech at the table, and then took leave of the members present. The hones broke up shortly before three o'clock. LATEST FROM ABROAD. BOMBARDMENT F SWE&BORG VIENNA, MONDAY. Accounts received from Warsaw state that the bombardment of Sweaborg began on the 9th, and wu still proceeding on the 11th. The result is ea yet unknown. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SWEABORO, Au°. 7. The great affair of the season is expected to come off to-night. The non-arrival of the Princess Alice keeps us somewhat in the dark, as sbe has been ex pected with the Dentsic mails for the last week. Considerable excitement has raged through the portion of the fleet at Nargen,and disagreeable feelings amongst the crews of ships not to be present. An at tempt was made at a start three days ago, but a falling barometer and scowling weather prevented them starting. The Dragon accompanied the Hast ings and Cornwallis over, and they anchored off the island Miolo. The Pembroke, with her gunboat and a French steamer, have taken up a po sition off Melko, these two points being the extreme points that the vessels will be anchored. The Mer lin has been busy buoying the channels and erecting beacons on the rocks. The Dragon returned again to Nargen, reporting all ready for the arrival of the fleet. It appears the Grand Duke had been down, or sup- I posed to have been down, from the Royal standard being seen, and the Russians evidently are on the qui vier, and had commenced fortifying Bakholme with additional guns; indeed the more one looks at the different little :islands the more guns make their ap pearance. Yesterday morning the Duke, Exmouth, Edinburgh (towing collier), Vulture, Dragon, and Magicienne, 15 mortar vessels, 15 gunboats, Eurya lus, Arrogant, Lightning, Geyser, towing tEoles with shot and shell, and Belleisle, started under canvas about nine A.M., and towards evening they were provisionally anchored for the night, just out side Ronskar Island. The Geyser returned and brought the hospital ship is ; the French Admiral arriving much about the same time. The signal was made for an opportunity for letters to England, and the results of the bombardment, which will come off to-night or tomorrow, must be deferred till another opportu nity. It is, however, suspected a mortar and gun boat affair will be all ; and no doubt, from the ex cellent practice of the mortars, we may anticipate a certain amount of destruction, but beyond the mortars and gunboats, there is nothing but six liners and four steamers, and whatever damage is done, there is nothing in the shape of troops, or numbers of marines, to follow good results up. The French will have for their private pigeon the town of Ilelsingfors. As they wisely suggest, Sweaborg is the more glorious way, but Helsingfors the most satisfactory result, and a great deal of truth in it. I don't see the force of running against their forts, if a valuable town can be destroyed with bat little sacrifice, and I trust to see it in flames. The French are ardent with that idea. The Cronstadt fleet, the Riga cruisers, and the Gulf of Bothnia ships, are left intact, and no concentration of the forces has taken place. The Calcutta is left at Nargen, and after all this will afford an excellent opportunity of inflicting a blow upon the enemy, throwing all our shells amongst them, proving the efficiency of our 13-inch mortars. The rocket practice will be tested, and the ardent wishes of the people of England, who fancy the Baltic fleet is still doing nothing, may be a little appeased. Lieut. Seedy, of the Magicienne, has been ap pointed by the Commander-in-chief to the first lieutenancy of the Arrogant, front the vacancy crested by the promotion of Lieut. Haggard. Sup plies still continue from Elsinore in great abundance. THE CRIMEA. RUSSIAN DESPATCH. ST. PETERSBURG, MONDAY. At the date of the 10th, evening, Prince Oort chakoff announces that nothing new had oocurred before t3ebastopol. The enemy's fire was weak. THE WAR. -.- DEFENCE OF SEBASTOPOL. We learn from Vienna that in the military circles of that capital, where the published correspondence from the French and English camps is compared with ample private information of Russian origin, opinion is decidedly favourable to the prospects of allies on the next assault. The Military Gazette, which at times ieagtLa is hoping and predicting for Russia, now gives its voice in favour of the besiegers. " The French engineers," it says, " have now got so near to the east fort and the Karabelnaia fortifications that the first Russian line of defence can hardly withstand the next assault. It would of course be possible to hold the second line, even when the allies had taken the Malakhoff Tower, but General Osten-Sacken well knows the danger which at this moment threatens the Marine suburb and the Admiralty buildings, and has given orders preparatory to the eventual evacuation of this part of the town, and a retreat to Fort Nicholas. General Chruleff directs the defence of the Kara belnaia, and has his head-quarters in Fort Paul. It is inferred from his latest measures that, while pre pared for the worst, he is resolved to defend his ground to the utmost." The Odessa correspondent of the already quoted Military Gazette thus wri.cs on the 30th ult. touching the situation of Sebastopol: By our most intelligent military men it is universally ad mitted that if the allies push forward as energetically as they have hitherto done, the south side of Sebastopol must in the end inevitably fall. The garrison's heroic self sacrifice and contempt of death delay, but can not avert, the steady, if slow, progress of the besiegers who day by day gain ground upon them. All the various reports of the French and English journals about interrupted communication between the north and south side, terrible epidemics which rage among the besieged, 15,000 sick in Sebastopol, want of provisions and ammuni tion, and so on, are nothing but idle inventions. Letters from the interior of Sebastopol, dated July 22, assure us that the connexion between north and south is unim paired, that food and ammunition are abundant, the magazines on the north side alone containing supplies sufficient to serve 300,000 mcn for a year. The hospitals, in the days of greatest slaughter, have never contained more than 9,000 men. For sanitary rea sons, however, Prince Gortehakoff had just given orders to remove all the sick from the hospitals in the northern forts and to take them int) the interior of the Crimea. There are only about 1,200 sick and wounded who are too ill for re moval. The cholera, which is making such ravages among the allies, has never appeared smong as in an epidemic form. At the same time it is seen that the position of the garrison on the left line of defence, from Bastion 1 to Bastion 5 (from the west of Careening Bay to the Flsg stsff inclusive), will n-it long be tenable. But more than one sanguinary struggle will probably precede its abandonment. The defenders have resolutely devoted themselves to death, and trusting in God wait with calm expectation till their time comes. Hence the indifference, one might almost say the joviality, with which they play at cards and dice on the bastion while shot and shell are falling around, so that as soon as one is struck down be is quietly removed, and the game without more ado goes on as before. Thus after the last unsuccenfully attempted storming, Prince Gortchakoff visited the bastions, asking " Hew goes it, children ?" "As God wills," answered the soldiers. The garrison of Sebastopol numbers at this moment from 60,000 to 65,000 men. At the present moment it is composed of the following troops : Of the Third Infantry Corps— Eighth Division—Eegt. Poltawa, No. 16. Krementscb, N 0.16. Ninth Division—Eve- Prince Gortchakoff.No.l7. „ Prince of Warsaw, No. 18. Ssesfk, No. IS. Of the Fourth Infantry Corps— Division eleven—Rtgt. Ochotsk, No. 21. „ Kamschatka, No. 22. „ Selinginsk, No. 21. „ Jakutak, No. 21 Of the Sixth Infantry Corps— Division sixteen—Regt. Vladimir, No. 31. „ Sustlalsk, No. 32. The following regiments form the reserve : Of the Second Infantry Corps, 6th Division, the regiment Moron,, No. 11. Of the Third Infantry Corps, Bth Division, the regiment Count Diebitsch, No. 15, anil the regiment Alenspolsk, No. 15. Of the Fourth Infantry Corps, Divi sion 10, the regiments Tomsk, No. 19, and Tobolsk, No. 20 ; of the 12th Division, the regiment Ukraine, No. 23. Of the Fifth Infantry Corps, Division 13, the regiment Bialystok, No. 26; of the 14th Division, the regiments Volhinsk, No. 27, Podolsk, No. 27, and Zsistomir, No. 28; of the 16th Division, the regiment Michael Nicholai ; and of the 17th Division, the regiment Moskan. Besides the foregoing, there ars two battalion' of Black Sea Infantry, four battalions of Rifles, and two sotniu of Cossacks. The artillery and seamen are not included in this statement. AUSTRIA AND THE WESTERN POWERS. A letter from Vienna, of the Bth, in the Silesian Gazette, says:—"An extraordinary degree of activity has been observable for the last few days in the com munications between Austria and the Western Powers. Both yesterday and to-day couriers have arrived with despatches from Baron de Hubner, the Austrian ambassador at Paris. Count Aloys Caroly, first secretary of embassy at London, arrived here yesterday, and has already had two conferences with Count Buol. Various rumours are in circulation relative to negotiations which are said to be pending, but nothing positive is known." 17LIIIHICAL RZTORN or CASUALTIES MOE TEZ 277 H TO TIM 29111 JULY INCLUSITS. 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guard s - 1 rank and file killed; 1 sergeant, 10 rank and ON, wounded. tat Battalion Coldstream Onards-7 rank and file wounded. let Battalion Hoots Fusilier Guards - 4 rank and file wounded. Mid Battalion Ist Reghasist of Foot-2 rank and file wounded. 3rd Foot-1 rank and Ms wounded. 4th Foot-3 rank and Me wended. 7th Foot-2 ti ok and Ito womadad. 1 17th Foot rank am Its vimist. 19th aloft, I reek end It., wended. filet !cot —l rank swift wonalai 21 .74 Foot-2 raak awl Ile Wed l mak and Its wounded. WRECKB.—ST. J017N 9 8, N. 8., AUGUST 2.- - i ne . 43rd Foot —S rank's' Se Cavalier (Animism ship), braes for Loudest, has b.. 141 h Feat --1 rank . 11 . 1 . 811 . 11 d• end Ss wreaked on Orsad Idauan. Calcutta, July 3.—Tko I;ght. 1 u :1%o Foo t—l t-2 ri rank nk smil I nMod ; I rank and Ile wanted. cot, frau London, hu beta lost at the Bandteade, Und Toot-11 rank and Ile wooded. 0 44th Foot-1 officer, rank and 711 e, wounded. 48th Foot-1 officer wounded. 44th Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 49th Foot —1 rank and file killed; 1 rank and file wounded. 50th Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 35th Foot-9 rank and file wounded. 67th Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 62nd Foot-3 rank and file wounded. 68th Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 4 rank and file wounded. 72nd Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 77th Foot-1 sergeant tiled; I sergeant, 5 rank and the, wounded. 79th Foot-1 officer, 3 rank and file, wounded. 88th Foot-1 Aker, 1 rank and file, wounded. 93rd Foot-1 rank end file killed; 2 rank and file wonnded. • 95th Foot-2 rank and Ale wounded. 97th Foot-1 rank and file killed; 3 rank and file wounded. let Battalion HMO Brigade-1 rank and tile ; 1 L e 11'1 4 ' 4 . rank gad 2nd Battalion Ride Br rank and file wounded. & l el artillery-1 rank and Ole killed; 1 rank and file wounded. Royal !tappets and Miners-3 rank and file wour.led. Total-1 sergeant, II rank and file, killed; 5 officers, 2 atereale ‘ 106 rank and tie wounded. W. I. PAILENHAW, Lieutenast-Colonel, Acting-Adjutant-cag e * , NOVISAL INTVIUg Or OFFICIO/I WHO HATE 8 , 41, WOOODICD num ear SYTH TO THE 29rs JOLT, 1855, INCLUPITO. 19th Foot—Lieut. A. Goren, slightly. 44th Foot—Capt. L. sera ton, slightly. 48th Feot—Wa or C. F. Campbell, Ataistant.EngiewL nightly. .Bth Foot—Capt. N Bteesena,elightiy. 79th Foot—aegg; ant. Burgeon E. L. Lundy, slightly. NOMINAL DATUM M SON•0011111VVIOPID COMMA &VD MUM Pilate vas 27TH tutus 29ra t' LT, 11155, INCLVVIVIL 27th July-3,st Foot—Private Philip Larkit. 24th Foot—Prints Henry Bentley. 41st Foot—Private Michael Coulon. 49th PCat— ,PI ivate James Collins. 77th Foot-Bergeant Daniel Carey. 28th July-68th Foot—Private Thomu Toole. 97th Foot—Privets Henry Jay. Royal Artillery--Guaner John Quin. 29th July-3rd Batt. Grenadier Guards—Private Wm. D. I.llod, Slat Foot—Private Thomas Ghana. 93rd Foot—Private loth go,. Judy. let Batt. Rifts Brigade -Private William Ninds. scianvat. itITIJAN Or NON4OIIIIIII9IIIONAD °emcees AND PLR AM WOUNDED, PlOll TNP 27T TO Till 29T11 DtY OF JI:LT, 1855, July 27.-2nd Battalion let Foot—Privates Thomas Cod e , slightly; William Beattie, slightly. 4th Foot—Privates Mora: Carry, severely; Patrick Carron, slightly ; Wiriest Huntley, dais. gerously ; John Tongue., severely. 7th Foot— Privates William Mercer, slightly ; William Graham, slightly. 17th Foot—Privates Peter Madden, severely; Patrick Murphy, severely. 19th F oot _ Privates Henry H.ldsworth, mortally; Peter Lee, term', ; Patrick Ryan, slightly ; Edward Connor, slightly ; Thom as m e , sures, slightly ; Ceorge Royce, severely ; William Weeks, slightly ; Patrick Baldwise, sli g htly. 31st Foot—Prink John Talbot, slightly. 33rd Foot—Pt ivates Timothy Ring, 41404, Peter Pickett, slightly ; Daniel Clifford, slightly, 49th FOOt—Pri. sate John Grafton, severely. :oth Foot—Private John Archer, slightly. Sigh Foot—Private Thomas Holliihan, slabtly. 57th not —Private Gilbert Shanks, severely. 62nd Foot—Private Henry RON, slightly, 69th Poot—Private Samuel Ml:twain severely. .7th hoe —Sergeant Isaac Lirkman, slightly. Princes Charles Jolumm, severely ; James Fathen, slightly ; David Raker, ,lightly ; ken Bryan, slightly ,• John Bennett, slightly. 86th Foot—Private Job s Adman, slightly. 95th Foot—Private Jolts bhannett, severely, 97th Foot—Corporal James Fitzgerald, Privates Threats Langley, severely ; Matthew Collins, slightly. let Battalion Ride Brigade—Private Samuel Hoiden, severely. RIM Sappers and Miners—Privates James Drummond, severely; Francis gamin, slightly ; Roderick Stewart, *lightly. July 25.-4th Foot—Private John Kene, slightly. 17th Foot— Private Patrick Connelly, slightly. 19th Foot—Private William In. gram, slightly. 44th Foot—Lance Corporal John Evans, slightly, 48th Poet—Private Samuel Montgomery, slightly. 2nd Battalion Rifts Brigade—Privates Edward Marrett, slightly; James Mahon. sell, severely ' William Salter, slightly. Royal Artillery—Ounner Frederick Holmes, slightly. Royal Sappers and Miners—Private Robert Shari, severely. July 29.-3rd Battalion Grenalier Guards—Sergeant Thomas Marsh, severely; Privates George Bowler, dangerously; Thomas Marsden, dangerously; tto*rt Ellingliass, dangerously; William Weir, dangerously; Frederick Rowland, slightly; Caleb Cox, danger. ously; Thomas Caulkin, dangerously; tiward Joan, slightly; . Frederick Widdison, slightly; Michael seversly. Ist Bat. talioa Coldstream Guards—Privates John Podbury, severs'', George Philpot, severely; Allred J. Phasey, slightly; Samuel Day, slightly; William Mason slightly ; Hiram Craven, slightly ; John Silicas, slightly. Ist Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards—Privates W. IL Orchard, slightly; Clem. Scott, dangerously; Peter Ramsay, sliehtly,; Robert Lynch. severely. 3rd Foot—Private John Quirk, slightly. 17th Foot—Privates Thomas Cambridge, slightly; Thomas Kelly, slightly. 21st Foot—Priv.te William Millar. severely. 36th foot— Privates John MeGrieklan, slightly; W. ritiesson, severely. 41st Foot —Privates James McGrath, severely ; Patrick McGee, severely. 42nd Pout—Privates James slightly; Thomas Thootren, slightly, 4 ith Foot—Private John Wilkinson, slightly. 55th Foot— Corporal Joseph Smith, severely; Privates Robert Calder, mortally; Charles Crowther, slightly; Patrick M'Donald, slightly; John Rogan, slightly ; Charles H. Lane, slightly; William Fahey, slightly; Thm. Martin. severely. 62nd Foot—Priests William Freeman, slightly; James Berry, aligh.ly. 48th Foot—Privates John Bearnee, severely; John Carmody, severely; John Connors, slightly. 'god Foot—Fri. sate David Marshall, severely. 79th Foot—Privates William M'Ginly, slightly • James Sweeney, slightly; Robert sPDonaid, slightly. 93rd Foot—Titivates Robert Paster, slightly; Alexander Ross, severely. 95th Foot—Private James Callaghan. slightly. 2nd Batudion Ride Brigade—Private George Mortimore, severely. Royal nippers and Miners—Private Alexander Sparks, slightly. R .yal Naval Brigade, before Sebastopol, July 29, 1856. Sir,—l have the honour to unclose for your Excellency's information a list of casualties from the 21st to the 29th in stant, inclusive.-1 have, &c., HENRY Karen., Capt►in Commanding ling Naval Brigade. Lieut.- G I James Simpson, Commander of the Forces before Sebastopul. A Lin CIF CAPPALTIKA IN TUC ROYAL NAVAL MUG ADE, BILOIS ernasrorot., unwise TUE 21st AND 2gra aunt. 1135, INCLUSITL. Wounded—George Woodmen, old., London, sightly; John Stone. ord., Queen, severely; Patrick Haley, ord., Queen, severely; Edward Clewett, A. 8., Leander, slightly; Robert Holman, ord., Quivo, severely; Alfred Carey, ord., Queen, slightly; Willisu Glass, A 8., Albion, slightly; R. Garnett, captain foretop, London, severely; William Leary, ord., London, slightly; Charles Jacobs, ord., Wasp, slightly; John Joggard, A. 8., Rodney, slightly; John Winnteott, A. 8., Rodney, slightly. Contused—Samuel Poliblani;, A. 8., Queen, slightly; Thomu Cheeki, ord., Queen, slightly. FRANCE. - •• - (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS MONDAY EVENING. It will have been perceived by the announcement in the Moniteur of the route to be taken by the Queen on her arrival in Paris, that the line of pro- cession given out by the Constitutionnel as the pro- bable one has not been adopted. Her Majesty will not derive her first impressions of the Imperial hos pitality from a momentary halt at the Tuileries, but will proceed direct from the railway station to S t.Cloud. The abandoned line of march by the Place Vendome, the Rue Rivoli, and the Louvre, was well calculated to enable her Majesty to see the most striking parts of Paris on the first day of her visit, but it has been objected that this circuitous route would have re sembled too much the serpentine course taken by the Bceuf Gras. As it is, while her Majesty's comfort is consulted, after the fatigues of a long journey, she will see the Boulevards, the Madeleine, the Place de la Concorde, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Bois de Boulogne, on her way to St. Cloud, and the spectacle will be sufficiently grand. The Constitutionnel says : The national guards of the S, ins and of the departments in the neighbourhood of the capital have earnestly solicited to be allowed to take part with the national guard of Paris, in forming the long lines which are to extend from the ter minus of the Strasbourg Railway to the Palace of St. Clcud. It was impossible to refuse their request, and accordingly the staff of the national guard will have to madly the arrangements it had made so as to admit them. Deputa tions from the arrondissements and communes adjacent to the capital,and,from the different trades and constituted societies, also propose to assemble with their flags on the passage of , her Majesty. As numerous triumphal arches are about to be erected on the line of the procession, the companies of the national guard have opened subscriptions, which have al• ready attained a large amount, for decorating the 'trees and boulevards with appropriate emblems,allegorical figures, and inscriptions. On the unoccupied sites of the Boulevard do Strasbourg, and on all the others on the line of proces sion, stands are to be erected for spectators. Such is the desire to see the cortdge that already on the boulevard as much as 300 fr. have been offered for a single window. The public authorities on their part are taking all the necessary measures to prevent confusion. At the Strasbourg terminus preparations are being made, and three of the directors, M. Emile P • , Baton d'Herrey, and the Duke de Chillier' have undertaken the execution of them. At Versailles the greatest activity is being displayed in preparing for her Ma jesty's reception, and the municipality has resolved to take part in the fetes which are to be given in the palace aid gardens. The Bourse has been weak. The Rente fell 25C., closing at 67fr. There was a general impression that the bombardment of Sebastopol had commenced this very day, and speculators felt inclined to wait for news of the result. Railways were almost all from sfr. to 10fr. lower. The Austrian Railway was Per haps the favourite security of the day, and rasa 2fr. 50c. Bank of France shares were again in re• quest, and rose 13fr. There was a serious accident yesterdr.y on the ' Northern Railway. An express Cretin to Paris came into collision with a waggon•-train loaded with sand. Two men in the sand waggons were killed. The Constilutiminel, in an article strongly con demnatory of Lord John Russell's recent speech, speaks with marked v,verity of the conduct of t he Pope towards Piedmont. Instead of excommunics ' Hog the King of Sardinia, who but represent' the wishes of his people as expressed in their parliaments the Pope, it says, would have done much better to THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN ASIA. General Muravieff writes to hia government that the Circassian tribes appear to be quiet; but that he has redoubled his defensive precautions. Prince Andronikoff has received orders not to attack Mustapha Pacha while his chief is before Kars. The latter city, having refused to surrender, is to be besieged in form. MARSEILLES, ToR/IDAT MORN IRO. The Indus, which left Constantinople on the 6th of August, has arrived. The advice@ from the Crimea are to the 4th of August. Generals Canrobert and Saucier have arrived. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON. (FROM ♦ SIIPPLEMINT TO TRI OAZETTI OP FRIDAY LAST [The following appeared in our Second Edition hut evening] : WAR DEPARTMENT, Avo. 13. Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Lordship by General Simpson, com manding her Majesty'. forces in the Rest: Before Sebastopol, July 81. My Lord,—l beg to enclose the list of casualties to the 29th instant, which I regret to say are very heavy. The proximity of our works to those of the enemy, together with the lightness of the night, and rocky nature of the ground, making it impossible to obtain rapid cover, materially contributes to such a result ; notwithstanding which disadvantages our engineers continue steadily, though slowly, to advance in the direction of the Great Redan. Au agreeable change has taken place the last few days in the temperature of the weather ; heavy showers of rain have occasionally fallen. Several reconnaissances have been made from the valley of Baidar towart a Ozenbash, Aitodor, and through the Phoros Pass towards Alupka, the enemy nowhere appearing in any force ; but the narrowness of the mountain roads, with the exception of the Woronzow, makes it unnecessary for them to alter their concentrated position on the heights of Mac kenzie and plateau of the Belbek. The health of the troops continues very satisfactory. —I have, &c., JAMES SIMPSON, Lient.-General Commanding. The Lord Panmure, &c. &c.