The Express. — London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

Vxlprepio. TO COMISTONDENTS. spoin wee Renee lor "Me Ibienee.' Wein teemegmer. so be es obe OM" I% Oseedereeet. by Tee Odor ad dr ai 0 relo" loos you ♦T LONDON BRIDON 14 0 :4M , ASlW Aftir:Mik ".6 111. Z=Zl 2 . lllll- "= LO3DON, &Ammar, RIN3 9. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD THE BOMBARDMENT OF SEBASTOPOL. THE MAMELON TAKEN. WAIL DEPLETMBNT, Jou 9. Lard Paint, presents his compliments to the laitce of the Daily News, and has peat pleasure is trsnsmittiog the enclosed intelligence which has i. clay leached him from Lord Raglan : Jowl 7. " The formidable ftre of yesterday wulrapt up to-day with the greatest spirit, sod soon after six this even- ieg the French attacked and carried the White Wak and the Mameloo. The whole operation we wit brilliant. Great gallantry displayed on all tido Comities not yet known." THE RUSSIAN DEFEAT OF THE 23AD. The Journal de St. Petersbourg, of the let, oontains inglismeatary report front Prince Gortchakoff, of themapiaary engagement on the night of the 22nd. At the else occurs the following brief mention of the kiss[ the best night : la the sight of the 23rd the enemy brought dense mum d neer babied tne oenietery before Bastion No. 6, sad, titers dart bat vigorous eaannowle from all hie batteries, demised epos tie positions which he bad whacked with so 3itill MKS in the previous night. At this moment, on a pm signal, the two battalions of the regiment of andiellS et JitOlnif, which were in occupation, retired nen ear fretificationt, sad from the latter a erase and wan eansied are of snider: opened upon the assailing co kes& It. Mash experienced a great lore epos this point, but Yf ecatissed to maintain themselves in the two lodge son seareat the Cemetery, and to destroy them. The Cask 'skid' united thou wort to the beati.m No. 6, and tlieh we bed evacuated, wee cot occupied by the messy. RUSSIA IN THE CAUCASUS. Ir is not enough to win victories : they must be tweed to account. The capture of Bench and Yeni isle, and the sweeping of the Russian flag from the ha of Ala, are gallant and dazzling exploits, bat lakes they are made the preenrson of heavier blows n the enemy they might as well not have been Aired. The Allies, masters of the Bea of Asuff, ave turned the flank of the Russian forma in the Zama's. If the a. gonations with the tribes inhabit that mountain mass, which were proposed to be last year, are now carried into effect, the Rea ms easily be compelled to evacuate their con d provinces in Georgia and Armenia. We from &amass that great and successful efforts heiag made by Colonel WILLIAMS to re-orgaa . the army of Aoatolia, and place the Ottoman • • tioos along the Riisso•Turkish frontier in a plate state of defence. His task may be niateri y facilitated if the Allies turn to a good account heir successes in the Sea of AsofE A few brief re fection. will suffice to show how important it Is that aboald be deo,. The Caseasus is one great mountain mass, which Weeds from sear Anaps on the Black Bea (lat. 44.40 N., ton. 37.10 E.) to the peninsula of Abcheron as the Caspian (lat. 40.30 N., lon. 60.20 E.) At its ban extremity it sinks down to the low, dead lof the steppes; to the south a low range of which divide the waters of the Bur from those the Rioni, connect it with the high table-land Armenia. The central peaks of the More above the line of perpetual snow. On Euxine the of[ shoots from the central run out into the see, forming a bold by mut, in which there are many bays affording lter for small craft. Towards the Caspian abroad w pl,in extends between the mountain and the ma, undated in winter, and entirely &annals of water • summer. The streams which drain the northern Is of the Caucasus flow principally to the sten ; a few tall into the Torok. Its southern en either and their way to the Block Bee, or feed • bar and its affluents. There are only two roe& g which the Russians can find their way by land this mountain mass to their Georgian and Arms provinces. One runs in great part along the plain tween the Caspian and the mountain. The intends • render the country through which this road passes tilential for great part of the year; the wantof water kes it practicable with difficulty during the re ader. Hence it comes that the principal lamilmler between Russia and its Trans-Cansmileat pm • eel is carried on by means of a road whisk threads ' • mountain defiles, and crosses the crest of the •ge not much below the summit level. The phy impediments are the least formidable difficul t that obstruct this path; the hostility of the war , 1 . and indomitable tribes is a far more series' con- copy the eastern deelivides towards the Black rice. The Oast= (33,918 families) dwell in the high central valleys of Elbois. The Lesghis (138,700 families), and the Meziljdhi hold the south eastern valleys. These tribes or clans have, so far as history carries= back, been engaged in constant ' fends smougst themselves and with their neigh bours. They have at times recognised a nominal soversigaty of the Khans of the CI inset, or the Sul- I tees; bet since thedepuition of the former and the expelsionat the latter from Anspd, they have had no ouster over them. Early in the present cen tury the Russians began their attempts to subju gate them. he insidious pretence of es tablishing trading posts was first adopted, but the projects of military conquest were so thinly veiled that the natural sagacity of the mountaineers placed them on their guard Daring the last thirty years& desultory and destructive war has been waged between the Russians and the Caucasians ; yet, though the latter have been left by the whole world to the tender mercies of the Muscovites, and though they are divided among themselves into innumerable factions, the CZAZ up to the present time has not been able to obtain more than a precarious possession of a few isolated strongholds. The amount of blood and truism which has bees wasted by Russia in its maladies campaigns in the Caucasus is enormous. The object kept in view by the Government at St. Petersburg in this seemingly prufilises strife is not the conquest of the Caucesus for itself. Its rugged valleys can be made a profitable par session. The aggregate commerce of the Gammas— concentrated at Anapa, Batoum, Tiflis, and Derbeud —is and always must continue inconsiderable.' Russia covets the possession of the Caucasus to secure its lines of communication with the rich provinces to the sotrh of it, wbscb she has wire , ed from Persia and Turkey. The encroachments of Russia upon both of these states, to the mouth and soath•east of Tifiis, have been pushed on with relentless pertinacity. Already the Russian frontier comes close up to the ' great line of road along which passes the commerce of Europe through Trebisona to Armenia, Persia, and Central Asia. The obvious aim of Russia is to obtain possession of that route, in order to close it against the commerce of Europe, establish her ascendancy over Turk, y and Persia in these rrgioos on a secure tooting, and thus pave the way to those further con quests with which her insatiate ambition keeps her imagination filled. To the accomplishment of these projects the subjugation of the Caucus. is an indis pensable preliminary, and this is the reason why the blood and treasure of Russia have been so lavishly squandered in these regions. Every new conquest made by Russia leads to the degradation and impoverishment of the conquered races. The unchecked advance of Russia in Armenia, Kurdistan, and Persia, will be fatal to any prospects of progress in civilisation in these regions, and will exclude France, England, and Sardinia trom profita ble markets, and regions where their presence can exert a humanising influence. To expel Ramie from Georgia and Armenia, and to establish the indepen dent tribes of the Caucasus as a barrier between the Muscovites and Persia and Turkey, would be an un speakable benefit to humanity. These objects can easily be attained by the cu-opera•. ion of the army of Anatolia with the allied forces in the Euxine and the Sea of Azuff. It may be asked what is to be done with the Caucasians P Leave them to them selves. The Sultans abdicated their authority over that region before the Russians assailed it. Without concert or combination, the mountain tribes have made good their ground against Russia's most strenuous efforts. Unoooquerabls in their own valleys, they are little formidable as aggressors to neighbours possessed of disciplined armies. Their civilisation and conversion into an organised commu nity must be left to the gradual operation of that civilisation which commerce—sure to penetrate into their valleys as soon as the Russian blockade is raised —will introduce among them.—Daily News. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1855. THE WAR. who saw him on returning from the plane of execu tion, observed—"l found PeUstier the same as I have always known him." These venous have sines received their passports to Lave the country. There are upwards of fifty intlividnor comprir.d in that measure. The Domi nican government have not restricted themselves to banish only men. Not women cod children are in cluded ; amongst others, the sisters of ex-President Pets -.- THE SEA OF AZOFF. Letters from Paris state that it wee understood in l eircles generally informed upon the intentions of 1 the government, that the allies will not occupy I Hertel, but fortify Yenikal6, and leave 6,000 Turks Ito defend it. Oar flotilla will beep the Bea of Ascii; and probably visit Rostock, Mierionpol, and Tagan rog. In the Russian arsenal near Keetch the allies found incendiary buoys, and the electric wire to fire them, which the enemy had prepared against our I I arrival, but had not been quick enough to lay down. FRANCE. DAILY 311715.) PARIS. FRIDAY EVIIIIIMO. A despatch from Prince Glortchakoft of the 3rd. states that on the 30th of May the allied fleet with drew from Glenitchi, sad that the Russian authorities hoped to be able to we a portion of the supp Les which had been set on fire. We learn from London a piece of news of which the Government here kept as in total ignorance, that the bombardment of Sebastopol recommenced on the 6th instant. A despatch of this day's date, from Vienna, states that an expedition has been undertaken against Despatches from Bt. Petersburg, of the 2od, state that °emend Rudiger has given orders that no mer chant vessel, now in the Russian ports on the coast of the Baltic, shall put out to sea. The canes of this measure is that the English cruisers have captured five merchant vessels, burnt one, and sunk another. The cattle show in the Champ de Mars terminated to-day by the sale by auction of the animals exhi bited. The exhibition, the second of the kind held in Paris, has been much better attended than that of last year. The company was every day composed principally of country people, but, notwithstanding the deems of the locality from the centre of Paris, them Were a pod many Parisians, and I have no desk that in two or three years this interesting am will brooms a national institution in every mew of the word, and will become as attractive as it ' well deansa to be. The French country gentlemen and breeder. are lost in admiration at the exoellenoe of the English animals, and freely concede the pains to them. They anticipate immense advantages hem the greater attention to breeding which these exhi bitions are calcblated to bring about. Daring the a•iction I heard many expressions of regret at the low prices at which splendid English bulls and rams were sold, and fears which I trust may be groundless were expressed that the English would be so dissatisfied with the sale that they would not readily send their cattle next year. I apprehend that few of the Eng glish exhibitors came all this way with a view to immediate profit, and they have every reason to be proud of their harvest of honour and glory. Among the prizes awarded the owners of the bulls of the Durham race, brought from England for exhibition, Lord Faversham obtained the first prize of 1,000 fr.; Mr. Crisp, of Hawkhill, the second of 900 fr.; Lard Talbot de Malahide, the third of 800 fr. ; Prince Albert, the fourth of 500 fr. Lord Berwick obtained the first ' prize of I,ooofr. for bulls of the Hereford breed ; Lord Talbot for those of the Ayrshire breed; and Mr. Turner, of Exeter, for the Devon. When I speak of the admiration accorded to the English animals, it moat not be supposed that the French are mean compe titors. On the contrary, there were magnificent specimens of the Charolais, Flamande, Normande, and Cotentin races, as well as of successful crams with English breeds. Bat the French cattle are apt to be long-legged and bony, showing traces of that breeding which had in view the plough as well as the slaughter-house. The exquisite perfection of some of the Herefords and Durhams is not be seen in the French pens. In sheep the superiority of the English breeds is by universal consent still more re markable. Amounts from Finland state that the electric tele graph, to connect St. Petersburg with the coat lice of the Golfs of Finland and Bothnia, is completed as far as Wyborg, and was opened on the 15th of May. The next memo, extending to Hsleingfors, is to be ready for rise by the end of Jane. THE GERMAN LEGION. (710 X • :T or THE DAILY SIMS.) HELIGOLAND, JUNN I am now enabled to confirm what I said in my last communication, that the second village of wooden accommodation for 2.000 huts, capable of alforoing more men, is to be erected as soon as the materiels arrive from England, and Lieutenant Lempriere, the officer of engineers gent here to superintend the erec tion, has to-day received the official intelligence that they have been shipped, and that the vessels have sailed. They may, theretore, be expected to arrive e or two. The thirts -three huts already cone s eennot contain more than • thousand men semmaisatly. Colonel Steinbach has had some nits noilkenteading with the officers of the German Leese ' s' the subject of the bounty to be paid to the recruits on enlisting, which bas led to some un pleasant disputes. The fourth paragraph of the " Articles of capitulation," for the Foreign Legion, says expressly : —" The levy money of recruits, raised by this country, will be 61. per man, in cash and necessaries, upon final approval, with the usual allowance to the party bringing the recruit admitted. for British reeruits." In con sequence of this, Col. Steinbesh gives only 30 marks or one-half of the bounty in cash to the recruit, and keeps back the other half on aeoonat of the uniform and other nee:varieties, whilst the other officers de mand the whole sum to be paid to the men in cosh. Owing to this difference of opinion, Major von &a pewits has thrown up his commission, and leaves Heligoland to-morrow for Hamburg. The recruits receive 13 Hamburg 'shillings (Is. sterling) per day. and a pound of meat and a pound and shall of bread daily rations, with which tbey are well contented. rho uniforms have arrived from E.igland, and are distributed to the men. They are made of very good serviceable red cloth, in the new tunic form, whilst the dress of the Rifles is a dark green coat with white cord embroidery, and a new soft of helmet for the heed. The muskets sod Minis rifles for the Legion have not yet arrived, and the drill sergeants are in the meantime teaching the men to walk and practice the goose step. Major von Aller is the commander of the 2nd battalion of the line. Some German army surgeons have arrived, any it is said that a chaplain connected with St. James's Chapel, in London, is engaged for the spiritual care of the Legion. On returning from the cattle show I looked into the Uoiversal Exhibition, on purpose to see if any body was there on the live-franc day. I found both the Beaux Arts and the Paleis de flndastre all but deserted. In the former there were certaialy not u many visitors as keepers. It is now an ascer tained tact that We. is a prohibitory price. The Bowie was active to-day. There was a vague ruwour that government had reotived favourable news. The Route rose 16e., closing at 69fr. 10c. ; Credit Mobilier rose 20fr. Railways were very brisk. Lyons and Mediterranean rose 17fr. 50c.; Grand Central, 16fr. _ _ _ It will be announced in the leading column of the Sleets of to-morrow, with all the honours of type, that M. Lamartine is about to become a rodacteur of that journal. This does not mean that he is going to resume the political pen. There is no field in France at the present moment for any independent political writer. M. Lamartine will merely contri , bate philosophical and literary articles to the Sleek. ITALY. (mom TIE OP TEZ DAILY xtiws .) ROME, JuNs 8. Some gossipping has been occasioned by the ex- King of Bavaria's having left Rome without the Pope's returning his visa, u is customary for his Holiness to do to crowned heads, and the slight is said to be in payment of a piece of negligence com mitted by the reigning King of Bavaria, who, when in Rome. received the Pope at the top of his palace stairs instead of the bottom. Such are the laborious trate@ which occupy the attention of court circles here. Judging by the attitude of the French garrison in the papal states, no doubt of the intentions of Austria is entertained by the allies. The French troops gradually dwindle away, which would certainly not be the case it any misunderstanding etre appre heeded. The last departure was that of the waggon train from Civita Vecchia, about ten days ago. The men, horse', and equipages of this corps were em barked for the Crimea, on board the English steamer Lady Jocelyn and the fast American clipper Golsen Gate. The 14 th regiment of infantry will be the next to leave Rome. Alter a considerable amount of negotiating, the Papal government has granted permission for the exportation of the gallery of pictures purchased by Dr. Braun ' of Baron Cemuccini, for the Duke of Northumberland, amongst which is the celebrated masterpiece of John Bellini, containing a portrait of himself and Titian. The deposit of 18,000 scudi for the export duty, besides 1,800 scuds. for the register duty, proved too straw a bait for an impoverished exchequer, and so Pio Noao signed the rescritio, in spite of he respectful remonstrances of the Fine Arts Commissioners. A very lucky dog, belonging to the banker Alber terxt's coachman, brought his master a little packet the other day, which he had picked up in the Via Condotti, and which on opening was found to contain four splendid diamonds mounted as studs. These had b.en dropped by the Neapolitan Commander of Malta, Borgia, who veined them highly from having been presented with them by the Queen of Naples. Their intrinsic worth was 800 scud' (1381.), and he was delighted when the owner of the dog brought the casket and claimed the promised reward of 80 son& The veteran Vesuvius is making his subterranean exertions to be felt in our neighbourhood. The shock of an earthquake was experienced Eve days ego in Albano. A BEAR HI/hT.—Tho Memorial dee Pyresiee bat the following details of a bur hunt at Urdos an the 20th inst. : " Last evening, about thirty Lucien &pomaded the aide of the monntaia of B nee, asar this place, with joyous shuts sad a Mita( fire of musketry, in sign of joy. In 'Hut, 0 sly had sunned to get rid of a bear whisk they bad sought to kW dans; eaves or eight yam. His track was discovered through :he snow, which had latterly Mien in the mountain'. Being pursued sod drive. from under °over he was fired on. and sucoessively hit by several beaten, hateful' shots were notsmough to bring Nina dowe. Aiken* be arrived where M Lueders, wee posted, and I darted forward le doom, him, when that gentleman dis charged three bails bit* his mouth. The 'Dismal, bowrcsr, still rem Ailed oa his feet prepared to deistroy his &dummy. In this extremity, sad in the impossibility of a mama fire, H. Lapdogs@ erea exposed to gnat danger, but he pre serest his sag bald, sad thrust Imo the Mar's mouth his large iros Woad Mak, which was immediately shivered to' plasm Brenalit dawn at lad by the bear the bunter fell Os his beak, and weld only defend himself with his bands sad feet, mad it seemed as if all was over with Mu, whoa Om Irak the were bawd, sad the salad fell dead." VIR Court. TIN Queen, with the Princess Royal, accompanied b 7 the Prises.' of Haifalobe Leer eaborg sad the Prince'. Feeders of Hobe.lobe, drove oat yesterday *Larson. at waded by the equerries is waiting. Prises Albert, weeded by Captain the Hos. Hadley de Roe, left Baskisgbass Palace, at 3 u'elesk yesterday after- ' twos, for Aldershottand Unposed the works is progrees for the encsispseat. Hi , Royal Hipbone travelled sad es tweed to Leaden by a special traits os the South Wtstern Railway, sad arrived at the Polies at • quarter past 7 o'clock. - Toe Dwaine of Hest visited her Melody. Prise* Arthur, with the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took a chive in as open carriage-and-four. The Duchess of Kest bad a small 'erste' party roster. day, at her residence, Climes li.nr is, 81. James's. The Queen and Prince Albert were present, with the Princess HoyaL The Deckers of Caubridge and the Printer Mary, the Hereditary Grand Deckers of Mew , leshargh strobes, and the Dube of Canbridge, and the Prisons of Hohealohe Liagenbarg, with the Princesses Adelaide and Feodore of Hoheolohe, were also prewar. Toe company also ineluded the Ladies ,nd (hideous in Width"( to the Queen sad Prince, sad the Royal Family, together with a small party of um mobility, -ho had the honour of being invited to meet her Majesty. A deputation, consisdag of the Mayor of Manchester, Sir Mynah Armitage, Aid masa Fillies, Meson. Booker and Actsbeed, and the Town Clerk of Manchester (as a deputa tion from the Council), and Messrs. Wm. Dodd and Daniel Maude, and Mr. Wren (as $ deputation from t►e Borough )takes), accompanied by the Right Hon.:. Milner o,b -son, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. Brotherton, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home-o Mos, spois the subject of the custody and 'saints nano, of Juvenile Dvlinquents, in eonnesioa with the necessity of increased aratainniodation in the ldeashater City Prism Despatches were net from the Colonial-dice, yesterday, to the °overman of the North American Provisoes. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S Orrice, Jima 7.—Notice is hereby gives that her Majesty will bold • drawing-room at Si. James's Palace as Thursday, 14 h June nest, at two o'clock. Miele, Is also gime, that her Majesty will hold • levee at St. James Palm on Wednesday, the 27th inst., at two o'clock —Onseets, of last night. Ling Leopold has received an autograph letter from the Hine of Portugal. announcing - M intention of hie youthful Majesty to visit Bruseek with the Duke of Oporto ow leaving Paris. Gelismani has full reports of the proceedinp at the banquet at the Hotel de Ville to the Lord Mayor, and at the presentation st the ad i MSS of the Court of Common aeration. Council to the Maoisipal B ,dy of Paris. In proposing the The Guesses is occupied by a number of tribes si heelth of her atollMaLee N ty . , T t prot equet, th eu eP u r i ef au eet y of the c meted by no common hoed of natiooality, laws, or beloved Bovereige. May we woe see the h o pe realised that ilace. They were estimated by SLA/Pktitlf, **fly her Majesty the Qum bas deigned to permit us to conceive, I the present century, to anima to 2,376,600 that of wag allowed to off , r to her is mie very place, at We. or 627,890 families. 'there we so lees than the period of her visit to Preece, the homage of the row men distinct lasguages spoken amongst them , and peetfal f elicitations of the municipal corporatlea of Pais INS With an infinity of dialectical differences eo Vies la Raise Victoria!" at The mag Lord Mayor said ich ler , la the am th the nifleenee wh Plat as to reoder every tribe nearly unintelligible to 60 Of his epode, - dea hint was suc h as •• to ma ke me sae me pathless neighbour,. Our information respecting them be r : h il : hau , aweis p aa kd sit, mei as pigmies is our power se 17 limittd nod vogue- The Grote" "WM' °Siring a palsoe for sausiolpal hospitalities." Covers ware ses occupied by moms 126,000 families, chiefly laid for 360 perms., sad sea lady sat by the side of a lees Gectgiaa race. There are nearly 80,000 families amen down ue whole length of the human table, the Turkish or Tnrcoman nos scattered over the coop e'cril wee one of eadvalled variety sad beauty. The The northern rallies sod dectlivitiee— d o ilm ies ir o ccimided f NA , a d ever Y kh delic4.7 that the galiaahleht the Kuban and Tonic, ate inhabited by the __,, 1 An English lady be Paris (Mrs. Vansittert). as 1111 ""',... , cw , Cii"""" ( 61,130 fawilis N whom "' winker of Madame Risser' , has sent bar • ticket f.r the MS • '`" •teillbstes sad the Nagai Torten ( 9 , 480 at the Mayl de Villa es Monday, amempeated with heed resa. ). The Abases (631898 farms'-) set ems lass drew to weer ea ohs sunless • ARREST OF A BRITISH SUBJECT AT HAMBURG. (MOM • COLIMPONDZST Or Tall D•ILT MIRO HAMBURG. Jens 6. In consequence of the police having urea ed an English subject of the name of Rolfe on suspicion of being a recruiting agent for the German Legion, and thrown him into pti.on, C.,1005! Hodges required his Itberatioo, sod, to give more effect to his demand, ordered her Majesty's ship Otter, Lieutenant Glover, at that moment lying in the Elbe, off Cuxhaven, to come up the river. Fortunately her services were not further required, and the prisoner was released, but with a warning to quit the city. The Otter re ceived on board a number of recruits from both sides of the Elbe, and proceeded to convey them to Heligo land. BAN DOMINGO. O/ 751 DAILY news SANTO DOMINGO. MAT 6 Since I lest addressed you, events of great gra vity have ag itated s. The military commissioo Instituted to lodge the prisoners accused for conspi racy assembled on the 27th ult., and came ro a con clusion on the 30th following, sentencing General Pelletier (a Frenchman by birth, and formerly Minister of War and of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic), as well as Generals Aybar, l iatecisco Rule, Joe Bats, and Rudecindo Itamin s fleilseth. The two latter had found time to make dMir erespe. Four persons of the number accused in Santo Domingo were sentenced to perpetual expatri mien, five to three years' imprisooment, five to banishment to Samoa, the Dominican Botany Bay, sad three to minor punishment. All the interference of the French Admiral Hernoux, of our Commodore Henderson, and of the Foreign Consuls, could not tough the decision of General Santana, that Pelletier, Aybar, and Ruiz should suffer death. In the morning of the 2ud of May priests were sent to the prisoners, townies' them. About this time a mournful cortEge moved down the streets front the British Consulate to the Pre.ident's house, composed of young persons of both sexes, the children of the men that were to be shot in the afternoon. They were accompanied by our consul and his colleague'', resort ing, as a last femme, to see what effect a verbal application for grace might make l upon General Santana. On arriving at his house they were told he was not at home. They proceeded, therefore, to the national palace, to address their supplication to the Vice-President, who received them at least with courtesy. I have learned from parties who were present at this interview that the scene was heart-rending, and that no eye remained dry ; even the ministers, the officers of the staff, the consuls, indeed, every pereon gave way when witnessing the laments of the poor children, urging arsoe for the lives of their parents. Vice-President, General Regla-Mots, wee moved to the extreme, but with his limited inflames he could only give very vague promises. At three o'clock in the afternoon the military marched to the usual place of execution. There wise no less than 3,000 troops assembled. The prisoners were adder a strong escort oi the armed police. Ge. nerd Santana, with big staff, was at the place wham I they arrived, and having mode his arrangements he ordered the prisooers to kneel down. Their sent, is was reed over to them, and the firing party, being is ghee, were seuzia..d.a to load and to point their inmehelle apse the unfortunates, when Soots's& cried Halt l a sad ordered his aide-de-camp to read a pro donation pardoning the three accused. The lambs of the soldiery could not subdue the horror that the preceding moments had classed. Fransisseßeis, ow of the perinea condemned to death, rose tees his hoses an idiot. His nervous system bad gives way seder the horror of the moment, and what is still more usioneholy, one of his daughters, she who was the most vehement in imploring grass from the Viee-President, lost her resew when she learned that her father had after all, been led to ezeoutioa. It was only General Pelletier who bore these mo menta with paint forutude l and a friend of mine* 011011 • AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL. PtIDLY. By the arrival of the White Star packet-ship She limit, Captain Ituberteon, belonging to Meagre. Pil kington and W►leoo, of Liverpool, we have advice' from Melbourne eleven days later than those brought by the Indian Queen. The Shalimar has made a rapid pelage of 75 days from that port, and a round plumage trots Liverpool and back of 6 months and 14 day., incluaing deten tion in Melbourne. The Buttimer wilt d from Melbourne on the 24th of March, and besides a cargo of wool and general merchandise on board, has brought 200 passengers, and 40,000 ounces of gold in specie oa freight. The following vessels had arrived out from Liver pool :—The Lightning, in 74 days; the Hastings and Earl of Elgin, from London; the Moviereaturt, at tlydney ; the Nepaul, from Liverpool. The Red Jacket had been out 86 day., not arrived. Bailed for London—From Melbourne, the Windermere, Med- way, and Hostig ; sailed from S)doey, the Buitou, Caroline Reid. Juanita, Lady What noliffe, and James Huth; from Adelaide, the Kangaroo. The prosecution of the Ballarat rioters continues at Melbourne; the prisoners in every cue have been acquitted. the intelligence from the mining districts is very favourable. Large nuggets have been discovered at Ballarat, weighiug neatly 801 b. New diggings are opened near Geelong, very remunerative. The price of gold at Melbourne 76a. per ounce. There wee a good demand in the labour market for agricultural servants. The wool market is reported without animation, and prices nominal. Other articles generally un cheer d. NBW POSTAGE RATES TO AND FROM FICIOBI4. The Gazette of last night contains a Treasury war rant directing, that on and after the 20th inst., there shall be substituted in lieu of the rates of British postage, now payable on letters transmitted by the post between any place in the United Kingdom and the colony of Victoria (direct, or through any foreign country), amended rates as follows :—On every letter not exceeding ball en ounce in weight, a uniform British rate of one shilling, if the sea conveyance be by packet-boat, and of ,ightpence if by pri vote ship. On every letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, transmitted by the post between the colony of Victoria end any other of her Majeety'ai anionic', r any °nip' country, throngs the United Kingdom (whether through any foreign treantry or not), the rates of British postage will be as follows:—Between Victoria and any part of the United Kingdom, theme conveyance belay by packet boat, a rate of one shilling, and of eightpence by private ship; sod for the eouveyanos of every such letter between the port is the Uoind Kiagdom of the departure or arrival of the packet or ship conveying the same, and the colony or terrain country to er from which the same shall be for warded, such additional rate of postage as shall from time to time be charged for British postage on letters posted or deli• veredat the port in the United Kingdom of the depsrture or arrival of the Teasel conveying the same nod transmitted direct between such port and any such colony or foreign country. Every letter exceeding ball an ounce and not ex• needing on. ounce in weight will be charged two rates ut postage; exceeding one ounce, an: not exceeding two "sates, four rate* of postage; not exceeding three ounces, oda rates; not exceeding four cones., eight rates; and fur every ounce above tour, two additional rates, every fraction of an ounce being t harged as one additional. Letters emerge able under the warrant in question, if they pass through a foreign country, will be subject to any foreign postage pa, able thereon, is addition to the British postage. Certain privileges now granted by law in respect to petitions, ad , dresses, seamen's and soldier's letters, 80., and to remain masher. d. It i.further provided that letters or packers ousted in or addressed to France, or any foreign country through France, and transmitted between France or foreign countries through France and the colony of Victoria are excluded from the operation of the warrant. ROSSINI IN PARIS. A correspondent writes :—" Rossini has arrived in Paris. This is the happiest and most important musical event of the week. To this excellent piece of news I eels add another, which is still better and equally certain—theft is every hope that the health of the sovereign insestro will be completely restored. " Cite eon's gli RUA come senile vole." " All that science can do to preserve such s valued life for many long days will of course be done. Ilia ordinary physician has already had several consultations with some of . . the most distinguished members of the faculty in Paris. It all who owe to the immortal author of Wilda= Tell, Moms, and the Barber, hours of ineffable bead. rode, of saquisite enjoyment, were to leave their names at ffeesinVe door, we should see an immense procession from sunrise to sunset for days without number. Malty private friends of the master, however desirous they were to oor•templats those flue and intelligent butane which age and suffering have changed but very little. contented them *elves with leaving their cards and good wishes at the threshold of his august abode, and abstained from feelings of delic icy from any attempt to disturb the privacy of the first days of his installation in Petit. Others, either less timid or more intimate, could not resist the desire to press to their heart this old friend so long absent, and who had been represented by correspondence as mush more seriously ill than he really was. Those who succeeded in peoetrat• leg the sanctuary were delighted when they saw the great man who had been reported to be to broken down. Alchough ne has greatly !safety' in various way., they found his mind as sporkliog, his temper aa good, and his convene tion se charming as ever. In answer to questions about his lualth, he complains of a little weeklies. and an absolute seat of sleep. His malady wens to be purely nervous. But, notwithituoing his Mew, he has resumed his fa vourite promenades upon the Boulevards, where he may be seen strolling as of old, with hie bands in the pockets of his long frock coat, while he curiously observes the many trasseformatioas that have taken place during his absence. Whes any one talks to him of music and the recent success of his Mat /tilde de Shabrus, he looks at his questioner with so air of astonishment so well assumed as to appear Reif, and, bowing his head replies with almost imperceptible irony, ' People are rosily too good to trouble themselves about my old things. All that music is rococo. It bee quite gone by.' The other day some one was vaunting the wonders of magnetism, and proposed that he should consult • somnambulist. Ah,' said 'toting gaily, 'she would ask for a lock of my hair; I have but five heirs left, and each of them has a name. lam bald enough as it is.' He came to Paris by short journeys. Rossini likes to sire the country he passes through; to breathe the air at leisure, to sleep at night, and, in short, to take the longest way about, like the good La Fontaine. Aa to those modern f communi cation which shoot men and luggage, as from a cannon's mouth, a hundred leagues before a man has time to inquire the way, without having either that fear or dislike of it which has been pretended, he does not see why one who his no occasion to hurry should adopt this mode of travelling. He says capital things about the incon veniences es well as the advantages of progress. Duriag this long journey, which took more time than Torquato Ten° and Benvenuto Celliai would hive done to perform the same distance sword in hand, Madame Rossini watched over her partner with a pious and maternal solicitude. • e • "It is mild that the management of the opera will cele brate Rossini's return to Paris with all Ike eclat due from • principal theatre supported by a state subvention. There is a talk of bringing out Mom on a grand seals ; William Tell and Count Ory will aka, we believe, be played. This homage to RAISIDi will be at once an honour to the Opera; a great j y for the friends of art, and a solemn reparation for the incenceivable neglect of the great works of the water of austere, of maids we wars at one time gailty."—Moniftnir A deputation consisting of Mears. Apaley.Pallatt,l )L.P., I.eickhart, M P., Cranford, II P., 1. T. Oal►nitb, and H. Robertson, waited upon Lord Stanley of Alderley at the B wad of Trad- yesterday, for the purpose of pointing • some featurre which they believe to be objectionable i* the new bill brought in fur the purpose of amending the laws of partnership and limiting the liability of sharehold ers in joint-mock undertakings. On the 29 h nit. than were 210 cues of cholera at. St. Petersburg. Mies Edith Iterated, daughter of the veteran lisle ratswr, will shoal, appear at the Haymarket i• a new PIO in flee acts. A model of the monument proposed to be tweeted , no Otevesend, to be called "The Alma Tower," is shown is the tows, and the project hes hen laid before the Town Conseil. Mr. Booker, M P., is preoleded byt indispomiticn from attenoiag to hie parliamentary engagements. Mr. Layard'e motion on "the state of the nation," is sassy* the onus of the day for Monday. NAVAL AND MIME ADYIL►LI7, JUNE B.—APPOINTMENTS.—Lietttee meats W. H. &lye (L&M), to the lotprogaahie, 104, the. ship, at Plysamuh ; and Bt. J. Covastry (1850). to tow Prometheus, 6, paddle wheel steam sleep, of 200 horws power, West Coast w Africa station. Burgeon J. T. U. Bremner (1866), Y.D , to the Melville, Hospital. • The 94th Regiment was yesterday inopested in the Home Perk, Windsor, by Adjutant-G. rase■l Wetheralls fha 94th has received orders to mann from Windsor en or. about the 20th inetact to Portsmouth, thence to • =bark fin Gibraltar. The regimeat; including all ranks, la 1,103 sting; 400 rank and the will go out, and about 300 will be left in depot. The English vessel Rattler, which had been chartered by the French government, has jest left Havre Constaatinopn. Soy bee been loaded with great oelerity, sad has on board en lamest* quantity of project thee, more then 100 waguons, sad some thousands of pack ages foe the diffenet Bonita,. A general Inspection of the City of London Royal S.•gtnent of Militia will take place on. Heaney next, in the ground of the Hon. the Artillery Compels), Finsbury, *beet the whole of the oft era and men nodal the command of Colonel Wilmot, aldermen, will be under arms. Sr/trail military °Man of high rank and the members of the Artillery Company wilt be present on the OCCOIIIOII. Tbe in spection, which is preliminary to the departure of the nee , meat for the camp at Aldenbott, is expected to take plant at noon. SHEERNESS, JUNG S. The Avon steam vessel arrived hero on Tlauredaj with 34 Russian prisoners. returned here from !lobar prison, to be pat board the Devonshire. Tessa mess were convicts, working the guns at Bomersuad as a penalty at toe time it was taken by the allied forces. They appear to have tusk Leto a state of sullen apathy, starettly eon.; eeniag with weak other at any time, except at the niviaiost of their meals. the mortar vessels Burly, Blazer, and Manly, sad the gee-boat Hiadr ha,. arrived herr, waiting orders. Ao Admiralty order has arrived here for ttlrb Calcutta, St, Captain J. J. fitopford, to take nu hoard the stuntmen's of the Boating batteries Citation sad Meteor sad the Powerful, 84, C a ptain Thom a s L. Massie, border Ad remits bus (having landed a put ion of bee nun.). +Mimi Admiralty orders to proceed on partioalsrsarvice. DUBLIN. Joss 8. The following detachments will arrive at Oa toolsy to await embarkation on board tile Sarah Sind* areamer for conveyance to the Crimea, visa, 17th L.seirk 3 , Myers, 62 rank and Me, and 100 hones, with 1 se r 8 rank and file in waiting. rha Rept , 1 officer, 60 rank and file, with 1 sergeant 6 rana and MO en writing, from Kt homy. Bizty-stz men and two officers of the Sri Both .111f1.. unable to tindaccammodation in the Princess Eugenic at Cork this week, and were obliged to return to barracks., with a quantity of baggage, to await a facure conveyance. CAMP ON THE CoßBAol3.—There is acconunodna tion now ready for more than 3,500 men, and that part of it at the Kildare side will be completed next week. The camp now stretches along the top sad southern side of the long hill, in a straight direction from the walled-is Dare park to a point midway between ft and the &Alpe* end of the Omagh. At this point is placed the Ordosncs Flag-staff, and from it two ether portions proceed in an oblique direction. The fiat or straight portion will fie cummodate 5,000, the second 3,000, and the third 2,000. men. Two streets, each forty nett wine, extend from the walled-in bare park to the Ordnance Flag staff, a distance of about three-quarters of an English mile. On the upper Dart of the bill, parallel and bordering one of them, are the ofilosre quarters; below, and similarly situ ated with regard to the others, are the coolong and bat ing hen-es, whilst between them are the men s quer ere., eau a large square for a parade-ground, Each division contains the part of the two main aunt. teat rep, through it, two ernes streets, about 15 or 18 feat wide. end a square in the centre. The square is formed of e row of huts on each side, two forming the slues of the main, and those of the cress streets. One side of all the outs round the square looks towards it. Each square opens into the main street, at either side. by a spree anent forty feet wide, incited about minwsy between the cries etre( to, and measure at each sloe about 300 leer. The huts in the . cress streets sod squares are plainly, hut neatly, furnished. The huts where the officers are to sleep an divided by wooden partitions into small apartments—the...in and num• bet of which will be proportioned to the rank of the intim*. dual. The mess rooms are neat sad spumous spa. talents. about sixty feet long and twisty wide, well ligh•ed anti ventilated. Tee entire camp, shin finish. d, will have a , magnificent appearance, scattered over a space 'Mead inn is length about two English miles and occupying the summit mud sides of a ridge, the view from which is extensive, varied, and picturesque. The various streets Sr. to be esacadeenised, and numerous heaps of stuns end I are i prepared ; and rotted many of the tfficere huts the walks have Data held down. The huts and some of the streets will be supplied with gas. 'TENOR ARMY 711 E EAST. The following is the composition of the army of our French allies to the Beet: imrialia, GUARD. let Grenadiers-Ist and 2od battaiions. 2ud Greasdiers-Ist, 2ad, and 3rd ►attations. Ist V.ltagears—lit, 2ud, And 34 battalions. 2 id Voices/sun-Ist, 2od, sod 3rd battalions. Z susses-Ist and tad batts.ions. Chasesan—eight out of tea companies. Cleadareastie—lst and 2nd battadoos, army ot !nerve,- ArtillJryL!wo batteries at Sebastopol ; Gus I at at E. giueefe—lit company at Constantinople, one &tech.- meat at Sebastopol. INFANTRY. Lioe-61112. tb, 10th, 14 t, 18 h, 19th, 20th, 21st, 26th, 27tb, 28th, 39th, 42nd, 43rd, 46 h, 49th, 60 b, 67th, 614, 74th, 79. h, 80th, 82nd, 86th, 86th, 91st, 96th, 971 b, 98th, 100. h, at Sebastopol 9th, 16 h, 47th, 62nd, 02ad, 7.lth. 96th, array of reserve, at Constantinople. Foot Christman-Ist, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 6th, 9th. 10th, 17th, 19th at Sebastopol , eight compani.c ou t of ten; 7th and 14th at Constantinople, sight companies out of ten. Z susses-The three regiments are before Sebastopol. Stn 1)i cipline Company, at Gallipoli. Ist Foreign Li gion-Them two regiments ban each Sure battalions at Sebastopol. Algerian Tirailleurs-Two battalions, CAVALRY. 6th Coirsasisrs-I.t, 2ad, 3ru, and 6th squadrons. 9th Cuirassiers-Ist. 2ad, 4th, and 6th squadrons. 6th Dragoons-1.; 2ad, 3rd, and 4to sluadrrna. 9 h Dragoons-I.t, 2ud, 3rd, and 6th squadrous. lot linesars-14, 3.d, aid 4th squadrons. 4th Hussars-Ist, 2od, 3rd, and 4th .quadroos. The African Chassenrs, lit and 2ad regiments, Saab of four ogsadroso. ENGLISH PICTURES AT MESSRS. FOSTER AND Berge.—There are some very interatieg end well executed works in this collection of six•y paintings to be disposed of on Wednesday, the 13th instant. In the little time that we had to inspect it, we particularly remarked tbe follow tog works: " Bibliomanie." by Douglas—a work full of character and harmoniously treated ; " The Lscding of the Pilgrim Fathers," by C. Lucy, is a composition abounding with pathos ; the spirit of firm resolve depicted in the countenance and attitude of the chief pi grim, affords happy rel et to the feeling of sadness which pervades the rest of the group; "Cromwell's Last Interview with bis Daughter," by the same artist, is a very impres ive picture—loll of correct expression; " Did you ring, Sir ?" by W. I'. Frith, is a brightly and exceediagly well painted picture, and the espression of the damsel's countenance it agreeable end truthful. Mr. Linnell, jun., has an admirably painted tt Hsrveet Beene." The subiect. as well as the thoughtful and judicious manner in which it has been treated by Mr. Lucy, will ensure attention to the picture of ' Lord N sawn in the C.tuo of the Victory on tbe Eva of TrafelgEr." " The Baron's Charger," by Herring, sea., is "coitus' of the good examples of British art of which so many are kr be found in this anetion.room on this occuion. We cannot conclude our brief notice without sealing special mention of Turner's " Burning of the Houses of Parliament ;" we saw the eorfisgration, and recognise in this representai ion of the scene the secure!! and fideli ' y of Turner • sight and touch. HARMONIC UNION, HANOTER-SQUARE Rooms.— A very attractive progralllna• has beau prepat,d for the concert neat Wednesday. Chant:dot's overture " a caprice braise(' ut Mendelesohn's, and the magnificent &pica symphony of Beethoven, are included in the first per'; the Remsof Athens filling the second. The band will be led, as usual, by Mr. H. Magma", and Herr Motive* will occupy the post of einduttor. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—A series of lectures is now in progress of delivery, by Mee. Ba four, 0* poetry and poets. The subject coo.en on Thur.day last was entitled "Summer Hours with the Posts," a theme om which the lady expatiated for upwards of en hour, not from books, but from recollection, end illustrated hen observations by extracts from the works of Milton, Thom son. Cowper, Wordsworth. and Crabbe. The lecture was moth applauded. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THII CIVIL SIRVICI —The sple•in i meut third Claim clerk in the War...nice vacant, seplew of Ler- Pawners t of Assistant Thrietur•OrDerk pertosent. Mr. Thames H ie H .well) has been appointed D The appointment of Governor by the retirement nn suppress Mr. Cepe, Royal Engineers' is a vacancy, vies Mr P' continuous mental Asap ream a tropical et oaperaassatica, after elate abroad. The appointment essairt, amid by the apps the iseiM MUM of Director ;Pie' Gaga. PALLCL— Malimienil m Dapitant, 723.—Tatal, 6,364. vacant, caused by the appoints. tit Of • aware to the new and step melt oiticie r•Oeneral of the Army Ciottung De. oinGs H (of the firm of poinied DtteCtOlt General Governor of Neon/stee), 4 ~payed>3•a ye d>3• superannuation (6001 r . e• sineere' Devartossn , , : 4 X 10 4 . r. Edward Munro, w• • • . . ailment, by indilows4he_ • MVA heal alienate to Ohtsferf 100 rr tiVAIIID years' w.f.; %. stment of Toonnse To . ' • bi appointment of Mr rit i ft . " - Vb, s t s j (rector Gruen' of 8' - ca.--Satuaso I sent, 4,641; ditto by moo mks% I