The Express. — London, England, 1855-09-05 00:00:00

ete expreoo. CI etllM rr eats lateried for o• TM Kzyeeet,• Imam Itibideg paper, mat: h, at the Odle% 10. Doavddloasest, by Tv. &dog as tlid day of i abtlaatios. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Too. My—Monism OIL ris........Aftermom. lb. Urn. Tassassow—llerskag, 11L srm.....„...Marescs. 1011. 41m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. WHAT we most fear for Italy is a premature explo lion. The state of the Peninsula must, indeed, be intolerable to every right-minded Italian. With the insolent and brutal military oppression of Austria in the North; with the mad, fantastic misrule of the Ring of NAPLES in the South; and with the imbe cility of the Papal Government in the centre, it is scarcely possible to endure much longer. Still, the blighted hopes of the great movement which began in 1847 ought to teach the Italian patriots caution. When PIO NONO ascended the Papal throne. the Reformers of Italy (as contradistirguished from the Revoluliouiste) were muter. of the fled. In the Sates of the Church and in Piedmont they were laying surely the foundations of great improve. meats. Their example was followed in many of the minor states. The sense of a common aationslity was revived and strengthened by this community of purpose; and an Italian Customs' Union, and even a Federation of Italian States, began to be talked of. So far all went welL But then came the seieutific meeting at Genoa—at which more politics than /deuce was discussed—and the heating of men's mind■ by eloquent declamation. The break ing out of disturbances in Sicily excited a contagious epirit in Lombardy and the Venetian territory. The French Revolution of 1848 fired by its example ; the movements in Germany and Hungary, by distracting the attention of Austria, encouraged to immediate action. All Italy rose in arms. Time had not been allowed to concert combined action on the part of the people, or to ascertain how far the Princes could be trusted. Ili Outlive hopes were built upon the expeo tatit nof aid from Frailty and England. The conse quence war, that the POPE and the Neapolitan and Tuscan Governments drew back at the most critical moment ; that dissensions broke out between the monarchical and republican parties ; that England stood aloof ; and that France made common cause with the Pope. Among the reports that are now daily pouring in from Italy, there are some that appear to render it expedient to revive these recollections in the minds of the Italians. In the Two Bleaisa hopes appear to be built upon alleged misunderstandings between the French and Neapolitan Governmints, and the pro vocations offered to the English Embassy at Naples by the latter. The obvious anxiety of the Austrians in Lombardy is attributed to a popular excitement awakened by rumours of the state of affairs at Militia. It; short, there is too much reason to fear that the Italians may again allow theta selves to be precipitated into premature action, by visior.s of foreign intervention. Now, the truth cannot be too earnestly impressed upon them, that their independence, their emancipation, must mainly, and above all at the outset, be achieved by their own effort.. France has as yet given no sign ; and, if it had, what btotfit has Italian liberty derived from the French occupations of Ancona and Rome? The Eecmomisg (edited by a member of the present Eug- Lab Ministry), and the Times (reconciled to the PAL MEiuTToN Cabinet since the accession of Mr. Lows to office), appear, indeed, to be intent upon blowing the coals of I.aliao discontent. But what was Italian liberty benefited by the specious sympathy of Lord MiaTo's mission ? If the Italians, under the stimulus of spontaneous emotion and self-formed tesolve, can combine among themselves, and make good their g. aunt: for some time against Austria and their indige nous tyrant., France and England will probably offer their good offices to stay the effusion of blood by insisting upon the recognition of Italian indepen dence and liberty ; and such an offer, if made upon terms consistent with the integrity of Italy, may be honourably accepted by her. But no country or people who do not show themselves strong enough to be worth conciliating, can rely upon the sincere and effective good offices of foreiga Governments. Now, there are symptoms in the present state of Italian and European polities that warrant a con fident hope that, if Italians combine resolution with (station, the time is near at hand when they may strike an effective blow for their liberties. The defence made by Venice against the Austrian., and by Rome against the French, during the last revolution, as well as the conduct of the Piedmontese troops in the campaign of Lombardy, and now in the Crimea, have shown that the Italians are no ways de ficient in that deliberate valour which is indispensable to the assertion of the liberties of men and citizens. The conduct of the improvised republican govern ments of Rome and Venice, and of the Sicilian Go vernment, daring the last revolution clearly prove that the Italians are wise and virtues, enough for the exercise of self-government. All that they re quire is to sink their mutual differences and distrusts in order to combine for the great purpose of asserting their unity and independence as a nation. There are clear practical heads and resolute heartein abundance in Venice, Bologna, Genoa, Messina, and Palermo, and generally in Piedmont, the States of the Church, and Sicily. The moonset' of the Peninsula are greater than has been generally imagined. In these days a disciplined standing army is indispensable to the assertion of the independence of nations. A fatal • mistake has been engendered by the victories of the earlier revolutionary armies of France. It has been imagined that these armies were composed exclusively of enthusiastic volunteer., new to arms. The facts are overlooked that a large proportion of the old French army had fraternised with the people ; that the revo lutionary armies were organised upon the framework of the army of the Monarchy ; that most of the Generals, who are said to have risen from the ranks, had in fact been trained in the military schools, and entered the army as privates, with a view to push their way by dint of talents and knowledge. Keeping these facts in view, it is im possible, in calculating the chances of the next movement of the Italian patriots, to overlook the ad mirable Sardinian army. That is a nucleus epos which an Italian army could easily be formed. There ) is another consideration that ought not to be over. looked. When the emancipation of a people is achieved by en army, that army is apt to insist upon governing. The General who possesses its confidence to the greatest extent is apt to assume the supreme power. This was the case in England in the seventeenth, and in France in the eighteenth cen tury. Now, the Piedmontese army is officered by men who have been accustomed to submit to a constitu tional Sovereign. We do not shut our eyes to the fact that if the King of PIEDMONT were toessessd is establishiog the liberty of Italy, be would in all probability insist upon being recognised aa King of ITALY. And we do not hesitate to avow our *elm that the Italians would be wise to asap his as.. pionship upon such terms. Them are: no doubt re publican traditions in Rome, Venice, and a fey other Italian cities; but the great bulk of* Italiso,nnple have been accustomed to the rule of Princes a s = E . deference for a hereditary nob' • , 'ln the state of public opinion in It ,as Italianifipittalo appears to us to be an impost • The aftmik to ' establish one would either superinduce anarchy that would expose Italy to be reconquered by the foreigner, or would oblige her to purchase national independ ence by submission to a military despot. Tte condi tion of England proves that the existence of a con stitutional monarchy is compatible with as ample liberties for the citizen as can exist in a republic. And the dynasty of Piedmont has proved that it can respect and conform to the restrictions imposed upon a constitutional Monarch. On these grounds we hold that it would be the wisest policy of the Ital Lin patriots to aim at the incorpora tion of the whole of the Peuiosula—or, at least, of the whole of the Peninsula north of the Neapolitan frontier—with the territories of the Subalpine King. By this means Italy might bid defiance to Austria, which is involved in financial difficulties, and threatened by troublts in other quarters; and without the support of Austria, the minor MOM, of Italy are powerless. Wero the Italians to sue to the French or English Go vernment to emancipate them, they would at best be deluded by inch hollow pro , religions as they have had experience of on former occasions; but self-emancipated Italy would be wel comed by any governments that can exist in France and England as a valuable ally in maintaining the balance of power in Europe against the northern despotisms. We have not been deterred from canvassing these possibilities by any fear that Austria or its vassal Princes in Italy may be fore-warned, and thus fore armed ; because we hold, with a distinguished living French writer and statesman, that no political plots ever succeed that cannot afford to be carried on with entire publicity. 111 E MOCK DUEL OF CANTERBURY BARRACKS. THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1856. TO Till IDITOI OP TNT IMPRTSS. Sts,—l do not like leaving my country for the East without offering some explanation to the public in defence of my character, and should be much obliged if you will afford me the only means I have, by inserting the following letter in your columns. In consequence of the general order from the Horse Guards relative to the practical joking at Can terbury, I wrote the following letter to the Com- Hy Lord,—l have raised the communication which your lordship conveyed in a g I order that I was dis 10i004 from herlasity's service. I fully admit the errors which I have committed, and admit the justice of the sen tence. At the same time I most humbly appeal to your lordship'. clemency on the ground of my inezperience, having only jollied the regiment the end of January last. When called upon by Colon.' Pourer to 'tidy to the charges made spinet me by Cornet Baumgarten, which be read user to me, 1 reframod, from a sense of honour, from casting say redaction upon others, admitting my own parti• ciliation in the acts eomolained of, and notbiog now will induce me to WWI forward is support of any ac cusations against any of my brother officers to pilhate my own conduct; but I feel einvinceil, if your lord ship had been acquainted with all the circumstances ems : sected with Cornet Baumgarten and the annoyances to which be was subjected, as well as the particulars relating to the sham thud, my conduct would not appear so much more deserving of blame than that of others. should her Majesty he graciously pleased to extend her clemency to me, permitting me to atone for the strawy' fir which I &red by volunteering my services in any regiment or corps now serving in the Crimea, I trust, by my good conduct and zeal in the service, to lender m,“11 wor thy of again receiving a commission in the 6th Dragoons, or , any othir regiment in her Majesty's service. I cannot express to your lordship the distress and anxiety of mind which the dismissal from the service has caused me. The first aspiration of my heart was to distinguish my. era in my country's etrtiell . • and this feeling alone urged me, when was declared, to leave my firmer occupa. tioi—to seek a sommissiou in the army. I feel quits broken hearted to find all my hopes &fasted through my own thoughtless madam. I again throw myself on your lord ship'. kindsem to intercede for MO to her Majesty. —I have the honour to remain, dm Juan EVAN/. To Viscount Hardioge, 0.C.8 , General Commanditig-in Chief. This application was entirely refused. If it is absolutely oecessaty for the goal of the sereicre that one officer in the regiment must be sacrificed as a scapegoat, let the public be satisfied that the lot has fallen on the greatest a d most responsible eff,nder, and I will cheerfully submit to my fate, though the punishment is extreme : y a it can be of no service that my character should be ruined as well as my prospects. I am accused in the late general order of being the leader and promoter of the annoyances practised upon Cornet Baumgarten. This I must most emphatically deny. There is a circumstance connected with the mock duel which ought not to be overlooked, namely, that immediately atter its occurrence, in the presence of Colonel M'Queen, I acknowledged my fault to Cornet Baumgarten, told him that it was merely a foolish joke, and did " frankly explain, apologise, and offer redress for the same," as ordered in the lith Article of War, and we mutually agreed to forgot and forgive the past. I, perhaps, thought too lightly of that past, as my own bed had been watered, and the hinges of my door kicked open, since joining the regiment. It sounds like rough play, but I tared no worse than others, and I took it as it was meant. Moreover, there was no evidence whatever against me, with regard to the practical jokes, except my own free admission that I had participated with others in them. Two charges only were brought against me—neither of them against me alone—and those were both false, as I at the time explained to Colonel Forster. I was quite willing to bear my jest share of blame, but I certainly did expect to have Lad a court-martial, or a fair and open inquiry. Rumour has bees too busy with my errors and misfortunes. It has been said that I have reported Captain Fitzwygram's conduct to the Horse Guards. This I positively deny. It has also been publicly stated that Captain Fi.zaugram privately prejudiced the authorities at the Horse Guards against me. This charge he, no doubt, will be able to refute. Apologising for intruding so much upon your space, I have the honour to remain. your obedient servant, JOHN EVANS, late 6th, Inniskilline, Dragoons. Steam Ship Karoac, Malta, Aug. 27. Zte Court. OSBORNE, 811?. 4. The Quests and Royal Fatally walked out yester day. Prism Albert went set shooting. The Conn will leave Osborne tomorrow for Bnekinghans Palace. A Cabiret Conseil was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-oSes, Downing•street. It WILI attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Amyl!, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clann• don, Sir William Moliviworth, Lord Panniers, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, sod the Earl of Harrowhy. The Conseil sat three hours. Earl Granville arrived in town yesterday from Paria. i . - Sir William Walsworth unwell n town ea Monday from hie seat, Neestrow. agar Badetio. Despatches were seat from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governors of the Australian solonise. RKIVEN OF THE COURT TO BUCKINGHAM-PALACE. —Hu Majesty and his Royal Highness Prises Alban, GO. composted by their Royal Highsmith the Prises of:Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prises* Alias, Prises Alfred, *O., left Others. this therein, erased to Gosport, travelled to Lostdoss by the London sad flostis.Wetteen Railway, &ads. arriving at the sew stades at the Wasdsworth.resd, pro needed with the Royal nits Is her Majesty'. 'urines to Bactingleatlealese, escorted by s troop of light eseslry. Is attended:es were Major Gement the Hon. Charles Grey, j lies. Beatrice By's, Ms. Gibbs. Ita. LATEST FROM ABROAD. • THE CRIMEA. PrineiGortehakedatin from Sebastopol on the evenigi v oif the Istallptemb4; report. that die fire of tYllies was the same as on the preceding days. The Euphrates, which left Constantinople on the 27th u 1.., arrived at Marseilles on Monday. She brings intelligence from the Crimea that the flee of the English batteries had been redoubled, sup ported in the centre of the attack by the French. The enemy had erected two new lines in semi-circle Low behind the Malakboff Tower, and a great move meat was going forward in the Russian army in the Beck plateau, as if they were preparing for a new attack upon our Hutson the Tchernaya. The Allies, however, had rected new works to cover thtir fronton the Tcheroaya aide, while the Russians were hastening to complete a bridge to connect the north with the south of Sebastopol. All the allied steam frigates were returning to France, to embark troops, at the same time bringing home sick and wounded. Some gun-boats belonging to the Allies having appeared at the mouth of the Danube, the Russians had swain interdicted the navigation by neutral vessels. Grerk and Austrian vessels rxe not exempted from this messure. The Lady Jocelyn steamer had sunk off Scutari, and had not been got up. Mehemet Pitch& was again in favour at Con stantinople. News from Lars had been received up to the 7th ultimo. The situation of affairs there remained as before. All the villages around Bars and Etzerourn had been burnt and destroyed. The departure of Omer Pacha to take the command of the army in Asia, had been fixed for yesterday (Tay)• It is stated that he will not go to Km, but, immetlia . ely on landing at &town, will move on straight to Tiflis, with the twofold object of me satin the of the Russians with ()corgis, and cutting off their retreat, and also of presenting an opportunity to the Cireassisas and other mountain tribes to aid him if they are so disposed. The St. Petersburg correspondent of La Presse, writing under date of the 27th of August, says: " The Emperor was seriously affected at the disastrous result of the affair on the Tchernaya, and has ordered • searching inquiry into the facts connected with the battle. All the accounts which arrive from the Crimea are unanimous on the point of the want of provisions. At Simpheropol, in which the Russian resources are collected, provisions have been mea sured out to the inhabitants fur a long time past, as if the place was besieged. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE. Atroust 30. Lord Stratford de ittdchffe has returned from the Crimea. The ministerial crisis continues. Mohamed Ali is appointed Capudan Pacha. THE BALTIC. BERLIN, Elm 4. The allied theta sailed from before Croustadt on the 27th ult. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ram ova OWN PARIS, TUESDAY EVININO. The London Society of Arts has arrived in Paris on a visit to the Universal Exhibition. The Society had a reception this morning at the rooms of the British Commission, No. 14, Rae do Cirque, which are placed at their service by Mr. Cole. To-morrow morning the members will pay a visit to the ma chinery department. Mr. Robert Stephenson and Mr. Scott Russell will be present, and explanations are expected to be given. The Society and the friends of members will be received by the Imperial Commission at a full-diem soirée in the Patois on lerridly. The Emperor hr.s promised to give an au dience to the Society next week. The International Statistical Congress, which held its maiden sittings in Brussels in 1863, will meet this year in Paris. The 10th instant is fixed for ,the opening of its second session. M. Rouher, the minis. I ter of agriculture, commerce, and public works will preside. Among the members of the bureau coin posed of the French commission, which has been de puted to organise this session, are several names well I known to science. Besides MM. Charles Hopis, Alfred Lego) t, Villerme, de Watterille, Michel Chevalier, and Monoy de Mornay, are those of the heads of government departments who supply ele ments for statistics; M. Mestro specially representing the Colonies, MM. Arondean and Bayle-Monillard for Justice, Count de Lesseps for Foreign Affairs M. Julien for Home Trade, M. Fleury for Foreign Trade, General Daumas for Algeria, M. Greterin for the Customs, M. Tourous for Registration, and M. de Fraaqueville for Bridges and Highways. In Bros sels, in 1853, the Congress met with considerable success. Twenty-five nations were represented by deputies, many of whom were very eminent men. The Royal Family attended some of the meet• logs, and the then Minister of the Interior, Piercott, placed the columns of the Moniteur Beige at the service of the vuugreaa fur the poulieatton or their proceedings. The session now to be held is Paris will of course attract a much larger share of public attention than the original meeting did in the comparatively little town of Brussels. The French programme is less comprehensive than the Bel gian one was, it having been thought de. sirable to leave aside questions already pretty well exhausted, and to investigate principally those which are generally admitted to require elucidation. The inquiries are divided into fou l sections :—lst section. Nosological tables of deaths ; statistics of insanity, of epidemics, and of accidents. 2nd section. Statistics of agriculture, of means of communication, and of foreign trade. 3rd 'Defies. Statistics of civil justice; the preparation of a table of crimes and misdemeanour', declared to be such by the respective laws of every country ; statistics of 4th section. Statistics of prudential institutions; statistics of great towns. It appears that Abd-el-Kader, whose illness at Marseilles I have already mentioned, was unwell when he left Brous& The earthquake there de stroyed the irrigation works. The water spread over the country formed stagnant pools, and produced marsh fever. which attached the Emir and many of his suite. His whole party arrived at Marseilles in a deplorable state. His interpreter, M. Rosseao, is described as being so altered that his friends scarcely knew him. Abd-el-Hader, who arrived at the Hotel d'Orient on the 30th, became worse the next day. M. Baudens, a military inspecting-sorpoo, who happened to be at Marseilles, on his way out to the Crimea, was mot for, and paid every attention to the fatness Arab Chief. It is reported that Abd-el lades said to him, speaking of the Crimean soldiers, ?hip fare lions and heroes, and I congratulate you that ycia are going to join them." A telegraphie despatch of this day from Marseilles says, that notwithstanding his suffering state MI-el-Hader set out for Paris th.s morning. It is feared that he will be compelled to stop at Lyons. "On Sunday," says the Emancipation of Brus sels, "an agent of this city, named M—, was ar rested by the polico on a charge of enlisting Belgian subjects for the English army. He had enrolled nine, of whom two or thus were soldiers. They were to have been sent off to Lille on the very evening of his arrest." At the Bourse, the Rents, after opening nearly at yesterday's price, declined to 66fr. 90e., and closed, with a dull market, at a fall of 30c, Credit Mo bilier rose 20fr. A good deal of business wu done in the early part of the day in two or three railway lines, while all the rest were neglected. Lyons and Northern rose 10fr. each; and Grand Central, 6k. 25e. The Austrian railways fell 6k. ROME. (raom OUR ROME, Au°. 31. On Monday last his Holiness had a terrible fright, whilst taking his evening drive outside the Porta del Popolo, and was in imminent danger of coming in for another smash, which might have been attended , with more fatal consequences than the ever memor able downfall of St. Agnese. A numerous party of Minenti and Trasteverini bad been celebrating some matrimonial or baptismal solemnity by a grand jolli fication at Toffeelli's t , near the Ponte Molls, and were returning towards the Porta del Popolo, in several carriages, when two of the coachmen, ren dered reckless by wine, and taking the straight road, two miles long, between the bridge and the gate, for a sort of natural hippodrome, started off full gallop for a chariot race. The Pops's cortege was coming in the opposite direction, and the outriders, belonging to the noble guard, who always precede his carriage some distance, endeavoured in vain to stop the flying Jehus. It is etiquette here for every one who meets the Pope to stop his car riage, and get out to kneel in the road, whilst his Holiness passes, but in the present case the usual routine was reversed, for the flourished sabres of the noble guard proving ineffectual to check the mighty rush of the Trasteverini, it was the Pope's turn, with the instinct of self-preservation, to pull op and make himself and suite as small as possible, to avoid com ing in eontact with the Curious charioteers, one of whom was finally stopped by a party of gendarmes, whilst the other turned dexterously and fled back to the bridge with as much celerity as he had come from it. The captured party, consisting of three fat men and three jolly gold chained and earringed dames, insisted on getting out to receive the Pope's bene diction, before going to prison, roaring out" Non siamo Turchi," and appealing to cardinals, monsig nori, and guards of all descriptions, against the severity of the gendarmes, to whom one anxious husband in vain explained that his lady was in an interesting situation, and the least harshness might be fatal to her. At the Ports Angelica, near the Vatican, the Pope's carriage was stopped by an assemblage of a different character, a crowd of the poorer people clamouroasly assuring his Holiness that they could not live at the present price of bread. 'I he gentle violence of the noble guard, and the Pope's own assurances of speedy redress, got him safe through at last. The municipal authorities have since opened shops for the sale of bread at a cheaper rate, but it is said that they are so disgusted at the thankless office of continually interposing between the monopolists and the people that they are about to beg Government to take the direction of the food department into its own hands again, which will bring another prelate into employ by the restoration of the antiquated office of presi dent of the " Annona a grascia." Monsignor Sibilio, President of the Criminal Tri bunal, whose licentious conduct is the talk of all Rome, has at last been found guilty of abuse of office. It appears that a young man was brought under the jurisdiction of his tribunal, for having in a quarrel stabbed another man in the bead, for which the ordi nary routine of justice would have sent him to the galleys ; but the prisoner's sister, an extremely handsome girl, having waited on the President to implore his mercy, that considerate prelate consented to do everthing in hie power for the young msn, but frankly informed his fair supplicant that he should expect in return "favour for favour." Alarmed at the aspect the affair' was assuming the poor girl immediately en deavoured to escape, but his reverence was a burly man and had no idea of letting his prey out of his clutches until he had obtained his intent. He was by no means in such a hurry to liberate the prisoner, and delayed his promise so long that the person stabbed died in the mean time, a circumstance which Monsignor informed the girl, entirely altered the affair. In foot, being a case of homicide, it then came under the jurisdiction of the Consults Tribunal, which forthwith condemned the young man to the galleys. The poor sister, violated and betrayed, without even the miserable consolation of having benefited her brother, west and related the whole affair to the Cardinal Vicar, who referred it to the Pope. His Holiness ordered an investigation to be made through the Vicar's secret tribunal, and the result has been the dismissal of Sibilio from his office, bat, with the mildness which always characterises the proceedings of the ecclesiastical government towards its own creatures, the prelate will not be succeeded for some time, in order to avoid the scandal on a sadden dis missal. There is never any such delicacy shewn in the chastisement of laymen. The Romans, who know their own people rifond, declare that as this peccadillo is by no means the first, and will most probably be far from the last laid to the prelate's charge, he is just as likely as ever to obtain the Cardinal's hat in des time, which, of course, covers all offences, past, present, and future. Doctrinal failings amongst the clergy are not so indulgently trotted as immorality. Fa , her Peluffo, a priest of the Maddalena church, was arrested last week on getting out of the pulpit, after preaching at the Tridno, and conducted to the Inquisition prisons. It is said that he was in correspondence with a friend of his, the curate of the parish, on religious topics. The curate being recently accidentally drowned at Porto D'Anzio, his papers came into the Cardinal Vicar's possession, and some propositions, smacking , of protestantism, were attributed to Peluffo, who had alto been brought np in the same convent with the now protestant preacher, De Sandie, of whom the priests haves most holy horror. A political prisoner, named Mancini, has just escaped from prison, where he had feigned insanity for some :months. It is supposed that he gut on board one of the French steamers that ply between Rips Grande and Clefts Vecchia, and the police are in a great rage at his flight, became he was consi dered to be Marsini's head man after the Advocate Peron'. THE RAJAH OF SARAWAY.—A large number of arms has very merrily boas forwarded to Sir Imes Brooke, H.C.B , Rajah of Sarawak. It may be inferred, therefore, that eometbiog of importasoe will mos be beard from that quarter. TER RUSSIAN FIRLNG ON FRENCH SURGEONS. More than one of our special correspondents in the Crimea has borne witness to the inhuman con duct of the Busoiaoe, who, after the bade on the 16th, fired upon the pari s sent out trom the French camp to collect the wounded. The Moniteur of yes terday contains the following letters on this subject. The first is from General Peliesier to the French Minister of War : uHend-Qt!artersbefore Sebastopol, August 20. " Monsieur le Ministre,—l have the honour to forward herewith a copy of the correspondence which bits passed between me and Prince Gortchakoff re specting the removal of the wounded and the burial of the dead after the affair of August 16. "The fire of the Russian batteries on Mac kenzie heights had been unaccountably and wrongly directed upon 04f movable ambulances, just as they had collected those of our adversaries who were still lying upon the field of battle after our ti radleurs had ceased their fire. The c.onimoodants of those batteries have given an inadmissible explana tion to their general, to whom I had reported their conduct. That conduct is not honoutable to the enemy's artillery. " In seeking to palliate the faults of his subordi nates, Prince Gortchakoff has nevertheless thought it his duty to render a complete homage to the huma nity displayed by our soldiers on this occasion. They have been, in fact, as generous after ihe victory as they were courageous in the combat, and lam proud to command such men. " Accept, M. le 111e.rechal, &c. , PELISSIER." The coffeepot:de:toe between the Generale then follows in the following order: " GENERAL PELISSIER TO PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF. " Head Quarters before Sebastopol, August 16. " M. le General-en-Chef,—l lose no time in for warding to your Excellency a portfolio containing property, and also a letter, which, upon examinition, appears to have belonged to General Read, command ing a Russian army corps. • I have reason to believe that the body of this general officer lies on the field of battle, and orders have been given for making a diligent search for it. "Accept, &c., " PELISSIER." PRINCE GORTCIIAKOFF TO GENERAL PELISSIER "Sebastopol, Ang. 19. "M. le Commandant en Chef,—l have had the honour to receive your communication of the 16th hut., as well as the portfolios, containing property and a letter of General Read. " I acknowledge gladly all the worth of so courte ous an art, as well as the generous solicitude which has led your excellency to order a search for the body of this general officer. " Accept the sincere expression of my feelings on this subject, and the assurance of my high esteem. " MICHAEL 001t1liCHAKOFF." GENERAL PELISSIER TO PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF. "Head Quarters, before Sebastopol, Aug. 17. "M. le General,—We have removed all the wounded near the river Tchernaya as tar as we could approach, but your batteries on Mackenzie heights persist in playing upon the parties which we send forward, and we cannot pursue this operation in favour of the Russian soldiers who still lie on the field. "I point this out to your Excellency in order that no one may hereafter be able to say that we have left the wounded without succour or the dead without burial. "Accept, &c. "PELISSIER." GENERAL PELISSIER TO PRINCE GORT CHAKOFF. " Head Quarters before Sebastopol, August IR, 1835. "M. le General-en-Chef,—l hasttu to inform you that your despatch, dated yesterday, has just reached me. " Without losing a moment's time I have given orders, by telegraph, to the General commanding upon the Tchernaya that the flag of truce shall be immediately displayed and maintained up to eight o'clock in the evening, if that should be necessary for the accomplishment of your intentions. "Their realisation may perhaps be a little tardy, although I have had the honour to inform you by my letter (No. 92) that in spite of the pitiless fire of certain of your cannon, we have used our efforts to succour your wounded, and to bury a great part of your <had. "I have not yet received the number of all that have been taken away from the field by our men; but up to this moment 31 officers, and 1,620 sous officers and soldiers have been admitted into the ambulances of the French army.—Accept, &c., "A PELISSIER." PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF TO GENERAL PELIbSIER. " bebastopol, August 7 (19). " Monsieur le Commandant-eu-Chef, " I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the successive communications which your Excel lency has bet n pleased to address to me, bearing date the 17th and 18th inst. - _ " I beg your Excellency to receive my best thanks for the care which you have taken of our wounded; but I must at the same time inform you, that the chiefs of the Mackenzie batteries have declared to me .hat they did not fire upon your advanced posts on the Tchernuy a, except in reply to the fire of the French I irailleure, in spite of the energetic and sustained efforts of their officers, directed against those of oer men who repaired, after the combat, to the borders of the river, for the purpose of carrying away our wounded and dead from the scene of action. " It is impossible to state precisely from which side proceeded the first shots. The chiefs of the ad vanced posts could not deviate from their general instructions--to fire upon the enemy—without re ceiving special instructions to that effect. It belongs only to the superior chiefs to allay by exc• ptioual measures the useless sufferings which war entails, land which I am glad to do your Excellency the jus tice to say you take every pains to soften. " Receive, &c. " MICHEL GORTCHAKOFF." DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIAN SHIPPING AND MAGAZINES AT BRANDON. ("EOM • SUPPLEMENT TO LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.) Admiralty, September 4, 1855. Despatches, of which the following are copies, have been received at the Admiralty from Rear-Admiral the Honourable R. S. Dundee, Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the Baltic. Duke of Wellington, in Nargen, August 27, 1855. Sir,—l have the honour to transmit, for the infor mation of the Lords Commissioners ot the Admiralty, a letter from Captain Warden, ot her Majesty's ship Ajax, enclosing a report, detailing the proceedings of Captain Henry C. Otter, in her Majesty's ship Fire fly, before Brandon, the sea-port of Wan, in the gulf of Bothnia, which are highly creditable to that officer, and to the officers and crew under his command; and I beg leave to recommend to the favourable notice of their lordships the gallant conduct of Lieutenants Edward Barite! and John Ward, as well as that of Mr. John A. Bull, second master, and Mr. James W. Salter, the gunner on the occasion.—l have, &c., (Signed) R. S. DUNDAS, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. The Secretary of the Admiralty. Ajax, in Fogle Fiord, August 22,1855. Sir,—l have the honour to lay before you the ac companying report of Captain Otter, of the Firstly, of his proceedings between the 27th July and 11th inst., at Brandon, in the neighbourhood of Wass, whilst temporarily occupying that part of the station, together with a list of vessels taken, and property and vessels otherwise destroyed ; andl desire to draw your favourable notice to this report, as it bears wit ness to the seal and energy of Captain Otter in the performance of this service.—l have, &c., (Signed) FEED. WARDEN. Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundee, C. 8., &e. Her Majesty's Ship Firefly, Koreoren Beacon, August 11, 1833. Sir,—l beg to acquaint you that, after leaving Poste Fiord, on the 27th ult., I communicated with her Majesty's ship Harrier, and his Imperial Ms,. jeety's corvette D'Assas, on their stations, and on the evening of the 31st despatched her Melody's ship Driver to you from Noorekas LigLt. A t 10 - a.m. oat Ist of August I anchored her Majesty's ship Firefly half a mile outside et Korsoreu Beacon, and with the two paddle-box boats and the gig, accompanied by Lieutenant Ward and Mr. Bull, pushed on to the south-east. On our way we got information of a large barque at anchor to the eastward of Walking, anti also that there was a military force in the neighbourhood. On arriving within two miles from Brandon, a telegraph was °Nerved on a small island in Koreas* Fiord, signalising with three large balls, and as pulling iu towards it, two men in a boat pushed oft from the land with a flag of truce ; fortunately I did not fire, for the flag was so largo I mistook it for the boat's mainsail, and concluded they were trying to escape. This very improper opportunity of using a flag od ttnee could not be recognised, and I ordered the telegraph to be cat down, but released the men and their boat. No time was now to be lost, as the signal bad been answered from the main; I therefore pushed on with all expedition, and on rounding the east point of Waskiiit observed the object of our search in the mad, which with little difficulty was got cif, and towed oat of range of any guns that could be brought to bear. The prize proved to be the Vides of 30t$ tone, with from 200 to 300 casks of tar on board. At midnight two Russian deserters came on board, and stated the troops have moved off to Wass, 02 seeing the boats approaching, thinking an attack was contemplated on that place. At 8.30 a.m., 2nd August, I returned to the Fire. and immediately got under weigh for Korsoren Fiord, but the navigation was so difficult that it was not until 6.30 p.m. I came alongside the prize. At 8.30 p.m. I weighed and proceeded towards Brandon, the seaport of Wass, and a great shipbuilding plans; it had immense magazines on an island, separated by a very narrow, deep water-channel from the town, with a custom house and barracks. At midnight, anchored within 400 yards of the town, and sprung the broadside to enfilade the channel and protect the boats, which were sent under Lieutenant Ward to examine the magazines. Some of them were opened, and found to be empty; others contained coal, tar, resin, salt, spars, anchors and cables, boats, salt fish, hawsers, and numerous piles of 3-inch deals, but no sails or rigging, as we were led to expect. On a few of the principal inhabi tants joining us on the island, they were told that the sails of the barque must be given up; and they imme. diately sent to Wasa to Mr. Wolf, a wealthy met• chant and shipowner, but he ',fuel d. 1 therefore determined to burn the magazines; bat as the wind was blowing directly on the town, I agreed to wait a reasonable time until a change took place, and gave the inhabitants notice that they were at liberty to remove anything from the island that belonged to them, except ships' stores ;—for this forbearance they expressed themselves very grateful. Towards the afternoon, Lieutenant Burstsl brought io a schooner, and reported having discovered two fine barques and two briga in a creek a mile and a half distant. As the wind was still on the shore, and the de• struction of the town inevitable had the magazines been fired, I directed the schooner to be hauled close into the island, and a working party to put some caeks of tar and deals into her. Everything had the appearance of security ; ladies were walking about the beach, parties of pleasure sailing round the ship, and the people employed taking their property from the island. At 8 pm. I landed to communicate with the first lieutenant, and bad just visited the sentry placed on a building platform, when a heavy fire of musketry, from different parts of the town, was opened upon the working party and the ship, and was immediately replied to by the latter, with shot and shell, which appears to have done great execution. The deck of the schooner was so enfiladed that it was impossible to get on board for the arms, and, had it been practicable to do so, not s man could be seen from her to fire at. Providentially all escaped on board uninjured, and Mr. Bull having returned in the paddle-box boats, with a fine barque in tow, fire from the four guns and rifles was kept up so hot that in about an hour and a half the fasilade from the shore nearly ceased. At midnight I moved the ship into a better poi- Lion for sinking the schooner, and the bows being nearly driven in by the shot, 1 proceeded to the de struction of the barque and two brigs, before the enemy could rescue them ; this was successfully per formed with the assistance of the second master, Mr. Bull, and Mr. Salter, gunner. It was ascertained afterwards, from two different sources, that the enemy had 25 killed and from 4 to 18 wounded ; the injury appears to have been inflicted chiefly by the first three shots, whilst the troops were drawn up abreast of the ship. On our side I am thankful to report that no more serious casualties occurred than a man and a boy being struck with spent balls. During the 6th and 7th the weather was so wet and boisterous that it was impossible to act against the enemy, but I ascertained during the night that reinforcements had arrived to the &mount of 200 or 300 sharpshooters and Cossacks, with several guns. On the morning of the Bth, the weather being moderate, I took up a position 1,500 yards from the magazine, and the same distance from a battery of four guns, and opened tire upon the latter, which not being returned I commenced tiring red-hot shot at the magazines. At 2.30 p.m. smoke began to issue from the houses, and Lieutenant Ward, having volunteered to try and cut out the schooner, pushed in with paddle-box boat, and with great gallantry drove the soldiers three times out of the woods, but ultimately was obliged to retire before an overwhelming force secreted iu the Custom-house; the boat was struck in many placers but I am thankful to say not a man hurt. At 8 p.m., the principal magazines being all in a blaze and their destruction inevitable, I closed the battery to 1,000 yards, but still receiving no return (though both guns and soldiers could be seen), and the ammunition nearly expended, I was backing oat, when suddenly several heavy guns, from an elevated position masked by trees, opened fire, chiefly with shells, and at the same time the whole force of rifle men—and the power of these weapons may be innr gined, when I mention that a ball cut through a spar on the bridge two inches thick at a distance of 1,500 yards. It is with the greatest pleasure I have to speak of the coolness of the officers and men at this trying juncture; the narrowness of the channel and shoal new of the water (at the most 21 fathoms) rendered it injudicious to attempt turning the Firefly round, and she was slowly backed astern 1 mile before she was out of range, an evolution which, from the lightness of the wind, was not performed under 40 minutes. I cannot conclude without mentioning how much I am indebted to the First Lieutenant, Mr. Edward Borstal, who so materially assisted in inflicting this serious blow on the enemy's property. I have, &c. (Signed) HENRY C. OTTER, Captain. Capt. Fred. Warden, C. 8., H.M.S. Ajax. A List of Ya v wls and he Property belonging to the enemy taken or deroyed her Majesty's ship Firefly, from lift to 11th August, 18.55. 12. Fidel, barque, 300 toes; car go, 228 barrels of tar; cut oat of Wasktot, near Brandeis. 13. Precioeo ' barque, 420 tons; cargo, none; c ut onto! Wasklat, near Brandon. nunf l l 8.... Brans on Boat,BB Flat , er m a rq ue , o) 23;3 11 1 01 . 5 r 30 0 t , p o t t 2 3 Oleos) tons t ;s er (?) ;e s s ; t o g :o r og c n e : 0 2 ::: ;grafi: cargo, r n y g osn E n ll:o b; :l ug e bruu ; niTttnsaatfi burntp'.Di a bo v e.i a s b d a g b o " r e e k . 19. Sloop, 20 tons, WM 8 (onset malt, 5 bales of cetera. 20. Island Saiiltan, near Brandon, having 60 to 00 wags sines, containing coals, tar, resin, salt, spars, butt, &a. A LETTER TROY ST. PETERSBURG states that a violent fire broke out on the 22nd ult. in a large establish mast for drying fruit, belonging to Prince Dolstoroaki, the Councillor of State, and now used for drying souiltront intended for the troops. The lass of this building is stated to be severely felt, there being no other sstablisbment 'Atte kiwi sealable for provisioning the troop.