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on expreoo. TO CORIMPONDENTIL mweirwasis m 11.811114 ter "The UPI*. Loft tember poor, mot 10 et the OM" 10. leaveet. by Two Aka co the Ow shissiks. NIGH WATIII AT LONDON BMW& Tin Oda —llkailag. 14 1 a-. Aflorsoon, IX nu. To imasew—Kinami IL U m Aleisoia. IL I. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY b. Tux two Houma of Convocation have ormeurred In an Address to the Crows, in which it is main tained that the oonstitaloa of that body may be changed by the simple proem of Convocation's framing, and the Crown aessating to, a anon to that effect. The Address, as it palmed the Upper Hoes% contained an averment that the members, "oft consulting very high legal authorities," had been assured that their view was *Goodin law. This pas sage was straok out in the Lower House, the mem bers of which koew very welt that they had not cosealted counsel on the subject; sad it now ap pears t►at the Upper House had not consulted mussel either. For this extraordinary revelation respecting the tactic of the Bishops of LON DON and OXFORD the reputed authors of the Address—we are indebted to the Dean of In a letter addressed by the Dien to Lord PAL MAS/TON, and published by RIDGWAY, we find the following statement : I. In my place in Couvocetion I took the liberty to doubt whether the Upper Howe had placed may ems bekre opened, or sought the opinions of the Sou- crron-Ostriaat. and Dr. Parra:mom I took the further liberty of stating my snapicion that the words of the Address were altogether a misrepresentation of the facts of the case, or rather an allegation of that which was not true. Upon information I have since Teerived, I now venture to affirm distinctly that neither the Committee of the Upper House nor the Upper Hoses itself did consult any legal authority whatever ; that they drew up no caris and received no opinion addressed to them in the matter. I have been further informed that the circumstance, of the sale are these: that a certain body of persons, call ing themselves The Society for the Revival of Con vocation; drew up a case, on which they took the opinion of the fioucrroa-Clinew. and Dr. Pilau sons; that this Society communicated the cue and answer to a relate on the Committee of the Upper Hoses; that this prelate, in his turn, communicated it to the Committee ; and that it was upon such extremely narrow grenade the Upper Home ventured to affirm, in an address to her Mawr, that ' they had consulted very high legal authorities, and that they had been &yam informed, so and so.' " Now, there can be no doubt that the Lower House of Convocation, although it struck out of the Address the words affirming that they had consulted counsel, was mainly induced to acquiesce in the Address by that affirmation. How fit the Upper House was deceived, or partici pated in the dimwit practised by the prelate whom the Dean alludes to, does not appear. But common sense tells us that the opinion of counsel would be materially influenced by the light in which the came submitted to them placed the question. The opinion elicited from Sir R. Barash. and Dr. PHILLIMORE was not based upon a statement of the case sanc tioned by Convocation, but upon representations made by a private, anauthoilsod, irresponsible society. The prelate■ who have persuaded Convocation to adopt and act upon an opinion thus irregularly obtained have enabled the pragmatical individuals who constitute the society in question to dictate to the Church; and they have done this, at least in so hr as the Lower House is concerned, by en same. tics that his no foundation in truth. In such strategy there is smuredly more of the wisdom of the serpent than of the pilelessness of the dove. _ _ _ But the conduct et the Boucrros•QEAESAL must not be allowed to pass without animadversion. In hie capacity of law adviser to the Crown he could not but know that, if any steps were taken to urge the Crown to act upon the opinion in question, he would be called upon to give his diktat advice. He acted therefore in utter disregard and violation of his duty to his So►ereign, in giving an opinion upon an ex pares case sub mitted to him by a private association. Whether he was tempted to this breech of duty by a large fee, or by secret sympathy with the views of those who took counsel with him is a matter d no consequence. In either case he has betrayed the trait reposed in him by the Clown : he has acted unoonstitutionally. The Dean of Iburrot, in that high-minded and uncompromising spirit which beseems a true friend tithe Church, warns Lord PALMEIBTON not to yield to this insidious attempt on the part of a faction in Convocation to dictate to the Crown. " I shall pre sume," he says, " to express my opinion that the yam desultory, vacillating, futile conduct of its business by Convocation—the crude haste of its des liberations, the strange opinions therein pro pounded on Church government and the authority of the clergy, are daily injuring the cause of the Eetabliehed Church, and that your lordship could confer no greater kindness on the clergy themselves —and, through them, on the Church—than by ad vising the Crown to follow the wise precedents of the early part of the eighteenth century, and to prevent Convocation from entering on any deliberation what ever." It is to be hoped that Lord PALMERSTON may lend a willing ear to such judicious advice. But in the meantime, it behoves all friends of constitu tional liberty, in or out of Parliament, to be on the alert. The game of the clerical agitators, whose du plicity has been unveiled by the Dean of ligurroL, evidently is to flatter the Crown by affecting a desire to warm and extend the exercise of its prerogative and at the same time to make the Crown a mere instrument in their own hands. It is carious that this movement should coincide so closely in point of time with Lord Pewmusx's proposal to ingratiate the Crown with the army, by conferring a donation upon it without consulting Parliament. It almost looks as if there were a conspiracy among the dig. niteries of the Church and the aristocratic dispensers of army patronage to emancipate the Crown from the constitutional check of the people's repreeentatives in Parliament, in order to subject it to the control of a eleriecomilitary oligarchy. We have been told of late that a strong and powerful Government is im possible la cousgusace of the changes that have bees Mb in the senstitadon of the How of Oommone. Is a remedy kw this alleged evil sought by vesting the ezerehisof the Orown'a pearogative Van oligarchy of priests sad soldiers? Tira individuals 'barged at Mariborough-strest bawds« with riotous prowainp in Hyde-park, and ireprisceed hawses they wen !Amble to pay the Ansa leaked cm theta, hare been set at liberty. This has bsen idea by a saluseipties to pay their Anse ram s sabot se as posse limp al odor is the City. We are given to understate% dirt the'pri. ecirwre—t wady in number—had been an set to bard, labour, though that formed ao peek of theft sonnies. Were it not for the neftiotobility of 0111 source whence we derive this informed^ it would be difficult to credit anything so monstrous. This bet, however, ought to have the effect of directing public Indignation to the :Wit quarter, from which it appears to be in dangle of being diverted. It is in all came more advisable to aim at the directing head than at subordinate in fitments. Besides, then is this to be said in be half of the policemen aesseed--and we fear not alto gether without cause—of having acted, in some in. stances, with undue violence and want of temper— that each is not the habitual character of the force. In all great crowds there are many who, for reasons of their own, lint a grudge against the police, which they are glad el any opportunity to give vent to. We are not seeking to extenuate brutal violence on the part of any ia dividual policeman; but the main fault rests with than who unnecessarily =pod the fosse to a sal li• sion with the ill-disposed,likaly tepooska mtreacle by which the innocent were certain to be the gradist sufferers. For putting the prisoners to hard khan, although that formed no part of their neatens, the policemen cannot be hold responsible. Neither was it the fault of the polio@ that so many men were incav ousted without trial, ease for one and some for two days. For the unwise provocation to riot in the first place, and for the illegal severity with which all the noosed were treated in the se cond, the Hone SzcarrnY appears to have been alone responsible. The only personal inquiry worth instituting is what degree of culpability attaches to Sir 0101.011 Gm in these lamentable proceedings. And even this inquiry is of very minor consequence when compared with an investigation into the ex pediency of allowing the entire control of the Metropolitan Police to remain in the hands of the Central Governmeef. The City Police is at least as efficient for all legitimate purposes as that of the other metropolitan dis tricts, and is less liable to be onverted into a political engine. Some strange sentiments have been ex pressed in the course of the discussions that have arisen out of the disturbances in Hyde-park. Mr. CMJCSON maintained, at Bow-street, that "an assembly of persons from 50,000 to 100,000 is aloes calculated to produce terror to the public;" and the ableet organ of the advocates of Sunday legislation in the press averred, yesterday, that the parties charged at Bowatrest had been guilty of something bordering upon high treason. We had occasion, some timeago,w ith reference to the practices of the notorious Finn, to warn the public to be on their guard, km a detective force should be brought to approximate more closely than is consistent with the liberties of England to the ohmmeter of the police of the de- 1 gib slates on the Continent. Similar apprehen sion inn nemasarily excited when we hear lawyers angler( by Ministers throwing cat insinuations egalart all nnemsms gorier amoidies ; and when Ossesrmitive pedalo ink to talk so glibly about high treason. We reersamod this subject to the grave consideration of the Administrative Re dman Mx Court. The Dike of Cambridge visited the Queen yester day at Beskibiltas Palms. The OessiesTe de Nastily, the Doke and Dualisms de No team, the Prime and Primus de Joinville, the Doke and Daises d'Anstam aced the Primer de Salerno elated the King of the Refidame cat Beekingbant Pekes. Tie King MOM issompanied by the Princess °WOW and the de paid visits yesterday etownees to Om Dedham of Clioncester, the Duchess of Kam. the Doren= et dainietige, add the Duke of Cam tafteg ir = ragman reddens's. Royal, the Princess Alia*, and the Primus Char Mile of Belgium took a carriage drive in the forenoon. TM Omen and Prime Albert, the Kieg of the Belgians, the Primes. al, the Priam& Charlotte of Belgian', and the Count do with the Ron. Lacy Kerr and the lady in Wadi' to the Princess Charlotte, drove out in miEset Mukne-and-fam is the afternoon. Lord Alfred and Wesel Simone attended ea horseback. Queen bad a Dinner Party in the evening. The demon binged the King of the Belgians, the Count de Yhmine, the Dube. of Kent, the Duke of Caiti- Mffs Dasher of Sutherland, the Belgian Mink . Van Is Weyer, the Marquis Of Lansdowne,Via taunt and Vieemintess Palmenton. Lad Anna Mule Dawson, 8e.... de Bpsth, the Right lion. Bit Charles and Lady Mari Wood, Colonel B. Equalises, Colonel de Menke**, Oaptain Burnell, Sir Robert Carswell, and the Gentleman in Waiting as the Doke of Cambridge. The Band of the Royal Horse Guards attended in the Palace, and played during dinner. Lard John Russell gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers last evening at his residence, Pembroke-lodge, Richmond park. A Deputation of the Hall Dock Company, consisting of Mr. John Tall, deputy-chairman, Mr. Was. Collinsoc, and Mr. Stephen West, director ; Mr. Charles Frost, solici tor, and Mr. W. H. Haffam, 'scullery, had an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley yesterday at the Board of Trade. The Commissioner for the Reduction of the National Debt held a quarterly meeting yesterday at the official resi dence of the Chiliadicr of the Exchequer in Downing-street. Present—The Chancellor of the Ennsquer, the Governor of the Bank of England, sad the Deputy Governor. Sir Alex ander Spearman, Secretary and Comptroller General to the Commissioners, attended. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-oliee yesterday to the Governors of the Australian Colonise. Despatches were received from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. VISIT OP THE KINO OF THE BELGIANS TO THE CRYSTAL PARRS'. (TR is DAY.) —This morning his Majesty the King of the Belgians, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, and his Royal Highness the Count de Pleaders, attended by Major-General the Hoe. Charles Grey, Colonel Beystotar, and other members of the suits, left Bukinghent Palms at tan o'clock in two of her Majesty's open landaus and four, for Bydenhans, to in spect the Crystal Paled. The illustrious party proceeded use roses over Vanzhall-bridge. The paragraph which has appeared in nom of the aewspepers, to the sant that her Melody the Qom is about to peseta the Crimes medal to the wounded and invalbi 'Mien at Chatham, is entiraly without foundation. Ws bastes to soatradist this most, as It is oalmdatad to suits expostations and oonasquest disappointment in theme brays non, whom feeling all an mist maims to ((malty. Tboinarrlago of the Hoc. Edward Stuart *alloy, eldest sea of Lord Wbanteliffe and Lady Suez Lamella, daughter of the Earl sad Coastal of Basswood, was so lemnised yesterday morning, at at. George's Church, The midge of Lady Catherine Howard, pitapat daughter of the Rail sad Countess of Whitlow, end the Hs. Arthur !etre, second eon of Lord sad Lady Pare, took place yesterday, at the Raman Catholic Chapel, sathester-square, the ceremony being per by Cardinal Wheaten. The Comities (Piama) Waldegrave had a concert, 1 6 4 R i g ht, st her Isthmian in Caitas•gardens. A very bril- Haat maimay honoured her ladyship with their presence. The artistes included Madame Bade, Madams Mho, and Gergosi. °Animal, Clabbatta, sad Bellew. The Lord Mayor boa fixed Monday next for the pre gestalt°. of the Royal flociaty's rewards to those who have rescued life from Are dark* the last twelve 'maths. - - The Bath Caroni* rater& the death in that city of the Hanoi. of Mafiosi. Rio lordship had in early life sits lauds active earths is the nary, sad had attained to the soak of admiral, bat kw the Jut Misty yam la has lived raked in Bath. Rh lordship kw left no brae, sad the Mespaisate will beanie sabot, bat the Batas? laehicala will demand to a Ottani relative. . The Meads of the excelled institooll at West sinister, kaolin se the lambs Rehmeatery. will be ear pilot Oa leers that the amadttee, with the Ball o: boy es &dm" have hood a eirealer, to tablet tIOT as segue that " they have kit It to be their pistil bat alq. avowable duty to dlimia Charlie Nest, the late N asser sad C:lnollKediall Beenatary. lid JAL .Lanett, the w e a i d, i s d i d, Gneiss', from etl esaaeolia whit the Saba illeibemalwr,", THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVEiTING, JULY 5, 1855. LAT4ST i ►M The Monidessr of this day antains the following despatch iron General Polder " CRIMEA, euvt 3, 4 P.". The last duties have just been paid to Lord Raglan by the two armies with all the pomp which circumstances permitted. " Our works progress satisfactorily. " The health of the troops has improved." OF HERTCH. The Journal de Cootatant kople publishes • letter from Samieseh. containing details of the destruction of Kertoh. We extract as follows : Hatch is se man! Oa the llth, four steamers, two I/Mei& and two French, presented themselves before the city, kw the purpose of destroy's( all the public establish ments still standing. Same magadnes and depots of cora had bees erected along the sea-side, sad I. the first expedi tioa Ire was put to the wheat they mataiaed, but the surface °sly had been burst. To ankh, ones for all, some carcasses, a sort of shell fined with Greek dm, were distributed amain the grains, sal elms nothing escaped; all was blows up. Klaus visits were then paid to all the private basses in ardor to ascertain whether they ontalned say powder, sad after this inspection some di- Whitest@ of swims perambulated the city, lonia, lire to every edifies which mold be converted into a magazine or sa establishment of public utility. This work of destruction lasted cep to the 14th. _ They Gould Sad nothing la the Mame, all had bees swept away sad had disappeared. It is a curios. timPtiasteace that then was sot a house which did set mania some very doh piens of furni ture, all of Europe= sunfastme, and that Monty bone, without a single exception, two or three pines were fond. What a pante for this Monument ! It is worse than at Paris. Bat this palsies for mule is aothlag tampered with the passion which the inhabitants seem to lune possessed for gambling, that Is if we judge by the quantity of gam bling tables fosad in their hones. The maintop of Henn has left More them 1,200 of the inhabitants bats ben seat to Coastaatinple. Almost all of them are of Galan origia, mad bad be.. mat to colo ns. the Crimes, for the most pert folioed"' the trades of shonsaking sad tailoring. There is today a project of ea 6:Witt's to the Putrid Ice. In another part of its columns the Journal de Con stantinople announces the arrival in that city of the English steamer Ripon, having on board 230 of the inhabitants of Kutch, men and women, old people and infants. These unfortunate people were at first stationed at the English Admiralty office, but Hula Pasha has since planed a building at the disposal of the Admiralty. The expenses of their maintenance are provinionally to be defrayed by the English go , vernmsnt. FRANCE (fox ova oww CORIPASPONDZIO PARIS, WIDW2IIDAT Immo. General Pe Usher's despatch, while it concurs with all the private accounts in representing the disastrous result of the attack of the 18th of June sa attributa ble in a great degree to the unfortunate advance of General Mayran's division before the signal was given, says nothing of the Russian sortie to which both your own correspondent and the letter in the Conatitutiosuuti allude in terms so explicit that it is difficult to suppose there was no such thing. The French commander, however, who ought to know best, says that a shell thrown from the Brandon Redoubt was mistaken by General Mayran for his signal rocket, and that, although warned of his error, be ordered his division to advance. It is to be noticed that this despatch is dated not (as Lord Raglan's is) on the 19th, but on the 22nd, three days after the battle, so that had May ran's division advanced to repulse a sortie in the manner described, General Polisher must nedessarily have been informed of it at the time he wrote. But to whatever cause the premature movement of this division is to be assigned, it is dear that the foot en tirely altered the conditions of the assault. The attack should have been, to nee the words of General Polissier," general, sudden, and simultaneous along the whole line." As it was, Mayran's devoted division, exposed to the concentrated fire of numerous batteries and of the war steamers in the harbour, " which maa ceuvred with as much good fortune as ability," was cut up to such a degree that it found it "impossible to go on, although it did not give way a step." General Mayran, mortally wounded, was carried off the ground before the commander-in-chief's appointed signal had been given. All this, the despatch says, was the "affair of a moment;" but this moment 3. de fined in a subsequent passage to be " from twenty to twenty-five minutes"—time enough for immense slaughter when muses of men, helpless as a pen of stags at a Belgian battue, are exposed to the point i blank range of well-served cannon from a tremen -1 dons fortress. The question now presses itself on the mind whether, when General Palmier found that that simultaneity of action upon which be bad calculated as the condition of success had be come impossible, he should not rather have ordered Mayran's division to retire, and have postponed the assault to another opportunity, than have sent on the other divisions to be exposed to destruction in detail. To show more strongly that the calculations of the besiegers were manifestly proved to have been mis taken at the very moment when the signal for the attack was given, I beg to refer to that very remark able passage in Lord Raglan's despatch in which he says, " It was at first proposed that the artillery fire should be resumed on the morning of the 18th, and should be kept up for about two hours, for the purpose of destroying any works the enemy raighqhave thrown up in the night, and of opening passages through the abattis that covered the Redan ; but on the eve ning of the 19th it was intimated to me, by General Pelissier, that As had determined, upon further con sideration, that the attack by Ms troops should take plans at three in the morning." It appears that General Mader, deceived by the slack fire of the Russians, in reply to his batteries on the 17th, had overestimated the effects of our artillery, and it seems probable that he dispensed with the prelimi nary bombardment, which, according to all ordinary rules, should have been resorted to immediately pre vious to the moult, so that advantage might be taken of the enemy's confusion, thinking that his means of defence were siready nearly exhausted. But when he heard the " hot fire of mitrailiesgainst General Mayne, which convinced him that the en gagement was prematurely and "warmly engaged on the right," should he not have related that hie anticipations were already proved to be ill-founded, and have palmed before pushing forward an attack which he then knew was not organised as it ought to have been against an enemy fully prepared to :cadet, instead of being taken by surprise f I an aunts you that very bitter criticisms are made by the pub lic, and it is much doubted whether General Peliasier will retain his command. There is already a rumour that he may be replaced by General Bonnet, who, it appears, has been recalled from his position on the Tobsruays, and was at the last advices marching with his division upon BebastepoL 4 I understand IL Hubner has asked he oxplast tiong at the memos in the Emperor's speech relative' to A mtz .4.. The nature of the armee be reosived my mugs.",,; rDs epteisteer sew is the Arepitowr to a imolai= of en article from the Vienna Oa. &stitch* nisi of Jane 29. "This journal" says the Mosilewr " is the non-official but very faithful organ of the presiding mind of the cabinet of Vienna. We reredos its article mahout comment."• The article in question dwells upon the golden am meter of the four points, to which the French govern ment has already signified that it is no leave belied, and seeks to excuse the inaction of Austria by saying that it is for the " interest of Francs and England to have an ally in reserve." What the Frenoh Em peror thinks of the value of this reserved alliance it shwa by his speech, which pointedly and bittedr vim le the promised aid of Austria being now dew, and pit withheld. lbe Bourse has been well supported under the bt pain that the Emperor will not bring out the loan 111 good news arrives from the Crimea. The Rents s Mo., doming at 88fr. 150. THE LATE LORD RAGLAN. GENERAL ORDER. HORSE GUARDS, JULY 4, NM The Gemara Commanding-in• Chief hes received her Majesty's most gracious mamas& to express to the 'rosy the deep regret with which her Majesty has to deplore the low of a meet devoted sad able officer, by the death of Field Marsha, Lord Eagles, the Cearmeader of the Forms la the Crimea. Ha Majesty las been piqued to command that her leatlmests shall be essamnaketed to the army, in order that themilltary saner of so illustrious ea (Meer shall be reeozded, not only me ea honourable testimony of her biejeety's seam of his emlseat service", and the respect dos to his memory, but se ea example worthy of hate** by all ranks of her army. Selected by the Duke of Wellington to be his military secretary and alde•de-amp, be took part, nearly 60 been ago, in all the military achievements of our greatest am minder. From him Lord Raglan adopted as the guiding principle of his life a mutant sadeviatiog obedience to the all of duty. During a lug peace, his life was most usefully employed I. those unwearied attentions to the intends end welfare of the army, shown by the kindness, the impartiality, and Justice with which be transacted all his duties. When war broke oat last year, he was selected by his Sovereign to take the command of the army proeeediog to the East; he never hesit►tsd, he obeyed the summons, though he had reached an age when an often may be dis posed to retire from active duties in the field. At the head of the troops daring the arduous operations of the campaign, he resumed the early habits of his life ; by his salmases in the hottest moments of battik and by his quick perception in taking advantage of the ground, or the movements of the enemy, he won the madame of his army, and performed gnat and brilliant services. In the midst of a winter's campsite, ha a severe climate, and surrounded by difflcsities, he despaired. The herds anti, whom fortitude amidst the mend pd. vicious is rsoogaised by Her Majesty u beyond all praise, have shown their attsoluseat to their Commander by the deep regrets with which they now mourn his lam. Her Majesty is confident that the talents and virtues which distinguished Lord Raglan throughout the whole of his valuable lib will for eves *mbar his memory to the British army. By oommend of the Right Hon. General Visoonnt Har ding% Conunanding in Chief. o. AC. THE ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK The last exhibition this year of plants, flowers, and traits took place yesterday, at the Society's Gardena. Everythhig concurred to make this exhibition the most brilliant of the whole Beeson. The plants, Sowers, and fruits were in their highest perfection. The great tent under which the flowers were exhibited was filled with most perfect specimen. Especially were the orchids re marked for the beauty of their form and colour, and the magnificence of their development. The collection of heaths was considered very fine. The azaleas were perhaps Ism perfect than many specimens which we saw at the commencement of the season. The most etrikiar feature of the exhibition next to the orchids consisted of an immense collection of magnificent geraniums disposed in a circular form in the centre of the room. Every flower, however, that nature or art renders perfect at this reason was well represented. The fruits were " rich and rare," is the opinion of all those who had courage and endurance to amble them to get occasional glimpses of their luxurious beauty, and to indulge in the enjoyment of the perfume which they ex haled. It was lucky for Tantalus that the arts of modern gardening were not understood in the days when he received his punishment. Doubtless it was not pleasant for him to look at a plate of wild strawberries without being able to rush them. Bat how the in tunny of the punishment would have been increased by the substitution of a dish of gigantic "British Queens I" To plus before a starving 'phone a collection of fruit like that shown at the gardens yesterday, and forbid him to testa it, would be a refinement of punishment that could not have entered into the imagination of the simple-minded avengers who devised the castigation of the ancient king. Gnat, however, as was the beauty of the exhibition yes terday, its principal charm consisted neither in the flowers nor fruits. One was glad to escape from the crowded rooms and look on the beauty of the scene present in the, gardens themselves. A flood of such sunshine uis sot very common in England was lighting up the rich tints of the variegated parterres. Almost every spot not covered by the plants was occupied by human beings, all apparently gay and happy, and the fairer portion of them far more beautiful than the flowers themselves. The mush' of the military bands war good and incessant. The town seemed to have emptied itself of nearly all its treasures of fashion and beauty in order that the gardens of the Botanical Society might be filled with them. No such eight could be seen in any other °wintry in the world. It wee thwoly !Webb ; and those foreigners who were present were load in their praise of its beauty, and in their admiration of the opulence which alone could have produced it. Amongst the visitors at the gardens were their Royal Rightsm's the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meck lenburg fitrelite ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge ; the Duchesses of Sutherland and St. Albano, the Marchioness of Ailesbury ; the Countesses of Bradford and Chesterfield; Ladies Downes, Caroline Stirling, Dane, En field, Catherine Cavendish, Diana Besuclero, Danvers, Hamilton, Erle, Fellows, Matthews, Grant, Barrow, and Hastings; their Excellencies the Sardinian Ambassador and suite, the Spanish Ambassador and suit*, the Portsguese Ambassador and smite, the BrazilianAnthassador and suite ; the Marquis of Northampton, Earl Bradford, Lords Downes, Dunn, John Chichester, and Pansure ; Sir Walter Stir ling, Sir G. Hodgkinson, Sir W. Newton, Sir James Hamilton, Sir Claude Scott, Sit James Maedonell, Sir Matthew Wyatt, Sir John Denton, Sir H. Willoughby, Sir Peter Cole, and Sir Jas. Lush ington ; General Bouverie and General Salter; sad Major-General Oliver. In the photographs of Crimean heroes, just neared at Portsmouth for her Majesty, the marines and marine artillery were taken in a group by the side of a guo, and the mantes, sinned in blue jaoksts, white trousers, and ginned hats were grouped against s capstan, with a white 1 ensign lying from a flag-staff, an anchor, a coil of rope, deep sea lead lbw, band lead line end log reel, arranged in suitable positions. The *tares eo obtained will be very interesting ones, and we (Porisminigh Chastain) believe it ii her Majesty's intention to have paintings made from them, and from similar groups of men belonging to other branches of the services. _ A correepondent of the lowyeal do Comtantireopl , deseribiag a visit whisk be he just paid to Amps, says : " pas this; whisk astosished us a good deal was the Messes of my stga of provides., bat issued plenty of billiard tables, In visiting one hoses some English Misers amesatered four Cirommisam who were grasped around one of these tables, laughing and joking ms they burned the bails, whisk they mistook for bullets—bullets of ivory t The idea seemed Is dale them, sad was the ma sks of essay jests M the Bessismo. Bat they were fixed with metcalehmest what they aw the Alms take some games and nil mid 'mike theme toilets dose the green beige of the billiard. table. At the termination of the peas the Assn left, bat not Were they saw the Meanies' sedge bold of the queues, sad finding, doubtless, a relish for the smussoesut, attempt to imitate them and make mom ea nabob." _ _ • A letter from Coastaatlaople of the 26th stye, " The sea of Adatbel Lyres, who eteausaaded the Miranda, died per hens the offsets of a amyl which he resolved I. the leg at the dm of the last botabudaseat of the forts of Sebastopol. The funeral is to take place to-day. Gamut Larehey has &ea tastrastioas, la ea order of the day, to a part of hie staff, sad several aaval Maas, to mkt. Capt. Lyres yea a maw atsa of peat premiss. Before his death he mote farewell lobo to WI MUT, awl to may of hid relstives." lAso thousandfirs hundred !son of the garrison of rub Val be edeelelei petaileeely. e 7.7 67 te the Pods itieddel. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (FROM OUR SPECLAL [The following letter from " Oar Special Correspondent " was received too late for pnblicatlos yesterday; and, with the letters of "A Special Correspondent" and "Oar Disables Corespondent," given yesterday, completes oar series of coasenioatioas frost the Crimea to the 23rd alt.]. CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Joss 23. Nothing of importance has occurred in the siege operations since the assault of the 18th. That event, with all its exciting incidents, the wild rush of its attack, the murderous fire from the enemy's guns, and the heavy loss it entailed on us, has been upper most in every man's thoughts. It would be idle to attempt to conceal the fact, that a feeling of depres sion has been generated far and wide by the result. Not that this feeling has arisen out of the failure itself—that is only a temporary matter : the despon dency has been caved by the circumstances with which it was attended. The want of due precaution, proceeding either from unwarrantable confidence or wrong information, and the irreparable sacrifice of life which followed in consequence : these are the sources of the general sadness. What affliction it will cause in England! has been in every one's mouth— just at the tame, too, when having gained the whole seaboard of the Crimea, with our armies in the high est perfeotion, people at home must have been looking for news of some glorious ashievement pointing to a probable termination of the great undertaking. Had it been an ordinary failure, had the plan of the assault been well conceived and as well carried out, the obstacles considered and provided for, the want of moons would have been more tolerable, for every assault must be attended with a certain amount of risk and uncertainty of issue ; but, as far as can be ascertained by those not in the secrets of authority, neither the feasibility of the operation had bees sufficiently weighed in its details nor was the best opportunity for its execution selected. According to report the plan originally spud upon between the allied commanders was that the fire of the batteries should open at daylight, more especially against the intended points of attack, and that after three or four hours' bombardment—after a sufficient effect had been produced on the enemy's work', and all his spare troops had been removed to a distance from the immediate scene of action—the assault should be suddenly, at a given signal, insti bitted. At a late hour, however, in the evening of the 17th instant, General relisier sent to Lord Raglan to say that reasons of a very urgent nature would compel him to assault at daylight, and that he trusted the British troops would be ready to do the same on their side. This was assented to, it being understood that the Redan was not to be attacked by the Eng lish until the Malakhoff hill had been gained by the French. Two reasons are put forward to so count for this change of plan. One is, that the French attacking force was so numerous that after daylight it would necessarily be exposed to the enemy from want of sufficient cover in the trenches and works about the Mamelon Vert ; the other, that General Folksier had received notice of an in tended attack on the part . of the Russians, and that he was anxious to anticipate it. The alteration al luded to was not known generally in camp. When, therefore, the musketry fire opened just at break of day in front of the Mamelon, it was attributed to a sortie from the Russians ; and when the French were seen going up towards the Malakhoff works, it was supposed that, having repulsed the sortie, they were induced to follow up the advantage and carry on the attack in turn against the Russian bulwarks in front. Such was the opinion among the French troops, who were, equally with the English, under the impression that the assault was not intended to be made till 7 or 8 o'clock. But it is now said to be a matter of doubt whether the Russians made any sortie at all, whether the first fire was not from the Russian advanced sentries when they perceived the French troops, who had taken the initiative, coming up the hill. In either case the influence on what followed woald be much the same, whether the French advanced in come , , quence of following up a sortie of the enemy, or spontaneously according to a predetermined plan. The preliminary bombardment was set aside. There seems to be no doubt that, in spite of the ebgfire from the batteries and ships, thi fire of crowds of Russian riflemen above and the onetent explosion of mines beneath, some of the French troops were for a few minutes actually within the enemy's works; not merely within the mud battery on the right, but within the bastion immedi ately in front of the Round Tower ruin. This it was, perhaps, which induced the general entrusted with the command of the important operations against the Redan to give the signal for the assault. It was immediately acted upon by Colonel Yea, com manding the troops of the Light Division, who were to attack the left face of the Redan ; the troops of the Fourth Division, who formed the storming column under Sir John Campbell against the right face, followed shortly afterwards. It is said that the column of the Second Division destined to attack the salient angle, not expecting the assault at that hour, did not perceive the signal until after the hopeless nese of the attempt had been decided, but, whatever the cause, this column did not attack. Had the troops done so, it could have only added to the loss of life, and in no way to the probability of a favour able issue. The events which on the instant followed the first appearance off our troops in the open ground fa front of our trenches, exposed at once the in superable difficulties they had to encounter. A battery of au guns in a hollow between the Redan and Malakhoff Tower was placed in such a position as to be able to sweep the sloping ascent in front of the Roden over which the troops were compelled to pus to reach the work. No attempt had been made by our artillery to silence this battery : amid the efforts made to subdue the guns of the larger works, this small work had been overlooked. This is the more extra ordinary, as it had been employed by the enemy to a considerable extent when the Quarry works were taken, and subsequently against the working parties engaged in extending them. Then the Russians had not got the exact range, and many of the dis charges of shot whistled past over head, bat now they had profited by their experience, and every shot told with deadly effect. The earth was seamed up by the unceasing flanking volleys which these guns sent across the Roden hill. From time to time the dust scattered in the air as they tore up the ground was so great, that the soldiers could not see the Italian before them. It is asserted that Colonel Yea at first starting perceived the slaughter that must ensue if the assault were persevered in, and its inevitable result, and that he took steps to arrest it at coos He called for a bugler, with the intention of sounding to retire, but no bugler was at hand. In a few minute. too many of the troops were over the parapets and in advance to attempt to put off the attack. Colonel Yea fell just before reaching the &battle. He was hit in two plum, and his death must have been instantaneous. The abattia was found to . be quite perfect: it had evidently been repaired and strengthened the night before. The timber used in its formation was very strong, was not only sank in the ground, but was also pegged down, so as farther to prevent its being dragged up; the projecting branches were pointed, and every opening between the forks and stems, through which there was a chance dumping, had been sedulously stopped. The Russians had been heard during the night working near the Roden, and the circumstance was reported to the proper authorities ; from the sounds, as of driving es, it was supposed they were construct ing i • ' within the work. Captain Shamir, of the 34th ~ was killed while attempting to make an opening in the &battle by hackng the palisades with his sword. Of the few men who reached the abatis, some attempted, by lying down, to seek shelter from the fire until reinforcements arrived. But it wee plainly seen that to send rein forcements was only to send more men to destruction. The Malakhcif works had not been carried. The ditch 'O2l the Redan wee deep and broad—there was no trace ol a breenb, every embrasure of the Rehm had its gun pouring town a deadly discharge of the parapets were crowded with the Rumen= men two and three dsq, the teen told o ff for carrying the ladders had boss - Mod or wounded, and the heavy Mb= thesseshies were scattered in all direc tions. Two ellessol laskans, Captain Jesse and Limiter estentveetwith Am two ahem were killed, and Liolowit awry womb; Ise wathiwg two I mained but to give up the attempt. Sir Jo— beuplln, ear wh l o y , oCnoelonbodelyYtoptea, 11:der,alsowisadetrratio:i the storming column, and the supports which hod n head when approaching the abattie in front of t h e right face of the Redan, and killed on th e spot, Tu ground wu strewed with the dead and woundedoe.7 gamy of the latter, unable to gain shelter, we re struck where they had fallen by the fi re - " I the rocs Redan and flanking works. On the left, the troops of the Third Divisi on ode Brigadier General Eyre, who were to attack, to teet. art with the French, the Garden Batteries , b e d 'awned towards the Cemetery near the 41 t g South Harbour. This oemetery, which is on the u n k .... aide of the Harbour Ravine, just where the Vi m ; soff road bends round to ascend along the left sh oe of the port, is at the foot of the hill, on the his ground of which the ruins of the theatre and oth e buildings stand, and a little way beyond, towsids the town, the Garden batteries. Our men met with et & siderable opposition at the cemetery. The R ut h * riflemen from above, and some fieldpiece. loaded with grape, continued to pour down a destructive fir e , after the cemetery had been cleared of the mo s General Eyre was leaning against a small obeli t i t : when a round shot struck it, and the frs f . ments of stone so severely injured hi m t h at he het to leave. Subsequently, after his wounds tre te desseed4the general returned to take command of the operations. Several houses beyond the w., were taken possession of, but the French had a t moved on the left, and it was therefore impossible advance against the batteries. The French hsdi st 4 moved because they saw that the Roden was set gained; and even could the Garden Batteries pose been carried, they could not have been held without the fire of the Barrack Batteries and Redan blis s first silenced. General Eyre could not withdraw his force, for on all sides they would now be exposed to a galling fire, and he wu compelled therefore, notwith. standing the enemy wu throwing down shell on the houses of which they kept possession, to wait anti ds:knees arrived to cover his retreat. The loss ese very severe ; one regiment, the 18th Royal hid', lost considerably over two hundred men in killed sot wounded. After night had fallen, the troops vacated this position—a fact of which the Russians did not appear to be aware, for they took no steps to seam lit. The next day, when the dead were being batted, mound,, under Major Chapman, °Nerved th gro and at night large working parties woes.* to throw up the necessary cover, and to connect it with the French advanced works on the left, and cm works on the Greenhill attack. This position vow remains in our possession. The houses seized by our men had been previously occupied, and were well furnished. Various articles of female apparel were scattered about. The garden were full of fruit-trees, and the yards abounded ia poultry. Being a suburb, as it were, and in a shel tered position, these dwellings had escaped the de. dentition which had been inflicted on the buildings on the summit of the hill. The returns of our losses show a less amount of casualties among the men that it was feared would be given ; bat still the number returned is above fourteen hundred. The loss in killed and wounded among officers is greater than was anticipated, being eighty-three. The wind rose after the engagement had taken place, and toward noon almost amounted to a gale. Dense clouds of dust were swept by, and several of the wounded seized this opportunity to get back to our trenches without being seen by the enemy. Among those who miraculously escaped was Lint.. Colonel Lysons of the 23rd Regiment. He had been originally selected to lead the attacking column el the Light Division, but late at night preceding the attack, this officer was placed in command of the supporting party, and Captain Owilt, of the 34th Regiment, was appointed to head the assault. The supporta, however, moved almost at the same time es the attacking column, and Colonel Lysons was one of the first and few who reached the Omni& He escaped with a wound of the knee, fortunately not at a serious character. Out of twelve officers of the 34th Regiment who went up with the four hundred men selected to make the assault, only two escaped altogether. Early in the afternoon of the 19th instant a flag of truce was hoisted from our works, but was not replied to by the Russians. It remained an hour, and was then struck. Shortly afterwards a white flag appeared on Fort Constantine, and a communication took place by boats. It is presumed that the ar rangements of the truce were then settled, for at 4 o'clock the white flag again appeared on all the works in front of which the dead were lying. A chain of cavalry was drawn across the ground in rear of the British position, to prevent any from going to the front who were not on duty in burying or conveying the dead to camp. Parades were ordered in the several Divisions, to prevent the soldiers leaving the camp. Several per. sons however, who had gone on advance previous to the arrival of the cavalry, went to the front, and had an opportunity of examining the ground where the contest had taken place. The Russians threw out a line of sentries immediately in front of their works, a precaution which was not adopted on our side, bat was not necessary, as none of the enemyadvanced br yond a certain limit, which appeared to be settled to be neutral ground. Oar dead lad not been stripped; their arms and accoutrements had alone been ta ken from them. The bodies of Sir John Fainibell and Colonel Yea were found a short way from the abattis. The body of Lieutenant Graves, Royal Engineers, most gallant young officer, was also discovered at the very front. The Engineers suffered severely. Captain Jesse, who wu killed, had only arrived three days in the Crimea. Lieutenant Murray, who was doing duty as captain, has since died from the effect of his wounds. During the armistice a series of rank mines, similar to those in front of the Malakhoff Tower and Redo, were discovered in front of the old Russian rifle pit which was taken at the same time with the Quin, works. The mines had been placed by the enemy in front of this pit, between it and the end of one of the boyans of our old advanced work. These mines were taken up and removed without injury to anyone. Away from the immediate scene of the siege opea rations the most important event has been the advance of the Sardinians, together with about 400 of our 10th Hussars from Tchorgoun towards Lhutor Mackenzie. They are now about four miles and a half in advance, near &village marked in the maps Chulin. Mackenzie's Farm is said to be very strongly fortified. Several of our general officers are on the sick list Major-General Estoourt has been seized by a dan gvrons attack of cholera. Lieutenant-General Brown has also been confined to his house by illness. Major- Generals Codrington and Pennefather have bees compelled to leave camp from the same mule. Captain Savage, Royal Artillery, died yesterday, after a veil short illness, from cholera. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN THE CRIMEA. Coup before Sebastopol, June 22, 1865. It is no use my attempting to tell you what was done or doing en the 18th. Re failed, I fear, altogether; and with great loss. Then was a complicated plan of attack, of the success of which I always hod doubts. Had 70,000 men been let loose at the place at an appropriate time and at all points, with no other word of command dos go ahead at a certain signal, I do believe the place wink' have been taken with a loss of from 7,000 to 10,000 in killed and wounded, and this would have been about the proper tionate loss in stash a number in any hard-fought Wads' meat. Btill the loss in such a mods of attack might Mt* been lees than even our lass on the 18th, for the Busier might not have withstood the onset of such a host; bed when they saw driblets of only 400 coming here and there and straight at their strongest points, they naturally 10 confidence in their superiority of numbers and posing& During the flag of trees on the 19th, a Russian °Seer, speak. fug to one of ours of the attack of the Bedan, Sou weld you think of attacking such a place with 400 meal Your men are indeed lions, but your officers must lid donkeys." Our Second Brigade took a cemetery sad knee near the town, which we still hold at a considerable loss in killed and wounded every 24 hour,. I cannot bar or form an opinion as to what is to be our next a* Bowel generals and others am becoming very tired sad dir• gusted, and an likely to leave. I wish to goodness I moil get clear d the business too. la= PORTER Fos CoNewrrutorm—A Tog los boon obastored to ootooy 600 hogsheads of *Oh Mann parlor le OwOsatiociple drat. a to: Su