The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

110 exaneoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. sidisartieresstOttairadid kr The lamas; Loodes Streedas gem met Os at the Oar. 10. DOWlllWeifiet. TIM Welosk ea the er, 01 patibeedes. HIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau Dar —llorsisig. tb. lea Afterioss. 91t. 41u. T a ..assov—Monlag. 10%. 335-.......Aftinsous, iLA. 610. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7. Tuz Ring of HANOVZII, in obedience to the orders of the Diet at Frankfort, has repealed the constite time which his father granted to the Hanoverian. And Count Ktumorriszians has been despatched from Hanover to Frankfort, to invoke the aid of the Federal army of the Confederation in cue the Hanoverian , should prove restive. The amstituden which has just been suppressed was not of a very democratic character, nor is Hanover by any means the head-quarters of Crenate democracy. The king dom of Hanover is an amalgam of a number of pro vinces incorporated into one body after the subversion of the kingdom of Westphalia, which have preserved many of their old customs and institutions. Liberal ism in Hanover has more of a historical tradi tionary character than in almost any other part of Germany. The preemsors who some years ago resigned their appointments rather than break their oaths are a fair sample of the liberals of Hanover. In Hanover too, from its having been long ettsched to the English Crown, and governed by a non resident Prince, the aristocracy have pre served more real power than in the rest of *many. Hence it has come that the Hanoverian abbrs.'s are for the most part of the historical, or development school, disposed rather to amend than to overturn existing institutions, attached to what they have received from the put. Even at the University of Gottingen, among the 'roueg and rash, the Bur schenechat never attained to such a strong position as it did in other German Universities, when that much misrepresented association was most powerful. If there was a district in Germany in which an honest King might more easily have maintained his prerogatives, so long is he respected the *institutional rights of his subjects, than another, it was ['poorer. Yet, at the bidding of the Diet— that is, of Austria and Prussia—the poor weak minded man, who at present fills its throne, his ex changed that safe and tranquil position for the perilous one of a despot, who has trodden under foot the chartered liberties of his people. And before the change is well completed, he has lost courage, and invoked the aid of alien bayonets. Before his people have made a single movement, the King of HANOVER has implored the aid of the army of the Diet to pro tect him against possible or contingent insubordina. tion. Such a mixture of bad faith, rashness, and pusillanimity is unparalleled even among German Princes. _ The Diet cannot well reject the King of HANOYER'S appeal for the support and protection of a federal army, for he has merely been obeying its commands. And, if a federal army is marched into Hanover, it will be a confession on the part of the German Princes that the Hanoverian Constitution has been suppressed in opposition to the wishes and convictions of the whole population soldiers as well as civilians. Prussia, the consistent and unwavering ally of Russia, I and Austria, which has only of late ventured to avow its cJinpli,ity with the Muscovite, will thus take the field against the German people at the same time that they throw themselves unequivocally into the scale of Russia in the great European struggle. The suppression of constitutional rights in Hanover will not be an isolated act, for it was by Prussian troops that liberal government was crushed is Baden and in Electoral Hesse. The union of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, is a combination to put down parliament►ry government in Germany, and reduce the German people to the same condition of politicil serfdom as the Russians. The Holy Alliance has b m r.-organised for the purpose of asserting " the right divine of kings to govern wrong ;" and it is not in Germany alone that the conspirators are preparing for a campaign. Austria is reinforcing her armies in Lombardy, and is endeavouring to strengthen her position in the Danubian Princi palities. The European struggle is rapidly advancing to. wards that war of principles which Graoaaa CAN NINO and NAPOLEON foretold. The French and English Governments will not, to all appearance, be able to remain much longer neutral between the contending chime of nationalities and dynasties. France, iudetd, cannot in any sense of the words be called a parliamentary or a constitutional govern ment, but the Emperor of the FRENCH rests his claim to his high station on the people's choice— on "universal suffrage ;" and his dynasty is pre eminently a revolutionary one. The extraordinary document which we republish to-day from our even ing edition of yesterday, shows that LOUIS NAPO. LEON is still under the ban of the old dynasties. The BOURBONS of France, from their Austrian asylum, and the Bouasons of Spain, from the territories of their Neapolitan kinsman, have addressed a eimults- Deans prayer for aid to the Autocrat of all the Remiss, and a favourable answer to that prayer has only been deferred till they can show to that champion of despotism that they are in a condition to earn his friendship by substantial services. It was truly said of the Sint NAPOLEON that even against his will, and without his con sciousness, he was the child and champion of Jacobiniam. The position of his heir is essentially the same. The old dynasties can never forgive LOUISNAPOLION for bearing the name he bears, and for supplanting the BOURBONS on the throne of France. So long as he, or his family, reign over the French people, they will be exposed to the relentless machinations of the old monarchical fami lies and their partisans. There is no permanent recurity for the Emperor of the FRENCH except by throwing himself into the arms of the Constitutional Liberals. France and England may defy the ut most efforts of the European deolotiants, but France and England enited—in alliance with Sardinia and other states in which constitutional government has struck roots—and looked up to as the protectors of oonsti:utional government wherever it can be estab lished, can impose peace upon Europe on the condi tion that no one government shall, by force or fraud, interfere in the domestic concerns of neighbouring states; and that every people .hall be left at liberty to win from its rulers by internal agitation the con cession of copular rights. Lord Joao; Itussat.t has announced that he will call the attention of the House of Commons this day to the condition of Italy. It is to be hoped that the noble lord will discharge his .elf-imposed task, rhich animated Lord MIVIO mission, than in that which b. the recent negotiations at Trade, in 'IEB OF This day have bean imed, the Homes of Parliament, relative to the above affair, papers pretested i• Jame. 1 t►e Express, is the form of journals. No. 1 assists of a letter from Admiral pandas to the Admiralty, enclosing his oorrespoodenn with General De Borg. the Remise somenader at lieleingfon, given some Kau since by the Express. No. 2 fooled*. the instructions of the Admiralty. to Ad., mini Dundee, relative to the demand for the release of the prisoners. These are dated June 22. No. 3 Is a letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty to the Admiral, desiring him to inquire Into the sllegations of General De Berg relative to an al leged abuse of the flag of truce at Tvansian The letter conclude', My Lords have not the slightest reason to suppose that a is; of truce has ever been so abased by any British (Aar, bet it would be as well to renew your iejunetions to all the Oben of the Ant coder your am assed to adhere meet rigidly to your onion not to make us of a flag of trees for the purpose of obtaining intermaion in a manner not warranted by the usages of war and the recognised law of nations, and you will also caution them against sending arms or asansunities beyond what may be rcqulred for the purpose of making signals in any boat which carries a 11. g of truce, or allowing a boat with a Lag of truce flying to approach within gun- shot of the shore. Illlkell it bee been recognised by signals or otherwise by the enemy." Noe. 4 and 6 consist of the correspondent" between the Admiralty and Commander Armytege, relative to the false rumour that aosadinp wets takes in Hameisca Bay, under cover of a deg of trios on board of her Majesty's ship Viper. No. 6 communicates this report to Admiral Dundu. Nos. 7 and 8 include a correspondence with Capt. Sey mour, of her Majesty's ship Meteor, by which Runts that in August last, when the captain wasemployed in the White Sea, a Russian boat armed came out with a flag of truce. In Nos. 9 and 10, the Secretary of the Admiralty trans mits Captain Seyamar's letter to Admiral Dundee, and the commander-in-chief of the Baltic fleet sends to the Admi ralty his correspondence with the Russian Minister of War ; a letter from the French Admiral approving of his (Admi ral Dundee.) reply to Prince Dolgorouky's first communi cation, and Captain Fanshawe's distinct and unqualified de nial of an abuse of a flag of truce near Turmine. The remaining papers include the Russian minister's letter, refusing to release the priuners (see yesterdays Barren); the final reply by Admiral Donau; Lieut. Geneste's letter, sad various explanations by the officers in command, respecting the proceedings at Nyatad and Rsamo. We subjoin Admiral Dundee's reply to Prince Dolgo. reeky and Lieut. Genesta's narrative : -- - . (Enclosure 2 in No. 14.) "Admiral Hondas to the Russian Minister of War. " H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, at Nivea, " 16th July, 1865. "Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th lost., from which I learn, with re grst, that the Government of hie Majesty the Emperor of Russia has decided to decline releasing the prisoners cap tured under • ag of truce at Hango Head from the boat of her Maksty's ship Cossack. . . -- . . . "I should be glad to be spared the pain of further discus. don upon the subject, but the statements contained in your letters, and the reasons assigned for the decision, render it proper that I should place on record the observations I have now to offer. " I am informed that three different versions of the facts stated to have occurred have been presented to your Excel lency. " The first is contained in the statements of the seaman Brown, whose original depositions were taken after he had been severely wounded, and was in a state of great suffer ing and exhaustion. The falsehood of the testimony of this men is considered by you to be demonstrated by the sc., knowleiged errors into which he bad fallen, but no allow ' lace appears to have been made for unintentional min i statements natural to a man under such circumstance'. " The second 'anion is contained in the letter from Lieu tenant Geneste, which has now been forwarded. " I regret much that this letter could sot have been dis patched by General Moller at an earlier period, as requested by Lieutenant Clematis; much pain and anxiety on account of those who were believed to have been killed, would have been scared, and some misapprehension might have been avoided ; but except uto the number of the sufferer it contains nothing to shake the testimony of the memos Brown, and nothing materially to alter the opinion I had I myself formed of the general charaver of the transaction as osilected from the various reports of Captain Fanshawe. " You can have no reason whatever for calling in question the accuracy of the report from Lieutenant °emote, sad still less to insinuate doubts as to his veracity or his honour. The main fact on which I must again beg leave to insist is the existence of a flag of truce in the Cossack's boat, whisk is clearly asserted by hinnelf,andrtlied on in the latter seatemele of his letter. The same fact was asserted, without previous concert, by Brown, and was distinctly within his knowledge before his facalti.a were cookeed. It is supported by Psis known orders of Captain Fanshawe, and is attested by the very presence of the Russian prisoners for whose benefit it was directed to be used. The utmost that could be admitted to your Eacelleney upon this point is the possibility that it might not have been observed from the shore; but in judg ing of what is possible, and before any such admission Can be conceded, it is necessary to Jogai?, how far it was probable that an oversight of that kind could have occurred. " The point of landing to which the boat was ordered le proceed was neer a telegraph station, from which the Cos sack herself must have been plainly observed. The habitual vigilance at these telegraphs is known to the officers under my orders. The boat gaittal the ship at a considerable distance from the shore, and was for a long time in full view of the telegraph. It is impossible to believe that her mu tines were not w►tched, and the flag was hoisted at • mile from the shore. It was therefore clearly the duty of the principal officer oa the spot either to give timely weren'te the boat that her approach was objectionable, or to repot the flag which she displayed, if her signal had been us guardedly neglected. "Yon may, perhaps, be entitled to contend t►at, under any circumstances, it was the duty of the officer of the boat to have avoided approaching within gunshot until his signal had been recognised from the shore ; hut other circum stances may still be stated in explanation, if not in justifies. tion of his conduct. General de Berg, in his reply to my letter of the 16th alt, ►ee remarked that the landing of the prisoners to be released wee not an occasion of sufficient importance to render necessary the use of • flag of trace, and that they might have been released without it on say Weed near t►e coast. I may therefore observe, that the officers of the Cossack had actually landed on the main lead, as well as on the islands near Bongo, about a fort eight prior to the sth of June. They had found the stores nearly deserted, and well adapted for the ra yons suggested by °antral de Berg, and they in jured nobody. On their return with prisoners, they mid not certainly know that a military force was to be peasant, but they had reason to suspect it, and the flag of tram was necessary as • precaution. It was also the wish of the pe ls esers to be landed near lingo. Timely warning M the host would have prevented the catastrophe, but wilful neglect of the flag, and concealment by those on s►ore could be nothing but gross treaebtry. " I have nest to compare the statement of Lieutenant Genesee with the third version of the fact, as presented to I , I your Excellency by your own Officers. " h is asserted by them that the flog of truce was observed, sad I repeat again, wit►out fear of cont.adietion, that it was hoisted. To whom then is this went of ooservation at • telegraph to be imputed, and is it under such circumstances that Lieutenant °mute is to be alone responsible, and to be regarded as a prisoner 0 de droit et de fait ?" "I regret to state, however, this I have lea reason to question the vigilance of your officer., than to dispute the assertions of your witnesses. The mis-statements of the seamen Brown have been thought by your Ezoolleney to be sufficient to demonstrate the falsehood of his testimony; but among the statements collected by the aide-de-camp of of his Majesty the Emperor, it is alleged that the crew of the Cossack's boat at the commencement of the attack upon the attack upon them threw overboard the gun (cannot) with which she is supposed to have been armed. You may perhaps be surprised to learn that the boat in question was not fitted with one, and has never mounted one upon say occasion. " I am myself forced to the conelusion that wilful fa's*- . hoods have been invented in vindication of a decided out. rage, and it is not unimportant to inquire for what purpose the carriages and heroes mentioned by Lieut. Geseete had bees previously collected. .intention to end's ito tits telegraph. sad ravish's', bat is the saatioa to tlio nearest Is Wilk laid dislOb us Woad"( Ao be vs tbogbrt of ;the officer vs lowa wilbdost to ash eof mistsey, And eg V (Ii __short of irreisiono, sun bad she been long without refreshments, I as diseover nothias in the etatsavat of Liwatensat Osaesta to jostlly ths inferences which have by wrested bon theta. J L. " Tito rely other sinnuastooses to obi& II Ilali be now ororreary to shad', aro tho gamma oaroottiati *Oast Akers seder lay cram latish ors attempted to be alto. Malik' by the swamia ia the latter portico of your loner. _ . . . - "Adopting the same mane which has been found con. violent by yourself, I must be permitted to divide this latter subject tato two distinct heads, which ham aot been kept clearly is view by your Beeellesey, via. : "let. The abeam use of Bags of truce by the British navy. "tad. Disobedience to an order issued by me on the 29th May. " Upea the drat of these two paste 1 ham to remark that, before any jostilleatioa of the attack on the Cossack's bast eau be admitted upoa such grounds, it will be at least seeessary to show the existence of is.. general abuse prior to the sth hue, but up to the present moment no aside blames has hoes advanced which ass be established ►y yoar Buelleney. " You have sow transmitted from the magistrate at Rearm a ststemeat of mearnsees at that plies on the 2ed July. As yet I have received so report from the °Moon of her Britannic Majesty's ship, but I discover is the mai of Mr. Petersen a proof acknowledging that, before the emarameemest of aa attack, eoaditioas of surrender were offered under a Lag of trues, sad that the place was not de. fermelese. Of the traneactione eonneeted with the detention of boats near the coasts of the Island of Onel, I had ressivsd reports from °Moen other Majesty's *MOP. before I had the honour of receiving your letter; and ea regents the clothes and mosey of the prisoners who were retooled, I enclose extract from the report from the officer oho detained them. " I need only observe, farther, that my order of 29th May was intended to prevent the oaken from iatereepting an active trade with Stockholm sad the ports of Sweden, which is attempted to be carried cm by hosts from the rout of Russia.—l have, tle. (Signed) "B. S. DUNDLS. "H. E. Priam Dolgoronky, Minister of War to His Majesty the Emperor of Ramis, Petarboff." (Enclosure 3 in No. 14.) "Lieutenant °mate to Captain Familial/el " Heisingfors, July 8,1855. "Sir,—ln obedience to pour order, on Monday, the 6th of June, I proceeded to the landing place at Hango Head fa the cutter, carrying a flag it truce, in order to land Rut ulna prisoners and communicate with the officer at the tele graph station. We arrived at the pier, end no person being visible on the shore, except two or three women standing near the hour, I landed the Russian prisoners, and in eatiapeny with them and Dr. Easton, proceeded towards the isms@ to communicate with the people, and with the Olen of the telegraph. The three stewards also accompa nied ns, in order, if possible, to purchase fresh provisions. •at all the boat's crew were left in the boat, with strict soden not to land, as you had directed. We also carried with us a white flag of truce on a boarding pike, Lorton, *e inAshipman's steward, carrying it beside me. We bad ray prorded about 60 yards from the boat, when suddenly Russian soldiers (who had lain concealed behind the rocks sod hours, and of whose vicinity we were completely igno- Nat) rose and fired on us and the boat from all rides. Taking the whits flag from the steward Norton, who WM shot down by my side, I endeavoured with it in my head to prevent the soldiers from firing at the boat, and so smiled the attention of their officer, who came near me, le It. However, I regret to state that the firing did not ones until many of our people had been hit. As we were eespletely surrounded by soldiers, it was impossible to effect our escape, the soldiers being within a few yards of the boat on every side, and seeing the inutility of making any resistance, not having a loaded musket in the boat, sad the greater number of our small boat's crew of eleren man being killed and wounded by the first fire of the enemy, not a shot was fired on our side. We were all seised by the soldiers, taken to the houses, and without a moment's delay placed in carriages, which appeared to me to be ready for us, and transported to Bekases, where we arrived the same afternoon. I regret to have to state that we have lost 6of our men killed, and 4 have been wounded badly, nearly all the others having Wien scratches. One Finnish captain was also killed end two Russian captains wounded. The wounded men WIN serried to Behests, and placed in hospital there. I therms a list of the killed and wounded. The fate of several of t►e killed I know only by the Russian report, as we were hur ried away too quickly from the scene of action to ascertain ' it for ourselves ; but I fear their report Is too tree, as we have six men missing, and they report seven dead bodies at Haag° Head, which would be correct with our six men and the old Finnish cattails, whom we saw shot down and bayonetted. We remained at Eckneu during Tuesday, and ea Wednesday Mr. Sullivan, myself, and the four un wounded MS were removed to this place, leaving the four inuaisoll MIS at Banos, with Dr. Easton to attend them. The wounded men were all doing well when we left Ech oer. One of them, Gliddon, had to undergo amputation of his right arm, near the shoulder, which had been success fully performed. Since our arrival at Eckness we have received every attention and kindness from the Russian general end officers that our position would admit of. The wounded men have been treated with the greatest care and eansideration. I requested General Moller, the officer com manding at Bokser, to send shoat on the day following this infortunate affair, to the shio, with a flag of truce, to inform you what bad happened, but be declared it to be impos• sale. I do not know how this letter will reach you, but the General will forward it by the first opportunity. Le we were taken prisoners under a flag of trace, I presume we shall be shortly released, but am at present in perfect ignorance of their intention' with respect to us. I send this letter opened and unsealed.—l am, Bce., " Louts Gunners, Lieutenant. "To Captain Faushawe, H.M.S. Cossack." Letters from Rome, quoted by the Indelperidanes Beige, state that the French Government has made known through its Ambassador, to the Papal Government, its opinion of the necessity of a reform in the administration of the Roman States, and that after two congregations of Car dinals, held to consider the propriety of following this ad vice, it has been decided not to do so. Amongst the foreigners of distinction now staying at Paris are Prince Potion's, of Rome, and Prince Gus tave de Wus, father of a prince's who it was believed, a few years since, was destined to share the Imperial throne of France. General and Madame Cavaignac were at Strasbourg on the 3rd, on their way to Baden. " The Count and Countess de Chambord." says the CiamUo do Frame, " after passing sin weeks at the baths of TasAits, in Bohemia, have returned to Frohsdorff." General Count Alexandre de Girardin died on Sunday at his residence in the Rue d'Agisesseau, Paris, at the age of 79. Rs was a distinguished officer of the Empire and fought at Austerlitz, Omni°, Ostrowno, Monterey, Chanspaubert, and Montatirail. K. Emile de Giratdin is the son of the deceased general. It is remarked u acurious fact that half the capi tal of the new company of French " clippers," (Admiral Casy's and Rothsebild's company) which wee started to rival the English bosh, is subscribed by English people. It is reported that four new Marshals of France will be created on August 16—Generals Canrobert, Folksier, Schramm, sod Random. The late Selemon Rothschild, of Paris, hes left a fortune of 2 millions and a ball pounds sterling, which will be divided between his two nephews. The Salut Public of Lyons states that the Medi terranean Railway Company has received orders to hold themselves In reakiness to convey a numerous body of troops (1,600 a day) from Lyons to the coast for embarka tion, as well is 100,000 shells and a large quantity of powder. This morning a return was issued, which shows that alter the summer assizes, and beim* the 16th Nineus her lam year, the number of cues triable only at the assisv, and cot on bail, committed, wax 49 on the Home Circuit, 66 en the Mi4land, 21 on the Norfolk, 61 on the Northern, 78 on the Ozforti, 64 os the Western, 24 on the North Wides and Citestar sad 26 on the &milt Wales Moat& . . more in the spirit which animated Lord MINTO daring 'his Italian minion, than in that which in- s spired .himself dining the recent negotiations at Vieent __, _,, Wgires eir ) Niue much pleasure in stating that Mr. sn,M succeed Mr. Baines as President I of the out Law Board. Mr. Lows has been appointed - Vise-President of the Board of Trade, in the date of Mr. Bouverie. , . i lh hih i 1 OPIES OF FURTHER LETTERS RESPECT- "Boun strew W Loa as kM avowed Wool INO THE PROCEEDINGS OF MILS. COSSACK, vast to etwumoteste with the Wien to the f AND met LOSS OF OFFICERS AND MEN AT with the PlaPi°l alefi ta rwelww• Melillo MANGO. aloe of Weeps nese II explasatioa I -so- b , he fiR ,_ This day hays been Weed, for the .••. • of 1 Ite of the me Mies he Boson of Porliaamit, a variety of • , 1 A falba as illogfort E dative to the above affair, publia e hisiatios •- 1 " 8- Phased tiw• bush w haw@ the spin preeestod la lees. Mast of hireitiAltional "f It. me well • aehessf he Express, is the form of troesla (rode the Remiss . eweolift• of uf rift" ts, are sot - ---.- °maims of vase. The Cossack was is no . . . THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUOUST 7, 1855. LATEST FROM ABROAD. PRO 4 . III' .I VX t 4 HANOVER, Ifsoneer. Count Kielatannsiggo has gone to Frankfort, to peke an official conuasitication respecting the recent 'seasons of the gdrernment, and to arrange• for the aid of the Fedeial army, in the case of a military occu pation being required• RUSSIAN NEWS FROM THE WHITE BEA. A soppientent to the /*Safi& Rune, of July 29 (received this day), contains the following: NEWS FROM THE WHITE SEA. Admiral Yronstehoff, the military governor of the city of Archangel, sends the following details relative to the move saints Oche enemy's vessels in the White Sea up to July 18. 1. At 6 o'clock in the evening of July 9, a hostile steamer approached the village of Lianas, which is situated on the borders of the sea in the district of Onega, and having stopped within 400 'genes of ,the shore, sent four boats earrying and and white flag, sad containing a considerable number of men, to the village. The peasants, it in number (see), dineled by an old sol dier returned from service, named Tsyrbaistf, greeted the boats when they approached with a fire of musketry, and compelled them to return. The steamer then opened a fire of bullets, grapeshot, shells, and rockets against the peasantry and the village. After three hours' firing, two boats wen again sent to the shore with soldiers to land, but the peasantry would not I allow them te disembark, end the boats were obliged to regain the steamer. The l►tter cannonaded the coast all night, and did not take te non until six o'clock nest morning. Besides the inhabitants of Li/mites, a citizen of Arch easel, named Alexander Lyskoff, who happened to be there at t►e time, and Pierre Lyskoff, the priest of the village, who encouraged the peasants by his exortstions, contributed to repel the enemy, and the peasants named Boverscheieff and Taumoff partieularly distinguished themselves. Notwithstanding the length of time occupied by the bom bardment, the peasant Tsarnoff was the only defender of Liamtsa who was wounded. The village suffered very little, and the inhabitants experienced the slightest possible km, the greater part of the bombe, shells, and rockets, falling to burst. After the enemy's departure, the passes' picked up very nearly 60 bomb*. 2. In the morning of June 28 an English steamer ap proached the Island of flioloveM, and after stopping there until evening, took to sea without attempting anything against the monastery. The only thing done was that the English shot 'l2 sheep upon the neighbouring Wand of Z.iateky, and took them on board. 3. o.s June 30, two steamers were seen near the Kouzoff islands, at 30 vents from Kemi, and a cutter near the island of Kollovars, at 20 vents from the city. The cutter's aver, numbering 30 men, landed on the Wand and attempted to earry off some reindeer belonging to the inha bitants of Boni, and which are every year sent out to pasture. Twenty inhabitants of Kenai, armed with muskets, left for the Wand, in order to prevent this act of brigandage ; but the enemy, having probably seen the movement, hastened to remove his cutter to a distance, and immediately afterwards the steamers took to no, in the direction of the town of Onega. From the traces found upon the Island of Kollovara, it seems that the • enemy only managed to kill and carry off two reindeer. 4. On July 14, an English steamer, with three masts, appeared near the Island of Ka, in the Gulf of Onega, and at fifteen vents from that city. A gunboat armed with 2 cantos, and two little boats with a crew of nearly 50 men, 'preached a floating counting house,used in connection with ' the wood trade of Onega, and which was anchored near the island, and took from it different articles of clothing, and also mate planks, firewood, Ac., from an old vessel of light tonnage belonging to the Kreatnoi Monastery. At this moment thin are none of the enemy's vessels before the bar of Archangel. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON. [The following appeared in our Second Edition yesterday evening] : . (FROM ♦ SOPPLIMINT TO TR' OAZZTTX OP FRIDAY.) WAR DEPARTMENT. Avo. 6. Lord Palmas's has this day received a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Lordship by General Simpson, elm manding her Majesty's forces in the East. Before Sebastopol. July 24. My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose the weekly return from Dr. Hall of the state of the sick. Your Lordship will read with satisfaction the improved condition of the health of the army. I had enter tained fears, from the very great heat of the last few days, that cholera would have assumed a more virulent form, but such has fortunately not been the ease. I have nothing to relate of importanoe respecting the siege. On the night of the 22nd the enemy opened a very heavy Ere of musketry from the para. pets of the Malakhoff and adjaoent works, but they did not attempt an attack. They opened a similar fire in the course of the night on the left of the French. I have every reason to believe that they were appre hensive of an attack on the part of our Allies, and for this reason opened the fire above described, which did no damage to either the works or soldiers. The troops in the Balder Valley have not altered their position from the date of the last time I had the honour to address you. I return a list of the casualties to the 22nd instant. —I have, &c., JAMES SIMPSON, Lientenant•Oeneral Commanding. The Lord Panmure, eze. Before Sebastopol, July 24. Sir,—ln transmitting the enclosed weekly state of sick to the 2lst inst., I have much pleasure in being able to inform you that the health of the army hes con tinued to improve. There has been a trifling decrease in the number of admissions into hospital, and a con siderable diminution in the mortality. The number of casualties admitted from the trenches during the present week has been greater than it was last ; but the deaths have been fewer, which shows that the generality of wounds received must have been of a less serious character.—l have, &e.., J. HALL, Inspector-General of Hospitals. To Lieutenant• General Simpson, NIIKOTICAL BOTTOM! OF CAFALTIIII MOW TOO 20re TO THE 2:1110 ...—.-- to JULY, incimmva. Ist Battalion CoWetted= buardi-1 rank and ale woundri. rod Battalion let Stat. reet.--4 rank and file wounded. Srd Foot-1 rank and die Med. 4th Foot —1 ranked W wesseled. 7th Rot -3 rank and file weeded. 9th Foot—l rank and lle inenadad. 1 ith root—l rank aid Se wooded. loth root-1 ranked fib killed ,• 1 rink and file wounded. 19th reot-1 rank end lb wenaded. Slat Foot-1 rank and Ile wounded. fad root—l rank and Si Wild. 3 rank and file wounded. 111 k root-1 rack sad Le =ed. Sath root 1 rank eel die wounded. WA rout—l seereol,l rank and file, wounded. 33rd root-1 rank Sal La wenadad. lath root-1 tkvessmak 1 rank eel ale, wounded. SSW rent-1 ma awl Xs wooded. Sikh root—l rank =ldle wawa& alea root —I rank and lie vsdei. 42nd Foot-4 rank awd i wended. 47th root-2 nu* red i NOM a rank and file wounded. 19th root-1 rank lei Ms Stith root-3 rank mai ills weertled. 67th root-1 rank sod lb lesusirL Owl real-11 Bank d Si voyaged. TIM Feet—l rank mg Ss wed M. Sath rca6-1 Nat nod Ball ad; I sergeant, 4 rank and fileorountied. 9srd Fast —II rook awl Ist Battalion Lae Brigade-3 rank and file, wounded. and Battalion Mb Drlptle-1 rank and file, killed; 3 rank and file. wounded. Royal Artillery—l rank sad file, killed. Bowl eappers and Minors-1 rank and file killed; 1 sergeant wounoed. Total-10 rank and file, killed; 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, SS rank and file, wonndad. W. L. PAK MEAN, Lieut.-Colonel NOMINAL MUNN 07 NON-CONNIANIONZD 0171C011 AND PILITATIAW.LiD 710 K SOrn To TEM nND JUL , 14.45, toctoura, Joy 24.-Boye l Artißery- Gunner Alex:tido. Greer. July SI. - srd Foot-Print. Anthony Swirl 47th Foot -privates Pater Jaw" Jona O'Donnell. Oath Foot -Private Theme Whits. Royal Sapporo sod IlliNes-Prleate Nathaniel Otllard. July 11-11th Foot-Private John Boma. BIM Foot - Privatn James Bisset. 11th fist-Prleate James Dorloil, fled Battalion Bias Beige66-1111.16Jois Boger% NONINAL INIWIN a nsivinilinUarigui 0771C0A AND PUTNAM woollens, run lam so Inn Una rum 1855. mamma. ou Julysti 20.—lst Battaliss Osidesson Osuds—P , rivate Jam. Ikea, tly. nth ot— Masi Awn barnwell dangerously ; Pat del RAIN euerely n . 31 Youtivainoost Woad tas slightly. Private Aka °Oreoli tlk 7.111ai Nek—foam. ftrpeat Patrick ihrisey slightly. Privates Oernellue MtCartliv, slightly; Joseph Swaim so. , steely. elm Foot—Private John lites, severely . 42nd root— ' IleDoe .h. Privates D. ; . Mealtime, severely; Robt. Miller. sightly; tly. 47th Foot—Privates James dam, ; , 7, slightly. 491 h Foot Privates Pekin . ; Jobn White, slightly. Clod Feet—Prints Mama iiiislitly. fled Port—Privates Ow N .111P.Srakr ; severely. 93rd Foot —Pri- L s ham wiwillw Fai Wa1rng.tc.....bt1;!.2.1,. :121. Bards —Pointe@ Jams Terply„ slightly; Edward Dwyer. ; Paha xtras severely. Jay e 2L—Bad W . led..; et Iterrieneat of Foot - Privet^ i Ames Meta is k s i, i j olig d btly; Parch , fr F ishy, r .r ifhtly;wlhom me rites mToser, aAen- T li kagaflty. 7th J ordon, sl igh tly. Jetres t— BoLd, et. 'irately • John Nai ban, itagerottaly; William Brett. severely. 9th Foot --Private Peter Mulvaney, allghtly. list Foot—Private Charism Wilkins, Patty: 23rd Foot—Privates George Rarity. severely; Joseph severely. 30th Foot —Cert.:sal Donald MeLiess, a ight y. 34rd Ft et—Private John McDermott, slightly. 34th Foot—Drummer William Dunn, dsogerously. Private James Wetherell, slightly. 25th Foot—Private Deals McCarthy, slightly. 47th Feei—Private William Eyre, slightly. fiSth Foot—Privates Robert Anderson, severely ; Jail Vincent. slightly. 57th Foot— I tnee-C erporal Henry McOrery. 'severer. 62nd Feat—Privates John huddle, severely; Donald McGibbon, slightly. 811th /e 34 flatasaut John Flaherty, severely. Priestet James Murray. dangerously; Edw . -I1 2 .o4 szde center Wiliam Benno , slightly; James fterjll. severely. lit' Bat talion Rifle Brigade—Private John Wren merely. lad Rattail= MIAs lisillade —Privates J. Bradshaw, slightly ; Joseph °enter, slightly. July 22.-9th Foot—Private Timothy Clifford, severely. 18th Foot—Private William Fallen, severel . Itch Foot—Private Joseph Thom, slightly. 23rd F William Watts, severely. Royal Sappers and Miners —Coloaraergesat A. McLeod, slightly. W. L. ramifies*, ]bat-CAsnel. Aedng-Adjetant-General. FRANCE (PROM OUR OWN COI PARIS, MONDAY EYINING. The legitimists, as was to be expected, have not failed to reply to the extraordinary indictment pre ferred against their party in yesterday's Constitu tionnel. I have seen a number of the departmental edition of the Aseemblee Nationale, published late this evcuiug, which contains the following 1 We reproduce from the Corsatstsitionrsel the document published yesterday. What was the motive for this publi• cation ? It is evident the Cowatitsgsenwel wishes to make its readers believe that considerable personages bolding mist opinions have endeavoured by their subsidies, united to supplies from Russia, to serve the cause of the Carlist in surrection in Spain. The reading of the document seized at the house of one of Count Montemolin's generals suffices to prove, in the clearest manner, that supposing the leaders of the Carlist insurrection to have taken some steps to ob tain assistance in money from the Count de Chambord, they have utterly failed in their attempt. It iinot for us to ex plain the part attributed to Russia in this affair, but onr impartiality obliges us to remark that it results from Prince Gortcliskoff's words, as reported by the Conatittaionstel itself, that the Russian Ambassador at Vienna in no way encouraged the overtures =ado in the interest of the Spanish Curlists. Three names of French personages are cited in the docu ments, which we reproduce—those of the Duke de Levis, M. Chapot, and tha Viscount d'Ecars. We publish a letter Irma the Duke de Lewis, and another from M. Chapot, both of whom deny, in the most formal and absolute manner, the part attribued to them is this effeir. As to the Viscount d'Esoaro, he is absent. The following are the letters which the Doke de Levis and M. Chapot have addressed to the Constitottionnel: "Noisiel, Aug. 6,1856. " article in your journal is this moment commu nicated to me, in which my name, if not positively pro nounced, Le at least so clearly indicated, that I have the right and reel the necessity of repudiating an insinuation to which existing circumstances give the character of a calumny. _ " I do not know, and have never seen, Prince °arta*koff, and have n had any correspondence or relations with him whatever. I expect from you impartially uas olitcr, 1 the insertion of this in your next number. DUC Dl LEVIS." " Paris, Aug. 6. . _ " Sir,-1 have just read in your number of this morning an titres% from a correspondence seised, you say, at the bons, of one of the most fastqui of the Count do Itcnevnolin's Generals, in which I am made to take part in a narrative given by Count d'Esccrs of his relations with Prince Gen chakcff on the subject of the affairs of Spain. I formally deny the participation imputed to me in this conference The conversation you report did not take place in my pre. sena. You will certainly regret having based, on erro neous information, the insulting insinuation at the conclu sion of your article, rod against which you oblige me to protest. When the flag of France is engaged on the Held of battle, the wishes of myself and of my friends cannot but be with it. " F. CHAPOT." There can bo no doubt of the fact of the seizure of the correspondence published by the Constitutionnel. The name of the general at whose house it was found is Elio, the well known lieutenant of Count Monte siolin. The Count d'Escirs, reported to have had the interview with Prince Gortchekoff, is not the Duke d'Escars, but one of his sous, who is married to a Neapolitan, and has long resided at Naples. _ . Letters from the Danubian prov inces speak of the embarkation at Varna of a division of 5,000 Turks, destined,for the army of Anatolia. They add that Beier Pacha has proposed to the Porte to form a Cir cassian Legion, which, according to him, it would be easy to d:, it it were conceded that the Circassian§ should only be commanded by chiefs of their own nation. A telegraphic despatch, received thia day, is follows : Vienna, Aug. 6. News bas been received from Taganrog, to the 26th. The Mies have bombarded Taganrog during several days. An English steam sloop, which went on shore, was burnt by the &Plaine, but the crew wet saved. The town of Berdisnak, in the Sea of Asoff, has been again bombarded. The damage done by the Agin is considerable. The Bourse has been extremely brilliart. The B2nte rose 45c., closing at 671 r. 50c. Credit Mo ibilier rose 471 r. 50c. In railways the rise has been very great. St. Germain, 27fr. 50c. ; Rouen, 25fr.; Eastern, 37fr. 50c.; Lyons and Mediterranean, 25fr.; I Western, 28fr. 75c. ; Northern and Orleans rose but Mr. each; Austrian, 6fr. 25c. The project for placing all the hackney carriages in Paris in the hands of a single administration, formed by Ibtilachild and the Messageries Imperisle, comes before the Council of State to-morrow, and is expcted to be adopted. The shares already sell at from 301 r. to 35fr. premium. It is said that the new fares will be divided into small fractional parts for every 10 minutes of time. AUSTRALIA. By way of Panama, we are in receipt of news to the 16th of May. At Melbourne gold was stationary. The Mining Partnership Bill, for introducing the cost-book principle into Victoria, was read a second time in the Legislative Council on the 15th of May. The Meloourne and Geelong Railway Bill was in committee. On the 10th of May a report was generally cir culated, and believed, that a mass of gold weighing ten tons bad been found at Tarreogower. Oo the 16th the rumour was discredited. The first instruction relative to the working of the gold business has been issued by the collector of customs. - _ - The escorts have brought from Mount Alexander and Bendigo, 12,876 ounces; Ballarat, including Geelong, 8,433; The Ovens, 4,616; Maryborough, 2,417; Avocs, 538; *lvor, 396; amount for the week, 29,276, and the year 627,568 oze. Gold shipped in 1855, 818,078, or 34 tons 1 cwt. 2 qrs. 23 lbe. 2 ozs., at 80a., 3,272,3121. Exchange on London.—Drafts against gold taken at 1 per cent. discount. Freight of gold, 41d. per ounce, delivered at the Bullion-office, Bank of England, London. Insur ance, 21 per cent. The stores at the principal diggings having been plentifully supplied during the long continuance of fine weather, there was, comparatively speakieg, very little doing, but a healthy feeling prevailed. Owing to the large arrivals of immigrants during the last week in April and the first two weeks in May, the labour market had been rather fully supplied. Farm servants and married couples are much in de mand; the large numbers of men constantly going to the diggings, and the many employed on public works, keep the supply of unskilled labour down. The demand for female servants was rather dull ; however, prices have not receded. From Adelaide advices are of the 12th. No change is reported in commercial affairs. CONSTANTINOPLE, Joss 26. The loan of 5,000,0004, which the Porte has mo. to contract under the joint guarantee of Eng. and and France, has been ratified by the Turkish government. After the ratification of the first loan, contracted lut summer for the Porte by M essrs , Durand and Black, a mixed commission was ap. pointed here by the English and French emboss'. does to watch over the distribution of the money. Notwithstanding this precaution great abuses must have taken place, for the whole of the 7,000,0001, contracted during the put year have disappear e d, and that not in the most satisfactory manner. The Turkish army in the Crimea is several months in arrears of pay, and Omer Pacha is so discon tented with the neglect and mal-administtation which exists in the army, that he has left the Crimea •ud is at present in Constantinople. He has been before the grand council, and has spoken in no men. su e d terms, it is said, of the want of support from the government, and of the neglect with which he and the army under his command have been treated. It seems that in his audience with the Sultan, Omer Pasha spoke in much the same terms, bat so high is the opinion which the Sultan entertains of the gene ral's abilities, and so anxious is he to conciliate a man who has done so much for the defence of the country, that he has ordered a sum, it is said, of 80,0001. to be given to Omer Pacha. As there is no money in the imperial treasury at present, it is possible that this sum of 80,0001. will be paid out of the first instalments of the loan. Some anxiety appears to exist in Lighted as to the security which Turkey has given to her allies for the payment of these 5,000,0001. On that point the public may be pet , featly at rest. As long as the Porte has at its dispo s al countless tracts of the richest land in the world, mines of coal and copper,. and islands ovetflowing with corn and wine, it can give good security for much larger sums than 5,000,0001. At the present moment the Turkish Government is engaged in negotiating with England the modifications of those treaties which place Englishmen resident in Turkey under the exclusive protection of the laws of their own country. This negotiation is now on the eve of being brought to a close, and the instant that it is so, Turkey will be thrown open to the enterprise of foreign capitalists. Nearly a year since a gentleman arrived here who proposed to the Porte to purchase the crown lands in Turkey to the amount of 1,000,0001. The whole of this sera would have been paid into the Sultan's treasury, which would have been a pleasant offering in the present deplorable state of Turkish finances. It was however stipulated that the lands should be pur. chased in the names of Englishmen ; but to this the Porte objected, as, in that case, the land so purchased would cease to be under the jurisdiction of the Sultan, and would be to all intents and purposes nothing else than a British colony. After various proposals of a mezzo termine, the validity of the Porte's objections was at length admitted, and it was then agreed to propose to the English government to modify the treaties which originated the difficulty. Mr. P. O'Brien was entrusted with the negotiation of this important question, which negotiation he still con tinues, under the auspices of her Majesty's govern ment. Numbers of officers recovering from wounds or from illness begin to throng the streets of Pera. The Hotel du Globe is filled with convalescent British officers, delighted to change the hardships of the camp for the comforts of an English hotel. PROGRESS OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM. (1 , 103 i • BiETTiii, AUGUST 2. An example of the reckless manner in which money is squandered away by the British authorities, where by a very little forethought and common mercantile management large sums might be saved, has just come under my notice, and deserves to be brought under the eye of government. A Prussian vessel, called the Teutonia, of 610 tons, Captain Lange, of this port, was chartered in the spring by the British government, and s►ilel from Plymouth in April last for Balaklava with a cargo of hay for the use of the cavalry. On the 21st of May the Teutonia arrived out at Balaklava, but as the port was so full of ship ping she was ordered round to Kamiesch Bay. Here there was as little chance of obtaining a berth to discharge her cargo as at the former port, and the commissariat department informed the captain he must wait for several months before he could discharge the hay. At the same time they paid him the amount of his freight, and agreed to pay him demur rage at the rate of 189. 6d. per ton per month, amounting to 6881. each month,which has, however, been lately reduced to 4101. The hay is in com pressed bales, and will, probably, not be materially the worse for being kept so long, but it is calculated that the hay will cost as much as at least au equal quantity of wheat. According to the last accounts received from Captain Lange by his shipowners there was still no chance of his being able to discharge his cargo for a long time to come. POLAND IN THE GRIPE OF THE RUSSIAN EAGLE. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, JULY 28. Owing to the great quantity of landed proprietors who were implicated, from time to time, in the patriotic struggles of Poland for freedom, but who either escaped abroad or were banished, and their estates confiscated, a great change has been made in the possession of landed property, and a great deal of that belonging to the crown has been taken pos session of by people who have no right to it, and cultivated by them u if it was their own. Under these circumstances a_ resolution of the Emperor, which lately arrived from the minister, Tur kel', at Bt. Petersburg has made a great sensation, and caused considerable anxiety, as it directs all the occupiers of land to prove their right of possession, or else it will be considered as belonging to the crown. But as such a measure would place a great many families in a serious dilemma (for though they are well known to have possessed their estates for centuries, it is easily understood that in a country which has so often been the theatre of war the deeds and titles of property have been lost and destroyed), Prince Paskiewitch has kindly interfered on their behalf, and sent off a representation to St. Peters burg begging for a respite to the execution of the measure, which has been acceded to, and the period for the production of title-deeds or other documents able to prove the right of property to landed estates has been extended to the end of this year. The Gaol Committee of Aldermen are still striver• tieing for a Glvernor of Newgate. The salary will be 4001. per annum, a house free of rates and taxes, and coals, candles, and gas-lights allowed. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The last session of Council for the academical year was held on Saturday last. A Professorship of Tamul was ins ituted, and M. d'Ormieux Von Strang was appointed to the cheer. AMERICAN LETTERS.—The mail bags of the Pacific have brought from the United States a considerable num ber of unpaid letters, addressed for the most part to well-to do people in England, and being neither more nor less than invitations to "send one pound sterling to the above address and you will bear something to your advantage." The envelope containing these letters bears the superscription of a New York "Office for the Settlement of Claims against the United States Government." As there is every reason to expect that yesterday's will not be the last batch of these letters it is as well that the public to whom they may be offered should have the opportunity of considering whether eseh soramnaioationa an worth the shilling which the poa , nten denim& for them. JIILLIEN AT MANCHESTER. On Saturday evening M. Jullien's celebrated band, 'misted by the band of the 2nd Life Guards, performed in the open air, at the Bells Vue Gardens, Manchester, before an audience of about 24,000 persons. The popular musician appeared to be much struck at the sight of the immense concourse of people cur: rounding the orchestra when be entered, sod he and his band were much cheered. The people appeared to be highly gratitl. d. THE TURKISH CONTINGENT.—CoIoneI Shirley, in command of the cavalry force of t h e contingent, leaves for the East either to-morrow or Thureday,accompanied by seve ral officers and non-cemmissioned efficers,forming the second portion of the contingent which has left England. Captors Phillips, recently at the head of the recruiting departr.ier.t, left on Saturday for Constantinople, and is succeed'''. ir, hie duties in London by Captain Ball. The non-commi , ,,,inel staff consists already of about one hundred piehed men, selected from the different cavalry regiments having ob tained their discharge. The services of mar., eff cient in fantry soldiers have been refused as utiq.w.,nfled, the corps being a munted body, and therefore st i s requisite those gamut on the staff shored be goI transmit. I