The Express. — London, England, 1855-07-30 00:00:00

I Ztor exaneog. TO CORRESPONDENTS. adoertbements humeri fee •' The Exprees," Landes Even*" paper, west be et the Mho. 10, bonverbewreet, by Two o'clock ea the day of pablieetias. THOR STATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. nu. U.* —Noising. 2b. tatomics, . Niza w —Noising, 31 lism Afternoon, lb. Oa. LONDON, MONDAY JULY 30. OveEItAL COUNT ZAMOTSICI arrived in London yesterday morning. We understand that his visit is the result of a special invitation from the British Government. The COUNT'S talents and abilities, and his practical knowledge of military and diplo. matic affairs, are well known ; and as he comes direct' from the East, ho will be able to give important information respecting the real state of matters in that quarter. It is evident that Count ZAMOYSILI can only have been invited to England at the present crisis, with a view to enable Government to arrive at some goal decision on the Polish question. We have had occasion to notice ere now that the opinion of the Continental Liberals who are most conversant in the affairs of the Poles and of the countries bordering on Poland, is, that the present moment is auspicious for striking a blow at Russia in that quarter. The nucleus of a Polish Legion already exists in the so called Turkish Cossacks, who are almost exclusively Poles, wearing a Polish uniform and carrying Polish ensigns. If there is any meaning in the expression used by Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH at the South wark nomination—to the effect that it is the purpose of the British Government to "strike a body blow" at Russia—we may warrantably infer that Count ZAmovs•t's arrival in this country will be the pee. lude to some decisive movement. The meeting on the affairs of Poland, to be held in St. Martin's Hall on Wednesday, under the Presidency of Sir Da LACY EVANS, will afford Ministers an opportunity of testing the feelings ot the country on this question. It is ma nliest that the sphere and objects of the warare extend ing. An electric thrill is running through the whole of Europe. We would be the last to encourage rash or Quixotic enterprises, but we know that the people of England will not flinch from any responsibi.ities which the prominent position of their country among the nations ot the world is likely to impose upon them; and that they will insist upon their Govern ment's using every effort to conduct the struggle in which we are involved to a termination that will' better the position of liberty, law, and order in Europe, in opposition to the convulsive efforts of despotism. A milasuirmAN was lost in the Baltic the other day, probably from being unable to swim. He was struck by a Russian shot; but the reporter of the incident so connects his disappearance with his being unable to swim that he evidently supposed that the life of a promising young officer might have been saved if he had not been in the miserable condition of being unable to help himself in the water. Great cause es we have to complain of Government management being perilous to the lives and welfare of our troops and sailors, Govern ment may answer us by the question why we . . are about to send out our sons, in the most dangerous of all professions, unguarded by the most common, easy, and indispensable precautions, which none but parents and guardians can provide, To send a boy to pass his lite on the water without being able to swim seems to us a folly so egregious that none of the faults - of administration can over match it. Our soldiery was criticised, some time before the war began, by an experienced inspector of troops, who pointed out (with good Effect) that our cavalry could not ride, and our infantry could not walk. This was through faults which have been, or presently will be, remedied. Our infantry were then so confined to barracks, and so clothed when they went forth, that a very short march knocked them up—like that from Kertch to Yenikale a little while ago. The controversy about the method of riding and equipment of our cavalry occurring at the same time occasioned the above pointed saying, even before the test of warfare was applied. Too truly may we add, that our sailors cannot swim. It is well understood that our crews have the ea, prejudice against swimming that they have against a due provision of boats in case of accident. It is alleged that of our blue jackets an incredibly small number are able to swim, and that of these a majority are ashamed of the qualification. But this preju due cannot be supposed to extend to the officers. If it did, cur du'y is the same : to make the toe of the bodily powers a part of every boy's education.' That so few of the youVe of England are lOW to ride, to run, to shoot, to play cricket, is strange enough ; but it is stranger still that in a nation of islan ere, whose coasts are out of all ordinary proportion to their interior, swimming should be a rather rare accompiishment. We have a prodigious navy, a vast commercial marine, and a stream of emigrants always issuing forth to an une qualled number of colonies ; and among such a people, I of all in the world, we find swimming—or effective swimming—anything but an ordinary qualification. The waters are our highway, as they are to no other people in the world; and yet we do not qualify our selves to traverse them. Oar missionaries go to the ends of tee earth; yet how many of those divines can take cu..) of themselves? When Messrs. TYER NAN aud 'lettere (or rather, the survivor of them) published their missionary experience twenty years ago, their narratives set the English public laughing. These divines were natu rally full or amazement at the South Sea islanders and others, who are as much at home in the water as on land, and who can no more be drowned than a man foredoomed to be banged; while they who assumed to teach these people the arts of life, were helpless in that great art of preserving life. Luckily, they c trried with tht.a one of the cork-Lke natives as a servant. A boat being upset with them somewhere, in a place not very dangerous, they corn- mended their souls to Om), in the absence of other resource. One of them, feeling himself clasped tight round tho mid.tle, quivered with horror, believing' himself seized by a shuck ; but it was only his savage servant, saving his life. Every reader's comment, of course, was, that missioeariett ought to learn to swim. Bat why does not everybody learn to swim ? Britons have four limbs and a chest, like other men ; and there is plenty of water hero, if anywhere, They have also lives and health to preserve ; and no "advance in civilisation" of which they can boast, no mi chanical aids in themes of life—can be an occa sion or an excese for dropping the salutary practices by which life and health must be preserved in all stages of civilisation. We do not seem to learn by the most vivid illus trations of this most important practical matter. There have been shipwrecks enough, and especially of emigrant vessels, to show us that the best swimmer on board becomes the prince and arbiter of the com pany. He who can carry a rope to ohm, or pull the greatest lumber of helpless beings after bbn to a reeky b like a heaven mot rnsemenger to the rest. The emigrant girl or boy, settled in the wilds, who can ride roughest sad fastest and longest, is a sort of life-insurance to the rest in case of fic.,o(l or fire, or an incursion of natives. A GRACE bARLING who can breast a storm with her Dar BMW a shipload of passengers as It matter of coarse; and her monument—that exquisite statue of the young girl reposing on her oar—ie al sort of national shrine. GRACE DARLING'S esseces for her own deed was, that every girl alms thet stormy coast would have done the same, sad vie in fact ready at all times to rescue the walked. U there is such a set of oars-women, we can only say that we are very glad of it ; and especially as the fact shows (no less than South Sea Island experience) that there is no natural reason why women should not have fall command of limb and nerve, on land or water, and therefore a much better chance of life and health than they have now. At present we hear much, and with pleasure, of the institution of gymnastics in boys' schools, and calisthenics in girls'. These are far better than bodily indolence, or the mere exercise of walking ; but we cannot but remember that, u to boys, cricket, drilling for military exercise—horse and foot—boating, and swimming, would train every muscle to action just as well, and with the benefit (of incalculable value) that the training is for an ulterior purpose--as people would say, it is a " natural" training. And as to girls, we cannot but remember the cues within our knowledge where parents have had the good sense to make arrangements for their daughters being con stantly in the practice of swimming. In these families no calisthenic exercises have been necessary to give breadth to the chest and vigour to the lungs and arms; and these young ladies are in no danger of that drowning in bathing, too often involving the generous governess, who, as helpless as her charge, rushes in to lave them— which we hear of every year. Of our own know ledge we could tell of a dozen cases at least of life so thrown away for want of the physical training which simply increases the grace and beauty of the human form and bearing. Not a month has passed since a man of eminent value and eingular merit was killed by what is called an accident, but by what would hardly be called an accident by any one who could sit a horse properly. This accomplished lawyer,whe would have been a judge—a man marked for mi. nent patriotic service, the father of nine children, and the centre of a widespread social and family reigns& and affection—was destroyed in the vigour el his days by the disqualification of being a timid rider. lie was put on a wrong horse at the livery stables, and nothing happened that a good rider would haul thought of mentioning when he got home. His nri• venture would have been nothing to a girl at an I Australian out-station, or to a ten-year-old boy on an American prairie. There seems no possible reason why these things should not be amended. We remember a very large boys' school, where no child was ever permitted to! bathe after a big boy (who ought to have been able to swim) was drowned in bathing in a pond. Instead of having all the boys taught to swim, the proprieties thenceforth permitted no boy to bathe. Scores and hundreds of men brought up at that school are now, in the world; and a singularly helpless and awkward set they are; and their children seem to be even weaker in physical capabilities and accomplishments than their parents. We are as unsound in this respect es the Government is in any ; and we may make our complaints of neglect with a better grace when we can no longer be taunted with the shiftlessness of our foot-soldiers who can do nothing but fight, our cavalry who cannot ride, and our middies who cannot swim. Mt Court. OSBORNE, JULY 28. The Queen and Prince drove out yesterday. The Prince of Wales rods on horseback. JOLT 29. The Queen and Prince embarked in the royal yacht Fairy yesterday afternoon, and cruised towards S;ithead. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds. Prince Edward of Sane Weimar arrived on a visit to her Majesty. Princess Alice is free from fever, and in all respects is going on favourably. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville , the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The Council sat two hours. The Right Hon. the Speaker, preparatory to the prorogation of parliament, shin his customary banquet to Lord Charles Russell and the chief officers of the House of Commons, on Wednesday next, at his temporary official resi dence, in Eaton•equare. The Earl of Clarendon returns to town to-day from visiting, with the Counter., Mr. G. G. Vernon Har court, M.Y., and the Countess Frances Waldegrave, at Nanehass, agar Oxford. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth left town on Saturday, for their seat, near Bromley, Kent, where the noble and 1 d lord received a select party yesterday. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained the Sadinisnldinister, the Count and Countess Flahault land the lion. Was Elphinstons Flahault, the E.ti sad Countess of Shaftesbury, the Countess of Tankerville, Viscount Castleroese, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lord Elcho, the Right Ron. C. P. Villiers, Mr. and Lady Char lotte Denison, Lord Dufferin, Mr. Norman Macdonald, and • distinguished circle to diluter on Batu:day, at their man sion on the Terrace, Piccadilly. At • later period of the I evening her ladyship received • very brilliant party of the memben of the aristocracy. Sir B. Hell has used the following :—" To the electors of Marylebone.—Gentlemen,-1 return you my heartfelt thanks for having electul me for the sixth ti,rq to represent you in parliament. The entire abrence of oppo sition, ant tho kind expression of feeling which bas been manifested towards me in all parts of your borough, are not only most gratifying, but the greatest reward 1 could desire after having represented you for more than eighteen years.— I remain, gentlemen, your obliged and faithful nt, B. HALL.-9, Great Stanhope-street, July 28,1845." On Saturday Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall had the honour of receiving the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklcnburgh•Strolits, and the Prince Adolplins of Micklenburg, at their mansion in Grant Stanhope str,ct, Mayfair. There were also present to meet their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, the lilja4 of Coorg, his Excellency the Austrian Minister, Viscountess Palmerston, dte. As soon as the visitors had Liken their teats in the palms, a selection of old Wchk airs was per. Mimed by two eminent Welsh harpers, Gruffydd and Wateya, with ancient Welsh songs by three young Welsh peasant girls in full costume. Lord John Rumen and family are expected to arrive at Edinburgh to-morrow. Another change in the command in the Crimea has, we (Scotsman) hear on good authority, become inevitable. °moral Simpson's state of health is such that he feels hint• self naeqval for his duties, and Vie facts are so irresistible that already he holds the command only till a successor can be fussed. Lord Harding' has gallantly offered to uo out, bet he has been famed on the ground that there is no call for such a sacrifice after his great services, and doubtless ale* because his vigour, which had previously sunk some what under the weight of years, may be supposed to have been still further impaired by the extreme anxieties and labours of the last few mouths. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1855. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE CRIMEA. (raow TISIIIRDAT'S moinsaus.) A despatch from the Crimea, dated Friday, the 27th inst., It p.m., announces to the Minister of War that the Phlegethon had arrived at Kamieect from Odessa, bringing French prisoners who had been exchanged there against Russian prisoners, con veyed by the same steamer from Constantinople. The exchange of prisoners of war will be continued. The French officers speak well of their treatment in Russia. The despatch terminates with these words : "There is nothing new before the place." THE WAR IN ASIA. TILEBIZOND, Jul.: 12. Kahn Pasha left on the 9th for Erzeronm with the volunteers. The Kan army, by recent discharges of Bashi &souks, is reduced to fifteen thousand. The troops are full of ardour, but wanting in cavalry, to oppose the Russian Dragoons. The Dardanelles rebels had pillaged villages. The French Consul bad organised a defence of the town, and 500 rebels had submitted. General Beatson pro posed to send them to the Crimea to act with the Syrian cavalry. SARDINIA. The Corriere Mercantile of the 25th states that a reinforcement of 3,000 Piedmontese will leave Genoa for the Crimea about the middle of August. SUNDAY. The Alexander has arrived, with Constantinople news to the 19th. Omer Pacha is loaded with honours, and will soon return. BARCELONA, Jour 26. The cholera is in the garrison. The regiment " El Principe" has greatly suffered. RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS FROM THE BALTIC. The Invalids Busse, of July 21, contains a long article professing to be a true history of various un justifiable acts committed by the Allied fleets in Finland, in Esthonia, and upon the coasts of the White Sea. The allegations relate chiefly to the cap ture of little barques belonging to fishermen and peasantry, seized while on their way from one point of the coast to another, and to landings upon unforti fled spots, and the committal there of unnecessary deeds of destruction. One of the statements is so outrageously opposed to the character of our seamen, that it only serves to awaken our indignation against the unblushing narrator. It is as follows: The last exploit of the Allies upon the coasts of Esthonia surpasses in monstrous cruelty all th►t preceded it. On July 12 two steam•frigates and a gunboat anchored in the port of Kunda and sent off some boats, one of which, a four•oared boat, drew up near a meadow in which nine peasant women were at work. Perceiving the enemy, the women tied into a neighbouring wood. The men in the boat cried out to them, in the Swedish tongue, to fear nothing, and made some signs to them to stop. Seeing that the women continued their flight, the first boot stood towards the three other, and approaching the bank again, hurled two Congress rockets after the women. One of the latter unfortunate creatures was wounded above the knee by the first rocket, and the second projectile bruised or broke I to pieces the foot of another. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. (111,014 OUR OWN LIVERPOOL, 15uxDA7 This evening the Royal Mail steam ship America (Captain W. J. C. Lang) arrived in the Mersey, with the usual mails from the United States and British North America. She sailed from Boston on the 18th inst. and Halifax on the 20th, and has brought be sides the mails 190 passengers and nearly 800,000 dollars in specie on freight. The United States Mail steam ship Atlantic, from hence on the 14th inst. for New York, was passed on the 22nd by the America. The United States Mail steamer Pacific, from hence on the 30th ult., arrived at New York on the 11th inst.; and the North Star on the 13th, and the Arago on the 16th from Havre. The general accounts of the crops are very cheering. Six persons were burnt to death at Buffalo on the 16th. Several of the recruiting agents for the Crimea have been arrested at Buffalo. The steamship John Stevens was burnt at Phila• delphia on the 17th, and three lives were lost. The Mexican advice' in the New York papers re present Santa Anna u completely surrounded by At the departure of the steamer money at New York was abundant, with a moderate demand; good mercantile paper was done at from 5 to 7 per cent; stooks lees active and downward. The cotton market wu dull, and prime were lower. In the breadstuff market wheat was rather active flour dull, and prices unchanged. The provision market wee firm. Freights inactive. Exchange on London, 1091 ; ditto on Paris, 5.12 to 5.15. THE ARRIVAL OF THE HERMANN. CET ELECTRA° TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUR OWN SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY Mottunto. The Hermann has arrived from New York with dates to July 14. The North Star had arrived from Havre. Fever prevailed at Port-au-Prince. "The trial of the British Consul at Cincinnati, for enlisting soldiers for the Crime, was proceeding; and it seems the Consul has been the victim of a paltry trick. Cotton was animated. Flour euier. Sugars active. Freights dull. Exchange 109 k to 1101. ENOLISiI TROOPS IN FRANCE.—The Post states that the French Government and the Boards of French Railways have given orders that all Brith.h soldiers and officers passing through France shall in future be allowed M travel at the very reduced Gres for which the French mili tary are conveyed. In order to avail themselves of this great advantage, Eoglish officers or soldiers will only have to produce their "routes" as a means of verification. Them facilities will alto be afforded to soy bodies of trosope which our Government may with either to send or bring through France. General Jomini, the well-known military writer, has arrived at Brussels, where, as already stated, he intends to take up his permanent residence. THE RUSSIAN SORTIES. (mom ova OWN CAMP ABOVE SEBABTOPOL, JULY N. The enemy made a sortie against the advancing sap of our allies on the Malakhoff Hill on the night of the 14th and 16th instant. The attack wu pre . ceded by the canal characteristic yell of the Russians, but this cry wu only raised at the moment of coming 'upon the troops covering the working parties. The night wee dark, and a high wind was blowing ; and to these circumstances it was owing that the ap- preach of the enemy was not previously ascertained. The shout was sufficiently loud to be heard at some of the pickets in front of the camp, and appeared to proceed from a large body of troops. A sharp fire of musketry was seen to last about half an hour, and then subsided; about an hour afterwards, another fusillade was noticed in the same direction, but _ speedily terminated. The explanation given by the French is, that the enemy came suddenly and in great force upon the working parties before the latter had time to make the necessary arrangements to meet the attack. Hence some confusion ensued at first, and the French, not without a severe struggle, however, had to retire to the next covert way. At the time of the sortie our Allies were connecting some small ambuscades which they had thrown up in a line in front of their ad vanced trench. These being joined together, and a communication established with the trench behind, the third branch of the zigzag advancing up the Malakhoff-hill would be completed. The object of the Russians was.to arrest the progress of this work, and destroy what had been already done. As soon, therefore, u the French had retired, the enemy commenced levelling the parapets, and filling up the trench. In the mean time the French, being joined by their reserves, formed again for the attack, and at a given signal rushed suddenly upon the Russians. The latter were taken unawares. A considerable number had laid aside their arms and accoutrements and were busily engaged in shovelling down the parapets. After firing one volley, the French charged with the bayonet, and a precipitate retreat of the Russians followed. A large quantity of arms and appointments were left in the hands of the French. The commencement of the attack occurred between one and two o'clock, a.m. The enemy did not at tempt to renew it. In the course of the night the French not only repaired the mischief done by the 1 enemy, but extended the trench considerably. The Russian loss is stated to be very severe, compared with that of the French, numbers having fallen in the second charge. One officer and several men were taken prisoners. The French 106 i in killed is reported as one officer and thirty men. The number wounded could not be ascertained at the time the above information was received. The following day the Russians showed a flag of truce above the Korniloff Bution, but the French did not reply to it. It is surmised that the French preferred burying the dead of both nations them selves, rather than again give the enemy the oppor tunity of adding to their defences without interrup tion The flag of truce was responded to by the Eaglirh batteries bearing on the Malakoff, until it was perceived that the French did not hoist a corres ponding token of armistice, when it was again struck. The French marine battery, just above the level of the water of the roadstead to the east of Careening 13.1 y, is now said to be fully armed. It perfectly commands that part of the great harbour near the bay mentioned. This is a moot important acquisi tion, for it was to this part that the enemy's steamers usually ran, for the purpose of firing upon the east side of the Mamelon and its neighbourhood. The large opening in the cliffs where the Careening Bay ravine terminates, gave a full opportunity of observa tion being made from that part of the harbour, and for aim being taken with tolerable precision. Our sap toward the Redan progresses gradually. Oar distance is bat little more than two hundred yards from the salient angle. The great depth of the trench necessary for the security of the working parties, and other precautions rendered imperative by the closeness to the enemy's guns and the severe flanking fire to which the ground is exposed, render this operation very slow. The enemy makes frequent use of cohorn mortars from the Redan to annoy our working parties in the new approaohes. The Russian trench connected with the Quarries has been much strengthened, and is sow capable of securely covering a very large body of men. JULY 17.—About 11 o'clock last night, while the batteries were in a state of temporary repose, the stillness was suddenly broken by loud shouting and bugle sounds in the direction of the Malakhoff. It was just the night for making a sortie, and the Russians had evidently taken advantage of it to make one on a large scale. The shouting was plainly heard all over the neighbouring camps, but was very soon drowned in the hurricane of shot and shells, and the rattle of the concentrated fusillade which followed. For some time previous to the occurrence of the sortie the air had been perfectly still; the storms which had prevailed the greater part of the day had subsided ; the sky was covered with clouds, no stars were visible, a small misty rain was falling, and everything around was involved in darkness. There had been a very severe fire on both sides about sunset, and for some little time after wards, but subsequently it gradually declined as fl by mutual consent. No sooner were the shouts el the attacking force heard, and the rattle of musketry and notes of the bugles which followed immediately, then the whole aspect of the site of the hostile operations was changed. The air and sky became alive with noises and flashes of light rivalling the effects of the thunderstorms lately rolling among the mountains. From our left and right attacks, and from the batteries of the French as far as the east side of Careening Bay, a continuous shower of shells was kept up. Nor were the Russian batteries inac tive : not only their lines from the south harbour to the west side of Careening Bay kept up a constant fire, but also the cliff batteries on the north side, and those at Inkermann. A great number of fireballs were used near the Malakhoff. The sky was illu minated by the reflection of the flames of these car esses, and by the flashes from the guns or bursting shells; and as the lights of the burning fazes rose and fell in graceful curves, the whole presented the appearance of some grand feu d'artifice. The attack lasted about twenty minutes, though dropping shots of musketry, and the occasional dis charge of projectiles from the batteries continued for naarly an hour. The particulars of the sortie are not yet known, but there is no doubt that the enemy, though probably in unusual force, found our allies fully prepared to receive them. The condition of the night was no more favourable for an attack than it was calculated to keep the parapet sentries and guards of the trenches on the alert. to! A CAMP ox BARHAM DowNs.—We understand that it is in contemplation to establish camps of instruction on Herbage Downs, within a few miles of Canterbury, and on Penendsn Heath, near Maidstone. The camp on Barham Dawes is intended to accommodate about 4,000 troops, cavalry, infantry, and artillery ; and that on Peneaden Heath 3,000. The cavalry will be from the neighbouring depots, and the infantry principally militia regiments.— .Dover Chnwielo, THE REVOLT IN TRIPOLI. (71011 OUR TRIPOLI, JULY 15. On the 12th 1,200 Turkish infantry, 6 guns, and 6,000 Arab irregular troops, consisting of cavalry and infantry, in Turkish pay, advanced under Ismael Bey, from Tripoli by Oharion, to relieve the Castle of ' a mountain wet, garrisoneti by about. :ix - yip Turk', and besieged by the rebel chief, Ghonma. This fort is five marches (about 100 miles) from Tripoli. About an hours' distance from the Castle, in a defile, the Arab rebels were posted. The Turkish commander-in-chief, on deciding to attack them, en deavoured to crown the heights with ca valry, which was an impossibility. The right wing was repulsed with the loss of their chief, and the left wing fled without a shot, riding upon the baggage and attacking their own irregulars in the rear. The Turks, thus placed between two fires, their own irre regular cavalry, aad the rebels under Mourns, broke and fled with the loss of their six guns, baggage, and all their materiel (not very much, for Turks have not generally a superabundance). The casualties in killed and wounded did not exceed 200 men. The disaster may be safely attributed to the un skilful disposal of the Turkish troops by their com mander-in-chief, in attempting to crown a rocky height with hie cavalry. This tactician must have been taking lessons from the same school as our generals. At present the insurrectionary movement is con fined to the mountain chain extending from the Tunisian frontier to the district of °harlot), and from the recent failure of the crops, and total want of water, the insurgents will be unable to keep the field in any force. If, however, reinforcements are not immediately sent to the theatre of the revolt, the insurrectionary movement may assume a wide extension. Most perfect order reigns in Tripoli and the en virons. Such defensive dispositions have been made as the exigencies of the moment require. FRANCE. (mom ova OWN coma/mom:IINT.) PARIS, SATURDAY EVPSING. Prince Napoleon has just addressed a circular to the Presidents of Classes of the International Jury, on the subject of the award of recompenses, in which their attention is again called to the following pas sage in a previous circular. " Every consideration of origin or of nationality, all remembrance of anterior recompenses, must be set aside by the judges of the Universal Competition now open." Rumours that General Pelissier is about to resign, which have already been circulated without founda tion, are again current to day. It is said that he was received by some regiments with cries of "Viva Canrobert," uttered so distinctly that he was obliged to notice them, and that he told the troops the only cry permissible under arms was " Vive l'Empereur." I learn by a private letter from an officer that Generals Pelissier and Simpson are on the "very best terms" with each other. The bourse was again heavy at the opening, but during the last quarter of an hour there was a brisk reaction. The Rente closed with a rise of 20c., at 66.10. Railways participated in the upward move- ment, and improved from 2.50 to sf. Credit Mobilier fell 2.50. --- id.iiiamon Rothschild, of the Vienna bonne, is dead. Preparations have been commenced at Paris, St. Cloud, and Versailles for the fêtes to be given in honour of the Queen of England. At the Hotel de Ville measures are being taken for extensive illumi nations in gas, and the courtyard of Louis XLV. is receiving new decorations. The apartments of the Tuileries are filled with workmen, who are engaged in fitting them up most splendidly. The palace of St. Cloud is already prepared for the reception of its illustrious guest. In the palace of Versailles, the theatre, which is decorated in the style of Louis XIV., is being provided with chandeliers, carpets, &c. In the Champ de Mars a grand review is to take place. There has been a decided fall in corn and flour this week throughout France. In Paris flour has de clined 2f. per sack, end wheat 50c. the hectolitre and a half. In the provinces the fall has been more con siderable, wheat being generally quoted I f. lower per hectolitre. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Conatitutionnel, in an article descriptive of Kamiesch and the wondrous transformation wrought in the place since it has been occupied by the French, enlarges thus upon the vast importance of the fortifi cations now in course of completion there : Without entering upon military consideration or detail. of operations which would be here out of place, we may observe on the important part which Kamiesch may be called upon to play in the Crimean war, as a possibility which must strike every mind. Now chat it is assured of such a formidable basis of operations, the army has perfect freedom of movement which it had not at the beginning of the campaign. In every possible contingency the posses sion of Kamiesoh, fortified as it now is, will aid in the accom plishment of the object with which the war in the Crimea was undertaken. Sebastopol commanded by Kuniesch, which holds it, so to speak,by thethroat, can never henceforth be of any nee to the Czar. On the supposition that events should call the army to fresh points of the Runlet territory who does not see that the presence of a few French and English ships at Kamiesch would suffice to nullify the en tire offensive power of Sebastopol ? Therefore, the pouf. bility of the MOBILISATION of the allied army and of the NULLIFICATION Of Sebastopol We the two grand results of the transformetton of Kuniesch into a place of war. It is now the sentinel—the keeper of the Russian citadel. • • • Francs now knows that without abandoning its conquest it may at will send an army of 100,000 men to any point where the glorious cause for which it is fighting by the side of England may call for their services. This looks as if it were desired to prepare the public mind for the possibility of such an event as the raising the siege of Sebastopol. Should this be done, we must not be disheartened, and must not attach undue importance to phrases. "Raising the siege" is not the same thing as renouncing the siege. If it should turn out that the next attack (generally thought to be imminent) should be a failure, or only partially successful ; or if, on further consideration, it should be thought that another attack, under pre sent circumstances, would only involve a great loss of 1 life for no adequate advantage, the change of tactics hinted at by the Constitutionnel might well be merely such a backward step as is described in the French proverb reculer pour tnieux sautes. To sur round Sebastopol and cut off supplies to the garrison 1 by land, while the place is blockaded by sea, might' well be a more effectual plan for reducing the place than sending masses of men to be mown down by cannon from earthquake batteries. It is consolatory to be told that by reason of Kainiesch being converted into a stronghold, the Allied armies can now take the field if necessary. But decision and activity are above all things necessary, seeing how short is the campaigning season between this and the approach. ing winter. The Emperor arrived at Bayonne on Thursday. In consequence of his Majesty's orders no preparations were made for his public reception. The Prefect of the Basses Pyrenees, and the general commanding the district were the only persons in waiting to re ceive him at the station. 'I he Messager, of Bayonne, says that their Majesties' stay at Biarritz will now be very short, but that after the Queen of England's visit, and at the end of August they will return and stay three weeks at the Villa Eugenie, which, thanks , to immense activity, the workmen having been em- 1 ployed day and night, is now quite ready for the habitation of the Imperial visitors. The National Guard of Paris has received orders to line the Boole- P vards on the occasion of the arrival of the Queen of England. Prince Napoleon's soiree at the Palaic Royal, yes terday evening, was the last of the season. The Countess de Montijo (the Empress Eugenic's mother) was present. At the Little Bourse the Rente rose 300., closing at 66fr. 40c., after having touched 66fr. 60c. I am informed that the subscriptions to the loan amount already to 1,612,440,000 fr. This, lam told, is for Paris alone, but I cannot help thinking this immense sum must include all the subscriptions known in Paris up to the present time. The obituary notice in the Prue. announces the death of Alexander Ghika, formerly reigning Prince of Wallachia. A DANISH NOTE ON THE SOUND COPENHAGEN, JIL 25, It will be in the recollection of your readers T that the President of the United States gave official notice to the Danish government in April lest that the treaty of commerce of the 26th of April, 1826, should expire after the lapse of the stipulated period N twelvemonth), as the American citizens could no longer recognise the right of Denmark to len the Sound dues on their ships and cargoes. Tte Vanish cabinet have just sent offs note on the subjeet to the American government, and I am enabled today to give you the following particulars of its contents. In the commencement of the document, which is of a very voluminous nature, the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs expresses his concern that the cabinet of Washington should not have thought proper to inter into negotiations with Denmark on the subject before taking so very decided a step as giving a ea. tsgorical notice of their intention to t brow up the treaty existing for so many years between the two countries, as he fears that difficulties may now arise which might have been easily avoided. The abort ions of the notice given deprives Denmark of the power of devoting that time and attention to the subject which are due to a question of such a complicated nature and political importance, especially at the present moment, when Denmark is in a critical state, and pressed on all aides to give no her neutrality and take part in the war against Russia. An unlimited acceptance of the demand of the United States would in volve the loss of many thousands of pounds ster ling, sacrificed in favour of other states, which pay the great bulk of the Sound dues, whilst the whole annual amount which has to be borne by the United States seldom exceeds two hundred dollura ; and Denmark is not prepared to make such a sacrifice, especially in the present state of her finances and the uncertainty of the result of the diplomatic negotia• tions now pending with respect to the present politi- cal crisis. Under these circumstances Denmark cannot help considering the notice given by the United States to terminate the treaty of commerce and amity existing between the two countries as an act of unfairness and severity, totally uncalled for and tnaptovoked by the conduct of Denmark. On the contrary, many cases might be quoted in which the Danish government has refunded sums of money paid by American merchants for Sound dues merely for the sake of preserving the friendly relations between the two countries. The Danish minister concludes by observing that it will scarcely be possible to come to any arrangement before the expiration of the short period of time named by the American government, and even in that case it is hardly likely that such arrangement would give universal satisfaction to those other states most deeply interested in the result. As the United States have frequently expressed their determination not to resume an 3 diplomatic inter course with Denmark till invited by her to open serious negotiations for the abolition of the Sound dues, it is more than probable that the note of the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs will remain un answered, at least for the present, and that the nego- tiations will be resumed only after the 26th of April next year, when the twelvemonth's notice will have elapsed and the treaty become a dead letter. Baron Brockdorf, who is a member of the Council of State, is going to Berlin on a special mission. It is understood that he is to be the bearer of a declara tion on the part of Denmark of the conditions she proposes as an indemnification for the loss of the Sound Dub. THE BALTIC. A letter from Stockholm, in the Cologne Ca:elle, says :—" The blockade which the Allied squadrons have establis!ed in the Baltic and in the Chi of Bothnia is so complete this year that the trade which was carried on in 1854 between Russia and Sweden to a considerable extent is completely suppressed. The presence of the Allied fleets in these seas pro. dues this other important effect, that it forces Russia to keep in the north three great corps d'arm6e, one of 90,000 men in the provinces south of St. Petersburg; the second in that city and in Croustadt; and the third along the coasts of Finland." PRUSSIAN NEUTRALITY. The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from Thorn, a Prussian fortress on the Vistula, dated the 23rd, which asserts that, notwithstanding the pretension of Prussia to maintain strict neutrality in the war, cargoes of saltpetre, lead, B:c., have tor some time past been sent from Brealaw to the Russian maga zines in Poland. The letter then relates the fo:lowing fact: In the evening of the 19th, as the steamer Plonk, which belongs to Count Zemejski and Co., of Warsaw, was anteing in view of Nieszawa, a little frontier town at Paler& on the Vistula, ■t two and a half leagues from the place, a barge coming from Prussia appeared in the river, bearing in place of a flog a piece of wood painted black with a white circle, and the letter P in the centre ; this I' signified that the vessel was freighted with powder. The gunpowder was no doubt destined for some Polish or Rnaliaa fortress. A pus Ganger from Warsaw, who was in the floor, tells me that a Russian officer of gendarmerie, who was on board the vessel, cried out on seeing the barge, "Behold Prussian neutrality !" RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS.—Throughout the present week, the town of Middlesborough.un-Tees— a place of rapid growth, and peopled almcet entirely by puddler' and others employed in tke iron trade—has been in • state of diuraceful commotion and uproar. The origin of the effrays and riot seems to have been a quarrel and a fight between a sailor and some Irishmen. A mob collected, the police interfered to preserve order, but were surrounded and pelted with brickbats. A stronger police force came to the rescue; cutlasses were drawo, and special constables celled oat ; but the rioters made a strong and succesefal resistance, though some of 'their number were ceptared and secured. A policeman, named B race, had his arm broken, and his body much bruised and en tusod ; others were more or less hurt, and some of the Irishmen received severe wounds and cute in the affray. The fighting was resumed on several successive days, and altogether some 20 or 30 men, charged with taking ea active share in these lawless proceedings are in custody, sad will be brought before the magistrates for examinciu this day (Saturday). The body of a girl who left her employer's shop on Tuesday night, on leave for half-an-hour, has been found half in the water on the bank of the river Tees. The face was cut and bruised, and there was also blood upon her hands and dress. From these circumstances it is supposed that death has been the rosult cf violence ; and carious rumours exist as to the cause. Oue is to the effect that a young man with whom she "kept company," hes not been seen since Wednesday. Another it to the effect that the girl having to give evidence respecting some riotous pro ceedings in the town, has been murdered by those who Ind reason to fear her evidence bearing upon tiler:annu— -1 Manchester Guardian. Isaac Pinnock, sentenced to death at Northampton Assizes for the murder of a farmer near Kettering, has heea reprieved. It is said that circumstances have tr.:wired to shake the belief in his sanity entertained at the trial, and his life will consequently be spared. SORNAMBULIBM.—A case of somnambulism has occurred at Ferrybridge, from which a boy nine yeah of age had a very narrow escape with his life. It appean that on Friday evening the family had retired to bud at the meal time, aid about twelve o'clock the little boy's sister Mud her brother's voice apparently in distress, in the a:lnning room. Sne immediately proceeded to his room, where she found him suspended outside the window, with his hands holding on the stone sill, and in great danger of laU:og to the ground. The sister, with the assistance of the sense girl, extricated the little boy from his dangenus siruation, the other members of the family being all the time asleep and undisturbed. Had the bay lost his hold fora moment. he must have fallen to the ground and been probab:y killed on the spot; and it is remarkablo that he did not recover from his dream until after his sister had lifted him with safety into the roam.— Yorkshire GazrUe. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. The following gentles.r.o having undergone the necessary elimin ations for the diploma, were admitted members of the Colieee at ' the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 27th lost. Messrs. Edwin Thomas Edwards, Newcastle, Staffordshire; Joseph Briggs, Musty, Glamorganshire ; James Edward Faucett, Knareaboreugh ; William Hey, Leeds' Willi"' Barker, Melton, Yorkshire ; Thomcs 11..wlett Woelwad. Regent-square; Rees Powell, Army; David Shearon: Magherafelt, Ireland; William Sayer, Liverp_ool; Edri" Richardson, Sunderland; and Walter Brompton. Tug AFFAIR AT SIERRA LEOAL— . Lient enant Wylie, who was killed in this stiguinary atisir.7oth• eldest son a Robert Wylie, En( , of North Bar WltLcutt one of the East Riding magistrates. We believe yes* Mr. Wylie was of a very amiable disposition, highly ennui lolished, and possessed the talents and courage in an estate_ degree necessary to enable him to shire in the profession o f arms, which he had chosen ; and had not hie career bete abruptly terminated in he youth, Wider, doubtless he would in time have been an honour to the profession which he was ist well qualified to adorn. Lieutenant Wylie grit•ustelo the Oxford university, and only took his last departure !? .11 home at the commencement of the present Poer—in." Packet. BREAD.—The prioee of wheaten bread in the Meotr polls are from 10d. to 100.; of household ditto, 80. 090 ' per !lb. leaf.