The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-24 00:00:00

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In replying to the address presented yeaterday by a deputation from the Association of the Irish Non-subscribing Presbyterians, his Excel lency said : I menu to claims as entire oympatbiLuatwo mea t sentiments which pervade your as I am 'oddest they inspire your auseuel—l to the importases which you 'teach to the essietsesees of our ewe Dolan a convictions sa d the lime ties whit* yea exhibit for the ccesolestisuo 'ebb= of elbow. Religions member is the brie* of life to eitusehm, sad rel y "g as liberty Is the pubis of health to sedge& 1 Au.bljjoie pee is imploring the soma* =yes i zer Mew to improve the moral and K the people istrumed to your chew. sad epos Ibupegm yea put up for the welfare ear hie* keeteeee lame sovereign and eogetry. The following circular, which hu just been ad dreamed by order of government to the dicers in cum mud of the constabulary, who are engaged in takes the agricultural statistics of Ireland, is important; the anxiety which it indicates .to obtain as assarate amount of the extent of flax cultivation in Inland baying reference obviously to our war with the errantry from which we drew our former supplies el WA produce. 5, Hearietts-strest, 1114-11 report, showing the extent of les imetateMell k belied Ibis year, being immediately mired *lle paw see; I request you will be Do good as to Meese es& sum& Mrs is year (twist to All op one of be sweated home for llosrelmars allotted to him, sad mare it to yes without dslsy. Should the rank of egg essimake have tee eke e. yen will ewes ese el Os heue kr Os sow per alk met te to seems* Mai ash the tetmeiel mein ef each seeesseeter. It le requeed that every mein to leek to poem ken Aar ream bt the first kellenee. sag that they cry be transmitted to se se soya as posiblet set sloe the A sad B morns of Wino sod stock fur jeer kir Me l o to eider that the general abstract for 1154 my be Miltwithout delay, and laid before his Escolliml, IBM i ll entsaaat.-1 am, sir, your obedient sent, WILLIAM DONNBLLY Itagistrar-Ciseeral. Olestabalary Oars, Dublin Castle . One of the kesseios in the recent attempted murder in Tipperary has been arrested and fully sonnitted, and a reward of NM has been offered by government for the detection of the second. The following particulars appear in Saunders's *etas Letter James Bensett, a pensioner, who was fired at and brocaded with slogs in the bead and arc, and stabbed in the thigh by two abacus* on Wednesday evening last, at Owensnen, near Itoscrea, is going on favourably. In all probability his assailants world have accomplishe d their OWN were it cot for the bravery of Bennett's wife, who peeved herself a true heroine , . Two dogs, who also worn -I=4Bennett, rendered him valuable assistance. Bennett J blight gallantly. Fortunately be was armed with Whet is called "a cane sword," with which he stabbed ens Of hie assailants, woundirg him in the abdomen and left arm That party, owing to the active cantons of Mr. Bader, the efficient subiinspeetor of the BM:trate district, Ica bee* arrested. Three convicts escaped last week from the convict depot at Philipstown, and have not since been captured. The emigrant ship Republic, belonging to New York, and booed thither from Havre with emigrants, was on Tuesday towed op from Queenstown, to the Victoria and Albert Dockyard, Pelage, for repairs, having sprung a formidable leak oa her voyage, and being with some difficulty able to make oar harbour. The emigrants are principally Germans, and hays been lodged in Passage till the ship is ready for sea. Although the sunshine is tempered with cooling breezes from the west, and interrupted by occasional *bowers, the weather is still most favourable for the harvest ; and it is considered that the late rains have been even useful in better filling the grain, especially of the oats. STAINED GLASS WINDOW FOR EAST MALLINO Ounscw.—Yesterelay a staiosd glow memorial window for the newly built &harsh t f Eut /dallies, Kent, was for. warded from the artists, Messer. C. end A. Gibbs, of Alsopp berme, New-read, sod will be flied prior to divine servios as Sunday sent. It is invaded to form the east window, owl is in a style consistent with the cbareir, which is early Saylisb. It is • three•light window, and the compartments are filled with eleven subjects indicating the tile of our Saviour, as described in the Litany, commesciag " By the Mystery of thy Holy Incarnation, ' sod cotecisdiag with "By the Cullum of the Holy Ghost." Time anusl ars beautifully pollfif the letter fuming the t a :l7et poise of the centre, with the words beau* is sr Skim lettere, " Good Lord, deliver as." The ruby, emir mild, sad sepratire bays great richness sad depth, sad ban • book gonad of beautiful Malik. oir.-- - /4.- - %•—•- 7 1 / • ‘........--S- ,*-,••-ir-o•-•:47-171a6 - , 1.-. , • . 00 FE t4 - . 4i f .... ; I t . a t L fl p rts . K ' Z) . 4-1 •1:. ci 4.,4 ~...,--...,, I r • i -,.4 . 1 .. 1 '•.,, , - 1 i ' t LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1855. and the French regulars whenever temptation end opportunity moor. I am not wlthcat stale expo:knee as to the general morale of troops on active service; and I an confident that, were three or four Nil& or French regiments encamped on the coned now occupied by these kW-bazooka, their oondoet would be as bad, or worse. While the licentious Vandalimn perpetrated at Rest& stands on record, in all conscience let nothing be said of odd esti of violence or dishonesty committed by the bashi-basouks at the Dardanelles. Without this faros of an investigation the commander had quite means enough of suppressing any great insubor dination and of punishing notable offenders; nor do I think that this red-taps interference with his proper functions will have a salutary effect. Further to inform myself as to the temper and conduct of the men in camp, I have ridden three dines through the lines of tents, awe happening to be when General Bastion was making his ermine etr sit ; and I as bound to say that the result was a very high opinion of their good order and tractabi lity. As the general came in sight of each regiment the men hurried out of their tents, and, ranged in line along his worse, selated, a la Tierces, with as hearty a good-will and deferential a manner as any troops who ever wore a uniform. He stopped from time to time and inquired of the na tive officers as to the wants and behaviour et their men, evidently much to the satie action and conciliation of those interrogated, as well as of the listening groups who clustered round. By way of incidental disproof to that part of the general rumours which bore upon the alleged vio lento to the Dardanelles ladies, I may just remark that on this occasion I counted as many as five fair horsewomen, who rode about at will in the vacant spaces between the various regiments, with as little seeming fear of rough gallantry as any long-robed beauty that ever cantered down Rotten-row. In feet, the savages grinned visible pleasure at the sight I and I should not like to have been the man who would have offered them Hellespontine Houris an insult in their presence. Bo much for the whole sale violation of domestic hearths and husbandly pri vileges which had supplied all the scandal-mongers is Pere with a rich fund of capital for the last three weeks. The scribes of the /carnal de Condentimple and the Press' cr Orient had hero gone beyond the mere province of exaggeration, and thrown in a moremis of racy, but gross, invention. So much, briefly, in contradiction of the jealous fictions which have taken shape in print: rapine and bloodshed have not been emitted on the helpless townspeople of the Dardanelles, nor has the town itself been in "a state of siege," so far as I know, since the days of Maltomet IL As to the destination of this force, nothing, I un derstand, has as yet been decided on. In the absence of field operations in the Crimea, they can be of no present use there, and, considering the lateens of the season, the snows would have set in before they could reach Kam lam disposed to think that the best course would have been to send them to the Crimea at first, where the presence of a regular army would have effectually repressed any tendency to disorder, and have rendered them as tractable under drill as could be desired. When the full num ber has arrived this would be the most poli tic course still : for beshi-basonk human nature mit change its elements, before delicate morality, er practically clear notions of the rights of property, can be expected from men who are in no way mese civilized than the savage hordes who swept the plains of Asia and Eastern Europe five centuries ago. In spring, however, when opportunity arises for their empleresat, if properly officered and broken in the annall■t- they will form not the least useful mai Admit mean at our command ; not only by relievbg regale, cavalry of much harassing and troublemme duty, but by doing good service against any kneeler Russian force that can be brought into the Isl Whether Asia or tie Crimea be the scene of their exploits, I am very hopeful that you will his. et their rendering a perfectly satisfactory accoentef equal force of the best Cossack troops in the earths of the Czar. round Bars, in face of the 'strongest combination which the enemy's tzens-Canosiian umy can bring spinet them ? We shall NMI. Whilst on this point of military probabilities, I may report the fixed departure of 10,000 men of our own Turkish contingent for Shang& on the loth of next month. This force is now rapidly approaching the completion of its strength, and in another month will be well on in readiness for any servioe it may be called on to take part in. Already its discipline has been brought to a very high point of improve ment, and there is every reason to hope that it will form cam of the best component parts of the British army in the East. Within the last few weeks a very judicious weeding out of inexperienced or otherwise unqualified officers has taken place ; and from all I can glean, those now confirmed with the force are such as will raise it to a degree of efficiency which will leave little to be desired. In the very essential qualiffeaVon of a know ledge of Turkish, great prqrrese has been made by most of the officers; soma of them have made such vary remarkable advancement as to be able to drill the men with perfect ease and awreotness in the vernacular. Attention to the study of the 'soap his been most properly made compulsory ; and it is much to be desired that this injunction had been as strongly enforced on the medical staff of the force as on the regimental allows. Nothing an be a greater drawback on the usefulness and efficiency of medical men so employed, than the utter and deplorable igno rance of the language, habits, and other peculiarities of these native troops which is displayed—necessarily, of course, at first—by the surgeons, dressers, and other medical employes attached to the Turkish troops in our pay. Instinct, I fancy, is not so strong in the gentlemen to whose care the health of these forces is entrusted, as to enable them to make weenie diagnoses of their patients' ailments without some verbal information from the sick themselves ; and as yet—l think lam correct in saying—not one of the medical staff, either of those with the Contingent or Beatson's Horse, could ask a True Believer what ails him In his mother-tongue, much less understand his reply. The form I may just add, at present consists of five batteries of horse artillery, of one hundred and fifty men each; of two regiments of cavalry, with a strength of seven hundred and fifty each; and of two divisions of infantry, each six thousand bayonets strong. The greater portion of the Arsenal on the Golden Horn was taken possession of lest week for the engineer one to be attached to the form, and is at present being prepared foe their reception by Captain Guernsey, the very active and efficient Assistant-Quartermaster-General in Con stantinople. SIR CHARLES NAPIER ON THE BOMBARD- MINT OF BWBABOILO. TO Tal IDITOZ 07 TNT =PI M. Sts,--Last year the Admiralty thought proper to oast reflections on me because I did sot attack Sees berg in the latter end of last October. I felt indig. nant at suck reflections, sad replied as a British admiral ought to do. This led to an angry cor respondence, and subsequently to my being deprived of the command of the Baltic Fleet. I demanded inquiry on my conduct, which was re fused. I appealed to the Cabinet, and received no reply ; and, finally, to the House of Commons. The papers were refused under the plea that it would be injurious to her Majesty's service. As Sweaborg has now been bombarded, that plea is at an end, and the time is come to tell the " reason why " it was not attacked last year. After the capture of Bomarsund, Sweaborg was again examined, and it was the opinion of the French marshal, the admiral., and myself, that we had not the proper means to, attack so formidable a fortress —we had neither gun or mortar vessels—and that the season of the year was mate too advanced. General Jones was of opinion that by landing 6,000 men on the island of Bak-Holmen, throwing up works, and then making a simultaneous attack with the fleet, it might be reduced in seven or eight days. This plea was unanimously rejected. General Niel was of opinion that it might be knocked down in a couple of hours by seven or eight sail of the line, but he added that it would be an operation fres hank that such an operation had never been attempted, and it was not his province to recommend it. These opinions were sent home ; the people of England were not satisfied, and I was instructed by the Admiralty to hold a council of war, to inquire whether any farther operations could be attempted. The French marshal and his army were gone ; the council was therefor* limited to the Allied admirals, who replied that no further operations could be at tempted at that season of the year, and with the means at our dimpoeal Before this report was received, another order was sent out to examine General Jones's plan ; the French marshal being gone, the council was not held. A few days after atlas a third order to amemble a council of war to examine General Niel's plan. The French admiral was justly indignant at being spin called upon, even before the first report had ar need, and declined attending. The council was in consequence limited to the British admirals, and ' they reported that they saw no reason to change their opinions. Shortly after this, the French admiral received orders to withdraw the French fleet from the Golf of Finland, which order was communicated to the English government on the let of September. Oa the 18th the French fleet sailed, and I proceeded to Nargen, that I might again examine Sweaborg, and see if there was the smallest probability of making a successful attack on it without compro mising the safety of the fleet. Up to this time things had gone on smoothly enough with the Admiralty. I received nothing bat praise and approval of my conduct, except in one instance, that I was checked for leaving Wiogo Sound, their lordships having forgot that they had directed me to follow Lord Claren&n's orders, which I had doae. Sir James Graham's praises were also fulsome to a degree, but when he saw the people were becoming dissatisfied, he began to cast about, and see who he could blame, and his "My dear Sir Charles" was turned into "My dear Admiral." I guessed what was coming, but I certainly did not expect the treachery I experienced, and though he returned to " My dear Sir Charles," I saw he was no longer to be trusted. On the 28th of September, I went off Sweaborg in the Lightning, piloted by Captain Saliva°, through an intricate passige of sunken rocks, little more than a quarter of a mile wide, and stopped abreast of Goharn Island, about two miles south of Gustavus' Sword. The sunken rocks are shown in the small Russian charts only. From this position the fortress appears like batteries perched one on the other, pointing towards the sea. On the southern faro of Gustavus' Sword and Var gen 77 guns cover the approach of a fleet from the southward, besides 29 guns on three batteries at Bak- Holman. The three-decker lies on the entrance of the p sgs between Bak-Holmen and Gustavus' Sword, and her broadside also covers the approach from t he south. _ _ _ iirecorldat pt a slew of the western defences, and I think Gemmel Niel, having only seen the western part of the fortifications fora short time, sad OMER PACHA AND THE TURKISH CON- TINOENT. (FROM OUR OWN CONSTANTINOPLE, Ayoub: 13. The great local event of the week has been Omer Pacha's investiture with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Bath, which took place at the Embassy (in Pen) on Saturday. The illustrious object of all this honour is about, as you have heard, to take his army from the Crimea into Asia. The exact point selected for his operations is not as yet publicly known, though Kars is spoken of as the most likely. It this be really the destination of his force, I ven ture to think it very badly chosen. The Kars army already numbers some thirty thousand men—a body for the provisioning and winter lodgment of which quite enough of difficulty will arise without enhancing it by doubling the number of mouths to be provided for. As far as operations against the enemy p, nothing whatever could be done before spring, as by the time the force could be transported to Trebi gond, and thence march over the mountains of Erre ronm, and on to Kars--a difficult and harassing jour ney of nearly 350 miles, over a region without roads, and destitute of supplies—the Siberian winter of those districts would have set in, and all the ember ramments and hardships which attend an army with out a commissariat would press on them with most destructive rigour. During the campaign of last year and the year before the Kars force had seldom more than four days' provision in store, and this when theroute toErzeroum was uninterrupted and the country in that direction free from the presence of a single Russian soldier. I have heard experienced military men say that the right destination for Onter's army would be the coast of Circles* a point within four or five days' steaming dis tance from Constantinople, and from which he could threaten Kritais, and otherwise most effectively harass the Russian army of Georgia in its rear, whilst Schamyl, from the north-east of Tiflis, and General Williams, from Kars, might com plete its difficulties, by arranged cooperative and simultaneous action. Late as the season is, muck might be done in this way even yet, before the November snows put an end to this year's campaign and, at all events, spring would find matters in a teals which most result in important successes in them hitherto overlooked and neglected regions. Will this coarse be adopted, or shall we have the old spectacle of a half-fed and useless crowd of troops concentrated WINKRAL BEATSON AND HIS BASHI BAZOUIES. (NMI OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) DARDANELLES, Avover 6. Bach startling roports had got into circulation in Constantinople as to th• condition and conduct of the irregular Ame now bsng organised here by General Beaton, that I thought It worth while to run down hither for a day or two, and glom such authentic information as would prevent your giving currency to erroneous statements of the fact. which have already found their way into the columns of the Journal de Cbvistantimple, and other equally one-sided prints. The whole of the disorders which have been so fancifully magnified had their origin in some personal disputes between a few of the native officers, about the middle of June. The hostile enrols gradually Idolised, till, on the 26th of that montb, it broke out into a pretty extensive fight, in which four Ines were kill azia asses wee;dsd. Gemini sammarily tried the principal o ff enders, as Metered a severe stick:floggiog to the most guilty— a proceeding which spesigy reestablished cider and harmony throughout the camp. Tea days later, how- ever, ow of the oluef motors in this first disturbsoos attempted violence to a woman of the town, and wee for this new offence disarmed and sent to idiom. On the following day, a large party of his company—he was a colossi, or second captain—rode down to heed-quarters, and, forcing themselves into the com mands?. presence, demanded the liberation of their chief. To such attempted intimidation the general of emus rsfused to Meld; but whilst ose•halt of the armed deputation were parleying in the manner I mention, the other were taking the law into their own hands, and setting the pricier free. On gain. ing his lib e rty the latter proceeded likewise to the general's house, and insisted on receiving back his arms. To such a demand, backed by the menacing support of 140 armed gauges, General Beatson wee, after a while, compelled to yield; and on receiving back his pistols the colossi further bearded his chief by loading them in his presence. With only lame three or four oaken arose d him, the hate; could only pocket the threatoning insult; though I am strongly inclined to think that had he shot the mewl dead - on the spot, the effect upon the rest would have been most salutary. The party then withdrew, and, mounting their horses, galloped off in a body out of the town, and proceeded in the direction of the Troad, some 15 or 20 miles distant from this. On their wsy they partially plundered a country-house belonging to Mr. Calvert, the consul, and committed other outrages in the villages along their route. To pre vent a further spread of the revolt or any violence to the town, General Beation at once applied to the military Pacha for a body of regular troops, and a couple of squadrons of Lancers and four field-pieces were forthwith sent over hither from the garrison of Bilitbshar, on the opposite shore of the Straits. And here again I venture to think that the general again erred on the side of leniency and moderation : I a disposed to believe that, had this force and another of trustworthy irregulars from the camp proceeded briskly in pursuit, and, on coming up with the de serters ea the following morning, given them a . _ severe chutisement, the remainder would have at ones succumbed and a most wholesome lesson been taught to the whole corps. Wishing, however, to avoid bloodshed, the general declined to employ the goes, and preferred to make use of a body of colon ises foes sassosst his own men to bring the insur gents lisok. Asswilingly, 300 Albanians and Arabs semi tlte■eeises on the afternoon of the second day he this asides, but when the party was preparing to sit sot early next morning, it was found that of these misty the half had returned to their tents, and de ans! slims. The remainder, however, started on their minion, but found as they proceeded that the objects of their search bad gone on towards Ivalu, on the road to Smyrna. The pursuit wee then aban doned, and the force sent on it remained in the vil lages, to protect the inhabitants from further mischief. Such, in a few words, wu the withdrawal of some half-doses score of brigands, which has been mag nified into the " desertion of nearly thre►fourths of the entire oorps"—the mountain thus sinking into a mole-hill when seen through the spectacles of truth. Not only, however, did these exaggerated reports gala credence amongst the wonder-loving Perotea, bat they appear to have been as folly believed at the Embassy; and a commission was accordingly deputed by Lord Stratford and General Simp son to inquire into and report on the whole affair. Exclusive of some minor aids, this jury of investigation was formed of Brigadier Neale, of the Turkish Contingent ; Mr. Calvert, the British consul at this place; and Mr. Skeen, late vice-consul at Con stantinople, bat now appointed to the vacant consu late at Aleppa. These three gentlemen have now been for some weeks employed in hearing evidence and ping through the other forms of a judicial in quest, with results which, I must say, are in harmony with the ridiculous exaggeration of the events, in consequence of faith in which they have been sent hither. Individual acts of odd bashi-bazooka have been inquired into with a painstaking gravity which becomes amusing, when one reflects that the charge amounts to a theft of grapes from an open vineyard, a quarrel with some Greek or Armenian huckster, or a scuffle with the town police. Yet on such cases as these evidence has been taken, and grave counsel held, as if the culprit had perpetrated the weightiest offences known to the Articles of War. As an illus tration, I may mention one which occurred only peMerday. In the middle of their deliberations, the mmuniesion were startled by the report that a murder bad just been committed in broad daylight, and in the apse, street by one of the basbis, who, after the isati of his victim, had fled to seek protection samsget his fellows in the camp. A guard was promptly despatched to bring the murderer to trial, and his immediate execution was resolved on as an example to all ; but even before the doomed offender made his appearance in manacles at head-quarters, it we. discovered that the extent of the murdered" Greek's injuries amounted to a skin-wound in the bol e which he had received from the Albanian for =Wag to sell the latter a melon! And, excepting the major offences which I have men tioned, such in substance are the greater part of the catalogue of delinquencies on which so much adjudicative wisdom has been bestowed. Now, I ask any one who knows a rifle from a drum-stick, if this be not ridiculous to the last degree? Here you have some two thousand five hundred half-savages, from some of the least civilized provinces of the Turkish empire, and yet it seems to be thought a matter of grave importance that they should commit ramose which me equalled every day by our own (Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE. at a greater distance, was rather hasty in giving an opinion that eight or ten sail of the line would lay it in rains in two hours. There was not time to find a passage through the reeks, to enable us to see the western feu, at the northern end of which a line•ofbattls ship was placed to corer the entrance by Lsngholm, and another at hand to support her. In my former report I agreed with Captam Washington that the fleet could lay in Miolo Roads in the summer. It is now more cult, as batteries have been built on the south point of Sundhamn, but they could be destroyed. I wrote to the Admiralty to say, if Bweaborg was attacked by a fleet alone, they would approach from the south in one line, raked by 160 guns ; one or two of the leading ships would anchor and occupy the batte ries at Bak-Holmen, the next would pass on, fire a broadside into the three.deoker, and anchor clear of her broadside against the south-west angle of Gus tavus' Sword; she would be followed by the next, pouring a broadside into the three-decker, and anchor ahead of her leader, and so on in miecession as close as the ships could lay. By this time the three-decker would probably be soak, aad the whole western face of Bweaborg engaged. A email squadron would be required to anchor south of Langholm. They would have to contend against it, and two or three line-of-battle ships, and what gun' were in Helsiegfors. AU the passim should be buoyed, and small steamers stationed in the narrowest and most dan 'eras channels. The large steamers should be under weigh in various directions, to assist ships in difa otitis@ ; and a reserved squadron ready to take the place of disabled ships. Whether this attack would succeed or not, it is impossible to say, for we must calculate on ships being set on fire by red-hot shot and shells, of which there would be abundance; and whether successful or not, it is evident the ships would be in no condition to meet the Russian fleet afterwards; and if the attack was made at this season of the year, when you cannot depend on the weather for two hours, I do not know how many would be lost. I begged their lordships not to suppose for a moment that Sweaborg could not be attacked, for I thought it could, but it must be with caution and judgment. I went on to say that I had little to add to the report I sent to Sir James Graham, a copy of which I sent to the Admiralty, and a oopy of which I send to you, sir.* Since that report an attack has become easier; we have now Lancaster gone—every ship in the fleet should be furnished with them; 13-inch mortars should be placed on Langholm Island and Vargo Rocks. The French occupied one of these positions; five mortars were damaged, two burst. Why the English did not occupy another island is not stated. Again, gun-boats, carrying Lancaster guns, should be added to the fleet; they should be placed at different points, at proper distances from the fortifi cations, well furnished with shot, shells, and rockets, and a bombardment commenced, and continued till the wooden buildings, of which there are many, were set on fire, and an evident impression made on the fortress—the ships should then close up and finish the work. How long this would take I could not say, but I was quite certain the fortress would be laid in ruins, and, most probably, an entrance opened to the ships. I have said nothing about troops, but there is no doubt they could be usefully employed. It will be seen by what I have written and by Admiral Dundee's despatch, had my plan been fol lowed up to the letter, Sweaborg would have been annihilated. It appears the Allies had only 43 gun and mortar boats, and many mortars have been disabled. They oi.ght at least to have had 100. Sir James Graham, in a letter to me, said 200. Had that number been there, the bombardment would have been continued by means of reliefs, as men are relieved in the trenches. The mortars would have had time to cool, and the bombardment continued till not one stone was left on another, and an opening made for the ships to go in and finish the work. Instead of that, the Admiralty do not seem to have foreseen that mortars could not stand for ever, though they must have had reports from Sebastopol, and thus an operation, which appears to have been managed with greet judgment, has only met with partial suc cess, for Admiral Dundee in his report admits the sea defences were little injured. We appear to have suffk red little or nothing either in men or ships, and had Admiral Dundee's means been greater, he might have continued the bombard ment as long as the weather remained fine, and the fleets, iostead of returning to Nargen, might have been at anchor in Sweaborg. The first year there might have been some excuse for the Admiralty not having means, but none the second. They received my report early enough, and if there was not time to build gun and mortar boats, there were plenty of vessels in the river fit to be converted, and plenty of money in the Exchequer— they had only to ask, and the whole country would' have given it by acclamation. Instead of building ' gun and mortar boats, they built a parcel of iron floating batteries, which could hardly swim, and if they could, they would have been useless, for had they been placed within 400 yards of Sweaborg they would have been annihilated, and at 800 yards they would have done no harm. The first experiment on iron coat the country a 1 million ; and where are they ? The second expert- 1 ment not much less than half a million ; and they have not yet left our ports, and probably never will. When will the country be tired of giving money to incapable men ? The Min;sters have been driven to reform the War Department—when will they think of reforming the Admiralty ? Till they do, the people's money will be thrown away. The Admiralty do not seem to hare contemplated the effect of a bombardment, though I told them, upwards of a year ago, what would happen ; and if tbey had read history they would have known that Martinique was taken by mortars—there were notl easements for all the garrison, nor were there at Sweaborg. Admiral Dundee says it formed no part of his plan to attempt a general attack by the ships on the de- Imam and has operations were confined to such des truction of the fortress and arsenal as could be accom plished by mortars. Had Admiral Dundee been furnished with sufficient means he would have con templated an attack on the defences, and assembled the whole of his fleet, ready to take advantage of the 'terror and confusion occasioned by the gun and mor tar boats; the heat of the conflagration alone would have kept the garrison from the guns, and the fleet would have been in Sweaborg, and the whole of the fortifications, islands and all, blown to the devil ; instead of that, the wooden buildings and magazines are destroyed, and the work will have to be begun again next year. Admiral Dundee confirms my report last year about the intricacy of the navigation. He says, " the in tricate nature of the ground, from rocks awash and reefs under water, rendered it difficult to select posi tions for the mortar vowels at proper range ;" yet Admiral Dundee was one of the board who censured me for not attacking Sweaborg (though I bad not one gunboat or mortar vessel) last winter, amongst rocks awash and reefs under water,when it now appears he could hardly place a gunboat; and this after having a whole summer for examining it. He has found out it is not easy to introduce large ships into the intricacies of Sweaborg. But I do not blame hint for the manner I was treated—Sir James Graham is alone responsible, for he had the impu dence to tell the Sebastopol Committee that if his colleagues did not do as they were g others desired they should no longer be members of his board; and he told them further, that he had the right of turnin' pi- Tate letters into public ones, and they had no right to use his. Sir James Graham will find that I, for one, will not obey his dictum. Sir James ought to be cautious how he tampers with letters. Sir James Graham wu one of the Ministers who sent a British army to Sebastopol in the middle of last September, without means of moving, without food, proper tents, or clothing, and without hospitals, to pass a dreary winter and pariah; and he was the Minister who wanted me to take a British fleet, in the end of October, to perish amongst the rocks of Swea borg, and, to their shame, got two naval officers to put their names to the insulting letter he wrote me; and these men still remain in the Admiralty, and that is the way the navy of this country is managed. The two summers in the Baltic will be a lesson to them. They are in possess • on of my . plans of attack ing Cronstadt, and I dare say are in possession of Admiral Dundses • and Sir James Graham and his two coadjutors had better go neztsnmmer and carry them into execution. In a subsequent communication I shall prove my charge against the Admiralty of having perverted my letters; and . .. . . I rentals, Sir, your obedient servant, CHAS. NAPIER. • TO BIR JA IS OILANAM. Report, Jane 12, ese;seful manner of attackiag Bwitaborg, that I sin see, after the most mature eonsideratioe, emitted by Admiral Chads, who is a practical man and knows more about gunnery than aey man in the service, is by fitting set a groat number of gunboats, carry ing one gun with a brag rang*, and placing them west of Sweaborg and south of Eelaiegromr. Every shell from them would tell somewhere, and perhaps not five par cat. from the many would take sleet. Bask them by the fleet to same the mem, and in the 0011110 of the summer Iweaborg would be reduced to ashes, and lielsiagfon aloe, if it was thought proper. And II don't see why we are to be mealy mouthed about it in time of war. The ships you will see amid net be destroyed, because they could move oat of the way. I was at the siege of Martinique many years age. We could not bane, Fort Bourbon, as it lay higher t ha n the ground around it; but 60 mortars in three weeks plunging their shells inn it made it surrender ; and whether menus are placed on shore or in gumboot) is quite immaterial; indeed, the latter have the advantage, for when the shells begin to tell, sad one's blood begins to warm, the gips would move up to the batteries, end close quarters would finish what the mortar boats began. I sent you house, I think, copies of all tbs plass, and U you will , lay them before the engineer sad artillery °Moore, I will be bound tar it they will agree with me, that that is the only way Is destroy Sweaborg without an army superior to the Emperor of Russia's, which we are not /Moly to bring into the field. It is too late this year, but be all prepared next, now we know the anchorage, and begin early. I forgot to say that the islands within nage may all be put in requisition for 13. inch mortals. The expense* would Ise very great, no doubt ; but if we are to bring the war to • conclusion, expenses must not be thought about. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO PARIS. PARIS, WZDNISDAI EVENING. To-day her Majesty and the Emperor, and the several members of the Royal party, with their respective suites, visited the Palais de rlndustrie, or the Great Industrial Exhibition of the present year. The weather was splendid. Shortly before eleven o'clock the members of the Imperial commission, accompanied by M. Ardes- Dufour, the secretary general, and by many of the foreign commissioners, amongst whom were Mr. Cole, Mr. Redgrave, and Captain Fowls, of the English commission, and Baron Rothschild, of the Austrian one, assembled in the vestibule, where they were subsequently joined by Prince Napoleon, the President of the Imperial commission, and by M. Fould, Minister of State. The Royal party arrived in front of the palace at about a quarter pest eleven o'clock, amidst cries of Vivo la Reine" and " Viva l'Empereur" from the crowd gathered around. They were seated, as throughout the rest of the week, in open carriages, her Majesty and the Princess Royal occupying one side, and the Emperor and the Prince the other. Then followed the other carriages, in the first one of which was the Prince of Wales, while the remainder contained the suites of the two Courts. Her Majesty was received at the Palace by Prince Napoleon, whom she cordially saluted, and then entered the building, taking the Emperor's arm, and repeatedly bowing to the commissioners on both sides of the vestibule. As she advanced into the building she was received by loud and ardent cries of " Vivi) is Reins." The Emperor first led her to the transept, where she paused for a moment to take a glance at the magnificent coup d'teil which it presents. Then, turning to the right, the illustrious party ascended by the French stalls to that raised by Deniers, where she turned into the courts containing the bronzes of France. The stall of Froment Maurice, the great silversmith, was first visited ; then proceeding upwards, until they reached the top of the transept, they turned to the left, and there gave a passing glance at the produo dons of Prussia. Passing on to those of Austria, they stopped for a minute or two to examine the stall containing the glass of Bohemia. Proceeding, tic; Belgium and the United States, their Majesties came to the stand of Meyer, the Emperor's jeweller. Here her Majesty seemed greatly to admire some diamond snuff-boxes prepared by that firm. They next turned into the court containing the splendid furniture of Fourdinois and other French makers, and then visited the court of Elking ton and Mason, in the English department. Descend ing a little way the gallery at the back, they crossed another court and returned to the transept, just opposite the English marine trophy. Then they proceeded down the transept to the porcelain cases of Copeland, Daniel, and others, and passed from this spot into the court set apart for the pottery and porcelains of Staffordshire. Here the productions of Minton and Co. and of Wedgewood attracted their attention. Passing through the Sheffield court they entered the Manchester department. Their majesties next visited the French depart ment, and after a glance at the trophy of the " In dustrie Parisienne, and at the bronzes of Barbedi enne, quitted the Palace by the great door leading from the transept to the rotonde. Having ad vanced a little, they paused for a moment in the garden to the left, and there enjoyed the fresh air. They next passed found the pourtour of the rotos.de, and afterwards advanced into the rotonde itself. Here they remaine4 for a considerable time, examining the famous jewels of the French crown, and then, still in the Monde, they stopped to admire the magnificent productions of the manufactory of Sevres, and the superb tapestries of the Gobelins and of Beauvais. Before proceeding further, the august party partook of some slight refreshments of chocolate. 'I hey then visited the " Annexe," through which they advanced somewhat rapidly—and indeed they even left a large portion of it altogether unvisited—and then passed out by its eastern doorway, facing the Place de la Concorde. From the palace the royal party ',proceeded to the Tuileries and lunched. The Queen left the Em peror here for a while to visit the hotel of the British Embassy, and Prince Albert visited Prince Napoleon at the Patois Royal, both returning to the Tuileries, and leaving together at six for St. Cloud. In the evening there was a performance in the theatre of the palace by the artistes of the Gyraoase, the piece represented being Le Ills de Fanrilfe, with hi. Broassit leading his assistants. - -