The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-13 00:00:00

I) 1 ~a I. Etv TO CORRESPONDENTS. ,ereetleemer'a : , te ^ !a; fol. "The Laprese." Leaden Evening paper, must be at to Odle*. Bouverinetreet, by Two o'clock on the dog ot • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars Der—Voralag. 2b. $ Afternoon. To.roszogr —Nursing. lb. llm Alternan, 31. 21m. } LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 13. THE ecstatic anniversary of the great grouse ucri flee returns. About as much powder will be burned to day on our English and Scotch moors as might keep ups day's bombardment of Sebastopol. We plead guilty to adore lieb far the approximation to the bottom system, which his et late years superseded, to a great extent, the good old fashion of grouse shooting. The ambi tion of our rristocratic sportsmen to return a high figure of birds killed boa degraded the sport into something little linter than pigeon shooting. The chief takes the field, with half-a-dozen gamekeepers to load and hand him a froth fowling-piece as fast as ho can fire, and he thus en joys tie plecsure of committing an immense slaughter. But this is butchery, not spat. The true moorsman is he who is on his ground before the dawn has fairly broken, with his brace of dogs, and who establishes his reputation by bringing down his bird every time, noway. solicitous to drive home boneloade of carcases. There is health in the morn ing breeze, and inspiration in the broad purple ex panse over which he pursues his game. There is the pardonable v.:nil' of conscious skill. There is the pride of mil, do power. All these things conspire to make the annual visit to the moors the moat fowl sating epoch in the lite of .those who pursue their sport on a moderate scale. The poor vanity of slaughtering an incredible number of birds is ineom pantile with the buoyant exhilaration of the true sportsman. We may be pardoned this protest in behalf of that sport which, more than any other, carries us out of the dull routine of every day life. The maddening testacy of a bald burst after fox or deer hounds is aseociated with highly cultivated districts. The sober pacing alter hares and parte idges. from morn to dewy eve, !Leda us from stubble to drilled turnips, and thence to luxuriant clover fields. Even cocking con fines us to nurrow pttches of swamp or cover, amid which wo rarely lose sight of the adja cent bi , h farming. It is not easy to dis sociate these sports from the meritorious labour. of agricultural societies. But to reach the grouse and black-cook we must plunge into wild, which still bid defiance to the *kill of the husbandman. We are brought into contact with wild onsubducd nature. Amid the cecosional pauses in the keen pursuit of our game we awaken to the consciousness that we have wan!ered beyond the limits of cultivation. We are in companionship for the time with the rude ele mentary grandeur and beauty of creation. We are roused above the tame diudgery of business. We catch glimpses of the pitubure, of a forest, a prairie, or a desert life. It is this that renders so fascinating the lonely rambles of " the twelfth," alike in the recesses of Highland valleys, or on tho broad expanded moors of Shap Fells and the South of Scotland. The scenery and the exer time it has witnessed aro stamped indelibly on the memtity of imagination. Whoever bus enjoyed them in youth is rtteudtd by their vision in after life, even when the urgent claims of professional pursuits, or indifferent health compel him to forego his prized pleasures. It may be said of him and the wild re gions through ho once followed his doge, as the poet Las said of shells torn limn the depths of ocean— And t!.cy remember their matron abode', Aid murmur as the ocean murmurs there. We are, therefore. more tolerant than some of our contemp.irarics of the irresistible impulse that drags legislators from St. Stephen's at this season. Know ing its power from experience, we can find excuses for them. In the first place, a wan may be a good shot and a bad voter; the mischief he doss in the House of Cammous is ueutrali•ed when he is on the moors. Again, he becomes an infinitely more respect able char:icier when he is pursuing the grouse than when he is slavishly following the whip. The emo tions which pervade his mind on the shooting grounds may no: to of the mcst elevated kind, but they are healthy, sincere, vigorous; on tho contrary, the in trigues of a man plotting coents•uut, or stolen votes, arc poty demising. The member of parliament is a man Wi.4.11 he is on his moor; when he is in the House of CAIIBIOII6 ho is too often little better than a cat's-paw. 1 THE NEW STATUE oY WALPOLE.—On Saturday a marble emu. of Walpole, the once famous minister of George the Stens& wry paced u,vm its pedestal in the long eorricior leading from Westminster hall to the entrances of the Holm, cf Lards and Commas. The work is from the etisel of Mr. John Hell, and rrprelente the fat, burly, per son of Walpole, In the court costume of his age, addresviag the House of Commons, with one hand thrust into his bosom, and in en attitude, and with an eapreseion of boldness, one might almost say of effrontery, chsraveristic of the navn. He is in striking vatrsst to "the learn. d Belden," immediately on his right, and to tie pensive attitude of the gentle Falkland, here hie trism via. This statue snakes the seventh of the series of ten de s tined to adorn mast part of the New Palace of Westminster. Those already created are Lied. Claren don and 8361 M, by Mr. W. Cilder Marshall, A.R.A. ; Hampden and &idea, by Mr. J. H. Kiley, A.R A. ; Lord Chief Justice Ma , .tield (.cry recently put up), by Bally; and Lord Falklard and Sir Ruben Walpole, by Mr. John The following Limited Liability enterprises have been e• mrconicated to no (Journal 0/Auctions) as being in preparation :—A Family Wishing Company; a Baking Company in Loodun, to secure pine bread ; • Milk Conl pany, to secure unadulterated milk; • Bast and Shoe making Company, to 'opened. the present makers, by deal ing more cheaply oa • hrL c scale; a Daily Morning News paper, designed to equal the Tenon in all its departments; a Flour Crcapany, to supply pure fl nir ; a General Lean drapery C. , nipaty, having esta , liAnects in all the populous parts of London; a Patent Parchating Campsiay, for the purchase of patents, either for working or licensing ; a Print Publishing Company. The Inrerness Courier soya:—" The stir and ex itement which the commencement of the grouse-shooting season naturally occasions in the capital of the gronse-shoot leg country, to already commenced here. Coaches sad steamers bring large daily accessions to the number of sportsmen who crowd to Inverness to h►ve thee sporting. sear pat in order—to corn-Isle their kennel*, and stock t►eir shooting-boxes. Whether the season is to yield se much *port main former years is a mystery which cannot be very aatialsetorily solved till Monday. We may state, how ever, on the authority of tLe keepers of many of the beat ground* in the Highlands, the: there is good Town to ex pect an average number of birds on most moors. The young grease will, h weaver, be found in three stages—full grown, half grown, and little more than hatched. The oration has teen thrraghout a backward one. A few good shootings, sea nadeestand, are still %islet." The Government, in accordance 'with the recom mendation of the committee moved for by Mr. Mackin non 0* the Arctic expedition, have paid 5,0001. to Captain lt'Clure, anal the same sum to the Admiralty, for hie olleera and crew. Mr. Webeter, Madame 'Celeste, and agate other raaaegen of Load= antra aro in Paris. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE CRIMEA. • ODESSA, .IvLy 28. The garrison of Odessa, now the head-quarters of General Liners, was, yesterday reviewed. It consists of 16,000 infantry, two regiments of light cavalry, and a few batteries of artillery. The telegraphic lice from St. Petersburg to Sebas topol is now in operation throughout its entire extent. RUSSIA. HCENNISBERG, SUNDAY, Avo. 12. The Russians have resolved in case they shall be obliged to abandon Sebutopol to build a bridge above the bay, which will connect the northern and south ern banks, between Fort St. Nicholas on the north and Fort St. Michel on the south. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SATURDAY, Aro. 11. The Evening Moniteur contradicts the assertion of Lord Grey, that Austria would have taken an active part in the war if the Allies had entered into her views. THE BALTIC. KIEL, ♦co. IL The French corvette Ss6ne has arrived in this port with 200 Russian prisoners, who will be landed at Liban, in Courland. RUSSIAN DESPATCHES FROM THE CRIMEA. PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF'S JOURNAL. A despatch from Prince Gortchakoff, dated the Btb, rays : " Nothing has changed in the situation before Sebastopol. The enemy's fire continues to be feeble." Another despatch, dated the evening of the 9th, rays: "Nothing new. The enemy's cannonade is feeble." An extraordinary supplement to the Incalide Ruue, received this day, contains tho following extracts from Prince Gartchakuffs journal, extending from July 22 to July 26, and in continuation of the extracts given in the Express of Friday last : Daring this lapse of time (from July 22 to July 26) the enemy, se heretofore, has kept up a fire alternately verde'. and a ieeping, directing it occasionally upon some one par- ticolsr purl of our line of defence. The besiegers fired vertically against the city, hurling into it immense quanti ties of rockets and various kinds of projectiles. This obstinate and prolonged cannonade and bombard ment, added to the most incessant fire from the Creama earabiniers, has not prevented the brave garrison of Sebas topol from repairing the &mars in its works, constructing new batteries, taking active messuros fir reinforcing the interior defences of the place, and, profiting by favourable circumstances, making sorties in little detachments, against the nearest of the enemy's lodgement.. To this general sketch the c , mmander-in.chief adds the following more circumstantial details: JULY 22.—At three o'clock this morning we need the cassouflet with much success against the enemy's tnfonnoiss, at the left of the chief point of Bastion No. 4 (Mast Bastion). The enemy on his side, fired two chambers of a mine, bat they did us no harm. Ho also connected by one trench the lodgements against the Hof/Ulna bastion; raised and thick ened the embaukments of his approach:s against the s:h section of the line of detente, and commenced digging new trenches before Bastion No. 2. The fire from oar artillery at these spots impeded his works. Towards ten o'clock is the evening, and at two o'clock after midnight, two alums wero raised, occasioned by acci• dental Tenor:intros between our secret puts and those of the besiegers. The tirailleurs-cu.biniers on both sides opened a fusiilade, and this was followed by a vigorous rolling lire of musketry and a cannonade of half an hour's duration. We observed that the enemy redoubled his activity at the works near the &relate Boy. JULY 23.—The enemy's fire to-day has been very brisk. Otar works fired upon the batteries in play as well as upon enemy's nearest works. On the north side of Seboatopol we fired against the approaches before Bastion N 0.2, and swept the space between the ancient redoubts of Sdinghinsk end Volbynie and the bay. The brsiegers co.nmenced an I approach towards the blamelon Vert, increased a little the height and thickness of the covering of his trench before the Kornileff Basion, and commenced new lodgements for his tirailleurs before Borion No. 2. JULY 21.—At the end of a cannonade, and at intervals, a very brisk bombardment, directed principally against Karenhula suburb, the enemy sprung a mine upon the left of the principal point of the Bastion No. 4, but he did not Faceted in injuring our gilleries. His work melted In finishing the trench before um Koraili;ff Bastion. Tnn NIGHT or JULY 21.—At about 2 o'clock thin morning our volunteers, esenmended by Capt. Beatkovsky, and supported by a company of the Krementcoug regiment of Chasseurr, behind whom were two companies of the Alezopel regiment of Chasseurr, completely rendy to act, left the rear of Bastion No. 2, attacked with impetuosity the central lodgment of the besiegers, situated is front of this bastion, and demolished it, after driving oat the enemy. Our loss in this sortie consisted of 7 men killed end 18 wounded. Among the latter was Capt. Bratkovsky. The enemy's lo .s must have been greater ; for in repelling our attack, his reserves found themselves under the tire of our works and of our steamer. JULY 25 —The enemy continues his cannonade with redoubled violence, especially agtinit the 3rd and sth sec tions of the line of defence ; but he has made no new ap proaches, probably on acconut of the briskness of the fire from our works. THE WAR IN ASIATIC TURKEY. We read in the Journal de Constantinople of Aug. 2 : "Letters just received from Erzeroum inform us that Mehemet Pacha, Governor-General of Erzeroum, had collected 4,. 00 men, infantry and cavalry, of the militia, and advanced at their head in the direction of Kars, and that he had effected a junction with Voly Pacha, who held a strong position. These letters add, that, in consequence of this movement, several strong Russian detachments, which were disposed to pene trate the provinces of Tchilder and Erzeroom, re ceived orders to fall back, and precipitately effected a retreat." The Impartial, of Smyrna, of Aug. 2, received this day, contains the following letter from its correspond. ent at EfZerOUIL : Emmons, July 11. On Friday we receivtd news from Kgra dated the 10th. Tbe Amiens, numbering near:y 30,000 nun, are before the place, and press it closely. The only road open is that of Oai, sod the enemy's indifference for this way of oonstnuni cation appears to be justly suspected, At this moment the only pusengers on this road are • few isolated horse - me., sod teen these, for bettor security, crass the moun tains to arrive hero. The Ottoman army seems resolved to fight valiantly, and nary one is ►t hie post at the batteries, expecting the attack from one moment to an other. General Williams is every where, and allows himself no repose either day or night. He wishes to see everything hinteelf, and this extraordinary vigilance and activity,which he come►nnicates to all aroned,l has had, up to the present time, the happiest results. The garrison is in no want of provisions. Barley and hay are the only things in depot of which the supply is very limited. We have every hope that Kars will hold out. The song dame in it is very great ; but if the channels of war should run against us, the army can fall back upon ErSlllOlllll, where the eonetrrattion of the batteries is progressing rapidly. 11 , ited with the troops of Kapri Kioi, it would be enabled to maintain itself is a vary favourable position. A Russian division is fortifying itself at B olashi-Dagh, id the defile Unkiu-Dissi, half-way between here and Ken. During the past week • force of 2,000 regular Torkish horsemen advanced from Kopri Kloi towards this monntala ; arriving very late they did not see the enemy, and arranged for posies the night upon the heights, but at day-break they were surprised to find the Cossacks before them. The Teske, however, did not lose enrage; they bravely dr THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENXNI 4andad themselves, and sseeseded in escaping from this suit pas=g bat Its or six, dead, and mme to and. es. Realigns aloe have maintained themselves in the dis• triet ofl3aysaid, ia • force of nearly 10,0* men, distributed K 4teh Kliteaoryeadin, and Topra-Kalb. The Turkish "army at K qui Kioi incrcasee every day; the irregulars coming in from all parts. Bet we are aware that these troops, very useful in certain circumstances, are far from being so in others, and we should better like to see some well disciplined regiments there. Two battalions of our excellent infantry are constantly expected from Diarbe kir. Hada Paths, Governor general of Trebizond, is at Bar bout, with from 6,000 to 7.000 anldiers. He sent us sums lively corps of from 1,000 to 1,600 um, who proceed to Kapri Kioi, and he awaits the arrival of new troops from Treble3nd and from the environs of Barboub, to put him self at their head and come hers in person. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, SATURDAY. The Diet was opened to-day by M. Bang, the Premier, in the name of the King. M. Rottwith was elected President of the Polksthing by 75 votes. Bishop Monrad was elected Vice-President. SPAIN. MADRID, AUG. 11. The Government has received the Pope's allo cution, addressed to the Secret emeiatory. Canovaa is going to Rome with letters, and without any offi cial character. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (IT 11 1 (PROW OUR OWN AND Emma TRIESTE, MONDAY. The steamer Bombay arrived yesterday, at half-past six, p.m., in 119 hours from Alexandria. ALEXANDRIA, Ana. 7. The India Mail leaves here this day, with advises from Calcutta, July 4; Bombay, July 11. FRANCE. (nom ova owl( PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. At Lille Duisart, Cordier, and Diaumonerez have been acquitted, D'Hennin is found guilty of conspiring to kill the Emperor. and Deiquiens of a participation in a plot. Extenuating circumstances are admitted. D'llennin is sentenced to hard labour for life, and Deequiens to five years' imprisonment. The following (slightly abridged) translation of the acts d'accusation contains all the important details of the plot, as represented by the Government. It must be borne in mind in reading it, that indictments in France are habitually drawn up with great skill, with a view to make an unanswerable case against the accused, and that many of the facts therein stated positively are often based upon very slight evidence. In the present case it will be observed that the accu sation bears as hardly upon some of the prisoners whom the jury have acquitted as it does upon those convicted : Oa Monday, Sept. 11, 1851, an inspector named Gallas observed, while walkirg along the rails on the line from Lille to Calais, that Fame sleepers on the right rail seemed to have been recently disturbed. He imparted his sospiciona to a colleague, and an examination made by the two resulted in the discovery of a b s placed under toe railway filled with explosive materials,and connected by two wires with a Bunten battery, in a field adj oiling one of t• a embankments. These materials, the precise nature of which was unknown to them, were carried by the railway officers to the Commis sary of Surveillance at the Lille station, and in consequence of information furnished by them, the judicial investigation We Let on foot which led to the present prosecution. It was evident that the convectors of this infernal machinery must have:laid it down with:a view telicill:the Emperor,who,accord- Mg to common report at that time, was to base gone to Bel gium from the northern camp, to return the visit paid to him by King Leopold in Calais, and to see the Tourney fetes of Sept. 12. It is known to the Go verament that immediately after the events of 1851 a num ber of demagogues, who fitel to England and Belgium, felt it expedient for the accomplishment of their revolutionary projects to entertain secret relations with people in Lille, among whom, oa the first propitious opportunity, they felt sure of finding men who would shriek from nothing, not even murder. Under these iefluenees was founded at Lffie a secret society, which furnished its contingent for the attempt made at the Hippodrome. Doctor Watteau, one of the managers of this society, was found guilty in that Ohs. racier by the Assize Court of the Seine. A man named letelerc a member of another secret society, called "The I'onierdr," was heard to say, a few days previous to the affair of the Hippodrome, ' Some of our people have gone to Paris. The Emperor cannot escape. They are all going to fire their pistols at him." This at tempt happily proved abortive, and the jury of the Seine did justice upon the criminals. Lat e r, in September, 1853. when the Emperor paid a visit to Lille, the MSS MU still nourished the same design ' and the autho rities 1 d that an internal machine bad then been intro duced into France through the instrumentality of D' liennin (one of the accused), who was in constant communiution with conspirators in Paris, England, and Belgium. They were found out, and a'.l that D'llennin could then do was to take refuee with his axomplices in the vast quarries of Lennon. Mors recently still, the arrest and condemnation by the 'seize court eat the Nord, of one Finest, for being affiliated to a secret society, preyed that the enemies of the public tranquillity were still at their work. It was the duty of the instruction" to investigate three principal questions:-Ist, What was the astute of the machine disco vered on the railway ? 2nd, Against whom was it directed ? And 3rd, Who were the guilty parties through whose instrumentality it had been placed there. On the first question the evidence of competent scientific witeer es proves conclusively that the machine was one of terribly deg- °cave power. The cylindrical box discovered under the railway contained 2 kilogrammes 407 grains of that description of powder employed is the manufacture of per cussion caps. The quantity of powder was sufficient to make 75,000 copper caps. The explosion, when a train was passing, would certainly have caused a frightful slaughter. As to the victim especially designated, there can be no doubt it was the Emperor. The French and Belgian journals had all announced that be was to go to Lille by railway from Calais, end the belief in the journey was uni lin the North. Proofs are abundant that this expected journey of his Ma jesty was thought by tome of the accused to furnish an op portunity for using spinet him machinery which they had begun to Dolls ct as early as the month of June. During the summer of 1&51, a man named Luseron, who like Leclerc, has been condemned as a member o' a secret seeiety, manufactured some poniard., and was heard to pronounce these significant "Very soon we shall ell be fur nished with these; we shall soon have need of them." A little while before this expected wear, of the Emperor along the Lille line Leclerc said, 'He may do his best, the asesernguier (a pa tois word, signifying snare) is laid, an d we shall catch him. Oa the very day when the infernal ma chine wu expected to do its work, this man said, " We shall see sometkiag this evening—perhaps a revolution." On the same day one Bolen (since convicted as a member of a secret society) held a meeting of fifty or sixty persons in Lille, all of whom were armed with poniards. After it was known that the existence of the infernal machine had been discovered, Leclerc said, " if he has not been blown ap this time, he will be sooner or l a t er . If h e Is not killed h e will at least be wounded." But it is needless to multiply proofs. Sme of the pH misers, especially Desquiens and Deusart, o are obliged on being pressed with questions to admit that the crime was directed against his lisjesty. The members of the society, whether they were initiated into this particular plot or not, were on the look oat for the result, in the accomplishment of which they were aiding and abetting. A railway ticket pasted upon the box containing the Bunsen battery, gave the first eine to the discovery of the guilty parties. It was ascertained that on August 28, en individual assuming the name of Leung', but who was in fact a man named Louis Derma, who had been expelled from Francs, bad brought to the custom house at Lille a package containing copper wire covered with green silk on which he paid du•y. On the 9th September this same person retired from the custom-house an electric battery (known as Bootee's battery) enclosed in a wooden ease, which battery has since been identified as the one found on the railway on the day mentioned in the indictment. This battery was brought by the men calling himself Lacoste to an eafinished hoes*, belonging to M. le President Lanier, the works at which house were going on under the direction of the prisoner D'ilencia. Oo the vet) day of the discovery of the machine, ea. Cordier, a painter and plasier,ceise to the Commissary of Polies Fiel, and informed him that D'Hennin had asked Mai to join a plot to blow up the Em peror; and this Cardin- entered into particulars so minute, that, con firmed as they are in other quarters, it is impossible to die believe him. Working =aeons under D'Hennin's erten depots that from the end of the preceding week persons unknown in Lille had bean is costiaaal ooammaiestics • Dessert, it appears by the telegraphic despatch, is as- quitted. AUGUST 13, 1855. with him. D'Heissin admits bask, seen strangen, bat aye they seemly men to make plane of M. Lallier's home, met pretends not to know their names. On Saturday, Aug. 26, Diron,alias Lesonste, arrived at Lille by the Belgian train, sad lodged at the eestomhense the electric wires, which. in musequeme of the requisite formalities, he could not retire till the 28th. Oa the 4th of September following he oasis entered Francis by the train front Tourney to Lille, ostoos ponied by another individual, who has not been identified. On this occasion he brought with him the Bunsen battery which he left at the Rabies' bureau, and called for the neat day at Lille. On that day Devon and D'Hennin were seen together at the Café de Pleoperatrice. The prisoner Des guises cams there to meet them, end took upon himself to look for Cerdier. Cordier, on being produced, was asked by D'Hennin to join the conspiracy, and pretended to con sent. Oa the following day D'Hennin, after eaplainiog the affair to him, said, " Pay attention—it is a question of your bead." Cordier being frightened, withdrew. Deaquiena remained, and he received orders to be at twilight in the Rue de la ?donnas. He came there, and was instructed to take the planks, which he placed between the cemetery and the railway. The gendarmerie subsequently found there planks, and ascertained that they were abstracted from the wood belonging to M. LaMar, and in the cust.itly of D'Hennin. On Friday, September 8, D'Hennin, who had not seen Cordier since the day when he esid to him, " Take care of your hesd," met him by acci dent, and after loading him with reproaches said, " If you say a word, look out for yourself." In the evening of that day, D'Hennin, Dominions. and Duman, went to a place on the railway, near the poet numbered 278-750, and there pierced a b ile. On the 9th the amused met together fre quently. Oa the 10tb, towards five in the evening, Cord ier and %mart set out from Lille with tools, and towards seven :o'clock arrived at the Porte St. Andri. :,Cordier remained there with the touts. Dessert went to find Demo,' who came with two packages of electric wire. Desquiene shortly afterwards brought the infernal machine wrapped up in paper. AU this things were concealed in the ditch by the side of the railway. Deron then sent Dessert and Cordier to tell Yandomme and D'Hennin to be between' the bridges et the hour agreed upon. They promised to be punctual. What took place between them afterwards Is unknown, but the nest day the infernal machine was found as described. The indictment than enters into long details, tending to show that the originators of the plot were the brothers Jacquin (seemed, but not in custody). These men, of a superior ',titian in lire, are described as cherishing • holy hatred against the Emperor. One of them, in a letter to his mother at New York, expressed a hope that he might live to see the Emperor shut up in an iron cage by the side of jackals and hyenas. The London mail with the evening papers and second delivery of letters has not arrived to-day. It is reported that the English packet ran into another boat in the Channel and was compelled to put back to Dover. ITALY. (MX OUR OWN COBN2SPONDEXT.) ROME, Aocirisr 4. It is to be regretted that whilst the rights and pretensions of the church are vigorously defended by the supreme Pontiff, the ecclesiastical decorum which ought to accompany such pretensions is occa sionally transgressed in the most flagrant manner by the prelates themselves, whose example ought to shine before men. Much scandal has been produced by the arrest of three magnates of the government, to wit—Monsignor Matteucci, Vice-Camerlengo of Holy Church and Director-General of Police; ' Monsignor Sagretti, Secretary of Police; and Mon signor Sibilio, President of the Sacred Consulta Tri bunal. These worthies have been attacked by the Cardinal-Vicar for lewd intercourse with female pri soners, accompanied with such violence, on the part of Monsignor Sibilio as to consitute a case of rape. Of course great indulgence will be shown to the frailties of these exemplary prelates, and their arrest only amounts to detention in their own houses ; but some people think that Monsignor Matteucci will lose the cardinal's hat by it, although others, who profess to know the Roman court better, affirm that the regular course of preferment will not ►e interfered with for such a trifle. The alarming pitch to which highway robberies and burglaries have arrived has induced the govern ment to increase the severity of the penal code to wards that class of offenders. The use of the bas tioado is to be revived for the especial benefit of pickpockets. A brigand belonging to Lazzarini's celebrated band was shot the other day, Lear Lugo, by a detachment of gendarmes, who received a grati fication of 100 scudi for their exploit. A question arising out of the war in the East was brought before the civil tribunal a few days ago. Signors Settimio Carpi and Giuseppe Kronek had laid a wager of 50 scudi—the former that a general war would not break oat in 1854, the latter that it would. The Judge de Sanais gave sentence against Kronek, and ordered him to pay the bet. There being no jockey club here debts of honour are referable to toe civil tribunals. I am happy to say that the cholera has almost left Ancona, atter thinning the number of its inhabitants' beyond the memorable year 1838. One of the last victims was the newly arrived French consul, Count I , de Challaye. About twelve thousand citizens fled from the town, so that it appeared almost deserted. These persons are beginning to return, but under government regulations. Only a few are admitted daily, lest by thronging they might give new aliment to the epidemic, and before re-oceupving their abodes a public process of fumigation is ordered. The dele gate, Monsignor Amici, has acted throughout with great courage and devotion, but the greater part of the chiefs of departments and their subalterns, with the exception of the Goofaloniere, abandoned their posts. The Austrian garrison is in eau quo. THE SOUND DUES. (FROM OUR OWN CORIMPONDENT.) VIENNA, AUGUST 6. An American circular despatch to all the European cabinets on the subject of the Sound dues has been received here and caused a great sensation. The government of the United States express their deter mination to relieve their ships and cargoes from the further payment of these dues, levied in defiance of all justice and international law., and invite all the commercial and maritime states to follow their good example. The Prince de Joinville is expected to arrive in this city next week on a visit to his relative the Comte de Chambord. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. This morning the royal mail steam ship Canada Captain Judkiss, arrived in the Mersey with the usual mails from the United States and British North America. She sailed from Boston on the Ist inst., and Hali fax on the 3rd, and hu brought besides the mails 146 passengers and 600,000 dollars in specie on freight. The royal mail steamer Asia, from hence on the 21st ultimo, arrived at Halifax on the let August. The yellow fever is raging to a great extent at New Orleans. The ship William M. Rogers has been chartered at Halifax for the conveyance of the foreign legion to England. The latest dates from the Havana are to the 25th ult. ; at that period the island was quiet, but the cholera was very prevalent amongst the military. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JULY 30 . The market is very quiet, and there is no change of mate. Mal importance ; money is yet freely c ffered both on call and time, and there is more short time business paper effer- ing both at the banks and in the street, which is taken at 6 to 7 per cent. There is no change in the rates of interest, although the turn is in I of the borrower. Foreign excharge is heavy, and has been selling slowly at 1091 to, 110 on London , 60 days. The stock market is steady, with slight scimetion. Orders from London have raised the value of the bonds of some railway', and in particular for' ' Illinois Centre), Freeland and Construction Bonds, Erie 1983'5, Erie 1876'5. and the Michigan Central Ei ght per Cent. Bends of 1860 and 1869. A MAN ENGIILPHED IN • day lust I persons went from Sunderland over to the em,:e at the entrance of Jarrow Slake, to dredge for shrimps. Among them was a man named Bertram. He was dredging en the sands at some distance hom the net when be was suddenly heard to exclaim, " Lord /nu save u," and the neat moment he was engulphed in a dangerous quicksand. Hie body has not been fond.—Sowdeviorad Times. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. ORM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, JOLT 31. Very little change has occurred in the relative positions of the besieged and besiegers during the last three days. The French have not advanced any further towards the enceinte of the Malakhoff, but they have been busily occupied both in extending and deepening the approaches already made. The trenches are sufficiently wide now for the troops to stand four deep under cover from direct fire. The moon was full on the 29th instant, and the nights have been sufficiently clear for working parties in front to be immediately perceived by the enemy. A newly-placed gabion becomes at once the signal for a terrific discharge of grape and small shells. The same causes have acted in preventing the sap from being extended toward the Redan. The enemy has executed a counter-approach, the object of which has been puzzling many of our en gineers. On the night of the 28th instant the Russians were distinctly heard working, about the Korniloff bastion, as it was supposed, by the French in the advanced approaches on the Malakhoff-hill. When daylight appeared, however, it was observed that a deep trench had been cut in the glacis, at right angles to the great ditch around the Malakhoff works. It was almost directly opposite to the salient angle of the Korniluff bastion, com municated with the ditch by an opening in the counterscarp, passed through the abattir, and was' extended in a direction towards the nearest point of the French approach. This passage, which seems to be very deep, decreases in breadth as it recedes from the ditch. The earth kas been thrown up on either side, so as to form two parapets, and the whole has the appearance of one of those covered passages known, in the language of fortification, as a double caponniere. But what the object of it is in the present instance is not very appa rent. Whether intended to counteract any supposed mining in that direction, or to be used as a passage for sallying out against the besiegers, is a matter of surmise. Since the night of its first construction it' has been deepened, but in other respects it remains, as fur as can be seen, in the same state in which it was when first observed. The colour of the fresh earth thrown up and the opening made in the dark abattis by its passage render this trench very con spicuous. The Russians have brought a heavy fire to bear upon the new battery erected on the east side of Careening Bay near the water of the great road stead, and have succeeded in some degree in delaying its completion. There are no less than six batteries on the north side, the guns of which can be turned against the spur and ridge to the right of the Careening Harbour. The largest battery is the 12-guu battery nearly directly opposite. Our allies call this work, from its being close to the large burying-place frequently referred to from its con spicuous position, La Batterie de la Cimetiere. Large Russian working parties have been vary busy about it of late: they appear to be extending it, and also to be excavating deep trenches along the heights, both to the east and west of the work alluded to. The small 3-gun battery which the Russians deserted the day after the capture of the Seleughinsk and Volhyuia redoubts, has been converted into a strong work by our allies. It is now ready for its armament, which wad consist of three 13-inch mortars and a Lancaster gun. From its commanding position over the roadstead, being at the extreme cud of the spur of the mountain, it is anticipated that this work also will be very effective against the Russian ship:ring. The Seleughinsk redoubt, which is still familiarly called the White Battery, has au immensely power ful armament. It is said that we are expecting the arrival of a further supply of large mortars. It has been noticed that, in the large Russian ceme tery to the west of the Star Fort, a large obelisk has lately been erected. This appears to mark the grave of some distinguished personage,tor groups of soldiers have been frequently seen gathered around it, and yesterday a large party of ladies, with children, left some carriages and walked to that pert of the cemetery where it is placed. They remained a long time there. This burying place seems devoted to persona of higher class than the larger one near the 12 gun battery. The crosses are larger, and particu larly obvious among the collection or graves are four large monuments, or raised tombs, ot white stone. Trains of carts, conveying gabions, or forage, or sometimes sacks, continue to arrive daily along the north side. There has been very little firing in the French works on the left for some time past until yesterday 1(30th.) The approaches appear to be everywhere so I near to the Russian lines, t net they wait only for the signal to assault. Yesterday morning, however, it was observed from the right that some Russian work ing parties in large bodies were moving toward the Bastion de Mist, and notice was seat of the observa tion to the Freuch authorities on the left. A tre mendous fire was at once enured by our allies, and the bombardment was kept up for two hours. The Russians at first replied with very great vigour, but I the superiority of the French fire was subsequently strongly marked, and toward the conclusion the enemy's guns were nearly silent. In the afternoon, at half-past 3 o'clock, the French sprung a powerful mine, apparently near the salient angle of the Flagstaff Battery : lines of earth were projected into the air to a great height, and a dense column of black smoke, immediately fol lowed the explosion. A flag of truce was hoisted at Fort Constantine just at the conclusion of the abort bombardment mentioned above; it was said to have reference to au interchange of prisoners. Our casualties, though rather numerous during the I last three days, have not beep generally very serious in character. The only officer struck was Assistant-' Surgeon Louie Lundy, of the 79th Highlanders, who received a contusion of the thigh from a large frag ment of shell. On the 29th the French made some experiments with afield rocket battery at a part of the right flank overlooking the Tchernaya Valley. Some shots were directed against the email Russian battery on the verge of the cliff forming part of the Inkermann mountain. One or two shots tell with excellent precision, but the flight of the rockets seemed generally too uncertain fur a mark comparatively so small, and in so difficult a position. Their range, when directed across the I valley, was very great, and as projectiles for the purpose of annoying an advancing force, they must doubtless he very effective. The French speak very confidently of the assault being made before the 15th of August, the fete-day of the first Emperor Napoleon. No date is named in the English camp, but circumstances lead to the supposition that it will take place immediately that the necessary preparations can be completed. Major- General Sir Richard Decree, K.C.8., commanding the Royal Artillery, has left for Therapia. His leave of absence extends to the 15th of next month. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle is visiting the camp at present. He arrived by the steamer Ottawa, and it is understood, will remain in camp for a week or ten days. The troops are now in got.d health and cheerful, and well presided for in all respects, and a visitor may well find it difficult to understand how, only seven months back, a state of things could have existed so diametrically the reverse. There has been a remarkable change in the state of the weather during the three da3s ;test passed. I The morning of the 28th instant was us) test in by violent showers of rain, which soon couverted the ravines into so many channels for scarcely passable torrents. Heavy showers have continued to fall at • intervals since, and the water reservoirs are again filled. The springs afford an abundant supply, and the restrictions, which a few days since were obliged to be adopted on account of the prevailing drought, have consequently been removed. The rain ceased yesterday, and towards night the atmosphere exhi bited a considerable amount of electric disturbance. The lightning was incessant, but consisted chiefly of "sheet lightning," and was not attended with thun der. The rain has been followed by the appearance c s ,it a few cases of cholera among the regiments is front. The troops generally are, however, enjoying good health, although Instances of fever and tun. terio disease are continuing to occur. (FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Jury 30. For the last few days we have experienced an agreeable interruption to the oppressively w arm weather, which we have so long endured. All the country around seems as it visited by a second spring. It is to be hoped it will also do something towards replenishing the springs of water which have bee n nearly dried up by the continued heat. Much might have been done long before now towards alleviating this want, which there was a probability would be severely felt before the autumn. The French from the commencement instituted g corps of well sinkers, paying a premium on the springs discovered, and it is to our allies that the whole of the right attack is at present indebted for the supply of water to the present time. We have begun now to tarn our attention towards alleviating the hardships of the winter in prospect, and the quartermasters have been called on to furnish a list of the warm clothing necessary to complete the sol. dims of their respective regiments, and under the present system there is little fear of the incon veniences and surmountable hardships recur, ring. As we will most probably be in pee. session of the south side of Sebastopol W ere the snow talls we will be able there to find sufficient shelter for the whole army, even should the Russians in their desperate flight destroy as much of the town as has escaped the destructive effects of our shot. Our army is sanguine of success, although we have remained outside so long that the streets of Sebastopol seem as far from us as the stars of beaver. The continued dry weather has allowed us to neg. lect the drainage of our trenches, and the °outguess° is that they have become wet ditches. In the lower ones the water is nearly flush with the surface, as the zigzags carry down to them the accumulated water trom Gordon's battery. The middle ravine (marked in the map as the continuation of the Kara belnaia) is generally transformed into the bed of a raging torrent by the heavy rains which have atilt. the deserter who came over to us the other even ing mentioned that 14 men and one officer wished to accompany him, but were deterred by our men firing on them. This story has been repeated by every deserter who has joined us as yet. It may be doubted if their death by British ballets is so certain as death from the knout in the case of their returning to the army they have left after their unsuccessful at tempt at desertion. A was made by the cavalry yester day (29th) beyond Balder, to investigate the probable force of the Russians in that quarter. By all ac counts the allies deceive themselves with respect to the Russian forces in the peninsula, they being neither so numerous in men or artillery as our late commanders wished to suppose. The formation of the southern portion of the Crimea affords in many places great advantages to those who remain merely on the defensive, as our position ou the heights of Sebastopol and the present position of the Russians in the pass of Mackenzie's Farm. There are two passes leading from the plains of the Tcher naya to the steppes of the Northern Crimea. Both of these can be held by a small force against one greatly its superior, and unfortu nately the Russians have been beforehand with us in holding them both. Another pass is spoken of by the Tartars, but it does not present sufficient facilities for the transport of artillery, and yet Hannibal brought elephants over the Alps. Towards the side of the town resting on the Karabelnaia ravine, the Huskers are endeavouring to strengthen it sufficiently with batteries in order to prevent a recurrence of the coup de main in that quarter. There is now little doubt that if the attack by General Airey had been seconded by reintoreemente and simultaneously with the attack on the Redan the result would have been succeseled ; and as for the oft-repeated excuse that the Itedan is unten able unless the Malakhoff is first taken, our engineers seem to be undecided on this point, as there is no point from which they can have a good view of the relative positions of ours towards the other, unless it be from the north bide, and this land is at present in the power of the enemy. Since the taking of the Bayonne redoubts, all the houses of the government artisans at the head of the harbour have been abandoned; also the plat u marked in the plan as the biscuit manufactory. There is even a prize captured by the land forces abandoned at the head of the harbour consietin,g of a small mea -1 inm. schooner which ran aground, and was deserted by her crew in the early part of the siege. In my next communication I mai have probably subjects of greater interest, as the speedy progress of the works on the French right warrant the supposi tion that a collision between the two conflicting par ties is not far distant. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT LATE ON THE DANUBE.) ENGLISII CAMP. JULY 31. One of the Piedmonttse generals, whose name has escaped me, paid a visit, accompanied by some of General De in Marmora's staff, to Eupatoria last week; with what object I have not been able to ascertain, but I am disposed to connect i. with the rumours which have heed afloat for some days past of I the probable embarkation of the Sardinian army, in company with Omer Pacha's corps, for the purpose of carrying on operations to the north. But this after all may be one of the many schemes projected day after day, and which die ere they have been many hours in existence. The Sardinians still entertain some apprehensions of an attatk on their position, but baaly founded I should think. They have still a great number of cute of diarrhoea, but the deaths are comparatively few. Their coutribution to the general stock of amusement is very good mu-ic, as horse races is that of the English, and theatricals of the French. They have mass after tho Austrian fashion every Sunday morning, at which the general, his staff, and all the troops are present, as well as a goodly num ber of French and English, attracted by the bends After the ceremonial the whole army " marches past," and the entertainment was lengthened out lest ' Sunday by some cavalry manoeuvres, which were performed admirably; the horses are small, but seem hardy and active, and the men ride well. I should say, if the four squad! one which are bete are good specimens of the whole, in this arm of the service they are vastly superior to the French. 'f he Chas seurs d'Afrique are certainly better mounted, but then the men are too big and heavy for light cavalry ; and as regards the rest of the ree -1 ments out here, I hardly know what to call them, for anything so cumbrous, lumbering, clumsy, and good for nothing in the shape of horse ' flesh I never saw men mounted on. The Sardinian' have but one point in the formation of their light cavalry which we as well as the French have missed, that is, some sort of proportion between the men and the homes. They have not put giants on ponies, or a fifteen-stone trooper on a horse sixteen hands ' high, and called him a hussar. Their horses are as they should be—small, fleet, and manageable, and the riders are tight wiry fellow, handsomely and serviceably dressed. I noticed that a good deal of skill has been displayed in contrasting the colours — such as the blue pennons and the whit] facings of the lancers. The mass and review take place on a piece of undulating ground close to Camara, overlooking the valley of the Tchernaya, and overlooked by the heights of hlackenzie's Farm, so that from the batte ries on the plateau the Russians can enjoy a full view of the spectacle. In addition to this, the band playa on the same ground every evening from six till eight, and finds a large audience amongst the mans of weary mortals now in the Crimea, on whose hands time barge like lead, and to whom good musics is a rare treat. 'the Zouaves resumed last night their theatri cal performances in their camp near Inkermanus The theatre is somewhat classical, in being in the open air, surrounded by a small dry stone wall ; the seats are simply banks of earth running crosswise, and the stage is one end of a small hut, somewhat elevated above the pit, adorned by rudely painted scenery, representing young females amusing them selves with flowers, and a distant view of two trees and a pond. The band of one of the regiments was in attendance, and formed the orchestra. None but officers were admitted into " the body of the brie. or at least none else went in, as those who did so