The Express. — London, England, 1855-06-25 00:00:00

morning. It is understood that some Cossacks showed themselves near Tohorgoun, and that a slight skirmishing occurred between them and some of oar outposts June 12.—Everything is at present very quiet in the batteries. A few shells were discharged from time to time during the night spinet the working parties in the direction of the Reda° and Malakhoff hills. There was also rather more lire on the lett, when it has been unusually slack during the put week. sem . w ho been wounded, was kept in pow:, °,, b , F ismer. He had been treated ri a gr - y by some of the French officers ; they had to him some water, and wine, and had after • n him a cigarette. The Russian W ei "" this sr h L. , iota '' , got t, when turning Mg s little way, he set fire to some gunpowder __PTib o geel shells, which were lying in a mull heap 1 1 . han d, An explosion took place, not in itself 1.1- o i t nce, but it raised an alarm that the If la uc-11 % % s eed, and that the mines w abut P lia o b' w its d A • t.nt d b.rg , • n ins escape was glade. the greater pert of the troops, who had oe, op to the ditch of the Malekhuff, came r e _ b ac k; end this eveot added to the confusion, 11 ;7 1 w hi c h the enemy did not omit to extract a 111 9 1" liT Y - "etage. luded about 6 ' lock Tbe artnisttos was oono o , and a von ere was again commenced against the Russian " g ra lice of battle ships h ave taken u p a p osition t rue to the entrance of the South Harbour. They eJ~",a, to be so placed that their guns would act upon isllll.ethoff-hill. The masts of a third ship are icy me v n b e hind Fort PauL Two of the ships t e o-detkers, one is a three - decker. Two piak kerar steamers are near them. Istelligtoce bee reached the camp that Tore:wog p ig i o, near the mouth of the river Don, have aak.o our fleet, and that a vast quantity ot Mess "- has been seized and destroyed. these cap s. W' int important ; tor from the former place the log y bec obtained iron making grins, the ow , i t, tar picking gunpowder. Vast quantities of me * conveed from ioterio std b e rivers Volgarovisions, and Don, y have also the been we r ird ;roan tuts port. A TI rc mate tusillade occurred in the direction ot g e Mello: lon Vert at 9 p.m., and shortly afterwards *awed Fteneh Division, who had only been re lieved in the morning, moved down to the Karabel pia w h i r n. a reserve force. The fire of musketry mg re isst long, but was very concentrated and * w ee A Russian taros, it is said, advanced Imes the Mameloo Redoubt, but the fire of the liw b coven' g party made such an impression that the Roseau. quickly retired. -ems' nes here throwing shells into the Mame ). tr. T. ...in , steamers behind the Maiskhoff Tower, eg g a ‘. how t and batteries on the west side ot * lei ter; hay, the French have had a large mate of rseuelties. Tor 10.—A heavy shelling fire we kept up all sigbt :r.ete both our attacks against the Redan Blalskor bmieries. There was scarcely any firing m tbr The enemy scarcely replied. The Cossack lotteries en the north side of the roadstead fired Me- Ra wl s gsiost the redoubts now occupied by the bei. on Mont Sapoune. Capteio Wsiker, of the 3rd Buffs, was wounded in Os elm lot night, _hut not seriously. 'lbis officer is s lately promoted from the 30th Regiment, of ehith be was adjutant, for gallant conduct before the many. It is coutidently rumoured in camp that the usati:t 'pint the l.et.khuff and Red= is to take place: to day. Al. Ite batteries in front of the ruin of the Baud t rte t r, now a mere heap of stones, are silenced, is is me, the beds°, and it cannot be hoped to effect gash ;tinter destruction against them by artillery, estbst the rumour seems probable. All the troops me eager f.r the undertaking. The Russians have Isserseted .1 small howitzer battery behind, and to use left of the Round Tower, the shells from which me solo ently striking the parapet of the approach the tele.arry, and the right of the Quarry Arai ; miser men holding this work are much haraued. Thy traqes 1:, the Matoelon Redoubt are also suffering Moly ti ..11 the fire ot the enemy. Beall vt.'smers left the Admiralty harbour several limes in tee course of to-day, and went over to the auth side. They were crowded with men on the 64 soil seemed also to be carrying a quantity ot mists or luggage. Perhaps this may have been Meade 1 :ten.. The end of the building, usually oinked in plans of the town as the Hospital, is riddled with shot, and there are numerous holes in *she ot t he long white buildingcal led the Barrack; bat the principal and more prominent structures "paw as ?et uninjured. Is the course of last night two of tve line of battle ships were towed close into the mouth of the Admi ralty It rhunr, with a view apparently of bringing a firs to .t upon some part of the ground we occupy. They were compelled to shift their position by some &bane of shell from the Lancaster gun in the tick Attadt, and are sow moored in a crescentic Bee, a considerable distance off in the roadstead, but %inside on to the Admiralty suburb. Toe three eau ties between the two frigates. A large ship dill euntirues under Fort Paul. At 5 p.m. this vessel wee etrop...ted to haul a short dishiness round to the sestmee. as some of the shell went close to its stern, Ist it It a aoed under protection of the building ot the lot . f ved men-of-war steamers remain out in the rootacol, near the ships. These vessels seem to have tart' np this position to fire, if necessary, upon tY Matelthnif hill. Begs et chuff are being taken down to the bat *hes aid advanced works. It is supposed that they lee intended to fill up the ditches before the Roden mid In. niloff bastion of the Malakhoff, and the idea that tr, assault is to take place is strengthened. The Preach olio have a report that they are going to attack the Malakhoff immediately. 7 p.m —To the surprise of every one our fire is con s'ackeolog. Late in the afternoon an order was an: doers for the fire in the advanced batteries II be stopped. and for the fire in Chapman's and Gordon', batteries to be confined to a certain limited limber of monde each hour. Every kind of rumour is stet pritsodiog to accou nt for this change. The Moak gives up for the present, according to some pewee, braves the French general did not wish it Übe andertoken until a large battery had been cote- Ilded in the Msmelon Redoubt. According to many Oben (i. n, raj Pelissier was most eager to have fol lowed so the advantages already gained by an imme. dive st.ack no the Roden and Masking, but, in the mtimerna at the EnglishCommmeder-io - Chie f o omast y Miens sett ease bad fallen in the assault on the Quarry Seib IA to prevent a further undertaking of that Min being advisable, and it was therefore post- A deficiency of gunpowder is also spoken of Y sae Nut cries, as the cause of slackening fire, as so but a Are °mild not be maintained long without the apply Nib, altogether exhausted. No doubt the seamy et.l elks immediate advantage of the opportu aity to notengthea the works which have been so tllask damaged. A general despondency and feeling elimita.ioro have followed this change in the condi gn of ttf Ars envy one sees the prospect ot the dol• he rt indefinitely prolonged. Joffe 11.—The fire gradually slackened lest even hg, ...wards night the fire on both aides maid °, 1 1 ,11 r. Occasional shots were fired in the night, hug trots the Camel batteries at lokermarat cad on •...• north side of the roadstead, to interrupt the week. of the French in the batteries they lately alined,.. Mount Sapoene. Daring the night scarcely a shell •a. tired from either of our two attacks. The ser,enees ot the cessation of fire stilt continue,. It is sr. , surmised that instreetioss on tb• subject save h.., reaalea d f rom the nisistry at home, sod that tie. hp i enistioos for pesos an likely to terminate tavour..h t, or that perhaps the Radian general, find °. bi.. If in difficulties, is outing to t e rms. All sins et conjectures are on the tapis to try and ex pate e. extrannioary a change. No doubt the er.s.pe are equally astonished with ourselves. But as n r as can be saes there is no disposition oe the Pau f the sway to yield, for he is evidently 'lame 1 meantime to dispute oar further c siny as possible. The troops hoirrierhe 99r"3 .. will continuing to safer from the enemy's MN; St • l should the same rate of loss nodose, the "urn- o f killed and wounded will show an sane entitle . of loss greater than might have been ex- Pitted 'turn an assault. The commanders may be aware, however, of difficulties and dangers is the tindensk rig not obvious to ordina r y spectator. A leg of truce was hoisted yesterday from Fort Con- Weans, for th e purpose of holding some comment Utica with our fleet : the nature of the commence The weather has been cool, beiog tempered by a wind from the north. This day however the wind has shifted more to the eastward, and the sun is ex erting great power. The health of the troops en gaged in the siege continues good ; MCI of cholera are very rare. and of a mild character. In the neigh bourhood of Balaklava this disease prevails to a greater extent, and some of the troops have changed the positions of their encampment in consequence. ticiiiiss7l;;; t;;;lspinti There have bona mutely any seimaltim is the better*. to-day. A m i stan t-Surgeoa Irwin, Fiord Navy, wind • same om i ss ion in the Bailors' musty. light attack, from a pion of shell. Thus Ira " no ca•tielthis among the alone or tame in the hit &Hack. theoe wokstsy sad a taw heavy pas were heard It tie dilution el dm piths at eh early how this THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1855. 1111100117 07 VII DA UM 1113W5.) PARIS. SOSDAY 11•7111110. The English papers ars canvassed with great anxiety on account of the details they give of the immense lasers suffered by the Allies on the 18th, nO authentic intelligence of which has been received , here. The contradiction of these reports in the Lon don evening journals, and the somewhat cheering de spatches from General Praisingr of the 19th and 20th, published by the Moniteur. encourage the hope that the disastrous accounts circulating in London may be exaggerated. There are, of course, many reports here about the French losses. The only one which reaches me from a source sufficiently respectable to be alluded to is, that General Mayran was killed, and General Brunet missing. At the Little Sunday Bourse scarcely any business was done. The last quotation was 68fr. 700. The Afoniteur, while fulfilliog the easy task of replying to the sophisms of the article in the St. Petersburg Journal, which seeks to thrqr upon France and England the responsibility of the upture of the Vienna Conferences, adheres with a pertinacity little justified by facts to the policy of representing every thing smooth in the relations between Austria and the Western Powers. The Mullin Plenipotentiaries, it is said, in pretending a desire to treat on the basis of the last proposition suggested by the Vienna diplomatists had evidently no other object in view than that of turning to their own advantage an "apparent dissidence between Austria and ourselves." In support of this view the Moniteur asserts in italics that Count Buol's proposition was based upon "a principle of limitation explicitly laid down. But Count Boors letter to Baron Hubner, published in the Daily News of Saturday, gives the most complete contradiction to this assertion, for it states expressly that "Austria does not look upon the demand for au international tong 'gement to compel Russia to submit to a permanent limitation of its forces in the Euxine as entering into the stipu lations of the treaty of December 2." In the same circular, Count Buol admits the importance of put ting an end to the Russian " preponderance" in the Black Sea, but this result was proposed to be attained by means which France and England were agreed to consider as inadequate. The Moniteer, in its present tenderness for Austria, cites the expression " limitation of force" as syno nymous with "cessation of Russian preponderance," choosing to forget that Austria does not concur in so interpreting the two phrases. The main argument of Count Buol is that the preponderance may be put an end to in other ways, and that the proposed limi tation would be of little avail, or at most but one among many other means to an end, but the Moniteur, in the very article I am now citing, defines what it means by the cessation of Russian preponderance when it says that " without it all other guarantees would be illusory—that without the reduction of the aggressive force of Russia in the Busing," the sup pression of the political and religious protectorate of Russia in Turkey and the liberty of the navigstion of the Danube would be "purely nominal." Thus it is confessed, in spite of all verbal quibbling, that the difference between Austria and France and England on the construction of the third point is radical and not merely " apparent." It will be remembered that the wife of a French General was lately sentenced to imprisonment for adultery committed with Colonel Charras on the night of the coup (fetal. The Court of Appeal yes terday quashed the sentence, on the ground that the period fixed by the Statute of Limitations (three years) had elapsed since the commission of the of fence, and it overruled the doctrine of the court below that evidence wad be received of a repeti tion of the crime in a foreign country. The General is decreed to pay the costs. FRANCE. In asheetibing to the formula that • e bad molested to her ea the peeliminary sondition of all negotiation, and which Count Bail brought forward again when he Domed the seateresees, Ram is bad admitted—we ars bound te thick SO at least—the necessity of making on this poiat a nal sacrifice. Bat as soon as the gasetion was raised, the Bastian plesipmentiaties did, on t►e contrary, reject both is principle and fact, wider whatever form it might be pretested them, el limitation of forma The counter-propositions which they brought forward bad so other object save that (now Tin d eluding and not solving the question. It was in consequent" of the absolute rejecticia of the system of limitation proposed by us, that the conferences were at first suspended; and it was after the publication of Oemat Nesselrodes circular of May 10, in which there was a renewal of the declarations made in this respect by the Russian plenipotentiaries, that we were invited by Austria to a final conference. It was, therefore, to be presumed that at this last meeting the representatives of Russia would not persist In rejecting the principle which alone could serve as the basis of a suit able arrangement. And yet the Soudan plenipotentiaries whoa arpreciating the proposition made by Count Beol—a peeposition based on a principle of limitation explicitly laid down—negletrted no mode of giving it to be understood that the non.examination of it was from no opposition of theies. But this ondeacensioo, so contrary to their previous attitude on the same ground, had evidently fee its sole object that of profiting by an appearance of divergency in opini.a Wenn Austria and us. Prince Oortchskoff did not consent to reveal his opiniol until he had well ascertained that the plenipotentiaries of hawse and England would not fully adhere to the pap"- tiara of Austria. At length, being pointedly requested hg Bares Bourqueney to explain himself upon the priesiple of limitation, Prince Gortobakoff, with a movement of open heartedness that we cannot but admire, ended by repro ducing, with the most desirable perspicuity, all the objet• times he had previously advanced against t►is principle. " Prince Oortchakoff," says the protocol of this last meet ing, "renews his declaration, that both at the conference, sad elsewhere, and wh the question has been mooted.' he has constantly declared t►at any limitation of forme sought to be imposed upon Russia would be regarded by her plenipotentiaries as an attack npoa their master's rights of sovereignty, and as insurer notable obsta:le to pears; that he had remained invari►bly faithful to this principle, end that he again established it in this closing conference." Prince Oortchakoff rejected, therefore, at the elope of the exigetiatiou, as he had previously done, all system of liana* Ilia whatever. Re rejected on principle the Austrian pre poiliso, as he had rejected ours, and, by se doing, he took It ups himself to characterise himself his apparent modem. den by very clearly proving that his offers of refitting to Be. Petersburg did not imply any idea of conciliation, sines he heisted at the same time es inadmissible the mode proposed by the cabinet of Vienna. We can only give our confirm.. Den to what the protocol of June 4 unanswerably proves. It is, then, upon Russia that the entire responsibility rest♦ elmserning the rupture of the negotiations. It is her DUO. Eery that has paralysed the efforts nobly made by the AMA Powers fur the attainment of a practical result. homes and England brought to the conferences those sendssents of moderation, by which they showed the selves to be constantly animated in the different Oases of the crisis. Provoked into a war that we eadsseented to prevent, and the Initiative of which entinly belongs to Ramie, we have banished her flag from every sea, and we could at a slight expense prohibit its re• appearanos in the Eosins. We offered to recognise her power of so appearing, provided there be a limitation of her Perces in that sea. That limitation is a security which the general weal demands. It is no fault of oafs if Russia hes espied herself by her policy, too long eggreseive, to having sub concessions required from her ; and they alone are re sponsible for the continuance of the war who obtinately persisted, to the last day of negotiation at Vistula, to refuse on this point to Europe all valid guarantee. ITALY. FRENCH REPLY TO THE "JOURNAL DE ST. PETERSBOURO." The Daily News oontspondent at Rome, referring to the late attempt on the lite of Cardinal Antonelli, writes : The Monitor of yesterday contains the following The official journal of St. Petenburg kes just published an article, emanating from the Russian government, as an maser to the circular addressed, under data of May 23, by Count Widewski to the agents of Prance is foreign man tries. We should cot bays noticed this publication if its object had merely been to oppose to the circular of May 23 a reply, which in truth does not at all weaken the 1 . 116,011• tog of that peper. Bat the Jammed els Petenborrg broaches at the same time another triple—tits rep. tare of the conferences at Vienna; end it endeavours to fix upon us the responsibility of it. We shall rapidly pew over the observations which Count Welewski's circular sag seated to it, in order that we may famine this reproach. The Russian government attaches greet importances to iismosstrating, that the question of the Principalities is settled, as likewise that of the navigation of the Danube. It almost goes the length of attributing to itself the tiative of what has been done for the attainment of this remit ; at all events, if we are to listen to it, it would seem es if Russia always desired what the Allied Powers have believed bet to have hitherto invariably refused to the wishes, long slum expressed, of ROME, Jona 14. The assassin having been taken to prison, was dis covered to be a hatter, named Antonio de Felice, a ernati of by no means reputable conduct, and concern ing whose unity doubts had been frequently enter tained. lie was also on the list of preceltati, a class of persons whose political opinions subject them to' continual police surveillance. Monsignor Mat teucci sent a strong poem of gendarmes to his rad dews immediately, to lay hold of his papers and property, in hopes of discovering his accomplices, for in the preparatory examination the same evening, in spite of his promise to reveal everything, he persisted in stating that he had no accomplices, and that the attempt originated with himself. The whole affair has the character of madness, from the locality chosen for such a crime to the style of weapon selected for the perpetration of it. The Pope having been informed by the cardinal himself of the danger to which he had been exposed, and the affair having been divulged in the course of the evening, a vast concourse of visitors, amongst whom were most of the foreign ministers and mem bers of the Sacred College, waited upon his emineemi to offer their congratulations yesterday morning, and the cardinal,who appeared to have entirely recovered his self•poseession and urbanity, was unwearied in satisfying the curiosity of his visitors, and repeating the narrative over and over again. The telegraph was set to work immediately after the occurrence—indeed, the announcement of mdse• trophes appears to be its principal employment, as far as the public is concerned ; for, incredible as it may seem, although the government receives regular telegraphic intelligence of the events of the war, no portion of it is ever inserted in the Rowan Journal, which coldly furnishes us with second-hand news from the Tuscan papers two or three days after the authorities have been in possession of the facts by telegraph. Notwithstanding this oontrsdieties, as announcement appeared in the Romeo Jostenel of the 12th stating teat his Holiness, desirous of extend ing the privileges and advantages of telegraphic communication to the city of Ferrara, had generously contributed two tons of wire for the oonjanstiaa d that city with Bologna. The Roman Journal of yesterday evening gives a brief account of the attack on the cardinal, stating that the assassin was armed with "a bilurcated WM. OW arms biforasia)— which oertaiely hes a 11111110 appearance in an official paper than the denomination of a carving fork. The account also states that the whole city bad shown the greatest " iodigoation at the horrible attempt;" bat, judging from t h e remarks in public places, and the satirical comments on the "bifurcated weapon," it would ap pear that at present the ludicrous prevails over the horrible in the mind of the Roman p ublic. Yesterday morning a sentry was plead on the stairs of the first floor at the Vatican, before the fiecre-1 tsry of State's suite of apartments, to prevent a repe tition of scab bifurcated attempts in future. BRIOANDAOE AT SMYRNA. -"? OP THIr DAILY ways.) SMYRNA, Jrlea 16. The abduction of Dr. M'Craith, ao English phy sician resident here, by a band of brigands on Sunday lest, is now the engrossiog topic of conversation. Before narrating the particulars, I must give you some amount of the system pursued by the brigands for years past, and the shameful manner in which the system has been encouraged by the cowardice and apathy of the inhabitants. The Turkish police was never a good one, and Asia Minor has never been a spot remarkable , for security to person or property, but until the last few years the brigands were satiefied with highway robbery, varied occasionally by murder. Then a new ! light dawned upon them. A band, under a certain Yanni Batergi, hit upon the plan long since practised in Sicily of kidnapping some of the richer inhabi tants, carrying them off to the mountains, and either obtaining a heavy ransom. or sending in the head of the captive to his relations. They managed to prac tise so ingeniously upon the fears of the people, that the practice of abduction and ransom was established upon a well-defined code of regulations. The ma jority of wealthy people paid a tax or black mail to Yanoi Batergi to escape molestation. Many of those residing in the villages around Smyrna—even English, to their shame be it confessed—not only paid this black mail, but harboured members of this band of robbers for weeks and month* when in danger of capture, fearing the vengeance of the remainder if one were given up. At last matters came to such a pitch, that no one could venture a mile outside the town, and a place of 120,000 inhabitants was kept in a state of siege by some 30 robbers. This was too much even for a Turkish Pacha or a Levant Consul, so that at last the late Governor of Smyrna, Ismail Pasha, excited by the remon strances of the French consul on the occasion se the abduction of a French subject, sent a body at troops after the robbers, and at length, after many months, the baud was dispersed, and Yenta Keine himself sent to Constantinople, where he now remains in the bagnio. During the last year, accordingly, the Smyrna merchants have been able to visit their country houses at Bendier and Bournabat, villages he one four. the other seven miles trom the tnwa, without fear of molestation. Such a state of things was too bright to last. The dream of securiz b ::: rudely broken on Sunday. A band of was 30 l armed to the teeth, established themselves shoat bait a mile from Bournabat, on the road-aide, and waylaid a number of persons, whom they robbed of money, jewellery, &c. They also detained °Harre l for the purpose of obtaining ransom ; but let them all I escape with the exception of Dr. M'Cnit t b, a M. Manse, end M. Maroopoly, a son of a Greek merchant in Stoma. It appears that two brothers Marcopoly, with repel friends named Devris and Castor, were returning ss l horseback into Bournabat, about 7 o'clock on Sunday evening, when they were stopped at the roadside eine ' to a cemetery by ten or twelve Greek robbers, amid with double barrelled guns, pistols, and yatagbaas. While they were detained in the cemetery, they saw Dr. M'Craith brought in by other robbers. He bad also been stopped on the road while on his way to attend a Mrs. Fisher, an English lady residing at the neighbouring village of Hadjilar, in her approaching confinement. AU the party were threatened with immediate death if they did not keep quiet, and when, on an omnibua pats ing which plies to and from Bournabat, Dr. M'Craith attempted to call for assistance, he was stunned by the blow of the stock of a pistol. Atter some time the robbers appeared to think it toeless to detain Messrs. Devris, Castor, and G. Marcopoly, but carried off Dr. M'Craith aodld. Maroopoly. After traversing two fields they tell in with four oth:r robbers.who had under their care M. we and three other persons. The latter were allowed to depart, Dr. M'Craith M. Mans, and M. H. Marcopoly being carried off across a plain Issise eight miles in width to the mountains, where tbay arrived at midnight, and tent M. H. Maroopoly back with letters from Dr. M'Craith and M. Manus, saying that the robbers demanded 1,0001. each for ransom. He fell in at daylight with Colonel Storks, Humid Bey, and a larg e bod y of armed police, in pursuit of the robbers, and delivered his letters, but absolutely r efused to act as a guide, oe give information as to the whereabouts of the band, under fear probably of their menaces and ven geance, and when forced to proceed, it is now be a - lieved that he led th e pursuers intentionally on (111011 TYE wrong track. Here then bad been a band of some twenty or thirty robbers lying perdu close to the principal place of resort of the S m y rna merchants —the Richmond of Smyrna, in fact--oesupyin them- Richmond selves for some hours in plundering wayfarer; at last proceeding with their ea a broad plain, unpursued. Such= ou ful fact makes one blush to t hink that s tainted English ishabitaats on Sunday het i end leadel to the belief that by living in the Levent at MOW hymen degenerate Into a state not very kr sommend kola that of the hybrid Levantine. It appears that Dr. Ooolden, one of the medical officers of the Civil Hospital, was passing the spot of Dr. )I'f:faith's cap ture a very few minutes afterwards, and was told of kkg some peasants. He instantly gallopped into Imoesbat, and endeavoured to excite the people to ',gaged in a permit, bet all in vain. No one would Oa him, so he returned to Smyrna as fast is poi' kis and gave the alarm. Colonel Storks at me waited nee the Paths, and succeeded in rousing bib So action. Them e wd in command, Blond Bey, was seat ogf with so 80 men in the direction taken by tie tebbers, and orders were sent to the Path& of filsessta to send others to take them in the ram Donely all the numbers of the medical staff armed ad started at 'midnight also in pursuit. A gre at part of Monday was spent by detachtd parties scouring the mountains in various directions, and one party cams up with the robbers, but after receiving a volley which wounded one man, they threw down their arms and lied. So much for the Turkish police. It now became a question whether a party of English sot iers, convale S tor sc enks ts, wits qu should bo engaged in the service. Colonel ite ready to lead them, bat the English and French consuls and the family Th e y MCraith were opposed to any such measures. argued that the first object was to save the doctor's life, afterwards to rums the robbers. It was accordingly searrangedn that the Turkish troop' should beithd on Tuesday, and the 1111311102 ant to the robbers by a shepherd. By that time, however they bad shifted their quarter' , and it is supposed th at the ransom has not yet reached th out em seven . Yesterday tlssy are said to have beets seen ab from hence, with Dr. M'Craith on a donkey, :Till friends confidently anticipate that he will Th u taffa! ored i to them as soon as the ransom is received. The hate led to a grea t deal of angry discussion. English urge that an immediate and energetic per. suit should have been carried on, and the robbers overpowered by superior numbers. The family et Dr. M'Craith, and most of the resideata, on the other hand argue that pursuit in the monstsims was hopeless, and wee if successful Dr. 11Krailies life would certainly have been sacrificed before the robbers would have been overcome. They collected, the money for ransom, and insisted that he should b secured before further steps were taken. Of course Colonel Storks and the Paths were obliged to yield to these remonstrances. I hope to send you farther 'tars next week: Europe. It pressed% then, in the Asst place, to Wag with eon ' gleeemg Isle high relief the advantages which the Weida- Wellsehbas have owed, it would seem, to Russian later eludes. We shall not coutreet the picture ot the Danubian Principalities under the protectorate el this power, with that whisk the Anneal de St. Petorsborrg truss of their , 'sedition seder the old Turkish adaisistratien. We shall fastest meshes with suing, how it is, if Russia has really conferred on the Principalities all the services. sad the Porte hoe indicted out them all thus calamities whisk thm journal easserates, that the Principalities thserislose this time me in the Ottoman matelot, a support and war guard, and applaud mesawhile everything that tub to withdraw them from the Ruda& peeteuseste ? Is what sesserss the navigatios of the Danube it gives us pleasure to say that the cabinet of St. Petersburg rues sins the Uvula:dos of the swans hitherto taken by it for keeping is a proper state the mouths of the river, sad the inedequey of the mesas employed by the local &Übe& Ass for melodist' the silt that has slaty see often rendered Ohms impagsable. It emigratslates itself upon tie grist Out of a communise, os which will devolve the duty of hispestion, and the prineiple of which it admits. The ifeleviel de St. Pststsbosay amuse se that it will be sum► may se shed the blood of Frames and Ragland in orate to eiVOtOP them results ; but that blood has nevertheless been etilipd to Sow is order to obtala them. The fourth point, we of cosies remember relates to the %sessions itself that pee rise to OW war ; we see Ada that is this betimes the Remiss pule. sent will persist in its old errors. If, in fest,' the JOWIIIII de St. Potsrslsourg speaks to us of forms asossat ry for attributing to the Satan the merit of having takes spostaseossly his sovereigs me sons in favour of his Christian subjects, it espressos at O. ea se time, by a isaniftst sostredietios, its oplaies, that NEGOTIATION. they °sib° be on the Put of the Porte the object of • Tho following is the last of several paragraphs of Baer" enegege•stLhavisl •••I•ll,°_°l7 for its sheet that similar purport published b y the German papers ; it of asf etti°B °° Europall e the pr ivilege arrogated by is from the Post &motto of Frankfort: Prises Mentatikolf for the court of Russia. k A resumption ot the conferences is no longer oat I We do no t enter into any farther Iffe°•°1•11 of opinions of the bounds of possibility, and such an event isnot sad theories .° categorically refuted in the eiroalar of May even very distant. Austria said at the lest conference 23; we cussed at onus to snare the re roach that the that she would receive say propositions made to her Reedits government has levelled Mean the Planirote•• by either side, and that she co os - (d examine them, and. toll" of FE"" and Zealand far having related the rap- io use of need, transmit them to the other party. A tore of the cosferesem. proposition of this kind on the part of Russia has We sdailt without difficulty, that as one of the two ints arrived at Vienna and has been handed to Count of which the third guarant ee alai" the "Mast of tat' Boo'. This proposition is, it is said, very oonciliatoey Petersatre ices made torattems atteeele• to Itt° allied and of a nature to under a satisfactory arrangement powers ; it has menaced its old preteseicts of keeping the possible, Russia being disposed to renounce her most Oulu& empire out of the pas of European public right. inadmissible pretensions, and to iend herself to the It is ready salsserlao to en enteleaent Itatta• waist el l means o f p uttin g an end to the present calamitous difforesses between the Porte and 'MU are UP be to diff e rences. I t i n no t h ee ww w h et h e r Aw n& w ill referred to the othithstka Unite hate nails re- support this proposition or confine herself to n.erely v 4818114 the must of this asesesies, gad while transmitting it. but it is certain that the cabinet of istairsteletthe the teasel of to. Petersburg en its Vienna will not assent io make itself the mediator &ghillie a lest to • Patel* that repeat essed so except for proposition based on the whole of the baldly before the war, we are obliged to that the tour points." Umiak* at the Porte within the pals of Estop's* right The following is from a Vienna letter of the lath dem cots gadgety the ohjest of the third gumbo in Voss's Gazette :—" Within the hat few days a' it does set put as end to Reeds& propeaderesse in the number of conftrescse have taken place between the Bleep Sea. amb,ssadors of the Wearers Powers and Count Bud. The allied ablest' insisted, as& were bound to bidet se A gust importance is attached to gum meetings, much the sore firmly I on this geareatee, slue without it since it is poettively stated that the Western Powers all the reel are illseery, due, without the tidied= Of the have made at them n formal ihit the . agetessimi forces el Reeds is the Issiall,the stspoulas not any Jooger confine themselves to the four punts Tag WAn.oryinr.—Lard n a nny . neat aft a l.' Ow erfreearallgieejuresezesteasripusaefoithisthepeDireraasbeis, of gehrantee, but intend establishing bases of pease more in harmony with the efforts which they have Clasee's messesiss on Friday eight, for CossustinerifiLad T u rkey, lthd the °OI been obliged to make to carry on the was lialahleve, with ilsmatehas for rield-Manhal Laud would be shonly suds& RUSSIA. —.— The Northern 800 of St. Petersburg of the 14th publishes an order of the day addressed by the Hett man Adrianoff to the Cossacks of the Don, in which he calls them all to arms, great and small, old and young, with their standards and the sacred images of ihsLv respective parishes at their head. This levy en mays of the Cossacks of the Don will have their head-quarters town of Novo-Tcherkase. A letter from 13t. Petersburg Of the 13th, in the National Patella of Berlin, says :- 18 Many of the Jews in Russia have been of late years converted to Christianity. The number of those who have been thus converted amount in this capital to 80,000. (This number appears very large.) They have been up to this time exempt from military service, but in consequence of the present war, an imperial ukase has just ordered that one in thirty shall be taken for the conscription." ODESSA, joss 10. General von Osten-Sacken has left this city, and proceeded to the entrenched camp in the Crimea be tween the river Betbec and the Tcbernaya-Kietschka. General Liprandi commands the whole of the troops in the field on the right banks of the Tchernaya, and is, therefore, just opposite the enemy. The reinforce- aunts sent by him to the garrison of Kertch were immediately replaced by the advanoed divisions of AMERICAN SHIPS FOR THE CZAR. COPENHAGEN. 'VIII 18. About two years ago a Danish naval officer, Capt , Moller, went to New York, as agent for the Russian government, to engage American shipbuilders to send in drawings and plans, as the Cur intended having a number of large ships of war built in the United States. Among others, Captain Moller applied to the eminent shipowner and builder Mr. Vanderbildt, who, induced by the Lop; of pocketing a few mil % lions of the Csar's spare roubles, refolved to go over to St. Petersburg himself, and pay his parental res pects to the Emperor. This led to the famous expe dition of the North Star, which Mr. Vanderbildt fitted out as a private yacht, and in which, as will be in the recollection of your readers, he visited, in the company of a select number of his friends, not only St. Petersburg and the north of Europe, but made a cruise up the Mediterranean, and proceeded as far as Constantinople before returning to America. Mr. Venderbildt's speculation turned out, however, as far as he was concerned, to be an unfortunate one, for, on arriving at St. Petersburg, he was drily in formed that the Russian Admiralty only intended to enter into contracts for screw steamers. As soon as Captain Moller heard that Mr. Vander bildt had not succeeded in making • contract with the Russian government he applied to another New York shipbuilder, whose name I send you in confi dence, and made him similar offers. This gentle man immediately went to St. Pwersburg in a less ostentatious style than his predecessor, but with better encores, for in six weeks be returned with a contract in his pocket for a screw 84 gun ship of the first class. The keel of this vessel was laid in the presence of three Russian naval officers, who had been previously sent to the United States for that and other business, and the ship is now being com the second army . oerps. Accounts received here from Simpheropol state that the division of heavy dragoons under General Montresor had marched from Kara-en-Bazar in the direction of Kertch, and on the 7th inst. taken up a position on the slopn of the Mithridates mountain. General Chomutoff, the lietman of the Cossacks, boa entered the Crimea by the isthmus of Arsbat at the head of 22,000 irregular cavalry of the Don Cossacks, 7,000 infantry, and 40 pieces of artillery, and was encamped at Aby-Bey for the protection of Kaffa. Here he wu joined by the corps of Lieut.- General Wrangel on the retreat of the latter from Kertch. Ever since the disasters in the Sea of Azoff the Russians have bad several thousand men conti nually at work in erecting new fortifications and strengthening the existing defences of Pertkop, being fully aware of the importance of keeping possession of that isthmus. WARSAW. Susi 18. pleted. According to the conditions of the contract, the shipbuilder engaged to deliver the vessel fully rigged, coppered, and equipped—with the exception of the guns—free at Cronstadt in the course of this summer, and is moreover bound to load her with the timber, ready cut and prepared, necessary to build a second vessel of the same class and similar eine, to be put together in the Russian arsenals. The price stipulated for the 84 gun ship is 840,000 dollars—being just at the rate of 10,000 dollars per 11131-of which 100,000 dollars were paid when the keel was laid down, and 320,000 dollars have been lately paid in bills on London and Amsterdam. The ether half of the purchase sum, as well as the amount of the timber for the second ship, is to be paid on delivery of the vessel at Cronstadt. How the contractor proposes to elude the vigilance of the British fleet now in the Baltic—and by the last accounts actually blockading Cronstadt—is un known. However easily he may succeed is mystify ing the British consul in America, and making him believe her to be a common merchant ship, there is every reawn to hope and believe that the British naval officers in the Baltic will not be so easily de ceived, and that Brother Jonathan will not be able to chuckle at having been " too wide awake he tl • Britishers," as in the ease of the Minis riffs and the revolvers landed this spring at Baltish Port from the American ship Sammy Appleton, as shown up by your correspondent at Memel. At all events, this communication may have the good effect of serving to put the Bridal consuls abroad and the govern ment at home on their guard, and induce them to keep a good look-out, so as not to permit this vessel to slip through their fingers, and oecome in time a formidable antagonist. The Grand Dales Nicholas and Michael, the younger brothers of the reigning Emperor, arrived here last night from St. Petersburg. The former is appointed head of the engineer department in Poland, and will take up his residence at the Belvedere Palace, which is being fitted up for his reception. The Grand Doke Michael will not remain here long, but proceed to Willis, when he is entrusted with • command. Three American officers of the United States army have arrived here from St. Petersburg, where they went to ask permission to go to Sebastopol to watch the progress of events. As they appear to have been actuated by mere curiosity, leave was not granted them, and they will return by way of Germany. The General in the Russian service, and uncle (by marriage) of the Emperor Alexander 11., Prince Peter of Oldenburg, has arrived in this city from Sr. Petersburg, accompanied by the Princess and their youthful Ismily, the Princes Alexander, Nicho las, George, and Constantine, and the Princesses Alexandra, Katherina, and Therese. General Griinwald, one of the aides-de-oamp of the Czar, who was lately sent to Cracow to compliment the Emperor of Austria on his arrival in that city, has returned here from his mission and proceeded to the fortress of Kobryn in the province of Grodno. The Aftonbiodet (Stockholm journal) of the 16th lost. contains news from Finland, stating that the typhus fever is making most fearful ravages amongst the army in Poland. The Finland Rifle Battalion quartered at the little market town of Skopitschki has lost more than half of its men within the short space of a week, for the official reports confess that no less than 320 have fallen a prey to that deadly disease. The second section of the Finland electric telegraph was opened on the 7th Kist ; so that Hel siogtors ts now in immediate communication with St. Petersburg. TRH GERMAN LEGION. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Joni 11. The telegraph will have 1,3 r-g since announced that the Mamelon Vert is now happily in possession of the allies. This important intelligence reached us per Europa at 10 o'ciock last night. The Sultan had just arrived at Tophane for the Iphtar, or to breakfast, as usual, with the Master of the Ordnance, and cele brate the 27th of the Ramazan. This festival is termed the Leilegui-Kadr (Nor providentise), on which, for the coming year, the destinies of men and things are irrevocably inscribed on the book of fate. The vessels in the port, tho morgues, and mioarets, were splendidly illuminated with variegated lamps, and an infinity of rockets and fireworks of every description set the Golden Horn in a blaze till midnight, when the Sultan retired to his palace,' and was graciously pleased to express his madden tion to Feti Pacha at the unusual splendour of this spectacle, in which, however, it is said, he had de rived much assistance from the efforts of French and British officers. The day before the Muter of the Ordnance bad sustained a most serious loos, and his palace at Arnaout-Kepi, or rather that of his de epened wife the Sultana Hatie, was in the short space of a couple of hours entirely consumed by fire. It brae oat in the bath during the long deep slum bers el the Itamasan—so that there were no means even of rescuing the furniture and valuables. Some lives also have been unfortunately lost, and even the two young Hamm Sultanas, with their grand mother—the third wife of the late monarch—rushed out half frantic, and with difficulty escaped the vio lence of the conflegration. They are now residing at the winter palace of Rub. The Sultan no doubt will make good this lass to Fed Pacha, and has on more than one occasion paid his debts, amouating to some millions of piastres. This functionary has been many years in his present employ, and chief, besides, of the sanitary administration, and is, I believe, finally wedded to these posts. He meddles little ex profess° in state administration; but it is a well known fact, that he is the eouddential adviser of the Sultan, and possesses very great personal influence. He is an ardent sectary of Epicurus, and there is none, I be lieve, better versed in the culinary arts, or more devoted to the pleasures of the festive board, which, here sad elsewhere, perhaps, is no small advantage as a steppingstone to favour and court influence. Feti, I believe, is the only Muscats= who has had the honour of kisming the Pope's toe; and during his embassy at Vienna, some years ago, he perticu larly endeared himself to the luxurious natives, by his convivial habits and a succession of splendid fetes. Having been necessarily without his harem in foreign parts, the Princess Metternich ooadiionally used to do the honours and preside at the festivities of the am oassadorial mansion. Mehemet Ali Pacha is still in retirement, and it is reported, 1 cannot say whether with or without foun dation, that Lord Redcliffe has obtained a promise from the Sultan that he shall not be again entrusted with any important functions under government. Ali Puha, the Grand Vizier, was, you are aware, daily expected from Vienna; but I have just heard that he is going to Paris, in the first instance, at the express invitation of the French Emperor. Reschid Fiches is still without employ, but is inva riably consulted on every occasion, and his services sub umbra are not lost to the state at this anxious interim. I have also just heard that the Bastion do Sud is in the pomession of the Allies • but we shall know More a bout this matter towards evening, when the transports, with our woundrd heroes, are expected to acme in port. HOLLAND. HELIGOLAND, Jut(' 18. The recruits from Germany (principally from Hamburg) continue to arrive in small numbers. Not only her Majesty's ship Otter but also the regular steamers between this and Hamburg and our own fishing boats bring almost daily some men for the Legion, whose number is as yet very tar from being " Notwithstanding that 33 huts already stand on the plateau towards the north, and are by no means full, 73 more arrived a day or two ago, and they will be at once erected near the others, much to the an noyance of the potato-field owners, c leared p al ready some three feet high, have been away without much ceremony. The privates have no arms given them as yet, but are only learning the f " goose step," &c., for four 'ours de44-2amely, or two hours in the forenoon and for as many in te.:. afternoon. As most of the men have served before in Austria, Prussia, Hanover, and in the late Schleswig-Holstein war, you may easily imagine that this part of tho drill proves no great stumbling-block to them. M of them, particularly those from Austria, are loud in their praises of the humane treatment and good sub. stantial food which they get here ; to many it appears quite a novelty that a common soldier is treated pro perly, and not like a dog. Colonel Steinbach is still here, and is much liked. Though of German origin he was born in England, where also his lady at pre sent resides. Notwithstanding the fears which the Heligolanders generally entertained, that, through the establish ment of a military depot here, the bathing same would be totally ruined, some ten or twelve families have already arrived, and the steamers will no doubt bring many more from the continent. Among the list of arrivals I observe M. Binder, one of the two Burgomasters of Hamburg. The Otter, 3, Lieutenant Glover, left the anchor age yesterday for Bremerhaven, in order to see what she can pick up there. A very judicious plan has been proposed, and will I believe be shortly executed, namely, the erection of a powerful crane on the south-west angle of the island, close to the Post-office and Government-house, to faci litate the transport of the stores, &c., instead of their being carried the 188 steps up the great staircase, leading up from the lower past of the island, by manual labour. A survey of the face of the cliff, &c., was taken to-day . . Amongst the lad arrivals is Mr. Lindley, the eminent engineer, from Hamburg, who has been inspecting to-day, with Lieutenant Lempriere, ILE, the site for the proposed battery on Sandy Island, for the protection of the rudetead. The plan of fortifying the island itself, as was the case daring the last war, appears to have been abandooed, no traoss of the former fortifications existing now, except the block house at the head of the stairs cut in the cliff, bat the guns themselves were transferred .1 to the Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich. UTRECHT, Ives 20. The English and Dutch engineers, and superin tendents ot the Dutch Rhenish Railway, together with a number of the friends of the managing dire°. tore, met to-day in this city, to the number of about 200, to enjoy the hospitality of tbe contractor, Mr. Brassey. The dining-hall was bemitiful.y . decorated with evergreens nail flowers, while the national flags of England and Rolland gave an additional effect to the scene. A military band in the adjoining garden filled the air with the "essence of operas," while the guests most enjoyingly_discuseed the excellent repast provided for them. The health of the Kiog ot Rol land and of Queen Victoria were succeseively pro-. posed by the chairman, Mr. S. Ballard, and re ce ived most enthusiastically by the company. Mr. Ballard, in proposing the health of their absent host, Mr. Brassey, paid him a feeling tribute of iespect, which was moat cordially reciprocated by his guebte. The company's entire line to Rotterdam will be opened to the public next month, when travellers in search of the beauties of the Rhine will be able to proceed by rail to Arnhem before going on board, thus avoiding the first ten hours journey up the river, the only dreary and monotonous part of the undertaking. The States General have this day accepted the budget of the new Minister of Mertne by a large majority. Th e Amsterdam Royal Academ of Science and y Literature intends presenting a request to the govern ment, soliciting encouragement for native etudents employed in the study of the Chinese and Japanese languages. GERMANY DISARMING. A Berlin correspondent of the Constargionsel writes, in perfrot agreement with the statements published in the German papers: "There are name roes indicavions that the Germanic governments do not suppose that they . will have to co-operate very MOO in =Mary operations. Preparations are being quietly made to reduce the troops lately placed on a - war footing ; men are went to their homes, and horses ace sold which were only purchased a short time ago Telegraphic sommunication between Switserlasd for the mobilisation of the cavalrd iitillery. ailed* will hemisaati os the lit of oast mooch. Everything is done without noise, hut the goveru- A certain number of Russian prisoners are employed moms act as though Germany had no eventuality of on the publie wake in the derirtmant of Dortiosee Was tofear: (Priam). roe be 7• 1 ~