The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-17 00:00:00

ribs expregOl. Mysitismoste imi;Mso7b;rlli• 1;;;... 1 r 4ein ivestai paw. at be at Os Oess. 10. leaverf••trase, by Tee Oink as tais ify of palliation. HIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIMS. Tia lb. 411. Altarsem et. Us. To-mciaaew—Mosaln& M. Ift—Altassos. 6G 27*. LONDON, FRIDAY, Auousr 17. material preoperity has long been regarded as omit pletely established. The controversy about Mor monism has for some time been political in Amnia.. though it may remain religious in Europe. But' { a sadden and prodigious change has Rene over the whole prospect. The first exuninen of the T ground °ula> . ltsisom ething. They reported on the salt lakes of the region,' and were duly disgusted with the slimy shores and shoals; but they did not apply • microscope to the slime. They saw trenches cut where the Indians bad been, with Warn of fire along the bottom; but they probably did not inquire what had been cooked therein. If there had been a naturalist among those pioneers. be might perhaps have preserved the existence of a peculiar people, and changed the character and destinies of the American Union. That slime, several feet thick, and extending over scores of acres, is composed of the lame of insects ; and those trenches are the resource of the natives for food, when the insects leave no chance of gams, and the locusts have eaten every green thing. The locusts, swept into these trenches, have their wings and legs burnt off, and are cooked for food, as in the other valley of the Jordan. The Mormons must this year live thus on locusts or on nothing, for the locusts have left neither crops nor stock. On the former occasion, when they boiled their cabin roofs, the people were relieved by what appeared to them a miraculous intervention. A mul titude of birds of a strange sort alighted on the islets in the lake, and fed on the locusts, and cleared the land of them. It is now too sate for that, and nothing but famine can be looked for. The peculiarity of the cases, that the misfortune seems to compel the breaking up of the entire settle ment. Not only is it impossible to import food at short notice where there is no navigation, and no highway but of impracticable length and difficulty: ! the mischief is inherent in the soil. The enormous TIM Americans are lees likely than most other people to have at their tongue's end the fine apho rism, " L'homse propose, Dien dispose ;" not because they are lees religions than others (the contrary being the fact), but because their strong will and self reliance ena►le them, above most other men, to carry their points and rule their own fortunes. But they sow and then encounter unlooked-for events, which cane them to quote the aphorism referred to, and they do it with the devoutness belonging to a reli gious people—a people proud to acknowledge as their chief distinction and beet element their descent from the Pilgrims. Such an incident is occurring at m eant, and the whole nation is turning from the state , of parties aad the state of the markets, the abundance of the crops, and the power of the heat, and the rain, to contemplate the condition and the fate of the Mormons. It is not only that the social existenoe of a whole section of the people, is trembling in the balance, and that famine is a new and fearful spectacle in a country so extensive end fertile as theirs; the Americans have reasons which lie even defter to their hearts for anxiety as to the fate of the inhabitants of Deseret and Ut.h. cicalas come out of the ground; and the odious locusts, nearly three inch,. long, are declared to be indigenous. The Mormon., we are told, must go: and the interesting question is whither—sod how long it will be before they are again knocking at the door of the American Senate. It is aquestion of growing importance every year, what is to be done with the Mormon State when it must be permitted to take its place in Congress. Except the question of slavery, probably none so difficult—cer tainly none so strange—has offered 'twit in the his tory of the Republic thus far. If the idea could never be for a moment tolerated that represeetatives with dark complexions should sit in Congress—though prosperous examples of such a mingling of com plexions are before the world in the West Indian legislatures—what can be said and done about admitting members to represent a com munity of polygamists, who propose to use their political powers for theocratic purposes, and under a pretence of harmonising their society with a faith subsequent and superior to Christianity? The difficulty is, that there is already so much variety in the relations of the State constitutions to religion and the Bible, that it is not very easy to assign a fair ground for the exclusion of the Mormons ; still every body recoils from admitting them. The southern constituencies plead " patriarchal " authority for their '• peculiar institutions." The State of Connec ticut boasts a constitution extracted bodily from the Jewish law by their forefathers, and merely modified by later legislators. There are portions of the Union which bear strong traces of the prevalence of Romanian; and the strength of the democratic ek slant everywhere has been reinforced by the spreading Catholicism of which we bur so much from dissolving and new-born parties. Amidst these varieties, which constitute the interest, as they make the bout, of American politics, how could the Mormons be excluded from the full privi leges of the Union, pleading, as they do, Scripture warrant or Christian example for every one of their peculiarities, from their polygamy to their 0011C0111- us t ion of spiritual and temporal power in their Pope? Apart from prejudice against their peculiarities, the strongest objection made to the reception of the Mor mons into the Union is on the ground of this very amalgamation of the spiritual and temporal power— or rather, the issue of the temporal from the spiritual, in as far as it is indispensable, and no further. The fear of the wild work that would be made by the admission of this odd caricature of the old popery of Europe into the company of puritanic and progressive constitutions has been spreading and deepening for some years past. If the good Christians of the United States shrink from admitting a representative of a Jewish or a Mohammedan people into Congress, what must they have been feeling at the prospect of ad mitting into their Union • State which curiously unites the characteristics and pretensions of both Jews and Mohammedans ? Before there was any question of such admission, and only a dim and dis tant perception that such a question might arise, certain of the Americans drove out the Mormons from among them, and hoped to have got rid of them in the wilderness. That was precisely the worst thing that could have been done. As always happens in all faiths, the blood of martyrs was the seed of the church. The people thus driven out were seen on their passage over prairie a•d mountain ridge, waiting on the brink of torrents, and hunger ing in parched deserts; and when it appeared that their faith and patience sustained them, that they helped one another as they journeyed, and stopped to sow and plant for those who were to follow, they were as venerable as other confessors and mar tyrs ; and perhaps the tradition of their journey may be as sacred hereafter u that of the voyage of the Mayflower is now to the sons of the Pilgrims ; and the banks of Utah Lake may be holy ground to aflame generation, as fairly as Plymouth Rock is now to the men of New England. Into the wilderness the Mor mons were, however, driven ; and a very safe sort of wilderness in the eyes of those who did not desire to see or hear of them more. There was no seashore where they were, nor any navigable river, nor na tural highway of any kind. This was true : yet beck they came, in the form of deputations, no longer seeking connivance to live, but recognition as a terri tory, preparatory to admission as a state. Within ten years the numbers included in their regular organisation exceeded one hundred thousand, and accretions of thousands and tens of thousands were taking place, is addition to the most rapid natural increase possible. Triers was no doubt of the substantial quality of their strength and pos. perity. They furnished a battalion to the Mexican war; and they were growing rich, in steady pro freesias, after surmountiog desperate hardships. They had settled in a territory which could not show a tree, and where the loose soil absorbed the streams from the snowy peaks of their mountains before they could reach the valleys. One clear and sulkiest stream they named Jordan, and sat down beside it. Their valley of the Jordan was as unlike the Poles tine one as could well be imagined—treeless, parched, and desolate. They cut channels, however, and irri gated the low grounds, and so planned their city as to leave space for avenues of trees and miles of gar dens. Before they Gould benefit by their labour and skill, there came a fearful season, during which they wen compelled to strip off the hides with which they roofed their cabins, and boil them foe food. S ace that year all has gone well with th em till now. Their industry j a " v i t a. tarsi an pastoral ; and their skill and labour have so supplied the natural deficiencies of their • erri tory, and made the most of its powers. that their 1 1 If we were Americans, we should rather regret i (for other reasons than compassion for the immediate calamity) the postponement of the experiment. The steady adherence to the federal principle, which would have been shown by the admission of the Mormons, would have been a floe spectacle of itself; or, on the other hand, the precise spot of weakness would have been disclosed by their rejection. No reasonable man could fear any extension or long duration of Mormonite methods of government or customs of living. These are too thoroughly vicious to stand any comparison or competition with others when brought into united action with them. The desire of Mormonism to join a confederacy lank:tidal. But, to judge by present appearances, it mot wait. It has yet another migration to make. One interest to na distant observers is, that possibly some deluded and disappointed countrymen—and yet more country. women—may get free, and come home again. There is to everybody • stews speculative interest in watching for the next phase in the existence of the most remarkable social enterprise of our time. Cpt court. OSBORNE. AUGUST 16. The Qaeon and Prince, attended by the Countess of Desert and the Hon. Beatrice Bing, drove out yesterday. Lord Panniers and Sir Benjamin Hall arrived from Lon don on a visit. Mr. Prosily, of the Board of Inland It , had an interview with the Chancellor of the Eachequer yesterday , at his official resident* in Downing-street. Despatches were sent yesterday to the Govemor of Gibraltar from the Coloniel•ofee. Despatches were re- laired host the °ovum= of the West India Islands. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OP KENT'S BIZTEDAY.—This day being the anniversary of the birth of her Royal Highness the Dachas of Kent, a peal of bells was rung front every chunk in the metropolis. The Royal standard was baited at the churches of St. Mary's Abbott's, Remington, St. Margaret'o, Westminster, and St. Martin's. in-the-Fields. The various steamers were decorated with Sags and colours of all nations. In the evening the trades man of her Royal Highness will dine together, and their boacs will be illuminated. Her Royal Highness is 69 years 1 1 of age. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge entertained the Dacha's of Wellington and a select yam to dinner last evening, at Cambridge Commas, Kew. The &whams, soccompaaied by the Hereditary Grand Dachas of Ysokleabargh•Btnlitz and the Priaceos Mary, leave early It the ananiag week, on a tour. The Earl and Countess of Warwick are expected home early to the autumn, from s protracted abeam on the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Malatesbary have left lowa fee %Gilead. Bad Grey has returned to Howick Hall, near WarrLek, tejoin the eennteer. A select family circle will siteetly congregate Mere. His E:aelisacy the Marquis d'Azeglio has left town for the German Spas, as wage, for a month. Vimennt and Visooentess Palmerston entertained Lard and Laiy Stanley of Alderley, Lady William Russell, the Right Hon. Wm. Cowper, the Right Has. 0. W. Hay. tar, the Hoe. Mrs. Norton, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, and Mies Clifford, Mr. Fleming, Mr. A. Craven, Mr. Wm. Rase, sad a select party, at dinner, last evening, at their, residents in Piccadilly. Lord Redeedale and the Hon. Miss Mitford have leg town for the noble lord's seat in Oxfordshire. The Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart, M.P., sad Lady Graham sad family, have gone to Netherby Hall, Onarberland, having delayed their departure for the conti nent until the Mom of the ensuing month. Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park, died suddenly on Tuesday hat. This lady, so well known to fashionable circles, was, up to the neaten, of her death, apparently In l ezeslient health. Sir C. Wood, the Hos. M. F. F. Berkeley, M.P., . . . . _ _. . . _ _ Beer-Admiral Peter Richards, C.B , Captain Sir Baldish; W. Walker, R.N., H.C.8., &a., Colonel Green, Royal Baptisers, &e., paid as Aida visit to Sheerness yesterday . Yesterday, the Grenadier Guards, in oonsequenes of the intelligence of the sacerssfal attack on the fortress of Swesberg, were, by the eoianiand of the colonel, granted a genera holiday, and the drills and training entirely sm. vended for the day. On Wedneed4 the Emperor and the Empress of the Frensh held a reception at the Palma of the Tuileries. The Emperor, attar the official receptions, was pleased to allow a number of fenignen of distinction to be presented to him by the Papal Nuncio, the English Ambassador, the &Iglu, Neapolitan, Prussian, Austrian, Saxon, Portu guese, Sardinian, Angriest', Ditch, and Spanish Ministers, and by that Chamois d'Affaires of Tuscany end Orme. The Emperor afterwards rossived Mr. M. Fillmori, ex-President of the United States, and also Baron de Gritty, and Major Chevalier Bowes. de Daewoo', Constaheionm and Deputy- Comaissiemes at the Exhibition for the Argentine Cu.federation. Another new jointetoek bank is in course of forma tion, celled the Western Bak of Loodoa. The object of this beak is to afford basking aosoramodatios, more cape • sally to the nobility and gentry, sad is order to gin greater facilities to parties raiding at the west red of the meta -1 polio, it is prepaid to bare two boards of direction—ate to Masai to Met departaseat, and the ethos to regalia the City balsas. This proposed 'apical is 600,0004 in abuse of 1001. gab. Mr. Park, the eminent sculptor, died yesterday at Warriagtoo, Ia his 48th year. The dimmed, who woe a native of Olmgew, !nada leader Therwsithea, at Rome, sad was a matseeporary &rapt with Oilers. Rh buts of the Simperer Napalms 111., the Duke of Cambridge, Mr. Loped, M.P., Biz Harry Smith, the late Bit Charles Napier, lewd Lord Dmidesaid, are well Immo. THE EXPRESS. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1855. 'MOST IMPORTANT FROM THEICRpkiI4. . . • GREAT SLAUGHTER OF THE ENEMY. Reports are current in well informed quarters that as attack made by the Russian in great fore' upon the Allied lines before Sebutopol has been triumphantly repulsed, with comparatively small lose on our part, whilst the enemy has suffered I I greatly. We are in hourly expectation of receiving details of this affair from the government. THE BOMBARDMENT OF SIVFAI3ORG. DEPARTURE OF THE FLEETS FOR CRONSTADT. (ST ELECTS." (SNOW OUR OWN 1.) ilUrt.) DANTZ IC, FRIDAY. The Vulture hes arrived, having left Sunhat on Monday. She reports the latter place to be completely destroyed, including the fortifications. The fleets left on the 13th—partly for Nargen, and partly for Cron stadt. The Indlpetidance Be* of yesterday contains the following communication relative to the bombardment of Sweaborg, from a correspondent at Hamburg. The writer in question is generally believed to enter tain sympathies with our antagonist, and his intelli gence stops short of the/ male : " HAMBURG, Auo. 14. "If we may attaeh credit to btutiness letters re ceived this morning from the Baltic ports, the allied fleets, after leaving Nargen, ranged themselves on the Bth before Sweaborg. The next day they cons =need a general bombardment against the fortress, which in its tarn replied to the fire from :every bat tery. The first attack appears to have had no great effect. " On the 10th, the Allies advanced against Bwea borg a reinforcement consiating of great vessels of war, throwing a mass of balls, bombs, and Congreve rockets, the greater portion bursting in the sea. On this day no Russian battery in the ports had been dismounted. The number of cannon which thun dered against the place was estimated at about 600. The noise was distinctly heard many miles from the sea, and all the people of the country and of the op posite coast hastened to the shore. At Libau,' every broedside from the enemy was plainly beard. "It appears that on the 10th no result had been obtained by the Admirals, and the latter were arrang ing to recommence the attack the next day with all their available strength. The vessels now engaged before Bweaborg show a total armament of at least 1,200 guns. "Every hour, every moment. we hope to be able to learn the result of this terrible bombardment— the first undertaken by the allied fleets against a Russian fortress in the Baltic in their two mari time campaigns." Advioes from Konigsberg state that when the attack on Sweaborg began the Grand Duke Constan tine, immediately informed by telegraph of the event, demanded leave to go out and attack the reduced fleet before Cronatadt. The Emperor refused. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. CROWDED STATE OF PARIS. MOIL OCII OWN 00/1/LIMPONDENT.) PARIS, THUILIIDAT HYMNING. _ _ Anything like the crowds now flocking into Paris hem all points of the compass I never saw during a seeidence of many years, and I am very certain that Ms like was never seen in all foregoing time. Pori. trap petit, the prophetic title of a farce brought out am days eines, is now a reality. I went last night Se meet some English friends at the railway statics. The tidal train came in two hours behind time, as it hie dose frequently of late owing to the im ams number of passengers and the quantity of ingsge they bring with them. Ball by the sissaisible boar of ten at night my friends were in a ✓ob. to search of lodgings, as enterprise in which I essempauded them. My knowledge of Paris en abled me to take them to the likeliest places without Ws of time, and so far they had an advantage over *angers, who would go at once to the best known places, which of course were the most likely to he fall But vainly for two hours I tried all the bye streets that I could think of as little likely Se be known to visitors. At every door the mdform answer " quite full" was given. In meney instances groups of travellers were standing One the entrance. consulting in a desperate state et mild what they were to do. The hotel and lodging.. Man keepers were so tired of turning people awq Mad May would sometimes scarcely tura their heads M WOW, the question whether there was a bed Is Ms harm The driver of the carriage became tired stMe user, and instead of making any comfortable amigesdsk told us that he thought we had very little abeam of finding room anywhere. On being rebuked oleo volanteeriog this opinion, he said in as apologetic lens, :that he was now continually taking travellers about in myrrh of lodgings withouesucesse. In one obscure street we were offered a mieerahle garret with two small beds in it for Bfr. per night. This offer was eagerly closed with ; but as my friends were about to take possession, they were told time they must take the lodging at that rate for a foe.- night. The discomfort, which would have been chess. fully faced for the sake of a night's shelter, was set sufficiently tempting to be taken on lease, and therefore the search was continued. Proposition were kris to try the Qoartier Latin and the Marais, rim. guide-books say house-room is cheaper than is the quarters usually visited by the English, but by a happy accident, a garret was at length found in a less outlandish latitude, at a price considerably me• ceeding what would be paid for a good room at the Buston-equare HoteL I feel perfectly certain that very many who will arrive this evening and es morrow, are doomed to pass the sight in the streets. While on this subject, I will proffer a piece of advise to English visitors which may be very serviceable ft those who would spare themselves the snoop ante of losing two of the beat hours of the day in a closely peeked and unsavoury crowd, with the thermometer at a high degree. Let them not have their letters addressed to the Poste natant*, if they know of a friend Rho will receive them. In =lbw this the Porte restos& is very convenient, bat now the extra clerks work in vain to eupply the depend. The crowd of appliosnts overflow the room provided for their reception, and extend in a long genie, far into the court-yard of the establishment. The price of butter, eggs, milk, and other perishable articles of food, rises almost hourly. Carriages are very scarce. The omnibuses are almost always "templet," and you may often look in vain for an boor for a cab or other vehicle. The Universal Ex hibition was as full to-day with visitors at 1 franc as I have often seen it on the four-sous day. The Prefect of Police has published an ordonnance relative to the measures of order to be observed on the entry of the Queen of England. From 9 o'clock no carriages will be allowed to pees along any of the streets through which the cortege will pass from the Strasbourg terminus to St. Cloud; the different depu tations belonging to the city of Paris who have de manded permission to join the cortege will have places assigned them ; the deputations from the com munes of the banliene are to amemble, headed by their banners, in the grand f the Champs Elyeess, where plums will be reserved for them. The ordonnanoe concludes with the nasal interdiction against erecting scaffoldings, climbing on trees or lamp-posts, &e. The destruction of Bweaborg bay produced no great effect upon the Bourse. The Rents only rase 200., closing at 69fr. 250. Bank of France ruse 23fr. Rail ways improved from Mr. to 100., but business was not very brisk. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON. [The following appeared in the late edition of yesterday 1 evening's Express] : (PROM A SLIPPLIAINNT TO TEI GAZIITTI OP TIIIISDAY LAST.) WAR DRPARTMENT, Avo. 16. Lord Palomar, has this day received' a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Lordship by General Simpson, com manding her Majesty's forces in the East. BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Atrousr 4, 1856. My Lord,—l have the honour to acquaint your Lordship that on the night of the 2nd instant, be tween ten and eleven o'clock, the enemy made a sortie in considerable force by the Woronzoff-road. The strength of the enemy is computed to be about 2,000. Their object was to destroy a heavy iron chevaux de frieze, made emcee the Woronsoff-road, between our right and left attacks, and being further supported by heavy columns in rear, to take advan tage ,of such circumstances as might present them selves. They came on with loud (sheers and bugling, and were received with great gallantry by our advanced' piequet, under the command of Lieutenant It. E. Carr, of the 39th Regiment, who withdrew his men, firing at the same time upon the enemy, to the main body, under the command of Captain Leckie, 39th Regiment. A heavy and well-dircteed fire was opened upon the enemy by the party under Captain Leckie on the Woronsoff-road, as also by the guards of the trenches on the right of the 4th parallel, under the command of Captain Boyle, of the 89th Regiment, and Captain Turner, of the Ist Royals,whicb, in about ten minutes, caused the enemy to retire from an attack which, if it had not been so well met, might have been a serious affair. Tne enemy left four men killed, and some wounded were carried away. We had only one man slightly wounded in this affair. I have the honour to transmit the returns of casual ties from July 30 to Aug. 2. I have the satisfaction of informing your Lordship of the return to this army of Captain Montagne, of the Royal Engineers, from being a prisoner of war. He expresses himself highly grateful for the kind ness with which he was treated by the Russians during his captivity. It is with great regret that I have to communicate to your lordship that Lieutenant-General Sir R. England, G.C.8., has been compelled, upon the re commeocation of a Medical Board, to return to England. Sir R. England is the last of the General Officers who left the United Kingdom in command of a Division ; he has remained at his post throughout the trying beats of Bulgaria, and the severities and hardships of the winter's campaign in the Crimea; and great credit is due to this officer for the constancy and untiring seal he has exhibited in carrying out arduous and difficult duties on all oocasions.—l have, &0., JAMES SIMPSON , . . . General Commanding. The Lord Panmure, &e. &e. NVISIZICAL RUTIN M CAMILTIU rows TR SOTE OP MT TO swa lan or hoover omens. ard Bottalke Grenadier Guards 1 nal and eb wounded. let Bails lon lee Regiment at Foot-1 rank and Ille wounded. Std Foot-1 rank and Me kthad. 7th Foot-2 rank and Me lulled; 9 rank and Ale wounded. 9th Foot-3 rank sad tlie wounded. 17th Foot-4 rank dad Ile wounded. 19th Foot-2 rink and Ile killed ; 1 eargo 96 l. 8 rink and Me wind ed. 26th Foot -1 rank and wounded. Slot Feot-1 rank and file wounded. 21rd Foot-1 rank ani al* killed. 1 rank and lie wombat Slat Foot —1 aergear.t. 1 rank and Els wounded. 33rd Foot-1 ranking lie tilled. 31th Feea—l reek leas wounded. 39th 9asa-1 rank sal IN wounded. hilt fest-3 nal tad Le killed ; 4 rank and ale wounded. 42nd lest-1 rift ma W killed ; 3 rank and de wounded. 46% Poot—l rook mil m oan ed. 47th Foot--S rank and Ills woundol. MA Foot-4 rink ard 1. womb& Oak rust—l rank awl Ms womb. Mk ha— reek awl lb wennisd. 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"W. lath Foot—Privet, Maul Thine, senney. at natal.= —Prints Jabs nemmen„ severely. Ted bettallme Lae St= Private A. Weikleyliew, severely. - Taly bi.--Ist lattalhen Ist !boa—Prints John BMW, ellsbliy. 7th Foot -Prlvates m =Jeml y rverely; Walks Wonlin si s: semi; Wl.ltans • 9th rest—Pthatas Melt, slightly; Parfait Bang, dightly. MIA Illot—Mvalls Adis Welsh. slightly. 4110 Isst— Prams Willies Oapplepr ispody. 45111 Foot—Prints Timms Ilardoek. sow*. •IIII; m .. 1 ninth mama% stlattly ; private Mast Ekitatkrs 33k1410•-•ltheill MAN Lenart. severely. .S Fait— 'mil= I Jelin Dlsos. severely. Mk Jabs Illtblrest—lNinits Jana 021" 1-1 = 1 . 1 lat Mob* R.II• Plaid; Doebsig, Sempeinly. Ammo 11.—trl 115111les Oresselsr Omai—hirels CYAN. 'NO. ilehtly. 1716 Pah—Male Wll linda. ollikilly. list Blet—Printe Aland faimik severely. dal Foot—Primes john 11seur, alish ; JUr rest A itme. ; Almada Harr" saabtly. 47th arionly; Alleboat Ealg;severely; Jeln Igo% deverell i hes mattUY. 4 1 Ith Rot —Pre y Farb Liae. severely. Mk Private John mgr.* dlghtly. la Battalion law Delgada—Moats Edward Canntedhow,lrranaly. . __ . _ assiiiti.Lab ifia-Private Jobs Mb, ilsagmarly. lah not Irmilinell NOMPar, slightly ; Iramaergant Mho Dark% titliFoub-Eikala D. Funra. sowely. 11111740-441- lobate YWodiallay. Sat Mot-Pria Jurtama aunill, adiut Mika . fah PeetPrints kba ay, aft la Mller. lamely ; Prints ; PrivalZk ie ftwevallk 7 y; Mara Ei ; Aka dliat ni ll ow iti reetOxpeal Vaasa ; ritgalls alsluty; haw Orsa. ; Misr alitaly; Dade Wanfia. saglam. /Ha lam alli Maie latedivara s semely. lath Saut-reisels 110. len Malta AWN al PM adials-Itheal Iftebrisk ..... UM & la , Oat, wordy. . NAVAL AND MILITARY. NEWS OF THE SULTAN STEAMER. Om immoral o (71011 OUR OWN IN, FRIDAY NOSNINO. News has been received here of .the Sultan steamer, about which, ae she was more than a week overdue, there has been great anxiety. It appears that she left Melts on tie 30th July, and broke down on her way to Gibraltar, on the Bch August. She find signals of distress, and the Lepanto, a Spanish man-of war steamer, came to her assistance, and towed her Into Gibralt•. r. Her mails, which consist of the heavy portion of the Indian mail, arrived here this morning in the transport screw steamer Alike, in charge of Lieutenant Boltoe, R.N., the Admiralty agent. All the passengers were left at Gib raltar. The Sultan, it is expected, will be home in a few days. ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 16.- APPOINTMENTS. - Lieuteseat 0. II Brock, to the Alecto, 0, paddle-wheel stasis shop of 200-horse power, at Woolwich. Midshipman It F. Craven, to the Archer, 14, Mew steam ship of 202-horse power, with the Baltic fleet. WOOLWICH, Aritioar. 16. Captain H. E. Edgell, R.N., having passed his ex amination in the study of steam at Portsmouth yard, Rader the aew regiletiona, has been appointed to 'he Tribune, 31, steam vessel of 300 horse power, io the Black Sea. A number of invalids of the Royal Sappers and Minns, who have returned from the Crimea, will receive their medals on Friday (today), at 12 o'clock, on their Parade Ground at the rear of the Ordn►nce Hospital. The medals will be presented by Lisutenant-Geoeral Sir John F. Bargoyatt, G.C.B. SHEERNESS. Alwyn- 16. The iron grew steam transport Adelaide arrived here yesterday, at 7 p m., from London, and has received on board Captain Burrows's company of Artillery from the garrison here, la command of Captain Eaton Travers, and Lieutenants Carpenter and Dodson. Dr. Sharp, of the Medical Staff, also embarked. Captain Burrows's 4th com pany, 4th Battalion, consisted of 100 gunners and drivers ; total, with non-mmtnissioned ()Seem &c., 130 men. Capt. Borrows uoes not accompany his men out, is he received official orders to proceed with all &apish (on particular service) to Constantinople. The Adelaide also takes out 40 men for the Turkish Contingent. 60 Sappers, and GO horses for the Turkish Artillery. She left here this day at 9 a.m., direct for Constantinople. She has also a large supply of munitions of war fur the use of the Turkish army. THE ROY AL TACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON CUP. COWES, THURSDAY JOINING. From the nature of the course selected, time would not permit any particulars to be transmitted of the race for the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup beyond the start, which con►isted of a smaller number of yachts than had been entered as competitors for the prise. Both the Claymire and the Bacchante were withdrawn after the cards of the day had been printed, leaving the race to the Olorians, Alarm, and Wildfire. At 10h. 26m. 305., the preparatory gun was fired, which was followed by another exactly in four minutes, for start ing. The Wildfire was the float to get round, but the Alarm was soon in her wake, and the Gloriana rather sluggishly bringing up the rear. On coming abreast of Old Castle Point, the latter hauled down her racing fisg, denoting that she gave up the contest, but nevertheless she continued on the course. Soon alter passing Norris Castle, the Alarm took the lead, and continued to increase the distance as she promeded.. At 11e. 45m. a boat was stationed off the Nab light ship, as • mark that the course was to lie between it and tee island. The sidling committee's steamer Medina then ran out nearly ten miles north of the light, when she brought up at 12e. 6m., as • mark for the extent of the course. The Nab light was passed by the yachts as under : Alarm, 11h. 54w. thee. ; Wildfire, 12e. 3m. Osee.; Glenna., 30wc. The committee's vessel was rounded in tee following order : Alarm, 12b. 21m. Osee. ; Wildfire, 12b. 35m. 30sec. ; (Sunni, 12e. 4em. Osec. The race was concluded as follows: Alarm, 3b . din. Osec .; Oloriana, 3h. 30m. Osee. ; Wildfire, 3h. 5 0m. 20,ee. From the above narrative of the race for the great prise of the royal yacht squadron, it will be reen that the result has been unattended with that degree of interest that has usually attached to the possession of the Squadron Cup. With the well-known racing qualities and superior tonnage of the Alarm, it certainly cannot be wondered at that owners of yachts should hesitate to start them against her on such unequal preponderance, and perhaps it may be worth the while of the committee to consider for the future whether it would sot be well so far to classify tie yachts that something like justice may be done to those of small tonnage against their weighty competitors. Another subject also re quires consideration, and that is as to the uncertainty which prevails as to what vessels will start for a particular race, for although entries ate required to be closed a certain time before the day of sailing, yet frequently they are with drawn at •short notice. Among those present at the squadron annual dinner were the following :—The Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton (Com modore of the R.Y.S.); C. R. M. Talbot, Esq , M.P. (Vice Commodore) • Captain t h e Hon. Joseph Denman, Captain Crispin, the 'Marquis of Conyngbaw, Captain J. W. E. Ponr•nby, R. W. Harvey Esq. ; Rich a rd Freekland, Esq.; H. Baring, E•q , 11 , P.; Sir Bellingham Graham ; Spencer Do Horsey, Esq ; the Right Hon. H. Corry, M.P. ; Captain C. H. Williams, ft N. • Sir Percy Shelley, Bart.; J. Gee, Esq.; W. Delefleld, E. S. B.cynolde, Esq. ; Dr. Hoffmeitter; A. Campbell, . ; G. Holland Ackeis, Esq., Commodore of the Royal ictoria Yacht Club; Le Merchant Thomas, Esq., &c., &c. Tomorrow her Majesty's Cup will be sailed for, and for which the following yacht. are entered : Bacchante.. 80 .... B. H. Jones, Esq. Aurora .... 60 .... Le Marchent Thomas, Esq. Lavrock .. 72 .... Captain C. H. Williams, R.N. Gondola .. 87 .... I'. Hughes, Esq. NEWSPAPERS TO THE COLONIES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES. This morning the following Poet-office notice wee issued General Post office, August, 18.56. Henceforth it will not be necessary that newspapers sent , abroad, whether to the British colonies or to foreign noun tries, should bear the impressed stamp (the old newspaper stamp); but, as at present, a postage of one penny must be Iprepaid (either by means of a postage label or in money) on every newspaper sent to a British colony, with additional postage (according to the table in Instructions No. 46i, when a newspaper passes through a foreign country. The postage on newspapers to foreign countries remains the same as given in Instructions No. 46 ; but, so already stated, it is no longer necessary that the newspaper should bear the impressed stamp. In future the impressed stamp will be required only in eases of repeated transmission of the same newspaper In this country, though it will of course be available also for single transmission in this country. In the transmiesion of newspapers abroad (whether to the *dudes or foreign countries), the use of the impressed stamp will entirely cease ; It will neither be required nor will it count as postage, as it will be presumed that w►ere it is employed, it has already served for the transmission of the newspaper in the United Kingdom. From these regu lations it will necessarily follow—lit. That every newspaper goirg abroad mast hereafter hays the postage to which it is liable represented by adhesive postage stamps, or paid in money. 2nd. That a newspaper, whether published with or without the impressed stamp will be placed in the same position for transmission abroad. 3rd. That the impressed stamp will hereafter only apply to transmission and retrans mission within the United Kingdom.—ButrLenn HILL, Secretary. BOOKS, BCS., TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA.—GENERAL POST. Orrics, AvorsT, 186.5.—0 n and from the Ist Sep tember next, the provisions of the colonial book poet, as laid down ix Instructions No. 10 of this year, will be extended to books transmitted by private ship direct, or by packet via Melbourne, between the United Kingdom and the colony of Western Australis. Upon book packets for the above mentioned colony, the rates of postage will be as follows, l vis.:—For a packet, not exceeding Pb. in weight, 6d. ; ex. seeding vb. and not exceeding lib., le.; exceeding Ilb. and not exceedng 21b., 2.. ; and so on, increasing Is. for every pound or fraction of a pound.—Rowirrra HILL, Secretary. The new Turkish Ambassador was ill when he arrived in Paris, bat he is now better, and his physicians hope that he will soon be able to attend to business. "We learn," gays the Frei., of Vienna, " that Getters] Osten-Sicken hts applied to be relieved of his SOM• mead at Sebastopol, on account of the state of his health. It is doubtful, however, that the Emperor will secede to his application." PROSPECTS FOR THE IST OF SEPTIMBRIL—We are happy to inform our sporting friends who attach them selves to the trigger, that their prospects for the Ist are better than ander the elrnmstanore of the lowa bad been anticipated. The severe winter, it was feared, had made havoc monist the partridges, but they appear to have borne It bravely, and the dry weather in the hatching ma nn being favourable to the young birds, the caries are not likely to be fond so meagre or saaree.—Chstiatford CAroisielf. THE TWELFTH OF AUGUST. ... That all-important day in the aportalnan's calend s , —the 12th of August—having this year fallen on a the grouse were permitted a day's respite; bat on Mom% morning by early dawn the moors opened for the The morning was all that the most ardent 'ports:a te em u desire, without too much sunshine to present a sure aim. The grouse are very scarce—the coveys being m u m but the birds are st rong an d wild Si the 1,4 being very d:filcult to get near, frequently rising bi yards distant. Mr. John Sloan killed eight brace of gee birds on Barbeth, which, the scarcity of birds considered, may be deemed a good day's spo r t. D ur i ng the period of latching, the shepherds found numerous nests with sight to a dozen eggs in each, with the birds dead in the shell above a fortnight old; Two other Dumfries guineas° killed is the neighbourhood, one nine brace of grouse, and the othee seven, besices 1 snipe. On this rotted there were a larg e number:of cheapen!, and what birds were grown were very wild.—Dssmfries Courier. 0101111* shooting ea te . mooed on Monday morning, and a most pleasant day it earned out for the sport. The accounts of the state of the moors continua conflicting, but the keepers on the belt pr o , served grotu,da esproct an average number of buts -44 the uplands there will be a deficiency. So far as account' have reached as, however, fair sport has been experienced. Th e party at Clubnadarroch, Rhynie, bagged about 140 brace at Ballogie, 120 brace were brought down ; at lt/ - byte, Mr. Todd and party had between 60 and 70. Mr. Forbes' Leith, of Whitehaugh, shot 26 brace to his own gun pi the 13th. At Anchmedden, Skellater, &e., the " carnal*" we hear, have been severe, and the bags, as usual, heavy. The birds are found in different stages, but mostly well grown. Many parties will not commence in earnest nil about the 20th, by which time we shall doubtless hear el more killing work.—Aberdeen Journal. In %AMU, the day was generally favourable, lad bating the weakness a/ the birds, and their comparative scarcity, fait spun met have been had among the hills. Mr. Grant, of Beleee sey .. and Mr. Simpson, jun., of Cobairdy, went oat to the gel. dorn.y moire at sine a.m., ant at one p.m. they hating* twenty-seven brace of grouse and three blue harm. They found game plenty, but wild, and pretty well green,_ Ban/ Journal. We are unable (says toe Brecht.' Advertiser) to give an account of the success of the sports. men in this quarter; bat we may mention that the Rdzell post brought four boxes here from Invermark Lodge, which were delivered at Rdeell early in the day. The ac- counts of the state of the moors are conflicting, but the keepers of misty of the best grounds in the Highlands state that there is good reason to expect an average number of birds on moat moors. We are unable (says the AyrOlverea) to give soy particulars of the first day's sport, our day of publication following so closely on the opening of the shoot ing sewn. We may state, however, that on Beech Moor, mean Maybole, a place of only some 106 acres in extent, see gun shot 14 braes. The Hon. T. F. Kennedy's keeper also bagged 14 braes on Donuts Moor. This is good shooting.— , Up to the time of our going (to pram (says the Perth Conan. eutiones/) we have no accounts from the moors, farther them that 36 boxes of grouse arrived in town on their way to Ragland, a large additional quantity being expected by the evening mail. SELECT COMMITTEES. -•-- This morning a return was issued of the Select Committees appointed by the House of Commons daring the last session. There were in all 39 committees, and 249 members d on them, while 405 members did not sera on any select committee at all. The Adulteration of Food Committee sat 10 days ; Arctic Expedition, 7 ; Army before Sebastopol, 47 ; Bills of Exchange Bill, 6; Chairman's Panel, 1; Criminal Justice Bill, 7 ; Divorce Bills, 6; Downing-street Public Offices Extension Bill, 1; Edinburgh Lands Bill, 1 ; Expiring Laws, I ; General Committee of Elections, 6; General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, 9 ; Huddersfield Burial Ground Ad Amendment Bill, 1 ; Inverness Bridge Bill, 1 ; Kitchen sad Refreshment Rooms, 3; Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Bill, 4 ; Library of the House (a standing Committee) did not meet last session; Loan Fund Societies, 8; London Writ, 6; Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Advances Bill, 4 ; Me tropolitan Buildings Bill, 9 ; Metropolitan Communications, 13; Militia Estimates, 1; Office of Speaker, 4 ; Poor Removal 14; l'ostal Arrangements (Waterford, &e.), 11 ; Printing (a standing Committee) did not meet ; Printing (Hoven of Parliament, &c.), 12; Public Health,Bill and Nuisance. Removal—Amendment Bill, 21 ; Public Petitions, 64; Public Prosecutions, 10; Sale of Beer Act, 8; Summit Militaryßeal College, 9; Selection, 20; Standing Orden, 32; Standing Orders Revision, 3; Stoppage of Wages (Hosiery), 22 ; and Woolnaer Forest Bill, 1. The total ex pense of the attendance of witnesses was 8181. 8.. 641. The director-general of the police at Parma hu issued a notice reminding travellen in general that their passports must be signed by the ambundon or console of the State of Patina residing in the places through which they have passed. Traveller, neglecting this rule an liable to be Mopped at the frontier. Cholera continues to spread in the Lombardo-Vo nstisn provinces. A curious accident occurred the other day to Che. taller Aseglio at the baths of Polio. It seems that 34 d'Aseglio, to amuse the visitors at the baths, caused the lights of the room in which t►ey were assembled to be sud denly extinguished, and at the ism, momenta boy, mounted on stilts, covered with a long sheet, and carrying in his hand a vessel containing spirits of wine, in a flame, stalked NO. leanly in. The ladle' fled in dismay, sod in the confusion thus caused the pretended ghost :was brushed against, and he nearly fell. In staggering the vase was jerked from his hand, and all its burnicg contents were cut in t►e face of Y. d'Aseglio, injuring him sadly. A bill has been presentedto the French Council of State for doubling the amount of the pensions to widows and orphans of soldiers of all grades killed by the enemy, et who die is the war. The bill in question will be presented to the Legislative Body at its nest session, but the Minister of War has been authorised to augment provisionally such pensions with the funds of which he disposes, and which 1171110 from national subscriptions. The Parksmento of Madrid asserts that M. Olozsga officially informed the Emperor of the French, in a recent audience granted by his Majesty, that the Spanish govern ment has aloptcd the resolution 112 take part in the war against Russia, and of sending an army to the East. The experiments with the agricaltaral machines in the Paris Exhibition, which were announced to come off on Tuesday at Trappe, (Seine-et-Oise), took place on %fun belonging to M. Daily, in the presence of a great many 11- tern, and scientific men, foreign commissioners of the Ex hibition, egriculturistr, dre. By ne persons was as much admiration expressed as by some Arab chiefs who wore there, and who more than once expressed their determina tion to introduce into their own country some of the won derful machines which they beheld at work. The Danish Diet was opened on the 12th by the Prime Minister, Bang, in the name of the King. - A Royal decreo convokes the Bavarian Diet at Munich en the lit of the ensuing month. A letter from Lisbon mentions the sudden death of General Arbta, ez•President of Mexico, while on hie wag from Cadiz to Southampton. The Portuguese journal, the Rerolum de Seen an organ of the Saldanha administration, publisher an article in praise of Spain for her adhesion to tke Witten Alliance. It is concluded that Portugal will not be long is following the example. The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs hu left Brussels for Germany on his way to Paris. The Ministen of Interior and Flamm are also about to visit the latter city. M. Lesseps is said to have confided the mango agent of the works connected with the new undertaking of the Isthmus of Suez, to M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire. It would appear that the mills in the United King dom cannot produce a sufficient supply of gunpowder, as no lees than five cargoes, manufactured in Belgium and Hol land, on amount of the British rmernmen*, ham tuosatly been imported end housed at Perfieet. A reward is offered for the restoration of two fie male children, " belonging " to, but stolen from, s Mt. Thompson, staying at the Bedford Hotel, Corent•gardee. The children are described as " African twins, mulatto. about five years old, and joined together at tke back•boae." Toe "stags-door of Drury-lana Theatre "is mactionid the advertisements, and the hand of a Barnum is lUD. cersible. One of the Royal Mail Packets is announced to . taket party of excursionists from Dover to Bottloflot is witness the arrival of the Royal Yacht, and the hindiag her Majesty. The steam packet will leave Dover on the arrival of the train that I London-bridge at 10 minims put 8 on Saturday morning, and will return to Dover hi time for the excursionists to leave for London by the half. past 7 o'clock train the suss evening.