The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-20 00:00:00

et, expreoo. a.ortlatmeats laio7l:lrorllreit;;;llFlWini twang mar, nut to at tbe Moo. 10. lour et. b Too oNdsok es the day of publloados. HIGH WATIIR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DAT—Naralag. IL lea „ Mimeos. IL MM. TO•ll.lllLOW—Jlaralag, IL Out Aftmsocio, lb. 24*. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20. THE QUEEN of ENGLAND Is at this moment in France, without a single guard to defend bee from the possible attacks of the "hereditary enemy" of , England. There is the QUEEN of this mighty ORtiOD, utterly denuded of all protection, save that which is ascend to her by the chivalrous sentiments of those amongst whom she hu thrown herself, but yet without a single doubt as to the nature of the re °option she will meet with. Has she miscalculat',d the result? Every rational man in England and France will exclaim, " No, a thousand times no." With all due deference to Neroizom 111.. the chosen. of eight millions, we assert that at this moment be divides his popularity even in France with Queen VICTORIA. " Perfulo Albion" in the gentle guise of a most gra cious Queen, is reposing in loving confidence on the heart of France. Without one sentimental appeal to chronology or topography, which we leave to learned cootemporaries ; without lagging forward that eternal FROISOART, doomed at the present day to be resuscitated at the pleasure of any one who wishes to point a paragraph ; without, in abort, any lumbering historical fact in the way of proof, we are safe in declaring that this is one of the most significant facts in modern history. It is a fact which has such a large signifi cance that it may be understood by any one who knows no more of history than may be learned by the perusal of the records of the events of the last twenty years. During this time the antagonism between the countries has several times reached its height. Princes of the blood royal in France have endeavoured to found political capital on this antagonism, and have sought popularity by showing how delightfully the shores of England might be ravaged at the smallest trouble and cost. French statesmen have appealed to this antagonism, and have mounted several steps of the political ladder by denunciations of "perfle Albion." French writers and musicians have sought to make themselves a name by writing and giving musical emphasis to some such phrases u, being interpreted, mean "Never, oh never, shall the English reign in France." But all this hue, the product of the hot fire of poli tical selfishness', applied by princes and statesmen, writers and artists, to the stream of an imperfectly educated public opinion, has been swept away, never, we hope, to return, and the two nations see each other clearly, with all their great qualities sharply &filled in the transparent atmosphere of truth. This is a fact which wants no idustration from ancient or mediaeval history. It is one which appeals to the most Imptrtant feelings, awakened by the knowledge of recent facts. Two mighty sovereigns can visit each other without any difficulty, except that arising from the tremendous enthusiasm excited by the subjects of ea,:b. The circumstances of the ceremony, as they have been related in the public journals, are calculated to bring forward the greatness of the fact in its strongest light. The Emperor of the FRENCH advances to the edge of his dominions, hat in hand, to welcome his greatest ally. The inhabitants of his vast em pire cheer the Quegif, in unmistakeable " hur rahs," a cheer which they have learned for the purpose of giving her welcome, in terms with which her ears have been long acquainted. They wish her to believe herself, for the time, amidst her own subjects. They would desire that even the temporary uneasiness arising from the feeling of absence from her native land should be forgotten. The rally musical strains that she bears are those of the familiar air of "God save the Queen" pealing from a vast chorus of instruments and voices. In the midst of this jubilant chorus the QuaaN lands. She is received by the descendant of Neeocsom and the inheritor of his power with respectful homage. He raises her hand to his lips, and salutes her after the fashion of his conotry by kissing her on both cheeks. He then constitutes himself, for the time, the head of her MAJESTY'S body-guard. He hands the whole royal party into the carriage, and, mounting his horse, rides on the left side, followed by his staff. This is her escort to the station. Her reception there is worthy of the EMPEROR and the mighty nation whose destiny he controls. Amidst the cheering of countless DUCA.. bens of Frenchmen, the Queen of ENGLAND and her Imperial host depart for the capital of France. Making all allowance for the _- thusiasm excited by peculiar circumstances, it cannot be denied that something solid will be deposited as the result of the meeting which has just taken place. It is as much • meeting of the nations as of the Sovereigns. Most of us remember, some years back, • visit paid to England by a Sovereign who came recommended by all the dynasties on the continent. He was considered • model of an Emperor by every court in Europe. He brought, however, no credentials from the nations over whose destinies those courts held sway. NI CHOLAS was Wed by Sovereigns whose subjects cursed him in their hearts. He arrived here, and the QcsEtt, in the exercise of that courtesy which a brother Sovereign claimed, gave the CZAR the benefits of all the rites of hospitality. But the people were dumb. He showered his money about right imperially, but he never obtained his money's worth. He bought jewels, but not a single smile. The aristocracy fawned on him, but the people bated him. How true is the instiiiet of a nation ! This man, the pet of the dynasties, gams back to Russia to embroil all Europe in a war. The silence of the nations was prophetic. They stook blood as the tyrant passed amongst them. Contrast the reception which the AUTOCRAT experienced, with that Of NAPOLEON 111. in England, and that of QOM VW Tows in France. The people in both countries haw that there is something far more significant in the meetings of these two Sovereigns than a mere inter change of regal courtesies. They know that in this caw the Sovereigns are the exponents of the feelings of the citizens of each country. They know that such meetings are a pledge that the league against despotism and barbarism will be strengthened. " Civilisation" was the word inscribed on the gigantic scroll held by the statue surmounting the triumphal arch under which the Queue' entered the railway station. It is the canes of civilisation which the union of England and France is intended to advocate While these two nations remain united, eivilisatioo will not retrograde. If they separate, civilisation will be overwhelmed by a flood of barbarism from the ?firth. The people of England aid el Frame knew this, and recognise therefor* in the visit of Qom \Timm* not only a seal of present friendship, but an earnest of future security. int CAW. VISIT OF HXR MAJIIBI9I TO PARA.& PoknitOutts, SATII/DAL As reported on Friday her iirajesty and An Court left (Moyne at five o'clock this newsier, lot Bonbine, in the Victoria aad Albert. The other yachts. Osborne, Paley, Black Eagle, sad Vivid, preceded the royal yacht, which wee expected to °mishit them in the Channel. The Black Eagle did not ire es, bat relented into harbour this after soon, to 'Mad es the Lords of the Admiralty, who are impected to antes here on their annual official visit on Tuesday. Lord Stanley of Alderley left town for Alderley perk, Ctioakko, on Satorday. Lady Stanley remains in town. Lard Panniers entertained several of the ministers to dinaer, at his residence in Belgrave-square, previous to their departure from town. The °mossy included the Duke and Dusk... of Argyll, Lady Emma Campbell, the Earl and Coimbra' of Clanndoe, Viscount son Viscountess Pal minion, Sat Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Lord Stanley, Mr. OrtafeU, sad Captain Ramsay. Oa arriving at Boulogne her Majesty wore a white chin bonnet, with white feather end ribbons, amen redstart rouod her seek, and a blue pelerise over her shoulder, thus giving the effect of the now famous " red, whits, sad blue." The Queen's drew was of a drab-sainted silk testers of a light kind, having three e AMON printed upon it in stripes of white silk. What afforded most amusement to the crowds in the streets of Paris on Saturday wee when solitary dogs band their way boterown the lines, and, astonished by the novelty of their 'quietist), and the roar of laughter which panned them, set off et a speed worthy of the amp hunts In the Crimea. A curious illustration of the respeet paid to mums 1 of hatable station was manifested in the premium within the lines of a as. old sailor, whose breast was deeonted wit► medals for acts of devotion in saving human Life. _ ... When the train bearing the Queen and Prince Albert and the Emperor arrived at Amiens, the magistracy of the district paid their respects. The daughter of the Prefect, ea interestieg young lady of 17, habited in white, approached the Royal carnage, and timidly but gracefully presented to the Queen a splendid bouquet, which her Majesty reeeivel with more than gustily courtesy. The program of the train was extremely rapid after lsavieg Amiscs. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has consented to ley the foundation Moue of the New Midland lomitute at Birmingham early io November. We (two Isms) understand that a reply bits been received in Glasgow to the invitation given to Prince Albert to be present at the approaching limiting of the British Association is that city. His Royal Highness states that other engagement' will prevent him from accepting the invitation. On Friday her Royal Highness the Dachas of Kent vi►ited the Earl of Elgin at &Jambell, Charleston. It was expected that ►er Royal Highness would tomorrow resume ►er journey northwards from Edinburgh. The Marquis of Lansdowne has left Lansdowne Hoare fog Bowood-park, Wilts. The Earl of Derby has left Knowsley-park, Lan cashire, to visit Lord aaveasworth, at Eisitigton Homo, where the noble lord is entertaining a select circle. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle have left tows, within the last few days, for the Coatiaeat. The Earl and Countess of March have joined the family circle assembled at Gordon Castle, on visits to the Duke sad Dachau of Richmond, for the 'bootleg mason. The Earl and Countess of Harrington, with Viscount Petersham and family, ham left Rarriogtos Room for 'ragon Cud., Derbyshire. The Dachas of Argyll MA confined of a daughter, as Thanday last, and we are happy to learn is, with her infant, progressing favourably. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Blantyre hays been called to town from Trentham, Staffordshire, by the aocsochament. On Saturday the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood and Lady Mary Wood entertained a select party at dinner, in cluding Lord Putman and Musa Ramsay, the Right Hon. Sir O. Ottoman and Lady There's Lewis, Lord John Hay, Rear•Adentral and Mrs. &lac, Mr. Hammond, Mr. West, Mr. Barrington, &e. General Sir Robert W. Gardiner, K.C.8., the late Governor tad Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar, and Lady Gardiner, are daily expected in London. His Excellency the French Ambusador and the Coast.. Persigny left Albert-gate House, on Saturday, for the Isle of Wight. The Duke of Buocleuch and Lord Walter Scott have mired at Bowbill, the family seat in Selkirkshire, from DsSmith Palate, near Edinburgh. Viscoant Palmerston arrived at Broadlands on Friday eves*. whoa the belle rang • merry peal, and caanons were bed to welcome hie Lordship. His Lordship brought with him the news of the recent defeat of the RAW Maas in the Crimea. Viscount and Viscountess Combermers have left Bunton for Combetmere Abbey, where they purpose re ceiving s sucesesion of company during the autunto. . . Lady Agnes Duff and Mr. Doff, M.P., have arrived at their Highland residence, Corrymotzie Cottage, for the shooting season. Oa account of the precarious state of the Earl of Fife's health, the must hospitalities and festivities will be dispensed with this season. The object of Lord J. Russell's return from Scot land wu to visit Lady Russell, who, we regret to learn, is detained at Pembroke Lodge by indisposition. The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at Pon- Iss's Hotel, Edinburgh, en Thursday night from Alnwick, where they bad been visiting Lord R worth. They wire expected to remain in Edinburgh till this day, when they proceed to the mat of the Duke of Athol, visit ieg afterwards the Doke of Wohmond, the Duke of Euecleoch, and the Earl el Egliatoun. A correspondent of the Herald says that " the colours will be presented to Colonel Wooldridge's brigade of the Foreign Legion, on Wedaeaday, by the Princess Mary of Cambridge, in the presence of the Dake of Cambridge, Lord Penman, the C]mmacder•ia•Chief, and a brilliant' . staff. The presentation is to take place in the park of Mr. Rialtos Currie, who gives a magnificent entertainment to the °Seen; whilst the county of Kect gentlemen, u a testimony of their appreciation of the good conduct of the men whilst they hay. , been at Shorneliffe, intend to provide the good cheer of old England —roast beef and plum-pud ding—for all the soldiers present. Cards of invitation h►ve been issued to several thousand, of the nobility and gentry. This brigade is wader orders for the Crimea, and is expected to embark is a few dare." The pleasure yacht of Lord John Scott has arrived off Berwick direct from the Baltic, where she had been cruising for sin weeks, mingling with the combined Beets of the Allies. and pausing the forts of Bweaborg and Crcostadc Her passengers emulated of Lord John 8c ttt, the Hari of Dalkeith. the Hon. Mr. Gage, Mr. Wauthope of Niddry, and Dr. Bart. One hundred and fifty recruits from the central depoc of the British Swiss Legion at Sonliestadt landed at Dower a few days ago, and Marched into the Castle to be quartered. They are thoroughly drilled soldier,, nany having served in the Preach Foreign Legion in Africa, and is the Neapolitan and Roam array. Mr. Thackeray bee been engaged to give a winter seam of looter's in New York. The New York, Newfoundland, and Loud to Tele graph Company's oilcan haus sailed from the former port to lap dome the submarine telegraph cable between Bt. John's, Newfoundland, and the mainland. The Salisbury Journal of Saturday say, :—" Mr. F. Ford, of Little Wishford Fares, stacked yesterday forty loads of wheat sheaves, i• first•rate tooditioa, being, we believe, the first stacked this proem, harvest ia this neigh ' bourheed. Os Thursday the same ',edema coauseaced leaning a eptaadid crop of barley." At the late Montgomery assizes, the Right Hoe. John Jervis, Chief Justice of the Common Plw, is hie charge to the Gaud Jury, after alluding to the various sheers that had takes pleas to the toasty sloes he had last visited it, said he was afraid it mast have deteriorated in the prosperity of its gentry. He was compelled, *M I reluctant', to maks the observation. became they had to. commesded to the Queen, for the position of high obeciir, • tentless. wheel slender smuts would not 'sable h 1 to gi v e bee Majesty% representative • proper receptive. He ems• emery to be introduced late that toasty, a reprementieg the Queen, is the form that be lad been ; sad he certainly did sot rapes le bete the emits* *posed to his, whes he mimed the INA by a Sable bey is hie Aid time•. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1855. of en- LATEST FROM ABROAD. ! DESPATCH FROM PRINCE GORTCHAHOPF. . • BERLIN, Sutras:. Print* Gortehakce writes on the evening of the 18th Today, part of oar troops crossed the Tchernaya, and attacked the heights called Fedu cheal. Having encountered very considerable forces, we, after an obstinate fight, withdraw to the right bank, where we awaited the advent* of the enemy for four hours. As they did not cove forward, we returned to our former position, Th e loss on b o th sides is considerable." BOMBARDMENT OF RIGA. A telegraphic dearAtch from Hamburg, dated yea tardily, gays that r.in the 10th two Hug'nth steamers bombarded the coast batteries of Rip for five hours, l and that the latter suffered great damage. RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS FROM THE BALTIC. The Rani= journals and the continental journals in the Russian interest continue to assert that neither the fortress nor the batteries of Sweaborg are hurt, and that the injury inflicted conbists in the "burning of a few houses." Yesterday's Itetlepeidattee Beige contains the fol lowing: HAMBURG, Avo. 17. aloud telegraphic despatches received to-day from Swedes present the result of the bombardment of Sweaborg is • dilatant light to that given by the despatches of English origin, and dated from Konigsberg, Dantx:e, and other Prussian cities in the Baltic. As an impartial chro nicler, it is my duty to send you the Sweden version. According to these account', the bombardment against Sweaborg, which lasted nearly three days, with • vigour hitherto unknown I. the history of naval warfare, has not produced such an effect as ought to give rise to much self gratulation. The fortress and the encrusted batteries in the flu islands of the road remain intact. One only of the batteries—that moot advanced, and, consequently, most, exposed to the enemy's shells—was destroyed, and they have not to deplore any other explosion than that of a torture stationed in this place,and full of powder taken from the depots of the fortress for the use of the guns. The greater number of the private houses in the cloy, which is very circumscribed, and all the stores of wood, whir the building dockyard, have been burnt by the coopers rockets. For several months this dukyard has contained only articles of very slight value. - The shells and balls thrown by the gun and mortar boats failed to reach the rocks of lielsingfors, behind which the almond division of the Russian Baltic fleet bas been sheltered dace the end of May last. The city of Helsingfon, to-day the most important in Finland, and the seat of the Government, has not been toarbed by the projectiles. AU the troops had come out, and were placed in order of battle upon the shores, in the expectation of seeing the Allies disembark after three days' bombardment, but the attempt was not made. All the muesli have left, and have taken up their former positions at the island of Norge°, opposite Morel. The superiority of the lire from mortar and gan•boata is I established. The shells thrown vertically went mach fur ther than the balls from the EGUIStII batteries of Sweaborg. A SCHOONER DESTROYED BY AN INFER- NAL MACHINE. (PROM 0111 R OWX BTETTIN, EVITZDAY. Aocoants have just reached this city stating that the Prussian schooner Hildegard von Schwartzer, of Btralaund, Captain Brandenburg, laden with coals for the British fleet in the Gulf of Finland, had struck on one of the Russian iofernal machines and was immediately blown to pieces. THE WAR IN ASIATIC TURKEY. A supplement to the Incalide INJae of Aug. 11, contains the following NEWS FROM ASIATIC TURKEY. Aide-de-camp 0 e 1 Dlouravieff announces at the data of July 17, that on the 12th he transferred the main body of the corps of operation to the village of Tilton, which is diluted epos the left shore of the Kars Tani, sad that he there jollied LtajorOeneral Bealanoirs ooleran. The position of Tikaca in transporting oar chief forces open the rear of the army of Anatol a, has given greater ' facilities for examining with detail from the western side, I by successive recorenoiraness, the entrenched camp of Kan. One of these reeorsaortances was made by Major General Chodako, oa the 12th, and another, at the west of the for. trees, up to the stream of Schakhmakh, which forms at the north the limit of the entrenched camp of Kars, on the 13th, by Aide•de•Camp General Mouravieff in person. Daring these reconnoisamers the enemy limited himself to sending cut a few Baabi•Bssouks, who skirmished feebly with our &drained lie While these increments were being made, Llent.-Colonel Priam Dondookoff•Korsakoff 'a flying detachment, which bas pubed forward u far as the village of Termini', con tinued sending patrols on the other side of the Saganloag, but without encountering any of the enemy's forces. On July 11, the grivan detachment was near the village of Karakliss, upon the Euphrates. AU is tranquil in this canton. The Kurds continue to mute their submission, and Vely Pasha fortifies himself in his old position. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM oua OWN COENLIPONDINT PARIS. SUNDAY EVILYING. Her Majesty has passed the whole of the day pri vately at St. Cloud. I stated yesterday that she would come to Paris at 11 in the morning to attend Divine service at the chapel of the British embassy, and this was the arrangement, but last night Dr. Hall, the chaplain, received a command to proceed to ' St. Cloud this morning to read prayers and preach before the Qaeen there. Probably the unexpectedly late hour at which her Majesty arrived at St. Cloud last night rendered this change in the arrangements necessary for her convenience. The performances on the occasion of the Queen's visit to the Grand Opera, on Tuesday, will com mence with selections from Verdi, Halsey, and Meyerbeer, is which all the principal singers of the company will appear. There will afterwards be a ballet, at the conclusion of which " God save the Queen* will be sung by the whole strength of the company. No augmentation in the price of places will be made, but this is a fact of small importance to the public, inasmuch as every seat has been long sines takes. At the Opera Cacique, the stalls tonally charged Ofr. will cat 23fr. If all Europe is at Paris," says a letter of the 15th treat Bodes, " all the Parisians are upon the tibiae. Never have Ease, Wiesbaden, Hamburg, tad Baden received 11{0111 visitors. As any as 28,000 visitors have passed through t►is eAty during the last two years." The governor of the fortress of Rutadt has ad dressed a dueler to the commanders of the gendarmerie enjoiaing them to keep a strict watch upon the nioveneets of the Saglielt rscraitiag agents, especially those engaged by Gomel de Stutterheint. The latter have succeeded, ft is said, In Inducing too nu, Austrian soldiers to al:leaden tbeir deg. Amongst the victims to chokes at Flames is the Prisons Paufasewsky. Ilio rest has bus the mortality ia some of Oa prim'. that the Tamen rovarsaisat ham bees I emsselled tem nesse.ei the peimesen free. BATTLE THE TCHERNAYA. DESPATCH PROM GENERAL SIMPSON. We have been favoured with the subjoined intel ligence by Lord Penman: WAR DEPARTMENT, SUNDAT, Aoo. 19. Lord Penman has received the following intelli• genoe from General Simpson, dated Crimea, 17th August, 18.55, 11.45 p.m.: " Prince Gortchakoff commanded yesterday, in person, and not General Liprandi. " General Read is killed. " The loss of the enemy is greater than was at first thought. " Oar allies have 800 prisoner.. " A steady firs has been kept up from our bat teries." The Minister of War hes received the following despatch from the Crimea: " Ammer 17, HLIJ-PAST 11 r.m. " GENERAL PELISSIER TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. " In the attack of yesterday the enemy came for ward with tire divisions, 6,000 horse and 20 bat teries, determined to occupy the Tediouchine moun tains. " After passing the river at several points, they had brought up an immense accumulation of sapping tools, plank., =driers, famines, and ladders, all which they abandoned in their flight. " According to its usual custom, our artillery fought bravely and with great success. An English battery of position on the Piedmontese hill afforded very effioient assistance. "The Russians left on the field at least 2,600 dead. Thirty-five of their offioers and 1,620 soldiers are in our ambulances. Three Russian generals were killed. We have made besides 400 prisoners. " Oar loss consists of 181 dead and 810 wounded. Tinier, Dubois, Alpy, and Saint Remy are severely wounded ; De Polhea and Berths less severely, and Gagneur has only received a slight wound." (lIT SOBNAZINZ AXD 11111111111 TILEOLAPA.) PARIS, MONDAY MOANING. A further despatch has been received from General Penciller, dated the evening of the 18th. It is as follow,: "CRIMEA, Avo. 18, 10 rai. "Prince Gortchakoff has asked for an armistice to bury the dead left on this side of the Tohernays. I have granted this. " The losses of the enemy are greater than I at first thought. " LientenantAsneral Read has been killed. " Protected by the °oath:nod fire of our artillery, the engineers' works are no longer annoyed by the l enemy, and hare gained camp ground." This intelligence enhances in every respect the importance of the victory won on Thursday last. When the generalissimo appears on the scene, the object must needs be exalted, and the effort supreme. The General Read whose death is reported was a very distinguished offioer, and a year ago was dis charging the duties of imperial lieutenant of the Caucasian provinces, in the absence of Prince Woron soft; and before General Muravieff had been nomi nated his successor. The father of General Read, born at Montrose, was a civil engineer, who entered the service of the Emperor Alexander in early life, and settled in Russia, where his son, afterwards General Read, was born. THE CRIMEA. MARSEILLES, SATURDAY APTIRROON. The Louqsor has arrived with news from Con stantinople of the 9th. The works of the allies before the Malakhoff Tower were almost completed when the courier left Ks miesch. The number of mortars had bees quintupled, and the preparations were on the same formidable scale. The allied troops on the Tchernaya are on the qui vine, daily expecting an attack. The scurvy has very much diminished in the camps. Omer Pacha goes back to the Crimea. He will previously be solemnly invested by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe with the Order of the Bath. General Melinkoff is to replace General Totleben as Directing Engineer in the defence of Sebastopol. The Prom el' Orissa states that Prince Gortchalcoff is recalled, to undertake the Ministry of War, and that General Muravieff will succeed to the command of the Russian forces in the Crimea. The latter general will be succeeded in Asia by General Luders, Count Osten•Sacken taking command of the troops in Bessarabia. The garrison of Erzeroum has been reinforced. The Russians blockade Kars, bet do not attack the place. The Kards in Russian pay intercept the roads to Kam General. Vivian's Contingent was to leave Con stantinople for Asia on the 20th inst. The Porte has sent three regiments to Tripoli to uphold the authority of the Bey. M. Dupin, sea., is about to bring oat a second volume of his " Memoirs." A very curious and highly interesting volume of ' the works of the late Madame Giserdin is about to be pub lished. The mother of M. Rise Rome (Minister of Spain at the outbreak of the last revolutloe) has died at Madrid from cholera. The Paris correspondent of the Independance Beige roaches for the accuracy of the following aaeodote :—" At Peictiers, fire days since, an octogenarian, possessing a for tune of 600,000 fr., and without heirs, caned Dumas's "Moan Chrbto" to be read to him during an Illness. The work charmed him. H. made enquiries about the author, and learned that be had onee possessed, at St. Germain, in I Lay*, a property to which he had given the name of his ro manse, bat which einusastanses had obliged him to dispose et. Without wing to ben more, the Invalid took a pea and thus wrote to the prolific novelist : ' flir, lam old; I an ill ; I us 'moderately rieh. Your 'Keen Christ,' has lately boos read to me, and has geestly contributed to dieripate geyetarai, mid Mania ay salawhige. Having as children, and being likely to he, ere leaf. sand Imes, anon do Win that lane pen of my forts.* to ea esther, to *boa I ewe se mss►. I divide my fasten the* late two pens, riving oat to the poor of Pointers, sad the ether to you. Bs se good as to receive, Ake At AM K. Alszemder Duns heeltatedls believe to the mathentinty of this letter, Mt la the none of the des a miry of Pain Gelled spec aim, sod Misled him ea that pent." THE BOMBARDMENT OF SWEABORG. DESPATCH FROM ADMIRAL PENAUD. ON BOARD THE TOURVILLE, OFF SWEABORO, Allover 11. Monsieur le Ministre,—As I had the honour of informing your Excellency in my letter of the 7th of this month, Rear-Admiral Dundu and myself on Monday last presented ourselves before Sweaborg, with the combined squadron, intending to bombard that place. On the Bth, at half-past seven in the morning, six English bomb•ketches, each carrying one mortar ; five French bomb-ketches, curing two mortars; and a siege battery of four mortars of 27 centimetres, which during the six hours of darkneu in the preceding nights I had placed on the islet of Abraham at 2,000 metres from the place, opened their fire against Sweaborg. I am happy to report that this operation his been perfectly successful ; it is not a mere cannonade that the squadrons have directed upon Sweaborg.—it has been areal bombardment, the serious results of which have surpassed all my expectations. In less than three hours after we began firing bombe, we could perceive how considerable were the ravages they were creating in the fortress. Nume rous conflagrations broke out rapidly on several points at once, and we soon saw the flames rise above the dome of the church situated is the northern part of the isle East Swarto. This church was, so to speak, the sole monument which seems to have been entirely respected on the isles of Vargo and Swartii by our projectiles. Four terrible explosions were speedily heard ; the fire had reached magazines filled with gun powder and munitions of war. The two last explosions especially were formidable ; they must have caused the enemy enormous losses both in men and materiel.' For several minutes we heard t►e detonations of the bombs and shells, which covered the sea-board with fragments of every description. The bombardment ceased this morning at half-put four ; it consequently listed two days and two nights, during which period Sweaborg presented one vut expanse of flame. The fire, which still continues to rage, has nearly devoured the whole place and con sumed workshops, magazines, barracks, various establishments belonging to the government, and a great quantity of the materials of the arsenal. The firing of our mortars and howitzers was so true that the enemy, fearful of seeing the three decker which had been anchaed across the pass be tween Sweaborg and the island of Back-Holmen entirely burned, withdrew that vessel into the har bour during the night. The Russians have sustained a considerable check and losses, the more sensible in that they have in flicted on us only the loss of one single English seaman killed and a few slightly wounded. The enemy's forts nevertheless replied vigorously to our attack ; their fire slackened only at the instant of the explosions I have mentioned ; but the precision of our pieces of long range gave us an incontestable superiority over that of the Russians. Every man in the division has done his duty with devotion, ardour, and courage. The spirit of the crews has been admirable ; they have deserved well of the Emperor and France. I am extremely satisfied with the means of action placed at my disposal. The bomb-ketches and gun boats rendered immense service; they perfectly come up to all that WAS expected of these vessels. The siege battery has produced most excellent re sults, and we may say that our best shots were fired from one of the enemy's islets, on which we had planted the French flag. In this affair, as oil all occasions, since our flags have been united, Rear-Admiral Dandu and myself have acted with unanimity. The example of the perfect understanding that subsists between the chiefs has had the best effect on the crews in both squadron*, who in truth formed only one crew daring the action. Everyone had but a single object, that of Tieing who should do the utmost possible injury to the enemy, and the success obtained by a ship of either nation wu applauded by the other with the same cries of enthusiasm, as if they had been obtained by his own' f lag. There can be no doubt, Monsieur le Ministre, that the bombardment of Sweaborg will exercise great in fluence on the Russian populations, who are now aware that their strongholds and arsenals are not com pletely sheltered from the attacks of the allied navies, which can, and henceforth may, well trust to their being able to visit with destruction the enemy's shores, without receiving themselves any sensible injury. In sending to you a circumstantial report of this affair, Monsieur is Ministre, I shall have the honour of addressing to you a demand for rewards to those officers, seamen, and marines that moat distinguished themselves in the combat. I am, &c., the Rear-Admiral commanding in chief the naval division of the Baltic, PRNAUD. HAMBURG, AUGUST 15, Evorixo. Three French gunboats, the Salve, Sainte Barbe, and Arquebuae, have just entered the port of Cux haven. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. (P/LOM 003, OWN LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. This day the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain Briggs, arrived in the Mersey with the usual mails from the United States and British North America. She sailed from New York on the Bth inst., and has brought, besides the mails, one hundred and ten passengers, and half a million of dollars in specie on freight. _ _ The Royal Mail steamship Asia, from hence on the 21st ult., arrived at Boston on the god inst., and the Ariel, from Havre, arrived at New York on the 4th. At Louisville election, which took place on the 7th, there were great riots. There were several persons shot, and twelve houses burnt. Our dates from California are to the 16th ult., with the arrival of nearly a million dollars in gold. The intelligence from the mining districts is reported very favourable. The New York money market was unchanged at the departure of the steamer. Stocks were im proving. The exchange on London 109; to 110. The cotton market was firm. The market for breadatuffe rather eager. The provision market steady, without alteration. Freights firm. General !Emma has appointed Lieutenant-Colonel John Stewart Wood, 13th Restiment, Assistant-Adjutant General to the Forces in the But. Colonel Wood was formerly Major of Brigade to General Simpson when Com mondani of Chatham garrison, earl is considered a thorough soldier having been Adjutant of Sale's Brigade. The war in the Crimea is very popular swept this soldiers in Juitaios. Th• Tyne mail packet which arrived from there this month, brought a number of volunteers from the artillery Sores, sad aeol reached by the last Jamaica packet that several companies from the West India regiments had also volunteered to pressed to , the Crimea. DUBLIN, AronnlB. The news of the victory of the 16th, received hers last evening, produced immense excitement, coming more especially as it did after a day of pi n ta anxiety arising from the vague rumours that had been spread that government bad received some on. portant news, which was moat probably of an unfa vourable character. Innumerable stones of disma l? had got into circulation, and some of these were gi ven with minute details, how the allies had made another assault on Sebastopol, and how they were repulsed with terrifio carnage ; but Lord Panmure's authentic despatch at length dispelled the cloud, and changed state of painful suspense into one of unbonn&ijoy. It is a pity, however, that if government was in poi. session of the news for some time, as it is said tabus been, so much scope should have been given to the alarmists, to the prejudice of business and the annoy. once of the public. The most glorious of all possible harvest weath er still continues uninterrupted, and nothing finer than the present agricultural prospects of the country is in the memory of the oldest farmers. The labourers its receiving from 2s. 6d. to Zia. 6d. per day, and th e supply of them is scanty, even at this rate of wages. The potato blight exists, but appears to excite AO great alarm. Mr. Duffy has at length issued his promised ad dress to the electors of New Roes, and to his friends in general, explaining the cause of his retirement from Parliament, and from the country. He admits the total break up of his party, and the failure of all the Young Ireland projects ; and he divides the blame of this between the apathy of the people, and the hostility of a portion of the Irish Roman Catholic bishops and clergy. The Limerick Reporter charges Mr. Daffy with being the cause of Lord Palmerston's refusal to grant a free pardon to Mr. Smith O'Brien, owing to the extremely injudicious course which he adopted in attempting to browbeat the government. A CRIMEAN COURT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. A new feature, which promises to be a source of great attraction, has been added to the sights of the Crystal Palace. The stationery court ku been emptied of what it originally contained, and a series of objects introduced all having reference to the Crimea. A very interesting portion of this series at present consists of a large number of views of the country now the seat of war. It is imp:legible to speak too highly of their excellence. They are painted in body oolaur by an artist named Boesoli, of wham we have before spoken. This gentleman lived some time la the country, aud was employed by Prince Woronoff, Under the patronage of the Prince, he visited every part of the Crimea and made numerous sketches. Fifty-two finished paintings made from these sketches are hang up in what will in future, we suppose, be called the Crimean Court. One great value of the paint logs is that they represent many parts of the country in a condition is which they exist no longer. For instance, there are several representations of Sebastopol in it was before the " destroying fingers " of the allies had dons so much to mar its beauty. There is acarcely any portion of the country rendered celebrated by the late events which is not represented. But as paintings they pastas also great artistic merit. The original sketches by Simpson, the helm. grapher, which are now well known, are hung up in the court, tho centre of which is occupied by the raised plan Of Sebastopol. It is intended to mak , " the court a receptacle of objects of interest coming from the Crimea. GREAT GATHERING OF LITERARY AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTIONS. On Saturday the Institutional Association of Lancashire and Cheshire, composed of 70 literary sad mechanics' institution., had a delightful reunion at Know► ley, the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, near Liverpool, tho noble earl having freely consentnl to throw open the hall, with its gallery of paintings, the gardens, pleasure-grounds, and park, to the visitor,. The extent to which the permission was taken advantage of is the best proof that Lord Derby's liberality was apnreeiated. The institutions have an aggregate force of 15,000 members, scattered over the face of the two cowries. Many of this. members are of course young persons having neither the means nor the leisure to take a trip like this on a &Why afternoon ; but of the whole seventy institutions, not lea than sixty-eight, some of them in towns very remote, and as far distant is seventy to eighty miler, were represinstal at the gathering. From Manchester there were abeet sin hundred visitors, including the members of its Atheneum, under the guidance of Dr. Hudson, deur:s tar', and the members of the Mechanics' Institution, with ib secretary, Mr. Hutchins. From Liverpool also about 600 persons attended. The five excursion trains briogiog viti ton set down, in the whole, from 3,000 to 4.000 persons of both sexes at Huyton, on the Liverpool and Alaschestal (London and North Western) line, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, from whence the visitors had 10 walk about two miles. This numerous company amembled, by invitation, about five o'clock, on the lawn before the loath front of the hall, where Mr. MALCOLY itoss, of Manchester (having been intro du ed by Dr. Hudson), brit fly addressed them, and pro posed a resolution expressive of gratitude to the Earl of Derby for the privilege c 'inferred upon them its being thee allowed to visit his mansion and, grounds. The resolution was carried with much cheering. Lord STANLEY, M.P., was in the balcony before which the assemblage had collected, and his lordship briefly replied, observing that there were many worse things, much as they understood business and the value of time in Lancashire. than •day's p.easure in the country, and he hoped they should not spoil this day's pleasure by formalities of any kind. He was sure there was no one upon that lawn who enjoyed a scene like that before him more than he did. He never looked around this old place—he never glanced acme this lawn and park—but he thought the only one thing wanting to make it perfect, was a few more hippy faces to enliven the scene. (Cheers.) His wish in this respect was tally gratified to day, and he hoped that this might only be the first of many similar excursions to Knowsley by the smock tion of which they were membere, sod to whom he bad been asked to say a few words. He could only say that he wished it well. It bed not existed long in its present form, but he understood it was in good beside, and wss making satisfactory progress, carrying with it the good wishes of ills As to the principle of adult education, that was a matter which no one in his senses would consent to argue at We time of day. The thing itself bad got past the time for controversy. It was past that stage when news paper writing or public discussion could do it harm. All that was wanting was that it should be carried into effect as speedily and as extensively as p:ssible, not forgetting the great truth, too commonly overlooked, that in this matter .if self•education, as in all other matters, and which we were every year made to see more clearly, self•help is the best help. (Hear.) We were brought to see that the little that men could be brought to do for themselves was better than all that others could do for them. This not very long ago philaathropists and public men were too much in the habit of overlooking. You could not take from the parent the responsibility which rested upon him primarily to see that his children were instructed, and therefore to do any real good in the education of the people you must interest the parents in the cause, and you could best interest them in that cause as it concerned their children when you taught them to appreciate the advantages of literature and literary culture themselves. Teat was the object these institutions were attempting to accomplish. His lordship said a few avoids in approval of the principle of establishing assorts tions of institutions like the present for the purpose d mutual help, and retired amidst much cheering. The company enjoyed themselves in the grounds until a late hoar. MR. BAINES, M.P.—The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Bailie., M.P., to the chairman of his election committee:—" 13, Queen'. square, Westminster. August 15, 1555.—My dear Str,—l have had the honour of receiving a copy, signed by yourself as chairman, of a reso lution adopted by the Liberal Election Committee of the borough of Leads, with respect to my retirement from the office of President of the Poor-law Board. It is most gratifying to me to find that the step which I have taken is one which meets with their approbation. The office is question was to me by two governments. 1 have twice held it ; I have done my beat to discharge its duties faithfully ; and 1 saw odiesynisb It only because I have had reuoa to tear that my health would no longer permit me to discharge those duties as they ought to be discharged, and at the same time to pay that degree of attention to the parliamentary interests of my constituents which they were on every account entitled to exposit. As an independent member of the House el Commons, I shall constantly endeavour to give effect to thou public priaeiplrs upon which I originally obtained your confidence. I shall zealously contribute the best aid in my pewee towards the advancement of those great social istereste, which far more than any question of mere ps polities have always engaged my attention, and, above I shall think myself happy if I am able to suggest or to any measures calculated to promote the true welfare of that class—the poor—whose official guardian I have el loog bees• With every feeling of respect and gratitude to yourself and to the committee, I am, my dear sir, yours most truly, M. T. Hamm—John Wilkinson. Esq., Oledhow Mounts Leeds."—/weds Mercary. THE LATE P. Pussy, ESQ.—We understand that Lord Portman has given notice to the council of the Epp Agricultural Society of England of his intention to sues at the monthly council in December nest, the consideratioa of the best mums by which the society mayezpress and record its deep ruse of the vsluo of this late lameated gentleman's services in promoting its objects, and the general advancement of Eaglish agriculture.