The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-06 00:00:00

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QUMMER.—Ladiee will find the • ion of hj ROWLAND'S KALTDOII gratefully la peeeenleg the datesay sad beauty of the seapiesiou sad et as the haw tel lammed sheen sad desk 'levelling the duel d loam and gebsatia. eh Intaletty sad hest, sad heaalaij as peeing setuadeat ea reared nein*, WO et the Ida. teeddee, tea spas. Owens. see asecasendim ere endisdad by the llslyart sod give pan he • delhately deer NA tar . usepanisa Is sews a Mist% or etlsp d leseets. us virtu= beveling berm estenaledged. Pelee de. dd. sad Si Id. pee bog* dean : The weeds gateisadee kase are is th.e weaPPlle. gold tas=itteed tgIAND sad SO" U 0. 111016.0111% I j sad by portmers. Oa Weipa dayweet, sail gaga sad • mimed Peoceasie View at of her sad law ilapitioae Oral la Sm. pe*.e• Itrar TTHUUB . at SUEZ QUESTION. By Pl Da Liras% Niabeerrewtpeteatiary. Lemke: Lemma. Draws. Orem sad Lawry& 1* IMi.. IS., //EAR T'Bll ABE. By the -am Aethee, Chew _Rad" ea, TUN lILIR 01 ILIDUCLYIIi. Lades: Jobe W. Pastes sad Went Mina& THE CIVIL SERVICE. This morning a retain was Waned, showing the severs! government offices is which sendidates fur clerk ships la the civil service ire examined, previously to their eppoitstmeat, by the Commission of Examisen, appointed by the Ord." in Council of the list day of May last. Is Ragland sad Welts they are—Howe of Lords, Twe nty, Privy Council Office, Privy Seal Ware Home One*, Foreiga Office Coloel Office, War Department, Admi ralty, India Ba ird, w OMLie of Works, Dads/ of Lowastor, Booed of Trade, Post Office, Poor Lem Board, Board of Health, Papauter-Geserses Office, Judge Advocate °t weet'. Ofd,, War Office. Comainawlerein•Chief's Office, AdiataakOwaraVeOffin, Quartormaster• General's Office, Army sad Ordway. Medical Bond, Recruiting Da'ark meat, Chilies Gessswich Hospital, Prows Di- Comanisioners of Police, Reenter of Police; Mettopolitaa Polio. Courts. vie : How- ttttt t, Clerkanwelt, Onewerieh sad Woolwich, Hammereasith and Waadaworth, Lambeth, Marlborough strut, Maryiebose, Southwark, Than" West:Waster, Worship newt; Customs, !stead liievesse, Audit Oda, Eacheause National Debt Ofßee, Royal Mint, Public Work. L on Office Office of Weeds. to., Land It. wow and Rec'ord Office, Copes M, Baclosers, awl Tithe Consmisios; Colonial Lead smil Emigration Odic , . Public Retard Office, Cleaeral Raglan Oita , Ode for Seamen Registry of Joie, NM& Itagetry of Friendly Semen, Rel- W 4 g 1 Dade is Middle WS, Patina Office ihationory Oinemittee of Council on Education, Dipartessat of gnaw mad Art, Charity Commission, Qualm's Ilan.. brumes Luaaey C nesenews, Metropoli•sa Soften , Cammsasis., Metropontaa Boildiorte Office, Metropolitan &sada Cimmissiee, Coal whippers Office, London Gazette Oise. Iseleskatisel Cumnasioa. lii SOC/TlAND—Qaoso's and Lard Treasurer's Rote.. bresese's Odes, Saslow Mai, Board of Supervision' for Rolief of the Peer, Prison. Department. Beard of Treaties I.zMssutaetarce, Es, Board of British White Herring pitkory Commissioners for Hight..nd Reads and Bridges, Gin • n Caliolonien Canal, Cicamissioaere of Noirthwa Lightlouse, Revenue G I of Births, ite. In Secretary', Office, Constabulary Oleo, Prisms Departs/at, Dublin Metropolitan Police Offiev, Pow Lew Lund, Register Office for Marriages, • of Deeds, Registry of Joist Stock Composise, Of fing's Julgeseata, Deowea, Orders, eadltales, Rsaletsy Tritadly S %cub.% Commissioners of Charitable Innatiass, sad Billow% &location OM it, Inspectors of Lunatic Agleam. Ecclesiastical Commissioners fur Ireland. Oat of the total number at eiusinations which hang hoes held by this Civil Service Commissioners from the dose of their appointment to July 26, 1845, vie. 76, 24 asadidatos have bees rejected as ungisWifted, east 6 are tot as yet monad apes. By the sewer piaiiiious of the Order is Conseil a term of Is maths' probation is rim:lend wcamary is all govern ment offices baton a candidate, who has recelvsd a certifi cate of qualification, can be finally appointed to We public wenn. CRRMORNB GARDENS-TUB WELLINGTON COLLEGE. A fete, on an unusual scale of novelty and splen dour, sad intended to aid the building fund of the Welling ton College, is is preparation at Cremorne Gardens. For the institution, designed se a permanent memorial of the late Duke, the sum of 100,0001 has already been subscribed. bat 26,0001. is warthog to carry out the designs of the com mittee. The Queen and Prince Albert have subscribed l'berally. A fife at Cr...:.. Gardens was suggested. The proposal w..e readily and liberally met by Mr. Simpson, the proprietor, and preparations were immediately commesood ti nailer the feta worthy of the occasion It has beau appropriately resolved that the fete shall be military la its character. With this intention the grounds of Ashburn. hem Bowe, adjoining Creams Ostdiess, are to be throws opes,ia which there is fast approach's, completion a pictorial nprowntation of Sebastopol as sees from the rigs pits cud lieuielon, and a very well trio:tad and delusive painting it is. la front of the Quarriesand blamelon, which ale tweeted on the ground before the picture, are real trenches, teal Sistine' and gables', eel real benefits. Them will be awed by about 500 acted and undoubted soldiers, end a temeseatatios of the storming of the Quarries and lientelea is to be made, which is to comprise every feature of the actual mutest @rapt the shot and the wounds. Daring the day end Artesia! every possible resource of the establishment will be pat into operation te tender the amusemeste ma- Oman and varied. There will be ter Cremorne Gardena rod the grounds of Ashbornhem House ao less thee six military heath, via those of the First teifir Gisarde. the Horse Oneida (Blue), the Grenadine, Coldstiream, and Pu gilist Guards, and the Royal Artillery. The fete will take plass ea Monday the 20th instant, wed will be under the direct patronage of her Majesty sad Prises Albert and of the colonels end °facets of the above sassed regiments. MaNCIBIATISR Posy-orricx.—The new arrange ments have been nearly completed, end amongst them one which hat already taken effect is an excellent pica for sow lerating the delivery of letters. There are 87 letter garden, and, lesviog 39 for the deliverise within a radius of 'boat one mile from the poet-oflos, the remaining 48 eminence thew delivery districts at distances of one and two mike from the po4-office. The new plan provides four omnibuses to set down these men at convenient points, each omnibus carrying twelve letter carriers. The direct , oas in which the vehicles rue are—Rushqlsais, Higher Broughtoa, Miles Platting (for Blackley aid Harpnrbey), and Pendia • ton. This scheme bids fair to work well. and will expedite the delivery of letters in the extreme parts of the town very considerably. The letter carriers are to be furnished with scarlet coats, something like those the old mail guards wed to wear, having Rill tattoos biasing a Grown and the wallas V. R., with waterproof espee for wet weather, and with felt (wsterproof) hats. A delay has taken pleas in the supply of the elothiae, or this pert of the arrangemeat would have been cariied out when the other come luto °M.664.• - DOTAL COLLEhIt or SUMMONS. The following guideline, having undergone the nsileseary emaminatioaa for the diploma, wens admitted members of the College at the esestieg of this Court of ERMOIO7II on the 3rd imt. : Meson Samuel Leonard Cram, Nova Scotia; Uses Nolan, Castle Island, County Kerry; Christoper ,/11 Mangy, Liverpool; John (Beeman, Ibuthwark•beidp-rosd; ArelAbald Petaluma Petarealtem, Alardemabire; Hoary Dick, Foreiga 14116011; Jamas It 3berta, adonis. Hera; Jams Lambert. Nortewieh ; Joseph Hoary low, Army; sad David Mertes D. , ettlas,Cardisa. RAILWAY OOSIPIWITIort.--This Liverpool Journal wises that eying la the ham aeopeettla whisk Journal betwees eta liaumbiaa awl Yedrahe ONIPIRINs I 2_,.the Slat Lasesebbe Dummy, the fen frets liehereee °Ma. pert aid boa h aide ewe sisilited. Thew& have bees ea tersively Lsrasd by both coespenist, easta assorting that Shots llama sayeethrely are the stiortsst. Tlie Lass:addle mad Yeesehled Osupeay amasses teat " the eheF by eed.. =dined nate to Sostaport Weis Waterloo sod the UN Leasseseise Cusspasy state theirs " the all direst liar le !bullpen—aim trains per day." g ~~~ • vbt. • • r • °J 4 rt OUR ARMY IN THE CRJ3IRA. (FROM OUR SPECIAI CAMP ABOVE JULY 33. —.- The short period which has elapsed aim the mail left on the 21st instant, has not been marked by any important event connected with the siege operations. The French works have been steadily advancing against the Malakhoff position, in spite of continued and very severe opposition both by day and night. Frequent discharges of grape have been directed against the head of the sap, and grenades and oohorn shells have been thrown abundantly. At intervals the Russians fire a volley of musketry not only from the bastion in front, bet also from the flanks and various concealed places. It would seem as if these volleys were discharged at random in the direction of taIL.AIIIIII6II tinissiwo en the _we chance of hitting some of the men engaged among the working parties. It require. no little courage, as well as use to the work, to be able to awry it on vigorously in the face of such impediments, more especially when at night a sortie may be made by the enemy at any moment. Although the French have necessarily suffered from the fire directed against them, their daily numbers of casual ties are by no means so great as might be anticipated. Our new batteries are completed and armed. The principal battery, occupying a very advanced position on the right, and in front of Frenchman's hill, Is fitted with a most powerful armament, a considerable proportion of which consists of land and sea-service 13-inch mortars. This is more especially to act, it is said, and its position render. the statement probable, against the line-of-battle ships which still retain their threatening attitude, broadside toward the Earshot- Dais suburb. It is remarkable that neither the three-deckers, nor the two-deckers, have yet been ob served to discharge a shot or shell against our works: this duty hitherto has been confined hitherto to the men-of-war steamers. The largest of the ships, which is seen lying out to our left of Fort Paul, appears to be partly careened over, and it would appear as if she might easily acquire elevation enough to try her range over the low ground about the south harbour and Dockyard Creek. The dis tance at which she is now anchored appears to be about three thousand yards from the sloping line of the Malakhoff hill as its side dips towards the Bar rack buildings, but it is difficult to estimate this with accuracy while she is lying out in the roadstead. The report has been so industriously circulated in camp, of the enemy having been necessitated to take the guns out of these vessels for use in the land bat teries, that their constant silence may be a ruse to invite erode**e to this very improbable story, until, having gained possession and effected our lodgments on the Malakhoff and ether sommding positions, we should receive a sere authentic account of their power and armament. Not only deserters, but many of the Rosales prisoners, have stated these ships were disarmed, and nearly all the guns found in the Russian redoubts on the mat side of Careening Bay were ships' guns: it is also asserted that when the ships were hastily sunk at the mouth of the harbour after the battle of the Alma, their gone were sunk with them. These statements may be partly true. The lower-deck guns, and any others, which could only be taken out with much labour and loss of time, are most probably still in the =liken ships. Se in the ships still afloat, the guns only on one aide could be called into requisition against our ap proaches; the guns on the opposite side might be re moved for use on land without any detriment to the sorelce on which the ship, while pent up in the liar hour, could be employed. Bat it is scarcely credible that the enemy would totally disarm these floating batteries, which may yet, if other circumstances do not arise to prevent this from occurring, be turned to an important account Tina us when we have gained possession of the soot side of the roadstead. During the last three or four days a rumour has prevailed in camp that the new French and English batteries destined to act against the shipping would open immediately. This morning was named as one of the dates on which the fire was to be opened, but the event proved the report to be without foundation. No doubt the undertaking will not be long delayed ; the preparations sufficiently show that, if not de stroyed, the ships will at least be driven from their present position before the next assault is made against the Malakhoff and Redan works. There is a story that a sailor has volunteered to start from Careening Bay on the first favourable opportunity, and, single-handed, to destroy each ship successively. Re asserts that he is in possession of a secret method by which he ego move along beneath the surface of the water and breathe as easily as if he were in a diving apparatus supplied with air by . • pomp, and that he can carry with him an explosive machine of I sufficient power to drive a hole through the bottom of the largest ship. All this may end in smoke, as so many other anertions of possessing secret powers of destruction appear to have ended. A few afternoons sines a small skiff, fitted at its sides with what ap peared to be not unlike a life-boat apparatus, was carried down by the French towards Careening Bay, and perhaps this gave some colouring of truth to the story. Besides, the sailor gave a proof on the night of the 19th instant that at any rate he was clever enough to approach a ship undetected, notwithstand ing a very careful guard being established to mark his coming. As a proof of still further ability, he announced to the officers of her Majesty's ship London that he would come in the course of that night and chalk up the name of the ship on her aide, just above the water-mark, do what they might to prevent him. The challenge was accepted, double sentries were posted, and some volunteers among the officers kept a look-out, but no one was observed to come sear, aid all on board were con vinced that no one had oorne near the easel. Day- ' light, however, showed the letters conspicuously ' chalked on the ship's side, as the sailor had said they world be. It has been suggested that the means by which hie feat was accomplished was an atmospheric boat, capable of being guided when sunk beneath the I surface of the water, and supplied with a reserve of ' air enough to last a given time for the support of its I ' adventurous owner. It is stated that he could not have swam alongside without being observed. Our new parallel in advance of the Russian trenches connected with the Quarry B..ttery and ' works has been completed; it will form a very ex tensive place domes whenever a gathering of troops may be necessary in that direction prior to another I smolt. An ides has been gaining ground that next time a combined English and French attack will be made against the Malakhoff hill. It is said that from ' the command which it exercises over the site of the Redan this latter week meet speedily yield after the • all will (*pumper the fornmend that all that be required wW be es bap its in check, which can be easily dsaa km ear of fire, during the assault se the This is only surmise • the plans et the alibi monleili ere kept, as they ought to be natal the =meat se MOW a profound secret. • sr/ usgszins belseging to our allies, in one of their weeks on the lott o was exploded on the after image d the 22nd instsnt. Shortly before ten o'clock on the evening of the some day the camp was suddenly roused by a very Mary fire of musketry on the right. It was quickly followed by the usual accompaniment of a discharge of .hot and shell from the hostile batteries on both sides. A tremendous fire ensued; the air seemed to be filled with shells, rising and falling in every con ceivable direction. On the part of the Russians, all the batteries on the north aide opened, from the works on LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1855. thelnksemann mountain over the Tchernaya valley round to the 12 -Run battery opposite to Careening Bay, ea well as the usual bees round the Hershel nate suburb. The French a A English batteries actively responded. It was not an evening on which • sortie might have been looked for. The moon, which was in its first quarter, was shining brightly ' and clearly, and the sky, entirely free from clouds, was brilliant with stars. However, the fire was continued so obstinately for nearly half an hour, that it began to be suspected something more serious than a mere sortie might be intended, and IMO of the French and English regiments in front were held in readiness to move forward. The musketry then soddenly °eased without any such aid being called into requisition, and the cannonading gradually subsided into the usual tire from the batteries connected with the siege ope ration in actual progress. It appears that on this occasion the sortie wits made against some embus elides thrown up by our allies in fro■t of their la mmed works en the right of the Mamas Verb. These ambuscades were chiefly intended to carry a fire against the Russian artillerymen in the Roden near the point on the west side of Careesiog Bay. the enemy was driven back without gaining posses sion of the ambuscades. It is said that the Russians suffered severely as they were retiring, while the casualties among the French were very few. We had five men wounded in the right attack from fragments of shells, two only being wounded very severely. For the last ten days it has been currently men• tinned in the camp, that General Simpson's appoint ment was only temporary, and various new com manders-in-chief were named. This point was de cided by the publication of the following order of the day: I _ OVNIZAS AFTER ORDER& Head Quarters before Sebastopol, July 21, 1855. Lieateaaat•fleaeral Simpson snowiness to the army that he has had the honour to receive from her Majesty the Qnoen the appointment of Commander-in• Chief of the army la the Orbits. ins seuttesat-geasral, though deeply impressed with the respoonbilities of the position in which be is placed, most proud of the high awl distinguished Latour, and of the confidence thus reposed is hies by hie sovereign. It will he the lieutenant-general's duty to endeavour to follow in the steps of his peat predecessor ; and he feels oxfident of the support of the general., and of the officers and soldiers, in maintaini ng unimpaind the honour and discipline of this noble army. Jars fintreow, Lleuteamitaeneral Commanding. The general orders have also announoed several minor changes and appointments. Captain Lushing ton, who throughout the greater part of the siege has commanded the Naval Brigade with so much credit and distinction, has retired from this service, on being promoted to the rank of rear•admiral. H e is succeeded by Captain the Him. H. Keppel, of her Majesty's ship Bt. Jean d'Aore, to whom Lieutenant his Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe has been appointed aide-de-camp. Commissary-General Filder has been succeeded by Commissary-General Sir George Maclean, not Constomeary-Gmeral Ramsay, as was stated in my last letter. It is a matter of surprise that Ceionel Dickson, of the Royal Artillery, whose services have been so valuable during the whole cam paign, and whose intimate knowledge of the Turkish language procured him the appointment of Interpreter at Head-quarters, should have been removed from active service in the field, to superintend the govern ment powder mills at Waltham. The temperature ha. been exceedingly high during the last three days, the thermometer averaging from 83 deg. F. to 92 deg. F., in the shade of a tent. during the greater part of the day while the sun was in the ascendant. About 10 o'clock each morn ing a breeze has sprung up from the sea, which has moderated the oppressive state of the atmosphere. The troops, however, are generally healthy, although eases of fever and bowel complaints stilt prevail in certain parts of the camp.. Lieutenant the Hoe. Edward Fittolarence, of the 7th Fusiliers, who was so severely wounded on the 18th of June that he had to suffer amputation of the thigh, died yesterday, the 22nd instant. Until a few days since he was re ported to be progressing most favourably, and pit partitions were made and the day fixed for his return to England. Some bad symptoms then appeared which he had no rawer to resist—induced, it is said by fretting at leaving a brother behind—and he gra dually sank. He is described as a youth naturaily of high spirit and courage, and, though very young, to have borne the loss of his limb with exemplary patience and fortitude. Im.y 24. A heal: fire wsa kept up from the batteries nearly the whole night. Another burning hot day. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT LATE ON THE DANUBE.) TURKISH CAMP, Jvz 2.5. There is still a total lack of news—the weather in tensely hot; everybody in the camp passes the day on his back, slumbering uneasily, languidly sipping water or lemonade, and taking languid puffs of his chibouk, and never rising into full consciousness and active exertion till the sun has got low, aid the evening breeze begins to make itself felt through the heavy folds of the tent. The musicians form the only exception to the general indolence; but certainly their energy and application make full amends for the somnulence of their comrades. Still no news of Omer Paoha : rumour talks of his settling quietly down in Constantinople as Seraskier, but "nobody don't know nothiog 'boot it," as the juvenile offender remarked, when interrogated by the magistrate as to his ideas of a future state. The probabilities, in my opinion, are still in favour of our going off to Asia, and getting there just in time to take up winter quarters, and be very miserable. The army in that quarter, if the last accounts be tree, have been thrashed in a signal meaner, and have, so runs the tale, totally 'bandaged Lan. In the acan thus nothing whatever is being done here, as I have already so often informed you ; but I may now add that since the Turks have been just a year in a state of total inactivity, the sooner the allies set them to work again in some part of the globe or other the better. Before this great heat set in, for want of anything better to do we occupied ourselves—l speak exclusively of the press—in roaming about the adjacent country, which is full of picturesque and beautiful scenery. Nothing can be much more striking in this respect than the situation of the various Tartar vil lages. Those in the valley in which we were for merly encamped are again receiving their inhabitants. who are returning from Baidar—at least such of them as have not been carried off by the Russians. In passing through Moskomina the other day, I found a great many carts, containing the household goods of the owners, mainly consisting of bedding and cushions, and earthenware pitchers standing at the data The majority of the men and women looked sad and almost heart broken. All must have found a terrible change in their humble abodes. The fences and gates are all broken down, a great number of the houses have been unroofed for the sake of the timber by the Piedmontess, nearly all have had the windows torn out, and the doors torn off, and a great many are little better than a heap of ruins. The women were endeavouring to secure privacy by hanging pieces of carpet across the openings where the lattices once were, though this is but poor protection against the prying eyes of roving giaours, English and French, who hourly pour along the valley, while the hordes of men cleared away rubbish and tall grass from the door-steps. deserted villages are one of the saddest sights one sees in time of war— worse to my mind by fez than the slaughtered bodies of scores of fighting men—the ruined houses, the ruined fences, the tall grass in the yards, the snug chimney-corner., silent and deserted, round which Do many jokes were cracked, so many stories told—the Dom of so much humble enjoyment—and so much quiet happiness which drew half its sweetness from the obscurity of those it blessed. You walk from house to house amidst a silence which oppresses you. No dog bays defiance from be hind the palisades —no child gives squalling evidence of the conjugal bliss of its parents—no maidens at the fountain, dirty or clean, or ugly —I do not want to overdraw the pictu p r r et t ill the evening air with the sound of gossip or of laughter ; their place is most likely occupied by half-a-dozen French dra eons, swearing at their hones, and giving utterance, in prolate language, to their loccinp for absinthe; and the mosque—that primitive old mosque— with its tile roof, its boarded floor, polished so smoothly by the knees of many generations of worshippers, its rude wooden candlesticks, in which a little ail and a bit of tow shed light upon the Ko ran, and enabled the Mullah to fan the Jinn of faith in the evil days of Islam, no longer re-echoes its voice of prayer. The Muezzin no longer climbs the ladder of its dear old wooden minaret, for all maid Ins an aerie/ dog kesuaal, to announce to the true believers the hours of prayer—everywhere silence and desolation—the laves and the penates bad fled at the sound of the drum, and were followed by their protlgh, who, I am bound to say, left little behind them beyond old slippers and old rags. I know, close to one of these ruined villages, an old Tartar burial ground, in which the" rude forefathers of the hamlet" for many generations back doubtless repose, in which I have often longed to lie down and make my keph in the shade of the elms during the long hours of noon, but was prevented by fear of ages, which is sue of the least sentimental of diseases. It linen the foot of the hill, is shaded by lofty oaks and elms, and surrounded by a rude palisade ; the grass in it is rich and green, and grows tall and rank on the graves, and out of it peep here and there grey headstones, standing in all manner of ways, except perpendicularly—some in all their native ruggedness, and others surmounted by a rudely-carved turban, showing that he who slept beneath had lived and died in the faith of the prophet. I shall never forget how the golden light played on those humb'n mounds, through the thick foliage, and how sweetly the nightingale sang in the boughs overhead. No mortal could desire a calmer or more secluded resting place; but when I last passed that way the Turkish packhorses were browsing in the enclosure, a ragged soldier was lying under a tree watching them, and beguiling the time by ridding his person of a host of supernumeraries who seemed to have been attracted by his charms. How many were sleeping there, who lived and died in daily expectation of a revival in /Islam, of the coming back of the hosts of the Sultan to chastise the giaoun, and restore the khans to the deserted balls of the Garden Palace! How many longed to see the day, which the sons have seen, when the soldiers of the Padischah would defile along the Beide? valley ; but what a pang they would have felt had they known that wain that day came, the great Padischah, the king of kings and lord of lords, would be tottering on his throne, and that not a single infidel monarch would care a straw about either him or his army. A great part of the English cavalry is now down near Baidar. The French, under General d'Agon ville, are still further in advance. Osman Pacha commands the Turks in Omer Pachei absence. Eu patoria remains perfectly quiet. EXTRACT FROM AN OFFICER'S LETTER. "Heights before Sebastopol. July 20, 1855. " • • • We ars still in the old place, and will soon, I hope, shut up the Huskies. We have a fifth parallel, and the third, which used to be our ad vanced we, is now a large battery. You can hardly imagine how close we are to the enemy—l should think not more than sixty or seventy yards distant. • • • The trenches are fearfully hot ; we go in for 24 hours—a long time to be smite; in the day it is too hot to sleep, and in the night we dare not do so; the flies annoy us not a little in the morning. • • • The incessant whistling of rifle balls, with shells and grape, continues as usual—the latter they throw right into the trench from mortars. I wish I could say we had no sickness, which must in fact always exist, more or less, amoog a body of men col lected together; there is indeed a good deal of fever and dysentery, but u yet there is not a single phy sician attached to the Crimean hospitals! Lord Pan mure is to blame for this. Surgeons are sent out to us--especially acting assistants—mere inexperienced boys; but the great want of experienced physicians, whose muscle for years have been medical; in contra distinction to 'surgical,' has not been met by his lordship. The soldier desires the same advantages in hospital as possessed by his sick civilian brother in every hospital at home. Humanity and public interest demand the best advice for him, regardless of routine. • • •" FRANCE. (f ox OUR OWN CORRITTONDRITT4 PARIS, SATURDAY BURNING. I believe the tale about General L'Etang's new mis sion to Vienna to be unadulterated fudge. He is in Paris at this moment, and it is within my knowledge that he said yesterday to a friend, " Not only do I know nothing of the fresh negotiations in which I am made to play a part, but I have not yet had an audience of the Emperor to announce my return." There is not a word of truth in a story which has been current here all the week, and which I see re peated in several London papers, about a duel having been fought between M. de Morny and Ge neral Cbangarnier, at Ems. The manufacturers of the news were at first content with returning M. de Manly wounded, but, encouraged by the success of their invention, they have latterly killed him. A telegraphic despatch his been received from M. de 34gray himself, to say that he is not dead, and that MI Warty IA the duet is "pore invention." He is expected in Paris to-morrow. The Bourse opened somewhat heavily, but towards the close of business there wee a very confident feel ing. The Rente for cash, after having been at 66.95, aimed at 67.05, with a fall of 25c., bat for time the last price was the same as that of yesterday, 67.25. Credit Mobilier rose 30f. Railways closed firm, and generally at higher prices. A trial of American, French, and English machines for cutting and gathering up corn, hay, &c., and which are now to he seen at the Exhibi tion, took place the day before yesterday at Trappe*, Count de Gasparin presiding. A large number of persons were present. M. Dully, on whose property the experiments took plan, had a special tent erected, under which he hospitably entertained the members of the jury and other invited guests. There were nine machines on the ground —two French, four American, and three English. At a given signal they commenced their trial, which was to cut down 1,733 square yards of oats. The American machine of M'Cormiek com pleted its task in a masterly manner in 17 minutes; the second American machine took 23 minutes, and the third 24 minutes. The other machines took from 34 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes to perform their work. The next trial was to cut down and gather up a given quantity of lucerne, when the palm of victory again fell to the machine of M'Cormick. SPAIN. A letter of the 31st ult., received in advance of the mail, says: The voluntary subscriptions to the loan in the provinee of Msdrid are mash higher than the newepepers represent; they already amount to 2,400,010 reale (tee real is worth five sous), and kis supposed will reach 16,000,000 rule out of the 22,000,000 assigned to that province. The angora seems to be on the decline. (Stamped id. Additional.) ET WOPENC E. NAPLES. (PROW 0171 OWN NAPLES. JULT 23. Dreadful consternation has prevailed in Naples during the lest tew days, in consequence of an acci dent involving considerable loss ot life. In the Castel Nuovo there is a portion of it devoted to the malting of percussion caps. There is, of course, much explo sive matter lying about, and whilst they were packing a quantity the other day fur use in Sicily, through thenegligenoe of workmen, the whole ignited, and the entire building was blown up even to the roof. The alarm was for the moment indescribable. Some feared an earthquake, for all the houses in the neigh bourhood were shaken, and the window* in the royal palace broken; others, as the military, con• calved that another revolution, the bugbear of the ruling party, had broken out, and all fled to arms. " Rii,ful," the old popular cry of alarm, was raised in every direction; and amidst shouts and screams , ovarian/oiled everywhere bat to balsam& When it was possible to enter the floor where the accident took place the spectacle presented was most awful.— the blackened and mangled bodies of the sufferers lay scattered about, nor was it possible to ascertain the number in full. Two hundred were said to have been buried beneath the ruins. This may be pro bably an exaggerated statement, but a number of car riages were occupied during the whole day in taking off the wounded to the hospital., and the search was still continued for thaw who were under the debris. The anxiety and lamenta tions of those who rushed to the Castel Nuovo to ascertain the fate of relatives were, I am told, heart-rending. Every one, in and about the castle, ran away with whatever portable article they could lay hold of. Outside, the streets were covered with percussion -caps—medical men were there in great numbers, ready to offer their assistance, and soldiers were on guard, who acted, it is said, with the usual brutality towards the mob. I am only surprised that the accident was not of a more alarm ing character. Only imagine that many thou sands of tons of English powder, purchased for the Sicilians in 1848, were in the magazines of the castle, enough to have blown up half the kingdom— whilst in the same wing of the building where the aocid~nt took place, the fireworks used on occasion of royal fetes are made, and a quantity of combustible matter therefore was contained in it. The event is kept as much a secret as possible, and no one is allowed to speak of it. Had the royal family been here nothing less than a grand conspiracy would have been fabricated on the strength of it ; as it is, there are doubtful shakings of the head and strange rumours. The King came to Naples on the following day to examine into the state of the case and give relief. Naples has been resounding ever since with the fireworks which were saved out of the wreck and sold. Whilst on painful subjects I may mention a very ugly story in circulation about a depute between a oert..in 1). Lorenzo and a waterman ; the Waterman laid his complaint before the Commissary of Police, and the affair terminated by Lorenzo's receiving 100 "legnati" stripes, and being condemned to the galleys for six years. From this punishment, however, a reprieve came from the highest quarters, as he died in two days after. I have heard it from several cre dible authorities. --- - provided for when passing through the United Stott• to Lino& or Mexico. A commercial letter in the New York Journal of Commerce says: The (lemma for goods for the interior has materially fallen off since the sailing of the steamers on the 16th, ant the jibbeire generally are complaining of dullness. 8611 there is a fair inquiry for particular descriptions of mer chandise is first band,. The flour market shows more firm ness. Good to choice domestic—the great bulk at 6 dole. 500. to 7 dol.. All cereals are represented as looking s sty fine, and promising an abundant h . In money matte» there continues much stringency, and banking farilitiee are out of the question. This slow process of country collections has become the almost sell' resource of the mercantile cos malty. Writing from Brownsville, a correspondent states, that on July 10, the Mexican revolutionists were full of hopes of ultimate success. General WoU had marched to Reynoes, in order to take the command of the government troops stationed there; but, after catering Camargo,2,soo men of the federal army were pushing forward rapidly to meet him at the former town, and would endeavour to take him prisoner. The insurgents were well supplid with money, and deter mined to overthrow Santa Anna, Carvajal, with 27 other filibusteree, was discharged by the federal court at Brownsville, the judge having ordered the indict ment to be quashed, as being illegal. The weather was very fine, and the river navigation excellent. General Vidaurj, General-in-Chief oldie liberating army, has issued a decree, which we publish, de nouncing the penalty of death against Santa Anna, his executive officials, general officers and secretaries, should he or any of them fall into the hands of the revolutionists. LOMBARDY. A letter from Milan of the 28th tilt., in the Opinion of Turin, sap Notwithstanding all official assertions to the contrary, the Austrian army of Italy is being considerably increased. There are 44,000 men In Lombardy, and mo a than that number in the Venetian provinces. The recruits who were under drill have been incorporated in the regiments of Italy, which have thus been incrcesed by one-third. For some days past a great number of passports for France have been refused." RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, JULT 25. Within the last three days we have had no less than four large fires, and rumours are current that they are the work of incendiaries. Although the government has not failed to institute strict re searches, nothing has transpired tending to criminate any one. Theforeigners residing in this city are, however, looked upon with suspicion, and orders have been given to the secret police to keep a doubly rigoroas watch on their movements. All the accounts from the south are fall of details of the marching of troops. A letter from Cherson says that every day the inhabitants are attracted to their windows by the gay music of the military bands marching through the otherwise quiet and almost deserted streets, at the head of their regiments. On the other hand the noise of paddle-wheels in the waters of the Dnieper was seldom heard, though the quietude was lately disturbed by the arrival of the Russian war steamer Andia, with officers on board, sent to inspect the progress made in the defensive works being thrown up at the mouth of the river. The reports as to the harvest in the south are very unsatisfactory, and the unusual heat of the month of May appears to have dried and burned up the young ornps. AMERICA. -0- LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain E. Nye, arrived in the Mersey this morning at an early boor from New York, with advices to the 25:h ult., being four days later thea those brought by the North Star. She bad on board 176 passengers and 900,000 dollars in specie. The Governor of Louisiana has issued a proolama.' tion declaring all vessels arriving from ports in the West Indies, the Gulf of Mexico, and certain ports in Brazil, subject to detention at quarantine for a period of ten days. The Cabinet of Washington has determined that no appointments shall be made until after the reedit of the coming elections at the South shall have been ascertained. This, of course, is designed for the especial benefit of the southern Know-Nothings. Mr. Marcy goes to Old Point for a few days to recuperate his health, which has become somewhat impaired. The Court of Claims will probably adjourn to-day (July 25) until the 17th of October. About 150 cases have been docketed. The court were engaged yes terday in perfecting the rules. The sufferers by the bombardment and destruction of Greytown have arrived at the capital to urge their claims for indem nity: these claims amount to about fire miilions of dollars. The Washington Union of the 21st ult. states that the Secretary of State and Hon. Wm. L. Lee, his Hawaiian Majesty's minister to the American go vernment, has signed a treaty of commercial recipro city between the United States and the Sandwich Islands. On Wednesday evening last, after the adjournment of a Know-Nothing meeting at Louisville, at which the speakers had been interrupted several times by some persons in the crowd, said to have been Irish men, a number of disorderly individuals made an mu* upon some houses which were occupied by Irish families. Stones were thrown and shots fired, and a man and woman wounded. No arrests were made. Such occurrences take place almost nightly in Louisville, where party spirit runs very high. The Treasury Department gives notice that all wines and distilled spirits transported in bond from one port to another in the United Stat,s are required to be branded and sealed ; and it is directed that all cigars so transported must be encased and waled before delivered from store, in the came manner as NAVAL AND MILITARY. WOOLWICH, Auouee 4. Captain E. Maberly's Company, No. 8, of the 2nd Battalion, and a detachment of Captain A. Campbell'. company, Nn. 7, of the tame battalino, sod a detachment of the llth Battalion. left this morning for Shoeburyneas. Captain the Ron. 1) Fraaer's Company, No. 6 of the 7th Battalion Royal Artillery (C. Field Battery), arrived here to-day from Shornoliffe, which plow) they lett on the Ist of the month. Mr. Layer& M P., accompanied by an artillery officer, went round the wards of the Ordnance Hospital on Friday. Surgeon G. T. Ferrite also went mind with them, being the surgeon on duty. Recruiting for the HMO Artillery of the Tatkish Con tingent is progrerciog with success, 14 men h►eing been enlisted in two days in Woolwich. Recruiting partite of the non•eommissiooe.l officers are to be sent to some of the large agricultural towns. It is expected that part of the staff will proceed on Monday up to Deptford, to embark in the Adelaide screw steamer, now lying there, taking in storm. COLTRTS-MAIWAL IN THE CRIMEA. OENIRALORDIIRL Read Quarters, before Sebastopol, July 23. At a General Court-Martial, held at the Camp before Sebastopol on Saturday, the 21st of July, in our manes of an order of Lieutenant-General Simpson, Com manding the Forcer, dated the 19:h of Ju;y, Lieutenant A. W. Kirby, 19th Regiment, was tried upon the following charges: 1. For having been drunk on duty under arms, when pa rading the guard for the trenches of the R ghsattsck, before Sebastopol, as orderly officer and acting adjutant of the 19th Regiment on the a ft ernoon of the 15th inst. 2. Fur having at Camp before Sebastopol, on the evening of theistic' lhitt of July, alter having been placed in arrest on the first charge, and whilst in the tent, offered violence to Lieutenant Moleewortb, 19th Regiment, by pointing a pistol at his head, and for having, after Lieutenant Moles worth obtained possession of the pistol, thrown him upon the bed in the tout, sod forcibly taken the pistol from him, Lieu tenant Molcaworth, and again pointed it at his head ; such conduct being greatly to the prejudice of goi.d order and military discipline. Of which charges the court found the prboner guilty. Sentence—The court having found the prisoner guilty of both the charges preferred against him, do now adjudge him (the prisoner), Lieut A. W. Kirby, 19th Krgi meat, to be cashiered. (Signed) C. TROLLOP F, COI., and Lieut.• Col. 62nd Regiment, President. (Signed) W. (I. IthI4AINE, Deputy J udge-Advoente Before Sebastopol, July 21, 1855. Approved and confirmed. (Signed) JAMRS SIMPtiON, Lieut.•o I Commending. By order, (Signed) if. W. BAIMAILD, Met of tho Staff. EXECUTION OF JOSEPH MEADOWS. WORCESTER. SATURDAY. The execution of Joseph Meadows, who wee found guilty of murder at the last Worcestershire toaizee, took place this morning in front of the county gaol here, in the presence of au immense number of epretat re. The de , IRIIIMORT of the crowd, of which one-third were females, was orderly. The women appeared the Item effected by the armful event ; bat one of them, who was seated on a wall opposite the goal, faired when the:closing scene took place, mad fell to the ground. Meadows, as will be recollected, had formed en acquaint secs with a girl named Mary Meson, seventeen years of age. The intimacy was discouraged by the girl's patents, who placed her in service at the Sailor's Return bear-house, at Kates-bill. Dudley. Widows, having discovered her address, paid her visits, passing himself off as her brother, but lading that be did not meet with such encoori gement as he hoped for, he determined to take her life, and caving presented himself early one morning at the public-house, pulled out a carbine, and suddenly discharged it at d e ceased before any one enact interfere, thersby inflicting a mortal around. _ _ Bingo his condemnation the convict has paid the greatest intestine to the ministration of the gaol chaplain. He was visited before condemnation by his brother, two cousins, end an uncle, bat by none of his relatives since, having in bis lettere to them expressed a desire that they should not visit him. Shortly before seven o'clock tbis morning he 1/116 Tidied by the chaplain, the Rev. T. Adliogtoe, whit reansined with him to the hut. Neither this morning aor armee his condemnation has be spoken of the illfated girl. The whets of the primeen in the gaol baying been;angeell in the prison-yard in view of the scaffold, at eight o'clock the gaol bell tolled out, and the procession wets formed in the usual order. Oa proceeding up the steps vs the scaffold Meadows whispered to Caloraft to "do at quickly," which be mosived in reply, " I will not be a mode." Daring the whole of the subsequent preparation the culprit main tained tite most remarkable 'anymore, and at the given Meal roes from his mat without the slightest fUllilitSliCi p and walked firmly to the drop. A few minutes more and the wretched man was launelvd into eternity. A hoarse murmur was the only exhibition of public technic. The body, after haagiog an hour, was busied within the psi dogs of the gaol. THE AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS -LITER POOL, SATURDAY.—The British and North American royal =WI steamabip America, Capt. W. 0 C. Lang, sailed from the Mersey t►is afternoon for Boston and Halifax with the usual weekly mails, 18 0 3 paseengere, and a Ti uablr serge of merchendise en board. Amongst ber pass , ugere were Mr. J. H. Gough, the temperance orator (who was escorted to the tender by a large comma* of Merits, and I•. udly cheered on his departure), end Mr. Genrgo Vandenholi (son of the eelebra•ed tragedian). The royal mail clipper ship James Baines Meisel today, and sails ta-morrow fore noon for Melbourne, with the fortnightly cos.., 9bo !watts. tore, and a full cargo, a large amount of height being left behind. LAUNCH OF THE IRON PADDLE STEAMER PRINCS PATRICE.—On Wednesday, the Prince Pattie*, a megniev eent paddle steamer, was launched from the yard nf Me•ers. Vernon and Sons, Brunswick-doek, Liverpte-l. TM vemei has been built for the North Lancashire Steam Navigation Company (a comparatively new but very prosperous con- Oafs), plying between Fleetwood and B.ltag, and, ill , hlugh meetly the sailing of the company's boats between the two porta took place only twice a week, yet the bipinets has in creamed to such an extent that there is a boat now every ',coin, and in order to accommodate the puidie, ae welt as the passenger and goods traffic, both being greatly atm 'seated, the new boat has been built, to be tellnwrd by others. This route from the north of England to the north et Ireland is sow fully appriciated, and * support given by the pablie to this line lolly proves its importance. The Prises Patriots is 225 fret long betwe e n t h e ptrouidieniars, an d has a registered tonnage of 703 tone s but b eg carry i ng weft will be 40 or 50 per cent. more. fitsw blench was afeesed he the best style, with the most ,psistent ens, sag nu nnng, end without the smallest eeridynt: Aftrithe INTIMICOII, about 60 ladies sad gentlemen e at go on to a &maw provided by the builders. '1 hielies affords thsG, • - onliZ a l eoramunicaticn hawse's Englagff *Rd the alrOt of CATOT/LL PALACE.—FIVE SHILLING Admissions oss payment. 473; ditto by Stti, n ticketed - 2,367 +Mal, 2.840. 4