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SErr. 22, 1855. which they raised in the course of a few days. But there is an impossibility even for heroes ! The Bth of this month, atter six desperate assaults ha 4 been repulsed, the enemy succeeded iu obtaining possession of the important Korniloff Bastion, and the general-in-chief of the army of the Crimea, desiring to spare the precious blood of his companions, which under these circumstances would only have been uselessly shed, determined on passing to the northern side of the place, leaving to the enemy only blood-stained ruins. These heroes, objects of the general esteem of their comrades, will no doubt offer, on re-enter ing the ranks of the army, new examples of the same war like virtues. With them and like them, all our troops animated with the same unlimited faith in Providence, and the same ardent love for me and their country, will always and everywhere combat with courage the enemies who touch the honour and integrity of the country; and the name of Sebastopol, which has acquired immortal glory by so many sufferings, and the names of its defenders, will live etermilly in the hearts of all Russians with the names of the heroes who immortalised themselves in the battle fields of Pultawa and Borodino. ALEXANDLE. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Jassy says :—"The Jews of Mol davia recently demanded from the Porte permission to purchase real property in Moldavia. The Grand Vizier communicated the demand to the Hospodar, and he submitted it to the Divan composed of boyards. The Divan adopted a resolution, declaring solemnly that neither the Porte nor any other power has the right to interfere with the privileges of Mol davia, and that in no case can Israelites be allowed to possess real property in the principality. This resolution has been sent to Constantinople." UNITED STATES. The mail steamship Pac(fic has brought New York dates to the sth inst. The New York Herald learns, from an authentic source, that contracts have been made for the intro duction this year into the island of Cuba of large numbers of African slaves. One party alone has contracted for the supply of seven thousand. Por tuguese agents are now in New York making ar rangements. The yellow fever was subsiding in Virginia. The subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers by the epidemic amount to upwards of 62,00) dollars. A large portion of the cotton made last season in Louisiana was still lying on the banks of the rivers, waiting for navigation. On Red River alone two hundred thousand bales are detained. In the mean time, planters are deprived of sour, coffee, &c., unless they pay for these articles to cover land carriage at Ow rate of one bale of cotton for two barrels of flour. ',ulnas Francis Meagher has been by special order of the Supreme Court of this State, sitting at Albany, admitted an attorney and councillor in all the courts of New York. A dreadful tragedy has been enacted at North Sterling, New York. A man named Fitzgerald, together with his wife and 80n, were found dead in their beds, horribly mutilated. Another son is sus pected of committing the awful deed. Mdle. Rachel has been most enthusiastically re ceived by crowded audiences in New York. lutelligence from Mexico states that General Carrera is appointed Provisional President of that country. The intentions of Alvarez and Comonfort were not yet known. The provinces have been invited to pronounce. Santa Anna, after escaping to Bavauna, proceeded to Caraccas. THE CAPE. Cape of Good Hope papers to tl . " - 1777 - '7ri of u y inclusive have come to hand. They are principally o:cupied with matters of colonial interest. The nunals speak of a general improvement being everywhere visible, and the business done in the local markets as rapidly extending. INDIA. THE SANTHAI, INSURRECTION. An overland mail has arrived, with dates from Calcutta to the Uth and Bombay to the 13th of August. The only news of importance relates to the insurrection of the &intimls. On this subject a letter from Calcutta of the 11th ult. states : The Smiths' rebellion languishes ; the insurgents are withdrawing to their fastnesses, making occasional raids in small parties upon villages far away from the places in which the troops are located, and they are reported to be building stockades in the jungles north of the Idore River, behind which they have retreated. The hill tribes—for the Santhals are lowlanders, dwelling on the spurs of the Raj- Mahal chain of the Vindliyan mountains—have not joined in the outbreak, and are said to be determined not to permit the rebels to take reflige in their country. If this he correct, the reduction of the Stuithals will become a far e isier task than was anticipated. 1 he army which is to take the field against the Santhals has not been detailed, but as all officers on leave, and several on staff employ, belonging to the 7th, Bth, 13th, 31st, 40th, 42nd, flOth, 58th, and 63 1 4 Native Infantry, have been ordered to join, there can be no doubt that all these corps are to be employed. The I Ith Itegitnent of Irregular Cavalry and a considerable amount of Artillery are also gone, or going, to the BOWIe of the insurrection. At the oomnieuoeutoot of the outbreak a telegraphic measaga was OCIA ;‘) Altiital fur troor, and Ow reply receives way WO THE PRESS. there were none to spare. Some persons are of minion that Russian agency and gold have originated the re• hellion ; but this 1 doubt, though possibly some agent of the Czar may have been at work to incite the discontented to rise. In the Overland Caleuttes Englishman we read that a letter from Raneegange, dated 24th of July, says:— About 600 troops arrived by Saturday's train at Ranee. gunge, under command of Major Hampton, partly of the 87th and 50th Bombay Native Infantry; 100 were despatched yesterday to Taldangah. On Saturday last the rebels were opposed at Katna (a village four cogs north of Nuggur) by the Ghautwall of 1100 Roy. The Tatter's son being cut down, the Ghent wall tied The Nuggur Rajah has a company of sepoys from Soorey to defend his place, and it is to be hoped they will be able to keep them in check, otherwise there will be nothing to prevent them making a march on the Ranee. gunge station. Troops are to be despatched from here with every hope of falling in with the rebels. One hundred and fitty men of the 56th Bombay Native Infantry, under command of Captain Halliday, started for Bancoomh, to protect that place. Ali the railway works about here are stopped. The rail way people have assembled together at the station for security. Should the rebels be checked in their course westward, they will very probably turn to the east again, and, coming down the Kyrasole jungle, sack and burn all the railway bungalows in that vicinity. News has just, come in that the troops had fallen in with the rebels at Nuggur, and that upwards of 3(t) were killed, besides a number wounded and taken prisoneti. The Bombay Overland Times of Aug. 23 re marks:— We know as little now as we did a fortnight since of the causes which led to the insurrection, or the catastrophe to which it may yet lead. The insurgents in the field are said to amount to 30,000—bands of them of from 600 to 2,000 strong are overrunning the country to the south eastward, spreading terror and desolation before and around them. Two hundred villages are already said to have been destroyed by them, and several great towns been brought into danger. 'Wherever they have come in contact with the regular troops they have, of course, been dispersed with much slaughter, and they are not anywhere in a position to offer effective resistance to the most moderate sized detachments. So soon as we have a sufficient force in the field they will be hunted down or driven back to their fastnesses, but the mischief they are at present occa sioning is as lamentable as their appearance in the field was unexpected. AUSTRALIA. Some days' later news from Australia have been received by the royal mail steamship Tamar, vii Callao. The intelligence from Melbourne is to the 25th of June. Serious collisions had taken place between the Irish at the Maryborough diggings and the miners. The " Tips," as the former are called, attempted to take the lsw into their own hands relative to "jump ing" claims, but the miners rose en masse to the number of 3,000, and obliged them to conform to law end usage. The miners are known as " the Allies," in contradistinction to the " Tips." Military and police were sent to preserve the peace in the district. A mutual protection society has been formed with the sanction of the Government. At the Ballarat diggings the Irish also placed themselves in opposition to the English, Scotch, and American miners, and scenes similar to those at Maryborough occurred. At Maryborough a " Tip" who rashly presented his gun at a body of 2,000 of the " Allies" was fired at twice and slightly wounded. A monster nugget, weighing 1,000 ounces, and valued at 4,8001., was found at the Maryborough diggings. In the commercial summary published in the drgus we find the following : The yield of gold is steady, and we have great hopes of making our exports of gold this year 4 hundred tons. A VERY DIRTY LOOKING AFFAIR has come to light connected with one of the Paris lotteries for religious purposes, which are too readily sanctioned by way of exception to the wholesome common law which for bids lotteries altogether. The principal prize of the lot tery of St. Hoch, which was recently drawn, fell to the ticket No. 120,360; and aM. Trucy having presented himself with that ticket, and fulfilled the formalities required, was offered, instead of 100,000 f. which was due to him, 10,0($)f. ou account. He refused to re ceive this sum, conceiving the offer a mere excuse to make him wait a long while for the full amount. The profit on lotteries being enormous, the refusal to pay the prizes at once is wholly unjustifiable. But while the supposed fortunate proprietor of the winning ticket was urging his lawful claims, an unlooked•for impediment arose. He has just been informed that. the directors of the lottery have received a formal notification through a buissier that a publichouse keeper, named Desonche, of Villetaneuse, near Paris, claimed the lot, on the ground that he had purchased the winning ticket, and was the real owner of it, though having lost it, and True) , having found it. Desonche has coninieueed law proceedings to estsh limb his cilium. This is a very odd story; and the claim coming in aid of the previous refusal to pq tc, l ay the least, 6111101011 Si fort and lastiol. The Braemar Highland meeting came off on Thursday week. The morning was wet and misty, but towards noon the sun shone forth, and a finer day could not have been desired for witnessing the games, and admiring the wild and romantic scenery of the Braes of Mar. About twelve o'clock the clans, numbering nearly three hundred, commanded by their respective chiefs, assembled in front of the old castle. Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, arrived at three o'clock, and were received by Mr. Farquharson, of Invercauld, at the castle gate ; and the clans, who had previously been drawn up in lines on both sides of the approach to the castle, gave the royal party a true Highland welcome. The games were contested throughout with the greatest spirit and agility, and handsome prizes were, through the liberality of her Majesty and other visitors, awarded to the suc cessful competitors. Altogether a more successful gathering has not been held for many years in Mar. The Queen sent a cheque of 501. to Mr. Middleton, station -master, at l3anchory, of the Deeside Railway, as a reward for his exertions in " expressing " the news of the fall of Sebastopol to Balmoral on the 12th. The queen has signified her intention of granting a life pension of 301. per annum to the widow of William Haigh, who lost his life while endeavouring to grease the axle of one of the carriages during the royal journey to Scotland on the oth inst. The un fortunate man was an old servant of the Great Northern Railway Company, and had attended the royal progresses over this line on several former occasions. Her Majesty has already signified her intention of returning to the south over the Great Northern Rail way. The train is ordered for the 13th of October. When it was reported in September last that Sebastopol had fallen, a large quantity of timber was colleckid on the summit of Craig-gowan, the moun tain which rises immediatedly to the south of Bal moral Castle, with the intention of kindling a bonfire as soon as the news might be officially confirmed. The report having turned out false, the fire was, of course, not kindled ; but the fuel having remained in expectation that it would still be used for that pur pose, it was kindled on the night of the 12th, and illumined the country for miles around. Thus, within a few days of a year, had this pile remained, its dry and dead-like appearance being, perhaps, one of the most suggestive sights which the queen wit nessed when, a day or two previously, her Majesty stood beside it on the mountain. The following are the fees due and of right pay ble upon the nomination of a /Wight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath : £ d. To the Dean of the Order To the Genealogist 2't 0 To the Bath King of Arms To the Registrar 22 0 0 To the Seormary 22 0 0 To the Gentleman Usher To the Messenger To the Bath King of Arms, fur the book of the Statutes To the Secretary, for notice of election 013 4 t 164 6 14 Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, Esq:, new on his voyage in a pleasure yacht to the Mediterra- nean and Black Seas, is accompanied by Mr. King lake, the celebrated author of " Eothen." _ The intended meeting of the members of the Orleans family at the Chateau of the Count de Cham• bord was postponed, according to the Pnustan Ga zette, in consequence of the intervention of Queen Victoria. That journal adds that the Emperor of Austria, out of consideration for the Emperor of the French, notified to the princes and princess es of the house of Orleans that he could not desire to see such a meeting take place within the Austrian do minions. The preparations for the proposed journey were laid aside in consequence, and the Duchess of Orleans, with the Count de Paris and the Duke of Chartres, left Ala on the 12th for Ostend, ex route for England. Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at Aberdeen yesterday week, whence the Prince pro ceeded by the Dundee Railway on a visit to the Queen at Balmoral. He was received at Banchory by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who had posted thirty miles, accompanied by General Grey, and pro ceeded up Decside for lialmnral at three o'clock. A letter from Berlin of the 10th instant, in the Hem bury News, referring to this event, states .—" Prince Frederick William, son of the Prince of Prussia, has left this city to pay a visit to the Queen of England at Balmoral Castle. The object of his visit is to renew his acquaintance with t h e eldest daughter of the Queen, who is hereafter to become his wife. The marriage is fined on between the parents, but it will not take place for the resent owing to the pwlit We Plitntigi." 901