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"TIRE - • ASYLUM LIFE AVIRTRANCE OFFICE, 72,CORNRIL, , London. il;11:11 edlB C in m ttiN :40 N CLARMONT WHITEMAN, EFq. Ynlici:•: on lie:ill/iv and Diseased Lives, at Home and Abroad, for Niiiitary. and Naval Employments. The only Office on purely Yro^t•ietary principles involving, therefore, no Partnership vinong Policy-hold,rs Fur prospectuses, pr.,posal papers, 'lce., apply to MANLEY FIOPKIN:3, fte4iignt Director. ROYAL OPERA, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Will be perfbrmed ROB ROY. Characters by Messrs, J. Ander on, Ray. Stuart, gerberte, Braham. Barrett, and J. Halliard ; Jabs Lanza; Miss Dy,r, and Mrs W. J. Wallack. To conclude with DER FREISCHLUZ. Character 4 by Messrs' Porme4, - Lockesley, H. Braharn, and Hodges; Misses Dyer and Lanza, &c. Prices of admission:—To the two galleries. 6d;; second circle of boxes. and pit, is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d.; sta , ls, 4s. • private boxes to admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; fou r p ersons , one g uinea. Box-office open from 10 to 6 daily. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Bnoksteiso. THIS EVENING, ill be performed THE BUST BODY. Followed by COURT FAVOUR. To be followed by OLYMPUS IN A MUDDLE ; or, Wrong People in wrong Places. - To conclude with THE SP.s_NISH DANCERS. l'itl NC ESNS r FIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CRAiLIi KRAL THIS EVENING, Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen /Lathe r no, Mr. C. Kean; Cardinal WolseY, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIEL PToprielor, Mr. 8 . Webster. — ntrectr&a unt.. THIS EVENING, Will be performed VICTORINE. After which, ROW'S YOUR UNCLE ? To conclude with FRATEItNISATION: ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Payne. THIS EVENING. Will be performed FOUNDED ON FACTS. Follewtd by THE GALICIAN FETE. after w 1414 GANEM. • To which will be added UNA NOCHE DE FIESTA EN SEVILIA. m conclude with MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG HUS:SANDS. The BENEFIT of Mr. GOODMAN will take place to-morrow, on which oceasiou, the celebrated danseuse, Mdlle. AURIOL, and Mr. SA II COWELL, the talented comic singer, w ill appear, who have both giv n their gratuitous sevices for the occasion. AS rLI Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Letsee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Unabated and triumphant attraction of 3fazeppa.—Fourth and last week of Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams. THIS EVENING, Lord Tivron's MAZF.P PA and the WILD lIORSE, designated by the public press the I henomenen of the Day. Mr. William Cooke has trained his matchless stud of horses expressly for this unrivalled au' most popular spectacle. After which, the Equestrian SCENES in the CIRCLE, arranged by Mr. W Illam Cooke. fo conclude with Mr. Nelson Lee's Farce, A RAFFLE for an ELEVIIANT, introducin: Mr. W. Cooke's sagacious Elephant. ;tot..ornce open :rum Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. W •sr. Acting T anager, Mr. Nelson Lea. Equestrian Director, M. sv. Cooke, jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. • 21min. aft. 4—Evening 42 min. aft. 4 To-MORROW—Morn. Imin.aft. .s—Evening 21min. aft. 4 TUB INNAI KR.—Buw Ornaz. Aug. 31. TEINILMONETNII, IN Tax SHAM 70— highest since noon yesterday. 5 —towost this morning and during the night. ;0 —this day, at noon. BARONICTIR, 3O 31. WIND, E.—Light breeze, and fine, clear, sultry weather. ) , 1„ <~~~:~. -,- ~- ~ ~~~ r LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1855. Scandinavian enthusiasm was greatly excited by the early. i n telligenee- respecting. the bombardment of Sweaborg. The results were considerably mag nified there, as in this country. The complete demolition of " the Gibraltar of the North" was currently reported and implicitly believed. It was naturally supposed that the brilliant success which attended the operations of the Allied fleets was but the first of a series of similar triumphs by which the RusSians Would be,, if not, annihilated, at least materially crippled, so that she could no longer menace her neighbours, or continue the aggressive policy which she had so long displayed towards them. In Sweden particularly the sup posed event was hailed as a great act of retributive -justice, which inflicted well-merited punishment on the uncunscientious plunderer in the very scene of her crime. Helsingfors had been robbed from Sweden. It was a Swedish, before it had been transformed into a Russian fortress—the capital of that Finland which had once been the fairest province of their fatherland. They could not conceive that the victorious squadron would be contented with the mere destruction of stores,--that they would not take possession of the all but captured forts—or that, even if they could not permanently retain the works, they would depart to other quarters, while one stone remained standing on another,. or a single Russian cannon commanded the approaches. Such folly would be incomprehen sible if the English Government were really in earnest and d'esirous of obtaining the co-operation of nations in the immediate vicinity of so formid able an enemy.. Bitter indeed must have been their disappoint ment. on ascertaining the true state of the case, on leaininq that from some cause the a-ssailants bad stopped in the very centre, of their work, leaving the sea defendes but little injured, and still avail able): for-Muscovite purposes. Some foundation 15 . as , therefore been afforded for the mendacious pretences of the Russians, which ascribes, some thing the very reverse of bravery to our largef vessels, and declares the damage inflicted on the works of the fortress and • the batteries in keneral to be " insignificant." They are told by the General DE BERQ that "The enemy' s large vessels, as ships of the line, fri gates and steamers, owing to the large surface they would offer to , our (-i;e., the Russian)' Are, took no part whatever in the combat with the fortress, carefully avoiding receiving any damag e ; " and the fact that they escaped without a single man killed, or vessels materially injured, seems to corroborate-the statement, for had it been other wise, why did they not go in to finish the work so 'well commenced by the mortar-vessels and gun -boats, and complete the demolition of the forts, the fire whereof had previously been all bu silenced ? The alleged reason will scarcely be credited The Sew•edes do not know Sir Charles Wood They cannot believe that a First Lord of the Admiralty would for a moment be retained in office who disregarded the obvious precaution of • keeping a suitable reserve of shells and mortars for the use of the fleet, so as to prevent it from fairly following up and completing its triumphs, and rendering the enormous expenditure incurred on the Baltic expedition practically useless. They have probably never heard of the evil reputation attached to his name. If any rumours respecting him have circulated in Stockholm or the surround ing country, they have been merely with respect to his conne c tion with the retired " Aberd een i s t e ," who have since become avowed Russian pa r ti sa , ns , with Lc rd GREY, who has also deprecated the War,, and declared himself for peace at any p r i ce or of ! any condition, and as the henchman of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who disobeyed the instrnc tions of the Cabinet by whom he was appointed, and itof which he continued a member, notwith standi.ttg his gross insubordination. Under such cir cure Lances, then, the inopportune failure of supplies at the most pressing emergency would be aa cri I sec?to something worse than mere incom peten 13r. Even Sir CHARL ES . W OOD, if in ear n es t . 3ould scarcely ignore the palpabl e fact that morta l .s would not last for ever, and that it would be as necessary to provide a - reierve of heavy ordnance of that particular class for the vessels in which they were in use, as additional pairs of shoes for soldiers engaged in actively marching and countermarch ing from place to place. Sweden can, therefore, place no reliance on the sincerity of the English Government, when it permits such a man to retain such an office ; and their doubts are enhanced when they consider the inactivity of the naval forces in= the Euxine, and the great care taken to keep "the large vessels, ships of the line, frigates, and steamers," out of danger, carefully avoiding exposing themselves to any damage. Sir E. Lvorts is not an officer of that discreet valour that would spare either himself or the men under his command if he had full permission to act as he - thought proper. If not kept back by secret instructions from home, he'd have been long since heard of, in some way or other, and not remained a mere spectator of the toils and dangers of the army in the Crimea. The extra ordinary prudence lately observable amongst English Admirals is decidedly not a legacy derived froth the old " Sea PALADINS " of England. It is decidedly well to spare men and vessels when the object can be accomplished without loss. But would NiLsoN have permitted a season to pass by ingloriously because some danger should be encountered in meeting the enemy muzzle to muzzle, or if they skulked behind stone walls, in cutting them out from the very ports in which they were vainly seeking shelter ? Unfortunately we have now no NELSONG who will insist on the privilege of meeting them wherever they are to be found, and dealing with them according to the usage of English Admirals of the olden time. The Peer and the Presbyter are just at this moment exhibiting themselves in striking contrast, and illustrating their respective susceptibilities of the better tendencies of the age. The Presbyters of Edinburgh and the heir to the Derby peerage are, by appropriate methods, disclosing to the public the stuff which each class of men is made of. The one throws open his park to the grateful multitudes, and speaks to them on self-reliance on their part, and of his own gratification in offering to the humble - many the pleasures of a ramble in his grounds, and the improvement as well as pier.- sure of gazing on the works of taste which orna ment the ,family mansion ; the others open the door of the Calton Gaol, but only to close it on an aged widciw who cannot pay them thirty shillings for ministrations, on which, from conscientious reasons, she never attended I Lord STANLEY votes against Church-rates, and would probably vote against the equally odious Edin burgh Annuity Tax ; not only that, but he tells the thousands of Lancashire mechanics ga thered on his lawn, " that every year we see more plainly that in education, as is other matters, self-help is the best help, that a little which men do for themselves is better than a great deal they get the State to do for them." The Edinburgh Presbyters, on the contrary, are occupied in wringing silver and gold, and batvbees too, from poor widows, and scores of other poor persons, by means of such thumb-screws as are yet permitted them. The idea of reliance on the liberality of those they teach, or, what comes to the same thing, on their own capacity and diligence as religious instructors, does not seem to occur to the successors of the great model Presbyter who burnt SERVE'TUS. We have some faint recollection, indeed, of other Presbyters whom we used to think passable models ; it may, however, be a serious objec tion to them. that they were not so near the middle ages as the great predestinarian. They lived in the remote antiquity of the first century, indeed some of them had taken their oral instructions from the founder of our faith himself. Perhaps it is hardly to be expected that men should turn back from the sun-light of Jonx CALVIN to the dimly discerned glimmerings of PETER and PAUL. Geneva logic has developed Christianity wonderfully since their time. What would the Presbytery now think of any. of their number who should tell a modern ANANIAS that his prOperty was " his own," even though the Holy Kirk had need of it ; or of one who should admonish a fellow Presbyter to " Feed .the flock and take the , oversight thereof— not by constraint but willingly, not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind." , Of course PETER had not sat at the feet of the heretic-burner. He would have been wiser now. And PAUL, too, he was so unenlightened that he actually worked for his living ! He told a whole assembly of presbyters that he had " coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel—that they knew that his own hands had ministered to his necessities and to those who were with him." He carried this amiable weakness to such an extent that he declared it was better for him to'die than not to be able to boast of waiving his right to live by the Gospel, when asserting that right would have prejudiced his ministerial usefulness. He even laid it down as a rule for his disciples that they should give " not grudingly or of necessity," for, he added, " the LORD loveth a cheerful giver." In this last remark PAUL was decidedly in error, for we can hardly imagine that the Edinburgh Doctors of Divinity would fill the gaOls and streets with angry or weeping givers, if they did not know the mind 'of the LORD better than PAUL did. Like PETER, too, PAUL taught a very eminent young pre byter, to whom he wrote, that men in that office were not to be " greedy of filthy lucre, but patient and gentle to all men," and the like. It is plain that PAUL might be a very good primitive Christian, but he was not a finished Presbyterian ; he had not learned from those pro mised comforters, CALvix and KNox. He and the other Apostles were sent forth in those twi light days of Christianity "as lambs in the midst of wolves," but now the State Presbyters go forth as wolves in the midst of lambs. I n b r i ef, PAUL was very good at doctrines and as f ar as t h e f i ve points go, but he knew nothing about the support of Kirk Ministers. We suppose, with the other denizens of Edinburgh, the Presbytery term . themselves Modern Athenians. One point of resem blance they may certainly claim. Ancient Athens sent SOCRATES to prison on an in dictment of heresy in regard to the esta blished.• faith ; the Presbyters of the Modern Athens send the poor widow PRINGLE—widow, too, of a Colour-Serjeant who had served twenty nine years in the 78th Highlanders—send the soldier's widow of sixty to prison literally for thirty pieces of silver. She dissents from the esta blished faith, which, in the Edinburgh kirk, is, that citizens who object 'to pay for what they never use, shall be made to pay. For widows, paupers, and all, , the. Presbyter tax or the gaol are the only alternatives. Luckily, they cannot give them the cup of hemlock, nor even C ALQIN'i , substitute ; . the faggot ; perhaps, how ever, they do not wish •; dead heretics bring no thing to tbe sacred., chest. We beilieve it was some of these Presbyterian clergy , who, not long ago, would, have almost had our Government go to war because one of their Doctors of Divinity got into prison at Madeira, if we remember right,. for preaching Protestantism to the simple-minded Catholics. The law of the island was clear and undisputed—but the Scotch doctor was conscientiously doing his duty, and it was denounced as intolerable that bP should not have liberty to do what he believed to be his duty. Compare, then, the case of the aged soldier's widow with the other. She pleads either poverty or conscience. If the former, what language can depict the ava rice of these spiritual pawnbrokers, who take even the widow's body in pledge for a paltry thirty shillings which she cannot afford ? If she plead conscience, as she may with good right, why are Presbyterian Doctors alone to have the benefit of that plea ? It it be denied that there can be any conscience about the matter, we reply that that is the assertion of all persecutors against their victims ; the CathOlics certainly could equally employ it against the proselyting Scotch doctor. The Ca tholics, indeed, by comparison appear to immense advantage. To imprison a man for teaching what they held to be fatal erroz was bad enough in one view, but it is magnanimity itself com pared with the miserly meanness and the Shylock cruelty of imprisoning a woman—an aged woman —a widow—for THIRTY SHILLINGS ! But we have done. Fully as the war engages us, we do hope Lord PALMERSTON will take these Edinburgh Doctors of Divinity in hand next Session. But for their avaricious demands the Annuity Tax would ere now have been extinguished, and it is a disgrace to the Legislature that it should longer remain for the benefit of a few ministers whose half filled churches bear witness to their merits. Lord PALMERSTON has shown his capacity for schooling the Edinburgh Presbytery, by his seasonable ad monitions when, on the occasion of the cholera, they wished him to force the people to kirk, while overlooking the primary duty of purifying the haunts of disease. We hope he-will now teach them that the time is come to put an end for ever to these ecclesiastical forays in the service of MAMMON. The intolerance of Tuscany or Spain is respectable by the side of these degrading per secutions for filthy lucre. • TEE SUN, LONDON, FR1D'"...4.1" EVENING-, AUG UST 31, 1855. DRD RY-LANE THEATRE. Last night Auber's opera of Musaniello was produced at this theatre and met With complete success. The music allotted to the part of the hero was very tastefully sung by Mr. E. Galer, and Miss Lanza gave the music of Elvira with her accustomed intelligence and feeling. The choruses were steadily given, and the dances very prettily arranged. The di rec t ors o f the operatic specu lation seem determined to bring their season to a close with eclat, for although within a week or two of its ter mination we see they have announced Il Trovutore, and several other highly popular operas for representation. The house was both fully and fashionably attended. ADELPHI THEATRE. Last evening Buckstone's clever three-act drama, en titled Victorine, was revived here with complete success. It is now nearly a quarter of a century since it was first produced, and we well recollect the success which at• tended its first representation, supported as it was by the combined efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Fitz william, Messrs. 0. Smith, John Reeve, Hemming, and Buckstone. The cast last night was as follows :—Vic tonne, Mrs. Leigh Murray ; Elise, Miss Woolgar ; Alexandre, Mr. L. Murray ; Michel, Mr. Parselle ; Blaize, Mr. Wright ; Bonassus, Mr. P. Bedford ; and Cesar Chateloupe, Mr. C. Selby. The Victorine of Mr , . Leigh Murray was really a beautiful performance, and it is to be regretted that this lady has not bad an earlier opportunity of showing to an Adelphi audience what talents she possessed. Since the time of the first production of the drama we have seen many ladies attempt the part of Victorine, but till last night we never saw a performance that deserved to be compared with the efforts of Mrs. Yates. The delivery of the tag by Mrs. L. Murray was very artistically given, and loudly applauded, and from the impression caused by the acting of this lady we have no doubt we shall have a regular revival of all the old Adelphi dramas, in which she will sustain the leading pact. Miss Woolgar's* Elise was a little too fidgetty to suit our taste, taut it was withal a capital performance. Poor Yates's part. it will be observed, fell into the hands of Leigh Mur ray, and that of the late inimitable artiste, 0. Smith, to the care of Mr. Selby, who, although they acquitted themselves very creditably, we cannot say were equal to their predecessors. The other parts were all respectably su , tained. The revival, we have not the slightest doubt, will prove hiehly attractive for some time to come. The house was crowded. STRAND TREATRE. To-morrow evening a performance of a highly attrac tive character will take place at this pretty little theatre. The occasion is for the benefit of Mr. Michael Goodman. In addition to the talented troupe forming the stock company of the theatre, Mdlle. Auriol, Mdlle. Julie, Miss Eliza Terry, Mr. llLewis, Lewis Mr. S. Cowell, and vari ous other artistes have tendered their gratuitous services. The bill of fare consists of Leman Rede's original drama of The Rake's Progress, Married Daughters and Young Husbands, a very pretty ballet and a musical melange. With such attractive entertainments a crowded house must be the natural result. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-Aug. 30. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DEPARTURE OP THE ROYAL FAMILY FOR SCOTLAND.— Wednesday, the sth September, is the day fixed for the departure of her Majesty from Osborne. Only the two youngest children will remain there. - In - the late hail-Storm Mr. Thatcher had eight sheep killed. Several farmers had their standing corn nearly destroyed. One field of wheat, of 11 acres, between Whitsone and Plash, was laid as if a roller had been over it. Swede turnips had large holes cut in them, and some were split. The hailstones would appear to have been as large AS duck eggs. The Earl Fitzliardinae arrived at Townshend House last evening, and the Earl and Countess of Desart at Cambridge House, for the autumn. S r John Bayley, Bart., has taken the pavilion ; Mr. J. Smith, Adelaide Villa ; Todd, Esq., No. 4, Parade•terrace ; and J. Harrison, Esq., No. 7. _ _ The Marquis ConYnghani has bad his yacht, the Cecile, moved out of the harbour to-day, where she has been lying during the illness of the Lady Cecilia Conyngbatn, who is now sufficiently recovered to be taken on deck. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.—Arrived— Aug. 27. Nymph, cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart., from Harwich. Sailed—Aug. 27. Gondola, yawl, Thomas Hughan, Esq., for Greenock. 29. Caprice, yawl, H. B. Baring, Esq., Plymouth. Yachts at and about the Station—Capricorn, Irene, Gloriana, Cecile, Titania, lone, Brilliant, Alarm, Wizard, Stella, Aurora, Frisk, Enchantress, and Wildfire. Royal Yachts at Cowes— Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and Elfin steamers. On the 26th inst., the anniversary of Prinna Albert's birth, royal salutes were fired from the R.Y.S. battery and Cowes Castle, in honour of the day. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE NORTH.—n is now defi nitively arranged that her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family will leave King's-cross station, Lon• don, on Thursday next, the 6th of September, and pro ceed thence by the Great Northern Railway to Scot land. The royal train will leave the metropolis at eight o'clock, and arrive at York at 12.14 p.m., where her Majesty will partake of luncheon. The Royal travellers will then resume their journey by the North-Eastern line of railway. The Queen of England, on Saturday last, sent for the directors of the Compagnie Lyonnaise to come to the Palace of St. Cloud, and selected from a number of articles exhibited to her Majesty in one of the salons of the Palace the most remarkable among the manufac tures of London.—Galignani. The Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland, Grand Master of Masons in England, will hold a provincial grand lodge, in the Old Globe Lodge, - Scarborough, on Mon day, the 10th September next. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Blantyre, who came to town from Trentham on the aceouchement of the Duchess of Argyll, have left Stafford House for Den- ro bin Castle. The Duchess Dowager of Manchester and her youth ful family leave town next week for Castle Dobbs, her father's seat, in the north of Ireland, to pass her widow ho( d, The Marquis of Breadalbane left Park-lane yesterday for Taymouth Castle, Perthshire. The marchioness arrived there early in the past-week. The Marchioness of Ailesbury left town on Wednes day for Paris, in which capital her ladyship purposes to make but a brief visit. Lord Charles Bruce has gone to Switzerland. The Earl and Countess Bruce have arrived in town from Savernake Lodge, near Marlborough, Wilts. The Earl of Clarendon has gone to the Grove, near 'Watford, Herts, to join the countess and family. FINANCES OF AUSTRIA.—The Oazette de Leipsic says it is confirmed that M. Bruck, Financial Minister of Austria, is about to propose a new loan of 200 millions of florins, intended to repay the Bank of Vienna the advances which that institution has made to the State. Mr. J. D. Coleridge, of the Western Circuit, will be the new Recorder of Portsmouth, in succession to Mr. Massey, M.P., appointed Under• Secretary for the Home Department. Mr. A. J. Stephens has been ap pointed Recorder of Andover, in the room of Mr, Be!. • leaden Her, resigned. LATEST NEWS. DANTZIC, AUG. 30. The Gayser has waived. Authentic inform action has been obtained in the fleet that the Ru ssians lost upwards of 2,000 men at Sweaborg. KIEL, Auci. 30. The Austerlitz, French line-of-battle ship, has just entered the port. Three more English bomb- vessels, in addition to the five already men tioned, have arrived 24 Helsingfors, defects in their construction rendering it necessary to send them back to England. , Prince Gortschakoff eeports from Sebastopol, under date on the evening of the 27th, that nothing fresh of importance had occurred. COPENHAGEN, Auo. 29. The King has sanctioned _the alterations in the fundamental law, and to-day the Premier has pre sented the collective constitution to the Lands- thing, accompanying it with a two hours' speech. He stated that, if the measures were rejected, the whole Ministry would resign. ATHENS, AUG. 24. The King still demands the dismissal of Kalergi. Russian influence is active. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The Moniteur contains a decree convoking the councils of arrondissements, with the exception of those of the department of the Seine, for the 25th September, for the second part of their session, the duration of which is fixed at five days. The division of the Army of the East of France, commanded by General Lafontaine, and consisting (.1 the 24th, the 34th, the 92d regiments of the line, and of the 18th battalion of chasseurs, has re ceived orders to proceed to Lyons on its way to the East. By order of the Governor-General of Algeria, General de brigade de Smre, commander of the subdivision of Algiers, has taken the command of that Setif, in the room of General Rose, who has been appointed to the subdivision of Constantino, ; and General de brigade Deligny has been appointed successor of General de Sefie, in the subdivision of Algiers. BOURSE, AUG. 30.---CLOSING PRIORS. Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents 95 —95 f. —c. 3 per Cents 66 90 66 80 Cr6dit Mobilier 1325 Roman — Credit Foncier 535 Austrian Belgian Fives. — Spanish Threes — Piedmonteae B5 Home Debt — RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. it. c. fr... Orleans 1215 Rouen Western B2O Strasburg Cette 736 25 Havre 7OO Mediterranean — Cherburg Northern Lyons . ...1217 50 Austrian C0m.... 712 50 THE DANUBE. A letter from Roustchouck of the 10th says : " For some days past bodies of Turkish troops have been directed from the Danube on Baltchick and Varna, where they will embark for Asia. Osman Pacha has left this place with five battalions, Mahmoud Pach a and Der wisch Pacha have quitted Silistria with 11 battalions. These 16 battalions amount in number to from 8,000 to 9,000 men. It is expected that others will follow, and that they will be replaced b)r Flench troops." PAUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, of the 27th, says :—"Count de Nesselrode, the nussian Chancellor of State, has just addressed a frosh despatch to all the Rus sian embassies. In this document the Count repeats the willingness of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to accept honourable propositions for peace, and re commends that no opportunity shall be neglected of reminding the Cabinets to which the ambassa dors are accredited of the pacific intentions of the Russian Government." " The King of Prussia," says the Cologne Gazelle, "left Sans-Souci on the morning of the 27th for Sohenkendorff, to be present at the manoeuvres of the guard. His Majesty will pass the night at the residence of Major de Gortmke at Gross Beutens, and return to Sans-Souci on the following day. Part of the men employed in preparing ammuni tion are to be dismissed to their homes, but the remainder of the troops will still be kept on a war footing." A letter from Berlin, of the 27th, says :—" The Saxon Government has just contracted a new loan of fivemillions of thalers, which were all subscribed for in three days, the Prussian capitalists having taken a considerable amount. It is positively stated that the efforts of the Prussian Government have led to an arrangement with the city of Bremen, by which that city will now form part of the Zoll verein. This result is very important for Ger many, as the Zollverein will possess a port. It is said that all the other German States have adhered to the treaty of 29th June last, between Prussia, Belgium, and France, on the subject of interna tional telegraphic communications. The ratifica tions have been exchanged." The Duke and Duchess de Brabant arrived at the palace of Laeken on Tuesday. Their Royal Highnesses, who are in excellent health, set out the next morning in a special train for Hasselt, to meet the King and the Count de Flandre, on their return from the camp of Beverloo. MALTA. AUGUST 21.—His Netherlands Majesty's frigate Doggersbank, having on board his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, attended by Major the Che valier de Casembroot, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty the King and Gouverneur of his Royal Highness, and Lieutenant the Chevalier de Geer, Aide-de- Camp to his Majesty, and Orderly Officer of the Prince, arrived from Holland, Cadiz, and Gibraltar on the 14th, and on the same evening the Nether lands steam corvette Sindoro, from Cagliari, whi ther she had been despatched to replenish fuel. On the frigate's anchoring, the acting Netherlands Consul, Mr. William J. Stevens, waited on his Royal Highness, when salutes were exchanged with the garrison. His Royal Highness spent several days in in specting the various objects of interest on the island, and left on the 23d for the Texel. The Golden Fleece screw steam-transport ar rived from Marseilles on the 14th, having in tow the Lancashire Witch sailing transport. These two vessels conveyed 456 horses and 378 officers, rank and file, and left for Kamiesh on the 16th. The Empress screw steam-transport, with am munition, 71 horses, and 51 officers, rank and file, arrived from Marseilles on the 17th, and left for Kamiesh on the 18th. The Utility sailing transport, bringing 22 horses and 16 troopers, arrived from Marseilles ou the 17th, and left for Constantinople on the 18th. The .Sinai French postal steamer arrived from Marseilles on the 19th, bringing, among other pas sengers, Lieut.-Colonel Morris, R.A. ; Captain Marshal, 2d Regiment, Aide-de-Camp for Malta; and 5 officers, and 38 rank and file of the French army for Constantinople, for which port she left on the same afternoon. The Louguor French postal steamer arrived from Constantinople on the 15th, bringing among other passengers fur Marseilles, for which destination she took her departure on the same day, Captain Bar nard, Major Berkley, and 46 French military in valids. The English steamer Napoleon 111., conveying 114 military invalids, left for Port Vendres on the 14th. _ The Niagara steam frigate arrived from Mar seilles on the 18th, with 12 horses, 3 officers, 997 non-commissioned officers and privates, and having in tow the American ship Marmion laden with am munition. Both ships left for Constantinople on the 19th. The Jason screw steam-transport arrived from Southampton on the 15th ; she left for Balaklava on the 16th. The Resolute screw steam-transport, from Liver pool and Kingstown, arrived on the 17th, bringing 118 horses and draughts of the following regi ments :-Ist Royals, 13th, 14th, 90th, and 57th, all for the Malta reserve, besides draughts for Balaklava ; the Ist Dragoon Guards, Ist Royals, sth Dragoons, Coldstream Guards, and 2d Dra goons ; 323 non-commissioned officers and privates of various regiments were also embarked from the Malta reserve Deptit, with Lieutenants Bayley and Turner, Ensign Greave and Mayo, 38th ; Lieute pant Bower, Royal Marines ; Lieutenant Rogers, 44th ; Lieutenants Browning, Lamond, awl Lloyd, 89th ; Lieutenants Panks, Rowland, and Williams, of the Ist Royals. The Holyrood screw-steam transport arrived from London on the 17th with Government stores, having on board Surgeon Saunders and family, and left for Balaklava on the 19th. The Surprise steam-transport, from London, with railway pla n t, arrived on the 18th, and left for Balaklava on the following day, having on board Paymasters Baker and Corcoram, 8 clerks, Assistants-Surgeons Death andJones,and 55 navvies. The Bahiana, screw steam transport, having on board 218 mules and 62 Spanish muleteers, arrived from Barcelona on the 19th, with the onarchy sailing transport in tow, having on board other 120 mules and 36 more muleteers. Both these ships left for Balaklava on the 20th. The Medway screw steam transport arrived from Alexandretta and the Dardanelles on the 16th, bringing Colonel Cox. The ;ailing transport ship Wildfire, with p 6 navvies, arrived from Balaklava on the 20th. The Armenian screw steam transport arrived from Balaklava on the 15th, bringing Col. Gordon, Royal Engineers ; Major Chermside, Royal Artil lery ; Major Daniels, and Messrs. Nontanaro and Foaker ; and left for Marseilles on the 16th, con veying, in addition to the two first-named passen gers, Surgeons Delwege and Garringe Assistant- Surgeon Bakewell, the Rev. Mr. Lewes, Lieut. Pepys, Ist Dragoons, and Captain Irvine. The Great Northern screw steam transport ar rived from Constantinople on the 15th with 80 French military invalids, and left on the 17th for Marseilles, for which port the Eliza sailing trans port, which arrived from Kamiesh on the 18th, also took her departure on the 19th. The Amity screw steam transport arrived from Balaklava on the 15th, and left for Gibraltar on the 18th, conveying Mr. Delemar and 20 Spanish muleteers. The Jura screw steam transport arrived from Balaklava and Scutari on the 18th, bringing Lieu tenant Jolllll3, It.M. • Captain Rlyth, and 10 invalided seamen for Malta, and the following for England :—Lieut. Fitzgerald, R.A. ; Lieut. Tynemouth, R.A. ; Dr. Robertson, R.N. ; Lieut. the Hon. A Crofton, 7th ; Major Ruttledge, 17th ; Surgeon Blake, 55th; Captain James, 20th • Lieu tenant M' Pherson, 30th ; Dr. Pratt, Mr. *right, Lieutenant-Colonel Macbeath, 68th ; Lieutenant- Colonel Franklin ; Lieutenant-Colonel Bracklin ; Majors Kirkland, 21st, and Gwilt, 34th ; Colonel Lockyer, 97th ; Captain Westhead, 34th ; Captftin Brown, 88th ; Captain Aplin, 3d ; Capt. Hassard, R E. ; Captain Massey, 19th • Captain Colthurst, 77th ; Captain Vaughton, 901 ; Lieutenant New port, 89th ; Lieutenant Morgan, 77th ; Lieut. Coulson, 49th ; Lieutenant Aylmer, 97th ; Lieut. Benson, 10th Hussars ; Lieutenant Owning, 48th ; Lieut. Danah, R.E. ; Lieutenant Saunders, 34th ; Assistant-Surgeon Greer, 21st ; S urgeon Krwan ; Surgeon Weir ; Ensign Hunter, Lieutenant Kirk, 19th ; Lieutenant Leonard, 28th ; Capt. Grimston, 19th • Lieutenant Acklow, 44th ; D r . M'Allister, Land Transport Corps ; Dr. Longo, Major Craw ley, 39th ; Mr. Bruce, and 198 non-commissioned officers and privates of various regiments ; '22 seamen, and 35 labourers. The Cambria steam-transport arrived from Bala klava on the 15th, bringing Col. Sharp and Lieut. Irvine, R.A. ; Lieut. Wyall, Coldstream Guards ; Lieutenants Nicks and Pepys, Ist Dragoons ; Dr. Bakewel, Dr. Dalmege, Dr. Gowinge, Mr. Hooper, R.N., Rev. Mr. Lewes, Messrs. Delmar, Henley, and Knight, and 53 invalided non-commissioned officers and privates. The Etna steam transport arrived on the 18th from Balaklava, bringing Captain Armstrong, 18th ; Captain Onlyn, Ist Royals • Surgeon Ken nedy, and 22 mulete e rs, an d l e f t for Marseilles on the /9th. Her Majesty's line•of-battle ship Powerful, with military and naval invalids, sailed for Plymouth on the 15th. The United States' store-ship Supply left for the westward on the 15th, having on board Major Magur, United States' army, and Mr. Porter. The Ottoman steam-frigate Saike Chaadi arrived from Tripoli on the 17th, where she landed a rein forcement of that garrison from Constantinople. The Norman screw steam-transport left for Con stantinople on the 17th, conveying 64 mules, 5 officers, and 119 Sardinian muleteers. Her 'Majesty's ship Medina was despatched on the 15th in search of two Russian prizes taken in the Sea of Azoff by the Wrangler and Swallow, and which broke adrift about 90 miles eastward of Malta, from the Cambria, which had them in tow. She returned on th•: 18th bringing in a fine bark, the Clio, of 500 tons, bit saw nothing of the schooner, in search of which the Shearwater will be sent out. The Medina left with the mailslor Corfu on the 19th. The Valetta, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-packet, which arrived, from Southampton with the heavy India mails on the 14th, left on the following day for Alexandria. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 21.—Said Pasha, the Vice roy, is just now here, but is talking of taking a trip by sea to Candia. His mind is still fully occupied with soldiering, to the neglect_of the more impor tant interests of the country. Never did Alexan dria, even in the time of Mehemet Ali, witness so much marching and countermarching through the town of cavalry, infantry, and horse artillery, par ticularly of the last, whose barracks are at the east end of the town, and the whole corps is frequently made to march through to show itself to his High ness, whose palaces are on the western side. This activity among the troops has, moreover, no con nection with the war between the Sultan and Rus sia, as Said Pasha says he cannot send any more men to his assistance. The canal connecting Alexandria with the Nile, by which all produce of the country is brought down, has been so much neglected that great de posits of mud have been formed in it, and even at this advanced season it is not navigable for large boats, while usually they come down in July. The unfortunate railway between Cairo and Alexandria is dragging its slow length along, and, though it was to have been finished last July, its promised completion is now put off to the eud of the year, and, judging from past delays, it is not unlikely that we shall have to wait until next sum mer for its full operation. . . A considerable number of Egyptian sailors, be longing to the Egyptian ships of war, have just been sent back to Alexandria from Constantinople, their vessels having been either lost or dismantled as unfit for use. The once proud Egyptian fleet, which numbered 11 line of battle-ships and 20 smaller vessels, and at one time during the Syrian war held the Sultan in check, has now received its last blow, and is reduced to three or four corvettes, which are employed in bringing wood from the coast of Asia Minor. Cholera is at last dying away, and in Alexandria there are only five to eight cases daily, while the other parts of the country are free from the disease. Dr. Graph, the. South African missionary, has just returned from a mission to Abyssinia from Bishop Gobat, of Jerusalem. He had several in terviews with the King, who seems bent upon im proving his country, and his authority is now so firmly established that he can carry his wishes into execution. The King of Abyssinia has prohibited slavery, renounced polygamy, banished the Jesuits, and is anxious that some European mechanics, par ticularly masons, printers, and gunmakers, should settle in his country. The Piedmontese Gazette announces that the King of Naples has concluded a new contract for 30 years with the Swiss regiments. In case the regiments be disbanded before the expiration of that period it is stipulated that the men shall re ceive pensions. --- The Madrid journals of the 25th have arrived, but they do not contain anything of interest. AUSTRALIA. The Australian accounts yesterday are dated Melbourne, the 19th of 'Tune, being 16 days later than those previously received. The import mar kets maintained their tendency to improvement, although the quantity of goods offered was still much beyond the demand. The rise in the price of flour and provisions was still going on, and created some anxiety. Politically, the affairs of the colony were not in a satisfactory state. The budget of the Colonial Secretary for 1855 showed a deficit of 600,0001., and a proposal for additional taxes in the shape of a stamp duty and 10 per cent. ad valorem on all imported goods at present free, had been defeated in the Legislative Council by a resolution th a t no additiona taxes should be im posed this session, The result would be the stop page of a great portion of the public works, although an opinion prevailed that what was needed was not this, but a reduction of lavish Government expenditures. With regard to the Government bill on the Chinese immigration ques tion, it appears that the plan was to put a . tax of Si, on eac h Chinaman imported, and to limit ships to bring only one passenger to every 10 tons register. The latter clause had been adopted, but the Council had made an alteration in the former, raising the sum to 10/. 9 which the Govern ment had not con fi rme d. Sucli a tax would virtually amount to a prohibition, and would appear a singular anomaly. The number of Chi nese already at the mines was 20,000, and their services in developing the production were very considerable. THh WHITE SEA. The following is a report, dated Aug. 8, from Ad►n:ral Kl►roustcheff, military governor of Arch- . "At the time the attack was made on the village of Alegra six pea-ants received the assa lant on the chore with a volley of musketry, and for hair hours prevented his landing and seizing some small vessels moored in the vicinity. The enemy at last penetrated into the village, where he set on fire three houses, two bathing houses, two sheds, and also several ships and barques at anchor hard by ; then returning to his steamer, he shattered the windows of the houses that had escaped the fire, and carried off all he could. "On the morning of August 3 an English steamer with two masts came to anchor at 200 sagenes from the village of Suzma, and after firing nine cannon shots at it, sent against it three boats full of armed men. Pro fiting by the superiority of numbers, the enemy occupied the village, broke with violence into the church, where he seized the holy gospels, several images, and smashed the holy doors of the altar. From the houses of the pea , ants he carried off some effects, as likewise the whole of their smaller live stock and poultry. In the house of the communal administration two images were carried off and cut to pieces. On the 4th of August, when the morning mist bad cleared up, signal was made from the Mondug light house of there being a French three-tnasted steamer near the Nikotskaia spit, to tho north of the iron gates. This steamer having cast anchor sent a boat to the spit, the object being, by what appeared afterwards, to get water from the wells that are there. On the first alarm the men of the military detachment cantoned in the neighbourhood under the command of Sub• Lieutenant Kovetsky, of the 2d battalion of the city of Archangel, assembled, and when the enemy approached the iron gates by the Nikotskaia spit, our chain compelled him by a few shots to regain his steamer in all haste. Then he despatched four boats, but when these saw that our chain was receiving a teinforcement, directed by the Naval Commander Ogilvie, they withdrew. After that the steamer fired shot and shell for two hours, but with out doing us any harm. "At eight in the evening a boat of the enemy ap proached the Nikotskaia spit ; the men who were in it landed and set fire to the remains of the Nikolsky wooden tower and to three fishermen's huts. The next day, about noon, the steamer made for the offing." RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF TIIE BOMBARD. MEET OF SWEABORG. The Invalide Russe publishes at last a detailed and official account of the bombardment of Swea borg. This statement is " founded on" a report from A.D.C. General Von Berg, who commands the Russian forces in Finland. The following is the document : " The enemy's fleet, having collected in sight of Helsingfors and Sweaborg, to the number of 10 ships of the line, 7 frigates, 7 steamers, 2 corvettes, 1 brig, 4 ships of a peculiar build, 16 mortar vessels, 25 gun-boats, 2 yachts, and 3 transports, took up its position for August 9, between the isles of Grokhar and Renscher, in a line parallel with the fortress, having on its right flank 2 screw liners of 80 guns, and 1 frigate of 31 guns, near the isle of Stura-Miol-o (opposite Sandham). "The line of battle formed by all these ships was dis tant between 3 and 4 versts (1 verst = 5 furlongs 12 poles), from the outer line of the fortifications of Swea borg ; a little in front of the others, the ships of a pecu• liar construction were stationed, and behind the mortar. vessels and gun-boats ranged in two lines, and behind these latter, entirely beyond the longest range of the guns in the fortress, the large ships. "At this very remote distance the enemy opened fire on the 9th August, at a quarter-past seven in the morn ing, from his gun-boats, mortar-vessels, and the ships of a peculiar build, directing his aim at first pretty equally against all the batteries of the fortress opposed to them, namely, the forts of Wester-Swarto and Longern, the ship Ezechiel, and a part of the batteries on the right flank, that is to say, the Nicholas battery on the isle of Rentana, the Ulricasborg battery, and the land hattery No. 1. " On our extreme right the effprts of the assailant were directed against the isle of Drums-o. Two of the enemy's frigates and one corvette having stationed them selves in a bay at the south-western part of the isle, and at less than a verst from the shore, fired at first against the telegraph, and afterwards kept up a cross-fire against the isle, firing one broadside after another. " During this cannonade the assailant several times sent his boats with troops fur landing on and occupy ing Drums-o ; but being received by a well-directed fire of musketry and rifles from the lodgments erected on the shore, they were obliged to retire not without loss. At two in the afternoon the enemy's vessels ceased firing, and withdrew behind the isle of Miillk-o. "From ton in the morning, after the first conflagra tion kindled on the isle of Lilla-Oster-Swarth-6," this was the centre of our line of defence, that is to say, the fortress of Sweaborg, which became the chief object for the enemy's aim. In the impossibility of obtaining any decisive success against our fortifications and batteries, the assailant evidently proposed to himself to profit by the long range of his projectiles, and while exposing himself as little as possible to our shots, to demolish and set on fire the edifices inside of the fortress, and every facility for his so doing was offered by the existence of wooden edifices and immense three-storied houses with out vaults. " Foreseeing this design I gave orders, at the very commencement of the combat, not to reply from our bat teries unless the enemy's vessels, which present only a very small mark, should come within range, as this would possibly enable our artillery to do them decisive injury. " This order was carried out with that laudable cool ness, distinctive of a really good artillery, and with such success that any one of the vessels firing at the fortress had but to advance in front of its line, when the well directed fire of our fortifications compelled it to retire in all haste. The black flags hoisted on board the damaged vessels, the steamers that towed them away, and lastly the quantity of wreck floating on either side, gave evi dence that every attempt to approach the fortress caused loss and injuries to the assailant. " Shortly after the fire was opened by the enemy a considerable conflagration broke out in the fortress, and continued without interruption, notwithstanding all efforts on the part of detachments of the fire brigade, fed as it was during the day by an incessant bombardment, and during the night by the shower of Congreve rockets. " As soon as an edifice caught fire the assailant re. doubled the activity of his fire in that direction ; but, thanks to the presence of mind and tie prudent arrange ments of Lieutenant-General Sorokine, doing duty as the commandant of Sweaborg, and of Major-Genera Alexeieff, his aide-de-camp, the victualling magazines of the land troops were saved, as were likewise the officers' barracks of the curtain and the four-storied barracks. "Notwithstanding the shower of bombs with which they were constantly struck, the powder magazines re sisted to the last moment, except four depots of live shells, placed on the Isle of Gustavaward, in some old magazines of Swedish construction. "On the 9th, about noon, the explosion of an enemy's bomb charged with combustible matter set fire to one of these depots ; the fire spread immediately, igniting the three others that were in close proximity, and the whole four blew up almost simultaneously. By a most special favour of God the loss caused by these explosions was limited to one man killed and three wounded. "The violent bombardment of the fortress continued without interruption for 24 hours ; as the night of the 9th approached it slightly slackened, but only to quickly resume fresh strength, and then in theintervals between the bombs the enemy kept on firing rockets, so as to keep up and spread the conflagration in every direction. " During this bombardment the assailant attempted to approach the isles of Skansland and Kungsholmen, near the fortress on one side, and ou the other side near the intrenchment of Longern, the Nicholas battery, and the ship Ezechiel, but he was constantly prevented from doing so by the well-directed fire of these batteries and this ship. On this occasion the intrenchment of the isle of Skansland fired with peculiar success, and did not admit the approach of the enemy's gunboats so as to rake the right side of the Citerne battery. "The ship Russia, stationed opposite the strait of Gustaysward in order to rake it, could only take part in the combat with a small number of its guns, by rea son of its position, whereas by being in the direction of the projectiles shot from different sides against the for tress and the isle of Skansland she received a great quantity of them in her hull : bombs from the enemy of the most enormous calibre passed through her decks, and one of them even penetrated almost to her powder hold ; this ship was indebted for her escape from explo sion solely to the wise measures taken by her captain, Paplonski, and to the presence of mind of Popoff, a sub lieutenant of the naval artillery, sent down to inspect the powder hold, who, with the assistance of the men he found there, extinguished the fire immediately after the explosion of the bomb. _ _ " o,► our loft flank, at the same time that the combat commenced against the fortress, two -erew-liners and one frigate, stationed off the isle of Sandham, approached to about two vents from the batteries on the south side ---,...................,"",.........a.-•" ......... .....e , 1 , of the isle, and moving in a line parallel to these D l i un-boats of n , 5t teriee opened the heaviest firs ag ainst thewser.ea it against five g the Ist battalion , the neighboorliood. The battery No. 3, situated oitc emt-e of the area. thus at taelse:, was inundate d- witb _si shower of projectiles, but it replied with so leech al, , vity aed precision, that on the 9th, about no r ' t , 7 enemy's vessel, were compelled to s us p end the ertnit add and sheer out of range of our fire. One of the Ec idle r ships was even obliged to take the other in tow ; h e o of them took further share in the combat , and to 043'; august inclusively each was busy repairing dalusr_ fragments of thes e ships floated close up t o our batten ; "Night did not put an end to the combat' °rot contrary the enemy, profiting by the darkness, , t te a mortar batt er y h e h a d previously constructed ri Pei;, night on a rocky isl e t of Longern (situated ill h iii o i t tion), and on the following night opene d fire froboi. giving at the same time greater vivacity t o the born to went executed by the vessels. Their fire i g nited re f to fortification of Strura-Oster-Swarto, the buildings ° harbour with all their workshops and nortgazi ces ' the "On the 10th of August, at 10 in the raornisg"hici, roof of a boat-house caught fire in Gustayswasilc.eiti served as a depot for shells and ammunition. v ee s. the imminent danger that threatened th e Citernsie;.• tery and all the fortifications of Gustays a rard, l' r s 0 General Sorokine made an appeal to the volunteeeos go and extinguish the fire. All the offic ers that W fee` asill that moment near the Citerne Battery set an - 5,100 devotion, which was followed by the soldiers , that withstanding the vivacity of the fire directed ab t he moment by the enemy against the boat-houses de flames were soon extinguished. The first vibe les , P 1 : 0 0; the roof to get down the fire was the artificer 31' of the artillery garrison. o bsr Jl " During the entire day of August 10 the h°,000; ment was most violent, and did not cease one hi . , s se it gradually diminished in the night, 5 0d se cs c 't gether the next morning about 5 o'clock. , s seal; "In the night between the 10th and 11th tue-belos fleet fired Congreve rockets into the fortre ss and to, tifications depending on it, but with no great,stitseV "On the second d a y of t h e com bat, the I°l''.A tool tion of the enemy on our right flank was lith i ,. / eorx cannonading of the Isle of D r ums-o, from Bin t 7,00 ing to 9at night. This c a nnona de was resign s ' . o ,it 12th of August, at 3in the afternoon. It ` lid : l e: i d ° mage to the telegraph, and set the forest severe' 'l'd, fire, but each time it was immediately eetingaisbe,y,rt" . o n the left flank of our line of defence, the ego pulsed on the 28th from the Isle of Sandbernts° lid made any attempt, and our batteries confined theatblesell to the firing of a few shots against the boats h is r sia taking soundings, or firing rockets against at the iutrenchments. ° eseilo "On the 11th of August, during the daY, Lo 0 ,4 was busy reinforcing his m or t ar battery on th 65 :.,, 9 1 1116 rock, and in the night he fired some rockets eg••thole 11l isles of Kungshohnen and Skandsland, tho u g h causing any damage. gaio " " On the 12th, the enemy hoisted his boat/ -sitait, hoard, and in the afternoon demolished h i bo le - 11 01 battery. On the 13th August, at 8 a.m., t he 91 d , ~, weighed anchor and retired in a southerly dire c " °b e d r"' "The large ships of the enemy, such as th°3 ele rgf line, the frigates, and the steamers, by reason ei k tb s oe j tl surface they would have offered to our fire, t°°- islag sj in the combat against the fortress, carefully a y i t eel damage ; the gun-boats th a t b om barded u s t i , ° : oe ° ' on their part, to shift their pl ace continual l f '''' lib of their screw-propellers. t, ° . It results from these united circumstances that, the exception of a few fires which it was 4131 r E sele ° , h 4 prevent, the injury done by this violent le °131 1 ! of r e f , of eight and forty hours' duration, to the w °r ? W lv fortress and the batteries, has in g , eneral bee p lel es nificant indeed. . . .... .., ~, bit ) r l " After an approiiiiiatii6 cal-mg-36°n l! t e pie ° mark, D the enemy must have fired - agains t 7't S' l°. Drums-o about a thousand projectiles, 4. 1 .10 id ' S i borg and the baateries on the side of IleiS ir t i 'V Slj to this fortress, about seventeen Ih ° / ., 1 ' ' A against the isle of Sandharn more than.3; 00w 0i01:1 0 ( "Notwithstanding the vivacity of t his 10044, 11 losses in men have been very moderate ; sv e s ee .t ., killed, 2 superior officers, 3 subaltern offie er , s ; ',. o o' ) ; men wounded. Among the officers and solcie.,t t 10 ." ing from contusions, a part of them did ne t VI d , posts, and the others returned to their ranks' 1 , 0 0 '-: "I attribute the slight importance of thi s ` O l , - so C 0: prudent arrangements of the particular chi s A fs : 0 5°1' rived to turn to account the shelter foul': a refv tress and the natural embankments,or fe t os i f I°l' eusly constructed on the isles, so as to W es the e so Biers from the enemy's fi re . "Besides the lo sses o f th e garrison, tePrtesci e ee iii'''l : .re CO b o .' had on board th e R uss i a 1 1 me killed, " Ij 1, 0. ' 3 rern officer and 88 m e n woun d e d orc ontus sci. Bi d e t the Ezechiel one seama n woun d e d . I 00 0 to "In giving an account of these e vents , sbie f ;s o it incumbent on me to testily that, from t he r , ris ll ", : e the commonest soldier, the troops of his I °4- , B o e/ i ' f jesty confided to my command have Perf°r sly duty with the firmness and courage that h s ' e characterised the Russian army. ea ag ed " I at the same time regard it as a m ost e sc ;n r g tii , s e to signalise those who more especially tlisitc;do/iP; ,hemselves by their coolness and military t' sle- t ei' il' ;, chose two days of a bombardment so desP ers-6 05 0 /$ our fortress, and of the attack on our Pesii i°P ia -- d tbe' e s the chiefs of the centre, of the right flank' li v ; eird ,j : flank ; Lieutenant-Generals Sorokine, Ba ms3 s 's f ir .g , r o Guldenstube ; Major-General Barantsofir ;" - f o i l i tb l testy the Emperor's suite ; the artillery e lj ' e Ad 1135 10 troops entrusted to my command, and 4 , s ta s ' l it 1 1 : 15 0 ibikhmanoff, naval director in Finland. I :: ' ye- , t tight to mention those whose names have y e-ri t s g e i g r g. me by my principal companions in arms as Ili' oor cicularly disting u i s h e d th emse l ves . t he 'el'' , " Lieutenant-G enera l S oro ki ne mention' t , OO cb' t , Generals Alexeieff and Kostine ; the foraeet,:eutee°,3o Colonels Grippenbe rg an d B r i a kileff; tlissi'ss° r0 1 ; 14 ,s; Colonels Krohnholm and MagnuschevskY, "'-'Astil'eol and Heckstrom ; Captain Westermarck, of t he oeu t 0 , Captain Martynoff, commanding the d k e :stbeP l : c oi naval engineers; Captain Jacobson, adjutany.,„',lt,sll°"Aei Second Captain Yon Kranke, of the is ''''.. se'$ e ' Sappers of the Depot, and the Field E ogiseetirs: of Captain Verestchinsky and Lieutenant 1 1 lii lr f ll ' of " Lieut.-General Ramsay mentions C° l°lL s e s fl °l s o p' the battalion of Grenadier Rifles ; Alajot 1 ", - post — " he 2d Regiment of reserve Grenadiers, 141 L. i 00! tain Iretsky. 03. " ding " Lieutenant-General von Guldenstubsolose 01 Rear•Admiraal Nordman, Colonel Pes t ' e rs • C °l°li c ; Barclay L de Tolly's regiment of carb ive !, reg iiii ts iu atnoni and Major Pakhatcheff, of the s ° ' - h e l , C a r 'e' the naval commanders Yessaouloff and Sc s - ,:i e nee rs .,,;' Leo, of the staff ; Captain Quist, of the n e ;kel, "- the vend-Captain Grebner, Lieutenants fi e vr ia s,o, 0f feld, and Yermolaieff, Captain ItlitiPeeeeon• CB I marine artillery, and the Naval Cadet De' i the post' cio ‘ "Rear-Admiral Shikhmanoff mentionen9.rognt tains Poplonsky and Brooteyne, the CaP t l, i . D al' fi eoff and Akouloff, and Lieut. lslojaisky, °s tub the 8 7 3 th e "In those days of active struggle wi .' s tht° og ,,„, aeci my chief and most indefatigable assis t3 , l3 ';ss I° G L : e ste! medium of whom every arrangene su ", Dieil t ' ,stus' every requisite preventive measure, O r a .' and tli e t ont ss Gofe r° Nordenstamm, acting as chief of ray ' 49 ' ' State Councillor Langescheld directieg t"- bsr if Nyland. enders, 0011 " At the same time I ought also to ° s ti e d t ° - Col , ing perfectly disharged the missions I CO : .. 0 ,01 , ,p, Colonel von Minkwitz, on the staff of th obes.de.o f e' eo , Grunt, chief of the Engineers ; my li '' ot , 51' ,4 1 , 0 Lieut.-Col. Yousbkoff, Second Capt. C o pt. B erg e Lieut. Kastiandre of the Guards, and L ie 0 , l'eliel sod likewise the A.D.C. of his Imperial 315jefi t Si ecfe'' t ai the gentleman of the bedchamber, Conn to it tao s % s ieee r s Capt. Forselles, of the Engineers, a' of t he ,:e ff rd , i ' fl‘f person, as likewise Lieut.-Col. Bra ndt ' of th e b a• tl'' Second Captain Alfthan on the staff Capt. Devel. he (3°Mril en Die° so "The Commander de Grew s'i _ so eoni .. b ed Nicholas Battery, and Captain Tesleff,..7"diitisguol'coti, the fortification of Longern, esPeniallYs so d the hemselves in the combat by their coolne e 0 lO W rate fire of their batteries. c od, fr° ets il; " I cannot refrain, on corning to a n __ O ff o f th! Cl" honing with particular praise Capt. per: , ...ri d Con placed at my disposal for special miss,i,on . doff, a superior officer in the service. A SKIRMISH YEAR Bla blishes a The 11l ea/ide Russe , : e t e l v l o na r eelil itr ii iF d;n : 3 o e t : that took ‘ A v V i i i i i d a a u u .) : Sie " v G er e s n , er o a f l the cavalry, relative to au 111 9,1 ergogvieCe:l3; p s la ie c v e er o: of A t u h g e u c s a t v 6 : ir b y Baltic corps, announces, under date of August ' sc rsi i eveein etc timers that on the sth two of the enetnY „a cast anchor near Dotnesness (betweeD eo evii be inC "The following day, at 7 in the tuerniug, t'e opened fire against an unrigged lotka, which 91,5;: baste coast,s o ho ,: fisc l t i c l hb l e : oe c ad d tet n iwn t i t is ) i e eetht) coast guard n toltaii:fdaCehs'ftsr:ailini°lgnthhiirtset'pell'clagli twee fil o :: kept at half a Yerst from the oho th e do t Btil 18 41 Cal tt, l th, 4 Q ; fr.,, ! Ai fui off or e ll Pr to a, 11, t 4 t~ it tl b i