The Sun. — London, England, 1855-06-20 00:00:00

NOYAL OPY,RA, DRURY-I ANL Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVE-NINO, Will he performed NOR.‘IA, in which Madame Arga, Mdlle Mag ner, Signor Armandi, Mr Hamilton i'.raham, &c., will appear. To conc'ude with a Grand FIVE NCH II kr,Lr,T, supported by Mite. Palmyra,lle. Paolo, Fiiant, &c. Prices of admission :—To the two galleries, 6d.; second circle of Boxes and pit, Is ; dress circle, 2s. 6d.; sta Is, 45.; private boxes to admit two persons, 10s, 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office open from 10 to 6 dai y. THRA.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Bnekstene. THIS EVENING. Will be performed LOVE'S MARTYRDOM. Characters by Ifessrs. B. Sulll , nui and Howe ; Miss H. Faucitt ana MLA Swan borough. After which, ONLY A HALFPENNY. To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S I'HEATRF,, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cnaar.ra KERN. THIS EVENING, Will be performed AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. To conclude with KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Ka tharine, Mr 4. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.--Dirt-e, tress, Madf. 4 me THIS EVENING. For the BENEFIT of Madame CELESTE. Will be performed HELPING- HANDS. Characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, L. Murray, C. Selby, &c.; Madame Celeste Mrs. Keeley, &c. Followed by FOREIGN AFFAIRS. To conclude with TaE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Will be performed PERFECT CO Nr, FIDE SCE. Characters by Messrs. F. Robson and G. Vining; Miss Marston and Miss Bromley. To be followed by STILL WATERS RiTN DEEP. Characters b y m e ws. A. Wigan, Emery, G. Vining, Danvers, Miss Maskell, and Mrs. MeHort. To conclude with THE GIRRICK FEVER. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca 13111142. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HONEST LAWYER. Followed by 'TWAS I. After which, CHERRY AND FAIR STAR. Principal character by Miss Rebecca Isaacs. To be followed by I'VE EATEN MY FRIEND. ASTLEY'S ROYAL. AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Boundless Magnificence and Majestic Effect. THIS EVENING, The grand rrppodramatic Spectacle called. ENGLAND and PRANCE in the DAYS of CHIVALRY; or, the Brothers in Arms. C tparisoned steeds, knizhts in armour, tournament in the Field of tie Cloth of Gold. One gigantic arena formed by the ring and the stage ! Dazzling, r , rilliancy and vivid reality ! Each night the unique AC IS in the CIRCLE, arranged by Mr. William Cooke. dos-oflice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Wait. Acting Ntanager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY —Morninß 21 mip.after 5 I Evening 44min. art. 5 To-Arosaow—id °riling 6 itan.after 6 Evening 28 min. aft. 6 Ovvica. June 20. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. Cl —highest since noon yesterday. 47 —lowest this morning and during the night. 59—this day, at noon. BAROMETER. 30 . 45—a great rise. WIND, N.E.—Fresh and fine. I N 't ' j,.s/ k• - .14 0 -,Zso -, „___&2 l y„,_ Al'il, , LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1855. THE KING OF SARDINIA is earning Lombardy ! Cannot Austria—blind though she is to all the dictates of ordinary prudence, besotted though her rulers are by their faith in their irresponsible authority, despicable though her SOVEREIGN is rendering her by his counsels of timidity and vacillation—cannot Austria comprehend at least this one indubitable fact, that, thanks to her odious pusillanimity throughout the present war like struggle and the recent diplomatic negotia tions, the fairest cf her provinces is inevitably slipping from her grasp, that she is rapidly losing her hold upon her beautiful Italian possessions ? Excepting possibly at Vienna, the truth of this is already everywhere recognised. It must be under stood and appreciated by every rational observer, as an event which has become, by this time, a grand and glorious necessity. In the next division of Europe, the magnanimous and chi .ralrous conduct of VICTOR EMANUEL will not be forgotten. In that day of reckoning it must perforce be then remembered how he, at any rate, among all the sovereigns of the continent, adopted a frank and manful policy from the very outset, throwing down his gage of battle in the lists before the for tunes of the War had become in any decisive manner apparent—taking his place among the defenders of Turkey by the side of France and E❑gland, despatching th 3 flower of his army to the scene of contest, as one among the foes of the lawless schemes and barbaric despotism of Russia, as one among the more energetic champions of the cause of justice, and of the sacred rights of civilisation. The chivalry and magnanimity thus revealed in the time of trial by the KING of Sardinia, will be reme n bered when the hour has arrived for the close of the great conflict, when the period of pacification having been at le❑gth attained by the belligerents, the consequent revi sion of the Map of Europe shall be for mally adventured upon by their plenipoten tiaries. Then will be recalled to mind the das tardly shuffling of Austria and, in contrast with that, the kingly good faith, the royal daring, the knightly decision of the ruler of Sardinia ! Then adieu for ever more to German sway over Northern Italy ! Then hail to the advent of a happier epoch for the Roman Peninsula—when Italy shall be again for the Italians, and the son of CHARLES ALBERT, in spite of the genius of old RADETZKY, in spite of the disas ters of that fatal day of Novara, in spite of the broken sword and the broken heart of the last of the warrior-princes of Piedmont, shall wield his sceptre in undisputed sway over the fair and fertile plains of Lombardy. Yes—we repeat it--King VICTOR EMANUEL, by the noble course he is now pursuing, in aiding France and England to the utmost of his power in their opposition to the common enemyof Europe, is earning Lombardy for Sardinia. While Austria by her meanness and her prevarications contrives more and more effectually to render inevitable the fate by which in the fulness of time the richest and loveliest of her foreign provinces must be ravished from her possession. It cannot be expected, of course, that while the struggle is still actually pending between Russia and her antagonist; that the nature of the ulti mate terms of pacification can be blurted out by the diplomatic oracles of the Allied Govern ments. Some, however, of the more remarkable a mong the absolutely necessary conditions of peace ma y already be not merely conjectured, but clearly and distinctly enough foreseen, by those who are prepared to look with any reasonable de gree of sagacity towards the future. It is per fectly obvious that the War with Russia must, before its close, result in a variety of extraordi complications—complic complicat ions—.complica- tions and momentous so extraordinary, that tions so momentous and it would be idle to dream of peace being again established in Europe before the victors shall have entered upon the more than herculean task of it s t err i tor i al rea dj ustmen t . England and Prance have long sine:: proclaimed that they have for their nselves no selfish schemes of spoliation or ambitic ins projects of aggrandisement. But it would 'be monstrous to suppose that when they shall ha Ire br oug h t the contest to a triumphant issue they will then seek no indemnity whatever for the blood and treasures they have squandered. For that blood and for those treasures they will have to be indemnified by Russia, as far at least as such indemnification can be regarded as within the limits of possibility. They will have to compensate themselves as best they may—extorting tribute from the vanquished, and retaining within their grasp " material guarantees," meanwhile, until the debt thus incurred shall to the last rouble and the last kopeken have been entirely liquidated. That as a condition of Peace, in the only result of the present War that can be for one moment looked forward to by the Allies, namely, the event of their complete success over their Russian foes, is alto gether, we take it, inevitable and unavoidable. England and France cannot consent to Peace, when Peace shall at length become again attain able, without being thus compensated for their sufferings and expenditure, without receiving some such sufficient indemnification. Turkey, in like man ner, must be placed in greater security than she can be said to have been in before the War commenced. A security, attainable not by the mere diminution of the Russian fleet in the Euxine, not by the mere removal of certain barriers from the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, not by the mere establish ment of a quintuple protection over the Danubian Principalities—but by means of a somewhat more ample and substantial character than these : by the restoration to her of certain ancient provinces previously torn from her dominions by the strong arm of the conquering CZAR —provinces, for example, such as the Crimea itself, or, in Asia, Abassia and Irneritia, or, in Europe, Podolia and Bessarabia. Besides all which, firmer, ampler, mightier bar riers than these will have to be built up in the next great day of European pacification, against the possibility of any after incursions from beyond the boundaries of Russia Proper of the barbarous hordesmarshalled under the banners of that savage Autocracy. Barriers such as those which would be raised by the re-establishment of Poland—by the revival of Hungarian Independence—by the reor ganisation and consolidation of the various Scla vonic nationalities. Then, while Russia will have to be restrained, while Turkey will have to be defended and strengthened, while England and France will have to be largely indemnified—Austria and Prussia will have to expiate their prevarications and pusillanimities, while Sardinia will have to receive at once reward and compensation. It is in anticipation of events like these—events that must come by necessity sooner or later—that can only be retarded for a while, that cannot by any precaution be warded off permanently—that we may imagine to ourselves not without much reason the possibility of Prussia being compelled some day to do penance for her sins against Europe by yielding up to imperial France those Rhenish provinces which are, in truth, the natural boundary of the do- I minions of NAPOLEON, or of Austria being driven diplomatically into sackcloth and ashes by a pre concerted signal given to Poland, and Hungary, and Bohemia, and Lombardy, to effect by one grand outburst of popular wrath and civic enthu siasm their permanent and collective emancipa tion. Although Mr. LAYARD'S motion was rejected by so large a majority on Monday evening the important topic which he introduced with so much tact and ability achieved a remarkable suc cess—one unparalleled by any previous question of a similar description brought forward in Par liament for the first time, and so lately taken up by any considerable portion of the community. It is true that the daring assailant did not take the citadel of corruption at the primary on slaught. But why ? Simply because of the sub mission of the garrison, who only sought fair terms of capitulation and to be permitted to re ceive all the honours of war. The Government only averted a defeat by a candid confession of their previous short-comings, and a deliberate pledge that they themselves would initiate the much-required ameliorations. Through their chief they cried " peccavimus," and promised to be " better boys" for the future. The House accepted the tardy repentance, and spared the rod in the hope of decided amendment. We trust that the undertaking thus given may be fully and fairly carried out, and that there may be no future ne cessity for again demanding the judgment of the representative branch of the Legislature on those who next session may have "a breach of faith" included in the political indictment, unless they prove themselves zealous and energetic in their efforts to give practical effect to their under takings. As on many previous occasions, Lord PALMER STON proved himself an admirable tactician, well skilled in every description of legislative strategy. There was the well-got-up appearance of "injured innocence," and of the natural indignation which arises in every generous mind at being made the subject of unwarranted accusations. And yet almost immediately afterwards, with prepossessing candour, he " owned the soft impeachment," and made confession that most, if not all, of the charges were substantially correct. He would, however, make ample amends, and would, " in all sincerity," accept the little bill which he authorised the House to draw on the Executive. Let us, then, for a moment consider what it is to which the Premier has thus unequivocally com mitted himself. He allowed the representative branch of the Legislature to unanimously " recom mend to the earliest attention of her MAJESTY'S Ministers the necessity of a careful revision of our various official establishments, with a view to simplify and facilitate the transaction of public business ; and by instituting judicious tests of merit, as well as by removing obstructions to its fair promotion and legitimate rewards, to secure to the service of the State the largest available proportion of the energy and intelligence for which the people of this country are distinguished 1" What more does the most strenuous Administrative Re former require ? What else does Mr. 'ATARI) himself demand than "to secure to the ser vice of the State the largest available pro portion of the energy and intelligence of the country ?" Dropping the censure for past misconduct, although that misconduct is virtually admitted, everything required is conceded, and to " make assurance doubly sure," the Premier himself laid down the terms of the solemn obliga tion contracted in the face of Parliament and of the nation, using on behalf of Government these remarkable and unequivocal expressions : "In accepting the amendment of the Honourable Baronet, we accept it as a pledge on our part that we will direct our serious attention to a con tinued revision of the different offices connected with the civil service of the State, and that any improvement we can make, any Ad ministrative Reform which we may think practicable with advantage to the public service, and with justice to the persons con cerned, it will be our pride and our pleasure to make." What more in the shape of promise could be wished for. It is true that it would have been well if the declarations were a little more specific and less vague ; but if the pledge , thus earnestly given be fairly redeemed the country will have nothing to complain of, and AUSTIN LATARD will be entitled to its thanks and gratitude for the new light which he has caused to shine on the Ministerial mind. But although the prospects of Adminis trative Reform are thus auspicious, the earnest men who have undertaken the onus of the conflict should not only not relax, but should redouble, their previous exertions. They have already achieved a brilliant and deci sive triumph, but it will require indefatigable labour to turn the preliminary victory to good account. As yet we have only " words." We require " deeds ;" and any exhibition of hike warmness or apathy would materially retard, if it did not altogether prevent, the full realisation of the national hopes. They may rest assured that every position will be defended to the utter most—that those who have been accustomed to look to the civil service as the means of obtaining provisions for their younger sons, and husbands for their daughters, will not readily relinquish the grasp on the public purse which they have so long and so steadfastly retained. Every device will be resorted to, every stratagem practised, to prevent the full consummation of the public wishes. The vigour of the first assault took them by surprise ; but if any diminution thereof be perceptible—if they think that the enthu siasm heretofore displayed should in any degree have cooled, they will take every possible advan tage of the change to procrastinate or defeat the accomplishment of the national wish. Let Ad ministrative Reformers persevere, and hold that nothing has been done while anything remains to be achieved. Convinced that the question of Parliamentary Reform must acquire an increasing and, before long, an unrivalled prominence, if Administrative Reformers proceed, as there is no question they will, with their labour, and prepared as we are to hail that result with no little pleasure, we cannot but welcome the appearance of anything calculated to hasten it, and to point out the precise nature and extent of any portion of the reform needed. It is therefore with much satisfaction we call attention to a broad sheet, just published, of tables, diagrams, and remarks, by Mr. ACLAND, the well-known Anti-Corn•law Lecturer and civic reformer, representing the inequalities of our re presentative system—the removal, or rather con siderable mitigation, of which we deem essential to a useful Parliamentary Reform Bill. The mitigation, we say, because, while a manhood suffrage and electoral districts would much sim plify matters, we are very far from believing that in the present defective state of education among the masses, and with such glaring inequalities as are presented in our social state, it would be prudent, wise, or just to adopt them, and considerable mitigation, beettuse nothing shore of it will meet the exigency of the case. The reader has only to take up Mr. ACLAND'S broad sheet and glance at the pyramidal diagrams one within another, from that representing the West Riding of Yorkshire down to the almost imperceptible one Standing for the borough of Thetford, to feel assured of that. The disparity of size and parity of representatatives, not representation, are so glaring as to be ridiculous. Bathos, in fact, has rarely been more successfully suggested. Having examined the diagrams we are mistaken if a stronger desire than before is not quickened in the reader's mind to peruse the tables, and well will they reward the trouble. The painstaking habits and accuracy, the statistical voracity and capacity of the energetic tabulist are notorious, and sub stantially undisputed. Hence the tables being regarded with confidence will have their due effect, and every revelation they make will, we feel assured, facilitate others by demonstrating the necessity of having the evil probed to the core. So startling, and yet unimpeachable are the facts and figures, that we conceive it almost im possible for the most inveterate Tory to be con fronted with them without admitting the neces sity of a change. But we must content ourselves at present with calling attention to this valuable production, the result evidently of much labour and consideration, and defer the task of dip ping into its contents for matter to comment on to a future but - not distant occasion. " SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE IS SAUCE FOR THE GANDER." —By means of an illustration bearing this title our'face• tious friend Punch discharges one of his light, but telling, shafts against the latest fashionable hypocrisy—the Sab batarianism of the day. A policeman is represented grimly accosting an aristocratic flunkey, who carries a walking-stick and a large bagfull of Prayer-books in the wake of his mistress, who is seen proceeding to her car riage, as follows :—" I say, this won't do ; you mustn't follow your occupation on Sunday." _ _ The evidence against Messrs. Davidson and Gordon was completed at the Guildhall yesterday, and they were committed for trial. There was again a large at tendance of the mercantile interest. Sir Hugh Munro, of Foulis, Bart., has bequeathed his estate of Milton, in Ross-shire, to found a free school in Perth, for the education of the children of tradesmen beloncing to the town. COPENHAGEN, June 18.—The King, this afternoon, left the Royal residence of Strodshorg, to return to Copenhagen. The horse on which his Majesty was rid ing stumbled, and the King fell, but no serious conse quences are anticipated from the accident. His Majesty got into a carriage, and returned to Strodsborg." THE GERMAN LEGION.— HELIGOLAND, June 12. Three vessels have arrived from England, bringing the expected ready-made materials for the second encamp ment of huts for the German Legion, as well as 200 casks of salt beef, as many of pork, and a great quantity of blankets, uniforms, cooking utensils, and other articles for the comfort and use of the men. More vessels :Ire expected to arrive in the course of the week. The offie;ers as yet wear the uniforms of their former corps, amongst which those of the late Schleswig- Holstein army are the most numerous. The 5,000 knapsack% lately arrived here from Hamburg, and bought b3r the British Government for the Foreign Legion, w ere formerly used by the Schleswig Holstein army, and sold by auction by the Danish authorities. They were bought by a speculator for 2d. a-piece, and he has now sold them at ss. each, thereby realising a very pretty sum of money. Boyee V. WISEMAN—LIBEL—In this case a rule had been obtained to set aside the verdict for the plaintiff o n the ground of the rejection of evidence of fered by the defendant, and also for excessive damages. The case has been tried on two previous occasions ; the last ti me before Mr. Baron Platt at Kingston. Mr. Baron Parke, in whose views Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. I ;aron Martin concurred, was of opinion that the evider ice had been improperly rejected, under the peculiar c; .rcumstances of the case, and therefore that the rule a ught to be made absolute for a new trial. Mr. Baron PI stt was sorry that by any mistake on his part the plains .iff should have been prevented from going to the jury upon the merits of the case, and therefore that he shoulx 1 be obliged to carry the matter before a third jury. B owever, he was bound to believe that he was wrong, a s the majority of the Court entertained a con trary o Oxiion. Rule absolute accordingly. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A letter, dated Turin, June L l states that the Chevalier Bonelli proposes a plan ft): establishing a submarine:telegraph as far as Constan tinople by taking Cagliari as the point of depar ture. Tb e chevalier believes he hasdiscovered the means of diminr shing the weight and expense of subaqueous cables. _'he wire would 'run from Cagliari to Malta, thence to Candia. Here it would branch off in one di rection to Alexandria in Egypt, and in the other to Gal lipoli. T he expense would not amount to three millions of francs . The plan has been submitted to the Go. vernment sof England and France. The Moniteur pub lishes a : notice that private telegraphic despatches are now rec ived far for the e Ln f a ol go l ow n n ( G g i r p o I n a de)and ces in different R oann e ( foreignL o i e), and also count! :—Bothnia, in Austria ; Pforzheim, Grand Duch of 13 -- Flarzbourg and Wolfenbutt e l, y• Grand e Due:tll:yH and a o d o l e f la n n l3 d ru ; n A sw n ic k k ia ; m C a u n l d em w ho o u lg r a g s , t, D p ev r e u n ss t i e ar , l‘ , p p ; i San ns - e ß r Sardinia,Th etele ; gra a p n h d ic A o l ffi ex c in es ae i z n a s nd K weden rag , the same notice declares, do not transmit any despatches on Sun days : ind fete days, except those of the Government. The line of telegraph uniting Austria with Russia upon the front ier of Gallicia , and Poland, was opened on last Friday. Despatches may be sent in German and in French. The telegraphic stations established at this moment in Russia, are—Varsovia, Moscow, St. Peters burg, It iga, Kiew, Odessa, Dunabourg, Dowsk, Kon wola, H slsingfors, Cronstadt, Gatechina, Revel, Nerve, Bologoic Krementschug, Nicolaiew, and Wyborg. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING JUN'TI, PO, ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—IIer Majesty the Queen and his Royal HighneF , a Prince Albert honoured the per formances at the Royal Italian Opera with their pre sence last evening. The Queen and the Prince were ac companied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice. The Royal suite consisted of Lady Churchill and the Hon. Miss Seym.ur, Lord Byron, General the Hon. Charles Grey, and Captain the H.,11. Dudley De Ros. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—The diorama illustrating the " Events of the War" is still increasing in popularity, and during the past week has been visited by the following fashionable parties :--The Duke of Hamilton, Marquis of Londonderry and party, the Coun tess of Morton and party, the Duke of Buccleuch's family, the Marquis of Bristol, Viscountess Milton and party, Viscountess Dungarvon and party, Countess of Rosse and party, the Countess of Gainsborough and party, the Eart of Uxbridge, Lord Kensington and party, Lady Bridport and party, Viscount Holmesdale and party, Lady Willoughby de Broke and party, Lord Berners, Lady Radstock and party, Lady Panmure and the Hon. Miss Fox Maule and party, Lady Louisa Cavendish and party, Lady Macnaghten and party, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Lady Wentworth and party, Sir R. and Lady Bateson, Lady Fielding and party, Lady Rober,'; Grosvenor and party, Lady Nightingale and darty, the Hon. Colonel Lowther, Lady Herbert and party, Lady Anderson, Lady Vernon and party, Mrs. Brand and party, Mr. Drummond, Admiral Cator, Gen. Upton and party, Colonels Tol►emache, Gurt, and Lan son ; Majors Revel and Selby ; Captains Ellis, Webster, Purvis, Biggs, West, and Watson ; Mr. Stanley and party, Mr. Tennant Egerton, Mr. Wentworth and party, &c. The Union Bank of London have advertised the open ing of their branch at Temple-bar on the 2d of July, having taken temporary premises at 200, Fleet-street. DEATH OT THE RIGHT LION. SIR GEORGE ROSE, G.C. H. —We regret to announce the demise, after a compara tively brief illness, of the Right Hon. Sir George H. Rose, who expired at Ssndhills-house, kis seat, near Christchurch, Rants, on Sunday last. SEA 0/ AZOFF.—Mr. Edward Stanford, Charing-cross, has just published a well-executed and useful map of this sea, showing the ports, harbours, lighthouses, direction of the current-4, depth in fathoms, &c., and including two plans on a small scale—one of Anapa and the other of Kaffa, pointing out the position of the fortifications of each, and the depth of water in their respective road steeds. SEBASTOPOL.—The excellent new map of Sebastopol and the surrounding country, published by Mr. E. Stan ford, Charing-cross, has, we are happy to perceive, been appreciated by the public, having reached a fourth edi tion. The map includes BAlaklava, Cape Chersonese, and the Belbec and Tcheruaya, rivers, and shows the position of the Allied camps and the Allied and Russian batteries and fort. , , with the number of guns, &c. CRICKET.—The match, Sixteen Gentlemen of the Uni versity of Cambridge v. the United Eleven of England, was concluded yesterday. The two innings of the Uni versity were 66 and 88, or 154. The United Eleven in their first innings yielded 106. The second hands rea lised 35 only, thus making their gross total 141, or 13 less than the score of their opponents, who thus won by that amount. The Shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Ori ental steamer Indus are 369,384/., of which 19,7191. is gold for Alexandria, Ceylon, Calcutta, and Madras, and 349,665/, silver for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The Tagus, for Lisbon, &c., also takes out 31,9801. The Royal mail steamer Tyne, for the West Indies and the Pacific, has only about 4,0001. specie on freight. A grand cavalcade of the students of the University of Leyd(a has just taken place on the occasion of the 280th anniversary of the foundation of that establish ment. The town wore all the appearance of a fete, and Shs cavalcade was remarkable for its historical correct ness, and f,r the richness of the costumes. A great number of foreigners were present. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM MEETING AT BRIGHTON. —A public meeting, on the above nationally important question, is to be held at the Town Hall, on Monday next ; the Mayor in the chair ; and we have been asFured that Mr. Layard, M.P., and Mr. Lindsay, M.P., will attend the meeting, if possible, and speak. The meeting was convened by his worship the Mayor, on the requisition of a number of respectable inhabit a n ts.—Brighton Examiner. ENLARGEMENT OF THE LONDON DOCKS.—Ye , terday preparations commenced for the demolition of the houses in New Gravel-lane, Elbow-lane, Cow-lane, Collins court, Farmer-street, Shakespeare's-wa;k, and Rannies place, for the enlargement of the London Docks. The ground between Wapping-wall and the Rivers' bank, to St. John's Church, Shad well, is now entirely clear of houses, and some hundreds of navvies are now daily employed on the excavations, an immense number of houses, the entire of Shadwell-market, and several entire streets having been removed for this enlargement. REFUGE FOR HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN. —Yesterday the first of a three days' hizaar for the sale of fancy work in aid of the funds of this institution took place at' the Hanover-square Rooms. The numerous stalls were decorated with flowers and coloured drapery, and upon several were displayed articles worked by the children of the Refuge. Among the ladies who presided at the stalls, and attended to patronise the sale, were the Duchess of Argyll, the Marchioness of Westminster, the Countess of Clarendon, Lady T. Lewis, Lady Radstock, and the Hon. Mrs. M. Villiers. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.— Many interesting novelties are, we understand, in preparation, in addition to the many objects of attraction with which this esta blishment abounds. The exhibition since the holidays continue• to attract crowds of visitors to see the many distinguished characters represented ; and perhaps no group surpasses that of the Emperor and Empress of Austria, both for its life-like appearance and the elegance of the costume and general design, and the number of visitors who crowd around it shows that it is fully appre ciated. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JUNE 19.—WATERMEN OF THE RIVER THAMES V. THE THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY The Court sat to-day to try this case, which was a claim made for compenFation, under the provisions of an act of Parliament, for the loss of profit on certain Sunday ferries, occasioned by the opening of the Thames Tunnel. After a good deal of argument as to the principle upon which the average, ought to be calculated, the jury assessed the amount at 3,8201. HARVEST PROSPECTS.—We have reports of the crops to-day from various parts of the country, the Lowlands, Lincolnshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Sus sex, Essex, &c. There has been a good deal, but not too m•ich rain ; and the weather is described as admirable for vegetation. The crops have all progressed wonder fully, and a few weeks of dry sunny weather would bring them quite up to the average of good years. Much more moisture, however, would be injurious—especially to the wheat. THE LATE M.P. FOR ROCHESTER.—We believe that the Hon. Mr. Villiers, who absconded some time ago, for reasons which caused a great sensationboth in fashion able and sporting circles, is expected shortly to return to this country. It is reported that an agent is employed buying up the questionable paper which may be in circu lation, so that Mr. Villiers may be able to return with out the risk of being apprehended in any other character than as a common debtor. If this experiment is success ful, it is thought that the late M.P. for Rochester will avail himself of the advantages of the Bankrupt Law, under the style of a horse-dealer.—Morning Advertiser. HOME ACCOUNTS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.— The total receipts of the home treasury of the East India Company from the tat of May, 1854, to the 30th of April, 1855, amountel to the sum of 10,117,786/., and the total disbursements to 5,350,203/., leaving a balance in favour of 4,767,5821., The total receipts of the home treasury for the ensuing financial year 1855-56 are esti mated at 9,637,1121., including the cash balance of the old account, and the total disbursements at 7,492,648/. The total debts of the company in England amounted on the It of May, 1855, to 8,570,8541., and the assets to 7,131,938/., leaving an excess of debts to the amount of 1,438,9161. The total number of the company's esta blishments in England on the let of May last amounted to 524, and the salaries and allowances thereof to 128,145/. The amount of new or increased salaries created in 1854-55 is 1,349/., and that otpensions, 1,928/. The amount of alloyrinces, remunerations, and superar nuations granted to officers and servants of the company in the same period was 1,4031. The amount granted to the wi lows' fund in the home establishment, to make up the deficiency in the income of those funds for the year ending the 30th of April, 1854, was 10,094/. CORPORATION OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.—A special general court of the governors was held at the Corporation House, in Bloomsbury-place, on Saturday last, for the purpose of electing a treasurer in the room of Sir;R. Inglis, Bart., deceased. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury took the chair. Amongst the governors present were the Marquis of Westminster, the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Rev. Lord John Thynne, Lord Radstock, Archdeacon Bentinck, Rev. Dr. Vivian, and Canon Jennings ; Alderman Sir C. Marshall, Sir Thomas Phillips, Mr. Freshfield, M.P., Mr. Serjeant Channell, Major Moore, Messrs. Bentley, Chancellor, Francis, Hardwick, Hargreave, Pepys, Pownall, Poyn der, Propert, Salmon, and Tinney. After passing a resolution expressing the deep regret which the loss of Sir R. H. Inglis had occasioned to the corporation and to every individual connected with the society, the court unanimously elected Sir Wm. Heathcote, Bart., M.P., one of the three treasurers. A court of assistants im mediately followed, when the governors discharged a gratifying duty in distributing 2,1501. amongst 155 ne cessitous clergymen with large families. These bene factions are open to clergymen from every diocese, their personal characters and necessities being alone con sidered. FURNITURE POE THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—We availed ourselves the other day of the polite invitation of Messrs. Jackson and Graham, of Oxford-street, to inspect, prior to its despatch, their contribution to the Paris Exhibi tion. The articles consist of six carpets and a drawing room cabinet of the most exquisite beauty and finish. So nearly has nature been imitated in the carpets, that we almost imagined we were walking in an actual bed of roses. The cabinet, which is in the Louis XIV. style, is 8 feet long and. 13 feet 6 inches in height, the lower part of it being constructed principally of tulip and purple wood. In the fire front and end panels are placed plaques of porcelain, exquisitely painted with allegorical figures repiesenting the attributes of Poetry, Painting, and Music ; and gracefully-modelled female figures in front represent the genius of Dancing. The garlands of flowers surrounding the panels of the doors, and the whole of the other enrichments and mouldings of the lower part, are of bronze, gilt, and of the most per fect form and finish. The upper part consists of a glass in a magnificent carved and gilt frame, from which spring branches for wax-lights. Both parts admirably har monise. Whether this noble piece of furniture be re garded as a whole or in detail, it may be pronounced a chef d'ceuvr e , u nsur p asse d by any cabinet in the world, modern or antique. The celebrity of the establishment of Messrs. Jackson and Graham cannot fail to be en hanced by th e p ro duction of this most superb specimen of British workmanship. LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20. Advices from Konigsberg state that an Impe rial ukase orders that baptised Jews, who have hitherto been exempted, shall furnish 30 recruits for every 1,000 souls to the Russian army. MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, JUNE 19. The Imperial yacht Reine Hortense has arrived here for the use of the King of Portugal. The Euphrate, which left Constantinople on the 11th, has arrived. She brings advices from the Crimea of the 9th: The despatches leave at 8 p.m. THE MASSACRE AT HANGO. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. ADMIRALTY, Ju 18. Copies of letters from Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas, reporting the proceedings of her Majesty's ship Cossack, and the loss of officers and men at Hango : (No. 162.) Duke of Wellington, at anchor, Tolboukin Lighthouse, E.S.E. 3 miles, June 9, 1855. Sir,--I had the honour to transmit on the 2d inst. with my letter, No. 130, a report of proceedings received from Capt. Fanshawe, of her Majesty's ship Cossack, who, in compliance with my directions, had satisfactorily exa mined theanchorages and channels in the vicinity of Hans go Head ; but it has now become my most painful duty to forward, for the information of the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, a report which I have received from that officer, detailing occurrences in the same lo cality which have led, in the most distressing manner, to the sacrifice of the lives apparently of not less than six teen officers and men, although I am still disposed to in dulge the faintest hope that some few may be yet alive. In explanation of this report, it may be proper for me to inform their lordships, that in the destruction of coasting vessels in the course of hostilities within the Gulf of Finland, I have considered that I am carrying out the views of her Majesty's Government in endea vouring to visit with as little severity as possible the evils of war upon the poorer classes of the inhabitants, who are in the habit of earning a living in the smaller vessels upon the coast, and it may be useful that I should transmit upon this occasion a copy of a General Me morandum which I bad issued upon this occasion. It was in accordance with the spirit of this instruction that I had given permission to Captain Fanshawe to take a favourable opportunity to release two persons who had been detained by him as prisoners in one of the vessels referred to in his former report of the 30th May, and who had expressed a wish to be released near Hango ; and it is melancholy to consider that, conse quent on this act of leniency, an opportunity has been afforded to the enemy to inflict upon us a most severe loss, under circumstances of extreme cruelty, if not in direct violation of the ordinary usages of war. I transmit, however, for their Lordships' further in formation, a copy of a letter which I have forwarded to Captain Fanshawe, ordering him forthwith to rejoin my flag, and calling for further explanations upon the subject. Their Lordships will gather from the questions which I have addressed to him the views which I am at present disposed to adopt in reference to this melancholy loss ; but I abstain for the present from communication with the military authorities of the district in the absence of further information. —I have, &c., (Signed) R. S. DIINDAS, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. The Secretary of the Admiralty, &c. H.M. Steam-ship Cossack, Nargen Islands, June 6, 1855. Sir,—lt is with the deepest concern that I have to re port to you the destruction of a cutter's crew and the officers who we'll> into Hango with a flag of truce yes terday, the sth inst., in order to land the three prisoners who had been taken with some merchant vessels by her Majesty's ships Cossack and Esk, and also four others whom I gave a passage to Nargen, they having received their liberty from the prize officers of the vessels cap tured by her Majesty's steam-ship Magicienne. The ship having arrived off Hango Island yesterday forenoon, the boat was despatched at 11 a.m. in charge of Lieut. Geneste, with orders to land the above persons, and to return without delay, taking care that no one straggled from the boat. The officers' stewards were allowed to go in the boat on the same conditions, as was also, at his request, Mr. Easton, surgeon of the ship. The enclosed statement of what occurred on the boat's approaching the shore is that of the only man who has returned alive, and I have every reason to believe it correct. Finding that the boat did not duly return, I sent the first lieutenant, about half-past 4 p.m., in the gig, also with a flag of truce, to ascertain the cause of the delay ; and as neither had returned at the close of the day, I anchored with this ship and the Esk in the inner roads. The gig returned about half-past 8, after a long search, having discovered the cutter hauled within a small jetty, and containing the dead bodies of two or three of her crew. It being then late, I made arrangements that the ships should weigh at half-past 2 o'clock a.m., and take positions as dote to the inner village and telegraph sta tion as possible ; and as I then supposed that the rest of the crew and officers had been made prisoners, I proposed to send in a letter to the nearest military authority de manding that they and tbb boat should be given up. But whilst getting under weigh the cutter was ob served to leave the shore with one man at the stern, who was endeavouring to scull her out. I therefore imme diately sent a boat to her assistance, which brought her on board, and she was found to c rntain the dead bodies of four of the crew, which were riddled with musket balls. The man who came out in 'the boat made the accom panying statement of the details of this atrocious mas sacre ; he is very dangerously wounded in the right arm and shoulder, and was left for dead in the boat ; but the account he gives of what he saw before be was struck down is clear and consistent, viz.: that on the boat reaching the jetty, Lieut. Geneste, Mr. Easton, surgeon, Mr. Sullivan, master's assistant, and the Russian prison. ers, stepped on shore, and advanced a few paces, Lieut. Geneste carrying and waving the flag of truce. On their landing, a large party of soldiers, commanded by an officer, who spoke English, appeared" suddenly, and ad vanced in a threatening manner. The officers then pointed to the flag of truce and claimed its protection, and also endeavoured to explain the reason of their landing, but of no avail. A volley of musketry was immediately fired at them, which killed them, and also some or all of the Russian prisoners ; volleys were then fired into the boat, by which all were struck down, and the assailants then rushed into the boat, and threw most of the bodies overboard, and then removed the arms and ammunition which were stowed underneath. Neither before nor during this indiscriminate slaugh ter was any resistance made, nor hostile intention shown by the boat's crew with the flag of truce, the muskets that were in the boat not having been loaded, and being in the bottom of the boat ; and therefore there appeared to be nothing to justify this barbarous infringement of the usages of war. I therefore opened fire with both ships upon the place, at about 600 yards distance ; but it was not returned either with iifles or artillery; and a thick fog having come on shortly afterwards I ceased firing and with drew the ship, the position which they were in not being one in which they could with safety remain at an cho r. I enclose herewith the names of the officers and men who have met their deaths on this occasion.—l have, &c., (Signed) E..G. FANSLIAWL _ Rear-Admiral lion — . R. 'S. Dundas, C'.B., &c., &c., &c. List of officers and cutter's crew who were killed at Hango on the sth June, 1855 :—Lieutenar, t Louis Gerieste ; Surgeon R. T. Easton ; Charles Sullivan, master's assistant ; Edward Thompson, leading seaman; Benjamin Smith, able seaman ; James Cornw:.ll, ordi nary seaman ; John Glidden, able seaman ; George Boyle, ordinary seaman ;. William Roskelly„ ordinary seaman ; Thomas Stokes, ordinary seaman, scicond class; John Haughey, stoker ; Francis George, or dinary sea man ; Owen Francis, able seaman ; William Linn, captain's steward ; William Banks, gun-roo m steward ; John Lorton, subordinate officer's steward (Signed) E. G. FANSHAP7B , Captain. H.M.S. Cossack, June 6, 1855. 11.1q.5. Cossack, Lange, Jane 6, 1355. About a quarter to four o'clock, John Brown, ordi nary seaman, after being taken tc, the Sick. Bay, stated, that on the cutter, with a flag of truce fiying, getting alongside the small jetty at the village, V ie officers and liberated Russian prisoners jumped out, r and Lieutenant Geneste held up the flag of truce, and tc al the Russians (who bad assembled close to the water and on the jetty to the number of about 500, dressed, as riflemen, and armed with muskets, swords, and 'oayonet.) what it meant, and why they had larded. The old Fin (meaning the captain ( - if the priZe Johanna) also explained to them, but they said they did not care for flags of truce there, and wor,ld show them how to fight the Russians, or words to that effect. A volley was immediately fired at the officer - , and liberated prisoners, and then into the boat. When all were supposed 'co be killed, the Russians jumped into the boat, and after throwing the bodies of the men lying on the arms, in the bottom of the boat, overboard, took away all the arms, magazine &c. Brown, though dangerously wounded (having received two shots through the riE:nt 'fore-arm, and one in the shoulder where the bullet lodged), managed in the morn ing to get up and scull. tb e cutter out. He states that when about 200 yards from the jetty, about 200 men came running down, front the telegraph. To Mr. Wise--I am pos'tive that the officers were shot down at °nem, and before they fired into the boat. To Mr. .M`K enna—The Russian prisoners were also shot down while on the jetty. To Messrs. M'Kenna and Wise—The boat went straight in to the landing place. The Russians spoke English ; ara the person who led them, from his dress and appearance, seemed to be an officer. Dr. Eaton was the first officer who fell, The old Finnish captain took the flag of truce from Mr. Geneste. and waved it, shouting, `°l { leg of truce ! Truce ! " but the Russians yelled, and fired upon them. Before the men could do anything they were fired upon, and the Russians with cutlasses jumped into the boat. The Russians did not use their cutlasses. GEO. H. L. Wise, Paymaster. ARTHUR M 'KENNA, Assistant-Surgeon. R. S. Dundas, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. GENERAL MEMORANDUM. Duke of Wellington at anchor. Tolboukin Lighthouse, East .16 miles, May 29.11 It is my direction that all coasting vessels, undoubtedly Russian property, which may be met with passing and re-passing within the Gulf of Finland, and not of suffi cient value to be detained as prizes, are to be destroyed, but no injury is to be done to boats or small craft which may be found empty at anchor, and not trafficking. This order, however, is not intended to preclude the exercise of the discretion of officers in special cases where the owners of vessels may be obviously poor and harm less ; but the rule above ordered is to be generally ob served, and made known, as far as possible, to all the owners of coasting vessels, it being the object to prevent, generally, all traffic along the coast. (Signed) R. S. DUNDAS, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. To the respective Flag Officers, Captains, Commanders, and Commanding Officers of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels under my orders. Duke of Wellington at anchor. Toulboukin Lighthouse, E.S.E. 3 miles, June 8, 1855. Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th inst., No. 4, with its enclosures, reporting the painful circumstances under which a serious loss of officers and men has been sustained in consequence of a boat belonging to the ship you command having been detached for the purpose of landing and releasing pri soners upon the coast of the enemy ; but much as I must regret the losses which occurred, and sensible as I am of the distress which such occurrences are calculated to excite in the mind of any officer entrusted with com mand, it has nevertheless become my duty to call your attention to some important omissions in your report, and to several explanations which are necessary, not only to enable me to form a correct judgment upon the con duct of yourself and the officer who has been unfortu nately sacrificed on the occasion, but which are due also to the character of an enemy who is charged with the grave crimes of having violated the good faith of a flag of truce, and the indiscriminate massacre of prisoners about to be released and the unarmed and defenceless crew of a boat employed upon such a service. I have therefore to direct that you will furnish me with full and exact reports upon the following queries :- Ist. What were the circumstances which rendered it necessary to select an opportunity for landing the pri soners in question, when the boat was unsupported by the immediate presence of the ship you command, and when the display of a flag of truce from her own mast head would have obviated all misunderstanAing as to her object ? 2J. What were the particular instructions given to the officer in charge of the boat, and what opportunities were afforded to the enemy to grant or to reject condi tions of truce before the party had actually landed upon his coast ? 3rd. What was the distance of the boat from the ship when last seen previous to her landing, and what at that time was her distance from shore ? 4th. When and at what distance from the shore was a flag of truce first displayed, and were any blank guns or muskets fired at the moment, and is the officer in charge of the boat supposed to have had any reason for believing it to have been acknowledged by the enemy on shore ? stb. At what distance from the shore were the rifle men of the enemy first seen on the "jetty" by the crew of the Cossack's cutter ? 6th. Was any assent, implied or understood, supposed to have been granted by the Russian officer on shore to the landing of the prisoners or crew ? In directing your attention to the importance of ac curate replies to the foregoing queries, I have to remind you that the spot at which these melancholy losses have been sustained had been recently visited by the ship you command, and acts of hostility had been committed i n that vicinity. There was, therefore, good reason to consider that the attention of the enemy might be di rected to its protection, and every proper precaution should have been taken. I cannot but regret, therefore, that persons whose services were not necessary on the occasion were permitted to proceed in the Coosack's boat ; and I have to remark that such permission was not calculated to impress upon others the importance of proper vigilance and of due attention to forms in com municating by flag of truce. On the receipt of this letter you will repair immedi ately to this anchorage to rejoin my flag.—l am, &c.,141 (Signed) R. S. DUNDAS, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. Captain E.. G. Fanshawe, H.M.S. Cossack. (No. 169) Duke of Wellington, at anchor, Tolboukin Lighthouse, E.S.E. 3 miles, June 11, 1855% Sir,—l have to report, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that her Ma jesty's ship Cossack rejoined me this morning, and I have now to t 7ansmit, for their lordships' information, further reports; which I have received from Captain Fanshawe, in reply to the inquiries contained in my letter of the 9tht instant, No. 162. _ _ After full consideration of the explanations afforded, and,'after personial communication with this officer on the subject, I am entirely at a loss to diScover any cir cumstances whiob can serve to excuse or to palliate the conduct of the enemy, by whom the cruel and unneces sary slaughter ,of the Cossack's boat's crew has been perpetrated. No precaution appears to have been omitted by the officer in charge .of the boat to make known the object of his mission, an d it their lordships should see reason to regret that she wets detached beyond the reach of pro tection from the sh ip, I feel assured they will do justice to the explanations of Captain Fanshawe. I regret to add tliat he has informed me little or no hope can be entertai,oed that any of the officers or crew have survived, and th at repeated wounds were inflicted upon several of them.. with the most reckless cruelty, hut it is my intention to take the earliest opportunity to endeavour to corm utunicate with the authorities at Ilelsingfors. , __l have, sc.c.., _ _ (Signed) R. S. DUNDAS, Rear-Ad'tniral and Commander-in-Ch lef. The Secretary of the Admiralty, &c. Steam-Ship, Cossack, at sea off Siskar, June 11, 1855. Sir,—ln replying to the points connected with the as sault upon the boat of this ship, upon whieh you desire additional explanations, I would premise that I sent her in the full belief that a boat with a flag of of truce flying, detached from a ship stationary off the enemy's coast, was entitled either to be warned off before approaching the shore, or to be ordered off on reaching the shore be fore her' communication was received, or to have an op portunity of making that communication to a person ap pointed by the enemy ; and I was persuaded that a boat complying with these conditions was perfectly safe from molestation, and that while she did so no misunderstand ing could arise. will now proceed to answer your queries. Ist, The opportunity was the first that had presented itself, and as it appeared a favourable one, I sent a flag of truce in immediately on my arriving at Hango. It was in respect of what I believed to be the proper form of sending a flag of truce that I did not take the ship in to the inner roads, for I believed that it was in accord ance with usag e that the ship should stay out of eiun-shot on such an ocoasion. I stood into the island of Rug, on, about two and a quarter miles from the village of Hango, and thence sent the boat, and I then stood off and on to the same spot. Remaining for this reason on the ordinary station for a blockading ship, I believed that I complied with custom in not hoisting a flag of truce on board my own ship, but only in the boat detached. 2d. The instructions given by me to the officer in charge of the boat to proceed with the flag of truce to the landing place at the village of Hango. If any troops were there to ask to communicate with the officer in , command, to explain the reason of the boat coming in— namely, to land the liberated Russian prisoners, and to ask leave to do so. If no troops were there, he was to land the liberated prisoners at the landing place, with all their luggage, and to return on board without delay. He was at liberty in the latter case to allow the officers' stewards to purchase any Article offered at the boat by the villagers, provided that no detention of the boat was occasioned thereby. I also directed him, should he be questioned as to the manner in which the blockade would be enforced with reference to coasters, to explain the intentions set forth in your memorandum on the subject, as clearly as possible. He was charged not to allow any one to stray from the boat, and also to be careful that no injury was done to property at the landing-place and none of it removed. The position of the ship, and the course of the boat from the ship to the landing-place, was in full view of the telegraphic station which overhangs the village, and to O boat took about three-quarters of an hour to reach the to shore. It was therefore open to the enemy eitheeit her have warned her off by firing with blank cartridge, o I.order her off on her approaching within hail. 33. The boat was about two miles from the shiphalf last seen previous to her landing, and leAi mile from the landing-place, there being a ®ma ll rocky islet which then shut her in from the ship 4 when about 4th. The flag of truce was first disp la y halfway from the ship to the shore, or rat h e r more than a mile from the shore. No blank g un fired, but the flag, which was on boag o r muskets were rding pike, was clear a good - by Lieutenant Geneste's orders, kea in ptPo , sition to be seen. The officer in charge could have no reason to suppose either that it was acknowledged or rejected by the ene my, as they were not to be seen, and the place appeared deserted. sth. But one man, an was not a soldier (who ran away as the boat approached), seen from the cutter before she reached the jetty. The officers and prisoners had landed, and the baggage was removed from the boat to the w h ar f b e f ore th e troops were seen. They came out buddenly from be hind a cover of some houses or rock, a nd rushed down firing their muskets. Before stepping on the wharf, Lieutenant Geneste gave the crew strict orders to re main in the boat, and to be careful not to touch any thing on the wharf. When the Russians first appeared, be was on the wharf with the other officers, about four or five paces from the boat with the flag of truce in his hand, which he immediately waved, and called out flag of truce. The person who headed the soldiers replied, that " they did not care about flags of truce there." The Finnish captain took the flag from Lieutenant Geneste, waved and shouted in his own language and in English, 6 , Flag of truce." 6th: No assent could be implied, •r otherwise, A 4 no orsompowasamminatostpaimPomphasmioniewww------ . one on thear ot the y eared till after the.pri! sonerq were p lar. t , led, whenenem they app rushed out, as describe/ in answer No. 5. In eonciusion, I beg to state, that I was fully aware from some vessels having been lately captured in t he neighbourhood that there was a likelihood that troops might have been since sent down to the coast ; but at the same time I Was under the. full conviction that the course pursued was such as was usual, and should ba" secured to the boat the protection due to the flag on tru ce , w h e ther the enemy in exercise of his discretio thought proper to order it to return w ithout communi cation or not. On again interrogating the wounded man, I the person who led on the enemy, and who spoke Egg fish, was armed with a musket like the rest, and e? probably therefore not a commissioned officer. --3 have, &c., (Signed) E. G, FANsluirs, CaPteill• To Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas, find that C. 8., Commander-in-Chief. _ . H. M. S. Cossack, Tolboukia, June 11 1855. Sir,—ln addition to the circumstances detailed in r e l letter to you of this day's date, I have to report tbet boa• tga interrogating John Brown, the survivor of the diers appearing, they commenced firing on 's crew, he states : that immediately on the sol diers• liberated prisoners who were with them on the wharf : their first fire did but little injury, but as th e y then approached he eaw first Mr. Easton, surgeo, and Lieut. Geneste fall dead. He also saw the Finnish car the officers tain, who spoke English, fall ; and feels perfectly certain that the rest were all shot, as he saw them falling indie. criminately. He is confident that all fell• the soldiers, having approached within 10 or 15 Yar ds ; the boat, were firing into her also, and the wholes tte men were very soon struck down. They then rush i b ° t the boat, and threw overboard several of the bodies , 1 , finding b James Gliddon, though wounded, was not dead, tey hauled him on the wharfand bayoneted him. fiesi..d a By this ticeef that he was wounded early ; that though faint bed To, perfect and perception of what was going on ar", e him to f . a sense of his own danger, which induce(' si __ O eign dead, and also that he was twice dragged fro . 01 ', fortunately, not pitched overboard. part of the boat to the other in the search for arraspr; to him when h . e was dragged on the wi'''' the soldiers ceive first s that the whole affair, from the time . tt hav e rushed out until they final retired, rnigde i every ocFupied about 15 minutes. He distinctte ' nt henat Ooziest° thing that .was said on the wharf 1/ L' e- c°3 and the Russians. ne of the Glikd.,df. woase own. I may here mention that the body o& ° _ e h the men found dead in the boat had two shots thro s '4ll asilk hand., leg, which he had had time to bandage w'"" - r ids, in kerchief before he received two other fatal won the abdomen and head. I omitted to state in my letter reporting fling tbe r b e:Ace, that the following morning, ' ben : u tile sli nie at out, Brown saw a number of men .-- dow n tbe dresses as those who fired upon them corelnground I telegraph hill ; they stopped several times, tur ning iss o r and pointing to the cutter and the gig , Which m.ii. proacbing.—l have, &c. E. G. Atrsill"." (Signed) Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir R. S. Dundee, ibis occur. Commanthrisk-Chief, ate. FRANCE . vv oria. . PARIS, TuEsDAY .ndisposi. . 1 The Emperor has recovered from his 1 ress a nd ,, t . 01 2. He went last night, with the W a we. the King of Portugal, to the " Anibigu vu,.. 00 the The Bourse recovered in some degree that panic of the last three days. There 0 13 , h3 t the news ; but the most approved rumour is:,..' to bad news, but to a suspension of silence of the Moniteur is not attributelo: 074 to a difference between the Goverl?1; r esige e i General Pelissier. The latter, it is sal , d ition 0 " rather than carry on the war, on the co . n. inert iris being bound to obey telegraphic orders, 1 0 T - 00 lAst with his plans. After a telegraphic discuss' or 09 B o wer ins several days, it is said the yielded the point. operetionent an d the Duke The King of Portugal and his btother, for go of Oporto, will leave Paris on does for seines, there to embark for Piedmont. it is Sai d ' The Emperor has it in conteraplation2e, in oe• to have a camp of manceuvres to 11 The Colonisation, an Al diately in the neighbourhood of Paris. ~ ba s e' Algerian jourtlai l are' ceived a warning for having published • d 1 1 .03- •' Iles " betraying tendencies not to be tO u„, 3 , 0 g a r- The Countess de Lavalette, daugher9_ l l. l 'o my quTs de Beauliarnais, formerly anabassar d yes ter' drid, and cousin to Queen Hortense, ale dap ' in the Rue Rochefacauld. ___ii Oh the The Me ssenger •oto' de Bayonne sap :,_-- ntio bt 1 ,,, evening of the 14th, the gendarnierf nr:io7-ds Igo St. Jean-Pied-de-Port a party of 30 SP 3 " i ying c ° • 7 Ki had crossed the frontier, and on the felle r° 00 1 another band of 40. Some' of there, der t Ol with muskets, but the majority ha' - fef• e i Pbe These are the men who left Paropeluno4o, W ill a ago crying 'Long live Charles 'VI.' . ia i of Pa u sent into the interior." The iliel°l;f rilleha;--e states that the Prefect bavinc , be e° - ° e ve ...1 ' h a a convoy of muskets for Spain was to le .4th, an pass of the Aldudes on the night of the avers to Ili ee o that a band of Spanish insurgents we rder g for them at the extreme frontier, ga /a °,9,ruari:hro strict watch to he kept, and the gen baud 0= rested 54 Carlists belonging to the chief Miranda. • s iatif e Leg l to Count de Morny, President of the his e sta for 0 Body, left Paris yesterday morning of Nades, in the Bourbonnais. BOURSE, JUNE 19.—Ci,0510 no. EnA alio Cash. ft. e. 93f -4i per Cents 93 59 51e ' 9 3 Roma n ****** a 7 ** 6i 0 3 per Cents 67 60 Credit Mobilier 965 ********* 8 .-- Credit Foncier 550 A u stri an n „: '' 31 ''' '' ''' 94 Spanish '' r- ' - ' Belgian Fives 86 50 Home De bt •...... tr..„ . Piedmontese RAILWAYS—ros COIL 12 35 fr. C. ... -•••••• 1151 •; . 0 Orleans 1205 -- Ly0n5................ _ Western 740 Rouen ............. 8 . 9'4 60 Cette Mediterranean' - saves .................. 63 Northern ' -___--- SPA IN ' Madrid' cl h front A private telegraphic de s p atc h la otr the 18th, announces as follows:—; Santiago, 6" c b ees "Disturbances have taken brad,abut they have ..,, sequence of the dearness of s tot he capital tl, put down. The Queen returent decided. The roue The financial question is not . tt out interest. were eiz A ings in the Cortes to-daY______ ITA LY. ' , • ara t h SO t Turin that M. Jose rim o We learn from h Sardinian Goveriso had been charged by t e lie regulations for the exell' with drawing uP t "'" re° ' al eSil ll° saion law. of the Convent Suppre . erg, g• - a 00 According to tbe Turin pap , sou a o tiss or d'Azeglio was to set out in a few 'nay d Lo ndoe , .a ce 3y . of the Government for Paris an f t h e For panied by M. Nigra, an officer o etli rtl r partment. uuees the The Milan Official Gazette anno _ via of p. of Marshal Radetzky to the imperial II on the preceding day. RUSSIA . silf r hes A ill blia The Journal de St. Petersbourg pu- odrooooB, 'nary of the operations of the al l tienset-035 of the Sea pf Azoff, and a report of Li i e u 'i gay ( nt ot rat Krasnoff, dated Taganrog, 22a ~,° iord ol 7for June), giving an account of theb°6l',,occes that town by the Allies, and their " oti' attempt to take it. Ong ° f fo lio- or al 0 The Police Gazette publishes the or ,Gre ll o in fications from the Military Geyer°. mod° Wed 13 `' St. Petersburg, respecting the a.... 1 ~, pet the Gulf of Finland : iv , al, tho " On the 27:h of May (Bth ofJune),t'iro T orn 0 : 1 0- remained in its former position. 11 1 ir oning a f crews practised their guns, and in the sinn ing of frigate left the fleet for the open sea• ti the htitheir " On the 28th of May (June 9), betve 6(j ro Mau° vf on 2 and 3 p.m., four of the enemys siev e e w ithdr e o f appearance in the Northern Channel, bli t tbo hour l r od . the approach of our gunboats. Betvzeeo be g reAt in the and 6 p.m. three7steamers approached t iro n , o boe / stead, and have also rejoined the ari nti a a Boob o:eennti n o g u t an to E se ng , l , ish screw ship of war W I !....:/„ 1. ho •i t of beenTlng "LITTLE" NORTH-WESTERN RAIL. r i a ted li ge' thisline, determinel to complete the ul l s ' "fora pop a length of only twenty n? 1 e D ear ¢A hic h ton, near Settle, to Low Gill is , o ,1 on the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail/1%04 I t 1' • act has been obtained, the line l'e.,.ese 0 completed between Leeds and Ingleton, " ou t° by law' It, when finished, will form the nearest _S . o cl ~,,r 0 miles between London, Leeds, Bradford, a ,c1400,-0 0 sow and other parts of Scotland via the GI e at iikely Railway, and it is said the traffic upon it is an ti very considerable.ste, wi t e to r We have letters from Helsingfors up to .oet from Aho to the 6th inst. The inhabitants • fo re ,., 0 ft15.,,, dread of the allied fleets, and all the fainilies.2;oooo473 circumstances had retired into the interior of ~.w_.,orot u. 0.4 taking with them their valuables. The . V3,Tiogf.of!ri, sent a gold medal to a native merchant at -' ae' t hie IV a reward for his patriotic services in maki, oat vale expense, an electric telegraph to Ha , loots u. which immediate notice of the enemy's roc 1/ _ s eei be received. ~he Vle e o P t on Tux SUNDAY BEER, ACT. -Yesterday s_be tes, jo 4, Victuallers of London and the provinces, "' i o ster' br o i a the previous day at Fisher's Hotel, Westm , til l o te the C 'e n oni in pursuance of a circular issued by to pr re's, mittte of the United Towns' Association; _ ..c i,,, r ...e i legislative measures in the interest of the - 1 ,- rZeoiseof sernbled by adjournment, and having divide' Voroherloj into sul,-committees waited upon sever_al: . 00 oaf t oe Parliament, in furtherance of the resolu.t L o 4 06_4 come to, to endeavour to obtain an ettensic , u ... V e j on Sul Aar. ore allowed by the Act for keeping open . ... odio ~ipi afterwards held another meeting, and aga' . 1 2 0 o f Po purp un til this day, a t ten o'clock, for the , ~. further steps to carr y out the prop ose d obi fe,