The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-31 00:00:00

rirELE ASYLUM LIFE ASSI7RANCEA .OFFICE, 72, CORNHILL, London. Established 1824. _ Cnatasnor —JOHN CLARMONT WHITEMAN, Esq. p o nws on Healthy and Diseased Lives, at Home and Abroad, for mi;itary. and Naval Employments. The only Office on purely proprietary principles, involving, therefore, no Partnership among Policy-holdCrs. For prospectuses, proposal papers, Sac., apply to MANLEY HOPKINS, Resident Director. ROYAL OPERA, DRURY-LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING. Will be performed ROB ROY. Characters by Messrs. J. Ander on, Ray. Stuart, Herb,erte, H. Braham, Barrett, and J. Halferd ; Miss Lanza, Miss Dyer, and Mrs W. J. Wallack. To conclude with DER TREISCEDETTZ. Characters by Messrs. Formes, A. Lockesley, H. Braham, and Hodges; Misses Dyer and Zanza, &c. Prices of admission:—To the two galleries, 6d.; second circle of boxes and pit, ls. ; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stalls, 45.; private boxes to admit two persons, 10 s , 6 d.; four persons , o ne guinea. BOM-Ofnce open from 10 to 6 daily. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Bookstone, THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE BUSY BODY. Followed by COURT FAVOUR. To be followed by OLYMPUS IN A. MUDDLE ; or , Wro n g Teople in Wrong Places. To conclude with THE SPANISH TM/MBES. ituYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CnAiLss fix. THIS EVENING. Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Reba. Mn.i C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. TaBATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Vfebader.—Directress, Mitdame unto. THIS EVENING, Will be performed VICTORINE. After which, ROW'S YOUR UNCLE ? To conclude with FRATERNISATION: ROYAL STRAND THEATER. Under the direction of Mr; Payne. • THIS EVENING, Will be performed FOUNDED ON FACTS. FoSewed by THE GALICIAN FETE. After which. GANEM. To which will be added UNA NOCHE DE FIESTA EN SEVILIA. To conclude with MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG HUSBANDS. The BENEFIT of Mr. GOODMAN will take place to-morrow, on which occasion, the celebrated danseuse, Mdlle, AURIOL, and Mr. SAll COWELL, the t.lented comic singer, gill appear, who have both given their gratuitous sevices for the occasion. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Unabated and triumphant attraction cf Mazeppa. —Fourth and last week of Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams. THIS EVENING; Lord Byron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE. designated by the public press the Phenomenon of the Day. Mr. William Cooke ha.tltrained his matchless stud of horses expressly for this unrivalled and most popular spectacle. After which, the Equestrian SCENES in the CIRCLE, arranged by Mr. William Cooke. ro conclude with Mr. Nelson Lee's Farce, A RAFFLE for an ELEr NT, introducin; Mr. W. Cooke's sagacious Elephant. gox...t.'ice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. wast. kdirg Manager. Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, )f r. W. Cooke. inn. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIg DAY—Morn. 21min. aft. 4—Evening 42min. aft. 4 To-Moßßow—Morn. 1 min. aft. s—Evening 21min. aft. 4 WEATHICR.—&Te Omar, Aug. 31. TEDIBI4OMZTISS, IN Tlllll SHADS. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 59 —lowest this morning and daring the night. 70—this day, at noon. 8A.13.011ET18, 30'31. WIND, E.—Light breeze, and fine, clear, sultry weather. ' At) =,#) ;•;./ ~~, . c§1131., LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1855. Scandinavian enthusiasm was greatly excited by the early intelligence 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 slitiilar 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 unconscientious plunderer in the very scene of her crime. Flelsingfors had been robbed from Sweden. It was a Swedish, beforo it had been transformed into a Russian fortress—the capita) 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 °the! quarters, while one stone remained standing on another, or a single Russian cannon commanded theapproaches. Such folly would be incomprehen sible if the English Government were really in earnest and desirous 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 learning that from some cause the assailants had stopped in the very centre of their work, leaving the sea defences but little injured, and still avail able for Muscovite purposes. Some foundation has therefore been afforded for the mendacious pretences of the Russians, which ascribes some thing the very reverse of bravery to our larger vessels, and declares the damage inflicted on the works of the fortress and the batteries in general to be " insignificant." They are told by the General DE BERG 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) fire, took no part whatever in the combat with the fortress, carefully avoiding receiving any damage ;" 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 but silenced ? The alleged reason will scarcely be credited. The Swedes 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 keepin g 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 prac't'ically 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 connection with the retired " Aberdeenists," who have since become avowqdo.llnssian partisans, w ho has also d eprecated the with Lord GREY, War, and declared himself for peace at any price or on any condition, and UM the henchman of Loid JonN RUSSELL, who disobeyed the instruc tions of the Cabinet by whom he was appointed, and of which he continued a member, notwith standing his gross insubordination. Under' such circumstances, then, the inopportune failure of supplies at the most pressing emergency would be ascribed to something worse than mere incom petency. Even Sir CHARLES WOOD, if in ear- i scarcely ignore the palpable fact that mor tars would not last for ever, an d th at i t , , - would be as necessary to provide a reserve of heavy ordnance of, that particular class for the vessels in which they were in use, ai 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. LYONS 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 from 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 NELSON 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 NELSONS 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 Presby tens 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 plef,' - sure of gazing on the works of taste which orm - ment the family mansion ; the others open the door of the Calton Gaol, but only to close it on an aged widow who cannot pay them thirty shillings for ministrations, en which, from conscientious reasons, she never attended ! 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 in 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 bawbees 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 SERVETUS. 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 bad 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 JOHN 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 ~ no 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 bad " 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. Ho 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 presbyter, 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 thelike. 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, CALVIN 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. In brief, PAUL was very good at doctrines and as far as the five 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 he 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 CALVIN'S substitute, the faggot ; perhaps, how ever, th ey d o not w i s h ; dead heretics bring no ing th to the sacred cheat. We believe 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 he 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 error 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 hino 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. TIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY .EVE I X - 1 AUGUST 31, 1855►. DRD RY-LANE TFIEATRE. Last night Auber's opera of Masaniello 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, awl Miss Lanza gave the music of Elvira with her accw-timed intelligence and feeling. The choruses were steadily given, and the dandes very prettily arranged. The directors of 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 Trovatore, and several other highly popular °Rens 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 torine, Mrs. Leigh Murray ; Elise, Miss Woolgar ; Alexandre, Mr. L. Murray ; Michel, Mr. Parselle ; Blaize, Mr. Wright ; Bonassus, Mr. P. Bedford ; and Caesar 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 had 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, but 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 cars of Mr. Selby, who, although they acquitted themselves very creditably, we cannot say were equal to their predecessors. The other parts were all respectably sustained. The revival, we have not the slightest doubt, will prove highly attractive for some time to come. The house was crowded. STRAND TiIEATRE. 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, Eliza Terry, Mr. H. Lewis, Mr. S. Cowell, and vari ous other artistes have tendered their gratuitous services. The bill of fare consists of Leman Rode'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 inuEt be the natural result. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-Aug. 30. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DEPARTURE OF 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 bad 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 Fitzhardinge 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 Conyugham has had his yacht, the Cecile, moved out of the Barbour to-day, where she has been lying during the illness of the Lady Cecilia Conyngbam, 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, yaw], 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, Al a r m , Wi zar d, Stella, Aurora, Frisk, Enchantress, and Wildfire. Royal Yachts at Cowes— Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and Elfin steamers. On the 26th inst., the anniversary of Prince 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.—It 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 Bth 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 Cornpagnie 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 acconchement of the Duchesi of Argyll, have left Stafford House for Dun robin 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 hoid. The Marquis of Breadalbane left Park-lane yesterday for Tay mouth Castle, Perthshire. The marchioness arrived thrre 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 vi3it. 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 AIISTRIA.—The Ga:ette de Leipsic says it is confirmed that M. Bruck, Financial Minister of Austria, is about to propose a new loan of 200 millions of flurins, 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. lend= Xer, rebigned. LATEST NEWS. DANTZIC, AUG. 30. The Geyser has arrived. Authentic information has been obtained in the fleet that the Russians lost upwards of 2,000 men at Sweaborg. KIEL, AUG. 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 at Helsingfors, defects in their construction rendering it necessary to send them back to England. Prince Gortschakoff reports from Sebastopol, under date on the evening of the 27th, that Nothing fresh of importance had occurred. COPENHAGEN, Atm. 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 of 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 Serre, 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 Constantina ; and General de brigade Deligny has been appointed successor of General de Serre, in the subdivision of Algiers. BOURSE, AUG. 30.—CLOSING PRICES Cash. fr. e. End of Month 4i per Cents 95 —95 f. —c. 3 per Cents 66 90 66 80 - Credit Atobilier 1325 Roman .... Credit Foncier 535 Austrian Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes Piedmontese B5 Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr. c. fr.°. Orleans ... 1215 Rouen Western... •820 Strasburg Catte 736 25 Havre 7OO Mediterranean — Marburg 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 d ;rected from the Danube on Baltchick and Varna, where they will embark for Asia. Osman Pacha has left this place with five battalions, Mahmoud Pacha and Derwisch Pacha have quitted Silistria with 11 battalions. Those 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 by French troops." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 27th, says :—" Count de Nesselrode, the Russian Chancellor of State, has just addressed a fresh 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 Gazette, "left Sans-Souci on the morning of the 27th for Schenkendorff, to be present at the manoeuvres of the guard. His Majesty will pass the night at the residence of Major de Gortzke 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, nays :—" The Saxon Government has just contracted a new loan of five millions 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 Highneuses, 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 on 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 for Marseilles, for which destination she took her departure on the same clay, 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 ladenhvith 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 Depot, with Lieutenants Bayley and Turner s Ensign Guava and Mayo, 38th ; Lau* part Bower, Royal Marines ; Lieutenant Rogers, 1 24th ; Lieutenants Browning, ',almond, and Lloyd, 89th ; Lieutenants Panks, Rowland, and Williams, of the Ist Roya!s. 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 plant, arrived on the 18th, and left for Balaklava on the following day, having on board Paymasters Baker and Corcoram, 8 clerks, Assistants-Surgeons Death and Jones, and 55 navvies. The Baliiana crew steam transport, having on board 218 mules and 62 Spanish muleteers, arrived from Barcelo na on th e 19th, w ith 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 sailing transport ship Wildfire, with 106 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. Montanaro 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 Joliffe, R.M. ; Captain Blyth, R.N., 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. Wright, Lieutenant-Colonel Macbeath, 68th ; Lieutenant- Colonel Franklin ; Lieutenant-Colonel Bracklin ; Majors Kirkland, 21st, and Gwilt, 34th ; Colonel Lockyer, 97th ' • Captain Westhead, 34th ; Captain Brown, 88th ; Captain Aplin, 3d ; Capt. Hassard, R.E. ; Captain Massey, 19th • Captain Colthurst, 77th ; Captain Vaughton, 90t1 ; Lieutenant New port, 89th ; Lieutenant Morgan, 77th ; Lieut Coulson, 49th ; Lieutenant Aylmer, 97th ; Lieut. Benson, 10th Hussars ; Lieutenant Cuming, 48th ; Lieut. Danah, R.E. ; Lieutenant Saunders 34th ; Assistant-Surgeon Greer, 21st ; Surgeon Kirwan ; Surgeon Weir ; Ensign Punter, Lieutenant Kirk, 19th ; Lieutenant Leonard, 28th ; Capt. Grimston, 19th ' • Lieutenant Acklow, 44th ; Dr. M'Alli s t er , Land Transport Corps ; Dr. Longe, 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 Hicks 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 Carlyn, Ist Royals ; Surgeon Ken nedy, and 22 muleteers, and left for Marseilles on the 19th. 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 the 18th bringing in a fine bark, the Clio, of 500 tons, but saw nothing of the schooner, in search of which the Shearwater will be sent out. The Medina left with the mails for 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 seascn 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 end 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 fait blow, and is reduced to three or four corve tt es , which are employed an 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 Aust ra li an acco unts yesterday are dated Melbourne, the 19th of June, 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 fur 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 that no additional 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 51. on each Chinaman imported, and to hin_l_t ships to b r i ng on ly one passenger to every p tons register. The latter clause had been adopted, but the Council had made an alterat ion in the former, raising the sum to 10/. which the Govern ment had not confirmed. guch a tax would virtually amount to a prohibition, and would appear a singular anomaly. T Chi nese already at the mines was he number2o,o of 0, and their services in developing the production Were very coasideraltle. THP, TVIIITE SEA. The following is a report, dated Aug. 8, from Admiral Khroustcheff, military governor of Arch angel " At the time the attack was made on the village of Mehra six peasants received the assailant on the shore with a volley of musketry, and for four 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 escapsd tho fire, aid 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 peasants 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 had cleared up, signal was made from the Mondug light- house of there being a French three-masted steamer near the Nikotskaia spit, to the north of the iron gate.. 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 reinforcement, 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 (lay, about noon, the steamer made for the offing." RU SIAM ACCOUNP OF THE BOMBARD. Mh'NT OF SIVEABORG. The Invotlide 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 (ii Hersingfors and Sweaborg, to the number of 10 ships ,1 the line, 7 frigates, 7 steamers, 2 corvettes, 1 brig, 4 ships of a peculiar build, 16 mortar vessels, 25 ..iun-boats, 2 yachts, and 3 transports, took up its position fo, Augu-t 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 ►ine of battle formed by all these ships was dis tant between 3 and 4 versts (1 verst = 5 furlongs poles), from the outer line of the fortificat►ons of Swea borg ; a little in front of the others, the ships of a pee; . liar construction were stationed, and behind the mortr.i• vessels and gun-boats ranged in two lines, and behin these latter, entirely beyond the longest range of th( guns in the fortress, the large ships. "At this very remote distance the enemy opened fire on the 9th August, at a quarter-pa-1 seven in the morn ing, from his gun-boats, mortar-vessels, and the ships of a peculiar build, directing his aim at first prett\ 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 I attery No. 1. " On our extreme right the efforts of the assailant were directed against the isle of Drums-o. Two of the enemy's frigates and one corrette 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 firsi, 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 for 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 vessel ceased firing, and withdrew behind the isle of Midik-o. "From ten in the morning, after the first conflagra tion kindled on the isle of Lilla-Oster-Swarth•6," thr was the centre of our line of defence, that is to say, thi fortress of Sweahorg, 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 exposini, himself as little as possible to our shots, to demolish and sut on fire the edifices inside of the fortress, and everr. , facility for his so doing was offered by the existence of .00rien edifices and immense three-storied houses with out vaults. •` Foreseeing this design I gave orderF, at the verb commencement of the combat, not to reply from our bat teries unless the enemy's vessel,, which pre=ent only very small mark, should come within range, as this would possibly enable our artillery to do them decisive injury. " This order was c trried 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 fi)ating on either side, gave evi dence that every attempt to approach the fortress caused loss and injuries to the assailant. " Shortly aftes the fire was opened by the enemy a considerable conflagration broke out i❑ 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 ; bi t, thanks to the presence of mind and the prudent arrange ments of Lieutenant-General Sorokine, doing duty as the commandant of Sweaborg, and of Major-General 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 Gustays ward, 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 csused 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 aide, and on the ether side near the intrenchment of Longern, the N;cholas 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 istrenchment of the isle of Skansland fired with peculiar success, and did not admit the approach of the enemy's gun-boats so as to rake the right side of the Citerne battery. ~ T he 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 rsceived 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, Bout 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. " On our left flank, at the same time that the combat commenced against the fortress, two screw-liners and one frigate, stationed off the isle of Sandham, approached to about two vents from the batteries on the south side ..._ ____------_-------_--.-___ of the isle, acid moving in a line parallel to these bat tones opened the hesviest fire ag , iust iThern and against five gun-boats of the Ist battalion, moor ed in the neighbourhood. The battery No. 3, situates in. the centre of the area thus attacked, was inu ndated with a shower of projectiles, but it replied with so much acti vity and precision, that on the 9 th, ab out noon, the enemy's vessels were compelled to suspend the carsllon. ads ant/ sheer out of range of our fire. One of the sossw ber ships was even obli g ed to take the other in tow ; neit of them took further share in the combat, and to the 11th August inclusively each was busy repairing damage 3; fragments o f th ese s hip s fl oa ted close up to ou r batteries. e "Night did no t p u t an en d to the comba t ; on th. contrary the en e my, profiting by the dar kness, artnebde a mnrtar battery he had previously constructed in t . night on a rocky islet o f Longern (sAuated in his P °41 ,,. tion), and on the f o llo w i ng night o perred fire from 11 ' ,. giving at the same time greater vivacity to the bombar.d, ment executed by the vessels. Their fire igni tes din t t o f the fortification of Strura-Oster-Swarto, the bu ilding 1 harbour with all their workshops and magazolea. the " On the 10th of August, at 10 in the morning, roof of a boat-house caught fire in Gustaysward, w131(,g served as a depot for shells and ammunition. "..--le.,,eira,,, the imminent danger that threatened the Citerno P t. , ,ery and all the fortifications of Gustaysward, ti, Gsneral Sorokine made an appeal to the volunteers at, go and extinguish the fire. All the officers that were " , that moment near the Crterne Battery set a n exo.--; ole ot . devotion, which was followed by the soldier s ; and 13,-, at withstanding the vivacity of the fire dire cted at ttubs moment by the enemy against the boat -houses e d ea flames were soon extinguished. The first who leaP , el , the roof to get down the fire was the artificer l'ailtbeff. if the artillery garrison. o Daring the entire day of Augu st 10 the bombs ment was most violent, and did not cease one Ini nu it e o . it gradually diminished in the night:, and ceased 3 gether the next morning about 5 o'clock- eil' e d In the night between the 10th an d 11th the tike fat, fleet fired Congreve rockets into the fortress an t ,. tifications depending on it, but with no. great 511c , c r e se• "On the second day of the combat, the ~, 10 0 b; tbs tion of the enemy on our right flank wa s li°3ite; t° ' cannonading of the Isle of Drums-o, from 3 in 4" vi° r l b u s ing to 9at night. This cannonade was r estllie;,,cd: cls' 12th of August, at 3in the afternoon. It did s-, e s of wage to the telegraph, and set the forest sev Oil tired - ire, but each time it was immediately exting.liebe ..„, re I" On the left flank of our line of defence, th e en longer pulsed on the 28th from the Isle of Sandham, 1 ' ° ,,,, ft 5 inade any attempt, and our batteries confine d the'aeres to the firing of a few shots against the boats whici.l;ing , aking soundings, or firing rockets against men v/-' at the intrenchments. ~ n etol "On the 11th of August, during the day , t1„., e ,,,,e1l :vas busy reinforcing his mortar battery 00 the P'itlis rock, and in the night he fired some. roc kets ag . ' l° . - t ot isles of Kungshelinen and Skandslan d, o° l4ll WI atusing any damage. 0 00 " On the 12th, the enemy hoisted his boats ag or ipiard, and in the afternoon demolished h is 133 ,:fiee baotery. On the 13th August, at 8 aon., the wil- ' weighed anchor and retired in a southerly directicPf tbe " The large ships of the enemy, such a i th°6e:bogi inf.., the frigates, and the steamers, by reaseln ° f t- Fadl surface they would have offered to our fire, t°°;,{l°43ll or the combat against the fortress, carefully l' °. " - ; stret .image ; the gun-boats that bombarded us ''°°- 0 0 on their part, to shift their place continually 14 of their screw-propellers. , is t ai tli " It results from these united eireumstatieee t-:\.ilet° the exception of a few fires which it was ine -It eli t ' ni OP a orevent, the injury done by this violent bo" - ,, "1 f .) of eight and forty hours' duration, to the wer' s r :"Po i g . fortress and the batteries, has in general been f e- 1 nificant indeed. tbs " After an approximative calculation wit/I,lo°f nark, the enemy must have fired against that ssea. I)ruins-o about a thousand projec tiles, ag lti f e rg O l e uorg and the batteries on the side o.t Il e lsingl ° ; 0' to this fortress, about seventeen thousat" tgainst the isle of Sandham more than 3,000. . g O r "Notwithstanding the vivacity o f this r A i e t s ' ln a asses in men have been very moderate ; w e hs 'od i i° i(Illed, 2 superior officers, 3 subaltern oil ee ri ~,- pef, men wounded. Among the officers and se 'idie.], the hag from contusions, a part of them did 'not qu' s , ousts, and the ~thers returned to their ranks. ~ , ,g i s t ' "I attribute the slight importance of this F. ;b0 C °°. ~rudent arrangements of the particular chiefs, ' . 00 P r : rived to turn to account the shelter found i° ~,,,,,, tress and the natural embankments, or in th ° :, it "' usly constructed on the isles, so as to screen t' - hm , r , s ß f e r s o i r d nt s h t e he en l e o m ss y es 's o fi f fire. the , s e ge ', ,e had on board the Russia Iglarmriseo n n, ki r i eLo i rt e o u ve sit : 0 1 1 ; ern officer and 88 men wounded or contused' °ll toe Ezechiel one seaman wounded, , ooit f "lii giving an account of these events, .'• che.„(o to incumbent on me to testily that, from the c 110; .he commonest soldier, the troops of his Ine ri ; til e ': iesty confided to my command have perfor°Boooi. duty with the firmness and courage that lo ve haracterised the Russian army. e a P t ! - I at the same time regard it as a most sa -re o lili -a , to signalise those who more especially distin;dsrities hemselves by their coolness and military ti l t sg ol° ,, nose two days of a bombardment so desPel l- onl e '_ l ; t ,ur fortress, and of the attack on our positionTi tb s lc' ,:he chiefs of the centre, of the right flank, I ' l2 , J f :: dank ; Lieutenant-Generals Sorokin°, Rant esl ; :is ),-; Guldunstube ; Major-General Barantzuff, c u t of th e lusty the Emperor's suite ; the artillery .e bie r . a.d ll3i i r'b o troops entrusted to my command, and le 3 ; - 11 . ),1 1° Shikhrnanoff, naval director in Finland. I tb. „ iv e l ought to mention those whose names have be e- 01 1 ; P . ' :no by my principal companions in arms as bl iv " . the 9jer. cularly dguised themselves. " Lieute distinguished themselves. - tb° "Lieutenant-General Sorokine mentions n cb' : ef4 t . ;enerals Alexeieff and Kostine ; the fortificat.:oo°o 1 Colonels Grippenberg and Briakileff ; the 1) ;( 1 . r e P' t ., Colonels Krohnholin and MagnuschevskY, A"°j:rtiller'of and Ileckstrom ; Captain Westermarck, 01°81000a Captain Martyneff, commanding the d e° f . e t beeo; , iaval,engineers; Captain Jacobson, adjutant° tt sli° l3 Second Captain von Kranke, of the Ist , Se c() Sappers of the Depot, arid the Field Eagin eer :f. ' of Captain Verestchinsky arid Lieutenant P 3° l Le t : of " Lieut.-General Ramsay mentions Co l °13 „ 8 0 fi el- dyp' the battalion of Grenadier Rifles ; Mai° I 's ff °S. he 2d Regiment of reserve Grenadiers, ' 3l3 ' nti 'one , tain Iretsky. tee J iv e " Lieutenant-General von Guldenstabe 033°,401 Rear Adiniraal Northman, Colonel Post , CO O , went; • Barclay de Tolly's regiment of carbireer railee,,f; Lamoni and Major Pakhatcheff, of the 6 0 1 , CAP t e . the naval commanders Yessaouloff and Se „ b v e ni e e ePj a ; h lar Leo, of the staff ; Captain Quist, of the e"r e iol, 1 : - t be cone-Captain Grebner, Lieutenants de Vr a o of fold, and Yermolaieff, Captain An ti P e i ; rl f ron . t CO' marine artillery, and the Naval Cadet Pe- #.1 ,, Po' : c heo "Rear-Admiral Shikhmanoff intuitions "TAO" tains Poplon sky and Brootsyne, the CaP tail lo'il' o stoP and Akouloff, and Lieut. Mojaisky, ef tbe b tho ug h e th ° "In those days of active struggle Wi t s ore o a my chief and most indefatigable assistant;o, resoueleesf medium of whom every arrange:oe° yietithtoct°'/, every requisite preventive measure, I' er ff . ° h od i " 03 10 ° ' Nordenstamm, acting as chief of rril e t° s l:o a °le State Councillor Langescheld directi4 as ° I. of Nyland. to sne lltia :;o t b°l9' " At the same time I ought also - °o tided a; Co ing perfectly disharged the missions 1 c o t , g il t COP; Colonel von Minkwitz, on the staff o f A ider u A. -. o ofel`" Grunt, chief of the Engineers ; t ll , lo eat ' l 'dr Lieut.-Col. Youshkoff, Second Capt. I. ': tit. OOP ; to ff, Lieut. Kastiandre of the Guards, an d ;t e s ty r r eb i e r f s e ' p , likewise the A.D.C. of his Imperial Iti*,ti-ot Sist /- 0 , 1 0) the gentleman of the bedchamber, Co%ttaeb,eci ies erg ; Capt. Forselles, of the Engineers, e" of t he P Pg ri j, se" person, as likewise Lieut.-Col. Bran dt ' he g t° Second Captain Alfthan on the staff °f t a s O. .., v otia „ c lg Capt. Devel. he , o ore - 00 , 0 0s_ A "The Commander de Gil:ven °, w w w ho C , o isb e " Nicholas Battery, and Captain Tes ie oc , jisti% octt" the fortification of Longern, espee' . 9 ' _ 1 . 5 9,0 a tea D ees' themselves in the combat by their coolne° i free- o ff, rata fire of their batteries. en d' of 0 I cannot refrain, on coming to an of Cot ale' tinning with particular praise CaPt. s ' e ° o a l , , an d placed at my disposal for special I . nis i , boll, a superior officer ir...,10....::....1e:,.....,.,.., 4 -- -NEB-8 la°. A SKIILVISII n, Gee, ----s-- -- r e fll3- eol e/i. The Invalids Russc publishes a re_l_ a gog . o pii Sievers, of the cavalry, relative to 'A" ..er , OP t 5 b etwu , 0 38 that took place on Angus 2 Jiro 0 „ I pso .„1 1, Windom : . BalticCi eciolerrpasl, announces,Sie v e Sievers, o f datefiles, 0., _ : , c A ° O - 11 t , e : en's 1 1 ; 1 4 ; ; s: ; O a evening, that on the sth two of tn (betwe e e loi steatm-rs cast anchor near Dornesness Windau.) under the e ; t he 51 :0 4 opened fire a gainst an rigged l h o o tli . : 0 oat b t. o bo os "The following day, at 7 in the . 19 _ ° ::b il ich ' %". 3 be- a t 4 caulked on the c.ast, and having fire, to t „iso 13 ,!' r 0 01 succeeded in setting this vessel on b t e ,_ oe. Al e i r ootOr of the coast guard not far from tha t P ul froto th his boats, which kept at half a vere and, Pr 0 he ,„ e veg :, 1 14, til by 0 N t i