The Sun. — London, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

ARE YOU GOING TO THE HIGHLANDS THIS SEASON? If so, you must visit the TARTAN and TWEED WAREHOUSE, 12, High-street, Inverness, where you will find the splendid speci mens of Highland Manufacture which gained the Prize Medal in the Great Exhibition in 1851, add the INDUSTRY and PRODUCTIONS of the HIGHLANDS of SCOTLAND, and CLOTHLNG of every kind for DEER-STALKING , GROUSE-SHOOTING, and for Ladies and Gentlemen Tourists' Wear, with an unrivalled selection of Plaids, Shawls, and Ladles Tartans, Tweeds, and Linsey IV oolseys, &e., &c. Inverness. D. MACDOUGALL. lUD. and all his Patterns may be sees at 24, Brewer-street, in a line with Glasshouse-street, Regent-street, London, until Ist July, when Mr. M`Dougall returns to Inverness. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.-Mr. BUCKSTONE respectfully informs Ws friends and the public that his BENEFIT will take place on FRIDAY, 29th June, 1855, on which occasion will be revived the Comedy of THE BUSY BODY. Marplot (first time). Mr Buckstone ; Sir Francis Gripe, Mr. Chip pendale ; Sir Jealous Traffic, Mr. Rogers ; Sir George Airy, Mr. Howe; Charles, Mr. W. Farren; Whisper, Mr. Clark: Miranda, (first time), Miss Reynolds ; Isabinda, Mrs. C. White ; Patch, Miss E. Chaplin. After which, the renowned SPANISH DANCERS, Senora Perea Nena and Senor Marcos Diaz, and twelve unequalled Spanish Cory phees, will make their First Appearance since their return from their provincial engagements. To which will be added (first time) an entirely New and Original Farce, entitled, MR. BUCKSTONE'S ADVENTURES with a POLISH PRINCESS, in which Mr. Buckstone will sustain the Principal Character. To be followed by other Entertainments. Tickets, places, and private boxes to be had of Mr. Bnckstone, No. 18, Suffalk-street, ; and of Mr. Turpin, at the Box Office of the Theatre, from ten till five o'clock daily. ROYAL OPERA, DRURY•LANE• Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVBNUCG, Will be performed LITCREZIA BORGIA. Lucrezit, Madame Arga ; Orsini, Miss F. Haddart ; Genero, Signor Bettini ; Alfonso, Signor Fortin'. To be followed by the New Ballet MIRANDA. Prices of admission :—To the two galleries, 6d.; second circle o f boxes and pit, ls.; dress circle, 2s. persons, stalls, 45.; private boxes to admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four one guinea. Box-office open from 10 to 6 daily. TITEA.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. 'Under the management of Mr. Buckstene; THIS EVENING, will be performed AR YOU LIKE IT. Charac , ers by Messrs B. Sullivan, Howe, and Compton ; and Miss H. Faucit. After which, °NAY A HALFPENNY. To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Ender the Management of Mr. Cl:Aar:Es KEAN. THIS EVENING, Rill be performed AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. To conclude with KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Ka .'utrine, Mr:. C. Keen ; Cardinal Woisey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprloter, Mr. E. Webster.—Directress, Mr.darna Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed TIELPING HANDS. Characters by Messrs B. Webster, Keeley, L. Murray, C. Selby, &c. ; Madame Celeste Mrs. Keeley, &c. Followed by FOREIGN AFFAIRS. To conclude with TEIE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan; THIS EVENING. Will be performed PERFECT COI , TFIDENCE. 'Characters by Messrs. F, Robson and G. Vining ; Miss Marston and Miss Bromley. To be followed by STILL WATERS RIM DEEP. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, G. Yining, Danvers, Miss Maskell, and Mrs. Melfort. To conclude with THE GARRICK FEVER. ROYAL STL'AffD TiTEA.TRE. ender the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, Will be performed OUlt NELLY. Nelly Bell, Miss B. Isaacs ; Giles, Mr. W. Stralders. After which, CHERRY AND FAIR STAR. Principal character by MISS Rebecca Isaacs. To conclude with DEAF AS A Po ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Boundlgae Magnificence and Majestic Effect. Mr. William Cooke invites attention to that new gem of gorgeous briPiancy and massPte splendour, the Spectacle by J. H. Stocqueler, Esq. THIS EVENING, The Grand Hippodramatic Spectkcle called, ENGLAND and FRANCE in the DAYS of CHIVALRY ; or, the Brothers in Arms. Real armour, ponderous material, desperate encounters in the Tour ney. Ring and stage combined in one After which those matchless entertainments Invented and ar ranged by Mr. William Cooke, the AC TS in the CIRCLE. Box-odice open front Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. U. Cooke. Eques+rian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, inn. HIGH WATER AT 'LONDON BRIDGE. Trap Dia —Morning 36 min.afte , 10 I Evening 6min. aft.ll ro-sPre.now—Mornink 35 inin.aftez 11 Evening 2 min. aft.l2 TELLI WEATHEIL—Sing Owes, June 26. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 57 —lowest this morning and during the night. 72 —this day, at noon. BARONINTEB, 30'33. WIND, N.W.—Light, with fine warm summer weather. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF " THE SUN." On and after MONDAY next, the 2d July, the price of " THE SUN" on Unstamped Paper will be reduced to FOUR PENCE. The Stamped will be FIVE PENCE, and will go free by post for fifteen days from the date of publication, and may be retransmitted during that period to all parts of the kingdom. Subscribers in large towns, to whom the unstamped paper can be sent in parcels by rail way, had better arrange with their news agents for cheapness and convenience. Any communication addressed to this office will be duly attended to. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, 25th June. ~k ~` §un. ~~~e LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1855. seal a contract for the purchase of a Crimean or a Polish estate ; if at least our timid Government would but declare its policy. Defeat --so far—only assures of the necessity of final triumph ; and we look forward to the time when Russian estates in the stolen territories shall be the recompence of such of the Allied veterans as may desire such a reward for their toils. convince Ministers of the sincerity of his profes sions, and he will compel them, for very shame sake, to maintain their own. Ministers have pro mised fairly, but it will depend on the people and the Administrative Reform Association whe ther their pledges be fully and faithfully redeemed or scandalously violated. In keeping the next step in view one thing is quite clear : even Prince ALBERT, Lord PALMER STON, or Lord CLARMON must own that Austria has now put herself entirely beyond the pale of respect. Three crimes which ought, each of them, to be unpardonable, and which with all English men out of the Houses of Parliament are unpar donable, she has already committed. First, she liberated Russian troops for the attack of Inker man, by permitting Russia to rely on her obstruc tion of OMER PA.CHA'S movements. Secondly, she has played the foulest tyranny in the Principalities which she undertook to occupy in a purely mili tary sense. There her soldiers have dishonoured respectable women and murdered their husbands, restored a Russian tool to the civil government, and finally proclaimed martial law ! superseding the Turkish authority which they came to esta blish. And, lastly, now the position of the Allies is fast improving, this recreant and beggarly Power strengthens Russia as much as she can for new Inkermans. As she liberated troops from Bessarabia before, so she releases them from the defence of Poland now. She sees that Russia is ruining herself by conscription; she therefore bids her use her old soldiers. She reduces her Polish army some hundred and eighty thousand men, expressly because she differs from the Allies about Russian power in the Black Sea ! Months of precious time, thousands of precious lives she has lost the Allies already all to end in giving Russia at the eleventh hour the best aid she can. With such a dirty enemy it is useless to keep terms any longer. Even in this repulse the ac cursed hand of Austria is felt ; to her share in the grand Polish robbery we owe it that we had no Polish Legion to storm the Malakhoff Battery, but that Polish guns and bayonets were compelled to murder those in whose van they would gladly have fought. The fatal effects of the Austrc- Coburg poison are manifest in each successive calamity. What can be a more appropriate reward of Aus trian jugglery than to make Poland the next step of the Allies ? No one denies that a free Poland is the essential to a free Europe ; no one denies that Poland has even stronger moral claims to our aid than Turkey, and is equally necessary to the just balance of power ; no one can reasonably deny that so hostile are the Poles to their op pressors that an honourable pledge that this time they should be free, would rouse the whole coun try against them. The only reply is that we are not prepared for a war of nationality ; the re joinder to which is the Court and Aristocracy may not be, but the people of England are. The anticipation in which we indulged yester day has already been completely verified. We now know the full extent of the British loss in the disastrous affair of the 18th, and we rejoice to be enabled to say it has been much less than what the sinister rumours in circulation indicated. The officers killed, as we yesterday communicated, were nineteen, with one who has since died of his wounds. Seventy-four have been wounded, more or less severely—while of non• commissioned officers and rank and file, 144 have been killed and 1,058 wounded, making the total number 1,295. From Paris we learn that the loss in killed and wounded of our gallant Allies, in the attack on the Malakhoff, was less than 2,600, so that the total casualties in the Allied armies have been less than what was as serted to have been incurred by the British alone ! We may fairly take some degree of credit to ourselves for being the only metropolitan journal which on Saturday officially contradicted the un warranted reports respecting the casualties in our troops, and thus in some degree allayed the ap prehensions of the friends and relatives of those engaged in the fearful conflict. By urgent in quiries at the War-office we ascertained that these reports were altogether destitute of foundation, so far at least as the knowledge of the Govern ment was concerned, and we hastened to give the salutary information to the public. On Monday, from knowing the number of officers killed, we were enabled to predict with considerable confi dence that the amount of losses reported had been greatly overstated, " Eau pede Hereulem," having one of the quantities known a close estimate may be formed of the remainder. There is a scarcely varying rule of proportion which may invariably be relied on ; especially when the element in the calculation is the casualties amongst the officers, who, in any assault on a fortified position, encounter their full share of risk. However highly the hopes of Administrative Reformers may be excited by the resolution, all but unanimously carried in the House of Com mons, and the solemn pledges given by the Pre mier, there must be no relaxation of labour, no diminution of zeal, until they have witnessed the practical realisation of their wishes—the matured fruits of the good seed already "sown broadcast" throughout the length and breadth of the land. "Palma non sine pulverc" is a sound and whole some apophthegm. Its accuracy has been estab lished through a long succession of ages, and associations or individuals may well feel doubtful respecting the permanency of successes very easily achieved. It is when the battle has been fiercely waged, when every inch of ground has been contested, and every nerve strained to the utmost degree of tension by the de fenders, that they learn the bitter, but salutary, lesson that their position is actually untenable, and that they make real submission to their victorious assailants. When, however, great concessions are offered in the first instance, more than could be anticipated by the most sanguine partisan, some doubts may reasonably be enter tained of the sincerity of the offers. " Dodges " are considered fair in politics as well as in war. It is said that Austria prides herself (!) on deceiving the Allies. And so may Ministers do it by outwit ting the Administrative Reformers—if they prove themselves so green as to be taken in by mere professions, or desist from their exertions before the anxiously-looked-for results come into opera tion. What has already taken place may be ex ceedingly valuable if the preliminary victory be turned to good account. It will be quite the other way should it lull those who so reluctantly came forward into fatal security, or induce them to spare labours which they may, too fondly hope, are now un called for; since Ministers have promised to 'take the matter into their own hands, and become the leaders of the organised movement against jobbery and corruption. One good result must follow from our losses in repulse, even more than from those incurred for victory. They will decide our course with the Cri mea. After the affair of the 18th, woe to the Ministry, woe even to the secret diplomatists, who shall dare to surrender Sebastopol and the Crimea to Russia when once they have been con quered. The Allied nations will never endure to see the trophy of Russian diplomacy erected over the graves of their noblest heroes ; in other words, to see Russian cunning, and the subserviency of Germanised Courts and autocracies conspiring to reinstate despotism in domains wrested from it by the sufferings of freemen. Long have our states men hesitated to pronounce the Crimea forfeited for ever by Russia. Will they hesitate now ? Deference to the RUSSELL dictum has tied, apparently, the tongues of our legislators ; they have been more afraid to beard a near Rus sm. than a distant CZAR. Is this to last ? In the House of Lords, the folly of hoping for a secure peace without curtailing Russia of those "claws" which, as Mr. W. S. LANDOR justly says— alone make her lobster body formidable, has been well insisted on ; in the popular house the " truth for the times" has hardly found expression. How is this ? Surely the time is come to speak out. The country, the army look for the utterance there of their feelings, and that feeling undoubt edly is, that the enemy shall no more enjoy the harbours and the fields which he had converted into a robber's and pirate's nest, and from which he was only expelled at the cost of the lives of the honest and the brave. Which of the four Allies possess them we little care, nor will they quarrel with each other about that ; but we lay it down as a moral no less than a political maxim, that the blood of the ISth added to that of Alma, Balaklava, and In kerman, has purchased the Cri mea beyond renal. It were political suicide to give Russia the chance of reconstructing the mili tary and naval arsenal of Sebastopol ; but it would be insulting our best and holiest feelings to place the cemetery of our soldiers in hands which would dishonour their sepulchres. Many a son, or brother, perhaps a wife, or daughter too, may yet resort thither to weep, and to garland the tombs of their beloved ones. They shall not weep amidst the derision of the follow-sav ages of the Hango murderers. We suppose we shall hear of the eternal Mr s . GLASSE again ; we must acknowledge, neverthe less, that this repulse has filled us with fresh thoughts on what the next step should be. We have faith in the effect of reverses, both on our troops abroad and our countrymen at home. Thousands among us would be ready now, ifland spe culation ran in that direction, to emulate the noble Rolm and the inspix,xi prophet, and to sign and j It is not, we believe, necessary tci stimulate the leaders of the Association to the efficient dis charge of the arduous duty which they have volun tarily undertaken. They will not sink into apathy, or spare time or labour, although their private avocations require close attention, and make any additional trouble doubly onerous. It is the general public, who require to be stimu lated to the task, who should still be urged for ward in the path, and called on to form branch associations and to attend the meetings, and subscribe liberally to the funds of the pa rent society. The most energetic efforts must now be made, if we desire to avert the pos sibility of any slip before the goblet has been drained to its dregs, and all the obstructions to the fair promotion and legitimate rewards of un patronised merit be fully and completely received. As the best and most efficient test of their sin cerity and fidelity to the good cause the people must reform, themselves. No person entrusted with the elective franchise must make its posses sion the pretext for requiring the patronage of his representative, or of seeking employ ment in the public service for any friend or relatives, however deserving. If the party for whom he seeks assistance be really meritorious he can get on by his own exertions in a straightfor ward and legitimate manner. He will not require any undue efforts, any " backstairs' influence" on his behalf ; and the application will let in similar demands for less meritorious candidates. " Pa tronage" is " the accursed thing," the mere touch whereof is contamination. The man who seeks a favour in return for his vote is a traitor to his country the wilful and deliberate violater of the sacred trust reposed in him by his country. Every consistent Administrative Reformer must make sacrifices for tho general good. If he eschew " nepotism" in high places, he must not practise it himself in any degree, however trivial. Ho must practise what he preaches — remove " t h e mote f rom hi s own eye " before he ventures to pluck forth or even rail at " tho b eam " which obstructs the aristocratic vision. Let him do this so far as he is individually con cerned, and devote his labours and pecuniary regtourceis to the good came. Lot thu We have, as we stated yesterday, to deplore the loss of many faithful, energetic, and devoted men ; and what renders it, if possible, the more deplorable, is that it has been without any cor responding advantage. But we must bide our time—rejoicing that the disaster, severe as it has been, is not quite so bad as had been supposed, and that the preparations for what we hope and believe will be the successful onslaught on the Russian stronghold, have been scarcely in any perceptible degree impeded. Such tem porary repulses invariably serve rather to stimulate than to discourage the energies of the troops, who burn with an ardent enthu siam to avenge their fallen comrades in place of l being dispirited by their melancholy, though glorious, fate. They have also received a salutary, though dearly-purchased, lesson, and in tracing the causes of their check on the 18th will learn to avoid or overcome similar obstacles on the next occasion, which cannot long be deferred. We have also - seen the moral effect on the ad versary as well as on our own men. The inces sant and useless cannonade on the 19th, the burning of the Faubourg on the 20th, prove be yond. the possibility of doubt that they have acquired no additional confidence from their sue cessful resistance. On the contrary, it seems as if they were panic-stricken from what they have already suffered, and that they have but little hope of resisting the next attack. A few days must now produce the authentic details of the melancholy event. When we have these details before us, we may find that they are far less injurious than had been supposed, just as the losses were less than a third of what had been rumoured. For these we must wait patiently, convinced that there is no real cause for despondency, or for ap prehensions, which should have no place in British hearts. We must steel, however, for the encoun ter,'however formidable, and gather from the tem porary reverse a more earnest resolution to assent to nothing but an honourable and enduring peace, which will avert, from our children and children's children the necessity of such sacrifices as we ourselves have unhesitatingly made in the sacred. cause of truth and justice, in the defence of right against might, and the protection of the weaker side when wantonly and unfairly attacked by a powerful assailant. Russia will find to her cost that she has no cause to rejoice in the battle of the 18th, and that the blood of the heroes that have perished will not be shed in vain, but will cry aloud for vengeance on those whoS'e insatiable ambition and grasping cupidity have occasioned its outpouring. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 26 1855 e Her Majestj's last levee for this season will be held to-morrow. The composer, Mcyabeer, was received at Bucking ham Palace last week. Next month private theatricals, under the manage ment of Mr. Charles Dickens, Will be given at Campden House, Kensington, in aid of the Sanatorium for Con sumption and Diseases of the Chest at Bournemouth. The English mail for Lisbon, which left Lopdon on the 9th inst., and the French mail for Lisbon, which left Paris on the 10th inst., were burnt in the province of Burgos. Captain Robinson, R.N.,' who has been engaged in laying down the telegraph cable in the Black Sea, came home in the Sultan, and proceeded to London yesterday, to present himself to the Admiralty. Lieut. James Marshall, killed in front of Sebastopol, was, says the Leeds Mercury, the son of Thomas Horn castle Marshall, Dig., judge of the Leeds County Court. The Scotsman announces the death of the Rev. Dr. George Brewster, minister of the parish of Sconnie, and brother of Sir David Brewster. Plans of " Sebastopol and its environs, indicating very clearly the works of the besiegers, their camps, and lines of circumvallation," are advertised in the St. Pe- tersburg journals. A letter from Coblentz says that three Englishmen arrested there the other day on suspicion of being en gaged in obtaining recruits proved to be innocent tour ists, who were amising themselves with giving away spare cash to the people. The Journal de St. Petersbourg publishes the names of a number of Prussian ladies who have sent lint from Berlin for the use of the Russian medical staff in the Crimea. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. The intended soirée at the Royal College of Physicians, on Wednesday, the 27th instant, will not take place on account of a severe and sudden affliction which has befallen the Pre- silent of the College. THE ARMY.—CHATHAM, June 25.—The garrison at Chatham is all activity in getting the drafts ready for the annual embarkation to India. About 1,400 men ---- - from the provisional battalion will embark at Gravesend next month. Mr. O'Sullivan, the United States Minister at Lisbon, who is said to be one of, the best chess players in Ame rica, played, during► his late stay in Paris, 27 games without odds with M. St. Amant, the well-known French player. Of the 27, M. St. Amant won 21—Mr.O'Sulli- van 3 —and 3 were drawn. Lord Ward's valuable collection of pictures is still at the Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly, open to the public, free of charge, every day of the week except Monday. It is to be regretted that his lordship's liberality is not more generally known, as many persons would gladly avail themselves of the privilege. MONEY ORDER OFFICES.—On and after the Ist July, major money order offices will be opened at the under mentioned places :—Normanton, Yorkshire ; Crayford, and Notting-hill, in the London district. Minor money order offices will be opened at j the under-mentioned places on the same date :—Handsworth, Staffordshire ; New Radnor, Radnorshire ; Prince Town, Devon ; and Docking, Norf lk. HARMONIC UNION, HANOVER-SQUARE Rooms.— The last concert of the evening will take place to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, when Rossini's Stabat Mater will be performed, and Molique's Mass produced for the first time in this country. Mademoiselle Emilie Krale, Miss F. Rowland, Miss Lascelles, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Weiss are engaged as principal vocalists. Sir John Rennie, C.E., returned from Portugal in the Madrid mail-packet on Sunday. He has been out to examine for the Portuguese Government the seaports of Portugal, and see what, improvements can be made in them. He advises the Portuguese Government to make Lisbon the commercial centre, and to run a railway to Oporto. The Semaphore of Marseilles, mentioning the gift by General Yussuff to the Zoological Gardens there of a swift-running dromedary, adds: "The General formerly had two dromedaries like that which he has now sent, trained to run in a calbehe, and in which he had per formed the journey from Medeah to Algiers with won derful rapidity." A correspondence from Hamburg, cited by the Patrie, states that an English frigate had appeared before Hel singfors, and had fired some red-hot shot. The inhabi tants, panic-stricken, left the town, notwithstanding the efforts of the authorities to detain them. It was thought, it is added, that a serious bombardment would soon be commenced by the bulk of the allied fleets. FRUITS OF AUSTRIAN PERFIDY.—The Kreuz Zeitunra publishes the following information as to the Russian forces placed at liberty by Austria's abandonment of her position on the Polish frontier, and consisting of eight regiments, i.e., 24,000 men, has already passed Arman skoy Bazar (to the south of Perekop), and will proceed direct to the line of the Tchernaya. These are the first Elite troops that Russia has sent to the Crimea ; in spite of the most arduous marches, they have lost nothing of their martial bearin-z and spirit, and judging from the longing for battle that inspires them, great results may be expected from a collision with the enemy, seeing that the standards of these troops have on almost all occasions hitherto been attended by victory." MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—On Sunday last sermons were preached at Trinity Church, St. Marylebone, in aid of the funds of this charity, where, during the past year, 18,234 patients received medical relief ; that in the morning by the rector, the Rev. Thomas Garnier, B.C.L. ; that in the evening by the Rev. David Laing, A.M., F.R.S., incumbent of Trinity Church, St. Pan cras, and formerly chaplain to the hospital. The ap peals were liberally responded to, and collections'made, which exceeded 991., besides adding annual supporters to this truly valuable medical charity. ROYAL COLLEGE OP SURGEONS.—The following gen tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 22d inst.:—Messrs. Charles James Schofield, Leeds ; Albert Stanley Prescott Knight, army ; Richard O'Leary, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Charles Frederick Clough, Work sop, Nottinghamshire ; Thomas Anthony, Tredegar Iron Works, Monmouthshire; Marshall Weir, Belfast ; Thos. Turville Gardner, Brighton ; William Frederick Croome, Banbury, Oxon ; Matthew William Stohart, St. Bartho lomew's Hospital ; and David Kay, Bradford, York shire. At the same meeting of the Court Mr. Brownell Richard Murphy passed his examination for naval assist ant-surgeon. THE ART-UNION OF GLASGOVI,—The committee of management of this Union having commissioned Vin cent Brookes, the eminent lithographer, to execute a fac simile in chrome-lithography of the picture, by John Gilbert, "The Spanish Peasants going to Market," 1,000 copies of which are to be distributed as prizes among the members, Mr. Eisdon, in his employ, has completed the task, and the result is the largest and most splendid specimen of chromo-lithography we have yet seen-a-a specimen which may fairly be said to rival in depth of tone, richness of colouring, and fulness of expression the choicest cabinet oil-painting. So complete, indeed, is the resemblance that a close inspection is required to discern the difference. Tile etiar o'scuro of the picture is admirably reprodu^.4d. This is especially observable in the features of 'the male peasant, and the dewy ripe nessa'it is ther e a l so i n a ll it s f res h ness . Alto gether, t t la t e , e fr print not only reflects credit on the artist, but P.%50 does honour to the enterprise and good manage lent of the Art-Union, while the subscribers to whom it may fall are certainly to be envied. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The present will be an un usually busy week at this theatre, Mr. Buckstone hav ing prevailed on Mr. Sims Reeves to appear last night and on Thursday next, in conjunction with Miss Cush man, in the musical play of " Guy Mannering ;" while on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, such has been the enthusiasm excited by the performance of the part of Rosalind, in Shakspeare's "As You Like It," by Miss Helen Faucit, that Mr. Buckstone has, for the pre sent, put aside every other play in which Miss Faucit appeared, that the public might have ample opportunity of witnessing this admirable representation before the close of her engagement, which takes place next week. On Friday, Mr. Buckstone takes his annual benefit, re viving for the occasion the comedy of " The Busy Body," himself playing, for the first time, the character of Mar plot. The exquisite Spanish dancers, Senora Perea Nena and Marcos Diaz, with their coryphees will return from the provinces, especially for this night ; in addi tion, a new farce will be produced, entitled " Buck stone's Adventure with a Polish Princess." Few theatres can offer in one week such attractive names as Sims Reeves, Miss Cushman, Helen Faucit, Perea Nena, Marcos Diaz, with Buckstone, Miss Reynolds, Comp ton, Chippendale, Howe, and the rest of the popular Haymarket Company.—Morning Post. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The proprietors of these gardens have added something to the usual attrac tions of the place, by catering for the youthful population who at present increase the numbers of the metropolis. The performances of a Signor Russelli and his two sons surpass anything of the kind that has over been wit dessed. The professor himself is as stout as iron and as pliable as india-rubber. His sons bid fair to rival their father in these peculiarities. A novel entertainment, to be carried out by a party called the European Minstrels, is promised, which we shall take care to report upon at an early opportunity. In the meantime it is but com mon justice to repeat what has been said often enough, that the representation of Sebastopol is the most marvel lous deception of the kind that has ever been produced. Twenty-two railway carriages were filled with excur sionists from London to Southampton on Sunday. The Medina steamer went round the Isle of Wight yester day with a large number of excursionists from South ampton and Cowes. The Contractor steamer brought to Southampton yesterday 80 excursionists from Poole; one of them fell overboard close to the Southampton pier. He was unable to swim, and just as he was sinking he caught hold of a rope thrown to him and was saved. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.-A meeting was held yes= terday at Brighto% in behalf of Administrative Reform, the mayor, Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, in the chair. Mr. John. Laurence proposed the first resolution, and alluded to the disasters and sufferings which had arisen idmepmaerdtmiaetentsroeffotr in the C r i mea i n consequence of bad management. The regrd t , h . L . v p a!i r, o ‘ u .h s resolution moved b y M r. L aurence was :—" That thi s meeting stron g l y condemns the present system of ad ministration o f public affairs, and is of opinion that an h m e State in t is the urgently management required? of as ability and merit are too often sacrificed - and party int erest ; and that the toy- to political common with every ot h er important borough, should of Brighton, in insist on the necessity of rem,' -w had recently led to suet yelling a system which Mr. C. Burrows - tearful and disastrous results." carried u-- ~econe • d d the resolution, which was _aaaimously. Mr. Bowen Ma y proposed a vote thanks to Mr. Layard and 111 x. Roebuck, and also to r the press in general, for exposing existing abuses. M " G. Cobb seconded the resolution, which was also agreed to. A vote of thanks to the borough members for the ir attendance was then passed, and the,compliment was acknowledged by Admiral Sir G. rechell and Lord Alfred Hersey, of men or money in order to bring the war to a speedy conclusion, and to compel the enemy to sue for peace. In the meantime the port of the Joliette is again filling with steamers and sailing transports chartered by Government to convey troops and stores to the Crimea. The American clippers Mo narch of the Sea and Ocean Herald commenced yep Jsterday to take in shot and shell. The mail steamer Pericles sailed this morning for the Black Sea, where she is to remain at the orders of , the Government. She took despatches, letters, and a detachment of 80 men. The Carmel, due this afternoon, arrived at 7' a.m. She brought the mails, and 100 sick and wounded soldiers. _ . The Imperial yacht Reine Hortense remains in the old port, waiting the arrival of the King of Portugal. TURKEY. A letter, dated Constantinople, June 14, says-"I yesterday saw a gentleman, just arrived from the Crimea, who had witnessed the brilliant achieve ments of the 6th inst. He tells me, with a variety of other matters, that Lord Raglan had made a most unfortunate move in consenting to an armis tice of five hours, conformably with the proposal of the Russian commander. The Russians during this interval strengthened their position at the Malakhoff Tower, by the addition of twenty heavy guns, which will, it appears, if this information be correct, delay for six weeks the operations of the siege. "Towards evening, however, having felt some anxiety on this point, I visited the French Hospital of Mejidie, and conversed with several of the wounded who had been just brought in from the scene of action. According to their account,, Gene ral Pelissier is determine to strike in a few days the final blow, and attack with his whole force the Malakhoff Tower. " I mentioned in my last the report of Ali Paella's (the Grand Vizier) going to Paris before returning to Constantinople. There are, however, no grounds for this rumour, and this functionary is expected to arrive here in a few days." THE WHITE SE SQUADRON. HAMMEE,FEST, June s.—The British squadron destined for operations in the White Sea, consisting of the Meander, 44, Captain Baillie (commodore), Phoenix, 9, screw, Commander Hayes, and Ariel, 9, screw, Commander Luce, passed this port to the northward yesterday. The French frigate Cleo patra is now lying in this harbour, waiting for two steamers to join her, when they will also proceed to their destination. BERGEN, June 12.—A French man- (if- wai steamer, bound for the White Sea, arrived here yesterday, and after coaling proceeded to-day. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, June 22.—The different organs of the foreign press have recently contained so many con tradictory reports respecting the reduction of the Austrian army, that some reliable information on the subject cannot but be acceptable. The reduction will amount to 145,000 men, with 30,000 horses. The cadres of all the regiments are, however, to be maintained. 100,000 men will be dismissed from the two armies now stand-, ing in Galicia and Transylvania, and the other 45,000 men from the Ist and 2d armies—one of which is in the German provinces of Austria, and the other in Italy. An army of observation of about 120,000 or 140,000 men will remain in Gali cia and Transylvania, but all the other troops will retire into their usual cantonments in Hungary, Bohemia, &c. Three regiments are to return im mediately to Italy. The house of Rothschild is endeavouring to obtain from the Austrian Government a cession of the Southern Railroad (that to Trieste), but Baron Bruck is likely to drive a harder bargain than his predecessor did with the French company. The Fremden Blatt has advices of the 15th from Varna. All the vessels which were lying at Burgas and in the Bosphorus have been sent with troops to Trebizond: Admirals Lyons and Bruat are preparing for a new expedition, which it is supposed will be directed against Kimburn and Oczikoff, the fortresses which guard the entrance . to the Liman or Bay of the Dnieper. There is also some talk of a reconnaissance in flat-bottomed beats in the Bay of Kirkinit, in order if possible to find out what is doing at Perekop. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JUNE 24. Within the last few days various appointments have taken place in the arrangements of the Russian corps diplomatique. Prince Gortscliakoff is confirmed in his post at Vienna ; Baron von Titoff in his at Stuttgard - Baron von Brunnow, formerly repre sentative of Russia at the Court of St. James's, enters now on the same office at Darmstadt and .Frankfort ; M. de Kisseloff will represent his Court at Rome and Florence ; M. Butenieff, who has hitherto held the latter post, retires entirely from the diplomatic carriere. Baron von Budberg, who has hitherto been accredited to Hanover as well as to Prussia, now relinquishes the former appointment, which he has held ever since the re call of General von Mangaroff from that Court, and M; de Fonton, First Secretary of Legation in Vienna, is appointed to represent Russia at the Court of Hanover. This must be looked on as another concession made to Austria by Russia ; for, in addition to his many talents as a diplomate, M. de Fonton was the skilful and experienced po pular agitator that had on so many occasions held in his hands the leash of sedition and tumult in the Principalities of Bosnia and Servia, and lat terly in Wallachia and Moldavia. THE ARREST OF MR. CURTIS. BERLIN, June 24.—The Pr'eussische Correspon. denz publishes the following official account of the affair in Cologne connect ;d with the arrest of the Secretary of our Consi:;i there : " Kray had failerl to appear on the 29th of May in obedience to t'lo summons issued on the 25th. At the instance the Ober-Prokurator a warrant was taken out against him. Consul Curtis received no fortr. o ,l previous notice of these two proceed ings ; b u t h e was i n a pos i t i on to b e perfectly well informed of them, as at the time Kray was served with the summons by the officer of the Court, he was in conversation with him. In the sum mons it was expressly stated, that in case of the party's not appearing he would be proceeded against according to law ; it could not, therefore, have been unknown to him what his secretary had to expect in that case. It has been stated that a despatch addressed to Brussels had been taken from Kray by the police at the time of his arrest, and kept back from him 24 hours. This statement is entirely false. No such detention of a despatch has has taken place either on the part of the police or of the judicial authorities. The despatch in question, which was probably not delivered to Kray till after his principal had appeared in his stead, remained lying at the dwelling of the former. It was not till a day after he wa s arreste d , the 7th inst., that Kray ' s wife,instead of returning it to the Consul, brought it to the magistrate, with th e reques t th a t h e wou ld deliver it to Curtis, which was accordingly done. An application made by Consul Curtis that Kray might be liberated on bail was rejected, after being deliberated on by the Senate of the Provincial Court, on the grounds of the nature of the enlist ments effected by Kray now under investigation. An additional circi i imstanceofaggravatio n is to be found in the fact that within the last f ew d ays an i nqu i ry has been entered into against Consul Curtis h imself, on the charge of having gained over Prussian subjects for English military service; of having, by presents and promises, influenced persons to emigrate who have g ly participated in the enlistment ef not yet performed their . military duties ; and of parties Cologne.. It would . have been foreigner while staying in Prussia f b e a c v te in d g by kn u o ie w se in contravention of the law on re called to the remembrance of . the public. It is the tttohhieasbdpsuottaiyninto,ffwraohnmiychanhyas of late been so frequently Curtis and Kray are) have not refrained . from prohibited enlistments, less excusable when Prussian subjects (as MM. aiding under the very nose of the authorities. .Justice was therefore not only competent but also bound such a course." by duty to intervene and stop and abetting ni A number of Russian prisoners are employed on the public works in the department of Dordogne (France). THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S HEALTH.—BERLIN, June 21. —Yesterday and the day before the King ‘N as compelled to keep his room by rheumatism. It would seer^ " ht, Majesty took fresh cold last Sundp-- ,nt military ceremonial that, was ham' at a domesti a c the New Palace at Pot- 1 In tho open air near health has been— _..am. The state of the King's SUudaY• btal snore unsatisfactory sinoe last Y . ' LATEST NEWS. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. PARIS, TUESDAY, j'. 3 0 A. "M. The Meniteur announces that the Minister of War has received the two following despatches from General Pelissier : CRIMEA, JUNE 21, 11 P.M. We are actively making approaches towards the Malakhoff Tower. The enemy appears to be exclusively occupied in repairing and strengthen- ing his works. A little cholera still prevails, but it does not spread. The general health is good. JUNE 22, 11 P.m. I have no new fact to mention. I send you by the ordinary mail a detailed re port of the combat of the 18th. The following is a list of the loss we suffered : -37 officers killed, 17 prisoners, 96 gone to the ambulances ; non-commissioned officers and men killed and missing, 1,544 ; gone to the ambu- Lances, 1,644. VARNA., JUNE 21. The Turkish Contingent numbers 60,000 men. The Embassy is removed to Therapia. An atttack on Kars is daily expected. COPENHAGEN, JUNE 25. The allied squadron has sailed for Archangel. PARIS, MONDAY. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived from St. Petersburg, dated June 24 : " Prince Gortschakoff sends a despatch to an nounce that after 21 hours' bombardment on the morning of the 18th, the enemy attempted an assault on bastions 1,2, and 3, and on the It orniloff Bastion. They were repulsed from all sides with enormous loss, the French leaving 600 prisoners in our hands. Up to the evening of the 19th nothing fresh." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. From the moment the news of the check on the 18th at the Malakhoff Tower was known the loss sustained by the allies has been magnified by rumour in an extraordinary manner. Not a day passed without a thousand or so being added to the number, and this morning it was declared that at least 10,000 between English and French had perished or were wounded on that occasion, and this number was considered to be rather under the mark than over it. The English alone were put down at 4,000 and upwards. The accounts re ceived to day, supposing them to be correct, consi derably diminish that amount, though the loss is still to be deplored. They fix that of the English at 1,200, including I s so killed, while the French are said to have 1,000 killed and 1,600 wounded. This is out of the usual proportion, and is supposed to be erroneous ; but the aggregate number is far under that which the partisans of Russia in Brussels as in Paris wished to have believed. In the same account it is mentioned that nothing can be finer than the English army, which is estimated at about 30,000 men. " They are," says a French despatch, " magnificent troops, and capable of any thing." They are well fed, well clothed, and in great spirit. There are 50 days' provisions always on hand, and fresh supplies arriving every day. General Pelissier meets with an enthusiastic recep tion from the English whenever he appears among them. The cholera is said to be making ravages in the Sardinian army. A good deal of progress has been made in the arrangements for the last 10 or 12 days, and it is expected that in another fortnight everything will be complete, or very nearly so. The Emperor has just assigned, from his privy purse, a sum of 6,000 f. to the Prefect of the Basses- Pyrenoes, to assist the persons who have suffered by the late inundation. The Moniteur .Algerien states that, on the 17th, a grand Te Dewy', was performed at the principal church of that place to, celebrate the 25th anniver sary of the capture of Algiers by the French. A quarter of a century has now elapsed since that im portant event. The administration of the Bank of France has declared a dividend of 100 f. per share for the first six months of 1855. BOURSE, JUNE 25.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash, fr. e. , End of Month. 4i per Cents 92 90 —f. —a. 3 per Cents 66 55 66 55 Credit Itobilier 955 Roman — Credit Fonder 550 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... ... Spanish Threes 3 7 Piedinontese — Home Debt — RAILWAYS—FOB CASH. fr. °'. fr. c. Orleans - 1175 Lyoir .... . 1233 75 Western 755 Rouen • • 1177 50 (lotto Mediterranean 1175 Havre ..•: 6O Northern RUSSIA. The Military Governor of St. Petersburg had issued the following notification, dated the 15th of June, respecting the movements of the Allied fleet in the Gulf of Finland : " The enemy's squadron, which got under way on the 14th, has cast anchor near Seskar Island. A screw liner and a frigate of the enemy have again appeared off Krasnaia-Gorka." The Invalide .Russe has the following : " The diary of Prince Gortschakoff, received on the 15th, in addition to the news already given in telegra phic despatches, contains some additional details respect ing the operations before Sebastopol and on other points of the Crimea. As regards the details of the sanguinary affair of the 7th of June we shall publish them as soon as they are received. " From the 22d to the 26th of May (3d to 7th of June) the besiegers succeeded in prishing forward their approaches near the cemetery and towards the Mamelon Vert, and endeavoured, by exploding new mines, to give a greater depth to their entonwirs, opposite to Bastion No. 4. They have continued to fortify Streletza Bay with great activity. " Oa our side, despite the terrible bombardment which lasted for two days (25th and 26th of May-6th and 7th of June), all the damage done was repaired as well as it could be, and the guns and carriages destroyed replaced by others. "On the 22d of May (3d of June), the Allies, pro bably with a view to divert our attention, undertook an offensive movement in the valley of Baidar ; at 61 a.m. they made their appearance, coming from the village of Vermoutki, numbering 6,000 to 8,000 infantry, with cavalry and artillery, opposite our advanced posts, and, splitting into two columns, took the direction of Baidar and Bouyuk-Mouskomi. The Cossack posts, which occupied the line from the viAage of Alsoni, in the direction of Baidar, fell back on the Tchernaya. At this moment the Yessaoul Kon nakoff of the 56th regiment of the Don Cossacks charged the enemy's cavalry with two sotnias of Cos sacks, drove it back, and crossed the Tchernaya. In this econt e three Cossacks fell. At nightfall the allies left the valley of Baidar, and our advanced posts resumed their former positions. "According to a notification from Lieut.-General Wrangel, Kertch, and Yenikale are occupied by a detachment of the enemy's Infantry, 15,000 strong, with two regiments of cavalry, and six batteries of artillery, tinder the command of Sir George Brown. The allies have commenced fortifying Yenikale, covering their works by a strong line of cavalry, supported by reserves of infantry and horse. "The English and Turks who have occupied Yeni kale ate perpetrating all sorts of atrocities there ; they have pillaged the Church, and they insult the inhabit. ants without distinction of age br sex. The Police Gazette, of St. Petersburg, publishes the following notification of the Military Gover nor-General of St. Petersburg, dated 2d. (14th) Jun e : " On the Ist (13th) June there was no movement visi ble in the enemy's fleet in the Gulf of Finland. In the evening a steamer and a transport vessel went to sea. "To-day, at 9 a.m., the whole of the enemy's fleet, which was anchored before Cronstadt, weighed anchor and made sail." THE MEDITERRANEAN. MARSEILLES, JUNE 23. Orders have been received here to prepare to embark au additional corps d'armee of 50,000 men. Government has moreover chartered 60 of the steam-boats plying on the Rhone, which it is said are to be despatched to the Sea of Azoff, with a view to ulterior operations, which will carry the war further into the enemy's dominiont. The Eraperor Napoleon 111, i determined to Spare no sacriace LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, June 26.—Wind .this day at noon, W. ; light, pleasant breeze, although cloudy at times. The Thomas Sharp, from Liverpo ol to Calcutta, was spoken, June 24, 14 miles W.S.W. of St. Ann's, leaky, and s ith pumps broken, bearing up fer Liverpool. PORTSMOUTH, June 25.—Wind, W.N.W. Sailed— H.M.S. Imparieuse, for the Baltic. FALMOUTH, June 25.—Wind, N.W. Arrived — Bri tish Queen, from the Mauritius. Off port—Mexican Packet, fof London. PENZANCE, June 24.—Wind, light. Arrived —Mercy , from Belize, and sailed for London. SHIELDS, June 25.—Wind, N.W. Sailed —Mary ion. for Point de Gallo. MEMEL, June 22.—The Maria :M arg aretha, a prize to her Majesty's steamer Desperate, has arrived here from Copenhagen. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 14.—The Agnes Black i e, from in co ntact Malta to Balaklava, with Government stores, was lost ol the latter port en the sth of May, after being with her Majesty's steamer Medina; the vessel and cargo totally lost ; all hands saved. Liverpool' SMIRNA, Juno IG.—The Spey (barque), sailed hence to Constantinople, shoreeck • the rooks off Long Island, aad has become a total wreck v. vessel will crew, and about a third of cargo saved"; the be sold. 2d inst., gotefon on (PER ELECTRIC TELECIAAPII.) LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind, N.W, Orleans; New York packet, Savaun' n Arrived.—Felix, from Pernambuco.; Windermere, New Elbe, Tuscarora. Phila delphia ; Gazetteer and Cynosuro, New York ; Mariner, Boston • Latnpoda, St. John's, N.B. ; Huntley, Leghorn ; riamburg ; Maria Therese, Antwerp • Victor, Os tend ; Ricroy, 'Uruguay ; Eurydice, Rio de fa, June. QUEENSTOWN, 24, Wind, N.W. Sailed.---Golden Fleece, for the Crimea. DUBLIN, June 25. Wind, W. Arrived.—Philemon, f ro m Seville ; Pi:erne!, Dan tzie. Sailed.—Rose, for Bordeaux. KINGSTOWN. Wind, N.W. Arrived.—Breoli, from Cadiz ; F id aw yati, Marseilles ; West [radian, Barbadoes ; Adeline, Cadiz. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISII TELEGRAP) G RAVES END, Tuesday, 10.37 a.m. Wind, W.N.W.; tide, last ho ur's flood ; fine. Arrived, Juno 25.—Fair City, from Portland Bay ; Grayhound, Jersey ; Famillien, Dram ; Elizabeth Morri son, Havannah ; Engelina, Krok ; Harmony, Logster ; Altent, Thisted ; Aurora, Christiania ; Ariadne, Skive ; Ferdinand, Salsoe ; Fer go Breuder, Randers; Rover, Guernsey ; Premier, Callao. A'rrived, June 26—Keying, from Montego Bay ; Lam - lighter. St. Domingo; Finland, Calcutta ; Marys, sey ; Diolinda, Guernsey ; Maria, Pernamhudo ; Token, Prampram. Sailed—Active and Bondigo, for Copenhagen; Fanny, Corfu. Guam - DEAL, Tuesday, 3.44 a.m. Wind, N.W. by W. ; Passed, Juno 25—Cuthbert, from' for London. THE SUNDAY BEER BILL.—A- meeting of the Com mittee of the Licensed Victuallers' Defence Association was held yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of consi dering what steps should be taken h in h order to support Mr. Berkeley in the motion of whic e as given noticenoic for this evening, to move for a select committee quire into the working open he Sunday Beer Bi te d the time it has been in tion. Mr. Benjamin Foster, the President of the Association, occupied the chair. There were also present Mr. Ridings and Mr. Ingham, of Manchester ; Mr. Allen, of Bristol, and several other gentlemen who have tak iderable time en a warm interest in this ques lta- tion. After some cons spent in tion, and having waited on various members of Parlia ment, the Committee came to the following resolution : " That this meeting, having due consideration to the convenience and necessities of the public, as well as the interests of the trader, and after due inquiry amongst the most influential members of Parliament, is of opi nion that any attempt to procure the repeal or modifi cation of the any .P,e;:r Act, will be a total failure, excePt by means of a committee of inquiry, which will afford a fair and proper investigation of its unsatisfactory wo rking, anal w • ill restore to the public those rights and liberties which are now invaded." ne committee then adjourned. A GLIMPSE AT CONSTRADT. Nearing Tolboukin from the sea rs he low na of Oronstadt, with all its terrors, gradually rises in patchy hummocks, and to the southward singular rockyand excrescences appear dotted about between it the main, backed by the tall masts of the liners ; these, with the gilt steeple of the church, which sparkles many a mile, are the most prominent objects. By degrees the haze so prevalent in this gulf, and which veils or distorts both nature and art, is gradually dispelled, and t hese rocky excre scences assume a more determine d shape. To the mounting extreme lookingmasonry, nothing the worse for the winter, an addi a d apparent on its southern side, for its corresponding flanking battery on the main orits protection ; next comes Fort Alexander, f looking like an ill-conditioned hayrick ; shortly a ter Peter I. and Cronslot become visible, the latter of which it would have been difficult to im prove, with a couple •of three deckers moored across the entrance of the passage, supported by numerous heavy paddle-steamers, apparently under the special protection of Fort en the which, with the mole batteries, forras the last of the long line of forts on or near the south shore of the• island, which is now one vast intrenched camp, encircled by . detached ,orth fiworks, all furnished with the heaviest ordnance, ra k e finished with that scrupulous nicety which we have learnt to respect at Sebastopol. Oh that " Bono Johnny" had abandoned Silistria, and our enew Y had never been taught the value of mud in that sanguinary siege ! These detacheworks are car ried right across the island from soreast of Fort Alexander on its south side , commencing a t the spot marked "Kessel Battery" in the old plans, an d C.l- tending to the Governor' s house on the nor th, on being constructed, affording daily the town side of which another huge earthwork is about 3,000 men. These detached works are admir ably placed, having a gentle slope in front of them, flanked by and flanking Fort Alexander on the south, and on the north protected by the shoals, south, old works Outside this line, as well ae submarine piling, and infernal machines. All t e r improvement to Fort, are apparently abandoned, and with jug„' ment, for the defences of the island 3g ainSt 3 r e c ce attack are rendered more compact, and the chantko of a successful landing, which last year oast is operations, most, or one of the most, feasible now rendered hopeless. Alexande.. On the north side the barri extended submarine Piling„ has been much improved and ; the feet employed are large wooden caissons, some 2 5 ' 8 square, which are first floated over the place they and afterwards filled with the same are intended to occupy, and then sunk with stone sages are left between many of the piles about 18 feet in width, for the egress of their gun-boate should the north side be menaced. A fort and bat'_ tery have also been erected on Lisi-ness, to pro any attempt to force the barrier, material ; Fab' which is also pi 4 tasted by a line of floating batteries, consisting ° I I, liners, 5 frigates, and 2 corvettes, together some 40 gun-boats: moored within it, the distan° varyingfrom 500 to 1000 yards, and stretching frel' the- island to the main, and which will now, fore, prevent the possibility, of passing round t i bi a e attacking from the eastward. The other vulnera. t_ point, and which was most accessible torn naval at' tack last year—the line of defences onhe Dona of the town—has also been much inapved.,a33be very heavy nuns mounted. Were on ors "° trusted in Russia any more than one's ears, th ey have actually built twelve steam gnii-b.°,rov• there . n . but, as two only have been seen under Way , i. it ; 'fairly be surmised that the remainder are dunrnfoj with a funnel and wood fire at the bottom of 1 ! , our by this time ou,r friends must have prceive% gullibility, and acted accordingly, vide Xe rte ' ar o would here notice that 17 of their largest shiPas to dismantled and lying in the basin, which servaThe show their co k ;,fidence in the means of defence' u re infernal machineo, to which they have in frets re confided the defen.ce of the north side, areraag longer the' myth of las. Year. One of o , lr : w ith steamers, when reconnoitring the other u a i so rd,_ very nearly received its quietus. the French admiral and several captains en, wo of these machines whether from contact °r othe _lit is uncertain —luckily in 5 fathoms w ater ;dai;ovr was, the one exploding under the staYbfar • ii the fairly lifted her out of the water, bulgi rich side before the paddlebox, and ripping el" , u of copper—at the same time throwing up 3 co" ~ water alongside about 14 feet bight. She exploded rvr.so Ei a it . ha t pened in shoal water, or bad the explosion tb:eu, place more directly under her, it would hal dare a similar case to the John o' Gaunt, whin,,,, the say, your readers recollect being destroy ,end yupon much-abused Warner, off Brighton. DePe,ll,:u'strY it, those who first succeed in bringing pre bus the and science to bear in the matter of war I: o , ll %,pose d winners. Hitherto it has been studiotta,„-cuse by the authorities, under the Exeter-hart p° dia of being a too certain, or, perhaps, '(:)." The bolical, means of getting rid of your enernY* • 0 0 , of more certain the better is the practical teach' f,,, 0 . war, and I fancy the prevailing opinion of th°,rorci ment ; and it is to be fervently hoped that my any Dundonald may have a fair trial. He, Wi th . t han others, may not succeed at first, any ra° r ; r the Watt could have built an express -engine °, su i Great Western, were he resuscitated ; but, at rate, it is a step in the right direction. , so ir, These machines, when seen from a vessel a__...d have the appearance_ of large cylinders m ore under water, well below the surface, with a fern rising from the centre to within a few. feet of . 7_, same, and the probability is that violent cont and causes explosion, though it is perfectly osible,ao _,."' even probable, that they are fired by batteries from the shore (on the vessel's identifying herself of their position), more particularly as neither ot _t o u r explosions which took place were under the h u rr: toms, but alongside, and consequently the anion b of damage was small. less vigorous in the north than at Sebastopol, eon_ sidering the winter, and it is no exaggeration t: The energies of our antagonist have been little state that this year Cronstadt is twice as strong .9,_ last. Then it had two vulnerable points—novr Ib, has none. Soething, however, may yet be'don.ei olden opportunity was be impossible ; but the g d red should it be deferred lost last year, when Cronsta t was as unprepa until x ar that will Sebastopol was to resist the combined armies. la the meantime, where are the batteries and mortar to resist the combined fleet and 30,000 troops .. .so flats ? REGIMENTAL TACANCIES. - TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIII,—As your coltimns consistently advocate tb: vigorous prosecution of the war, can you 'inforin Y°l3 readers why Lord Hard i n g e has not yet augmented the different regiments serving in the Crimea to their 10°;t strength, as voted by the estimates in Parlianaellt ? „ does appear monstrous that, although we are nolfrC '; gaged in ~► most deadly struggle with Russia, Ons ide o t the country willingly submits to be taxed and Perlis_le be opens its purse strings, still the man in office, .° 4 .. i the Whig or Tory - , is unahla to set to work in eare es " "' i d of havinf,), our regiments filled with prosecution of this war. Such is the case. friseteaarn. _ _ their duty, almost every regiment in the rirae6 lugh. of its established number. -There are candidates e t fo rth - Why, then, is there a single vacancy which is 9' 9 0 fi nipg with filled up ? There would be no hesitatiicegaGerroan up vacancies in the Foreign Legion, and g.lent would. officers as much English money as parlS sooty. grant them. AN ANGI' - London, June 26, 18..._...._..._:',..............., young officers 1.8 shtovrit 5. 10° C°. v - A v 4 7; AND MILITARY 1:10,g0 D' i tgon , bou t The Imperieuse , `) rl , aCp L c " - ,------- -rz , am ..... 113. .•• got under way from Spithead esterday afternoon 0 at so'clock for the Baltic. YCaptain Watson Ptitviof Sheerness CM route to the Baltic to take ec'el°' h 1 satearn:tratasport, No. 95, flotilla of gun-boats, &c . The tope, A a'•a, addle-,/ ,eoei to land about 45 miscellaneCoaustaiinnvaSlirtdini: yesterndo _ steamed into on Sunday nightp We reported Portsmouth harbor yesterday aft!tr,r tVe reception c of horses for the Crimea, for which purPes:__e, has come to England. The transßorts Charlottoenrof Spirit, and Julia, are fitting for the convey_ rheir detachments to Malta, will be ready to ernbarlc of several allotments the en of troops at Portsmouth bY beef dies the steam-frigate, present month. The Prometheus, 5, P ad • th e effectsth e anf ri Admiralty gat e' d to fit t_,. obe leave in a day or two for Balaklava The following appointments were made yestercia at 1 Alber t ' AlNbearvta,l Cadets.—John Chapraan, to the Itoru 'loyal \AVelilp, for disposal ; the Hon• C. F,C„ Wellesley, to th e rtoYa l Albert, for disposal ;.A. E.. Wilson, to th e --1, of for disposal ; M. C. C. Bobertsl to the PG :„ ; gton, for disposal ; W. H. Dorld to the /Oar,- ,H. Long, t0...tbLCff1............................ , <0( 10 EXTENSIVE FIRES .—Yesterday morning alri 'o,,ine4 night the fire brigade and West of Bnglanu eii;rolo were mo=t actively employed in attending 0 rellt • fires,- the lives of the inmates being placed in the g o d , e T st danger, and a large amount of property cleiii,g, he first broke out on the premises of Mr. 'NI,' .0011' c hemist and druggist, No. 5, Robert- street, Phrelepeo road. The premises of Mr. Dunk, beershoPl botl were severely damaged by fire and water, no cor removal of furniture ; causC unlinovvn. Anotterf i4d jog serus dama,e, 13;1.1-wiled the eitensiva P re p`'' (1 it'''' of lir G . T 11 C t ' on ~- . i__, __atter, litYpc-terrace, Throe -„, vor Lune,houso. Another also °cared at Mr. -‘;''.l3,teil rant's, Park-crescent, Regent's-park, which ortgl Ilia from a foul flue, and also communicated to the clo of Mx. Hammond, which was also damaged.