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f t 4.1 " • - 4 1701 ; • 4010 2 " 1 7 ItE ROYADRITRY LANE - 11 :164 •—• ' ' *; Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Tr/I3 EVENING, AIIGUST 19, Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, LUCREZIA BORGIA. Characters by lime. Caradori (her l a st apPearance), MSS Fanny lluddart, Signor Arnold', Signor l'avesi. To conclude with a favourite BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. Prices—Gallery, Is. ; Pit, 25.: Upper Boxes, 33. ; First Circle, 45.; Dress Circle, 55.; Stalls, 75.; and rrivate Boxes, One, T•we, Three, and Four Qwneas each. of Moldavia but of Bessarabia, have I been defeated again and again by the heroic Turks under OMER. PASHA-a sudden obstruction has started up between the vic tors and. the vanquished by the apparition of the Austrian troops from beyond the southern frontiers of Transylvania. All is not such "smooth sailing" in the waters of war, upon which the Allies have adventured: All is, after all, not so easy of accomplishment either in the direction of the provinces, or in that of the Caucasus. On one side it is essential that prompt good faith should be shown towards SCHAMYL, the valiant w a rrior-prophet." On the other, it is more than ever requisite that no cajollery should be tolerated on the part of the Vienna Government. There is much talk now in diplomatic circles about the sincerity with which Austria is at length about to adventure upon a decisive line of policy as in the interest of the Allies, and as directly opposed to the Russian Government. Whatever may ba said to the contrary, we discredit the sincerity of the councils of Schoenbrunn. We have done so from the outset. We do so still. We look for no good from credulity in the Austrian Govern ment. Better, as we have maintained all along, better for England and France would it be were they impeded for the time by the open hostility of the German Powers, than were they encumbered with an insincere show of alliance and a false af fectation of friendship. There is danger in the aid of Germany. There is none, we believe, absolutely none in its direct opposition. Away, then, with this pal tering with the sacred interests of humanity and Christendom for the sake of a hollow complicity on the part of Austria—a complicity which, if seri ously connived at, can only lead to the lamentable embarrassment and disastrous cajollery of the Western Governments. THEITBE ROYAL HAYMARKET. ' Under the management of Mr. ibuckstone. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 19, win be performed THE OLD CHATE MI, Characters by Messrs. row% Rogers, U. Marston, and Buclutone; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Reynolds. Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS in a GRAND BALLET Tha new . Farce AS LIKE AS . TWO PEAS. LYCEUM THEATRE. Mr. and Mrs. SIMS REEVES' FAREWELL PERFORMAIMES. Mr. ALLCROFT begs to announce that he has entered , nte ap lirlagetneet with Mr. ant Mr . SIMS nEt!IV4S for Two Fa,e well Performances previuu.3 to their departure from London for the Season. On. 110"cDAY EVENING, AUGCST 21, -(Py special desire, ana for One Nipt only) Will be ,presented LITCIA DI LAMW,II.I4OOIt. E'dtgar, Mr. Sims Reeves; D ,nglai.ishton, Mr. Weiss ; Lucia, grs- Sims Reeves On WEDNESD iY NEXT, August 23, on account ( f its great access, Bale's popular upera of HE B Ad GIRL. 0 conclude with each EVeitirl2: the Grand Ballet entitled LF.S rAyiAN,tEs Du so,,D, s upp 'stet by al dlle. D'Ant Ant, assisted by :grilles E. Horn. M art n, Btaton, Marie , Cha rl e s, and an al, dent Corps de Ballet. Gallery, 7s. Private Boxes , 215., to be Boxes, 5s ; rt, 2 s . 6d.; lasi at the flog-office. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. IV. Micron. THIS EVENING, ACCICIT 18, will be performed HARD TIME 4.. FeVowed by FAUST AvD MARGUERITE. Mephistopheles, Xr. Belford; Faust, Miss G. Hodson; Marguerite, Miss IL Gordon. To conclude with a FARCE. -- _ Atolls, 45.; Boxes, 24 . 64 .; Pit, Ig. ; Gallery. 64.; Private Boxes Al is. to be had of Mr. Alleroft. 15, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. . 1 Thls place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves wanting. Vocal and instrumental mitsic of the first order, and a di s play of fireworks which exceeds all imagination, are a fitting close to a day at the Crystal Palace." DANSON'S COLOSAAI. PANORA.NIA of CHINA'S. Splendid and Extensive Menagerie and Marina Aquarium—Unri valled Military Band. YOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, In which Miss Poole, Miss Ransford. and Mr. Mauves's sing several National and Patriotic Songs—Ml the Amusing Novelties of the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan terns," and a mow munificent display of Fireworks by Southby. Admission One Shilling. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been erected. Full Quadrille Band, &c. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A APLiff BEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. In preparation, with entirely new scenery, and every necesstry requisite, a Grand EQUE9.TRIAN BURLESQUE, from the pen of a popular author. Every pains have ben talon, and the most profu.e expense has beenlavi shed, to render this magnificent Spectacle worthy of the approbation of the public: THIS EVFNI'G, For a few nights-more, the War Spectacle, THE COSSACKS; or, 'Five la France. Afar which, the inimitable SCENES in the ARENA, invented arranged, and directed by Mr. William Cooke. HERR CTIRT'Atorr, whose miraculous Feats on the Tight Rope have absolutely electnfled the andienoe, will appear. The whole to conclude with the Equestrian Ballet d'Action, by M r s S. G. Healey , THE KNIGH f AND 'ffiE WATER LILY; or. Love among the Mermaids. Box-otilee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tar, DAY —Morning 38 rnin.aftex 10 I Evening 17 rain.aft. 11 To.Yminow—Morning 0 aiin.after 0 j Evening 54 rain.aft. 11 IBS WEATHER.—Sun °mat, Aun. 19. TNIIIIMOMETER, IN TIIB SIIADE. 66 --hlghest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'20. WIND, N.W.—Fine, sunshiny w eather. %'* ~~~' l ~ ~ , ~`~ C~i r~ :,,2.,,,,_ ; .1 LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1854. We had hoped that there would not have been any necessity for further comment on the proceed ings of the pending Windsor Court-martial, until it became our pleasing duty to record the complete and honourable acquittal of the perse cuted prisoner from the charges so unfairly and improperly preferred against him. The voice of public opinion has already proclaimed his perfect innocence, and the public press has repeated the general verdict with strong and almost uuparalleled unanimity. We should then have patiently abided the decision of the military tribunal, cer tain that it could not have wandered very widely from the justice of the case, but for the partial and one-sided address delivered by the prosecutor, Major-General WETHERALL, who, while professing an anxious desire to elicit the real facts of this melancholy case, exhibited as much bias in favour of the superior officers as the most zealous advocate could display on behalf of the client from whom he had received a liberal fee, and for whose interest be was ready to distort the evidence in any possible manner. It is perhaps natural that the advocate should, to a certain extent, identify himself with the cause for which he has been retained. Every man struggles for victory in any contest in which he may be engaged, and perhaps unintentionally and imperceptibly attaches unaue importance to the points which he himself has made, and the argu ments he has adduced ; nor does he accord the fair weight to the replies of his opponent. Majcr- General WETHERALL might have intended to hold the scales with an eqiy.l hand, but the very circum stances in which he was placed rendered the car rying out of that intention a matter of the utmost difficulty, if not an absolute impossibility. Now, in the first instance, we must earnestly and emphatically protest against the appearance of such an officer of such rank and influence in the capacity of prosecutor. He was the senior in years and experience —the superior in official rank to every one of the judges. As Adjutant-Gene ral, his opinion would necessarily have great weight, if it were not absolutely conclusive at the Horse Guards. His views might affect not merely the destiny of the unfortunate young man who was placed on his third trial, or of those by whom he had been so grievously ill-used, but even of his judges, if they decided against his impres sions. We know that the members of courts martial have frequently been reprehended for in judicious findings or sentences ; and the appear :nice as prosecutor or advocate of the party who could bring down such a censure on their heads, and in fact control the entire proceedings, was, to say the least of it, a very untoward occurrence. The Adjutant-General would, in all human pro bability, be consulted by higher authorities on the question ; and any appointment that could pre judice his mind must be regarded as a very ill considered and improper one. Having thus shown the impropriety of the ap pearance of Major-General WETHERALL as prose cutor, we may briefly allude to some matters in his reply which he has, in our humble judgment, regarded through a very erroneous medium, and placed before the Court in a wrong point of view. He states that Colonel GARRETT and Captain NICHOLAS are " practically placed in the situation The appetite for warlike news in England will of defendants !" Now this is not true (we do not only be whetted by intelligence such as that just use these terms in an offensive sense, as implying any wilful falsehood o n th e p ar t o f t h e gallant received in reference to the sanguinary fight officer, but simply as i n di ca ti ng a grave " mistake " ing at the Aland Islands, followed (gloriously on his part). If C o l one l G ARRETT and Captain for the Allies) by the surrender of Bomar - NICHOLAS had been defendants, they could not sand. Naturally enough, people are becom - have been examined or g i ven i n t h e i r versions of ing solicitous in earnest as t o th e result, this the case. This might not have been very im year, of all our gigantic preparations for th e portant so far as they themselves were concerned, for the extraordinary failure o f memory of one, humbling of the pride of Russia, now that the campaign, with a painful resemblance both to the and the no less extraordinary non-app earance of wounded snake and the alexandrine, is "dragging the other, would, before an impartial trib una l, h ave • been very prejudicial to their cases ; but hail they its slow length along" to the very verge of Octo- really been so, the testimony of Lieutenant PERRY ber. .A great beginning has yet to be made in the could have been received, and his sworn statement labour of the subjugation of the pride and obsti- should have received due consideration and just nacy of the AUTOCRAT. Once seriously com- weight from the military Judges. They are to menced, that task must be effected completely decide on a transaction which occurred on ly without any interruption in the process of its between Colon el GARRETT and Lieut enan t accomplishment, unless the Western Allies of PERRY ; they exclude the testimony of th e one who could have spoken distinctly, unequi- Turkey are really desirous of bringing glory to vocally, and positively as to the fact, while they their antagonist, and discredit upon themselves. are to give their verdict on the evidence of the Let the war be at last commenced now vigor- man who could " not charge his mind," with ously, and, we would ask, is there time left within • having done so, and " who did not think it the 114 2 4 8.0 the present campaign for its'decisive occurred." Which of the parties was mo s t lik e l y termination? Scarc e ly. S carce l y , even w i t h the to have his mind impressed with the occurrence, mighty forces, both military and maritime, col- the senior who administered, or the junior w h o lected' together iinthe Bl ac k S ea an d i n the Baltic received, a shar p rebuke ? Colonel GARRETT might by the Fiends and really have forgotten the " wigging," as it is English Governments. technically termed, but not so the subaltern who Why, according to all account s from the Gulf repaired with tears in his eyes, and in great excite of Finland, it would b e • little less than ment, to complain of the conduct of the Command the work of an entir Command •, - e campaign to destroy ing-officer, to the only one of his brethren from the insular fortifications of S whom he received the slightest degree of consi weaborg, and to e ff e ct the capture (by destroyin g t h ose f or tifi ca - deration or counsel. Major-General WETHERALL t i ons ) of the powerful city of Helsin g f ors• takes upon himself most unwisely and injudi- Be- ciously to assert, that the evidence of Paymaster yond which, of course, we all know but too well, CORCORAN is only hearsay of the most objectionable lies that mighty outpost of the empire of th e --b in le d •mg hearsay from the prisoner himself. —with. its terribl e batte • CZAR--- Kith ta dt ris e , Now this surely proves the total and unqualified in themselves, but doubl y 8, gnorance of the gallant officer of the very com because associated fl with all the perils and obstruc- m onest rules of evidence. He ought sure l y t o that in cases w h ere one party has Lions of shallow navigation. Turning again t o I have know n been • • overlook the formidable injured by another, th ere b e i ng no t hi rd the Eumine canno tl party present wh o cou ld g i ve direct testimony, besides the garrison of the the prompt consideration that, complaint of the sufferer 'affords the enormous portion of it , strongest possible corroborationof Crimea, especially that of Is it pos s ibl e t h at, for the purpose of making sheltered within the vast fortifications evidence in August, on the shoreslBs4, on c h arges wh i ch could Sebastopol, there are up , never have been anticipated until they were actu of the Zack Sea t o be overcome prefex red, Lieutenant PRRRY cou ld, in June eitber in succession o r:inaultaneously the Mus- 1353, have assumed an appea ranee o f i ntense ex 4 covite soldi ers i n M o ld a via and those also in the r eitement, and actually brought tears into his eyes, Caucasus. If the Russian army in Circassia has' when complaining to Paym as t er C onco RAN ? Is been .worsted, although it possible that, having been advised to w r it e a with occasional successes l of its . own by w a y o f mo d erate, or at l east seeming ! l e tter of appeal to the General of the Distri c t, h e should have stated that "he had d one so , and c ompensation, th e. All i es are retarded in that been called a fool for his pains ?" Major quarter by the decision with which the warrior General W • ETHERALL may call that "hearsay evi- Prophet SCHAMYL demands preliminary guarantees dente of the most objectionable sort," but he can from the Ottoman Por t e (as to the future) as get very few disinterested persons to join in the especially when we find it the sub. se curity for his - active and (mere t' • on . o •nion, more , e e ic - co-operati 'wet f ordinary conversatiorrin• the regiment; and If .4gain the . soldiers of the Russian Fexpreia7 . a c asion' of a , vulgar tauut - by vue, qie sow retrea,thag the dii oc ti on ; u i A laccroir oaide t he SURRENDER BOIVIA.RSTYND. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH TO THE ADMIRAL TY. ADMIRALTY, SATURDAY, AUG. 19. A Telegraphic Despatch has been received ai the Admiralty this day from the Flag Lieutenan of Vice-Admiral Sir CHARLES NAPIER, announc ing that the Forts of Bomarsund surrendered to the Allied Forces at 12.30 P.M. on the 16th instant. Upwards of 2,000 prisoners laid down their arms, and were immediately embarked. The loss on either side was inconsiderable. jja h ,;. THE SUN, LONDON, SATZR I DAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1854, juniors (Lieutenant Curais) complained against. We do not then think there can be much doubt in any unprejudiced mind but that Colonel GARRETT had used the expressions referred to, and that a letter to the General of the District had been tendered to him. As to the issue respecting Captain NICHOLAS, the letter of Lieut. WALDEY to the prisoner, stating the opprobious language used towards Ensign COOTE, would have justified the assertion, even if Captain NICHOLAS had come forward to swear, like his superior officer, that "he had no recollection of having ill-treated young officers, or aided and abetted others in doing so." His ab sence, however, prevents the possibility of any decision adverse to the prisoner on the charges in which the Gallant Captain is concerned. Major-General WETHERALL told the Court that the questions for its decision were, whether the matter had occurred as stated by the prisoner ; for if not, "he must have stated what he knew to be false !" Now this is a gross lion sequitur. He might have verily believed them to be true, and the common conversation iu the Regiment would be sufficient to warrant the assumption— and as the wilfulness of the falsehood, the know ledge of the untruth was essential, the Adjutant- General laid down the issue very incorrectly in tnat which, under the circumstances, was rather the charge of a judge than the speech of a prose cutor. On the whole, we do not think that the reply of Major-General WETHERALL will place military tribunals in a more favourable light than they bad previously been regarded ; and, in truth, it was difficult to place them in a worse point of vie w. DEATH OF LORD BEAUMONT. We are enabled to correct a mis•etatement relative to the death of the above lamented nobleman, which has appeared in several of our morning contemporaries. His lordship's death is stated to have been occasioned by Asiatic cholera. Such is not the fact. His lordship was attacked with a low fever, which terminated in his death. The following is the certificate of the medical gentlemen who attended his lordship down to the time of his decease : " We certify that Miles Thomas Lord Beaumont died at No. 17, aßruton-street, Berkeley-square, at twelve o'clock on the night of the 16th of August instant, and that the disease of which he died was fever, terminating in intestinal perforation. (Signed) "A. TWEEDIE, M.D., F.R.R. " Wm. POTTS, F.R.C.S." Miles Thomas Stapleton Lord Beaumont was, in the female line, the head of a very ancient Roman Catholic family in Yorkshire, in which the Beaumont peerage had for a great number of years been in abeyance. The abeyance was terminated in 1840, in favour of the late peer, as the sole representative of the elder co-heir, Joan Lovell Lady Stapleton, elder daughter of Joane de Beaumont Viscountess Lovell, dimahter of William second Viscount and seventh Baron Beaumont, who died in the reign of Henry VII. The late peer was born in 1805, and married in 1844 Isabella Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Kilmaine, by whom he leaves Henry, now Lord Beaumont, born in 1843, and two other children, a son and daughter. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-Aug. 18. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.—ArrivaIs Aug. 11. Shark (schooner), Wm. Curling, Esq., from Cherbourg ; Plover (yawl), Lieut.-Colonel Brown, from Westward ; Dream (yawl), George Bentinck, Esq., from Gosport. 14. Coral Queen (schooner), Earl of Selkirk, from West of Scotland ; Blanche (yawl), Lord Otho Fitzgerald, from westward. 17. Lalla Rookh (schooner), Viscount Bangor, from Westward. Sailings—Nil. Yachts at arid about the Station—Zara, Capricorn, Alarm, Irene, Wizard, Dream, Stella, Brilliant, Amazon, lone, Osprey, Julia, Laverock, Turquoise, Susan, Aurora, Arrow, Camilla, Spider, Cygnet, Virginia, Plover, Ripple, Shark, Titania, Fancy, Pandora, Osprey, Coral Queen, Ariel, Surprise, Caprice, Blanche, Lancashire Witch, Gem, Sultana, Ginevra, Seagull, Lalla Rookh. The yachts of the Royal Southern, Royal Victoria, &c., make up the number to nearly 100. The contest for the Queen's Cup not having been brought to a close before 9 p.m.—indeed, it was nearly 11 before the first yacht, the Alarm, came in—the cup has to be sailed for again om Monday. SATURDAY, AUG. 19. _ _ The following yachts have been entered for the Royal Yacht. Squadron Cup of 100/., open to all yachts of the squadron; course, round a steamer stationed off the Nab Light Vessel ; three to enter and start, or no race ; to start at 10 a.m. : Ginevra.. 142 tons... S , r Percy F. Shelley, Bart. Julia lll „ ... William Peareth, Esq. Alarm 248 „ ... Joseph Weld, Esq. Titania Arrow Osprey 59 „ Lieut.-Colonel R. W. Huey. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Aug. 13. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Royal children and the Duchess of Kent, embarked in the Fairy yesterday afternoon, and honoured the Cowes regatta with their presence. Viscount Hardinge, who is staying on a visit, had also the honour of accompanying her Majesty. The Marchioness of Dy, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Major General the Hon. C. Grey, and Captain Du Plat were in attendance. The royal dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Spetb, Viscount Hardinge, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir George Cooper, and Sir James Clark. The band of the Royal Marines played during dinner. Sir James Clark returned to London this morning. The Hon. Flora Macdonald has succeeded the Hon. Mary Bulteel as maid of honour in waiting. Despatches were received yesterday from the governors of Sierra Leone and the Gambia, at the Colonial-office. Despatches were sent yesterday to the governors of the North American provinces. The Earl and Countess of Rosebery and the Lady Louisa Primrose left Warren Wood House, Herts, yes terday, for Dalmeny Park, near Linlithgow, N.B. Viscount Dupplin, of the Ist Life Guards, who went out to Turkey as aide-de-camp to Major-General the Earl of Cardigan, commanding a division of the expedi• tionary army, has arrived at the Earl of Kinnoul's, Hampden House, Green-street, from Varna, en route to Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, his lordship, we understand, having returned to England through illness. The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., and Mrs. Hay ter, and family, have lett town for Paris. CELEBRATION OF THE MAJORITY OF LORD VALLETORT. —Ott Tuesday last, the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe gave a dinner and ball to a select circle of friends, and to the tenantry on his lordship's vast estates, to celebrate the happy event of the noble earl's eldest son, Lord Valle tort, having attained his majority in November last. Notwithstanding the rain, many of the nobility, gentry, and we believe all the tenantry of his lordship, from dis tant as well as neighbouring estates, had assembled by four o'clock, the hour appointed for the dinner, and numbered above 200. The seats at the table were not taken till an hour after, when the Hon. George Edg cumbe, brother of the earl, took the chair, and was sup ported on his right by the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir W. Parker, Port-Admiral, Lord Carnarvon, Sir John Yarde Buller; and on his left by Lord Valletort, Sir Harry` Smith, K.C.8., Lord Ilchester, Lord Vivian, and athers.—Plymouth. Mail. MARRIAGE OF THE SULTAN'S DAUGHTER.—The Vienna Presse has advices from Constantinople of the 10th, stating that the marriage of Princess Fatima and Red shid Paella's son was celebrated with great pomp on that day. The Moniteur of yesterday, in speaking of this event as in prospect, says, that the eclat which this alliance brings to the house of Redshid Pacha is " a recompense for the eminent services which that great stwesinan has rendered to his sovereign and his country. For force of talent, nobleness of character, and patriot. ism, both energetic and puro, no ome was more worthy of the honour." In consequence of the necessities of the State the costly ceremonies and presents customary on these occasions have been dispensed with. A POT HECARIES'-HALL.—Names of g en tl emen who passed their examination in the science and practi ce o f medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs day, August 17 :—Algernon Charles Wodehouse Nor ton, Monmouth-road, Bayswater; Evan Pierce Wil hams, Denbigh. Lieutenant Nasmytb, who distinguished himself at the siege of Silistria, has not been promoted to the rank of Major, as has been generally supposed. His name has merely been recorded for that rank by brevet, after its previously attaining the regimental rank of Captain. This event may not happen for many years in ordinary course ; so that, substantially, Lieutenant Nasmyth has not received any promotion fcir his heroic conduct at Silistria—a. result which we believe cannot have been contemplated by the military authorities. RECEIPT STAsll . s.—Yesterday a return obtained by Mr. Munta; was printed of the price paid per 1,000 for printing and gumming the penny receipt stamps. The Ptiee is 7d.. per 1,000. The sheets of paper on which the receipt stamps are impressed are about double the size of those used for postage label stamps, and the gum used for Ile former is ofa very expensive kind. DISTCI MINCE AT A BALL.—Mr. Charles Brown, stated to he a cornet in the 4th Light Dragoons, was yesterday eliargd before the magistrates of Brighton, with as , wilting Mr. George White, chief constable of the bor ough. On Thursday night there was a ball at the To wn-ball. The prisoner made his appearance at the dc,or of the ladies' cloak room, and was entreated edtahvevoeurror e y oam 7 ot o w s bi s rcien l . a g n h g Ti u n a ill g et e oc • by the female attendant to go away. He persisted and forced :his way through. The attendant then begged he would. not return that way, when he became insolent andtahn through g e: endeavoured -to hr ieea sf A oc f no t e n r sbtu t a htbalaett attendedlha e st w w e a n s t comp elled to take him into custody, whereupon he resibte d and the assault took p lace. Yesterday morn ing he PleadectigUlltY ) expressed his r • - egret, d paa tr lib:Toted. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR. THE ATTACK ON BOMARSIIND. DANTZIC, Friday Noon.—Two 'of the forts at Bomarsund have been taken—one by the French and one by the English. In the fort taken by the French, the Russian loss consisted of 50 killed, 20 wounded, and 35 prisoners ; on the side of the French, Lieutenant Noulfe and two Chasseurs were killed, 115 of the Russians were made pri soners. The Russians buried their dead in casks. The Hon. George Wrottesley, Lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, was killed. Captain Ramsay, of her Majesty's ship Hogue, was slightly wounded. One of the English marines was also killed. Seve ral French soldiers were killed by mistake, in an accidental encounter during the night. Two screw guard-ships, the Hogue and the Edinburgh, and steamers, bombarded the forts for five hours, throwing their shot at a distance of 3,000 yards. The Penelope, which had been on shore, has lost all her guns. Another despatch says the names of the forts captured are, Fort Tzee and Fort Nottich. It adds, the loss of the allies was small. The following is dated Bomarsund, Aug. 17 : Admiral Napier arrived here yesterday. The French troops have attacked the .twelve out-works of the fortress. They had six men wounded, and took 30 Russian prisoners. Fifteen ships of the line are assembled before the place. THE EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEA. We learn by telegraphic despatches from Vienna last evening, that the expedition will not leave for the Crimea before the 20th or 25th, but this rumour is probably set afloat to deceive the Russian spies. The army consists of 48,000 French and 24,000 English. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The following has been received from Vienna : " Orders have just been issued for the Austrian troops to enter Wallachia. " ORSOVA, Aug. 18.—The Austrians have com menced crossing the frontier at Turuu-Severin. " BUCHAREST, Aug. 14.—Omer Pacha has issued a proclamation to tranquillise the Wallachians. " The Turkish outposts have advanced along the Jalomnitza. " OZERNOWITZ, Aug. 16.—The evacuation of the Principalities by the Russians continues. " The Russian head-quarters are at Ismael." CHOLERA IN THE BRITISH CAMP. The following is extracted from .a letter of the special correspondent of the Morning Post :-- CAMP OF THE FIRST DIVISION.—GEWLECKER, August 4.—The absorbing topic hero is no longer the discussion of ephemeral rumours about forth coming movements towards scenes of active war fare. Au enemy more terrible than Cossack lances has attacked the allied force—fever, cholera, and diarrhoea, and other complaints, are doing their deadly work ; and when their ravages will cease, human sagacity may vainly speculate. Every di vision of the army is more or less affected. As an illustration of the state of things, and of the alarm ing progress of illness, take the following details, set forth, de die in, diem, of sickness in the three regiments of Guards. The return commences on the 31st ultimo : JULY 31. Gren. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fus. Fever Diarrhoea Cholera Other complaints... 10 107. 61 77 Total sick, 245 ; including convalescent, 334. AD GUST 1. Gren. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fos. Fever Cholera Diarrhoea Other complaints... 9 Total Total sick, 283 ; including convalescent, 333. A uGUST-2. Gren. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fus. Fewer Cholera Diarrhcea Other complaints... 13 Total Total sick, 292 ; including convalescent, 395. . . AUGUST_ 3. Gren. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fos. Fever Cholera .. Diarrh0ea........... 74 Other complaints... 12 Total ... .. 137 Total sick, 304; including convalescent, 399. The above relates to sickness. The reports of deaths in the same brigade, since the cholera and fever set in, have been as follows : Gren Gds. Coldstm.Scots Fns. Deaths previous to July 27 6 July 27 l. Of 28 f, 29 f 1 30 It 31 Aug. 1 7) 2 1 I, 3 1 Total 22 12 7 Total, 39 deaths, including two women of the Scots Fusilier Guards. _ _ The proportion of deaths, it will be perceived, has hitherto been comparatively small taking the ratio of mortality usually expected when fever and cholera rage simultaneously. Still the visitation is very dis tressing, and the more so when it is considered that the regiments just mentioned are composed of picked men, including probably (with thellighland troops) the finest and healthiest soldiers in the service. The calamity is aggravated by the manner in which the medical officers are thwarted through the impossi bility of obtaining adequate supplies of medicine and other articles necessary for the effectual treat ment of the sick. They are incessantly begging and praying for things which cannot be had, and they are met with the old excuse--the want of means of transport.' Lamentable, indeed, it is that the dis stance—only 10 miles—between this place and Varna should operate as an " insurmountable" obstacle in the way of sending on supplies all-im portant to the safety of the army. I do not here refer alone to the absence of the " comforts" in the shape of porter, &c., about which such ostentatious parade was made some time since ; I allude like wise to the deficiency of medical stores in general. If 10 miles be a commissariat i m p o ssibility, hopelessly insuperable .would be that impossibility if the army had, as it might have done, push ed far into the heart of the roadless, trackless, miasma reeking swamps of Bulgaria. how Amongst those lately dead is Col. the Hon. Lau derdale Maule, brother to Lord Panmure, and Assistant Adjutant-General to Sir De Lacy Evans's Division. Poor Col. Maule, whowas highly esteemed by his fellow-soldiers of all grades, was buried the day before yesterday. The funeral was attended by a large concourse of officers. and.men. A vast num ber of officers are seriously indisposed. Lieut.-Col. Onslow (who had only just arrived out) and Lieut.- Col. F. Seymour are dangerously so. Amongst the officers now on the sick list are Col. Trevelyan, Lieut.-Col. Crombie, .Lieut.-Col. V. Dawson, Capt. Armitage, Capt. Bouverie, and Capt. Mackinnon, Coldstream Guards; Lieut.-Col. F. Berkeley, Capt. W. Bulwer, Lieut. Blanc, Lieut. Lindsay, and Assistant-Surg eon R o binson, of the Fusiliers ; Lie ut. Anstruther, Lieut. F. Quin, and Assistant-Surgeon Blenkins, of the Grenadiers, are also ill. A medi cal board will sit-on Saturday, to consider the steps which it may be necessary for the two officers last named to take for the recovery of their health. Through the recommendation of medical boards a number of officers have lately obtained leave of absence for England. Amongst them are Assistant- Commissary -General F. Watt, Major Johnstone, 33d Regiment ; Captain Munro, Grenadier Guards; Lieuts. Balfour and Alexander, Rifles ; Lieut.- Colonel Flude and Lieut. H. Percival, Royal Artil lery ; Deputy-Commissariat-General Gowran, &c. That much of the sickness and mortality has been occasioned by non-attention to the precautions re quisite to guard against predisposition to disorder, is very certain. The days are still excessively hot, and the nights,, brings on change in temperature so sudden and complete that, without the utmost vigi lance, cold And influenza, tending to fatal disorders, are contracted. In reference to this particular sub ject the following general order was issued some days ago by Lord Raglan "At the present season, when summer heats have set in, the Commander of the Forces deems it expedient to caution the men against a too free use of vegetables, and to urge them entirely to abstain from fruits, and the wine of the country. It is also important to avoid ex postire after subset. - At that time a great - change - takes place in the temperature of the atmosphere, and it is I necessary to cover up to the neck, and to button the jacket. In calling the attention of the men to these points, the Commander of the Forces desires to remind them that they must, for themselves, take the necessary precautions to avoid those things likely to produce• ill ness. The utmost vigilance is necessary on the part of the officers ; yet that will have no avail, unless the men will be themselves prudent. "The Commander of the Forces, therefore, calls upon them to attend to these admonitions, and to be careful." A second order relating to the issue of a daily glass of grog, and to the increase of the meat rati on , has, it will be readily believed, given unmingled satisfaction to all concerned ; the only drawback being the fear expressed at the end that, like other " comforts ' " the thing may be "too good to last." I quote the order in extenso : "It having been recommended by a board of medical officers that, during the present season, a small supply of spirits should be issued to each man, the Commander of the Forces is pleased to approve of the same, and to direct that the commissariat department issue spirits in the proportion of half a gill fur each non-commissioned officer and soldier. "In issuing to the troops this allowance, which is a free ration, it is to be mixed with water, in the propor tion of one of spirits to two of water, in the manner which will be directed by commanding officers. The time of issue immediately after dinner. "The Commander of the Forces further desires that the coffee lately ordered for the troops should be made to produce a cup in the morning, before going out on any duty, and in the evening before retiring to rest. " The Commander of the Forces likewise sanctions that, as a temporary measure during the present un healthy season, the ration of meat should b e i ncrea sed from lib to lib. The army, however, will understand that this is only a temporary arrangement, and that the Commander of the Forces may be obliged, by circum stances beyond his control, to discontinue the issue at a time when he might think it desirable that it should not cease." " Cholera belts" to the number of about 450 to each regiment, have been sent out from England ; and a further supply, it is said, is to be sent until every man has his belt. Why was not the required complement forwarded at once ? I hear to-day that the sickness statistics are taking a turn for the better. Pray Heaven the improve ment may continue ; but on that there is no calcu lating. On Saturday and Sunday last a great deal of rain fell, and the scorching rays of the sun raised up noisome exhalations in which lurks peril to life and health. Let me never more hear the climate of Old England abused for its fickleness and the suddenness of its transitions. An autumn's camp-lodging in Bulgaria would marvellously change the tone of some of our weather•censors, who are cynical about the chills and damps of the 'tight little island. The climate of this country tells even more severely on our French allies than on our own men. lam sorry to hear, on no mean authority, that the deaths in their armynear Varna have lately been as high as forty and even fifty within twenty-four hours. No doubt Can exist that the helpless inactivity, the irksome, harassing tedium of the idle hours, assist the pestiferous effects of climate and locality. The constant sight of men, stricken down by di sease, borne on stretchers to the hospitals, is but too sure to engender a desponding notion, even in the mind of a healthy man, that he himself may be the next victim—that he and his comrades have come to this inhospitable region to rot miser ably instead of fairly taking the chances of death on the field. Nor is it so easy as it used to be to raise the spirits of the troops by holding out the prospect of a brush with the enemy. These hopes have been so often indulged, and so often disap pointed, that a gloomy, spiritless, sickly smile of incredulity has too generally taken the place of the buoyant eagerness with which " news" was wont to be looked for. A portion of the troops have been for some days employed in throwing up field-works, making gabions and fascines, and in siege practice of various kinds. Of course, the name of Sebasto pol is heard once more in connection with these operations, which, if they have no other result than that of keeping the men's thoughts from dwelling •on the sombre present, will not be useless ; but with respect to the probability of active belligerent steps being at hand, a certain kind of languid scep ticism begins to prevail. I have myself heard an officer, high in the service, and who has not the character of dealing in empty bravado, offer to wager immense odds that the army v% ill not see the Crimea this year. I mentioned in a former letter that the Duke of Cambridge had been unwell from diarrhoea. Hav ing happily recovered from that complaint, his Royal Highness is now annoyed by an equally un welcome visitant in the troublsome shape of gout. He has been confined to his tent these last two days, but is, I hear, getting better. We extract the following from another letter on the same subject :—" The cholera is, I grieve to say, still prevalent at Varna and in the camps, but its attacks are not so fatal as before. The change of encampments has done some good ; but the dis ease has not been diminished by the removal of the men to new and healthier sites. It is my painful duty to communicate the loss of Colonel Mania, who died this week of an attack of cholera, which was brought on by an injudicious dose of blue pill and black draught. The gallant officer threw up tjie post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance to come out here, and dur ing the performance of his duties as As sistant Adjutant-General he had gained the good will and esteem of all around him. Poor Major Levinge, too, is gone. He died of an overdose of opium, administered by himself, when suffering from diarrhoea. He was a universal favourite, gay, light-hearted, and amiable, an excellent of ficer, a thorough soldier, and a kind, open-hearted man ; his loss will be felt by all who knew him. The men of his troop of Horse Artillery have evinced the deepest sorrow at his untimely death, for he was yet a young man in all the pride of life. Mr. Newberry, the paymaster of the Rifle Brigade, 2d battalion, an old officer who had seen much service, is also dead • and to this list must be added a young man cut oin early manhood, Mr. Gregg, of the 55th Regiment. Mrs. Bolton, mother of Mr. Bolton, of the Artillery, who accompanied her son, here is also no more. The mortality among the troops is considerable, and sometimes the victims succumb with fearful rapidity. The hospital is quite full, and, numerous as our medical staff is, and unremitting as are our medical officers in doing all that skill and humanity can suggest for the suf ferers, there are painful cases, of not rare incur rence, in which the men cannot have the attention they require paid to them till it is too late. Many of the poor fellows, too, who desire the attendance of a clergyman or priest at their dying hour are denied that last consolation, for the chaplains aro few, or at least are not numerous enough for the sad ex igencies of the season. The 50th regiment, who are hardly worked, as they furnish fatigue parties for the town, lost nine men last night. I was told by one of the officers that his men were working from 5 till 8 o'clock in the morning, and that up to the time he spoke they had received no rations I This is almost in credible. It is useless to alarm friends and re lations akhome by talking of the number of sick or by giving their names, but it is evident we are in a very unsatisfactory state as regards health. The beach stinks abominably, and more of the natives of the town die pro rata than of the men. It is reported that General Canrobert's division, up beyond Bazard shik, lost more than 200 men. Theypassed through a marsh where the Russiani had left dead men and horses, and that very night the cholera broke out. We are getting up large flatbottomed boats here from Malta and Constantinople. It is a pity—if it can be helped—to send out the whole disposable British army here to linger for months in inactivity —to push them on for a few miles from camp to camp—and then to let them remain " eating their hearts" for week after week of idleness—till they sicken and die. Therefore we rejoice to hear of flatbottomed boats, of screw steamers, of trans ports, of anything to take us off to sea out of this. Lord de Ros is recovering from his fever, but it is generally thought that his Lordship will seek the retirement of home when he has recovered sufficiently to undergo the fatigues of a voyage. SPAIN. The Moniteur publishes the following telegraphic despatch : BAYONNE, 17TII.—In consequence of a resolu tion come to by the Spanish Ministry, the arms taken by private individuals are to be deliverel up to the Junta. The governor of Madrid inter dicts extra judicial domiciliary visits ; the carrying of arms by any one not belonging to the army or national guard ; any printing or publication with out legal forms, any comments by the people who cry journals for sale in the street. The reorgan ization of the municipal guard is being proceeded with. According to the last accounts from Catalonia, tranquillity is re-establishing itself at Barcelona ; the manufactories are being re opened." The Ma lrid Gazette of the 13th contains a noti fication that the auxiliary junta of the government of Madrid has decided that " all authorisations for doing duty in conjunction with the regular armed force in and out of the capital shall cease." It also contains a royal decree approving of all the rewards granted from the 28th June to 30th July to the officers and men who formed part of the forces commanded by Gen. O'Donnell ; granting a step to all officers of the army froin the rank of lieutenant-colonel down to that of corporal ; and reducing by two years the period of service of the soldiers. Another royal decree accepts " on its repeated applications' the resignation "by Captain-General of the Army Manuel de la Concha,. Marquis del Duero, of the Captaincy-General of Catalonia," and expresses " great satisfaction of the zeal, loyalty, and intelligence with which he has dis charged the duties of the post, and of the very important services rendered by him to the nation and the throne at the moment at which he entered the district of that Captaincy-General." The Constitutional Municipality of Madrid has presented an address to the Queen, in which, after stating that it had employed all its efforts to reor ganise the national guard, it prayed that new elections of municipalities might be proceeded to, those now existing being the same as were in office twelve years ago. _ _ _ M. Mariano - Carci has been nominated Consul at London, in room of M. Mora. The Clamor Publico says that M. Sagasti, the new Civil Governor of Madrid, on entering on his office, found the money chests empty, and that the administration was greatly embarrassed. He pro poses, it adds, to publish a memoir on the subject. The Diario Espanol states from Malaga that the greatest excitement prevailed at the departure of the last mail, and it was feared the most serious conflicts might arise in consequence of the discus sions which had taken place at the sittings of the Junta on the serious question whether that body ought or ought not to submit to the constituted government, the majority having declared for the negative, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts of the minority, composed of such men as MM. Rios Rosas, Verdego, and others, well known for their eminent services in the cause of liberty. The 13th being Sunday, the Madrid Stock Exchange was not open. Advices from Madrid of the 14th announce that the Clubs had sent a deputation to Espartero, de manding the suppression of the passage in the Decree convoking the Cortes, which declared that the question of dynasty could not be discussed by that Assembly. _ Espartero had not thought it proper to comply with this demand. At a dinner given by the Liberal Press of Madrid, Espartero gave a toast for " Liberty," and O'Don nell another for " Our Constitutional Queen." No member of the Diplomatic Body attended the dinner. The Three per Cents. closed at 73f. 20c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 991. 75c. for the end of the month. According to the Diario of the 16th, the Juntas of Malaga and Lerida refuse to recognise the new Government. They insist on maintaining their privileges. FRANCE. Bou Maza, who has obtained permission from the French government to serve in the Turkish army, arrivecUon the 4th at Constantinople in the Ganges steamer. The illoniteur says :—" The different reports which have reached the Minister of Marine state that the fete of the 15th was celebrated with the greatest enthusiasm in our ports and naval esta blishments. Everywhere the devotedness and attachment of our maritime population, of our soldiers, our sailors, and our workmen c o r di a ll y united them in the official rejoicings." The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 73f. 20c., for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. at 99f. 75c. ; and the New Loan, at 72f. 80c. ; Orleans Railway Share s , 1,200 f .; Rouen, 970 f.; Havre, 565 f. ; Great Northern, 840 f. ; Strasburg, 791 f. 25c. ; New Sha res , 627 f. 50c. ; Paris an Lyons, 960 f. ; Lyons t o th e Medterranean, 867 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 647 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 627 f. 50c. ; Great Central of France, 502 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Gene va 508 f. 75c. ; Bank of Credit 11bilier, 720 f. , PRUSSIA. Letters from Berlin, of the 15th, state that Comte Arnim was to set out on the following day for Vienna, with instructions according to the pre vailing belief, to take part in and sign a protocol, having for its object to express in general terms the necessity for new guarantees against any fresh attempts on the side of Russia to endanger the peace of Europe. The Russian party displays the greatest activity, though hitherto without success. BELGIUM. The Etoile Beige says : " Several arrests, which seem connected with politics, have just been effected at Brussels. M. Victor Consi derant, well known as the head of the Phalansterian doctrine, has been locked up at the Petits-Carmes, accused, it is said, of having purchased arms for the pur pose of organising a plot against the Government. An arrest which surprises us still more is that of M.Van der Elst, who fills a high post on the staff of the railway. It is related of this latter that the police seized at his office a package sent to him from Liege by a French political refugee, and in which, it is said, an infernal machine and a revolving pistol was found. We have to add that M. Considerant declares that he purchased the arms with a view to sending them to Texas, where it is positive that he has organised a phalansterium, and M. Van der Elst, on his side, affirms that he received the package only to oblige the refugee who sent it, and who informed him that it contained soap. On the other hand, says the Independence, we are assured that the person who sent the case to M. Van der Elet is not a French refugee. But, beside M. Consid4rant, there is another French refugee arrested, as well as the person who sent the package, containing not an infernal ma chine, but about half a score of small bombs of a particu lar kind. The manufacturer of these bombs has also been arrested." In a subsequent number the Etoile Beige adds to the above statement. "It is said that M. Bru net (de l'Argentiere) formerly an officer in the French army, and whol has been living at Brussels for several months, but who is not a political refu gee, had ordered from M. Sanders, a manufacturer of arms, certain incendiary tubes. This order is said to haie been given in a letter enclosing a re mittance of 60fr. on account. In this letter is said to be the following phrase, As to M. Victor Considerant, I prefer that you should speak to him yourself.' This phrase, it appears, is the only indication to connect M. Consideraut with the plot, if plot there be." HOW SILISTRIA WAS SAVED. The following is from a military correspondent of a German newspaper. Being a German, he men tions Lieut. Grach, who deserves such mention for his services, but only alludes incidentally to the presence of English officers. It is clear from his narrative that the siege of Silistria, so called, was, in fact, a siege of the Arab Tahia, and it is well known that the two English officers, Butler and Nasmyth, were the life and soul of a defence which throws Saragossa into the shade : " Allow me, a soldier and impartial, some statements and remarks on the very interesting siege of Silistria. "The cause and the issue of this operation have been so peculiar, so completely without precedent or example in the history of modern war, that it is worth while to throw all possible light on every particular of the trans action. "If we consider the duration of the siege and the force applied to it by Russia, it becomes evident to even an unprofessional judgment that the result has been utterly unworthy of the means. The besieging army amounted to 30,000 men at least, and probably to 45,000, and in this computation wo do not include the troops kept in reserve and ready for action on the Wallachian side of the river, and who, with three bridges at their command, could at any moment have passed over to support the operation. The Turks could oppose to these, of regular troops, after allowance for previous losses, some 12,000 men, i. e., not a third of the enemy's numbers. "It is reckoned that the siege lasted 39 days. Within this time, according to a computation by the Prussian officer in command of the artillery of the place—a com putation carefully framed as to be within the truth rather than beyond it—the Russians lost 12,000 men, while the loss of the Turks was about 1,400. During the siege, according to the same authority, from 40,000 to 50,000 projectiles, solid or hollow, were discharged upon the place, the siege-park having been, both in respect of number and weight of guns, far more considerable than that in any of the former Turkish wars. In confirma tion of this may be mentioned that, during the 44 days' of Silistria, in 1829, only 29,000, during the 77 days' siege siege of Varna, in 1828, only 50,000 shots were fired. " I'o the question which has been the result of this undertaking to the Russian arms, the only answer that can be given is one as mortifying as may be to that Power. " We took occasion, soon after the commencement of the operations against the place, to bring under notice the fact, that it had only within the last few years been strengthened by some outworks, thrown up on the plan of a General Kutzkoffsky, on the 'southward slopes of the Bulgarian plateau. One of these detached works is the Arab Tabia. Its exact position may be made intel ligible to those who possess Moltke's plan, by our stating that it is situated on the ridge, or, to speak more accu rately, the slope where he has marked the Russian fieldwork No. 4, and from 200 to 300 paces south of that work. " The Arab Tabia is, technically speaking, nothing more than a fThche,' consisting of a front some 50 paces hi length, with flanks of about the -same extent thrown back at a sharp angle. The rear is entirely open, and was never even palisaded. In and immediately behind the defences there were never more than 1,000 men at one time, a number very considerable in proportion to the extent of the work. The profile of the rampart and ditch may be considered strong (we have not obtained the measurements). No part, however, has been faced with masonry, and the embrasures alone were fitted with gabions. The work was armed with no more than six guns, most of which had a calibre of from 20 to 22 okas, the oka equaling 2ilb. These were fired through embrasures. In other respects the work was simply adapted for infantry defence. "A circumstance, however, which materially increasQd the capabilities of the work for resistance was, that a kind of trench had been out to the eastward- &Lid west• ward, which followed the declivity of the slope till reached the nearest part of the adjacent valley. No accurate information is before us as to the extent of these trenches, which commenced from the flanks of the Arab Tabia, but, to judge from the numbers of the irre gular troops actively employed within them, their length must have been considerable. The ground to their front was swept by the artillery fire of the flanks of the main work. It is here to be noticed, that the Turk ish irregulars, to avoid the murderous fire of the Rus sian batteries, had excavated behind and on either flank of these trenches numerous holes, in which they bur rowed so effectually that the enemy could seldom see more of the defenders than their turbans and the muzzles of their muskets. In spite of some unfavourable features, such as a gentle rise in one quarter to the south, the ground may be considered, from its barrenness of sur face, as, on the whole, favourable to the fire of the de fence. The work was in conimmunication with two other detached earthworks, situated on the two heights east ward and westward, which will be found designated on Moltke's pl an as th e R uss i an works 9 and 11. They are on the highest summits of the ground which slopes to the north, and very near the spots also marked on the plan as the Russian field-works 21 and 22. The Russian attack during their 39 days' operations, if we except their bombardment of the town, was solely directed against the Arab Tabia. Anything else that was undertaken, such as a movement against the detached work, the Medschidie, was a mere demonstration for the purpose of distracting attention from the real point of assault. The Russian General Sanders was quite right in this selection of the Arab Tabia, because from it the other outworks, abovementioned,to the north, were commanded, and the reduction of the former would have insured their fall. This value of the position had been so well under stood by Omer Pasha, that he had himself, after com pletion of the other outworks, directed the construction of the Arab Tabia. An attack was nevertheless first to be expected on the eastern side of the town. In fact, if all the accidents of ground of the Bulgarian plateau were to be duly provided for, and an enemy to be deprived of every position commanding the defences, it would be necessary to construct a series of outworks in ten aces above each other, advanced till the dominant points of the ground in front had all been embraced. Time and means were • wanting for these, and the Turkish engineers were obliged to confine themselves to what was essential. The _ first operations of the Russians were the construction of batteries, which gradually grew to be eight in number, were armed with the heaviest artillery, and beginning from near the shore of the Danube embraced the object of the attack in a concave curve. At the same time, following the fashion of their former proceedings of 1828 and 1829, before Varna and Schumla, they threw up a number of earthworks, mutually supporting each other with their fire, which increased in number as the siege ... proceeded, and now, as then, had for their main object the better to repel the dreaded sallies of the besieged. • The main body of the Russian besieging army was • posted during th e o p era ti on on one o f the lieights to the south-east of Arab Tabia. The roads from the camp to the works and batteries, as well as those to the bridges of the Danube, were excellent as lines of com munication, and all the works and constructions of the besieging force are described as solid and admirable. The first stage of the operations bore the character of a series of sudden assaults, delivered by considerable masses, and introduced as well as broken off by a lively fire of artillery. On two occasions the Russians penetrated the works, in which, however, the fight was continued. Once the Russians were already engaged in dragging off the guns of the fort with hooks and ropes ; but in both instances the Turks rallied, and, reinforced, drove them out again with heavy loss. Of all the nume rous assaults that of the 29th May was the one conducted with the greatest masses. Sixteen battalions, formed in columns of attack, advancing with perfect order, succes sively assailed the work, along the ditches of which a . most sanguinary conflict was maintained. According to the report of eye-witnesses, 2,000 corpses on that day strewed the ditches and the ground adjacent. Such a , slaughter, in an assault of a place which comes within the category of a mere fieldwork, can scarcely be con ceived by those who regulate their notions by ordinary professional rules. It may be explained in part by the circumstance that the assailants advanced in columns well closed up and marching in rather slcw time, and after failure retreated in the same time and order. • But the explanation of such unheard-of loss is far more to be found in the fact that the Turkish sol dier, regular as well as irregular, where he can follow his own individuality and dispense with the guidance of his officers, generally of a poor description, i. e., when behind wall or ditch, is immeasurably more in his element than in the open field, where the intelligence of the subaltern officer, the united action of component ' bodies, and the skilful use of ground and circumstances —other relations being equal—must usually decide-. the victory. To this must be added that the Turkish irregular,,and especially the Arnauts, who in this in stance acted with the Turkish and Egyptain battalions, are admirably armed and accoutred for hand-to-hand fighting. In the first place they are lightly clothed and carry no baggage. Their side arms and all that they carry about them are supported by a sash or broad leather waistbelt. A long flint musket, of good work manship and extensive range, with a thin iron butt curved to fit the shoulder and without bayonet, is slung over the shoulders in close action. Their other weapons are a pair of flint-lock pistols of large bore, the " hand schar" slightly curved, some 24 feet in length, with the inner edge sharpened like a razor ; and the yatagan ; all of excellent workmanship, and, in the hands of these desperadoes, deadly instruments. The other irregulars, as well as the Arnauts, are generally armed more or less in like fashion, but their firearms are usually inferior to those of the Arnaut. The quality of the Arnaut's weapons is fully matched by his skill in using them in close fighting. He is an excellent shot, and, like the Circassians and other tribes who have to provide their own ammunition and fit it to the various calibre of their arms, he is very sparing in his use of it. He reserves his fire till the critical moment, but then his aim is deadly. He is not less dangerous with the cold steel, both edge and point—springing like a tiger on the enemy who advances over ditch or breastwork.. Itis on these occasions, when the heavily loaded s o ld ier , t ra i ne d an d accou tre? , mainly for infantry fire, is clambering over obstacles and meets with a resistance which hardly allows him to use his bayonet, that his inferiority to such art enemy b e. • • comes apparent of The Russians, the re f ore , accord i ng to the reportsa b eye-witnesses, suffered l ess f rom t h e artillery fire o f Ar Tabia than J . , om the small arms of the Turkish, B g,Y • tiati, and Arnaut t roops. E ach gun was seldom w-i; charged more th an f rom f our to six times on the c olunal...— of assault advanci ng or ret i r i ng, and some were reieal„, edly dismounted by the fire of the batteries prelimina r l o to the assaults. Th e s t orm i ng parties, till they got the immediate range of the musketry, could sca r , ce e i r 11 discern, with the ex ce pti on o f the gunners. a t to o places, a fez or t ur b an a b ove t h e rampart, but, se no th se they began to moun t, th e crest of the mound aptoo ground behind were th ronge d w i th men, who ros e their holes and hiding places like a sudden growth the soil. A succession of failures, accompanied by . mendous slaughter, i n d uce d th e Russians, towar— Ai irre close of their und er t a ki ng , t o proceed aga i nst this __ al , gular work with regu l ar s i ege approaches. Th e ir p 5. to, lets, at the time of their retreat, had been drivr viog within 16 paces from th e e d ge o f t h e ditch. loose was also employed, to mee t w hi c h t h e b es i ege d _ ;t i, up fresh works in rear of the parts threatened wl soe incredible rapidity. Everything failed ; the ga, rri A th, held out to the last with a c h eer f u l contempt o f !co, such as competent witnesses, among them En glis h lreadl cers, assert they never saw equa ll e d . W e h av e mentioned that the Commandant of the artillery! I A t tenant Grach, comp u t es th e l oss of the Russian's 100 12,000, and the hu ge moun d s of sepulture on the bear out his esti ma t e . According to all probability' from 300 to 400 officers must have fallen. THE PARIS U NIVERSAL E XHIBITION. At a In e , litiri g held yesterd a y (F r id ay ) , o f the Manchester 100 1 y. ", v0 :0 mitten in aid o f th e propose d Paris Exhibition, ' a reported th a t a lth oug h M anc h ester alone had etip sc. i be tbe a guarantee fund o f 6,5001. t owar d s t h e o bject 0 L .01., Exhibition, n o con t r ib u ti ons w h atever ha d b e en rece l ia , from the adjoini n g t owns , although official commune tions have been addressed to them on the subject. Loss OF THE CLYDE SHIP SHANDON, F IB$• The North British. Daily Mail, of Wednesday, 0 1. - v i v g • A telegraphic despatch has just reached Glasgow , n information of the total loss of the fi n iron shiP.;;; e 1 3a don, from Clyde to Quebec an d M on t r eal, on I inst., in lat. 54, long. 17. Th e crew an d passecgn, were all saved, and were p u t on b oar d o f the shiP Gle of cairn, bound for Quebec, all well. Captain Gr e a i r gjig, the Shandon, and si x o f th e crew h ave arrive d at c ore and the captain tel egrap h e d t h e d i saster t o the °- w in this city, but no particulars have yet reached Ile. 1 , 01 0 Shandon was built a t Gl asgow by Mr. R. Napier, 3".iicl three years ago, for the Quebec and Montreal trade' ;be was a beautiful ship of nearly 600 tons burden of sailed from Clyde on the 30th ult , with a full car v e ne goods, which, together with . the ship we st bout been worth not less than 70,000/. She ca'rried twenty cabin and five steerage passengers. e iree SUICIDE FROM SHAKESPERE's CLIFF.—About ses o'clock on W e d nes d ay even i ng l as t, a gentleman, dr the as a clergyman, was observed by some permit's nee' r e o, highest point of th e c elebrated Shakepere Cliff , at 9 t he A man named Anderson, who takes his stand /vrtu. summit as a vendor of fossils, states that the unf°lou°4 0 , d J nate gentleman had been up on the cliff soo n after and remained with him until he jumped over ; eg before he took the dreadful leap informed him t' darkness was coming on, it would be dangerous The gentleman retired some short distance, immel n 7 1 9, turned round, and, exclaiming that he ca me fr° dor Waterloo-crescent, jumped over near the b 011.115000 stone. Anderson immediately gave an alarm, ad o ba se of the coast-guard and boatmen, proceeding to "_,„ os t of the cliff, found the remains of the deceased, m ost dreadfully knocked about, having fallen between Rag and 400 feet. The unfortunate gen tleman wit s , sta was at 19, Waterloo-crescent with his lady, w owe anxiously waiting his return when the dreadful arrived. His name is the Rev. Thomas Robinson he held - a living in the Isle Wight. . n g e s• DESTRUCTION OF TWENTY-ONE HOUSES.---A- 111-t :* tensive and destructive fire occurred on Thursday la s- : the village of Moretonhampstead, a short distance frf , Exeter. The fire originated in the dwelling-house ° t ' ho carrier, and spread with extraordinary rapidity. In roof, i c l o n u ti r l se of a short time the flames caught roof after it appeared as though the whole village Oa blaze blase. The whole of the inhabitants turned out and rendered every assistance in . quenching the fire ~ a_l l . saving the property. In spite, hdwever, of all L tr ey ,' exertions, which were aided by two fire engine° , l ' ha d were, unable to subdue the flames until 21 houses . ~ a I' , '"' . were 011 . /Ten destroyed—mnely, 10 in one street art . • f another. Fortuhately, however, there was ao loi s ° ~ life, . _ . , . . - '