The Sun. — London, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

" THE SUN" ON SMOKE PREVENTION. 1. —" There really ought not to be any excuse for the entire riddance of the smoke nuisance ; our own experience satisfying us that the system of smoke prevention and economy of fuel, invented and carried out by Mr. Lee Stevens, is as effective as it is simple. Until we had it applied to our own steam-engine furnace, we could form no idea of the ease and certainty of its operations, without any moveable parts, and at such very moderate expeuse."—Sun. Copies of OFFICIAL AND OTHER REPORTS, and of Testimo nials in favour of the Invention, as applied to STEAM BOILERS; BREWERY COPPERS; STILLS; CHEMISTS, DYERS, and 'ONFECTIONERi' PANS ; COAL OVENS, ice , with information ;Meeting licenses to manufacture or use the Patent Smokeless Fur ,given by Mr. JOHN LEE STEVENS, the Patentee, at the No. 1, FISH-STREET-HILL, CITY, LONDON. BREWERY ) COPPER , AND OTHER FURNACES. " The Brewery, Lichfield, 9th August, 1854. "Dear 81r,—We are glad to say that your apparatus quite bears out the assurance you gave us that it would answer our purpose. " The doubt we had as to its adaptation t, furnaces with defective draught is entirely removed. Our liquor copper now boils qu.te as soon as the wort copper, and with both there is a diminution in the Consumption of fuel. " The experiment we witnessed at Mewessrs. CHARINGTON perfectly successful, and this impress :on we are happy to confirm from actual xperience. "It will give us pleasure to reply to inquiries that may be made by any Brewery Firms at Burton-on-Trent, but should suggest that it may probably be more sat.s actory to those gentleuten to judge tor them,elves by seeing the turn,ces at work, and this they can de at any time. We remain, dear sir, Yours, very truly, " JOIIN AND AR rutin GRIFFITH. "J. Lee Stevens, rga" . r repor t 's, anci f o i c testimonials in favour as applied to earn so , ers, Brewery Coppers, Copies ot °Me of the invention, at and oth er Still 4. Chem sts', Dyers', .and Confectioners Pans Coal Ovens, Ste , with inforinatton respecting Licences to rnamtacture or use this w a_ re ,lai,lish3d system of smoke 1 reventi n sad Eo 'imy of Fuel continues to 14e given by Mr. JI)IIN LEE STEVENS, the Patentee, at the offices, No. 1, Fish-street-hill, City, London. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Ruckstone. TIII3 EVENING, AUGUST 22. WM be performed TILE OLD CRATE AU. Characters by Messrs. Howe.• Rogers, H. Marston, and Buctstone; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Reynolds. Followed by the gPANISII DANCERS in a NEW BALLET THE GIPSY QUEEN. The new Farce AS LIRE AS TWO PEAS. LYCEUM THEATRE. Yr. SIM 3 REEVES' LAST APPEARANCE THIS SEASON. ALLCROFT begs to announce that Mr. and Mr , . SIMS SERVES will make their Last Appearance TO-MORROW EVEN - ma (WEDNESDAY), when, on account of its great success, will be Presented Bare's popular Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Ar ine, Mrs. Sims Reeves ; Thaddeus, Mr. Slms Reeves. the performances to conclude with the Grand Ballet entitled LES PATSANNES DU IsTORD, supported by Mdlle. D'Antaine, assisted 'by Mlles. E. Horn, Martin, Burton,' Marie, Charles, and an effi cient Corps de Ballet. Boxes, ss; Pit, 2s. 6d.; Gallery, 7s. Private Boxes, 215., to be had at the Box-office. STRAND THEATRE.. S ale Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcroft. THIS EVENING, Ammer 22, Will be performed HARD TIMES. Followed by FAUST AS D MARGUERITE. Mephistopheles, Mr. Raiford; Faust, Miss G. Hodson; Marguerite, Miss H. Gordon. To conclude with a popular FARCE. Stalls. 44.; Boxes, 2s. 64.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes Al is. to be had of Mr. Allcroft. Ib, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. " This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves wanting. Vocal and ine.rtunntal music of the first order, and a display of fireworks which exceeds all imagination, are a fitting Apse to a day at the Crystal Pala:e." DANSONS COLOSSAL PANORAMA of CHUSAN. Splendid and Extensive Menagerie and Marine Aquarium—Unri valled Military Band. VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, in which Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, ant Mr. Manvers sing Severs! National and Patriotic Songs—All the Amusing Novelties of the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan terns," and a most magnitiaent display of Fireworks by Southby. Admission One Sliming. A splendid Pavillon for Dancing has been erected. Full Quadrille Band, &c. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AAIPIIITELEATAE Leesee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. In preparation, with entirely new scenery, and every necessary requisite, a Grand EQUESTRIAN BURLESQUE, from the pen of a popular author. Every pains has been taken, and the most profuse expenee has been 3 a vi shed, to render this magnificent Spectacle worthy of the approbation of the public! THIS EVENING, For a few nights more, the War Spectacle, THE COSSACKS; or, Viva la France. r which, the Inimitable SCENTS in the ARENA, invented arranged, and directed by Mr. William Cooke. HERR CIIRISTOFF, whose miraculous Feats on the Tight Rope have absolutely electrilied the audience, will appear. The whole to conclude with the Equestrian Ballet d'Action, by Mrs S. G. Healey, THE KNIGIIC AND THE WAIEIC LILY; or, Love among the Mermaids. Box-office open Iron Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr, W West. P. LOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE. Tam Der —Morning 12 min.after 1 I Evening 34 1 To-Movuum—Mornio. 53 rnin.after 1 I Evenin. 11 rnin.66 2 Wit'ATTIER.—Srs Oinca , AUG. 22. TT-1103.140141M1R, IN THE SHADS. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 54 •-IdlNireSt this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. Ft A nomETEn, 29'98. Wren. W. to W.N.W.—Vaiiablo—fine sunshiny mr ea• ther, with heavy passing clouds. p ‘s\ jm -4• V LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1854. "Ditto to Mr. BURKE"—may be accepted as the phrase exactly symbolical of .the war policy of England as associated with that of the French Imperial Government. It was on Monday even ing, the 14th of August, that we directed at4en tion to the despatches exchanged between the French Minister for Foreign Affair., M. DROYN DE L'HUYS, and the Baron DE BOURQUENEY—ICX- plaining in the' clearest terms the conditions upon which the Western Powers could alone consent to * a general pacification. It is on Tuesday evening, the 22d of August, that we are enabled to refer to the diplomatic correspondence between the British Minister for Foreign Affairs and the garl Of WESTMORELAND —repeating the same story fiver again in, pretty nearly the same terms, allowing for slight idiomatic differences of expression. It has been thus throughout. As we observed yes terday se'ennight, again "France has been just one step in advance as compared with England, the French Government has again, as so often before in this matter, just by one important move anticipated the English Government." Upwaz& of a year ago, it was exactly the same. For example, it was on the 10th of JUm e , 1853, that the Moniteur formally and offi- cially- announced to Europe that orders had been sent to the English and French fleets to approach the Dardanelles ! And it was only on the 13th of June, 1853, that this start : ling intimation led to some very natural interpella tion in both Houses of the British Parliament. We might illustrate the justice of our complaint by reference to every subsequent occurrence, in o , the development of the quarrel, first between Attitsid, and 'ffiirkey, and after Wards between the AIITOCRAT and the SULTAN supported by France • and England. It will be enough for our present ~3 purpose,, however, to place thus side by side the events of June, 1853, and . those of Augaist, 1854, as sufficient indication's of the tardiness of the English, as contrasted wrth the Pro French, promptitude of th e h, Government, particularly as the fact of thi s glaring and disheartening contrast ha s b een ver the enti re noted time afte r t i me by every int e lli gent ohaer. PoPulation. H ere, therefer e , again,' in August, 1854—precisely as it - was i n J un e, 1853—we fi n d th e French Government a step in advance—just one step, before the En g li s h Government. 31. DIZOT.NN DE L'HUYS, in the despatch pub i lisled more than a week ago in the Moniteur, defined the conditions essential to the re a t ora _ Hon of P eace:between the CZAR and th e W es _ Turkey—exactly as we now le arn t ern Allies of that Lord CLARENDov has defined them in th e on the l as t despatch laid before Parliament within but, only delivered the day of the session , last few hours to the no%v scattered Members of S rallewine• our chagrin as well the Legislature. as we can, at this new and wholly unnecessary illustration of the systematicdelays, and -procras tination to which our rulers in tha matter of. the war would appear to have now deliberately ac customed themselves—and turning with the best grace possible to their latest addition to the diplomatic documents accumulated during the course of this protracted, and seemingly endless correspondence —we find that the alliance between France and England is • in no way hollow, lint that the Foreign Ministerof h eat , though employing one the French, the other the z u emit tongue; sputa THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1854, " Yes; why not ?" But the Doncaster masons knoW well the homely old proverb, that " What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander ;" and surely the "rubble wallers " may as reasonably ask, " If we can sell the masters' skill sufficient. for their work, and at a price they are willing to pay, and we to take, who ought to hinder us ? Why should not our skill find its market value ? If, as you say, it will cheapen work, the masters and the public have as much right to the cheapest work as you have to the cheapest . bread." There is lib refutation of this reasoning. Trade com binations are as manifestly social tyranny as corn laws were legislative tyranny. If a man, or a body of men, refuse to work more than a certain number of hours for a certain amount of pay, — that resolves itself, of course, into the simple question of how much one shall give and the other get for his money ; though it is seldom set tled by strikes without oppression of workmen by their fellow-workmen. But the other demand, and the greater one, strikes at the root of all freedom of trade. No demand more foolish than this was made at Preston. We trust the masters will not concede it, and that the men will conde scend to see its unreasonableness and inconsis tency. Landlords shrunk at last from the odium (,f tyrannising over other classes ; we hope the time is at hand when workmen will be yet more ashamed of odious Union laws against their own class. The greatest and, of all men, the most formi dable among the individual assailants of the Aus trian Empire—M. LOUIS KOSSUTH, some time Liberator of the Magyars and Dictator of Hun gary—has again, from his honourable exile in this country, directed his flaming thunderbolts of in vective against the Vienna Government. The words of KOSSUTH do not pass idly by, as the wind. He is no stump-orator. He is great among the greatest patriots, as he is illustrious among the most distinguished orators of our generation. What he says will be remembered. His speeches, not less than his deeds, will live in history. For he speaks with the authority of a master-mind of the age—no matter whether his orations are delivered from the bosom of a nation in arms, at the height and plenitude of power—or from the comparative obscurity and privacy of his remote insular scene of banishment. A complete and splendid justification of what we have here remarked (not by any means for the first time) will be found in the noteable harangue given in another part of the impression of our journal of this evening. It will there be observed that M. KOSSUTH en forced on the 21st of August, at Hanley, the bold argument which he took occasion to unfold on the 12th of June, at Nottingham. During the two months which have intervened between the time of those orations, events have transpired which have tended to corroborate at Hanley what the illustrious exile declared plainly and explicitly enough at Nottingham. In reference, that is to say, to the perverse duplicity and systematic per fidy of the Austrian Government.' As elucidatory of the evil policy of the Cabinet of Vienna from first to last, as the secret ally of Rus sia and as the vast clog upon the Western Powers, embarrassing every movement of the allied French and English Governments—the oration delivered yesterday by M. KOSSUTH, at the Hanley Potteries, commands the especial regard of the really thinking portion of the Eng lish multitude. GUN-BOATS. HOW TO SUBDUE SMOKE. In our examination of the class of anti-smoke contrivances requiring occasional motion to be given to them, we give precedence to Prideaux', more because of the pretentious character it has assumed than for any practical reason. This in vention constitutes the paiel and occupies the chief portion of the furnace door. It is formed intetnUlly of three series of thin plates of iron, placed vertically, with fixed and narrow air spaces between the plates, and with wider spaces between the respective series, the whole protruding several inches into the furnace. Externally it is made of moveable horizontal plates, set like the laths of a Venetian blind. The stoker, when he shuts the door after supplying the furnace with coals, opens these valves by raising a lever. They are then gradually closed by an ingenious regulating appa ratus connected therewith. The intended effect is the admission of heated air in the exact proportion required by the process of combustion ; but, the furnace having been already charged with air, and the valves at once opened to their fullest extent, whilst the combustion of the newly-added fuel is necessarily at its lowest point, it is apparent that there must be an excess of oxygen admitted to the fire when the carbonaceous gases require it the least, and, from the gradual closing of the valves, a proportionately decreased supply of it just when it becomes most wanted. It also ate; pears evident to us, that to heat the air effectually by such a process, the inner plates being described as " red hot," must be to render the apparatus very liable to destruction. Aud equally clear it is that the temperature of the air admitted must vary very considerably ; and that the heat only increasing as the supply of air diminishes, must be at the lowest point when the largest quantity enters ; or, if the inventor's theory be correct, precisely when the intensity of heat im parted to the air ought to be the greatest. Now, although the experiment at Portsmouth dock yard was said to be conclusive in its favour, we have seen no official report to that effect ; in deed, we are told that it remained a very short time in operation at that establishment. At the Panopticon, however, it has been in use for many months ; but, often as we have seen it there, it has never been with any other than Welch coals, a description which, with the exception of anthra cite, produces the least smoke, and, for the pre sent at least, is supposed to be available in ordi nary furnaces without violating the laws for the suppression of smoke ? On the other hand, at Goding and Co.'s brewery, used with bitu minous coals, the invention has not given such satisfaction as to induce its retention. Nevertheless it has had, and we dare say will still have, its advocates and patrons. The next we shall consider, that of Bristow and Attwood, is distinguished from most, if not all, of its competitors by ombining the operations of smoke producing and smoke-consuming, by absolutely manufacturing smoke in one furnace, and burn ing it (as well as it can be burnt) in another ! Hence two furnaces, of like power and size, placed in juxtaposition with each other, are re quired .to produce the effect designed. These furnaces are alternately fed with fuel ; and, by a peculiar system of connecting flues and dampers, the passage of smoke into the boiler tube or flue beyond the fire-place, and not less so the passage of heat, is shut off from the furnace into which the coals are thrown, and the smoke allowed to pass into the other furnace, at the front, and from thence over the bright and incandescent fire therein, so as to be materially decomposed. As a matter of course, during such operation, the direct action of one furnace is suspended ; and the fire in the other is, at the same time, employed in destroying what not merely does not afford a particle of ad ditional heat, by increased combustion, but posi tively diverts from its proper function part of tho pre-existing heat s which is thus absorbed in a destructive and not a producing process. Nor is this all ; for the carbonic acid gas carried into the bright fire furnace with the smoke from the other, must act as a chemical damper of that fire in no inconsiderable degree. We can not, therefore, feel surprised that the proprie tors of the City Flour Mills, who, having wearied of the use of Juckes's furnaces, and superseded them with those of Bristow and Attwood (then, and, we assume remaining, in their employment respectively as mill-manager and engineer), have at length come to the determination to give up the use of the latter also. Yet the large outlay thus incurred by White, Ponsford, and Co. will not have been uselessly made, if the lesson be in structively applied by others ; and if, in prefer ence to adopting some simple mode of smoke pre vention, as a last resource, they should for awhile resort to the ordinary construction of furnace, and adopt Welch coal as the medium of combustion, no one can reasonably blame them for being actuated by what, under these very peculiar circumstances, may not be inappro priately defined as the prudence of discourage ment. In fairness we should add, that, where steam production or economy of fuel may be of secondary consideration, and where two or more boilers can be conveniently connected and worked together, concurrently with cautious attention in the opening and closing of the dampers and doors to avoid risk in the operation, Bristow and At wood's invention should be held to conform with the legal requirements as regards sub duing the smoke nuisance, and in which, at all events, it has our preference over the Prideaux furnace door. Chanter's move able fire-bars, although not st r i c tly spea ki ng narsblbe y d smoke-preventive in th e i r app li ca ti on, are extensively used with an d w i t h out appliances for subduing smoke ; i n th e f ormer manner suc cessfully so with the , Lee Stevens's a pp ara t us , adopted by us with n o thi ng more than the com mon fixed fire-bars. Motion is given to Ch an t er ' s to hand-levers, s working which the st o ker is P the fire without exposing e heat consequ e nt upon his Lars e himself performing that operation with the furnace-door open. These three contrivances of the intermit tingly moveable class have hitherto attracted most attention, on which account, as well as be cause of their dissimilarity of action, we have be stowed upon them more consideration than our space will afford t o ot h ers of t h e same ki n d ; o f which last referr e d to we may men ti on Wh i Ay's, Carter's, and Galloway's, each depending more or less on arrangements of valves or dampers, the merits of which have yet to undergo the ordeal of Brea experience, discuss at a f u t ure opportun it y . and which we - may very probably We shall previously, and in continuation of these notices, describe the class of furnaces that, containing n o movea ble parts whatever, are naturally the easiest of construction. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR. RECONNAISSANCE OF THE DOBRITD SCHA—RAVAGES AMONG THE TROOPS BY CHOLERA. The following is from the letter of the special correspondent of a contemporary : VARNA, Aug. 9.—On Sunday morning, the 6th of this month, 5,000 or 6,000 men of the Zouaves and Light Division returned from Kustendje, in Dobrudscha, to Varna, by sea, and on the same day the great mass of the French expedition, which had come by land, encamped in the neighbourhood of the town. They had been absent on their re connaissance exactly 12 days, and perhaps in the annals of modern warfare it would be impossible to name another expedition of the kind in which sickness had committed such ravages in so short a space of time. It is no exaggeration to say that cholera and typhus literally decimated then. Of the whole force of 33,000 men, they have lost, including Bashi-B azou k s , u p war d s of 4,000 in the space of 12 days. Those who came by sea were principally the in valids, and men too delicate to. bear the fatigues of marchins , back. Th e f ormer a l one num b ere d up wards of 800.' I went down to see them disembark, and I thought I never saw troops in a worse condi tion ; they were the ghosts of their former selves —sun-burnt and haggard, fatigued and dispirited; and even the most hardy and robust spoke of the climate and malaria which existed in the Dobrud scha as being such as would destroy Europeans. As your readers will see, the Russians appear to have lost, in their five or six months' occupation of this coentry, upwards of 40,000 men. After the troops had landed the sick were got ashore. There was an awful train of them, and arobas and am bulances full were passing and repassing to the French hospital during the whole day. Most of these were cases of typhus and dysentery. Many were landed dead, and many died upon their arri val at the hospital. On the same evening, I am informed, 130 were buried. During the time the expedition was absent it tra versed the greater part of the Dobrudscha, from south to north, without meeting scarcely a human being. The whole country, which the French say seems remarkably fertile, is as desolate as Sahara. Most of the villages were deserted, and to all ap pearance had been so for some time. In most in stances no attempts had been made to sow the land, and the few crops which they found were standing and choked with weeds. About 10,000 of the French remained a little to the north of Hadschlogli-Basar, while the main body pushed, forward for Karasu and Kustendje, with the Bashi- Bazouks, Chasseurs d'Af r i que , and light infantry in advance.. The army was decidedly sickly when it commenced its march, and cholera and typhus had manifested themselves, though not very ex• tensively until the second and third day of the advance, when an alarming number were attacked by both diseases. From that time until their re turn on Sunday the sickness spread, and literally ravaged the camp ; of the French nearly 1700 died in about eight days, and almost as large a number were sick, and rendered for the time unfit for duty. But the loss which fell on our brave allies was nothing to that which visited the Bashi-Bazouks, under the command of General Yusuf. Everything about these unfortunate wretches predisposed them towards taking the diseases in their worst forms. Their dirty habits, and fashion of sleeping uncovered in the open, damp night air, induced fever ; their ir regu lar meals, composed almost entirely of fruit and vegetables, brought on cholera • and the mor tality from both causes was doubled, owing to their peculiar belief in fatalism, which led them in most cases to refuse all offers of medical assistance. Typhus and cholera, therefore, raged in their ranks unchecked, and literally destroyed them. Your rea lers will scarcely credit it, but it is a po sitive fact, that of the 2,600 Bashi-Bazouks who started with the French, upwards of two thousand perished within ten days. Ido not suppose there ever was an instance of such a rate of mortality. occurring among such a number of men in the same space of time. The French have now no Bashi-Bazouks, for of the 200 or 300 I,vhieli have returned, nearly all are invalids or wounded. Notwithstanding the sickness which desolated their ranks, the e-ich gallantry continued their march, and er arrived in the neighbourhood of Kus teuje about the lst of August. There, for the first time, they fell in with the enemy, who, having got notice of their approach, were falling back, driving before them an immense flock of sheep and oxen, arid having previously destroyed all the standing crops round the town. Only the left flank of the advanced French guard came up with the Rus sians, who numbered about 8,000 infantry, four re giments of Cossacks, and two regiments of regular cavalry. Against this superior t; wee the (Masseurs d'Afrique and Zouaves instantly made a dash, and a slight skirmish ensued ; the enemy all the while continuing their retreat under cover of their cavalry, with such precipitation as might be justly termed a flight. The Chasseurs d'Afrique over took the Cossacks and broke their ranks at the first onset, killing and wounding about 60, and making a small number prisoners. The whole of the enemy's cavalry then took to flight, leaving a large portion of their cattle in the hands of the French, who only sustained a loss of three men killed and 18 wounded. The French encamped round Kustendje, while the Russians fell back with a ll h as t e upon Hirsova, where it is said they crossed the Danube, thusfree ing the Dobrudscha of their preseence for this year, at least. There were very few inhabitants remaining in Kustendje ; the town, in fact, was deserted. The country round it was covered with a number of high earth mounds, which the villagers, in reply to questions from the French, said were the places where the Russians had interred their dead. From the size of these mounds they appear to cover pits containing 100 bodies, and there are scores and scores of such melancholy memorials in all direction. If what the inhabitants say be true, and as it is confirmed from other sources there is no reason to doubt it, the Russians have lost at the lowest com putation 40,000 men since they first occupied the Dobrudscha. The principal cause of the awful mortality was typhus, though latterly the cholera committed extensive ravages. The French remained at Kustendje until infor mation had been received that the enemy had crossed the Danube, when, as the mortality in their ranks was increasing, they commenced their march for this place and arrived, as I have said, by sea and land, on Sunday and Monday morning. The officers say that during the whole time they were absent they found it impossible to procure anything but their rations: It was rarely that they saw villagers, and when they did they had nothing to sell, being scarcely able to procure food for them selves, which they earned by working for the Russians. The Dobrudscha was at all times the most unhealthy and least civilised part of Turkey, yet it is no exaggeration to say that the Russian occupation of six months has thrown it back half a century. Whatever has become of the inhabitants —whether they have retired with the Russians, or been extirpated by them—Heaven only knows ; one thing, however, is certain, they no longer exist in the country. The few who remained when the French came up say, truly or untruly, that the Russians oppressed them with taskwork of the most laborious kinds, and that the Cossacks ravaged all the villages with a ferocity and relentlessness which at length desolated the place. Yet these atrocities, the accounts of which I fear are but too true oc curred within four days' march o f an allied army over 100,000 strong, which could not only have prevented them, but inflicted fearful punishment on the invaders, if " Aberdeen had made up his mind," and given us permission. THE BLACK SEA. We make the following extracts from a private letter, giving another account of the reconnaisance of Sebastopol by the Fury " Her Majesty's steam(); Fury, off Sebastopol, July 27.—0 n the 25th July her Majesty's steamer Fury was honoured by receiving on board Gen. Sir George Brown, Rear Admi ra l Si r E. Lyons, Colonel Lake of the Royal Artillery, and the French general second in command (who, by the way, I under stand from good authority, has made his way to his present grade from the ranks, and their respective aides-de-camp, 13 in number. Off the Fury goes at full speed for the harbour of Sebastopol ; following in her wake was the Terrible, paddle frigate, and a French steamer. After running for four hours she eased her speed and groped her way, as it was a very dark night. About 3.45, on the morn:na of the 26th, we observed our approach was known by the enemy from seeing the flashes of muskets for five or six miles along the coast, at spaces of about 400 yards distant. Large fires were immediately made in the background, and all on shore was commotion. At 5 a.m. we were within two miles and a half of the forts at the entrance of the harbour, where we remained some few minutes surveying the movements of the fleet. On a level with the outside of the forts were two liners, two steamers, and a frigate, which in ten minutes had their sails loosed, and ran a long way inside, to the no smalldisappointment of all on board. We counted 29 large ships ; but some of their hulls were not to be seen, as they were laid up the different creeks. We now gradually neared to within leas than a mile of a good-sized battery. The engineers on board were measuring distances by quadrant, arc. At 5.30 I was on the bridge, and I turned round to look at the fort, when at the moment I saw a shot coin ing in a direct line for the ship, and said, Here's a shot coming.' No sooner had the words passed my lips, then bang it struck the ship about three inches below the water-line, and went through into the after-hold, having in its passage destroyed two large jars of butter, and sun d ry dozen of empty bottles belonging to the midship men. This wag followed in a few seconds by an other. While I was walking to •the other side of the bridge where the captain stood, another passed over my head in a direct line, and they kept this up for ten minutes. We were hardly moving through the water at the time. We must have been quite riddled had all the shots that passed over us struck ; but it is supposed that they must have thought that their first shot, from having struck the water, was too low, and, consequently, elevated their guns a little too high. There was not one that fell wide of us. The Terriele came up, and they fired at her, but she did not approach so near by about a mile as we did. One shot struck and carried away some part of her main rigging. Two shells burst the other side of us, but not near enough to touch us. The admiral would only allow us to return one shot, and that carried away one of the yard-arms of a ship in harbour. We fired this shot merely to show them that it was not for the want of being able to reach them that we (lid not fire. We moved on easily, keeping about the same distance from the land, taking observations as to the best place for landing troops, Arc., but did not encounter any more forts. There were women bathing not four miles from where they were firing at us—rather cool work, I fancy, on their parts. They did not attempt to move as we passed them. We saw encampments on each side of the town, and swarms of troops drawn up in order of battle. "The spot, I think, chosen for the disembarking of the troops is a valley called Emptoria, about 20 miles to the north of Sebastopol. The military men and Admiral Lyons were quite delighted to find a place so well adapted for the ships to cover the troops while landing. "At 6.30 p.m. we again arrived abreast our old friend in arms the fort, which had given us such an unwelcome reception in the morning, and Ad miral Lyons intended giving them something fur their pains at long range, but by this time Admiral Dundas, with the fleet, was within signal distance. Fury's recall was made, and we then ran alongside the Britannia, where all the staff left and went on board. A short time after the Agamemnon left the fleet for Varna, with the generals on board, to make arrangements for the immediate transport of the troops to Sebastopol. Such is, I believe, the programme. "I suppose Admiral Dundas thought we had not done a good day's work, for about ten p.m. Fury was sent in again, and at eleven we found ourselves very near the mouth of the harbour, the fleet lying some distance in the offing. We lowered a cask full of tar and pitch overboard, after setting it on fire, firing a gun, burning a blue light, and firing a rocket, by way of keeping the enemy on the qui vive. Of course, there could be no particular ob ject in such manoeuvres ; no doubt they will be re peated often before our troops are disembarked, to baffle the enemy a little. I wonder they did not fire on us, as we were so near the two large forts at the entrance, and they would have hal such an excellent mark while the blue light and the rockets were burning. " We steered out and joined the fleet about three a.m. of this day. The shot we received measured 71 inches in diameter. The ship made a great quan tity of water till the hole was plugged up to-day. We have, in company with the fleet, coasted as far as B tlaklava, a distance of 2U miles to the east, where Fury was sent in to take soundings at the mouth of a small valley, which turned out to be au excellent spot for landing troops, and it is likely the marines from the fleets will be landed as a sort of diversion to attra..it the attention of the enemy, while the troops effect a landing at the point to the northward of the harbour. The marines will again embark. Such is the contemplated plan of attack at present. through Austria to Russia (to all intents and pur poses) identically the same language. It is here declared by England to Count BuoL, through the medium of the Earl of WESTMORELAND—as it had already been announced to the same statesman by France, through the medium of the Baron DE BOURWLZNEY—that peace can only be restored upon ?our imperatively requisite conditions. I. That the. Russian Protectorate in the Prin cipalities of Servia, Moldavia, and Wallachia - be abolished—the privileges accorded to those pro vinces by the Sublime Porte being placed under the collective guarantee of the principal Powers in the European part of Christendom. 11. That the mouths of the Danube be opened henceforth freely to the whole world's navigation. 111. That the navigation of the Black Sea be also relieved from any further restriction—the • treaty of the 13th of July, 1841, being entirely revised, and all diplomatic barriers being removed from the channels of the Bosphorus and the Dar danelles. IV. That the AUTOCRAT abandon all claim whatsoever to any right of interference between the Christian subjects of the Porte and the autho rity of the Ottoman Government. As we intimated when speaking of the condi tions of peace as laid down by the French Cabinet in the despatch of M. DxouYN DE L'HUYS, so we repeat in reference to the recapitulation of those same conditions by the English Cabinet in the despatch of Lord CLARENDON—they are excellent as far as they go ! But they ought to go very much further ! They ought not to be thus re stricted and narrowed in their application. They ought to include some reference not only to the emancipation of the Danubian Principalities, to the establishment of free navigation up the cur rent of that great river, to a similar provision as regards the waters of the Euxine, and to the extrication of the Christian subjects of the Porte from the encumbering aid of a Russian Pro tectorate ! Something in reason ought to have been said in allusion to the future of the Crimea, of Finland, of the Caucasus ! Surely, also, it might in reason have been expected that a whispered word of indemnity should have become audible through the medium of these simultaneous expla nations of the Allied French and English Govern ments. Briefly, the conditions of peace, as defined in the name of France and England (with a mut tered show of acquiescence on the part of Austria, and with a sullen withdrawal of any acquiescence at all, even in semblance, on the part of Prussia, as indicated by the obdurate silence of her Cabinet and SOVEREIGN), are "good" as far as they go : but they are altogether insufficient, we still insist, as securities for the restoration of permanent tran quillity to Christendom. While our workmen eat the bread of Free Trade, they are bound to let others eat it too. This, however, is a hard lesson for them, as well as for their betters, to learn. We are all Free Traders, till unrestricted competition makes free with our trade. Let that be touched, and it is wonderful how soon thousands of manufacturers and tradesmen, who shouted themselves hoarse against agricultural monopoly, are unwilling to surrender their own. We heard a brewers' friend rejoicing the other day that the New Beer Act left the certificate of character for selling intoxicating liquors in the hands of the Magis trate. "We can put down," said he, " half the beer shops in the kingdom through that." For the same reason we hardly ever find maltsters, paper-makers, or other manufacturers subject to the excise, very earnest in obtaining a repeal of the duties on their manufactures ; they well know that the securities required by Government, and, in producing a high)r-taxed article, the capi tal necessary, give to a comparatively few the command of the whole trade ; they submit to incalculable annoyance in the details of their business, and to the underhand competition of the fraudulent evader of duties, rather than risk free competition with the general public. When we see facts like these in middle life, and remember how lard it was to lay the ghost of Protection in the last election and the present Parliament, we must never be surprised that uneducated work men are still but poorly instructed in the essen tials of Free Trade. They had, indeed, by its means marvellously cheap bread till last harvest, and they have had unlooked-for means of purchas ing deai'er bread till the present harvest, and that too in spite of " the Rooshans ;" but they have yet to learn that Free Trade means that every workman should have unrestricted license to sell his labour, and every master full liberty to buy it. These remarks were suggested to us by the statement of the masons employed in building the new Parish Church at Doncaster, as to the causes of their strike. We prefer to take their own statement, as illustrating our view ; partly be cause we know of no reason 'to doubt its truth, and partly because, if it be unsound in principle, there is less reason to undertake the difficult task of arbitration bet Ween interested disputants. Their demands, to obtain . which they think it advisable to strike, are three—" Ist, that men not belonging to the trade shall not do masons' work ; 2d, that they shall be allowed full time for their meals, and not have their names called in their own time ; and 3d, that they be allowed two hours a week—i.e., that they commence work at seven on Monday morning, and leave at four on Saturday afternoon." We pass over general considerations, such as the failure of the great strike at Preston, the increasing supply of work men, the approach of the season when masons cannot work, and the certain loss to workmen by a strike, a loss which they can bear so much less easily than their masters ; and would invite their attention chiefly to the erro neous nature of their first and chief ground. It is plain that this is the sore point, since they state distinctly that they found it necessary to calla meeting to prevent "rubble wallers" encroaching upon their trade, and mas ters infringing upon their time. We would ask them what they mean by en croaching on a trade ? Encroaching on a man's legal property or privileges we can understand, but we must believe that trade is legally and (with the exception of trades liable to Government regulations) in fact too, as free as the sea or the Queme's highways. Since the most gigantic pro tection struck to the League, all those of less di mensions and strength have been successively falling before our Legislators, till it now requires some minute knowledge of trade and commerce to fin d. a representative of the once numerous race. Our labourers then, who more than any class , have b enef i ted both directly and indirectly by the repe a l of protective duties, ought to be the last to, reverse what Legislation has so beneficently done for them. They have reaped the full benefit of giving , every man's s kill and industry unrestricted play and of freein g t h em from all artificial restraints, a nnew fetters, d ftehtetyought scrupulously to avo id i nven ti ng If the " rubble wallers" have skill sufficient to do a kindred branch of work, and if they can handle successfully the implements re quisite for masons' work, why should their abili ties be denied exercise ? The qu es ti on i s not has it how a man came by his ability, but w h e th er he . If lie has, he has as good a right to dis pose of what he has in the open market as any other man. When some landlords, who were for compelling workmen to buy their English-crown bread exclusively, me t at Tamworth, to feast in honour of the principle of forbidding the foreign grower to sell food to the English labourer the 2 labourers of Tamworth made a riot out question whether an d gave them stonesandbrrott, yet enw we windows for a dinner. We do not justify riots, whether the Doncaster masons would not say,. and "serve them right too; why may not Jcii.;rAnrazi ozi the other side the watersell us t cebrret y ouki add, a siai d, an e twe buyit, if we went itr—aasi w o mo TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—There appears to be a general misunderstanding respecting gun-boats for the Baltic. It is true that the natural defences of Danmark, Sweden, and the Gulf of Finland are gun-boats, which I will describe. They are generally about 50ft. long, with 9ft. beam, oper , boats, carrying an 18-pounder long gun at their bow and carronade 32-pounder at their stern ; are moved either by sail or sweeps, which are long oars of 3011. in length, and handled by two or three men ; each boat carries about 30 sweeps, and perhaps 40 men. I have seen 20 boats in battery in the Belt in shoal water in a dead calm, where there was no pos sibility of getting at them, except by the boats of the fleet taking them by boarding, which was done. D.-n- mark has about 100 of these- gunboats, Sweden about the same number, and Russia many more. They cannot stand a heavy sea, and always keep along shore under the land, and come out only when required for attack. Now, our gun-heats will not have a single port to go to, must be with the fleet to be useful, and the Baltic has a short na,ty "sea up" in bad weather; therefore the boats must be decked for safety, and a 68-pound gun requires substance under it—a strong vessel, in short, to carry it. The mistake people make is, they consider ali the Baltic coast has shoal water; it is not so. The Belt ha;, it is true ; but among the rocks in Finland the water is deep. _ My friend . who commands is quite aware of what he is about ; all this was arranged before he left Ports mouth. It would be itnpos,ible to use the same sort of gunboats, as the Baltic water is, withotit one had har bours for them ; but, should we keep the Aland Islands, that is a different thing.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, BALTIC. Aug. 19. PRUSSIAN OBDURACY. At this point in the course of events it must in fair ness be remarked that the diplomatic proceedings of the British Government have been crowned with entire suc cess, except in one instance. Less than a year has elapsed since Austria stood in close alliance and per sonal intimacy with Russia at Ohnutz P her army re duced, her finances embarrassed, an d her position in Europe undefined. To restore the ancient alliance of tie Court of Vienna with those of England and of France was a work of no common difficulty, for that alliance had been shaken and impaired by a multitude of untoward events, and by a policy to which we might apply a harsher name. Never theless, the co-operation of Austria was the most im portant condition of success, and that co-operation has mainly been obtained by the patience, the forbearance, and the uniform good faith and goodwill shown to her by the Western Powers. The Moniteur of Sunday an .nounces that on the 18th the first Austrian corps had been ordered ity telegraph to enter Wallachia by the Rothenthurrn Pass ; and on the preceding day Austria had communicated to the Germanic Confederation the bases of peace for which she is arepared to contend, in conjunction with the Western Powers. The establish ment of this powerful alliance against Russia, with such elements to deal with as the French Government on the on) hand, and the Austrian Government on the other, is certainly one of the greatest achievements of the di plomacy of this country, and the Foreign Minister who has conducted this negotiation deserved the highest praise ; at the same time, he has been most a'nly sup ported by M. Drouyn do Lhuys and by Count Buol ; and the joint efforts of these Ministers have brought about a vast and salutary change in the public relations of Europe. But, if the expectations we have so long entertained and defended as to the ultimate policy of Austria are thus confirmed, so also are the suspicions with which we habitually regard the conduct of the King of Prus sia and the Cabinet of Berlin. We learn from Lord Clarendon's despatch that it was Prussia who declined to attend the Conference which Count Buol proposed to summon for the purpose of com municating the answer of Russia to the last Austrian demands. In consequence of this refuusal, which was in fact,, a withdrawal from the Conference, the further communications of the Three Powers were carried on in a confidential manner between London, Vienna, and Paris; and Prussia, as we stated at the time, dropped out of the position she had filled in the councils of Eu rope. When we say that the diplomacy of this country and its allies has been successful, except, in one instance, we mean that it has failed to rouse in the heart of the King of Prussia one spark of honour or independence, and that the Prussian nation, which does not s h are the infatuated devotion of that Sovereign to Russian idols, has as yet given no sign of its ability or determination to shake off Russian thraldom. The appropriate penalty for this pusillanimous abandonment of the interests of Germany and of Europe will t e he found in - the increased ascendancy w hi c h the Emperor of Austria had already acq u i re d, and will probably retain, every part of Ger many where the intelligence and national feelings o f that people are unsubdued. Should Prussia be indu ce d to go still further, andto w l il e l n fi d o h d e t r h s a el t f openlysmheorheas los lost h o r gwnitshoofutßouloastsiian she obtaining security, and, indeed, th e pre parations she is making for the defence of the Baltic coast indicate the apprehensions already excited by the presence of the allied fleets within a few hours' sail of Stettin and Dantsic. At present, however, it is enough that she be passed over in silence ; that these important engagements have been contracted without her ; that, as the matter now stands, the Eastern question may be settled without her ; and that she is deprived of the power to betray the cause which she, has refused to serve.—Times. Lieutenant Perry, whose trial before the Court-tnartial at Windsor is still pending, is a native of this town (Romsey). Ills father rose from the ranks, and was made a paymaster. Perry had his commission given to him on, account of his long services of his father. He was always considered a very worthy young fellow, Salisbury and Winchester Journal. THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE CHOLERA.--In con sequence of the spread of the cholera, Cardinal Wiseman it rie a it gt;t s c a te ad granted permission ciyisagionst atia t : hie flock s k to u e/ iss fles t. h neat ora COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MONDAY. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, attended Divine service at Osborne, yesterday morning. • The Rev, G. Prothero officiated. During the progress of considerable alterations, which are being carried out at Whippingham Church, by her Majesty's Command, to provide increased accommoda tion for her Majesty, the royal family, and royal house hold, Divine service is performed every Sunday at Osborne. Mr. Parkhurst has been appointed chief clerk to the Secretary of the General Post Office, in the room of Mr. Gadby, deceased. ACCIDENT TO THE LORD-LIEUTENANT. — The corres pondent of the A rmag h Guardian says :—" While riding with Lord Cl au d H am ilton at Baronscourt, the Lord- Lieutenant's horse put his foot in a half-hidden hole and fell, th row i ng his Excellency to the ground. His Ex cellency dislocated his thumb, and his face was consider. ably bruised ; but, providentially, he sustained no serious iniurY. Dr. Hamilton, of Newton-Stewart, attended him at Baronscourt. THE RRCENT ELECTIONS FOR' TILE PECOANT Bo- Bouags.—lt is stated that within a few hours of the return for the boroughs of Barnstaple, Maldon, and Hull, Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., was retained in support of petitions against the returns, upon the ground of cor rupt practices having procured such returns, and to defend the seats of the sitting members for the borough of Cambridge, against a petition threatened by the Con servative party in that town. A. shipbuilder -at Chester has stopped payment with liabilities reported at nearly 100,0001., of whi c h 40,000/, i s ow i ng f or ti m b er , a nd 18,0001. for iron. A. large shipping . company at Liverpool are among the-cre ditokliaving advanced 25,000/. ou a maul building for them, MORE DETAILS FROM BOIVIARSUND. DANTZIC, Aug. 19.—Bomarsund surrendered on We Inesday last, at 3 p.m. About 1,900 prisoner, were taken in the large fort. The tower on the island of Presto surrendered soon afterwards, a priest having been sent to the occupants to teb them to surrender. This fort bad twelve guns. The French vessels at Bomar in action were Oh: Inflexible, Duperre, Tage, and Trident. The pri soners were sent on board the Royal William and St. Vincent. No fort was blown up by the Rus sians, as reported. One Russian general, corn tnanding the principal fort, was taken prisoner ; hi is eighty years old. The forts on Aland island, it is said, will be entirely destroyed, and the troops will not winter there. The block ships in action were the Edinburgh, Ajax, Blenheim, and Hogue (frigates), Termagant, Amphion, and Arrogant, and six small steamers, the Valorous, Driver, Ball dog. and three others, the names of which hay& been forgotten by the olfieer of the Basilisk. Abou 30 to 40 were killed, wounded, and mi ss i ng (French) ; English, 2 killed, and 1 seriously wounded, besides those in the Penelope. It is worth notice that the French siege -train had not arrived, and in consequence several very large gnus had to be drawn on sledges for a dista.Lce of three miles by the English sailors, under command of Captain Ramsay, of the Hogue. By this means the second large tower on the main island was very quickly breached, and it surrendered in a few hours. RENEWAL OF NEGOCIATIONS ANTICI PATED. The Wanderer of Vienna of the 16th says Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Ambassador, who, it is no well known, is invested with very extensive powers, has declared that the condition, laid down by the French Cabinet may give rise to negotiations provided Russia is allowed to share the Protectorate of the Principalities, and that au assurance be given to the subjects of the Porte pro fessing the Greek religion of concessions consistent with the attitude and precedents of Russia. Tilt. note of the 29th June, addressed to the Cabinet of is not the last document which been exchanged on the subject of the evacua tion of the Principalities. After the Cabinet of Vienna had received that note, and declared that it felt compelled to persist in its demands for an unconditional evacuation. Prince Gortschakoff received a fresh note from St. Petersburg, which was communicated to the Cabinet of Vienna oil the Bth, and in which it was stated that the Czar had resolved to evacuate the Principalities without any condition, as he was convinced that it was only at that price that Austria would support his efforts to re-establish peace by every means in her power." _ Tho Presse of Vienna has the following from St. Petersburg, dated the 10th :—" Count Nessel rode continues to manifest a strong desire for peace, and he has frequent conferences with the Emperor, whose illness is almost at an end. The Emperor goes out frequently, accompanied by General O ilerberg, whose brother had a mission in the Principalities and Bessarabia, to report on the state of the Russian armies. This report is said to be very unfavourable. He describes the armies a , . having neither subordination nor discipline, and as being almost in a state of dissolution." THE FALL OF BOMARSUND, The following communication gives a succinct and connected account of the operations against Bomarsund from the 7th until the 16th inst., when the whole garrison surrendered Atm:in 7.—The conformation of the Bay in front of Bomarsund may be again described as taking the shape of a half-circle, the diameter being about three miles, the land around is high and well wooded, and intersected by creeks and inlets, which break it up into numerous islands. Looking on to the batteries from the centre of this bay, they would bear about north. On the extreme east our men-of-war were moored, but as the troop transports and their attendant steam-ships came in, they gradually stretched across the mouth of the bay to the west shore, which had been selected as the place of landing two divi sions of the army. At sunset Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Admiral Chads, and Admiral Seymour (Commodore of the fleet), passed through the troop ships, inspecting their p os iti on an d giv ing the orders for disembarkation. It was a splendid even ing ; and the sun setting tinged the light fleecy clouds with a bright red and purple hue,. as the swarm of troop ships gradually passed over, playing the national airs of England and France. The forts on shore looked grim and silent, and look-outs could be observed gazing with astonishment on this unexpected scene. ' 9 p.m.—Signal to the whole fleet to get out boats. Half-past 10.—Amid the greatest silence the Termagant crept under the land of the western promontory and neared the shore within 200 yards, followed at intervals of a quarter of an hour by the Stromboli and Sphvnx, two boats being sent ahead sounding the passage. The moon being full favoured this operation. Aug. 8, 1 a.m.—Three heavy cannons were fired from tho earthwork fort on some boats passing. 2 a.m.—The Penelope gently steamed away with a long string of boats, and the Valorous followed. The morning was now breaking, and white mists arose from the marshy creeks, and rolled over the forts, enveloping them in a transparent veil. Half-past 2 a.m.—Began barricading the tops of Am phion and Phlegethon. Boats rapidly passing to the troop ships. 3 a.ta.—The Edinburgh, with boats hanging all around her, left her anchorage. Admiral Chads was on the bridge. She rounded the west point to support the landing, and immediately sent four shells into the woods, to discover if theie were obstructions, The Duperre, French liue-of battle ship, followed her. All the glittering brass field pieces were now towed across in lap pouto-ons, and the horses, placed in same d escr i p ti on of b oat, were behind them. 4 a.m.—The Phlegethon (French) and Amphion (B °ll lish) steamed th roug h an intricate eossage, and moor ed themselves to the west of the earthwork battery, where 0° guns could be brought to bear upon them. They till opened a terrific fire with shot and shell, which fell wit., beautiful precision, the trees which partly masked cracking and falling in all directions. In half an hour they ceased firing and sent three boats in to spike the gu ns ' The men lauded, and waving the French and English Ogg' gave three cheers. It was seen, however, that the ene% had desert e d hi s b a tt ery upon nding their guns useless the unforeseen position which the . Ships had taken, up. a t , Sir 'Charles Napie r ; w h o , i n th e B u lld og, h a d ilea o n f iln ii the western sh ore t o reconno it re, made the signal " ".* done, Amphion." • 5 a.m.—The Stromboli was despatched into a nerrn vi - if let to watch the enemy and clear the bush of riflemen any were observed. The first round tower and the 1 fort now commenced throwing shell at the Amphion tye Phlegethon ; thee dropped extremely close, and esuPeted Phlegethon to move h er b ert h , b ut the Amphion reel' with mu c h p er ti nac i ty, and became for an hour or te• o , l floating t a r ge t f or th e enemy. In the meantime the At b "; reiral had come up in the Bulldog, and, together Wit•h„ Stromboli, return e d th e fi re o f t h e Round Tower to nivo. it from the landi ng opera ti on, which was now rap idly P eeeding. The battalion of leir d Marines have been °env War together with the Fre—. marines, on board her areie L s Z c e ship Driver, to the north shore of the island, at the 14 of the forts. By 8 o ' c l oc k t h e Work of di sem barkatinn eon . finished, and the celerity of this operation must be • sidered most m arve ll ous, f or i n the space of 3 hours landed the Upwards of 11,000 t roops had been safely lae" the forests of an enemy's country, and where ever, °P ti r e ; a sition might have been ex p ec t e d , ta ki ng i nto onside :s o u the nature of the roads th e y h a d t o traverse,, an d },he re. known guerilla practi ce o f th e R uss i an r ifl eme n. A, ea fleets the highest credit u p on a ll concerne d , an d 13 2 ° 5 ' remain as a record of singular energy and rapidity :rinbt• 9 a. rn.—Sir Charles N a pi er s hif te d his flag . to the 1 , ,„, nine, and then steamed c l ose a b reast o f t h e forts, taw' soundings, and here and there laying out a buoy , * A nd 11 a.m.—Sir Charles aga i n re t urne d t o th e Buling' o hip while moving to an d f ro in f ron t o f th e enemy,, tig grounded within gunshot. Although the Adinun _high was at the fore, they refrained from firing upon her, tee tee was considered r a the r i ncompre h ens ibl e. At 6 13* Bulldog was got off undamaged. forte fo The following i s th e li s t o f s hi ps moore d o ff the "- ENGLISH. i r el Bulldog (flag Sir C. Napier), Edinburgh (f 13,5 gdm 7..011t1 Chads), Hogu e , Aj ax , Bl en h e i m, Amphion., l ,e r ,a tors Bellisle (hospital-ship), Penelope, Sphynx, Valorous, Vulture, Pigmy, Lightning. elitis Troop Transports.—Prince, Julia, ColuColumba,• C °rA Fox. Yachts.—Mavis, Foam, Esmeralda. • Cutter.—Sparrowhawk. FRENCH. Inflexible (flag-ship), Breslau, Trident, Page, PeO tte' St. Louis, Algeriue (hospital ship). mined" Steam Ships—Phlegethon, Darien, Soufiieur, Darien, Imerial cht. Of the ab p ove English ships all are steam With the !I ce tion of Belleisle, " &thi cl• ' At°. On tho north side of the i s l an d a re the Leergh pant, Odin, Hecla, Locust, Porcupine, Otter, Cuckoo. • e As each regiment land e d, th e y f orm ed into orderfort rocky shore, and marched through the thick Pint l i s ter and over th e h e i g ht s , th e i r b ayone t s an d red eel's er ing in the morni ng sun . Th e cen t re wing of the fur s dir tunheggitsecrtomhueinnktereayy ttooa camped for the night in and around a large villeg a . the/ i i : l l t l haea y eal.Pn l e lr i t }; tance of less than two miles from the tower vlblt y ele' were destined to attack. This tower, from its 11 'g ro od; vated position, commands a great portion of the er ien , provisions,nnad ea ki h oe e n r gt e hfeo G ifit e r eiwttearasaelssaeßenulatrr,eatagie.n ay d'Hil tugs of The small steam-ships were employed th at evening the. Amphiou moored in /mat of the batte r Y t heir had been destroyed, to prevent the enemy reinste ting guns. August 9. —0 n a I l n a na n d u i n n i g tio t n : k ro c c Sir Charles Napier visited the General at tbe?ea'., eed quarters, and returned at 9 p.m. • , to I found a perfect scene of bustle and a niniatio ll.c a nd t ti h r e ou 'b ;h ret.he shore was lined with boats discharging n ravi ' ie :ol 4l. ammunition. Field-pieces were strewed aboeb eive ble beret!, and boxe s , casks, and every o ne - t out re p , description of package piled up in heaps. On e _ F r eno" was bivouacked upon the sands and rocks, and ch* . 0 , end with their usual foresight, had distrained the na',,,,, g 0 to carts of the peasants in order to transport their bal . : 6 nd de; head-quarters. These they wero rapidly loading _ rtio of spatching. Th e roa d was f u ll o f lif e , straggling Pa, eel, soldiers bringi ng i n wa t er , sheep, pigs, ducks, aan.cbsse° lonsumable articl e th a t could by possibility be 1 3 ,1',`, A rta with or witho u t mone y. The main body of built] no au rested upon the pr e tty village of Skarpans, wit? sininence, about f o u r miles inland, and do t n e ee rs red windmills, peculiar to these islands. The Il to wert listant about a mile and a half from the first rall u ode r und in one of the low wooden houses the C0ra1, 31 . ,„, aP in-Chief, General Baraguay had '`tanefor, its resi 'ence. Between this and the enemy, s" ;t4etched a narrow valley, with a long WT., 01 water, and beyond there rose an extended r i alder,. -oaks and high land to the height of 200 feet, and A . 1 1 : shelter of which the advanced body wero encatoPll4,lo Consisted of three re4iinents—a battalion of troolil Marines, the same- number of Plnfanterie de i s VP French), and the 12th battalion of Chasseure., o .of were under the command of Brigadier General J°l 3 ,:'," he Royal Engin-ers, the other appointments he'"et; ollows :--Colonel Graham, commanding Royal Marte.iv, captain Elliot, brigade major; Lieutenant Poore, it• f4 .,..,- e ati• n command of a battery of four 121 b. howitzers • "„ - j aii indliffe, R.N., in charge of the rocket party ; Lieute ; "„ ad 'agent, R.E., commanding sappers and miners; Lennox, aide-de-camp to the General. The P"Ill• Marines and Artillery occupied the centre of the its , ance, and had pitched their tents in a ravine, in ,re uidst of a young; plantation of fir a n d j un i per. Th a r fld listant only 800 yards f rom th e R oun d Fort. 070'dt heir position w a s th e ma i n roa d l ea di ng into Borrierg,":32' unit the field-pieces, howitz e r s , an d some f e w k°, ls° s l b! ,)ouuders frou the men-of-war, were ranged along P.*: sad nun had encamped here late the p rev i ou s evening i theit were now engaged in various ways—some erecting - w ith 'ents, others mounted in the fir trees cutting dot n'„ „ap their swords the b ra n c h es t o cover them in, Pil l "tbe cross poles to hang their accoutrements, Gpoki% the •linner, or watching the camp-kettle, and, to add fo al xciternent, half-a-dozen horses had been c aught °P oo na the neighbourhood) and these, with only a halte r eo p on their necks, were wildly galloping with th e 00 0 p, their backs through the very centre of the 40 , u nent danger of either breaking their ne„% n i e roP being bodily transported into the power of tb u it o plO r Early in the morning the marines had been oblige', hsv rng their position slightly, four canisters of bullet! :die burst among the m , an d di s t ur bi ng th e repose go ut g 060 the officers and men, by scattering under and about pillows. 5 e ff At 2 p.m. General Baraguay d'Hilliers with came into the encampment and minutely in s Pai e r r i• preparations. He is a fine noble looking- ea 11°_, stands as e rec t an d fi rm as a muc h you nger leel' enc h we' 74 years of age , an d l ost hi s l e f t h an d in the Fll A ,4os * with Russia, in 1812. I returned again to the be!'"'" It t ters, and more closely observed the* French ea,.l;4llsg: tents of the so ldi ers were scattered around to 00011,: :a every directi on and position, upon rocks antuhe in fields and gardens, in the copse and on tbe on the village green, and even beneath° the relief ;Hills. mills. Troops of men were marching about t we re g te r th.) guards and outposts, and foraging parties. aieugh out in search of cattle. A good bakehouse and c et alle f ; souse have been established already, aad opened their tents, with a guard to prot t ; to ra 00 ! the sale of little luxuri.as for the soldiers. y h into to the shore I found that a pier had been runt, _ of gHost onand a crane erected for the purpose of landing 1 1%, t0 . Q. 0 Aug. 10, 10 a.m.—The Penelope, in a tten l n_7 o ° , g ot r i' s, oetween the islands from the south to the norttahse` long, f , ° a rs• shore off the island of Prasto, within range °I L . oc bet whereupon they opened fire and continued it 1. ,to boat s 1, The Admiral had at once ordered all „eugh the gong assistance, and the Hecla and Pigmy ea l ue 1 ,40 1 o ar nag age as well to attempt to tow her off. to and the vl,Lere, ip Edinburgh and Valorous caused them immedrl; 10 } th e :hence throwin g s h e ll s i n t o th e fort from ° wit hout f o r guns, which they did w ith impunity, hel lion° vis9 ea • range of the forts. A littl e after 12 the Pe s t.', ;oo, th e t, e rtir unately was rem o v e d f rom her critical po everhAterf :viral h av i ng or d ere d a ll h er guns t o be throeha, 001 when the Hecla at once towed her IW.' ere kills" O. ired some red-hot shot, by which two men thr ong bo at, three wounded. One shot passed completelli c ob de ship, killing a man, and then falling inta l ' r are Ire killing another. The names of the me gibers' a nd e -sat Privet, petty officer, and Thorn of is B T e rra wounded—Robinson, a marine, and:two • 21 and Belleisle. , , i 2 .3 s h e oi sn t The large fort discharged at the Penelop e of which struck either her hull cr rigginf h ie 00 0 Cowell, R.E., was wounded in the caniß r n' d o ot W e d ors the accidental discharge of his revolver. -1"1„eploicot, been P„ t3OO men from the block ships have „won• shore in getting the long 32-pounders in b g Ramsay, of H.M.S. Hogue, has the coull,3e: tro se ..a t boit August 11.—This morning the work ;_ )l e be nd 01 ,: e bieg heavy guns continued, and the sailors, with en „, n*oo. head, hauled away at these cumbrous wes_P ß,o yalpa e theta through the village and to the camp of the _ ale upo b Or , Me Ist Round Tower kept up a fire at inter ag ong h ey whenever in view. Sir !Charles Napier , Bar h a ve, drove trough the encampment, and d'Uilliers arranged the disposition of for ae __friag o - vi ith s. geo 0 11 ai been all day employed filling sand-bags en d e b for the batteries of the long guns. Chew The outposts of the Marines • and Uhea' neto y 1 5 0 0 1 some skirmishing, and six or seven the e l i ng tured. The men are thrown out within behind tee and they creep up the rocks, hiding D. l !"_._ ta the in 1 .; stones ; they are not more than 200 yards . 1 ., 0 . 1 A Russian spy has been taken to-day in ttl i e li v us''e gti7b° male attire, and yesterday a Russian offloef" ladi n ttiet a priest ventured through in a carriage ir" n d °n vg side. The ;tensbserved his face newly shorn , ' awa y, turn ppeared confused, le th turn in the road leading to the forts. J-, l e vel rushed after him, but of no avail, so t his 0/ ) ." _ and dr m o w ve o Frenc h e a u or e rifles and have either killed or wounded , at the 61- P t horse T he going e l a n t p f e u t l e l daygallop- has intoae takenthe on fort. h 0 arc, . the go ne ° . the nit Termagant for her upper decks. Desultory firing has continued picturesque village, in which the advance the troops, and their shells have se al t l fi d re ay t°7 l l ht ss t s °oati g i ste ret a 6 ' ito were kil led lig tlohceawtehde.leTnhigehhtowuistehbueninmgitoifgadtreyd fwuood, theY .-510 August 12.—Two French soldiers 0 ,, ~,otalo a wounded in the night by a clumsy error P" e loP ° relief picket. the the Fer/f he 0 6 ' we L re as e t ar n r i i g e h d t h t y be tor t e w h o .i m igh en t t k e il s le s d ra n D.L' ral rites performed ; they were sil ently ted Woe. i! t o; a m n o d rn p i l n a g nt a e( b i o s a o t m 's e c e r m e walllafinrdeedvetrhetrheeiarngdriejvleialf,dopP ts - 'a at the foot they carved the words " W°°' 11i tree." 0 been evgago ° The Artillery of the Chasseurs have 300 3 0 ° ° ai r KO % day in filling their shells for the mortars, roc ks, 1 0 • which were ranged under shelter °f which they 18 40d t cl heavy planks up to their advance, wh.e u , o all of sand, as a platform for the guns to ru.n e r - to e sP" sa th e of gabions were also transported to tb filled with earth. tossing icH ie° latter p s o , . b aa TchhAraesuesgenrusrratelnarthmAeiotrr4tfiaare.slmd.aptnihdeeeefitahrsrwteeerrll febrtrass/Ifietee'hit: were now planted in their batteries, were upon the fort, while the mortars Iv. t`iT t fig on , mofeautgienntrleeasilitoype. After Tho Fhraelnfchannohwunbueeogairendatiicesti4tano tamed a beautiful range, and kept P ';`," ert+ . _ w ° — done esunonade, the Lobelia burstin - • 1 j