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/ v 4.4 rvof ~., i:A.,;A ~'~ ATRE nOTADRURY LANE Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, ArunsT 19. Will be performed Donizetti's Opera. IXCREZT t B n it GlA • Characters by Mme. Car..dori (her last appearance), Miss Fanny Hudtirt, signor Arno.di, Signor ravesi. To conclude with a favourite BALLE P DIVERTISSEMENT. prices--Gallery, 14.; Pit, 23.; Upper Boxes, 35.; First Circle, 43.; Dress Circle, 55.; Stains, 7s. ; and rrivate Boxes, One, Two, Three, and Four Guineas each. THEITRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Ender the management of Mr. 13nekstons. TIII3 EVENING. AVGINT 19, WM be performed THE OLD CITATEALT. Characters by Messrs. Bows. Rogers, IL Marston, and Backstone; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Reynolds. Followed by the SP-ANISE - I DANCERS in a GRAND BALLET The new Farce A 3 LIKE AS TWO PEAS. LYCEU3I TEEITRE. Mr. and Mrs. SIMS REEVES' FAREWELL PERFORMANCES. Mr. ALLCROFT begs to announce that he has entered into as Engagement with Mr. and Mr . SLAB REEVES for Two Fare well Performances previous to their departure from London for the season. On MONDAY EVENING, Avorire 21, (By special desire, and for One Night only) Will be presented LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Edgar, Mr. Sims Reeves ; Douglas Ashton. Mr. Weiss ; Lucia, Mrs. Sims Reeves. On WEDNESDAY NEXT, August 23, on account of its great success, Baize's popular Opera of HE BOHEMIAN' GIRL. To conclude with each Evening the Grand Ballet entitled LES PAYSANNES DU NORD, supported by Mdlle. D'Antaine, assisted bymoe . E. Horn , mart. n, Boston, Marie, Charles, and an effi by cient Corps de Ballet. B ox es, 5s ; 2s. 6d.; Gallery, 7s. Private Boxes, 215., to be had at the Box-office. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Aileron. THIS EVENING, AuocrsT 18, win be performed HARD TIMES. reliowed by FACAT ANW MARGUERETE. Mephistopheles, jar. Malford; Faust, Miss G. Hodson; Marguerite, Miss H. Gordon. To conclude with a FARCE. Stalls, 45.; Boxes, 2s. Gd.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes iel Is. to be had of Mr. Allcroft. 15, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. "This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves wanting. Vocal and instrumental music of the first order, and a display of fireworks which exceeds all imagination, are a fitting close to a day at the Crystal Palace." DANSON'S COLOSSAL PANOMANIA of CHUSAN. - Splendid and Extensive Menagerie and Marine A.quaritun—Unri vaned Military Band. VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, in which Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, and Mr. ManTers sing several National and Patriotic Songs—All the Amusing Novelties of the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan terns," and a most magnificent display of Fireworks by Southby. Admission One Shilling. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been erected. Full Quadrille Band, &c. ASTLRY'S ROYAL \IP MT Fl E.:AT Iv , — Leasee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. In preparation, with entirely new scenery, and every nececsiry requisite, a Grand EQUESTRIAN BURLESQUE, from the pen of a popular author. Every pains have been taken, and the most profuse expense has been lavished, 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, give la France. tfo.r which, the in i mitable SCEN ES in the A RENA , invented arr'anged. and directed by Mr. William Cooke. HERR CHRISTOFF, whose miraculous Feats on the Tight Rope have absolutely electrified the audienoe, will appear. The whole to conclude with the Equestrian Ballet d'Action, by Mrs S. G Healey, TIIE K NIGII r AN 1) THE WATER LILY; or Love among the Mermaids. Kos.-otlice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. V. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T4l DAY —Mornin" 33 min-after 10 I Evening 17 millotfl 17 - falfnagow—Morning 0 min.after 0 Evening 54 Ei ain.aft. 11 THE WEATIIER.—SuIt Orrice, AUG. 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 66 —highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BM:101MM 30'20. WIND, N.W.—Fine, sunshiny v eather. pmt LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1854. SURRENDER BOMARSUND. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH TO THE ADMIRAL TY. ADMIRALTY, SATURDAY, AUG. 19. A. Telegraphic Despatch has been received at the Admiralty this day from the Flag Lieutenant of Vice-Admiral Sir CaARLES 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. The appetite for warlike news in England will only be whetted by intelligence such as that just received in reference to the sanguinary fight ing at the Aland Islands, followed (gloriously for the Allies) by the surrender of Bomar sund. Naturally enough, people are becom ing solicitous iu earnest as to the result, this year, of all our gigantic preparations for the humbling of the pride of Russia, now that the campaign, with a painful resemblance both to the wounded snake and the alexandrine, is "dragging its slow length along" to the very verge of Octo ber. A great beginning has yet to be made in the labour of the subjugation of the pride and obsti nacy of the AUTOCRAT. Once seriously com menced, that task must be effected completely without any interruption in the process of its accomplishment, unless the Western Allies of Turkey are really desirous of bringing glory to their antagonist, and discredit upon themselves. Let the war be at last commenced now vigor ously, and, we would ask, is there time left within the limits of the present campaign for its decisive termination ? Scarcely. Scarcely, even with the mighty forces, both military and. maritime, col lected together in the Black Sea and in the Baltic by the French and English Governments. Why, according to all accounts from the Gulf of Finland, it would be little less than the work of an entire campaign to destroy the insular fortifications of Sweaborg, and to effect the capture (by destroying those fortifica tions) of the powerful • City of H elsingfors. Be yond which, of course, we all k now but too well, lies that mighty outpost o f t h e empire of the CZAR—Cronstadt—with its terrible batteries, batteries terrible in themselves, but doubly s° because associated with all the perils and obstruc tions of shallow navigation. Turning agai n t o the Euxine we cannot overlook the formidable besides the garrison o f the cons id er ation that, Crimea, especially that enormous portion of it sheltered within the vast fortification s of Sebastopol, there are upon the shores of the Black Sea to bo overcome either in succession or simultaneously the Mus covite soldiers in Moldavia and th ose also in the Caucasus. If the Russian army in Circassia has been worsted, although with occasional successes of its own by way of moderate, or at least seeming compensation, the Allies are retarded in that quarter by the decision with which the warrior Prophet SCRAXYL demands preliminary guarantees from the Ottoman Porte (as to the future) as security for his active and • goer:retie co-operation. again the soldiers of the Russian Eamon ilow fast retreating in the direction, not ruerely ;:-`1 4_44 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1654. juniors (Lieutenant Cußns) 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, Eke his superior officer, that "he had no recollection of hlving 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 non sequitur. He might hare verily believed them to be true, and the common conversation in 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 that 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 had previously been regarded ; and, in truth, it was difficult to place them in a worse point of view. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR. 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 thee admonitions, and to be careful." A second order relating to the issue of a daily glass of grog, and to the increase of th e mea t ra ti on , has, it will be readily believed, given unmingled satisfaction to all concerned ' • the only drawback being the fear ex p resse d a t the end that, like other " comforts," the thing may be " t oo goo d t o last." I qu o t e 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 for each non-commissioned officer and soldier. 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 be increased from llb to lAlb. 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 fasciues, 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 A ill not see the Crimea this year. I mentioned in a former letter that the Duke of Cambridge had been unwell from diarrhcea. 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 Maule, 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 the 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 am i a bl e , an exce ll en t 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 off in 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 troopsis 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 occur 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 ast consolation, for the chaplains are 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 This is almost in credible. It is useless to alarm friends and re lations at home 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 Russians had left dead men and horses, and that very night the cholera broke out. We are getting up large flatbottomed b oa t s h ere 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. 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, a ft er 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 Eipartero, 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 99f. 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. 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 5C11413171,, the valiant " warrior-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 be 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. 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 unparalleled 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 he 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 undue 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. Major- General WETHERALL might have intended to hol.d the scales with an equal hand, but the very circum stances in which lie 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 au officer of such rank and influence iu the capacity of prosecutor. He was the senior in 1 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 ance 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. fie states that Colonel GARRETT and Captain NICHOLAS are " practically placed in the situation of defendants !" Now this is not true (we do not use these terms in an offensive sense, as implying any wilful falsehood on the part of the gallant officer, but simply as indicating a grave "mistake" on his part). If Colonel GARRETT and Captain NICHOLAS had been defendants, they could not have been examined or given in their versions of the case. This might not have been very im portant so far as they themselves were concerned, for the extraordinary failure of memory of one, and the no less extraordinary non-appearance of the other, would, before an impartial tribunal, have been very prejudicial to their cases ; but had they really been so, the testimony of Lieutenant PERRY could have been received, and his sworn statement should have received due consideration and just weight from the military Judges. They are to decide on a transaction which occurred only between Colon el GARRETT and Lieutenant PERRY ; they exclude the testimony of the one who could have spoken distinctly, unequi vocally, and positively as to the fact, while they are to give their verdict on the evidence of the man who could " not charge his mind," with having done so, and " who did not think it occurred." Which of the parties was most likely to have his mind impressed with the occurrence, the senior who administered, or the junior who received, a sharp rebuke ? Colonel GARRETT might really have forgotten the " wigging," as it i s technically termed, but not so the subaltern who repaired with tears in his eyes, and in great excite ment, to complain of the conduct of the Command ing -officer, to the only one of his brethren from whom he received the slightest degree of consi deration or counsel. Major-General WETHERALL takes upon himself most unwisely and injudi ciously to assert, that the evidence of Paymaster CORCORAN is only hearsay of the most objectionable kind—being hearsay from the prisoner himself. Now this surely proves the total and unqualified ignorance of the gallant officer of the very com monest rules of evidence. He ought surely to have known that in cases where one party has been injured by another, there being no third party present who could give direct testimony, the prompt complaint of the sufferer affords the strongest possible corroboration of the statement. Is it possible that, for the purpose of making evidence in August, 1854, on charges which could never have been anticipated until they were actu ally preferred, Lieutenant PERRY could, in June, 1853, have assumed an appearanee of intense ex ritement, and actually brought tears into his eyes, when complaining to Paymaster CORCORAN ? it possible that, having been advised to write a ' letter of appeal to the General of the District, he should have stated that " he had done so, and been called a fool for his pains ?" Major- General WETHERALL may call that " hearsay evi dence of the most objectionable sort," but he can get very few disinterested persons to join in the op i n ion, more especially when we find it the sub ject of ordinary conversation in the regiment, and made the ccca6i°ll of a vulgar taunt by one of the.. DEATH OF LORD BEAUMONT. We are enabled to correct a misstatement 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, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, at twelve o'clock on the night of the IGth 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, daughter 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 1344 Isabella Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Kilnaine, by whom he leaves Henry, now Lord Beaumont, born in 1843, and two other children, a son and daughter.—Standard. GO WES, ISLE OF IFIGHT.-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 and 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 1001., 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 Alarm 243 „ ... Joseph Weld, Esq. Titania Arrow Osprey COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Aug. 18. 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 Ely, 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 Speth, Viscount Hardinge, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir George Couper, 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 liinnours, 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, arid family, have left town for Paris. CELEBRATION OF THE MAJORITY OF LORD VALLETORT. —On 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 Marry Smith, K.C.8., Lord Ilchester, Lord Vivian, and others. — Plymouth Mail. MARRIAGE OF THE SULTAN'S DAUGHTER.—The Vienna Presse has advises from Constantinople of the 10th, stating that the marriage of Princess Fatima and Red shid Pacha'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 Paella is " a recompense for the eminent services which that great statesman has rendered to his sovereign and his country For force of talent, nobleness of character, and patriot. ism, both energetic and pure, no one 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. APOTHECARIIa-HALL.—Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs day, August 17 :—Algernon Charles Wodehouse Nor ton, Monmouth-road, Bayswater; Evan Pierce Wil liams, Denbigh. Lieutenant Nasmyth, who distinguished himself at the siege of Silistria, has not been promoted to the rank of Major, as has been generally supposed. Hi s name has merely been recorded for that rank by brevet, after his 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 for his heroic conduct at Silistria—a result which we believe cannot have been contemplated by the military authorities. RECEIPT STAMPS.—Yesterday a return obtained by Mr. Muntz was printed of the price paid per 1,000 for printing and gumming the penny receipt stamps. The price 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 the former is of a very expensive kind. DISTURBANCE AT A BALL.—Mr. Charles Brown, stated to be a cornet in the 4th Light Dragoons, was yesterday charged before the magistrates of Brighton, with assaulting Mr. George White, chief constable of the borough. On Thursday night there was a ball at the Town-hall. The prisoner made his appearance at the door of the ladies' cloak room, and was entreated 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 and used very gross language. After that he went through the room twice. The chief constable attended compelled t o endeavoured take to brin g him him ut o to custody, reason, w but he a r e t u last n was he resisted and th e assault took place. Y ester d ay morn ing he pleaded guilty , expressed his regret, paid 51., and wee liberated. THE ATTACK ON BOMARSIIND. DINTZIC, 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, bDmbarded 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 Bomarsuud, Aug. 17 : Admiral b .- spier 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 slips 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 crnsists of 48,000 French and 24,000 English. TILE PRINCIPALITIES. The followiag has been received from Vienna : " Orders hive just been issued for the Austrian troops to enttr Wallachia. " ORsovA, Aug. 18.—The Austrians have com menced crossing the frontier at Turnu-Severin. " BUCIEAREiT, Aug. 14.—Omer Pacha has issued a proclamatioa to tranquillise the Wallachians. " The Turkish outposts have advanced along the Jalomnitza. CZERNOW[TZ, 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 Horning Post : CAMP OF TIE FIRST DIVISION.—GEWLECKER, August 4.—Tl e absorbing topic here is no longer the discussion of ephemeral rumours about forth coming movements towards scenes of active war fare. An enemy more terrible than Cossack lances has attacked the allied force—fever, cholera, and diarrhoea, anc other complaints, are doing their deadly work ; and when their ravages will cease , human sagacity may vainly speculate. Every di vision of the a•my 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. Grin. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fus. Fever Diarrhcea, Cholera Other complants... 10 107 61 77 Total sick. 245 ; including convalescent, 334. AD GUST 1. Gren. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fus. Fever Cholera Diarrhoea Other complaints... 9 Total ... 129 74 80 Total sick, 283 ; including conraleacent, 333. A UGUST - 2. Gren. Grda. Coldstream. Scots Fus. Fever Cholera Diarrhea Other complaints... 13 Total Total sick, 292 ; including convalescent, 395. AUGUST - 3. Gren. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fus. Fever Cholera Diarrhcea Other complaints... 12 Total Total sick, 304 ; including convalescent, 399. The above relates to sickness. The reports of deaths in the same brigade, since the cholera and lever set in, have been as follows : Gren Gds. Coldstm.Seots Fns. Deaths previous to July 27 6 July 27 1 ff 23 11 29 ~ 30 f 1 31 Aug. 1 II 2 1 3 1 ff Total 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 j ust 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. Ido 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 impossibility, how hopelessly insuperable would be that impossibility if the army had, as it might have done, pushed far into the heart of the roadless, trackless, miasma reeking swamps of Bulgaria. 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. Blane, Lieut. Lindsay, and Assistant-Surgeon Robinson, of the Fusiliers; Lieut. 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 Fl u d e an d Li e ut. 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 lnd 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 posure after sunset. At that time a great change takes Place in the temperature of the etwoepliere, atd it ie SPAIN. The Mon iteur publishes the following telegraphic despatch : BAYONNE, 17m.—In consequence of a resolu tion come to by the Spanish Ministry, the arms taken by private individuals are to be delivered 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 proceeed with. According to the last accounts from Catalonia, tranquillity is re-establishing itself at Barcelona ; the manufactories are being re opened." The Madrid 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 from 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 ' FRANCE. Bou Maza, who has obtained permission from the French government to serve in the Turkish army, arrived on the 4th at Constantinople in the Ganges steamer. The Moniteur 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 or di a lly 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 Shares, 1,200 f. ; Roden, 970 f. ; Havre, 565 f. ; Great Nortbern, 840 f. ; Strasburg, 791 f. 25e. ; New Shares, 627 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 960 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 867 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 647 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 627 f. 50e. ; Great Central of France, 502 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 508 f. 75c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 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 accord'ng to the pre vailing belief, to take part in and s4g n a p ro t oco l, 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. Consid6rant 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 s6ap. On the other hand, says the Independance, we are assured that the person who sent the case to M. Van der Elst is not a French refugee. But, beside M. Considerant, 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." _ _ Ina subsequent number, the Etoile Belge adds to the above statement. "It is said that M. Bru net (de l'Argentiere), formerly an officer in the French army, and who 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 have 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. Considerant with the plot, if plot there be." HOW SILISTRIA WAS SATED. The following is from a military correspondent of a German newspaper. Being a German, be 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 Tabia,. 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 Ru-sia, 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 we 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 assto be within th e t ru th 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. "To 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 Butzkoffsky, 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 Aloltke'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 fil-che,' consisting of a front some 50 paces in 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 o f w hi c h h a d a ca libre of from 20 to 22 okas, the oka equaling 211 b. These were fired through embrasures. In other respects the work was simply adapted for infantry defence. "A circumstance, however, which materially increased the capabilities of the work for resistance was, that a kiwi of tarot had been cut to the earitit_yd azid !wait! 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 irrf gular troops actively employed within them, . their length must hare been considerable. The ground to their front was swept by the artillery fire of the flanks of the main work. It i s h ere to b e noticed, that the Turks ishirregulars, to avoid the murderous fire- of the Rut sian batteries, had excavated behind and on either brk of these trenches numerous boles, 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 or. face, as, on the whole, favourable to the fire of the de. fence. The work was in cornmmunication with two other detached earthworks, situated on the two heights east' ward and westward, which will be found designated oa Moltke's plan as the Russian works 9 and 11. They are on the highest summits of the ground which slopes t ° the north, and very near the spots also marked on the plan as the Russian field-works 21 and 22. The Russia ° attack during th e i r 39 d ays ' operat i ons, 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 Schilders was quite right in tin e selection of th e A ra b Tabia, because from it the other out works, 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 corn' ' pletion of the other outworks, directed the constructio n of the Arab Tabia. An attack was nevertheless first to be expected on the eastern side of the town. In fact, if A n the accidents of.ground of the Bulgarian plateau were to he duly provided for, and an enemy to be deprived of everf position commanding the defences, it would be necessary to construct a series of outworks in teri aces above each other, advanced till th e d om i nant po i nts o f t h e 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 operati ons o f th e R uss i ans were the construc ti o n of batteries, which gradually grew to be eight in number , were armed with the heaviest artillery, and beginning from near th e s h ore o f t h e D anu b e embraced the object of the attack in a concave curve. At the same time , following the fashion of their former proceedings of 1 82° a and 1829, before V arna an d S c h um l a, they threw 11P number of earthworks, mutually supporting each other with their fire, which increased in number as the Si proceeded, and now, as th en , h a d f or t h e i r ma i n caves the better to repel the d rea d e d s a lli es o f th e b e sieged' The main body of th e R uss i an b es i eg i ng army was posted during the operatio n on one o f th e h e ights to t"' south-east of Arab Tabia. The roads from the camp to the works and b a tt er i es , as we ll as th os e to the bridges of the Danube, we re exce ll en t as li ne s of cow' o munication, and all the wor k s an d cons t ruc tions of besieging force are d e s cr ib e d as so lid an d a d m irable. The first stage of the oper a ti ons b ore th e character of series of sudden assault s , delivered by considerable masses, and introduced as we ll as b ro ken off blog svas lively fire of artillery. On t wo occas i ons the Russi a penetrated the works, in w hi c h, h owever , the' fight continued. Once the Ru ss i ans were a l rea dy engage deo ; dragging off the guns of the fort with hooks and ° P ee d, but in both instances the Turks rallied, drove them out again with heavy loss. Of all the nn e w te d rows assaults that of the 29th May was the one conduct with the greatest masses. Sixteen battalions, formed columns of attack, advancing with perfect order Vc sively assailed the work, along the ditches of which, most sanguinary conflict was maintained. Accordingo, the report of eye-witnesses, 2,000 corpses on that . ; and, reinfor strewed the ditches and the ground adjacent. Such slaughter, in an assault of a place which comes `"'",, 0 ,.. the category of a mere fieldwork, can scarcely ceived by those who regulate their notions by or b din" i.ra th o e , professional rules. It may be explained in part circumstance that the assailants advanced co e i _ l id well closed up and marching in rather slow tian e, after failure retreated in the same time and f o r But the explanation of such unheard-of los , e._,! s Bo p more to be found in the fact that the dier, regular as well as 'irregular, where he can „ 00 of his own individuality and dispense with the eidau wbo e his officers, generally of a poor description, le ;0 hie behind wall or ditch, is immeasurably m0re,', 0 , 3 0 element than in the open field, where the inteille ..4 o of the subaltern officer, the united action of . coror ce s bodies, and the skilful use of ground and menus t d a: ci a o —other relations being equal—must usuallY,..... k ish the victory. To this must be added that the ip. irregular, and especially the Arnauts, who . . !; 01 , Turkish so' stance acted with the Turkish and Egyptain batt o 3 . '_ ao l are admirably armed and accoutred for hanci._t "_ O l fighting. In the first place they are lightly cloth the y carry no baggage. Their side arms and all that carry about them are supported by a sash 0 °l a i c . a d leather waistbelt. A long flint musket, of good w, ut s manship and extensive range, with a thin iron nk curved to fit the shoulder and with ou t b a y on et, is 0 11 .1 7 i over the shoulders in close action. Th e i r o ther wearria, are a pair of flint-lock pistols of larg e b ore , the ` b an schar" slightly curved, some 24 feet i n l eng th, with tAI inner edge sharpened like a razor ; and the yatagan L. 06 of excellent workmanship, and, in th e h an d s o f t"',, desperadoes, deadly instruments. Th e o th er irregul°, 75 as well as the Arnauts, are generally armed more or to in like fashion, but their firearms are usually inferioroe those of the Arnaut. The quality of the Arnanl o weapons is fully matched by his skill in using tb era t ee close fighting. He is an excell en t s h o t, a nd, like s ir Circassians and other tribes who ha ve t o provide, the ir own ammunition and fit it to the various calibre ° f pee arms, he is very sparing in his use of it. Ildr is his fire till the critical moment, but then hi s both deadly. He is not less dangerous with the cold steel,_, weo ec edge and point—springing like a tiger on the c' o d a sionl advances over ditch or breastwork. It is on thre e sou trei when the heavily loaded soldier, trained and :Ole' and for infantry fire, is clambering over ohs._ to use meets with a resistance which hardly allows %w ar , / be' his bayonet, that his inferiority to such an ° of comes apparent rep b The Russians, therefo re , accor di ng to the re ' o f Ara b eye-witnesses, suffer e d l ess f rom the ar tillery Tabia than from the small arms of the TurhiTiow dio e tian, and Arnaut troops. Each gun was se CO charged more than from four to six times on there crepe of assault advancing or retiring, and some we re iio3 l °. * to edly dismounted by the fire of the batteries P ,ot I ° l4 to the assaults. The storming parties, till the , ; ea essly r the immediate range of the musketry, c °o o et W o o discern, with the exception of the guilneir,ut, as I°oo places, a fez or turban above the rampart , 00a and cro os as they began to mount, the crest of the 1 1 0 roe ° irold ground behind were thronged with men, v l _,. os eth tr y their holes and hiding places like a sudden D ie d t h e the soil. A succession of failures, accoroP a tov erd° irr a. mendous slaughter, induced the Russialle , ... st thit a ol. close of their undertaking, to proceed ng 2ll ' l ,bei!' Y; t o gular work with regular siege approaches• dri_ling lels, at the time of their retreat, had kef cb. 3 3 .4 61 ( within 16 paces from the edge of the dib ew ed tP w alt was also employed, to meet which tho th h .r e etahte ea fi ed orerib is t o i : up fresh works in rear of the parts incredible rapidity. Everything faded t t of, d u o ffr held out to the last with a cheerful coot e l o gl l _7 oo dl such as competent witnesses, among them h oe cers, assert they never saw equalled. " eryf os at mentioned that th e C omman d an t of the ar ro ot 1 , 0 0 tenant Grach, computes the loss of the o 0 the gag, 12,000, and the huge mounds of se pultur , fl oe bear out his es ti ma t e. A ccor di ng to ah r from 300 to 400 officers must have fallen' THE PARIS UNIVERSALI"ertgri ExHIBITION 7 :—"At II ccdli mittee ino._!letioft', contributions(Friday), of held yesterday i i on a , i dn nothed of the proposed xbibitiont leribs reportedthat Paris .. A O9 t he although Manchester alone o ,l ' ec t ot,'_d a guarantee fund Exhibition, of 6,500/. towards the 0 0 ./ fec eify A been . jer from the adjoining easmter Ic"-t:011 towns, although officia l co r n o bject. tions have been addressed to them the on fig ' LOSS OF THE CLYDE ~r Of ~g '''. SHIP SHAND° I sa y - • p e whatever Maneh h The North, Br' ' • tttsh, Daily Mail, of Wednesd39)_, ail,' A telegraphic despatch or , e, i ,re has just reached G1 34- bip 0 information donf of the total loss of the fine iron 5 t be 0 from Clyde to Quebec and 31ontreal, °er inst., , were in lat. 54, long. 17. The crew and passe;6eSi cairn, all b saved, and were put on board of the Vreig,i the thianodund for Quebec, all well. Capta'n, Car' l 5 on, and six of the crew have arrived 0" oc es ti c e and the captain telegraphed the disaster to ti c res. 'r ot in this city,Shando but no particulars have yet reache , er, pbo a n was built at Glasgow by Mr. B. IC3PI %de, bo de three years ago, for the Quebec and Montreal tr . .„ S 1 s w e a i _s e a d beautiful ship of nearly 600 tons barcle'::argo n o i from Clyde on the 30th ult , with a full ' t 115 11 t fine been goods, which, together with 'the shiP , _ 1 ; 1 1 ttb °tl twenty worth not less than 70,000/. She 0111 y cabin and five steerage pas se nge rs' eVell t , a SUICIDE FROM SHAKESPE 'EA CLIFF —Apo° doss% o'clock on Wednesa • BE I - .fl 1 13311 ' th a evenin last, a gen. 0 e ar as a clergyman,observed by ' - 00 0 13 ver' highest point of the celebrated Shakspere Chu' j on t A man named Anderson, who takes his 00 on E m ir summit as a vendor of fossils, states that thoilt:o PI nate gentleman had been up on the cliff scou 3 ..„a j 11 1,4 and remained with him until he jumped over ; ' t hat, , before he took the dreadful leap informed bin ii i o otAJ,,, darkness was coming on, it would be dangernn'ejiatieq' The gentleman retired some short distance, ir° l3l ,j o et 4 ' '1 turned round, and, exclaiming that he carnei_'-oclAr/; Waterloo-crescent, jumped over near the °°' - c i 5001e setfone. Anderson immediately gave an then, 9.il e l)° t , in e.. to . .40 the coast-guard and boatmen, proceen * d, '' 0 of the cliff, found the remains of the dece3se , SO 0 dreadfully knocked about, having fallen be ts° ,, ee t*i,, i ? and 400 feet. The.unfortunate gentleman O n " : 0 7 , - : at 19, Waterloo-crescent with his lad)" , li i I P ev a anxiously waiting his return when the dread-ov 03 arrived. His name is the Rev. Thomas B°D ias° ' 4 he held a living in the Isle Wight. A 04 St ri ' DESTRUCTION OF TWENTY•ONE FrOUSES.'""'", JO" il ten e sive and destructive fire occurred on ThursoAY,, foil/ th xe village of Moretonhampstead, a short distan°' o f A carrier, ter. The fire originated in the dwelling-honglo tbe and spread with extraordinary rauiditY, ,00, . fter ' * course of a short e the ames caught roof 3 , 11 until . it appeared although the whole village w e ',, e t a O l blaze. The whole of the inhabitants turne d 0- Or e fire eir rendered every assistance in, quenching th all 0 of hei saving the property. In spite, however, s t A exertions, which were aided by two fire engine:o 13A: were unable to subdue the flames until 2 1 11°11 ; 11 ;_/' been destroyed —namely, 10 in once street sn o op 0 , another. Fortunately, however, there ?rag 9 • ' life.