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~~ _~;, IR , E I ATEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS' .tiATFare' EVE:NING THIS WEEK aft,r 'Alfred Melloo's Promenade Concerts. Q . P.A .-V ACAN CMS for ATTDV-T.IPNIEN rJ APPRENTIC.ES in a first-class London shipping firm. Premium moderate. Al-o apprentices without premium.— A pply to SIMNP..)NDS and Co., 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East cheap, E.C. Third ofTh.:ers and Stewards wanted. THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited). In e n 'tporated under the Com Dailies' Act, 1852 by which the L iabrtity of each Shareholder is strictly limited , to the amount of 111 .8 Snares. Capital .V 5 0,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each. (With power to increase to One Million Sterling.) irst Issue 12,500 Shares, wher-of a portion -will be reserved for India. Deposit .£1 per Share on application, and £1 on allotment. Calls not to exceed £2 per Share, with an interval ot not less three months between each calL DIRECTORS. Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.8., Chairman, late Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal. Colonel Anderson, C. 8., Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail , way Company. ‘,eorge Constable, Esq., Firm of Henderson and Constable, ~..Cannon-, t reet, mr Frederick Currie, Bart • Member of the Council of India. Colonel French, Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda Rail way Company. Colonel _Rolland, Director of the Agra and United Service Bank. John -, tewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com pany. John Hobert Thomson, Es South African Bank. q., Chairman of the London and James Henry Young, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service. AUDITORS. rr. R. Walker, Esq.. 21, Hanover-square, and A Shareholder, to be elected at the First General Meeting. The Ag BANKERS IN LONDON. ra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon street, E.C. The Landon and County Bank, Hanover-square, W. BANKERS IN INDIA. The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited). SOLICITORS. Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin-'riars, E.C. BROKER. Francis Burnand, Esq., 78, L ombard - street, and 13 and 14, County-climbers, Cornhill, E.C. SECRETARY (pro tern.) Macdonald Yates, Esq. Temporary Offices :-36, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parli ment-street, Westminster. ABRID GED PROSPECTUS. This Company is formed for the purpose of 'introducing a system of efficient Hotel accommodation into India, China, and other places in the East. In Calcutta a joint-stock company has, lately purchased and undertaken the management of a T dotel, and the pro spects of the entererise may be inferreei from the very high prem urn at which their shares are '4uoted in the Calcutta market, see "Times" July 17, the " Itnglishman's Weekly Mail" of June 8, 1863, and " Indian Malt," of August 4 —viz., £25 paid, present value, £45 ex div., equal to 80 per Cent. prem., and the payment of. a dividend of 10 per cent. for the half-year ending 30th Apr'd last, equal to 20 per cent. per annum. - - It is proposed, in the kat instance, to supply the urgent requirements of Bombay s.nd Point de Galle. In the event of two-t'Airds of the first issue of shares not being subscribed for, nf,) allotment will take place, and the deposits will be returned to the subscrib:rs, without deduc tion. it is proposed to pay to shareholders 5 per cent. interest upon the capital r a s paid up, until the first dividend is de clared. Detailed prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtaine d of the Secretary, Bankers, and Broker. ORIEN'T'AL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited). TM NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICA (Lim.Tt ed~l9ls for: SHARES in the Oriental Hotels Company 15 th Au gust WILL BE RECEIVED after SATURDAY, the B E 1863. Auo st 6, 61ACDONALD YATES, Secretary pro tem. pASSENGERS AND TRAVELLERS PROTECTION AND COMPENSATION OFFICES, _ _ _ 16, Craven-street, Strand, London, W.C. Passengers by Rail, Road, or Water. and others suffering from loss or i n j ury to themselves' or property, should apply for redress and compensation at the above Offices ; established to render prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad vantageous terms. Advice on application gratis. Letters must be addressed to " The Manager," enclosing a stamp for reply. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. The 62 duty paid t o G overnment for the year 1862 was £85,0, and £10,086,3 32, the amount insured o n f arm i ng sto c k, A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to parties Insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received sums amounting in the aggregate to £llO,OOO ; and the Society now holds a large Reserve applicable to a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those their ri n sur e r s bythe other p r i nc i pal offices making no returns to For proTectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; •and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-stre e t, Bl ac k friars, E.C. Rovny.ENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. IW. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomas Hankey, ksq.,M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is .. •• .. XSI The Accumulated F un d exceeds • • 2, 0,000 ,( 00 It has paid in Claims .. • • • • 112, The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members. Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the policies Dec. 31, 1847 .. .. + .. .. £ 5 ,400 1852 . • .. .. 11 , 500 1882 '„ 1857 _ _ • • 23,200 making the .. . • • . • . total bon us additions, Z 96,600. 56,500. Bonuses may be received in wish or applied to nte reduc tion of premiums at the option of the assured, ir., lieu 01 an addition to the I ol , ey. Attention is especially invited to the system ' a t free or paid up policies introduced by this Associatior,, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the rel linquishment of a pc icy is wholly avoided. The balance -sheets of the Association are open to all, whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will 'roe appointed in unrepre sented districts. Chief Office, 15 WAL THe iS. LINFORD, Secret ary . , Al oorgate-st , • z eet, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. ._ . . NORTH BRITIF ii AND INSU"..A.NCE COMPANY. MERCANTILE Estab lished 1809. I ncorporated T jy Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliame n t ACCUMULA-EED AND INVESTED FUNDS, £2,122,828. ANNUAL REVENUE, £422,101. John LOND ON BOARD. Chair man White Cater, Esq., I P. du Pre Grenfell, E sq. 4. Morri A. Klockmann, Esq. p u4, Char I,y ( s hairman ~ on Es q.,De- John Mollett, Esq. Junius S. Morgan, Esq. A. )e Arroyave, Esq. G. Garden Nicol, Esq. Edward Cohen, Esq. John H. Wm. Schroder, Esq. James du Buisson, Esq. George Young, Esq. • x-Dutte Tons. P. C. Cavan, E sq. A. 11. Campb e l l, Esq. i Robert Si:kith, Esq. P. P. Ralli, E sq. Frederic Somes, Esq. Manager of Fire De p a rtment—GeorgA H. Whyting. Manager of Life Department—W F. Birkmyre. Superintendent of Foreign Department—G, H. Burnett. Secretary —F. 'W. Lance. General Manager—David Smith. FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Company ",'T nits Insurances against Fire in the United Kingdom, and all foreign countries. Mercantile Risks in the Port of London accepted at re duced rates. Losses promptly and liberally settled. Foreign Risks.—The DirectorQ, having a practical know ledge of foreign countries, are prepared to issue Policies on the most favouratile terms. In all cases a discount will be allowed to Merchants and others effecting such Insurances. LIFE DEPARTMENT The following Statement exhibits the improvement effected during the las r few years : No. of Policies Issued. Sums. Premiums. 1153 ........ 455 ........ £ 377,425 1859 ........ (1.5 ........ 449,913 18 " 0 ...... 741 ........ 4 , 5,649 1861 ....... . 78.5 ........ 527,6 t 6 1862 ....... 1,1":37 ........ 768,334 Thus in five years the number of Policies issued was 3,623, assuring the large sum of £2,928.917. The leadiniz features of the Office are :- 1. Entire. Security to Assurers. 2. The I.arge Bonus additions already declared, and the prospect of a further Bonus at the neat investiga ti,nn. 3. Vac advanta.„,es afforded by varied Tables of premiums —unrestricted conditions of Polioles—and general liberality in dealing with the Assured. Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished on application at the BEAD OFFICES • LONDON. 58, Threadneedle -street 4, New Bank Buildings. EimNnuunri —.64, Princes -street N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. WEST-END OFFICE : 8, WATERLOO -PLACE, PALL-MALL. Secretary—ALEX. J. RUSSELL. IMMEDIATE CASH ADVANCES.—Persons -e q ui ring Capital, repayable by instalments, to enable them to increase or commence business, or for any other purpose, eau re adily obtain Ad vances on a ppli ca ti on a t t h e Offices of the ST. GEO RGE ADVANC h FUND AS SO CIAT lONS, 11.?, Pali-ma:l, S.W. • Prospectus and forms sent free. E. H. GILBART, Manager. ANEVER FAILING REMEDY.— Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, Pre- Fired with out any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe ot Dr. zieoft, of Bromley, tient, will be found invaluable to all who ,ufrer irOm bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness ot the eyes, are. For habitual costiveness. as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier , - ,t the blood, they are truly excellent ; nand in their opera they create appe rite, pro tirtearldVersatitnenru,latnod tshteresnt°gtrahaeenh'the whole nervous sy stem. m- w. Lambert, 8, King William -street, Charing cross Sold bY and by most drug fists, in boxes Is lid., and three one, 2s. 9d. B ' • e sure to ask for Dr. and Liv er 8. The genuine are a square Pill William Lambert." engraved on the tlimonedootnhit, e onantlivr3l," green paC Scott's ..ikliaoigtes, stamp. ItUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTEIts VHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTE D AND EXHIBITED I N TRUSS ExnforrioNs OF 1851 AND 1Z.:6.2), 18 allowed 1; r" ( 'HEAT Two I inndred Medical (ienticmen to r, the g o u .Pwards of invention in the curative treatment 0 1 ti Jivell; fe ffe The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its A ik here avoided—a sott bandage being worn round the 1 ,;,° ,1 Y, while the requisite resisting power is supplied the ' lO 2-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with 80 oincylYethe and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be ' mo a n ," durin g sleep. A descriptive circ ular may 1 - )e had, and th e truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two i n ches below the hips, bein g sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, A Single D Truss, 165., 21s.,Cd. Pos 265. ed., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. Al 1 " 010 Truss, 31s. 6d , 425., and 52 5 . s tage, is Bd. An U mbilical Truss, 425. and 525. Od. Postage, i. 1 01 Post -office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post °ince, Piccadilly. r ITT °. 22,189 Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. V " A NOVEL O N I A. Also now ready, in 3 vote., VICISSITUDES OF A GENTLEWOMAN. CHURCH AND CHAPEL. By t h e Author of "No Church," " Owen : a Waif," dm., ill 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-sheet. Now ready, royal Bvo., with Map and 50 Ill ustrations, TRAVELS ON HORSEBACK IN M ANTCHU TARTARY : Being A Summer's Ride beyond THE GitEAT WALL OF CIIINA. By GEORGE FLEMING. " Mr Fleming has rendered us his debtor for much in struction and ainusement."—The Reader. Hurst andßlackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just published, in Bvo., price ls., M AGNEOPATHY. THE PHI LOSOPHY OF HEALTH. Bentley, New Burlington-street. TOURISTS' VADE MECUM. —PRICE ONE SHILLING. NO one should cross the Channel without this useful companion, which comprises in a form for the waistcoat pocket every necessa phrase for Railways, Hotels, Shops, Cabs, Money, Sze , &0., and not a word super fluous. London: sold by Simpkin and Marshal, Stationers' Court, and at all Booksellers and Railways. ALFRED MELT,ON'S PROMENADE CON CERTS, at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, will commence THIS EVE NING (MONDAY), August 10. Vocalist—Mdlle. CARLOTTA PATTI. Band of nearly 100 performers. Admission, One Shilling. F r " 0 X F OR D, R, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jong, , hmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c. Comic, by LINSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, E. Righton, and A. Lloyd. Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. _ _ _ Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. NOTICE. —The GHOST! GHOST!! GHOST!!! AT CANTERBURY lIALL. Two representations of Professor Pepper's startling Illusion will be given on Mondays. Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at Nine and a quarter. past Eleven o'clock ; other Evenings at Eleven only ; and produced with all the newest improve ments by Mr. A. Silvester, which can be seen only at this establishment. Dramatic Readings by Mr. Graham, in addition to Grand Operatic Selections. Cantatas, Glees, Songs, Comic and Sentimental, and UNSWORTH, the Stump Orator. Open every Evening at half past Seven. Admission, Sixpence. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—The Risarelis (last week pre vious to their departure for the Continent)—The Brothers Conrad—Les Petit Monstres—The Francesco Family, from La Scala, Milan, &c. Grand Operatic Selection :—Miss M•Gregor. Albert, Georgini, supported by Chorus and Band of Sixty Performers. Notice.—The Proprietor has much pleasure to announce that he has an engagement with Mdlle. Taccani, from Her Majesty's Theatre, who will appear every evening. ESTABLISHED 1833. BOWDEN'S AERATED GINGER BEER, in glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, votass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE MAC FIINE 9, for hand, horse, or steam power, are the most simple and efficient extant —Full particulars andprices obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co., Laurence Pountney place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C., where they may De seen in operation daily. HARPER TWLVETREES' GLYCERINE SOAP POWDER makes its own Soap, and saves one-half of time, two .thirds of Soap, and t'lree-fourths of labour ! Patentee : Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley •by-Bow, London. Sold by Grocers, Druggists, and Oilmen. T EA.,--MOORS BROTHERS respectfully inti rfutte that their New Prospectus is now ready. They esVe:tally recommend their improved Family Tea , reduced to 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re d' iced 3s. Bd.; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. 35.11 d. per lb. 2,100 - RE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. D EAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptible, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. pISTOLGRAMS of BABIES (Guinea Jewellery Portraits), with album enlargements therefrom, taken daily at SHAfFE'S Pistolgraph Depot, 32, Sussex-place, Re gent's-park, N.W., where a classification of children's like nesses from the day of birth may now be seen. Invalids and families attended. HOWELL, JAMES, and CO., respectfully announce that, in accordance with their custom at this season of the year, they will OFFER THIS DAY, and during the month, their STOCK of FANCY SILKS, LIGHT DRESS FABRICS, LACES, RIBBONS, LINGERIE, EMBROIDERY, &c., at a VERY LARGE REDUCTION IN PRICE. - • - • _ _ IT:, J.. and CO., will offer, at the same time, a quantity of RICH FRENCH SILKS, principally MOIRE ANTIQUES, and a variety of beautiful ORGANDI MUSLINS, which they have recently purchased at about one-half the value. IVl street, ONEY PROMPTLY ADVANC ED b y a Cheapside. Private Gentleman upon FURNITUR E (without removal). Leaseh o ld an d F ree hold Property, or Reversions , &e.., in su ms from £2O to £soo.—Mr. Howard, 18, Queen- TO Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town or Country). —A GENTLEMAN is willing: to MAKE ADVANCES of CASH, with o ut d e lay, to respectable persons (male or tem ale), on thei r own secur ity. Th e u tmost secrecy can be relied ale), (if by letter enclose four stamps) to W., nt Mr. Robertson's, Accountant, 40, Kim* William-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Money advanced on Dock Warrants. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail. way Terminus, at Icing's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of novernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered Capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. C m o C a . a o ; n te n t r r ni r ib = ut m . io li n o t a q a , ar N aik e i nd n r n ec el E a. iv ; _ i e ari d near b ;ri y aer t a h b e yd T me r o e a a .as s ;r ur an e ac r n , nsu E otm d ta w an a nn r d d d Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; smith, Panted Co.p Denison Co. a a n n d d CCno..;; vvJoneisantLao,yodeaagn,Caon. d ; C B a a . r , cl o a y ve a r n end C G; ; Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., LuPeerpy'oaOnld and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Inoorporated by Royal Charter). P ATRONESS—Rer Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PR ESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberlsmd, E.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Paring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., DEP UTY - CRAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R .S., APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since he beginning of the year 1860, the Royat National Lifeboat Institution has expended £ 32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800 lor which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat Tr ansporting-carriages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, whi^h can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee grateful* , acknowledge the following con tributions:— Her Majesty the Queen • • S. d • • .. annual 50 C 0 Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .• • . ann ua l 5 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R. • •• • • • • annual 1 1 0 Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .. • . annual 10 0 0 Currie, Wm., 1::sq. • • . 4th I°ll.lo 0 0 Erie, Lord Cief Sustice .. • • • • don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Fenwick, J., Esq., e,ost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage • • • • • • " 250 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. • . .. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. • • .. 7th don. Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • • •• • • don. 10 0 0 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich •• • • S tirling, Col. Si r A n tho n y, K.C.B. .. annual 3 002 0 0 T homas, Lady, W es t on - su p er -M a re, co ll ec t e d by her Ladyship •• •• •• • • • • • 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord •. .. annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfuJ_ay re ' eiv P.d by the Co., ol the Institution, Messrs. WllllB, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and c r 9 .• 59. Strand; Messrs. Berries, Faranhar, and Co., 16, St. and ;'B-street, London ;by ati the Collectors of Customh, ankers in the Unitedliingdom; and by the Secretary John-street,i London,phi: Richard LewilLsd, Esc,. Office of the Inetitution, 14, 1"11111 4c... L.. eig •••"- , ••• •- ✓•-• ? Ck -77;- • • \ '; L . lo ' 0f. , , • !t oo 0 • 3 DrE As- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1863. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. His Grace the Duke of Somerset and Captain Drummond visited the building yard of Mr. J. White, at West Cowes, on Saturday, and inspected her Majesty's screw corvette Higbflyer, which Mr. White is repairing under contract with the Admi ralty. The Duke, Captain Drummond, and other members of the Board afterwards embarked on board the Admiralty yacht Enchantress and left for Portland. The Russian iron-clad battery Pervenitz left Gravesend at six a.m. on Saturday for Cronstadt, under steamer. On arriving off the Maplin Sands she was tried at the measured mile, and realised a mean speed of eight knots, with 80 revolutions of her engines, their maximum number of revolutions being 110. She completed a full circle in .five minutes 15 seconds, and was found to be under the most perfect command of her helm. Immediately on completing her trial at the measured mile the Pervenitz was ordered by Admiral Boutakoff, who has superintended her construction in this country for the Russian Government, to proceed to Cren stadt under steam and canvass, the General Admi ral to accompany her under full steam, but not to take her in tow. We are requested to state that her departure from the Thames for the Baltic was hurried forward for no other reason than simply to get her over to Cronstadt previous to the rough weather setting in. With regard to the armour plates not being bolted in their places on her bow and stern, it was never intended to place them there until after the arrival at Cronstadt, it being determined, from the time of laying her keel, that she should make her first voyage without them, and with her extreme ends as light as possible. In accordance with Admiralty instructions to that effect received at Chatham, the mechanics employed on the Achilles discontinued working overtime on Saturday afternoon, and left the yard at the usual hour, four o'clock. The cause of this order on the part of the Admiralty appears to be that, although the mechanics employed on that vessel have ostensibly been working for several months past from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., with only short intervals for meals, yet, in reality, there is not a sufficient excess of work accomplished to justify the continuance of the system. The Norwegian sailing corvette Ornen, 16, Capt. H. Wedel Jarlsberg, 19 days from Quebec for Christiana, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning. The following appointment and promotions were made on Saturday at the Admiralty :—Walter H. Brimfield, acting first class assist.-engineer, to the Wye; David Wilson (acting), Kenneth M'Caskill, Andrew Kennedy, Nicholas Baird, David Sharp (acting), James M'Arthur (acting), Peter Foulis (acting), John Muir, Ebenezer Bennett, J o h n Crichton, John Galbraith, Samuel M'Dou ga ll, Edward M'Leish, and John Frazer, promoted assist.- engineers of the first class. THE ARMY. A detachment of the 75th Regiment, numbering 50 non-commissioned officers and men, under the command of Lieut. I. S. Alifrey, left Chatham gar rison on Saturday for Devonport to join the service companies, which are being raised to their proper strength. Lieut. Allfrey rejoins the depot at Chatham. Orders have been received at Chatham garrison From the Horse Guards directing Lieut.-Col. Stewart to go out in command of the detachment o Royal Engineers about to be despatched to the East, for the purpose of being employed in laying down a line of telegraph through Turkey, Persia, and Aff ghanistan to India. The non-commissioned officers and men composing the detachment have been spe cially selected from the companies at head-quarters who have completed their course of instruction at the schools for telegraphy, surveying, &c., at Brompton barracks. The whole of them have been medically inspected, in order that none but men of the most healthy and robust constitution may be employed for the service. The sea kits and personal stores have been issued to the non-commissioned officers and men, who are in daily expectation of receiving orders from the Horse Guards to take their departure from Chatham. The removals from Aldershot during the past week have been so numerous that on Saturday, prior to the return of the Woolmer flying column, and after the departure of the Sandhurst column, there was left a smaller force at Aldershot than has been the case at any one time since the formation of the camp. There were then left only one squa dron of cavalry, four battalions of artillery, detach ments of the Royal Engineers and Military Train, and five battalions of infantry—viz., the 2d batta lion of the Grenadier Guards, the Ist battalion of ,he 6th Regiment, the 67th, 64th, and 76th Regi• ments. The departures from camp during the week have been as follow :—On Tuesday the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), under the command of Lieut.- Col. Baillie, marched from the North Camp, en route for Windsor. On the same day the Ist bat talion Scots Fusileer Guards, under Lieut.-Col. Hepburn, marched from Cove-common for London ; and the 2d battalion Ist Royals, under the command of Col. Holcombe, from the South Camp for Ports• mouth, to proceed thence to India. On Thursday the 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers quitted the division, after a sojourn of nearly two years at the camp, the headquarters and six troops, under Lieut.-Col. Oakes proceeding to Hounslow,one troop to Hampton Court, and another to Kingston. Six troops of the 18th Hussars left the North Camp on Friday, the headquarters, and three troops, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Knox, proceeding en route for Newcastle, and three troops, under Major Brett, for Ipswich. One squadron still remains at Aldershott, under Capt. John Peyton, but it is ex pected shortly to depart either for Northampton or Colchester. On Saturday a column, under the command of Brigadier-General Bates, marched to Sandhurst, where it will be encamped, until fur ther orders are received, near the new Staff College. The column consisted of the Royal Dragoons, B battery 4th brigade Royal Artillery, detach ment of Royal Engineers, 59th, 73d, and 87th that Re giments, and a detachment of the Commissariat Staff Corps. Orders have been received at the Camp for the D battery 9th brigade Royal Ar tillery, und er th e comman d o f C a pt. P. J. Campbell, to march to-day, en route for Shorncliffe. The e f arrivalthe 2d battalion at Aldershott Grenadier during the week Guards, has from only Wellington Barracks, on Tuesday, under the com interest.the Ist It i vr ne a t e , , com mand of C o l. M. Bruce. The proceedings of the large Eyi ng colon) Russell, n which left Aldershott on Satur day,'r Woolmer, have been full of andco under the command of Major- Gen. nsisted of the Carabineers, a detachment of Royal e Engineers, ) a detachment .of th Military Train, th e G 1 tillery, Ist battalio n 3d Re i attery Royal Horse Ar ment, Ist batt a lion 24th Regiment, 2d battali on 60 ment of the Commissariat Staff Corps. Shortly before 5 o'clock in the morningth Rifles, and a detach ment the colum n marc h e d u at Farnham at about 6, a n d colours flying, the 3d oglt and Forest and Basfield t o th e of Keeper's -hi leading.out bands Alice playing l arrived ii i n arrivedll about Botfi with s proceeded camping ground on the top 16 miles from Aldershott. The infantry ' the halting-place at about 10 o'clock, and the cavalry, at Artillery, and Military Train, which did notl leave Aldershott till 7 o'clock, arrived very shortly after wards. The plan of the encampment was as fol lows :—The Ist battalion 60th Rifles on the right, ri the 24th in the centre , the Artillery nest,3d the d on the right, and the Military Train the rear. on the flank of the 60th, in a slight hollow, the Cara bineers were quartered, and on a knoll at the rear, and between the quarters of the 24th and 60th, wer e the headquarters of Major- Gen.Russell.' On Sunday morning the troops were formed up in three sides of a square in front of the general quarters, and Di. vine service was conducted by the chaplain. On Monday, shortly after noon, his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief and Staff arrived from London, accompanied by Lieut.-General Sir J. L. Pennefather, commanding at Aldershott, and his Staff. After minutely inspecting each regiment in turn, and going over the whole of the encampment, a sham engagement took place, the camp being supposed to be attacked by an enemy advancing from Aldershot. The Field-Marshal expressed his highest approval of the manner in which the pro ceedings were carried out, and returned to London about 5 o'clock. On Tuesday morning the troops marched out to Hasiemere, a distance of five miles, and returned in the afternoon. On Wednesday they marched to Petersfield, a distance of about nine miles, where they were temporarily encamped. On Thursday the force of the column was further in creased by the arrival of the 13tft Hussars and the A battery, 4th brigade Royal Artillery. On Friday another splendid field-day took place, in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge, Sir John Pennefather, and their staffs. The weather has been delightful during the whole time that this column has been out, and the troops have greatly enjoyed the benefit of the change. thewithdrew. remainder heMonitors of the evening e nng also thehauled firing w off, a s and a t long for and irregular intervals, coming chiefly from the enemy's land batteries. Some sho ts were filed at e Fort Johnson and at the Shell Point Battery. The casualties in Battery Wagner yesterday were four killed and 11 wounded. A mortar fire was kept up on Battery Wagner every few minutes during the night from the battery near Graham's House. On Sunday morning the enemy sent in a flag of truce to ask permission to bury their dead, whose bodies lay thickly strewn in the trench and elsewhere in front of our works. As it was supposed, that the chief object of this request on the part of the Yankee commander was to gain an opportunity to recon noitre our position, the proposition was declined, and the duty of burying the dead devolved upon our own men, and on Sunday uo firing occurred. The number of bodies buried previous to the renewal of the cannonade yesterday was 800-600 by our men and some 200 and odd beyond our lines by the enemy. Including those still unburied and the wounded who have since died, the enemy's loss in killed alone must have been nearly or quite one thousand. The number of prisoners taken by our troops (including wounded) was two hundred and seventy-six. Judging from these figures, and re membering the well-known habit which the Yankees have of carrying off their wounded, it seems quite reasonable to believe that their total loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners could not have been less than two thousand." THE ATTACK ON FORT WAGNER. The following is an account of the attack on Fort Wagner, supplied by the Charleston Mercury of Monday, July the 20th : " Saturday was a day which will Ile for ever me morable in the history of Charleston. About eight o'clock the desultory cannonade with which the experience of a week had made our community familiar was again heard. For nearly three hours the enemy's fire was maintained with the usual de liberation; but about 11 o'clock it was noticed that the reports came in far more rapid succession. By noon it became well understood that the foe was re solved to subject our position to an ordeal much more severe than any which up to that time it had encountered. At that hour, as we learn by accounts from Morris Island, the converging fire of the enemy had become truly fearful. Five Monitors, the frigate Ironsides, seven wooden gunboats, with the land batteries which the Yankees had thrown up on the lower part of the island, kept up a con stant rain of shot and shell into our works. No less than 65 heavy guns and eight mortars are known to have been in play against us. At one time, so rapid was the fire, that the reports ave raged 27 per minute. One of the I\lonitors lay north-east of Battery Wagner, and two to the south-east, while the others, with the Ironsides, kept a position nearly opposite the sea face of the battery. The wooden gunboats manceuvred at some distance outside the line of turreted monsters, relying chiefly upon their long-range rifled siege guns. There were two Yankee batteries on Morris Island —one, consisting of two guns and a mortar, was located at Craig% Hill, within about 800 yards of our battery ; the other was beyond Graham's House, and had an armament of eight rifled shell guns. It is estimated that during the day no less than 9,000 shells were fired at the battery. For eleven consecutive hours the bombardment raged with more or less violence. About dusk the fire, which during the afternoon had been incessant (probably with the design of de moralising our men and unfitting them for the expected night's work), began to slacken consi derably, and at dark ceased almost entirely. The results thus far had been of a character to give us encoura gement and gratulation. good cause for encoura The damage to our battery was insi gn ifi can t, an d of a kind easily and speedily reparable. The bomb proofs had afforded efficient protection to a large portion of the garrison, and our casualties at seven o'clock p.m. were but four killed and fourteen wounded. Of the enemy's losses from our fire, if any, we have, of course, no trustworthy account. Fort Sumter, which bore a part in the action, sent several shells into Craig-hill batteries, and also into the camp of the enemy, about three and a quarter miles distant, it is believed with good effect. At a few minutes before eight o'clock our pickets gave notice that the enemy in heavy force was moving to the assault. The attack was not unexpected, and our men, though much jaded by the fatigues and exposure of the day, sprang to their places with zeal and alacrity. The enemy advanced in two columns of about three thousand men each, the whole under command of Brigadier-General Strong. The column which attacked our right was composed partially of negro troops, who were put in the ad vance. On our left, the other column advanced with spirit, under a severe fire from the Dahlgreen guns and colambiads from Fort Sumter. As the column advanced at the double q uick, the guns of Battery Wagner also opened. When the enemy had reached a point about sixty yards distant our infantry, posted behind the par apet, poured a galling fire into the moving masses; the Yankees, nevertheless, in considerable force, succeeded in gaining the trench, and began to clamber up the sides of the battery. At this moment Lieutenant Waties, of Blake's battery, who was in charge of two brass howitzers (belonging to a detachment of artillery under Capt. De Pass, of White's battalion) opened a raking fire which swept the trench, play ing terrific havoc in the ranks of the assailants. The howitzers had been assigned to this p osition, which they occupi e d so advantageously for us, at the instance of Colonel Harris, of the engineers, all the horses belonging to the section having been put hors de combat during the day. Twice the enemy was driven back at this part of our works (the left) and the trench filled with the enemy's dead attests the sexerity of the conflict there. On the right, negro troops were met with a terrible cross fire of mueketry. Her© were posted, among other troops, the Charleston battalion, and these gallant men behaved in a manner worthy the fame their organisation had so dearly won at Seces sionville. The second assault was still more des perate than the first ; but it was met and repelled in the same gallant style by the brave troops, Geor gians, North Carolinians, and sons of our own city, who stood shoulder to shoulder in the fight. In the centre of our lines a small body of the enemy suc ceeded in gaining a lodgment in a salient, the]guns of which had been disabled. Here they maintained their position for more than an hour. A gallant but unsuccessful attempt was made to dislodge them in which Capt. Ryan fell, and it was not until a small force of Georgians had ascended the magazine and thus gained a position to command the salient, that the audacious Yankees surrendered. At the time that this occurred the firing elsewhere had ceased, and the Georgians accomplished their pur pose without firing a gun. The movement by which this was effected was undertaken at the sug gestion of Col. Harris. The fight lasted from eight until eleven p.m., and was of a desperate character throughout. The enemy's losses were very heavy. His killed and wounded must have been at least 1,500. The number of the dead left on the field and buried by us yesterday exceeded 600. We captured over 200 prisoners, including a few of the negro troops. Our own losses were comparatively light. It is estimated that our killed and wounded will not exceed 1u0." Subjoined are some " latest" particulars of the attack on Morris Island, extracted from the same paper : " D aring the early portion of yesterday morning all was comparatively quiet on Morris Island. About eleven o'clock the land batteries opened on Fort \Vaguer, and the Monitors nod the Ironsides again approached and opened a severe fire. 'This continued until two o'clock, when the bom bardment became furious, the reports being heard in quite as rapid succession as on Saturday. This furious cannonade lasted for about au hour and a half, Fort Sumter and Battery Wagner replying slowly. Also fire was opened from a new battery on James island. Fort Sumter got the range of the Ironsides, and a little before four o'clock she ~~~~ • -4 C ....-.--'..- s, PRICE..... -..4d. STAMPED ....sd. men touched the parapets of the fort the rebels, 13,000 strong, streamed from the safe hiding•place where they had been concealed during the day, and fresh and strong, were prepared to drive us back. We then found to our sorrow that the 15-inch shot from the monitors, even when fired at from a dis tance of but 1,080 yards, had not injured them in the least. Only the parapets of the fort had been knocked into sand heaps. NEWS pAp - r . in Ar • - .14110 : iti t opxx -LI. At ...a.c.eftain result of the undertaking in l a,• .- , . : . 4 10:4"Nrk ~./ ~.,..,. , , vited all to take part. It is thus that . 7 1 _,., 1 4 , :?..,.., ~J,: , .. .4 tr degenerated into insurrection, and that :0":21:.. it. turned into a revolution, under the double . ..4 . ..-..,..!1: .-,..' autonomous institutions granted by his 4fli.• - -11 , 4, 4 . 42, couragements from abroad. I 4 S "M. Drouyn do Lhuys will admit that the an en the Western press has not be en of a nature to lessen those encouragements, and that the very action of the Cabinets has given rise to interpretations which may have kept them up. " In such grave and delicate questions the real inten tions of the Government escape the notice of the masses they are frequently misrepresented by the organs of the press; public opinion is thus falsified, and the Cabinets thus expose themselves to serious inconvenience when they take it for their guide after having allowed it to go astray. It is therefore necessary that they should take into account not only their intentions, but also the interpretations given to them, and the influence which that interpretation may exercise. "That is why we have affirmed what appears to us an evident fact, that the conviction of assistance from abroad, kept up by the intrigues of the emigrants, was the principal cause of the persistance and of the extension of the insur rection in the kingdom, and it is because we cannot for a moment suppose that this fact has entered into the inten tions of the French Goveinment, that we have pointed it out to its attention as the principal obstacle which opposed the realisation of the wish it has expressed to us in favour of a prompt pacification of the kingdom. 111. We cannot but m ai n tain the observations con tained in our reply on th e su bj ec t o f th e suspension of hos tilities. el There are n o h os tiliti es i n P o l an d ; there is a revolt. There a a lig le e g re a n l t G s, ov b e u r t nm en e o n n t e an si d de re r g e ul be a ls r in arms, and on thee n other 1 authorities and an army. ,4 Under these conditions there is no arrangement pos sible, except the return of order and the submission of the rebels. They must lay down their arms, or the Govern ment abdicate all authority. It is impossible for us to com prehend otherwise the question of dignity and of public order. As to the material application, we cannot explain to ourselves either between whom an armistice could be nego tiated, or by what means the execution of it could bo guaranteed. ct iv. As far as regards our proposition for a prelimi nary conference of the three neighbouring courts, it was suggested to us, as youhave already observed to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, by the very principle which serves as the basis of the diplomatic action of the cabinets —that of the treaties of 1815. It is in conformity with the nature of things and with diplomatic precedents. Th a t is why we did not think ;of assuring ourselves of the pre vious consent of the two co-partitioning courts ; we had not to explain ourselves with them. We had to reply to an exchange of ideas with the French, English, and Aus trian Cabinets. In return for propositions, which appeared to us to raise serious objections , we suggested to them a combination which appeared to us to be in the spirit and the letter of the treaties, and which m i g ht lead to a pacific solution conformably to our common wishes. " The opinion which M. Drouyn de Lhuys has expressed to you on this subject confirms us in the conviction that the question under consideration leads to difficulties be cause it has been badly set forth, and because from the very outset it has involved the dignity of the Cabinets. " In principle, the French Government, as well as those of England and Austria, has expressed to us a wish for the prompt pacification of the kingdom of Poland. That wish we feel in the same degree. We invite them to an ex change of friendly ideas on the basis of treaties. Different combinations have been recommended to us to attain the object desired. We have stated that the six articles, which served as the basis of them, were in accordance with the intentions of our august master. To the idea of a confer ence, which in our opinion had the inconvenience of lead ing to a direct interference of the foreign Powers, which would have weakened our prestige. and encouraged the exaggerated pretensions of the insurrection, we substituted that of a preliminary conference of the three Courts directly interested, which had the advantage of maintaining their independent action in questions of internal administration, while tending to the same object conformably to the spirit and letter of treaties. That proposition was prompted by a desire of conciliation. " We cannot but regret the judgment passed on it by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. " We have also been painfully surprised by the impres sion which he communicated to you as to the general tone of our answers. The question is far too serious to admit any intention of irony, still less of provocation. But here we again perceive the influence of the false starting point of the whole of this negotiation and of the questions of dig nity which it has unfortunately raised, owing to the pub licity given to it and the intervention of the passions of the press and public opinion. " Your reply, Monsieur le Baron, with regard to the sen timent of wounded dignity manifested in the expression of our thought was most judicious. " In presence of the outrages lavished on us, it would have been difficult to write otherwise. We are far from wishing to attribute to the French Government any offen sive intention towards us. We are persuaded of the sin cerity of its efforts to restrain the violence of the press, and to moderate the expression of public feeling, which it is bound to take into consideration at home, and also to make allowance for abroad. " It will certainly understand, therefore, that it was im possible for us to ignore the strength of the national senti ment which has been so energetically manifested in Russia. under the influence of recent events. " The Russian Government has spared no effort to calm, enlighten, and moderate this explosion of public feeling, deeply irritated by attacks, without example, perhaps, in history. " It is the duty of governments and the task of diplo macy to keep the conduct of public affairs unaffected by these passionate impulses, which complicate them, and might seriously endanger the existence of peace. "We conscientiously believe that we have neglected nothing which could promote this work of conciliation, and that we have not deviated, either in word or deed, from the desire of eoming to an understanding in conformity with the general interest, and in particular with the relations which have so long united_ us to the Government of the Emperor of the French. " But we flatter ourselves with the hope of meeting the same dispositions on its part, and you will not conceal from M. Drouyn de Lhuys how much more difficult our task will become if no allowance be made in France for the ne cessities imposed on us by the national sentiments, which are not merely the result of popular passions or sympathies, but are connected with the most cherished traditions and the most vital interests of the country, which the confidence of the of its he o ß s ussianna a t u i g on us has assovpelraeciedgu,nndAerectehp, a the safeguard of the GORTCHAXOFF." RUSSIA AND FRANCE. The following details of the land attack upon Fort Wagner are from Federal sources : " Soon after four o'clock the firing from Fort Wagner ceased. It was then known that our brave fellows had succeeded in dismount ing one gun ; and it was also pretty well ascertained that another of the rebel pieces had burst These facts led to the supposition that the enemy had evacuated the work; and it was de termined to attempt its occupation. For this pur pose two brigades, consisting of the 7th Connecticut Regiment, the Third New Hampshire, the Ninth Maine, the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania, and the Forty-eighth New York, under Brigadier-General Strong, and the Seventh New Hampshire, Sixth Connecticut, Sixty-second Ohio, One Hundredth New York, and Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, coloured, under Colonel Putnam, who had been under arms all day, screened from the enemy behind a range of sand hills, in the rear of our works, were ordered for ward. This was at dusk, and both brigades were formed in line on the beach, the regiment being dis posed in columns, expecting the coloured regiment, which for some reason was given the post of extreme honour and of danger in the advance, and was drawn up in line of battle, exposing its full front to the enemy. This movement of the troops was observed by Sumter, and fire was at once opened upon them, happily without doing injury, as the shells went over the heads of the men. General Strong, who has so frequently since his arrival in this department braved death in its many forms of attack, was assigned to the command of the first brigade. Colonel Putnam, of the 7th New Hampshire, who, although of the regular army, and considered one of the best officers in the department, never led his men into battle nor been under fire, took command of the second, and General Stevenson the third, constituting the re serve. The 54th Massachusetts (coloured regiment). Colonel Shaw, was the advanced regiment in the first brigade ; and the 2d South Carolina (negro), Colonel Montgomery, was the last regiment of the reserve. The selection of the 54th Massachusetts to lead the charge was undoubtedly made on account of the good fighting qualities it had displayed a few days before on James Island. Just as darkness began to close in upon the scene of the afternoon and the evening, General Strong rode to the front, and ordered his brigade, consisting of the 54th Massa chusetts, Colonel Shaw (coloured regiment) ; the 6th Connecticut, Colonel Chatfield ; the 48:h New York, Col. Bartow; the 3d New Hampshire, Col. Jackson ; the 76th Pennsylvania and the 9th Maine, Col. Emery, to advance to the assault. At the instant the line was seen slowly advancing in the dusk towards the fort, and before a double •quick had been ordered, a tremendous fire from the barbette guns on Fort Sumter, the batteries on Cumming's Point, and from all the guns on Fort Wagner, opened upon it. The guns from Wagner swept the beach, and those from Sumter and Cum ming's Point enfiladed it on the left. In the midst of this terrible shower of shot and shell they pushed their way, reached the fort ; portions of the 54th Massachusetts, the Gth Connecticut, and the 48th New York, dashed through. the ditches, gained the parapet, and engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy, and for nearly half an hour held their ground, and did not fall back until nearly every commissioned officer was shot down. As on the morning of the assault of the 11th inst., these brave men were exposed to a most galling fire of grape and canister from howitzers, raking the ditches from the bastions of the fort, from hand grenades, and from almost every other implement of warfare. The rebels fought with the utmost desperation, and so did the larger portion of Gen. Strong's brigade, as long as there was an officer to command it. When the brigade made the assault, General Strong gallantly rode at its head. When it fell back, broken, torn, and bleeding, Major Plimpton, of the Third New Hampshire, was the highest commissioned officer to command it. The first brigade, under the lead of General Strong, failed to take the fort. It was now the turn of Colonel Putnam, commanding the second brigade, composed of the 7th New Hampshire, the 62d Ohio, Col. Steele, the 67th Ohio, Col. Voorhees, and the 100th New York, Col. Danley, to make the attempt. But, alas ! the task was too much for him. 'Through the same terrible fire he led his men to, over, and into the fort, and for an hour held one half of it, fighting every moment of that time with the utmost desperation; and, as with the Ist Brigade, it was not until he himself fell killed, and nearly all his officers wounded, and no reinforce ments arriving, that his men fell back, and the rebel shout and cheer of victory was heard above the roar of Sumter and the guns from Cumming's Point. In this second assault by Gen. Putnam's brigade Col. Turner, of Gen. Gillmore's staff, stood at the side of Col. Putnam when he fell, and with his voice and sword urged on the thinned ranks to the final charge. But it was too late. The 3d brigade, Gen. Stevenson's, was not on hand. It was madness for the second to remain longer under so deadly a fire, and the thought of surrendering in a body to the enemy could not for a moment be entertained. To fight their way back to the intrenchments was all that could be done, and in this retreat many a poor man fell never to rise again. Without a doubt, many of our men fell from our own fire. The dark ness was so intense, the roar of artillery so loud, the flight of grape and canister shot so rapid and de structive, that it was absolutely impossible to pre serve order in the ranks of individual companies, to say nothing of the regiments. More than half the time we were in the fort the fight was simply a ban d i to hand one, as the wounds received by many clelrey. indicated ; some had sword thrusts, some areeltias and on the head, some were stabbed with bay ° .? o s a few were knocked down with the butt end of omlluesn kets, but recovered in time to get away with t o o t* it. In this heads. There was terrible fightinigit fort, and tsrrible fighting to w g_et into the and his volunteer night nssault, and from . close, Gen. Gillmo . re , , noiencement to its IlLsittletield, of the 4th South aids, coneistiag 01- C°l l3 . annister and Stryker, of the Carolina, and majorrsment, vecre constantly under Paymasters DePa . t their power to sustain the con fire, and doing all in All er the troo ps and urg e ou reinforcements. rage -- tha t human power co uld do to carry on this fortnid to have been done. a ble earthwork se eins lar o one wou ld have imaginedin the morning that so fier ce a cannonade from both the navy and the batteries on shore could fail to destroy every bomb-proof the rebels had erected. But the moment our The following ig the full text of the Russian de spatch of which we have already given an analysis. It is addressed to Barn de Budberg, the Russian Ambassador at Paris : " St. Petersburg, July 30. " I have this moment received your despatch of the 25th July, and at once forward it to Finland, where it will be laid before the Emperor. l am n ot, therefore, yet able to inform your Excellency of the imp ression it may make on our august master. " I will not, however, delay communicating to you, by the present courier, the observations which ahasty perusal has suggested. These observations do not bear on the main question, since we are as yet ignorant of conclusions to which the French Government will come after consulting with. the Cabinets of London and Vienna. "I will only dwell on the judgment which M. Drouyn de Lhuys expressed in his conversation with you en the diffe- rent points of our answer. "I. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, acknow ledges that we do not in Principle reject the six points, bat he differs in opinion as to the preliminary condition pro posed by us for their application. He thinks that their im mediate execution would hasten the pacification of the kingdom, whereas, in the state of agitation now prevajling there, it is impossible to foresee the moment when these le forms may be granted, M. Drouyn de Lbuys seems to conclude that our answer implies a rejection under the appearance of an adhesion in principle. "It seems to us, Monsieur le Baron, that facts speak clearly enough on this point. Most of the measures im plied in the six points have been granted by the Emperor. Far from pacifying the kingdom, they became the starting point for armed insurrection. The agitators made use of these reforms. and of the administrative autonomy which they introduced, to raise revolt in the country. Their object was perfectly evident : having conceived the hope of attain ing complete independence by the aid of foreign interven tion, they could not declare themselves satisfied with the institutions, liberal, representative, and progressive, of which the Government had laid the bases, On the con trary, they could regard the success of those reforms which placed the Kingdom of Poland in the path of regular pro gress as the rule of their hopee : for that reason they made the reforms the starting-point of an insurrection. Their sentiments have undergone no change since the foreign Powers have proposed these points. They have loudly declared that they would never be satisfied by or lay down their arms until they should have attained the end at which they aim, which is the reconstitution of Poland as it existed in 1772. "If the Russian Cabinet did not repudiate from its political traditions all bad faith and underhand proceed ings, it would perhaps have been good tact on its part to have accepted the six points absolutely, in order to throw on the insurgents the responsibility of rejecting them in the eyes of the Powers proposing them. But we were not disposed to regard so serious a matter as an opportunity for a political manoeuvre. We had invited the Cabinets to a sincere exchange of ideas, and we thought them ani mated with an equal desire to come to an understanding on a question which interests humanity and the public tran quillity. " It was therefore with the utmost frankness that we di rected their attention to what we considered an evident truth—namely, that the six points proposed, and which in principle did not diverge from the intentions of the Em peror, could not receive a practical application till after the re-establishment of material order in the kingdom. " 11. M. Drouyn de Lhuys has regarded as an accusation against the French Government our assertion that the per manently organised conspiracy abroad is the principal cause of the present insurrection. "No such intention was ever entertained by us. We are persuaded that the French Government has seen these intrigues with regret, and has not failed to perceive their revolutionary character. But it is none the less true that these intrigues exist in its despite, that Paris is one of their principal centres, that they keep up the moral agitation of the kingdom, and supply it with material resources. These facts are so palpably evident that it would" be useless to feign ignorance of them. " We were bound to mention them, in order to fix the attention of the French Government and the associated Cabinets on this essential side of the question. It was a friendly appeal for their aid in view of an interest which seemed to us common to all, on two grounds ; first, because the prompt pacification of the kingdom of Poland, the ob ject of general desire, depended directly on the persistence of these causes ; and, secondly, because the cosmopolite revolutionary tendency which the Polish agitation as sumed more and more by the participation of the anarchi cal elements of all countries, gave it in our eyes the cha racter of a European danger. " The Minister of Foreign Affairs disputes our view of the Polish movement. He refuses to recognise it as pro duced by a turbulent minority and the intrigues of re fugees abroad ; he observes, on the one hand, that the movement in the kingdom must be universal to have re• sisted all the forces of the Russian Government, and, on the other, that abroad there are not merely the intrigues of re f uge es, but the openly expressed sympathies of public opinion, assemblies, and nearly all Governments. " The Polish movement presents, in our opinion, two distinct aspects. In the country we do not deny that there are germs of discontent, inherent in the nature of things in a country which has not for gotten its former independence. It will always be easy to excite men's minds by ap p e al to traditionary sentiments. Russia an has held these countries scarcely a century. During that period events abroad have constantly interfered with the progress of assimilation necessary to efface historical di. vergencies under the action of a powerful unity. There is not perhaps a single State in Europe which, under such conditions and in so short a space of time, would have succeeded in founding political unity. We shall not undertake to examine the different experiments attempted. They have necessarily been affected by the agitations of a deeply disturbed period. To remain on practical ground, we shall only state that the Emperor our master had undertaken the painful traces of the past by liberal reforms destined to reconcile the lessons of experi ence with the exigencies of the time. His Majesty had assumed the initiative of the step. The measures which he had adopted, and those which his foresight had prepared, differed but little from the bases which the three Courts have recommended as calculated to secure the pacification of the kingdom. Why have these efforts remained fruit less, and only tended to accelerate the rising of the country ? " Here influence from without shows itself in the first place, that of the emigrants who for the last 30 years openly conspire against the tranquillity of the kingdom, under shelter of the protection which they have found in some States, and next political influences in which the hopes of the revolutionists in Poland have always attached then selves. " However active and persevering the agit ati ci b il at of lit th t l e e emigrants may have been, they would have had they had effect on the internal situation of the kingda l f t ; in political not derived the means of unlimited act o i n ns terial order. influences. Every country has needed to that ind Govern is- The mass of the people is generall9 The Ru ssian pensable condition of all pronertY; t h a t essential element ment might and still may Tb_rj or , In proportion as i 1 which existed in Poland as eci ° l 7 an d completed the institu, would have applied, imPr i ' v , r , and our august master's Lions prepared by the Nr ° P — in i interests and moral i n iti a tive developededuce meter Passions appeased, tion of the counrbrY, the nig ht hope to see ea , effaced, and the kin g d om habituate irritating remeTde ; s ide with Russia in a path a prog r ess itself to go on certainly have been mor e favourable to its which wo uld welfare than the na tional hatred and th e sanguinary con flictsink two countries h ave b een driven. That result which the emigrants most feared and is P ree— ld have deprived them o f all their political ' im which vrou nart oe anall their opes. Tat is why they have en aeavaonured at any cost t h o disturbh that work of appeasement an d pacification, and why, in order to attain their object, they have held up before the eyes of the Poles the hope of a restoration of their independence by foreign intervention. That is the true cause which has led to and kept up the movement. Without that hope the emigrants might have been able to cause some disturbances, but not an insurrec tion—the peaceable inhabitants would have rejected these attempts—the masses would have remained hostile to them, as to everything that disturbs them in their laborious exist ence —and that in fact is the picture which the agitation in the kingdom has hitherto presented. It anything can dis simulate the character of that agitation in the eyes of the classes who, by their nature and their interests, ought to remain strangers to it, it is solely the mirage of sympathies and of excitements of all kinds provoked from abroad, and finally that of an intervention in favour of the complete independence of Poland. The instigators of the movement have perfectly under stood this. It is neither for institutions more or less repre sentative and liberal that they have taken up arms and raised the country ; they have clearly and loudly declared that their exclusive object was the reconstitution of Poland within the limits of 1772, and they have constantly repre sented to their fellow -countrymen a foreign intervention Extraordinary Drought at Aldershot Camp. - During . the past week Aldershot Camp has pre sented a strange spectacle. In consequence of an extraordinary and unforeseen drought nearly the whole of the military have been compelled to leave the camp at Aldershot and proceed to Sandhurst, - of an abundant supply f Woolmer, and other localities where the is to bles s be ing ob s a nd horses. The p ermanen t g tained for both men barracks and huts are for a time almost depopu lated, and a qu iet broods over the neighbourhood such as has ra rel y been witnessed since Aldershot a g arrison town. The summer has been and the reservoir at Bour unusual dryness, ley, on b on ec e a . n:fe which the camp principally depends for its water, now fails to yield anything like an adequate supply. During the past three weeks great economy of water has been practised, and on Saturday an order was issued by which all the bath rooms , both in the barracks of fire, and in the South camp , have been closed. Th e w h o l e o f th e supply, except in cases has also been cut off between the hours of 9 p.m. and 5 p.m. The cavalry barracks have been singularly deficieet in water for some time Past, and the horses in many instances have been compelled to be watered at a distance of upwards of a mile from their stables. The water in the reser voir at Bourley has become so low that at the pre sent time it is under the minimum quantity deemed necessary in case of fire. It is under these circum stances that the strength of the camp has under gone so great a diminution. The regiments which. left Aldershot last week, and proceeded to Wool.. mer, under the command of Major-General Rue sell, will, instead of returning to the camp, as was originally intended, remain in their present cantonments until further orders. On Thursday the 13th Hussars and a battalion of the Royal Artillery left the camp to join the force already at Woolmer, and on Saturday last a large body of soldiers, consisting of the Ist Royal Dragoons, the 69th Regiment, the 13th Regiment, and the 87th Regiment, with detachments of the Military Train, the Royal Engineers, and the Com missariat Staff Corps were detached from the Alder shot division, and proceeded, under the command of Brigadier-General Bates, commanding the 2d Royal Brigade, to Sandhurst, where they will remain en camped until a sufficient supply of water can be ob tained at Aldershot. The force at the camp has thus been greatly diminished, and the place presents more the appearance of what might be expected in time of war than of pea ce. During the week the u F f u o s r i I i l e Ipswich. wich. It is Guards for 12th Lancers have left th e camp for Kensin g ton and Hounslow, the let battalion ssarti London, and the 18 th hoped that a heavy fall of rain will shortly relieve the soldiers quartered here at Aldershot of the dis out for an indefinite apgerrieoedaslalbeunteceastsitthyf e s e a n m ea e mp ti i m n g e this circumstance , w hi c h may occur a g ain under the present arrange ment at any similar period of drought, ha s brought the q uestion of ob taining water from other sources un der the consideratio n th e au thorities. of e ~.a~~