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THE WAR. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. ADDITIONAL details of the events connected with the unfortunate attacks by the Allies, on Sebastopol, on the 18th of last month, continue to be received. They do not much alter the general complexion of affairs in relation to those proceedings as they have been already stated. Some misapprehension appears to have prevailed in reference to a sortie made by the Russian garrison on the morning of that day, at a very early hour, and which, according to some reports, is said to have precipitated the French attack on the Malakhoff, and so to have led to the disasters which attended that attack. The discussions on this subject have not tended in any great degree to clear up the point, which is now of less moment. According to the latest accounts received, the progress of the Allies in their measured advance upon the defences of the town have not been materially retarded by the reverses referred to. On the contrary, they seem to be pro ceeding with renewed energy ; and, if we may judge from the accounts transmitted, with a degree of su cess which augurs ultimate and not distant triump On Saturday, the 23rd of June, the allied position and its neighbourhood was visited by a thunderstorm of , great severity, accompanied by a very heavy fall of rain, which did a great deal of injury. All reports concur in representing the health of the Allies as good. Concerning the thunderstorm and the general state of affairs,the Times correspondent, writing on the 25th, says: The storm which burst over the south-eastern portion of the Chersonese on Saturday night has done more damage than we could have anticipated. Men were drowned in ravines converted by the tornado into watercourses, were carried off roads by mountain torrents, and dashed against hill sides ; beasts were swept away into the harbour and borne to sea; huts were broken up and floated into the ocean ; the burial grounds near Balaklava were swept bare, and disclosed their grim army of the dead in ghastly resurrection, washed into strange shapes from out their shallow graves ; and, greatest calamity of all, the railway was in various places decomposed, ripped up and broken down, so as to be unserviceable at our greatest need. Orders have been sent down to urge on the necessary repairs, for the demands of the batteries for shot and shell are pressing, and the electric telegraph has been repeatedly in use to-day to force on the attention of the authorities at Balaklava the necessity there is for their promptest exertions, and to order them to send up supplies of materriel for our fifth bombardment as speedily as possible The French say they are quite ready, and they have received from us 1,500 32-pound shot for their guns to-day. The railway fails at a critical period, but even if it were in its usual state we could not hope to be in a con dition to begin a heavy fire for some time to come, and I believe it will be fully a fortnight or three weeks before the necessary supplies will be brought up to the front. The repairs to the railway will be effected in ten days. Mr. Beatty and Mr. Campbell are away at Heraclea surveying the coal district, but their representatives are men of energy, and the only obstructions to be dreaded will arise from the " navvies," some of whom have been behaving very badly lately. They nearly all " struck work" a short time back, on the plea that they were not properly rationed or paid, or that, in other words, they were starved and cheated ; but the provost-marshal brought some of them to a sense of their situation, and, indeed, the office of that active and worthy person and of his myrmidon sergeants has been by no means a sinecure between " navvies," Greeks, and scoundrels, of all sorts. The Croat insurrection is suppressed, but the Croat idleness has not been by any means stimulated into usefulness. No wonder Col. M'Murdo finds it difficult to get men for the Land Transport Corps, although even he is obliged to pay 2s. 6d. and 3s. a-day to native surid jees, so completely have we ruined the market. The losses in the Land Transport Corps by death would be extraordinary did we not find a parallel to them in the •Sardinian army of Tchorgoun, which has lost in three weeks nearly 1,000 men by cholera, dysentery, and diarrhoea. The Turks and French en camped in the valley suffer somewhat from the same diseases, but it is observable that the men who die are recruits and old men who are mostly unacclimatized. To understand the diffi culties in the way of what is called at home " taking the field," one must come out and stay out here. It would be much easier to take Sebastopol thanto take the field. There are only three ac cessible passes, up the precipitous wall of rock which rises on the north side of the Tchernaya, to the plateau on which the Russians are encamped, and the precipice runs round to the Belbek. These passes are so steep that an army would have some difficulty in ascending them at its leisure, without re sistance from any enemy. But they are occupied wherever engineering eyes detect the smallest weakness—they are com manded by batteries, intersected by positions threatened by everhanging cliffs all ready for the lever. March round and turn them ! Where and how ! We have no transport even if we could march, and we cannot march, because Napoleon himself would never lead an army into such defiles as guards the Russian position. Whether we are not strong enough to detach a great corps of 40,000 or 50,000 men to operate against the Russians north of Sebastopol is not for me to say; but it is certain that the base of operations for any such corps must be the sea, till ample transport is provided. The Crimea is to all intents and purports a desert—a Sahara, waterless and foodless before an invading army. A long train of provisions came into Sebastopol to-day, and the mirror tele graph, which works by flashes from a mound over the Belbeck, was exceedingly busy all the forenoon. Troops were also ob served in motion on the hills opposite Inkerman. The weather is warm, but there is a strong breeze of wind, which tempers its heat. The rain has developed horrible effluvia in camp, and sickness is rather on the increase. With great regret and surprise we heard of Captain Lyons's death this evening. THE ARMISTICE. Concerning the armistice, the same correspondent, writing on the 26th, says : The sad history of the 19th, which 1 was obliged to inter rupt on the departure of the mail, is soon finished. The bodies of many a brave officer whom I knew in old times—old times of the war, for men's lives are short here, and the events of a life are compressed into a few hours—were borne past us in silence, and now and then, wonderful to relate, men with severe wounds were still living, and able to give express i on to their sufferings by moans and sighs of pain. The spirit of some of these noble fellows triumphed over all their bodily agonies. " General !" exclaimed a sergeant of the 18th Royal Irish to Brigadier Eyre, as he came near the place. in the cemetery where the poor fellow lay with both his legs broken by a round shot; " thank God, we did our work, any way. Had I another pair of legs, the country and you would be welcome to them !" Many men in hospital, after losing leg or arm, said they "would not have cared if they had only beaten the Russians." The tor tures endured by the wounded were very great ; they lay in holes made by shells, and were frequently fired at by the Rus sian riflemen when they rolled about in their misery. Some of our men, however, report that the enemy treated them kindly, and even brought them water out of the embrasures. They pulled all the bodies of our officers which lay within reach up to the abattis, and took off their epaulettes, when they had any, and their boots, but did not strip them. It was observed that the ditch of the abattis was in excellent order—that the chevaux-de-frise had been repaired, and were very strong, and that every effort had been used up to the moment before we assaulted to render it, as it was, a formidahle obstacle to our advance. It is said that the bottom of the ditch was filled with bayonets, fixed firmly in the earth; and there is a report that the Russians were employed during the night of the 17th in repairing the abattis itself where it was injured by our cannon. I have already tried to describe the nature of the ground in the front of the abattis. It was in itself a con siderable impediment to regularity of formation. A line of sentries was formed by the Russians as our burying parties came out, and they advanced so far in front of the abattis that General Airey was obliged to ;remonstrate with an aide-de camp of General Osten-Sacken, who ordered them to retire nearer to the abattis. It was observed that these men were fine tall, muscular, and soldierlike fellows. They were unusually well dressed, in clean new uniforms, and were no doubt picked out to impose upon us. Many of them wore medals, and seemed veteran soldiers. Their officers had also turned out with unusal care, and wore white kid gloves, patent leather boots, and white linen. The mass of the Russians were gathered on the towering parapets of the Redan and Malakhoff, and were not permitted to come to the front. Their working parties brought out all our dead, and laid them in front of their line of sentries, whence our people carried them away. The precautions which had been taken to prevent officers and men getting through the lines sufficed to keep any crowd away, but the officers on duty and the lucky men, and some amateurs, who managed to get through the lines, formed groups in front of the Redan, and entered into con versation with a few of the Russian officers. There was, however, more reserve and gravity in the interview than has been the case on former occasions of the kind. One stout elderly Russian of rank asked one of our officers " How are you off for food ?" " Oh ! we get everything we want ; our fleet secures that." " Yes," remarked the Russian, with a knowing wink, "yes ; but there's one thing you're not so well off for, and your fleet can't supply you, and that's sleep." " We're at least as well off for that as you are," was the rejoinder. Another officer, in the coarse of conversation, asked if we really thought, after our experience of the de fence they could make, that we could take Sebastopol. " We must ; France and England are determined to take it." " Ah ! well," said the other, " Russia is determined France and England shall not have it, and we'll see who has the strongest will, and can lose most men." In the midst of these brief interviews, beginning and ending with bows and salutes, and inaugurated by the concession of favours relating to cigars and lights, the soldiers bore dead bodies by, consigning the privates to the burial grounds near the trenches, and carrying off the wounded and the bodies of the officers to the camp. Poor Forman's body was one of the first found ; it was far in advance of where he came out of the trench with his company of the Rifle Brigade, and it was terribly torn with shot. It was generally observed by some of the surgeons, however, that the wounds were cleaner than they have been in previous engagements. This is some what remarkable, f or th e Russians fired all kinds of missiles— bags of nails and fragments of bullets, shells, and balls, as well as g rape . and cani s t er. They were seen as we advanced " shovelling" the shot into the muzzles of the guns. No one can deny many of the offic ers th e p ra i se o f extreme bravery and devotion. In the midst of our fire they got up oil the top and on the outside of the parapets, and directed the fire of their men upon us. Several of them were knocked over by round shot, shell, and rifle balls, while exposing them selves in this manner, but it scarcely speaks well for their soldiers that they felt it necessary to set them such examples. Colonel Dickson succeeded in obtaining Lord Raglan's per mission to open on the Russian s f rom the 21-gun battery, and swept them away i n numbers as they crowded out to fire on our broken columns and on our wounded men and fugitives. The armistice lasted for upw ar d s of two hours, and when it was over we retired from the spot so moistened with our blood. RETENTION OP THE CEMETERY. All the advantage we gained by the assault was the capture of the C em etery, and even that we h ad nearly abandoned, owing to the timidity of the eof our g enera l s. As you have already learnt, the men in Cemetery and houses suffered severely during the 18th t om . the enemy' s fi re, and the soldiers in the latter were not able to withdraw till n i g h tfall. It was left to one of the Generals of Division to say what should be done with the Cemetery, and he gave orders to abandon it. On the following morning an officer of Engineers, Lieutenant Donnelly, heard to his extreme surprise that the position for which we had paid so dearly was not in our possession. Re appreciated ita value—he saw that the Russians bad not yet advanced to re-occupy it. With the utmost zeal and energy he set to work among the officers in the trenches, and begged and borrowed some 30 men with whom he crept down into the Cemetery, just before the flag of truce was hoisted. As soon as the armistice began the Russians flocked down to the Cemetery, which they supposed to be undefended, but to their great surprise they found our 30 men posted there as sentries, who warned them back, and in the evening the party was strengthened, and we are now construct ing most valuable works and batteries there, in spite of a heavy fire, which occasions us considerable loss. Such is the storythat is going the round of the camp. Lord Raglan is said to have found fault with General Eyre for - losing SO many men, but the latter observed, that he had done what he was .ordered, and that he had taken the Cemetery. There can be no doubt but that our troops could have got into the town in the rear of the Redan from the houses on the 18th, had they been strong enough to advance from the Cemetery. Whether they could have maintained themselves there under the fire of forts, ships, and batteries, is another question. It is now shrewdly suspected that inside the Redan, behind those outward and visible walls of earth, there is another very strong work—a kind of star fort of earth with sunken batteries—and it is certain that inside the Malakoff works there are several lines of battery which have never been unmasked. The enemy have probably constructed large funnel-shaped pits behind these works, into which shells roll and burst, as such a " dodge" was found in the Mamelon. Inside the latter work were splendid bombproofs for the men to retire into when our fire became hot. They were large pits with 10 feet of earth, and beams of wood across them, and were capable of holding a strong body of men. In one some new sacks marked with the broad arrow and B. 0. were found, in which were packets of cartridges ready for use. Where did these sacks come from P It is almost as strange as the English bread found at Tchorgoun. There is talk of a spy being taken, or rather discovered, in a sub-interpreter to the Commissariat, who confesses he has been in communication with the Russians, and revealed our attack to them. He will be shot, if this be true. STATE OF THE WOUNDED. In reference to this subject the correspondent of the Daily News reports as follows I am sorry to learn that a large proportion of the wounds received by our men in the affair of the 18th are terminating fatally. The awfully severe nature of grape-shot wounds, to be sure, gave reason to expect this ; though hardly, perhaps, to the extent in which the daily returns show it to be occur ring. Round shot and shell wounds, from their extent, are in most cases fatal when received ; whilst those inflicted by grape or canister—though sadly extensive too—more frequently leave life in the sufferer, at least for a time. Still, a limb struck by either of these last can seldom be saved from amputation, and after the vast hemorrhage which must in the mean time have taken place, few systems can survive the operation. So has it proved in the cases of very many of those carried off the field on the 18th—after lingering on doubtfully for days they gradually sinking and dropping off one by one. Apropos of this subject of the wounded, however, in remarkable contrast to those who are daily succumbing, I may mention particularly one case which is considered of singu larly great surgical interest—that of a young man named Palmer, a private in the 7th Fusiliers, who was shot through the left parietal bone by a Minie bullet on the morn ing of the attempted storming. When carried into the field hospital, an hour or so after recei v i ng the wound, the brain was actually protruding through an orifice in the skull large enough to admit of the entrance of the doctor's finger into the interior of the head in search of the ball. The surgeon assured me that he had to thrust his index finger to its full length within the brain, to discover the bullet and the portion of the skull which it had carried inwards with it. Neither, however, could be found, nor has yet been extracted. In the meantime the fractured bone is closing, and the patient con tinues "alive and alike like," eating his prescribed food regu larly, and displaying his wonted intelligence. By a large number of doctors who have seen it the case is considered one of the most remarkable in the history of modern surgery, and it certainly strikes an unprofessional looker-on as subversive of every preconceived notion of the brain—vulnerability. A few somewhat similar cases are, I believe, on record ; but in every one of them the sufferer died on or about the ninth day, whilst the individual to whom I now refer has at present every appearance of surviving, without at the same time sustaining any lasting cerebral injury. MORE RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS. Writing with respect to the new preparations of the Russians, a correspondent of the same journal, on the 25th, says :--- The night before last, I am informed, a party of our engi neers succeeded in approaching the mouth of the harbour sufficiently near, in the Banshee, to enable them to discover a star battery in the course of erection, in the immediate rear of the Malakhoff—an addition to the strength of that position, which, I need hardly say, would greatly enhance the difficulty of its capture. There is reason to believe that similar strengthening additions are also in preparation behind the Redan ; but these are less important, as it is not likely that that work will again be made a principal point of attack, its abandonment following as a matter of course on the seizure of the Malakhoff. Against the latter, the next combined effort of the Allies will be directed, and they will merit defeat if, after the experience of the last attempt, less uncertain mea sures of attack be not adopted. THE LATE LORD RAGLAN. Under date of the 29th, the correspondent of the Times has the annexed account of the death of Lord Raglan :--- Among the general orders promulgated yesterday afternoon was the following : The Field-Marshal has the satisfaction of publishing to the army the following extract from a telegraphic despatch from Lord Panmure, dated the 22nd of June : I have Her Majesty's commands to express her grief that so much bravery should not have been rewarded with merited success, and to assure her brave troops that her Majesty's confidence in them is entire. Within a few hours after this order had appeared, the elec tric telegraph brought the melancholy and startling intelli gence from head quarters to the various divisions that the Field-Marshal was dead. It would appear that he has lately —no doubt from the constant strain on his mental and bodily energies —been far from well, and the death of General Est court, to whom he was much attached, the unsatisfactory result of the attack on the 18th ultimo, and the unhealthy weather since, broke down a constitution already enfeebled by age and long service. The following tells its own melancholy story : MORNING GENERAL ORDERS. Head Quarters before Sebastopol, June 29. No. 1. It becomes my most painful duty to announce to the army the death of its beloved commander, Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., which melancholy event took place last night about nine o'clock. No. 2. In the absence of Lieut.-General Sir George Brown, the command of the troops devolves on me, as next senior officer present, until further orders are received from England. No. 3. Generals of divisions and heads of departments will be pleased to conduct their respective duties as heretofore. J. SIMPSON, Lieutenant-General. There is great feeling of regret evinced throughout the camp at the loss of Lord Raglan. His death appears to have at once stilled every other feeling but that of respect for his memory, and remembrance of the many long years he faith fully and untiringly served his country. The cause of his death is stated to have been diarrhoea, which terminated in cholera. The body is to be conveyed to England in her Majesty's ship Caradoc, and will leave very shortly. It will, I hear, be accompanied by the whole of his late lordship's personal staff, whose duties will then, of course, cease. Colonel the Hon. W. L. Pakenham will conduct for the present the duties of the Adjutant-General's office. We have now but very few generals left to command divi sions or to act as brigadiers. Sir G. Brown left Kamiesch this morning for England ; he had, I believe, previously heard of the death of the Field-Marshal, but his medical advisers insisted on the necessity of his at once leaving the Crimea. General Pennefather, as you are aware, has been gone for some days. Generals Estcourt, Sir John Campbell, and Colonels Yea, Shadforth, &c., are no more. General Codrington, on whom the command of the Light Division now devolves, is in anything but a satisfactory state of health, and is at present on board of a man-of-war at Chersoneso. The division provisionally under the orders of Colonel Shirley of the 88th, the only colonel of the division who remains of those who led their gallant men from Kalamita Bay to Alma and Inkerman. General Barnard, it is under stood, takes command of the Fourth Division, and, for the present, the duties of Brigadier-General will, with few ex ceptions, devolve on the senior officers commanding regi ments. The siege is " dragging on." The firing for the last two days or three has been a little more active on the part of the enemy, particularly at daylight. A report on the supply of water in the tanks of the different divisions has, I believe, been forwarded by the commanding engineer to head-quarters, and it is in contemplation, in consequence, to move a portion of the Land Transport Corps to the neighbourhood of Koranni ; but it seems to me that the supply, though not of the purest or most pellucid kind, is not reasonably, to be complained of, and continues in sufficiently ample abundance. Some little amount of unpopularity, I am told, has fallen on Sir Edmund Lyons, who hitherto has been the great favourite of all his officers. The Naval Brigade have been up here for many a long month of frost, snow, wet, cold, and privation. After weathering the past winter, they brought through their men in better condi tion than any other corps in camp. No doubt many of the officers volunteered for this duty with the hope that they would obtain, as they have proved they deserve, their promo tion. A " death vacancy" among the lieutenants occurred a few days ago in the Naval Brigade, and by the usual custom of the service, should have been conferred on one of those who had worked with it all along, but Sir Edmund Lyons selected for promotion a midshipman serving in the St. Jean d'Acre, who happens to be a son of Sir James Graham ; directed that a board should be held to pass him to his next step--that of a mate ; and before he had been in that rank a dozen hours signalled for him to come to breakfast, and handed to him his commission as lieutenant. I regret to hear that there are complaints on the part of the Commissariat and Land Transport Corps respecting the " navvies." It seems the term for which their services were engaged has expired, and they will now only work when they please, and have, in fact, become exceedingly idle. The consequence is, that the whole system of getting up provisions by the railway for the divisions in front is deranged, and much valuable time is lost in also bringing up shot and shell to the trenches. tion as yet determined upon, but we are employed in repairing and improving our works, to be in readiness to co-operate with the French when their approaches towards the Malakhoff shall be completed. The nominal returns of casualities from the 25th to the 28th inst. are enclosed. I am truly sorry to announce that Lieutenant General Sir George Brown departed for England this morning on medical certificate. _ . The 13th Light Infantry has arrived, and disembarked at Balaklava this morning. They will remain there for the present, to assist in the duties of the place, I have, &C.,_ JAMES Snirsoic, Lieutenant-General Commanding. The Lord Panmure, The following telegraphic despatches have been received by Lord Panmure, from General Simpson : CRIMEA., July 9. To-morrow I intend to open a heavy fire on the Redan. The health of the troops is satisfactory. Prince Gortschakoff proposes to me that we should exchange prisoners of war at Odessa. CRIMEA, July 11, 4.45 P.M. Our fire yesterday had good effect on the Redan. Cholera is decreasing, and the health of the army is satis factory. CRIMEA, July 13. The operations of the siege are going on well. The health of the army continues satisfactory. PARIS, Thursday, 8 A.M. The Moniteur announces that the last despatches received from the Crimea are dated the 10th of July, 2 p.m. General Pelissier writes as follows to the Minister of War:— " I have nothing new to announce to you to-day. The firing has been very brisk during the whole of the day between the English and the Great Redan. This evening that work is very silent, consequently our allies will be able to advance their works." The Moniteur publishes despatches from Admiral Penaud, from the Baltic. PARIS, Saturday, July 14, 8 a.m. The Moniteur publishes the following despatch from Gene ral Pelissier JULY 12, 11 p.m. According to the report of a deserter, Admiral Nachimoff was killed by a ball in the forehead yesterday morning, in the Central Bastion. We are consolidating ourselves in the new approaches. The construction of the batteries of Careening Bay is car ried on with all the zeal which distinguishes our artillery. The Times has received the following telegraphic despatch from its Marseilles correspondent : MARSEILLES, July 14. The Caire, which left Constantinople on the sth inst., has arrived. Despatches leave at 8 p.m. The news from the Crimea is to the 4th. It was announced that 40,000 Russians were advancing on Baidar. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. The following despatches from General Simpson will be read with more interest on account of their being the first he has transmitted since he assumed the chief command, than in con sequence of the actual information conveyed by them :-- BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, June 30. My Lord,—lt is with the deepest regret that I announce to your Lordship the death of Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., which melancholy event took place a little before nine o'clock on the evening of Thursday last, the 28th instant ; his Lordship expired without any suffering in the midst of the officers composing his personal staff. I have further to report that, being the next senior officer present, I have assumed the command of this army until instructions shall arrive from England.—l have, &c., JAMES SIMPSON, Lieut.-General Commanding. The Lord Panmure, &c. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for the week ending July 1, 1865, was as follows :—Passengers, parcels, &c., £3,646 17s. 2d. ' • steam-boats, £625 14s. 10d. ; goods, £1,676 17s. 11d. Total, including Carnarvon traffic, £5,948 9s. 11d. Corresponding week last year : Passengers, parcels, &c., £3,412 18s. 3d. ; steam-boats, £678 12s. Bd. ; goods, £1,615 10s. 9d. Total; including Carnarvon traffic, £5,707 ls. Bd. Increase, £241 Bs. 3d. Lococes COSMETIC.—A delightfully fragrant prepa ration, for improving and beautifying the complexion, rendering the skin clear, soft, and transparent; removing all eruptions, freckles, sunburn, tan, pimples, and roughness, — curing gnat bites, and the stings of insects generally. In the process of shaving, it allays all smarting, and renders the skin soft and smooth. Sold in bottles, at Is. lid., 25. 96.. and 46. 6d. each. Beware of counterfeits. Observe the words, "Dr. Locock's Cos- BEPORi3 SEBASTOPOL, June 30, metic," on the government stamp outside the wrapper. Sold by My Lord,—ln this, my first military despatch, lam not all respectable chemists; also may be had Dr. Locock's Pulmonic aware that there is anything new or of consequence to report Wafers, for asthma, consumption, coughs, colds, and all disorder 6 to your Lordship, of the breath and lungs : they have a pteasant taste, Price I said., As regards the progress of the siege there is no great opera. 2s. 96 , and uls. per box. Wholesale Warehouse, 26, Bride.iane : London, PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY. Mlle meeting of the House, Lord STIAFTESBURY stated, that, at the urgent request of the Bishops of London and Oxford, he should postpone his bill until Monday, the 16th. THE MASSACRE AT HANGO.—The Earl of MALMESBURY directed attention to the despatch of General de Berg, vindi cating the massacre at Hango. He requested to know what course government intended to pursue in the matter.—The Earl of CLARENDON said the letter referred to was most unsatisfactory, and added that Admiral Dundas had been ordered to demand the immediate release of the prisoners. A communication had also been made, through the Danish government, on the subject, with the Russians. Till answtrs to these demands had been received, government could not say what course it would adopt.—Lord CAMPBELL said there could be no doubt that the Russians had been guilty of a most flagrant breach of the law of nations.—Lord COLCHESTER, without offering any excuse for the Russians, expressed a hope that this event would render our naval officers more careful in communicating with the enemy by flags of truce. In answer to a question from the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord CLARENDON said there were grounds for hoping that a cartel for the exchange of prisoners will speedily be arranged. The Victoria Government Bill was read a second time. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.—The Marquis of CLAN RICARDE moved for a return of all persons employed in the diplomatic service, and expressed an opinion that the attacks so frequently made on that branch of the public service were unfair and unfounded.—The Earl of CLARENDON had no ob jection to the production of the returns.—Lord GRANVILLE took the occasion to defend himself from some attacks which had been made upon him in the Lower House with regard to certain diplomatic appointments made by him when Foreign Minister.—Lord MALMESBURY deprecated any attempt to remove the patronage of the Foreign-office from the control of the Foreign Minister for the time being.—The returns were then agreed to, and the matter dropped. Some other business was despatched, after which their lordships adjourned. _ THURSDAY. Their lordships had only a short sitting, in the course of which they forwarded several bills a stage.—ln the early part of the sitting, Lord LYNDHURST withdrew his Oath of Abjuration Bill. THE BALTIC. The Paris papers of Saturday publish the following tele graphic despatches:— STOCKHOLM, July 13. An authentic report announces that on the 6th inst. the English bombarded and set fire to Lovisa, a small town in the duchy of Finland, on the gulf of the same name, situated at about 60 kilometres from Helsingfors. The town was com pletely destroyed. HA3IBURCIII, July 14. The town of Lovisa, in Finland, was bombarded and destroyed by the English on the sth inst. Lovisa (says the Journal des Debats) is a town of about 6,000 inhabitants, situated on the coast of the Gulf of Fin land. It was built in 1745, under the name of Degesby, which name it exchanged for Lovisa in 1752. THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES AND FLAGS OF TRUCE. Os the 29th of June, a steamer left Cronstadt with a flag of truce, and steered for the allied fleet. A boat from the Duke of Wellington pulled alongside, and in that boat an officer was sent with a despatch from the Russian Minister of War to the English Admiral, informing him of the determina tion arrived at by the Russian Government regarding com munications with the Anglo-French fleet in the Baltic. That determination was expressed in the follow terms : " Flags of truce will only be received'Bn three points— namely, Cronstadt, Sweaborg, and Revel. "Vessels bearing a flag of truce must hoist a white flag of large dimensions, and cast anchor beyond long range, and wait until a boat goes alongside to receive a written message from them. " I must inform you, M. rAdmiral, that the Imperial Go vernment has resolved not to recognise a flag of truce on any other point than those alaovementioned, or without the strict adhesion to the rules herein laid down." After consulting with the French admiral, Admiral Dundas sent a reply, in which he said : " I take the liberty of informing you that I am ignorant of the circumstances with respect to the conduct of my officers which may have given rise to restriction of communications by flags of truce as hitherto practised in the present war. I am perfectly aware that it is customary to hoist a white flag of sufficient size, and I also admit the necessity of not ap proaching within range of the guns of a fortress without per mission, or nearer any other point than may be necessary to attract attention ; but the time and place where such commu nications, under a Hag of truce, may be thought indispensable depend upon the circumstances of each individual case. I admit, without reserve, that in most cases it is more suit a bl e to send a flag of truce to a spot where it is likely to meet with an officer of rank ; and that, moreover, no advantage should be taken of such suspension of hostilities to accomplish, with out danger, acts which could not have been done during actual hostilities. " By informing me that on the whole extent of the Russian territory from Tornea to Libau flags of truce are limited to the three points you have mentioned, you virtually increase the evils of war, and deprive both parties of those means of correspondence necessary even between enemies. " I regret that when such a notification was made to me no fact was mentioned which might have led me to make an inquiry into the conduct of those accused, and I am quite ready to institute an inquiry into the conduct of any officer pointed out to me as having violated a flag of truce. "As regards communications that may be sent to me, I refer you to the conditions you yourself have made, either to approach or display a flag of truce : a flag of truce will be received by the nearest vessel, and sent, as the case may be, to the senior officer, and I ask no other security than that which I may reasonably expect from the good faith and honour of the officers to whom you may think fit to entrust such sort of communications." To this reply, which challenges the Russians to the proof of any violation of the law of nations on our part, and throws on them the responsibility of the proposed departure from established usage, the French admiral has given his cordial assent. THE PARIS EXHIBITION of INDUSTRY. THE correspondent of the Guardian writes :—To make up for want of punctuality and grandeur of conception, the Exhibition of 1855 will, I think, ultimately be allowed to have greatly the advantage of its predecessor in the value and beauty of its productions. The new portions have proved fully equal to the expectations entertained respecting them, and it is impossible to deny that no other country in the world save France has the power of displaying such a collec tion of luxury and elegance as that now exhibited within the circles of the panorama. Any attempt at description would be wholly unavailing. I will merely mention that, the furni ture displayed in the outer circle by the Faubourg St. Antoine far exceeds in richness and costliness anything exhibited in England. It bespeaks, indeed, a luxury almost frightful to contemplate, and certainly of a kind which no fortunes in France can be justly adequate to support. Few of your readers, probably, can have overlooked or forgotten the beautiful sideboard of Fourdinois, of the Four Quarters of the Globe, exhibited in London. Beautiful as was the carving, it was insignificant compared to the treatment of the same subject by Ribaillier in the present Exhibition. The personages, large as life, have all the vigour of the finest productions of the sculptor's chisel, while the finish of every part of the work is unrivalled. The whole is carved in walnut wood of a rich colour. The cost to the maker was upwards of £1000; the price put upon it will be from £14,000 to £15,000. The fashion of introducing bronzes d'art into furniture pre vails just now; you see bookcases richly sculptured, into the panellings of which are inserted, in bronze, copies of the Gates of Ghiberti, or other costly and elaborate subjects. A favourite piece of furniture is a cabinet of arms, for the display of ancient and modern weapons, either of war or the chase. An especially beautiful specimen represents on each side a falconer, and a fisherman, of really marvellous execution, so free is the action with which the one throws up the bird and the other handles the net. The panels of this cabinet a... exquisitely • painted with emblematical figures on a gold ground. The design and effect of the whole is elegant and rich in the extreme. But it would be useless to go on ; the style and costliness of this ex travagant collection of furniture is such as does not exist, and is hardly known out of this country. In the inner circle the imperial manufactures biddefiance to all competition, as well they may. Since the day when Jean Gobelin founded the Gobelins in 1450, it has been backed by the whole strength of the Govern ment,for four hundred years,regardless of expense. The cartoons of " Paul and Barnabas at Lystria," and of the " Miraculous Draught of Fishes," the portraits after Titian, and various other productions, are wonders in tapestry. Nor are Beaunois or Aubusson one whit behindhand. A magnificent carpet is displayed, a present from Louis Napoleon to the Pope. The wreath around it is entwined with the names of Napoleon's victories; at" the bottom is written les dix commandments; and immediately above is, first the triple crown and keys, and then the imperial crown and cipher; rich garlands form the centre upon a field of bees. The Sevres vases are of extra ordinary beauty of form and material, and the landscapes and subjects painted on them of equal merit. A baptistery also attracts great attention ; it is asked whether it be intended for a future and hoped-for King of Rome. There are enamels which have nothing to envy in those of Bernard Palissy. Amongst other objects is a state ,dinner-service, commanded by the Emperor, and just terminated after three years' labour. Though only electro-plated, the covering of silver is so solid, and the chiselling so rich and highly finished, that the cost of the whole has been £32,000. FRIDAY. In answer to a question from Lord Monteagle, Earl GRAN VILLE said Her Majesty's Government had become parties to a joint guarantee for five millions as a loan to Turkey ; and undoubtedly this country was responsible to the creditor for the whole amount. The course adopted on the present occa sion had not been arrived at in a hurry, but had been maturely conatiercd. The Earl of EGLINTO presented a number of petitions against the Scottish Education Bill, from various places in Scotland. Several bills were advanced a stage ; and their lordships ad journed at twenty minutes past six. HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY. During the morning sitting the house was engaged in committee in considering the details of the Nuisances Re moval Bill. At the evening sitting a petition was presented by Captain Scobell, from a meeting at South Shields, representing the seamen of 17 of the northern ports, praying that the crew of any vessel not seaworthy may have power to make legal com plaint thereof. No CONFIDENCE IN MINISTERS.—Sir E. B. LYTTON gave notice that when the house went into committee on Friday he should move " That the conduct of the Minister charged with the negotiations at Vienna, and his continuance in office as a responsible adviser of the Crown, have shaken the confidence which the country should place in those to whom the administration of public affairs is intrusted." (Hear.) In answer to questions put by Mr. Stafford, Mr. F. PEEL stated that Dr. A Smith continues to officiate until his suc cessor is appointed; and that, with respect to Dr. Hall, during the time Lord Panmure had been at the head of the War Department there had been no complaint as to the man ner in which he had performed his duty, and therefore Lord Panmure had not removed him from the headship of the medical department of the army in the East. LOAN TO TURKEY.—Lord PALMERSTON, in reply to Mr. J. L. Ricardo, said a treaty had been signed, by which the Governments of France and England agreed to guarantee a loan of £5,000,000 to Turkey, and her Majesty would recom mend to Parliament to guarantee one-half of this loan. As soon as the ratifications were exchanged the treaty would be laid before Parliament_ He added, care would be taken that 'the loan should be applied to military purposes. • " ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.—Mr. V. SCULLY moved an address, thanking Her Majesty for the order in Council of the 21st of May last, by which certain persons were directed to examine into and certify the qualifications of all young men, proposed to be appointed to junior situations in any depart ment of the civil service; and praying that Her Majesty will be pleased to direct the examination to be an open one, and held in public, and that the examiners have regard to superior qualifications and merit.—The motion was seconded by Lord GODERICH.—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, after a lengthened address, in which he reviewed the various allega tions of those who supported the Administrative Reform movement, and also stated the measures adopted by Govern ment for securing an efficient administration of the different departments, concluded by moving the previous question.— A discussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. WILKINSON, Mr. W. S. LINDSAY, and Sir S. NORTIICOTE spoke in favour of the motion; Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. TITE in terms which made it doubtful to which side they leaned; and Sir C. WOOD and Lord PALMERSTON in favour of the amendment.—At the conclusion of these addresses, Mr. SCULLY replied in facetious terms, after which the house divided, the previous question being carried by 140 to 125. CALL OF THE HOUSE.—Mr. ROEBUCK moved that the house be called over on Tuesday, when his motion would come on for discussion, the importance of which he considered a sufficient justification of the present motion.—Upon a divi sion, the motion was negatived by 133 to 108. ' Leave was given to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and to Mr. V. Smith to introduce certain bills, and the orders of the day having been disposed of, the house adjourned at a quarter past one o'clock. WEDN ESDAY. On the motion of Mr. WALPOLE, after considerable dis cussion, it was agreed that Baron Lionel De Rothschild be at liberty to appear by his counsel and agents, before the select committee on the London writ. _ _ _ Some discussion took place on the Scotch Education Bill, in the course of which the LORD ADVOCATE intimated his conviction that the bill could not pass this session. CRURCII RATES' ABOLITION BILL.—On the order of the day for going into committee on this bill being read, Mr. FOLLETT moved that it be committed that day three months. In doing so, he said, the object of this measure was, in his opinion, to make it the first and main step towards the des truction of the Established Church in this country, and to alter our institutions in a manner prejudicial to the political as well as religious liberties of the people. He adverted to what he considered to be the extraordinary conduct of the government upon this question, especially that of Lord J. Russell ; and read declarations made by Dissenters, showing that the real and even avowed motive of their hostility to church-rates was hostility to the Established Church. He defended the principle of an Establishment, and maintained that anything affecting the stability of the Church of England, which had not failed in its duties and its obligations, would be an unmitigated evil.—The ATTORNEY-GENERAL observed that the house having already affirmed the principle of the bill, and it being im possible to believe that the abolition of church-rates was more than a question of time, the wisest course was to discuss its provisions in committee, embracing the opportunity it offered of settling the question, and of putting an end to an annual agitation and constant strife and discord.—Lord J. MANNERS asked how it came to pass, if there was any justice in the denunciations of the Attorney-General, that the government had refused to legislate upon the subject, and that Sir Alexander himself had not proposed a remedy? The grievance complained of by the dissenters was, that church-rates were a burden upon their conscience ; but the bill, from its preamble to its close, had not a single provision with reference to that grievance. The proper mode of relieving the con science of dissenters in this particular was to exempt them from the rate, and he would support such a proposition, which had been made, but, when made, had been resisted by supporters of this bill, which imposed a new tax upon churchmen in the shape of pew rents.—Sir W. SOMERVILLE expressed himself in favour of proceeding with the bill; as did also Mr. E. BALL and Mr. C. FOSTER.—Mr. R. PIIILLIMORE, Mr. WIGRAM, Mr. G. VERNON, and Mr. GUR NEY expressed themselves in opposition to the bill; when Mr, BENTINCE, adverting to the fact that there was not a single member of the Cabinet present, moved that the debate be ad journed. This led to a discussion, in which the adjournment of the debate was opposed by Mr. COWPER, Sir W. CLAY, and Lord EBRINGTON, and supported by Mr. SPOONER, Mr. MOWBRAY, and Mr. L. DAVIES ; upon a division, it was nega tived by 175 to 118. The debate was then resumed by Mr. L. DAVIES, who continued his address till the hour for ad journment arrived. The debate was therefore adjourned till next day, and the House rose at ten minutes before seven. THURSDAY. At its early sitting, the house went into committee on the Nuisances Removal Amendment Bill. After considerable dis cussion, the different clauses of the bill were disposed of, and on the proposal of Sir B. HALL, some new clauses were agreed to without discussion.—On the motion of Mr. HORSPALL, a clause was adopted which provides that, on the certificate of the medical officer to the local authority that any house was over crowded, proceedings might be taken to abate such overcrowd ing. —The house then resumed, and the Chairman reported the bill to the house. Mr. HOLLAND took the oaths and his seat for the borough of Evesham, in the room of Mr. C. G. Berkeley, who had ac cepted the lailtern Hundreds. The house adjOi;ned at four o'clock. The evening sitting commenced at six o'clock. After the discussion of some matters of routine, comprising a few re marks on the Turkish Loan, the subject of THE AUSTRIAN PROPOSALS and Sir E. B. Lytton's motion regarding Lord John Russell's share in the negotiations for peace were introduced by Lord PALMERSTON, who brought up Papers connected with the late negotiations at Vienna, and in moving that they be laid on the table observed that the go vernment could not consent to the motion of which notice had been given by Mr. Disraeli (to give precedence that day to Sir B. B. Lytton's motion over the orders of the day), since the Papers he had then presented could not be in the hands of members in time for the discussion.—Lord J. RUSSELL, refer ring to an inquiry made by Mr. Disraeli in his absence on Tuesday, explained what he did say did not require the sanc tion of Her Majesty, which had, however, since been given.— Mr. DISRAELI did not see that the statement of Lord John at all changed the state of things. What had disquieted the country was, that it should have come out on his part that he had returned to England with a project of pacifi cation of which he approved, and which he recommended to his colleagues, and, on their refusal to adopt it, he had come down to the house, and made a speech which conveyed to the country that he was an uncompromising advocate of the war, leaving an impression upon Parliament and the nation utterly inconsistent with the facts. If he received an assurance that there should be a full discussion of this im portant issue on Monday, he would not press his motion.— Lord PALMERSTON said his object in deferring the discussion was to give time for the papers to be read ; and, if it suited the convenience of Sir B. Lytton, he should be prepared to take the discussion, from which the government had no wish to shrink, on Monday.—Sir E. B. LYTTON assented to this proposal. Mx. ROEBVCX'S MOTION. —ln answer to a question s fir. ROEBUCK said he believed that he should meet the wishes of the house by postponing his motion. I Lord PALMERSTON, in reply to Mr. Hutt, said the papers did not include a copy of the circular of Count Buol, which was not in the possession of the government. The motion was agreed to. - The Education (Scotland) Bill was passed on a division by a majority of 130 to 115. A protracted discussson ensued in regard to a deputation of Irish members on the Tenants' Improvement Compensation DisRAELr complained of the way in which the busi ness of the house was conducted.—Lord PALMERSTON disputed the accuracy of the charge.—This subject led to a long discus sion, in which no small degree of acrimony mingled, suggestions being thrown out that the intercourse between the Irish depu tation and the Government was not altogether unconnected with the impending motion of Sir B. Lytton.—At a quarter to one o'clock, the Chairman was ordered to report progress, though none whatever had been made in the bill. • Lady Raglan and Lord Raglan's AnnUitie; Bill passed through committee. The Coal Mines Inspection Bill was read a third time, and after some discussion passed. The remaining business having been disposed of, the House adjourned at a quarter to 2 o'clock. FRIDAY. The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock, when the Lords' amendments to several bills were considered and agreed to. A petition was presented by Lord HOTIIAM from the Corporation of the Trinity House, Hull, praying to be heard by counsel against clauses in the Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill, before a select committee. After some routine business had been disposed of, and several questions answered relative to the provision for officers' orphans, the retirement of officers on full pay, arrears of pay, and as to the alleged failure of the Enfield rifles, the latter of which was answered in the negative, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in answer to Sir H. WlLLotrainne, said it would be necessary to have a supplementary estimate for the Naval Department, which would be laid on the table before the end of the session. Some conversation then ensued relative to the alleged outrages by the police ; in the course of the remarks elicited, Sir G. GREY said a commission, consisting of the 'Recorder of London ; Mr. Armstrong, the Recorder of Manchester; and Mr. Henderson, the Recorder of Liverpool, had been appointed to examine into the case.—Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, who had instituted the present question, expressed his satis faction with the names which had been mentioned. THE DISTURBANCES IN BELGRAVIA.—Mr.WILSON having moved that at its rising the House be adjourned till Monday, in answer to a question from Lord H. VANE, Sir G. GREY said no information had been received which could lead, with any degree of certainty, to the conclusion that there would be a repetition of ontraopc: on cundu.y. He expressed his opinion that the frequent repetition of these questions had a tendency to excite the public mind, and to lead to those excesses which it was their object to avoid. SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATE.—Mr. DISRAELI wished to know, as it had been stated that a large supplemental estimate would be wanted before the end of the Session, whether the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, when he contracted for the last loan, had engaged that no further sum should be raised this year in the same manner.—The. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had entered into an engagement that no further loan should be entered into till all the instalments were paid. He did not wish to convey to the house that there was any intention of resorting to a loan, at all events till the end of December.—The motion for adjournment was agreed to. Lady Raglan and Lord Raglan's Annuity Bill was read a third time and passed. The house then went into committee on the Tenants' Com pensation (Ireland) Bill. A protracted debate took place on the clauses, which gave rise to several divisions. Some of the clauses having been sustained, the chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. THE STAGE CARRIAGES' BILL was opposed by Mr. SCHOLEPIELD, who moved that it be read a second time that day three months, because a clause .had been introduced into it which had been originally inserted in the Friendly Societies' Act, and having been struck out of that measure, it was in serted in the present bill.—Mr. MAsTERmAx seconded the amendment.—Lord JOHN MANNERS considered the opposi tion was quite justifiable, and he should lend all his assistance to it.—Sir HENRY WILLOUGHBY should like to know on what principle the Board of Inland Revenue had made com positions for mileage duty, by which, in certain cases, it was reduced to a ld., instead of lid. per mile ? That was the case with Horne's omnibuses from Charing-cross to Euston square, which paid ld. a mile, while others running the same road paid lid., yet this was the proposal intended to be carried out by the sixth clause.—Mr. HORSPALL hoped the bon. member for Birmingham would not persevere with his motion, as he (Mr. Horsfall) had given notice of a motion to omit the sixth clause. It was his intention to proceed with that mo tion, that the country might see who those members were that would pass such a clause as this.—Mr. WILSON ex plained, Mr. SCHOLEFIELD withdrew his motion, and the bill was read a second time. Some other bills were forwarded a stage ; the orders of the day were disposed of, and the house , adjourned at half-past one o'clock. FISCAL 'BURDENS OF THE CLERGY. CHuxcs property at this day is looked on with very jealous eyes by many of our legislative bodies, and elsewhere. It is needful, therefore, that its bearings should be understood, that the analogies and distinctions between secular and eccle siastical property be well defined, that the various charges that detract from the latter should be fully recognised before others are imposed, or before the incomes of the clergy, a a c s c a oV a i i n la g bl t e o p th r o e p e v r u t l y g a by es y e s time soi_ a a t a o 2 f 2t their u v r al c h u - e r , e f a o r r e m d e e r a . t v c T -it oo h many who talk on these subjects have never seen an incum bent's balance-sheet at the end of the year, nor have any notion of the small amount which is often left for private ex penditure. They judge from a few isolated cases of wealth, without any true comprehension of the large proportion of the clergy, who, though in possession of a gross income, which sounds well, yet really live on their private means ; and, if dependent only on the Church's offerings, must present to the world a very different figure to what they do. It is time, however, that we appeal to facts and individual instances, which may bear out our general remarks. A few such instances, by no means peculiar or selected ones, have been kindly supplied for our use by incumbents whom we can fully trust, and who, on public grounds, have aided our in quiries, with the fervent hope that some remedy may be found for the hardships which they experience in themselves, and see in others. The many separate grievances, which form the aggregate of fiscal and other burdens exclusively borne by the clergy will, in the course of this article, be considered under distinct heads ; but, in the first instance, we shall lay before our readers two or three examples, as they have beenforwarded to us, of their total amount, the income being also stated out of which they have to be paid. Persons who are not ac quainted with these charges will be rather startled at their enormity, and wonder how it is that the rural clergy of our Church get on as well as they do ; a wonder great indeed, if not explained on grounds already stated. The first case we bring forward is that of a living in the diocese of Exeter, the tithes of which were commuted at £620, and produced, therefore, in the year 1853 (after the deduction on corn averages) £558, which, with glebe, &c., estimated at £5O, made the gross value of the benefice to be £6OB. The payment, out of this living for the year in question, the first of incumbency, were as follows, before • any income was left for private expenses : £. s. d. Stamp fees and charges in institution First fruits . 43 17 9 Tenths Poor-rate (this item unusually small) Highway rate Income tax (7d. in the £.) . 12 15 4 Land and house tax .. 317 0 To Queen's Anne's bounty loan for building house... 38 0 0 Collection and losses Repairs of parsonage, &c, . . Two curates (population over 5,000) l7O 0 0 £399 14 6 Assessed takes, schools, and parochial charities are not here included, yet only £2OB ss. Gd. are left for these, and also personal uses : and this was a living which appeared at first sight to hold out the prospect of ease and abundance. We now take the case of a vicarage, the income of which, after deducting the corn averages, was last year (1864) £3lO 9s. ld. The enormous amount of poor-rates in many rural districts as well as in town, and the crying need of some good system for their assessment even on grounds inde pendent of their unequal pressure on the clergy, are strikingly illustrated in this case, which is taken from the diocese of Rochester : • s. d. Poor-rates for rent-charge and Vicarage ...... 79 7 4f Land-tax on rent-charge Do. on Vicarage 2 0 0 • Surveyor's-rate 9 7 3f Church-rate Tenths . 1 4 6 Bishops' Visitation fees Archdeacons' do. Queen Ann's Bounty for advance on H0u5e........ 49 5 0 Insurance House tax Income tax £l7B 16 21 A net income is now left of £l3l 12s. 104 d., without any allowance being made for repairs, losses, expenses in collecting, schools, and other parochial charities, incident to a population of 1,400 persons. Some other instances we put together in a more readily to contrast the amount of rent necessary legal outgoings on it, without incl tabular form, the t-charge with the luding curates : No. Population.' Diocese. Rent Charge Compulsory 1854. Outgoings. e e 1. 670 Norwich... 233 142 2. 3,200 Canterbury 84 25 3. 1,587 Winchester 406 180 4. 386 Rochester.. 330 61 5. 869 Exeter .... 564 190 6. 500 Rochester.. 227 136 7. 1,509 Chichester 850 263 8. 6,801 Ripon..... 234 60 9. .... London.... 371 168 10. 777 Exeter .... 180 66 No. 1. Out of a total income of about £265 pays £6O a year to Queen Ann's Bounty for his parsonage, £32 to parochial rates, £5 for collections, besides income-tax and other charges, amounting in all to above £142, to which may be added £52 for a curate ; leaving £75 clear. No. 5. Pays £95 to poor and highway-rates, and £4O to land and income-tax. There is also a charge on his living of £5O appropriated to a district church. No: 7. Gross income £Bso—poor-rates, £152 ; highway rates, £67 ; land-tax, £l3 ; other taxes, £4l; curates, £2OO ; schools, £80; district church, £80 ; and collecting rents, £46. Leaving about £2OO for all general expenses. — Christian Remembrancer. Two of the five new daily newspapers in Manchester, the Manchester Penny Express, and the Manchester Halfpenny Express, have already ceased to exist. A FIRE occurred, on Tuesday, in the Government dockyard, Plymouth, which at oue time threatened its destruction. It was suppressed by the military after consuming a large store full of pine timber. Tun Atheneum states, on tolerable authority, that a young lady of the Kemble family may presently attempt to continue the long career of service done to art by those of her name, as a singer. FJuLY 17, 1855. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. t Asia, B Captain t ß ai r n it L is o h tt r il d ,hi N ch or a tl i i .ri A v m ed eri on ca s n u ßj a y y al .. T A I ' l r o a r i n i i s 4,? °ls 3: ten o'clock, we have intelligence from New York tot l . 1. Boston the 4th, and Halifax the sth instant. The , 1 41 detained by fog for twelve hours outside the harbour of 4 1 1 ; At 9.30, a.m., on Saturday, she passed Cape Clear ;, i '',,,o 10.54, p.m., passed the United States Mail steamship Al.lj hence for New York. The Asia brought 218 passenger $884,157 in specie on freight. no i'l te 'i The political news brought by the Asia is of ~, _ to . The President and his wife had left Washington for shore, for the benefit of the health of the latt eP er 0 .40 is r': Crampton, our Minister to the United States , have taken offence at the American government for F;ices ing the departure of recruits for the Crimea. ~),;), , Shipbuilding continued in a very depressed con s tet -'' The Hon. Abbott Lawrence, late American '''' l 04, London, was dangerously ill. q a 01 Upwards of ten thousand persons had attend- yolf,, meeting, for opposing the new Prohibitory Licltw r ,, c P,', the Par, at New York. All the speakers denotw,".",, law as fanatical, unconstitutional, and inadequate t(101 the cause of temperance, or other useful purpose ;.; 0 11 ! the other hand, it would destroy property °,,, millions, and blast the prospects of their follorintili, They passed resolutions in accordance with their q,• o f3lfd The meeting of the Know-Nothing State Councn . 1 DI d i chusetts, at Boston, on the 29th ult., was attende( f r on, three hundred delegates. The course of the sececiers.,(lo", Philadelphia Convention was approved of heartilY,af, form of principles identical with that reported by t ll ' 0 : of the National Convention was adopted. 4e° ,..0 The Panama Railroad Company had declared a - dividend of six per cent. 3 1° ' It° 113 0 A shock, presumed to be that of an "earthqua -1 At 0 experienced at and many miles round Baltimore. ); 0 Pa., the shock is said to have been very severe, so Olc to rouse sleepers and create great consternation., it , SP - g,4. A gingham establishment, at South Hadley - 3. " -s cl tit ;01 field, known as the Glasgow Mills, had been destroYe loss ti d e s a m t e f from om Essington, s2oO,ooo running t o $ 250, b 0 e 00 t w . One man was killed, and two were injured. I lle at. tuut e hh s pn t eTi an d " : 're gO e Louis, had been blown up near Stephensfort, Xerl. t .'4se ll o between Loni scl ,4o - ,° - , of t ia e T Tt r, with twenty officers and passengerS,,, o4 : i 'eas The eh e p hi a e, ecaktweaetnr were not neoa Baltimore trgmeowree h rt a eh d aan a t r te r iti i a v i il. e t d lyo.s f fi r s i o r ai : co ti, b:et e !P 0 ,i , i t , on l it c li v of one hundred who were on board. The ladies g`' I coal The Illinois Central Railroad Company has (D s 00 i fh ee n s ci f s r . om Utah Valley speak of every pros e r,rge i gs s o 4 :i harvest in Salt Lake Valley. Great excitement () .'l. e ." ject of gold found on the Sweet Water was mail' - _IP numbers were leaving for the diggings. bra? A movement in North Carolina is soon to be s w i ll ; the Legislature of that State, to render legal th e -1 1 0 1 of marriage among slaves ; to preserve sacred acre] between parents and their young children; and to d e laws prohibiting the education of slaves. tlr.i la In the United States Circuit Court, at Boston , : t ari tis had decided in the case of the brig Porpoise, ti i ,l3 ,ti which had acted as a tender upon slavers, and dad 4 merchandise which was used for the purchase o f i .to h i nt m d h urki e ir a epst t ea disaster, had otherwise aided in the slave trans r - tion a . " of . po „a , _ l l, i t; had not actually carried a single slave, was g u 'oe sl ' engaged in the slave trade within the meaning of ''" ) ,.'t The brig was, consequently, declared forfeited. 4.,ir tf 4 The Montreal Pilot says :—" We yesterday ' t ijqt 9 barracks here for the purpose of seeing the sect to 0 there, waiting to be forwarded to their destinati o Atl t part of the Foreign Legion in the Crimea. They` ;500 of thirty in number, and the majority of those d,<,,„0 under twenty years of age—young, thoughtless 4 ‘ rer lay are enlisted for three years, at $8 a month. These rd Vtlf chiefly Germans. There are two or three Irish ; '" (1. frie„ ll o/' was just as we always find him, when poor 0 4 . 0 4 brimful of humour. In the course of conversa`,loso pressed his anxiety to be sent off before Sebastola°,' lo g y for if it was taken before he got there, ' he wou ld L e i'll glory.' There is but one Scotchman in the party ;)„ CV Glasgow, and has been about sixteen months .0.013 e" With him it was the old story—he joined the Leg' ' he was on the spree.' COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE' P l i l ik il NEW Y°°' lig °1 1) 14 1,03 1 44 0 Mormr.—The money market was inactive. 3 ;04' el , were offered on easier terms, and there was an inc,reiepartal, of capital seeking investment. In all the leadinf, (1 , ia, c .o! of the banks for the last six months there W 1193 e 1 0 :4 e ' t The stock market was quite as active as could ' re e t °ole to § s i, / ,:o .1 , and prices were well supported. The rates of c A 11' 1116 .tll. e E m n t g en la s n iv d e w de e m re s a n t d l . o9 B l i t l o ls l o l n o Fanradnlele,olsp,clr2icent., . • 0 1 COTTON.—The market yesterday, though stea e (J t; ta ble ia, out animation, at the annexed quotations. L `,,,,„ ; a0,,00 1 yesterday from the Atlantic States are less 1 , very g , regard to the growing crop, complaints being oe4 that too much rain is falling. Nov Tel l 4 NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION. . Total import since Ist instant ...... 43,1" 10i 11 Ordinary l 0 10} 11 iii Low Middling ll 11 111 121 Middling 11* Ili 12 102. 0 1! , Good Middling 111 111 „ bon g o „ ' 26th , 2eili te lt Freight to Liverpool 3.10 ; Exchange ° Upland. Florida. Mobije.',. b:Cesioa We estimate the sales since our lais,,, ePwere advised ~,1,,, at 7,500 bales. On the 27th ult., llows ....."Rivers Op, graph of 26th, from Mobile, as ''declining " These,„;i2o r 4 middling 10.1 c. nominal ; market existed both ' iddiA fr t checked the demand which previously 12e. for th ° Pei use and speculation, on the basis of 11.1 e. to ..__ j Uplands and Gulf cottons, and the receipt 011 the o$ disappointing accounts from Liverpool per BaltiC,'rei' d iP; of the week 38,710 bales, prices barely sustainediV ~12,' some quarters an anxiety to realise, followed I,l,,,etealc• at a reduction of !c. on the basis of lie• for middilino4 and low middlino. Florida and New Orleans. P - u o fferelei tion the demand became active, and all that w e a! :ts b ee ;ipe k at once taken.' Within the past two days e s er be P en 0V,,' 1 0 14 1 , offering, and an advance of C. to iedreat Britain; Patt' The tables of receipts and exports to epts at tile ' er Atian 1 , _ by decrease of 46,414 bales. The deficit in ref L ies. ~ teux made up to the latest mail dates, is 16 5 ; 23u ' 4 " ExPor ri a• R ece ipts since G r eat 13 if Sept. 1. 1855. 1,4 1 5 1855. 184. ~ 03 Total .... 2,619,257 2,784,487 1, ' „ " , '-- Increase • _ 46,414 a r o - - Decrease There was a material falling off this week in be 61 6 ,,a Great Britain, the deficit being 46,414 hales: t e s i 5 receipts at the ports made up to the latest mad ' 43 30 of bales. In stocks in all the ports there is a deer 66,° bales, and in the export to France an excess of l'i l f or ' f ' - 1(4 BREADSTUFFS.—But little animation in the be t with a reduction of 25c. to 50c. per barrel since ' P OI ,fo' and for delivery in September sales hale been 133 '6O; present quotations. egeo. st`t* Paovistows.—Market steady, with moder ll ,4o, 3 ,,ttel mess pork sold at $19,431 to $19,50, and new E i r eti„ Y r ; old mess pork $19,121 to $19,25. Beef regto'Cl.Or;eo - $15,50 for country mess ; prime at $9,75 te' P` brings 15c. to 18c. for Ohio, and 18c. to 22c. I°t ' kol. 'V 0 Cheese dull at 51c. to 91c. r eq NATAL STORES.—Crude turpentine was in q„ fsP 'l O OO a moderate demand. Spirits of turpentine.„.„• - 00.;; without change of prices. Rosin in good de ll " arv " selling freely at $3 to $3,25 for good shipping c . O was dull at $2,50 to $2,621. „, at' Di Inox.—The market for Scotch pig was '''. • trl and $29 to $3O six months. 41 1 e; ea FREIGHTS .—AbOut 20,000 bushels of corn sc er e , 7?' Liverpool, at 4d in bulk, and sd. in ship's bags. To Liverpool: Cotton, 5-32 d.: flour, per Wl6d. to ls. 6d.; heavy goods, cheese, &c., per ton, 135'0(1. is W grain, per bushel, 4d. to 5d.; beef, ls. 6d. to 16;,1t0d don : Rosin and turpentine, per 2801b5., is. heavy goods, oil, &e., 15s. to 17s. • , 6d • beef, Pe` lc" 0 2s. 6d. To Havre : Cotton, square bales, per otv: goods, 2C. to C. $ 6 N 757 pearls, YR it' s6 jl7 so a . r F 3 lou 6 r, (Br TELEGRAPH.) F l . 2. A better shes sales P°."..84°910 Upper Lake and common to . good Ohio, $ 8 44 • If ern steady ; sales 1,900 barrels. Corn le. bett er VoiP w 'ebe: to 92c. ; white, $1 08 to $1 09 ; yellow, 96c ' 6 60;, to $l2 372 for new. and $19122 for old ; prime, $ l . , iP e 0 01 , prime mess, $l6 to $l7 25. Beef : country roe s ci6 pt t prime, $9 76 to $lO 25 ; repacked Chicago , .1' ,ies $24 to $26. Linseed oil dull, at 86c. Iron : le o PAO Scotch pig, $29 50 to $3O 50, six months. 860 tq f NEW ORLEANS, June 27.—N0 change; sal t , 0, 0 0 o i ve dling at 101 c. to lle. June 29.—Cotton eltu e " gP O er t , only 100 bales at 10e. to 104 c. for middliolfies; i v io I)°' week about 2,500 bales. Receipts at this po rt stoe'd i z i or of last year up to this date 201,000 bales. ti ol o r 51,000 bales. July 2.—Cotton quiet and sale' o tti c c prices are irregular; middling quoted at 10e. se o f . day 3,500 bales. t grade Cu A. o ]; LE middlingsro , June und under 112 c., Baltic's advices, quoting an unchanged marl° r t.4 c o!,.e c i i t Freight id. Exchange Old. 4ole MOBILE, June 28.—Rise in rivers doubtf°' dictory. Receipts of the week 11,000, mos 9 ' 30,000. Baltic reported sales 800; middling do ll; 60' 4 3 d e a v y en we af e t a e n r lici t litc t PWf jo ecice o ptc to Liverpool 7-16 d. (BY TELEGRAP&O t iOt o :t NEW YORK, Evening, 6th.—Stocks unchanged. Cotton unsettled : acenratejv. be given. Flour further advanced slig°' to` ill corn unchanged. ° l id e NEW ORLEANS, July 3, p.m.—The coda' and declining. s itii s. sis VI cr S oam P eeps O acn ß oymw T ma .r se N ntche G idn oi T n l t N livlee T de E xnter i sed : aye ll a t ;; e : o ; iocte,..o l an T ce he o s f e Ato il ° t l ld , ' l —...........—.0.--...--- .„_ t teLf LIVERPOOL JULY RACO;id e XP illopf;r o the two following days. Compared-with forril, e ' e n O f 61 7- 00, (Thursday), there were not half the un n- e ars- „oil, o rse'/ seen assembled on the same day in forme r Y, e re s!',:ht b a ce o ' was of an average description, but the fields !,, i , ei., t f for the cup, a prize of some .800, bringingu'dffer'" 5, s. the post. The following are the winners of the ce bo% , ll r WEDNESDAY• ,_ t 2 Sao I OW ~ CROXTETH STAKES.— Rata phin 1, ACcO" a 41y :If ~. /, , i ): MERSEY STAKES.—The Heir of Lynne 1: lorto e `j3jan' 4 4 0 BENTINCK TEsTtmoNtAL.--Early Bird u rni ire 2, ,, , ijOi r LANCASHIRE OAKS.—Lady Tatton 1, Elva ,eline _.. 1 , , SELLING STAKES,.- Salmon Pera 2, _ ou ritai , S' UNITED KINGDOM TRAINERS' STAIC: n 1° C0" , ,,, Rattler 2, Jupiter 3, Spencer 4. RP THURSDAY• R a ttler ,It nIIV Ben . " il_ A , A DERBY EG iNT HANDICAP.—Dervish eN A r i N an n ni I dE c N4 A ,N P TI . — Ah feD, Assayer i s Vora ;._ :_ 1t o et a n hera nl " 0 0 e v # rcebus 3. The best contested race of th pheasa nt " h silo' , io' LIVERPOOL CUP.—Seducer 1, Cock n d Goorl o a . A gA Bianca, Domino, Joe Miller, Shoreham, °Order P.lBCe, to 2 and came to the winning-post in tl i e d. Betting,' length nh — Ea pin e s , h T7 e A a tii d oE b ls e .a— t g w as e i i e ns i st i second etrt ht oe i kiir a us n n. deartilg b i r r,s, alvesbt oi cs ~,: . , ~f , 5 HER MAJESTY'S PLATE,--RalßPlan i OD "' 1 , S P T R A O N D L U E C Y E sSTTAAKKEEsS....:ESiiIieDrOmIFIV:I:GbI.YarVidein. iLs,°,rFniiel'e:\srviin'.sasioarlaY3iciiptri tA T T o y m pe , e an 2, d C v h e e r r v r i y si ß , a ra ls i o id s y ta 3 r . LICENSED VICTUALLERS ' to ere y . _. ~ et GREAT STAKES: L C e I , V R E D R /I F tohoeLr LANCASHIREid e . r L o E f the R formformer gll, iWalked,itzai o : li e s . - 0 ae 0 jr. I 0 i 0 SO 00 0 iairy Queen l• the Ile ioP"' Of AD AL I EAL o.3.l3reroarv.---Admira.seat warblio,6 g w Ackworth Ommanney, died at Ins _ lc, ~4 --c ,l Sunday wee Havant, near Portsmouth, on Airs s w ii r g N b o y 3S,Tit—Cliere Petite9t,eQuestionabl : . 201;e5, tedE.lll".l3ktrlco'Dsksocdrnelaain7:AiluelAit fe ~~ B i 1C ' 11 41) Nz a l i )th e ;t ' of ;) 3 ere tne, k e li r sel ;; az