The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

RUSSIAN ACCOUNT.

r BERLIN, THURSDAY.—The Invalide Russ. of the 15th de-
scribes the affair at Hango as in accordance with fair play.
The Cossack's boat having effected an hostile landing with all
on board armed, the crew were, it is said, suddenly attacked
by a body of Russians secreted behind buildings ; they at first
defended themselves, but were forced to surrender to superior
numbers. Five were killed and one officer ; one surgeon and
nine sailors caged, of whom four were wounded. The boat
was sunk, and the boat's flag, together with seven guns and
coven outlaceoe, taken. On tic following day, a frigt-Ita ap
proached and fired on the place ineffectually for two hours.
A telegraphic despatch, relative to the above transaction,
under date of Thursday last from Dantsic says : The Light-
ning has arrived with the mails. Lieutenant Geneste, Dr.
Eaton, and Mr. Sullivan are prisoners, but wounded.

It is said to be the intention of Government to apply to
Parliament for a vote of public money, which is to be applied
in erecting a monument in commemoration of our soldiers
who have died at Scutari. A design for the monument has
already been prepared by the Baron Marochetti. This tribute
of respect to the memory of so many brave men, the victims
of disease and neglect, was suggested some time ago by Miss
Nightingale, and Her Majesty is said to feel a lively interest in
its realisation.

Advices from Odessa give a deplorable account of the ruin
and misery of many of the merchants in that town, their
trade with the ports in the Sea of Azoff having been totally
destroyed by the successes of the Allies in that quarter. Men
who a short time ago were wealthy are now reduced to beggary,
and are enduring the greatest possible privations.
The Journal de St. Peterebourg devotes six columns to an
examination of and reply to Count Walewski's circular
despatch of the 23rd May, which was a reply to the Russian
circular of the 28th April. This new Russian document is
simply a repetition of the former one, though more moderate
in tone. It brings forward no new arguments, nor does it
throw any new light upon this vexed question. It attributes
the rupture of the Vienna Conferences to France and England,
and expresses a hope that negotiations may be resumed, and
the blessing of peace so eagerly desired be assured to Europe.
GlBRALTAR.—lntelligence to the 16th inst. reports the
embarkation of the 13th Regiment on board the steam-
transport Robert Lowe, and her departure for the Crimea on
the 7th inst. The steam-transports Propeller and Eagle
arrived out at Gibraltar on the 12th inst. The steamer St.
Patrick, in the French transport service, with stores for Mar-
seilles, had passed en route. The British sailing transports
Edmundsary and Emma Pulley left Gibraltar for the East on
the 15th. The sailing transport Echunga was being fitted at
Gibraltar for the conveyance of horses and mules to the seat
of war. The Sea Nymph, from London to Marseilles, with
stores for the French Government, arrived at Gibraltar on the
15th; she left the following day with the sailing ship Balance
in tow, likewise laden with stores for the French Government.
The Spanish steamer Guadalq',liver was shortly to leave
Gibraltar for England. •
REPORT OF THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE.—From the
minutes of the committee, it appears that a series of draughtresolutions was proposed by the chairman on the 6th of June,
and two draught reports by Lord Seymour and Mr. Drum-
Peel. The report of Lord Seymour was carried against those
mond. Draught resolutions were also proposed by General
proposed by General Peel and Mr. Drummond. At length a
division took place on Monday, last week, when a motion
from the chair, to the effect that those whom the evidence
pointed out as responsible for the calamities in the Crimea
ought to be named to the house, was negatived by nine to one,
Mr. Layard alone voting in the affirmative. A second motion
(chairman), imputing to the misconduct of the Administra-
tion the primary cause of the calamities which befel our army,
was carried by the casting vote of the chairman, the affirma-
tive votes being those of Messrs. Layard, Drummond, Sir J.
Pakington, Sir J. Hanmer, and Captain Gladstone ; and the
negative votes those of Mr. Bramston, General Peel, Colonel
Lindsay, Mr. Ellice, and Lord Seymour. A vote of censure
on Lord Raglan (chairman) was negatived by nine to one,
Mr. Layard voting in the minority. The expense of the wit-
nesses examined amounted to £126 Os. 6d.
REINFORCEMENTS Pon TIIE CRlMEA.—Orders were trans-
mitted on Friday morning to the regiments in England and
Ireland under orders for foreign service to prepare for imme-
diate embarkation, namely, the 15th Foot, recently returned
from Ceylon ; the 51st King's Light Infantry, ditto India;
80th Foot and 94th Foot, ditto ditto. Detachments from the
various depot companies, and 1,200 cavalry, are to proceed
without delay to the seat of war. Orders per telegraph were
also transmitted to Marseilles, to be forwarded from hence by
special steamboat to the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar,
and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, to
send as many efficient men, not only of the regiments sta-
tioned in those fortresses, but of the reserve of the Household
Brigade and reserve battalions, as can be conveniently spared
previous,ly to the arrival of the reliefs of regiments of the line
and the Militia. The regiments that will embark forthwith
are the following 13th Light Infantry, from Gibraltar; 31st
Foot, from the lonian Islands; 48th Foot, from Corfu; 54th
Foot, fram Gibraltar; 66th Foot, from Gibraltar; and 92nd
Highlanders; from Gibraltar. The above-mentioned reinforce-
ments will augment the British forces before Sebastopol by
upwards of 13,000 men ; and, in addition, four field batteries,
a troop of Horse Artillery, and a reinforcement for the siege
train are in readiness, and only waiting for transports to em-
bark. The immediate dispatch of the above-mentioned troops
is rendered necessary, on account of the intelligence received
from Lord Raglan of our reverses in the attack of the Redan
and Malakoff.