The Press.
London, England, 1855-07-28 00:00:00

THE HANGO MASSACRE.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 7th July
publishes a long statement relative to the Hang()
affair, as also the correspondence on the same sub-
ject between Admiral Dundas and General de Berg.
The Russian semi-official organ denies that the Cos-
sack's boat was entitled to be respected :

No signal (it says) was made to give timely infor-
mation to our authorities of the approach of a flag of truce
to parley. No consent was asked, no permission granted,
to authorise a landing. The boat ran on shore, the crew
landed, the officer advanced into hostile territory without
permission, without any legal recognition of his quality—
in a word, at his own risk and peril. He fell into our
power, exposing his life and the lives of his crew to the
chances of a surprise.

The Emperor, in defending his country against hostile
aggression, which he did not provoke, maintains, sword in
hand, the dignity of his crown and the honour of Russia
in honest war, by the aid of God. If the enemy makes
use of artifices it is for us to counteract them by every
means in our power, conformable to the laws of nations.
We have just done so at Hango. We declare it openly.
The same journal also publishes a letter from
Prince Dolgorouki to Admiral Dundas, dated July 11,
informing him that, in addition to Cronstadt, Swea-
borg, and Revel, flags of truce will also be received at
Libau, Windaul Wasa, and Tortes:

THE PRESS.

ROYAL THANKS TO THE ARMY.
The following despatches were published in
" General Orders " in the camp on the 10th
instant :

War Department, June 25.
My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your lordship's despatches of the 2nd and sth inst.
I have submitted to the Queen the satisfactory reports
with which your lordship has furnished me of the con-
tinued success of the important operations in which the
forces of her Majesty, and those of her ally the Emperor
of the French, have been engaged, subsequeuJy to the
occurrences which your lordship reported to me in your
despatch of the 29th of May ; and I am commanded to
express to your lordship the gratification which it has
afforded to her Majesty to receive the intelligence that the
resources of the enemy had been crippled, while, at the
same time, the steps taken to effect this object were un-
attended by loss of life.
Her Majesty is fully sensible of the important assistance
rendered by her naval forces in effecting the successes now
reported by you, and I have it especially in command to
desire that your lordship will convey to Captain Lyons,
of the Miranda, and to the officers and men serving under
his orders, her Majesty's high appreciation of their gallant
deeds, by which objects have been accomplished of such
vast importance to the cause of the allied Powers.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship's
despatch of the 9th inst., which I have laid before the
Queen, and on this, as on every other occasion in which her
Majesty's troops have been engaged, they have, by their
gallant conduct, earned still further her approbation and
gratitude.

You will be pleased to accept her Majeety's congratula-
tions, which I am commanded to convey to you, and like-
wise those of my colleagues and myself, on the important
acquisition of the works in front of the Redan, and you
will announce to the troops engaged on that occasion the
thanks of the Queen for their unabating gallantry and de-
termination in seizing and maintaining post after post
from the enemy.
The Queen deeply grieves that successes such as these
cannot be obtained without the loss of valuable lives and
the infliction of severe suffering; but you may be assured
that no one more cordially honours the gallant dead, or
more sincerely sympathises with her wounded soldiers,
than her Majesty.
Where all are brave, I can enter into your lordship's
difficulty in naming any; but the country cannot fail to
hail the names of those whom you mention, and I rejoice
to see recorded among them the daring feat of Corporal
Quinn, of which I have no doubt your lordship has already
marked your sense.
It gives her Majesty some consolation to learn that the
wounds are of a comparatively slight character, and, above
all, that the wounded of all ranks have been comfortably
disposed of, as your lordship describes.
Your lordship's description of the contemporaneous
attack and entire success of our allies on the Mamelon
and " Ouvrages Blanes," is highly satisfactory to her
Majesty, and you will, in her Majesty's name, felicitate
General Pelissier on the gallant achievements of his army.
These successes cannotfail to inspire confidence through.
out the ranks of the besieging armies, while they dishearten
the enemy, and will, I trust, lead at no distant day to the
final overthrow of Sebastopol. PANSIVRE.