The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.) [TWOPENC E.

SOCIETY FOR IrIPROVING THE CONDITION
OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.

Yesterday, the Earl of Shaftesbury, accompanied
by a number of gentleman, members of this scciety end
other'', met by arrangement in Wild-court, Drurylane, to
inspect the results of the renovation which that part of the
metropolis has recently undergone under the auspices of the
society The court in question, containing in all about
fourteen houses, is situated at the northern side of Omit
Wild-etreet, and in the immediate neighbourhood of Went
Queen-street and Lincoln's-ion•fields. It is not more than
five mioutee' wa:k from the Suited, and is in the centre of
what was once not the least fashionable quarter of the me-
tropoli.i. Hard by, it is said, used to live some of the Mafia-
guished men and women who ere indetted for as.. part of
their fame to the pencil of Sir Peter Lily. In November last,
when the eoc:ety began to operate on this court, it literally
teemed with people of all ages and of both Sege,. Two nun-
eked rectifies were huddled together it,ifesui teen houses; at
a population of about 1,000, esclueive, of the idlers, thieves,
and pickpockets who thronged the portages, stairs, &ed. land-
ings at night. The filthy end miserable condition of those
dweli.nga was then almost beyond descrirtitn. Tbe base-
meet•, especially, emitted a most foul and offensive effluvia,
partly owing to the long accumulation of animal and vegeta-
ble marten, thrown in through the area window, and
through holes in the ground floors, and partly to
the occn-ional overflew of badly constructed dry
brick drain•, which passed beneath the floor in
some instances mot more than three inches. The
back yards were only from five feet sit inches to seven
feet wide. The latrines were quite ezpoieed, and singularly
offensive, and the water butts were so dilapidoted that they
would scarcely hold water. The water supply was reanty
and irregular. lu the corners of the yards were dustbins,
which were emptied at long intervals. The front ground
floor room of one of these houses had long been the rendez-
you, of a desperate gang of rung thieves. In one of
the top rooms of another of the honors o a open wooden
trough was actually femur running along the wall and con-
municstieg with a gutter on the parapet outside. This
trough was ua•s.l as a sewer, and it emitted the most offen-
sive smell. In short, no adequate conception could be
formed ef the stench and filth which choracterised every
portion of each dwelling, from the buenceat story to the
garret, ezcept by those who ezperierced them.
The change in the locality, as seen yesterday, after the
process of renovation and improvement which it hes under-
gone at the hands of the society, was alike surprising, and
suggestive of a great practical lesson. A sum of 6,0401. was
placed is the ham aof Lord Shaftesbury by a benevolent
lady, whose name, we regret, we are not at liberty to men-
tion. to enab:e him to carry on his humane enterprise of im-
proving tits dwellings of the poor in the metropolis, and
his lordship, in November last, commeiseed his orerations
on the court which has just beer described. On its renova-
tion he has ever ended, out of the fund, about 1,7001, namely,
in altering the interior arrangemeote of the houses, widening
and rendering the staircases more easy, improving the
drainage and water ',apply, increasing the water closet ace-
commodation, and providing EMUS of ventilation where
there was none bee re. Sumo idea may be form. d of the
unutterable filth of the Aegean stable his lordship under-
took to cleanse when it is stated, on the authority or the
secretary of the society, that 16 ceespools have been cleaned
out; from 140 to 150 loads of night soil carted ems,:; and
from33o to 3601oads of accumulated refuse, animal and vege-
table, dug out of the basements and conveyed away. la
this last operation a solid mass of living ve rinin,three or four
inches thick. Lail to be encountered and got rid of ; end at
one time the process, became so loathsome that the lahouting
men engaged in it struck work. Nuw the state of
things is entirely changed, and those who saw Wild-court
In November hut could barely fee .gniee it yesterday. There
are now h 3 families occupying 92 rooms, which are in a
condition of marvellous comfort compared witr. their former
mate. Oi these 63 families, there are 22 who bad lived in
the court before its renovation, end whose personal appear-
ance, at well as the strong feelings of gratitude they enter-
tain for this amelioration of their condition, s; esk volumes
in favour of this benevolent wink. In a pecuniary point of
view, the matter has been profitable, and in tbia rest ect it
is w-rthy the attention of proprietors of booths in similar
localities io the mi trouolis ; for since the change there has
been an a iVdtt of more than 12 per cent. on tho old rentals,
and that a ttwi•hstanding there has been a slight reduction
in the rentals of the individual occupants. No one who
yesterday accompauie•a Lord Shaftesbury over the houses
could fell to be struck with the ainafort and eh gular clean-
liness alike of the occupants and the rooms they inhabit,
and to notice the u:ter absence of anything like au offensive
smell of any kind in soy part of the premises, and no hole
or corner was left unvisited.
The part of the metropolis on wh'cli the society intend
next to operate is a notoriously offensive place called Tin-
ders-buildings, in Oray's-inn•lane. Of this locality erase
conception may be formed, when it is stated on good math*.
rity that one house in it in one year coat:Awed no fewer
than twenty cases to the Fever Hospital.

FIRE, AND LOSS OF THREE LIVES.

A moet d.stre=sitig event has occurred at Altrin-
cham, in Cheehire, a house having been completely destroyed
by fire, and thre., of tte inmates burnt to death. The heuee
lis a public-house, called the Orange Tree, in Oeorgee
street, near the Bowdon Railway Statism, and is kept by
Samuel Cooper On Sunday night be and hie family retired
to rest about half-past 11 o'clock, believing that all was eel,
on the premises. Soon after one o'clock on Mondoy mero-
ing a watchman on duty discovered Homes iesuinee from the
back windows cf the house, and immediately gem an alarm,
but the fire had already attained to such power that it 'vented
to have been burning for some lime unperceived. The family
were roused only by the alarm green by the watchmen, and
Mr. Cooper jumped out of bed and called, from the window
of a front room where Le and his wet, and children were
sleeping, for a ladder. From some est* or other a ladder
could not be found immediately by any one in the street,
and Mr. Cooper jt.mped from the bedroom window (on the
second story) into the street, ran to the hack of the Louse
and got a ladder, which he brought to the front. By this
means he rescued his wife and five children. Two tempt
women were also saved, one of them escaping Ly jumping
into the street as her mister had done. Two of the althea
were still missing, and the father, who was in a state har-
derieg on distraction at Lis loan, was in painful uncertainty
as to their fate for some hours. Some peewee appear to have
been coder the impression that they had seen the children
serried away side, and endeavoured to soothe their father by
this assurance, but about half-pact four o'clock, After the
fire had been got under, the bodies of both were found
in the hoar parlour, at the back of the house, where they bad
apparently fallen in along with the floor of the moot above.
Thomas Crag!, a *event man, aged 17 or 18, was oleo found
burnt to death in the room over the bar. The names of ,he
two deceased children were William and Nathaniel Howard,
the first being ten or eleven years old, and the other shout
two years younger. The eldest eon, Jahn, aged 17 (who is
employed in Mean. S. and F. Watt's warehouse, at Man-
chester) was found lying senseless on the kitchen hearth-
stone, and although be has escaped with his life, it is hared
he is seriously Injured. He says that he met the two
children who have been burnt to death in one
of the upper back rooms, where they had run
in their fright, and he carried them to the top of the stairs,
but was unable to take them further, the vaircase
being one mass of flame. He dashed through himself, and
remembers noling further after be reached the eyeteeth
floor. A fire*ogiae was brought by the police soon after the
fire was discovered, end some time afterwards another ; but
their assistance was impeded by a scarcity of water at first,
and by the time a good sup sly could be cbteitied from the
cistern and e.aewbere, the flames bad ueread to such en ex •
tent that the fled: uction of the house where it originated
seemed inevitable, and all efforts were therefore directed to
prevent the fire attacking the two adjoining houses. One
of these is a beerbouse, and has a thatched roof, but both
this and the house adjoining Cooper's, on the other side,
were happily saved without any Injury, except a little ex-
ternally at the gableeeeds. The flames were nearly extin-
guished by about 4 o'clock, but Cooper's house is com-
pletely gutted, the roof—which was slated—and the floor of
the attio end of the wood story having all fallen istieivfmg
only the charred beams which had supported them •, ana
the whole of the furniture was destroyed';The house, .
which was Cocper's own property, appears• to beep I),,ta
formerly two separate dwellings, now enteed by ,nterier
communications, as there are two entrance* to the front;
but all is destroyed. It wee insured for 60 • hut this will
probably ant cover half the loss of property. Please of the ,
fire is at present • mystery, and, although t rrepe*Serioes., • A '
teejectures and rumours about it, the only 41f(Sifiie evldeaos
appears to be that it otiginated in the h enget lour at the e• •
—..
back of the boas*. It is said that one of tftVg a hue ....
left Darning as usual, and it is possible that en rA .
may lave done the rest.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7.

Tuz Ring of HANOVZII, in obedience to the orders
of the Diet at Frankfort, has repealed the constite-
time which his father granted to the Hanoverian.
And Count Ktumorriszians has been despatched
from Hanover to Frankfort, to invoke the aid of the
Federal army of the Confederation in cue the
Hanoverian, should prove restive. The amstituden
which has just been suppressed was not of a very
democratic character, nor is Hanover by any means
the head-quarters of Crenate democracy. The king-
dom of Hanover is an amalgam of a number of pro-
vinces incorporated into one body after the subversion
of the kingdom of Westphalia, which have preserved
many of their old customs and institutions. Liberal-
ism in Hanover has more of a historical tradi-
tionary character than in almost any other part of
Germany. The preemsors who some years ago
resigned their appointments rather than break their
oaths are a fair sample of the liberals of Hanover.
In Hanover too, from its having been long
ettsched to the English Crown, and governed by
a non resident Prince, the aristocracy have pre-
served more real power than in the rest of *many.
Hence it has come that the Hanoverian abbrs.'s are
for the most part of the historical, or development
school, disposed rather to amend than to overturn
existing institutions, attached to what they have
received from the put. Even at the University of
Gottingen, among the 'roueg and rash, the Bur-
schenechat never attained to such a strong position
as it did in other German Universities, when
that much misrepresented association was most
powerful. If there was a district in Germany
in which an honest King might more easily have
maintained his prerogatives, so long is he respected
the *institutional rights of his subjects, than another,
it was ['poorer. Yet, at the bidding of the Diet—
that is, of Austria and Prussia—the poor weak-
minded man, who at present fills its throne, his ex-
changed that safe and tranquil position for the
perilous one of a despot, who has trodden under foot
the chartered liberties of his people. And before the
change is well completed, he has lost courage, and
invoked the aid of alien bayonets. Before his people
have made a single movement, the King of HANOVER
has implored the aid of the army of the Diet to pro-
tect him against possible or contingent insubordina.
tion. Such a mixture of bad faith, rashness, and
pusillanimity is unparalleled even among German
Princes.

_
The Diet cannot well reject the King of HANOYER'S
appeal for the support and protection of a federal
army, for he has merely been obeying its commands.
And, if a federal army is marched into Hanover, it
will be a confession on the part of the German Princes
that the Hanoverian Constitution has been suppressed
in opposition to the wishes and convictions of the
whole population soldiers as well as civilians.
Prussia, the consistent and unwavering ally of Russia, I
and Austria, which has only of late ventured to avow
its cJinpli,ity with the Muscovite, will thus take
the field against the German people at the
same time that they throw themselves unequivocally
into the scale of Russia in the great European
struggle. The suppression of constitutional rights
in Hanover will not be an isolated act, for it was by
Prussian troops that liberal government was crushed
is Baden and in Electoral Hesse. The union of
Russia, Prussia, and Austria, is a combination to put
down parliament►ry government in Germany, and
reduce the German people to the same condition of
politicil serfdom as the Russians. The Holy Alliance
has b m r.-organised for the purpose of asserting
" the right divine of kings to govern wrong ;" and
it is not in Germany alone that the conspirators are
preparing for a campaign. Austria is reinforcing her
armies in Lombardy, and is endeavouring to
strengthen her position in the Danubian Princi-
palities.
The European struggle is rapidly advancing to.
wards that war of principles which Graoaaa CAN-
NINO and NAPOLEON foretold. The French and
English Governments will not, to all appearance,
be able to remain much longer neutral between the
contending chime of nationalities and dynasties.
France, iudetd, cannot in any sense of the words be
called a parliamentary or a constitutional govern-
ment, but the Emperor of the FRENCH rests his
claim to his high station on the people's choice—
on "universal suffrage ;" and his dynasty is pre-
eminently a revolutionary one. The extraordinary
document which we republish to-day from our even-
ing edition of yesterday, shows that LOUIS NAPO.
LEON is still under the ban of the old dynasties. The
BOURBONS of France, from their Austrian asylum,

and the Bouasons of Spain, from the territories of
their Neapolitan kinsman, have addressed a eimults-
Deans prayer for aid to the Autocrat of all the
Remiss, and a favourable answer to that prayer has
only been deferred till they can show to that
champion of despotism that they are in a condition
to earn his friendship by substantial services. It
was truly said of the Sint NAPOLEON that
even against his will, and without his con-
sciousness, he was the child and champion
of Jacobiniam. The position of his heir is
essentially the same. The old dynasties can never
forgive LOUISNAPOLION for bearing the name he
bears, and for supplanting the BOURBONS on the
throne of France. So long as he, or his family, reign
over the French people, they will be exposed to the
relentless machinations of the old monarchical fami-
lies and their partisans. There is no permanent
recurity for the Emperor of the FRENCH except by
throwing himself into the arms of the Constitutional
Liberals. France and England may defy the ut-
most efforts of the European deolotiants, but France
and England enited—in alliance with Sardinia
and other states in which constitutional government
has struck roots—and looked up to as the protectors
of oonsti:utional government wherever it can be estab-
lished, can impose peace upon Europe on the condi-
tion that no one government shall, by force or fraud,
interfere in the domestic concerns of neighbouring
states; and that every people .hall be left at liberty
to win from its rulers by internal agitation the con-
cession of copular rights.
Lord Joao; Itussat.t has announced that he will
call the attention of the House of Commons this
day to the condition of Italy. It is to be hoped that
the noble lord will discharge his .elf-imposed task,
rhich animated Lord MIVIO
mission, than in that which b.
the recent negotiations at

Trade, in

'IEB OF

This day have bean imed,
the Homes of Parliament,

relative to the above affair,
papers pretested i• Jame. 1
t►e Express, is the form of

journals.
No. 1 assists of a letter from Admiral pandas to the
Admiralty, enclosing his oorrespoodenn with General De
Borg. the Remise somenader at lieleingfon, given some
Kau since by the Express.
No. 2 fooled*. the instructions of the Admiralty. to Ad.,
mini Dundee, relative to the demand for the release of the
prisoners. These are dated June 22.
No. 3 Is a letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty
to the Admiral, desiring him to inquire Into the
sllegations of General De Berg relative to an al-
leged abuse of the flag of truce at Tvansian The
letter conclude', My Lords have not the slightest reason
to suppose that a is; of truce has ever been so abased by
any British (Aar, bet it would be as well to renew your
iejunetions to all the Oben of the Ant coder your am-
assed to adhere meet rigidly to your onion not to make us
of a flag of trees for the purpose of obtaining intermaion in
a manner not warranted by the usages of war
and the recognised law of nations, and you will
also caution them against sending arms or asansunities

beyond what may be rcqulred for the purpose of making
signals in any boat which carries a 11. g of truce, or allowing
a boat with a Lag of truce flying to approach within gun-
shot of the shore. Illlkell it bee been recognised by signals
or otherwise by the enemy."
Noe. 4 and 6 consist of the correspondent" between the
Admiralty and Commander Armytege, relative to the false
rumour that aosadinp wets takes in Hameisca Bay,
under cover of a deg of trios on board of her Majesty's ship

Viper.
No. 6 communicates this report to Admiral Dundu.
Nos. 7 and 8 include a correspondence with Capt. Sey-
mour, of her Majesty's ship Meteor, by which Runts that
in August last, when the captain wasemployed in the White
Sea, a Russian boat armed came out with a flag of truce.
In Nos. 9 and 10, the Secretary of the Admiralty trans-
mits Captain Seyamar's letter to Admiral Dundee, and the
commander-in-chief of the Baltic fleet sends to the Admi-
ralty his correspondence with the Russian Minister of War ;
a letter from the French Admiral approving of his (Admi-
ral Dundee.) reply to Prince Dolgorouky's first communi-
cation, and Captain Fanshawe's distinct and unqualified de-
nial of an abuse of a flag of truce near Turmine.
The remaining papers include the Russian minister's
letter, refusing to release the priuners (see yesterdays
Barren); the final reply by Admiral Donau; Lieut.
Geneste's letter, sad various explanations by the officers in
command, respecting the proceedings at Nyatad and Rsamo.
We subjoin Admiral Dundee's reply to Prince Dolgo.
reeky and Lieut. Genesta's narrative :

-- - .
(Enclosure 2 in No. 14.)
"Admiral Hondas to the Russian Minister of War.
" H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, at Nivea,
" 16th July, 1865.
"Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 12th lost., from which I learn, with re-
grst, that the Government of hie Majesty the Emperor of
Russia has decided to decline releasing the prisoners cap-
tured under • ag of truce at Hango Head from the boat of
her Maksty's ship Cossack. . .

-- . . .
"I should be glad to be spared the pain of further discus.
don upon the subject, but the statements contained in your
letters, and the reasons assigned for the decision, render it
proper that I should place on record the observations I have
now to offer.

" I am informed that three different versions of the facts
stated to have occurred have been presented to your Excel-
lency.
" The first is contained in the statements of the seaman
Brown, whose original depositions were taken after he had
been severely wounded, and was in a state of great suffer-
ing and exhaustion. The falsehood of the testimony of this
men is considered by you to be demonstrated by the sc.,
knowleiged errors into which he bad fallen, but no allow-
' lace appears to have been made for unintentional min-
i statements natural to a man under such circumstance'.
" The second 'anion is contained in the letter from Lieu-
tenant Geneste, which has now been forwarded.

" I regret much that this letter could sot have been dis-
patched by General Moller at an earlier period, as requested
by Lieutenant Clematis; much pain and anxiety on account
of those who were believed to have been killed, would have
been scared, and some misapprehension might have been

avoided ; but except uto the number of the sufferer it
contains nothing to shake the testimony of the memos

Brown, and nothing materially to alter the opinion I had I
myself formed of the general charaver of the transaction as
osilected from the various reports of Captain Fanshawe.
" You can have no reason whatever for calling in question
the accuracy of the report from Lieutenant °emote, sad
still less to insinuate doubts as to his veracity or his honour.
The main fact on which I must again beg leave to insist is
the existence of a flag of truce in the Cossack's boat, whisk is
clearly asserted by hinnelf,andrtlied on in the latter seatemele
of his letter. The same fact was asserted, without previous
concert, by Brown, and was distinctly within his knowledge
before his facalti.a were cookeed. It is supported by Psis
known orders of Captain Fanshawe, and is attested by the
very presence of the Russian prisoners for whose benefit it
was directed to be used. The utmost that could be admitted
to your Eacelleney upon this point is the possibility that it
might not have been observed from the shore; but in judg-
ing of what is possible, and before any such admission Can be
conceded, it is necessary to Jogai?, how far it was probable
that an oversight of that kind could have occurred.
" The point of landing to which the boat was ordered le
proceed was neer a telegraph station, from which the Cos-
sack herself must have been plainly observed. The habitual
vigilance at these telegraphs is known to the officers under
my orders. The boat gaittal the ship at a considerable
distance from the shore, and was for a long time in full view
of the telegraph. It is impossible to believe that her mu-
tines were not w►tched, and the flag was hoisted at • mile
from the shore. It was therefore clearly the duty of the
principal officer oa the spot either to give timely weren'te
the boat that her approach was objectionable, or to repot
the flag which she displayed, if her signal had been us-
guardedly neglected.
"Yon may, perhaps, be entitled to contend t►at, under
any circumstances, it was the duty of the officer of the boat
to have avoided approaching within gunshot until his signal
had been recognised from the shore ; hut other circum-
stances may still be stated in explanation, if not in justifies.
tion of his conduct. General de Berg, in his reply to my
letter of the 16th alt, ►ee remarked that the landing of the
prisoners to be released wee not an occasion of sufficient
importance to render necessary the use of • flag of trace,
and that they might have been released without it on say
Weed near t►e coast. I may therefore observe, that the
officers of the Cossack had actually landed on the main
lead, as well as on the islands near Bongo, about a fort-
eight prior to the sth of June. They had found the
stores nearly deserted, and well adapted for the ra-
yons suggested by °antral de Berg, and they in-
jured nobody. On their return with prisoners, they
mid not certainly know that a military force was to be
peasant, but they had reason to suspect it, and the flag of
tram was necessary as • precaution. It was also the wish of
the pelsesers to be landed near lingo. Timely warning
M the host would have prevented the catastrophe, but wilful
neglect of the flag, and concealment by those on s►ore could
be nothing but gross treaebtry.
" I have nest to compare the statement of Lieutenant

Genesee with the third version of the fact, as presented to I,
I your Excellency by your own Officers.
" h is asserted by them that the flog of truce was observed,
sad I repeat again, wit►out fear of cont.adietion, that it was
hoisted. To whom then is this went of ooservation at •
telegraph to be imputed, and is it under such circumstances
that Lieutenant °mute is to be alone responsible, and to be
regarded as a prisoner 0 de droit et de fait ?"
"I regret to state, however, this I have lea reason to
question the vigilance of your officer., than to dispute the
assertions of your witnesses. The mis-statements of the
seamen Brown have been thought by your Ezoolleney to be
sufficient to demonstrate the falsehood of his testimony;
but among the statements collected by the aide-de-camp of
of his Majesty the Emperor, it is alleged that the crew of the
Cossack's boat at the commencement of the attack upon
the attack upon them threw overboard the gun (cannot)
with which she is supposed to have been armed. You may
perhaps be surprised to learn that the boat in question was
not fitted with one, and has never mounted one upon say
occasion.
" I am myself forced to the conelusion that wilful fa's*-
. hoods have been invented in vindication of a decided out.
rage, and it is not unimportant to inquire for what purpose
the carriages and heroes mentioned by Lieut. Geseete had
bees previously collected.

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Osaesta to jostlly ths inferences which have by wrested
bon theta. J L.

" Tito rely other sinnuastooses to obi& II Ilali be now
ororreary to shad', aro tho gamma oaroottiati *Oast
Akers seder lay cram latish ors attempted to be alto.
Malik' by the swamia ia the latter portico of your
loner. _ . . . -

"Adopting the same mane which has been found con.
violent by yourself, I must be permitted to divide this
latter subject tato two distinct heads, which ham aot been
kept clearly is view by your Beeellesey, via. :
"let. The abeam use of Bags of truce by the British
navy.
"tad. Disobedience to an order issued by me on the
29th May.
" Upea the drat of these two paste 1 ham to remark that,
before any jostilleatioa of the attack on the Cossack's bast
eau be admitted upoa such grounds, it will be at least
seeessary to show the existence of is.. general abuse prior
to the sth hue, but up to the present moment no aside
blames has hoes advanced which ass be established ►y
yoar Buelleney.
" You have sow transmitted from the magistrate at
Rearm a ststemeat of mearnsees at that plies on the 2ed
July. As yet I have received so report from the °Moon of
her Britannic Majesty's ship, but I discover is the mai
of Mr. Petersen a proof acknowledging that, before the
emarameemest of aa attack, eoaditioas of surrender were
offered under a Lag of trues, sad that the place was not de.
fermelese.

Of the traneactione eonneeted with the detention of
boats near the coasts of the Island of Onel, I had ressivsd
reports from °Moen other Majesty's *MOP. before I had
the honour of receiving your letter; and ea regents the
clothes and mosey of the prisoners who were retooled, I
enclose extract from the report from the officer oho detained
them.

" I need only observe, farther, that my order of 29th May
was intended to prevent the oaken from iatereepting
an active trade with Stockholm sad the ports of Sweden,
which is attempted to be carried cm by hosts from the rout
of Russia.—l have, tle. (Signed) "B. S. DUNDLS.
"H. E. Priam Dolgoronky, Minister of War to
His Majesty the Emperor of Ramis, Petarboff."

(Enclosure 3 in No. 14.)
"Lieutenant °mate to Captain Familial/el

" Heisingfors, July 8,1855.

"Sir,—ln obedience to pour order, on Monday, the 6th
of June, I proceeded to the landing place at Hango Head
fa the cutter, carrying a flag it truce, in order to land Rut-
ulna prisoners and communicate with the officer at the tele-
graph station. We arrived at the pier, end no person being
visible on the shore, except two or three women standing
near the hour, I landed the Russian prisoners, and in
eatiapeny with them and Dr. Easton, proceeded towards the
isms@ to communicate with the people, and with the
Olen of the telegraph. The three stewards also accompa-
nied ns, in order, if possible, to purchase fresh provisions.
•at all the boat's crew were left in the boat, with strict
soden not to land, as you had directed. We also carried
with us a white flag of truce on a boarding pike, Lorton,
*e inAshipman's steward, carrying it beside me. We bad
ray prorded about 60 yards from the boat, when suddenly
Russian soldiers (who had lain concealed behind the rocks
sod hours, and of whose vicinity we were completely igno-
Nat) rose and fired on us and the boat from all rides.
Taking the whits flag from the steward Norton, who
WM shot down by my side, I endeavoured with it in my
head to prevent the soldiers from firing at the boat, and
so smiled the attention of their officer, who came near me,
le It. However, I regret to state that the firing did not
ones until many of our people had been hit. As we were
eespletely surrounded by soldiers, it was impossible to
effect our escape, the soldiers being within a few yards of
the boat on every side, and seeing the inutility of making
any resistance, not having a loaded musket in the boat,
sad the greater number of our small boat's crew of eleren
man being killed and wounded by the first fire of
the enemy, not a shot was fired on our side.
We were all seised by the soldiers, taken to the
houses, and without a moment's delay placed in carriages,
which appeared to me to be ready for us, and transported to
Bekases, where we arrived the same afternoon. I regret to
have to state that we have lost 6of our men killed, and 4
have been wounded badly, nearly all the others having
Wien scratches. One Finnish captain was also killed end
two Russian captains wounded. The wounded men WIN
serried to Behests, and placed in hospital there. I therms
a list of the killed and wounded. The fate of several of t►e
killed I know only by the Russian report, as we were hur-
ried away too quickly from the scene of action to ascertain '
it for ourselves ; but I fear their report Is too tree, as we
have six men missing, and they report seven dead bodies at
Haag° Head, which would be correct with our six men and
the old Finnish cattails, whom we saw shot down and
bayonetted. We remained at Eckneu during Tuesday, and
ea Wednesday Mr. Sullivan, myself, and the four un-
wounded MS were removed to this place, leaving the four
inuaisoll MIS at Banos, with Dr. Easton to attend them.
The wounded men were all doing well when we left Ech-
oer. One of them, Gliddon, had to undergo amputation of
his right arm, near the shoulder, which had been success-
fully performed. Since our arrival at Eckness we have
received every attention and kindness from the Russian
general end officers that our position would admit of. The
wounded men have been treated with the greatest care and
eansideration. I requested General Moller, the officer com-
manding at Bokser, to send shoat on the day following this
infortunate affair, to the shio, with a flag of truce, to inform
you what bad happened, but be declared it to be impos•
sale. I do not know how this letter will reach
you, but the General will forward it by the first
opportunity. Le we were taken prisoners under a flag of
trace, I presume we shall be shortly released, but am at
present in perfect ignorance of their intention' with respect
to us. I send this letter opened and unsealed.—l am, Bce.,
" Louts Gunners, Lieutenant.
"To Captain Faushawe, H.M.S. Cossack."

Letters from Rome, quoted by the Indelperidanes
Beige, state that the French Government has made known
through its Ambassador, to the Papal Government, its
opinion of the necessity of a reform in the administration of
the Roman States, and that after two congregations of Car-
dinals, held to consider the propriety of following this ad-
vice, it has been decided not to do so.
Amongst the foreigners of distinction now staying
at Paris are Prince Potion's, of Rome, and Prince Gus-
tave de Wus, father of a prince's who it was believed, a
few years since, was destined to share the Imperial throne of
France.

General and Madame Cavaignac were at Strasbourg
on the 3rd, on their way to Baden.

" The Count and Countess de Chambord." says the
CiamUo do Frame, "after passing sin weeks at the baths of
TasAits, in Bohemia, have returned to Frohsdorff."
General Count Alexandre de Girardin died on
Sunday at his residence in the Rue d'Agisesseau, Paris, at
the age of 79. Rs was a distinguished officer of the Empire
and fought at Austerlitz, Omni°, Ostrowno, Monterey,
Chanspaubert, and Montatirail. K. Emile de Giratdin is
the son of the deceased general.

It is remarked u acurious fact that half the capi-
tal of the new company of French " clippers," (Admiral
Casy's and Rothsebild's company) which wee started to rival
the English bosh, is subscribed by English people.
It is reported that four new Marshals of France
will be created on August 16—Generals Canrobert, Folksier,
Schramm, sod Random.

The late Selemon Rothschild, of Paris, hes left a
fortune of 2 millions and a ball pounds sterling, which will
be divided between his two nephews.

The Salut Public of Lyons states that the Medi-
terranean Railway Company has received orders to hold
themselves In reakiness to convey a numerous body of
troops (1,600 a day) from Lyons to the coast for embarka-
tion, as well is 100,000 shells and a large quantity of
powder.
This morning a return was issued, which shows
that alter the summer assizes, and beim* the 16th Nineus-
her lam year, the number of cues triable only at the
assisv, and cot on bail, committed, wax 49 on the Home
Circuit, 66 en the Mi4land, 21 on the Norfolk, 61 on the
Northern, 78 on the Ozforti, 64 os the Western, 24 on the
North Wides and Citestar sad 26 on the &milt Wales
Moat&

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more in the spirit which animated Lord MINTO
daring 'his Italian minion, than in that which in-
s spired .himself dining the recent negotiations at
Vieent
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Wgireseir) Niue much pleasure in stating that
Mr. sn,M succeed Mr. Baines as President
I of the out Law Board. Mr. Lows has been
appointed -Vise-President of the Board of Trade, in
the date of Mr. Bouverie.
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OPIES OF FURTHER LETTERS RESPECT- "Boun strew W Loa as kM avowed Wool
INO THE PROCEEDINGS OF MILS. COSSACK, vast to etwumoteste with the Wien to the f
AND met LOSS OF OFFICERS AND MEN AT with the PlaPi°l alefi ta rwelww• Melillo
MANGO. aloe of Weeps nese II explasatioa I
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b , he fiR
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This day hays been Weed, for the .••. • of 1 Ite of the me Mies
he Boson of Porliaamit, a variety of • , 1 A falba as illogfort
E
dative to the above affair, publia e hisiatios
•- 1 "8- Phased tiw• bush w haw@ the
spin preeestod la lees. Mast of hireitiAltional "f It. me well • aehessf
he Express, is the form of troesla (rode the Remiss .eweolift• of uf rift" ts, are sot
- ---.- °maims of vase. The Cossack was is no
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