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intrepidly led them forwards, motwithstamUng the ship had
tuned her whole bramaide mama Ms, and that, putting
a *pain en her able, she °posed a mast violent maenads,
esnaintly with the *smite.
At half-pest sir the boat No. 16, cammended by the
Quarternmeter Stepan Aubtalti, received • ball in its side
below the water•line to the right of her stern ; her crew,
seartheless, castinued fizirg while the leak was being
stopped. Oommender Istanbul arrived in • whaler, and
west on bead the bast, when seeing that she made li foot
of water, and that they Gould hardly keep her slat by
pampa', he ordered her to return into the Data and ar
prat* &shallow, which was samessfully done.
At forty minutes past sin a bomb fell and broke en oar on
beard the boat sommesded by the IlidahipaanSakalisgalne.
Our dotal; continuing its offensive movement, came to a
step at about 600 seams from the ship of the Use ; she had
left deep water, and was is a place thirteen feet deep. At
this nsemeat the Cadet Youseleviteh, of the marine artillery,
adman' with his boat, No. 10, in front of the line of the
battalion, sent a bomb with such atoms that the ship, Imre
&lately slipping has cable, began to retire, m the amatsclit
likewise. Mb, /mews, esstiaulnei Ma& ; • . . • .
At liadpmet seven the ramary owed tat. abithdretr.

from ear batteries and the flotilla to a pretty wide distance,
sad at to. o'clock, mulcts( for the offing, disappeared.
It is to be presumed that daring the combat with the
flotilla and our batteries, the enemy's chips sustained
damage, for without speaking of the heath so &overly
thrown by the boat No. 10, after the seventh shot fired front
the Comet Fort battery, the wrestle immediately won and
let a boat down into the sea.

After the ommation of the dm, the enemy's liter hoisted
out her natter, which remained nearly en hoar ander her
storm

About fear in the afternoon, the same ships approached
the month of the Thins. From four to eight o'clock they
find against the river batteries, end sent a few shots against
the shore. Their fire was mainly ooneentrated on the Fort
Comet battery, spinet which they find even whole broad-
sides more than ones, at 'distance of about 1,100 urine.
At half-past eight the ship and the corvette disappeared.
The flotilla of gun-boats, which did not lean the roads in
the afternoon, took no part in the combat of the evening.
Notwithstanding the rather hoary nature of the cannonade
we experienced no km of life is the works, which remain
intact

• As this corvette hal no white streak, it was impossible
to scant her number of guns.

FRANCE.

(1103 0173 OWN

PARIS, SATURDAY BMWs°.
At the reception of Mehemet Bey, the Turkish
ambassador, at the Tuileries yesterday, his Exoel-
lousy addressed tho Emperor as follows:
Sins,—Charged by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, my
august master, with the mission of drawing closer the rela-
tions of friendship which have so long and so intimately
united the two empires, I express to your Imperial Majesty
the profouad gratitude of my Kivereign end of my country
for the noble efforts which your Majesty makes for the
triumph of right, justice, and civilisation. In considering
the high missies confided to me by ray august sovereign, I
eon only expect to be able to fulfil it by the special
kindness of your Imperial Majesty, and of which you have
given us so many striking proofs.
The Emperor made the following reply:
You know, Monsieur l'Ambaasadeur, the interest which
I feel for the Sultan' and the efforts which I make with
Ragland to defend the independence of hie empire. I
desire that Turkey shall be not only independent, but strong
sad powerful. As to the chilies which has been made to
represent the Sultan, I am happy that it has fells& on the
sou of a great man, who, on numerous cosseleas, has res
dewed eo mar snips, to his country.
••- • • -

The Cossfitutiownsi says that the qualification of
" great man" given by the Emperor to Reschid Pacha
mad* a great impression on the personages present.
But it is rather curious that these speeches which have
been communicated to the morning papers do not ap
pear in the Moniteur. This omission naturally gives
occasion to say, es many people do say, that the Em-
peror declines to be officially bound by hie compli-
mentary speech.
The Motsitesir announces that the Emperor yester-
day gave a private audience to Count de Hadik, Aide-
de-Camp to the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian,who
came to Paris to compliment the Emperor in the
name of the Archduke, and to remit to hie Majesty
an autograph letter from his Imperial Highness. The
Emperor also received Count de Moltke, Minister of
the King of Denmark, and Vice-Admiral Mourier,
Inspector of the Danish fleet, who recently came to
Paris with the insignia of the Order of the Elephant
for his Majesty, and who solicited the honour of
being received before his return.
A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles informs us
that the Archduke Maximilian left Toulon yesterday.
Before leaving, he gave a banquet on board the
Radetski in return for that to which he had been
invited by the authorities of Toulon. He ham sent
one of his aides-de-camp to Paris to thank the Em-
peror for the attentions which had been paid to him.

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette, of the 27th nit., announces
that the Carlist chief, Del Pino, bad been killed in the
nrai
It esbourhood of Boixol, in Catalonia. A letter
that the Queen fully approves of all the
recent policy of the ministers.
Letters of the 26th state that the news from Cata-
lonia is not so favourable. The Carlist chief Tris-
taoy, at the head of 50 men, had appeared in the
neighbourhood of knead*, and another, named
Borges, has disarmed a detachment of the Vittoria
regiment, consisting of a captain and 20 men.
MADRID, Avotrer SO.
The Gazette publishes a decree on the subject of
reforms introduced in the organisation of the bureaux
of the Ministry of Finance. The sale of the national
property continues. There are a number of purchasers,
and good prices are obtained. The cholera has in-
armed.

PIEDMONT.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa publishes private
letters from the Crimea, giving full accounts of the
battle of the Tchernaya, generally coinciding with
those already received from other quarters. We
gleaa a few further particulars which are not without
interest. Gen. Montevecchio had a bores killed under
him, and was afterwards struck by a ball in the
throat. Gen. de la Marmon was in the field as early
as half-past three, and it was owing to his energy and
foresight that the Pieclinonteee batteries were ready
to render the eminent navies which they did in the
beginning of the engagement. The Piedmontees
brigades engaged were those of Savona, Aequi, Cu-
sale, Regina, and a battalion of rifiemen,who had three
captains wounded. The Piedmontese, in retaking
their old outposts, found two gun carriages and a
limber left behind by the Russians. The carbines of
the Russian Imperial Guard are mentioned ea being of
beautiful workmanship and high finish.

The Independaries Belt's announces that the Here-
ditary Priam of Tuscany is expiated at Paris is the coarse
September.
PLRAIIIRR Excuastoss.—lt is estimated that
weary 6,000 working class emarsiesiste by rail and steam
packet arrived atm left Ilesthutptos last week. These
were railway ezemslate to and from London, Porteenoutb,
Salisbary, sad Southanipttm, also ate to Poole. There
were also two steam boat ezeunioes round the Isle of
Wight end to Dankest' Island and one to Cadleade, the
mist of Mr. Drummond, the banker. There is a railway
amnion to Dorchester, end steam hoot excursions to Wey-
mouth, Swaney, and round the We of Wight already ad-
method for neat week. A cheep ex/
anion from South-
ampton to Paris will shortly take plea, and Mr. Lehner*,
the Presets mama at Southmepton, hes engsged to provide
psimperto free 'CAN.@ to the sesniesimk

AMERICA.

LIVZEPOOL, evinuT.
The United States mail steamship Baltie, Capt;
Comstock, arrived here at an early hour this morn-
ing from New York with the North American mails,
130 passengers, and 679,973 dole. in specie. Ski left
New York on the 22nd. She reports the arrival at
New York on the 17th ult. of the United States mail
steamer Union, from Havre and Southampton ; at
Boston, on the same day, of the royal mail steamer
America ; and at New York of the Pacific, on the
22nd ult. . .

There is scarcely any news by this arrival.
The Hon. Abbott Lawrence, of Massachusetts, died
at Boston on the 18th ult. Mr. Lawrence was born
at Groton, Massachusetts, December 18, 1792, and
was highly successful in trade. His great wealth
gave him a commanding position in the old wkig
party, and he was twice elected to Congress from the
city of Boston. In 1848 he erase prominent oandidate
for the Vice Presides of the United State% and ea
the Apt lathe is% iiist la mg-tea *llliar
A compromise was effected,. and Mr. Lawrence woe
sent to the Court of St. James, where be remained se
United States Minister during nearly the whole of
Mr. Fillmore'. term. Since 1852 Mr. Lawrence had
been living a retired life. He had been ill for several
weeks of a disease of the stomach similar to gout. He
was distinguished for his practical business abilities,
his political sagacity, his bonhommre and grace of
manner, his public and private charities, and his
liberality to literary institutions. He was one of the
firmest pillars of the old conservative, kigh tariff,
bank whig party, and a firm union man.
The case of Colonel Kinney, being a charge of vio-
lating the neutrality laws, was brought up in the
United States District Court of Philadelphia on the
21st. An affidavit was read by George M. Dallas,
Req., setting forth the colonel's proceedings subse-
quent to hie arrest, and expressing the belief that he
would return and take his trial for the offence
charged, whereupon the court ordered that his recog-
nizances be forfeited and respited until the first day
of February.
The President has officially recognised the appoint-
ment of Don Ramon F. Valdez as Consul-General of
Mexico for the United States.
President Pierce arrived at Staunton, Va., on the
18th inst.
Intelligence from Kansas, to the 7th ult., gives an
account of the excitement created in Atchison by
the whipping of an abolitionist from Cincinnati,
named Kelly. A public meeting bad been called, at
which resolutions were passed declaratory of an in-
tention to rid the territory of all abolitionists. A
committee was appointed to warn Kelly to leave the
territory within an hour, but when the committee
waited upon him he was not to be found, having
gone to parts unknown during the previous night. A
bill of a very stringent character in relation to aboli•
tionists is now before the Kansas Legislature. It
provides that every person who shall be convicted of
raising a rebellion of slaves, free negroes, or mu-
lattoes, or do any act in furtherance thereof, shall
suffer death.
On the 19th ult. there was a desperate attempt at
highway robbery by three Germans, who decoyed a
Swiss watch pedlar from New York. The three
miscreants succeeded in getting the pedlar down ; but
he was too much for them, and used his knife with
such effect as to kill one of his assailants outright
and wounded the other two. One of the robbers was
arrested, and prompt measures were taken for di/ ap-
prehension of the other.
The Women's Rights Convention met at Saratoga
on the 16th ult. The strong-minded were out in hill
farce, and a very small sprinkling of n.ales attended.
The proceedings presented nothing raw.
At Baltimore there was a desperate and bloody
rencontre on the night of the lbth ult. It was evi-
dent that the combatants 'Tele prepared for the con-
test, as for some minutes there was a sustained dis-
charge of firearm. that would not have disgraced a
battle-field. The tight lasted only about five minutes,
daring which time not lees than fifty pistol shots
were heard. It is surprising that the results were
not more bloody thrn the details of the encounter
show them to have been. This and other similar
occurrences are attributed by a portion of the press
of Baltimore to the voluntary fire department system,
and a loud call is made upon all citizens who would
rid themselves of such flagrant violations of the
, peace, and a large amount of incendiariam, to come
forward in support of a paid fire department.
' The Merlin rock, in the harbour of St. John's,
Newfoundland, and an obstacle to steamers entering
that place, is fast disappearing under the efforts of
Messrs. Hoisted and Kroehl, of New York, who have
contracted to blast the same to the depth of 27 feet
mean low water. Up to 3 p.m., August 8, five charges
had been fired of 2001 b. each, and with great success,
the operations having commenced at 12 o'clock same
day. It was expected that the rock would be en-
' tirely removed before the arrival of the James Adger,
with the submarine telegraphic excursion company,
' at St. John's.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Aroma 22.
There is a very quiet feeling in the market and money is
abundantly off.red, but there is a less amount of 6nt-eleas
paper offering than was "nticipated, in the gradual opening
of the fall trade, but if the crops are as full as we confi-
dently think they will be, the present superabundance of
"aphid will be greatly reduced under an active demand, but
without immediately affecting the rate, now current. First
suss paper, with the best securities, will not now command
over 6 to 6 per east.; we quote the lenge at 6 to 7 per cent.
for loans on call and for business paper.
Foreign exchange is more active : for bankers' bills ea
London, 60 days, at ton to flok; Paris, 5.15 to 5.12 i.
The transactions in Matt stocks, since the depertore of
the last steamer, have been limited. United States Sixes of
'67 are in good demand at 117}, which is an advance of
per cent. on the offer of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Cotton market during the pest week Las been heavy
and inactive. Prices are nominally the same as at the date
of our last letter, but are sustained only by the lightness of
cur stock and limited offerings. Prior to the receipt of the
America's advice', some speculative purchases were made
in anticipation of a favourable market report from Liver-
pool; but since the receipt of her disappointing accounts,
there has been only a limited demand from manufacturers
to supply their immediate yenta The sales from the 14th
to date inclusive we estimate at 5,000 bales, chiefly effected
from the 14th to 17th instant.
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7.974 te 8.124
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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBB.R 3.

Ix the absence of any very near limped of the fall
of Troy, we cannot do better than bestow our atten-
tion on the wrath of ACHILLES. Our gallant Sir
CHARLES NAFIZE remains stern and terrible of pur-
pose against Cleanest and his Admiralty. The tro-
phies of DUNDAS will not let him sleep. So he has
hoisted his flag on board the Martial.) Advertiser, from
whence he keeps up • smart fire on his foes. The
war becomes merciless on his part, since on Saturday
he began to publish the letters which Sir JAMES
GRAHAM wrote him in October and November of
last year, when the campaign was over, sad all
parties concerned were on the look-out for somebody
to sacrifice to public indignation. This is a very
ethrtlieg measure. It breaks through routine and
formality, and capsizes the usages of the most
venerable etiquette. Bet Sir CHARLES never
professed to be scrupulous. During the
Syrian war ho was famous for acting with.
oat authority, and, to do him justice, when he
acted without authority he usually made his very
beat hits. We shall not quarrel with his policy in
that respect—which, by the way, reminds us of the
" leader " in which a Yankee editor announced to the
public his religious convictions: "LOce Lyman,
like PAUL," observed the journalist, " we go on our
own hook!" To be sure, Sir Jaime's letters were
marked "private;" bat oar public sea are now
agreed in disregarding that precautionary word when
special circumstances demand it. It must be remem-
bered that the renown of the Admiral is at stake in
this controversy ; and we are sure that Sir JAMES
GRAHAM is not the man to attach too much sacredness
to the privacy of • letter. The public, on the other
land, though not indifferent to the quarrel se a quar-
rel, yet feel most curious about it on this ground—
that its revelations may be expected to throw light
on the ear:y history of the war.
Sir CHARLES appears early in the campaign to
have been little hopeful on the subject of Sweaborg-
" In May," says Sir JAMES GRAHAM (writing to
him in October), " you declared it to be unassailable
by sea or land." This Sir CHARLES does not, in a re-
ply dated four days after hi, rtceipt of the letter, deny.
Now, did Sir CHARLES so early as May demand
those mortars, rockets, and Lancaster guns, which
he certainly demanded later, and which now appear
to have been so inexpressibly important ? On this
point we as yet want assurance. If he did, his case
is conclusive. For we apprehend that it would be
rash to censure him for sot attacking the place with
the ships only. DuNDes, with later experience of
it, did not venture on such a step. That admiral has
done his work entirely by gun and mortar boats.
He did not fight a naval action. He shelled the
place from a distance. Of course, we are very glad
that he did so much—but it is absurd to blame his
predecessor fur not having done more work with less
materials.

All the summer this prudential notion of NAPIZIeII'
',maimed fixed in his mind. GRAHAM, too, kept
warning him "against stone walls." Like his coun-
tryman BRADWAIDINE, the Admiral's motto was,
" Beware the Bear." No doubt the public were dis-
appointed. The public h►d been taught to believe
" Sir CHARLIT" (and that, by "Sir CILARLEY"
him-
relf) one of those fire-eaters whom nothing appals or
repels. We most of us fancied that he had no " die-
cretion " at all, and we, inclined to despise it, as
Swirr did, as en "alderman-like virtue" unfit for
these fighting days. Indeed, we expected too numb
from ships against stone walls as a general rule. The
truth appears to be that ships do not triumph against
lend batteries except under peculiar circumstances.
The defences must be weak, and the defenders in•
competent. The ships must get near in. These con-
ditions existed at Algiers—yet at Ales= the Im-
pregnable lost 210 in killed and wounded. And now-
mdaya the progress of scientific invention increases
the strength of a fortress and its chance to best ships.'
Fortresses are stronger, but ships still remain wooden
and vulnerable :—what an object, too, doss a lofty
sail-clad man-of-war present to those incendiary pro-
jectiles now so well understood, in Russia as else-
where ?

It cannot, however, be argued that the ABERDEEN
Government did not know all this when they sent
the fleet to the Baltic. They cannot have been igno-
rant (or at lent ignorance would have been shameful)
of the utility of gun and mortar boats is war. In
the last war our fleets were always accompanied by
bomb-vessels, and all such craft. They were invalu-
able at Copenhagen, and also at Algiers. Bo thet—
as regards the wisdom of Sir Judea Gamwe's Admi-
ralty—it little matters whether NAPIER applied for
such &comities or did not apply for them.
iVell—the summer wore away. Sweaborg re-
mained intact. The public were become impatient.
The crisis of the friendly feeling between Admi-
ralty and Admiral approached. Sir CHARLES
NAPIER had made a reconnaissance of Sweaborg in
Jane, and he made a mooed in September. Now
we come to the rub—" Your second reconnaissance."

wrote the Admiralty, "opens a new view." " No,"
answers Sir Qualm, "my first and my snood
Mem nearly the same. . . . I pointed eat two
modes of attack—one with ships alone, the maw
of which would be very doubtful, and many ships
would be lo it :--another with AO, gunboats, roehats,
Lancaster guns, 13.inels mortars on the islands, dec."
He accordingly complains that their Lordships chose
to ignore the necessity of them articles, and to make
him responsible for an opinion that the place could
be attacked with ships aka°. This he denies having
asserted, and we are bawd to say denies success-
fully, unless there has been a askopresaio yeti on his
part, such as we see so reason to impute to him.
Aloes with the letter from the Admiralty which
we have just quoted, the Admiral received one from
our contemporary the limes, which seems from
his account to have been an officill reprimand.
It would ill tweak. as to detract from the dignity of
our profemicio, aid we only hope our contemporary's
assumption of these new constitutional powers will
improve the emseative.

By this time the ill-feeling was becoming decided.
The Admiralty seems to have been very taxi ma for
something to be doer, and Sir CBAILLEB is deter
mined as ever to be cautious. The French squadron
and troops had withdrawn after the capture of Bo-
usarsend i and though early in October there had
been an order fur the French squadron to return, yet
that order bad been countermanded. The contiepoe-
dense which then ensued between the Admiral and
Sir hilts GUMMI presents Dome carious points.
Sir JAlt6s seems to have been very imperfectly
informed on matters which in his peition be ought
to have known. He was " not prepared" for the

4, immediate Asps:tare of the IliketnitorY
centers of liomareand," and "ea less '
btr
withdrawal of the French eq ' #
alone were taken on the a " 'says. In imam
thry were sod takes on t , &mein
to orders which the French Commanders received
from home. The French Admiral, it letlibi, agreed
with Sir MARLIN that Benda% could sot then be
takes.
Rod
Again :we Sir Jena °KARAM equally at ma
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about the results of some deliberations on attacking
Sweaborg. lie tells Sir Quinn that " the French
generals partake of General JONES'S opinions." Yet
it appears that while the French generals thought the
fleet could knock down Sweaborg in two hours,
General JONES'S opinions involved the work of •
week. We also And the Admiralty giving one view
of General NIL'• report on the subject, and Sir
Jams Gamut another, which surely argues a des-
perate contusion at head•gaarters.
There does not appear any reason to blame the Ad-
miral for not attacking the place late in the season.
All the month of September it was blowing a gale of
wind. A council of war of live admirals was adverse
to the attempt. Then was nothing to do but to return
home. And there was a decided want of generosity
in the way is which Sir Jesse GRAHAM threw all
the bleats of the inaction of the past season on an
dam whom he had repeatedly praised during the
course of it—whom he had not supplied with the
proper materials for his operations—and whose
squadron, disciplined by his abilities and his name, he
was anxious to hand over to an unknown successor.

On the wholiwithout pretendiog to foresee what
new matter may be brought forward on the subject
—we think Sir Cum.= Names has done mush to
better his position before the public. We are sure he
has done math to show that it would be utter mad-
ness to allow Sir JAMES GRAHAM to resume his seat
at the Admiralty board.