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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 22, 1855.

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Heavy ordnance stores were being shipped from the dock-
yard on board the Samuel Laing steam-transport for con-
veyance to the seat of war. The British steam-transport
Lion, Captain J. F. Kruger, arrived during the night of
the 14th free C.,nstantinople bound to D.:ea:int, with
Lieutenant Fitzroy W. Fremantle, Rifle Brigade,
wounded • Miss Polidor, a nurse from Scutari ; Messrs.
Aynslie/Freeuay, and Wilson, inspectors of sanitary
commiesion ; Mr. Wakeford, storekeeper ; and four
groom-. in charge of horses.
Tile Gibralter steam-transport, No, IS3, arrived yes-
terday at Woolwich with condemned stores from the
Crimea.
The Antelope steamer went down to Woolwich from
London, and is waiting orders.
The Concord freight-ship was yesterday towed down
to Woolwich from Deptford, under orders • to' embark
military stores for the East. The screw transport Ger-
mania, No. 207, arrived there likewise yesterday, to
embark ammunition for the seat of war.
The. Sydney is ready and will go to Greenhithe to-
morrow to receive her powder, and will proceed thence
to the Black Sea.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—Captain E. G. Fanshawe, late of the
Cossack, to the Hastings, vice Caffin ; Captain J. H.
Cockburn, to the Cossack, vice Fanshawe ; Alexander
Macleroy, surgeon of the Princess Royal, to be surgeon
and medical storekeeper at the Therapia Hospital ;
Philip Goring., second master, to the Bloodhound ;
Master's-Assistants G. D. Rickards, to the Bloodhound ;
john Edwards, to the Urgent ; Thomas J. Burgher, to
the Sireu ; Marcus Markham, assistant-clerk, to the
Indefatigable.
A detachment of the fith Dragoon Guards Will arrive
at Dublin on Thursday from Kilkenny„ to join head-
quarters, in anticipation of the regiment proceeding to
Scotland, head-quarters to be stationed in Edinburgh.
The 7th Dragoon Guards are to be replaced in Dublin
by the arrival of the 16th Lancers from Cahir.
The depot of the 40th Regiment is quartered in Beg.:
gar's Bush barracks, Dublin, about 200 men awaiting
embarkation.
The second division of the 25th Regiment (King's
Own Borderers) from India, arrived at Chatham yester-
day. They are a fine body of men, and in excellent
health. The division musters 16 sergeants, 8 drum-
mers, and 236 rank and file, under command of Brevet-
Major Edward Priestley, with Captain C. J. Wallace,
Lieut. Alexander Strange, Lieut. J. O'Hea, Lieut.
William Goodall ; Ensign W. H. Shafto, and Assistant-
Surgeon J. Fraser, M.D. With the division are 19
women and 43 children ; and Captain A. C. Pretyman,
74th Highlanders, came home with the division on duty;
The division will remain at Chatham some time to do
duty in the garrison.
In the Gazette of Friday last the name of Mr. De
Neufville Lucas, appointed an Ensign in the 40th Foot,
was erroneously printed de Reufville Lucas.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF

and fired away in most glorious ;style. Nothing
can exceed the credit these little vessels are entitled
to. Each officer commanding seemed to emulate
with the other in shoving a gallant bearing and
zealous performance of their duties in the presence
of the enemy. This day the fire has extended to
the opposite side of the island, the arsenal, includ-
ing extensive sail lofts, rope walks, &e., making a
most glorious blaze. The Russian re in the
morning was warm and well directed ' • one or two
of the mortar vessels had to be moved further out,
but, although several vessels were three or four
times hulled by shot and shell, nobody was killed,
and but few wounded. The enemy appeared much
disheartened by the constant fires and destruction
of their stores. The fire was well kept up on our
side all day, and the destruction on shore increased
hourly to a frightful extent ; occasionally an explo-
sioii
would
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On Friday. evening, the 3d inst., signal was
made by the flag-ship to all the ships assembled at
Nargen to prepare to weigh anchor the next morn-
ing at eight o'clock. At the same time heavy
guns were got out of the line-of-battle ships, and
placed en board the mortar-boats. But as it came
to blow very hard the next morning, the order f)r
sailing was countermanded, and we lay Saturday
and Sunday quietly at anchor. On Moudd.y
morning we weighed again, as the weather had
moderated, and arrived off Sweaborg in the even-
ing of the same day. Boats were immediately put
out to sweep for infernal machines, but none were
found, from which we were led to infer that the
Russians did not expect us.

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of Sebastopol. Dioramic views of Cronstadt, Revel, Helsingfors,
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novel amusements will conclude with the Siege of Sebastopol, and
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SEQOND EVENING. •
On the second evening the rocket boats again
attacked the place, going still nearer in than on
the previous night. The Russians again fired at
them in vain. The fire was more frightful, if pos-
sible, this night than the last. At four in the
morning the order was given to discontinue the
bombardment ; the mortars being all very shaky
(three having burst), and Sweaborg being so
completely in flames that nothing more could be
done.

Henry O. Bobn, York-street, CoVent-garden.

TAKING POSITION.
On the morning of the Bth, the English mortar
boats were hauled into about 5,000 yards of the
citadel, anchors during the night having been laid
down in shore at 3,100 yards, and off shore at about
the same distance, with a very long scope of cable
to admit of the vessels being hauled backwards and
forwards—that is, in shore and off shore, as cir-
cumstances might require. In the afternoon of
the same day the French mortar and gunboats
joined from Nargen, and at once took up their
position in the same way in the centre of our line ;
the attacking force now consisted of 21 mortars
and 27 gunboats ; all appeared to be ready ; the
weather was fine and the water smooth. As day-
light dawned, to our astonishment we saw on an
island 400 or 500 yards in-shore of us the French
flag proudly displayed on a rock, and found that
during the night our indefatigable allies had thrown
up a sand battery of four field mortars. The sand
they had brought with them from Nargen. The
mortar vessels then hauled into bombarding po-
sition, viz., 3,350 yards' distance ; the gunboats,
in detachments of threes and fours, under the com-
mand of (that is each detachment) Captains Iran-
sittart, Stewart, Glasse, Hewlett, and Preedy
(commander of the Duke), hovered round, snort-
ing with their high-pressure engines like war-
horses, and impatient to dash in to draw the fire
off the stationary mortar-vessels.

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RETURN OF THE FLEET TO NARGBN.

August 12.—At 4-30 4.11 i. the fleet got under
weigh Tor Nargen: The only accident that. took
place was to the Vulture, which, in taking the
.rEolus in tow, carried away her foretop-gallant-
mast, and at 12-30 we all anchored in Nargen
Roads, where we remain as if nothing had oc-
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AMOUNT OF DAMAGE.
When you consider that twenty-five 13-inch
mortars for upwards of 48 hours kept up a continued
firing, some projecting as many as 350 rounds into a
comparatively small place like S weaborg, crowded
as it was with wooden buildings, dockyards, and
barracks, you may form a pretty correct idea of the
ffect these dreaded missiles had ; indeed, two
hours after the commencement of the bombard-
ment, the fortress was on fire in seven different
places, which spread rapidly, and continued for
three days, destroying everything of an inflamma-
ble nature, leaving nothing but ruins of brick-walls
standing.
One hundred and sixty gun-boat sheds, many
with row boats in them, were totally burnt, as were
also the government ropewalk, storehouses, dock-
yard, barracks, main guard, and signal station.
The firing was so hot and the practice so admirable,
that the three-decker moored across the entrance,
after having several shot into her, was forced to
haul out of her position, and take shelter behind
the stone walls.

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The Royal County Limerick Regiment, under Lieut.-
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A RUSSIAN MADHOUSE.

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SETTING AT MANdRESrER—TUESDAY.

On Wednesday morning we discovered a large
building on shore, on which was hoisted a white
flag, inscribed with, the word " Madhouse," in
English. This proved, however, to be only a dodge
of the Russians, and was subsequently found to be
a powder magazine, which was blown up during
the bombardment.
COWARDICE OF CONSTANTINE.
The flag of the Royal family o f Russia, so flaunt-
ingly displayed at daylight on the first morning,
was hauled down at ten o'clock. (I suppose the
fighting Constantine thought his country would
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Judging from the number of influentials that had al-
ready left for York, and others that departed this after-
no-n, our office here will be a sinecure during the re-
mainder of the weeks Importance only will be attached
to the operations at the scene of action. The business
that was transacted at the Post-office Hotel to-day left
us little to dilate upon. 5 to 2 was currently offered
against Vandal ; that figure was, however, taken in one
bet to 1001. Escape was hacked rather freely at any-
thing over 10 to 1. Saucebox was unmistakeably
" fishy," offers of 8 to 1 being numerous, and what
would have been his taking price we are unable to say.
Hosp-odar and Homily held a very slender footing in
the betting, and we should say the odds against each are
nearer 20 to 1 than 10 to 1. Mosquito was much in-
quired after for the Doncaster St. Leger, but the only
bet laid against her was 240 to 20. 6to 4 was currently
offered against Oulston.
The following are the only quotations that we deem
necessary to give :

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

EBOR HANDICAP.

SALES BY AUCTION.

5 to 2 agst Vandal (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Little Harry (offered)
8 to 1 agst Saucebox (offered)
10 to 1 agst Escape (taken and offered)

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It Ails ‘a, fact not to be doubt.
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of men who in former wars we, lan
incub s for years is now rapidly passing ihty. -.."
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e loits fifty y ears old hitherto- brought on
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to m man
mutter,w ho has,
.V us from
.these men of Peninsular expe-
mc ?" But every age has had its Peninsula.
ie en who were sent .to oppose Gates- and
rash ngton were our gallant veterans of Dettin-
-311 a d Culloden. •iThe advisers of the Duke of
"ork u Holland were described by the Ministerial-
itsi o the clay as heroes who had scaled the Heights
,f Ab. ahem and swept the plain at Minden. The
N.me can war, perhaps happily, did not last long
-nough to exhaust the superincumbent layers of
military incapacity ; but in the great struggle which
follovied after 16 long years of reverses and humi-.
liations we at last found a general. Unhappily, the
nation has been more content to exult in the vic-
torie of Wellington than to endeavour to find a
successor by disregarding the c'aims of seniority ;
and a commander-in-chief of 38 would probably be
looked upon with more astonishment at the present
day than at any past time. The remarks we have
been compelled to make from time to time on the
conduct of military men in high position have been
often met by the argument, if it may be so called,
that the Great Duke, during the earlier period of
his career, was attacked by an ill-judging Opposi- .
tion and a misinformed public, and that therefore
censures on generals in the Crimea and Admirals
in the Baltic would be proved by the avenger Time
to be equally worthless. These critics did not
recollect that the Great Duke formed almost the
only . instance in which censure was -misplaced. •
After all, there was much excuse for a mistaken
estimate of a really great man, when the country
had ' within the memory of that generation
been humiliated and nearly ruined by its
Burgoyne and Cornwallis, its Duke of York, its
Whitelocke, its Earl of Chatham, its Sir Harry
Burrard, and Sir Hew Dalrymple. This brings us
to our present position. We are passing through
the Burrard and Dalrymple phase, and hope soon
to emerge on the classic period of another Welles-
ley. Should such a warrior arise, we shall not be
ashained to recant any adverse judgments which
dime may prove to be incorrect.
Met the practical results of our recent losses are
hrmight home to every household in the speedy
promotion of those who have chosen arms as a pro-
fession, and in the demand for men to fill appoint-
ments which till lately were rarely vacant, and
were thought to demand acquirements much above
the average. The loss of engineer officers in the
Crimea has been very heavy, and now 20 young
men aro to receive commissions at once, and 40
more within the next three months. That the
acquirements of these young men will be below the
average of their predecessors cannot be doubted,
but 'that is an evil inseparable from a state of war,
and perhaps attaches only to this corps, in which
some scientific attainments are requisite for a pro-
per discharge of duty. Throughout the army the
same rapid rise of the fortunate survivors of battle
and disease is conspicuous. Men now command
regiments' who were by no means the seniors
among the captains when they first encamped at
Scutari. As far as regimental advancement is
concerned, there is an unexampled prospect for the
young, strong, and enterprising. Up to a certain
point promotion is and will be as rapid as in the
early armies of the French Republic ; but the de-
cision as to who are to have the chief commands over
this young and vigorous band of warriors will, no
doubt, for years be influenced by old recollections
of former companionship, a mistaken sense of long-
, etanding claims, and an idea that age necessarily
confers experience, and experience ability. But
beyond the example of all former times the nation
is now watching, and as it were superintending
a war which is peculiarly its own. That nation
will make use of the lessons learnt in former strug-
gles, and ponder the still more important t:ach-
ings of the last few months. From the past it will
gather that the old military system, which during
a long peace has settled down and indurated afresh
in the country, has never insured, or even per-
mitted, success in war ; from observation of what
is passing at present in the Crimea it will be con-
vinced that such experience as the soldier of a few
years or months in Spain or Belgium can boast of
is of little value, and that the best school for
Sebastopol is Sebastopol itself. To public opinion,
which has already done so much, we commit the
completion of those great changes which have
already commenced.

CONTRABAND OF WAR AT HAMBURG.