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London, England, 1855-06-18 00:00:00

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k LEL, JUNE 17.

DANTZIO, JuNg 16.

The fleet was at anchor beforo Cronstadt.

Nothing new.

COPENTIAGEN, Ju/In IA

inomlim. MN.

The Universal German Gazette, professing to
speak on the authority of the French Captain,
Baron de Breitenbach, who had arrived at Vienna
from the Crimea with despatches for Baron de
Bourqueney, says that General Pelissier was going
to fight a decisive battle between the 12th and 15th
of June, and that the allies had taken every neces-
sary measure to insure victory.
The treaty conceding the _Pyrenean line to M. de
Rothschild is said to be signed,
A company has offered, to construct at its own
cost a line between Macon and Nevers, with a
branch to Roailne. This line would form the first
seetion of a still more important railway now under
examination, and which would form the great trans-
versal line from east to west, from Switzerland
to the Atlamticii

An imperial decree promotes General of brigade
de Martimprey to the rank of general of division,
and Colonels Salle, D nprat do Larroquette, Maneque,
Latrine de Loroncez, and Sencier, to the rank of
generals of brigade.
The Minister of Marine has addressed the fol-
lowing circular to the maritime authorities :

"Paris, June 12.
"I have just received from the Rear-Admiral com-
manding the French sqiia Iron in the China seas a letter
date] Shanghai, April 9. I-request you to make known
to the Chambers of Commerce, shipowners, and cap-
tains of merchant ve3sels the following passage Pi-
racy is being carried on very actively on the coast of
China,' and it is necessary that every merchant vessel
should have at least two guns and some muskets on
board, to defend itself against the piratee.'—l call your
attention, gentlemen, on this occasion, to the enact-
ments of tha Royal ordonnance of the 12th July, 1847,
relative to the manufacture of arms and ammunition on
board merchant vessels, and the conditions of their
shipment.—Accept, ' HAMBLIN."

BOURSE, 4,TuRE IG.—CLOSING PRICES.
er Cent 43.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
ps 94 25 —c,
3 per Cents 6B 30 68 55
CrMit Mobilier 972 59 Roman
Cre.,lit Foncior 560 Austrian
Belgian Fives. ..... .. • Spanish Throes —
Piechnontese — Homo Debt —

RAILWAYS—in CASS
fr. c. fr.
Orleans - Lyons .... 1240
Western 750 Rouen
CQtte — Strasburg - 910
Heliterranean 1222 50 Havre 625
Northern ...... ...... 927 50 Cherburg

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, June s.—By an order of the
day published in the journals, the Emperor, after
a eecond minute inspection of the fortifications of
Cronstadt, has declared himself perfectly contented
with the defences of the place, and especially men-
tions ate new Inn otbeo, the batteries of Lissy's-Nose,
the " tongue of land" of Croustalt, and Fort
Paul, which he considers impregnable.
In consequence of his impaired state of health,
the artillery general Yermaloff has resigned his
appointment as commander-in-chief of the newly
organised militia of the empire, and the resignation
has been accepted by an order of the day published
to-day. Lieutenant-General. Count Stroganow,
hitherto head of the militia of the province of
Nischegorod, is appointed to the vacancy.
General Bevouder, lately commander of the first
division of the Guards at Revel,- was received to-
day by the Emperor in a private audience. He
will proceed immediately -to Poland to assume the
command of the second army corps.
The Holy Synod (the highest ecclesiastical col-
lective authority) has just petitiOned the Emperor
to turn a more favourable ear to the negotiations
for peace. It is not yet known what answer the
Czar has returned, but the fact is significant.
The Council of Administration of the Kingdom
of Poland has again published the names of a fresh
hatch of Poles proscribe 1 and their property con-
fiscated to the use of the State. They are accused
of having taken part in the troubles of. 1843, And
left Poland to assist the Hungarians and help to
ore-anise the democratic clubs.
'Every movement of the French and British ships
off Cronstadt is carefully noted down and tele-
graphed to the Emperor. It issiid that a short time
ago Admirals Dundas and Seymour had a very
narrow escape of being made prisoners. They bad
landed on an 'uninhabited rock near Sweaborg to
reconnoitre. This being perceived from the for-
tress, a steamer and a gnu-boat were sent out to
capture them, and'might have done so if they had
been more cleverly manoeuvred: As it was, how-
ever, they just came too late, and the British com-
manders had re-embarked.
JUNE 6.—The last post has brought us the Lon-
don newspapers, with the speech of Earl Grey in
the Hduse of Lords, which, of course, created a
favourable sensation among the Russians, and is
allowed to circulate both in the original and in
translations in the newspapers of this city.
The new batteries that have lately been erected
on Lissy's Nose—the point of the coast on the
mainland nearest to the island of Cronstadt—are
said to fill up the hiatus in the line of coast de-
fences, and aro armed with guns of very heavy
calibre.

A large camp is ordered to be formed on, the east
bank of the river Narva, near Ivangorod, and
nearly opposite that fortress. The command is
given to General Sievers.
From the reports of General Wrangel, with re-
ference to the loss of Yenikale and Kertch, it ap-
pears that the Russians were completely taken by
surprise. The Emperor was furious the first day,
and has been sulky ever since. It is generally ex-
pected that Wrangel will be removed from his
command, and share the fate of Menschikoff, Dan-
nenberg, and other Russian commanders forsaken
by fortune, or who may have committed some stra-
tegical blunder; for luck is an indispensable quali-
fication for the enjoymeut of the imperial favour.
BERLIN, June 16,—We have telegraphic infor-
mation here that a fresh ukase has been issued for
the purpose of expediting the levy of recruits
lately ordered in the 17 Western Governments of
Russia to the extent of 12 in every 1,000 roistered
" souls ;" the tenour of this'new ukase is-':)to sus-
pend all the hitherto existing exemptions from
military services ; as regards the populations of
towns and hamlets, to extend the age at which men
have hitherto been liable to serve up to that of
37 years ; and to empower the military boards en-
trusted with the business of conscription even to set
aside the exemption hitherto existing in favour of
only sons. In the government of Ekaternoslav,
however, the levy of recruits is postponed until
September 15.
The following is the text of thd Imperial mania
festo, settling the question of a Regency in case of
the present Emperor's decease. Two days ago I
was enabled- to forward you the pith of it by means
of information I had received from Konigsberg :

"IMPERIAL MANIFESTO.
"We, Alexander tho Second, by the Grace of God,
Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, King of
Poland, &c.

"Ever since we mounted the hereditary throne of the
rulers of Russia our attention has been unremittingly di-
rected to all that can contribute to the preservation and
consolidation of the tranquillity and prosperity of the
empire entrusted to us by Divine Providence ; and
we have considered it to be ime of ow most sacred

old the `10.:,•6es of I Etti.,,sians very bifiing. Lie

allies lave formed no new works in the Selinghinsk
and Irolbynia redoubts on the east of Careening
Bn but tbeyhave re-con3tructed the anatsehatka
(Manielon) lunette.

Admiral llaynes,'s squadron has arrived, and
proceeds on Tuesday, The Vronc4 frigate Iris
has sallcch

The Cossack, Capt. Fansbawe, arrived here

last night, bringing extra despatches from Ad-
miral Dundas,

The Xing has signed tho ministerial draft of a
constiNition for the collective ministry. The Diet
is convoked for June 26.

FRANCE..
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
•
The reconciliation of Austria with Prussia, and
the attitude assumed by the former, have created
a bad effect here. No intelligenc9 from the Crimea.
The Patric says it has great relson to doubt the
accuracy of a Vienna despatch, published by a Lou-
don morning paper, stating all the French troops
at Kertch had been recalled to Sebastopol. It is
probable, it thinks, that a portion of the force may
have been sent to Anapa to reinforce the Circassian
contingents, and prevent any return of the Rus-
sians in that quarter.