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nounce to the army the death of its bolo,
Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C. 8., w' P E 1144391
event took place last night about 9 o'ch /CI4IIACe
" No. 2. In the absence of Lleutem 4G4,et'al'br'
George Brown, the command of the trool.rdsvel-0:'
me, as the next senior officer present, unto
ders are received from England.
" No. 3. Generals of divisions and heads ofl&part
ments will be pleased to conduct their respective duties
as heretofore.
"J. SIMPSON, Lieutenant-General."
There At, great feeling of regret evinced through-
out the
camp at the loss of Lord Raglan. His death
appears to have at once stilled every other feeling
but that of respect for his memory and remem-
brance of the many long years he faithfully and
untiringly served his country.
The cause of his death is stated to have been
diarrhoea, which terminated ix cholera. The body
is to be conveyed to England in her Majesty's ship
Caradoc, and will leave very shortly. It will, I
hear, be accompanied by the whole of his late lord-
ship's personal staff, whose duties will then, of
course, cease. Colonel the Hon. W. L. Pakenham
will conduct for the present the duties of the
Adjutant-General's office.
We have now but very few generals loft to com-
mand divisions or to act as brigadiers. Sir George
Brown left Kamiesh this morning fur England;
he had, I believe, previously heard of the death of
the Field-Marshal, but his medical advisers insisted
on the necessity of his at once leaving the Crimea.
General Pennefather, as you are aware, has been
gone for some days. Generals Estcourt, Sir John
Campbell, and Colonels Yea, Shadforth, ac., are
no more. • General Codrington, on whom the com-
mand of the Light Division now devolves, is in
anything but a satisfactory state of health, and is
at present on board a man-of-war at Chersonese.
The Division provisionally is under the orders of
Colonel Shirley of the 88th, the only Colonel of the
Division who remains of those who led on their
gallant men from Kalamita Bay to Alma and
Inkerman.

General Barnard, it is understood, takes com-
mand of the Fourth Division, and, for the present,
the duties of Brigadiers-General will, with few ex-
ceptions, devolve on the senior officers commanding
regiments.

The siege is " dragging on." The firing for the
last two or three days has been A little more active
on the part of the enemy, particularly at daylight.
A report on the supply of water in the tanks of
the different divisions has, I believe, been forwarded
by the commanding engineer to head-quarters, and
it is in contemplation, in consequence, to move a
portion of the Land Transport Corps to the neigh-
bourhood of Koranni ; but it seems to me that the
supply, though not of the purest or most pellucid
kind, is not reasonably to be complained of, and
continues in sufficiently ample abundance.
I regret to hear that there are complaints on the
part of the Commissariat and Land Transport
Corps respecting the " navvies." It seems the term
for which their services were engaged has expired,
and they will now only only work when they please,
and have, in fact, become exceedingly idle. The
consequence is, that the whole system of getting up
provisions by the railway for the divisions in front
is deranged, and much valuable time is lost in also
bringing up shot and shell to the trenches.

(PROM ANOTHER. CORRESPONDENT.)
FRIDAY, JUNE 29.
There aro to be great changes of commanders
among the different divisions :-
Ist Division—Sir Cohn Campbell ; Brigadiers
Major-General Lord Rokeby, and Col. Cameron.
2d Division.—General Barnard ; Brigadiers
Colonel Lockyer, and Colonel Trollope.
3d Division.—Sir R. England ; Brigadiers Ge-
neral Eyre, and Colonel Barlow.
sth Division—General Bentinck ; Brigadiers
Colonel Spence, and Colonel Garrott.
Light Division—General Codrington ; Brigadiers
Colonel Van Straubenzee, and Colonel Shirley.
General Barnard has hitherto commanded a bri-
gade in the 3d Division, and takes the 2d Division
on account of General Pennefather having gone to
England from ill-health.
Colonel Spencer is promoted from the command.
of the 44th Regiment to a brigade in the 4th Divi-
sion. Colonel Van Straubenzee, who is colonel of
the 3d Buffs, and has commanded the Reserve
Brigade, consisting of the 3d, 31st, and 72d Regi-
ments, is to have the Ist brigade in the Light
Division, in place of General Codringtou, who com-
mands the division.

The Reserve Brigade is attached to the 2d Divi-
sion.

The 13th Regiment has just arrived. It is not
yet known to what division it will be attached.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM REAR-
ADMIRAL DUNDAS.

(Front last Evotirys Gazctic. )
Despatches, of which the following are copies or ex-
tracts, have been received at this office from Rear-Ad-
miral the Ron. R. S. Dundas, Commander-in-Chief of
her Majesty's ships and vessels on the Baltic Station.
Duke of Wellington, at anchor off Tolboukin
Lighthouse, July 2, 1855.
The Arrogant' arrived here from the neighbourhood
of Biorko on the 28th ultimo, and returns to-day to the
same station. I have directed Captain Yelverton to
extend his examination of the coast as far westward as
Lovisa ; and I beg leave to direct their Lordships'
attention to a report, herewith transmitted, which I
have this day received from Captain Vansittart, of the
Magicienne, through whose activity and zeal, with the
aid of the Ruby gun-boat, a large number of vessels,
laden with granite blocks, have been successfully de-
stroyed in Werolas Bay.
Tier Majesty's ship Magicienne,
Off Nerva Beacon, July 1.
Sir,—l have the honour to report that, in obedience
to orders received from Captain Yelverton, I left the an-
chorage of Biorka on the 28th of June, with her Ma-
jesty's ship Magicienne under my command, and Ruby
gun-boat, in search of a number of vessels said. to be
freighted by the Russian Government to carry blocks of
granite, and in the neighbourhood of the Island of
Lukar.

Having arrived off the Island of Kyskykyla the same
evening, early on the 29th I proceeded in her Majesty's
gun-boat Ruby, and boats of her Majesty's ship Magi-
cienne, under the First Lieutenant H. B. King, to the
very end of the bay, looking well in about the Island of
Lukar, and in boats ascending some little distance up
the River of Kyskykyla, finding only four vessels, which
being both new and empty, I left unhurt.
The following morning, the 30th, I proceeded with
her Majesty's ship Magicienne and Ruby gun-boat, to
the next large Bay of Werolax, where anchoring her
Majesty's ship Magicienne at the entrance, I proceeded
to the very end of Werolax Bay, a distance of about
nine miles, where I found a large granite quarry with
near two hundred men at work, who at our approach
went off.
Anchoring the Ruby, so as to command the whole
place with the boats, I had the various vessels at anchor,
consisting of thirty large galiots, boarded.
Twenty-nine being laden with granite blocks, I bad
them destroyed by fire.
With the exception of three or four rifle shots being
fired upon us, which were quickly returned by rockets
and rifles, we met with no resistance.
The head of Werolax Bay was evidently the rendez-
vous for the granite vessels, as, with the exception of
one, all their sails were unbent, colours and papers se-
cured, and most of their vessels were slung and buoyed,
so as to be ready for scuttling if discovered, which many
had commenced doing on the present occasion.—l have,
&c., (Signed) NICHOLAS VANSITTART,
Captain.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C.B.

Her Majesty's Ship Arrogant,
Sir,—l have the honourofftol3
acquaintio rka J , uynoeu2,sv
tlhBmssy.
pro-
ceedings since the 18th instant.
On the 20th I anchored at Rotsinshalra, and took im-
mediate steps for blowing up the fort, which was accom-
plished on the following day.
On the afternoon of the 20th I made a careful recon-
naissance of Kotka, in the Ruby, ani discovered at the
back of the island, where I had not been before, large
government buildings, with barracks fit to contain about
5,000 men, stables, storehouses, and hospital,
been
all of
which I destroyed. The buildings had evidently
very recently occupied. I met no troops except a few
Cossacks, who retired
Hon our approacb.--I have, &e.,
(Signed) .R. YELVERTON, Captain,

by bringing to
FOSSILISED MAMMOTH BONES_ AT KINGSTON-UPON.
THAMES.—A most interesting
_d_iscovery was made the
Singston.-upon
light a considerable portion o remains, that must have
been lying in calm repose for many
other day, at
thousand •
years, viz.,
the petrified malares, or grinders, as well as some frag-
ments of the bones, of that stupendous
Mammoth. It appears that some animal, the
in digging a trench to the depth excavators, employed
of about twenty feet,
FRIDAY, June 29. heretofore undisturbed aist
urbed i
Among the general orders promulgated yesterday about two hundred feet from bed of solid gravel, and
afternoon was the following : • came upon a quantity of s the e margin of the Thames,
"The Field-Marshal has the satisfaction of publish- bones, in a petrified statem fragments of very large
, .and in the midst of which
ing to the army the following extract from a tele- were two largo and
weighty substances, having
graphic despatch from Lord Panmure, dated the 22d of the appearance of
substances, however petrified fungi. On showing these
June. - •
her grief close to ,to Dr. Roots whose residence is
" ' I have her Majesty's command to express
d d the spot, he '
r e molar at once recognised them as the
that so much bravery should not have been rewa
that
es, or grinders,of the Antediluvian Mammoth, or
with merited suceess, and to assure her brav,e troops Elephas Pri
moginius, and forthwith placed them before
her Majesty's confidence in them is entir his friend
order had Professor Owen, of the Royal College of Sur
Within a very few hours after this ,al)" geon ' .
bronaht the meiau- s,who entirely bore out Dr. Roets's opinion, by
peared, the electric telegraph observing that they were most valuable specimens of
a
from head-quarters
choly and startling intelligence
the the grinders of this gigantic animal, which must have
to the various divisions thatField-Marshal, been above 12 feet in height, from the portion e
t he h
was dead. It would appear tic!na
on as
lately—no the thigh-bone, which was in a good state of reserva
doubt from the constant
fsrtraomihis mental and tion, and about 150 years of age, from the marksP re--
well
bodily energies—been. far . _ ) and the death maining visible on the inalarcs. Professor Owen was
to whom he Was likewise of opinion that these valuable remains must
of General Estcourt, t much at-
tached, the unsatis.fa:hoery result of the attack en have been resting in this same spot for a great many
the 18th inst., Itt
anunhealthy Weather since thousand years, which must be considered only as a
broke down a constitution already enfeebled by age matter of yesterday. in the geological age of our planet,
and that but for this accidental disturbance they might
and long service. The following c, tells its own possibly have continued there during many more such
melancholy story :
ages yet to come. Dr. Roots has placed these truly
"MORNING GENERAL
"Head -quarters b ORDERS- valuable relics in the museum of the Royal College of
before Sebastopol, June 29. Surgeons, Lincoln's • fi
" NO. Y. It becomea -inn- elds, where they will be thus
y moat painful duty to au- preserved in safety, for future and public
aobservation.
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