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Church, and refuse to be bound by any religious
law not contained in or based directly on the
precepts of "the Book of Books."
There might be some justification if an attempt
were made to compel the members of the Church
of England to contract or its ministers to solem-
nise such marriages ; but every religious scruple
that they can put forward is respected. All that
is asked is that those who feel no such scruples may
be permitted to do that which they consider to be,
if not laudable, at least perfectly harmless—to pro-
cure the most faithful and affectionate guardians
for their motherless children—to unite to them-
selves by indissoluble ties the women whom they can
love and esteem—with whom they can brave the
most arduous struggles of "the battle of life," and
pass through thisworldin thehumble and Christian
hope of a glorious hereafter. This is the just, the
moderate, the irresistible demand of the advocates
for the repeal of the existing law—that each man
should be permitted to act in accordance with '
the dictates of his own conscience in a matter
where the national welfare is not concerned ; and
this must be speedily conceded if there be any
foundation for the claims of liberality put for-
ward by the Ministers and the members of both
Houses of Parliament.
It would have been a cruel mockery to have
prevented the retrospective action of the law to
have allowed all marriages contracted before a
specified time, and all after a subsequent period,
to be legal, while those solemnised during the in-
terval would remain null and void. It would be
inflicting a severe punishment on innocent per-
sons for that which was now considered justifi-
able. There has been no instance of the execution
of any person under a repealed enactment, even
though he might have offended against it while
in operation. Why, then, should the punishment
be continued when the legal prohibition to act
has ceased ? The question does net admit of
argument, more particularly by those who, because
the succession to a high and ancient title and
princely estate was at stake, sanctioned all such
marriages contracted before 1835 !
But why, we repeat, does not Government take
up the question ? Lord PALMERSTON has spoken
clearly and explicitly in favour of the abolition of
the restrictions. We cannot doubt the opinions
of the proposer of the repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL
has, as usual, exerted himself nobly in
the good cause. We believe that there is no
difference of opinion in the entire Cabinet.
Why, then, is it not made a Ministerial question ?
Lord PALMERSTON may rest assured that no act
would confer greater strength on his Government,
or do more to consolidate his power. Let every
independent voter then press on his representa-
tive to urge the importance of the topic on the
Government, and to insist on its immediate set-
tlement. Ministers are already well inclined.
They only require a little pressure from without
to do that which is just and reasonable, and which
would satisfy the justice of the case, and meet the
wishes of the People.

LATEST NEWS.

RUSSIAN DEFENCE OF THE

MANGO MASSACRE.

ALLEGED SURVIVAL OF
ELEVEN OF THE CREW.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

The Invalide Busse of the 15th describes the
affair at Hango as in accordance with fair play,
the Cossack's boat having effected an hostile
landing, with all on board armed. The crew
were, it is said, suddenly attacked by a body
of Russians, secreted behind buildings. They
at first defended themselves, but were forced
to surrender to superior numbers. Five
were killed, and one officer, one surgeon, and
nine sailors caged, of whom four were wounded.
The boat was sunk, and the boat's flag, together
with seven guns and seven cutlasses, taken.*

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* The Russians were thus unaware of the escape of
;he seaman Brown in the boat referred to.

COPENHAGEN, JUNE 20.
Royal proclamation, published to-day, dissolves
the Met •

ALTONA, JUNE 20.

A Royal Proclamation has been published pro-
hibiting enlistments for the foreign legion. The
penalty for disobedience is eight years' imprison-
ment and hard labour.

CONSTjANTINOPLE, JUNE 13.

Halil Pasha remains in office.
At Kars an attack of the Russians was consi-
dered inevitable.
The Turks have evacuated Ba,toum and Chou-
rouk-su. Nassif Pasha has advanced with his
general staff to Kars. The French Consul has
quitted Batoum.

The Russian forces have advanced and en•

camped near Redout Kaleb.
The recruiting for the British Legion pro-

grasses slowly.

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VIENNA, JUNE 20.

General Count Coronini has gone from the
camp in Wallachia to meet the Emperor in the
Bukowina, which may be considered as a proof
that his Majesty will not go to the Danubian
Principalities.

KIEL, JUNE 20.

The Retribution, Falcon, Cornwallis, Hastings,
Hawke, Pembroke, Russell, Biter, Stork, Sky-
lark, Growler, Grappler, Havoc, Carron, Belcon,
and Redbreast, ✓sailed this morning.

PARTS, TUESDAY, 8 ♦.M.

The Moniteur announces the convention of the
Senate and Legislative Corps on the 2d July. It
adds that the Government. had already notified
that financial measures would render it necessary
that they should meet soon.

VIENNA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 21.
Prince Gortschakoff has been definitively ap.

pointed Minister to this Court.
M. de Titoff has been definitively appointed
Ambassador to the Court of Wurtemburg.

rents of wind ; but the deep, thunder-like tones, of
the cannon at the moment of discharge, and the loud
rush through the air of the shot, and the compara-
tively uniform intensity of sound, bespoke the weight
of the metal which together was forming the iron
shower raining upon the town and earthworks of
Sebastopol. It could easily be distinguished that no
guns of small calibre were among the number.
Our casualties, as yet, have been very few, both
among the men of the Naval Brigade and those of
the Royal Artillery. The Russian shot have fallen
wide of their mark. Precision of aim could not be
looked for in face of such a storm.

Captain Mortimer Adye, R. A., has been brought
into camp severely scorched. He experienced a mi-
raculous escape. He was standing with a sergeant
and bombardier when a shell exploded in front of
them. The blaze singed the hair and skin of all
three, the sergeant being most severely injured, but
no one was struck by any portion of the fragments.

Lord Raglan, who, at the opening of the fire,
took up a position in front of the Third Division,
afterwards passed round the camp, and called at
the Right Siege Train to inquire respecting the
casualties. The troops loudly cheered the Field-
Marshal as he rode by. General Pelissier, with a
large staff, also passed toward the Victoria Re-
doubt, and was greeted with loud cheers.
9 p.m.—During the last two or three hours the
Russians have fired very sparingly, scarcely one in
ten of the rate at which they at first replied to our
batteries. The Mamelon redoubt was perfectly si-
lent during one hour, then, commencing on the
left, fired once from each embrasure. It appeared
as if done out of bravado.

JUNE 7.
Shortly after sunset the Russians ceased firing
from their batteries. An incessant shelling was
kept up all night from our works, to prevent the
enemy from repairing damages. So silent were the
Russian works that it seemed probable the guns
had been drawn from the embrasures and placed
behind the parapets, and that the gunners them-
selves had also retired to places of shelter. At 8
a.m., however, they again opened fire, but even
then seemed to have a limited number of artillery-
men, for only two or three guns were served at one
time in each battery.
10 a.m.—An explosion took place in our 8-gun
battery, right attack. Two shells burst on °the
roof of the magazine, without doing any material
damage ; a third fell, and penetrated into the in-
terior. A portion only of the gunpowder was ex-
ploded. A quantity of fuses were lost. No one
was killed, and only two men wounded. The mis-
chief done to the work will be repaired without
much cost of time or labour.
Captain George Frederick Dawson, Royal Engi-
neers, was killed this morning.
It has become known that operations are to be
commenced in earnest this evening. The French
are to assault the Kamptscatka Redoubt on the
Mamelon Hill, and also the redoubts on the east
side of Careening Bay. As soon as the Mamelon
is secured, the English are to take the Quarry work
in front of the Redan, and the Russian trenches in
front of Frenchman s hill. The French have had
served out to them cooked rations for 48 hours, and
a pint of wine each. All aro in high spirits, eager
for the struggle, and confident of the result.
5 p.m.—A very exciting scene has just transpired.
The French divisions have been marching to the
attack. The Second Division, with General Carnot
at the front, led the way. About six or seven hun-
dred yards from the entrance to the Karabelnaia
ravine the regiments were halted, and shortly after-
wards General Bosquet arrived, with his staff, and
addressed a few words to each regiment in turn. By
each, at the conclusion of his remarks, the General
was greeted with loud cheers. The order to move
forward was then given.
The Second Division was scarcely lost to sight in
the winding valley of the ravine, when the Fifth
Division came in sight. This body of troops had
been brought up from the plain during the night :
they had quitted it at 2 a.m., and arrived at their
position in the camp before Sebastopol at 7 a.m.
Their move could hardly have been observed by
the Russian pickets about the Tchernaya. This
division, under General Brunet, was arranged to
form the working party, to secure the hold of, the
Mamelon Vert as soon as the attacking columns
had taken it. It included the 4th battalion of the
Chasseurs-a-pied, with the 11th, 25th, 69th, and
16th regiments of the line, altogether 10,000 men.
At the same time. Omer Paella moved with a force,
apparently about 15,000 strong, of Ottomans and
lEgyptians, and occupied the space on which was
formerly encamped the 2d British division, and the
brigade of Guards, near the Inkerman heights.
Soon after the Fren ..h divisions had passed down
the ravine, General Pelissier, with General Can-
, robert, and an immense staff, amid loud cheer-
ing, rode past the front of the British troops, and,
going by the right of the Victoria Redoubt, took
up his station in a small outwork, made for the
purposes of observation, about five hundred yards
in advance. From this observatory a full view
could be obtained of the operations on the right
of the Careening Bay Ravine, as well as of those
immediately in front against Kamptscatka, re-
doubt on the Mamelon Vert. Lord Raglan, it was
understood, was to take up his position in advance
of the Third Division, whence there was a good
view of the Quarry in front of the Redan, the more
immediate object of the British attack. This quarry
. cannot be seen from the look-out station near the
Victoria redoubt, being concealed by a hog's-back
rise in the fore part of Frenchman's hill.
The English troops told off for the attack of the
Quarry, and the Russian rifle pits and trenches in
front of the works of Frenchman's bill (the British
right attack), were now in the advanced parallel
and its approaches. A detachment of 100 men of the
88th Regiment, from the second brigade of the Light
Division, and a like number of the 7th Fusiliers from
the first brigade, together with a similar force taken
from the 47th and 49th Regiments of the Second
Division, were reserved for the attack. They were
under the' immediate command of Lieut.-Colonel
Campbell, of the 90th Regiment. Colonel Shirley,
of the 88th Regiment, was the General in corn-
.mand in the trenches of the right attack on this
0 yelling. The working parties were supplied in
certain proportions by nearly every regim6nt of the
LiL.':ht Division. All the troops not thus employed
re m'ained under arms in reserve.
_Half past six.—Four incendiary rockets have
just' taken their flight from the Victoria Redoubt
towords the town. They are the signal for the
starti'Lz of the attacking columns. The fourth
rocke t had no sooner taken its flight than the
parapets were cleared. Forward went the lines,
out a cloud of skirmishers. The Rus-
sian on the side of the Mamelon Vert
thro
trcwi
were climbed over, trench after trench, appa-
rently ithout any opposition. Then the steep
e lull were mounted. The French were
sidesrentl y
of t h
seen in tb,"ee columns, one ascending towards the
west face, auother towards the east face of the works,
while the th ii- d moved directly up towards the face
fronting the " Victoria Redoubt. But the wholc sur-
face of the hi 11 was soon covered with their skir-
mishers. Aft er one discharge from some of the
heavy guns, the Russians got into the
doing any execu-
tion and upon the parapets, and fired a .few shots from
their rifles, without, seemingly, _ . .
; but the volleys from the skirmis ,or else
the consciousness of the inutility of hersresistance,
compelle I them
was evidently sraa •
11 They bad not expected
quickly to retire. Their force
an attack at
Nothing could be finer than the " dash" with
such an hour,, by daylight.
JUNE 6.
7 p.m.—The bombardment opened at 2 p.m., and ' glacis--towards the parapets. The
atremendons fire has been since directed against the I sle—a natural
were evidently staggered. At first, the
enemy's fortifications. About one o'clock long lines 1 Russians
btteries, and the Redan offered no at-
which the French troops ascended the steep
of artillerymen and sailors were seen to be threading Malakhoff
their way along the ravines leading to the several tremendous fire which was poured
Whether the
batteries. At that tine e all the guns on the right
against them from the English batteries of both the
and centre of the general lines of attack and de- tempt to impedea the progress of the assailants.
left and right attacks restrained them, or whether
fence were silent ; a :few guns only were being he were bewildered at the nature of the assault,
worked on the extrem.e left. Some of those were
apparently directed from the sea-batteries against Fi•eYnchmounted tbehill. Presently fir
French were
four men-of-war steamers, two French and two
English, which had approached the shore off Fort ttl iel. scarcely fired a shot while the first columns of
Quarantine; the two English vessels appeared like Pal :,pets, and descending into the work. Shortly
sw arming into the embrasures, mounting on the
aftk rwards the Russians were observed escaping by
the Queen and London . They were out of range,
tics. The balls could. be seen in the distance by MI rxied by the ruins of the Malakhoff Tower and
the way leading from the redoubt toward the hill
and the latter was quietly engaged in target prac-
the numerous batteries aroundit. Here, to all
the splash of the water, ricochetting in a direc-
appse vinently entailed a great loss of life among our
e grants, occurred the grand mistake, which
tion parallel with the coast. Fort Constantine, sub
from the guns on its roof, was occasionally throw-
allies. The arrangements had been Made for taking
ing a shell over the mouth of the harbour and
the opposite part of the town to the French ap-
hill, ln.T.t it was not intended to go further at that
pro:aches near the cemetery. The heat was and s( lcur.ing the large redoubt on the Mamelon
mthe troois
moment `• Such, however, was the impetuosity of
very great; notwithstanding the refreshing breeze
which was blowing over the heights, the thereto-
men at ;their such
rst the
success, excitement
tha oft
theythe officersould and
me ter, placed on the ground in the open air, indi-pursuit of the Russians on the one hand,
cited a temperature of 95 deg. Farb. This com-
parative stillness continued until just 2 o'clock,
Between t. he
.Malakhoff and Mamelon hills is a
resist the
when the loud boom of a gun resounded from the
deep saddi e-like hollow. Across this saddle,
Fvench works on Mount Sapmae. These were fol-
dipping doll, rn towards flie right of the Malakhoff
lo wed in quick succession by other guns, the shots
hill, is the ordinary way of communicati©n be-
boing discharged against the Kamptscatka Redoubt
tween the .I\i,T.arine suburb and Mamelon. In this
an the Mamelon Vert. The Russian redoubts on
direction the Russian troops took their flight, and
Mount Sapone (east of Careening Bay) quickly re-
plied. The guns on the left French attack, next these and their" pursuers were soon lost to sight be-
took up the fire, then our guns on the left at- hind the ridge. But the great body of the French
tack, and lastly those on our right attack. The troops moved siraight across the saddle and mounted
In a short space of time, from the French bat-
danger, poured
combined roar of the artillery was fearfully grand. the Malakhoff hill. The Russians, aware of their
assail-
teries on the sea-shore, to their works on the eries, and apparently brought field
down a heavy fire upon the
ants from the batt
Inkerman heights, dense columns of white smoke pieces so as to take them in flank. In spite of these,
veiling every thing beyond from view. The wind
arose, so as almost to form one continuous cloud, the French still na, minted and at last were seen
Soto
blew from the north-west, and drove the smoke short a distancewas this from the lower tier of b
er depress
along the ravines and over the hills to the camp, teries that the Russians could no long
reach the ab2.ttis work drawn around the hill.
at
where the atmosphere assumed for some distance the seen to throw
condition and aspect of a fog. The Russians had ing upon the parapets they were
up a heavy mils-
this time the advantage of the wind being in their large stones, besides keeping
The French had
favour. Very little could be seen, even although ketey fire against the French.
guns sufficiently to bear r•ipon them, and stand-
spaces were now and then cleared by particular cur- eviden
met with a difficulty they could not