The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-16 00:00:00

Enclosure 1.

NUMERICAL RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM
THE 307 D. JULY TO ;THE 2D AUG, INCLUSIVE.
3dßattalion Grenadier Guards-1 rank and file wounded.
Ist Battalion Ist Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file
wounded.
3d Foot-1 rank and filo killed.

7th Foot-2 rank and file killed ; 9 rank and file,
wounded.
9th Foot-3 rank- and file wounded.
1-th Foot-4 rank and file wounded.
19th Foot,-2 rank and file killed ; 1 serjeant, 8 rank and
file wounded.
20th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
21st Foot—l rank and file wounded.
2... M Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 1 rank and file
wounded.
31st Foot-1 serjeant, 1 rank and file wounded.
33d Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
34th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
39th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
41st Foot-2 rank and file killed ; 4 rank and file
wounded.
42d Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 3 rank and file
wounded.
46th Foot-2 rank and file wounded.
47th Foot-5 rank and file wounded.
48th Foot-4 rank and file wounded.
49th Foot-1 rank and file NI ouuded.
50th Foot-2 rank and file wounded.
55th Foot-2 rank and filo wounded.
57th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
68th Foot-1 rank and file killed.
77th Foot-1 officer, 7 rank and file wounded.
79th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
89th Foot-7 rank and file wounded.
95th Foot-1 serjeant, 2 rank and file wounded.
97th Foot-2 rank and file wounded.
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade-3 rank and file wounded.
2d Battalion Rifle Brigade-2 rank and file wounded.
Royal Sappers and Miners-1 rank and file killed.
Total—Li rank and file killed ; 1 officer, 3 serjeants,
80 rank and file, wounded.
W. L. PAKENHAM, Lieut.-Col.,
Acting Adjutant-Geueral.

Enclosure 2.

NOMINAL RETURN OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE
BEEN WOUNDED FROM THE 30TH JULY TO
THE 2D OF AUGUST, 1g55, INCLUSIVE.
WOUNDED.
AUG. 2.
77th Foot—Lieut. W. T. E. Fosbery, dangerously.
W. L. PAKENHAM, Lieut.-Colonel,
Acting-Adj..General.

Enclosure 3.

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED, FROM
THE 30TH JULY TO THE 2D AUGUST, 1855, IN
CLUSIVE.
_ _

KILLED.
JULY 30.
7th Foot—Private John Newby,
19th Foot—Privates Bernard M`Fadyen ; Patrick
Brown.
41st Foot—Privates James Regan ; John Wilson.
68th Foot—Private Stephen Murphy.
lIILY 31.
3d Foot—Private James West.
7th Foot—Private Patrick Lyons.
23e1 Foot—Private William Brumwell.

AUG. 1.
33d Foot—Private William Barrows.
42d Foot —Lance-Corpora Michael Mahoney.
AUG. 2.

Royal Sappers and Miners—Lance-Corporal John Miller.
W. L. PAKENHAZd, Lieut.-Colonel,
Acting-Adjutant-General.

Enclosure 4.

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED, FROM
THE 30TH DAY OF JULY, TO THE 2D AUG.
INCLUSIVE.

WOUNDED.
JULY 20.

7th Foot—William Bagshaw, slightly ; John Walker,
slightly ; William Gillott, slightly ; Patrick Kelly, severely;
William Gardiner, severely; Patrick Clinton, danger-
ously.
17th Foot—Privates James Saunders, slightly ; John
Langford, slightly.
19th Foot—Lance-Corporal Thomas Toolan, slightly;
Privates William INl`Hugh, severely • James Hickey, se-
verely ; Thomas Rourke, severely ; iames Riely, slightly;
Thomas Wareing, severely; William M`Hugh, severely.
20th Foot—Private Timothy Flaherty, severely.
23d Foot—Private Edwin Robinson, severely.
31st Foot—Colour-Serjeant Thomas Behan and Private
John M`Quade, slightly.
41st Foot—Privates John Bourke, Michael earner, Mi-
chael Conway, and Michael Callivan, slightly.
46th Foot—Private Mark Grady, slightly..._‘
47th Foot—Private Michael Glynn, slightly
77th Foot—Privates John Ferris and John
Parker,
slightly ; John Faulkner, severely. s
severely.
25th Foot—Private Michael Dw
Yrivato John Musgrove,
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade--y_
severely.
Private A. Walkingshaw,
2d Battalion Rifle Brigade—
severely. JULY 31.
Ist Battalion
lit Regiment of Foot—Private john
White, slightlz.
7th Foot—rrivates Hug
Jones and Will' W°"l-
gate, both severely ; William Marshall,Finch and Patrick Barry,
both slightly.
17th Foot--Private John Walsh, slightly.
46th Feet—Private William Coppin
e'er
48th Foot—Private Thomas Murdock, severely. severely.
50th Foot—Corporal Martin McNamara and Private
Mark-Blackl-or, slightly.
57th Foot—Private Nicholas Dullart, severely.
Dix.B9th
severely. Foot—Privates James Flynn, severely ; John
n
95th' Foot—Serjeant John M:Elliott, slightly.
- 97th Foot—Private James Colli?e,.glightA7._,_
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AUGUST 1.
3d Battalion Grenadier Guards—Private Chas: Smith,
slightly.
17th Foot—Private William Brazil, slightly.
Xht Foot—Private Michael Farrell, severely.
42(1 Foot—Privates John Warner, slightly; John Fagan,
dangerously; Alexander Herron,
47th Foot—Privates Francis White, severely; Michael
Kelly, severely; John Ross, severely; John Roach,
slightly.
48th Foot—Private Francis Little, severely.
79th Foot--Private John Mackenzie, slightly.
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade—Private Edward Cunning-
ham, dangerously.

AUG. 2.
9th Foot—Private John Skilly, dangerously.
19th Foot—Serjeant Hugh M'Clister, slightly; Lance.
Corporal John Burke, slightly.
34th Foot--Private D. Farnan, oeverely.
39th Foot—Private Robert Mitchell, slightly.
48th Foot—Privates Jonathan Berrill, slightly; Robert,
Taylor, slightly.
49th Foot—Private John Mickey, severely.
55th Foot—Corporal George Miller, severely; Private
Thomas Gareing, dangerously.
77th Foot—Corporal Thomas Spence, severely ; Privates
William Churchill, severely ; William Ronald, danger.
ously ; John Smith, slightly.
89th Foot—Corporal Michael Power, slightly ; Privates
James Carpenter, slightly ; James Gason, slightly ; John.
Fisher, slightly ; Dennis Hannagan, slightly,
95th Foot—Private Peter Monaghan, severely.
97th Foot - Private Robert Smith slightly.
2d Battalion Rifle Brigade—Private Frederick Scott,
severely.

W. L. PAKENHAM,
Adjutant-General..

SWEABORG AND OTHER .RUSSIAIf
FORTRESSES IN THE BALTIC.

The fortress of Sweaborg is the most formidable
obstacle in the Gulf of Finland, and does the out-
post duty, as it were, for the great military entre-
pots of St. Petersburg. On the east this fortress
also partially commands the most navigable chan-
nel for vessels of a large draught of water, on the
voyage to Crenstadt, which is distant 163 miles on
the St. Petersburg side.
Sweaborg is composed of seven rocky islands, and
is situated about three miles and a half from
Helsingfors. It fell into the possession of Russia
with the grand duchy of Finland ; but, unlike
Helsingfors, which was first regularly fortified by
the late Emperors Alexander and Nicholas,
Sweaborg had been a place of considerable
strength under the Swedes. General Ehrenfwald,
an able Swedish officer, considering that these
islands might be rendered a formidable strong-
hold, and might -enable Sweden to maintain
her power in the Baltic, in spite of the ambi-
tious designs of Russia, projected the plan of
their fortification. Previously, however, ships
were built and repaired there for the Swedish
navy. The works were commenced in 1748,
but were not completely finished when ac-
quired by the Russians, who have continued making
improvements, and devising every means of render-
ing the place impregnable. They say " the Swedes
began, but we finished the Gibraltar of the North."
These works are stupendous. The walls are chiefly
hewn granite, covered with earth, rising in some
places to a height of 48 feet. The batteries, which
commence on a level with the water, and rise
in tiers one above another, are mounted, it is
alleged, with nearly a thousand guns. In Wolf's
Island, the principal of the group, there is a
dry dock, capable of containing 11 or 12 frigates,
which has been completely hollowed out of solid
rock, the length being 300 feet, breadth 200, mid
depth 14 feet. At one extremity of this dock is a
basin 200 feet square, closed at each end with sluice
gates, which serves for the entrance and exit of
frigates, and for repairing and building ships. The
stores and ammunition for the batteries are de-
posited in magazines, on the edge of the water.
The harbour can contain seven ships of the line
and a few frigates.
The three fortresses—Cronstadt, Sweaborg, and
Helsingfors—could not have been intended for the
defence alone of St. Petersburg. They toll their
own tale. The magnitude of their works, and the
incessant activity in the arsenals during the last
half century, should have clearly warned Europe
that these hugo fortresses were intended as a basis
of operations against its liberties and the rights of
its rulers.

Cronstadt, which commands the passages at the
mouth of the Neva, was taken from the Swedes by
Peter the Great, and first converted by him from a
desert island into a harbour for his navy in 1710.
The most invulnerable portion of the stronghold,
a rampart of granite, built in the sea for the pro-
tection of the shipping, was begun and finished
under the superintendence of Admiral Greig, who
is styled the father of the Russian navy. Doubts
are entertained whether the guns of Cronstadt com-
pletely command the northern passage ; th# Mar-
quis de Custiue, a keen inquirer, declares that
although he put himself to some trouble to learn
as much, lie could not find the Russian who would
inform him of the fact.

The population of Cronstadt is about 45,000, of
Helsingfors, which is the capital of the district,
10,000, and of Sweaborg about 4,000, the greater
part of whom are tradesmen and merchants, who
de-p•md on supplying the garrison and fleet, and
who, as if the Russians anticipated on this occa-
sion a serious attack from the Allies, have been
removing to Helsingfors during the last few weeks.