The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-18 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1855.

CREMORNE GARDENS. Open daily at
Three.—Admission One Shilling —The greatest variety ot
entertainment ever presentei in one establishment. Tuesday next,
July 17th, Grand Water Fete. Great accessories, the steanatoat
companies. Friday, Joy 20, the Fourth Juvenile Gala, Children
half-price. Monday and Tuesday, July 23 and 24. two Monster
Day and Night Fetes. in aid of the Licensed'Victualler? School. The
co-operation of the Public with the trade is earnestly invited in fur-
therance of this excellent chanty. The Gardens are t.pen for pro-
menade on Sundays, free, by refreshment card. Table de Hote at 6.
Fine Haunch of Venison.

Aug. 1 and 22, at 12 o'clock, at the Leeds District Court of
Bankruptcy, at Kingston-upon-Hull : solicitor, Mr. V*Hans,
Hull ; official assignee, Mr. Carrick, Kingston-upon-Aull.
Isaac Dentou, Bradford, Yorkshire, dri.per, Aug. 3, Sept.
7, at 11 o'clock, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy:
solicitors, Messrs. Rawson, George, and Wade, Bradford ;
and Messrs. Bond and Barwick, Leeds ; official assignee, Mr.
Young, Leeds.

John Crippin and William Robinson Forster, Rock Ferry,
Cheshire and Liverpool, ferry proprietors, July 30, 'Aug. 20,
at 11 o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy:
solicitors, Messrs. Evans and Son, Liverpool ; official assignee,
Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool.
John Gresty, Liverpool, tobacconist, July 27, Aug. 24, at
11 o'clock, at the Liverpool District Con.4-t of Bankruptcy :
solicitors, Mr. Abrahams, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-
lane ; and Messrs. Evans and Son, Liverpool ; official assignee,
Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
Francis Lloyd Boyley and Samuel Milner Barton, Man-
chester,• small ware. manufacturers, July 27, Aug. 31, at the
Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy ; solicitors, Messrs.
Higson and Robinson, Manchester; official assignee, Mr.
Hernaman, Manchester.

Thomas Bostock, Manchester, maker-up, July 30, Aug. 21,
at 12 o'clock, at the Manchester District Court of Bank-
ruptcy ; solicitor, Mr. Potter, Manchester; official assignee,
Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED.
Aug. 10, J. P. Marsh, late of Salvador-house, Bishopsgate-
street, wool-broker—Aug. 6, E. L. Kyle, Reading, licensed
victualler—Aug. 6, G. F. Lillicrap, Bishopsgate street Within,
grocer—Aug. 8, M. R. Steele, Leicester, linendraper—Aug. 8,
E. Logsdon, Hatfield, baker—Aug. 8, C. F. Tibbs, late of
America-square, shipowner— Aug. 9, T. Holder, Macclesfield,
silk throwster—Aug. 16, C. S. Flood and H. B. Lott, Honi-
ton, bankers—Aug. 7, W. Twaddle, Liverpool, soap boiler—
Aug. 10, D. Little, Liverpool, merchant—Aug. -6, J. Ethe-
ridge and G. M. B. Michell, Liverpool, insurance brokers
Aug. 8, W. Farrall, West Derby, cattle salesman.
CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED:

Aug. 9, J. Kennedy, Aldersgate-street, printer—Aug. 11,
W. N. Parssou, Gravel-lane, Southwark, millwright—Aug.
7, W. H. Paul, Cornhill, share-dealer- Aug. 7, J. Waymouth,
Taunton, stationer—Aug. 13, W. and J. Horton, Wednesbury,
timber merchants—Aug. 9, W. Hancock, Talk-o'-th'-Hill,
Staffordshire, builder—Aug. 13, C. Massingham, Birming-
ham, wholesale jeweller—Aug. 13, J. Power, Wolverhampton,
stonemason—Aug. 14, J. Biddle, Leicester, glove manufac-
turer.

them they had no right to such a-guarantee, as the respect
due to it had been so grossly violated at Hango. I then pro-
ceeded to the barracks and Government stores within the
town, which I destroyed, but did not set fire to them, as by
so doing the whole town must have been burnt.
This precaution was not destined to save Lovisa, for during
the night an accidental fire occurred in a portion of the town
where we had not been, and before morning the whole place
was reduced to ashes.

I have, ke.'
(Signed) H. R. YELVEIITON, Captain.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas,
• Commander-in-Chief.

Extract of a letter from Rear-Admiral Honourable R. S.
Dundas, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, dated—
puke of Wellington,
Tolboukin Lighthouse, July 7, las.
I cannot conclude this letter without calling the particular
attention of their Lordships to tlw active exertions of Capt.
Storey, of her Majesty's ship Harrier, which led a few days
later to the destruction of a large amount of shipping, dis-
covered afterwards in another n,uoherage near Nystad, as de-
tailed in the enclosure to Captain Warden's report of the 2d
instant.

Harrier, off Little Wahas, Juno 24, 1855.

Sir,—l have the honour to Inform you that the boats of
this ship destroyed 47 ships belonging to the enemy, varying
from 700 tons to 200 tons, on fjhe nights of the 23d and 24th
instant.

On the first night the ships destroyed were one mile from
the town of Nystad, and about three miles from the ship, and
we were enabled to bring one barque, the Victoria, of about
450 tons, off with us.

,- - -
On the following morning :the steam was got up and we
proceeded to sea to anchor the prize off Enskov Lighthouse. g
At 5 p.m., however, we steamed towards the laud and an-
chored at aout 7.30 p.m., and 'at 8 p.m. the boats were
again despatched.
I think, sir, I am only doing common justice to the men
when I state how pleased I was to see the zeal and perseve-
rance with which they worked for so many hours ; neither can
I omit stating my belief that this arose in a mreat measure
from the good example of the offieers, especially the senior
Lieutenant, Mr. Annesley, from whom I have ever received
the most active assistance.

During the night and following day we discovered 42 ships,
ho whole of which we either burned or scuttled.

I have the greatest pleasure iu being able to state that
these proceedings were so successfully carried out without any
casualty.

Owing to the distance we got away from the ship (10 or 11
miles) and the blowing weather, accompanied with rain, that
came on during the morning, we were prevented from bring-
ing any vessel out with us.

We did not get back to the ship until after 6 p.m. this
afternoon, the men having been on their oars twenty-two
hours.

Having then, in two following nights and one day, de-
stroyed the whole of the Nystad shipping (probably upwards
of 20,000 tons) I trust these proceedings will meet with your
approval.

I have, kc.
(Signed) HENRY ATOREY, Commander.
Captain Warden, Senior Officer,
her Majesty's Ship Ajax.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM CA PT.

THOMAS BAILLIE, R.N.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 17.

It is hereby notified that the Right Hon. the Earl of Clti-
rendon, K.G., her. Majesty's Piincipal Secretary. of State for
Foreign Affairs, has received from the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty an official communication from Capt. Thomas
Baillie, R.N., senior officer of the White Sea Squadkon, acting in
the name and on the behalf of her Majesty and her ally, his Impe-
rial Majesty the Emperor of the French, announcing the
establishment, on and from the 11th June, 1855, of a strict
blockade of the Russian ports and places therein mentioned,
and especially of the ports of Archangel and Onega, by a com-
petent force, which communication is to the following
effect

" It is hereby notified, that on and after the 11th day of
June, 1855, all the Russian ports, roads, havens, and creeks
in the White Sea, from Point Orlofka, in latitude 67 deg. 11
min. 30 sec. N., long. 41 22 12 E., to Cape Kanoushin, in
lat. 67 11 30 N., long. 43 48 42 E., including especially the
ports of Archangel and. Onega, are placed in a state of
strict Blockade by a competent force of her Britan-
nic Majesty's ships and vessels under my orders. And
it is further notified that all the measures authorised
by the law of nations and the respective treaties between her
Britannic Majesty and the different neutral powers will be
adopted and executed with respect to all vessels which may
-attempt to violate the said blockade.

Dated on board her Britannic Majesty's ship Meander,
off Archangel, this 11th Juno, 1855.
(Signed) " THOMAS BAILLIE,
" Captain and the Senior Officer of the White Sea Squadron."
And it is hereby further notified that all measures autho-
rised by the laws of nations and the respective treaties be-
tween her Majesty and his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, and the different neutral polrers, will be adopted and
executed on behalf of her Majesty and of her ally, with re-
spect to all vessels which may attempt to violate the said
blockade.

[PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD.

Russell, has already propitiated Mr. Roebuck by up-
setting the late Ministry, and has now propitiated
fate by his own fall. The second is Lord Palmerston
himself, and, as he really is the only one that pre-
sents eyen a prima facie case for the summary-proceed-
Mr. Roebuck suggests we will give him a separate
consideration.
The question, then, as cleared and extricated by
Mr. Roebuck himself, is simply this :—What has Lord
Palmerston done, on the evidence and in the opinion of
the Sebastopol Committee, to demand that he should be
immediately ejected from the Government ? Being
Home Secretary last year, he did not worry Lord Aber-
deen to _worry the Duke of Newcastle to do his work
better. He did not ask for Cabinet meetings. He was
not at his post constantly in the autumn, ostensibly
making manufacturers consume their own smoke, really
stirring up the Duke of Newcastle. What else did he
fail in ?. Well, there was something else. He carried
out the Militia Act rather slackly. But we very much
doubt whether the British public will push things so far
as to quarrel with Lord Palmerston for not meddling
enough with the affairs of his chief and his cllleagues
last year. The truth is, that he has long laboured
under the reputation of being rather too meddlesome,
and in this instance it will bd concluded that he would
have been only too happy to meddle, if he might have
been allowed. Nay, on further consideration, it will
be remembered that Lord Palmerston was especially
put into a quiet office, out of harm's way, sur-
rounded by a crowd of sanitary reformers, undertakers,
gravediggers, manufacturers, select vestrymen, and
other small metropolitan fry. As for the operation
of the Militia Act, that, as it happens, has not come
into question. But there, again, is another sore point
in which the British public must consent to share the
blame with their Minister. At the express wish of the
people, declared in a most unequivocal manner, the Mi-
litia Act was made a less stringent measure than that
proposed by the previous Government, and the late Go-
vernment came in by getting rid of the ballot. But,
in sober truth, the Militia Act and its operation are not
under review, and Mr. Roebuck has not mentioned it,
except by a general charge, reflecting on all the Govern-
ments, Parliaments, and people we have had for twenty
years, that we had not provided a reserve sufficient for
the magnitude of the Crimean expedition, and the rapid
drain of such a war. So there ends the case as
regards tl• only man whom Mr. Roebuck himself would
think at the same time worth punishing, and still up
punished.

- But if Time has thus defrauded justice at home, and
left Mr. Roebuck looking about indignantly for the vic-
tim to be immolated in special honour of the Sebastopol
Committee, that same awful power has made greater
changes at the seat of war. There all is change. Mr.
Roebuck himself is obliged to pronounce, not indeed an
acquittal, but a eulogium on Lord Raglan. Yet, when
it comes to plain matter of fact, if Lord Raglan is to be
acquitted of the imperfectly prepared expedition, the
want of transport, the defective arrangements for the
carriage and care of the wounded and sick, and the want
of a communication from the harbour to the camp, it is
impossible to lay hold of any one man in this country,
and say that he is more answerable for these things than
the Commander•in-Chief on the spot. The offenders
whom the indignation of the public has successively ar-
raigned, justly as we believe, have fled from our poor
earthly tribunals, one after another, to that before which
we must all one day tremble. We summon them into
court, and the answer is, that they are no more. All
things considered, then, we can not anticipate any other
result of the question than that which Time itself, quicker
than Parliamentary process, has already brought. The
report of the Sebastopol Committee may still afford
matter for discussion ; it will long continue to throw
light on the official system of this country; and it ren-
ders the present Cabinet inexcusable if they do not avoid
the errors and neglects of their predecessors. But it
has ceased to be available for the furtherance of justice
and the indictment of the offenders. They may profess
to appeal to it, and to challenge a trial upon its contents;
but they know that their appeal is safe enough, and that
the past is now laid on the shelf.