The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-02 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1855.

The Revenue Returns for the year and quarter
are once more before us, and will be found in
another part of this day's impression—that is to
say, as we have already explained, of the new
style financial year, made up to the Ist in place
of the sth of July. There is no very remarkable
feature about the present account calculated to
produce either exultation or depression. The ex-
traordinary elasticity of the national resources,
which enables our financiers to be certain that
almost any bill they may draw on the people will
be promptly accepted and duly honoured receives
another powerful illustration ; while we are also
shown, though scarceliir to so great an extent as
might have been anticipated, how severely such
enormous taxation operates on the social condition
and ordinary comforts of the industrious classes.
It was certain, from the large additions made
to the existing imposts, that there would be a very
considerable increase of revenue. That expecta-
tion has been confirmed. We find that no less'
than 62,212,3941. has been received within the
year, being an improvement of 7,741,588/. ; while
16,079,662/. has been received within the quar-
ter, an increase of 1,005,575/. within that period.
We must, however, recollect that these additions,
large as they unquestionably are, by no means
represent the proportionate increase consequent
on the alterations in the different imposts, if
there had been no corresponding diminution in
consumption.

Looking at the different items we find that in
the Customs the increase for the year is 958,42(31.,
and for the quarter 244,0211. We feel the
causes of these changes twice every day, at break-
fast and tea. We remember that the salutary
reduction of duties on tea, coffee, and sugar,
which had already led to such beneficial results,
was arrested in consequence of the GLADSTONE
policy of trying to disgust the people with the
War, by multiplying the burdens thereby occa-
sioned. The Peelite Chancellor of the Exchequer
estimated that the addition to the revenue from
these causes, which have already been a year in
operation, would amount to about 700,0001., but
we find
that they are rather better than a quarter
of a million
(248,42(3/.) more than the calcula-
tion.

In the P.
—xeize th© addition on the
year is
1,770,017/. and on the quarter 635,2691.
; far
less by the way than had
been anticipated. In
May, 1854, Mr. GLADSTOINE
estimated that the
increased duties on malt and Spirits would pro-
duce nearly two-and-a-half million 240 000/.
within the year. It
will be seen-that we: °fall very
much short of that calculation.
Thera has been
a diminished consumption of malt
of • •
and
of hops ; and we fear that the ill-advised hers©_
will,
verance of his successor in the same
cour
ere long, by giving an extraordinary stimulus to the illicit trade, prove how short-sighted has been
the policy of those so-called financiers who have
alike damaged the revenue and demoralised a con-
siderable number of persons by their injudicious
regulations.
In the Stamps the improvement in the year is
271,572/., and on the quarter' 54,9421. Again
we may add that these results are far less than
might reasonably have been anticipated, consider-
ing that the Succession Duties have at length
come into operation. Taxes show a falling off on
the year of 223,4261., and on the quarter of
201,534/. These may partly be ascribed to mo-
difications of the existing rates, but chiefly to the
slackness in the collection, the payers being obliged
to receive greater indulgence in consequence of the
magnitude of the burdens imposed On them.

The great increase wam locked_ foi nder the. head

of "property tax." The total receipts for the
year have been 11,456,1711., an addition to last
year of 5,085,6711., but nearly a million and a
half less than was estimated, the probable prcduce
being taken at 12,889,0001. The increase on
the quarter is only 201,5341., a comparatively
small amount ; but we must recollect that the
double tax was in operation in the corresponding
quarter of last year, so that the improvement is
only on three in place of on four quarters.

On the Post-office there a small apparent
falling off on, the year of 94,7331., and on the
quarter of 7,5761. This, however, we would re-
mark, has arisen from a great improvement which
renders the receipts of the corresponding
terms of last year unusually productive. And
here we would remark that there is an ad-
mirable opportunity of putting the right
man in the right, place, and giving merit its
legitimate reward, by the appointment of Mr.
ROWLAND HILL as Postmaster-General. The
nomination of Lord CANNING'S successor will
be a political touchstone, to test the sterling cha-
racter of Ministerial professions respecting Admi-
nistrative Reform. We trust that it may give no
occasion to question their sincerity.
In Crown Lands the falling off is 54,4281. on
the year, and 2,000/. on the quarter ; while in
Miscellaneous there has been a deficiency on the
year of 58,6681., but an increase on the quarter
of 165,4461., mainly produced by the sale of a
large quantity of old and comparatively useless
stores for anything they might bring. All that it
is necessary to allude to, in addition to the above,
is that it appears that 6,306,000/. has been al-
ready received, and that the deficiency bills this
quarter only amount to 3,306,4331., vhilperaotvtidhee
beginning of April we had 3,467,094/, i
to
for. On the whole, as above stated, we have no
reason either for exultation or depression. We
have a painful illustration of one of the evils of
war, but, we beg to assure Mr. GLADSTONE, not
sufficient to disgust the people, or to induce them
to desire a dishonourable or transitory peace.

Poor Lord RAGLAN is no more. At the very
time when they were announcing in both Houses
of Parliament the improvement in his health the
veteran had passed from this transitory world.
As we announced in our impression of Saturday
alarming symptoms developed themselves at four
o'clock on Thursday afternoon. Within an hour
he had become unconscious, and gradually sunk
until twenty-five minutes before nine the same
evening, when all was over, and the gallant
spirit had departed to a better world.

The whole nation will sympathise with their
beloved SOVEREIGN in the deep commiseration
which she felt and hastened to express for the
bereaved family, whose loss is indeed peculiarly
deplorable under existing circumstances. A few
weeks might have sufficed to banish every cloud
from his military career, and to change the mur-
murings that occasionally broke forth into uni-
versal plaudits. The unexpected delays that
occurred- before Sebastopol—the severe priva-
tions endured by our gallant army, led to many
complaints. But the greater portion of these
were more fairly ascribable to other persons ;
while those which remained were in a great de-
gree the faults of the system, while his virtues—
and their name was legion—were altogether those
of the man. As an individual he was manly,
brave, and generous—qualities which commanded
not merely the esteem and respect, but the love of
those under his command. While if he wanted some
of the sterner qualifications of a Commander-in-
'Chief, it was possibly owing to the philanthropy of
his disposition, that shuddered at auy operations
that must produce a large amount of killed and
wounded. Personally he had no fears. If he
spared his soldiers, be did not spare himself. He
shared in all the risks and privations for which
his advanced years unfitted him.

The controversy as to the merits of the de-
ceased Field-Marshal will now terminate. No per-
son will feel inclined to utter a remark derogatory
to the well-earned fame of him who persisted in
the discharge of his arduous duties at the very
time when he should have been in the enjoyment
of the otittm cum dignitate which he had so amply
merited. It was reluctantly, and with many
ominous forebodings, that the deceased noblemen
accepted the onerous task forced on his acceptance,
but the policy of the ABERDEEN Cabinet was not
of a very fighting description, and it was supposed
that his services would have been more of a diplo-
matic than of a military character ; and when it be-
came apparent that there had been a great mistake
committed by the Administration there was a
'natural reluctance to adopt any course that might
cast a slur on the reputation of the veteran, or
cause pain to his feelings.
The deceased nobleman was a branch of an illusa
trious house. He was son of Hen ry, the ninth and youngest
addition to fifth Duke of Beaufort, who, in
his paternal honours, inherited
the ancient barony
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g,nished men, have since led to such felicitous and
consequettly,
almost miraculous results. Lard Firzßov was
born in September,- 1788 ; he was,
in his 68th year at the time of his lamented death.
In 1806, when barely 16 years of age, he obtained
his first commission, and five years afterwards he
was promoted to the rank of captain. He never
however, discharged any regimental duties from
that time. He had been appointed to the staff
of the Great Duke, with whom he ever
afterwards remained closely connected, and
whose niece, Lady- EMILY HARRIETT WEL-
LESLEY, he married in the year 1814, when
the temporary cessation of the war led to the
hope that the sword might be exchanged for the
ploughshare. He Evil became military secretar\
to Lord WELLINGTON. But though more distin
auished for the pen thanthe sword he participated
in many sanguinary and glorious encounters, in
testimony whereof he wore a Peninsular medal
with five clasps, was wounded at Busaco, and left
an arm on the ensanguined field at Waterloo.
From that time he became connected with the
gorse Guards, and, as Military Secretary, gave
h'ol satisfaction to all with whom he was con-
cerned.
0n the death of the Duke, in 1851, it
was anticipated that he would have been
nominated comm ander. in .Chief of the Army for
which he
secret influences.,
was Pre-eminently qualified. Some
SET was made Master-General
.1 but Lord FITZROY SOMER-
however, prevailed in favour of
Viscount Hann
in his family records, for it was
General of the Ordnance,
and elevated to the Peerage
by a title celebrated
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fence of Raglan Castle that contfherereodbstianoatmeueii
he was nominated to the chief command.
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controversies have since been excited are now for
ever set at rest ; and henceforward the name of
FITZROY, Lord RAGLAN, will only be mentioned

in laudatory terms, as one who nobly served his
country during a protracted and honourable
career, and who has left a glorious example to
others to persevere unto the death at the call of
duty.

What had her MAJESTY'S liege subjects done
to be "charged"--that was the word—and cruelly
and, in many instances we believe, unprovokedly
beaten with bludgeons ? Was it so shocking a
crime to disobey the proclamation, the " charge"
on your allegiance of Marshal MAYNE, that such a
punishment should be inflicted ? Is it so mortal

The Convocationists are at work again, or rather
at talk, and begging leave of her MAJESTY to do
something more dignified than merely to amuse the
public by their loquacity, while unable to legislate
on the smallest matter. It will be seen that in
the teeth of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY the
busy intriguers carried an Address to her MAJESTY
for her licence to proceed to business—the busi-
ness of arranging a constitution for their body for
practical objects. The Lower House assented to
it after inserting amendments in favour of ren-
dering that House more satisfactorily representa-
tive of the inferior clergy. To this their spiritual
Lords agreed, and the memorial as amended is,
we suppose, to be duly presented to her MAJESTY.
We shall soon, therefore, see how Lord PALMER-
STON can square matters with English bishops; whe-
ther he will reply to them too with a joke or with
wholesome advice in the vein of his letter to the
Edinburgh Presbytery. The worst is, Bishops
have votes, and they know how to give them, too,
when any liberal measure borders on the preserves
of the Church.
Ecclesiastics are the same all the world over.
Whether they be English Bishops and clergy,
Piedmontese Church dignitaries, Presbyterian
Doctors across the Tweed, or even Methodist Con-
ference Preachers living on the people's pence—

a sin to deride ridiculous over-zealousness in the

officials you support ? Or is it treason, murder,
and burglary for Englishmen who, feeling them-
selves to be unrepresented in what is ludicrously
called " the People's House," have met together
to protest against a great grievance—by exclama-
tion or movement of the hand, to give expression
to their feelings ?

What was the case yesterday ? A hundred
thousand peaceable, well-dressed people met, as a
similar body had met on the preceding Sunday, in
Hyde-park, the object of the great majority of
them being, as on that occasion when no evil re-
sults followed, to express in the only effective way
in their power their disapprobation of the atro-
cious Sunday Bill, and what takes place ? Why,
owing to the behaviour of the police alone a dan-
gerous riot is all but created. A groan, a hiss,
or a laugh from some over-daring snip, and woe
to the unlucky offender. The police " charge "
savagely down on him, beat him unmercifully with
their staves, and, some half-dozen strong, trium-
phantly convey the poor fellow in a cab to Vine-
street. Even our heroic invalids from the Crimea
could not escape. In one instance the brutal
treatment by the police of an unoffending and
wounded veteran brought down the severe rebuke
of a Sergeant of the Guards, sent, a short time
after, from head-quarters, and had the attempt
to capture him been persevered in, there can be
no question the result would have been very
serious. In another instance, we are told, a
number of spectators were dexterously immersed
in the Serpentine.
If this sort of thing be law, we make bold to
say it is not safe. The heart of many a peaceable
Englishman ached yesterday to see Englishmen
thus abused, and curses, not loud but deep, were
muttered against the aristocracy and our lordly
form of Government as the cause. At any period
dangerous, such procedure is especially so now.
A few such scenes as that of yesterday might have
results we are by no means desirous to witness.
We must not have any safety-valve fastened down
in the present temper of the public, and the police,
or their instigators on this occasion, must be
brought to book and made to learn a new lesson.

their besetting temptation is to deem themselves
the Church ; to resist the attempts of the people
to look in to their own affairs, and to be most

;ouchy of all if their right to the fleece, and

their divine right to govern, be for a moment
called in question. Look at the projects of the
present talking Convocation, for it affords a
good index of what it would be as a go-
verning or legislative Convocation. All their
gravamina concern the clergy. The Upper House
thinks of not a mortal beyond the bench, and even
the Lower House, although composed of persons
living more among the people, is yet not of the

people. It wants the clergy, not the people, to
be better represented. Now, we submit to all
the Revs. and Right Revs, that this is not the
course for the present day. The Corn Lords and
Navigation Lords, and, to some extent, the East
India Nabobs, have all had their reform—even a
reformed Parliament is threatened with further
and much-needed reform—and, last of all, the
sacred precincts of the Army and Civil Service are
rudely overrun by a hest of Administrative Re-
formers, determined to see into everything, and to
know the reason why.
How, then, can the Church escape her turn ?
It may be delayed a few years, but come it must,
and will. Archbishops,. Deans, Canons, Clergy,
and the like, will fare no better than Field-Mar-
shals, Generals, and other commissioned officers.
Indeed (a profane conceit of course) the laity
fancy they
can judge better of ecclesiastical than
military matters. The latter they were always
, told Were mysteries far more recondite than those
in custody of the other cloth. It is an error of
very old standing. Somehow the complaint has
always been of the intrusion of tailors and tinkers
into the
province of the clergy. All people think
they know about religion, and they certainly
ought, whether they do or not ; but no man
deems himself bound, at least in this country, to
know the duties of a private soldier, much less of
a commissioned officer. Let the clergy then be
assured that the Administrative Reformers
will be down upon the Church in due time.
The efficiency of her leaders, the merits and
demerits of her system, the quality of her weapons
will all come under unsparing discussion. How
the money goes, how much more might be done
with it, will be openly inquired into, and we shall
have some House of Commons' Committee scruti-
nising the whole thing from top to bottom.
Two circumstances in modern movements are
especially congenial with a thorough-going attempt
to put the Church to rights: one, that the people
are becoming satisfied that nothing is well done
which they do not look to themselves, or which
they leave to be done for them by their betters.
Indeed, the notion that any classes are " the bet-
ters" of the others is becoming much discredited;
the creed now is, that there is a natural aristocracy
in each class, and that the public will be
better served by letting the deserving of all classes
find their level inartificially. The other is the
irrepressible cry for promotion by merit, and the
abolition of purchase, favour, and nepotism. Now
in no State service aro the last-mentioned evils
more glaring than in its ecclesiastical service. There
&bey are the rule, not the exception. The bishop
is made bishop generally with scarce a thought
whether a more deserving man could be found.
fie was the tutor of a monarch, or of a peer's son
—a favourite with or a relative of the Premier ;
at least a suitable political coadjutor—and so he
gets his spiritual Field-Marshal's baton, his mitre,
And apron. Then, in a short time, like his mili-
tary parallels, he is surrounded by a goodly staff
of sons and nephews,
sons-in-law and nephews-in-
law, in all the fattest vacancies which turn up in
his diocese. The vast majority of presentations
to livings also are all obtained through pure
chase or the iwour of the patron. Nothing
is less thought of than the merit of the
presentee, or anything like giving a chance
to the most deserving. This evil is even more glar-
ing in the Church than in the Army, since every
curate is socially, and as a priest the equal of the
rectors and vicars; he is at least a gentleman, and
in holy orders.

THE COMM-AND IN CBIEF IN TER

RASP.

We are enabled to state that, in consequence of the
melancholy death of Lord Raglan, and of the immediate
return of Sir George Brown to England, owing to ill
health, Lieutenant-General Simpson succeeds to the
command of the British army in the Crimea.
General Simpson has seen considerable service, and
enjoys a high professional reputation. During the Pen-
insular war he was present at the defence of Cadiz and
the attack on Seville. He served and was wounded at
Quatro Bras in 1815, and was engaged in 1845 as second
in command to the late Sir Charlei Napier in Scinde.
Sir Charles Napier considered him his best officer ; and
we believe that Lord Ellenborough, then Governor-
General, had the highest opinion of him, and, in the
event of any accident happening to Sir Charles, would
have charged General Simpson with the con ,uct of the
war.

The high official position General Simpson has filled
since the present Government sent him to the Crimea
has necessarily placed him in constant communication
with the French Commander, with whom we are confi-
dent he will maintain the cordial relations that have
existed without intermission between the chiefs of the
expeditionary force.-11forning Post.

Her Majesty was most deeply affected on being in-
formed, by Lord Panmure, of the death of Field-Mar-
sisal Lord Raglan, on Saturday forenoon, as the previous
accounts received by the Government, by telegraph,
gave amore favaurable report of his illness. The Queen
instantly countermanded the intended dinner party at
Buckingham Palace, and desired that the military band
ordered to be in attendance should be dispensed with.
VISIT OF KING LEOPOLD TO ENGLAND.—The Brus-
sels journals state that the King of the Belgians is to
leave Belgium for England this day (Monday), on a visit
to Queen Victoria. The. Count de Flandre and the
Princess Charlotte are to accompany his Majesty. The
royal party were to sleep at Ostend, and embark this
morning for Dover. The visit will last about a fortnight.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street, on Saturday afternoon. The Ministers
present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord John Russell, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, Sir W. Molesworth, Viscount Canning,
and the Earl of Harrow by. The Council sat three hours.
A new opera has been brought out at the Careens, at
Milan, the work of a new composer, Maestro Meiners.
It is highly spoken of, and the usual quantum of praise
is dealt out to the principal artistes, Mile. Rupini and
M. Ghiglanzoni, the latter an old acquaintance at the
Italian Opera here.
WRECK OF THE SHIP ABROTA.—CURACAO, June 9.—
The Abrota, Ogier, of Jersey, from Llanelly to this port,
with coals, went on shore at the N.E. point of Little
Curacao in the night of sth June, crew saved ; vessel
and cargo totally lost.
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—Mr. William Cooke, of Astley's
Royal Amphitheatre, has presented 1001. to the new
Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Agency and Sick
Fund Association ; Mrs. Cooke 10/., Mr. Henry Cooke
51., and Mr. W. Cooke, jun., 51. ; making in all 1201.
Mlle. Amalie Ferraris, one of the best Italian belle-
rino of the day, is now exciting a/cleat/sew at Ravenna.
LORD ELGIN AND THE EMBASSY AT•CONSTANTINOPLE.
—lt is understood, in well-informed circles, that the
reason why the Earl of Elgin did not receive the Go-
error: Generalship of India, for which all parties admit
him to be pre-eminently qualified, is, that he may pro-
ceed to Canstanticople, where his firmness and conci-
liatory disposition would find a sphere for beneficial
exercise, and where opposite qualities in the present
oceepant of that post have wrought so much mischief.—
Morning Advertiser.
THB PARLIAMENTARY RIDDLE.—Mr. Gladstone has
disappointed us. We made sure of a speech from him
on Mr. Duncombe's motion for a new writ for London,
Baron Rothschild having vacated his seat by contract-
ing with Government for the supply of 16,000,0001. for
the public service. Never was there a finer question
'-than this for Mr. Gladstone'e genius fer casuistry.
Baron Rothschild has not taken his seat, the oath on
the faith of a Christian being a bar to the seat ; and how
a man can have vacated a seat by becoming a contractor,
which he had never taken because of his conscience, it
would puzzle all mortal men but Mr. Gladstone, the
modern CEdipus, to explain. A certain seat in the
house, belanging to London, has been empty for se-
veral years, while the representation of London has
been full. Where is the member? That is the first
question. He is in a limbo between being and not being
a member. He is in, like Cinderella's sister, all but the
heel. He stood for the seat, be was elected to the seat,
but sit he does not. The stage of standing is success-
fully past, but the stage of sitting is not accomplished,
and somewhere between the two is Baron Rothschild.
The French have a proverb—a door must be either
open or shut ; but it clearly does not apply to the
door of the House of Commons when a Jew is con
cerned. Yet now the unhappy gentleman is told he has
vacated his seat, and must turn out. But ho may surely
not unreasonably ask, " i Let me turn nfirst. ' And
the configuration of members is constitutionally such,
that without certain words in an oath they are no more
able to sit than the cheru'im, who, upon being invited
to take a seat, answered that he had not the where-
with. The ease is a beautiful example of the virtue of
tests and disabilities. Here is a man who is barred by
a scruple, from an object of ambition, and the Lords in
sporting phrase, "nowhere," because he is so
their isdom are content it should be so. But being,
in the,
screpulous, the alarm is taken lest in the character
of a contractor he should introduce corruption into
the house, and there is nothing in the world of which
the house has such a horror
as corruption. As rs.
Honour would say, it would "lieverer see a tood" on
its benches than a contractor, because a contractor may
Possibly
have corrupt dealings. But here is a man who
will not forswear himself. True, that is a good reason
for refusing to let him sit among honourable gentlemen ;
but if he lends money to Government, he becomes
forthwith so untrustworthy that the seat he has never
been suffered to fill because of his scruples roust, in
constitutional prudence, be forfeited. Here the Jew is
caught both ways. Because he bas a scruple he must not
sit in a Christian Legislature ; because he is a money
lender to Governmenthe is to be presumed not to have
a scruple, and the seat he has not been permitted to oc-
cupy is to bte declared vacated. Oh for a Gladstone to
reconcile these inconsistencies, and to demonstrate, in a
good set Gladstonisation, how the thing could not be and
yet; could 'be, how what has never been filled can be
emptied', bow he who never walla member cen cease to
be the raemider he never was. Oh rare tests and disa-
bilitiesl be,* exquisite are your virties ;-:-Exontincr.

The Church ought to see that the people are
Acquiring confidence in their own capacity ;
willwith
aneo they
muchnever consent
n State
endowments without some check on his being not
to
blohnsgueprpotrotedbeosaddled
'nerely a right man, but the right man for his
olace. A gentleman in eves
y village is a verygood
hing, but heought tobethegentleman for that vii-
age. An effective Convocation may also be very veal ; but then, as it will deal with an institution
upheld by national funds, it must include repre-
ientatives of all the nation. Indeed we do n iee, not only how the laity can be excluded frootm
being the majority of any reasonable Convocation,
hut how there can even be any real Convocation
for the English Church except the Houses of Lords
thcICOMMOD.S. If myLords of OXFORD andEXETER
want a Legislative Convocation, they must either
renounce national property and privileges, or must
adroit the vcice of the whole nation in their de(ji.
sions. Voluntaryism or equal state payment algae
is thoroughly consistent with the governmwat of
A religious body by its own members, and espe.
Tally by its own c clergy. Let our Convo‘cationists
consider these things. The Archbishop of CANTER-
t BURY, we doubt no, is well aware of them.

No enlightened friend of the aristocracy can
reflect otherwise than with pain and apprehension
)n yesterday's proceedings in Hyde Park. No
loyal subject who witnessed them but must wish
from thebottom of his heart thelike maynot be seen i

' again. It has hitherto been the general belief
that we live under the dominion of law, but to
. •
judge by the proceedings to which we refer, we LATEST NEWS
live under the dominion of an ignorant and brutal
police—a body, Austrian or Russian in habits
and feelings to the heart's core.

THE CRIMEA.

The following despatch, with Constantinople
news to the 21st, contains the first private ac-
counts that have been received of the unsuccess-
ful attack on the Malakhoff Tower on the 18th :
" MARSEILLES, JUNE 30.

The Ganges, which left Constantinople on the
21st, has arrived. Aali Pacha, the new Grand

Vizier, was expected at Constantinople.

" The re-appointment of Reschid Pacha as
Grand Vizier was thought probable. The English
General, Williams, accompanied by Yassif Pacha,
had left Erzeroum to defend Kars against the
Russians. It was expected that Eupatoria would
shortly be attacked by the Russians.
"The news from the Crimea is of 19th June.
On the 17th, at three in the morning, the allied
army attacked the Malakhoff Tower and the
Grand Redan.

" General Brunet's division was ordered to
attack the right ; Mayran's division occupied the
centre, and Generl d'Autemarre and the English
the left.

" General d'Autemarre, at the head of the 19th
and sth Foot Chasseurs, penetrated into the
Malakhoff Tower, and planted the French flag
there ; but the right falling into disorder, General
Eyre, who had gone beyond the Redan, and esta-
blished himself in a difficult position, was obliged
to abandon it the next day with a heavy loss.
"At seven in the morning General Pelissier
recalled the troops. During the time the Allies
were engaged the fleets fired several broadsides,
and were prepared to follow up the attack had it
been successful.

" Colonel Laboussiniere was killed, as was also
the English Colonel Yea, General Eyre is
wounded, and missing."

It will be seen from the above that the Imperial
Guards (the right) were under the necessity of
giving way before the other troops.

MARSEILLES, MONDAY, JULY 2.
The Thabor, which left Constantinople on the
25th June, has arrived with 200 invalids.
Despatches leave at 9 a.m.

Captain Lyons was buried on the 25th.

The Moniteur thus notices Lord Raglan's death :
" For some days past letters received from
London have stated that Lord Raglan was seri-
ously ill. A despatch from General Pelissier,
received this day under date of June 28, ten
o'clock, p.m., announces the death of the worthy
general whom the Government of Queen Victoria
had chosen to command our allies in the East.
France will join in the regrets of General Pe-
lissier."

The following is his despateh to the Minister of

War :

"It is with profound regret T have to announce
to you that the venerable chief of the English
army breathed his last sigh this evening at nine
o'clock. We are the more grieved since his con-
dition had seemed for the last 24 hours much
improved."

PARIS, JULY 1.

Further news by the Ganges state that the
French, in their attack on the 18th, advanced as
far as the Malakhoff Tower, but met with a ditch
dug by the Russians on the previous night. It
was on this account that the scaling ladders
proved too short. The garrison sent up masses
of troops, which, being supported by the Russian
ships firing with all their guns on the approaches
to the Tower, compelled the French to retreat.
The Russians, trying to follow up their advantage,
advanced towards the Mamelou Vert, but being
cut up by our grape-shot, were forced to retire,
after enormous loss. Three English regiments
having lost their chiefs, were obliged to evacuate
the Grand Redan, surrounded, as they were, by
a superior force.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 30.
Orders have been given here to prepare shipping
for the embarkation of 40,000 men.

STOCKHOLM, JUNE 29.
Accounts from Finland state that when the

news of the failure of the attack made against
Sebastopol on the 18th reached Abo on the 23d,
there was a grand military parade and a Te Deum,
at which the Grand Duke Nicholas was present.

COPENHAGEN, JUNE 29.

The session of the Grand Legislative Council

of the kingdom was opened to-day. The ministers
will submit the new fundamental law to the de-

liberation of the Grand Council.

DA NTZIC, JUNE 29.

Sweaborg has been bombarded. Some maga-
zines were blown up and various buildings fired.
Nava also has been attacked with success, several
cannon having been dismounted, and shipping
destroyed.

and convalescent soldiers from the army of the
East, a number of them have been removed to
Montpellier, to which place M. Goffres, physician
of the first class at Toulouse, has received orders
to proceed in order to take charge of them.
The case of Mademoiselle Celestine Doudet has
at last been brought to a close. On Friday the
affair again came before the Court of Cas3ation, on
an appeal from the decision of the Imperial Court
of Paris, which, on the 24th of April last, con-
demned:Mademoiselle Doudet to 5 years' impri-
sonment for cruelty, with premeditation, to the
girls Marsden, committed to her care. M. Moreau
presented to the Court a report on the circum-
stances of the case, and M. Morin spoke at consid-
erable length in favour of the appeal. The Advo-
cate-General Renault d'Abexi having spoken against
the appellant, the Court withdrew, and, after two
hours' deliberation, delivered a judgment simply
confirming the decision of the other Court.

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