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London, England, 1855-08-15

SOUTH. AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 13.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Avon,
Captain R. Revett, with the usual mails, in charge
of Lieutenant Morris, arrived this day at 12 p.m.
During the voyage homewards the Avon experi-
enced fresh head winds and fine weather.
The Avon brings mails from the following places,
with their respective dates affixed :

Buenos Ayres July 2
Monte Video
,) 5
Rio de Janeiro
Bahia
Pernambuco „ 22

St. Vincent July 30
Teneriffe Aug. 4
Maderia,
Lisbon

The total number of passengers brought by the
Avon was 103.

The Avon brings specie to the amount of 1,8451.
4s. 2d. from the following places—viz. Buenos
Ayres, 1,370/. ' • Pernambuco, 5741. 4s. 2d., and
diamonds to the amount of 16,3921. 10s. ; and on
freight gold dust to the value of 4501. from Rio
Janeiro ; also 500 barrels of tapioca ; from Bahia
232 bags of cocoa, besides sundries 197 bales,
cochineal, 31 cases ; oranges, 124 parcels.
Ships spoken with:—The Constance, of Liver-
pool ; a steamer supposed to be the Arabia, and
screw transport No. 77, off Cape Espicial, on the
morning of the 9th of August ; the Douro, screw,
left Lisbon on the 9th, at mid-day, the Tagus at 9
a.m. Passed a great many vessels, many of them
neglected to show their number, therefore are un-
able to report them.
Her Majesty's Ships at Rio Janeiro.—The Inde-
fatigable (flag of Admiral Hope Johnston), Mada-
gascar, Virago, Vixen, Sharpshooter, Rifleman,
Trident, Express, Spy, Tyne. The Spy had suf-
fered from yellow fever,. having loSt" 10 men and 1
officer. The commaudeT Was i4valiclid• She waa

being thoroughly cleaned. No fresh cases had
occurred when the packet left.
RIVER PLATE.—Reports reached Monte Video
before the packet left that a rebellion had broken
out in Buenos Ayres, and that General Flores had
attempted with 300 men to change the government.

BRAZILS (RIO DE JANEIRO AND
PERNAMBUCO).
Rio de Janeiro continued very healthy, the
weather cool and pleasant. The railway was pro-
gressing under the superintendence of Mr. Mar-
chant, the engineer for the contractors.
PERNAMBUCO.—The yellow fever still continued,
although much abated in virulence. Fair crops
were expected. Cholera prevailed at Para to a
great extent ; 25 to 30 persons died a day.
CAPE DE VERDE ISLANDS, CANARIES, MADEIRA,
&c.—Yellow fever prevailed at the Island of Jago,
Cape de Verds, which had depopulated the island ;
the few persons that remained alive had fled to the
mountains. The town was quite abandoned. Lis-
bon was healthy.
London, England, 1855-08-15

MARKETS.

-
BUENOS A:MS.—Exchange on London, 64A to 65.
Freights were nominal. American provisions were in
great demand. Produce was high. Hides, in particu-
lar, were very high.
Rio DE JANElRO.—Exchange on London, 27d. per
mil. Freights were nominal—say 21. 10s. to the Chan-
nel for orders. The stock of coffee was large and no-
thing doog, owing to the high prices demanded; import
business very dull and collections bad. The capital of
the place was swallowed up in railway and other specu-
lations.

BAHlA.—Exchange on London, 27/d. per mil., nomi-
nal. Freights to the Channel, 50s. to 555., nominal ;
one vessel taken up at 625. Markets dull.
PERNAMBUCO.—Exchange, 272" per mil. Freights, 20s;
for sugar for ballast, Bd, to /d. per lb. for cotton. Busi-
ness firm.

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON,
WEDNESDAY, 11 A.M.

By the Royal Mail Company's steam-ship La
Plata, Captain Weller, with the West India and
Pacific mails, we have dates from Jamaica, July.
27th ; Demerara, 25th ; Trinidad, 24th ; Barba-
does, 28th ; St. Thomas, August Ist.
The Plata brings 108 passengers, $729,000 in
specie, and the usual cargo.
At Jamaica business still continued dull. Ex-
change on London, 60 days, 1 per cent. pre-
mium.
London, England, 1855-08-15

This day, Sixth Edition, revised, 3a. 6d.,

ON THE STUDY OF WORDS.
By R. CHENEVIX TRENCII, B
Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Professor of
Divinity, King's College, London.
By the same Author,

On the LESSONS in PROVERBS. Third
Edition. 3s.

ENGLISH : PAST and PRESENT. Second
Edition, enlarged, 4s.
London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand.
London, England, 1855-08-15

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AQUATICS.

•
ROYAL THAMES NATIONAL REGATTA.
SECOND DAY.
This regatta was resumed yesterday at one o'clock,
the weather continuing extremely fine. Although the
ooncourse of spectators on shore was somewhat less, the
number of parties afloat far exceeded that of the previous
day. We missed the guns again yesterday, the want of
which we complained of in our last, though the reason
of economy assigned by the committee may be accepted
as an apology for what they consider a " barbarous "
waste of gunpowder. Things were in other respects
better managed than on the previous day, and the public
were gratified by the presence of the Cremorne band.
The sporting, so far as pure boating was concerned,
was in every respect satisfactory. There was nearly a
dozen races upon the card, which were of a varied and
interesting character, the first of which was—
A SCUDDER'S RACE, open to the World.
First Heat.
_ _

John Mackinney Red 1
Thomas Mackinney White 2
M. Taylor Blue 0
A. Ralph Green and White 0
The course was from Putney to Hammersmith bridge,
and the start looked forward to with much anxiety.
John Mackinney, of Richmond, and Taylor, one of the
Manchester crew, were the favourites in the heat, and
large amounts were speculated upon them against each
other and against the field.

At the first go-off the men were all level, but in the
next Taylor led, slightly followed by John Mackinney
and Ralph. At the committee barge the first-named was
two yards in front, John Mackinney having but a foot
lead of Ralph, and Thomas Mackinney a trifle more
astern of the latter. In nearly this order they continued
up to Craven Cottage, where John Mackinney slipped
by Taylor, and on their nearing the Crab Tree gave a
cheer of encouragement to his brother, Thomas Mac-
kinney, who laying down to his work went into the
second place, John Mackinney rowing in first by a couple
of lengths. •
London, England, 1855-08-15

in the Blaok Sea. It may be all right, but in 4
the eyes of civilians it is an unaccountable sort of
vigour tha•.t we have only this morning beard of
any feat parallel with the destruction of Bomar-
Sund, although the fleet is double the strength of
that intrusted to Admiral IT APIER. In the Black
Sea also we cannot account for the tardy successes
in the Sea of Azoff not being followed up elsewhere,
and the mouths of the Danube not even being
opened for the harvests of the provinces. It may
again be right, but we non-professional folk do not
think it any sign of vigour that the Russian posi-
tions on the right bank of the Tohernaya are not
molested, or even turned, and the communica-
tions with Sebastopol interrupted ; or the same
thing not attempted from the sea to the north
of the town.

If, however, we must be set down as ignorant
of the art of war, and we have no desire to im-
pugn the skill, much less the gallantry, of our
Generals and Admirals, we cannot imagine our-
selves more ignorant of the political phases of the
whole question than the Premier himself ; diplo-
matists may know more of their fellow
diplomatists than we who have never been
in their company, and never wish to be,
but we can see probably better than those engaged
in the work its real character. Every tolerably
intelligent Englishman who reads the papers
knows the mind of Austria, Prussia, and Russia,
as well as our Cabinet Ministers. We know what
would be vigour in this department. We have
demanded it again and again. A Polish Legion
at once --Polish emancipation, as the only basis
of a lasting European peace, and Austria bid to
march from the Principalities and mind her own
business, would be real vigour, and be hailed as
such by the nation.

Lord JOHN is gone, and another sign of vigour
would be to renounce, explicitly, his fatal declara-
tion that we did not want to deprive Russia of
any of her territories. That mischievous speech
alone, we believe, to have affected most disastrously
to our soldiers the whole character of the war.
How renovating would the declaration be, we mean
to conquer the Crimea, and we mean to keep it, and
we mean to turn it, as far as may be desirable,
into a reward for the soldiers who have conquered
it. Many of the Allied brothers in arms might
prefer a farm there to one in Canada. The idea of
a vigorous war, and a secure peace, which should
leave Russia all the territories she has nefariously
appropriated, and all the fortresses she has built
on them or strengthened, to consolidate and ex-
tend her brutal domination, is surely but a
vision of aristocratic treachery. The miserable
Vienna Conferences have revealed the ignominious
terms to which the author of that idea would
have pledged his country. We observe that
Lord PALMERSTON makes his Sovereign "sincerey
regret" the failure of those conferences. We need
something more reassuring than any regret at all
for escaping the original four points.
London, England, 1855-08-15

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Royal yacht, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, went
out of the harbour this morning aid proceeded to
Osborne Roads.

The Malacca, 17, screw, Captain Farquhar, went out
of harbour this morning, and anchored at Spithead,
where she took in her powder and shell.
The Rosamond, 0, paddle (guns disembarked), pro-
ceeded to Osborne this morning to receive on board the
Queen's carriages, van, and equipments.
Two schooners, draughted into the transport service
by special order, and freighted with 13-inch shell, sailed
yesterday from Woolwich for Southampton. Having
passed Erith, one of them (the Elizabeth, of Hartlepool)
sprang a leak, and was fast filling, when she waa run
ashore. The accident is supposed to have proceeded
from the shells having been shot on board by means of a
spout, that being a more ready method than the use of
the crane.

The Adder and Myrtle steamers, from Sheerness,
arrived at Woolwich yesterday.

APPOINTMENTS.

Acting Mates—E. Kelly, to the Siren ; R. Ross, to
the Orion ; W. F. A. Harris, to the Rosamond ; C.
B3rthwick, tv the Havannah ; W. Kellet::, to the Salle-
parei I.
London, England, 1855-08-15

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST .NIGHT,

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 13th
day of August, 1855; present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council. This day the Right Hon. William
Francis Cowper, the Right Hon. Maurice Frederick Fitz-
hardinge Berkeley, K.C.8., the Right Hon. Robert Lowe,
and the Right Hon. William Mengel!, were, by her Ma-
jesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's. Most Honourable
Privy Council, and took their respective places at the
Board accordingly.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint
the Right Honourable Robert Lowe President of the Com-
mittee of• Council appointed for the consideration of all
matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, in the
absence of the President of the said Committee for the
time being.

WHITEHALL, AUG. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal for nominating, constitut-
ing, and appointing the Right Honourable Edward Pley-
dell Bouverie to be a Poor Law Commissioner for Eng-
land.
The Queen has also been pleased to, direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the office or
place of Lieutenant-Governor of her Majesty's Hospital at
Greenwich unto Rear-Admiral Sir William Fairbrother
Carroll, K.C.B.
WHITEHALL, AUG. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. William
Francis Cowper to be President of the General Board of
Health.

WAR-OFFICE, AuG. 14.
MEDICAL STAFF CORPS.—Captain Richard S. Cole, from
the 3d Foot, to be Assistant Staff-Captain.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Thomas
Ranelagh John George Thomson, Gent., late Cap.
tain, to be Adjutant, vice Philips, resigned.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia—Ensign Robert Hill Ross to be Lieutenant,
vice Woodall, promoted.
Cambridgeshire Militia—John Lever, Esq., 8.A., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Joberns, promoted.
Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery—.
Alexander Murray Officer, M.D., to be Assistegt-Sorgeon.
let Somerset Regiment of Militia—EnOn Arthur gory
London, England, 1855-08-15

TEE LATE ACCIDENT AT CREMORNB

GARDENS.

The following is a list of the unfortunate soldiers who
were injured on Monday night by the falling of a stage
at these gardens, and who are now lying at the Military
Hospital of the Grenadier Guards, Rochester-row, West-
minster :

tins T BATTALION.
James Gillespie, contusions of the knee.
Henry Dear, sprained ankle, contused loins.
Win. Tunnidge, sprained knee ; bayonet wound on
hand.

James Elliot, sprained back • bayonet wound on head.
Thomas Wallbank, sprained ankle and severe contu
sions on different parts of body.
George Smith, scalp wound, and wound on back (uot
very severe).
William Barker, contused chest.
Charles Tipper, bayonet wound through shoulder
(very severe), and contused knee.
James Gould, sprained ankle and contused bsck.
John Walker, contused knee.
William Hoare, sprained back.
Samuel Gatubleton, contusions of back.
John Langston, sprained ankle.
William Malt, contused knee and side.
SECOND BATTALION.
James Sherwood, bruised back and contusions on

head.
John Newman, sprained ankle ; bayonet mound on
finger.
Grant Hodder, contusions.
William Blake, bayonet wound through nr asele9 of
neck, very severe.
Bailey, Tower Hamlets Militia, contused loin

AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL.

John Cralley, artilleryman, severe bayonet vround on

arm.
John Colwell, artilleryman, severe bayonet wound on
arm.
James Sergeant, artilleryman, bayonet wiuunds on
head, arms, and hands.
William Stones, Grenadier, severe injuries of body.
William Sharp, Grenadier, both legs broken.
It will be observed that the most severe cases are those
at St. George's Hospital, where the two last•ni.med suf-
ferers lie in great danger. With regard to th,e men in
the Military Hospital, although the injuries of 'some are
comparatively
of Pm unimportant character, those of
others are very severe, and it is not impossible% that the
result may in some cases be fatal. In addition to these,
seven men received minor injuries, which were
attended
to in barracks.
London, England, 1855-08-15

THE CRIMEA.

A letter from Lemberg, in Gallicia, of the Bth,
in the Cologne gazette, says :—" According to ac-
counts from southern Russia, the Commissariat
Department has declared that it is impossible to
feed a greater number of men than are now in the
Crimea, estimated at 250,000, and that it has con-
sequently been resolved to send no more reinforce-
ments there. Great efforts are, however, being
made to stock the storehouses with provisions and
ammunition, sufficient to last through the winter.
And in order to keep up the armies in the Crimea
at their present strength, troops have been sta-
tioned in the Governments of Bessarabia and
Cherson in such a manner as to be able to proceed
rapidly to the Crimea, or if required to effect a
concentration."

THE BALTIC FLEET.
OFF SWEABORG, Aug. 6.—Aug. I.—Her Ma-
jesty's steamer Cruiser has arrived from England.
Aug 2.—The Admiral proceeded over to Swea-
borg in the Merlin, to reconnoitre and lay down
buoys.
Aug. 4.—The fleet prepared to weigh, with mor-
tar-vessels and gunboats, with the intention of
proceeding to Sweab,z)rg, but the weather promising
unfavourable, wlth a sea rising, the order was
countermanded, and very fortunately so, as that
and the following day proved very squally, with
heavy rr
and a rough sea.
s.—Her Majesty's steamer Gorgon has
arrived from England.
Aug. 6.—The fleet weighed from Nargen at 10
a.m., and with the mortar vessels and gun-boats
anchored among the small islands off Sweaborg,
about 7,000 yards distant. The gun-boats will
anchor the mortar vessels in position at 2,500
yards distance from the forts, and then together
will open fire on the batteries, Government builC.-
ings, &c., at daylight to-morrow. Some boats
have been sent in to-night (11-12 p.m.) to sweep
for infernal machines, and under very favourable
circumstances, the weather being misty and over-
cast.

The French propose erecting a mortar battery
on a small island here, to play on the town, and
they have provided thbmselves with sandbags,
fascines, &c., from Nargen ; but it is feared that
their position on the island will be untenable.
The mortar vessels are to be supplied with extra
marine artillerymen as reliefs when required, and
it is supilosed the bombardment, when commenced,
will continue all night and several successive days,
though as yet the plan of operations is a mere stir-
liaise. The rocket-boats are all prepared for service
to-night.
FLEET BEFORE SWEABORG Aug 6.—English—Duke
of Wellington, Exmouth, Edinburgh, Pembroke, Corn-
wallis, Hastings;-Euryalus, Arrogant, Magicienne, Cos-
sack, Vulture, Cruiser, Merlin, Geyser, Dragon, Light-
ning, Locust, Belleisle (hospital ship), Bolus (ammuni-
tion-ship), a merchant collier filled with spare shells for
supplying mortar vessels, 15 gunboats, 16 mortar
vessels.

French—Tourville (flagship) and tender, Austerlitz,
six gunboats, five mortar vessels. The French mortar
vessels are schooner•rigged, and armed with two 10. inch
mortars.
London, England, 1855-08-15

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY•)

LOUDON, Aug. 15.—Wind this day at noon, IV .N.W
light, with dull sultry weather.
(PEE ELECTRIO TELEGRAPB.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Moroi ng.
Arrived—Trefusis, from Midelesbro'; Cruiser, se"
Love, London.

E2aPire State, Now
o
LTVEBPOOL, Wednesday morning.
Off—Amour, for Quebec.
Sal —or led S airak , for Ph; J aQd elhia„
Arrived
—erChase,
Qfur°ebniecHavana
;
UEENSTOWN, Aug. 13.

wind, W.S.W.
Arrived—Primus, from Leghorn.

or SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.35 a.m.
W tide, last hour's ebb ; weather fine.
Arrived,indN.WAu.2. 14—Hawk, from Memel.
Arrived, Aug. 15—Seine, from Boulogne; 1m1169°0
Stralsundivind N;
Airdrie, Danzig,
DEAL, Wednesday, 10.16 a.m.
Anchored—Benjamin Buck Green, from Mauritius, for
Pas ed
London ; brig Stratton, westward, for London.
Rattler
por , .wil
Callao
; Henry Pratt, Shields, for New York.
itioonn ry,
fToarncuoers, frt o.mLodn Wave, London, for
don, for Ascension

CABINET COUNCIL—A Cabinet Council was held yea.
terday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street.
The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lane.
downe, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl
of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Panmure,
the. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Viscount Canning, and
the Earl of Harrowby.
niCELEBRATION OF THE DUCHESS OP KENT'S BISTE.
DAY.—Yesterday, by command of her Majesty, a fie
fat buck was sent from the Royal Park, at Windsor, to
Kensington, as an addition to the grand banquet to be
given by the Royal tradespeople at the King's Arms
Tavern, Kensington, on Friday next, the 17th inst., to
celebrate the birthday of the Queen's august parent,
the Duchess of Kent, who on that day completes the
69th year of her age. In addition, a plentiful dessert is
ordered to be furnished from the Royal gardens at :leer:
The town of Kensington will be brilliantly illumi
Preparations are also making for an at theilluminates.
West-end.
THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT Sir.
riott died on Monday from injuries sustainedln3-I:yhiAleMarex:
h T
d d th
plosion on Saturday evening of the boiler at t e ower
Mills, Sheffield, this making the tir ea from the
London, England, 1855-08-15

A GONE 'COON !

" It. seems that some celebrated sportsman, some Ame-
rican Colonel Hawker, being ont with his gun that was
never known to miss its aim, espied a racoon in a tree and
levelled his piece.
" ' Don't give yourself the trouble, Colonel Hawker ;'
said the poor animal. ' I know my fate. Yon never
miss. Don't trouble yourself to fire. I conclude to come
down to you. lam a gone 'coon.' "

As a characteristic accompaniment to the fore-
going, let us present to our readers the subjoined
sketch to the very life of

" A GENU-INE U-NITED STATES CITIZEN•
. _

" A middle-sized, light-haired man of about forty years
of age ; with hollow cheeks and high American cheek
bones ; with long, lanky, brown hair that nearly hid his
baldness ; with a round, bright blue eye, which he opened
very wide and rolled about incessantly ; with an inquisi-
tive, intelligent, good-humoured and very animated look,
Dr. Read thus stood by my bedside. With his two
hands in his breeches pockets, his shocking bad hat
upon his head, and a quid of tobacco in his month,
which ho twisted incessantly from side to side,
occasionally squirted the juice to the floor on
the -do and
side of the room, Dr. Read thus stood by my bedsi
.e,
examined me ; and a bright, good-humoured smilopl wifec
over his plain but wide-awake features. M y gild 1: an
was horror-stricken. She thought we had got a
of the woods for a physician." w_hielether
Iduabcrounish.
who
to be—one ,
hearted physician, Dr. Read p
the little patient Isabel,
No wild man of the woods, hreowyeevser, but a gentle-
standing by the bedside of o
is more than once observed away
the tears from his eyesaslt_must be admitted by the
most touchy and sensitive
civilised humanity—that Mr.
betwurantcahwesa
pAlma isnriincganssutffheermers.si
yes .
Bea of
all
t e knowngives ofrtahceema aafsacommuuity a_most amiable,
f consideration to
regard for what
if a wholly unflattering, description. The entire nar-
rative, indeed, is wonderfully candid in every
parti-
cular, even when explicit truthfulness would seem to
to express those • . and
conventionalb
thee l
vulgare s s
eh cte be
ec
yo u. out
disposed ol
, Ir.l3este,
beinga 3 a simple
pure-
minded and out-spoken man,and entertaining strong
opinions, and burning
to do so plainly and honestly opinions,
to the very letter, upon
all possible occasions, tells " the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth," be the theme of
his observations a "cabinet d'aissance" or a political
institution. The result •is at times sufficiently-
amusing--ealculated probably to shock the deli-
cacy of Citizen Jonathan, but dear to the
honest, homely heart of bluff old Farmer
Bull. Altogether, we - must reiterate - our
panegyric on " The Wabash"—the book is from
tirkt to lag thoroughly delightful ; a work hezoo-

forth to be stored up after perusal in a favourite
corner of our book-shelves—thrust between the
humorous Notes of our own inimitable Boz, and
the historical memorabilia of queer, old, incom-
parable Diedrich Nickerbocker.
London, England, 1855-08-15

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of plate for table, knives, forks, -spoons, dishes,
sidk_,-.;isile3, cream jugs, et cetera, et cetera, the whoL3
paraphernalia of the buffet and the byittery, and
with all this lOggage such an astonishing asseua-
,blage of domesticated pets—a queer little lapdog,
something between a yellow cur and a long-haired
spaniel ; half-a-dozen canary birds in a cage ; an
African parrot ; and the veriest oddity of an elfine
dormouse ! About this latter curiosity, Mr. Beste
tells this wonderful—.
London, England, 1855-08-15

SWEABORG.

ADMIRILTY, AUGUST 'l5, 1855.

Sir Charles Wood presents his compliments to
the Editor of The Sun, and encloses a copy of a

t 3legraphic message from Admiral Dundas, received
at the Admiralty late last night :
OFF SWEA.BORG, AUG. 11.

Sweaborg was attacked by the mortar and gun-
boats of the Allied squadron on the morning of
the 9th inst. The firing ceased early this
London, England, 1855-08-15

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morning.

Heavy explosions and very destructive fires
were produced in a few hours.

Nearly all the principal buildings on Vargoe,
and many more on Svartoe, including those of the
dockyard and arsenal, are burnt.
Few casualties have occurred; and no lives lost
in the Allied fleet.

DANTZIC, TUESDAY, AUG. 14, 11 A.M.

The bombardment of Sweaborg commenced at
6 o'clock last Thursday morning, and continued
until daylight on Saturday.
The town itself is burnt to the ground—not
one house left.
The dockyards are completely destroyed.
All the earthworks and batteries are knocked

to pieces.
Six magazines blew up.
In fact, Sweaborg exists no more.
On our side there are very few casualties.
This news was brought by the French steamer
Pelican.

The following telegraphic despatch has been
received from Paris :

PARIS, AUG. 14.

The following despatch was posted up at the
Bourse to-day :

ADMIRAL PENAUD TO THE MINISTER
OF MARINE.

On Board the Tourville, Aug. 11.

The bombardment of Sweaborg by the allied
squadrons has been attended with complete suc-

cess.

An immense conflagration, which lasted for 45
hours, has destroyed nearly all the storehouses
and magazines of the Arsenal, which is a complete

ruin.

Various powder magazines and stores of projec-
tiles blew up.

The enemy has received a terrible blow, and
suffers an enormous loss.
Our loss is insignificant in men, and nothing
whatever in material.

The crews are in a state of endhusiasm.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 14.
The Philippe Auguste has cc one in. She brings
intelligence from Constantinople to the 4th.
A battle was expected near F Irzeroum. Generals
Fitzgerald and Evans had q aitted .the Turkish
service in consequence of ill-h,

Captain Peel, R.N., had 2 wives, wounded, at
Malta. He goes to Switzerl,
The last accounts which larkf reached Vienna
from Constantinople state th at it is n.Dt rrobablc
London, England, 1855-08-15

DREAIf-STORY.

,t •
We had a dormouse, also," he says, " with a hairless
tail,—for sail dormouse had a habit of escaping from it,
LOX— and being once caught by the tail, it had slipped its
skin, which had remained, like a scabbard, in my wife's
fingers. She had dreamed a dream about that dormouse,
which I submit to the judgment of those curious in such
matters. She had dreamed, some three years before, when
this dormouse, who was called Sailor, had a fellow-pet
called Soldier, that it said to her, ' Oh, Mistress, Sailor has
beaten me so cruelly that I have been obliged to run away
end hide in your box of worsted work.' Of course, when
the maid came in in the morning to wake her mistress, she
told her to fetch instantly the dormouse cage. The cage
was open ; a small soot of blood stained its door—Sailor
alone was there, and poor injured Soldier was missing.
" Fetch the box of worsted !'
" Ia vain it was tumbled over; no dormouse was to be
found. Who would be so silly as to believe in dreams !
" Three weeks afterwards, a doll's cap was wanted ; the
worsted box was again hunted over; 'and there, in a netted
cap, used as a bag for loose bits of worsted, was found
coiled up the missing dormouse. He was near starved,
aml had eaten half the worsted around him. All this is a
fact.'
As to the Parrot, we must let our author describe
his heartburnings on its account in his own words :

" We had an African parrot in a tin travelling box,
which I had often joyed to see the French porters, igno-
rant of its contents, bury under piles of baggage; but the
malicious beast would not be smothered, and generally ut-
tered some scream which startled and caused them to re-
lease it from its confinement. I own that I had
done all I could to cause its neck to be twisted,—
with. the chance of going into Italy, I had taught it to cry
a bas l'Autriche !" Viva Napoleon !' and I now la-
boured to make it say General Cass—hurra !' I fondly
hoped that some or other contending faction would silence
it for me; but there I now still hear it below stairs—
whistling, whooping, and crying Vive Napoleon !' as if
triumphant over me and all its own adventures."

With such an entourage our author sets forth on
his transatlantic wanderings. Scarcely has he
planted foot on the quay at New York when he is
struck by the abOminable aspect assumed by the mob
of emigrated Irishmen, the beasts of burden in the
large cities of tha Republic, well-to-do vagabonds
who, judging from this description of them, appear
to be the pest of the United States. Remember,
the estimate formed of them by Mr. Beste is
one eminently calculated to be dispassionate—
seeing that Mr. Beste is a co-relie,aionisii in his cha-
racter as an Aglish Roman Catholic gentleman.
Hear him speak, out of the fullness of his disgast,
scorn, and indignation of these—
London, England, 1855-02-24

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.
This afternoon the United States mail steam-.
ship Pacific, Capt. E. Nye, arrived in the Mersey
from the United States and British North America.
She sailed from New' York on the Bth instant,
having been detained by a snow storm. Her pas-,
sage has been very severe. She has brought, be-
sides the mails, 40 passengers, and half a million
dollars in specie on freight.
London, England, 1855-02-24

HOSPITAL STAFF.

To bo Acting Assistant-Surgeons —William Morris,
Gent., Jan. 31 William Stockwell, Gent., Jan. 31;
Stewart Aaron Lithgow, Gent., Feb. 3 ; William Sharp,
Gent., Feb. 3; James Denholm, M.D., Feb. 4; Frederick
Pratt, Gent., Feb. 12 ; George Wright, Gent., Feb. 13.
MEMORANDA.--The third Christian name of Ensign Fur-
neauv, appointed to an Ensigncy, without purchase, in
the 14th Foot, on the 13th Fob., is Lynd and not Lionel,
as previously stated.
The Christian names of Quartermaster Trotter, of the
Land Transport Corps, are James Cortlandt, and not C.
V. Trotter, as previously stated.
The promotion of Captain Walter C. E. Snow, of the
84th Foot, to bear date the 9th instead of the 19th of
January, 1855, as previously stated.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 17.

Corps of Royal Marines.—First-Lieutenant Edward
McArthur, appointed Lieutenant and Quartermaster, vice
Farmar, promoted.

ADMIRALTY, FE8.19.
CORPS OF ROYAL MARINES.

Lieutexant-Colonel John Land to full-pay retirement of
that rank, with the honorary rank of Colonel, under the
provision of her Majesty's Order in Council, Sept. 13,
1854.

FEB. 20.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Mitford to full-pay
retirement of that rank, with the honorary rank of Colo.
nel, under the provision of her Majesty's Order in Council,
Sept. 13, 1854.

FEB. 21.
Captain and Brevet-Major Fielding Alexander Camp-
bell to be Lieutenant-Coleael, vice Land, retired.

Captain George Evans Hunt to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Mitford, retired.
First Lieutenant John Charles Downie Morrison to be
Captain, vice Campbell, promoted.
First Lieutenant Charles Reed Driver to be Captain,

vice Hunt, promoted.
Second Lieutenant Anthony Malone to be First Lieu-
tenant, vice Morrison, promoted.
Second Lieutenant Melville Suther to be First Lieuten-

ant, vice Driver, promoted.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
2d Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Hugh Pearson,
Esq., late of the West Essex, to be Adjutant, Feb. 16.
London, England, 1855-02-24

O:WU 1f.4:4tt4 E.—Leisatie, Mr. E. T. Smith.-
licau.nd Prlcea a 3 usual.— A 31orning Performance every
Wo4oooday, ac Two o'clock.

THIS EVENING. F.°l3. 24,
Will be rerfo:med DOVES IN A CAGE.
Aftar which, THE WRITING ON THE SHI:TPERS.
To conclude with the Pantomime cf JACK AND JILL.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Ruekstone.
THIS EVENING. FEB. 24.

Will be performed GUY 11 iIf.NERING. Henry Bertram, Mr.
G. Tedder; Meg Merrilees, Miss Cushman.

Followed by the new grand Christmas Pantomime. entitled LITTLE
‘,..11° ,PEEP; or, Harlequin and the Girl wlao Lost her Sheep. Little
""„„. 'reel), Miss L. Thompson ; harlequin, Mr. Chapino ; Pantaloon,
Yr. W. Babies; Clown, Mr. Appleby ; Columb,ne, Miss M. Brown.
London, England, 1855-02-24

THE OTTOMAN CONTINGENT.

Officers of the Honourable East India Cempany's
army wite are desirous of service with the Ottoman
contingent will he pleased to present themselves at the
India House, between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.,
on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday next, when an
officer duly empowered to consider their claims will give
them a meeting.

_
(Signed) G. C. MUNDY.
War Department, Feb. 24, 1855.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday next.
1 at :Ile advanced age of 81.
ne3r, invalids of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
either at Alma
-',
consistingpartyofo:
Queen, at three
no r whoi had fought and been wounded
nkerman, were inspected by the
Grand Hall of Buckinghamo'clock yesterday afternoon, in the
per, ide.r Guards, has received
IlEwAnts Pon Disulo Palace.
, in reward fur his
ere, in conjunction
Major Thomas, of the GrueiramlT SHRVlCES.—Sergeant•
tal colours. The
an annuity of 201., with 2s.
distinguished services at Inkerrnial,enegt,nin
sergeant, with a
with Private Lee, he saved the
latter has been advanced to the rank Olf
similar pecuniary reward.
THE BREAD RIOTS.—The accounts published yester.
day by some of our contemporaries were very highly
coulmoubreerd. of
men
Last night, about eight o'clock, an immense
paraded the Caledonian-road levying
n
contributions. The police interfewl with mocks. 'Cr,
to two o'clock all was quiot to•day,
London, England, 1855-02-24

THE PENINSULA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 23.
The steam-ship Madrid, of the Peninsular ant
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Captain
Neil Cook, with the usual Peninsular mail, in
charge of Lieutenant Charlton, R.N., Admiralty
Agent, arrived this 23d day of February.
Her dates of sailing were :—Gibraltar, Feb. 16,
6.25 p.m.; Cadiz, 17th, 10.30 a.m.; Lisbon, 19th,
0.50 p.m.; Vigo, 26th, 6.05 p.m.
London, England, 1855-02-24

OUR ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL.

To rectify the various and daily mis-statements that are
put forth on the state of the army in the Crimea would be
an endless task. Now and then, however, some striking
misrepresentation appears to which it is impossible to
permit uncontradicted circulation.
Such was the assertion that, on the Ist of January, Lord
Raglan had barely fourteen thousand men capable of being
brought into the field. Even a loss number was mentioned.
Bntwhat was the fact ?

We are enabled to state, on authority to which we
challenge contradiction, that en the day specified the
total number of our army before Sebastopol was thirty-
eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-two men of all
arms, from whom must be deducted for sick (absent and
present) thirteen thousand nine hundrei and fifteen and
one hundred and ninety-six for prisoners in the hands of
the enemy, and the number actually available for duty will
be found to have been twenty-four thousand six hundred
and twenty-one Men, or upwards of ten thousand more
than was publicly, but most falsely, stated—and this ex-
clusive of the Naval Brigade.—Morning Post.
London, England, 1855-02-24

LLOYD'S SILLPPINGI-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Feb. 24.--Wind and weather this day at
noon S.W. ; light breeze, and fine weather. It is thawing
steadily. There has been only 6 dogs. of frost during the
night.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 23.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—
Madrid (s), from Gibraltar, &o.

,
FALMOUTH, Feb, 23.—Wind, N. The upward bound
were preparing to sail at 10 a.m.
PLYMOUTH, Feb. 23.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Tartar,
from Honduras. Sai!ed—A fleet of the outward bound.
DARTMOUTH, Feb. 23.—The Zoe (barque), of Exeter,
from Cardiff to Smyrna, foundered in the Bay of Biscay,
20th inst. ; the craw landed here, except one man, who
was drowned.
HULL, Feb. 23.--Wind, S.S.E. Sailed—Venerable,
for Greenland.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGIIAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning.

Wind, S.
Arrived—British Quoon, from Constantinople.
Off Port—Western Empire, from Now York.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb.. 3.
Arrived—Clansa, from St. Domingo; Ilaensta, Ha2ytk;
Sarah Milledge, Savannah • Syphertn, Callao; Saghalien,
Foo Chow Foo; Lord Seaton, Alexandria.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday, 9.57 A.M..
Wind, W. • tide, hours' ebb ; cloudy.
Arrived, 23d—Wilbeforce (s.), from Ostend.
Arrived, 24th—Panther (s.), from Boulogne ; Rhine (s.),
Ostend. -

DEAL, Saturday, 9.25 a.m.

Wind, W. ;
Via arrivals.

Advices from Pesth announce the death of Count
Joseph Teleky, which took place on the 16th inst. A
few due before the event he was engaged in writing his
historical work on the Era of the Hunyadee.
London, England, 1855-02-24

WAR-OFFICE, Fin. 23.

4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—gerjeant-Major Ed-
ward Harran to be Cornet, without purchase, Feb. 23.
Coleistream Guards—Lieutenant Rowland Hill Gordon,
from the 38th Regiment, to be Lieutenant and Captain,
without purchase ; Walter Stirling, Gent., to be Design
and Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Heneage, pro-
moted, Jan. 23.
18th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant R. H. Jex Blake
to be Adjutant, vice Wilkinson, promoted, Fob. 23.
221 Foot—Captain Win. Mills Molony, from the 83d
Foot, to bo Captain, vice Jones, who exchanges, Feb. 23.
39th Foot--Lieutenant Charles Milligan to be Adju-
tant, vice Wilson, promoted, Feb. 23.
42d Foot—George William Cockburn, Gant., to be En-
sign, without purchase, Feb. 23.
44th Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase—Robert
Montresor Rogers, Gent., Feb. 21; George Cuthbertson
Bower, Gent., Feb. 22; Charles Ford, Gent., Feb. 21
46th Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase—Frank
Grieve, Gent., Feb. 20 ; William John Foster, Gent., Feb.
21 ; Henry James Hitchcock, Gent., Feb. 22 ; George
Morland, Gent., Feb. 23.
47th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Ernest
Peaks Newman, Gent., Feb, 22; John Paigntou Mallet
• Gent, Feb, 23

50th toot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Tomas
Millard Benton Eden, Gent., Feb. 22; Charles Wynn
Isdell, Gent., Feb. 23.
51st Foot—Lieutenant H. George Augustus Powill,'lrom
the 15th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Burney, appointed to
a Depot Battalion, Feb. 23.
55th Foot—George Fortescue Parke, Gent., to be lfrn.
sign, without purchase, Feb. 23. •
57th Foot—Edward Mills, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, Feb. 23.
62d Foot—Henry R. Johnstone, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, Feb. 23.
63d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Sutherland, from h►lf-
pay, Unattached, to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
Feb. 23. _ _

68th Foot—George Tumor, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, Feb. 23.
71st Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Stratton
Boulnois, Gent., Feb. 22 ; Charles Tovia Cramer Roberts,
Gent., Feb. 23.

77th Foot--Ensign M. A. Waters, from the 89th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice France, who retires,
Feb. 23. To be Ensigns without purchase—Joseph Dooley,
Gent., Feb. 21; Charles Bertram Saunders, Gent., Feb.
22 ; Sydney Smith, Gent., Feb. 23.
79:1 Foot—To be Ensign, without purchase—Neil
C.impbell, Gent., Feb. 22 ; Douglas Alleyne, Gent.,
Feb. 23.

83:1 Foot—Captain R. C. Jones, from the 22(1 Foot, to
be Captain, vice Molony, who exchanges, Feb. 23.

BREVET.

Major• General Simpson to have the local rank of Lieu-
tenant-General, while employed on the Staff of the Army
serving in the Crimea, Aug.l6.
Captain J. Forbes Bruce, of the 12th Regiment, Bom-
bay Native Infantry, employed on a particular service in
Turkey, to hare the local rank of Major, while so em-
ployed, Feb. 23.
London, England, 1855-02-24

THE PENINSITLA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 23.
The steam-ship Madrid, of the Peninsular and.
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Captain
Neil Cook, with the usual Peninsular mail, in,
charge of Lieutenant Charlton, R.N., Admiralty
Agent, arrived this 23d day of February.
Her dates of sailing were :—Gibraltar, Feb. 16,,
6.25 p.m.; Cadiz, 17th, 10.30 a.m.; Lisbon, 19th,
OM p.m.; Vigo, 26th, 6.05 p.m.
London, England, 1855-02-24

entitled. - -
it is absolutely necessary thatall men should know, that there are
rinciples of personal management'which cannot be violated without
t curring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
.he heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
nay be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
I,ld how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
terangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure.
fheAuthor has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive
Jractice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have
infortnnately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant
empirics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place
f iith in their pretensions.
NERVOUS DEBILITY may be kad, price 2s, of Messrs. Piper,
Brothers, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street;
Borne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for
dirty stamps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Eed-
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Six sib Kigkt.
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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1855.

NIONEY

SHARE MARKETS.

(TEtIB DAY.)

RAILWAYS.

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AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.
This afternoon the United States mail steam-
ship Pacific, Capt. E. Nye, arrived in the Mersey
from the United States and British North America.
She sailed from New York on the Bth instant,
having been detained by a snow storm. Her pas-
sage has been ♦ery severe. She has brought, be-
sides the mails, 40 passengers, and half a million
dollars in specie on freight.

MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.

General Post-office, Feb., 1855.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany being unable at present to resume the conveyance
of the mails for Australia, via Singapore, the Postmas-
ter-General has made a contract with the owner of the
sailing vessel Blue Jacket, to convey the mails of March
next round the Cape of Good Hope.
The " Blue Jacket" is appointed ti sail from Liver-
pool on the 4th March next, and all letters and
newspapers for New South Wales, Victoria, South
Australia and Van Diemen's Land, posted in London
up to the evening of the 3d March, or posted or re-
ceived in Liverpool up to the morning of the 4th March,
and not addressed to be sent by any other vessel, will
be forwarded by the "Blue Jacket."

The packet rates of postage will be chargeable on let•
tern, but newspapers will not he liable to any postage.
Those postmasters whose instructions direct them to
forward letters to Liverpool by cross post, will send in
the same manner, on the present occasion, letters posted
at their offices, addressed to Australia.