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SIEGE of SEBASTOPOL.—ROYAL
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Increased attrac-
tlals. In consequence of the popularity of the brilliant Spec-
tacle of the Siege and Bombardment of Sebastopol, the Proprietor
has resolved that no efforts shall be wanting on his part to merit a
continuance of the public favour. New incidents, suggestive of mili-
tary life in the trenches, will be depicted. The unrivalled Military
Band of the establishment has been considerably increased, and the
Troupe of Spanish Minstrels, being established favourites here, have
been re-engaged for a limited period previous to their Continental
tour. Every evening this week :—Danson's colossal modelled picture
of Sebastopol. Dioramic views of Cronstadt, Revel, Helsingfors.
Odessa, Balaklava, Eupatorla, and Cathcart's-hill, painted expressly
for this establishment by P. Phillips. A Grand Vocal and Instru-
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novel amusements will conclude with the Siege of Sebastopol, and
matchless pyrotechnic display. Feeding the Animals at a quarter
past live. Repulse of the Russian sortie, and reception of the Russian
flag of truce, at Six. Concert at half-past six. Bombardment, &c.,
at half-past Nine. Admission, Is.

well as much forage, had fallen into our hands in spite of
considerable numbers of Cossack horse.
Nothing could exceed the zeal and energy displayed by
every officer and man throughout the clay ; and the skilful
manner in which the various officers in command of her
Majesty's vessels took up their positions in the morning,
the beautiful accuracy of the fire, and the care with which
the squadron was handled in shallow water, deserve to be
called to your favourable notice. The able and cheerful co-
operation of the French throughout the day was beyond
all praise.--I have, &c.,,
(Signed) SHERARD OSBORN,
Commander and Senior Officer.
Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., G.C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief.

H.M.S. Vesuvius, Gulf of Azof, July 21.
Sir,—The day I closed my last report to you, the Beagle,
Lieutenant. Hewett, was detached to Berdiansk.
Lieutenant Hewett rejoined me yesterday, and reports
that one of the Russian sunken vessels was blown up.
Lieutenant Hewett, the same evening, landed under cover
of his vessel's guns, and destroyed an extensive collec-
tion of fish stores, and two large granaries full of corn.
On the 17th of July, in consequence of information re-
ceived of extensive depots of corn and forage existing at a
town called Glofira, upon the Asiatic coast, near Gheisk,
I proceeded there with the squadron, accompanied by the
French steamers Milan and Mouette. The Vesuvius and
Swallow were obliged to anchor some distance off shore, I
therefore sent Commander Rowley Lambert (her Ma-
jesty's ship Curlew), with the gun-boats named in the
margin* to reconnoitre in force, and if an opportunity oc-
curred, to destroy any stores of provisions or of forage, he
was to do so. Commander Lambert found Glofira and its
neighbourhood swarming with cavalry ; the town an open
straggling agricultural villtge, and no appearance
of corn or forage in it; he therefore very properly
confined his operations to destroyirrig, upon Glofira Spit,
some very extensive corn and fish stores, but spared the
town. The skill with which this service, was executed in
the face of large bodies of cavalry, reflects no small credit
upon Commander Lambert; and he speaks most highly of
the able assistance rendered him by the French officers and
men under Captains De Cintre and L'Allemand.
From Glofira I next proceeded to the Crooked Spit, in
the Gulf of .Asof, the French squadron parting company to
harass the enemy in the neighbourhood of Kamisheva and
Obitotchna.

The squadron reached Crooked Spit the same day (July
18) ; and I immediately ordered Commander Frederick
Craufurd, in the Swallow, supported by the gun-boats
Grinder, Boxer, and Cracker, and the boats of her
Majesty's ships Vesuvius, Curlew, and Fancy, under
Lieutenants Grylls, Rowley, and Sulivan, to proceed
and clear the spit of the cavalry and Cossacks of the
enemy, and then land and destroy the groat fishing
establishments situated upon it. Commander Cran-
ford executed this service with great vigour,
and his report I have the honour to enclose. The extra-
ordinary quantity of nets and stores of fish, and the scale
of the works destroyed fully confirm the statements made
by the work people that their occupation consisted in sup-
plying food to the army in the Crimea, everything going
to Simpheropol by the great northern road along the
steppe. 'Whilst this service was being executed I recon-
noitred the mouth of the river Mious, fifteen miles west of
Taganrog, in her Majesty's ship Jasper, Lieutenant J. S.
Hudson. The shallow nature of the coast would not allow
us to approach within a mile and three quarters of what
in the chart is marked as Fort Temenos. The fortification
was an earthwork of some extent and ditched but not
pierced for guns. It was evidentiy of an old date, and as
I could see no one within it, I again returned to the same
place, accompanied by the boats of her Majesty's ships
Vesuvius and Curlew, and her Majesty's gun-vessels,
Cracker, Boxer, and Jasper.
Cavalry in large bodies, armed for the most part with
carbines or rifles, were evidently much harassed by riding
upon supposed points of attack; and when we got to Fort
Temonos, and the usual Cossack picquet had been driven
off, I and Commander Lambert proceeded at once with
the light boats into the river. When there, and imme-
diately under Fort Temonos, which stands upon a steep
escarps of eighty feet, we found ourselves looked down
upon by a large body of, both horse and foot, lining the
ditch and parapet of the work. Landing on the opposite
bank, at good rifle-shot distance, one boat's crew, under
Lieutenant Rowley, was sent to destroy a collection of
launches and a fishery, whilst a careful and steady fire of
Minie rises kept the Russians from advancing upon us.
Assuring ourselves of the non-existence of any object
worth hazarding so small a force any farther, we returned
to the vessels, passing within pistol shot of the Russian
ambuscade. The cool steadiness of the officers and
men in the gigs, together with the wonderful precision
of the fire from the covering vessels, distant as
they were, doubtless kept the enemy in check, and
prevented serious consequences. To Commander Lam-
bert, Lieutenants Grylls and Rowley, and Mr. Tabu-
teau (Mate), who were in the gigs, as well as to Lieute-
nants Marryatt, Townshend, and Hudson, who commanded
the gun-vessels my best thanks are due.
The gig of the Grinder, under Lieutenant Hamilton,
had a narrow escape upon the same day from a similar
ambuscade, at a place called Kirpe, 10 miles east of Mari-
anpel, the very proper humanity of Lieutenant Hamilton
in not firing into au open defenceless town as it appeared
to him, having nigh entailed the loss of a boat's crew when
attempting to land and destroy a corn store. A heavy fire
of musketry at half pistol shot providentially injured no
one, and Lieutenant Hamilton appears to have most skil
fully escaped.
The lUth July, I reconnoitred Taganrog in the Jasper
gun-boat. A new battery was being constructed upon the
heights near the hospital, but. although two shots were
thrown into it, it did not reply.
Every part of the town showed signs of the injuries it
had received when we visited it under the late Capt. Ed-
mund Lyons, of the Miranda. The long series of Govern-
ment stores burnt by the Allied Flotilla had not been re-
paired, and-the only sign of any communication being now
held, by water, with the Don, was one large barge upon
the beach.

To put a stop, however, to all traffic of this nature, and
to harass tho enemy in this neighbourhood, I have ordered
Commander Craufurd to remain in the Gulf of Azoff, with
two gun-vessels under his orders.
. .

That the squadron has not been idle, I trust this report
will show ; and without entering more into details than I
have done, I can assure you, Sir, that from Ghenitch to
Taganrog, and thence round to Kamiskeva, we have kept
the coast in a state of constant alarm, and their troops
incessantly moving. The good service done by the gun-
boats in this way has been very great. •
The total amount of provisions, corn, fisheries, forage,
and boats destroyed, has been something enormous.
Nothing can exceed the zeal and activity of the officers,
or good conduct of the men, constituting this squadron;
and constant work does not, I am happy to say, appear as
yet to impair their health.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) SHERARD OSBORN,
Commander and Senior officer.
Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., G.C.8., &c.

H.M.S. Swallow, off Crooked Spit,
Sea of Azoff, July 15.
Sir,—ln compliance with your orders, I proceeded in
her Majesty's steam gun-boat Grinder, with Cracker and
Boxer, and boats of the squadron to reconnoitre the
Crooked Spit.
Having cleared the Spit of some mounted troops who
occupied it, I orderel a detachment of boats, with their
respective officers, to land and destroy the immense fishing
establishments and nets found upon the point of it. The
country seemed swarming with cavalry, but, by the able
management of the officers in command of the gun-boats,
and by their good fire, they were effectually driven off the
Spit some distance inland.
Having reconnoitred as far into the land as we could see
from the mast head of the Grinder, all the boats were or-
dered to laud and set fire to very large and extensive Go-
vernment stores upon the upper part of the Spit, includ-
ing large fishing establishments, an enormous quantity of
nets, haystacks, and several large houses used as Govern-
ment stores. I learnt from a Russian fisherman that the
fish caught on this spit and cured here was immediately
forwarded to Simpheropol, for the use of the Crimean
army; and I conclu•.le that a very severe blow has been in-
flicted on the enemy by the amount of property which was
destroyed, including spars, timber, fish, nets, and boats;
apparently the most extensive fishing establishments in
the Sea of Azof ; and I am happyto say without a casualty.
My thanks are• due to Lieutenant Hamilton, of Grinder,
and Townsend, of Boxer, as also to Lieutenants Rowley,
of Curlew ; Grylls, of Fancy ; Sullivan, of Vesuvius; Mr.
Aldrich, Master of Swallow ; Mr. Deare, Gunner of Cur-
lew, and Mr. Windsor, Gunner of Swallow; who all and
each by their zeal and activity rendered great service in
destroying so large an accumulation of stores and houses
in so short a space of time.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) FRED. A. B. CRAUFURD,
Commander.
Commander Osborne, Senior Officer.

• Fancy, Grinder, Boxer, Cracker, Jasper, Wrangler.
Boats of Vesuvius and Swallow.

. .
Nicholas K.emmia to be Lieutenant, vioe Clarke, resigned;
Ralph Sadler, Gent:, to be Ensign, vice Kemmis, promoted;
Ensign May Jenkins Freestun to be Lieutenant, vice Rey-
nolds, resigned ;. Robert Chaffey Chaffey, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Freestnn, proMoted.
Warwickshire Militia-Ist Regiment—Ensign Henry
Horace Eden to 'be Lieutenant ; Wedderburn Hannah
McKenzie,. Gent., to be Ensign ; John Robert Breeden,
Gent., to be Ensign. 2d Regiment—Ensign John Brown
to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Bowyer Wenham Cave Brown
Cave to be Lieutenant, vice Jackson, resigned ; Charles
Bagnall, Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal Flintshire Militia—Adjutant 'Frederick Mathias
to serve with _the rank of Captain.
-South Salopian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Chas.
Morris, Gent., to be Cornet.
Ist Durham Regiment of Militia—Henry James Field-
ing, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Wells, promoted.
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Edgar Lowe, Gent.
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Shirley, promoted.
Fifeshire Militia Artillery—Second Lieutenant William
Haig to be First Lieutenant, vice George Hannay, pro-
moted.
Aberdeenshire Royal Regiment of Militia—Robert Mac-
farlane, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
John Bates Marston, Gent., to be Ensign.
Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieutenant Henry Lan-
noy Hunter to be Captain, vice Hawley, resigned ; Cornet
George Sclater to be Lieutenant, vice Hunter, promoted ;
George Arthur Jervoise Scott, Gent., to be Cornet, vice
Sclater, promoted.
[This Article ik substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of the 3d inst.]
2d Cornwall Rifles—Edward St. Aubyn, jun., Gent.,
to be Ensign.

ADMIRALTY, Aua. 13.
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Notice is hereby given to the ofr3cers and crew of her
Majesty's ship Tribune, and to all other persons interested
therein, that in the advertisement published in the
London Gazette of the 20th and 24th July, 1855, giving
notice of preparations making for the int 3nded distribution
of certain Russian Vessels, five in number, .captured by
her Majesty's ship, Tribune, one of such vessels the
" Fenix " or " Phoenix," was wrongly described as having
been captured on the 13th, instead of the 12th April, 1854,
which last-mentioned is the correct date of capture.