The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-21 00:00:00

BILL OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY

NOTES BILL.
On the order of the day for going into committee on
this bill,

Mr. VANCE moved that the house resolve itself
into committee this day week.
After some discussion, in which Mr. BEATING and
Sir G. GREY took paiq, the house divided on the original
motion.

For the motion
Against
Majority l2l
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD objected to the house going
into committee merely as a matter of form upon a bill
which he believed to be alarmingly dangerous to the
commercial interest.

After some discussion upon this point, which was in-
terrupted by the standing orders at a quarter before six
o'clock,

Some other business on the paper was disposed of, and
the house adjourned a few minutes before six o'clock,

ADMIRAL LYONS AT TAGANRO&i.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg publishes the
following report from Lieutenant-General Kras-
noff :

TAGANROG, JUNE 3.
On the Ist and 2nd inst. 10 hostile steamers arrived
in the roads of Taganrog, and cast anchor at the dis-
tance of 15 werstes (1 werst equal to 5 furlongs 12 poles)
from the town. On the 2d towards the evening they
were joined by a numerous flotilla of steamers and gun-
boats, and on the 3d, at 6 o'clock in the morning, the
entire hostile force approached the town. Four steamers
took in tow some 50 of the small boats, and came with-
in 1 werst of the town. A yawl bearing a white flag
having approached the Woronzoff landing-place with
parlementaires, I sent to demand why they were come. I
received for an answer a summons to deliver up the town
of Taganrog, and to order my troops to leave it, as other-
wise it would be seized by the landing troops with force.
On the other hand, it was promised that after the surren-
der of the town the peaceable inhabitants should be well
treated, and their property spared ; but the provisions
stores, and establishments of the Crown would be de-
stroyed. After consulting with Major-General Count
Telrtoi, Governor of Taganrog, I ordered a reply to be
" made that military honour forbade me to surrender
without combat a town committed to me for defence,
th.t our troops were ready to die for the Emperor, and
that if the enemy really wished to spare the peaceable
inhabitants he might land and accept outside the town
the battle which should decide who should be its mas-
ters." But the parlementaires had scarcely rejoined the
flotilla when the enemy opened fire at half-past nine
against our ancient fortress, although there exists now
in that building only hospitals, over which the proper
hospital flag was waving. In the interval I had taken
the following measures to defend the town ; the de-
fence of the, principal approach by the escaped hill,
leading from the quay to Greek-street, I confided to
Major-General Count Tolstoi. The demi-battalion of
the garrison of Taganrog bad been posted near the
escarpment, with about two hundred civilians hastily
armed. In case of an attack Count Tolstoi was to
advance with his infantry and three centurions of
Don Cossacks, charge the enemy with the bayonet and
overthrow him, while a regiment was to take the enemy
in flank and so decide the affair. But instead of des-
cending as expected, the allies, after having brought
their steamers and fifty gunboats to bear opposite the
dockyard, commenced an infernal cannonade, which was
kept up for 61 hours. At the same time seven of the
enemy's large vessels, armed with enormous Paixhans
guns and Congreve rockets, remained anchored at a dis-
tance, and concentrated their fire upon the town. No-
thing was heard but the roar of cannon, the bursting of
shells. The town was set on fire at the Bourse, in Greek-
street, and at the Golinoi-road ; and at half past three
the assailants landed about 300 men, whom they sent
towards the height n •ar the church of the Czar Corstm-
tine. This detachment commenced a rifle fire behind
some bushes, but at the critical moment Count Tolstoi,
confiding a company to Lieut.-Colonel Makedonsky,
ordered him to repulse the enemy. This distinguished
officer placed his men in an enclosure protected
by an orchard, instantly f)rced the enemy's in-
fantry to retire, then charging them vigorously with the
bayonet, routed and drove them down to their boats.
The squadron then opened a terrible fire, which, how-
ever, only lasted a quarter of an hour. The allies hav-
ing convinced themselves of the impossibility of over-
coming Russian troops by a mere cannonade, withdrew
to a (ii,tamee of 15 wersts from the town, and on the fol-
lowing day put to sea, making for Marioupol.
Thus ended this fresh act of impotent animosity di-
rected against a peaceable and commercial city, which
for so runny years bad supported the West with its splen-
did wheat—against a c.ty that ought to have been sacred
for England, France, and especially Sardinia, in remem-
brance of the last days of the Emperor Alexander, who
had heaped so many benefits upon that nation.
By the most special favour of God our loss during this
bombardment was inc insiderable; a Cossack was killed ;
the Sub-Lieutenant Volkoff, attached to the half-battalion
in garrison, was severely wounded by two rifle bullets
in the chest and head ; the collegiate assessor, Baron
Franck, attached to the military governor, Count Tols-
toi, received a contusion in the head from the splinter of
a shell, and Major Borzenko, the head of the Taganrog
police, had his horse killed under him, and himself re
ceived a contusion : twelve men were wounded. In-
quiries are being made, so as to ascertain the number of
inhabitants killed or wounded, and the houses burned or
destroyed.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg contains the fol-
lowing news from the Crimea and the coast of the
Sea of Azoff :
The journal of the military operations in the Crimea
received yesterday (June 9), from Aide-de-Camp General
Prince G ortscha,koff, contains the following details, which
complete his telegraphic despatch of June 3.
Bvfore Sebastopol, from the 29th of May to the 3d of
June, the besiegers have maintained but a very feeble
cannonade, which it increased for a brief interval
(on June 1 for instance), especially against the
Quarantine Bastion and the adjacent batteries. During
the whole of this time our loss has been trifling,
on some days not greater than Si; and that of the
wounded twelve. The enemy was busy in constructing
fresh batteries against the Flagstaff, Central, and Quar-
antine bastions, and against the Mamelon lunette; he
completed his trenches and actively carried on his works
in the bays of Kamiesh and Strelets. The explosions of
small mining chambers by the enemy against the Flag-
staff bastion did us no harm, as was previously the case.
On our side, we repaired the fortifications, constructed
two fresh batteries and three lodgments for the sharp.
shooters, effected a communication betww•eeen the redoubts
of Seiinghinsk and Volhynia, and advanced considerably
the mining works in front of the Central and Quarantine
bastions.

On the 29th of May, the enemy end eavoured to take
one of our new lodgments near the Seli nghinsk redoubt;
hut, received by the fire of our sharpshooters and of 90
men from Count Diebitsh Zabalkanskyrs regiment of in-
fantry, that had come to their succour, he retired, leav-
ing in our hands one wounded man and 5 muskets.
All was quiet in the detachment of Tchorgoun and
before Euoatoria.
In what concerns the operations of the enemy's
squadron in the Sea of Azoff, the details transmitted to
us by Aide-de-Cnrnp Gcner.ti 174ortsebakoff arc,
for the most part, already known by his previous tele-
graphic despatches. In general, the entrance of our ene-
mies into this sea, announced so bombastically by them,
has been signalised merely by the inglo rions devastation
of our coasts, and the destruction of a few corn maga.
zines. But it has had in no respect tile+ influence they
anticipated on the general progress of our operations in
the Crimea. This event was not unexpected by us; in
fact, owing to local circumstances, it a'as impossible to
take measures for the defence of Ker tc:b, with merely
our land forces, against any squadrons of the enemy
stronger than usual. In case of a des oent being made
by considerable forces the garrisons of IK ertch and Yeni-
kale had previously received orders to abandon and blow
up the batteries of the coast, so as to ior event their fall-
ing into the power of the enemy to our detriment.
Therefore, as he bad expected some Mt( anpt on the part
of the allies against the Sea of Azoff, and as he, not-
withstanding, deemed it expedient to keep his entire
force in a state of concentration, rather than disperse it
for guarding all the coast-line, Prince Gortscbakoff had
made arrangements for having the gr eater part of the
provisions destined for the troops in the . Crimea brought
to them by land, notwithstanding all the advantages
possessed by water-carriage. In cons equence, among
the corn magazines and the ships burn, id by the enemy
along the coasts of the Sea of Azoff, there was but a
mall number of those intended for ca rrying provisions
for the troops. At this point, as last y ear in the Baltic,
it has been the private property of individuals that has
chiefly suffered from the cruelty of the enemy.
After making its appearance, as is wi ill known, before
Berdiensk, Genitchi, and Arabat, the allied squadron
made the town of Taganrog, celebrated . for its corn trade,
the new goal of its operations. But he re also this squa-
dron met with unexpected resistance. The town was
held by a weak detachment of troops, u nder the superior
command of Lieut.-Gen. Krasnoff.

FRAUD ON TWO LIVERPOOL MEROHAN 'TS.--Yesterday,
at the Liverpool Police-court, Mr. Cm away, barrister,
applied for a warrant against a person ne ailed Jasper Wil-
liam Rogers, for swindling Mr. Massey in ci Mr. Hughes,
merchants, of Liverpool, out of 5001. It appeared that
Rogers formed the acquaintance of the gi mtlernen named
at the Rock Ferry Hotel, and by florid representations
of some extensive works which he bad in Ireland in con-
nexion with a patent process of deodorishag charcoal, in-
duced them to agree to become his agents in Liverpool,
they paying down 501. in cash, and subsequently giving
b'lls of exchange to the amount of 5001. Something
having excited Mr. Massey's suspicion, he went over to
Ireland and discovered that no charmoal works existed
there belonging to Rogers. The ma3istrates granted
the application.