The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-29 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

ST. ANDREW'S AND QUEBEC.
Theadjourned half-yearly meeting of the Class A share-
holders of this company was held yesterday at the office,
Parliament-street; Mr. F. Edwards in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN explained that the object of the meet-
ing was to complete the business which had been left
undone. Since the adjournment on the 26th of April
last several of the proprietors had kindly offered their
services to assist the directors, with a view to get the
company out of its difficulties. They bad acted very
cordially with the directors, and had agreed upon cer-
tain resolutions, which would be submitted to the meet-
ing. The first business they had to proceed with was
the election of directors and auditors.

Mr. F. Edwards and Mr. J. Montague, the retiring
directors, were re-elected, and Mr. R. C. Cheltenham
.was elected a direBtor, in the room of Mr. Maudsiay,
resigned. Mr. Groves was elected an auditor in the
room of Mr. Wythes._

The CHAIRMAN said it yvts proposed to send a depu-
tation from the board to Canada, in order to negotiate
with the railroad company and the local Government,
with the view of making arrangements for the comple-
tion of the railway to Woodstock as soon as possible.
In the course of a short discussion, a series of re-
solutions were passed, expressing surprise and re-
gret that the New Brunswick Government persist in
their refusal to deliver to the railroad company the
f1tip.'4#1,40,.411,-vespeetref—theistrares-wWi'
vernment have,subscrilied, notwithstanding that the
expenditure made by the company fully entitles
them to the debentures ; the result of this proceeding
would be to delay the works and damage the credit of
the province; expressing deep regret that the bill sanc-
tioning the plan to complete the works was lost by a
majority of one in the last cession, through the divided
support of the. Go-vernment ; also expressing regret grid
surprise that the hirther grants of land which the Class
A shareholders were led to expect would be transferred
to the railway company as heretofore, have also been
withheld, by which course the completion of the line is
materially impeded and a valuable source of raising
capital taken from then, ; and authorising a deputation
to proceed to Canada, for the purpose of negotiating
with the railway company and the Government for the
completion of the railway to Woodstock, and otherwise
to forward the interests of the company.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors con-
cluded the proceedings.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending June 24, 1855 £5,390 8 6
Corresponding week last year 5,846 8 1

Decrease in 1855 .

£455 19 7

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fore. Amongst the foremost of the first-class clipper
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direction of Messrs. Henry Thomas and Co., which is
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SEA OF AZOFF, JUNE 10.
In my last letter I left off with the bats of the boats ready
to attack Taganrog. I now proceed with iny'account. Our
arrival so close to the to n had evidently caused some sur-
prise and great consternation, for the people assembled in
crowds on the cliffs and operi spaces to look at us, and we
could observe women kneeling down and praying outside the.
churches. Taganrog; is built on a IoW cliff.. The part .we could
see most plainly consisted of two or three churches and a
• number of detached buildings, which looked like tarracks.
One of these was a handsome edifice, which the interpreter
beforementioned, whom we 'brought away from Berdiansk,
told me was an hospital, and his information proved to be cor-
rect. Besideilliis, were some fine holises—one of them ap-
parently the Governor's.
Below the cliff was the Custom-house, a large yellow build-
ing, . with small buildings attached, and sentry-boxes • and
flagstaffs were all painted black and white, as is usual in Rus-
sia ; also a long range of storehouses; a building yard, with
sonic 20 vessels, and a large raft-of store timber, which bad
-probably been floated down the Don. :No batteries could be
seen. On an elevated mound in the town we could see some
• embrasures, but they were all in a dilapidated state, and gave
us-no cause to suspect that any guns were mounted there.
When the flag of truce went on shore the governor was not
forthcoming. They said he had gone out of the town, and an
hour was granted for them to sent to him. At the expira-
tion he,replied to the"usual &initial—viz., that all shipping.
and Government property should be given up without remist-
once, and that private:property should be respected—that Ire
would not comply with it,; that lie had a number of troops in
the town, and could not submit without a fight: Accordingly
the two boats returned with the -intelligence; and the flag of
truce was hauled down: and the boats, which had been formed
in a long line astern of the Danube and the Recruit, advanced,
our rocket boats on the right, aNclthe French boats on the
left. We could see Cossacks drivin back and dispersing the
.ds of people.asserabled -on the cliff, a sure sign of what
they expected.
At 9.31 i a.m. the first shot, an eight-inch Moorsom's shell,
was fired from the Recruit; it struck the Custom-house and
burst inside. The Danube also fired rockets at the same
building, and, after both steamers had directed their fire on
it for about half-an-hour, flames broke out from every part,
and it burnt fiercely the whole day. It was full of grain or
other stores for the Russian army. Soon after our fire com-
menced the Russians hoisted black flags on three of the most
conspicuous buildings, to denote that they were hospitals,
and, as far as I could see, they remained untouched by our
fire at the close of- the day, although in such a crowd of
building, it was difficult to avoid occasionally striking any
one'in particUlar. Large convoys were seen leaving thetown,
consisting of the inhabitants driving off their cattle, removing
their effects, &c. The boats advanced unmolested, as the
Russians had no artillery to reply to the fire of our guns ; but
troops were seen partially concealed behind a church and the
supposed governor's house. The boats poured a heavy fire
of shells and rockets into the long range of buildings on the
beach to flue them and dislodge any troops which might have
been concealed there, and when they arrived. within range the
Russians replied with a fire of musketry, which, happily, had
little effect.

Orders had been given in the morning not to fire at the
churches, but when the Russian troops were seen to shelter
themselves in them, and to fire from behind the railings out-
side, the orders were cancelled, and shells and rockets., di-
rected at the church in question soon dislodged the enemy.
The governor's hOuse fared no better, and a large fire, broke
out in an adjoining building. While all this was going on a
man ran down to the beach, near the Custom-house, took off
his cap, waved it over his head, and gesticulated violently,
until a boat went in with a white flag and brought him to
Capt. Lyons, who was on board the Recruit. When he first
came he was so drunk as not to be able to give an account of
himself. He was dressed in uniform, and, when he became
tolerably sober, stated that he belonged to the Commissariat,
and was attached to the hospital, in which there were nearly
200 men. He said that the troops in the town consisted of
four regiments of Cossacks. On being asked his reason for
deserting, he said that neither he nor the other soldiers were
well treated, and that he had heard that the English brandy
was very good, and that he wanted to taste it, and requested
to have some. However, he was considered to have already
had enough--at least for the present. Another modest re-
quest he made—that he might be put on shore again—was
also refused.

I think it probable that many others would have come over
to us—if they had had an opportunity—but too many desert-
ers are, after all, a great encumbrance. Many men were seen,
while our fire was hottest, to take off their caps and kneel
down, facing towards the boats. •
At 11.30 a.m. there was five distinct fires in the town and
storehouses, including the shipping and,large Taft of timber
before mentioned, These were all one, the eastern side of
the promontory on which Taganrog is built. On the western
side the scene was different, large flocks of geese were swim-
ming about, and a herd of cattle, standing leg-deep in the
water, reminded me strongly of the prints of Landseer's pic-
tures of " Peace " and " War," which one sees in the win-
dows of print shops in London.
By 3.15 p.m. our object was accomplished, and the boats
returned. The damage done was immense. All the Govern-

meat buildings were in flames, and would soon be utterly
consumed. Two churches were considerably damaged, and
the town itself had not escaped. From the custom-house,

which was at the point of the promontory, to the shipping
in the bay to the eastward, could not, have been less than a
mile and a-half, and was a nearly continuous line of flame.
The governor's house, close to whielvwas another large fire,
was on the cliff aboTe,_. of the,
-mom inittrierincrwoundea mat a en could erable.
Our less was merely some two or three very aightly wounded.
That it was not greater is to be attributed more to the vigor-
ous and overwhelming fire kept up by the boats, which pre-
vented all serious molestation, than to what people might er-
roneously suppose was the unarmed state of the enemy, who
poured in a sharp and constant fire of musketry. Bad our
men landed to burn the buildings without baying been
covered by the fire of the boats, they would have been in-

evitably cut off by the Cossacks, and Our loss might have
been serious. Still I consider the means of resistance the
Russians possessed far inadequate to repel the great naval
force we could bring against them, and ib must have been as
evident to them at to us ; moreover, that the governor was
greatly to blame for exposing the inhabitants to so much un-
necessary misery to satisfy a point of false etiquette. Ido
not recognise the beauties of a paternal Government which
causes so much affliction to its subjects. There is, however,
another side to the question, which at first did not occur to
me. The governor, mindful of the adage that " Charity be-
gins at home," might have thought tha4 had he surrendered
without resistance, ho would shortly have paid an unwilling
visit to Siberia, or remained as a private soldier where he was
then in chief command.

The boats brought back with them from the shore another
prisoner, who was taken with a musket in his hand. He was
a civilian, and was groggy. He said that the police had yes-
terday issued arms to the inhabitants, and told them to de-

fend themselves. The gunraft, mentioned in my last letter,
proved of great service. Upwards of 80 rounds were fired
without causing the least damage to the raft. It has since
been towed some hundred miles astern of the Stromboli, going
at full speed and in rough weather, and is now as strong as
when it was first constructed.
The boats returned to the ships about 8 p.m., bringing
down with them two Greek vessels found at anchor off Tagan-
rog, and which their respective masters declared had been
detained there by the blockade. No doubt, they have made
a good thing of it daring the past winter, by conveying stores
for the Russian army across the Sea of Azoff. They will be
towed to Kertch, and cast adrift in the Black Sea, and there-
by be prevented from rendering any further assistance to the
Russians. The operations of the day wore under the sole
direction of Captain Coles, of the Stromboli. Captain Lyons
was present, but did not interfere.
During the day the Minna went with a launch to the mouth
of the Don to destroy some vessels seen there. The water
was so shallow that she was unable to roach them, and all,
except one, escaped up the river. The shallow water at the
entrance of the Don is to be regretted, as we are thereby pre-
vented from extending our operations up to Azoff and Rostoff,
where it is said there are a number of gun-boats and a great
quantity of military stores. There is a manifest deficiency in
the equipment of this squadron. I allude to the want of a land
force to co-operate 'with the boats. The vessels composing the
squadron could easily carry 500 more Marines, who would
prove of the most essential service, and enable us to pene-
trate into the towns, and thereby destroy stores, &c., at a
distance from the water, whereas at present it is rarely safe
to land in a town offering resistance, or, at all events, to
move the seamen and few Marines we have beyond the beach,
lest they should be cut oft' by au unseen enemy. These 500
Marines would land, taking field-pieces with them, and prove
more than a match for four times their numbers of Cossacks.

JuNe 14.
The squadron weighed, and anchored off Marionpol, a neat-
looking town, apparently incapable of offering any resistance.
A church and club-house are, as usual, the most prominent
buildings. The latter seems to be, an institution common to
all Russian towns I have seen. They are generally very con-
spicuous, having green roofs.
_Few. there aro who have seen
Sebastopol and do not recolleeti tho club-house there— so plain
to be seen, but so difficult to be entered.

JUNE 5.

At 6.30 a.m. the boats went.in with a flag of truce. The
Austrian Consul came down, authorised to surrender. He
said that some troops had left the town yesterday as soon as
We arithored. As ho Would not consent to our destroying
some storehouses, fun of grain, which he asserted were pri-
vita property, all of which grain goes to support the
Rustian armies in the Crimea, Captain Lyons ordered the
ilag Of truce to be hauled down, and a feW shatS Were fired
from the ships by *ay of effect. A shot fired from a gun-
boat struck the: Church; fell over the porch, and the shot
ell td the Frrouridi A • Rtissian ran np to it, tried to lift it,
but he could not ; so he proceeded to roll it away across the
.open ground in front Of the church. In this he was assisted
by andther tninnd they soon got it out of sight. Parties
of seamen and Marines Were landed, and marched through
the town ; no molestation was offered to them ; indeed most
of the inhabitants had deserted the place, and the few who
remained gave every assistance, pointed out the stores and
public buildings, and even gate beer to the men. There
Were no 'kakis, but some vast grain stores, the police and
passport-office Custom-house, dm., were burnt. Geese and
pigs seem to be the live stock most abundant in these Rus-
shin towns, and to-day a great number of geese—some say
unite 100—were brought off by the boats. The sailors chased
.them about, shot them, and cut them down with swords,
assisted by the Russians, who seemed to enjoy the fun. After
an expedition of this sort, nothing is more common than to
see some large pigs lying in the boats, which the sailors have
slain with their cutlasses. The French are the best hands at
plundering. It is said that on these occasions they always
tell off a party for the purpose, and that the Koceeds aro
divided. I hear that in Kertch they used to wander about
the town armed, and when they found anything worth having
would post themselves as sentries on the house, allow no
English to enter, pretending that they had special orders to
admit no one, and, when assistance came up, would carry off
what they had found for the benefit of themselves and their
officers. This may not be true, but it is very probable. In
Marioupol they found a lot of money in a cart, leaving the
town, and carried off for their own benefit. For this, how-
ever, they cannot bo blamed. In the afternoon the squad-
ron moved to Gheisk, at the opposite side of the Gulf of the
Don—a small town, and not of much consequence.

JUNE 6.

The boats were manned and armed early in the morning,
ready to go in, and a flag of truce was sent forward, as usual.
About noon the boat with the flag of truce returned, saying
that no resistance would be attempted. Accordingly, only a
few officers went in, with some Marines and a party of French,
tv )barn and 4eztro7 whatever Government atone might 1,0