The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1855.

seal a contract for the purchase of a Crimean or a
Polish estate ; if at least our timid Government
would but declare its policy. Defeat--so far—only
assures of the necessity of final triumph ; and we
look forward to the time when Russian estates in
the stolen territories shall be the recompence of
such of the Allied veterans as may desire such a
reward for their toils.

convince Ministers of the sincerity of his profes-
sions, and he will compel them, for very shame
sake, to maintain their own. Ministers have pro-
mised fairly, but it will depend on the people
and the Administrative Reform Association whe-
ther their pledges be fully and faithfully redeemed
or scandalously violated.

In keeping the next step in view one thing is
quite clear : even Prince ALBERT, Lord PALMER
STON, or Lord CLARMON must own that Austria
has now put herself entirely beyond the pale of
respect. Three crimes which ought, each of them,
to be unpardonable, and which with all English-
men out of the Houses of Parliament are unpar-
donable, she has already committed. First, she
liberated Russian troops for the attack of Inker-
man, by permitting Russia to rely on her obstruc-
tion of OMER PA.CHA'S movements. Secondly, she
has played the foulest tyranny in the Principalities
which she undertook to occupy in a purely mili-
tary sense. There her soldiers have dishonoured
respectable women and murdered their husbands,
restored a Russian tool to the civil government,
and finally proclaimed martial law ! superseding
the Turkish authority which they came to esta-
blish. And, lastly, now the position of the Allies
is fast improving, this recreant and beggarly
Power strengthens Russia as much as she can for
new Inkermans. As she liberated troops from
Bessarabia before, so she releases them from the
defence of Poland now. She sees that Russia is
ruining herself by conscription; she therefore bids
her use her old soldiers. She reduces her Polish army
some hundred and eighty thousand men, expressly
because she differs from the Allies about Russian
power in the Black Sea ! Months of precious
time, thousands of precious lives she has lost
the Allies already all to end in giving
Russia at the eleventh hour the best aid she can.
With such a dirty enemy it is useless to keep
terms any longer. Even in this repulse the ac-
cursed hand of Austria is felt ; to her share in the
grand Polish robbery we owe it that we had no
Polish Legion to storm the Malakhoff Battery,
but that Polish guns and bayonets were compelled
to murder those in whose van they would gladly
have fought. The fatal effects of the Austrc-
Coburg poison are manifest in each successive
calamity.
What can be a more appropriate reward of Aus-
trian jugglery than to make Poland the next step
of the Allies ? No one denies that a free Poland
is the essential to a free Europe ; no one denies
that Poland has even stronger moral claims to our
aid than Turkey, and is equally necessary to the
just balance of power ; no one can reasonably
deny that so hostile are the Poles to their op-
pressors that an honourable pledge that this time
they should be free, would rouse the whole coun-
try against them. The only reply is that we are
not prepared for a war of nationality ; the re-
joinder to which is the Court and Aristocracy
may not be, but the people of England are.

The anticipation in which we indulged yester-
day has already been completely verified. We
now know the full extent of the British loss in
the disastrous affair of the 18th, and we rejoice
to be enabled to say it has been much less
than what the sinister rumours in circulation
indicated. The officers killed, as we yesterday
communicated, were nineteen, with one who has
since died of his wounds. Seventy-four have
been wounded, more or less severely—while of
non• commissioned officers and rank and file, 144
have been killed and 1,058 wounded, making the
total number 1,295. From Paris we learn
that the loss in killed and wounded of our gallant
Allies, in the attack on the Malakhoff, was less
than 2,600, so that the total casualties in the
Allied armies have been less than what was as-
serted to have been incurred by the British alone !
We may fairly take some degree of credit to
ourselves for being the only metropolitan journal
which on Saturday officially contradicted the un-
warranted reports respecting the casualties in our
troops, and thus in some degree allayed the ap-
prehensions of the friends and relatives of those
engaged in the fearful conflict. By urgent in-
quiries at the War-office we ascertained that these
reports were altogether destitute of foundation,
so far at least as the knowledge of the Govern-
ment was concerned, and we hastened to give the
salutary information to the public. On Monday,
from knowing the number of officers killed, we
were enabled to predict with considerable confi-
dence that the amount of losses reported had
been greatly overstated, " Eau pede Hereulem,"
having one of the quantities known a close
estimate may be formed of the remainder. There
is a scarcely varying rule of proportion which
may invariably be relied on ; especially when the
element in the calculation is the casualties
amongst the officers, who, in any assault on a
fortified position, encounter their full share of
risk.

However highly the hopes of Administrative
Reformers may be excited by the resolution, all
but unanimously carried in the House of Com-
mons, and the solemn pledges given by the Pre-
mier, there must be no relaxation of labour, no
diminution of zeal, until they have witnessed the
practical realisation of their wishes—the matured
fruits of the good seed already "sown broadcast"
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
"Palma non sine pulverc" is a sound and whole-
some apophthegm. Its accuracy has been estab-
lished through a long succession of ages, and
associations or individuals may well feel doubtful
respecting the permanency of successes very easily
achieved. It is when the battle has been
fiercely waged, when every inch of ground
has been contested, and every nerve strained
to the utmost degree of tension by the de-
fenders, that they learn the bitter, but
salutary, lesson that their position is actually
untenable, and that they make real submission to
their victorious assailants. When, however, great
concessions are offered in the first instance, more
than could be anticipated by the most sanguine
partisan, some doubts may reasonably be enter-
tained of the sincerity of the offers. " Dodges "
are considered fair in politics as well as in war.
It is said that Austria prides herself (!) on deceiving
the Allies. And so may Ministers do it by outwit-
ting the Administrative Reformers—if they prove
themselves so green as to be taken in by mere
professions, or desist from their exertions before
the anxiously-looked-for results come into opera-
tion. What has already taken place may be ex-
ceedingly valuable if the preliminary victory be
turned to good account. It will be
quite the other way should it lull those
who so reluctantly came forward into
fatal security, or induce them to spare labours
which they may, too fondly hope, are now un-
called for; since Ministers have promised to 'take
the matter into their own hands, and become the
leaders of the organised movement against jobbery
and corruption.

One good result must follow from our losses in
repulse, even more than from those incurred for
victory. They will decide our course with the Cri-
mea. After the affair of the 18th, woe to the
Ministry, woe even to the secret diplomatists,
who shall dare to surrender Sebastopol and the
Crimea to Russia when once they have been con-
quered. The Allied nations will never endure to
see the trophy of Russian diplomacy erected over
the graves of their noblest heroes ; in other
words, to see Russian cunning, and the subserviency
of Germanised Courts and autocracies conspiring
to reinstate despotism in domains wrested from it
by the sufferings of freemen. Long have our states-
men hesitated to pronounce the Crimea forfeited
for ever by Russia. Will they hesitate now ?
Deference to the RUSSELL dictum has tied,
apparently, the tongues of our legislators ;
they have been more afraid to beard a near Rus-
sm. than a distant CZAR. Is this to last ? In
the House of Lords, the folly of hoping for a
secure peace without curtailing Russia of those
"claws" which, as Mr. W. S. LANDOR justly says—
alone make her lobster body formidable, has been
well insisted on ; in the popular house the " truth
for the times" has hardly found expression. How
is this ? Surely the time is come to speak out.
The country, the army look for the utterance
there of their feelings, and that feeling undoubt-
edly is, that the enemy shall no more enjoy the
harbours and the fields which he had converted
into a robber's and pirate's nest, and from which
he was only expelled at the cost of the lives of
the honest and the brave. Which of the four
Allies possess them we little care, nor will they
quarrel with each other about that ; but we lay it
down as a moral no less than a political maxim,
that the blood of the ISth added to that of Alma,
Balaklava, and In
kerman, has purchased the Cri-
mea beyond renal. It were political suicide to
give Russia the chance of reconstructing the mili-
tary and naval arsenal of Sebastopol ; but it
would be insulting our best and holiest feelings
to place the cemetery of our soldiers in hands
which would dishonour their sepulchres. Many
a son, or brother, perhaps a wife, or daughter too,
may yet resort thither to weep, and to garland
the tombs of their beloved ones. They shall not
weep amidst the derision of the follow-savages of
the Hango murderers.
We suppose we shall hear of the eternal Mrs.
GLASSE again ; we must acknowledge, neverthe-
less, that this repulse has filled us with fresh
thoughts on what the next step should be. We
have faith in the effect of reverses, both on our
troops abroad and our countrymen at home.
Thousands among us would be ready now, ifland spe-
culation ran in that direction, to emulate the noble
Rolm and the inspix,xi prophet, and to sign and j

It is not, we believe, necessary tci stimulate the
leaders of the Association to the efficient dis-
charge of the arduous duty which they have volun-
tarily undertaken. They will not sink into
apathy, or spare time or labour, although their
private avocations require close attention, and
make any additional trouble doubly onerous. It
is the general public, who require to be stimu-
lated to the task, who should still be urged for-
ward in the path, and called on to form branch
associations and to attend the meetings, and
subscribe liberally to the funds of the pa-
rent society. The most energetic efforts
must now be made, if we desire to avert the pos-
sibility of any slip before the goblet has been
drained to its dregs, and all the obstructions to
the fair promotion and legitimate rewards of un-
patronised merit be fully and completely received.

As the best and most efficient test of their sin-
cerity and fidelity to the good cause the people
must reform, themselves. No person entrusted
with the elective franchise must make its posses-
sion the pretext for requiring the patronage of
his representative, or of seeking employ-
ment in the public service for any friend
or relatives, however deserving. If the party for
whom he seeks assistance be really meritorious he
can get on by his own exertions in a straightfor-
ward and legitimate manner. He will not require
any undue efforts, any " backstairs' influence" on
his behalf ; and the application will let in similar
demands for less meritorious candidates. " Pa-
tronage" is " the accursed thing," the mere
touch whereof is contamination. The man who
seeks a favour in return for his vote is a traitor
to his country the wilful and deliberate
violater of the sacred trust reposed in him
by his country. Every consistent Administrative
Reformer must make sacrifices for tho general
good. If he eschew " nepotism" in high places,
he must not practise it himself in any degree,
however trivial. Ho must practise what he
preaches—remove " the mote from his own eye"
before he
ventures to pluck forth or even rail at
" tho beam"
which obstructs the aristocratic
vision.

Let him do this so far as he is individually con-
cerned, and devote his labours and pecuniary
regtourceis to the good came. Lot thu

We have, as we stated yesterday, to deplore
the loss of many faithful, energetic, and devoted
men ; and what renders it, if possible, the more
deplorable, is that it has been without any cor-
responding advantage. But we must bide our
time—rejoicing that the disaster, severe as it has
been, is not quite so bad as had been supposed,
and that the preparations for what we hope and
believe will be the successful onslaught on the
Russian stronghold, have been scarcely in any
perceptible degree impeded. Such tem-
porary repulses invariably serve rather to
stimulate than to discourage the energies
of the troops, who burn with an ardent enthu-
siam to avenge their fallen comrades in place ofl
being dispirited by their melancholy, though
glorious, fate. They have also received a salutary,
though dearly-purchased, lesson, and in tracing
the causes of their check on the 18th will learn
to avoid or overcome similar obstacles on the next
occasion, which cannot long be deferred.
We have also- seen the moral effect on the ad-
versary as well as on our own men. The inces-
sant and useless cannonade on the 19th, the
burning of the Faubourg on the 20th, prove be-
yond. the possibility of doubt that they have
acquired no additional confidence from their sue-
cessful resistance. On the contrary, it seems as
if they were panic-stricken from what they have
already suffered, and that they have but little hope
of resisting the next attack. A few days must now
produce the authentic details of the melancholy
event. When we have these details before us,
we may find that they are far less injurious than
had been supposed, just as the losses were less
than a third of what had been rumoured. For
these we must wait patiently, convinced that
there is no real cause for despondency, or for ap-
prehensions, which should have no place in British
hearts. We must steel, however, for the encoun-
ter,'however formidable, and gather from the tem-
porary reverse a more earnest resolution to assent
to nothing but an honourable and enduring
peace, which will avert, from our children and
children's children the necessity of such sacrifices
as we ourselves have unhesitatingly made in the
sacred. cause of truth and justice, in the defence
of right against might, and the protection of the
weaker side when wantonly and unfairly attacked
by a powerful assailant. Russia will find to her
cost that she has no cause to rejoice in the battle
of the 18th, and that the blood of the heroes that
have perished will not be shed in vain, but will
cry aloud for vengeance on those whoS'e insatiable
ambition and grasping cupidity have occasioned its
outpouring.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 26 1855 e

Her Majestj's last levee for this season will be held
to-morrow.
The composer, Mcyabeer, was received at Bucking-
ham Palace last week.

Next month private theatricals, under the manage-
ment of Mr. Charles Dickens, Will be given at Campden
House, Kensington, in aid of the Sanatorium for Con-
sumption and Diseases of the Chest at Bournemouth.
The English mail for Lisbon, which left Lopdon on
the 9th inst., and the French mail for Lisbon, which left
Paris on the 10th inst., were burnt in the province of

Burgos.
Captain Robinson, R.N.,' who has been engaged in
laying down the telegraph cable in the Black Sea, came
home in the Sultan, and proceeded to London yesterday,
to present himself to the Admiralty.
Lieut. James Marshall, killed in front of Sebastopol,
was, says the Leeds Mercury, the son of Thomas Horn-
castle Marshall, Dig., judge of the Leeds County Court.
The Scotsman announces the death of the Rev. Dr.
George Brewster, minister of the parish of Sconnie, and
brother of Sir David Brewster.
Plans of " Sebastopol and its environs, indicating
very clearly the works of the besiegers, their camps, and
lines of circumvallation," are advertised in the St. Pe-

tersburg journals.
A letter from Coblentz says that three Englishmen
arrested there the other day on suspicion of being en-
gaged in obtaining recruits proved to be innocent tour-
ists, who were amising themselves with giving away
spare cash to the people.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg publishes the names
of a number of Prussian ladies who have sent lint from
Berlin for the use of the Russian medical staff in the

Crimea.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. The intended
soirée at the Royal College of Physicians, on Wednesday,
the 27th instant, will not take place on account of a
severe and sudden affliction which has befallen the Pre-

silent of the College.
THE ARMY.—CHATHAM, June 25.—The garrison at
Chatham is all activity in getting the drafts ready for
the annual embarkation to India. About 1,400 men

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from the provisional battalion will embark at Gravesend

next month.

Mr. O'Sullivan, the United States Minister at Lisbon,
who is said to be one of, the best chess players in Ame-
rica, played, during► his late stay in Paris, 27 games
without odds with M. St. Amant, the well-known French

player. Of the 27, M. St. Amant won 21—Mr.O'Sulli-

van 3 —and 3 were drawn.

Lord Ward's valuable collection of pictures is still at
the Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly, open to the public, free
of charge, every day of the week except Monday. It
is to be regretted that his lordship's liberality is not
more generally known, as many persons would gladly
avail themselves of the privilege.
MONEY ORDER OFFICES.—On and after the Ist July,
major money order offices will be opened at the under-
mentioned places :—Normanton, Yorkshire ; Crayford,
and Notting-hill, in the London district. Minor money
order offices will be opened atjthe under-mentioned places
on the same date :—Handsworth, Staffordshire ; New
Radnor, Radnorshire ; Prince Town, Devon ; and
Docking, Norf lk.
HARMONIC UNION, HANOVER-SQUARE Rooms.—
The last concert of the evening will take place to-morrow
(Wednesday) evening, when Rossini's Stabat Mater will
be performed, and Molique's Mass produced for the first
time in this country. Mademoiselle Emilie Krale, Miss
F. Rowland, Miss Lascelles, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr.
Weiss are engaged as principal vocalists.
Sir John Rennie, C.E., returned from Portugal in the
Madrid mail-packet on Sunday. He has been out to
examine for the Portuguese Government the seaports of
Portugal, and see what, improvements can be made in
them. He advises the Portuguese Government to make
Lisbon the commercial centre, and to run a railway to
Oporto.
The Semaphore of Marseilles, mentioning the gift by
General Yussuff to the Zoological Gardens there of a
swift-running dromedary, adds: "The General formerly
had two dromedaries like that which he has now sent,
trained to run in a calbehe, and in which he had per-
formed the journey from Medeah to Algiers with won-
derful rapidity."
A correspondence from Hamburg, cited by the Patrie,
states that an English frigate had appeared before Hel-
singfors, and had fired some red-hot shot. The inhabi-
tants, panic-stricken, left the town, notwithstanding the
efforts of the authorities to detain them. It was thought,
it is added, that a serious bombardment would soon be
commenced by the bulk of the allied fleets.

FRUITS OF AUSTRIAN PERFIDY.—The Kreuz Zeitunra
publishes the following information as to the Russian
forces placed at liberty by Austria's abandonment of her
position on the Polish frontier, and consisting of eight
regiments, i.e., 24,000 men, has already passed Arman-
skoy Bazar (to the south of Perekop), and will proceed
direct to the line of the Tchernaya. These are the first
Elite troops that Russia has sent to the Crimea ; in spite
of the most arduous marches, they have lost nothing of
their martial bearin-z and spirit, and judging from the
longing for battle that inspires them, great results may
be expected from a collision with the enemy, seeing that
the standards of these troops have on almost all occasions
hitherto been attended by victory."
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—On Sunday last sermons
were preached at Trinity Church, St. Marylebone, in
aid of the funds of this charity, where, during the past
year, 18,234 patients received medical relief ; that in the
morning by the rector, the Rev. Thomas Garnier,
B.C.L. ; that in the evening by the Rev. David Laing,
A.M., F.R.S., incumbent of Trinity Church, St. Pan-
cras, and formerly chaplain to the hospital. The ap-
peals were liberally responded to, and collections'made,
which exceeded 991., besides adding annual supporters
to this truly valuable medical charity.
ROYAL COLLEGE OP SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college
at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 22d
inst.:—Messrs. Charles James Schofield, Leeds ; Albert
Stanley Prescott Knight, army ; Richard O'Leary,
Bradford, Yorkshire ; Charles Frederick Clough, Work-
sop, Nottinghamshire ; Thomas Anthony, Tredegar Iron
Works, Monmouthshire; Marshall Weir, Belfast ; Thos.
Turville Gardner, Brighton ; William Frederick Croome,
Banbury, Oxon ; Matthew William Stohart, St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital ; and David Kay, Bradford, York-
shire. At the same meeting of the Court Mr. Brownell
Richard Murphy passed his examination for naval assist-
ant-surgeon.
THE ART-UNION OF GLASGOVI,—The committee of
management of this Union having commissioned Vin-
cent Brookes, the eminent lithographer, to execute a fac-
simile in chrome-lithography of the picture, by John
Gilbert, "The Spanish Peasants going to Market," 1,000
copies of which are to be distributed as prizes among the
members, Mr. Eisdon, in his employ, has completed the
task, and the result is the largest and most splendid
specimen of chromo-lithography we have yet seen-a-a
specimen which may fairly be said to rival in depth of
tone, richness of colouring, and fulness of expression
the choicest cabinet oil-painting. So complete, indeed,
is the resemblance that a close inspection is required to
discern the difference. Tileetiar o'scuro of the picture
is admirably reprodu^.4d. This is especially observable
in the features of 'the male peasant, and the dewy ripe-
nessa'it is there also in all its freshness. Alto-
gether, ttlate, e
fr
print not only reflects credit on the artist,
but P.%50 does honour to the enterprise and good manage-
lent of the Art-Union, while the subscribers to whom
it may fall are certainly to be envied.
HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The present will be an un-
usually busy week at this theatre, Mr. Buckstone hav-
ing prevailed on Mr. Sims Reeves to appear last night
and on Thursday next, in conjunction with Miss Cush-
man, in the musical play of " Guy Mannering ;" while
on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, such has been
the enthusiasm excited by the performance of the part
of Rosalind, in Shakspeare's "As You Like It," by
Miss Helen Faucit, that Mr. Buckstone has, for the pre-
sent, put aside every other play in which Miss Faucit
appeared, that the public might have ample opportunity
of witnessing this admirable representation before the
close of her engagement, which takes place next week.
On Friday, Mr. Buckstone takes his annual benefit, re-
viving for the occasion the comedy of " The Busy Body,"
himself playing, for the first time, the character of Mar-
plot. The exquisite Spanish dancers, Senora Perea
Nena and Marcos Diaz, with their coryphees will return
from the provinces, especially for this night ; in addi-
tion, a new farce will be produced, entitled " Buck-
stone's Adventure with a Polish Princess." Few theatres
can offer in one week such attractive names as Sims
Reeves, Miss Cushman, Helen Faucit, Perea Nena,
Marcos Diaz, with Buckstone, Miss Reynolds, Comp-
ton, Chippendale, Howe, and the rest of the popular
Haymarket Company.—Morning Post.
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The proprietors of
these gardens have added something to the usual attrac-
tions of the place, by catering for the youthful population
who at present increase the numbers of the metropolis.
The performances of a Signor Russelli and his two sons
surpass anything of the kind that has over been wit-
dessed. The professor himself is as stout as iron and as
pliable as india-rubber. His sons bid fair to rival their
father in these peculiarities. A novel entertainment, to
be carried out by a party called the European Minstrels,
is promised, which we shall take care to report upon at
an early opportunity. In the meantime it is but com-
mon justice to repeat what has been said often enough,
that the representation of Sebastopol is the most marvel-
lous deception of the kind that has ever been produced.
Twenty-two railway carriages were filled with excur-
sionists from London to Southampton on Sunday. The
Medina steamer went round the Isle of Wight yester-
day with a large number of excursionists from South-
ampton and Cowes. The Contractor steamer brought
to Southampton yesterday 80 excursionists from Poole;
one of them fell overboard close to the Southampton
pier. He was unable to swim, and just as he was
sinking he caught hold of a rope thrown to him and
was saved.
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.-A meeting was held yes=
terday at Brighto% in behalf of Administrative Reform,
the mayor, Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, in the chair.
Mr. John. Laurence proposed the first resolution, and
alluded to the disasters and sufferings which had arisen
idmepmaerdtmiaetentsroeffotr
in the Crimea in consequence of bad management. The
regrdt,h.L.vpa!i r,o‘u.hs
resolution moved by Mr. Laurence was :—" That this
meeting strongly condemns the present system of ad-
ministration of public affairs, and is of opinion that an
hme Statein t
is the
urgentlymanagement required?
of
as ability and merit are too often sacrificed -
and party interest ; and that the toy- to political
common with every other important borough, should of Brighton, in
insist on the necessity of rem,' -w
had recently led to suet yelling a system which
Mr. C. Burrows - tearful and disastrous results."
carried u--
~econe • d d the resolution, which was
_aaaimously. Mr. Bowen May proposed a vote
thanks to Mr. Layard and 111 x. Roebuck, and also tor
the press in general, for exposing existing abuses. M
"
G. Cobb seconded the resolution, which was also agreed
to. A vote of thanks to the borough members for their
attendance was then passed, and the,compliment was
acknowledged by Admiral Sir G. rechell and Lord
Alfred Hersey,

of men or money in order to bring the war to a
speedy conclusion, and to compel the enemy to sue
for peace. In the meantime the port of the Joliette
is again filling with steamers and sailing transports
chartered by Government to convey troops and
stores to the Crimea. The American clippers Mo-
narch of the Sea and Ocean Herald commenced
yep

Jsterday to take in shot and shell. The mail
steamer Pericles sailed this morning for the Black
Sea, where she is to remain at the orders of, the
Government. She took despatches, letters, and a
detachment of 80 men.

The Carmel, due this afternoon, arrived at 7'
a.m. She brought the mails, and 100 sick and
wounded soldiers. _ .

The Imperial yacht Reine Hortense remains in
the old port, waiting the arrival of the King of
Portugal.

TURKEY.

A letter, dated Constantinople, June 14, says-"I
yesterday saw a gentleman, just arrived from the
Crimea, who had witnessed the brilliant achieve-
ments of the 6th inst. He tells me, with a variety
of other matters, that Lord Raglan had made a
most unfortunate move in consenting to an armis-
tice of five hours, conformably with the proposal of
the Russian commander. The Russians during
this interval strengthened their position at the
Malakhoff Tower, by the addition of twenty heavy
guns, which will, it appears, if this information be
correct, delay for six weeks the operations of the
siege.
"Towards evening, however, having felt some
anxiety on this point, I visited the French Hospital
of Mejidie, and conversed with several of the
wounded who had been just brought in from the
scene of action. According to their account,, Gene-
ral Pelissier is determine to strike in a few days
the final blow, and attack with his whole force the
Malakhoff Tower.
" I mentioned in my last the report of Ali
Paella's (the Grand Vizier) going to Paris before
returning to Constantinople. There are, however,
no grounds for this rumour, and this functionary
is expected to arrive here in a few days."

THE WHITE SE SQUADRON.
HAMMEE,FEST, June s.—The British squadron
destined for operations in the White Sea, consisting
of the Meander, 44, Captain Baillie (commodore),
Phoenix, 9, screw, Commander Hayes, and Ariel,
9, screw, Commander Luce, passed this port to the
northward yesterday. The French frigate Cleo-
patra is now lying in this harbour, waiting for two
steamers to join her, when they will also proceed
to their destination.
BERGEN, June 12.—A French man- (if- wai
steamer, bound for the White Sea, arrived here
yesterday, and after coaling proceeded to-day.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, June 22.—The different organs of the
foreign press have recently contained so many con-
tradictory reports respecting the reduction of the
Austrian army, that some reliable information on
the subject cannot but be acceptable. The
reduction will amount to 145,000 men, with
30,000 horses. The cadres of all the regiments
are, however, to be maintained. 100,000 men
will be dismissed from the two armies now stand-,
ing in Galicia and Transylvania, and the other
45,000 men from the Ist and 2d armies—one of
which is in the German provinces of Austria, and
the other in Italy. An army of observation of
about 120,000 or 140,000 men will remain in Gali-
cia and Transylvania, but all the other troops will
retire into their usual cantonments in Hungary,
Bohemia, &c. Three regiments are to return im-
mediately to Italy.
The house of Rothschild is endeavouring to
obtain from the Austrian Government a cession of
the Southern Railroad (that to Trieste), but Baron
Bruck is likely to drive a harder bargain than his
predecessor did with the French company.
The Fremden Blatt has advices of the 15th from
Varna. All the vessels which were lying at Burgas
and in the Bosphorus have been sent with troops
to Trebizond: Admirals Lyons and Bruat are
preparing for a new expedition, which it is
supposed will be directed against Kimburn and
Oczikoff, the fortresses which guard the entrance.to
the Liman or Bay of the Dnieper. There is also
some talk of a reconnaissance in flat-bottomed beats
in the Bay of Kirkinit, in order if possible to find
out what is doing at Perekop.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JUNE 24.

Within the last few days various appointments
have taken place in the arrangements of the Russian
corps diplomatique. Prince Gortscliakoff is confirmed
in his post at Vienna ; Baron von Titoff in his at
Stuttgard - Baron von Brunnow, formerly repre-
sentative of Russia at the Court of St. James's,
enters now on the same office at Darmstadt and
.Frankfort ; M. de Kisseloff will represent his Court
at Rome and Florence ; M. Butenieff, who has
hitherto held the latter post, retires entirely from
the diplomatic carriere. Baron von Budberg,
who has hitherto been accredited to Hanover as
well as to Prussia, now relinquishes the former
appointment, which he has held ever since the re-
call of General von Mangaroff from that Court, and
M; de Fonton, First Secretary of Legation in
Vienna, is appointed to represent Russia at the
Court of Hanover. This must be looked on as
another concession made to Austria by Russia ;
for, in addition to his many talents as a diplomate,
M. de Fonton was the skilful and experienced po-
pular agitator that had on so many occasions held
in his hands the leash of sedition and tumult in
the Principalities of Bosnia and Servia, and lat-
terly in Wallachia and Moldavia.