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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1855.

t ! It. ALI3ERT SMITH'S MONT 1;1, t v ,
TO-NIGHT, at 8 W.:lock, and Every Night (but SA unsay)
4talLs, 35.; Area, 25.; Gallery, le. The hforniucr Repre.e dation.
take place every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.
Egyptian Hall, eiccaAtilly.

to the deck. The compasses, with every light on the main
deck, were destroyed. It is supposed the vessel must go to
Malta to repair.

MI LITARY.
The following officers and troops embarked this morning
frogs Portsmouth dockyard for the East :—Capt. Thomas,
Lieutenants Martin and Hickie, Ensigns Plummer and Thurs-
ton, 15S non-commissioned officers and men of the 7th Royal
Fusiliers ; Captain Bulwor, Lieutenants Prevost and the Hon.
N. Fienucs, Ensigns Williamson and Lewis, and 158 non-com-
missioned officers and men of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers ;
Captains Parker and Macdonald, Lients. Simpson, Forbery,
and Daley, Ensign Knowles, and 128 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men of the 77th Regiment ; Captains Grogan and
Henning, Lieutenants Priestly and Hall, Ensign Robertson,
and 128 non-commissioned officers and men of the 88th
(Connaught Rangers); Major Lord Alex. G. Russell, Captain■
Buller and Maclean, Lieutenants Glynn, and Rooper, Ensign
Harrington, and 210 non-commissioned officers and men of
the let Battalion of the Rifle Brigade ; Captain Balfour,
Lieut. Scriven, Ensigns Nichol', Sotheby, and Burri,ugh, and
208 non-commissioned officers and men of the 2d Battalion
of the Rifle Brigade ; two officers of the medical staff; three
horses, cc. Total, 34 officers and 990 non-commissioned
officers and men.

VIAPPIN'S "SHILLING" RAZOR.
Lv a Sold everywhere. Warranted good by the makers, JOSEPH
MAPPI NI and BROTHERS, Queen's Cutlery Works, Sheffield; and
37, Moorgate-street, City, London.

Yesterday a large supply of the new regulation sword-
bayonet was received into the ordnance stores in the Tower.
This weapon is for the use of rifle regiments ; it is intended
to supersede the old bayonet, and when attached to a rifle
the two together will be precisely the same length as an in-
fantry
-musket with a fixed bayonet ; so that the rifleman
will be placed ou an equality with a battalion soldier when
fighting in line or exposed singly to an enemy. The length
of the sword-bayonet is 30 inches from hilt to point ; the
for 12 inches, Whet) it assumes the shape of
'iron, slightly curved, and with edges on either

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THE BOMBARDMENT OF SEBASTOPOT;

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing despatch from General Canrobert, a summary
of which has already appeared. It is dated April 17
" Monsieur le Mareo.hal,—l have the honour to ren-
der you an account of our successive operations before
this place.
" After having maintained a fire during the day with
a marked superiority over that of the enemy, we ad-
vanced our approaches during the nights between the
9th and 12th in the direction of the Flagstaff Bastion,
struggling all the time with succet, against the poste,
supported by strong reserves, which the enemy keeps in
his ambuscades.