The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE

drawal of credit, would be any very serious
mity. It might be a task of htl ordinary diffi-
culty to increase some of the bills ; while the great-
estblessing that could happen to the students would
be the prohibition of any dealing fur wines, cigars,
sporting prints, and a variety of other articles,
except for ready money. We cannot agree with Mr.
CAM:arzu, in supposing that the withdrawal '
of all- credit, even for essentials, would have the ,
effect of closing the doors of the University against
deserving young men, who might not otherwise
have sufficient means to go through the curriculum
of study. We do not believe that any young
man, however great his talents, could undertake
a more perilous experiment than that of acquiring,
a University education without the means of de-
fraying the indispensable outlay. If he has not
adequate funds, or friends to afford assist-
ance, he should be contented with a less
ambitious career ; nor should he, even
with a worthy and honourable object in
view, enter with the intention of habitually
incurring liabilities without any reasonable ex-
pectation of payment.
The only reasonable argument was, that the
provision should be made universal, without
being limited to the students of Oxford University.
By all Means let it be so. But inasmuch as the
grievance is of more formidable dimensions there
than elsewhere, and as a general measure could
not be introduced in a bill for University Reform,
let us take what we can get in the first instance,
and wait for the generalisation of the useful en-
actment to the first convenient opportunity.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 8,000 bales, including 1,000 American
and 700 Surat taken for export and on speculation.
The market closed steadily without change in nrices.
The sales comprised 600 American, 250 Perham
and Marnham, at 60. to 71d., 100 Bahia, at fild,
200 Egyptian, at aid. to 7id., 1,500 Surat at 2d.
to 4/d., and 30 Sea Island, at 104 d. to Is. 4d. per
lb. Railway Shares were not quite so firm.
An attempt is making by the Colonial trade to
get permission to export saltpetre to the Continent,
on the ground that other countries are sending it
thither, and that we never have furnished the
article to Russia. It is exceedingly questionable
whether this permission ought, under the circum-
stances, to be granted, although some hardship
may arise from the prohibition.
In a report made by the Jewish Emigration Loan
Society, we are presented with the experience of the
first year's operations. Originally it was intended
to facilitate the emigration of single Jewish females
only, under the auspices of the Government, but
since then families as well have been assisted, and
America has been included in the scheme. Owing
to the increase of population, and the great com-
petition in trade, there is a farge number of poor
persons among the Jewish community who earn
but a bare existence, but it has been found neces-
sary to preclude from the benefits of this fund all
but British-born Jews, or those domiciled 10 years
in this country. Persons only acquainted with
trade have been assisted, or those accustomed
to domestic service, and single women were
only sent out where they had friends in the
colony to receive them. Mrs. Chisholm took
with her 30 persons. The pecuniary aid given was
by way of loan to be repaid periodically. Alto-
gether 130 emigrants have been sent out, includ-
ing 75 children, and of these 85 have gone to Aus-
tralia, and 45 to America. All this has been
accomplished at an outlay of 1,3661. Bs. 2d. The
applications are still numerous, and the Jewish
community have yet ample room for the exercise
of further liberality.
The ship Prince of Wales has arrived from Syd-
ney, whence she sailed March 6, with 100 ounces of
gold only.

The steamer Baltic, from America, brings
620,000 dollars. She advises an easy money mar-
ket, but rather dull trade.
According to the rumour mentioned a day or
two since, the arrangement with Messrs. Roths-
child and other capitalists, for taking two millions
of the Exchequer-bonds, has been completed. The
instalments are to be at the rate of 25 per cent., on
the 23rd June, sth July, 22nd August, and 10th
October. The prices at which the bonds are taken
is 9715-16, which, allowing for the interest com-
mencing from the Bth last month, gives an interest
of 4/. 2s. 2d. per cent. The bonds are to be for
five years, and no further issue is to be attempted
for a period of ten weeks. Notwithstanding the
apparently high rate of interest that is paid, we
entertain not the slightest doubt that owing to the
power of redemption, this will be found a far more
economical mode of" borrowing than the routine
course of public loans.
There is a difference of opinion about the Russian
loan, some accounts affirming that it is all taken,
while others mention that only about a million
sterling will be issued at Amsterdam. The accounts
from Vienna state that the Russian loan is only to
be issued in instalments of 80 million florins.
The new Prussian loan for 2,250,000/. has been
opened at Berlin, and is being rapidly subscribed
for. It is to bear interest at 41 per cent., less 1
per cent. commission, and to be issued at 94.
Further particulars have been received of the
new Belgian Loan, alluded to yesterday under this
head. The amount, as then stated, is 27,000,000
francs. The contract price is 90 for a4l per cent.
security, guaranteed against all converson until
1861. The interest begins from May Ist, and the
instalments will extend over 18 months from the
Ist July next to the 31st December, 1855. The
anticipation of interest being equal to 3 per cent.,
the loan will only cost the contractors 87. Messrs.
Rothschild Brothers, the National Bank of Bel-
gium, the Societe Generale, and the Bank of Bel-
gium are interested, but 5,000,000 francs will be
offered to public subscription.
There was no improvement in the rates of ex-
changes at which foreign bills were yesterday after-
noon negotiated. Paris, 90 days, was taken at 25
22-i to 25, Antwerp at 25 20 to 221, Amsterdam at
11 16i to 17, Hamburg at 13 44 to 51, Frankfort
at 1181 to 118 L and Trieste at 12 50 to 12 55.
Bar silver has advanced again id. per ounce,
being at -610. The numerous loans that are now
being contracted abroad will indirectly draw away
from us some of our bullion, and under these cir-
cumstances we scarcely expect the money market
to become permanently easy. Indeed, it is not
desirable there should be a reduction of interest,
otherwise speculation in foreign schemes will be
liberally indulged.
The funds have been steady, but some increase
in the demand for money, has caused them to be
less animated. Consols were 93 to 931, and have
just ascended to 93l upon the news that the siege
of Silistria has been raised. The New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. are 93 to 1, and the Three
per Cents. 92:4- to 93i. Bank Stock has been very
firm, at 205 to 206. Exchequer Bills are 2s.
discount i o Is. premium, and India Bonds 2s.
discount.

Foreign stocks are not very brisk, but generally
they maintain their price. Mexican Bonds have
been 24i to Peruvian Active 67, and the De-
ferred 50g. Grenada Active Bonds have been at
18. Sardinian Bonds have been marked 85k.
Dutch 4 per Cents. have been 90 to ON, and Bel-
gian ‘q per Cents. 92.
The Railway Share Market has been rather vari-
able, being alternately higher and lower than yes-
terday, but with a good average business doing.
Great Western have declined, and the other prin-
cipal lines have been cheaper, though at the mo-
ment of our writing there is an appearance of re-
vival, owing to the improvement in Consols.
French shares are tolerably steady.

The Foreign and Colonial Mining Market is sup-
ported with but limited operation. The Joint
Stock Bank shares are firm, and the Crystal Palace
better.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'OLOCE.
( From the Oficial List.)

Business done.
Bank Stock ... . •
i per Cent. Reduced Annuities... 924 38
3 per Cent Consols Annuities shut
34 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO • • • • • *** •
Ditto, under £lOOO 2 d
Consols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£looo
2500 4 p
Small 5l p
Exchequer Bonds Scrip
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Grenada Bonds, Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon lB
blexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 42 per Cent. 67
Peruvian 3 per Ceat.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.. ..... .....
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 194-

Dividends on the above pa, able in London.
Belgian Bonds 4i per Cent. ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates

HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols for Opening 19th July ......... 93A a s d

PRICE OF GOLD. —The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 4 per mile discount (according to the last tariff),
which at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per oz.
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.07 ; and, the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.00, it
follows that gold is about 0.28 per cent dearer in Paris
than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price
of gold is 4211 per mark, which at the English Mint
price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per oz for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13.38 ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on
London at short being 13.2/, it follows that gold is 0.18
per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The
course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1094 per cent., and, the par of exchange
between England and America being 109 23.40 per
cent., it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.17 per
cent. in favour of England; and, after making allowance
for charges of transport and difference of interest, the
present rate leaves a trifling profit on the importation
of gold from the United States.
THE FIRST GUNBOAT FOR THE BALTIC,—The first of
the six steam gun-vessels now building from Admiralty
drawings, by Messrs. R. and H. Green and Mr. C. J.
Mare, has been launched by Messrs. Green from their
yard at Blackwall. She was christened the " Wrangler"
by the wife of Captain Cannan, R.N. The Admiralty
have been so anxious to get these vessels to sea that the
most extraordinary exertions have been made by all
parties concerned, and only eight weeks have elapsed
since the keel was laid. The rest of the vessels are in a
ve y forward state. They will carry two large pivot
guns, and six broadside guns. Their tonnage will be
476 68-94 ; length between perpendiculaars, 160 feet ;
breadth, extreme, 25 feet 4 inches ; greatest draught of
water, 11 feet 4 inches ; nominal horse power, 160.
When completed they will be the fastest, most beauti-
ful, and comparatively the strongest vessels in her Ma-
jesty's navy—the real " swallows of the fleet." Success
to them !

A CANNON BALL FROM- ODESSA.—In the Under-
writers's-room may be seen a curious relic of the bom-
bardment of Odessa, being the first cannon ball fired by
the Russians on that occasion, and which fulfilled its
murderous purpose by killing James Slater, a seaman on
board her Majesty's steamer Terrible. It is of great weight
and appgrently a n-pounder.—kkerrol

GREAT CONFLAGRATION.-(T.HIS DAY.)

IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT STORES AT
ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST.—This morning, shortly after
3 o'clock, the inhabitants of St. George's-in-the-East
were suddenly thrown into a state of the utmost excite-
ment, in consequence of the outbreak of a most exten-
sive fire, on the premises of Messrs. Pinchin and John-
son, oil and colour contractors, 26, Cable•street, Back-
road, whereby, property to the extent of upwards of
25,0001. was destroyed.
The premises in question were erected in 1842, and
were very commodious, being principally filled with oil,
white lead, brimstone, and numerous Government stores,
some portion of which were placed in warehouses erected
under the arches of the Black wall Railway, between
Back Church-lane and Connon-street-road.

It appears that the premises was left quite safe on
Tuesday night at 9 o'clock, and about 3 o'clock this
morning, as Inspector Gernon, of the H division was
passing along Cable-street, be had his attention called to
a quantity of smoke issuing from tits counting-house
window of Messrs. Pinchen and Johnson. The officer
immediately broke a pane of glass with his stick, and
sent a civilian to Wellcose-square for the engines. The
flames then rushed out and spread with alarming rapid-
ity, when Police-constable Lineham, 216 H, was de-
spatched to the Lemon-street station for assistance,
when a large body of officers were soon on the
spot, under the able direction of Superintendent
Steed. Upon passing through the stable-yard of
Mr. Hugh Campbell the principal portion of the
fire appeared to be raging in one of the store rooms
under the railway, from which place huge volumes of
flame were issuing, and extending over the side wall of
the line, completely interrupting the traffic of the luggage
trains which pass to and fro at that part in the morn
Mg. Inspector Gernon accordingly dispatched officers
to Shadwell and Fenchurch-street telegraph offices for
the purpose of making the railway officials acquainted
with the danger which existed on that portion of the line.

The flames soon reached the combustible materials on
the ground floor, which ignited, when the fire passed
into the warehouse above, which was also extensively
filled with Government stores for shipping orders, in-
tended for vessels now lying in the river and docks,
which are about to be forwarded for the army in the
East.

The firemen, directed by Mr. Braidwood, worked most
courageously for several hours, but the chief portion of
the building and contents fell a prey to the ravages of
the devouring element, and the only portion of these ex-
tensive premises saved is a wing on the western side,
and the fire-proof vaults, which contain the most valu-
able portion of the stock.

The flames were raging at noon to-day, and such is
the extent of the fire at present in the ruins that many
hours must elapse before the burning mass will be
thoroughly extinguished.

Mr. Braidwood made his official report this morning.
The firm were insured in the Sun, Defendant, Royal
Exchange, Legal and Commercial, and Phoenix Fire
Offices for stock and building.
A fire of a similar character broke out on the same
spot 12 years since, after which the premises destroyed
were erected.

LAW INTELLIGENCE--(THIS DAY).

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)

AMOR V. MASTERS.-CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A

MEMBER OF THE MARYLEBONE VESTRY.
This was an action to recover the possession of a
watch, which it was alleged had been stolen by the de-
fendant, who is a gentleman connected with the Mary-
lebone Board of Guardians, and employed by them in
collecting arrears of rate due to the parish.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. A. C. Pollock were
for the plaintiff; and Mr. Watson, Q.C., and Mr.
Petersdorf, for the defendant.

The plaintiff stated that for six years previously to
the year 1849, he had been occupier of a house in Fraser-
street, Manchester-square, and in that year he sold the
lease to a person named Gooding for 501., which sum
was to be paid to him in instalments by the rent of the
lodgers. In May, 1851, Masters came to' plaintiff's
house in Connaught-terrace, Ealing, and asked for some
rates for the house in question. He (plaintiff) said he
did not owe any ; and Masters added, " No, you know
you don't ; but as they (meaning the parish) have sent
me, I must take something, and if you have no money,
give me your watch. The plaintiff did so, and also
some silver, and defendant said he would take care of it,
to abide the result of an appeal. Plaintiff attended the
board, and said he would lodge 301. the bank to meet
the result of an appeal. The next day he met defend-
ant, who said he had not got the watch, and ultimately
said " Don't you know it was sold at Cafe's, and fetched
just the money." Defendant did not say he had sold
the chain. Plaintiff would not have sold the watch and
chain for 1001.

The parish constable of Ealing, who accompanied de-
fendant to plaintiff's house to make the seizure, corrobo-
rated the statement of plaintiff, as to Masters saying I
know you owe nothing.

Cross-examined— There was wine upon plaintiff's
table when we got there. I had one glass, and Masters
had two.

Mr. Baron Martin—lt was after the wine that defen-
dant said the plaintiff did not owe anything.
Witness—lt was. (Roars of laughter.)
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins—Well, but two glasses of wine
will not make a Marylebone official drunk. (Increased
laugh ter.) _

Other evidence was given at some length to prove the
letting of the house, and for which the rates were due,
and sale of the lease to Gooding, whic!i closed the
plaintiff's case.
The case had not concluded when we went to press.

COMMON PLEAS.

(Before Lord Chief Justice Jervis, and Special Jury.)

HOLLOWAY V. JACOBS.-LIBEL.

This was an action to recover compensation for a libel
written by the defendant, and which had appeared in
one of the Hampshire papers, reflecting upon the cha-
racter of the plaintiff.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Skinner
were for the plaintiff, and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr.
Barstow for the defendant.

It appeared that the plaintiff is a clergyman of the
Church of England, and a gentleman whose name has
been recently before the public in connection with the
Hospital of Saint Cross. A letter, casting some im-
putation upon Mr. Jacobs, had appeared in the journal
in question, and defendant, erroneously supposing it to
have originated with the rev. plaintiff, had made an
attack upon him in the same journal.
The Attorney-General, after briefly consulting with
Sir F. Thesiger, said he should not have to trouble the
jury, as he learnt through his learned friend that the
defendant now expressed his regret for what had taken
place, and withdrew the charges contained in the libel
in question, and that the whole bad originated in a joke.
He (the learned Attorney-General) thought that the
most fair and manly course that could have been
pursued. _ _

A verdict was then taken by consent for 405., which
carries costs.

MARLBOROUGH-STRBET. - (THIS DAY)

ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—Frederick Bennion, Thomas
IVatson (two notorious thieves), and James Gilday, a
marine store dealer, in Peter street, were brought before
Mr. Bingham on the following charge :
Sarah Ann Terry, dressmaker, 38, Norton-street,
deposed that this morning, about two o'clock, she was
in the Blue Posts Tavern, Haymarket, where she
saw the three prisoners, who commenced insulting
her in consequence of her having prosecuted one
of their companions. Gilday spit in her face. She told
him if he repeated that again she would throw the ale,
which she was drinking, in his face. The prisoner
Gilday then struck her in the face, and Bennion
struck her on the nose, which bled profusely. The
pain was so great that she nearly fainted, and the
prisoner Watson came to hold her up, and, while
he was doing so, she saw him take her purse,
which contained 2s. 6d., from her pocket. She ac-
cused him of the robbery, when the other prisoners
said, if she dared to do so they would knock her
b— brains out. They then rushed out of the
house. She followed him, and spoke to a policeman,
who sprang his rattle, and other constables having ar-
rived, the prisoners were secured and conveyed to the
station, where they were searched by Roger, 191 C, who
found 2s. 6d. on Watson. The purse was not found.
The prisoners, Gilday and Bennion, in defence said
they were so drunk that they recollected nothing at all
about it. Watson denied the robbery.
Mr. Bingham said Gilday and Bennion bad been
guilty of a very brutal assault upon a defenceless woman,
and for that assault he should send them to prison for
three months. Watson was committed for trial.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF 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 16th
inst. :—Messrs. Frederick Broad White, Barnet, Herts ;
Gilbert Prout Girdwood, Hawley-place, Maids-hill ;
Arthur Austin Davis, Fowey, Cornwall; Edward Burd,
Shrewsbury ; Thomas Richard Jones, Aberystwith ;
Frederick William Jowers, Brighton ; Richard Tho-
mason, Ilolmer, Herefordshire ; James Gerrard, New
Deer, Aberdeenshire ; and Frederick John Mullinger,
Bishops Stortford. The following gentlemen were ad-
mitted fellows of the college at the meeting of the council
on the 15th instant :—Messrs. Stephen Edward Viper,
Darlington ; James Whatman, Maidstone ; Robert
Wood, Ashton-under-Lyne; Elkanah Holroyd, Man-
chester ; John Evans Beale, Plaistow ; 'William Ford
Bally, Bath ; Thomas Macaulay, Leicester ; John M ir-
shall Robinson, Bolton-le-Moors ; Anthony William
Close, Manchester • William Dawson, Lambeth; Thomas
Goodier Richmond, Manchester ; William Garlick,
Great James-street, Bedford-row ; William Bedford
Kesteven, -Upper Holloway ; John Robert Ede, Isling-
ton ; John Hatton, Manchester ; George Edinundson
Bearpark, Leeds • ClemQnt James Hawkins, Chelten-
ham ; John Vinali, Hackney ; David Bolton, Birming-
ham; and David Stolwortb, Sydney. Mr. Adam Linton
Bogle, of ;West Baldon, was admitted an ad eundon,
member of the college. •

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR.

RAISING THE SIEGE OF
SILISTRIA.
Advices from Silistria of the 16th state that the
siege had been raised.
A great part of the Russians had recrossed the
Danube.
The relieving troops from Shumla had effected a
j an? tion.
The following is from a Russian source :
" In the action on the 13th General Schilders re-
ceived a wound which rendered the amputation of
;)is left leg necessary, and Prince Gortschakoff re-
oeived a contusion.
" A Turkish brigade from Schumla succeeded in
entering the fortress on the 13th.
" General Grotenhjelm's division is said to have
defeated two Turkish brigades, with 6,000 cavalry
azd. 40 guns."
Another despatch received via Vienna says that
on the 15th a sortie was made on all sides from
Silistria, and an expedition undertaken to the
Danubian island opposite the fortress, where the
Russian batteries and works were destroyed.
The Turks are constructing strand batteries on
the north side of the fortress, and the siege is

raised.
The Russians are retiring to the left bank of the
river, and their bridges are being broken up.
According to letters from Czernowitz, Marshal
Paskiewitch, much exhausted, reached Jassy on
the 16th.
Advices from Widdin, of the 18th of June, in
Lloyd, state that it is rumoured that the Turks
have taken Giurgevo, and that the Russians lost
400 men and nine guns.
Five Russian Generals are reported (according
to the Presse) killed or wounded in the affair of
the 13th before Silistria.
The same journal says that the garrison and
troops from Schumla, under Mehemed Pacha, con-
pletely defeated the Russians.
General Liprandi has evacuated Slatina, and is
retiring with his division in the direction of
Piteschti.
The following has been received from Berlin :
It is said that much disunion exists among he
Russian Generals at head-quarters, probably in-
duced by the ill success of the late operations.
The Turks have driven the Russians out of Tur-
tukai, which they have occupied with a strong
garrison, and have also strengthened the garrison
of Rustchuk.
The operations against Silisfria are said to have
been suspended.
General Luders has been wounded, and General
Gortschakoff also, but both are said to be going on
well. The life of General Schilders is in danger.
Prince Paskiewitsch, who was on his road to
Jassy, is said to have been ordered to return and
take Silistria at any cost.
Another communication announces the arrival
of the Prince at Jassy.
Advices from Orsova, of the 19th, state that
General Liprandi's division is returning from Sla-
tina and the Aluta line to Slobodzie, for concen-
tration in Moldavia. This either menaces the
Transylvanian frontier, or covers the probable re-
treat from Silistria.
HERIVIANDSTADT, June 18.—The amputation of
General Schilders' leg has been successfully per-
formed.
KALARASCH.—Prince Gortschakoff is severely
wounded.
Operations against Silistria have been suspended
for the present.
The Russian troops are greatly disheartened.
The recovery of Count Orloff, junior, is hopeless.
The death of Mussa Pacha is confirmed.
The communications between Silistria and
Schumla are open on the eastern side.
The vanguard of the relieving forces co-operated
with the garrison in the affair of the 13th.
Two French staff officers have been taken pri-
soners by the Russians.
The Wanderer of Vienna has the following from
Bucharest, 9th :—" Travellers who arrived yester-
day from Kalarasch, announce that a white flag
was flying on the walls of Silistria, and it was con-
cluded that the place had capitulated. The fact
was, however, soon explained. The late combats,
and particularly the explosion of the great mine
which the Russians had formed round the fortress,
had caused so many deaths that the putrefaction of
the bodies was equally dangerous for Russians and
Turks. There had been, therefore, a momentary
truce for burying the dead. It was for this reason
that the white flag was displayed."
The following is another account of the attack on
the 29th of May :
" SCHUMLA, June 4.—The defence of Silistria con-
tinues most successfully. The defenders are covering
themselves with honour and glory. The attack of the
29th of May was most formidable. 30,000 men, divided
into three bodies of 10,000 each, advanced successively
on the forts of Jellani and Arab-Tabia, at one o'clock in
the morning of the 29th. This attack was very near
proving successful, and the Russians had already pene-
trated into one of the forts by the aid of scaling ladders.
The Turks, however, had in the meantime received
reinforcements, and they beat off the Russians, 150
of them being killed within the precincts of the fort.
" On the 31st, at break of day, a fresh attack which
the Russians made on the same forts was again- re-
pulsed with the same good success. The Russians then
hoisted a flag of truce, demanding permission to remove
their dead. Country people were sent for this purpose
to the vicinity of the forts, and they say that the number
of dead exceeded 2,000. The Turks lost, in the attacks
of the 29th and 31st, 188 men, between killed and
wounded.
" A letter from Mr. Grack, the Prussian officer who
is in Silistria, announces the death of Mussa Paella, the
governor of Silistria, which occurred on the 2d of June,
at five o'clock (Turkish time). He was wounded by a
piece of grenade shell, which entered his left side, and
he died twelve minutes afterwards. This is a great loss
for everybody. Mehemed Paella, Vizier, and Hussein
Pacha, replace him. The latter was wounded at the
battle of Oltenitza.
" On the evening the 2d of June the Russians exploded
a mine beneath one of the batteries of the Arab-Tabia
forts. The Turks, had however, discovered what they
were about, and iad taken their measures accordingly.
The mine was badly primed, and instead of causing harm
to the defenders, it reacted, and killed 300 or 400 Rus-
sians, forming part of one of the attacking column which
were in readinces to give the assault by the breach
which it was expected would be made by the springing
of the mine. The Turks then made a sortie, and Ipst
eight men. The Russians have been most unfortunate
in these attacks. According to Mr. Grack, 2,000 Rus-
sian dead bodies were taken from the ground surround-
ing the forts, and on the whole their loss is estimated
at 5,000 killed and wounded. Captains Nasmyth and
Butler are still in Silistria, and render great service ;
they have much distinguished themselves."