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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY laws,
beg leave to send you the enclosed ex-
tracts of a letter I have just received froze a per-
-0,R.-•A• board one of our ships in the White Sea.
-Perhaps you will agree with me in thinking them
of public interest.
We have been told that blockades were to be es-
tablished in the White Sea on the Ist of August.
This may have been done ; but as all neutral ves-
sels in port, and laden previously to this notifica-
tion of effective blockade, have a right to free egress
with their cargoes, it is obvious such a blockade
will be only a farce as regards Russian trade for
this year.
You will observe the number of Dutch vessels
mentioned by my correspondent. I never could
get in Parliament any explanation of the intima-
tion which, undeniably, was given to the merchants
of Holland, that their commerce with Archangel
should not be interfered with ; while very imper-
fect information of the course determined upon by
the allied Governments was afforded to British
merchants. _

[PRICE SD.

earthworks of enormous thickness, and of the smallest
elevation that would afford a range to the guns. The
solid mound of the Roman re-appeared (faced sometimes
with masonry to prevent an escalade), because it alone
possessed the power of resisting, for any length of time,
the terrible energy of the new invention. However, the
Russians, having built towers of granite or some sca-
gliola substitute, the word went forth, and granite towers
were pronounced impregnable. To doubt their strength
exposed you to ridicule, to deny it to anathema. They
were religiously believed in ; and if the:Czar had mounted
them with catapults, it would have been pronounced
"certain destruction" to approach armed only with
Paixhans. However, the granite battery pretext for
inaction will no longer prevail. _
Not the least gratifying part of 'tho gallant and im-
portant achievement at Boamrsund is, that it has been
accomplished with a small loss of life. Had the short
and decisive course which was there employed been
adopted sooner, how many might have been saved out of
the thousands of the Allied, the Turkish, and the Rus-
sian soldiers, who have perished by the sword, or still
more miserably by disease, at Gallipoli, Varna, Silistria,
and in the fatal marshes-of the Dobrudscha ?

Allow me to take this opportunityof calling your
attention to the concluding paragraph of the note of
the Austrian Government, of the Bth inst., which
you lately published. Austria therein " reserves
to herself free deliberation on the conditions she
may bring forward for the re-establishment of
peace, if she should happen to be forced to take
part in the war." Austria, then, as yet takes no
part in the war. The attitude she has assumed is,
therefore, an armed neutrality, to become possibly
an armed intervention. She thus holds, as far as
her force may enable her to hold, the fate of the
war, or the terms of peace, in her hands. And
she proclaims
free."t.
either side, that empire. These sa,eries i
proud triumph for Austrian
diplomacy. The very
existence of the Austrian e • in the hands
been wise ; but she
ee
of the Allies a few month
our Thi
negotiationss ltrealand
ago. We made great
empire was
sacrifices to preserve, and shield from danger on
have
pears as yet far from satisfactory, and ill accords
with the boasts and the predictions,
pro-
mises, uttered in Parliament.
to be, sir, your obedient servant,
Portumna, August 26. CLAZTRICARDv.
•

We arrived off the bar of the Archangel or Dwina
River, with the three ships on the 26th June, having
boarded an immense quantity of vessels, principally
Dutch, on our way down the White Sea. Within 36
hours of our anchoring it came on to blow very heavily
from the N.W., which is a fair wind for vessels bound
in. They come in in shoals—not less than from 300 to
350 vessels, of which the majority were Dutch, having
passed us between the 26th June and 3d July, when the
wind charmed. During this period it blew so hard a gale
that cur boats were occasionally prevented from board-
ing, and, as it was, they were knocked to pieces almost,
and all to no purpose—for the vessels were all, with the
exception of one Yankee, in ballast—and as we have
lourdae
ar st
ine
iopta ttoienbloofckaade, we
could not in
blockade,
manyefttheerer them had
with them.
adebtained
numerous freights, and the astonishment of the Yankee
two&
ps
rg re
eeeaetd when he
Allen
these
was toldthat
craft
ar he wase now
at at perfect
Archangel, e r fec
the first rush has evidently subsided, though whenever
we can see, which is not very often the case, others are
seen running down.
Without a blockade of Archangel our presence in this
sea is next to useless. The quantity of grain, meal,
flour, Ste., which will be exported thence this year will
be positively enormous, and a stoppage of it would be
felt in the heart of the empire. You can have no idea
of the extent of this traffic. No one who has not wit-
nessed its effects. From far and near, within a circuit
of 400 miles of Archangel, the produce of the country is
heat in ; and as the craft which embark it bring, remit-
tances, either in bills or specie, to pay for it, jut fancy
what a blow would be struck at Russian commerce by a
strict blockade, and what a quantity of money would be
removed from circulation. We have taken one schooner
and about half a dozen luggers since our arrival, and
another schooner (empty) parted from her anchors, and
drove over the bar in the height cf the gale, after we
had put a couple of 321 b. shot through her, got a boat's
grew 4.,n board, who luckily escaped to a neutral vessel
just as she went a,lrift. Perhaps you are nut aware of
another arrangement which has been entered into
between the Swedish and our Government. It is
that the Russian luggers trading between Archangel
and the coast of Norwegian Finmark are not to be mo-
lested, because upon them the inhabitants of that deso-
late region depend entirely for supplies of food. Now,
this is humane, and would be proper were it not so
liable to abuse. We fell in with a fleet of three, the
other day, one and all consigned to our consul at Ham-
merfest, who, with the consular agents sst Vardo, Huns,
and Vatose, seem to have the whole of that trade in
their hands ; and the schooner of 120 tons which we
took was provided with a sort of pass from the Norwe-
gian consul at Archangel.
You may depend upon it that the only effect of the
war in this quarter has been prejudicial to ourselves, by
placing the entire trade in the hands of the Danes,
Dutch, and Hanoverians ; and I fervently hope that,
should the war last over the year, as seems tnost likely,
you and your party will force our Government to adopt
a different line of conduct. For this year the mischief
is done.

The very moment that the gale broke, which was on
the ?,d July, we went to work to try and get the steamers
over the bar of the Dwina, inside which lay a 16-gun
Russian brig, two steamers, two schooners, and 19 gun-
boats,• each mounting two long 36-pounders, and pulling
40 sweeps. We sounded the only two channels whiolt
we now used, but found only from 14 to 14,E feet in the
deepest. This occupied us all the 4th and sth of July,
and then as Miranda, the vessel of the lightest draught
among us, was drawing 14 feet 11 inches, we found that
for the present the job was impracticable. On the night
of the 6th the Brisk took the Eurydice and the prize
schooner in tow, and brought them up here to an anchor-
age about 70 miles from the Dwina, admirably situated
for blockading, as all vessels bound to Archangel make
Cross Island to ascertain their position. We anchored
here on the 7th, and next morning the Eurydice sent two
of her boats ashore, on the main land to water. That
afternoon it came on to blow again from the northward ;
the boats tried to get, off. One of them just pitche d
sufficiently close to the stern of the Brisk for her to vee r
'a small gig with a line to her, by which she hauled her
up ; but God knows what has become of her. The last
seen of her was the next morning, at 4 a.m. when
she was trying to beat up along shore. The schooner
and one of the boats were sent to her assistance,
but one of those cursed fogs came on, and since Sunday,
the 9th, we have only bad half-an-hour during which
ene could see the ship's length, and during which the
schooner and boat earne.in, having been twenty miles to
leeward without seeing anything of the missing phinace.
They had two days' provisions with them —but after
that

If it were not for this most unhappy affair, things
would be going pretty straight with us, for we have
picked up a collier which was sent to us from England,
and are consequently reassured about not getting out of
coals. * * * At a place called Linslie, half way to
Archangel, stands the strong fort of Na,vjerin, mount.
ing 80 guns of heavy metal, and only one vessel could
approach at a time ; beyond that, at Solombot, where
the dockyard is, they have thrown up strong batteries,
and again at Archangel itself. The garrison consists of
6,000 men, and they have the means of turning out as
many gun-boats as they please.
As far as we can learn there is no vessel of any size on
the stocks at present, and no vessels of war have left the
river this year.
We had a little firing on the 4th of July. the enemy
having brought some horse artillery guns to bear on our
boats, which were sounding. No damage was done b y
them, although their practice was good, and firing
markably quick. They have a telegraph on the
house abreast our anchorage, off the bar, and would per.
sist in working it on the day we tried to get in, until the
Miranda, which was the closest in, put a 32-pound shot
toe hnurtroi
ruegl
meny on
h tahree
apfirlrets
pretty
atyf leaohote sincera,l ath y a distance
leay.in
gh
of 2,700 yards,
although
c, they
Downs. have been
The
weather is terribly against us ; what with gales of wind,
thick fogs, and strong currentr, we have enough to do to
take care of ourselves.

PROPORTION OF DE&P AND DUMB PERSONS IN DIE.
PERENT COITNTRIES.
dumb in
a comparison of the propor-
tyisionis
of deaf
doeffearlicdoudntries loaf IBruetaZie,lirthomthawhticwhilichaeou'prarra
informatiionnl7
beingLu x
emlbourg_n_be.obtained, we learn that the Proportion
Tuscany, Bavaria,
1,593, is than that of the Duchies of
Belgium,tem baarngd,
Holland,anthe inki nugd,hiocmhsthoef
average is 1 in 2,209 ;•an less than in Sardinia, Nor
way, and parts of Switzerland, where the averag'f is 1 in
642. In some of the Swiss canton's the ratio is as high
as 1 in 206—i. e.. above seven times as great as in Ire-
land.— Medical Times and Gazette.
SHIPMENT OF MUNITIONS OF WAR TO INDIA.—The
Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury 'have
caused the Commissioners of Customs to be.acquainted
that, in compliance with their recommendtion, their
Lordships are pleased to anthoriie the Board to "allow
the shipment of munitions of war, &c., by•the East India
Company, without the necessity of an order in Council
being obtained in each case, in the same manner as with
regard to the shipment to her Majesty's forces in the
wAcieT. A
East, under Treasury order of April last, and without
bond being required from the Company.
coNvicTiON UNDER THE Cum:.raNsGehßaorygsed'
Mitigate.a hthinislierdt:
the Blanchester City Police-court
Johnny,
the house of
isne,ceapeiri
ttniaembeody Juoth)ntoChsworeletopna,
sweeperellparlol,tea:
Mb r. Slack, grocer, in Long
inspector appointed by the Chimney
Von Society. saw the boy enter the house about five
o'clock on Wednesday morning last; and Mr. Slack's
boueekeeper said she saw ,th boy
a convctionainutalltes*etl cases
Thus the difficulty of proving the 'go
" the chimney.
Whiimchposos.
frequently renders
Sible,_ wag; in this imam
was fined 71, ""Feollies,-.40 i the 4efendant

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Off Cross Island, in the White Sea, July, 1854.>
I must apologise to you for .16ddressiug you without
istitievfirst- obtained, your-lionekgieti- to do loci `-beit
there is such thorough truth in yOur late remarks on the"--7''''7;i4'"
way in whichthe war is being conducted in this quarter
that I cannot resist the temptation of telling you hovf
exactly the state of the case tallies with your description
of it.