The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert visited the Crysts
Palace at Sydenham yesterday morning. Her Majesty
and his Royal Highnes+ were accompanied by the Prin-
cesses Helena and Louisa, and were attended by the
Hon. Mary Seymour, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel
Seymour,
Her Majesty, with Prince Arthur, attended by the
Hon. Matilda Paget, took a drive in the afternoon in an
open landau and four. Lord Alfred Paget and Lord
Charles Fitzroy were in attendance on hor-eback.
Prince Albert rode on horseback attended by Colonel
Seymour.
ham Queen had a dinner party in the evening at Buck-
th Palace. The company included the Duchess of
Rent, his Excellency the French Ambassador, and the
Countess Wa,ewski, the Marchioness of Breath*lhane,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, the Countess
Granville, the Earl of Mnlgrave, Col. the Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Sir George Couper, and Admiral Meynell.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner, and played the following pieces :
Marche Turque Silas
Overture, " La Sirene"
Valse " Queen Mab"
Fantasia, " Der Freiechutz" Weber.
Quadrille, " Caledonian"
March of the Coldstream Guards Costa.

Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in
Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening, and per-
formed the following selection :

Overture, " Zerline"
Solo, Clarinet,Mr....Williams

... Auber.
... Williams.

Selection,

" L'Etoile du Nord"

illoyerbeer.

The Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited the
Duchess of Kent yesterday, at her residence, Clarence
House, St. James's.

A. deputation from Hampstead, headed by Lord
Robert Grosvenor, M.P., had an interview with the
Earl of Aberdeen and Viscount Palmerston yesterda),
at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing. street.
Despatches were sent last evening from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of the North American Pro-
vinces. Despatches were received yesterday from the
Governor of Malta.

r T marks banco, or nearly SO,OOO/. The -cargo." to- be
LA11,„,11 FOLIAGN NEWS • - •
• lauded here, and sent to Russia by land. The captain
is a German, a native of Blankenese, on the Elbe.

THE WAR.

THE. FLEETS AT CRONSTADT-RUSSIAN
REPORT.

•The Journal de St. Petersbourg, of the 30th of June,
contains the following notice cit the Chief of the POlice,
published by the E,nperor's order, with a view to calm
tile minds 14 the people :--
" The enemy's fleet, amounting to 30 sail, appeared
on the 25th of June ahont 20 miles from Cr9nsilltrlt. On
the 27th several steam-vessels of war approached the
lighthouse near the island of Cronstadt, but, up to the
present time, the enemy has shown no disposition to at-
tack Cronstadt, where every measure has been taken to
receive them."

MILITARY EXPEDITION FOR THE BALTIC,

Admiral Berkeley arrived at Calais, yesterday, at one
o'clock, with his suite, on board the Vivid, Captain
Smi thett.

The. French Admiral Lapierre has also reached here
by the 2b. 10m train from Paris. These conimandeii
‘‘ill take superintendence of the arrangements of the
troops to be embarked for the &Ale serv►ce.

RUSSIAN NEWS FROM THE DANUBE.
(Pewit the Invalide Busse.)
Aide-de-Camp General Prince Gortschakoff, who,
since Marshal the Prince of Warsaw, Count Paskiewitch,
.received a contusi in, has taken the command of all the
troops. placed under the 'direction of his Highness in the
Danubian Principa,!ities and the south of Russia, gives
an account of the following facts
On the 30th of May (11th of June) the Turks formed
the project of passing the Danube at Rustchuk, with a
view to take possession of the islands situated opposite
that fortress. A great number of the, enemy's barques,
filled with troops, and escorted by gun-sloops, sailed frinn
the right bank towards the island of Radomar, and the
ramparts of the fortress, as well as the batteries, opened,
at the same time a deadly fire. Major-General Pasch-
Itoosky, to whom the defence of the island had been in,-
trusted, received the enemy with discharges from ►nns-
kets arid carbines. The enemy made two successive
attempts-to-land- upon the island at different points, but
were repulsed each time with loss.
During this time the Turks have definitively evacuated
Lesser Wallachia, and demolished the fortifications of
Kalafat.
The siege works have been continued before Silistria,
upon our left flank, against the advanced fort of the
enemy. In spite of the successful mining operations, arid
the new breaching batteries lately constructed, the Turks
continue to maintain themselves obstinately behind their
intrenchments, actively repairing their damaged works,
making occasional sorties, and even strengthening their
defences by new fortifications. This siege has unfortu-
nately cost us a fresh victim; Aide-de-Camp Gen. Schil-
ders, who personally directed the works with indefatigable
activity, was wounded, on the 'lst of June, while, in-
specting the trenches. A shell which burst fractured
his right leg, and he was compelled to submit to anion-
tatien below the knee. This operation was very suc-
cessfully performed. The same shell caused a contusion
to Major-General de Meyer, chief of the sth division of
artillery.
In order to keep a watch upon the routes by which
the garrison of Silistria expected the arrival of reinforce-
ments and .provisions, detachments were sent several
times towards the village of Kalopetri, under the com-
mand of Lieutenant-General Pawloff and Major-General
Prince Bdboutoff. But the Turks did not show them.-
selves anywhere in considerable force. Our advanced
patrols had only to disperse some weak detachments of
the enemy.
Nothing particular has taken place upon the other
points of the theatre of the war.

THE RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE BOMBARD-
' MENT OF BOMARSUND.
(From the St. Petersburg Journal.),
The General in command or the troops stationed in
Finland announces, under date of the 13th of June,
that the enemy has made an unsuccessful attempt against
the fortress of Aland, but was successfully repulsed.
On the 9th, at 5 in the afternoon, three of the enemy's
vessels (two steam-frigates of 48 guns and a steam cor-
vette) approached the fort and opened a violent can-
nonade against it. The fort responded from both tiers,
and afterwards the strand battery, armed with four
light pieces of artillery from the garrison of Aland, and
temporally erected to the south of the fort, as also two
companies of riflemen who supported it, by their well-
directed fire, turned the action of tue enemy from the
fort, and at the same time a cannonball from the bat-
tery broke the wheel of a steamboat. The enemy
then, abandonitig the fort, turned to the strand battery.
This battery stood the enemy's fire without interrup-
tion until eight at night, and, the position was only
quitted after the destruction of the parapets. As for the
riflemen, who were spread along the shore to the right,
and left of the battery, they continued their fire without
giving way, and the enemy's vessels had abandoned the
battery to attack the fort again. Profiting by the
enormous calibre of his guns, the enemy cast anchor at
1,000 sagenes (about one mile and one-third) from our
fortifications, and threw bombs of three ponds (1081 b.),
balls of 961 b. and 68th., and Congreve rockets. The
commandant of the fort, Colonel Bodisco, deeming 'it
unnecessary to lose ammunition uselessly in responding
to the enemy at so great a distance, suspended his
fire for some time ; but when the enemy's vessels
came nearer with the view of making a breach in
the rampart, we opened afresh against him, with red-
hot balls, which set fire to one of his frigates ; the
other had its poop .damaged by a shot from the tower.
In consequence the enemy was obliged to give over the
combat, and retired between one and two in the morn-
ing. NOtwithstanding the violence of the cannonade,
which had lasted more than nine hours, lie ha•l 'not suc-
ceeded in doing any serious damage in the fortress.
Our loss in this affair has been very inconsiderable.
The temporary battery had not a single man killed, and
only 12 wounded. In the fort itself, Surgeon Brovko-
vitch, second medical officer of the military hospital of
Aland, the secretary of Sorokine College, and the auditor
of the battalion of the line of Finland No. 10, besides
two men, were killed, and three men were wounded.
The thick smoke which the wind carried from the vessels
in the direction of the battery did not allow of our calcu-
lating even approximately the loss of the enemy, but' in
all probability it must have been important.
In his report of this success, the commandant of
Aland bears testimony to the' rare intrepidity and.cool-
ness during the action of the entire garrison entrusted
to him, and in particular to the sagacity of the mea-
sures and the obstinate defence of Lieutenant• Colonel
de Fuhrujelm, who commanded the strand battery, and
the riflemen. Further, he names as most distinguished
the Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery Grankine ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Tamelantler ; Major de Klingstett and
Captain De Granborg, both of the battalion of the line
of Finland No. 10 ; Captain Kransold, Captain Schestoff
(particularly) ; also Captain Fomine, of the regiment of
the Cossacks of the Dou ; and Adjutant Wickberg, who
carried the orders of the commandant.

TYIE,SCTINT‘ fof 0 VZO N.;4 54T1V403:11,,17, E ENIN G, JULY .j

Island Of B.ThirtliOiOniew that they are strictly to con-
form to Ow ordonnauces, which prohibit the admission
and the vie tualling of corsairs in the ports under the
domination of Sweden. It is known that similar orders
have been sent to the graver .ors of the Danish islands in
the West Indies, and that a vesel of war belonging to
the King of Denmark has received a special Mission to
see them executed."

The M.ovtiteur publishes a report, dated the of
May, addressed to the Minister of Marine, describing
the -cordi: reception given by the authorities of the
Mahritius 'to thellear-Adiniral commanding the French
naval division of the Island, of the- Reunion and the
Indo-China Seas. At that date Admiral Laguerre, car-
rying his :'flag on board the Jeanne d'Arc frigate, was at
the Mauritius. Everything the island afforded was
placed at the disposal of the ship.
The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 73f. Sc. for
the end of the month ; the Four-and.a Half per Cents.
at 93 . 20c.. The New Loan was not quoted. Orleans
Railway Shares, 1,170 f. ; Rouen, 1,0421. 50a ; Havre,
593 f. 75e. ; Great Northern, 832 f. 50c. • Strasburg.
790 f. ; New Shares,. 630 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 9351.;
Lyons to t:le Mediterranean, 8501. ; Western of France, j
657 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 610 f. ; Great Central
of France. 502 f. 50c ; Lyons and Geneva, 510 f. ; Bank
of. Credit Mobilier, 735 f.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Thursday Evening.—Prince Gortschakoff
conferred with Count Buol to-day. He delivers the
Czar's letter to the Emperor to-morrow.
It has transpired that Russia makes conditions for the
evacuation of the Principalities unacceptable to the Aus-
trian Cabinet.

The Austrians halt on the Wallachian frontier, await-
ing orders to enter. - • -

'Lire Turks are advancing northwards.
NEW AUSTRIAN LOAN.—An imperial decree directing
a new loan has appeared. The lowest amount demanded
is 350,000,000 florins, and the Government will take
500,000,000 if people will subscribe. The subscription
will be opened on the 24th inst., and will be voluntary.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Jura 6.—The capital and the provinces are
tranquil. The insurgents are pursued by the troops
faithful to the Government, and have arrived. at Ciudad
Real, on their way to Estramadura, to gain the Portu-
guese frontier.
The Moniieur contains the following telegraphic de-
spatch :

"MADRID, JULY s,—Perfect tranquillity continues
in this city. The insurgents, much discouraged, are
everywhere retreating before the Royal troops, who are
pursuing them."
According to advices from Madrid of the 3d, the in-
surgents were still concentrated at Aranjuez, with their
outposts at Cien-Pezuelos.
Trey had taken up the rails on the railway in several
places.

Two regiments, one of cavalry and the ether of infan-
try, had arrived from Valladolid, and the day after a
strong column was to leave Madrid in pursuit of the
rebels.
The diplomatic corps had gone to congratulate ;the
Queen on the successes gained by her troops on the 30th.
The city was tranquil, and no pronunciantiento had
taken place in the provinces.

INTELLIGENCE.

.The Queen has remitted the capital sentence on Col.
Garrigo, of the Farne.3e Regiment, who had been sen-
tenced by a court-Martial to he shot.

•
(Prom the Mining Journal of Ws city. )
We have had rather a dull week for mining shames, which
is contrary to what might have been expected from the ac-
tivity in the market for a few weeks previous. There ap-
pears, however, no rule to guide one's opinions in regard to_
speculative transactions, excepting they are either very buoy-
ant or very depressed. Tue news geuerady from the mining'
districts is favourable, and the price of metals keeps up.
In the Bullion Market,--Bar silver containing gold, --ail
gold above 5 grs in the pound to be paid for, ss. 10. per oz.
standard, Bar silver without gold, ss, 1-d. per oz. standard.
Bar, gold, :775. 9d. per oz. standard. Columbian doubloons,
765. 6d. .per 0z..; Carolus Spanish dollars, 6s. Old. per oz,
The Mexican dollars brought by last steamer not yet sold.
Altiou,gh it was reported yesterday that there was a little
more business doing in the Gold Mining Share Market, yet
these stocks still remain in a depreised state--the most accre-
dited not being much sought after; and even though those-
who are .
.practically acquainted with quartz, mining in Cilifor-
nia express their conviction that it will be highly remunera-
tive to those. interested, it would appear that it will be a con-
siderable period before the distrust at present engendered in
the public mind will be removed. It has been ru-
moured that in, the instance of eeveral companies, where
unfavourable reports have been given, that these have been
for interested purposes, in order to depress the shares, so
that the several properties might, at a depreciated value, pass
into other hands. Whether any credence is to be attached to
this report it is difficult to say, but those who have embarked
their capital should act with caution. it is almost out of the
range of probability their stock can he lower; while there is
every reasonable anticipation that in the accredited 'associa-
tions it must improve. In the others, it is not a question of
mining ; but bow much can the directors return of the money
they obtained, and which they have so mismanaged ? The
decisions in the cases of the Lake Bathurst and Melbourne
Gold Companies have given some satisfaction ; but great
doubts are expreised, when they are argued in bapeo, whether
a new trial will not be granted. The week has been remark-
ably barren in news, both from California and Australia.
In Iron and Coal Companies, there has been little activity
during the week, with the exception of Ithymney, Iron, which
have been in request, and several bargains made at 33.
;In Miscellaneous Shares, the market has been steady, and
land shares have remained without alteration worthy of notice
Crystal Palace shares considerably declined during the week,
and closed yesterday at 5 to 4t, .

From other accounts from Madrid of the 3d, we learn
that the loss of the rebels in the engagement of the 30th
ult. was believed to have been very heavy. :The field
of battle was 'covered with dead and wounded, and a
great number were taken prisoners. Among the latter
were two colonels, who will probably be shot. The
council of war was permanently sitting. Desertion had
set in among the revolters. Every moment officers and
soldiers, deluded by their superior chiefs, made their
submission. The paymaster of the cavalry regiment of
Santiaga had surrendered, bringing with him the entire
regimental chest. The rebels, it appears, intended to
march through the province of La Mancha into
Extremadura, from whence they can easily reach the
`frontier of Portugal, Instructions and telegraphic
despatches had been forwarded to the , military
authorities at Badajoz to intercept their passage.
Madrid was perfectly calm. Some extraordin ry pre-
cautions had been adopted to maintain order, which was
not an instant disturbed. The same tranquillity pre-
vailed throughout the provinces. Tim most satisfactory
accounts_with regard to the disposition of the people had
reached the Goveri:inent. The authorities everywhere
answered for the maintenance of order. It was reported
that the rebels intend ±d to approach at night the walls of
the capital, and by‘ discharges of musketry to give the
signal of an emeute. The authorities -accordingly took
some precautionary measures, but the rebels made no
such demonstration. The garrison had been reinforced
by two regiments—the one of cavalry and the other
of infantry—which had arrived by forced marches
from Valladolid. Those corps were to be allowed two
days' rest, and on the 4th they were to sally out, with a
strong body of the garrison in pursuit of the rebels. The
latter were concentrated at Aranjuez, with their ad-
vanced posts at Cien•Pozuelos. They had destroyed
the railway, on different points, and removed the rails
on a distance of half a league. The Government had
caused the line to be repaired, and on the sth the ad-
vanced posts of the Royal troops were to be carried to
Valdemoro. The police had discovered a depot of arms
in Madrid, and seized 74 guns, and two bags full of am-
munition. 'M. Borrego, who was with the insurgents
at Aranjuez, was arrested, the evening before, on his
eturn to Madrid, and placed at the disposal of the
authorities.

The Three per Cents. clo,ed to-day at 73f. 5c., and
the Four-and•a-Half per Cents. at 98f. 20c. for the
end of the month.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday, July 7.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Madrid,
Captain John Weeks, sailed to-day tbr Vigo,
Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz; and , Gibraltar, taking out 31
passengers, a full general cargo, and specie value
35,989/ , of which 3,0001. in sovereigns is for Lisbon,
21,8241. in gold bars, and 10.865/, in sovereigns for
Cadiz. In consequence of the requirements of the Go-
vernment for the transport service, and from the fact
that all the available steamships of large tonnage have
been chartered by the Admiralty for the transporting
troops and military stores, the mail service in the Medi-
terranean has to be conducted with steamers of com-
paratively small tonnage. The Euxine is accordingly
appointed to take out the :Last India, China, and Medi-
terranean mails of the 20th inst.
Tile MURDER AND SUICIDE AT NEWlNGTON.—Yes-
terday Mr. Carter held an inquest at the Duke of Suf-
folk, Brandon-street, Newington, respecting the deaths
of Ruth Goss, and Elizabeth Goss, a child four months
old. It has been already state 1 that the mother ana
child were found drowned in a water-butt in the garden
of the house, No. 13, in the above street. Evidence
was given which proved that the mother had wilfully
destroyed her own life and that of her child, and the
jury returned a verdict of " Insanity."
MORTALITY solost THE WANT OF DRAINAGE AT
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Afti nr. ‘,v.oinlliaampßrt:tkrearc,te
the deputy-coroner for East Middlesex, at the Birdcage
Tavern, V irginia-row, Bethnal
green, respecting the death
of William Fleming,
agel 50 years, silk weaver, who
disci from typhus fever, caused by the filthy state of the
premises where he resided. The inquiry was called in •
.consequence of the loud complaints of the inhabi-s
tants, and the alarming representations forwarded to,
the coroner by Mr. James Vaughan,
the sumrnoning
officer, who had recsived a coe ication from Mr.
George West, the medical offif.e
Beth-
nal-green. George, landlord of the Five Ink-
horns, e
public-house, New Niehollastr
et, Bethnal-green,.
ir:rnfe St.e Mathew,
said he had known the deceased for several years as a silk; weaver, Deceased occupied a small room'on the first.
floor, at No. 3, Sherwood-place, Christopher-street,
st fillollir arose. ae(l
Bethnal-green. He had been in the workhouse through
poverty, but left of his own accord. 'Witness visited the
deceased on Friday last, on which day he died. The
b
wretchedTlThe s,
sr toaut
ne
d, f
am;
covered with soil, which had apparently overflowed from
the privy. Witness lied never seen the state of the pre-
wabcikob back.-lard was in a
abominable rilos
stench
inises previously. The landlord of the house No. 3, and
the adjoining property, was Mr. Wilson, of Friar's
Mount. Suisan Lee, wife of a skewer-maker, 'deposed
that she rented the front room on the ground-floor. The
privy had been running over with soil for several weeks
past, and the soil reached the threshold of the hack
door. The effluvium was overpoWering and sickening. ~
juror said the whole district round .Sherwood-place was
without drainage, and if sornethiug Was not done by
Government for the inhabitants, the sacrifice of life
would be frightful from typhus fever and cholera.
Coroner—So long as cesspools are allowed to exist,
such abominable nuisances would be continued. Mr.
George West, surgeon, of 5, Northampton-place,
sack-
ney-road, was nest called, and said he had been at-
tending the deceased, by order of the parish officers,
for typhus fever and diarrhoea, which caused death
on Friday last. Coroner—What is Your opinion as
to the cause of the deceased's death ? Witiiess—Typhus
fever of the most malignant form. Coroner—Are there
any local causes to account for the disease ? Witness
Yes, sir ; when I visited the deceased I went into
the back-yard, where the ground was covered with soil,
and I had to walk on planks. I asked Mrs. Lee how
long the place had been in such a state. She said about
five months. There wss a hole in the wall of the privy,
through which the soil was oozing. The Coroner re-
marked on the case, which he said was one of great
importance, and showed the want of drainage in that
densely populated parish, where the poor suffered to an
alariniog extent. Probably it the attention .of the
Board of Health and the Commissioners of Sewers
were directed to the district some improvement would be
made for the protection of the inhabitants. The whole
of the jury concurred in the observations of the learned
coroner, and ultimately mgreed to the following special
verdict : " That the duce iced died froM typhus fever
aggravated.by the filliy state of the preini-es in which
deceased resiileil, arid the jurors deem it their duty to
call the attention of the inspector of nuisances to con-
tioual examinatien amid cleansing, and to urge on the
Commissioners of Sewers the importance of providing
efficient drainage in that district."
GREAT NORTHERN AND A MBERGATE. -- Whatever
difference of opinion msy exist as to the value of the
Ambergate to the meat Northern, there can be none on
the ready and unsolicited pledge of the chairman in re-
gard to any contemplated arrangement. It is avowed
that no agreement shall be entered upon, no terms
fixed, no allowance male or favours granted, until the
Great Northern proprietors are fully instructed, and
have-had an opportunity of forinirig an opini in on the
subject. When we can get all limo& to act thus to-
wards their proprietors, we shall hear no more of nip-
tures and disputes, of which no one can trace the be-
ginning or descry the end.—. Railway Times, .