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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'C!ock

ASCOT RACES.

(THIS DAY.)
(EP ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. )1
SIXTH TRIENNIAL STAKES.
Bonnie Morn
Joshua

Nine ran.
ASCOT STAKES.

Little Harry
Grapeshot
Kingston

Sixteen ran.
ASCOT DERBY.

Pheton
BolAy

Six ran.
Marley Hill fell.

LATEST BETTING.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
10 to 1 agst Typee (taken).
ST. LEGER.
6to 1 agst Dervish taken).
DERBY 1855.
15 to .1 agst Grmculus Esuriens (taken).
16 to 1 agst Oulston (taken).
20 to 1 agst Bohnie Morn (taken).

THE

LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

THE WAR.
OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM ADMIRAL
DIINDAS.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Juzaz 13.
It is hereby -notiGa that the Right Honourable the
Earl or Clarendon her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for.. 'Affairs, has received a Despatch from
Vice-Admiral Dunda.s Commanding her Majesty's Naval
Forces in the Black Sea, addressed to the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, and dated the first of June, an-
nouncing that the Danube was blacka.decl Fes.. the combined
Naval,. Forces of her Majesty and of the Emperor of the
French.

. . ADMIRALTY, JUNE 10.
.Despatches,.Of which the following are copies or extracts,
have been received from Vice-Admiral Dundas, C. 8.,
Commander-in• Chief of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels in
the Mediterranean and Black Sea.;—
PRESENT STATE OF THE FORTS ON THE COASTS OF
CIRCAR.SIA AND GEORGIA.

Britannia, off Baljik,
May 25, 1854.
beg you will acquaint the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, that the Mogador arrived yesterday
frOm Redoubt Kale, on the coast of Georgia, having left
Sir Edinund_Lyons with the Agamemnon, Charlemagne,
Sampson, and Highflyer there, on the 20th instant, and I
expect him to-night or to-morrow morning
2. I have not yet received Sir Edmund Lyons' official
degpatches, which will be forwarded as soon as I get them;
but the result of his movements appears to be, that from
the entrance of the Sea of Azof to the Turkish Asiatic
Boundary, the flag of Russia only flies over the fortre ;sea
of Anapa and Sonjak, and the only two vessels that were
on that coast have been captured, as noted in my letter
No. 214.

No. 22'.

3. All the places were evacuated, and the forts and ma-
teriel more or less destroyed (many of the guns however
being serviceable), except Redoubt Kale and Poti, from
-which the Russian soldiers were driven by the fire of the
French and English ship 4, 'and they were then garrisoned
by a battalion of Turkish soldiers who, with three field
pieces, had been previously embarked on board our vessels
at St. Nicolai (Chefketil). The Russians, about 700 or
800 men, are supposed to have gone in the direction of
Khutais, where also the garrison of Soukhum Kale,
2,000 or 3,000 is supposed to have directed its march.
'4. The Sampson is on the coast, and last night the Sans
Niel' and two Turkish 'steamers left for Redoubt Kale,
with arms, ammunition, and 200 to 300 Circassians.
5. I em happy to say that there is an appearance of
•more unity and stronger feeling among the different tribes
against the Russians. , I Illiye, &c,,
The Secretary of the Admiralty.

No. 243

J. W. D. DUNDAS,
Vice-Admiral.

Britannia, off Baljik,
May 28, 1854.
Sir,—l acquaint you, for the information of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, that Sir E. Lyons re-
joined me this morning, from the coasts of Circassia,
Georgia; and Anatolia ; and I have very great pleasure in
transmitting, for their Lordships' information, Sir E.
Lyons' official reports of the proceedings of the detach-
ment placed under his orders.
2.. The operation ther, in detailed, as well as the intelli-
gence as to the state of the coasts he has visited, are very
important and.interesting ; and I trust my Lords will con
eider I have done right in expressing my entire approval 01
the great skill and judgment displayed by Sir K
Lyons, and his colleague, Viscount do Chabannes ; and I
beg to add my testimony to the ability and conduct of
the Agamemnon, of whom Sir E Lyons has made such
honourable mention.—l have. Sce,
J. IV. D. Du DAs, "Vice-Admiral.
No. 21.

Agamemnon, at Redoute Kaleh,
May, 21, 1854.
Sin,- I have great pleasure in, reporting to you that
the small squadron placed under my orders by you and
Admiral Hauelin, lisve been the means of expelling the
Russian garrison frum the only place on this extensive
coast, with the exception of the is:;rongholds of Anana
and Soejak Kaleh, near the Crimea, that the Emperor
Nicholas exempted from the general abandonment two
months ago.
2. At Seukottm Kaleh I learned that the Russians were
still in possession of Redout Kaleh, and that they at-
tached great importance to maintaining thsmselves there
as long as possible, in order to forward to their army at
Kutais, a large quantity of ammunition and stores still
in the magazines ; and at the same time to intercept the
.comissunications of Selim Pacha at this cri`ical juncture,
and prevent-his occupation of so favourable a port for the
introduction of supliea.
3: The squadron left Soukoum Kaleh on the morning of
the 18th, and as wo passed Redout Kaleh we observed a
body of about 1,001 infantry under arms, and that the few
gnus an the sea defences were manned. If we had opened
our broadsides we could have obliged the enemy to retire,
bathe mould, no doubt, have returned to occupy the place
on our disappearing, and I, therefore, went on with the
squadron as fast as possible to Chouruksoo, in hopes of in-
ducing the General commanding there to aid me with a
sufficient number to occupy and maintain the place, after
we should have driven the enemy out of it with our guns;
he sent an express to Selim Paella' whose reply arrived
early on the following morning, and who placed at my dis-
posal a •battalion of 300 infantry and 3 field pieces, which
• were immediately embarked on board the ships of the squa-
dron with a degree of alacrity I have never seen surpassed.
4. At 4 p.m. the squadron reappeared off /taloa Ka-
/eh, where the troops weee disembarked, under cover of
the steam-vessels, about two miles from the batteries, and
at the same time a summons was sent to the Commander
of the Russian forces by Vicomte de Chabannes, the senior
officer of the French division of the squadron, and myself,
under cover of a flag of truce, and in charge f Lieutenant
Masse,' of this ship, by whom it was delivered to an
officer who spoke French' fluently, and alleged as the reason
why an answer could not be given without considerable
delay, that the commandant was not on tie spot.
5. After a delay of nearly half an hour Lieut. Masse left
the shore without an answer, and consequently the Aga-
memnon and Charlemagne stood in, as close as the depth
of water would permit, and opened their fire upon the
quarter occupied by the Russian troops as well
as on the sea defences, which tried an ineflectual fire on
the boats. The enemy soon returned out of reach of the
ships' guns, and the Turkish troops advancing along the
beach, took possession of the batteries, when the firing
ceased.
6. The enemy retreated so precipitately from under the
fire of the ships, that he failed in his attempt to ignite the
combustibles which were laid for the destruction of the
Military Quarter, but when -out of gun-shot, and his re-
treat secured by crossing the river and destroying the
bridge, he tet fire to the magazines and storehouses, and
at nightfall the Commercial Town, which commenced at
some distance from the sea and extended about a mile and
a half up each bank of theriver, was in a blaze, so that in
the morning the flo
an awful scene-of ulls
lug place of the evening presented
l
desolation ; the Mingrelian inhabitants,
• who had rendered ths seyves very obnoxious to the dis-
pleasure of the Turke tieng retired with the Russians.
7. This devastation is, doubt, deeply to be deplored,
but it is some consolation have deprived the enemy of a
pdleapcootooff
soyinil military
intatoproersitin
ced, tllave driven him from a
irregularitarising from success. without any accident, or any
8. Nothing could eXceed the cordial co-operation and
assistance I received :from my Frenceoh
mcolleague, the Vi-
sammandant Wailly
comte do Chabannes, as well as from
cembitinhseee:lsliCuaapdtain,
of the Mogaclor, Captain Jones. of the
Symonds of this ship, and Captain Moore of
and, indeed, fromevery officer in the • ghflyer
fatiguing day; but I should be doi cl
• r(r''
duriug this
erviDer officer, if I did not ng Ineastice
to a highlyparticularly men-
tion the seniorlcs Lieutenant' of the Agamemnon, William
Rue Rue Rolland (a Lieutenant ant of thirteen Years' stand-
ing, twelve of which he has beenin active service
large afloat)
upon whom a,
share of the toil and responsibility of
the day devolved,
as ho had the management of the em-
barkation and disembarkatiwonokfintgheptarrotoipes from the com-
s.
i
0. Yesterday and to-t ay or
assisting the Turks in putting
bined squadron have been n
the place in a good state of defence, and I am highly
pleased with the
quantity of work they have accomplished -
but, as the Russians are probably not far distant, I
think it would not he prudent to
leave
son without some support, I therefore vetniateuTreurtkoischongsairrdei;
it your pleaenro, that, on my quitting this anchorage to-
night in the further execution of your ortle
ars,nd I
the Samp-
son should be left behind for that purpose;_
ainclose
a copy of the instructions I have given to C pt. J„.ones letter,,
10. I have also the honour to incline the copy of
which the Vicomte Chabannes and I have addressed to the
Muehir . e:elirri
es dependenc
dependencies
of and I have directed Captain
draw hiattention to ion and AF,373°°, the Jones to
of Itedoet Kaleh, which were also sot on fire by the enemy
on the evening of the 10th instant.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) EDMUND LYONS, Rear-Admiral.

Agamemnon, at Baljik, May 28, 1854.
Sir,—With reference to my letters of the 17th and 21st
instant, Nos. 20 and 21, I feel that my report of the visit
of the allied efitiadron under my orders to the coast of Cir-
cassia would be very incomplete if I were not to relate that
we were evwcliginayelcometlmAlyereTs by the remark-
ableA
race by Whom is peofilea:— li
2. The weather was fine, and the water deep, so we
approached very near the land, and always by daylight ;
and as we opened each beautiful valley, with our English
owl French colours flying, the Circassians flocked to the j

beach, and testified their joy by firing musquets and
waving flags and handkerchiefs.
:3. On landing at the principal places the natives assisted
us out of our boats, and after giving expression to their
delight for a few minutes, formed a circle around us, pre-
serving the most perfect order, while their chiefs
came forward and addressed the Viscount de Chabannes
and me, speaking fluently and sensibly with an air
of self-esteem, which, combined with their handsome
and lofty mien, and their manner of carrying their weapons,
was exceedingly striking. They invariably said that while
they turned towards England and France with gratitude
and admiration, as the instruments in the hands of Provi-
dence for delivering them from their invaders, they con-
fessed that they considered it the jut reward of their
patriotism and constancy.
4. They are certainly a fine intelligent race, and I can
readily believe them to be second to none in desultory
mountain warfare.—l have, &c.
(Signed) EDMUND LYONS, Rear-Admiral.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of
June, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare
the Right Honourable John Russell (commonly called
Lord John Russell) Lord President of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and his lordship took his place
at the Board accordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Most
Noble Hurry Pelham Duke of Newcastle and the Right
Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., to be two of her Ma-
jesty's principal Secretaries of State, they were this day,
by her Majesty's command, sworn two of her Majesty's
principal Secretaries of State accordingly.
DESERTERS FROM BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the Bth day of
June, 1854, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council,
Whereas by the "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," it is
provided, that whenever it is made to appear to her
Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for recover-
ing and apprehending seamen who desert from British
merchant ships in the territories of any foreign Power, her
Majesty may, by Order in Council, stating that suchfacili-
ties are or will be given, declare that seamen, not being
slaves, who desert from merchant ships belonging to a sub-
ject of such Power, when within her Majesty's dominions
or the territories of the East India Company, shall
be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their
respective ships, and may limit the operation of such order,
and may render the operation thereof subject to such con-
ditions and qualifications, if any, as may be deemed
expedient.
And whereas it hath been made to appear to her Ma-
jesty, that due facilities will be given for recovering and
apprehending seamen (not being Hanoverian subjects) who
desert from British merchant kihips in the territories
belonging to his Majesty the King of Hanover :
Now, therefore, her Majesty by virtue of the powers
vested in her by the aid " Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,"
and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is
pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and
declared, that from and after the publication hereof in the
London, Gazette, seamen, no:, being slaves (and not being
British subjects), who desert from merchant ships belonging
to subjects of the King of Hanover within her Majesty's
dominions or the territories of the East India Company,
shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board
their respective ships.
And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury, and the Commissioners for the af-
fairs of India, are to give the necessary directions herein
accordingly.

STM. L. BA.THURST.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 13.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—John Thomas Cochrane,
Gent., to be Veterinary Surgeon, June 9.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Jathes Henry Porteus Oakes, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, June 9.
Royal Perthshire Militia—Henry Maurice Drummond,
late Captain in the 421 Highlanders, to be Major, vice
Gardiner, deceased, June, 8.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancastei's Own Militia—
John Motherwell, Gent, to be Ensign, June 6.
Ist Cornwall Rifles Militia—First Lieutenant James
Rennell Rodd to be Captain, vice Trick, resigned ; Second
Lieutenant Viscount Valletort to be Lieutenant, vice Rodd,
promoted, June 3.

The Essex Rifles—George Stuart, Esq., late Captain in
the 75th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Lister, pro.
moted, June 9.

East Kent Regiment of Militia—Wyndham Knight,
Esq., late of the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain, vice Warre,
resigned, June 7 ; William Henry Kebbel, Gent., late
613th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mount, retired on half-
pay, June 6 ; Frederick Dickeson Bourne, Gent., late Bth
Foot, to be Lieutenant, Juno 7; Thomas Mapleson Fitz-
patrick, Geut., late 3)il Foot, to be Lieutenant, June 8;-
Robert Annesley, Gent., to be Ensign, Juno 7.
West Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieute-
nant Richard Do Beauvoir Berens to bo Captain, vice W.
J. Berens, resigned ; Cornet Oswald Augustus Smith to
be Lieutenant, vice Berens, promoted ; Charles Laurie,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice Smith, promoted,fJune 7.

BANKRUPTS.
Samuel Potts, carpenter, Hovah Villas, Sussex, to sur-
render, June 20, at twelve, and July 20, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Jones, Quality-court, Chancery-lane.
George Butler, auctioneer, Nicholas-lane, June 22, at
half-past one( at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street; Butler, Tooley-street.
William Adam, merchant, Great Tower-street, City,
June 21, at eleven, and July 19, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Lawrance,
Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
James Rankin, wholesale clothier, Liverpool, June 26,
and July 17, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Anderson and Col-
lies, Liverpool; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Man-
chester. •

Hugh Barclay, commission agent, Liverpool, June 26, at
at twelve, and July 24 at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Morgan, official acsignee, Liverpool ; Yates,
Liverpool.

WiNain Wilkinson Rawling, Samuel Rawling, and
John Rawling, curries, Manchester, Jll/10 23 and July 3.2,
at twelve, at the Manchester Distrizt Court. flernatnan,
official assignee; Barker, Iludder.field ; Bellhouse and
Bond, Manchester.

John Allen, grocer, Courthorpe-terrace, Bermondsey,
and York-place, Kent-street-road, June 22, at eleven, and
July 20, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee ; May, Princes-street, Spitalfields.
Spel?er, builder, Warwick-road West, Padding-
ton, June 19, at two, and July 19, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assigne.); Vaughan, Por-
teus-road, Paddington.
Thomas Stone Besley, grocer, Tiverton, June 22, and
July 2', at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel,
official assignee, Exeter ; Partridge, Tiverton ; Head and
Venn,. Exeter.

Obidiah Williams and Henry Rawson, manufacturers,
Leeds, June 30, and July 23, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Payne, Ed-
dison, and Ford, Leeds.
Thomas Robinson Waid, scrivener, Wisbeach Saint
Peter, Cambridge, June 23, and July 28, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Chubb, Deane, and Chubb, Gray's-inn; Wat-
son, Wisbeach.

John Greatwood, confecLioner, Birmingham, June 27,
at twelve, and July 20, at ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official asligdee, Birmingham; Brown,
Birmingham.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

William Wilson, 'general merchant, Dundee.
Henderson and Paterson, wrishts, Glasgow.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS,—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
a five o'clock.

The following bills were read a second time :—The
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (construction
of docks, &c.) ; the Cornwall Railway ; the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (Stratford-
upon-Avon and Stourbridge branches) ; East Lanca-
shire, Lancashire and York Shire, and Manchester and
Southport Railways ; Bagenalstown acd Wexford
Railway (No. 2) ; Mel!ow and Fermoy Railway ;
the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (1,0 op
and South Shields, &c.) Bill, and the North Lon on
Railway Amendments Bill, were read a third time d
passed.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (C (NADA) BILL.
The Duke of NEWCASTHE postponed until Thurs-
day next this bill, on the ground that it had only just
been printed.

DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL,

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the
second reading of this bill, gave a historical sketch of
the law on this subject to which it referred, and
which, be said, had engaged the attention of the Legis-
lature fora great many years. Prior to the Reformation
marriage in England as it was still in some Roman
Catholic countries, was treated as . a sacrament_ and as
absolutely indissoluble, but recourse was had to vari-
ous expedients whereby those marriages were declared
to he null and void from the beginning. In the reign
of Henry VIII., and aaerwards in that of Edward VI.,
a commission was appointed to inquire into the state of
law connected with the Church, which included the sub-
je.;::. of divorce, and they recommended that marriages
should be set aside for adultry, and a variety of other
causes. Their suggestions, however, were not carried into
effect, but they were so conformable to the feelings of man-
kind-that, at the end of the sixteenth or the beginning
of the 11th century, divorces were granted by the eccle-
siastical courts a men= et thoro, but this only separa' s'd
the parties, and did not enable them to marry again.
Towards the close of the 19th century it was felt that this
state of the law subjected parties to great hardship, and
by means of la bill in Parliament, they were enabled to
procure a divorce de virculo matrinioni, which placed
them in a posit'on to again marry. Three years ago a
commission we s appointed to inquire into the existing
and to suggest remedies for its defects. Their report was
report7ithTswoomeclsal!gs
pwriessented to the house lr,st session, and the present bill
htofmoqduiefisctaiotniosnsw,
eforeuncdoendstildpeornedthbat
whichinlOns -first, what, was the class of cases iny
divorcesd e.so and secoendEly:',fe
it would
wahnadt tP.;:bnuP:arl tcooulpdermthiet
of uch quest sons be confided. With re safely and properly
gard to the first, the corn-
m,zs'orers carne to the concl
conctL...ed, that it was es uts'"' wh!ch lie entirely
for a divorce to viultery fto coafine the ground
their bad
alone dail:teiorda century and a half
to the second question, the corninivssoirces. In re,garl
tribunal consisting of a Vice ChanciAlornne" proposed a
J and an ecclesiastical judge
;but according to
law
bill the now divorce court would be constitutendgitno this
way----of- the Lord Chancellor and the Chief Justice 'oisf
the Queen's Bench, who should always be present, the
Master of the Rolls, and two other persons to be named
by her Majesty, and who would probably be civilians,
vould be required make a quorum.
Three jw.iges N
(LEFT SPEAKING.) -

HOUSE-OF WMMONSi—(THIS- EVENING.).
The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before four o'clock..
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed:—
Berens' Divorce ; Eastern Counties Railway (Station Eno