The Sun. — 1855-06-16 (London, England)

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.  (Prom the Times of tle'i day.) Intelligence has reached us from the Baltic fleet which will no doubt be read with The deepest indignation throughout the civilised world. It is to the effect that the Russians have murdered in cold blood a boat's crew who were engaged in landing at Hangos, under a flag of truce, a party of Russian prisoners. Such is the substance of the intelligence which has reached us by electric telegraph ; for further particulars we must await the slower movements of the post. .We fear, however,' that the news must 14., accep:ed as true. We are informed that 24 men have been killed, three of whom were oftcers, and that out of the boat's crew only one survived. Mb very names of the unfortunate gentlemen who have 'fallen victims to the dastardly attack while engaged in an errand of charity and mercy are given by our correspondent. Any hope, therefore, that this shameful occurreu,!e can be at all explained away into anything less tragical is slight indeed. This is just a second edition of Sinope on a small scale. The Russian ships of war cannot be trusted away from the protection of their shore batteries ; their crews cannot be brought to meet the allies in fair contest; but when there is question of making an onslaught upon a small boat which is advancing to meet them under the protection of a flag of truce, who so brave and so terrible as these heroes of shallow water and stone walls I The experience of the Euxine has been thrown away upon these champions of the Baltic. They might have remembered that, flattering as the massacre of Sinope might be to their national vanity, it has been fearfully avenged. Even now, when this fresh act of barbarity has been perpetrated, the drag-net is being drawn closer and closer round the heads of their countrymen in the Crimea. It would cost the allied commanders but a word, and a hundred Russians could be put to death for every one of these unfortunate Englishmen who have been so treacherously and inhumanly murdered. The game, we should imagine, is far from a safe one as far as the Russians are concerned, oven if the Generals and Admirals of the allies endeavour to prevent reprisals. It will bo difficult to restrain the passions and the hands of men flushed with victory, who are burning with indignation at the thought Vaal their countrymen have been literally murdered in a most barbarous manner by the countrymen of those whose lives have been left at their mercy by the fortune of war. The English have not yet acted upon the system of reprisals even when provoked by the assassination of their wounded soldiers on the battle-fields of the Crimea. It would seem as though the Russians were determined to carry provocation to its highest point—an unsafe idea at the present critical moment *if the Crimean campaign, when so many Russian towns are at the mercy of the allies.  65th Foot—Arthur Henry Lewis, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 67th Foot—To be Ensigns, without purchase—Robert Reginald Luard, Gent. ; Edmund Henry Lenon, Gent. 79th Foot—Lieut. F. C. Turner to be Captain, by purchase, vice Harrisson, who retires. . . . .  80th Foot—Henry Grattan, Gent., to bo Ensign, with out purchase. 81st Foot—Lieut. George Betts to be Captain, by pur• chase, vice Goodwin, who retires ; Ensigh W. N. Frank. lyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Betts. 82d Foot—Ensign C. J. East to ba Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Apreece, deceased. 88th Foot—Brevet-Major Edward Bajley to be Major, without purchase, vice Norton, deceased; Lieut. G. R. Beresford to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bayley ; Ensign L. C. Scott to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Beresford ; Frederick Fox, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 89th Foot—Henry Bishop, Gent., to bo Ensign, without purchase. 93th Foot—Ensign Charles Mills to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Batt, promoted. Rifle Brigade—To be Ensigns, without purchase—John Hillary Allaire, Gent., and Edward John Fryer, Gent. Gold Coast Corps—James Lazenby, Gent., to be Ensign without purchase, vice Taylor, promoted