LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 986, 26 September 1855, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

THE GLORIOUS BUT IMPERFECT NEWS. [From the '' Sydney Empire," September 5.] The news of Sevastopol having fallen on the 17th Jane, which was reported as having been brought to this hemisphere by the Storm Cloud, cannot be corroborated by any authorised intelligence of which that clipper ship was the bearer—seeing that its latest intelligence from even the port sf its departure extends not further than the loth of that month. Bat, although the wish that was father to the thought, had doomed the southern stronghold of the Czar to fall by a certain day; we are still not disposed to doubt the as early consummation of that wish, which the recent brilliant successes of the allies, and the secret influence which such a chain of victories must exercise on the hearts nnd ihe powers of the defeated, wotdd fairly seem to justify. The reprint which we yesterday, issued from our watchful Melbourne contemporary, though it gives us eleven days' later news from "England, affords us no reliable information of what has really transpired at the sent of war beyond the glorious results of the 7th and Bth of June. Hence' more than a week's news must reach us ere "we can credibly assert that Sebastopol had not fallen, or that in reality, it was in the possession of the allies, by the evening of the 37th of June. The third bombardment of the beleaguered city took place an the 6th of June- It is represented as having been most glorious in its results to the efforts of the compincd forces. No sooner is the desirable passage opened to the French colums, though at half-past six in the evening, than on they pour with the rush of determined havoc ; make the memorable Mameion their own ; and push on, despite all mortal opposition, till they reach and occupy the two redoubts chat command "the Careening Harbour. In that groat and most desirable achievement, no fewer than 483 of the enemy and'2o officers were taken ptisioners, together with 73 pieces of cannon. Nor were the British troops slack in giving to our ally a proof of their spirit of emulous bravery. In the face of a most galling fire, which deised their approach towards the inner .harbour, on dashed our gallant countrymen, heedless of the iron haiLand the devastating grape ; nor stopped until they had effected a lodgment in the Quarry below the Redan—on which, at first, the gnus of the Mnmelon were believed to bear —one of the most important, as to position, of the'encmy'-s many outworks, The allies did more ! they consolidated themselves in their new works, ceded new batteries there, and fired on the imprisoned fleet of the Russians from their own captured mortars, until they were peremptorily compelled to withdraw it from inevitable destruction. During a merciless bombardment of six-and-thirty hours' duration, it may naturally be believed that slaughter was rife in;he devoted city ; and that in either assnlt, by the Rritish.or the French, the loss of many a biavc man will have to be deplored. Th< casualties amongst our ally a re. said to he considerable, whilst of our troops engaged on tii.it forlorn Ijppo, the killed, audwounded, and missing, amount only to the number of 4u0 — an incredibly small average, considering the enemy attacked and the vast importance of the posts which it was our ambition to be possessed of. Bv the 7th of June, then, the southern side of Sebastopol may be said lo have been invested ; —what may ten additional days not witness of the prowess of an army so united, and led on by chiefs who share its labours and lives in its admiration ?

Meanwhile, we are ignorant, of the part played on that groHt occasion by thccomcincd fleet in the Euxino —whether anything, or nothing, were effected by their allied agency agninst'the fovmi bible batteries that have hitherto guarded the entrance to Sebastppol from that sea. Neither have we anything new of the floatilla which bad retimed from Gemtchi to Kertch, and probably thence to the portal of that menaced strong hold. Further, Chun Pasha was known to have long since re-emburked at lSaJakktva for Eupatoria, to again put himself at the head of the gallant army of his countrymen, in which French and English wore destined to maintain the martial renown of their respective nations. General Bosquet had pitched his camp at Tchorgoun - } and. the.Sardinian contingent

had formed a new base of operations on the cjg thank of the Tehernaya. And this was doubtless in .consequence of the reconnaissance made by Gencrcl MoßKis, which had enabled that gallant soldier to estimate the enemy at from 80.000 to 100,0<i0 strong, ii his large entrenched camp beyond that river—a movement whioh was immediately followed up by General Ca Niton hit with the corps d' armcr under bis immediate command. For, we learn, that that Gi-ke-BAL before advancing had tin-own bridges over the river; established batteries there to defend the passage, and, in anticipation of a speedy conflict with the Russian troops spontaneously with the bombarding of the city, had turned i ff the waters of the aqueduct in that locality that feeds the Careening Bay. Yet, a though a diversion in favour of the troops destined for the assault was indispensably necessary to be made by the combined efforts of Omau Pasha, on the one side of the Belbek, and by CanrobebT on the other and, stratcgetieally speaking, must have been made—either to invest the nhrth of the harbour., or to unite their forces marching on Simpherrpol ; we are, ii]) to this moment, uniformed as to any great undertaking having been entered upon by the fleet, by the Turkish Pasha, or by the French GfcNERAL. Still, we feel assured, that what was morally possible to be done by ships of war and by armies, was done by them, on that celebrated occasion ; and that the arrears of their respective exploits will soon be forthcoming. We would now turn to regard the low estato to which Russia is falling by her own presumptuous rapacity—although, to that same rapacity, or, rather, to the arrogance and subtlety which bad so long but too skilfully cloaked it, we.are, thank Heaven ! indebted for our present freedom of action, and tor the victories which otherwise, bad never been recorded in our favour. The Conferences being closed, duplicity unmasked : and further delay oat of date ; the Crimea reverberates our presence, and the Sea of Azoft is in our possession. The more we reflect upon the apathy of the allied Cabinets in not having previously permitted its shores to be seized upon, and so in all probability, starving the garison and the multitudinous hosts of the enemy into submission, the more are we astounded that—with the practical knowledge they must previously have had of the duplicity of the Iluss an character, and the astuteness of his diplomatic fact —they yet suffered themselves to be imposed upon by bis representations, and assurances, even to the leading of their armies to the biink of utter ruin' and sinking their respective nations into the very depths of dishonour. I lapily, the low falshocd aud despicably fatal cunning of the Slave, has at last <ioen comprehended and, we hope, in time. New have we action instead of iuertion, resolution in lieu of apathy. The Czar, it is confidently reported, is becoming sensibly alive to the false position in which Russian insincerity has placed him ; the nobles take their tone from las tboughtfuless ; and the people, see in the countenances of their superiors the indices of the troubles that are about) to afflict that vast empire. And so fearful is Alexander of the effect the news of bis calamities that not only does the A utockat monopolise the uses of the electric wires, but he wholly withholds all sinister information of what is passing in the south from his anxious and enquiring population. The. loss to Russia of the Sea of Azoff is infinitely greater than wis at first imagined ; for it would appear that, although for some time previous to the arrival of our squadron there, the enemy had been in the habit of sending some 7;*io tons of grain or flour dai y towards Sevastopol, great feara were entertained at Odessa on the Ht Jane for the Russian provision of grain on the shores of the Sea of Azoff—a- circumstance which would cause us to infer that Sevastopol was not victualled—as was imagined, fur eight months, not even, perhaps, for one. ■ Before that date, however the allies atone had destroyed a quantity equal to four mouths' rations for 10 >,of>o men —not to speak of what the Russians themselves bad caused to perish. Anapa was abandoned by its garrison by the sth June, and immediately occupied bv its mortal enemy, the restless and implacable Circassian. Nor, must we omit that, whilst the beleaguering armies were bombarding Sebastojipl, one of the allied squadrons was successfully operating against the principal tovvnsin the Azoff—Taganrog, Alarionopol, and Gheisk annihilating their stor s and provisions, and thereby striking a blow which, for an indefinite season, will render them hurtless of doing palpable mischief to their antagonists. Thus, the < za:i is seeing and, until be be resigned to huinlc himself, will continue to see bis prosperous emporiums of the south gradually losing their vitality. And perhaps—for every battle must incicase the demands of the allies—be will evently be compelled to hear that his Imperial Crown is to lo impoverished by the loss of .some of the most important amongst them. His armies in the Peninsula are yet resolved to-wane kuee-deop in human gore ere they permit the invincible allies to hold the Crimea as their own thought but for a day. The northern side of the harbour was being covered -with redoubts, independently of its" many forts, literally bristling with enormons guns. But the allied commanders may not need to scale its heights—there may be other avenues to perfect victory less fatal to their daring t oops —of which we shall- doubtless bear anon. Some great battle must assuredly have taken place between the .-tli and the 10th of June; and, we have reason to hope, in our unqualified favour. For, the exhilarating tidines of the manly bearing of our troops cannot fail to fill the public mind with greatful .satisfaction that our honour is in 'their safe keeping; and with the most sanguine confidence that, from the continued prosperity of our arms, the war will terminate to the glory of the allies, and in the assurance of a lasting peace to the nations of Europe.

THE BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED.

[From the Globe] The following is the official list of the officers who were killed in action on. the 7lh nnd Stli June. Captain Muller, 2nd Battalion Royals; Lieutenant Lawrence, 31th Regiment; Lieutenant Stone, 50th; Lieutenant Colonel Shearman, 62nd Regiment ; Majr>r Dixon, fi'.nd Regiment; Lieutenant Machell, 6*3 nd Regiment; Captain Forster, 62nd Regiment; Major Bayley, feSih Raiment; Captain Corbett, 88th Regiment; Captain Wray, 88th Regiment; Lieu!. Lowrey, Royal Engineers.

By "these casualties the country has sustained a sad loss. Most of the lamented slain were in the full vigour of life, and had seen arduous service in the field, while some of them were mere youths. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ambrose Shearman, of the 62nd had, been in the service for twenty-two years, and obtained his Lieutenant Colonelcy in March last. He served in the Sutlej campaign of 1813-6, was present at the battles of Buddiwal, Aliwull, and Sobraon, by a casuality in one of which actions he obtained his company without purchase. Major William F. Dickson, of the same regiment, had been in the army since 18.19. Captain John 15. Forste.i, the senior captain of the (i'ind, had been actively engaged with his regiment before the present war, having been through the Sutlej campaign, at Forctzeshah, and Sobraon ; at the former battle he acted as Majffl- of Brigade, and had a horse shot under him. '1 he rtßlh Connaught Rangers, a corps that throughout the Crimean campaign has nobly sustained its peninsular tame, lost three of its captains Captain and Brevet Major Bailey, Captain Corbott, and Captain Wray, Brevet Major Bailey was senior captain of the regiment, ami had he survived, would this week have been gazetted as regimental major, in succession lo Major Norton, who died of cholera before Sebastopol last month. Major Bailey was for sixteen years in the SBth, with which he served in West Indies and North America. He was through the present campaign, am! earned the notice of Lord Raglan, and obtained his brevet majority for the gallantry he displayed at the head of a dotnchment of the Connaught Hangers in repelling a night sortie on the occasion wh*Hi Captain Cavandish Browne, 7 : !> Fusilliers, and Captain Vicars, !'7ih were killed, ('apt. Corhett of the same regiment, a member of the well known Shropshire family of that name, had been for fourteen years in the corps, was through the Crimean campaign, and was a greal favourite with both officers and men. Captain Wray of the 88th, was a relative of the late Dr. Wray, Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and had been eight years in the service. Capl. Bingham Muller. of the Ist • Royals, was an officer of the same seniority ; he obtained his company not a monih since, and had only been in the Crimea a few days before his death. Lieutenant Lawrence, of the 3-lth, had been three years and Lieutenant Lovny, of the Royal Engineers, just two years in the service, while the" milttary career of Lieutenants Machell, of the 62nd, and Stone of the fiolh, was of about the same duration as the campaign, both of them having been appointed ensigns last autumn.

THE WAR.

[From the Melbourne Argus, August 28th.] In a late article on tbe war, we pointed out that, in connection with their operations al Sebastopol, the Allies, now that they had received such largo reinforcements, would probably endeavour to intercept the communications of the enemy. And we indicated Kertsoh and Kaffa as. the probable direction of the new operations, because by acling in that direction they would not only intercept the supplies received By way of the Sea of Azoff, but might preveut the egress from the country ot the. Russian armies ; in which case, the latter, being deprived of provisions, wonld be forced to fight or surrender.

Every step taken in tho war gives an illustration of tlte extent of the Russian p.eparatkns for the contest, and of their complete success in concealing those preparations from the rest of the world. It was not known that there were any granaries or extensive supplies of provisions on the borders of the Sea of Azoff. In fact, no one out of Russia appears to have been in any degree acquainted with that sea. It was generally supposed that the chief supplies for the Crimea were sent from Odessa, by w»y of f'erekop, or by small craft bugging the coast. We remember reading a seiy able article, in the Quarterly Review, evidently by Sir Archibald Alison, wherein the Allies were held up to scorn for not destroying Odessa, in which, the writer alleged, were stored the whole provisions for the Crimean armies. It now appears tbat but a small part of the supplies for the Crimea could have came from Odessa, and that, on the contrary, they were all conveyed from the interior of Russia by the river Doo, landed and stored in various towns on the Soa of Azoff, and from thence, as occasion required, to Simpheropol and Sebastopol. In fact, the hmd journey from Odessa is so tedious, the roads so had, aud the sea line is so closely watched, that it was impossible to convey sufficient supplies from that city. It is slated that for the four or five armies now in the Cifmea, that country cannot furnish supplies sufficient for one. The Allies are provided by sea, but the Russians.are wholly dependent on supplies by land, and those supplies were almost entirely received by way of the Sea of Azoff. Now let us enumerate what the Allies have done. At Kertsch, in the strait leading from the Black Sea to the SeaofAaoff, 100,000 sacks of oats, 860,000 sacks of corn, and 100,000 sacks of flour were destroyed by the Russians on the approach of the Allies. The town of Arabat, at the southern point of the tongue of that name, which forms the eastern boundary of the I'utiid Sea, and Rerdiansk, on the northern coast of the Sea of Azoff) were taken, and their fortifications and magazines were destroyed. The Sea of Azoff is very shallow, but it was found that twenty-four vessels of the allied force could navigate every part of it, and the flotilla w r as found to he sufficient to clear that sea of the enemy's ships of war. 'Die whole, (except one small steamer,) and up.vards, of 200 merchantmen, were either destroyed by the Russians or we e taken by the Allies, and upwards of 1 0 guns were captured. In addition to Ibis, it is stated that 6,000,00;) rations of corn, destined for Sebastopol, were destroyed by the Russians. This is .not all. On looking at the map it will be seen tuat the tongue of Arabat, east of the Putrid Sea does not quite, touch the shore of the Russian mainland. At that point \% a strait communiea ting bitweentho Putrid Sea and the Sea of Azoff. There the Russians had constructed a bridge aud for tifieatio is, and, ii\«thc neighbourhood is the town of Genitch', an important depot. Admiral Lyons landed at this town, destroyed the depots of provisions and voiiatli laden with corn and snpplses, demolished the fortifications, and seized upon the straits. There is ao doubt lhat he would a!so establish a blockade at Taganrog, and the mouth of the Don, and thus every avenue of access to the Crimea would he shut up, except by way of Perekop. Of course the next operation would be to close up that neck of land, and then the Russians in the Crimea would, in effect, he prisoners of war.

The 'limes, in commenting oa the capture of Genitchi, says :—■

"The bloodless victory at Genitchi Ins inflicted a more serious blow upon the enemy than the hardfought and deariy-won fields of Alma a::d Inkermann. We shall soon have invested the Crimea, and when the supplies are cut off, the greater the force of the enemy may be in that country the less able will they be to maintain it there. Our squadron in the Sea of Azoff is performing' the work of an army. It has not only outflanked the Russians, but cut off their principal base of operations- 'i'here is no other in Europe which presents such strategeiic.il advantages to the operations of military power, supporting an invasion with a powerful! fleet." Wnile these operations were going on in the northern ami eastern co sts of the Crimea, tiie allies were equally active in other paris. They appeared to consider that the shutting up of the communication.via Perekop was even more inrjjortant than the siege operations ; and uf the 200,000 actively engagud in Sebastopol, they had determined lo employ 130,000 men in an attack upni the Russians in the field. On the 2lib May a French corps d'armee of 80,000 men had crossed the Tehernaya, and entrenched themselves round the village of Tehergquin. This was a preliminary to a more decisive movement. In the Liverpool Courier of filh June an extract from a Paris letter is given, which states as follow s : —■

"Th re is no doubt that an army of operation has 1 een organised for some most important expedition, to consist of 00,00 French, 2-3,000 Turks, under Omar Pasha, apart of the English army, and the whole of the Sardinian contingent. Almost all the French cavalry will be attached to this farce. This indicates a force of at lerst 130, "o'> men, and it is quite clear its 'destitution was Simpheropol. •■»•- In co.ijunciion with this plan, Omar Pasha, who had received large reinforcements, would advance from Eupatoria. At the same time the Allies would leave O'OjUUO men at Sebastonol, who were quite able to carry on the operations of the siege.

On the other hand it is stated that the Russians expected an imni'-cii ite large reinforcement to the amount of 18,000 men; but if it is tine that their total force previously in the Crimea was not more than 140,0.10, it is quite clear, especially after the loss of the Sea of Azofi', and of their communications by the tongue of Arabat, that they were utterly unable to cope with the Allies.

In other directions the prospects of the Russians were not less gloomy. His evident that their plans had been very scrio' sly frustrated by the iusun action n the I kraine That insurrection, indeed, will, in ill probability, prove to have been the turning point of the war, for it prevented them sending sufficient reinforcements to. the Crimea, to the Caucasus, and tQ Georgia. In the latter countries Schainyl and th>Turks were acquiring an ascendency. The Russian forces were rapidly decreasing. They were throwing up entrenchments to defend their position in Georgia. —a sure sign of-weakness; and as Williams Pasha, an able English General, was at the head of the Turkish army, it is probable that some decisive operation would there be undertaken. After the destructi n of the Russian flotilla and o f their merchantmen on the Sea of Azoff, a few vessels ot war would be quite suffipient to prevent any operations of the enemy j audit was considered probable by the Russians them e-ves that the next enterprise of the allied fleets would be against Odessa, and other ports westward of the Crimea, which it is generally conaiderd ought to have been destroy 3d at an early period, as they loaned great and important magazines, and served as bases for ihe Russian armies. By the latest accounts it would not be much longer spared Not less important were the impending events in the Baltic. In cotubinatiq.i with the fleet, it appears that a Frencharmy of '2J,O;>O men was about to proceed through the north of Germany. This proves that the Baltic 'fleet, the most powerful that ever put to sea, is to be something more than a mere demonstration, and we may expect ore long to hear of operations in that quarter, of a magnitude and of a character perhaps unparal'cd in the hj story of war. . It will be observed that all the events detailed in this article occur in the interval preceding the date of the astounding intelligence from thie Cape of the fall of the outworks of Sebastopol; and if we add that as a climax to the news of which a summary is now given, we nvay well consider that the Allied Bowers have already attained an immense ascendancy in the contest, ana that should it be continued on the same seaie and with equal success, the Allies will, in all probability, be able, even in the present campaign, to humble the pride of our gig-mlic opponent, and to dictate to Impari honorable peace.

THE BALTIC.

A Hamburg I<'l cr of the 20tb M>iy, in the Independent Beige, n,i\ g : —■ ".The EnglUh Government is Mill increasing tbe number of Us war vessels in the b'a'tic At no former period was f» powerful a floct assembled in any sea. I might every day announue to you in my letters the arrival from tbe English ports of additional slips of war goin.v to join the fleet of Admiral Duihihs, hi 'Hi' Gulf of Finland. On the 24th a transport steamer, laden with ammunition, and a gun boat,' entered Klsinore. On the '.'sth a bomb ve.s I, the Redwing, reached Copenhagen, and on tbe UTtii the steam corvette Volcano, with a gun boat, arrived at Kiel. also coming from England, k is not to be supposed thai so large a concentration of naval forces in the Gulf wiil remain there inactive as last year. The English il't c now lying at anchor war the Island of Nargen, opposite 1 level, in the Gulf of Finlatid, consi.-t.i of thirteen steamships of tbe line, four corvettes, and six gun boats. The frigates and other lighter vessels are cruizing hi various direction?. 1 am told that after the declaration of iha leyal blockade, the English commander before Libnu allowed the Belgian merchantman. Ernest to leave that port in ballast. Four English, ships of war are constantly in sight of Sweabnrg, closely watching the movements of the enemy in that neulrai port. In a few hours they c n communicate with the main body ot the fleet stationed at Nargen. The Islea of Aland continue to be completely abandoned, no English yessf'l having as vet visited them, llostilnies are to be carried on ibis year at the other extremity of the Gulf, and it is to be presumed that Admiral Dundas, with the formidable ■ steam fleet at his disposal, -__aad tbe force* on the \y.iy

to join biro, will not allow the season to pass over without striUingr some decisive blow against th" Russian fortresses in that sea. The appearance of 111 r*»** English ships of war before Korpo, near Ab<>, bad caused there considerable alarm. The Russian commander of Abo, having made the signa 8 agreed upon, in a abort time an entire division of troop* ws« concentiaied u( Abo and oloi»tr »becn»«t. Thii jlice ft, considered the mo»t imp rtam i.i tic Gulf of Ihnhriia. An intricate channel leads to it on the seaside, and the waters are so shallow that ships of war cnnot wall approach the town. Last year an expedition c imposed ot six English bou:s, armed witli guns. stiff, r-d serious lissts on ibat coast. Tie flottl'a of panboaU, ex-. pressly constructed in England to operate in tbo.e shallows, will enable the Admiral to attaik positions hj ilierto inaccessible. Tle whole of the Russian troops quartered in the interior of Esthonia. Livonia, and Courland, have been ordered to protend by forced" marches to the coast, wheie toe greater pari of the army of General Sic were is now assembled awaiting events."

Skskak, May 21.—The fled has been lying up anchor off Kargen during the last week, witkwfirwN banked ready for use. The wealhor baa been generally fine, with thermometer ranging between 45 and G5 degrees and gemle breezes, mostly fio;u Uifi southeast and south-west. Exercise ot every description, from the booming of ibe great guns, the roar of rockets as they rush through, the air, down to the pupping of C'o't's revolvers, ig continually going on.. •Jo.— The fog still prevents us moving, though everything is in readiness. It being Frida.-, according, to custom wu spent the Morning al general quarters. The gun-boats, which are each to act as a sort of tender to the line-of-battle ship', wer' supplied to-day with Ininie rifles and ammunition by th* ships. th«y belonged to in exchange for the old Brown Mean they weie supplied wiib on leaving Engincd. Some re; ort of a Uusi.m gunboat having leen seen under the land to tin' westward of Revel—til* Mugicieiuie and. Locust were sent to ascertain the tiu*h of the story, but nftei reconnoitring the cuast for some comi !erablj distance, returned at ten p.m. without having auea, anything, 25—There is no fog this morriing v and the sun is biiyht and warm, boon after d.iyli;bt the Bleubeiru arrived In. m Faro, but was not allowed to anchor, and Mesi-rs. Rninal and Deacon'* steamer Kojal Adelaide, arrived with » cargo of fat bullocks and fresh vegetables from Elsinore ; both were very welcome, and infinitely superior in quality to what was supplied last year. As soon ns these were divided among 'he 'fleet, at 11*30 a.m. a signal was made to weigh, to form m two columns ol saving, and proceed at slow speed. We left behind us at Na,gen the Ajax and Lightning. The Princess Alice was seut to-Faro, and the Merlin to reconnoitre off S weaborg. The fleet then, consisting of 14- sail of the line, with their gun-boa ein low, stretched over the water in two long and beautiful liues, wnh the smaller steamers on either side, and proceeded up the £.ulf at slow speed, in the evening the Merlin leiu rued, and went alongside the Duks of Wellington to repoit the Admiral. At daybreak on tbe 27th we passed the island of Hoglanrl, an I about noon that of Sommersland, ami almost i'niried a'.ely alter cau.e in sight of eight or nine sail, bearing S.E.; a signal was immediately made to chase, and ihe Luryulut, Amphiou, Dragon. Firefly, and Locust were sent to cut them off from escaping, and each funml of tlu liners poured forth an immenss cloud of smoke as the iires were urged to send them forward. Every heart be.it quick with anx ous Lope that it was trie cvemy, for as a was hazy we could not distinctly make them out, but they looked large a* they scudded away before the wind w th all sai set, and our t-le.<uitrs a/ter tlwm. la about an hour their retreat was completely cut off, and the fleet anchoret! •«bout 15 iiii;e:i iiom (J c.uatadT, iii :Le open sea, but with the hud visib'e all around us. The Orion was seut forward to reconnoitre, and proceeded within the L'oibuckin Lighthouse, only six miles from the citv, olos» to which she could distinctly see the Russiau fleet at anchor.

iii the evening the Magicienne and Merlin wer* sent to exan jne the about Btorka Bir, and fortunate e ougii to capture four large !>< ats, of ahout 60 tons uuc laden with provisions, Uc, belonging to the Government. As it was getting dusk, tu-* vessels ijcnt to ci.t oil the sails we chased returned one hj one, hut e?ch had in tow its prize. The Enryaitu one, tho Aa!|)hion nne, the Locust one. aid the Dngon two. They are all large barges, with two tall taa.sL*, carrying stjuu-e sails ou ilie foren-ast, ami ahout Cu or 70 tons burden. One was lad: j n partly with tfour, aud the rest withiimher and planks.

2iJih. — The \'ultttre ha* ju>t arrived with the mails from D«n zic, and wdl return agaia with thuse ior England this evening. I am very glad to till you that the small-pox ceased in the tt.'et.

1 have jnst he-ard that when the T)rion went into Cronstadt to reconnoitre last nig, lit. *.L« was able to count mm line of-battle sbipi completely riygtKJ, six others dismantled, ai.d fourteen or tifteen frigates and steamers in progress of completion.