THE WAR In THE CRIMEA.

New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 990, 10 October 1855, Page 2

THE WAR In THE CRIMEA.

LATUM INTELLIGENCE. I !>r

SERIOUS CHECK OF THE ALLIES BEFOPE SEBASTOFOL. ' - j ' _."■' War Department, June S2, Lord Panmure regrets lo_ bare to Inform the 'alitor ; of the News o the World that he has received infbr. ; mation that the English trocpr attacked the Eedis and the French the Malakoit Tetter at c:. 3]i-rht oa ' the miming of the 18rh insh'm, but wlthr";t the success which has heretofore attended on- effort*,"*" Both the French and ourseWcs have suffered co> siderabL*. ■ . ■■■ ! ■ ""' The names of the officers' who have fallen mil Le forwarded 1 immediately, but it will be impoEsibh :,*, ' 'receive complete returns of all the casualties befcrg ' the 30th instant, at soonest. GENERAL' PELISSXER'S DESPATCHES. The Moniteur announces that the Freic'i Gcieramerit received almost simultaneously, two telegraphic despatches from Genera! Pelissler. The; first, dated June 17, is as follows : —" The combined, movements agreed upon Without'allies are being carried out. To-day the Turks and the brigade of Chassrs inadta reconnoissance towards Aklitiar. General Ec-jqaet occupies the Tchernaya. To-morrow, at daylrei'fc, in concert with the English, I attack the G:.r.,'\ Ke,iw, the Malakoff Tower, and the batteries connected wijth them," The other despatch is dated June 18, and cc-tjtairs the following : — : " The attack of to-day we.? r>ot sueeessful, although our troops showed very great latre*pfdity, gained a partial footing in the AJaTakoff yiarlt, I was obliged to order a'retreat into tne paritlelf. The retreat took place in order without our bikj harassed." It is not possible for rhe to-dav to sfi'.e our preeise loss." DETAILS OF THE THIRD EGMEaLI n.XT. Camp uefore Sen.. ■-. ;-jo, I _ A term has been put once more to ts e oi Jfc daysef j expectation and the wearisome mdolence-orsatuej!«3 \ of our camp ire. For the third time rur :.it\.n opened along the while range of positions. At'h'jlfpast 2 o'clock 157 guns and mortars on ; : ' about £OO on the French, awoke from silen.se to I tumuli. One thing"' is manifest, that if we escape the danger and annoyance of another winter, now is the time when something mu't be accomplished; and, as for conditions of success, it is little likelv that more of them could be accumulated than we can nos j display. The two armies—cme should, say, the four armies, but that the Turks.and Sardinians will nardly take a prominent part in the trench'work and.assault —are now in strength, and equal to any achievement, and urging that one touch of the bayonet which QTalfM all the 'world scamper. Yesterday the late general order, announcing the victories of the feet, was read before the brigades, and tor-night Lord Raglan and General Pelissier have ridden: through the camps amidst the hurrahs -and-'acclamations of both their ,;,| armies. They cannot be in - any doubt as to the>kfil ■■'.;;! j of those whom they command. ".Our fire-was", kept up ;-■■ ;';■, for the first three hoars with excessive rapidity, the - Russians answering by no means on any equal scale, though with considerable warmth. On our side the predominance of shells was very manifest," and distinguished the present canhonade in some degree even from the last. The superiority of our Sre over the ■ enemy "became apparent at various points "before-night-. ■■ , fall, especially in the Redan, which was underline -:.! special attention of the Naval Brigade. The Kussiaas displayed, however, plenty of determination and bravado. They fired frequent salvos, at inter? lis, offoar - or six guns, and also, by way of reprisals; inrew heavy , shot up to our light division, ; and on to the" Picket-house-bill. After dark the animosity on hod: sides gave signs of lelaxing, but the same relative advantage was maintained by our ariil"ery^y ,; ' : ;;': : : '. 1 ';'.'""; - , ■■,■> EXPLOSION OF A MAGAZINE. , June 7.—At four o'clock this .morning - still&s£ sluggish atmosphere, half mist, half the result 6t gun- j povvder, hung about the town, ana the sun, enSuchSs as it were all the points of view from its lojv lewlia the horizon, telescopes were put out of joinder be moment. The Redan, however* which stands up SoiciJ *in front of the hills that slope iron Cathca-. - " '•lc-a,. gave some evidenoe of having yielded to *"«'- merit, the jaws of its-embrasures gapmg," a-ti '.ts B« being irregular and interrupted- Captain Peel tins! bv on bis wav up from ■ the trenches, about 5, TtrV dusty and powdery. His reckless ard d aunties? seamen had been making beautiful practice, ; met with what must (for them) be considered *-•-« moderate proportion of loss, having to reccr-. - .? deaths only and 14 wounded during the ti hou.s, Mf» v „ i( (with one exception) the last were not very ■ «». Though delivering a capricious discharge o! sV>t ashell,,, the Russians in the Redan were unlm i- '■> __ contempt of danger conspicuous, s-m£ - J M " appearing in front of the work, and one or " ■ ing on the parapet. On the extreme left, to**** »e Quarantine, there vras very slight firing 1501a *w French. The perpetual hiss and crack 01 fact *? shell, was still the chief point of contrast with . bombardment in April. The enemy eitser eon *W or would not keep up a very i-pvj About eleven o'clock a stieli nom the pioded a magazine in our eight-gun baavrv, <**. yell of applause followed the report. \ W «I" harm happily resulted ft cm the explosion—one -, was killed, one wounded, and a few scorched a y--The'real casualty of the morning was the uea'J engineer officer, Captain Dawsoi. who b.au.oui ■:}* arrived in the Crimea from England; mdeea he b»d been only two da>s' in camp, and was en suy the"'trenches far the firsttiine. ~.,.. ~« '.•--'•'• '"* THE CAPTURE OF THE '"MAMELOZv ASP QUARRIES-. : : ; %aeo f ,' .. .As theday wore on it. leaked'out that - import was undoubtedly to take place uetore ' ami that the double attack would P r3JHJ S V*'^-* 3 aai at 5 or 6 p.m. An immense concourse 01 O' men, were gathered ail the afternoon round:tae ?° £S 'tf -V on Cathcari's hill, and streamed along v \t 1D o* ! from 7-'■ the three heights which wind towards sebs. 01 . the Enylish encampment. had continued since laybreak quiet, and >»«£ took a sudden access of kept up from that hour to the critics mjme great activity. 'The affair itself Mine "D-r b- brf after the anticipated time, y Between * ™*^ ioß Raglan and his staff took- up a on the edge of the hill, bmecommand* verv plainly our 4-gun pa ™f l J: a i, &i straight into, the teeth .of ''&***£&# is erected with threatening' ostentation = ■ J' came down, and a little augie oft rude wa^_ - |. e . : | thrown up as a breastwork.' The man wit j :^{jsr- ,. I works was in attendance,"but' there-was a p I'-plssS* ■ 1 a while. Sir Colin Campbell -was obse J v,e i e e^f3 -.r, I himself on the next summit still | commonly called (to use a legal piirase,' -'.'-. e jij j Mill: His appearance drew some rue, **■■>^' dropped and ik.iied close, .by, but mf out c I.rf ■ ing his ptupose of havmg a thorougl, $ f place. It was about half-past .n «!»-•» '.'■' |

r~French attacking column came into view from! u two spots, as it climbed its arduous road to the '.. !!.lon A rocket instantly went off as the signal , lur diversion, and as instantly the small force of \ men detached for the post of honour made a | °\ at the quarries. A r tcr one slight check they j e out the Russians, ami turning round the gabions mtnenced nuking themselves snug ; but the interest so entirely concentrated upon the more exciting Vt \\e full in TJSW upon the right, that they had to t a K oo<l wm "' e before a tte:UioH was directed to Jheir conflict. The Trench went up the steep to the U melon in a most beautiful style and m loose order, a erery straining eye was upon thuir movements, '"h'ch the declining daylight did not throw out into ! rld relief Still their figures, like dim shadows i rtthiK across the dun barrier of earthworks, were seen j SSit up unfailingly-*ere seen running, climb- j • n!r scrambling like skirmishers up the slopes on to | Ai body of the work amid a plunging fire from the which, owing to their loose formation, did them »t little damage. As an officer, who saw Bosquet **ave thenron, said at the moment, "They went in like deter pick of hounds." In a moment some of t'icsedim wraiths shone out clear against the sky. The Zouaves were upon the parapet, tiring down into the place from above ; the next moment a Hag was up a ra lh ing P omt am l defiance, a "d WHS seen t0 svv;i >' hither and thither, now up, now down, as the tide of battle ranged round it; and now like a swarm they were in the heart of the Mamelon, and a fierce hand to hand encounter here with the musket, then with the bayonet, was evident. It was seven minutes and a half from the commencement of the enterprise. Then there came a rush through the angle where they had entered, and there was a momentary confusion outside. Groups, some idle, some busy, some wounded, were collected on the hither sidj, standing in shelter, and now and then to the f;r corner a shell flew from the English batten facing it. Hut hardly had the need of support become manifest, and a gun or two again flashed from the embrasure against them, than there wiS another run in, another sharp bayonet fight inside, and this time the Russian* went out spiking their guns. Twice the Russians made head against the current, for they had a large mass of troops in reserve, covered by the guns of the Round Tower. Twice they wee forged back by the onsweeping Hood of French, who fought as if they had eyes upon them to sk.et°h the swift event in detail. Tor ten minutes or so, the quick ilash and roll of small arms had de•lsred that the uncertain fight waxed and waned inside the enclosure. Then, the back door, if one may use a humble metaphor, was burst open. The noise of the conflict went away down the descent on the side towards the town, and the arena grew larger. It was apparent that the Russians had been reinforced by the apace over which the battle spread. When the higher wound again became the scene of action, then there jetaie the second rush of the French back upon their < supports, for the former one was a mere reflux or tddy of the stream. When rocket after rocket went up ominously from the French General's position, and leeuied to emphasize by their repetition some very plain command, we began to get nervous. It was growing darker and darker, too, so that with our ghusis we could with difficulty distinguish the actual state of aifeiis. There was even a dispute for some time u to whether our allies were going in or out of ti« work, and the Staff themselves were by no means ilitr as to whatjwas going on. At last, through the twilight, we discerned that the French were pouring 18, After the interval of doubt, our ears could gather ■ that the swell and babble of the fight was once more rolling down the inner face of the hill, and that the Russians were conclusively beaten. " They are well ' into K this time," says one to another, handing over the glass. The musket flashes were no more to he seen within. There was no more lighting of the heavy mmn from the embrasures, A shapeless hump upon a hill, the Mamelon, was an extinct volcano, until such ,'time »• it should pieaße us to call it again into action. Then at last, the more hidden struggle of our own men HJ the hollow on the left came uppermost. " Howart our fellows getting on V says one. "Oh take my word for it, they're all right," says another. And they Were right, lo far as the occupation and retention of the quarries was concerned, but had nevertheless to flight all night, and repel six sucoessive attacks of the Russians, who displayed the most singular pertinacity |tid recklessness of life. As it grew dark, our advanced battery under the Green-hill made very pretty practice and pretty spectacle, by flipping shells over our men's beads at the Russians. From the misshapen outline of the pits a fringe of fire kept blazing and sparkling in a waving sort of curve, just like a ring of gas illumination on a windy night; the attempt to retake them out of hand was desperately pushed, the Russians pouring in a most terrific discharge of musketry, which caused us i;o small loss, end as it came up the , gorge, extending with the fresh wind, sounded in the .distance like water gulped simultaneously from a thousand bottles. Meanwhile the fall of the Mamelon and the pursuit of the flying foe did not by any means bung the eombat to an end on the side of our allies.

FEARFUL LOSS OF THE ALLIES.

The-morning brought out on ivery side along with the perception of advantage gained, aud a prey lying at our feet, all the lisste and circumstances of the scene, with its painful adruisture of death and suffering. On ear side 365 rank and file and 35 officers bad been filled and wounded. On the Fret ch sile nearly double that VosbbVr of officers, and a total of not loss ihan 1,500 meo, probably more. It has stated as high as 3,700, but there must be error in the statement. The ammunition waggons, ihe ambulance carts, the French Doles, with their panniers full freighted, thronged the ravine below our light division, which is ihe straight or ratber crooked road down to the attack oh the rightTroops of wounded men came slowly up, some English, th»greater portion French, begrimed with the dust ol battle. On the left a party of Zouaves had stopped a while to rest their burden, bearing, the dead bodies of three of their officers. A little lower an English soldi«r was down on the gras-i exhausted and well n gh unconscious from some sudden t-eizure. A parly of • French were gathered round him, supporting him on th* bank and efferiqg water from their canteens, which he wildly motioned aside. On the right, lining a deep 1»J io the gorge, was dotted on half a mile of ground, » French reserve, with their muskets piled attending thesigoal to move forward. They were partially within view of the MsUkboff, and the round shot and shell eua@ plumping dow o into the hollow, producing every minute or so little commotion of Jhe sauve qui peut order, replaced the next moment by the accustomed , aonehaJance and the crack of stale charges fired off by ■ wajof precaution, A lively and even pretty little ,;lookipg sivandiere came striding up the ascent, without ■ tiniptom ofacknowlegdment to the racing masses of iron,,tnd smiling as if the honour of her corps had been properly maintained. At 10 o'clock the little incidents ofthe halting war, perceptibl« through the telescope t from the crown of the hi 11 below the picquet-house were <_these:—At the head of the harbour the Russians wre "»u»ily engaged burying their d>-ad ; outside the abattis •f the Round Tower t>ereral corpses of Zouaves were to he distinguished j about the Mamelon french troops Vera hard at work, some of them stripped for coolness & their drawers, and were seen creeping down the deelirity pn the side towards the Malakln ff, and making ttemseJTes ■ deep shelter from its fire. Presently a Russian came coolly through an embrasure right in trout of them, and stooping down here and there, seemed to ha intent on a nearer acquaintance with the dead ; his temerity, or it may be his avaric, was repaid ; a bullet tumbled him orwr, and he lay still—curiosity quenched, if not life. Our people meanwhile on the right attack w«e ealmly shelling the Malak boffin a cool matter-of-hudness sort of way, but the eternal gun on its right, dsathas been endowed with nine months strange vitality, launched an indirect response into the Mamelon. From Mdafter 11 o'clock the Russians, a3 usual, slackened are, nor was there any duel of artillery on o great scale until after dark. During tho greater part of the day *e bad the firing very much to ourselves, and by conwere contented with moderate discharges. Another business occupied us, the t»ndance of our founded, the burial of our dead, the summary of our jotsei, the combination of our ue*t efforts. Lord Rag«n in the afternoon went round the hospitals, and in the afternoon many a procession crossed ths plain, bearing eoine officer's body to its resting place. Our loss W officers killed has been great. The 88th have been the wsvemu sufferers, having three officers killed, one Bussing and conjectured to be killed, and four wounded !£*U indeed who were engaged. Tho killed, Major "aillie, Captains Wruy and C«rbet, were buried this erening on the left of the Woronzoff road. Captain "*bl>w thought not to survive. The First Royuls *JH lost Cptain Mufler, Lieutenant lrby, of the *'th, has had his foot earned away. Captain Marshall, M the CBth, was killed by a fragment of shot striking jjimoii th e head. In the 4?tli Major Armstrong was ''own up hm, the air, but luckily not off the earth en'lr*'y r« fougaj.se exploded under him, sent him Hying, •odhecame down almost as unreognuable as a boy *no mijut go cl«an up a cbimruy. Captain Lecherant and Lieutenants Eustace and Young were like"•'eewouuded. The four senior olpceVa of tho G2 I B >e put hors de combat—Lo\ow\ Sherman, Major Uli °n, Captain Foster, killed; Ciipt. Ingall wounded.

.OF THJP ETKCGGLE.

Ajcpog i, ; (. er iil Ufltrat i ong 0 f character which came °^uuriL K Hie recent it mav be told thai one P l "Warner »rtfl!eryinen j,„i og Uysirotl to fcvop under

j cover, and not put his Imd otlt to tempt a tide bullet, grumbled at the prohibition, spying to his cornnrdus loud enough to be overheard, and meaning to be over*- | heard, "1 say. Jack, they won't let a fellow go and ; look where Ins own shot is: we aim afraid, we aiut ; that's what I call hard lines." There has been a vague fiction among the men that Sir George Brown having disposed of Kertch, some days ago was on the other side of the Tchernaya, ever such a little way otr, and ready to eat up the relieving army. An extraordinary accident has befallen Captain Mortimer Adye, of the artillery—a man in the tn riches was tilling a shell very clumsily with powder, aud the officer obierving him took it from him in order to give him a lesson. While engaged in I the operation a shell from the enemy cume over, burst, ; and ignited the powdei which Captain Aiiye bad been ! pouring into its receptacle. He had the shell between 1 bis knees at the time, there the powder caught fire, yet j wondeiful to say escaped with the loss of all the hair on i his fice and u good scorching. It is due to Lance Corporal Quin, of the 4?th, to make public the bravery Which lie lust night exhibited, which has already brought him under the notice of General Penuef th-r. Jn one of the attacks made by the enemy on the quarries, after they were in our possession, ihe Russians experi. enc d some difficulty in bringing their men again to the scratch. At length one Russian officer succeeded in bunging on four men, wh ch Corporal Quin perceiving, made a dash out of the work, and with the batt end of his musket brained one, bayoneted a second, a..d the two taking to their heels, brought in the officer a prisoner, hming administered to him a gentle prick by way of quickening his movements. After delivering him up he suggested to Ins conuffdes that there weie plen y more to be had. Last night a group of gazers were on the Picket-bouse-hill, whin a sin II came among thvm ; it passed so close to one tn n »s to paralyze his arm, aud carry oil'the head of a navy who stood behind.

DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN.

Since ijtese striking events, the distress ing intelligence of the death of Lord Raglan has reached England. It was previously known th:tt he was ill—had been attacked with dysentery, and e.ery one felt that at his age—sixty seven —his life huugiy a thread. The thread broke, the sjiiiit has fled, and Lord Raglan belongs to the past - to histor . Many of the faults which Lord Raglan committed—and who has nut commited faults ? will be lost sight of in sympathy for the fate which has overtaken him. Death disanns illiberal criticism, and Englishmen are always more disposed to forgive faults of the head, than the heart. Lord Raglan was noC a Wellington nor a Napoleon, nor even a Soult. He was a high born gentloiiiaii who had seen Penin.-ular service, was the pi.rs.mal friend of the greatest soldier that ever lived, and was fortunate enough to induce those to believe who had the giving away of great appointments that the mantle of military genius had fallen upon him. Poor fellow—he lived long enough to undeceive the world. Bui Lird Raglan, although an indifferent soldier, was an excellent civilian—a hard-working clerk of the highest class, and, no doubt, the statistics of the British army in the Crimed will attest his power over figures. Had he remained in England, instead of taking the command in tho East*, there is every loason to believe that much of the official blundering w hicii occured at home might have been spaied—much of the Crimean misery anticipated, for, in writing peremptory official letters, (as in writing despatches} his lordship bad no superior, (lad the contest with Ru-mu been contiined to the pen, Lord Raglan would always have been master of the field. He died io time to preserve intact the French alliance. Since Pelissu-r succeeded Canrobert, the heads of the two atmies ha> e not worked in unison, —to success. The subject is well known to have formed a painful puiut ot discussion between the two governments, for an impetuous, energetic commander like Pelissier neither appreciated nor understood the better features of Lord Raglan's character, —his excellent sense, and the cautions (alb it tardy) process by which he arrived at conclusions. The successor of Lord Raglan is stated to be General Simpson,—an ludia'u officer, of whom little is known, but what is known is favourable. We hope the man will justify the selection He has before him what all soldiers covet, if he can turn them to account, fame, Bnd f rttwe, glory here, imperishable renown in the future. These are prizes worth contending for, and if General Siuips-m is not able enough to grasp them, there are soldiers, we think, in the Crimea, who would do so, under the favour of DowningBtreet. The merits of Lotd Raglan hare been fully (we might say eulogistically) paraded in "both branches of the Legislature. His shortcomings, such as they were, have not eved been glanced at, and the great English journal, which assailed him so virulently .when. -Uv.ing, U content to swim with the stream, —to allow these pos'burnoua compliments to go uncruicisud,—and has even udded to the number. Fitzroy James Henry Soirerset, youngest son of the fifth Duke of Beaufort, by the daughter of Admiral Boscawen, was born 30:h September, 178o*. Lord F. Somerset was a coronet ih the 4th Light Dragoons at sixteen, and rose in military rank as the boyish sons of dukes will rise over the head of theii seniors. He was a captain at twenty, went with the troops to Portugal, and fought in the first great battle —that of lalavera—• in which the French and English armies fairly and singly tried their strength against each other. Before he was iwo-and-tweuty, Wellington had taken him for an aide-de-camp, and afterwards he became the military secretary'of the general. The duties of his various functions kept him diligently occupied during the whole of the Peninsular war, and, donhtless, trained him to that habit of industry and buisuesa aptitude which distinguished the rect of his life, After this appointment he was present at all the great peninsular b-tiles. In the interval of these important operations he was the medium of all the duke's commands and arrangements. Wellington, it is w 11 known, hud a high opinion of his military s cretary, and used to say that, but for Lord Fitzory Somerset, the success of the seven years' warfare would not have been obtained. 11 we regard this opinion in connexion with the kind of duty in which Wellington employed the talents of his protege, we shall be able to arrive at a good point of view for judging of the young loru's roeiiU. Lord Fitzroy j Somerset became a Majoi in 1841, and a lieutenantcolonel in 1812, returned to England Bonaparte's abdication in 1841, and marrying in the August of that year the second daughter of Lord Mornigion, became the nephew, by marriage of the Duke of Wellington. On Napoleon's return from Elba he again placed himself by the side of the conimandfi-in-Chiuf and as his aide-de-camp was on the field during the three days that endd the war. In the terrible day of June 18 he lost his arm at the farmstead of La Haye Sainte. He came to England, and was at once made full colonel extra a.de-de-carap to the Pii> e Regent and Knight Commander of'be Bath. He was secretary of embassy ut Paris !rom ISl6' to 1819; attended the Duke of Wellington to Vienna and Verona in and in 1U26 proceeded with the duke to St, Petersburg, where be was sent to congra'ulate the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the tbroue. He was appointed in 1819 secretary to the Dnke of Wellington, Master General of the Ordance until lß'z7, and in August of that yar he was made military secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, the functions of which office he performed un il September 30, IH5.\ Rising at intervals in military rank, he became', in 1833 and lieutenant-general'. Wellington died and Lord Hardinge was made commander-in-chief. Lord Fitzroy Somerset became ft]aster-General ol the Ordna'ice, and was inisecl to the peerage by the title of Boon Raglan. Nearly forty years after, it was supposed by himsell and the world that his wars, were ended, and nine years after he had |o*t his eldest s-on at the battle of Ferozes-. hah, he was called to take active service abroard. Lord Raglan held in fuller measure than any man living the traditions of the great Duke. He had seen armies not only commanded but made, None knew better our belligerent resources, the actual state of our airny, and the enti.e military system of that country. Accordingly he was selected for the eoainni.d of the Queen i force* sent to the Fa-t, which hea sumed in March, 1801*' I is unnecessary to pursue further a career which has bee" the subject of daily public report and comment for more than a twelvemonth. The intimation of Lord Raglan a demise reached his widow, ai noon on Saturday, by the hand of the hon. Robert Dundns, who was comuusion. Ed to perform the sad office by the Fisrt Lord of the Admiralty. Within a very short period his Royal Highness Prince Albert ca led personally to convey her Majesty's condolenoe in an autograph letter ; and lurther to show that this txpros.ion of feeling was not merely etiquette, he again reapeted his inquires in the evening. Her Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent sent to amis; inquiries as soonasthe painfu i intelligences reached here and their Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Priuoesa Mary an the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenberg Strelitz were among the earliest to offer their condolences. Her Koyal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, also sent to make inquiries. '1 he Queen's anxiety on Lord Raglan's behall was lurther exhibited bv t»o messages in Hie course of -Sum ay Among the families pluced in mourning by the death ol lord Raglan, are thos of the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Karl and Counte-s of Westmoreland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Cho.hnondeley, Sir Walter and Lady Mnry Farquhar, Sir William and Lady GeorgiuaCodr;t>g'on,Lad> Granville Somerset, tn* Lady Louisa tmch j' *.i and Lady Blanche Dupplin, and Lord and Lody (V- ■' i je «

Geotge Brown, who has been unwell, is about to return to England, the commander of the English army in the CnniCH Las devolved upon General Simpson. General Simpson 'has seen considerable service, and eWjoys a higu profeextonal reputation. He served iu the Peninsular from M y, 1812, to May ,1813, including ibe latter part of the defence of Cadiz and the attack on Seville. He servtd also in°the campaign of 1815. and was severely wounded at Quatre Bras. In 1845 be was engaged ns second in command of the late Sr Charles Napier, during the campaign against the mountain and desert tribes situate on the right Hank of the Indus, and Sir Charles considered him his best officer. The high official position General Simp-on has filled since the present Gov. rntnent sent him to the Crimea has necessarily placed him in constant communication with the French Commander, with whom, says the Mornitfg Post, we are confident he will maintain the cordial relations that have existed without intermission between the chiefs of the expeditionary forces. General Simpson, siys the London Times, has certainly risen by merit. General Knollys go«-s out ns chief of the staff', ood Col. Markham has, it is said, arrived in Egypt on his way to the Crimea, lie "has acquired high reputation in India, and especially at Moo]ton, where he greatly distinguished himself ; he is known to he a during energetic soldier, and of an age to support the toils of active warfare. Colonel Pitk'*nham succeeds General Esteourt us Adjutant General of the lures in the Crimea ; and he has. had the good fortune to be noiuinafd lo the important post at the comparatively early age of 3d.*' The general health of tile army is excellent. The hot weather seems to have set in with trying seventy. Sir (J. Brown, General Pennefather, and General Codring on are reported sick. Dr. Sutherland is suffering from ffVcr, and Dr. Gavin's brother—who t ever reel voted lroin the shock of the casually by which he became a fratricide—is dead. By command of the Queen, the Parliament have agreed that a pension of X'lo '0 per annum shall be given to Lady Riglan, and £J(H)O per annum to the late Com-mander-in-Chief's *oii and heir.

THE SUCCESSOR OF LORD RAGLAN.

The Morning Post stales that, in consequence ef the immediate reiurn to England of Sir George Brown, owing toillhealth, Lieutenant-General Simpson succeeds to the command of the British army in the Crimea. General Simpson has seen considerable service, and enjoys a high professional reputation'. During the Peninsular war he was present at the defence ofCadji, and t'ie attack on Seville, He served and A*as wounded at Quatre Bras, in '1845, as second in command to the late Sir Charles Napier, in Sciude. Sir ( . Napier considered him his be»t officer, a..d he believed that Loid EJlenborough, in the event of any accident happening to Sir Charles, would have charged General Simpson with the conduct of the war.

Intelligence has been received of the evacuation of the Soujak Kali by the Russians. Previously to their retirement, the troops destroyed about sixty heavy guns and mortars, and also the principal buildings. It wai concluded that they had joined the garrison of Anapa. A body of French troops under General Morris and General Canrohert, and a column of the Sardinian corps, under General M arm era, made a reconnaisance of Baidar on the morning of the 3rd. The former proceeded along the Woronzow Road, and pushed their cavalry several miles beyond Baidar. The hitter operated on the left, through a mountainous district, and advanced into Baidar after a fatiguing march. Only a small number of Cossacks showed themselves. Nothing had occurred in lront of the town. The weekly medical report states that the cholera had sensibly diminished before Sebastopol, but it had attacked the Guards and 31st Regiment, near Balaclava, and some new batteries. It was hoped that the disease would pass over as it had from the stations where it first appeared. It had fallen heavily on the Sardinian contingent, and General Marmora, of the 2nd Division, had been very seriously attacked. The Euphrates arrived at Marseilles on Tuesday night, the 19th June, and brought intelligence from the Crimea. It is stated that the Mamelon, when attacked, was defended by no less than twenty battalions of Russian troops. The French and Turks occupied it when the Euphrates left, and had turned l.'i Russian guns upon the defences of Sebastopol. Two English battalions had succeeded in penetrating into the Redan, and had spiked all the Russian guns there, but had been finally compelled to retire. General de la Marmora reported on the 13th, that the cases of cholera had somewhat increased, and Captain Dosetta had died. A Russian official report says, that the number of seamen at Sebastopol is so reduced that-this corps can, as such, no longer be employed in any action of inipcr ance. The correspondent of the Vienna Military Journal, writing from Balaclava says :—" The state of health of the army leaves much to be wished for ; and,»« great discontent has crept into the French camp slnfe the bloody affair of the 23rd, General Pelissicr is considering the propriety of adopting General Kiel's plan, which was rejected last March, in order to raisP the spirits of the army by a brilliant feat of arms."

RECAPITULATION AND REVIEW.

Thus has terminated with complete success the expedition to the Sea of Azoff. It seems very evident that the Russians, not expecting an army, had been disturbed in the midst of very extensive and very formidable operations for the defence of Kertsch ami for the blocking up of the entrance into the Sea of Azoff. It is satisfactory to note that the occupation of Kertsch is not a barren conquest, and that the enemy were not able to drive away all the flocks and herds in the vicinity. General D'Autemarre informs us that be has captured '2OO oxen, and as many sheep, enough to serve for the feeding of his division during his sojourn there; and that General 1 r >wn contemplated carrying off the flecks near his quarters—a project he has, no doubt, accomplished by this time. The town of Kertsch, also, is very rich ; the industrious population and neatly all remained and it seemed to him that advantageous markets for the army might be established there. The operations were not deficient in deeds of daring. Witness the volunteer devotion of Lieutenant Cecil Buckley, of Lieutenant Hugh Burgoyne, and of Mr. John Roberts, who, risking capture by the Cossacks in the attack on Genitchi. landed alone and fired the stores which had escaped by a shift of the wind. Witness the exploit of the Snake, and the admirable conduct of Mr. Wright assistant paymaster, Dr. Roche, and Mr. George Wilson, senior engineer, who manned a gun themselves, and sunk a gunboat of the enemy. If any besides Mr. Cobden doubted the usefulness of the operation, let them be convinced from the despatches of' Sir Edmund Lyons, who states that the Allies and the enemy destroyed, in four days four months' rations of an army of 100,000 men and 241 vessels " exclusively used ill transporting provisions to the Crimea." "And further that "shor'ly before our arrival the enemy had commenced sending towards Sebastopol daily convoys of about 10,000 waggons, each containing half a ton weight of grain or flour." In less than six weeks, then, Russia has b en reduced to one main line of communication with the Crimea. The Sea of Azoff has been swept by the squadrons of the Allies from Avabat to Ghieslc. As a consequence of these exploits, the Allies have gained a new base of operations in a most favourable position : and as a further consequence, the enemy has fled from his fortresses on the eastern coast of the Riack Sea. One by one, the'works proj ding beyond the main line of the defences of Sebastopol have been snatched from him, and he is girded in and overlooked so completely, that the remnant of his fleet, even, as forced to rush for shclt r from point to point. We may remark, that Sir George Brown fully anticipated that the defences would be sufficiently complete to justify his leaving Yenikale in charge of the Turks aiid proceeding with the French and British to the reduction of Soujak Kale and Anapa. Happily, Russian foresight of*disaster relieved the gallant General from his glorious task, and set free his troops for further operations m the Crimea.

THE ARMIES BEFORE SEBASTOPOL

The success -rather the series of successes—of the Kcrtsch expedition is said to have liad quite a magic influence on the s, iriis of the troops in the Crimea. Hitherto, the'whole siege Ins been M»e an attempt to heat the Russians on the ground most favorable to them, and to give them, as it were, the greatest odds. Nor wvre the Russians slow in recognising this immense advantage. All their aim seems to have been to remain in this position, and (o concentrate every thing round Sebastopol. '1 hey did not avail themselves of their nume>ical superiority, in winter, to disturb this state of tilings, for the battle of Inl-er-rnann had taught them where there weakness-lay, the expedition to Kertseh, and the occupation of the Tchcrnaya, the spell which seemed to have confined us to fight in the most disadvantageous position has been broken ; hence this diversion has had the cfi'eet ofachnngeof position which puts an end to a disagreeable nightmare. ■ The beginning of offensive operations on the Sea of AzofFand the Tchernaya has not at all slackened the siege, operations, and on the whole line there are the

traces of a grudual but sure advance. The Timet correspondent says it is sdarcwi more than a month since he last saw the works, and Lo was struck by the which socmeul greater than that between the first day of the bombardment, in October Inst, and the first day of the second bombardment. The taking of the Cemetery, which opens the road into the Quarantine Fort, and also towards the Centre Bastion, the silence of the Flagstaff Bastion (that bugbear of the siege), and our own advanced works, instead of the annoying riHe-pits of the enemy, makes us all suppose that we are drawing near to the conclusion. Everything forbodes preparation for a final struggle. But, in order to enable our readers to comprehend the relative positions of the besieged und the besiegers, let us take a review of the entire area of the operations, and of the works as they have been formed within it. It is scarcely necessary to state, as every one now knows, from the numerous maps and plans in circution, that the ground before Sebastopol is intersected by ravines descending to the sea, these ravines being divided from each other by ridges, upon which both the Russian works and the principal batteries of the besieging armies sre erected. The ravine farthest to the north east, and on the extreme right of our position, in front of what is now called the Inkermann attack, is that descending to the Careening Harbour. It was at one time intended by the allies to take possession of the whole of the nor. hj. ridge down the Careening Harbour, but the Russians crossed the ravine, with groat determination at ti>at same juncture, and established two works on the lower slope of it—one at 800, and the other 4t)o yards from the second parallel. These redoubts must now have fallen into our possession, for General PellissieT statcHn his despatch of the 9th of June, that the eiteniy had completely abandoned the right shore of the Careening Bay. The importance of this position, botli for the purpose of commanding the sh ps in the port, and of intercepting the entrance to the town,- has already been pointed out. The ne.it ridge isilllat on which the Malakoff' Tower stands and opposite to it, at a distance of about a nine and a half, the Victoria Redoubt has been erected by the All es. The Victoria Attack, carried on by the French, is directed from this point against the lower and the works about it. Major Buklttlph states, in spiakmg of this attackthat " though the last commenced it was destined to become the most important," Major ( hnmpan had anticipated its importance last December, but we ars only now in | ossession of some of the results of thie work. Descending nearer to the tower, and about Sot) yards in front of it, is the Mamelon, which is described us commanding the tower itself, by which a'l the other works of this part of Sebastopol are commanded. The conquest of this hill is the great and decisive result of the brilliant but sanguinary contest of the 7th of June; its occupation by the French destroys the Russtan line of outworks, and giyes a degree of certainty never before obtained to the operations directed against this essential portion of the p!ac3. It commands the Careening Port, the militaiy buildings belonging to it, and the comniun cation by which the garrison of Sebastspol is constantly receiving reinforcements from the army outside. The Malakoff Tower itself, being one of the few works in masonry on the land side of Sebastopol, was mined by the bombardmen' long ago ; but it is now surrounded by a very high semicircular parapet of earth, pierced with twelve embrasures, and surrounded by a ditch. From the tower to the Careening Bay there runs a long line of parapet, broken at half way by a battery of sixteen gnus on two laces and thus flanking the curtain between this point und the tower. Another battery of twelve embrasures on the hi 1 above Careening Bay is connected with this work by a further parapet, which extends to the sea. The works taken on the 7th of June are, probably, outside this 1 nc, but the line must bs seriously menaced by the position from which we are now enabled to at tack it. The liedan is separated from the Malakoff Tower by what is termed the Middle Ravine, and stands upon the ridge beweeu the Woronasoff Ravine and this Middle Ravine. On this ridge, also, stands our Crown Battery, fronting the apex of the Redan, which was further defended by abattis in front, andby a strong post of rifles, occupying an abandoned stone-quarry in front of the work. This is the post which was carried by the British forces on the 7th of June, and it will be seen from this description that the several attacks of the besieging armies are advancing pari passu on the parallel tines. The Fr. rich have carried the outworks of the tower, and the English the quarry in front of the Redan. But, although these operations are distinct, they all help one another, and are essential to the success of the common enterprise. The British works on the left of the right attack cannot advance «o rapidly as those on either extremity of the lines, partly because the ground in front ot Chapman's Batteries falls abruptly away, and more especially because the Russian works against which our engineers arc operating are commanded by other works on the flank and in the rear. To take the Redan would be unprofitable, until we know that we shall not be driven out of it by the gims of the batteries about Malakoff' Tower "Hambcug, June 13 —The third division ef the British fleet in the Baltic, under Admiral Baynes, arrived this day in the Great Belt. It is composed of seven huge ships armed with siege guns, and nine gunboats of the new construction the whole propelled by steam. This division, which is exceedingly formidable, will to-momiw enter the port of Kiel, where despatches await the admiral from the co runauder-in-chief; and it is expected to sail forthwith to join the main squadron in the Gulf of Finland. No serious movement will be made until the junction of the two Mjtia.lrons has hem effected " A telegraphic despatch from Kiel, dated 10th June, announces the arrival at that port of Admiral Bayne's squadron, en route to the Baltic.

C.TKstantixoplk, June IS. —Ilalll Pasha remains in office. At Ears an attt c. of the Russians was considered inevitable. The Turks have evacuated Batoum and Ch.iurouksu. Assif Pasha has advanced with his general stall' to Kars. The French consul has quitted Batouin. The Russian force has advanced and encamped near Redoubt Kaleh. The recruiting for the British Legion progresses slowly.

THE BALTIC.

From tho Baltic we have had the gratifying news that the three officers and eight of the boat's crew of the Cossack, vrlio were supposed to have bem killed at Hango, are alive, but prisoners, and that only five of the crew lost tlnir lives. The Russians, who at first denied all knowledge of the flag of iruc are now said to admit that the boat exhibited such a flag, but allege that reports bad reached them of soundings having been taken elsewhere under the flag* of truce, and that therefore. The allied fleets off Cronstadt have succeeded iu discovering and destroying forty-six infernal machines. One of these exploded on the d'ock of tho Exmoutb while the officers were examining it. Admiral Seymour and Captain Louis were severely injured, and Lieute ant Fierce was slightly injured by the explosion. Th* fleets have had skirmishes with tha Russians at Sweaborg, Narve, and Nystadt. On the 2ist Juoe the Arophion grounded while reconnoitring Sweaborg. One of the nearest forts ope ed fire upon her. Four shots stiuck her, killing one man and wounding two others. The Amphion returned the Compliment with such precision, and that a large powder magazine whs blown up, and other serious damage done to the fort. Dantzic, June 18—The Cossack, Captain Fanshawe, arrived last night, bringing extra despatches from Admiral Dundas. The fleet was at anchor before Cronstadt. Nothing new. Two of the infernal machines exploded right under the Merlin, and a third burst almost at the same moment under the Firefly. The two steamers were severely shaken, but very slightly damaged. At Nargan three Polish soldiers and two civilians had come oft'to British ships of war. The civilians stated that many others were waiting to follow their example to avoid the conscription. The Magicienne reports the passage of Nyborg blocked up with large stakes, and, it is believed, infernal machines. She has had a smart affair with a body of Russians, having shelled them out of an encampment at Revensart. She then went further up, and forced some horse artillery to retreat. The ship received no damage, A correspondent of the Times writes from Cronstadt, ou the 11th instant, that he believes all ideas of attacking Sweaborg or Cronstadt are abandoned. The despatches from Admiral Dundas respecting the massacre at Hango, were published on the 21st of June Captain Fanshawe, of the Cossack, states, in reply to questions from the Admiralty, that the only object was to land the prisoners, and special orders were given that no one should stir from the boat, and no injury be done to property. The flag of truce must have been clearly seen a mile from the shore, and the boat could have been warned off. The person who led on the Russians, and spoke English, was armed with a musket like the rest, and was probably, therefore, not a commissioned otticer.

OPERA.TIONS TN THE SKA OF AZOFF.

The operations of the fleet in the sea of Azoff have been most successful, »nd have seriously crippled the Russian foiees. At Gsnitcbi, Arabat, (Jbjisk, Marian-

ople, Yenikale, Kertcb.Tagarong, &c, provisions which would supply 100,000 men for four months have been burut. The fortifications of Anapa have been destroyed, and the establishments and foundries of Kertch have been razed to the ground, and the place abandoned. Four thousand men have been left as a garrison, to retain possession of Yenikale, and the rest of the expedition has returned to Kamiesch. All this damage to the enemy was effected with the loss of a single man on the side of the allies.

RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS OF THE OPERATIONS IN THE SEA OF AZOFF.

A supp'ement to the Imtalide liusse publishes the following: •'Aide-de-camp General Prince Gortschakoff has sent by telegraph, from N icholaieff. the following despatch, dated Sebastopol, 20th of May (Ist of June), —' On the 15th (27th) of May, the ei>emy was at Berdiansk, and burned two houses there, some coasting vessels, and a large portion of the grain stores. On the 17th (29th) of May, a squadron of sixteen vessels of war appeared in the vicinity of the Straits of Geuitchi. The enemy sent a ilag of truce on shore, t» demand all vessels and stores belonging to the Crown ; this having been refused, the squadron opened fire, and set fire to some ships and the stores of grain situate on the beach. A round of grape from two of our field-pieces, placed near the straits by the Emperor's Aide de-Camp, Prince Lebanoti'Rostovsky. forced the enemy's gunboats, which were setting fire to the ships, to mov away from the coast. On the following day, the 18th (30th), the enemy did not attempt anything against Genitcki. From l?th to the 20th (29th of May to Ist of June), nothing of particular importance took place before Sebastopol or upon the different points of the Crimea occupied by our troops."

SUBMARIME PETARDS AT KERTSCH.

Toe Moniieur contains a despatth from Admiral Bruat, dated June I, in which, describing the advance through the passage of Cape St. Paul, he says: " A great many ships had been sunk in the pass. •(Scattered by the currents and the melting of the ice, these ships were so many reefs, the approach to which was not revealed by soundings, and of the position of which we were entirely ignorant. The enemy had also laid here and there, at the bottom, some infernal machines, like those we have found in the arsenal of . Kertsch, where we have been able to examine them at cur leisure. A triple wire, cased in gut;a pcrcha, connected these machines with an electric apparatus pLced in t;e St. Paul battery. In this maimer it would have been easy, as soon as our ships got entangled in the pass, to cause these submarine petards to explode instantaneously under their sides, the effect of which explosion must be decisive, provided it were to take place at the precise moment.

RUSSIA

The Journal of St. Petersburgh of the 12th examines Count Walewski's note in its discussion of the four points, and thinks it still possible to open negotiations. St. Petersburg letters to th« sth, in the Hamburg News, says the Synod of St. Petersburg has presented an address to the Emperor, earnestly praying him to show himself more disposed towards conferences of peace, so far as the political interest* of the State would permit. It is not known how tke Emperor has received this address. A letter from Poland states that the landed proprietors from Vol by nia and the Ukraine continue to flock to Warsaw in anticipation of serioua disturbances in these districts. The movement was at present directed against the popes. A detachment of from 3.10 to 4'»o recruits is said to have revolted while on their march to the East, and joined the malcontents. It appears that the Russian soldiers who have been prisoners in the French and English camps in the Crimea, propagate on their return ideas the most subversive of Russian rule. Si. Peikksbuhg, June 15th—Prince Gortschakoff writes: —On the I lth and l*th the fire of the Allies before Sebastopol was weak, and the losses of the Russian* very trifling. The Allies have formed no new woiks in the Selinghinsk and Volhynia redoubts on the east of Careening Bay, but they have reconstructed the Kamtschatka (Mamelon) lunette.** It is stated that the Russian territory disburses ?,000,000 roubles a-day for the army alone, and the five recruitings have consumed 180,000,000. BERLIN, Wednesday, June 20. —Advices from Konigsberg state that an Imperial ukase orders that baptised Jews, who have hitherto been exempted, shall furnish thirty recruits for every thousand soulg to the Russian army. The Times sajs, the article in the St. Petersburg Journal of the 11th, on Count Walewski's circular, can have no effect on the policy of the belligerent powers, whatever effect it may have on a certain portion of society on the continent.

WAR ITEMS FROM RUSSIA,

By an order of the day, published in the journals, the Emperor, after a second minute inspection of the fort.ftcauons of Cronstadt, has declared himself per* fectly contented with the defences of the place, and especially mentions the new lunettes, the batteries of the "tongue of land" of Cronstadt and Tort Paul, which he considers impregnable. The Times' Rerlin correspondent has been assured that Prince Gortschakaff hac telegraphed the Emperor to the effect that now that his supplies of provisions are partly cut off and partly rendered extremely difficult of attainment, he cannot undertake to ho'd Sevastopol for longer than a certain short space of time mentioned by him j that above all things else, hay had become scarce, and that he ill this despatch begs for instructions as to whether he may proceed to give battle to the fesi'gers in the open field for the purpose of relieving the fortress. The May number of tlis Russian Marine Magazine contains the report of M. Mansuroif, who was sent as Imperial Commissioner into the Crimea for the purpose of inquiring into the state of the medical arrangements there, and of distributing the patriotic gifts of his countrymen, a mission very nearly akin to that of the Urns' Commissioner at Scutari. II a reports reveal much that will offer a corresponding pendant to the pictures already published of the state of things in our hospitals. J The ordinary post from Riga to the 7ih, and from Revel to the Bth, has arrived. The letters brought by it state that no hostile movement had been attempted against either place, but that both were in daily expectation of a bombardment. They x ere prepared for it. General Siewei 8, the commander-in-chief of the Baltic army, is alternately at Riga and Revel, giving orders according to cireuinstanc.s. General Grabb, with the staff, is at Revel. The whole lin« of cpast is occupied by numerous corps of irregular cavalry ; and the infantry divisions are spread over the country, at about a mile distance from the shore. The artillery, which is very numerous, is nearer : whilst four regiments of hussars and lancers, I 00 each, are echeloned between Polangetr and R«f<?l. Everybody expects both places to be speedily bombarded, in spite of these defensive arrangements. A letter from Odessa, in the Cotutitutiowel, dated the 3rd instant, says:— " The intelligence of tha suooosses of the Allies in the Sea of Azoff, kas given us a terrible and unexpected blow. The few merchants here who have hitherto kept together the remains of their fortunes, are engaged in victualling the army, and the greater part of them had ships and stores in the Sea of Azoff; but now they have lost everything. The levee of the military Governor of New Russia and Bessarabia, Count Stogonoff, which takes place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, are now almost wholly attended by unfortunate'petitioners, imploring assistance, which he is unable to render. If you could but read all that their petitions represent, you would immediately say that Odessa is reduced to the last point of distress. And there is, too, a general opinion that this city will shortly become the scene of events which will accelerate its total ruin. Indeed the preparations made by the authorities are quite sufficient to show that they are expecting a general bombardment. Corps of firemen have been organised ; several batteries have been rc«con*trueted ; vehicles are ready to carry awny into the interior the public treasures and the archives' of the State ; and as the city has been declared in a state of siege, we are compelled to pay all the costs which those arrangements, the police of war, necessarily create.''

GERMANY

Intelligence from Berlin of the 20th June announces that an Austrian circular had been sent to Frankfurt. The object of this circular was to establish an understanding between Austria ami Russia at the Diet. Vienna, Wednesday.—As Count Corouini has gone to meet the Emperor la the Bukowna, it may be considered a proof that his Majesty will not visit the Principalities. Fbanki-okt, Wednesday. —An Austrian despatch of the 12th instant proposes to Prussia that she and Austria should come to a special understanding as to n common course of conduct to b- adopted by the two powers in their communications to the Diet. There is not the slightest reason to apprehend that any of the German States will expose their coasts and trade to squadrons of steam-boats. They are as much paralysed by sea as by laud, end we are coin-

paratively indifferent to the view* entertained at Berlin, Frankfort, or Vienna, since they are poweriesft from the moment they cease to be in our favour. With reference to the Sebastopol Report, th» Times says there is-one iutference, the truth of which is undeniable. It is, that seaicely anybody, if anybody, concerned in the war, understood his business.

FRANCE.

Paris, Wednesday evening, June SOth. The Paris funds were done to-day at the Bourse at 98f. 60e.; the 3 per oents, at 6Bf. ate. Tlie Emperor of the French is conTale«een_L la reference to his illnoss it is said by an English paper, " His Majesty Louis Napoleon has so opened himself to suspicons of stockjobbing, that it is not txtaordinary that even his sudden and sharp illness on Sui.day should have excited the sinister suggestion that his friends had requested him to be a mxlade itimgincire for a day or two. For no doubt the funds went down ?nd went up again (after -Peiissier's message of tha 16th) wth marvellous suddenness—a suddenness that, well managed, might have made many a fortune." At the Paris Exhibition, the average receipts per diem on the one franc day ii 10,0' M) fratios at the Industrial, and 4<>oo francs at the Fine Arts Exhibition. The Times' Vienna Correspondent state*, that the right to construct a railroad across the Isthmus cf Suez has been granted to a French company. The French Legislative Assembly wa> opened--on Monday, July 2nd, by a speech delivered by the Emperor. His Majesty reviewed the circimstanC'-s under winch Au«trw bad invite I the Allies to a conference with herselfaud Russia i".t the itstoratton of pese«, regretting that the Western Powers could uo lon, er o;teu a conference at whch f*en (heir honour vra< trifled with: and he appeals to Trance to surpport bim in maintaining her political position and the faith of her alliance. The surpport which the Legislative body is invited to tender at this trying juncture is an ordinary omcrip. tion to the amount ot 140,(mo men, a loan of ji 30,000,000, a tax upon tbe receipts of railways, and an increase upon sevtr.tl indireel taxe«.

SEBASTOPOL INQUIRY COMMITTEE.

At the meeting of the House of Commons on tl. 18tli June, Mr. Roebuck brought up the report of th e committee on the army before Sebastopol, and it wa"* read by the clerk at the table amidst the deepen silence. It was for the most part an historxal narrative of the management of the war in the several departments at home, and in all of which is described a great want of system and equal mismanagement. It further stated circumstances which showed great neglect on the part of neiTly the whole of the authorities at the seat of war. The report went on to aeknowledge the exertions made by private persons to relieve the exigencies and distresses at the hospitals it Scutari. Having stated that the conduct of the administration at home had been the chief cause of the calamities which had occurred, it concluded by* bearing testimony to the admirable manner in wh ehthe army had borne its manifold sufferings. : The reading of this important document oeeapiedt he clerk exactly one hour and a half.

A SLIGHT ENGLISH SKETCH.

The following letter will be read wiib interest:— " Her Majesty'B Ship Simoon, " Straits of Kertsch, June f. '• My D<>ar The gun-boats and light steamers have p"lay;d the ~with the Russians. News arrived here on the ?tth May that upwards of 150 merchantmen and the forts of Arabat have been dasr troyed The Great Britain arrived last evening with an immense number of French troeps on board. Megaera also arrived on the 81st jlaj't bringing a large supply of live beef and mutton. We 1 have been living on the best of everything a* the cava'ry captured upwards of 1000 -tio'id of cattie, and 15,00*) shsep. la fact we have*got into Paradise —eating and drinking and chasing the enemy iika rabbits; and they are equally nimbi*, although we shall run them to earth at last. The captured Russian guns are beautiful pieces of ordnance—eight inch. We, have several sent on board us. Several infernal machines have also been taken possession of, the sight of which only makes our crew the more anxious to get to close quarter with the cold-blooded savages. Jack does not understand being bjown up like a sunken wreck. Anapa is our next game, and we shall have it, for nothing can stop the enthusiasm of tftl Allies, We hug each other most fraternally, although J-ck makes a wry faoe afterwards, aad withes the French soldiers ware all women. Signal flying for a move ; excuse more till my agectionatelj, U.K.