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‘roadsides than again be in the presences of such a silence. There is, however, no slackness in any department now. Fifty-six thousand sailors im different sens are ‘now iv active service, and together with those of Great Britain, make up a number of 120,000. Verity, the soil is prepared, deep and wondrourly cultivated, for this ominous tree of war—a tree whose brane. men’s bones, and whose fruits will be No positively official confirmation | intelligence | gave you in my last, of the of Odessa; but there appears no reson to has occurred. It seems that t lish flags of troce. citizens, and it seems the has been ited to the fortaand t whatever dam: \ Sse Bad shat “wheter, to prevent, Thst it will in the jes ws a material guarantee, there does not seem to be a In the mean time all com- munications by sea be:weon Odessa and the Russtan troops in the Dobradscha is intercepted, and Odessa is the chief granary to which the Russians in that quarter ean look for adequate and permanent supplies of food So the first shot has at last been fairly fired, and the Emperor of Russia may truly say, as he does in his new matifesto, published this day in the Mondeur:— “At last, at the prevent hour, England and Francs have cast off the mask—they regard our difference with Turkey as only a secondary question, and no longer dis- simulate that their common object is to weakea Russia, to wrest from her a part of her possessions, and to cause our country to descend from the powerful position to which the hand of the Most High has raised it. Can orthodox Russia fear such means?” &c., &. ‘This being the charming month of May, the churches are all lighted up, and the altars are decked with gar- Jands, in honor of the Virgin. The religious services are celebrated with great porap, and morceaux of music, ac- companied by choruses of young maidens, are executed every evening at half past seven. The cold weather, with its blighting winds and hurricanes of dust, has given place to soft, genial breezea and refreshing showers, and Paris is rapidly assuming that delicate hue which its snow white buildings, broad streets, and avenues of trees just opening their first leaf, imparts to it at this season of the year. For the mouthsof May and June, the whole world Can furnish nothing in beau - mosphere, to the metropolis of 1a " But we must repair to Algiers for the colossel beauties of nature, for the Akhvar Journal says:—‘A rose of un- sual size, grown ina garden of Donera, has been brought to our office. Its dian is not lesé than five inche and we understand that one of the clerks in the Prefec office has several of nearly equal dimensions, in his gar- Hen of St. Eugine.”” A letter from Rome, states that the second son of rince de Canino and of Princess Charlotte Bonaparte, pans the name of Lucien Louis, wenty-tive years wf age, has just entered the Ecclesiastic profession will be an odd coincidence if, hereafter, there should be # Poe as well as an Empercr Bonaparte. But amid the lowering aspect of affairs, when thou- sands pon thousands are madly hurrying on to find on the Euxine, the Danube and the Baltic, death in every form of savage barbarity—when mothers are groaning and sisters are weeping that their brave should have left their homes for the countless horrors of warfare—a plain. tive voice is heard from the vicinity of Lyons, which fills the whole heart of France with sympathy. It is that -of poor Giraud. Some three weeks ago he and a fellow-laborer, called Jalla, were employed to sink a well at Keally, near Lyons. Owing to the peculiar nature of the s ter they had made some progress, it fell in, and so far im- mured them that the slightest possible aperture was left to enable them to make their cries for help heard. Im- mediately neighbors and friends gathered to the spot, but from the loose, sandy quality of the earth, every effort to extricate them only the more endangered their ition. At last one of the corps of Engineers, a Capt. ybinet, was sent for, and in order to secure the poor éreatures against suffocation, contrived a means of insert- dng some boards between them and the sand, and at the same.time introduced a pipe through which food could be adininistered to them. This hus, however, been go- ing on for more than three weeks, and every effort at direct interposition has failed, the earth falling in as fast as it could betemoved. A gallery has now beea con- structed and carried to 6 metres 70 centimetres, out of 8 metres 80 centimetres; and it is hoped that, if all go well, poor Giraud may be extricated from his dreadful durance to-morrow. Im the meanwhile Jalla has died, and his dead body preases against his living comrade. Worse still, it has an to putrify, and notwithstanding that bags of quick lime have been let down for Giraud to administer, ‘as trom his position he can scarcely use his hands, the vapors of a horrid pestilence infect the little space left for him to breathe, Above his head, and in various directions about his body, a network of planks, of bar- rel hoops, of gravel, and of sand, held together only by ‘the most artificial means; and it is through this mass of rubbish that he receives what he wants, that he hears what is said to him, and dimly sees a Kind of twilight. On the 14th of April the sandy soil, in rushing in upon the two unfortunate men, exactly like a torrent of water, produced a large excavation, which forms, as it swere, a sort of cell, with a wide chimney above, made by the bore of the well. The sides of the bore were stayed up by pieces of planks, arranged at certain dis- tances; and it is these which, by crossing each other, Yoom over Giraud’s head a sort of roof, of which the slightest shock may destroy the equilibrium, and bring down the whole mass upon the unfortunate man. The cholera and smallpox have been making unmie- takable signs of their awful presence. The recent change nf weather, it is to be hoped, will have some eifect on Bhese awful visitations. From Madrid, we learn that Queen Christina’s birth. Hay has been celebrated with very unusual pomp—sa- utes of artillery, parades of troops, illuminations, &. and Queen Isabelia, at the palace, held a grand reception, at which all the corps diplomatique were present. The Minister of the United States, in order to do ample honor ‘to the occasion, wore, it is said, a black velvet coat, em- broidered with black silk; and itis added that its ele- gant simplicity attracted general admiration amidat the brilliant uniforms by which it was surrounded. Tae Soulé family aye daternipaluacic confreres. 1 of the yar iment it that it admirals ench and injare the Interesting from Spain. ‘THE BLACK WARRIOR DIFFICULTY—A SIMILAR CASE, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES—SEIZURE OF THE EM- PRESS—THE SPOILS SYSTEM IN CUBA—MR. SOULB AT A BALL. {Madrid (April 27) Correspondence of the London Chronicle.] earise sent you the Spanish version of the affair of ‘the Black Warrior, [may state that the American ver- sion varies very widely from the former. Another special messenger arrived yesterday, with despatches, at the Am 1 Legatior here, and will leave again to ' I believe that the pecuniary demand will bé consiterably reduced, the sum tirst spoken of having been demanded before it was known that the vessel and cargo had been — up; but that the demand for the dismissal of the ifferent authorities who took part in the seizure of the Black Warrior will be persisted in. It is stated on the American side that no fraudulent intention was ever imputed to the captain or consignee of the Black Warrior, until it was broached in the recent article of the Heraldo; that this steamer had entered ‘the port of Havana thirty. six times, and that the captain had inquired on his first eatry there how he was to de- aigpate the veesel, and was that if he brought no goods for Havana, and dia not embark goods there, he might alate it asin ballast, and had continued to do 30 all along; and, in short, that letters from ths consignee, from the passengers on board, from respectable inhabi. tants at Havana, and from all sides, are entirely opposed tothe Spanish view of the case, as stated inmy last letter. A case of seizure of an Amoricon vessel, the Empre took place at Malaga, in 1843, ender «imilar cirea 83, stances, and the government of that da the intendent, Senor Gaminde, who caused th. ot made, the American minister here, Mr. Washington Iz ving, having demanded the same case was submitted to the Su which gave its verdict in his favor, while the Audiencia of Gra- nada declared the forfeiture of the vessel and cargo valid. ‘There was this in common in both cases—that the laws of the country had been left in disuse,and practices tolerated which were at variance with the regulations of the port. In the case of the Black Warrior, the Amoricans contend that there was no fraudulent intention whatever, while a custom which had lnsted for thirty-six voyages might seem to give a prescriptive right to its continuance. On the ober hand, Spaniards contend that the disuse of a lew gives no right whatever to fraction. It is against the Intendent of Vinance ani Superinieodent of Customs that the American government is particularly hostile, because it entertains the impression that the seizure was made by them in order to participate ia their portion of the spoils. The same oorrespondent, wr The dispute between the ments, occasioned by the seizure of the Black Warrior steamer at Havana, excites some sensation here, and, whatever the merits of ‘he case may be, there iv a strong feeling here in favor of th h of the subject. Ia fact, it seems very ge ion that a pretext has been sought for a 1, today, ar- ging on the ‘supposition that such is the case, which. however, it says, would be unworthy of @ great nation, and highly impolitic, remarks That conduc a ing on April 28th, saye:— hand American govern mn, to bu’ he re that in such a case gle voles that would not ri there would not be glamor to the heavens; there would not be w single party, from the Carlist to the demooratic, that would not join the ; there would not be asin b " renowel, since there is nothing which more TZ, gine period of us if by enchantment, si aises the spirit of & poor « nation, than to see ite: sensitive up to the poin reason gad equity are despised, 2 orde to the point that the argrewor, confiding in his force, the appear ance of justice, ‘This same reason would make oar cause more popolar in Korope, wore sympathetic in the eyes ef the civillued worl: ase in the offence offered to Spain, all would 80¢ the offence to common right ‘The Espana concludes by inferring from these reasons ‘that no serious conflicts can arise out of the p r pute, and calling on the government to act with f ‘coves, and at the same time with generosity and tact A correspondent of the London News, ting from Mad rid cn April 28th, says:—‘ The birthday of Queen Chris Las been celebrated with the usual pomp—salute. tory, parades of troops, aud illuminations—on ¢ roeding day. A grand reeoption was also bei! on the 2 by Queen Isabella at the Palace, and was attend. diplomatiqua. A letter notices that at emony the Minister of the United States wore a “ velvet coat embroidered with black sil at its ‘elegant simplicity’ attracted gen: sod produced a striking effect amidst the w rmé by which it was surrounded. The same } complning that lithographic sheets containing libels 4ie public and private Life of several official persoaages ‘wore La cireulation.’” THE CUBAN SLAVE TRADE. “nse of Commons, on the 4th of Ma wd wl fo its peaelution to em has Leen ‘tone to the | Tt | | force the observation of the treaties with this country | and if so, whether the reduction of the number 0 | fhe cruisers on the coast of Cuba (as appeared by a ro- cent retura frow the Admiralty) had taken place with reference to those deerees ? Lord J. Ressert said, it was quite trac that informa- tion bad been received that the government of Sprin had assed certain decrees with a view toa strict observance of the treatice with this country in respect to the slave trate. Those decrees were of a Very satisfactory nature, and ber Majesty’s government trusted that they would provide to 4 great extent for the suppression of the slave thade. (Heat, hear.) He might mention one provision | of the decrees, which, if duly carried into effect, would operate very mush to produce that effect; and that was | a provision for the registration of the slaves now in Cuba. | (Hear), Thus, persons subsequently found in the con- dition of slavery, and not registered, would be taken to be free, and would be liberated. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the reduction of the numberof cruisora, that | measure [we understood the noble lord to say} was de- termined on before the intelligence of the decrees was | received in this country, and only as a temporary re- | duction. Mr. Heme trusted the noble lord would lay the papers on the subject before the House. | THE EUROPEAN WAR. “ The ‘Privateer Grapeshot.” | A RUSSIAN PRIGATE, OR AMERICAN PRIVATEER GRAPE- | SHOT, IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL—FRENCH BRIG CAPTURED—BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHASE. | Some excitement was occasioned on Monday, the Ist, | by the statement of a sailor, represeating himself as Gaston Fouque, second mate of the French brig Ville de Marseilles, and who called on Lloyd’s agent at St. Ives, Cornwall, with the report that he had swam | ashore from a Rursian frigate which captured his vessel, | He stated that the capture took place twenty leagues | from Cardig; that the frigate first hoisted English and | then French colors; that the Captainand crew of the | brig tried to escape in the boat, but were fired into, and | the captain and three men were killed. ‘The frigate he | reported to haye gone up the Channel. The Admiralty instantly sent two steamers in search of the alleged | frigate. | On the Sth the excitement was materially increased by the publication in the London Herald, of the follow- ing article:-— News has reached the Admiralty that an Ameri. can clipper, the Grapeshot, has captured a French merchant ship off the Land’s End. The Grapeshot cleared | out of New York on the 22d March, for St. Thomas, with 1,500 packages on board, professedly of hardware, but | really containing muskets, supposed to be bound to Fin- land, and failing debarkation, then for the Mediterranean. This will explain the story of a Russian frigate in the Channel. | The London News of May 4 contains the following aragraph, supposed to refer to the same affair:—The Fiitowing letter was recelyed at Lloyd's yest day, from | their agent at St. Ives, Cornwall, dated ‘the Ist of May; but there is reason to believe that the statement is a gross fabrication:— Gaston Fouque, second mate of the French brig Ville de Marseille, Ardisson, master, has just been brought here, and reports his having escaped by swimming from a Russian frigate, which bad taken their veasel about twenty leagues from Cardiff, having first hoisted English, and afterwards French colors. The captain and part of the crew tried to escape in the boat, but were fred into, and the capiain and three men killod. He roports the frignte to have gone into the other channel. I have for- warded him to the French consul at Penzance. (signed) LLOYD'S AGENT. | The London Shipping Gazette, under date St. Ives, Cornwall, May 1, says:— A Frenchman, about thirty years of age, of short | ruddy’ complexion, and a wound across the fingers and palm of his right hand, wearing a loose blue jacket, with the French naval but- ton, amd a blue cap with two red stripes, calling himself Gaston Fouque, came into this town this after- noon, and represented to themayor, and also to your | correspondent, that he belonged to ‘the French brig La Jeune Ville de Marseilles, of Marseilles, Captain Ardis- | son, from Havana to Cardiff, for orders, laden with | tobacco and sugar, with a crew of eleven men. He states thet they had been in company with a large frigate for two or three days under English colors, and on the 28d ult., when about 50 or 60 leagues from’ Cardiff, the | frigate hoisted Russian colors, fired at them, and sent two bouts with 30armed men on’ board. The captain and crew re isted te their utmost, but were soon keh | by a superior force; and that the captain was killed by a musket ball, and 'three of the crew also lost their lives, viz.:—Jean Ricou, of Nantes; Auguste Richard, | and Piere Michel, both of Marseilles, and that | he bad himself ‘received a coup de sabre in his | right hand, which was bound up, but the wound, | from all appearances, was not of such recent date; | that they were all taken prisoners on board the frigate, and consigned to the “calle” in irons, and he | supposes the brig had ‘coulé bas.” To account for his getting on shore, he states that one of the lieutenants was a neighbor of his, belonging to La Provence, although in the Russian service, and interceded for his particular release, and that a boat’s crew was despatched with him towards our coast, and when about six miles off he was re- quired to sirip and jump overboard ; that he tied up his o’bes in his handkerchief, which he fastened to nis back, | and with which he swam on shore a little to the westward port during last night. This, of course, speaks for self, He was very decently dressed, and stated that he had dried his clothes in the sun, whose rays have not beea at all fervent to-day ; they have no marks of having been wetted by salt water very recently. He loft here at six o’ciock this evening for Hayle and Penzance, for the pur- | po: of applying to the French Consul.—[The Admiralty, it is said, have sent two steamrhips in search of the al: leged “frigate,” but the authorities wonld bows ~ more wisely if than-MeAve paragraph, the Shipping } 2 te of the 6th of May, adds :-— There is no mention of this by any of our agents in the Iceality referred to, and on inquiry at the Admiralty this morning, we are informed that there is not a word of truth in the statement, THE DANUBE. IMPORTANT BATTLE BETWEEN OMBR PACHA AND GEN. LUDERS— SIGNAL DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS The following important despatch was telegraphed from | Vienna, of date May 3:— It circulates in Bucharest that, on the 18th or 19th of April, Omer Pacha advanced with 70,000 men towards the Dobrudscha, and a battle took place with Luders’ corps, between Silistria and Rassova. During the night Omer Pacha had detached a division in the direction of the Black Sea, and, when the battle was at its | height the next day, this corps attacked the Russians in | the rear, causing unexampled confusion and consterna- tion. Gen, Luders retreated towards Czernavolla, and it | is said the Russians lost many guns, ammunition, stores | and baggoge wagons, and even their military chest. On the 20th a Turkish ying corps crossed the Danube below Silistria, in order to destroy the Russian strand batteries. They advanced to Kalaresh, where there was hari fighting for some hours. The Turks fought bravely, but being overmatched, were ultimately forced to retire. The Paris Patrie has received accounts that the Russian army in the Dobrudscha has suspended its march, in obedience to the orders of Prince Paskiewitch. It ap- pears that the orders given by the Emperor of Russia were, that the Russien army instantly on entering the Pobrudscha was to march on without del and strike a blow before the allies could come up. had not been anticipated that the Tarks could arrest their progress. baa | THE INVESTMENT OF SILISTRIA—RSPSATED RUSSIAN ATTACKS, AND THEIR PAILURB—NUMBER OF THE BESIEGERS WOUNDED. Authentic accounts to April 23 confirm the statement that Silistria had beea exposed to repeated and violent attacks, but to the above date was uninjure i. A Bucharest correspondent of the Fremden Blatt (Vi enna paper) writes that the Turks daily send about one * thousand balls into the Russtan entrenchments, To the 19th the Russians had eight hundred weunded men, in cluding many officers. The lose in killed is not known. A letter suys, as it is affirmed that Silistria is invested on the land side, the news has feund its way into some of the organs of the foreign press; but it is incorrect— the Russians not having even passed a defile betweon Rassova and Silistria, which is some six thousand yards in length. Gen. Graeb, in command against Silistria, had a: for reinf ents, OPERATIONS OF THE ALLIED FLEETS IN THE BLACK SEA—DOMBARDMENT OF THE BATTERIES ON THE DANU From Constantinople | sian batteries atthe Su’ » bombarded by part o details had come to hand. It was reported that the Russian flect put to sea from Sebastopol on April 28th, THE BOMBARDMENT OF ODF: [From the London Times, May 6.} The last accounts which have reached us of the 0; tions of the allied fleets at Odessa, are far more satis: tery than the first intelligence of the attack on that ¥, which arrived in England five days ago ; these last accounts are the more to be re- on as they have keen forwarded by our own agente and allies, instead of reaching us by means of communication under the influence of the Russian overnment. It was stated last night by Lord Claren lon in the Houee of Lords, that the attack of the combined fleets was mainly directed against the forts, batteries, and military stores in Odessa, and that in the destruction of these works, the operation proved eminently successful. The explosion of two magazines of powder is a str tf that the bombardment was carried on with was directed to that part of and naval stores were de- er, that twelve vessels of war thirteen Russian transport: while the g: er © saved, and neu- stature ril 24, we learn that the Rus mouth of the Danube had he allied fleets. the city in which the mil pesited. We learn, m were sunk in the port a with their stores on board part of the m t tral and private property was respected. The ships of war said to be destroyed can hardly be supposed to from an important part of the Russian fleet and were probably vessels of small force lying in the harbor of Odessa, and used, like those small steamers met by Captain Jones on the coast of Circassia, for the purpose of earrying on com- munications between Odessa, Niche opel; but it is setisfactory to } tion of this flotilla has been that the blow has fallen where i h the unfortunate traders of mperial fing of Russia, The outrage of Sinope is no longer un punished; and when the Emperor of Rai it Gt, in Geflance of his own assuranczs, to or’ tin the Black Sea to undertake that wanton pedition. he should havo reflect shot fired at Sinope, a shell m hia own citfes and’ fortresses, OX that for évery @ thrown on and that the rain he inilicted om the Turkish squadron thay ig | port, would be retaliated on himself by’ of every Russian vessel of war which under the guns of Sebastopol. Odessa a great trading port; but, if its business ‘and ty aieifor the tine suspented, the fault docs not rast with us, but with the Emperor whose policy has given a deathbiow to its trade. ‘The stores of wheat | jared for shipment, and in some instances paid for, even | by hentrals, huve been taken Uap on account of the Kus sian government for the use of the army advancing to the Danube, and that town which was a few months ago the emporium of the corn trade of the Black Sea is be: come the centre of military operations, which have rendered it peculiarly’ obnoxious to the as- saulte of our eruisers. Odessa waa the most ad- Yapced, point of importance to which stores, of war could be conveniently transported from Nicholaiew and Sebastapol, and it is probable that a vast quantity of the property of the Russian govern- ment was accumulated there. Awother depot bad been formed at Fokshani, in Mol just been destroyed, or greatly damaged, by fire, ‘bot without @ suspicion that the place was wilfully burnt, 10 conces! from the eye of Prince Paskiewitsch himself the deficiencies in the commissariat, and to sup- ply a ready excuse for the privations the Russian army may hereafter have to undergo. it is only by the palpable effects of war that we can hope to produce any im n upon the minds of the people of Russia, for, from the entire absence of free discussion or accurate public information in that country, the causes and probable consequences of this quarrel, which have rung through the rest of Europe for the Inst fourteen month, are still either unknown to the Russian nation, or known only by the reports of the St. Petersburg Gazette and the frantic manifostoes of the Emperor. But, although the people of Russia | must already have suffered séverely by the enormous Tevios of trod, by the suspension of trade, by the de- struction of credit, und by the hardships inflicted by such | preparations for war on all classes of society, it may be | questioned whether they have as yet ascertained the whole danger of their position. It must be alike galling to | their pride as a nation, and repugnant to the servile | confidence inculcated in the wisdom of the Emperor, to nee it proved that neither his policy nor his arms can | defend the sacred territory of Russia, from attack, that | the ports through which the wealth of provinces has been | accustomed to flow may be blockaded and bombarded at the pleasure of the enemy, and that whole trri- | tories may possibly be dissevered from the empire. | These are facts which cannot be altogether misrepre- | sented or concealed, especially when they occur, as they robably soon Will cccur, not in the Black Sea ouly, at a Riatance from the observation of Europe, but within a | few hours’ sail of the capital, which ia already cut off from all communication with the reat of the Baltic. Opera- tions or blockades directed against such ports as'Odessa, Arebangel, and Riga, cannot fail to act very widely upon | the adjacent country, and the direct injury inflicted on the Turkish empire by the seizure of two princi polities north of the Danube, which were already in the enjoyment of a semiindependence, in {neonipar- ably less than the evil and the loss sustained by Russia in the closing of her most important harbors, ‘These considerations appear to us to account for and to justify | the measures which may be taken against every part of the Russian coasts which is open to attack, especially | where large military depots have been formed, ani where | the property of the State can be reached. It will have been observed that the official despatch makes no mention | of any land operations at Odessa; and we are | by no means inclined to credit the assertion made in the } | Russian account of the bombagdment, that an attempt at a landing was made by 1,800men, and reputsed. ‘There seems to have been no occasion for any landing at all nor world such a force have attempted to land in a fortified harbor, defended by nearly ten times that | homber of men. Indeed, the very small loss on the side of the allied fle is a decisive proof that no reverse of | whatever character was experienced, For these particu- lars, however, we are atill toa great degree dependent on imperfect telegraphic despatches, though we trust that as | nearly a fortnight bas now elapsed since this event took place; the country will soon be in possession of a com: | plete narrative of this important engagement. We ca not, hewever, entirely pass over the proceedings in Pi | liament last night, and the language of some of our con- | temporaries, without expressing the strongest repro- | bation of the factious and unbandsome conduct of Lord | | Clanricarde, Lord Dudley Stuart, and their followers. To | attack the naval officers for their want of vigilance and energy at the commencement of n campaign—to vilify | the Duke of Cambridge at the moment when he has ren- dered a very great and important service to the country | by his judicious conduct at Vienna—are the congenial | tasksof these personsand their allies in the press; but | | happlily their calumnies upon the policy and the ser- vants of their country will meet with as little favor from | the public as they found last night within the walls of | Parliament. ri 7 THE AFFAIR IN PARLIAMENT. | In the House of Lords, on the 5th inst., in reply to the Marquis of Clanricarde respecting the attack on Odessa, the Earl of Clarendon 1ead the following telegraphic des- patch, received this morning, from the Britisa Consul at Belgrade: Brronave, May 4-750 P.M. Admiral Dundas anvounces, through her Majesty's Con. sul at Varna, that a division of steamboats of the combined squadron destroyed upon the 224 of Apri the Imperial ole, and the Rus: ships at Odesea. The mole antine and foreigi ips, and the city itself have not 2 juar- een jajured, great care having been taken with rogard to pri wate and aeutrel property. The ‘of Belgrade stated Jentorday that the great powder magazine had been blows ‘up. and that the land batteries had been entirely destroyed, and that the loss sustained by the allied flects did not ex- ceed eight men killed and eighteen wounded. I am inform- ed that th jmmediately after the attack upon Odessa, sailed towards Sthastopol. (Cheers,) | The Duke of Nsweastig, in answer to Lord Redesiale, | stated that the Duke of Cambridge had acted according | | to his instructions in proceeding from Paris to Vienna, | and that immediately after having discharged the duty | confided to him, he lost no time in proceeding on his way | to the seat of war. | Atter a short discussion, introduced by the Marquis of Clanricarde, on the subject of the conveyance of J troops from the Circassian coast to Sebaatanal + aljonrned -- ve commons in reply to Mr. French, Si Panam stated that a telegraphic message had been recvived this morning from Belgrade, stating that on the 22d of April Odessa was bombarded by tho combined cets, which resulted in the destruction of the lin bat- teries in the Lower Sound, the Outer Mole, and all the Russian ships within the Outer Molo—the town itself ba- ing spared. The loss on the part of tne combined fleets amounted only to cight killed and eighteen wounded. | cama NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SBA. In the House of Lords on the 5th of May, the Marquis of Craxvicanpe withed to know whether the government had received any further information or reports from our officers in the Black Sea with relation to the opera- tions on the eastern const of that sea? There had been a distinct intimation made to Parliament, that, after the mareacre at Sinope, orders had been given to our admi- ral commanding on’ that station effectually to prevent the recurrence of any such disaster, by confining the Tussian fleet entirely to Sebastopol, The expression used by Sir James Graham on the subjoct had been, that no Ry ian ship of war should be allowed to navigate the I a. Yet it had since appeared, in total contradie- tion to this intimation, that seven Russian rhips of war and a number of Ruasian transports had been permitted, without impediment, to proceed from Sebastopol to the Russian forts on the Circassian coast, and to with- draw thence the troops which had been garrisoned in ¢ forts, to the number, according to the Ruseian re of five thousand men; bat he would take the real number at one-half of that statement, and 00. It appeared to him thgt 1m effecting this with- drawal of 2,500 well trained and@ardy troops for the re. inforcement of the garrison at Sebastopol the Russian overnment had made a most important acquisition— had performed a most important military operation; and he was totally ata loas to understand the conduct of the British admiral in remaining tranquilly in Beicos Bay and allowing so important an operation to be executed by the enemy, while of the combined fleet mercly a couple of frigates were sent out to the eastern const of the Black Sea to fulél those instructions which, it would appear, the admiral had received, to keep the Russian vessels strictly | confined within the port of Sebastopol. It was very la- | mentable that so emphatica menace a: that conveyed by these instructions should have been intimated to the Russian government, and no more effectual means have been taken for carrying it out ina manner consistent with | the power and the honor of this country. | The Farl of CLaunspoy said that no furt! port had been received as to the operations in question beyond that which Parliamoat was already in possession of. He hud listened with more regret than surprise to the charge | which the noble marquis had made against our admiral | commanding on the Bla mn. It was quite extra- | ordinary to witness the 1 y with which the noble | marquis insisted upon placing faith in the correctness and veracity of Russian reports upon any subject. The noble marquis bad formed conclusions upon that point entirely | at variance, he belicved, from those of the general com- | munity. (Hear, hear.) Nothing could be more utterly un- just than to suggest against the admira! commsnding our | | Heet in the Black Sea 2 charge of slackness in his duties, | | if not of cowardice. (Hear, hear.) The duties which this officer, in common with the French admiral, hal been called upon to perform at the period in queation, had been, | net to goand prevent such military operations as those | | referred to, but simply to make a’ resonnoisance—to ob | serve the Russian forts on the Circassian and Crimean | ccasts, with the facilities for approaching ar various poinis—a step very necessary to | that war should be declared which th | war not baving been declared, it would have been ex: | temely improper on their part to commit any act of hostility, and doubly so when, though war seemed but too probable, there s(ill existed the possibility that the dj between the Porte and Rassia might be amicably The insteuction to our admiral, with regard to ian ships, were these—as the House had had full | ortanity of learning for themselves, the instruc. | s heving been in no degree matter of seo ery of th ck Sea, that | ve directed to return to the nearest Nl understood, not only by the combined fleet, bat also by the Russian officers, | aa was manifested by the circumstance that when the 1 vessels to which the noble marquis had me in sight of a Russian war steawer with a rt in tow, the Russian at once cutoff the | ned into port. ‘the noble marquis, | reburg Journal, had stated that 6,000 | pe been removed from the Cire toli their lordships what important ser- 00 troops would render at Sebastopol. The + gave, however, of his con cteranirg Journal, | st; and Le ps to rely, was by 4 to have been re- moved by on asking the House to consider, if the account of the St. Peersburg Journal shoul prove to be romewhat exaggerated, what might be doneto the combined for of 2,500 effective men to the ¢. In the statements he (the Peceived on this subject he oni removal of two bodies of th hundred and fifiy men. ussion ships exhibited g an ed men and one stated that the op at th Vessels, aud st doubt that the Sampsor ich was armed with six heavy guns, and had two h Gree mea on board, together with the French shi which she was accompanied, and which was of about t! same Cores, could with the utmost facility have sank the | | which are the wilest and the deopest, lead voasel: | stern, which sre loaded at th in they and which did not permit them to acta of hos- 5 Russia before war was declared. (Hear, ear. , our forces should, war having ngiven to Russia, have committed acts of hostility egainst Russian erie He (the Karl of Clarendon) had not the least doubt that Captain Jones and the it French officerawho commanded the frigate by which he was accompanied,and who entirely concurred in the course which was pursued, made a great sacrifice of feelii pens ie awn the nese vessels. He had no doubt they fel it y were avery great advantage which might easily De obtained, He had no ras it might sg ae ae ble to the : of this country, w not always reason ose upon matters of this kind, if the English and Freack officers had obtained a victory and had sunk the Rus- sian ships. Such a course would, however, have been dishonorable to the flags of those countries—(hear, hear)—and would have —_ an advant to the Em- ror of Russia, which he (the Earl of Clarendon,) Roped he would never obtain over the Western Powers. ‘The noble marquis seemed to think that ‘of Clarendon,) had spoken too highly of Degeed to assure the noble marquis it he was not in the habit of making statements to the House for which he not conceive that he had sufficient authority. Some of the circumstances to which he had adverted were mentioned in a private letter from Admiral Dundas, a portion of which, with the leave of the First Lord of the Admiralty, he would read to their lordships in justification of the statements he had made. [Tae noble earl read some extracts from the letter in question, whieh stated that Captain Jones was most opport on the Circassian coast at the moment when several Rus- sian forts were destroyed, and that the Circassians had possession of the coast, and were plundering the rains of the fortresses—a circumstance, the noble earl re- marked, with which it was most important that the gov- ernment of this country should be acquainted before war was declared. Captain Brock and several of his officers landed, and were cordially welcomed by the Circassians, who told them all the Russian forts were destroyed, or were to be destroyed, with one exception. Captain Jones, in dealing with the Russian transports, acted strictly in accordance, with the directions he had received, ordering all the Russian ships to return to the nearest ports. Then, with respect: to the picked troops, who were removed from the Circassian forts to Sebastopol, and upon whose scrvices the noble marquis appeared to place so much reliance, in consequence of [ert hear. e (the Eat this affair; but he and their lordsbi what he gathered from that authentic source, the St. Petersburg Journal, Admiral Dundas said he understood that ‘all the soldiers on the Russian transports belonged to different regiments, which was observed by the numbers on thelr caps, a this circumstance corroborated the statement of one of the pilots that the forts on the Circassian const were manned by soldiers who had been condemned to punish. went. (Hear, anda laugh.) [The letter of Admiral Dun- das proceeded to say that he apprehended the Russians would not have adopted the singular measure of des- troying forts which bad been erected at great expense if | it ad been possible to maintain possession of them, and to support them by sea communication. The six Russian vessels by which the troops were removed were packets which had been employed in plying between Odessa and Constantinople.) He (the Earl of Clarendon) thought this letter would satisfy their lordships that he was per- fectly justified in the statements he had formerly made on thia subject. (Hear, hear.) The noble marquis seemed | to think that her Majesty’s government had not fulfilled the expectations they held out to this country, and the in- | tention they intimated tp the Emperor of Russia, that they would be masters of the Black Sea. Now, he considered that that intention of the government had been most fully carried out. (Cheers.) It was true that the vessels of ihe combined Heots had not been cruising durin the whole winter in the Black Sea, and he was sure, i such a course had been followed, that the noble marquis would have been the first to bring under their lordships? notice the disabled state of the British fleet, consequent upon such acruise, nt the moment it was required to engage in active service. (Hear, hear.) To all practical intents and purposes, however, her Majesty's Govern ment had carried out their declaration, and had remained manters of the Black Sea. (Hear, hear.) The great ob- ject they had had in view was to enable the Turkish gov- ernment to carry troops and stores to their different ata- tions on the coasts of that sea, and the Turkish govern- ment had been enabled to perform that service, whenever they thought it necessary, by the aid of the ships of the combined fcets, Before’ instructions on this subject were sent-out to Constantinople, Lord Stratford informed her Majesty’s Government that the Turkish fleet was en- tirely locked up in the Bozphorus, and that, as it could | not convey troops and stores which were necessary for the reinforcement of different ports without the aid of the allied fleets, it was compelled to remain in that helpless position, By the assistance of the Englisn and French fleets, however, troops and stores had been conveyed to every portion of the Asiatic possessions of the Sulian on the borders of the Black Sea, and no Russian ships of war—to the knowledge of her Majesty's government— had eome out of Sebastopol, although it was perfectly true that the small packets he had before mentioned railing from Sebastopol had been employed in burning snd destroying Russian forts in Cireassia, and in, bring: ing away the men by whom they had been garrisoned. Although the noble Marquis had said the other night that this operation had beem performed with fearless disregard of the alliod fleets, it appeared that the small detachments that were removed were embarked at 12 o'clock at night. (Hear, and a laugh.) Every o1 at all acquainted with the Black Sea, knowing the a vontageous position of Sebastopol, and remembering that the combined ficets had to overlook, to defend, and to watch nine hundred miles of coast in a winter of unusual severity, must admit the extreme difloulyy of such service.” (Hear, hear.) He was satisfied that there wus no naval man in this country who would say it was possible entirely to prevent _one,,.o¢ wiraiar Binnimg back again (laughter) ; bat cumstances did not negative the fact that the vived ficets remained masters of the Black Sea, or show that her Majesty's government were {ncapable of carrying out the intention they had announced. (Hear, hear.) “Having raid this much, he must be aliewed to add—re.echoing the sentiment expressed by a noble and gallant lord opposite the other night—that, as this eoun+ try was now really at war with Russia, he hoped that criticisms conceived in such a spirit as,’ he feared, ani- mated the noble marquis would be avcided. (Hear, hear.) He did not complain of any attacks upon her Majesty's government, for he considered that auch attacks, might fairly and properly be made; but he thought that the noble merquis did not know, as he (the Earl of Claren- don) knew, the deep annoyrnee and the mental anguish occasioned by criticism of this kind to men whose gal lantry and devotion to the service of their country was unquestionable. (Hear, and cheers) He did think that some latitude should be left to men like Admiral Dundee ard Sir F. Lyons, considering the peculiar na- ture of the service in which they are engaged, aad that the country should, atall events, repose conlidence in those officers until accurate information could be receiv- ed, (Choers.) OPERATIONS IN TE ALTIC, A letter from Copenhagen, April 27th, states that Sir Charles Napier, with the line of-battle ships under Ad- mirals Corry and Chads, were keeping up a rigorous Vicckade of the Gulf of Finland, which would render the escape of a single Rassian ship impossible. Cruisers were stationed off Revel, Riga, Memel, Dantzig, Stockholm Gothland, Bornholm, in the Sound, Cattegate, and Gulf of Kiel, ‘co that the whole Baltic Sea and coasts are under strict guard, Numerous prizes had been taken. The same letter says that the report of the abandonment of Aland by the Ruseians reqeired confirmation. The Danish government lingers on the side of Russia; the Swedes are decidedly in favor of the allies. One Swedish Ine of battle ship and four frigates were in commission at Copenhagen, and more were being made ready. ‘A most formicable force of row-boats is being organ- ized by the Russians to harass the invading fleet from the shallow waters. Eight hundred armed boats are already enrolled, | AN the boats of the Neva Yacht Club are placed at tho service of the State. A consid- erable number of these are assembled at Sweaborg and Cronstadt. Sir Charles Napler is so well aware of the formidable nature of this forco that he has hastily ap- plied to iis governmont for a fleet of small steamers that may penetrate wherever row boats can. ‘The latest advices of the state of the weather im the Baltic are — Nanva, April 25, 1854. The roadstend is clear, but there are masses packed in the Gulf. Botnera, April 27, 1854. The roadstead is covered with ize. THE GUNBOAT PLOTILLA OP RUSSIA—ITS PROBABLE RFFECT ON THE ALLIED SHTPs. The following is from the Paris Debats of May 34, on the formaticn of the flotilla of armed boats in ‘the Bal- tie, by order of the Emperor of Russia:— We give some details on the important part performed by flotilla: in the time of the maritime war in the Bal- tie, as is shown by the history of the differeat wars of the eighteenth century, bet ween Sweden and Russia, and ef the last war in 1808. The consts of Finland on the two gulfs are almost ail bordered by a belt of islands, without speaking of the sands and a number of rocks of sharp granite, some above and others just below water. Amidst this labyrinth are narrow, wind- ing, and not very deep passages. Some of them, into the ports and harbors. In order to attack well as to protect the coast it is necessary bave a numerous armament of row-boats, special! ocnstructed for navigating and fighting in those waters. ‘The smallest sailing voescls cannot everywhere pass. The Swedes, and the Russians, who have imitated them, therefore, make use of flat bottomed boats, armed with two 30-pounders, the one in the bow and the other in the breech with much promp- \d their crew is composed titude; these boats are rowed | of thirty men, twenty rowers and ten gunners; each man is provided with a carbine. Whe belligerent ‘party who has nota flotilla con do nothing except in the open sea and in the navigable channels; but in the midst of these very channels large vessels may be assailed by a host of gun-boats, coming unawares through a number of channels at the same time, which can. discharge their guns and then disappear amidst the different islands, where they cannot be pursued. It will be seen that these armed boats aro real maritime guerilleros, and serve as the advonced gufrd of a fleet. By means of them # wat o surprise and ambuscade is carried on; they approach an enemy's syuadron to observe its move- ments und give no fihem; they suddenly attack large vontels by boarding when their enomy is not pre- pared; they keep upa rigorous blockade of a coast or of a port; and they are used for the landing of troops aud artillery on coasts bordered by recfs. Russia, besides hor Paltic fleet, composed of thirty sail of the line, divided between three ports, has eight hundred vessels of wat formed into squadrons, stationed at St. Petersburg, Rots chemealia, Syeab Vasa. The Emperor Nicholas bas just cere, in whieh he holds out great advantages to discharged sailors who will azain enter the service in the flotilia of row boats until the month of November next—that iy to say, until all naval operations are put an end to by the ice. The Grand Deke Admiral recently returned to Sveaborg to or- gonize the flotitls, and pnt it into a state to act with the the greatest possible success. The Anclo- Freveh fleet being in absolute want of a good fio- tilla of very small vessels drawing little water, Admiral pier has just demanded them from the Eaclish cov eroment, During his recent visit to Stockholn, where | | } vring these boats. The flotilfa will be composed fied waters eh moni apa wi lente of the Russians The Russian people, have ol ee ere eS H ie ment railors of its German ces, and the excellent provin Finnish seamen. It might be, therefore, attended with ious danger to look with too mueh contempt on the Russian 5 it is true, scarcely ever quit the Baltie; but in that sea they have the advantage over us of being thoroughly acquainted with it. finite answer to his proposals. At @ sireé given by Gen. Baraguay d’Hilliers, General Klapka was an invited est, but on his entering the room all the Austrian officers Itis stated that the British government has recom- mended the Porte to enrol a legion. SERVIA AND MONTENEGRO. Mexyoeeces were current to theeffect that the Aus- trians entered, or were preparing to,enter, Montene- gro, but the rumors had no guaranteod authenticity. Scutari correspondent of the Post states that oe ripen rete were the Mon- : ‘summons peop! Daniel het efacte, dedaoed wat agntomn tarot Eats ties on the 19th near Sliva, on the road to Nick- sich. Two hundred under the cam- mand of the Voivode George Turkish convoy of provisions and ammunition, which was on its way from Nicksich toGrahovo. A Turkish detachment came to the rescue and agate Taangis nateiseesl apres: smseetnaliny Nosen "ta creat a bensal al 5 movement of troops from Bobemia and Moravia to southeast of the empire continued interrupted. * AFFAIRS IN Ringe po ehh pea Hi Prince Gortechakotf |, by order of peror, sign- ed a decree conferring on M. Aristarchi, the ex-Logothete, a pension of 3,000 ducats per annum, “for services ren- dered to Walachia and to Russia.”” Prince Stir! has written to Count Nesselrode assuring him of his bey’s) devotion to Russia, slso recommending to Count ‘Nesselrode’s notice, M. Hurschurski, the Raiden Consul. General at Bucharest. Stirbey, it appears, did accept from Russia the pension of 12,000 ducats, which he in- formed the Porte he had refused. ‘The Russians bave deprived the Walachians of every deseription of weapon—even of sythes aad axes. The Paris correspondent of the Paris Constitutionnel, saw twelve Polish officers shot near Bucharest. One of the officers war a colonel, and they were accused of an intention to desert to the Turks. THE GREEK CONSPIRACY IN TURKEY. ‘The recently discovered Greek conspiracy, of which the Russian emissary, Baron Oelsner, was one of the prime movers, was a formidable affair. ’ The plan was to raise a host of some 60,000 Greek conspirators in various parts of Turkey, who, at a given hour, were to put their Tarkish neighbors tothe sword. The principal blow was to be struck at Constantinople, and the further direction of the revolt was to be entrusted to an English adventurer, named Plantagenet Harrison. This Harrison, we believe, served in some of the Central American States. Oelsner, who, during the very time he way organizing the conspiracy, was receiving 1,000 piastres a month as a Turkish Any), Wa weak ‘enough to confide the knowledge of ‘his schemes to a physician named Aska, who at once betrayed him to the Turkish authori- ties.’ One of Oelsner’s accomplices was Constantinu, master of a Greek vessel, who was in correspondence with M. Metaxa. Constantinu had undertaken to find forty Greek captains who would engage to convey arms and ammunition to Constantinople, and to assist in the work of death. A Col. Bobinianoff was the middle man between Oclener and Gortschakoff. THE GREEK INSURRECTION. BATTLE BETWEEN THE TURKS AND GREEKS—THE LATTER ROUTED WITH MUCH LOBS. On the 25th ult. Arts was taken by the Turks, and three thousand Greek insurgents under Kara’ were defeated by the Turks under Osman Pacha. Many Greeks attempting to join the insurgents have been The the taken by the French ships, and have been delivered over to Fuad eifendi. “An attempted insurrection in Samos had failed. Another letter from Corfu, published in the Paris Moniteur, mentions further particulars. Arta, it says, the principal centre of the Greek insurrection, was taken on the 25th ult. by the Ottoman troops, under Osman, after a combat of fifty minutes. The insurgents, 3,000 strong, under the command of Tsavellas and Karaiska- ki, left 150 dead. The number of their wounded is not known. Tsavellas’ [eri secretary was among the killed. Fuad Effendi was prosent at the action. Yet another account, wi it confirms the capture of Peta, near Arta, also announces the retaKing, by the Sultan’s troops, of the town of Metzovo—a very impor- tant position—for it commands the principal pass over the Findus mountains, ‘between Epirus and z The inhabitants of the city are entirely Christian, and are mostly wealthy. — The f allege that they were induced to throw oi ir allegiance to Turkey by the representations of Signor Rosetti, the Greek Consul, who has just been ex- yelled from Janina. No sooner had they done this than the Greek General, Grivas, came to ‘‘ protect’? them, ard commenced his protection by teehee) 8 contribution of 10,000 piastres. He next exh the inhabitants to defend themselves against the Turkish attack on the city, and shut himself up in some loopholed housea, d shut himeelf (u Hers a ‘Waviig no artillery. When the city was taken, Grivas escaped with treasure he had collected. Peta documents were found on the body of Savellaa’ ry, which entirely compromise the Greek gov- ernment. With the exception of the Pirmus all the coasts of Greece are rigidly watched by the French and English ships of war. Their cruisers are stationed at Patras, Vanet- va, Stylide and Negroport. They suffer no vessel to come out without sending a searching party on board. Pirates are swarming in the Archipel ‘An English brig had drifted ashore on the isle . There was no ene on board, but the cabins were drenched with blood. THE NEW VIENNA PROTOCOL. . The Paris Moniteur of May 8 publishes the protocol agreed to by the representatives of the Four Powers at Vienna on the 9th ult., and which has already appeared. It precedes it with the following observations :— ‘his protocol derives from the oircumstances under which it has been subscribed an importance which will escape no one. The tic which exists between the four courts, with the view of maintaining peace, menaced for a year past by Russia, far from being broken at the mo- ment at which France and England have considered that their interests, not less than their dignity, forced them to abandon captious negotiations, has Lecome strengthened. Austria and Prussia solemnly declare that tho summons made by the mari- time Powers to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, to withdraw its troops from Moldavia and Walachia, was founcéd in right, and that the evacuation of these Prin- cipalities remains the indispensable condition of the re-establishment of peace. By the frank admission of the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, it is for a just cause, for the defence of the general intcrests of Europe, tha France and England have armed. The four courts are, says the means 0} surrounding its existence with efficacious guarantees; that means Ausiria and Prussia understand, as France and England do, the necessity of imposing on Russia conditions which place her for the fuiure under the im- possibility of disturbing the world by a new outbreak of bition. The two German Powers besides have entered into a convention between themselves, as have the two maritime Powers. A single resolution, in fact, would have been with difficulty applicable to resolutions al- | ready taken and to eventual resolutions: but it suffices to remark that the treaty of Berlin is subsequent to the protecol of Vienna, to establish that it tends to the same object and reposes on the same basis as the treaty of London. es THE COST OF THE WAR IN ENGLAND. ¢ (From the London Times, May 5.) ‘The present war is a people's war, and tha people will not object to pay for it. Pay for it, however, undoubt- edly they will, and that very heavily indeed. Soldiers and sailors on all sides are warning us not to risk our wooden walls against stone fortifications. There is dan- er in shallow waters, and wear and tear in stormy seas. wo are advigod to do the work with a strong but quiet and patient hind—to blockade and s:arve out the foe, and produce all the effects of war by a mere exhibition of power, but with hardly striking a blow. All this will be expensive, and is very exper ready. The estimates are now before’ the jenn bed readers, pains to follow up ‘every paragraph of “ Prepara- tions for War” with some. litle their own. We say the estimates, but we should rather say the supplementory estimates; for an advance of about three millions on the ¢xpenditure of the pre 7 has already been voted. ‘Toe supplementary te of the charge of the army for the year 1854-’5, over and above the augmentation #lready voted, is £300,. 000; that for the navy, including the transport of troops, horses and ordnance, is no less than £4,553,731; that for oré nance is £742,182. The total is £5,695,803. This is only estimate, whicl war, and especially in such a war as that we are wieing, always falls far short of the actual cost. Includiug t has been voted, here is not tar from ten millions, which the British public are cheerfully putting down of one year’s subscription to the great work of international police—to the protection of the weak, and the chastisement of the avgreasor. The moncy might be spent much worse. Within the last ten years, perhaps ten times as much has been spent in ill-selected and superfluous lines of railway, which now anewer litde other purpose than to increase the cost ‘and aggravate the inconveniences of travelling. It is true that when we look to material results, in the one case we can point to earthworks, bridges and stations; and, in the other case, all we have to show for it are the ruins of towns and the remains of fortifications. But what we have to look to is the moral result, and among the uses of war not the least is that it warns us to care less for the material than the moral interests of humanity. In this case the moral work is the vindication of justice and truth on the greatest stage and the grandest scale ia the world. A These supplementary estimates are at present in a very rough state. For the army only the totals are given. ‘The number of men voted for last year was 102,288. We have already voted an ineroaee of 25,094, and Parliament will scom Le calied on to vote 14,799 more—making alto- gether 142,776. We cannot send'25,000 to the Fast, and undertake to keep up the force only to that amount, with a lees augmentation, for soldiers are not made in a day, e already voiod an additional charge of £892,470 ; and we shall toon be called on to vote £300,000 more. The supplementary estimate for the navy presents us With come rather startling itvms, for which, however, we mig Mt ha een or Wages to seamen and marines, £401,700 5 vietuals for do., £206,000 ; and naval stores for the building and repair of ships, &., £607,811. But all these items sink into insignificance compared with those that we find in the same estimates, but for the service of other ag of government. Some attempt has been made to glass yader various heads the expenses of — to come to an understanding on the | preserving the Ottoman empire, and of | House, and will | unless they have taken the | little caleulation of | “measures had been ips hired for eonveyanee of troops, incl £106,000.” ‘The precise value of the we do not profess to wnderstand. The coal for steam trans- rh a i ? hb more explanation. £30,000 more for horsow than wax voted before he at to hex the Hike sum more for barrack and shoes. We confess ceehon, oad aback at such items as £72,678 for the 1: partment atWoolwich—supplemental, mind, this session—thesame laboratory asking for£13, item of timber, and £136,263 for mince] Under this last ‘head, the Tower asks for £100, sidering the immense grant of shells, know not what devices we have been this century, it is rather remarkable we should much still to be done. We, however, must pay, and as well pay cheerfully. But let us at least aa are —— to do, oe work iggcting pe phan Tn ro numbers, appears conveyance alone of every British soldier to the seat of war coste about £100, cr rather, to state it more accurately, we have to pay an average of £100 passage money for every soldier we keep up on the roll of the expeditionary foree, including the passage of horses and stores. This seems enormous; and contrasts strongly with the £5 a head for which ten times the number have been carried across the Atlantic every year for the last six or seven It contrasts, indeed, somewhat with the £30 ® man may be steamed to New York in ten and have the best of everything on the voyage. But then those emi sengers, have not nor are they carried over to fee i E} : # % to 4 é i Z ; £ afses it ts, or those first class orses, Or arms, or heavy stores; urbance of & ¥ the dist keep for our purpose. In we must pa) bepefe d the total derangement or the yacket that has ensued. But as we observe that this monster charge of £2,610,000 for the monthly =e purchase of some, we of transports, supposes be matlasd te teat that ernment is able on the transport service, now that the war is actually raging, and likel: rage time, without having recourse packets. Two or three steamers like the Himalaya be back, every month of the war. unce of that war we should do well to provide, now that delicacy need no be felt tor the foe. It i- evident, however, that if we want steamers to do the work, we must resort to some other plan than that un. der which our steam navy has hitherto been built. For the present we can buy such vessels as the above on cheaper terms than we can build them, and such a pur- chase we hope to be intended by the words of the esti- mate before us. eolnersiy THE VERY LATEST. | Panis, Friday Eveping. The following intelligence has been received from Bel- grade:— On the 22d ult., twelve steam vossels of the combined fleet commenced the bombardment of the military port of Odessa. In a few hours they had destroyed the fortifications, the batteries, and the military magazines of the Rus- sians. ‘Two powder magazines of the enemy blew up durlog the action, and twelve ships of war were sunk. ‘The commercial harbor was spared, and the merchant ships in it escaped destruction. ‘The lose of the allies only amounted to five killed and ten wounded. The whole of the combined fleet has sailed from Odessa: for Sebastapol, and thirteen Russian ships, laden with munitions of war, have been taken. ‘The French funds rose again to-day. The three per cents closed at O5f. 260.; and the four and a-half per cents at 91f. 30c., for the end of the month. Paris, May 6, 1864. A letter appears in the Moniteur of to-day, from the Baltic fleet. Sir Charles Nopier was still at anchor, about four miles from Stockholm. ‘The ice was breaking up, and it was expected the Cronstadt would be open by the end of April. Buowargst. May 2, 1854. The Turks have issued.a very tranquilizing proclama- tion. None are‘o be prosecuted for political opinions. Every one is to continue his usual occupations, and it is promised that everything is to be paid for. Three thousand kilogrammes of rice are to be distei- buted to the poor. ‘The Bishop of Krajova gges to meet the Turks at the head of a deputation. Since this morning there is a report of the evacuation of Great Walachia. In Odessa it was reported, on the 28th, that the R= aves ovvaowupur on tHe Zan or 25th. Beruw, Friday. The resignation of General Bonin, Minister of War, has been accepted. Count Waldersee, Commander of the Federal Garrise at Frankfort, is to be his successor. England. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS—MONETARY MAfTERS —LITERARY FUND DINNER—THE POLE3—LORD ELGIN—NEW OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT. In the House of Commons on the 4th of May, Mr. . Ewart ashed the First Lord of the mibor mong whetherany pted to ascertain if coal for the steamers gf the navy could be procured at Ezakli, on the southern coast of the Euxine, between Constant | and Trebizonde? Sir J. Graham replied that s most ex- cellent and valuable sea-borne goal could be obtained om the site referred to. The British Board of Admiralty had sent an officer to make an inspection, in connection with the Commiseariat of the Turkish government, of those mines, and his instructions were to have the mines im- mediately worked, There was the most confident e: tation that both the British and French fleets would be able to obtain a supply of coal from thence equal to all their wants. Sir J. Grabam further stated that 2,260 horses had been already embarked for Turkey, and the steamer Himalaya had been chartered to conrey 500 more, which number it would convey in one trip. Lord John Russell stated that on Monday, 8th inst., the Chancellor of Ex- chequer would make his financial statement. A bill to anish crim. con. by a fine to the crown and by criminal Indictment was thrown out by a large majority om the second reading. The despatch sent to Admiral Dundas by Captain Jone: a of Circassia, has been laid before Par- be remembered that this is the despatch which, Earl Clarendon said, would contradict = — official account of the burning of the Circas- in forts. The subscriptions to the first series of Exchequer bonds bad been numerous, and considerably exceeded the required £2,000,000. The price fixed by government was £08 158., which, with the ‘of 3 per cent granted in the shape of interest, offers an investment of 4 cent for four years certain. The Bank of England so] not announced any increase in the rate of discount, but it was reported that the resolution to raise the rate was lost in the board by a minority of one. It was also ru- mored that the Bank of France intended to raise ita rate to 54 per cent. The sixty-fifth anniversary dinner of the Royal Lite. rary Fund Society was held at the Albion Tavern, Lon- don, on the 2d inst. Lord Mahon presided, and hits company were Mr. Robertson, Consul General of Eyua- dor, Senor Don A. A. Franco, Secretary of the Mex tion, and Mr. H. Stevens and other United States citizens. In the course of his speech Lord Mahon said-—= | “There were present many citizens of that great com- monwealth beyond the Atlantic, to which Britain ie bound by so many tics of interest as well as of language, the strength of which must, in the end, always ever. power any temporary estrangement that might occur be- the tween the two countries. (Cheers.) As regarded United States, we might i not morely that their lite- ratureand our own are kindred and ‘all |, but that in many respects they were one and the same, (hear, hear,) for he believed he was not wrong in as: : that an accomplished American would take as m pride in the renown of Shakspere and of Milton, and would consider them as much a mark of his national greatness as we did ourselves; and, even if we looked to thoee men of letters who had risen on the other side of the Atlantic since the separation of the United States from this country, we should find that as much plensure and delight had derived from the productions on. this aa upon the other side of the Atlantic. (Hear, hear.) In proof of this he need only refer to the warm reception which only last year had been given, with so mach rea- son, to the illustrious Thackeray, (hear, hear); and he need only ask, if a single Eoglishman who now heard him had not derived gratification from reading the admi- rable pictures of English life contained in the writings of Wash ington Irving? (Hear, hear.) Although an Ameri- ean by birth and by family, he had yet imbued himself With many European scenes, and he (the Chairman) re- membered him with much pleasure as his friend low traveller inSpain, (Hear, hear.) * #* 9 The twenty.seeond annual meeting of the Literary Asse- ciation of the Friends of Poland was held at London,on the 8dinst. Lord Dudley Stuart pre: ere was 3 large attendance of Poles and sym; The following re- and thirers. solution was passed—‘Taat in the present condition of Enrope, nothing short of a full consideration of the just claims of Poland will afford adequate security for the maintenance of the balance of Power therein, and for the establishment of a satisfactory and lasting peace."” ‘The screw steamers Phenix, Capt. Inglefield, ard Tal. bot, Captain Jenkins, left Woolwich, on the 3d., for the Aretic Region, with’ supplies for Sir Edward Belcher’s searching expedition. Among the presentations at the Queen's lovee, on 34 inst., was Mr. D. Daly, on ppotatment as Lieutenant. Governor of Prince Edward's Isiand. The Earl of Ligin took leave of the Queen on tho 5th instant, previous to returning to Canada The Russian prizes Geflon and Ablstrom have been re- leased, having been illegaily eaptured INCREASE OF THE ARMY. Large bodies of troops continued to march ia the 4- rection of Toulon for embarkation for the Levant. An imperial decree calls into active sorvice, on land anid afloat, 89,000 men, from the 149,000 of the class of It is again positively asserted that the French army of the Kast will be augmented to 100,000 men. The tor. mation of 4 camp of 60,000 at Boylogne, wila a view te