The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. frnige x. W. COMMER OF Nassau axo FOUN S78 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—Picrnecne—Beav Fv OF MADRID—M. Drcnarmnal. WIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway Mute Pyre—Cuspraniis. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Rovenks—Raven ov Tur ‘Youre. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Brosdway—Tux Kewrect aan—Hs Last Lact—A Lavy aND GENTLEMAN In 4 P, P,P. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hail, 472 Brosdwey. BUCKLEY'S BURLFSQUE OPERA HOUSE, 569 Broad- way, —BURLESQUE OPERA 41ND NuGRo MINHTRELSY. New York, Thursday, August 30, 1655. ‘The News. A terrible catastrophe happened yesterday on the @amden and Amboy Railroad, hy which between ‘twenty and thirty human beings were hurried into etemity, and as many more were maimed and other- wise wounded so badly that their recovery is a mat- ‘ter of great doubt. The particulars, so far as they could be gathered, may be found on the first page ef today’s paper, together with a list of the killed and wounded. Nothing so heart-rending has occar- red in this country since the Norwalk calamity. In ‘the list of the sufferers will be recognized many men ‘occupying prominent stations in the various walks of ‘fe, whose untimely fate will be deeply deplored. By the arrival of the steamship Hermann at this port, and of the Canada at Halifax during yester- day, we were put in possession of a week's later intelligence from Europe. The news is dated to the 88th inet., and is highly important and exciting. On the morning of the 9th of Augast, the allied squad- von in the Baltic commenced to bombard Sweaborg, and after a heavy cannonade of forty-five hours, the place was completely reduced. An immense confla- gration, consequent on the uninterrupted fire from the ships, destroyed the arsenal, naval stores, barracks, amd all shelter for the garrison, whilst the whot and shells levelled the outer defences. No mention is made of any Russian ships having been found there. Itis said that the Archduke Const.a- tine wished to attack the diminished naval force of Brance and England lying before Cronstadt whilst the bombardment was going on, bat that the Pmpe- ror would not permit him to do so. This operation, which seems to have been undertaken with no ulte- véor or definite vim, has had the effect of exciting the enthusiasm of the navy, land fo.ces, and people of #rance and England, to a high pitch. A great battle has been fought in the Crimea. no the 16th instant General Liprandi, with sixty thousand Russians, attacked the position of the allies in the line of the Tchernaya; but, aftera dreadful conflict, was repulsed with a joss of, as re- ported, from four to five thousand men and four hun- dred prisoners The Russians retreated on Macken- uie’s Hill, where the English cavalry dealt very se- verely with them. The losses of the Allies were not kmown. The siege of Sebastopol progressed vigo- rously, and it was confidently said that it would fall wd the next assault. It was also gaid that if the Malakoff be taken, all the Rassian ships in the bart bor will be sunk at once. Omer Pacha is ordered to the Crimea again. Parkey was threatened with another ministe erin. To Asia Mico: Mars. Active communications were kept cp between the cabinets of England, Mrance and Austria, and it was said that the latter bad consented to an agreement binding her nob 1 conclude any sepa vate treaty wilh Russia. Queen Victoria hod arrived in France, escorted by six ships of war, and was entertained in right soyal style. The British Parliament was prorogued by commission on the 14th of August. The royal speech congratniotes inembers on the Wrench and = Sardinion Miances, the position of Australia, and the general conduct of the war and pubiic affairs. President Fillmore was ntroduced to the Emperor Napoleon on the 1ith of August by Mr. Maxon. The féte of Napoleon was duly observed ta Paris. The Russian officials notice the commencement of the Lombardinent of Sweaborg, but do uot mention ite termination. Le Nord—the Russian organ—aays that we will soon have © borrifying recitals” from ashe eeat of war. The Russian teadencies of the King of Naples had given much dissatisfaction to England and Prane Statesmen looked still anxiously the progress of political events in Italy. Admiral Mourier, of the Danieh navy, had been sent to Mrance to consult with Napoleon on the sound Dues ditflealty of the government with that ofthe United States. The Danes feared that our government wonld precipitate a war by seizing the Danish West India isiauds. Portugal looks with much satisfaction on the rem ported accession of Spain to the Western alliance, and it is thought will herself soon offer a war tingent. = Colonel Hart, United States Consul at Smyrna, died suddenly at Teneriffe, on July 22d. By way of England we have late news from South America, dated at Baenos Ayres on July 2a, and at Pernambuco on 22d of same month, which is impor. tant. Tho Brizilien government had repudiated general treaties heretofore observed with Nicaragua and much difficulty was expected in consequence The new crop of coffee is estimated at 1,500,000 bags" There murt be means of exporting 2,000,000 bag- a8 900,000 of the past crop were still on hand. This mail informs us of the sudden death of General al he & bad surrendered siane Arista, ex-President of Mexico, when on board the steamship Tugos, en route from Cadiz to Southampton. It is a strange coincidence that at the very moment we have to chronicle the downfall of one ex-President of that ill-fated coun- wy, we are calied on to record the death of another, who wos certainly one of the most prudent, honest and trostworthy rulers she had in magern times. We have received a letter from%ur correspondent ivas, Nicaragua, dated Angust 4, conveying an important warning to the people and government: of the United States on the probable fatal politica! re- sulte which may soon oconr to our Central Ameri- can interests f manner in which they are represented at pre t the courts of different States. Al coantries—with the ex eeption of Hondaras—ore at this momeat bostile to G8, our people, and our institutions, wl thia bad feeling fs daily fauned by the offic of England, France avd Spain. break out between the United States and either, or all, of the last paused power, wem'ght s aly find one of our principal highways to the Paci cither cloeed against us eutirely « nds enemies, and the Gulf of Fonseca, with Tivre Tel 48 a depot for naval cruisers that would do in-al jable damage to our trade. ‘om the eRe prevent a wa o the i Tt is clear that perso: or corporation gains should disappear befor state wnperious necessity of counteracting thi things. Before tue receipt ofthe Car ada’s news yeswerd about 1,000 f cotton were sold at steady prices. After its pul om no sales of moment transpired. Wlour was ea-ier and prices favored buyers. orn sold ly at a slight dectine in eprices. Good red Southern wheat ranged from FASo., 1860, to » With some lots of superior ana ber colored at 1914. a Lv2c. White sold at 205 Ryo sold at 1190. Pork wuld pretty y flem bat alichiy selow the t bags iy wu ww co. wrt wire wales Os avoul 5,000 a 4,000 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30. 1855. faracaibo. Sugars continced firm and $00 a 900 | hhds. changed hands at ul price ‘here was a moderate business doing in fre ghta at rates given in another column. The Sort Shell State Convention met at Syracuse yesterday, and a very pretty time they seem to have had of it Robert Kelly, of New York, was selected to preside, and Sandford E. Church was appointed chairman of the platform committee. But said com- mittee appear to have encountered considerable diffi- culty. They could not agree,’ and a double-headed report is predicted. There was a desperate struggle between the office-holders and the free soilers. The admission of General Nye—who is looked upon aa the leader of the anti-Nebraska element—struck dis- may to the ranks of the friends of the administration. In the evening the lobby members indulged in a slight pugilistic encounter, which may have the ef- fect of bringing abont some sort of an understand- ing between the belligerents. The proceedings of the Know Nothing State Con yention at Binghamton yesterday were unim portant. In the afternoon a mass meeting was held, at which Messrs. Barker, Scroggs, Hammond and several other prominent members of the Order made speechies, a synopsis of which we give under the telegraphic head. Late news from India states that the British gov- yernment was about to collect a Crimean reserve force from that country at Cairo, The whig city couvention met last night at the Broadway House, to nominate camdidates for city offices. The following are the candidates they will go into the election with, together with the nomi- nees of the Know Nothings made last week :— Whig. Know Nothing. v.. Rob. J. Haws, Comptroller ....... J. 3. Giles. Commistion’r ef Strats. James Dewey. Joveph $. Taylor. Commissioner of Re- emt oo fees SacobL. Dodge. J. Southworth. City Inspector... ee. 'C. W. Schaffer, Geo, W. Morton. Alms House Governor. .Dr, J. R,Wood. J, G. Oliver. Corporation Counsel ,,.T.E. Tomlinson Loni M. Glover. The selection of this ticket seemed to surprise and annoy the outsiders, who evidently expected an en- dorsement of the Know Nothing nominations. It was charged that the convention was packed by Know Nothing politicians who had failed of a no- mination themselves, and took this method of being revenged. Mr. Sickles’ speech @ the Hard Shell Convention, reviewing their resolutiqgs and address, and deve- loping the policy of his resolution offering the softs half the candidates upon their accepting the hard shel! platform, has been in type two days, and unavoidably crowded out by the pressure of foreign news and advertixements upon our columns. It will appear to-morrow, and, read in conjunction with the doings of the Soft Convention, will furnish a clear and instructive view of democratic movements in both branches of that “heppy family.” Judges Lecompte, Elmore and Isaacks, of the Supreme Court of Kansas Territory, have rendered a decision upon the question of the legality of the acts of the Legislature during the late difficulties between the administration and legislative branches of the government. The Legislature are declared to be in the right, particularly with reference to the temporary location of the seat of government, A bill providing that all local officers to serve for the next six years shall be elected by the present Legi+ lature had pasced, and the elections were going on at the last accounts. We publish elsewhere late news trom Utab, in- eluding the programme of the obsequica of Judge Shaver, who recently died at Great Sait Lake City. The ravages of the grasshoppers had for the third time destroyed the crops, the supply of seed had nearly failed, and starvation or removal seems to be the only alternative open to the Latter Day Saints. The Commissioners of Emigration have dismissed twenty-two more persons from, their employments and reduced the salaries of several of their officera, thereby making a reduction in their expenditares of #400 ner month. This movement has been necessi- tated by the financial embarrassmentsef the com- miksion, whore debt is now nearly $149,000. The Board continues to hold secret meetings, and it is difficnlé to fell what business they really transact. @ The trial of the six negroes who are charged with assaulting Colonel! Wheeler, our Minister to Nica- ragua, at the time his slaves were abducted, com- menced yesterday in Philadelphia. The steamehip America, which left Boston yester- day tor Liverpovl, took out one bundred and thir- teen passengers and $847,400 in epecie. The News from Europe. The arrival of the Canada at Malifax places us in possession of one week’s late news. It appears that active hostilities h. romenced both in the Baltic and in the Crime: Jn the former, the fortifications of Sweaborg bad heen attacked, and, according to the British accounts, destroyed. Sweaborg, as our read- ersare aware, is an important and strongly fortitied island or islands in the harbor of Hel- singfors, on the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland. As to the attack on the jines of the Teher haya, that has long been expected, The Rus sians are growing tired of letting the enemy monepelize all the dashing exploits of the war, The army under Liprandi must chafe cupation, For many weeks, while the Allies have steadily approached their parallels and raised their earthworks, the Russians in the Tehernaya valley have lain perdus among the brushwood, or behind the enormous vatte- ries they have erected to keep off the enemy. On the 10th inst. Liprandi moved forward to retrieve the fault and the disgrace of Inker- mann, We cannot tell, yet, on what particular point of the British or French lines he fell; but from the configuration of the ground it ap- pears probable that the attack was directed upon a point not very far distant from the site of the battle of Inkermann. We learn moreover that he was repulsed with beavy loss after three hours’ hard fighting. Thus has the superiority of the Western sol- dier over the Russian more illus Now that we have en abundance of t the battle of Inkermann, and that there is little danger of our falling into error on the subject, we can see plainly that the vic- tory of that day all, to the been once trated. accounts was due, above superior intelligence of the British and French soldicrs. The Russians were as brave as they, and fou swell; but from the generals to the privates, they knew nothing but the way to obey. The Western men, on the contrary, ould think as well as fight; they could choose 1, foresee a of en opportu that was due by about | English, it appears that the we 10th August . repetition of thé same exploit ‘ At all events the Allies had suffered so little 11 th-—the next day—they were vement ty. It was to take advan- this differ. 5,000 Rus- he defeat y that affair of nber ¢ tha dy to begin once more the bombaré b of | Sebastopol, This shows that the loss on their vide cannot | ween heavy either in men or in met The idea is of course to take ad- Vantage of (he discouragement caused hy Li- prand'’s def and renew once more the at- on th beth side of the town, against which most rful batteries have now ntratned from the Mamelon and the White work have followed tt rare, and nonade on bie 2th rthworke, wili not anticinate that differ Whatever has been euuly from the four others, dine y the Allies in the way of attack, has been equalled by the Russians n works of de- fence; and just as Liprandi is beaten back with heavy loss from the lines of the Allies on the Tchernaya, will the Allies themselves be beaten back whenever they attempt to assault works of which they cannot silence the fire. On the whole, the news is favorable to the Allies, They seem at last to have perdtived that their end can be attained without court- ing defeat and disappointment before forts which they cannot take. If the British once convince themselves that they can abandon Sebastopol without fatal injury to the spirits of the British lion, the Russians will soon eu- joy a monopoly of the inconveniences of the war. Revivas or Trape.—At the rate at which trade is reviving, we may almost expect a return of the flush times of 1853. For several weeks the money writers have reported regularly that money was plentiful. But so frightened were people by the disasters of last year, that even with the fact staring them in the face they refused to believe it, and would not ad- venture upon new operations or carry on the old ones on the same scale as formerly. These fears are now subsiding. We have sel- dom had a year in which the fall trade had commenced with more spirit than it now does. The importations are increasing at a surprising rate; money is flowing with unparalleled rapidi- ty into the sub-treasury; mcrchants are filing their stores with new goods, The small coun- try dealers have begun to arrive in town from this and the neighboring States, and as they are flush, their purchases are bolder and more extensive tian usual. Of the crops, enough has already been said. It seems actually cer- tain that we never had so great a year for far- mers, and also that, from peculiar circum- stances, the war among others, the abundance of grain will not produce its usual effect—poor prices. The European demand will keep up the price of grain at least for the present— and the farmers, if they can let out their sup- plies gradually, will make fortunes. This fall and winter have a wonderful prospect of pros- perity. IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the Hermann at New York, and the Canada at Halifax. ONE WEEK LATER INTELLIGENCE. HIGHLY EXCITING WAR NEWS. ANOTHER BATTLE IN THE CRIMEA. The Russians Repuised with Great Loss, SEBASTOPOL AGAIN BOMBARDED. SWEABORG BOMBARDED AND DESTROYED, Bescription of the Place. PRORCGATION OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. NEWS FROM SOUTH AMERICA. Death of General Arista, Ex-President of Mexico. ACTIVITY IN COTTON. Improvement in Consels, ke, er, he THE NEWS BY THE HERMANN. The United States mail steamship Hermann, Captain Higgins, arrived at this port at 10 o'clock last night. she brings two hundred and sixty-six passengers, and advices from London to the 15th inst. The news is highly interesting. We have received the following from the gentlemeuly Yurrer of the Hermano: — TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The following information I have received from Capt. Ellison, of the United States Navy, late commander of the Jamestown, who is a passenger on board, and a bearer of despatches from Conunocore Crabbe, Com nander-in-Chiet Mf the African Squadron Colonel Hart, the American consul at. Senta Cen, Island of Teneriffe, died suddenly of apoplexy on the 234 ot July, and was buried with military honors by a force of marines and seamen from the United States fag-ship Jamestown. The Spanish authorities and foreign con! attended his funeral. Col. H, was an author of some ebrity; his work of Marian Coffin, and others, are well knewn and appreciated in New York. The yintage in the Island of Madeira hod again tailed this being the yutive year, Much de-titation prevails in the island, from so inany persons, 'n cone- quence, being thrown out of employment, The fame town, flag-ehip of Commodore Crabbe, sailed on the 24th of July tor Fort land of’ St. Jago, Cape de Verds. ¥ On the night of the 18th, a serions a Cremorne Gardens, but which fortuna with fatal consequences. A grand fw i areprerentation of the attack on the Mamelon Fort and capture of the riffe pits, in aid of the Wellington Collage, established for the children of English soldiers who m y fall during the war, was being enacted und . age of the Queen and her royal consort. well arranged and the effect was occasionally striking but just ae the Mamelon as supposed to be captured, the stage erected for the advance gave way, and about 60 h bayonets fixed came tumbling to the ground. prised troops’belonging to the grenadier guar and royal artillery. Lvckily no lives were lost, a though the whole of the unfortunate men recefved wore or jess injury. The West India mail steamship La arrived at Southampton, on the 15th, with 108 passengers, aud 729,000, The weather for harvesting in England sas After a bombardment of forty-iive bh, has been entirely destroyed. agnificent. Sweaborg Not a house of the town Farthworks and batteries are knocke arsenel, magazines anddcckyard destroyed, Loss of the allies vory insignificant in men; none of thelr shtps lost; and, according to Admiral Penaud’s decpatch, the crews are in a state of enthnsfasrn. The following important telegraphic despatches appear n the Times of August 15, exclusively: — is left. to pieces Dastaic, Tuesday, Aug, 14-11 A. ¥, The bomberdmgnt of Sweaborg commence at 6 o'clock last Thursday mofning, and continued until daylight on saturday The town itself is burnt to the ground—not one house left. The dockyan!s a All the earthwor tix i In ampletely destroyed, and bate 7 ide there are very fe Panis, Tuesday, August 14, 1845, lowing despatch was posted up at the Bourse The ¢ to-day — Daxren, Avgust 14, 1865. ADMINAL PENAUD 10 THE MINISTER OF MANNS The hombaeeeoane, THe ToURVTLLE, Angust 11, 1855, © bombardment of sweabhorg by the allied #quadre: has beew attended with complete muccesss ) tuadFons ‘An im conflagration, w “i for forty-five hours, has destroyed nearly all th 1988 and magne zines of the arrenal, which is a complete ruin. Various powder riagazines and and storos of projectiles blew up. The anemy has received @ torribis biow, and suffers am Our loss is insignificant in wen, and nothing whatever ‘ are in a state of enthusia Intelligence via Vienna, dated August 1 sounts have been recelvod from Wa Sweaborg. began on th hardment of proceeding op the sau. The French corvette Saone had arrived at Kiel with 200 Russian prisoners, who were to be landed at Libau, in Courland. ‘The Canada sailed from Halifax at 70’clock yesterday morning for Boston; where she will be due this after- noon, and may arrive in season for her maily to reach A oorrespondent to the Times in writing irom the Bal. | New York to-night. tic, states that the fleet with mortar vessels and gup- The news ie highly important and exciting, both from doats, prepared to weigh on the 4th August, with the in- | «he Crimea and the Baltic. . tention of proceeding to Sweaborg; but the weather pro- mising unfavorable with a heavy sea rising, the order was countermanded. Thay ultimately weighed ‘rom Nargen at 10 A. M. on the 6th, and anchored among the small islands off Sweaborg about 7,000 yards distant. ‘The arrangements were, that the gunboate should an- chor the mortar vessels in position at 2,590 yanis dis tance from the forts, and then together would open frt on the batteries, government buildings, &. Some boats were sent in to sweep for infernal machines. The French proposed erecting a mortar battery on a «mal! island off Sweaborg to play upom the town, and had provided themselves with sand bags, fascines, &@., from Nargen. The weather had been rather stormy. In military circles at Vienna the opinion is decidedly favorable to the allies in the next assault, The Miliary te, which for some time bas hoped and predicted in tavor of Russia, now gives its voice in favor 0: the be- siegers. It sayy ‘the French engineers have now got +o near to the east fort and the Karabelnaia ‘ortitications, that the firet Russian line of defence can hardly with- stand the next assault, Gen. Churleff directs the defence of Karabelmaia. It {s inferred by his st mearures: that whilst prepared for the worst, he ig resolved to de- fend his ground to the utmost. ‘The English Parliament was proronge’ on ube 14th The threatened bombardment of Sweaborg by the al- lied squadron was opened on the 9th instant, and con- tinued uninterruptedly until the 11th, resulting in the destruction of the place. The losses of the allies were trifling; buton the other side the destruction of property was immense. In the Crimea, on the 16th inst., the Russian, under command of General Liprandi, attacked the lines of the allies on the Tehernaya. . A desperate engagement of three hours’ duration en- ened, when the Russians were repelled with very heavy Jorses, Genera) Simpson had telegraphed to the British gov- ernment, that the bombardment of Sebastopol would be recommenced on the 17th inst. Queen Victoria was in France, paying her long con- templated visit to the Emperor. in the arly part of the week au active speculative demand bad eprung up for cotton, and an advance of 4d. a 444. bad been established. Subsequently the market became somew!Met easier, with- out any positive decline. The week's business amounted to about 80,000 dales, nearly one-third of which was on speculation, The market for breadstuf was dull, and a slight de- cline had taken place on all descriptions. The weather inst, The following is a copy of was favorable, and the crop accounts are of a satisfactory THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. character, My Lorps AND GENTLEMEN— Provisions rally had undergone no change of We are commanded by her Majesty to release you'rom | jue Leila schist Pe further attendance in Farliament, and at the same time to express the warm acknowledgments of her Majesty for the zeal und arsiduity with which you bave applied Console remain at about the same figure as quoted per she Pacific, namely, 01 a 9144. yourselves to the discharge of your public dutiex during a long and laborious scseion. ichctoa tat ean nnn e tisfaction that while Her Majesty has seen with great eatisfacti w THE WAR. you have occupied yourselves in providing means for the vigorous prosecution of the war, you have given your attention to many measures of great public utility. Her Majesty is convinced that you will share her satisfaction t finding that the progress of events has tended to cement more firmly that union which has so happily deen established between her government and that of her ally the Emperor of the French; and her Majesty trusts that an alliance founded ona sense of the general interests of Europe, and consolidated by good faith, will Jong rurvive the eventa which have given rive to ft) and will contribute to the permanent wet-being and pros- perity of the two great nations whom {t has )inked fo the bonds of honorable friendship. The accession of the King of Sardinia to the treaty be- tween Her Majesty, the Emperor ofthe French, and the Sultan, has given additional imp rtance and strength to that alliance, and the efficient force which His Sardinian Majesty has sent to the seat of war to co-operate with the allied armies, will not fai !to maintain the high reputa- tion by which the army of Sardinia has ever Yorn detin- ished, eer Majesty has commanded us to thank you for bav- ing enabled her to avail herself, as far as his been foun: to be required, of thove patriotic offers of extended se Vice which she has received froma the militia of the United Kingdom, and for the means of reinforcing her brave army in the Crimea by an enlistment of yoluntesrs from abroad. Her Majesty acknowledges ‘ith satisfaction the mea- sure which you have adopted for giving effeet to the con- vention by which, in conjunction with her ally, the Fia- peror of the French, she has made arrangements for assisting the Sultan to provide the means which are no- essary to enable him to maintain in efficiency the Tark- |.» ish army, which has so gallantly withstood tho assaults |” of its enemies. , Her Majesty, in giving her assent to the bil! which you presented to her for the socal management, of the inetropolis, trusts that the arvangements provided IMPORTANT OPERATIONS IN THE BALTIC. THE BOMBARDMENT OF SWEABORG—DE- RIPTION OF ITS LOCATION, DEFENCES, ETC., ETC, The announcement that the allied ficet in the Baltic had destroyed Sweaborg, was taken out by the Hermann; put the Canada brings subsequent details which modify the firet accounts. The despatch of Admiral Dundas is less highly colored shan that of the Freach Admiral, and is as follows:— Orr Swranons, Aug. 11, 1855. Sweaborg was attacked by the mortar and gunboats of the ailied squadron on the morning of the 9th. The firing ceased early this morning. very destructive fires were produced. In a few houra nearly all the principal buildings on Vargo, and many more on Swarte, including those of the dockyard and arsenal were burned. Few casualties have occurred, and no lives lost in the allied fleets. DUNDAS. Jt will be observed that in the above no mention has been made of the Russian ships, Sn, Prrersnurc, Aug. 11, 1855. n dexpatch of the 1th says:—‘The allied | fleets ‘opened the bombardment against Sweaborg on the ¢th, and have kept it up with energy until now.” Danrae, Aug. 16, 3855. that aneasure will lead to many fimproyements cond The allied squadron retarned to Nargen from Sweatorg, to the convenience and health of this great city on the 13th, None of the allied ships were serionsly abolition of the duty on newspapers will tend to damaged, The British casvalil useful information among the poozer her 3 jesty’s subjects, The principle of limited Kabitity, which you vaye judiciously applied to joint stock associations, will afford additional tacilities for the employment of eapital, and the improvements which you have mavie in the jaws which regulate friendly societie habits of industry aud torift among tae laboring of the community. Her Majesty trusts that the measures to which abe has given her assent for improving the constitutions of New south Wales, Victorio, and lasmania, and for be stowing on the import. i Australia extended powers ef se eveiopement of their gres promote the contentment and bappines+ habitante. Her Majesty commands ue to say that she has been deeply gratified by the zeal for the succes of ber Majo» ty’s arms, and ‘by the sympathy ‘or ber s« vailore, mani throughout her Indian avd Colon empire; and her Majesty acknowledges with great sat's. faction the generous contributions which her subjects 4a wounded, (wo officers and thirty men. The Wrench lo-s is equally trifling. Advices from Konigsberg state shat when the attack on Sweaborg began, the Grand Duke Conetantine arked per- inintion from the Emperor to attack the diminishet fect before Cronstadt, but the Emperor refused. Sweaborg seems aot to be in possession of the allies, andas il is not a key to any important position, its de- tion must be regarded as a detached enterprize, not aa any part of any comprehensive @m@pation. Ite sin] bombardment, however, has had effect to revive the spirits of the fleet, and to sat'sfy expecta- tions at pome | Conrols advanced a quarter per cent, and the French Fons (wenty-five centimes, on the receipt of the news. DESCRIPTION OF SWLABORG, ETC. The ctrong fortress of Sweaborg, which has lately fallen unto the hands of the Allies, is the mo t important con- quest yet aade by the naval forces in the Baltic. It mmmands Helsingfors, the principal -eaport town in Finland, and the capital of that Ducl and fs situated oppotite and within a day’s sa Ruseia proper ov me He jesty comm: thanks for the reaoiness and 2 provided the necessary supp! in which her Majesty is eng: ial ave ab hyoa h a the y Her ments the ses ¥ it has be sary to n YY The forts of Sweaborg (or, in the Finnish tongue, ple, bat acknowledges the mm with whien you | |Neaborg’’) were built for the defence of the harbor of av ed the weight of these burdens by the inired | gry ince = : ; arrangements which you have wade for provid ri elvingfors and they cover seven pmall islands. The supplies . fortifications mounted three hundred cannon, with bar- MS Loae ae » racks and enkemates for @ garrison of 12,000 men, The Cee cat int the wudeavors whith, sa | *tteneth of this fortress Ja such that tt has been termed conjunction with her ally, the Emperor of the Preach, | theGibraMar of the North, The original fortress was she mace at the recent confer at Vienna to bring | erected by Count Ehrensvacrd, Field Marshal of Sweden, the war to a conclusion on honor of the allies and w Europe, have proved ineffectual. But, having tailed, no other course ia left to her Majesty to prosecute ‘the war with all possible d her Majesty, relying upon the support of famcz manly spirit an’ an of hes peopl the never failing courage of her army and whose patience under suifering and whose . paw durance ber Majesty bas witnessed with adm: the steadfast fidetity er allies, and, ab the justiceof her cauge, hambly pute ts Alniighty Disposer of events for euch an contest in which aly pe the blessings of a On your return to your rm little lew by the command of Gustavus the First; it was de: in the Ruselan war, and a Swedish army under € Levenbaupt #nrrendered by capitulation w the Russians. The last stone of the new citadel was laid in 1758: and after the conquest of Viborg and Ingermania by Peter the Gveal, {hin fortreay way the last rampart of Sweden inet the Russians, and the rallying point of the troops ed ant nd iwo months after Admiral Cronsta: é the place with 1,500 men and two frigat hough well furnished with every 1 eoret of this capitulation, without example history, was never known, It has now fallen into the | horde of the Allies—or, rather, they have destroyed ft by mbarcmeat, lond iy divided into eight circies or Laus, and Swea, ssituated in tho division called Nyland; 2 we have above, it is the outpost of Helsingfore, whieh is rituated om a tongue of land in the Gulf of Finland, with about 16,000 inhabitants. Helsingfore lice in latitude 60 , 42 ec. Ns, longitude 2 deg., 57 min, 80 the mouth of the Vanna, alout 180 miles W Tetersburg. The town is, historically apeak- paratively of modern creation, having been by Gustavus Vasa in the sixteenth century ; its from a colony of the province of Hel:ingland, which had Seen established im the neighborhood for entavies, In 1639, however, the town changed ¢, and tho inbabitents moved their wooden houses neorer the seashore, and on the spot where Helsingfrs now stands; war, plague, famine, and fire ravaged it, each in its turn, and the end of a century found it with nly a population of 5,000 souls, At the present mo- ment it numbers 16,000, exclusive of the garrison. Tho Russians have greatly angmented and improved Helsingfors ince it ci into their posession, wore particulary since the year 1819, when i: be- you the wesfare and hap, of whi and the e we do, in Her Maje commands, prorogt day of October nex Parviament {3 ace day of October this Parliament to T to be then here holde ned to Ta! News from South DEATH OF GENERAL ARISTA, By the steamship Ax the night 1th instant, Ayres, July 2; Montevideo, Bahia, 19th; Fernambuco, rifte, August 4; Madeira 5th Th jamonds, va 1 Buenos Ayres wo learn thot the enc Colonel Mitre with the Indians was un Minister of War had returned to the tela, the Minister of Government, had r Dr. Alsuma, The Bra 5 the treaties with Nicaragua, and furthe came the capital of ind; the removal to it of ess was dall, and iinportet Whiversity of Abo, and the Senate, after the thay 5 ngumptl nm. E: fon of that tow in 1827, also materially in- sreased its importance. The streets are long, large, and laid out at right angles, as in most other Russian towns. ‘The remains of the library saved from the fire of Ab are at present preserved in the University It consists of about 80,000 volumes, chiefly ions of the cluestes taken by Charles the Twelfth from the monasteries dur- ing the seven years’ war. An extensive collection of Fagan al orical documents relating to the history Finland, unfortunately fell a prey to the flames. The number of studente who matriculated at the University at Helsingfors In the winter term of 1861, was 491, The celebrated Arabian scholar and traveller, Prof. Wallin died lately at this Tnive Imports we with the exception of th actions had taken place in coffee. was to an average extent. for 90 da: ve « equence of favoral Furope, a brisk demand had sprang advanced, Stocks on hend were insig plies were hourly expected. Regn bad taken place M sugar at 900 per aroba for superior browns, 10 for whites. Froights were ver : Unimportant transactions ha in cogar had ben 2 s the arrivals during the month had been Tn cott begs, which were eagerly bought up at from 6,40) to 6,(06, The shipments within the month nad been 4,08) The barbor is cppacious, and ranks as ane of the bogs. In freights for cotton was @ downward it iat ‘ v4 a Seger tendency. Fachange, vest in the Baltic, and an important trade is carried on ay to 274 cholera hiad « showing itee dof the disoase. T s arriving the: n and fish. Helsingfors is the residence or-General, and the seat of important courts and public ofices—it containe the Senate House, several churches, ond has manufactures of Mnen, sall- cloth, and tobacco. There are several agreeable walks in the neighborhood, amongst which the forests of Stands- vik, the solitary coast near Mailand, and the verdant gardens of Tracskenda are chiefly notices An English traveller in Russia, three years ago, says that steamers run regulerly from Riga, Revel and st, Petersburg, to Heleingfors, which fe a sort of Newport Rossians. He was much impressed ts the following:— Tt was reported that 0 at Brazil, and wa 500 persons had 4 pored cause, All ress id shon dates to the 9th inst, f Mexico, /m route from pton, per Tagua, died sudile ‘the Reeolveao de Sdnbro, which inistration, bad written an article J adbeston 4 when urged to do so, The cholera, which had appeared { reported (0 be disappearing, with xchange on Lo h something done at 54°). with his visit, The Storfureten bore age six hota on a sanshiny afternoon, from Revel to Welsing‘ors. Tt was a lovely ¢ RY THEO evening when we approached the celebrated harbor, NEWS BY THE CANAD\. creat g remot {Be foriress of Sweaborg, which The royal mail steamship Canada, Capt. Sie, orsived | merits ite title of tho “impregnable,” and the Ra at Helifex, on rowe for Boston, at ‘our o'clock yeuterday ia well aware that ho possesses, ip thie granite foe 3 wel more valuable than tho finest fn his dia- morning. , M gray-brown rocks, the red-brown woolen brings Liverpool d f Saturday, the 18th Howes, planted upon it with wilitary regularity, tie ‘twente ca Riten y the Pacific, Jorg cannon which peep out from the embrasures, a large hut which has been covored with a roof, aud 40 forma Dall houre, balf-ship—all these are well adapted to a bound to Uiverpoo?; 224, lat. 51 | trea, hut ‘at the same time make ry eh steamer bound east, supposed to n, that the traveller 's gind to es nto the inner (nthe 19th, off Cork Harbor, passed a steamer, eup- pored to be the Auanti 11, lon. 24 10, passed ) e the As lat. 4 7 ‘ camer | Warber cut of reach of the many p ahd aperoath be the Ania; 25th, lat. 48 07, lon. 47 42, pasuod a cteamer | Wber Cot ol Wilt a ti boo nd east, he Balt at. 66 06, lon J . . ” . . . , . Heavy explosions and , 1 Ops Gun y te 3 titi oy AB fw handsomely built, irregn en-Hh ts $00, ob alee the Petersburg tar! . As the sea bathing is pre-eminently ured by Fetereburgere, and the town ves ite rapid growth to them, it is natural that the bathing ostablish- vient, in whore raloon a quantity of artiticial mineral ‘eater is ewallowed each morning, should be arranged in an elegant style, In return for it, the pes ladies of Pe- {ereburg wake thelr appearance, who des themselves — cn grande toilete three times a day. Through these visit- ers from the grand Sybaritie barracks, Helsingfors bas jost a great feature, namely, the extracroinary cheap- ness which formerly distinguished it; tor the Peters- Munger considere everything bad which does not cost « high price. The gardens and plantations in the vicinity of the town are tastefully out, and many ¢legant villas adorn the esplanade. From the ga:cens @ path leads to a rock, whence a fine et over the harbor- ‘can be enjoyed. When we we found some stu, dents from Lorpat si the quarte: of ‘Lorelei,’ which bad lost none of its beauty at th's di-tancé from the Khine. ‘The Gulf of Finland is about fifty miles wice betwee Sweaborg and Reve}, and the first named place is the centre of @ perfect archipelago—about iwenty little “islands being marked down on the charts. The new town of Helsingfors is built upon the coast, and since it came nto the bands of the Russians, nearly fifty yee"s ago, DO pains have been spared to perfect its fortifications. It is an important naval station, and the loss o! property by ite bombardment must have been immense, Further than this we do not see how the operation wil be advan~ = tageous to the Allies, It is true that they can command | Revel, and that both places arein whet way be termed ” the Narrows of the Gulf; but it is also true that in ano- — ther month or sixweeks after the bombarcment, they must either retire, or be closed in by the ive, and become ~ ihe victims of a land attack in flank apd veer Lythe Rus~ eiang and Fins. The isles of Sweaborg are granite and limestone rdcks,.~ avs navigation in the vieinity is particularly dangerous. ‘Toe greatest depth of water is fifty fathom, shealing to five, The interior of the country abounds in jorts. Even the high roads are commanded by cannon. ‘The climate is very unpleasant to strangers, and ib seeme clear that if Revel is to be attacked, the work should have been done immediately after the seduction of” Helsingfors. When Napier went to the Bultic, the gar- rison at Sweaborg was strengthened by the addition of 10,000 men, and all the women and chiidrea were ordered away from the coast. Helsingfurs is the best port in the Gulf for large ships, and Sweaborg was considered @ Gibraltar to defend it~ A Russian fleet was locked in there last wixter by the ice. Altogether, it is a very nasty place to get into; and if the Allies have got Helingiors, they cannot keep it. They can expect no sympathy from the Fins; although many of them do not speak the Russian: language, they are very much in love with Alexander, who has studied Finnish, and promised them a profes~ sorship of that language in the University oi St. Peters- + burg. Revel, the place at which the guns of the Allien wilf probably be next pointed, is the capital of ihe Russian government of Esthonia, and is situated in 59 degrees 26 minutes nor*h latitude, and 24 degrees 35 m'nutes east longitude, on the Gulf of Finland. Ii ix very strongly fortified, and in 1824 the harbor was made capable of re- ceiving the Russian Baltic fleet. The test part of the city is that called the Dom, a distinct portion, on the west side of the city, and commanding an extonsive view. of the sea, Most of the houses of the nobility are in this part. There are in all about 1,900 bonuses end 15,000 inhabitanta, alarge proportion of whom ave Germans. There are numeroue public and private schools, a gym~ nasium, founded by Gustavus Adolphus, in 1632, a naval and military hospital, &c. The manufactures are cottore goods, hate, stockings, leather, gunpowder, etarch, needles, earthenware, looking glasses, &. Thore is alio a cannon and bell foundry. Revel has a very considera~ ble trade, which is chiefly in the hands of opulent Ger- man houses, Above 100 merchantmen annually arrive in the course of the season, and leave Léetore the winter sets in, Operations in the Crinien. GREAT BATTLE IN THE TCHERNAYA. ‘The news from the'Crimea is important, a geat battle having been fought on the Tchernaya. The British government received the patch:— vowing dese Varwa, Aug. 16, 1855. ‘The Ruscians attacked the position et Tebernaya this Pies $ at day-break in great force. The jon lasted about three hours, but they were completly repulsed by Le French and Sardinian: Oxp O'CrOcK. ‘The Russian attack this morning was under command Liprandi, with frem forty to sixty thousand men, . ir Josa is estimated at from 4.060 to 5,000, and about 460 prisoners are taken. The los» on ‘the side of the allies was very small, ten. Pelissier tolegraphs on the 16th, # foliows:— For som® days _past,"rucnors of an intenacd attack om the part of the Russians had excited our ettention, and this morning at day-break, they realized their inteptiom egainst our lines on the Telernaya, un spite of the movement of impoxing masses which had been collected uring the night, the enemy were ropuiced wi vigor by the troops forming’ the divisions o: Herbillon, Canava, Fancheux, and Morrie. nian» placed on our right tought bravely, ! Jef: a large oumber of dead on the fi many prisoners. The P. 2 made ussians were in complete retreat on Mackonzie’e Hill when our reserve caine up, ad with the aid of our brave allies, particularly the English eaval- ry, the enemy received a severe blow. Our losses, although much less nomerous than those of the enemy, are not yet known. PELISSTER, Affairs before Sebastopol unchanged. Omer Pacha had received hasty orders to return to he Crimea matead of going to Asia. General Simpson telegraphed on the 16th: — “General Pellasier and I have decided to open fire trom the Fuglish and French batteries to-morrow morning «t reak. t. Fetersburg letters ray that Gortschakol? has orders from the Fmperor to sink the Russian fleet if the Mala- koif fall. ‘The London Morning Post (sninisterial organ.) says ly “We have reason to believe that stirring and hitherto unexpected tntelligence may be looked fer tom the Cri- mea within the next few days.’ It is aupposed to refer to the secret expedition or field ee Re General Zamoiskey is to organize a deverters and Poles against. the Mussians, : land retarae home fick. The Duke of Newones ole camp. Dr. ewerk is cashiered, for wri a letter Pier donitin Times exposing the mutagen of the os pitals, Letters from the Crimea: Lave been revel Pig tt pean camp Lave been received up A despatch from General Simpson, dated August 4 gives the details of a Russian sortie on Worensolt Rant? already known and unimportant. i e Russian General, Todtleben, was ring, and: had recently been carried to ina ie oy tater liad General Canrobert, recalled, bee acvived ip Pranee. General Eapinaseo obtains the ‘commanll of Canroberts vision. . _ SBA OF AZOFF. ihe Invalide Russe publiches, that on July 2, # British gunboat went ashore near Tanganrog, end wae barned by the Cossacks, ASIA MINOR. The lates accounts from Kars say the city was sur- rounded by the Russians and the tirst paraite)” opened The communication with Everoum had been stop, Provisions were abundant, but forage was kearce. kish reinforcements were Being hastened to Fee-oum, ASIA. Travellers report that the Turcomans were cotemitting ravages along the Caspian Seaand Volga. NEGOTIATIONS. A lively exchange of notes continues } Paris and Vienna, respecting Austria's the Pr incipalities, \ London paper says that negotiations have arrived at & point for the conclusion of aytriple treaty, binding Franee, Fngland and Austria not to conclude eny arrange: ment separately with Russia. Great Britain. Queen Victoria, escorted by six al over to Boulogne on the 17th, and France six days, ere is nothing new politically. Richard Woodville, an American, died in Londan from taking an overdose of morphine, probably a>-wentally. James Walker & Co., mannfacturere, Needs, hart failed. The Duke of Somersnt ia dead, een London, niinuance im Wednesday, the. 30th” betog the C , the 15th, being the fit: Nopoleon, thee was o halidey'ta the Boores. The fue wae shore othe full proportions, but was celebrated by the theatres with pectactes and iilominations, Charities were distributed and the sentences of 7,000 nang sa comm uted. Immense festive preparations have been made to honor Queen Vietorta, apoleon meets her to-day, the 16th. it Boulogne and escort: her to Pasie, The Express. wil take oveaston not he presen The = Moniteur will ongtially the condition of the Pua There is again a vague talk of a fasion among the Pourbonistr, and of a contemplated meeting ot thelr heads at Vienna :x-President Fillmore was introdwoed to the Emperor on the 16th by Mr. Mow on. yee ~ the Bourse clored on the of the 17th for tha Qe Fourant-e-tielt per cents, 04.75; Three per cente, to announce hookmaster named Ferret, while presenting a pe- titjon, dropped dead in he Fmperor’s presence. The italian named Fontana, apprebended for following the Emperor to Borritz, has been releared. Africa. aance of the revolt in Tripoli; alo are still troublesome, and that the io the skirmishes with be We learn the cont that the Bedouins Abyssinians have gaged Kgyptiane Denmark, Letters from Hamburg state that the eubject of che Pound dues causes much anxiety to Denmark, and thes Admiral Moarier, of the Danish Navy, haw cone to Paria 4 nAvien and neeletanes of Prange.” No middle conta yo gil ae