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New Series. M. 251

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

From Willuiei"s European Times June 9.

Amongst the most important annoniice- ments of the week were those made in Parliament by the Premier and the I<‘orcign Secretary, in their respective places, to the effect that the Vienna Conferences had ﬁnally closed, and that they had been closed by order ofthe allied governments. Aus- tria before this took place had made another ridiculous proposition, which the Russian envoy solicited permission to send to St. Petersburg, but which request the ambas- sadors of France and England assured him they had no ower to comply with. This movement took place oppoitunely enough, for it satisﬁed the House of Commons that all hopes of patching up a peace on any of the propositions yet made by Austria to Russia were at an end, and that the ques- tion must be ruled by the events ofthe war. A step so decided on the part ofthe West- ern Powers is strongly at variance with the statemeni of Mr. Sidney Herbert in his speech on Thursday, that France was more desirous of peace than ourselves. If this assertion had proceeded from a less respect- able quarter, no earthly interest would have attached to it, and, notwithstanding the ex- cellent sources of inforiiiation open to the speaker, it seems to be strangely at va- riance with the recent acts ofthe Einperor, —with the substitution of Pelissier for Canrobert, and with the new and awakened energy which the contest in the Crimea has recently displayed. Hitherto the fear was that when we had tamed Russia, we should ﬁnd it still more diﬁicult to satisfy France, and the eccentric Mr. Henry Drummond still inclines to the latter opinion, for he declared in the course ofthe monster debate that our French ally would only be content with the possession of Constantinople as his share ofthe prizes of the war.

We know so little of what passes in the pro- vinces of Russia,—-so little, in fact, is allowed to transpire,——that implicit reliance can never be placed on accounts profcssedly circumstantial. A Belgian authority, however, states, that the disturbances in the Ukraine, so far from being subdued, are daily spreading. and that armed bands, amounting to 20,000 or 30,000 men defy the (lovcriiincnt, and that the insurrection is certain to rainify still more extensivel . it is suggested that, if the allies gave a litt e assist- ance to this ll-ainc, it would spread far and wide amongst the motley tribes which Russia holds in her iron fettcrs.

Our occupation of the Sea of Azolf begins already to tell in Circassia, for we learn that the Russians have evacuated Tou'uk Kaleh,and were concentrating at Anapa. ‘very day will shew more clearly the desperate pinch to which we have reduced Russia by cutting otlthe sup- plies which fed both her armies.

An interruption of the telegraphic wires be- tween Varna and Balnklavn during two or three days of the present week has prevented the re- ceipt of into ligonce from the Crimea; but the conimunicatioii is again open, an Lord Pan- murc has uviiildd himselfofit to announce the commencement on the 6th, of the third bom- bardment ol' Scbastopol. The telegraph has already put us in osscssion of the results of the expedition to ertcli, the terriﬁc ﬁghts be- tween the French an the ussians on the nights of the 22d and 23d ult., and the advance of the army to the Tchcrnaya. These great events, even when narrowed to the compassofa summary, a pear implosing and even grand; but read by the ight oft a detailed accounts which have just come to band,they swell out to amag~ iiitudc unsurpassed in grandeur, heroism and skill, hyunytliing which transpired since the invasion of the Crimea.

Preparations are already making at Boulogno for the reception of her Majesty and Prince Al- bert, who,itis believed, will visit the French Emperor and his Queen in the early part of

August, immediately after the prorogation of Parliiimciit. At Boul0gnc,thc English Sovereign and her Consort will be received by Louis i ii- poleoii and the Empress, and a review one grand scale will take place immediately after tholunding. Itis understood, that the Royal

arty will remaina day or two at Boulogne

efore proceeding to the French metro olis. Of course,the interest in Paris to see the i1 ustrious English visitors cannot fail to be great. Hither- to, the French exhibition has not attracted across the channel so man of our nation as might have been anticipate , partl owing, pro-

ably, to the unfavorable nature 0 the weather for holiday making; artly, also, to the exhibi- tion itself being de'cient in the attractions which it would have possessed but for the war; and partly, no doubt, to that impelling power —fiishion, bein wautin to compensate for these unavoidab e drawbacks. But the fact of English royalty making a paciﬁc descent on the shores of France, to enjo a scene which is common to all, whether rich or poor, cannot fail to act like a charm in dispelling the tardi- ness which has been hitherto evinced in so porting an undertaking which has, after a , much to recommend it. and which would on- questionably have vied with the Hyde-park exhibition, if the circumstances of the two countries for the display had been equally favorable.

Of course,in connexion with the termination ofthe Vienna Conferences. comes the question of Austrian sincerity, and opinions, both in Parlia- ment and beyond its walls, are divided respecting our losses and gains, owing to the olicy which Austria has pursued. If the advantages and the drawlizielts are minutely balanced, it may be found that the difference is not after all great. for Austria in the present moment stands between

Russia and Constantinople, and thus enabled Omar Pucha to proceed to the Crimea with tie Turkish troops. in fact, but for the engagements ' which Austria has contracted with the allies and

fulﬁlled. the line of the Danube and the Balkan would now he threatened by the enemy, and to preserve the Turkish territory frctn invasion would have required the whole force which we now possess in the Crimea. Again, if the indo- cision of Austria has perplexed and disappointed the allies, the rill-ct upon Rusia has been still more serious, for it has compelled her to maintain an enormous force in Poland, which she would otherwise have poured into the Crimea. The indecision of Austria has annoyed and battled the Court of Si. Peicrsburg to an extent of which we can hardly judge; but amongst its fruits may be mentioned ir easy possession of the Sea of Azoﬂ‘, our destrnc%on ol the Russian ﬂeet there, and the

great probability, that we thereby render the enemy incapable of much longer feeding his army l in the Crimea. lfthe enormous military resources , of Russia had been concentrated in the Crimea’ alone. instead of being divided to meet the‘ anticipated attacks or‘ Austria, our conquests at Kertch, Genitchi, and other points, which are likely to bring the war to s triumphant close, might have been achieved or might not ; for this mncli is certain, that the vulnerable parts would otherwise have bristled with Russian bayonets, and our reception would have been very different tom what we found it. In all this we are far from being the apologists or defenders of Austria. All that we desire to point out is this—that there are two sides to every question, and that, in measuring the extent of our disappointment, we iiiust not forget that, if Austria had followed the i-.x.iinplc of Prussia, the dimensions of this war and its dangers would have been iinmeaisurably greater and more formidable than we found them, or they are now likely to become.

The Post Gazette of Frankfort publishes a despatch from Odessa to the eﬂect that the Russians are raisin batteries to command the channel near Genitc i. which connects the Pa- trid Lake with the Sea of Azoﬂi Another des- putch says that General Oushakoﬂ‘ had at engtli arrived at Perekop with his division four infantry regiments, each 3600 strong. General Urontcheim had also arrived at Perekop with his light cavalry division, the third, con- sisting of four re iments. each 960 strong. Thcso ﬁgures woul give Prince Gortscliakoﬂ‘ii reinforcement of18,000 rncn—a number which

more exact information would probably reduce.

The lmperatrice steamer, used as a trans- port ship, was wrecked in the Downs.

THE VIENNA CONFERENCES.

Vii-:.\'N.i, June l.——Ycstei-day evening the negative answer of the Western Pow- ers to the last Austrian proposition arrived. Count Buol, Baron de Bourquency, and Lord Wcstmoreland met to-day. It is ru- moured that a ﬁnal conference may very probably take place the day after to-mor-

BERLIN, June 2.—The Austrian Govern- ment has published a new circular, dated May 25, and declares, tliatifthe last propo- sitions of Austria for the adjustment ofa peace be rejected, the policy of Austria would thenceforth be one of expectancy.

Viriiius, Sunday evening, June 3.—-Des- patches which arrived from London last night contained the rejection of the Aus- trian propositions. To-morrow the minis- ters ofthe ﬁve powers will meet, and the conferences will be formally dissolved.

VIENNA, June 4 —A ﬁnal sitting of the conference was held to-day, and the con- ference have been forthwith terminated.

At the ﬁnal meeting of the Conference is new Austrian proposition was made; Prince Gortschnkoﬁ' asked, if he might send it to St. Petersburg, but the ‘French and English ministers replied, that they were not authorized to agree to sncli a step. The exact nature of the proposal was un- known to Lord Clarendon."

THE KERTCH EXPEDITION.

The Times contains a long letter from its special correspondent, who lins accom- panied the Kertch expedition, describing some of the earlier operations.

On approaching Kara Burnu, it was evi- dent that our vessels were engaged with the forts and earthworks at Pnvlovskaya, which guards the entrance to Kertch an Yenikale. Frequent puffs of white smoke, followed by faint echoes and booming re- ports, which rolled heavily along the shore, told us that the contest was tolei-ably smart, but it certainly did not last vi-.ry long, for at I 40 a huge pillar of white smoke rushed tip toward the skies, opened out like a gi- gantic balloon and then a roar like the ﬁrst burst of nthundcr storm, told us that a magazine had blown up. The action grew slacker, the ﬁring less frequent. At ‘.2 1 another loud explosion took place, and a prodigious quantity of earth was thrown up into the air along with the smoke. A third magazine was blown up at 2 25; a tremen- dous explosion, which seemed to shake the sea and air, took place about three o'clock, and at 3 30 several columns of smoke blending in one, and as many explosions the echoes of which roared and thundered away together, announced, that the Rus- sians were beaten from their guns, and that they were destroying their magazines. They could be seen retreating, some over the hills behind Kertch, others towards Yenikalc. The allied troops commenced disembarlting at once, and the boats ofthe ﬂeet were ordered out and landed them on the beach between the Salt Lake, north of ‘ape Kamusch Burnu, and the cliff of Amlialaki, it hamlet on the hill side in the little bay between Kninuscli and Pavlov- sknya Battery. The heavy steamers lay outside, The transports were anchored off the Salt Luke to the south, and the gun boats and lighter stciiinerslay otfthe strick- ing ruins of the Russian earthworks. We passed slowly through the ﬂeets.

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Sir E. Lyons and Admiral Stewart were 0: board the Vesuvius, and Sir George Brown,afted seeing the troops landed, went on board an held it. conference with them. As we anchoree a most exciting scene was taking place to th westward. One of the enemy's steamers had run out oftho Ba of Kertch, which was con- cealed from our view by the headland on which Puvlovskuya and the battery of Cape Bornu are situated, and was running as hard as she could for the Straits of Ycnikalo. She was a low schooner-rigged craft, like a man-of-war, and for a long time it was uncertain whether she was a Government vessel or not, The gun boat dashed after across the shallows, and just as she ssed the Ca e, two Russian merchant- men slipped out an made towards Yenikale also. At the same moment a fine roomy schooner came bowling down with a fair breeze from Yenilrale, evidently intending to aid_ber consort and despising very likelly the little antagonist which pursued her. he gun-boat ﬂew on and passed the ﬁrst merchantinan,_ at which she ﬁred 5 shot by way ofmaking her brin to. The forts at Kertch instantly opened, an shot after shot splashed up the water near the gun-boat. which still kept intrepidly on her we . As the mun-of-war schooner bowls down towards the Russian steamer the latter seemed to gain courage, slackened her speed, and lay to, as if to enga her enemy. _A sheet of ﬂame rushed from t e un-boat's side, and her shot ﬂying over the ussian tossed ups. pillar of water far beyond her. Alarmed at this taste of her opponent's quality, and by the sudden intimation of her tremendous arma ment, the Russian at once took to ﬂight, arid

the schooner bore away for Yenikale again. with the gun-boat after both of them.

the narrow straits between Yenikale and the sand-bank, which runs across from the oppo- site land, a great number of un-boats and small craft were ’visible, and as the English gun-boat ran up towards them a Russian battery opened on her from the spit on which the town is situate. One of her consorts, how- ever, which had followed her earl in the chase, was now close at hand, an the un- boats dashed at their enemies, which tac ed, wore, and ran in all directions, while the gun- boats chased them as a con e of h::w_ks would harry a flock of larks. 'lhe action with the forts on the sandbank began to take part in the unequal contest. Sir Edmund Lyons, however, soon sent oﬂ‘ the light steamers and disposable gun-boats, to reinforce the two hardy little fellows, and the French steamers also rushed up to the rescue. The batteries on the sandbank were not silenced without some trouble, but at ,last they blew up their magazines, and the fort at Ycnikale followed their example. The gun-boats kept up a run- ning ﬁght along the coast till it was dark. At about half-past six o’clock, the batteries in the Bay of Kertch ceased ﬁring, the Russians blew up their works, and abandoned the town.

Friday Morning May 25.—-The French moved off from the bivouac at six o’clock this morning, but their advanced guard started some hours earlier. They took the road towards Kertch, going to the northward, and not following the sea-coast line. Our troops, consistin of the 42d,79th. 93d, and 71st regiments, rker’s battery, and 50 of the 8th hussars, under Lieutenant-Colonel de Sulis, preceded them on the right in the same direction, and the Turks seemed to form the rear and left of the line. Sir George Brown commanded.

Several prizes have been towed down along side of us, but they are only small 50 or 70 ton i-chooncrs. One lar vessel north of the Joujnayu bank has diacen burning all night. The shore batteries are silent. and from one great explosion which took lace about half- past ten o'clock a. m. on the unit, it may be inferred that the Russians have abandoned them and blown up their magazines. There is no si n of an enemy in any direction now.

Ila f-past twelve o'clock.-_'I:li0 ¢0l|lmnl_0f the allied troops are now visible, pdvancing over the hill on which Yenihlle 18 Situate- Kirtch has, therefore, fallen without I blow, We are now masters of the sea of Azotf, and Anapa and Tugainrog must fall when we please.

:—— The Auslrian Gazelle states that tliere_is now it §P[n'.|plt0l'8 telegraphic communication be- tween Sobastopol and Odessa.