as it will cease to be teeeble. The new battery which! mentioned lest night as being forrued in the advanced treeeh, was completed and opened this morning. The tremendous volley with which it eentuteuced,,quite took the Russians by surprise. Each day they have been accustomed to see our I0- ieeh tnortere fire from the same pert of our works, oubtleee, from that very reason never entici- peted further molestation (which, indeed. may be considered almost unnecessary, so well were our mortars manned) from the seine quarter. The end- den end continued lire, therefore, of eight enormous gene, in addition to their old assailants, the mortars, was I complete and unpleasant surprise. At the Irst discharge one of their guns wee dtsnionnted end another injured, end their artillery-men either ran away or concealed themselves, as they were not to be seen Only one gen wee tired in reply, so that for fire or ten minutes our battery had nothing to do but blaze away without fear of opposition. After that time the enemy appeared to take heart, an several one were tired. but it was fully half an hour before t ey made anything like a vigorous defence. Then, indeed. the tire maintained showed that very many of the eiiibrasures which were supposed to be silenced liad merely had their guns withdravin, iind these they brought forward and well manned. For about an hour the enemy fought with great delertni- nation, but from the first they had no chance of being able to maintain it long. Directly it was seen that the Melakolf works were determined to engage our advanced battery, one face of Gordon's llattery, mounting ten guns and two mortars, was directed upon it, and the three I3-inch mortar battery at tlte icket house also threw its missiles against the Round ower. With these, and with the assistance of the four I0-inch mortars near the dvenced work, and several cohorns throwing 32lb. sltell, a perfect hail was poured into our old enemy. As I have said, for s time it was well fought. but our immense shot dieruounted the guns or cut up the earthworks, \\ hile the shell dropping over burst continually among its defenders. Towards eight o'clock its fire had slack- ened considerably, and before nine the enemy for that time gave up the contest as hopeless, and such guns as could still be used were withdrawn from the embreeures and batteries left to do their worst upon the earthworks During thi battery li ht the Mame- lon, as usual, revived from its state 0 inaction, end, to the estonieliment of every one, put forward five guns end tired them continually. 'l‘he demonstra- tion, hcivever, did little good beyond drawing on it, when the Malakotf was quiet, the tire of the mortar bettery at the picket-house, and under these tremen- dous borribs it was soon reduced to its former inaction. Our advanced work then continued to fire at the Malekotf, which never offered any serious resistance for the remainder of the day’. Every 20 niiriates or so two or three ofits guns were run forward and fired, but beyond this it was quiet. and seemed to have no more than 20 or 30 men in it. 'l‘lie result oftliia dny’s llnlllbitrtlllltml line again been most favour- able ‘to the allies. 'l he I-‘I-.igstafl' battery still makes a heroic defence, but is evidently sinking fast. The Rerlnii is still-vigorous, lint on the whole line the enemy's tire is not half that of the allies. Today our superiority has been inucli more tiiitrltcd than ever, the ltussians not replying one gun to our three or four. Uur casualties are, as usual, heaviest among the naval brigade, which, though less than a sixth of the force in the batteries, furnishes rather ever one-third of our total loss. 'l‘lie average each day has been eliout 60 killed and wounded, and about I00 I-‘rcnch. 'I‘o-da Lieut. Death, ll..N., and Liam. Steele, of the R. D . A , were wounded, but neither very scvcrely. 'l‘he wounded are now inti- nitely better taken care ofthan at the former boinbard- Inent. 'I‘lie ttt‘.Il)llll|lIc88 remain sheltered in ravines behind the batteries, in which the wounded are con- veyed to heed-quarters,‘and there placed upon the railway trucks and sent down easily to llalaclnvii. The cases of eniputation and severe wounds remain there in hospital; the others are iniiiiediately citi- barked on board ship.

PIFTII DAV.-SLACKENING OF THE ENEMY,S

FIRE.

A ril I-'l.—l have only time to add it line or two efore tho mailsturts. Our bombardment continued the whole of last night, with much eflect, and this morning the guns again recom- mencod. 'l‘lic lire of the enemy slnckens more and more each day. There was is slight sortie last night upon the French, who are sopping up towards the Flagstaff. It was instantl repulsed, with is loss of 10 or 12 killed of the Russians. There is no new feature in the cennonudc of to-diiy, beyond that our advanced 84-pounrler b~.tttcry is doing considerable havoc to the works of the Miilitkoll. The weather still continues mast unscasonable. We have nothing but dull skies, strong north-easterly winds, and heavy. rains.

Pl|I'.l’.‘.ll.|Tl0.VS FOR A GENERAL ASSAULT.

Pro arations are evidently making for n genera assault. Our shells, on which we on- tircly rely for hindering the repair of the enciny’s works during the uiglit,aro going fast, end will most likely be quite gone by to-inorrow night. The tramway, to he sure, can bring up adoy or two's siippl , but it is wanted for other things, and bcsi as it has been occupied all to-duty in getting up 300 tons of powder from llulaclitvii. to the front. When our supply of shell is exhausted we must storm, or quietly yicld up the advantages our connonadc has given us, and sink hack into the state in ivliicli we worn after the attack of the 17th. l.oi-cl

HASZAR.D'8 G-AZ

will be forwarded to the edvenced trench, near the middle ravine. All the embrasures, gun- weys, and other preparations for the ordnance are oompletedgin fact, two of the leces are already placed. The remaining six will go down. to-night, and the battery opens tire with the rest to-siorrow morning. It will attack only the Melakolf, and great things are expect- ed rom one of such strength, situated within 500 yards of the enemy's works. The allied troops new round Balaclava consists of the remains of the three regiments of Guards, the 79th 71st, 93d, and 42d Hi hlundcrs, with about 1,200 Marines, a force 0 Artillery. three regiments of Zoueves, one of Chasseurs, end three regiments of French Infentr of the line, in all about 15.000 men. The Zouves, Hi h- lenders, and Marines will be invaluable ouxi a- ries at the assault. After what they have done it is superfluous to say what the Guards would do now, but I believe they will not be at the storming in consequence of their sadly dimi ished numbers, and the ma'ority of t 0 men being still weokely after their winter suffering. The ‘British Artillerymen, with the Guards, tnerefore, will remain with the 'l‘urks at Bola- c ava. THE FIRING AT NIGHT. lt is something awful to stand upon the hills which overlook the town and watch the pro- ress of the nightly boinbardnient. The (Jon- grove rockets rush from the French batteries with a. deafening roar, leaving a. light trail of fire behind, just sufficient to trace the course of the missile as it darts vaguely hither and thither through the air, settling down at last with a loud croh in tho Flagstalf. This wild erratic course occasionally lands them outside the Russian lines, and now and then forces them clear over everything into the very centre of the town. From both right and left the mortars are discharged with it heavy painful explosion, and with It tlush which, even at a distance, is almost blinding. As the dull boom shakes your very frame, you hear the shell with it. kind of whistling roar mount higher and higher into the air, till having reached its zenith it descends with redoubled speed and force into the enemy's works. The shock with which it strikes the ground can be distinctly heard even in the allied camp, followed in It second after by the sharp ringing explosion. in the bright glare of which the earth is thrown up like a cloud. The enemy arc replyin to each shotwith many guns, some mortars, ut use no rockets at ii. I; and whenever a pause occurs in the cannonadc, the sharp, quick rattling of the inusketry initkcs itself audible in the advanced trenches, till the recommen- cing roar of artillery drowns all other sounds. Such a contest is going on now, and will go on all night trnd each night, until the town surren- ers or is taken. The casuaulties in the bat- teries to-day have been even sligliter than those of yesterday. The left attack has sustained some injury in guns and works, but both wil be re ircd to-night. Captain Sinclair,.of the Rays Artillery, was severely wounded with a splinter of a shell through the thigh. but is doing well. I believe no other ollicer was wounded. Omar Pasha and stalfare dining to- night with Lord Raglan at heed-quarters.

noon on rut: MALAKOPI-‘ AND ‘rill: MAMELON.

I surveyed the whole contest from diflereut points for about four hours. During the whole of that tiuie tho i\liilaltofi' only fired ‘live guns, the hlauiclon only three. The other batteries fired more or less, accordin as the shots directed against them told well; or ill; except- ing always the Flagstafi, which was hard pressed, and seemed earnest in its defence. The French batteries engaged this latter so closely, tliatiit least 25 per cent. of their shots were not returned. At this point our uliies have a most decided superiority; so much so, that unless the enemy can repair their own, or in a sortie destro the French works, the entire destruction 0 the Flagstaff Battery is now certain. Here, and when the French batteries at lnkcrmnn were getting much the worst of it, the tirin was hottest. At the centre, the port ol'thc incs held by the Eng- lish, it was rather slack on both sides, the Redan only now and then sending forth an awful volley in reply to our slow, steady, and continuous lire.

TOWN DURING Till BODIBARDMEVT.-— RUSSIAN BRAVADO.

THE

ETTE. MAY 12.

new and powerful batteries, which fired beevy vovleye every quarter of an hour or_ so. Their range, however, was too lon , and their shot. though the reached our batteries, eflected nothing. ndeed, their works seemed more used as a bravado, end as if to show that that side commanded every part of the town. On the slopes below these batteries was a dummy camp ol ahouta thousand clean white tents, b_ut;thc most careful scrutiny failed at any ttihme to discover soldiers either in or about em.

MOVEMENT or run enem’ uroiv BALACLAVA.

About two o'clock, it was reported that a force of the enem was advancing by Tchour- goum towards Bole Clove. I rode to ecum- mnnding position in rear of our lines. from which. it was said, the enemy could be seen, and found a number of French and En lish already assembled. . From this int t rec columns of the enemy could be distinctly soon wending like snakes from llIackcnzie’s Farm down towards Tcliourgoum. A closer‘ exami- nation sliowcd it to be an exclusively cavalry force of about 2,000 men. At the some time it was noticed, that the camp which used to be on the heights near Muckcnzic’s Farm was broken up, though, as a blind, the two or three touts, which, I suppose. must have belonged to officers of rank, were left standing. This move- merit of the enemy on BtlllI.Ull.'tVtt is, of course, what we have expected for some time, and what we knew must take place when the active operations oftlie siege recomincnced. It has surprised no one, though the enemy may be surprised to an extent which they do not anticipate, if an attempt be made to capture the harbour.

THE ' EMPEROR’S DEPARTURE FOR THE CRIMEA.

There appears to be no longer any reason to doubt that the Emperor of the French will proceed foriliwiili to the Crimes. la the Constiluticnncl of Monday, it is stated that his camp equipage has already been sent off; and the 10th of May is con- fidently named in Paris as the day on which he will take his departure. The abilities of Napo- leon lll. are about to be tried in a new field. His victories have hitherto been gained in civil con- tests: it rcin.-tins to be seen whether he basin- hcrited the military talents of his house. Various considerations cancer to recommend the step he is about to take. His presence in the Crimea seems desirable, as a means of giving unity to the operations ol' a campaign carried on by the armies u at least four independent nations. As victory will tend to consoli-late his throne, he has every induceinent to urge on the war \.\'lll| energy ; and at the saute time. from all we can learti. the Em- peror is trio profoundly itnpresserl with the neces siiy of riotnversirainiiig the resources of France to be led astray by success. What course the ltlinperor will pursue remains perhaps to he deci- -led by the state in t.'. hich he will find affairs when he lends in the Crimes.

TOTAL [.083 BY FIRE OF THE CRO-JSUS.

The Crrnsus was otic of the line fleet ofiron screw steamers which were built for the General Screw and Steam Shipping Company, about two years since, by Messrs. More and Co., at Blackwell. She was upwards of2,000 tone, was ut on the Australian line, and returned from Melbourne about three months ago. She was then taken up by the English Government, and took out the Royal Wilts Militia, from Portsmouth to Corfu. On disem- barking the troops there, she was ordered to hlalta, where she arrived on the 3d of April, and on being cooled. proceeded with other transports to Spezzia, for the purpose of convey- ing the Sardiuiun troops for service in the tfriiuea. She was then ordered to Genoa, and in this course of Monday the first detachment of the army, comprising the stall, 37 ofliccrs, and 20‘.l rank and tile, embarked oti board. She elm shipped 25 males, and it large quantity of stores and ammunition. On the following ('l‘in-.-rl.iy) morning she took her departpre for Constantinople. The other vessels which the Government had placed at the disposal of the Sardinian authorities for the conveyance of the contingent, and it is reported took their departure tor the East about the same period, were her .\lajesty’s ship Retribution; Jason, No. 84 (sister ship of the Croesus); Fancn, No. 74 . Cleopatra. No. 137; llyduspea, No. 9, and llarkaiway. According to the lirref accounts that have been received of the loss, it appears

that the tire broke out amongst the stores, d

This portion ol' the day was bright and clear. Every part of Sobastopol, even to the north; side, could be most distinct] seen even with’ tho risked eye. The works round the lllatlakolf were full of soldiers, who almost treated our fire with perfect contempt, lounging about in tho ciiibrasiires, and scarcely inoving when the shells dropped amongst tlicni. Some of those follows paid for their tonicrity with their lives, and the enemy their generally retaliated with one gun. Sonic of tlic liouscs in tho toivn, which liaro liitlicrto escaped \vit'ioiit rlaiiiatgv, t.i-«lay sliowotl distinct l.l‘:tt:t)S of wlwrc fil'..l‘.'l_\' slicll li.irll'allcn. Sriltlii-rs wore in tho strectr

ltaglaii is busy cvsrywlicro riding and r-onsiilt- ing with tho engineers, g-.-nerals, and the prin-, cipal ollicers of the army. Caiirobcrt socnis. nevor oil‘ his horse. To-do between 500 and

600 scaling ladders arrived at the comp, and

ii ip.ir.:ntl_y iincoiiccriiml. and ii. .~.nall st:-niiicr plivd to and fro itcross tho liarlmiir. On tho north side of tlio liarboui-, especially on the heights facing lnkcrmann, there were several

shortly after the ill-feted ship had left Genoa. and so rapid was the work ol destruction, that all attempts to stay the progress of the llaint-s or save the vessel proved fi-uitlcss. ller con- dition being tll)§0|'VEtl, the other U't|Yi.i,'itlI'l8'F('.‘lIt their boats to her aid. and, with tilU\i', lu-zo_n£‘- ing to the (Yrrnstis, tho vrliolc ol tho soldiers and crew of tho burning ship were iuiws-1'\-‘ll.

with the t‘Xt‘l!')ll0ll of six ol lllt.‘ timvi-~ owl oisc, sailor. This is the thin‘. s‘.-..r~.,:vr t?..- r-rvii-pony li-.i\'t! l0.‘4t within the l.l.‘ll. t_‘.\‘n !‘:\~.'|I'l -‘r 1"-‘f ‘if 1:,-._-, \iz,, tlm (_‘r-wsii.-:iii.l tl.t.- ;‘il:'.tii'Hi'|-*. ‘v ' \“l| ,,-us rl:-struv«‘tl wliilii l\lI:1( in Mt‘ tlfj *l'*=‘l< 1|‘- S ittt.lH|ml‘liir‘. and tlll~.‘y~ll'I‘ .\:Il-‘ll. ":"¥Tl‘~"‘Hl l"'

the l"l'cnt:li tluvcriiiiiciil, lvv '.'0lllI'. 1l—“l‘»""3 ""’lil' Catliz. Tlru com »any are srverc still:-rc_rs by those deplorable isasters, as the ships. In Ml-

dition to earning "s. considerable .euie ‘ 3 month, were not insured to their value. Crmeus cost £90,000 and was only insured £57,000. The Government paid the company £5,000 a month for her services. '

From the European Times, April 28. THE WAR.

It herdl required the assurance of Lord Painter- start, on onday night, in the Lower House, or thet of the Earl of Clarendon, thenight following. in the Upper Chamber. that the Vienna Conference was at an end, end that l.ord John Russell bed left the Austrian capital. and was on his way beck to Lon- don. Whet was reall new in these explanations of the Premier and the Foreigh Secretary was this,- that Russia hed made no counter pro itions, end that she hed rejected the offer of the llied Powers, either to diminish her nevel supremacy i the Bleclr

ea, or to make its waters neutral tcveesels of II nations. Nothing can show more completely that the Conference from the first was a farce, and that Russia never entertained any serious notions of relaxing her hold on the Ottoman empire. It is now quite clear, that whatever were the views of the late tfzer on this subject. his successor will not desist frcrii that course of aggression which has led to this war—will only consent to peace on such conditions as the Allies may dictate, when his power has been crippled, his pride humbled, and his empire in the throes ofa convulsion. \rVe now know the worst, and every Englishman feels that until this has been done, there will be no peace in Europe, and that the

emon of war requires myriads of victiine before his thirst for blood will be sntiated. Hitherto, the war may be said to have been a plsythin as compared with the dimensions to wbic it wil now expand; and one of the most irn ortant incidents arising out of it will be the part which Lcnis Napoleon must now play in the great game of nations. He is a ut to depart for the Crimea, to returti es s conqueror. to add to the glory of his house, and fulfil that destiny in which he has faith; or to fail in a character in which he is most anxious to succeed—the character ofa successful werricr. Failure—which we ntnet not contemplate, because our fortunes are bound ep with

is—wou|d involve consequences, a bare allusion to which would eppal the stoutest heart. “is must wish

im success, not less for his own sake than for our own; but it is evident that tlis career of this extraordi- nary men is only beginning;end if, as his admirers say, ho has real greatness within him, no men, conscious of such powers, could desire a more favorable oppor- tunity tor putting them forth.- And in truth he must believe that he has these powers. 'l'heie was no absolute necessity for him to undertake the command himself; no motive stronger than that which might be supposed to influence Prince Albert, unless our French ally felt, that he could do the work betterper- scnally than by deputy. He has chosen his owls course, and the country which he represents, whose people admire military glory beyond all human greet- ness, must see in the nephew of the great Napoleon a man wlio,having secured a throne without directing a battle, feels that the surest method to consolidate it is to win victories at the expense of Mnscovito igno- riiiny. There may be retributive justice in store for Russia, for, as her snows and frosts were the instru- menu of sending the uncle into exile, it is within the

coriipass cfprobability, that the nephew may return the compliment by shaking tlirrdynsstly of the R0- rnanotfs, and avenging the wrongs n his inspired namesake. Unless there is less stutfin the Western Powers than we believe them to possess,-—nnlesp its the deadly conflict, civilization, bravery, herdihood. education, genius, and wealth combined, are inferior to the hordes ofa semi-barbarous and ties tic power, whose nobles are tyrants and whose people are slaves, this is a result which some unborn Gibbon may yet have to record in his most polished and pessionless sentences.

The intelligence by the Overland Mail, which came to hand last evening, is not encouraging, ifwe are to credit the essnrence that a rupture with Penis is imminent. Twelve months ago, when the war broke out, we were told the same story, namely, that Persia was about to join the Czar, and break with the Government of Great Britain. It is now declared that the Governor of Bessaraliie is summon- ed to St. Petereburg, and that from the Russian cupi- tsl he will proceed on an important mission to the Court cfthe Shnli. This may be all true; but we greatly question whether the Shah of Penis will be entrapped into the alliance. No doubt the late Cur had tried the same game and failed; and if Nicholas, who was the terror of the East, and whose almost

‘continuous success during thirty years caused him to

be regarded as invincible. was unable to move the Persian ruler, the new Czar. who has to make a name, and whose position is critical, cannot be ex-

uctctl to succeed. We see it stated that the treaty between the Japanese and the Americans was rati- fied on the 21st of October.