HASZARD’S

GAZETTE. SEPTEMBER 5.

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH HAIL.

BALAKLAVA, Aug. 1.-—The duties of the trenches are now performed by entire divisions, and not. as formerly, by regiments in prep tion. The scarcity of water which once threat- ened us has now, I think, been remedied by the su gestions mainly of Lieut. Elphinstone, Royal .n ineers, who a long time back recom- mended tghat regiments should sink wells in parts of their cncampments, where the locality indicated that water might be found. This, to ether with the frequent showers of rain wfiich fall, has eased the pressure upon the main springs, from which, some time back, the whole supply was drawn- The health of the troops in general, from what I can hear, is favorable; deaths from cholera are rare in comparison to what they were, fever being the principal cause of death. At least I may, perhaps, be allowed so to judge from the state of the first division. T e ospital number, under the head of sick, may perhaps ap ear large, and the number of deaths is increase by casualties in the trenches, all of which are in- cluded. The healthy condition of the army, I think, may be attributed in a cat measure to the unlimited supply of hos ital co_mfo.r-ts which are freel issued, upon ‘t eapplication ofa medical o cer, to the various regiments. In one regiment of the Guards, onl five deaths have occurred during the last mont .

The suppl of fresh meat is new daily, or nearly so. \d3getables are in plenty; but all are preserved with the exception of onions.

he Guards have now a general hos ital of their own, which is to be permanent. . he huts which they vecated near Balaklava, on going to the front, are alloted for that purpose. The Land Transport depot, near Balaklava. is about to remove to the front, the present site being very unhealthy.

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ATTEMPTS 'ro DESTROY riia SHIPPING AND rowosii. MAGAZINES IN ssnasroron.

The Paris correspondent of the Globe says :- “ I mentioned a few days ago that experiments were making at Vincennes with a view to des- troy the shipping and powder magzines, &c., in Sebastopo, by means of projectiles and earcases, to be dropped from a balloon; and also that, owing to t e boisterous state of the weather, it had been as yet found impossible fairly to test the merits of the invention. Since then three more attempts have been made to carry the experiments to an issue.

but fortune did not smile upon the subse uent‘

essays any more than on the first. The ha icon was filled each time at the gas works near the Barriers du Trone. and had to be taken down to the Plaine de St. Maur, about three miles oil‘, but never succeeded in reaching it, the wind, the trees, and on another occasion a gate through which it had to pass, tearing it to ribbons. The inventor is, however, determined to go on ; and the Emperor, determined to ive him a fair trial, has ordered that pure hy ro- gen should be made on the field, to obviate the accidents which have taken place, so that a decisive result one way or another may be shortly expected. I was mistaken the other day, in stating the inventor to be an oificer of Marine Artillery. He is only a non—commis- sioned cllicer in that cor s—Ser eant Bour- donne—and the plan, whet er feasi le or not, does great credit to his ingenuity. The balloon, which is to be thrown up when the wind blows from the camp to the town, takes up several carcases and 3-inch shells, which are to be tired and dropped by means of electricity. The plan is, as have said, extremely ingenious, but itis so complicated, that amon military men its success is much doubted. 'ilie Em - tor will be present when the experiment ta es place.” iN'ri:ii:vAi. CONDITION or RUSSIA.

A private letter from St. Petersburgh men- tions that great depression prevails among all classes in that city, owing to the duration of the war, which completely paralyzes all branclios of commerce and industry. his opression has gained even the leading personage of the old ussian party, who were hitherto so war- like and so enthusiastic, but who are new be- ginnin to despcnd. Nearly all labour is sus- ponds in the manufactories, in consequence of the want of raw material, which no longer arrive from abroad, and also from the want of hands, all being employed in the defence of the empire. The produce of the soil has no longer a market abroad, and in the interior business is ata standstill. Articles of the most indis- pensable kind have attained an exorbitant price. Cofiee, sugar, and salt, are luxuries

The Emperor having one da said, in presence of his courtiers, that the no les ought to invent some lan for preventin the commerce of the capita from feeling too severely the resent state of things, and artieularly the bidckade of the Baltic, they orthwith set about organ- izing a series of tablcaur civans, the performers in which are persons of the highest class of society. As these tableaux represent the diffe- rent episodes of Russian history at all epochs, the actors and actresses in them are obliged to make ur-chases of the richest stufis for the suitab e costume. Tableau: vivans for the reliefof the suffering tradesmen are at this mo- ment the fashion on the banks of the Neva, and each noble feels obliged to give at least one of these patriotic pantomimcs to avoid incurring the anger of his master, when no more generous motives exists. The tradespeople of St Peters- burgh are relieved for the moment, but tableaux vivans on such a scale at leugtli become onerous, and something else must be soon invented to alleviate the misery of the industrial classes.

THE CRIMEA.

The Paris correspondent of the Times for- warded to that journal the following private letter from Vienna, dated the 7th instant:— “ The telegraphic news from the Crimea receiv- ed here is of the 4th from the allies, and of the 2d from the Russians. No important event had occurred up to that date before Sebastopol. The bombardment of the bastions 3 to 5 conti- nues, with slight interruption, day and night. The Russians, who return it continually, are nevertheless unable to destroy the works of the sixth parallel, and it is even said, that it has become completely im ossiblc for them to ascertain its position. his new bombardment is effected by the old redoubts, as the new batteries will not be unmasked, till the day of the general bombardment. On all the other

oints of the Crimea, considerable activity is observable. The Russians fortify Arabat and Genitehi on the land and sea side. These two places are the key for the ulterior o erations of the allies in the Crimes and Up or aurida. The li ht squadron from Marseiiles will be perfect y suited to the taking ofit. There is no very recent news from Kars. General Muravieff is at Kouy-Keui, a village to the south~east of Kara, and his encarnpmcnts are in a healthy country, furnished abundantly with water, wood, and forage. Wnllik Pacha, being determined to defend himself in liars, and not meaning to capitulatc, the Russians are preparing to open on the l2th July their first parallel near Kony-Keui. it is believed

ere that Count Buol received yesterday, a

eclarntion on the part of England and France, that they did not wish, by new ncgociations for peace, to interfere with or forcstal the more

ecisive events of the war. The arrival of General Letang at Vienna is considered as being connected with arrangements relative to the opening of lines of march for the allied armies in the Principalitics. It is rumoured here that one of the exiled French generals is expected at Frohsdorf.”

' he Journal de St. Petcrsbourg states that on the 14th of July a unboat, carryin the Eng- lish tlag,a proachefi 0tchakofi', an threw a number 0 shells into the Russian batteries. Otchakofi commands, together with Kilburn, the strait by which the lagoon of the Dnieper communicates with the Black Sea, and must be passed on the way to Nicolaicif and Khcrson.

A telegraphic despatch from Konigsberg states, that advices from St. Petershurg an- nounce that the Russian commanders at Se- bastcpol are preparing for an eventual retreat from the Karabelnaia suburb. A bridge has been ordered to be constructed between Fort aul and Fort Nicholas, so as to secure the communications between the northern and southern shores of the harbour of Sebasto cl.

ODESSA, Jul 28.—' ‘he arrisen of 0 essa, now the hen -quarters ct General Lauders, was yesterday reviewed. it consists of 16,000 infantry, two regiments of light cavalry, and a few batteries of artillery.‘ The telegraphic line from St. Petcrsburg to Scbastopol is now in o oration throughout its entire extent.

\ e have advices from the Crimea. via Mar- seilles. The greatest secrecy was maintained in the allied camps respecting the position of the works, and no one was permitted to ap- proach the masked batteries. General Pelissier was constantly inspecting the allied works at Kamiesch. General Canrobert’s command had been conferred upon General Espinasse.

M.iiisi:ii.i.ss, Aug. ll.--The accounts by the Sinai state that an immense quantity of projec- tiles have been conveyed to the trenches. There still remain some works to be executed. The

which now are hardly to be seen, except on the tables of the rest. The nobility support all the burden o the sacrifices in money imposcdl by the present circumstances, and the number _ of Boyards who will be utterly ruined by the, war is beyond all idea. Add to this the ief , of so many families, who have all to dep oro the death of one or several relatives, and it will be easily imagined that the higher classes of the Russians are not over-disposed for amuse- ments and fates, and yet they are forced by superior orders to be The summer season has not stopped the course of balls and soirces.

Prcsse d’ Oricntstates that 56 batteries have been prepared for the general attack on the left at a distance of from 50 to .120 metres from the enemy. Umnr Pacha has not yet left the ca i-

The Turks are fortifying the Danube. The mouths of the Suliua are intercepted by brigands, and commerce calls for protection. Dilliculties have arisen in the Priucipalities be- tween the Turks and the Austrians. 'l‘hc latter pretend that they ought to have notice given them of any niovciuent among the Turkish troops. Scham i still remains in the moun- tains. liars still holds out.

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‘metropolis ofdoing real service to Poland

elements of enduring vitality or not. The

POLAND.

_ Themeeiing in favour of the organiza- tion of a Polish Legion and the restoration of Poland, was held on Wednesday, when the chair, as previously announced, was lBk_8n by the Earl of Harrington. The Daily News, which has taken the lead in this movement, says, in its impression of yesterday, “ \Ve are not ashamed to say that the result of the postponed Polish meet- ing has deeply mortified us. An op orth- nity was aflbrded to the inhabitants of the

and Europe, and nothing has come ofit. The meeting was called upon solemnly to declare,_that the claim of Poland to have its nationality re-established was indefensible; and that, as a first step to the re-establish- ment ofits nationality, the enrolment ofa Polish Legion ought to be urged upon Par- liament and the Government. But instead of these resolutions, the meeting, after a tedious scene of gesticulation, inarticulate noise and anger, voted that nothing should or could be done, until Lord Palmerston was turned out of ofiice. As ifthe task of pro- moting the resuscitation of Poland were not in itself sutliciently arduous, it was resolved, that it should be linked with the task of bringing about a ministerial crisis in England. The advocates of such a policy remind us of Charles Lamb’s legend ofthe Chinese, who, in the infancy ofthe culinary art, burned own a house whenever they wished to roast a pig.

The truth is, that although Lord Palmer- ston is a favourite with the middle classes in London and throughout the country, he is essentially unpopular, and always has been with the class below them—the majo- rity of which class composed this meeting. This gathering of the friends of Poland could not do otherwise than act as they did, and hence the failure of the meeting, and the ire of the most democratic of the London journals. The whole opposition was pre- viously arranged on the model of the old Chartist meetings, and as the hatred of the nearest relations is notoriously the most hitter, it was in the nature of things that this meeting should commence in ill bloc and iid in all but an outbi'eak,—-as the squa bling at one time threatened to do.

felt. The support, too, of the great morning

organ, which was given so heartily to the

‘i ininistrative Reform scheme in its inci- pient stage, is already wanting. in yester- day's Times, the “ open competitive exami- nation” principle put forward by the As- sociation, is ridiculed in a. half-banterin ,

half-serious spirit, for the purpose, it won d. appear. of bringing the whole thing into contempt, and the article on the subject concludes with this unmistakable sneer-

“ Indeed, we very much doubt whether the

Administrative Reforiners themselves, who have sanctioned this scheme, would like to have their banks, or their shops, or their warehouses filled by the possessors of the

greatest number of marks [i.e. badges of merit.] The figure, the manner, the way of speaking, the connexions and all that makes the man, tell quite as much in mercantile establishments as in Government ollices, and, of course, they would not be indicated by marks.”

RUSSIAN NEWS FROM THE ssa or szorir. Loss ofa Screw Gun boat in the Sea of Azoif. The Jouanal de St. Pslcrsbur contains the following news from the Sea 0 Azoil‘:—“ On the evening of Jul 23, a screw an-boat, belonging to the enemy, a preached ‘aganro; and fired upon the city. Vhile vespcrs wero being chanted in the cathedral, a lar e-sized ball struck the wall, but occasioned no urther damage than causing a piece of stucco in the interior to fall on and bruise the Archpriest Sebotl‘. The Divine service was notinterru ted, and not one of the faithful left the bail ing. At nightfall the gun-boat went in the direction of the point called Krivaia-Kossa, and on approaching ran around within 40 savenes of the shore. On learning this, Major Afiinassief went immediately to the spot with a sotnia of the regiment No. 70 of Don Cossacks, made his men dismount, and sheltering them by means of the ruggedness of the ground, opened a fusilade against the gun-boat, in order to prevent its crew from pushin it off. The enemy directed a cannonade a ainst our Cos- sacks, but his fire was not 0 long duration. Owing to a violent east wind lowering the level of the water, the boat got more and more aground, and completely settled on its side. (Inc of the enemy’s large steamers then drew near to lend assistance, and approaching very near to the coast, opened a violent cannonade against the Cossacks, and made every possible

'l‘hc Administrative Refcrmers fared bet- ter on the same day, at the London Tavern, in the city. Previous to the speaking, a long report was read relative to the mode in which the Executive Government should test the capabilities of candidates for official situations, accompanied by suggestions of various kinds for the extinction ofpatroriage, and ofotlicers, the utility of which is more than questionable. Mr. Rowland Hill is in favour with the Administrative Reformers, who are of opinion, that if the oflice of Post- master-General be not abolished, it ought to be conferred on him, Sir \Villiam Molesworth is also in favour with these progressionists, because he has distiiiguisli- ed himself in the field of colonial improve- ment; and the ncwjudge, Mr .VVillis, was declared to be the “right man in the right place.” This kind of criticism may appear invidious, but it cannot fail to make an im- pression on the popular mind, and, to some extent, press forward the executive. Just in proportion as the new Association marks itg sense of discreet appointments, will it be a le to effectually resist bad ones, by con- centrating in agivcn direction, an amount of opinion which was previously unheeded, because it had discovered no adequate mode of expression. The Association has now arrived at a critical stage of its career, and a short time will test whether it has the

political has been combined with the ad- ministrative reform movement; Parliament is to be reformed as well as the public oificers. We saw from the first that it must come to this, but the stage has been reached sooner than we anticipated. At the some time. we miss in this new Associa- tion '.ho presence of the earnest, able, and indefatigable men whose talents and energy have successfully worked out modern popu- lar movements. in Ireland, O’Connell and Sliiel, in England, Cobden and Bright, were the types of model demagogues with heads to scheme and hands to execute their conceptions, and there iiiny possibly be

effort to save the stranded boat. in the mean- time Lieutenant-Colonel Demianofl, commander of the No. 70 Regiment of Cossacks, had brought two more of his sornias to Krivaia-Kossa, an making them dismount, opened such a fire of musketry that the enemy could not keep at work on the deck of the gunboat. After a long fusilade, the crew, despairing of saving the boat, got into their smal boats, without even being able to cary away their flags. wen Don Cossacks them threw themselves into the water, and, fightin against the billows, and in spite of a redeu led cannonade from the steamer, gained the boat, and after taking from it the flag and Union Jack, and two 24 poundcr brass cannons, set it on fire, and it burnt to the water’s edge. This gunboat had three masts, and was nearly 120 feet long. When the Cossacks reached it, the euem ’s steamer left. The portion of the boat which escaped tire was soon covered with sand. The Cossacks tried to brin ofl‘ the machinery, but there were eat ificulties in the way. I have orders that the two cannon be sent to Novotcherkask. Thanks to God we had onl three Cossacks wounded during the affair. send with the present report the flag and the Union Jack taken by our Cossacks."

narrsnins READY To or!:N ssnasroron.

The latest official intelligence from the Crimea states that 55 batteries are in a condition to open tire on Sebasiopol, some of which are within 50 metres cfthe enemy’s works. Some portion of the work to be accomplished by the English was not yet complete. An immense quantity of materiel was being placed in temporary I‘.-spot ready for action. The French have not pushed on their advanced work without some loss. The enemy has shown no disposition to economise ammunition. uring the whole of the late operaiions,nlght and day, the firing has never ceased on the part of the Russians. There is every reason to calculate that when the allies ed open fire the effect will be terrible. We know from Russian accounts that the affair of the l7th and 18th caused the death of many of the in- habitants of Sel’):l!lt)p0l. At the present moment the non-coinhatnnis are moving to the north side, and under the shelter of ion Nicolaicll'. In this direction. ion, the public oiiiccs have beer. removed, and all the trading population have left, it would

FlIl‘T\’-i‘lV'E ON

equally favorable specimens in the new ,

institution; but certain it is that so far they have not made their power or their presence

appear, their homes a so, for the north side of the , own. The enemy, of course, is aware of'the damage will create.

which the advanced artillery of ihe allies .