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—or in round numbers 60,0600 less than the numbers of the} (CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. Le SEPTEMBER 3

population since 1851. ' Upper Canada was 952,000, that of Lower Canada, 890,

Upper Province. The population of Upper Canada is now in round numbers 1,332,000; the Lower Province has 1,050,000 ; total, 2,382,000. ——————_—_—_ ¢ nee >-

_ A Wuate Srony.—We learn that asthe Schr. Valentine Doane, of Harwich, was about sailing home from a fishing ernise, on “ George's,” a week or two since, the crew were gomewhat astonished to see a whale. of the fiuback species, ecdme up suddenly under their bow. His fix caught on the anchor, and not relishing any such “entangling alliances,” he put off for deep water, with marvellous celerity. Alter “paying out” the cable for some 26 or 30 fathoms, he

ay! a pipe-stem, and departed for unknown regions, leaving in the claret-colored tints of the water evidences that he bad suffered somewhat in the contact with the vessel.— Yarmouth Register.

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Whar pots it.—Look at the man who succeeds in life. What does it? This: Ele choses a calling, trade, profession, or what not, and sticks to it. He digs, works, labours in it, making all things, all circumstances, and, as far as may be, | all men tributory to it. The svecessful man is always the | man of enthusiasm. He invariably does everything, small or | Jarge, with a heart just as though the thing in hand came into the world for bis especial execution. There is not a_ business followed by man, if it be reasonable in its nature, | and carried on in a decent place, but wil! be successful if the | right means be applied to it. It is the man behind that determines the result. What cau be expected of him who has no plack, po courage? Not mach. It is the man of| nerve, enthusiasm, intéllizent and cousecutive worker who | is successful.—Bost, Dist.

Respect ron tux Lapirs.—It is thought and justly too, | that the presence of Jadies is a great restraint on the sterner | sex. A man must be very coarse in his manners, or very forgetful of the rules of propriety, who will use the same freedom in conversation in the presence of ladies, that he would if none but men were with him. Swearing, for in-

stance, is a degradet! and foolish practice, in any case, and |

in company, however low it may be. Bat if indulged in before ladies, it is rudeness in the extreme. And whoever

allows himself to do it, throws off the gentleman at once. | mere animal life she could far better sustzin and hide, than

And no lady will allow herself to remain where it is practised. If we could have some means provided in this

ection of the country, by which swearing in tlie presence of}

man or woman could be prevented, we think the conversation of many would be much more agreeable, and the state of gociety greatly improved. Fora man who has not respect enough for his Maker to refrain from profaning his name, is net very likely to respect the female character, nor the principles which should govern a moral community. Profane swearing iS foolish, uscléss, degrading and destructive of mach that is good. No man’s conversation is rendered more agreeable or effective by the use of an oath. A gentleman’s tvord is good without it.

Cincutation or Buioop.— The heart contracts four thousand times in an hour. There passes through the heart, every hour, eight thousand ounces or seven hundred pounds of blood. The amount of blood in a man is twenty-five or thirty pounds, so a quantity of blood equal to the whole inass passes through the heart twenty times in an hour. It is wonderful that this machine (the heart) does not wear but with so mach work. Yet it often goes on for eighty years without derangement or weariness. Not for a moment, tlay or niglit, does it cease itsiabor. But it is notexhausted, it was a great power that constructed it,

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Antirtciat Wixe.—M. Dumas—not the romancer but the chewist—is earnestly engaged in a serits of experiments at Paris, upon the possibility of producing an artificial wine to take the piace of grape juice, during the crisis of the vineyards. There will always be wine enough for the rich, sohe desires to fiirnish the new beverage at a price not over two sous a quart, that the working classes may have no excuse for drinking water. Fermented beet juice with a taste of alcohol, is the base of tais mixture, the proper eanitary qualities being obtained from certain roots and herbs. If the French people want “ artificial” wine, or liquor of any sort made in that way, let them send to this country.

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Surrwreck asd Morver.—A letter received at this office, from Captain Moor, of bark Maria, of this port, cated Bay of Islands, March 16th, 1855, re the Griminesia, of Callao, Captain Penney, on the 3rd. of July, ov a reef to the westward of New Caledonia, in lat. 19 45 S. lon. 161 45 E. not laid down on the charts. She went on at 22.m. The captain, with the mate, doctor and four seamen left her in a boat, and saw nothing of her after, and thinks she went to pieces. She had on board 650 coolies from China, and a crew of 50 men, and all must have perished, with the exception of the 7 in the boat. Mr. “ Bottom” was killed by thh natives on the island of New Briton in July. He belonged to Fairhaven, and had a wife aud family there, he had been absent from home sometime. Uaptain Penney was on board of the Maria between three and four months, when he was put en board the bark Fio Grande, of San Francisco, bound to . Melbourne ; “from thence he would procced to Callao to see his owners. Capt. Penney and Mr. “ Bottom” were the only Americans that belonged to the wrecked ship.—New Bedford Mercury, August 13.

Goon Avvyice.—We would caution our readers against the (now) absurd practice of marking Jetters containing money as “ Money Letters.% If you wish to have your letters go safe have them “ registered ;’” but if you do not register them, don’t mark thein “ Money Letters,” as it is impossible to trace such letters if they get lost, and it onl

points out valuable letters to those dish snalinad 2. british Standard. ; ose dishonestly inclined.

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The N. Y. Medical Times says that seven young and fair looking Women may be daily seen at the New York Hos- pital, following the physicians and surgeons on their rounds mas are present at all operations on mates and females.

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The Savings Bank of England contains depesits from | dividuals in humble life amounting to one hundred and In addition there are many ed Kingdom. The operative | institutions a) lions | onlt ss

in | thirty millions of dollars.

Friendly Socteties in the Unit ‘classes, it is sid, possess im these various : capital to the amount of two hundred and twenty « fof dollarsy ent, industrious anc

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the fruits of their pati defying economy. | 7 i h from the Scientific American is | The following paragraph fro ‘ | ‘copied for the benefit of “ sharp shooters.” fae ' “Wash your barrels in spirits of turpentine, by dipping a | ( ned on your gun rod into’ the liquid, and ‘ewabbing them out three or four times, when they will be | cleaned — i itl be used almost in- ‘cleaned from all impurities, and can be ased almos 'stantly, as the tarpentine will evaporate and leave the barrels dry. Even if they are a little moist it will not pre- | vent their going off, like water. After being washed thus, ithere is no danger of rust, as when water Is used, I am an ‘old experienced gunner, and foand it useful,

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TUE EXAMINER Wit be issuel on Monday next in an entirely new dress, ‘extensive and beautiful founts of new type having been im- |

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|-—-whom he will present with their accounts — very many

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HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

Tue intelligence received from England by the mail of Friday Jast is the most important and interesting that has erossed the Atlantic since the great battles that were fought in the Crimea in the autumn of last year. Sweaborg--so long deemed impregnable, and designated a second Gibraltar —-has not merely fallen before the gigantic power of the Al- lied fleet, but it has entirely ceased to exist as a town or fortress, if we are to believe the accounts contained in our latest English papers. Surely, that is important and grati- fying news; and it is the more gratifying from another con- sideration, that the destruction of Sweaborg has been 2ecom- plished with the smallest possible sacrifice of life on the part of the Allies. and no Joss of material. ‘This is, indeed, the greatest blow which Russia has received since the commence- ment of hostilities. Her defeats on the batile-fields of the | Crimea were serious checks to her power, but the loss of

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‘brook the destruction, which eannot be concealed nor easily lamended, of a proud and mighty fortress like Sweaborg. What secarity is there now fur Cronstadt--the key to the capital of the expire? The dread with which an attack upon that fortress has been contemplated—-the prestige that has been more than half its strength—will no longer throw a gloom over the councils of the gallant sailors in command of the Allied squadron; and we may reasonably hope shortly to receive inte} |igence of the successful bombardment of Cronstadt.

The details of the battle of the Tchernaya will be anxious- looked fer when the next English mail will arrive here. Tt appears that the intelligence of that confliet reached England only by telegraph; but in that, as in every previous engage- ment since the commencement of the war, the Russians suffered encrmously.

There appears to be little or no foundation for the rumour, communicated last week by the telegraph via New York, respecting the accession of Spain to the Western Alliance. Seeing that Spain has more than she cau well accomplish to put down her own turbulent subjects, who are constantly re- volutiouizing their unhappy country, and that, besides, she has not one dollar to spare for war or any other purpose— we regarded the rumour as extremely improbable.

As the news altogether is of so interesting a character, we omit some matter, at first intended for this.day’s impression, in order to give full extracts from our English files.

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We have been favoured with another letter from Mr. Cooper, on the everlasting escheat question. At the time it was written Mr, Cooper had not seen our answer to his first letter, as the second repeats a great deal of the nonsense con- tained in the first. But it is infinitely more silly in other respects than the first letter; and we would on no account deny our readers the gratification of perusing it. Itis a literary curiosity. We shall, therefore, publish it in our next, with a reply.

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An Ernor. — In the list of names appended to the letter | published last week from the Covehead road people, in ans- iswer to Patrick Bearney, the name James Jenkins, junr. occurs; it should be James Jenkins, senior. We are re-, ponsible for the error, not having compared the copy with the printed letter when reading the proof.

THE WAR.

[ From the London News of the World, August 19, 1855.]

FURTUER OPERATIONS OF THE ALLIED FLEET IN THE SEA OF AZOFFP.

Whilst we await, with such composure as we can command, the details of the triumphant attack by the Baltic fieet upon the Russo-Finnish fortress of Sweaborg, we turn with satis- faction to what has been recently accomplished by the allied flotilla in the Sea of Azoff. We gather, from the despatches lately received by the Admiralty from Sir Edmund Lyons, that a squadron of light vessels and gunboats under the orders of Commander Osborn, of H.M.38. Vesavius, was actively and successfully engaged, during the earlier part of July, in scouring the coasts of the Sea of Azoff—in depriving the enewy of the fruits of the new harvest —in destroying his extensive fishing establishments — and in crippling bis re- sources of all kinds.

It seems that Sir Edmund Lyons had instructed Com- mander Osborn “to clear the seaboard of all fish stores, all | fisheries, and mills on a large seale beyond the wants of the

to contribute to the maintenance of the enemy’s army in the Crimea.” These orders were executed by Com. Osborn with

a skilfulness and completeness which has drawn from Sir

Edmund Lyons an expression of the highest approval and

admiration.

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Il as all the guard-houses, barracks, and sions situated upon that part of the gun-shot of Arabat Fort.” On the Berdiansk with the inten-

Berutch Spit, as we ‘ stores of forage and provi coast to * within an ot | es 15th of July he appeared beiore tion of viding the heat and corn-stacks upon the landward side of the hills overlooking the town. “ No inhabitants, says the gallant commander, “were to be seen ; but the oc- easional glimpse of soldiers showed that a landing was Ox- pected, and that they were prepared for a street fight. : - landing, however, was not attempted, in consequence of the surf, which ran so high as to render such a movement ex- tremely bagardous; but a few shots fired over the town soon set the stacks and stores in a blaze, and the Commander's object was thus effected without further trouble.

"From these petty exploits Commander Osborn next pro- ceeded to one of a bolder character. On the 16th of July the allied squadron presented itself before Petrovskoi, a fort situated between Berdiansk and Marianpol, “Ass I approach- ed tlie place,” says Captain Osborn, “there were evident symptoms of an increase to the fortifications since the Vesu- vius silenced its fire three weeks ago. A redan, covering the curtain which faces the sea, showed seven new embrasures, and much new earth Jed me to expect some masked works.” Arrangements, however, were eventually made for an attack, and the heavy ordvance of the flotilla soon crushed all at- tempts at resistance, forced the garrison to retire from the trenches. and even compelled the reserved force, consisting of three strong battalions of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry, to keep at a respectful distance. The light boats of ihe squadron were then sent ashore, under the command of Lieut. Hubert Campion, to complete the destruction of the fort and batteries. This work was gallantly and effectually accomplished. “In a short time,” says Captain Osborn, ‘I had the satisfaction of seeing all the cantonments, guns, plat- forms, public buildings, corn and férage-stores on fire, and the embrasures of the earthworks seriously injured ; and al- though the enemy, from an earthwork to the rear, opened a sharp fire upon our men, Lieut. Campion completed this ser- vice in the most able and perfect manner, without the loss of a man.”

Leaving the Swallow, Commander Crauford, to check any attempt of the enemy to re-occupy the fort and extinguish the fire before the destruction was complete, the rest of the squadron proceeded to destroy great quantities of forage, and some most extensive fisheries, situated apow the White House Spit and about the mouth of the river Berda, © By dark,” says Capt. Osborn, “the work was done ; and thirty fisheries, numbers of heavy Jaunches, and great store of sulted fish, nets and gear, as well as much forage, had fallen into our hands, in spite of considerable numbers of Cossack horse.”

On the [7th of July, in consequence of information received of extensive depots of corn and forage existing at a town called Glofira, Commander Osborn proceeded there with the squadron, and, in the*face of large bodies of cavalry, quickly destroyed all the stores that the place contained. From Glofira the squadron hastened to the Crooked Spit, where a similar work of destruction was speedily effected. “ The ex- traordinary quantity of nets and stores of fish,” says Captain Osborn, “and the scale of the works destroyed at this place, fully confirm the statements made by the workpeople that their occupation consisted in supplying tood to the army in the Crimea, everything going to Simpheropol by the great northern road along the Steppe.”

In concluding his report of these proceedings, Captain Osborn observes to the Admiral, “I can assure you, Sir, that from Genitchi to Taganrog, and thence round to Kamiskera,, we have kept the coast in a coustant state of alarm, and their troops incessantly moving. The good service done by the gun-boats in this way has been very great. The total amount of provisions, corn, fisheries, furage and boats destroy- ed, has been sonicthing enormous.”

This is unquestionably good and effective service, and every way worthy of the very high commendation which Sir Edmund Lyons bestows upon it.

From Wiilmer §- Smith's European Times, Aug. 18, 1855.

BATTLE OF THE TCHERNAYA. — RE-COM- MENCEMENT OF TEE BOMBARDMENT,

The detailed accounts from Sebastopol, which extend to the 4th August and reached town on Thursday, prepared the public for an event that has since taken place—an attack by the Russians on the allied lines in the valley of the Tcherneya. The intention of the enemy to commence this attack was proclaimed by several Russian deserters, and more especially by an intelligent man, a serjeant, who is stated to have beea a copyist in the Chancellry of one of the divisions of General Lader’s corps, and to whose statement immediate importance was attached. As the attack was de- layed beyond the time at which it was to take place, doubts arose whether the information so communicated was reliable, and this state of suspense prevailed in the allied camp when the last mail left.

Bat we now learn from Lord Panmure’s despatch of yes- terday that on the very day when the mail reached the British metropolis, conveying the intimation of the con- templated attack,—that is nearly a fortnight after the movement was expected,—it actually took place, with the most glorious resulis to the allied arms, and with the severest Joss and humiliation to the enemy. ‘“ Forewarned, forearmed,” says the proverb, and doubttess the belief in this attack, the knowledge that it would be made, bas con- tributed largely to the brilliant results which have followed.

We learn from Lord Panmure’s brief announcement that the attack commenced on Thursday at daybreak,—that the Russians had between 50,000 and 60,000 men, under the

‘batteries yesterday morning. A happy combination of cumstances seems Jikely at last to reward our pe and our hopes.

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‘the loss of of a great battle at the extremitics of go. pire, in the course of one short week, are very likely i terminate a siege the severity of which is unexampled igy_ history of war. Defore eveats so mighty as thesé; the cyents of the week appear dwarfed and listless,

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ADMIRAL DUNDAS’S DESPATCH.

Orr Sweanoro, Aug. 11.—Sweaborg was attacked by mortars and gunboats of the Allied Squadrons on the ing of the 9th inst. The firing ceased early this moni Heavy explosions and very destructive fires were prodygy, a few hours. Nearly all the principa! buildings on Vay, and many more on Svarto, including those of the Ar and Dockyards, are burnt. Few casualties have ecg, and no lives lost, in the Allied Fleet.

DESPATCH FROM ADMIRAL PENAUD,

The French Government have received the following patch :—

On Boarp tie Tourvirie, Aug. 11, 1855,—The bardment of Sweaborg by the allied squadrons has beep tended with complete succese. An immense conflagratip which lasted for 45 hours, has destroyed nearly all , storehouses and magazines of the Arsenal, which isa plete ruin. Various powder magazines and stores of proj tiles blew up. ‘The enemy has received a terrible blow, suffers an enormous loss. Our Joss is insignificant in and nothing whatever in material. The crews are in asp of enthusiasm.

Ficer berore Sweasorno, Aug. 6.—Knglish: Duke Wellington, Exmouth, Edinburgh, Poukeobe Corn Hastings, Kuryalus, Arrogant, Magicienne, Sossack, Vult Cruiser, Merliz, Geyser, Dragon, Lightning, Locust, isle (hospital ship), Adolus (ammunition ship), a collier filled with spare shells for supplying mortar veg 15 gun-boats, 16 mortar vessels. —French: Tourville ¢ ship) and tender, Austerlitz, six gun-boats, five mortar sels. The French mortar vessels are schooner-rigged, armed with two 10-inch mortars.

Sweaborg cannot be classed with Cronstadt for streng or Sebastopol fur importance. Its defenaes are not of same character as those which protect the mouth of the Ne The approach is by chauuels of sufficient depth and but through granite rocks everywhere covered with batterig As to the value set by the Russians on the place, on the oy hand, it appears that they took advantage of the wintery couvey to Cronstadt the few vessels of war seen lust winte at Sweaborg; and, on the other hand, they have empig the interval in strengthening, to the utmost, the fortificati which have just been so summarily destroyed. It was saidy few months ago that, having let slip the opportunity of year, we should find Sweaberg impregnable. It appe however, that with a proper dispusition of the fleet, and keeping a proper distance, we have disposed of this and shown that wood can sometimes beat granite. Let hope that when a boast has been proved id!e in one place may in another. According to the programme, the m vessels and the gun-boats were to commence the bom ment at two miles distance, and the liners were only to e in and finish the work. If this is the arrangement whi has been so signally successful, it augurs well for the oper tion of the flotilla, promised by Sir Charles Wood, ia grander sphere of the Neva, or wherever else it is to be ployed. From the scanty particulars that have reached uw! it appears that the bombardment lasted about 45 hourgs that during the whole of that time the allied fleets remeigel in position more or less within gunshot distance of the Bur sian batteries ; yet our loss is said to be trifling in mea, nothing whatever in material, not a ship or a houf sunk a7 disabled. In so large an amount of damage inflicted on the enemy, and so little suffered by the allics, may be seen result of that close caleulation which will probably be best game in this war.

THE FALL OF SWEABORG. The destruction has been compiete, and the seven isl on which the fortress stood are rendered as harmless passing cloud in the Isle of Sky. The way is now © Helsingfors, and it is probable that a dash will also: be m at Cronstadt before the winter sets in. ‘The gunboats, have mainly contributed to this result, will be powerfully inforced befcre the close of the campaign. If Helsing the most important city in Finland, were vigorously bonsbarh ed, and Cronstidt destroyed, we shou'd bri g the Czar a; his knees, even if our troops were compelled to winter bef Sebastopol, instead, as is most probable, of their possessitg at least the south end of the Black Sea fortress before i” autumnal rains commence. There is griefat St. Petorsburg mingled with fear trembling. Another year or two of war, which we do anticipate, and that empire, the scourge and terror of Bt rope, will be like a rope of sand. The day of retribut has at length arrived. Vaulting ambition has o’erleapl itself, and the liberty of the world will shortly be proclaimed —

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TRESSES IN THE BALTIC. The fortress of Sweaborg is the first formidable obstadet” the Gulf of Finlaud, and does the outpost daty, as it wet for the great military extropots of St. Petersburg. Iti composed of seven rocky islands, and is situate about

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command of General Liprandi, engaged in it,—that the battle lasted three hours, and ended in the defeat of the' enemy, with the loss on his part of some 4,000 or 6,000 men, | and what sows still more unmistakably the character of the victory, about four thousand of his troops were taken | prisoners. ‘This last announcement is conclusive as to the | defeat being complete, and it is only excetled in importance by the assurance in the War Minister’s despatch that the loss on the part of the allies was very small.

If there be one feature in that gratifying intelligence which gives us pain it is the fact that our brave countrymen Were not permitted to share in the perils and the glory of the battle. ‘The victors were the Fronch and the Sardinians, The bravery and skill of our Gallic friends have been proved on too many bloody fields to be doubted; but the Italian troops were uutried, and although all the accounts have de- scribed them as being fine-looking soldierly fellows, they bave evidently in this engagement proved their mettle, and fleshed maiden swords with honour.

As success in war mainly depends on making the most of) circumstances, of taking prompt advantage of a critical | moment, we are gratified to learn that the defeat of Liprandi was the signal for the re-commencement of the bombard- ment. This great event was to have taken place at dawn yestecday morning, aud we fully expect to be able, in a later edition, to announce that this last effort to seize Sebastopol has been more fortunate than those which preceded it. In- deed, all the private letters from the camp, as well as the published correspondence, go to show that success this time 18 Within our grasp, and the final overthrow of the Russians in Sebastopol must be powerfully accelerated by the defeat which they have sustained on the Tchernaya. Between the fighting of troops just flushed with great victory, and that of troops which have recently experienced a humiliating defeat, the difference is immense ; and we learn, therefore, with ex- treme gratification, that the siege works were sufficiently ad-

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niles and a half from Helsingfors. It fell into the ; of Russia with the Grand Dachy of Finland; bat, unlit [elsingfors, which was first regularly fortified by the lal Kmperois Alexander and Nicholas, Sweaborg bas been a plat of considerable strength under the Swedes. Gen, Hhrer fwald,an able Swedish officer, considering that these island ight be rendered a formidable stronghold, and might enable” Sieeden to maiutain her power in the Baltic, in spite of tt ambitious designs of Russia, projected the plan of their fication, Previously, however, ships were built and : there for the Sweedish navy, The works were comment in 1747, but were not compietely finsihed when acquired | : the Russians, who have continued making improvements, # devising every means of making the place imp Thuy say, ‘ the Sweedes began, but we finished the ter of the North.” These works are stupendous. The wall are chiefly hewn granite, covered with carth, rising in sow places to a height of 48 feet, The batteries, which eat mence of a level with the water, and rise in tiers, one abo another, are mounted, it is alleged, with nearly a thousslll guns. In Wolf's island, the principal of the group, there a dry dock, capable of contaming 11 or 12 frigates, whit” has been completely hollowed out of solid rock, the lege” being 300 feet, breadth 200, and depth 14 feet. At one@ tremity of this dock is a basin 200 square, closed at each @® with sluice-gates, which serve for the entrance and-exit @ frigates, and for repairing and building ships, ‘The stot and ammunition for the batteries are deposited in magazio® on the edge cf the water. The harbour can contain : ships of the line and a few frigates,

HELSINGFORS AND ITS FORTIFICATIONS.

We hope that the success which has attended the bo bardment of Sweaborg may speedily be fullowed up by anothe — which may exert even a more powerful effect on the pret sious aud inflexible resolutions of the Czar. The imports!

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