HASZARD’S oAz_air., MAY 16.

Progress of the War.

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BALACLAVA.

To-day Omar Pasha, at the head of 15,000 Turks moved down to Balaclava, and re- lieved the Zouaves and Trash regiments at Kadekoi. The Turks iluetrocps, and are the same fellows who have just given so good is zpecimen of their court. at Eupatoria. At K ekoi, the weakest garrisoried portion of our lines near Balaclava, 8,000 have been posted behind strong breastworks, which the Turks to- da still further defended by the addition of thirty pieces of artillery. T ese ought to se- cure our position at that point, if it is in the

wer of earthworks and guns to do it. While

he transfer of the troops was taking place, the Russians showed in large force in the plains, and on the summit of Canrobcrt’s Hill, where it is now again for the 50th time asserted that they are getting u guns. On one hill, how- ever, the enemy s owed for the first time to-

y, and their presence there was regarded with aouie inquietudc though any, efforts they can now make from that oint must be quie

indeed to be in time at all?

Tris SQUADRON AT IPITHEAD.

Russell, 00, screw, Captain Francis Scott, arrived at Spitliead on Tuesday evening, an has taken up her position tot e eastward of the squadron. Spithead is again looking formi- dable, with eight line-of-battle-ships and four corvettes—the four sailing ships being ﬂanked by the screws, making an extended line from east to west of about two miles, and moored as follows :—Russell, 60, screw; Pembroke, 60. screw; Calcutta, 84, sailing; Powerful, 84, sailing; St. George, 120, sailing; Neptune, 120, sailing; Howe, 00, screw; Hastings, 00, screw.

A despateh published in the Journal de St. Petcrsbarg, of the 29th, conﬁrms the death, b a cannon ball before Sebastopol, on the l7t of the Russian Admiral lstomine. ‘

General Williams, armed with full powers b the Sultan, is ursuing his inquiry into the disordered state 0 the Turkish army in Asia.

vcral Colonels have been tried, and severe discipline was re-established.

Some of the French soldiers recently made a mpcr kits, to which they attached a French g, and let it fly above Sebastopol.

Colonel Kelly, of the 34th, is a prisoner at Sebastopol, slightly wounded. Captain Mon- tague, of the Royal Engineers is also a prisoner, and is not wounded.

The gallant Captain Vicars. who fell in re- sisting the late sortie of the Russians, was the brother of Lady Raylei h, and his loss( a the Clielms ord Clironiolei‘ has carried into ‘the noble family at Terling the pangs of private eorhggw, in which the country deeply sympa- t ' s.

Andres 'I‘illalon, lieutenimt of engineers. and Ramon Fernandez de ova, lieutenant of artillery, in the S nish service, have been ant by the mperor of the French to proceed to the Crimea, where they are to be considered as French oﬂieers in active service, and are to be allowed horses and rations like them. Letters of introduction are also to given to them for General Canrobert, and to t e_ generals commanding the artillery and engineers.

The Government are tittin up every avail- able ship and steamer whic has been lying idle in various ports, so that in about six months’ time it will be, to a considerable ex- tent, independent of the merchant and packet service, for war-transports. Already the charge for tonnage for war purposes is reduced. Large numbers of the present war-transports will, in a few months hence, be restored to the merchant and packet service.

A St. Petersburg correspondent, writing on the 31st ult., says, “ To-day an ordnance has been published concerning the boards of the soldiers. The Em ror has deigned to order, first. that the sol iers who mount guard on week-days shall not be required to dye either their hair or whiskers; and secondly, on Sun- days and feast-days they must iiiount guard with their hair and whiskers waxed and dressed.”

The Washington correspondent of the New York tribune says, that the French Legation has intimated that should hostilities ensue between the United States and Spain, France will promptly support her European neighbor.

Tris Foaaron Lnuion.—Events have veriﬁed the intimation, we first hazarded, that the object of the Hon Mr. Howe’s mission to the United States was, to set on foot the enlistment foreigners for British military service, in that country. The first detachment of the recruits, Mr. Howe has succeeded in procuring, arrived by the brig America, on Friday morning in 46 hours from Boston. This lot, num. berin between 70 and S0, mostly Germans, lande at the Queen's Wharf, and was marched

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to the Garrison Hospital, escorted by a large crowd of boys through the "streets. _Having ssed medical scrutiny at the Hospital, the recruits proceeded to Melville Island. With few exe trons, they looked very mean rscn- ally, on their toggery was shoeki ha ,butit is not beyond the bounds of possibility, that soap and _water, brushin and combin , whole- some rations, neat uni orm, and drill, may eﬂect a great change for the better in their appearance. U. S. ress scolds most ﬁercely at the agents for t e enlistment, but seems to know nothing of the chief commissio- ner and operator, as it does not, even once, mention Mr. Howe’s name in connection with the affair. When he presented himself to Mr. Cram ton, at Washington, with Sir Gaspard Le archant’s despatches, that functionary was actuallév preparing to advise the Home and Provincial overnment, that the plan of raising a foreign corps in the States was unfeasible.

ut Howe has established the conﬁdence he is prone to put in himself, that he can effect any- thing he undertakes.—Acaa'ian Recorder.

RUSSIA .

Advices from St. Peiersbnrg of the hub instant state that great dissappointment was felt there with the terms ofihe general amnesty lately pub- lished. For more than a quarter of a century nearlv 400 fsmiliesof ilie aristocracy had continued to deplore the absence of one or more members at the mines of Siberia, in the dungeons of the vari-

exposed to daily and even hourly combat with the semi-barbarous tribes of that country; and the rumors of the intended act of grace had diffused joy among innumerable domestic circles. The sad reality of the oﬂicial Gazette soon dispelled these illusions. One twenty-ﬁfth of their debt is remitted to all Crown debtors; and the same pro- portion is observed in the remission of political punishments. The tone ofthe addresses of the nobility is considerably altered; their warlike spirit is lowered, and there is no more mention of sacriﬁces ready to be incurred in obedience to the circumstances of the crisis. The nobility are beginning to see that the war is but now assuming its most serious aspect, and that the sacriﬁces al- ready dernsnded are merely the precursors of others still more serious. .

The Grand Dukes Nicholas and Micheal are now on their return to the Crimea ; and consider- able movements of troops are taking place towards he south.

The deputation of officers lately sent by the King of Hanover to express his coudolaice with the present Emperor of Russia, has among other things. brought the King back a sample of the granite of which the Cronstadt fortiﬁcations are built. These gentlemen, while staying in St. Petersburg, took a drive all round and about the harbour of Cronstadt in sledges, their road taking them from time to time, between ships of the line and. frigales. with the guns of the {bureau cove.r.i:ig them at every fresh step. Of cqirso.

he ' gentlemen are perfectly convinced of the impregnabilitg of the place. St. Peiershiirg is represented as having been converted intq one great insnufactory of arms and warlike isotro- meais. In the place of the Guards, that were formerly always stationed in the ca ital. here are now 36 battalions of the reserve 0 the ard.

A pamphlet professing to contain the R sian oﬂicial account of the battle of lnkrrma has appeared at Berlin. One very interesting ct is contained in the introduction, but unfortugalely comes to us too late to proﬁt by. Afro the battle of the Alma and the march of Prince Meuschilroﬁ‘ to Bakshiserai, the whole garrihin of Sebsstupol consisted of just four battaliort and the body of seamen; at that time, also, age of

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the present oniworlrs existed, with the exc ofihe wall of the town. .

A young American Sur eon, now in R sian employ and stationed at his letters to his American friends. so “Some of the missiles thrown by the e cmy (the allies) have at least the attructivenots of ll()Vl‘lly. I saw at General Osten Sackei's a bull made of very hard wood, like those usld in bowling alleys, weighing perhaps 12 lbszfent

over either by the Fren or En lish. On on- trivance of destruction which t iey occusio illy make use of is well worth mentioning fo tts droll novclty. It consists of the half of ii ask or barrel. to the bottom of which is fit do cylindrical piece, which just ﬁts the calih of a mortar. They till this with small grepidc bombs and send it over. E

A Vszssizi. Sirzvir riv A WiiAi.i-'..—0n tho moriiiig of the 21st ult, as the British schooner Water- loo was plowing her way through the watch of

toshiedam, a huge whale was discoverc to windward swimming in the direction of he vessel. When about ten yards from he schooner, going at a tremendous rate, he d 'ed slightly, and struck the vessel a fearful w abreast the fore ri ging. Then throwing is tail in the air so high, that accordin to he stories of the stories of the sailors it no ly touched the fore yard, he dived and was see no more. The ship heeled and cracked with he

blow and immediately commenced sin

ous fortresses, or in the ranks of the Caucasus...

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the North Sea, on a short voyage from I nn b

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ed inteher without food or water, and pushed of. She capsized and disappeared soon after. Tb; men. six in number, were picked up by a French ﬁshing boat and kindly cared for. he leviathan who caused the disaster is supposed to have been a Russian whale, on a privateeripg cruise.

Sriisxoa AND Fiiieiirrvr. Accini:a'1-.—'l‘hc city of Bristol, in England, has been startled bya frightful accident, a great iron bridge having been carried away by a collision with a steam- boat. The brid e in question, which was of cast-iron, was oFl60 feet span, and comprised a single arch. A steam-barge, laden with coal, and worked by a screw-propeller, with an engine of six-horse power, was descending the river, when she came in contact with the iron frame-work of the bridge, which rests on side piers.—The force of the collision was so great, that, notwithstanding the wer of a ve strong ebb tide, the steamer rebounded eight or ten feet, and the bridge immediately fell with a tremendous crash, carrying with it everything that happened to be upon it. Of the extent to which life was sacriﬁced, it is quite impossible to speak with any accuracy. Three or four persons swam to the banks, and were got _out alive, but several other persons are missing. Two carts were thrown in, and one or two of the horses were drowned. It is thought proba- ble that many bodies will be found among the heavy debris of the iron work.

UNITED STATES.

'l‘he Washington Cabinet is entirely harmo- nious upon the uban uesticn. Commodore McAule ’s instructions are not such as to create a muss lli. He will resort to force on] if a case should arise in which internaticna law willfully justify it. he Administration is strongly in favor of aciﬁc relations with Spain, and Spain is ful y advised thereof. t is thought her Cuban indiscretions and outrages against our commerce arose from the (lee seated cons iracies among the Islanders, whic irritate an confuse Concha. But he knows that his assaults u n our citizens must be stopped at once, an the Administration think they shall stop them without the least danger ofa war with Spain.

The Treasury department have allowed all the disbursements claimed by Lieut. Beale, late Indian Agent for California. The result is a complete vindication of Beale against the charges some time since made by the news- papers of delinquencies.

The Ericsson Ex riment is at an end. The invention is conce ed to be a failure, and r Ericsson is a ruined man. He has spent al his fortune in building his caloric ship, and in the experiments he has made on the vessel. He has done more ; he has spent all his wife's for- tune, which is great, and she, too, is be r But the worst of all is that. it has led to such

reerimination alienation ve separated, never to be united again, rhaps. Had he been successful, his name was have

been enrolled with that of Columbus, Newton, Fulton, and other men of illustrious renown. But be has failed; he has lost-his all ; be has introduced ruin into a once loving and happy home, and the world coldly looks on and says, “ I told you so.”—-Boslori .

Fxrsssivi: CONFLAGILATION IN Bosros.-—I4os8 ovaii nu.r A MILLION or Dou.aiis.—Bos!on, A ‘I 28!Ii.—A destructive ﬁre broke out about hal - at two P. M., in the north rt of the city. t commenced in a wooden building at the head of Battery wharf, on Columbia street, and a gale blowing from the north-west the flames spread with great rapidity to Lincoln wharf and the People’s ferry, also doing much dama in Constitution wharf. e space burned is about three acres, covered mostly by old wood

The Postmaster of New Orleans has been arrested on the charge of purloining from 5 letter the sum of $600.

Father Gavaui is expected to arrive in tho United States in a few weeks but not in time to attend the customary annivernriss.

A some critical: -of the Scientiﬁc American sugpsts, t at as a diﬂculty exists in getting white paper to print upon,black pvaﬁer might be substituted, with w its ink. rite on a black ground is more distinct. and the eye is then relieved from the glare of rays from the white surface. ‘

Tux Know NOTIIINGS IN Mass.icnL'sr'r'rs.—Bos- ron, April 23d.-—The Know-Nothings of this State are about to publish an explanation of the ob'ects and aims of their organisation. It is sai to be a document of much ability, and has been fully endorsed by the order of the present dominant party.

A family of six individuals in Clyde, N. H., were poisoned last night by using arsenic ac- cidentally, instead of saleratus in the prepara- tion of biscuit. None of them are dead, but their lives are despaired of.

Mr. Gillis of Salem, Mass., late from Cali- fornia, shot himself dead on Tursday evening, on the steps of a ntlcman’s residence in Cambridge. He was in love with a young lady in the house who refused to marry him.

The Scientiﬁc American (which, b the way, should be taken by every club and iterary as- sociation throughout the coyitinent) says :—“ In some sections of the State of Mississippi. the

ople, it is reported, have pulled own a number of miles of telegraph wires, because some learned ignoramus he demonstrated to the people. that the long drought in these regions was caused by these wires carrying oil‘ the lightning, whic used to bring heavy rains.’

New York was visited by a violent hail-storm on the morning of the 18th inst. The ers state that in several places hail-stones fell measuring seven inches in circumference.

Severe losses of lives and pro erty were caused by storms in various parts 0 New York and adjacent States, about the 1st inst.

There are said to be at least 20 per oeiit more acres in wheat at the present time in Illinois, than in any previous year. The weather has been extremely favorable.

The American Government intend to send 4000 soldiers to the Western Plains to “ chas- tise the Indians” for their numerous athsks and depredations on the whites.

The present rices of flour in the New York

,d_ market are sci to be higher than _at pny period

during the laat_ forty years. Within t few da s, a further advance of 25c ents has rnliz on all qualities.

Advices from Montreal to April 24, state that nsarl the whole of the town of Vienna, between amilton and Beaufort C, W. has been laid in ruins by a great on V tion.

BERMUDA.

The Bermudian Islands were visited by a heavy gale on the 1st of April, which inflicted much injury on such of the ﬁelds of potatoes as lie in exposed situations. The Arrowroot crop is unusually short.

NEW BRUNSWICK.

MlRSl.\‘G Vassai.s.—The Clipper shi Alice, Captain Clarence Dewolf, 399 tons, sa‘ ed from

buildings of no great value. The new l-last ston ferry buildings have been destroyed also. A new block of three-story wooden l buildings owned by Arnold Taylor, on Buttery: wharf, was swept nearly clean, including nearly l Mllbales ofcotton and a lar quantity of beef, pork, and other merchan ize.—On Lin- coln wharf, a large quantit of wood, coal and lumlwr was destroyed. "he ship Pharsalia was burnt to the water's edge. The ship Diana, V just from New Orleans, with n. valuable cargo ; of cotton, pork, &c. was badly burned and{ cargo damaged. 'l‘he ships Gen. Gerry and! John llertun were towed into the stream with some damage to masts and rigging. Schr. Robert Stone, from Wilniut, N. 0., was nearly destroyed. Several other vessels suffered slight damage. Three engines and one carriage were destroyed; the lire-men being surrounded by fire on the wharf were compelled to escape in cats

The N. Y. Courier chroniclesa beautiful act ofdelicate mnniﬁcence: it says, that on Sunday week, among the contributions at the Cliuroh of the Holy Communion to the funds of St. Luke’s Hospital, was a roll of ﬁve one-thousand dollar bills. They were dropped so quietly into the plate, that not even the gentleman who received them knew from whom they came.

Governor Gardner, of Maine, intends enfor- the prohibitory liquor law to the very

The long boat was cleared and all hands j p-

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this port on the 17th of Feb. last for Liverpool, and by the latest accounts from that port she is not reported as having arrived. As she was a remarkably long and sharp-built vessel, and likely to make a ver ssage, it is generally feared, that some accident has be- lallen her. She was loaded with deals, and had about seventy tons of ballast. Messrs. Gilbert and Company are the owners and Mr. John Thompson was the builder. The master was quite a young man, and much esteemed by a. number of highly respectable families in this city, by whom he was well known—Sl. aim A ". B. Cuuritr.

A St:-urn Bakery has been established in St. John, N. B., by a Mr. Rankin.

HALIFAX, May 5.—A murder has been commit- ted near the Nine Mile House, Sackville, in a place of entertainment kept by one Dennis O'Brien. A man named Drinn, entered the House with a pistol, which O'Brien induced him to give up. Suspecting a colored man to have robbed him of a handkerchief, Drinn demanded the pistol, which be loaded with the intention of being revenged, and in his endea- vor to shoot the colored man, he shot O'Brien in the arm, the ball passing through the M03 of his wife. Mrs O'Brien died on Wednesday morning. Drinn is in custody.—Chwch Time!-