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 .