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steering westward, and camo up with the French fleet ntnoon. 
TvJcafof the cordml union which exists between the two 
Powers, the flags of both nations ate flying on board each 
ship in the combined fleets, which anchored in Baro Sound 
in the course of yesterday, where Roar-Admiral Corry, with 
]2 sail-of-the-line, had previously arrived. 
Tho following is an extract of a letter addressed by an 
officer serving in tho Baltic, to his friends in England . 
“ Westeamed away from Helsingfors early ontho morning 
of the 12th, leaving tho Imporiouse, Arrogant, and Bulldog 
before that place, and aro now in lino of battle. The num- 
ber of ships present is ns follows :— Three-deckers— Duke or 
Wellington, Royal George, St. George, and Noptuno. 1 wo- 
deckers Cumberland, Prince Regent, Boscawen, Monarch, 
Iloguo, Blenheim, St. Jean d’Acro, Princess Royal. Edin- 
burgh, James Watt, Ajax, Crossy, Cffisur, Nile, Majestic, 
Austerlitz, (French), and 15 others vessel*, 7 of which arc 
two-deckers. Euryalus, Magieienno, Basili-k, lloclu, Por- 
cupine, Alban, Penelope, Driver, l’igmy, Lightning, Bcl- 
leisle (hospital ship), and Resistance (store ship). 
“ On detached service blockading : — Imperleuso, Arrogant, 
Amphion, Desperate, Leopard, Valorous, Conflict, Rosa- 
mond, Cruzior, Dragon, Arelior, Gorgon, Odin, Vulture, 
and Bulldog. 
“ Tho Conflict has arrived with tho first instalment of too 
Dantzig mail. We aro all delighted nt tho idea of a rogular 
post being thus established for us. Wo have hitherto been 
very badly off, depending altogether upon tho arrival of a 
man-of-war on the station. 
“ Wo shall now get letters every wcok from home, but no 
newspapers have as yet como to hand ; wo aro consequently 
out of now*, and look forward to bundles of this luxury by 
the first ship. , t , 
“ If i he ships attempt Helsingfors they can only got m one 
at a time, through a narrow channel, upon which u con- 
centrated Are is brought to hour both from the forts and line- 
of-battle ships, during which each vessel would bo succes- 
sively expo sod to a raking tiro tho most destructive in its 
effects. 
“ We have bean rather arausod and pleased of Into at the 
gallnnt proposal of a dashing captain, who is ambitious 
enough, to be allowed, In the evuut of Helsingfors being 
attacked, to rush full tilt into the harbour, and chorgo ono 
of tho Russian three-deckers at full spood with Ilia noble 
ship, tho St Jean d’Acro, in which he justly takes a pride. 
Whut a crash ! what a smash ! what a toppling over of 
timbers and falling of spars must ensuo if his GOO horses 
bolted full speed against his adversary’s broadside. Our 
boats must he cautious now in approaching too close to the 
shore. The Hecla’s boats wero fired upon a few evenings 
ago with musketry. 
“On the 10th the Driver and Lightning rejoined tho fleet, 
having completed their survey of the Alund Islands Bomar- 
sund especially. Thu water is sufficiently deep to allow the 
lurgo ships to take up position within range of tho batteries. 
The vessels were admonished by a shot from tho fort not to 
como too close. 
“Near Helsingfors on tho 12ih,the Russian troops swarmed 
in great numbers along the shore, looking magnificent in 
their polished cuirasses and glittering helmets. The 
steamers did not fire; unprovoked they could not have done 
bo. Tho wutor has been found quito deep. 
“The view of Sweaborg and Helsingfors from thoshipswos 
most picturesque. The day was sunny and warm, and not 
a ripple disturbed the tranquillity of the water. Helsingfors 
Stood before u« resplendent from the whiteness of its palaces 
in the noonday glare. It« principal cathedral, surmounted 
by a graceful’ and lofty domo decorated with purple, and 
crowned by a golden globe, sparkled and flickered with a 
lustrous imd tremulous light. Its classicul colonnade stood 
out in bold relief, while its minaret-looking angular towers 
reflected bright flashes from their small gilded points. 
“ A throe-deckcr js moored head and stern right across the 
harbour’s mouth, a long nnrrow rocky island, with an 
irregulur spire, forming a natural sea-wall, runs along tho 
eastern side of the harbour, over which the tall masts of tho 
ships of tho lino are showing. To tho westward the land 
is apparently more broken and irregular, and seems to ba 
occupied by some of the forts in the sea front. The town 
seems to be of vast extent. ’’ 
Off Sweaboug Castle, June 13. — We have the first 
summer's day to-day, and can see plainly into Holsingfors. 
The heights and rocks in its neighbourhood are covered with 
anxious spectators, and the inhabitants no doubt expect the 
town about their ears shortly. We liavo distinctly counted 
14 Russian ships of war at anchor behind the forts, and at 
times a distunt cannonading is heurd, which wo presume to 
be the enemy practising at their guns. To-day we moved 
up to the batteries, and are now lying hove-to within six 
miles of the place. 
Copenhagen, June 20. — Private letters assert that two 
boats, containing an officer and forty men, have been sunk 
by the Russians at Gumla ICurloby in West Finland. Its 
bombardment was consequently expected. Ono thousand 
Russians and one hundred Cossacks defend it. — Morning 
Chronicle. 
The Leopard and Valorous have destroyed the Crown 
wharf and small vessels at Komi, in the Gulf of Bothnia. 
They refrained from damaging Torneii. 
Details have arrived respecting the affair nt Gumla 
Kurlcby. 
The Odin and Vulture lauded 150 men. Theso were 
attacked by sharpshooters in ambuscade, and by a masked 
battery of five guns. * 
Lieut. Carrington, a midshipman, a mate, and three men 
fell ; two officers and fourteen men wero wounded. Ono 
boat was lost. Twenty-eight men and one mato wero taken 
by the Russians, whose commander was killed. 
The commander of Bomarzund has been dismissed. 
All pilots have been sent into the interior. 
SAILING OF TROOPS. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Fox Strangway*, commanding the 
, Royal Horso Artillery of tho British army in the East, 
has proceeded with the 1st division, under General Sir 
George Brown, to the camp at Dcvno, situated between 
Varna and Shumla. lie embarked from ilie camp at 
Coolalio, near Scutari, with the Horse Artillery under his 
command, and disembarked at Varna on the 31st. In'elli- 
gence lias since been At reived that the division inarched «t 
once in the direction of Siiuiylu, and that it is now encamped 
at Devna. 
The Tyrone transport (No. 57), Lieut. John Grant Ray- 
mond, R.N., Admiralty agont, Capt. Knowles master, 
arrived at Malta on the 7th instant with the houd-quai ter* 
of the llth lluesars, consisting of five officers, fifty- 
five non-commissioned officers, two women, and fifty - 
two horses— all well. She left Kingston on the 17th May, 
and was delayed on her voyage by strong head winds 
from tho 18th to tho 29th, and subsequently by light airs 
and calms. ... . , . , 
On Tuesday the Lords of tho Admiralty took up ships for 
the convey ance of 89i) tons of provisions to Malta, for the use 
of her Majesty’s forces in the East. Vessels were also taken 
up for tho conveyance of 250 tons of ordnance stores to Syd- 
ney, New South Woles. Hobart Town, Van Diomen’s Land, 
and’ Auckland, Now Zealand, in order to provide for tho 
defence of those colonies. 
Tho Lords of tho Admiralty also gave notico that ships 
wero required to convoy 379 tons of ordnance stores, powder, 
and combustibles to the British colouics in Africa, uTid to 
Adolaido, Western Australia. 
Sailing op Troots from Scutari pon Varna.— 
Tim Victoria (four-masted screw steamer) einbarkod the 
33, d Regiment, 990 strong, and 12 horses ; tho Andos om- 
barkc I the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 900 strong, and 12 
horses ; tho Megcora embarlml iho 7th Fusiliers, 950 strong, 
and 12 horses; tho Cambria embarked the 88th Connaught 
Rangers, 950 strong, and 12 horsos; the Melbourne em- 
barked tin 77!h, 950 strong, and 12 horses; tho Med- 
way embarked tho 10th, 950 strong, and 12 horses; the 
Golden Fleece embarked tho Rifle battalion.; tho Trent 
embarked 300 pack horsos; tho City of London and Emperor 
towed up transport No. 4, artillery, and transport No. 18, 
staff horsos, &?. ; tho Vesuvius having lent her paddle-box 
boats to ombnrk tho men, moved off from her anchorage in 
tho Golden Horn about 12 o’clock, when all the troops 
were ou hoard, and proceeded up the stream of the Bos- 
phorus to talco iu tow tho Sir (loorgo Pollock, with GO 
horses belonging to tho Rillo Brigade, Sea., on board. Tho 
Golden Fleece was iho first to start, and as she had no vessel 
in tow sho made rapid way against tho current, nnd was 
soon out of view in the bonds of this salt-water river. 
Transports Nos. 44, 4G, and 48 were laden with the men 
and horsos of the 8th Royal Irish Hussars, and layout in tho 
stream about two miles above Tophanc. Tho Victoria, 
which was to have towed No. 44, ran up alonglido her, nnd 
made fa>t her hawsers to tow, but ore she could got her away 
tho current caught her, threw her against n stubborn little 
Dutch Galliot, which anchored dead in the way, undsunp, 
snap, crash went bowsprit, and yard, and topmast, one 
after another, till tho Hollander seemed as if he had just cut 
from Cainpei down. Then the hawsors got round the screw 
of the steamer— they wero cut or cast adrift in a twinkling, 
and tho transport fetching stern way came right upon the 
shore, sorely discomposing a little body of Turkish philoso- 
phers who* were smoking on a platform just where her 
counter came. Tho Victoria returned for aid to Scutari, 
and after a time came up with a “ tug,” and pulled off the 
transport. As sho passed on with her prize the men of the 
33d, who were on board, cheered the Vesuvius till the Bos- 
phorus rang with echoes. The Captain of tho Sir George 
Pollock being on shore (for be had received no orders to be 
in rondines*), a d day of throo or four hours took place till 
the Vesuvius could get her to move. The Artillery were 
embarked in transports Nos. 1, 2,3, and 4, and wore towed 
by the Medway, Melbourne, Cambria, and City of London 
respectively. The fleet was thus constituted of 2 steamers 
for stuff officers and horses, 7 for troops and 84 chargers, 1 
for 300 pack horse*, 4 transports for Horso Artillery, 3 
transports for Hussars, 2 transports for Commissariat horses. 
Notwithstanding some litilo delays and mishaps, such as 
those alluded to above, tho whole of the flotilla moved off 
with great precision as to time, nnd commenced its course 
upwards with admirable order and quickness. 
An English officer of high rank, recently writing to a 
friend, says : — “ Our force in Turkey is thus distributed — one 
division at Devna, beyond Varna, under General Browne ; 
two divisions at Scutari, under tho Duke of Cambridge and 
General Evans; and another division at Gallipoli. My own 
idea is that tho Russians arc impeded in their vigour on the 
Danube by diplomatic and political considerations. There 
is a French division at Varna. Bosquet’s division is at 
Adrianople. All advance by the Balkan being thus ren- 
dered next to impossible, now seems tho time to make a 
descent on the Crimea. The Russians will be too occupied 
on the Danube to reinforce the Crimea, and wo can take 
Sebastopol if different divisions assail different parts of that 
territory at the same time, each having the same ultimate 
end, namely Sebastopol. Then we shall hold in our hands 
some security for the future good conduct of the ambitious 
Czar.” 
♦ 
OUR FRENCH ALLIES. 
Vabna, June 2. — This morning curly the Cuton, French 
Government screw, arrived here, having on board Genoral 
Canrobert and a small stuff. Ho lundod about mid-day, nnd 
after an extempore levee of the French officers on the beach, 
proceeded to call on Sir Geurgo Brown. A largo French 
man-of-war steamer, with the 7th Regiment of the Line, 
camo in nt the tmiio lime. The men disembarked and 
| formed in about half an hour, their band playing God save 
tho Queen, out of compliment to our colours. Aftor a delay 
of an hour on tho beach they wore marched off to their 
camp outside the town. The Marseille, French Government 
transport, has arrived laden with stores. At present we 
have transports Nos. 3, 4, 11, 18, 27, 44, 40, and 48 lying 
at anchor and waiting to return to Scutari. Two large 
paddle steamers, showing French colour*, tho first towing 
no less than flvo small vessel*, the other towing lour brigs, 
aro in sight steering for this point, and at the moment I 
close this letter, a Turkish man-of-war steamer has cast 
anchor, towing in French transport brigs Nos. 2U6, 52, 204 
and 127. 
There arc a considerable number of prisoners on hoard 
the vurious ships of the allied fleets. Tho Charlemagne had 
threo officers and a number of privates captured on tho 
Circassian coast. A lieutenant of the vessel stales that they 
were treated very kindly. '1 lie officers messed with the 
French of their own runk, while the privutes had the same 
food as the sailors, with the exception of wine. Tho officers 
taken wore gcnorally downcast and silent, but tho men were 
merry enough, declaring they had never been so well off in 
their lives, which is extremely likely, as in wmo distant 
outposts tho soldiers only taste ineut on great occasions, 
Biieli os Eastcr-day and tho feasts of St. Nicholas and St. 
George. 
■ 
TROOPS ON THE MARCH, OR UNDER 
ORDERS FOR FOREIGN SERVICE. 
Major-Geuorul Monsol, K.H., commanding tho Cork dis- 
trict, has just completed his first inspection of tho provisional 
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battalion nt Ferjnoy, under tho command of Lietenant- 
Coloncl Passy. Tho Major-Genera! was three days engaged 
in a minute examination of all the details connected with 
this largo body of men ; and, although tho battalion lias been 
but recently formed, It i* expected that 600 men, fully 
equipped and fit for sorvico, will he enabled to proceed to 
Turkey on or about the 1st of July. 
All tho heavy cavalry nt homo have received orders to 
furnish the Enniskillen Dragoons with 1 4 well-seusoniul, 
trained, and aged troopers, fit fur service, except tho King’s 
Dragoon Guards, who are to send 1G. 
THE TURKS AND RUSSIANS. 
[Continued from pogo 498. J 
Tho Journal do ConstantindpU publishes the following 
despatch from General Mussu l’achu, governor of Silistria,* 
dated May 29 : — 
“ On tho night of Sunday, May 28, about one o’clock, tho 
Russian*, with a considerable force, attempted an assault 
with great vigour against the redoubts of Bilanli and Arub- 
Tabinst. They wero received by tho garrison with rare 
intrepidity. Tho fortress and other redoubts, coming to tho 
aid of tho redoubts attacked, opened so terrible a fire of 
grape and shells, that, had the enemy beou of iron, they 
would not have boon able to resist it ; they were consequently 
obliged to give way and rotire. But almost immediately, 
without interrupting tho lire, they displayed all their forces, • 
and brought back their columns to tho assault with so much 
vigour, that tho Russian troops arrived nt the embrasures 
of tho rodoubt, by which they endenvourod to enter. But, 
with the assistance of Divino Providence, after three hours 
of desperate fighting, during which time the ditch was 
literally , filled up and tho plain covered with tho cnomy’s 
bodies, tho remainder weie obliged to fly In disordoi*. The 
Impel iul troop*, in this attack, had fifty men killed, and 
about as many woundod; ami tho Russians had at least 
1,560 men killed, nn-J , without any doubt, u still greater 
number wounded. Wo took six prisoners, and have obtained ■ 
possession of a considerable quantity of arms and articles of 
military equipment. A great quantity of snob objects, 
besides, remained on tho field too far from the batteries for 
us to pick them up.” 
THE WAR IN EUROPE. 
THE SIEGE OF S I L I S T R I A. 
VIENNA, Tuesday Morning. 
Tho following is from a Russian source : — 
“ In the action on tho 13th General Schihler* rocoivod a 
wound which rendered the amputation of his left leg neces- 
sary, and Prince Gortschakoff received a contusion. 
“ A Turkish brigade from Shumla, despatched by 
Mehemid Pasha, succeeded in entering tho fortress on tho 
13th. 
“ General Crotenhjclm’s division is said to havo defeated 
two Turkish brigades, with 6,000 cavalry and 40-guns.” 
The Turks have driven tho Russians out of Turtukai, 
which they huve occupied with n strong “unison, nnd liavo 
also strengthened the garrison of Rutschuk. The operations 
against Silistria are said to have been suspended. 
General Luders has been wounded and General 
Gortschukoff also, hut both aro said to ho going on well. 
Tho life of General Schildors is in dungor. 
Prince Paskiowltsch, who was on his road to-Jassy, is said 
to have been ordered lo return and take Silistria at any cost. 
Advices from Silistria of the 1 6th state that tho siege had 
been raised. 
A groat part of the Russians had recrossed the Danube. 
The relieving troops from Shumla hud effected a junction. 
Advices from Widdin, of the 18th of June, in Lloyd, stato" 
that it was rumoured that tho Turks have taken Giurgcvo, 
and that tho Russians lot 400 men nnd nine guns. 
Five Russian Generals are reported (according to tho 
Prossc) killed or wounded in the uffuir of tho 13th before 
Silistria, 
Unfortunately, this success ai Silistria has been dearly 
purchased by the death of tho heroic commander of that • 
place, one of the must distinguished officers in the Ottoman 
army, Mussa P.islia, who was killed on the 2nd. Miissu 
Pasha died nobly as he had always lived, for his .country and 
for his Sovereign; aud Turkey deplores ill him the loss of 1 
one of her most devoted sons and most ardent defenders. lie 
died intrepid and calm in tho midst of his triumph, after 
having repulsed an enemy so superior ju number. He was 
a noble heart who in the different posts which Imperial con- 
fidence had called on him to till, hud always performed his 
duty and endeared himself to all who wero placed under his 
orders ; lie was a skilful, bold, loyal, and pious soldier. 11a 
received his death-blow at the very moment when ho was 
offering up a prayer of thanksgiving to God lor the fresh ■ 
victory which had been given to t lie Ottoman arms. About 
the middle of tho day, when the fight was ut Its height, part" 
of a shell struck Mussa Pii'ha in the left sido ; lie only lived 
a fow minutes nftor, but, bnforfl expiring, was able to con- 
vince himself that, owing to his excellent arrangement*, and 
the valour of hi* troops, the attack would be unsuccessful. 
Tho Sultan (says the Putrie), on learning the heroic death 
of Mussa Pasha, who has left scarcely any property, accorded 
to his family a pension of 30,000 piastres. 
RAISING OF THE SIEGE OF SILISTRIA. 
(by SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) 
On the loih a sortie was made ou ull sides from Silistria, 
and un expedition undertaken to tho D.uiuhian island oppo- 
site the fortress, where tho Russian batteries and works wero 
destroyed. 
The' Turks aro constructing strand batteries on tho north 
6ido of the fortress, and tho >iego is raised. 
Tlio Russians uro retiring to tho left bank of the river, 
and their bridges arc being broken up. 
THE WAR IN ASIA. 
In its latest news tho Patne says, that according to Its 
letters from Constantinople of the 5th, tho Turkish steam 
cor ve.te P.-scrio llufr had arrived in tho port with recent 
and entirely satisfactory iiows from the A bast an coast. The 
rear guard of tho Russian corps, which had cvucualod 
Soukouin-Kult’, had suffered very heavy losses in a despo- 
ralo balilo noar Ivutais, and t ho various divisions which hud 
quitted the coast fortresses had been unable to effect their 
junction. Tho army of Atia was thus cut in two, and tho 
position of many corps was exceedingly critical. Several 
Mingrolian tribes, heretofore favourable to Russia, lmd de- 
clared against her, and niado common cause with Schamy). 
