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nnd nearly all the men employed on the battery were killed 
by the explosion. Tho Government storehouses, containing 
all the materiel for the use of the Government steamers in the 
Black Sea, were entirely consumed. A barrack, constructed 
for the Cossacks, shared the same fate, burying many men and 
horses in its ruins. A largo storehouse, full of grain and pro- 
visions, was also burnt. Tho mole itself, struck by a groat 
many balls, was seriously damaged. The fleld-battcry of four 
guns — 16-pounders— which attempted to reply to tho artillery 
of tho steamers, was almost totally destroyed, with men and 
horses. The Imperial port contained 53 sailing vessels, three 
steamers, and five dragging machines. Of the three steamers, 
one, the Dniester, an iron boat, of 40-horse power, belonging 
to the Government, having received various shots, filled and 
went down in five minutes. Unsuccessful attempts have 
been made to raise her. Another iron steamer, the Lulea, 
sank, after receiving 16 shots in her hull; it is not thought 
that she can again be set afloat. A third steamer of 90-horse 
power, the Audia, was sunk, but has since been recovered. 
Of the five floating dragging machines the newest was totully 
destroyed. The four others have been mgre of less damaged. 
Of the 53 sailing vessels which were in tho port of Odessa, 
one, the Nicholas I., of about 600 tons, was burnt ; two brigs 
were totally consumed, as also a schooner laden with coals 
from Newcastle, bound for Ismail. The remainder, coasting 
vessels of different tonnage, were all more or less damaged, 
and many of thorn sunk. From private information it results 
that the number of killed was not less than 200. The 
above, information comes from a person who was present at 
Odessa during the bombardment, and who has since remained 
there. The despatch is dated Baltchik, June 29, on board the 
Yille do Paris. 
Slilitm. 
[From Tuesday’s Ga:ciu.~\ 
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, July 10. 
Royal Regiment of Artillery. 
Brevet-Major Gloucester Gambler to bo Lieut.-Col., vice Sandham re- 
tired upon full pay. 
Second Oupt. Herbert Winsloo Patton to bo Capt., vice Gambler. 
First Lieut. Henry Peel Yates to be Second Capt., vice Patton. 
Second Lieut. Legh Delves Broughtou to be First Lieut., vico Yatas. 
ADMIRALTY, Julv 6. 
Corps of Royal Marines. 
Second Lieut. Wyvill Janies Christy to bo First Lieut., vico G. B. 
I’uddlcombe, resi gned. 
July 7. 
Corps of Royal Marines. 
Brevet-Major Alexander Anderson to be Licut.-Col., vico Clcudon 
retired upon full pay. 
First Lieut. Richard Parke to be Capt., vico Anderson, promoted. 
Second Lieut. Charles James Dundus Napier to be First Lieut., vice 
Tarke, promoted. 
Anus for the Turks. — Ninety-two cases of swords, each con- 
taming 120, or altogether about 10,000, ond 2,000 barrels of ball 
cartridges, are being shipped for Constantinople for tho use of 
Omar Poshu's cavalry. 
. fttcautTS. — Orders have been issued that men who, on medical 
inspection, shall be found fit for duty, may be enlisted for military 
service tip to the nge of 30. As an inducement to the persons en- 
gaged in recruiting to exert themselves, the bounty to the bringers 
or good recruits is now increased to 12s. CJ. 
CuTiUf Bctlbb and Libctbnant Xasmttii. — [From the 
Morning Chronicle.] — Sir, — It appearing that some of the news- 
papers describe Captain James Armor Butler, of the Ceylon Rifle 
iteguneot, who (with Lieutenant Nasmyth, of the Bombay Artil- 
»• 60 LigUly distinguished himself during the siege of 
•>iU5iria y unq ot whom honourable mention has been made in your 
journal, as being, ns well os Mr. Nasmyth, in tho Hast India 
Company’s service, I beg leave to slato that ho Is in Her Majesty’s 
service, nnd served tho campaign of 1346 and 1847 In Kafirlnnd ns 
ensign in the 00th regiment. Captain Butler, who was unfor- 
tunately severoly wounded on tho 18th ult., is son of Lieutenant- 
General the Hon.H. K. Butler, and a cousin of tho Earl of Carriok. 
— I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
July 10. C. Q. 
Houses for tub Armv.— T ho following lottor, from a British 
officer, ot Malta, appears in Saun lew's News- Lattcv , — 
“ Malta, July 2, 1854. 
“ Lieut. King, Royal Artillery, who has been on Bpocial sorvicc 
at Tunis for the last two months, purchasing horses for tho somco 
in Turkey, returned here in tho transport steamer Viotoriu on tho 
27th ult., and loft the samo evening with his cargo of animals for 
Constantinople and Varna. In consequence of some accident to the 
machinery of tho Victoria, slip was obliged to roturh to Malta to 
ropair her screw, and ultimately loft the harbour hut night. 
“ Lieut. King’s purchases consisted of some 200 horses and 70 
mules. Of tho horses ho had tho pick of tho Boy’s own stud, 
consisting of ubout a thousand ; but noithcr they nor any of tho 
horses he saw while in tho country wore particularly good. Ho 
was obliged to travol some 120 miles up tho country, but nil tho 
examination lie was allowed, although ho came as an unliinitod 
purchaser, was to look at their teeth riiJ feel their leer-*, which, 
as the country was swampy and muddy, and they had boon floun- 
dering about in it for some months, was not a vory satisfactory 
proceeding, and to soo thorn driven past him, trotting, walking, 
ond cantering, without howevor being backed. 
“ Tho nverago price paid for tho best of tho Boy's horses was 
about £13 per head, which Mr. King gave reluctantly, having 
in the first instance valued them in their own country at only 
£8 10s. Tho mules ho describes as fur superior to tho horses, and 
he was obliged to pay vory nearly as much for them ns lor the 
others. In bringing theso horses from tho interior to Tunis he 
was much annoyed by a predatory band of Arabs, who, however, 
on a slight hostilo demonstration being made by him and a few 
artillerymen who nccompaniel him, gnvo him after wards but 
little trouble. He experienced every attention from the Bey and 
his government, nnd is by tho authorities hero considered to have 
been highly successful in his mission. 
“ We have now got 10 Russian prizos lying in tho havhour. Vory 
great dissatisfaction is expressed, particularly among naval men, 
at thoro being no Admiralty Court to condemn them at Malta. 
Their oflicors and inea arc idly spending their valuuble time here 
doing nothing: tho cargoes are, in this roasting weather, rupidly 
deteriorating, and evonluully it will appoar these prizos huvo to run 
tho risk of a voyoge to England, which, as sonjo of thorn havo not 
tho very best rigging or spars in the world, nnd rnoroovor would 
not rank A 1 at Lloyd’s, would uselessly oxpose the lives of those 
who man them. 
“Tho officers of tho 68th Light Infantry got up, a day or two 
ago, soino manly athletic games for their men ; tho prizes were all 
of a useful description, such as shell jackets, booh*, socks, forage 
caps, &c . — in fact, all that a quartermaster's storo could furnish, with 
ono exception. The ‘ stock’ was not included iu the list.” . 
Letter from Tcrkby. — The following is an oxtract of a letter 
received yesterday morning from an officer of the Light Division, 
dated “ Aladyn Camp, June 27: — You will have been informed by 
telegraph before this reaches you that the Russians raised the siege 
of Silistria on the night of Friday, the 23rd inst., and retired across 
the Danube. Tho official announcement reached the authorities 
here on Saturday evening, tho 24lh, stating that the Turks bad 
destroyed all their entrenchments. On receipt of the information 
Lord Cardigan was immediately despatched in the direction of 
Silistria with two squadrons of the 5th Dragoon Guards and tho 
8th Hussars, to recoonoitro and watch their movements. Tho 
general impression is that they will retreat beyond tbo Pruth. 
.Silistria was so closely besieged for some days previous to the rais- 
ing of the siege that the Turks were on the point of capitululing. 
Hod the Russians made one more vigorous attack .Silistria would 
undoubtedly ba\o fallen. Tho olliol force was just about march- 
ing to ifs relief whim the unlbukod-ft>r and astounding imwsof 
their rotroat runehod us, nnd it, of ooiirsa, lina stayed all formal 
movoiuont for the present. From nil 1 onn learn, tho Russian* nro 
ill groat d road of ns; indued, so muul» so, that l grontly four wo 
shall novar ho afforded mi opportunity of testing their own much 
vaunted powers. But suffice it to say that, should wo over get a 
ohnneo of encountering them in tho field, I fool confident wo hIiiiII 
givo them a fearful thrashing, forovory man nppoars dolonnlnod 
that tlmao ho has left behind shall not have oau*o to bo athnmod of 
him. Hir Richard England 1 * division hns arrived ut Viirnn from 
Gallipoli. The allied force hero, Inuliiding Turk*, niuourils to up- 
wards of 70,000. It would nstnnuh you to sen the immense tract 
of ground it envois. All the troop* are In oxoollont health mid 
spirits, notwithstanding tho intense boat — tho thornioiiiotur HI In 
tho touts. Russell dinod with mo tho other day ; nil our follows 
like him much." 
0tom;mvi» imb ffltlr.u. 
Commission* signed by tin* Queen. 
Royal Wills Regiment of MUUta -Robert Bridge* Hollers to bo Adju- 
tant. 
Commissions signed by Lord- Lieutenant*. 
Tho Essex Rifle* -Edward wuddlngtan, gent., to bo AMistant-Siirgcon, 
vice lllalr, resigned. 
1st RegirflOnt of Royal Cheshire Militia -Lloutanant Thomas Alderney 
to bo Captain, Vico Harrison, resigned ; Ensign C boric j Edwin d Hick* to 
be Lieutenant, vice Aldcrsey promoted. , 
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia Lieutenant Thomas Hunry Glut- 
ton Brook to bu Captain, vice Ruddle, rosWncd ; John Henry Edward do 
Itoobeck, Esq., Into Captain lib Regiment of Foot, to bo Captain, vico 
Foley, resigned; Ensign Samuel Skcy Burton, to be Lieutenant, vtcu 
lllntoul, resigned. 
Queen’* Own Worcestershire Itoglinont of Yeomanry Cavalry -Lieu- 
tenant Walter Chamberlain Hamming to be Captain, vice Clive, promoted) 
Lieutenant Robert Berkeley to bo Captain, vlcu Temple, resigned ; tho 
Ilon.Predorlc Lygon to bo Captain, vico Taylor resigned ; coruot Robert 
Peel to bo Lieutenant, vice Berkeley, promoted; Henry Thomas Hickman, 
gent., ti bo Cornet. 
1st Regiment of King’s Own StutTyrdslilro Militia— Pryco Ilbcrt Ilnrrl* 
son, gout., to bo Ensign 
Queen’* Own Royal Regiment of .Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry - 
Major tho Right Hon. Orunvdlo George Karl Granville to bo Lieutenant- 
Colonel, vico Begot, promoted; Caplaln < merge Holland Actor* lobe 
Major, vice Earl Granville, promoted ; Sir William Mllturne MiJburng 
Swinnortou Pilklngton, Hart., to bo Lieutenant, vice Jones, rcslgucd. 
‘gleDkflf. 
Jf vnuoruoiii \. — In Charing Cross Hospital, on the lib of July, 
tho dnughtor of a cab proprietor, aged ton year*, died of "hydro 
phobia (3IJ hours), after bite (I month). Pont mortem. Mr. 
Leonard, the registrar, say*. “ 1 am informed that tho animal that 
luliictcd tho Into is alive nnd well, and has not had hydrophobia." 
Royal CoLLKijb of Buuomok*. — The following gentlemen, 
having ttndergouo the ncecssury examinations for the diploma, 
were adiniltou members of the collage at the meeting of tho court 
of examiners on the 7 tli instant: — .Messrs. James Tuvornor Reed, 
Downhnm, Norfolk; Thomas Smith, Tunbridge ; Henry Town- 
send Whitlirjg, Nuremberg, Bavaria; Bradford Hlilos, Marlborough, 
Wilts; David Clarke Thornhill, Stratford-green ; George James 
Htilwoll, Moororoft-hou.se, Hillingdon, Middlmcx; Azoriuh Hughes, 
Hodedern, Auglcsen; Frederick Bennett, York- place, City-road; 
Ond tho following gentlemen wore admitted member* on tho 10th 
instant: — Mows William MurShoil, Laurio-t«Traee,_Wesimiri»ter- 
rood; Herbert Chalmers Miles, the Charter hou«o; 'George Vnn- 
oornb® Coates, llart-strcet, Bloomsbury; William Green, Mullen, 
Northumberland ; Charles James Govern ton, Blmooo, Canada West ; 
John Zachorinh Laurence, Dovonshiro-atrccl, i’orUoud- place ; 
Gilbert Bothune Hudon, Hnsotoy, Warwick. At the annual meet- 
ing of tho Fellows of the college on Thursday hist, Messrs. Joseph 
II idgson, of Westbourno-torrnce, and Francis Kleroun, of Mun- 
ch-ster-strcet, Manehester-squarc, were ro-olooted members of the 
Council, ond Messrs. John Hilton, of Now Broad-street, ond 
nnd Richard yunin, of Cavendish-square, wore olcolod moiubors of 
tho Council on tho racapoie* occasioned by the decease of Mr. 
Brnnsby B. CoOj'er and the resignation of Mr. Thomaa Copeland, 
