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      LORD JOHN KITSSEM . AND THE AUSTBIAN PKOPOSAXS . IiOrd Paxmerston having brought up the supplementary papers relating to the late Vienna Conferences , took the opportunity of stating that he should oppose a resolution of which Mr . Disraeli had given notice , designed to secure the discussion of Sir E . Bulwer I * y tton ' s vote of censure on the following" d « y . Some longer time should be allowed for the perusal and consideration of the documents just prAented ; but Government were willing to afford every facility for a debate on the question next week . Lord John Russell , replying to Mr . Disraeli's question on Tuesday night , said that , in his speech on he had communicated

      Friday , the 6 th inst ., nothing new in affirming that the last Austrian proposition had been discussed in the-Cabinet , and been rejected , but that he had since obtained her Majesty ' s gracious sanction of the statement which he then made . Some erroneous inferences had been drawdfrom his speech , which he desired to correct . In April last , it was true that he considered the Austrian proposition offered a satisfactory basis for peace ; but it was contrary to the fact to assert that he believed so now . His opinion on that point bore reference only to the bygone position of affairs . At present , he was con vinced that the best prospect of peace couldbe obtained only through a vigorous prosecution of the war .

      Mr . Disraeli said he did not perceive that the statement which JLord John Russell had just made at all altered his situation with regard to the House . The people of this country had been greatly startled and disquieted at finding that one of the ministers of the Crown had recommended a project which his colleagues refused to adopt ; that he had not thereupon resigned , but had remained in office , and had actually , shortly after recommending the Austrian proposal for peace , made a speech in that House , which conveyed to the country the impression that he was an uncompromising advocate of war . Under these circumstances , Mr . Disraeli did not think his lordship ' s present announcement to the same effect would go

      far towards reassuring the daunted spirit of the nation . The proceedings of L . ord Palmerston , with respect to Sir E . B . Lytton ' s motion , were equally reprehensible . He ( Mr . Disraeli ) had received authentic information that it was originally the intention of Government to go into Committee of Supply the following ( Friday ) night , when Sir E . B . Lytton would have had an opportunity of bringing forward his motion ; but the Premier had altered that intention in order to stave off the motion . As for studying the papers now presented , members might arrive at a much better judgment from the confessions of ministers themselves . He called upon Lord Palmerston to promise a motion for supply on Monday , so that the discussion en the vote of censure might

      come on . liorft Palmerston reiterated his opinion that it was absolutely necessary that members should have time to read the official papers presented to them , and undertook to make an opening for the discussion on Monday next , if Mr . Roebuck , who had also a motion of censure , would agree to that arrangement . ^ SLr'E . B . LnrTTON and Mr . Roebuck having as .-sented to the offer , the papers were ordered to be laid an the table . TENANTS IMPROVEMENT COMPENSATION ( iRELANl })

      BILL . On the House going into committee on this bill , Mr . Horsman moved that the Chairman should at once report progress . —Mr . Malins referred to the fact of a deputation of Irish members having waited on Lord Palmerston , and obtained from him a promise that , if any independent member reintroduccd the 14 th clause , which had been struck out , the Government would support it provided it were accompanied by the amendments of Mr . Horsman . This arrangement Mr . Malins attributed to the desire of the Government to obtain support on the coming motions of want of confidence . —Lord Palmerston said that , as he had always supported the amended 14 th clause , there was nothing extraordinary in his attempting , if possible , to restore it ; and he denied that any bargain had been made . —A long and angry discussion ensued , in the course of which Mr .

      Disraeli denounced the practice of transacting legislative business behind the back of the House of Commons iM ^ Lord Palmkrston , on the contrary , contended n | Rr there is nothing unusual or improper in deputations waiting on ministers . —Mr . Horsman said that the deputation was determined on before Sir E . B . Lytton gave notice of his motion ; on which he was mot with cries of " Roebuck I "Mr . Bbady , as ona of the doputntion , boro testimony to no bargain having been made ; and Mr . V . Scully defended the conduct of the Irish members . It wag , however , the opinion of several members that it was highly unconstitutional to endeavour to make u Prime Minister attempt to rescind a decision of the House . Mr * Guinness ^ in particular , denounced this proceeding as " disgraceful and disgusting . " Ultimately , the Chairman was ordered to report progress . —Thk Coal MrNHS Inspkgtion IJrix was road ft third time and passed .

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      The war news of the past week has been slight ; yet it contains one or two points of interest , showing satisfactory progress . On the -9 th of July , the new Commander-in-Chief telegraphed that he intended to open a heavy fire on the Redan the following day ; and on the 11 th he communicated the fact that the fire of the preceding day had had good effect on the fort against which our special efforts are now directed . General Pelissier , writing at the same time , say 8 : —" The firing has been very brisk all day between the English and the Great Redan . This evening , that work is sufficiently silent . In consequence , our allies will be able to advance their works . " Whether , as a consequence of this " silencing" ( real or apparent ) , we are to have another assault , or are to proceed by more cautious steps , is not at present revealed .

      An alleged despatch of Pelissier , dated the 9 th , conveys a brief notification of a defeat of the Russians on the preceding night , in a grand sortie made against the Mamelon and the Rifle Pits ; but , as this despatch has not appeared in the Moniteur , the affair is involved in doubt . The French works in Careening Bay are progressing , despite the heavy fire of the Russians . The new works of the English are also being pushed forward ; and everything indicates the determination of the Generals and men not to flag in the smallest degree under temporary defeat .

      " During our late attack on the Eedan ( says the Daily News Correspondent ) we suffered sadly from a small six-gun battery on the immediate right of that work , towards the Malakoff , as it kept up an uninterrupted storm of grape upon our men , without being at all effectively commanded by any of our oira guns . "We have , therefore , begun the erection of a six ( or eight ) gun-battery slightly ahead of our old advance opposite the Redan , which will be able to give back a direct fire to this small work at an effective range of seven hundred vards , and also to bear upon the left flank of the Malakhoff . at the distance of some fifty yards more . "

      The war in Asia continues , though languidly . The Russians have entered Asiatic Turkey , under the command of General Mouravieff ; but advices from Kars of the 16 th of June state that their demonstrations against that town had been repulsed , and that the assailants withdrew to Agdja-Kaleh . The health of our troops before Sebastopol has latterly been such as to create considerable feelings of uneasiness . From the General-in-Chief to the humblest private , the fatal influence of cholera has passed like an Angel of Death , and has seemed to threaten a repetition of the fearful mortality which last year struck down so many of our men at Varna .

      But we are happy to see that , in his last despatch , General Simpson states that the cholera is on the decrease , and that the health of the army is satisfactory . General Simpson , in one of his recent communications , also speaks of a proposal from Prince Gortschakoff for an exchange of prisoners of war at Odessa . The Russians will no doubt be glad to get back all the men they can ; for already the want of soldiers is being felt . As an evidence of this , we hear from Konigsberg that a decree of the Czar orders the Governments of New Russia and Bessarabia to reinforce the army as soon as possible ; and that the Cossacks acting on the banks of the Danube are enrolling volunteers from all classes .

      A letter from Trebizond of the 24 th ulr ., published In the Moniteur , contains an assertion which we would fain hope to be incorrect , though it is put forward as being positively true—niinaely , the death of the prophet warrior , Schamyl . TUB QUKJEn ' 8 SYMPATHY WITH HER TJtOOPS UNDER

      DEFEAT . The annexed general order was promulgated a few hours before Lord Raglan ' s death : — " The Field-Marshal has the satisfaction of publishing to the army the following extract from a telegraphic dospatch from Lord Panmure , dated the 22 nd of June : — " ' I have her Majesty's commands to express her grief that ao much bravery should not bvava been rewarded with merited success , and to assure her bravo troops ( hat her Majesty ' a confidence in them ia entire . ' "

      THE LATK COMMANPEtt-IN-OHIEF . Within a very few hours after this order had appeared , tho electric telegraph brought the melancholy and startling intelligence from head-quarters to the various divisions that the Field-Marshal was dead . It would appear that he has lately—no doubt from tho constant strain on hia mental and bodily energies—been far from well , and the death of General Estcourt , to whom he was much attached , tho unsatisfactory result of tho attack on tho 18 th inst ., and tho un healthy weather since , broke down a constitution already enfeebled by ago and lonp service . Tho caiiHo of hie death is stated to have been diarrhoea , which terminated in cholera . Tho body ia to bo convoyed to England in her Majesty's ship Caradoc , and will leave very shortly . It will , I hoar , bo uccompanied by tho whole of hia lato lordship's personal atafT , whoso

      duties will then , of course , cease . Colonel the Hon W . L . Pakenham will conduct for the present the dutiea of the Adjutant-General ' s office . — Times Correspondent . On the very morning of his death , Lord Raglan seemed so much better that his physicians thought all danger was past . But in the evening he was seized with a fainting fit ; and two hours later he expired with great calmness . A mistaken impression existed during last week that the deceased Field-Marshal would be buried at

      Balaklava . Such , however , was not the intention . The remains of Lord Raglan have been consigned to the family vault at Badminton . It would doubtless have been more in accordance with tho wishes of the people of England , had they been placed side by side with the ashes of the General ' s great chief in St . Paul ' s cathedral ; but family feelings in these matters ought to supersede national desires . The ship Caradoc was the vessel which conveyed Raglan first to Varna and afterwards to the Crimea , and with whose commander , Derrinane , he was on terms of affectionate friendship .

      It is understood that the Emperor of the trench has written a letter to Lady Raglan , in which more than ordinary feeling is displayed . The Spanish Cortes have unanimously passed a resolution , in order that , " In remembrance of the services rendered by Lord Raglan , who defended in his youth Spanish independence , and to the day of his death the liberties of Europe , they may proclaim the regret with which they learned the melancholy death of that excellent General . " The Minister who proposed this resolution , guarded against its being supposed that the Cortes desired to manifest any opinion concerning the present struggle in the Crimea . Yet the phrase , " defending the liberties of Europe until his death , " can hardly be regarded in any other light than an expression of opinion , and against

      Russia-A THUNDERSTORM AND HURRICANE AT BAUKLAVA . June 23 rd . —At eight o ' clock this evening , a thunderstorm , advancing from the mountain ranges over Bala-Slava and Mackenzie's-farm , burst on the valley of tho Tchemaya and on the southern portion of the camp . I never beheld such incessant lightning . For two hours the sky was a blaze of fire . The rain fell like a great wall of water behind us . Not a drop descended over the camp in front , but we could see it in a steep glistening cascade , illuminated by the lightning , falling all across the camp from sea to laud , just in front of Lord Raglan ' s , and nearly in a straight line , as if marked out by a ruler . The rain is a great relief to our parched

      reservoirs . June 25 th . —The storm which burst over the southeastern portion of the Chersonese on Saturday night has done more damage than we could have anticipated . Men were drowned in ravines converted by the tornado into angry watercourses , were carried off road . s by mountain torrents , and dashed against hill-sides ; beasts were swept away into the harbour and borne to sea ; huts were broken up and floated out into the ocean ; the burialgrounds near Balaklavu ¦ were swept bare , and disclosed their grim army of dead

      in . ghastly resurrection , washed into strange si ; apt' - ' from out their shallow graves ; and , greatest calamity ol all , the railway was in various places decom ] oicrf , ripped up and broken down so as to be unserviceable "' our greatest need . Orders have been sent down to urge on the necessary repairs ; for the demands of the batteries for shot and shell are pressing , and the electric telegraph has been repeatedly in use to-day to force on the attention of the authorities at Balaklava the necessity there is for their promptest exertions , and to order them to send up supplies of mattfriel for our fifth bombardment as speedily as possible . — Times Correspondent .

      l'XAOS OF TltUCK . The Russian Miniatcr of War , in a letter addressed t << Admiral JDundae , lays down the following rules to which hia Government has determined that flags of truce shall conform : — " Flags of truce can only be sent to three places , namely ,, Cronstadt , Sweaborg , and Itevel . Ships ao presenting themselves ¦ will have to carry a "white flag ol ' a large size , to atop beyond tho range of heavy ordnance , and to wait for a boat to put off from tho pluce under 11 ¦ white flag , in order to receive a written message . I liavo to inform you , Monsieur l'Amiro ] , that the Imperial Government has decided on not recogniaing tlio flag of truce , should vessels be sent toother localities than tho . se 1 have juut ntatcd , or should they fail to observe rigorously the regulations proscribed in thi . s letter . "

      In reply to thin , Admiral Dundas says that ho loaves upon tho KuMniftn Government tho responsibility of any diflUHtera which may take place , in conne . qucueo of the rentrictiona thus imposed ; and that ho regrets the Russian miniatcr hna not pointed out any npucHic « " «« of misconduct on tho part of KngYmh olllcora , uh such would immediately bo inveHtigatct '*

      DICAT 1 I Ol' A HAKDINIAN OI'KICKU . A telegraphic despatch received in 1 ' ariH announce . ^ tho death of 0110 of U 10 brnveat onicora in the Sardinian uriny , tho MarquiH Victor do Saint-Marsim-Caruil , grandaon of t , ho Fronuli ninbauHiulor at Berlin under Mm Kmpirc , arid non of tho Firat Equerry of U » o Emnoror Napoleon I . lie linn boon killed under tho wulln ol Sobaatopol in tho nildat of tho French troopw , having

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 664, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2099/page/4/