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Fnertors.—The Imperial party, after an easy voyage from Dove; reached Boulogne on Saturday afternoon. On Sunday morning the Em- peror reviewed 40,000 troops on the sands, and distributed decorations. At two o'clock, the Emperor and Empress started for Paris; which they reached at half-past six in the evening.

It would now seem certain that the Emperor will go to the Crimea, after the opening of the Exposition. His camp equipage has been for- warded this week for embarkation at Marseilles. At Constautiüople the Turks are making great preparations for his reception. Rumour now de- signates him as "Generalissimo of the Allied Forces." The obsequies of the late Minister of Marine, Id. Ducos, were performed on Wednesday, with great military ceremony, at the expense of the state; large bodies of troops escorting the corpse to the railway station, whence it was conveyed to Bordeaux.

GER1tANY. —As will have been seen from our Parliamentary report, the Conference at Vienna adjourned on Saturday, sine die. It sat four hours, and terminated with the rejection on the part of Russia, of the demands of the Allies. On Monday evening Lord John Russell set out on his re- turn to England. Immediately after his departure, the Emperor of Aus- tria had it long conference with Count Buol. In a telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated Thursday, it is stated that the Russians offered fresh propositions ; that they were rejected; and that M. Drouyn de Lhuys would return to France yesterday. On the same authority we are in- formed, that Baron Hess, with the Whole of his staff; will depart for Gallicia on the 2d of May, "but probably only to inspect the array."

The Prussian Second Chamber, by a large majority, have adopted a resolution expressing "its conviction that the Government will take the first opportunity for the total abolition of the Sound duea." M. Sanger wasior a more decisive expression of opinion ; but M. Manteuffel remarked that the 4emands of M. Sanger "would be more easily accomplished by silence "—whatever that may mean. A scene almost incredible was witnessed last week in Prussia. On the 19th instant, the King gave over to the safe keeping of a deputation of the Sixth Regiment of Cuirassiers, named after the late Emperor of Rus- sia, the uniform of that regiment, including the leather breeches, some- times worn by Nicholas. The entire regiment, drawn up at the Bran- denbourg railway station presented arms when the old clothes arrived ; and the band played the Russian national hymn. Then the Colonel harangued his men on the honour conferred on the regiment, thus made guardian of these " precious " relics; and the troops marched off to bar- rack; one favoured squadron bearing the garments, with its standard, at the head of the regiment !

Tan Caratmi.—No intelligence from the seat of war has reached us of later date than the 19th.

Admiral Bruat has forwarded the following despatch to the Minister of Marine. "On the 17th, the fire of our batteries maintained its superiority. In front of the Central Tower [on the left attack,' not Malakoff?] we have carried a series of ambuscades; and those works where we have established ourselves are now comprised in our lines. We have crowned a ravine in that direction, which runs along the fortifications of the town, where the enemy formerly kept their reserves in safety. Before the Flagstaff Bastion we sprung a mine at a distance of about fifty metres. This operation, which perfectly succeeded, gave us a new parallel, and was sucoessfully joined to the other. From the 12th to the 14th, notwithstanding the renewed attacks of the Russians, we had only about 300 men hors de combat."

General Canrobert, in a despatch to the Minister of War, throws some further light on the operations.

" Before Sebastopol, April 17.—Our fire continues to maintain its supe- riority, without our having been prodigal as yet of our ammunition. The attack was made chieflyby the Artillery, but the Engineers tombine their efforts, and make approaches, which bring us nearer to the place. These works advance regularly, notwithstanding the difficulties of the ground." The French Minister of Foreign Affairs has received the following message.

"Pare, April 21.-4 learn by the Asmodee, which left the Crimea on the 19th, that the besiegers were still advancing, and were consolidating their position. On the night between the 18th and 19th, the enemy made a strong sortie, which was promptly repulsed."

Lastly, Prince Gortschakoff has reported as follows to the Russian Go- vernment.

"Sebastopol, Apra 19.—The firing of the enemy on the 16th, .17th, and 18th, was less violent. Our batteries replied successfully. On the night between the 18th and 19th, one of our battalions made a sortie to destroy the most advanced works of the enemy. The object of the sortie was fully attained, with small loss. The loss of our garrison has moreover, during the last few days, been less considerable."

Details of the bombardment down to the 14th instant have arrived by the ordinary mails. Although anticipated by the telegraph, the great operations they describe still have an interest, and we therefore com- pile a narrative of the bombardment from the correspondence of the jour- nals.

The night preceding the opening of the fire was extremely tempestuous.. Rain fell in torrents, and a strong wind blew from the South and West. Towards morning the rain and wind increased, and the trenches and hill- sides were reduced to mud. It is believed that the final order for the bombardment was given after a long consultation of Lord Raglan, General Canrobert, and General Restyle; held on Saturday the 7th. But the determination of the chiefs was kept secret, and the coming strife was unknown to almost all up to late an Sunday. Before daybreak on the 9th, there were few signs of anything unusual in the trenches, and still fewer in the lines of the enemy. The signal to open was three guns fired on the extreme right. In an instant afterwards, running up tuoi down the line—from the little mounds and hillocks near Inkermane--finin the broad commanding positions. of Green Hill and Gordon's Ilatteriete= from quiet picturesque ravines, where no one dreamt of guns latkitig- high frota the rear on steep and lofty ridges, and away down to the left where the French works stretch out—over low marsh lands to Karaiesoh —from every point of our lines came a hundred streaks of flame and masses of smoke. After this tremendous volley, each gun worked as it could, and a regular file-fire of mortars and heavy guns commenced upon the place." The enemy were or seemed to be surprised. The wind drove the rain and smoke into their batteries. For some minutes not a gun replied; after that, the fire, beginning with the Mamelon, extended to aII the batteries; but it was nearly six o'clock before they were in full play. A heavy lire was directed upon the Mamelon and Malakoff, from the Mortar batteries, the new French batteries towards Inkerman, and the right of Gordon's battery. With its left face Gordon's battery, as- sisted by a new 68-pounder battery, and some mortars, engaged the Redan. The right of Chapman's battery engaged the Garden battery ; the right of Chapman's battery, aided by a battery of ship-guns, and one aide of the French right attack, opened on the Barrack batteries. On the other side of the ravine separating the two armies, the French, close upon the Flagstaff batteries, and the new works in its front, engaged the whole line of the enemy from the Flagstaff to the Quarantine fort. The first day's fire seems to have inflicted great damage on the guns and works of the enemy, judging from the fact, reported in all the letters from the camp, that the firing gradually slackened during the day especially in the Mamelon, Malakoff, the Redan, and the Flagstaff, and that in the evening not more than thirty guns slackly returned our fire. Throughout the night our mortars threw shells, and the French rockets, into the works; but it would seem that the fire had not wholly hindered the enemy from repairing his damage. Next morning, when at dawn the cannonade recommenced, the Russians had recovered from their surprise, and fired heavily from their batteries ; but again the Allies had the best of the encounter. By mid, day the French had silenced eight out of nine guns in the Flagstaff battery, and "shut up the batteries over Inker- man " ; we had silenced half the guns in the Redan and Round Tower; and, in conjunction with the French, we had left the Mamelon only one serviceable gun out of seven. But the Garden and Barrack batteries kept up a brisk fire all day. Summing up the results of the week, on Friday evening, the Times correspondent writes- " The whole of the parapets of the Redan and Bound Tower are jagged and pitted with holes several feet deep, where the shot have sunk, the sharp angles of the embrasures are knocked away, and the abattis in front is con- siderably damaged here and there : but the real strength of the place is un- impaired; and as bug as the Russians can find new guns, fresh supplies of ammunition, and men to fight the batteries, we are not one inch nearer to the town than we were in last October, so long as we rely alone on the fire of our artillery to make us masters of it." This estimate, however, does not quite accord with the statements of the same and other correspondents in different portions of their letters. For instance, the Times correspondent describes the fire of the Flagstaff bat- tery as "crushed" on the 12th; and on the 13th the Herald correspond- ent states that the Russians did not give more than one gun for four of the Allies. On the morning of the 10th, the Russians fired, for half an hour, so rapidly and extensively that "in spite of their utmost the Allies could only fire one gun to five from the enemy." The result of the fire up to the lath, as described by the Herald correspondent, was, that" on the whole the enemy's fire was not half that of the Allies?' The aim of the Allies was to disable the enemy's guns, wherever predicable ; but especially the batteries known as the Flagstaff, the Mundell, Malakofc

and those near the Careening Bay. This, as we have stated, they seemed to have accomplished to a great extent from the 9th to the 14th.

In a despatch to the Minister of War, dated the 14th April, Lord Rag- lan generally confirms the letters in flu:journals.

"The fire of the British Arline ,ry- chiefly directed against the Garden Bat- teries, the Barrack Battery, the Redan, the Malakoff Tower, and the Maine- ion, has been most effective, and the enemy's works have suffered very con. siderably, although they have, as usual, made a good use of tha night to repair damages, notwithstanding that the vertical fire has been continued throughout the twenty-four hours. Our batteries and parapets continue to stand remarkably well, notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather. The enemy's fire has been comparatively slack, but the practice good ; and, owing to their having ascertained the range of our batteries with great nicety, several guns have been disabled in both the right and left attacks."

The casualties up to the 12th had not been numerous. They were, according to the official returns—for the Army, one officer and 21 men killed, four officers and 52 men wounded; and for the Naval Brigade, 21 killed and 73 wounded. The names of the officers killed were— Lieutenant E. Luce, Royal Artillery; Lieutenant Twyford, of the Lon-- don ; Lieutenant Douglas, of the Queen : wounded, Lieutenant Graves, of the Royal Engineers, slightly; Captain Crofton, severely ; Lieutenant J. Sinclair Royal Artillery', severely ; Lieutenant L'Estange, slightly; Captain Sinclair, John Hay, of the Wasp, slightly ; Lieutenant Urmston, of the Queen, slightly ; Lieutenant Steele, R.M.A., slightly ; Lieutenant D'Aeth, of the Sidon, slightly.

General Bizot, Engineer-in-chief of the French Army, was dangerously wounded by a musket-ball. The Emperor has made him a General of Division.

Lord Raglan visited the front every day. Omar Pasha arrived in the camp from Eupatoria on the 9th ; next day he dined with Lord Raglan ; and on subsequent days the English, French, and Turkish Generals, held more than one council at head-quarters. On the 12th, 15,000 Turkish troops landed at Kamiesch and marched to Kadikoi, relieving the Zouaves stationed there. The Zouaves were moved up to the left. The Turks

• arc described as a fine soldierlike body of men. A portion of the Tenth Hussars had arrived from Egypt on the 14th; and 1200 men from the Mediterranean garrisona were expected daily.

The loss of guns on our aide up to Friday afternoon, the 13th, amounted to one 13-inch mortar burst, one Lancaster destroyed by a shot, and four guns disabled. One 24-pounder was burst by a Russian shot that entered the muzzle as the gun was about to be discharged.

DEamt.aex.—On the 12th instant, the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States at Copenhagen formally gave notice that the treaty of that country with Denmark would cease on that day twelve months. This is the first overt step taken by the Washington Government with regard to the *ound dues.

• ITALL—The first of the large fleet of steamers employed to transport the Sardinian contingent from Genoa to the East has unfortunately been destroyed. The Creases, which Bailed from Genoa on the 24th instant, having on board 37 officers, 209 soldiers, and 25 mules, was burnt about eleven miles on her voyage. The whole of the human freight, with the exception of one sailor and six soldiers, were saved.

Neve Scona.—The Foreign Legion in course of organization had up to the latest dates proceeded successfully. At the 2d instant 5000 out of the 10,000 required had been enlisted ; and there seemed no likelihood of diminished supplies, notwithstanding the opposition raised in the United States through the imprudence of the self-appointed recruiting-parties.

The Legislature of Nova Scotia has granted a charter to certain parties to facilitate the construction of an electro-magnetic telegraph line to Eu- rope. The plan is to connect the wires of the Nova Scotia Company with a submarine cable from Ireland. It is designed to open a direct communication between New York and London by the fall of 1868.

INDIA AND Cm:ca.—The usual summary in anticipation of the over- land mail arrived yesterday. The dates are—Bombay, April 3; Hong- kong, March 15. "It is believed a rupture with Persia is imminent; the Shah openly avows his preference for Russia. Mr. Murray left Bagdad for Teheran on the 12th of March. The meeting between Ryder Khan and Mr. Lawrence took place near Peshawur on the 19th of March. Lord Dalhousie reached Ootacamund on the 8th of March, much better in health. The traffic on the Calcutta Railway, exceeds all expectations.,

"Shanghai and Canton have been evacuated by the rebels. The Russian frigate Diana has been lost near Japan, from the effects of an earthquake. The ratification of the Japanese and American treaty took place at &mode on February 21."