3 MAY 1856, Page 12

A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg states that the "navigation in

the Gulf of Riga was reopened on the 26th ultimo, when the Swedish screw-steamer the Halt arrived at Riga with a cargo of salt. Eighty other vessels were in sight."

A notification in the Gazette states that the officers and crews employed before Sebastopol and in the Sea of Azoif will have a medal inscribed "Sebastopol," and a clasp inscribed " Azoff."