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Letters from the Baltic in the morning journals fully confirm the ac- counts of the doings of Admiral Plumridge at Brahested and Uleaborg, supplied by the telegraph last week. At Brahested, besides pitch, tar, planks, and deals for shipbuilding purposes, five vessels of 1000 tons each, nearly ready to sail, were destroyed. The Admiral landed 200 men. At Uleaborg the inhabitants sent out a flag of truce ; to which Admiral Plumridge replied, by stating that he would spare the town and private property, but he should destroy all warlike stores. The Cossack garrison, 60 in number, vanished on the appearance of the ships. Not more than 50 men were landed, protected by 300 in boats. Here also, besides pitch, tar, and timber, eight new ships and four old ones, were destroyed. Both towns were spared.

Subsequently, Admiral Plumridge paid a visit to Kemi and Ijo; and, it is stated, captured Tornea, with the intention of occupying it. But success has not attended all his operations ; for he appears to have met with a repulse at Gerais Carleby. The news reaches us by telegraph from Stockholm, under date June 20. "The Odin and Vulture landed 150 men. These were attacked by sharp- shooters in ambuscade, and by a masked battery of fire guns. Lieutenant Carrington, a midshipman, a mate, and three men fell ; two officers and 14 men were wounded ; one boat was lost; 28 men and one mate were taken by the Russians; whose commander was killed." At last the French fleet has joined the British. That interesting event

took place at Bomsund, twenty miles from Sweaborg. When the French Admiral descried the British fleet, he hoisted the English ensign at the main. And so they met.

Rear-Admiral Price, Commander-in-chief on the Pacific station, issued a "general memorandum" to the officers, seamen, and marines under his command, dated " H.M.S. President, at Callao, May 9." Be announces the Queen's commands that they should commence hostilities against everything Russian, by land and sea ; that there is much to be done ; that "Great Britain has a right to expect a proper account of the Russian frigates" known to be on the station, and privateers that "it is known won will be." He expresses his confidence in the squadron ; and, as the time is at band when they might calculate on being in action with the enemy, he trusts that by daily practice they would make themselves "not only superior to the enemy, but inferior to none in the world."

The first of six steam gun-boats, now building for service in the Baltic, has been launched. Only eight weeks have passed since the first keel was laid. These boats will carry two large pivot and six broadside guns ; they will be the fastest, and comparatively the strongest vessels in the fleet. They are building in the yards of Messrs. Green and Mr. Mare.

The Board of Ordnance has purchased upwards of 2000 revolving pis- tols from Colonel Colt, for the use of the public service.

The Coloneleies of the Nineteenth and Eighty-fourth Regiments of Foot, now vacant, are to be given to Major-General Rowan, commanding the troops in Canada, and Major-General. Shaw Kennedy ; each of whom was present at Waterloo. The new Dean of Windsor is the Queen's domestic chaplain, the Rever- end Gerard Wellesley.

Lord Hobart and Mr. Samuel Whitbread M.P. have been appointed as private secretaries to Sir George Grey, the new Colonial Minister.

The Central Association in aid of the wives and families, widows and orphans of soldiers ordered on active service, has issued a report of its operations. From the detailed list of cases of distress relieved by the Association, it would appear to have rendered essential service to the poor women in question, and to be really working well.

It is probable that the Reverend Mr. Marshall's second application on behalf of the widow of the Ettrick Shepherd will be successful ; and that Lord Aberdeen will take an early opportunity of increasing her pension.

From the Department of Practical Art directions have been issued for the formation of collections of glass, lace, metals, ivory carvings, pottery, paper hangings, and woven fabrics, for the use of the local schools. The collections will be sent, on specified conditions, to the schools in rotation.

Full particulars of the loss of the Europa troop-ship, on her way to the East, with a detachment of the Sixth Dragoons, under Lieutenant-Colonel Moore, are supplied by affidavits sworn before the Gibraltar Magistrates by some of the persons rescued. The Master, William Gardiner, deposes, that he was sitting in his cabin at ten p. on. on the night of the 31st May, with Colonel Moore, when the alarm of fire was given. lie ran below, and, aided by the Dragoons, threw water on the fire; but soon found that it had com- plete hold of the ship. Finding he could not put out the fire, he went on deck, and bore up for a barque and brig in the distance. The soldiers seemed disposed to get into the boats, but refrained on the order of himself and their Colonel. He went below again, and on his return found both the quarter-boats had been lowered. Seeing the wheel deserted, he took it; and while there, heard the Admiralty agent's gig let go by the run. He called for the mate and crew; the second mate and two men only answered. With great exertion, the spare quarter-boat was launched, with Mr. Black, the Admiralty agent, and Cornet Trurrion. The second mate said this was the last opportunity, and asked and obtained permission to go. Mr. Gar- diner pointed out to Colonel Moore that this was the last opportunity ; but Colonel Moore said he would do as the Master did, and stick by him to the last. The soldiers urged him to go, as he was an old man ; but he refused. There was then none of the crew on board besides the carpenter and an or- dinary seaman. They tried to launch the horse-boat, but the fire prevented them from getting at the proper tackles. He saw a light, and put the helm down for the vessel to come up; but it disappeared. While the ship had been to the wind, the flames had so increased that they were driven to the poop : the main-mast fell overboard, then the fore-mast ; they were driven to the mizzen-channels, and remained there until the mizzen-mast fell over the stern. Some men were sitting on the rim of the top of the main-mast, and Mr. Gardiner urged Colonel Moore to go with him to that place, but he said he could not ; afterwards he urged him to go forward, and told the sol- diers to follow him if they were able ; one soldier attempted the passage, but failed, and only Mr. Gardiner and the carpenter reached the fore-chan- nels; whence they were taken by the boat of the brig Clemanthe. The other deponents were, Lieutenant Weir, George Nugent, a private dragoon, Lieutenant Black, Admiralty agent, and Joseph Ginder, chief mate. Lieutenant Weir was pushed into a boat with Lieutenant Black. The sol- diers, he says, behaved well, until the crew lowered the boats, and then they tried to get away. Joseph Ginder stated, that when he went aft to look for priming for a signal-gun, he found that the boats had been lowered ; and in the confusion he was pitched into the stern-boat. When they were cut adrift, the boat was half full of water, and they had only a pair of slippers to bail with. Lieutenant Black deposed, that the soldiers and sailors were under no control whatever. The boat he got into was launched without oars. The Master refused to give them any, saying they would leave the ship if he did. They were cut adrift without oars, and were picked up by the chief mate, and towed to the Kenneth Kingsford schooner. Nugent, the private, simply deposed that he helped to extinguish a fire that broke out in the seamen's berth on the morning or morning before the fire. This fire consisted of the burning of a pair of woollen stockings.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Ten weeks 'Week of 1844-'53. 0( 1851.

Zymotic Diseases 1,912 .... 278 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat . 430 .... 60 Tubercular Diseases 1,846 .... 200 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,083 .... 126 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 336 .... 37 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,079 .... 162 Diseages of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 666 .... 58 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc. 112 .... 17

Childbirth diseases of the Uterus Sc.

97 .... 8 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc.

72 .... li

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc, 12 .... .

Malformations. 33 .... i Premature liirtb 240 .... 12 Atrophy 201 .... 93 Age 392 .... 41 Sudden 97 .... 11

Violence,Prlyation, Cold, and Intemperance

939 .... 21

Total (Including unspecified causes)

5,918

1,085

A grand concert given by Mrs. Bates in Arlington Street, on Wednesday evening, was honoured with the presence of the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge.

The anniversary dinner of the noblemen and gentlemen educated at Westminster School was held on Wednesday, at the Thatched House Tavern.

The Emperor of Austria, in order to give an agreeable surprise to the young Empress during her late visit to Ploschkowitz, had a room in that chateau fitted up precisely similar to that which she occupied at Possenhofen ; and her Majesty even found on a table some fancy-work which she had left unfinished when she quitted her paternal residence.

Among the passengers to Havre in the American steamer Franklin, were Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, of Baltimore, and his son, who is a Lieutenant in the United States Army. Mr. Jerome Bonaparte is a son of Prince Je- rome, now President of the French Senate, and Mrs. Patterson, formerly his wife. Both father and son visit France by invitation of the Emperor and Empress ; but the father will soon return to his American estates, while the son will probably make the tour of Europe during the period of his furlough. It is remarked that the United States have no reason to fear the loss of their two respected citizens by their engaging in the politics and troubles of Europe.

Vice-Admiral Parseval-Deschenes, who commands the French fleet in the Baltic, is in his sixty-fourth year. Be served in the Bucentaur at Trafal- gar, where he earned promotion. He is reported to be popular with men and officers.

Rear-Admiral Boxer, accompanied by a "distinguished mineralogist," has inspected the coal-mines at Heracha, &Woo, and Zungeldaz, on the Northern coast of the Black Sea. The coal is reported to be of an excellent quality, and may be delivered on board ship at 11. per ton.

In consequence of a complaint that the crew of the Star, 16, Commander C. W. Warren, had been harshly treated, the Admiralty ordered Vice-Ad- miral the Honourable Jocelyn Percy, Commander-in-chief at Sheerness, to make an investigation. The upshot has been, that the Admiral has repri- manded both Commander Warren and his crew. The crew are to sail again under Commander Warren : they are much dissatisfied, and three have run away.

A petition presented by Mr. Bright the other day has been printed with the Votes of the House of Commons. The two petitioners, parishioners of Ringwood, Hants, labourers, earning less than 98. 6d. a week each, and each having a wife and two children entirely dependent on him for support, were arrested on the 24th of April, handcuffed together, though offering no resistance, and, after being kept in hold till next day, conveyed to Win- chester GaoL There they were treated as felons—stripped, washed, clothed in the prison-dress, allowed no communication with their friends even by letter, and kept in continual confinement in a cell measuring about nine feet by five, with the exception of about an hour daily for exercise, during which they were compelled to wear a mask. They state that they were subjected to this degradation because they were utterly unable to pay the church-rates demanded of them—is. 9d. and 18. 10d. They are now at liberty, in con- sequence of a public subscription having been set on foot to procure their re- lease.

Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson have commenced the sale of the fine col- lection of Anglo-Saxon and early English coins made by the late Mr. J. Dodsley Cuff. Some of the pieces fetched very high prices. The ancient British gold coins of Cunobeline, struck at Colchester, brought from 3/. to 60/. each ; three Anglo-Saxon silver pennies were bought for the British Museum—Beornvulf, 28/. 10s., Ludica, 621., and Wiglaf, 51/. ; a crown- piece or medal of Henry the Eighth, of which three only are known to exist, brought 1401.; the rare double-sovereign of Edward the Sixth, 771., and the ryal of Mary, 801.

There is a movement in Glasgow to raise the price of newspapers on ac- count of the increased price of paper. The Birmingham Mercury has already added a halfpenny to its price on that amount.

A work on the law of storms, by Mr. Fiddington, has been translated into Chinese for the benefit of the seafaring Chinamen, at the expense of Sir John Bowring.

The King of the Two Sicilies has just consented to the formation of a com- pany for the erection of a crystal palace at Naples, for a winter garden.

Sladaradatch, the witty Berlin Punch, 'places the following dialogue in the mouths of Schultze and Muller. "I say, Miller, I am going to insure my life." "So ! where, then ?" "In the Russian army." "Well, that is a queer fancy." "Not a bit. When a hundred thousand Russians fight battles, they never lose more than one man, and that a Cossack. Isn't that a good speculation?' "I can't deny it !"

A white "blackbird," or a pure white specimen of the grey or scarecrow species, has been killed at Sheffield, near Maryborough in Ireland.

According to the Kilmarnock Tournal, the Queen is a rather extensive shareholder in the water company of the town.

The arrivals of the precious metals last week were very large—nearly 800,0001.; while the exports were only about 150,0001. On Monday the Australian steamer brought 508,000/. worth of gold.

Pauper immigration from Ireland into England, by way of Liverpool, during the first three months of this year, was only half the amount or the same period last year.