off Hango Udd, and sent off a boat, which came ashore
in the vicinity of the telegraph, and landed a small
party under the command of some officers there.
Ensign Sswertschkoff, of the King of Prussia's
Grenadier regiment, to whom this portion of the coast is
entrusted, having been early informed of this enterprise
of the enemy, concentrated some men of his detachment
behind a building opposite the landing-place, and
another portion, under the sub-officer, Peter Pawloff,
he detached along the beach to cut off the retreat of the
English. The enemy, attacked on a sudden, defended
himself but feebly, and laid down his arms. The success
of this affair must be ascribed to the coolness and
the foresight of Ensign Sswertschkoff. The loss of the
enemy amounts to five killed: there were taken
prisoners, one officer, one surgeon, one marine (garde
marin), and eight sailors, of which latter four were
wounded. In addition to the above our troops made
spoil of the flag of the boat, seven muskets, and seven
cutlasses. The boat itself, with one cannon on board,
was sunk. On the following morning the English
frigate came in close to Hango Udd, and fired at the
buildings for about an hour and half, but without doing
them any great harm."

A telegraphic despatch from Dantzic of the 21st,
announces the arrival there of the Lightning with the
mails. She brought word that Lieutenant Geneste,
Dr. Easton, and Mr. Sullivan, are prisoners, but
wounded.

Some temporary alarm has been excited at Paris by
a rather severe illness of the Emperor. It is said that
he was taken ill on the 16th, after attending a council
of Ministers; that he went to bed early; that he was
bled twice; and that the Empress sat up with him the
whole night. But he appears to have soon recovered.

The Senate and Legislative Body have been convoked
for the 2nd July. The Moniteur tells us that "this
convocation is not at all unexpected, as at the close of
last session the government informed the Senators and
the Deputies that financial measures would soon render
their reassembling necessary."

It is generally believed that the Austrian government
has decided on the temporary reduction of the
army. The very prevalent reports on this head have
not been contradicted in any quarter. The Emperor
on his tour of inspection along the Gallician frontier,
had visited Cracow, and had proceeded to the Bukowina,
where he would be met by Count Coronini.

The Emperor of Russia and his brother Constantine
recently paid a visit to Cronstadt, and carefully
examined all the defences. Before he departed, the
Emperor gave each soldier a rouble, and, assembling
the officers, spoke to this effect—"The eyes of the
whole world are again directed towards Cronstadt, that
impregnable key to St. Petersburg; that advanced post
of the fortress of Peter and Paul; that other Sebastopol,
which would in its turn know how to brave all the
attacks of the enemy."

In order, it is supposed, to save expense at this critical
period in the fortunes of Russia, the Emperor has
suppressed the court of the heir-apparent, and has
ordered that it shall be blended with that of the
Empress.

That he might root out the habits of corruption
existing amongst the public functionaries, the Emperor
Nicholas, a little before his death, had ordered that
every judgment should be made public, with the names
of the offenders. This order was carried into execution
on the 4th of May, for the first time. By order of his
Majesty, the President of the Tribunal of Arrondissement
of Nobles, Goloschtschapoff, Captain Wasfil Dolgoff,
Councillor Skopinski, and the secretary Von
Nordenstern, are cashiered and excluded for ever from
serving his Majesty, for sundry offences, deficits, and
irregularities in their accounts.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

Last month's list of new books is not much less
scanty than its predecessor, but it comprises a few
publications of greater importance. The first entitled to
mention is A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith, by
his daughter, Lady Holland, with A Selection from his
Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin. This work is in two
octavo volumes. In the same form, also, Sir David
Brewster has published Memoirs of the Life, Writings,
and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton. The first part of
the Works of Doctor Thomas M'Crie, comprising the
well-known Life of John Knox, has appeared. The
first volume of the long announced Life of George
Washington, by Washington Irving, has been issued
simultaneously here and in America. The Rev.
Edward Tagart has published a volume on Locke's
Writings and Philosophy Historically Considered,
and Mr. Thomas Keightley a similar volume on the Life,
Opinions, and Writings of Milton. Other miscellaneous
works of mark have also made their appearance.
Doctor Smith has completed his edition of
Gibbon's Decline and Fall in Mr. Murray's British
Classics, and has sent forth the most elaborate Latin
English Dictionary, founded on Forcellini and
Freund, that has yet been attempted by any
English scholar. Sir William Hamilton's edition
of Dugald Stewart's Works has reached its seventh
volume, containing the Active and Moral Powers.
Mr. Curran has republished, with several original
additions, his Sketches of the Irish Bar. Mr. Howitt
has published his Australian and Digging Experiences
under the title of Land, Labour, and Gold; or
Two Years in Victoria. Mr. Beste has described, in
two volumes called The Wabash, the adventures of a
gentleman's family in search of a location in the interior
of America. A learned volume on Phœnicia has appeared.
Mr. Warren has abridged and adapted to the existing
law Blackstone's Commentaries. Mr. Cayley has
given us a volumeful of notes to his translation of
Dante's Divine Comedy. The Hon. A. Murray has
written his experiences of Cuba, the United States,
and Canada, in two volumes on Lands of the Slave
and Free. Mr. Keith Johnston has published an
excellent Atlas of Astronomy; and Professor Eastwick
has edited a new edition of the Hindi text, with a perfectly
literal English translation, of a celebrated eastern
collection of Twenty-Five Tales of a Demon. Nor has
the war failed to contribute its quota to the past month's
literature. From Mr. Danby Seymour, M.P., we have
a volume about Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff;
from Mr. Piper, a Popular Military and Naval
Dictionary of War Implements and War Terms; from
Lieut. Col. Hough, a large volume of Precedents in
Military Law; and from Lord De Ros, a Tour in the
Crimea. Finally may be mentioned, the commencement
of a popular edition of Henry Hallam's Historical
Works; a collection of Stories from a Screen, by Dudley
Costello; a little book on The Louvre, or Biography of
a Museum, by Mr. Bayle St. John; a similar volume
on Imperial Paris, by Mr. Blanchard Jerrold; A
Companion in Verse for the English Prayer Book, by
Mr. Robert Montgomery; a treatise by Mr. Geo.
Vandershaff, on The Art of Elocution; a novel called Next
Door Neighbours; the Burnet Prize Treatise, on Theism,
by Doctor Tulloch; Aspen Court, a novel by Mr.
Shirley Brooks; a volume called the Physician for All,
by Doctor Spurgin; a History of the Suppression of
Infanticide, by Doctor John Wilson; an illustration,
by Miss Twining, from the Art of the Early and
Middle Ages, of Types and Figures of the Bible; a
tragedy by Mr. Archer Gurney, on Iphigenia at
Delphi; a volume of poetry, the Music Master, a Love
Story, with other poems, by Mr. Allingham; a novel
called the Jealous Wife, by Miss Pardoe; a metrical
romance, The Briar of Threave and the Lily of Barholm,
by Mr. Henry Inglis; and an elaborate volume
on The Senses and the Intellect, by Alexander Bain.