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We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. cmmunications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. _ . - . Whatever in intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. fir rvgg+ LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1834. POSTSCRIPT. THE WAR. Another telegraphic despatch from Prince Mena chikoff furnishes us with later information respecting the progress of events in the Crimea. It is dated from Sebastopol the 21st of October. The prince says that the Russian fire had success fully answered the fire of the allies. The damage done to the fortifications was but trifling. The tire from the fleets had not continued. A part of the reserve bad arrived. The rest were expected imme diately. Constantinople despatches of the 19th state that no news had yet been received that the bombard ment began on the 17th, as was proposed. Lord Raglan was requested to spare one part of the town where the women and children would be sent. He replied that eould not be, but that they might leave the town unhurt. The British were occupying part of the northern shore of the bay, and their guns command the harbour. _ _ A letter from•Balaklava, in the Morning Post, says, under date of the 18th inst.:— The sortie alleged by the Russian accounts to have been made upon the forces of the allies has been much exaggerated. It originated thus—a party of Sappers and Miners employed in the trenches on the night of the 11th advanced towards Sebastopol, reconnoitring, and, having mistaken their route in returning to the British camp, an overwhelming force of Russians gave chase to them. The whole party gained the British lines in safety. Capt. Cameron, Grenadier Guards ; Lieut. W. Knollys, Scots Fusilier Guards ; Capt. Conolly, 30th Regiment ; Capt. Raines, 95th Regiment ; and Lieut. S. R. Chapman, 20th Regiment, have volunteered to act as engineers, and their services have been accepted by Sir John Burgoyne. The weather has become piercing cold, and the horses are dying rapidly. Out of 3003 effective bayonets in the Guards brigade on the 20th of July, only 1740 are now available. And out of nearly forty officers then attached to each battalion, only fourteen remain on the effective list. The medical officers of the British division have unhappily laid themselves open to severe animadver sion, and the following order was issued by the Com mander-in-Chief on the 11th inst.:— GENERAL ORDER. Camp before Sebastopol, Oct. 11, 1854. The Commander of the Forces is sorry to have to animadvert strongly upon the conduct of the medical de partment in an instance which came under his observation yesterday. The sick were sent down from the camp to Basklava, under charge of a medical officer of the division to which they respectively belonged ; but on their arrival there it. was found that no preparations had been made for their reception. The Commander of the Forces is aware that Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals, Dr. Dum breck, gave the necessary order verbally to the staff medi cal officer at Balaklava ; but that officer neglected to in form his superior officer, std the consequence was that the THE PRESS. sick, many of them in a very suffering state, remained in the streets for several hours, exposed to very inclement weather. The name of the officer who was guilty of this gross neglect is known to the Commander of the Forces. He will not now publish it, but he warns him to be careful in future, and to be cautions how he again exposes himself to censure. Dr. Dumbreck will, on future occasions of importance, give his orders in writing, addressed to the responsible officer. When a convoy of sick is sent from the camp either to the hospital, or to be placed on board ship, it is henceforward to be accompanied not only by a medical officer, but likewise by Deputy-Assistant-Quarter master-General of the division, who will precede it to the place of deposit, and take such steps as may ensure the due reception and core of the men confided to his charge. (Signed) RAGLAN. At Constantinople the wounded are represented as rapidly recovering. On the 11th 500 English and French soldiers were declared to have recovered from the wounds which they had received at the battle of the Alma, and had taken their departure for the Crimea. Dr. Levy and three other surgeons, accom panied by forty assistant-surgeons, were to embark on the 15th for Sebastopol, to establish there a large hospital as soon as the town was taken. Some military operations in Asia are reported by the writer of a letter from Mosul, on September 25, published in yestetday's Moniteur. lie states that the Mushir of Van had attacked the Russian corps, which covered Gumri, and completely dispersed it, with the loss of its tents, baggage, and ammunition, sad thirty guns. A Russian general was killed. The Turks then began to besiege the citadel, when the Russian corps which bad formerly beaten the Turks at Bayazid advanced to the rescue from Erivan. It was, however, completely repulsed, and shut up in a defile, where it suffered considerable loss. The Emperor Napoleon has addressed a kind letter of sympathy to the widow of Marshal St. Arnaud in her affliction, and expresses the deep loss both he and France have sustained in the death of her gallant husband. The pension of Madame Bngean is to be raised to 20,000 f., the same amount granted to widow St. Arnaud. A decree has been issued in Paris, prohibiting the distillation of cereals and other farinaceous sub- " A letter from St. Petersburg," says the Presse, " states that the reserve of the Imperial Guard, composed of 30,000 men, has just been placed on a war footing. The Emperor reviewed them, and availed himself of the opportunity to bless, at the head of his troops, the two .Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas, who, it is said, are to join the active army. The benediction took place with much pomp. The two Grand Dukes went on their knees to receive ' it, and all the troops also knelt." The regiments of the Russian Guards which were on march for Poland have received orders to halt for the present in Volhynia. Letters from Vienna say that the occupation of the Dobrudsch a by the Russians had delayed the entrance of Omer Pacha into Bessarabia. The King of the Belgians is to be at Biebrich, on the Rhine, this day (Saturday), on his return from Switzerland. He will be the guest of the Duke of Nassau till Sunday, and then proceed to Brussels by the train from Cologne. Advices from Munich announce the death of the Queen Dowager from cholera. Letters from Athens state that great dissensions existed among the Ministry, and - that the Greek Ambassador at Constantinople had been recalled. The non •contents in the Greek Cabinet Dave re signed. The municipality of the Pincus have given a ban. quet to the officers of the French expeditionary force. We believe we may state, without fear of contra. diction, that a series of negotiations between the Government of the United States and that of the Republic of San Domingo has resulted in the establishment of a Protectorate on the part of the United States—amounting virtually, if not abso lutely, to the annexation of that portion of the Island of San Domingo which belongs to the republic of that name. The acquisition of so important a position in the West Indies by the Government of the United States—a position threatening on either hand the Spanish islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, and so directly affecting our own West Indian empire— cannot be viewed with indifference. It is mani festly one of the results of that ambitious and aggressive policy which the United States appear determined to pursue on both sides of the Atlantic.— Pest SATURDAY, Mr. Soule, the Minister of the United States at Madrid, who made himself so notorious some timo ago by his quarrel with M. Turgot, the French Minister at the same Court. was on Tuesday last refused permission to enter France on his way from this country to Madrid. An overland mail reached Trieste on Wednesday with advices from Bombay, of Sept. 28; Madras, 24; Calcutta, 18; Singapore, 18 ; and Canton, 9. Trade in India was dull. In China there was much dissension among the rebels, who, however, still held Shanghai, and con tinued to push the siege of Canton. No trade was noted for shipment. An American clipper, the Comet, had arrived at Hong-Kong in eighty-four days from Liverpool. Ix is stated that Lord Bangor (the representative of the family of Southwell•Ward, in the County Down), will be elected, without opposition, to the vacancy in the Irish representative peerage, caused by the death of Lord Dunalley. It is worthy of notice that, owing to the prevalence of Whig opinions, for many years after the Irish Union, several " Liberal" peers were chosen by the Irish nobility. But during the last quarter of a century every peer elected amongst the " Representatives" of the aristocracy of the sister country has been a Conservative. The Earl of Dundonald has been appointed Vice- Admiral of the United Kingdom, vice Sir J. B. Martin, deceased. The Band of the French Guides arrived in London on Thursday, for the express purpose of playing at the grand fête at the Crystal Palace to-day.l Richard Graves Macdonnell, Esq., C. 8., at present Lieut.. Governor of St. Vincent, is to succeed Sir Henry E. F. Young in the Government of South Australia; and Edward John Eyre, Esq., late Lieut.- Governor of New Munster, in New Zealand, is to be the Lieut.-Governor of St. Vincent. The writ for the Limerick election has been re ceived by the High Sheriff, and this day (Saturday) fixed for the nomination. Mr. Sergeant O'Brien will no doubt be returned without opposition. MESSRS. Meaty, the contractors for the Government harbour at Holyhead have been applied to for a superintendent of the BLASTING OPERA [IONS intended against the sunken ships at Sebastopol. One of their employes who bas been accustomed for &period of two or three years to ensure the most accurate effects in exploding large masses of rock at Holyhead has been engaged by the Admiralty to proceed at once to the Crimea on the above service. A GREAT SENSATION was produced in Lisbon by the arrival of Mmes. Alboni and Castellan. But the dilettanti were by no means pleased with the attempt of the manager of the Opera-house to extort more than double the usual prices for boxes and seats in the pit. Mr. Henry Stuart, M.P. for Bedford, died suddenly on Thursday morning. There is, therefore, a va cancy in the representation. A report was prevalent in town yesterday of ftbe death by cholera, in the Crimea, of Sir Cohn Camp bell. We have great satisfaction in stating that the rumour is unfounded. It most probably originated in the fart that another officer of the same name, Captain Cohn Campbell, had fallen a victim to the disease.—Globe. At the Newmarket Races this week the Cambridge shire Stakes were won by Baron Mollendorfs Scherz, with Rattle second. Nineteen ran. The Nursery Stakes yesterday were carried off by Lady Tatton, out of a field of sixteen. Laura Selina was second, and the Moonbeam colt third. Scherz, the winner of the Cam bridgeshire, was bred in Germany, and previously known in England only by the reputation of his con tinental achievements. The trial of the Rev. H. Willoughby for shooting at Mr. Giffard, the barrister, in the Central Criminal Court, took place on Thursday. The offence was clearly proved ; but, after hearing evidence as to the state of the prisoner's mind, the jury returned a verdict of Nut Guilty, on the ground of insanity. The Lord Mayor of Dublin is forming a committee in that city for the purpose of making arrangements for the collection of a fund for the zelief of the wounded. A public meeting of the citizens will be held next week. Meetings are also announced in many of the chief towns in Ireland for the same be nevolent purpose. Some have already taken place. Father Mathew arrived in Liverpool on Thursday week from Cork, preparatory to his departure fcr Madeira, the genial climate of which, it is hoped, will have the effect of reinvigorating his consti tution. The extensive factory of the Irish Beet Sugar Company at Mountmellick, and, it is understood, an the patents and the charter of the company, have been purchased by a gentleman of property in the neighbourhood, Mr. J. G. Adair.