The Press. — London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

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Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, nut necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of Lia good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. ytt :Ii! To g+ LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1855. POSTSCRIPT. The Globe of last evening denies the accuracy of the telegraphic message purporting to come from St. Petersburg, and reporting that the Russian infantry bad retired before the increase of the allied forces. That journal states :—" We have good reasons for regarding as undeserving of serious attention the intelligence which reached London by telegraph from Hamburg last evening, and which is repeated to-day in a different form from Berlin. It it be not altogether without foundation, it at least is based upon some movement by no means of the importance with which the telegraphic message invests it. We can positively state that the allies have not ' landed 20,000 men at Eupatoria.' As to the number of their forces now there, we think it as well to be silent. Prince Gortschakoff is an able general, and can doubtless ascertain for himself." _ A letter from Berlin of the 2.3 rd, of the probable evacuation by Gortqchakoff of the northern forts, should he find his position untenable, says :—" Various circumstances at St. Petersburg seem to indicate that Prince Gortschakoff will soon evacuate the forts to the north of Sebastopol. These forts, since the destruction of the Russian fleet and the naval estab lishments, are only strategic points. Well-informed people say that if the Russian general should con sider it desirable to concentrate his forces in the interior of the Crimea, he will not leave in the rear the garrisons of the forts." A letter from Vienna of the 22nd, in the Indkpen dance of Brussels, says :—" From the accounts which have been received here it would appear that the allies are actively preparing for a campaign, and doubtless they have it in contemplation to force the Russian line of defence of Tscherken Kerman, or, in other words, to make a diversion against Baktschi- Serai. This town, which contains 1,500 houses, and 10,000 inhabitants, is the station of the reserve of the Russian army which holds the plateaux of the Belbeck. From 300 to 400 deserters, most of them Poles, have arrived at the allied camp; they relate that the demoralisation of the Russian army was most complete; and that such was the confusion from the first moment of the attack, that the sol. diers, exhausted with fatigue, remained for twenty four hours without provisions. The loss of the Russians is estimated at 18,000 men." The Patrie furnishes some information both as to the Russian fire from the northern aide, and the efforts making by the allies to restore the works of Sebasto pol :—" Since the Russians retreated to the north they have continued to send us shot and shell. It must not, in fact, be believed that we are actually out of the range of the batteries situated on the edge of the northern roadstead and those of the Plateau. The shot from Foit Constantine reach as far as the Bay of Streletska, which is at a greater distance, and it is therefore very easy for those guns to reach the town. As to the batteries of the other forts, their extreme range goes beyond the place, and can reach our most advanced siege works. But if the fire of the Russians has not ceased, it results, from our correspondence, that it is not very warm. In Sebas topol our engineers and artillerymen are not idle. Fort St. Nicholas, Which, as we have announced, fell into our hands almost uninjured, has been already rtt into a good stoo l and its gulls 'greed?' Tetticu the TIIE PRESS. fire of the enemy. It is besides useful to add that any offensive attempt on the part of the Russians is impossible." Accounts from Constantinople of the 17th state that the Turkish troops intended for Asia have been sent to Eupatoria. Ten vessels have already sailed. A despatch from Vienna, Thursday, says :—" Kars is greatly straitened for provisions. The garrison is eating horseflesh." The Russians have abandoned the neighbourhood of Erzeroum, and are at Malagu-leiman. The Emperor Alexander, according to leters re ceived from St. Petersburg, has approved of a law which has been presented to him by the Minister of Finance, relative to a compleie reform in the old system of commerce with China, by way of Kiachta. The Duke and Duchess of Brabant are to proceed to Paris on the 12th October. The King of Sardinia is not expected there, owing to his late illness, until the end of that month. The Piedmontese papers contain a second letter by Signor Monin, addressed to Signor valerio, a deputy. This letter incloses a copy of the writer's previous letter to the Paris papers, and amplifies it. The Republican party so much calumniated, he says, makes a new act of abnegation and sacrifice to the national cause. " That party says t•) the house of Savoy —Remember Italy, and we are with you. They say to the Constitutionalists—Take thought for making Italy, and not for aggrandising Piedmont. Be Italians, not burghers, and we are with you, if not, not." " I, a Republican, raise the standard of union." Letters from Athens of the 17th, state that the news of the fall of Sebastopol had produced in that city the utmost joy among the national party, and the deepest consternation and dismay among the partisans of Russia, who were always boasting of the invincibility of the Czar, and the impossibility of the allies ever succeeding. The Ministers lost no time in waiting on the French and English Ambas sadors to offer their warmest congratulations on the happy event. The question relative to M. Kalergi has not yet been resolved. MR. COXWELL, the mronaut, made a most snc• cessful ascent at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, on Monday last, and after a rapid journey descended in safety on the borders of Hampshire. Mr. Coxwell, on this occasion, contemplated using the system of telegraphic signals invented by himself, and satisfac torily demonstrated in several previous instances, but the boisterous state of the weather frustrated his intentions. IN the Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday, the affairs of Partridge and Oakey, of Paternoster•row, came on for hearing. Their accounts extend from November 1, 1853, to August 9, 1855, and contain the following items :—Dr: Unsecured creditors, 10,454/. ; secured ditto, 1,5791.; liabilities, 1,7511.; profits, 1,9801. Cr.: Good debtors, 710/. ; doubtful, 794/. ; bad, 6101.; property given up to assignees, 1,2601.; ca.sh, 23/. ; property held by secured creditors, 8501.; works in progress, 1201. ; joint speculations estimated to realise 3501.; losses, 6,3111.; trade expenses, 2,921/. ; law charges, 2041. ; drawings by Partridge, 590/. ; by Oakey, 7291.; ditto by T. Sercombe during his partnership with us between November, 1853, and March, 1854, 1201.; deficiency, November 1, 1853, 4,567/. The list of creditors includes this novel description :—" Mother of twenty children," 11. The following institutions are also entered as credi_ tors for various small sums :—Borough.road Schoo_ Calvin Translation Society, Evangelical Tract Associ ation, Irish Church Mission, British and Foreign Bible Society, Protestant Malta College, Night Refnge, Ragged School Union, Highland Emigration Society, Emigration Fund, Deaconness's Institution, Society for Female Penitents, Tuscany Christians, Samaritans at Naiton, Protestants at Neurvica, New Church at Lyons, City Mission, Aged Pilgrims, Pro testant Ministry, London Jews Society, London Mis sionary Society, British Missions, Female Refuge, Colonial Society, Ragged School, Thirsk ; Sick and Wounded in the East, Patagonian Mission, Protes tant Hospital, Genoa; Hungary Lyceum, Distressed Jews, Distress in Silesia, Peru Convalescent Institu tion, Religious Tract Society, Sabbath Committee. The list of works in progress include, " How to Choose a Wife," and the joint speculation is in Tait's Magazine, the bankrupts being the holders of two shares, and Mr. W. Wilk, Fleet-street, and F. Young, Gough-square, one share each. The bankrupts passed their exiluilyit4on unopposed, SATURDAY, WINTER OPERATIONS IN THE CRIMEA. ON Thursday orders were forwarded to the Ordnance storekeepers in the Tower and Woolwich Arsenal to forward without delay to the various outports, for shipment to the Crimea, as many of the new pattern blankets and rugs, waterproof coats and capes, ox hide boots, and Canada stoves, besides the requisit e culinary stores, as may be ready for delivery. Nearly the whole of the huts contracted for by Messrs. Cubitt and Lucas Brothers are completed, and a very large number have been forwarded to their destination. As the question of further operations at this season of the year in the Crimea naturally arises, it is worthy of note that many of the Russian successes in that quarter last century were obtained in the wintry season. It is recorded in "Nash's Historical Researches " that, as late as December, in 1708, Marshal Lacy, an Irish exile in the Russian service, was detached with 15,000 men to the Ukraine ; in December, 1789, the Russians fought and gained a great victory on the Don ; in January following, the battle of Bender, where another of the Lacy family served with éclat. In 1787, Potemkin led his army against the Turks and Tartars in the Crimea so late as November, and gained several victories up to as late as the 3rd of December. Marshal Francis Lacy, of Austria, also led the Austrian armies to several victories on the Danube and its tributaries. So late as the 17th of December Oczakoff was stormed by General Maurice de Lacy, another Irish warrior. In the campaign of 1790 the several forts of Kenia, Tulsea. Isaachia, and Ischatel, on the Danube and Black Sea, were stormed and taken between October and the 18th of November. The great Ismail, "the Impregnable," was invested on the Ist of December, the batteries opened on the 20th, and the fortress stormed on the 22nd, by General Maurice Lacy, who headed the first attacking party, and took it after four hours' carnage. During these opera• tions the Turks were masters of the Black Sea, Sea of Azoff, and the Crimea. The nephew of that general, Cornet Pierse, also served in the war of 1828-9. SLAVE LABOUR. TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS." Sir,—l take the following from a Jamaica paper of Liberal views, the Morning Journal, of August the 4th : Thus, in whatever aspect the sugar question is viewed, it will be but too apparent that our planters, while they have to pay their labourers wages, however low such wages may be, cannot compete with those who have an almost unlimited command of slave labour at their disposal. . . . One thing is certain, however, that whether or not sugar cultivation in Jamaica ever experiences a revival, or whether it becomes extinct, the time has arrived when, if it is desired that the island shall enjoy even a moderate share of prosperity, united and well•directed efforts must be made for the development of our innumerable resources. The argument, that well-directed efforts must be made to obtain even a moderate share of prosperity, seems, to say the least of it, a singular one, after stating that while they have to pay their labourers wages they cannot compete with slave-owners in the production of sugar, as in any other tropical produc tion the negro slave would be still equally valuable over the negro freeman, and bears out the fact of the increasing value of the slave, which I stated in a letter you did me the honour to insert in THE PRESS of Saturday last.—Yours, sir, most obediently, ANTI-SLAVERY. September 25, 1855. AN OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA AT MARSEILLES has compelled the authorities at Malta to impose a quarantine of observation of five days from depar ture, or, in case of attack at sea, from the date of such attack. Despatches from her Majesty's con sulates at Naples and Messina report the imposition of a quarantine of fifteen days on arrivals from Malta; and the same course is said to have been adopted in Greece, owing to a ease or two of cholera among the military. THE IRON CHURCH erected on the vicarage grounds at Kensington, will be opened by Archdeacon Sinclair on Sunday next. It is handsomely fitted up for the accommodation of about 800 persons, and is the first sacred edifice of this material put up in the metro polis. The arrangement is, that five shillings a year shall be paid for each sitting to the contractors, Messrs. Hemming and Co., of the Clift Iron Works, Bow ; and if the proceeds of the seat-rents do not suffice to meet the annual expenses, the deficiency will be made up by the Archdeacon. If a surplus is realised, it will be applied in aid of the fund fc , r building a permanent edifice in stone. This expe dient for providing means cif public worship may he usefully resorted to in poor districts, where no funds for church-building can be raised, or in parishes such as Kensington, where several churches have been built by voluntary contribution, but where, owing to the rapid increase of population, further provision is still urgently required. The new chutvit dedicated to St, rod,