The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-02 00:00:00

MONEY ill A VI4',ET ANTI) COMMERCIAL IMELLIGENCE. i TY, Tw(i LOC fi The Liverpool Cotton Mlrket yesterday closed very firmly, and prices of American were id. per lb., and Surat and Egyptian were id. per lb., dearer than last week. The .other descriptions were unchanged. The sales were 8,000 bales, 1,000 on speculation, comprising 310 Pernam and Marauham, sad. to 6: 3 c d. ; 200 Bahia, sid. to 61. ; 400 Egyptian, sd. to lid. ; and 1,000 Surat, 3id. to 4id. per lb. Imports for the week 25,000 bales. Yesterday was a holiday in the Railway Share Market. There has been a firm market this. week for co lonial produce, and full rates have been obtained. British Plantation sugar has been in active request, and has risen as much as 3s. 6d. per cwt. as com pared with last Friday's rates. Most kinds of foreign have realised high prices, and Bengal and Mauritius sorts are 2s. to 2s. 6d. dearer. Refined brown lumps have found buyers at 629. to 635. per cwt. ; but many of the sellers asked 655. Both for Plantation and Native Ceylon coffee there has been a fair inquiry, at previous currencies. Rice has ruled firm but dull, and has gone freely at 3s. to 4s. per cwt. advance. The public sales of tea passed off very quietly. Saltpetre has been taken freely. Tallow has risen to 665. and 665. 6d. for P.Y.C. on the spot. The festival of All Saints occurring on the Ist of this month (yesterday) it was a holiday on the Paris Bourse. Although business was suspended in the Exchange, a few transactions in the Three per Cent. Rentes on the Boulevards were quoted at 64f. 10c. for money. The mass of bills falling due to-morrow, as the 4th is Sunday, will be very heavy, and the effect has already been felt in the money market ; the demand for discount accommodation having become very active. It is considered likely that some firms, whose position, for some time, has not been very satisfactory, may succumb, and a firm extensively engaged in the Spanish and Italian oil, sulphur, and fruit trade, is already reported to he in diffi culties. The liabilities are stated to be large, but we refrain from giving the name at present. The market for English Stocks is rather firmer, but had it not been for some large specula tive purchases the prices would most likely have declined, as the money market is tight, owing to the heavy amount of bills pay able to-morrow, and rumours are circulating to the effect that the Bank of England Return, to be published to-night, will show a further large diminution in the bullion. Consols opened at 871 and are now about 874 to 88 both for money and account. The December quotations are 88 to 4. The New 3 per Cents. are 87i 4, and the Reduced 864 to 874. Exchequer Bills are 10s. to 4s. dis count. The New 21 per Cen s. are 72. The Foreign Stock Market is generally well sup ported. Still, as compared with Wednesday's closing rates, some weakness is observable in Turkish Six per Cents., which have ranged from 781 to 79. The new Scrip is steady at 3 to 3 dis count. Spanish Passive Bonds are si, and Sar dinian Five per Cents. 841. Russian Five per Cents. are marked 954, and Belgian Four-and-a- Half per Cents. 901 to 914. Dutch Four per Cents. have risen to 93i. Mexican Stock is heavy at 191 to 194, owing to the unsettled condition of the Republic. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, 19i to 4 ; Peruvian, 72 to 4 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 4; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 5 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 8 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 8 ; Spanish New Deferred, 194 to ; ditto Three per Cents., 374 to 8 ; ditto Certificates, 44 to ; ditto Pas sive, 4i to s±. Tke last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as follow : 1855. 18M. £2.5.905 £23,070 Great Western North-Western South-Western Brighton .. 14,489 15,243 Midland South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern Railway shares are generally steady, but in some cases we notice a decline. Great Northern, Cale donian, South-Western, and Midland are firm. The Foreign lines are inactive but steady. Great Western of Canada are again rather lower. Mining and Banking shares are without any par ticular alteration. Canada Land shares have dropped 51. Royal Mail Steam are about 1/. higher. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. Prom the Oniciat List. Ittl4.rooa. ;to. Bank Stock .......... 3 itetluced 3 per Cent Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 24 per Cent. Annuities 72 Lne Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 18" P Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 33 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 161 Ildia Bonds, £lOOO .......... Ditto, under £lOOO 4 Irisols .or Account B7& $ Etchequer Bills, 241 £IOOO 1-'500 Bml3 l Exchequer Bonds 1858,34 per Cent... 984 Ditto 1859, ~ .. 98. tj PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS TF-IP-4 DAY. Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent. ..... 104 11 !stem' 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 19343 x d Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. St 954 Sa thnian Bonds, 5 per Cent. . ....... ...•• 81 Spanish Beads, 3 per Cent Ditto for the account 374 Ditto Passive 54 Turkish Maids, 6 psr cent 79A Ditto for the Account 7Bl a 9 8i 94 Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. 3 2i Ditto for the Account 31 3 Dividends on the above Dal able In Lonoon. Belgian Bonds, 24 per Cent. ex. 25 fr — Ditto 4. per Cent. Ex. 25 fr 904 11 x d Dutch Kxchange. 24 per cent. 12 Guil.... Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. .. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols . • Ditto for the ceount Nov. 8 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LoNT)011, Nov. 2.—Wind 'his day 4 noon, N.W. light breeze and dull hazy weather. Cowzs, Nov. I.—Wind N. by E.—Sailed—Victor, for Guadaloupe. Off the port—ldalia, from Akyab. PLYMOUTH, Nov. I.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Alma and Alba, for Sydney, N.S.W. BRIDLINGTON, Nov. I.—Wind N.—Arrived— Onder netning, from Newcastle, for Amsterdam, leaky, with loss of bowsprit, foretopmast, &0., and decks swept ; Kitty, Newcastle, for Inverness, very leaky; Naiad. Hamburg, for Hartlepool, with bow stove, loss of . bowsprit,kc having been run into, whil s t at anchor, by th e b r i g "Mar garet, of Sunderland. HARTLEPOOL, Nov.l : —lt is blowing very strong from the no rthward. The Tweed, of Shi e ld s, from Hamburg, and another brig, from Hamburg supp ose d to be the Mo. narch, are on shore. WHITBY, Nov. I.—lt is blowing a gale from the north. The Meurider, of and from Grimstadt, for Newcastle, is on shore in a bad condition ; three of the crew drowned. The Hannah, of Goole, is a total wreck. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.—TheWilliam Libby sailed hence yesterday for Calcutta, but put back leaky, having struck on the bar. (NIB ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTII.4.3IPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived—Wonder (s), from Havre; City of Limerick (s.), Dublin ; Thetis, Longsund. Sailed—City of Limerick (s), for London; Navarino , Sydney. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind, N. Off.—Delta. Sailed.—Ella A. Clark, for New Orleans; Town of Li verpool and Enthusiast, Pernambuco. tl3l. HUBMAllatils AND eurrtsu TELEGRAPIL , GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.49 a.m. Wind W. ; tide, half hour's ebb ; hazy. Arrived.—Rensean, from Emden. DEAL, Friday, 9.34 a.m. Wind, W. : moderate. Passed.—/El./41.5. Rhadamanthus, from Portsmouth, for Woolwich. Sailed.—H.M.S. Sanspariel, for Sheerness. Anchored.— Winscales, from Moulmein ; Prince Charlie, from Colombo—both for London. The French gun-boat Baltic got on the Goodwin Sands last night. She was got off again and assisted into Rams gate harbour. LOST Sun's.— CALcuTre, Sept. 22.—The Constance Emma, Abernethy, has been lost off Ras Bennas, African side of the Red Sea. Crew saved, and gone to JeddaF. The Derreau (?), Carmichael, has been wrecked at Poore. Mem.—The Dream, Carmicheal, sailed from the Cryde, the 12th of June, for Calcutta. Hong- Kong, Sept. 15. —Tile Marie (Prussian brig), Pieper, has been burnt off the coast of Formosa. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) MICHAEL:4IAS TERM. This being the fir .4 day of tcrin, the Judges and members of the bar were received by the Lord Chan cellor, at his official re,idence, and entertained at break fast, accurding to usual coqnm. After which his Lord ship and the Judges repaired to We , twinster Hall, and commenced the business of the Court a little before two o'clock. The amount of business to be di.posed of is believed to be heavy, consisting principally of new cases, the arrears in the three Courts numbering only 57 rules. Mr. Justice Willes (successor to Mr. Justice Maule) took his seat for the first time this morning since his ele vation to the Bench, in the Court of Common Plea QUEEN'S BENCff. (Sittings in Banco.) (Before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Mr. Justice Cole ridge, Mr. Justice Wigbtman, and Mr. Justice E,rle.) The following gentlemen having recently been ap pointed Queen's Counsel, were called within the bar, and took their seats accordingly :—Mr. Whitmore, Mr. 0 verend, Mr. Boy ille, Mr. Jas. Wilde, anl Mr. Pickering. ANDREWS AND ANOTHER V. PLUMMER Mr. Sergeant Shee moved that that pot tion of the rule made in this case, on the application of the plaintiff on 221 June last, for a new trial, erjrining the payment of costs, first should be discharged. The action was brought by the plaintiff, as executor of James Andrews, for the recovery of 501. money lent to the defen dant. The action was tried at the last Surrey Assizes, when a verdict was given for the defendant. The plaintiff after that applied to the court for a new trial on affidavits, on the ground of sur prise. The Court granted the application, making the rule absolute on the payment of costs. The motion the learned counsel now made was founded on affidavits charging gross perjury on the trial on the part of the defendant, and in the affidavits which were made by him against the application to this court for a new trial. Since that the defendant had committed the perjury, and had been coramitted for trial thereon. His applica tion now was not to interfere with the rule granted by their lordships other than that pat t which wade it com pulsory on the plaintiff to pay the costs to be discharged. Their lordships directed the costs to abide the result of the trial. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. • Their lordships took their seats at two o'clock, and after disposing of a motio❑ relating to a bill of cost., the court adjourned at half-past two o'clock. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. :Before Chief Justice Jervis, Mr. Justice Crowder, and Mr. Justice Willes.) TELEGRAPH LIABILITY. - M 'ANDREW V. THE LOTHBURY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. This was an application for a new tri 0. The action was tried at the last Guildhall sittings, and was brought by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover da mages for mis-sending a message. The plaintiff on the trial was non-suited. Their lordships took time to consider their judgment. The Court adjourned at a quarter to 3 o'clock, CRIMINAL COURT.--(This Day.) This morning being the first day of term, a special session of this court was held for the purpose of enabling the Judges to appoint the days upon which these ses- Eions will commence during the ensuing Mayoralty. The following are the dates :-1855 : Monday, Nov. 26 ; Dec. 17. 1856: Jan. 7 ; Feb. 4 ; March 3 ; April 7 ; May 12 ; June 16 ; July 7 ; Aug. 13 ; Sept. 15 ; Oct. 27. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) SOUTHWARK. CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—Robert Husband, a tall, rough-looking fellow, who stated himself .to be a porter, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with being concerned with another man not in custody charged with stealing a sovereign, the property of Margaret Webb, at the London and Brighton Railway Terminus, London-bridge. The prosecutor, a servant out of place, stated that yesterday afternoon she left Kensington by an opanilius to go to the Brighton railway station. She bad two boxes with her, containing wearing apparel, and when the omnibus arrived at the Mansion-house she alighted, as the vehicle did not go any further. As the conductor was putting her boxes on the pavement, the prisoner and another man came up to her and asked her whether she was going to the railway. She replied that she was go ing to Brighton. Tile prisoner then called the other man to him, and they said they were porters and would carry her luggage to the station. She allowed them to do so, and when they entered the station she pulled her purse out to pay them, and on taking out a sovereign the other man said, " Give that to me, I'll go and purchase your ticket foryou and bring you back the change, when you can pay us both." The ma❑ then went away, when the prisoner said, " You have plenty of silver and gold in your purse, pay me, and let me go." \Vitoess told him that she wanted the silver, and he must wait till his companion returned. She remained wait ing for some moments, when the prisoner said ho would go and look after the other man. He then went to wards the booking-office, and finding neither of them return she went in search of them, but they could not he found. One of the railway officials came towards her at the time, when she told him all that had occurred, and in the course of the evening the prisoner was appre hended. Thomas Richards, a detective officer in the employ of the Brighton Railway Company, raid tltat about two o'clock yesterday afternoon he saw the female standing on the platform near her two boxes. He went up to her and asked her what she wanted, when she told him she had given a porter a sovereign to go and purchase a ticket for her in the booking-office, and he had not re turned. She then gave him a description of the men who brought her boxes from the Mansion-house, and he went there shor ly afterwards and saw the prisoner standing near the omnibuses. He went up to him and told him he wanted him for being concerned in stealing a sovereign from a female at the Brighton station. He at first denied being there, but afterwards he acknow ledged being there, and that the other man had the lady's sovereign. When he was at the police-station he offered to pay the female the sovereign back if she did not appear against him at the police court. Witness knew the prisoner to be connected with a gang of loungers who prowled about omnibuses and railway sta tions to plunder country people of their luggage and money. Mr. Combe said there was no evidence against the prisoner, as the prosecutrix admitted she never gave him the sovereign► ; therefore he must be discharged. OUR PSEUDO CONVERTIBLE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OT THE SUN. Sin,—The almost universal belief that England has a sound gold currency is the great fallacy of the age. If you, Mr. Editor, owe your type-founder 1001. he can not insist on your paying him in gold, and he must bo satisfied if you tender him Bank of England notes. If your banker owes you 1,0001. you cannot compel him to pay you any part of it in gold, and you must be content if he pays you in Bank of England notes, which are a legal tender, and, consequently, it is the height of absurdity to say that the currency of England is gold. The Bank of England, or as she is commonly called the Old Lade of Threadneedle-street, is allowed to issue four teen millions inbank notes without having an ounce of gold or silver in her coffers to give in exchange for the notes. On the 20th inst. her notes in circulation amounted t 3 upwards of nine millions more than her stock of gold and silver : viz., — Bank of England notes afloat Geld and silver in the Bank 11,230,207 Showing a deficiency of £9,141,533 which she and the Government combined are wholly un able to meet if the holders of notes demand payment in igsolbsed,,adnd thence th e proof that our hocus-pocus currency that T h theer e fiuponit c!paper; which is inconvertible into gold. O a perfectur currency s delusion go f l d, o r tahnedn theati o Bank o n k c believe har. Char ter Act, which has been lauded to the skies by namby pamby statesmen is not only a mockery of common sense, but is fraught with todangerthe commerce of the king g war, and when we have bad liar dom, especially durin g ves t s —periods sufficiently distressing to the people without th e at t monetary lition of an accursed London merchants system as unstable as the in d m ort o h h e aots do notweathercockat Time s. only d ec l are th emse l ve s opposed to the Bank Charter, for fear of their bills being refused discount by the secret conclave sitting in the Bank parlour. Hence the necessity for Liverpool and our other great commercial marts to "agitate, agitate, agitate," un til Peel's Banking nostrum is expunged from the statute book. One of the most cunning dcriges ever perpetrated by the stock-jobbing Times, or the Directors of the Bank of Eng land, has been that of one of their clerks becoming th e writer of the City Article in th•Lt immaculate journal which, of course, undertakes to uphold their mischievous monopoly for the quid pro quo. A nod or a wink suffices to show "what's in the wind," and thence speculations in the funds, followed by bushels THE SITN LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2 1855, of thundering sophistry to gull the public for the unright eous gain of the Old Lady's private friends and public supporters. Every honest trader ought to raise his voico until the quackery and abomination are rooted up, and some such banking system as the following substituted :- 1. Her Majesty's Mint to manufacture Queen's notes to the extent of 50 millions sterling, or such other amount as Parliament may deem sufficient to meet the currency wants of time United Kingdom. 2 To guard against forgery the Queen's note paper to be silk threaded, with the Queen's head stamped in the four corners of the note—red stamps for 1/. notes, blue for 21., green for 51., and black for 101. and larger sums. 3. Government to issue the 50 millions to any bankers or banking Companies who will permanently deposit 3 per cent. Consols for such amounts as may be respectively issued to them—(of course, the bankers are to receive the divi dends on the Consols.) 4. The Bank of England not to obtain more than 10 millions, and no other bank to obtain more than one mil lion. 5. No portion of the Queen's notes to be issued to any existing banks of issue until they agree to call in all their own bank notes. 6. To cover the expense of manufacturing the Queen's notes, the bankers to pay a half penny for every note. 7. The Queen's notes to be a legal tender throughout the Erni ted Kingdom. 8. Gold to continue a legal tender at 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce. 9. No bank to enjoy any exclusive privilege. Were the above plan adopted financial convulsions could rarely, if ever, exist ; directors of the Bank of England would not so often avail themselves of prior information, and dabble in the funds; and the Times would cease to propagate such monstrous fallacies as appeared in that ultimo. journal of Friday last, the 2i-ith During my experience, and it has not been trifling, in the foreign commerce of the empire, the most loquacious chatterers about the foreign exchanges and balance of trade have almost invariably proved to be the least informed, and consequently the worst guides upon those subjects. It may be laid down as an incontrovertible axiom that a certain quantity of legal tender money is absolutely necessary, and that that quantity should be always re tained in circulation within the United Kingdom, and, therefore, that it ought to be of such a quality as to re main wholly unaffected by whatever may transpire com mercially or politically in foreign countries. If, then, the quality of money were such as to be re jected by foreigners, would it not be a great advantage, instead of being a disadvantage? Would it not iu some degree compel foreigners to V; ke British manufactures in payment for our imports, and enable us, by the sweat of our brow and the oil of our machinery. to pay for what we can afford to consume without the slightest derangement of our currency ? And here allow me to ask the spotless Old Lady, whether the expensive and hazardous process of sending and re sending gold and silver, to and fro across the ocean, is not rather a barbarous mode of balancing trails accounts, and whether it would not often be "more honoured in the breach than the observance ?" Whether, in short, the exchange and re-exchange between foreign traders and ourselves of what are commonly called the precious metals, which are neither of British growth, pro duce, nor manufacture, are not occasionally a great bar to traffic in more really useful commodities ? In discussing our monetary system, let every ono recol lect that the oft-assorted convertibility of our present Paper Currency into Gold is an unadulterated fiction. — Yours, &0., Tuesday, 30th Oct., 185 a. DEVONIAN. MARKET NEWS.—(Tlils Day). CORN EXCHANGE. The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to our market to-day was limited, and the show of samples was trifling. Most kinds were in but moderate request, yet Monday's prices were supported. The imports of foreign when.- have been only 2,570 qrs. Tho trade ruled dull, yet importers generally were firm. In the quotations, no change took place. Floating cargoes were firm, but not dearer. Malting barley moved off steadily, at extreme rates, but low qualities met a dull inquiry. There was a moderate inquiry for malt, at full quota tions. Old oats sold steadily—new qualities slowly, at Mon day's currency. beans, peas, and flour were rather dull, but not cheaper. ♦RRIVALS) MIS WISER. Wheat. 3,39 0 Barley. i Malt. Oats. 2,180 1 1,490 10 _ 1 5,430 4 ' 11 390 / 161"k ' . 1 Irish •• • • Foreign , 2,5 / F , ou, 1,350 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. We had steady demand for the few prime beasts on sale here to-lay, at full prices, but inferior breeds were dull, at barely 11londay's currency. The supply of sheep was limited, and in low condition. The mutton trade was firm, at fully late rates. With calves we were scantily supplied, and the demand for veal was brisk. In some instances prices were 2d per 81bs. higher than on Monday. Pigs changed hands steadily, at full quotations. Mulch cows were dull in sale, at from 131. to 191. each, including their small calf. Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.{ s. d. 4 d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 Prime Southdown 410 5 0 Second quality.... 3 8 4 0 Large crse. calves 3 8 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 1 Prime small do 4 6 5 4 Prime Scots, die. 4 8 5 ojLarge hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 61Small porkers Second quality ...3 8 4 2(Suckling calves-24 0 30 0 Prime erse.-wlled.4 4 4 81quarter old pigs. 22 0 28 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGI4 SUPPLY. Besets— . . Shoe? .. —•• • • ............ I.oa Clves.... ..•• .. • • ...... .. 210 Beasti ... .. .........• 1,530 3,230 Calves :193 Pigs .................... 340 NEWGATE AND The trade ruled steady to-i Per Sibs by LE ADENHALL. lay, at very full prices. t o earcaa.. s. d. s. d: Boef, inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 3 10 Do., prime large 4 0 4 2 De,, do. small 4 4 4 6 Park, large .3 10 4 4 s. d. s. d. 1 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 i Veal... 3 8 4 10 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. The imports of foreign hops this week aro-90 bales from Flambro', 1 from Ostend, 65 from Rotterdam, and 9 from Konigsberg. The supply of ,Lnglish is good, and we bare a moderate demand at our quotations. Duty, 350,0001. Sussex pockets, 70s to 94s ; Weald of Keats, 703 to 95s ; Mid and East Keats, SiOs to 120 s per cwt. COLONIAL. TEL.—The market has been quiet, and sales passed off heavily. Common Comm BAd to 9d per lb. SUGAR.—The market has been again very brisk, buyers appeared early, and a large business had been done. Prices at the close of the market showed an advance of 2s to 3s. The good grocery qualities were in most demand. In the West India market a rise of is to is 6d per cwt took place. Common brown Trinidad and Jamaica sold at 49s 6d to 5.1 s per cwt. Bay badoes, at 44s to 48s 6d. Demerara, 42s to 465. 1,000 boxes yellow Savannah, No. 14 at Nantes, had been soil at 35s cost and freight. Native Madras to arrive, sold at 44s per cwt without guarantee of quality. 412 Wads Muscovado sold at 35 to 45 advance. Middling to fine bright grocery, 56e to 58s 6d, and low 53s Gd to 51s Gd per cwt. 1,291 baskets Java sold freely at full prices. No 8 and 9 low brown 47s 6d to 50s low to middling greyish yellow 51s to 52s Gd, and a few lots good yellow 5.!s Gd to 54s 6d per cwt. The Refined market had been active, and prices advanced fully 4s Gd to ss. per cwt, brown lumps 6's to 65s per cwt, and good grocery 5 's Cal to 63s per cwt. Wet lumps middling to fine 55s to 535, fine pieces, 51s Gd to 53e. COFFEE.—The market had been dull, and importers have had to submit to a decline of 6d to is per cwt. Native Ceylon brought 48s to 49s accordingly. Plantation Ceylon fine ordinary to middling coloury, 58s to 643 6d. P7O bags fine ordinary native Ceylon were offered by auction and bought In at 51s, afterwards sold at 50s 6d • for other de scriptions of coffee there h as b een no d e mand. RicE.--Bengal is held for full rates at 163 6d to 17% for good middling to very good bold Patua grain, afterwards sold at 163 3d to 16s 6d per cwt ; a floating cargo of Ar racan sold at 134, and small parcels on the spot at 13s 4D. SPlCES.—Pepper, - white, is id cheaper, 363 bags Penang brought 74d. for middling bold, and 6d to lid for da maged; 524 bags Singapore sold at bid to 61d for good middlin g bold ; nutmegs, sm a ll t o goo d bold brown, sold at 2s 3d to 4s 3d ; mace, is Ild to 2s Id. SALTPETRE.—The demand is dull, and only a limited business has been done, at rather lower prices ; about 1,500 bags sold ; refraction, 214 to 23s 93 ; refraction, 12 to 61, 363 to 38s ; and refraction, hi to 5,41 s. TALLOW.—There has been little fluctuation in price dur ing the week, and the business done has been considerable. The trade continuing to buy freely at current rates at a later period the market rose fully ls. P.Y.C. on the spot 665 Gd, and spring months 67s Gd per cwt. RUM.—There has been rather more inquiry for this article. Demerara, good, brought 2s 10d ; fine marks, 3s per proof gallon. Jamaica, 31 per cent. overproof , realised 4s 2d per gallon. GREEN FnulT. 2 The market is bare from want of arri vals, which are kept out by contrary winds. A cargo of oranges frotu Faro, offered at public sale by Keeling and Hunt, was bought in, the offer not being equal to the limits. New Spanish nuts in moderate demand. More inquiry for 'Brazils. Some cargoes of Messina lemons are daily ex pected. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. (Front a supplement to Tuesday's Gazette.) DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIINIPSON. WAR DEPARMENT, Nov. 1. Lord Paninure has this day received a despatch, and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad dressed to his lordship by General Sir James Simpson, G.C.B. Sebastopol, October 20. My Lord,—l am happy to be able to congratulate your lordship on the successful termination of the expe dition to Kinbourn. I transmit a copy of the report of Brigadier-General the Hon. A. Spencer. This contains all the information I have received on the operations with the exception that, in a private note, Sir E. Lyons mentions that the enemy have exploded the three forts at Oehakoff, commanding the northern entrance into the Dnieper. In Coldiequence of the continued fineness of the wea ther great progress has been made in the construction of the road and railway. The divisions have all got some weeks' supply of rations in their camp, and I en tertai❑ no anxiety of there being a scarcity of anything during the approaching winter. I i❑formed your lordship, in my despatch of the 13th inst., that the Highland Division, under Lieut.• General Sir Cohn Campbell, were to proceed to Eupatoria, and co-operate with the French ; but upon the receipt of your telegraphic despatch of the 14th inst., apprising me that the Russians bad resolved to hazard a battle and atmek the allies, I did not consider myself justified in weakening the force under my command by so many men, and I therefore countermanded the movement. I have the honour to enclose the weekly reports of Colonel M'Murdo and Dr. Hall. I have, &c., (Signed) JAMES SIMPSON, General Commanding. The Lord Pannture, &c. &c. Huta are arriving daily, and I . hope, before the wet stormy weatihn. of winter sets in, a large part of the army will be under proper cover. The Highland Division at Damara is remarkably healthy, so are the Artillery and Tnird Division. Taking the whole army, the admissions to strength have only been 3 04 per cent. ; the deaths to strength, 0.10 per cent. ; and the proportion of sick to well, 8.09 per cent,, including wounded ; exclusive of wounded, 5 30 per cent. Last week the proportion's were, adinimsions to strength 2.84 per cent. ; deaths to strength, 0.09 per cent. ; sick to well, 8.00 per cent. ; sick to well, exclu sive to wounded, 5.16 per cent. The following table shows the admissions and deaths under the leading heads of disea,e This Week. Last Week. Admitted. Died, Admitted. Died, Fevers 273 15 ... 295 13 Head Affections Pulmouic Diarrhcea Cholera Dysentery Wounds and contusions 134* 19 ... 151 17 Other diseases w 638 3 ... 528 1 Total 1 have, &c., JOHN HALL, Inspector• General of Hospitals. General Sir James Simpson, G.C.8., Commander of the Forces. RE [URN OF WOUNDED MEN ADMITTED INTO HOSPITAL FOB TREATMENT AFTER THE ASSAULT ON THE SEDAN FORT, SEBASTOPoL, OA SEPT. 8. _ Oct. 15. Ordnance Corps and Men of the Line admitted into Ordnance Hospital.—Tote.l wounded, 82 ; 52 by mus ket hall, 21 by grape and round shot or shell, 9 by sword, bayonet, or other means. Of the foregoing, 29 were wounded through the chest or upper part of the body. Discharged from hospital since Bth Sept., 86 ; died of wounds, 27 ; remaining 15th Oct., 19. The greater part of these were men of other corps ad mitted into Ordnance Hospital. let Division.—Total wounded, 3 ; 1 by musket Lail, 2 by grape-and round shot or shell. Discharged from hospital since Bth Sept., 2 ; remaining 15th Oct., 1. Not engaged in the assault. Highland Division.—Total wounded, 67 • 13 by musket ball, 43 by grape and rou n d shot or shell, 11 by sword, bayonet, or other means. Of the foregoing, 47 were wounded through the chest or up!.er part of the body. Discharged from hospital since Bth September, 55 ; Died of wounds, 6 ; remaining 15th October, 6. Not engaged in the assault. _ _ _ 2d Division.—Total wounded, 502 ; 259 by musket ball; 198 by grape and round shot or shell, 45 by sword, bayonet, or other means. Of the foregoing, 374 were wounded through the chest or upper part of the body. Discharged from h .spital since Bth September, 337 ; died of wounds, 29 ; remaining 15th October, 136. Engaged in the assault. 3d Division.—Total wounded, 12 ; 11 by mu=ket ball, 1 by sword, bayonet, or other meats. Of the forego ing, 7 were wounded through the chest or upper part of the body. Discharged from hospital sines the Btl September, 5 ; died of wounds, 5 ; remaining on the 15;1 of October, 2. Not engaged ; men belonging to other divisions admitted. 4th Division.-Total wounded, 64 ; 10 by musket ball; 54 by grape and round shot or shell. Discharged from hospital since Bth September, 51 ; died of wounds, 10; remaining 15th October, 3. Division not engaged ; 41 of the number were contusions from stones, &c. Light Division.—Total wounded, 934 ; 485 by musket ball, 289 by grape and round shot or shell, 160 by sword, bayonet, or -)ther means. Of the foregoing 235 were wounded through the chest or upper part of the body. Discharged from hospital since Bth September, 632 ; died of wounds, 80 ; remaining 15th Octo:Jer, 288. General Hospital Camp.—Total wounded, 246 ; 172 by musket ball, 47 by grape and round shot or shell ; 27 by sword, bayonet, or other means. Of the foregoing, 114 were wounded through the chest or upper part of the body. Discharged from hospital since Bth SeF tember, 46 ; died of wounds, 69 ; remaining 15th October, 131. Men from Light and 2d Divisions. The worst cases many of them were left on the field. Total wounded, 1,910 ; 1,003 by musket ball, 654 by grape and round shot or shell, 253 by sword, bayonet, or ether means. Of the foregoing, 806 t were wounded through the chest or upper part of the body. Dis charged from hospital since Bth Sept., 1174 ;$: died of wounds, 226 ; remaining 15th Oct., 586. J. HALL, Inspector-General of Hospitals. DESPATCHES FROM SIR EDMUND LYONS. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 1, 1855. Despatches, of which the following are copies, have been received from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., G.C.8., Commander in• Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the Mediterranean and Black Royal Albert, off Kinbuurn, Oct. 18, 1855. _ _ Sir,—My letter of the 6th inst., No. 834, will have informed the Lerds Commissiooers of the Admiralty that an allied naval and military expedition was to leave the anchorage off Seba-topol on the following day, for the purpose of taking and occupying the three Russian forts on Kinbourn Spit, at the entrance of Dnieper Bay : and the telegraphic message which I forwarded to Varna last night will soon communicate to their lordships the suc cess which has attended this enterprise. It is now my duty to give a more detailed account of the proceedings of the expedition. I have therefore the honour to state that we arrived at a rendezvous off Odessa, on the Bth instant, but owing to strong south-west winds, which would have prevented the troops from lauding, it was not until the morning of the 14th inst., that the expedition was enabled to reach the anchorage off Kinbourn. Dining the night the Eoglish steam gun-vessels Fancy, Boxer, Cracker, and Clinker, and four French gun-ve,- sels, forced the entrance into Dnieper Bay, under a heavy but ineffectual fire from the Spit fort, and on the following morning the British troo?s, under the orders of Brigadier-General Hon. A. Spencer, together with the French troops, under the command of General Ba zaine, were landed about three miles to the southward of the principal fort, and thus, by these nearly simul taneous operations, the retreat of the garrisons and the arrival of reinforcements were effectually cut off. In the evening the English and French mortar vessels tried their ra• get against the main fort with excellent effect. The wind having again veered round to the south ward, with a great deal of swell, nothing could be done on the 16th ; but in the forenoon of the 17th, a fine nor therly breeze, with smooth water, enabled the French floating batteries, mortar vessels, and gun-boats, and the Odin and the mortar vessels, aid gunboats named in the marginil to take up positions off Fort Binbourn ; and their fire was so effective that before noon the buildings in the interior of the fo►t were in flames, and the eastern face had suffered very considerably. At noon, the Royal Albert, Algii r 3, Agamemnon, and Princess Royal, accompanied by Admiral Bruat's four ships of the line, approached Fort Kinburn in a line abreast, which the shape of the coast rendered necessary, and the precision with which they took up their positions in the closest order with jib-booms tun in and only two feet of water under their keels, was really admirable. At the same moment the squadrons under the orders of Rear-Admirals Sir Houston Stewart and Bellion pushed through the passage between Ochakoff and the spit of Kinbourn, and took the forts in reverse, whilst the St. Jean d'Acre, Curapa, Tribune, and Sphinx undertook the centre battery, and the Hannibal, Dauntless, and Terrible, that on the point of the spit. The enemy soon ceased to reply to our overwhe:ming fire, and though he made no sign of surrender, Admiral Bruat and I felt that a garrison which bad bravely de fended itself against so superior a force deserved every consideration, and we therefore made the signal to cease firing, hoisted a flag of truce, and sent on shore a sum moo% which was accepted by the governor, Illaj•ir- General Kokonovitch, and the garrison, consisting of 1,400 men, marched out with the honours of war, laid down their arms on the glacis, and, having surrendered themselves as prisoners of war, they will be embarked in her Majesty's ship Vulcan to-morrow. The casualties in the allied fints are very few, amount ing in her Majesty's ships to only two wounded. The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded is, I fear, very severe. In the three forts, which have suffered considerably by our fire, we found 31 guns and mortars mounted, and an ample supply of ammunition. This morning the enemy had blown up the forts on Ochakoff Point, which mounted 22 guns, and we learnt from a Polish deserter, who escaped in a boat from them during the night, that the commandant appre hended an attack from our mortar vessels, which would not only have de , troyed the faits, but also the neigh bouring dwellings. I have abstained from entering into the partieulars of the proceedings of the squadron under the orders of Reat-Admiral Sir IL Stewart, as he has so ably de scribed them in the letter which I have the honour to enclose, from which their lordships will perceive that I have received from him on this occasion, as indeed I have on all others, since I have had the good fortune to have him as sec ,nd in command, that valuable assist ance which might be expected tronl an officer of his dis tinguished and acknowledged merits ; and I beg leave to add my testimony to his in praise of all the officers, and especially Lieutenant Marryat and Mr. Brooker, Whom he recommends to their lordships' favourable con sideration. To particularise the merit of the officers under my command, where all have behaved admirably, won d be a difficult tack indeed ; but I beg leave to mention that the same officers of the navy and R Marine Artil lery who were in the mortar vessels at the fa'l of Sebas topol are in them now, and that on this occasion, as be fore, they have been under the direction of Captain Willcox, of the Odin, and Cap a'n agby, of the Royal Marine Artillery. Nor can I refrain from stating what I believe to be the feeling of the whole fleet, that on this expedition, as on that t ) Kerte), the talents and inde fatigable exertions of that very valuable officer, Captain Spratt, of the Spitfire, and of thoseunder his command, entitle them to our warmest thanks, and deserve to be particularly mentioned. I need hardly say that my distinguished colleague, Admiral Bruat, and I have seen with i nfinite satisf ac- * 60 of these wore transfers from regimental to general hospitas, and 73 wore ordinary accidents. ± The number of men shot through the upper part of the body, particularly through the upper part of the chest and shoulders, is very remarkable, and shows the position they must have been in when wounded. Magnet, Camel, Flardy, This number shows that many of the injuries received were not of a very setious nature. II Mortar vessels Raven, Flamer, Firm. Gnu vessels—Lynx, arrow, Viper, Snake, Wrangler, Beagle. • tion our respective squadrons acting together as one fleet.—l &c., - w, EDMUND LYONS, Rear-Admiral and C.matuander-ha-Chief. The Secretary of the Adruiraity. Valorous, in Dnieper Bay, Oct. 18, 1855. Sir,—l have the honour to inform you, that, in pur suance-of your orders, I hui,ted my flag iu her Ma jesty's steam-frigate Valorous, on the afternoon of the 14th int., immediately after the arrival of the *allied fleets off Kinbourn Spit, and proceeeed, under the able guidance of Captain Spratt, of the Spitfire, to take up positions at the entrance of Dnieper Bay, where, with the division of steam-vessels placed under my orders (as per margin*), and in company with those under the orders of ray colleague, Rear-Admiral Odet PeMon, we remained in readiness to force an entrance into the Dnieper, for the purpose directed by you, of preventing as far as possible any reinforcements being thrown into the Las of Kinbourn Spit, as well as to cut off the retreat of the garrison, should either be attempted. At 9 p.m. I instructed Lieut. Joseph H. Marryat, of the . Cracker, to take on board Mr. Edward W. Booker, additional master of the Spitfire, and endeavour with him to determine the course of the intricate channel through which we were to pass, and to lay down buoys along the south side of it—the French having undertaken to perform the same service on the north side. 1 likewise directed Mr. Thomas Potter, master of the Furious (lent to do duty in the Valorous), to proceed with two boats of the Tribune, and, protected by the Cracker, to search for the spit on the north bank, and on his return endeavour to place a buoy on the edge of the shoal off Kinbourn Spit that the entrance of the channel might be assured. , As soon as the preconcerted signal was given, indicat ing that this operation. : .-was effected, I despatched the Fancy, Boxer, and Clinker into Dnieper Bay, with orders to anchor in such positions as would beet protect the right flank of our troops, upon the disembarkation tak ing place, and to make that their chief care, as long as there was any possibility of the enemy threatening them. During the night Rear-Admiral Odet Pellion also sent in the French gunboats for the same purpose. At daylight on the following morning I had the satis faction of observing all the gun-boats, French and Eng lish, anchored safely to the north-east of Kinbourn Fort, and without any of them having sustained damage, al though the enemy had fired both shot and shell and mus ketry at them during their passage in. Thus the chief part of the object you had most anxiously in view was accomplished. While still in considerable doubt as to the extent to which the channel for the larger ships was buoyed, at 10 min. Lieut. Marryat and Mr. Booker came to inform the that the work entrusted to them had been completed, and that the latter officer was ready to pilot the ships The zealous desire evinced by these officers to fur nish me personally with their report on the difficult na vigation of the Dnieper deserves my warmest thanks, and the gallant manner in which Lieut. Marryat brought the Cracker out for that purpose, under a very heavy fire from the whole of the forts and batteries, elicited the adildrati,ll of all who witnessed the proceeding. We were now fully prepared to advance, and, in obe dience to your directions, awaited the signal for general attack. The whole of the proceedings of yesterday must be a'ready fully known to you; but it is right that I should state tiriefly the share taken in them by the division you did me tue honour to place under my orders, which con sisted of the ships and ♦essels as already stated, rein forced by those named below. It being necessary to advance in single line, it was arranged that the ships should do so in the following Olt ®C:- Valorous—Captain C. H. M. Buckle, C. 8., bearing my flag. Furious—Captain William Loring, C.B. _ . _ Asmi.d c-.1t., (French)—bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Odet Pefflon. Cacique (French). Sidon—Captain George Goldsmith. Leopard—Captain George Gifford, C.B. Sand (French). Gladiator—Captain C. F. Hillyar. Firebrand—Captain E. A. Ingiefield. Stromboli—Commander Cowper Coles. Spiteful—Commander F. A. Sbortt. At noon, the signal being made from your flagship to weigh, we proceeded through the channel, each ship en gaging the Spit batteries and Kiabourn Fort as they came within range. To Lieut. Marryat, of the Cracker, is due . the merit of preceding and piloting us through, which he did with great judgment. - Had . the enemy continued his defence of the Spit bat teries, the Sidon, Leopard, Sane, and Gladiator were directed, in that case, to remain in front of them until their fire was completely silenced ; but as they were sub dued by the accurate and well•sus!ained fire which was poured upon them by the ships which you had placed to the westward of the Spit, and by those of our own squadron on passing to the eastward, thus became unne cessary ; the whole division, therefore, continued its course through the channel, and anchored well inside Fort Nicolateff and Ochakoff Point. During this time the four gun-boats, Fancy, Grinder, Boxer, and Clinker did good service, by placing them selves in such position as to throw a flanking fire on the middle battery and Kinbourn Fort at the time our divi sion passed within short range. Immediately on anchoring I transferred my flag to the Cracker, and, followed by the other gun-boats, proceeded close off the east front of Kinbourn Fort, to be ready to act as circumstances required, should the enemy's fire, which at that moment had entirely ceased, be renewed ; however, the necessity for further action did net arise. As the service entrusted to me was carried out under your own observation, I feel it to be unnecessary to do more than to record my grateful sense of the very satis factory manner in which the whole of the ships under my orders took up their appointed stations, and of the manner in which all employed perfumed their duty. I think myself fortunate in having fur my temporary flag-ship so efficient and well-ordered a man-of-war as the Valorous, and I feel much indebted to Capt. Buckle and his zealous First Lieutenant Joseph Ely() for their unremitting attention and assistance. I am delighted to add, that in concerting with our gal lant, allies the arrangements necessary for carrying into effect the present successful operations, I have received the cordia! support and clncurrencu of my excellent cul league, Rear-Admiral Odet Pellion. The anxiety which you yourself ever feel to do full justice to merit and exertion must be my excuse for pre suming to request your most favourable notice of Lieut. Marryat and Mr. Brooker. They have had anxious, dif ficuit, and dangerous work to perform, and they have each of them executed it admirably.—l have, &c , (Signed) HOUSTON STEWART, ar-Admiral. Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Batt., G.C.B. Royal Albert, off Odessa, Oct. 9, 1555. Sir,—l transmit, to be laid before the Lords Co:nmis sioners of the Admiralty, copy of a letter from Captain Robert Hall, of the Miranda, senior officer in the StrAts of Kertch, detailing the proceedings of an Anglo-French naval and military expedition to Taman and Fanagoria, on the 24th ult , for the purpose of depriving the enemy of his means of sheltering troops in the ensuing wiLter, and in orler to procure materials for housing our troops at Cape St. Paul's and Yenikale. I also enclose, for their lordships' information, copy of a letter from Capt. Osborn, of the Vesuvius, detailing the proceedings of en Anglo-French attack on Tem riouk, which, by previous arrangement, was made sim ultaneously with that on Taman and Fanagoria. Bath expeditions were conducted in a most satisfac tory manner, and were accomplished with the loss of only one man wounded. Three of the 71st Regiment and three of the (French) Infantry of the Marine were taken pri soners, in consequence of their own imprudence.—l am, &c., (Signed) EDMUND LYONS, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. To the Secretary of the Admiralty. Her Majesty's ship Miranda, off St. Paul's, Oct. 3, 1855. Sir,—l have the honour to report that, according to your directions of the 25th of Aug., I put myself in com munication with Capt. Bonet, of his Imperial Majesty's ship Pomone, commanding the French naval station here, relative to an expedition to destroy the Russian establishments at Fanagoria and Taman, and also ar ranged with Captain Osborn that a siinultmeous attack sheu•il be made on Tenarioult by the Az dI squadron. On the 24th ult., at daylight, the military part of the expedition, under command of Major Minter (71st), em barked, consisting of 300 of the 71st Highland Light Infantry, carried by the Sulina, and 600 French, of the Infantry of the Marine, p!ac e d on board six gunboats of that nation ; and at 8.30, th e fl o tilla, as per margin, proceeded. Arriving at Tatnan at noon, swarms of cavalry were seen near it and Fanagoria, and a strong into the powerful earthwork at the l a tt h e e r . p a l udiug., as per buadeye. marched The gun-boats appointed to cover and a short time margin,::: immediately opened fire, forced the enemy to retire, previously agreed upon, without opposition at the spot leavinga the troops to land about a mile east of Fanagoria. established in th e By four p.m. we were completely t fort, in which the field-Piece of ship,s and four li g ht Pomone were placed i n position. A large mountain howitzers body frozonf cavalry, numbering at least in front of Fanagoria, 600, continuing shells beautifully th rown drawn Lancasterup were dispersed by some from the Lynx an d Arre,v. of the nioht small bod During the enemy fired upon our sen tries, and wounded a seam an o f the Mi railda• Tee buildings within the earthwork were found to be m uch inure e xtensi%e than was ant i c i pated, consisting of a large hospital, some sto re h ouses, and two very large powder magazines, in perf ec t or d er, but qu i te empt y, composing, with the houses of the employes, a very c msiderable establishment ; 66 guns, chiefly of s i x , nine, and twelve pounders, and four cohorn mor tar,: were lying disabled with the work. The storehouses were all empty except one, which contained some hospital necessaries, and the dispensary, which contained some medicines which have been pre served fur the use of the squadron. Taman was found to be completely deserted, and the houses quite empty. A large magazine of flour and another of corn were f i red by the Russians before they retired, and 11 iron guns, 30 and 36-pouuders, which were found buried at Taman, and were said to have been a present f rom th e E mpress C a th er i ne , h a ve been, de stroyed by us . C ons id era bl e b o di es o f the enemy s * Valorous, Gladiator, Fancy, Cracker, Grinder, Boxer, Clinker. t Lynx, Arrow, Snake, Harpy, Salina, and 10 French gun-boats. Lynx, Arrow, Snake, and two French gun-boats. - - cavalry hovered about during the time of our being occa4 pied in taking down and removing the material of the building, but did not approach within gunshot. I regret to have to ri port that they succeeded is cutting off three stragglers of the 71st, and three of in fantry of marine. I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the zeal and activity of the officers and men of the squadron, especially of - Lieut. A ynsley, commanding the Lynx, who, during my ab. , ence, superintended the duties of the squadron afloat, and of Lieut. Fitzroy, of the Miranda, who had the direction of the disembarkation, &c., of the troops, as well as the shipment of the wood, Etc., for removal to Yenikale. Nothing could exceed the good feeling and cordiality existing between the ofticers and men of our allies and our own. On the morning of the 3d every building at Fanageria and Tamar., which could shelter an enemy having been destroyed, and large quantities of the material removed to Yenikale and. St. Paul's, the troops re-embarked, and returned to their quarters at Kertch and St. Paul's. I have, &c., (Signed) R. HALL, Captain. LIST OF ONE MAN BELONGING TO HER MAJESTY'S SHIP MIRANDA, WOUNDED ON THE 25TH SEPTEMBER. William Potter, leadin g stoker, slightly. (Signed) J. A. CORBETT, Surgeon. R. HALL, Captain. Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., &c., G.C.B. Her Majesty's ship Vesuvius, Sea of AzofT, Sept. 26, 1855. Sir,—l have the honour to report that, in pursuance of arrangements made with Captain Hall, her Majesty's ship Miranda, I proceeded, on the 231 September, with the vessels named in the margin,* to harass and keep in check the enemy's troops at Temriouk, whilst the allied squadron at Kertch attacked Fanagoria and Taman. On the 24:h September, at daybreak, we arrived off Temriouk Lake, and were there joined by the French steamers Milan, Caton, and Fulton. We failed in reaching the town with our boats, the lake proving too shoal for even those of the lightest de scription ; up to noon, however, we kept a large body of horse, foot, and artillery in the town, the latter opening a sharp but harmless fire at us to prevent the destruc tion of a fine brig which was secreted just inside the lake's entrance. Weighing from thence, the squadron, accompat,ied by that of our gallant allies, under Cap taine de Fregati de Cintrd, proceeded to cut off the com munication between Temriouk and Taman by the nar row belt of land lying north of the lakes. In this we perfectly succeeded ; for at one p.m. a heavy column of troops, with nine field-guns, were discovered on the march, proceeding towards Taman. Opening firs on them at 2,500 yards, we stopped their march ; and after suffering severely, as it appeared to us, they retreated upon Temriouk, the Wrangler with her Lanca-ter guns keeping up an effective fire upon them to an extraordinary distance. Some of the enemy's riflemen, who, with gallantry, fruitlessly endeavoured to keep the beach, and save a quantity of forage, must have lost a number of men by the admirable shell practice of the French squad ron. Whilst this was doing, I detached tho Ardent, Beagle, and Crscker to watch another favourable part of the neck of land. Lieutenant Campion was fortunate enough to discover that the road lay over a fine wooden bridge, which spanned a channel connecting the k_lea of Azotf with Lover Temriouk Lake. The bridge was 180 feet long and 30 feet wide, com posed of strong wooden piles, and sleepers at each end, and four pontoons in the centre, the whole well planked over and apparently 'ouch u,,ed. It was evidently the route of communication between Temriouk and Taman, except by the very circuitous round of the extensive lakes. The burning of this bridge effectually stopped the garrison of Temriouk, who could not be under 2,000 men and some 10 or 12 guns, arriving in time t 3 resist the landing at Taman. I therefore weighed, as the weather was threatening, and have since dtiven in and destroyed the Cossack posts which had been established in this neighbourhood, and to watch our garrison at Yenikale, Two French flags (tricolours) were found by Lieut. Strode at one of these posts, the Russians having left them, as well as some of their arms, in making a hasty retreat. lam unable to say under what circumstances they could have got into the enemy's possession. Throughout these operations I have received the greatest assistance from Commander Rowley Lambert, of her Majesty's ship Curlew, and the zealous exertions of the officers and men in the squadron generally. The Recruit has been left to watch the Straits of Ghenitch, and Lieut. Day, her commander, alone, on the nights of the 18th and 21st Sept., passed the enemy's pickets there, and waded up to their gun-vessels and guards in the channel. His reconnaissance confirms my opinion of their perfect readiness to resist an attack in that direction. lam sorry to say the exposure and ex cessive labour has caused Lieut. Day to be laid up witla a severe attack of illness. The two Ri Len fishermen taken at the mouth of the Don having quite recove:od from the effects of their wounds, I caused Commander Rowley Cambeat to pro ceed with them on the 23d inst. to Arabat Fort, under a flag of truce, for the purpose of offering to land them there if General Wrangel wished. The offer was ac cepted, and the prisoners land e d. Toe squadron is now proceeding to Ghenitch to oorn• plete ammunition from the Durham, and I am in hopes that fine weather, which may be shortly expected by general account, will enable us to do more service in the coming month than that of the present one. I have, &e., (Signed) SIT BRARD OSBORN, Captain and Senior Officer. Rear-Admiral Sir E. Lyons, Bart., &c., G.C.B. * Vesuvius, Curlew, Ardent, Wrangler, Beagle, Fancy, Grinder, Cracker. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following aro the arrangements for the convey ance of private parcels to the army serving in the East : —Parcels are received in London by Messrs. llayter and Howell, of Mark-lane, and by the Admiralty trans port agents at Deptf. Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Cork, whore regular entries are made in the cargo-books, and whence invoices will be sent to the Commissariat officers at Bllaklava and other stations. Single parcels are taken up to halt a ton, and forwarded free of ex pense. - Her Majesty's ships Victory, Capt. G. T. Gordon, and St. Vincent, Capt. Eliott, flag-ships in Portsmouth har bour, struck lower yards and topmasts, and got up their winter poles yesterday. The Repulse, 91, new ship, was towed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon to be fitted with her engines. The Dapper, Stork, Swinger, and Redwing steam gun-boats, tenders to the line-of battle ships Colossus, Pembroke, Hastings, and Nile, and in charge of Lieuts. Grant, Malcolm, Nelson, and Forbes, arrived at Spithead from the Baltic. The Swinger and Stork were ordered into Portsmouth har bour, and the Redwing to proceed to Plymouth. It was stated yesterday in The Sun that on Tuesday night her Majesty's gun-boat the Hind, Captain Ward, during a heavy gale from the N.E., was driven on shore at Clay-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. The evening being in tensely dark, she was not perceived by theinhabitants un til they were alarmed by the firing of minute . guns, when they proceeded to the beach and rendered every assist ance. The captain and crew are all safe, and it is hoped that the vessel may be got afloat again in a few days. The Hanover, Government transport, arrived in Queenstown on Sunday, to embark troops for the seat of war. The following draughts embarked on Monday at Cork, and were conveyed on board the Hanover :--: 9th Regiment-4 officers, 2 serjeants, 1 drummer, a a n ii . d , 80 rank and file ; 17th egiment-4 officers, s 1 c o r n e t 2 7 1 drummer, and 94 rank and file ; 30th R ofiffilec;e73, 13th Light Lseirgjielittnltsn,falnltryd—ruSmemffierose,rend, ele4raiamtnsi: and 102 rank and file. l a te of her Majesty's ip Ellis, Odin, of b the a vin L.. Royalretu Marines, head-quarters a o p f t F a i i n e l de n n d e j eutt whoant, at Woolwich, hvbiychth, e ha r s ee a e s n s assumed company. has now taken clew cia severe Ma c beth, contusionof her :Nla Majesty's ttyh' the sCuo : fsi n t°h ', 4llii e sne g el eenee ordered to Englandlin, promotion o h t e i o d n u t r o i n t e C s 68th Brevetß Regiment, i L m i e e n u t t , e Lieutenant-Colonel of sick leave . The , gallant has receive left knee, a d nd an has volunteered to return to his regi celonel, however, war, and the seat of wo, willleave Woolwich with meet at was in e, . extension a u a n f edqwe quantity da rt ist.y protest Øf o f Some • r tillerymen were engaged a yesterday at Wool wichammunition complaint, a returned oon. that ithea proving or ivm:l ne i g n a from inis,ing fire. c , ne equently in contemlcti.a)pillatsishobaneveeinen s ee t a a s n o tl e y easioned by the become damp. It is ga d d i o s p c t o t v h e e re u d se that this of water. proof cape, which have undergone a trial for that pur pose at the Royal A.reenal. Lieutenant Pranleland, Royal Engineers, and eight non-commissioned officers and men belonging to that corps, are under orders to leave Woolwich, in order to embark at Portsmouth in the William Jackson, trans port, for Gibraltar, Capt. Lambert, of the same corps, and a detachment of about 120 men and 27 horses are in 1 readiness to embark for the East, to fill up vacancies in the companies already there. Captain Vokes, . of the Land Transport Corps, and Captain Baynes, of the 88th (or Connaught Range's) _at tended un Saturday in Castlebar, for the purpose of Colonel Knox volunteers from the Mayo Rifles. Knox addressed the men, pointing out the ad of volunteering to either of the above reginl a e r nt , 1- regiments' n ° t :Le l s . d 80 of mediately upwards of 100 men stepped 0 to be too young were rejected. consisting of wham were approved ; the remainder having been found A draught of the 13th Light Dragoons,the 30 men, took their departurefrom tinned at Dorchester by the early way tdoenpt depot t e e n c d o n r w i e m s e d e t a a a y: morning for Southampton, the , , band playing favourite airs. There their comrades and a the seat of war from the Dor chester been despatched for . Seth r • of the Regiment, under the com mand depot 239 men since it has been stationed there. Woodwrig i , arrived in Dorchester on A detachment .1t Windsor, relieve the sSth Regiment, at to Trn w tat e en v sd u ci , ao o Yf u C t fr : ) , Pint. The remainder were to arrive yesterday. Yesterday morning 63 invalids from the seat of war in the East left the Clarence Barracks, Portsmouth, for the invalid depot at Chatham, and the remainder of the 112 who disembarked from the Niagara steam-transport on Monday afternoon at Portsmouth Dockyard pro ceeded on furlough to various parts of England, Ireland, and Scotland. The former are mostly very badly wounded, with loss of legs and arms ; among them is a man named Robert Boyce, of the 34th Regiment, who volunteered from the 35th, a native of Ayrshire, wi?° has lost b o th arms b e l ow t h e e lb ow ; he was working~ in the advan ce d t renc h es , an d i n th e act of ti;treicile"tt'e near the picka xe u p ra i se d, w h en a r ound shots side arm and out off both, together with tbo liCk. PRICES CURRENT. In. their monthly share circular of yesterday, Messrs. James Stevens, Tripp, and Co., of Lori.- bard-street Chambers, address their friends as fol lows, and their resume presents a fair idea of what has been passing in the moneyed circles during the last few days : " Our prices current show a very serious decline com pared with those of last munth. Government stooks, foreign stocks, railways unguaranteed as well as guaran teed, preference shares, land, bank, insurance, and every description of security, excepting a few English mines, have fallen in value. The cause must be assigned to the pressure of the money market. On the 18th ult. the Bank of England advanced their rate of discount from 51 to 6 per cent. for bills not having more than 60 days to run, and to 7 per cent. on bills from 60 to 95 days. Simultaneously the Bank of France advanced their rate from 5 per cent. to 6 per cent. At the Stock Exchange loans have been obtainable on Consols at 3 per cent., on other Government securities at 4 per cent., and on foreign stocks and shares from 5 to 7 per cent. The reason of money being cheaper at the Stock Ex change than out of doors is explained by the fact that speculative sellers for the fall have been large bor rowers of stock, or, in other word', lenders of money on stock, and the public also have purchased very largely, but mole particularly in Consols ; and hence the corn p IT-at ve cheapness of money and scarcity of stock with the dealers. In commercial circles money is in re quest, and the returns of the Bank of England clearly de nonstrate the necessity of the movement of the Bank. As compared with the corresponding period of last year, there is a decrease of gold coin and bullion of 2,135,8951., of re , erve notes and coin of 1,675.996/. ; whilst, on the other hand, the advances of the Bank on paper under d sceu e t have increased 4,047,0491. The notes in actual circulation are only 499,7751. lea than last year. (Enclosure 1.) Camp before Kinbourn, Ocr. 17. Sir,—ln reporting, for the informati , n of the general commanding the forces, the fall of the garrison of the fortress of Kinbourn, this day, I have the honour to state that the force tinder. my command, as per state ment enclosed,* effected their landing on Monday, the 15th, unopposed. Owing to a heavy surf, and which continued all day yesterday, the landing has been accomplished with some little difficulty. The troops, however, were all got on shore on the first day, and have since been employed in entrenching our position. There are rumours of a force of the eneozy collecting at Kherson, about 40 miles from here, but our immediate neighbourhood appears to be clear. The advanced line of the position, flanked on both sides by the sea, is held by the force under my command, Ind is about a mile in extent.—l have, &c., (Signed) AUGUSTUS SPENCER. Brig. Gen. Commanding Diglkh Land Force. The Military Secretary, &c., Head-quarters. (Enclosure 2.) Head-quarters, Land Transport Camp, Crimea, Oct. 15, 1855. WEEKLY REPORT.—No. 16. The arrivals during the week Lave been limited to railway horses. 19 landed from her Majesty's ships As sistance, and 79 from the steam-transport Arabia. Each vessel lost a horse on the passage ; but on the whole they have arrived in fair condition. I have bad them put under cover ; and hope, with care, to have them in working order in the course of a week. The work of ballasting is progressing favourably, and as many waggons and teams are supplied for this service as are required without much prejudice to the ordinary demands. The precautions taken by Mr. Beatty are likely to be effectual in securing the line for the winter ; and I only regret that the state of this able engineer's health will compel bins to relinquish his work for a while. He will leave it in able hands, however. Mr. Campbell has served with Mr. Beatty from the beginning, and is now ac tively engaged in carrying out his plans upon the line. Nothing but the application of science could enable the British army to exist in its present position. The little harbour of Balaklava, which I can liken to nothing more than the eye of the needle through which the camel must pass, is now embraced on either side by the railway—its branches leading from the various wharves and storehouses, to depots outside the town, where room (though not sufficient) is afforded to the transport to load up. Waggons and their teams are thus allotted for the special service of drawing supplies fuel, hay, and corn to these depots, independent of the trains which proceed to the front. The narrow ways of the little town are thus relieved in a great measure from the interminable crush of animals and carriages through out the day, which effectually impeded one another, and caused the death of many. The road is another important work, the progress of which I watch with the greatest interest. lam an old road-maker myself, and believe the line to be good. But the most important work of all will, in my opi nion, be the floating factory. This is a measure worthy of England ; for her base is on the waters, and she has now floated Woolwich to her army in the Crimea. I have minutely inspected the vessel and her fittings (and, moreover, drawn largely from their stores), and have been struck with admiration at her capacities. I have had the fashion of the boxes of wheels taken, and I hope to have them cast in large numbers. Iron axles can be welded and turned, engines fitted, and timbers sawn—in short, I have no longer to look 3000 miles fur the source of vitality. I hope now to be enabled to make provision for the sr ring ; for the trans port is so situated that the material parts of all the car riages must become worn out by the incessant traffic to which it will necessarily be exposed throughout the entire winter. I reckon that every waggon, with its horse, harness, and driver, must travel on an average 14 miles daily, over indifferent roads, and that this wear and tear must extend over a period of six months; at the end of which time, when the army, refreshed, will call upots this corps to take it into the field, neither waggens nor harness will be in a serviceable state. It is absolutely necessary, therefore, that strong reserves of wheels, axles, shafts, poles, and harness of ev er y ki n d s h o uld be ready ; and although I see that the floating factory can do much, it will be necessary for the arsenals at home to help, espe cially with harness, which should be very strong and serviceable. I think it would be worth while to ascertain, by com parison, the relative quality and prices of the English and Sardinian mule waggon harness. It may be found that the advantage, as to cost, is on the Sardinian side, and that the stout white leather of which it is composed is more durable than that furnished to this corps. The general organisation of this corps proceeds satis factorily. I was glad of an opportunity lately, when a division of the army was under orders for Eupatoria, to try the efficiency of the corps. Two divisions of transport, composed of 3,000 animals, with their proportion of waggons, carts, ambulances, and artificers, were ready for embarkation in a very short time, an d appeared very efficient and complete. The scope of the intended operations of the force being afterwards limited to three or four days, the amount of transport was proportionally reduced to nearly one half. The bulk of the transport of an army is entirely regu lated by the radius of intended operations —it is solely a question of supply. Thus for these three days, which were intended to be the scope of the operations at Eupa toria, the commissary general made a requisition on this department for 3,500 pack animals and 20 carts. The requirements of the other branches of the force were trifling compared to this demand, and it will enable his lordship to form some idea of what the requirements of the whole army will be when it takes the field in a country devoid of resources.- I will here venture to express an opinion, as it bears materially upon the subject of transport ; it is that our soldiers should habitually move with three days' provi sions on their persons ; whether it be in war or peace, the weight should never be diminished. The Roman soldiers used to be clad in heavier armour during peace than they wore on a campaign, so that war with its burdens and toils should sit lightly upon them. The French soldiers in the present campaign carry four days' provisions, besides their tents; and if the British soldier should do the same, 1,600 animals to every 6,000 men that take the field would be saved to the transport of the army. I make these observations with profsound respect to the opinions of my superiors, and in the spirit and inten tion of these reports, viz , to do all that lies in my power to make the British army moveable and efficient. To return to the corps. The arrival of the young Eng lish drivers is a timely resource, as the natives had be gun to desert in great numbers, notwithstanding the precautions I have taken to prevent them, in communi cation with the police and Admiral Freemantle. I have obtained labourers from Constantinople to aid in building stables, and I hope that; the most valuable of the animals will soon be under cover. I have adopted the constructions entirely to the nature of the ground on which the several camps are pitched, which, being principally rocky, I find the simplest mode to be that of excavating a couple of feet, and running a centre wall with a roof on either side. The earth thrown out by the excavation being mixed with manure forms every day a higher bank outside, so as to increase the protection and warmth of the stables. Stone is abundant, and I am m tking use of the mate rials of the packing-cases, in which the hat saddles are eclat out, for planking. MURDO, D.G. Total cf last week's return of animals Destroyed B3 Died - 100 Total remaining 14,737 M. M'MURDO, D.G. (Enclosure 3.) Head-quarters, Cam}}, Sebastopol, Oct. 16. Sir,—The health of the army, as you will notice by weekly state of sick, continues satis the accompanying factory. There has been a slight increase of cholera in the Second and Third Divisions during the week, chiefly amongst the newly-arrivel men. Catarrhal complaints have also been more numerous. Large fatigue parties are employed daily in malting and repairing roads ; but the night duty is light, acid the men's rations and dress are both good. It has been proposed to give a ration of peas once a week to the men with their salt pork, which will be an agreeable variety and conducive to health. * Ist, Brigado, 4th Division ; Royal Marines, 1200 men. rank and file ; Royal Engineers, Artillery, and detach• meat of cavalry. , :\ .::..~.~r--% "rte":%;%~.,~ I . i