The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-08 00:00:00

MONEY IAE NET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLooR. The Liverpool cotton market ou Saturday closed very heavily, and prices of all kinds were ta changed. The sales were 6,000 bales (1,500 for export, and the remainder to the trade), compris ing 40 Pernam and Marauham, 6i 1. to 6.1 d ; 200 Egyptian, 5(1. ; and 1,000 Surat, 31d. to 4 1d. per lb. import since Thursday 20,000 bales. The Railway Share Market was very quiet, at a slight decline on Friday's prices. In confirmation of the remarks made under this head on Saturday with regard to the movement in the dried fruit trade, wo have the following London report from Messrs. Witherby and Han son, the article of raisins being that to which we specially directed attention : " From the 18th !to the 29th ult, this market was .without any new Valentias. A strong speculative move ment founded, it seeing, partly on telegraphic intelligence of rain having fallen at Denia, and injured a part of the crop, which was unshipped, ccrnmenced on the 27th tilt., and from that date till 3d inst. purchases of floating car goes to arrive here and at outports were made on specu lation at a rapid rise of price, until 47a. was freely paid. -A. cargo was taken on landing at 488., which is now the trade price. Prior to this movement sales afloat had been Suede at an outport at 395. The operators appear san guine of ultimate suttees. Black raisins have also ad vanced. A few Muscatels have arrived. " Of the new currants received last month, per Earl of Carrick, very little has been moved off at the opening price of 116 s. Meanwhile new currants have advanced at the places of growth, enhancing the value of subse quent shipments. The winter demand has not yet set in here, and will probably be retarded this year beyond the usual period. It will be interesting to observe to what extent the present prices, which for fine fruit are not much in advance of those of the two last winters, will practically check the Christmas consumption. Fine 1 351, vshen exhibited, commands 105 s. to 110 s., and ,is taken for immediate use. The latter price has been paid at Liverpool for 1855 Llorea, per Corinthian. The cur rant trade is now assuming a new feature, for it is cleor that even if th e whole of the available portion of the 1F , 55 crop (say 4,500 tons) should come to this country, that quantity, together with the little of the present stook fit for grocery purposes, would be less than existed in London only in September, 1854, and must serve for our consumption and export for the next 12 months. It appears to be, therefore, a simple question of supply and demand." The figures relating to the Marco Polo were transposed on Saturday under this head. She has been days out. The following communication has been received from the secretary of the Great Western Railway of Canada : " I am instructed to communicate to you for the in formation of the members of the Stock Exchange, that the directors have adopted the following rule with regard to the participation in dividend of shares given in ex change for bonds converted after the commencement of the current half-year : • ' Interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum will be paid on the bonds from the day of the last coupon due to the day of conversion. " Shares delivered in exchange for such bonds will carry their proposition of the dividends from the day of the conversion to the end of the current half-year. The share certificates and transfer deeds will be stamped to that effect.' The railway ineetingi announced are the follow ing Com. lace. Eastern Counties ate Oct.O 26, Londo P n Tavern. Glasgow, Barrhead, Nielston Nov. 6, Glasgow. Great Luxembouri , Oct. 10, London Tavern. Geelo ng and Melbourne Lai caster and Carlisle Nov. 7, Lancaster. Luton, Dunstatle, and Wel Oct. 10, Luton. Lrewry and Enniskillen West Durham The accounts from New York report the money Market as being easy, and although at the latest dates stocks ruled somewhat h eav y, th e y h a d pre viously been buoyant. The value of the exports durin g the week ending September 21, was 2 ,262,828 dols., and the imports was 2,858,514 dols. Breadstuffs were in active request for ship ment, and the quantity of flour, wheat, and corn already forwarded was large. It appears that the amount of bullion exported from the United States during 9 months this year is 35,000,000 dollars, or 11,500,000 dollars over the receipts from California. Since this came to Europe the aggregate amount of metallic currency here and on the Continent ought to be propor tionably increased, allowing for some drain to India and China. There are about 48,0001. on board the ship Speedy, from Sydney, just announced. Letters per Caroline Coventry, for the Cape of Good Hope, will be in time if posted to-morrow (Tu slay) evening. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. De Lisle, Janvrin, and Co. was held to-day. Mr. Dobie, on hadrequested t o pres id e , sa id h e th oug ht a ll h e nad to say was that there were three propositions suggested by the friends of the house. It was thought that, as th e h ouse was held i n such universal esteem, it might not be difficult to find friends, who were Personal friends, through whom they could procure funds to resume their business. This proposition failing, the next was that the affairs of the firm should be carried on under inspection, and that the demands should be liquidated as fast as possible. This being carried, the next would be that Messrs. • be Lislewith the assistance of friends, would establish a new firm, so that the valuable connections of the °use might be retained, and the correspondence ee resumed as for the past. Messrs. de Lisle were not immediately prepared to submit any figures, although they were in an advanced state, and 31 1 a very short time they would lay them be !ere the creditors. The funds that they had i n hand would meet immediate engagements for the purpose of giving time for the consideration of these plans, he (the chairman) would move that the meeting be adjour ne d till S a t ur d a y nex t a t 12 o'clock. Mr. Gillespie, on behalf of the Bank of I3ritish North America, concurred in the state xn. ents of the ch a i rman an d secon d e d th e resolu tion. They had written out to Canada requesting that an officer of the establishment be appointed to report upon the securities, and he believed the • other establishments interested had done the same. , As regards the fends being in perfect safety, there Could be no doubt upon the subject. The motion being carried, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated. The English Stocks, which opened with a trifling increase of buoyancy, have gone flatter since, Con • cols being now 87 to when before they were 8 71 to I, and momentarily even 87g The settle ment of the account will now begin . to work as it takes place on Friday, and the members of the "house," as well as the majority of the " outsiders" are considered to be heavy Bears. Rxchequer Bills are is. to ss. discount, and India 3 0nds, 3s. discount to 3s. premium. Exchequer Bonds are 14 discount. There is still much cancer . tainty as to whether the Bank will raise the rate On Thursday to 6 per cent. Foreign Securities are quiet generally, but in Turkish Bonds there have been several transactions at rather fuller prices. The 6 per Cents. are 831 and the New Scrip is 21 to 2i discount. panish Deferred Stock is 191 H. Sardinian Bonds have been done at 841. Dutch Two-and-a-Half Per Cents. are 641. Grenada Deferred Stock is steady at Brazilian Old Five per Cents, have been dealt in at 99 to 99. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20; Mexi can, 211 to 21,1 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 54 to 56; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Rus s i an Fi ve per C en t s., 9 7 to 99 ; ditto Four -and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish Now Deferred, 38 to 381 ; ditto Thre e per Cents., 19 1 t o 191 ; ditto Certificates, 41- to 41 ; ditto Passive, 4-4- to ft. The railway market is in some respects firmer, but there has been very little done. Great West ern, Great Northern, North Briti s h, an d E astern Counties, have been principally dealt in. East Indian are flatter. Sambre and Meuse are 1 better. Australasia Bank are 10s. lower. Canada Land have dropped 31. to 41. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CV)t, ( From the o#icial List.) Redness done n per Cent. Consols Annaities 37a 7 India Bonds, £lOOO .......... Ditto, under £lOOO 3 p 3 d Consols for Account, 12th October B7i i g 7 Excheo nor hills, 2}d. 2d. £lOOO. ... X5OO 5l d 51 d Small . Exchequ er B on d s 1858, 3i per Cent 9Bi Ditto 1859, „ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. trazillan Bonds 5 per Cent. .. Ditto for the Account. Ditto Small Orenada Bonds, Deferred Bardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Bli Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent — ... D itto Now Deferred, 3 per C en t. w irkith Bonds, 6 pia cent B3i I Ditto for the account S 1h) I B Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. parable on the above paAbie in Loro,. 1::/ltr,h Exchange, 2i per Cout. 12 Gull 6; i Ditto 4 per Cm,. Certifieatos .. . riVO. Consols Ditto for the November Account B7i 5 5 20 10 fo 10 10 10 20 5 20 18 20. WO [OO 8i 10 20 20 20 4-0 100;I 100 100 100 20 20 SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAITMt.74. Prtcei Satardny. 24 .5 • her , l es,n ....„ Nottvg, t . ,n,i Ea6tn. filst Pr. T•tall:vmeno • dr.rning. WC,ve tour eihd. Lancsl.... Trutt Cnesh. a Wilt., £5O and £25 0021 S. Do., .£2 4 3.., 11 'klyth &..Tynnorigina ; £25 (issd. at £41'...;• 0 -;ristol and Exeter... 0 Jaledonian earm. and Cai digan :Chester Holyhead.' II Cork and Bandon._ :fork, Black, fit Pass I tl)rnwall 11 Do. A 3 Do. B Jnnetion 5 nn.dialllelfa.stdrzne Duo. P. & Ab•-•• . 1 90. ...... .1 Fast At glian I Eastern Counties.. . )i.ast. Union, A. Sti iO Do., B. Stogy • ;A Do., New A East Kent 31 46 71 74 i 6 - J 5 - 15 9 - S. 87 - 89 53 59 11 - 12 5 - 4 6, - 7 12 -• 13 9 1 - 9i €8 - 70 49 - 51 9i - 9i 164 - 1.0 72 - 74 6i - • 7 85 - E 6 63 - 68 !22 - 11 , 4 99 - 101 541 65 50 -7, 55 69 - 72 6 - 7 6 - 7 p 75 - 754 -1 6 $ 94 96 91 92 2.i lid 1 Bii 824 9i 8i 8 76 22j 7 8 A id 36 38 12 14 I i 2i 46 48 2Ni 26 68 • 69 81 - 5 - 41 114 - 123 45 96 91 - 98 - 'V - 5i 24 - 26 !04 106 74 76 41 - 43 71 -- 1261 56A 57 30 - 31 5 3 2d par - 35 • e• '''''''' ••• 19 20 3 - 4 19 - 21 5 - 7 4 2d 2. 3 par i p f. sint.ft don thi3 day. aSi Lartc2-altire. Edinburgh& G 1 go r. Ed inb. and Peebles..., Edia. Plitt &Dur dce Forth & Clyde J n Furness . Do. Extension.. Glasgow & S. West, , Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern...... ' Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Ital Gna. Stk Irish South-EaF.tern. Lancaster SI; Carlisle ;Dn., Thirds o. New Thirds hnoaBh.andYorksh Dn. Wet. Riding.Un. Liv:Crsby.&Southpt London & Blaokwal.' Load. Bright &5.C, , ,t, I Lond. and. N. W os.th iDo. PHU:a Do• Eighths London andS. We 3tal Do., £&U ... 'Do.; .L4ll La I .,nd.rry& Col erain , ' Lndadri r. & Ennink Kanch.Fh e f. k Li rici Do. Shares, No. 1 5 ,, ., Ma , Lin. Un, Metropolitan Midland Do. I iirning. 4tidld.G.%est. (i re, ! I tio„ Hall Shares Noweastle& Carlisk Nwpt.,Aberg. &Hrf' Newry & Newry Warreupoir, and Rostrevor... Norfolk N or thn. Countie s North British ...... j North Devon, No 1 Do,, No, 2 A Deferred Do., B Gum-anther? ' Eastern—Berwie: Do. do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. ?arch Co. Leeds Do. York North London N . & S. Wstrn. , Hami stead, and City Jn North Staffordshiy North Western., N. & S. Westrn. Junt: Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester......., 10x, Worc_ L'tz Wolv. rortgr_aonth o .fish Central ISeoitish Midland Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. 4 Rig. Duo Do -3tainos, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darlir itoArton tai i~ :1 tlCpl Taff Vale 'Do. Pref., No. 1 Names flay. P.& R ITlverstone 4 Lanes Vale of NeatL• Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterfor.ln:merick West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace.. Do. A Do. B West London._ Wimblodn & Croydon FOREIGN. 7. - 8 21 - 2 4 - 2 i- i r i d par 34i —35 t 9 10 22 —22 i i la 8 8 d 15i —16 i 62 64 91. 93 3 3i 5.} - iP 34 - 4 2i - 3i Di 24i - lip 99 101 114 - 116 115 - 118 104 1071 '22a - 23 112 --114 5 - 6p 191 - 20 y 1 7 9 2 - 3 41 - 5 - 5 43/ - 341 12 - 12 71 - 8' 43 - 43-6 44 7.: io ... -• pm 20h -21 h 2 -- Ih4 2 -- 3h 7i -8; .. - .. I - lip ••• -- pm 3i -- 4 -- i 10i -- 11Ip 18i -19 i 'II BANKS, 81 - 86 49 - 51 id — par i d 4dis 51 - 53 p • • '''' ... 16i -- 17 19; -- 20 d / d 28 40 Ipar 2p ••• "'• ... 35 :I: 36 40 -- 42 52 - 54 - 41 69 - 71 7i - 8 Antworptitott,rdwe Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes Belgian Bann. June. Beziers to Craissessa,e Bombay, Baroda, and Central Ind ia,Seril, Do. Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New Fast Indian, g. 5 p.c Do. Es;ension.... Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadaA i. Do. St. Lawrence k Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran Gt. Indian Peninsula, guar. 5 per cent.... Do. New 5 per cent r•o. Extensions..... 'Great Luxombou_ _ Constituted Share- Do. Obligations....... Gt. Western of Canad gliarf-s Do. New Do. Bds., payable's7 with option till '55. Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O D. do., '73, withou option liamilton & Toront , Do. 6 por cent. Lake Const. & Tins] , ,Lierre and Turnhout Lyons and Genov - 4 I Lyons & Ilediterrat Viadra.s Do. New Haria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege ►wit? interest) 1)o. (es in:tercet) Northern of France Do.2ol.Shs. Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy.B.ds Ams. Shs NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons . Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Ronan.— ParisCaen & Cherbrg D 0... IRomo and Frascati I Rouen and Havre I Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations .... Sambre and Meuse... Do. p. cent. Pref Scindo D 0... I Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5 per c. Prof , Western of France_ D 0... Zealand JOINT-STOI 4ustra.l9.sis Bank of. London tiri. Col. Bk.& Um C !iritizh N. America], 'Jhartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bilk. of India Australia., & China City Colonial CommercCommercialeeoreti &al 0f..... . ............... Lond. Chart. Bk. oi l Australia . Ditto New London and County , Lud &E. Bukg. Corp London Joint stock Load. & Westminster National Pro. of Eng. Do. NOW Nationai of Tow South Wale 3„.. Oriental Bank of Corporztion .provincial of Ireland Do. New Loyal Australn.Bkg (101 l frrt, ast Union of Australia... Do. New ....... Union of Lout 014 TIIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1855. LINES Lt'ASED Ft X KNT A Lcasin. Compar.: 10fligt r'rt , eft Saturiay. EillLw.kig, Redford and Biel Si; icy Buckgbartisli Olydesdale.To. Ccl. Stour Vy. E. Un. H. alas. Barr. Rs NcilA. Direct Do. New Glstr.esz Dn Hrtlpl. & • Railway Hull & Selby Do. A Sbaro2. Do. Shares. Lou. & Grecnw Do. Prefereneo Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cont. Do. 6 per ct. Mauch. ilxt D and Ifatlock & Recicar • Midid.Bralfd Newmarket Bury Exton._ N. 6; Est.s p. c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Brest. & W y:e Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Sher.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p.c. Shrews. &ller. S. Statiordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts&Oomrst j 'estn. 92 - 96 100 - 102 4 ... 4,1 ii 7 - - i. 100 - 105 12i -- 13 23 -24 110 -- 115 , . ....' ... - 2i 50 -- t~2 A - b 56 - 58 130 - i 34 7i -- 2i lid 30 - 311 85 - 90 E SEAR MB. 112 - 116 108 - 112 - 93 -- 98 15 - 16 • • • ... 5i - 6 - Hri t 24 - 13 60 ••• ".. 'll2 - 114 107 - 109 100 IC2 I aP 10 6 - 64 (5 - 97 80 - 85 65 - 87 9 - 101 16,f -16 i 10 103 70 - 72 183 - 194 - 132 - 143 134 -- 136 ... '''.. ... ••• ...." ••• ... *""' 121 - 13 - 1?4 - 136 96 - 98 - 4 - 41 94 - 96 89 - 91 3 - 34 - 4(1 101 - 103 13i —14 i id pal 22 23 95 100 9b, 10 Id --: 18. 1i 2 2I • 2 4 = 4, Pm Pm 12i 1121 100 i PREFE 110 0 0 St. 20 St. 15 6 8 1 10 St. St. l 0 St. 20 50 all 100 10 St. 12:, 12, 10 100 100 100 100 1.00 all 10; 100 1.00 es. I:ter:leen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c. !Myth and Ty - ne 1 Cper c. pref. (iesd. 50/; Brig. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Ohcstor & liolyhearl Guar. 5 A per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Prof. No. 2 Cork & Baudon 5 p.c Dun.Prth Aler. J .Anglian Cls. A Sh 'Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c Do. do Cls. C 7p. c Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. i Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 r. c. St Ea2t Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 5/., 10 per cent. Do. 10/.Dcbcntr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash. 6 p. ete 9,&w. York. J. sths Hd Prth.&Dun.4p.c Furness 20 12 25 20 Glas. k S. W. G. 5 p. c. Great Northn. 5 p. too 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem. Do, 4 p. c. !Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. it 5 P. c. Pm... 1100 all all all all all Gt.N. of Scot. lIAt, Pre Gt. S. W. (Ireland) Do. 4per c. Prof. Gt. Westn. (Barks ?s, Hants Ex. 5 p. c) , Do. con. red. 4 # p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. 4p.c. Do. Birm. Pref. Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S. De. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birin. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Do. do. do ► Do. do. do Lan. &York. F £26 Do. 6 p. c. Stock ...I LOD. &13righ. G. 5 p.c. Do. Prof., 5 p. c. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent.. Lon.&N. W., Coy. 4 Nuneaton 5 p. et... Lon. & S.W. 7 per et. Lowly. & Color. Sh. Londy.&Ennis.iSh. Shof., & tin. Now, £lO Do. £6 Nfarypt.&Carl.4 p o Do. 4,i per cent Do Nfld. Consol.6 p.e.St 1)o. Consol. Bristol 'tk. Piro. 6 per cent... 'Po. 4i p. C. Pref. St Do. Pref. 4 d per cen Do. 51. Prq. 4 P. c Ditto L. & H. Pref. St ;Norfolk Detcatnro (Do. Prof. 4 p. c. Sto , .; Do. 5 p.c. Ext iDo. 5 per ct. pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c INorth British 'N. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P. Do. do. do Do . Leeds 6 p.c ;No.] De. do. Quarters Do. York H.& S. Pnr. North Staffordshire., Oxford, Worcester, . . IV°lvcrh. Xl5. 6 p.c Do R. Prof. 101. Sh. Scot. Cent. , New Pre South Devon Do. fixed, 4 per per ecni S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 44 per cent Do. Fixed 44 p c sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 44 p. c.... 'S.Yorksl.4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Dar. , 5 p. c. Do. do. do Stock. & Hartl. g. p. c. till July 1, 'sg Waterfd. & Kilk. 6 p c MINES. 1 all lA.gua Fria . „.. ..... 1 ... 3 1 all Anglo Austria. Gold LOS. all Anglo Californian * a 20 6 :.ustralian 1 1 all Australian Cordillera; 1 all tvo —-- 1 all 3aden (Gd. Duchy of -- 50 all Bleauarvon Iron and Coal . , 20 14 British Iron 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issued at 2,5 pm.) 39 all Do. Comes & Cuiab 3 33 20 15 Do, St. John Del Roy 26 —2B 1 Clarendon Cons. Min, Co. of Jamaica A 0 all Cobra Copper 65 69 5 1 Colonial Gold St. all Copper Min. of Eng 31 33 25 all Do. Pref. 73 p. cant. 24 26 ... 16 Copiapo lB 20 2, 1 Fortuna A - 20 all General l3 —l5 1 all rlt.Nuggltlreinßeg 4 41 all Great Polvooth 2 2. 5 all Gt Wheal Vor United 1 dis par 1 all Liberty • 3 all Linares 7 74 5 14 Lusitanian 1 all Mariquita — 1 all Now Granada — 1 all Nouveau. Monde a-20 20 all Pontgiband Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 15 16 5 1 Port Philip A # A 1 all quartz Rock 50 all Rhymncy Iron 2l 23 15 all Do. Now 6 8 30 121 "Santiago de Cuba 3l 41 1 all loath Australian a 1 all Do. Scrip g g 1 1 Do. 10 per cent Pref 10 9 Via Croft. 2% all United Mexican 3 31 1 all Waller 4 —4, 1 , all West Mariposa.,,,.,,, 1. 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia 1 I all Yuba . • MISGELLANEOUS. 25 174 Australian. Agricralt. 284 294 le all Ansi:rain. Royal Mai . . 10 81 Berlin Water Works 2 12( 50 40 Brit. American Lane 37 60 57 100, 323 Canada '4O 150 136 5 6 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. et Jan. Alla july loo 110 1191 5 all Crystal Palace 24 2i 5 5 Do. Preference 5 5/1 .4 all Crystal Pal. of Franc, 1 # Duston Iron Ore ••• 20 11 Eastern Steam.., — 5 al] En.diAus Cop Sin Co 1 14 25 24 Electric Telegraph l7 18 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir — 5 all Gen. Iron Sc Collier 15 14 Gon. Steam Navigat. 18 all General Screw Stearn 20 10 Irish Beetroot Saga , 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig 10 all Hediteran. Elec. Tel g 10 10 9 Mexican&S.Amerien 6 64 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fue 10 5 Netherlands Land 1 14 10 all Do. Do. ..... 2 3 5 1 Do. 8p c P iss at 1d A dis— #pm 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter Steam Navigat. Co 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land 1 all N. B. Australasian g z 2) 15 Nrth.ofEuropeStzar, I all Oriental Ga 5...... 1— 14 1 2e. Do. " New Shares ' 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minri 21 2# 50 all Peninsular& Orient; 50 10 Do. New ......... 2 all Portland Iron .... Co 'i iA 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest 14 1# 1 Ditto New...... ....4 _ 61 25 all ._;1 , c1b...%-übtral • . 6: 1 all Submax. Tel. Scrip., 1 all Do. Rep-istered ...... 23 5 Prust6s L. Co.U. Can. Ynion 2 DIOI OO Pl.l4_u 13i 141 13i -= London J Vi-,:.t (14edon._ E. Uu. E. C Otiqrtn-h. E. Count. Caldom,, Gt. Westi Yk. New, Bcrw. v.&wrvi Do Do 3. Easter Ireto & Co. Norfolk Do N W. Stekton Darlingt. Midi and .. rEn. Coun. HI. Count Do Do L.&N.W Do G t Nortin; Laneash Yorksb. T. Brassey MCloan • Stockt. & Darlingt. NEWMARKET RACES. - (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII) £5O PLATE. Orinoco King of Trumps. Seven ran. SWEEPSTAKES. Habena ' The Match and Sweepstakes are off: walked over LATEST BETTING CESAREW ITCH. 100 to 15 agst Mr. Sykes (taken) 7to 1 agst King Tom (taken) 7to 1 agst Robgill (offered) 12 to 1 agst Brotherto Grey Tommy (taken) 12 to 1 agst Monarque (offered) 12 to 1 agst Sultan (offered) • 12 to 1 agst Neville (offered) • 20 to 1 agst Crown Pigeon (taken). 30 to 1 agst Veteran (taken) 40 to 1 apt Jolly Marine (taken) 40 to 1 agst Eulogist (taken) 50 to 1 agst Paletot (offered) THE EMP.EIZOR ALEXANDEICS VISIT TO ODESSA. The Constitutionnel publishes the two following letters from Odessa:— " ODESSA, Sept. 24; "The Grand Duke Constantine is expected here to-morrow ; he will alight at the Narischkin Pa] ace. " Count Stackelberg, Russian military envoy - at Vienna, and Count Benkendorff, who fills the same functions at Berlin, passed through here yesterd a y on their way to icolaieff, where the Emperor is expected to-morrow. ." General Tedtleben, whose wounds are not quite healed yet, is expected here shortly. " The first detachments of the Militia of the Empire, of Moscow, have arrived at Odessa. Their commander, General Golowin, an old man of 70 years of ago, has received a kick from a horse, and is seriously ill. " A great deal of anxiety is felt here in con sequence of the news of the embarkation of a considerable number of troops at Kamiesh and Ba laklava. Our garrison is always under arms. -The coast bristles with guns and mortars ; but still greater fears are entertained for Nicolaieff, to which place a large number of cannon have been sent recently. " ODESSA, Sept. 25.—The Emperor Alexander and suite arrived here on the evening of the 22d. The Governor-General had announced that the Emperor would enter the city at noon, but he did not arrive till late in the afternoon, and the crowd, tired of waiting ) , had quietly dispersed. This cir ctinstance is the cause why the entrance of the Czar produced so little effect upon our population, and, with the exception of the rolling of the drums, the sound of military music, and 'the movement among the officers in command of the troops, there was no change visible in the appearance of Odessa. On the following day the whole population attended their daily business as usual. " The Emperor alighted at the palace of Prince Woronzoff. His suite was lodged at the chateau cf Countess Langeron. The Czar left next day for Nicolaieff, whither his brother, the Grand Duke Constantine, had preceded him. This day a grand council of war, to which all the commanders of the corps of infantry quartered in New Russia are summoned, was to be held, under the presidency of the Emperor, at Nicolaieff. In case the events of the war in the Crimea should prevent Prince Gort-_ sehakoff from attending the Council General Osten- Sacken is to attend in his stead. This veteran Ge neral, who held important commands in all the great wars under Alexander and Nicholas, enjoys in the highest degree the confidence of the present Emperor. It is to be presumed that his advice will be listened to, and his plans of campaign seriously examined. It is said that General Liprandi and General of Cavalry de Wrangel have also been called to Nicolaieff." UKASE OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 28.—The Emperor Alex ander has issued the following ukase : " Every month of actual presence in the garrison of Sebastopol on the north side and in the forts shall be considered equivalent to a year's service, and insure the following privileges :-Ist, generals, staff and superior officers, and likewise officials in the civil service, to wear their uniforms on retiring into private life ; 2d, to wear then the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class, and the scarf for the ser vice of 25 years (any one cf them who had served 14 years when the siege commenced receives at once this order de jure); 3d, full pensions to themselves and families as upon superannuation ; officers, mili tary or civil, to receive additional rank (every grade in Russia has to be filled fora normal period of three to four years, to be shortened by special distinc tions only ; non-commi ss i one d o fficers and privat e s will accordingly not on j oy thi s final promotion) ; sth,ay ( swuirtgheocnersttaoinrenaceoiyificpaetniosinos) ; 6th, police offi cials and increase of p to have higher salaries ; 7th, persons holding inferior employments will not have their punish ments and penalties for minor offences recorded against them when discharged ; Bth, indefinite fur lough (but not till the war is over)." There are three more regulations for private sol diers, respecting their pay and medals. Every day spent in the north side of Sebastopol beyond a calendar month is to be deemed equivalent to twelve days. Then certain regulations follow respecting the Order of St. Vladimir. and the for poefrtohreohrdrs head gan T i h sa e t E io m n , m i i n ii a ta n r o y tl s i c e h r o u o tase, the reor mation of three special military academies. Another order of the Emperor prohibits the expor tation of coarse cloths, whether grey or of any other colour, by the land frontiers of Poland and Russia in Europe. Russian reports state that emigration has com menced on a great scale in Simpheropol since the 9th. A panic was driving away the inhabitants in all directions. Certain Tartars had been executed by the military authorities for having spread abroad the report that the forts on the south side of Sebas topol had been blown up. The Grand Duke George of Mecklenburg Strelitz left Moscow on the 21st, at midnight, for Nicolaieff, to join the Emperor. A Russian Colonel of Artillery, named Konstan tinoff, has invented a new kind of Conareve-rocket, at Revel, and the trial of its effects had proved sa tisfactory. It flies five-sevenths of a German mile, that is, of five English miles. A great quantity has been distributed there for use against the allies. Revel is still being fortified. DEATH OF Ross MooRE, M.P.—Ross Moore, E sq. , member for the borough of Armagh, died on Friday, a t his residence, in Dublin. A new election will conse quently become n ecessary. FIRE IN THE SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE-ROAD. — On Satur day a fire took place in the premises of Mrs. Etridge, No. 38, Southwark-bridge-road. The fire commenced from a lighted candle, in the first floor. By great exer tion on the part of the firemen and inmates the fire was extinguished, but not before considerable damage was done. The occupier was uninsured. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES CHAD. BART.—We have to record the demise of Sir Charles Chad, Bart., who died a few days since at Thurs.:ord Hall, Norfolk. The de ceased baronet was eldest son of S'r George Chad, the first baronet, and was born 21st April, 1779. He mar ried, June 14, rBlO, Lady Anne, second. daughter of Edward Earl of Winterton, and by her ladyship, who died in March, 1832, he had an only son, Edward Henry, who died in 1842. His brother, Mr. G. W. Chad, formerly British minister at Dresden, who died a few years since, was heir presumptive to the baronetcy. Trill AUSTRALIAN MAILS.:—LIVERPOOL, Saturday.— The royal mail clipper Schourberg, Capt. Forbes, sailed at an early hour this morning, with the English mails for the Australian colonies, which wero placed on board last night, about 430 passengers (of whom 53 occupy cabin berths), and above 3,000 tons of merchandise on freight. It is believed that the quantity of provisions on board will be found sufficient for both the outward and home ward passages. The bread and flour are placed in her metically-sealed packages, to insure their not getting sour on the voyage. The mails of the sth November will be carried to Melbourne by the Ocean Chief, Captain Tobin, which has already made two very fast trips to the Antipodes. The Sultana, Captain Taylor, of the White Star line, is appointed to carry the mails of the 21st of October. She is filling up rapidly with goods and passengers. THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. — In consequence of the increasing submarine telegraph communication with the continent, the Electric and international Telegraph Companies have laid down another wire between the English and Dutch coasts, in addition to three already in operation. The new cable is 119 miles in length, and weighs 238 tons. It was coiled on board the steamer Monarch (Captain Henley), belonging to the companies, and the process of paying out commenced at Orfordness at 3 p.m. on the 29th ult., and was successfully com pleted at Schevening at 1.20 p.m. on the 30th, having occupied about 21 hours. The whole of the operations were under the direction of Mr. Frederick C. Webb, as sistant-engineer. Arrangements have been completed with the continental Governments by which messages can be forwarded direct to most of the principal cities on tha continent, and despatches are therefore now trans• milted from London to Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, &c., with the same rapidity as to Liverpool, Manchester, or Glasgow. thia day. THE FRENCH AND mama IN THE CRIMEA. THE OPINION OF THE PEOPL E IN PARIS WITH RESPECT TO THE CONDUCT OF THE BRITISH TROOPS ON THE BTH SEPTEMBER. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. SlB,—When I returned to Paris from a visit to Lon ' don about a week ago I hardly felt the courage to face my French friends. Sebastopol bad been taken ; the English had failed in their assault upon the Redan, while the French had captured and retained the Malakhoff, the possession of which by the Allies had forced the Russians to abandon the town. Such being the state of things I, of course, expected that my French acquaintances, with the good-humoured raillery of their character, would chuckle over our failure and their success. Bat, to my agreeable surprise, I found that everywhere in Paris the highest praise was not only given to the determination and bravery of our soldiers, hut that the French public attributed to the heroic resistance of our sodiers the success of the d a y as much as to those employed directly in the taking of the Malakhoff. In France, such are the number cf old officers and soldiers spread everywhere over the soil, and such is the military turn given to the military mind; by the constant perusal of the Campaigns of the Empire, that strategic operations are better understood in Paris by all classes, even to the lowest, than by the generality of well-informed people in London. And when the Times and the other ournals, and their correspondents, go blundering on, blaming this person and that, and throw ing chill upon our poor soldiers, the French people, with a justness of view, and a frank generosity, allow to our troops as much merit as to their own. I have the advantage of a pretty numerous acquaint. ance in Paris, amongst whom are a number of military men. As a matter of course, the converation since the capture of Sebastopol has been almost exclusively upon that subject. I have heard the question discussed over and over again, and I will now give you the al most universal opinion of Frenchmen as to that action. This will be certainly more interesting to your readers than any opinion of my own. The Malakhoff was the key of Sebastopol. When that was taken the town was ours. It was, therefore, necessary that every effort should be directed to this end, and that everything else should be subordinate to the capture of that fort. But, in order to reduce the Malakhoff, it was absolutely necessary to make diver sions in other places ; because, if the Malakhoff was at tacked alone, the whole Russian army would be concen trated for its defence, and all the men the allies could bring against it would not be sufficient to secure its cap ture. Hence the besieging of the Redan and the other forts, all important it is true, but of which the capture could not take place until the Malakhoff was in possession of the allies,• the attack of which, however, forced the Russians to withdraw a considerable part of their force from the defence of the Malakhoff. • On the Bth of September the approaches to the Mala khoff were quite' sufficiently close to warrant the as sault. The French were at less than twenty-five yards from the fortification, nearly every gun was silenced, the walls around the fort had been nearly levelled by the play of the artillery, and the French had nothing to do but to walk into the fortification, fighting their way, of course, but without the necessity of an escalade. But the Great Redan was not in any way prepared for an assault. The English trenches were at more than two hundred yards' distance from the walls. The bat teries of the fort, both in front and in flank, were in full activity ; and the taking and retention, of the Redan under these circumstances was physically impossible, supposing the Russians comported themselves with their usual obstinacy and courage. Such was the state of things on the Bth September. The allied Generals thought that the propitious moment was arrived for taking Sebastopol. General Pelissier said to General Simpson, "I can easily, from the posi tion I occupy, take the Malakhoff ; but the difficulty is to hold it, before I can bring my reserves and artillery into action, and prepare it for defence. If I surprise the Russians, which I hope to do, and take the fort by a coup de; main, they will return in such force that the small number of men who mount to the assault will be overwhelmed and driven back as on the 18th of June. I do not expect that the Redan can be taken by you. You are not in a condition to do so ; but it is absolutely necessary that a diversion should be made in our favour after our first success, to give us time to breathe, and to bring up our artillery and reserves. All I ask for this is one hour, and I will undertake to keep possession of the Malakhoff. Make your assault, and give us, if pos sible, that length of respite. Throw away as few men as possible, but engage the Russians for at least au hour, and Sebastopol is ours." Such is the conversation sup posed to have taken place betwixt Pelissier and Simpson; and I am informed upon good authority that private let ters from French officers in the Crimea fully confirm that the purport of what I have stated was really said by General Pelissier. Such was the plan adopted. It was exactly in accord ance with the tactics of the great Napoleon, who was in the habit of sacrificing a certain number of men, in order to secure the object in view. Napoleon was in the habit of saying to a colonel of a regiment, without mincing the matter, "dllez vous faire tuer, vous et votre regi ment," when be sent a devoted corps to the attack of a redcubt or a position which there were not the slightest chance of taking, and that in order to facilitate the suc cess of another part of the army. And the corps of General de Salles, who attacked the Central Bastion, and was repulsed, was placed in the same position as the English, except that the work it had to do was not quite so desperate. This is the real state of the case fully admitted at Paris, but which, of course, could not be openly declared in the despatches, although it is hinted at sufficiently clear to military men in the report of General Niel. The devoted band which attacked the Redan, as well as the French under de Salle, were in a manner sacrificed to the success of the great object in view, the retention of the Malakhoff. They were.the forlorn hope—les enfans perdus—of the allied armies. This the blundering correspondent of the Times has not bad the sagacity to discover, and he has expressed him self as if the sole object of the English had been to take the Redan. Nor has the Times itself, with all its thun dering articles against General Simpson, seen clearer. The explanation which I have just given, and which is recognised by everybody in Paris, is the real one, and clears up the apparently inexplicable conduct of General Simpson. Why, it is said, did not he send reinforce ments? Because he knew that no reinforcement which the English army could have sent could have secured the capture of the fort, and would have been an addi tional and useless loss of life. His object was merely to occupy a great portion of the Russian army for a cer tain time, and to give Pelissier time to fortify himself in the Malakhoff, in order to be able to resist the tremen- dons attack of the Russian army to retake the fort, - to which he was sure to be exposed in the afterpart of the day. Another question is also put by the Times' corre spondents—" Why did not General Simpson send his best troops to the assault ?" Because (the answer is evident) he wished to preserve his best soldiers for an attack which really would succeed, and thought the young recruits fit enough food for powder. Such is war! Let us return to the narrative. The Malakoff is taken by the French almost without the loss of a man; their great loss was in the defence some hours afterwards. Instantly the flag is hoisted for the English to commence. About 2,000 poor soldiers, who of course believe that the attack is a serious and not a false attack, are sent across a space of 200 yards, exposed both in front and in flank to batteries of 68-pounders. They arrive at the foot of the wall out of breath, after losing by the discharges of grape about a third of their number. The rampart is scaled, notwithstanding the Russians on the other side, who are driven back, and the British obtain a footing in the salient angle of the Redan. Put, as a natural and inevitable consequence after going through such tremendous risks, there is a certain degree of confusion among the survivors. One regiment is mixed up with another, and there is not the same order, arrangement, and discipline as there would have been had there been nothing but fair open fighting. Not withstanding this our poor fellows occupied the place, and held the Russians in cheek—not for an hour, as stated by Pelissier, but for nearly double that time— and that against immense masses of the enemy • for we are informed that, after th e sur p r i se o f the Malakhoff, the greater part of the Russians engaged there rushed to the Redan, to share in the repulse of this handful of English. Atter a desperate and heroic defence against such immense odds, the devoted band of British were pushed almost by physical pressure out of the Redan, and the greater part annihilated. Such was the behaviour of the English column of at tack, as detailed in the despatches of Pelissier. Neil and Marmora, and the French, one and all agree in say ing that no troops could have behaved with more courage. A vicille moustache said to me the other day, " what soldiers but the English would have marched 200 yards against such a tremendous enfilading fire of artillery, would have mounted the breach after being decimated by grape, and that, when opposed by a much superior force on the other side ; and, finally, who would have retained their position in the fort for two hours against overwhelming odds ?" The Times' special correspondent (like an ill bird that files its own nest) attacks the poor soldiers, because, he . _ says, they were in confusion and did not obey the order of their officers to jump into the traverses into certain destruction. But how does he know that the soldiers refused to obey this order, or that such a foolish order was ever given by the officers ? The correspondent was not there himself to see. He must, therefore, have taken his report from some one of the officers who had wished to exalt himself and his class at the expense of the poor soldiers. And yet this . writer, in order that he may send to his paper a long pompous letter, does not hesitate to calumniate and vility our poor soldiers in the face of Europe, and that upon hearsay evidence, the very day after the action, without leaving: himself the time of verifying his strictures. His letters, as well as the articles of the Times upon the same subject, have been translated into the French papers, and there is but one opinion in Paris as to the conduct of the Tin/cs and his correspondent—that of disgust and indignation. The general saying here is, that the correspondent is a preten tious blockhead, who dues not in the slightest degree understand military affairs, and who has not hesitated, in order to send a long,letailed account to his employers, to attack not only the General-in-Chief, but to calum niate the poor soldiers. While the English troops were devoting themselves in the manner I have described, the French hi the Malakhoff were comparatively free from attack, for the great assaults of the Russians to retake the fortifications only commenced about half-past two. Pelissier had then double. the time of respite he asked from General Simpson, and during this time the French had nk.de the most of their time. The approaches on the French side were levelled so as to allow the entrance of artillery an d ' the rapid advance of the reserves. A nuruber of field 91 101 51 5 I pieces by this means were brought up and placed in bat tery, and the Imperial Guard were entered for the de fence, in addition to the troops employed in the assault. The cannon of the Russians were turned against the enemy, and the place in a manner fortified against the Russians themselves. After this, as Pelissier said, the Malakhoff was secure, and could not be retaken. It is true, after the Russians had finally repulsed the English, but not till then, they returned to the assault of the French in the Malal•:hoff ; and they brou7,ht their thole army to this operation. But it was too late. T!.is attack was desperate and courageone in the extreme ; but they failed, after immense slaughter on their past, as well as that of the French. Such, how ever, was the desperate and powerful nature of their attack, that all the French with whom I have conversed admit, with the greatest frankness, that had the assault of,the Russians been made immediately after the first French success, before they had time to fortify them selves, the French would have been certain to have been driven out of the Malakhoff, and the affair would have ended as it did on the 18th of June. The French , are, therefore, right in saying that the Eoglish, by their heroic resistance in the Redan, are entitled to as much credit and honour for the final reduction of Sebastopol as are those who were employed directly in the capture of the l‘l&akhoff. Such, Mr. Editor, is the opinion of all military men in Paris, and, ind ee d, of all classes ; for our generous. allies do us full credit. It, is only the ignorant, carping, and conceited correspondents, with the TiIMCS at their heal, who talk of the blood of the English soldiers being shed ingloriously and uselessly on the Bth of Sep tember.—l remain, &c., JAMES AYTOUN. Paris, October 1, 1855. SCRAPS FRO II TEE CAMP. (FE.OM A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER.) Camp, Sebastopol, Sept. 17. I promised, in my last, to describe to you the Redan, Malakhoff, and Sebastopol, as soon as I could get leave by my senior troop officer emerging from sick quarters. Well, this has occurred; and obtaining a pass I rode off to the Redan. I went by the picket-house and 21-gun battery, and then through the parallels and semi-parallels, as they were called when I was at college, and I emerged within 150 yards of the counterscarp of the Redan, the distance between being an open space. An in telligent non-commissioned officer was with me, who had served in the trenches, and he pointed out the remarkable spots. "Here," said he, pointing to a little ditch in the open space, not more than three feet deep, with a bank about two feet high, at two feet in front of the ditch, " the sen tries were placed at night." About ten yards in advance a similar ditch was occupied by Russian sentries ; so the hostile picketi were only ten yards apart at night. " And,' said my informant, "we could see them, sir, lighting their pipes." I found the ditch of the Redan neither deep nor wide, but I have since learnt that its depth was diminished by the bodies of the poor fellows, both English and Russians, buried in it. Riding into the sedan, I looked around with amazement, for my college fortification instruction had not led me to expect anything so colossal. Dismounting, and taking a survey from the parapet, my wonder was increased by the retrenchment or double line of works. I asked au artilleryman to show me the bomb proofs, and he led me to a hole under the parapet, but it was so blocked up, with bedding, coats, cloaks, and other matters, that we could not get in, and were obliged to go to another. Here we entered a sort of cave, six feet three or four in height, and ten feet wide ; beds were slung side by side, making it a regular barrack alo ng one face of the Redan. The roof was about 25 feet thick, and no shell could possibly penetrate. Beams of wood, apparently from the dockyard, of great diameter, formed the ceiling, then earth, then iron tanks filled with earth, then bags of sand gabions, fascines, and finally earth, makin g a thick ness of from 20 to 25 feet. The magazine was similarly formed ; it had been exploded, but the only damage done was to upset a couple of guns and destroy one of the caves. The second parapets or retrenchments in the rear were about eight feet high and ten feet thick, and I do not think above 15 feet distant from the base of the interior slope of the front parapet ; besides these there were tra verses at every two guns. The embrasures bad mantlets of coils of thick rope, protecting the gun ners, but, I think, a Minie ball at 100 yards would go through them. The artillery man now called my attention to one of the guns which had been hit in three places, twice near the muzzle, and once at the breach. "This," said he, "is the only gun that was damaged worth speaking of." If it be the fact, it says a great deal for the defensive cha racter of the works, or for the tact of the Russians iu withdrawing their guns when our firing was heavy. The shells must have made great havoc, and there were hundreds of holes where they had fallen, but I suspect the Russians kept few troops in the works, and those few in the bomb proofs. The artillery officer in charge of the Redan was good enough to show me his room. It was under the second parapet, and facing the centre. It had a comfortable iron bedstead, and when he first took possession a nice mahogany table, but some body had walked off with it. The room had a ceiling of sack. There was a military sketch board, so I suppose its former occupier had been an artillery or engineer officer. I remarked that in this room, being in the second parapet, the roof was not above three feet thick, and a shell had fallen upon it, but had not penetrated to the interior. From the Redan I descended to the lesser harbour, and keeping by its shore reached the arsenal, barracks, and dockyard, passing mul titudes of new guns lying in rows ; most of these, I believe, were rendered useless by having had a shot rammed home. The dry docks were first-rate. From the barracks I heard whistling, and well known tones—" I say, Jack," " Come here, Tom," &c., and sundry expressions not particularly po lite, indicating that the vicissitudes of war had replaced the former occupants by English troops. I wonder the Russians on the other side do not disturb their hilarity, for the guns of Forts Con stantine and Alexander can reach them ; and new batteries are being raised ; but whether to be de fended or to cover their retreat remains to be seen. I now found myself near the Malakboff, but the French sentry refused to let mein. While argu ing the matter in bad French, an English Horse Artillery serjeant cantered up, and without saying a word entered, and I followed his example ; the sentry uttering certain phrases not complimentary to us. The plan of construction of the Malakhoff is that of the Redan ; but it appeared to me that the retrenchments were even thicker and higher and it was closed at the rear. In my humble opinion it is much stronger than the Redan. I observed that the French sap was up to the coun terscarp of the ditch, and this enabled the storm ing party to rush in so quickly. Sebastopol proper was a well-built, handsome town, chiefly of stone houses. On ascending one of the streets, and looking back, I was reminded a good deal of the main harbour at Malta. Al though the walls of the houses have not been much injured by shot and shell, yet there is scarcely a whole roof in the town. The conflagration and shelling have effected this. I saw a new church in course of erection. Probably a well organised fire brigade prevented our shells firing the town, and the Russians, no doubt, had recourse to com bustibles to aid them as incendiaries, for quantities of dry forage had been observed coming over from the north side. Sept. 21. Report will still have it that we arc to take the field for a short time. The impression, however, is that the Russians are evacuating the north side, and we in due course of time shall walk in. I must admit, from what I saw on my second visit to the Racial], that it looks probable, from the quantities of carts, which, with a good glass, appeared plainly to be leaving the place ; but where they go to is uncertain. I saw a regular string of them, and the French were firing rockets at them from a little below the Malakhoff. A battery was also firing upon the north side, at an earthen work which has been lately erected from our part of Sebastopol ; but the battery was French. We apparently aro doing nothing, and the Sardinians aro h e l p i n g us —the active party is the French. Their force _b y the Tchernaya has of late increased immen se l y. Whether anything is to be attempted by Macken zie's Farm time will show. The Russians are busy raising batteries on the northern side ; but it is said in camp that it is only with a view to cover their retreat, and that when they have got the im pediments well away, they will walk off and blo w i the forts up, as was done on this side. If we march, I am all ready, but my baggages redu ce d to a are allowed only on 1- at horse, we u t m h i e ni p m o ourmb, e f a o s r t a cannot carry more th an a box, the s bed, and the tent. a s econd visit to the Red an, have paid R e an, and am still inclined to think the Malakhoff is twice as strong ; but a s the French sap had reached the counterscarp of the ditch, their rush was only of a f ew yards, while our poor fellows had to run over more than 150 yards, mowed down by grape and canister. The retrenchments in the Malakhoff are awful. Tho Bath, Chronicle has been favoured with the following extracts from a letter written by a gen tleman on board one of her Majesty's ships in the Black Sea to his friends in Baba " Yesterday we went to inspect the ruins of Se bastopol. We went over all the Russian lines, and such a scene of destruction I never saw. Ido not believe that in a circuit of 15 miles there is a ,ua,re yard. of ground without a splinter of shot or shell upon it. The first place we went to was the Quarantine Fort, where a tremendous explosion took place during the tight ; the whole interior of the place is covered with the debris of the walls. It was evacuated in great haste, the gunshaving been left usspiked, and the magazines were full of powder. In one place where a sentry had been posted, the man had left his musket leaning against the wall, having most probably taken to his h ee l s . We then entered the town by the famous loop holed wall, and Sebe.stopol was before us. It was at once apparent why our seaward b a tt er i es h a d made so little impression On the place. The high buildings and houses of the town, which had ap peared so close to the walls, were more than a mile distant, separated by a deep ravine. Shot and shell from various quarters had left their marks on every shattered wall and perforated roof. We then, by virtue of a pass, went to Fort Alexander, contain ing 163 casernatee, looking seaward, each casemate armed with a heavy gun, and affording lodging for 15 or 20 men. A long open gallery connects every part of this work. In the basement storey of this enormous fort we observed several cuttings, which at the time of the bombardment, were being driven , under su supporting walls, for the purpose of exploding the whole. The workmen were interrupted, and had left their work, their tools being in the same state and condition as when dropped by them. From this spot we ascended to the highest part of the town, to visit what had been a club-house. This is a fine building, with a basso-relievo slab of some Russian historical subject, which we could not understand. This structure is a copy of the Museum at Kertch. Near it is a copy of the Temple of the Winds, at Athens. We were generally disappointed with the town of Sebastopol ; it is irregular, and, of course, now very dirty. From the town we descended to the waterside, and entered the dockyard. Little was left here, the destruction having been complete ; a few boats, riddled with shot, and the charred remains of ships, being all that was visible, except - guns; these were in very perfect order and in largo numbers ; we counted 1,000 and then left off. Walking round the edge of Dockyard Creek, we soon came to the dock. We arrived suddenly among the wonders of Sebas topol, and where all that we had heard of the glo ries of the place faded away before the magnificent reality. First of all we inspected a dock, where ships of the largest size are hauled up out of the water, or launched again, by means of a cradle, placed on a tramroad. This is the work of the Englishman Upton. Then we came to the intended Government foundry, whose walls were rising to the height of ten feet, over a space of nearly twelve acres ; part of this was obtained by cutting away the spur of a mountain. The remainder of the hill was upheld by a freestone wall, every stone beau tifully squared and fitted, to the height of 350 feet ! This wall cost 60,000,000 roubles (about 100,0001. sterling). We had the advantage here of joining two English engineers, who had been employed for many years in Sebastopol ; these be came our guides, and gave us a great deal of infor mation. We then went to see the famous docks. These consist of a series of locks like canal locks, the upper end being twenty feet higher than the entrance lock, which is even with the level of the sea. The upper end has fusee locks abreast. Then comes a compartment equal in area to three, then again three more, the middle one of which is en tered by three other locks from the harbour, making altogether nine chambers as it were, and the large space in the middle. These are all dry, but can be filled by water pumped into them by two steam-engines. Each chamber is 270 feet long, 60 feet wide, and contains from 25 to 37 feet of water, at pleasure. A large ship may be floated into an upper lock, all the water can then be let off, and the ship left in her cradle as dry as if on shore. The docks with their magnificent ma sonry casings of gigantic granite blocks, steam en gines, and iron gates, with the aqueducts for bring ing down water from the Tchernaya, cost 20,000,0001. sterling. In one of the docks a steamer had been burnt ' • all her machinery was standing complete, but not one bit of wood remained, The docks are all to be destroyed ; in fact Sebastopol is to be made a desert. From this point we skirted the harbour, and, passing through the faubourgs, made our way towards Careening Bay, passing within cannon shot of the Russians on the north side, who are working vigorously-there in raising forts for our reception. We passed some time in looking at them, and crossed over to the Little Redan, the Central Bastion, until we reached the Malakhoff, which the French so successfully sur prised, and so won Sebastopol. Its enormous strength has not been overrated at all. We then went to the Redan, and, skirting all the fortifica tions, returned to our ships on the opposite side of the town to which we had entered, having made a circuit of 15 miles. One sight I saw filled me with horror. In a ruined house, 50 or 60 bodies were thrown in a heap, all swollen and disfigured, in every stage of decomposition, exposed to the gaze of every passer by. It was too bad to leave them so for an hour. Nearly 500 bodies were found in this state in a cellar the day before yesterday, and as they were removing the bodies for burial a wretched wounded Russian, from the midst of the horrible group, staggered to his feet, and implored protection. It was instantly accorded to him. At Fort Paul, which was blown into the air, crowds of wounded are said to have perished in the ruins. It was reported that the Russians have 40,000 sick, and the French and ourselves, being unable to take care of them, we are obliged to leave the Russians unmolested, lest these and more should be thrown upon our hands." LITERATURE. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. A pleasing notice of " Sidney, Spenser, and Elizabethan Romance," by a writer by no means indifferent to his subject, or merely cursorily acquainted with it, opens this number. " The Life of a Sailor" forcibly illustrates the necessity for a thorough reform in the system of promotion in the navy, which is shown to be worse than that in the army. Merit, with money, secures promotion in the latter, while no man can rise without per petual solicitation of political friends in the former. " Emanuel Swedenborg," designated-by Coleridge as one of those "great men unjustly branded," whose vindication he thought of writing, is the sub ject of a eulogistic notice. So also is the author of " Alton Locke" and " Westward, Ho !" to wit, Charles Kingsley. Tho leading idea of his teach ing is said to be, "to re-unite God and nature, godliness and life, which have been wilfully divorced by the fancies and selfishness of men." " The Crimean War" narrates its history from Alma to the Malakhoff. " Telse Wollersien" is concluded, and, in addition to " Our House at Home," an interesting paper devoted to youthful reminiscences, the reader will find the commencement of a new story, entitled "Mary Sutherland," worthy of notice. The Art Journal is rich as usual in illustrations of the pictorial art. The larger engravings comprise " The First Born," a beautiful picture by Lerius, in the Royal collection engraved by Lightfoot. " Fisher Boys," a pleasing landscape on the coast of Norfolk, painted by W. Collins and engraved by A. Willimore, and "The Day Dream," a charm ing production, engraved by Artlett, from the statue by P. MacDowell, R.A. Among the minor illustrations are specimens (one or two but mode rately executed) of the works of that eminent British artist, Sir Charles Locke Eastlake, RA., and also of tho most recent productions of indus trial art. Among the letterpress a curious paper on the " Marks of Gold and Silver Smiths," a use ful one on " The Art of Architecture in relation to Sanitary Improvement," " Photographs from Se attentiv of e Se bastopol," and " Th e Artistic, Industrial, and. Commercial resultsofthaes Iv U o n r il t r h e y rs o al f Exposition an 1855," may be noticed perusal. Evalzgelical Christendom. The most prominent feature of the present num ber is an interesting report of the proceedings at cc The Paris Conference," a meeting of evangelical Christians of all churches and from all parts of the world, just held in the capital of France. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Oct. B.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.W. ; light, with fine weather. (nu ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived—Gipsey, from Llanelly ; Choice, Buenos Ayres; Adelaide, Waterford ; Curtius. London; Alliance (s.), Havre ; Argyll (s.), Careutan ; George, Cherbourg ; Jackson, Black Sea. Sailed—Welt, for the Black Sea. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind S.E. Arrived.—Corropue, from Montreal; Riga and Alma, Quebec ; Marsala and Agnes Sophia, Palermo ; Augusti, Ghent ; Martha, Villa Nova ; Lizzy, Alexandria. Sailed.—Johan Heinrich, for Stettin ; Argus, N ew . foundland; Allaro, Saxkiobing ; Countess of Liverpool, Hadairg. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 6. Wind S.S.W. Arrived.—Evangelismos Jachinthia, fr om F orsyth; In ; Minerva, Undino, and Maid of Orleans, Syra ; Lady Sale and Woodstock - , Callao; Angola, L eg h orn; England, Akyab ; Kendaros and Slarianski, (13T SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.50 aan. Wind S.W. ; tide half flood ; weather fine. Arrived, 7 t ll.— Lonclon, from Gothenburg ; Speedy; Sydney ; Breadalbano. Buenos Ayres ; Georg; Marsden, Leghorn ; Atalanta, Berhice; Nephews, Dutikirk; John, Antwerp ; Juno, Brussels ;,Shelah, Mogador. Wind W.S.W ; DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m. moderato. Anchored.-IMargrietta,, from Newcastle, for Alicante. Pa bed.--Prince Albert, from Callao; Prince Arthur, Reaug—both for London. t oo all ss. all all 100 50 100 100 50 all all 2 3 LO ns. 1 100 100 92 1/ 68 i 57 61 31i 10 # ex d all all 10) 100 all 110 183 Pg t,W(