The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

JTJLLLEN'S CONCERTS. - ROYAL • ITALIAN OPERA, COTENT-GARDEN. Last Week but Three.—Fourth Night of THE FALL of SEBASTOPOL QUA DRILLE.—The Programme for THIS EVENING (T u esday, Nov. 20) will include :—Overture, Strnenzee (second time this seaso n) ; Quadrille from L'Enfant Prodigue ; the Andante from Roches dame bert's S wiss Symphony ; Una Voce, and The Forest Fairy, sung by Gassier ; La Belle du Village Valse ; Solo, Violoncello, by Mons. Montigny (his first appearance) ; the Scherzo Presto from Beetho ven's Symphony in A (first time this season) ; M. Jullien's New Grand Descriptive Military Quadrille, entitled THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL (fourth time) ; Grand Operatic Selection from Les Huguenots; the Sleigh Polka; Scherzo in G Minor from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream ; Solo, Flute, by Herr Reichardt; the Zonave pas de Coarse Galop, &c. Prices of admission :—Promenade, upper boxes, amphitheatre stalls and amphitheatre, is.; dress circle , 2 s. 6d,; private boxes, 125., It. Is., and It. us. 6d. Places and private boxes may be had at the box-office of the theatre, of Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Hammond, Mr. Hook. ham, and Messrs. Andrews, Bond-street ; and at Messrs. dallien and Co.'s, Regent-street. M. Jnillen's Grand Annual Bal Masque will take place on Men day, Dec. 17, 1855. THEATRE ROYAL,. DRIJRY-LANZ. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Will be performed MARRIED FOR MONEY. Characters by Mr. Charles-Mathews, Messrs. Robert Rexby and A. Youngs ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss M. Oliver, and Miss Mason will appear. After which, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER. To be followed by NITOCRIS. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Ed gar, Stuart, B. Sullivan, G. Wild, C. Vincent, &c.; Miss Glyn, Mrs. Belby, Mies De Vete, Miss Anderton, Miss Cleveland, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. _ TflIS EVENING. Will be presented THE PROVOKED HUSBAND. Principal characters by Messrs. Howe, W. Farren, Chippendale, Compton, 3/iss Cushman, Mrs. Poynter, and Miss Swanborough. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. ZOTAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Caw.o KEEN. THIS EVENING Will be performed DON'T RIDGE BY APPEARANCES. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. To conclude with A GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Will be performed IVINRIE DUCASGE ; or, The Jer3ey Q!rl. Follewed by VALENTINE AND ORSON. After which, the Farce of THE £lOO N9TE. ROYAL LYCEUM TIIEA.TRE. Lessee, 3fr. J. H. Anderson, 13, Norfolk-street, Strand. Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio I THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock, Will be presentel, with entirely Nem and Magnificent Appoint m rag, Il.arlCC ald 11 , NT F.RY, in twelve acts, arranged in two puts, by Professor Anderson. Aft.* which. the stixttlmr illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF- A NI-'IOUIt WITII TIE SPIRIT-I. being the most surprising and interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any theatre. Revival, in an Imeroved form, of the astounding novelty which startled London 10 years ago, the GREAT GUN TRICK! Prices of alml s sion:—Private ßoxes, 1/. 115. 6d. and 11. Is. ; Orchestra Stalls, 45.; Dees Ilexes, 31 ; Upper Boxes, 25.; Pit, ; Gallery, 6 , 1. No llalf-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5 Bran nornlnz Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock. Don oven at llali-past Ono. ROYAL BT3A.ND TrLEATRE. Undo!' the direction of Mr. Payne. THIS EVENING. Will be perf)rmo I SWUM I.A NICKLEBY. After which, a SPANI3II BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers. Followed by NI - MMUS. To conclude with TLIE LADIES' CLUE. R)YAT. OLYISPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, After which PLOT AND PASSION Characters by Messrs. F. Robson, Emery, G. Vining, Leslie, J. 11. White, H. Cooper, and Franks ; anl Mrs. Stirling and Miss Bromley. Followed by CATCHING A BIER %I AID. To zonclude with A BLIG3TED BEING. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITEIEATRE. LOllOO and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. TIIIS EVENING. Mademoiselle CLEMENTINE SOULLIER, the greatest Eques trian Artiste in the World ! (Vide "Times," 13th Nov.) Mr. W. Cooke's Leviathan PROVINCIAL EQUESTRIAN ESTABLISIIME,NT, during this week only ! Also, the Spectacle, The FALL of SEBASTOPOL ! After which, the GE3L of the CIRCLE ; with the Magnifica Act of Mlle. Soullier, and the Performance of the Provincial Este. bl(shment ; with other Entertainments. nox-oflice open from Eleven till Foar. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, W. Cooke, Jan. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. T DAY"--Morn. 55 min. aft. 10—Evening 22 min. aft. 11 To-Moßnow—Mom.49 min.aft. 11—Evening 0 min. aft. 0 THE WEATHER.—Su rr °vv.tern. Nov. 20. TIIEIIIIO3INTETC, IN THV &UDE. 45 highest since noon yesterday. 31 —lowest this morning ani during the night. 43 —this day at noon. BAROMETZB, 30'09. wiNi>.—Easterly ; fresh, with miserably dull, rainy weather. , p - VP. : oft . dr LONDON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1855. Some parties in the United States seem desirous of pushing the electioneering trick of Mr. CALEB CUSHING to the utmost extent by stimulating the passions of the People against those springing from the same stock, speaking the same language, and professing a like devotion to free institutions with themselves. We do not wonder, for there are always persons ready and willing to follow in any beaten track, however dirty—to strive to rival any mendacity, however flagrant—who seek to attract notoriety in any shape, however unenviable. The most recent example of the class is a cer tain Doctor DAVEGA, who has, or professes to have, been engaged in the Russian service at Sebastopol, in the capacity of surgeon on the medical staff, which he left at the rather critical period when the Russians had, according to this veracious authority, acquired the great advantage (I)—risum teneatis amici—of abandoning the south side of the beleaguered city to its assailants. It was rather a suspicious time for the valiant Doctor to desert the banner under which he bad volunt ar il y en rolled himself, or to find " urgent privat e a ff a i rs " to call him back to his trans-Atlantic domi c il e, We shall do our American brethren the justice to say that they seldom permit such matters to in terfere with a fired resolution, or impede duties in whi c h th e y h a d d e lib era t e ly euga w (red. With them the re are " nu ll a ves ti g i a re t ro rsum " so long as there is th e slightest prospect of ultimate success. Tho case must be hopeless indeed when they would withdraw from the cause which they bad undertaken. It is, therefore, scarcely pro bable that the soi-disant Doctor DAVEGA is a genuine American.' His name indicates that he has not by the father's side, at all events, any of the true. Anglo-Saxon blood. Ile seems to be rather one of those mongrel half-breeds that are regarded with such unmitigated contempt through out the emir© Union, and whose qualities of honesty and vera c it y are so very slightly de veloped. f veloped. D oc t o r DAVEOA seems to have " out-Cott maned" the original philo-Muscovite, and to have left the original professors, F.Eitnirr AND A N .u.E.NDEZ PINTO and the renowned Baron AlUzleitAnsEN, Doctor LEUUEL Clara-Joseph Wagner, convicted of enlisting mon wag stehr° and even his prototype, B fencedrit iAh } o ' n ore t tn L ls efio i n ns t i o s b erve ju in ag t e he i C n r g i e rn rs e o l, l, I of the VER, in the b ac kground. They dealt in matter s United States' District Cour?, to two years' physically impossible, but which could only b e meLit z : T n l d i t o o r pa s y in a W. fine olal K fi r P ° N . GToN. The Staffordshire contradicted by an appeal to the laws of nature--imprison -4,c/t•tertiser records the death of Sir William Pilkington, of mat- s'sotnevibTathiLydolus youthful baronet ba b ro t ne h t had l been for ticshort serioustime but the more courageous DAVEGA speaks ters in which his enormous falsehoods can be con- illness, two or three days ' previo e o u n s y to ex ll en de e cease. t rovertecl by thousands and tens of thousands of SWITZERLANDsuccessful candidates• —The following are the names of the living witnesses,to AnT James at the recent elections in Genova all of whom are prepared 'Bonnet,'rlFazy, Touste, Fontanel, Duohosal, Piquet, utter an indignant denial of such flagrant per- whom o,l°94l3vroatietTUP;l, There were 10,358 voters, of version Fazy. The coalesced Version, or or rather infamous disregard of the real vatives and socialists obtained only f 4,300 4,500 facts. to facts. votes. It is impossibleDENMAßK.—A royal decree was published th to follow this " multifarious 13th at Copenhagen, distinguishing en, ..istinguishia th affairs on which e liar" through his nliincrous -a .• F. tto the , o 1 , , ria, 1 o n s from The statement that avernmeut of Schleswig, and announcing arevision'of appeared in the New York the constitution of that duchy, with a view to bring it Herald, of the 25th ult., and which will be found into harmony with the new constitution for the whole in another part of this day!, i mpression must monarchy. mpression, must PRUSSIA. —Notwithstanding the pressure Put upon speak for itself, and our readers will easily detect the electors of Berlin by the King in his letter to the the gross and palpable mendacity. Nve may, Communal capital, the liberals returned Council of the . 1 three out of the five members chosen in the complemen however, briefly allude .to some few of the salient tary elections on the 15th inst. .. .:a.! Paul's Churchyard ; 13, LiwaA:itreat, t'070141+•.3.-- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY RIPENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1855; ' It will be remembered that M. Brentana was on a special mission to Berlin, in order to fix the values of Austrian and Prussian money, in connection with the states of the Zollverein. That eminent financier has brought his mission to a close, and reports that the fixed value of the thalers and florins of the Convention aro as follow : One florin, 30 kreutzers, Austrian money ; and one florin, 45 kr. of the Zollverein, are equal in intrinsic value to a Prussian thaler. The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rot terdam produce-markets state that business had been active at a general improvement in prices. The prin cipal operations had been in sugar and rice, but tea, coffee, and indigo had also been favourably influenced by purchases. RPRESENTATION of TAUNTON.—A vacancy in the re presentation of Taunton will take place in consequence of the appointment of Mr. Labouchere to the office of Colonial Secretory. At the last election the right bon. gentleman came in at the head of the poll, having ob tained 430 votes, Mr. Arthur Mills, 361, and Sir Thos. Colebrooke, 358. On Mr. Mills being unseated on pe tition, two candidates presented themselves, Sir J. W, Ramsden being returned by 372 votes against Mr. Henry Badcock, who received 367. FRAUD ON A RAILWAY COMPANY.—Mary Morris, of 3, Steine-street, Brighton, was charged at the Borough Bench on Saturday, before A. Bigge, Esq. (stipendiary), T. Warner and F. A. Argles, Esqs., and Lieut.-Colonel Fawcett, with a breach of the railway co m p an y' s bye laws, in attempting to ride in a third-class carriage with out having first paid the fare. A practice is k n o wn t o prevail in Brighton of purchasing the tickets of London excursionists on their arrival in Brighton and re-selling them to other parties, and the defendant was proved to have possessed herself of a ticket in this way, and seated herself in the return excursion train, whence she was re moved. Mr. Runnacles, on her behalf, urged that inas much as the bye-laws were printed on paper and then stack on board, the requirements of the act, that they must be " painted on boards,'' had not b een com pli e d with, and therefore that the informatio n must be dis missed. Mr. Faithfull, on behalf of the company, con tended that the act did not intend to specify the mate rial of the publication—whether water paint or oil-paint, but simply that the bye-laws should be made known by some colours which delineated the words. But, setting this aside altogether, he pointed out a clause in the act which specified that in support of an information for an infringement of the bye-laws it should be sufficient evi derce of the due making publication if a copy under the seal of the company, purporting to be a copy of the bye laws, should be produced; and this had been done. The magistrates concurred, and fined the defendant 21. and costs, or a week's imprisonment. A NOVEL OBJECTION.—John Jenkins, a sturdy Welsh man, was summoned before the magistrates at Chelten ham last week for non-payment of the burial-board rate, and, on being asked why he did not pay the rate, replied that he thought it extremely hard that he should pay for burial ground whilst he was alive. (Roars of laughter.) He thought it was quite time to pay when he was dead. (Continued laughter.) It was intimated to defendant that it was only payment "in advance," and he was ordered to pay with costs. EXTENSIVE FIRE.—A. little past eight o'clock on Sa turday morning, fire broke out in the extensive soap and oil works of Messrs. George Hutchison and Co., Port- Dundas. The premises are about 300 feet in length, by 35 in breadth. With the exception of the soap-boiling house, the whole range, within an hour from the com mencement, was destroyed. The loss, property and stock included, is little short of 15,0001. Through the exertions of the workmen in the employment of Mr. T. D. Doddrell, that gentleman's fine mansion-house, which is situated on Craighall-road opposite the premises de stroyed, was saved. The great heat burnt the windows, and the fire having communicated with the blinds and muslin curtains, part of the furniture was destroyed. The fire originated in the soap pressing-room—cause un known.—North British Daily Mail. THE STRIKE AT MANCHESTER.—From 300 to 400 of the operatives on strike at Manchester assembled yester day and walked in procession through the streets. They were orderly and peaceable throughout. Their numbers have been increased by the strike cf about 75 persons at Fotbergill's mill, and the number out of employment at Messrs. Birley and Co.'s has been increased from 300, which was the number on Saturday, to about 800. About 330 operatives additional to the number pre viously announced have been thrown out of work at the other mills where strikes occurred last week. SIR R. PEEL.—On Monday evening, Sir R. Peel, Bart., delivered a lecture at the Public Hall, Leaming ton. The lecture was entitled, "An Evening with the Poets ; with recitals of beautiful and powerful passages; or a Trip through Europe to the Seat of War ; with a pocket edition of Shakspere and the Poets." In the course of his address, when describing a continental journey undertaken by the poet Moore, the hon. baronet said that Moore, like most younc , people, was determined to see as much as he could, and travelled with a nom- panion whose reputation had since risen to an amazing height—whose travels had not always been as fortunate as when he accompanied Tom Moore—he referred to Lord J. Russell. Lord John had, as they knew, subse quently risen to great eminence, and had recently made a most unfortunate journey to Vienna to discuss four points. The first, second, and fourth points were con ceded, and the first half of the third but he upset the last half of the third, and then came back and upset him self.—Birminglozns Journal. iNIGIIT EATING-HOUSE FOR PRINTERS.—At the City Council proceedings on Monday, a petition was pre• sented and referred to the Public Works Committee, from Mr. Charles Jones, and about three hundred prin ters, praying for permission to keep open a restaurant at night for the use of those whose occupation obliges them to continue hard at work for many hours after their neighbours are in bed. Such an establishment would be a great boon to compositors, readers, and re porters, who are often compelled, in order tbat the "latest intelligence " may be placed upon the table of the public, to be about long after midnight.—Melbouene Age. ALARMING FIRE.—CARDIFF,Nov.I9.—Between eight and nine o'clock on Sunday night, when the officers of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry were in the mess• room, an alarm of fire was given by the mess waiter. The officers immediately proceeded to examine the pre mises, and discovered the fire to have originated in the kitchen, the walls of which had been so excessively hot, owing to three large fires kept constantly burni ng for cooking purposes, that the joisting in the walls became ignited, and but for the timely alarm and prompt exer tions of the officers and men the entire establishment must have fallen a prey to the devouring element. As it is the fire was confined to one room immediately over the kitchen, occupied by the house and kitchen maids, whose dresses, &c., were destroyed. On the alarm being given the bugles sounded the "turn-out." In a few minutes the entire regiment was on the spot, and rendered every assistance, conveying water in buckets from the canal to the fire-engine with great rapidity, and kept up the supply while necessary. In the meantime a pump in the back kitchen afforded an ample eupply, and by a continual pouring of buckets of water on the floor and wall the fire was kept under until the engine began to play. Fortunately the damage and loss has been inconsiderable, and confined to the servants. Se veral of the inhabitants exerted themselves to the ut incat. The officers present were the General, Major Goldfinch, Captains Tyler and Abbott, Lie u t. K enneth \falser, Ensign Shortis, and Messrs. O'Grady and Thomas. BREAD MEETINGS ON SUNDAY.—Three open-air meet ings were held on Sunday in South Staffordshire and the neighbourhood of Birmingham upon the subject of the high price of bread. Two of these meetings were in the morning ; one at Spon-lane, Staffordshire, and the other at Deritend pool, near Birmingham. At the former 10,000 people were present, and it was resolved to send a deputation to the Queen to represent the a'- legod grievances of the people in the matter of dear bread. At Deritend-pool about 1,000 persons were present, and several speeches were made by operatives. The afternoon meeting took place at Hookley Pool, near Birmingham, and was attended by 1,200 persons. Here the proceedings were mixed up with the People's Charter and the writings of Mr. Urquhart. A Mr. G. White read a memorial to the Queen which had been agreed to in the morning at the Spon-lane meeting. It was to the effect that the people of South Staffordshire were suffering great privations in consequence of the high price of food ; and it prayed her Majesty to issue an order prohibiting the exportation of grain, and to esta blish public granaries, and check undue speculation in corn. Mr. White stated that he had written to her Majesty's private secretary, asking when it would be convenient to receive the deputation, and that he had received an answer to the effect that memorials to the Queen should be presented through the Secretary of State for the Home Department. The speaker pro ceeded to say that the memorial had been the result o! a solemn vote from a respectable meeting at Spon-lane, and that if the Queen would not accept it from the people, they would depute two members of Parliament to present it, and that it should not be sent to Sir George Grey to burn in the fire. He then asked if the meeting wished the memorial to be presented to the Rueen and net to Sir G. Grey, and nearly all the per sons present held up both hands. In conclusion, the speaker proposed a resolution which he said had been adopted at the Spon-lane meeting, declaring that "a full and free representation of the people was the onl y remedy for their grievances." This proposition, how ever, was not seconded. It was announced that another similar meeting is to be held next Sunday. A Mr. Hawkins said ho had that morning addressed a meeting which was held at Kiddarminster, and was attended by 5,000 persons. The inhabitants of that town were now wide-awake and intended next week to hold a torchlight meeting. Ho recommended the imitation of their ex ample. The meeting then quietly dispersed. " ALICE GEEY."—From the time of her committal to the county gaol at Stafford until Saturday this extraor dinary woman has been attended by one or two female turnke)s ; but on that day it was considered, as well by the surgeon as the visiting justices, that she was in a fit state of mind to be left alone, and towards evening she was accordingly locked up in her cell alone. She was occasionally watched, and for some time appeared quite composed, and began to undress for bed. In a few mi nutes, however, a noise was hoard against her cell door. When it was opened it was found that she had fallen against it, apparently in a partial state of suffocation, produced by the smoke of straw which was burning in the cell. It was then found that the prisoner had un sewed the pillow-case and taken out the straw, which she had set fire to by means of the gaslight in the cell. On being questioned as to her intention, she stated that she meant to place the hod upon the burning straw, and, lying upon the bed, to burn herself to death. Whether she was partially stupified with smoke, and fell against the door, or whether, being alarmed at the position in which she hail placed herself, she endeavoured to obtain assistance by making a noise, it is difficult to determine. Upon that point a difference of opinion exists at the [reel, as well as with regard also to the woman's sanity. Happily for her she sustained no injury from this very rash act, which might well hays coot her her life. points. The first startling assertion is that "the Russians did not intend holding the South Side longer than was necessary to give them time to remove their hospitals, their guns, and whatever else they considered indispen sable." If this were so they must have devoted a very useless amount of labour to work very badly performed. After all the myriads of lives that had been wantonly sacrificed, and when at length the golden opportunity for which, according to this half-breed doctor, th ey h a d so l ong p an t e d, and the advantages whereof were so apparent to all parties, that "it was a matter of congratula tion even among the common soldiers," they left behind them many hundreds of their wounded men, uncared for, and disregarded, to the tender mercies of their conquerors ! So much for the hospitals, while the 4,000 pieces of cannon, and the enormous stores captured, proved beyond the possibility of doubt, that they had not thought more of their ordnance and other things that might have been considered indispensables, than of their sick and wounded. The second branch of the subject relates to the complete command in which the Northern Forts held the South side of the city, which they couli, taste Davega, crush at any moment. If this be so, their forbearance is indeed miraculous, and with the "300,000 well-disciplined, well-equipped, well-provisioned, and every way effective troops" which they have on the road between Odessa and the Camp, it is only astonishing that they should so long have refrained from driving the invaders into the sea, and purifying the soil of Holy Russia from the pollution of a hostile army. We shall not condescend to refute the atrocious and infamous calumny against our gal lant soldiers, who, according to the veracious DAYEGA, were " worsted in every battle, and only saved from destruction by their French allies." Alma, Balziklava, Inkerman, confute the wilful liar in every point, and leave him an ob ject of universal. contempt. But, we may ask, What does Attorney-General CUSHING intend to do with him ? If it be a crime to by to enlist American citizens, it is also a grave offence to engage in these Filibus tering expeditions. We commend, thou, Dr. DAVEGA to the especial notice of the American prosecutor, t who can have no difficulty in the case, inasmuch as the ground is cleared for him by the confession of the delin quent that he had been eleven months receiving Russian pay, and fighting against an Ally of the United States. In such case a conviction would be certain, and it is incumbent on the Attorney- General for the time being to vindicate the ma jesty of the law, and to bring the so-called Dr. DAVEGA to justice. Among the obligations of a corporate body entrusted with the management of local works, and drawing their revenues from local taxation, is a careful and economical expenditure. This is so obvious that no arguments appear necessary to enforce its truth. Au economical expenditure, however, does not necessarily involve the with holding of so much money. It is possible to be penny wise and pound foolish, and while taking measures apparently of an economical na ture, to rksk rendering your disbursements comparatively useless. And this would appear to be the case with the Burn ley Commissioners, who, it will be seen, by a paragraph in 'another column, have decided by a large majority at a recent meeting, "That no addition shall be made to the salary of any officer or servant of the Commissioners unless the office so proposed to be -increased shall first become vacant by resignation or otherwise !" Now any one in the least acquainted with human nature must perceive at once the miserable folly of this procedure, which by no possibility can be of any advantage whatever to the rate payers. If the Commissioners possess common sense they should be aware that by withdrawing hope from intelligent exertion you brutalise it, or cause it to seek another field for its manifesta tion, and that without intelligent officers no cor porate body entrusted with important duties can properly discharge them. Yet by passing this motion the Commissioners have, in effect, said to their ill-paid servants—Be as attentive to your duties as you may—be perpetually on the watch if you please to embrace opportu nities for usefulness —save the public by your suggestions what you may you must not look for an increase of salary. We, in our pri vate capacity, are encouraged to exert ourselves to the utmost in our several avocations by the prospect of a corresponding reward ; but we expect you to display a sublimer virtue, and expend your energies in our service, without any prospect at all beyond the continuance of your present pit tance." Anything more monstrous than this can not well be conceited. It may, however, be re plied, that the regulation does not exclude the prospect of an increase of salary. In terms we admit it does not ; but those who know the petty arts to which local cliques have recourse know well what will be the result. Under it the best servant of the Commissioners, seeking an increase of salary, will, however long and valuable may have been his services, incur the utmost risk of losin4 his situation, and there will be great danger of the ratepayers of Burnley being ill- I served. There are, however, other considerations which' render the regulation peculiarly unwise and impolitic. All public bodies occupy a posi tion and POssess an influence which entail on them as a aI:HAW obligation the task of setting a good example. ; The Commissioners, of all others, should have taken care to have displayed an towards th e i r servants, were it equitable teei ng only because of the evil results that must follow a contrary 'course ; and this obligation should, of all ti mes , have -been respected at the present, a when the relations between capital and labour are in so critical a state. Wh o knows whatn decent per nicious 1•4 fl o once their example may h ave on pri vate employers ) o nly too anxious f or y mode of escape f ro m their difficulties ? I t i s not to be wondered at that ono of the Co mmissioners should have parted company with the r es t, in dignant at their procedure ; for, unless th ey speedily retrace their steps, there is not a man: of sense and good feeling who would do otherwise. • -- •40 ca.asziguty, IS :avec.— STEAM-SHIP PACIFI C, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—A paragraph having appeared in the Daily News this morning to the effect that the Pacific steamer, which conveyed a portion of the Army Works Corps to the Crimea, had foundered, I shall be obliged by your insert ing this letter to state that I have the best reasons for believing that such report is altogether unfounded. The Pacific grounded at the entrance of the Dardanelles, but was got off without difficulty and arrived safely at Con stantinople. I have received a letter this morning, dated the 6th, informing me that the Pacific was then coaling at Con stantinople, and it was expected that she would leave for Balaklava on the morning of the 7th. It is therefore, I conceive, impossible that the vessel can have afterwards foundered and the intelligence of it have reached Marseilles on the 17th. The publication of this letter is necessary to relieve the anxiety of the families of the 500 members of the Army Works Corps who left England in the Pacific.3] I am, sir, your obedient servant, JOSEPH PAXTON. 18, New-street, Spring-gardens, Nov. 19. BURNLEY IMPROVEMENT OOMMISSIONERS AND TREIR SERVANTS. The Burnley Improvement Commissioners at different times have shown abundant proofs of want of fore thought, and on more than one occasion have sanctioned proceedings, as a public body, which each one would re pudiate in his private capacity. Amongst the most ob jectionable errors of judgment we feel ourselves com pelled to place the motion carried by a majority of the Improvement Commissioners at their general meeting on Wednesday last. In public meeting assembled they then deliberately laid down the law that "henceforth no ser vant of theirs shall presume to ask for an advance of wages until he has left their employ !" They thus de liberately ignore the long services of their oldest servants —they refuse to acknowledge that either they or the rate payers are at all indebted to them for long years of patient industry, and, it may be, with insufficient wages. They appear to be afraid lest some underpaid officials should respectfully solicit them to consider their case, and by one fell act they close the mouth of all such cla • mourers by passing a regulation which denies them the power of making known their desires, or of pleading their ill-requited services in the hope of obtaining more equitable remuneration. The injustice of such a mea sure is too manifest to require proof.—Burnley Ad vcrtiser. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council, to-morrow, at Windsor Castle, The Duke of Rutland is still at St. Leonard's-on-Sea. The Marquis of Granby leaves town, to-day, on a visit to his noble father. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have arrived at Apsley-house, with the intention of sojourning some weeks in London. The Duke of Argyll is expected to arrive in town, this evening, from Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Mountcharles leave town, to-day, on a visit to the Duke and Thichess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington lclt Hill-street, yesterday, fjr Eoville-hall, Staffordshire. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will arrive in town to-day from Broadlands. Lord Frederick Gordon Hallyburton has arrived at Kensington Palace from his seat in Scotland. General Simpson is on his way to Marseilles in the Telegraph steamer, and will probably arrive in town about the end of this week. The Right Hon. John Wilson Fitzpatrick has been appointed Lord-Lieutenant and Castos Rotulorunn of the Queen's county. Mr. Frederick May, proprietor of' the Taunton Courier has been olccteo ' fog, the second time, bailiff an d re t urn . ing officer of the borough of Taunton. THE KING OF SARDINIA.—The Momitetzr states that King Victor Emanuel will leave Turin on the 20th, and will arrive at Marseilles on board the screw-frigate the Carlo Alberto, probably, at nine o'clock in the afternoon of the 22J. ANTICIPATED VISIT OF THE KING OF SARDINIA TO THE ClTY.—Alderman and Sheriff Kennedy has given notice of the following motion, which will be taken into consideration at the Common Council meeting, to be held on Thursday next, viz.—" That an address of con- gratulation be presented to his Majesty the King of Sardinia, upon his visit to her most gracious Majesty the Queen ; and that this court do consider what other mark of respect should be paid to his Majesty on the occasion," During the at sence of Lieut.-General Sir Colin Camp bell, G.C.8., Brigadier• General Cameron, C. 8., wil take command of the Highland Division ; and Colonel Atherley, 92d Regiment, will take command of the lsi Brigade Highland Division. THE GLASGOW COUNCIL AND SIR COLIN CAMPBELL.— At a meeting of tke Town Council of Glasgow, held on Thursday, Mr. M'Adam, councillor, gave notice that at the next meeting he would move that the freedom of the city be presented to Sir Colin Campbell. The feeling displayed augurs that the motion will be heartily ap proved of.—Edinburgh Courant. The reappearance of Sir Colin Campbell at the United Service Club on Saturday created quite a sensation . . amongst those who were tOrtunato enough to be present on his arrival. Many of his old companions in arms in the Peninsular and Indian campaigns congregated about the gallant veteran, and welcomed his return with greener laurels and from new victories with a cordial warmth and enthusiasm that must have been highly gratifying to the brave old soldier. ROUEN.—The letters from Rouen mention that the market for manufactures was fairly supported, con sidering the period of the year, but that at present there was no expectation of increased activity. ST. PETERBBURG.—The letters from St. Petersburg state that by a new ukase the export of all grain is pro- hibited from Russia, excepting wheat sent over the Polish frontier. This is assumed to be in consequence of the bad harvest. The rate of exchange was as low as 341 d. to id. _ _ The specie by the American steamer this week is 175,0001., the whole of which, it is believed, will go to France. Although the additions made by the British Government to the West India fleet had excited discus sion, the full announcements published with respect to them on this side, and which were transmitted by the Cunard steamer of the 27th of October, had not yet been received. The shipments of specie by the Peninsularand Oriental steamer Ava amount to 298,3191., of which 28,5801. is gold, for Alexandria, Ceylon, and Madras, and 269,7391. silver, for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The Royal West India mail-steamer Tyne takes out 4,600/. The departures from the port of London for the Aus tralian colonies during the past week have comprised six vessels—three to Port Philip, one to Adelaide, one to New Zealand, and one to Launceston, with an aggregate capacity of 3,593 tons. The rates of freight shown o material alteration. SOMERSET WINTER ASSIZES.—The winter assizes this county (i. e. criminal business only) will be held at the Castle of Taunton, the first week in December. The learned judge, Mr. Baron Parke, will arrive in this town by express train on Monday, the 3d of December, when the commission will be opened, and his lordship w ill proceed from thence to St. Mary's Church. The court will commence with the trial of prisoners on the following (Tuesday) morning. DECLINE OF MORMONISM.—The Mormon delusion is fast evaporating in this neighbourhood, where for the last twelve months a couple of " elders " have in vain attempted to propagate the pernicious doctrines of their noted chief, Brigham Young. As a proof of the unsuc cessful character of their mission, we may mention that the Public Hall, Bath-place, in which the Mormonite meetings have hitherto been held, has been let to a glass and china dealer, for business purposes.—Taurdon Courier. The latest statistics of the passenger traffic between England and France show that the aggregate number from and to Boulogne during the past month was 37,006, against 10,661 in Oct., 1854, the increase being 6,345, or 60 per cent. For the first ten months of the present year the number has been 123,254, against 89,071 in the corresponding period of 1854, exhibiting an increase of about 38 per cent. THE LORD . MAyon.—On Monday evening last a pub lic dinner took place at Joseph's Tavern, St. James's place, Aldgate, which was attended by a numerous party of gentlemen belonging to the Hebrew nation, and other well-known friends of liberal opinions. The entertain ment was served up in first-rate style, and gave every sa tisfaction. Saul Yates, Esq., of Devonshire-square, pre sided as chairman. Its object was to celebrate the tri umph which civil and religious liberty has achieved in the election of the Right Hon. David Salomons to be Lord Mayor of the City of London. After the usual l t o h y e altoasts were given from the chair, and drank in a manner fully showing the sincere loyalty of the Jews, tcphereievyecadhilaeai,rnimdasnev,eirnal throughoutsaoun appropriate speech, proposed the health of the Lord Mayor, which was received with en thusiastic chairmancheers. , were Other severally toa st s, p i r n o c p i n u s d e i d n , g a t u h d e .n, health ell r o e .. f and the party brokegtsuhsepunaegv: every attention to the comfort of his another opportunity of similar enjoyment. i‘ as i assembled e. greatestm Joseph conviviality b 1 edguests, u es tpaid s, TESTIMONIAL n' en a T in h i g a e . te hour, longing for of ea C. NAPIER.—A public meeting the Prince William of the inhabitants' take into consideration Henry,Southwark was held last night at th in Bermondsey-street, " to object of a testimonial to sSnirtneC;l Napier." in the borough of f t propriety of forming com mitteesonthwark to carry out the gs of a central took place committee,re ationalMr. Jeffrey ,vas called to the chair. testimonial said 11 l b a e ti l v o e ca t t o ed theat proceedings S e ? l e v d e i r n -s treet, Goldeanln -soltare, for the pur pose of receiving subscriptions for a to Sir C. Napier. A deputation from the' central com mittee were in attendance, w h o weir • 0 told by Dr. Ro berts, the chairman of Sir C. Napier's election committee n that some of the colle ctin g -boo ks were i the hands of illiterate and improper persons. A strong feelinr, was expressed in favour of confining the opecations of the present meeting to the borough of Southwark, an d use following resolution, proposed by Dr. Button, was car ried unanimously :—" That this meeting, while viewing the enthusiasm displayed in all parts of the borough of Southwark at the success attending their exertions in behalf of the return of Sir C. Napier as a member to the House of Commons, propose that subscriptions be raised in the different parishes to defray the whole of the legal expenses incurred in Sir Charles's election ; and that a committee be formed to carry out that object." A com mittee was then formed, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thank§ to the chairman, tc,lo SOUTHWARK ELECTION—(This Day.) The election of a member of Parliament for the borough of Southwark to fill the vacancy in the repre sentation caused by the lamented death of Sir W. Melesworth, Bart., took place this morning at the Town Hall, Borough. In consequence of the retire ment of Mr. Scovell, the proceedings were devoid of much of the interest which would otherwise have at tached to them. The morning was cold, wet, and uncomfortable, a drizzling rain falling the whole of the day, which pro bably accounted for the small number of persons assembled in front of the Town-hall. At 12 o'clock the doors of the hall (a small building, not capable of containing more than from 200 to 250 persons) were opened, and the confined area was speedily densely filled by the admirers and supporters of the gallant admiral, whose appearance was vociferously hailed, and again and again renewed, and familiarly re cognised by shouts of "Rilloa, Charley !" and the like expressions. Mr. H. D. Pritchard, the High Bailiff, presided, and among those present were Messrs. C. Legg, J. Brithen, C. Sharpe, J. Harris, J. Howard, W. Newman, and Drs. Evans and Roberts. The writ having been read, The HIGH BAILIFF, in addressing the electors, said the present proceedings were impressed with deep and melancholy interest in consequence of the decease of Sir Wm. Molesworth, their late representative, a gentleman of no ordinary stamp, and who, during the time ho was in Parliament, was no idle member, but one who was always at his post, advocating measures for the benefit of his fellow-creatures. After tracing the political and literary career of the deceased gentleman, in the course of which he paid a high tribute to his great honesty of principles and literary talents, and lament ing the premature decease of that gentleman, called on the electors to propose a candidate to fill the present vacancy. Mr. LEGG said it was the duty of a constituency to • select the most fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament. He regretted having again, under such melancholy circumstances, so soon to appear before them to propose a gentleman. for that office. • As the vacancy Lad to be filled up he knew no one more fitting to represent them than Sir Charles Napier. ; (Cheers.) There were times when they should not, in conducting a great war, have " namby-pamby "fighting, but attack our enemies as vigorously as they would and did us. Sir Charles was not anxious to enter the house merely to confront Sir James Graham, but to do his duty to his country, in watching the actions of the government, in seeing that they properly conducted the war • in which we were now engaged. Mr. Stovall had wisely withdrawn from the present contest, finding the electors of the borough were unpurchaselble, and consequently that his money could not return him. (Cheers and die , approbation.) He concluded by nominating Sir Chas. Napier as a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament. (Cheering and much confusion from the crowded state of the hall.) Dr. EVANS seconded the nomination. The HIGH BAILIFF inquired if any other gentleman had a candidate to propose, but was met with cries of " No, no," and cheers. Mr. VICKERS then addressed the electors in support of the gallant admiral, contending this was emphati cally the time when the country wanted such a man in the House of Commons as Sir Charles Napier, and that he was deserving of the highest honours his fellow-coun trymen could confer upon him. No other candidate having been forthcoming, The HIGH BAILIFF declared the unanimous election of Sir Charles Napier amidst enthusiastic cheering. Sir CHARLES NAFIER, on coming forward, was again received with a round of hearty cheers. He said there was one part of the writ which the High Bailiff had read to which he was afraid they had paid no attention. They were desired to send a man to Parliament who was a " discreet man," but he was afraid they had made a bad choice in that respect in electing him as their representa tive, because he had hitherto been considered by many as an indiscreet man. (Laughter.) He would, however, endeavour to mend his ways for the future, and show those who had chosen him that he was a discreet man, if not the right man. (Cheers and laughter.) With re ference to his operations in the Baltic, he did all within the reach of possibilities, and his sailors had done as much as it was competent for seamen to do. If he bad been so inconsiderate as to have decided on attacking Sweaborg, there was not a man in the fleet who would not have given three cheers and gone with him under the walls of that fortress. (Cheers.) War had not been carried on in the Baltic this year as it ought to have been, which was owing, not to the gallant Admiral in command of the fleet, but to the Government or the heads of the Admiralty. If they had supplied the gal lant Admiral out there with the proper means of de stroying the place and he had been successful, on his return no doubt he would have been pitchforked into the House of Lords. (Cheers 'and laughter.) He de precated the number of officers allowed to leave the Crimea on the plea of urgent business!; and said he was an advocate for carrying on the war vigorously, which was the :cheapest way of doing it, instead of that "pi& dling " way in which it had been for some time con ducted. (Cheers.) Sweaborg last year might have been taken with 100 gun-boats ; but he doubted ranch if they would bel able to accomplish' it next year with length double that number if they did it at all. (Hear, hear.) The gallant Admiral then referred to our present mode conductedo f ona the bad principle, army, whicha and de entered condemned a as tsome being into the various points connected with his political creed, which have been already repeatedly published, and are well known to the electors and the country. With re, gard to the last election, when Sir W. Molesworth ap peared before them for re-election, on his accepting the Colonies, he had no desire to turn him out of the repre sentation, but confessed he had then a "sneaking wish" to become at some future period one of their representa tives, bet not:at the of that gentleman, whom h highly respected for his honesty of principles and talents. He thought the appointment of Mr. Labouchere to the Colonies very satisfactory to the country. Reverting again to the war, Sir Charles said he considered one of the conditions of peace with Russia should be that she paid the expenses of the war. (Cheers.) The gallant admiral again thanked them for their kindness in elect ing him, and informed them that if at any time they should be displeased with his conduct in Parliament he would, on being informed of it, resign his seat. (Loud cheers.) Thanks were then given to the High Bailiff, who having acknowledged the compliment, the proceedings terminated. Three cheers were given for the Queen and the Liberal press, and three groans for Lord John Russell. Three hearty cheers were given for our gallant Allies. THE HON. AND Rim. BAPTIST NOEL.—A morning contemporary mentions that the Hon. and Rev . Baptist Noel is seriously ill of a fever. We are glad to find that the report is exaggerated. Mr. Noel was on Saturday taken with a severe cold, accompanied by feverish symp toms' which confined him to his b e d y es t er d ay . Be yond this, his illness is not alarming. GLASGOW, Nov. 17.—Cetton—We have had — a - 7;i quiet market this week for cotton. The sales have not been large, and prices close about the same as this day week. In goods and yarns little is doing, but prices are firm. EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT THE WEST-END. —Another of those peculiar and mysterious robberies, which of late have been so frequent in the metropolis, has taken place on the extensive premises of Mr. Benjamin Boulters, known as the Marquis of qrtnby Tavern, at the corner of Bedfordb ur y, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. The misunderstanding between Government and the Royal Society is at an end. We have much satisfaction in stating that the Government has ordered the sum of 1,0001. to be placed at the disposal of the Royal Society this year. for scientific purposes. THE FRENCH CORN MARKET.—In the Paris corn mar ket the supply both of wheat and flour was abundant during the past week. The consequence has beon that the advance in price was checked, and prices became a trifle lower. The quotation for the first four marks was 107 f. 50e. at most, and occasionally a shade lower. Wheat has also been offered with a decline of about if. the hectolitre and a half. In the markets round Paris the quotations have been generally lower ; and in the north of France sellers nave been obliged to abate their pretensions. During the week Marseilles hag received above 100,000 hectolitres of wheat from Spain, Algeria, and the East, and in consequence prices have ruled lower in the south.—Galignani. HALIFAX, Friday Evening. The current week is marked by a very decided firmness in the long wool trade, and the tenacity with which staplers are induced to hold to price, rather tends to curtail the opera tions of buyers ; still the aggregate amount of busi ness is fair, though individual sales are not to be calls I extensive. The expectation of a little advance in price is somewhat checked by the occurrence of a more sombre feature in monetary matters. In the short wool business there is no improvement manifest, and prices of noils and broke, if anything, are rather in favour of the buyer. The yarn trade exhibits a partial activity—that is, certain descriptions are comparatively brisk, whilst others are so inactive as to lead to further stoppage of machinery. The piece market is without any indications of improvement. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Nov. 11, 1855 £5,138 6 5 Corresponding week last year 4,665 9 4 £472 17 1 Increase in 1855 .. , n LATEST N WS, THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 19. We have received the following details of the late journey of the Czar to the Crimea. On the 7th the Emperor passed the Isthmus of Perekop. Ho arrived on the th at Simphero pol, and set out on the 9th for Backtchi-Serai, where he passed the troops in review on the 10th. He afterwards visited the northern forts of Sebas topol, and subsequently proceeded as far as the Mackenzie Heights. KONIGSBERG, Nov. 19. The Czar has ordered the Minister of the In terior to raise the state of siege at St. Petersburg before his Imperial Majesty's return. The order was immediately executed, and the state of siege proclaimed to be at an end from the 9th. The Czar's retinue are returning to St. Peters. burg daily. THE WAR IN ASIA. ERZEROUM, Oct. 23.—Letters from Trebizond, bearing date the 18th inst., have been received here. They contain the intelligence that Omer Pacha was concentrating his troops at Soukum Kaleh. These numbered already 20,000 men, and 10,000 more were expected in the course of a week. A corps of 6,000 men, commanded by Ferhat Pach4g(General Stein), has already started for Kutais, and will soon be joined by the army of Omer Pacha. It is ex pected that this general will be in Tiflis in about three weeks. From a reconnaissance undertaken by order of Omer Pacha, we learn that in Anacria and Tiflis the Russian ford scarcely counted 10,000 men, the whole consisting of Georgian Selim Pacha, ox-muchir of the army of Batoum, has lauded at Trebizond. He had loft that place accompanied by a force of about a thousand sol diers of the regular infantry, on his road here. Ho is expected to arrive in about five or six days. The body of troops who are to be under his orders will be about 12,000 men. They will be sent on her as feat as they are landed at Trebizond. Otlvir private letters say that although Omer Paella appears to wish to march ou Tiflis, his plan will bo to attack Kutais, and from thence to march on ~ . k.kaltzik. There is no doubt that the GeorYians will accord a favourable reception to the army of Oiner Paella, the more so as the reputation of that general, and the imposing force which he commands, are sufficient guarantees of suc cess. It appears certain that the whole Russian army in Georgia does not amount to more than 50,000 men. All above this number are Georgian militia, Caracapacs, and Kurd s . Th ese troops, and more particularly the latter, aro not to be depended on. They hav e no principle or charac ter, and serve the strongest party, or that which pays the best. It is to be observed that the Rus sians in Georgia will have ()Teat difficulty in obtain ing reinforcements. The Sea of Azoff is thoroughly well watched by our fleet, and thus the communi cation between the Crimea and the coast of Asia is cut off. On the Caspian, the Circassians in summer, and the ice in winter, will be obstacles to inter course. Wo may, therefore, conclude that the Russians are nearly isolated in Georgia. The battle of the 29th September was a terrible blow to the Russian army, which lost 15,000 or 16,000 of their best troops. It will be impossible to repair these losses. The last letters received from Kars on the 20th, dated on the 16th, say that on that day Gen. Mou ravieff had despatched a convoy to Alexandropol. His troops were occupied in making excavations to serve as barracks. These were covered with planks. It would appear by this that they aro willing to cause it to be believed that they intend to pass the winter before Kars. They would then endea vour to effect a retreat to Alexandropol without being attacked by the Turks. In the meantime the road to Kars is less watched than formerly by the advanced posts of the Russians. After the battle of the 29th of September, a ru mour became current that Mouravieff had lost his senses. It was not believed here for some time, but succeeding accounts seem to confirm it. It is said, moreover, that General Bebutoff has been requested to take the chief command of the army, on account of the state of Mouraviers health. General Bebutoff had replied that the state of affairs in Tiflis was such as to demand his imme diate presence. In the meanwhile if the Russians have any serious intention of attacking Kars a second time, they will find to their cost that the means of de fence in the city are increasing in proportion as their means of attack are diminishing. Last week the Kurds of Bayazid—the same, I believe, who were previously in the service of the Russians— brought hero the contents of a mail directed from Tiflis to the camp at Uch Klissia, It is said that before the Kurds obtained possession of the bags a skirmish took place, and that about 19 ponons of the escort were shot. Among the number were several Persians. In the bags that were taken were found despatches, as well as French journals and Russian bulletins con taining the news of the fall of Sebastopol. Among the private letters was one from a girl in Tiflis to her father in the country. In it she stated that she had not received letters from him for months past, that the cholera was raging in Tiflis, that provisions were excessively dear, and that they were living in the greatest anxiety. This pressed upon the minds of the greater number so heavily that they were resolving to retreat to some other district where they might live in tranquility. The contents of the •fficial letters have not been divulged. They have all been sent on to Constantinople. The last news that we received from Teheran arrived here last week. It contains intelligence that the cholera prevailed in the city, but that it had not made extensive ravages. It has not made its appearance at Tabruez. By tho same post wo received news from Herat. You will have learned that Cameran Shah, the last King of Herat, was succeeded by his Vizir, Jahr Muhamet. The latter usurping the throne, to the detriment of the rights of the son of Came ran Shah, Jusuf Mirza gave in his submission to Persia, who guaranteed him in the possession of his power. Jahr Muhamet haVing become imbecile during the latter years of his reign, was succeeded at his death by his son, who had enjoyed all the privileges of government d ur i ng th e l a tt er y e ars of the life of his fa then Within the last few monthsthis second usurper declared war, and organised an ex pedition against Hagira. Scarcely hgd he left Herat when the chiefs of the city despatched a deputation to Jusuf Mirza, who had been detained a prisoner in Meshed, and received a pension from the Persian Government. The deputation an nounced to Jusuf Mirza the deposition of the son of Jahr Muhamet, and the proclamation of himself as the successor to power, soliciting him at the same time to return to Herat. 'Jusuf Mirza did not need to be asked a second time, but mounted his horse and returned to his capital. The governor of Meshed, directly he heard of the departure of Jusuf Mirza, sent off a party of horse to arrest him, but was too late. He had already taken possession of the vacant throne, amidst the acclamations of his subjects. The inhabitants of Herat are famous for transactions of this nature. They are very war like, and got rid in a comical manner of any o n e who displeases them. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Koniteur announces in its official portion, the reception by the Emperor yesterday, at a pri vate audience, of .Meheined Bey, the Ambassador and Plenipotentiary Extraordinary of the Porte, who presented the reply of the Sultan to the cre dentials of M. Thorivenel, and a letter of congra tulation to the Emperor on the fall of Sebastopol. The Bishop of Oxford was presented on Saturday by Lord Cowley. Other presentations by the Ministers of Sweden, Prussia, and Portugal are notified. The Debuts, Constitutionnel, and other journals contain nothing of striking importance. Yesterday the Emperor and Empress received M. de Duo, Norwegian Minister of State, Baron de Brockhausen, Prussian Minister at Brussels, Count de Bernstorff, Prussian Minister in London, and the Countess de Bernstorff, Count de Lavradio, Portuguese Minister in London, and the Countes ,, de Lavradio, all which persons were presented to their Majesti e s by th e min i s t ers o f t h e i r respec ti v e con n tries. The first battalion of the gendarmerie of the Im perial guard, about 800 strong, arrived at Paris yesterday afternoon from the Crimea. The band of the regiment and a detachment of guards went to meet them at the Lyons Railway station, and escorted them to their barracks in the Rue Neuve da Luxembourg►. The populace on their passage greeted them with acclamations. BOURSE, Nov. 19.—The beginning of the market was very dull, but there was a slight improvement towards two o'clock, on the report that Genera Canrobert had succeeded in negotiating a treaty of alliance between Sweden and the Allied Powers. The following are the last quotations : End of Month. —f. -c. 65 10 Casii. fr. e. 41 per Cents 9O 25 3 per Cents 65 New Loan 66 Bank Shares 3160 Roman Credit Mobilier 1175 Austrian ., Belgian Fives ..... ... 92i Spanish Threes „ Pieamontese B5 Home Debt ‘, RAILWA YS-7011 CASH. c. 0. Orleans llO5 Western. 751 25 Northern Lyons ......... 1127 50 N ew Ditt o xt i 746 25 Mediterranean 1225 Grand Central 5BO —Lyons Geneva ...... 650 Teste Cette .................. 680 Austrian Com. 707 50 THE BALTIC FLEET. DANTZIC, Nov. 16.—The Locust, 5, Lieutenant Bythesea commanding, left Nargen on Saturday last, the 10th inst., and aft er d e li ver i ng some de spatches from the omnaander-in-Chi e f to the -ves sels at present tftationed at Faro Sund, continued her voyage to Dantzic, where she arrived at a late hour last night. 'By her wo receive the long -expected intelligence that Admiral Dundas sailed from Narge3a, in dee Duke of Wellington, last Sunday, and pasfsed Faro, on his way to Kiel, during the afternoon of the fol. lowing day. Admiral Baynes, who has taken the command of all the vessels now remaining in the. Baltic, is at Nargen, in his flag-ship Retribution ; Admiral Penaud, in the Tourville, is likewise there, and in tends, it wou ld seem, to rema i n some little time longer in the Gulf of Finland. The Locust left here again at about 4 o'clock this afternoon for Kiel, to which place all despatches from England for Admiral Dundas will, in future, be forwarded, the weekly communication between. the fleet and Dantzic having ceased tc-dety w:th the arrival and departure of the Locust. THE MEDITERRANEAN. MARSEILLZS, November FT.—The steam frigate Panama arrived yesterday. She sailed from Constantinople on the Ist instant and Malta the 11th, having on board 1,150 of the gendarmerie of the Imperial Guard, with the staff and. band of the regiment. They remained several hours on board, their arrival being unexpected, and no quarters prepared for them. When landed they were drawn up under arms on the quay of the Joliette, whence they marched into town, their Colonel on horseback at their head, and the band playing before them. Nothing meld be finer than their appearance. They are in ex cellent health, and were it not that their faces aro bronzed with the Crimean sun, one might think they had never quitted their comfortable quarters in Paris. It was laughable to see the Custom-house officers go through the form of searching their knapsacks for smuggled goods before they left the port. When they arrived in town they received billets on private houses, all the barracks being occupied. They leave to-night by railway for Paris. Serious inconvenience was caused here on Tues day last by a collision which took place on the rail way between Lyons and Marseilles, by which tho electric wires were broken. The messages which were transmitted that morning by electric tele graph from Marseilles on the arrival of the Gauge from Constantinople were detained several hours. The following are some details given by the Paris journals of the great conflagration last night. The Mor►iteur says :-- "A violent fire broke out yesterday evening in one of the warehouses of the Manutention, on the Quai de Billy. The whole of the building was con• named ; all hope of saving it was abandoned from the commencement of the fire. The ovens have not teen injured, and the adjoining store houses were preserved. At half-past nine the fire was got under, and no fear any longer exited for the other ibuildings. At that hour it was not known that any serious accident had occurred to any of the persons who had assisted in •heoking the progress of the fire. M. de La Condamine' cammoadant of the firemen, directed the operations. The Ministers of War, Interior, and Public Works, Marshal Magnan, the General Commanding the Impe rial Guard, and the Prefect of Police were present." SPORTING NOTES. THE SPORT IN SHROPSHIRE. Turfitea were heartily tired of their lasl week's work in Shropshire. Racing from eleven o'clock in the morn ing until four in the afternoon was really too much of a good thing in this dreary dark November. It is not often, however, that people have occasion to grumble at an over-supply of sport, and their complaints on this score at Shrewsbury were only in aceordance with the disposition of John Bull, who must have a grievance. The terms in which Mr Frail's management has been mentioned have been warmly eulogistic, and certainly commendation in his instance has been deservedly be stowed. A meeting more satisfactory, both with regard to " squareness" of the encounters and the general ar rangements for conducting the proceedings, was never celebrated, and with respect to the handicapping in par ticular much fairness and discrimination were displayed. They to whom the distribution of the weights was en trusted may regard their labours in this department with no little gratulation and triumph. The proceedings were marked by certain incidents for which the managers of the meeting were not responsible, and which were, in fact, only discreditable to the per sons connected with them. The scratching of Maid o the Mill and British Remedy excited much indignation, inasmuch as those animals had been sent to Shrewsbury for the ostensible purpose of fulfilling their engagements. They, however, were seemingly sent only to victimise and dupe the public. That they were "good things" was most industriously " put about ;" the reports re. speeting them were eagerly believed, and the " milking' was carried on to a profitable extent. The cause of the withdrawal of these animals is attributed to the fact of their respective owners having been forestalled in the market. Experience, however, induces people to regard such an excuse with suspicion, and not to consider it any extenuation of the offence. The slight ebullition of feeling and the mark of popu ' kir indignation oaused by the result of the Selling Race, in which Sandboy beat Cineas, are much to be regretted, not only for the sake of the rider of Oineas, whose con duct down to that time had never been placed under the slightest suspicion, but also for the reputation of the Turf. I was glad to see the warmth with which young Goater was defended by one of his masters, and I have no hesitation in stating that the charges which were so hastily and sweepingly made against the lad were cruel and unjust. Sandboy beat Cineas easily enough at Liverpool, and was it therefore surprising that he should repeat that performance at Shrewsbury'; Cineas, too, is a cur, and it is notorious that when col Tared he will not persevere ; and in the race under notice the probabilities of his shutting up at the most critical moment were particularly strong, as he had already that day run one severe race. Suspicion, however, always attaches to selling races, and not without cause, and the sooner they are abolished, or are all brought under the Newmarket rule of claiming, the better. It was pre posterous that horses worth two or three hundred pounds should be entered for races at Shrewsbury to be sold for only I&f., and the notorious fact that few of the sales were bona fide, and that the horses were only run ning for what money could be got out of the ring, was enough to justify the most unfavourable doubts. As a respected Clerk of the Course, at one of our largest and most popular meetings, remarked to me, " the legiti mate game will last the longest." The disputed race between Tom Burke and Assayer has been referred to Admiral Boas, whose decision is looked for with souse curiosity. Odds have been freely betted that the Assayer will get the stakes. Lord Alfred won the Column Stakes so easily as to excite anew the feelings of disgust which were caused by his withdrawal from the Cambridgeshire. Polo Star's performance here and at Worcester proved to her owner that he made a mistake when he reserved her for the Cambridgeshire and not the Cesarewitch. Mr. Hodgman made a good bargain when he bought Emigrant. He gave, in all, about six hundred pounds for the horse, and doubtless won nearly treble that ►u tn in stakes and bets. Emigrant won easily. Hi a some time stable companion, Odiham, was evidently not '' wanted." I may refer with some satisfaction to the correctness of my anticipatory remarks on the Shrewsbury meet ing, for I selected the winners of the Shrewsbury Handicap and Column Stakes, a task, at the time, sur rounded with unusual difficulties. An impudent attempt is being made to deceive the public by a fellow calling himself "William Davis," who undertakes to execute Turf Commissions. Ho advertised himself as being of the "Salisbury Arms," but the landlord of that Inn wrote to the Morning Advertiser stating that no such person frequented his house, or had authority to use the name. The fellow, however, has not been discouraged, and is still at his dirty work. I need ouly state that he is not the Mr. Davis so well known on the Turf as the " Leviathan," who has not for years transacted business in the man ner set fo r th b y the lying advertisement under notica. Nov. 19. A FRESH MAN. OF the gold brought by the :.-ifrica, Royal Mail steamer —375,075 dolls.-522,030. dolls. were on Frelch ao• count, fig merchants at Havre,