The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

SALES BY AUCTION. A very LARGE ASSEMBLAGE of HOUSEHOLD FURNI TURE, from various parts of town and the suburbs, a few Books, Lamps and Chandeliers for Oil, Gas, and Candles, a Church Stove and Pulpit, &c., removed for convenience of Sale. :NIESSRS. BULLOCK will SELL, TO-MOR ROW, at 11 at their Great Rooms, 211, High Holborn, handsome MODERN FURNITURE, includ ing brilliant plate glasses, large carpets, marble-top and marqueterie commodes, drawing and dining room chairs, couches, tables, and fancy items in great variety, library bookcases, Arabian, four -post, and other bedsteads and bed ding, wardrobes, drawers, marble wash-stands and glasses, glass, china, superior plated table requisites, and an infinity of f urn i s hi ng appendages.—May be viewed, and catalogues had. Freehold and Copyhold Houses and Lands, in the village of East Barnet, Herts, half a mile from the railway station ; at upper Northileet and Gravesend, Kent ; Four Life Poli cies, with Bonuses, in the University Life Assurance Society ; a Post Obit Bond, payable on decease of a gentle man, aged 79 ; and a Leasehold House (44 years unex pired), in Great Coram-street. MESSRS. BULLOCK are directed, by the - Mortgage , to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, kn about at month, in lots, a MOIETY or HALF SHARE of the FRIFEHOLD GRASS FARM, Layfields, with residence, garden, orchard, yard, out-buildings, and 43 acres of land, let on lease at 1061. per annum ; and of the Freehold Alehouse, Prince of Wales, let at 19 guineas per annum ; also a Moiety of a Copyhold Baker's Shop, d we l ling-house, yard, and buildings, with large front garden ; thre4 Cottages and Gardens ; and the entirety of Two oadside Plots of Land, held of the Manor of Chipi3ing Barnet and. East Barnet, at trifling annual quit rents. A Freehold Residence and Garden, on the high road, at Upper North fleet, Kent ; Eight Freehold Houses, in and adjoining the Darnley-road, Gravesend ; a Leasehold House, 24, Great Coram-street, held for the remainder of a term of 96 years, and underlet to a highly respectable tenant ; a Post Obit Bond for 3001., and four valuable Policies, for sums amount ing to 1,4501., to which bonuses equal to nearly 3001. have been declared as additions. Particulars are preparing, and may be had in duo time of A. R. Steele, Esq., solicitor, 1, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and of the auctioneers, 211 High Hol born, To TIIE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. GENTLEMEN, —I have received within the last few hours the melancholy announcement of the death of sir William Molesworth. I assure you that I receive this intelli gence with deep and sincere regret, not only for the loss of one to whorls I, with many other of his constituents, was indebted for in valuable. services to the commercial interests of the borough, but for* the loss that must be of importance to a Govommeat in which he held so high an office, the onerous duties of which he was pre-emi nently qualified by his talents, his chamter, and his industry to fulfil. Had I not been absent from England, and unavoidably detained for some days longer, I should not thus early add - ees you; but in order that mynumerous friends may n t remain In doubt as to my intentions, while at a distance from them, and encouraged by your reception of me on a former occasion, I take this early opportunity to solicit your suffrages, to fill the vacancy that has so unexpectedly occurred in the representation of our borough in the Commons House of Parliament. I am well known to many of my brother electors in the several districts of the borough, as having taken part in efforts for its prosperity and improvement; and I continue to enjoy an identity of interest therein with all its inhabitants. The Political penciples I profess are the same as those I had the honour to lay before you when I addressed you at the General Elec% tion of 1852 ; I am an advocate for an Extension of the Suffrage, for the protection of the Voter by the Ballot, for every step towards the perfecting of Religious Liberty and Equality, and the oft endow ment by the State of any Religious Sect whatever, for a Reform of the defective system of Administration in our Public Departments ; and, in common with the great bulk of the Nation, I feel that no Go vernment should be supported that does not unflinchingly, unequivo cally, and by every means that it can command, prosecute the present legitimate War to such a termination as shall leave no doubt of the Security and future progress of Civilisation. As a large Employer I am always anxious for the well-doing of the Working Clas.fes, whether as regards their Religious, Educa tional, or Material improvement. . . . If these principles and sentiments be such as to justify you in re turning me as your Representative, you may confidently rely upon my acting up to them upon all occasions, and upon my untiring zeal in promoting. and w.itching over, the Local Interests of our Borough. I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant, Paris, October 24, 1855. G. SCOVELL. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY -LA.NE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Will be performed M RRIED FOR MONEY. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Messrs. Yohert Rosby and A. Younge ; Mrs. F. liatthews. bliss M. Oliver, and Miss mason will appear. To be followed by NITOCRES. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Ed gar, Stuart, B. Sullivan. G. Wild, C. Vincent, &c. ; Miss Glyn, Mrs. Selby, sites De Vere, Miss Anderton, Miss Cleveland. &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HXYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckitone. THIS EVENDTG. Will be performed THE MAN OF M ANY FRIENDS. After which, a New SPANISH BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. After which, a Popular BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers. To fionzlude with SHOCKING EVENTS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CIIAZLIS KEAN. THIS EVENING Will be pregented JUDGE NOT BY APPEARANCEi. After which, KING HENRY VIII. Queen Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPWL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Direetrem, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING. Will be performed RORY O'M(RE. Characters by Messrs. Rod. inn. P. lledford, • Selby, Parselle, J. Maud, Garden, &c. ; !disk* Mary Keeley, Kate Kelly, Wyndhatn, &c. After which, A MORNING CALL. To conelude with OPEN SESAME. R)YAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING. W , ll he presented, TO OBLIGE BENSON, in which Messrs. .Emery, F. Robson, Leslie, Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Ternan will api,ear. After which, S f ILL WATERS RUN DEEP. To conclude with CATCHING A MER WAIT). ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. J. IL Anderson, IS, Norfolk-street, Strand. Increased .Attractions, and success in equal ratio ' THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'clock, Will % , ,e °resented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint lients, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two parts, by Professor Anderson. After which, the startling Illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF AN-HOUR wirti THE s' PIRET!I, being ths most surprising and interacting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any theatre. 100,000 persons kayo visited the Lyceum already to i.e the Great Wizard of the North. Prices of admission:—Private Rues, H. 1 is. Gi. and 11. Is.; Orchestra stalls, Dress Boxes, 35.; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Is.; Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. Box-ollice open from 11 to 5 ()rand Morning; Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock. Doors open at Half-past One. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswtck. FLEXMORE'S (le Dansour Cominnej BENEFIT, and Last Armeara.nce at this Theatre ; also of that celebrated D inseuse, Mdlle AITRIOL, will take place on THURSDAY, Nov. Ist, 1855. Drama, Rallet flomlque, Concert, Farce, Ballet Ex traordinalre, Melo-drama, &c., &e. Tickets to be had of Mr. Flexmoro, 6, Hercules-Buildings, Lam beth, and at the Cox Office of the Theatre. Box °Oleo open daily, from 10 until 3 o'clock. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. under file direction of Mr. Payne. THIS xvErnrra, WM be performed SIMPSON' AIM CO. After which, SAM PATCH., To conclude with NITOCHIS. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Vivid delineation of the daring deeds of the Allies. THIS EVENING, The triumphantly successful Military Spectacle, The FALL of ASTOPOL ! Capture of the Malakhoff —Cavalry. Infantry, Artillery, with magnificent materiel of war—Stud of Trained Horses —4OO Auxiliaries. Stage and ring combined! After which the WONDERS OF THE CIRCLE, with Mr. J.ll, Cooke's " saaut du Pont." To conclude with the farce of JONATHAN. 1 ;ox-ottIce oven from Eleven till Four. - Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Sfr. W. Cooke, Jun. RIGA WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tatq 1) A-Y—Iforn 7 min.aft. 2 —Evening 25 min. aft. 2 0-9ioaßow—Morn. 46 min.aft. 2 —Evening 7 min. aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, Oct. 26. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAD% 59—highest since noon yesterday. 56—lowest this morning and during the sight. 55—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 22—a fall of nearly an inch since yes. terday. WIND. S.W.—Moderate, with cloudy, dull weather, and heavy rain all the morning. ~~~ ~~~c. LONDON, FRID4Y, OCTOBER 26, 1855. While the secret plans of the Crimean Generals fill us with mingled curiosity, fear, and hope, a n d while we are willing parties to the ignorance, when our knowledge might endanger their success, there are other secrets which we do wish to know, and the knowledge of which might give us at home somethin g to do. Certain diplomatic secrets, " Icea led professedly for the advantage of the public service, would, there is reason to think, serve the country bette r by being made public. We haver not a shadow of doubt that the Allied Generals, if unshackled, will give the b es t poss ibl e acc ount of GORTSCHAK OFF and his army, also of Kherson, Nicolaieff, and Odess a • We should not even despair of their making Ismail and Bessarabia uncomfortable winter quarters for the foe. Much less, inde e d, than tl • 118 may be all they will be able at this season to accom plish, but with unlimited orders they will do all that courage and skill can do. The soldiers of the Malakhoff and the Redan, and the corn nanders at Kinbourn, are equal to anything. What we need is political combinations worthy of the hour. Several factions a combining to force on the present Premier ani:.abrupt termina tion of the War, or to eject him from office. To Conservatives they allege that the War, if con tinued, must soon become a War of princiPl We must have a " Conservative peace, or a Demo,' eratic war," as they are pleased to phrase it. To the people they say, despite fifty glaring pro.is to the contrary, that dear bread, and six per cent: for money, are the fruits of the The latter we cannot now stay to - refute, if „ refutation can be needed by those who re . tnaraber. inte rest as high and higher .without - war not_ quite ten years ago ; or by thbse who know that a deficient continental harvest, ,witt one not more than an average of on-s.' own, are suffi cient to account for the price of bread ; that in America it is nearly as high as it is here, and that even sugar, which, so far as Russian con sumption goes, ought to be cheapened by the war, is rising as well as tallow itself. As to the awful threat held in terrorem over the heads of all good Conservatives, our only fear is lest it should prove a threat merely. We can but wish for a Democratic war—for a war of principles. Un principled war, or, to use the mildest term, war inspired by poor and low principles, by a tempo rising expediency rather, can issue in no elevating and stable results. Let us ask every reasonable .man in England and France whether a war for the Princes and Courts of Europe, or for the peoples of Europe, is most needed ? Which of the two classes, the mien; or the ruled, most need an intervention in their favour ? From BOMBA in the South, to his brethren at Vienna and Berlin, who will say that any of them are worth—may we say, " powder and shot ?" Will any one, on the other band, disgrace his British name by denying that the groaning Italians, the down-trodden Hungarians, the almost murdered Poles, nay, even the cheated Prussians, are wor thy of some help at least ? Our only fear, how ever, is, that Lord PALMERSTON is too Conserva e by far to allow the War to become, if he can pit it, the liberator of the nations. Splen didly,- indeed, would his reputation and that of our Imperial' Ally go down to posterity could they have the courage to burst the bonds of dy nasticism, and reinstate the peoples of Europe in their natural rights. Paltry as have been the wets of Sir CHARLES WOOD'S costly addition to the Baltic mismanage ment of the previous year, yet - the country is so far satisfied with achievements iii the East that it will not discontinue the War from.vant of suc ... cess. It understands, too, that the means of de cided success in the Baltic, as well as the Euxine, are so clear now, that even Sir CHARLES D dares not, under peril of losing (awful fd Whig) his place, betray the country anot ' $ t, year. He must smash the forts an d b urn th e ships to which he has given another winter and spring, we suppose, lest the work of conquest should be too easy. What the country now.syets for ita-, encouragement is effectiveolitiell combinations. Another campaign' must be commenced with greatly improved administration of the army and with a vastly improved adaptation of our navy to the nature of the war. That is settled ; we want to see (he campaign commence also with the aid of nations who long to join us, but whom' we have hitherto not used ; and with the casting off those who have been " Allies to a certain extent"—the alliance,' to wit, of the drag chain with the wheel. We refer especially just now to Sweden and Norway. Their KING has no such guilty reasons as Austria and Prussia for a traitorous and mali cious leaning to Russia ; the Western Powers can serve his purposes much better. His people are openly enthusiastic in the cause of the Allies. They regard Russia as their subtle and sworn enemy. They remember how she has wrested the Baltic Provinces and Islands successively from Sweden, partly by force, partly by fraud. They have not forgotten Bomarsund. What they want is some adequate " material guarantee that when the War closes, and when Sweden shall be left to confront Russia as an independent nation, she shall be, in a territorial and military sense, in a fair condition to bid defiance to anything Russia could do. It was said at ono time that Sweden demanded a Polish campaign on the part of the Allies, as the surest means of reducing Russia to be no more than a fair match for her. If so, it was the soundest wisdom. Stript of Poland, as is all reason and conscience Russia should be, she would be no longer a terror to Sweden any more than to Germany. It would seem likely that Sweden might also ask a permanent treaty, offensive and defensive, as against' Russia, with the Allies ; it would be but prudence to grant it. She could hardly fail to require the restoration of Finland and the islands of the Baltic, with the destruc tion of the forts in the Gulf of Finland which were not placed in her hands ; and this would be but justice to her, and to the Finns and islanders. To put Sweden into this position would be to secure the brave and free Scandinavians as a last ing bulwark against -the cupidity of the CZARS. They have been as stealthily advancing, even in Lapland itself, against Sweden, as in the provinces against Turkey. They covet an unfrozen port in Norway, and the territory of both Sweden and Norway too. They would thus become troublesome naval neighbours to us, or to France, according as events might dispose then to aid either of us against the other. They would ac quire, too, the services of a large number of real sailors to ma n th e fleet, instead of the land lubbers who have never yet dared to meet a French or English ship. Now Sweden can easily enable us to place her in the position indicated. She has an army which could more than threaten Fi n land ; but she has, especially, that splendid fleet gun-boats, of which we h ave h eard so much, of adapted to the navigation, and navig a t e d by sailors who ar e familiar with the w aters. She at an hour's notice, what would could supply, take our Admiralty a sad long while to prepare. Supported by our huge floating batteries these naval light cavalry cou ld render Sweaborg and to the broadsides of the Cronstadt an easy prey former. The return of the Swedish envoy from Paris, th e asser t e d mission of another thither, the visit of our A. d m iral to Stockholm, s uggests hopes we should be gla ,d to cherish. We are confident that a hearty alb; tnce with Sweden would be hailed by this natioLt as a guarantee of a bolder policy, a more ellectives war, and, therefore, •of a more speedy, h onoura bl e, and lasting peace. , People can the Continent, who see by our papers 1 the Duke of CAMBRIDGE and Lord CARDIGAN going about England receiving honours for their bravery, ar , ,d. for the excellence of their leadership, ask with su /7 wise, ".13IIT WRY ARE THEY AT HOME ? Do they not eontinue to receive pay ? If they . iver e privates would they be allowed to continue ( to receive pa y without doing duty ? You Eng lishmen are complaining, and justly, that the genera lship of your army does not do justice to the qualities . of the men in the ranks. Good leadership is n( it, according to your own accounts, so common that you have any of this precious quality to spare. Then why are not these good leaders in the field ? See the great and good example set to the ranks of the army by Miss NIGHTINGALE and your ladies. She and some of them have suffered by fever, and have been reduced in strength ; but immediately she at least,,was convalescent, instead of returning home and gathering incense, she returned to her' post—one of more real danger than the trenches ; in hospital wards crowded with fever and dysentery patients, amidst the groans of the suffering and the dying ? ' " And your leading military men keep at home amidst luxury ? " Can these laudations of them be real or true, or are they the mere outcries of weak and igno rant people, and must not the truth be that your War Department is glad to have them away ?" These are natural suggestions. In either case what a display does it make for the Administra tive Reform of our army. At a time when the country is heavily pressed by its War taxation, here is either valuable service wasted, or the hard earned resources of the country paid for services not given ! Why, first and last, the country can scarcely have expended less than twenty thousand pounds on Lord CARDIGAN to bring him up to his position, for which the return is one half hour's charge ! Did BONAPARTE let MunlT, his first cavalry officer, go about the country receiving Mayors' addresses and Corporation adulation after a single charge, whilst the war was going on, and the Russians were in force in the field 7 Yet we are in all probability paying to these two officers, who are doing nothing, twice as much as was refused to the Royal Society for the Advance ment of Science, on the plea of the necessities of the War ? On that plea Sir GEORGE LEWIS and Messrs. ELAYTER and WILSON, of the Treasury, are making candidates for clerkships pay fees, the wretched expenses of the examinations, by which the majority of them, the rejected, will be made to feel that they have thrown their money away. Real and economical service is depressed, whilst vast sums are expended on what the Administra tion itself treats as outrageous shams. These are Isurely cases, amongst others, for the Adminis trative Reform Association. It is time for the Currency Reformers to be up mid doing 1 There is consternation in the ranks of the Bullionists ! It is seen that the Act of 1844 cannot possibly be maintained—that it is to all intents and purposes inconsistent with the vigorous and energetic conduct of the just and necessary War in which we are engaged, and that we must either submit to a dishonourable and temporary peace on any conditions which Austria pleases to suggest and Russia to accept, or enter into a complete revision of our monetary system. f we seek to " maintain the integrity" of the bullionist standard we must inevitably submit to the degradation of the national standard. " The flag that braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze" must be tarnished in order to save the prejudices of the Currency quacks, and to gratify. whgt - -iveCare told is the Englishman's " liking " to have geld fan -7 ` 'pocket, although the smaller denominations of bank notes would be for all practical purposes. much more convenient, as a circulating medium;ff'for conducting the domestic) trade and comnege ll of the country. Never, perhaps, was there a time when . tion on this all-important question was urgently required, when public opinion could be more effectually brought to bear on the Govern ment and both Houses of Parliament. The Act of 1844 will, virtually, expire next year, and due provision must he made for an adequate sub stitute. Even tho great organ of the bullionists has been compelled to acknowledge that there are points in which it requires alteration. What, then, shall be the nature and extent of these much-required changes ? Are all promises to pay on demand less than 5/. sterling to be peremptorily eschewed ; or, may we be allowed a small-note currency, similar to that in opera tion in the Sister Kingdoms ? Are we to have a really national note issued by the Government, under the control and direc tion of Parliament, receivable in payment of all fiscal charges, or to confer a monopoly on a trading corporation which has shown itself to be far more concerned for its own profits, than for the safety, honour, and welfare of the SOVEREIGN and her dominions ? And is one of the most valu able prerogatives of Royalty—one of the brightest jewels in the British Crown—to be permanently surrendered to a by no means worthy substitute ? We can scarcely doubt the nature of the responses which will be returned from all parts of the country, and which must penetrate to the most secret recesses of Downing-street. The manage ment of the monetary concerns of the country must be transferred from the Bank Parlour to a Board responsible to Parliament and the country for its proceedings. The Times, in its City Article of this day, sounds the note of preparation for the rapidly approaching contest. It is already setting its shoulders to the wheel to obtain the best terms for the moneyooracy. "Fas est ab hoste doceri." The Currency Reformers should follow the example of their most euergetic and most powerful oppo nent. If they wish for a smcessful termination of the conflict, they should lose no time in acting on the public mind. Agitate ! agitate ! agitate ! That is indispet tsable under existing circumstances if they would not see the golden opportunity lost for a long succe: ision of years, or possibly for ever, and a substitute' for the Act of 1844 foisted on the country, w hich would operate as seriously to the detrim, mt of the industrious classes as that which & is now happily approaching to its termina' ion. Let the people remember that it has be e n proved by an unexceptionable witness that the last great war in which England was engaged con Id not possibly have been carried on but for thi ) suspension of cash payments. The Minister of the day persevered too long before he adopted the% necessary step. Great loss was thereby occasio tned to the country. But that would be altog ether averted if timely measures were taken, bef 'ore all the bullion had left our shores. The ob vious course to he adopted in the present instance would be to obtain an issue of 11. and 21. not ,es, which _would relieve a large proporti on of the sovereigns now in daily use. Their recepti on by the community would furnish a useful guide for the legislation that must ensue. With that and t Ite suspension of the Bank Charter Act, similar to t ;:ittat authorised by the celebrated letter of the 2't sth October, 1847, we could manage to await ; without difficulty the Parlia mentary investigation that must ensue, and the rate of interest might be reduced within limits c onsistent Yritlx the prosperity o f t h e trade and com merce of the country, and the w e lf are a nd happina ,s of th e industrial portion of th e com munity som e may say, earl? I "to enter on a considera nat about the costs of the War ? "Rather tirA of the subject. When the pride of Russia is ~" ef . 6 :dually humbled, and her power is reduced to Sr' x h dimensions as are compatible with the safety THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EY gNING; OCTOBER 26 1855 of Europe, then will be the time to talk about costs." It may be as well, however, for the public to establish their opinion on the matter, and fortify their understandings in preparation for the assaults that will be—indeed, are now being made on them. Russia has broken the peace by invading Tur key, and has satisfied all reasonable men of the existence of a long-premeditated design on her part to ride rough-shod over law, freedom, and civilisation in Europe. France and England rushed to the rescue, in conformity with the obli gations their position and interests imposed upon them ; and it would be somewhat audacious to say that they are not entitled to insist on having the expenditure they and their allies have been, and will be, put to in the vindication of the rights of nations refunded. Pragmatic individuals and political trimmers are, however, to be found who would have the public take another view of the matter. These domestic traitors, in further ance of a conspiracy they have entered into to put a stop to the War, at whatever cost, have re course to sophistry, ix order at once to gull the nation, and divert the odium a naked revela tion of their miserable aim would bring down upon them. " Russia," they propound, " will not pay the costs of the War if she can help it. To pre vent, therefore, that further slaughter of our brave troops which a continuance of the bloody struggle will necessitate, would it not be wise and humane not to insist on the payment of costs ? To do otherwise, would it not be to sell our soldiers' blood for gold ?' " Plausible enough, humane reader, is it not? Yes, we admit ; but diabolically inhuman. Russia, we grant, is not likely to pay " the costs of the bloody suit" if she can help it. Eut the object of the War is so to reduce her over-grown pride and strength that she cannot help paying them, were it only from a regard for her own interests. To let her off scot free would be to " sell our soldiers' blood" for the profit of knaves. It would be to rob the glorious sacrifice of our slaughtered heroes of its efficacy— to cast away the pearl of safety (from barbaric outrage) to swine. It would be to plunder the bereaved parent, the widow, and the orphan of that righteous consolation that soothes their re gret for the dear ones they have lost—the reflec tion that they fell fighting for the liberties of Europe, and that their blood was not shed in vain. It would be to stultify the patriotism, humanity, and wisdom of our times, and write us down heartless ingrates, inhuman spendthrifts, and con summate asses to boot. When the grand object of the War is attained, and not till then, Russia will be prepared to pay the costs ; and until that time arrives hostilities must be carried on with the utmost vigour. This is pretty much the real logic of the War, and it is very simple. PORTRAIT OF MR. RUSSELL, ' g THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT." There he sits—sketched off to the very life by the magic pencil of the sunbeam—that wonder ful historian of the war, The Times "Special Correspondent" before Sebastopol. Who is there in Englandl4 401wpikti interest in scanning his effigy ? 'Who - that does nod entertain some rational feelings of curiosity as to the aspect of this daring Critic of the Camp—no longer a vague mysterious entity, but a substantial representative of Journal ism on the great battle-field of European civilisation. yalk as welnay about the inconvenience of hav oitr Military plans and operations analysed in re face of day by the adventurous intellect of a civilian—it is scarcely possible to overrate the advantages accruing to the common interests now at stake, to the grand cause now at issue in this momentous struggle between the East and the West, between the Allies and Russia, from the vigilance of a keen and impartial observer like the one here presented to our view in his strongly defined and vivid individuality. It is scarcely so much William Russell in his own proper person who may be herein recognised by his numerous friends, and let us add, too, by his innu merable admirers, as a man of this age, so essentially a type of his class as to have assumed, permanently, a foremost rank among the eminent public characters of our gene ration. As such the portrait-sketch, lithographed by M. and N. Hanhart, after a drawing by J. H. Lynch, from the original photograph by R. Fenton, now in the possession of the Messrs. Agnew and Sons, the enterprising art-publishers of Man chester represents scarcely so much W. H. Russell as The Times Correspondent, scarcely so much The Tunes Correspondent, indeed, as what shall we say—CAPTAIN PEN. Yes ! there, in that graphic limning, is the veritable imper sonation of that hitherto merely mythic, or purely imaginary being, Captain Pen ! Capped a la militaire, coated as a civilian, booted (vigor ously) like one accustomed to the saddle on the miry roads of Crim Tartary, bearded like the pard, or, what is pretty much the same nowadays, like any wandering gentleixiau in the far East—there he sits—that Champion of the Soldier and Inteliigencer of the People—watchfully observant from his camp-stool, perhaps, of some incident of the contest, the chivalrous execution of which his hand will be the first to celebrate, or the blundering design of which his judgment will be the first and foremost to arraign. Shine' at his side —no sword—but a telescope, or, may be, a pouch with a scroll of paper, destined by its luminous perspicuity of statement, or by its rhe torical brilliancy of description, to contrast almost painfully with the bungling and incoherent Des patch transmitted by the same mail from head quarters, signed and sealed by an unlettered Com mander-in-Chief. Ever y one we are persuaded thewil l e e ffi xa g m y i an n e d the with sign-manual interest, of thi s b o ld, man ly, many with a d m i ra ti on , uncom p r omising, patriotic Correspondent. Every one must assuredly so do who recalls to mind for one instant some few of the g re at things which have been accomplished, beyond all doubt chiefly through the instrumentality of Mr. RUSSELL, acting in his very delicate and responsible capacity as The Times Correspondent. It will be remembered how nobly out-spoken were his words of indignant remon strance as the dread Crimean winter closed in upon the British army encamped before Sebas topol, without those provisions for its com fort, the want of which his prescience recog nised from the first as being calculated to prove so dismally and deplorably destructive. It cannot he forgotten how resolutely, moreover, from first to last, his pen has dealt with the whole series of delinquencies by which these two memorable campaigns have in so many in stances been most lamentably illustrated—his reprehension being no less severely articulated in reference to the wielder of the Marshal's baton, or the potterer over the inkhorn of some obscure or subordinate Commissary. Neither can it very speedily pass away from the popular remem brance—the recollection of those brilliant chap ters of contemporary history, in which the great deeds of the War against Russia are acknowledged, far and wide, to have been the most picturesquely and the most durably commemorated. For, as suredly, such must be the almost universally unanimous opinion pronounced over that earnest narrative, in which the glorious storming of the heights of the Alma, and the magnificent cavalry charges at Balaklava, and the desperate hand-to hand struggle at Inkerman, and the deadly night work in the trenches, and the final assaults upon the Redan and the Malakhoff have been told, so to speak, in characters of blood and tears, by the nervous pen of The Times Correspondent. THE SUCCESSOR OF GENERAL SimpsoN.—Wre believe there is no longer any reason to doubt that Sir William Codrington has been appointed to succeed Gam Simpson a 9 Commande r -i n -Chi e f o f our army in the Crimea. A telegraphic com mun i ca ti o n to th a t effect was transmitted to General Codrington on M o nday last.—Aforning A (-• .12crtiser. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes terday. The Queen, with the Princess Royal, walked in the Home Park this morning. His Royal Highness the Prince went out shooting. The following have been invited, and are exp•cted this afternoon :—llis Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weitnar, the Portuguese Minister and the Countess de Lavradio, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, and Major-General Sir Richard England. Sir Alexander Spearman had an interview with the Chancellor• of the Exchequer on Wednesday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Despatches from the Governor of West Australia, and also from the Governor of Ceylon, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Duchess of Inverness entertained Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood and a select party to dinner on Wed- nesday evening, at Kensington Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are entertaining a succession of visitors at Woburn Abbey, Beds. The Marquis of Blandford and Lord Alfred Churchill during the last week have been staying on a visit to the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace. The Earl and Countess of Darnley have gone on a continental tour. The Earl of Southesk is having made great alterations and improvements at Kinnaird Castle, the ancient baronial residence of the Carnegies. The Earl and Countess Bruce are staying at Savernake Lodge, near Marlborough, Wilts. There was a review of the Marlborough troop of the Wilts Yeomanry Ca valry a few days since on the lawn at Savernake, at which the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury and a large party were present. The officers of the corps, in cluding the Earl Bruce, Lord Edward Thynne, Lord Ernest Bruce, Major Ward, &c., dined together in the evening. Lady Mary Fox has joined the circle assembled at Wemyss Castle, N.B. The Right Hon. Sir James Graham has returned to Netherby, from visiting the Earl of Aberdeen, at Haddo House, N.B. The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood left the Admiralty yesterday afternoon, to remain a few days on a visit to her Majesty at 'Windsor Castle. The Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Labouchere, after a tour of visits in Ireland, in the course of which they visited the Duke of Devonshire, at Lisrnore Castle ; Lady Dover, at Gowran Castle ; and his Excellency the Earl of Carlisle, at Dublin, have returned to their seat near Windsor. We regret to hear that the Bishop of London is se riously ill at his residence at Fulham. His lordship has very lately returned from a visit to the Continent. MR. MACAULAY.-It is understood that Mr. Macaulay retires from the representation of Edinburgh at the next dissolution of Parliament. Lord Melgund is spoken of i 3 the successor to the great essayist.—Aberdeerr Journal.: Some further auounts of gold were taken to the Bank yesterday afternoon, and it is believed that the total thus retained out of the recent arrivals is about 300,0001. In the discount market yesterday increased ease was observable. In the Stock Exchange money could be obtained on Stock at from 2s to 3 per cent., and on other Government securities ac 4 per cent. Miss Kate Saville, niece of Miss Helen Faucit, ap pears on Saturday evening at the Old \Vells Theatre, as Pauline Deschapelles, in The Lady of Lyons. Mademoiselle Taglioni has just arrived at Viennafrom Berlin, for the purpose of performing a limited number of nights at the Karuther-gate Theatre. The Grand Opera at Paris is in a dilemma ; some of its brightest ornaments, Mdms. Alboni and Cruvelli, and M. Roger, intend leaving Paris about the end of De cember, and the director knows not what substitutes to obtain. MRS. CHATTERLEY'S DRAMATIC READINGS. —On Wednesday evening, in accordance with public announce ment, Mrs. Chatterley read Much Ado About Nothing, in the lecture hall of the Bristol Athenaeum, to a nume rous and highly respectable audience. THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT MAY.—The statement which has appeared in most of the journals to the effect that.the late Mr. John May, Superintendent of the A. Division of Police, was appointed to the Force by Sir Robert Peel as " constable," and from which rank he passed throngh the different grades to that of superin tendent, is not, we are turd, correct. Mr. May was ap pointed by Sir Robert Peel, on the formation of the Police Corps, to the office of superintendent. By way of advertisement for foreign artists who may be tempted to give concerts at Berlin, a journal which appears in that city every Monday morning, called the Fire-L g nijins, publishes the list of 86 grand indigenous conceits expected during the ensuing winter. This num ber does not include the concerts of M. Rudersdorff, nor those of Liebig chapel, nor those for charitable pur poses, &c. It is understood that the Honourable the Court of Directors have, to a considerable extent, acceded to the suggestions conveyed by the Bombay Government, for equalising the rank and furlough-pay of the Indian navy with that of the military branch of the East India Com pany's service. These alterations will considerably in crease the furlough pay of certain ranks in the Indian navy.— Overland Mail. The Nubia, which brought home the East India mail the day before yesterday. made the passage from Malta to England in less than nine days, including a stoppage at Gibraltar. During her voyage from Southampton to Alexandria and back, which occupied about a month, she conveyed 314 passengers. The Nubia will shortly be placed on the Indian line. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Thursday.— Letters for the Asia, for Boston and Halifax, will require to be posted at the General Post-Office before eight a.m. on the 27th instant, with late fees until nine a.m., and finally at the landing stage until ten a.m. A ship letter bac , for the Eagle clipper, for Melbourne, will b e ma d e up here the same day, letters to be posted before ten a.m., and with late fees to 10.30 a.m. AUSTRALIAN MAIL SHIPS.—The Royal mall ship Emma, Captain Underwood, of the White Star line, which sailed from the Mersey on the 21st ult., for Mel bourne, with the Australian mails, was spoken by a ves.el arrived in the Clyde, on the 11th of September, in lat. 10 N, long. 25 W, 21 days out. The Favourite, arrived in the Mersey yesterday, reports having passed the Royal mail ship Lightning, of the Black Ball line, on the 25th of September, 20 days out, in lat. 12 N, long. 28 W. The Royal mail ship Shaliman, Captain Amos Robertso❑, also of the White Star line, has been spoken (and letters sent home) on the 29th of August, out 40 days, in lat. 24 S, to❑g. 27 %V, all well. THE COAL FOR THE WEST INDIA STEAMERS.--Some considerable time since the owners of the colliers running between Wales and Southampton raised their freights, and from that period the West India Company have had nearly the whole of the coals for their coal depot at Southampton brought all the way by rail from Wales. Long trans of coal waggons arrive at the depot daily, containing sometimes 100 or 150 tons. The consump t►on of coal at Southampton by the West India Com• pany's steamers is upwards of 3,000 tons per month. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTF, STOCKWELL.—A lecture was delivered here on Tuesday evening last, on " Popu lar Superst►tions—their Causes and Remedies," by Mr. Simpson, of Tunbridge Wells, late librarian to the Islington Institution. The design of the lecture was to explode the belief in fortune-tellers, apparitions, dreams, and similar superstitions, which still find a place in the minds of the uneducated. The subject was ably dis cussed, and afforded considerable instruction and amuse ment to a large and highly respectable audience. SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH.—The executive com mittee of the Ballot Society held a meeting on Wednes day, at the offices, 5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street, when it was unanimously resolved, on the notion of Mr. Prout, seconled by General Thompson—" That this committee, deeply lamenting the death of Sir Wil liam Molescvorth, Bart., M P., remember with gratitude the many and invaluable services rendered to the cause of complete freedom of election by his speeches and writings in favour of the vote by ballot. That, through out a long Parliamentary career he invariably supported the motions of Mr. Grote and Mr. F. H. F. Berkeley ; and that, when raised to the Cabinet, he not only con tinued to support the vote by ballot, but delivered one of the ablest speeches ever made in its favour. The death of this lamented statesman is a loss to the whole country and its dependencies, but the friends of the ballot have especial cause to lament his untimely end." ARRIVAL OF GENERAL MARICHAIL—Among the pas sengers who arrived on Wednesday at Southampton by the Indian mail-steamer Nubia was the celebrated Indian officer, Major• General Markham, who commanded at the assault of the Redan on the day of the capture of Sebastopol. He has arrived home in ill health, arising principally from a change of climate from India to the Crimea and from a hurried journey through India, Egypt, and Turkey. His legs are so swollen that he can hardly walk. Although not 50 years of age he looks almost 70. His face is very thin, and is literally black with exposure to the sun. He wears an immense beard, which is quite grey. He was the first to leave the Nubia, and was assisted to walk by his aide•de-camp. Tire crowd of person's who witnessed his landing, struck with his remarkable appearance, and knowing that he was one of the principals engaged in the assault of Se bastopol on the last terrible and glorious day, fell back respectfully to make way for him to pass along the docks. WESTERN AUSTRALIA, July 25.—About 10 a.m. on Friday (July 20) the Avalanche hove in sight, making for the Garden Island anchorage. The presence of Go vernor Kennedy on board was immediately known •by the ensign flying at the main, followed by the firing of two guns—signals which had been previously agreed upon. A deputation from the inhabitants of Fremantle immediately proceeded on board, and, after congratulat ing his Excellency on his safe arrival, presented him with a copy of the address, which they intimated would be read to him on his arrival at Fremantle. On Saturday his Excellency landed under a salute of 17 guns ; the town presented a scene of unusual gaiety. Immediately after passing under the triumphal arch at the end of Cliff-street his Excellency was met by the deputation, who read an address, to which he replied, thanking them for their cordial welcome, to which, having no claim be yond that of being her Majesty's representative, he ac cepted as additional proofs of the loyalty and affection which they entertained for her most gracious Majesty. The address would serve to remind him of the grave re sponsibility he had undertaken, and would stimulate him, he trusted, to discharge the duties of the office he held in a manner to justify her Majesty's selection, and the expectations they might have formed. lie earnestly reci prccated their hope for that unanimity, without which their extended efforts would be as ropes of sand, and, above all, joined them in the trust that a merciful Pro vidence might direct and prosper all measures condu cive to the wellbeing of the inhabitants of the colony. His Excellency proceeded the following day to Pert!), the seat of Governwent. LATEST NEWS. THE HEAVY GALE. In consequence of the tempestuous weather in the Channel the French and German mails had not arrived when we went to press. PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, 7* A. m. A very heavy gale from the south-west and west-south-west has been blowing all night. This morning, at four o'clock, the Brazilian barque Theodocia, Captain Gomez, went ashore, stern on, in Batten Bay. She is from Havre bound to Lisbon and Lima. If the gale subsides she will not receive much damage. THE INGLIS FRENCH, AND BELGIAN MAILS. Chief Office, 56, Lombard-street, London, October 26. The Secretary of the English, French, and Bel gian Royal Mail Steam-packet Company presents his compliments to the Editor of The Sun, and begs to enclose him a copy of the report from the Company's Superintendent at Dover : Admiralty Yard, Dover, Oct. 26, 8 a.m. It has been blowing a perfect hurricane all night. L'lmperatrice, with the French mails from Calais, duo here at 1 a.m., ran for the Downs, and landed her mails there. The Belgian Government steamer, with the Ostend mails, left Ostend yesterday at / 30 p.m., but has not yet arrived. The South-Eastern boat could not land her passengers here last night. She was obliged to run to Ramsgate. Our mail-boats Vivid and Garland, the former for Ostend, the latter for Calais, left last night all right, but just as they were leaving, a great por tion of the piles and woodwork of the Admiralty pier was washed away. Tho Baroness Stutterheim and family went over in the Garland, en route to Germany. Dover, 11h. 28m., a.m. Our mail boat Violet, with the English mails, from Calais, and l'lmperatrice, from the Downs, have come into harbour. Mails will leave by 12 o'clock train. BERLIN, OCT. 25. A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated the 24th, announces that the Allies, in strength from 30,000 to 40,000, advanced on the 22d from Eupatoria on Tulat, but, on arriving on the 23d at the heights of Djaamin Atchaga, seeing the movements of our Lancers on the left flank, they retired behind Aktachi. Nothing new has occurred between Kinbourn and Nicolaieff. TREBIZONDE, OCT. 8. The Russians are supposed to be preparing to attack Kars again. BERLIN, THURSDAY EVENING. General Mouravieff's defeat at Kars has put an end to the idea of his supplanting Prince Gort- schakoff. ATHENS, OCT. 19. Another change of Ministry has taken place. Condostarto is appointed to the Department of Finance ; Cristopulo to that of Public Instruction; Bottley, to the Interior ; and Tricoupi is to take the Foreign Affairs, when he shall arrive. It is now said that General Perowsky, who commanded the expediton to Khiva, is to super sede the Prince. The German journals assert that the language of the Jersey refugees his given such force to the representations of the Continental Governments, that England has promised to renew the Alien Law or adopt some other measure to the same effect. DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS AT KARS. ERZEROUM, Oct. s.—Yesterday evening there arrived here an express with letters of the 30th of September from Kars. The letters wore written in the evening, and contained the intelligence that on the morning of that day the Russians invested Kars on all sides in full force. The batteries at Kars opened a murderous fire on the besiegers. Three times did the Russians gain a footing in the Turkish retrenchments—and three times were they driven out by the Turks at the point of the bayo net. Colonel Lake distinguished himself in the contest, not only by his courage, but by his skill. It was be who drove the enemy from the Inglis Tabia. Eight hundred Russians were slain before a redoubt defended by four hundred Turks. The firing lasted seven hours and a half, when the Russians took to flight. The Turks performed pro digies of valour, and the European officers—Col. Lake and Captains Teesdale and Thompson—dis tinguished themselves. Mr. Churchhill, formerly attachk of our embassy from Persia, and now sec retary to General Williams, commanded at one of the redoubts, and showed himself a thorough Eng.. lishman. A postscript of a letter of the Ist instant adds that the loss of the Russians is estimated at about eight or nine thousand killed or wounded. About four thousand corpses lie under the walls of Kars. The Turks are busied now in burying them. The enemy lost besides this a great quantity of stores ; and about 300 prisoners were taken, amongst whom were many officers. Four guns are said to have been taken. The loss of the Turks is reckoned at about 750 killed and wounde 1. This great battle, which had so fortunate a ter mination—thanks to the skill of the commander, General Williams—shows clearly enough that the Turkish soldier, when well led, is not only brave, but able to distinguish himself like the soldier of any other nation. At the same time it must con vince Europe in general, and the Turkish Govern ment in particular, that the latter has no good native officers, since, from the commencement of hostilities in Asia until the present moment, this is the only victory the Turks have gained, and this is owing to General Williams. When the Turks were under native commanders they experienced nothing but defeats. A letter written by a Bey of Livana (Turkish Georgia) says that Omer Pacha having concentrated his troops in Churuksu, had marched on Urzughet, and that he had made himself master of the place without much difficulty. He received there a deputation from the Georgian nobility, who made their submission to the Porte in the name of the inhabitants of the district. According to this letter Omer Paella was marching towards Akalt zick, for the purpose of making a diversion in favour of Kars, and of ultimately coming to the assistance of that city. This last news tallies with that contained in letters received the day be fore yesterday, which say that Omer Pacha has communicated with the Muchir in Kars, telling him to maintain his position for twenty days, at the expiration of which he would be at Kars with his army. He must be near there by this time ; and it would be most fortunate if he should arrive in time to cut off the retreat of General Moura vieff, and be able to invest Alexandropol. Not one of the European officers at Kars was killed or wounded. LETTER FROM AN ENGLISH OFFICER ENGAGED IN THE BATTLE. KARS, Oct. I.—Here I am on the Karadagh again, none the worse for my late illness. Last night the Russians attacked us in force, and (be tween you and me and the post) very nearly took Kars. The fight was a most bloody one, and lasted seven hours and a half, without one second's inter• mission. The Russians left upwards of 2,000 men dead on the field ; and their loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners must have exceeded 6,000 men. What do you think of re Kara chaps after that ? I was not actively engaged, as they knew better than to attack my almost im pregnable battery a second time ; but I did great service with my heavy guns, and twice drove them out of a battery they had taken, and turned upon us. It was a nasty sight—the field—afterwards. It was completely covered with dead bodies, mostly Russians, as our men did not lose more than five or six hundred altogether. The defence was com manded by dea r old General Kmeti ; and when our general thanked him in the name of Queen Victo ria for his gallant repulse of the enemy, I thought the brave old boy would have burst his heart open —he was so proud. The Turks fought—not like lions, but like fiends. I never saw such desperate recklessness of life. You can form some idea of what a desperate business it wa,, when I tell you that the Russians bad their whole force concen trated upon General Kmeti's division, which, with the reinforcements he afterwards received, did not amount to 8,000 men. The reports have just coma in, and there are more than 3,000 killed on the side of the enemy. March of the Cuirassiers of the Guard to the South. WARSAW, Oct. 20.—Great astonishment has been expressed in our military circles that hitherto none of the regiments of the Guards have taken au active part in the war in the Crimea ; but at length the moment appears to have arrived for them to have an opportunity of measuring their arms with the enemy. The division of the Cuiras siers of the Imperial Guard, hitherto quartered here and in other parts of Poland, have put them selves in motion, and are gone to the south. They are to be replaced by the brigade of Lancers belong ing to the second Light Cavalry division, under General Mielnikoff, now in cantonments in the government of Lublin. In the entire kingdom of Poland there are now only four regiments of regular cavalry of the above-named division, and in the neighbouring province of Lithuania is quartered a similar division of the reserve cavalry corps, under Lieut.-General Grunwald, with its head-quarters at Slonim. The division of Guards that has left us has taken the direction of Kiew, and it is unknown whether on its arrival there it will form a part of the army of the centre, or be sent on without delay to the seat of war. Although the Russians have not hitherto had any Cuirassiers at the theatre of war, it is considered here not improbable that the desti nation of these Cuirassiers of the Guard is to op pose the French Cuirassiers. The Russian cavalry now in the Crimea is more than double that of the Allied army. RUSSIANS IN ROME. ROME, Oct. 20.—The distinguished Russian families who have influence enough with the Em peror to obtain permission to flee from the horrors of a northern winter feel iure apparently of the sympathies of this soi-disant neutral government, for they have already begun to flock into the Eter nal City, and throw about their money as if extra taxes and war contributions wera things unknown at home. Amongst these visitors are—M. Tchek kine, Imperial councillor of the state : the Count and Countess Paul Stroganoff, M. and Madame .Nariskin, M. and Madame Besobrasoff, Princess Polyemtoff née Gagarin, Princess Hara,nsky, and the Polish Prince and Princess Sapicha, besides several other families of names less known to fame. The Panic at Odessa on the Arrival of the Fleet. ODESSA, Oct. 8, Four o'clock p.m. —The first brigade of the 15th Reserve Infantry Division has just entered the town in long columns. They are the regiments Lublin and Zamosc. The men are evidently quite exhausted from their long march, and covered with dust from head to foot. In marching through the streets some of the men fall down from over-fatigue. The intelligence of the approach of the enemy's armada was telegraphed to the Emperor at midnight. From the telegraph station on the villa of General Luders more ships are soen approaching. Five o'clock.—A whole forest of masts is now visible in the offing. They appear to be sailing in great order, and with admirable regularity. A vast column of black smoke envelopes the horizon. With a good glass one can distinguish them, and make out plainly that they are of a large size. I counted 42, but others are every moment coming into sight round the point of the mountain and promontory of Langeron. In the meantime the regiments of Hussars Count Radetzky, and Prince uf Hesse- Cassel, belonging to the 3d Light Cavalry Division, are marching through the streets in full uniform, and with their bands playing at their head. They are going to the great fountain in the square.' Six o'clock.—There are now 76 sail in sight, and every moment others round the promontory. A panic has seized the inhabitants. All the streets are regularly blocked up with carriages, carts, and waggons of every description, into which the more valuable furniture and goods and chattels of the inhabitants are being packed as quickly as possible. The general cry is Sauve qui pelt. Some state that the expedition is destined to operate against the neighbouring town of Otchakoff, and that the fleet is about to force the passage of the Dnieper, and disembark an army there to march by land to wards Kherson and Perekop. Others pretend to know the exact number of troops on board, which they state to consist of 20,000 Turks and 35,000 French. Again, others know for a positive cer tainty that the object of the expedition is exclu sively the bombardment of this city. Li the mean time the hostile fleet has gradually approached and anchored at a distance of five wersts (three miles) from the shore. Seven o'clock.—The Emperor's Adjutant-Gene ral, General Luders, has just arrived from Nico laieff. Accompanied by the former ambassador at Constantinople, Von Ozeroff, he is inspecting the troops at their different stations, and is everywhere received with loud acclamations. Eight o'clock.—The sea is enveloped in perfect darkness. The enemy's ships have hoisted lan terns, which at a distance have the appearance of stars, and serve to show their position. OCT. 9.—The night passed off with tranquillity. Some people assert they heard guns fired in the night, and counted 40 reports. It might be their imagination, or it is possible they were signal guns. This morning at sunrise three guns were fired on board the fleet. No dbange is perceptible in their position since last night. Everybody is making hurried preparations to get away. Money is in such demand that the counting-houses of the money-changers are beleaguered, and the agio of metallic currency, which was yesterday at par, has suddenly risen to 20 per cent. The bakers' shops are beset by the people, who vehemently call for bread, the price of which has risen to three times its usual value. Verily at this moment Odessa presents such a scene of disorder and fear as must have been witnessed at the Tower of Babel. The Settlements on the Pacific. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 16.—The Mari ne J ourna l publishes a despatch from the port captain of Ayan —a port belonging to the Russian American Trading Company on the coast of the Sea of Ochotsk —Captain Lieutenant Kashewaroff, to Major- Wentzel, Governor-General of Siberia, in which he states that on the 9th of July an English squadron, composed of two sailing frigates and a steamer, under the command of Charles Frederick (?), appeared in the bay of Ayan. As soon as their approached was perceived the inhabitants of the little town and the small garrison evacua t e d the place, 4 ' in obedience to th instructions received from the Governor-General." The enemy took away a quantity of deals, timber, and other mate rials belonging to the company. A small new iron steamer, also the property of the company, bad been sunk in the port, but the enemy succeeded in raising it and blowing it up, whilst three smaller craft were carried away by the frigates. They remained in the harbour for ten days, and put t o sea on the 17th of July, when the inhabitants re turned to their homes, and found that all their private property had been respected. THE ALLIED ARMIES , CAMP OF THE ALLIED ARMIES, Oct. 13.—After I last wrote to you a considerable change took place all along our line. It is one of those changes w hich, without materially alterin ;the relative po sition of the two armies, serves to determine more distinctly - their respective s ituations, and thus puts and an end to the vagueness uncertainty which m ust have struck every looker-on as the charac teristic feature of the epoch which has elapsed since the fall of Sebastopol. First of all, on the line of Sebastopol itself - we seem evidently to have changed sides with the Russians, and to have become from an attacking the attacked party. On the Tchernay a and on the Baidar line, on the contrary, our position h of the Sardinians an d the aschanged by an advance French. The Sardinians, who had hitherto only a small detachment on the other side of the It c h last, the 10th inst., ornayai have since Wednesday plateau running ~ taken up a position on the along the left bank of the Tchon liou river as high up as Upu. The next day a battalion of infantryand a squadron of cavalry went up to Ozernba,sh and made the round over the plateau leadingd' own towards Aitodor. There is very little to be seen of the Russians in that neighbourhood.They have entirely left the left bank of the Tch • onhou, and their most advanced