The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-03 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, filYMAF:fcli;? tral,r the Managompot of Mr. ruait no. EVENT •1 1 1, Will be paforrnel TCOP3 C J (..MNQUTER.' by 7.lessv. Ilardastle, :,r• uwe, Co.rpton, VLlliers, and liastiugs; Airs. e, Ms; , ynter, Cluiracters Fellowe.l by TUE LIT 1L 7 TEES To condole wall FI3I 0:.1 OF ,v.I.TER. !'" • ykr., AOELPIC: Proprietor, tic. B. Weost_r.—Direetress, Madame Ce este. TUTS EVENING, WIN he perforine I TICE CE HO ct•iF. OF THE PEPPERS. supported by Memo. Moreland, P. aarald Pepp r, sir. Hudson; Bedf.)rd. Pheliiu, MIAs Kate Kelly; Magdelen4, Miss Laldlsw; Via, 3liss W 3 ildham• After which, the Farce of TfIE . - Cloo NOTE. To comittle with A MOPING TALE. :OPAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, INIr. J. TI. Anderson, IS, Norfolk-street, Strand. Increased Xttractions, and succass in oval ratio AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock, will ae presentel, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint- Tnariti, M A.GIC and MYSIIERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two p.trts, by Professor Anderson. After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HAL F AN-FIGUR ‘VI q PIRI - N, being tho most surprising and interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any theatre. 100,000 persons hive visited the Lyceum already to see the Great Wizard of the North. Prices of adrn l3 3lon:—Private Illxes, If. Ils. 61. an& U. ls. ; Orchestra St. 7, 4 , 43.: Dress n,xes, 33.; Upper isexe4, 25.; Pit, 14 • ; Gallery, No Half-price. 10x-office open from 11 to 5 ally. Gran,' norninz Performance on Saturday Neat at Two o'Clock , Doors open at Half-past One. R MrAL PLY ‘rPrc THEATRE. - THI3 EVE `SI Z.,M, Will be performed TELE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Characters by Ifes3rs. Emery, P. t ining, G. Vininz, A. Wigan, Robson, &c. ; Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Stirling, and Misses Castleton, Marston, and Bromley. Followed by CATCHING A NIER AAID. ROYAL iTaAND Under the direction of Mr. Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be performed 1) AY AFTER THE WEDDING. After which, SAM PATCII. Followed by NITOCRIS. To conclude with SIMPSON AND CO. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPTIITIIKA.TRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. War. Ceoke. Coeval with its excitement L 3 the prodig!ous success of the new Spectacle. DeAfening acclamations attend Mr. J H. Cooke's mira culous "Flight of the Bridges." THIS EVENING, Th 3 now spectacle da Guerre, The FALL of SEBASTOPOL After wh:ch the itn.)roved SJENE3 in the CIRCLE, with Mr. J. H. Cooke's astounding feat, the Sant du Pont, or Flight of the Bridges. To conclude with an incentive to cachinnation, in a Humorous FARCE. Box-olice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Ws,. Equestrian Director, "N. Cooke, ,un. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn 33min. aft. R —Evening 21 min. aft. 9 TO-lloßitow—Morn. 1 min.aft. 10 --Nveni.ig 33min aft. 10 THE WEA.THER.—SIIN OFFICE, Nov. 3. THERMOMETER, IN THE. SHADE. 43 higheA iiinee noon yestoritay. 44---iewnst this marring and during. the night. 44—this clay at 11000. P.A.nolurrEn, morning, 29'77 ; now 29.8.3. 7.rrtp3—N.E.—Fresh, with squalls and rain. It blew a gale last evening from the west, with hail and rain. ,517, Cr 7 .l j . 1, .7" LONDON SATUIZ,DAV, NOVEMBER 3, 1855. The Philo-Muscovites are indefatigable in the cause to which they have deemed it expedient and justifiable to devote their exertions. At first it was merely the members of the Peace Society— those who were mainly instrumental in persuading the then AUTOCRAT that he might carry his nefa rious views into execution without any fear of English interference—who dared to avow senti ments diametrically opposed to the national feel ing ! They, at least, were consistent in their views, and acted in strict accordance with the principles which they professed. Like the mad man of Locke they reasoned correctly on erro neous data. There was, however, but little danger to be apprehended from their interference. The nature and extent of their delusions were too palpable to deceive even the most superficial ob servers. They had, however, secret and far more dangerous allies. Men who, in place of taking ssue directly on controverted facts—which could asily be proved were induced rather "to confess and avoid"—to acknowledge the justice of the doctrine asserted by an overwhelming ma jority of the people of Great Britain, and to argue fallaciously, though plausibly, on the premises. This was a far more diflictilt case to meet, and while BRIGHT and CORDLN could be got rid-of with a contemptuous smile, GLA.DSTONE, GRAHAM, and 114:10ERT, sustained and supported by the " rump of Aberdeenism," required a more decided opposition to avert the prejudicial results that might follow if their specious sophistries had deceived the nation. These men admitted the propriety and justice of the War—confessed that England was fully warranted in resisting the Rus sian aggression, iu taking up arms in defence of ear Ottoman ally. Bat they would have limited our interference to a mere demonstration—a pro teat, but only "a protest," against the misconduct of the Czin—and have accepted an inglorious, dishonourable, and temporary truce, which they would lialve dignified with the name of " Peace"— a truce - which might have postponed for a brief period the evil day, but would have allowed, aye, have tempted, Russia to have resumed her oprirations at a more convenient opportu nity, which could not have long been wanting ! They, h owever, failed as signally and completely as even the members of the Peace Society ; and Aberdeenism and Germanism stunk in the nostrils of the people. A still more potent auxiliary was speedily ob tained. • A Statesman who had distinguished him self from the commencement of hostiliti es b y the bold and manly sentiments which ho had seized every suitable opportunity for promulgating, Was selected as British Plenipotentiary at the Confer ences of Vienna, probably on account of his quasi firmness and resolution. Lord JOHN RUSSELL went to Vienna armed with clear and unequivocal instructions, which could have left no possible doubt as to the nature and extent of the terms to which ho could assent. But he, too, yielded to the sinister and mysterious influences in operation. He was brought roun d t o the acceptance of illusory and inadequate propositions, of which lie exhibited hi real opinion in the remarkable state ment, that " the question was between an imper fect Security for Turkey and for Europe and the continuance of the War ?" For this he com mitted Political suicide, and with reckless despe ration plunged • into the yawning gulf of Muscovitism. There have been si • nister rumours of another and scarcely less deplorable sacrifice. It has been more than hinted that many of the Conser vative or Derbyito party are prepared to follow the evil examples, and to tender themselves as the next victims on the Russian altar. An Unholy Alliance has been spoken o f , in which BRIOLIT, and GLADSTONE, and RUSSELL, and others, who have not yet condemned themselves out of their own mouths, and fir whom there is, therefore, still a locus penitenlice, are concerned. We s•ho x 1 1 c have totally discredited these reports, have repelled what we should have supposed to be the foul calumny with honest indignation ; but unfortunately it leas been too long suffered to re main without any authentic contradiction. A journal which has • hitherto been supposed to give expression t o 44 Ile sentiments of the leaders cf the party has very recently used lan guage that causes grave apprehensions as to the truth of these assextiong. A contemporary, whose opinions we have always treated with re spect., has put forwa r d w h at seems to he - a very THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY F7ENTINeI NOVEMBER 3, 1855. artful feeler, the object of which is to show that the time for the resumption of peace negotiations has actually arrived—that " there can be no fear that the military reputation of the Allies would suffer by a peace which withdrew their forces from the Crimea ;" and that "it cannot be our policy to push the War to extremity against Russia I" We appreciate too justly the tact and ability with which that journal has been conducted to suppose that the se opinions are mere empty words strung together without any ulterior object. They have, therefore, occasioned considerable uneasiness and anxiety respecting matters to which we should have previously paid but little attention, but which now require the utmost vigilance. "England loves not coalitions." This is a great fact, enunciated on high authority, to which we yield a ready assent. Such a, coalition as that of BRIGHT, and GLADSTONE, and RUSSELL, and the quondam Protectionists, would excite universal indig nation and disgust. It might annoy the Government, but it would really strengthen its hands. We are convinced that there are many true-hearted Englishmen, in and out of Parliament, who would at once withdraw from their ranks, and tender an honest and hearty support to Lord PALMERSTON, believing that any minor points of difference should be disregarded when the national honour and welfare was at stake. After the meeting of Parliament the question would speedily be set at rest. There is, therefore, an additional and ♦ery powerful reason why the Session should be anticipated, and the assembly of " the collective wisdom" take place before Christmas ; so that the various constituencies might be enabled to determine what degree of confidence they could place in their several representatives respecting that which is of all others the question of the day par excellence, and in comparison wherewith all others are trivial and unimportant. The oracle has spoken—Lord PALMERSTON, of course, will obey. Our troops are to retire into winter quarters, our navy into port ; soldiers are to rest, feed, and drill, and sailors are to go to gun. practice, till the season of military hybernation is over. No news, or as the Russians have it, "nothing new" from Balaklava, is to be literally good news. M. SOYER is to be second in command, and a modern FABLTJS comm ander-in-chief. Sic volvere TEMTORA. It may be useless for the Dii Minores to mut ter and rebel, yet they may be permitted perhaps to have a word or two on the question of universal interest. What is the present position of Russia? The best-informed correspondents from St. Peters burg, and from other parts where Russian feeling is best known, represent all classes as very gloomy and disheartened,trade ruined, and money exceed ingly scarce. Indeed the Russian trade has been always chiefly carried on with foreign capital ; this during the War is either retained at home, or employed on the armies which now hold her soil. Her levies of new troops, exceeding anything de. manded hitherto, must also sadly impoverish her nobles, whose wealth consists in serf labour ; while they are also required to furnish the recruits in great part with an outfit. It is much the same as if, in addition to a 10 per cent. income tax, our farmers were compelled to give up to Govern ment the horses and implements with which they till the soil. The serfs are the horses of the Russian landlord, so far as the income of his estate is concerned. The recent but tardy con firmation by the CzAn. of the ancient privileges of the nobles indicates that he first attempted to deter them from opposition by intimidation, but finding this hazardous, he has made a virtue of necessity, and endeavcured to purchase acquies cence in his ruinous demands on their incomes by au act of mere Imperial honesty. In a military aspect Sir CHARLES WOOD has left Russia we should say stronger for next spring in the Baltic than at the beginning of the year, since all that is vulnerable in Sweaborg has been destroyed only to convert the place into a Gib raltar, and SWeden and Denmark remain where they were. In the Black Sea matters are better. The Sea of Azoff has been pretty well swept, only rather too late. We are no longer cooped up in the trenches, though the harbour of Sebastopol is still useless to us ; and we are perfect masters of the estuary of the Dnieper and the Boug. Of the Russian position it must,- be confessed our in formation is yet but obscure. We ara but im perfectly acquainted with the number of troops in garrison or reserve from Perekop to Odessa, and up to Poland itself. The probability is that they are not much more than sufficient for the defence of the towns. A still greater mystery is the Russians' means of supporting the Army which now occupies the Crimea through the winter. It seemed impossible when we had cleared the Sea of Azoff, and established ourselves at Eupatoria, that the Tchorgou, or any other route, could supply an army of one hundred or one hundred and fifty thousand men. The Russians who fell at the battle of Tchernaya were seemingly half-starved, and it was thought that food itself could not long be brought in sufficient quantity. On this point alone would now seem to depend whether or not the Russians will evacuate the Crimea before the next cam paign. To adopt the NICHOLAS and MENSCHIKOFT style, Generals Winter and Starvation are to try their skill ; other Generals, at least, axe to re• - main quiet. In all probability some parties will endeavour to bring about a peace if possible this winter. The attempt must, in any event, serve Russo-Austrian objects. If Russia can but hold the Crimea during such attempts, and Nicolaieff and Odessa remain untouched, she will certainly negotiate on better terms. Most"Mely, however, the in completeness of h er present humiliation will embolden her to try the old Vienna shuffles again, with the view, not of making peace, but of gain- There can be littl e doubt that the ing time. paralys i ng effect of the Vienna negotiations this spring delayed the fall of Sebastopol a m on th at least, and thus interfered with the complete con quest of the Crimea, and the incredibleeattaeksen thatNieol our and Kherson. It would semi Statesmen Jo p o e ri athe follies x t Rur RUSSELL w y h e ic have t,h while ex tinguishedl e the Co i n b L u o r n g d s ann and d A u i s n t r i p a a k r i e s e , p t it heir i s m p r p e o s s e s n i b t e p o n s o i t t in o t o fear some diplomatic mischief. If asked what we should recommend, we be emust own that we thi n k a ll poss ibl e m i sc hi e f should done to the enemy before the coming winter. If Nicolaieff cannot be taken now it will be almost unassailable, by the river at least, next spring. We must leave that to the brave and skilful I captors of Kinbourn. We concur with those who think that fort itself, at least if rightly used, an invaluable acquisition. Even without the cap ture of Nicolaieff, the dockyards of that place could never send a vessel past the fort, if the power which held it had at the same time a navyto co-ope rate ; it would nullify the Portsmouth of Russia. We trust no peace will ever restore it to Russia. If, however, we can advance no further up the Dnieper at present, we do ask the question, which again is in every mouth, Why spare Odessa ? To destroy its power to shelter and feed Russian troops during the winter is a first necessity. We do not wish for unnee:, , ssary cruelty, bit its de struction before winter would facilitate very much our spring operations. Ismail and Nicelaieff, and the Crimea, too, would sensibly feel the loss of Odessa, and our army reap the advantage. The town lies at our mercy ; the terms therefore are, most reasonably, unconditional surrender or de struction. If its brutal masters prefer the latter, the inhabitants must thank themselves and their CZAR, not us. The CZAR has made its annihilation as a military measure indispensable to us. If he prefer the ruin of his subjects to their submission to civilised conquerors, be alone is answerable for the painful consequence. Every consideration demands that Odessa should not survive the winter. It seems, indeed, mere wantonness to destroy small towns of little or no consequence in the Gulf of Finland, and to leave standing in the Black Sea a town which is the basis of half the movements of the Russian army in that quarter. Russia would not, under similar circumstances, deal thus with Liverpool or Hull. The time-honoured, but by no means generally adopted, practice of Members of Parliament ren dering an account of their stewardship to their respective constituencies runs no risk of falling into desuetude. The advantages resul ting from it during the present War have been too great to admit of that. Nobly as the Press in the main discharges its important duties in exposing ablases and stimulating Government to the discharge of its obligations, something is still wanting to ren der its powers as effective as it is desirable they should be, and that is incontestible proof that it fairly reflects the popular sentiment ; and this, though only a few representatives have given opportunity for its manifestation, the practice in question has unmistakeably elicited. Wherever the required occasion has been afforded it has been seen that the opinions of the great majority, of the Press as to the magnitude, justice, and im portant bearings of the War, the maladministra tion of it at the outset, the high emprise of our forces, and the absolute necessity for such a vigor ous prosecution of hostilities as is required for the conclusion of a safe and honourable peace, have been promptly endorsed by the constituencies. A practice so approved, and of such value in trying circumstances, cannot, in fact, but commend itself to universal adoption. The remarks of Mr. COLLIER to his constituents at Plymouth on this head are worthy of attention, while his entire address, and the loud tokens of approval it elicited, go to prove the truth of our observations. How emphatic is the declaration of his opinion, that " there was no individual i❑ Plymouth who, whatever might be his political views, would allow the War to be treated as a party question," and of his confidence that "if, on the opening of the next session there should be found in the House of Commons any section who should endeavour to degrade this great Euro pean question into an instrument of party war fare, and to make political capital out of the national triumphs or disasters, they would meet with the indignant reprobation of every honest nan in the kingdom." And how worthy of an enlightened constituency was the response. " The great events of the War," he said, " were far above the region of party politics. We were living in remarkable times ;" and having ad verted to some of the probable results of the War, and the darkness that envelopes the future, he proceeds to state, not less truly than forcibly, that, "having attempted to avert the War, they had entered on it not from a lust of conquest, but in the defence of liberty and in resistance to a long series of systematic oppression, of which the last act was so palpable as to leave no choice, but to resist it ;" and that we essayed to do " in conjunction with our natural ally," with whose aid we would continue the War, " not for the accession of glory, but to erect a rampart against the further progress of a Power aspiring to uni versal dominion, and by exacting material guaran tees for the peace of the world." Passing on to a historical retrospect of the past yehr, he well observed that it "presented a strange picture, in which the brightest lights were con trasted with the darkest shadows. On one side brilliant victories, courage, endUring fortitude, than which nothing nobler had been recorded in ancient or modern annals. On the other side fail ure, incapacity, and neglect, followed by disasters, by suffering, and by death"—light, however, on the whole, predominating over darkness, and " British courage and perseverance being seen breaking through the trammels of, routine at home and triumphant over the enemy abroad." Adverting to the fearful destruction of our troops in the trenches, " it was not enough to tell him that it arose from our having been 40 years at peace, or that it was the fault of the system ;" it was the " result of incapacity, brought to light by the newspaper correspondents in the Crimea." Having defended the system of newspa?er corres pondence, " by which all the events of the War were made public as soon as they occurred"—he reviewed the history of the session, and expressed his conviction, which he supported by recent illustrations, that the present " Government had taken a vigorous, decided, and successful course with regard to the War," the aforesaid illus trations, involving events likely in his opinion to lead, and before long, to peace. The Honourable Member, it will be seen, next addressed himself to home topic, remarking at the outset that it was one of the greatest evils that a state of war entailed, " that they could not at the same time attend to the administration of internal affairs"—a statement which, by the way, ought never to be advanced - without qualifioation, seeing that Parliament could if it would. The remainder - of this eloquent, truthful, and liberal speech we commend to the notice of our readers ; as also the patriotic, if not very original, speech of Colonel FREESTUN, at Weymouth, on the War, both of which will be read with general satis faction. Those who have watched, as we have done with mingled admiration and hope, the political career of the liberal and enlightened heir of the house of Derby, will regret to learn that there is no probability of his becoming, at least for the pre sent, a member of the existing Government. As we intimated yesterday, overtures have actually been made to his Lordship, which, however, he has unfortunately seen fit to decline. The post of Colonial Illinister which was offered for his acceptance will, consequently, be again open to a crowd of med locrities. What were the precise grounds on - which the Noble Lord's refusal was b as ed we aro - unable to state ; but while commend ing the public: spirit which induced the Premier to seek his ezo-operation, we cannot but deplore the existence of adequate causes for its being refused. :LOA STANLEY is too conscientious and d to have refused on mere party field for speculation. lays Of ien a grounds. T fact of his having done so, widethere fore, We have ason to believe that Mr. James Campber., QC., has bees appointed to the vacant post of Commis sioner of Chat ities. W e are reqi jested to state that no meeting will tak place to-morre .w, in Hyde•park, in connection with the People's Pros, iBioll League. r j LATE T ,N .11] WS ------ a PARIS, Nuv. 3. Despatches arrived last night from the Crimea, The Allies htva completed important recoil. naissances, and retired. The bases of action are all satisfactory. LU BECK, FRIDAY. General Canrobert has embarked fur Stock holm, in the steamer Ganthiod, which hoisted the French standard. DANZIG, FRIDAY. The Geyser has arrived. She left the fleet on 30th ult. There is no news. The bulk of the fleet proceeds next week to Kiel. ST. PETERSBURG, FRIDAY. A despatch received here states that all the liners of the fleet off Kinbourn have proceeded seawards, and that the enemy have undertaken nothing new. Yesterday Prince Gortschakoff telegraphed tha there was no movoment to report in the Crimea. NICOLAIEFF, Om. 23, 5 p.m. Prince Gortschakoff announces that, according to a report of General Schabelsky, the enemy is advancing in the direction of Toulat, but it is not known whether he intends to march. upon Sim pheropol, or to follow the direction of the sea coast. There is no certain information as to the amount of his forces. Under date Oct. 23, at eleven o'clock at night, the Prince writes :--." In his movement in ad- vance the enemy stopped before noon at the heights of the village of Aschaga-Djamine, and ex changed some shots with our dragoons. Three of our regiments of lancers having then made a demonstration, in order to threaten his left flank, he retired behind Aktatar. At three o'clock in the afternoon General Schabelsky occupied a po sition near Tchebbotar." --,....... THE CRIIVIEA. The Post Ampt Gazette contains the following : —" The main force of the Russian army is still en camped on the heights of the Belbek. At the source of that stream is General Lipraudi forming the left wing, whilst General Wrangel, commanding the light, is in the upper valley of Baidar. Eupa toria Seems destined to form the pivot of important operations. On the 20th the superior office of ad ministration at Constantinople received orders to prepare immediately stores and provisions for Eu patoria, and especially forage for 18,000 horses. Up to the 20t-h, from 12,000 to 20,000 fresh troops had been sent to Kinbourn, but the greater part of them have not lauded, and are still on board ship. On the same date the reserve camp at Maslak contained 14,000 French troops." A letter from Warsaw, of the 27th ult., in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—" It is certain that some Russian troops have quitt d the Crimea. Ivor example, the first brigade of the 14th division of infantry of the reserve, which formed part of the garrison of Sebastopol, lately arrived at Nico laieff. Artillery has also arrived in that place from the Crimea, and it is probable that other troops will likewise be taken from the Crimea for its de fence. But these are considered as only temporary measure, rendered necessary by the movements of the Allies, and they in no respect indicate the intention of evacuating the Crimea." A letter from Odessa, of the 19th, in the (Ist Deutsche Post, says :—"Accounts from Simphero pol describes the whole place to be in movement. Many of the inhabitants were leasing the town. The hospitals were being transported towards the north, to Perekop, Nicolaieff, and Kherson, whilst the wounded who were in those towns have been taken to Vossmessensk. The dearness of provisions was excessive at Simpheropol. The Russian army of observation at Eupatoria is _said to be 60,000 strong, and includes 20,000 cavalry. It is com manded by General Schabolski, chief of the Dra goon corps. The avant-posts aro near Koutsgar and Karagurt. General Grotenjelm, the com mander at Odessa, has advanced on Otchakoff in forced marches at the head of the 3d division of light cavalry." iectly unthrstood that the amputation men will be de spatched to their homes with the indemnities for travel ling expenses provi lea by the rules of the service. If there are any wh o ,hotil,l prefer to retnain in the lintel de,: Invaiilei.!, they will ho received in the infirmary till put in po , :sei.ni (.4 pipers froai the State, which will zusure them their petoi , n." Boni:m.1), Nov. 2.—The following are the last qaotatious : Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4:1 per Cents i -0 25 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 6l 30 64 30 New Loan 65 _ Bank Shares 3190 Roman Credit Mobilier 1155 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 95} Spanish Threes — Piedmontese Bl 50 Rome Debt 32A RAILWAYS—POE CASH. fr. c. Or!qaIIII 5() Northern Lyons .......... .... 1,20 Nun , Ditto Mediterranean ...... 1220 Grand Central 531 4 Lyons Ganeva 650 Test° Cetto 662 50 Anitrian Com. 7ll 25 Brigadier Mackenzie, commanding at that sta tion, had issued an order such as might exempt Europeans from the frightful noise-making deemed essential on the occasion. A procession, with the usual accompaniments, passing in apparent bravado near his quarters, were compelled by him to return. They seemed to have fallen amongst a set of angry spirits, glad of -any opportunity of avenging a personal quarrel, and a furious band shortly afterwards rushed against the brigadier, cutting him with their swords, and leaving him only when they believed him dead. Though severely wounded over the head, arms and body, he is still recovering, and is now considered out of danger. His assailants have been secured, and await their trial. With the ex ception of these isolated cases of violence, due to in dividual causes, and which afford no evidence of general disquietude or discontent, peace and pros perity reign as they have long reigned through out our dominions. The military preparations against Persia, Egypt, or Affghanistan, with which some of our home contemporaries seemed bewil dered, never had any existence save in imagination. Our rainy season is apparently over : rain has been so deficient everywhere, save in the Punjaub, that there is great reason to apprehend one of those periodical famines which overtake us once every twelve or fifteen years, and of which the last occurred in 1838. Accounts have just been re ceived of the loss of the ship St. Abbs on a coral reef north of Madagascar, which had been about a hundred miles misplaced on the captain's charts, though correctly laid down on those of the Admiralty for the past forty years. This is the fourth or fifth vessel that has within no great distance of time been lost in these seas from the use of antiquated sailing directions, bad charts or instruments, or faulty observation. The Governor-General continues at the Hills, ad hering to his original plan of embarking in No vember at Calicut, visiting Madras and Burmah, returning and spending some weeks or months at Calcutta, and leaving for Europe in February. The Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Madras, after a short visit to the Hills, are on the eve of returning to the Presidency. The Commander in-Chief in India, Sir William Gomm, continues drawing his twenty thousand a year somewhere ea the Himalayas, but is we believe on the eve of returning to Europe with probably a hundred thou sand pounds in his pocket, having slept through his'five years' tenure of office more soundly than any head of our Indian army has ever been per mitted to sleep. Lord Elphinstone is at Bombay, completely restored to health, busily employed with plans for the general improvement. Sir Henry Somerset, our Commander-in-Chief, having inspected the troops at Ahmednuggur, is about to pay the forces located at Mahableshwar a similar visitation, and the head-quarters of the army will be removed to the Hills from the 10th inst. Colo nel Le Grand Jacob, Resident in Catch, baying just returned from two years' visit to Australia and the Eastern Seas, has laid before the Geographical Society a large mass of statistical, antiquarian, and political information. He describes Sir James Brooke, whom he visited, as one of the most dis tinguished philanthropists of the age, points to the monopoly of the spice trade by the Americans, and the splendid prospects of our colonies in New Zea land and Van Diemen's Land—and he is one of the most invaluable 'of authorities on all these subjects. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. CASUALTIES BY DEATH IN INDIA SINCE THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAIL ON TWE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER. Madras.—Lieutenant W. T. Cardale, 25th Native In fantry, at Madras, on the 9th September ; Captain H. J. Anderson, 34th Regiment Light Infantry, at Secun derabad, on the 14th September. Bengal.—Lieutenant Eden, 39th Native Infantry, at Debrooghur, on the 26th August ; Lieutenant H. Sin &air, 30th Native Infantry, on the let September ; Brigadier W. Mactier, C. 8., Commanding Benares Division, at Benares, on the 17th September. Indian Navy.—Lieutenant S. B. King, at Surrachce, on the 22d September. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE BOMB.A.Y MARKETS. (From the Overland Bombay 7'ime3 of October 2 ) We have no change to note in the money market since the date of our last report. Money is easy and likely to continue so for some time to come. Rates of in terest remain unaltered. Very little has been done in shares or Gove►nment securities, and prices remain about former quotations. The favourable change in the weather, noticed in our issue of the 13th ult , was of short duration, only about three inches of rain having fallen, or in al:, up to the present time, 48 inches, being two-thirds of our usual average supply, a state of matters which a little later in the year will be productive of great distress in the Deccan and Southern Concan, which have suffered most from want of moisture, and are almost totally withered. Prices of grey goods are nominally the same, but we note a decline in shirting of 40-inch and T cloth of la. to 2a. per piece, while in other descriptions there is no change. Bleached goods are dull, excepting shirting and male pollarns, which are in sight request. Satin spots and twills are dull, and in no demand. Fancy Goods—There is very little to notice under this head. Yarns—Mule and water dull of sale, and in some counts prices are easier. Metals—A further improvement has taken place in prices. Cochineal—The demand has been rather less active. • Woollens—The market is very quiet. Exchange—On England for the past fortnight ruled steadily at the following quotations lfd. to 2 1 5-16 d. for first class credits, and 2s. 10. to 2s. 14d., for document, but towards the close document paper t, a small extent changed han Is at 2s. 1 9-16 J. On Cal cutta we quote lir. premium at sight, and Yr. premium at 60 days' sight. Mairas, Ir. premium at sight, and par at 30 days' sight, and on China 224 r. at 60 days' sight. KINBOURN AND NICOLAIEFF. A letter from Kinbourn, of the 19th ult., after diving *ii account of the att ac k on th at p l ace, says " The Emperor Alexander was proceeding to Odessa when the fleet of the Allies appeared before that place. He returned at once to Nico'aiLff, and sent the Grand Duke Constantine to Kiubourn. The Grand Duke ar rived just in time to witness the bombardment. During the night ono of his aides de.carnp passed the Dnieper to exhort the garrison to hold firm ; hut the warmth of the fire from the allied vessels soon brought about the .urrender of the p►ace. The Grand Duke then ordered the fortifications of Otchakoff t') be blown up." The Journal de Constantinople gives the follow ing details relative to the Gulf of Kherson and Nicolaieff "The Gulf of Sherson is a vast basin, with shores lined with sand-banks, which advance far into the sea, and restrict exceedingly the navigable portion. This basin is terminated on the east by a bay, somewhat like that of Sebastopol, and which is nothing else than the mouth Hof the Dnieper. It is at the bottom of this bay that lies the town of Kherson. On the northern shore, in turn ing towards Otchakoff, is the nst 2 uth of the Bug. It is by that river, which is very wide and very deep at its mouth, that vessels go up between precipitous ba n k s t o the point at which the Ingul joins it, and where Nico laieff is built. A tolerably just and correct idea of the situation of the port of Nicolaieff on the Bug may be formed by considering how London is placed on the Thames, far up in the interior of the country. The p-isi tion of Nicolaieff, it will thus be seen, is a formidable one. Being placed about 20 nsile i s from the ses , on t h e r i ght bank of the Boug, Nicolaieff s, since the capture of Sebastopol, the most powerful arsenal of Russia in the south. The Russian Government has expended there upwards of 1,500 millions of francs to realise the idea of Prince Pote,nkin, whose strong desire it was to esta blish there the real maritime citadel of Russia in the Black Sea ; Nicolaieff possesses 12 dockyard , , 6 for ships of the line, and 6 for smaller vessels ; also im mense arsenals, and almost exhaustless materials for shin-building. It employs 600 workmen in orlinary times, and 12,000 on occasions of emergency. At pre• sent the number, according to German accounts, is not less than 21,000." FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Prince and Princess do Chimay arrived in Paris yesterday, where they intend to remain a week It is their intention to pass the winter partly at Brussels and partly at Chimay, with their family. After high mass on Sunday last, in all the churches of Toulouse, the pastoral letter of the Archbishop of that diocese was read from the altar, enjoining prayers to be offered up for the health of the Empress, and for her happy deliverance. General Troche, on Wednesday evening, arrived at Lyons, where ie intends remaining some days with his wife's family. The other wounded gene rals had not then left Marseilles. Admiral Hamelin, Minister of Marine, has just given orders for such extensive works of construc tion and armament on the port of Rochefort, as will ensure to the working population of that place full employment during the coming winter. The Duke de Brabant on leaving Valenciennes, when returning from his visit to Paris, presented M. Petiet, chief engineer of the traffic on the Northern Railway, the cross of Officer of the Order of Leopold, and to M. Matsias, haulage-engineer on the same line, that of Knight of the Order. The Minister of Marine has addressed the follow ing circular to the Admiral commanding the Medi terranean squadron, to the Maritime Prefects, the Colonial Governors, the Rear-Admiral command ing the naval station of the Levant, and the marines of the corps of observation in Greece : "I have to inform you that, by a special decision of the 29th Sept. last, I have applied to such sailors and marines as, having served in a campaign or a naval ex pedition have had a limb amputated, the same benevo lent dispositions that have been accorded to the land forces who may wish to return to their homes and re ceive there the pension which they claim. On receiving a proper notice, I shall prescribe, under the seal of valides,' the payment of a relief from the funds of that establishment, the amount of which will vary in tbe fol lowing prop; rticn s , accor di ng t o th e ra nk possesec: Ly the sailors ur marines—namely, 150 fr., 140'r., and 125 ft. for petty officers according to their respective grades, and 100: - . for common sailors and marines. It is per- RUSSIA. WAtaily, Oct. 26.—The new levy of 10 men in 1,000 inhabitants is to include the trews, and is the eighth since the beginning of last year. The first was ordered by the imperial ukase of the 10th of February, 1854, and the proportion fixed on was 9 recruits in 1,000 souls, whilst it had effect in the whole of the Russian empire in Europe. In the course of the same year fresh levies were ordered by the ukases of the 7th of September and the 13th of December, to the extent of 10 men in 1,000 souls both in the eastern and western provinces. The first act of this description in the present year was the famous manifesto of the Czar of the 10th of February, ordering the embodiment and formation of the militia in 18 provinces to the ex tent of 23 recruits in 1,000 souls ; and three months later appeared the imperial ukase of the 6th of May, ordering a fresh levy of 12 men in every 1,000 inhabitants for the western half of the empire (Russia in Europe). Them) were followed in quick succession by the three ukases of the 31st of May, 12th of August, and 7th of October, embodying the militia in the rest of the provinces of the empire and ordering a levy of 10 men in 1,000 souls. From the 10th of February, 18'54. d.,,ern to the present time, the Czar has consequently raised no less than fifty-two men in every thousand inhabi tants in the whole of the empire, and 12 more in the western half ; and now comes a fresh conscrip tion of ten men in one thousand souls, making altogether about seventy men in two hundred and fifty, or more than 25 per cent. of the male popula tion, for we may assume that one half of every thousand inhabitants are females, and of the re maining five hundred one half are children and old men. Notwithstanding the colossal nature of these draughts on his subjects in less than two years, we see that the Russian army are just barely able t o make head against the allied forces of the enemy, and the question very naturally presents itself to every reflecting mind--" If the loss of life is so great during the first two years of the war, and our population experience a similar drain during the continuance of hostilities, how long will it be before the population of Russia is reduced to nothing but woman and children ?" It is a common rule-of three sum that any schoolboy can easily calculate. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, in the Breslau Gazette, says :—" The attention of the government is now actively devoted to the reorganisation of the Danubian provinces, and M. de Prokesch, on pro coeding to Constantinople, will be provided with special instructions on the point. The principal political p.irsonages of those provinces are daily arriving at Vienna, and, among others, Prince George Stourdza, the Dowarnick Cantacuzene, Asc., who have already visited Count Buol, and requested to be presented to the Emperor. The question to be brought under consideration will be not only the reorganisation of the principalities, but also the fixing of their relations with the Porte." A letter from Vienna of the 29th, in the Bourse Gazette of Berlin, says :—" A despatch relative to Neapolitan affairs was sent off yesterday to M. de Hubner, in which Count Buol again speaks of the moderation shown by the Western Powers, and congratulates himself that the efforts of Austria have succeeded in preventing fresh complications in Italy. Tile affair of Naples appears therefore to be terminated. Count de Trams was bearer of the despatch." Another letter from Vienna, in the same journal, states that M. Rothschild, who has had the con cession of the Credit Mobilier Bauk, has engaged to issue the shares and make all the other arrange ments in such a manner as that the Bank may com mence its operations on the Ist January next. A letter from Vienna, in Voss's Gazette of Ber lin, says :—" It is not true, as has been stated, that the difference which has arisen between Aus tria and Piedmont, relative to the convents, is ter minated ; in fact, up to the present time there has been no negotiation entered into on the subject, and the cabinet of Vienna is not disposed to cancel the measures which it has adopted. The affair cannot therefore be brought to a settlement except by the intervention of some mediating power. France has declined that part, and the cabinet of Turin has not yet applied to any other power." THE OVERLAND MAIL. (From the Bombay Times of Oct. 3.) As the season opens the perennial disorders on the highland border whiolt the rains had suppressed beCome resumed, and we begin once more to pay a further instalment of the inevitable penalty of hav ing a mountain frontier at all. Late at night on the Ist Sept. a force under Brigadier Chamberlain marched from Peshawur. Henderson's Punjaub infantry and three companies of Green's Regiment first marched for 10 or 12 miles down the valley. Passing into the first range of hills they traversed the hollow where the village of Sunderbund stands, then crowning the highest hill which overlooks Nus sem-ki-Ghurree, they awaited the arrival of the second detachment. This consisted of Cooke's Rifles, with an artillery officer in charge of a supply of gunpowder bags. Teey left about midnight, and after a march of about 15 miles, reached their des tination and halted. The third column consisted of the remainder of Green's Regiment, two mounted guns under Lieutenant Sladen, and four guns of the Peshaevur mountain train under Captain Brougham ; they were commanded by Brigadier Chamberlain in person. They marched in the track of the first column, and joined it two h ours before daybre 4 k. This last body was follo we d a t an iuterval of some miles by two of Bruce's guns and a detachment of Jacob's Cavalry under Cap tain Fraser. They were intended to cover the descent of the main force down the slope of e second range of hills. The Brigadier having pushed on with two mountain train guns and part of Green's Regiment, left 200 men of the same corps with guns in the valley behind. The attack on Nusserreki-Ghurree was commenced a little after daybreak, the enemy retiring from the only tower of any considerable strength on the first discharge of our artillery ; the village was then set fire to by the infantry and burned. The village of Sungur-Ghurre, on the crest of the hills on the right, had meanwhile been destroyed by Major Cooke, the enemy retiring before a shot was fired. The mountaineers had prided themselves on the impenetrability of their fastnesses and the impreg nability of their forts, and so admirable were our arrangements that they were completely taken by surprise. The strongholds were all blown up, four hundred cattle were seized, and the crops around destroyed. By mid-day the troops were all on their return, followed by betwixt two or three hundred of the enemy, on whom our guns were from tune to time directed. The force had suffered much from heat and want of water. The total force amounted to about a thousand men, of whom eleven were killed and seven wounded—the enemy are supposed to have had twenty-five killed or wounded. While the British troops were thus engaged, Khwaja, Mahomed, a friendly Kuttuck chief, entered the hills with some two hundred men and destroyed several villages to the right of Major Cooke's column. The village Nussem was the great rendezvous of the thieves, and as it was almost inaccessible directly, the garri son not calculating on the range of our guns, for got that it could be turned. There is yet a strong hold in the same direction, still deeper in the mountains, about to be destroyed so soon as fresh supplies of ammunition are received. The Santhal insurrection is dying out. Disturbances at pre sent seem quieted in Oude, the malcontents not being yet quite prepared to hurry on the impend ing annexation. Allis tranquil throughout British Burmah ; the Embassy has reached Ava, and the King has appointed the new moon as the most auspicious period for their reception. The dis tur bance in the Mabee Kaunta, mentioned in our last, turned out, as we expected, a mere local squabble of very small•account. Mr. Counolly, collector in Malabar, one of the most able and amiable members of the service, and who had just been appointed Provisional MemLer of Council, has been assassi nated in his own house, by a band of fanatic Moplahs. Troops having been immediately summoned out, the whole of the assassins, five in number, were overtaken and destroyed. This is the second time within these two years that the Madras Govern ment has been deprival by sudden death of the services of the highest talent —just as it was about to become available—the civil service boasted. The great Mabomedan festival of the Mohurrum, when the fanatics often exci e themselves to deeds of violence, had nearly passed in relect tran quillity, but for the exception Bolarunt affords. CHINA. IIONGKONG, Sept. 15.—The London mail, of the 11th July, arrived, per steamer Pottinger, on the 26th August, and on the 10th inst., per steamers Lancefield, and Formosa; from Calcutta, we re ceived telegraphic intelligence from Europe to the 26th July. Shaugfiai advices are to the 7th inst., but con tain no important political news. Nothing has been heard of lato of the Russians in the north, or of the movements of our fleet. A large and heavily-armed piratical fleet has been destroyed, or dispersed, by her Majesty's brig Bittern, to the northward of Shanghai, and the well-planned and executed measures of Com mander Vansittart have been most beneficial to the large native trade, which had been seriously interrupted. Nineteen piratical vessels have been destroyed. The - Taoutae of Shanghai has issued a proclama tion ordaining that from and after the Chinese New Year (February, 1856,) all dollars or foreign coins of the kind assayed at the Custom-house in the presence of the Consuls, shall lie taken at par with the old Carolus dollar, with reference to their intrinsic purity and weight in silver. Thi, is an important step towards doing away with the fictitious value of the Carolus dollar, but the autho ri;y of the Taoutae is limited to his district, and the reformation of the currency must be a matter of time. We hear nothing of the rebels in the north. Canton remains quiet. Food is plentiful, and the growing crops look well, the weather bein! ! favourable. Imports have improved considerably, and holders of goods and yarn look for higher prices. Last season's teas have been coming in rather freely, and prices are lower in consequence of home ad v ices. The Vice-Regal proclamation announces that, after the 13th September, a duty of 6 mace per picul will be levied on all teas grown in the pro vince or brought to Foo-chow for sale. This mea sure is very unpalatable, and considerable opposi tion may be expected. Prices of tea show a decline of 2 to 3 ts. per picul. Amoy advices are to the 3d September, and are unimportant. CANTON AND SHANGHAI MARKET REPORT. HONG KONG, Sept. 15.—The advance in prices for imports at Canton, noticed last month, has been fully maintained, and the business done has been to a greater extent than for some time past ; but the dealers are still restricted in their operations, the scarcity of money among the native merchants being much felt. Cotton—The sales have been 15,500, at a c,nsider able advance. Cotton yarn has improved. Tea—Three chops of the new season's Cormou have arrived ; 2 Oonams and 1 Oopack, for which Ts. 36 to Ts. 40 are asked. The quality is inferior. Ts. 27 bas been offered lir 1 chop Ounam. The settlements of last season's teas have been 57 chop•, at prices which show a decline of Ts. 4 to Ts. 5 on Ounatns and Ts. 2 for Kishons. SHANGHAI, Sept. 7.—lmports had improved, exports had been taken at full prices. Long Cloths —The sales had been limited as holders regture advanced rates. Quotations were—greys, $1 32 , .. t ) $1 80c. ; whites, $1 350. to $1 70c. Tea—The purchases bad been very extensive, and the advance in price was considered equal to Ts. 1 to Ts. 2. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 25.—The Indian mails are late again this month, in c onsequence of the steamer from Hong Kong being behind time in reaching Ceylon, where the I3entinck had to wait, for her. Said Pasha has issued a circular relative to the Custom-houses in the interior, which has set at res; a question long at issue between the European Consuls and . the Egyptian Government. Accord ing to existing h•caties ail merchandise may be im ported into Egypt on payment of a duty of 5 per Cent., ad .valorem, and exported on payment of 12 per cent., and no duties whatever are to charged in the interior. Said Paella has finally yielded to the remon strances made to him, and in the circular it is stated that all goods coming from Darfour and the White Nile, which are considered as countries in dependent of Egypt, must, when imported into Egypt, pty the duty of 5 per cent., and if intended for exportation pay only the transit duty of 3 per cent. Said Pasha is just now gone to the westward with' a body of soldiers for military exercise. The reason assigned by his Highness for not having bad any public rejoicings on the occasion of the fall of Sebastopol, is that the ovent had not been officially announced to him as it should have been. THE GALE ON THE NORTH-EAST COAST. SHIELDS, Friday Nocen—There was very heavy showers of snow and sleet last night, but the gale haq much moderated, and there is a prospect that the steamships for London, Scotland, and North Europe may get to sea shortly. Some light vessels are expected to be off at at sea, and there appears little fear but that they will reach the port in safety. *a northern imorance clubs will suffer considerably by the gale, as nearly all the vessels on shore, most of them light collie's from Hamburg., are insured with them. .fLtween the Humber and Berwick 20 vessels were stranded ; some of them of course may be expected to be recovered by the underwriters, but the principal por tion of them will become wrecks. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. DURHAM.-At a Convocation holden on Tuesday, Oct. 30; 1855, presided over by the snl..warden (the Pao fessor of Greek), in the absence of the warden, the Rev. John Pedder, M.A., Principal of Bp. Hatfield's 'Hall, and the Rev. James John Hornhy, MA., Principal of Bp. Cosin's Hall, made the requisite declaration at entering upon the office of Proctor. The Rev. Henry Frederic Long, M.A., of Bp, Hat- field's Hall, aid the Rev. Frederiii Henry Walrond, M.A., of Bp. Hatfield's Hall, were nominated to the office of Pro•proctor, and made the requisite declaration. The following Degrees were conferred : MA. Rev. Walter Brooksbank, 8.A., Univ. Coll. Rev. Martyn Stapylton, 8.A., Univ. Coll. B.A. George Edward Stanley, Univ. Coll. Charles Clinton Chevallier, Bp. Hatfield's Hall. The following were admitted to be Licentiates in Theology :-7. Allied James, 8.A., Univ. Coll. Joseph William Wardale, Univ. Coll. The following were nominated by the Sub-Warden, and approved by the House, to be Lecturers in their re spective offices in the Newcastle-upon• Tyne College of Medicine in connection with the University of Durham : Medical Ethics Thomas Michael Greenhow, M.D. Anatomyand Robert H. Wilson, M.R.O.A. and Physiology 5 L S.A. Botany Daniel Oliver, Jun., F.L.S. Graces were passed to enable Rev. Thos. Williams, Bp. Hatfield's Hall, Lovell J. Procter, Bp. Hatfield's Ball, Rev. William Mayor, Bp. Hatfield's Hall, to count towards the Degree of B.A. six terms kept, and two public examinations rassed by them respectively as Students in Theology ; And to enable William Henry Wardell to count to wards the Degree of 8.A., three terms kept, and one public examination passed*by him as a Student in Medi cine. On the Ist inst., Alfred James, 8.A., University College, and Wm. Henry Jackson, 8.A., Bishop Hat field's Hall, wer e e l ec t e d F e ll ows o f the. University. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN KINBIAURN AND MO. LAIEFF.—By an error in our yesterday's impression the distance between these two places was represented as a mile and a quarter, the actual distance being up wards of 40 miles. Otchakoff the place intended, is only a mile and a quarter from Kinbourn. PRESENTATION OE THE LORD MAYOR ELECT TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—Yesterday morning the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Salomons, the Lord Mayor elect, accompanied by several cf the alder men, Alderman and Sheriff Kennedy, Mr. Sergeant Merewether ' the Town Clerk—who attended on the p a rt of the Recorder, he being absent on account of the re cent death of his brother, Lord Wharncliffe—the Under- Sheriffs, and other civic authorities, arrived at the man sion of the Lord Chancellor, in - Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, for the purpose of presenting Mr. Alderman Salomons, who has been elected by the livery of London to fill the office of Lord Mayor, to the Lord Chancellor, for his approval on the part of her Mejesty. Mr. Serjeant Merevreiher, in introducing the Lord Mayor elect, passed a high eulogium on the character of the choice of the citizens cf London, in selecting for their chief magistrate Mr. Alderman Saloreons, a gentle man who was respected and beloved by all classes of citizens for his unbounded kindness and charitable bene- - volence, without any distinction of sect or creed. The Lord Chancellor, in expreasiug his approbation on the part of her Majesty, said he felt gratified at. the inde pendent course the citizens of London had pursued in electing Alderman Salomons to fill the civio chair of chief magistrate, which was- a proof of the advancing spirit of toleration that existed at the present time, a policy, which he had advocated throughout his career in life. The Lord Mayor elect and the civic functionaries then retired. THE STATE CARRIAGE FOR THE LORD MAYOR ELECT. —Although the well-known City state coach conveys the Lord Mayor to and from the point of embarkation on the day commencing his official year, as well as upon the ether principal state occasions, yet another carriage, occupied 14 the Lady Mayoress on Lord - Mayor's Day, is annually constructed, which is called the Lord Mayor's state Carriage. Such vehicle has this year, as usual, been built by Messrs. Laurie and Marner. It is painted of a beautiful deep brown, relieved with vermilion. Upen the centre panels are emblazoned the City arms ; on one , ide of which are displayed the arms of the Coopers' Com pany, with the motto, " Love as Brethren," and on the other side those of Mr. Alderman Salocuons (Lord Mayor elect), surmounted by the crest a lion rampant gules, tud beneath the motto " Deo Adjuvante." The lining is of rich amber satin, with superfine white cloth and ace of the same colour, and the roof is fluted in rays of white silk. The hammercloth has a field of superfine cloth, in colour of a brilliant scarlet, decorated with cringe of the same colour arrariged in festoons. In the centre of each side are escutcheons of the City arms, encircled by the cellar of S.S., the whole relieved with gold hangers and borderings of gold gimp and gold lace. The wheels, perch, &c., are brown, picked out with gold and vermilion, while the holy loops are richly gilt. The axles, lamps, &c., are of the most modern and appropriate construction, the whole forming a very tasteful, though unostentatious, equipage. THE Loss OF THE SHIP FREDERICE.—The ship -Mend, Christie, from Calcutta, has arrived in the West belie Docks, with the crew of the ship Frederick, W. S. Borden, of and for Liverpool from Bombay, which was Abandoned near the Western Islands. The Frederick left Bombay on the 11th July with a cargo of cotton, gum, &c. ; off the Cape of Good Hope encountered a heavy breeze, which lasted a couple of days, ship continuing to ease a good deal of water ; close reefed topsails. The wind was heaviest on the night of the 22d of August ; and morning of 23d lost pert bulwarks, and the watch were washed out of their berths in the forecastle. Oct. 7, when in about the latitude of the Western Islands, and rather to the westward of them, the water was seining upon the ship, with both pumps constantly going. On the 9th and 10th it came or' to blow fresher, And the leak became more serious. Fell in with the ship Shand on the 10th ; bore down to her and hailed her, and Captain Morden asked her to lay by them during die night, in order to take them off iu the morning should another attempt to keep her free prove unsuc cessful. The Shand lay by them on the 11th, 12th, and 13th. The water kept gaining upon the Frederick. On the morning of the 13th Captain Christie came on board the Frederick, and, with Captain Morden, there was a con aultatton of the oldest hands, and there being 6 feet 4 inches of water in her hold, and which was increasing with both pumps hard at work, the weather being calm, and the crew getting exhausted with constant pumping, *e; was detei mined to abandon the ship, which the crew /lid, and went on board the Shand. When they left the Frederick, on the evening of the 13th, she had 12 feet 1 inch in her, and was rapidly settling down. The crew f the Frederick have been lodged in the Well-street Sailors' Home. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Board of Trade—Mr. Robert Lowe, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, hat, appointed Mr. G. J. Swanst-n as his private secretary. General Post office—A vacancy has been created in the office of chief clerk in the Plymouth Post-office by the death of Mr. John Lee. The office of postmaster at Portaferry, Ire land, is vacant by the death of Mr. Charles P ress . M r . rbour T Jeremiah Jolliffe, lately an o ffi cer of Inland Revenue in dants collection, hasbeen Harbour--The appointed a he postmaster office oat f harbour-mastertlasiere ' Sre at Holyhead has bec ome vacant b y the retirement of Lieutenant Lasceltes, upon a p ens i on . Salary 20 01 . Customs — Mr. Walter John Cleave has emur y. Holyhead been appointed a clerk in the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports' Office in London. Mr_ John Turner, tidewaiter of the first class, has been ap ointed a tidesurveyor of the fourth c l ass i n L on d on . o k r . W. Petherick, comptroller at Peterhead, has been appointed comptroller at Ramsgate. Mr. W. Coghlan, pr i n cipal coast officer at Wicklow, has been appointed collector at Coleraine. Mr. W. Stevenson, clerk of general business of the fifth class, bas been appointed clerk of the fourth class at Liverpool. Mr. G. H. Parry, clerk of general business of the sixth class, has been ap pointed clerk of the fifth class at Liverpool. St. Katha rine's Docks—A vacancy has occurred in the Comptrol ltes-office, St. Katharine's Docks, through the resigna tion of Mr. G. P. Hewlings. Mr. T. H. Askew has been promoted from the fifth to the fourth class of clerks to the Comptroller of Accounts, St. Katharine's Docks. Mr. J. Cleave bas been promoted from the sixth to the fifth class of clerks to the Comptroller of Accounts, St. Kothariue's Docks. Ire and—The office of Judge of the Admiralty Court has become vacant by the death of Dr. J. Stock. —Kilinainhate Royal Hospital—The office of secretary and treasurer has become vacant by the death of Mr. C. W. Pengelley.—Civii Service Gazette. 1