The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-28 00:00:00

. . _ THE SUN, LONDON, .F t h e '"----..._._.__..-.............-----..... I lIONEY MARKET ~ SHARI? MARKETS. , LINES LE.I.•.‘SED AT FIXED RENTALS ~. nigh f o und AND (THIS DA Y. Shr. Pah RAILWAYS. Leasing lost= Prices Business Company yesterday. this day. RAIL Le sday COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. 4). WAYS. ...-.. ...._ ..-...... —.— •-••••-....• pe ated 50 all Bedford and London -- ob .— —_____ _ i bad CITY, Two O'CLOCK. hr. r ald. RanwAys. I Closing Prices Busln us dons St. Buckghamsh. L. &N.W. 92 -96 100 1 t he , . Li verpool cotton market yesterday closed yesterday. this day. 100 Illetchley ... N. West ... - St. 100 ClydesdaleJc. Caledon... 100 - 102 io the - 2 ----I -- -- il l i ti lY• Compared with Friday's rates, prices of St. 100 Aberdeen. ....•- 24 ..- 25 when Sud. and Hal. E. C . - ••• current kinds of American, more particularly 12 Sr j Ambg. Nottng. Bost, St. 100 E. Lin. g . 6 pc. Gt.Nrthn ... - •.. tat he IR A. .and Eastn. Rind_ 31 - 4 ex d st. 100 Glas. Barr. & Caldonian 1 • and below, and of Surat, were id. down• i 0 all Belfast & Ballymena. ... - ... igton- Neils. Direct , this 0. 7 kinds were less affected. Good stapled solid 13 , 1 all Binning. Wolff st ,k St. 100 Do. New Do ••• - ••• Stour Valley • 71 - 7i 25 all Glstr.dr Dn. F r Gt. West') 27 - 29 wined ..11 / 4 18 , 6d. to 6id. per lb., were still scarce, and kie 31 29i Birk,ohd. LancsL. & 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. tioas. L an exception in the general decline. The Cheshire Juliet._ 16 -15 Railway & Berw. ... -- ... 273 all Do. Chesil. & Birk., 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &N M 105 - 107 •acing i 7lvere estimated at 6,000 bales, and comprise £5O and £25 Cons. 14 - 15 25 all Do. i Shares. Do ••• - ••• ; I) ernam and Maranham, at 6id. to cad. ;50de 19 Do., £2O. ......... ..... 9- 8 d 12A all Do. i Shares. Do ..• --- ••• icions j ai 6 6id ; 100 E g yptian, 6cl. to 8/d. ; 25 all m y th &Tyneoriginal 12i all Lon.&Gree S. Easton 12j -13 £25 (issd. at £45) ... - ... nw 20 all Do. Preference Do 23 - 24 )o tlnd 148 id. to - , tlrat, aid. to 40 87 . ; and 60 Sea Islands, at st. ilOO Bristol and Exeter... -89 10 all Lon. , Til., &S. Peto &Co An - 1124 112 i '' to 121 d. per lb. The Railway Share Market St. 100 Caledonian. 59 - 52 i 591 ti St. 100 Lowestoft gr. not been much affected by the Bank of Eng- 10 61s. Carmarthen and Car 4 per cent. Norfolk ... - ... , 4 d vance in discounts, di an -- ••• i 0 al- Chester & Holyhead l2 - 13 St , WO Do. 6 per ct. Do 5i all Manch. Bath. L.&N.W ••• - ••• ,Alr - %re has been a steady demand for Colonial 50 all Cork and Bandon... 8- 10 and Matlock & Midld 2l -21 20 all Cork, Black, &Pass. ••• - ••• 50 all Middles'a•o' & Stckton & 4110ethis week, and full prices have been cur- 20 16 Cornwall ••• - ••• itßedcar. Darlingt. ... -• L Sugar generally is 6d. per cwt. dearer, and 10 1A Ciieff Junction ••• - St. teo 11ficlld.Bradfd Midland.. 90 -f2 91i i PO' 50 45 1 niolin&Belfast•Junc si - 4i 41 l 'it kinds have been briskly inquired for. Coffee 6 i 5i Newmarket goods /5 all DundeePertlidiAbei Bury Eaten.. En. Conn. I- ip Pro _ fir ro rates has been taken freely. Cocoa has Been Junction 6i - 7 50 all N.& Est.s p.c. E. Count. 56 -58 oof a 15 all Do. N , w ...... - ••• L ect !steady, and tea, though quiet, has been sup. 50 all Do. 6 per ct. D 0... ...... ... - ... E ssen . St. 100 East lii. glian l2 -13 50 all Do. Fix, 'Cp •• Do i i *Ci• In rice a large business has been done at Po all Eastern Counties•• --- • ••• ;rig - i lva.tes. Spices have undergone no particular St. 100 Eastern Union, A &Ln&Yk ... - ... goods Stock .. ..... ... ••• - ••• 12 4 - all Do. i Shrs. ADo ,ed at h 7ge, rum has been wanted, and saltpetre has st. 100 Da., B. Stout ... - ••• . - ••• St. , O Roystn.& Hit. Gt Northn 130 - 134 wing '`_,ltttracted much attention. Tallow has been 15 Si Do., New A ••• •-• 25 18 Shcf.Roth and Lancash& Uer. St. 100 East Lancashire F,9 -71 Gool eg. 5 p.c. Yorksh. ... - _. with St. 10C, Edinburgh& Glasgow 49 - 51 10 all Shrews.&Her T.Brassey fli - Si s the L 4 easrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during 10 all Edinb. and Peebles 9l -Pi 12 9i S. Staflordsh. M.MClean 2t - 2id i n . of 'Past week there has been no revival of business St. 100 Edin.Prth &Dundee 16 4 - 17 i 50 all WearValleygr Stockt. & lA,_ 10 9 v'orth & Clyde Ju J. ... - 6 per cent... Darlingt ... ... •olese ''Luerican Securities, and that the quotations 50 ‘;;._ _ all Furness ••• 25 all Do Do 3oi -31 i 211 all 1)0_ Extension r- :2: , St. 100 %ViltikL'oinrst tltWestia. Bl -• 91 CITY, Two o'CLocK. I le Liverpool cotton market yesterday closed Compared with Friday's rates, prices of `current kinds of American, more particularly 6 : 1 . and below, and of Surat, were id. down. 41 kinds were less affected. Good stapled solid k r B , 6d. to 6id. per lb., were still scarce, and L e an exception in the general decline. The 7 were estimated at 6,00 0 bales, and comprise "Pernara and Maranham, at 6 id. to cad. ; 50 A la, 6id. to 6id ; 100 Egyptian, 6cl. to 8/d. ; 'Surat, aid. to 40. ; and 60 Sea Islands, at 'to 121 d. per lb. The Railway Share Market . 'llot been much affected by the Bank of Eng uB4vance in discounts , there has been a steady demand for Colonial 11 lee this week, and full prices have been cur- Sugar generally is 6d. per cwt. dearer, and kinds have been briskly inquired for. Coffee rra rates has been taken freely. Cocoa has !steady, and tea, though quiet, has been sup. • In rice a large business has been done at Ltates. Spices have undergone no particular 6 70, rum has been wanted, and saltpetre has 'attracted much attention. Tallow has been uer. eesrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during Past week there has been no revival of business k 7erican Securities, and that the quotations ellue to be nominal i— t Redeemable. Per Cent. States 6 per Cent. Bonds-1867-186 8 ... 105 107 0 1 States 6 per Cent. Bonds 186 8.. .106 10.3 ' l 4 6 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1876,..114 115 STATE SECURITIES. 1 11 lia 7 per Cent. Bonds 187 0... 80 82 If t l nd 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ... 921 93i . 7 4 chliaetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) ... 103 105 k ,,..: 41 ,a 6 per Cent. Bonds ...1886... 88i 89 "Aa. 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ...1888... 85 86 CITY SECURITIES. kli treal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85 RAILROAD BONDS. 1, C onvert ibl e Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage , I,l 4 ...C onvert ibl e 1875... 76 77 ' York and. Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort te ihte ork and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d. Mort -1883... 85 87 „t i te_ and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking 1875... 80 81 Ylvania Central 6 p. Cent., Ist Mort 1860 ... 90 T here is still a steady demand for money, with any such activity in business as would account an unusual • absorption of cash. The caution ved among meroaAtile men is likely to bring C Ot a contractiot ter than an expansion of all Z l ations not bearinglupon the immediate con k Kim, and the dearness of money at Calcutta, ) t te Ported by the express in anticipation of the 111: 11 and Mail, shows the probability of silver t still required here for remittance to India. allegad proceeding of the Bank of France in j ci i llg up gold in the London market at a loss k tt teli much attention, but it is the general view the precious metal so obtained mu st inevitabl y yl'etur ne d before long. Even this opinion, how :LC must be taken with reservation, since cir tances may occur before the paper given falls that would permit of its liquidation without Ltaedium of bullion, the balance of trade being `;'tltating ; and, counting for something as well I Peculative exchange operations, a little relief, m4 3' be concluded, will result from the dimi ed resort of Englishmen to the Paris Exhibi kil) Where their aggregate expenditure this y ear 114 have been very considerable. ksi lle Funds opened rather lower t his mornin g , ki have been still flatter since. The Consols A t e. % were 881 and are now 88/ to for Trans- While the quotations for Account were 88i at present are 88 1. Exchequer Bills are par ‘• discount. le Foreign Stock Market has been dull exc e p t 'TurkishL Bonds, in which a good deal has be en re at rather firm rates. Sixes 841- to 85, and Fours 1 to g- discount. Spanish Three per t. Bonds have been 38 to I, and the Deferred 1 . Mexican Bonds are 21k. French Scrip is Premium. Dutch Two - and - a - Half pe r Cents. 4 g 64i to I. ' t sThe following are the nominal prices of foreign k% :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20; Mexi kil;2l4 to 211 ;- Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per ts .„75 to 77 ; ditto Three per Cents:, 56 to 58 ; ;'ttuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian k i l t () per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto Four - an d-a-Half Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, 1 to DI ; ditto Three per Cents., 37 1 to 38 1 ; " t to Certificates, 4 to'4 ; ditto Passive, 41 to 5. Railway 'shares are much the same as they closed k l eterday, and with not a great deal doi n g. The I ltwerp and Rotterdam have improved. East 4 dian are lower and French heavy. Joint Stock Rinks are quiet and Canada Com 1141Y:is shares have fallen 101. to 151. 1! CI ieff Junction 45 1/uolin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth&Abe , deen Junction all Do. N'w ...... ...••• .00 East Ai. glian all Eastern Counties .00 Eastern Union, A Stock •• ..... ... 1.00 Do., B. Stoot Si Do., New A LOO East Lancashire [OO Edinburgh& Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prth &Dundee 9 vorth & Clyde Jil J all Furness all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 ( ;mat Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 'OO Do., B. Stock 1..10 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val Rail Gna. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 141 Do., Thirds 7 Do. New Thirds 1.00 Laneash.andYorksh 4 D o ., wi t. Riding Un. all Liv.Crsi y.&Southpt all London & Black 100 Loud. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Lond. and N. Westn. 16 Do. Fifths 5A D0.101.5h.,M&8...0 23 Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Westn. 47A Do., £5O 18 Do., £4O all Lndndrry& Col eraine all Lndndrr: - .& Ennlsk. 100 Manch.Shef. & Lind h, all Do. i Shares, No. 1 Sts. Do., Man. &Lin. Un WO Midland 1.00 1)o. Birmng. &Derby all Midld. G. West. (Ire, ) all Do. Half Shares All Newcastle & Carlisle 23, Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd $ Newry & Enniskillen all Newry WarreupoinC and Rostrovor 100 Norfolk 34 Northn.CountiesUn 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., A A Deferred all Do., i B Guaranteed 100 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. Purch all to. Leeds 100 Do. York all North London all Do. New £lO 3 Is N• &S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn.. 174 North Staffordshire.. al' North Western all N.& S. Westrn.June I Nuneaton, Hinekle) and Leicester. tOO Oxford, Worcester, X Wolverhampton 8 Ports:uouth I.! )0 Se.— ash Central ~. 10 , Scottish Midland ... 100 Shropshire Union ... a i South Devon 1 ) South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do 11 Staines,Wok. &Wok a 1 Stockton & Darlin 16 , 4 Sty.tkton & Hartlepl I'X' Taff Vale .. 9 Do. £lO shares. HO Do. Prof., No. I 21 i Thames Haven Dock and Railway ... Ulvorstone & Lancs all Vale of Neath all Watered. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limer , V all West Cornwall ... 5 West End of London and Crystal Palace.. 0 all West London .0 all IWimbledn &Croydon 74 PREFERENCE SHARES. - 69 101 55i 69'8i Bt. 124 St. 25 55i 100 I Aberdeen ,100 Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c all Myth and Tyne 1 Oper • c. pref. (issd. at 501) 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4p. a. Shares 100 claledonian £lO all lhester & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Cork eil33andonslp.c all Dttn.Prth ok Aber. J 2 E. Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cls. B6p. c 100 Do. do Cls. C7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex tension . p. a. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 p. c.• St. all East Un., G. 6 p. c. all o. 51., 10 per cent. all *)o. 10. Debentr.Sh. all qi 0. do. 4 per cont... 100 East Lancash. 6 p.ets. all E.&W. York. J. sths 100 Ed Prth.&Dun.4p.c all Furne4s 101 l Pas. & S.W. G. 5 p.c 100 .reat Northn. sp. c 100 to,sp. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom 100 Do.l p. 71 Do. sp. c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. pm... all Gt.N. of Scot.l st Pre 100 Gt. S. ezW. (Ireland) 9 Do. 4per c. Prsf. St 6 Gt. Westn. (Borks Hants Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do. con. red. 4i p.c 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4p.e. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c.P.S. all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Gun. Stk all Do. Ches. Gua. Sh all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. &York. F. .E2 O 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock 100 Lon. & Brigh. G. 5 p.c. 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 1100 Do. do. 5 per cent 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. it Nuneaton 5 p. ct... Lon.& S. W. Con.3d, 93 " 56 7: 99 6 6 - 7 . j 6 7p 75f • 751 154 - 1641 715 t 1 I ' 2 ••• "."' •••• 3 - 4 51 - 6 95 97 9l 92 21 - lid 1 - 1k 81 3 / 4 -82 i 9 3 / 4 - 8 3 / 4 8 3 / 4 74, 911 21 1i , I t 6 - ••• --- 12i - 1 23 - 23} 7 .- 8 ii - 62 6it -64 i 36 - 38 tii - 1175 11 , •• '. ••• 104 ..... •• 12 - 14 li - 2} 107 - 100 99 101 11 - IP 9i - 10 47 - 49 25i 26i 6 -- 6A 95 -- 97 80 -- 85 85 -- 87 91 -- 101 16 -- 16 10 10 70 -- 72 18i -19 h 9f -9/ 13 -14 a fd 134 136 68i • 01 8 - 74 4i - 4 12 - 13 451 46A 94 - 98 ... ,II • • • 7i - 74 5,f - 5i ••• .... N. i•• ...." •N ••• 24 - 26 05 - 10' 7(5 78 41 - '3 12 13 57 58 31 3 / 4 32 5 -- 3 2d pai all Lowly. AT, Cher. Sh all Lowly. & Ennis.l S: an \fan., Shef., & view, £lo 6 4,1 Do. £6 12 all yfarypt.&Carl.4p c 1.21 all i)o. 4i per cent 12! 10! Do St. 100 Ylid.Consol.6p.e.4 St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol • firm. 6 per cent It. 100 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St L 6, Ili Do. Pref. 4i per ce 5 all Do. 5/. Prof. 4p. c. 3t. 100 Ditto Leicester am Ilitclien Pref. St. LO all Norfolk Detenture 100 Do. Pref. 4p. c. Sto, 121 - 13 33 - 35 35 - 137 96 - 98 4t - 4i . • '"""" ~ ••• ""''' •• 19 20 3 - 4 19 - 21 5-. 7 It. 100 Do. 5 p.c. Eat it. 100 po. sAper ct.prof It. 100 Do.Way.Val. 5 p.c It. 100 North British t. 100 N. E. Rerw, 4 p.c P 7 5 Do. do. do 97- 99 90 - 92 3 - 3. 4 2d 13 .2i 9 5 10 Ki sll it . 100 Do Leeds 6 p.c ;No.) Do. do. Quarters 4' Do. York Ti & Per North Staffordshire. Oxford, Worcester, Wolverh, £l5. R p. e Do R. Pref. 101. Sh. ScOt. Cent. ,New Pre South Devon Do. flxei, 4i per cent S. Eastern (Rcadint Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent S Wales Gus. 4p. c Do. do. 41 p. c.... S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Dar, , 5 p• c. Do. do. do Stock. & Hartl. g. r T. O. till July 1, '56 Waterfd. & Kilk .6 p c •• • • i id SOS '... all Antwerpat Rod rcittin 4' Belgian Eastn. June. 10 Boziers to Graissessae 4i Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrir 17 fl all Demerara •• 101 - 103 LOi 7 4, all t; all OM all 11 —l4i id - pal 10 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New 24 - 23 99 - 101 all East Indian, g. sp. c 10 Do. Eytension all Do. 4 p. c. lids., pay '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 17i Gd. Tk of CanaclaA is sll Do. St. Lawrence Atlantic do. 70 Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Central of Franc• all Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. 1 Do. Now 5 por cent. 2 Do. Extensions t. 100 ;0 all '.O all '.O all ?,5 all .),5 15 L. 26 all ... •-• .•. 16 -18 ti tITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL, ••• • ••• ( Prom the Official List. ) i Busine.o. done kI,, I S T Cont. Consols Annuities BN $ i ,%ols for Account, 12th October BBl a che q uer Bills, 2id I 2d. .21000 . ..... •••••••• par I par 1 d X5OO — I par b Bmall .. ``kheciner Bonds 185$, 34 per Cent.... 99 8 Ditto 1859, ~ ... 99 8 it ItICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'C LOCK. 4 141 ean 3 per Cent. knish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto for the Account 3B Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. .itth for the account l9i Ilitio Bonds, 6 per cen t B5 4$ Ditto for the account 8 42 i I I ultto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. 1, rHytdends on thr , above payable in London. 4 , l ach Rentcs, 3 per Cent. , — huitto Scrip 2nd Loan of 1855 li 'Men Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 64i i HA LP-PAST TWO. Consols Ditto for eta Account BBa 4 ..• -- ••• 3 2td, MINES. 1 all Agua Fria .... ...... 1 ... a 1 all Anglo Austrln. Gold ... ... ••• 10s. all Anglo Cali forn'^ - 1 4 - 20 6 Australian. - 1 1 all Australian Cordi ern ... - - 1 all Ave Maria • - -'1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) • li ...... a 50 all Blamarvon Iron and , Coal ..,. - 7 4 20 14 British Iron 4j - 5 4 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issued at E,5 pm.) - 3 „, 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiah 3} -- 3'.1 0 1 20 15 Do. St. John Delßoy 26 -25 1 A Carson's Creek .. - ... 1 ; Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica - $P 40 all Cohn Copper 63 -67 5 1 Colonial G01d....,., i - St. all Copper Min. of Elia 33 - 36 25 all Do. Pref. 71 p. cent 25 - 27 ... IC Copiapo is 20 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smcltg 0, ... - .., 2 1 Fortuna i -iP 20 all General l3 -15 1 all Gt.Nugg etlreinßeg. i. - A 4,1 all Great Polgooth ..... 2 _ 3 1 all Liberty 3 /4 11 3 all Linares 7 - 8i ... all ' D?. B 2i - 3jp fi I Lusitanian 1 -1.;; 1 all Mariquita. ........ ..... $ - i 1 all New Granada i - 1 1 all New Linares Minis, and Smelting Co .. - ... 1 all Nouveau Mond e - - - 1 :0 all I Pontgiband Silver i Lead 113 n. & Smelt 15 - 16 5 1 I Port Philip - i 1 all I Quartz Rock 50 all I Rhymney Iron -21 23 il5 all Do. New - 8 30 121, Santiago de Cuba... 4 - 43 1 all I South Australian $ - i 10 73 I Tin Croft ...... ..... ~ 24 . all , United Mexican 3 --3 i 1 all ' Waller - 1 all West Mariposa I - i t 12s.' Worthing Mining of Australia 1 i all Ynha •••• MISCELLAN EOM& 25 173 Australian A griadt. 29 - 30 le all Ausszaln. Royal Mail ... - ... hi 7 Berlin Water Works 2 - 14 , 1 50 40 Brit. American Land 59 - 61 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.. ... --- ..• 100 32! Canada 163 - 170 160 2 5 St. 100 Camas, Gov. 6p. ct Jan. ana Jaly 112 113 1111 5 all Crystal Palace 2 3 / 4 - 2 5 5 Do. Preference - 51 51 4 all Crystal Pal.of France ... -- ... 1 $ Duston iron Oro ... - ... 20 11 Eastern Steam ••• - •• 25 23 Electric Telegraph l7 - 18 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. ... - ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... - ... 18 all General Screw Steam ... - ... VI i 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... - ... 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... - ... 10 all Mediterv.n. Elec. Tel. S •-• 10 10 9 Mexican&S.Americn. 6 - 61 10 23 Do. New 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... - ... 10 5 Netherlands Land 1 - 13 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & inter Steam Navigat. Co ... - ..• 1 all N. B. Australasian $ - i -20 15 Nrth.of EuropeStaans ... - ... 1 all Oriental Gas . 1 - 11 11 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 2i - 21 50 all Peninsular &, Oriental ... - ... 50 10 Do. New - ••• 2 all Portland Iron Co ll -• li 100 60 Royal Mail Steam - ... 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest l3 - li 1 i Ditto New 1 - 4P 25 all South Austral. Land 351 -36 A 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip 1 all Do. Retdstered i - i 5 Trust& L.Co.UCan. ... ..... ... 15 ... 11 26 Vim .Dieuice oLaud, 11 , 14/ all Do. C , . 13 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares, 8.11 Do. Obligations all Gt.WesterniCanad Shares ••• . _ all Do. B':i.e., payable's7, with option till '55 a l ; ' Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p.'6o all Dfi. do., '73, without option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 14 Lake Const. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref 10 Lyons and Geneva 14 Lyons & Mediterran all Madras 110 Do. New... 131. i Maria Antonia ... I . all Do. do. New all Namur & Liege :witi interest) all Do. (ox interest) all Northern of France all D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3 p. c. & red. at 2211. dur. SS yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... all Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy.B.& Ams.Shs. all NorwegianTrunkPre 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans , all Paris and Rouen... 15 ParisCaen &Cherbrg all Rouen and Havre ali Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish al Sambre and Meuse_ all Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. 2s. Scinde all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) r.ll West Flanders all Do 51 per c. Pref 18 Western of France 16 Weet. of Switzerland all Wiosbaden all Zealand COLOGNE CHORAL UNION IN PARIS. ?ARTS, Sept. 26.—The Cologne singers, who gained '() much distinction during their two visits to England, are in Paris under the auspices of Mr. Mitchell. They Rave the second of a series of six concerts at the Salle t erry yesterday evening, and their success was such i ts has attended them elsewhere, and such as they 4 lust ever anticipate when before a discriminating audience. The room is small in comparison with Us own concert-halls, and necessarily somewhat t rying to a mass of unaccompanied voices, however per fect the intonation. This disadvantage was perceptible !'t first, but was soon forgotten as the singers warmed lu their work. The programme contained many of those old favourites most of us have heard on many occasions. The mysterious echo serenade of Zcellner, the Baccha nalian chorus, " Liebe und wein," of Mendelssohn, and t he well known "In einem kiihlen grunde," were all of them encored. The noble chorus—a posthumous work tlf Mendelssohn—" Der frohe wandersman"—was well selected for the finale. The rasping harmonies which t he composer has given to the line "In berg und weld, bnd strom und feld," so wonderfully suggestive of the sentiment and images the words represent, must have fallen fresh, like a gust from the Broken, on a Parisian audience, to most of whom even the hackneyed " Lieder shne worts" are only known by reputation. The entertainment was varied by two violin solos, per formed by Mr. Theodore Pixie—one the composition of Vieuxternps, and the other of the executant ; both of Which were received with polite applause. If out of the Conservatoire, German vocal music is not much in vogue In Prance, there is not a gamin in Paris who is not a tolerable judge of a fiddle, and on this account it is a Pity that Mr. Pixis did not at least make choice of corn- Positions more in keeping with the rest of the programme thani mere commonplace violin variations, of a style happily thought to have been extinct. Variations, to be admissible at all now-a-days, must be very good and sew ; indeed, it was to be hoped that since they bad lately been taken up by the ophicleide, that violinists Vould have abandoned them altogether. The concert was not so crowded as might have been expected ; but probably when the excellence of the treat these performances afford become better known, the at tendance during the remainder of the series will justify the wisdom of Mr. Mitchell's enterprise. At least a third of the audience last night were English and Germans. Ak- The dividend on the Turkish Six per Cent. Loan has bee n advertised for payment. CHINA TRADE.—Telegraphic advices in anticipation of the overland mail from China were received yesterday a fternoon, dated Hong Kong, the 9th August. The ex- Chan ge at Canton was 4s. Bici., and at Shanghai 6s. 4d. At Canton, it is said, there were no prospects of new tea arriving. 135 chops of old congou, mostly in bad condition, were all that had been received. At the same tim e there was no disposition to buy. The market at i S hanghai had opened at 22 to 27 taels per picul. Very "Av teas had come down. Silk was still scarce and ex cessively dear. The exports of the new season had been 4 56 bales. Settlements were very limited, At Foochow 04 ships had been despatched, ;twill° r ostv ',bole thos. 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From that mo ment was considered useless for the Allies to make any other efforts—the French flag which waved over the Malakhoff was the dominating object. The French remained definitively masters of the strongest of all the Russian defences. The Russians, having placed sharp shooters in all the houses near the Malakhoff, over and over again endeavoured to retake it, but all in vain. These attacks lasted three hours, during which time the engineers were busy, under the fire of the Russians, in erecting works to protect the French. It was then so occupied that they discovered the electric wires com municating with the Russian mines, admirably disposed to blow up all the works. These were of course re moved, and then the men were more at their ease, as they feared nothing more than the Russian mines. By degrees dusk came on, and the thunder of the cannon ceased. The night was dark, and silence prevailed everywhere ; when all of a sudden, at about 11 o'clock, a vast brightness illuminated the heavens, and a fright ful explosion shook the earth. It was the Little Re dan, which the Russians had blown up, preparatory to their abandoning the town. For three hours tremen dous explosions succeeded each other, and daylight showed us the whole of the Russian works destroyed, and the enemy gone." The Presse d'Orient of to-day gives a long letter I dated Sebastopol, Sept. 11. The following are ex tracts : " It was a great surprise for us to visit the enemy's works. The Malakhoff is a work of giants, but in itself it was a feeble work, fitted to defend the redans, but unable to defend itself. The traverses established from end to end in the interior, doubtless to stop the bullets, and of which we formerly perceived the crest, had made as believe in a series of batteries that did not exist. For some time past there had alsb been a great deal said of works of retreat preparing by the Russians. We found nothing of all that. I will return in detail to this fine achievement. As an episode, I may mention the valiant resistance of 100 Russians, who, stationed in a nook be hind a traverse, fired their very last cartridges, and yielded only when blazing fascines ware thrown among them. Among the prisoners I met with the officer com manding them. Electric wires were found on all sides and cut. At 3 o'clock General M‘Mahon, wrote to General Pelissier—` I am in the Malakhoff, and sure to maintain myself there.' " The loss of the enemy in materials and munitions of war is hardly to be imagined. The arsenals of the artil lery are crammed with cannon and projectiles • those of the navy with anchors of all sizes. Considerable stores of clothing have also been found. In the first moment of confusion these warehouses were enterd, but to-day a line of sentinels is stationed to prevent their plunder. " Our losses were chiefly at the Little Redan and the Central Bastion. General St. Pol, killed by a bullet in th e heart, in the second attack on the Little Redan ; General Rivet, killed in the trenches by a grapeshot in the leg, followed by faintings ; General Breton, struck down at the head of his troops; General Pontdeves, who died on the 10th, had his shoulder shattered and his spine broken." The following private letter has been received 7roin a Captain of Zouaves " Sebastopol, Sept. 15. "Yesterday, after dinner, I mounted on horseback with the intention of visiting Sebastopol thoroughly. I entered by the ravine of the English, and leaving on my right the docks, the barracks, the arsenal, the military town, all which extends under the Great Redan and Malakhoff, I bent my way to the city, properly so called. There may be seen a great number of public monuments not without elegance, and of citizens' houses, of very fine appearance, side by side with the most wretched huts. There are some streets wide, and with side paths, but all very badly mac adamised. Lighting with gas is still unknown in Sebas topol ; lamps are the only things—that is to say, fright ful-looking lanterns, supported by round posts, orna mented with black and white streaks. The theatre is rather a fine structure, remarkable for its peristyle and a colonnade which runs round it. Near the theatre is a library, and a little lower down and in a direction to wards the sea, near the fine Fort St. Catherine, which commands the roadstead, extend vast catacombs. You reach the upper part of the city, which has a fine pro menale planted with trees and forming a terrace, by a double flight of steps of stone, and on a vast scale. In the centre of the promenade rises a monument composed of a vessel in bronze raised on a pedestal of white marble, the four sides of which are in bronze. This monument is, no doubt, the emblem of the city, and the wings re present, perhaps, the rapidity with which the fleet, now no more, hoped to reach one day the shores of old By zantium. I leave to the learned the task of deciding this point. The monument will, no doubt, be trans ported to France, and placed in some public thorough fare or promenade in Paris, to perpetuate the memory of our great victory, of which it will be an interesting trophy. A very handsome church stands at the ex tremity of the promenade, and commands the entire city. Do not suppose, however, that all these buildings are intact. All are burnt, or broken, with the excep tion of the ship which the Russians looked upon, doubt less, as the palladium, of Sebastopol. All the churches of the city have been set on fire ; and there only remain the four walls, and the domes painted in green. The south part of Sebastopol has Seen completely destroyed by projectiles. I have visited the Russian lines of de fence, which on this side consisted of the fort of the Quarantine, the Central Bastion, and the' Flagstaff Bastion. Nothing can be more astonishing than these gigantic works, and I maintain that we never could have succeeded in taking possession of the town had we been obliged to take all these positions by storm. Sebas topol presents at this moment a most curious spectacle, owing to the immense crowd of visitors. I have met during my visit several handsome young ladies, dressed in elegant riding habits, traversing streets encumbered with ruins, and uttering every moment exclamations of surprise and horror at the sight of so many disasters. The city is very large, and intersected in various parts by deep ravines, which render the passage very difficult. " I write you these few lines in great haste ; I hope to give you in my next letter some clearer idea of our new conquests." Grandeur and Beauty of the Captured City. Whatever idea one has formed from looking a Sebastopol from Cathcart's-hill and the trenches, and every one has heard of its respectability as a city, I must say I was little prepared to witness the remains of anything so beautiful. To ride along what must have been the grand street, and see the lamp-posts and pavements seemed to call forth the remembrance that there are such things yet in the world. The houses, or I should say man sions, that are passed one after another in the most frightful delapidations aro most surprising ; a number of these appear to have been public build ings. Nearly every house must have had some architectural pretension, the rows of pillars and columns are unceasing, and from the visible re mains I should say it ought to have been one of the prettiest places iu the world. The cleanliness, and I was going to say order, was astonishing ; what I mean by order was the cleanliness of the streets, even where barricades had been erected. The fronts of some houses appeared so perfect that, with the aid of a strong imagination, you could almost fancy you were riding in a nice town, where nothing had happened, and in other parts that you were only visiting the scene of a disastrous fire, and presently expected to get beyond the pale of its rage ; but alas ! wherever you went, all, all was alike—never was destruction and desolation more complete ; never had man worked more successfully to destroy his own work. The great point of at traction was a monument just inside Fort Nicholas, and close to the water's edge; a mere enchanting view I never remember to have looked upon. It must have been the fashionable lounge of Sebas topol. This monument, which is surrounded by a fort, and bears date 1834, is surrounded by a plea sure ground, from any part of which you may get a view of the Forts Constantine and Nicholas, the harbour, the opposite side, and a great portion of the town. Sebastopol Firing on the Russians. A mortar -battery which the French have esta blished was playing on the 13th on the Russians at the other side, and shaking the ruins of Fort Nicholas with its report ; but the great surprise ' was, that it was not returned, and that Constan tine remained quiet. With the naked eye, the Russians cou ld be seen " scuttling" away from the shell. Below the monument I entered a fine building, which I decided in my own mind to have been the theatre or opera-house ; and not far from this was a splendid church. Passing up oue of the s t r eets I was attracted by the music of a French band, which was having its afternoon practice, and so on after the French dru ms beat their usual rap pelle, which warned us that sunset was approach ing. Before quitting the place I paid a hasty visit to their batteries in rear of the town, which were very similar to those in the Malakhoff and Redan, and well protected from shot and shell. The more the surprising strength of the whole place is looked at, the surprise that it has not before fallen gives way to wonder that it is now in possession of the allies. Roads Mended with Cannon-Shot. --- I came out of Sebastopol, and returned to camp by tho Woronzoff-road. Here fatigue parties have b e en busily engaged during the day in rep airin g the road, and it is almost ludicrous to see the por tion of the road that is done with round shot— large holes filled up with them, in other places largo pieces of road paved with them, and along the whole distance the sides of the road are edged with them. The numbers of officers and men re turning to camp put ono in mind of a road after garrison races, so great were the number who had obtained passes for th e gratification of seeing what we have so long fought for. The Bombardment. The bombardment, the most terrific whwich, pen r- haps, was ove r directed a g ai nst any place, tinued day and n i g ht fo r three d a y s. It was not as ce so much the demolishing of the earthworks or the dismounting the guns of the enemy which seemed i , to be the primary object of it, as to prepare the way THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL. Further particulars. SEBASTOPOL, Sept. 14.—For the last two days I have passed several hours each day in riding over the whole of the city and batteries. Sebastopol, as you know, is divided into two parts by the Dock yard Creek. The city (properly so called) is very large ; its houses, public buildings, and churches were for the most part nearly new, very handsome, and built of a clean white stone. They are now all crumbling, smoking ruins. The streets were wide and planted with trees. Its forts—large case mated buildings constructed for three tiers of guns facing the entrance of the harbour—were also very handsome and solid, but are now in ashes. On the other side of the Dockyard Creek (sepa rated from the city) the public buildings, docks, quays and basins are on a scale of still greater magnificence. These buildings, although much shattered by our shells, are still standing, the enemy having, I believe, failed to explode a mine under them, owing to their hurried departure. Here were collected vast stores of clothing and other military materials. As an instance of the frightful loss the Russians must have sustained in men during the last bom bardment and assault, I may mention that one of these vast ranges of buildings proved to have been a hospital. On entering it our people found about 1,000 dead bodies lying in their beds ! The horror of this scene far exceeds any I have ever witnessed. They were evidently the bodies of men who had been brought down from the batteries as they fell wounded, but so rapid must have been the accu mulation that the medical men were overpowered with numbers, and thus these poor creatures were, unheeded, left in their beds to die. Many must have been dead for days, and, horrible to relate, among them a few were found still alive ! This number, of course, excludes the hundreds and thousands who were found lying in all parts of the works after the assault. I cannot help feeling a pity for the enemy now in their discomfiture, and admiring them for their heroism in defending their much beloved city. I have heard that a Russian officer (a prisoner) said, "If our men only knew how to fight as they know how to die, they would be the finest troops in the world !" Around the great buildings on the eastern side of the Dockyard Creek was a town of small houses, called the Karabelnaia suburb, once probably oc cupied by artisans and mechanics. Such is a short and hurried account of the general features and appearance of the city. I will now give you some description of the works which were thrown up for its defence. They are all on the same plan—an earthen rampart of amazing thickness, revetted with gabions and fas eines ; a ditch cut out of the earth—which, being rocky, stood at a high angle—about 20 feet deep, and even more, at the most vulnerable points. In side these works the enemy, having had plenty of time to work, and knowing the fearful effect of our vertical fire from mortars, had constructed numer ous and thick traverses, and under these traverses were large bombproofs, some used as magazines, the'rest as dwelling-houses for the defenders ; in fact, all along, inside the terre-piein of the work, were deep holes in which their men could find shelter. These bombproofs were most solidly con structed, sometimes of masonry, but chiefly of large beams (taken from the wrecks of their ships), and covered with earth. Such was the general nature of their works. Their guns were of heavy calibre, and the gunners were perfectly sheltered from musketry by rope mantlets. But the Rus sians did not stop here. As soon as they found that any point in particular was threatened by the advance of our sap they immediately com menced a second and inner line of works at that point. This second line was equally well made, and mounted with small carronades and field guns. At the Bastion du Mat, which you will remember was long the point to which the French directed their attention, there were no less than four lines of these inner works, one behind the other. This will give you some slight idea of the perseverance and activity of the enemy in anticipating and pro viding against an attack on any particular paint. The circuit of these works is enormous, and I fancy they had always about 40,000 men or more ready to defend them. When you consider that when we first arrived hardly a vestige of any of these works existed, you will consider they deserve still more credit for their exertions. The general plan of these works was a series of redans (with indented flanks), open at the gorge. They only deviated from their plan in one instance and it was, in my opinion, their ruin--I mean at the Malakhoff works. So anxious were they about this spot, and so fearful of its being turned and taken by the rear, that they made here an enclosed work, with a ditch all round of 20 feet. Now, in the first place, the whole of the interior of the work became by these means so encumbered with traverses that there was little room to concentrate large masses of troops, in addition to which you will perceive that, if once taken it became a citadel for the captors ; and so it proved. I will now proceed to give you a short account of the general assault of the place. It was ordered to be attempted at four points—the Redan du Carenage, Malakhoff, Great Redan, and (on the town side) the Bastion Centrale. The Redan du Carenage was attacked with immense force by the French ; they got in, but, in spite of all their efforts, the second line of entrenchments stopped them, and they failed. The Great Redan had been so terribly pounded by our artillery that the ramparts had crumbled away into the ditch and partly filled it. It was not very difficult to get in, and our men did it easily ; but , once there , they found themselves in a wide open space, and were torn and driven out by works in the rear ; and, unless we could have poured in thousands upon thousands, the place could not have been held, and as for intrenching in open day, with columns of the enemy constantly coming up, it • was impossible. Our men held it for some time, _ but only by lying along on the outside of •the rampart. The French attack on the Bastion. Centrals failed altogether. Now with regard to the Malakhoff. The French formed their troops in trenches within 25 yards of it, swarmed in in thousands, took it, and, once established, they poured their masses through it down into the small houses of the Karabelnaia suburb ; and here, skilful in street fighting, they persevered in the most heroic way. The Russians, true to their old policy and mode of warfare, had previously pre pared even for the worst. Finding the key of their position gone, they set fire to the city in and by means of the bridge and steam boatsmpaarntlged to convey their whole army across the night to the north side. They then du every r g blew up all they could, destroyed their bridge, sunk their men-of-war, and when the morning came we found ourselves in possession of a burning I ruin! " After crossing the cemetery," says a letter to the Semaphore de Marseilles, " where there is still a chapel riddled with balls and bullets, I entered Sebastopol through an enormous breach made in the central bastion. A large fortified wall protects all this side of the town ; within it lies a suburb composed of small houses, which were no doubt occupied by various small tradesmen. This suburb gradually descends towards the water ; four streets converge to a sort of platform, connected with a little bridge, which enabled the inhabitants to cross a street below when violent rains transformed it into a torrent. In this small space I counted 68 shells that had not burst, and balls. We then proceeded to the street and boulevard which bear the name of Catherine ; it is the elegant quarter of the town ; all the houses have but one storey, are very neat, and are surrounded with gardens. There is not one that has not received at least a ball ; they are completely gutted ; all the furni ture, such as mahogany bedsteads, chests of drawers, writing-desks, ikc., were lying about the street. I remarked a considerable number of pianos, many prints (most of them rather licentious), and, what is very extraordinary, portraits of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie. The whole of this quarter rises in amphitheatre just op posite Fort Constantine; the theatre is untouched; it is a pretty white building. When I passed by, the scenes were lying outside against the wall. The church called S t. Catherine's, a Doric temple, with a gilt pediment, has also suffered very little. In this quarter not a soul was to be seen ; the streets were deserted, the houses completely aban doned ; and it made one melancholy to see these vast solitudes. Tito whole town is now peopled with only 2,000 French soldiers, who are encamped in the streets. General Bazaine, who has been ap pointed governor of the place, occupies a pretty house, pierced like the others with three or four balls. In Catherine-street is a house, which was occupied as a tavern, the doors have been torn down, and the soldiers have written on a board, Entrcz sans frapper. The soldiers amuse them selves with playing at pitch and toss, and shooting at cats, which aro the only inhabitants of the town. Most of the houses have a storey underground, where artisans had their shops. From this quar ter we went down to the quays. The nearer one gets to the port the greater is the number of barricades. The Russians evidently intended to have defended Sebastopol street by street, for at the top of every street is a wall of large stones, two metres in height, behind which small pieces of artillery were placed. On the quays, which are wide and planted with trees, it was more difficult to enjoy one's walk, as the Russians still occupy Fort Constantine opposite, and every three minutes they threw either a shell or a ball at the people who were walking about ; an Englishman was killed in that way ten steps off from where I was standing. From this quay, and as far as the docks, we may distinguish the mast-tops of the Russian fleet rising above the water ; it has all been burnt and sunk, with the exception of a small steamer on her beam-ends at the corner of the military port. The streets are actually covered with projectiles of every description. The docks have suffered considerably from our fire : skirting them was a quarter of the town, set apart most likely for workmen and invalids ; it is now a shape less mass of ruins. Nothing in the town has been destroyed by us ; our artillery has only ruined what was indispensable ; it was the Russians who, during their retreat, sprung an enormous number of mines, and we are finding more daily. Even on Monday and Tuesday, the 10th and 11th, there were explosions every moment, and many fell victims to their curiosity. A Rus sian colonel, they tell me, was killed at the mo ment that he was stooping down to fire a new mine while hurriedly retreating. Since then our firemen have thrown water over all the suspected spots, andiht out all the fires. Our soldiers be haved well during the first hours of the occupation ; they did not then pillage to any very great extent, and allowed inoffensive men, women, and children to retire unmolested. Afterwards they spread over the town, and, you may be sure, took very exact inventories of all that could be turned to any use. Thus, I met a soldier carrying off an enormous mahogany bedstead for firewood. To conclude, the general aspect of Sebastopol is heartrending : no thing but ruins, blackened walls, and gutted houses ; the ground strewed with projectiles and broken or spoilt furniture. But few visitors in the streets ; not a cry, not the slightest noise denoting a living city—all is. mournful and silent. Tlie Russians are shut up in Fort Constantine ; their camp extends beyond Fort Sivernaia. There is a rumour that they are about to evacuate the north ; but, in order to make them do so sooner, General d'Herbillon is to attack them on the side of the Tchernaya with 70,000 men. Our fleets are still opposite the Quarantine Harbour, and, as soon as the entrance into the great harbour is cleared, they will enter it, and then, if the Russians have not yet evacuated the north, the fleets will cannon ade Fort Constantine on one side and harass them on the other, and that part of Sebastopol will then soon be in our power." . , (Front a Correspondent of La Presse.) Before Sebastopol, Sept. 15. The Malakhoff was constructed mainly for the purpose of protecting the neighbouring works, and lived, it must be said, a little on its credit. The two faces were singularly constructed at their coping ; the embrasures were formed by enormous pieces of ship timbers, having between 70 and 80 centimetres square surface and right angles ; owing to their lateral position relatively to our fire they had remained intact, excepting the first of each file. These embrasures play a curious part in the assault. The Yinoy brigade, consisting of the 20th and 27th Regiments of the line, and the Ist brigade of the same division (Ist battalion of foot Chasseurs, _ _ lit Zouaves, and 7th of the Line), dashed resol lutely into the ditch, their special duty being to act on the two flanks. It was found that the ditch, which they had imagined very deep, was not so throughout its whole extent ; in several spots the Russians had met with rock, and had not been able to work with sufficient freedom so as to blast it. These rocks presented jagged points, and their roughness aided our brave soldiers, who thus quickly gained the level of the embrasures, and scarcely used their ladders. There, by dint of their dexterity, they managed to slip in, some by seizing the bayonets held against them, others by clutching the mouths of the very guns. To explain how all that was done is not so easy, and one of these heroes declared to me yes terday that he did not clearly recollect how he had got in. One thing is quite certain, and that is, that they took the bull by the horns. The Russians did not expect this furious attack ; their officers have since admitted as much. The soldiers had just been taking their meal ; their plat ters, bread, and wooden spoons covered the ground. The gunners of the front were driven back at the first rush, and they didnot stand their ground; they retreated to the centre of the work, and dis appeared behind the traverses. At the flanks, on the contrary, the gunners made a stand, resisted vigorously, and were killed fighting bravely at their guns. This first step taken, our soldiers found them selves confronting traverses of earth tolerably high, running into one another, where the men could only advance by a step at a time in following a winning course under the enemy's fire. This way appeared to our soldiers too long and dangerous. With that marvellous instinct that distinguishes them they soon found another way, which the Russians had not thought of. Instead of attacking these intricate defences, they turned them by running along the embra sures, bounding like roebucks from one battlement to the other, at the risk of falling down a frightful precipice. In this way, to the great amazement of the Russians, they reached the centre of the posi tion, and fell on them with fixed bayonets. The attack was perfectly successful. To the right of the Malakhoff, visible from our trenches, runs a curtain connecting the tower with the Little Redan of the Careening Bay. The at tack on the Little Redan was confined to the 4th division of the second corps, General Dulac com manding the brigade Saint-Pol (17th battalion of Foot Chasseurs, 57th and 83d Regiments of the Line), and the brigade Brisson (10th and 61st Re giments of the Line) ; the attack on the curtain, intersected by a postern, was entrusted to General Bourbaki, who had under his orders, if I am not mistaken, the second brigade, second division of the reserve corps, 15th and 93d Regiments of the Line, and also Zouaves. There was likewise the brigade Ponteves, Mellinet's division of the Guard, consisting of the Chasseurs and the 2d Grenadiers of the Guard. The Voltigeurs of the Guard of the old Uhric brigade obeyed General Marolles. It was there that the combat was the hottest, and where we suffered three-fourths of our total loss in generals and soldiers. The fire that received them, directed from four points at once, was dreadful ; the grape ploughed through the ranks, without, however, stopping the advance of the columns. Having reached the foot of the work, they found themselves met by a steep slope, so abrupt that they could only scale it in front by means of ladders ; but others found an ascent, up which they climbed and rushed to the left along the Redan way. On this side the curtain bastion thundered on the assailants. General Marolles was in the fore most ranks of the:Grenadiers, and fell ; he was not found before the evening, under pile of dead bodies. At this place General Bourbaki had been equally unfortunate. He was struck on his breast by a spent ball, and vomited blood. General Ponteves and General Bisson were wounded at the Redan. General Saint Pol fell, shot through the heart. Almost at the same instant General Ponteves, whose shoulder had been already broken by a mus ket ball, received another in the spine. Generals Bisson and Couston fell, and General Bosquet him self, stationed in the sixth parallel, 200 metres off the curtain, had his shoulder splintered by a bullet. The writer of a letter from before Sebastopol, the 14th, given in the Courricr de Marseille, says— Without entering into details, which you will have had in the official despatchv, I will mention a few little facts which I consider authentic. It was about eleven o'clock that General Pelissier, with all his staff, pro ceeded to the Brancion Redoubt, and there took up his position for the purpose of giving orders. Bein g in my own battery at some distance from that spot, I did not see the general, but I am informed that nothing could exceed his composure and sang froid. General M`Ma hon's division had been duly provided with portable bridges and ladders, but they threw them down as they rushed On the Malakhoff, end climbing up, no one can say how, to the parapet of the formidable forti fication, overcame the Russians everywhere, and in a few minutes (eleven, it is said, from the moment that the signal to advance was given) were masters of the posi tion. Soon after, the English made their attack on the Great Redan, and everywhere established themselves on the works. The Little Redan was at the same time at tacked by the French troops, and almost immediately occupied ; but the enemy then seeing the Malakhoff and the Great Redan occupied, made a tremendous effort to regain the Little Redan, and sent forward vast masses of troops to attack the men who held it. I can still see them advancing in serried columns, like the waves of a sea, up the slope leading to the works. It was in vain that the French fought with the most determined valour they bad not sufficient space to deploy in, and there fore contended under marked disadvantage. The French were in the end oblig ed to give way, without, however, ceasing to fight ; and then the Russians made an immense attempt to regain the Malakhoff. There, however, their attack failed, as General M‘Malion was firmly established there. Indeed, ho felt himself so much so, that he wrote to the General-in-Chief the fol lowing lines lam in the Alalakhoff, and certain to maintain myself there.' Then the Russians fell back towards the right, and reinforced the columns which were attacking the English in the Great Redan. The English were here exposed to a terrific fire—from the batteries of the barracks, from the vessels in the har bour, and from the northern side ; and after an hour's heroic resistance began to give way. The General-in- Chief, seeing the manner in which the English were pressed, sent forward a column from the Malakhoff on the flank of the Russians. This column, led by General Marolles, was dashing forward, when a formidable ex plosion behind the tower arrested its advance, blowing up into the air the head of the column and its brave leader, not a morsel of whose body, uniform, or arms St. 20 St. 15 81j 1. 64 1 1 5 4i 47 1 to I st. 25 72 2 . 105 57f f t 315 19i I Si I 20 di, 81 8 i 23k, 2i 3i i 3 211 i 39i 9 Pm Pm 971 die 90 i 3 for a sudden assault by throwing a continual shows. of missiles into the place,...and thus forcing the enemy to keep his troops under shelter. In order to effect this the cannonade was kept up, so to say, by fits, so as to induce the enemy to leave his bomb proof shelters whenever the fire became more lan guid, and then suddenly to re-open again with a general salvo of all the guns, and drive him in. The measure was well calculated, for in all former bombardments it had been observed that whenever our fire became heavier they remained silent. This was at first interpreted as if we had dismounted their guns, but it was proved by the attack of the 18th of June that their guns were not at all dis mounted, but that they did not fire in order not to expoie their men. The Bastion du Centre. As soon• as the French were established in the Malakhoff the order was (riven for the attack on the other points. The at tack was to begin at the Bastion du Centre, and, that taken, the Bastion du Mat was to be assaulted by the Piedmontese brigade Cialdini. All these other attacks were quite unsuccessful. The Little Redan was at tacked four times, scaled liked the Great Redan, and at last abandoned. The same happened in the attack on the Bastion du Centre. A curious inci dent occurred at the attack by General De Salles. When the French came back, the General who tried to turn them back seized one of the soldiers and exclaimed, " Vous n'etes done pas _Francais?" The soldier, touched to the quick by this reproach, exclaiming, " Comment ! je ne suis pas Francais ?" rushed back alone, scaled the parapet, and, while brandishing his musket aloft, continued crying out, " Comment! je ne suis pas Francais ?" until he was shot down. In consequence of the failure of this attack the other on the Bastion du Mat did not take place. The 19th at the Redan• The 19th Regiment has suffered severely. We have 10 officers wounded, 4 dangerously, and the others, all but 3, severely. We have 27 killed and 148 wounded among the men, and this out of a force of 375, all we could collect to go into action. Captain Chippendall stood for a long time, amidst a shower of musket-balls and grap e , on the first parapet of the Redan, waving his forage cap on the top of his sword to encourage the men to come on. Nothing could exceed his gallantry. It is a miracle that he escaped. Lieutenant Goren and Lieute nant Molesworth displayed great bravery. The latter, though a youngster—quite a lad, just joined—had the coolness to light a cigar while up at the Redan, in the midst of the fire. A shell burst over his head ; one fragment knocked the cigar out of his mouth, another struck him in the back of the head and sent him .senseless into the ditch. It was not for many hours after he was carried up to camp that he recovered from the first effects of the blow from the piece of shell ; it must have glanced off, for the wound it made was very slight. Bravery of the Russians. About a hundred Russians and two officers, un der strong cover, kept up a heavy fire of musketry —they were attacked by the French, but defended themselves capitally. We called out to them, " The Malakhoff is taken." " Not yet," replied an officer. At such a courageous act our soldiers hesitated ; they did not like to crush this handful of men, and therefore urged them to surrender; the Russians answered with a volley. Our officers recommended our soldiers to let them exhaust their ammunition, and in fact at the end of three hours they had pretty well used up all their cartridges. Again they were summoned!; our offi cers swore to them that all defence was useless— the answer was a bullet, which struck one of the assailants. Still there was a wish felt to save these men; to force them out of the fortlet they had made burning faggots were thrown in, and at length they surrendered. Two Russian officers, and about 100 men, laid down their arms ; our officers spontaneously held out their hands to them as brother officers. One of these speaks French, and he is slightly wounded. They had hoped, by prolonging their resistance, to give time for the advance of the Russian reserves. An order for Sebastopol. The following is a copy of the orders issued by he allies for admission into Sebastopol " PASS. , and two others, have permission ;o enter Sebastopol. By Order. (Signed) i f Stoical Simplicity. One of the brave French soldiers, in passing before the redoubt in which we were, asked us whether we could give him something to drink. We hastened to him and were happy in baying it in our power to offer him a little brandy. " Gentle men. ' said he to the officers who stood round him, "you must also have the kindness to put it to my mouth, for you see my left arm is broken by the splinter of a shell ; the bone will scarcely hold to gether, and I am compelled to support it with my right hand," and in fact he was holding up his bleed ing and mutilated limb with the other hand. - When he had drunk, we endeavoured to give him a few words of comfort, to which he replied. 'Oh ! I know the end of it ; an arm the less is but of little consequence since we have the victory.' He then thanked us and walked on, refusing to have any one to accompany him. This stoical simplicity was evinced by all the soldiers, and the generals and officers set an example of it." A Wounded Zouave. On the morning of the fire a Zouave was seen proceeding towards the ambulance. He had re ceived a ball in his leg, and was limping along, supporting himself by his musket. He was accom panied by two Russians more seriously wounded than himself, and to whom he was paying the ut most attention, and from time to time making them drink from the gourd slung at his back, ac companying tho offer with these words, " Come, drink, my poor fellow ; what has happened is not your fault ; you have done your duty as soldiers, and you are as bravo as ourselves !" Such are the French soldiers; terrible during thefight, but kind and humane after the victory. The Death of a Hero. A fact well worthy of mention took place near the Careening port. The ambulance is situated in the deepest and most abrupt part of the ravine, surrounded and commanded by enormous rocks, in the hollows between which habitations for the sur geons and officers attached to the ambulance had been prepared. A number of wounded soldiers might be seen slowly descending the steep path leading to the ambulance carrying others of their comrades more severely injured than themselves. When, in the night, the first explosion was heard from the Russians blowing up the works previously to their retreat, all the w ounded who were passing at the time halted on the summit of the plateau to contemplate the view of Sebastopol in flames. Forgetful of their sufferings, they remained there the whole night looking at the imposing scene. Among them was a serjeant of infantry who was being conveyed to the ambulance in a litter. He felt assured that his wound was mortal, and al though medical assistance might perhaps have pro longed his life for a day or two, he insisted on being set down to die on that spot. He was placed i n a sitting position, the upper part of his body s upported against a large stone, and his face turned towards the burning town. He contemplated the scene with the utmost delight, and soon after, feel ing that his life was fast ebbing away, ho rallied his remaining strength, took off his kepi, and wav ing it in the air cried, ' Adieu, my friends, Sebas topol is ours ! Vice la Franco ! vivo l'Enspereur !' and in a few minutes afterwards expired. WINTER OPERATIONS IN THE CRIMEA. As the question of further operations at this season of the year in the Crimea naturally arises, it is worthy of note that many of the Russian successes in that quar ter last century were obtained in the wintry season. It is recorded in " Nash's Historical Researches" that as late as December, in 1708, Marshal Lacy, an Irish exile in the Russian service, was detached with 15,000 men to the Ukraine ; in December, 1769, the Russians fought and gained a g reat victo ry on the Don ; in January following the battle of the Bender, where an other of the Lacy family served with e'clat. In 1787 Potemkin led his army against the Turks and Tartars in the Crimea so late as November, and gained several victories up to as late as the 3d of December. Marshal Francis Lacy, of Austria, also led the Austrian armies to several victories on the Danube an d its tributaries. So late as the 17th of December Oczakoff was stormed by Gen. Maurice de Lacy, another Irish warrior. In the cam paign of 1790 the several forts of Kenia, Tulsea, Isaachia, and Isehatel on the Danube and Black Sea were stormed. and taken between October and the 18th of November. The great Ismail, "the impregnable," was invested on the Ist of December, the batteries opened on the 20th, and the fortress stormed on the 22d, by General Mauric e , Lacy, who headed the first attacking party, and took it after four hours' ca rnage. During these operations the Turks were masters of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azoff, and the Crimea. The nephew of that general, Cornet Pierce, also served in the war of 1828-9. PREPARATIONS FOB WINTERING IN THE CRIMEA. — yesterday morning . orders were forwarded to the Ord nance storekeepers in the Tower and Woolwich Arsenal to forward without delay to the various outports, for shipment to the Crimea, as many of the new pattern blankets and rugs, waterproof coats and capes , ox hide boots, and Canada stoves, besides the requisite culinary stores, as may be ready for delivery. Nearly the whole of the huts contracted for by Messrs. Cubitt and Lucas Brothers are completed, and a very large numbor bays been forwarded to their destination.