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Whir day is published, and sold by G. Brown, at the Ballot SociestY, Offices, 5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, London ; Re printed from the " Manchester Examiner" o and " Times f ;" St stereo type, pp. Pp. 28 ; price Threepence, or a copy bY post for ur —a large allowance on 13 copies at the Publisher's ALLOT, AGAINST THE BALLOT, WITH THE ANSWERS. By the Author of the " Catechism on the Corn Laws." FURNISHED HOUSE. —To be LET, situated in one of the best streets, close to Warwick -square, BelgraYe road, containing drawing-rooms, dining and breakfast rooms, six bedrooms, including servants' room, excellent kitchen and cellar ,accommoiation, with convenient pantries. The furniture is good, having been only a short time In use. The house will be let for three months at the rate of 3001. a-year, or for six months at the rate of 250/. a-year, or for nine months at the rate of 2001. a-year, and will be found likely to suit any family requiring a moderate town residence for either of these periods. Applications in writing may be addressed to No. 20, Parliament street, Westminster. London, Nov., 1855. JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS. - ROYAL • ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—Seventh ap pearance of Madame Gassier.—Second appearance of Herr Koenig.—:" The Programme for TdIS EVENING (Monday, Nov. 12) will in clude :—Herald's Overture, Zampa ; Quadrille from Le Comte Ory ; the Andente from Beethoven's Symphony in C Minor; " Alf non Giunge," and Valse by Venzoni, sang by Madame Gassier ; the An dante from Roch Albert's Swiss Symphony ; M. Jullien's New Valse, La Belle du Village ; Solo, Oboe, M. Lavigne; the British Army Quadrille (for the last time but one), assisted by the Military Bands; Grand Operatic Selection from Les Huguenots ; Solo, Cornet a Pistons, by re -err —Genig - ; the Allegro Vivace from Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony; the Meant Blanc Polka ; Solo, Flute, by Herr Reichart ; Galop, Zouave Pas de Course ; God Save the Qlloon ; Partant pour la Syrie, &c. Prices of admission :—Promenade, tipper boxes, amphitheatre stalls and amphitheatre, ls.; dress circle, 2s. 6d, ; private boxes, l2e , 15 ., and it. Hs. 6d. Places and private boxes to be had at the box-office of the theatre, and of the principal musicsellers and librarians. On Wednesday next, M. Juliien's Now Descriptive Mi litary Quadrille, entitled the Fall of Sebastopol, will be performed for the first time. N.B.—The theatre being let at Christmas for dra matic performances, the Concerts (after the present week) can con tinue for three weeks only. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.I.ANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Will be performed AN IMPUDENT PUPPY. After which, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER. To be followed by NITOCRIS. Characters by Messrs. E. E. Ed gar, Stuart, B. Sullivan, G. Wild, C. Vincent, &c.; Miss Glyn, Mrs. Selby, Miss De Vere, Miss Anderton, Miss Cleveland, Sec. THEATRE ROYAL, RkTILARIERT. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Will be performed GUY MANNER' VG. Characters by Messrs. VlWers, Compton, and Howe; and Miss Swanborough and Miss Cashman. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHIALZB KEAN. THIS EVENING Will be presented THE WONDERFUL WOIIIN. Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, D. Fisher, Cathcart, Everett, and Miss Heath. After which, THE EMIR AT LAW. To conclude with A GAME OF ROMP 3. 171F1A,TILE ROYAL ADELPHT Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Direetresl, 311 dams Celeste. THIS EVENING, - Wi'l be performed MARIE DUCANGE ; or, The Jersey Girl. Tonewel by VALENTINE AND ORSON. After which, the Farce of TILE tO3 NOTE. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. J. 11. Anderson, Ig, 'Norfolk-street, Strand. Increased ,Attractions, and 311CC353 in equal ratio VIII, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'clock, Will 'oe presented, with entirely NTT and 'Magnificent Appoint nutt4, M.\ MC and MYSTERY, in twelve a?.ti, arranged in two p trts, by Professor Anderson After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF- A! , T-lIOUIt WIC(' TiIE SPIRIT. 3, being the most surprising and Interesting series of experiments exer given within the walls of any theatre. Revival, in an improved form, of the astounding novelty which startled London 10 years ago, the GREAT GUN TRICK! Prices of sAmission: —Private B , xes, I/. I Is. 61. and 11. Is. ; Orchestra gtalls, .13.: Dress it Mee, Upper toxee, 2e.; Pit, Is. ; (14:cry, 61. No Box-offlze open from it to 5 daily. Orln3 Morning Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'clock. Doors open at half-past One. R )YAL OLY \EPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENUSIL Will be presented PLOT AND PAS3ION. Characters by Messrs. F. itibson, Emery, G. Vining, Lesi!e, J. 11. White, 11. Cooper, and Franks ; and Mrs. Stirling and Mi!s Bromley. Followed by CATCHING A MEM WAID. To conclude with A BLIGHTED BEING. ROYAL 3T2AND THEATRZ. Under th 3 direction of Mr. Payne. THIS EVENING. Willbaparfrrmet TEIL RS.GPICKER OF PSEIS. Followed by NI TOCRIS. To conclude with THE LADIES' CLUB. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITUZATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Appearance of the World's Prodigy, Mlle. CLEMENTINE SOULLIER. Mr. William Cooke acquaints his kind patrons that during his re cent visit to the French capital he formed an engagement, for a limited number of nights, and upon exorbitant terms, with the first equestrienne in the world, Nile. Clementine Soullier, who a'^ appedr THIS EVENING. There will be acted the Military Spebtacle, The FALL of SEBAS TOPOL ! With the WONDERS OF THE CIRCLE ; Mr. J. 11. Cooke's FLIGHT OF THE BRIDGES, and other entertainments. liox-olice open from Eleven till Fonr. Stage Sl:wager, Mr. W. 1"71;% Eqartrian Director, IV. tun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T DAY—Morn. 6 min. aft. 3—Evening 22 min. aft. 3 T )-NoltßOW—Morn.4 L min.aft. 3—Evening 4 min. aft. 0 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 11. THERMOMETER, IX THE SHAME. 53 highest since, noon yesterlsy. 51 -lnwost this morning and during the night. 51. —thii day at noon. 131 R 0 T.l T 1 1' , 30'29. WIND, S.W.—Light, with fine sunshiny weather. NOVEMBER 12. 57—Iiighost since noon yesterday. 49 -lowest this morning and during the night. 51 -nis day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.26. Wm . —S. to S.S.E.—Light, with dull, murky weather. 4,12 , 1)g, . s A, '3,lm b'~ LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1855. The halcyon dream of a lifetime has at length been realised in these later days—in our own for tunate generation. England and France, united together by tho bonds of a solid and sacred alli anY, are fighting, as all the world knows, nowa days, under their blended banners, the holy Battle of Liberty and Civilisation. Their Sovereigns, by a happy conjunction of names—TICTORIA. and NAPOLEON. Their common foe, the great enemy of European enlighten/neut. The proximate cause of the struggle, the defence of a weak and friendly State, outraged at once by the a ssailmont of its rights and the invasion of its territories, by the insolent aggression of a barbaric empire, whose pride has, durin g and a century a half, been perpetually trembling as it were —a sTord-of Dimoci.E3 over the nations of Christendom. It is something worth living for to be enabled to look back, as-we ma y now, from the November of 1855, to the period of those terrible and stormy wars by which thepresent century was inaugurated. To remember the seominglyimplacable hatred by vvhich the two greatest nations of the world were then j animated in regard to each other—and to contrast that bitter animosity with the cordial brotherhood through which their interests . are now known to be identical. "It is thirty-five years', said the French Ambassador, M. le Comte DE PEB.osinedNoyn, on Friday, speaking to the citizens of London, under the roof of their ancient Guildhall—" It ie thirty-five years since the great Emperor NAPO LEON expressed his regret at being una bl e to con quer the prejudice s of the tiro peoples,oand at not being able to ga in the friendship of Engl an d. ' What great things,' he exclaimed, we could do together " Thos© "great things," as Monsi eur 1)5 PEastoNr added, aro now actually being ao ., colnplished. Yes—Waterloo has at length in deed been l ' seen avencied. The deplorable blunder of the miscalled Holy Alliance has at leng th indeed been expiated. The prejudices of the two peoples have at length • .ir.deed been vanquished. dream of th e The day g'"iolls exile of St. Helena has at last been r ea • I ' s ". England and France are united in the same holy cause, fighting no longer face to face, but side by side, their blood and wandering t heir shedding g treasures toge ther in the sacred championship of European Fred. don], and modern Civilisation. Let it be remembered, now, that a ll this was no -) mere idle aspiration with the conqueror of m a • ren(Yo and Austerli tz. Let it not be for gotten, at the prat Lilo al eat lookiog backd ispk4sion i t e l y t, reco-ra,s of history, that as the thrice-elected ruler of Vrance—thrice elected, strangely enough, as h'al Imperial successor was to be some fifty years afterwards---NAPOLEON strove, more than once, osrsonally, by certain memorable efforts at con ciliation, to effect in his time that very alli ance which in ours has, thanks be to GOD, at length been happily accomplished. Recollect ! —immediately the suffrages of the French people •had consecrated the daring act of the 18th 19th, BRUMAIRE, nominating NAPOLEON BONA PARTE the Chief of the Consulate, he, as First Consul, wrote with his own band to King GEORGE 111. that famous letter dated the 26th of December, 1799, in which he urged upon the Monarch the advantage as well as the glory of an instant and permanent pacification. Recollect, too—how five years afterwards, when he had just been raised to the supreme dignity a q Emperor, elevated on the shield of the popular suffrage, anointed by the hands of the Pontiff, and crowned with the crown of CHARLEMAGNE, NA POLEON, again with his own hand, addressed a second and more urgent letter to King GEORGE M.—the celebrated letter dated the 27th of Ja nuary, 1805—in which, while " conjuring" the English Sovereign not to refuse " the happiness of giving peace to the world," the Imperial Hero wrote with so much grandeur and dignity, " Though Peace is the wish of my heart, yet War has never been adverse to my glory." Re member, moreover for these things should not be altogether forgotten—that to neither of these memorable letters of NAPOLEON was any answer ever vouchsafed by the Sovereign to whom they were addressed : any more than was there an answer of any kind returned to the other historic epistle, penned by the same hand, on the 14th of July, 1815, and addressed to the Prince Regent, from on board the Bellerophon. Howbeit, all these things are, nowadays, essen tially of the Past, as we can at length afford to remember, without only poignant regrets, regard ing them as calamities altogether irreparable— rather let us say, in these wiser and happier times, with sentiments of gratitude to the dispen sations of an overruling PROVIDENCE. For already, as we have remarked—Waterloo has been most nobly and magnanimously avenged by France—the so-called Holy Alli ance has been most nobly and magnanimously expiated by England. The two great peo ples are united at last in a solemn, sacred, and solid alliance. The day-dream of the Gleat NA POLEON is a day=dream now no longer. It is a reality—an actual event, which, thanks he to GOD, has in our own times been accomplished. It is no longer—" What great things we could do " —but " What great things we are doing to gether 1" The Exile of St. Helena, even in his ashes, is an exile no longer—reposing as his heroic dust has done, for these fifteen years past, upon the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom he loved so well : the ancient ani mosities of France and England buried with him, as our present Prime Minister nobly desired they might be, as far back as the May of 1840, upon the occasion of the Em peror NAPOLEON'S second and more memorable sepulture. England and France becoming more recently, in the fullness of time, Allies so true and intimate that, as the French Ambassador ob served on Friday evening, in the Guildhall of London, "No human power can any more sepa rate them !" His Excellency adding, in conclu sion, " And when we bear in mind that the union of our two countries, the one supreme in mari time affairs, the other in military, constitutes the greatest power that has ever existed, we may await in complete security the issue of this War." The issue of this gigantic and memorable War, which the despicable peacemongers of to .day are vilifying as so deplorably iniquitous and so no- TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 12, 1855. TANTA/MS—starving in the vicinity and prospect of abundance. The hospital arrangements and commissariat are also decidedly ameliorated, al though we believe there is still room for improve ment. But in some very important matters, we still go on at the old jog-trot pace—we seem still desirous of sparing the enemy in the most ♦ital points, as if Russia could be conciliated, or induced to listen to any arguments, to give weight to any considerations, save those of imperative ne cessity. It is true that - 7/0 have captured Sebas topol and destroyed the Black Sea Fleet of Russia—that we have captured Kiubourn, wit nessed the destruction of a fort at 0 tchakoff, and destroyed a considerable quantity of stores at Sweaborg. But are these things all, or even a moiety of what we could have accomplished if really in earnest ? Certainly not ! We should scarcely have been contented with half measures at the Baltic Fortresses, and permitted Cronstadt and Helsingfors, Revel and Riga to remain un touched. The Hango Massacre should have been fully avenged on the very spot where it was perpetrated ; the scene of the atrocious out rage should have witnessed the condign punishment of the offenders ; and even St. Petersburg, as well as sundry other dis tricts, should have learned, to their cost, how powerless was the AUTOCRAT to avert the penal consequences of his own gross misconduct. These would have beensalutary, although painful lessons, and would no doubt have greatly conduced to— what is the object of every true English heart—a speedy, honourable, and enduring peace, which can only be founded on the unequivocal humili ation of the enemy, and the decided diminution of the strength that has been so grossly abused. In the East the determination to spare Russia, and to afford the means of prolonging the contest, has been as clearly testified. The destruction of Sebastopol was an imperative necessity, which no degree of influence could set aside. But what has been done since that time ? We have taken Kinbourn—made a demonstration against Nicolaieff, at least to the extent of taking soundings in the Boug, and showing that the Rus sian Portsmouth was completely at our mercy ! But there we stop. In place of taking due ad vantage of the golden opportunity, and following up our first success to its legitimate consequences, we remain contented for the time being, with hav ing indicated the weak point, and thus drawn atten tion to the steps necessary to render the menaced arsenal a second Sebastopol, capable of offering a vigorous and obstinate defence to any future at tacks. The Russians have afforded unequivocal proofs that they are not slow to profit by such hints, and we may feel well assured that should ne gotiations unfortunately be resumed during the winter they will not fail to take ample credit for the assumed invincibility of the towns to which we have exhibited such extraordinary forbearance —a mercy so cruel to our own troops and to our over-burdened taxpayers. The mismanagement at the Horse Guards also remains without any attempt at improvement. We have seen one of its evil fruits—as rotten at the core as an apple of the Dead Sea. One of our bravest Commanders, who de servedly enjoyed the entire confidence of the army and people, has been, by an instance of un due favouritism, compelled by a regard to his own character, to retire in disgust from the Crimea— to sheathe the sword that has been so frequentlyand so beneficially used in the service of his country. These are not the times when a " carpet knight" of limited experience should be pitchforked over the head of such a man as Sir COLIN CAMPBELL because he was a Guardsman, and his father had been " a Gold Stick in Waiting !" GOD save the mark ! The insult is one not merely given to Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, but to every distinguished officer whose claims were, at least, as high as those of Sir WILLIAM CODRINGTON. We cannot, therefore, feel astonished at the very natural ex pression of indignation that has been exhibited, or that many officers of rank and position should have deemed it right to express their opinions strongly on such a gross abuse of patronage. Field-Marshal ViSeOUilt HARDINGE is, of course, the party nominally responsible. But we trust that the person really accountable may be shown up in the stringent investigations that cannot be avoided, and that the cleansing of the Augean stables that have so long defied all purification, and the placing of the military system of Great Britain on a sound and wholesome footing, may be one of its fruits. Such an outrage as the promotion of Sir WILLIAM CODRINGTON over the head of Sir COLIN CAMPBELL requires very decided conduct on the part of the people. We have confidence in Lord PALMERSTON, but it is essential that his hands should be materially strengthened to enable him to grapple with the monster grievance of the day—to control the in fluence so dangerous to the constitutional liberties and the interests of Great Britain. If the cry of " an ill-used man " h as b een potent enough, according to Mr. &coml., to drive him from the field, and to enable Sir CHARLES NAPIER to walk the course for South wark, the same cry ought most certainly to give an uncontested seat somewhere to Major-General TILOMPSON. No public man of equal ability and integrity has been half so ill-treated, and by those, too, who owed him a debt of gratitude, An ad mirable pamphlet from his pen, " Fallacies against the Ballot, with the Answers," has just at this moment reminded us of the claims of the .veteran Free-trader and Reformer. It is a disgrace to our electoral constituency, and a proof of the ne cessity of the protection afforded by the Ballot, that a politician to whom his country is so deeply indebted, and who was, when in the House, one of its acknowledged ornaments and of its most dili gent members, should not be now a Member of Parliament. To think of the number of noodles and dummies returned by Lord this and Lord that, while such men remain excluded, is enough to make us blush for our constitution. With all -due deference to Prince ALBERT and his Trinity House plea for despotism, our constitution is much more on its trial when contending at elections with tip political roguery and tyranny of our plutocracy and aristocracy, than when engaged in a foreign war. Indeed, in reference to the latter, the chief practical obstruction at present is the want of a House of Commons elected by the people and the Ballot. The present one is the creation of aristocratic bribery and intimidation ; an d Free Trade energy, and its sympathies with have play e d th e game of despotism and cotton, Russia, and ruinously enfeebled the policy of the War. A House elected by the people last year would have compelled Ministers to do their duty, and other persons to let Ministers alone. The General, naturally enough, adverts at the close of the pa mphlet to his own rejecti on i n a borough majority of fully twenty to ene f o wher e es voted at the hustings, as a proof of the adp of the present s y stem to give full a tedn rm a s We regret to believe that, in o most malignant of all, was the immediate cause of a eff dd ec it t io t : tthoethsecruestvu'al scre w, another influence, the the disgrace incurred by the borough of Bradford. immediate ancestors and to himse lf, as a firm Notwithstanding what Methodism owed to his friend of religious liberty, and what Catholics owed to him as a most efficient advocate of Catho lic emancipation, yet the selfish mean Toryism of Conference Methodism, and implacability of an offended Cardinal, are understood to have caused the loss of the election. The odiousness of eccle siastical pride and ambition were never more re voltingly exhibited. In common with some of the best English Catholics, he had denounced the " Papal aggression"—all his vast services, services which had indeed made " the aggression" possible, were wholly forgotten ; the spite of priestcraft knew nothing of gratitude for the past ; he was put under the ban ; and an ambuscade of Catho lic electors were kept till near the dose of the poll. These tools of the priest and the priest's master, were to plump for his exclusion, reckless of the disgrace, if they could by so doing turn out the friend of Religious Freedom, although ad mitting thereby one who was thoroughly opposed to: Catholic liberties if, on the contrary, the " old Colonel" would in any event be returned, they were to vote for him, and save their credit as Liberals ! Of course, the Ballot would come in aid of malice and hypocrisy like this. It would, however, in Bradford, even with the present con stituency, have defeated the nefarious conspiracy by liberating the votes at the mercy of the great iron-founder, and of other wealthy Tories. Were the suffrage universal, or approach ing to it, with the Ballot, honest politicians of genius, like the General, could be returned for fifty places with ease. As to the pamphlet before us, judiciously pub lished by the Ballot Society for the almost nominal price of threepence, it must have great weight with thinking men, while those whose political reading must be entertaining as well as instruc tive, will not want the desired condiment hero. The numerous persons who are well acquainted with the writer's power of striking the fire of wit from apparently unpromising topics, will not need any literary recommendation from us. The General has often reminded us in this respect of one of our most remarkable old writers on quite a different class of topics—FULLER, the Church historian who, while never weary himself of those parts of his subject which in themselves aro as dry and barren as a Russian steppe, spontaneously and naturally enlivens them—even dry catalogues of names—with his jovial humour. You dare not pass over a page from which in other writers the running title would deter you, for fear of losing a hearty laugh. It is much the same with the General's " Catechisms" and " Fallacies ;" while he is hunting through every nook and corner in the sophistry or unconscious blunders of clever opponents, you may not venture to take a short cut any where for fear of losing some of the best of the sport. The General bimself is no bush fighter. He always meets his man openly, fairly setting down his uncurtailed argument, and placing his own answer in a parallel column. Every reader is made a second to both parties, and sees with his own eyes all fair, nor is it difficult for him to see afterwards whose shot has told. The Fallacies are taken from the Edinburgh Review, from the speeches at the last Bath election, from the debate on the Ballot in the House of Commons, and from the late SYDNEY SMITH'S well-known Whig article on the Ballot, with a notice of a few unfathered fallacies. Each receives its distinct reply, yet varied as are the forms of the errors exposed, and epigrammatic and pointed as each reply is, yon 'Awn find that you lose much by reading, the first time at least, as if perusing a book of pro verbs. There is a concatenation of reply, and a preceding stroke of humour or wit has so pre pared for the greater effect of those which follow that the reader who would thoroughly enjoy this exposure of solemn-faced political special pleading must read. consecutively. Much of the " an , swerer's" vigour is wisely put forth in answer to the great Whig wit; a wit who never employed I his rare talent so unfortunately, and whose argu ments have been the stock in trade of ante-Ballot Whiggism ever since. The epigrammatist is, and we think judges less liable to suspicion of parti ality than ourselves would agree with us, fully a match for the wit. To • every man of literary opinions o n th e B a ll ot, the t as t e , w hatever his duel will be one of no little interest. General THOMPSON does not forget his old feli citous adaptations of some homely illustration as an answer to a host of fallacies. Noah's ark, the rat trap, the fl o wer pots, skc., will long be re membered by corn-law repeaters. Almost the same part is played by "sealing letters" in this tract. It meets you when you are least thinking of it, as the amusing yet convincing exposure of some stately and pretentious fallacy. The prac tice of clubs and courts'-martial is also worked against the aristocracy in the most novel and telling modes. We need not tell those who are familiar with Colonel TEOMPSON'S former writings that they will not find here the " old thing over again for the hundredth time," and nothing but " stereotyped arguments." Nothing here is ste reotyped but the work of the printer, a very judicious proceeding, we should think, on his part. Where so much is quite of novel interest, yet can never require alteration, it is worth while to save the cost of repeated compositions. Etis Royal Highness Prince Albert having been ap. plied to, on beha lf of the Plymouth School of Art, for donation, has repli ed, through the Hon. C. B . Phipp s, a that when 1251 . have been collected his Royal Highness will add the other 251 . to make u p the sum re quired. The health of the Countess Fortescue, who is at pre sent at Castle Hi ll, Devon, continues to im p rove. The Earl and Countess Grey are at present entertain. ing a select circle of visitors at the family seat, Howick hall near Alnwick. The noble earl and countess purpose remaining at llowick-hall until the week before the re assembling of Parliament. The Duke of Leeds has arrived at the Clarendon from Hornby Castle, near Catterick, Yorkshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely arrived in Paris, on Thursday last, from Bavaria. The Marquis of Downehire has taken the mansion, No. 24, Belgrave-square, formerly the residence of the late Earl Ducie. Viscount Palmerston left town on Saturday, for Broad lands, Hants. The Viscountess Melbourne and Vis. countess Jocelyn and family are at present staying on visit to the noble viscount and viscountess. Lorn Dunkellin proceeds from the Crimea to India, as secretary to the new Governor-General. Captai n Daniel, of the Bengal Cavalry; Captain H. Teerich Fitzhugh, of the Royal Artillery; Captain A. Hunt, 3d Dragoon Guards ; Captain Macdonald, 93d High landers ; and Captain Bouverie, 35th Bengal Native Infantry, will be aides-de-camp to his lordship. Sir Roger Palmer and family have left their seat, Cefu Park, North Wales, where they have been residing since the close of the London season, for Kenmure Park, county Dublin. Sir John and Lady Crewe and Miss Lovell have left the Clarendon for Calke Abbey, near Derby. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has taken Lady Stuart De Rothesey's mansion, on Carlton House Terrace, for a term of years. SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday.—The Peninsular and Orien tal Company's screw steam-ship Nubia, Capt. Powell, left this day for the East Indies. She will be stationed on the route from Calcutta to Suez. She was heavily laden with coals and stores, and previous to her departure her speed was tested at the measured mile in Stokes Bay. She averaged upwards of 11 knots per hour. The screw steam-ship Alma, Captain Grainger, of the same com pany, will leave on the 26th lea., and proceed to the same destination. MAGNITUDN OF RUSSlA.—Russia is the greatest un broken empire for extent that ever existed, occupying vast regions of Europe and Asia, and nearly one-sixth of the habitable globe. It is 41 times the size of France, and 138 ti mes that of England. Yet it was too small for the ambition of Alexander, who is reported to have said, " I insist upon having the Ealtic to skate upon, the Caspian for a bathing-place, the Black Sea as a wash-hand basin, and the North Pacific Ocean as a fish pond." He encroac h e d on Tartary for a pastur e, on Persia and Georg ia for a vineyard , on Turke y for a garden, on P o l an d for a farm, o n Finland and Lap land as hunting ground, an d t oo k North America as a place of banishment for offenders. The entrance to the Sea of Azoff will be closed to merchant vessels on that day. The authorities of Paris continue to prosecute the butchers guilty of infractions of the ordinance of the Prefect of Police relative to the assize •f meat. toriously unpopular. Iniquitous ? Its origin and its object are at once its noblest vin dication ! Unpopalar ? Let Lord PALMERSTON appeal directly to the popular feeling of England as the Emperor NAPOLEON 111, has already done to that of the French multitude—and a decisive answer may be given forthwith to the babbling of these undiscerning or unpatriotic demagogues. The appeal made by our ally to France was finan cial. Let ours be Parliamentary. It will be equally cogent. The touchstone with our neigh bours, the test, the criterion, call it what you will, was the Loan. Let ours be the immediate dissolution of the present Parliament. The result of such an appeal cannot be questioned for a single instant. It is already apparent, indeed, through the willingness evinced by the nation at large to submit to any burthen, so that the just and popu lar War upon which it has deliberately adven tured be only carried out henceforth vigorously, energetically, thoroughly. Englani is spending upon this War, just now, upon an average, 1,000,000/. sterling every week. France is said to be disbursing each week yet more enormously : above 1,500,0001. it is calculated. Neither of the two countries complains under the infliction. The commerce of both flourishes uninterruptedly. France indeed has twice asserted her ardour for the prosecution of the struggle in a way altogether unmistakeable, namely, by the unexampled promptitude and prodigality with which her citi zens accepted the terms of the two last Loans prof- I ferrei to popular competition by the Imperial Government. Let England be afforded at last in her turn some kindred opportunity. LA this opportunity be afforded us, we repeat, by the instant dissolution of the Imperial Parliament. The craven Peacemongers say that the War with Russia is unpopular. Let them be answered. We want Mr. COBDEN to learn whether the War is popular or not from the lips of his consti tuents of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Wo want the electors of Manchester to decide to the heart's content of Mr. BEICIIIT whether their sympathies are with the heroes of the Crimea or with the huckster in g dema g o g ues of the hour—. these They en who would c han g e the throne into a co tton to ayarde unpopular, measure. declare the present bale and the sceptre War in ar to be traducers of tke fair fame o f En g land. Let the country be appealed to for a decision. They want an answer. to the country with Let them h ave it. Never would a British Statesman g o an election-cry so potent as that indicative of the twin ca use o f—th e Russian War and the French Alliance. HEAVEN send Lord PALMERSTON may not disappoint th ose exc ellent gentlemen, the Peacernongers, by allowing Christmas to pass by without hi s h aving first of all seize d thi s to him, to England, t o Europe, i nes timable and golden opportunity. We earnestly hope that the mismanagement of the War since the capture may not f luring the winte r of Sebastopol and the subject of a protracted inquiry in the a pp roach i ng session. In some respects we have certainly profited by our improbable very dearly bought experience. It 'is that our soldiers should have to encounter such extraordinary privations and hardships as those which operated so injuriously to the health and comforts of the parties last year engaged. Thanks to the indefatigable and judicious exeetions of Co lonel Mclklußno and the Land Transport Corps, the men will no longer be enduring the tortures of LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, Nov. 10. The Jourdain has come in, with accounts from Constantinople of the Ist inst. Admiral Lyons had arrived there ; and Admiral Bruat was expected on the 10th, with all his sail ing vessels, bringing 8,000 of the Imperial Guard, on their way to France. The news from the Crimea is to the 27th ult. The Russians have erected new batteries to answer the Allied battery called the Bilboquet, but with no effect. The fire of the allied batteries against the northern forts, as well as that of the latter against Sebastopol, was very warm. The troops had returned to their cantonments from the Upper Belbek. The country there was becoming impracticable; but more troops had been sent to Eupatoria. The garrison left at Kinboura by the Allies consists of three French battalions, supported by artillerymen. The main body of the expedition has just come back to Eupatoria. 50 vessels, laden with corn, from the Sea of Azoff and the Black Sea, had passed through the Bosphorus. The latest accounts confirmed the statement that Omer Paella was marching on Mingrelia. MADRID, NOT. 9. Marsal, the well-known Carlist Chief, and several of his band, have been taken prisoners. No further bulletins of the cholera are pub lished. The Government bas laid before the Cortes a bill to abolish the practice of farming out the salt and tobacco monopolies. THE ALLIES IN THE CRIMEA. ( From the Special Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) HEIGHTS OF BALAKLAVA, OCT. 30. Monday next will be the anniversary of the glo rious battle of Inkerman ! Should the Russians again attack us as they did on the sth of last No vember they will at least not take us by surprise, and will most assuredly be beaten as thoroughly as before. Our men are burning to have another brush with them. Strange to say, several English soldiers who fought at Inkerman, and some of whom, it is said, were officially reported as killed, have this week returned to th© Crimea in M.H.S. Agamemnon, which vessel, with many of our gun-boats, is still at anchor at Kamiesh. At pre sent these poor fellows are detained as close prison ers in camp till courts-martial can sit on them, according to the rules of the service. One of these men is Private Alexander Mackenzie, of Perth, a private in the 42d Royal Highlanders, who was taken in the plain of Balaklava on the 29th of December last, when returning to his own regiment, after visiting his brother, who was sta tioned in the front before Sebastopol. It was night, and missing his road, he unfortunately fell into the hands of three Cossacks, who unexpectedly pounced upon him, and on his running away, being un armed, knocked him over the head with a lance, stunned, and took him prisoner, and so he re mained till a week ago. On his capture he was placed in a hut for the night near Tchorgoun, and next day taken to head-quarters. Altoge ther, he says, he was treated well enough, especially at impheropol, where he got some white loaves ; and at and after leaving Vronish, and during a journey of some 1,300 miles he had little to complain of, receiving plenty of , black bread (2 lb. a-day), and soup twice a-day, as well as 20 kopecs a-day in money. Good white bread was purchaseable at 2 kopecs the lb., 10 to 15 eggs for 3 kopecs, and good meat 2i kopeca .per lb. The Russians would not allow Mackenzie to write any letters, excusing them selves by saying that pens, ink, and paper were very dear. At one place he met a Scotch gentleman, called Christopherson, and some English in Kerekoff, among whom were a Mr. Eldred and a lady, of whose kindness he speaks highly. He reports that Odessa is strongly fortified, with plenty of "mud batteries," bui neither there nor elsewhere did he observe much drilling going on. There is very little news in camp. I am going into Sebastopol to-day to see the new French batteries, which have been erected for the especial purpose of showering iron compliments upon Fort Constantine. The firing during the week on both sides has been heavy, except upon one brief occasion. For hours we seldom hear a shot. This is the case to-day. The Highlanders are erecting their huts rapidly, and in about a fortnight may occupy them, owing to the energy of Sir Colin Campbell, who, to expe dite business, pressed native arabas and other con veyances into the service with an energy worthy of a Scottish chief " of the good old time on the borders." _ _ _ Some of our sporting men are.divided upon the question whether Sebastopol is yet taken or not. This is the subject of many bets ; some arguing that as we have the city itself, the place is taken ; while others contend that as the enemy occupies the northern forts, Sebastopol is not yet captured. The harbour of Balaklava is very full of ship ping ; many vessels are still in the roads, and un able to find a berth inside in the tiers, while seve ral have prudently (for November gales are at hand) weighed and departed for Kamiesh and Kazatch. The Scots Greys gave a dinner in camp at Kadi- Kenny, on Thursday last, Oct. 25, the first anni versary of the Battle of Balaklava. The banquet was given by the non-commissioned officers of the Greys to the non-commissioned officers of the In niskilliugs. COL DE BALAXLAVA. P.S. After riding over to head-quarters to post my first despatch I accidentally fell in with an antiquary of the first water, and in a state of in tense excitement, owing to the news that has just reached him of a curious discovery in this part of the new military road from Balaklava towards Sebastopol. While excavating, several " crocks," the height of a tent, have been suddenly discovered, and a cave. Not only human bones are turning up, but interesting gold and silver articles of various descriptions. The rumour is true, and I despatch these few lines to say you shall soon hear more from me on the matter. Nearly a whole regiment will to-day be engaged in further excavations. Let me add, as my pen is in my hand, that the docks of Sebastopol are now mined, the parts num bered off, and in a day or two we are to be treated to " a blow up" that will somewhat astonish the Russians on the north side. General Crauford arrived in the Crimea yester day. The quidnuncs say he is to succeed General Simpson as Commander-in-Chief. FRANCE. The following paragraph occupies the first place in yesterday's Moniteur : " When measures of general utility are adopted by the Government, they who are in anywise in convenienced by them give vent to recriminations, and often with a view to their own interest, and in a spirit of malevolence, circulate rumours of a change in the ministry. It is in this way that rumours of this description have within the last few days been spre a d a b ro ad. In censuring these devices with the severity they deserve, we declare that the rumours of ministerial changes are wholly devoid of foundation." A decree in the Moniteur of Saturday makes the following . diplomatic appointments :—Baron Bre mer, Councillor of State, to be Minister Plenipo tentiary at Naples, vice M. Delacour, named Coun cillor of State ; M. Lefebvre, Councillor of State, to succeed Baron Brenier as director of the funds and accounts of the Department of Foreign Affairs; M. Benedetti t o b e Director of Political Affairs, at the Department of Foreign Affairs,. vice Lefebvre ; Count de Monttessuy, Minister Plenipotentiary at Florence, to the same post to the Germanic Confederation, vice the Marquis do Tallenay, who retires on a pension ; the Prince de Latour d'Auvergne, Minister Plenipotentiary at Weimar, to succeed the Count de Monttessuy at Florence ; and the Viscount des Meleizes Fresnoy to succeed the Prince de Latour d'Auvergne. A grand banquet will be given by the city of Paris, at the Hotel de Ville, on the 17th, to Prince Napoleon and the Imperial Commission of the Universal Exhibition. After the banquet there will be a reception'in the salons of the Hotel de Ville. The Commandant-in-Chief of the French naval forces in the Black Sea, in concert with the Eng lish Admiral, has fixed the 20th insta:it, as the period when all neutral vessels must return from the Sea of Azoff if they desire to escape being caught in the ice and detained there all the winter. RUSSIA. The lnvalide Russe, of the 4th, announces the loss of the Russians in their unsuccessful assault on Kars to have been 6,527 men. Three generals, it is added, have since died of their wounds. The Gazette of the Senate of St. Petersburg pub lishes an Imperial ukase, authorising the recruiting offices of the empire to register recruits even when they belong to provinces not comprised within their respective jurisdictions. This measure is intended to render the operation of recruiting more expedi tious. The Emperor has lately given Gen. Luders the regiment of Praga ; this is looked on as a very peculiar mark of favour, seeing that Gen. Luders has not as yet been in active service in this war, and this regiment is one that had distinguished itself the most in the defence of Sebastopol. It is expected that a much more important part in the campaign than has hitherto been the lot of General Luders will shortly be assigned him. A. letter from Odessa, of the 30th, in the Aus trian Gazette, says :—" Accounts from Nicolaieff state that the Boug has been rendered impassable below that place by the sinking of vessels laden with stones and sand. The same has been done in the Dnieper, below Kherson. The Allies are con structing batteries at Kinbourn, in which they are mounting some ships' guns of very large calibre. The French troops which occupy it are 3,000 in number. All the inhabitants have quitted Otcha koff, and are encamped in the plains near it." TUSCANY. Accounts from Tuscany represent the financial embarrassments of the Government as becoming very serious. The last report of the Minister of Finance on the budget of 1854, which was believed to be a very favourable statement, showed an increased de ficit of 2,000,000 scudi, which, on a gross revenue of 36,000,000, is no inconsiderable sum. This de ficit is said to have been caused principally by the expense incurred by the Austrian occupation ; but whatever the cause is, it seems the Impiegati are in arrears, and the Government was obliged to raise a loan of 4 millions to stay the murmuring, and the way in which this has been done will be found edifying to all Ministers of Finance. It appears then that the Minister of Finance wrote from Florence to the Governor of Leghorn to get the loan made, and the Governor, instead of employing the house of Batogi, which usually undertakes these affairs for Gov3rnment, applied to other parties who agreed to furnish the sum required at 5 per cent. When Batogi heard of this he went to Florence, and com plained to the Minister that he had been unfairly treated. Whereupon the Minister toldthe Governor he must break his agreement and employ Batogi. This he did, but Batogi after all could not make up the money, so the Governor was at last obliged to revert to the first parties he had engaged with, but who then raised their terms to 8 per cent., and with this was obliged to close. SPAIN. We have received the Madrid journals of the 4th. The Gazette announces that the province of Lerida has become completely freed from insurgents, and that the French Customs offi cers of Arles-sur-Teeti had arrested two Carlist chiefs who were just about to cross the fron tier, and had found a largo sum in French gold in their possession. In the Cortes, the Mi nister of Public Works had brought in a bill authorising the Government to concede by pub lic competition the railway from Madrid to Sara gossa, by Guadaljarra, Signenza, Calatayud, and to give a subvention at the rate of 240,000 reals for every 1,000 metres (1,093 yards). The line is to be terminated in five years, and is to be conceded for ninety years. In the event of no one offering to execute it, the Govern ment is to commence the works with a credit of 260,000,000 reals, which sum is to be raised by an issue of shares bearing 6 per cent. interest, and enjoying the privilege of being accepted in pay ment of purchases of national property. The 4th being Sunday, the Stock Exchange was not open. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. This day the United States Mail steam-ship At lantic, Captain West, which was to leave New York with the usual mails from the United States on the 31st ult., arrived off Holyhead at 12.30 noon. She is expected in the Mersey this evening . LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The Atlantic has arrived, with advices from New York to the 31st ult., and $630,000 in specie. The Union had not left New York on the 31st having put back to repair machinery. Tke Washington correspondent of the New York Herald writes on the 23d " Letters of recall have been sent out by the State Department to Mr. Buchanan, not immediate, but to be used when in his judgment the interest of the public service will justify his leaving London." He writes again on the 29th— "There are, I see, some doubts expressed about the advent of a new Ambassador from Russia, but I repeat that it is a fixed fact. He will bring, besides his regular credentials, a confidential communication from the Czar, of the most important character, relative to the terms on which alone Russia will consent to a peace. What I now state will be known to the public in a few weeks. "Russia mediated between Great Britain and the United States, and now the United States may mediate between Russia and the Allies. " She does not ask American mediation, bt.t will ac cept it, and will at once:indicate her terms, which as I stated in a former communication, will embrace such vast commercial advantages for all the world that the in dustrial classes of France and England will clamour for their acceptance as soon as they are generally under stood." The George Law had arrived at New York with the California mails of the. sth October, and $1,670,477. The J. L. Stephens had reached Panama with $1,184,399, $213,992 of which were on English account. The crops would, it was predicted, prove abun dant, and business generally was taking a still more prosperous turn. Accounts from New Grenada report the banish ment of General Melo. Nicaragua was in a wretched state, owing to the civil dissensions of the people. Business was at a stand BUIL Colonel Kinney expected a reinforcement of 900 settlers from Alabama and Mississippi. The Colonel had concluded a treaty with the Indians, by which he would be enabled to penetrate to the interior in safety. Advices from Mexico report the resignation of President Albarez, and the appointment of General Comonfort. At New York tho threatening aspect of mone tary affairs in England and France was still the most profound topic of discussion in financial and trade circles. ARRIVAL OF THE ST. LOUIS. • SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY. The United States mail steam-ship St. Louis, with the American mail, arrived this morning. The St. Louis left New York on the 29th of Oct., at four p.m., and arrived off Cowes this morning at five aon. She brings three days later advices, a cargo of flour, and $610,606 in specie. The' steam-ship Union, which left New York for England on the 20th ult., after being two days at sea, wa s compelled to put back owing to the breaking of her shaft. The mails were transferred to the St. Louis, and another smaller mail was made up, which this vessel also brought. On the 2d inst., at 9.30 a.m., in lat. 45 50, long. 54, the St. Louis exchanged signals with a British barque, showing No. 5,830, second distinguishing p e ndant ; Nov. 5, at 11.30 p.m, , in lat. 48 17, long. 40- 51 , passed a steam - Jhip bo und to the west ward. The Ariel and Hermann had arrived out. The 'New York papers are silent on the subject of enlisting recruits for the Crimea in the United States, in which it was reported our minister at Washington hall taken a p ar t ; an d the matter ap pears to have died away. A question relative t o th e purchase of prize ships is now being discussed. Th e f o l lowing article upon this subject is taken from the New York Times : "The French consul at the port of Boston has given official notice to our 'citizens that the title to ships of a hostile nation, which they may have acquired by pur chase since the beginning of hostilities between the allies and Russia, will not be recognised by his Govern ment. This attempt to erect the peculiar and local law of Fra nce an d t o announce the general rules of inter national law in respe c t t o th e purc h ase o f w belligerent ships by neutr a l s on thi s s i de of the water , i s one h a h ie_ might intimidate a we a k na ti on , b u t have quite contrary effect here, th oug h th e p r obability of the French government ever being put in a position to enforce eit is s principl e s, so f ar as th e U n it e d States are concerned, destroyed nn very remote ind ee d. Th e R uss :ans h the he s t part of th e i r nava l did there would be a forces, are ture any French ships, and if they not likely to cap ture say bad market for them. "Some three months since rest ingNl!.Cramnputront,ernriotworyby in under the stigma of having violated Crimea, called for the opinion of our Government assisting enlistments for t the u pon this very questio n . Upon that oceans:lw. the Attorney general of the States after reviewing the whole subject in a very learned and masterly manner, concluded as follows : " Upon full consideration, therefore, of all the rela tions of the subject, there remains no doubt in my mind as to the right of a citizen of the United States to pur chase a foreign ship of a belligerent power, and this any where, at home or abroad, in a belligerent port or a neutral port, or even upon the high seas, provided the purchase be made bona fide, and the property be passed absolutely and without reserve ; and the ship so pus• chased becomes entitled to bear the flag and receive the protection of the United States.' " Whatever room for doubt there may be as to some of the details of this opinion of Mr. Cushing, as upon the right of purchase of belligerent ships and property while in transitu on the high seas—and upon this point Ame rican jurists have intimated a contrary opinion—upon the main point, upon which a position is taken directly repugnant to that of the French consul at Boston, we believe he is sustained by most authoritative writers, as well as by reason and good sense. " It is difficult to justify, to an unsophisticated mind, the distinction which the usages of war have established between the private property of an enemy's subjects on the high seas, and the same property on an enemy's territory. In the former case the property is seized as a lawful prize ; in the latter it is respected and remains inviolate. "Perhaps the tendency of the present age to soften and moderate the harsh practices of war will result in the abrogation of this questionable distinction and lead to a general respect for private property, whether on the ocean or on the land, by all civilised belligerent powers. It is a matter of just complacency and pride to Americans that the efforts of their Government on all subjects affecting the common interests of nations have been uniformly exerted in this liberal direction; and it cannot be doubted that, should difficulties arise between ourselves and France in consequence of their conflicting views as to the legality of the purchase of belligerent ships by neutral nations, the rights of neutrals will find, as heretofore, an uncompromising and dauntless cham pion in the United States." Later news has been received from Havannah to the 23d October, by which we learn that Morales, who was sentenced to death by the military com mission, has received commutation of his punish ment, through the clemency of General Concha, to eight years in the chain-gang, to be served in Havannah. Business was good for the season ; 50,000 boxes sugar yet to find a market. Freight scarce and declining. The French war steamer Acheron bad left on the 23d, for a cruise to the westward. The health of Havannah was perfect. The Havaunah papers contain nothing in the least degree important. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Oct. 29. The past week has been one of very considerable ex citement, resulting on Thursday in a general breakdown of prices, under a feeling of distrust among the operators for a rise amounting almost to a panic. The next day brought with it a reaction of 1 to 2 per cent., but on Sa turday the leading speculative stocks closed in the after noon nearly as low as they were forced on sale on Thurs day, viz. : —Erie, 498 ; Reading, 871 ; Galena. 1154 ; Michigan Central, 932 • Southern Michigan, 92 ; Illi nois Bonds, 76 ; Cumberland Coal, 25 ; Transit Com pany, 16 ; New York Central, 884. The money market through the week was fairly sup plied with means for discounting business paper. The hanks took a large share of the short bills offered by their mercantile customers, at 7 per cent., and the bill brokers were buyers of three and four months' dates at Bto 10 per cent. We heard of some transactions at six montt sat 12 per cent. The sudden fall in prices at the Stock Exchange brought in a considerable amount of orders on Friday and Saturday, though not sufficient to check the depression at the very close of the week. De mand loans at banks were not readily had, nor were the leading outside lenders prepared to do much for th• brokers. The foreign houses, that generally have means placed in this way, find their calculations partially dis turbed by the stringent turn in the London and Paris markets, and have resorted to larger shipments of gold than they had expected to use in October. The market for exchange is not active, but rates are steady. The supply of bills is considerable, with but a moderate demand from remitters. Sterling is Bto 94, with little or nothing doing above 9 per cent. Franc', 5.224 to 5.171. The foreign trade returns for the week, at the port of New York, are again favourable in the export move ment of breadstuff's, which reaches 969,721 dole. against only 152,871 dole. same week last year. The following is the comparative statement of the ex ports of the principal articles of domestic produce and miscellaneous goods for the week, and corresponding week of last year : 1854. 1855. Quantity. Value. Quantity Value. Cotton, bales Flour, bushels 11,416 89,660 70,903 624141 Corn meal, brls and tees Wheat, bushels - 153,378 316,993 Corn, bushels Pork, brls 2,483 31,234 1,118 23,189 Beef, brie Bl9 1,255 407 6,509 Total produce Miscellaneous 309,003 1,253,873 1,242,398 54.2,777 Total for the week 1,562,876 1,785,175 FLOUR AND MEAL.—State and Western brands are moderately inquired for by home dealers and shippers, while they are comi ng f orwar d an d b e i ng o ff ere d for safe with less freedom. Hence prices display renewed firm ness and regularity. The speculative demand has par tially subsided, but without occasioning any uneasiness among factors. The sales which have been effected have been mostly at rates within the annexed range : dole. dole. Ordinary State Straight State Favourite and Extra State Mixed Western __. . ._ .... Common to good Indiana and Michigan 8 874 to 9 12t Fancy Michigan 9 00 to 9 25 Common to Good Ohio 9 87 1 to 9 12} Fancy Ohio Extr'a. Ohio Extra Indiana and Michigan Fancy Genesee Extra Genesee , 9 14 ta . 9 37i 9 25 to 10 25 9 25 to 10 25 925 to 9 50 9 50 to 11 25 GRAM—Wheat of passible quality is in limited sup ply and good request, at upward tending rates. Other kiwis are plenty and depressed, being partially unnoticed by purchasers. Canadian white (nominally), 2 dols. 12c. to 2 dots. 20c. ; Western white, 2 dole. 16c. ; ditto red, 1 dol. 85c. to 1 dol. 95c.: Southern white, 2 dole. 15c. ; and ditto red, 1 dol. 80c. to 1 dol. 95c. per bush. Rye is dull and heavy, being mcra freely offered, while it is but in slack request. Barley is rare and inactive. Oats are in better supply, and ars now obtainable at 48c. to 49c. for Western, and 46c. to 47c. for State, per bushel. Corn is in moderate demand at about previous quotations ; Western mixed at 94c. to 97c. for very in ferior to strictly prime per bushel, mostly within the range. COTTON is firm at the following prices : NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION. Uplands. Florida. Mobile. N.O. & Tex. Ordinary B4. 84 8 Middling 9 9a 9 Middling fair 9 104 104 Fair Freights are again firmer, with engagements to Liver pool of about 20,000 bushels, at 11d. to 12d., in ship's bags, closing at the higher rate ; rosin, in lots, at 3s. 6d to 4s. ; and 1,000 bales cotton at 5.16 d. To London, 6,000 bushels grain at 14d. in ship's bags, and som rosin at 4s. 6d. per 3101bs. To Bremen, 3,000 bushels grain at 24c., and 300 bales cotton at lc. To Antwerp, 250 bales cotton at ic. , to fill up. The Shipping Liat gives for three days :—" Freights are without material change, though, if any thing, a firmer feeling pervades the market. For Great Britain there is less available room than last week, which, in view of slightly increased offerings of breadstuffs, has enabled shipowners to obtain the advantage again. Transient vessels are scarce, and command ready employment at remunerative rates in all directions : this is particularly the case with large ships adapted to the cotton trade. There is a scarcity of ton nage in all the leading ports of the Union, and the pro. bability of continued heavy exports of the leading staples of the country does not warrant the belief that there will be any material increase, at least for some months to come. We understand that some of our shipowners, who have vessels employed in the war service, have re. ceived offers from the Allied Governments of a renewal of their charters, but at a slight reduction from the ori ginal rates, and that some of them, having refused to accept any abatement, have been notified that their ships would be continued in the transport service for an luck* finite period, under a c l ause i n t h e old charters. A te . legraphic despatch was received yesterday from New Orleans, stating that all the unengaged ships in that port had been taken up to load cotton for Liverpool at id. The engagements to Liverpool include 140,000 bush. grain, closing at 11d. to 114 d. in bulk and ship's bags ; 3,000 bales cotton, 9.321. ; 1,500 boxes cheese and 500 pkgs. butter, 40s. ; 1,800 bbls. lower rate ; and by the Atlantic, 532 tcs. lard and 60 or 70 cases india rubber goods, 903. ; and 600 bbls. apples, ss. To Lon don, 3,000 bush. wheat, 15c. in ship's bags ; 30 boxes indiarubber shoes, 35 5. ; and 380 boxes spermaceti, 555.; the nominal quotations for turpentine are , ss. to ss. 6d. per 2801 b., and rosin is 43. 6d. per 8101b.' B e a y r n a tt th a t a n FoocutoNbLeArt:D we . l earn St. DESTRUCTIVEhn,s Folf nd raged till two a.m. next day, burni ng awful fire had bro ken out about seven p .m. on the pre. vious Tuesday, a R t is he lN 2ot N h E o w f out several hundred fishermen's families—in all, about 1,100 tenements. HEALTH OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—We are happy to be enabled to state that th e h ea lth o f the bishop of the diocese continues to amend. His lordship is progressing, though slowly, towards recovery.— John Bull. MARINE DISASTERS, &c. —Li verpool, Friday.—The Windermere, arrived here from Singapore, had on board the caotain and crew of the ship Hampton, Humphrey, from Shields to New York, which was fallen in with at 11 a.m. on the 27th of October, lat. 48 N., long. 13 W., in a sinking state. The crew was immediately taken off, and the Hampton fouLdered at 4 p.m. same day. The Joseph, from Ostend, in beating up the river this morning, ran into the Helios, from New Orleans, at anchor, and lost bowsprit, &c. The Helios did not re ceive any damage. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTER/1 RAlLWAY. — Traffic re turn for the week ending. Nov. 3, 1855 £6,037 8 10 Corresponding week last year 5,586 1 2 kgreue in 1855 OOOOOO £4 31 7 8 accou specu from be sai respo brisk. 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