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

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Good stapled solid Orleans, 6d. to 60. per lb., were still scarce, and make an exception in the general decline. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales, and comprise 200 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to 6d. ; 50 Bahia, 60. to bid ; 100 Egyptian, 6d. to 81d. ; 500 Surat, aid. to 40. ; and 60 Sea Islands, at 11d. to 1211 per lb. The Railway Share Market had not been much affected by the Bank of Eng land advance in discounts. There has been a steady demand for Colonial produce this week, and full prices have been cur rent. Sugar generally is 6d. per cwt. dearer, and most kinds have been briskly inquired for. Coffee at firm rates has been taken freely. Cocoa has ruled steady, and tea, though quiet, has been sup. ported. In rice a large business has been done at full rates. Spices have undergone no particular change, rum has been wanted, and saltpetre has not attracted much attention. Tallow has been higher. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during the past week there has been no revival of business in American Securities, and that the quotations continue to be nominal : Redeemable. Per Cent. United States 6 per Cent. 80nd5...1867-1868...1 0 5 107 United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...106 108 Canada 6 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1876,..114 115 STATE SECURITIES. California 7 per Cent. Bonds 1870... 80 82 Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ... 92A 93A Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) ...103 105 Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 88A 89 Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 85 86 CITY SECURITIES. Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85 RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, not Convertible 1875... 76 77 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort gage 1867...100 102 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort -1883._ 85 87 gage N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking 1875... 80 81 Fund Pennsylvania Central 6 p Cent., Ist M0rt.1860... 90 There is still a steady demand for money, with out any such activity in business as would account for an unusual absorption of cash. The caution observed among mercantile men is likely to bring about a contraction rather than as expansion of all operations not bearing upon the immediate con sumption, and the dearness of money at Calcutta, as reported by the express in anticipation of the Overland Mail, shows the probability of silver being still required here for remittance to India. The alleged proceeding of the Bank of France in buying up gold in the London market at a loss excites much attention, but it is the general view that the precious metal so obtained must inevitably be returned before long. Even this opinion, how ever, must be taken with reservation, since cir cumstances may occur before the paper given falls due, that would permit of its liquidation without the medium of bullion, the balance of trade being fluctuating ; and, counting for something as well as speculative exchange operations, a little relief, it may be concluded, will result from the dimi nished resort of Englishmen to the Paris Exhibi tion, where their aggregate expenditure this year must have been very considerable. The Funds opened rather lower this morning, and have been still flatter since. The Consols prices were 88/ and are now 88k to for Trans fer, while the quotations for Account were 88i I, and at present are 881 I. Exchequer Bills are par to 4s. discount. The Foreign Stock Market has been dull except for Turkish Bonds, in which a good deal has been done at rather firm rates. Sixes 841 to 85, and New Fours 11 to 11 discount. Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds have been 38 to k, and the Deferred 19i. Mexican Bonds are 21k. French Scrip is 1i premium. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. bring 64i to I. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20; Mexi can, 21k to 21i ; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 75 to 77 ; ditto Three per Cents., 56 to 58 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, 19} to 19i ; ditto Three per Cents., 371 to 38i ; ditto Certificates, 4± to 4i ; ditto Passive, 4/ to 5. Railway shares are much the same as they closed yesterday, and with not a great deal doing. The Antwerp and Rotterdam have improved. East Indian are lower and French heavy. Joint Stock B tnks are quiet and Canada Com pany's shares have fallen 101. to 151. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES, ( Front the Official List. ) Bwons. , non. 3 per Cent, Console Annuities BB4 8 i a (3ongols ?or Account, 12th October B Bi i 8 4 Etchequer Bills, 21d 2d. 21000 E5OO — par small — par Biehequer Bonds 1858, 3 3 / 4 per Cent , 99 lii Ditto 1859, ~ ~. 99 84 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS TUTS DAY. Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent lO2 Mill= 3 per Cent. Bpanisb Bonds, 3 per Cent — • Ditto for the Account 3B i Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto for the account l9i Tarkiah Bonds, 6 per cent B5 4R Ditto for the account 8 4 3 /4 5$ 44 i 5 Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. ----- .. - I)lvideod. on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent. Ditto Scrip•2nd Loan of 1855 li Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 64i i THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for the Account ... COLOGNE CHORAL UNION IN PARIS. PARIS, Sept. 26.—The Cologne singers, who gained so much distinction during their two visits to England, are in Paris under the auspices of Mr. Mitchell. They gave the second of a series of six concerts at the Salle Herry yesterday evening, and their success was such as has attended them elsewhere, and such as they must ever anticipate when before a discriminating audience. The room is small in comparison with our own concert-halls, and necessarily somewhat trying to a mass of unaccompanied voices, however per fect the intonation. This disadvantage was perceptible at first, but was soon forgotten as the singers warmed in 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 the well known "In einem kiihlen grunde," were all of them encored. The noble chorus—a posthumous work of Mendelssohn—" Der frohe wandersman"—was well selected for the finale. The rasping harmonies which the composer has given to the line " In berg und wold, rind strom und fold," 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 ohne worte" are only known by reputation. The entertainment was varied by two violin solos, per formed by Mr. Theodore Pixis—one the composition of Vieuxtemps, 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 France, there is not a gamin in Paris who is ❑ot a tolerable judge of a fiddle, and on this account It is a pity that Mr. Pixis did not at least make choice of com 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 new ; indeed, it was to be hoped that since they had lately been taken up by the ophicleide, that violinists would 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. The dividend on the Turkish Six per Cent. Loan has been advertised for payment. CHINA TRADE. — Telegraphic advices in anticipation of the overland mail from Chico, were received yesterday afternoon, dated Hong Kong, the oth August. The ex change at Canton was 4s. 84d., and at Shanghai 6s. 4d. A t Canton, it is said, there were no prospects of new ten arriving. 135 chops of old congou, mostly in bad co ndition, were all that bad been received. At tke same ti me there was no disposition to buy. The market at S hanghai bad opened at 22 to 27 taels per picu]. Very fe w teas had come down. Silk was still scarce and ex c e ssively dear. The exports of the new season had been 45 6 bales. Settlements were very limited. At Foochow six ships had been despatched. THE SUN; LONDON, FRIDAY EVgNING; SEPTEMBER to 1855; 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 meu 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 Itarabelnaia 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-plein 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 gun 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 foun,d 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 point. 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—l 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 w ork 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 Bedan du Carenage, Malakhoff, Great Redan, and (on the town side) the Bastion Centrale. The Redan die 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 Centrale 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 every part, and by means of the bridge and steam boats managed to convey their whole army across during the night to the north side. They then 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 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, Asc., 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 St. 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. The 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, Entre: sans framer. The soldiers amuse them selves with playing at pitch and toss, and shooting at cats, which are 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, and put 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. The 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." (Prom 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 Vinoy brigade, consisting of the 20th and 27th Regiments of the line, and the Ist brigade of the same division (Ist battalion of foot Chasseurs, ht Zouaves, and 7th of the Line), dashed reso 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 did not 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 winding 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 Liue) ; 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 PonteveF., 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 a pile of dead bodies, At this place General Bourbaki had been equally unfortunate. Ile 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, of the 14th, given in the Courrier de Marseille, says-- Without entering into details, which you will have had in the official despatche,, 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. Being 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, and 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 had not sufficient space to deploy in, and there fore contended under marked disadvantage. The French were in the end obliged 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'Mahon was firmly established there. Indeed, he felt himself so much so, that he wrote to the General-in-Chief the fol lowing lines--' I am in the Malakhoff, 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 resis ante 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 I Marolles, was dashing forward, when a formidable ex plosion behind the tower arrested its advance, blowing 1 up into the air the head of the column and its brave leader, not a morsel of whose body, uniform, or arms was afterwards found. Then the English, being aban doned to themselves, could not any longer hold their ground, and after having spiked the cannon and fired away all their ammunition, withdrew. From that mo ment it 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 Buossian 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 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 us believe in a series of battomies that did not exist. For some time past there had also 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 were 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 sizas. 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 the 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 from 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, snd 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 menade 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, toperpetuate 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 locked 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 been 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." for a sudden assault by throwing a continual showe of missiles into the place, and thus forcing tha 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 expose their men. The Bastion du Centre. As soon as the French were established in the Malakhoff the order was given for the attack on the other points. The attack 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 Reclan. 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 grape, 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 Malakh off 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 surrendei ed. 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 to enter Sebastopol. By Order. (Signed) . 12 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 having it in our power to offer him a little brandy. " Gentle men. ' said be 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 bad 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 the 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 brave as ourselves I' Such are the French soldiers; terrible during the fight, 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 wounded 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. Ho 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 in a sitting position, the upper part of his body supported 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, he rallied his remaining strength, took off his kepi, and wav ing it in the air cried, Adieu, my friends, Sebas topol is ours ! Vive la France ! 'rive rEtnpercur ! ' 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 he 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 servioe, was detached with 15,000 men to the Ukraine ; in December, 1769, the Russians fought and gained a great victory on the Don ; in January following the battle of the Bender, where an other of the Lacy family served with eclat. In 1787 Potemkin led his army against the Turks and Tartars in the Crimea so late as November, arid gained several victories up to as late as the 3(1 of December. Marshal Francis Lacy, of Austria, also led the Austrian armies to several victories on the Danube and 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 Ischatel on the Danube and Black Sea were stormed and taken between October and the ISth 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 Maurice Lacy, who headed the first attacking party, and took it after four hours' carnage. During these operations the Turks were masters of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azoff, and the Crimea. The nephew of that general, Cornet Pierse, also served in the war of 1828-9. PREPARATIONS FOR 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 l attern blankets and rugs, waterproof coats a n d ca pes, ox hid e boots, and Canada s t oves, 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 number have been forwarded to their destination. A GERMAN VIEW OF THE FALL OF foreign policy. He must again repeat that, had Prowls SEBASTOPOL. declared herself, Au,tria roust have acted with deciFion, and Russia could not have resisted a European coalition. The King and Government of Fru,sia were responsible for the rnanifo!d suffering entailed by a state of war. Several other toasts were proposed, and the evening concluded with feeli3gf of general satisfaction. The Augsbut g Gazttte, which is more or less open to Austrian impressions, and which, at all eTen expresses the opinions of a large class in Germany, makes the following comments on the fall of Sebas topol : " Sebastopol has fallen—fallen after a struggle which has not its equal in the history of wars—but yet fallen, and we have to consider the importance of this event, its certain and probable consequences, for is might happen that a more earnest and pressing warning than ever might be given to Germany to exchange its present neutrality for a position which, if it dies not place the decision in its hands, would at least make it participate therein. " The Russians have—and the Russians themselves put emphasis upon the announcement—voluntarily eva cuated the south side of Sebastopol. As if they had any other choice than to withdraw or to bury themselves under the ruins ! Since Prince Gortschakeff's despatch, concluding with the words `our fortifications suffer,' the catastrophe was simply a question of time, and the attack at Traktir-bridge was the last desperate attempt to avert it. The attempt failed. Sebastopol fell as it was doomed to fall, and when the Nord endeavours to demonstrate that it is only now, that the army is concentrated iii the northern forts, that there is unity in its action and movements, it is comically absurd. " We do not wish to overrate the event of the Bth of September, but we must not underrate it. The northern fortress may be a stronger, a much stronger fortress, but the south part contained everything which Sebastopol bad to defend—the whole of Russia's Black Sea fleet, I.nd all the resources of that fleet. All this is annilii lated ; and for at least half a century to come, even with out the stipulations of a peace, through the simple force of circumstances, the limitation of the naval power of Russia is an accomplished fact. The third guarantee point no longer exists. But there is a point of still greater importance. The prestige of Russia's invio lability is gone—gone in the East as in the West ; her whole power is shaken to its centre, and this especially because Sebastopal did not fall at once, and because it has only fallen now. " It would be superfluous now to investigate whether it was possible or impossible to have taken the fortress by a coup de main immediately after the landing in the Crimea ; but then Sebastopol only would have been taken, and Sebastopol is not the Crimea, still less Rus sia. But since then every nerve has been strained to keep the place. A. large army, always as numerous, often more numerous than the forces of the allies, has fought with bravery throughout, all the means of art and nature have been employed, and yet the Rus sians have fought in vain, and an incongruous host, with no other retreat than the sea, has beaten their army on its own ground, with an immense empire be hind it, and when the highest stake was played for the position of Russia in the Bast. Russia's military honour is safe ; for in her retreat she has left nothing but ruins and corpses, but her power has not the less received a mortal wound. •` Will the new phases of the war, will the fall of Se bastopol lead to a successful renewal of the peace nego tiations ? Russia will never make peace after a dis aster' is the haughty sentence attributed to Alexander 11. We will not touch upon it. If the Western Powers entertain the same idea, peace would never be possible. Russia will still be willing to negotiate. But there are reasons ti induce the Western Powers to be reasonable in their demands. They cannot sieze upon the heart of Rmsia, as long as Central Europe remains inactive, and perhaps they may now obtain an indemnification for war expenses ; afterwards, when Russia's finances shall have sunk to exhaustion, they will not. Are they to seek for an indemnification in Russian territory ! But where is the Russian territory that can have an equivalent value in their eyes I The Crimea may be a valuable pledge, but neither France nor England can wish to place it among the jewels of their Crown. And Germany ? Whoever has calmly studied the posi tion of Germany throughout the struggle must inevi tably be convinced that in the leading circles there has existed a secret sympathy for Russia, a secret hatred for the Napoleon dynasty. Frani reasons caused by the un mistakeable feeling of th© whole people the cause of Russia was not openly espoused, but a tacit support was given to it by inaction, and no idea was entertained of a-ting against Russia. The invulnerability of the Rus sian army was believed in Germany as long as the Wes tern Powers were alone in the field, and the quiet hope was entertained that Napoleon 111., like Napoleon 1., would knock his head to pieces against his powerful ad versary, and Germany reap where she bad not sown ; but the fall of Sebastopol has destroyed that belief and deceived that hope. Germany, it is true, has spared seine millions because she resolved to look on as a pas sive spectator of the struggle, but let us beware lest a e have ultimately to pay the piper with far more than those millions. More than once Russia and France have met on bloody battle-fields as enemies, and yet one year afterwards Napoleon and Alexander were discuss ' ing the partition of Europe ; and on the throne of France there is now another Napoleon, and on the throne of Russia a second Alexander." THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AT GORDON CASTLE. Thursday being the first anniversary of the battle of the Alma, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge being at the time the guest of the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, a large dinner party was assem bled by their graces at Gordon Castle to celebrate the day. The dinner over, and the duchess and other ladies having withdrawn to the drawing•room, The Duke of RICHMOND proposed " The health of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge." His grace alluded briefly, but with the most admirable taste, to the high command enioyed by his Royal Highness at the glorious battle of the Alma, of which this was the anni versary, and in which he had so nobly distinguished himself. The toast having been drunk with the greatest en thusiasm, His ROTAL HIGHNESS said, that although this was a private party, and assembled at a board where he supposed toasts were seldom proposed, he felt that he ought not to allow the one which had now been given, in so kind and flattering a manner, by his valued friend the Duke of Richmond, to pass in silence. To have had his name connected with the battle of Alma, in which he had for the first time sto,,d fire, and which was so glorious to the allied armies, gave rise in his breast, on this the anniver sary of that battle, to feelings which he could not ade quately express—feelings not so much of self-gratu!ation, a= of admiration and love for the brave and gallant men along with whom he had the honour to fight on that occasion. His Grace the Duke of Richmond, as an old soldier, was well aware that the distinguishing feature of the British army had always been its esprit de corps; and from his own observation, his Royal Highness could testify that that feeling thoroughly pervaded all ranks in the Crimean army. Amid many difficulties and pri vations our troops had displayed the most unwavering confidence in their leaders ; and he, as a general officer, could say that every order issued was at once obeyed, not only with alacrity, but with the utmost zeal and enthusiasm. No task that could be assigned to the re gimental officers seemed too arduous for them to per form, no duty too dangerous for their men to follow them. Looking round the table his Royal Highness saw seve ral whom he was proud to call companions in arms. On his Grace the Duke of Richmond's right there was one (Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar) who had endured the many hardships and sufferings to which regimental offi cers were exposed, not only without a murmur, but with the utmost cheerfulness and steadiness ; and all this, and much more, although his early training and former expe rience had been of a very different character. Next to the Prince, his Royal Highness said, he observed a friend of his, Captain Derriman, of the Caradoc, who, although he had had no opportunity of distinguishing himself on his own element, had yet been of essential service to the late lamented commander-in-chief, Lord Raglan. Further down the table, his Royal Highness saw one (Lieut. - Colonel Maitland (Grenadier Guards), who bora but too plainly the marks of the sufferings and dangers to which every man in the Crimean army had been ex posed, and who, by his gallant conduct in the field, had proved of what blood he came. Among those present, he also observed several officers much older in years and experience than himself, who had fought and bled for their Sovereign and their ecuntry, and with whom he was proud to be associated. Nor could he forget that his noble host, who knew by experience a soldier's perils and a soldier's feelings, had successfully exerted himself in procuring, for those who had so nobly won them, the decorations which it was their pride now to wear. He had had great pleasure in receiving the hos pitality of the noble duke, and in witnessing the esteem in which his grace and bis family were so deservedly held by those in the neigbbourbood of Gordon Castle and, before sitting down, he begged to propose "The Health of his Noble Host, coupled with that of the Duchess of Richmond." His Royal Highness left the castle on Friday morning at eight o'clock, much to the regret of all, having by his affable, courteous, and condescending manners gained the respect and esteem of all who bad the honour of coming into his presence. —Banffshire Journal. THE BANKRUPTCY OF C. J. MARE & CO. The meeting of creditors of the firm of Messrs. C. J. Mare and . Co., of Blackwali, shipbuilders, took place yesterday, to consider what steps should be adopted in reference to the management of the estate of Mr. Mare unt.l the meeting takes place for the choice of assignees, tiz , 12th October. A lengthened statement was made with regard to the causes which led to the suspension, especially tip, extents put in on behalf of the Crown, and the execution levied by an opposing creditor. It was stated that the assets reach 156,000/., against unse cured liabilities of 156,0001. ; but Mr. Mare's own state ment of his property is much higher, and reaches 261,000/ , showing an enormous surplus after paying 20s, in the pound. A committee of five gentlemen, in c]uding Mr. Peter bolt, Mr. Jones, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Cory, was appointed to act with the official assignee for carrying on the works for the pre sent. The following balance-sheets were submitted to the meeting, and the resolutions appended were agreed to neio. con. MEMORANDUM. The liabilities, after deducting assets, at certain estimated values, amount to £156,4G1 0 0 The assets, according to the statement, which is based upon rough estimates of immediate value, amount to Mr. Mare considers that the Blackwall pro perty, consisting of the freeholds, lease bolds, fixed machinery, and plant, hav ing cost 225,0001., is greatly over-esti mated in the statement, and that a deduction of 50,0001. is ample to cover all possible deterioration ; which enlarged estimate would effect an increase in the assets of 186,090 0 0 C. J. MIRE. 75,000 0 0 £261,090 0 0 £156,461 0 0 9,900 0 0 THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL. GRAND DINNER AT HOMBURG. On Friday, the 22d instant, a number of English, French, and Sardinian gentlemen visiting Homburg, dined together tat the Belle Vue Hotel to celebrate the taking of Sebastopol by the allied forces. The chair was occupied by Sir Alexander Malet, Bart., her Ma jesty's representative at the Diet of Frankfort. Covers were laid fer 40. His Excellency was supported by Sir William Fraser, Bart., Sir Boucher Wrey, Bart., Messrs. Huddleston, Vansittart, H. Beauclerk, Carey, Lawlor, Mitchell, Reed, T. Harris, Gould, Dr. Pry therch, Col. Macdonald, Capt. Cooper, Capt. Christie, Monsieur de Laurencin, Monsieur de Frochin, and others. The vice chair was filled by Capt. de Voccance. The room was gracefully decorated for the occasion ; and over the president and vice-president's chairs were sonic well-executed tableaux illustrative of the successes of our armies in the Crimea. After dinner, Sir ALEXANDER MALET, in proposing "The health of our most gracious Queen," eulogised the sympathy she had evinced for her subjects in the Crimea, a sentiment which identified her with her people. He congratulated the country on the prejudices which had been overcome, pitiful prejudices, suggested by interested individuals, to prevent a visit to the metropolis of France, which had done much to consolidate an alliance calculated to give 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 sheet, and see the lamp-posts and pavements seemel to call forth the remembrance that there are such things yet in the world. The houses, or I should spy man sions, that are passed one after another in the most frightful delapidations are 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 in 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 ycu 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 could be seen "scuttling" away from the s h e ll. 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 one of the streets I was attracted by the music of a French band, which was having its afternoon practice, and soon after the French drums beat their usual rap pelle, which warned us that sunset was approach ilia, Before quitting the place I pa id a hast y 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 - wa y to wonder that it is now in possession of the allies. I Roads Mended with Cannon-Shot. I came out of Sebastopol, and returned to camp by the Woronzoff-road. Here fatigue parties have busily engaged during the day in repairing and it is almost ludicrous to see the por bttiheloeenia road,o th e road that is done with round shot— large holes filled up with them, in other places large 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 one in mind of a road after garrison races, so great were the number who had obtained passes for the gratification of seeing what we have so long fought for. \ The Bombardment. The bombardment, the most terrific which, per haps, was ever directed against any place, was con tinued day and night for three days. It was not so much the demolishing of the earthworks or the dismounting the guns of the enemy which seemed to be the primary object of it, as to prepare the way Against 156,461 i liberty and independence to the civilised world. (Loud cheers.) " God save the Queen" was then sung by the whole company standing. His EXCELLENCY, in the French language, proposed "The health of the Emperor of the French," the most eminent and remarkable man of the age. (Cheers.) By the moderation of his Government, and the firmness of his determination, he had elevated the French nation in political importance, improved its internal prosperity, fostered science and the arts. (Cheers). He bad found England arming herself against him, and with a rare sa gacity had diverted those preparations against Russia, the national enemy. Loud applause.) The next toast proposed by the CHAIRMAN was " The Sultan and the King of Sardinia"—the one, with ad mirable constancy and self•confidence, resisting the power of Russia, whilst still uncertain of the support to he received from the Allies—the other, a small power in a Peninsula, of circumscribed dimensions, partially (e -cupied by foreign Powers, having the resolution and boldness to support by arms the principle of European reedom. Sir ALEXANDER Mauer, in French, said that there was an English proverb " that good wine needs no bush," so " The Army and Navy of the Allied Forces" needed no eulogy. The renown of the past had been equalled, if not surpassed, by the present. (Loud cheers.) Sir War. FRASER returned thanks. The curtain had just fallen on the first act of the fearful drama, which we bad been watching with intense interest for the last 12 months, and though the last scene bad shown a splendid ictory, be trusted that it was but the prelude to future uccess. (Cheers.) The great deeds of the four armies could not be separated—the unrivalled strategic defence of the line of the Danube, Silistria, Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and the not less glorious victory of the Teller na.ya, proclaimed the undaunted spirit of those troops. (Loud cheers.) Nations eminent for bravery and war like prowess must necessarily have been rivals, but now for the first time for centuries, the success of a French. man has been the glory of an Englishman. (Long and continued applause.) Capt. de VOCCANCE returned thanks on behalf of the French army, reciprocating the friendly sentiment ema nating from the meeting. "Th e healths o. Malec next gave, in Fren c h, Marshal Pelissier. Admiral Bruat, Ge neral Sim p son, Sir A. Admiral Lyons, Omar Pacha, and General de la Mar more "—lea braves entre les braves. The pages of his tory had never recorded a struggle of such gigantic pro- On the arrival of the Duke of Cambridge in Liver portions as that which these eminent commanders had pool an address from the Town Council will be pre brought to the present successful issue. (Cheers.) Min- sented to him. gled with these triumphs, we must, not forget a sad [ADeeausemeserl—Mothers and Nurses will find Du Barry's though grateful tribute to the memory of those that had delicious Revalenta Arabica Food admirably adapted to fallen ; the spirits of Raglan and St. Arnaud hover over remove all disorders of stomach and bowels to which la• the scene, the glories of which they are not permitted to fants and children are at all times liable, such as indigestion, enjoy. The health, then, of the "living, and the memory proposed "The health of flatulency, colic, dysentery, diarrhoea, constipation, debilit.Y. of the dead." (Great s ensation.) and restlessness. It strengthens, nourishes, and is used with than milk in rearing infants. We q uote a Sir WILLIAM FRASER then more advantage _ Stevenage, the Chairman " which was received with loud and few testimonials : No. 58,034, Grammar School, thusiastic app ' lause. en- Dec. 16, 1850. " Gentlemen,—We have found it admirably adapted for infants. Our baby has never once had disordered Sir A. Meteer regretted not havi ng b een ca ll e d u p on b ow els since taking it.—R. Ambler." Amsterdam, 31st Dec. to speak in German , but the absence from that room of 1852 . De ar Sir,—Our child, up to the age of elovAn weeks, any native of the country exempted him from that ne• w as very delicate and wasting away, eessity. Accredited to the central organ of Germany, arrowroot turned sour on its stomach, Revalentanggre a Arabica; We then fed it upon Du as he had the honour of beiee, he was pained to say that in g . pansk, sa t g e a , uff a e u r d which f tr e eed wonderfully with he nar ri r a Y 7 's d she is now the pulse beating in that heart of the land gave butlively little girl.—Daniel feeble throbs at the extremities. The policy of Prussia a s g e o vv e as. n wiide months, a plump a at the dan2o Sept. 1853. Dear Sir, — had altogether disappointed the reasonable expectations Our baby, whi e l b .va H n e k a ' pr esented us with ten months back, o f Englishmen, whose sympathies and relations had en- was attacked, when fourven weeks old, with a disease of the . ra. o . prescribe titled them to ex p ec t a con t rary re sult. (Sensation.) stomach and glands, by which our seven previous infants To the abstinence of that State from an activePartici" had all been carried off, and this last child seemed destined Holland, pation in the policy of the Western Powers towards to follow its sisters and brothers before many days, for our Russia he attributed not only the present state of "still - doctor, a very able practitioner, t had, l during h t a h t re t e weeks, ex. ties, but the commencement of the war. (Loud applause.) hausted when he a dvise( u arrest a ev o al ss en w ta A mea, which. " The health of the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg" ,next,l am happy to say, worked r change for the better in a was then drunk with enthusiasm. y • and, in six weeks time, the child was perfectly Mr. Haears wished to observe that the feeling attri- fewAudaieslis now a cheerful, blooming boy—a source of the all his s kill, and was a hilted to Prussia was only to be found in a certain quar- w er e e el e a s t, happiness to us all. This delicious rem e dy rosy ter ; that from observation, and from information de- fairly be considered one of the greatest blessings ever di sc o. rived from a source o f unques tionable authorityphe could eered.—With eternal gratitude, yours, tic., L. H. y e oman say that the major part of the nobility, the army, the In c anisters, 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b, 48. 6d.; filb. 1.1.5. ; 121 b. 22c, heir-apparent of the throne of Prussia and his amiable The 121 b., carriage free, on receipt of Post -office order. Barry Piccadilly & Co., 77, Regent-street, Lond on ; also at 182, spouse, entertained the strongest sympathy with Eng y ; 60, Gracechurch-street ; 330 and 451, Strand; land. (Loud applause.) 4, Cheapside • 60 and 68, Cornhi • red , ' II 49, Bi s hopsgate-street; . Sir ALEX. MALET wished it to be understood that his . ' 55 Charing-cross; 54, Upper Bake r-s treet • 63 and 150 . f obte rvations only applied to the King and Government o;ford-street ; 89, High-stre e t C am den -town ; 18, Fall. of Prussia. The maj orit y , to whose opini ons allusion m ali , 7, Pall-mall-Eaet • I:i2 , New Bond-street; 2 4 , Mot - had „ „ , h a d been made, bad, unfortunately, no means of making m b. str t . 13, King Willia m - s t r eet, City ; 30, Conduit* their opinions heard ; their press was shackled, and their I street; 21, Cockspur-street ; 95, Farringdon-street ; 67,81. Vb mhers were restrained from discussing questions of I Paul's Churcliyard; 6, p,l —.ward-street, Fortman•equana • APPROXIMATE STATEMENT OF AFFAIRS, SEPT. 20, 1855. DR. To creditors unsecured ... To creditors partially secured —amount of claims £179,361 0 0 Less estimated value of secu rities £115,000 0 0 137,900 0 0 41,461 0 0 To creditors fully secured— estimated value of securi ties .............................. 115,746 0 0 Less amount of claims ...... 103,156 0 0 Surplus taken as an asset per contra £12,590 0 0 CR. By stock at Blackwall Less extent E6G,000 0 0 ••• 3,000 0 0 By Great Western steam-ships Cost of constructi on Value of engines 1 2 7 1: 50 5 00 0 0 0 0 0 3,900 0 0 Proportion of exp enses 242,900 0 0 Liens thereon By Westminster Bridge works — Amount-expended in plant, wages, and materials... 87,000 0 0 Lesa received on account ... 50,000 0 0 37,000 0 0 By Saltash Bridge works 0 0 0 By sundry debtors' quarterly accounts 5,000 0 0 By works in progress, estimated am oun t d ue 12,000 0 0 m By a plus securities in hands of creditors, per contra 12,590 0 0 By estimated profit to be received on the completion of unfinished contracts 46,600 0 0 2186,090 0 0 Resolved—" That a committee of five creditors be ap pointedto confer and a d v i se w ith th e o fficial assignee 011 the affairs of this est a t e during the interval before the choice of assig nees tinder the adjudication of bankruptcy appointed to take place on the 12th of October next. " That the following gentlemen be appointed to a ct se the foregoin g committee :—Mr. Rolt, Mr. Jone 2, Mr. Cory, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hunter.' Jane , iini• , 26. $.lll.