The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-03 00:00:00

POSTPONEMENT OF PERFORMANCE. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. - Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMlTl7.—Acting Manager, 'Mr. Charles ttathews,—Stage Manager, Mr. Robert. Roxby.—The public is ye._ speeteully informed that this ESTABLISHMENT will OPEN for. the regular DRAM &TIC SEASON, under the Management of Mr. Z. T. Smith, on MONDAY, October 8, on which occasion Mr. Elliot Geier, Lacy Escott, Miss Lanza, and the Company will sing the National Anthem, and when the grand original and historical Zgyptian Drama, written by E. Fitaball, Esq., and which has i for grpwords of 18 months engaged the attention of the scenic, mechani cal, and decorative departments of this theatre, will positively be produced, with the utmost regard to splendour and accuracy of de tail. In accordance with this resolution to secure the services, when ever available, of the most talented artistes of the day, the Lessee has the greatest pleasure in announcing that he has engaged that inimitable comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, who will appear in a series of new pieces, written expressly for him ; and to strengthen the cast of which an engagement has also been made with the prin cipal members of the Lyceum Company. That distinguished tragic actress Miss Glyn, and that popular tr agedian, Mr. Barry Sullivan, will be , likewise found included in the arrangements of the forth coming season, while the scenic department will be under the Immediate superintendence of Mr. William Beverley. The Lessee, In thus inviting attention to the long-promised Egyptian Drama, which will be produced on Monday, October 1, feels it necessary to state that, so connected as everything relative to Egypt is with mystery and ingenuity, he felt it incumbent upon him to spare neither trouble nor expenditure in order to present a manners,curate picture of the regal and domestic history, habits, and customs of that extraordinary nation, at the Pharaonic period, and to reproduce, as far as possib . e in scenic accessories, those colossal masses of granite and porphyry, and those gigantic statues, whose enormous dimensions, overwhelmed by the shocks of nature or the fury of the elements, have been scattered fn ages past over regions at present inaccessible, or buried deep beneath those arid and urn ng sands which have been at once their tomb and their protection. That nothing( may be found wanting to give a completeness to its production, the piece will he sustained by the highest dramatic talent, ani Innstr ited by artistic and mechanical effects of entirely novel construction. Herodotus, Denon, Willdnson, the libraries of the British and Imperial Museums at London and Paris, together with other authorities, have been carefully consulted to insure the most rigid correctness in all the details and appointments; and in thns reviving the associations of a people that existed upwards of 4,000 years Aga the Lessee hopes to make the stage present a com bination of amusement and instruction hitherto unknown. Rather, however, than speak himself of what has been done, he leaves the laurels to be distributed by the public to those artistes who will be found to have distinguished themselves, and confidently in vites the critic and the antiquary to judge of its merits and attest the fidelity of the most minute details. The ancient ant modern authorities consulted by. and the whole of the Egyptian accessories made and modelled under the efitire superintendence o Dykwynkin. The scenery, entii , ly new painted by Messrs. f Nichols, Cuthbert, Richard Cooper, G. Gordon, Agile, and assistants. The gas ;fittings by James Palmer and as sistant*, Th <striking and novel costumes by Mr. Palmer, Mi , s Bradley, and assistants. The trophies, idols, properties, &c., are all new. Ymperty-Master, M. Needham, and assistants. To give greater effect to which the orchestra (20 feet) will be covered and added to the stage (the largest in the world). The incidental dances arranged by Madame Louise. The overture and music by 11. Laurent, Esq. Director, Mr. J. H. Tully. Machinist, Mr. Tucker and assistants. The following artistes have been already engaged: —Miss Glyn, Miss tnderton, Miss Cleveland, Miss M. Oliver, Miss Talbot, Mrs. Frank Matthews. Mrs. Selby, Miss Robertson, Miss Wadham, Miss De Vere, Miss Topham, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. R. Roxby, Mr. E. Stirling, Mr. A. Yeuntte, Mr. George Wild, Mr. Edgar, Mr. w M San, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Craven, r. Templeton, Mr. Laporte. The Ballet :—Madame Louise, Miss ltosina Wright, Miss Charles, Mdlle. Therese, Miss Smith, miss Brown, and 24 ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The orchestra will be enlarged and complete. A full and efficient chorus from the Royal Opera, end upwards of 300 auxiliaries will he employed in the procession and pageantrles of the Egyptian drama, presenting a coup d'mil of surpassing magrt. licence and grandeur, occupying the whole of the largest stage in the world, the whole of the orchestra being converted into the stage. In course of preparation a grand historical drama, by W. J. Robson, Esq., author of " Love and Loyalty." The box-office, under the direction Of mr. E. Chatterton, open from 10 to 6. The theatre will be open at half-past 6, and commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the 3 anagement of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. WM be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS. After which, THE PRETTY GIPdEY AND THE BULL FIGHTER. Followed by COURT FAVOUR. After which, a BALLET. To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. J. H. Anderson, 18, Norfolk-street, Strand. Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio ! THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock, Will be presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint ments, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two parts, by Professor Anderson. After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF AN-HOUR WITH THE SPIRIT 4 , being the most surprising and interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any theatre. 84,721 persons have visited the Lyceum already to see the Grew Wizard of the North. Prices of admission:—Private 111xes, 1/. 11s. 6d. and It. ; Orchestra Stalls, 45.: Dress Boxes, 34 ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Grand Morning Performance ou Saturday Next at Two o'Clock doors open at Half-past One. rtOYAL STRAND TTIEATRE. Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS ItVglel).TO. Will be performed THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Followed by LA CHALET. To which will be added THE BUMP OF BENEVOLENCE. To conclude with SALLY SMART; or, The Clockmaker's Hat. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Nana:Tr, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Tremendous excitement ! Electric effect andincomparable success TEM EVENING, A Grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, by J. H. STocQUELER, Esq , called, The FALL of SEGASTOPOL ! After which the skilful GYRATIONS of EQUESTRIAN ART in the C ERCLE, including the Champion Vaulter and the French Troupe of Voltigeurs. The effect produe.d by the stage and ring being formed into one vast battle-field, with a host of auxiliaries and a su pers stud of hor is one beyond all precedent ! The Fall of Sebastopol will be acted every everting. Dox-oftlce open from Eleven V.ll Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Wvt. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, M. W. Cooke. sun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIM DAY—Morn. 39 min. aft. 6 —Evening 9 min. aft. 7 TO-MORROW—Morn. 44 min. aft. 7 gvening 34 min, aft. S THE WEITHER.—SIIN OFFICE, Oct. 3. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 20'71. WIND, S.W.—Rather fresh, with dull rainy weather. ,LAI L.,14.1 3111. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1855. We have repeatedly directed public attention to the untoward operation of the Royal Marriage Act, or rather of the custom which renders it in dispensable to obtain a. consort of blood royal for one of our own Princes or Princesses. It is an ancient delusion, founded on the alleged "right divine" of kings, that " the common puddle " which stagnates in the veins of ordinary indivi duals cannot commingle with the sacred ichor of those born on the footsteps of a throne. The natural affections were supposed to have no place amongst those of exalted birth. The feelings of ordinary humanity could have no influence on their hearts. They were to be offered up as exalted victims on the dynastic altar, and the happiness of their future lives completely destroyed to support a worn-out, and, what we trust will speedily become an obsolete, prejudice. There has been a glorious precedent established. A truly Imperial reformer has afforded a brilliant example, which cannot be disregarded by the Court which received the fair EUGENIE with such heartfelt cordiality. We rejoice to find that a very powerful and energetic auxiliary has entered the field in sup port of the views which we have so long advo cated. We earnestly commend the admirable article, which we have extracted from the columns of the Times, to the attentive considera tion of the community. It is indeed one that Fill bear thl most stringent examination on every point. There is not a single argument which can be controverted, or which will not carry convic tion to every unprejudiced mind. These Royal marriages have almost invariably been ppttions of the great conspiracies o f dynasties against peoples, framed for the pur pose of coercing the popular will, and avert ing or putting down with the strong arm, and the red hand, the expression of national exe cration. It is a portion of the detestable system that ssbjects high-minded races to the tyrannical domination of men of the 130 MBA class—half knaves, half fools—who cax profit by no lessons, however striking. But "the great fact" has been announced by a statesman, who now occu pies a high and influential position, that " king doms have no cousins ;" and wo trust the proper deduction may be drawn from that glorious prin ciple. England has repeatedly been seriously in jured in consequence of the matrimonial alliances of the Royal Family. She has never profited, : even to an infinitesimal extent ; and it was not the least of the blessings that inaugurated the accession of our most gracious QUEEN that it pro duced a complete separation of the . English and Hanoverian Crowns. There is most decidedly no - inclination to procure the junction of another German Kingdom with that of England, and we oaanQt coiceive a greater national calamity than that which would unite the- Crowns of England and Prussia on the same lultad—a junction that would inevitably create a new revolution, and lead to the most serious inconvenience to all classes in society. It is at this time that the popular 'voice should be uplifted—before a fine family has been sacrificed—when a noble victim is actually bound at the vary horns of the altar. Our gracious QUEEN cannot be insensible to the future hap piness of her own children. She has witnessed the results of the system in the family of her grandfather, has seen how the numerous offspring of GEORGE 111. were immolated at the shrine. Let her carefully consider the consequences to her numerous uncles and aunts—reflect how dif ferent might have been their lots had they been permitted to contract suitable marriages at home. If she do so, she must be desirous of avoiding the rock on which so many promising vessels have been shipwrecked. It is notorious that at this moment a new marriage is contemplated, against which every true-hearted Englishman should protest while there is yet time. The heir presumptive to the Prussian throne has returned from Balmoral, after putting forward his pretensions to the hand of the PRINCESS ROYAL, now in her fifteenth year, and scarcely qualified to judge for herself on such a point. Nor has the question been broached for the first time. The project was put forward five years ago, before the young Princess had emerged from the nursery. We repeat the startling in terrogatories which the Times has so boldly put forward. "Is it, then, or is it not, expedient that a daughter of Eng land should take her place upon the Throne of Prusssia ? And, in forwarding such a match, are the parties principally concerned consulting the happiness of the young Princess, or the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her dominions ?" We believe that there will be com plete unanimity as to the answers on these points —that every Englishman and Englishwoman throughout the length and breadth of the land will emphatically negative the propositions. But there is even a greater danger, and one not so very remote, that it should not be guarded against. What if the male scions of our Royal stock should die without issue ? There aro happily three promising youths—but there are instances on record where even a greater number were passed over, and noble heritages devolved on unexpected owners. What, then, would be said if England were annexed to Prussia—if our Sovereign were, for the safety of his German territories, transferred into a vassal of the AUTOCRAT, desirous of ruling his British dominions in accordance with the Russian or Prussian system May the omen be averted ! It would, indeed, be an event as fatal to the na tional welfare and happiness, as we fear these marriages de convencences will, if persisted in, prove to the felicity of the fair and princely vic tims of this most impolitic and indefensible system. We had. hardly dropped the warning on Mon day that, unless the people looked well to it, we might after all lose the Crimea, than the danger is confirmed. " Our own correspondent" himself describes the first step. " Our Sappers and Miners are at work sinking great mines to blow in and destroy the 'unrivalled docks, which have cost Russia so much anxiety, money, and bloodshed ; and if it were not that they were intended to be, and have been, accessory to insolence and slaughter, one would regret that such splendid monuments of human skill should be scattered to atoms. But the fleet of Sinop° sailed thence, and were re paired there on its return ; and they were built, not to foster peace and commerce, but to smite and destroy them." Now, we feel the mischief of Parliament not being sitting. There is no one with authority to ask, and no one to give an authoritative answer. The danger was felt •:nd proclaimed in the House before Parliament separated of leaving our Mi nisters to commence again negotiations for peace which might commit us to points as worthless as the "four " of Vienna before we had opportunity t,o intervene, leaving us nothing but the barren power of censuring those who had disgraced and defrauded us. The power to choose unquestioned a policy for the War is as dangerous as the power to select bases for a peace. The pompous decla mations about the undoubted right of the Crown to declare war and make peace must pass for what they are—empty phrases. They mean the power of the Government of the day, under the fiction of saving the dignity of her MAJESTY, to sell the results of an. our expended blood and treasure to aristocracy, despotism, Germanism, or anything else they please, with the penalty, at the worst, of being sent to the Opposition Benches for a while, but with the reward of Court favour and of aristocratic approval. Yes, the ap proval even of that portion of their fellow-aris tocrats who, for party purposes, denounce them in Parliament, while in their own drawing-rooms they whisper that thesefellows we have turned out served "the order" admirably well after all. PEEL went out of power for serving the people, and he had his reward in the people ; " the order" gave him the cold shoulder. A Government who went out for such things as "sparing Olessa or Ismail, or giving back the Crimea to Russia," or " respect ing her territorial integrity and dignity," would repose pleasantly in the lap of Court and Tory favour, and care but little indeed for the contempt of the people. Unless an election impendel they would not care at all. In default of. any one to answer, we must ask the common sense of the country what can. be meant by this fact, described by an eye-witness, the visible preparations for blowing to atoms the splendid docks of Sebastopol ? It is inexplicable if the Crimea is to be permanently retained by any of the civilised powers of Europe. Diplo matic perversity will hardly all oge that they would be a lasting inducement to Russia to aim at the reconquest of Sebastopol. They would be but one item of many inducements ; little indeed compared with blotting out the disgrace of conquest, and with the possession of an other wise strong naval and military position. No— the real reason must be a veritable Russian one ; —the intention to leave the CZAR his town, but to leave it a perfect ruin. The burning, sink ing, and blowing up policy; the genuine barbarian 3pite, stronger than all considerations of senti ment or huma.nity,—this, no doubt, is the motive for recklessly destroying such "splendid monu ments of human skill." Lord PALMERSTON told the Northamptonshire farmers that the Allies in tended thoroughly to humble Russia the humbling, therefore, is to be done a la Russc. " There, take your Crimea again ; we do not mean to do such a democratic thing as to keep back territory which an Imperial despot has once appropriated. We will never suggest to the oppressed by Austria or Prussia, or by Russia itself, the possibility of oppressors losing the lands they oppress—we are too real aristocrats for that. No, take back your Crimea again, but take it back with the marks that we beat you out. and-out." Well, that would be humiliation—but, we think, humi liation to us quite as much as to Russia. Most humbling Vandalism, most humbling policy. Of course Lord PALMERSTON would not live to see it—perhaps Prince ALBERT and our treacherously advised SOVEREIGN might not. There cannot, however, be a shadow of doubt that Russia would quickly commence the restoration of the pirate's nest ; that English money market would soon be tightened by loans to repair the military and naval mischief we had done, and that in the "rise of Bank interest," and " less accommodation," we should soon be literally taxed to restore these noble works. But, besides the weighty considerations of avoiding humiliations of an enemy degrading to ourselves, and a policy which would sacrifice in a few years all we have gained, the civilising, the noble uses to which Sebastopol and its docks might be applied, and the infamy of handing over the graves of the heroes of Alma, Inkerman, Balaklava, the Tchernaya, and the siege, to the CZAR and his serfs, ought to stir the blood of all France and England. The dust of the Crimea is, alas ! now, to a sad extent, the dust of the bravest of France and England. Russia, and her superstitious Church, began this broil by a quarrel about a holy sepulchre, the site of which no mortal really knows. But the Crimea is but a too well-known land of holy sepulchres— of sepulchres holy to the affections of thousands of the kindred of the victorious dead. Surely ten thousand families of all ranks in England and France will rise up and forbid this gratuitous de secration of their holy sepulchres. And, then, to think of what these docks and Se bastopol might be. Why here we have accommo dation for the Great Britain, we presume, and the Himalaya themselves. Here, made to our hands, we have the mechanical means of supporting a traffic which might vie with that of Southampton and still larger ports. And for destroying all this our consolation is to be that these docks sent forth the murderers of Sinope and healed their wounds ! As wisely take vengeance on the blun derbuss of Russ and give him back the fragments, instead of placing it for ever beyond his power to repair and use it again. We have already shown the vengeance which humanity and policy alike point to. Take the Crimea for ever from Russia ; give it to a commercial nation—say Sardinia let it be a stipulation that Sebastopol shall be for ever a free port, .free to all the nations of the earth ; or, if any exceptions be made, let the three leagued despots be the only ones. Let it be the more splendid Hamburg of the East. That is the policy which all honest politicians must , know to be the best for the interests of civilisa tion in all the vast territories within reach of traffic through the Euxine, and the policy which alone will really humble Russia, because it will destroy alike her prestige and her means of effec tive military communication with the East. Alderman SALOMONS is now " Lord Mayor of great London," and a worthy successor, no doubt, he will prove of the legendary WHITTIIGTONS and modern BECKWITHS. To be sure, the elite of his subjects have deserted the narrow territory over which he reigns, and have left him little but the custody of their counting-houses, shops, and ware houses; and even Lord Mayors themselves stay in their now half-depopulated capital no longer than they are compelled to do so. Still it is re garded by the citizens of the old central portion of the modern London as a high civic honour to be their Lord Mayor. He has the honour of belonging to an unreformed Corporation —one which quite disagrees with Mr. ACLAND and the Commissioners as to its needing any reform. He is not like their Worships of Bristol or Liverpool, or even of York, a Mayor of a " new series." He has all the value of a genuine antique, and rides in a coach made, we forget when, perhaps in the time of the TUDORS ; and though ASTLEY, it must be confessed, can beat his exhibition of the oth of November, yet Mr. ASTLEY'S is a modern and mercenary display. The procession of Lord Mayor's Day is as ancient as traditional memory—a part of the Constitution itself—and, out of pure patriotism, is paid for by My Lord Mayor, not by us—that is, we do not give our shillings and half-crowns direct to see it. If we be taxed for it, it is in the true Royal style ; you are not allowed to see the money go direct from you to him. Rumour and Radicalism foretell Mayoralty Reform in the spirit of the age—we suppose when the War is fairly over. Civic Pu seyism may, however, prove too strong for the irreverent tendencies of too many ; and, like the new churches all about us, the Mayors may re tain the forms of the middle ages, though made of modern materials. Mr. SALOaIONS, to the honour of the citizens, be it said, has not knocked at the door of the Mansion House in vain ; nor would he indeed, we acknowledge, have tried to no purpose at St. Stephen's, unless Lord SHAFTESBURY, and the Lords spiritual and temporal had tied the knocker. We are loud, all of us, just now, in praise of education as the great panacea for all social evils, for bigotry and persecution amongst the rest. Yet Lord SHAFTESBIRY and his bishops would probably resent being put on a level with the citizens of London in respect of education. How, then, are we to account for the superiority of London Citizens, nay, of London Aldermen, to vulgar prejudices, which bestride the souls of Lords Spiritual and Temporal ? The citizen less bigoted, less persecuting than the Lord !—and the Leader of those Lords, too, the Earl of SHAFTES BURI Disguise it how they will, the exclusion of a Jew from St. Stephen's is a punishment, a disability at the best, inflicted on account of the difference of his faith. He believes in the Law and the prophets, he believeS in ONE FATHER, and in a MESSIAH to come ; but not in the MESSIAH who has come. He believes all that ABRAHAM, and DAVID, and ISAIAH believed, and for which we assign them a place among the blessed ; but not all that PETER and PAUL believed. For this difference Lord SHAFTESBURY and his friends, as we suppose, shut him out of Heaven, for certain they bar in face the door to earthly honours. The citizens cherish, what we think, more Christian sentiments. Our LORD certainly did not teach his followers to exclude Jews or Heathens from the honours of this world. Indeed so strong are many of hie weightiest sayings in the opposite direction that earnest and sincere Christians, in every age, have frequently abjured worldly rank, and chosen voluntary poverty. Surely there is vastly more to ba said, on Christian grounds, against Christian Ministers being Lords temporal—State Lords—and Lords spit:tua'L ;—_ and even against Lord SHAFTESBURY wearing any title but what a Quaker would give him, than there is for a Christian's refusing a Jew the full privileges of a citizen. We quite sympathise with Mr. SALOMONS in regarding his election as a tribute to the rights of conscience. Men educated at common schools, and disciplined by the intercourse of commercial life, somehow understand those rights far better than the men of Oxford and Cambridge. Educa tion is, indeed, but a small part of it to be gained from school-books, or from books at all. Many nations of political slaves surpass Englishmen in that kind of learning. The education of free in stitutions, parochial, municipal, and political, of a free press, and the right of a free meeting, is, after all, of more value than all the primary schools, and higher school education of Pi assia, Austria, or any of the German states. There is no reason why we should not enjoy both kinds of training, but, really, if one must be surrendered, we should say make a bonfire of the books and leave us our freedom. Educated slavery will not do for Englishmen. It is just the house which is least accessible to all the influences of our free institutions, which now stands alone in the Legis lature as the persecutor .of the Jews. Highly educated, and chiefly in the scholarship of the ancients, immovable by the popular will, and re sponsible only to the fears of revolution, it still compels a Jew to swear by the faith of a Chris bian,—to play the hypocrite, or to suffer political annihilation—because he is a Jew. It not only denies him entrance within its own doors, but forbids him admission to the people's House, although the people have elected him. It cannot be doubted that the Corporation of London may sustain a most advantageous comparison with the House of Lords on the greatest of all questions— that of Religious Liberty. Rank, refined manners, and hereditary power cannot atone for narrow mindedness in religion, and are but a poor com pensation for the manly sense, albeit united with comparative illiteracy, which distinguishes the Livery and Corporation generally of London. The defects of our social system naturally strike an intelligent foreigner more forcibly than our selves. He comes among us eagle-eyed, and pre pared in all respects for observation. Unlike us, " to the manner born," the power of custom ra ther sharpens his perceptions than dulls them. Accustomed to the various phases of society else where anything peculiar to us at once attracts his attention, and if it be something to our disadvan tage it will be none the less, but rather all the more curiously inquired into, and made the sub ject of comment. His standard, too, unlike ours, which, unless we have had his advantages, is to a certain extent ideal, is real, something existing, and consequently more precise and readily avail able. Hence whatever exception he takes to any portion of our habits and manners is deserving of thoughtful consideration. More than this would be unjust, for, on the other hand, if his powers of perception be rendered for a time more acute, we cannot be assured that this is the case with his sense of justice, for the prejudices of race, cus tom, and education cannot be supposed to be ex tinct in him, and we all know how powerful these are to bias the will and pervert the judgment. There is a sort of stranger critic, however, whose remarks upon us are the result of as keen a per ception as that of any American, Garman, or Frenchman, and must be regarded with much less distrust, not to say greater respect—and that is a patriotic Englishman, sensitively alive to the greatness and glory of his country, who has spent the greater part of his life in its service abroad. Such a critic is that gallant soldier, the Earl of ALBEMARLE, as his speech the other day at Ban ham, and the circumstances under which it was spoken, sufficiently testify. The Earl, it appears, " like a fine old English gentleman," takes pleasure in the happiness of those under him, and is so enlightened as to de sire that that happiness shall be as fully partici pated, and of a nature as conducive to their social welfare as possible. He attempts, therefore, with the aid of the clergy and gentry of the neighbour hood, at a very eligible opportunity, on his return from abroad, to gratify his inclinations. He will have " Harvest Home " a festival of general and elevating enjoyment. Instead of a rude and inebriating feast for male labourers alone, he will have a festival in which their wives and daughters can participate ; and at that festival he will tell them, in the kindliest manner, what he believes may be of service to them. He will tell them some of the faults of the social systam obtaining among them, so as to induce them to commence the work of reformation. In the execution of this design the speech in gnu,- tion was delivered to the labourers of the loc1 1 ;ty after a tea meeting, attended by some 3,000 persons. And what has the Gallant Earl discovered which may fairly be taken except& to ? Is it the inefficiency of the English labourer as compared with the labourer abroad ? By no means—he is the finest labourer in the world. Nowhere are thews and sinews turned to such good account. But he is not content with this—the gallant Earl, proud as he is of his country, has had to blush for the social condition of the British labourer. His patriotic pride has been wounded to wit• ness the superiority of the condition of the French labourer in several regpects. He would have that superiority cease, and he would not have the British labourer beaten in the art of holiday keeping for one thing. Your French labourer, with much less physical force at command—shame to tell it—is more manly. He has regard for the happiness and welfare of his wife and family ; unlike the English labourer, he cannot enjoy himself, and leave them miserable at home. The Earl would have the English la bourer emulate conduct so laudable. This, how ever, is not the only respect in which the latter is inferior to his continental rival. The French labourer does not deem it necessary to get drunk at holiday-making—to wallow, like the English labourer in the grossest species of enjoyment— and the Earl would have the latter come over to the same opinion and practice. Neither would he have him go about seeking jar gess like a beggar, and that to obtain the means for such enjoyment, nor to haunt public houses where the process of imbrutation is carried on. But above all he would have him equal to the French labourer in this, in refraining from trifebeating, that dastardly practice which makes your foreigner to regard our state of society with disgust ! It is to be hoped, in conclusion, the labourers he addressed will cease from faults so glaring and so kindly pointed out, and that others will follow their example. NEW MUSIC. Pianoforte Compositions. By E. F. Fitzwilliaui. D'Almaine and Co., Soho-square. These are very excellent, though unpretending, productions, and we have derived much pleasure from discussing them during a rainy day. Mr. itzwilliam promises fairly to a3hieve that degree of popularity which industry and talent deserve. There is great variety in these morceaux, em bodying execution and taste, " The Page of Pre ludes" especially, and young students would do well to practise them. Let Mr. Fitzwilliam remem ber that melody is the soul of music, while scientific manipulation is the body, and with this in view he cannot fail to take a prominent place in his pro fesssion. BANK OP ENGLAND. OCTOBER 1, 1855. The Governor and Company of the Bank of England hereby give notice, that they have established a branob of the banking department of the Bank of England al Uxbridge-houee, Burlington-gardens, and which is no open fir business. Banking business in its ordinary branches is transacted. Private and commercial accounts are kept—purchases and. sales of stock effected—post bills issued—money transmitted to any of the country branches of the bank—and plate and securities may be deposited by parties keeping accounts. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, OCT. 1. Tier Majesty the Queen and the Prince, accompanied by Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, attended Divine Service at the parish church of Crathie yesterday. Toe service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Barr. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were :—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir Wm. Moles worth, Lerd Panmure, .Sir Chas. Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The Corned sat three hours. The last official bulletin of the health of the King of Sardinia is of a favourable character. The whole popui lation have shown the most lively concern for his Ma. jesty's indisposition. CREATION OF THREE FIELD-MARSHALS (From last Nig7tt's Gazctte.) WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 2. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the following promotions in the army, viz, : BREVET. TO BE FIELD-MARSHALS. General Stapleton Viscount Comberm ere, G.C.8., Oct. 2 General John Earl of Strafford, G.C.8., Oct. 2. General Henry Viscount Hard Inge, G.C.8., Oct. 2. GENERAL SIMPSON AND COLONEL WIND HAM'S PROMOTIONS, GENERAL ORDER. Horse Guards, Oct. 2. The General Commanding-in-Chief has received her Ma jesty's most gracious commands, that Lieutenant• General James Simpson, Commander of her Majesty's Forces dur ing the late arduous and finally successful operations, which have led to the fall of Sebastopol, sha'l be promoted to the rank of General. The Queen has also been most graciously pleased to com mand that Colonel Charles Ash Windham, C. 8., shall be promoted to the rank of Major-General, for his distin guished conduct in heading the column of attack which as saulted the enemy's defences on the Bth September with the greatest intrepidity and coolness, as specially brought to the notice of her Majesty in the public despatch of the Commander of the Forces, dated 9th Sept., 1855. By command of the R:ght Hon. Field-Marshal VISCOUNT HAItDINGE, Commanding-in-Chief. (Signed) G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General. BREVET. Lieutenant-General James Simpson to be promoted to b a General in the Army, for distinguished service in the Field. Colonel Charles Ash Windham to be promoted to be a Major-General in the Army, for distingtf shed servi ce in the field. Sir John and Lady Pakington arrived at Uliock's Royal Hotel, Bowness, Windermere, on Saturday, from Scotland. SEIZURE OF A SUPPOSED RUSSIAN VESSEL.—The barque Wester Norrland, Lundholua (sailing under Swedish colours), has been seized in the river, on suspicion of being engaged in the Russian service. She del'vered a cargo of timber in the Commercial Docks, and is now detained in the West India Dock. The following are the names and ranks of the Russian and Finnish officers who are now on board the Persever ance for Libau to lie exchanged :—Captains Torevsky and Esauloff ; Lieutenants Niteitin, Agafonoff, Per hinsky, and Grotenfelt ; Ensigns Stankevitch, Luneff and his wife, and Lubemoff and his wife ; Cadet Groten felt, brother to Lieutenant Grotenfelt. There are also 61 soldiers from the Devonshire. The members of the Dublin Natural History Society, with Lord Talbot de Malahide as their chairman, enter tained Professor Allman at a farewell dinner on Friday, on the occasion of his leaving this country to assume the chair of natural history in Edinburgh. MOSQUITOES IN THIS COUN T RY. —A. gentleman at Birkenhead, during this summer, was bitten by mos quitoes, and a professional entomologist states that a few weeks ago he took three of these troublesome in sect pests of warmer climes in the place called " Boggart Ho' Clough," near Manchester. MURDER AT HEREFORD. —A girl named Morgan died yesterday morning in the Infirmary at Hereford, from injuries inflicted upon her by some navvies on Saturday night. These men, while in a state of intoxication, went to a disreputable part of the town, and, having entered a house there, burst open a door on the second floor, pulled a woman out of bed who had but recently been confined, dragged her down stairs and kicked and beat her. They then got forcible entrance to an adjoining house, kept by the girl in question, They seized her, and not only beat her with their fists, but with a rolling 'pin. A crowd assembled on the alarm beheg given, and toe men attacked the police who came to apprehend them and escaped. Five of them, named Ford, Wilson, Williams, Scott, and Sm;th, were , subsequently appre hended, and the police are in search of two others who are known to have formed part of the rang. The in jured g:rl gradually got worse till yesterday, when she ,died as above stated. MR. WARLEY AND THE PAROCHIAL AUTHORITIES OF ST. PANCRAS.—Yesterday, at a numerous meeting of the parochial authorities of St. Pancras, held in the Ves try-hall, King's-road, Camden-town, Mr. B. Bright in the chair, Mr. Birchmore, the relieving officer, presented a report, prepared by order of the board, on the subject of an inquest which was concluded on the 18th Septem ber on the body of an illegitimate child, named Edward Johnson, when, although a verdict of natural death was recorded, the coroner, Mr. Wakley, had attributed want of proper attention on the part of the paro chial authorities. This report having been read, the meeting, after some discussion, unanimously adopted the following :—" That in the opinion of this board the con duct of Thomas Wakley, E eq., as coroner for Middle sex, during the inquiry into the cause of the death of Edward Johnson, an illegitimate child, was uncalled fur and highly reprehensible." This, said Mr. Stockton, was the mildest way in which they could express,to Mr. Wakley the indignation they felt at his unjustifiable at tack upon the characters of honest and independent men. THEATRICAL ACCIDENT.--A few nights ago, during the repeesentation of the Noccs Folitiennes, at the theatre of Marseilles, one of the actors, named Desire, in a meee on the stage, received a severe stab in the arm from a poignard, which, unfortunately, was not one of those usually made use of in such mimic warfare, but a real weapon. The performance, however, was not in terrupted by the accident, for the actor, in the agitation of the moment, did not perceive the accident until he had ret;eed from the stage, when he found himself bleed ing profusely, and soon after fainted. The wound was immediately dressed by a surgeon, and Desire conveyed to his lodgings. At the close of the performance, a re • port of the accident having got abroad in the house, the manager was called on for an explanation, as the wounded man is one of the particular favourites of the public at Marseilles. The Marseilles journals have since stated that the actor just named is going on so well that the wound at present causes no disquietude. MURDER OF A SWISS SOLDIER AT CANTERBURY, Emanuel. Elsner, a Swiss soldier, belonging to the Bri tish Legion, now lying at Canterbury Barracks, was yesterday brought before the Mayor and magistrates of that city, charged with the wilful murder of Johnn Boch, a private in the same corps. It appeared from the evi dence of the witnesses that shortly after 9 o'clock on Sunday evening, while the drummers and fifers were in toe infantry barrack square, the deceased proceeded across the square, and took up one of the drums. The prisoner went up to him, and some words passed between them, resulting in deceased's putting down the drum and slapping the prisoner's face several times. The latter stepped back three paces and took something out of his coat pocket, which he appeared to open, and then went up to the deceased and jobbed it into his breast several times, while the latter kept striking prisoner with his fists. After going on a little way towards the barrack room the deceased fell down, and while he was on the ground the prisoner stabbed him in the belly two or three times. Deceased was carried into the barrack-room (the prisoner assisting in his removal), where he died in about three minutes afterwards. It was moonlight at the time of the affray, but two witnesses spoke positively to the prisoner's identity as the man who stabbed deceased. The deceased's coat was exhibited in court, and excited a thrill of horror, there being no less than eight cuts on the body and one on the sleeves. The bench, after a brief con.ultatioti, remanded the prisoner till Thursday. COLLIERY ACCIDENT AND Loss OP FOUR LIVES NEAR BLACKBURN.—A shocking accident resulted on Monday, at the Stanhill Colliery, Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, from the breakage of a rope. The ace:dent took place in the Moss Coalpit, belonging to Messrs. Simpson and Young. About one o'clock four men got into a tub for the purpose of being lowered to the bottom of the shaft, and just as the last of them took his place one of the folds of the rope coiled round the verticle, gave a sudden sl'p, and the jerk snapped the rope in two close to the fastening of the tub. The result was, that the tub and men were precipitated down the pit, a depth of 108 feet, and the unfortunate men were killed almost instantly. It is said that there was a guard to prevent the rope slipping, but the men had neglected to apply it, and hence the accident. The names of the unfortunate men are John Townley, aged 31 years ; James Townley, aged 28, both of Stanhill ; Richard Thompson, aged 38 years, of Oswaldtwistle ; and James Hindle, a , -d 38, of Lattas. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE ESHER MARBLE WORKS, WESTMINSTER.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Laugh= held an inquiry at Westminster Hospital, relative to the death of Daniel Shay, aged 26 years. It appeared that the deceased was employed at the Esher Marble Works, Westminster, in removing a very large blook of marble on a truck, when one of the wheels struck a piece of stone, causing the block of marble to slip and fall to the ground, crushing the deceased's left hand be. neath it. The unfortunate man's hand was dreadfully mutilated, and he was conveyed to the hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate one of the fingers ; tetanus, or lock jaw, resulted, and from its effects he ultimately expired. Verdict, " Accidental death." THE DANGER OF BROACHING A WHISKY CASK.—Four of the North British Railway Company's servants are in custody for theft. The watchman at Leith Junction and another official are two of the guilty parties. One night 'ast week they proceeded, in the dark, to broach a cask `a a waggon. The watchman, to facilitate the boring ?racess, placed his lantern close to the cask. Unluckily it contained aquae vita. When the barrel was perforates, the whisky rushed out and ignited at the lantern, pro• during a conflagration which destroyed th© waggon and the whole of the goods in it. One of the men was much burned, LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, TUESDAY NIGHT. It is known here that the discontent in Poland and the Ukraine has risen to a very serious height. The successive calls for enlistment have almost deprived those parts of Russia of the young and able-bodied men, as was severely felt during the recent harvest. A Government survey has been ordered, to know whether Poland can furnish sufficient corn for the supply of the army during the next cam- paign. It is thought that the result of this inquiry will greatly influence the decision of the Russian Government as to the continuance of the war. The accounts received of the retreat of the Russian army from Sebastopol are credited by the military men. here, as the opinion is that the garrison of the northern part would soon have to surrender at discretion from want of supplies. PARIS, OCT. 2. Two divisions, one French and one English, occupy Sebastopol. The army of operation, under Marshal Pelis sier, will take the field. General Simpson and General La Marmora will hold defensive pos. tions. The fleet has received orders for importan operations. The allied forces are full of confidence. ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 27. Owing to the scarcity of brandy, required for the use of the army, the Government has ordered its admission free of import duty to the Govern. ments of Ekaterinoslav, Klierson, Taurida, and Bessarabia. MADRID, OCT. 1. The Queen arrived yesterday. The Cortes assembled to-day. M. Bruil, Minister of Fi nances, read the Budget of 1856 and different financial bills. The cholera is again raging. THE WAR IN THE EAST, (From a Correspondent of the Morning. Post.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, SEPT. 18. Whilst sealing my letters for the post this morn ing I was astonished by such a salvo of guns that I almost doubted my senses, and believed the old siege work still in hand; I then imagined the Russians were firing on the buildings taken possession of yesterday by the Buffs. I, however, sent away my packet to the mail bag, and hastened to ascertain the cause, intending to try and despatch a supplemen tary budget ; but, after riding to Cathcart's-hill, I found all by that time quite quiet, and it was not until much later I found it was but a salute in honour of the French Admiral, promoted. The effect produced by the now unusual sound aroused a great many, but most believed it to be from the opposite side of the harbou ,- , but they do not as yet molest the new occupants of Sebastopol, although the French continue to throw shells at the new works they are making from the mortar battery established close to Fort Nicholas. Some excitement was created to-day in the second division, by an order to be in readiness to take the field, which was unexpected, as it was believed it and the light divisions would not move ; but it was now, it wouid seem, more a precautionary measure than otherwise, and that the 3d, 4th, and Highlanders, if any, will be the force ; even the day is named by some (the ap proaching Saturday), but, of course, all is mere hearsay; it serves to keep minds employed, whilst large parties are busily engaged making preparations for the winter, such as improving and draining the railway, and repairing ,the roads into Sebasto pol. The weather to-day has been very fine, and while it is so, it is the time to do all that is to be done. Three out of five iron stores are erected in the front, which are to form a depot for commis sariat supplies, and, if possible, everything should be brought up requisite for the winter's consump tion. It, of course, depends much on the Russian arrangements on the north side whether available portions of the town will be used as quarters. The situation alone would be preferable to the heights for the winter as in any circumstances a great por tion of the army will be under camp. SEPTEMBER 19. Every moment of time as we approach towards to-morrow, the anniversary of our first victory is recounted by many of the original campaigners from the middle of the last 19th September, when our first shots were exchanged with the enemy, and when we remember the nights we were then spend ing with no other shelter than a greatcoat or blanket, the contrast of the weather to what we are now experiencing is very striking. The season i as dif ferent as possible, and now much like what it was when the wet first set in November last. I men tioned yesterday as a fine day, which it was, but quite unlike last September, and this morning broke upon us cold and cloudy, threatening rain, which has come in earnest since 3 p.m.—steady, drenching rain, which promises to continue all night. Congratulations that trench work is ended are many and frequent, and anticipations of taking the field, accompanied by prayers for fine weather. Medals have been sent to each division for distri bution to-morrow. SEPTEMBER. 20. Another dreary, wet day. During the short intervals between the shower, however, many regiments paraded for the distribution of medals, and cheers were to be heard far and near as the first reward or acknowledgment for long tried and gallant conduct was received. That medals have their good effect no person can doubt, but that something more appropriate than the fac simile of a crown-piece could not have been de signed is surprising, or better taste displayed than the choice of such a milk-and-water ribbon. A tricolour ribbon, with a device in the centre, would have been handsome, and at the same time com plimentary. Numerous moll parties have to-night been formed, and those who shared together last year the discomforts of a n;ght's lodgings on the battle-field, have tc-night dined on such luxuries as the Crimea affords, celebrating the victory of Alma, and hoping to do so in years to come under happier and brighter circumstances. The sounds of bois terous mirth that are now to be heard, at a some what late hour, proclaim that some feel inclined to keep it up till morning, and that rejoicing is con fined to no particular rank. SEPTEMBER 21. The Buffs, the present occupiers of the portion of Sebastopol in keeping of the English, are under orders to return to the 2d division, and the artillery of the siege train to take their place. As the Rus sians.remain busily engaged on the north side, it may be deemed advisable to bring some guns into position, in case the enemy should make a rash attempt to revisit the town. The bridge by which the Russian army retreated is to be seen carefully pulled up on the opposite side, and numerous large boats being repaired and got ready for use. This may be a bl'nd, or it may not, and their real move ments are as little known or understood as our own. Several shells have been to-day fired at the quarters occupied by our troops. Our rockets have apparently made some good practice at the north ern forts and new earthworks, whist the French mortars have also continued their fire. News reached us to-day of the actual march of a large body of Turkish infantry and French cavalry from Eupatoria in the direction of Simpheropol, whilst report says our 2d, 3d, 4th, and Highland divisions a 7e to approach the heights at Mackenzie's farm, and the French move by the Baidar-pass. How far this is true I cannot say ; the greatest reason to doubt its reality is its being known. The fleet, or a g reat portion of it , i s or d ere d t o be outside of Balaklava harbour to-morrow, for the pulp° •e, is believed, of em b ar ki ng troo ps. We have to-d ay heard of the honours conferred by the French and English Sovereigns on General Pelissier. It is said that when he saw the tricolor planted on the Redan lie exclaimed_4lAh ! voila mon baton." The mails are now looked for with much interest, whi c h daily increases, and will do so until ac coun t s o f th e reception the great news met with at home, and the Gazettes, that anxious hundreds are looking There has been a for, arrive. great improvelnent in the weather to-day, and th e n i g ht i s now very beautiful moonlight, and milder than we have for some time experienced. General Pelissier has been made a Marshal of France, and has received from her Majesty the Grand Cross of the Bath. Of the latter order he seems exceedingly proud, and he has on several occasions signed his name " Pelissier, G.C.8." General Simpson has not yet received any deco ration or holtour from home, but the Emperor of the French has conferred on him the rare distinc tion of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. THE CRIMEA. The taking of the inventory of material aban doned by the Russians in Sebastopol progresses. Nearly all the forts have been found capable of re pairs without any considerable expense. The allies still suffer loss from the fire of the northern forts, but they reply to the enemy's fire vigorously. General Gortschakoff has sent several communi cations to the allied generals, the nature of which has remained a secret. A letter in the Semaphore de Marseilles, from Sebastopol, of the 18th, says : " On Sunday last a Te Deura was sung in the three French corps crarmee. The Marshal and his staff was present at that of the Imperial Guard. The weather was at times cloudy and cold, but during the mass the sun shone out brightly. The regiments composing the Guard were drawn up in an oblong square, one of the sides of which was occupied by the altar. At the mo ment when the officiating priest recited the prayer for the Emperor, the cannon mixed its voice with that of all the persons present, and sent its echoes as far as the enemy's camp. The troops afterwards filed off before the Marshal with that assurance and that martial air which success always gives to soldiers." THE WAR IN ASIA. TREBIZOND, Sept. 13.—Omer Pacha, after stop ping two days at Platana (distant about a league from Trebizond), where stress of weather compelled him to put in, arrived in our roads on the 10th. The Generalissimo landed an hour after the arrival of the Ottoman steamer, the Chepper, which brought him, and, accompanied by the Count de Meffray, his aide-de-camp, repaired to the go vernor's palace, where he received the visits of the Turkish authorities and the consuls. The next morning he left, after returning the visits of the consular body. Accordinc , to the information I h ave b een a bl e to procure, Omer Pacha's troops will have collected at Batoum in ten or twelve days' time ; we venture to hope they will arrive in time to save Kars.. According to the latest news of the Bth from Erzeroum, letters of the 2d from Kars confidently stated that the garrison defending that place had still some provisions left. Now, a scarcity of sup plies would alone be sufficient to bring about a catastrophe. But there is one peculiarity in the climate that may at any moment compel the Rus sians to retire from Kars ; it is the possibility of a heavy fall of snow at the environs of the fortress. The latest letters from Erzeroum, dated the sth inst., inform us that Hafiz Pacha is using every effort to once more collect some bands of Bashi bazouks. The cholera had almost entirely left the town. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. Opinions continue still divided as to the next proceedings of the Russian army in the Crimea. One well-known strategist thinks that they can very well maintain themselves at Bakshiserai and Simpheropol. Another authority believes that they may do so for a month or so, as they have provisions for that time, but that before then pro positions of peace will be made by Russia through Prussia. These, however, can be only vague con jectures, which a few days more may see realized or contradicted. By a decree of the 29th ult., published in the Moniteur, the Emperor has promoted General Dulac to the rank of Grand Officer of the Leg:on of Honour. General de la Motterouge and Col. Noizet de Saint-Paul to the rank of Commander. The Moniteur publishes 24 names of officers and soldiers nominated to the Legion of Honour in con sequence of their wounds, and 91 names of sol diers who obtained the military medal. The English steamer Calcutta left Marseilles on Sunday for the East, having iu tow the Eliza trans port of 1,800 tons, with troops and stores on board for the East. The Napoleon, French war steamer, left Toulon for the Black Sea on the 29th ult., having troops on board for the army of the East, and 248 pri soners of war to be exchanged. The fete-day of the Emperor Napoleon was cele brated with great pomp at Teheran on the 15th or August. On the morning of that day the high functionaries of the Persian government visited M. Bouree, as the bearer of the Shah' s expressions of personal friendship towards the Emperor. The members of the diplomatic body, and the Euro peans in the Persian service, also paid their respects to M. Bouree, who afterwards gave a splendid en tertainment. A display of fireworks closed tho festivities of the day. BOURSE, Oct. 2—The Rente has been firm to day, prices closing about the same as yesterday. Railway Shares are lower. The following are the last quotations : Casn. fr. e. End of Month. .t. t per Cents OO 80 65f. 600. 3 por Cents GS 30 65 5) Credit Mobilior l3BO Roman Credit Foncier Belgian Fives Piedmontese Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt _ RAILWAYS -808 CASH. tr. c. o. Orleans Western BOO Strasburg Cette Mediterranean 1237 50 Cherburg Northern Lyons TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the 20th ult., ix the Semaphore of MArseilles, says :-- "Nothing is still talked or thought of here but the taking of Sebastopol ; but what is most extraordinary is, that, in the midst of all the public rejoicings and the official communications, the Greeks carry their incre dulity to such an absurd length, that a number of them have clubbed together to fit out a vessel to go there and ascertain the fact for themselves. The wounded begin to arrive here, and everything has been arranged in the hospitals to accommodate them in the best mariner possible. Beds have been prepared at the palace of the French embassy fir the wounded generals, but none of them have yet arrived ; and it is sup posed that they will not come, as those who are the most seriou-ly injured cannot be removed, and the others are in a fair way of recovery. Several con voys of Russian prisoners have arrived ; the Char lemagne, screw line-of-battle ship, has brought 730, among whom are several officers. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at the Porte, under the Presidency of the Grand Vizir. The object of the meet ing is supposed to have been to take into consideration some despatches which had been received on the pre vious day from Omer Pacha, who arrived on the 10th at Trebizond, from when:3 he immediately set out for Batoum. He ha, made known to the Government the exact state of the troops, and the means best cal culated to accelerate the organisation of his 00170 d'armee. The tariff for the elcctric telegraph, which it sty expected will be soon open to the public, was also taken u rider consideration. The Porte has received advices from the array of Asia, but they contain nothing of im portance. The Russians continued to blockade Kars, and to occupy all the country in the neighbourhood, so as to cut off supplies. They were in possession of the principal roads, and intercepted all communication be tween Kars and Erzeroum. The Turks were waiting with feverish impatience for the reinforcements which they had been so long promised." RUSSIA. A.letter from Su. Petersburg of the 18th ult. in V o i f en t n h a e Emperor for for the South, The evening d e parture t b h e f e ore W tr e derer e f a grand council was held, at which it was re solved to carry on the war with the greatest deter mination and energy, and the Emperor directed Count de Nesselrode to send a circular to the po litical agents of Russ;a in foreign countries to communicate to them that intention. The Grand Duke Constantine, who is to be at N icolaieff to receive the E m p e :or , w;il remain behind for some time with the army. The recal of General Gorts chakoff and his nomination to the post of Minister of War is a matter resolved on. General Mou ravieff, who is new in Armenia, is to assume the command of the army in the Cri mea. Th e Cr i mea is to be defended to the last extrem i ty, and all that has been said of a retreat on Perekop is un founded." THE BALTIC. REVEL ROADS, SEPT. 25.—The high-pressure block-ships have all left for dear old England ; the Hastings, Capt. Famhawe, was unfortunate enough, in beating out of the Gulf, to run on the Nyground reef, off Odensholm, on which she lay 3U hours. The moment the Admiral was made aware of the accident he despatched the Cosvack, Driver, and Bulldog to her assistance; but it was not until all her guns, shot, shell, anchors, and cables, coals, water, and even part of the ballast, had been taken out, and she had been eased of 400 tons weight, that she was got off. No material injury was done to hull or keel. The Amphion, Capt. Key, has arrived from her cruising ground off Sweaborg and brought a number of deserters from the enemy's g un-boats and batteries. Some of these, a corporal and three men, were re lieving guard one night, when the whole party made for the heath, gecuxed a boat, and effected THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3 1855.