The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-20 00:00:00

jr4Utli MLIKLAM, Eaq., Deceased,—All V Farsions.having CLAIMS.on the ESTATE of the late JAMES MEIKIAM, Esq., are requested to forward the particulars of the same to Mr. Artier, I, Mount-street, Berlieley-square, forthwith, in order that the same may be examined, and, If found correct, dis charged. Oct. 16, Mt THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management et Mr. Redstone. • THIS EVENING, Oct. 20, Will be performed the comedy of 1 1 4. UL PBY. Principal cha racters by Mr. Wright, Mr. Chippendale, Mr, W. Farren, Mrs. Poynter, and Miss E. Chaplin. After which, the First Part of the Ballet of THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Followed by HIS LAST LEGS. Principal character by Mr. Hudson. To conclude with the second Part of the Ballet. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CakaLts KirAti. THIS EVENING. OCT. 20. IVIII be performed (Eleventh time) a coinedietta, entitled LIVING TOO FAST. After which, THE COURIER OF LYONS. Principal character CY 31r. C. Kean. To conclude with THE HALT OF THE BALLET. TLLEA.TRE ROYAL ADLLPUL P:4rietar, X , . B. WetAter.—Dtra.ltress, Madanaa Celeste. THIS EVENING. Ccr. 20, Will te - Ise:fora:ad an orlgi , al Drama in Four Acts, cailel TilE SUMME'd STOUM, with new scenery, dresses, apcointmeuts, & . Arto, which, A MOVING TALE. T - ..) conclude with the screaming Burlesque of NORMA. ROYAL OLYMPIC THE RE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, OcT. 21, Will be performed A MATCH IN THE D tRIC. Principal cha racters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Vining, E. Clifton, and Danvers ; Miss Mask° i, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a Farce, called A BLIGHTED BEING, in which Mr. Robson will appear. TO conclude with TO OBLIGE BENSON. STBAND THEATRE. 8 )10 Lessee Mr. F. W. Allen& THIS EVENING, Oar. 20, Will be perfbrmad SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. After which, THE NEW WAGS OF WINDSOR. - Fellowed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Mephistopheles, Mr. Ha:ford; Faust, Miss G. Hodson; Marguerite, Miss H. Gordon. Stalls, 45.; Boxes, 2e. 6d ; Pit, lc.; Gallery, 6d.; Private Bone £1 Is., .o be had of Mr. Aileron, 15, Now Bond-street. ASTLETS ROYAL AMPRITIIEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Shortly w 11 be produced, a GRAND MILITARY SPECTACLE, Commemorative of present British Prowess. Four hundred auxiliaries are engaged, and both the Stage and the Ring will simultaneously be employed in the representation of this Great National Hippodrame. TIM EVENING, THE WOODWAN'S HORSE; or, THE FALSE KNIGHT. After which, a variety of graphic and brilliant SCENES IR th, ARENA. To conelude with a GRAND EMBLEMATICAL ENTRES of England and France, with a number of Loyal and Patriotic Stage Tableaux. Bos•Ofco open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jou. 111 /H WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Trutt DAY —Morning 52 min.after 12 I Evening 8 mirt.aft. 1 To ‘foagow - Morning 26 min.after 1 Evening 41 min.st.. 1 THE WEATHER.—Sum Oviics, •ar. 20. THERMOMETER, IN TUB SRAM!. 62 -highest since noon yesterday. 48 -lowest this morning and during the night. 54 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 23 . 43—a sudden fall of half an inch since yesterday. WINE, N.W. to W.N.W.—Light, with dirty rainy weather. THE "COMING" CAPTURE SEBASTOPOL WILL DE PUBLISHED IN AN EXTRAORDINARY EDITION "THE SUN" THE MOMENT THE EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE IS ISSUED, TOGETHER, WITH A LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. Orders received by all News Agents, and at " THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, Strand, London. g --e-frimpi,* 114,4 LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1854. Further news from the Crimea. And this time real " netcs ;" that is, to say, the information is carried forward five additional days, and we are now in possession of advices to the Bth instant, while those previously received only extended to the 3d. It will thus be seen that Lord RAG LAN, or the officers at the Crimea, are not respon sible for the delays that have taken place in the transmission of intelligence—that, on the con trary, despatches were sent in due course on the Bth instant. Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE it was that, with that profound contempt for public opinion of which he has recently given so many striking proofs—that love of mystery, which is regarded as an important part of the diplomatic character, did not think it worth his while to avail himself of the Electric Telegraph, or to send a Tatar to Bucharest or Belgrade, or any point where the telegraph is in operation. Thus it was that the public anxiety was strained to so great a degree of intensity, that such general excitement prevailed amongst persons of all classes and ranks in society. The Noble diplomatist should learn that such conduct is not merely vexatious, buthighly cul pable. He thereby permits Russia to obtain the pri ority-, and to circulate its highly embellished, if nut ut terly false, statements throughout Europe for days before any antidote can be received in the shape of authentic tidings. This may be fraught with very serious results. Other nations, misled by erroneous accounts, may take steps hostile to the interests of the Western Powers, which they would afterwards gladly recall. We all recollect how Austria committed itself by the congratula tions forwarded to France on the successes in the Crimea, when the false rumours respecting the fall of Sebastopol induced FRANCIS JOSEPH to suppose that the power of his brother Emperor in the Euxine had b een permanently crippled. Equally unfounded rumours may have a similar effect on other Sovereigns, who may be induced to commit themselves as greatly in favour of NICHOLAS as FRANCIS JOSEPH did against him. If any such result s h ou ld follow, should un questionably be a scr ib e d to the gross A.nabassador negligence d. g an culpable apathy o f the English at Constantinople. It may be said that there was nothing to re quire the despatch of a special messenger or a. communication through the electric telegraph— that the intelligence was not sufficiently important o warrant the outlay. "We cannot, how ever, admit the argument. Anything that would have appeased tke public curiosity and satisfied the craving for authentic intelli gence would have been well worth the cost, which would not constitute any very formidable addition to the expenses of the war, which we hope and believe the AUTOCRAT will speedily be required to defray. Even the negative testi mony that would prevent tho circulation of false reports would 4 be of vast importance "-7--rt ti - I:t4i • to the community. We do not, however, propose a private subscription to remedy these la,ches. The Government should do its own work ; and there is no reason why the communications may not be materially expedited--first, by more fre quent telegraphic despatches ; and, secondly, by placing a number of steamers, such as the Vivid, &c., on the line between Constantinople and Mar seilles, so as to have arrivals, during the continu ance of the war, at least twice a week at the latter port, without any delays during the passage. The present advices have been received per the Pharamond, which left Constantinople on the 10th, and reached Marseilles yesterday. We hear from Balaklava to the Bth instant. At that time " the siege works were fully protected by entrenchments against attacks, and that the ma teriel amounted to 400 guns." No offensive movement had been made during the interval by Prince MENSCUIROFF. It was expected that the firing would shortly commence, and that a breach would be effected within 48 hours. 131- laklava had been completely- fortified, and our position was so strong that it could be maintained against any possible attack that could be made, even if the Russian forces were quadrupled. The arrangements are said to be so perfect as to leave no possible doubt of speedy and com plete success. The defenders of Sebastopol are said to be completely disheartened since their un expected defeat on the Alma, where, it is said, they have lost between 7,000 and 8,000 men. Should anything be accomplished worthy of a telegraphic communication, in the opinion of Lord STRATFORD, we may have tidings in another day or two. The present intelligence was twelve days coming, and experience has shown that it might be received in seven, or at the farthest eight, days. But for the all-absorbing military struggle in which we are now engaged, the political one in Denmark would have most deeply interested the English public. And even now, while we await in breathless suspense the next authentic tidings from Sebastopol, we by no means forget the battle of another kind at Copenhagen. They are indeed parts of one great whole. The Danish King and the traitors by whom he has surrounded himself are but fighting in another form the Russian battle. Their object is to secure a reversion to the great Northern Barbarian of the state which is the key almost of the Baltic, and also to sub vert its liberties all ready to the hand of a Czar. MENSCHIKOFF in the Crimea and OERSTED in Den mark are almost equally the tools of NICHO LAS. The chief difference is that the one is working openly for him, the other covertly ; one would have secured for him, by violence as well as by intrigue, the substantial power in Turkey ; the other, with his Monarch, is aiming, by a coup d'etat and the illegal subversion of a constitution, to place ultimately the free and brave Danes at the feet of the CZIR of Russia. We trust that the unworthy Monarch and his advisers have overshot the mark in their attempt to subvert the constitution of 1848 ; a constitu tion as moderate as any Tory in this country could desire. Probably all will depend upon the mili tary. The whole civil population are unanimous against the illegal edict of July, which proposed to do away with the House of Representatives, and to bestow upon a biennial council of notables very limited political powers. Public demon strations of several kinds, some even threatening to the hypocritical King himself, have fully re vealed to the Cabinet that they havo not the slightest chance with the population ; that should they dismiss the present Parliament they would have one even more unanimous in determination to eject them from office. It is stated that the military are being concentrated around the seat of deliberations, but there is not the slightest symptom at present of the representatives being overawed. We trust this arises not only from courage and a sense of duty to their country, but also from a knowledge that the soldiers share with the people the Danish love of liberty, and that though they might 'kw relied on to protect the person of the SOVEREIGN from popular violence, yet they may be equally relied on to do no vio lence themselves to the constitutional representa tives of their father-land. The Parliament itself has taken a noble and decided stand. With not one dissenting voice it carried a proposition to appoint a commission to draw up an indictment against the Ministry. The more eminent clergy, many of whom had been elected as members, were unanimous in condem nation of the illegal and demoralising conduct of the Ministry ; the speech of Bishop MONRA 13, a man of 'great influence, who had been driven from his bishopric for anti-Ministerial conduct last year, was received with loud and even tumultuous cheering. The address to the KING, which was very moderate in tone, for the Danish Commons, like ours in their dealings with CHARLES 1., seem able to combine formal deference to Royalty, with a firm determination to assert their rights, was carried with one dissentient, and he opposed it only as being of too negative a cha racter. But it was on the 14th that the grand struggle took place, and, as our readers will have seen, most decisive was the victory of the Danish and constitutional party. The second and final reading of the motion came on, to appoint a council of nine to draw up articles of impeachment against the Ministry for issuing the illegal ordinance of July, and for financial delinquencies, and it was carried by 80 to G, although, of course, the whole power of the Go vernment was unscrupulously employed to obtain a different result. Tf things can only take their legal course, the Ministry must of course be driven ignominiously from office, and, it is to be hoped, driven into banishment also, or confined to a prison. Mon who will lend themselves to the subversion of a nation's liberties, and abet the illegal schemes of a Monarch aiming at despotic power ought, for example's sake, to suffer the milder punishment which the advancing civi lisation of the North and West has substituted for the scaffold. The Danes, whose blood England so largely shares, are a race naturally destined for free in stitutions, and all free countries must sympathise with them in the present crisis ; but in addition to this, the independence of the little kingdom is a subject of European concern. The Sound dues, about which so much has been said, are, in fact, but a tribute to its weakness. It were probably better that a tax paid as a kind of charity, by powers who could so easily refuse it, should be done away. It is pauperising to Denmark, and a burden on the Baltic trade. The chief concern of Europe is that the inlet to the great Scandinavian Sea should belong neither to Sweden, Russia, Germany, nor Denmark, but to all the commercial world, and this is best secured by the thorough iudepond ence of all th e Baltic States. If Sweden trembles b D e e f n o r m e ar t k h e b o C w z s a rt to him ,if , Prussiaiie will em embraces e him, long have if power to make the whole of that inland sea one vast Sebastopol. We hope the news is on its way from this latter place, which will materially affect the position of all the Scandinavian States, Sebas- topol captured now, means Sweaborg, Ileisingfor Cr* _istadt, Revel, and St. Petersburg itself cap tured next spring ; and, we trust, Poland restored to nationality, the same or the following year. The DAICIO3 take an interest in the tidings we are waiting for, hardly inferior to our own. They know that the liberation of the Black Sea is but the precursor of the liberation of the Baltic, and that Turkish freedom is most intimately connected with Danish freedom. Nothing, indeed, is more certain than that the first great successful blow at the chief patron of tyranny will raise a European hurrah which will make the ears of every despot tingle. Could all natons but utter their feelings at the " coming event," it would resemble the shout at the acquittal of the seven bishops, which even Royal ears could not misunderstand. The only wonder is how the infatuated Danish Monarch, with his Ministers, dare attempt to confiscate his subjects' liberties at the very time when England and France were pouring forth their blood and treasure that the nations might be flee; and while the fleets engaged in this holy war were floating i❑ Danish waters. The Courts-Martial on the Arctic Navigators have been brought to a conclusion. Captains M'CLunE and KELLETT, Commander RICH A RDS, and Sir EDWARD BELCHER, were required to answer, before a naval tribunal, for the abandon ment of the vessels entrusted to their respective charges. The cases respecting the three first mentioned distinguished officers was merely formal. They had acted under the orders of superior officers, and, indeed, had no option whatsoever. The discoverer of the North-West passage, was more critically circumstanced than the others. Only four of his men volunteered to remain, while it would have taken at least twenty men to bring the vessel home. The Investigator had been actually in the ice no less than two years and nine months ; her extri cation was hopelesP, and Captain M'CLunE and his brave followers well deserved "the highest commendation for their exertions," an addition which the Court very properly appended to its verdict. In Captain KELLETT'S and Commander RICHARDS' case there was comparatively no re sponsiblity. These gallant officers had the di rect orders of Sir EDWARD BELCIIER, who did not think proper to consult them on the matter. That officer acted ex mere motto, on his own sole authority, without according the slighest weight to the opinions of men who, although under his command, were just as competent as himself to arrive at a sound conclusion. This rather arrogant self-suf ficiency led to the result which might have been different if the advice of his coadjutors had been asked and taken into consideration. The distin guished officers were, of course, fully and honour ably acquitted, and, as in the case of Captain M'CLURE, a short complimentary address was made by the President of the Court to each on receiving back the swords they had worn with so much honour to themselves, and satisfaction and advantage to their country. Sir EDWARD BELCIIER was also acquitted, but not quite so clearly or satisfactorily. The finding was qualified by a declaration that "he should, if circumstances admitted, have conferred with Captain KELLETT." He was simply "acquitted," without the words " fully" or "honourably" being inserted in the finding, and his sword was returned without a single word of any kind from the President. These were trivial but unequivo cal indications that all was not as it should be, and that, although Sir EDWARD BELCIIER, had not violated his instructions, or exceeded the discre tion reposed in him, he might have acted more efficiently and judiciously. There was not sufficient to warrant a direct censure, nor was there any thing to call for a compliment on his services. Ho was on his trial, and he received the benefit of the doubt. It will be in the recollection of our readers, that we by no means approved of the appointment of Sir EDWARD BELCHER to this command. We pointed out the high qualifications and pre-emi nent claims of Captain PENNY to the situation. He it was who had discovered the first traces of FRANKLIN ; and had there boon no jealousy of a person merely in the merchant service, who could not attach the magical initials R.N. to his name, the doubts and fears of the nation might long since have been set at rest. Ho was decidedly the ' fittest man for the undertaking ; but, an un fortunately he did not hold a coinanission from " ►ly Lords," his pre-eminent merits could not be recognised or acknowledged. It was a matter of life and death, but like rival physi cians quarrelling over a sick-bed, everything but " etiquette" was disregarded. Capt. AUSTEN would not receive advice from a merchant cap tain, and FRANKLIN and his brave companions were abandoned to their fate, and such a fate, in these dreary and inhospitable regions. Red-tapism prevailed. PENNY would not be appointed, and again we behold a similar result. Even Captain KznnErr would not be suffered to intrude on the councils of Sir E. BELCIIBR, and our ships are abandoned, and, what is far worse, the bravo COLLINSON and his companions left to bravo their trials alone. Will men over profit by experience? Will the A.d miralty deign to lay aside its crotchets, and for once act, in a matter of such vital importance, in accordance with the dictates of common sense, father than official precedents, or ridiculous "etiquette." Can "My Lords," or any of their subordinates, emancipate themselves from their "red-tape" fetters, which seem even more binding than " adamantine chrsins." SIR BULWEE LYTTON - AND J3IS CHEAP EDITIONS. To THE EDITOR OP THE BUN. SIR, —A libellous statement liutaing - been issued by Messrs. S. Low and Son, in their Publishers' Circular of the ICth instant, to the effect that —" It is currently reported that the agreetnerkt between Sir Bulwer Lytton and Mr. Routledge has been rescinded," we lose not a moment in asking you to permit us, through the medium of your widely-circulated columns, to give a most un qualified denial to Messrs. S. Low and Son's unwarrant able assertion. So far from there being the slightest truth in thisattack upon our house, we most positively and unequivocally assert, that not only does our agree ment wish Sir Bulwer Lytton remain intact, but that we have fulfilled every engagement we entered into with him. We have communicated with Sir Bulwer Lytton, who is at present absent from town, but immediately that we are in receipt of his answer we shall make it public. We may also be allowed to add that, se far from the issue of Sir Bulwer Lytton's works not answer ing, as Messrs. S. Low and Son bare insinuated, the circulation has been quite equal to our expectations.— We sae, Sir, your obedient servants, GEO. ROUTLEDGE and CO. 2, Farringdon-street, Oct. 19, 1854. COLLISIONS AT SEA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —The melancholy fate of the Arctic steamer re minds us of an expedient that has been resorted to by seamen of old, to stop a leak of a magnitude similar to that by \which the Arctic foundered. To stop such a leak, a sail should be brought over it ; to do thi a, the bights of two ropes, weighted, should be passed u, ider the bow and keel and brought to the leak, one rope abaft it and the other before it. The ends of the ropes. should then be bent to the clews of the sail ; two ropes should else be bent to the oaring cringlee. The sail sr) prepared should be put overboard ; the ropes leading m vier the keel being hauled upon, will bring the sail into tolerably close contact with the planking around t'ae leak ; iu this position of the sail it can, by slinging a man and putting him overboard with some wooden battens of suitable length and substance, nails and bar amer, be secured around the margin of the leak, whi,eh :may be at, or little below the water line. Whe, i there are many passengers, as was the case in the sc,tic, they should be sent over to the side, with weigh As that can be transported, opposite the leak, so as to giv e .the vessel a heel, that the leak may be brought furtlif r out of the water for the purpose of securing the sail. The Arctic was injured on the starboard bow ; the pa ,a3engers should have assembled on the port I quarto'. The, eak, as described, being to a great extent stopped„ the damage can be sufficiently repaired, by plar.kin g over all, to enable the vessel to proceed on her voy ag e,. From the increase of shipping a collision is of daily oc cur rence ; would it not, therefore, be well for passenge ir ships to be prepared with some convenient means b er stopping a leak ready for immediate use, in the eves it of such aa accident as that which has befallen the Arc tic Oet( A- Per 19th. A NAVAL OFFICER. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIN'G, OCTOBER 10, 1(154. P ROllO OA PION - OF PAIRLIA EAT. UOLTSE OF LORDS YESTERDAY. This being the day to which Parliament stood pro rogued, in pursuance of the Order in Council, and by virtue cf her Majesty's commission, the House of Lords met for the purpose of the Lords Commissioners, in the name of the Queen, continuing the prorogation tsjitil Thursday, the leith of November next. The Lords Corntnissioners present were the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, and Earl Granville. As usual on these occasions, a large number of ladies and their friends were present, being admitted as spectators behind the bar ; but the ceremony being of so simple and formal a character, no interest whatever can be created. The Lords Commissioners met at half-past three o'clock, and having taken their seats in front of the throne, The LORD CHANCELLOR rose, and having stated that their lordships had met, by virtue of her Majesty's commission, for the further prorogation of Parliament, commanded Mr. Pulman, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, to summon the House of Commons to appear at the bar, to hear the commission read. Mr. Pulman, having retired for that purpose, shortly afterwards returned, accompanied by Sir Denis Le Mar chant, chief clerk, and other officers of the house, as the representatives of her Majesty's most faithful Commons. Mr. Shaw Lefevre, deputy clerk of the house, then read the commission. proroguing Parliament until Thursday. the ltith of November next. The LORD CHA.NCELLOR then, in the usual man ner, in the name of her Majesty, declared Parliament prorogued to that day accordingly. Their lordships then rose and retired. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, OCT. 19. The following had the honour of dining with her Ma jesty yesterday,—his Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, the Bishop of New Zealand, Sir James' Clark, Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards (commanding the 18th Royal Irish), and Mr. Gibbs. The Queen's private band attended after dinner in the Castle, and played the following selection : Overture, "Zanetta" Auber. Coro der Dervische and Marsch, "Die Ituinen von Athea" Beethoven. Selection Ballet—"La Estrella." The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds adjoin. ing the Castle this morning. The Royal children took their accustomed exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, rode out on horseback in the forenoon, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge are expected to-day on a visit to her Majesty. The following have been invited, and are also expected this afternoon :—The Prussian Minis ter and Countess Von Bernstorff, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord Burghersh, and Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton (Scots Fusilier Guards). Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary left their residence at Kew yes terday afternoon for Windsor Castle. Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and Mr. Pro-sly had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official re sidence in Downing -street. Despatches were sent last evening from the Colonial office for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and also for the Governors of Malta and Hong Kong. A Cabinet Council will be hel a Foreign Office, this day, at three o'clock. • The Nubia, which leaves Southampton with the India and China mail to-day, will take out a quantity of me dical stores for the Crimea. The Queen of the South Steamer, belonging to the General Screw Company, will take out troops to the Crimea front Portsmouth. Recruiting for the Guards has been actively going on in the Isle of Wight. The Archbishop of Canterbury has collated the Rev. Charles T. Astley, 8.A., incumbent of Holwell, near Lechlade, to the vicarage of Margate, Kent, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Rev. John Feetirean Lingham, M.A., to the rectory of Lambeth. Sir John Craven Carden, Bart., of the Priory, has, in the most liberal manner, presented the church and parish of Templetnore with a costly and beautiful bell. OPENING OP THE NEW TRAINING COLLEGE AT EXETER. —Oa Wednesday the New Training College erected on the Old Bath-road, about a quarter of a mile from the city of Exeter, was opened with great ceremony. THE NORTH-WEST PANCRAS PAROCHIAL ASSOCIATION. —The anniversary of the establishment of this associa tion was celebrated on Wednesday evening at the Vic toria Tavern, Morningfon-road ; Henry Farrer, Esq., churchwarden, in the chair. MANCHESTER AND SALFORD SANITARY ASSOCIATION. —The annual meeting of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association was held yesterday at the Town hall, Manchester, and was presided over by the Lord Bishop of the diocese. DooKING AGRICULTURAL AMSOCIATION.—The anni versary meeting of this association was held on Saturday, at Docking. The distribution of prizes, which took pace in the grounds of the Rev. H. J. Hare, was super intended by W. Hogge, Esq., and H. E. Blyth, Esq., in the presence of a large party of the gentry and farmers of tie district. Upwards of 701. were presented to about 100 persons ROYAL ASYLUM' FOR DECAYED WATERMEN AND LIGHT ER3IEN.—The maia' dinner for the benefit of this bene volent society was given yesterday evening, at the Lon don Tavern, when upwards of two hundred gentlemen were present. We understand that the Society for the Propagation contemplation to op en a f on d f or of in the ail maintaining iganhalstdidtiitn nt additional number of clergymen at the seat of war. EVENING CLASSES FOIL YOUNG MEN.—Last evening a lecture was delivered at Crosby-hall, by the Rev. A. C. Smith, upon "The Invention and Early History of the Art of Printing." SERIOUS COLLISION ON THE OXFORD, W ORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY.-011 Wednesday last a Col lision took place on this line, near Hartlebury, which providentially was not attended by loss of life, although it appears marvellous that the passengers escaped as they seem to have done. ABATEMENT OF CHOLERA.--yesterday morning the board of guardians fer the parish of St. George in the East, Middlesex, issued orders for the closing of the cholera hospital, No. 3, Bath•terrace, Back-road, Can non-street, in consequence of the total disappearance of the epidemic among the poor inhabitants. The medical officers and nurses have been discharged, and the build ing at present untenanted. LONGEVITY.—On the 7th of October, Mrs. Susan Ablett died at Weyb . read, in the coun t y of Suffolk, aged 104 years. She enjoyed the use of her faculties until the last year of Lier life. MALTA --According to advices fro m M a l ta of the 12th, the Persian, which had been in collision with th e G anges in the Sea of Marmora, had suffered conside ra bl e d amage, and was forced to return to Constantinople. Lieutenant N. C. Singer, of the Royal Artillery, who was one of the passengers, had been killed. The rectory of Skeyton, with the recto r i es o f O xnea d and Buxton annexed, near Scottow, in th e di ocese o f Norwich, has become vacant by the death o f th e R ev. h ich Henry Anson,s worth 7001. a year, is in th e g if t of Sir Samuel M.A. (instituted 1807) . T he b enefice, w Bignold. CHOLERA AT BRADFORD.—We regret to state that within the past few days nine or ten cases of malignant cholera have occurred, at Bradford, Yorkshire. Active measures are being taken by the local authorities to arrest the spread of the contsgion. THE STORM IN LANCASHIRE.—There was a violent storm of wind and rain early on Wednesday morning at 3.lanehester, during which some walls were blown down, and other damage was done, besides several persons being injured, and others placed in considerable danger. Loss OF MAILS. —A letter Irons Messrs. William Carson and Sons, of Dublin, states that a bag of letters from Liverpool to Dublin was lost before reaching Holy head on Tuesday evening. The Bavarian Government has just published an official return of the cases of cholera which have taken place in that country up to the 30th of September last, from Which it appears that 12,753 persons were attacked, and tittat 6,163 deaths ensued.—Paris paper. The city of Milan has been but little visited by cholera, though the epidemic was raging at no great distance fire , m it. The total number of cholera patients since the 3.lst of July only amounts to 44 up to the 7th instant, some of whom were strangers. SPANISH FINANCIAL COMSIISSION.—This commission has: issued a notice stating that the Spanish Government has decided that the sum of 375,000 reels which was as sip led for the 34th auction of the foreign redeemable deb t, shall be increased to 750,000 reals, owing to the suspension of the auction in July last, through the politi cal e rents of that period. All the materiel of the submarine telegraph destined to unite Elsinore in Denmark with Helsingborg in Swe den hae arrived from England in the latter place, and the raying down of the cable containing the electric wires has commenced. The distance is about 5i miles. When completed, Stockholm, which is in 59 deg. 20 min, north latitude, will be in direct communication with 3iJan, and with all the electric lines of Denmark, Gs rein. ay, Belgium, and France.—Galignani. PLA' 711 ROBBERY..lnformation has been forwarded to the . Nietropolitan police stations of a robbery having been p erpetrated on Monday last, at the chambers of W. R. burner, Esq., 1, Field-court, Gray's-inn, when three si',:ver tankards were carried off by the thieves. One of them is engraved with a crest, a lion reclining with hies fore paw on a cross, and a 'l' underneath ; an other beeariug the inscription, " Ilex Boating Club, pair oar match, J. 11. Turner, 17th July, 1854 ;" anti the third is inscribed " Royal Thames National Regatta, 1854." A reward has been offered, and the police are actively engaged, but no trace has yet been discovered of the property or the depredators. Sir MUTILATION By A SOLDIER, OF THE GUAIIDS.— During- the pail week notice has Lein given that a cer tain nun iber of the first battalion of Grenadier Guards was dust fined fur speedy embarkation on active service, and am eng the number thus requirel was the 7th com pany vi the let battalion, stationed at the Wellington Basra cks. A private of the company, named Cumming, exprei :sed his disinclination to go abroad, and the day after 1 tearing the intelligence he went to a retired part of the barracks, and taking a hatchet, chopped off the first at id second fingers of his left hand. He was con veyed to the hospital in Rochester-row, and will be tried by a. ourt•martiat as soon as he has recovered. LATEST NEWS. SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moniteur confirms the intelligence of a sortie attempted by the garrison of Sebastopol. It says, the Charge d'Affaires of France at Con stantinople, writing on the 10th, informs the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the captains of the steam transports just arrived from the Crimea state that the besieged had attempted a sortie against our siege works, and that they had been vigorously repulsed. The Porte has sent a reinforcement of 4,000 men to the Ottoman corps which forms part of the expedition. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCT. 19. The following despatch has been received Lere " MARSEILLES, THURSDAY. " The Pharamond has arrived here, with Gene ral Thomas on board, convalescent. She brings advises from Constantinople of the 10th, and Balaklava Bth October. " The siege works were covered with entrench- ments against attacks from without. " Prince Menschikoff had not made any offen- sive movement. " The siege materiel amounted to 400 guns. " The firing was shortly to commence. It was thought that a breach would be made in forty eight hours. "Balaklava was perfectly fortified. " The Porte sends 10,000 men there, the half of which embarked on the 9th. " The Turkish Ambassador, on leaving Persia, was decorated by the Shah, and escorted by a company of guards to the frontier. Ile leaves a charge d'affaires there. " 4,500 French had left the Pirteua for the Crimea, on board the squadron of Barbier do Tinan." PARTS, THURSDAY. The Patric says that the private correspondence by the Levant packet-boat which arrived at Mar- seilles this morning, announces that the siege batteries were established before Sebastopol on the ith i and that the bombardment was to commence on the 9th. It was expected that the town would be carried about the 18th. Russian deserters had stated that Prince Men- schikoff had received no reinforcements. It was said that the besieged had made a sortie, but that it had been vigorously repulsed. It is also said that the Government have re- ceived a despatch from General Canrobert, in which he says that the Allies occupy an impreg nable position, defended by 80,000 men and 200 guns, and that they could repel the attack of 200,000 Russians. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 12. Adrices from Balaklava, of the Bth inst., bring no intelligence of importance. The bombardment of Sebastopol was to com mence on the 14th. The siege fortifications were advancing. VIENNA, OCT. 19. Advices from Odessa, of the Bth inst., have the following : Prince Gortschakoff is here. Prince Menschi koff is at Perekop ; his army is at Sebastopol. The Allies will begin the siege at all points between the 10th and 12th inst. Another despatch, of the same date, is as fol- lows :--- Advices from Sebastopol of the 16th report that nine batteries of the first lines were mounted on the Bth. Large Russian reinforcements were going to the Crimea by forced marches. The bombardment with howitzers commenced on the 11th. The Allies had already received considerable reinforcements. Constantinople letters of the 12th stato that 1,000 men of the foreign legion and 4,000 Turks had left for the Crimea. A Russian corps, estimated at 15,000 men, was posted on tho Tchernaya, near Sebastopol. The opening of the great operation was expected daily. Lard Stratford de Redcliffe had obtained a finnan suppressing the traffic in Circassian and Georgian slaves. The Presse states that, as a consequence of the correspondence which fell into the hands of the Allies at the battle of the Alma, some very im portant arrests have taken place at Varna. IBRAILA, OCT. 8. A large number of Russians were at Toultscha, Isaktelia, and Matschin. THE CRIMEA. The accounts received by the French Go vernment are of a very satisfactory kind. The opinion of General Canrobert is, that the position of the Allies at Balaklava is impregnable. With the reinforcements that hake arrived the force of the allies now amounts to 80,000 men, with 200 pieces of cannon. With a position defended by some heights, and by the sea, and with such a force, it is declared on competent authority that it would require 200,000 Russians to attack them with any chance of success. General Canrobert is said to speak in the most sanguine manner as to the success of the attack projected against Sebas topol, and declares that there is not the slightest cause for anxiety. On the whole, the despatches are described to be most cheering, and certainly hold out the hope that the question which has so long and so intensely engaged public attention will be solved speedily and gloriously. MARSHAL ST. ARNAUD'S SUCCESSOR. We find the following in a letter received from Paris this morning.:—" Marshal Vaillant, who is said to be rather tired of his functions as War Minister, would gladly exchange them for some more active duties. He ' had entertained the hope of being the successor of Marshal St. Arnaud in the command of the army in the Crimea, and if anything prevented him from pushing on his claim it was the apprehens i on of arriving too late at Sebastopol. The private feeling of the Emperor was in favour of C2tnrobert, who, on the first starting of the expedition, had been named as the successor of St. Arnaud, in case of anything occurring to the latter. Moreover, the Emperor was unwilling to do anything which would in the slightest degree wear even the ap pearance of a slight to the English General. THE RUSSIAN FLEET. The Lloyd of the 15th has the following news of the 7th from the Crimea :—The Allies menace and harass the Russians in all directions, in order to learn their power of defence, and to discover the best points of attack. On the 4th the Russian fleet left the smaller war harbour, and took a posi tion on the northern shor e o f th e large harbour, between Fort Catherine and Battery No. 9. The Copirte Zeitung's Correspondenz has the re liable intelligence from Galatz that the Russian reinforcements advancing to the Crimea will con :.;eutrate at Perekop, and there remain. Prince Kenschikoff will retreat to Perekop, in case of Sebastopol being taken. After the landing of the Allies at Eupatoria, Prince Menschikoff received instructions from St. Petersburg to hold the position in the Alma for two months. This would have al lowed time for fresh troops to come up. The battle of Alma having been lost, the attempt to relieve Sebastopol may be given up. According to advices fromVarna, of the 6th inst., a despatch had arrived there from Lord Raglan, ordering that no more Turkish troops should be transported to the Crimea, as the forces already in the Crimea were sufficient for every operation. There were then about 8,000 Turks at Varna. French and English troops continue to leave Kusteudjo and Bourgas for the Crimea. The above authority intimates the number of the Russian cavalry in the Crimea at 20,000 men. With the reserves, the force of the Allies in cavalry cannot now be mucth under 16,000 men. The following telegraphic despatches have been received in Paris : " CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 9.—News from the Crimea, of the sth, has been received in this capital. It an nounces simply the immense preparations which the allied troops are making for the bombardment of Se bastopol. The besieged, on their side, are taking all the measures possible to defend themselves against the attacks of the besieging armies, who were making pro gress in advance. The Bosphorus is continually crowded with large transports, laden with provisions for the army. The transport of troops is also incessant—those of the Pirmeus were on their march." " MARSEILLES, Oct. 18.—The embarkation of troops for the East continues eve' y day at Marseilles and Tou lon. All the Levant steamers that can be obtained are engaged as transports. Strong detachments of artillery have arrived at Marseilles. The frigate Sand ran aground at Toulon when starting, but was got off again. She is to take 1,000 Zouaves from Algiers. The Levant steamer is overdue." The Avon steamer, which arrived on the 4th at Constantinople from Odessa, brought word that when she entered the latter port with the wounded Russians, under a flag of truce, the commander of the place immediately made ar rangements for the landing of these men. Soon after, a considerable number of Russian of- ,ficors came on board the steamer, and in spite of the witnesses of their defeat, who were on board, they refused to believe that the Allies could have gained the battle of the Alma. They at last only gave way on learning that the Allies had seized on Balaklava, and were beginning to Avon Sebastop o l. Th e von left on the morning of the sth for Varna, where she is to take on board 2,000 French troops for the Crimea. TURKEY, THE SICK AND WOUNDED. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. s.—The British sick and wounded in the hospitals at Scutari now number several thousands. The greater proportion of the wounded are severely so, and the greatest care is requisite to keep up their strength. Numbers have undergone amputation of either leg or arm, and are in critical situations ; whilst the sick are no less heavily afflicted by either cholera, fever, or dysentery. These are sad revelations, but they are no less true. The wounded French are getting on very well, so are their sick, and though they are somewhat short of hands, it is in much more favourable proportion; beds, coverlids, bandages, lint, &c., had all been prepared beforehand. Their wounded number from 1,400 to 1,500, but their sick are very numerous. There is a convent of French Sceurs do Charitie here, who render the most valuable services at the French hospitals.. You may see these ladies trudg ing along Pera-street, followed by a couple of sol diers carrying baskets with medicine, and as they pass, in their long black robes and clean white caps, the Turks stare open-mouthed and in astonish ment at this new species of Giaour genus feminince. They are a great blessing in an hospital, and the wounded man knows how to appreciate a woman's hand to allay his sufferings. A French physician to whom I was speaking the other day, assured me that one of these women was of more use than all the assistants put together who had been in at tendance at the hospital, and who never knew where to find anything, or when to bring it. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Presse says that the Turkish Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, Arif Effendi, has officially communicated to the Austrian Cabinet that Omer Pacha will begin offensive operations against Bes sarabia shortly, and will arrive at Bucharest in a few days, in order to arrange there his plan of attack with the Imperial generalissimo. It is said that Lord Raglan has called upon Omer Pacha to hasten his movements. The Moldavian Secretary of State, Aleko Sturdza, and Colonel Aleko Mavrody, are expected to arrive here from Jassy to-day or to morrow. The object of their journey is to accom pany the Hospodar of Moldavia, Prince Ghika, on his return to the principality. Baron von Bach and Dervish Pacha, the Turkish commissioner in the principalities, will, it is understood, receive the Prince at Jassy. The fortifications at Giurgevo are rapidly ap proaching completion. They consist of a tete de pont, three rows of walls, and a broad ditch, provided with conduits. A fort is to be built early in the next year. The whole will present a very formi dable appearance. It is announced from Dalmatia that the Governor of Turkish Bosnia, Dervish Pacha, has gone to Drobniak, in order to co-operate with Addi Pacha in the occupation of the Montenegrin frontiers. He has 20,000 men and thirty pieces of cannon at his disposal. RUSSIA. St. Petersburg adVices of the 18th state that up to the 12th the enemy (the allies) had not moved from Balaklava nor undertaken anything against Sebastopol. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 14th con taint a telegraphic despatch from Vienna of the 4th inst., stating that the commissioners of the Western Powers and of Austria and Turkey had met at Con stantinople to arrange the question of the protec torate on the basis of the proposal made by the Austrian Cabinet. The National Gazette of Berlin has the following letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 10th :—" It is stated that the troops who have withdrawn from the Principalities are to occupy the governments ad joining the Austrian frontiers. They are the 3d, 4th, and sth corps-d'armee, under the command of Prince Gortschakoff. The second division of the guard has been sent to Byalestorck (formerly Prussian). Gen. Ofrosemon, who commands that division, has also proceeded there. General Schwarz has set out fur the western governments, in order to prepare cantonments there for the troops. General Prince Leon Radziwill has gone to Moscow. Gen. Reuberg has left for the station of Okalow ; and Gen. Korsakow, head of the artillery of the garrison of St. Petersburg, for Karwa. The field-lazaretto left immediately after the guards. The Emperor inspected it at Gats china." ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 29 (OcT. 11). His Majesty the Emperor has deigned to address, under date of Sept. 26 (Oct. 8), the following letter to the General A.D.C. and Artillery-General Prince Gortschakoff, commanding the troops of the 3d, 4th, and sth corps of infantry "Prince Michael Demitrievitch, by a ukase addressed to the Directing Senate, and by an order of the day to the army, we have named you commander-in-chief of our army of the south, and we have conferred on you all the privileges of the commander-in-chiefs in time of war, by virtue of the regulation of Dec. 5 (17),1846. At the same time have submitted to your jurisdiction, with the rights of commander-in-chief : Ist. The Governments of Podolia, Kieff, Poltava, Kharkoff, Catherinoslaff, together with the city and suburbs of Taganrog, Kherson, the northern part of the Government of Taurida, as far as the isthmus of Perekop, and the province of Bessarabia ; 2ndly, All the troops stationed in these Governments and this pro vince, excepting the reserve and the depot of cavalry and horse artillery, cantoned in the districts of the In i litary colonies, which will remain under the immediate' orders of the. inspector of the cavalry of reserve. We are assured t hat you will fully justify the confidence we repose in you. " We remain for ever your well-affected (Signed) ,‘ NICHOLAS." PeteriOurg Journal. PRUSSIA. BEB.Lltil7.—The Prussian reply to the ," Oct. last comm.. unication of the Cabinet of Vienna only contains V.vo or threo points worth mentioning. It is declare I that the explanations given by Aus tria leave no doubt that the question to know if the Dantibial i principalities can, notwithstanding the Au st.rian occupation, .become again the theatre of the 'war, depends entirely upon m ilit ary mea sures, a aid. . that taking those m easures no regard_ will be given to German interests. It is, therefore, declared impossibl e t o recogn i se that iib.e ulterior consequences of those measures woulf ?, fall under the dispositions of Article 2 of th convention of the 20th April. As regards the fovir points, it is declared that the first two points correspond to German interests • it is ad mitt that the free navi ga ti on of the pllets a German interest, a n d that " the • Russian protectorate nfrlght maim . Macs to artettlot4 - ar• rangement more compatible with the interests of Germany ;" and consent is given that the Federal Diet shall pronounce itself in this sense in a suit able form. Such are the essential contents of the note. What is very remarkable is, that a change is taking place in the views of the German States. The majority which Prussia counted upon in the Diet is daily dwindling away and becoming doubt ful ; and if Prussia does not hasten to leave the Bamberg associates in the lurch, the Bamberg associates will leave Prussia in the lurch. It is hoped, however, that these extremes will be avoided, and that the Federal Diet will find some middle course which will be made acceptable equally to Prussia and Austria. GERMANY. A letter from Berlin, of October 13, in Foss's Gazette, says : "The Government of Mexico has just notified to Prussia and Saxony that it intends putting an end to the treaties of commerce and navigation at present existing between them, so that these treaties will be brought to a close in the month of October next. However, the Mexican Government has offered Prussia and Saxony to negotiate new treaties of the same kind as those which are about to expire, but on new conditions." A letter from Breslau, of October 11, says :-- "The damage caused in Silesia by the late inunda tions is estimated at 22,040,000 f., of which 839,800 f. are for corn. The bare repairs of the dykes destroyed will cost 722,000 f. The Provincial Diet of Silesia, which is at present assembled, has decided on applying to the King to authorise the creation of a fund to provide wood and garments for about 10,000 of the persons who have suffered most." The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from • Hohenzollern, of the 7th inst., which says : "All the civil and political restrictions to which the - Jews were subjected in the princiulity of Hohenzollern have just been abolished. These lame restrictions bad been already suppressed by an ordonnance of May 16, 1849, issued by the Prince of Hohenzollern ; but some time before the incorporation of this country with Prussia they were re-established." DENMARK. The following address to the King of Denmark was proposed and discussed in the Volksthing on the 16th. It was adopted by a majority of 90 to 1 : " Most Gracious King—ln your supreme message to the Diet, your Majesty expressed the hope that the great work, regulating the constitutional relations of the monarchy, would be advanced a step by the honest and intelligent co-operation of the present, Diet, so that such work might soon might be terminated in happy union. " The Volksthing will assuredly, do its part in this respect, but we consider the first and essential step towards this object to be a public declaration by the Diet to your Majesty, in respect to this affair, so im portant for the future condition of the country—a decla- ' ration that we shall make with all the frankness neces sarily arising from the conviction that we, the legiti mate representatives, are only uttering that which will be universally echoed by the people. "The Volkstbing perfectly recognises the necessity that the different countries confided to the sceptre of your Majesty should be brought to a state of union in one firm national constitution, in order that the present complicated state of affairs should be put an end to. We are also convinced that this object can be attained so soon as the work of legislation shall be carried on by a • Government that possesses the harmonious confidence of both King and people, and that does not overlook the fundamental rights of the Danish nation. "The Danish Diet has unmistakeably shown its readi ness to facilitate the progress and final enactment of one joint constitution, by its having put f,rth no pretensions to exercise any immediate influence on its contents.: But, most gracious King, the Diet, at the same time, has el acted on the supposition, that the intended joint con stitution, about to include so large a portion of what constitutes the fundamental law of the Danish kingdom, was to be in the main based on representation and the public rights, that it was not to be by its very principle in diametrical opposition to the one which, by a happy ' agreement between the King and his people, had been given to the latter, and now for some years past has been legally in operation throughout the kingdom of • Denmark. " This supposition on the part of the Diet and the people finds ample justification in the contents of your Majesty's proclamation of January 28, 1852. For this reason we never could suppose that the Danish mo narchy, which at your Majesty's accession to the throne received the promise of a representative constitution, together with Parliamentary co-operation in all finan cial and legislative enactments for the collective affairs of the monarchy, could have been brought back to a po litical condition, that by sad experience has shown itself but little calculated to secure the throne from convul sions. More especially could we not suppose so, since tha fundamental law of the Danish kingdom, expressly given as it was to be a defence for the monarchy, has shown its power to preserve the kingdom. The Danish people, meet gracious King, have a vivid and firm conscientiousness of their rights, even in regulation of the affairs of the monarchy, to take their stand upon the constitutional representative basis that supports our present constitution. Hence no Danish Diet can ever renounce its claim that the organ to which the collective affairs of the monarchy have to be entrusted should have full legislative powers, and be at the same time a real representation of the people, thereby guar anteeing the latter against any undue preponderance of that element that is being introduced into the Assembly by virtue of elections made by the crown. " With the exception, however, of this claim which no Da❑ish Diet can renounce, your Majesty will find the greatest readiness on the part of. the Diet to take any step likely to facilitate the progress of the united constitution. We feel on that account so much' the more convinced, that your Majesty will in no respect lend your ear to any counsel, the tendency of which will be to break the bond of union subsisting be tween King and people ; a bond that has given to our constitution its ex►stence and strength. Such counsel would foist upon the reservation contained in the funda mental law a .meaning totally at variance with the right signification of that reservation. This was solemnly recognised by the state council of your Majesty, in the declaration that teas made in your Majesty's proclama tion of Jan. 28, 1852, at the instigation of the Yolks. thing, for the security and satisfaction of the Diet. " Most gracious King, it is during a serious state of things, both at borne and abroad, that the Yolks thing addresses itself this time to your Majesty ; but difficult and dangerous times have already tried the King and the people, and they have successfully out lived them in mutual confidence and concord. Hence the Volksthing addresses itself this time also with confi dence to its King, and in the reliance that he will give ear to its words--words that proceed from a lively and sincere care, not only for the welfare of the King and his Crown, but also for the rights of the Danish people, the 'real bulwark of the entire kingdom in years full of peril to the King and his Crown." FRANCE. The only article of any• interest in the Paris journals of this day is one of the Pays (which we give elsewhere) on the siege of Sebastopol. We read in the Moniteur :—" The Marshal Minister of War has received despatches from the Genera 1-in-Chief of the army in the East, dated the 3tl. No fresh military feat had taken place since the taking possession of Balaklava. The two armies aro established in excellent po sitions, the English army drawing its materiel and provisions from Balaklava, and the French from two small bolys to the northward of Cape Chersonesus. The position of the two armies has naturally determined their division on the ground before Sebastopol during the siege. The French army will have the left of the attacks from the sea to the South fort ; the English army will have the right from the South fort to the ruins of Inkermann. Our army is divided into two corps ; the first, under the command of General Forey and composed of the 3d and 4th divisions, will carry on the siege ; and the second, under General . Bosquet and including the Ist and 2d divisions, will form the corps of observation. The Turkish division is in reserve to act according to circumstances. The English army has made similar dispositions : one part will follow the attacks against the place, while the other, forming a corps of observation, will unite itself with the corps of General Bosquet. These arrangements are such as to leave no doubt of the issue of the sie g e which is about to commence. From the re port of deserters, the morale of the Russian army appears to be much broken down since its disaster on the Alma, where it is said to have lost from 7,000 to 8,000 men. The Th'ree per Cents. closed to-day at 75f. 850 - for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents, closed at 98f. 40c. ' • and the New Loan , at 75f. 70c.; Orle ans Railway Shares, 1,207 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 990 f. • Havre, 562 f. 50c. ; Great North ern, 875 f. ; gtrasburg, 840 f.; New Shares, 651 f. 25c. ; Paris an d L yons, 1,050 f. • Lyons and the Mediterranean, 855 f.; Western of France, 675 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 620 f. ; Great Central of France, 521 f. 25c. • Lyons and Geneva, 535 f. ; Bank of Cr e dit Mobilier, 7545 E Estimate of the time required for the conveyance of the mails between London and Constantinople : Days. Hours. ............. . 0 10 London to Paris Stoppage at Paris 0 2 Paris to Lyons ............................. 0 11 Lyons to Avignon Avignon to Marseilles Stoppage at Marseilles . 0 1 Marseilles to Constantinople, 1,190 miles, at 14 miles per hour Period for transmission of the mails to the Ea9t llti to, by electric telegraph SPECIE.—The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Nubia amount t0,,11,7001., of which 10,00/. is gold for Alexandria.