The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARK T IL4 AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday closed heavily, but without alteration in prices. Sales about 6,000 bales., of which 500 were taken for ex port, and 500 bales on speculation. Pernam and Maranham sold at sid. to 6N., and Surat at 2id. per lb. Railway Shares were quiet, but firm. The following report upon the Indigo auctions just commenced is furnished by Messrs. H. W. Jewesbury and Co. : "The quarterly sales of indigo commence this day, consisting of 13,025 chests (including 5,380 chests of old goods bought in at, or withdrawn from, former sales, and 1,016 chests in second hands), comprising the fol lowing, viz.:—Catalogue A-8,460 chests Bengal, Oude, &c., 1,414 chests Madras, 1,327 chests Kurpab, 45 chests Bimlapatam, 86 chests S dem, 10 chests Calcutta fig, 110 chests Pondecherry, 6 chests Java, 3 chests Carracca, 5 chests manufactured like refined, 329 chests withdrawn, 214 lots warehouse sweepings. Catalogue B-1,016 chests various, in second hands. Total -13,025 chests. The qualities of Bengal are about one third good and fine, and two-thirds middling and ordi nary ; the Madras one-fifth good and fine, four-fifths middling and ordinary ; the Kurpah one-fourth good and fine and three-fourths middling and ordinary ; the Bimlapatam, ordinary and very ordinary ; the Salem, middling to good, with a few ordinary ; the Oude, cne third good and fine and two-thirds middling and ordi nary ; the few chests Java, fine. Previous to the com mencement of the sale several parcels were withdrawn, including the first 41 chests. The sale then opened with a parcel of middling and ordinary Madras, which, however, was mostly withdrawn, only here and there a single lot selling. After this followed some middling and ordinary Bengal, which sold at an advance of 10d. to ls. per lb. on last sale's rates. The high advance thus established shows the firmness of importers, but has caused the sale to go flatly, though firmly. The trade appears to be not yet prepared to pay this advance, and have therefore bought cautiously. Bengal is 10d to is per lb. higher, Madras 3d to 6d higher, and Kurpah 6d to 8d higher. The attendance of buyers was moderate. 1333 chests have passed to-day, of wbich 602 chests were with drawn. 300 chests bought in, leaving 431 chests sold. The following are the highest and lowest prices :- 444 chts. Bengal, Oude, &c., from 2s 5d to 7s 5d per lb. 149 Madras is 4d to 3s 10d 138 Kurpah 2s Od to 4s 7d 002 Withdrawn. 1333 16 extra lots warehouse sweepings The arrivals of ships in the Thames from abroad yesterday were 12, and 90 colliers came in. Information has been received that the steamer Queen of the South had arrived at the Cape de Verd Islands, Sept. 23. ' The ship Pelham, which left Sydney May 28, brings 2,684 ounces of gold. The steamer Pacific, with New York accounts of Sept. 30, describes the stock market as being bet ter and money easier. One of the latest reports Mates : "The Abingdon Bank has declared a semi-annual dividend of $4 per share, payable on Monday next. The Quincy Stone Bank pays a semi-annual dividend of 4i per cent. October 5. The Springfield banks have de clared the following dividends, payable October 2 : Springfield 4 per cent., Chicopee 5, Agawam 4, Western 4, John Hancock (for three months only) 2, Pynchon 6. The John Hancock paid a dividend of 3 per cent. in July, when its capital stock was enlarged. The others are semi-annual dividends, save the Pynchon, which is for ten months, or since it began operations ; and in addition, this bank returns a net surplus of profits of 5 per cent. on its capital. Railroad Bank, Lowell, 4 per cent. " Reading was the firmest railroad stock on the list to-day, and the transactions were very large. Within the past few days the stock market has wonderfully ha proved in tone. The movements now are more regular, and the operations on time, seller's and buyer's option, do not exhibit those extremes we have so recently re corded. An eighth or a quarter per cent. is now about the difference between cask sales and those on sixty days, buyer's or seller's option. This shows the abund ance and cheapness of money in Wall-street on such se curities, and is rather an encouraging feature." There was no change of moment in the rates at which bills of exchange were yesterday afternoon quoted on the principal cities of the Continent. Paris, 90 days, was at 25 35 t o 40 ; A ms t er d a m, at 1118 to 18i ; Hamburgb, at 13 7 to 7i ; Trieste, at 11 48 to 50 ; and Frankfort, at 119. There is no demand for silver at present. The English Stock Market has been more ani mated, and the resumption of business in many of the securities for which the transfer books have been closed has occasioned a greater amount of money dealing. Consols have realised 95i tog for transfer, and 95 g g for account. The New 3 per Cents. have been 941 to it ex dividend, and the 3 per Cent. Annuities 93 to 941. The Long Annuities have been 4a to 4 15-16. Exchequer Bills have been 4s. to 7s. premium. Foreign stocks are also rather livelier. Spanish 3 per Cents, bring 37k, the Deferred 188, and the Passive 4i. The Committee's Certificate has been at 5 to 1 prem. The Turkish Scrip has been 3 to 31 prem. Venezuela Bonds have been 101. Mexican Stock is 24i to 25, and Brazilian 98. E to 99. Dutch Bonds are nominal. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 6± ; Mexican, 24 - to 25 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto 3 Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18g to 18 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 37/ to 38 ; ditto Certifi cates, stosi ; ditto Passive, 4 to 4g-. There is very little doing in Railway Shares, but most lines are at a slight advance. The French Shares also tend upwards, and the Paris and Lyons are about 1/. higher. In Mining, Banking, and the Miscellaneous Shares the dealings are trifling. Crystal Palace keep steady. St. 25 25 50 20 20 10 10 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOUh. ( Prom the Official List. ) Bu iness done. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 SA A New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 Consols for Account 17th Oct. Exchequer Bills, 24d. £lOOO . .000 7 4 Small Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent. 994 Ditto 1859, ~ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9S3 9 a d Ditto Small Mexican 3 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 374 Ditto Neu . Deferred, 3 per Cent Ditto Pasbive (Converted) Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun si4 Tarkish Seri p 6 per cent 3 A P Venezuela B onds, 31 per Cent Ditto Dell cored, 1 per Cent lO4 Dividends on the above payable in London. HALF•PAST TWO. nonsc .1s Ditto October Account 20 St. St. 6e. St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 10 5 20 20 25 St. 20 St, 8/23 SHIPPING STATISTICS. The statistics of vessels entered inward show, in the case of the port of London, an increase of 49 vessels and 22,051 tonnage, the difference between 580 vessels with 315,885 ton . nage in 1853, and 629 vessels with 337,936 tonnage in 1854. Liverpool exhibits a decrease of 8 vessels and 431,453 tonnage, the arrivals having been 203 vessels, with 121,975 tonnage, in 1853, against 195 vessels with 115,522; tonnage in the later period. The return for Bristol exhibits an increase of 4 vessels and 2,843 ton nage, the difference between 25 vessels with 9,070 tonnage, awl 29 vessels with 11,913 tonnage. In the case of the Clyde, the figures present an increase of 10 vessels and :3,665 tonnage, the arrivals in the former period having, been 37 vessels with 13,833 tonnage, and, in the latter,, 47 vessals with 17,498 tonnage. The net increase exhibited by this return is 55 vessels and 22,106 tonnage, the difference between 845 vessels with 460,753 tonnage, and 900 vessels with 482,869 tonnage. The principal arrivals have been from Madras, the Philippine Islands, Jayst. and Sumatra, and Mauritius. The statistics of vessels cleated outward exhibit in ,the case of the port of London a decrease of three vessels and 22,424 tonnage, the difference between 723 vessels :with 360,215 tonnage, and 720 vessels with 337,79 L tonnag e . The return for Liverpool presents a do :crease of 81 vessels, but an increase of 11,175 tonnage, the departures in 1853 having been 397 vessels, with 21 3,789 ton nage , an d in 1854 . 316 vessels with. 224,964 tonnage. Bristol figures for a decrease: of 14 vessels, with 3,382 tonnae.e the difference test ween 25 vessels, w i t h 7,060 tonnage, and 11 vessels, with 3,678 i tonnage. Th e d ecrease in the case of the Clyde s 48 vessel s , b ut t h ere has, on the other hand, been an increase of 4,369 ton nage ; the departures in 1853 having b een 141 vessels c s betweene n t de is with 41,413 tonnage, against 93 vessel s w i th 45,782 tonnage in 1854. The net decre t as e e d t i h ff u e s re p n presented 146 vessels said 10 262 tonnag e ; h 1,286 vessels with ' 622,477 tonnage, and 1,140 vessels with 612,215 tonnage. It will be noticed that although, in the Liverpool and Clyde returns a decrease is exhi bited in the number of ships, the aggregate amount of tonnage has increased—a fact indicating the preference given to large vessels. The principal decrease is in the departures for China, Australia, and the Cape of Good Ho pe. The Bishop of Lincoln has instituted the Rev. H. S. A.nders, MA , formerly minister of St. John's C hurch, Broad -court, Drury-lane, to the rectory of Kirkby - la - T horpe, with Asgarby annexed, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Henry Ashington, M.A., on the 4onination of the Marquis of Bristol. IT, l ?izt Archbishop of Canterbury has licensed the Rev. cur i a llP enry Percy, of King's Colleg -, London,. to the of th e . 3%, I the parish church of Deal, 0:1 the Du:e1.....10a +.1,,,e7. N. A. Garland, M.A. Th }Kin:'krehbishop of York has licensed the Rev. R. G. lies,N 4 . 8.A., to the curacy of Strensall-with-Haxby, 12$ °ll , i on the nomination of the Rev. John Jlodg -0-46 SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. (ilosing Prices 1 yesterday. Business done this day. Ren.wAYs. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Junct... Belfast & Rallymena. Binning. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. dc, Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., .£2O ••• Blyth & Tyne origina' £25 (issd. at £45, Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan ... Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon... Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction D üblin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber• seen Junction Do. New East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock Do., B. Stock Do., New A...., East Lancashire Dlir burgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prth &Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgo is& S. Weston ! Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock G t. Sth . &West . 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Western of Canada Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lako Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c pref Great Luxembourg! Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Lyons and Geneva Lyons 4; Mediterran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New . delbourne Dk. & Ry. Namur & Liege (witF iu . .;erest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erqaelres guar. 3 p. c. F: red. at 22 der. 88 yes. from 1 Jan. 1851 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds - ..... Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Pari se-en & Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. 54 p. cent. Pref Southern of Franco St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5A per c. Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-S! A.ustralasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd.. 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My Lord Duke,—.ln continuation of my De spatch of the 23d inst., I beg leave to lay before your Grace the names of the officers whose names have been brought to my notice by the Generals of Division, and the Heads of Departments. Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown speaks in the highest terms of Lieutenant -Colon e l Yea, of the Royal Fusiliers ; Lieutenant-Colonel Chester, of the 23d, who was unfortunately killed, and of Captain Bell, who succeeded to the command, and brought the regiment out of action, and Lieu tenant-Colonel Blake of the 33d. Lieutenant- Colonel Sanders, of the 19th, who was severely Eight ran. LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 8 to 1 agst Rattle. 15 to 1 agst Early Bird (offered). 16 to 1 agst Scherz. 16 to 1 agst Orinoco (taken). DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Cruiser. 33 to I agst Saraband. 40 to 1 agst Wild Payroll. 50 to 1 agst Polydora colt. wounded ; Lieutenant-Colonel Egerton, of the 77th Regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel Shirley, of the 88th ; also of Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence and Major Norcott, of the Rifle Brigade, each com manding a wing of that corps ; Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, commanding the Artillery, of Captain Brand ling, commanding a 9-pounder troop of Horse Ar tillery, and Captain Anderson, commanding a Field Battery, and Captain G or d on , o f th e Royal En gineers ; likewise of Lieutenant-Colonel Sullivan, STATE OF TRADE. ( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, Oct. 10.—In the market of to-day, we have had a continuance of that dulness which so sud denly followed the factitious liveliness of the 10th ult. But the shock that was given to confidence by the ensuing occurrences Las not been so strongly felt as it was in the middle and latter part of last week. The American advices are increasingly encouraging in their accounts of the cotton crop. The prevailing esti mates of the yield exceed 3,000,000 bales. The yellow fever was so destructive at Charleston and Savannah as to have put a stop to business. The house of Phipps, which had suspended payment at New York, was one of old and high standing ; the amounts owing in Man chester are not, however, anything near so large as they were last week reported to be. ROCHDALE, Oct. 9.—The flannel market continues good and the demand steady, witk little or no variation in price. Fine goods are those which are most inquired after. In the wool market there is uo change worthy of notice : the manufacturers continue to buy for immediate use only. HALIFAX, Oct. 7.—Fewer goods have changed hands in our Piece Hall to-day than last Saturday ; and there seems to be, on the part of the merchants, very little disposition to operate. Indeed, the present aspect of the commercial world is such as to induce great caution. The yarn market exhibits no new feature, either as regards demand or price ; and wools are quiet, with the quotations firm. • and Lieutenant-Colonel Airey, of the Adjutant and Quartermaster-General's Department, and Captain Hallowell of the latter, and Captain Whitmore and the other officers of his personal Staff; and Cap tains Glyn and Mackenzie, the Brigade-Majors serving with the division. Lieutenant-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge recommends Colonel the Honourable Francis Hood, of the Grenadier Guards, Colonel • the Honourable George Upton, of the Coldstream Guards, and Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton, of the Scots Fusilier Guards ; Lieutenant-Colonel Came ron, of the 42(1, Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas, of the 79t1;, and Lieutenant-Colonel Ainslie, of the 93d ; Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Alexander Gor don, and Lieutenant-Colonel Cunynghamo, the As sistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Cap tain Butler and the Honourable Arthur Hardinge, the Deputy Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster- General of the Division, and Major the Honour able James Macdonald, and the other officers of his personal Staff ; also Lieutenant-Colonel Dacres commanding, and Captains Paynter and Wood house of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Chap man of the Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant- Colonel Stirling, and Captain the Honourable Percy Fielding, the Brigade-Major of the division. Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans eulogises the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Percy Herbert of the Quartermaster-General's De partment, who was wounded, I hope not severely ; Major Lysons of the 23d, acting as Assistant-Adju tant-General in the absence from sickness of Lieut?- pant-Colonel Wilbraham, Captain Lane Fox, and Captain Thompson, Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, and Captain Allix and the other officers of his personal Staff. He also praises the exertions of Lieutenant-Colonels Hoey, of the 30th, Lieutenant-Colonel Warren, of the 55th, and Lieutenant-Colonel Webber Smith, of the 95th, who was severely wounded ; Lieutenant-Colonel Carpenter, of the 41st, Li eu t enan t-C o l one l H a l y , of the 47th, and Major Dalton, of the 49th, Lieu tenant-Colonels Fitzmayer and Dupuis, and Cap tains Turner and Swinton, of the Royal Artillery, and to these I may add Captain Lovell, of the Royal Engineers, Brevet-Majors Thackwell and Armstrong, the Brigade-Majors of the division. I consider it my duty especially to recommend Captain Adye, of the Royal Artillery, the princi pal staff officer of that branch of the service, and Captain the Honourable Edward Gage, Brigade- Major of Artillery, and Major Tylden, Brigade- Major of the Royal Engineers, and Major the Honourable Edward eakenham, and Captain Weare, who was wounded, of the Adjutant- General's, and of Captains Wetherall, Woodford, Sankey, and Hamilton, of the Quartermaster- General's Department. Mr. Commissary-General Filder, and Dr. Hall, the principal Medical Officer, were in the field the whole time, and merit my approbation for their exertions in discharging their onerous duties.—l have, &c., (Signed) RAGLAN. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c., &c., &c. BALAKLAVA, Sept. 28. My Lord Duke,—l have the greatest satisfaction in acquainting your grace that the army under my command obtained possession of this important .place on the 26th instant, and thus established a new ;rid secure base for our future operations. The Allied Armies quitted their position above the Alma on the morning of the 23d, and moved across the Katcha, where they halted for the night, and on the following day passed the Belbeck. It then appeared that the enemy had established a work, which commanded the entrance of the river, and debarred its use for the disembarkation of troops, provision, and materiel ; and it became expedient to consider whether the line of attack upon the north side should not be abandoned, and another course of operation adopted. It having, after due deliberation, been deter mined by Marshal St. Arnaud and myself, that we should relinquish our communication with the Katoha, and the hope of establishing it by the Belbeck, and endeavour by a flank march to the left to go round Sebastopol and seize Balaklava, the movement was commenced on the 25th, and completed on the following day by the capture of this place by her Majesty's troops, which led the ad vance. The march was attended with great diffi culties. On leaving the high road from the Belbeck to Sebastopol, the Army had to traverse a dense wood, in which there was but one road that led in the direction it was necessary to take. That road was left in the first instance to the Cavalry and Ar tillery ; and the divisions were ordered to march by compass and make a way for themselves as well as they could ; and, indeed, the Artillery of the Light Division pursued the same course as long as it was found to be possible, but, as the wood became more impracticable, the batteries could not proceed other wise than by getting into the road above men tioned. The head-quarters of the Army, followed by seve ral batteries of Artillery, were the first to clear the forest, near what is called, in Major Jarvis's map, Mackenzie's Farm, and at once found themselves on the flank and rear of a Russian division, on the march to Bashi-Serai. This was attacked as soon as the cavalry, which had diverged a little into a bye and intricate path, could be brought up. A vast quantity of ammu nition and much valuable baggage fell into • our hands, and the pursuit was discontinued after about a mile and a half, it being a great object to reach the Tschernaya that evening. The Russians lost a few men, and some prisoners were taken, amongst whom was a Captain of Artillery. The march was then resumed by the descent of a steop and difficult defile into the - plains, through which runs the Tschernaya river, and this the cavalry succeeded in reaching shortly before dark, followed in the course of the night by the Light, First, Second, and Third Divisions ; the Fourth Division having been left on the heights above the Belbeck till the following day, to maintain our com munication with the Katcha. This march, which took the enemy quite by sur prise, was a very long and toilsome one, and, ex cept at Mackenzie's Farm, where two wells, yield ing a scanty supply, were found, the troops were without water, but they supported their fatigues and privations with the utmost cheerfulness, and resumed their march to this place on the morning of the 26th. As they approached Balaklays, nothing indicated that it was held in force ; but as resistance was offered to the advance of the Rifle Brigade, and guns were opened from an old castle, as the head of the column showed itself on the road leading into the town, I deemed it prudent to occupy the two flanking heights by the Light Division and a portion of Captain Brandling's troop of Horse Artillery on the left ; movements terminated by the surrender 9f the place, which had been occu pied by very inconsiderable numbers of the enemy. Shortly after we had taken possession we were greeted by Captain Mends, of the Agamemnon, and soon after by Sir Edmund Lyons himself. His co-operation was secured to us by the ac tivity and enterprise of Lieutenant Maxse, of her Majesty's ship Agamemnon, who reached my camp on the Tschernaya, on the night of the 25th with despatches, and who volunteered immediately to retrace his steps through the forest, and to commu nicate to Sir Edmund the importance I attached to his presence at the mouth of the harbour of Bala- Maya the next morning, which difficult service (from the intricacy of the country infested by Cos sacks) he accomplished so effectually that the Ad miral was enabled to appear off this harbour at the very moment that our troops showed themselves upon the heights. Nothing could he more opportune than his arri val, and yesterday the magnificent ship that bears his flag entered this beautiful .harbour; and the Admiral, as has been his invariable practice, co operated with the army ill every way possible. We are busily engaged in disembarking our siege train and provisions, and we are most desirous of undertaking the attack of Sebastopol without the • loss of a day. I moved up two divisions yesterday to its immediate neighbourhood, when I was en abled to have a good view of the place ;. and Lieu ' tenant-General Sir John Burgoyne, and General Bigot, the French Chef de Genie, are occupied, in reconnoitring it closely to-day. The march of the French army on the 25th was still more fatiguing 'and prolonged than ours. Being behind our columns they could not reach Tschernaya till the next day, and I fear must have suffered sadly from want of water. I regret to have to acquaint your grace that Marshal St. Arnaud has been compelled, by severe illness, to relinquish the command of the army. I saw him on the 25th, when he was suffering very much, and he felt it his duty to resian the next morning. I view his retirement with deep concern, having always found in him every disposition to act in concert with me. He has since become much worse, and is I fear in a very precario u s s t a t e . FoAunately he is succeeded by an officer of high reputation, General Canrobert, with whom I am satisfied I shall have great pleasure in acting, and who is equally. desirous of maintaining the most friendly'relations with me. I have, &c., (Signed) RAGLAN. His Grace the Duk© of Newcastle, &c., &c., &c. THE BATTLE OF ALMA. The following is an extract of a letter from an officer of the Brigade of Guards : "CAMP NEAR BALAKLAVA, Sept. 27.-L-You w ill scarcely bo more surprised than we are ourselves at the English army being here, in possession of a perfect seaport and new basis of operations for both armies. On leaving the bivouac south of the Katcha river, we marched to the river Belbeck, through the village of the same name. It is extraordinary that the Russians should not have attempted to' stop us at either place, fox there are stronger posi tions even than on the Alma; but the Russians are so completely cowed by our brilliant victory, in which they own to a loss of 6,000 or 7,000 men, that we may venture upon acts and movements that could not be done without madness under other circumstances. .As for their far-famed Cossack cavalry, we have scarcely, seen 100 of them. The French admiration of our attack and advance in line continues, and is only exceeded by The astonish ment of the Russian officers, prisoners, whom we have since seen. A French officer remarked to me two days ago that it was trop majestueux.' I certainly do not wonder at the Russians not at tempting to meet us on the open field, after seeing how we could march against them in an entrenched • position. The battle-field was dreadful to walk over in the evening and following day ; the battle. ended too late for us to remove even our own wounded that day, and the fearful spectacle of heads blown off, shattered limbs, broken arms, the groans and sighs of the wounded, altogether made a scene I never wish to see again. I have a few trophies in the shape of brass plates representing the double eagle worn on the helmet of all regi ments of the lide ; their 31st and 32d Regiments were the two more immediately opposed to us. "To continue our march. The day before yester day (Sept. 25), having had a false alarm during the night of an approach of the Cossacks, we were under arms at 5 o'clock, ready for a move. A recon naissance was made towards the Inkerman Lights, with the view of finding a crossing practicable for the army. Colonel Alexander only found a single causeway over a morass, and a bridge over the river with a force on the opposite side. Lord Rag lan, with Sir J. Burgoyne's advice, then deter mained upon one of the boldest flank marches, per haps ever performed in the face of an en em y. Th e whole country between the Belbeck and the Tcher naya, which runs into the Sebastopol inlet, is covered with one uninterrupted extensive jungle or forest, intersected by no road but that leading towards Sebastopol, and another narrow one on which it would have taken perhaps days for a large army to advance. We received orders to march south-south-east, through this forest, in order to strike the high road from Simpheropol,nearKhutor Mackenzie. Our guides led us in too southerly a direction, towards the end of the valleys near the Inkerman Lights, upon which we had to make a flank movement towards Kinitor Mackenzie. The wood was so thick that the men could hardly see each other ; not only did men of the same brigade get mixed together, but Highlanders and Guards, Guards and line, formed for an hour an apparently inextricable mass of confusion. In the midst of it we heard firing and several rounds of cannon in our front, just where we were wanted to go. We continued our march, however, and soon found that the cause of the firing was the Scots Greys, and some of our artillery in advance coming upon the high road near Khutor Mackenzie, where they intercepted fa Russian army of some say 15,000 men and a large convoy of provisions and ammuni tion. The party of Greys were only 20 strong, but so cowed were the Russians and taken by surprise, that half their army cut off towards Simpheropol, the rest to Sebastopol. We all came out of the wood about two or half-past two, at the very spot where this took place. Every waggon was de stroyed, the flour given up to our men, powder scattered, cartridges destroyed, camp equipments thrown over theprecipices, clothing, accoutrements, barrels, and articles of every description strewn along three miles of road, along which we marched towards the bridge over the Tchernaya. The whole appearance of the road was more like the result of a battle than anything else. Their army, in short, was cut in two, and so divided that they must have spread terror and increased the already great demoralisation of the Russian forces, both in Sebastopol aad in other parts of the Crimea. After halting at this spot for an hour and a half to rest the men after their fatiguing forest march, we continued along the high road to ,the bridge across the Tchernaya, a march of six or seven miles further, leading to Balaklava, and we reached our bivouac at half-past 8 p.m., having been under arms more than 14 hours. The next morning early we pushed on towards Bala klava, and halted at the entrance of the pass. The Rifles were sent forward to crown the heights on each side of the bay, supported by a brigade of the Light Division ; on each side also, these again were supported by the two brigades of the Ist Division, the Guards going to the right and the Grenadier Guards taking possession of the village of Radakoi. Here they remained while the Rifles and Artillery attacked the small post, 'which is of very little strength-- . -an old ruined Genoese castle. A few shells soon brought them to reason, and the white flag was hoisted. Lord Raglan had a very narrow escape, for on first turning an angle of the road with all his staff, a shell from the fort flew among them and wounded one of the staff. When this little affair was settled, the troops retired, except two companies of the Grenadier Guards, who were sent to protect the houses of the inhabitants and small town of Balaklava. So little did the Rus sians expect us, that the wives and children of many officers who are in Sebastopol had gone there for safety. The harbour is quite landlocked, with rocky and very precipitous hills on each side, but so deep that even the Agamemnon steamed in this morning. " When we were at our Belbeck bivouac, and it was decided we should come on and take this place, young Ma's° was sent back to the mouth of the Katcha, where the fleet was lying. Having to ride through the country which we had crossed, he only took a verbal message from Lord Raglan, for fear of his falling into the hands of the Cossacks. He reached the fleet at 4 yesterday morning, and before 12 the fleet was off Balaklava. " THURSDAY, Sept. 28.—The meeting of the fleet and army here was most cordial. I saw Sir Edmund Lyons meet Lord Raglan on the quarter deck of the Caradoc ; Lord Raglan's face was beam ing with joy at the success that has hitherto at tended our arms. I believe we shall remain here again to-day, for, unless the garrison of Sebastopol give in without resistance, upon being summoned, we shall not attempt anything without landing all our siege guns." There is this very peculiar f ea ture about the action—that we had the very thin.- to do which we alone could have done, and that the French had to do work for which they w ere particularly suited. Ours it was to face steadily the fire of tremendous batteries ; to advance with a rush, steady and sure, and resistless as the s well of the ocean, against a wall of fire and solid masses of infantry ; to struggle on, at one time overwhelmed by crashing volleys of grape and musketry, at another disorganised by roun d shot, winning the ground from death at every pace ; to form tran oebdeterocticlai•rurdya quilly and readily when thrown .. into momentary disorder, and at last to nail victory to our colours by the never -failing British s bayonet. It is said that several French officers le n l c ia a v anb e rl since they viewed the ground, that they tho c u l g e hi , t , o one of our their men would esia i d i s o imd tf e v ax iv ee e inaei b urla e od ntliioempositionAll I would Generals, at e t an l s i t e hl c . lose of the day, lt command a caosrkpsofoffbErtnugnleislntotwrojes;Atifloart tI mo hree ° short weeks ; I could then die happy !" 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OFFAL EXPOSED FOR SALE IN WHITECIIAPEL MARKET, Mr. Deputy CHRISTIE, having introduced a deputation of master butchers carrying on business in High-street, Aldgate, said he had to present a memorial signod by a number of the inhabitants of the ward of Portsoken, and he would shortly state the reason why these gentle men attended. Some time since the commissioners, in carrying into effect measures of a sanitary nature, had considered it necessary to issue an order to the tradeC of butchers, requiring them to remove from their slaughter houses all offal before 8 o'clock in the morning. He (De puty Christie) had reason to believe that the butchers in High-street, Aldgate, had cheerfully complied with the desire of the 'commissioners, and had obeyed their in structions, except with respect to one single article. They killed a large number of sheep and lambs, and conse quently had a large quantity of one description of offal, namely paunch, which, for a great many years, they had made a source of very large profit. Their custom was to have large tanks of clean water, in which the paunches were kept, a few only at a time being taken out and exposed for sale, at their doors, as wholesale food for dogs. They had not complied with the part of the order of the commission which related to this species of offal, because they did not think that the sale of that which was to them a source of large profit should be in terfered with, and consequently one of the inspectors had summoned some of the memorialists before a magis trate. 1061 100 The memorial was read by the clerk. The memorialists, in answer to questions put by the court, said that it was their custom to keep paunches after emptying them, 24 hours, that the water in the tanks were changed twice a day, that they were tho roughly cleanseci before being exposed for sale. Deputy CHRISTIE moved that the memorial be re ferred to the general purposes committee, to consider and report thereon, which, After some further discussion, was carried. OBJECTIONABLE MEAT. 1031 1121 Mr. BONSER, a wholesale meat salesman in Newgate market, said he attended for the purpose of preferring a complaint against Mr. Pecklington, one of the inspec tors of meat, whom be charged with, on some occasions, condemning and seizing carcasses that were wholeseme, and on others with overlooking those that were not fit for human consumption. Mr. POCKLINGTON, in answer to the charge, said the carcass which he had seized was in a very bad state indeed, in some places being perfectly green, and that his judgment was corroborated by four of the most respectable salesmen in the market, some of whom had been appealed to to examine the carcass by Mr. Bonser himself. Mr. BONSER admitted that he had received a letter from the farnier who sent the carcass, to the effect that the bullock had been ill, and that his man, after having administered a pound of Epsom salts to it without the desired effect, had killed it and forwarded it to London for sale. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said that the officer had done himself infinite cre d i t f or t h e way in w hi c h h e had acted. It was perfectly c l ear t h at he had di sc h arge d his duty fearlessly and honestly, and it wa s not to be endured that animals on th e po i nt of death from di sease should be slaughtered and f orwar d e d to t h e L on don markets for sale. • 2 1 4 - I I The subject than dropped. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. To-day's market was scantily supplied with English wheat. All kinds, however, moved off slowly; yet Mon day's prices were well supported in every instance. The general condition of the samples was good. The show of foreign wheat was very moderate. Good heavy qualities changed hands steadily, at full quotations. Otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish state. We had a fair inquiry for barley and malt, the value of which was well supported. There was rather a slow sale for oats, on former terms. Beans and peas were tolerably firm. The flour trade was steady, and the top price of the best town-made was 58s per sack. English .. Irish .... Foreign .. ARRIVALS TIM WEEK. Wheat. k Barley. Malt. Oats. 1,210 1 6 " 3,830 940 850 570 3,G00 3,810 Flour. 1,550 —^ks —brle GH HOP. The business doing BOROU in our market is limited. Prices, however, are fairly supported. WHITECHAPEL. Each kind of meat moved off slowly to-day, as follows : —Beef, 35 4d t o 4 5 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d; veal, 3s 4d to 45 4d; pork, 3s 4d to 55 Od per 81bs. by the carcase. SHIPPING NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 10.45 a.m. Wind, N.N.W. ; fresh Arrive d—Braziliera, from . Brazils; Athelstan, Calcutta ; Fremont, Bonny ; Haidee, Newfoundland ; Rajah, Alex andria ; Barend Willem, Amsterdam ; Tiber (s), Messina. (BT SU/MARINA AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) Wind W. ; GR ATE gimp, Wednesday, 10.16 a . m . tide, last hour's ebb ; raining. No arrivals. Sailed, 10th.—Mi sc hi e f for Demerara. Sailed, 11th.—Nelson, for Valparaiso • Seine, (s.), Bou logne ; Christiana, New York; Wandering Smanden, Dram ; Thames, (s.), Hamburg ; Belgium, (s.), Ostend ; City of London, (s.), Dunkirk. ' Wind DEAL, Wednesday, 9.20 a . m . . mod C erate, with rain. Passed.—Delhi, from arthagena for London ; Domitia, Cape of Good Hope, Amsterdam. Anchored.—Comet, from London for Madeira; Tasman, London, Cape of Good Hope ; Marie, London, Havre ; Priam, London, Clyde ; Bathos, Loudon, Rio Janeiro. The East India and China Association have just published their usual comparative statement of the num ber of ships, both British and foreign, with th e i r aggre gate tonnage, ent ere d i nwar d and ceared outward with cargo to and from places within the limits of the East India Company's charter, from the Ist of January to the 30th of September, in the years 1853 and 1854. _LOTIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS.--A new provision in the Common Law Procedure Act will forthwith take effect of some importance on lost instruments. It is enacted that in case of an action founded on a bill of ex change or other negotiable instrument, it shall be law ful for the court or a judge to 3rder that the loss of such instrument shall not be set up, provided an indemnity is given to the s a ti s f ac ti on o f t h e court, or judge, or a master, against the claims of any other person upon such negotiable Instrument. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—SuppIement Gratis, with the Weekly Dispatch of Sunday next, Oct. 15.--The full particulars of the Great Battle of the Alma, and the other stirring events, officially certified, including the list of Killed and Wounded, having been received, the Wetkly Dispatch of Sundy next will publish a Supplement, containiug the Complete History of these important. actions, from all available Pourees, with such other possibly sti:l morn interesting matters as may come to baud from the seat of war during the week. Orders may be given to all newsvendors in town and country, and at the Dispatch Office, X3B, Float-street. heights on our Tight we must have been driven across the Alma, as --they would have been swept into the valley • had we failed in carrying our batteries. Their energetic movements, their rapid ilame-like spread from crag to crag, their ceaseless fusillade of the deadly rifle, were all astonishing, and paralysed the enemy com pletely. We, perhaps, could . never have made such a rapid advance, or have got over so much ground in the same time. The general remark of our men was_that the Russiabs were very "clean soldiers ;" and certainly the men on the field bad white fair skins to justify the expression. Each man had a loaf of dark brown bread, of a sour taste and disagreeable odour, in his knapsack," and a linen roll, containing a quantity of brown coarse stuff broken up into lumps. and large grains, which is crushed biscuit or hard granulatad bread prepared with oil. This, we were told by the prisoners, was the sole food of the men. They eat the bread with onions and oil ; the powder is " reserve" ration ; and if they march they may •be for days without food, and remain hungry till they can get fresh loaves and more " bread stuff." It is perfectly astounding to think they can keep together on such diet—and yet they are strong, muscular men enough. The surgeons remarked that their tenacity of life was very remarkable. Many of them lived with wounds calculated to destroy two or three ordinary men. I saw one of the 32d Regiment on the field just after the fight. He was shot right through the head, and the brain protruded in large masses at the back of the head and from the front of the skull. I-saw with my own eyes the wounded man raise his, hand, wipe the horribl e mass f rom hi s b row, an d proceed to struggle clown the hills, towards the water ! Many of the Russians were shot in three - or four places ; few of them had only one wound. They seemed to have a general idea that they would be murdered : possibly they had been told Vthat no quarter would be given, and several deplorable events took place in consequence. As our men were passing by two or three of them were shot or stabbed by men lying on the ground, and th e cr y was ra i se d t h at " t h e wounded Russians" were firing on our men. It was a terrible and sickening sight to go over the battle-field. Till deprived of my horse by a chance shot, I rode about to ascertain, as far as possible, the loss of our friends, and in doing so I was often brought to a standstill by the difficulty of getting through the piles of wounded Russians, mingled too often with our own poor soldiers. The hills of Greenwich•park in fair time are not more densely covered with human beings than were the heights. of the Alma with dead and dying. On these bloody mounds fell 2,196 English officers and men, and upwards of 3,000 Russians, while their western extremity was covered with the bodies of 1,400 gallant Frenchman and of more than 3,000 of their foes. The attitudes of some of the dead were awful. One man might be seen resting On one knee, with the arms extended . in the foim of taking aim, the brow compressed, the lips clenched—the very ex pression of firing at an enemy stamped on the face and fixed there •by death ; a ball had struck this man in the neck. Physiologists or anatomists must settle the rest. Another was lying on his back with the same expression, and his arms raised in a similar attitude, the Minie musket still grasped in his hands undischarged. Another lay in a per fect arch, his :head resting on one part of the ground and his feet on the other, but the back raised high above it. Many men without legs or arms were trying to crawl down to the waterside. Some of the dead lay with a calm, placid smile on the face, as though they were in some delicious dream. SCUTARI, Sept. 28.—We have got to Scutari at last, but I thought we should not have brought any men at all, as the men kept during the voyage quickly dying of their wounds ; there were only three surgeons on board to dress and look after 600 men. My dear fellow, England has a great deal to answer for, in not having sufficient medical men to attend the wounded soldiers who risked their lives and bled for their country's honour. I never had my arm looked at by a doctor from the day I received the wound till yesterday ; but, thank God, from previous experience, I was able to look after it myself, and the wounds of others is°. During our stay on board the ship many a Wight man lost his life through want of medical attendance ; we threw about 80 or 100 overboard coming down the Black Sea, but it is just as bad at Scutari. We disemb ar k e d on the 26th, and we have had. neither tea, rations, nor anything except Vb. of bread. There was a draft of 300 men to have sailed to day for the Crimea, but it was countermanded. I hear there are no more troops wanted in the Crimea, as Sebastopol is all but down, but I cannot vouch for the truth of it. We lost about 168 in our regiment, and the Bri tish army about 1,200 or 1,300 altogether. Give my love to all, and God bless you. Good bye. THE NEW STAMP ACT.-TO-DAY. We would remind our readers that the new Stamp Duties on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes come into operation to-day, the 11th October. Among other points of importance the distinction of duties on bills and notes not exceeding two months and those for longer dates is abolished, and all bills and notes, whether for long or short dates, are charged at ono uniform rate of duty. The following is the new scale :- 2 £ 2 s. d. Not exceeding 5 5 and not exceeding 10 ' 10 25 50 75 100 200 . 3OO 830 400 500 750 1,030 1,500 2,000 3,000 4,030 and upwards . .. • 2 5 0 Exceeding co TEES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Oct. 10. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BAST COWES CASTLE.—Mr. Tudor, of Portman. square, has purchased this beautiful marine residence. It was built by the late John Nash, Esq. After his death it was purchased by the late Earl of Shannon for 20,0001. The present earl sold it to Mr. Barwell, who very soon afterwards sold it to the late owner, Mr. Sawyer. BUILDING SPEOULLTIONS.--The National Freehold Land Society offered a second part of their estate at Mill-hill to their members on the 27th ult. There were between' forty and fifty lots, for which there were in one week more than sixty applicants. The frontages were from 18 feet to 50 ' • the prices varying f rom .301 . t o 751. Altogether about 150 plots have been taken by the members. • THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA.—We have seen two let ters from privates in the 42d, describing their passage of the Alma and carrying the Russian entrenchments — bloody details truly ; but every man seems to have been struggling to be the first on the heights. As for any idea of being driven back or being beaten, nothing of the kind ever appears to have been thought of. French and English v i e d w ith eac h ot h er , t o the dummy and terror of the common foe. 1 ,0001., and NEW CHURCHES AT PADDINGTON.— Three new churches are to be forthwith erected in Paddington. The Bishop of London has contributed the sum of 1,0001. towards that object. sat;eleTtioN. a aj r e l e t y t , hag subscribedN E i NEW CHURCH 5001., the 14 /n o . n — d r/ on e —The Bishop Viscount Sidney 1001., towards the erection of a n ew church for the parish of St. James, Westminster. The church will be built in Coventry-street, be tweenlia— TEz of London has intimated to his clergy that he intends Rupert-streetßrso r os. L a o n trn d P o LONDON i ' ll s c V s i holding a general visitation of the clergy , of hisdi ocese, at S. P a ul's Cathedral, on Nov, Tuesday, Nov. t 4 ; Monday, Nov, 6 ; and Tuer, 2 ; Saturday, Di vine service commencing each d ay 'lan Nov. 7; at half-p as t e l even o'clock. The commercial advices fro m d es cribe a tendency to improvement in the gen era l course of business. Much anxiety, howe ver , was st ill preva l ent the standing of houses, and thi s f ee li ng many of the imp or ti ng weeks. The stoppageo f was likely to continue f or severa l li one of these fi rms — name ly, that of Moulton and Plimpton—had just been announced, with liabiliti es f or 6 0 ,0001. cre dit . ,000/. A. year ago they enjoyed GRAND DIN NER , _ AT THE MANSION-H OUSE . —Y es t er d a y t , le Lord Mayor gave a splendid entertainment to the members of th e corpora ti ons o f N orw i c h , Halifax, Brad ford, and Banbury. There were 270 guests present, amongst whom we observed the Mayor of Norwich, the Mayor of Bradford, the Mayor of Halifax, the Mayor o. Banbury, his Highness Meerjahur Alee Khan, Bhadoor of Surat, Merza Alee Abdar Khan, the Mayor of Don caster, the Mayor of Wakefield, the Master Cutler of Sheffield, the Rev. Canon Dale, Mr. E. Sickle, the Hon. Mr. Thompson, the Lord Mayor elect, Mr. Edward Moon, Mr. Sheriff Muggeridge, Mr. Sheriff Crosley, Mr. .John Masterman, M.P., Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., Mr. H. W. Wickham, M.P., Mr. J. Lawrence, Captain Lange, Mr. Samuel Salley, Mr. James Holme, Mr. Mappen, Mr. Prendergast, Q.C., recorder of Nor wich ; Mr. H. Aken, Mr. E. Cadman, Mr. Joseph Fielding, Mr. Alderman Wire, Mr. J. ator, Mr. J. , Betts, Mr. J. Barwell, Mr. T. L. Coleman, Major Ed. wards. Rev. G. Croly, Sir James Tyler, and most of the 1 aldermen and town councillors of the respective corpo. rations. Mr. E. O'FLAEERTT._The Galway Express states, oa the authority of the mate of a vessel lately arrrived in that port, that Air. 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