The Sun. — London, England, 1854-11-08 00:00:00

• ?Alf' (A NT 14117 "T> rr ,t7N 2:;.1 AND COMMERCIAL INTELL MENGE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, including 500 American, 500 Surat, and 70 Sea Island, taken for export. The market was firm, without change in prices. The sales comprised 4,500 American, 100 Pernam and Maranham at 6id. to 61d., 200 Egyptian at 6d. to 7id., 1,000 Surat at 3d. to 4 3 / 4 d., and 100 Sea Island at Is. 2d. to is. 11d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull, at lower prices. The returns which were yesterday analysed under this head, of the trade and commerce of the United Kingdom, may be considered favourable, under all circumstances, and with respect to the falling off in exports, after the experience of glutted markets in India and Australia, it is rather desirable that there should be a curtailment. Taking the nine months, an increase is still shown, and there will be the better prospect of ultimate profitable re turns. The last adviees from South Australia are en couraging, and give evidence of the steady and substantial progress of the colony, as distinguished from the mere fitful prosperity of gold mining. An account before us states : " Mining, which has to some extent been retarded by the gold fields, is slowly but surely gathering its strength once again. The Burra is now finding miners without much difficulty, and .the comfortable wages and allowances it is able to give to all that resort to it for permanent employment, is making a suitable impression among the gold diggers, whose gains and losses, balanced against each other, do not in most cases exceed those of the steady miner at Kooringa. There is there full employment at present for 600 men. The usual quarterly dividend of one hundred per cent. on the paid pp capital was declared the other day, accompanied with the comfortable assurance that these returns will be regularly maintained for the future. "Our last report from the Kapunda continues as favourable as ever. It is going ou steadily, with its limited numbers of miners, at about eighty tons of 40 per cent. ore per month. The mine is stated to be kindlier than yet observed ; and two or three hundred miners and labourers at full wages very much wanted. " From Strathalbyn silver-lead mines the reports are equally favourable, and Mr. Bassett, the superintendent, writes in the most encouraging terms of their progres ive improvement." The following is a statement of the land sales :- - "March 30-3,511 acres April 6-3,630 „ If 13-3,239 „ $$ 20-3,554 „ 27-2,685 „ 2-4,532 „ May 11-2,905 18-3,100 „ 25-4,516 „ 4,344 6,971 11,836 29,585 acres. £63,073 "We need scarcely repeat here an observation which to us is trite enough, that these sustained land sales are sure indications of permanent settlements throughout the colony. It is expected that in a few months the re served banks of the River Murray wilt be opened for purchase, when investments on a much more extensive scale may be expected. " A preliminary section belonging to Colonel Torrens, and sold by him to Messrs. Kent and Robin, realised for one-half nearly 12,000/. This section, four years ago, was considered a decided bad bargain at 4,0901." The accounts from New York are as unsatis factory respecting the money market as those brought a few days since by the Europa. The Banks were contracting, and failures and reported failures of banking establishment:Li, particularly in the Eastern and Western States, were daily an nounced. The arrivals of gold dust from Cali fornia were not so ample as was expected. An en couraging feature in the present advices, however, is that the result of the wheat crops is likely to turn out much better than has been anticipated. Prices, however, were maintained in the face of this fact by-a good local demand, as well as an in quiry for exportation. From California the intelligence both as regards it7;7g ann d commercial news is more favourable, and at San Francisco trade is said, to have revived and was quite active, while the diggings were yield ing abundantly. There) was a slight decline yesterday afternoon in the rates for bills of exchange upon some of the principal continental cities. Paris, 90 days, was at 25 30 to 35 ; Amsterdam, 11171 to 171 ; Ham burg, 13 61. to 6k-, and Trieste, 12 10 to 15. The bar silver received by the steamer Atrato has been sold at ss. 'lid. per oui ice standard, but - the dollars have not yet been sad. Gold was a little in demand yesterday for the continent. The English funds have been flatter again this morning, and there is rather a fuller supply of money stock. It would appear that cash is in de mand in the Stock Exchange, and probably in an ticipation of the next instalment of 20 per cent. 20 upon the Turkish Loan. In discount circles there is a full supply of money. Consols have been 94 to 942- for transfer, and 94 to 1. for account, with 20 more real than speCulative business doing. The E New Three per Cents. have beep. 93i to g a and the 20 Three per Cent. Reduced from 93-i have dropped to r o 92:4. Bank Stock has been done) at 211, although 100 the first bargain was 212-i. Exchequer Bills have re mained at 6s. to 9 s. premium. East India Bonds 1 20 have been 11s. to 14s. premium. 25 Foreign Securities have been heavy,F,in the 5 almost entire absence of business, but in Turkish Scrip there has been a panic on a small scale, 100 arising from forced sales•made by one or two parties. ICO There has been an allegation that the wording 20 upon the bonds is nqt sufficiently explicit in 5 5 reference to the firman ; but, even were it 201 so, this could probably be set right, and we 100 believe the main cause of the sudden reaction is the large amount held in the Stock Exchange, and 100 the sums borrowed thereo n, with the necessity of IN making " provision for the ensuing call." The 1 2 0 0 0 ! first price was par to premium, and business has since been done this morning at and 1 discount. 20 Peruvian Stock is nominally lower, the parties 5 interested in the home debt having made vigorous efforts to produce a fall, but the real holders will have more encouragement than ever to keep their property. The per Cents. have been at 69, and the 3 per Cents. at 49. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 6 ; Mexi can, 228 to 22g: ; Peruvian, 69 to 71 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 49 to 51 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto, 4 per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18 to 18.1 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37i to 38 ; ditto, Certificates, 51 to 5 ; ditto, Passive, 41 to 4-1. Railway Shares are feebler, the decline being to 1 per cent. in London and North-Western, to in South-Western and Midland, and in about the same proportion for the other lines. The foreign lines are a shade lower. The Australian Banks continue in favour, the Mines are steady, and the Colonial Land Com panies' keep firm. 20 20 10 10 50 20 20 20 St. 10 St. 25 PRIOR OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( From the Ogcial List.) Bnsiness done 13.1nk Stock 2121 11 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities_ _ ...... 931 23. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94s s A New 3 per Cent. Annuities l u ala B o nds, £lOOO .... ....... 14 Ditto' un der £lOOO - 11 onsols f or Account 14th Nov. 94 i i i .6sc h eq uer Dills, 21d. AOOO .... 9 IZO3 - 9 6 Staid'. Exchequer 13onds 1858, Si per Cent. ... 100 Ditto 1859, BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds, 4 i pe r Cent. 6 E 9 Ditto 3 per Cent. Spanish Boods, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 p er Cent lBl T arkish Scrip 6 per cent Dividends on tho above payable in London. LIALP-PAST TWO. 941 Consols .................................. . .... Ditto November Acoon nt .. , ........... 91 4 ----- " of Folymnia. 100 e Lewis, of the Royal 100 SUDDEN DEATIL-IVir. Georg Mews, Buckingham Palace, a suddenly ge ntleman we ll known ater 20 Death the west end of London, exp ired very yeensued 50 st day morning, at his reside nce in town. 20 from the rupture of a blood-vessel of the heatt. 25 Two new planets have just been discovered at Paris — one by M. Goldschmidt, a private gentleman, in the ipo night of the 27th ult. ; the other by M. Chacornc, of 10 the Imperial Observatory, in the night of the 28th ult. 5 The former, which is like a star of the 10th or 11th magnitude, has received the name of Pomona ; the 25 latter, which appears of the 9th or 10th magnitude, that 2550 SHARE MARK „E TS. Nr • r+ , A. •,) P P.ATLWA VS. RAILNUTP. 10losing Prices yesterday. 21 - 22 43 - 4i 8 - 8i 11 Ip3 17 - 18 - N-1 95 - 97 - 13A 14? 10 - 12 - 2u 61 - 15 - 16 111 - 12 32 - 34 22 - 24 69 - 71 55 - 57 -.-- - 201 -- 22:] 892 - 90 76 - 77 125 - 126 90 - 92 71:4 'ft 72 69 - 71 73 - 5$ - ...r; 8 - - 107 1.011- 1014 it -hd. * 81i - 826 ilO • 9 9 - 80 23 - 23 70 70? i 40 - 42 ( 11 9 a ,ii .2 2i 6 . 6 - 52 34 3 ,'; :35 8 10 - - 76i 771 6 - f'l` • - 14 -14 j 63 -- 51 53 - 55 - p Rd - 4i - 4 - 7 d-' ••• "'''' . 32 -- 3-1 4 - (Jt; 60 - 7P 4 - 46 47 62 t - 35 - 37 St. 100 Aberdeen Antbg. Nottng. Bost L 0 all B a e n lf d as E t a & stu. Ballymena, 13i all Binning. Wolverh. Stour Valley 31 29 Birkenhd. Lanesh. ii Cheshire 2M al/ Do. Chesil. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 22 19 Do., 25 30 Blyth &Tyne origina', £25 (issd. at £45) St. 100 Bristol and Exeter, St. 100 Ca1ed0nian.......... 10 21s. Carmarthen and Car digan ...... all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon— all Cork, Bla.ck, & Pars 16 Cornwall 14 Orloff Junction 45 Dublin&Belfa.stJunc all Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction all Do. New 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties 1 100 Eastern Union, A Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 86 Do., New A. 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh& Glasgow 96 Edinb. arid Peebles 100 Edin:Prth &Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. 1.00 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern ' LOO Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gna. Stk all Irish South-Eastern. all Lancaster & Carlisle 141 Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh 196 Do., Fifths 114 Do. , Vipt. Riding Un all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwal 100 Lond.Bright &S.Cst. 100 Loud. and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.5h.,1Y1&8„.( 24 Do. Eighths 1 100 London andS. Westn 424 Do., £5O 34 Do., £4O all Lndudrry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. ,100 Hanch.Shef.&Lincln 44 Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 silidland 100 Do. Birmng. &Derby all Midld. G. West. (Ire. j' 226 Do. Half Shares %11 Newcastle & Carlisle 54 Newmkt.BuryExten 19 Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd S. Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 36 Northn.Counties Un ;100 North British all 4 North Devon, No. 1. all Do., No. 2 all Do., i A Deferred all Do., A B Guarantee(' 100 N. Eastern—Berwiek 20. Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. Purch. all Do. Leeds [OO Do. York all North London 8? Do. New £lO .1 le N. &S.Wstrn.,lfamp , stead; and City Jn., 17 North Staffordshire., a ll . North Western all N.&S. Westrn. June, 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 00 Oxford; Worcester, $; Wolverhampton 6 Portsmouth DO ';cottish Central .00 Scottishillidland all Shrewsby. & Herald ail SI iropshire Union Do. A, B, C,&,D,full; paid up at per cent all Gonth Devon .00 South Eastern all South Wales . 15 '4. Yrksh. & Riv. Dm 5 Do itaines,'Wok. &Wok all tockton & Darlin;! 16 Stockton & 100 rat? Vale 9 Do. £lO shares Prer., No. 1.- 21 'Cliames Haven Doci and Railway all Valo of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenni all Waterford&Limerici 18 Wost:Cornwall 3 Neat End of London n 3 Crystal Palace all West London 111 s. I,Vimbledn&Croydoi FOREIGN. ! ' all Antworp&Rotterdam 3:i Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Beziors to Graissessac 2s. Bombay, 13aroda , and Central India,Scrip ... Central of Italy all Demerara 14 Dijon audßesangon 9 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian 2 Do, Extension all' Do. , q p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 10 Gd. Junct. of France 123 Gd. Tk. of CanadaAis. all Do. do all Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. all 'Do. Cert. of Deben , con. into Stk . till '63 all Do. Comp. Gp.c. , do. 10 Ct. Central of France all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. New 5 per cent. all Gt. Western of Cauadr! Shares . . all Do. lids., payable's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, P.' 56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, without option all Hamilton & Torontc all Do. 6 per cent. 11. 1...ke Coast. & Bash all Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c prof 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Oblintions. 10 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterran. 0 116 J N'Eadrtts 0 2 Do. New ;3k 3U Maria Antonia. JO . all Do. do. New .... 10 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry. 10 all Namur & Liege (wit} interest) all Do. (ox interest) all Northern of France all D 0.20/. Shs.late Char - lcroi and Brquelines gum 3i p. c. & red, at 221/. dur. 88 yrs. from IJan. 1854 all Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds. (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) all NorwegianTrunkPref 14 Paris and Ly0n5..,.... all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans.... all Paris and Ronen 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg, all Rouen and flavre , 20 P.oyal Danish 3 !loyal Swodish.. all Sambre and Meuse all Do. 51 p. cent. Pref 10 Soutb Cll3. of France. 14 St. Andrew's am Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 51 per c. Pref , 10 Western of France 15 West. of Switzerlan all Wiesbaden 9 0 Zealand 50 50 20 20 Basin=s done I E 0 this day. 19 4 - 7 25 St. 20 St. 1s • • par P dif - 5 - 11) , a- - iP ••• .. -- ~. --- 7i - iii = 34 12k-- 13 9 - 10 21 - 21gp 47 49 38 40 pm 22 21 par ip 21 8 ... -pm - 4 6 -6 ..• .-• 161 - 17 - - - JOINT-STOCK BANKS. all A ust ralasia all Oritish Colonial Bank and Loan Company all I.lriti , :h N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lend 16 English Scottish and Australian.. all 1 Loud. Chart. Bk. ei Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Loud. St Wostmindcr 35 National Provincia] of England 10 Do. New 22i National of Ireland , all Now South Wales , all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Austrzdn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co all South' Australia all Union of Australia 2 Do. New 10 Union of L0nd0n....„ ~ ... •• • . -- ••• cl par 1 - J 0 -- il 1i d' 25 - 25., • •• ..' 40 - 62 43 43 71. 73 7i 8b olio ...... 20 96 3 / 4 10 603 1 60 3 / 4 St 1n i 89/ 1: 77 ' 1 St. 71a 1 25 72a 101 5 7i 81 69 bt. St, 10 I s 50i 1 St. 10 6, 76/ 7 53 i 13 2i 16 St. St. ad 50 - 22 - 6 .•• • . --- 7 6a 1i 4 dig 1 20 8 9 1 i par 251 5 a AT TILL f) RENT. Leasing ;losing Prices Comp yesterday. fionctm S, N. Well G. &N. W. I(jaledon.., R.Nrthn. laldonian. Gt. Westri Yk. New. & Borw. Y. &Mid Do Do S. Eastern D 0... Poto & Co Norfolk.. L.& N. W. & Midld. Stckton & Darlingt. E. Count, Do Dol L. &N.W.' &Ln&Yk GtNorthn Lancash& Yorksh. M.MClean Stockt. & Darlingt D 0.... ..... ftWestn. - 100 99 - 101 136 - 133 •• ... ."-' ••• - 104 51 - 52 25 - 251 13 - 131 23 - 24 111 -11 i 2i - 2i 84 = 95 58 4- GO i 36 - 133 - 30i -- 31 93 -- 95 'ES LEASE: Paid. RALLWAT(. all Tedford and Blotchley 100 Buckghanish. 100 Clydesdale Jc 100 E. Lincoln g,r. 6 per cent. all Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct all Do. New all Glstr.&Dn.Fr all iirtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. a Sharer. , all Do. Shares. all Lou. & Greonw all Do.Prefercnee all Lon. , Til., &S. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. 100 Do. 6 per ct. all lianch. lixtu , ' and Matlock, all 91iddlaibro' & Redcar all Aidld.Bradfd all Northern and • Easternsp.e. all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds p all Prost. & Wyre all Do. Shares. WO Roystn.& lit. 18 Shef.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c.' N S. Staffordsh. all WearValleygr 6 per cent... all IDo 100 I Wilts&C-omrst PREFERENCE SHARES. 100 Aberdeen 98 - 102 92 - 96 100 'Do. N 0.2 7 p. c 30 Blyth andryne 1 Oper c. pref. (issd. 500 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 iDo. 4 p. e. Shares 100 iCaledonian £lO - - .• • - •• • 9G - all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 4 per cent... all Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. all Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. all Cork 4Handons4l.e. all IDundtererth tSrAivr• deen Junction all EastAnglian (£3 DO 6 per cent all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (£7 17s) 7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex tension,s p. c. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 r. c. St. all Eastern Union, Scrii Guar. 6 per cent... all Do. 51., 10 net cent. all Do. 101. DeSentr.Sh. all Do. do. 4 per cent.., 100 East Lancash.6 p. cts. all East and West York 5/ - - - 13 -13 i 22 - 24 ••• .."" "'"'" shire June. Fifths all EdinlaPrth.&,Dundet 4 per cent. 100 Glasgow &S. Weston: Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. C 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom_ 1.00 Do. 4Y P. c 86 Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Prei all '2,t. Southn. &Westui. (Ireland) Eighths) 7 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St 6 Gt. Wostu. (perks & Hants Ex. 5 p. LOO Do. con, red. 4, 3 / 4 P.C. 100 Do. con. red. 4 p. c. 100 Do. irrod. 4 p.C. all Do. Birni. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c.P.S. all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk. all Do. Ches. Gun. Stk. all Do. do. do all Do. do. d 0............ 65 -70 -- ...Xl tia 117 los 110 100 6 - Gi 93 - 100 90 - 92 93 - 95 103 - 11 163 - 173 10 - 10 72 - 74 183 - 193 - 9 i 14 - 15 If id 138 140 ...__ 6 Lan. &York. F. £2O 00 Do. 6p. c. Stock .60 , London and Brightca , Guaranteed 5 p. e DO Do. Pref., sp.c. St 00 Do. New Guar.6 P.C .00 Lou. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct. 5 r,ondon &S. Western Con. Thirds all Etondonderry& Coler i Shares all Lowly. & Ennis. iSL all Wan., Sher., & Lin , i Shares, No. 1. all Do. New, ot:10 4A Do. £6 all 3,larypt.&Carl.4p c all Do. 42 per cent 1N Do 100 Aid. Consol.o p.e.St 199 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 111 Do. Prof. 4, per cen 10 Norfolk Debenture [OO Do.Prcf. 4p. c. Roe] 100 Do. sp. e. Eat , 1.00 Do. 5 per et. pref , 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c [CO , North British . 100 NT. E. Reno, 4 p.c. P 5 'Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 p.c. No : 9 Do. do. Quarters '4B 10 Do. York 11, & .4. Pr r. all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford,Worcester,& Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c. i all Soot. Cent. ,New Pref 10 Do. s.per cent all South Devon li Do. fixed, 44 per cent 3 all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4A per cent all 4.Yorksli.4p.e.Cuar all S. Wales Gua. 4p. c 16 Do. de. 4. p. c all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent 5 Do. do. do, i all 3toekton and Hartle. pool, guar. 5 p. c, till let July, 18561 4 Watorfd.&ltilk.6p.o. •• • '''' •••• - 31. 11 - 111 33 - 140 1 - -- .04 -- 92 - 91 1 la 112 - 114 12 - - 22 - 231 99 - 101 17 - l'J ••• ••• 2 --d Sir THE Cb C a O rI M e M s COMMANDER-IN-wCHIEFatOPHTaHmEbuBrgALToInc FLEETeEET4th Several officers of her Majesty's vessels anchored at Kiel—among others Captain Egerton (Basilisk) —have run over to Berlin, to visit that city and Potsdam. THE REPRESENTATION OF BEDFO RD.—Mr. J. S. Tre lawnysees n tne l ds h Ta o bh p oL e uL o t f At i h s n r ru e e s Ee e y n m. t il s es t s m uf e nr e od s , a s : . has declined coming forwa rd for this place, as he Leeds,Ku i a r r k r s o t w a l l l y A o s o b a ls p e o y d , sit K ua i destruction by fire, which was entirely accidental. Nrasr YORK, Oct. 20.—Private advices mention that Mr..W.Vincent Wallace bad just arrived in New York. This will remove the painful apprehensions of his nume rous friends and admirers in this country, who had much reason to fear that he was among the passengers on, board the Arctic when she was lost. THE ANTRIM MILITIA.—The Marquis of Donegal, colonel of the Queen's Own Rifles, the County Antrim Militia Regiment, has honoured Serjeant-Major Chew, Belfast, with orders to take the necessary steps for en• rolling such candidates as may offer themselves for the above regiment. One thousand men will be required ,for the Rifles, and 579 for the Artillery. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN ITALY.—The construc tion of telegraphic lines is making great progress in Italy at present. A direct line between Piedmont and Switzerland by Brissago was opened on the Ist. An other line was opened some time ago between the two countries by St. Julien. Caserta, and the towns of Cancello Santa Maria, Capua, Mola, Terracina, Nola, Salerno and Avellino, are now connected with Naples by telegraphic lines, which are open to-the public. A lino is also in progress to connect Bologna and Ancona, a distance of 150 miles, and has already reached Rimini. It is believed it will be continued at Rome. THE MAILS.—SoIITHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The Penin sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Euxine, Capt. John Weeks, left this afternoon with the usual mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. Her s pecie comprised—for Oporto, 5;000/. ; Lisbon, 41,973/. ; Gibraltar, 27,300/. ; total, 74,273/. She had also on board 29 passengers—viz., first class, 16 ; second class, 11 ; deck, 2 ; among them wore the Baron and Baroness d'Aelsward, for Lisbon ; and Captain Goven, Royal Artillery.—The Tagus, with the homeward Pen insular mails, is due about the 13th inst.—The Rajah is a ppointed to leave for Malta and Constantinople on the 15th inst., and will convey a large quantity of supplies for the forces in the East.—The Candia, with the Medi terranean, India, and China mails, Captain J. S. Field, will leave on the 20th inst. 'THE RUSSIAN " HOSPITAL" FOR THE WOUNDED.— It appears that from the first the Allies noticed a large structure in the central mut of the city, which was sur - mounted by a yellow flag, indicating that it was an hospital for the wounded. A communication to that effect was made to the Generals commanding the Allied Armies, and strict orders had been given to spare that part of the town. Some time after, however, some deserters from the place gave information which led to the conviction that a deceit had been practised ; in fact, it was found that the building, which was supposed to give shelter to the sick and wounded, was sited. Acting on this infirmation, some shells were t a li n e yt a mmunition ü b n u i t t::o n n h a. o n s T i s t t a o l r : e i s t o w f a t s h a e v b a e s s t le in g a e g d a w zin er e e , W d ll ep er :- Alifown into it, and the pretended hospital blew up with as . f v,, a i t t r n e m ane la o r u t h s g efft ua e k c o; a n T d h g housese rou ground wereau r around it h thrown shook otohlso ground in all directions. The K,'euz Zeitung of the sth, contains an official de spatch from St. Petersburg of the 3d inst., that the Russian General Baron von Nicolai has inflicted a severe blow on the celebrated Circassian chief Schaanyl, at Gros Naja, in the country of the Tscbet scheuzen (Gros Naja lies on the Tchetchia), a - tributary of the Terek, which flows into the Caspian Sea. Just before the termination of business yesterday after noon much satisfaction was caused by an announcement posted at Lloyd's that the Swarthmore, from Melbourne, put into Tahiti on flas Ist of August. She has 63,128 safety, rateinsurances of o per Dave oe nt recently been effected ~ounces of gold on board, and, owin g to g reat apprehen suipoonns f h o o r r h a e t r th e TiminesA this Cay. SIEGE 'OPOL. C 0 1 ,; .c3TANTINOPLE, Oct. 24.—1 t is now the eighth day since the be ,, ,inning of the great conflict. No steamer has mad , .?, its appearance from Sepastopol for the last two days. Had any such left on the 22d it would be already here, and if any event of importance had occurred such a vessel would cer tainly have been despatched. We may conclude, therefore, that on the sixth day of incessant can nonading the fortress still remained in the hands of the Czar. It is said that one effect of the naval diversion on the 17th was, that the Allies were able to gain a parallel 200 yards nearer the Russian works, a considerable advantage, if the story be true ; for such an advance might make all the dif ference between a destructive and an ineffectual fire against earth and stone. A person who left on the 19th says that the only effect of the English and French balls on some of the Russian works was to make them seem speckled all over. The strength of the defences is most undoubted. But when once a breach is made the rest will be easy. The Russian troops are said to be disheartened. The sailors from the fleet work well, and are the principal ar . . tillerymen. Should the Allies once get in among them the affair will not last a .couple of hours, though it cannot be doubted that numbers must fall before an entrance is effected. The loss at' Alma is a proof of the difficulty of attacking a strong position, even when those defending it are inferior in every way. It would be madness to attempt an attack without having made two or three practicable breaches, and, as far as our present information extends, we are unaware of any such success having been achieved. How ever, there is another month fit for operations, and there seems no rea son t o believe that any considerable force of Russians can advance to help the place for some weeks to come. The troops fired at by an English steamer when crossing the Dniester did not appear to be more than 20,000 strong, and they can hardly arrive in the south of the Crimea for another month. There are persons who say that the Russian army of Simpheropol is of great strength, but it seems most improbable, for it would hardly, in that case, have allowed the town to lie so endangered as it wits on the 17th and. 18th. The dismszted and battered Albion arrived yes• terday in Bujukdere Bay, towed by.the Orinoco. This vessel, with the Agamemnon and Sanspareil, bore the brunt of . the action. She had 15 killed and 72 wounded in the day's combat. She was towed down to Constantinople this morning to be docked. As she passed, with her main and mizen topmasts shot away, and her sides showing the marks of the fray, a band on board played enliven ing -airs—a strange coSitrast to the scene which had been witnessed on board a week before. She has several large holes near the waterline, which have been temporarily boarded up and painted ; and the round marks of the shot are to be seen on every part of her hull. Her vast bulk, equal to to that of a first-rate, with her battered aspect, and the interest attached to the fight, attracted crowds during her passage down the Bosphorus. The spectators eyed her silently with various ideas and sympathies—the English, with pride, mingled with sorrow, the Turks with apathy which might veil any feeling, other parts of the population with something like secret gratification. She had sent upwards of 120 men on shore previous to the com mencement of the action, in which she was exposed to the hottest fire of the Russian batteries. There was a general anticipation on board that the fleet would again try its fortune against the fortifica tions which it has so long watched ; but, whatever may be the ardour of the soldiers, it would be un wise to allow any chagrin at an incomplete result to urge the valuable squadron into action under circumstances in which our loss must at least be greater than any we can inflict on the enemy. The Arethusa is not so much injured as some of the other vessels, but she was found to be in a rotten state, and the shot which struck her knocked out whole pieces of her hull, although this would have done little damage to a sound ship. The French loss it is difficult to ascertain with exactness. It is, however, certainly greater than was supposed at first, being now stated at 60 killed and 250 wounded. The total loss of the allied fleets on the 17th was therefore more than 600 men. No French vessel, however, was so much injured as the Albion, although the Ville de Paris had her upper deck very much shattered by the shells of the enemy. Lieutenant Lloyd is still alive at the naval hospital at Therapia, although his wound is most severe, and his escape from instant death wonderful. A shell struck him under the arm and tore away part of his side ; the hurt, however, is not mortal, and he has the advantage of at least sufficient medical attendance. About 84 wounded . have been lauded at Therapia ; two had died up to the night of the 22d ; since then there have been also one or two deaths. Many of the men who were slightly hurt have remained on board. The Orinoco, which towed down the Albion, will pro bably return with Turkish troops. However, the supply of these is nearly exhausted, and the arrival of French reinforcements from Marseilles would be received with satisfaction. The Alliod troops are no doubt incomparably superior to 'the Russians, but, still the expected superiority of the enemy after a short time is a cause of disquiet even to the sanguine. By the last accounts the force of the Russians on the Tchernaya was estimated at about 24,000 men. Such an army can, indeed, do nothing of itself, but it may serve to reinforce the garrison of Sebastopol, which had its communication entirely open, and has continually received and sent intel ligence connected with the defence of the place. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 2G.—The British army mail, which-left yesterday by the French boat for Marseilles, will be 14 days on its passage. It may be as well to give some account of events up to the last arrival from Sebastopol. We have news np to the 23d, which is on the whole satisfactory, although the progress of the siege may not keep pace with the anticipations of the sanguine. On the evening of the 20th the R uss i ans made a sortie, and spiked three of the French guns. They were, however, driven back with considerable slaughter. Much harm is done to the siege operations by the insuffi cient solidity of the French works. It appears that they are much injured by the Russian fire, and the work of cannonading goes on slowly in their part of the line. A spectator on. the 20th compared it to child's play, and said that the fire did not exceed a shot every five minutes from each battery. This, however, seams to be an exaggera tion. The town has b e en on fire sevoial times ;it aisnidnswicohucuudtedab. Na out, and the loss of the enemy mu s t , be very gr ea t. A deserter who came o ut on the 21st said that no les s than 5,000 had been killed The account s we rece i ve are o f th e most meagre kind, as th e y aro ehna said°ffthe admiralem on g who to b mainly furhished by persons who write a few h urr i ed lines to the i r f r iends, or by a theh o dead.c o m mended at Sinope was naval officers who have been kept at a distance from the sc ene of action. It is, however; stated as positive that th e B r i t i s h h ave a d vance d their works within 300 y ar d s of the Russians an d ar e making a consider a bl e impression. The Rifles have be en engaged in Pickin g off the Russian gunners , w ho are shot d own in considerable numbers. The re are several vo l unteers a l so arme d with rifles who ha ve joined in this p the greatest panic art of the warfare. It is said by d eserters that prevails in th e town, wh i c h i s almos t i n ruins. The soldiers ar e sa i d to be kept at their guns by the swords of their officers, and many have been shot for attempting to desert. On the 22d the French opened another battery on the extreme right of the Russians ; it was sup posed that when this new work produced its effect the place would be stormed simultaneously from the British and French positions. The British troops had conciliated the siege with a coolness and courage which was the admiration of beholders. The loss had been as yet very slight—not more than 200 killed and wounded since the beginning dd a t ‘cov r r e l i u o e s ar erctois were disease. en sn ec e dio ba t : of the cannonade. The chief difficulty was the transport of ammunition for such a distance. In some places we had been pressed very hard by the Russian fire, but in the end the enemy had always received the worst of the conflict., The force of the Russians in the field is certainly less than 30,000 men. It has made no_fresh attack, or attempt at one, since the 17th. No news of re inforcements has arrived, although it is believed that a large force of Russians is already south of Perekop. The Allies are no doubt in want of fresh troops. The effective British force is not more than 16,000, so great has been the void made by battle and aigurihtelae N degbitren o eoedai i e finrgi. ai s i.eo s ysaomleet t la: h if3sptrt a vooa n tsimeiipt ain : gog , ;ph. o , totto O rofr : we. td: m i eGimiiesyritnc22o, the Greek otk a jleo r t:o( f e mano n d ovrtodla. e rmrds a oewei dooanaprnosFss. Turkishlwe Fleece burn ing it could be wished that reinforcements of a better ' The Viper arrived this morning. A. fire broke 18 hours after. Whether this be intentional or accidental cannot be stated. There is no doubt that the town has suffered greatly, and would have been destroyed, but that it is, to a great extent, built of stone. The prisoners and even the deserters say that the Russian generals are determined to leave the place a ruin. The women and children may probably have been sent over to the northern sides. It is to be hoped that they may be placed in safety before the final assault, or such is the obstinacy of the defence that the rage of the sol diers are being roused, and assuredly the Zonaves and other African regiments will display no small ferocity when the place is sacked. There does not seem any intention of sending in the ships a second time to attack the forts. If the vessels had bean all screw-ships the effect might I have been very different ; but it was necessary to lash a steamer alongside of each sailing-vessel in order to carry her in, and the efficiency of both was correspondingly diminished. The Albion is very much injured ; it is said she was on fire in nine or ten places, and that she was only saved by great exertions. She will be patched up _here, prepara tory to being sent home. Her place is, however, well supplied by the Algiers. There was some talk of storming the plate to wards the end of the week, about the 28th, but there is reason to believe that such reports are mere surmises, and that the commanders have come to no determination. Indeed, it is evident that such an assault must depend for success on the impression made on the Russian works, and up to this time there is nothing which can be called a practicable breach. Communications between the southern and northern shores of the bay are still open, but it re mains to be seen whether the Russians will be able, on the fall of Sebastopol prow, to cross the water with their remaining vessels, and defend them selves in their new position. If they can succeed in this their fire may render the place untenable, and at all events Fort Constantine and its out ' works would have to be attempted. by a second series of seige operations. The weather is still gloriously fine, and well fitted to siege operations. The wind, for the last few days, has been from the south, and the heat con sequently oppressive ; but still the season is most favourable, and for another fortnight we may expect a continuance of the present propitious weather. Afterwards the army must make up its mind for hail, wind, and rain, with all the incon veniences of a November climate. Let us hope that before the middle of next month they may be safely housed in Sebastopol. The wounded are all going on favourably, except that whenever a southerly wind prevails inflamma tion begins, and the simplest wound will not heal. Scutari is in a much more decent order, although there is still a great deficiency of medical attend ance. The supply of medicines is now sufficient, and the place has been cleaned of its former impurities. But the sufferings of the men have been very great, and it cannot be too frequently impressed on the minds of those in authority at home that the prepa rations for such events as those now occurring ought to be on the largest scale. No one can say what will be the numbers of wounded in the great assault which may any day take place. It is as well to state the truth at once. Alma is likely to have been far less deadly than the struggle which will • take place in the breaches of Sebastopol. The enemy there will probably be unable to retreat, and if he have a trace of courage, or even of natural instinct, he will defend himself With desperation. Every street may have its barricade, and the very ground over which the assaulting regiments pass may conceal the deadly mine. In such a case economy is wickedness. Surgeons and nurses in numbers should ba sent out. The country will not grudge an expense which will be small in comparison with the good it will do, and many a family will owe its happiness to the precaution of a thoughtful Executive. OCT. 27.—The last advices from Sebastopol are up to the 25th. The vessel which brought them is unable to furnish any details, but we know that the siege was going on as usual. Women and children are said to be lying unburied in the streets; everything is neglected in order to keop up the defence ; all the guns of the Round Fort were said to be silenced except one. The Russians are con structing another line of works behind their pre sent ones ; they have plenty of guns and ammuni tion. The British effective infantry is now about 15,000, the French 36,000, the Turks 11,000. The artillerymen are being much worn out by incessant toil. They are 12 hours out of the 24 in trenches, instead of the usual 8. The loss of effective strength from sickness and wounds amounts, in the,British force, to about 80 a-day. The Carnac has just arrived with a large addition to the medical staff. This is a timely relief to the worn-out surgeons of Scutari, and a fitting pre paration for the great assault which will soon take place. The sick are still very much neglected in the Crimea. The naval hospital at Therapia is ex tremely comfortable, and the men receive every attention. Thpy are about 80 in number, and most of them are becoming rapidly convalescent. Lieu tenant Lloyd of the Triton is doing woll in spite of his dangerous wound'. Lieutenant-Colonel Lawronson; of the 17th Lancers, went home a day or two since. Captain Dallas, 11th Hussars, is recovering. Prince Ernest of Saxe Leiningen is now nearly well, after two months' illness. Scutari is being prepared for the reception of fresh wounded. EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS FROM THE CAMP. REP3RTS OF DZSERTERS. OCT. 20. —Des'erters, who came out in the last two days, drew a melancholy picture of the state of Sebas topol, and the execution our artillery had done among the garrison. The fortress, they said, was like a large slaughter house, and since we opened fire five thousand men had been taken to the hospitals and the graveyards. This is good news for us, if it be true. But it should be recollected that deserters are in the habit of saying whatever they think is most likely to please those to whom they surrender. AN AWKWARD MISTAKE. Sir Colin Campbell had ordered that no pickets should eater the plain which separates our position from the Ens sia,n hills. The troops were told that any masses moving in that plain must needs be Russians, and orders were given to fire upon such masses the moment they came within range. Now it so happened that the Turkish commander either did not understand, or that he for got the order, for ho sent numerous and strong pickets into this very plain. Two columns of Turks, thus laudably employed in insuring the safety of the camp, and marching one upon the other, came almost at the same moment in sight of It battery manned by English artillerymen and protected by a strong body of our infantry. No sooner did the dark masses of the Turks loora through the shades of night—at a distance of certainly less than four hundred yards— than the artillery let fly at them with rockets and round shot, and the infantry poured down their terrible volleys of musketry. The Turks of either party believed that the body of men march ing upon them were a Russia force, and the two columns, setting up a terrible howl, were just on the point of charging one another, when the proceedings were stopped, and the matter cleared up by the arrival of Colonel Sterling and Lieutenant Wageman, who had just seen the Pacha, and learnt froni him that ho bad sent parties to scour the plain. So 'riding up in hot haste they came at the very height of the confusion, just as the two parties of Turks were about to grapple in mortal combat, while the battery was almost in the act of giving them another discharge of guns and musketry. When the time for explanations came, most strange to say, it was found that none of the Turks were hurt. The shot had gone over their heads, for neither the gunners nor the musketeers had any idea that the supposed enemy was so close at hand. THE STATE OF THE GARRISON. 1 OCT. 22.—The litts news of the distress of the garrison of Sebastopol was yesterday confirmed by several de serters, who all told the same story, and as there could be no previous understanding between them, their asser tions are entitled to some credit. I give them in full. The fire from our batteriess has most terribly told upon Sebastopol ; the place is like a vast slaughter-house, and the streets are full of h owlin g and gnashing of teeth. Five thousand men are killedor severely wounded. The explosion of the magazine in the rear of the redoubt, on the first day of the siege, killed and disabled three thou sand men. The garrison are disheartened, and wish their tribulation was over, and that the Allies had taken the town. The chief engineer, who conducts !he defence of the fortress, is severely wounded. VIGILANCE OF THE TROOPS. Yesterday, too, the position of Balaklava was alarmed by the Russians, who displayed a force of 8 battalions on their own hill-tops, and who, as usual, retreated when they found Sir Colin Campbell prepared to receive them with all the honours of war. The repeated advances of the Russians and Sir Colin Campbell's extreme vigilance keep the troops in the batteries and the camp continually on the alert. They are like Sir Walter Scott's Knights of Branksena Hall, who stood, walked, ate, drank, and slept in armour. They muster at daybreak; pickets are out all night. After sunset the silence of death hangs over the camp; all lights and fires are out, and the infantry sleep with their muskets within reach, the cavalry with their swords belted round them, and their horses ready saddled, the artillery sleep with their guns. and the whole camp is always prepared to rise up in arms at the first shot in front or the first sound of the bugle. And Sir Colin, whose green old age tires and almost breaks his youngest and strongest aides-de-camp, is up all day and half the , night inspecting the outposts and ascertaining with his own eyes that the position confided to his keeping is safe from surprise. A CARGO OF LUXURIES. I am glad to be able to announce to you that an enterprising merchant from Pera has at last. come to r elieve the ne cessities / of the camp. His ship, a barque of 150 tons, containin g a general car g o of Necess aries and luxurie s, came in last ni g h t. He commen ced his sale this morning , and by sunset he had dispose d of one-third o f his cargo, at prices w hi c h, on the average, must yield him 100 per cent. profit. I quote a few of the prices, premising that all the articles are of inferior description. India rubber coats, 603. ; iron camp bedsteads, 455. ; cigars, per pound, 30s. ; chocolate, per pound, 3s. ; small cheese, 12s. ; candles, per pound, 33. ; Westphalia h ams of 10 pounds, 255. These are the prices I noticed ; all the others are equally high. But there is no bargaining in a camp, and men aro but too 'glad to obtain useful things for any amount of useless money. The arrival of the stores at Balaklava is hardly known in the camp at Sebastopol. When the news spreads the rush of officers and officers' servants will be tremendous, and prices will most likely rise 50 per cent. llere is a vast field for enterprise. THE RUSSIANS AT THEIR GUNS. A Freud' officer was taken prisoner on shore the other day ; he was taken into Sebastopol, and in the confusion managed to escape. He says that there were 5,000 men killed ; the wounded were innumerable. hail ; one came through and burst over this;- 4 - 4 .'•""" - - -".-,4, ~ 1 4 N ' v "" w15 71 , ,. - eA Vif They were °bilged to drive the Russians to their guns in my quarters. I secured a piece immeoiiittti - ifttri A.it..., t o oicd at the point of the bayonet, and they had the gallows burst. A few minutes afterwards we cAliglAyatirt4" 'll it rigged,.and were hanging them by the dozen. The town ward on the lower'deek, so we bad to ceasiaWr-k;;:; . 1-A• t e wai in an awful state. There is a report that the Poles extinguish the fire, which was done in\klbeiut tad- '-*.k, ' will turn on the Russians as soon as our troops assault minutes. I could nct see a yard before Me bathe a B it, which is not unlikely. smoke was so thi c k. I t go t so h o t a t l as t thaMrd George gave the order to ship the cables. Whilst the LORD DUNKELLIN. men were over the port e;de shipping the cables a He went with a party of his regiment to convey am- shell and shot came in forward. It must have clearedl munition to the new battery on the right about 4 a.m. o away- had they been at their shipped guns. th e ca bl e we f oun d th a t th e anc h o r There was no one to show the road and they missed the two guns' rews track. The serjeant at last observing troops in front When we called the a tt en ti on o f L or d D un k e lli n to the fact, and had never been on the ground, so we had been drifting in towards the forts all the while, and, what was worse ward to reconnoit re . H e did no t re t urn , an d after some he, ordering th e p ar ty t o rema i n w h ere it was, went for- in all, we had got a sh oa l a h ea d an d as t ern , so the steamer . could not go ahead . L u ckily the Spitfire was time waiting the serjeant marched the men back to the within hail, so she towed ou r head short round, and we camp. Lord Dunkellin advanced too far, and, being near-sighted, was mad e p r i soner , got out. We were the last ship, and we hauled out at - 7 o'clock. Two shells had burst on the main deck, and DEATH OF LIEUTENANT GREATHED. one on the upper deck, which I am sorry to say killed One of the enemy's round shot struck the muzzle of a poor little Forster. No doubt you remember him. He large 68. pounder, breaking it, and killing and wounding was s t an ding under the poop, the port side, when the by the fragments several who were around. Among s h e ll cam e in, and burst close to him. He was as black the victims of this shot was Lieutenant Greathed, First as a coal. A piece of his skull was knocked out ; Lieutenant of the Britannia, flag-ship. He had been he also had severe wounds on his face, and luckily be invalided home, but returned to his duty, and was on died 24 hours afterwards, but was ,r side and rigging not sensible. W e the eve of promotion. A great p ar t o f hi s s id e was anchored in our old diggins with ou carried away ; but, in spite of the t err ibl e woun d beautifully , he wasad five men killed and sixteen able to dictate his last wishes in a l e tt er t o f r i en d s far cut up. We away. He survived the injury up war d s o f h a lf an h our . Sh Two sailors and an artilleryihan w ere killed by the same wounded, besides several bruises e w ha it d h a sp li nters.nar r ow es c ape; The Albion was the worst cut up. shot. h as as shell a b e u d r o s t w i n n t t o h c e 0 1 t n t a d i n ' n ti g n r o o p o i m e t oof beh e docked. rmage Sh e e She had a lieutenant killed, and three officers wounded, and ten ' men killed. We are about the fourth worst ship. The Britannia, Trafalgar, Queen, Vengeance, London, and. Rodney, are hardly touched. Our sides are awfully ripped up. We had the first gun on the lower deck disabled, and two porta nearly knocked into one. Our wheel was knocked away. I think we are hulled about fifteen or twenty times. Our main top! mast was shot through. The total loss in the English fleet is 45 killed and 256 wounded. Ido not know the loss of the French. The Turks had only one man wounded. Fort Constantine was nearly silenced ;it is cracked rightdown, and has been since propped up with spars. Most likely we shall go in again when the troops stone the place. I never expected to get through it without a scratch. I had four shbts on the lower deck, and I know they were good ones. Poor Forster was buried on Thursday. lattended his funeral. You can not think how we miss him : he was universally liked. The Britannia has the name of Navy-back given her. I have not time or room to enter into further details." Information has been received from a prisoner of the death of the Governor of Sebastopol. It is stated that he was wounded in the leg by a round shot, and that he sank after the amputation of the limb. Admiral Dundas is reported to have given up com mand of the fleet to Sir Edmund Lyons. The position of the English batteries is as follows : That called the 40- g un battery, or the Greenhill, or sometimes Captain Chapman's battery, is on the extreme left, facing the lines of the 3d and 4th divisions. The 21-gun battery, or Frenchman's hill, or Captain Gordon's battery, is in front of the Light Division. The 1-gun battery (the Lancaster gun) is in rear and to the left of the 21-gun battery. The 5-gun battery is on the extreme right. THE FLEET. OFF THE KATCHA, OCT. 21. The fleet has again relapsed into the state of repose from which it had been disturbed by the bombardment of Sebastopol on the 17th inst. It is busy in effacing the souvenirs of balls and shells, in making conjectures as to a future more serious and better combined attack, and in discussing the deeds and adventures of the different vessels engaged in the affair. I give you what I could collect of the latter, partly as an eye-witness, partly from the accounts of others who were so, for, as smoke formed decidedly the most promi nent feature of the bombardment, it was only now and then possible to catch a glimpse of other vessels, which appeared and disappeared like so many huge phantoms in the midst of the flashes awl the thundering peals of artillery. THE ALBION BEFORE -FORT -CONSTAR TIML Extract of a letter off Sebastopol, Oct. 18, H.M.S. Albion : " It is a very difficult and laborious task to get the guns up the heights, as the enemy' • is continially firing, night and day. Day after day we have seen waiting impatiently for the army to begin, as that was to be the signal for attacking the forts. Yes terday morning the Allies opened a tremendous can. nonade on the inner forts, and down went the fleet, each ship having its allotted post for the battle—ours was the Waif battery, which is to the north of Fort Constantine : it mounts about twelve guns, and is on very high ground. The French line-of-battle ship (screw) Napoleon, with the Agamemnon, began the fight ; we had to pass Fort Constantine, and in so doing got within range of their guns, so we had the Waif battery and Fort Constantine, with about 100 guns, bearing on us, through some mistake of the steamer who towed us. The Admiral had been mis informed, or we should not have been within two fires. However, we opened on Fort Constantine, which they returned, but it was too Bach for us ,- we were on fire in three places, and the enemy poured in grape and canister in quick succession. We are fearfully knocked about, and report says we go to Constantinople to repair damages. The other ships kept up their fire till dark, when they all hauled off. I think the Arethusa and ourselves have suffered most. If the Russians had managed their guns well they could have sunk us easily. The forts were se high we could not depress the guns on the lower deck sufficient to roach them, being so close under their bat. tery. THE TRAFALGAR. Like the Albion and the Arethusa, the Trafalgar could not long keep her place, or, rather, she never took it up properly, for the Rodney sent a Moorsom shell into the mainmast of the Retribution, to which the Tra falgar was lashed ; it burst in it, the mast went down, and both vessels were unfit for action. THE BRITANNIA. The old Britannia maintained her position, and was exposed to a hail of shot and shell. Both she and the Furious, to which she was lashed, kept up a very good rocket practice at the batteries. I saw towards dusk some very well-directed ones fly over. The Ad miral himself narrowly escaped a shell, which burst on the poop. Ho was sitting on the poop railing when it fell. THE DETACHED STEAMERS. The detached steamers on the left were decidedly the heroes of the day. To them was assigned ithe.position north of the shoal running out from the Cape Fort. While the other vessels went down outside as far as Quarantine Bay and then veered round and opened their fire from their starboard broadside, the detached steamers steamed straight down inside, near the shore. The first were the Sampson, Terrible, and Tribune, who advanced like eclaireurs before the Agamemnon and the Sanspa reil, which formed the main strength of this division. These two, after having tried the range of their long pivot-guns at the Wasp Battery, steamed right down to the fort on Cape Constantine—the formidable casemated battery at the lett of the entrance into Sebastnpol, and engaged it. There you could see them anchored, the Agamemnon at 800 yards, and the Sanspariel a little behind, enduring with unshaken firmness the heaviest fire of the enemy, and returning it with great vigour, while the steam frigates, who could approach closer in the shoal water, hovered around them, making the most of their independent position. The situation of the two screw line-of-battle-ships was the most critical possible, exposed as they were to a heavy cross fire, on ono side from the northermost batteries run ning along the shore, from the Star Fort inside, and from the whole outward face of the fart on Cape Constantine. For two hours they had to encounter the whole fire of the enemy on that side alone, when the Queen, having left her first anclasring-place, where the Turkish flag-ship had come in her way, passed inside of the other sailing line-of-battle ships from the extreme right to the left, and came up alongside the two heavily pressed screw steamers, and drew off part of the enemy's fire from them—a movement which, as I told you, was acknowledged by Admiral Lyons hoisting the signal of " Well done, Queen 1" It was a marvellous sight to see such an immense vessel as the Queen passing the other liners_ inside, and both Captain Mitchell and Captain Powell, the commander of the Vesuvius, deserve the highest credit for the skill and enter prise with which they took the vessel in as well as out. Unfortunately, the respite which she brought was only momentary, for, being in but six fathoms water, sho was in danger of going on shore unless she anchored, while if she had anchored she would have had to leave her anchors behind, and perhaps something more, for she had caught fire front a red-hot shot • she was thus obliged to yield to the forza maggiore, and withdraw. The Sanspareil, owing to her unwieldiness and the defects in her propelling force, which fails always when most necessary, would have had a hard fate had not the Shark, a tiny little steam-tug, which attends the Sanspareil as a planet does its sun, or the jackal its lion, gone in and towed her out. The skill and courage displayed by the commander of this little craft, Mr. Balls, second mate, excited general admiration. It was a striking illustration of the lion and the mouse, to see the little Shark help out the colossal Sanspareil, but at the same time it was a most gallant feat of seaman ship. It is reported that Admiral Lyons sent in the commander of the Shark with the words—" Go in ; you will find there a coffin or your promotion." Both the Agamemnon and Sanspareil were obliged to leave buoys for their anchors, but they left also some heavy marks of their presence on the face of the forts. Both ships did not quit their posts until nightfall, for Admiral Lyons determined to be sunk rather than give in. CAPTAIN MITCHELL AND THE TURKISH ADMIRAL. While I am relating to you the deeds done on the day of the bombardment, I cannot refrain from telling you also a happy mot spoken the day after the action. The Turkish Admiral seat his excuses to Captain Mitchell, of the Queen, for having gone between his ship and the forts. The answer of Captain Mitchell was, "that he considered him to do his duty best who was nearest the enemy." THE LABRADOR: A letter from Constantinople, in the Constitutionnel, gives the following details of the incident which caused the Labrador steamer to withdraw from the attack at Sebastopol on the 17th :--" Towards four in the after noon, as we wore looking anxiously forward for a clear opening to see the fortifications better, and to direct our aim more surely, we heard a cry on board of Fire, fire ! The fire is close to the powder magazine ! To the pumps !' In fact, a Russian shell of 80 had burst in the captain's cabin, and had set fire to some ropes which wore close to the partition of the powder magazine. At oncethe spot was cleared out, a vast quantity of water was poured both into the cabin and into the powder magazine, and God so preserved us, for certainly we should ,have been blown up, as well as the vessel next to us." COOLNESS OF ADMIRAL HAMELIN. A letter in the Gazette du Midi gives the following ac count of the effects of the shell which burst on the poop of the Ville do Paris :—" This shell blew up nearly the whole of the poop, on which were standing at the time Ad miralHamelin andfour of his aides-de-camp. The admiral was thrown same feet up into the air, but without being hurt. After having glanced at his aides-de-camp, one of whom was cut in two, another had his two legs car ried away below the knee, and a third was slightly wounded, he merely exclaimed, Poor fellows !' and re sumed the command with as much coolness, as before. The son of Osman Pacha, the Egyptian admiral who perished at Sinope, and who was serving on board the Ville de Paris as aspirant, was one of the first killed — sad victim of the fatality which appears to pursue his family." THE BELLEROPHON IN ACTION. The following is an extract of a letter received by the friends of an officer of the Bellerophon : "We got our topgallant-masts, studding sail booms down, bound our yards up, and made eve thin ready. We were towed by th e C y clo p s. She was lashed alongside of us—the port side, as were all the steadiers. The fleets we well away by 11 o'clock. The French led the re way, then the Turks, and the English last. At 1 o'clock we cleared for action (our starboard guns). The French and Turks anchored off the south forts, but they were not half near enough. It was a splendid sight to see as we were going in the ship and forts firing ; a tremendous fire was kept up. I was looking out of the bow port, to p i % i with , tGhle'aileleas' when we heard a shar p report, close of the shell fell within 10 yards of us. We anchored within about 1,200 yards of Fort Constantine, one of the heavy entrance forts (the Agamemnon was ahead of us). We had hardly commenced firing, when Admiral Lyons sent his flag-lieutenant on board to ask Lord George to come to his assistance, as he had four forts bearing on him. We of course immediately weighed, and steamed in to wit hin eight hundredua top of theyards of the e Wasp fort and some mud batteries on hill. We were the closest ship in. The fire we kept up was splendid, the men were so cool. Ido not beli eve that oao of our shots were thrown av;a3 7 --not one fired till he got his object exactly on. We soon silenced Waap Fort, and then turned our attention to the mud batteries, which had got our range to aT. The Aga memnon made the signal ' Well done, Bellerophon,' and than went out ad left us. So we had three forts playing on us. I can tell you it got rather hott3r than I liked, The shells were coming against us like BLOCKADE IN THE BLACK SEA. The following further correspondence between a City merchant and the Foreign-office, with regard to the prospects of an efficient blockade being established in the Black Sea, has been received for publication :-- "6, Great Winchester-street, Oct. 30. "My Lord,—Mere than a month has expired since r was induced to address your lordship with a view to ascer tain whether the expectation might still be entertained of an effectual blockade of the Russian ports in the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff which the prior declarations of Go vernment ho.:1 encouraged, and which has consequently formed the basis of commercial operations to a considerable extent. _ _ _ "Although the reply elicited by me was by no means so conclusive as could have been desired for the future gui dance of parties interested in this important question, its tenonr might be presumed to favour the inference that the original design of Government, which on more than one occasion assumed the positive character of an official an nouncement of an existing blockade, would at length be realised. " The disposition of the British merchant would there fore lead him to persevere in developing other and more congenial sources of supply in our own colonies and depen dencies of such articles of produce as the war with Russia might otherwise render comparatively unavailable. " To prove to your lordship that the impulse already imparted has not been without result, the fact may be mentioned that of linseed alone shipments to this market have been made at Calcutta, during four months after the declaration of war with Russia became known there, of no less than- 107,50 cpurrter=„ against only KISCO quarters exported in the corresponding period of the preceding year. " While such energy and enterprise are being legiti mately employed, it does seem rather discouraging that the still suspended blockade should impair the interests of the British merchant and shipowner, by permitting a par ticulax class of alien and (as regards the policy of the war) inimically disposed merchants located here to compete on unequal and unusually favourable terms, by the unre strained importation of Russian produce in neutral vessels from the Black Sea. "It would, however, yield some satisfaction if your lordship were at least to indicate the intentions of Govern ment as regards the blockade, so that contingent mercan tile operations may no longer be pursued at haphazard.— I am, my lord, your most obedient humble servant, "J. JOHNSON. " The Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs." " Foreign-office, Nov. 6. " Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 30th ult., in which you request information as to the intentions of her Majesty's Government with respect to the blockade of the Russian ports in the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to state to you that it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to institute rigorous blockade ; but, pending the operations in the Crimea, no distinct assurance can be given as to the period when it will be effective. "I am, sir, " Your most obedient humble servant, " John Juhnson, Eiq." " WODEHOUSE." THE GREEKS IN LONDON. It has been represented to us that many of the Greek merchantsresident in London, who probably owe their lives and certainly their fortunes to the protection they have enjoyed under the British flag, have so far forgotten themselves and their true position as to give vent to their satisfaction at the result of the late foray of the Russians in a most indecent manner. We have no desire that these gentlemen should be exposed to any injury in consequence of their political opinions ; Queen ouecasent Victoria n ie t te h r e i i a r ; lo b t u zi i t f h e t n h e e h Nicholas are a as s with free Czarbtheir reso lution, let them at once betake 6 themselves to the territories of their friends, and evacuate the capital of their enemies. They would do well to draw a comparison between th • eir present position and what it would have been had they been enrolled in the merchant guilds of Muscovy. They have, 110 doubt, as perfect a right as we have ourselves to political sympathies and opinions. One thing how ever, let them remember. England will tolerate no avowed enemy in her capital at the moment she is spending her life's blood in contest with her inve terate foe. The sea is open to them, if they would I be gone from our shores. They may depart without let or hindrance from us ; but, if they remain, they must remain as sojourners in the land, and occupy themselves with theirown private matters, not with the public affairs of the British nation, save in a, friendly spirit. They would do well to reflect with themselves upon what the conduct ofthe Russian Au tocrat would have been had he caught themat MOscow or Nishni Novgorod expressing publicly their satis faction at the result of the battle fought on the Alma's banks. Now, if we English not doresemble the Russian Czar in an y oth er particular, at least we equal, perhaps surpass, him in our jealousy for our country's honour. W e W i ll not bear to hear a scream of triumph in our own ov er the bloody fate of our bravest city raised ur hybrid rabble who are indebtedbravest sons by a to us for the wealth and security they enjoy. all ideas of de cency and propriety out Setting of their own sakes, it wou ld th e question, at least for the Greeks waited to have been as well had upon which their ex ascertain the real foundation We feel a very su re confidence of satisfaction reposed. have elapsed the e conadence that ere many days men who rejoice sympathizers with the Czar—the Englishmen have iat some two or three hundred —Will find been slaughtered in the Crimea, that their joy was not a little prema ture. This • , however, is not the point. Whether one Englishman 10 0 • or 00 Englishmen have been killed, it matters ' not • the Greeks hero n London cannot be permitted t o ' triumph in the destruction of a single British soldier, though he be but one. If any Quaker gentleman—Mr. John Bright, for example—thinks the moment a well-chosen one for blaming the policy of his countrymen an d writing up the Muscovite, at least he is an Englishman ; but let no foreign merchant attempt to follow suit With Englishmen the country can settle its qu.ar rels another way, but to the foreigners who enjoy the protection of our laws—who, of their own choice, have settled in our country., there can be but one of two courses open, if they disapprove the policy or action of ,the British nation,—let them keep silence, or begone.—Times. t THE SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY EVENING-, NOVEMBER 8, 1854, 2i d 334 - 3 k S VA p" - .1 'FI rtii Ii