The Sun. — London, England, 1854-11-04 00:00:00

T EAT RE - R-0 YA L, ON CERTS DRURY-LAN T, lIILLIEN'S C. FOR ONE MONTH ONLY.) The Programme is changed Every Evening. PROGRAMME fir THIS EVENING (Saturiay, Nov. 4) : PART I.—Overture, " Zampa "—Herold. Quadrille from Ros sini's Opera, "Le Comte Ory "—Jullien. Symphony, the Anda- to. from the " fta'ian Symphony" in A—Mendelssohn. Rondo Bohe mienne (Gipsy Song) from Meyerbeeet last new Opera, " L'Etolle du Nord," sung by tiadame Anna hillon—Meyerbeer. Schottische. " The Moldavian Schottische"—Jullien. Solo, trumpet (as performed by M. Duhem, of the Royal Guides Band, of Beldam), performed M. Duhem—Duhem. Quadrille," TI e British Army," assisted by the bands of her Majesty's 2d rife Guards, Grenadier Guards, and Coldstream Guards, with solos on the principal instruments -- Ju ilien. " God Save the Queen." " Partant pour la Syrie." Ps.ax ll.—Opera, grand operatic selection and fantasia, from Nfer erbeer's opera" Les Huguenots," arrange d ex p ressly by H. with solos by H. Prospere, Herr Kceni Bauman n, 31 ' Wurne ' M. Lavigne, and Herr Schreurs—lileyerbeer. "%fals e "*lse , —Jullien. D'Adieu," with solo for cornet-a-piston, by Herr K aa nig rn Sang, " The Old Friends at Home " (Amer ican Melody), sung by Madame Anna l'hilion—Linley. Quadrille, " The Americ to Qua drille" (as performed in the United States for 216+consecut nights Tease Diabollque" with the greatest success)--Julllen. Solo, -violin, -Robbio. GaloP, ( with cornicvariations), performed by Signor Itobbio- " The Atlantic"—Jullien. The Concerts on each evening will commence at Eight and termi nate at Eleven o'clock. Pawns OF ADbilssioN.—Promenade, boxes, and g and IL Its. 6d alleries, in. dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes 11. ls. . be secured on application to Mr. Ewes and private box es may O'Reilly, at the box-office of the theatre, and of the principal music sellers and librarians. T EAT E.Ol aA YA MK T, _ _ _ Under the management ct Mr. Rackstone. TRIS iYENING, Nov. 4, v,riu be per forme,' the comedy of PAUL PRY. Principal cha r 'eters by !I r• Wright, Mr. Chippendale, Mr, W. Farren, Mrs. Poynter, and Miss E. Chaplin. To which will be added THE SPANISH DANCERS. To be followed by THE IRISH PO3T. Principal character by Mr. Undson. To conch' ie with the PLOWER OF THE PORT. ROYAL PRISCII;Si'S THEATRE, OXFOUD-STREET. Crider the Aanagenteat of Mr. Chelan Tlll3 EVENING, Nov. 4, 1..r113. be nerform3d the highly iopular comedletta, entitled LIVING '704 FAST. To be followed by THE RTVAL9. Prin3ipal characters by 'Messrs. W. Lacy, Harley. Meadows, J. Vining, H. Mellon, Addison. and Everett; .Mrs. Winston ey, xrs. W. Lacy, and Misses Math and C. Lt.tclercq. To concinde with Till: HILT OF THE BILLET. THEATRE ROYAL IDELPRI. groNletor. Werm,x,r.—Directress, Madame CAlest*. T1T.13 ISKSINiI. Nov. 4 • Will be performed SERIOUS FA KILT. Characters by rite.6rA. C. e•elby, Leig!A and Keeley; M!ss 'Wocdgar, ana 31TR. soc , ey. Fellowoi by 11)N74. FIDE Tit kITELL'ETtS'. ::ter wh Tit,: CA AT in10311.A.11. To conclude sylVl 1:. I-. E LES. AQVAL OLYMPIC THIII',TgE `.eLKe asdMitnAger, 'lr. A. S. Tlll9 , f.;lV , ,Nrifl, Nov. 4 ~ s.'ll be pc rf Ir! T ;T by F. V.nlag. .1 .1 1 i,,t3 tskel and ..!t!'.6 7s it Firf!e, ca'ied A BLIGrITED I3ELti• in 'oi:el I'4 -. itt.bi , rt will ap;xiir. to co,cl'Ae with 'VU I , )L ft.;; BENSON. THEAThE. 8 r. F. W. Altera% l'ov 4, WP! pe7fcr me! AT SEA. To be f,;iowed by WILIS A T :ZAN ? rirr 'rot; is( tr.NY WAG' OI MUSD:aIt. To c‘include with DJ GIOVANNI. 4i.; Boxes, ; t;allery, f;, I,; .t 4 ,1, 11 to ,e of M. tv., New Lter,, I t ..tTI FY's LOYAL A %IP HIT t 1 'l'll ie. and WAnacer. %AT. wintßrn Tre..nenclons success of the new MILITARIISPECTA,CLE,excee(:- in 4 even that of the Battle of Irate:10o! 'l'lll4 F.V ING, A r:RAND MTLITARY PECTACLIf, in Two A , t9, by J. :I, SzocQuELLER, Esq., cal!,(1 THE I;ITTLE OF TILE ALMA ! after which, the !Till:int AR F.NIC GYRATIONS, or 1(3 EN ES in th CIRCLE, invented and arranged oy Mr. ILLIAM COOKE. The whole to conclude with various Popular Entertainments. ft,,x-u"lce open front Eleven till Four. Stage Man tger, T ' 7 . Wee. Acting Mitiwer, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Egitetrian Directs, •a_t.. Wm. Cooke, jun). 1113E1 ;rya' ,TEL AT L) MUDGE. T D 4, —l4.orel.nm 16 rnin.atier 1 Mveninq 35 1 ,v,ruin;. 17 , 3 ..rvn.after 1 j revenin 12 rith.st 2 THE ir.—Sbl4 ()mu .% Nov. 4. Tiri. - amou.Krzß., IN MIL SIIADIE. • I ,igi,est ainuo noon veeterday. 43 .owo , a t'Lie morning and during the night. 51- .%'!,lg day at noon. BAR . JMATItEt, 30.28. -N.V .' . by W.—Light, with dull cold weather. iLE COMING" CAPTURE SEBASTOPOL WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AX EXTRAORDINARY EDITION "THE SUN" THE MOMENT THE ExrRAORDINARY GAZETTE IS ISSUED, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. Orders received by all News Agents, and at " THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, Strand, London. g r - ~~~~~~ m LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1834. Tho charm is broken—Ministers have at length condescended to relieve the very natural anxiety of the community. At 12.45 a.m. this day the Duke of NEWCASTLE forwarded to the offices of the different journals copies of a telegraphic des patch from Lord STRATFORD DE RIMCLIFFE 7 dated " Constantinople, 28th October, at midnight," in order that by immediate publication it might be made known to the public some hours sooner than would be possible through the usual channel of the London Gazette. This is as it should be. We are happy to have it in our power to applaud this timely concession to public opinion, and for which we are indebted to the courtesy of the Secretary for War. Had it depended on him, we should probably have had the same prompt information that was given of the battle of Alma, of its details, and of the justly celebrated Sank movement on Balaklava. We cannot doubt that his Grace would be not merely willing, but most anxious, to discharge the pledge voluntarily given, that anything which arrived at the War- Office should be forthwith communicated to the p ublic ' / 311 t, unfortunately, he had colleagues, t° one of whom h e was subordinate, and who, therefore, possessed a controls ng power, which was doubtless exercised in the suppression of the despatches of the 10th ultimo, delivered by Lieu tenant KIRBY ; of those to the 13th, subse quently delivered ; and of those to the 25th, which came per the Trent to yam,. All these w ere deliberately withheld, although men of all c l ass es and stations in society w ere Yearning for authentic intelligence, and the people w ere suffered to be victimised by Stock Exchange canards, got up for the purpose. Even th e present publication might not have been given had it not been for the previous circulation of the MENSCHIKOFF despatches, and the im perative necessity for allaying the appre hensions thereby occasioned. We only trust that the laudable example may be generally followed, and that it may not be regarded as an exceptional case, which will no:; apply to others of less mo ment. It now appears that there vas, after all, con siderable foundation for the i'LLENseIIiKaFF state ments, that a serious conflict took place at the place indicated by the Russian general—that is to say, at Inkerman, on the Tchernaya ; that if not a surprise it was something very like it, and that the English cavalry suffered very severe y. So far the Russian accounts appear to have been tolerably accurate. They omitted, however, to s tate that the Russians were subsequently repulsed with very considerable loss, and that eventually the English remained masters of their position. We, however, readily acknowledge that there was far greater foundation for the- assertions than 1 the total, and we may add inexplicable, silence of the crew and passengers of the Trent, which steamed from Balaklava on the' day of these thril ling events, led us to infer. It appears that the attack took place on the 25th ultimo, against certain forts in the vicinity of Balaklava, and that the number of the assail ants was estimated at the very amount stated by Prince MENSCRIKOFF, 30,000. The attack was unexpected, or, in other words, it was a complete surprise. The position first assailed was that held by Ottoman troops and the Scotch. The former were unable to sustain the onslaught of the Cossacks who rushed on in advance of the infantry. The Turks retreated, having previously spiked some of their guns, but not effectually, for it appears from Lord STRATFORD'S despatch, that they were subsequently turned against them- selves with very deadly effect, the 10-s being pro bably more than would have occurred had they stood their ground boldly, lika the gallant North Britons, who, we are told, " remained firmly in their position." While the contest was thus fiercely waged by the Scotch regiments assistance was rapidly ap proaching. Three regiments of English Light Cavalry—Lord CARDIGAN'S division —hastened up. They were unfortunately exposed to the crossfire cf the Russian batteries—probably those previously vacated by the Moslems — and, we are told, suffared immensely. It will be in the recollection of our readers that the MENSCHIXOFF despatches estimated the loss of " horses" at 500 ; that is to say, that there were that number of killed or wounded. This IV:IS nrobably greatly overrated, but. even under the most favourable circumstances we must look for ward to a fearful catastrophe of casualties amongst our gallant fellows. Nor were our noble Allies, the French, idle dur ing the emergency. We are told that they took part in the affair with admirable bravery, a matter which we can easily credit, when we remember their ancient reputation fully sustained, aye, en hanced, by their exploits on the Glorious Alma. The Russians were thereby obliged to yield the ground they had gained. They remained, how ever, masters of two forts, from whence they kept up a galling fire upon our troops, by which it was that our light Cavalry suffered so severely. On the following day, the 26th, the French position was attacked by a corps of 8,000 Rus sians, coming simultaneously from the side of the town and from that of Balaklava. The assailants were, however, repulsed witlb " great slaughter." Indeed the Russian loss must have been terrific, and we greatly fear that the bloodshed on all sides on the 25th and 26th October must have been equal to that of , the 20th September, and that many a widow and orphan will have to de plore these fatal days. There seems to be but little, if any, doubt that the ground lost in the first sudden and unexpected attack was Completely regained. We trust, how ever, that greater vigilance will henceforward be displayed, and that we shall hear of no other sur prises. Our Generals seem to have been fully warned of the necessity for watchful care. It was not the first time that the position in the vicinity of Balaklava was threatened. The new attack should, therefore, have been anticipated, and every necessary precaution taken ; and we trust that full explanations will be rendered as to the party or parties responsible for so serious a catastrophe. Meanwhile, we hear that the fire from the bat teries of the town had materially slackened, and that there is every reason to suppose that Sebas topol cannot long resist the steady and determined approaches of the Allies. It would seem as if the determined onslaught of the Russians were a last desperate attempt to relieve the beleaguered city, on the failure whereof it must speedily fall into our hands. One of the favourite calumnies of NICHOLAS is that the Allies are fighting for Mahometanism against Christianity. Of course the Allies know as well as the inventor of this lie the impudence of the falsehood, but the poor soldiers of the Im perial liar know it not. They, poor souls, be lieve that they are fighting for GOD and the true Church, not for the lying ambition of a tyrant. They are in their own eyes holy crusaders, not vulgar warriors ; and half that his unlucky con scripts are worth, and more than half the support he gains from his superstitious millions, is due to their fanaticism and his shameless appeal to it. They die for despotism, and believe themselves martyrs. We grieve to remember that there were Englishmen who ought to have known better, but who, in a kind of forensic clutching at any argument, attempted to raise also the base cry that we were fighting against Russian Christians for Turkish infidels. We disposed of that argu ment at the time, if argument it deserves to be called ; for, independently of the Christianity of the Russians being a superstition inferior to the Mahometanism of the Turks, if professed Chris tians will rob and steal, we hope other professed Christians will always be found ready to pro tect even Atheists from such beliers of their faith. The pretext, however, of resisting Christians in defence of infidels will utterly fail if the present war should be ennobled by%the flag of Poland. The Poles are at least as good Christians as the Russians ; their oountry was indeed once famous for its Christian literature, an honour which will never belong to the merely imitative Muscovites. The cause of Polish, independence, religiously viewed, is the cause of religious freedom against the atrocious persecutors of the nuns at Minsk, and the oppressor of every creed but that of which the first article is the Deification of the CZAR. Thanks* to Western enlightenment, we believe a religious war now almost impossible. The reli gious supremacy of the POPE or of Queen ViCTORIA would be but an uninspiring watchword for the Allies. Not so, however, the name of Poland. Not a soldier in our camps who would notfeelthatP lish nationality and Poli sh independence was cause worthy of a soldier. It would be doing battle, not for a set of Spaniards or Portuguese, ever ready to yoke themselves to superannuated despotism, even while British troops were driving out intelligent, albeit foreign, domination ; but for a people who, though they lost liberty through Republican and party quarrels, have never lost their love of it--a people whom the hoof of the oppressor treads with bitterer malice, and whom he hates the more cordially, because, almost singly in his vast dominions, they know what freedom means, and prize it s at its worth. Poland aloe, among his absorbed nations, sternly refuses to be denationalised. The life-blood of freedom stilt beats warm in her breast. The despot has maimed and crippled his victim with unrelenting cruelty, but ho knows that her life is in her, for 1 he still feels and fears its writhings ; and he knows that a few years' liberation from his fangs would see her fresh and vigorous as ever. He has threatened, fiend as he is, to " make a Siberia of Poland," and he must do it before ke can make a Russia of her. The restoration of such a nation would, indeed, be an object of enthusiasm ; unlike the impious religious pretexts of NICHOLAS, it would be a sacred reality. Its spirit would be unselfish, generous, and noble, while its attainment would reward Europe with the reasonable hope of last ing peace. Noble and generous is it to aid Tur key against the invader, and to destroy his offen sive strength in the Black Sea ; but incomparably more soul-stirring through the magnitude of ths wrong to be redressed, and the Catholicity and completeness of the political conception, is the liberation of Poland, and her restitution to the honourable post of Europe's advanced guard against the irruptions of Tartar barbarism. Of course, it is easy for the lovers of the " wet blanket policy" to damp all political ardour, which may prove inconvenient to their indolence, or condemnatory of their past acquiescence in wrong. The statesmen who sympathise still with the vil lanous sacrifice of national rights to despotic greed in 1815, and those who looked on, to say the least of them, like so many &is, at every Russian violation of that treaty ever since—they are all naturally afraid of the simple mention of Poland. It is to them a word of reproach. They winked at a crime, and they are now paying its penalty ; but while Tur key is the ostensible cause of our sacrifices, their inglorious and impolitic neglect of Poland is less striking. Better, however, even for these states men to avow a manly repentance, and to throw themselves heart and soul into a cause worthy of the country they govern. It is no such chimeri c project in the eyes of the CZAR. He at least knows the value of his railway from Moscow to Germany, Austria, and Turkey at once. He knows that to lose Poland is to lose not a territory merely, but a means of ready aggression on every European State. He needs jus! - , now all his troops in the Crimea, or in Bessarabia, but even while knowing that Sebastopol would be attacked he pours them into Poland. If ho must sacrifice one, he would rather part with the Crimea ten times over. With the Crimea he is powerful against one State, but with Poland he is the dread of that S:ate, and of all East of France at the same time. His efforts to retain Poland are the proper index of our duty to deprive him of it. What croakers and conscious delinquents decry as chimerical, lie fears as but too rational and too feasible. Well does he know that from the moment when the Allied banners are unfurled in Poland his most hopeless battles must be fought. Warsaw would be a Moscow to his troops, and the Vistula a Borodino. They would have to fight the victors of the Alma, sur rounded by a population burning to revenge the cruelties of IrAlf a century. Fearful and demo niacal, no doubt, would be his struggles to retain his victim, but utterly vanquished he would be— and then vanquished for ever. But what will Austria, what will Prussia, do ? Yes, what indeed ? That need not give much trouble to France and England. Austria has as many inducements ,to surrender her small share of Poland as to keep it ; that is, provided she get a strong neighbour State between her and Russia. As for Prussia, contemptible as she is, it would be unworthy of the Allied Powers to give a thought to her. Prussians will never fight for Poland as they did for their father-land. The hands of all thieves are ready to let go their spoil when justice dogs their steps. Prussia is, some of it, beyond the Rhine, and speaks French. FREDERICK WILLIAM and NAPOLEON 111. both un derstand that. The southern Baltic is accessible to English men-of-war, and to English trans ports, too, if need be, and Prussia knows that. Prussia is miserably anxious, no doubt, to keep what she stole from Poland, but she will not fight very earnestly for it ; and, if she did, it would be to share the fate of Russia. To be brief, the Allies have but to proclaim the nationality of Poland, and to enter it north, or possibly south, next spring, and there would be a moral power in a demand, righteous in itself and essential to European peace, which must, sooner or later, convert the demand into an ac complished fact.* * We again invite the - attention of our readers to the pamphlet we referred to on Wednesday—" Letter to the Emperor of the French on the Eastern Question, and the re-establishment of the Independence of Poland." —RIDGWAY. M. de Beust, the Saxon Minister of Foreign Affairs returned to Dresden from Berlin on the 29th ult. MUNIFICENT LEGACY.—At a meeting held yesterday in the board-room of the Consumption Hospital at Brompton the treasurer announced a bequest of 5,0001. from the late' Mrs. Wilson, of Eaton-square. It was added that, the hospital being entirely dependent upon voluntary contributions, such bequests were of infinite importance in maintaining and extending the usefulness of the charity. APOTHECARIES'-HALL. — The following are the names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, Nov. 2 :—Joseph Egerton Sa vory, Wendover, Buckinghamshire ; William Arras, Warwickbridge, Carlisle ' • John Roberts, Cricceith, Carnarvonshire ; Stephen Nesfield, Whitby, Yorkshire. DR. ALBERT COHEN'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON.—ThIs worthy philanthropist, long celebrated for his services iu Algiers, and who has recently visited Turkey, Egypt, and Palestine, with the view of ameliorating the condi tion of his Jewish brethren of those countries, arrived in London on Monday last. We are gratified to state, that as regards the Jews in Palestine, he has succeeded in bringing the efforts of the Messrs. Rothschild, of Paris, and his own plans, in harmony with those of Messrs. Rothschild, of London, Sir Moses Montefiore, and the Rev. Dr. Adler, the Chief Rabbi. These bene volent men now co-operate in regenerating the fallen position of our brethren in the Holy Land ; whilst Dr. A. Cohen, of his own accord, and at his own expense, has introduced the modern system of education among the Jews of Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Alexandria, &a. Documents in connection with' a visit to the Em peror of Austria, the Sultan, and with the charitable institutions he has founded in the Holy Land, such as hospitals, benevolent loan societies, work-shops, &c., will be shortly laid by us before the public. We must not omit to mention that Mr. Ald. Salomons takes also a deep and active interest in these matters.—Jewish Chronicle. THE TOLL-BRIDGES OF THE METROPOLIS.—From the evidence taken before the committee on the metropolitan bridges it appears that Southwark-bridge, with ap proaches, cost 666,0001. The present annual income of the bridge is 2,9001., and the necessary outgoings 1,2001., which leaves 1,7001. to be divided among the shareholders. Before the opening of New London bridge, in 1831, the income of Southwark-bridge was 7,0001., but in 1832 it sank to 4,5441., and in 1834 to 3,9831. Waterloo-bridge cost, including approaches, 937,3911. lie. 4d. Of this, 476,0001. was raised by 4,763 1001. shares ; 300,0001. by 5,000 annuities' of 601. each ; 200,0001. by 5,000 annuities of 401. each. A fur ther sum of 54000/. was raised by bonds, which makes the whole su m raised 1,030,8521. The receipts of the bridge for the year ending February last were 19,1971. Os. 11d. About three per cent. interest is paid on the annuities of both classes, which are now worth 291. 10s. and 251. respectively. The original shares fetch 51. 55., or 5/. 10s. The arrears due to annuitants amounts to 2,399,9371. 10s. About 113,0001. has been spent upon the Hungerford Suspension-bridge up to the present time, and it is calculated that the contemplated improve ments will cost 156,0001. more, making the whole cost of the bridge 269,0001. More than 3,000,000 passengers pass over the bridge annually, and about 2,500,000 pass to and from the steam-boat pier at the foot of the bridge. By the proposed alteration the revenue of the bridge, the chairman of the company stated, would be raised to close upon 30,0001. Vauxhall-bridge and its approaches cost 300,0001., exclusive of 70,0001. spent in Parliamentary and legal expenses, which makes the whole cost of the undertaking 370,000/. The receipts for the last year were 11,0001., but the average annual receipts for the seven years before the South-Western Railway terminus was moved from Nine E'ms, were 12,7001. The expenses f ket—‘ /0- hri f,,,r0 2 900 7 . t.. 2 2,07 . , a year; aid the divideud paid la.dt.ye,u The capital of the company consists of 5,800 shares, of the nominal value of 641. each, but their market price is but from 221. to 241. each. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, IS 'OVEMBER 4. 1854, COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 3. There were no additions t• the royal dinner party yesterday. Her Majesty's priva`e band was in attendance after dinner in the Castle and played the following selec tion : Overtnre, "Die Genueserinn" Quartett (No. 9), Andante con moto, allegro vivace, andante, minuetto and trio, coda, allegro molto ; two violins, viola, and violoncello, Messrs. Sainton, Cusins, Hill, and H. Chipp Selection, " La part du Diable " Auber. The Queen, with the Princesses Helena and Louisa, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore•house, this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting, attended by Lord de Tabley, Major-General Buckley, and Captain du Plat. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice rode on horse back. A deputation from Farnham had an interview yester day with the President of the General Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall, with reference to the sanitary condition of the town of Farnham. The deputation consisted of the Rev. J. S. Utterton and Mr. Paine. A deputation from the borough of Kingston-upon- Thames also had an interview with the President of the General Board of Health yesterday, on the sanitary state of that borough. The deputation comprised F. Gould, Esq., mayor of Kingston, and Messrs. Samuel Ferre yard, Samuel Gray, and John Shrubsole. They were introduced by Mr. W. J. Evelyn, M.P., and attended by Mr. Jemmett, the town-clerk. Despatches for the Governor of Canada were sent last evening from the Colonial -office. nnod H year e ls r taai ß ni di e : y e rc a l opna H vr at i i g i ee h ss n eae e tn s s t the Castle. the e rherlate Duchessae severe of n sp o Kent is,w un ßo derstan aldi , s tion, and is expected shortly t o b e a bl e to attend at the The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, who are on a visiting tour in Scotland, are expected to arrive at Chesterfield House the week after next from the north. It is announced the preliminaries of a marriage have been arranged between the Earl of Lichfield and the Lady Harriet Hamilton, the eldest daughter of the noble marquis. The Earl and Countess of Glengall and the Ladies Butler arrived in Grosvenor-street yesterday from visit ing the Earl of Stradbroke, at Henham Hall, Suffolk. The Countess of Desert has left Lord Cawdor's, in South Audley-street, on a visit to the Hon. Octavjus Duncomhe, M.P., and Lady Caroline Dunconibe, at Wansley Park, Huntingdon. The noble earl is at pre sent at West Cowes. Count and Countess de Flahault, Baroness Keith and Nairne, who have been entertaining a succession of visi tors at her residence in Perthshire, during the autumn, are expected to arrive in Grosvenor-square at the close cf the ensuing week for the winter. Viscount and Visesountess Canning arrived in Gros venor-square last evening from Paris. Her ladyship's turn of waiting on her Majesty will commence on the 16th of the ensuing month, when it is expected the court, according to present arrangements, will be on the eve of removing from Osborne to Windsor Castle fur the holidays. Major-General and Lady Laura Meyrick have arrived in Curzon-street, from Goodrich Court, near Hereford, to attend the nuptials of their son, Captain Meyrick, with Lady Elizabeth Hay, which, it is expected, will be solemnised in a few days. EARL FITZHARDINGICS Fox HOUNDS.—This famous pack arrived yesterday at their Cheltenham kennel, from Berkeley Castle, and will commence hunting to morrow, when the meet will be at Down Hatherley ; 'on Thursday they meet at Litcomb, and on Saturday at Broad way. Cheltenham Chronicle. A SUCCESSFUL EiILGRANT. — Mr. Hooper, who for merly kept the Malt and Hop Brewery, Queen-street, Ipswich, and who left England about three years ago on account of difficulties, has written to a gentleman in that town, stating that he has just purchased the Prince of Wales Hotel, Melbourne, for 20,000/. —Bury Post. BATH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—For the first time since the Municipal Reform Bill the ward elections have gone off peacefully. There has not been a contest in any ward, and the Liberals have returned ten out of fourteen councillors. The Hon: Colonel Charles B. and Mrs. Phipps have arrived in Lowndes-square, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane at Taymouth Castle, ea route to Windsor Castle. The gallant Privy Purse's eldest son, the youthful Mr. Charles Phipps, now one of the pages of honour to the Queen, will shortly obtain his commission in the foot brigade of Guards, without purchase. Rear-Admiral Hewson, of Pomeroy Villa, Topsham, has been for the last few days on a visit to his nephew, the Rev. Frank Hewson, of Hudscott, in this county. This gallant officer, who entered the navy 67 years ago, and was one of the heroes of Trafalgar and Copenhagen, is still, we are happy to say, in the enjoyment of excel , lent health.—Exeter Post. MAILRIAGES IN iIIGH is said that a marriage will shortly take place between Lord Kinsale, Premier Baron of Ireland, and Miss Brown Westhead, only daughter of 3. P. Brown WestheeA, Esq., of Lea Castle, Worcestershire. A marriage is also about to take place between John Irwine Whitty, E3q., LL.D., of Hen rietra-street, Dublin, and the Countess Adelaide de Lusi. The office of Principal of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, will become vacant at Christmas next. Such graduates, being in holy orders, as propose to become candidates for this office, are requested to send their names and address to the secretary to Elizabeth College, St. Mar tin's rectory, Guernsey. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 15.—Dr. Levy embarks to morrow for the Ciiinea. The innumerable detail-work connected with the organisation of the French hospitals here would not permit him to leave Constantinople earlier than this. — Jewish Chronicle. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 16.—Dr. Levy, the director of the sanitary department of the French troops, has made a demand for a larger number of surgeons for . the hospital service in the camp before Sebastopol.—Jewish Chronicle. EXETER AND EXMOUTH RAILWAY.—We Lear that it is the intention of the South Devon Railway Company to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for leave to form a railway from Exeter to Exmouth, in connec tion with the quay at Topsham, crossing the Exeter Canal by a swing bridge about half a mile west of the Exininster station.—Exeter Post. PATRIOTIC FUND.—Meetings have been held in the following places in aid of the Patriotic Fund :—St. Pan cras, Salisbury, Gloucester, Preston, Sheffield, and Car lisle. The proceedings at all of them were highly satis factory. Considerable sums were subscribed and liberal donations were expected through the exertions of the committees appointed at each of them. STREET LAMPS. —Purify gas to the utmost extent pos sible, but, pure or not, do not waste it. Does it not strike you that vast quantities of the light produced by gas is w asted in our streets by the want of a reflector from the top of the lamp ? Why not paint the outside of the u pper panes of glass with white paint, so as to throw' down a great part of the light which is now wasted on the clouds and stars. They don't want it ; we do.—Builder. OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND CITY.—PATRIOTIC FUND. — The sub;cription to the Patriotic Fund collected already in the University and City amount to upwards of 1,0001. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have headed the list with 1001. The Warden and Fellows of All souls' College have, we understand, also contributed 1001. THE TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN LAMBETH WORK HOUSE.--FIFTH D AY 'S I NVESTIGATIO N. — Messrs. Au stin and Cane, the -Poor-law Commissioners, resum ed their inqu i r y yesterday morni n g , in Lambeth workhouse , inmates. th e A n master, other adjourn ment o fficials,LATE towards o ußTB .iyi the.t poor l respecatginagintthoeokcopnldacuec.t of Mr. Piero m z c LIE UTENANT PERRY. —A petition, signed by a large number of the most respectable inhabitants Of Honiton, in Devonshire, has been forwarded to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to lay the evidence and proceedings connected with the late courts-martial on Lieutenant Perry before the Judges ; and, if they should be of opinion that the find ing of the Courts was not justified by law and con sistent with the evidence and the principles of truth and justice, then that her Majesty shall be pleased to restore Mr. Perry to his former position in the service, or to such other preferment as her Majesty may gra ciously determine. BROADHEMBURY.—'Squire Drewe, of the Grange, has put a stop to the ploughing match this year. He has a son in the Crimea, and does not think it becoming that his tenants should make merry whilst danger threatens a scion of his house. The sum usually devoted to pre miums, &c., is to be contributed to the Patriotic Fund. —Exeter Post. ( The Armonia, a clerical paper, published at Turin, announces the arrival of a Pontifical note, which pro tests in a friendly manner against any oppression of the Catholic Church in Piedmont, and especially against ex pulsions and the sequestration of estates to the injury of religions foundations. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly general meeting held on Thursday at the Society's house, in Hanover-square, Dr. Gray, Vice-President, in the chair, Messrs. A. S. Milbank, R. Webb, E. La forest, C. W. Dilke, H. F. Tod, and T. P. Presland, were elected F e ll ows of the Society ; and Messrs. T. N. Hunt and T. Hutton were proposed as candidates for the fellowship. The report of the council stated that the society had been honoured by further donations from his Majesty the King of Portugal ; and that among other recent additions to the menagerie an in terestiog collection of animals from North America had been presented by W. G. Seoith, Esq. The number of visitors was 22,547 in the month of October, and 389,190 in the current year. The elections of new fel lows since the Ist of January last presented a large in crease over those of preceding years. FOOT BRIDGES OVER CROSSINGS.—AIIow me space in your columns to submit the practicability of erecting light and elegant street bridges for foot passengers over the most crowded public streets or crossings. These bridges could be of such an architectural character as would be unobjectionable wherever placed, and the ad vantages such modes of transit would confer on ladies and all the older members of society, by the security they would afford them, must be admitted by all parties. These bridges need not exceed in height some 12 or 14 feet, and if made on the suspension principle, would not interfere with the existing currents of passengers. I would suggest, by way of trial, that one of these bridges tr.l o r +ll ,, S' P chlrehyard, being nearly in a straight line. Another could be placed in the Poultry, a third in Gracechurch-street, &C. — The Builder. LAT'EST NEWS. GREAT BATTLE NEAR BAI AKLAVA. IM :PORTANT GOVERNI h lENT DESPATCH FROM SEB ASTOPOL. REPULS: Er, OF THE ENEMY. FROM LORD SI TRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE. " C ONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 28, AT MIDNIGHT. " The captain. of an English steam transport, which left Balak lava the evening of the 26th, con firms in great p: tat the information brought this morning by a Pvench ship, and transmitted im mediately to Loaidon by way of Marseilles. It appears that the Russians attacked the forts in the vicinity of Balal - alava on the 25th. Their num bers are supposed to have been about 30,000 men. The attat lc was unexpected. The Cossacks preceded the infantry. To resist them at first there were Ottoman troops and Scotch. The Turks gave way and even spiked the guns, which, seized by the Russians, were turned against them. The Scotch, on the contrary, remained firm is their position. Other fyrces arrived, and the Russians were obliged to yield the ground, re maining, nevertheless, masters of two forts, from which they fired upon our troops. Three re giments of English light cavalry, exposed to the cross fire of the Russian batteries, suffered im mensely. " The French took part in the affair, with ad mirable bravery. "On the next day their position was attacked by a body of 8,000 Russians, as well from the side of the town as from that of Balaklava. They repulsed the enemy with great slaughter. Gene rally, the loss of the Russians must have been. very great. It is affirmed that the fire of the batteries of the town had much slackened ; and according to the report of wounded officers, some of whom have arrived at Buyukdere, the belief continued that Sebastopol would be soon in the hands of the Allies. This is merely what has been. gathered from several persons who were eye-wit nesses of what took place. " The names of the killed and wounded are reserved for the official occasion. Among the► names there is none of a general officer. (Signed) " STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE." FURTHER IMPORTANT PARTICULARS. The following intelligence has been received. hero : BUCHAREST, NOVEMBER 1. The English Consul at Varna, writing on the 28th Oct. at ten o'clock at night, announces the. arrival there of the Himalaya, from Balaklava„ bringing the intelligence that a considerable force attacked and took the three Turkish bats teries, near Balaklava, on the 25th. The Russian cavalry and artillery advancing, the English light cavalry advanced to meet them.. The English cavalry charged and suffered much. The Scots Greys and sth Dragoon Guards coming to their support, the enemy was completely routed, and retired behind the batteries taken from the Turks. On the evening of the 26th the Russians made a sortie from Sebastopol against Sir De Lacy Evans's division, and were repulsed in half an hour, leaving 1,000 dead on the ground. The English lost one officer only, and a few men wounded. The above is official. It is reported that the Turks withdrew pref - pitously, thereby causing temporary confusion and considerable loss. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. In a short resume' of the operations before Sebastopol, given in the Moniteur, it says, that on the 17th the French batteries discontinued their fire at noon in consequence of the expliosion of a powder magazine, which damaged them. The English batteries continued their fire, and laid the works opposed to them in ruins. On the 17th the whole of the batteries, mount ing 250 guns, reopened their fire and continued it all day, causing several conflagrations in the place, and blowing up a powder magazine. The bombardment of this day laid the Quaran tine Fort in rains, while the great forts at the entrance of the harbour were shattered and silenced by the fleet. During this operation a shell burst on the quarter-deck of the Ville de Paris. Admiral Hamelin was not hurt, but one of his chief Aides-de-Camp was killed and the rest wounded, together with several other persons who sur rounded him. VIENNA, FRIDAY, Nov. 3. Advices have been received here dated Con stantinople, Oct. 23. The Harpy had brought a Russian general and 400 wounded to Constantinople. 40,000 of the Allies check the advance of the Russian reinforcements. The British cavalry division, under General Scarlett, had defeated 5,000 Russians. Five Russian generals are reported already killed. The Russians have left Eupatoria. PARIS, Friday Evening. News has reached us to-day from Constan tinople, by way of Trieste, to the 22d. The bombardment was continued on the 18th and 19th only from the land side. Five powder magazines had been exploded in the town, and five forts, including Fort Constan tine, had been dismantled. The fire of the Russians was feebly maintained. The son of Osman Pasha and five Russian Generals had been killed. Two sorties by the garrison had been repulsed, and three of the enemy's ships had been sunk in the port. The Sanspareil, the Agamemnon, the Charle imigne, and, the Ville de Paris were damaged on the 17th. The last two have had only 25 men put hors de combat. The following intelligence has been received through Vienna : . VARNA, Oct. 24. The Turkish troops continuo to leave for Bat ,kl vn • GAL.Ia Z., 26. Omer Pacha's movements are so menacing that Prince Gortschakoff is ordering the RUniall r.. _..:J troops which had reached the Dniester on their way to the Crimea to halt. Advices from Athens, of the 27th Oct., state that the Porte demands further compensation. A commercial treaty with Greece was contemplated. THE CRIMEA. MORE RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS OF THE SIEGE. The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort gives the following under date of Berlin, 29th ult.:-- " Accounts (Russian ones) have been received here from the Crimea. They come down to the 23d, and announce that on the 22d the Russians attempted to disturb the allies in tbeir operations. A considerable corps (it is not said whether it was the wh.le of the army under the command of Prince M—nschikoff), supported by the besieged, attacked the camp of the allies. The Russians were repulsed, but not before they had succeeded in partly destroying some of the siege works, so that the bombard ment from that part was suspended on the 23d. The allies, who are principally operating against the south of the town, have already caused considerable damage to the fortifications. Their army now reckons about 100.000 men ; that of the Russians 90,000, of whoa) 15,000 are in Sebastopol. The Russian fleet, which bad been in the southern port, is now moored near fort Nicholas, where it is pretty well sheltered from the enemy's shot. In addition to the fortifications previ ously existing, the Russians have thrown up consi able ones between the Quarantine Port and the town, from whence they will be able to annoy the flank of the allied army when it shall approach the forts. The latter will, however, continue to cannonade the town from the present position without drawing too near, so as to be under the fire of forts Nicholas aed Alexander, until the fortifications have been sufficiently demolished to allow the assault being made without too great a loss. Astonishment has been expressed that the fleet had not attacked the forts near the town ; but it is not in the inte rior of the great port of Sebastopol that the Russians have sunk their vessels, but in the sea itself. To the westward of Fort Constantine, sand banks run out into the sea to the distance of more than 1,500 feet, and others to the north of the Quarantine Fort to more than 500 feet. Between these two sand banks there is a pas sage of from 300 to 500 feet for vessels of war, and it is in this passage that the five vessels are sunk." THE DEAD IN SEBASTOPOL. Galignani says :—" When we are told that the streets of the town of Sebastopol are strewed with dead, to whom sepulture has not been given, we may believe that the bodies are chiefly those of Russian soldiers, for most of the inhabitants h a d probably quitted the town at the commencement of the bombardment. We hope this was the case, for although the sacrifice of Russian soldiers, as forced victims of the ambition and injustice of a single man,. must raise a feeling of pity, we are compelled to desire their destruction at Se bastopol as the surest means of checking a war, which, if continued, must cause a frightful de struction of human life as regards both par ties. The destruction of inoffensive inhabi tants taking no part in the war, and utterly without the means of defence, is one of those sad necessities which cannot be thought of without horror. From the fact of two Admirals or Admiral generals in command at Sebastopol having been killed, it has been generally inferred that the slaughter on the side of the Russians has been very great. The inference is a natural one, but those deaths do not imply the same amount of general destruction as in ordinary cases. The Russian soldiers, although stubborn fighters, are deficient in what the French call elan, and cannot, when the danger is great, be brought into ac tion, unless their commander-in-chief be at their head, and he is therefore compelled to expose his person, where he can, except in the way of ex ample, be of no more use than an inferior officer. RUSSIA. The Berlin .National, which is among the rare German journals that have a regular and well informed correspondent at St. Petersburg, has the following letter from that place, dated the 24th : "The invalid, and after it the Journal de St. Peters bourg, as well as all other journals appearing at this place recently, seek to demonstrate by polemical articles, in reply to unjustified assertions of foreign journals, that the Government does not deem it advisable to maintain unbroken silence upon these subjects. On the whole, Russia's opponents ought to be well satisfied, they say, when opposition is only exhibited against a romance,' which at bottom is favourable to Russia, and which merely exposes the optimist views that mislead the (European) public. It is insanity to think of rupturing Russia's power ; completely vain to oppose her progress for the future. Her material and moral force is undervalued. This (undervaluation) is unworthy of the gravity of the subject, and does but lead to deceptions which will :abound to their astonishment. The Russian Court organ declares the present war to be a war of principles,' and an obstinate one to boot ; and those are. greatly in error who consider this to be an idle menace." PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. I.—lt is extremely difficult to surmise, still more to determine, what will be the result of the battledore and shuttlecock game now going on between this country and Austria. But it may be safely affirmed that, albeit Prussia may make such concessions as will prevent a rupture between herself and Vienna, and com pletely estrange German States, she will n o t concede a single iot a w hi c h is calculated to give direct umbrage to Russia. She has, it is true, made another attempt, an unbidden attempt, to induce th e C zar t o accept the so-called four points. But her object in so doing is evidently more favourably than hostilely intended as regards Russia. Should, for instance, an affirmative re ply be returned, Prussia will see in this acqui escence renewed motives for pursuing her in active and so-termed neutral policy, and for ad hering to her point of view as developed in her divers notes; whilst, if a negative answer, be re turned, she will probably declare that she has gone to the utmost limits in order to prove the sincerity of her "moral support." and that she shall hence forth strictly adhere to the course she has adopted. A letter from Berlin of the 30th ult. says : " We learn from a certain source that a Prussian despatch was yesterday sent off by a cabinet courier to St. Petersburg. It is said that it is conceived in a very decided spirit, and that it de clares that if the Russian Cabinet persists in re maining deaf to all equitable representations, Prussia and the other German States will have no other choice than to support the measures against Russia." AUSTRIA. The Hamburg News has the following from Vienna, dated the 28th ult. :—" In the Coun cil of War held on the 25th at the Palace, it was determined, on the proposition of Baron de Hess, Ist, to reinforce considerably the troops in the Principalities and the Bukowina ; 2dly, to fortify the town of Gora-Gumora ; and 3dly, to make every preparation for the levy of 100,000 men. The differences between Count Coronini and Omer Pacha are smoothed down ; our troops will not throw any obstacle in the way of the operations of the Turks. This result is in great part to be attributed to the efforts of Lord Westmoreland and Count de Bourqueney. The plan of offensive operations proposed by Baron de Hess has not been approved of, but no doubt is en t er tained that it will be. General d e l'Etang and Duplat had a long conference yesterday with Baron de Hess, but were not present at the mili tary deliberations, as several journals have as serted." The Corriere Italiano of Vienna, of the 30th ult., alluding to a rumour that a treaty of alliance offen sive and defensive had been concluded between Austria and the Western powers, states that the news is not true, and that, there is no probability of such a treaty until the German question shall have been settled. VIENNA., Oct. 31.—The Presse of this evening has a despatch from Varna, of the 26th, which states that according to Turkish accounts the bom bardment of the Allies continues uninterruptedly, and the Russians return the firing from the forts but sparingly. T wo pow d e r magazines at Sebas topol wer e bl own up . Th e l o sses on both sides are considerable. It i s a dded that, according to the reports of the Allied admirals, the fall of Sebastopol cannot be long delayed. The Ost Deutsche Post quotes a passage from the Kreutz Zeitung, announcing the conference at Berlin on the evening of the 28th, betvr n ßaron von Man teuffel and the Saxon and Bavarian Ministers. In it the presence of the privy councillor to the lega tion, M. Balan, is particularly m entioned, and it i s concluded therefrom that the composition of some Finally, it is insinuat e d that M. von. treaty was on thdee r P Pfordten. would not co me t o Vienna. The Post takes the especial menti on o f the presence of Balan M. as an insinuatio n t h at a secret treaty b etwee n Prussia, Bav ar i a, and y contemplated ; and is bitt er l y sar- Saxony is, The pr i v y councillor to the legation, M. critic. Balan, was actually present at the conferen ce 1" If this hint be not understood in Germany, th en German is not understood . ' One pa r t o f t h e informa tion of the Kreutz Zeitung is, at any rat e , incorrect. M. von. der Pfordten will come to Vienna. THE BALTIC. A letter from Hamburg of the 30th ult., says : "The second division of the English firt from the Baltic has just arrived in the Bay of Kiel. Adding the I,t-'v arry:d.... to the sintis pre'dously corny ik!, there are not fewer than twenty English vessels of ar off Kiel at preseni.. 21.moniot taciii is , of Wellington, the flag-ship of Admiral Sir Charles Napier. The admiral for some time after his ar rival was prevented by indisposition from goi ig on shore, but last evening he came to this sit y, on a visit to Mr. Hodges, the English charg4 d'affain se, and is, it is said, to remain with hi= some days. T he stores of coal which the English Admiralty es!,ablisl. ed at Kiel for the use of the fleet are now literally hausted. Six steamers freighted with coal are, Lowey( expected there ; and when they shall have arrivi ,t , t 1 some of the screw vessels will be able to leave a t order to make room for others from the Baltic. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY, 6 P.III. We have received the following private telew graphic despatches : " MARSEILLES, 2d, Evening. The Hellespont steamer arrived this eveninr , ; she brings the do. • spatches of the Euphrate, which bad left Constantinop 13 3 on the 20th, but had put into Malta damaged. 4 counts from the C r i mea announce th a t a body of Cossacks had taken Eupatoria, but it had been retal ;tri by the allies. Prince Menschikoff having declared t fat he would burn Sebastopol rather than surrend General Canrebert replied to him that the whole of I,'he garrison should be put to the sword." " BERLIN, 2d, Evening—St. Petersburg, 2d (Russ; inn despatch given under all reserve.)—Prince Menschil :off writes under date of the evening of the 27th, that si nee the affair of the 25th no movement has been undertal ccn against Gen. Liprandi. The fire against the fortress v lac weaker on the 26th and 27th thah ou previous days. 1 / Russian batteries returned it with success. The atta ci from the fleet has Rot been renewed." Other despatches have been received from Tries , Vienna, and Warsaw, but they are merely repeti tions of what has been already given. One state I that the son of Osman Pacha has been kilted, bui does not state when or where. The Debats has a long article on Spain whi*al contains some statements of a nature to excilt e serious uneasiness as to the pacification of parti e s in that country. The article begins with a con, mentary ou the address of Salazar, one of th e Spanish Ministers, to the people of the Basque pro - vinces. This address has been much censured, a S containing passages little calculated to comma) d respect for the throne, and some astonishment aIS been expressed that after such a publication :r M{. Salazar should have remained in the Spanish (,al,- billet. The Debats says that he has been k apt there by Espartero, whose entire confidence he possesses, and thus Espartero is identified by the Debats with all that can be regarded as offensive i to the Queen in the address of M. Salazar. All the ships of the French Baltic squadron h lave returned to France, with the exception of the A las terlitz, which was obliged by stress of weather to put into Sheerness. Private telegrapic despatches from Marseir dated last night, announce that letters from the squadrons confirm what had been already know nof the silencing, on the 17th, of the batterie a of Sebastopol on the sea side. It appears that this duty was performed by the French squadron, v Chile the English division, under Admiral Lyons, di. I the same by Fort Constantine. 25 men on boar' I the Charlemagne were killed and wounded, ant L the same number on board the Ville-de-Paris. The practice of both at the distance of 600 fee t was magnificent. Of the several forts in the dire iction of the sea that of the Quarantine is the. oul: r one that kept up a fire on the 18th. Tho fire )1 the Allies on the land side was equally vigorous, tl r ugh interrupted for a space, on the side of the by the explosion of two of the magazines 'which containe l the daily supply of powder. On. try e 17th the English fired 5,000 cannon halls. The Three per Cents. closed to-day a t 75f. 40c. for the end of the mouth ; the Four- and-a- Half per Cents. at 98f. 25c. ; Orleans MailwaY Shares, 1,205 ; Rouen, 976 f. 25c. ; Havre, 562 f. ; Great Northern, 875 f. ; Strasburg, 84' ?f. 50c. ; New Shares, 651 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyono 1,051 f. 25c- ; Lyons and Mediterranean, 880 f. ; V lestern of France, 667 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Ceilte, 50c. ; Great Central of France, 530 f. ; Lyon ts and Geneva, 535 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 7.80 f. THE MEDITERRANEAN. MARSEILLES, Nov. 2. Yesterday being the Festival of All Saints wag observed as a strict holyday here, except by the War Department. At an early hour 6001 men of the 2All Regiment of the Line marched to, the port of the Joliette, and embarked in the m3w screw steamer the Byzantine, of 1,200 tons, chartered by the Government to convey troops and stoi •es to the Crimea. The Byzantine belongs to the col aapany of Leon Gay, and is the first ship which hi ►s cleared out from Marseilles direct for Balaklawa. Sho took on board, in addition to the troops, :3,000,000 of ball cartridges and 20 chests of a - . projectile lately invented at Metz, and which produces an immense effect at the enormous distance of 7,200 yards. They arrived at Marseilles unci er charge of an officer of artillery froth Metz, who i sill make a trial of them against the Russians at Se, bastopol, should that fortress hold out until their arrival. The officer who invented those rockets was not aware of the great effect until they were tried in presence of a military commission appointed for that purpose. When the Emperor was informed of the new invention he commanded that a con siderable quantity should be manufactured fox the siege of Sebastopol ; but it appeari that there is a. certain difficulty in preparing them, and that even_ when all hands in the laboratory at Metz were em ployed night and daythey could only produce 40 in the 24 hours. After the Byzantin sailed the Americom steamer William Penn shortly followed, likewise chartered by the Government, and carrying detach— . ments of the sth and 74th Regiments, amounting to-,; 384 men. The Marseilles steamer Avenir sailed in, the afternoon with 600 of the light infantry, Those men will be a seasonable, reinforcement for the army in the Crimea. The weather in delightfully fine, and promises then 'a quick an prosperous passage. The Tharsis, private steamer, sailed on Tuesday with 300 troops for Constantinople. The Egyptus sails to-day for the same destination, carrying the mails, 300 troops, and a full cargo of provision for the army. The private steamer Prophet will sail on Saturday for Gallipoli and Constanti nople with troops and stores. Four hundred men, who are to be incorporated with the Ist Regiment of Chasseurs d'Afrique, on service in the . Crimea, - have arrived at Marseilles for embarkation. After five mouths suffering; the town of Mar seilles has been declared free from cholera, and clean bills of health were iss►ied for the first time yesterday. No_news has been yet heard of the mail steamer Euphrate, which sailed from Constantinople on the 20th ult. It is known, however, that she was at Messina on the 25th. A letter from Algiers of the 30th ult. announces that a decided advantage had been gained in the south by Major Du Barail over t he Cherif of Ouaigla and the tribe of the Ouled.-Antlakrona, who had. traitorously attacked a small det ichment of French cavalry, and killed Serjeaut-Ma jor de Bois Guil bert. The Arabs were surprised at their encamp ment, and dispersed, with the loss of 80 killed, 10,000 sheep, 800 camels, and an immense quantity of booty captured. This success ws s the more for tunate, as the Cherif Mahotned ben . Abd Allah had obtained possession of Nigouca, and threatened to resume his authority in the oases of Ouargla. MISCELLANEOUS. We read in the Courrier de Marseille :—" An important railway concession has lately been spoken of—nothing less than that of a now line between Paris and Lyons, more direct than that through Burgundy. The company 'which solicits this concession offers to prolong the :line from Ho vers to Lyons, by Digoin, Tarraro, and Arbresle, and at the same time to construct I 'ranch lines to Charlieu and Thiry, and from Di) oin to Macon. We know not how the Governmef It will receive these propositions ; but the Orleanki, Lyons, and Great Central Companies, di rec tl y i ntereste d i n not allowing such competition to b established, will no doubt see in them a reason f Or coming to a prompt understanding for completin g branches in connection with their lines." The fifth drawing of the bonds of the loan of 50 millions of the City of Paris, took place yesterday (2d inst.) at the Hotel-de-vine. The . following num bers came out of the wheel. No. 11,287, first drawn, entitled to 50,000 fr. ; 34,634, 20,000 fr. ; 22,785, 15,000 fr. ; 16,077, 10,000 fr. ; 21,654, and 42,799, 5,000 fr. each ; 33,937, 27,744, 23,684, 5,984, 15,582, and 45,483, 3,000 f. each ; 43,407, 25,686, 40,299, 45,296, 5,265, 10,090, 46,211, and 24,778, 2,000 f. each ; 27,527, 19,4b3, 5,007, 18,326, 36,935, 12,643, 14,295, 33,254, 29,491, 13,633, 15,931, 25,258, 1,639, and 49,155, I,ooof. each. Twenty-five numbers gained 500 f. each, and 4,148, the last drawn, 2,500 f. A letter from Paris, in a German journal, states that the Emperor Napoleon has canoed the widow of Sub-Intendant Leblanc, who was killed in. the battle of the Alma, near the person of Prince Na poleon, to know that she need be under no e,ppre hension for the future, his Majesty engaging- to provide for her. THE PATRIOTIC FUND BALL.—Yesterday a Ineet'ing of the committee for conducting the entertainvient in aid of the brave men "who have fought, and :are still/ fight ing, our battles in the East," was held at the Guildhall. Deputy Eagleton, in the absence of Sir . James Duke, took the chair. The committee was - numerously at tended. Amongst other blsiness, it was decnied that the ball and concert should take ida,ce en t?:?.:i of the present month. ":vir. Lindsay 6loptr It a 1611(.4 consented to conf'tar!t. the ,!I I,lort, - and several other caZ,;:v.., UIL:i.SICtiOIi LaliC 1;011111• teered their services gratuitously. Adjourned until this day. 1