The Sun. — London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

T EL E A. TRE-ROYA L, CERT DRURY-L.ANE, JIIL LT.EN'g CONS. LAST WEEK BUT TWO. _ . . Third Night of the New Descriptive Quadrille," The Allied Art ales." The PROGRAMME for 'CIII3 EVENING (Saturday, Nov. 25) will include the French National Song, " Peanut pour la Syrie" (composed by La lbeine Hortense), and the New Song, "M inaie," sung by Madame Anna Thilion—Overtare to " Masaniello"--" Fr pani Quadrille"—the Andante from Beethoven's " Pastoral Sym phony"—Grand Selection iron " Don Giovanni"—the " American Quadrille." Solo, Flute, Mr. Pratten; Violin, Signor Monasterio and Signor Robbio. " The Valse d'Adiea"—" The Staff Polka"—" The Charge Galep," and (third time) the new DESCRIPTIVE QUA DRILLE, " THE ALLIED ARMIES," Jullien. Assisted by the Bands of her Majesty's Grenadier Guards, 2d Life Guards, and Coldstream Guards. PRICES OF Anmisstos.—Promene, boxes. and galleries, Is.; dress circle, 28. 6d. ; private boxes l a i d . Is. and 11. I is. 6d. On Tuesday next, the Beethoven Festival. M. JULLIEN'S GRAND BAL MASQUE will take Place on MONDAY. Dec. 11, and terminate the season. THEATRE ROYAL dAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Ituckstene. THIS EVENDIG. Nov. 25. Will bo performed the Comedy of PRESENTED AT COURT. Master Geoffrey Wedderburne , Buc k s tone ; Mistre-s Anne Franklyn, Miss Reynolds. To which will be added T HE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Followed by HOW TO PAY TUE RENT. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cie LIAM. .THIS EVENING. Nov. 25, Wfll be perfereeed the highly ropular comedietta, entitled LIVING TOO FAST. To be followed by FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal characters isy siessrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart; Misses Mur ray, and Heath. After which will be presented a new Veto-dramatic Spectacle, in thr acts, entitled SCLIAMYL, the Warrior Prophet. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, NOY, 25. Will be performed THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Characters by Messrs. C. Selby, Leigk Murray, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a new Farce Called TAE SLOW MAN. TO which will be added a new Farce, entitled THE RAILWAY BELLE. Followed by RONA FIDE TRAVELLERS. To conclude with THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEtTRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. Nov. 26. Will be presented THE BECTLAH SPA. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, and M. Cooper; Miss Marston, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Fitzallan, and Miss Julia St. George. To be followed by TILE TRU 4 PEE. Charactors by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Wang, Emery, and Leslie; Miss Maskell, and ;!ilia Stephens. To conclude with the Farce, called A BLIGHTED BEING, in which Mr. Robson will appear. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William (*sake. No diminution whatever in the prodigious attraction and excite ment created by the new Military Spectacle ! THIS EVENING, The GRAND and wonderfully successful SPECTACLE, in 2 acts, from the pen of J. If. 6TOCQUELLES, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA ! After which, a novel series of SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented and conducted by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with the ENCOUNTER and CAROII3 AL of the WILD INDIAN ! N.B.—An early attendance is-respectfully suggested, in consequence of the numbers who nightly throng the doors of the Theatre. Box-offlce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager. Mr. W. 11. Cooke. Equeitriaa Director, Mr. Wm. Cooke, Jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tai DAT —Morning 59 min.after 4 1 Evening 26 min.aft. 5 To Moszow -- Morning 55 min.after 5 1 Evening 25 min.eft. 6 THZ WEATHER.—Sr s Orvics, Nov. 25. THIBNONICTNB, IN TEM SIIADN. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day, at noon. BABONXTER, 29.54. Wukr, N.—Light breeze, with fine seasonable weather . i .„ LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1854. We hardly recover from the accounts of a seri ous onsla*ght by the Russians, and a glorious - victory by the Allies, when we hear of another conflict, with a. similar result. The Russians have unquestionably proved themselves to be brave and energetic opponents. They have dis played extraordinary activity in bringing up rein forcements to the seat of war, and great resolu tion in attacking an enemy by whom they have been so repeatedly foiled. We must not, there fore, pay either the enemy or our own men the bad compliment of under-valuing their exertions, Or supposing that success ,is a matter of course, which can certainly be achieved without our being called on to make any vigorous effort, or to submit to any serious sacrifices. It is useless denying the fact that we have met with a far more vigor ous opposition than we had at all anticipated. But we should not on that account be discouraged. On the contrary, we should only be animated by a more unflinching determination to carry out our projects without reference to cost, and to succeed—decisively and unequivocally succeed— in an object in which not merely the influence, but the safety and honour, of the British nation is at stake. We cannot, even if we would, now hang back. The stake for which we are contending is of too momentous a character to admit of doubt or hesi tation. The lives of our men—of those who have faithfully and unflinchingly discharged their arduous and important duties —are involved in the desperate issue. The maintenance and per manency of that cordial alliance with our neared neighbour—respecting which our fervent aspira tion, esto perpetuc, will receive an earnest and unanimous response from the entire community —mainly depends on our conduct during the present crisis. It would inflict an indelible brand on the national escutcheon, we shall nct say, if we were to desert our gallant Allies for that is absolutely impossible, and could not enter into the mind even of an ABERDISS !-but if we hung back or displayed any vacillation, timidity, or " penuriousness" under existing circumstances. We are engaged in a truly noble cause, and we must be prepared to submit to sacrifices proportioned to the magni tude of the object we haie in view. This is the course which iot merely honour, but prudence demands. W e may be assured that every pound saved during the p rese n t emergency will lead to a tenfold expenditure at no distant date, and that without reference to the question—all important as it will be admitted to be—of strengthening and cementing the bonds by which we are united 1 to France. Earnestly as we should be resolved on attaining all our resources to the utmost, in order to insure an unequivocal triumph, our Allies have interests no less important—motives no less irresistible. The "future " of France would ba as seriously °°'promised as our own, by the substitution of Russian for Turkish power at Stamboul. Be sides, there are traditions of " the Empire" which cannot be forgotten. If we look only to the "hereafter," France has anc i en t i n juries to fearful avenge, a lil a reckoning to cast up with the Russians. As a the world, it must great now military power, the first in has arisen to vindicate it sees f that the opportunity ormer wrongs as well ' as it s p resen t reputation . and we do not suffer- the "wet b blanket," it will do so , if anket," which we still tolerate, to damp or smother its ardour. It is now stated that there h as been another desperate conflict before Sebastopol —that the 13th has also been signalised by a R us sian de feat. The rumour, which purports to come from Constantinople, under date of the 16th, i s to the effect that it was the French lines which Wore attacked, and that the Russians were repulsed, but with great loss on both sides. It also announces that the Russians had received further reinforcements —a matter which, whatever opinion we may form jto the alleged battle, we can easil y credit ; for 1 we'. Mist remember that Lord RAGLAN an ', IldulAgea in his despatch that the 4th corps ':! - ' IS A.t cd'armee, which had been conveyed in car- 1 riaaes of the country and in the lightest possible order was "to he immediately followed by the 3d corps." The Russians had, therefore, probably obtained a great addition of strength on or before the 13th, and they would also, most probably, avail themselves thereof—for they had nearly gone to the full length of their tether, and could look for no further assistance for a con siderable period, until the formation of snow-roads, which could not be anticipated for many weeks. The sea would, however, remain open to France and England. They might at any time receive further reinforcements, and there was every pro bability that the veterans who had so greatly dis tinguished themselves under OMan PACIIA would not remain inactive, but that if prevented by Aus trian treachery from creating a diversion in Bes sarabia, they would be ready for service in the Crimea either with the Allied Forces before Sebastopol, or where they might be even more useful at Perekop cutting off supplies, and keeping the Muscovite rats in the trap into which they had entered ! A subsequent attack on the besieging army at or about the time specified is therefore by no means improbable. We muss, however, remem ber that we have had intelligence from Prince MENSCHIKOFF, whose despatches are generally founded on fact, which makes no mention of such a contest—a matter that could scarcely be omitted, if of a serious character. It would, therefore, seem, if it occurred at all, to have been only a mere sortie of the garrison, which the Russian Commander would not think it nezossary to allude to at length. The circumstance that it was on the French lines would show that it must have been a sortie from the town, inasmuch as the position of the Allies is such that any attack from the *pen country must be made on the English in the first instance. But whether the report be accurate or other wise, our duty, as well as that of France, is per fectly clear. It is comprised in the expression— Reinforcements, reinforcements, reinforcements ! We "lust spare no exertion—no outlay—to ac complish this great, this paramount object. Every available man must be -transmitted to the seat of war, and we must be content to leave the defence of the country to its 10 , 3a1 bands and militia, as we may do so without the slightest apprehension. France, too, having trained and disciplined men ready, will be enabled to send them without a moment's delay—England supplying, as in the case of the Baltic expedition, a portion of the transports required for the operation. It is said that some divisions are, destined for the Danube. Be it so. France can spare enough for both ser vices. But under any circumstances the para mount claims of the Crimea must not be forgotten. That is the first demand on the resources of both countries—one that will not be rejected or evaded. In one of the recent brave cavalry charges at Balaklava our men foUnd the loose grey-coats of the Russian horse soldier his best protection against their sabres ; and hitherto Russia itself has found in the " neutral" despots who hang about her western frontiers her mast efficient safeguard. By their good help she has parried some of her greatest dangers, and, under cover of their folds, has been able to wield her undistracted strength against the Crimean vindicaters of the common rights of Europe. She has been enabled through Prussia to turn her produce into money for paying her troops ; and, through Austria, to send those troops where they could best resist and annoy, even by their own defeats, the forces of th 3 Allies. On these terms we seem likely to get through one campaign. From Transyl vania to Lapland a grey-coat neutrality is the curse of Europe's cause, and the shield of her enemy. Is this to last through another cam paign, or is the thing to be torn to shreds before next spring ? We think our Houses of Parlir.- meat are unworthy of their rank amongst the governors of the world if they do not insist on neutrality being exchanged for hostility or co operation. We hear sometimes of the right of nations to be neutral, if it please them, in a contest between neighbours. But that doctrine has its limitations. If the quarrel be on a subject exclusively concern ing the belligerent powers, it were unreasonable, perhaps, to ask more of neighbour nations than neutrality, or, at most, an expression of opinion. BLit when those nations form part of one great confederation, whose rights are also menaced in the attack made upon another's, the case is wholly altered. No man has a right to be neutral while robbery and murder are being perpretrated before his eyes. He is an accomplice, if he be not a helper of the wronged. If his sole thought be self-protection, and much more if he attempt to baffle the officers of justice who would bring the miscreant to justice, he must endure the doom of the coward or the abettor of felony. Now, we ask, is there an honest Englishman who does not view the conduct of all the neutrals conter minous with Russia in this light ? Can we refuse to believe that they all wish the great BARABBAS of the day to escape from justice? Would they not all sincerely • " congratulate" the Russian representatives at their several Courts were the Allied troops really " driven into the sea," and their ships sent to its bottom These wretched Governments stand like so many PILATES, washing their effeminate yet despotic hands, and proclaiming their innocence, while they aro worse than conniving at all the efforts of the wrong-doer to crush the vindicators of inter national justice. We know what to think of cowards who stand by while a villain assaults, and half kills a policeman doing his duty, and we also know what to think of these dastard "neutrals," who see complacently the armies of the Allies decimated by their own victories while bringing to terms the violater of the public peace. Whatever be the leanings of the German Go vernments, and the Scandinavian powers too, the interest of their people is conspicuously the same as ours. One of these contemptible neutrals is of course the brother-in-law of the great thief, as well as a brother thief, and sharer in the grand Polish robbery ; another has bound himself to him ley the oaths of a CATALINE in a bloody Hungarian conspiracy. Both of them are pledged to his cause by guilty bonds ; yet even they must but too often feel their degraded position. They must, as Governments, have many wishes that they could rise to the dignity of honesty and indepen dence. But their subjects—they can have but one wish. On them the Russian yoke must be, a n d is, an intolerable burden. From Sweden and Denmark, to Prussia, Hungary, Italy, and five sixths of the Austrian dominions, the people groan under a despotism more or less irksome, and are almost in rebellion against the degrada tion inflicted on them by their rulers. Swedes, Danes, and Prussians, at least, are unmistakeably az hostile to the CZAR as their Monarchs are friendly, or afraid. Austria, and, i ndee d , nearly all G ermany, have such obvious commercial inte rests at st a k e i n the freedom of the Danube and the Bla c k S ea, the Dan u b e , that 't • rm • an d the ramoval of Russia from 1 is not e+ en . d en i e d. Let, th en , th ese totte their Paition. he chief g powers understand officers of their artniea may be with them in their treacherous neutrality; their people are not. Let them not forget 1848. There are times when peoples count for something, and those times may be nearer again than they think. They are provoking France and England to appeal to the people against their rulers. The Allied Governments are far enough at present from wishing for more revolutions ; but the Allied nations would rather see all the German States blown to shivers, and their perjured tyrants put beyond the power of deceiving their subjects again, than go on sacrificing their husbands' and brothers' blood to the hostile neutrality of Austria and Prussia. We warn these confederates of Russia that our people here will soon demand summitry dealings with them. We are in the long run masters of our Cabinets. We forced them against their wishes into the war, we forced them, though tardily, to do something more than seed troops to die of the cholera at Varna. We have forced them to commit themselves to the ruin of Sebastopol and if Austria and Prussia choose to continue in their present cause, we shall yet force them to hold out the standard of Polish, Hungarian, and Italian freedom, and it nay be of freedom for all the little kingdoms and duke doms who have re-enslaved their subjects since 1848. We repeat, much as we long for continental freedom, necessary as we deem the reconstitution of Poland to the safety of Europe, it will be the despots, not the Allies, who will compel revolu tion. They have all owned that Russia was in the wrong, that she has no more right to the provinces than we have, yet they have chosen to abet rather than to oppose her. Had they all joined, as honesty demanded, in declaring the passage of the Pruth a castes belli, there would have been no war at all. Had they supported the Allies when the conflict began, as from their condemnation of the enemy they were bound to do, the war would probably have ended with the summer. If now they have to vacate their thrones through the burning indignation of the two Western nations, emboldening their subjects to give them their deserts, let them remember that it will be they, and not the Allies, who have been the revolutionists. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1854, BOOKS FOB THE SICK AND WOUNDED AT SCUTARI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIT. SlR, — Percoiring that tke library of cheap railway literature sent out for the use of the sick and wounded is not equal to the demand, we shall have ranch pleasure in presenting the hospital with 100 ,ol uines on being informed how or to whom they had better be addressed. —We have the honour to remain your obedient ser vants, GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO. 2, Farringdon-street, Nov. 24. CO WES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Nor. 24. THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON YACHT FAIRY.— The Marquis Conyngham has sold his yacht Fairy, of 143 tons, to W. Lyon, Esq. ; she is to be fitted out with all possible despatch for Sebastopol. THE BLESSINGS OF A CHANCERY SUIT.—The late James Hoskens, Esq., by his will, directed that his true tees should yearly distribute 50/. amongst the deserving poor of the parish of Northwood, I.W. They did so two years ; but some difference of opinion arising as to the intention of the testator on some other natters, the trustees and legatees agreed to take the opinion of the Court of Chancery. They engaged in a friendly suit, which is not yet decided ; but, so far as the poor is con cerned, it is a woeful affair. After a delay of twenty years, an order of the court has issued, reducing the amount to 101. per annum ; John Bates, Esq., Mr. Moore, arid Mr. Dear, being appointed trustees for its distribution. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. BA. EXAMINATION, 1854.—EXAMINATION FOR Ho- Nouns.—Mathematics and Natural Philosophy :• Thomas Savage (University Scholarship), University College ; ' William Brittain Jones, University ; Alfred Bache, Queen's, Birmingham; and Win. Fiddian Maulton, Wesley, Sheffielii (equal) ; Swinton Henry ISoult, Manchester New, and University. Classics : Michael Foster (University Scholarship), University; Wlllian Brittain Jones, University ; Frederick Charles James Millar, University, Rev. Benjamin Plummer Prat ten, Baptist, Bristol, and Rev. Joseph Abbott Temple, King's (equal) ; Svrinten Henry Boult, Manchester New, and University; James Allan. son Picton, Lanc. Independent, and Owens ; Mar tin Luther Rule, Wesley, Sheffield. Chemistry : James Howard Thornton, King's, Christophe Walston, Queen's, Birmingham (equal). Animal Physiology : Jas. Howard Thornton (prize of books), King's; Henry Chas. Leonard, University; Christopher Wolston, Queen's, Birmingham; John Rankine Black, University ; Albert Buchanan, University ; Martin Luther Rule, Wesley, Sheffield. Examination in the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament, in the Greek Text of the New Testament, and in Scrip ture History—First Class Class : Edward Stephens Bay liffe, Spring Hill College ; William Roby Fletcher, Lan cashire Independent; lienry Goward, Spring Hill ; Thos. Green, Spring Hill ; Re►. Benjamin Plummer Pratten, Baptist, Bristol. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 24. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High. nese the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, his Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, the Earl of Clarendon, the Lady-in- Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Spaeth and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty's private band attended in the Castle after dinner. The Queen, with Prince Alfred, walked in the Home Park this forenoon. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went to Ports mouth this morning by a special train, attended by Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey and Captain Du Plat, to witness the embarkation for the Crimea of the detachment of the Grenadier Guards (of whick regiment his Royal Higness is Colonel) in the Royal Albert steamship. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen ar rived last evening on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl of Clarendon also arrived yesterday. Hi s Lordship left Windsor by an early train for London. The Turkish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. the Earl of Clarendon arrived in town yesterday morning from a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle, to attend the meeting of the Cabinet Ministers. The Duke of Newcastie left London after the Council for Windsor Castle. CABINET COUNClL.—Yesterday afternoon a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, iir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours. It was not Captain, but Lieutenant-Colonel Mackin non who fell at Inkerman, the son of Mr. W. Mac kinnon, M.P., whose family have always been in the Coldstream Guards. Mr. Mackinnon's father was wounded at the famous siege of Gibraltar ; his uncle, General Mackinnon, was killed in storming Ciudad Rodrigo ; hilt brother was wounded at Waterloo; and his son has now fallen id the Crimea. Prince G-ertschakoff, the Russian envoy extraordinary to the Court of Vienna, has sent :or kis family from Stuttgard. He has removed from the apartments hither to occupied by him at the Hotel Rornischen Kaiser to the mansion previously occupied by Baron Von Mayen dorff. RAWCLIFVE, near Goole, has, within the last fortnight, experienced an unusual amount of mortality—cholera, accident, and old age being the causes. Several cases of cholera have been reported. One man has been found dead in a ditch ' • on the 11th, Sergeant Davidson, one of those engag e d in the Peninsula, died at the honourable age of 101 ; and on Thursday last, a lad named Jackson was caught between the yoke of a thrashing machine and the wall, and received suck injuries that he died in a qvarter of an hour. THE CAAD-CHEATING CASE AT BRIGHTON.—The de fendants in this case were brought up for judgment ,yesterday, at the Court of Queen's Bench. Lord Campbell, in passing judgment, said, we think that' we shall best answer the purposes of justice, and best discharge our ditty, by saying that we shall net at present pass judgment on these defendants, but that they may he discharged on entering into their recogni sauces to appear whenever they shall be called on to re ceive sentence. They have been convicted on a charge of a most serious offence. I n,n shocked at the instance which this case presents of the evil of the law of England allowing private persons to prosecute indictments, which they have often instituted from the very worst motives. Mr. [Tamp is a young man who has got into bad com pany, and has lost both character and money, and there can be no doubt that he has been made the victim of a couspiracylfengaged in by other persons. The proper course for the Court is to declineipassing sentence, and toorder the defendants to enter into their recognisances to - appear tareceive ,sentence whenever! called upon. Those recognisances will be (given sinerlie, but they must undertake to come up whenever they shall be called on to receive sentence. The defendants having entered into the required recognisance were discharged. SINGULAR RECOVERY OF AN UNPUBLISItED ROMANCE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. An English gentleman residing in Paris had occa sion, a few days past, to visit a printing-offle on the quai St. Augustin, when the name of Sir Walter Scott, on a brochure then at press, caught his eye, and he could read enough of it to observe that it contained a narrative of what was entitled " Decouverte Inattendue of the manuscript of an historical romancg by that great man. The history of the affair therein given was, that about thirty years ago a rich old German, who resided in Paris, was afflicted by the monomania of desiring to be possessor of an Unpublished work of Sir Walter Scott ; that about this he tormented a Mr. Spencer, also then living in Paris ; that, on Sir Walter Scott's visit to Paris, in 1826, Spencer had spoken to Miss Anne Scott about it, and that the result was her giving' him a MS. of an unpublished historical work by her father, which be never intended should see the light ; and that, although the old German often boasted of this acquisition, all his friends regarded it as the dream of one afflicted with an incurable monomania. It so happened, however, that, amongst the visitors to the old German, there was a young Frenchman, who assisted him in some statistic works in which he was engaged, and the old gentleman always said that a writing case, to which he pointed, should become his at his death. It was looked upon as a pleasantry, or a whim, of which the German had many. The troubles of 1830 came on, the old gentleman was ruined, died, and his family left Paris, no one knew whither. A short time ago the young friend of the German, now living en one of the boulevards, and ex tensively engaged in matters connected with the French Archives, was surprised to receive a box containing the writing ease. It was seat to him by the daughter of the old German, now living in Bavaria, with a letter of apologies, and describing how it had been overlooked. In this box of papers was found a bulky manuscript, bearing the title of Soreaun, a Tale of the Twelve Hun dred and Ten, accompanied by a letter, of which a trans lation was given in the brochure then at press. The visitor to the printing-effice, who read the above account, knowing something of the gentleman who was said to have received the box, immediately called en him, saw the writing case, some of the manuscript, and the following letter, of which be was permitted to take a literal copy :-- " Paris, 4th NoTeMber, 1826. "My dear W— S.—,—l ant constrained to make of this note a letter of initials, for I am not quite satis fied with myself in agreeing to write it, and there is no saying into whose hands it may fall. " The story which Anne has told me about your daft friend, the foreign monomaniac, is as clearly the case of a man who requires to be cognosced as I ever met with ; but as it appears to me that she has taken it most ridi culously to heart, we have brought our discussion of it to a conclusion, by my consenting to her doing what you could not be told of until she had. received the per mission of papa. " She has possessed herself, fir a long time past, of a tale which I had at one time the intention of makieg the first of a series of such things, drawn from the history of Scotland—a notion which I afterwards gave up. For Anne, however, that story has . ever possessed a great charm • and I allowed her to keep it, because I was under the inspressioa that a mere story, which offers no particular merits but those of events and a plot, would not appear advantageously amongst works which had the higher object of painting character. That would be to take a step backwards, which would never do. Be sides, as far as I can recollect, there are a great many anachronisms and freedoms used with persons and places which are not in keeping with the character of historian, to which I now aspire. "I consider, then, that in authorising my daughter to give you that work as a panacea for the imaginary ills of a foreign monomaniac, I only permit a change of pro prietorship. At the same time, in allowing Anne to make a present to you of what is but a trifle after all, I must make a most serious stipulation regarding it ; for I tell you candidly that I believe W— S— himself to be the real malade imaginaire. That stipulation is, that if at any tine you take the fancy of publishing that tale you will do so with the initials only, and that you will do all that you can in fairness do to countenance the idea that it is a bairn of your aim. " I wish I could do something for you personally of some less doubtful character than of humoring the caprice of a daf,; man ; bet you know how I am placed at present. Believe, however, that you have no more sincere friend than • W The gentleman who was allowed to take this copy of tke letter wah permitted also to glance over the manu script of the first volume of the tale, the others being in course of translation, and his conviction is, that net only have the manuscripts every appearance of being of that date, and of being genuine, but that the tale itself exceeds in interest and incident anything which after wards came from Sir Walter's pen, and that it must be perfectly obvious to•every reader that none but himself could have written it. The gentleman into whose posses. sion the manuscript has thus most unexpectedly come is having it tr mslated into French, and appears in perfect raptures, not merely with being the proprietor of such a treasure, but with the tale itself. It will be a curious enough thing if one of the earliest romances of the Author of " Waverley" appear first in French 1 REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE. The following is the correspondence which has taken place between the Reformers of St. Pancras and Sir G. H. Seymour, who, it will be seen from private corres pondence, declines to be named as a candidate : "London, 21st November, 1854. Sir,—We have the honour to inform you that a vacancy having occurred in the representation of Mary lebene, by the death ef our old and tried friend Lord D. Stuart, and a meeting of the direetors of St. Pancras (one of the three, and the most populous of the three parishes of the borough) having taken place to-day, we were requested to put eurselves into communication with yon, to ascertain whether it would be agreeable to you to become a candidate, should you be invited, whether in the event ef your being appointed to a diplo matic situation whilst M.P. for the borough you would resign the seat ; and whether you would as member support the ballot ? " The belief is that your eminent services ' would be fully appreciated by the constituency who returned Lord Dudley Stuart ; and that in the present crisis your re turn for such a constituency would not only be an honourable acknowledgment of those services, but of real advantage to the country. " We are further requested, if, on an interview, these preliminary matters should be arranged, to hare a joint meeting with the leading Reformers of all the Maryleboxie parishes, and secure, if possible, entire union. " We called at your house, but unluckily found that you had left for Ireland, and we feel it oa r d u t y t o com municate these facts for yourinformatio n ; an d, th oug h cemay be in so me measure a difficulty in making selection of a candid a t e , we s h all feel greatly obliged by the e e abs dby n your favouring us with a few lines, which we may report a to the gentlemen who did us the honour to depute us. We are, sir, your obedient and faithful servants, J. R. STOCKTON. WM. DURRANT COOPER. "Castle Martyr, Ireland, 23d Nov., 1854. "Gentlemen,—l have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your very flattering letter of the 21st inst., which reached nie this morning. " When I state to you that there are priv a t e considera tions which compel we ) with whatev er re l uctance, to decline coining forward as a representativ e for the borough of Marylebone, I might evade entering into further explanation. I hold it, however, wholesome practice, that an Englishman should be ready at all times te profess his political opinions, stud this very couviption impels me to state to you that I an strongly opposed to the ballet. " having said so much, I will add, that, if I had the honour of a seat in Parliament, the points upon which my attention would be most steadily fixed would be those of co-operating strenuously in such measures as would insure the war being brought to a successful conclusion, and (with regard to kerne affairs) of assist ing the endeavours to be made for the relief of a por tion of eur countrymen from the disabilities under which their religion still places them. "It only remains, for me, gentlemen, to express to you and the other electors of St. Pancras the deep sense which I entertain of the honour which you and they have been disposed to confer upon me. This mark of confidence on the part of a body of my countrymen is a distinction of which 1 shall ever retain the most lively recollection ; and the more so, as I can well under stand the electors pausing before they attempt to fill the vacancy made by the lamentable death of their late dis tinguished and universally regarded representative and friend, Lord Dudley Stuart. "I have the honour to remain, "Gentlemen, "Your obliged and obedient humble servant, "G. 13. SEYMOUR. "J. R. Stockton, Esq., "William Durrant Cooper, Esq." The Magdalena, now on her homeward way with the West India mail, has been taken up by the Govern ment. She is one of the largest of the mail packets — same size as the Orinoco, which has proved, considering her speed, and the large number of troops *he can carry, the finest tpop sbip in the we'll& LATEST NEWS. ANOTHER BATTLE BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. We have received the following important tele graphic despatch, forwarded from Constantinople to Semlin by courier, and thence to Vienna by telegraph, from our correspondent at the latter city. It is dated Constantinople, Nov. 16 : "On the 13th the Russians attacked the French lines, but were repulsed. " The loss was great on both sides. " The Russians have received further reinforce ments. " The Queen of the South has arrived with 1,200 troops. " A transport has been wrecked near San Stefano." VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING. The Presse has advices from Constantinople of the 17th, according to which there had been an other battle before Sebastopol, in which the Rus sians were defeated. On the 13th and 14th there had been a fearful storm at Constantinople. Three minarets of the mosque of the Sultan Achmet were blown down. According to a Russian despatch, eight trans ports of the Allies had been wrecked, and a frigate and sloop had foundered. BRUSSELS, FRIDAY. An account, purporting to be of Russian origin, states that nothing extraordinary had taken place before Sebastopol to the 16th. The fire of the Allies was kept up. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Galatz, in the Ost Deutsch Post of Vienna, says : "The Turkish troops have taken possession of Mat chin, Isaktcha, and Tultcha, and strongly occupied these places, as well as the interior of the Dobrudscha. The Turkish garrison of Ibrail has moved its advance-guard to the Sereth. Achreet-Sadyl, commander of that body, has published a proclamation, dated the sth, announcing that the Russians having been forced to quit the Do brudscha, the Turkish troops have occupied Babadagh, Tultcha, Matckin, and other places of that district ; that two officers had been despatched to see that proper measures were taken for having the navigation of the Danube re-established, the said officers being charged to come to an understanding for the purpose with the Allies, who are in possession of the Sulina ; and lastly, that the general-in-chief would always make every exer tion to protect the commerce of that great river, of such paramount importance to the Principalities. All the Turkish troops in Wallachia have received orders to ad 'ranee on Fokchany and Ibrail, and to concentrate them selves there, in order to pass the Pruth to the number of 30,000 men." THE WAR IN ASIA. The Batount correspondent of the Lloyd, writing on the 3d, says that the Russians have sent all their disposable forces from the western side of the Cau casus, and from all points of the coast of the Black Sea to Sebastopol. According to which intelligence from Kars and Erzeroum, the whole of the Russian troops which were engaged with Schamyl have with drawn to Tiflis and Erivan. It has already been announced that the Russians have reoccupied Bay azid. They are concentrating at Achalkalaki, Bayazid, and Alexandropol, and seemingly intend to operate from these points against the Kars army. Ismail Pacha is at Erzeroum, his head quarters, and is proceeding with the reorganisation of his army. RUSSIA. The Fremden Blatt says that a despatch for Prince Paskiewitch arrived at Warsaw on the 19th inst., from St. Petersburg. It instructed 'the marshal to send some of the troops of the Polish army to Bessarabia without delay. A letter of the 13th inst., from the Polish frontier, says that there are only two regiments of Guards iu Warsaw ; the remainder of the Guards are in Lithuania. Be tween Pilica and the Prussian frontier -there are only a few detachments of infantry. The troops on the Gallician frontier were withdrawn from thence, there is no question, on strategical grounds. The correspondent concludes his letter by remark ing that it is the general opinion that Russia does not contemplate an offensive movement on Gallicia, but will be prepared for all events. The new levy, the third in the course of this year, will be con cluded by the end of next month. The Russian army contractors are ordered to have their supplies ready for delivery by the same time, but it is not known where these are to be delivered. " The contractors are paid in ready money." It is expected that the Czar will visit the army of the south, if not that of the Crimla. To the expected invasion of BessNabia the Rus sians, it is said, can oppose an effective array of 80,000. AUSTRIA. A letter of the 18th, in a Frankfort journal, says —" When Prince Gortschakoff received last' week a despatch from St. Petersburg, he went on the following day to Count Buol, and informed him that he was autherised to notify to him the text of the Russian despatch sent to Berlin, in reply to the last note from it. No me n ti on was ma d e i n thi s notification of the Russian ambassador of an ac ceptance of the four points. It was only said that no hesitation would be felt at entering into direct negotiation with the Cabinet of Vienna on them— that is to say that, in the first place, the Western, Powers should be excluded ; and that, in the se cond place, a negotiation should take place, not on the basis of the four points, but on the four points themselves. Prince Gortschakoff wished to make it be believed that Russia was disposed to make many sacrifices in favour of Austria, and appeared principally to have chosen the free navigation of the Danube to produce an effect on Count Buol. Since this conference there have not been any re lations between the Cabinet of Vienna and the Russian ambassador to lead to a belief that the efforts of Prince Gortschakoff to induce the Cabi net of Vienna to enter into negotiations have suc ceeded. In our governmental circles all the at tempts of Russia to renew negotiations are resisted with obstinacy, as they consider that the only ob ject of them would be to gain time, and to separate Germany from the Western Powers." MALTA. MALTA, Nov. 17. The Orinoco steamp-ship arrived from Constan tinople on the 11th, bound to England, having on board Lieutenant Newdigate of the Rifle brig ade, invalided from the army ; but the admiral suprin tended of Malta dockyard took it upon himself to order her to embark the ad Buffs, with which regiment, thanks to the activity of the naval esta blishment, she left for the Piraeus of Athens on the afternoon of the 12th, and from thence she will convey the 97th to the Crimea. The strength of the Buffs consists of Colonel Van Strubenzee, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Patterson, Captains Powaall, Ambrose, Ross, and Robson ; Lieutenants Alpin, Warburton, Coupniaker, Dunbar, Burning ham, Dennis, Wamman, and .Newton ; Quarter master Stillwell, Paymaster Syms, Surgeon Burke, Adjutant Sidebottom, and 581 non-commissioned officers and privates. Ensigns Ward, Baurell, and Doran, and 93 non-commissioned officers and pri iates of the 50th ; Ensigns Johnson and Trevor, with 160 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 55th ; and a private of the 57th, embarked also in the Orinoco to join their respective regiments in the Crimea. The Golden Fleece steam-ship arrived from Bala klava and Constantinople on the 16th, and the Emu steam-ship from the same ports on the 17th. The former brings General Torrens, Colonel Gam bier, R. A. ; Lieut.-Colonel Dalrymple, Scots Fusi lier Guards ; Captain Baring, Coldstream Guards ; Captain Fairclougb, of the 63d ; the Hon. Lieute nant Amherst, of the Coldstream Guards ;theptain Torrens, of the 23d ; Lord C. Fitzroy, of Cold stream Guards ; Captain Morant, Captain Storer, and Lieutenant Cator, of the 68th—all wounded — on their way to England. Lord Euston also came in the same steamer. General Torrens was carried up in a litter to the governor's palace, and will, it is hoped, be sufficiently strong (accompanied by his son) to be embarked in the Indus, for Southampton, about the 23d. Lieutenant Cater was carried into the Naval Hospital, as being nearest at hand to the steamer, as it was feared that amputation of the arm above the elbow must necessarily take place ; but at a consultation of surgeons held yesterday it was thought that the limb may be saved. None of the others wounded are in any immediate danger. The Emu brings . Major-General Bentinck, Major Heylaid, 95th ; Lieutenant o°o l Capt. Watson, 7th ; Lieutenant Harrison, 79th ; Capt. Bruce, 23d ; Lieutenant Henning, 88th ; Lieut. Currie, 6th Dragoons ; Dr. Gordon, 95th ; Surgeon Park and Quartermaster Bilham, 20th ; Lieut.- Colonel Saund ers , 19 t h ; Dr. Skelton, Guards ; Lieut. Lut, 20th; Lieut. King, 13th Dragoons ; Honourable Lieutenant Crofton, 7th ; Lieutenant Sirie, 33d; Lieut enan t Spratt, 93d ; Veterinary Surgeon Green, and Lieutenant Morrison 19th ; Lieutenant Carpenter 7th ; Dr. Manifold, of the Staff ; with 120 wounded non-commissioned officers and privates, and the widow of C o l one l C arpen t er, who died of his wounds at Constantinople. The Golden Fleece was engaged all last night in receiving on board a number of mortars and ord nance stores, and will this day embark the 9th, with which regiment she will proceed this afternoon to the Crimea. The 24th are under orders to be in readiness to follow, which will leave in this gar rison only the Malta• Fencibles. It is rumoured that the Maltese police force are to mount guard at the town gates. The Emu leaves this afternoon for Marseilles, to embark French troops for the Crimea. The Caire, French postal steamer, arrived on the 16th from Marseilles, and left on the same day for Constantinople, having on board Captain Surrey, Lieut. Hinde Purcell, Colonel Ridley, and Lieu tenant Boudie, of the English army ; and 147 offi cers and non-commissioned officers of the French army. The Wrangler, steam gun-boat, from Plymouth and Lisbon, has just arrived, and leaves this even ing for the Crimea. FRAN CE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Emperor yesterday received a letter from the Duke of Nassau, notifying to his Majesty the birth of a prince, his son. The Moniteur publishes the following report made to the Emperor from the Minister of War, dated the 22d : " Sire,—Since the landing of our troops in the Crimea numerous vacancies have taken place in the body of offi cers of the army of the East, for which it bas not been possible to provide except in a very incomplete manner. In consequence of the distance we are from the theatre of war, and the difficulties and uncertainty which result from our means of communication being exclusively maritime, the Minister of War cannot, in fact,. be informed of the vacancies, and receive propo- sitions for filling them up until after a long delay, which is still further increased by the time necessarily required for the nominatiois to be made, and for the officers ap pointed to reach their destination. Vacancies so long un filled, which even at home, and in a tinte of peace, would be attended with inconveniences for the service, present, par ticularly as regards the inferior grades, real dangers when an army is in presence of the enemy. The law has pro vided for this circumstance, and has afforded the means of remedying the inconvenience under extraordinary circumstances by leaving to the Sovereign the power of delegating to the Commander-in-Chief of an army in the field the power cf making provisional appointments to vacancies which may occur. I have, in consequence, the honour to submit to your Majesty a draft of a decree which will confer on General Canrobert the right of ap • pointing provisionally to ♦acancies occurring in the army of the East up to the rank of chef de battaillon or chef d'escadron inclusively. VAILL&NT." This report is followed by a decree of the Emperor, carrying out the recommendations of the Minis ter, but stating that the nominations so made will not be definitive until they have been sub mitted to the imperial sanction. Officers, however, so appointed will take rank from the day of their provisional nomination. BOURSE, YESTERDAY.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 41 per Cents 93 50 93f. 50c. 3 per Cents 7O -- 70 5 Credit Mobilier 665 Roman Credit Foncier — Austrian Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes 37 Piedmontese B4 25 Home Debt 332 .RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans 1,130 Lyons .......... .. , ... 055 Western... 620 Rouen 920 Cette — Strasburg Mediterranean B2O Havre 512 50 Northern SPAIN . The Madrid journals of the 19th, due yesterday, have arrived, as has also the Gazette of the 20th, the only one which appeared on that day, which was Monday. On the 19th, the Queen held a grand reception for kissing hands, on the occasion of her fete-day ; it was attended by more than 500 officers of the national guard. Her Majesty in the evening gave a grand banquet. The Queen wished to cause the Duke de la Victoria (Espartero) to sit at her right hand ; but the Minister of Foreign Affairs remarked that, according to diplomatic usage, the place belonged to the ambassador of Frrnce ; and, accordingly, General Espartero re signed it to M. Turgot with the greatest courtesy. THE BALTIC 'FLEET. KIEL, HOLSTEIN, Nov. 20. Since the departure from Nargen of the principal portion of the Baltic fleet several merchant vessels, freighted with cargoes for the Russian market, have endeavoured to escape the vigilance of the steam squadron cruising in the Gulf of Finland. Some have succeeded in getting into port, while many have been captured, and on their being adjudicated as legal prizes the proceeds arising from their sale will be shared solely by the ships under Captain R. B. Watson, in command) he steam-frigate Imperieuse. • The existing regulations relative to the distribu tion of prize-money are not satisfactory to those serving on board the large ships of the fleet. Al though not actually present at or taking any part in the seizure of vessels consigned to the ports of Rusia, they feel that some portion of the proceeds accruing therefrom should be assigned to them, or an equivalent in the shape of a public grant of money be made to them,—and for this reason, that during the present campaign the operations of the fleet have been chiefly limited to the blockade of the enemy's ports. If the smaller ships had been attached as tenders to the larger ones, the latter would have shared equally with the former, although not present at the capture of any prize vessels. The present system of awarding prize money requires revision, and it is to be hoped that the Admiralty will direct their early attention to the subject. Since my despatch of the 17th instant there is but little to report as regards the movement s of the fleet. The Basilisk paddle steam-sloop, Captain the Hon. F. Egerton, left yesterday for the Gulf of Finland, to reinforce the flying squadron under the orders of Captain R. B. Watson. The Magicienne, 16, Captain Thoma s Fisher, and Vulture, 6, .Captain F. H. Glasse, arrived to-day from the northward. The former brine-8 intelligence of a serious collision between the 'Euryalus and the Imperieuse, which occur- red during a violent snowstorm. The Euryalus ran into the Imperieuse, whereby the mainchains of the latter were cut away, and other damages caused to the hull. The bowsprit of the Eurya lus was carried away, and also her figure-head, which dropped on the quarterdeck of the Impe rieuse. Both ships have been able to repair the injuries they have sustained Without going into port. The Board of Admiralty, desirous of effecting everything that is possible to improve the condi tion of the subordinate and warrant officers, the petty officers, and seamen, &c., serving in her Majesty's navy, have issued new rules and regu lations relative to the periods at which the pay ments of their wages shall be made. On and after the Ist 'of January, 1855, gunners, boatswains, carpenters, unpassed clerks, midshipmen, masters' assistants, clerks' assistants, and naval cadets are to be allowed to draw bills at the termination of each quarter for the amount of pay due to them, in a similar manner to commissioned officers. The subordinate and warrant officers are also, when first joining ships to which they may be appointed for foreign service, to be paid in advance, in ac cordance, if they require it, with the following scale : Unpassed Clerk Midshipman Master's Assistant Clerk's Assistant Naval Cadet Gunners, boatswains, and carpen ters, (Ist class) Ditto, ditto (2d class) lB 5 0 Ditto, ditto (3d class) The permission hitherto granted to these officers, of allotting or remitting any part of their pay, ac cording to the rules and regulations previously ex isting, will not in future be allowed. The advance is to be paid by the paymaster of the ship at the earliest possible period after the officer has joined, with the sanction and in the presence of the captain or commanding officer, for the purpose of enabling the officer to provide his necessary outfit, and make his private arrange ments before the ship to which he belongs shall proceed to sea. £ll 0 0 .. 5 10 0 .. 8 0 0 ._ 6 5 0 .. 3 0 0 With reference to the payment of the petty officers and seamen, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued directions that the wages due to them hereafter will, as occasion may require, he paid to them at any time and place by any naval accountant officer (paymasters of ships included), according as their Lordships may think fit. In all cases of these payments being directed to be made at a port having an Admiralty esta blishment with a superintendent, they are to be made in the presence of and under the control of awl; superintendent. Lie seamen are alou to be permitted to remit the whole or any portion of the balance of wages due to them to their wives and families or relatives. Subordinate officers, when promoted to the rank of commissioned officers, as also petty officers pro moted to the rank of warrant officers, are no longer to be allowed as heretofore to transfer their pay tickets by endorsement. In future the wages due lo them on promotion are to be paid by the pay master of the ship, if desired, up to the time of their promotion, or the promotion tickets may be sent to the Board of Admiralty, who will cause the amount to be paid in the customary manner ; but hereafter payment will not be made to any person in whose favour such promotion ticket shall be en dorsed. Men or boys discharged out of the service abroad are to receive froni the paymaster of the ship from which they are discharged the amount of wages duo to them at the time. According to the present rules of the service, seamen and boys when discharged out of one ship into another on foreign service, are not allowed to receive the balance of wages due to them, unless the ships to which they belong are ordered home, and the men volunteer to remain abroad. Here after this privilege is to be extended to all men and boys serving on a foreign station wjio may be dis charged from one ship to another, provided they have served two years in the ship from which they are discharged, whether or not such ship be or dered home. THE CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNMENT IN REGARD TO THE WAR. (From the Press of this day.) A. 'victory, more remarkable, perhaps, than anything in the annals of war since Agincourt, been gained by the sheer and splendid valour of troops who had 60,000 of the enemy before them and a Coalition Min istry behind them. Despite both obstacles Inkermaz was won. There is little fear lest the glorious deeds of the sth of November should lack record and eulogium. The na tion has burst out with one exulting acclamation at the tidings transmitted by our Field-Marshal. Not an inci dient of that day, from the church bells sounding out in the darkness of the morning to the final retreat of the routed enemy at the dusk of evening, will ever be for gotten where the English history is read. And the journalist, who perceives a more imperative duty than the gratifying one of dilating upon the heroic actions of our soldiery, has at least the satisfaction of knowing that there is no chance of their glorious valour and un hesitating self-devotion going unrecognised. Unhappy England ! that the very glory of her soldiers is the shame of her statesmen. Unhappy, that in every one of the facts which make the ♦ictory a marvel and a miracle, is a damning charge against those who sent forth the expedition. The army was miserably scant to contend against the enormous force of the enemy—it did contend in the face of those fearful odds, and vanquished —hence its glory. But why were its numbers so few Such a fight would have been impossible had Sebastopol been previously assaulted ; and the day of assault had bee■ again and again named, but, unable to complete their preparations, the besiegers allowed time to pass, the Russians came up, and this dreadful battle was fought. Why was the army unable to complete its preparations ? Why, but because its resources were, by the criminal negligence of the Government, inade quate to its work. At no time was our arms• rnent at all proportioned to the task set before it. Ere disease had thinned the ranks, and ere , a. single Russian shot had been fired, the army wa% —as every' military man knew—far too small for the reduction of Sebastopol ; and yet, after thousandi, had rotted and died while Lord Aberdeen was cackling ever "negotiation," and after the slaughter of the Alien , and of Balaklava, the Ministerial organs received orders to pretend to expect the fall of the great stronghold.' The sadden shrieking and shouting for reinforcements is a cry of the very latest date—it was net set up ult 4 .-." men, incensed at the fearful and wicked waste of life in : the Crimea, and indignant at the cowardly terror of ..the`, Administration to face Parliament, began to speAk, of holding their owe meetings, and of considering far themselves the conduct of the war. The first of such assemblies would have sounded the Coalition knell ; and the cry for reinforcements was made, we admit, with all the fervour and frankness of imbecile despair. Despite all that had been done to insure failure and ruin, the little Crimean army has triumphed. Our best blood has been poured out like water, a carnage which, had it been necessary, would have been dreadful, but which, seeing that it might have been spared, is utterly hideous, has been in part announced; and there is other sorrow on its way. Scarcely a family of rank but is already in mourning. Our brave soldiers, slaughtered by the thousand, find nameless graves in the Crimean valleys. And yet the glorious little hand holds its own against all comers. How long it may be able to do so is a question too grave for discussion. A coun cil of war has decided that the army is to winter in tlet Crimea, from which resolution it is evident that no im mediate effort was contemplated. Sebastopol is to be taken at our leisure. It is most probable, therefore, that our skilful generals will be able, Heaven only knows at what price, to secure and maintain a position which may defy the onslaughts of the enemy. Let us trust that such may be the case. Had the Government at home made up its own mind as to the plan of operations, or made itself adequately acquainted with the nature of the task which was so glibly prescribed to our soldiers, not even a Ministry like Lord Aberdeen's would have sent out a• miserably insufficient a❑ army. A powerful force, with a defined object, would have at once proceeded to its work, and it is not much to say, that in the presence of such an arms as ought to have been despatched to the Crimea, ouch attempts as those of Menschikoff and Liprandi would have been military impossibilities. But, boasting as seemed the Prince's phrase, when he announced that he would " cast our forces into the sea," it was really no such absurd vaunt when the relative numbers of his own forces and ours are contrasted. The grand attack on the sth was an attempt to fulfil this pledge, and if one man is matched against six—and these are the terms on which the Coalition has pitted out forces against the Russians—the six can hardly be charged with boasting in whatever way they may under.. take to deal with the one. But those who expected the Coalition to manage the war boldly and practically manifested a sanguiness in which we must avow that we were unable to participate. We showed at the very outset that the war, begun at the wrong time, was also begun in the wrong manner. Now, wrong seldom comes right, and the whole cam paign has been a series of misfortunes, illuminated at in tervals by the splendid valour of those wantonly exposed to such trials. It is almost useless, except in refutation of arrogant self-laudation, to refer to the past conduct of the war. But now that our army is finally consigned to the inhospitable and iron-bound Crimea for a terrible winter —now, at the end of November, the Government is taking thought for the need of our soldiers, and "orders are given" for the preparation of winter clothing, which will doubtless be made, in time, and at some later time will be shipped, for the long voyag e to the Black Sea. Wooden b a rr ac k s are even t a lk e d about, and a yell good suggestion that holes should be dug in the grounds and that our soldiers should become Troglodytes during the winter, has been received with favour. In the meantime, our soldiers, under the watchful eye of * practical Government, are shivering in the Euxine breezes, starvin:g with miserable rations, and sick ening in presence of medical assistance of so limited a character that it is little more than a erne mockery. May Heaven preserve the brave fellows who have withstood the Russians, but who have yet to withstand the Coalition ! This is no time to mince words, or to seek for emascu lated paraphrase in place of honest English. The nation knows that the army has been abominably treated, and that its condition at this moment is one of peril and suf fering. Public indignation demands that every exertion be instantly made for the succour and solace of the troops now sentenced to a Crimean winter. Hands, hearts, purses are all open if the Government will do its duty. There is nothing which the nation will refuse to the Ad ministration—except confidence. THE FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS. We read in the Sentinelle Toulonnaise, of the 21st inst.:— " The arrivals of vessels, coming from the Atlantic ports and from the Levant, succeed each other without interruption, and impart to our magnificent roadsted an extraordinary animation, which reminds lie of the formidable preparations made last March, whin our fleet was about to convey to Constantinople the first con voy of those valiant soldiers who were leaving France to defend right and justice against the pretensions of Russia. We are hourly expecting several English steamers and a great number of French vessels, for the conveyance to the East of the new divisions, now concentrating at Toulon, a portion of which are already quartered in the neighbouring villages. Yesterday, a battalion of the 10th Regiment of Light Infantry marched through the town to La 'Palette,' where it is to remain until it receives orders to embark. Two companies of engineers and a mounted battery of artillery, with all its materiel, arrived yesterday morning, and were billeted on the inhabitants. Measures are taken for the speedy embarkation of all the troops, and we have now is the reads a sufficient number of vessels to carry in , one voyage 10,000 men to the seat of war. A de tachment of the 14th Battery of the 4th Regiment of Artillery, in garrison at Toulon, will proceed to morrow to Cuges, to receive a considerable materiel of Artillery, which is on its way to Toulon, to be embarked before the close of the month. Two detachments of the 10th and 25th Regiment s of Light Infantry, forming an effective force of 560 men, are to be cantoned partly at 011ioules and partly at Toulon, to be ready at a moment's notice to take passage on board one of the ships of war, for Algeria. The operatives in the maritime arse nal worked yesterday (Sunday) until neon, and during the week many are kept employed until seven o'clock p The greatest activity prevails in our arsenals. Th e 2d battalion of the 57th, 550 men strong, arrived. to-day at Toulon, and is to be cantoned in the vicinity. With the Ist battalion of that regiment, expected to morrow, and the 10th Light infantry' now here, sc e shall have a complete brigade, which can be emb ark ed in 24 hours. The Milan steamer, which only arrived a few days ago from Brest, has already left for the East. The frigate Vengeance weighed anchor this afte rnoo % for the same destination. Both had troops on boar, cl . 4 We have now in port, ready to sail with reinforcemenb* the ship of the line St. Louis, which arrived yesterday ' and four frigates, the Calypso, Zenobie, Constit utios ; and Androtnaque. Those vessels will sail in a few d a i wi th the troop quartered in On ueighbourheod.','