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

NEW POLITICAL WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE RIGHT HON. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, 31. P., A LITERARY AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY." Immediately will be published, in 1 vol. Svo., RTY YEARS of FOREIGN POLICY ; 1. or, a History of the Secretaryships of the Earl of Aberdeen and Viscount Palmerston. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. THEATRE-ROYAb, DRURY-AV, 51. JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS. (von ONE MONTH ONLY.) The Programme is changed Every Evening. tc hi „ PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING (Saturday, Nov. li) " Zampa"^....... • • PART I. Herald. Quadrille, front Ross pera, "Le Comte Orr' Jullien. S ymphony, the Larghetto, from the" Symphonyin D" Beethoven. 7 1.01ka. " Katty Did " Solo, flute, Variations Brilliante on Sig. Taglisfico's Romanza, " Del 'Ambits.," performed by Herr Frisch Valse, " Valse D'Adieu," with solo for cornet-a piston, by Herr Koenig... ........ Jullien.", Duo Concertante, Violin and Violoncello, perform • ed by Messrs. Viotti and George Collins ........ Bottesinl. Quadrille, " The British Army," assisted by the military bands . ..... .... •••• • • • " God save the Queen." -...-., .... Jullien. Partant pour la Syrie, PART IL Grand Operatic Selection and Fantas ia, fr om Meyer beer's Opera, " Roberto il Dtavolo," arranged expressly by M. Jullien, with Solos by M. Bau mann, M. Lavigne, M. Wuille, tutd Mr. Trust •. • 3feyerbeer. Schottische, " The Moldavian Schottische" j u w en. Symphony, the " Allegro Vivace," from the sym phony in A minor •••• • • • • •• • Solo, Trumpet, performed by M. Duliem. Duhem. Quadrille. " The American Quadrille"— ...... j uff i en. Solo, Violin, " Valse Diabolique," performed by Signor Robbio Galop, " The Atlantic" The Concerts on each evening will commence at Eight and termi nate at Eleven o'clock. Patois or Antassiow.—Promenade, boxes, and galleries, ls. I dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes 11. ls. and 11. I Is. 6d. M. JULLIEN'S GRAND BAL MASQUE will take place on MONDAY, Dec. 11. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Nov. 11, Will be performed the comedy of PAUL PRY. Principal cha racters by Mr. Wright, M r . Chi ppen d a l e , M r . W. Ferrer', Mrs.Poynter, and Miss E. Chaplin. To which will be added THE SPANISH DANCERS. To be followed by THE IRISH POST. Principal character by fr. Iludeon. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CaW.O 10sAX. THIS EVENING. Nov. 11, Will be performed the highly popular comedietta, entitled LIVING TOO FAST. Will be performed YOM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal c haracters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart ; Misses Mur ray, and Heath. After which will be presented a new Melo-dramatic Spectacle, in three acts, entitled SC HAMYL, the Warrior Prophet. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Diredtress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Nov. 11, Will be performed THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Characters by Messrs. C. Selby, Leigh Murray, and Keeley ; Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. Followed by BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS. To conclude witk MEPHISTOPHELES. To conclade with THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEtTRS. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Nov. 11, Will be performed THE TauTrzz. Charactors by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Vining, Emery, sad Leslie; Miss Kaska!, and Miss Stephens. To be followed by a Farce, called A BLIGHTED BEING, in which Mr. Robson will appear. To conclude with THE LOTTERY TICKET. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Conks. _ . The excitement of the Great Exhibition of 1851 equalled, and success beyond all precedent! THIS ET ENING, The Astonishingly Successful MILITARY SPECTACLE, in Two Acts, by J. H. DTOCAUELLER, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA! Atter which, novel SCENES in the CIRCLE, or JETT' BETE PHALIQUES. To conclude with a PIECE DE CIRCONSTANCE. N.B.—An early attendance is respectfully suggested, in consequence of the numbers who nightly throng the doors of the Theatre. Box-office open front Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Eqitestrian Director, Mr. Wm. Cooke, Jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DST —Morning 27 minalter 5 I Evening 47 =lima. 5 To Moscow-Mornin g 12 mi n .after 6 1 Evening 38 min.eit. 6 THE WICATHRIL--Sva Ontcs, Nov. 11. Tainixounnt, IN TEX SaADI. 51—highest since noon yesterday. 46—lowest this morning and during the night. 50—this day at noon. BA.ROMICTEB, 30.18—rising. WiND, N.N.W. to N.W.—Light, with dull, cold, damp Weather. It rained in the night. THE "COMING" CAPTURE SEBASTOPOL WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AN EXTRAORDINARY EDITION "THE SUN" THE MOMENT THE EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE IS ISSUED, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. Orders received by all News Agents, and at " THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, Strand, London. ~~ ~. `~ __~ ;40) _l4 ~~.0 LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 18M. We have two, or rather three, distinct and very conflicting accounts of the attack by the Russian troops under General LIPRANDI on the position of the Allies near Balaklava. A fourth, which in this country would be received as decisive, is, however, wanting. General CANROBERT has spoken ; but Lord RAGLAN is silent. Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE has transmitted the in formation " gathered " by an anonymous captain of an English steam-transport " from several per sons who we're eye-witnesses of what took place ;" but the Noble diplomatist has not sent any account of a strictly official character, on which im plicit reliance might be placed. H e has Ut best acted on mere hearsay evidence, which, under the circumstances, he was not merely justi fied in sending, but imperatively bound to trans. mit without the loss of a single hour. But he Was li'aewise bound to give, at the earliest mo ment, such supplementary intelligeice as would h ave confirmed, or in any wise contradicted or 1110 01fied, the former statement. He must have knc Jwn that it did not rest on satisfactory grounds, sl id th a t t h e people of England woul d i mpa ti en tly . 0 wait the further tidings. He must have received the necessary information. The French mail atearner h has arrive:t hi at left th e B osp h orus on t h e 30th Marseilles. The Minister of War Paris has re ceived a despatch to the 28th instant, from the French Commander-in- Chief in the Crimea. Lord STRATFORD must have had the means of obtaining full and authen tic accounts of a ll t h e particulars important days, th e 25 t h respecting these , 2@th, and 27th • but he has not condescended to transmit any information On the subject. Thus, then, the matter stands. Lord R AGLAN bas Lot taken the slightest notice of 41.6 transac- ti OIL General CANROBERT pooh-poohs it, a ?natter of but trivial crnsequuuce, which could not I.)e dignified with the name of a "serious engage ment." Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE an nounces a very severe conflict that might have led S lex 1 lE6* dip dangerous results, had it not been and determined bravery of the Al- Ofj`e*Liefes.C l \He also speaks of three regiments of ), 444 :14(tikdeavalry having "suffered immensely 4,44nen01y occasion. But all this is but on %Mt T.Va' SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER H. 1864. hearsay and vague rumour, while Prince MENsCHI KOFF narrates the details with a particularity that entitles him to a certain degree of credence, more especially as he has been, on several former oc casions, proved to have been tolerably accurate as to the main features of the different events. There are also a variety of other rumours, but for the present we shall only look to those which may be regarded as official. It is apparently impossible to reconcile the de spatches of General CANROBERT and Prince MENSCHIBOFF. These come from persons on the spot, who had abundant means of ascertaining the facts, and who were bound to tell, not merely the truth, but the whole truth. In a case of such gravity the suppressio Teri would be just as bad as the suggestio falsi ; and concealment, with the manifest intention of deceiving the people, and inducing them to arrive at errone ous conclusions, would be just as bad as the pro mulgation of a wilful and deliberate falsehood. Now we cannot for a moment suppose that Gene ral CA,I4iILOBERT would be guilty of such mendacity. He has displayed too many high and sterling qualities to induce us to credit on anything short of the most decisive and unequivocal testimony a charge so serious. We are bound to give him credit for candour and honour ; and the claim is the more urgent, inasmuch as he has never yet attempted to varnish matters, or to depict the ex isting state of affairs too much coleur de rose. We yesterday gave the despatch of the French General, but as so much may depend on the ipsissima verba, we here repeat it. It is of the fol lowing tenour " The siege works continue. On the 25th the Russian army showed itself on the plains of Bala klava ; there had been no serious engagement, but the English cavalry had sustained some loss, owing to a charge pushed too far against the enemy. On the 26th, 5,000 men of the garrison made a sortie against the left wing of the English. This attack was repulsed, and the enemy thrown back into the place with considerable loss." Now the attack of 30,000 men, or even of half the number, could not be spoken of in these terms—more especially if they had taken posses sesion of sundry redoubts, and held even two of them, from whence they could greatly annoy the lines of the Allied Forces, and.impede the commu nications with the base of operations from whence all the supplies of provision and ammunition should be drawn. Nor would a loss of 400 or 500 men in killed and wounded have been spoken of in such terms. To judge from the tone of the French General it was a mere Russian demonstra tion followed by a slight skirmish, which could not be termed a serious engagement, and which left no results worth speaking of. He also speaks of the sortie of the 26th as having been made by 5,000 of the garrison, and declares that it " was repulsed, and the enemy driven back with consi derable loss." Now Prince MENSCHIBOFF makes a regular pitched battle of the affair of the 25th, in which a most important triumph was achieved. He says: " Our offensive operations against the besiegers began to-day, and were crowned with success." This is a grandiloquent commencement, be speaking the Imperial attention to the sub sequent events. He narrates, in the tone of a victorious General, the arrangements made, and the brilliant manner in which they were carried into practical execution—how four redoubts, in which were captured eleven pieces of cannon, were still in their possession. (It will be recol lected that this despatch purports to have been written on the evening of the 25th.) He also declares that the principal redoubt of the enemy, which was defended by Turks, was carried by as sault by the Azoff Regiment of Infantry, and then adds, " The English Cavalry also opposed our de tachment, under the command of Lord CARDIGAN. It charged with extraordinary impetuosity the bri gade of Hussars of the 6th division of Cavalry, but, taken in flank by four squadrons of the com bined regiment of Lancers of the reserve, and thrown back on the cross fire of the guns of the 12th and 16th infantry divisions, which fired grape, the enemy suffered considerable loss. At the same moment that it attacked our Hussars the English cavalry also charged .at full gallop the heavy guns of the Don battery, No. 3, where some artillerymen were sabred." From this it will be found that MENSCIIIKOFF does not in any way allude to a conflict with the English infantry or the French troops. He would have it implied that there was such a contest, but does not expressly mention it. He also speaks of his own losses in the following manner :—" Our loss in infantry does not exceed 300 killed and wounded. The loss of the cavalry and artillery is notyet known, even by approximation." But when speaking of the English loss, only alludes to that of the English cavalry, which, it is believed, amounts to 500 men. From this statement we may readily conceive that the affair has been greatly mag nified, not only by the Russian General, but by the captain who gathered the accounts for Lord STRATFORD, and. that General CANROBERT is not so far wrong as might be imagined on the first cursory perusal of the other accounts. A view that is materially strengthened by the silence of Lord RAGLAN, who must have forwarded some communication if the affair were so serious as had been represented. We must, therefore, beg our friends not to be disheartened, or to suffer their spirits to be depressed by the gloomy ac counts in circulation, but hopefully and patiently to abide the result of the authentic intelligence, which cannot much longer be deferred. So, then, the boasted Austrian co-operation in the Principalities has c•me to this, security for Bessarabia against the Allies, the consequent liberation of reinforcements from that province to the Crimea, with the further consequence of harder work and heavier sacrifices for our troops before Sebastopol t Even the Times is now obliged to take up the very position occupied by Th e Sun from the hour that disgraceful move ment was encouraged by our Government, and lauded by our great compeer as the perfection of diploniacy. Even the Times now laments over the transference to the unfortunate provinces of "the same obtuse and unrelenting despotism as saddens the plains of Lombardy, or the marshes of Venice," and admits that Austria has attempted to act the sovereign where she came as an Ally. Probably, however, Austrian despotism might have passed unnoticed but for Austrian military villanies. What language of execration can suit the cool selfishness, and the base injury inflicted on the Allies by the following conduct ? Austria, through the infatu. Ited counsels of Eng land, is admitted by the SULT:AN into the provinces ; she enters only as fast as the SULTAN'S troops clear them for her ; she fires not a gun, draws not to congratulate the Allies on the victory and. " its consequences I" Austria will unblushingly :pro claim herself the bosom friend of the supposed omnipotent victors. Nor was that all. In an official paper, lauded to the skies by the Anglo- Austrian press—the same which is now compplled: to denounce her—she tells Prussia that she can not interfere with the operations of the Allies in the provinces they suffered her to enter. Of course not ; they did not admit her there to impede them. But mark the consist ency in baseness of this degraded Power. When she was entering the provinces the retreat ing Russians faced about a little, and the craven Generals of Austria halted immediately. It turned out after the congratulations that the Allies in stead of taking Sebastopol by a coup de main, at the North or South, have some long and hard work before them. Immediately Austria quakes before Russia, eats her words about not interfer ing with the Allies, and hinders OMER PACHA from making any movement on Bessarabia ! The movement is essential to the plans of the Allies ; the prevention of succour for Sebastopol depends greatly upon it ; yet she coolly alleges that it will embarrass her with Russia, if the latter should think it necessary for strategic reasons to re enter the provinces. The • brave congratulator on the Alma victory and its consequences, the bold respondent io Prussian demands, quivers like an aspen at the thought of Russian bayonets, and sends them to shed the blood of the Allies lest they should spill a drop of hers. Now, really, will our Cabinet, and that of LOMB NAPOLEON, endure such insufferable, such revolting assumption and meanness any longer ? Who and what are the perjured recreant Haps burgs that they should be parleyed with any longer ? What does any country in Europe owe to the last dregs of a long race of superstitious and cruel tyrants that they should be permitted thus to play fast and loose with all their en gagements, and with the very lives of our gallant soldiers? Unpardonable, indeed, was the blunder of substituting HESS for OMER PACHA at Bucha rest. But are France and England afraid of him there ? Let him not deceive himself. Let his master be informed—if a drop of English blood still flows in the veins of our aristocratic governors —that this game will be tolerated no longer ; that we mean to use the provinces as Turkish soil ; that we pin Austria to her original pro fessions, and to her language to Prussia, and that we would sooner see all Europe in flames—all Lombardy, Hungary, and Poland rising together —than permit one Russian soldier more in the Crimea, in consequence of her treachery and disloyalty. Is she, forsooth, to lie permitted to spare her tailor-made soldiers, the well drubbed survivors of Hungarian bravery, and the saved by Russian intervention in 1848 ; and are we to be so profuse of the lives of ours ? Why, if OMER PACHA is not to keep the Russians from the Crimea, why did not Austria advise him to go and fight them there while she took the benefit of his battles on the Danube ? If this last insult be endured by the Western Powers, however, let the ignominy be transferred . to the right backs. Let Austria have the repu tation of knowing but tee well the stuff we are made of, and bid us " hang a calf-skin on our re creant limbs"—she having worn It long enough. Are not Turkey and we iden tified ? Is not a restriction put on her move ments a restriction put upon ours ? And are we, then, to suppose that Lord RAGLAN and General CANROBERT would permit these feather bed Generals in white to bid them let Ismail alone if they were on the Danube and OALHIt PACHA. in the Crimea ? It is even known that Lord RAGLAN had urged the Turkish General to give the Rus sians ample work in Bessarabia, and therefore this Austrian insult is hardly less than a direct one. We will assume, however, that " timid counsels" cannot so prevail in our Cabinet as to respect Austrian cowardice at the cost of our soldiers' lives. We will believe rather that a special messenger is on the road to Vienna, Bucharest, and the Danube to inform Austria, her generals and the Turkish generals, that England will not tolerate such assumption, such perfidious and dastard selfish ness, one hour longer. If not, the time of Par liament's meeting is near at hand, and there aro Lords and Commons who will know how to vin dicate the respect due to ourselves and our Ally, and to make Europe aware that English Cabinets cannot sower before such a Government as Aus tria but at their peril. As to Austria herself— detested by her oppressed subjects, detested by Russia, detested by France and England—her ultimate fate is utter dismemberment, and con traction to her own little hereditary states. GUN-BOATS VERSUS THREE-DECKERS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. Six,—The power of a ship of war, whether she be under sail or steam, lies in the size and number of the gun she carries. As half her guns are on one aide, and half on the other, and as she can use the guns on one side only at a time, her real power is thereby reduced to half the number of her guns ; she must tack in order to bring the other half in action, and, while so doing, she is exposed, and comparatively defenceless. The ques tion, therefore, naturally arises whether 100 guns may not be more effectually employed than by placing them in one ship of such enormous dimensions and draught of water that it cannot approach a shore either to defend or attack it. A gun-boat carrying as heavy metal as a ship , of 100 guns is a one-gun ship of the line ; and 100 such boats would blow any 100-gun ship out of the water, as they would be able to bring the whole of their guns to bear at once. This appears to be a fair stateineat of the case be tween ships of war and gunboats ; but men, unfortu nately, are often led away by the apparent greatness, not by the justness of an idea. A number of other advantages might be enumerated in favour of gunboats over ships of war, such as the greatest facilities for constructing and repairing them, the possibility of rendering their bows almost shot-proof, and of thus protecting the whole of their crews, except the steersman from the enemy's fire—but I will not now dwell upon them. The cost is, comparatively, of no importance in a question where the real effective ness of our means of attack or defence by sea is con cerned. _ In a maritime State, such as that of Great Britain, the matter is of vital importance, and deserves the at tentive consideration of the Government.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Nov. 10. THE PAIXHANS MORTARS. W. C. When Belgium separated from Holland, in 1830, General Paixhaus, of the French artillery, was sent to assist the Belgians in the siege of Antwerp. In company with General Busen, he reconnoitred the citadel, and found it to be a place of extraordinary strength, Every point was well sheltered from the effects of shells, and there was moreover a big ditch, which could be filled with water from the sea. The French general proposed then to King L eopold to short en th e siege b y means o f a mor t ar , of Wh ich the shells would weigh 1,000 lbs., and contain each 100 lbs. of powder. This, it was thought, would with a few blows decide the struggle, and cut short the pains and miseries of a protracted siege. The proposal was be lieved to be inhuman, and it was not until after 50,000 atti ca yL n itoehngaetbi thellws a a st nd shells monster rmosutgehr h ad been brought out. a spent charcoalin vain ca st i u n p g o the in n a d e Nine shells were fired—huge flying mines—one of Twowlii dachbyus a rst ft i e n r the the a r r , s : t in shedelirchLds fired descended in Dutchthe eitasduerl: rendered. a sabre, loses not a soldier, it soldiers such cowards S ure ly, if such a mortar could be cast, and used with ought to be ca ll e d. Sh e ro/Anises to hold the pro these tremendous results i n 1830, t h e progress of science P and engineering should enable us i n 1854 to pro d uce vinces for the SULTAN, and insults all his superior thissuffer only individual mortar ? officers, civil and military. 'What the poor provin- Our indefatigable enemy is said to be even now actively come.thenT.he But vie_ e n gag ed i n s tr t e n d g t th e e o n i nugia that the a w l r e ea a d r y e t i o m pmreagknoaanotherabler - andtres s o g re f g a u il i e r d e a to st r r e o d n u g c e e r demonstration fes a in the Baltic next spring—the finest fleet Alma. was gain. ed, and it was cur- that ever sailed from our shores a tent at Vienna, as els( :where, that sti ll arojecti n le nr of the description description above more splendid "consequence a" had followed ; the poltroon sends straightwayto force mentioned neat Cronstadt this year—we shallcertainly and wouldbe found p an extremely useful auxiliary the French Emperor in the destruction of this important stronghold. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 10. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness, Lady Frances Bruce, Baroness (le Speth, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. N. and Lady Mary Hood, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Sir George Couper, Sir Charles Eastlake, Major-General Wylde, Lieutenant -Colonel Vyse, commanding officer Royal Horse Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards, commanding 18th Royal Irish, Colonel the Hon. Charles Maynard, commanding officer Essex Rifles, and Mr. Glover. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attend ance during dinner, and played the following pieces March, " Prince of Wales" Costa. Overture (on the theme " God save the Queen") Schnieder. Selection, " Diamans de la Couronne" Auber. Quick Step, composed for the birth-day of the Prince of Wales by the Duchess of Kent. Galop, " Prince of Wales" Seaman. The Queen's private band afterwards attended in the Castle, and performed the following selection : Overture " Der Fr e i sc h u t z " Weber. Solo, Violin, " Carnival de Venise" M. Sainten. Selection, "Robert le Diable" Meyerbeer. Le Panquet des Dawes Strauss. After dinner her Majesty had an evening party, to which were invited the Hon. Mrs. and Miss Phipps, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, and Lady and Miss Couper. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice, walked in the Home Park this morning. Prince Albert went out hunting, attended by Captain Du Plat. The Hon. Lucy Maria Kerr and the Hon. Mary Bul teel have succeeded the Hon. Mary Seymour and the Hon. Matilda Paget as Maids of Honour in Waiting. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing -street. It was attended by the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, Visconnt Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir William Molesworth, and Earl Granville. The Council sat nearly three hours. A deputation from the parish of St. Martin-in-the- Fields had an interview with the President of the Gene ral Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall, on the subject of the nuisance created by unloading offensive matter at the Adelphi Wharf. The deputation con sisted of Mr. Cobbett, Chairman of the Board of Guar dians ; Mr. W. H. Dalton, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Guardians ; and Messrs. Barton and Clemence, guardians, accompanied by Messrs. Latter, Coll, New all, Elder, Laing, J. Allen, Green, and Hill, inhabitants of Adelphi-terrace ; and also by Dr. Cross J. Leonard, district surgeon, and Mr. C. Griffiths, clerk to the Board of Guardians. Sir George Grey arrived in town on Thursday evening from his seat, Falloden, Northumberland, and attended the Cabinet Council yesterday. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury has recently accepted the office of President of the Weekly Tract Society. The Hon. Edward Erskine has left town, to resume his duties as Secretary of Legation at the Court of Turin. Count de Goha left Berlin on the 4th for his post as Prussian Ambassador at Athens. It is said that lie is charged expressly with the task of doing all he can to maintain a good accord between the Western Powers and the Greek Government. The Baron de Geer, who for a long period has filled the office of Secretary of the Swedish Legation at the Court of St. James's, is about to leave London for the Hague, having been appointed, provisionally, Chargd de Affaires at the Court of the Netherlands. The baron will be succeeded as Secretary of Legation in this country by Baroa de Wrede, whose arrival front Sweden is shortly expected. The Duke of Portland, wilehi staying in compara tive retirement at Welbeck Abbey, Notts, has improved in health. Mr. Evelyan and Lady Charlotte Denison have been visiting his grace during the past week. The Marquis of Salisbury, who came to town to be present at the grand civic barqunt, returned to Hatfield House yesterday. _ The Earl and Countess Craven and family leave Combe Abbey, near Coventry, on Monday next, for Brighton, for the winter. The Earl and Countess of Durham, who have been visiting their noble relatives, the Earl and Countess of Elgin, at Broom Hall, Fifeshire, have arrived at Lamb ton Castle, Stockton-upon-Tees, for the winter. The Countess of Jersey has returned to Middleton park, Oxfordshire, from town. The Hon. Captain and Lady Elizabeth Villiers are staying at Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, where they are entertaining a select circle. The Earl of Chesterfield is entertaining a party of sporting noblemen and gentlemen with the sports of the field, at Gedling Lodge, Notts. Lord Stanhope is doing duty with his regiment, the Royal Horse Guardr(Blue), at Windsor. The Dean of Waterford and Miss Hoare have ar rived in town from England, en route to Waterford. Sir Thomas Fethersten, Bart., is appointed to the commission of the peace for Wexford, on the recommen dation of Lord Carew, lieutenant of the county. Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., M.P., has for some days past been on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Hogg, of Castle-street, Lisburn. About 40 years ago Mr. Hogg, then a very young man, left that town for India, and shortly after his arrival in Calcutta was promoted to one of the most lucrative situations connected with the Supreme Court. On his retur❑ home he settled in Lon don, where the high position he had held in the East gave him great influence with the lords of Leadenhall street ; and no long► term elapsed until he found himself a director of that far-famed congregation of merchants— the East India Company. Sir J. W. Hogg, though up wards of 60 years of age, is still a very fine, stout-look ing man. His venerable parent, we understand, has leached her 90th year.—Belfast Mercu►•y. It is said that intimation has been given to the fol lowing gentlemen that the office of deputy-lieutenant of the city of Cork will be conferred upon them :—the Mayor, W. Fagan, M.P., F. B. Beamish, M.P., A. J. Wood, and T. Tobin, Esqs. DEATH OF GEORGE STUDDERT, iS with much regret we (Saunders's News Letter) have to an nounce the death of our valued fellow citizen and late magistrate for the city of Dublin, George Studdert, Esq., of Sackville•street. Mr. Studdert was 71 years of age, and while strength was spared him a very active mem ber of many public boards and charitable societies. He was descended of an ancient county Clare family, being brother to Thos. Studdert, Esq., D.L., Bunratty Castle, and of Admiral Studdert, Pella. HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.— As a funeral procession was proceeding to the church at Roystone on Thursday last, a hare, with the Ecclesfield pack of hounds close upon her, came at full speed dow n th e t own, an d poor puss was killed right in the midst of the mourners.— Doncaster Chronicle. THE CHOLERA. —LIVERPOOL, Nov. 10.—The cholera has disappeared from Liverpool. No new casas have been reported for up wards of a week, and there remains only one patient under treatment in the parish. APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the names of gentlemen who have passed th e i r exam i nation in the science and practice of medici ne , an d rece i ved certifi cates to practise, on Thursday, Novemb er 9 :—Benja mi RA.idcohlaprhdusosn'llGaffileni:ddeanie; Whitby, Yo r k s hi re ; Dal tonHanweil ; Henry Allnutt Dedd, North Stoke, Oxfordshire. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.—Several new and highly interesting . models have lately been added to Dr. Kahn's Anatomical Museum in the Haymarket, upon some of which a lecture was d e li vere d l ast n i g h t b y Dr. Sexton. The principal of them is a f u ll-l eng th fi g ure, which can be taken into very many pieces, the elaborate execution of which was the admiration of a numerous audience. NHTOlalillathNifsiiesEsll.—edl. 4 t l h S e ßO f Nol lo N w o i v n . g l Orders of 28th 1854.—The O B c oQ t a . ru , d d A e ßo c Af larieg Bahia and R io Janeiro "free from disease" " suspected of cholera," from 10th Ci fr t o h u S i e 2 p O t t . h ; O a c n t d ., daeletleari.einggthe order of 14th Aug. ; Malta, from 11th Oct., altering the order of 2d August ; Gibraltar, from 20th August, altering the order of 7th October. THE ASSYRIAN.—Another splendid clipper, built by Messrs. Walter Hood and Co., of Aberdeen, has just been added to the shipping of that pert. She is named the Assyrian, is the property of Mr. Alexander Nicol, and is expected to rank with the fastest on the passage between London and Australia. Another fine ship, the Walter Hood, of 1,100 tons, has made the passage from Sydney to London in 78 days ; and the Frances H en t y, built by the Messrs. Hall, the originators of this model, has come from Melbourne in 72 days, each carrying cargoes nearly double their tonnage measurement. ENCOUNTER WITH POACHERS.—Considerable alarm (says the Kent Herald) was created at Fredville-park, the seat of J. P. Plumptre, Esq., on Sat ur d ay morn ing last, shortly a fter three o'clock, by a serious encoun ter with a number of poachers. Several reports of guns were heard in the vicinity of the pheasant preserves, and the head gamekeeper, with his assistants, went to the spot to ascertain from whom they proceeded, when they found four po ac h ers . An attempt was immediately made either to capture them or drive them off the premises, when the poachers (all strangers) turned on the keepers with their guns and sticks, and subsequently succeeded in making their escape, leaving one of their gun s b e hi n d them. The h ea d ga mekeeper, besides receiving m any serious contusions, had his arm broken. Info rma ti on was quickly conve yed to the authorities, but no traces of the offenders have as yet been obtained. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The first session of the council for the current academical year was held on Saturday, the 4th inst. The Andrew's scholarships of 1001. and 601. were conferred respectively on Mr. Wil liam Britten Jones and Mr. Henry Mason Bompas. The Liston clinical gold medal, for surgical cases, was awarded to Mr. John Zacharish Lawrence. The Fel lowes' clinical medals, for medical cases, were obtained, the gold by Mr. Stephen Nesfield, the silver by Dr. Frederick G. Clarkson. The Signor Conte Arrivabene was appointed substitute, for the session, for the profes sor of Italian language and literature, Signor Gancliga, absent at present at Turin, in discharge of his duty as deputy for Trino to the Piedmontese Parliament. Thanks were returned to the Court of Directors of the East India Company for the presentation of valuable collec tions of books on Oriental literature, topography, &c., and a vote of thanks was passed to Mrs. Hume for the gift to the college of the full-length portrait, by Lucas, of Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., presented in August last to Mrs. Hume by a large number of Liberal members of the Legislature and other gentlemen, in testimony of the affection and regard entertained by them for Mr. Hume, and of their admiration of the energy, courage, and per severance with which during his long public career he had laboured for political improvements, and for the re moval of disabilities on account of religious differences. LATEST NEWS. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. The following despatch has been received from a correspondent at Marseilles, which had reached that port by the French post steamer which left Constantinople on the 30th ult : Your correspondent in the army before Sebas topol writes on the 28th that 607 light infantry were engaged in the affair of the 25th, awl that only 198 returned. Eight hundred cavalry were engaged, of whom only 200 returned, Nine officers were killed, 21 wounded, and 4 were missing. The 17th Lancers were almost destroyed. We require reinforcements. Another despatch from Constantinople, dated the 30th, says : On the 26th, 8,000 Russians made a sortie from Sebastopol, but were beaten by two divisions of English infantry. The Russians lost 700 in killed and wounded. " The English lost 1 offieer and 30 men." We have received the following from our cor respondent at Vienna, dated Friday morning ; "According to authentic advices of the 28th ult. from Balaklava, a council of war was held on the preceding day, when it was resolved not to attempt to storm Sebastopol until the effect of the siege guns had been fairly tried. " It is considered highly probable that a battle will be fought with the Russians under General Liprandi before Sebastopol is stormed. " The Russian reinforcements are estimated at 30,000 men." VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING. The following telegraphic despatch has been circulated in Vienna. It must be received with the greatest caution : " CZERNOWITZ, Nov. 9. " A most violent attack has been made 01 Sebastopol. " There was a conflagration in the town, which the garrison could not extinguish. " Prince Menschikoff had demanded an armis tice of 12 hours, which was refused." PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. A telegraph from Marseilles brings news from Sebastopol of the 28th. The trenches had been carried to 250 yards from the wall. The rifle firing bad been kept up as well as the fire of the artillery by moonlight. The new Lancaster guns are firing on the Rus sian fleets, which, however, is almost hidden. BERLIN, THURSDAY, Nov. 9. The following Russian despatch bas been re received here : " SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 3. " The operations of the besiegers continue without any visible result. " The English fire was slacker. " The damage done to the fortifications is in considerable, and is immediately repaired." THE BALAKLAVA AFFAIR. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2.—Yesterday was pub lished an extraordinary supplement of the Journal de St. Petersbourg, of which the following were the contents "H.M. the Emperor has just received the fol lowing report from A.D.C. Gene:ral Prince Men schikoff, under date of Oct. 13 (25). " Our offensive operations agaiiast the besiegers were commenced this day, and hale been crowned with success. " Lieutenant-General Liprandi had been ordered to attack with his division the special intrenched camp of the enemy which defend.% the road from Sebastopol to Balaklava. This morning that en terprise was executed by him in a brilliant manner. Four redoubts, in which we captured 11 pieces of artillery, are now in our hands. " The principal redoubt of the enemy, which was defended by Turks, was stormed by the Azoff regiment of foot, which valiantly performed this feat of arms under the personal col nmand of Major- General Semiakine, the commandf T of the brigade, and of the commander of the regiment, Colon e l Kriidener, who distinguished himsef in this a ff a i r . "The English cavalry also attacked our detach ment, commanded by Lord Cardigan. It charged the Hussar Brigade of the 6th cavalry division with extraordinary impetuosity, 'but, taken in flank by four squadrons of the combined regiments of Lancers of the reserve, and thrown back on the cross fire of the artillery of the 12th and 16th in-- fantry divisions, which fired grape, and on the fire of the Rifles of the Ist brigade of the same division, the enemy suffered considerable loss. " The Ist brigade of the 16th division, under the personal command of Major-Gel feral Jabokritsky, was thrown forward to prevent the outflanking of General Liprandi's division by the enemy. "At the same moment that. it attacked our Hussars, the English cavalry came at full gallop on the heavy guns of the Don Baaery, No. 3, and sabred some artillerymen. " Our loss in infantry in this nifair does not ex ceed, according to appearances (a ce qu'il semble), 300 men in killed and wounded. "The loss of our cavalry and infantry is not yet known, even approximately. " Major-General Khaletsky, commanding the Hussar regiment of H.I.H. Prince Nicholas Maxi milianovitch, received sabre wounds on the ear and the arm. "It is difficult to determine exactly the loss of the enemy. "We have made prisoners of about 60 of the English, one of whom is a superior officer, and two subalterns. "Of the four redoubts taken from the enemy, two will be to-night destroyed, and two more strongly fortified, in order to enable us to hold this important position, from which we can act on the village of Kadykoi, through which the road passes that leads from Balaklava to the enemy's camp. " To-day the artillery on the ramparts of Sebas topol has been in no respect inferior to the batteries of the besiegers, but the bombs and incendiary projectiles of the latter have burn.t some 40 cottages or mazankas in the suburb of thta artillerymen. " This ,preliminary report and the information collected by me on the spot will be conveyed to your Imperial Majesty by my aide-de-camp, Baron Willebrandt, who was near Lieutenant-General Liprandi. " I have the honour, in conclusion, to acquaint your Imperial Majesty that I have permitted my self to thank in your name on the field of battle all the troops, who fought with distinction on this day." * It is thought, however, that the English cavalry lost as many as 500 men. THE CRIMEA. PRINCE MENSCHIKOFF'S DAILY LOSS. A letter in the Augsburg Allgemeine, from the Polish frontier, dated the 3d inst., gives the total force at Prince Menschikoff's disposal at 62 bat talions, of 700 men each, with 144 field-pieces, but it does not include the 10th and 11th divisions of Dannenberg's (4th) corps, which were expected to reach Bakchi Sarai about the 3d or 4th inst. The loss of the garrison, daily put hors de combat by shot and sickness, is estimated at about 500—indeed, Prince Menschikoff estimates his loss to average nearly 300 killed and wounded. The bombardment had lasted 14 days, according to the despatch of the Ist from Sebastopol, so that there can be no exaggeration in setting down the total number of men put hors de combat, or unfit for duty, at 8,000. The greatest loss has been in artillerymen, who have bravely done their duty. This loss is the most sensibly felt, and is in some measure irreparable. INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE. • EXPLOSION OF THE REDAN BATTERY. Until twenty minutes after two o'clock, the French batteries directed their fire on this work, when, unfor tunately, the Russians projected a shell so truly into . their battery, th a t, f a lli ng i n t o o ne of their tumbrils situated in the middle of their reserve ammunition, it exploded, causing, of course, a fearful loss of artillery men. A few minutes afterwards—that is, about half past two—another shell was directed towards the same spot with similar unfortunate results. The Russian bat teries having it now all their own way, hammered unre mittingly upon us with the greatest vivacity. They had sent forth from their ramparts loud shouts of defiance or of victory when the explosion of the French and English magazines acquainted them of our misfortune ; but it was now our turn to crow, for about half-past three there suddenly shot upwards from the works, or rather the Redan on our front, a white livid flame which ascended high into the air, and, while we all paused to gaze on the spectacle, a sound which made the very earth tremble beneath us, followed by a most awful report, told us that the Redan had ceased to exist —for in the next minute its garrison of hundreds, blown to atoms, dismembered, and mutilated by the action of the explosion, were discovered hundreds of yards above the parent earth. So fearful and terrifying a spectacle I never have, nor do I hope ever again. to witness. In the midst of a dense volume of smoke and sparks, which resembled a water-spout ascending to the clouds, were visible to the naked eye arms, legs, trunks, and heads of the Russian warriors, mingled with cannons, wheels, and every object of military warfare, and I may say with every living thing it contained. The explosions in the French and English batteries were like flashes in the pan of a musket compared with this. STRENGTH Of THE FORTRESS. It is now said we will have to storm the place after all. No one either here or in England had any idea of the strength of the place ; in fact, the place is almost beyond the power of man to take. Into no place, in so short a time, since the world began, have so many shot and shell been thrown. Haw many more, ere it is taken, God only knows. The batteries and outworks are all mined, and galvanic wires laid, so that we are to have a toss up if we beat them out. I have no doubt that this knowledge has led Lord Raglan to fire on the town, which was not done at first, and the de termination seems now to be to lay the whole place in ashes. What will be done with the other side when this is taken, I know not. HAZARDOUS AGRI. This is the sixth day of the bombardment, and a dreadful week it has been for us, for I will tell you what we have had to do. We have had to run all along the entrenchments with boxes of powder for the gunners, which is very dangerous work, for we have to run through all the fire, with shot and shell flying around us in countless numbers. In fact, you don't know for a moment but your head may be blown •ff your shoulders ; but I think God is protecting us, for we have lost but a very few men, considering the dread ful fire they had to stand. All we have lost is about sixty or seventy men; but they, poor fellows, have met with a hard fate, for some had their heads cut clean off, and others were cut clean in two. You must think, my dear father, what a 56-pounder would do if it hit you, and the shells of the enemy burst right over our heads ; but God has saved us so far. THE LATH CAPTAIN ItOWLET. The following is an extract of an official letter from the lamented Col. Hood, commanding the 3d battalion of Grenadier Guards (who was himself killed the day afterwards), to Colonel Wood, commanding the Grena dier Guards : " Camp before Sebastopol, Oct. 17. " lfy dear Wood,—lt grieves me much to have to re port the death of poor Rowley. He was killed on duty in the trenches yesterday morning about 9 o'clock. He 'was in advance of the trench, lying down. A shot struck the rock, bounded up at a very short angle, and fell upon him. He never spoke afterwards, and died about a quarter of an hour after the blow was given. "Staff-Surgeon Wilson was with him immediately. No medical assistance could have been of any avail. "He is to be buried this morning at 10." PROBABLE DURATION OF THE SIEGE. The siege goes on with unabated vigour on our side. This is now the sixth day of our cannonade, and the Russians certainly do not seem to give in, so far as I can see or hear. It is now almost gun for gun. How ever, those who ought to understand these things better than I do, say that the fire from the Russian batteries is not nearly so strong as it was, and all reports appear to say that they are losing heart. My opinion is that the place may ultimately fall, but not for some time. I would say the siege will last 21 days; the French allow it the same time, and they are pretty geed judges in these things, although as soldiers or sailers in real work we have nothing to learn from them. The first batteries, erected by the French, blew up two hours after they opened. This has delayed us at least a couple of days. It is quite a mistake to think Sebastopol will be like Bomarsund, for, with the exception of Gibraltar, it is the strongest place in the world, and the Russian artil lery as good as any. The work for our men is now very severe; they are always on duty 12 hours out of the 24, one day protecting the trenches, the next repair ing the damages, with shot and shell flying all around them. HORRORS OF 'WAR. How little the people at home know of the horrors of war. Were they to see a glimpse of what is going on here they would never grudge to pay for the means of bringing it to a close, and I believe the only means that will bring us peace is a much stronger army and a good navy, More troops must be sent out if this lasts, as our force is fast dwindling away with sickness, and we have now not. above 18,000 available men, the rest are either dead or gone to Constantinople ; but I believe that every man here from the highest to the lowest, will do his duty as long as his country requires him, and may Ged send us victory ! lhe sickness is diminished—cholera very much so—and although fever is very prevalent, it is as yet of a mild type. ADMIRAL DUNDAS. The British Commander-in-Chief conducted his ship into action in a seaman-like way, and remained close to the Russian batteries, until all his ammunition was ex pended, and then brought her off, notwithstanding the denseness of the smoke, and the presence of numerous shoals. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Bucharest, of the 30th, says that Sadik Pacha, with 12,000 men, occupied Ibraila and its environs, and Achmet Pacha was advancing from Kalarasch to Ibraila with 30,000 men. The recall of the Turkish commissioner in the princi palities (Dervish Pacha) is certain. From the Lower Danube the latest information shows that, whether from any change in Omer Pasha's military plans, brought about by Austrian influence, or by the necessity of detaching a portion of his forces to the Crimea, there is little probability of the Turks effecting any diversion in the Dobrud scha. Of Bessarabia, of course, we cannot speak as long as the Russians continue undisturbedly posted on the right bank of the Danube at Isaktcha and Tultscha. This quiescence of the Turks not only leaves the wished-for diversion in abeyance, but also closes the book on the whole chapter of many unforeseen accidents, which might have brought about a collision between the Austriansand Russians. THE WAR IN ASIA. The substance of a letter from Batoum, in the Lloyd, under date of the 20th ult., is as follows : The Russians were concentrating on the north east front of Anatolia, threatening the Turkish army, which, it is said, was anxious to engage the enemy, and it was considered that a battle must inevitably take place before long. Mustapha Pacha was drilling his troops and giving them daily exercise in firing "to accustom them to the roar of cannon." Ismail Pacha has joined his army at Kars. It is said that Mustapha Pacha proposes to advance with his troops along the coast of the Black Sea to Anapa—of course under the protection of ships of war—and has sent one of . his aides-de camp to the Crimea to obtain the consent of the commanders of the Allied armies to his plan. Mean while he is concentrating all disposable troops from West Anatolia at Batoum, in order to be gin his operations immediately upon the receipt of the approval from head-quarters. All this sounds very well, but it is a great ques tion whether anything will really be done at the Asiatic seat of war for some months to come. The Russians have been informed by the spies of the contemplated scheme, and this is the reason for their again concentrating at Kutais, from whence they can operate with advantage against the coast. No more Zeybeck disturbances have take place in the interior of Anatolia. The Russians have re paired the damage done by the powder explosion at Gumri, and this place is again the pivot fur their offensive operations against the Turks. RUSSIA. -- --- ---- A letter from St. Petersburg of the 31st ult., in the _National Gazette of Berlin, says : " For a long time past people have been convinced here that Russia will exhaust all her resources before con senting to acce pt th e f our po i n t s . B es ides the active army placed on a war footing, by the recal of the men an temporary leave o f a b s e nce , or who were definitively dis charged, and the men of the reserve, &c.—the Govern ment has thought itself obliged to form not only an army of reserve, but to prepare a, amend army of the same kind—an army which will not be completely formed until the 4th general recruiting, the 13th o f the series, shall permit it in the spring. There will nevertheless be a great void caused by the exemption from the twelfth levy which is to take place this year. The Emperor ordered some days ago that th e Government of Taurida should not be subjected to th e 12th partial conscription. In addition to th e active army, the guard and the grenadiers, the two corps of cavalry and the corps of dragoons—all the troops in the depot who do not form part of the rese rve, t h at is, not only the sth and 6th battalions, but also of the 7th and Bth, aro to be completed and placed on a war footing. This proveA that peace is not at all thought of." The Kalisch correspondent of the Lloyd writes. on the 4th, that the head-quarters of the Infantry Guards is at present at Wilna, in Lithuania, and the General commanding the Guards, the Here ditary Grand Duke, and Lieutenant-General Sumarokoff, the commander of the infantry, are also at that place. General Baron Moller Zakomelski arrived lately at Warsaw from the Cau casus, and after a short stay continued his journey to St. Petersburg. A writer says that Schamyl is hard pressed by the Russians, and cannot fulfil the expectations which his astonishing feats have even rise to ; and, changing the subject to Sebastopol, sneers at the report that five of the Russian geL o rals have been killed, and informs us that one general reported dead is not in the Crimea, but in the Caucasus ; that General Annenkoff is in good health at Odessa ; and neither General Chruleff nor General Bebutoff is dead. The latter is now in Poland. TRE SUN, LONDON; PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. B.—The Cologne Gazette publishes, with all possible reserve, however, the following copy of a despatch in cipher, transmitted, as as serted, by the Warsaw official office to the Prussian legation at Paris, and communicated by that lega tion to several banking-houses at Paris : " Warsaw Chancery (no date).—Prinee Menschikoff reports on the 29th of October, 8 p.m., that all his rein forcements had arrived, and that the 180 squadrons of his cavalry are masters of the whole plain. The dra goons of General Morawieff have arrived from Wos nosensk, and are panting for battle. On the pre vious day the enemy's fire was weaker. On the 29th they had not fired a gun. The reports which have reached head-quarters show that the enemy are in great anxiety for their communications, and are preparing, by re-embarking a portion of their artillery, to abandon the siege. They suffer extraordinarily from sickness and want of provisions. During the night of the 28th and 29th the sea was very stormy, but was calmer towards evening. A cold rain begins to fall. The enemy has not lighted his (bivouac) fires." Unfortunately for the promulgaters of the above despatch we have had before us since last Saturday Prince Menschikoff's despatch of the 29th, officially forwarded from St. Petersburg, wherein it is distinctly stated that "the enemy had completed their advanced batteries." It may be safely asserted that this acknowledgment of the successful progress of the assailants' works would not have been made had Prince Menschikoff been enabled to report the reverse. It is possible, and, indeed, probable, that the re inforcements under Dannenberg, said to consist of two divisions of the 4th corps—that i s , th e remain der of this corps, of which the 12th division had already joined—may have arrived, and that the force of cavalry (already amounting to 64 squadrons of Lancers and Hussars, with 24 or more sotnias of Cossacks) may be increased by one division, or 40 squadrons of dragoons ; but Ibo squadrons is rather over-doing the account. Indeed, were 180 squadrons (that is, 22,000 horses) concentrated in the so-called " plain," they would be a greater source of embarrassment than utility to the Russian Gene ral-in-Chief. Neither the Russian reply to the Prussian sup plication of the 22d ult., nor the Austrian answer to the more recent Prussian propositions, had reached this place up to a late hour. HOW TO RAISE A FLEET. A letter from Berlin, of the 7th, says :—" Some time ago the Prussian Government exchanged with the English Government two gun-boats for the Thetis frigate of 36 guns. As England is now greatly in need of flat-bottomed boats for the Baltic in the spring, the Prussian Government has asked the English Government if it is disposed to make more similar exchanges." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Nov. 4.—With respect to the mission of M. von der Pfordten the strictest secrecy is still being observed in Government circles ; but it has not withstanding oozed out that if even the pend ing negotiations with Prussia and the Ger manic Confederation, which have already resulted from the present exertions of the Bavarian Cabinet, should, after all, not lead to the de sired end, Bavaria will nevertheless side with Austria, and in that case a separate conven tion will be entered into between these two neighbouring Governments, in virtue of which 20,000 Bavarians will take up their head-quarters at Kempten, on the frontiers of Vorarlbarg, in order to enable Austria to withdraw such of her troops from the north of Italy as may be indispensably re quired for reinforcements to her' armies on the northern frontiers of the empire, without endanger ins the so-called strategic-political balance of power in Italy—that is, in other and perhaps more in telligible words, without running the risk of un duly weakening the hands of Government in the southern provinces by denuding them of the troops regularly quartered there. The Prem - clen Blatt has a despatch of the sth, from Warsaw, which informs us that the bombard ment had not commenced on the 31st, and that on the 30th and 31st " nothing" had taken place. This journal has also the following " According to reliable intelligeneofrom Odessa, since the 27th, strong bodies of Russian reinforcements had arrived in the Crimea. These troops are of all arms, but consist more especially of cavalry. As we are in formed, a part of the same, which on the 22d had already commenced the march from Perekop, joined the army of Prince Menschikoir on the 27th." SWEDEN. Three of the Chambers of which the Swedish Diet is composod have voted the credit of 2,500,000 rix dollars demanded by the King, for a fund to maintain the neutrality of Sweden. in the actual war. But the fourth Chamber, that of the yeo men, has not yet voted. SWITZERLAND. The New Zurich Gazette states that two Papal bulls, excommunicating two Swiss cantons (not mentioned), have been found in the archives of the late Archbishop of Soleure. It is added that the late prelate had been heard to say that he would rather resign his see than publish those bulls, see ing that he was a S w i ss as we ll as an Archbishop. The proposal for the revision of the constitution of Lucerne has been rejected by the people of that canton, there appearing 19,816 votes against, and only 7,391 for the revision. ITALY. We learn from Italy that the telegraphic lines of Naples, Caucello, Caserta, San Maria, Ca pua, Mola, Terracina, Nola Solerna, and Uvellino, are opened for public use. At Rome, the Pope con secrated the famous Merz telescope on the 30th ult. The Bishops of Annecy and Sau Jiovanni de Marianni, stopping at Turin on their journey to Rome, were visited by the Ministers Dabormida and Ratazzo, and invited to the Court. They ex pressed their regret that they were compelled to decline the invitation, it being imp era ti ve l y neces sary that they should arrive at their destination as soon as possible. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. A courier from Marseilles'arrived at the British embassy to-day. lie is said to be the bearer of the official despatches from Lord Raglan, giving an account of the unf or t una t e a ff a i r of the 25th, in which the cavalry were so much cut up. The par ticulars have not been allowed to transpire here, and it is probable that it will be through the columns of the London papers that we shall learn them. For some days past we have been complaining here of the absence of telegraphic despatches. To day we are overwhelmed with them, but, unhap pily, they are not of a nature to allay the anxiety or gratify the curiosity of the public. Indeed, they appear to be summed up in the fact announced by the despatch from St. Petersburg, of the oth, that up to the 3d Sebastopol was not stormed. The following have been received during the day " MARSEILLES, Nov. 9.—The Thabor, which left Constantir.ople on the 30th, is in sight. She is forty hours behind her time, in consequence, doubtle ss , o f th e bad weather. Admiral Mathieu and the Archbishop of Mentz embarked to-day for Rome. The troops fur the camp of the south will commence their march towards Lyons to-morrow." " TRIESTE, Nov. 9.—A ccounts have been received from Constantinople to the 30th. On the 26th the born bardment of Sebastopol continued with great vigour, and with severe losses on b oth sides. The Poles and the Tartars in Seba s t opo l h ad attempted an insurrection in order to lead to the surrender of the place, but it had been put down by force. The English were still en deavouring to burn the Russian vessels in the port of Se bastopol. General Canrobert had sent to Constantinople for thirty guns of very large calibre. The Porte is said to be forming a fresh army of 50,000 men to c , .rry on the war in Asia. 2,400 Egyptian troops had arrived at Constantinople, and 8,000 men were expected from Alexandria. The Russians had taken up their winter quarters near Kars. Reinforcements for the Crimea continued to arrive at Constantinople. General Luders, it is said, commanded the Russian troops which made a sortie and attacked the Turkish position near Balaklava. Letters from Trebizond, of the 20th, state that the cholera was raging in the camp of Ciurkou. On the 18th the new Turkish staff arrived at Kars, and reinforcements were sent to Batourn. The Bashi bazouks continued to infest the road to Erzeroum. They had entrenched themselves there, and bad refused to give up the assassins of Captain Begliaut. The cholera appeared to be diminishing in the Piraeus on the 3d. The French troops had not been attacked by it. The Greek Parliament house has been burnt ; the fire was supposed to have been the act of an incen diary." " ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 9.—Prince Menschikoff writes from Sebastopol, under date of the evening of the 31, that the siege continued without any visible result ; that the fire of the English batteries was more feeble than on the previous days ; and that the damage caused to the Russians by the batteries of the Allies was slight, and was immediately repaired." The llloniteur publishes the following:— "Baron de Piava, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves, had the honour of being received, on Sunday last, at the Palace of St. Cloud, by the Empress, and to present to her Majesty, in the nal" 1 i ~ ~ 1