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

MON E Y Al AitK E I AND COAIMEE CIAL INT ELL IGENCE.. CITY, TVY 0 o'CLOCK, The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was steady. Sales 7,000 bales. Shares were neglected. The forbearance which creditors are exercising towards the firms that have been placed in difficul ties is exemplified in the case of Mr. Edward Oli ver, of Liverpool. Having purchased on credit a large amount of shipping, it has been found expe dient, with a view of diminishing the aggregate liability, for the sellers to take back their property, and cancel the bills of exchange given in lieu. This may entail a loss upon the original owners, the more especially as they could, perhaps, have diminished their stake in shipping at the favourable opportunity which presented itself some months back, and which at present does not exist. Since, however, there is but a choice of evils, it is to be presumed that the wisest course has been adopted, for, under the arrangement, there may be some indemnification which Mr. Oliver's assets will meet. The effect of the recent suspensions has been to render every one extremely cautious, and very properly so : The demand for money was more active in the City yesterday, and this is explained by the pay ment to-day of the last instalment upon the B series of Exchequer Bonds. The amount is 460,0001. Besides the above, however, the rail way "calls" of the current month are heavy, not far short of two millions sterling, and nearly a million is payable upon foreign companies, the larger proportion of the shares in which are held by English capitalists. Already 12,042,0651. have been called this year, which is about 1,000,0001. more than during the whole of the year 1853, and 4,000,0001. over 1852. There seems, therefore, to be employment for at least a portion of our surplus means, and the consolation is that it will be better thus placed than in foreign loans and bubble schemes such as a period of mone tary facilities is certain to nourish. The telegraphic despatches of Oct. 6 from Memel state :—" The conflagration has at last been sub dued. The destruction of property has been about 2,000,000/., and all business suspended, the Cus tom-house, Bank, and Court of Justice being burnt. The shipping, however, is reported as all safe. It blew a gale at west last night, but to-day it is more moderate." The New York accounts are somewhat more favourable ; but until the suspected banks are placed 'on a sounder footing, suspicion will still lurk. In a report by a local writer it is Mated : "It would be very difficult to estimate the losses of the past six months by fire and flood, by disease and death. Not a section of the country has escaped. All have suffered more or less. We have had within our own l►mits, we believe, every misfortune but war. The inflictions of Divine Providence we could have borne - with resignation, but we have had others which have been too much for our philosophy to put up with. We allude to the enormous frauds and defalcations, which have done more to injure private and public credit, than all the other calamities of the year combined. We shall ultimately recover from all these difficulties, and we should congratulate Oursels that the effect has been no worse. In the face of these depressing and depreciating causes, prices have been wonderfully sustained. Fancy stocks have fallen heavily, it is ture, but no more than circumstances warranted ; and those who have not been governed in their operations by the signs of the times, have been serious sufferers. It did not require a great degree of foresight to see the effect of certain causes. We 'do not allude to causes for depression in an y particular fancy stock, but to the general move ments of financial affairs. Speculators in stocks for a fall have been particularly fortunate this year, and their success has been the result of a variety of events, very few of which were foreseen by the most far sighted. Sufficient had transpired, even before the Schuyler ex pos4s, to justify the most extensive operations for a fall in the market value of fancy stocks. Every event of any importance which followed that stupendous swindle, strengthened the position of sellers, and many' have no doubt reaped a rich harvest out of the wreck and ruin going on about them. There is now a lull in the great maelstrom of speculation. Its waters are now quiet, and when again agitated it will be doubtless by a reverse movement. There is a brighter day coming for the bulls. "The excitement that has obtained during most of the month in uncurrent money, has almost entirely subsic'el, and rates of discount are lower. The large amount of currency that has been driven home for re demption is felt at the West where circulation is much needed. Notwithstanding all the talk that bas been made about " Western money," it now stands better 'with the people than Eastern money. There is a wtnt of confidence in the New England system of banking that is daily gaining ground, and the public is begin irig to distthigniiih-a seoured from-an unsecured cur ency." The English Funds have been very quiet again, and there is not oven a fractional variation in prices as compared with yesterday. Consols have been 951 to for transfer, and 951 for account. Eaxchequer Bills are 4s. to 7s. premium, and India Bonds 63. to 10s. premium. The Foreign Market is exceedingly dull. The Turkish Scrip brings 2i to 3i premium. Sardinian Buds have been at 88k. Dutch Two-and-a-Half pe r Cents. have been marked 61/ to 62, and the Fvur per Cents. 92. The following are the nominal prices of foreign •tocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5i to ; Mexican, 24 to 25 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto 4i- per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, to 183- ; ditto 3 per Cents., 371 to 38 ; ditto Ce aificates, 5 to 5/ ; ditto Passive, 4i to 4g. The Railway Share Market is a trifle firmer as fi as can be judged by the limited business doing. For the Mines and Banks there is a steady market. ERITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOClis From the Ofiicial List. ) 13u iness done. 3 por Cent. Consols Annuities 951 In 3ia Bonds, 21000 . ...... ....... sitto, under 21000 lO p Ba;ok. Stock Ditto for the Account Corrsols for Account 17th Oct. ;achequer Bills, 2d. £l000 2500 4 7 p Small 4 7 p P RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK'. Br azilian Bonds, 5 per Cont 9B Sal viinian Bonds, 5 per Cent........... Cent BBi Turkish Scrip 6 per cent 3 p Dividends on the above payable in London Dn t ch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil 62 11 I Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates..~ HALF-PAST TWO. . 95,k / 95/ a Consols Ditto October Account It is stated that, under the arrangement of the affairs of Mr. Oliver at Liverpool, the principal firms interested have agreed to take back vessels which had been sold to Lim on credit to the amount of 400,0001., and that his acceptances to that extent will, therefore, be cancelled. N., positive information on the subject, however, appears to have transpired. AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM PRODUCE MARKET, Th e weekly reviews of the Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce markets notice increased activity, with conti-,ned firmness of prices. The transactions in coffee, al . ihough not important, were at full rates. Sugar, r• - ,„ v7 and re fined, exhibited a slight advance, buyers hr, a i n g operated more freely. There was a steady demr,nd for rice, and late quotations were well supported,. In the price of indigo no material alteration had occurred. No busi ness of moment was reported i 4 saltpetre, and the quo tation remained heavy. Room —Letters from Rouen state that the market for manufactures was steady, and that prices in some c ases showed a t e - d ency to improvement, owing to purchases having 'pee n made for the approaching winter season._ THH BEET2i ACT.— Yesterday, a public meeting, most .nfi ii entiany attended, o f the hotel and tavern keepers of the metropolis and the provin ces , was held at the Bridge howje Hotel, Loudon-bridg e , for the purpose of taking measures to secure the trade against present and pro 'sp'ective unfriendly legislation. The chair was taken by lir. Burrell, when it was resolved to form an associa tion, to be called " The Hotel, T avern, and Licensed Victuallers' Association," having for its objects-Ist, To watch the operation of the various acts of Parliament at present a ffecting the trade genera ll y ; 2dlY, T o o bt a i n a repeal of those which interfere with their rights and privileges ; 3dly, To protect members in the due exer uhly, To exert all possible influ eise oeth e i r b us i ness ; epee in preventing the passing of future injurious mea sures ; and sthly, To raise a fund, by donations and subscriptions, for the purpose of securing these objects, the subscription not being less than one guinea per annum. A committee, consisting of some of the most eminent members of the trade, was next appointed to conduct the affairs of the association, and a sub-com mittee was nominated to prepare a body of bye-laws for its government. Some other routine business having been disposed of, the proceedings terminated with the usual compliment to the chairman. After the proceed ings of the meeting had been brought to a satisfactory tc,o3neltision, the majority of those coinnoing ;t ‘1. 4 3 tiowu ~u niptuous banquet, serv,:d iii the first style of ele toartce, by M r , - B urrell, and duly heno . are d "Tile w n''' "The A rmy an d N avy, " an d ~.•ther patriotic toasts, with all that zeal and lualty wh:4011 characterise *'91 11 4 en, - • . • , SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Mainz Prices yesterday. RAILWAYS. Aberdeen ..... Axabg. Nottng Bost. and Eastn. Junct...' Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. di Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., ..... Blyth &Tyne origina £25 (issd. at £45; Bristol and Exeter Caledonian.... 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Comp. 6 p. c. , do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. Now 5 per cent. Gt. Western of Canada Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. Do. do., '73, without option /Luntlton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c. pref Great Luxembourg Constitilted Shares Do. Obligations. Lyons and Genova Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. New 'Ataxia Antonia Do. do. New Melbourne Dk. & By Namur & Liege (with interest) - - Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D 0.20/. Shs.late Char leroi and Erqueliues guar. 3g p. c. Sr. red. at 22Y. dur. 88 yrs., from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Ws. (fury. B. & Ams. Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Ronen ParisCaen & Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Menso Do. 5i p. cent. Pref Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5A per c. 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Now Ulll9ll Of _ _ _ 6i - 61 i - it 4- 3 U id - iP P —lid 331 2a d— 3p - .6P - 6A 11 - 11 9d A - iP - iP 4P 17 -18 par -- 2 1d par id. i P 2 4p ... dis 24 2i 2i 3i it lip ••• ••• Par i P 7/ - 7i iifi - Ulf 124 -- 13 9 -- 10 20i -201 p ;16 50 38 40 Pm 23 - 24 par 1p d —8 • • • -- • .• ... - pm u 6iP ifi :711 K BANKS. 82 -- 84 id par 1 0 - 32 31 2i d 21 —22 ... .- ••• 44 - 45 42i -43 i - 4,,i - 45 67 -69 71 - 8i !e, = St, Business done this day. 12 50 161 161 St. 194 14 20 11i 812 s 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 all 3 8 2s. 10 5 20 20 100 20 25 25 25 all 10 12i all all all all 8 all Tli i i ni 72i i a 1011 2 per cent. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN IljG, OCTOBER io, t 854. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPEI: ) THE BATTLE OF ALMA. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. CESAREWITCH STAKES MUSCOVITE The following is a highly interesting account of the glorious victory achieved on the banks of the Alma : Twenty-one ran. bdthesli " BANKS OF THE ALM A , S EPT . 19.—L as t n i g ht or d ers were given by L or d R ag l an th a t th e t roops s h ou ld strike tents at daybr ea k, a nd th a t a ll t en t s s h ou ld b e sen t on term e d upon, an d it was un d erstoo d t h at t h e R uss i an ~ig oahrt cavalry i p b s ad of b t e h e e n fl s e w e e t e . pi O ng ur advance had been de the h plies up to a s h or t di stance of t our e c n u e n s t r a y n d o f o a u l y s iunpg pickets. At three o'clock in the morning the camp was roused by the revel!, and all the 30,000 sleepers woke into active life. The boats from the ships lined the beach to receive the tents. The commissariat cfficers struggled in vain with the very deficient means at their disposal to meet the enormous requirements of an army of 26,000 men for the transport of baggage, ammunition, and food, ;tad a scene, which to an unpractised eye would seem ,ine of utter confuion, began and continued for several hours, 1-elieved only by the steadiness and order of the regiments as they paraded previous to marching. "The French, in advance on our right, were up be times, and the camp fires of the allied armies, extending for miles along the horizon and mingling with the lights of the ships, almost anticipated the morning. The order ...if march was as follows : LATEST BETTING AT NEWMARKET. CESAREWITCH. 4to 1 agst Muscovite. 7 to 1 a g st Cobout. 10 to 1 a g st Ammonia. 10 to 1 a g st Rodomeli. 12 to 1 a g st Rattle. 13 to 1 a g st La Belle. 20 to 1 agst Indian Warrior. 20 to 1 a g st D. 0. 25 to 1 a g st Ethelwolf. 30 to 1 a g st Hun g erford. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 15 to 1 a g st Early Bird. 15 to 1 a g st _RAU°. 50 to 1 a g st Star of Surrey. Cavalry, Bth, 11th, lith. Light Division. Artillery. :: Second Division.; First Division. Artillery. Third Division. Cavalry. Commissariat Train. Fourth Division. E i Fourth Division. animals ripped open by shells from chest to loin, as though it were done by a surgeon's knife, had subsided, was that Sir E. Landseer, in his picture of War,' must have seen one of the animals before us— the glaring eve-ball, the distended nostril, the gnashed teeth, are all true to life. When the Russians had retired beyond the heights, orders were given to halt and bivouac for the night, and our tired men set to work to gather the weeds for fuel. As soon as the ra tions of rum and meat were served out, the casks were broken up, and the staves served to make fires for cook ing, aided by nettles and long grass. At night the watch fires of the Russians were visible on our left. . . . Great numbers of stragglers came up during the night, most of them belonging to the 4th division. It was a cold night, and if I could intrude the recital of the sor rows of a tentless, baggageless man, wandering about in the dark from regiment to regiment in hope of find ing his missing baggage, I might tell a tale amusing enough to read, but the incidents in which were very distressing to the individual concerned. The night was cold.and damp, the watch tires were mere flashes, which gave little heat, and barely.sufficed to warm the 'rations; but the camp of British soldiers is ever animated by the very soul of hospitality ;. and the wanderer was lucky enough to get a lodging on the ground beside a kindly c(slonel, who was fortunate enough to have a little deld-tent with him, and a bit of bread and biscuit to spare after a march of 10 miles and a fast of 10 hours. _III night arabas were arriving, and soldiers who had fallen out or got astray came up to the sentries to find their regiments. Sir George Brown, Sir 1). Evans, the B , igadier-Generals and staff officers went about among their divisions and brigades ere the man lay down, giving directions for the following day, .iald soon after dusk the regiments were on the ground, wrapped up in great coats and blankets to find the best repose they could after the day's exertions. It was much regretted that our cavalry force was se miserably •leficient, for if we had been even two to three we could readily have disposed of the vapouririg Lancers on the hill, who had irritated the men very much by their de risive cries when our skirmishers retired. It was ad mitted that as a military spectacle the advance of our troops and the little affair of artillery, as well as the management of the cavalry, formed one of the most pic turesque and beautiful that could be imagined. No pencil could do it justice, for the painter's skid fails to impart an idea of motion, and the writer 14e . not yet , been born who can describe with vividness and force, so as to bring the details before the reader, the events of even the slightest skirmish. " HEIGHTS ABOVE ALMA, SErT. 21.—The order in which our army advanced was in columns of brigades in deploying distance, protected by a line of skirmishers, of cavalry, and of horse artillery. The advantage of the formation was, that our army, in case of a strong at tack of cavalry and infantry on the left or rear, could' assume the form of a hollow square, with the baggage in the centre. Our great object was to gain the right of the position, so that our attacking' parties could be sheltered. by the vertical firs of the fleets. "We had, in fact, altered our base of operations. As we marched forward to Bulganac, we allowed the enemy to deprive us of our old basis of operations, in order that we might get a new one. For this purpose the baggage was brought up and covered by the 4th division, and the Cossacks were allowed .to sweep the country in our rear far behind us. Our ,new principle in fact was to open communication with our fleets, and, as far as possible, obtain their material and moral aid.. In advancing towards the sea obliquely, on the morning of the 19th, we were met by 17 squadrons of cavalry, deployed to meet our handful of horse, and it was neces sary to make a demonstration of artillery and infantry to extricate our men from the difficulty into which they bad been plunged by advancing too far in front of their supports. However, the enemy were driven back by our guns, which made beautiful practice, and the cavalry maintained their ground, haiing retired in splendid order before a force which refused to meet them when they might have done so, by a charge down from the elevated position they occupied, with a fair chance of an encoun ter ere our artillery could corns up. Our line of march on the 20th, as I have said, was towards the right of our former base. and brought us in contact with the French left, under Prince Napoleon, it being understood that Sir De Lacy Evaus's division o,n the extreme right should act in concert with that of his Royal Highness the Prince, which was of course furthest from the sea. AR soon as we had ascertained the position of our allies accurately, the whole line, extending itself across the Champaign country for seine five or six miles, advanced. At the distance of two miles we halted to obtain a little time to gather up our rear, and then 'the troops steadily advanced in grand lines like the waves of the ocean, with our left frittered away as it were into a foam of skirmishers under Col. Law rence and M:sjor Norcott of the Rifle Brigade, 2d batta lion, covered by squadrons of the 11th and Bth Hussars, and portions of the 4th, 13th Light Dragoons, and 17th Lancers. This was a sight of inexpressible grandeur, and for the first time one was struck with the splendid appearance of our Infantry in line in the distance. Red is the colour, after all, and the white slashings of the breast of the coat, and the cross-belts, though - rendering a man conspicuous enough, give him an appearance of size which other uniforms do not produce. The dark French columns on our right looked very small compared to our battalions, though we knew they were quite as strong ; but the marching of our allies, laden as they were with all their packs, &c., was wonderful—the pace at which they went was really killing.' It was ob servable too, that our staff was more conspicuous and more numerous than the staff of our brave friends, No thing strikes the eye at Buell a distance as a cocked hat and bunch of white cock's feathers, and several of our best officers very wisely doffed the latter adornment, thinking that they were quite conspicuous enough by their advanced position on horseback and by the number of their staff around them. " The scheme of operations concerted between the generals, and chiefly suggested to Lord Ita,glan, it was said, by M.M. Marshal St. Arnaud and General Canrobert, was that the French and Turks on mar right were to force the passage of the river, a rivulet of the Alma, and establish themselves on the heights over the stream at the opposite side, so that they could enfilade the position to their right and opposite to our left and centre. The Alma is a tortuous little stream, which has worked its way down through a red clay soil, deepening its course as it proceeds seawards, and which drains the steppe-like lands on its right bank, making at times pools and eddies too deep to be forded, though it can generally be crossed by waders who do not fear to wet their knees. It need not be said that the high banks formed by the action of the stream in cutting through the soil are sometimes at one side, sometimes at another, according to the sweep of the stream. " At the place where the bulk of the British army crossed the banks are generally at the right side, and vary from two and three to six or eight feet in depth to the water ; where the French attacked tho banks are generally formed by the unvaried curve of the river on the left-hand side. Along the right or north bank of the Alma are a number of Tartar houses, at times nume rous and close enough to form a cluster of habitations deserving the name of a hamlet; at times scattered wide apart amid little vineyards, surrounded by walls of mud and stone of three feet in height: Thabridie over which the poSt road passes from Bulga.nad to Sebastopol' runs close to one of these hamlets—a village, in fact, of some 50 houses. This village is approached from the north by a road winding through a plain nearly level till it comes near to the village, where the ground dips, so that at the distance of 300 yards a man on horseback can hardly see the tops of the nearer and more elevated houses, and can only ascertain the position of the stream by the willows and verdure along its banks. At the left or south side of the Alma the ground assumes a very different cha racter—smooth where the bank is deep, and greatly ele vated where the shelve of the bank eccurs, it recedes for a few yards at a moderate height above the stream, pierced here and there by the course of the winter's torrents, so as to form small ravines, commanded, how ever, by the heights above. It was on these upper heights that the streegth of the Russian position con sisted. A remarkable ridge of mountain, varying in height from 500 to 700' feet, runs along the course of the Alma on the left or south side with the course of the stream, and assuming the form of cliffs when close to the sea. This ridge is marked all along its course by deep gullies, which run towards the river at various angles, and serve no doubt to carry off the floods produced by the rains and the melting of the winter snows on the hills and table lands above. If the reader will place himself on the top of Richmond-hill, dwarf the Thames in ima gination to the size of a Hampshire rivulet, and imagine the lovely hill itself to be deprived of all vegetation and protracted for about four miles along the stream, he may form some notion of the position occupied by the Russians, while the plains on the north Or left bank of the Thames will bear no inapt similitude to the land over which the British and French armies advanced, barring only the verdure and freshness. At the top of the ridges, between the gullies, the Russians bad erected earthwork batteries, mounted with 321 b. and 241 b. brass guns, dup. 'ported by numerous field pieces and howitzers. These guns enfiladed the tops of the ravines parallel to them, or swept them to the base, while the whole of the sides up which an enemy, unable to stand the direct fire of the batteries, would be forced to ascend, •were filled with masses of skirmishers armed with an excellent two-groove rifle, throwing a large solid conical ball with force at 700 and 800 yards, as the French learntto their cost. The principal battery consisted of an. tthe h earth work of the form of two sides of a tria n g le, aides apex pointed towards the bridge, and the , with the e ve b ri e n n g d b in ot t h he sid ri e v s er of b t e h le e w s i t t r , ea a m t , th c e orr di e s s ta p n l i s ° of the village 500 yards. This was yards, while; with a fair elevation, the 32 p underonsgfthirto, to as twhee saw distance very eofftein;4oboeyeonndd hill e house a G n O o O th f e ee r t 50 feet above the constructed river, buotn theh the ihill brow re s e o f ds the road. The ascent of t b h ef ie or b e il i l t w d o ip o p e e n d fi a la w d a o y d t b o y wa t i r , e fire of throe batteries of capableanother on of c thee covering,, , a t n h d e b a el h d i n l d l a i b t o f u o: these batteries were equally earthworth on the right, and by village, the stream, and the slopes which led up the hill to their t s heir position. In the first battery were 13 32- pounder g uns of exquisite workmanship, w hi c h only told too well. In the other batteries were some 25 guns in an. It was said the Russians had 100 guns ou the hills an d 40,000 men (40 battalions of infantry 1,000 strong each of the 16th, 31st, 32d, and 52d Regiment). we were opposed principally to the 16th and 32d Regiments, judging by the number of dead in front of us. I have not been able to ascertain by whom they were com manded, but there is a general report that Menschikoff commanded the army in chief, that the left was under Gortschakoff, a relative of the diplomatist, and that the right was under Bodahoff, the military Governor of Sebastopol. It seems strange that an Admiral shonld be appointed to'comtnand -an army, bUt 'strange thitids do happen in Russia. It is also affirmed that the car riage of Menschikoff was taken, and in it was found a _copy of a despatch addressed to the. Emperor, in which the Prince stated that 40,000 men might take Selma- LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. 'Paid.' all 100 18? all ;100 Leasing Compans.l London & N. West. L.&N.W. Gt.Nrthn. Caldonian. Do Gt. Westn New. & Berw. Y.&NMd Do D 0... . Easton Do I Peto& Co. Norfolk.,, L.& N. W. & Midld. Stckton & Darlthgt. Midland.. E. Count. D 0... ..... . Do.. 'L. & N. W &Ln&Yk Do Gt Northn Lancash & Yorksh. 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Fro n this was deducted 1,4001. interest on debentures, leaving a net balance of 18,2601., out of which the directors recom• mended a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year on 290,000/., the paid-up capital of the company, leaving a surplus of 3,7591. to the credit of the next account. In pursuance of the arrangement with the Wicklow Company on the 12th of April, possession of the Dal key Atmospheric Railway was given to that com pany, for the purpose of being altered so as to com plete the connection by railway between Dublin and Bray ; and in the interim the communication between Kingstown and Dalkey has been continued by omnibuses. The extension of the Wicklow line from Bray to Wicklow is also in progress. The Wicklow Company's lines, via Dundrum, and from Dalkey, were both opened for public traffic to Bray on the 10th of July last, and an Act of Parliament has been obtained confirming the subsisting agreements between the two companie-c The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the net receipts for the half-year showed an increase of 7501. over the corresponding period of 1852, although there was an increase in the amount of the capital which was participating in the dividend. They had, after paying the dividend of 5 per cent. for the corresponding period of 1852, a surplus of 2,5061., and after paying the same dividend this year on an in creased capital of 15,0001., there would be a surplus of 3,759/. to carry forward to the next half•year. In reply to a question, it was stated that calls on the half and quarter shares would be made before the end of the present year, for the purpose of making up the in stalment of the debt payable to the Board of Works. The report was then unanimously adopted, and the meeting separated. MARKET NE WB-(THI9 DAY.) HAY SMITIJFIELD.—Meadow hay, 21 108 to 4/ lOs ; clover ditto, 41 4s to 6/ Os ; and straw, it 6s to 1/ 12s per load. Trade rather dull. _ ----- CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 4/ 15s ; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 51 15s; and straw . , 1/ 83 to 1/ 15s per load. A fairaverago supply and a sluggish demand. WHITEOHAP:gb.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 4/ 12s; clover ditto, 3/ lis to 6/ Oi ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 13s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. COLONIAL. SriGA.E.—The market is firm, but without activity. Re fined brown lumps realise 43s 6d per cwt., and grocery 43s 6d to 495. The quantity of British plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 3,092 hhds, 359 tierces, and 668 brls; and there were taken for home consumption 1,668 hhds, 268 tierces, and 931 brls. The stock in these establishments is 21,082 hhds, 3,159 tierces, and 5,919 brls. COFFEE.—There is very little doing, and the quotations are almost nominal. Rukr.—A good inquiry exists for Leowards, and holders ask full rates. The quantity landed last week at the above mentioned docks was 1,477 puns and 161 bhds, and then were taken for home use 340 puns and 53 hhds. The stock there is 12,793 puns and 23,555 hhds. SALTP&TRE.—At auction 1,635 bags have been offered publicly to-clay, but they were most taken iu at 25s Gd to 26s 61 for 7.} to •li per cent. refraction, a few lots how ever sold at 225 6d to 235 Gd, for ord 10id to 2s, and at 215 to 248 Gd for mid 8 per cent. Bombay, 201 bags, brought 2s for low '36/ per cent. PEPPER.—Singapore, 164 bags, realised 6gd to Gild for mid white. RICE.--Ea,n,goon, 220 bags, found buyers at lOs 6d to lls ; and good white Bengal at 13s to 13s 6d per cwt. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is quoted at 63s 6,1 to 64s per cwt on the spot for new. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(TIIIS DA Y.) LONDON, Oct. 10.-1 V lud tuns clay at Noon, W.N.W. ; dull, eloudy weather. PORTSSIOUTII, Oct. 9.—Wind, S.E. to N.W. Arrived —Her Majesty's steamer Hannibal, from Sheerness ; Euro pean (s), Limerick, and left for London. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 9.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Spe culation, from Cadiz, for Bergen. Sailed—Guiseppe, for Naples ; Marsella, Norway. FAL3fOUTH, Oct. 9.—Wind, N. Arrived—Triton, from St. Übes, for Wisby ; Merlin, from London, for Faro ; Ranger (s), Liverpool, fo; Rotterdam. Sailed—Botton, for Sydney, N.S.W. ; Thcresia, Gorea ; Express, London ; Hiram, do. OFF DOVER, Oct. 9.—Neptune, from St. Domingo, for Amsterdam, supplied Ivith an anchor and provisions. COWES, Oct. 9.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Bessy Jane, from Malaga, sails split. HULL, Oct. 9.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Mauritius, from Quebec ; Comton, do. ; Star in the East, do.; Ocean Queen (s), Rotterdam. BRISTOL, Oct. 9.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Sarah Char lotte, from Trinidad. Sailed—Mona, for Mauritius ; Now Empire, New York. Wind W. ; tide, lasth ß o A ti V is S e E lr: (3T SUBMARINH AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) C 4 Arrived, Oct : 9.—B r illi an t, f ro m Mogadoro. Arrived, Oct. 10.—City o f L on d o n (s.), from Dunkirk. Sailed, Oct. 10.—D o ph am , f or Rio Janeiro ; Panther (s.), Ostend; City of Boul ogn e ( e .), Boulogno ; Neptune fiTn t e te . sday, 9.48 a.m. (s.), Antwerp; Gerzina Hendick, Konigsberg. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.25 a.m. Wind N.W. by W., light, and cloudy. Passed--William Woodside, for Newport ; Pyramid , New Orleans ; Guardian, Port Talbot; Jessie, White haven; Euxonia, Cardiff; Medway, Melbourne —all from London; Cambria barque, No. 1,895, first pendant, from westward. Tint New RECEIPT STAMP--The following corres pondence will show the opinion and authority of high quarters as to the lion-liability bf enrolled societies to the new receipt stamp duty ;—" Barnsley, 19th Sept., 1854. Gentlemen,—.l take the liberty of inquiring of you, as secretary to the Barnsley District of the United pOerndseersotfoTurie uefußnreirtaolnsf'usnidck, I Senn h y al l whether, whe n th e amount o f t h e levy money from a lodge ameunt s t o 2/. Sr upwar d s a s their share of ex them a prop er di sc h arge when they pay me the money ? I have the h onour to remain, gen tlemen, your obedient shall receiptstamp in by giving law to mak e use o f the new the servant, RICHARD RAcE, Barnsley. To tho Commis• sioners of Inland Revenue, Somerset-house."—" Inland Revenue, Somerset-house, 25th Sept., 1854. Sir,—l am directed by the Board to state, in reply to the in quiry contained in your letter of the 19th inst., that re ceipts given for money contributed to the funds of a friendly society are exempted from stamp duty, if such society be duly enrolled as required by the 13th and 14th Victoria, cap. 115. I am, sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS KEOGH, Mr. K. Richard Race."—Leeds Mercury. PRIVATE LETTERS TO A JUDGE.—At the Chelmsford County Court, on Thursday, Mr. Gordon, the judge, be fore hearing the cases, said he must mention a course of great impropriety, which, either from a want of edu cation or other motives, either. good or bad, persons sometimes resorted to. He must say it was a highly improper practice for any person, whether a suitor or connected with a suitor, to write a private letter to a judge. This letter (holding one in his band) was a most extraordinary one, because it exhibited a wonderful amount of ignorance. The writer concluded thus : " I appeal to you as a gentleman, and one holding a high position in society, to give the case (that is, the case of a young man who was remanded for six months at the last court) some consideration. If you will favour me with your opinion I shall be much obliged, and shall be happy to remunerate you professionally." (Laughter.) The ignorance of the writer—the father of the young man—in offering a fee to the judge was extraordinary. He (the learned judge) said he wished he could say this was the only letter- he had received, but another of a much more improper character had been sent to him, which he had forwarded to another quarter. He trusted this public notice would put a stop to such improper con duct ; he wished to know nothing of any case except what ho learned from the evidence offered in open court ; because it would at once undermine the purity of the administration of justice, if it were supposed that the judges were to be open to receive letters from suitors before the case was called on, or during its progress.-- Chelmsford Chronicle. RETURN OF EMIGRANTS TO IRELAND.—The King's County Chronicle remarks that something like symptoms of a turn in the tide of emigration are slowly setting in. During the present season several men have returned to their old home in the mother country, most, if not all of them, bettered in their condition and imbued with mere active habits. CRYSTAL PALACE.--Return of admissions for six days ending Saturday, Oct. 7.- -- Numbers, including season tieket.t4, ,832; . amount received fur admission, 1,4011. 7s. Od. • • CRYSTAL PALACE.-00T. 9 (ONE SHILLING DAY.) —Admission at the doors, 3,860 ; admission by season tickets; 314; total, 4,174. Rear Guard. "7,000 Turkish infantry, under Suliman Pasha, moved along by the seaside ; next to them name the divisions of General Bosquet, Canrobert, Forey, and Prince Na poleon. Our order of march was about four miles to the right of their left wing, and as many behind them. " The right of the allied forces was covered by the fleet, which moved along with it in magnificent order, darkening the air with innumerable columns Of smoke, ready to shell the enemy should they threaten to attack our right, and commanding the land for nearly two miles from the shore. " It was 9 o'clock in the morning ere the whole of our army was prepared for marching. The day was warm, and our advance was delayed by the wretched transport furnished for the baggage, an evil which will, I fear, be more severely felt in any protracted operations. Every thing not absolutely indispensable was sent on board ship. The naval officers and the sailors worked inde fatigably, and cleared the beach as fast as the men depo sited their baggage and tents there. At last the men fell in, and the march of the campaign began. " The country beyond the salt lake, near which we were encamped, is perfectly destitute of tree or shrub, and consists of wide plains, marked at intervals of two or three miles with hillocks and long irregular ridges of hills running down towards the sea at right angles to the beach. It is but little cultivated, except in the patches of land around the unfrequent villages built in the higher recesses of the valleys. Hares were started in abundance, and afforded great sport to the men when ever they halted, and several were fairly hunted down among the lines of men. All oxen, horses, or cattle had been driven off by the Cossacks. The soil is hard and elastic, and was in excellent order for artillery. "After a march of an hour a halt took place for 50 minutes, during which Lord Raglan, accompanied by a very large staff. Marshal St. Arnaud, Generals Boa quet, Forey, and a number of French officers rode along the front of the columns. The men spontaneously got up from the around, rushed forward, and column after column rent the air with three thundering English cheers. It was a good omen. As the Marshal passed the 55th Regiment he exclaimed, English, I hope you will fight well tc-day !" Hope !' exclaimed a voice from the ranks, ' sure you know we will!' The troops presented a splendid appearance. The effect of these grand :misses of soldiery descending the ridges of the hills rank after rank, with the sun playing over forests of glittering steel, can never be forgotten by those who witnessed it. Onward the torrent of war swept ; wave after wave, huge stately billows of armed men, while the rumble cf the artillery and tramp of cavalry accom panied their progress. At last the smoke of burning villages and farm-houses announced that the enemy in front were aware of our march. It was a sad sight to see the white walls of the houses blackened with smoke—the flames ascending through the roofs of peaceful homesteads--and the ruined outlines of deserted hamlets. Many sick men fell out and were carried to the rear. It was a painful sight—a sad contrast to the magnificent appearance of the army in front, to behold litter after litter borne past to the carts, with the poor sufferers who had dropped from ill ness end fatigue. "Presently, from the top of a hill; a wide plain was visible, beyond which rose a ridge, darkened here and there by masses whi c h the prctised eye recognised as cavalry. It was our first sight of the enemy. On the left of the plain up in a recess formed by the inward sweep of the two ridges lay a large village in flames ; right before us was a neat white house unburnt, though the outhouses and farm-yard were burning. This was the Imperial Post-house of Bulganac, just 20 miles from Sebastopol. "A small stream ran paid us, which was an object of delight to our thirsty soldiers, .who had now marched more than eight miles from their camp. The house was deserted and gutted. Only a picture of a saint, bunches of herbs in the kitchen, and a few household utensils were left ; and a solitary peahen stalked sadly about the threshold, which soon fell a victim to a revolver. After a short halt for men and horses by the stream the army pushed on again. The cavalry (about 500 men of the Bth Hussars, the 11th Hussars, and 13th Light Dragoons) pushed on in front, and on arriving about a mile beyond the post-house we clearly made out the Cos sack Lancers on the hills in front. Lord Cardigan threw out skirmishers in line, who covered the front at intervals of 10 or 12 yards from each other. The Cossacks advanced to meet us in like order, man for man, the steel of their long lances glittering in the sun. They were rough-looking. fellows, mounted on sturdy little horses, but the regularity of their order and the celerity of their movements showed they were regulars, and by no means despicable foes. As our skirmishers advanced the Cossacks halted at the foot of the hill. Their reserves were not well in sight, but from time to time a clump of lances rose over the summit of the hill and disappeared. Lord Cardigan was eager to try their strength, and permission was given to him to advance somewhat nearer ; but as he did so, dark columns of cavalry came into view in the recesses of the hills, and it became evident that if our men charged up such a steep ascent their horses would be blown, and that they would run a risk of being surrounded and cut to pieces by a force of three times their number. Lord Lucan therefore ordered the cavalry .to halt, gather in their skirmishers, and retire slowly. None of the infantry or artillery were in sight of us, as they had not yet topped the brow of the hill. When our skirmishers halted the Cossacks commenced a fire from their line of videttes; which was quite harmless. Few of the balls came near enough to let the whiz be heard. Two or three officers who were riding between the cavalry and the skirmish ers, Lieut.-Col. Dickson, R.A., Captain Fellowes, 12th Lancers, Dr. Elliott, R.A., were looking out anxiously for the arrival of Captain Maude's Horse Artillery, when suddenly the Russians, emboldened by our halt, came over the brow of the . hill, and slowly descended the elope in three solid squares. We had offered them battle, and they had lost their chance, for our cavalry now turned round and rode quietly towards the troops. Our skirmishers, who had replied smartly to the fire of the Cossacks, but without effect, retired and joined their squadrons. At every 50 Paces our cavalry faced about to receive the Cossacks if they prepared to charge. Suddenly one of the Rus si in cavalry squares opened—a spirt of white smoke rose out of the gap, and a round shot, which pitched close to my horse, tore over the column of our cavalry behind, and rolled away betieen the ranks of the riflemen in the rear, just as they came in view of the cavalry. In an other instant a second gun bowled through the 11th Hus sars, and knocked over a horse, taking off his rider's leg above the ankle. Another and another followed, tear ing through our ranks, so that it was quite wonderful BO many cavalry escaped. Meantime Captain Maude's ar ' Very galloped over the hillock, but were halted by Lord Raglan's order at the base, in rear of the cavalry on the left flank. This was done probably to entice the Russians further down the hill. Meantime our cavalry were drawn up as targets for the enemy's guns, and had they been of iron they could not have been more solid and immoveable. The Russian gunners fired admirably ;' they were rather slow, but their balls came bounding along, quite visible as they passed, in right lines from the centre of the cavalry columns. After some thirty rounds from the enemy our artillery opened fire. Their round shot ploughed up the co lumns of the cavalry, who dispersed into broken lines, wheeling round and round and with great adroit ness to escape the six and nine pound balls. Our shells wore not so successful, but one, better directed than the rest, burst right in the centre of a column of Light In fantry, whom the Russians had advanced to support their cavalry. Our fire was so hot, the service of the guns so quick, that the enemy retired in about fifteen minutes after we opened on them. While this affair was going on the French had crept up on the right, and surprised a body of Russian cavalry with a round from battery of nine-pounders, which scattered them in all di rections. We could count six dead horses on the field near the line of fire. It is not possible to form an accu rate notion of the effect of our fire, but it must have caused the Russians a greater loss than they inflicted on us. Wa lost six horses, and four men were wounded.. Two men lost their legs. The others, up to y es terday, though injured severely, were not in dang er. One of the wounded men, a sergeant in the 11th Hussars rode coolly to the rear with his foot dangling by just Como by P eee ro of skin to the bone, and told the doctor he had to have his leg dressed. Another st , o unded trooper be haved' with equal fo-rtitinie, and. .ni.s legrefused the use of a litter to carry him to the rear thoug h was broken into ,-It. was strange ,in v i s iting the scene where the lay dead, that tlie first feeling produced on the spectator, when the horror of seeing the poor St. 20 St. 15 25 2i 6; 100 5 100 all all all all all 5 10 st. St. 5 all all all 100 all 124 12:1 25 20 126 25 20 a.; 20 20 20 25 all all all all la& 24i1 all 15 D 10 5 St. 25 1061 1001 100 721 3 2i 141 f 21 i ; 7 ' 6 ittv S /t;;: " 0 ftopol, but that 80,000 men. could - be held in check for weeks by the position of the AL-na. Large masses of cavalry, principally Lancers and heavy Dragoons, manoeuvred on the hills on the right of the Russians, and at last descended the hills, s crossed the stream, and threatened our left and rear. As we came near the river our left Wing was thrown back, in order to support our small force of cavalry, and a portion of our artillery was pushed forward in the same direction. Our danger in this respect was detected by the quick eye of Sir George Brown, and I heard him give the order for the move ment of the artillery almost .as soon as he caught sight of the enemy's cavalry, and just as we were coming to the village. As I have already said, our plan of opera tions was that the French should establish themselves under the fire of the guns on the heights, on the extreme of the enemy's left. When that attack was sufficiently developed, and had met witlo success, the British army was to force the right and part of the centre of the Russian position, and the c:ay was gained. When we were about three miles fronr the village, the French steamers ran in as close as they could to the bluff of the shore at the south side of the Lima, and presently we saw them shelling the heights , in splendid styl e , th e s h e ll s bursting over the enemy s squares and batteries, and finally dri% ing them from their position on the right, within 3,000 yards of the sea. The French practice 'commenced about 12i o'clock, and lasted for about an hour and a half. We could see the shells falling over the batteries of the enemy, and inside the works broke iato little spec ks, which flew bursting right into them. ,• and then the black massee about in all directions, and when the smoke cleared away there were some to be seen strewed over the ground. The Russians awl wered the ships from the heights, but without effect. A 'powder tumbril was blown up by a French shell ; a:either shell fell by acci dent into an ambuscade whist; the Russians had pre pared for the advancing Frond, and at last they drew off from the sea-side, and' confined their efforts to the defence of the gullies and heights be. yend the fire of the heavy gums of the steamers. At one o'clock we saw the French columns struggling up the hills, covered by a cloud of skinxiishers, whose fire seemed most deadly. Once, at sight of a threatenin g mass o f R uss i an i n f antry, i n a com manding position a b ove th em , w h o fi re d ra pid volleys among th em , the French paused, but it was only to col lect their skirmishers, for as soon - as they had formed they ran up the hill at the pas de charge, and broke the Russians at once, who fled in disorder with loss, up the hill. We could see men dropping on both sides, and the wounded rolling down the steep. At 1.50 our line of skirmishers got within range of the battery on the hill, and immediately the Russians opened fire at 1,200 yards with effect, the shot ploughing through the open lines of the Riflemen, and falling into the advancing column's behind. Shortly ere this time dense volumes of smoke rose from the river, and drifted along to the eastward; rather 'interfering with the view of the enemy on the left of our position. The Russians had set the village en fire. It was a fair exercise of military skill—was well execated—took place at the net time, and succeeded in occasioning a good deal of annoy: ante. Our troops halted when they neared this village, their left extending beyond it by the verge of the stream —our right behind the burning cottages, and within range of the batteries. It is said the Russians , had taken the range of all the principal points in their front, and placed twigs and sticks to mark them. In this they were assisted - by the post sign boards on the road. The Rus sians opened a furious fire on the whole of our line, but the French had not yet made progress enough to justify us in advancing. The round shot whizzed in every di rection, dashing up the dirt and sand into the faces of the Staff of Lord" Raglan, who were also shelled severely, and attracted much of the enemy's fire. Still Lord Raglan waited patiently for the development of the French attack. At length an aide-de-camp came to him and reported the French had crossed the Alma, but they had not established themselves sufficiently to justify us in an attack. - The infantry were, therefore, ordered to lie down, and the army for a short time was quite pas sive, only that our artillery poured forth an unceasing fire of shell rockets and round shot, which ploughed through the Russians, and caused them great loss. They did not waver, however, and replied to our ar tillery manfully, their shot falling among our men as they lay, and carrying off legs and arms at every round. Lord Raglan at last became weary of this inactivity—his spirit was, up—he looked around, and saw men on whom he knew he might stake the honour and fate of great Britairk by his side, and anticipat ing a little in a military point of view the crisis of action, he gave orders for our whole line to advance. Up rose these seried masses, and passing through a fear ful shower of round, case shot, and shell, they dashed into the Alma, and ' floundered' through its waters, which were literally torn into foam by the deadly hail. At the other side of the river were a number of vine yards, and to our surprise they were occupied by Russian riflemen. Three of the staff were here shot down, but led by Lord Raglan in person they advanced, cheering on the men. And now came the turning point of the battle, in which Lord Raglan, by his sagacity and mili tary skill, probably secured the victory at a smaller sacri fice than would have been otherwise the case. 'He dashed over the bridge, followed by his staff. From the road over it, under the Russian guns, he saw the state of the action. The British line, which he had ordered to advance, was struggling through the river and up the heights in masses, firm indeed, but mowed down by the murderous fire of the bat teries, and by grape, round shot, shell, canister, case shot, and musketry, from some of the guns of the central battery, - and from an immense and compact mass of Russian infantry. Then commenced one of the most bloody and determined struggles in the annals of war. The 2d Divsiou, led by Sir D. Evans is the most dashing manner, crossed thestream on the right. The 7th Fu siliers, led by Colonel Yea, were swept down by fifties. The 55th, 30th, and 95th, led by Brigadier Pennefather, who was in the thickest of the .9ght, cheering on his men, again and again were checked indeed, but never drew back in their onward progress, which was marked by a fierce roll of Minhs musketry, and Brigadier Adams, with the 41st, 47th and 49th, bravely charged up the kill, and aided them in the battle. Sir George Brown, conspicuous on a grey horse, rode in front of his Light Division, urging them with voice and gesture. Gallant fellows ! they were worthy of such a gallant chief. The '7th, diminished by one-half, fell back to-form their columns lost for the time ; the 23d, with eight officers dead and four wounded, were still rushing to the front, aided by the 15th, 33d, 77th, and BElth. Down went Sir George in a cloud of dust in front of the battery. He was soon up, and shouted "23d, I'm all right. Be sure I'll remember this day," and led them on again, but in the shock produced by the fall of their chief, the gallaat regiment suffered terribly, while paralysed for a moment. Meantime the Guards on the right of the Light Divi sion; and the Brigade of Highlanders, were storming the heights en the left. Their line was almost as re gular as though they were in Hyde-park. Sud denly a tornado of round and grape rushed through from the terrible battery, and a roar of musketry from behind thinned their front ranks by dozens. It was evident that we were just able 'to contend against the Russians, favoured as they were by a great position: At this very time an immense mass of Russian infantry were seen moving down towards the battery. They halted. It was the crisis of the day. Sharp, an gular, andsolid; theylooked as if they were cut out of the solid rock. It was beyond all doubt that if our infantry, harassed and thinned as they were, got into the battery they would have to encounter again a formidable fire, which they were but ill calculated to bear. Lord Rag lan saw the difficulties of the situation. He asked if it would be possible to get a, couple of guns to bear on these masses. The reply was `Yes,' and an artillery officer, whose name I do not now knoiv, biought up two guns to fire on the Ruisian squares. The first shot missed, but the next, and the 'next, and the next cut through the ranks so cleanly, and so keenly, that a clear lane could be seen for a moment ,through the square. After a few rounds the cOlumns of the square became broken, wavered to and fro, broke, and tied over the brow of the hill, leaving behind them 6 or 7 distinct linesnf dead, lying as close as possible to each other, marking the passage of the fatal messengers. This act relieved our infant. yof a deadly incubus, and they continued their magnificent and fearful progress up the hill. The Duke encouraged his men by voice and. example, and proved himself worthy of his proud con.- Hamad and of the Royal. race from which ha comes. "Highlanders," said Sir 'C.' Campbell, ere they came to the charge, " I am going to ask a favour of you ; it is, that you will act so as to justify me in asking per of bound. tthe R The wear a bonnet ! Don' t mission of the Queen fur -'on to pull a trigger till . US. chieftain's wish ; Sir Colin had his horse shot under sians !" They charged, and 'well they . obeyed their him, Russians but rushed emdn out, tyooouk'rethewibtahtitneray ;arad of dead behind them. The Guards bad stormed the right of the battery ere the Highlanders got into the left, and it is said the Scots Fusilier Guards were the first to enter. The Second and Light Division crowned the heights. The and left multitude s French turned the guns on - the' hill 'against the flying masses; which the cavalry in vain tried 'to cover. A few faint stragg les from the scatter ed infantry, a few rounds of a lea nd ri m ng us t k he e r tr e y, am th e enemy fl e d to t h e south generals, d rums , th ree guns , 700 prisoners, and 4,000 wou n ded b e hi nd them. The b a ttle of Alma was won. I t i s won with a loss of nearly 3,000 killed and wound e d on our side. The list will cannon east,- appear in a . few days. The Russians' retreat was covered by their cavalry; but •if we had had an adequate force of cavalry we could have captured many guns and multitudes of prisone rs . The Russian dead literally covered the ground. Within the trenches and redoubts the earth, where the corpses allowed you to see it, was slippery with blood. The Ilussians who crowded the field in all the oontor• tions of the last agony were principally soldiers of the 16th and 32d Regiments. They were mostly very small-sized men, though stout, muscular, and active looking. From their appearance there was scarcely a dozen above the age of 25, and the majority was much younger. Not a single officer was among the dead, at least none that we could recognise as such. They wore short grey great coats, blue noatees, blue trousers, with a nar row red band, and stout leather boots, reaching almost to their knees. Their stout white leather cross belts were scrupulously clean, as was all the rest of their uni form. 'On their heads were handsome black leather helmets, bound with brass, and brass chin plates, with a spiked top. In front was a large handsome Imperial eagle, also in brass, surmounted with a Russian inscrip tion, and number of the regiment. Each man also bore the regimental number marked on the cloth of his almost uni form. 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