The Sun. — London, England, 1854-11-27 00:00:00

THE PERMANENT HAPPY EXISTENCE of the HUMAN RACE, or the COMMENCEMENT of the MILLENNIUM in 1855.—A1l Governments, Religions, Classes, gees, and Parties, in all countries, are invited to appoint and send Delegates to a Meeting to be held in the Metropolis of the British Empire, on Monday, 14th May next, in St. Martin's Hall, to hear explained " Glad Tidings of Great Joy to all Mankind," which will include the principles and the plain and easy practice by which all Governments may make, with the aid of their respective religions, every one, from birth, good, intelligent, wise, united to all, and per manently prosperous and happy. And as a preliminary measure, the United Trades of this Metro polis are invited to elect and send Delegates to a Meeting to be held in St. Martin's Hall, January Ist, 1855, at 7 p.m., to have explained to them, that they may explain to their constituents in London, and to their fellow-workmen over Great Britain and Ireland, the course which will be recommended them to adopt at the Great Meeting of Universal Delegates to be held as stated, 14th May, on which day will be declared a coming change in the condition of the human race, without revolution or violence, to be effectene of any classd in peace, with in any order, wise foresight, and without injury ts any o country, but with high lasting benefit to all who shall from birth be placed within these new conditions. Let all who shall attend these t wo meetings co me in the spiri t to a id and benefit of pure charity for all men, and a right good will them, regardless of their class, creed, country, or colour. There will be no deception or secrecy in these proceedings, but the whole will be conducted with " Truth without mystery, mixture of error, or fear of man." And the glory of this elevation of mankind to a new phase in their condition will be alone prog regular to the God re o ss, for f the Universe, who evidently werketh call ings, in the ultimate good and happiness man. Lonlon, 25th November, 1854. ROBERT OWEN. T RE ATRE-ROY AL, DRURY-LANE, nt. JULLIE CONCE R T S• CONCES. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. The New Descriptive Quadrille, " The Allied Armies." The PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING (Monday, Nov. 27) will include the New Serenade and Song, " Sweet Love,Arise," and .. M i nn i e : , sung by Madame Anna Thillort—Grand Operatic Selection from "Roberto it Diavolo"—Overture "Egmont"—" Zampa Qua drille"—the Andante from Mendelssohn's "Scotch Symphony in A" ~ Valse c rAdisa"—Overture to " Tannhanser"— Solo, Flute, by H err F r isch ; Violin, Signor Monasterio ; and Trampe,t, M. Duhem The Moldavian Schottische"—" The Charge Galop," and the new DESCRIPTIVE QUADRILLE, "THE ALLIED ARMIES, Jullien. Assisted by the Bands of her Majesty's Grenadier Guards, 2d Life Guards, and Coldstream Guards. To-morrow (Tuesday) the Beethoven Festival—the First Part selected entirely from the works of Beethoven, tke Second Part Mis cellaneou., including " The Allied Armies Quadrille." PRICES OF AnsussioN.—Promenade, boxes, and galleries, is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes 11. Is. and 11. I Is. cd. M. JULLIEN'S GRAND SAL MASQUE will take place en MONDAY, Dec. 11, and terminate the season. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. linckstone. THIS EVENING, Nov. 27, Will be Performed ST. PATRICK'S EVE. Principal characters by \tcesrs. Hudson, Chippendale, and W. Farren ; Jiiss Martindale . , and Mrs. Poynter. To which will be added THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. To Le followed by BOX AND COY. To which will be added A FISH OFT OF WATER. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TiIEATIIII.% OXFORD-STREET. Under the ganagenaent of Mr. Crutat.za Klux. If.VE:.iING. Nov. 27 , Will be performed Tflll Cot 1:IER OF LYONS. Car rs acte by Mr. C. Kean, Messrs. J . Yining. Addison, Graham, I). h Ca heart, and baker ; misses4Desboreugh, kleath, I ernan, and K. Terry. To conclude with Trir, lIONZY MOON. Principal characters hir Mvssrs . Lacy, llarley, Me idoi.vs, J. Vining, and Everett ; Mise.cs Murray, Desborough, ant neath. LYCEUM THEATRE. TIIIS EVENING, Nov. 27, be performed TrIZ GAIIE OF SPECULATION. Charac ters by '•tessra. C. Mathews, It. Roxby, F. vtatthews, and Baker ; Mrs. Hughes, Misses Oliver and Wadham, and 11ra. Foote. To he 'n ;owed by a new Comic Drama, entitled A COMICAL COUNTESi. To conclade with the Farce entitled MY FELLOW CLERK. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, lklr. B. Webster.—Dtreztress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, - Nov. 27, Will be performed TUT, SERIOUS FAMILY. Characters by Messrs. C. Selby, Leigh Murray, and Seeley; MLss Vireo?gar, and Mrs. I:eeley. After which, a new Farce called Till,: SLOW MAN. Followed by ros.B. FIDE TIZAVELLKItS. To which will be aided a ruw Farce, eat tied THE RAILWAY BULLE. ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIE‘.TRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Nov. 27, Will be presented THE BEULAH SPA.. Principal characters by i , tessrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, and M. Cooper; Miss Marston, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Fitzallan, and Miss Julia St. George. To be followed by THE FIRS T NIGHT. Characters by Nie+•r.. Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Harwood Cooper, and Gladstone; Miss Jura St. George, and Miss Emily Ormoude• To conclude with the Farce, called A BLIGIITED BEING, in which AU'. Robson will appear. ASTLE rs ROYAL AISSP lIIT KAT It Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Miraculous attraction, and success without parallel ! " THIS EVENING, The Magnificent and heart-stirring MILITARY SPECTACLE, In 2 acts, by J. H. .TOCQUELIaII, Esq., called THE RATTLE OF THE .ALMA I graphically realising that terrible conflict, and occupying both the btage and the Ring, with 400 Auxiliaries ; After which, the Celebrated SCENES in the ARENA, invented and conducted by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with a Grand Entree called TILE WILD INDIANS ON THEIR FLEET 110R6ES! N.B.—An early attendance IA respectfully suggested, in consequence of the numbers who nightly throng the doors of the Theatre. Box,ofßce open from Eleven till Four. stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manage:, Mr. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. Win. Cooke, Jan. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDG it Tots DAY —Morning 56 alin.after 6 1 Evening 31 rnin.aft, To 4,-,8.R0w Morning 11 min.after 8 1 Evening 62 min.sf, THE WEATHER.--Sunt OnWe, Nor. 26. THERMOMRTER, 13 THE SEIADE. 44 highest since noon yesterday. 34 —'owest this morning and during the night. 38—this day, at noon. BAROMBTSB, 29.93—rising rapidly. WIND, N. by W.—Light, with fine cold seasonable weather. NOVBIIBB/t 27. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 33 —lowest this morning and during the night. 36 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 03. Wu D, variable from N.W. to W.S.W., with hazy weather and thick rig in the morning. "c: . ! ~~~ ------ dation for the alleged loss of twelve English transports. We rejoice, however, to find that some, although inadequate, reinforcements are finding their way to the seat of war. MAYRAN'S division, among which were the French troops lately quar tered in Greece, sailed from the Bosphorus on the 6tb, too late it is true to participate in the splendid victory of Inkerman, but ready to supply the places of those who fell on that glorious day, and to relieve the survivors •from their too arduous duties. All the reserve formerly main tained at Varna or Gallipoli, indeed we may say anywhere in the " direction" of hostilities, have been transmitted to the scene of action, and with them some 10,000 Turks, and 6,500 Egyptians. It is also asserted that the Ottoman Government will send 40,000 more, and that the French are prepared to send a numerous body also, for whom 13 large English steamers have already arrived at Marseilles. These exertions of our Allies are very creditable, but they will not dispense with equally energetic efforts on our parts. We should blush for shame if we hung back when others were . displaying such earnest determination. We shall not do so— for Parliament will shortly be assembled ; and whatever may be the views of Lord ABERDEEN, we can trust to the representatives of the British people to give expression to the views and feelings of their respective constituents. Even Lord ABERDEEN himself will be convinced before many days have elapsed after the appointed day of meeting. It is said, after all, that we are really to have a winter Session of Parliament, and that the 12th proximo is fixed on for that purpose. Matters have proceeded to such a length as to rouse the " good and excellent" Old Lady at the head of her MA JESTY'S Government from the protracted slumbers in which she has so perseveringly indulged. The CzAn's " friend of forty years' standing" is at length becoming aware of the position in which he has involved the country, and beginning to think that it may be just as well to divide his responsibility with the chosen representatives of the people. Previously he had determined to retain the disposal of everything in his own hands, and he was enabled to do so through the singular improvidence of Parliament in granting a vote of credit for 3,000,0001., which he, in conjunction with his colleagues, were authorised to dispose of as he thought proper. Whether the fund has proved inadequate, or his colleagues res tive, we know not. Possibly he has been himself startled from his dream by perceiving the magnitude of the difficulty in which he has in volved the country. Whatever be the cause, however, the great fact of a meeting of Parliament will bo hailed with exultation by the entire community. We believe, and fervently hope, that a section of the Cabinet, headed by Lords JOHN RUSSELL and PALMERSTON, insisted on this constitutional course being adopted. It would, indeed, rejoice us to find that those in whom we had trusted were still worthy of unlimited confidence—that they were Englishmen in heart and soul, jealous of the honour of their fatherland, and determined to place it, as it ought to be, beyond all reproach. We shall cling to this hope until it be completely dispelled, for, as we have declared, we should not wish the ties by which we have so long been con nected with the party of which they ware the re cognised leaders to be rudely severed, or in any degree weakened. The meeting of Parliament is, however, the " great fact," which, we trust, will lead to the felicitous - solution of the important problem oil which the nation is now pondering. It is at length discovered that we are engaged in no " rose-water war," which can be brought to a conclusion with scarcely a perceptible effort on our part. Taught by sad experience, and in lettets written is the blood of our best and ' bravest, we have discovered that every nerve must be strained to the utmost to bring the terrible contest in which we are engaged to a speedy, honourable, and safe termination. We know that we must spare neither men nor money in the noble cause. We have seen how gallantly the handful already despatched have conducted themselves—maintaining the character of their country at the highest point to which it has ever been elevated, and. eliciting the admiration alike of friends and foes. We must not, from any paltry considerations of L.S.D., desert these brave men, or prove faithless Allies to those with whom we have entered into a firm and binding compact. Our duties to our countrymen, and to their brave companions in the Crimean campaign, alike de mand a strenuous and determined effort to re lieve those who are subjected to more anxious trials than they could fairly be allowed to sustain, and also to achieve the great object for which we reluctantly entered into hostilities, after neatly forty years' peace. Whatever views may be enter tained as to the original question—whether, like ourselves, the people consider the Ministry to have been far too cautious, and to have occasioned irreparable mischief by their hesitation and pro crastination, or, whether, like Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, they look on Lord ABERDEEN as a rather fast young man, who has acted with great recklessness and impetuosity, all will agree that the scanty remnant of our troops sent to the Crimea, who still, although reduced to less than half their original number, present an adverse front to the far more numerous foe, must be succoured. We must relieve our brothers, who are involved in a dilemma so formidable. We must also show our selves worthy of the cordial friendship and co operation of France—not striving , to sconce or to half perform the task we have undertaken, and to the performance of which we have pledged the National Faith. That which we have so unflinch ingly maintaind in all pecuniary matters—albeit, at heavy sacrifices—must not now be forfeited, or even placed for a moment in doubt, by any lukewarmness or holding back in the noble cause. It is said that the primary cause of the 11830113.- bling of the Legislature is the necessity for re ceiving authority to send the militia, or at least certain regiments who have volunteered for the duty, out of the realm to various parts in the Mediterranean, the regular garrisons whereof are about to be sent to more active service in the Crimea. It is a very plausible excuse, but we are convinced that questions of far greater importance will be ventilated—that it will not be mere matters of form on which Parliament will be occupied. It is English hearts that beat under militia jackets. It is English blood that circulates through the veins of the brave fellows that have not awaited the unfavourable chance of the ballot, but came freely a n d w illi ng l y f orwar d i n the service of their country. Although they might plead a bindi n g contract, and i ns i st on t h e i r exem pti o n from foreign se rv i ce, we b man would he s it a t e or trary, the de s i re would be helaienvge back. tlaat n o o n t t a heoon. single that they should be required for something mo re more perilous than th e mere ga on r e . r so o n u i s n , and garrisoning of ffoarr iresses in the Mediterranean, t o which the wooden walls of England afforded ample protection. embodiment .the entire , But although the em gus eb:: , )l tt LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1854. There has been no confirmation of the alleged battle of the 13th instant. The Egyptus, which left Constantinople on the 15th, and which, therefore, ought to have brought any intelligence from the Crimea up to that date, has arrived at Marseilles. She did not bring, however, any news from the Crimea, it being said that the terrific storm of the 13th had prevented the transmission of any despatch from the army. If such a battle had taken place, we should unques tionably have heard of it in some official form before the present time. When, therefor 3, we remember that no allusion to it has been made in the de spatches of MENSCHIKOFF, which declare that nothing of importance had happened up to the 15th instant, we can only regard it as one of the canards by which Western credulity has oc casionally been played on. As we stated in a recent number, although there would be nothing improbable in such an attack, we must remember that it has not been referred to in the despatches of the Russian General, and that it is alleged to have been made on the French lines, which shows that if it at all took place it must have been a sortie from the town, inasmuch as the position of the Allies is such that any attack from the open country must be made on the English in the first instance. If, however, there ha s been no pitched battle, no desperate struggle for life or death between the besiegers of Sebastopol and those by whom they in turn are beleaguered, we have not escaped from other losses of a serio us character. '` is said that several of our transports have been riv° l l ashore in the Bay of Katcha, and that many valuable lives have been sacrificed during the s t orm Of the 13th and 14th in the Euxine, and which was also painfully perceptible at Constantinople itself. This is ' indeed, striking 113 in the most tend er point. We know that France is prepared to send powerful reinforce ments to the army of the E ut ____ n sufficient to t u rn the scale completely, and insure a triumph of the Western Powers. A ll that is th e means of co nve y ance ! Titers are wantingtrainedis soldiers sufficient not only to insure the safety of the besieging force, but the capture of Sebastopol and the conquest of the en tire Crimea. Any deterioration of the transport power must therefore be looked on as an evil of the greatest magnitude, which could only be regarded. al a formidable national calamity. We must, however, remember that the intelligence has only come from Russian sources, and that much e xa gg eration may be looked for restrain such points. A little difficulty would .be exaggerated into a terrible calamity—a mere - wtr6 '', to an entire loss. Thus the running agr(4l 41 f " two steamers and a screw ship '' raj&• . • TO been the chief, if not the only, f0un ...., I 1,1.4, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1864 e shower of bullets on the Russians in their attack on our position, not a man of them could have survived coming within its range. We will not give an opinion now on such a suggestion ; but this we know, that the devices of " scheme's," despised by men of red tape at first, have become at last the regular equipment of " the service." VOLUNTEERS FOR 1855 ; OR, A VOICE FROM MA NCH ESTER. We have much pleasure in giving currency to the following spirited address : The cry of the people now ringing through the whole land—from Dover to Galway—from Cornwall to the Ork neys—calls for a response from the Crown and from Parliament. The heroism of our handful of men in the East tells us, that the only fitting response to the cry is an immediate signal to the old spirit of Volunteering among us. The last war was nobly closed by some 15,000 Volunteers in mass from the Militia; and it was prepared by the embodying of half-a-million of local volunteers. Groat as our countrymen have shown themselves in the East reverses may come. It will be madness not to be ready for those reverses ; and no better step for that purpose can be taken than the immediate assembling of a million of volunteers in the three kingdoms, to prove that we have counted the cost of the contest we have been driven to wage ; and that we mean to stake that cost for the safety and civilisation of mankind. The people of these islands understand the crisis per fectly. We love peace ; but we know it must be conquered. We abhor tyranny in every form ; but we know it can be crushed by manful resistance. The blood of oar brothers must be avenged ; and the rights of our fellow-men vindicated by every sacrifice of our lives and our fortunes. Both are at the command of the Queen and of Parliament ; and all Europe will see an united people rising as ono man to defeat hypocrisy and fraud, and protect society from insolent aggression. By this measure, too, we shall secure the indemnity in hard coin which Russia must pay for disturbing Europe by her unscrupulous ambition. The French alliance is worth all we are spending ; but to keep it, and improve it, we must meet manfully the great crisis of our day. A VOLUNTSBR OF 1812. Manchester, 24th November, 1854. VOLUNTEERING FROM THE MILITIA TO THE LINE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The offer of an Ensigncy for every 75 volun• teers from a Militia regiment to the Line may be a boo❑ to a Colonel who has sons or nephews to provide for ; but it is a very poor encouragement to the Adjutant and Staff Sergeants who have had the labour of raising and training their regiments for the last three year:;. There is no doubt but that an Adjutant of Militia has more influence over the men than any other officer ; and it is quite natural that the men should place the most confidence in him who has the most perfect know idge of his duty, and whom they are aware has been in active service in the field. Men are wante't, and badly enough. Let the autho. rities try the experiment of offering the Adjutants, and officers commanding companies in the Militia, who have served in the Militia, their former army rank, provided that they take their men with them, and I am con vinced that the result will be found favourable. By this means a considerable force could be at once raised, with the addition of a few efficient officers, whose re appointment to the army would excite no jealousy or discontent, and who would be gladly welcomed back again to their brothers in arms who may have struggled with them on many a field before. If any reward is to be given, moreover, for a few volunteers, why not give it to those who, by their exer tions, have earned it, and not to the Colonels, whose arduous services in few instances would entitle them to more than the exalted rank and the liberal pay already awarded to them, and who appeared at the first train ings of their regiments as wise as those recruits whom they came to command ?—I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, A SOLDIER. militia force, and the demand for permission to send certain regiments out of the British Islands, may form the plausible pretext for convening Parliament, it does not follow that the business transacted will be restricted within such narrow limits. Our representatives are , not tied down to matters brought forward under official sanction, or restrained from taking the initiative whenever occasion may re quire. There never was a more urgent call for the most determined efforts, and we are con vinced that " the chosen" of the English will prove themselves, like the British soldiers, adequate to any emergency, and ready to perform their duty under any circumstances, however adverse. Early in the campaign we pointed out the mili tary necessity of destroying Odessa, or, at least, of rendering it useless, as a base of military ope rations, and, while it was contended by others that Sebastopol was too serious an enterprise, we showed that, even if it were, Odessa and Nicho laieff were neither impregnable nor unessential. The past, of course, cannot be altered, but we presume to ask whether it would not be most desirable even now to demolish everything Russian between the Sulina mouth of the Danube and Sebastopol itself ; axd, further to dredge the mouth of the river and make it 1 practicable at least for our smaller war steamers ? It has proved, as we always contended, that if Odessa was not a powerful fortress, it was a most serviceable base of operations for the army of the Danube ; it was the grand depot for supplies of provisions and other necessaries of an army. We ought to have demanded the destruction of every thing military in the town, and the transportation to Turkeyof all stores of corn and provisions in whose- soever hands they were found, as being, under the circumstances, the most important materials of war. This, or to be laid in ashes, was in truth but humanity to all who might suffer directly or indirectly by the too lenient conduct of the war. The error of our fatal mercy was too soon ap parent in the loss of the Tiger ; and is now more awfully to be seen in the prolonged siege of Se bastopol, and the losses of our gallant army in repulsing the "reinforcements from the Danube." Had we turned the cowardice of the Russian navy to its proper account, and while its ships were skulking behind stone walls have employed ours in demolishing Odessa and destroying Nicholaieff, the Danubian battalions could not have been transported so promptly to the Crimea, and probably Sebastopol would have been taken before they could have arrived at all. We have, therefore, not only the villany of Austria, but our own half-heartedness, to thank for our losses. Even our Cabinet must now be convinced that tenderness to Russia has been repaid only by the slaughter of our men ; and the return for sparing Odessa and sending the Russian wounded, there has been the bayonetting of our own fallen soldiers. Mercy to barbarians is ever cruelty to ourselves. They cannot comprehend it. Let them feel, then, the full consequences of provoking our strength. Let us fairly destroy everything belonging to Russia on the Black Sea which can shelter her troops, or afford them means of transport from place to place. We deeply pity the innocent victims of this cruel necessity ; but let them know that their god, NICHOLAS, cannot at the same time use them as instruments of his accursed ambition, and save them from being involved in its punishment. We trust, therefore, the statements respecting the renewed activity of OHEII. PACHA on the Pruth, and the sending of part of the French reinforce ments to his aid against Bessarabia, are founded l in truth. Of course the first thing is to estab blish an unquestionable superiority for the Allies in the Crimea ; but hardly second to this, even 'now, is the detention of the Russian Danubian army to the west of Kherson, by operations against Bessarabia. We have but played at war all the summer ; we must now make amends for it, alas ! during winter. We have vessels which can brave the winter winds of the Euxine. NICHOLAS will cer tainly avail himself of the impunity afforded by the ice to his Baltic coast to pour down his forces to his southern shores ; but we can also, while our commerce is protected from his frigates by the same ice, send our Baltic steamers to try their broadsides upon his ports and towns in the south. The splendid seamanship which brings home such a feet safe from the shallows of the Baltic will know how to handle our ships amidst the winter dangers of the Black Sea. Measures like these, war on the largest scale, must take the place of the system of dalliance which lasted till the expedition against Sebastopol. The whole question is now vastly enlarged. It is no longer whether Turkey shall be safe or not. That ques tion must be settled in the Crimea, and it will be; but, though the overthrow of Sebastopol will utterly destroy the military prestige of Russia in the south, NICHOLAS will only be the snore infu riate. The Baltic must also be denuded of Rus sian fortresses and Russian men-of-war next sum mer, and by that time there can hardly be a doubt that Poland will have its turn. The Rus sian maritime means of offence against Europe must be first annihilated, and then every voice will pTonounce that Poland must be its own, and be no longer Russia's out-works against us all. By that time all Europe may be in the flame of revolution, and it may be come the welcome duty of France and England to bid the nations be free, and, as an act of un deserved mercy, to send a batch of Royal and Im perial despots to meditate on their folly and perfidy on the rock of St. Helena. One word more to our administrators, civil and military. It was hardly a mere joke when the after-dinner proposal was made that the two great contractors for the Crystal Palace should contract next with Government for the taking of Sebastopol or Cronstadt. Sir JOSEPH PAXTON gave us at least, quite seriously, a useful hint at Coventry, the other day in the same vein. War is more than ever become dependent on engineering science ; and our men of routine must not be above accepting the aid of the men who have proved themselves equal to any engineering feat. Some thouiands of our navvies would, as Sir JefarK suggests, have saved our troops most in jurious fatigue in earthworks, and been thus prac tically a large addition to our army. Nor can we doubt that, while the face-to-face and hand-to hand attack upon the foe must always be left to disciplined courage and skill, our civil engineers, were the responsibility thrown upon them, would develops unexpected and most wonderful re sources. Russia has no such ability. It abounds in England. Let not official pride overlook our national advantages. The battering down of Cronstadt, with little loss to the invaders, would, with the architect of the Menai Tubular Bridge, be a matter of definite calculation. He would soon compute for how many hundred thousand pounds he could do it ; aye, and very likely could t g h e et profitsplenty of his contract. persons t was o a b k s e shares e r ved t o us i,lt the other day that steam now can be got to any pressure in three minutes ; and that if PER KINS' steam-gun could have poured its unceasing HAYMARKET THEATRE. Mr. Buckstone, en Saturday evening last, returned to his post, after a lengthened absence. On his appearance he was warmly welcomed, but not more than his sterling merits, both as an actor and a manager, deserved. At the termination of the comedy, Presented at Court, there was a general call for Mr. Buckstone, which he obeyed as Lady Trumpington, led on by Mr. Howe, and curt seyed very modestly for the bouquets which were thrown on the stage, amid the laughter and applause of the audience. Mr. Buekstone re-appeared on Saturday in Mr. Stir ling Coyne's pleasant comedy of Presented at Court, thus most efficiently putting and end to the unfounded rumour that he had retired from the stage. He was received with the heartiest applause, and well he de served the reception, for in the double capacity of actor and author, no one has laboured so much and so succes fully as Mr. Buckstone.—Tirnes. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR. Nov. 25. The dinner party yesterday included his Serene High ness Prince Ernest of Leiningen and the Duke of New castle. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in the Castle after dinner. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by Prince Ernest of Leiningen, walked in the Home-park and slopes this forenoon. The Royal children took their usual exercise. The Duke of Newcastle arrived yesterday. His grace left Windsor by an early train this morning for London. His Royal Highness Prince Albert returned from Portsmouth at a quarter past six last evening. _ _ - Nov. 26. _ _ 7 The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Frances Bruce, and the Earl of Aberdeen. The private band attended after di nner . The Queen and Prince,. the four e ld er roya l c kild ren , and Prince Ernes t of Lemingen, the ladies and gentle men of the Court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor offi ciated. The Earl of Aberdeen was also at the service. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived yesterday afternoon, and left Windsor to-day for London. The Committee on Education of the Lords of her Ma jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council met on Satur day at the Privy Council office. The lords present were —The Lord President, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Granville, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. Sir Alexander Spearman bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Duke of Newcastle returned to town on Satur day morning. The Earl of Aberdeen left London for Windsor Castle in the afternoon, and returued to Len , don yesterday. The Queen held a Privy Council this day (Monday) at Windsor Castle. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—The Duke of Newcastle came to town on Saturday from Windsor Castle, after a brief visit to the Queen. His Grace remained until a late hour last evening, at his temporary official residence in Downing - s treet. We are inform e d th a t th e en tire staff of the War Department will remove to Harrington House on Monday or the following day. The Govern ment is not in expectation of any further despatches from the Crimea until Tuesday next. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have arrived at Trentham, Staffordshire, from Dunrobin Castle. The Earl and Countess of Erroll have left Lady Agnes t p h u a ff :t s he for wound Leamington in h his s lordship's Spa .W We hand,ar which he mete happy t o l earn with at the battle of Alma is going on satisfactorily, and hopes are entertained that the noble earl will be enabled to join his regiment at the Crimea in the spring of the ensuing year. The Earl of Malmesbury leaves town to-day for Knowsley -park, near Prescott, to join the party which sembles there on visits to the Earl and Countess of Derby. DEATH OF LIEIITENANT-GEERRAL SIR HENRY GOLD FINCH, K.C.B.—We regret to observe the decease of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Goldfinch, K.C.B. H e was this day interred in the London Necropolis, at Woking. The French Government has just sent off from Mar seilles 60,000 pairs of gaiters, lined with fur, for the army of the East. The Constantinople banker, Djezaerli, has be en condemned by the Ottoman Grand Council to banish ment. Queen Christina has left the south of France and must by this time have arrived at Malmaison. Madame Sala*gone, the mother-in-law of area de Rothschild, died in Paris on Friday last. Turkey has just decided, notwithstanding the charges of the war now going on, she will send products of her industry to the Universal Exhibition at Paris next year. To that effect a committee is now being formed at Constantinople, with Kiamil Bey, introducer of am bassadors, as president. Captain Roux, aide-de-camp to Prince Napoleon, has just left Paris to rejoin the prince in the East after a stay of three days in the French capital, which he visited for the purpose of reassuring Prince Jerome as to his son's health. The review of the Imperial Guard, which Lord Pal merston was invited to witness, was put off on account of the bad weather. It is now officially announced that this review will take place today (,londay), at 1 o'clock, in the gardens of the Tuileries and the Champs Elys6es. DEATH OF MR. LocnHART.—Mr. J. G. 'Lockhart, who was taken severely ill of paralysis a f,ertuight ago at Abbotsford, where he had gone in the hope of recruit ing his health, died on Saturday evening. His condi tion appearing dangerous in the middle of the week, his brother was sent for to London, but he expired shortly before his arrival. DLOCI:ADE BBC THE ALLIED FLEETS.—Letters from Odessa of the 13th inst. state that some excitement had been caused by advices from France that the allied fleets had been ordered to establish a strict blockade. LATEST NEWS. We have received the following telegraphic despatch froroi our correspondent in Vienna : "VIENNA, SATURDAY MORNING. "Between. the 9th and 13th Mayran's division and 2,340 more French troops left Constantino ple for the Crimea. 10,000 Turks and 6,500 Egyptians have also taken their departure. " Osten-Sacken is to take the command in the Crimea, instead of Danitenberg. " Omer Pasha is reported to have received orders not to advance into Moldavia." We have ads• received the following despatch, dated last night, from our correspondent in Vienna: -- " The °est. Correspondenz of this afternoon states that at 2 o'clock Count Buol and Count Arnim, by order of their respective Courts, signed au additional article to the treaty of April 20. "As a consequence of the complete understand- in thus established between the two great Ger man Powers, it is certain that the motion about to bo made in the Diet will be carried by a ma. jority almost amouiting to unanimity. Thus the influence of the whole of Germany will be se- cured on the great European question now pond ing. " Official Russian news states that during the stormy night of the 14th, 12 transports were lost on. the shore in the embouchure of the Katcha. " Some of the men fell into the hands of the Russians, but none of the vessels. " Two steamers and a screw-ship, which had run aground, were got off by lightening the yes. sels." We have since received the following from our correspondent at Vienna : " VIENNA, SUNDAY EVENING, 6 O'CLOCK. " It is now positively affirmed that Austria has accepted, with some slight modifications, the pro positions contained in the Prussian Note of the 15th. " A day or two since Bavaria announced her accession to the policy of Austria on the Oriental question, and promised her support in the Ger- man Diet. "If this be correct, the policy of Austria can hardly be that of the Western Powers. "Russia has prohibited the exportation of all binds of corn into Austria. " Prince Napoleon was to return to Balaklava on the 17th of November." The following, dated last night, is from our correspondent in Paris : " The Egyptus, which left Constantinople on the 15th, has arrived to-day at Marseilles. She does not bring any news from the Crimea, the storm of the 13th having prevented the departure of the courier from the army. The Journal de Constantinople mentions the embarkation for the Crimea of 10,000 Turks, and the expected speedy departure of 40,000 more. Mahmouci. Pasha, formerly Minister of Marine, has been exiled. "The armies in Asia were about to take up their winter quarters. " Thirteen large English steamers arrived yes terday at Marseilles." THE BALTIC FLEET. KIEL, Nov. 25 her Majesty's ships Princess Royal, 91, and St. Jean d'Acre, 101, for England. The Bulldog and Vulture have also left to-day for Copenhagen. NYBORG, SUNDAY XOON. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 25 A partial change of ministry has taken place, Frankfort, for Minister of War. MALTA. To-day Rear-Admiral Seymour left Kid with The Princess Royal, with Admiral Seymour's flag,. and St Jean d'Acre, with Locust in com pany, have just passed the Belt, steering north wards. Scheel is appointed Minister for Holstein, Warnsted. for Schleswig, and Bulow, now at MALTA, Nov. 22. The Ottawa and Cleopatra have left with 1096 men; the Golden Fleece with 571 men. The Arethusa has arrived from Constantinople with 192 invalids. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter of the 14th, from Jassy, confirms the report that the Turks under Sadik Pacha are cross ing the Sereth, but it does not appear probable that an invasion of Bessarabia will be ventured upon. The movement of the Turks looks more like a demonstration for the purpose of drawing Prince Gortschakoff's attention from the Crimea. The pontoon bridge at Rutsohuk has been removed from thence to Silistria ; and two bridges have been thrown over the Seroth near its conflux with the Danube. The Russians in Bessarabia are making great preparations for defence • and the line of the Pruth is strong l y for t ifie d at all points. Whole villages have been destroyed for this pur pose. The Prose says that on the 14th Prince Gortschakoff was still at Kischineff, as also the Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas, who were about to leave for Warsaw. The troops, which in October were being conveyed in waggons to the Russo-Moldavian frontier, had been ordered to the Gallician frontier. According to a private letter of the 15th, from Bucharest, Omer Pacha received his instructions to advance towards the Russian frontier on the 6th. The garrison of the Wallachian capital was also to march to the north, and the Commander-in-Chief in tended to follow on the 16th. The rain was incessant, and the weather so tempestuous that the operations of the Sirdar were much retarded. H is Highnesshas applied to the British Government for experienced English officers. It appears that the recent mis conduct of the Turks at Balaklava has much mor tified Omar Pasha, who well knows what his army can do when they are well officered, as was the case at Silistria and Giurgevo. General Cannon, who left with his little staff for Braila on the 13th, is said to be in very high favour with the urkish commander. The victory obtai ned by he Allies on the sth was proclaimed at Bucharest on the 11th. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The following teleg rap hi c despatch, whic h has arrived here to-day, adds but little to our previous information from the Crimea beyond the fact that up to the 15th nothing was known at Constanti nople of any further attack on the part of the Rus sians. The despatch does not affirm up to what date intelligence from Balaklava had been received in the Turkish capital ; but it is to be supposed. that the last news was only to the 12th, as a dread fud tempest raged in the Black Sea on the 13th and 14th. Hence the vessel which has just arrived brings no letters from the Crimea :- - Marseilles, 1.; ov. "The Egyptus arrived here last night, bringing news from Constantinople to the 15th, but with out letters from the Crimea, a violent storm which prevailed in the Black Sea on the 13th having pre vented the arrival of the mail from the Crimea. " According to the intelligence received previ ously, the Russians continue fortifying the houses in the interior of Sebastopol ; but they are likewise preparing the means of retreating into the fortifica tions of the north, by establishing two bridges of boats. " A part of the troops beaten at Inkerman had arrived from Odessa in nine days in carts. " The Journal de Constantinople states that in addition to the speedy sending of 40,000 men (Eng lish and French), 10,000 Turks are to embark for the Crimea. " Twenty-two transports have passed the Dar danelles.. On the 9th the Golden Fleece took a regiment of artillery on board at Malta. " The army of Asia is doing nothing. It had 100 deaths a day during the month of October, but their situation was improving. It was preparing for winter quarters. " The Russian prisoners state that the two Grand Dukes, during their stay in the Crimea, recom mended the Poles to have full confidence in the in tentions of the Czar. " The Candia, from Liverpool, and two other large steamers, arrived last evening at Marseilles." The following private telegraphic despatch has also been received here : " TRIESTE, 24T11.—Advices from Alexandria to the state that the Viceroy of Egypt had started with 12,000 troops for the desert, in order to exercise them in strategic movements and accustom them to marching. The same courier brings news front Bombay to the 28th ultimo. The embassy sent by the English to the Burmese Monarch had arrived at Rangoon. The King. was disposed to negotiate with Eng ' land, but claimed restitution of certain parts of his ter ritory conquered by the British troops. The last news from Hong Kong conies down to Oct. 11. At Canton it was expected that the city would soon be stormed. The French, English, and American commissioners had reached Shanghai, and were going on to .Pekin," The Moniteur of yesterday Bays that the Em peror has just addressed the following letter to the General-in-Chief of tho army of the East : " Palace of St. Cloud, Nov. 24. "General,--Your report respecting the victory of In kerman has excited deep emotion in my mind. Express, in my name, to the army my entire satisfaction with the courage it has displayed, with its energy in supporting fatigues and privations, and its warm cordiality towards our allies. Thank the generals, the officers, and the sol diers for their valiant conduct. Tell them that I warmly sympathise with their misfortunes and the cruel losses they have experienced, and that my constant solicitude shall be directed to the task of softening the bitterness of them. After the brilliant victory of the Alma, I had hoped for a moment that the routed army of the enemy would not so easily have repaired its losses, and that Sebastopol would soon have fallen under our attacks; but the obstinate de fence of that town and the reinforcements received by the Russian army leave for the moment arrested the course of our success. I approve of the resistance you made to the impatience of the troops who wished to make the assault under circumstances which would have entailed too cot siderablo losses. "The English and French Governments direct their serious attention to their army in the East. Already steam-boats are traversing the seas with considerable rein forcements. This increase of assistance will double your forces, and enable you to assume the offensive. A power ful diversion is about to take place in Bessarabia, and I receive the assurance that from day to day in foreign coun tries public opinion becomes more and more favourable to us. If Europe should have seen without alarm our eagles, so long banished, displayed with so much eclat, it is be cause it knows that we are only fighting for its indepen dence. If France has resumed the position to which she is entitled, and if victory has again attended upon our flags, it is—l declare it with pride—to the patriotism and to the indomitable bravery of the army that I owe it. " I send General de Montebello, one of my aides-de camp, to convey to the army the rewards which it has so well merited. "In the meantime, General, I pray God to have you in His holy keeping. "NAPOLEON A letter from Marseilles, of the 23d inst., says : " The greatest activity prevails in the port of La Jo liette at this moment. A dozen transports are taking on board a squadron of the waggon train, and a number of mules. 100 Chasseurs d'Afrique are to embark in the same transports. The steamer Galiano is to sail to-night for Constantinople, having been chartered by Govern ment for the conveyance of a strong detachment of mounted gendarmes and ammunition for the army of the East. All the steamers freighted for the same service have already commenced loading stores. M. Baudens, head surgeon of the military hospital in Paris, arrived yesterday at Marseilles." General Count de Montebello, who is the bearer of the Emperor's proofs of approbation to the army, was to have left yesterday, and in some of to-day's papers his departure is announced. He was, how ever, in Paris at one o'clock to-day, but leaves this ev ning. On Tuesday last the Emperor and Empress were present at an experiment of the machine for trans planting trees, invented by Mr. Stewart Mac- Glashin, of Edinburgh. The trial was attended with complete success, and his Majesty, after pur chaaing the apparatus, requested the inventor to proceed to St. Cloud, on Thursday morning, to teach the gardeners of the Palace the manner of working it. The Moniteur says :—" We lately published, under all reserve, a manifesto attributed to Count de Montewolino. According to a letter addressed from Naples to the Parlaetento of Turin by M. Thomas d'Agiout, and copied by the Messager de Bayonne, this manifesto is said to be apocryphal. Having inserted the former docu ment, we think it our duty to admit the explana tion of which it is the object." There is no truth in the announcement in the Constitutionnel of this morning, that Colonel Tripier, the head of the French engineering staff in the BOURSE, SATURDAY.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. per Cents 9l 75 91f. 25c. 3 percents 7l 50 70 C 5 _ _ Credit Mobilier 7lO Roman Credit Foncier — Austrian .... Belgian Fives ...... Piodmontose Spanish Threes Si 50 Home Dobt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. THE BALTIC FLEET. KIEL, HOLSTEIN, Nov. 23. C.cimea, was killed at the battle of IdKerman. He is the principal officer of engineers immediately under General Bizet, and his death would have been a great calamity. Happily his friends have re ceived letters from him subsequently to Nov. 5. M. Creuzet, the Government candidate, has been elected deputy to the legislative body for the de partment of the Cantal, in the room of M. de la Gueronniere, named Councillor of State. The,English steamer Petrel is laow in the dock at Havre, taking on board a quantity of stores for the army of the East left behind by the Alps steamer, which sailed a few days since for the same destination. The Petrel will be followed by four other steamers with provisions of all kinds for the army. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans 1,160 Lyons . 972 50 Western — Rouen 950 Cette — Strasburg Mediterranean B4O Havre 520 Northern A telegraphic despatch, the purport of which is not clearly understood, has been received from the Admiralty. It was to this effect :—" If the Prin cess Royal is to proceed to England, Rear-Admiral Seymour is to hoist his flag on board that ship." To this, I have heard, from a source on which re liance may be placed, the Commander-in-Chief replied as follows :—" No orders have reached me for any one of the ships under my command to leave Kiel harbour for England." A statement appears in - the Independance Beige, dated Hamburg, the 17th inst., announcing that the departure of the fleet is further postponed until the 4th of December, when it will be determined on what ships are to proceed home, and that in structions will be forwarded to the Commander-in- Chief to leave a certain portion of the fleet in this harbour for the winter season. But I believe this statement to be entitled to very little credence. Yesterday the on dit at the " Club" was, that a portion of the Russian fleet had left Helsingfors and captured two of our cruizers in the Gulf of Finland so recently as three days since. Such an event is highly improbable, and you must receive the intelligence with great reserve. It reached this port by electric telegraph, and is universally considered without foundation. By the latest advices the ice from Sweaborg and Cronstadt has net yet formed to any very great extent, and the navigation of the Gulf of Finland is still open. Here it has been freezing hard for the past two days, with a piercing wind from E.S.E., and a slight fall of snow. The thermometer (Fahrenheit) yesterday, at 7 a . m ., indicated a tempe ra t ure of 27 degs. in the open air. Its maximum during the day was 30 degs., its minimum 26 dogs. The barometer fell rapidly, till it reached 29.052 inches, where it remained stationary. During the past few days the rear squadron has been visited by Rear-Admiral Chads, who mustered the crews of the various ships of which it is com posed. The Vulture, piddle-steamer, Captain F. H. Glasse, sails to-day with despatches and munitions of war for the squadron under the orders of Cap tain R. Watson, blockading the enemy's ports in the Gulf of Finland. The Magicienno, paddle steam-frigate, Captain Thos. Fisher, has proceeded to the head of the harbour to replenish her fuel, on completing which she is to be despatched on particular service. At this port the duties connected with the Post office appear to be imperfectly performed. Letters 101 iP 1 ' ror , cll En,!latifi fhrno clays. ocen.z,- iive 111 Lnuir uraesii, and, in some instances, a much longer period. Moreover, those which are prepaid sometimes fail in reaching their destination. While writing, orders have arrived for the St. Jean d'Aere, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, and Princess Royal, Captain Lord C. Paget, to proceed home forthwith, for the purpose of being docked, to make good the defects arising from their having got on shore off the island of Mowen, in the pas sage from Nargen to this harbour. hey are trans ferring to the James Watt and Cesar their surplus provisions, stores, die., reserving for their own use a supply thereof for 30 days. They are to sail for England on the 25th inst. The Locust, paddle steam-sloop, left port this forenoon on particular service. Much snow had fallen during the night. The wind had veered to the westward. Thermometer to-day at noon 34 dig. (Fahrenheit), barometer 128.946. We have telegraphic news from Odessa to the 17th inst. Up to this date no further intelligence of importance had been received from the Crimea. The engagement of the sth is not considered by the Russians to have been of a decisive character. The French suffered considerable loss on that oc casion, in consequence of having pursued the regi ment Minsk to the Russian entrenchments. The temperature at Odessa was 3 degrees Raumur, and snow had fallen to a depth of three inches. A letter from Batoum, in the Lloyd of Vienna, states that Mustapha Paella has been ordered to hold himself in readiness to embark for the Crimea with 10,000 men of the elite of the Turkish army. SPAIN. THE SPANISH MINISTRY. Tho following private telegraphic despatch has been received : " MADRID, Nov. 22. "A rumour , is current that a new Ministry is formed, the members of which are MM. Gurrea, Gaminde, Allende Salazar, Gomez, Oliver, Aguirre, and Mathen. This combination, however, seems to us very unlikely, and we give it, subject to all reserve." THE INDIA MAIL. MARSEILLES, SUNDAY AFTERNOON. The Indian mail will leave here this evening at four o'clock. News from Constantinople of the 15th reports had weather at Sebastopol and gales in the Black Sea. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26. The Arabia arrived this afternoon, with advices from New York to the 15th, and 1,281,567 dols. in specie, and 2001. English. She spoke the Ca nada on the 20th. The Atlantic arrived out on the 12th, and the St. Louis on the 11th. The papers express indignation at the treatment received by Mr. Soule. The Washington correspondent of the Herald says of the Sonic affair—" You may expect to find. the Administration cavilling with regard to Mr. Soule's statement ; already Mr. Pierce is alarmed at the idea of the French Baltic fleet arriving here, while Marcy growls out that if Soule is not in stantly recalled he will resign. " It is believed that no steps will be taken till the meeting of Congress,' when an attempt will be made to place 10,000,000 dols. or 20,000,000 dols. at the President's disposal to Fillibuster with." Another correspondent of the same paper says : " The Soule expulsion is considered an awkward affair ; the Administration are very much annoyed, with a determination to protect the honour of the country it will not sustain Mr. Soule in any indis creet act affecting the respect due to the French. Emperor. Mr. Marcy says, We have had. enough of this,' and is in favour of recalling Mr. Soule. The Government are awaiting further despatches, as in our present advices the Govern ment have ao evidence that Mr. Soule acted indis creetly in France ; but it is the general opinion that Louis Napoleon would not have adopted such a course without good cause. No immediate trou ble is apprehended. The Know-nothings take great interest in this affair, and say, Send Ame rican gentleman as Ambassadors.' The Washington Union expresses the hope that the decree against Mr. Soule was issued under a misapprehension of facts, and that the Emperor will make prompt reparation. The Washington correspondent of a Philadelphia paper says : " Letters from Mr. Soule, brought by the At lantic, have been received here by the Government; he states that neither by word, deed, letter, nor communication has he compromised himself or in any manner interfered with French affairs. "The Cabinet is now in session deliberating on the despatches sent by Mr. Soul©; the behaviour of the French Secretary for Foreign Affairs towards Mr. Masson on the occasion of the latter's demand of an explanation of the action of the Government in relation to Mr. Soule, is regarded here as a very serious matter." There was a run on several of the Washington banks, also at Cleveland. At Cincinnati, George Milne and Co. and the Union Bank had closed. The Elgin notes are in use again, and taken. The City Bank of Chicago had stopped payment • at New Orleans Matthew Finlay and Co., private bankers, had suspended. Several other banks in various districts had sus pended. The Know-nothings had elected their candidate for the Governorship of Massachusetts. Fires had occurred in Kingston, Canada West, destroying several buildings and a church. Ice formed at Charleston and Savannah on the 14th. The ship New Era, bound from Bremen for New York, with emigrants, ran ashore near Jersey dur ing a dense fog ; about 150 lives were lost. For the Governorship of New York Mr. Horatio Seymour was in a majority. The Know-nothings of Cincinnati had decided on bringing forward Millard Fillmore, Samuel Hous. ton, or Jacob Broom for the Presidency. The Northern Light had arrived at Now York with late advices from San Francisco, and 564,405 dollars. From Havannah we learn that two American schooners had been seized for landing arms at Bara coa. 600 negroes had been captured by the Go vernment near the Isle of Pines. It was rumoured that a popular outbreak had occurred at Puerto Principal. Advices from Mexico to the 4th report that a battle was fought at Campo de Guerra, in which the revolutionists were routed with a loss of 200 men. Santa Anna was convalescent. Affairs in Central America were unchanged. The Dee left San Juan for Chagres on the sth. At Guaymas the Sonerians had insulted the French, and the Consul had requested the Admiral to send a frigate there. The pressure in the New York market had con tinued unabated. The current rates for time busi ness paper having 30 or 90 days to run were 12 to 15 per cent. Exchange steady, but limited, at 94 to 9i on London. Flour had declined. Corn had advanced. The demand for cotton was extremely light, at lower rates. Iron and tobacco were rather firm. There was a very slight improvement in freights. DEA= OF SIR HUGE STEWART, BART.—We deeply regret to announce the death, on the 19th instant, after an illness of a few days, of Sir Hugh Stewart, Bart., of Bawlygawly-house, county Tyrone, who for several years represented the county in Parliament. His eldest son, now Si r J o h n S tewart, who succeeds him in his title and estates, i s a t presen t serv i ng in the Crimea with his regiment, the Inniskillen Dragoons. Dublin Evening Mae, DEATH OF SIR M. H. H. BEACH, BART., M.P.—We regret to announce the death of Sir 11. 11. H. Beach, Bart., one of the Members for the Eastern Division of Gloucestershire, which melancholy event occurred on Wednesday night. He contested the Eastern Division in January, and was elected by the Conservative interest by a majo r it y o f 1 , 109 votes over M r . E. H o ll an d.— ll' .. oreester Journal. MEMEL.—From Memel the advices of the 21st inst. describe the weather as very severe, and add that the communication between that place and the Russian town of Kowno had been stopped by the ice. CHAPLAINS FOR THE EAST.—The undermentioned clergymen, having been recommended by the society . for the Propagation of the Gospel for the special duty of attending to the sick and wounded soldiers at the seat of war, have received their appointment :—The Rev. E. Owen, M.A., Rev. C. E. Hadow, Rev. E. Eade, M.A., Rev. E. G. Parker, MA., Rev. R. Freeman, M.A., Rev. H. A. Taylor, M.A.., Rev. L. J. Parsons, M.A., Rev. T. J. Freetb, LL.D., Rev. W. F. Hobson, 8.A., Rev. W. Wbyatt, M.A., Rev. D • Winham, M.A., and the Rev. G. H. Proctor, M.A. Seven of the number have already sailed, and the re maining five will embark in a few days for the scene of their arduous labour. WOODEN HUTS FOR THE CIIIMEA.—A specimen f these has been erected in the Engineer Department' s Barracks at Portsea. Its dimensions are 28 feet long, 10 feet wide, 6 feet high at the sides, and 11 feet at the ridge. There will be 1,000 of these despatched to the seat of war in the course of a few days ; each hut will be capable of lodging 25 men, so that cover will be afforded for 25,000 men, exclusive of officers. In each there will be a stove to warm it an:' for Pookinv purposeq. The tial frawework, and a coat of asplialte felt will De laid on the roof. An order has been received in Portsmouth Dockyard for the stowage of these temporary barracks ready for shipment as soon as they are wade. i I I ' I i 4 ~`y` ~~ ~~~:'- .-.w.~'r.~y ~~