The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-21 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. iladar the rezzagement at Mr. Luekstone. THI3 EVENING, Oct. 2L, cha- Will be performed the comedy of P I XL PET. Principal teeters by Mr. Wright, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. W. Farrell, Mrs. Poynter, and Miss E. Chaplin. After which, the First Fart of the Ballet of THE STAB OF A—NDALUSIA. Followed by 1113 LAST LEGS. Principal character by Mr. Hudson. To coneluie with the second Part of the Ballet. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREE T. Under the Management of Mr. Cuaat.r.s EsAs. THIS EVENING, OCT. 21. Will be performed the highl?` opular comedletta, entitled LIVING TOO FAST. After which, A HEART OF GOLD. Principal characters by Messrs. Meadows, Addison, Ryder, D. Fisher, Cathcart, and baker ; Misses Heath and Murray, and Mrs. Daly. To conclude with THE HALT OF THE BALLET. THEATILE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B . Webster. —Directress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING. Oct. 21, Will be performed an origi,al Drama in Four Actt, called THE SUMMEit STORM, with new scenery, dreiscs, appointments, & Artei which, A MOVING TALE. Te .conclude with the screaming Burlesque of NORMA. IiOYA.L OLYMPIC TFIEt TICE . Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. OCT. 21, WiUbe performed A MATCH IN THE D tRK. Principal cha racters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Vining, E. Clifton, and Danvers; Nita Maske 1, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a Farce, called A BLIGHTED BEING, in which Mr. Hobson will appear. To concicde with TO OBLIGE BENiOII. STRAND THEATRE. B , le Lessee Mr. F. W. Aileron. THIS EVENING, OCT. 21, Will be performed SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. After which, THE NEW WAGS OF WINDSOR. Fellowed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Mephistopheles, Mr. Raiford; Faust, Miss G. Hodson; Marguerite, Miss H. Gordon. 43.; Boxes, 2s. 6d.; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, Gd.; Private dox..s 41 is., to be had of Mr. Alleroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Sir. William Coolie. Shortly w.ll be produced, a GRAND [ILITAP.Y SPECTACLE, commemorative of present British PrOWCS.S. Four hundred auxiliaries are engaged, and both the Stage and the Ring will simultaneously be employed in the representation of this Great National ilippodrarne. THIS EVENING, THE WOODMAN'S HORSE; or, THE FALSE KNIGHT. After which, a variety of graphic and brilliant SCENES in the ARENA. To conclude with a GRAND EMBLEMATICAL ENTREE of England and France, with a number of Lore and Patriotic Stage Ta.bieaux. Box-oSce open from Eloyen till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. 111 411 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tn DAY —Morning 26 min.after 1 I Evening 41 rnin.aft. 1 To Moscow Morning 57 nain.after 1 Evening 14 znin.nit. 2 THE WEATHER.—Sum Omos, Oar. 21. TITZBMOXICTIB, IDT TEIII SULDIII. 55 —highest since noon yesterday. 48 --lowest this morning and dung night. 56 —this day at noon. BAROMETSB, 29'65. WIND, W.N.W.—Fine weather. THE "COMING" CAPTURE SEBASTOPOL WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AN EXTRAORDINARY EDITION' "THE SUN" THE MOMENT THE EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE IS ISSI7ED, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED Orders received by all News Agents, and at " THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, Strand, London. • I'l4 ';;; , , , Y - 4 ,§l,lll. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1854, Still further news from the Crimea. For each of three successive days we have been enabled to announce the arrival of accounts for which the public mind was yearning. In a late edition on Wednesday evening, within a few minutes after the publication of the Supplement to the London Gazette, we gave to the community the list of the killed and wounded at the fearful contest on the Alma, and were thus enabled to convey comfort to many an anxious heart. In this respect we redeemed the promise to our friends and the community in general, that the earliest notice of these important particulars should be found in the columns of The San. One more pledge remains to be redeemed, and we earnestly hope that ere many days it may be our pleasing duty to announce that what at present can only be termed the " coming" capture of Sebastopol, may be a fait accompli, and that the Russian Arsenal, with the stores and fleet that rendered the AT3TOCRAT so formidable to his neighbours, may either be in the hands of the Allies, or totally destroyed. We have fervent hope that, notwithstanding there have hitherto been unanticipated delays, everything will proceed with the utmost rapidity, and that it will be proved beyond the 'possibility of doubt that Sebastopol has no greater claim to invincibility than Bomar sund had. On Wednesday, however, we only received ad vices from Balaklava of the 3d, and Constanti nople of the sth instant. The following day arrived the Pharamond, bringing intelligence from Constantinople of the 10th, and Balakla.va, of the Bth inst. No previous despatch had even hinted at the tidings therein contained. Various con flicting rumours that had previously been circu lating Were thereby set at rest ; the public anxiety was th ere b y grea tly appeased. I n con sideration of the progress made and the certainty that adequate measures had been adopted to prevent the possibility of any interruption to the siege works, the people were :ontented to acquiesce in the delays that had previously taken place, to be satisfied at matters being " slow," because they were also proved to be " sure." Yesterday another arrival at Marseilles. The City of London transport-ship brought advices from Constan tino p le of the 13 th (!) and Bala and amongst o th ers certaiu klava, of the 10 th , despatches from L ord RAGLAN-the first received since those which appeared in our Extraordinary Edition of the Bth instant, and which Con tained the exceedingly graphic and interesting description of the glorious victory on the Alma. These will, of course, cs,ntaiu the best and most accurate accounts of all the events that had pre viously taken place, and also the views and inten tions of the commanders of the Allied Troops. They, therefore, will be- looked for with intense anxiety by the community at large. The news received by these various channels may be briefly summed up. As we stated yes terday, there had been "a. sortie " by the be sieged, for the purpose of destroying or damaging the siege works then in course of construction. THE SUN', _LONDON, SATURDAY fiVENING, OCTO This, however, had been vigorously and effec tually repelled, and a salutary lesson taught to the garrison of the vast distinction between En glish soldiers and Russian serfs. It was further stated that further reinforcements had been des patched to the Crimea, and that Lord RAGLAN found his force sufficiently strong to execute the arduous task he had in hands, and to repel any attacks that might be made by the enemy. It was further stated that the works of the siege ccntinued to advance. Indeed we might assume that they were nearly completed, inasmuch as it was anticipated that the attack on Sebastopol would commence in earnest on the 11th or 12th. On these matters there are not many observa tions to offer. It is satisfactory to be relieved from suspense, and to know exactly the true state of affairs, so as to be enabled to discredit the many rumours and false reports circulated from interested motives. We have every reason to look forward confidently to the speedy reali sation of our most sanguine anticipations—to the striking of the blow that will break the power, if it do not humiliate the pride, of the AUTOCRAT. He may still " harden his heart," and entail fearful sufferings on the millions who acknowledge his power, but the prestige has de parted. It is now clearly ascertained that his strength had been greatly overrated, and that he was not by any means so formidable as had erro neously been supposed. What effect that convic tion may produce on those who were influenced by fear rather than love may easily be imagined. How the time-servers way act, after their eyes have been fully opened, may easily be anticipated. That millions will have abundant reasons to rue his excessive arrogance and grasping cupidity is certain, but the lesson may be even more severe than he can as yet form any notion of. One point, at least, may be safely relied on. The longer his submission is delayed the more strin gent will be the terms imposed, the more binding the guarantees exacted, the heavier the expenses which he will be required to reimburse ; and when the day of reckoning has arrived—as sooner or later it must—the greater will be his grounds I for reproaching the false friends who instigated him to proceed in the perilous and unjustifiable course on which he had so recklessly entered. If the thief at the gallows wreaked his dying vengeance on the bad mother who had encouraged his early thefts, NICHOLAS ought unquestionably to punish FREDERICK WILLIAM, whose vacillation and double-dealing prevented an early and easy ad justment of the dispute. The capture of Sebastopol will, probably, be the great event of the present campaign. Woe betide him should that of 1855 be opened before he has made ample amends for the injuries his reckless ambition has caused to be inflicted en Europe. Nothing can be more noble, more generous than the feeling which pours its contributions into t he treasury of the Patriotic Fund. All honour to the wealthy who give in proportion to their wealth, and still more to those of but limited means, who deny themselves comforts, perhaps necessaries, at the bidding of irrepressible sym pathy. The very indulgence of such feelings, when it leads to personal sacrifice, must make us better men and women, and so far tend to raise the national character ; and, to some extent, donations to a fund originated by Royal com mand will tax the higher classes in a juster ratio to their means than the taxes which are levied indiscriminately on the peasant and the peer. With these last considerations, however, the merits of a voluntary fund for the widows and orphans of the nation's soldiers are exhausted. It is something, we freely confess, to open the hearts of the people, and to convert exultation for victory into the pure and tender pleasure of soothing the life-long sorrows of those whom vic tory has clad in mourning ; it is something, too, to draw forth the treasures not needed by their possessors, but which taxation could not reach, and to turn them into a national and philanthro pic channel ; yet there are other views to be taken of the whole question, and views of grave importance. The Duke of NEWCASTLE very properly, though with kind politeness, reminded the lady who proffered medical aid for the wounded in the East, that to provide adequate means for that purpose was one of the most imperative duties of Govern ment. We almost wonder that, in the same let ter, he should direct her attention to the Patriotic Fund, and not perceive how strongly his former remark applied to the latter case also. Can it be less "imperative" on Government to provide for widowhood and orphanhood, caused by fatal casu alties in the public service, than for the suffering% inflicted by casualties which do not prove fatal ? Why should not a patriotic fund for medical aid be the reliance of the wounded soldier, if such a fund is to be the reliance of the father who parts with his life in the same cause ? True, if the Government does not furnish surgical and hospital assistance in foreign service, there may be none procurable on the spot. We admit a difference so far ; but equally if under seine form Govern ment does not provide for the bereft, in too many instances they would be consigned to penury or tempted to crime. Parish relief is inappropriate, partly as affixing an inevitable stigma of pau perism ; partly as unfair, by charging a particular locality with what belongs unquestionably to the whole nation ; hence national support seems the only method appropriate to the case. Rightly apprehended, too, the provision out of the regular national funds is the most honourable method. To be maintained at the public expense was the highest honour conferred by one of the bravest and the most refined of ancient States. We hardly know a more soul-stirring appeal in the records of eloquence than that made by the great Athenian orator to the fact of the State having educated to manhood the children of those who had fallen in battle, and then by the voice of the herald dismissing them with public honour to perform the duties of citizens worthily of their fathers. Our aristocratic governors have always been ready enough to propose a splendid estate, or a pension, frequently for two or three lives, as an honourable distinction for the chief command ers. We must not, of course, imagine it to be mere cupidity on behalf of their order ; but if not, if they wore animated by the sentiment of the ancient Athenians, then they must also feel that it would be equally a mark of honour for the wife and children of the fallen soldier, that they were supported not by the poor rate, nor by any precarious charity, but by their entire fatherland, as the legacy of its unfortunate brave ones. We repeat that their support ought, therefore, to be in no sense by the most willing charity ; it ought. to be provided by the nation as an " imperative" debt of honour on its own part, and as an honour due to the fallen and to the surviving on their parts. that the freely contributed will We hardly like to su p bleobse even elowth the demands the case ; still such a possibility should not even one knows have been risked. It m a y be so ; for no what will be wanted, or what his share is. Even in this point of view, the better policy had been to declare that the requisite amount would be regularly and surely provided by the nation, as certainly as the interest of the national debt itself. While, however, we think the nation should take the charge on itself as regards the recipients, we adhere to the opinion we formerly expressed, that the charge should be thrown ultimately in a direct form upon the CZAR himself ' whenever peace is negotiated. We want to gain no territory ; we want not to be enriched to th e ex t e nt of a rouble out of the Treasury ( now empty enough) of the CZAR, but he ought to pay the entire cost of the war to France and England. His mad ambition ought to incur for the future a heavy clog of national debt ; and especially one distinct item should be the cost of supporting the widows and orphans of the Allied Troops. We should even prefer it to be are annual payment, to cease when no longer needed, as a distinct reminder to him and the Archdukes now sprouting into Czarhood, that if they will com mence the game of murder to gratify their bar barian lust of power, they will at least have to pay for long years the price of blood. As to such a charge in his own dominions, the poor slave soldiers who fight with their officers' swords at their backs, are too much separated from their homes in early youth to leave him any very heavy legitimate burden of that kind. Let us not be misunderstood. While we regret that a better plan was not adopted, the object is too sacred, too " imperative" in its claims, to allow of sacrificing the sufferers to the mistakes of our governors. Since they are to be relieved by charity, instead of being honoured with national pensions as the relics of the brave, let no one stint his charity. Should that charity, indeed, not be adequate, no Government shall have rest for a moment which does not atone for the inef fectiveness of its own plan by supplementing its deficiency from national resources. According to the station in life of those bereaved, according to the measure of their dependence on those they have lost, so let them be recompensed with no sparing hand. Enough, enough quite, that the days of anxious waiting for the mournful Gazette should be terminated by an agonising glance at the fatal column which convulses a mother and a wife with sorrow, and bids her look upon her poor babes with feelings which they as yet cannot understand. No, in any form let us do all we can for them. But—by all their sorrows, and by the lives of our brave men murdered at Alma, let us compel our governors to demand a liberated Poland—a liberated Europe, in fact, as the only worthy atonement. COURT Cl.:-CULAR, WINDSOR. OCT. 20. The dinner party yesterday included the DuAiess and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, Princ3 Victor of Ho henlohe, the Prussian Minister and Countess von Bern sterff, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lady Suf field, Lord Burghersh, Cslouel Sir Charles Hamilton (Scots Fusiliers Guards), Sir James Clark and Major Purves. The Band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attendance during dinner, and played the following pieces : Overture—" Die Waldschutz" Selection—" Guillaume Tell" Walzer—" Fair Star" Selection—" Etoile du Nord" Meyerbeer. Polka—" 3lilitaire " Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle, and performed the following selection : Overture--" Die Hebriden" Coro, Terzetto, and Airs do Ballet " Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" The Queen and Prince drove out in au open carriage yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe on horseback. Colonel Seymour was in attendance. Her Majesty drove out again this morning, accom panied by the Duchess and Prince Mary of Cambridge. Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prussian Minister, went out shooting this morning, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour and Major Purves. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe took leave of her Majesty to-day, and left Windsor for Sheerness. Lord Burghersh and Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton left Windsor this forenoon for London. r The Duchess of Kent has been confined to Frogmoro , House for several days by a severe cold. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign•office. The Ministers present were--The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chan oellor, the Marquis of Lansßowne, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Wm. Molesworth, and Eail Gran• The Council sat two hours. Lord J. Russell arrived in town yesterday morning, to attend the Cabinet Council, from Woburn Abbey. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town, from his seat, Broadlands, Hants, to attend the Cabinet Council. Despatches for the Governor of Canada were sent last evening from the Colonial-office. We are sorry to learn that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has been confined to Frogmore House, several days, by a severe cold. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and family are passing the season at Brighton. The Earl of Demist has gone on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Buickley, at Burwood-park, where his lordship will be joined by the Countess on Monday next. The Earl and Countess Cowper are about to join the circle at present staying at Broadlands. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cowper are expected in town to-day, from Paris, where they have been visiting the Hon. Spencer and Lady Harriet Cowper. THE EARL OF CARLISLE.—This nobleman, as most of our readers are aware, is expected to visit Bradford next week. His lordship, on Thursday evening, will deliver a lecture in connection with the Early Closing Associa tion, on the "Poetry of Gray," and on Friday evening will preside at the annual meeting of the Bible Society. On both occasions there will doubtless be a large at tendance at St. George's Hall. The Earl of Carlisle, during his stay in the town, will he the guest of the mayor, Mr. Samuel Smith.—Bradford Observer. PROROGATION OF CONVOCATION. —The convocation of the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury was yesterday prorogued in the Jerusalem Chamber, West minster, pursuant to a Royal writ, by the Vicar-General, Dr. Twiss, under a commission from his Grace the Arch bishop of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan, to Friday, Nov. 17. BANQUET AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.—Last evening the Lord Mayer gave a magnificent entertainment to the Mayor, Magistrates, and Corporation of the borough of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire ; to about 120 members of the Corporation of London, and a large number of his fellow-citizens. Dinner was served in the Egyptian Hall, and covers were laid for 270. THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT AND THE PATRIOTIC FUND.—We have much pleasure in stating intend taking in common with respect to the Eas tern S TANDIRD T H EATRE.—At the Royal Standard Theatre, the new play of Schamyl, the Circassian , Chief , by Mr. W. R. Markwell, draws full houses, the principal par t being well sustained by Mr. James Ande rson, the late lessee of Drury-lane. THE PATRIOTIC FUNK. — Mr. John Han cock, of the Registrar-General's Department, Somer set-house, has been selected to act provisionally as accountant to the that the civil officers of the Crown, in this well - conducted and most popular branch of the service, have p ro p osed to contribute one day's pay to the Patriotic Fund. Miss Nightingale, who is to c onduct the nurses to at tend the sick at Gallipoli , leav es En g land to-day. She goes with the sanction and assis tance of the War Minis ter, the Duke of Newcastle. He r staff of nurses includes a number of recruits from Miss Sellon ' s establishment, and others from a society of Sisters of Charity attached to a Romanist society in London. WEIMAR, OCT. 16.—The Ministers of the Thuringian States will all meet here, to discuss the me asures the y question. Patriotic Fund, under Mr. W. G. Anderson of the Trea sury, retaining his clerkship while engaged in this tem porary service. PATRIOTIC FUND.—A public meeting was held in the Town-hall, West Cowes, on Thursday, to take the opi nion of the inhabitants as to the best means of obtaining their subscriptions in aid of the widows and orphans of the brave men who may fall in opposing the common enemy. W. M. Dansey, Esq., was called to the chair. H. J. Darnant, Esq., town clerk, was appointed secre tary ; and Mr. Moore, treasurer. The chairman pro posed that the town should be divided into districts, and a committee should be appointed to make a collection from house to house, which proposal was immediately adopted, and the committee commenced their work instanter. THE GARRISON AT BALAKLAVA.—A battalion of men, not considered in sufficient health to do duty at the siege of Sebastopol, has been ordered to garrison the town of Balaklava. The men were reviewed on the 28th Sept., and Lieut.-Col. Daveney, let Royal Regiment, has been appointed to the command. The Admiralty agent of Liverpool (Commander Be via) has received instructions from Government to ascertain the fitness . of the Canadian screw-steamers Cleopatra and Ottawa for the transport service. If they be approved, as no doubt they will, they are to be en gaged for the conveyance of troops and stores to the East. The Alpe, a screw-steamer belonging to the Cu nard Company, is on her way from Halifax to Dublin with the 72d Regiment on board. THE WHALE FISHERY IN DAVIS' STRAITS.—The Pa cific, Anderson, arrived at Aberdeen from Davis' Straits, with 9 fish, 80 tons, reports a bad fishing, ,and that the only ships having fish were the St. Andrew's, of Aber deen, 2 fish ; Truelove, of Hull, 3 fish ; Heroine, of Dundee, 1 fish ; Princess Charlotte, of ditto, 7 fish, 55 tons ; Chieftain, of Kirkaldy, 6 fish, 45 tons ; Lord Gambier, of ditto, 6 fish, 55 tons; and the Jane, of Bo'ness, 1 fish, 19 tons. LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM, CLAFTON.—A resolution has been passed " that it be recommended to the next general curt in January, that the Commander-in-Chief be empowered to nominate to the Board six children for free and immediate admission into the London Orphan Asylum from the children of the commissioned or non commissioned officers of her Majesty's army who have fallen in the present war." THE HORSE GUARDS.—It was yesterday reported that in the event of a further addition of cavalry being re quired for the East, one regiment of Life Guards will be sent out, the number to be 450 men. ,S)nie volunteers from other regiments will of course be required. Re cruiting for the cavalry is going on most briskly. FOREIGN POSTAGE.—Lord Canning, accompanied by Mr. William Page, the head of the Foreign and Colonial branch of the Secretary's department of the General Poet-office; left London for Paris on Thursday last, to enter into negotiations with the French Government on the subject of a new postal treaty. RECRUITING IN DERDY.—Recruiting is carried on with great vigour in Derby and the other towns, the battle of Alma evidently acting as a stimulant to the martial feelings of young men. THE CHOLERA.—Five fatal cases of cholera have oc curred at Goole during the present week. Cholera has within the past few days carried of two more victims at Huddersfield. BERLIN, Oct. 17.--Several mercantile houses are drawing up petitions to the Government, in which they point out the measures that might be taken for coin polling Denmark to abolish her Sound tolls. Similar petitions will be presented to the Chambers.—Colo)ie Gazette. SUICIDE OF A POLISH REFCGEE.—On Tuesday even ing last, at eleven o'clock, a Polish gentleman, named Sigismond Wienckowski, residing at Chapel-street, Devonport, committed suicide by stabbing himself in the heart, with a sharp pocket knife. THE LAUNCH OF THE NEW ROYAL YACHT, THE WINDSOR CASTLE.---IL has been ordered that the new Royal paddle yacht, the Windsor Castle, constructed under the superintendence of Mr. Oliver Lang, shall be launched at her Majesty's dockyard, Pembroke, on the 13th of January next. The Rev. Edward Thomas Austen has been instituted to the rectory of Barpeston, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Leigh Spencer, in the patronage of St. John's College, Oxon ; and the Rev. Thomas Nunn has been nominated by his grace to the perpetual curacy of flan sted, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Samuel George Booth White, both in the county of Kent, and diocese of Canterbury. It is generally known that her Majesty, out of respect for the memory of Captain Hyde Parker, has been pleased to adopt the two little Kustendje orphans, whose sad case has lately caused so much commiseration. The little fellows are to remain on board the Firebrand until a safe and suitable opportunity for sending them to England shall occur. They are very intelligent chil dren, and the eldest displays a proficiency, not merely in speaking English, hut also in the sword and musket exercises, which would do no discredit to seine of the gallant fellows now doing duty at home. L i FALL OF A CHURCH Rom—The roof of the church at the village of Garnston, a few miles from East Ret ford, North Nottinghamshire, fell in with a great crash on Tuesday last, doing considerable damage to the building. The interior fittings had been removed only a few days before, preparatory to the sacred edifice being restored, and it was observed at the time that nearly every piece of wood was decayed with the dry rot. The rafters of the roof gave way from the same cause, Nobody was injured. LATEST NEWS. SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. PARIS, SATURDAY. The Moniteur announces that despatches re ceived from General Caurobert, of the Bth, men tion that the disembarcation of the siege train continued, wad that the works would begin on the 9th. The General had received reinforcements to the amount of 10,000 men of all arms. The siege works were advancing rapidly, and the health of the troops was satisfactory. MARSEILLES, FRIDAY EVENING. The City of London transport-ship, which left Constantinople on the 13th, has just arrived. She brings despatches from Lord Raglan, which reached Constantinople after the departure of the Pharamond with the mail of the 10th inst. :roue that port. The works of the siege continued to advance. The Allies were doing well. The attack on Sebastopol was to commence on ;he 10th or 11th. On the 7th the Allies seized two guns. Two Greek vessels, laden with corn and lin seed, had been captured by the Anglo-French cruisers. VIENNA, FRIDAY. A private despatch from Bucharest, dated the 16th instant, announces that thirty thousand Russians have crossed the Danube into the Do- brudscha. The vanguard is at Babadagh. Twelve thousand Russians, under Uschakoff, occupy the Danube ferries near Toultscha. THE CRIMEA. THE PLAN OF ATTACK. The Stecle, in the course of an article on the ex pedition in the Crimea, says :—" We have already remarked, in commenting on the report of Admiral Hamelin, that the original plan was based on a combined attack by sea and land. The resolution come to by the Russians to obstruct the entrance of the port obliged the Allied generals to turn the town, and to confine themselves merely to an at tack by land on the southern side. Now that the difficulty is overcome of mauceuvring about a fortified place, having upwards of thirty thousand men in the garrison, we think that the chances are more in our favour, for two reasons — the first, that Balaklava and the bays of Cape Cher sonese are nearer to the town, and present more security for landing provisions, ammunition, and artillery ; and the second, that as the place cannot be completely invested, it is better that the enemy should come to us by the north, because on that side we can give ourselves the advantage of the positions. In addition to all the services which the fleet has rendered and is still rendering, it has by the terror with which it has inspired the Russian navy brought about a situation of which the land forces will not have any cause to complain." THE AUTOCRAT AT WARSAW. A Vienna letter of the 16th says :—" M. de Krusenstern, chief of the diplomatic office of Prince Paskiewitch, arrived here on the 13th, and has announced, it is said, that the Czar will positively proceed to Warsaw, to be nearer, it is generally thought, to the theatre of war." OPERATIONS AGAINST BESSARABIA. The Press of Vienna, of the 16th, says :—" Arif Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador at this court, has officially announced to the Austrian government that Omer Pacha would shortly commence offensive operations against Bessarabia, and that he would arrive in a few days at Bucharest, in order to come to an understanding with the commander of the Austrian troops in that city as to the basis of his operations. These offensive movements will com mence sooner than was expected, as Lord Raglan has demanded, in the most urgent manner, that Omer Pacha should begin them as soon as possible." FETE TO CELEBRATE THE DEFEAT OF THE ENGLISH. Mrs. Upton, the wife of the son of the engineer who planned the fortifications of Sebastopol, told some English officers that so confident were the Russians of success that a subscription list had been opened in Sebastopol for a fete to celebrate the defeat of the English. A letter from Varna states that on the 6th de spatches arrived in that town from Lord Raglan, directing the suspension of the embarkation of the Turkish reserves, as the troops in the Crimea are sufficient for all eventualities. The reserves, how ever, are continuing to be concentrated at Varna, so as to be ready for embarkation at any moment." A letter just received from Vienna says :—On the 6th the Allies were still in the first parallel. The siege began with the construction of nine bat teries, five of which fronted the Quarantine Fort. The general bombardment was to begin on the 9th. The papers state that Lord Raglan commands the besieging corps of 36,000 men, while General Can robert, who is on the left bank of the Tchernaya, with 60,000 men, watches the movements of the Russian army. The field artillery now consists of 150 guns, and the cavalry is said to be 10,000 strong. Prince Menschikoff is also said to have received reinforcements, but the statement does not agree with private information which has been given me. The Russian army in the Crimea is in great want of provisions and ammunition. A letter from the Crimea says the accession of General Canrobert to the command of the French army is very popular both among the Allies and our own troops. He is a man of undaunted courage, having no such word as " fear " in his vocabulary —precisely the man wanted to lead a French army at the present juncture. Their siege train is being disembarked in the little harbour to the northward of Cape Chersonese, Balaklava not affording ac commodation for both, and the position of the French arms on the right rendering these harbours more convenient. We extract the following from a letter dated Balaklava, Oct. 3 :—" I cannot tell how it is, but our movements since we have been before Sebas topol have been (perhaps necessarily) rather slow ; and one, with a Crimean winter before us, cannot help grudging; the loss of every day of the lovely weather with which we have been favoured. We are at present about 2,800 yards from the town of Sebas topol. Opposed to us are two heavy batteries against which we shall break ground at about 1,700 yards distance from the city. Sebastopol must fall, but meanwhile a cloud looms in the north. 50,000 troops are said to be collected at Simpheropol, and Liprandi and Osten-Sacken are hurrying to the relief with the troops of the provinces and Bessara bia. We would gladly attain our object without ano th e r pitched battle. When we win the heights a few mortars will easily destroy the ships, and then the reduction of Fort Constantine and the northern batteries is merely a question of time. Still the • people of England must not be over-sanguine. We have to deal with a fierce and powerful foe ; the bear will die hard." THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. The following is the latest intelligence received from Balaklava : were OCT. 4.—Forty pieces of heavy artillery sent up to-day to the park, and 12 tons of gun powder were safely deposited in the mill on the road towards Sebastopol. As the French had very little ground left on which to operate on our iti le on,ft, the 2d Division moved to-day from its pos crossed the ravine on its right, and took up ground near the 4th Division. The French immediately after wards sent up a portion of their troops to occupy the vacant ground. The Russians havebeen an ind h ef ave ati gable all day in throwing up batter b ies, d shelled our advanced posts incessantly. From the range of the guns, it is supposed that they have actually got the how y pieces which were on board the Tiger. One shell which fell into the camp of the 4th Division was marked with the English broad arrow, and had the English brass covered fusee. It did not burst. Another, fired with more fatal effect, fell right into a tent in which were several men of the 63d Regiment, exploded, and killed a serjeant and two men. This was at a dis tance of upwards of 4,000 yards. OCT. s.—To-day Lord Raglan moved on to a cottage about 41 miles from Balaklava, and estab lished head-quarters there, a t the distance of four miles from Sebastopol. His staff are encamped around him. The Terrible came in this morning, and anchored in the little harbour here, for the pur pose of disembarking her heaviest g uns, which are A WINTER CAMPAIGN IN THE CRIMEA. A letter from Constantinople, dated the 10th, says : —" The probability of a win s er campaign after the fall of Sebastopol, or even of a struggle in the en suing spring, is not great. But supposing that the enemy venture upon even the feint of continuing the struggle, it will become the duty not only of military commanders but of statesmen at home to consider whether the Crimea is to be held as a gage, ac cording to the advice of many, or whether Sebastopol is to be destroyed, like Bomarsund, and the force which attacked it sent to some other quarter. Undoubtedly the latter course will set at liberty a large body of men for a Georgian or Bessarabian campaign, and will there fore lessen the expenses of the war, and allow the gaining of fresh victories. It may be urged that Sebastopol is only formidable for the fleet which it contains, and that the destruction of this armament and of the fortifications which gave it shelter is a sufficient reward for the blood and treasure expended in the present enterprise. But it may be feared that if the Russian stronghold be merely taken to be destroyed and deserted, it will appear to the world at large but a barren conquest." LETTERS, &c., FOR THE BRITISH FORCES IN GREECE. GENERAL POET-OFFICE, 1854.—Letters addressed to the British forces serving in Greece may be forwarded through France and by the French Mediterranean packets, from Marseilles, at the same low rates of post age as letters, &c., for the British forces in Turkey and the Black Sea ; and all letters and newspapers upon which the requisite amount of postage has been pre-paid will in future be sent by this route, in closed mails, un less otherwise addressed. Upon the correspondence so conveyed, the following combined British and French rates of postage must be paid in advance, viz. : For a letter addressed to an officer of the British army or navy, or to a non-commissioned officer or private soldier or seaman serving in Greece—Weighing under oz., 3d. ; weighing oz. and under 4 oz., 6d. ; exceed ing 4 oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., ls. ; exceeding 1 oz. and not exceeding 2 ozs., ls. 2d. ; exceeding 2 ozs. and not exceeding 3 ozs., Is. 4d. ; exceeding 3 ozs. and under 34 ozs., ls. 61. ; weighing 34 ozs. and not exceeding 4 ozs., 2s. 4d. ; and so on, adding 2d. British for each additional ounce, and 10d. French postage for every 34 ounces. Newspapers will be liable to a postage of 2d. each, which must also be paid in advance. As the French mode of charging postage is by the quarter ounce, it is necessary that a letter should be under a quarter of an ounce in weight, in order to secure the advantage of the lowest rate. The French packets conveying mails for Greece leave Marseilles on the 2d, 6th, 12th, 16th, 22d, and 26th of each month, and the latest period for posting in London letters and newspapers intended to be forwarded by these packet', will be the evenings of the 3d, 9th, 13th, 19th, 233, and 29th of every month, but when the month has 31 days, the mail will not be made up till the 30th. Letters must be posted ou the previous evenings when any of the above dates fall on a Sunday. Letters for soldiers or seamen serving in the British forces in Greece, upon which a postage of one penny only is paid, will be forwarded in the British packets by the route of Southampton and Malta, and thence to heir destination as opportunities may offer. RUMOURS ABOUT A VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND Em PRESS OF THE FRENCH TO ENGLAND.—A. contemporary . says :—" For some time past rumours have been afloat in Paris of an intended visit on the part of the Emperor and Empress of the French to Queen Victoria. This visit, which seemed extremely probable ever since the two governments bad become allies in a great war, be came almost a matter of certainty from the time that Prince Albert visited the Emperor at the camp of Boulogne. Still there were doubts as to the period when the visit would take place. In general it was thought likely that it would be postponed till next spring, when Parliament would be sitting, and London would be full. I under stand, however, from what would appear to be excellent authority, that the visit will take place in the course of the month of November, but I have not heard that the precise day is fixed. I understand that it is expected that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert will return the visit about the middle of May next, when her Majesty will not only be able to see the French Exhibition, which will then be open, but see Paris in all its glory, with the immense improvements, now going on, in a state of completion. It is almost needless to say that this ex change of visits is of immense importance. It must not be looked on simply as an exchange of civilities between the sovereigns of two great countries. It is a great political event, and will do much to cement the alliance which has already been so cordially entered into between the people of both countries. The General Screw Company's steamer, the Queen of the South, will take eat the following troops to the Crimea.— She will leave England about the 25th inst. : —1 officer, 2 sergeants, and 80 seen of the Grenadier Guards ; 2 officers, 1 serjeant, 7 drummers, and 50 privates of the Coldstream Guards ; 7 officers, 2 ser jeants, and 100 privates of the Scots Fusiliers ; 2 officers 2 serjeants, and 120 privates of the let Battalion of the Ist Regiment of Foot ; 1 officer, 2 serjeants, and 100 privates of the 7th Regiment of Foot ; 2 serjeants and 100 privates of the 19th Regiment of Foot ; 4 officers, 2 serjeants, and 13$ privates of the 23rd Regiment of Foot ; 1 officer, 2 serjeants, and 80 privates of the 95th Regiment of Foot ; and also one officer of the Medical Staff. REPRESENTATION OF CIRENCESTER.—CIRENCESTER, FRIDAY.—The Hon. A. G. J. Ponsonby, one of the members for this borough, has this week been paying a visit to his constituents to take his leave of them on his departure for the East, whither he is ordered to proceed immediately with a detachment of the Grenadier Guards, to join the main body under Lord Raglan. REPRRSENTITIOIi OF ABINGDON.—Mr. D. H. Burr, of Aldermaston -park, late high sheriff of Berkshire, is a candidate for the representation of this borough. Mr. Burr is of Conservative prineiples, and at the last elec tion warmly opposed Lord Norreys ; the numbers then being for Lord Norreys, 153 ; for Mr. Burr, 129. Mr. Norris, of Sutton Courtney, near Abingdon, is also spoken of as a candidate. This gentlemen, it will be re membered, on the above occasion offered himself to the electors, but retired in favour of Lord Norreys. Hoevur.en NEW HARBOUR, October 19.--During the last two days a severe gale has been experienced here, in which the schooner Albion, with coals from Liverpool for Port Madoc, while making fur the harbour at midnight, ran with great violence against the piles on the North Pier. She sank instantly, going down stern foremost. The toaster and a young man from Cemaes, were drowned ; but the mate, Hugh Owen, fortunately got upon a loose balk, drifted across the harbour, and landed in safety except with a few bruises from the rocks on the mainland. He subsequently made his way into the town, where every kindness was shown him. Great damage has been sustained by the piles, seven lengths of which were carried away, and now strew the harbour. It blew a hurricane last night, and the cold is extreme. The mountains of North Wales are already covered with snow. FALMOUTH, Oct. 20.—The brig Bierly Hill, arrived from Mauritius, spoke on the 23(1 of September (lat. 30 33 N., long. 33 23 W.) the steam-ship Adelaide, from Australia, under canvas, for London. The Feronia spoke, on the 15th of September (lat. 15 S , long. 30 W.), the troop-ship Maidstone for the Cape of Good Hope. ARRIVAL OF THE BLUR JACKET. —Our Liverpool correspondent announces the arrival from Boston, at that port yesterday, of the now American clipper Blue Jacket, sister ship to the Red Jacket, which has just concluded the most successful run ever made to the An tipodes. The Blue Jacket sailed from Boston on the 2d instant, under the command of Captain Oliver Etridge, and arrived off Holyhead on Monday in 13 days ; but the strong easterly gales which have since prevailed pre vented her making any headway. The Blue Jacket had only one day's favourable strong breeze, on which she made 356 miles. After discharging her cargo, she will be offered for sale at Liverpool. The British steamer Beagle has arrived at Constan tinople with some more Lancaster cannon. M. Barbbs left Brussels on Tuesday for Antwerp. A republican journal of Brussels states that he was ordered by the police to leave that town within 24 hours. ER 2L IA34. to be moved up to the heights forthwith. Great lifficulty was experienced in conveying the baggage hf the head-quarters from, Balaklava, to such a trifling distance, in consequence of the want of araba,s. All the vehicles which the Commissariat lad at their disposalhad been given to the engineers tnd artillery. The 400 mules which arrived yes terday have been " used up" in the service. We hear with shame and astonishment to-day that the French Admiral has absolutely sent in a proposition to the Admiral in command of the English fleet that he (Admiral Hamelin) should send in some French men-of-war to batter the sea ward forts of Sebastopol, and that, in order to as certain the best points for placing his ships, ae should be accommodated with the loan of the Samson, as being one of our most service- Able steamers. Admiral Dundas is said to have disapproved of the suggestion. Such is the rumour which is in everybody's mouth, and, coupled as it is with most painful remarks on the inactivity of our fleet—every officer and man of which is burning with a desire to vindicate the reputation of our flag—it has not failed to produce very irritating results. The sailors are busy in dragging up 'guns with their wonted alacrity. It is stated that an officer of the 55th, who wandered outside the lines last night, has not yet returned. The Cossaaks seem to be rather active to-day. The enemy so firing their heavy guns with round shot and shell at intervals, but we are now beyond range. Great quantities of ammunition have been sent up to the artillery park to-day. It is said, however, that our supply of shell is not very plentiful, and that we might have more round shot without danger of being overburdened. Dr. Thomson of the 44th, and Mr. Reade, As sistant Surgeon-Staff, died to-day of cholera. There are 170 men sick in the Light Division alone. The number of applicants for admission to the hospitals was not so numerous to-day, but there is still a great deal of sickness in the town and camp. The town is in a filthy, revolting state. Lord Raglan has ordered it to be cleansed, but there is no one to obey the order, and no one at tends to it. Lord Cardigan is indisposed, and it is understood he will be obliged to go en board ship. The cavalry have had fatiguing but not very important duties. They certainly have not done as much as was ex pected of them, and at the Alma they were quite inactive. The misfortunes we have met at sea tend to multiply to a great extent the value of our reinforcements. The loss of 170 horses out of two small regiments is a serious evil, and, worse than that, it is quite irreparable at present. The Beagle arrived to-day off the mouth of the harbour. It is reported that she will land her two heavy guns. No trenches have been cast up as yet. Gabions and fascines are scarce, and it is dif ficult to get earth to fill them. The Sappers com menced tracing lines and drawing the parallels this morning, and were not molested by the enemy. The French, on our left, have got five guns in posi tion, but have not yet opened fire. Several 841 b. shot rolled through the camp of the Second Division to-day. About noon we sent out a battalion of the Second Division on the right, to secure an eminence commanding a supply of water. The Russians moved out two battalions, supported by guns, and as we would have got under the fire of the batteries, had we advanced, it was judged pru dent to retire our men. The news of a large force of Russians concen trating in our rear and flank, at or near Simphe ropol, is repeated in various forms to-day. Our Sappers, when tracing lines to-day, were within half-a-mile of the Russians, but the latter did not interrupt their labours. We hear the Rus sians have got a good number of " licornes"—a favourite gun of the Emperor Napoleon's (III.) It is a kind of howitzer, throwing 121 b. shot or shell in the field. They were used at the Alma, but our artillery officers think they were indifferently served, or that they are an inferior arm. Some sutlers, to our infinite mischief, established themselves here to-day. The result is that, for the first time, we have drunken men in the streets, and work for the Provost Marshal will soon fol ,ow. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 10.—The latest news that has reached this place from Sebastopol is of the 7th, and is not of special importance. The great attack was not to Vile place until the 9th. Every hour the mail steamer from the Crimea is expected to arrive, and may perhaps bring accounts of the result of the first great bombardment. On Saturday, the Trent, Orinoco, Albatross, and Cambria arrived here from the Crimea. They are to take up 10,000 Turkish and 5,000 Frpnch troops—the latter from Gallipoli. 3,000 French are also to be sent from Greece. 15,000 Turkish infantry have been detached from Omer Paella's army, and have arrived at Varna, where they will be immediately embarked, together with a few thousand Tunisian troops for the Crimea. The Russians are expecting strong reinforcements from the armies of Generals Osten-Sacken and Lilders, who are already said to have arrived at the Dnieper. The garrisons of Anapa and the other forts to the extreme north of Circassia are also marching to wards the Crimea. The Allies seemed, however, I according to the last accounts, to care very little about the advance of reinforcements. They .+ere going slowly but surely to work, and felt certain of success. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Oct. 18.—It is affirmed in diplomatic circles that a most important and material change has come over the disposition of the German Courts in regard to Prussia, and this even among the leaders of the Bamberg coalition. Hanover, it is stated, has avowed its intention of sup portirig Austria. Hesse Darmstadt, who carries Nassau with her, has done the same. The Hanse towns will follow the same bias, and it appears that M. on der Pforten has addressed a letter to M. de Beust, in which he states that, how ever repugnant it may be to Bavaria to act adversely , towards Prussia, it is not consistent with h er in terests to separate herself from Austria, her ancient ally and neighbour. It is not improbable, therefore, that Saxony may adopt the con clusions of Bavaria, and that if this be the case Prussia runs every chance of finding herself as isolated as regards Austria and Germany as she does in regard to France and England. A few of the leading points of the Russian reply of the 13th to the Austrian note of the 30th were forwarded last night. A more detailed analysis shall be transmitted by next post. All that can be said, meantime, of the new Prussian document, is that it is diffuse to a maximum of verbiage ; that it avoids replying to some points, and seeks to evade others ; and that it endeavours to meet the pithy and straightforward Austrian document by laboured efforts to drown the main questions at issue in a sea of words leading to no practical conclusions. The new note betrays in each long-winded phrase the embarrassment of the Cabinet, and yet it offers no prospect of any vigorous effort being made to relieve itself from this false and unpopular position. Count Esterhazy has proceeded to Vienna for two or three days, nominally on private business, but more probably to communicate verbally with Count Buol upon the state of relations between the two Governments. AUSTRIA. The Vienna Gazette of the 16th says :—" We learn that, within the last few days, the competent authorities have made known to the editors of the political papers of Vienna that the Government of the Emperor expected from and requested the p re ss not only to abstain rigorously from attacks on or offences against foreign sovereigns, but carefully to avoid offensive insinuations against the statesmen of the Governments with which the Emperor's Government maintains federal relations or is at peace. The Government does not wish to prevent the periodical press, so long as it shall remain within the legal limits,from expressing its opinions on the Eastern question, and on the possible consequences or results of any kind of that question, but on the condition that it shall be done with moderation and propriety. As this is expected from the papers of Vienna on all occa sions, it is a matter of course that they will not be allowed, on the occasion of the E astern complica tions, or on other pretexts, to permit them selves to make insinuations and even menaces (which are in positive contradiction w ith the principles of the Imperial Government) ca lculated to influence the resolutions of any power whatsoever, and especially of a State of the Germa nic Confederation. When the generally patriotic tendency of the important organs of the press of Vienna is considered, it is not doubtful that the editors will respect the notice which has been given to them." FRANCE. (mem OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, 6 P.M. The following telegraphic despatches have been received to-day : g , ATHENS, 12th.—Four thousand five hundred French troops have loft the Piraeus for the Crimea. Admiral Barbier du Tinan has taken the command of the expedition." " BERLIN, 19th.—According to accounts from St. Petersburg, despatches have been received in that capital from Prince Menschikoff, which state that up to the 12th the Allied armies had undertaken nothing decisive against Sebastopol." " MDRID 16th.—The Gazette publi s h es a R o yal ordinance relative to the credits necessary for the payment of the debt of September. Some die- turbances have talon place in Castillo on account of the export of corn." - " BAYONNE, 19th.—Major-General Bristow, of lie English service, has arrived here • he protests Against his expulsion from the Spanish territory." The confidential letter of the 30th ult. from Count Buol, the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Count Esterhazy, the Ambassador of Austria at the Court of Berlin, is commented on by the Pays in a leader, in which the principal points of this really remarkable document are set forth. It says —" The note declares plainly that Austria, as pro tectress of Turkey, will oppose every new aggres sion on the part of the Czar, and that she will per mit the Allies or the troops of the Sultan to under take any military operation which might appear to them suitable, against the Russian forces or terri tory ; she points to the fact that Russia had already askea for that concession in the last note of M. de Nesselrode, that a negative answer had been given to her, and that there is no reason why Austria, should modify her preceding resolutions and atti tude. Prussia, in fact, displaces strangely on this point the question which agitates the whole world. • Does the question at present, or can the question at present, relate to obtaining for Russia guarantees, more or less advantageous? The question is to de feud Europe efficiently, not only against the pre sent aggressions of Russia, but against the recur rence of an ambition at present powerless, but which may again revive to-morrow ; the question is to wrest from the Czar by force, for he will not consent otherwise, concessions which may reassure modern society, which it has so deeply alarmed: the question is to maintain in Turkey, the Black Sea, and the Baltic the equilibrium and liberty of all the States. That is what the various govern ments and what practical statesmen ought hence forward to bear in mind. There is the real point of this great question. Austria has comprehended that, and with the frankness suitable to a great nation has adopted the decided attitude on which we had always reckoned. Her firm and ✓straight forward language will, without doubt, make a salu tary impression on the Court of Berlin ; and the whole of Germany, which must perceive in the last circulars of Austria the language best suited to her interests, her dignity, and her future prospects, will not hesitate to follow with a resolute step the dignified and honest policy to which the Court of Vienna invites her." The other leading articles of the Paris journals contain nothing of interest for the general reader. The Constitutionnel has a long essay on political economy, which would be more in its place in a magazine, and the Debats devotes a considerable space to the dispute between the King of Denmark and the Diet, but it is rather a history of the dis pute than a commentary. 1 have just heard that a serious accident occurred this morning on the Orleans Railway, near Choisy. An express train from Orleans ran into the goods' train, which was standing at that station. There are several persons killed, but the exact number I have not yet heard. About 30 have been more or less seriously wounded. The Madrid mail of the 16th, due this morning, has not arrived. The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 75f. 95c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. at 98f. 40c. ; and the New Loan at 75f. 70c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,212 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 990 f. ; Havre, 562 f. 50c. ; Great North ern, 876 f. 25c.; Strasburg, 840 f.; New Shares, 650 f.; Paris and Lyons. 1,048 f. 75c. ; Lyons and the Mediterranean, 857 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 680 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 622 f. 50c. ; Great Central of France, 521 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 530 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 762 f. 50c. SPAIN. The Espana mentions a rumour that dissensions had broken out in the ministry with respect to the Constitution to be submitted to the Cortes. The Epoca says that, amongst other things, the draft of the Constitution will propose to establish a Senate of persons chosen for life from the higher ranks of all classes. The Minister of Justice has (says the Espana) withdrawn a pension of 50,000 reals enjoyed by M. Santaella, and another of 120,000 granted to the priests of St. Vincent de Paul. Lord Howden had given a grand banquet to the ministers of Aus tria, Sweden, Mexico, Holland, Belgium, and Brazil, and other personages of distinction. The Belgian embassy had made known that no foreigners can be allowed to enter Belgium without passports vised by the Belgian legations or consu lates. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 19.--There has been an un expected communication to the President of the Volksthing, that the King would receive to-day, at Fredricksburgh, a deputation from the Assembly with the Address. A deputation is accordingly gone to his Majesty. THE BALTIC FLEET. NYBORG, Oct. 20.—Admiral Plumridge's squad ron is detained, with our pilots all on board, off Langeland, by strong south-westerly gales. MISCELLANEOUS. An official announcement in the Wiener Zeitung of yesterday delicately intimates that the youthful Empress is in a condition which gives the hope of an heir to the throne of Austria. The German press everywhere gives indications of the approaching rupture between Austria and Russia. Great anxiety exists at Berlin. A letter of the 3d, from the bivouac of Cape Chersonesus, states that the weather was remark ably fine there. During the last month it had only rained once, and then only for a short time. The following characteristic announcement has appeared in the St. Petersburg Journal :—" The department of the Imperial Posts deems it neces sary to inform the public that the operations of offices for foreign posts at Yassy, Bucharest, and Galatz, and also of the sectional office at Giurgevo, are suspended till further orders." A Letter from Leipsic, 15th, in the Moniteur, says :—The news of the first successes of the Allied troops in the Crimea arrived here at the moment when the fair had brought together a con siderable number of foreigners from every country in Europe, and a general feeling of sympathy was openly manifested on the occasion. This unani mity of public opinion, which is produced under every form in Germany, constitutes the most strik ing judgment that can be given on the policy which is opposed by France and England." The Giornale di Roma states that on the 12th instant the Pope proceededto — Albano, in order to be present at the inauguration of the magnificent new bridge just finished there. His Holiness after wards visited the works of two other bridges now under construction for the improvement of the Forli road. On the return of the Pope to Rome, the Portico of Raphael and the stairs of the Vati can were lighted with gas for the first time. The Papal. Government has forbidden the ex portation of wine until the 31st of Sept., 1855. Count Nostitz, Prussian Envoy to the Hanove rian Court, will return to that place to-morrow (19th), for a few days, in the hope, most probably, of inducing the Hanoverian Government to revoke its intention of supporting Austria at Frankfurt. Baron de Hochschild, recently appointed Swe dish Envoy to the Court of St. James's, has had his audience to take leave of their Prussian Majes ties at Sans Souci. Baron and Baroness de Hochs child will proceed in a short time to their new des. tination. The Duke of Mecklenburg-Scherwin Inas, it ap pears, proceeded to Vienna to remonstrate in per son at the slight put upon him by being omitted in all recent diplomatic communications. Princess Anna of Prussia, consort of Prince Fre derick of Hesse, heir to the Electorate, has been safely delivered of a prince. This morning (18th), being the ann iverAry of the battle of Leipsic, was selected by the King of Prussia for the consecration of the columnar monu ment, erected in the Garden of the Invalids, to the memory of the soldiers who fell during the revolu tionary struggles of 1848 and 1849. The ceremony was conducted with great solemnity and pomp. Count Goltz, who during the last session was one of the principal opposition me mbers of the Bethmann-Holweg fraction, having made his peace with the Cabinet, has been appointed Prussian Envoy at Athens. LECTURES IN RURAL DISTRICTS. —On Tuesday even infer, says the Nottingham Journal, the rewtor of Hawks. worth delivered a lecture in the school-room, on the " Causes and History of the present War." The sum of one penny was charged for admission, and the room was filled to overflowing by an audience which listened most attentively to the lecturer for upwards of two hours. At the conclusion of the lecture the rev. gentleman offered to summon his parishioners together from time to time and relate to them matters of interest and im portance in connection with the present struggle, on condition that they should pay one penny each for ad mission, and that the suns thus collected should be sent to the fund for the widows and orphans of those sol diers who fall by the pestilence or tke sword. This pro posal met with an unanimous and hearty approval. RECRVITS FOR THE GUARDS.—On Tuesday last 14 young men of this town and neighbourhood left for Lon don in the company of the sergeant of the Grenaditr Guards, having enlisted into that regiment. They were accompanied from the market-place to the railway sta tion by the drummers and fifers of the Ist Regiment of Derbyshire Militia, playing martial airs. Such an un usual occurrence caused the people to turn out, and in some instances to give a parting cheer.—Derbyshire Advertiser.