The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

VIENNA, NOV. 28.
Advices from Constantinople of the 22nd inst. announce
the arrival there of a portion of the English fleet from the
Black Sea, and the arrival of the American squadron from the
Mediterranean.

The cholera was carrying off many men of the Anglo-
German Legion.
The French were recruiting on a grand scale for their
foreign legion.
The Tunisian troops are gone to Batoum.

The Moniteur of Wednesday officially announces that the
blockade of the White Sea was raised by the allied squadron
on the 9th of October last.

We learn from Odessa, Nov. 16, that hardly had M. Gopce-
vich, the Trieste merchant, obtained special permission of the
Emperor Alexander to ship his corn, when he received notice
from Sir Edmund Lyons that his vessels would be confiscated
if they had not left the Sea of Azof by the 20th of Novem-
ber. The expedition of M. Gopcevich has entirely failed.
Some of his vessels are frozen up in the neighbourhood of the
coast, and the others have quitted the Sea of Azof.
The Oesterreichische Zeitung has learned, from a per-
fectly reliable Danish source, that General Canrobert's mis-
sion relates to a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive,
between Sweden and Denmark. By this treaty, which Eng-
land and France will subsequently accede to, the two Scandi-
navian Powers are to guarantee to each other their present
territories. It is still unknown whether the Danish Govern-
ment will approve of the plan.

THE BALTIC.
HAMBURG, Nov. 28.

The English Hue-of-battle-ships Royal George„ 120, Captain
Codrington ; Nile, 91, Captain Mundy ; and Colossus, 80, Cap-
tain Robinson, left Kiel yesterday on their return home ; as
also the French ships of the line Tourville and Duquesne, for
France. The remaining British ships of the line are the Duke
of Wellington, bearing the Rear-Admiral's flag as Commander-
in-Chief, the James Watt, Majestic, and Orion, with three
steam-corvettes. _ _

The accounts from Riga mention that the frost had been
succeeded by a temporary thaw, the wind changing to the
southwest again. This may induce the blockading ships to
remain a little longer in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic,
to catch any stray ship with cargoes.

TIIR ROYAL Menticrs.—Her Majesty, by an order in
council, of the 21st of November, has been pleased to direct an
increase to the present strength of the artillery branch of the
royal marines, making the whole establishment —Divisional
companies, 13,310 ; artillery companies, 2,618 ; staff, 172 ;
total, 16,100. To effect the alteration the 110th and the 111th
companies are to be broken up, and the company numbered
124), of the Plymouth division, is to bear the number 110, by
Mich arrangement the division will stand in the following
order :—Chatham, 27 companies ; Portsmouth, 39 divisional
companies, 14 artillery companies ; Plymouth, 28 companies;
'Woolwich, 26 companies.
DESTRUCTION or SEBASTOPOL.—A letter from the Crimea,
dated the 14th ult. says—" The destruction of Sebastopol
having been resolved on, each corps has received its portion to
vrork upon. The city presents, consequently, the most ani-
mated aspect. It is a demolition en regle, in which the four
armies take part. The houses and public buildings are
attacked at the base, and on all sides are heard the blows of
the hammer and the crash of the rafters and timbers of the
houses, which fall down amid clouds of dust. The soldiers at
once proceed to the selection of all the materials capable of
being employed advantageously for their use during the winter.
Each man loads himself with objects the most varied. Some
carry off planks, windows, doors, presses, fire-irons, kitchen
utensils, even to old chairs, and ,old pots. Indeed, it may be
said that soon not a nail, nor a piece of wood, nor a tile will