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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

TING THE NORTH SIDE.

The same coreespondent, writing on the 16th, says :—Late
last night a memorandum was issued, to the effect, that from
to-day until further orders, the whole of the army should be
under arms at half-past 6 a.m., and remain so until dismissed
by generals commanding divisions. Working parties, for rail-
ways, roads, &c., will come on duty at 9 instead of 8 a.m., in
order to give the men time to breakfast and refresh themselves
after the turn-out. There seems to be some expectation that
the Russians intend to evacuate the north side. They yester-
day made a great fire on their left of Fort Catharine. It is
supposed they were burning stores. They had a large dep6t
of coal just about the place were the fire was. On Saturday
night the reflection of a great fire was visible from the camp,
and still more plainly seen from higher points in this neigh-
bourhood. It was in the direction of Bakschiserai. We are
still in ignorance of its cause. The Highlanders have received
counter orders. Some say that the 2nd and 3rd division will
go in their stead ; others that the expedition is entirely given
up, except as regards the cavalry, which have actually gone—
all, or the greater part.

EXPECTED ATTACK BY THE RUSSIANS.
Writing at twelve o'clock on the same day, he continues :
The expedition to Eupatoriahas been cancelled, in consequence
of a telegraphic message from Lord Panmure, to the effect
that the Russians meditated an attack. Inkerman is the
quarter in which it seems to be expected. It is hard to say
what the Russians think to gain by attacking us now. The
fire seen on Saturday night is believed to have been at a
village about three miles on this side of Backschiserai. Such,
at least, is the result of the calculations made by our engi-
neers, who took an observation at head-quarters and another
at Balaklava, thus ascertaining the spot with tolerable accu-
. Of the expedition to Eupatoria the following are
countermanded, viz., the Highlanders, two batteries of artil-
lery, and the company of Sappers. The cavalry has sailed.
I have not yet heard whether they are to go still or be brought
back. They were ordered to embark several days before there
was any question here of other troops going.
Referring to the same subject on the 20th, he says :
Here, at Sebastopol, nothing has been going on, and, in the ab-
sence of events, we are left to reflect on the past and to speculate
maths future. In the hasty lines I added to my last letter, just
before post hour, I mentioned that the projected expedition to
Eupatoria was given up, an attack upon our own lines being
expected. Accordingly, we since then have been turning out
before daybreak every morning, and occasionally at other

hours also. Late on Wednesday night the reserve ammuni-
tion was warned to be ready early in the morning, as there
was every probability of nn attack. On Thursday forenoon
the French were formed up in the Valley of Tchernaya,
awaiting a foe who came not. Yesterday, about noon, there
were movements of troops, and it was reported that large
masses of Russians were visible. There is much note of pre-
paration and clash of arms, but it nevertheless is the opinion
of many here—some of them persons whose opinion has
weight—that our Muscovite friends have not the remotest
idea of attacking us.
In Sebastopol itself there is nothing new. The Russians
continue firing at the town, with little reply from the French.
They fire principally at Sebastopol proper, but now and then
drop a shot or shell into the Karabelnam, and sometimes take
the flagstaff on the Maiakhoff for their mark. It is difficult
to say why we spare them so much, unless it be that we ex-
pect them soon to walk away, and leave us their north side
forts in good order and condition, which would be expecting
rather too much. Outside the town the French are hard at
work levelling their siege wokks, filling up trenches, &c.
A more curious spectaele is assuredly nowhere to be found
than in the space comprised between the lines where our bat-
teries were and the harbour of Sebastopol. The ground in
parts is literally paved with shot sunk in the earth, above
which their upper surface scarcely rises ; there are ditches
and trenches in which they lie as thick as apples in a basket;
in some places numbers of them have been buried. You see
them of every size, from the huge 68-pounder down to the di-
minutive grape—jolly little fellows, of a pleasant vinous ap-
pellation, but very nasty to run against as they are passing
through the air.

Twelve o'clock.—The enemy is said to be clearing roads
through the brushwood down from Mackenzie's Farm, and to
have planted four guns to command the causeway across the
marsh at the month of the Tchernaya. This looks as if they
contemplated an attack in force along our line, but I persist
in thinking that their apparent preparations for action are
made merely for the purpose of deceiving us. The Russians
are the most patient and laborious people in the world for
ruses de guerre of that kind.
The French have a grand review at two this afternoon, in
the plain by Kadikoi. They are now marching down—lmpe-
rial Guards, Zouaves, &c., all in fine order, and brilliant in
appearance.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

CAPTURE OF KINBURN.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Nov. 1.

Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and its
enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his
Lordship by General Sir James Simpson, G.C.B.:—
_ SEBASTOPOL, Oct. 20.

My Lord,—l am happy to be able to congratulate your
Lordship on the successful termination of the expedition to
Kinburn. I transmit a copy of the report of Brigadier-
General the Hon. A. Spencer. This contains all theinforma-
tion I have received on the operations, with the exception
that in a private note Sir E. Lyons mentions that the enemy
have exploded the three forts of Oczakoff, commanding the
northern entrance into the Dnieper.
In consequence of the continued fineness of the weather
great progress has been made in the construction of the road
and railway. The divisions have all got some weeks' supply
of rations in their camp, and I entertain no anxiety of there
being a scarcity of anything during the approaching winter.
• I informed your Lordship in my despatch of the 13th inst.,
that the Highland Division, under Lieutenant-General Sir
Colin Campbell, were to proceed to Eupatoria and co-operate
with the French ; but, upon the receipt of your telegraphic
despatch of the 13th inst., apprising me that the Russians had
resolved to hazard a battle, and attack the allies, I did not
consider myself justified in weakening the force under my
command by so many meu, and I therefore countermanded
the movement.

I have the honour to enclose the weekly reports of Colonel
M`Murdo and Dr. Hall.

I have, &c.,
JAMES SIMPSON, General Commanding.

(Enclosure 1.)
CAMP BEFORE KINBUBN, Oct. 17.
Sir,—ln reporting, for the information of the General
Commanding the Forces, the fall of the garrison of the fort-
ress of Kinburn this day, I have the honour to state that the
force under my command, as per statement enclosed,* effected
their landing on Monday, the 15tb, unopposed.
Owing to a heavy surf, and which continued all day yes-
terday, the landing has been accomplished with some little
difficulty. The troops, however, were all got on shore on the
first day, and have since been employed in intrenching our
position. There are rumours of a force of the enemy collect-
ing at Cherson, about forty miles from here, but our imme-
diate neighbourhood appears to be clear.
The advanced line of the position, flanked on both sides by
the sea, is held by the force under my command, and is about
a mile in extent.—l have, &c.,
ACCIIISTOS SPENCER,
Brigadier-General Commanding English Land Force.
*lst Brigade, Fourth Division; Royal Marines, 12,000 men
rank and file; Royal Engineers, Artillery, and detachment of
cavalry. _

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 1.

Despatches, of which the following are copies, have been
received from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, G.C.8., com-
mander-in•chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the
Mediterranean and Black Sea :

ROYAL ALBERT, OFF KINBURE, OCt. 18.
Sir,—My letter of 6th instant, No. 834, will have informed
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that an allied
naval and military expedition was to leave the anchorage off
Sebastopol on the following day, for the purpOse of taking and
occupying the three Russian forts on Kinburn Spit, at the
entrance of Dnieper Bay ; and the telegraphic message which
I forwarded to Varna last night will soon communicate to
their lordships the success which has attended this enterprise.
It is now my duty to give a more detailed account of the
proceedings of the expedition.
I have therefore the honour to state that we arrived at a
rendezvous off Odessa on the Bth instant, but owing to strong-
south-west winds, which would have • prevented the troops
from landing, it was not until the morning of the 14th instant
that the expedition was enabled to reach the anchorage off
Kinburn.

During the night, the English steam gun-vessels Fancy,
Boxer, Cracker, and Clinker, and four French gun-vessels
forced the entrance into Dnieper Bay, under a heavy but
ineffectual fire from the Spit Fort, and on the following morn-
ing the British troops, under the orders of Brigadier-General
A. A. Spencer, together with the French troops, under the
command of General Bazaine, were landed about three miles
to the southward of the principal fort, and thus, by these
nearly simultaneous operations, the retreat of the garrisons
and the arrival of reinforcements were effectually cut off.
In the evening the English and French mortar-vessels tried
their ranges against the main fort with excellent effect.
The wind having again veered round to the southward, with
a great deal of swell, nothing could be done on the 16th ; but
in the forenoon of the 17th a fine northerly breeze, with smooth
water, enabled the French floating batteries, mortar-vessels,
and gunboats, and the Odin and the mortar-vessels and
gunboats named in the margin* to take up positions off
Fort Kinburn ; and their fire was so effective that before noon
the buildings in the interior of the fort were in flames, and the
eastern face had suffered very considerably.
At noon the Royal Albert, the Algiers, the Agamemnon,
and the Princess Royal, accompanied by Admiral Bruat's four
ships of the line, approached Fort Kinburn in a line abreast,
which the shape of the coast rendered necessary, and the pre-
cision with which they took up their positions in the closest
order, with jib-booms run in and only two feet of water under
their keels, was really admirable. At the same moment the
squadrons under the orders of Rear-Admirals Sir Houston
Stewart and Pellion pushed through the passage between
Oczakoff and the Spit of Kinburn, and took the forts in reverse,
while the St. Jean d'Acre, the Curacoa, the Tribune, and the
Sphinx undertook the centre battery, and the Hannibal,
Dauntless, and Terrible that on the point of the Spit.
The enemy soon ceased to reply to our overwhelming fire,
and, though he made no sign of surrender, Admiral Bruat
and I felt that a garrison which had bravely defended itself
against so superior a force deserved every consideration, and
we therefore made the signal to cease firing, hoisted a flag of
truce, and sent on shore a summons, which was accepted
by the Governor, Major-General Kokonovitch ; and the garri-
son, consisting of 1,400 men, marched out with the honours
of war, laid down their arms on the glacis, and, having sur-
rendered themselves as prisoners of war, they will be em-
barked in her Majesty's ship Vulcan to-morrow.
The casualties in the allied fleets are very few, amounting
in her Majesty's ships to only two wounded. The loss of the
enemy in killed and wounded is, I fear, very severe. '
In the three forts, which have suffered considerably by our
fire, we found 81 guns and mortars mounted, and an ample
supply of ammunition.
This morning the enemy has blown up the forts on Ocza-
koff Point, which mounted 22 guns, and we leErnt from a
Polish deserter, who escaped in a boat from them during the
night, that the commandant apprehended an attack from our
mortar-vessels, which would not only have destroyed the forts,
but also the neighbouring dwellings.
I have abstained from entering into the particulars of the
proceedings of the squadron under the orders of Rear-Admiral
Sir H. Stewart, as he has so ably described them in the letter
which I have the honour to enclose, from which their lord-
ships will perceive that I have received from him on this oc-
casion—as, indeed, I have on all others since I have had the
good fortune to have him as second in command—that
valuable assistance which might be expected from an officer of
his distinguished and acknowledged merits; and I beg leave to
add my testimony to his in praise of all the officers, and
especially Lieutenant Marryat and Mr. Brooker, whom he
recommends to their lordships' favourable consideration.
To particularize the merits of the officers kinder my com-
mand, where all have behaved admirably, would be a difficult
task indeed ; but I beg leave to mention that the same officers
of the Navy and the Royal Marine Artillery vho were in the
mortar-vessels at the fall of Sebastopol are in them now, and that
on this occasion, as before, they have been enter the direction
of Captain Willcox, of the Odin, and Captain Digby, of the
Royal Marine Artillery. Nor can I refrain from stating what
I believe to be the feeling of the whole fleet, that on this ex-
pedition, as on that to Kertch, the talents and indefatigable
exertions of that very valuable officer, Captain Spratt, of the
Spitfire, and of those under his command, entitle them to our
warmest thanks, and deserve to be particular;y mentioned.
I need hardly say that my distinguished colleague Admiral
Brant and I have seen with infinite satisfactbn our respective
squadrons acting together as one fleet.
I am, &c.,
EDMUND LYONS,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

* Mortar-vessels—Raven, Magnet, Camel, Hardy, Flamer,
Firm. Gun-vessels—Lynx, Arrow, Viper, Snake, Wrangler,
Beagle. --
VALOROUS, IN DNIEPER BAY, OCt. 18.

Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that, in pursuance of
your orders, I hoisted my flag in Her Majesty's steam-frigate
Valorous on the afternoon of the 14th inst., immediately after
the arrival of the allied fleets off Kinburn Spit, and proceeded,
under the able guidance of Captain Spratt, of the Spitfire, to
take up positions at the end of Dnieper Bay, where with the
division of steam vessels placed under my orders (as per mar-
gin),* and in company with those under the orders of my
colleague Rear Admiral Odet Pellion, we remained in readiness
to force an entrance into the Dnieper, for the purpose directed
by you of preventing, as far as possible. any reinforcements
being thrown into the forts on Kinburn Spit, as well as to cut
off the retreat of the garrison, should either be attempted.
At 9 p.m. I instructed Lieutenant Joseph H. Marryat, of
the Cracker, to take on board Mr. Edward W. Brooker,
additional master of the Spitfire, and endeavour with him to
determine the course of the intricate channel through which
we were to pass, and to lay down buoys along the south aide

of it, the French having undertaken to perform the same
service on the north side.
I likewise directed Mr. Thomas Potter, master of the
Furious (lent to do duty in the Valorous), to proceed with two
boats of the Tribune, and, protected by the Cracker, to search
for the spit on the north bank, and on his return endeavour to
place a buoy on the edge of the-shoal off Kinburn Spit, that
the entrance of the channel might be assured.
As-soon as the preconcerted signal was given, indicating
that this operation was effected, I despatched the Fancy,
Boxer, and Clinker into Dnieper Bay, with orders to anchor in
such positions as would best protect the right flank of our
troops upon the disembarcation taking place, and to make that
their chief care, as long as there was any possibility of the
enemy threatening them.
During the night Rear-Admiral Odet Pellion also sent in
the French gunboats for the same purpose.
At daylight on the following morning I had the satisfaction
of observing all the gunboats, French and English, anchored
safely to the north-east of Kinburn Fort, and without any of
them having sustained damage, although the enemy had fired
shot and shell and musketry at them during their passage in.
Thus the chief part of the object you had most anxiously in
view was accomplished.
While still in considerable doubt as to the extent to which
the channel for the larger ships was buoyed, at 10 a.m. Lieut.
Marryat and Mr. Brooker came to inform me that the work
intrusted to them had been completed, and that the latter
officer was ready to pilot the ships in. The zealous desire
evinced by these officers to furnish me personally with their
report on the difficult navigation of the Dnieper deserves my
warmest thanks, and the gallant manner in which Lieutenant
Marryat brought the Cracker out for that purpose, under a
very heavy fire from the whole of the forts and batteries,
elicited the admiration of all who witnessed the proceeding.
We were now fully prepared to advance, and, in obedience
to your directions, awaited the signal for general attack.
The whole of the proceedings of yesterday must be already
fully known to you; but it is right that I should state briefly
the share taken in them by the division you did me the honour
to place under my orders, which consisted of the ships and
vessels as already stated, reinforced by those named below.
It being necessary to advance in single line, it was arranged
that the ships should do so in the following order :
Valorous—Captain C. H. M. Buckle, C. 8., bearing my flag.
Furious—Captain William Loring, C.B.
Asmodbe (French), bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Odet
Pellion,
Cacique (French).
Sidon—Captain George Goldsmith.
Leopold—Captain George Giffard, C.B.
Sane (French),
Gladiator—Captain C. F. Hillyar.
Firebrand—Captain E. A. Inglefield,
Stromboli—Commander Cowper Coles.
Spiteful—Commander F. A. Shortt.
At noon, the signal being made from your flagship to weigh,
we proceeded through the channel, each ship engaging the
Spit batteries and Kinburn Fort as they came within range.
To Lieut. Marryat, of the Cracker, is due the merit of pre-
ceding and piloting us through, which he did with great
judgment.
Had the enemy continued his defence of the Spit batteries,
the Sidon, Leopard, Sane, and Gladiator were directed, in
that case, to remain in front of them until their fire was com-
pletely silenced ; but as they were subdued by the accurate
and well-sustained fire which was poured upon them by the
ships which you had placed to the westward of the Spit, and
by those of our own squadron on passing to the eastward,
this became unnecessary ; the whole division, therefore, con-
tinued its course through the channel, and anchored well
inside Fort Nicholaieff and Oczakoff Point.
During this time the four gunboats, Fancy, Grinder, Boxer,
and Clinker, did good service by placing themselves in such
position as to throw a flanking fire on the middle battery
and Kinburn Fort, at the time our division passed within
short range.
Immediately on anchoring, I transferred my flag to the
Cracker, and, followed by the other gun-boats, proceeded
close off the east front of Kinburn Fort, to be ready to act as
circumstances required, should the enemy's fire, which at that
moment had entirely ceased, be renewed. However, the ne-
cessity for further action did not arise.
As the service intrusted to me was carried out under your
observation, I feel it to be unnecessary to do more than to re-
cord my grateful sense of the very satisfactory manner in
which the whole of the ships under my orders took up their
appointed stations, and of the manner in which all employed
performed their duty.
I think myself fortunate in having for my temporary flag-
ship so efficient and well ordered a man-of-war as the
Valorous, and I feel much indebted to Captain Buckle and
his zealous First Lieutenant, Joseph Edye, for their unre-
mitting attention and assistance.
I am delighted to add that, in concerting with our gallant
allies the arrangements necessary for carrying into effect the
present successful operations, I have received the cordial sup-
port and concurrence of my excellent colleague, Rear-Admiral
Odet Pellion.
The anxiety which you yourself ever feel to do full
justice to merit and exertion must be my excuse for presum-
ing to request your most favourable notice of Lieut. Marryat
and Mr. Brooker. They have had anxious, difficult, and dan-
gerous work to perform, and they have each of them executed
it admirably.—l have, &c.,
HOUSTON' STEWART, Rear-Admirstl.
Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, G.C.B.

THE LIVERPOOL ISTINDARD.

has produced ,great consternation. Their having troops and
engineers on• board is thought to prove an intention of making
a permanent lodgment there.

RUSSIAN ARMY OF THE SOUTH.

General Luders has issued an order of the day to the army of
the south, dated from Nicholaieff, the 9th of October, an-
nouncing the arrival of 23 druschines of the National Militia
of•the Governments of Smolensko and Moscow, as a reinforce-
ment-to the corps under his command. He states that these
militia battalions have been formed about six months, and,
notwithstanding their long march, are already to some extent
instructed in field manceuvres ; but, as they are still very infe-
rior in all respects to the old regiments who have completed
their experience in the field, General Luders impresses on the
officers of every rank the necessity of instructing them in all
their, military duties, and intimates to the older soldiers that
their young brothers in arms must not be treated with ridicule
or contempt. The recruits of the militia have been distributed
among the regiments of infantry of the army, the reserve, and
those of the military dep6t. They are to be taught the most
necessary portions of their duty as quickly as possible. The
General says :—They are not required to possess the excessively
scientific knowledge necessary for the service de front ;
it will be enough if they are taught the movements of the close
column and the duty of cliasseurs and skirmishers,—if they
know how to load their muskets properly and to fire at the
target.

THE CRIMEA.
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
According to telegraphic advices from St. Petersburg of the
30th, Prince Gortschakoff announces on the evening of the
29th that the enemy (the allies) after strong demonstrations
from Eupatoria, in the direction of Simpheropol, during
which their operations were constantly harassed, and their
left flank threatened, returned yesterday (the 28th) to their
camp at Eupatoria.
Despatches from Nicholaieff announce that there were no
more than sixty sail of the enemy's fleet in sight, two of
which were steamers.

Only five gunboats were anchored within the liman of the
Dnieper.

THE WAR IN ASIA.

We are in possession, vid Constantinople, of dates from
Kars to the Ist of October; Erzeroum, the 9th ; Trebizond,
the 11th; and Samsoon, to the 12th.
According to these, it would seem that the Russians, after
the serions repulse received from General Williams, had not
made any new attack upon Kars, which was, however, very
rigorously blockaded, and fodder for the cavalry was very
scarce indeed. The Russians are said to be waiting for rein-
forcements from Gumri. Cholera was making sad havoc
among their ranks in the camp along the Kars-chai. This
-.disease also manifested itself at Kars on the 28th September.
Omar Pasha is concentrating his troops preparatory to march-
ing into Georgia. He has made his head-quarters Suchoum-
Kaleh in lieu of Batoum, at which two places, out of 16,000
of the Tunisian Contingent, only 350 remain, the rest having
been carried off by cholera and fever, contracted from bad
food and insufficient clothing.
Omar Pasha's army is only 8,000 strong, but a reinforce-
ment of 18,000 was looked for from the Crimea, and 24,000
more from Constantinople. Intelligence from the Persian
capital only reaches down to the 26th of July, but is void of
interest beyond the cessation of cholera.

THE BALTIC FLEET.
HAMBURG, Thursday.
The Ajax and Hogue have arrived at Kiel.
Other ships are expected from the Baltic.

DAN TZIC3 Thursday.
The Lightning has arrived, and is to remain here till fur-
ther orders.

The Vulture, with the mail from the fleet, is expected to-
morrow.
The fleet is still at Nargen.
The weather continues stormy.

A LETTER from Odessa, of the 19th, says :—" Accounts
from Simpheropol describe the whole:place to be in movement.
Many of the inhabitants were leaving the town. The hospitals
were being transported towards the north, to Perecop, Nico-
laieff, and Cherson, whilst the wounded who were in those
towns have been taken to Vossmessensk. The dearness of
provisions was excessive at Simferofol. The Russian army of
observation at Eupatoria is said to be 60,000 strong, and in-
cludes 20,000 cavalry. It is commanded by Geiaeral Schabolski,
chief of the dragoon corps. The avant posts are near Koutsgar
and Karagurt. General Grotenjelm, the commander at Odessa,
has advanced on Otchakoff, in forced marches, at the head of
the 3rd division of light cavalry."
A NEW ROYAL WARRANT has been published, giving to
the relatives of officers killed in action, or dying of wounds
within six months, the alternative of receiving a sum equal to
the regulation price of the officer's commission, instead of an
annual pension. If the officer leaves a widow childless, she
receives the whole sum ; if a widow and children, the sum is
to be invested in the name of trustees, the widow to receive
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received under previous pension warrants will be deducted
from the sums payable under the present warrant.
THE BATTLE OP KABS.—An English officer engaged in
the battle gives a brief but spirited sketch :—Kars, Oct. 1.—
Here I am on the Karadagh again, none the worse for my late
illness. Last night the Russians attacked us in force, and
and (between you and me and the post) very nearly took
Kars. The fight was a most bloody one, and lasted seven
hours and a half, without one secsnd's intermission. The
Russians left upwards of 2,000 men dead on the field ; and
their loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, must have ex-
ceeded 6,000 men. What do you think ,of us Kars chaps
after that ? I was not actively engaged as they knew better
than to attack my almost impregnable battery a second time;
but I did great service with my heavy guns, and twice drove
them out of a battery they had taken, and turned upon us. It
was a nasty sight—the field—afterwards. It was completely
covered with dead bodies, mostly Russians, as our men did
not lose more than five or six hundred altogether. The de-
fence was commanded by dear old (Hungarian) General
Kmeti ; and when our general thanked him in the name of
Queen Victoria, for his gallant repulse of the enemy, I
thought the brave old boy would have burst his heart open—
he was so proud. The Turks fought—not like lions, but like
fiends. I never saw such desperate recklessness of life. You
can form some idea of what a desperate business it was, when
I tell you that the Russians had their whole force concen-
trated upon General Kmeti's division, which, with the rein-
forcements he afterwards received, did not amount to 8,000
men. The reports have just come in, and there are more
than 3,000 killed on the side the enemy.
THE BOMB VESSELS IN THE BLACK SEA.—The bomb
vessels were engaged at the distance of 2,500 yards from the
forts. The first-class gunboats, such as the Arrow, Lynx,
Beagle, Snake, &c., were employed nearer the forts in drawing
off the fire from the bomb vessels, in case the enemy directed
their long-range guns against them, and in distracting their
attention from the floating batteries, and these three batteries
which, to the credit of France and to our shame, our gallant
ally had the opportunity of testing so practically, were an-
chored at the distance of 800 yards from Kinburn, and opened
their guns first against the Russian batteries. The success of
the experiment is complete. The shot of the enemy at that
short range had no effect upon them ' The balls hopped off
their sides, without leaving any impression, save such as a
pistol ball makes on the target in a shooting gallery. The
shot could be heard distinctly striking the sides of the battery
with a " sharp smack," and then could be seen flying back,
splashing the water at various angles according to the direc-
tion in which they came, till they dropped exhausted. On one
plates of one side, not counting the marks of others which
battery there are visible the dents of 63 shots against. the
have glanced along the decks or struck the edges and angles
of the bulwarks, and all the damage that has been done to it
is the slight starting of three rivets. The men are all below,
except a look-out man in a shot-proof box on deck, and the
casualties arose from a chance shot, which came through the
ports.—Times.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.

BY the British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Canada, Commodore Judkins, which arrived on Sunday, we
have intelligence from New York to the 23rd, and Boston to
the 24th ult. She brought 119 passengers, and $766,296 80c.
and £260 in specie.
The U. S. mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain West, hence,
arrived at New York on the 18th ult.

A fire had occurred in New York, which caused the death of
three women and two children.

It appears that the reported arrival at Washington of a
special ambassador from Russia was a hoax.

At New York four seamen of the ship Constantine had been
arrested, charged with mutiny while the vessel was on her
recent passage from Liverpool.
The American vessel Maury had been laid under embargo,
by the United States authorities, on the complaint of the
British consul, at New York, who stated that she was being
fitted out as a Russian privateer, with the design of inter-
cepting one of the Cunard steamers from Boston, and taking
her, with the specie on board, as a prize. It was alleged that
she had large quantities of munitions of war on board, and
that she was to be taken to Sandy Hook, where officers and a
crew of eighty men would be put on board, and her, present
officers and crew leave her and return to the city. She was
afterwards released from the custody of the United States
marshal by direction of the district attorney, who acted on
affidavit of the owners, and with the sanction of the counsel of
the British consul, it having been satisfactorily proved that
she was going to China, and that the arms on board were for
protection against the Chinese pirates.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald
writes :—" Cushing, alone of the Cabinet, approaches nearest
the President in his hatred towards Great Britain, and it is
surmised that this feeling can be increased, if opportunity and
place should require it. Mr. Marcy's late letter to Lord
Palmerston, requiring explanation relative to his instructions
in the enlistment case, did not prove in accordance to the
wishes of Mr. Pierce, who, for a time, withheld from it his
assent, in the hope that the bellicose amendment suggested by
him would be finally adopted. To his surprise, upon inquiring
of Mr. Marcy what he had concluded to do in the matter,he was
informed that be had resolved upon making no alteration, and
that the letter, as written by him, bad been sent by the last
European mail. This is the proper place to remark that all
rumours and reports representing a demand from the United
States for the recal of the English Minister are without
foundation, and that of the letters sent to Lord Palmerston,
the first has been answered, but not proving satisfactory to
Mr. Marcy, the second and last was written and despatched
as above related."
, On a later date, the 22nd, the same correspondent says :
"It is reported here to-day, in diplomatic circles, that the
British Minister asserts that the late attempt to convict him
of a violation of the neutrality laws of this country was the
result of a conspiracy of foreigners to embroil the two Govern-
ments ; that at the proper time be will show such to be the
case. Furthermore, Mr. Crampton intimates that, should his
recal be consummated, no successor would be appointed in his
place."

The New York Herald remarks :—" Mr. Crampton, the
British Minister at Washington, has been found guilty of
violating our neutrality laws in the matter of recruiting
soldiers in the United States for the service of the Allies
against Russia. It is reported that our Cabinet have, there-
fore, instructed Mr. Buchanan, our Minister at London, to
demand the recal of Mr. Crampton, and certain of Her
Majesty's Consuls implicated in the same unlawful business.
Now, we have a Russian case or two in the same category.
A correspondent of one of our morning contemporaries puts
the following case in reference to the anticipated withdrawal
of Mr. Crampton :—` I wish to know what steps have been
taken, or are to be taken, to have the Russian Minister with-
drawn. The whole country has been publicly and repeatedly
informed, in a boastful, triumphant manner, that James C.
Thompson, the proprietor of the machine-works, on Quay-
street, Albany, has been offered the situation of chief engineer
in the Russian navy. We have it proclaimed that his salary
is to be $6,000 a year, together with a free dwelling-house;
and it is openly avowed that Mr. Thompson had gone to
Washington to complete the engagement with the Russian
Minister.' On Wednesday, it appears, the United States
Deputy-Marshal, Horton, of this port, seized the ship Maury,
on suspicion that she was engaged in the service of Russia,
and had on board articles contraband of war—cannon, mus-
kets, powder, balls, &c., being found among the materials of
her cargo. This, however, is not yet proved so clear a case of
the infraction of the law as that of the Russian Minister in the
engagement of Mr. Thompson. The ship may be destined to
some country not engaged in a war with a foreign enemy ;
but the admission that Mr. Thompson has been to Washington,
to complete his arrangement with the Russian Minister, as
chief engineer of the Russian navy, under the very noses of
the President, his Premier, and his Attorney-General, is cer-
tainly a cool operation compared with the proceedings of Mr.
Crampton. What says the Premier ? "

The New York Times denounces the conduct of Mr.
Crampton and the British Government, though not in very
strong terms.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Times
says :—" The same adventurous speculator in Washington
news, who informed the public on the arrival of the late
President of Mexico in this city, ineop., has, I perceive, con-
tradicted the statement made by myself and others of the
application of this Government for the recal of Mr. Crampton.
The contradiction is without the slightest particle of authority,
is nothing but a random guess, and happens to be wholly
untrue. What may have been the form of the representation
in reference to Mr. Crampton's connection with the enlist-
ments of recruits for the Crimea I do not pretend to affirm,
but that it was equivalent to a request for his recal I have
sufficient reasons for believing, and the substantial correctness
of my former statement on the subject is confirmed by cir-
cumstances which have since come to my knowledge. The
only ground of complaint against the British diplomatic
authorities in the United States, is, that they did not observe
due respect for the forms of international law. Had the
ministers of all the belligerent powers gone judiciously to
work in a spirit of fair competition for volunteers for the
service of their respective governments, no fault would have
been found with them ; but the ostentatious violation of our
neutrality laws by the minister and consuls of one of them,
has produced a difficulty which cannot be settled except by
the immolation of one or more of the offenders, as a sacrifice
to the dignity of the country."
A letter from Washington states, that the Japanese inter-
pretation between that country and the United States was
sustained by the administration, that consequently no efforts
would be made by the American Cabinet to compel the re-
ception of American merchants as residents. The Juanto,
steam-frigate, was fitting out for Siam and Japan, when she
was to take out an American commissary.
MEXlCo.—Advices from Mexico report that Matamoras had
surrendered to the revolutionists without giving battle, and
matters there were quite tranquil. At San Louis Potosi a
fight of three days' duration resulted in the capture of the city
by the revolutionists. The National Guards were being
organized throughout the country, to be in readiness to march
on the city of Mexico, should General Vadaurri think proper.

CUBA dates are to the 13th ult. The direction of the
Spanish bank was to be closed on the 14th ; at the last meet-
ing there was not a quorum of the stockholders. Two French
vessels of war were in the harbour of Havana. The birthday
of the Queen of Spain was celebrated with unusual enthusiasm.
The stock of sugar on hand (deducting for home consumption)
was stated at 60,000 boxes. The prospect of the new crop
continues favourable.

WEST INDIES.—A correspondent in St. Domingo, writing
on the 11th of September, states that a tremendous storm was
experienced there, which blew down nearly one-third of the
houses of the city, tore up an immense number of cocoa-nut
and other trees, and almost entirely destroyed the growing
crops. Several merchant vessels were injured, and two men-
of-war ships wrecked. Owing to, the loss of the crops the poor
people were
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into great
it.
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Souzu AmmitcA.—The bark Amazon arrived at Baltimore,
bringing advices from Rio Janeiro to the 29th of August,
three days later. Flour remained unchanged, and coffee was
steady at previous prices.
We have dates from Rio Janeiro to September 4. The
cholera had disappeared, and the province was quite healthy.
Business was somewhat brisk, but not so active as the re-
ceipts of produce from 'the interior warranted. There were
no foreign ships-of-war in port.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, 23RD OCT.
The money market, says the Journal of Commerce, is still
unsettled, chiefly owing to the European troubles, and the
fears of rather heavy shipments of specie. The usual shipment
of about $400,000 in specie, will go forward from one house
here to leave Boston on Wednesday ; and we learn of smile
smaller sums, of no great importance in the aggregate. We
do not look for any suspension of specie payments, either in
France or England. In these days, when money is the sinew
of war, and capital is, to a great extent, the real test of
strength, a confession of national bankruptcy is an acknow-
ledgment of defeat, and both the Allied powers will make
great sacrifices to avoid such humiliation.
Money on call was not abundant at 7 per cent. ; there were
a few transactions at that rate, but the quotations outside the
banks were 8 to 10 per cent., and, in a large number of cases,
10 to 12. For sterling exchange the demand was improving
at 9 percent. premium. Some leading drawers were asking
to more. We quote :—London, 1081 to 109; ; Paris,
f 5.24 to f 5.161 • Bremen, 78i to 781; Hamburg, 36 to 361;
Antwerp, f 5.221 to f,5.18-11.
CoTrox.—On receipt of the Atlantic's advices at New
York, on the 17th instant, cotton declined lc. to lc. per lb.
This decline led to an increased demand, and the market
closed firm. The sales for the week were estimated at 6,500
bales. Respecting the subject of the cotton crop, we are in-
debted to the New York Courier and Enquirer for the fol-
lowing remarks :—" The subject of crop, which, during the
past two months, has engrossed the attention of the trade,
appears during the past week to have lost its interest. The
three and a-half million bale estimates and upwards had just
yielded to the more moderate figures of about three and a
quarter millions, and calculations were being based upon the
probable value of staple at established rate of consumption of
the world, when the Atlantic arrived, and a new element
claimed consideration, namely, the impending money crisis in
England, and its effect on all commercial interests. The
events of 1847 were still fresh in the recollection of many of
the trade, and all were reluctant to venture far until the
threatened storm had palled. To a feeling of confidence,
therefore, which the moderate prices current in the face of an
immense consumption, and a good, but most excessive, supply
was engendering, succeeded our irresolution and timidity.
The market opened with a desire to sell at rates previously
refused, and to-day closes at a decline of fully ic. on the rates
current at the departure of the Pacific."
BREADSTUFFS.—There had been a fair business done at
last week's quotations up to Saturday last, when, owing to an
increased demand for home use, with some purchases for
France and on speculation, an advance of 121 c. per brl. in the
common and medium qualities was realised. Yesterday there
was again a good demand, at a further advance of 61c. per brl.,
which our present quotations confirm. Wheat was sc. to 10c.
the
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Cheese
mesaerke was t.
without alteration.
per bushel lower in western descriptions. Indian corn had
declined 2c. to 3c. per bushel.
PROVISIONS. her
New mess pork was held at $23, but purchases could be
made at lower rates. Beef was in moderate demand and' firm,
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without alteration.—T Lard was

SALT.—There was much activity manifested in the salt
market, and within the last few days four or five cargoes of
Turks Island have been sold at p. t., and considerable lots of
Jeffries's and D'Orsay's at p. t.—supposed to be a fraction
under $1,60.
FEEIGHTS.—The rates were without material alteration.
We quote :—To Liverpool, for cotton, d. per lb. • flour, 3s. 9d.
to 46. per barrel; grain, 10d. per bushel. To London, flour,
4s. 6d. to ss. per barrel ; grain, 12d. to 121 d. per bushel. To
Havre, cotton, 2c. per lb.; flour, $1 per barrel ; grain, 25c. to
28c. per bushel.
NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 20TH.—The sales of cotton to-day
were 4,000 bales, at former rates. Flour is a trifle lower ;
3,000 barrels sold at $8,25. New molasses sells at 33c.
(By Electric Telegraph)
NEW YORK, OCT. 23, six, P.M.—Ashes firm; pots, $6,372;
pearls, $7,371. Cotton, -1-bc. to 4c. lower. Sales, 2,000 bales.
Flour buoyant. Freights to Liveool lower : flour, 3s. 6d. ;
grain, 9d. to 10d. ; cotton, 5-16 d told.

THE FEMALE IMPOSTOR AT

WOLVERHAMPTON.

FURTHER proof of the duplicity of the young woman who
has been practising criminal deceptions under the various
names of Alice Gray, Alice Christie, Anastasia Huggard, and
Eliza Tremaine, has been obtained from Leeds, whence infor-
mation has been received that her photographic portrait has
been recognised as that of a Miss Hook, who some months
ago obtained pecuniary assistance from many respectable
persons by representing herself to be related to the Rev. Dr.
Hook, vicar of Leeds, and who was at that time from home.
Her pseudo claims were advanced by a Mr. Smedley, of Mat-
leek Bath, who was in some way connected with her, and who
conducted her correspondence, until Dr. Hook formally and
emphatically contradicted the tale. She was then lost sight
of by the Leeds police, and has recently re-appeared at Wol-
verhampton. To the aklottlie -photographic art this unravel-
ment of a link in. the )listory of the girl is due. At Leeds
she originally passed ,Minder the natne of " Eliza Tremaine ;"
and having been fonwil apparently in a state of great destitu-
tion, was relieved by the Rev. Mr. Jackson. She then, as
previously detailed, appeared to have raised money in various
parts of the kingdom, by representing herself as an ill-used
relative of Dr. Hook, and, in connection with some members
of the Society of Friends, sent counterfeit letters to him,
signed " Eliza Tremaine," and complaining of his treatment.
These letters were treated with the contempt they merited,
and it was then that her protector took her back with him to
Matlock, and the police lost all traces of her. On Wednesday
she was again brought up for hearing, at the Town-hall,
Wolverhampton, on a charge of perjury. Colonel Hogg, the
chief constable of that borough, has, during the week, been
actively prosecuting inquiries into her past course. It has
been ascertained that under the name of Anastasia Huggard
she was actually engaged as a nurse in Flintshire, as she re-
presented, in the house of Mr. Fenton, of the Queen's Ferry
Wire Rope Works. She there produced an excellent character
from the matron of the Liverpool Workhouse, and was dis-
missed after living there three weeks, in consequence of
her having told some extraordinary falsehoods. Mr. Fen-
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