The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7. 1854

CAVENDISH BRADSTREET RI 7TIIVEIst, the youngest
son of the Baroness Runtv:LN, the representative
of a name long distinguished in Scottish history.
Lieutenant RUTHVEN was 3 lot the first of his
family who had freely shed his blood in the ser-
vice of his country. His, brother WALTER had
previously perished at. Fer ozeshah, in the military
service of the Hon. East India Company. The
present inheritors tb.e name thus prove them-
selves well entitled to their ancient motto, "Deeds
show." They laave been no degenerate descend-
ants of the brave and noble of " auld lang syne."
Lieutenant UREATHED, of the Britannia, also fell.
These rctromising young officers were universally
reg,reicted. Their frank and generous natures
endeared them to all who had the pleasure of
PA.& acquaintance. Captain MoORSOM, Lieuten-
i ants NORMAN, MITCHELL, and M‘DowEnn, and
Messrs. SANCTUARY, BULLOCK, and LYON, R.N.,
were among the wounded., Mr. BULLOCK, of the
Trafalgar, had been wounded on the 17th, but
could not be induced to retire from his post. We
regret to say that he was again very severely in-
jured on the 21s'o.

Among the land forces we find Colonel the
Honourable F. G. HOOD, of the Grenadier Guards,
killed. Vials gallant officer was brother to the
late and uncle to the present Viscount HOOD, and
grarAdson of the celebrated Admiral HOOD, who
wrat his peerage in the well-known battle against
Oount DE GRASSE. Along with Colonel HOOD
there had been during the four first days, two
serjeants, one drummer, and eighteen rank and
file killed, and ten officers (including Prince ED-
/ WARD of Saxe Weimar), six serjeants, one drum-
mer, and ninety-five rank and file wounded. We
fear that many more of our brave fellows must
shed their blood e'er the British flag waves o'er
the walls of Sebastopol, and the pride of the
'CZAR has been so far humbled.
These despatches enable us, with the other
information we had obtained from less truati
worthy sources, to clearly understand the true
state of affairs, by land and water, up to the 23,1
instant. In our impression of yesterday we
pointed out the occurrences of the two first.
days. On the 18th, our Allies being engaged in
repairing the damage sustained on the precedinr4
day, the English alone maintained the fire,
and sustained the whole of the cannonade
from the town. On the 19th, however,
General CANROBERT again participated in
the attack with increased power, not only from
the old batteries, which had been reinstated, but
from new ones constructed on the 18th. That
fire had been continued with terrific effect up to
the 23d, and there was but little prospect of its
being slackened while the defence of Sebastopol
continued: He had, Lord RAGLAN tells, been
enabled "to push his approaches forward, and,
like the English, materially to damage the defences
of the places." These were not, however, by any
means subdued, "nor was a serious timinution
of the fire perceptible." We believe, however,
that a few days effected a very material alteration
in this respect.
Lord RAGLAN bears strong testimony to the
zeal and energy displayed by the defenders in re-
pairing the damage to their redoubts and guns
occasioned by the fire of the Allies. They had
vast resources of every kind, both of men and
guns, and they were very efficiently availing
themselves thereof, so that the opposing General
could not specify a time " with anything like
certainty for taking ulterior measures." Wo
cannot, however, complain. The very difficulties
Ithat impede our progress will add. to the glory
that will attend the subsequent triumph which
I will doubtless attend the Allied- arms.
From the despatch of Admiral DUNDAS it does
not appear that the fleet took any active part in
the bombardment between the 17th and 23d.
The damage had been repaired in, all the vessels
save the Albion and Arethusa, which had be©n
sent to Constantinople to refit, and they were
on the 23d ready for service. The Lynx, Sphinx,
Stromboli, and Viper had also arrived. It ap-
peared that the enemy had been actively engaged
since the 17th in constructing new works on the
north side of the harbour, commanding the ap
preaches by sea and land. No mention is, how •
ever, made of any steps having been taken to
retard or interfere with these operations.
It also appears that Captain BROOK had main-
tained his position at Eupatoria, supported by the
Leander and Megaara, although threatened and
attacked by heayy bodies of cavalry, with guns.
The retention of that position was valuable in
consequence of the supplies hitherto obtained
therefrom, but which will probably be cut off for
the future. We are glad to find, too, that a
steam division, both of French and English ves-
sels, continued in the Bay of Odessa, " actively
employed in cutting off the communica-
tions with the Crimea." On the whole, al-
though we have met with a more stub-
born and formidable resistance than had pre-
viously been anticipated, we have no reason to
feel discouraged, or to suppose that we shall not
succeed in accomplishing the fall of Sebastopol,
the great object of the autumn campaign in the
Crimea.

In another column we explain the events in
the Crimea, which rest on unexceptionable autho-
rity, and which show the progress of the siege
up to the 23rd October. We have nothing later,
except the despatch of Lord STRATFORD DE RED-
CLIFFE, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday,
and which detailed the events of the 25th and
26th '
ultimo, and which merely professed to have
been " gathered from persons who were eye-
witnesses of what took place." This information,
collected by the Captain of an English steam-
boat from so many different sources, could soarcely
be regarded as infallible. It, however, so far
corroborates the Russian statements, as to prove
that a very serious encounter had taken plac
e—
that the Russians had gained a temporary advan-
tage—and that even at the end of the first
clay they remained masters of two of the
five redoubts which had been constructed,
for the purpose of protecting and raftipAain_H
ing our communications with Balaklava. It also
affords much reason to fear that the
Eng-
lish light cavalry had suffered very severely
daring the conflict. It 15t, indeed, but justice to
say that the Russian accounts hitherto proved to
have rested on better foundations than, judging
from previous ?xperience, could have been antici-
pated. We are, therefore, bound to give some de-
(free of tredit at least to the general substratum,
while we still look for a little " embellishment "
as t o the details.
It seems very plain that, in the first instance
at least, the matter was a complete surprise, and
yet we know that the very position had previously
been threatened—nay, more, th© danger having
been perceptible, even to non-combatants who long
previously had commented thereon. Had the
Turks, however, exhibited the same cool deter-
mination, of which their brethren under OMER
PACER afforded so many striking instances, the
matter
might not have proved very serious, and
the assailants would not have been enabled
to boast even of a temporary triumph,
or of inflictin:g
much damage on the Allied Troops.
;gaavnedwalattugh it its; stated that they "spiked
bTlhoewy however, without striking a single
iatitsoegelentshetrhanr,
glected ler
ltihaevegubnesCu" salutary precaution must
im-
mediately afterwards thatthe s. we read
guns were turned
z•,gainst themselves," and also that " three regi-
menta of English light cavalry, exposed to the 1

cross fire of the Russian batteries, suffered im-
mensely." This " cross fire" must at least, in
part, if not altogether, have proceeded from the
captured redoubts, which would have been silenced
if the operation of " spiking" had been effectively
performed. The gallant Highlanders (we believe
the 93d), however, stood firm. Shoulder to
shoulder, as in the days of old, they maintained
their position, and by their unflinching bravery
they prevented the disaster from becoming as
serious as it must have been had less determined
men occupied the post. This vigorous defence
not only prevented the enemy from achieving
their main object, but enabled the Allies to regain
much of what had been lost through the panic of
the Ottoman troops. The French and English
quartered in the vicinity hastened up and won
back 3 of the 5 redoubts that had been captured
in the first instance. The great body of the assail-
ants, however, appear to have been repulsed with
considerable loss, and we have little doubt that the
two redoubts were won back the following day,
and that the communications with Balaklava,
which had for the time being been intercepted,
were re-opened. On the 26th a formidable sortie
was made from the town, which was, however,
fully and completely repulsed, as well as the
onslaught from the country, by which it was at-
tempted to place our men between two fires. That
a decisivevictory was gained may be gathered even
from the Russian despatches, which state that
" General LIPRANDI had retired to the head-quar-
ters at Bakshi-Serai." This is partially a confession
that he had not been able to maintain the advantage
gained during his well-planned and gallant attack ;
that he had, in fact, been completely beaten back
by, the Allied Forces.
Further advices (Russian) to the 29th ultimo
state " that the enemy (the Allies) had completed
their second parallel, and advanced their bat-
teries" nearer to the city. This is certainly an
important change of position, proving, beyond
the possibility of doubt, the progress of the be-
siegers. Had there been anything whatsoever
that could have been put forward as an equiva-
lent it would indubitably have been not ()lily re-
ferred to, but strongly dwelt on ; and from the
ominous silence observed, we may fairly calculate
that the fate of Sebastopol was sealed, and that
the day of its final overthrow was rapidly ap-
proaching.
It is sati§factory to find that the Western war-
riors, lost none of the prestige they had acquired
at the Alma, and that, albeit a stubborn resistance
has been opposed, they aro gradually, but surely,
accomplishing the object in which they were
engaged. A few days must being the official ac-
counts of the contest of the 25th, which, thanks
to the Duke of NEWCASTLE, we may calculate on
being communicated to the public without further
delay. We must, therefore, patiently and hope-
fully await their arrival.

Our able weekly contemporary, the Economist,
supports by au appeal to figures which admit of
no " cooking " some of the facts respecting tho
corn trade and present prices, which we presented
only in a general form last week. The Gazette
returns of wheat sold during August, September,
and October fully bear out the impressions we ,
had received from the weekly market reports.
They show that in those three months the sales of
corn were less this year than in either of the two
preceding years. The amount sold in 1852 was
1,259,582 qrs. ; last year it was 1,177,349 qrs. ;
and this year only 1,155,862 qrs. It is obvious,
therefore, that our supplies of home-grown corn
have been even less out of this year's superabun-
dant harvest than they were out of the two pre-
ceding and very inferior harvests. We have,
therefore, got in hand, and must soon begin to
receive, the large stack which is by this time in
good
,condition for the market, and which the
farmers will now have leisure to thresh.
The amount of imports for the three months is,
on the other hand, also very small compared with
that of last year. In 1853 we imported in the
months ending August sth, Sept. sth, and October
10th, 1,707,132 qrs. of wheat, and 1,244,400
cwts. of flour ; but in. the same three months of
1854 not above a third of that quantity-570,355
qrs. of wheat, and 568,505 cwts. of flour. There
was, therefore, in reality, a very deficient supply
in. our markets during those months, for we had
rather less Of our home-grown corn than usual,
and about one million and a quarter, of quarters
of wheat, and more than half a million cwts. of
flour less of foreign supply than in the previous
year. This alone is sufficient to account for the
rapid rise in prices. It was suddenly found that
wheat and flour were not to be had. There was,
in fact, a scramble for it. The case has, there-
fore, we are persuaded passed its worst. Present
prices must have caused considerable orders to go
out, while they will tempt farmers at home to
thresh ; and if we shall not have a very cheap
loaf we shall at least have a reasonable one.
Monday's advance can hardly be more than a
temporary oscillation. ,

I‘IONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at from 7,000 to 8,000 bales, including
1,000 American taken for export. The market
closed firm without change in prices. The sales
comprised 200 Pernam and Maranham at sd. to
6id., Egyptian at sid. to 7d., 600 Surat at 3d. to
4id., and the remaindEr Anierican. Railway
Shares were dull and bevy.
The number of ships from foreign parts arrived
in the Thames yesterday was 72, and there were
4 from Ireland, besides 22 colliers.
The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tion for the month and nine months ended Oct. 10
have been issued. From these it appears that the
total declared value of the exports of British and
Irish produce from the United Kingdom for the
month, exclusive of the " unenumerated"
was 8,074,0481., being a decrease of 754,9521. as
compared with the same month of 1853. There
was an increase in the shipments of beer and ale,
coals and culm, and cotton manufactures, but a
decrease in haberdashery, hardware and cutlery,
linen manufactures, machinery, silk manufactures,
thrown silk, woollen manufactures, and woollen
yarn.

The importations of the principal articles were
larger for the month thin year as respects cochineal,
guano, mahogany, saltpetre, raw silk, cassia lignea,
cinnamon, cloves, pimento, rum, sugar, tea, wine,
and cotton wool. A diminution, however, took
place in cocoa, coffee, wheat, barley, oats, flour,
Indian corn, indigo, flag, currants, hemp, palm
oil, opium, cheese, rice, mace, nutmegs, pepper,
brandy, Geneva, and tallow. _ .

The shipping accounts for the month exhibit a
decrease in the number of tons engaged in the
foreign trade of the United Kingdom for the entries
inwards, but an augmentation in the clearances out-
wards, compared with the like period of last year.
in the coasting trade for the mouth 98,865 tons
more were engaged as shown by the entries in-
wards than in the corresponding month of 1853,
and 106,184 tons for the clearances.
A statement of the position of the National
Bank of Belgium on the 31st ultimo gives the
total operations at 165,000,000 francs. The amount
of the precious metals was 47,163,000 francs, besides
demonetized gold to the amount of 11,987,000
francs. The securities, including bills discounted,
were 79,409,000 francs, the circulation was
92,643,000 francs, and the accounts current

amounted to 33,425,000 francs.

The much-vexed question whether foreign states
shall be permitted to introduce their hope debts
upon the English Stock Exchange has again
received a solution, by the decision of the commit-
tee of the " house" against any such permission
being accorded. The principle has been so often
affirmed that it is surprising any men at all versed
in the line of policy adopted by the Stock Ex-
change should make an attempt to procure its
reversal. Every artifice, we are aware, has
been used to " make the worse appear
the better part, " but highly to the credit of
the business-like chairman and his coadjutors who
are at present serving their term of office the
attempt has signally failed, and the decision given
is against the introduction of these bonds. One
can readily imagine the enormous mass of foreign
stock which every State that was pressed for cash,
or that wished to reward its Court favourites,
would send into our compliant market were the
door once opened. We congratulate the bond-
holders at large upon this result, as promising for
their future prospects as it is honourable to
the Stock Exchange, and creditable to the
perseverance of the Anglo-Peruvian Committee.
There has been a larger supply of money stock
to-day, although cash, is represented as being easy
in Lombard:street. Consols have been 94t I, and
since 911 -a- for Transfer. The Account prices ,are
911 a. Exchequer Bills continue at 6s. to 9s. pm.
In the New 3 per Cents. a good deal has been done
at 93} to 93i.
Foreign Securities have been heavy. Mexican,
222. Peruvian not dealt in. Turkish Scrip down
to 1i g. prem. Dutch 2i per Cents. have been 602
to 61. Buenos Ayres Bonds are 58 to 59.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 6 ; Mexi-
can, 22a to 22i ; Peruvian, 64 to 70i- ; ditto,
3 per Cents., 49 to 50 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto,
4i per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred,
18i,to 181; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37i to 34 ; ditto,
Certificates, 5g to 511- ; ditto, Passive, 4a to 4i.
In the Railway Share Market there has been
very little doing, and prices are rather lower.
Foreign Shares are scarcely so good.
The Gold Mine and other shares are nominal.
The Banks keep firm, and the new companies are
stn.' in request. The Land Shares are supported.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(From the 01cial List.)

Business done
thnk Stock 2121
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitieg
:
93$ 3
3 per Cont. Consols Annuities 9411 i i i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 2i per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16
Dittc, 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 4 1-16 i 3-16
120100000 .....:::
India Stock
(nDdiiltio3,onudnsdef
onsols forlAccount 14th Nov.
Exchequer Bills, 20.
£l000
£503
small ........................................ 6 9 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9BA 9
Ditto 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 59 8
'l3xican 3 per Cent. ...
.......... 22i ill
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cont.
Ditto 3 per Cent. ............. .
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 4 per Cent ..• ..„,.... ............•.•••• 40 2
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. BBi 9
rurkish Scrip 6 per cent
Swedish 4 per Cent.....„. ...... B7
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Bonds 4,1 per Cent. ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cont. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cont. Certificates
THREE 0 CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto November Account

CAPTAIN rELLOCK, who has been engaged in the
transport service in the Crimea, as commander of the
gigantic steamer Himalaya, which has rendered such
signal service in conveying troops, is coming home on
account of ill-health. Captain Thomas Russell, who has
seen much service in the Black Sea, as commander of
one of the Oriental Company's vessels there, has been
appointed Captain Kellock's successor, and proceeds
almost immediately to the Crimea to take charge of the
Himalaya.
AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM PRODUCE MARKETS.—
The weekly reports from the Amsterdam and Rotterdam
produce-markets mention that business had been less
active. There was no material variation in coffee, and
prices continued to be fairly supported. The operations
in sugar had been more restricted, but prices exhibited
firmness. A further decline had occurred in rice, owing
to an increase of sales. Tea and indigo remained quiet,
the transactions having been unimportant.
Tall FRENCH GUIDES AND VHS ENGLISH GUARDS.—
During the short stay of the band of the French Guides
in the St. George's Barracks the non-commissioned
officers of the Scotch Fusilier Guards had not a favour-
able opportunity of showing their good will and cordial
feelings in a special manner towards them until it came
to the evening previous to their departure, when an ex-
tension of leave was granted to the whole of the non-
commissioned officers, for the purpose of taking a fare-
well of their brethren in arms of the sister nation. The
evening was passed in a jovial and convivial manner ;
loyal toasts were given, popular songs sung, both French
and English, the favourites being the national anthems
of the two nations, where " all " could join in chorus.
Everything went on in the most creditable and enthusi-
astic manner. A substantial breakfast was prepared for
them in the non-commissioned officers' mess-room at 5
a.m., and upon their departure from the barracks the
whole of the soldiers turned out and cheered them
heartily in a manner indicative of their fraternising en-
thusiasm.
The French Guides during the past week visited
several of the public exhibitions in the metropolis, and
among them expressed themselves greatly delighted at
the large and valuable collection of Napoleon relics con-
tained in the museum of Madame Tussaud's. The car-
riages of the Emperor appeared to interest them greatly,
as they continued for a long period of their stay to be
passing in and out of these curious and interesting
vehicles.
DEATH OF GENERAL STEWART.—This unfortunate
gentleman, one of the party injured by a recent coach
accident at Dunkeld, expired on Saturday morning. He
was a general in the Austrian service, and claimed to
be a lineal descendant of Prince Charles Edward Stuart,
—Scotinvan.

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF
SEBASTOPOL.

VIENNA, MONDAY, Nov. 6.

The Ost Deutsche Post says that the storming of
Sebastopol was fixed for the Ist or 2d November.
A new levy of 100,000 men is to take place in
Austria. Large purchases of horses have been
ordered.

A convention between Austria and Bavaria is
rumoured ; 20,000 Bavarians would replace the

Austrian troops in Northern Italy.
ODESSA, OCT. 28.

Prince Menschikoff has only 45,000 ,men at
his disposal. Of the 4th corps d'arrnee, only the
12th division is with Liprandi at Bakshi-Serai.
The divisions Pogoff and Lafiskoi only commenced
their march for the Crimea, from Bessarabia, on
the 23d of October.

Omer Paella has been obliged to send 30,000
men to Varna, as reserve. He has finally aban-
doned his intended operations on the Lower
Danube. He takes up his head-quarters at
Schumla forthwith.

The latest ad.vices state that the Russians have

only 5,000 men in the Dobrudscha.

THE CRIMEA.

A letter from Constantinople, in the Salut Public
of Lyons, gives the following details from Se-
bastopol :

"I have already mentioned to 'you that the fall of
Sebastopol would be nothing else than an affair of heavy
artillery, and an officer who has just arrived from the
Crimea confirms what I mentioned. Sebastopol will
not be stormed ; it will be battered to pieces, not a stone
being left en the other, unless the garrison capitulates in
time. The ramparts, forts, and public edifices are all
undermined, and an explosion might cause the death of
thousands of men, without any advantage to our army.
Is it not more prudent to reserve these troops for the
end of the campaign, for the battle which must necessa-
rily be fought if the intention be to drive the Russians
out of the Crimea ?"

The Corriere Italiano of Vienna of the 2d, in
referring to the alleged reverse sustained by the
English near Balaklava, says :
" We deplore every disaster, however slight, which
may befall the troops whom we consider as our Allies ;
we deplore it because it may have the effect of continuing
the hesitations of some German Governments, and be-
cause by giving new courage to the Russian army in the
midst of the demoralisation which had spread amongst its
ranks, the decisive ruin of the Russian forces will require
more time and greater sacrifices. Here we speak not
only of the sacrifices of the Western Powers, but of the
sacrifices of Austria—certain as we are that the policy
of Austria is not that of the other German States,—
awaiting events and dependent on success. The less the
success obtained by the Allies, the more will have to be
done by the bravery of the Austrian arms. We wrote
these lines under the impression of the last telegraphic
despatches,—to which, however, we will not attach
faith, because they come from Russian sources, and are
not confirmed. We hope that very soon the reports of
the Allied commanders will cause the reverse of the
medal to be seen."

PRINCE MENSCHIKOFF'S REPORT OF

THE THIRD AND FOURTH DAYS.

_
The Journal de St. Petersbourg, of the 28th ult.,
contains the following notice :
"To complete the details already published of the
operations at Sebastopol on the sth (17th) and 6th (18th)
of October, the Aide-de-Camp General Menschikoff, in
a statement dated the Bth (20th), in the evening, ob-
serves that the movement executed on the 6th (18th)
by Major-General Setniskine's detachment on the rear
of the enemy from the village of Tchourgoum suc-
ceeded in its object, by forcing the enemy to despatch
on the 7th (19th) a portion of his forces is the direction
of the village of Komary. Since their entry into the
village the enemy's troops had made no hostile demon-
strations.

"On the 7th (19th) and Bth (20th) of October the
bombardment_ of Sebastopol was only kept up on the
land side by five English and four French batteries.
But their fir• was not se active as on the first day, and
had not inflicted any sensible damage on our fortifica-
tions. On the 7th (19th) our loss was 49 men killed and
168 wounded ; three of these were officers.
"Up to the tine of sending off the despatch Prince
Menschikoff had not received any detailed reports as
to the number of our troops disabled on the Bth (20th).
"On the same day (the 20th) it was seen from Sebas-
topol that a powder magazine blew up in the French
battery constructed near the ruins of the ancient Cher-
sonesus. After this the battery was silent.
" During the whole of these two days, the 7th (19th)
and Bth (20th), the Allied squadron took no part in the
bombardment of Sebastopol."