The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-04 00:00:00

THE LONDON), SATI/RDAY EVENING, NOVEIMRER 4, 1854;

place indicated by the Russian general—that is to
say, at Inkerman, on the Tchernaya ; that if not
a surprise it was something very like it, and that
the English cavalry suffered very severe y. So
far the Russian accounts appear to have been
tolerably accurate. They omitted, however, to
state that the Russians were subsequently repulsed
with very considerable loss, and that eventually
the English remained masters of their position.
We, however, readily acknowledge that there
was far greater foundation for the assertions than
the total, and we may add inexplicable, silence of
the crew and passengers of the Trent, which
steamed from Balaklava on the day of these thril-
ling events, led us to infer.
It appears that the attack took place on the
25th ultimo, against certain forts in the vicinity
of Balaklava, and that the number of the assail-
ants was estimated at the very amount stated by
Prince MENSCRIKOFF, 30,000. The attack was
unexpected, or, in other words, it was a complete
surprise. The position first assailed was that
held by Ottoman troops and the Scotch. The
former were unable to sustain the onslaught of
the Cossacks who rushed on in advance of the
infantry. The Turks retreated, having previously
spiked some of their guns, but not effectually,
for it appears from Lord STRATFORD'S despatch,
that they were subsequently turned against them-
selves with very deadly effect, the lo s being pro-
bably more than would have occurred had they
stood their ground boldly, like the gallant North
Britons, who, we are told, " remained firmly in

their position."
While the contest was thus fiercely waged by
the Scotch regiments assistance was rapidly ap-
proaching. Three regiments of English Light
Cavalry--Lord CARDIGAN'S division hastened
up. They were unfortunately. exposed to the
cross-fire cf the Russian batteries—probably
those previously vacated by the Moslems—
and, we are told, suffered immensely. It
will be in the recollection of our readers that
the MENSCHIKOFF despatches estimated the loss of
" horses" at 500 ; that is to say, that there were
that number of killed or wounded. This was
probably greatly overrated, but even under the
most favourable circumstances we must look for-
ward to a fearful catastrophe of casualties amongst
our gallant fellows.

Nor were our noble Allies, the French, idle dur-
ing the emergency. We are told that they took
part in the affair with admirable bravery, a matter
which we can easily credit, when we remember
their ancient reputation fully sustained, aye, en-
hanced, by their exploits on the Glorious Alma.
The Russians were thereby obliged to yield the
ground they had gained. They remained, how-
ever, masters of two forts, from whence they kept
up a galling fire upon our troops, by which it was
that our light Cavalry suffered so sevefely.
On the following day, the 26th, the French
position was attacked by a corps of 8,000 Rus-
sians, coming simultaneously from the side of the
town and from that of Balaklava. The assailants
were, however, repulsed with " great slaughter."
Indeed the Russian loss must have been terrific,
and we greatly fear that the bloodshed on all
sides on the 25th and 26th October must have
been equal to that of the 20th September, and
that many a widow and orphan will have to de-
plore these fatal days.
There seems to be but little, if any, doubt that
the ground lost in the first sudden and unexpected
attack was completely regained. We trust, how-
ever, that greater vigilance will henceforward be
displayed, and that we shall hear of no other sur-
prises. Our Generals seem to have been fully
warned of the necessity for watchful care. It
was not the first time that the position in the
vicinity of Balaklava was threatened. The new
attack should, therefore, have been anticipated,
and every necessary precaution taken ; and we
trust that full explanations will be rendered as to
the party or parties responsible for so serious a
catastrophe.
Meanwhile, we hear that the fire from the bat-
teries of the town had materially slackened, and
that there is every reason to suppose, that Sebas-
topol cannot long resist the steady and determined
approaches of the Allies. It would seem as if
the determined onslaught of the Russians were a
last desperate attempt to relieve the beleaguered
city, on the failure whereof it must speedily fall
into our hands.

One of the favourite calumnies of NICHOLAS is

that the Allies are fighting for Mahometanism
against Christianity. Of course the Allies know
as well as the inventor of this lie the impudence
of the falsehood, but the poor soldiers of the Im-
perial liar know it not. They, poor souls, be-
lieve that they are fighting for GOD and the true
Church, not for the lying ambition of a tyrant.
They are in their own eyes holy crusaders, not
vulgar warriors ; and half that his unlucky con-
scripts are worth, and more than half the support
he gains from his superstitious millions, is due to
their fanaticism and his shameless appeal to it.
They die for despotism, and believe themselves
martyrs. We grieve to remember that there
were Englishmen who ought to have known better,
but who, in a kind of forensic clutching at any
argument, attempted to raise also the base cry

Ghat we were fighting against Russian Christians
for Turkish infidels. We disposed of that argu-
ment At the time, if argument it deserves to be
called ; for, independentlyof the Christianity of the
Russians being a superstition inferior to the
.Vlahometanism of the Turks, if professed Chris-
tians will rob and steal, we hope other professed
Christians will always be found ready to pro-
tect even Atheists from such beliers of their faith.

Pile pretext, however, of resisting Christians in
lefence of infidels will utterly fail if the present
.var should be ennobled by the flag of Poland.
rhe Poles are at least as good Christians as the
Raissians ; their country was indeed once famous
.or its Christian literature, an honour which will
'lever belong to the merely imitative Muscovites.
Phe cause of Polish independence, religiously
viewed, is the cause of religious freedom against
he atrocious persecutors of the nuns at Minsk;
ind the oppressor of every creed but that of which
he first article is the Deification of the CZAR.
Thanks to Western enlightenment, we believe
I religious war now almost impossible. The reli-

;ious supremacy of the POPE or of Queen VICTORIA

vould be but an uninspiring watchword for the
allies. Not so, however, the name of Poland. Not
soldier in our camps who would not feel that Po-

ish nationality and Polish independence was a
;ause worthy of a soldier. It would be doing
battle, not for a set of Spaniards or Portuguese,
.ver ready to yoke themselves to superannuated
tespotisin, even while British troops were driving
,ut intelligent, albeit foreign, domination ; but
rota people who, though they lost liberty through
hePill'acau and pirty quarrels, have never lost
Their love of •
--a people. whom the hoof of the

ppressor treads with bitterer malice, and whom he
dates the more cordially, because, almost singly
in his vast dominions, they know what freedom
weans, and prize it at its worth. Poland alone,
mong his absorbed nations, sternly refuses to bf
denationalised. The life-blood of freedom still
beats warm in her breast. The despot has
maimed and crippled his victim with unrelenting 1

cruelty, but he knows that her life is in her , for
he still feels and fears its writhings; and he 'know,
that a few years' liberation from his fangs w()uld ric-
her fresh and vigorous as ever. He has th':e atoned,
fiend as he is, to " make a Siberia of Poland," and
he must do it before he can make a Russia of her.
The restoration of such a nation would, indeed,
be an object of enthusiasm ; unlike the impious
religious pretexts of NICHOLAS, it would be a
sacred reality. Its spirit would be unselfish,
generous, and noble, while its attainment would
reward Europe with the reasonable hope of last-
ing peace. Noble and generous is it to aid Tur-
key against the invader, and to destroy his offen-
sive strength in the Black Sea ; but incomparably
more soul-stirring through the magnitude of the
wrong to be redressed, and the Catholicity and
completeness of the political conception, is the
liberation of Poland, and her restitution to the
honourable post of Europe's advanced guard
against the irruptions of Tartar barbarism.
Of course, it is easy for the lovers of the " wet-
blanket policy" to damp all political ardour, which
may prove inconvenient to their indolence, or
condemnatory of their past acquiescence in wrong.
The statesmen who sympathise still with the vil-
lanous sacrifice of national rights to despotic
greed in 1815, and those who looked on,
to say the least ..of them, like so many
Ems, at every Russian violation of that
treaty ever since—they are all naturally afraid
of the simple mention of Poland. It is to them
a word of reproach. They winked at a crime, and
they are now paying its penalty ; but while Tur-
key is the ostensible cause of our sacrifices, their
inglorious and impolitic neglect of Poland is less
striking. Better, however, even for these states-
men to avow a manly repentance, and to throw
themselves heart and soul into a cause worthy of
the country they govern. It is no such chimeri-
cal project in the eyes of the CZAR. He at least
knows the value of his railway from Moscow to
Germany, Austria, and Turkey at once. He
knows that to lose Poland is to lose not a territory
merely, but a means of ready aggression on
every European State. He needs just now all
his troops in the Crimea, or in Bessarabia, but
even while knowing that Sebastopol would
be attacked he pours them into Poland.
If he must sacrifice one, he would rather part
with the Crimea ten times over. With the
Crimea he is powerful against one State, but with
Poland he is the dread of that State, and of all
East of France at the same time. His efforts to
retain Poland are the proper index of our duty to
deprive him of it. What croakers and conscious
delinquents decry as chimerical, he fears as but
too rational and too feasible. Well does he know
that from the moment when the Allied banner's
are unfurled in Poland his most hopeless battles
must be fought. Warsaw would be a Moscow to
his troops, and the Vistula a Borodino. They
'would have to fight the victors of the Alma, sur-
rounded by a population burning to revenge the
cruelties of half a century. Fearful and demo-
niacal, no doubt, would be his struggles to retain
his victim, but utterly vanquished he would be—
and then vanquished for ever.

But what will Austria, what will Prussia, do ?
Yes, what indeed ? That need not give much
trouble to France and England. Austria has as
many inducements to surrender her small share
of Poland as to keep it ; that is, provided she
get a strong neighbour State between her and
Russia. As for Prussia, contemptible as she is,
it would be unworthy of the Allied Powers to give
a thought to her. Prussians will never fight_ for
Poland as they did for their father-land. The
hands of all thieves are ready to let go their spoil
when justice dogs their steps. Prussia is, some
'of it, beyond the Rhine, and speaks French.
FREDERICK WILLIAM and NAPOLEON 111. both un-
derstand that. The southern Baltic is accessible
to English men-of-war, and to 'English trans-
ports, too, if need be, and Prussia knows that.
Prussia is miserably anxious, no doubt, to
keep what she stole from Poland, but she will
not fight very earnestly for it ; and, if she did, it
would be to share the fate of Russia. To
be brief, the Allies have but to proclaim the
nationality of Poland, and to enter it north, or
possibly south, next spring, and there would be
a moral power in a demand, righteous in itself
and essential to European peace, which must,
sooner or later, convert the demand into an ac-
complished fact.*

* We again invite the attention of our readers to the
pamphlet we referred to on Wednesday—" Letter to
the Emperor of the French on the Eastern Question,
and the re-establishment of the Independence of Poland."
—RIDGWAY.

M. de Beust, the Saxon Minister of Foreign Affairs
returned to Dresden from Berlin on the 29th ult.
MUNIFICENT LEGACY.—At a meeting held yesterday
in the board-room of the Consumption Hospital at
Brompton the treasurer announced a bequest of 5,0001.
from the late Mrs. Wilson, of Eaton-square. It was
added that, the hospital being entirely dependent upon
voluntary contributions, such bequests were of infinite
importance in maintaining and extending the usefulness
of the charity.
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the names
of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science
and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday, Nov. 2 :—Joseph Egerton Sa-
very, Weudover, Buckinghamshire ; William Arras,
Warwickbridge, Carlisle ' • John Roberts, Cricceith,
Carnarvonshire ; Stephen Nesfield, Whitby, Yorkshire.
DR. ALBERT COHEN'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON.—This
worthy philanthropist, long celebrated for his services
in Algiers, and who has recently visited Turkey, Egypt,
and Palestine, with the view of ameliorating the condi-
tion of his Jewish brethren of those countries, arrived
in London on Monday last. We are gratified to state,
that as regards the Jews in Palestine, he has succeeded

in bringing the efforts of the Messrs. Rothschild, of
Paris, and his own plans, in harmony with those of
Messrs. Rothschild, of London, Sir Moses Montefiore,
and the Rev. Dr. Adler, the Chief Rabbi. These bene-
volent men now co-operate in regenerating the fallen
position of our brethren in the Holy Land ; whilst Dr.
A. Cohen, of his own accord, and at his own expense,
has introduced the modern system of education among
the Jews of Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Alexandria,
&c. Documents in connection with a visit to the Em-
peror of Austria, the Sultan, and with the charitaLle
institutions he has founded in the Holy Land, such as
hospitals, benevolent loan societies, work-shops, &c.,
will be shortly laid by us before the public. We must
not omit to mention that Mr. Ald. Salomons takes also
a deep and active interest in these matters.—Jewish
Chronicle.

THE TOLL-BRIDGES OF THE METROPOLIS.—From the
evidence taken before the committee on the metropolitan
bridges it appears that Southwark-bridge, with ap-
proaches, cost 666,0001. The present annual income of
the bridge is 2,9001., and the necessary outgoings
1,2001., which leaves 1,7001. to be divided among the
shareholders. Before the opening of New London-
bridge, in 1831, the income of Southwark-bridge was
7,0001., but in 1832 it sank to 4,5441., and in 1834 to
3,9831. Waterloo-bridge cost, including appro iches,
937,3911. lls. 4d. Of this, 476,0001. was raised by
4,763 1001. shares ; 300,0001. by 5,000 annuities of 601.
each ; 200,0001. by 5,000 annuities of 401. each. A fur-
ther sum of 54,0001. was raised by bones, which makes the
whole sum raised 1,030.852/. The receipts of the bridge
for the year ending February last were 19,1971. Os 11d.
.bout three per cent. interest is paid on the annuities
if both classes, which are ❑ow worth 291. 10s. and
251. respectively. The original shares .fetch Si. 55., or
Si. 10s. The arrears due to annuitants amounts t
2,399,937/. 10s. About 113,0001. has been spent upon
the Hungerford Suspension-bridge up to the present
time, and it is calculated that the contemplated improve-
ments will cost 156,000/. more, tuakieg the whole cost
of the bridge 269,000/. More than 3,000,000 passengers
pass over the bridge annually, and about 2,500,000 pass
to and from the steam-boat pier at the foot of the bridge.
By the proposed alteration the revenue of the bridge, the
chairman of the company stated, would be raised to close
upon 30,0001. Vauxhall-bridge and its approaches cost
300,0001., exclusive of 70,0001. spent in parliamentary
and legal expenses, which makes the whole cost of the
undertaking 370,000/. The receipts for the last year
were 11,0001., but the average annual receipts for the
ieven years before the South-Western Railway terminus
was moved from Nine Elms, were 12,700/ The expenses
.f keeping the bridge in repair are from 2,2001. to 2,3001.
a year; and the dividend paid last year was 265. a share.
The capital of the company consists of 5,800 shares, of
the nominal value of 641. each, but their market price is
but from 221. to 241. each.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 3.
There were no additions to the royal dinner party
yesterday.
Her Majesty's priva'e band was in attendance after
dinner in the Castle and played the following selec-

: ion :

Overtire, "Die Genueserinn"
Quartett (No. 9), Andante con moto,
allegro vivace, andante, minnetto and
trio, coda, allegro molto ; two violins,
viola, and violoncello, Messrs. Sainton,
Cusins, Hill, and H. Chipp
Selection, " La part du Diable " Auber.
The Queen, with the Princesses Helena and Louisa,
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at
Frogmore-bouse, this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting,
attended by Lord de Tabley, Major-General Buckley,
and Captain du Plat.
The Princess Royal and Princess Alice rode on horse-
back.

A deputation from Farnham had all interview yester-
day with the President of the General Board of Health,
At his office, Waitehall, with reference to the sanitary
condition of the town of Farnham. The deputation
consisted of the Rev. J. S. Utterton and Mr. Paine.
A deputation from the borough of Kingston-upon-
Thames also had an interview with the President of the
General Board of Health yesterday, on the sanitary state
of that borough. The deputation comprised F. Gould,
Esq.. mayor of Kingston, and Messrs. Samuel Ferre-
yard, Samuel Gray, and John Shrubsole. They were
introduced by Mr. W. J. Evelyn, M.P., and attended
by Mr. Jemmett, the town-clerk.
Despatches for the Governor of Canada were sent last
evening from the Colonial-office.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is, we
understand, convalescent, after her late severe indisposi-
tion, and is expected shortly to be able to attend at the
Royal dinner parties at the Castle.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, who are
on a visiting tour in Scotland, are expected to arrive at
Chesterfield House the week after next from the north.
It is announced the preliminaries of a marriage have
been arranged between the Earl of Lichfield and the
Lady Harriet Hamilton, the eldest daughter of the
noble marquis.
The Earl and Countess of Glengall and the Ladies
Butler arrived in Grosvenor-street yesterday from visit-
ing the Earl of Stradbroke, at Henham Hall, Suffolk.
The Countess of Desert has left Lord Cawdor's, in
South Audley-street, on a visit to the Hon. Octavius
Duncombe, %M.P., and Lady Caroline Duncombe, at
Wansley Park, Huntingdon. The noble earl is at pre-
sent at West Cowes.
Count and Countess de Flahault, Baroness Keith and
Nairne, who have been entertaining a succession of visi-
tors at her residence in Perthshire, during the autumn,
are expected to arrive in Grosvenor-square at the close
of the ensuing week for the winter.
Viscount and Viscountess Canning arrived in Gros-
venor-square last evening from Paris. Her ladyship's
turn of waiting on her Majesty will commence on the
16th of the ensuing month, when it is expected the court,
according to present arrangements, will be on the eve
of removing from Osborne to Windsor Castle for the
holidays.
Major-General and Lady Laura Meyrick have arrived
in Curzon-street, from Goodrich Court, near Hereford,
to attend the nuptials of their son, Captain Meyrick,
with Lady Elizabeth Hay, which, it is expected, will be
solemnised in a few days.
EARL FITZHARDINGE'S Fox HOUNDS.—This famous
pack arrived yesterday at their Cheltenham kennel,
from Berkeley Castle, and will commence hunting to-
morrow, when the meet will be at Down Hatberley ;
on Thursday they meet at Litcomb, and on Saturday at
Broadway.—Cheltenham Chronicle.
A SUCCESSFUL EMIGRANT.—Mr. Hooper, who for-
merly kept the Malt and Hop Brewery, Queen-street,
Ipswich, and who left England about three years ago
on account of difficulties, has written to a gentleman in
that town, stating that he has just purchased the Prince
of Wales Hotel, Melbourne, for 20,0001.--Bury Post.
BATH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—For the first time
since the Municipal Reform Bill the ward elections have
gone off peacefully. There has not been a contest in
any ward, and the Liberals have returned ten out of
fourteen councillors.
The Hon. Colonel Charles B. and Mrs. Phipps
have arrived in Lowndes-square, from visiting the
Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane at Taymouth
Castle, en route to Windsor Castle. The gallant Privy
Purse's eldest son, the youthful Mr. Charles Vhipps,
now one of the pages of honour to the Queen, will
shortly obtain his commission in the foot brigade of
Guards, without purchase.
Rear-Admiral Hewson, of Pomeroy Villa, Topsham,
has been for the last few days on a visit to his nephew,
the Rev. Frank Hewson, of Hudscott, in this county.
This gallant officer, who entered the navy 67 years ago,
and was one of the heroes of Trafalgar and Copenhagen,
is still, we are happy to say, in the enjoyment of excel-
lent health.—Exeter Post.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH Lars.--,lt is said that a marriage
will shortly take place between Lord Kinsale, Premier
Baron of Ireland, and Miss Brown Westhead, only
daughter of J. P. Brown Weethead, Esq., of Lea Castle,
Worcestershire. A marriage is also about to take place
between John Irwine Whitty, Esq., LL.D., of Hen-
rietta-street, Dublin, and the Countess Adelaide de Lusi.
The office of Principal of Elizabeth College, Guernsey,
will become vacant at Christmas next. Such graduates,
being in holy orders, as propose to become candidates
for this office, are requested to send their names and
address to the secretary to Elizabeth College, St. Mar-
tin's rectory, Guernsey.
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 15.—Dr. Levy embarks to
morrow for the Crimea. The innumerable detail-work
connected with the organisation of the French hospitals
here would not permit him to leave Constantinople
earlier than this.—Jewish Chronicle.
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 16.—Dr. Levy, the director
of the sanitary department of the French troops, has
made a demand for a larger number of surgeons for the
hospital service in the camp before Sebastopol.—Jewish.
Ch, oniele.
EXETER AND EXMOUTH RAILWAY.—We hear that it
is the intention of the South Devon Railway Company
to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for leave
to form a railway from Exeter to Exmouth, in connec-
tion with the quay at Topsham, crossing the Exeter
Canal swing bridge about half a mile west of the
ECaxua;iln
PATRIOTIC FUND.—Meetings have been held in the
bsyter station.—Exeter Post.
following places in aid of the Patriotic Fund :—St. Pan-
cras, Salisbury, Gloucester, Preston, Sheffield, and Car-
lisle. The proceedings at all of them were highly satis-
factory. Considerable sums were subscribed and liberal
donations were expected through the exertions of the
committees appointed at each of them.
STREET LAMPS.—Purify gas to the utmost extent pos-
sible, but, pure or not, do not waste it. Does it not
s wasted in our streets by the want of a reflector
strike you that vast quantities of the light produced by
gas i
from the top of the lamp ? Why not paint the outside
of the upper panes of glass with white paint, so as to
throw down a great part of the light which is now
wasted on the clouds and stars. They don't want it ;
we do.—Builder.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND CITY.—PATRIOTIC FUND.—
The subscription to the Patriotic Fued collected already
in the University and City amount to upwards of 1,0001.
The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have headed the
list with 1001. The Warden and Fellows of All souls'
College have, we understand, also contributed 1001.
THE TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN LAMBETH WORK-
HOUSE.- -FIFTH DAYS INVESTIGATION.—Messrs. Austin
and Cane, the Poor-law Commissioners, resumed their
inquiry yesterday morning, in Lambeth workhouse,
respecting the conduct of Mr. Piercy, the master, and
other officials, towards the poor inmates. An adjourn-
ment again took place.
THE LATE COURTS-MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT PERRY.
--A petition, signed by a large number of the most
respectable inhabitants of Honiton, in Devonshire, has
been forwarded to her Majesty, praying her Majesty
to lay the evidence and proceedings connected with the
late courts-martial on Lieutenant Perry before the
Judges ; and, if they should be of opinion that the find-
ing of the Courts was not justified by law and con-
sistent with the evidence and the principles of truth
and justice, then that her Majesty shall be pleased to
restore Mr. Perry to his former position in the service,
or to such other preferment as her Majesty may gra
ciously determine.

BROADHEMBURY.—'Squire Drewe, of the Grange, has
put a stop to the ploughing match this year. lie has a
son in the Crimea, and does not think it becoming that
his tenants should make merry whilst danger threatens
a scion of his house. The sum usually devoted to pre-
miums, &C., is to be contributed to the Patriotic Fund.
—Exeter Post.

The Armo; a, a clerical paper, published at Turin,
announces the arrival of a Pontifical note, which pro-
tests in a friendly manner against any oppression of the
Catholic Church in Pfedneont, and especially against ex-
pulsions and the sequestration of estates to the injury
of religious foundations.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 01' LONDON. —At the monthly
general meeting held on Thursday at the Society's
house, in Hanover-square, Dr. Gray, Vice President,
in the chair, Messrs. A. S. Milbank, R. Webb, E. 1.41-
forest, C. W. Dilke, H. F. Tod, and T. P. Presland,
were elected Fellows of the Society ; and Messrs. T.
N. Hunt and T. Hutton were proposed as candidates
for the fellowship. The report of the 'council stated
that the society had been honoured by farther donations
from his Majesty the King of Portugal ; and that
among other recent additions to the menagerie an in-
terestipg collection of animals from North America had
been presented by W. G. Smith, El. The number
of visitors was 22,547 in the month of October, and
339,190 in the current year. The elections of new fel-
lows since the Ist of January last presented a large in-
crea.e over those of preceding years.
FOOT BRIDGES OVER CROSSINGS.—AIIow me space in
your columns to submit the practicability of erecting
light and elegant street bridges for foot passengers over
the most crowded public streets or crossings. These
bridges could be of such an - architectural character as
would be unobjectionable wherever placed, and the ad- /
vantages such modes of transit would confer on ladies 1

and all the older members of society, by the -E;;;;;;t7;
they would afford them, must be admitted by all parties.
These bridges need not exceed in height some 12 or 14
feet, and if made on the suspension principle, would not
interfere with the existing currents of passengers. I
would svggest, by way of trial, that one of these bridges
be first tried at the crossing from St. Paul's-churchyard,
to the south side of Cheapside, the foot-pavements there
being nearly in a straight line. Another could be placed
in the Poultry, a third in Gracechuroh-etreet, &c.—
The Builder.

LATEST NEWS.

;roops which had reached the Dniester on their
way to the Crimea to halt.

Advices from Athens, of the 27th Oct., state
hat the Porte demands further compensation. A.
commercial treaty with Greece was contemplated.