The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.

The following is the correspondence which has taken
place between the Reformers of St. Paneras and Sir G.
H. Seymour, who, it will be seen from private corres-
pondence, deslines to be named as a candidate:—
" London, 21st November, 1854.
" Sir,—We have the honour to inform you that a
vacancy having occurred in the representation of Mary-
lebono, ley the death of oar old and tried friend Lord D.
Stuart, and a meeting of the direetors of St. Pancras
havingelv taken place te-day, we
were es into communication
(one of the three, and the host populous of the three
s it would be agreeable
towi parishest
youwith
yr net) iclo
become os thetead snbeto
rsar t puci :au nth whetherd) having
ar te, should you be invited,
whether in the event of your being appointed to a diplo-
matic situation whilst M.P. for the borough you would
thesreuspigpnortthe ballota
t
" The belief is that your eminent services would be
fully appreciated by the constituency who returned Lord
Dudley Stuart ; and that in the present crisis your re-
turn for such a constituency would not only be an
s e ; a ?
and
whether you would as member
honourable acknowledgment of those services, but of real
advantage to the country.
" We are further requested, if, on an interview, these
preliminary matters should be arranged, to have a joint
meeting with the leading Reformers of all the "Marylebone
parishes, and secure, if possible, entire union.
,c We called at your house, but unluckily found that
you had left for Ireland, aid we feel it our duty to com-
municate these facts for your information ; and, though
your absence may be in some measure a difficulty in
making the selection of a candidate, we shall feel greatly
obliged by your favouring us with a few lines, which
we may report;to the gentlemen who did us the honour
to depute us.
We are, sir, your obedient and faithful servants,
J. R. STOCXTON,
DURR.ANT COOPER.

Castle Martyr, Ireland, 23d 1854.
" Gentlemen,—l have the honour of acknowledging
the receipt of your very flattering lot ter of the 21st inst.,
which reached me this morning.

" When I state to you that there are private considera-
tions which compel the, with what 4 war reluctance, to
decline coming for ward as a representative for the
borough of Ilarylubone, I might a vade entering into
further explanation. I hold it, awever, wholesome
practice, that an Englishman sho4l d be ready at all
times to profess his political opinic ns, and this very
conviction impels me to state to yox that I am
strongly opposed to the ballot.

" Having said so much, I will i ,dd, that, if I had
the honour of a seat in Parliament t, the points upon
which Loy attention would be most a teadily fixed would
be those of co-operating strenuously in such measures
as would insure the war being brow ght to a successful
conclusion, and (with regard to het so affairs) of assist-
ing the endeavours to be wade for the relief of a por-
tion of our countrymen from tlst disabilities under
which their religion still places them .
"It only remains, for me, gent It men, to express to
you and the other electors of St. Pancras the deep
sense which I entertain of the he cc ur which you and
they have been disposed to confer ssF on me. This mark
of confidence on the part of a bod y of my countrymen
is a distinction of which 1 shall ci Ter retain the most
lively recollection ; and the more !Dv, as I can well under-
stand the electors pausing, before th.e: f attempt to fill the
vacancy made by the lamentable deal ,h of their late dis-
tinguished and universally regarded representative and
friend, Lord Dudley Stuart.
" I have the honour to r
"Gentlemen,
"Your obliged and obedient hu ruble servant,

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Es"Gq..,] L SEYMOUR.

The llagdalena, now on her lion, .3' mud way with the
West India mail, 'has been taken ti p by the Govern-
ment. She is one of the largest f)f the mail packet!—
same size as the Orinoco, which ha, t proved, considering
her speed, and the large number of tiroops she can carry,
the finest troop ship in the world..

LATEST NEWS.

ANOTHER BATTLE BEFORE
SEBASTOPOL.

We have received the following important tele-
graphic despatch, forwarded from Constantinople
to Semlin by courier, and thence to Vienna by
telegraph, from our correspondent at the latter

city.
It is dated Constantinople, Nov. 16 :
"Ou the 13th the Russians attacked the
French lines, but were repulsed.
"The loss was great on both sides.
" The Russians have received further reinforce-
ments.
" The Queen of the South has arrived with
1,200 troops.
" A transport has been wrecked near *San
Stefano."

VIENNA, FRIDAY EvENrNa,

The Presse has advices from Constantinople of
the 17th, according to which there had been an-
other battle before Sebastopol, in which the Rus-
sians were defeated.

On the 13th and 14th there had been a fearful

storm at Constantinople.

Three minarets of the mosque of the Sultan
Aohmet were blown down.

According to a Russian despatch, eight trans-
ports of the Allies had been wrecked, anl a frigate
and sloop had foundered.

BRUSSELS, FRIDAY.

An account, purporting to be of Russian origin,
states that nothing extraordinary had taken place
before Sebastopol to the 16th.
The fire of the Allies was kept up.

THE PRINCIPALITI ES.
A letter from Galatz, in the Ost Delc,',sch Post of
Vienna, says :--
"The Turkish troops hare taken possessiion of Mat-
shin, Isaktcha, and Tultcha, and strongly oc t upied these
places, as well as the interior of the Dobrud scha. The
Turkish garrison of Ibrail has moved its ad vance-guard
to the Sereth. Achraet-Sadyl, commander •,:f that body,
has published a proclamation, dated the sth, announcing
that the Russians haring bee' forced to q ttit the Do-
brudscha, the Turkish troops have occupied Babadagh,
Tultcha, Matchin, and other places of tb :at district;
that two officers had been despatched to see .that proper
measures were taken for having the navigrt. tion of the
Danube re-established, the said officers beiog charged to
come t• an understanding for the purposo with the
Allies, who are in possession of the Sulina ; and lastly,
that the general-in-chief would always make every exer-
tion to protect the commerce of that great ri r er, of such
paramount importance to the Principalities . All the
Turkish troops in Wallachia have received o n lers to ad-
vance on Fokchany and Ibrail, and to concen I rate them-
selves there, in order to pass the Pruth to it ho number
of 30,000 men."