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No. 19,398.]

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At the Meeting of the Proprietors of the MORNING ADVER-
nest', at the L ndon Tavern, on the 17th instant—the largest oil
their body ever held during the sixty years of their Journal's exist-
ence—they formally pledged themselves to the Public that the Paper
shall continueto be conducted on those popular and. thoroughly in-
dependent principles which have during the last four years, under
its present Editorial auspices, raised it to the high position which it
occupies as the second Journal in the Empire. They also adopted a
resolution empowering Mr. Grant, the Editor, to incur any amount
of expenditure which may be deemed necessary in securing the very
highest order of Literary Talent and procuring the earliest Political
aid Commercial Intelligence. The Moarmso, ADVERTISER, there.
fore, with the vast resources now placed at the Editor's disposal, has
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period it has risen in circulation with a rapidity which has no parade'
in the history, of the Daily Press. Its present relative position to
that of the other Morning Papers, omitting the Times, will be seen
from the Official Stamp Returns for the year 1853.

THE REINFORCEA; 1..:\ TS.

The steam transport-ship Robert Lowe sailed on Sa•
turday evening from Portsmouth, with stores, the
cylinders filled with gunpowder, &c. (13 in number),
which are to be employed in blowing -up the sunken
ships at Sebastopol, and the following tyoops, besides,
about 4,600,000 Minid, rifle balls
4th Regiment-1 officer, 2 serjeants, 166,men.
28th Regiment-1 officer, 3 serjesnts, men,
11.ifles,--2 officers, 2 serjeants,.loo men.
Scots Fusilier Guards-2 officers.
33th Regiment--3 serjeants, 160 men.
44th Regiment-2 officers, 3 serjeants, 150 men.
Medical-1 officer.

No. 3 company of the Bth battalion of Royal Artillery,
commanded by Captain Traver,, ivas under orders to
leave Plymouth Citadel by the 4 o'clock ti4in yesterday
(Sunday) evening for Woolwich. No. G c..inapany. 13th
battalion, stationed at Devonport, will shiOiNly leave for
Ireland. No. 3 company, 13th battalion, ..!,innuanded
by Capt. Englefield, wil! then be the only Artillery
compauy at Plymouth.

The Royal mail steam-ship Tamar, CaptaiA. Revett,
left Southampton on Saturday morning for Gibraltar,
with the 66th. Regiment of Infantry (750 strong), and
the 4th company of the 6th battalion of Artillery. The
former is to be landed at Gibraltar, to occupy the garri-
son there, to relieve portions of the 17th and 80th
Regiments, ordered to. the -Crimea, and which will take
passage by the Tamar, while thclArtillerY will proceed
direct .to Balaklava after tottating_at-filibraltar. The
-Artillery consists of 130 men and ftrar ofkcers. The
Tamar will probably rv,-.41 Gibialfar in four or five days ;
one day will suffice for landing the 66th Regiment, and'
kr the embarcation of the other troops, and the.run
thence-to the Crimea will probably occupy from eight to
ten days. The Tamar has on board a number of can-
vas tents, valifies tent poles, packsaddles, spades and
shovels, biles of blankets, and other military stores. A
laige number of persons assembled in the docks to wit-
ness the departure of these troops, and heartily cheered
them during their march from the railway to the' docks
on Friday morning. The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamship Nubia, Captain Harris, sailed
from Southampton on Saturday afternoon for Toulon,
there to take
_on board 1,200 French troops for
the Crimea. The West India Mail Company's steam-
ship Magdalena, 2750 tons and 800-horse power," 'due
at Southampton on the Ist of December for the West
Indies, has been Chartered by the Government for
the transport service and is to be got ready for sea
without delay immediately on her arrival. The steamer
Iberia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany, leaving Southampton this day with the Peninsular
mails, is to take out a detachme it of artillery for Gibral-
tar. The screw steamers Norman and John Bowes have
been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of
stores from' Southampton to the Black Sea. About
2,000 tons have to be despatched from that port, most
of which will consist of frames and other fittings of the
wooden houses intended for the winter quarters of the
British army in the Crimea.

MORNING ADVERTISER . :.... • • • • 2,2Q2,818
Morning Herald 1,263,538
Daily News..
Morning Post 829,125
Morniws Chronicle ......... ...•... • •

Li order further that no effort shall be spared by the oommittee of
Mane cement to make the Moarsitso ADVERTISER one of the .First
Journals in the Empire, a series of Supp:ements will be published as
often as the pressure of Intelligence or Advertisements may render
such publication necessary.
Published at 127, Fleet-street, London.

The Niaiara took her departure from Liverpool on
Saturday afternoon for Gibraltar, with the 54th Regi-
inent'and a detachment of Artillery, under Capt. Camp-
bell, on board.

Brother, Successor, and Twenty Years Consulting Colleague of the
late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London,
who may be advised with on the above matters daily, from Ton till
Five, and in the evenings, from Seven till Nine.

AUSTRIAN PERFIDY.

(Pron the Times.)

QPECIAL NOTICE until MARCH 1, 1855.
E. MOSES and SON'S 'ESTABLISMENTS will be CLOSED
at EIGHT O'CLOCK EVERY EVENING, except Saturday, when
they will be open until 11 o'clock.

For the future all troops for foreign service that can
conveniently do so are to embark 'from Portsmouth, as
the facilities of that port for the embarkation of large
bodies of troops are pronounced much superior to those
of any of the commercial ports.

Major Cole 17th depot, has returned from leave of
absence to make atragemsrnts for forming his draught of
200 men, to join the 17th Regiment, for service in the
Crimea. Captain Coltharst has also returned from leave
of absence. The draught expects to leave Kilkenny next'
week, and to sail from Cork on the let of December in
the Clyde steamer. A large number of volunteers from
other regiments )xave arrived in Kilkenny to join the
17th depot for service in the East.

Considerable excitement prevails among the military
in Plymouth garrison owing to.the number of volunteers
offering.from the West Somerset Militia. Recruiting
sergeants are on duty from the 13th, 20th, 34th, 40th,
and 46th Regiments, and from the Plymouth division of
Royal Marines. The last is the favourite, but as their
standard is 5 feet 61 inches, while that of the 40th and
other regiments is only 5 fret CI; inches, the numbers
entering are restricted. However, the " Jollies" have
obtained about 100, the 40th 80 men, and the 18th 40 ;
the others have not been very successful. 13 of the South
Devon Militia stationed at Devonport went to the Ma-
rines' head-quarters on Saturday, and a considerable
number are expected there after parade to-day (Monday).
The stature of the South Devon Militia is, on an average,
less than the West .Somerset. The.depot of the 34th
Re.imeitt. jar Myraotrtfr eiteel-toMints no-of to-71560
4170 men. boring Thilkut Week vulttnteeii have joined
from several regiments, viz., from the sth Fusiliers 7,
22d Regiment 5, 24th 4, 27th 3, 53.1 2, 76th 8, 96th 7,
and 831 5. The regiment has lately left Corfu for the
Crimea and the draught of the depot to follow the head-
quarters will consist of a major; four subalterns, a doc-
tor, three sergeants, and 120 rank and file.
Great enthusiasm prevails among the militia in gar-
rison at Portsmouth to volunteer for service in the field,
and upwards of 100 have gone into the Marines alone
since the circular appeared.

OUR CAVALRY REINFORCEMENTS.
We understand that Lord George Paget (whose light
cavalry exploits on the 25th of October will net soon
be forgotten) is on his way home to superintend the
preparations for cavalry reinforcements. In no better
hands conid they be, but we aro sorry that the army
in the Crimea should lose his services even for a. short
time. What can he have to do, however, in that penin-
sula for some months 1 The Duke of Newcastle may
be able to answer the question.

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We do not envy the Emperor of Austria, if he
bear in his breast a single spark of that manly and
resolute spirit for which the world has been willing
to give him credit, when he read the despatches
which describe the obb and flow of the obstinate
and sanguinary Battle of Inkerman. State
policy is not to be influenced by merely sentimen-
tal considerations, else one might well imagine
that the descendant of a line founded by a hero
which has ever known how to draw the sword
when danger menaced could not read without
burning shame the tale of the struggle waged
against such fearful odds for a cause the righteous-
ness of which he has emphatically asserted, in which
he above all men is deeply interested, and which
he above all men is bound by every feeling of
honour, consistency, and self-respect to support.
" Why lie I here, like a bed-ridden monk," said
Ivanhoe, " while the game on which depends my
life and death is played out by the haudsof others?"
The game on which hangs Austria's political exist-
ence is being played out by England and France
before Sebastopol, and Austria stands at the case-
ment, like Rebecca, the Jewess, behind her shield,
a trembling and impotent spectatress of a drama
in which she seems resolved to have no part except
the catastrophe. Is it nothing to Austria that the
conflict now going on should be 'decided in favour
of either of the combatants, to each-of whom she
secretly lends support, and eacirof whom she has
mortally offended f We do not pretend to overlook
or misundeistand the policy on which Austrian
statesmen profess to act. They avow the policy of
selfishness, but they forget that selfishness is isola-
tion, and iat Austria cannot afford to be isolated.
It is thought a masterstroke of policyto have occupied
the Danubian Principalities with the consent of one
party, and without incurring the immediate hostility
of the other, and thus, as it is said, to have secured
to Austria the prize about which the East and
West are contending. It is thought to have been
a master stroke of policy to allow the other three
great Powers to wear each other out by an exter-
minating conflict, and thus, as the result of every
battle and every campaign, to make Austria rela-
tively, if not absolutely, stronger ; and, finally,
when the weary belligerents shall make peace, to
secure for Austria so great a preponderance in the
councils of Europe as to enable her to take to her-
self what portion she pleases of the spoils of war.
To enjoy during war all the advantages of peaCe,
and to gain on the return of peace all the advantages
of successful war—what policy can be more subtle,
more far-sighted, or more profound ?
We have not, we think, understated the case
which may be made in favour, of that double policy
in pursuit of which Austria made public profession
of her sympathy with the Allied Powers after their
first victory, and then prevented a diversion in
their favour which might have enabled them to
reap that victory's fruits. Russia will not forget
nor forgive the congratulations on the Alma, nor
England and France the policy which has concen-
trated on their armies the forces which, but for
Austria, would have been occupied in a hopeless
campaign among the pestilential swamps of the
Danube or the deadly marshes of the Dobrudscha.
One condition of the success of the game which
Austria is playing is, that at the close of the
present contest neither of the belligerents should
be in a condition to give effect to their dis-
pleasure: Let Austria weigh well her own posi-
tion, as compared with that of those great Powers
whom she has thus mortally offended. It has
been the tradition of European policy to main-
tain the Austrian empire, first as a bulwark against
the Turks, and next as a defence against Russia.
Austria has been the spoilt child of. European
_diplomacy, the favourite of conferences and con-
gresses—an empire made up of dowries, appanae4es,
and donations.. Hence she is composed of the
most heterogenous elements of races, held together
by the merest vis inertice, each kept down by the
rest, and performing in its turn this duty to its
neighbours—each more strongly attracted to some
foreign State than to that of which it is a reluctant
federate. Hungary leans to Russia, Italy to
France, and the Slavonian provinces own but
slight sympathy and give but doubtful allegiance
to their German masters. Such are the constituent
parts of Austria, while England, France, and
Russia, though differing widely in e-verythipretee„
agree nr-feastin-enis---thatkibl 'aro nations pos-
sessed of national feoling and spirit, with a popu-
lation speaking the same language, organised under
the same institutions—that they form, in fact, each
a complete whole, which nobody dreams of being
able to disintegrate ; while Austria can hardly
keep down the centrifugal force which is driving
every province to fly off from the rest. For such a
country firm allies are absolutely needed, and firm
allies can only be secured by a policy of honest and
energetic consistency. Austria greatly deceives
herself if she thinks that the consideration she has
received is a tribute to her strength. In the in-
terests of peace and order, in a spirit of forbearance
and conciliation, England and France have ab-
stained from raisinr, questions to the solution of
which Austria can hardlyb remain indifferent. How
long will this state of things last, and when it ter-
minates what resistance can Austria, disjointed and
disorganised, offer to a serious 'attack, or where is
she to seek for an ally ? Let the storm come from
what quarter it will, Austria will be found isolated
without and divided within. Who would stir 'in
defence of a Power which has betrayed every one
in turn, and which seems to have been placed be-
tween the belligerents expressly to compensate
with a province or two the loser for his losses ?
The frontier of Austria towards Russia is a mere
geographical line, and, should it ever be the
will of the Czar to celebrate a Te Deunt in the
Church of St. Stephen, lie will find Western
Europe and Northern Germany attentive and not
unedified auditors, and Italy and Hungary lending
their voices to the chorus. Nor is this the only
danger. Two previous visits have made the French
eagles perfectly well acquainted with the road to
Vienna, whether it be sought by Austerlitz or by
Eckmuhl. These things were done while Austria
had Russia for an ally. Have they become impos-
sible now ? How many sparks from a French cor-
poral's pipe would it require to set Italy iu a blaze
from one end to the other, and what prospect would
there be of a reconquest of Lombardy, with France
and England instead of the small kingdom of
Piedmont to conduct the war ? When Austria
measures herself against the great Powers, she
must not forget that wherever her enemies appear
they may count on the support of her own sub-
jects. She is in the most imminent danger of be-
coming a second Poland, and affording, by her
dismemberment, an indemnification for that war
which she fondly thinks is being carried on for her
exclusive advantage.
We have no wish for this consummation. We
have no other than a sentimental interest in making
Venice a free port, and thus blighting in the bud
the fortunes of Trieste. But wn have an enormous
interest in the success of our present operations.
Give us time, and we can place any number of men
required in face of the Russians ; but for the mo-
ment our armies are oppressed by superior num-
bers, while Austria sits complacently by with five
hundred thousand men at her disposal, and
watches our efforts and our sufferings with cold and
callous indifference. This it is allowed her to do
now ; but let her be assured that the opportunity
is great and fleeting, and that if she allows us to
struggle alone through our present difficulties she
will have united the vanquished and victorious in
one thought—the desire of vengeance on a Power
so specious, so timid, and so perfidious.

(From the Morning Herald.)
" The taking of Sebastopol is now a question of
secondary importance ! !"
"If the siege be not given up, it is at least at a stand-
still."
Such were the announcements with which the Minis-
terial organ must have astounded its readers in the course
and at the close of last week, if the readers of the great
imposture which performs in his country the part of the
Mormouitp leader in America, and shows that human
nature in all countries is capable of any amount of delu-
sion, could be astounded at anything with which the great
Joe Smith of Printing-house-square chooses to adorn his
columns.
If the above statements be correct—and much we fear
they are perfectly so—what do they mean ? They mean
this, that 20,000 English troops—the best and bravest
soldiers that do, or ever did, exist upon the face of the
earth—hare been sacrificed for nothing.
The landino. at Eupatoria, the battle of the Alma, the
march to Baleaklava, the three weeks' bombardment and
unceasing cannonade, the work in the trenches, the suf-
fering, the exposure, the decimation of the army—what
were they all for ? If not for the taking of Sebastopol they
were for nothing ; and now it appears that the siege is at
a stand-still, and, above all, that it has become a matter
of " secondary importance." it is too true—second, in-
deed, to the necessity of saving from destruction the rem-
nant of our noble follow-countrymen.
Englishmen are ready to make any sacrifices to secure
them anything but the right thing—money, troops, any-
thing will they vote—but they will not take the trouble
of seeing that their wishes are carried oat ; and they per-
sist in leaving the army in the hands of the very men who
first sent them to the Crimea as a clap-trap for separating
Parliament—and then sacrificed and deserted them.
"Let bygones be bygones," says the organ, as a fitting
corollary to the above ominous sentences. Such were the
' words of Lord Fitzwilliam in the Upper House nearly a

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year ago, and now repeated by the Times. Against
this, when first uttered, we protested. His lordship
owes a heavy debt to the country ; for the adoption of his
ill-assorted adago—contrary to all common sense as it was
—has cost us another year of postponements, and—an
English army. If Lord Fitzvrilliam be the man we hope
ho is, he must reverse his policy. But England herself
has no feeling for her sons, or she would not let them run
the risk of being betrayed a second time by the same men.
In this case well may Englishmen be addressed in the
words of the Roman Tribune to the populace of that de-
graded city :

"Ye blocks, ye stones, ye worse than senseless things,
Uh ! ye hard hearts, ye cruel men of Rome."
What, we ask, will be the feeling in the hearts of our
poor fellows P.t Sebastopol when they learn that their fats
is still entrusted to the hands of Newcastle and Aberdeen ?
It can be no other than this, that England has deserted
them, and that they have nothing left to do but to sell
their lives as dearly as they may.
" Let bygones be bygones."
What is this but the expedient of the desperate gambler
who insists upon being permitted to redeem his luck by
being allowed to " play double or quits ?"
The loser cannot be worse off, for he has lost everything,
and he may reverse his desperate position at the expense
of his adversary. This is the case in ordinary life.
But if the people of England have any sense of feeling or
humanity loft they should consider, that in the present
instance every additional cast of the dice which they con-
cede to the reckless gamesters of the Coalition is granted
at the expense of the life-blood of their brothers and sons.
Go out into ehe we-"- ,nd hear the conversation of men
of all nations collar*.- this huge metropolis. " Your
3 your army to petty questions and

_mid in our hearing an acute Ameri-
can. " You will have peace in the spring if you do not
take Sebastopol," is the statement of an astute Greek;
" but if you do you must prepare for a war of years." This
may require a little explanation. The Greek's view is
this :—Oar Ministry look to making peace during the
winter, and by means of the intervention of Austria. If
the English army is compelled to raise the siege of Sebas-
topol the Czar will consider it as a set-off for his defeat
before Silistria; but if it be taken he will listen to no
terms, for he will be doubly a beaten man. The taking of
Sebastopol would render a patched-up peace impossible.
Let our readers draw their own conclusions, and remem-
ber our words, in conjunction with the discovery that the
taking of Sebastopol has become a mere " secondary con-
sideration."

We had intended concluding these remarks by a few
observations on the reinforcements now requisite for the
East, but our attention has been caught by some state-
ments which must not remain an hour without an
answer. There is a weekly journal, conducted with high
talent, which does not think it unworthy of its reputation
to take a rather devious course with reference to the war ;
it professes extreme candour, and blames the Ministry
loudly, and often j nstly, when the Coalition is in no danger ;
but let the sea be rough and the frail barque be threatened
with destruction, and then it rushes to their assistance,
and no efforts are spared to save the vessel and its freight.
We need hardly name the Examiner. In the present
desperate circumstances of the Coalition the Examiner
makes two extraordinary assertions in its leading article
of Saturday—namely, first, that no one knew the strength
of Sebastopol, therefore it was impossible to estimate the
force required for its reduction; and, secondly that no
one could anticipate the Czar would send his Bessarabian
armies to defend it.

Lot us for the moment suppose the first assertion to be
true—Englishmen will appreciate the gratitude due to an
Administration which sends 30,000 of their best and bray-
eit to make "a leap in the dark," in order to close the
session with a clap-trap—but let this pass. We shall
prove, however, in a very few words, that both assertions
are utterly untrue—the Ministry might have been ignorant,
but it was because they were wilfully so—the information
lay on the high road, if they had chosen to pick it up.
On the 12tu of June we wrote as follows—speaking of
the probability that Austria might occupy the Principali-
ties :

" The moment the Czar retires from the provinces, the
proposed attack upon Sebastopol will become impossible—
for he can at once send to the Crimea a force—thus ren•
dered disposable—so powerful as to rendtir the attempt all
but an act of insanity. A high military authority has
asserted that even under present circumstances (that is,
supposing there were no relieving force in the field) a
,siege from the land side would require an army of 70,000
men, and an expenditure of 15,090 lives."
Is this distinct enough to prove to the Examiner that
if the Ministry were ignorant they must have been so wil-
fully ? We will give them further proofs, merelyebserving
that the above statements wore repeated in every shape
they could be written by us for more than three months
before the sailing of the expedition.
We shall now quote a, private letter, which has been
placed at our disposal by 'a friend, written by one of the
best officers at present in the Crimea, and dated the day
but one after the battle of Inkermau

" We look anxiously for reinforcements, both English
and French. You may remember T said more than a year
ago, we ought to have 120,000 men to take Sebastopol, and
that 100,000 was the least figure I considered safe for the
operation. I fancy most are of my mind uow."—Camp,
Sebastopol, Nov. 7.

If tlio Ministry did not know that an army of 120,000
soldiers was required for the operation, we say that nothing
more is required to prove their utter incapacity.
Let us now bring against the Coalition a witness which
oval , VAauctiLzainsax. lbaselt • vhnv they
never read our warnings, but they egnnet plead the same
with regard to the 7 &nes, whose correspondent writes from
Vienna, as we remarked at the time, a letter which " con-
veniently arrived three days after the prorogation of Par-
liament. " The Russians have informed the Government
that they shall croso the Prath in five places, and march
at once into the interior, insteai of remaining on the fron-
tiers. The meaning of this is that the troops will be di-
rected at once against the Allies in the Crimea !"—Tinies
correspondence.

t-tt Brute. We suspect the Examiner has had enough.