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described to them, had contrived to g,_
to a large wedding party who were feasting in a resta

-*et himself adi

plain clothes, and, when they arrived, they found him
dancing ; he was extremely well dressed and seemed per-
fectly at his ease, but, no sooner did lie see a strange face
turned curiously towards him, than he suspected the police
were after him. He accordingly, without a moment's
2? hesitation, said to his partner that he was taken suddenly
3 ill, and then, almost with the rapidity of lightning, he

disappeared by a door opening into a dark passage. This
passage led to a staircase, and the man hurried down it
joyfully, thinking himself quite free. But the police had
taken their precatitions, and he found an officer at the
bOttom of the stairs, who arrested him. He was

dignant, and said he was the victim of a deplorable-mis-
take; but the police recommended him to be quiet, and
carried him off to the Prefecture of Police. The thief
belongs to a good family, and has received an excellent
education, but some time ago took to evil courses. The

horsedealer, on being confronted with him, immediately
recognised him. As to the horse, it appears that he went
with it to Versailles, and, after running up a bill in a
fashionable hotel, went away without paying, leaving the
animal.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE WAR IN THE EAST,

off the harbour of Odessa, by Anglo-French cruisers.
Many families have arrived at the port, fugitives from

Enpatoria

After Sebastopol, it is supposed that the Anglo-
French army will march on Perekop, and so carry the
war into Russia Proper. Should the beaten Russians
make a fresh stand!at Perekop, they will deserve the credit
of bravery in despair; for the place will be open to attack
both from the front and right flank, and is certainly un-
tenable. The position is most important.
A letter from Balaklava, in the Courrier de Marseille,
states that on the morning of the 28th ult. the seamen on

board the fleet saw a dense mass of smoke rising over the
town of Sebastopol, and soon after an immense mass 01

flames rose to a great height. Towards n

ad fragments

directions. The general opinion was that the Russian,
had endeavoured to destroy some buildings, or perhaps
whole quarter of the town, which might, if left standing
afford facilities to the besiegers.

stantinople, dated the 4th inst., states that Gortschakoff

at the head of the fourth division, was at Perekop

VIENNA, Oct. 13

A despatch from Lord Raglan, of the 6th, announces
that the works for the siege of Sebastopol are so far ad-
vanced as to give assurance that fire will be opened in a

few days

It is confidently assE

rted that the Allie

have pushed

their advances to within 1,200 yards of the place.
Emugh has now transpired, we think, to show the folly
and mischief of giving ready credence to the reports
brought by the electric wire. It has been unreservedly
declared, for the last day r two, that Sebastopol was
hotly besieged as early as the sth, and we are now told
that the siege works were only so far advanced on the 6th
as to give promise that fire would be opened in a few days.
At a time when the public are eagerly looking for good
news, and are naturally willing to believe the best, nothing
can be conceived more likely to create depression and.
misgiving, than the frequent necessity of contradicting
welcome intelligence.

All operations in the Baltic may now be considered sus-
pended until next year. From what has transpired it
appears cortain-that, although the order for the return of
the French and English fleets was countermanded pro-
visionally, while consultations were going on as to the ex.
pedieqy of making an attempt on Sveaborg before the
ice apears, yet these consultations have ended in the
assurance of the impossibility of doing anything important
before the spring. The ships, therefore, are going home.
A French line-of-battle ship passed the Belt on the Bth,
steering north, and a French steamer is despatched from
here to Nyborg,to fetch pilots to steer the Allied ships
here through the Belt. A Dantzic despatch of Friday
says :—" The Basilisk has arrived here, leaving the fleet,
on the 11th, at Nargen, about going to Faro Sound."

VIENNA, SUNDAY EVENING--The following intelli-
gence has reached Vienna through a Russian source :
" Up to the 7th nothing of importance had occurred in
the Crimea ; the attack on the outer works was to begin
on the 9th.

"The extreme right of the allies leans on the slope of
the mountains east of Balaklava, which run down like im-
mense walls to Alonshta. _ .

"The body of the right wing is at Kamara, and out-
Poeta are Poeta ou the 131erik Um.

he roads leadi

from Kada. 0

" The centre occu
to Sebastopol, and from Bakshiserai to Balaklava
" The body of the left wing is at Karani ; the outposts

at Ithutor,

of 24 to 4E

howitzers

been used in const:

The allie

already disembarked, consists

and 1,000 balls each

the heft,

short of

has 140 siege and 120 field guns

at Baksh

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