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The Collins steamship Baltic arrived q
New York from Liverpool on Ss,urd.,
morning. The Baltic left Liverpool on III,
30,h uls., and encountered q succession o.
gales for IL days.
The fortress Of Kinburn resisted the al.
lies bv very heavy FIRE on the 17,h, or
which day, al noon, the Allies entered ,hs
piece.
Up to the 17,h, nothing new in the CT.
NEE.
The English have found in the Ksrsbel.
moi immense Russian stores Of ammunition
and clothing. valued ., f7O.000.
The Daily News says ths, General Eyre
hss been recommended by General Simp-
son, IS bis successor, bu, thu, government,
will not accept Simpsons resignation.
The Bank Of Eng land has increa'ed the
rate Of discount 10 six per cent for 60 days
bills and 10 seven per cent. for paper Of Q
longer ds,e. A commercial panic is sntici.
psied, unless measures be taken 10 suspend
restrictive clauses Of Peel's Bank bill, and
10 issue paper money.
The allied expedition which left the Cri-
mes on the 9Th, sfler making Q show before
Odeesa, bombsrded end captured Kinburn,
an important Russisn position al The mouth
Of the Dnieper end Bong.
The allies have also destroyed two towns,
Lamar and Phansgoris, in the Straits Of
Ker,ch.
The allies are extensively engaged 10
rosd.msking and hut building, no. only a.
long the plateau de 10 Chersonese, but all
along the Tchernsys line up to the Alsu.-
The line Of the railway hos been adopted
for the main road from Balsklava TO the
camps in the neighborhood of Sevsstopol.
Accounts from the Cfimes 10 the 18th
state thA. on the 18th The advanced posts Of
the allies were within five leagues Of Bskt.
Chi Sersi, that the Russians were retiring
slowly, and tina, every thing led TO the belief
tina. Gen. Liprsndi intended to defend the
line Of the Belbec. and TO res, upon the
corps commanded by Prince Gortschsk off,
The battle which would definitely decide
the possession Of This ground was expected
shortly 10 take place.
Other accounts state that the Russians
have surrounded the north side Of Sevasto.
pol with chain Of new" Notifications, and
placed it in a stale TO supper, Q siege. All
the pla,esus on The north side sre,n is said,
covered with redoubts and ear,hworks, and
on the line of the Belbec new works, con-
struc.ed 70 The form of The Mamefon, have
been raised.
The Russians in On attack msde upon
Ksrs were rerulsed with immense slsugh-
ter, 1000 reported as lying dead under The
wslle.
Letters from OJesss announce thst in
consequence Of orders from the Emperor
Alexander, . commission Of inquiry has
been appointed a, Kew, to decide on the
fale of such volunteers in The Foreign Le-
eion serving for the Western Powers as may
be taken prisoner. These men will not be
eoneidered prisoners Of war. Hungsrians
TO this category will be delivered 10 Aus
Nis.
Advices from Msrseiles state that gtea,
exer,ions were making to complete the en-
barks,ion of an entire division Of 10000
men under Gen. LaubeL
By an imperial ukase, the embodiment of
the mili,is in the provinces Of Orenberg and
Lsmsrs, is TO commence on the 18Th No.
vember and end on The 18Th December. the
proportion Of men being ,wensy-eighs in e,-
cry thousand souls.
Telegrsphic adviees from Copenhagen
state ,bs, the Dsnisb government. has ap-
pointed NJ. Bluhme, the Director of the
Sound dues administration, TO be Danish
Commissioner q, the conferences respecting
the Sound dues, which it is proposed to
hold in November. The report is confirm.
ed, that Denmark will propoee that The dues
shall be capitalized for the purpose Of re-
demr,fon.
The ludisn msil brings The intelligence
that an s..emp, had been made on the life
OF Sir Henry Ward, the Governor Of Ceylon,
BY . Cineslese. Had the Governor no,
been armed with pistol the consequence
nigh, have been very serious.
ENeLAND.-7'he Bank Of England en-
nounced on Thursday, the 18Th, an increase
in the rate Of discount 10 6 per cent. for 60
days. bids, and to pc, cent. for paper OF
q longer ds'e. The creates, alarm hss been
created in commercial circles. as these are
higher rates ,hsn those which preceded the
panic Of l647. An immediate suspension
Of the restrictive clause of Peel's Bank bill
u looked IOTs dno OF IuWeOIaSe issue 81
some kind Of paper money. The merch-
ants in Liverpool are sbou. 10 hold . meet.
ing on the subject.
FRANcE.-The Paris letter OF the Times,
ssys that The restrictive measures lately a.
dop,ed by The Bank Of France, ore begin.
ming TO be fell, in almost every branch Of
trade, and transactions have accordingly be-
800. .l,Ec,l, M,nnfa rtu,srs haze limit oil
.s much 90 possible their purchases Of raw
materials, aud retailers are slow in laying
in their winter stock. Orders, however,
cun,inue 10 be received from the United
States, from South America, and England,