10 NOVEMBER 1838, Page 2

The additional returns of the Municipal elections are more favourable

to the Tories than the Liberals.* In the following places the latter appear to have been successful-

ILevize-4 Stafford,

Nottingham, Lancaster,

i Yarmouth, Portsmouth, LY. . Gloucester, Brecon, . , Durham, Scarborough, ;'-'7:: e •- South Melton, Shaftesbury, r 46 ! Boston, Poole,

Tomes, Barnstaple.

The Tories claim an advantage in these— Hastings, Warwick,

Reading, Preston, Eye, Retfurd, Daventry, York,

AVigan, Andover,

Beverley, Bridgewater, Newark, Macclesfield, iVinehester, Newport, Pontefract, Bewdley, Southampton, Shrewsbury.

There was no alteration in the strength of parties in—

Exeter, Dover, Windsor, Weymouth.

• Our list was made out from separate returns from the different places, in

the newspapers. This morning the Clo onicle gives a list containing other places, from which we have seen no published accounts ; where the Libel aim are said, but without specified authority, to have been successful. It dues not appear from the Chronick's table which party has made an inroad on the strength ot the other at the present elections; the number of Councillors elected by each being only mentioned. The fact is, that in different places there ille dliferfait anodes of estimating success and defeat. The most interesting European intelligence this week is from Constantinople and the shores of the Black Sea. There is no doubt that the Russian naval force in that quarter is large, and that its movements are of a character to alarm the Sultan and. the British Ambassador at the Porte. It was feared that the Russian fleet would enter the Bosphorus ; and, according to a statement in the Morning Post, feebly denied by the Ministerial papers, Lord PoNsosnoz had sent instructions to the British Ad- miral at Vourla, to be in readiness to sail for Constantinople. The Globe admits that despatches have been received from Lord Poor- SOOMY ; that "the Russians are very active, and that there is cor- responding vigilance in our fleet ;" but adds, that " all the rest is mere rumour." The question arises—why are the Russians so active at this particular time, and why should there be correspond- ing vigilance on our side ? Is Constantinople the object of attack and defence ? On this point no precise information is communi- cated, or even invented.

The Russians are not successful in their warfare with the hardy mountaineers of Circassia. In a recent engagement, the former were defeated, with great slaughter; chiefly in conse- quence of the desertion of a body of Cossacks of the Black Sea, with officers, arms, horses, and baggage, to the Cireassians. De- sertions are very frequent ; and the number of Polish and Rus- sian soldiers in the Circassian army is sufficient to justify the for- mation of a distinct corps of deserters. The Russian General RAJOWSKI had offered terms of pardon and submission to the Cir- cassians but they were indignantly rejected, with the intimation that all future proposals of accommodation would be torn in pieces, and the bearers put to death.