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FRANCE.—The Honiteur has decided the question respecting the indi- cations of an heir to the dynasty of Napoleon, so long a matter of specu- lation. The paragraphs in which the hopeful fact is communicated to the French people are as follows.

"We are happy to announce that her Majesty the Empress is about to enter the fifth month of her pregnancy. The health of her Majesty is excel- lent."

" France will hear of the pregnancy of the Empress with as Much joy as thankfulness to Providence. This happy event, which promises to the Em- peror the only satisfaction wanting to complete his domestic happiness, is a new guarantee for the stability of our institutions. Every one will return thanks to Heaven and offer prayers for the preservation of the Empress's health and the accomplishment of the nation's hopes."

The ifoniteur of Sunday contained the following official statement in reference to the recent letter of Lucien Murat on Italy- " The Government of the Emperor has seen with deep regret the publica- tion of a letter on the subject of the affairs of Naples of a nature to engender the belief that the policy of the Emperor, instead of being frank and loyal, as it has always been, towards Foreign Governments, might favour, under- hand, certain pretensions. The Government openly disavows them, under whatever form they may appear."

RIISSIA.—Telegraphic despatches, early in the week, announced a movement of the Anglo-French fleet against Odessa. A despatch from Prince Gortschakoff, dated the 7th, says- " This morning, nine of the enemy's liners, with twenty-eight steamers and other ships, left Kamiesch, steering North-west." The other telegraphic messages on the subject are these- " Hamburg, Tuesday Afternoon.—Telegraphic accounts just received here from St. Petersburg represent that the Allied fleets anchored off Odessa yesterday, the 8th instant. At the time, however, that this important in- telligence was despatched from Odessa to St. Petersburg, the bombardment had not commenced."

" Vienna, October 9.—Intelligence from Nicolaieff states that a division of the Allied fleets, consisting of nine ships, twenty-eight steamers, and nine gun-boats, comprising Area batteries, anchored on the morning of the 8th before Odessa."

" Vienna, Thursday Evening, October 11.—Up to nine o'clock on the even- ing of the 9th instant, the fleets had undertaken nothing against Odessa." The Emperor Alexander arrived at Odessa late on the 22d September. There was no crowd to meet him ; none in the streets but soldiers. The official explanation is, that the people, who were told that the Czar would arrive at noon, grew tired and went home. "On the following day," however, we find that "the whole population attended their daily bu- siness as usual." Yet this was the day when the Emperor started from Odessa for Nicolaieff. At this rallying-point the Emperor was to preside over a council of war, attended by all tho commanders of infantry corps quartered in New Russia. Should Prince Gortschakoff not be able to at- tend, General Osten-Sacken was to represent him.

There has been great activity at Nicolaieff. Earthworks have beta

thrown up and armed ; newly-built ships have been armed; and prepara- tions have been made for the building of " 500 gun.-boats."

A rumour comes from Warsaw, that Count Nesselrode will shortly. re- tire -from public life. The story goes that he was not named in the late Emperor's will ; that he has received no mark of satisfaction either from father or son ; and that he is unpopular with the Russian party for his management of the Turkish quarreL

THE CRIMEA.—It may be fairly said that although intelligence has been received from the Crimea this week, neither the telegraph nor the letters furnish any " news." The correspondence comes down to the 29th September, and includes two despatches from General Simpson, with enclosures relating to the health of the Army. General Simpson remarks, on the 25th September, that the enemy had commenced firing into the town, and that in consequence the troops sta- tioned there on fatigue-duties had been withdrawn; and on the 29th he states that the firing caused some little annoyance to the working-parties, but that only one man had been killed and one wounded: One officer, Ensign Nash of the Fourth Foot, and 19 men, had been wounded by the explosion of a hidden fougasse—" a number of which have been dug up in the town and batteries."

General Simpson also reports, that since the 28th,

- - "'the troops have been employed, to the number of 9500 men daily, in making the road from Balaklava to the camp; and as, after a few hours of rain, the whole distance is converted into a mass of deep mud, the work that has to be performed,. from this reason as well as the great-distance that the stones have to be transported, render it one of great labour and difficulty. Large fatigue-parties are daily employed in the town, dismantling and conveying timber and other materials from the ruins of the buildings ; and I hope, by this means, to get a considerable portion of the troops under cover previous to the commencement of the bad weather."

The health of the British forces, according to Dr. Hall's statements, is extremely satisfactory. During the week ending 18th September, there were 3500 admitted into the hospitals, of whom 1965 were wounded men ; and out of the whole number 194 died; of whom 150 were wounded men. During the week ending the 25th September, only 1567 were ad- mitted, of whom 84 were wounded men ; 106 died, of whom 76 were wounded men.

" The deaths to strength have been 0.20 per cent; and the sick to well is 10.02 per cent. Last week these proportions were 7.22, 0.40 and 12.00 per cent respectively. Deducting the casualties of war, the proportion of sick to well this week would be 6.26 per cent, and that of deaths to strength 0.05 per cent. Cholera has nearly disappeared, and there has been no increase in the other forms of bowel complaints ; and the health of all the divisions is reported by the different superintending medical officers to be highly satis- factory. In the Third Division no death occurred during the week ; and in the Fourth only one from an injury of the skull. During the week we have Led strong equinoctial gales, with heavy rain, which has reduced the tempe- rature considerably and rendered the weather delightful. The men are em- ployed on fatigue-duties in making roads and preparing for their own com- forts during the winter ; but the night-duty is light. Their rations are good and abundant, and everything is favourable to health."

With regard to the strength of the North side, and the activity of the enemy in throwing up earthworks, much is said in the letters of the cor- respondents.

" Without a glass," says the correspondent of the Daily Kews, writing on the 28th, "1 yesterday counted twelve heavy earth batteries at various points from the neighbourhood of Fort Constantine up to the inner extre- mity of the harbour; one of which especially, on the summit of the highest brow of the slope, appeared equal in extent and weight of metal to the Great Bedell itself. Out of the centre of this long and heavily-armed work rises what may be termed a low tower or circular fort, much like the Malakoff before it was finally reduced to a level with the outer parapet : on the side of it which bears upon the harbour this inner work has five embrasures,—which, if it be circular, would indicate an armament of some eighteen or twenty heavy pieces, assuming that a fourth of its circumference may be seen from where 'stood. The other works—which occupy every point of command along the whole extent of the slope—range from a strength of five up to twenty guns, and appear to differ little in construction from the batteries on the South side except in being of a seemingly more finished workmanship. About half-way between the crown of the slope and the harbour, and in a line with the long heavy battery to which I have referred, is a very strong redoubt, which is approached from below, and defended by armed zigzag platforma of massive masonry. Along the base of this work are several one-story build- ings, apparently storehouses ; and a few perches lower down is the ex- tremity of the little creek, in which, surrounded by other sunken craft, lies the dismantled steamer Wladimir, side up. At about the same elevation from the harbour, and some hundred perches further up from its mouth, is another very strong redoubt, the outer face of which is entirely constructed of earth, with the embrasures as neatly bevelled in as those of any battery on the Thames or the Medway ; and below it, a little fur- ther up the harbour still, is a small Tartar village, in the neighbourhood of which some red-tiled storehouses are also visible. Off this hamlet are moored the one-masted harbour-boats, or barges, which, with a few rowing-boats, constitute.-if ever they belonged to it—the last humble relics of the once proud Russian fleet of the Black Sea. Away again on the ridge behind this appears a long line of white tents, belonging probably to the field force which stretches from this point all along the plateau of Inkerman to the heights above the bridge of Tmktir. At night the camp-fires of this army of observation sparkle like huge glow-worms along the whole face of the plateau slope, at little more than rifle-shot from the outlying pickets of the French encampment to the right of our Light Division ; and during the day many a round shot passes over the narrow ravine of the Tchernaya which divides the two armies."

The French in the valley of Baidar have not been inactive, but have materially extended the Allied position.

The Allied armies, says the judicious correspondent of the Times who writes from the camp on the Tcheruaya, "form now on this side one long line, which runs nearly straight from West to East, beginning at the harbour of Sebastopol, and following the course of the Tchernaya to Alsu, then going over to the plateau to the South of Ozembash, and crowning the heights which enclose the valley of Baidar to the North, up to the point where the road leads from Baru over the Slurinkala Mountain to the Upper Belbek. The French, who occupy this position to our extreme right, are thus in pos- session of the heights which lead out of the valley of Baidar to the rear of the Russians. They hold the only two roads, one to the right, which goes to Markoul and Koluluz, and the other to the left, which runs by Ozembash into the Tchouliou valley, and from there to the defiles of Aitodar and Man- gnp Kaleb. The Russians are still down at Markoul, which is situate in the gorge formed by one of the feeders of the Belbek. They are, however, evi- dently only a strong grande garde, a few battalions, with the usual ac- companiment of Cossacks. Towards Ozembash the Russian outposts hold the pla'eau on the right bank of the little stream. of. tipu over- looking the- head of the Teheuliou valley. The outposts on both sides are so close to each other that shots are continually exchanged be- tween them. The features of the country are particularly fit for such en-. counters ; the heights being covered with brushwood, and the little ravines on all sides facilitating the approach of both parties. Both the-roads which lead up from-the valley of Baidar to the North are only country roads, and, of course, nearly impassable in winter-or after rain. Ravine' taken up this position, the French, with their usual foresight, have begun to

make them both practicable for the march of an army If you look at the map, you will easily see that all the abrupt cliffs- have more or less a

Southerly and the slopes a Northerly direction. This is-principally the case as regards the heart of the Russian position between-Baktshiserm and the North plateau. It is a succession of steep plateaux divided by gorges, through which the Tchernaj a, the Belbek, and the Katoha- with all their feeders, find their way to the sea. With thrrexception of the road leading over Akhtiar or the Mackenzie heights, all the others follow the river- courses. Most of the plateaux are too steep to be-scaled by an army ; so the defiles must be forced ; and this seems the line the Russians have chosen all along for their defence." The Invalids Busse gives the following list of losses_ sustained by the Russian army on the 8th September- Killed—Superior officers, 4; inferior, 55 ; soldiers, 2625. Wounded— Superior officers, 26 ; inferior, 206 ; soldiers, 5826 Contusioned—Superior offi- cers, 9; inferior, 58; soldiers, 1138. Missing—Offioers, 24; soldiers, 1730. The Invalide further states that the Russians lost 1500 on the 17th August, and 1000' per day on every day following up to the 5th Sep- tember.

Prince Gortschakofi reported that the Cossaelorliad captured 25 sol- diers near Kertch. The details of the affair are now furnished by Ge- neral Simpson. Colonel d'Osmont, the French commandant, having learnt that the Cossacks were collecting all the arabas in the neighbour- hood, invited the English cavalry to assist in preventing them. This re- quest was readily agreed to; and two troops of the Tenth Hussars, under Captain Clarke and Captain Fitzclarenee, were ordered by Colonel Ready for the service.

"The Cossacks were supposed," General Simpson writes, "to have as- sembled their arabae at two villages, named Koss-Serai Min and Seit Ali, equidistant from Kertch about 15 milers and. from one another 6i.- Captain Frtzelarence's troop was ordered to the first village, and Captain Clarke's to the latter. At each of these villages they were to join a troop of the Chas- seers d'Afrique, who had preceded them. On arriving at Koss-Serai Min, Captain Fitzelarence found both troopa of the French Dragoons, and imme- diately sent off an order to Captain. Clarke to join him that night. The letter was unfortunately not delivered until the following morning. In complying with this order, Captain Clarke, whose troop consisted only of 34 men, "fell in with a body of about 50 Cossacks, which he immediately charged and pursued; but as they were soon reinforced, by upwards of 300, he was forced to retire upon the village, with the loss of his sergeant-major, farrier and 13 men taken prisoners. Captain Fitzcla- rence'a troop, with the Chesser" the whole under the command of the officer commanding the French troops, having seen a large body of the enemy, skirmished with them at some distance, and moved in the direction of the village of Serai Min ; where, after haVing joined Captain Clarke's troop, the whole force commenced their march upon Kertch. At about the distance of half a mile from the village, they were attacked by a large both: of Cossacks ; who' were, however, beaten back by repeated charges. The loss of the 10th Hussars consisted of-2 privates; supposed to have been killed ; 1 wounded ; 1 troop sergeant-major, 1 farrier, 13 men 15 horses, missing. From information that has since been received, the Cossacks were supported, within a. quarter of an hour's march, by eight squadrons of Hussars and eight guns. Colonel Ready informs me that nothing could exceed the coolness. and courage of the troops in the-presence of such overwhelming numbers of the enemy, who were only kept at bay by their steady movements." It is stated that Marshal Pelissier and General Simpson have conferred on the subject of the English correspondents in the Crimea, with a view to some measure for preventing- what are considered indiscreet revelations. General La Marmara has prohibited, under severe penalties, any Sar- dinian officer or employe from holding correspondence with the journals. It does not appear that the enemy contemplate a speedy relinquish' ment of the Crimes, if we may rely on the curious statements contained in the following extract from a letter dated Odessa September 30, " It is not surprising, after the late events in the Crimea, that the in- habitants of this place should lose all confidence in the strength of our bat- teries and the courage of our troops, and that all those who can do so should hasten to quit the town. A decree has just been published, which un- der any other circumstances would have been received with great satisfaction. It emanates from Count Kleiumiehely dated Peterhof, 3d August, and ordeal the commencement of surveys and preparatory works for a railway from Charkow to Kat% by Genitchi and Arabat, and another from Genitchi to Sebastopol by Simpheropol and Baktchiserai. The same decree states that surveys are also to be made for a railway from Moscow to Odessa, by Char- kow. General Menilkow and Colonel Aleksiew, of the Engineers, are charged with these works:' TIIREEY.—Much uncertainty seems to prevail as to the destination of the Turkish Contingent; which has been reported to be on the point of sailing for Batoum, Varna, the Crimea, and now Kertch. For the last- named place it appears the first division had sailed on the let October; but no sooner had it gone than counter-orders, it is said, arrived from the Crimea. Whereupon General Vivian embarked for Balaklava. The Bashi-bazouks are again said to be insubordinate ; and General Beatson has been ordered to Buyukdere. The Basks, it is now affirmed, will be attached to the Contingent.

Omar Pasha- has assembled 15,000 men at Batoum, and is believed to be on the march to relieve. Kars if possible. General Mouravieff states that on the 16th September he defeated 2500 Turks, regulars and irregu- lars, under All Pasha, and captured their "brave general," three flags, and four guns. The. Russians greatly outnumbered the Turks. The garrison at Kara were greatly in want of provisions.

Gracaca—A change has taken place in the Greek Ministry. In con- sequence of a quarrel, the King refused to hold any communication with General Kalerg ; and matters were carried to such a pitch that the whole Ministry resigned. The new Ministers, who took the oaths on the 4th instant, are M. Miaulis, Marine • and hi. Smolenki, War ; M. Siliverio, appointed Minister of Finance, has taken the portfolio of Foreign Affairs until the arrival of M. Tricoupi, who is to be President of the Council. GERMANY.—The Prussian elections, which took place at the beginning of this week, have attracted much notice in Germany. Although the Government did its utmost to promote the return of the Ministers who were candidates for Berlin, and went the length of forbidding employes to take part against them, the Ministers were defeated. Baron Manteittfel was beaten in one district, and-the Ministers of the Interior in another, by Count Schwerin, who was elected for three places. In the provinces, the Ministerialists have been more successful, as the " screw" could there be applied with greater vigour.

As was intimated last week, the King of Prussia laid the foundation-. stone of a new bridge over the Rhine at Cologne,, on the 3d October. The ceremony was only one aceof a series, performed with considerable pomp and circumstance. It was early in the forenoon that the King, iu the sight of a great crowd, laid the stone, using the same hammer which he had used at the ceremony of laying the first stone for the continuation. of Cologne Cathedral, in 1842. Having given the three orthodox knocks, he spoke as follows- " The mercy of God has permitted ns to commence this work in peace. Let us pray Him to grant that it may be continued in peace. Let us en- treat of Him that it may flourish under the golden horn of plenty—of peace ; that it may remain forever and ever untouched; and that long before the last stone is laid, all Europe, in peace, may be once more reunited."

After this performance, and the stone having been duly struck by other official persons, the crowd, at the invitation of the President of the Co- logne and Minden Railway, cheered lustily; and the King gave away decorations and titles of honour to the President of the Government and the Burgomaster of Cologne. Next his Majesty went to the Cathedral, and there deposited the last stone of the South door bnileat his expense, and exchanged compliments with the Cardinal. Subsequently, the King inspected a new cotton-manufactory, and laid the foundation-stone of a new museum. The festivities of the day were closed by a banquet at the Casino, given to the King by the City of Cologne. Here, in re- sponding to a toast in his honour, the King made one of his charac- teristic speeches.

" More than one of you must certainly remember the joyful feast we cele- brated twenty-two years ago at Rolandswerth. I then proposed a toast— 'The prosperity of Cologne ' ; for the greatness of Cologne was in every heart. I wished Cologne to make steam and iron its slaves, and by their means to regain its ancient grandeur. I had always hoped this; but at that time I could only hope it. What we see today is more than anything I could have anticipated. Cologne has risen to be one of the first cities in Germany, through the extent of its commerce and its just appreciation of industry. And that crown is not wanting without which a great city is either nothing —or a danger. In the hearts of its inhabitants lives the tree fidelity, with solid German sense. All who heard the words of the Burgomaster must share his opinions and own that he is right. Gentlemen, it is a general rule not to repeat the same thing over and over; but here, where everything speaks in praise of Cologne, repetition becomes a necessity. I ask you, therefore, as I did twenty-two years since, to-drink to Colognein the ancient

manner—'.Alaaf ' "

There Were gay illuminations on-the Rhine in the evening, and apleni- tude of music, in which the Kiug took great delight.

The King, accompanied by his brother the Prince of Prussia, wound up his tour in the Rhine provinces' of his kingdom by returning to Cologne on Monday ; looking once more at the Cathedral, and starting off the same day for Berlin. The scenes at the other places he visited were similar to those in which he figured at Cologne, minus the imposing cere- monies of stone-laying. At Dusseldorff, mindful of the rebellious charac-. ter of that city in 1848, he only staid an hour and a half to inspect the picture-gallery. At Elberfeld he made a longer stay.

"Elberfeld, at the period of the troubles,' the Times correspondent re- minds us, "made a strong demonstration, and was barricaded from end to end. In spite of this, however, it did' not forfeit its established reputation for loyalty. The inhabitants were hot about the German question, and would have the King of Prussia Emperor at all price. . . . . Elber- feld is as furiously Protestant as Cologne, with its 'Cardinal' Arch- bishop, is orthodoxically Catholic; and the King being- a Lutheran is by no means detrimental to his popularity. His Majesty was- received at the station in great solemnity andsatate, and cheered repeatedly by an enormous crowd of people, who lined the filthy ill-paved streets all the way up to the site of the new Reformed Church now in process of erection by one of the Protestant communities. After gazing at this half-finished structure, which does not promise much from an architectural point of- view, the King was conducted by the Kurchmeister, Herr Auguste Vanderheydt, a re- lative of the present )(mister- of Commerce, to the house of- Herr Daniel 'Vanderheydt, a rich banker and brother of the Minister. Before the threshold of this large but not beautiful mansion his Majesty passed in review deputations from all the commercial and industrial associa- tions of Elberfeld and the • vicinity. A deputation fairer than the rest, composed entirely of ladies, presented his Majesty with bouquets -of'flowers and complimentary poems addressed to the Queen, who but for indisposition would have been present. In the afternoon, the King dined at the table of M. Vanderheydt, to which a large party of the elite had been summoned in honour of the Royal guest. After dinner the wealthy burgh- er, proposing the health of his Majesty, made allusions to the old and hied fidelity of the Elberfelders, and cited a saying of the King's, to the effect that 'Elberfeld was not in rebellion, but rebellion was in Elberfeld,'— a-distinction to puzzle Protagoras, the master of dilemma. The King, who was evidently moved by the eloquence of his host, replied as follows—' You have recalled to my remembrance times gone by, and words which though I uttered I had nearly forgot. May God grant that all towns may be like this town, where in so many houses the children are brought up in the fear of fled, and whence have come some of the highest servants of the state ! ' !Herr Simons, Minister of Justice, and Herr Vanderheydt, Minister of Com- merce, are both from Elberfeld.) ' I drink to the prosperity of this town and of this house.' "

From Elberfeld the King journeyed to Munster, and remained there during the night, to the inexpressible delight of the Westphalian aristo- cracy. He reviewed the troops on the following day, visited the cathe- dral, dined in state, and attended a soiree at the "Nobility's Club." On his way back to Cologne, the King visited the iron-foundries at Hoerde ; and subsequently took part in more gayeties at Cologne.

Tit BALTIC.—No particulars of the alleged bombardment of Riga have been_published. In point of fact, Riga was not bombarded at all—only the earthen batteries at the mouth of Duna. The ships, however, appear to have inflicted damage at Bullen, and to have burned ten barques in the river Sells, eleven miles from Riga. Rear-Admiral Penaud reports the operations of an. Allied squadron—the D'Assas, the Harrier, and Tartar. " These three vessels have captured all the Russian vessels, to the number of eleven, anchored off Biorneborg, a small town situate on the Finnish coast. Among these vessels is a little paddle-wheel steamer, which is now employed on the blockade. Eight other vessels, discovered afterwards in the Fiords, have been also captured. This raises to 2500 tons the loss sustained on this occasion by the commerce of the enemy."