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THE CRIMEA.—The direct intelligence from the Crimea, by letter, comes down to the 13th November, and is chiefly taken up with refer- ences to the battle of Inkerman and its consequences. By telegraph, via St. Petersburg, the report is that nothing had occurred up to the 16th; that the Russians were repairing damages nightly ; that the fire of the besiegers was slackening ; and that the Allies bad suffered a heavy loss of ships from a storm. There is, therefore, nothing absolutely new in event to tell since the tremendous battle of the 5th, except that the right of the British position has been effectually secured by a deep intrenchment cut along the whole flank, and armed with five eight-inch mortars. Nevertheless, the corre- spondence teems with interesting matter. The Morning Chronicle corre- spondent continues to speak of the battle-field- "The Russians were confident of victory, and fought with desperation. Having surprised the heights with marvellous skill, their confidence, ex- cited by this success' could only be redoubled on perceiving the handful of antagonists opposed to them. The enemy was, besides, animated with drink, fanaticism, and professional jealousy. The army of the Alma had to retrieve its reputation in the eyes of the Czar and the nation. Oaten-Sack- en's army from Odessa, and Dannenberg's corps from the Danube, had their laurels to earn ; and never, must these Muscovite warriors have thought, on surveying the weak British lines, were honour and reputation to be pur- chased with greater ease. Four thousand two hundred dead bodies, which have been buried on the field, attest to the disastrous defeat of the enemy. In the many ravines whieh are beyond our lints the dead can be discovered covering the ground.' The actual loss sustained by the Russians will pro- bably never be correctly ascertained ; it cannot have been less than 12,000, killed, wounded, and. prisoners. The British loss has been .inereased by deaths amongst the wounded to the following earl extent.

. Officers Non-corn. Officers,

Killed 38 36 Wounded 95 93

Missing

—

Total 133 134

Bank and File.

Killed, wounded, and missing 2316 "The remains of the two much-lamented Generals, Sir G. Cathcart and

General F. Strangways, were interred on the day Mowing the battle. Lord Raglan, the Duke of Cambridge, and several general officers, were present at the sad ceremony, at which the whole of the Fourth Division and the greater part of the Artillery assisted. A spot of ground known as Cathcart Hill' had been selected for their last repose. This had been a favourite walk of Sir George's : from thence he commanded a full view of Sebastopol, and could watch the progress of what he called the experimental gunnery carried on between our siege-batteries and the defensive works of the town. It was on this spot that he arrived with his division after the forced march from the bank of the Chernaya, and made his well-known proposition to storm the town that same night. The proposal was overruled, and—nous void. . . . .

"When the expedition landed at Lake Kamishli, there was not an officer

or man who had not flattered himself that the cenipaign would be a short and a glorious one. The sanguine flattered themselves upon wintering even in England, whilst the more cautious certainly did hope to pass the stormy months either in Scutari or Constantinople. The mere idea of wintering under canvass in the Crimea would have been-regarded as a fearful impossi- bility, only too horrible to contemplate. The campaign has been a glorious one. Two brilliant victories have proved the great superiority of the Allies. Owing, however, to the lateness of the season, which has rendered any general assault upon the town unadvisable, it has been decided to winter in the Crimea, and open the campaign next spring with large reinforcements on a grand scale. The whole Crimea will be swept of every armed Russian. A sufficient force will maintain the lines of Perekop, and Sebastopol will be com- pletely invested. The .garrison, who will be driven from necessity in the win- ter to consume any stores of provisions which the place may contain, will be found to surrender in the spring, from starvation, or the town will be carried by assault. Now that the army knows its fate, it certainly bears the idea of wintering here with great philosophical resignation. 'It's a con- founded bore, but can't be helped.' Sustained by this reflection, the officers have invested largely in pea-jackets, and are determined to bear their fate with no more grumbling than is absolutely necessary to the wellbeing of a Briton. At home, it is hoped, everything will be done by the authorities to render the position of the army as comfortable as possible. Canvass tents are but poor protectors against wet and cold : could not iron barracks of some kind be constructed ? The facility and incredibly short space of time with whieh the largest iron warehouses have been erected and the ease with which these buildinga are taken to pieces, might recommend the construction of numerous small barracks. These would be found far lees expensive and more comfortable than mere timber huts. In one week the great houses of London would furnish the arafy_.with a safficient namber. The Russian reinforcements, which may arrive an the winter, will prove more a source of weakness than of strength. They will only consume pro- visions, without being able to render any essential assistance. The Allied army is strong enough to resist any attack that may be brought to bear against it. But the spring must bring large reinforcements, and the Allied army should open the campaign with not less than 150,000 men. Let our troops be well taken care of in the winter months, and the next campaign will witness victories no less brilliant than those of the Alma and Inkerman.'" The weather changed greatly for the worse on the 8th November. On the 10th a fierce gale tore up the encampments, especially those of the Marines above Balaklava. Outside, the teasels were dragging their ; anchors, and firing signals of distress ; while inside the harbour, the wind I raged furiously, and caused some accidents. But this gale, the telegraph informs us, subsided for awhile, and then increased to a hurricane on the 14th. "Vienna, Tuesday night—The Oesterreichieche Correspondenz contains the following disastrous intelligence from Constantinople, of the 20th, brought by the Trieste steamer Australia. During the awful gale on the ni4ht of the 14th, the English lost thirty-two transports on the coast of the Crimea. The fine ecrew-steamer Prince and the Sea Nymph foundered with all on board. Three smaller English steamers were stranded. Of the vessels of war, the Sauspareil was driven on shore, th6ugh she had her steam up. The Britannia had five feet water in her hold. The Agamemnon was driven on shore, but managed to get off; and the engines of the Sampson were seriously damaged. The Retribution was also stranded, but got off by throwing her guns overboard. The Terrible escaped without damage. The French line-of-battle ship Henri. Quatre and the Pluton were lost off Eupatoria, and another French steamer was dismasted. • Both the besieged and the besiegers were acting on the defensive. Piince Napoleon was still at Constantinople on the 20th; where it was expected that the vessels of the fleets which had suffered great damage would arrive to be repaired.' " With regard to the troops it is stated that the prevalence of wet, cold weather, has had a bad effect upon their general health ; but that they console themselves somewhat by reflecting that the Russians, so much more exposed, must be suffering in a greater degree, alike from disease and hunger. In the Allied army, the Turks suffer by far the most severely, from dysentery and typhus. ",The houses at Balaklava are full of dead or dying Turks; who appear totally destitute of any medical assistance, or of the slightest comfort. They nurse one another, and display that mutual kindness which is one of the most amiable virtues of the Ottoman character. Our medical men have their hands too full with their own patients, besides having to attend the wounded Russians, to be able to afford any relief to the Turks. Sincerely speaking, it is almost a cruelty to allow the Ottoman contingent to remain in the Crimea during the winter months. In the absence of any medical assistance their numbers would dwindle away fearfully, whilst their pre- sence here, in a military view, is perfectly unnecessary. Meanwhile, the British Commissariat are furnishing them with rations, at a time when, with the difficulty of .tmnsporting provisions along the heavy roads, our own troops may experience the want of supplies. The Turkish troops, by their uncleanly habits, have rendered Balaklava almost uninhabitable ; and should the typhus, which is raging amongst them, infect the Allied troops, the consequences may be awful. In the name of humanity, therefore, let these unfortunate men be transported by their own fleet to Constantinople, to Varna, or to Batown. The universal wish of the two armies is to be re- lieved of the melancholy and dejected presence of the Turks."

"More bad news of our ally Bono Johnny ! While Brigadier-General Estcourt and Captain de Morel were out yesterday [the 8th] to look over the ground and see that the dead had been removed, with a body of Turks to accompany them, the Russians, in accordance with their amiable custom, sent a few shell and round shot at them. The Turks instantly ran away !" The wives and widows of the soldiers have behaved so badly that Co- lonel Daveney, the Commandant at Balaklava, had ordered them to em- bark on board ship without delay. With few exceptions, they had " mis- conducted themselves on shore, whilst on board ship they are a perfect nuisance to the captain."

The Russian Major caught in the act of murdering the wounded offered a gold coin to a sergeant of the Guards not to give his evidence. The ser- geant took the money, and produced it at the court of inquiry, in corro- boration of his statement.

General Dannenberg's report of his failure on the 6th November has been published at St. Petersburg. According to this document, the Russians were directed upon three points of our position—right, centre, and left. The right attack, headed by General Soimonoff, was made in the wrong place, and too soon : hence the failure. He took the right instead of the left of a ravine ; and he was forced to make a rapid move- ment in advance, without waitina's for the development of the left attack, "to escape the murderous fire from the carbines of the enemy." Never- theless, we are told that he succeeded in spiking six guns before he fell [Only four guns were held by the enemy for a moment ; only two were spiked, and those harmlessly with wood.] Several assaults by columns of companies are described. " More than once the enemy was loosely surrounded and driven back upon his right flank; but having all his force concentrated there, he resisted our attack." By a resolute move- ment on the Russian left, we are told, a redoubt, armed with nine guns, was taken; three of which were carried off, and the remainder spiked or thrown down the ravine ! [This, the reader will not fail to perceive, is a pure invention. There were no guns in the redoubt.] The enemy, says General Dannenberg, continued to bring up fresh troops ; (!) and the French arriving, the Russians were forced to "fall back." But he admits that his reserves were exhausted in these assaults. "The enemy continued to defend himself with peculiar obstinacy and, as reinforce- ments of fresh French troops arrived, we were obliged to yield to the superiority of his forces." One part of the troops retreated by the bridge of Inkerman, covered by the Vladimir regiment; whose commander, Delwig, was wounded. .

"Soon afterwards, the murderous fire of the enemy's artillery forced us to retreat upon the town. Thi;3 movement was effected without obstacle and without an attack from the enemy. In this affair, all the troops, from the chiefs to the lowest soldier, fought with a spirit worthy of the armies of his 31ajesty the Emperor." Prince Menschikoff reports, in a despatch of the 12th, that Prince Ga- litzin. had delivered a message from the Emperor to the troops; that it "touched every one to the bottom of his soul " ; and that they listened "with tears of emotion to the words of their Monarch and Father." He also relates how "an image of the Saviour," sent by the Empress with her blessing, had, with due religious ceremony, been "taken to all the bastions and all the batteries to bless the defenders of them" ; and how "all men present, -having listened with pious attention to the address of the priest, prayed with fervour, and went and kissed the holy image of the Saviour." In the name of the army, the Prince asks the Czar to grant unto the Grand Dukes the order of St. George of the fourth class, for bravery. The Czar has granted the request.

The.correspondence published in the newspapers continues to supply incidents and anecdotes that illustrate the desperate character of the struggle as it is carried on by the enemy, and the heroism with which the more civilized soldiers sustain their part. " Dieutentantlringscote' vf the Guards, to his Father, Colonel Kingscote.— "The escapes every one had,- the way small bodies of our men were surrounded and cut their way out, and such like stories, would fill volumes. The Duke of Cambridge was quite.surroundedonce ; and had it not been for Dr. Wil- son jwho was in the Beventh Hussars) drawinghis sword, and cheering some men on, I believe he must have been taken or killed. . . . . A shell pitched on the flap of my saddle behind my leg and sword, which it bent, fell on the

ground, where I saw it ; but befere I could kick my horse out of the way it burst, 'without touching either me or my horse. Why the horse's ribs were not broken, I cannot conceive. I rode Fusilier again until two o'clock, when my other came up, Fusilier being done up and lame. He is

all right now. Lord Raglan rode Shadrack the whole time I never saw anybody so beautifully calm and collected as Lord Raglan during the whole fight; and there were many anxious minutes for him, our force being small, and we did not dare draw any man away from the trenches and our left. Lord Raglan attended Sir G. Cathcart's and General Strangway-s's funeral on the 6th. They were buried side by side : the Fourth Division being under arms, and General Strangways's old troop of Horse Artillery, the same as was his rocket troop at Leipsic, attending. They are both a great loss."

From an Officer of the Fort y-frst—" Our poor Colonel [George Carpenter] was shot in the thigh ; and when down a Russian shot him in the back, clubbed his musket, and struck him on the mouth. These Russians are more barbarous than the Burmese ; and it is but little quarter our men will give them the next time they meet, for they all vow a deadly vengeance ; and it is not to be wondered at. But to the poor Colonel. I saw death in his face when he was brought in at half-past twelve, and I told him I feared he would fight no more. lie was perfectly resigned, and said he had made his peace with his Maker ; and bade me tell his wife and son they were his last thoughts ; thanked me for my kindness to him and attention to the sick ; and from that time till his death, fifteen hours after, he thought and spoke only of his poor men. We buried him this morning. Poor old man! no one over on a bed of down died a calmer death. I was not with him at the time, I inn sorry to say ; but he had some porter, aml then said to his servant, ' Cochrane, cover my head ; I am going to sleep,' shook him by the hand, and wished him good bye. A few minutes after, the servant looked at him, and he was gone. At this time I went in and found him lying on his side, with his hands in an attitude of prayer, his countenance calm and placid as a child's."

Lieutenant Ellison of the Forty-serenth, to his Father, Colonel Ellison. —"My company and our light company behaved splendidly. 1 made use of Dean and Adams three times. I was about to fire another time, when the Russian threw down his musket, and I took him prisoner. We asked some of the prisoners how it was they murdered our wounded ? they replied, • It was by order of their General.' I saw one ruffian at some distance kill a wounded man; I fired my rifle at him and knocked him over."

Au Oliver of the Second Division.—" I was sent on to support the ad- vance ; and on trying the muskets, to my horror I found that only about fifteen out of the company would go off, and out of those fifteen only about six men would follow me to the front. However, there was nothing to be done but push to the front, and I soon joined the advanced picket ; which I found in much the same state, with regard to the arms, as my own. We retired gradually before them as they were coming on in masses of columns, supported with a very powerful artillery, and soon had most desperate work, almost hand to hand, in the thick brushwood, with the guns playing on us in a most fearful way, and ours answering them over our heads, while we were firing musketry into each other at between fifteen and thirty paces dis- tance, now and then charging and driving them back, and then driven back by superior numbers again."

From a Private in the Sixty-third to his Mother.—" Our regiment and the Twenty-first formed line. We then charged, and we did it most gloriously. We routed thousands ; and, as fast as we could run and load our pieces, so fast they fell, for we could not miss them, they were so thick. We chased them for the best part of a mile past their own intrencluneut ; and close up to that, in the thick of the whole of it, fell poor Mr. Clutter- buck, who was carrying the Queen's colour and cheering the men on. I think the last words that he said were Come on Sixty-third ! ' when he received a shot right through the neck, which killed him instantly He died glo- riously. I never saw a braver man than him in the field that day. After the fight was over, I went to him, and got his remains carried into the camp. I took a small piece of his hair, which I send to you to give over to his re- spected friends. His disconsolate father may well be proud of having such a son, for he fought and died bravely, with the Queen's colour of the Sixty- third Regiment in his hand."

From a Scotch Sergeant of Artillery to his Wife.—" What we most lament was the loss of our commander, Major Townsend, who was shot dead. In him we mourn the loss of a friend and a brave soldier, and no

doubt a sincere Christian How do you get your money; it is always in my mind ? and how is our little darling ? I think- I see her now asking God to bless her dear father. Surely her prayers are heard, for I am always in good health and spirits, and friends with everybody. Give nio all the news of the village. Newspapers seldom come here ; I have never had one."

From a Sailor.—" The gallant Eighty-eighth and the French Zouaves charged together as one regiment, and were completely mingled—you could not tell one from the other, and put all to death that came in their way. When in the act of charging, an Irishman, one of the Eighty-eighth, recog- nized a long-lost brother in one of the Zouaves ; and together they fought till the close of the action, both escaping unhurt.

Front an Artillery Olicer.—" The crest of the hill was covered with smoke, ang the entire ground there thickly clothed with brushwood, through which we with the greatest difficulty moved the guns. Suddenly, the smoke cleared away, and we discovered the Russian infantry in great force within ten yards of us. I shall never forget the aspect of those fellows, dressed in their long grey coats and flat glazed caps, firing most deliberately at our poor gunners, and picking them down like so many crows. We at this time were under a very heavy fire of shot and shell. Major Townsend saw at once the critical position of the guns, and most wisely gave the order to retire, as we were quite unsupported—but too late; • the enemy's skirmishers had come up to the guns. However, five out of the six escaped; and one of our men, see- ing the last, as was then supposed, certain to be taken, judiciously spiked it. The gun belonged to a division of our battery, to which was attached youug Miller, one of our Lieutenants • and poor Major Townsend, turning round his horse, seeing what was likely to occur, cried out, You won't disgrace me.' The words were hardly out of his mouth when a shell burst in among us, and one unfortunate fragment struck him on the head, and literally crushed it to pieces, of course killing him immediately. Miller drew his sword, and single-handed galloped his horse towards the gun, riding down one and cutting down a second Russian. He alone turned aside a dozen of the enemy ; and we recovered the gun. Was not this a most plucky thing to do ? He returned with his gun, without having received even a scratch."

From a Sergeant of the Seventy-seventh.—" About seven o'clock a. so. our regiment drove up in line on the extreme loft; the ground was thickly co- vered with brushwood, and there was a pretty thick fog, which prevented our seeing a powerful force of about 3000 men, who almost completely sur- rounded our poor devoted regiment. We had only four companies of the re- giment present at the engagement ; the remainder were on picket, guarding the batteries and trenches we made round Sebastopol. Our four companies did not amount to over 300 men. General Buller exclaimed, My God ! we are surrounded !' he ordered a volley to be .fired into them, and charged them with the bayonet; which was done in excellent style' and, together with charging, they cheered wildly and routed the cowardly Russians in dis- order and confusion, inflicting a terrible chastisement on them, in their flight." " I bear that Captain Peel, of the Diamond, loft his ' Blue-jackets' on the 5th, and went right in among the thickest of the fight; where he joined the red-coats, and slashed away with his regulation-sword, wherever the melee was fiercest"— Times Correspondent.

"Litter-bearers, French and English, dotted the hill-side, now toiling painfully up with a heavy burden for the grave, or with some subject for the doctor's care ; now hunting through the bushes for the dead or dying. Our men have acquired a shocking facility in their diagnosis. A body is before you ; there is a shout, Come here, boys; I see a Russian !' (or 'a French- man,' or • one of our fellows.') One of the party comes forward, raises the eyelid if it be closed, peers into the eye, shrugs his shoulders, says quietly, 'He's dead—he'll wait,' and moves back to the litter ; others pull the feet, and arrive at equally correct conclusions by that process. . . . . "Had it not been for the Russian artillery, our loss would have been much less, and their infantry would have been almost annihilated. The weakness of our artillery in range and weight of metal becomes more evident every day. In order to enable our two 18-pound siege-guns to touch the Russians, we had to give them six degrees of elevation. The Russians bring 32-pound guns, drawn by sixteen horses, into the field. We have 9-pound and 12- pound guns and 24-pound howitzers to meet them. It is evident that we must improve our field-artillery. The guns which answer very well on Woolwich Common will not silence the Russian artillery."—Times Corre- spondent.

TURN ET.—Prince Napoleon, compelled by the state of his health to re- tire from the Crimea, repaired to Constantinople. Soon after he arrived, the Sultan took the somewhat unusual but not unprecedented step of paying him a visit in his own house.

Satryk Pasha, now described as commanding 22,000 men and 30 guns on the Sereth, recently issued a proclamation to the heads of the different administrations in Wallachia and Moldavia, reporting progress in the Dobrudscha. He speaks of a "brilliant conflict" at " Thwarin," in which the Cossacks and Greek volunteers were driven back upon Isaktehi, and over the Danube. Matchin, Tultcha, and Babadagh, were occupied by Turkish troops; and great efforts were in progress to secure the na- vigation of the Danube. This report is dated Thralls, November 5; but no date is assigned to the operations. The Turkish troops have entered Moldavia, and the public documents issued by the commanders tell the people that the entry of the Turks must in no way diminish the zeal of the inhabitants to serve the Austrians, "who work with us to the same end." No fewer than 65,000 men and 150 guns are said to be marching on the Pruth.

The correspondent of the Times at Constantinople sends a gloomy letter, dated the 12th November.

"The state of our army is such that only large and instant reinforcements can prevent it from being entirely worn out and destroyed. Even with the considerable additions which have arrived within the last few days, the in- fantry force falls short of 16,000 bayonets ; and the men are so harassed with working and watching day and night, that they are no longer fit for the arduous duties of a winter campaign. The Brigade of Guards, which marched out of London 3000 strong, and excited the admiration of the Turkish capi- tal a few months since, is now reduced to about 800 weak and wasted men, whom only the indomitable spirit of Englishmen strengthens for the cease- less toil to which they are exposed. The labour of the trenches and pickets is terrible for our small army, exposed as it is to the first assault a every force which may be marched down from the North, and harassed by constant alarms, which call out the weary men just as they are taking a little rest after perhaps twelve hours' exposure and exertion. The elements, which at first favoured the expedition, are now adverse to the Allies. Wind and rain, day after day, thick fogs and cutting sleet, have prevailed during the past fortnight ; and the health of the men is correspondingly deteriorated. While I write it blows a gale ; no boat can cross to Scutari; the landing of the wounded is again interrupted, and they must remain rolling to and fro in the crowded vessels until the weather changes : it rains in torrents, not from passing clouds, but out of a leaden sky, as dark and dreary as that of London : the cold at night is bitter even in this crowded city, and on the hills of Sebastopol it is intense. The officers themselves only spend one night out of three in their tents, and though the tents keep out the rain they cannot repel the cold." The hospitals, although by no means perfectly organized, have been much improved ; and all letters speak in the highest terms of Miss Night- ingale. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle who writes on the 13th November, and who had spent the previous day in the hospitals, makes this report- " On the whole, things are going on as favourably as could be desired. There is, however, much yet to be done before our hospitals will be quite efficiently and regularly organized ; and great exertions must be made, and are being made, to meet the wants of the many sufferers who are arriving and may still be expected to arrive. The principal and most immediate want which strikes the eye of a visitor to the hospitals at Scutari is the insufficient number of bedsteads. This deficiency has been remedied by wooden trucks. Numbers of the men however, are wholly without, but have comfortable mat- tresses, and are for the present by no means badly off in this respect. The shirts of the men arriving from the Crimea are shockingly dirty, tattered, and torn ; as indeed is all their apparel. They are in want of shirts, and I have reason to believe that orders have been given for a fresh supply. The absence of many necessaries on the arrival of the wounded from the Alma is explained by the fact that almost all the stores had been sent to Varna; that place having been fixed upon as a general depot until its insalubrity had been dis- covered, and they were still there at that time. Whilst at Scutari, the day before yesterday, the Triton arrived with stores from England, and all haste was made to land them immediately. Though I could hear no complaint from either men or officers in the hospitals, it is undoubted that much re- mains to be done in order to ameliorate their situation."

There were seventy-two medical officers in attendance on the sick and wounded.

Up to the 15th November, there had been supplied to the sick and wounded, chiefly at Scutari, from the fund collected by the Times, "among other items, about 2000 shirts, 250 pairs of sheets, 400.flannel vests, 10 pieces of flannel, 365 warm quilted coats, 72 worsted jackets, 1200 pairs of stockings, and 400 towels. The contributions also include ar- rowroot, sago, sugar, tea, soap, three quarter-casks of Marsala wine, and, on shipboard, tobacco.'

FRANCE.. —The Mon iteur of Sunday published the following letter ad- dressed by the Emperor of the French to General Canrobert. " Palace of St. Cloud, Nov. 24. "General—Your report respecting the victory of Inkerman has excited deep emotion in my mind. Express, in my name' to the army my entire satisfaction with the courage it has displayed, with its energy in supporting fatigues and privations, and its warm cordiality towards our allies. Thank them. that I wartaly sy.zupathiza with their misfortunes and the cruel losses they have expenientwd, and last my constant solicitude shell be directed to the task of softeniug the bitterness of them. After the brilliant victory of the Alma I had hoped for a moment that the routed army of the e,nemy would not so easily have repaired its losses and that Sebastopol would soon have fallen ender our attacks ; but the obstinate defence of that town and the reinforcements received by the Russian army have for the moment ar- rested the course of our success. I approve of the resistance you made to the impatience of the troops who wished to make the assault under dream. stances which would have entailed too considerable losses.

" The English and French Governments direct their serious attention to their army the East. Already steam-boats are traversing the seas with considerable reinforcements, This increase of assistance will double your forces, and enable you to assume the offensive. A powerful diversion is about to take place in Bessarabia ; and I receive the assurance that from day to day in foreign countries public opinion becomea more and more favourable to us. If Europe 'should have seen without alarm our eagles, so long ban- ished, displayed with so much eclat, it is because it knows that we are only fighting for its independence. If France has resumed the position to which she is entitled, and.if victory has again attended upon our flags, it is—I de- clare it with pride—to the patriotism and to the indomitable bravery of the army that I owe it. "I send General de Montebello, one of my aides-de-camp, to convey to the army the rewards which it has so well merited. In the mean time,

General, I pray God to have you in His holy keeping. Na.roimosi."

The troops encamped at Boulogne were mustered on Saturday, and told by their officers that the Emperor desired to forward more troops to the East, and that ten volunteers were required from every company. In five minutes the whole number stood forward. In some of the companies thirty, in NM forty, immediately volunteered, to the cries of Yive rEmpereur !" Where so many presented themselves, they drew lots as to who should be the fortunate men to fight against the Russians.

The Government also called upon the garrison of Paris for ten volunteers per company from each of the regiments. The number of eager aspirants was so great that they had to draw lots. So it has been all over France. The number of volunteers per regiment is 160.

Public opinion in France seems to be rapidly growing in favour of England. The Moniteur gives expression to a common sentiment, in re- producing, with the warmest reciprocation of acknowledgments, Lord Raglan's praise of the French troops. Nor is this feeling confined to offi- eial quarters. All the journals except the 4ssemblere Nationale and the Union applaud the bearing of the English at Inkerman. All the parties except the Orleanists and Legitimists do the like. "An Anglo-Parisian," in the Times, supplies some instances. "I was purchasing a cigar a day or two since in a shop on the Boulevards, when a cabman came in to buy tobacco. 'Is it true,' said he, addressing a Frenchman, 'that eight thousand Englishmen kept the field against forty- five thousand -Russians until Bosquet came up, and that in company with our soldiers they charged the enemy and killed nine thousand 'Yes.' Then, although I have always hated the English, and thought them false and perfidious, if an Englishman were now to fall into the Seine I would jump after and-try to save bins, though I can't swim a stroke. 'Here are heroes; why the Old Guard could never have done more; and to think they are Englishmen, whom I have been hating all my life! But it is never too late to learn.'

"Several English officers, wounded at the Alma, lately passed through Paris, and ventured in undress uniform (their only clothes) into the Tiu- leriee gardens. With shattered bodies and tarnished embroidery they looked as became men who had been fighting for their country. The people pressed round them in all directions, and gave moat hearty signs of their sympathy, desiring to shake them by their undamaged hand, for most of them had one arm in a sling. Voila des Anglais des blesses de was heard in all directions, mingled with words of good-fellowship from the men and of pity from the softer sex: One old man, more practical than the rest, judging from the condition of their uniforms and their honourable scars that they Must want money, offered to supply them with anything they required, and was quite grieved that they had no occasion to avail themselves of his generosity. "The Charivarieontsins a picture of a Highlander standing sentinel at his post with a precipice and the sea immediately at his back : a French soldier and a Tartar peasant regard him from below. What folly,' says the Tartar, to place a sentry in such a position." There is no danger,' replies the ehasseur, ces aoldats ne reculent jamais.' And this in the Charivari, written by some of the most consistent Republicans in France, and so long bitter against England and all connected with her I" The Emperor reviewed the regiments of cavalry, infantry, and artillery, constituting the new Imperial Guard, on Monday, in honour of Lord Palmerston. The infantry were drawn up in the avenues of the garden of the Tuileries, and the cavalry and guns in the Champs Elysees : about 12,000 of these picked troops were on the ground. The "Cent Gerdes," an much talked of, appeared for the first time on horseback. The Em- press and her ladies watched the scene from the balcony in the Salle des Mareschaux: Prince Jerome, and Lord Palmerston, stood behind her chair.

After dining with Prince Jerome, on Tuesday, Lord and Lady Palmers- ton departed from Paris on Wednesday morning. The French Legislature has been summoned for the 26th December.

GERMANT.—The Prussian Chambers were opened on Thursday, by the King in person ; and the telegraph furnishes these passages of his speech- " A bloody conflict has broken out between three powerful members of the family of European states. Our fatherland is not yet affected : I have fresh occasion to hope that the basis of a further understanding will soon perhaps be obtained. Closely united with Austria and the rest of Germany, I shall continue to look upon it as my task to plead for peace, the recogni- tion of the independent* of foreign states, and moderation. Should I aubse- quently he compelled to add force to this attitude, Prussia and my faithful people will bear their inevitable burdens with resignation, and know bovi to meet such eventualities. The army shall be made ready for war."

A telegraphic despatch from Berlin announces that the Russian answer to the latest appeal from Prussia declares that the Emperor is willing to negotiate on the following conditions- ' First, a common guarantee by the Five Powers of the rights of the Christian. subjects of the Porte, without distinction as to confession. Se-

cond, a common protectorate of the Principalities to be exercised by the Five Powers on the terms of the treaties now existing between Russia and the Porte. Third, a revision of the treaty of 1841. Fourth, the free navi- gation of the' Danube." DIINMARIC.—A striking change has taken place in the Ministry. The Bing recently made's progress in his dominions and personall ascertained the generals, the officers, and the soldiers, for their vahant eonduct. Tell the state of public feeling. The Ministry, it is said, did all they could

to isolate him from the people, but failed. The new Ministers are—IL. Scheel, to replace M. Reventlow, in Holstein; M. Warnstedt, to replace M. Moltke, in Schleswig ; and M. Bulot, in the room of the unpopular Hansen, who occupied the War Department.

BELeausr.—The Belgian. Chamber of Representatives, on Saturday last, voted by 51 to 44 in favour of the prohibition of the exportation of wheat, Ztc. from the kingdom; and the King's immediate sanction to the measure was expected; by which the exportation of wheat, potatoes, and meal, will be prohibited to the 31st December 1856. The reason alleged for this proceeding is, that France having prohibited the employment of grain in distilleries, a great call had been made upon the stocks of Belgium.

Spenr.—When the Ministers tendered their resignation to the Queen, in accordance with the announcement of Espartero to the Cortes, her Ma- jesty expressed full confidence in them, and trusted they would continuo to act with her. Until the Cortes was constituted, the Ministry could not officially terminate ; but of course, resignations, so peremptorily made, were accepted. The Debate states that the Queen, on the 22d November, signed a decree nominating a new Ministry, of which M. Gurrea, and M. Salazar, both warm partisans of Espartero, form a part. The telegraph reports that Espartero has been elected President of the Cortes, and O'Donnel Vice.President.

INDIA Mn) CHINA.—The fuller despatches add little to the bare sum- mary of the telegraph. An embassy from the usurper who now fills the throne of Burmah arrived at Rangoon on the 9th October, with rich pre- sents for Queen Victoria and letters for Lord Dalhousie. But as the Go- vernor-General of India was only styled the "Commissioner of Bengal," the envoys could not be officially received until the error in etiquette should be remedied. The robber chief Meatoon and the late Governor of Rangoon are in chains.

Rumours of the doings of the Russians at Bokan continue to fill the journals; but they simply repeat the same story in new forms. An envoy

from Dost Mahomed had an interview with Major Edwardes, asking for arms and money wherewith to oppose the intrigues of Russia and of Per- sia; and hinting that unless the demands were complied with, the Dost might accept an offer from Persia and Russia and join them.

Intelligence from China is of the old kind. The rebels had failed be- fore Canton and trade was reviving. At Shanghai they were becoming

demoralized; from Nankin and Pekin there was no news. Great atten- tion has been drawn to Fowchoo as a trading port and entrepfit for black tea trade ; and many merchants had been attracted thither.

AlISTRALIA.—The Legislature of Victoria was opened by Sir Charles Hotham on the 21st September. In his opening address, the Governor strongly urged the Council to pay serious attention to the construction of railways. The ordinary roads of the colony are ill-suited to heavy traf- fic, but the country presents every facility to the engineer. Foreign capital would be required, and one mode of obtaining that would be by guaranteeing a certain rate of interest for a specified time. Rewards for the discovery of new gold-fields have already been promulgated ; every week brings intelligence of some fresh discovery, and many of the old fields are in consequence abandoned.