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FRANCE. —Tho visits of European celebrities to the Court of Louis Napoleon continue. Yesterday week, the Emperor received at St. Cloud, Count Vilain XIV, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Prince de Chimay had a private audience of the Emperor, to deliver letters from the Xing of the Belgians and from the Duke and Duchess do Brabant for the Empress. Count Colloredo has been a visitor at St. Cloud. The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden arrived in Paris on Tuesday.

The Emperor went to Fontainbleau on Monday last, for a day's shooting, chiefly with persons about the Court. On his return to Paris, an " accident " happened, which caused a rumour to circulate that his life had been attempted. It appears that the outrider of a carriage proceed- ing to the railway station to meet the Emperor dropped a pistol from his holster, near the Faubourg St. Antoine : the pistol exploded, and wounded a man in the arm. " The moment the Emperor arrived he was informed of the accident, and without loss of time sent his chief surgeon, who ex- tracted the ball, and gave the wounded man 200 francs for his immediate wants, independent of further assistance which will be given him."

THE CHI s.—Winter has not yet arrived in the Crimea, but the Allied armies at the latest dates were preparing for its advent. Great efforts were making to finish the roads, get up huts, dig under-ground habita- tions, or set up stone cottages. But it is remarked that there were but few new huts erected. The old ones were not weather-proof; and if we may believe the correspondents, some of the new ones were but too much like them. Now that the rays of the sun percolate through the crevices, it does not trouble the inmates ; but rain-drops will be quite another

matter. Storehouses, general and divisional, are also in progress on the heights ; and stabling arrangements had been made for each division. The weather was fine ; but frost in the morning congealed the dew on the ships' decks in Balnklava harbour ; while at noon the heat was oppressive in the same place, and the atmosphere hot on the heights above.

The Heavy Cavalry and the Hussar Brigade were reviewed on the 25th October, and charged over the ground made memorable by the immolation of the Light Brigade. It is anticipated that the cavalry will winter at Scutari; but the rumour has not assumed an authentic shape. Every morning the troops turn out on parade ; and besides roadmaking, drilling was actively carried on in the French and English armies. General M'Mahon reviewed the Imperial Guard—" one of the finest reviews ima- ginable "—on the 21st October, and had announced that they would re- turn to France as soon as relieved. Piedmontese reinforcements had arrived on the 27th. The contingent will be stronger than ever, as the sick, who were to go home, remained in the Crimea, by " some mistake," and got well again ; and as the number actually dead amounts to 2000 and the number sent out to 3000, the Sardinian contingent gains 1000 in strength.

The positions of the armies at the end of October are described by that intelligent correspondent of the Tones who dates from the camp on the Tchernaya.

"The place which the Turks occupied [at Alan] will be now taken partly by English and partly by French troops. As long as the French hold their position on the heights of Balder, the gorge of Yarnutka and the lower road leading to it from Bamara are of minor importance, and can be guarded by a comparatively small force. The First Royals, and the Seventy-first, from Kertch, are destined for the purpose. The position at the ford of Alan will be occupied now by French. As it seems the intention to guard the heights above Baidar, this position will be connected by Alan with the rest of our line on the Tchernaya. There is an old road from those heights to the ford of Alsu, and thence to Kamera; the French are now busy repairing it, and they will throw a bridge over the Tchernaya, so that the left of the French on that side will be able to communicate with this side without taking the long circuit through the valleys of Baidar and Varnutka. It will shorten the distance at least by half, which in winter will be no small consideration. The French divisions encamped on the Fedukhine heights give every day large fatigue-parties for the purpose of constructing this road. They go down early in the morning, and they come back at night. In fact, where- ever you go you see nothing but road-making; it seems to have taken the place of trench-digging; and the sound of blasting has replaced the roar of guns and bursting of shells. . . . . From all we can see, the last directions about the positions which the Allied armies are going to keep during the winter have been given, and all the movements going on are rather to re- gulate the details than with a view of making any material changes. The position chosen is certainly such that very little fear can be entertained of any disturbance from the Russians. Both armies will be opposite to each other on a series of heights, with only a few accessible points, and separated by a kind of neutral ground formed in part by the Tchernaya valley, which as soon as the rains begin will be a most effectual barrier to an attack from either side, and on our right by the low range of hills which form the banks of the Upper Belbek before it enters the defile near Albat."

Some telegraphic despatches have been published respecting the move- ments near Eupatoria. The following is from Marshal Pelisaier.

" Sebastopol, Nov. 2.—On the 27th of October last, General d'Allonville, with twenty-four battalions, thirty-eight squadrons, and fifty-six guns, ad- vanced along the road from Eupatoria to Simpheropol, as far as the Chobotar ravine. He found the Russians firmly established on the opposite side of the ravine, where they had constructed an intrenchment, defended by thirty-six 32-pounders. A few men and horses in our ranks were struck at long range. Every attempt made to bring the enemy to an engage.-lent outside of this strong position failed. Ten Russian squadrons fell back before four Turkish squadrons, whom General d'Allonville had sent against them. On the fol- lowing day the same manmuvres were renewed, with no better result. he want of water in front of Sak, and the difficulty, of obtaining fodder, de- cided the General on returning to Eupatoria on the 29th. The environs of this place, for a great distance round, have been wholly abandoned by the Russians."

Then we have two Russian despatches; the first from Prince Gort- schakoff, the second from Nicolaief.

" Oct. 28, eight p. m.—Yesterday the enemy again made a strong demon- stration from the side of Eupatoria, with thirty squadrons of cavalry and six battalions of infantry. They advanced from Saki upon Chobotar ; but there they were stopped by our advanced guard, with which they exchanged some cannon-shots. They then fell back on Saki, where they remained during the night. This morning the enemy renewed their attempt, a part of their force advancing upon Temesch; but when our division of Lancers, supported by a reserve of Dragoons, began to threaten their left flank, they at noon again retired upon Saki. For the rest, all goes well on every point." " Nov. 2.—General Prince Gortschakoff announces that yester- day the Allies with thirty or forty thousand men, marched from Eupatoria, and passed the night near Karagourt and Saki, without as yet attempting any further movement."

[Chobotar is marked in Arrowsmith's map on the North side of the road from Eupatoria to Simpheropol, eighteen miles from the former and thirty from the latter. Temesch and Karagourt are North of Chobotar.] From Eupatoria we have a full account from Lord George Paget, com- manding•the English cavalry, of the movement on the 22d. The move- ment was made in two columns ; one, chiefly Turkish, marching along the strip of land between the sea and Lake Sasik ; the other going North of the lake, and moving by Karagourt and Temesh. This part of the force was under General d'Allonville himself, and at Tuzla he offered battle to the enemy ; but it was declined, after an interchange of shots at long range. Joining the second column at Sale, the whole returned, on the 24th, by the coast road to Eupatoria. Casualties in the British force, from want of water—two troop-horses and three mules.

The operations of the Allied squadrons in the estuary of the Dnieper and the waters of the Boug have been confined to an active inspection of the former as far as the mouths of the river ; and a cruise up the latter, until arrested by a battery planted half-way down the cliff, at a point where a spit of sand narrows the channel. From the decks and tops of the ships the visible parts of the steppe are seen to be covered with cattle, farm-houses, and stacks of hay and corn. The Spitfire discovered two large rafts of white oak, valued at 20,0001., at the mouth of the Dnieper, and brought them off. The larger raft was 450 feet long, 100 feet wide, 6 feet deep, and had a house upon it. " No one superintended the operation of moving this raft, on the part of the Czar, save two Cossacks, who craned over the rushes to look at it." The troops had moved along the Spit of Kinburn, destroying the nearer villages. The Russians subse- quently advanced to Vassilievka. It has been resolved that the French gull] garrison Kinburn during the winter ; and General Simpson ex- pected the English troops to return to the camp about the 3d instant.

The text of Prince Gortschakoff's order of the day, on the conditions of his command, the substance of which has been previously published, now reaches us from Germany. It is dated " Heights of Mackenzie, Oc- tober 15."

"His Imperial Majesty, our master, having charged me to thank, in his name and in the name of Russia, the valiant warriors who have defended the South side of Sebastopol with so much self-sacrifice, courage, and persever- ance, is persuaded that the army, after having aequired gedom of opera- tions in the field, will continue by all possible efforts to defend the soil of holy Russia against the invasion of the enemy. But, as it pleased the soli- citude of the father of the great family the army] to order, in his lofty fore- sight, the construction of a bridge at Sebastopol, in order to spare at the last moment as much Russian blood as possible, the Emperor has also invested me with full powers to continue or cease the defence of our positions in the Cri- mea, according to circumstances. Valiant warriors! you know what our duty is. We will not voluntarily abandon this country, in which St. Vladi- mir received the water of grace, after having been converted to the Christ- ianity we adore. But there are conditions which sometimes render the firm- est resolutions impracticable and the greatest sacrifices useless. The Em- peror has deigned to leave me the sole judge of the moment at which we must ehahge our line of defence, if such be the will of God. It is for us to prove that we know how to justify the confidence of the Czar, who has come into our neighbourhood to provide for the defence of his country and the wants of his army. Have confidence in me, as you have hitherto had during all the hours of trial which the decrees of Providence have sent us."

_Drunkenness in the Camp.—" Yesterday was Sunday. I rode into Bala- klava at one p. in., through Kadikoi Major, and returned, towards dusk, through Kadikoi Minor. The sights I saw, both going and returning, were enough to make an Englishman despair of his countrymen. All along the road were men—not only privates but noncommissioned officers—in every stage of drunkenness. Sobriety was really the exception, intoxication the rule. Noisy groups, flushed and unsteady with drink, were interspersed with staggering sots who could not keep on their legs. Two Highlanders, one of them on the ground, the other making violent and fruitless efforts to get his comrade to stand up, were affording, at two in the afternoon, great amusement to a number of French roadmakers. Sunday is not a day of rest for the French working-parties. Three hours later I passed a group of three noncommissioned officers of some line regiment.' tThe centre man was kept from falling only by the support of the two others, themselves far from sober, and the trio made the most of the road after the most approved fashion. Numbers of officers must have met this group, and the natural and proper course would have been to take their names and send them at once to their quarters under arrest; but drunkenness here has reached such a pitch that it would be an endless task to do this. The tavern-booths of the Old Ka- dikoi were crowded with drinkers, and rang with oaths, obscenity, and brawls. Notwithstanding the closing of many of the establishments there, the place is still a scene of life and bustle, while Little Kadikoi, hard by the Guards' camp, has not, upon week-days, the appearance of doing much busi- ness. But in the evening when the working-parties come off duty, and on Sundays when they have none to do, it is as much thronged as the booths on a race-course or at a fair, or as the back slums of a seaport town when half-a-dozen men-of-war have lust been paid off. Drink, of course, is nearly the sole object of its frequenters, and drink not in mo- deration but to the most beastly excess. Yesterday towards nightfall, it was more than several officers, noncommissioned officers, and patrols, could do to maintain something like order, and master the insubordinate and refractory drankards Considering that, besides his working pay, the soldier gets 13id. a day to spend, it is hard to see what objection there can be to invest the other 84. for his future welfare, instead of leaving it to be squandered in the pot house. -Unless you took him by the arm and led him up to the tap, you could hardly do more to induce him to drink than by giving him la. 9d. to spend here, where drink is literally the only thing he can spend it in. The good qualities of the British soldier have been often proved and extolled, and are admitted by all ; but sobriety is certainly not one of his-virtues; he will drink if you give him money, and drink, as he does here, until he brings himself to a level with the beast.—Times Corre- epondent, Oct. 22.

Balaklava in October 1855.—" In Balaklava there is a High Street, a Railway Street, and Raglan Square : not that I can say much for the archi- tecture of the houses, the majority of the buildings being simply huts used as stores-and barracks ; but at Kadikoi or the bazaar there is some attempt at regularity. The number of grocers' and drinking-houses in this small collection of wooden buildings is astonishing ' • but the three beat stores are Oppenheim and Co.'s, Silver and Co.'s, and Crockford and Co.'s ; and with these- three most of the English officers deal. When riding through this village the other morning, I noticed the following sign-boards—'James Gol- born and Co., of London' ; 'Thos. Booker and Co., agents to J. W. Silver and Co., London and Liverpool' ; Oppenheim and Co., reetuant only for officers' ; 'Ariel Store—I. Lawson' ; 'Dickens and Warren, London' ; Crockford and Co., wine-merchants, of St. James's Street, London' ; 'The Nivy and Army Hotel, London' ; 'Restaurant du Lunion—Bierre Liqurs' ; 'Refreshments, London—Restaurant de Rome '' Sellier Scalier' ; Rail- way Tavern and Eating-room, by Jas. Matthews,London ' 'Restaurant des Officers'Allies.' This last establishment is clean, and well served in every way,- although not much frequented by English."—Daily News Correspond- ent, Oct. 27.

A Soldier's Epitaph.—" Almost adjoining is the old burial-ground [near Balaklava] ; and when there the other day, I copied the following from an unpainted piece of deal wood, about one foot long and ten inches broad, which was lying on a grave—' Sacred to the memory of Frederick Spratt, private, Royal Marines, late of her Majesty's ship Bellerophon, who departed this life on the 21st of 'April 1855, at the age of thirty-six years. " Here lies an old soldier whom all must applaud •

He fought many battles both at home and abroad% But the fiercest engagement he ever was in,

Was the battle of self in the "

conquest of sin.'

Daily News Correspondent, Oct. 27.

Russia.—It was reported at Berlin on Thursday, that "the Emperor of Russia had returned from Nicolaief direct to St. Petersburg, without visiting Warsaw."

TIIsKaY.—Letters from Souchum Kaleb, Omar Pasha's base of opera- tions, bring some interesting facts. During the fortnight ending October 12, no fewer than 20,000 men had been landed there. The Duke of New- castle, and what is more important to the success of the campaign, the Naib of the Circassians, had arrived ; and Omar Pasha had installed the Naib as Civil Governor of all the provinces of Circassia. On the 13th October the news of the defeat of the Russians at Kars reached Sonehum Saleh. The ships in the harbour fired salutes, and hoisted many flags; and on shore Omar Pasha personally communicated the joyful intelligence to the troops. " It was an inspiriting sight," says the Times correspond-

ent, to see Omar Pasha, " after having exhorted his soldiers to march to the annihilation of the army which their comrades have almost de- stroyed," lead 5000 men and two batteries of artillery on the road to Kutais. These troops, with an additional 5000, were placed under Ferhad Pasha ; and the Commander-in-chief returned to head-quarters. The line of operations, for the first forty miles, lies across many rivers, to ,bridge which will delay the operations; but it was anticipated in the camp that the Turks would first find themselves face to face with the enemy near Sugdidi, sixty miles from Souohum Kaleb, about the end of October.

More details of the combat at Kara were published yesterday. The assault was made an hour before daylight, on three points ; a feigned at- tack on the South of the town, and two real attacks on the Western and Northern line of works. The numbers of the enemy are stated to be 27,000, of the garrison 9000. The slaughter was terrific. An English- man writing on the 3d October says—" We have buried already 6300 Russians ; numbers were carried off by the enemy besides." During the attack, he adds, the Russian reserves were ordered up : the camp, unpro- tected, was plundered by a large body of Kurds and Circassians in Turk- ish pay.

Swims:N.—Much attention has been drawn to the journey of General Canrobert to Stockholm on a mission from the Emperor of the French to the Swedish Court, with, it is said, an offer of alliance. On his way thither, he passed through Hamburg, Lubeck, and other Northern towns ; meeting with a warm reception in all ; and at Stockholm, when he landed on the 6th, he was greeted by enthusiastic crowds.

Under these circumstances, "A Norwegian "'opportunely calls atten- tion, in the columns of the Times, to a meditated Russian aggression, nearer England than the Bosphorus. The most Northerly province of Norway is Finmark. It stretches through several degrees of la- titude ; contains about 30,000 English square miles, and 50,000 inhabi- tants. This territory is coveted by Russia, not for the sake of the 30,000 square miles, but for the many safe harbours, free from ice all the year and opening in the great ocean, which indent its shores ; and for the sake of the body of hardy seamen who inhabit them. During the period that Nor- way was under Denmark, the Russians were allowed to encroach upon Fin- mark, and to raise questions about the frontier, which were not settled until 1838: the boundary was then determined, and 1000 miles of territory, formerly Norwegian, were added to the Russian empire. But still the Russians were not far enough West to reach the " open harbours." In 1840 Russian officials traversed the coveted region on "pleasure-trips," it was said—really, as a misdirected Government circular showed, to re- port on harbours fit for the accommodation of a fleet, navigable rivers, and tracks suitable for military roads ! By an old treaty it was provided, that the Norwegian Finnish Laps should, at certain periods of the year, have the right to cross the frontier to find food for their reindeer. In 1852 the Czar abrogated this treaty, on the pretext that as it was made before Finland was conquered by Russia, he was not bound by its pro- visions. Thus means of again opening the boundary question were ob- tained, and they remain open now. Among the titles of the Czar, we are told not to forget that one is " the heir of Norway."

ITALY.—A letter from Naples in the Morning Post, dated October 30, says— "There is no longer any doubt concerning the existence of a revolutionary movement in Sicily. Some men have been taken by the Royal troops and shot. It is difficult to get any details. I hear that arrests have taken place at Palermo. The authorities here say the Sicilian movement is not"politi- cal, but occasioned by cholera and poverty. This remains to be seen."

Arrangements have now been finally made by the King of Sardinia for a visit to the Emperor of the French and the Queen of Great Britain. He is to be accompanied by Count Cavour and the Marquis d'Azeglio. He is expected to arrive in England the first week in December.

INDIA.—The fuller despatches brought by the overland mail contain some interesting statements bearing on the present state of India, or rather portions of it. There is one murder and one attempt to murder. Mr. Conolly, Collector of Malabar, and Provisional Member of Council at Madras, was assassinated while sitting with his wife in the verandah of his house near Calicut. The assassins were five fanatical Moplaho. Mr. Conolly had rooted out of the country a dangerous vagabond of the Moplah tribe, and it is thought that this may have been the motive to his assassination. The ruffians escaped at the moment; but they were tracked by a party of Highlanders, and all killed, at Munjerry, not one of them surrendering alive. One of the soldiers was killed. Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mackenzie, one of the commanders of the Nizam's cavalry, was severely wounded at Bolarum. He had interfered with a mob, who, in celebrating the Mohurrum, had approached his compound contrary to orders; and the mob, headed by three cavalry soldiers, set upon him, and left him for dead. But the last accounts of him were hopeful ; and the cavalry had surrendered the troopers. Another regiment of the Nizam's horse, under Captain Doric, has attacked and defeated a large party of plundering Rohillas, occupying a strong position. In the territory of the Guicowar there arose a religious quarrel between two Moslem sects : as it was suppressed by the Hindoo police, the Moslems were enraged, and but for the prompt appearance of the itesident at Baroda, Major Wallace, a serious outbreak might have occurred.

In the kingdom of Oude, the religious quarrel continues to smoulder, fanned by the circulation of a very able and stirring pamphlet, entitled "The Sword the Key of Heaven and Hell," urging the Moslems to fight for the true faith.-

" It commences by asserting the sinfulness of war waged merely for con- quest or dominion, but the lawfulness of taking up arms in defence of the religion of the Prophet. In comparison with this great object, all earthly ties of wives, children, property, have no claim whatever upon the true be-

liever. They are to be abandoned one and all, or will bring ruin temporal and eternal to those who adhere to them. For the warrior alone is there peace and joy here and hereafter. The Mussulmans are weak, and their numbers declining—it is the judgment of God upon them for forgetting in sloth and luxury their more paramount duties. Now a leader is born in the

family of the Prophet [it is not known what, if any, particular sect is alluded to —let the faithful arise, and soon in all Hindostan be no phrase heard but ' Allah-il-Allah !' " Lord Dalhousie will himself enter Lucknow, so rune the report, about the middle of December. The talk about annexation has given way to

talk about sequestration ; which, however, finds little favour. The San- tal insurrection is not entirely suppressed, but is confined to certain dia- triets.

The latest news from Bokhara is to the 25th June. At that date, the Khan of Shiva had been murdered, and his nephew had' been declared his successor under the guarantee of the Russian General. The Persians. had advanced into the heart of the country, much to the dissatisfaction of the Khan of Bokhara.

UNITED STATES.—The Canada arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, with- advices from Boston to the 24th October.- The news by this arrival throws little light on the relations of England and the United. States. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald states that the President had vainly endeavoured to induce Mr. Marcy to interpolate some " bellicose amendments" into a recent de- spatch from the Minister, asking "Lord Palmerston" for explanations relative to his instructions in the late enlistment ease; and that " the British Minister asserts that the late attempt to convict hint of a viola- tion of the neutrality-laws of this country was the result of a conspiracy of foreigners to embroil the two Governments, and that at the proper time he will show such to be the case. Furthermore, Mr. Crampton in- timates, thatshould his recall be consummated, no successor would be-ap- pointed in his place." A vessel had been detained at New York, on complaint of the British Consul, who suspected she was a privateer. But the vessel was after- wards released by the direction of the district attorney, who acted on affi- davit of the owner, and with the sanction of the British Consul ; it having been proved that she was going to China, and that she was armed for pro- tection against pirates.

The New York Herald thinks that if the Government of the United States prohibit enlistment by the British, they should stop the recruit- ment of engineers for the service of Russia ; and'the Boston-correspondent df the same journal affirms that "the Russians continue to receive great supplies of ammunition from New England." Saltpetre is bought up and carried to Hamburg, whence it finds its way to Russia. "Dashing skippers" were taking powder on board for a dash into the Baltic, after our cruisers have left that sea.