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@ar, not even an official confirmation of the commence- tment of the bombardment of Sebastopol. Rumors of course abound. The most important, if true, is that the Russian General, Von Osten-Sacken, has entered the Crimea by the Isthmus of Perekop, at the head of 40,000 fen, and was advancing to form junction with Mens. ebikoff, with ow to attack the allied army and rais Zhe siege of Sebastopol. This rumor was current tho Gay before yesterday at Vienna, You must take it tale quale. A tolegraphic despatch from Marseilles yester- Gay, brings news from Constantinople of the 5th of Oct. It was reported there that the Russians, 20,000 strong, ‘had made a sortie from Sebastopol, and had been routed by the allies. As regards the bombardment, Lord Rag- Jan in his laat despatch, dated 6th of October, says that Zhe bombardment would commence ina few days. It has doubtless commenced ere this; but some gentlemen at home, fancy that 120 pieces of siege artillery can bo Innded, mounted, and fred all at once; not to speak of the resistance offered to them. The allies are daily receiving reinforcements of all carms at Balaklava, and are more than a match for Osten- Sacken and Menschikoff. Louis Napoleon has already or- dered 25,000 men to join the expedition, and more are to follow. We are even promised a winter campaign. A number of divers and engineers, with a volta battery, have left Woolwich for the Reinert of getting up the ‘Wessels and guns sunk by the Russians at the mouth of the harbor of Sebastopol f Despatches are expected in town to-night for the gov- ernment, The courier left Marseilles yesterday with them. The position of Austria and Prussia toward other respectively, and towards the German Diet, is be- coming daily more tender. Prussia will in the long run, think, knock under. Notes are being almost daily ex- changed between the two governments. Austria has, however, not yet mace up her mind to declare war on Russia, ‘The report that the Prince of Prussia was to etart on a special mission to Vienna, is now contradicted in the Perlin journals. The views and intentions of tho government of Presi- went Pierce, as regards Greytown, and the sending of American vessels of war there to salute the Nicaraguan fag, as the last accounts received from che United States assert, to insult the flag of Great Britain, has ‘given rise to much comment. The prevailing opinion ix that the ra- t no government would mors are exaggerated, and t! wontonl: disturb the er ¢ whieh actual It is, moreoy ns of the Unite am xist between Ei ped that the major lates are averse to a war with F and that such hostile in tentions will be disavowed by the United States gover ment M3 J nothing more respecting the Congress of Amer Ministers at Paris—or, as it is now said, at Ostend—nor the object of sneh Congress. You will pro- Dably c about it on your side of the water. From Denmark we learn, under date of Copenhagen, October 14, that the motion fora committee to im- {ef the government had been carried in the Danish loure of Commons by a majority of 80 to 6. ‘The Turkish government has officially announced that the prohibition of the export of grain from Turkey bas ‘been raised. From Spain we have nothing new. Don Enrique has een sent into exile. The cholera is commiiting ravages in Fatramadura. The Queen haa returned to Windsor, Major Beresford, in a recent apeech, having applied the word coward in connection with Sir James Grahame, the honorable baro- net cailed him out—or at least demanded an apology or he alteraative, An ample apology was immediately ven, ©The funeral of Marshal St. Arnaud took place yester- day at Paris, with great pomp. The whole of the new imperial guard turned out, and excited great attention. The musical world at Paris is quite in an uproar at the disappearance of Mile. Cruvelli. Sheis a very eccen- tric young lady, and if she does take a whim into her head she sticks to it. The other night she was to sing in the “Huguenots’’—house crammed—but lo! she never came, and the money had to be returned. But the most extraordinary part of the affair is that nobody knows where she has gone. She has left all her jewels, &c., and conjectures are running wild about her.” The Opera directors have instituted proceedings against her, and her property, to the amount of 100,000 francs, has been seived as security. The airs some artists give them- selves—they should confine themselves to singing them is prety: absurd. When little birds can sing, are paid and well paid) to sing, and won't sing, they should be made to sing. Her engagement at the Opera is worth £6,000, and very little to do. Our theatrical season here has commenced. The Princess's, under Charles Kean, has opened with a bad play by Douglas Jerrold, called the “Heart of Gold,” and a amart litle farce called ‘ing too Fast.’? Wright and Hudson with their broad humor, aided, moreover, by the active le; ff the Spanish dancers, and the graceful Bounds and pirouettes of Senora Nena, fill the Huymar- ket. Robson, who is a genius, draws good houses to the Olympic. At the Adelphi Morris Barnard has just had his farewell benefit, after great success, before starting for America London is filling. All the ministers will be in town this week. The parties of the season will, however, be few. There is scarcely a family that has not lost a son, a brother, a hus ive in the war; and most of the regiments out in the East contain members of our best families. It is quite clear that the campaign in the Baltic is ‘over for this year. All the sailing vessels of the fleet have returned to Spithead. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Monday, Oct 16, 1854. Funeral Obsequies of Marshal St. Arnaud—Indifference Manifested by (he Populace of Paris—Reception of the Body at tne rwvatides Rotears ef Ravhes—Chi —Denaturalization of an American Citizen—Affairs of Spain, de. de. Tam writing at a hotel which commands a noble view of the Place de la Concorde—that place, on every stone ‘of which is written a history of France, which genera- tions yet unborn will read with wonder and astonish- ment. The great central area which, as it were, termi- nates the boundary of more modern Paris from that part of the metropolis on the north bank of the Seine, con- seerated more particularly to the souvenirs of the ancient Gays of France—the Faubourg St. Germain—the Place de la Concorde is a kind of neutral territory, where the population of either quarter assemble on State occasions, such as the decapitation of a king or queen, the mar- riage of the grandson of an attorney metamorphosed into an€inperor, or—as on this occusion—the funeral proces- gion of a Marshal of France. The mortal remains of Le Mareschal de Saint Arnaug arrived on Saturday at the station of the Chemin de fer de Lyon, and on the whole of Synday were deposited in & chapel claborately illuminated after the manner of the Roman Catholic Church. At 10 o’clock this morning a procession of unusual magnificence, even for France, which excels in such nmtters, set out with the body from the station. Its course was through the Rue de Lyon, the Boulevards, the Rue Royale, the Place de la Concorde, the Bridge de Ia Concorde, the Quai d’Orsay, the Esplan- ade of the Invalides. That I might form a more correct estimate of the feel- ing of the population, half an hour before the cortege set itself in motion I rede my horse through the centre of ‘the streets appointed for its passage. I was curious to observe what kind of feeling might be manifested in the Faubourgs and Boulevards, where, a few weeks later, ome three years ago, the hero of Alma was pouring fire and slaughter on the citizens of Paris. There would have been nothing unprecedestted in the fact of a great victory, in which the arms of France had been made to recover their ancient brilliancy, having effaced all un- pleasant recollections of civil bloodshed. The great poleon himself owed his appointment to the army of {taly, so imperishably associated with his renown, tothe gannon which he planted on the steps of St. Roch, and from whence he mercilessly swept down a turbulent mob, headed by the famous Sections of Paris; and when he returned o’erladen with the laurels of victory, the | people rose en masse to welcome him. Icannot say I obscrved anything akin to this in the external attitude of the numerous spectators, who thronged the highways on this occasion. There was the usual curi- ‘osity to witness a rather novel spectacle, which was to be got up with unaccustomed magnificence and splendor; dut as for sympathy, or for any of that stirring of the heart which bids unwonted tears, there was none. The Marshal's antecedents werc, on the contrary, canvasse! with a bitterness and nccrimony I was scarcely prepare | for, and which the decency of his latter days’and his ro. cent illustrious victory in no way softened. St. Arnaud, in fact, by the most charitably disposed, was looked abal of the Empire; and thore is in man an innate sense ‘of right whieh will not allow him to consent that success absolves all. I heard, [regret to say, anecdotes of his fe related that redounded but little to his credit; and when his military services were spoken of, it was in a ‘ypercritical spirit, which seemed not disposed to place Marsha! by any means in the first rank of France's po ell al a be since the Speen afl family to ‘tual exile, juent allusion to the house of the funeral of that ill-fated prince whose acciden- death may be sail to have scaled the of his So popular was the character the lato Duke of leans, and so shocked iblic mind by the cruel accident which depriv- him of life in Ag on pnwad i gt La fulness of beauty, that is day features and stron, ‘minds, albeit snused to the melting mood, shed tears subject is recurred to, and the contrast which present funeral offered, ae antoenaal ‘all the gor- See alee y that surrounded it, to that pul gg Hi sympathy seemed touchingly the circumstance to popular mind; and e: of acharacter anything but agreeable to the | ‘ear were rife in men’s mouths. is now winding its brilliant length Glong the Reo ‘and entering onthe Place de la ——, en route to the Invalides. band of the Fourth regiment of Chasseurs i cheval, it, and its glorious music holds captive the zecectin eer. place is crowded, but not to such an prevent a tolerably free passage for all. ‘the first General of Division and first Ge- ‘of the Army of Paris, and their officers ‘next a squadron of light cavalry with a Co he eagle; then two squadrons of cai- ith « Colonel aad the standard, and another which @ Colonel commanding a batte fone ana rasaioen, = 32 prosperity and the | land and | rity of | rleans, in connection | | 17,,oF, artillery with, ite standard and | music; | then battalion of foot chasseurs; then 2s | battalion of light infantry, with ite banner and band; | | afterwards a battalion of an infantry regiment of the | | line, with its colonel, di and music; then a Genoral | Of Brigade of the Imperial Guard, followed by two squad- rons of Guides, with the Lieuteaant-Colonel and stand- | | ard. Next came two com of foot Chasseurs of the Guard, with the Chief of Battalion and trumpets; then a battalion of one of the regiments of Voltigeurs de la Garde, with their Colonel an band, marehing with that ‘step which constitutes their peculiarity, and with | they accomplish six miles an hour with ra- tive ease; then follows the staif of the Minister of War: @ Mareschal Commandant-in-Chief of the Al of | Paris, and his staff; general and superior officers not hav- | ing commands who have joined the cortege, and then | | the funeral car, surrounied by Korte, Regnault de Saint Jean d’Anglesly, Levesseur, de la Rue, Generals of Division, who on horseback sustain the corners of the pall; | the aides de camp of the deceased; the war horse of the Marshall; the empty carriage of the Marshal; guard | equery of the Emperor; the carriages of the clergy, and | of the Marshal family; the earri ga of the Ranger, ta | | first containing the Duke of Cambaceres, grand master of ceremonies; General Rolin, Adjutant General of the lace; the Marquis of Toulongeon, Commander of the Brdnawice. In the second Imperial carriage there in the Count de Montebello and Colonel de Beville, aids-de- camp of the Emperor; Captain Merle, Officer of Ordnance; | then followed tie of the Emperor’s First Equer- | | sy. This superb Tete X is closed by a batialig ors | regiment of the gendarmerie, with its Colonel, flag and | music; then a battalion of a regiment of grenadiers, commanded by its Colonel} a battery of artillery; the ataif and crew belonging to the steamship of war, the | Galila; drummers and band of the Paris guard; a Gene- ral of Brigade of the Army of Paris; a battalion of the | | Guard, with the Colonel and draj two companies of sapeurs-pompiers, with a chief of battalion; a battalion of an infantry regiment of the line, with its Colonel, ban- ner and band; a battalion of a regiment of light infant: and another of foot chasseurs;a squadron of gen(darmeri of the Seine; another of the guard of Paris—fiually cloa- ing with two squadronss of carbineers, with the Colonel, | its standard, and magnificent band in full play. | ‘As this imposing military procession gradually inyest- | ed the magnificent place, which, of itself, is unparalleled in the world, with its b ‘ul Feyptian columns in the centre, the Corps Legislatif on the right, the exquisite le of the Madelicne looking upon it from the Rue Royale, the gardens of the Tuileries on one side, and the sweep of tie avenue Champs Elysées on the other; it | was a sight to see which no other nation but that of | France can offer to the spectator. The splendor of the | military fenu, the exquisite martial order, the go | banners all streaming in the wind, the inspiring mu | each band in succession passed under the eye, the brazen casques and brenstplates of the Carbaniers, the serried phalanx of pointed bayonets, as, bristling above their | musket barrels, the infantry filed before you—all pre- sented acoup d’ail beautiful in itself, but with the | an interest so intense as to amount to something like pain, The reflection that soon this all beating with hearts full of chivalrous vigor, irsting for renown, might be laid low by the inevitable exigencies and chances of war, would, in spite of every effort, creep | into one’s mind; and one thonght infinitely less of the | dead Marshal than of the fate of the livin rouths’ | who, in the freshness of manhood and of joyous | life, were following him to the Invalides. On arriving at the gate of this famous depot of the brave, the military array defile before the body, and then it is received by the Governor of the Inyalides, and borne by non-commissioned officers, members of the Legion of Honor, into the nave of the chureh, where Lord Cowley, | the Ambassador of England, his Excellency Marshal Magnan, his excellency Admiral de Mackau, and General de In Wostine, holding the corners of the pall, with four general officers of the army of France, attend it. { The Ministers, Presidents of the Senate, of the Corps Legislatif, of the Conseil d’Etat, of the deputations of , the Senate, of the Corps Legislatif, of the Conseil d’Ftat, and of the other constituted bodies, are present at the solemn service for the dead. A salvo of thirteen guns from the Bastile announced its first departure in the morning; and three salutes of thirteen cannon from the Quay d'Orsay were afterwards fired when the funeral car the Invalides—the first on its arrival, the se- s absolution, and the third as the body of the de- ceased Marshal descended into its final resting place in the marble vaults appointed expecially for the mighty dead. A short. time ago [ called your attention to the decree which commanded the release of Barbés, in consequence of the patriotic sentiments contained in'a letter to one of his intimates, and which was shown to the Emperor. One of those expressions was to this elfect—“If to be Chauvin is to desire the success of the arms of France, &c, then am I more guilty of Chauvanism than you.” ‘The term Chauyanism requires some explanation. It appears that after the disastrous days of the Empire, when the Grand Army was broken up, there was a numerous arty who, on returning to the calmer duties of civil ife, could not restrain their feelings whenever the mis- fortunes of the ‘petit Corporal” were alluded to, or his gallant achievements mentioned; and it seems that there was a large class of soldiers rejoicing in the name of Chauvin, whether related or not does not appear, who were especially conspicuous in this manifestation of feeling. The very name of the Grand Army threw them instantaneously "into heroics; tho lightest whisper about the prisoner of St. Helena melted them into tears, till at last the Charirari and the stage of the day pounced upon the circumstance as a species of thea- trical capital. M. Chauvin was introduced before the footlights in the imperial uniform. His eccentricities were ut first tenderly dealt with, lest the public should take umbrage; but asthe sense of ridicule isjof indo- mitable sin France, and as there was % lack of novelty at the moment, M- Chauvin gradually became a character, and the moment his eyes filled with tears, as his souvenirs carried him to the imperial wars, he wa saluted with peals of laughter. Hence M. Barbés’ allu- sion, The witticism, I believe, did not endure a long reign. It was thought the Court of Louis the Eighteenth had stimulated it, and M. Chauvin was. ultimately with drawn, and but for M. Barbés would perhaps have nove been beard of again. M. Barbés turns out, I must tell you, to be excessively displeased at the liberty which hak been taken with his person in his release {rom prison. He writes a letter to the Presse, which that journal excuses itself from in serting, but whigh the Moniteur docs not scruple to | transcribe in its columns. In it M. Barbés declares that for two daya he has refused is durance after the orfler for his release had arrived — that he does not see how his possessing sentiments of the purest patriotism affects the question of his impri- sonment—that such patriotism has been the religion of his soul from his cradle—but that he is the same enemy that he ever was to the author of the massacres of De- cember, and the violator of the republic. That he thinks it his duty to avow the fact boldly, and that if, after | remaining two days at his hotel, the government does not think fit to consign him to prison, he shall betake | himself into voluntary exile, M. Barbé’s has since left | France fot England. His health is said to be utterly | destroyed. The public opinion is, decidedly, that under the circumstances it would have been a more manly act to have received his release with dignity, rather than ~ have exhibited such eager anxiety for the honors of mar- tyrdom. | ‘The grandson of Prince Jerome by his marriage of Miss | Patterson, of america, who lias jolned the expedition at the Crimea, has now ‘the title of Prince Jerome Napo- leon Bonaparte, He is a sous lieutenant in the Seventh dragoons. | There is at the moment I write no news of a reliable nature from the Crimea. ‘The Siecle handles with great severity the manifesto of the Count de Montemolin to the people of Spain. ‘What is said,’ it remarks, ‘to that Spanish people, so cruelly tried, and ro he trials? That all its efforts tend to nothing—that its aspirations after liberty and happi- ness are mere chimeras, and that it must, in fine, in or- der to escape from all kinds of vicissitudes, and to reco- ver its repose, think of restoring such forces as are real- ly living and of establishing principles, et cetera, et ce- tera. If such princely mouthings were translated into ordinary langunge, the meaning would be this:—‘Such a one, pretender tothe crown of —— would be delighted to again find himself on the throne of his fathers, and to dispose for himself, for his family, and for his courtiers, of the resources of a great country; in consequence, he has the honor of informing the people of —— that who govern them at present are anarchists, revolution- iste and wretches, and that, by divine grace, the undet signed, possessing alone the secrot of the science of go ernment and of sound traditions, will undertake for same price to carry on the government and the adminis- | tration.” BERTIE. | Panis, Oct. 16, 1854. | American Diplomatic Conference at Ostend—English | View and American View of it—Cuba Must Belong to | the United States—Captain Gibson—An American Re- | presentative with Austrian Arms—Consul McRae— | Funeral of Marshal Saint Arnaud—Flight of Cruvelti | anda Bird of the Air. | European statesmen and journalists, absorbed as they are in the pre-oceupation of the Eastern war, have not failed, however, to remark the recent meeting of Ameri can diploma: at Ostend. It has already elicited sig- nificant comments from the press, which does not err in discerning in it the date of a new era of relations be. , tween the New World and the Old. Under the rubric of “American Diplomatic Congress,”’ a London journal al lnded to it last week as being ‘without precedent." “Act | ing aa we underst and,under the directions of the Presiden’ | of the United States of America, the ambassadors of tha conntry,”” said the Globe, “are assembled to exchange information, to consult and to report to their own gov- ernment on the state of affairs on the Continent. Subse. quently to the last great European war, American in- terests have so far developed that they may be regarded as the creation of the intervening period; American trade ia now carried to every part of the world; and the con- ference has in view the due protection and advancement | of those interests in any new arrangement of treaties that may be made in Europe,”’ The Globe felicitates the American Ministers on their choice of ‘a place conve- | nient for their mecting, under the shield of neutrality; it is peculiarly favorable for obtaining the completest and | most accurate and recent advices on the subjects under consideration.” Prominent among these subjects it | places ‘‘the state of thy treaties regulating the naviga- tion and protection of the Black Sea,’ and it cannot bo mistaken in adding, “it is a matter of course, that the subject of Cuba should come under immediate considera- tion.”” It makes one declaration which I must cite as expressive of the opinion prevalent among the people, both in France and in England. ‘The position of the | Spanish government in regard to finance renders it ex- | tremely probable that the terms which are frecly in. | timated to the American government would not bo un welcome.” It adda, moreover, “the assurance that no | illegitimate means will be employed for obtaining possession of Cuba; the American government, ani- | mated by the desire to ratain the friendly feoling of the French and English governments, is said to be prepared to make the strongest ropresentations that the transfer of Cuba—leading a it would to the opening of a trade | whose present | enforce our national | it, and then tell * | associations which present events crowd on the mind, of | which has hitherto been kept in the hands of menopo- lists, and rendered exclusive by the probibitory policy of the island government—would be greatly conducive | to the material interests both of France and England."’ I must leave to the Globe the responsibility of ity asser- tion, that “‘ the conference which has assembled is one for the reciprocal information of the Ministers who meet, | and of the American prosecution of show how far its issues is correct. Now for an At view. my window a bird of the air, eee it closely, and you will Awerican than a French canary. The voice it carries sow! like that of Brother Jonathan himself, when his mind is made up. That which hath wings shall tell the matter, and in its own words, too —‘The diplomatic conference convoked by our government has come to an early conclusion. It could ha: have been otherwise anticipated. The position of growil out of late events called for immediate action; ant when this action is # ited by Messrs. Buchanan, Mason and Soulé, it is easy to coneeive its nature. The administration has done in referring the subject- matter of the conference to eminent statesmen, residence more immediate impor- tance to their experience and observations. ‘The day has arrived when the Monroe doctrine be- it, rather than for the lo! there flies into straight from Ostend. Scan | that it looks more like an comes Line more than a pleasant ; and the main question for the conference to consi and the administration to act any petty difficul a is not tate of ingults and anooyanoes, atthe broad propos ade of insults jut roposi- tion—What is to be done with Cuba ? ¥ So long as that island remains in the position it occu- pied when the Monroe doctrine was Popes ted, we can only ask indemnity for the violat rights of our citizens, and apology for insults to our fing. But the moment Cuba passes within the control of any other European Power, we are called upon rtand to doctrine, which originated in a wish simply to protect ourselves. he hour for such action is about to strike. ‘Tho gov- ernment of England is the government of Spain. Our great commercial rival on the high seas proceeds at once to turn this possession to ber own advantage, and to our great injury. The union of England « nee, and many a hint thrown out from time to time, too clearly indicate their future course. Their energetic efforts in éarrying on the actual war against Russia, give us plaiuly to understand that any course upon which they once determine will be vigorously prosecuted. In view gof these circumstances, it is not difficult to infer what course must bave been recommended by the conference of American Ministers. In place, then, of crediting rumors afloat in the clubs, and yurmises in « plomatic cireles, look distinetly at the position of aifairs, consider the superior ability invited to deliberate upon Pyour readers wohesitatingly what the result of the ‘delBerations must have been. — It would, indeed, be presumptuous in me, a mere ‘bird of the air,” to state positively what Ministers, as discreet ‘as they are able, proposed and decided upon. Bat I ven- ture, nevertheless, to assure you that the United States will kay to the so-called government of Spain—What we must have is security for the future. This is to be found only in our possession of the island of Cuba. We tender to you twice the amount of its actual value. If you do not aecept our proposal, we must take the island. That such is the tenor of the decision of this memora- ble conference, I am convinced nono will long doubt. That it Will be confirmed and sustained by the Untted States government, will soon be demonstrated, Let the curtain fall fora moment before this first act ofa mighty drama. Glafice, with your mind’s eye, at some of the immediate perspectives which it opens. May it not be safely asserted that Fogiaod is in no sit- uation, if, indeed, she ever will be again, to prosecute a war with’ the United Ltates. American cotton alone forms an impregnable rampart against British bullets, and that, too, in a wider sense than is suggested by the unforgotten bales of the battle of New Orleans. The im- mense commerce of Great Britain, encircling the ¥lobe with its ramifications, offers so many bonds to keep the gon But such is not the situation of France, and that, in their Holy Alliance, the one should use the other, is but naturally enough to be expected. That France would first protest, and then fight, while England fur- nished the credit’ and carried on the trade, presents a programme apparently quite practicable. But how much all this deponds on the capture of Sebastopol, and the attitude of Germany? When the false rumor of the fall of Sebastopol was put in circulation, the Austrian go- yernment, through its Minister in Paris, congratulated the Emperor. The prospect of a declaration of war, on the part of France against the Uhited States, would send the -ame Austrian government to congratulate the Czar. Druyn de’Huys, who is said ‘to do the thinking” for the French government, would lose no time in taking the position of affairs at such a moment into very grave con- sideration. It is true that we have no navies such as the allied Powers have sent to the Baltic and the Black sea. But we have another weapon of warfare infinitely more terrible to selfizh despotisms. Have yeu not already heard the suggestion, that if the Czar had sent his emis- saries into Italy, Germany and France, and thrown an army into Hungary, he might not now be called upon to defend Cronstadt ‘and Sebastopol. His enemies would have found themselves busy at home, if, indeed, they could be found at all. This war of opiniom, this strug- gle of oppressed humanity against usurpation, will be left to us, should any attempt be made to check our destiny. A handful of Yankee rifles, in any part of Europe, would be more terrible than all the armaments which the Allied Powers can flaunt before the world. Let us go on stead- ily and with dignity iu the course which seems to wu: t, and the consequences may be safely le(t to them- my “bird of the air’? fairly whistled “Yankee and “Hail Colambia.”? Recovering from its ex- citcment it informed me that ‘the conference met at Ostend en the 8th of October, and continued in session Wut a single week,” during which, it whispered, “but e top re’ spoken of—Cuba, the ditticulties be- n Capt. Gibson and the Dutch government, and the risonment of Mr. Phillips by the Swiss author- mistook that American citizen for age ‘an evolutionist. The E sephneeg familiarity o! Buchanan with facts and opinions in Engiand, of Mr. ance, and of Mr. Soulé in Spain, assured sion of ample information respecting the sub- deliberations, and particularly respecting :—fully aware of ita importance, and ad- for its discussion—they mainly devoted & their attention,’ My “bird of the air’ had said so much about Cuba as to leave time for hardly a word about the affairs of Phil- lips and Gibyon. No doubt both were fully examined. Neither can fail of the notice and action which each de- mands. “Since the departure of Capt. Gibson, by the by,” (it is my “bind” who tells me, for T have not seen the paper myself,) ‘a_copy of the Washington Star has been exten@¥ely circulated in Paris, containing certain ‘railing accusations’ against the’ worthy captain— among the rest, that he tried while at the Hague to bor- row moncy of Mr. Belmont. Whether the Captain did com- mit the unpardonable sin of wishing to borrow mone; of a friend, or of one who professed to be his fri and under whose roof and official protection he was re- siding at the time, I know not. Nor do I know if he was lucky enough to borrow the money, It would seem he was not, for he is also charged with having, in the vexation of disappointment, instigated attacks against Mr, Belmont in certain newspapers at the Hague, and of having acted with great imprucence while there.’ Now, none who have had the pleasure of know- ing Capt. Gibson—at least none whom I have acen, and they are not few in number or obscure in point of station —fail to give him credit for a remarkable union of cool cautious good sense, with qualities that have rendere famous the most daring explorers of unknown seas and distant climes. In the particular case that brought him recently to Europe, he displayed, while here, discretion ang prudence that merit dei ext % elle to Moreover, if the oan had de: to attack Mr. Bel mont, other means than Dutch newspapers were at his disposal., He would have found, says my “bird,” and its voice grew shrill and piercing w! saying it—“he would have found more than one American on this side of the Atlantic who would have been as much ized as he may have been by an American Minister who has the Austrian arms carved upon his rosewood furni- ture, engraved on $30,000 worth of piste, gilded on the panels of his coach, and glittering.on the liveries of his lac- qu The explanation that their arms had been adopt. ed as his own the American resentative, would hardly soothe his indignation. {fight not he be pro- yoked even to change the title of such an envoy and call him not the representative, but the niisrepresentative of our country?” ‘Was it surprising,” asks my ‘bird,’? “that Capt. Gibson, who went to the e in search of ‘a Minister, should have wished to put him to his proper use on discovering that he was a money broker?’’ "nde from all this, it is to be regretted that any American pa- per should forget that Capt. Gibson is an American citi- zen, m whose person our national flag has been grievous- ly insulted, and that as a great Power, jealous of its ho- nor, the United States government is ound to protect its citizens.’” My “bird of the air?’ ts impatient tofly away. It waits only to say that Mr. McRae, United States Consul at Pa- ris, will speedily leave for Washington, as special bearer of despatches from the American Diplomatic Congress. The cannon at the Invalides, in honor of Marshal Arnaud’s funeral, is the signal for the ‘bird’s”’ | into that unknown distance where Cruyelli, that fallen ir of the opera, has disay red, to the surprise ai iy stifleation of th Parisiaan and of FIGARO. THE WAR. The news from the Crimea is—nothing ! A multitude of private letters, telegraphic despatches, and revivals of old news, is found in the English and Continental pa- pers, but none of these state that Sebastopol is taken, nor that the allies have made much progress towards | taking it. Lord Raglan’s latest despatches say that he expected to “open fire’ in afew days, and private letters add that an attack on the outworks was fixed for the 9th inst. Menschikoff kept the field to the northward of Sebastopol. The position of the allies was strong, and easily defensible against an attack from the landward. The allied extreme right leans on the slope of the mountains east of Balaklava, which ran down like immense walls to Aloushta. The body of the right wing is at Kamara, and outposts are posted on the Black river. The centre occupies the roads lead- ing from Kadikol to Sebastopol, and from Bakshiserai to Balaklava. The body of the left wing is at Karani; the outposts at Khutor. The allies’ siege artillery, with 60,000 gabeons fascines and piles, have been disembark- ed, and have mostly reached the camp. Menschikoff has 100 field guns with his army. On the 4th s cannonado took place between some English steamers and the Qua- rantine fort at Odessa; nothing resulted. Russia continues to amass troops upon the Austrian frontier, but has scarcely a regimont on the Prussian. The inference is plain. The Crar at length distrusts Austria, and hasan arrangement with Prussia. Con- firmatory of this supposition, rumor at Vienna says that a secret treaty actually docs exist between Russia and Prussia with reapcct to the Turkish war, in which treaty Russia strictly lays down the limits within which Prus- ia mary make a shgm qlliauce with the German Powers, Ser ce Pateentsa | Tn the crowd of 60 called ‘despatches’ the following ‘are the only ones that indicate any progress in the ope- rations:— Vinvxa, Oct. 16—Evoning. Lord Raglan has written to Omer Pacha that the ! regular siege of Sebastopol would begin on the Sth inst., and, he thought, the fortress would be taken in ten | days. “4 Vimvxa, Oct. 17, 1854. It is reported from Constantinople, 5th inst., that the | Russians, 20,000 strong, under Menschikoff, have been | again beaten, and that the southern heights (of Sebas- topol) are taken. The surrender of the city is looked for between the 13th and 16th instant. Against these set the following, received from Berlin: | Sr. Pargrspung, Oct. 15, 1854. Nothing of importance had been undertaken against Sebastopol to 9th of October, being last advices. The Russians seem fully determined to defend the €ri- mea, even should Sebastopol fall. Asa proof of the im- portance attached to the defence, it is currently given out in Russia that the Grand Duke Constantine will himself take command of the Southern army. The question is discussed with much earnestness as to the possibility of reinforcements reaching Menschikoff, so as to enable him | * to assume the offensive in the field against the allies, and compel them to raise the siege. The Russians have al- ready 30,000 men entrenched at Bakshiserai as a nucleus for the expected reinforcements, and the army of the Crimea will be, by the middle of October, in a position to operate with 60,000 men in the field, in aid of the be- aieged garrison, which nnmbers 30,000—the total Rus- sian force thus being 90,000 men, | To meet this force the allies have, at the present mo- went, at sea, and on shore, an equal number—that is to say, 90,000 men, and they are continually bringing up reinforcements, having, of course, the free com- mand of the sea. Eight thousand additional Turks are under orders to embark from Varna, and tho Egyptian extra contingent of 7,000 will proceed direct from Alex- andria to the Crimea, The Russians will thus be out- numbered, and as the allies have siege artillery, (for which 800,008 shot and shell are already landed,) and all arms of warfare, there is every se ity that Sebasto- be will fall, and perhaps speedily. But it by no means follows that its fall will end the war. Turkey is well bee exhausted of recruits; France, it is true, hai 150,000 men to spare: England has not a single regiment, unless she brings forward her Sepoya from India. Rus: sia, on the contrary, has immense reserves, and may protract the war indefinitely. RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS OF La CAMPAIGN. The Emperor of Russia the keenest pangs of unsuccessful war, for, although his army has been defeated, his fortress invested, and a great portion of his fleet destroyed, the St. Petersburg Journal peau Bola berate ong g fae com- placeney to record the gratifying progress of the cam- paign, and to prepare the nation for the eventful tri- umph of the im arms. Such is the boldness of the Russian Generals in telling lies—such is the ability of the Russian government in suppressing truth, that the most calamitous and humiliating events of the war as- | sume a cheerful and encouraging aspect in their hands; for, pees Prince Menschikofl has not yet done much towards gaining a victory, no man appears to be more competent to embellish a dreary tale of blunders and de- feat. The de itch of this commander to his imperial Majesty of 30th ult., which has beenofeialy published | im the Journal of St. Petersburg, surpasses all the pre- vious achievements of this kind which we have met with. All mention of the battle of the Alma and the march on Balaklava is suppressed, but the Russian General informs his sover that having executed his flank movement on Bakehiseral (which he appears in reality notto have made | atall) he wi meaty ssume the offensive, and that the | allies had divided their forces, the lish having betaken | themselves to Balaklava by sea, while the French ap- | rroached the north of Sebastopol, until Prince Menschi- Roa made s movement in advance’ when they abandoned | that position, declined the combat, and at last effected a | i m with their allies on the south. We may safely | Teave our gallant allies to take a suitable notice of the assertion that a French army declined to meet on any | terms whatever that Russian corps which had been de- | fented a week before in the strong position on the Alma; | but it belongs to us to repel with equal indignation the notorious and extravagant falschood that the English | division betook itself to Balaklava by sea. It isa part of the ridiculous inventions practised by the Russian government on the credulity of its subjects to represent the Englishman as a sort of amphibious animal, ex- tremely formidable on the ocean, but helpless out of salt water. Hence all the advantages of the war in which our forces have borne any part are ascribed to our ships. The defeat on the Alma is attributed to the fire of the steamers, although their shells only reached the ravine where a portion of the Russian reserve was placed at the deginning of the action; and again, the movement on Balaklava is described aa a maritimo operation. This astonishing and deliberate misstatement, published in | the official journal, on the authority of a minister of the | Crown anda high dignitary of the empire in command | of.the Russian Tonoes at the seat of war, is of course in- | tended to conceal, at least from the public, the disgrace. ful negligence and incapacity which suffered the allied armies to march without ‘a check throngh the whole Russian system of defence. If this be a specimen of Prince Menschikoff's despatches, we fear that until the Czar has the advantage of reading Lord Razlan’s excel- lent reports he will have a most imperfect notion of the cvents of this campaign, We have no wish to lower the character of our antagonists, and, on the contrary, we should infinitely prefer to stand opposed to men who at- tach the same mea: as we do ourselves to the words “truth” and “honor; but, when we see the simplest | and most torious facts thus unblushingly. distorted, | mpelied to believe that the mere perception of veracity is wanting to such a government. Yet in tle very seme journal in which we find this extraordinary | communication we read that one Captain Clebow, a | Russian officer, has been tried by court martial, and de- i ntruth- | fulness’? and improper conduct. Captain Clebow | is the most ill used of mankind, he ought to share with Prince Mehschikoff the penalty’ o ‘Although we have never been nm to Russia or to the Russian army the exaggerated and pre- Ponerating position che claimed in Rarope, tt is certain | that the military occurrences of the last twelve months | and the whole conduct of this war on the part of Russia | hil riking contrast to the energy of her | Yenacity of her troops, from 40 to 60 | Napoleon used to say that the Russian sol- | soldier in Europe who bore himself as well under defeat as after victory, and who was always | ready on the day following the loss of a great battle to | dispute the next inch of ground with undiminished per- The two fiercest and most indecisive battles | | tinacity. ever fought by Nay were incontestably those of Eylau and the Bo lino. Nothing could be more bold and skilful than the vigor with which Benningsen forced | the Great Emperor to quit his quarters in the heart of a Polish winter, in 1807, and to plunge into the snow- | drifts and the gloomy forests which led to the field of | Fylau. Already at Pultusk and at Golymin Lannes and | Dayoust -had learned to their cost that the enemy before them was very different from those Prussian en- thusiasta whom they had routed and annihilated a few | months before at Jena. But the battle of Eylau was the Most formidable cheek that lad yet been given to the | Irresistible military prestige of Napoleon himself. For 25,000 Rnssians wito fell killed and wounded on those icy | 1ains 30,000 French soldiers perished. No trophics were en on either side; even the field of battle was searce. ly held by the French; and for nine days after the act nm Napoleon was unable to move. © Borodino was even more terrible; the armed hosts of all the continen- of Europe were arrayed against Russia under the stand. ard of France, and when they reached the plain before Moscow 125,000 combatants on each side were present under arms. The contest was long, o , and bloody beyond all experience, even in that age of horrible wars. Upwards of thirty generals were killed and wounded on each side. ‘The number of Russians who fell was esti- mated at 15,000 killed and 30,000 wounded; that of the French at 12,000 killed and 38,000 wounded; but of these mutilated survivors by far the greater number perished soon afterwards, either in the fire of Moscow or the hor- rors of the approaching winter, Soneatly was the fate | of the day that Napoleon hesitated to employ Lis reserve, because he knew that it was the last hope of his army, and a battle gained at such a price was the warning of impending defeat. ‘These memorable events, and the fatal reverses they afterwards brought upon the French army, were the or gin of the high military reputation of Russia in our tines. Her generals displayed great strategical sa- gacity in the campaign, and great resources in the ficld, while her troops showed on all occasions an unbroken courage and unflinching endurance. In the Hungarian war of 1849, in the Turkish campaign of the past year,and in the prescnt Crimean operations, no trace of these emi- nent qualities can be discovered; and it is contemptible to ace officers who may have been present in their early youth at the gigantic battles of 1807 and 1612 resorting to palpable deceptions to conceal their blunders and their weakness. rst great error of Prince Mensehi- koff was to allow the expedition to land without resist- ance; again, with his superiority in cavalry and the num- ber of hia field guns, joined to a complete knowledge of the country, a mere reeonnoissance or feint in the night of the 14th of September would have placed the alli armies in extreme il and difficulty. He resolved, however, = So march on the “Alms, od is ju undue reliance on its natural strength, cover the on his no une of on his right, and when the ridge was at whatever to retrieve then al entirely the lines of Bel ind was no ill-informed of the armies that when they advanced tually routed a “nln which might a fe The oi while Prince Menschikoff was boasti to assume the offensive, that the thempelves to the sea, and that the French a Sin eed allied armies had, in fact, taken te of Beadopak Se eeaal: aout io greater series of blanders in one fortn' cam] be compared with the great hae #1 in former times, we are led clusion that her militai strength and a terially declined under ruler. The Turkish army nese tg seen the operations of the allies, and we again hear that Omer Pasha is pre- paring to assume the offensive in Bessarabia. It is sup- po that his a will commence on three pointe—the Prath, the Dobradscha, and the sea. TIC, There can now be AL one that the Baltic fleets will reture home, attempting any further opera- tions. All the smaller steamers have already left, and the whole ef the fect is on its way to | fanaticism their national feel , Peter the Great capitulated on the banks of the | Buch are the mil eteam squadrom, was among the the Gulf of Bothnia, A squetzon, son, was cruising off the sie, te tae Blast look of the Russian ships gone zs Alma. He lost his arm in the I while looki it the it light infantry, na cla im‘ 7 " ae | Camp, Balaklava, Sept, 28, 1864, states:—Poor Menschi- koff, who horses, the former bel magnificent hussar uniforms, and also portmanteaus of left behind him his carriage and yaluable articles, These were quickly ransacked. Watches and arms, and fine clot! of every kind were found, which soon exch: ensors in the yu of small portion, though I deemed myself lucky in aes U vn to my especial & very compact and use- ful iteau, manuf from the most esteemed Russia leather. the various articles found was a pair of white satin slippers, which made us suspect that the gallant chief was most agreeably attended in campaign sojourning. Poland. PROPOSED RE-ESTAB! OF THE KINGDOM. There are various indications, little in themselves, but amounting to something in the aggregate, that the Courts of France.and bo mer have under coi sideration the practicability of re-estal of poll ral believed, is favorite yootect icy, it is believed, is a fa project of IIL, who hopes thereby to cripple Russia’s Nomen ee the’ German Powers, and as the influence of Russia di- minishes, to build up that of France in its room. ‘A pamphlet which has just appeared in Paris, entitled ‘‘A Letter to the Emperor on the Eastern Question,” and which is oe oy having been ins; by govern- ment suggestion, argues the case with some ability. Paris correspondents give long extracts from the pampli, let. The following may suffice as a 8} n:— ‘The author asks, of what use is all this success in war? He asks if it has weakened the power of Russia and brought down her pretensions. He boldly answers, no; for as long as Poland remains in its present ition the victories of the «Powers ‘be fruitless. The Russian fleet in the Black Sea, he continues, will be annihilated. ‘That of the Baltic will patient; | await its turn. All that is undeniable. But when all those great things shall be done what will take place af- ferwards? Do you believe, sire, that the Czar, that the autocrat of all the Russias, will be more disposed to treat after these disasters than before? What to him are some ports the less, or some ships of war burnt? That is not the question for him. He will easily console him- self for their loss, for he knows that all he loses in ex- tension he will gain in cohesion; and that the less he has of coast to guard the stronger he will be ona given point. You may take his weak positions from him; it is of little importance, he will only be more free and more at hisease. Ifyou'mean to break bis cuirass you must strike strongly, and itis in Poland only that you will succeed in breaking it. We may be asked if the humilia- tion and the discouragement caused by such disasters will not have some influence on the resolutions of the Czar? Let not your Majesty believe it. With the Rus- sian people.disasters will only awaken and rouse to nd this, far from weakening him, will only give new force to the Emperor Nicholas. The Russian people are believers in official bulletins, andonly know as much of the truth as he thinks proper to impart to them. Submissive and fanat- ical, they may be easily made use of as the instruments of his ambition. With respect to the Czar himself, why should he be humbled and discouraged? He knows the history of his country, and he knows it is after repeated disasters that Russia arrived at its present Laem ith. after successive reverses that Catherine arrived at conquest of the Crimea. All the cam against Turkey have been marked by defeats and humi- liations; and yet the influence of Russia grew greater each time. In Poland it was after many battles fought and lost that she became mistress of the country. Her wars with France have been an uninterrupted series of reverses and of bloody defeats; and what has been the result? It is suj uous to mention it to bean Majesty. tary annals of Russia. What, then, can another humiliation do to the Czar? Towards the close of the letter, the writer says:— ‘To believe that the Emperor Nicholas will give up with a stroke of the pen the advantages gained after » centu- ry of intrigues and efforts—that he willof his own ac- cord renounce pretensions which have assumed the con- dition of rights legally acquired and exercised—that he will consent to lose an influence which is equivalont to an absolute dominion, and to see a prestige which was taken for grandeur completely vauish—to flatter our- selvor, in a word, that the Autocrat will quietly endure all the racrifices which may be imposed on him becauge the Crimea is occupied and a fleet burnt—bgcause Aus- tria is pleased to occupy the Principalities—is to utter! misunderstand the nature and character of the stri in which we are engaged. It will require many other reverses to force the Emperor Nicholas to renounce all his previous ideas, and to become, as it were, an apostate to the traditional policy of Russia. The power of the Czar, how great soever it be, has limits which cannot be passed with impunity. The Russian party, of which so much has been said, is nothing else than the national will which reveals itself, and this will is too prou|, too ambitious, to yield to an intimidation, the eficet of which is’ scarcely felt by it. They are in error who judge of Russia according to an European stan- ard, It is believed that by paralyzing her external commerce—by annihilating her credit in all the market of Europe—that she will be reduced to extremity, that she will be driven to bankruptcy, and that the Czar wil have no money to continue the war. That is alla mis take. Those who are acquainted with her resources will tell you, Sire, that Russia, even when driven within her frontier, and’ attacked on her own territory, will have for twenty years to come sufficient men and sufficient means to resist, and to await more favorable ciccum- stances. The conclusion of the letter is to this effect Let the Western Powers, without losing time with use- less negotiations, recognize, by a common declaration, the legitimate existence of h nationality, and in place of a compilation you will have found a promptand complete solution. Poland once constituted, the Czar is powerless against Turkey, the Danube belongs de facto to Austria, exclusive domination in the Black Sea becomes a chimera, and every dream of ambition is at an end. 8 \° REPORTED ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY TO FRANCE— ARREST OF 4 CARLIST GENERAL—BESTING PLACE OF MARIA CHRISTINA—THE MADRID ELECTIONS— ‘A UNITED STATES CONSUL ACKNOWLEDGED. ‘The Paris correspondent of the London News, writing on October 14, says:—The Ii mentions a re- port that in consequence of the repeated disturbances on the Spanish frontier, the little republic of Andorre is to be partitioned, one half being annexed to Spain, and the other to the French department of the Arigge. "I think this news very unlikely to be true. The nominal inde- dendence of the pastoral inhabitants of the Valley of An dorre was respected even by Napoleon I. A very strong Tt wi case of public must be made out before cither the Fernth'ar spantch geccrwmcnts would 1S to. agent the responsibility of an act which would look like an arbi- tramp ass Of might over right. Traditions widely spread by certain popular operas and melo-dramas would enlist a great amount of public sympathy on behalf of the Andorre rend against any violent interference with their vested right to cae ee Switzerland would tremble at the nt. On the Sth the police of Perpignan, on re) tations made aby the Spanish authorities, arrested the Carlist General Gonsaus, alias Marsale, with his secretary, at the moment when they were about to enter Spain to take part in the insurrection. It is confirmed that Queen Christina will come to Mal- maison for the winter, but she will stay yet some time at Bayneres de Bigorre. The French government has declined to comply with the request of the cabinet of Madrid, to prohibit her Majesty from residing within bap one es of the Spanish frontier. }, of Madrid, states that it had been ascer- tained that in the election at Madrid, General San Mi- «1, M. Olea, M. Perales, M. Rodriguez, M. Lorente, M. wa, M. Fuentes, M. Sevillano, and M. Gurrea, had ob- tained absolute majorities, and that M. Agulo and M. Mollinedo were a few short of the required number. But it was considered likely that the votes of the suburbs would modify the returns of the capital. In the different Ministerial departments the budget of 1855 was being drawn up. The Queen had granted a royal ezequatur to Mr. Stone, Consul of the United States at Malaga. ‘The elections are going off quietly. All the ministers are named deputies. China. PROGRESS OF THE INSUARECTION—THE JAPAN EXPDI- TION—EXPEDITION AGAINST SITKA. Letters from Hong Kong of August 22, state that pol tical affairs at Canton remained in the same critical state, and dicaffection was spréading. The insurgents were in great force in the surrounding gga 4 and three at- tempts were made to take the eity, which, however, fail- ed. Honam, opposite Canton, was threatened, and the people are quietly maturing for an open revolt against the Mandarina’ authority. At Whampoa contributions were Hil levied. The river between that place and Canton continued to be invested with pirates, and trade could only be carried on under convoy of armed ers. The approaches to Whamj both Tand and water, were in possession of the insurgents. transit of tens had been stopped by the heavy ¢: demanded; and inquiry for goods ee! ceased, the business at Canton had been limited to shi off the teas that were on the market. An attempt ‘been made to ef fect a compromise with the insurgents, but unsuccess- village of Coulon, on the opposite side of Hon; Kong bay, was taken possession of on the ni tof the 18th August, LTA 4 of pirates. The neighborhood is ecupled by nditti. ‘Sir J the British Commissionor, had visit- ed Foochow, and an interview with the ‘Viceroy, and with the Chinese authorities at Amoy. Fighting’ was ing on between the two parties at Shanghae, but the weeanes ot eg a little d oo the recapture city. ua, te uta, hod ordered to Pel answet ry been kin, to answer some cha: of the Bommissiones Mclean hed anrteed Shanghae at im arri rom at Hong would return Tau had been appointed in his place. . It was understood that he with Sir John Bor ring ‘and would attempt ne C ette, dated June 28, contains nothi ‘was quict at Ningpo to fuguct tivity wae e going in the ahi stroyed 1,000 houses. On the 18th, all and a fair trade There was no full of boxes, containing most | our men. The officera came in but for a his ofa public subecription’? ‘8 public aul committee The escorts f down, Bnd 2 foe the week had brought 33,337 that E i formerly. | ly dear, and £15 had been ‘bag of flour. : | _ Gold remained at £4 per ounce, and stock, was do- eae of the principal banks purchas- at the 58. "Ecchangess-Benks draw on England at & per cont, discount, and negotiated drafts against produce or gold at three per cent. discount; local billa at 7 cent. for 95 days, and 8 per cent. for longer dates. bad of sa age on overdrawn accounts, at all banks cent. A was little change in the labor m: beyond the fact that the continued influx of emigrants had kept up a good supply of male and female servants. Wages had experienced a slight decline. Metpovrns, July 31.—Gold still remains, at £4 per cunce, and a decreasing quantity offering, in yng being purchased ai he banks. 12,000 ounces were received by our principal ‘ank alone last Monday. The quantity which has passed through the hands of the brokers has therefore been very xmall. The banks Imve reduced the price of gold t Ballarat to 81s. per ounce. she spect of gl 4 @s compared ‘rought by private hand is largely on tho increase; easily vf luced from the amount shipped with the escorts, the former having been 10,000 ounces per week more than the latter for the ix weeks; this plainly shows the efficiency of the ice protection on the roads, andthe little reliance to as the total laced on the amounts recefved by escorts pield of our soreral & cai. saat ales ee Do. who have left ... Imcrease this Week......sccsesseeveesecsenseee Receipts per Bioort. Total quantity.......ssssesesseceesersrsees B2jOR0 Lt | The above return includes all gold deposited for escort up to the 25th inst.:— Os. Total decrease on escorts to Melbourne. Increase on escorts to Geelong, Do. on total Balarat escorts.. 1,960 Ounces. dis. gr. Gold shipped to commencement of woek 1,213,203 13 4 Shipped per Guiding Star., 49,806 3 8 Do. per Norma, P. and 0. 14,999 14 6 Total shipped to close of week . 1,278,099 1018 ‘The Recent Commercial Failares. ‘The recent commercial failures at Liverpool continued to occupy attention, the more so that they have had dis- astrous effects in Ireland, (see succeeding paragraphs.) Conflicting statements were ci nt with respect to the Probable result. Our Liverpool correspondent is enabled to state—and doubtless reliably—that a trust deed is being prepared, and is now nearly completed, in the af- fairs of Mr. Edward Oliver, and will likely enable all debts to be paid in full, with o large surplus remaining for Mr. Oliver. Mr. James McHenry’s affairs are tosome extent involved with Mr. Oliver’s, but a good result is anticipated—much better than the public were led to be- lieve by the London 7imes, The following appears in the London Zimes of 11th, with reference to its remarks of tho 14th inst.:— On Saturday a notice was on the Liverpool Ex- hea os by the trustees of the estate of Mr. Edward Olf- ver, 6 effect that the statements lately io The Times regarding his mn were incorrect, their a was the cause of much uniutentional harm. e sole objects of The Times have been—first, to supply the commercial public with that information which was necessary from day to day in relation to an estate of such magnitude as to involve assets Cg to amount to £1,000,000; and, next, to counsel all might be interested not to’allow either themselves or Mr. Oliver to be damaged through any hasty ccedi under @ feeling of panic, at a time wi there is ground to hoy that an easier money mar- ket is approaching. constant reference to. the matter so long as there is anything to communicate with regard to it isa duty which cannot be departed from, ‘and the only thing that can be done to lessen the an- noyance and embarrassment to individuals which all painful circumstances of this kind must create, iy to use Strate against s hopeless view boing. taken ‘uni every strate a; & hopel lew bei until e effort has proved useless. This course has been purat throughout, and, notwithstanding the allegation of the trustees, no inaccuracies have been inserted. The.first reference to the matter was on the 5th inst., when it was stated that, although the bills of Mr. Oliver had been re- turned, it was hoped his assets would yield a surplus of £300,060, and that, if this shotild be the case, ample as- sistance would 5] ily be aflorded him—an event much.to be desired since his suspension, if permanent, would bring down others. It was next mentioned that five inspectors had been appointed, and that, although many contradic- tor reposts were in circulation, there was an it belief that the required advance would be obiained. f- ter this it was announced that an arrangement was un- derstood to have been planned by which Mr. Oliver was to surrender a certain number of his vessels, and tobe relieved of £400,000 of liability. Subsequently, hor doubts were expressed as to whether this could carried out, and fi it was mentioned that the affairs of Mr. McHenry, with whom Mr. Oliver had been connected, had been found to nt a most unfavorable , that they been brought and that in case some relatives, the expectations ously entertained of a good arrangement seemed to abandoned. The whole of these announcements cop- tained, it is believed, in all yermaeie poke nothing bat literal truth. Those among them which referred to fa- vorable anticipations, came from sources sup] have the authority either of Mr. Oliver or his and, place having been given to them, it was that equal publicity should be afforded to all that subse- juently tended to a less favorable termination. It is true that the trustees even now confidence in about an arrat ent by which the assets of Mr. may be realized in the best possible manner, and the saeri- fices which would attend any other process may be aveid- ed; but this, although doubtless a good arrangement, 20 far as every arrangement is good w! is the under is not in accordance wit the circumstances, when a surplus of £800,000, ‘waa having claims for them back at cost price, . Af, after having Frontioned if abandoned, there would have been the si for Low pe meee The i of Mr. Ouvesaretlpes poa- sessed much commercial int to den: reflection the truth of this. They wise underetand tana that the recapitulation now given does not from a desire to question the spirit of the they have F seed issued, but is intended sim; to show them that that notice is erroneous. For ex- ertions to tor mitigate the evil that would arise eg an abrupt Iceni saisatLn affairs os ~. Oliver e mercantile public, not o verpool, but through- out the country, are indebted to them, and, whatever may be their degree of success, The Times can have no *eSVith regard to the ‘Ghancery preceding Tastttatad it fo Mr. W. Gardner, who is stated Wee rditire or fai connexion of Mr. Liverpool Albion:— W Henry, the following is from the ‘To-day an advertisement in the Liverpool in which it appears that Mesors. W. Gardner'& Co commenced 8 suit in Chancery against Hebe Nnaat te 15000057 and. iis Sloped er & Co. that they received no in, : injunction wa Gly vena of third. |. Several th , have gone into circulation, but those in the bane trustees will be givon up; the others cannot be fells . have been drawn as follows:—Six bills IF. ‘Theee bil Oliver, in Jul; gust, amo: 000K.. wide re Haaren een Rie ttmounting to 15,0008., a ill aed the 6th : , of Cincinnati, in August, nd 10, James Melfonty, dth of Septamber, AS0UNE and Ne ing 8 name to some oxtont for financial h other financtering opcrations that of the woek in re to one THE FAILURES IN