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fing. The sympathies of the people are agaiust Rassian Gnfuence, consequently go with Austria the more the declares herself; and matters have come to t Russian troops are actually concentrating on the Austrian frontier with a view to hostilities. As to Berlin itself, public opinion openly manifests itself, and despite the censorship, the Berlin journals speak thelr mind pretty plainly. For instance, the National Gazette, Of Berlin, has the following — Austria has, in presence of the great Powers, recog: | nized the right for the troops of the Sultan of an occu- f the Prine and it has been Beciaea Tait the ccoupation of the Danubian provinces by military cecupation of Turkey and of hor allies. Aus- feria thus appears at length to wish to assume her posi- tion, and to familiarise herself more and more with the eventualities of war, which for her become more near ‘and threatening, and which, precisely by the fall of Se- Dastopol, cannot be much longer retarded, Prussa, from the same cause, cannot much longer hesitate; her posi- tion as a great European and German Power is at stake. The emyire wall belong to him who shall grasp the banner of Germany with a firm hand in the hour of danger. By anterior acts, Prussia has admitted on which side the right Les in the present great question, and that is why she cannot withdraw herself from adding in giving vie~ tory to right. In protecting the right of Europe she equally supports her own immediate interests, as well as those of Germany. I could quote many other examples, ff necessary In an audience given by the Emperor of Austria to the | French Ambassador, the Emperor said that his resolu- tionson the Eastern question would not be influenced by the results of the expedition to the Crimea, whatever they might be, but by a sense of what was due to Ger- man interests. They were, he said, fixed resolutions, | and he gave his word of honor that he would maintain | them. ‘The Saxon Gazette of Dresilen, which has hitherto been in favor of Prussia, published the following article on the 14th, which caused some surprise :— Austria cannot withdraw her army in presence of that of Russia; she must, if the Russians recross the Pruth, drive them back by force. The honor and interest of Gi any require it; it is for the Russians to defend them. dves against the attacks of the allies which may be made from Moldavia. Austria would not see such an attack with pleasure, bigit the allies persist she cannot prevent it. If Russia, M opposition to the promises made to the Western Powers, should again endeayor to | occupy the Danubian principalities, or to attempt the Passage of the Balkan, the conventions of the 20th of April and the adilitional article would possess all their force for Germany. ‘The Russians have not taken the offensive in the Cri- ‘mace since the battle of the Alma. London is as duil as it possibly can be. In my last I ‘mentioned Cruvelli’s flight from Paris. It seems now ‘that the fair cantatrice left on account of une affaire de caur. A very young man, one Baron de Vougeat, heir ‘or possessor of a lange fortune, is the happy individual. Tho flame is said to be mutual and intense, and the marriage ceremony was to be forthwith celebrated in Brussels. This is the version given. The Opera claims 100,000 francs damages, Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, October 19, 1854. The Diplomatic Conference at Ostend, Again—The Fu- neral of Marshal de Saint Arnaud—Luther, Mahomet and the Pope Shake Hands—Will the Eastern War Gonvert English Protestants into French Catholics, and doth.tinto Turkish Mahomedans ?—Missionary Pro- gras of Islamism and the Arabic Language in Africa— Mrs. Stowe, Dr. Channing and Ethiopia—Lamartine ‘Shows Mahomet no Impostor, and Tamerlane a Holy Warrior—Fetes of St. Theodosia and St. Denis—Anni- versary of the Death of Marie Antoinette—The Franks not all Moslems—Piety of the French Imperial Fumily —Will France have an American Protestant Emperor ? —Yankee Mussulmans—Educational, Literary, Scien- tifle, Pisciculurist, Arborcultural, Vinous, Indus- trial, Commercial, Imperial, Sporting, Operatic, The- atrical, Political, and Sebastopol Items. The first comments of the British press on the Ameri- can diplomatic conference at Ostend are such as might have been anticipated. Two instances will suffice to show their nature and tendency. The Spectator says :— “While the relations of the great European Powers ara growing more complicated, another Power for the frst time appears upon the field, though still in a modest at- titude;” but it adds—‘“The simple event {is pregnant with meaning for the future.””. The Examiner thinks that ‘df the diplomatic travellers had known that the oyaters of Ostend are, after all, natives of England, the agrecable little Belgian watering place might have lost the chance of taking its place in history alongside of Verona, Tueplitz, and other famous seats of frustrated hopes and discomafited plans.” The Examiner may rest sssured that the discussions at Ostend were not con- fined to oysters and Chablis. But how far beyond they extended it may not have to wait so long to know, as it would fain counsel its republican friends to wait for certain events. If it is really of opinion that in the course of events, now inscrutable, no doubt Cuba may be transferred to the United States, and in such a man- ner that Europe could offer no objection, why is it fh such haste “‘to shake tho bells,” as Shakespeare says. It pulls @very rope, from raillery to downright abuse, and even bullying threats,and recklessly dings such hardand heavy ‘words as robbery and theft, as if utterly forgetful of the wise old proverb that warns folks who live in glass houses not to throw stones. It rings all the changes, which we may expect to hear repeated often enough Ddefore they shall be effectually and forever silenced. ‘The Paris journals for Tuesday contained full accounts of the imposing funeral of Marshal de Saint Arnaud on ‘the 16th inst. The gloomy weather had harmonized ‘with the solemn pomp of the ceremony. It was re- Maarked that the Ottoman Embassy was the only one Tepresented in the procession which accompanied the Corpse from the Lyons railway station to the church of the Hotel des Invalides, where, however, nearly all.the Members of the diplomatic corps were present. As the eye, glancing from she catafalque on which the corpse reposed to the large silver cross and immense black veil Suspended behind the altar, was attracted from tho Diack hangings embroidered with silver, that darkened the church, by the variety of elegant mourning toilettes in the galleries, and of splendid military and official and ecclesiastical costumes that filled the rest of the build- ing, it could not help singling out three prominent per- sonages—the English Ambassador, the Turkish Am- Daseador, and the Archbishop of Paris, who offi- ciated in company with the canons of the cathe- dral of St. Denis; for it saw in these threo figures how strangely the union of France, England and ‘Turkey in the Eastern war, has brought together the fol- lowers of the Pope, of Luther, and of Mahomet. Ultra- ‘Montanist journals may be scandalized at the levity with | which, as they complain, the Siecle has commented upon this extraordinary result of the Triple alliance, but it is & fact, nevertheless. Its influence in mollifying exter- Bally the religious differences of the three nations, is al- ready apparent. At the burial of Marshal de Saint Aanaud, says one of his eulogista, the flags of France and of England, for the first time in history, have covered the same coffin; and ‘Mussulman cannon have resounded in sign of grief at the faneral of s Christian general. You should know, by- Yhe-by, that the late Marshal, several months before his | fleath, when he had abandoned all hopes of recovery to health, sent for» priest in the town where he happened to be lying sick, and devoutly confessed to him, and ‘what is more singular still, kept his new religious vows quite consistently after he had escaped for a time from imminent danger. He has consequently been all but canonized by that pious journal, the Univers. Indeed, after reading its culogies of this Christian soldier— soldat Chretien, as he is atyled—one might almost expect that the statue which, it is said, will be erected to his memory in the Musoum at Versailles, will bear a crosior instead of a sword. Setiously, it is not improbable that Marshal de Saint Arnaud, after his conversion, like Sau, after his, ‘‘went into” religious practices with his cha- acteristic impetuosity; but the attempt to make him out 3 saint is ridiculous. What he does command respect for, was the prodigious force of will which nerved him to #ustain, during the last and noblest hours of his che- quered life, a struggle with an inward mortal disease—a more terrible foe than any he encountered in battle. ‘The Sultan, Abdul-Modjid, in spite of ancient Mahome- ‘tan usages, offered his palace of Therapia to Mmes. de Seint Arnaud, T’Allonville and Yusuf. A cross was pub- Moly planted on the Sd of October, in the French ceme- tory st Constantinople, and no protest has been made against an act unexampled since four centuries. Would At not seem that the old prejudices of Moslems against Giaours, are beginning to be extinguished? On the other hand, the Franks on both sides of the channel are beginning to overflow with charity for the nomics of their crusading ancestors. A London journal protests against the misconception which mixes up and confounds together the sacred book of Mahomet, and the feligious bodies which exist in Turkey, in spite of, and in Opposition to, the Koran. Certainly, it exclaims, a doc” rine which has been summed up by 9 famous writer of She present day, as one of “resignation to God, and @harity towards man,” cannot be regarded as hostile to ctvilization and progress, A Paris journal extends ite charity for Islamism to the Arabs, as well as che Turks, It reviews very favorably that singu- Z. 5 for the desert and the race of the z neat ane the Count d'Kecayrac de Santare published i... your under the title of Le Devert tle Soudan, 1 the Austrian troops is not to be an obstacle to the | refers to the Journal Asiatige for January, 1853, in which M. Cherbonnau revealed the literary hsitery of Timbuetoo, It gives, on the authority of the missiona- ry Krapf, a glowing account of the progress of Islamism and the Arabic language in th tern part of Africa. Its gecount of the inereasing act y of the Mussulman propagandism among the blacks of Senegal, might well excite the emulation of the propaganda at Rong, or the missionary societies in England and America. But it would shock Mrs. Beecher Stowe, who has adopted in its most extravagant form the which I once heard the late Pr. Channing ucntly develope, that humanity would not atta'n its ultimate perfection until the superior emotional nature of the negro and the su- perior intellect of the white man should like come un- der the sway of Gospel influence—antil ‘+ Ethiopia should stretch out her hand to Ged! It would shock Mrs, | Stowe, for it says that elthongh physical causes con- demn Africa forever to oceupy but a secondary rank in the hirtory of civilization, it will be owing to Islam- | ism and the Arabs that the black races of Soudan have | been raised as much, perhaps as was possible, above their incurable materialism. ‘The poct Lamartine, in his History of Turkey, the two first volumes of which have just appeared, is also smitten with admiration for Islamism. Inspired with enthusiasm by those two colossal figures in its history— Mahomet and Tamerlane—he not only tasks his ingenul- ty to the utmost to prove thatthe prophet was not an | impostor, but he even invests with the sanctity of a reli- gious apostle that monster, Tamerlane, who ravaged India, destroying whole ni ns on his route, and build. | ing Pyramids of Per ; who, after a life filed | with prodigies of cruelty, died yuietly in his bed, and | | after his death, and after the emecrations of centurier | has been lucky enough to have M. Lamartino plead e: tenuating circumstances in his favor! Alexander had | no motive but to dazzle posterity, Cesar none but em- | | pire, Gengis none butspace, Napoleon none bi ‘emerlane, like Charlemagne, had religion bealt the Charlemagne of the Tartars, nothing was wanting for him but time!” Are you surprised, after this, at martine’s portrait of Robespierre, or at his paintin; soft rose-color some of the bloodiest scenes in the frst French revolution ¥ The Franks, however, are not all turning Moslems The Protestant Bishop of London, you remember, indi nantly protested against the trade in Circassian girls | which was said to be carried on so actively with Turkey under the protection of her Christian allies, England and France. the members of the French imperial family continue as devout Catholics aa ever, especially since the Countess of Théba brought into it; from ia more rigid habits of piety than prevailed at the em bryo cou® of tho Prince President. Ina shop window on the Boulevard Poisonniere, and amidst a profusion of splendid bronzes, both sacred and profane, kneels a white statue of the Finpress Eugenio, whom the sculptor, Mme. Lefebvre Deumicr, wife of the Emperor's private secretary, lias significantly placed in the attitude of prayer. |The example of the Empress haa infected even her Imperial Highness the Princess Mathilde, who last Sunday, aceempanied by the Indies of her household, and by General Bougend, her knight of honor, aasisted | in the Imperial Easilic of St. Denis, at the solomn féte | of the patron saint of Paris. What great lady was it who replied to a cardinal’s recital of acertain Jong and legendary walk that St. Denis once took out of Pai with hia head under his arm, that she could easily lieve the story, for ce n'est que le premier pas qui conte?”” (‘It is only the first atep that is difficult”) "She lived, at any rate, in an age less credulous than this of wink: ing Madonnas and turning tables and rapping spirits, Last Thursday the Emperor and Empress of the French assisted at the inauguration in the Cathedral of Amiens of a new chapel to be devoted to the relica of St. Theo- dosia, which were restored last year to her native place from the Catacombs of Rome. You should have heard, on the anniversary of this occasion, Monsignor Zacconi, the Pope’s Nuncio, sing high mass, and my Lord Gillies, Archbishop Vicar Apostolic of Edinburg, read the than- dering inscription on the wall of Belshazzar’s Palaco— “Mono, Tekel, Peres’—“which announces to-day,” he | said, “the humiliation of the Colossus of the North and of his despotic schism.”” You should have heard, also, | the same prelate pray that the standards of England | and France, united for the first time since the Crusades, might henceforth float no longer over temples of differ- | ent religion 1s English Protestants are invited by | thie war in the Fast to become French Catholics. If French Catholics have not all turned Mussulmans, | neither have all legitimists turned imperialists. This was shown by the kneeling crowd that filled the chapelle expiatoire onthe 16th instant, tho anniversary of one | of the most fatal days of the revolution, and prayed for the repose of the soul of Marie Antoinette. But does not tho tri-color which waves over the chapel seem sin- gulntly inappropriate?) Paris, however, abounds in such contradictions. What anachronism can be gore striking than the title of the AssemBlec Nationale, that Journal of the fusionista, which has survived tho dis- rsion of the National Assembly? This journal, by Ihe by, copies from tho Bulletin des Lois the decree re- instating M. Jorome Bonaparte, the son of the ex-King of Westphalia and of Madame Bonaparte (Mrs. Patter- son), of Baltimore, in his rights as a Frenchman. He is the father of the young graduate of West Point, who has lately joined thé army in the East, after having ex- changed jis commission in the United States army for pair of French epaulettes, and his title of American citi zen for that of Prince. I’ have heard it said that th Cherbourg from the Baltic :—Breslau, | naud’s flag ship, this week to defend the ‘fallen star’? from the suspi- cions that have eclipsed her popularity. He says none of the conjectures as to the cause of her abrupt depar- ture are correct. It was neither # freak of caprice on the part of a spoiled child of the opera, nor offended vanity beeanse her name was not to be put in capital letters on the play bifl—nor a tempting engagement at St. Petersburg, or at New York, that enatches her from the scenes of her triumphs. But if we are to believe Flo- rentino, who half raises the curtain to give us a glimpse of a splendid marriage in the perspective, the impres- sionsble, nervous temperament of the prima donna wenry of the stage, and bud dreamed of repose tranquil dcmestic bliss. an one of her sisters enjoys chateau on the banks of the Rhine. En attendant ing has yet Leen heard of Cruvelli, exeept that her ing’s ride will cost Ler, probably, at least a hundre thousand frapes. Rachel is reeoneiled with the Theatre Francaise, and will portpone her departure to New York until next June. Farbes, whose letter prot st his involuntury relense from prison you have seen, is in Prussela, The news from theelections in Spain is deci- dedly favorahie to the progreasista party, e cannons at the Invalides have not yet announced the fall of Se- Dastopol. FIGARO. Victor Hugo to George N. Sai inders, | UPON RECEIVING THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW FoR 1852, Manne Texnace, Isle of Jersey, Oct. 9, 1854. Sm, ano Nonte co-Crizen oF mie Universat Reevn- Luc:—I receive at this moment your handsome gift; I do not delay a minute to thank you for it. I profit by the Kindness of my co-proscribed and fellow-citizen *##*¢*, who is leaving for London, to send you this packet. I | have already perused some pages of the excellent work you have done me the honor to send me, I was particu- larly struck with the article on Napoleon le Petit. Permit me to offer you the work under this envelope, together with les Chatiments, and some words of Exile. Tam happy to teli_ you how profoundly I sympathise with the noble and high sentiments expressed in your admirable letter to the Swiss government. Let America | have wany Americans, and the republic many republi- | cana like you, and the ware saved. Isend you, with the éxpresaion of uy lively gratitude, the most cordial clasp of the hand. VICTOR HUGO. THE WAB IN EUROPE. Reports as to the fall of Sebastopol have been again cireulated simultancously in Vienna, Paris and London, and large stock operations were said to have beon male on the faith of theso statements, but the public were slow to believe. . For the sake of comparing these rumors with the facts when they shall transpire, we may men- tion that the reports say the quarantine fort was thken on the 11th and the rest of the dofences were speeilily carried by storm. Government employés, however, who may be supposed to be wiser than common men, say that serious intelligence must not be looked for before the be- ginning of November. The latest official despatch is of date no later than October 3, and is from General Canrobert to the French Minister of War. No fresh military operation had been effected since the taking possession of Balaklava. The two armies (French and English) were established in an excellent military position, the English drawing its materiel and provisions from Balaklava, and the French from two small bays to the north of Cape Chersonesus. This position of the two armies had naturally determined their mode of distribution on the ground before Sebasto- pol. The French will have the left of the attack, from the sea to the southern fort, and the English will take the right, from the southern fort to the ruins of Inker- mann. The French army is divided into two corps—the first, under General Forey, and composed of the third and fourth divisions, will make the siege: the second, under the command of General Bosquet, and comprising the first and second divisions, will form the corps of observation. The Turkish division will be placed in re- serve, according to circumstances. Similar arrange- ments have been made by the English; one portion of their force will assist in the attacks against the place, and the other part, forming a corps of observation, will be united with the corps of General Bosquet. These arrangements (says General Canrobert) are of a nature to remove all doubt as to the result of the siege. The Soldaten Freund says that Prince Menschikoff left 20,000 men in Sebastopol, and entrusted the command of the army there to General Chomutoff. He left on October Ist for Perekop, where three infantry divisions, three cavalry divisions, and eight Cossack regiments had been concentrated. On the 7th, he (Menschikoff) set out on his return from Perekop with these reinforcements, and it was expected that with tho reinforcements ad- vancing from Cherson the Russian army would, by Octo- der 20, be 76,000 strong. The northern forts of Sebasto- pol, and not Bakshiserai, now form the base of the Rus- sian operations. THE ALLIED BALTIC FLEETS. The following French ships have pieedy arrived at (Admiral Pe- ) Denaworth, St. Louts, Tilt, Andro- fe, Vengeance, Poursuivante, new Prince is a Protestant, which Tthink is a mistake | maque, Semillante, | a tate, Baltimore, the residence of his grandmother, abounding | /¢M0bie. Syrene, Cleepatra, Asmodee, Soufiour, and Paltianares {he residence of his grandmother, abounding | jo.tatch boats Brandon, Fulton, and Dain. The Her- lie, it improbable that in case three or four fortu it moves on the chessboard of fate should place an imperial throne at his disposal, he would offer himsel | ptestant Emperor to France, the eldest daughte | Shurch. Like Henry IV., he might think tha well worth one mass, (‘‘que Paris vaut bien wn esse. But will he turn Mussulman at Constantinople? If he does he will not be the first Mussulman of Aimeriean birth, He will have had at least two prede ceskora, The history .of both is sufficiently queor “hall I repeat it?” One ia, like young Bonaparte. a graduate of West Point, and an ex-officer of the United States army. He bad been studying music and mathe- matics at for some years, when the Garclle de Jee his conversion to Catholicism, so that ke not a few of his fellow graduates, to have logy to his list of studies. ad. sup- he had carried out his project of enterin guards at Rome—when, lo! he turns up ai tantinople, as bearer of despatches from the United States government to our Minister there. I am told that he has since not only received & commission as an officer in the Turkish army, and taken a sonorous Turk- ish name in place of his own, but has also changed his religion and turned Mussulman. However this may have been, I shall not be surprised if George English should find more than one successor among his countrymen. Mr. English, you remember, was the son of & n hi In compliance with his father’s wishes he merc! had gone through a regular course of law studies after | yet duating at Harvard . But, then, his irresisti- | Fie inclination for theologieal studies made hfin devote three or four years to them, when his friends urged him | to write an aiwwer to a work that had just appeared from the pen of Collins, the English deist. Shuttin Aimself up for several inonths, in is brary, Bnglis came out at last a Jew in conviction, with a long beard, ht in New England ; went to Charleston to be circumcised, and afterwards mate a grand tour of | the aynagogues of Europe. Before leaving the United | States he published a statement of reasons for changing his creed, and it was in reply to this statement that the Rev. Edward Everett—then the youthfal, ‘ curly pated, and interesting” pastor of Brattle street ‘church, in Bos- ton—made bis first appearance as an author, with an ingenious “Defence of Christianity.” I should have mentioned above that Mr. English bad preserved from Doyhood an extreme fondness for athletic and martial exercises. He handled the gloves and the fencing sword | as dexterourly aa knotty point in law or in theology. His military propensities prevailed so strongly, at leng’ then a rare that when, in the course of his travels, he found himself , | in Constantinople, he solicited and obtained an officer’ | commission in the Turkish army, became the first Yai kee Mussulman, and rising to hizh rank, a favorite with the Sultan, who sent him, with his new namo and orien- tal costume, as special envoy to Washington, where he died. Ihave been assured that a few hours before his death he again changed his religion and received ex- treme unction at the hands of a Catholic priest. His | case would form a chapter in a curious book that might | be written about Americans abroad—some of them yot | | very far abroad. To prevent, if pessible, the amalgamating influence of the Eastern war from joining too closely the hands of | Luther, of Mahomet, and the Pope, and thus converting Franks into Turks, and even Yankees into Mussulmen, | the German bishops have decided to found a Catholic | | university at Berlin. Thus far, however, neither ultra montanists nor the university party in France have had reason to complain of the experiment of liber- ty of instruction in this country. The vacations are now over, and the coll ‘of Paris count » larger number of students than at this time last ear. Messrs. Philarete Charles, De Falloux, Mazere Fensard, Bignan, and Count de Marcellus are all | knocking at the door of the academy. The Acade- my of Sciences is absorbed, os usual, in astronomical speculations,and is as preud of Leverricr's having just de- termined the difference of longitude between the two great observatories of Europe, and those of Paris and Green- ich, (which he and McAiry have fixed at 2 degs. 20 min. 9 sec. 4,) as if he had discovered another planct. Costa, the great pisciculturist, is delightedly watching the fishes that have been brought by the Strasburg Rail- way, and ducked into the lake in the Bois de Boulogne. Boarding-school girls in America must not shadder when they hear of thy empotssonement of this little lake; it has not been empoisoned. The vintage is nearly at an end, and it is already clear that the wine of this year is de. | ficient in quantity, but so auperior in quality as to merit | the distinguishing title given to it, le vin du cholera, as mauch as did le vin dela comete. Near Rouen, the weather has been so mild that, in September, the curious specta cle was sented of apple. san r-trees ie ‘ne tinge full of Wostemns and laden with fruit, ‘To the capital, however, October has brought this week a touch, ice enough, of winter weather. Fortunately for the la- | boring classes, work will not, be Incking this season, ‘The works just contracted for by the Strasburg Railway Company with the State—the completion of the Malhouse | road as far as the Noyent station, and of that from Paris to Vincennes and Saint-Maur, will cost two years labor and twenty millions of france.” The trading ciasses must wait for the profits they usually expect from the court balls and festivities of winter, until definitely ‘good news’ shall have come from the East. Meanwhile, their majesties the Emperot and Empress will retire to the castle and forest of Complegne. Whether the Emperor will shoot any American partridges there this season, I | do not know. But in former years very successful efforts | have been made to naturalize in the western parts of France the colin, or the American portritge, which is 80 abundant and so highly esteemed in Ohio. Two brace were at first brought over, and they have “ increased and multiplied” as rapidly’ as M, Corte’s fishes. Those classes in Paris whose chief business i8 amusement, have been abundantly gratified hy the exciting scenes of the fail races on the Champ de Mars, by the opening | attractiona of the theatrical and operatic season, am above all, by the seandal of the sill unexplained disap- pearances of Cruvelli. Her friend Fiorentino uudertakes | ment may, cule, Gemappes, Tage, Dugueseclin, Duperre, Trident, Austerditz, and Inflexible, are on their way to France. ‘the operations of the British fect will’ now be unim- portant, and the greater part of the ships will probably | return home. ‘there isa rumor, however, that the Danish govern- Perhaps, be induced to permit the fleet to winter at Kiel. {Paris (Oct. 17) Correspondence of London Times.) It ix raid that some short time since, in consequente, perhaps, of the disappointment which it was thought would be felt in England and France at the combined fleets not having effected more in the north than the destruction of Bomarsund, a meeting of the Admirals, Sir Charles Napier and Parseval Deschenes, and the superior officers of the fleets, was held, when the ques- tien was discussed as to the propriety and possibility of attacking and taking Helsingfors and Sweaborg. ‘The question was examined in all ita bearings, and the re- ports of the officers who had been sent to take soundings on the coast were of course Jaid before this naval com- mittee. Iam not aware of the relative propprtions of those who were in favor and those who were against tho attack of these two places, but it is certain that the de- nm of the majority was against it, and it is affirmed that Sir Charles Napier did not dissent from that de- cision. In answer to those who considered that an at- tack was both feasible and wecessary, it was ob- served that, though thore was little doubt of Helsing- fors and Sweaborg meeting the fate of Bomaraund, that i wae impossitle for the allies to Keep these Sia thor vhomatier Inecosture they were obliged td cban’ don them, a seould be afforded for the r Russia to announce another in { ory, and to proclaim his sudjects that the English and French were beaten dut of the Gulf of Finland. Other reasons were alleged, Dut the one I'allude to was the principal, The minutes of the proceedings were drawn up in due form and siga- ed by all the officers present. ie meeting then ratod, it having heen previously agrced that coplen of the minutes should be forwarded to the English and French governments. Owing, however, to some cause, not very clearly explained, no ‘copy was that day sent by the French Admiral to his government, he having received an assurance from Admiral Napier that the report of the meeting should be communicated by the English govern- ment to that of France through the Ambassador. Before tranemitting the minutes to Fngland, Admiral Napier is said to have added a pont script, or written a separate de- spatch to the Admiralty, to the effect that the minutes co- tained the opinions of the officers of the squadron, but that these opinions were not in conformity with his own; ai that,on the contrary, he thought the attack on Helsingfors and Sweatorg ought to be made at once, This despatch, or stacript, is stated not to have been communicated to he French Admiral. This officer became acquainted | with the fact soon after, and without loss of time sent to his government the minutes, which it appears he drew up from memory, aided by the officers who wore present. In the meantime tho Imperial government re- ceived from London the communication of the report as transmitted by Admiral Napier, with the Adiniral’s separate postscript, and the result was, that orders were at once sent by the Minister of Marine to Admiral Deschenes to commence the attack forthwith. Before anything could be done the communication made di- rectly by the Admiral, and which contained the decision of the meeting of officers against the attack, reached” the government, who, no doubt conyinced by the rea- sons. subinitted to them, at once kent counter orders; and these counter orders were in ll probability those to which I alluded a few days since. This matter has, it is said, produced an unpleasant feeling among the aiplcers of the fleets, though net by any means against each oiher. Between the two governments, however, nothing unpleasant does or can exist on that account. ‘such are the facts as slated by persons who appear to have no oubt of their correctness, but for which, as 1 have | already eafd, I by no means vouch. A person who has just come from the Baltle announces that next year operations will be undertaken on a large scale in those seas, and that not merely the lesser forts will be attacked and destroyed, but that Cronstadt will be bombarded with every chance of a favorable result. Indeed the opinion there seems to be that bofore a year — over, the allied flags will float in St. Pot Vontrary to what was, I believe, the opinion received, Finland is reported as Russian—not out of love to Russian rule, but out of hatred to Sweden; and Swe- den, no doubt from the sanre motive, is said to be sus pect. The loss of the French in the Baltic, both from cholera and (it is added) mismanagement has beem much greater than was sup) and complaints have been made against General guay d’Hilliers. SIEGE OPERATIONS, [From the London Times, Oct. 19.} We are now enabled, by the last arrivals from the East, to eb with Pe y ‘et narrative ot move- ments of the army before altho the communications received up to this ‘habe « only exten to the 8d of October, they afford a more accurate account than we before possessed of the 0 ions which were then abont to commence. On the 28th of ber the Second, Third, and Fourth divisions of tl y were ordered at once to move up to the heights about Sebaa- topol, where they encamped, the First Division remain- ing at Kadikoi, behind the port of Balaklay tection of that important post, while the Light Division rested on the heighta above the harbor, which ithad occupied before the surrender of the fort. At the desire of Gen. Brown, however, the Light Division also moved forward on the following day, and now occupies a posi- tion in the line of the U€sieging army, The Engineers and Artillery proceeded at once to land the siege train, and on the 2eth some of the guns were already d: up the heights, and temporarily placed in a field about one mile in the rear of the position occupied by the troops, From this clevated encampment, which was occapled by our troops without any opposition on the part of the enemy, a view may be ebiained of the whole port of Sebastopol, with Hs harbors, arsenals, ships, aud forte lying within a circle of three or four miles, at the * for the pro- moored a three-decker ro as to direct its fire up the ra- vine which s to the arsenal and the docks. ‘Th were also busily engaged in throwing up works of eartl round the south of the town, which sufficiently denotes the absence of any regular line of fortications or bas- tions imprasable by an enemy until a breach haa been mace by artillery. On the east of the town, however, and consequently immediately in. front of the British lines, a strong horseshoe redonbt has been constructed, which we do not find marked in any of the maps now i ‘against which our of Cambridge's division, consisting of the Guards aud Highland Brigade, remained in the rear of | the army near Palaklava until the 2d of October, in | order to’ cover the bare of operations from the possibi- lity of an atinck. Meanwhile the roads and tra through the hilly country south of Khutor Mackenzie, by which the allied armies made their flank march on ave been broken up and put into ate of the itish forces. The right flank of the covered by the defile leading into the | valley of the ‘Ichernaya, by that stream, and by. the arshy grotnd about it; and xo satisfied was Lord Rag- n on the Ist of October, of the strength of this posi- that he caused the first division to advance to the | tight of the army, and to take up the position it will oc- cury during the siege. he valley of Inkerman is a deep ravine about one mile in breadth, formed by the stream of the Tehernays before it falls into the western extremity of Sebastopod harbor. ‘This valley is, in fact, the continuation of the | deep inlet by which the harbor itself is formed. On the eastern side of this vall¢y the ruins of Inkerman still retain traces.of the fortifications erected by the Greeks or the Genoese on this position; and, for the defence of febastopol against an attack by land, these heights | ought to have been crowned with strong batteries, which would have rendered the place almost im- | pregnable, since they would have enfiladed the whole pesition now occupied by the besieging armies. ‘This precaution appears, however, to have been neglect- ed. Along the eurse of the, valley, and parallel with the streem of the Tehernaya, runs the aqueduct which supplies the docks and ‘part of the town with j fresh water ; and so abruptly do the rocks rise { over the ravine on the western side, that, on turn- ing towards the harbor, this aqueduct ia carried threugh a tunnel in the freestone rock three hun- } in length. Rather more than a mile to scuth of this tunnel, and upon » height which rises st perpendicularly above the valley, the Firat Divi- sion of the British army has taken up its position. It forms, therefore, the extreme right of the whole allied ferees, and it is protected by a steep wall of rock, which eessible to the enemy. ‘© presume si thus occupied is beyond the range of any guns the Russians might be able to mount on the oppo- ice of the valley, which is still for the present. in their possession. The French army occupies the left of our position, and extends to t the siege train and the stores of place in this operation. On the 34 no regular attack had begun on any part of the place, but the booming of heavy guna from the forts of Sebastopol sounded like the prelude to the tremendous struggle which was about to commence, and showed that the enemy was resolved | and prepared to offer a strenuous defence of the place on every side. | These facts are, we believe, the substance of all that can be known with precision down tothe sent mo- ment; for, although the Vienna. papers continue to sup- | ply a daily crop of telegraphic despatches purporting to | give later intelligence of the war, these communications | are obviously framed either in total ignorance of the events which have really occurred, or to serve some ob- ject of the Russian party. “In fact, these despatches ac- quire an importance which they do not deserve, by be- ing reproduced in the columns of journals of a far higher character than those in which they first see the light. | ‘The Austrian journals havé no trustworthy correspon- dents on tHe scene of action, and all the intelligence they publish arrives in the shape of flying re- ports, which they can neither verify nor confute. At the same time, we must again remark, with astonishment and regret, that the government and the public of this country, at a moment when pie | thought and feeling of the nation are concentrated on the events of the war, are no less than fifteen or six- teen days in arrear of the course of the events, although ten days at the outside ought to suffice to bring us not only teleg: phic messages, but mails of letters from the Crimea. It is needless for us to enlarge on the inconve- nience of this incredible want of post office arran; ments, for the Ministers of the Crown, whose respon bility Is more deeply engaged in these operations th that of any other person, are the first to suffer from the want of a frequent and regular mode of transmitting to this country the official correspondence of the army. Here, again, we have a striking illustration of tho difference between the intentions of the government and the fact. It was intended, we know, as we are informed by the Post Office circular, that thero should be a regu- lar and prompt communication between England and the headquarters of the army every five days. But, by some means or other, three times five days have now elapsed since the dates of the last mails which have reached England. Some of the French and Austrian beats by which mails are fortarded to Marseilles or Trieste go the round of half-a-dozen porta in the Levant, stopping a day at each; and it is but sel- | dom that the’ bags are transmitted direct and at full speed. Even when Lord Rerghcash was sent with the despatches relating to the battle of the Alma, which were expected with such feverish impatience by the whole country, he started m the Fury; a vessel which could never perform more than eight knots an hour, and beaten by twelve hours between Malta and Mar- jex hy the ordinary French packet. At the present time intelligence has frequently arrived by way of St. Yetersbuig more rapidly than by the Danube or Mar- seilles, so that the Emperor of Russia has acquired, by micans, of the telegraphs now established between his capital and the southern provinces of his empire, an ad- vantage of five or six day: the transmission of infor- mation over the Western Powers. Cireumstances might occur under which that difference of time would be of the utmost consequence, and every means ought to be taken to accelerate to the utmost our correspondence with the seat of war. THE RUSSI4N REINFORCEMENTS. From the London Times. Oct. 18, It is asserted with apparent confidence by the German penee: that General en-Sacken entered the Crimea hy the Isthmus of Perekop, with 40,000 men, about the h inst., and that he was about to advance to the as- a ince of Prince "Menschikoff before Sebastopol. Al- though we have no official information to this effect, there is nothing improbable in the statement. It hae for some time heen known that General Osten-Sacken is appointed to the command of a division in the govern- ment of Cherson destined t6 reinforce the yy in the Crimea. This army was, however, retained in its posi- tion on the Dnieper until the landing of the allied troops at Old Fort rendered it certain that the Crimea was tl destination of the expedition; for the Russians had been deevived by the publicity given to the subject, and they wore disposed to imagine to the last, like some of our wiseacres at home, that Odessa, Cherson, or any placo but Sebastopol, was the real point of attack. | ‘All doubt on’this subject being removed, it is natural to expect that tife forces collected to the north of the Gulf of Odessa should eed as rapidly as possible to the scene of actual host » We have information of the 6th inst. from Odessa, by which it appears that the divisions of Gen. Liprand! and Gen. Engelhardt had en- tered that city to replace bade oy sent to the Crimea, and that the Cossacks had brought in large numbers the common carts of the country to accelerate the move- | ment of this part of the army. A march from Odessa or Nicholaiew to the Crimes is, however, a very long and foflsome affair. ‘The country is bare, and singularly dem titute of water, and this difficulty is’ still more severely felt between Perekop and Eupatoria, or the interior of | the Crimea, where troops are obliged to march full thirty-six ours without any supplies of water, except | from a few seanty wells. It is highly probable that Gen. Osten-Sacken is on his way wit! forcement to Me: schikoff’s army; but we must ive to receive t] on men of the German despatch with extreme incre- dulity. Forty thousand men would be one complete division of the Russian army, equal to about one-half of the entire force bled under Prince Gortschakoff upon the Pruth, and to the whole body of troops collect: the Crimea to oppose the advance of the allies on th Alma. With a suitable allowance for the xagge- | ration of Russian bulletins, we may suppose that from 15,000 to 18,000 men are 6n their march, and that it is sstble they may reach the seat of war by the 20th of Betober, by which time we trust that the chief business of the campaign will be over. Some surprise has been expressed that measures do not appear to have been taken by the allied commanders to cecupy the lines of Perekop with troops, so a# toex- | clude the reinforcements of the enemy, i to shut in the forces already assembled in the Crimea, but this sug- | gestion, which must have been considered by the ge- | | j uerala in their plan of the campaign, will not support ex- he lines of Perekop’ consist of a rude trench and ridge constructed by the Tartars before the Russian invasion, and, although this position might be lefended sucoessfully by a considerable army witha park f artillery, such an operation would require at least 20,000 men, with heavy guns, southern coast of the Crimea, offers no supplies and no shelter: the water is brackish; the climate severe; and on army ériven back from such a position would be ex- yored to certain destruction on its line of retreat. More- ever, the allics were clearly not in a cendition to divide their principal army of operations. The same obse tlons do not apply, however, to maritime tions. If the Gulf of Perckop be navigable by any of the steamers now with the fleet, it was the duty of the Admiral to take care that a strict watch was kept on the west coast of the isthmus; and, considering the narrowness of this omination, tongue of land, the fire of some of the despatch boata | carrying Lancaster's guns might have seriously embar- | rassed the passage of the army. ra’ curate information may thus have been of the strength of the reinforcements entering the Crimea, and we hope to learn that every exertion has been made to execute this important service. ‘We can feel no astonishment or alarm at the fact that the Russians are doing all they can to throw reinforce- ments into the Crimea; on the contrary, we are rather the position now happily occupied by the allied ai theif eecurit and the continuance of the siege can hard: ly be affected by the presence of any number of troops in the interior of the Crimea. Had the siege been com- menced on the north side of the harbor the case would have been widely different, for, although we might have strengthened the position of the besieging army on the Pelbek, it must always have been liable to attack in the rear. Asit is, with our base of operations on the sea, and the full possession of a triangle of hills which offers only one side to attack, the allied armies can neither be tarn- ed nor threatened. If reinforcements are on their march to the Rusvian camp, so are they also to the French and English quarters. Rive reserve tert at Varna in the Orat instance joined soon after the battle of the Alma. Sev- eral French line-of-battle ships are embarking troops at Touloa, which will more than repair the losees sustained by sickness and in the field, and fresh detachments are preceeding and ready to proceed from this country. Omer Fasha has also (aken care that a division of the Torkith amy should remain within reach of Varna, whence they can be thrown into the Crimea in afew days. ‘oast immediately south | pand navigable bays offer | The country, unlike the | allies; some delay has nevertheless taken | | of the war on the banks of the Danube, it is difficult not | was very advantageous for him, and presented excellent | to be in the time of the heroic struggles of | are, it apy | event of another serious check to Russi | pe, which the interests of Europe, and not merely the in | tion; and I kuppose we may have to wait some time ere | his devoted head. It may be a question whether the interests of the allies in the sapey he aes of oped be most effectually moted by a diversion to be made by the advance of the ‘Turkish army into Bessarabia, or by an attack on some | other part of the Crimea, In the course of the present | month the main body of Omer Pasha’s army bas been concentrated at Prailew, and is now moving ually | towards the Pruth; but these operations are not so rapid | = ition has or decisive as to imply that any positive resol len taken. ‘To invade Bessarabia with effect, an army must be prepared te undertake the siege of Ismail—a | place still ef ‘considerable, strength "both by. land and water, and not to be taken, great sacrifices and delay. however, showed by his skilfol operations winter on the Danube, that he coukl keep a numerous Russian army ou the alert by incessant ag- tacks, without exposing the strength of his army in any decisive ent ise. A renewal of these tactics on the Truth would be extremely serviceable to the cause of the allies, and would probably have an important effect on the futnre character of the war. The termination of the ign in the Baltic will set at liberty a considerable of the Russian forces in the northern provinces, the next seven months the icebound coasts of the empire are secure from the flee It isnot improba- ble that the Emperor Nicholas will take advantage of this circumstance to pursue hostilities during the winter months in those parts of the continent where they can be exrried on; but there never was a moment when it was more desirable to multiply the points of attack, and to prevent the cencentration of the enemy’s forces in any single portion of his vast empire. DIFFICULTIES AT SEBASTOPOL. (From the Paris Le Pays, Oct. 18.) The taking of an important town, defended by its posi- tion as much as by the soldiers within its walls, is always a great enterprise, surrounded with enormous difficnl. tien Men of light and superficial minds can alone feel surprise at. the prudent slowness with which the opera- | tions of a besieging army when it wishes to secure sue. | cess must be directed. Since public attention has been fixed on the Crimea, everybody knows the strong situa tion of Sebastopol. It is known that this town is pro- tected by powerful fortifications; it is known that it will be defended with all the courage of despair. ‘The Rus- sians will not consent to lose this magnificent jewel of the Czar’s ‘crown without a fierce struggle. e must neither imulate the difficulties, nor the obstinate re. sistance which our brave soldiers will have to encounter. We do not belong to those who systematically depreciate tleir enemies. The Russians have certainly not the fery dash of the French, nor the slow but continued and myassable march of the English; they haye not and cannet have that faith in the issue of the con- filet which increases forces tenfold; and they are ne- cessarily demoralised by their successive chec! But still they remain soldiers who fight with energy, and f they cannot conquer, know at least how to die. Nothing is to be gained by diminishing the grandeur of ‘he enterprise which our armies are executing before Sebastopol, and the obstacles which they will have to encounter. Vietory is only glorious when it is difficult obtain, and itis by the difficulties vanquished that tion of the Russian generals has of late sustained many humiliations. Without speaking of the recent souvenirs | to see that Prince Menschikoff has committed numerous faults since the commencement of our expedition in the Crimea. A simple reconnoissance at the moment of dis- | embarkation might have caused trouble in the ranks, | which were then badly organized, of the allied. srmics and perhaps have prevented the perilous operation o| disembarkation. ‘The Russian cavalry and artillery might have caused us irreparable harm. Instead of that they allowed our army to be formed, organized, and advance towards its destination without ‘opposition’ and without obstacle. It was only on the Alma that ‘Princo Menschikoff united all his efforts; but at the end of a few hours he abandoned in confusion that strong position which he might have much longer defended, and in his fright he ne- glected to oppose a fresh barrier to the enemy on the lines of the Katcha and the Belbek, where the ground means of defence. He then went into the open country; but he so little studied the movements of the allied ar- my, that» part of his forces fell in with allied columns hunce in the midst of the forests, near the Tchor- naya, in places whore they might have overwhelmed our troops, but where the Russians fled in disorder, leaving, almost without firing a shot, a considerable booty and a number of prisoners, All the falsehoods in the bulletins of Prince Menschikoff will not succeed in effacing this series of blunders, which shows ue that the Russian strategists are less skilful than they formerly appeared e Empire. Theso facts are evidently of a nature to inspire us with a legitimate confidence in the final result of the attack aguinst Sebastopol, and in the weakness of the measures taken for the defence of that place. But, as we have suid at the commencement, the natural strength of Se- bastopel defends it, and unless some unhoped for miracle takes place, it is neither in a few hours or in a day that such a place can be taken. POSITION OF THE GERMAN POWERS. A FRENCH CAMPAIGN ON THE RHINE. (Faris (Oct, 16) Correspondence of the London Timer.) | ‘The idea that we arc destined to have a campaign this | winter on the Rhine, that is, against Prussia, is becom- | ing more general and more necreditedevery day, in some | of the highest political circles. It is considered imposai- ble that the tergiversations of that Power can much longer be tolerated, and the object for the establishment of the Camp of the North, as indicated when it was first formed, appears to be the real one after all. What effct the fall of Sebastopol before the winter season se weuld produce on the policy of that dishonest govern: | mnt, it ir aificult to say.” Tt-would, perhaps, force it to declare itself frankly on the side of the allies: but it ix better to be prepared for allemergencies. The notes that have recently passed between France and Prussia ars, very strong and very decided. Theyare, ndecd, of that kind which precede at no great interval a wapcnsion of all friendly relations whaterer, if not @ dex claration of hostilities. The probability, too, of an al- jance, defensive and offensive, between England, France and Austria, with a view to such an eventualiry asa war with Prussia, is spoken of, and the bases of such a treaty are eaid to have been already discussed and agreed upon. Nevertheless, it is believed by some -that the Jolley of Prussia would be considerably modided in the ia. In the mean- time reinforcements continue to be sent to the Crimen | from various places, and the Camp of the South will alone furnish over 10,000 men. PROBABLE WAR BETWEEN AUSTHIA AND RUSSIA. [Vienna, (Oct. 15) Correspondence of London Chronicle 4 Those who are necessarfly well informed in matters oi diplomacy assure us that the relations between Austria and Russia are on the eve of au absolute rupture. It is not thought possible that their respective ambassadosa at Vienna and St. Petersburg can remain much longer at their posts. This state of things has been 4 foreseen, and, I may add also, duly prepared for by both these go- yernments. Indeed, a war between Austria and Russia bas become inevita For many months past it has only been a question of time and relative convenience. The Emperor Nicholas could uever be supposed to forgive the policy of the Emperor Francis Joseph. The latter’s active support of the Sublime@Porte, in virtue of the Austro-Turkish convention of June 14, was at the time, and has been ever aiuce, led at St. Petersburg as 8 legitimate casus belli, to be availed of sooner or later. It appears that these views and sentiments are fully appre- Chted here. ‘The Emperor of Austria and his enlighten: ed ministers have alao long since resolved to pursue that terests of Austria or of Germany alone, demand at the honds of the ruler of this mighty empire. | Francis Jo- seph I. is determined to be the Emperor of a Europefin t Power, and not merely a purely German Power. flence the gieat difference between the policy of Prussfa and that of Austria. The King of Prussia is, unhappily, not the man to raise himself to the level of tho enlarged views which Five strength, courage, and confidegce to the high resolves of his imperial kinsman of the ancient House of Hapstnrg. Apropos of Prussia the stock job- bing story of the expected mission of the son of the Prince of Prussia to the Court of Vienaa, which I related ‘to you yesterday, turns out, as I expected, all ‘‘moon- shine.’ Prince of Prussia comes to Berlin to be present at the celebration of the King’s birthday; and hence, I preanme, the misunderstanding, i. ¢., the fabri- cation of the ingenious tale. Inow learn that the lant Austrian declarations to Prossia, of the 30th ult., and the Austrian circular to the German courts, of the lst inst., because of their plain and unequivocal language, | have been ‘‘a heavy blow and great discouragement” to the King of Prussia and the Kreutz Zeitung party. No answer has yet been received here to this commanica- an answer thereto will, or perbaps can, be given. The simple question now seems to be, “Shall the German Confederation continue to exist or notl”” Or, in “ether words, “Shall this grand peace institution of forty years’ nding die a most inglorious death on the very eve of at ovent for which it was created, i. ¢., on the eve of reat continental wart’? And if so, ‘Who will be to Mane #? ermany is alrcady in alarm at this appa- rently inevitable prospect, and points to Prussia as the culprit. ‘Tbe King of ia seems not to be aware of the awful responsibili ich he is accumulating on His y may talk and boast of the 400,000 men ‘which he can bring into the field; he may talk and boast of his reliance on his people; but the jrediction is alrvady recorded. that he is counting with- out his host; that {€ he despoils the precarious fabric of he German’ confederation by fsolating Austria from its membership, and thus brings about what then becomes inevitable--the entire dissolution of the federal hody— not only the Prussian people and the Prussian army, but the people and armics of Germany at large, will for- sake him in the hour of need; and the fall of Prussia in the scale of nations will doubtless be commensurate with the suicidal crime of having given the deathblow to the entirety and unity of Germany under her present institutions. Then internal strifes must and will follow, the mere contemplation of which already now appals every honest patriot in Germany. There are hopes, however, still to be entertained that the recognition of there approaching dangers to Germany, on part of the Federal Assembly at Frankfort, may yet happily avert them. @KETCH OF GENERAL CANROBERT. THE FRENCH COMMANDER IN OHIEF IN THE CRIMEAY hing ‘could dirtnigh the regret of ti count Tfanything cou! ish the regret of the coun’ ata moment When it deplores the loss of the iilurtrions Marshal whem death bas carried off in the midst of hts triumphs, it would be the choice of the young General whom the Emperor has intrusted with the task of nish. ing the work so gloriously commenced on the banks of the Ah Although the ‘military career of the new Cemmander-in-Chief of the French troops in the East is generally known, we think it will be of use to recall to mind his services, which justify in a striking manner the confidence of the head of the State and of the whole army. Frangois Certain Canrobert was born in 1809, in the department of Lot, afew leagues from the village which gave birth to Murat. He entered the school of St. Cyr in the month of November, 1826, and left in one of the first ranks after two years of laborious study. Ap: yointed sub-lieutenant f the 47th of the Line on the 1st ially at this , he died, Omer Oran; the capture of the ti aca aaa prong fem vel his ‘brilliant ‘military ere afta: is mn and raised him to the rank of captain onthe ‘20th of « ° Ayril, 1837. He went in the same year to <f Constantine, where theeDuke de Nemours and Gener- ‘abremont made preparations to revet a A Fle received a wound in the log at the assatnt ef that place by the side of Colonel Combes, an oll soldier of the island of Elba, to whom he was ‘orderly officer, and who wasgnortally wounded at the breach. Before Combes recommensled captain ~ to Marshal Valee as an officer fall of pe 6 General Canrobert returned to France in 1839, deco- zated with fhe Legion of Honor, and was 1 with crgenizing for the foreign. ‘8 battalion chosen fram. the bands of Spanisris whet bed tates refuge with Ca- Yrera upon the French territory. ‘Thanks to the peree- vering aetivity of the organizer, these remnants of the civil war are soon ready to take part in the labors of our jn. . Called to the camp 6f St. Omer in 1840, he drew uj with success, by order of the Duke of Orléans, several chapters of a manual destined for the use of the officers of the light troops. In the north, Captain ‘was incorporated with the Sixth battalion of Foot Chas- seurs, and returned to-Africa in 1841, In that new eam- jaign he signalized himself in the combats of the moun- tains of Movzaia and Du Coutais, as well as in the obsti- nate struggle which the Beni-Menasser made against our {alien of the Biftecuih Light, onthe 204 tiga ac alion o t ont of Ma; he was placed at the heat of the Fifth battalion Chasseurs, which was incessantly in the field on the Tanks of hie Chetifl and took part, under the orders of General Gentil, in the affair of the grottoes and that of Sbeah, and also in several combata on the Riou. Tart of the year 1842 and the whole of the year 1843 were employed in fresh operations in Africa, and in all of them General Canrobert worthily maintained the honor of his battalion, He accompanied Colonel Cavaignac in the expedition of Ouaren Senis, and formed part of the column under the direction of General Bourjolly, who, after attacking the Flithax, made some bold excursions in the country of the Kabyles of Garboussa. Every- where the Third and Fifth battalion of Chasscute were led by the commander, Canrobert, with lar success He had been ‘an officer of the Legion of Honor for two years when Colonel de. St. Arnaud, who in 1845 succeeded Colonel Cavaignac in the command of Orleansville, employed him against Bow- 78. The chief of the 5th battalion gave glorious co- the affairs of Bahl, Oued-Metmour, Oucd- d-Senzig. In the former he succeeded with keeping at vay more than 3,000 mea, break his ranks. For this exploit he was rutenant-colonel on the 26th of October. a afterwards closely blocked up in the town cf Tenez, where he had succeeded Colonel Claparéde. Fight menths of continual struggles brought about the acification of the country, and the superior officer to whem this result was due obtained the rank of colonel yon the scene of is conquests. After having commanded the 24 regiment of the line, centered the 24 of the foreign legion on the Slst of arch, 1848, and occupied Bathna, General Herbillon entrusted him at thix period the command of @ strong column, with orders to attack and intimidate the mountaineers of the Aures. This order was promptly executed. Colonel Canrobert surprised the enemy at the fort of Djebel-Chelia, defeated him, drove him, sword in hand, as far as Kebech, in the Amer-Kraddon, and made risoner of the Rey, Ahmed. On his return to Bathna e went to Aumale, and took the command of the regi- ment of Zouaves. In this new post he had again occa- sion to act vigorously against the Kabyles and the tribes of the Jurjura, whom he succeeded in reducing to submission. But it was particularly in 1849 that Colonel Canrobert diaplayed an energy above all eulogium. | The cholera at- tacked the garrison at Aumale, whom the events taking lace at Zaatcha had led under the walla of that place. Vhat courage, what presence of mind were requisite im a commander of the Zouaves, who thus conducted his soldiers in the midst of the dangers of a daring march, and compelled unceasingly to be the painful witness of their pain! He was every where exhorting the sick, at- tending to their wants, and in passing he sent a rein- forcement to the town of Bou Sada, the garrison of which was blockaded, and deceived the enemy who ed the passage by announcing that he brought the plague with him, and that he should infect his assailants. At length he arrived at Zaatcha, on the Sth of November. On the 26th he commanied with most daring courage one of the attacking columns, Out of four officers and sixteen soldiers who followed him to tho breach sixteen were hilled or wounded by his side. Asa reward for his gonituct he was appointed commander of the Legion of Honor on the 11th of December, 1849. After having again distinguishod himself at the battle of Narah he was promoted to the rank of general of brigade on the 13th of January, 1850, came to Paris, commanded & brigade of infantry there, and, was at: tached in the q the Prince Pre- lent of the republic, on the 14th of January, 1853, ing his functions as aide-de-camp of the Emperor. Three months afterwards he was appointed to command a di- vision of infantry at the camp of Helfaut, and almost at the same time he was selected as inspector of the Sth arrondissement of that force, Placed latterly at the head of the Ist division of infantry of the army of the Fast, he took a most active part after the commence- ment of that war, by preparing the difficult operation of : landing, and hy powerfully co-operating in the vi | of the Alma, where he received another wound. It | known thet Marshal de St. Arnand, who could duly ap- ; hia, had the most entire confidence in his 1 bravery. It is true that the young general glected nothing in order 10 merit that confidence. cfore his departure he devoted himself to deep study especting the sceie of the present expedition, as if he ad had the presehtiment of his future destiny. £uch is the general officer for whom. is re cnor of planting the French fing ow the walla of Sebas- opol, for he will not fail to realize the brillant hopes ich the lory of his antecedents suffice to ,excite in regard to bia future. ; ESQ., AND MR. GEORGE PEABODY, THR Usrren States Legation, Lonpow, Oct. 20, 1854. In airing Publicity to the following correspondence with Mr, Peabody, it is unnecessary to add anything to the very full exposition of facts—which ho has not ven- tured to deny, or attempted to disprove—contained in ; my letters to him of the 4th and 13th instant, except to notice in the briefest manner the two positions assumed by him in his last note. , He pe fea the assertion that I “addressed an anony- mous letter to the editor of the Boston Post.’ Mr. Pea- body knows this statement is not true. + @ effort to at the vaunted national entertain- ment, given on the 4th of July last, to the Americans in .ondon, as a private dinner, is a subterfuge—an after- thought, now resorted to for the purpose of from the “responsibility” so rashly avowed by Mr. poay in his public letter to the Boston Post. It seems that reflection has reversed his maxim—now he is a man of “‘words’’ but not ‘deeds.”’ After all, it was ridieu- lous to expect anything else. It will be amusing to most Englishmen, to learn that a London merchant sent to Queen to borrow por- traits of herself and Prince Albert for a private dinner party given at a tavern. The Americans who were asked to attend certainly thonght they were to join in a national festival. 1¢ turns out, however, that they were invited to help Mr. Peabody to celebrate the successful result of his persevering efforts to get a couple of pictures from a palace, If his dinner was a mere business adverti at Barnum, of course he had a right to conduct the pro- pestis ob according to his own taste. In this point of view, wever, Ve. Peaboily’s recent claim to be consi- dered an ‘institution’ is likely to be questioned. In dismissing this subject, there is at least one satio faction of which I cannot be deprived, and that is the conviction that it will be long, very long, before the Americans in London can be induced to take part im another attempt to celebrate the Fourth of July where the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’’ could not be sung without revision; where the Declaration of Independence could not be read, and where the name of Jefferson would not DANIEL E. SICKLES. ‘Unrrep States Lecation, be mentioned. eta Sm—At a late hour last night, Yreceived from Mr. Bu- chanan a printed copy of » communication addressed by . u to the Boston Post, sgh Neto in very offensive letter recently made public in Journal, referring to your proceedings s conduct tion to the late celebration of the anniversary of ndence at Richmond. it in su ing that I wrote the letter in i in view of the necessity which afterwards publication, in order to correct the misrep- esentations concerning the affair, put forth by your gents and through your connivance, I only regret that my friend Colonel Greene thought it proper to withhold my name. ‘Obi by urgent official duties to leave London for Madrid, I shall seize the earliest moment upon my return in about fifteen days) to demand a satisfactory retrac- tion of these derogatory statements concerning myself, which I cannot but suppose to have been written undor misapprehension of the facts, but for which, in your ommunication, you declare yourself responsible. Tremain, sir, your very obedient servant, | Grorcr Pranopy, Esq. DANIEL FE. SICKLES. Uairep States Lecation, Loxpox, October 4, 1854. Sir—Having returned to London after a temporary absence, I now desire to recall_your attention to certain Portions of your letter to the Baston Post, of the 16th of August, ultimo, which seem to bear a construction dero- gatory to myself, After reading your communication to the press atten- tively, it is impossible for me to rosist the conviction that throughout this affair, you have most strangely misconceived your position towards the legation and my- self ax a member of it. You appear to imagine—indeed you strive to convey this impression—that I, a guost at a private dinner arty, having no reason to be dinsatiaied with the enter, lainment, chose to treat with un; of the toasts proposed to the antag then leaving the table, went to my desk and penned critici«m for an American newspaper, Fates? wey ase and disparaging your: ? low are facts There had been several projects started among the Americans in London with reference to the bration of the 4th. You these, - sisted that the initiatiative be for several years received day. It was of by table none could come except your this you an: that Joly dinner in that that ferms upon portions of that in re American inde You are ii iF Z ; 3 : aria 7 aes a \ t | 250 te eoaker with us ta regard to the of October, 1828, he was made lientenant on the 20th of June, 1862, embarked for Africa in 1836, and arrived in the province of Oran, where the Emir, Abd-el-Kader, after the unfortunate affair of tho Macta, kept our army in check. A short time aftorwards he took part in the x. yedition of Mascara, in whieh he began to make himself known. He followed with bis regiment the operations whieh Generals Cauvel ond Letang directed in the proy- | cuss the toasts to be proponed—t | should be given—who shonld be invited to | them—what national songs should be sung, celebration. He came ihege, ta tr iwi ay ermiea ao Stee