The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1854, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERAL (WHOLE NO. 6668, MORNING EDITION—MON@DE 3 VERY IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE. BALTIC, THE WAR. "THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. TERRIBLE BATTLE ON THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, ‘The Repulse of the Russians after a Tremendous Slaughter. ‘About Eight Thousand Russian and Five Thousand Anglo-French and Turkish i “Treops Hors de Combat. The Effect of the Battle in England and France, _Ammense__Ezertions to Beinforsa Allied Army. Considerable Decline in Consols and the French Funds, Great Deerease in Specie in the Banks of France and England. fHH SOULH AFFAIR. INTERESTING FROM SPAIN. THE CUBAN QUESTION. SLIGHT DECLINE IN BREADSTUFFS. Depression in the Cotton Market, &e., &e &e, The Collins’ mail steamship Baltic, Captain Comstock, -arrived at this’port at nine o’clock yesterday morning. She left Liverpool at two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, ‘the 15th inst. The news is four days later, and of the highest im- portance. : There had been a great battle before Sebastopol, in which sixty thousand Russians and fifty thousand Anglo- French trodps were engaged. It occurred on the Sth fost., and lasted nearly the whole day. Eight thousand Russians and five thousand of the allied troops were Placed hors de combat. The allies claim the victory. With every wish to do justice to the admirable bravery of the allies, and with no desire to blacken news already too disastrous, it is impossible to escape the conviction that the army before Sebastopol is in a position of great peril. A portion of the intelligence, both good and bad, is hushed up from the public, but from the facts that have transpired, very different inferences may be drawn than those set forth semi-officially in the London 7imes. The best that can be said for the news on the part of the allies is that it is of a chequered description. A succession of hard fights has been fought, and victories gained, each victory costing as much asadefeat. At the same time, so closely have these affairs been drawn, that the Russians, equally with the allies, claim the ad- vantage. It is now admitted that the defences of Seb: topol were underrated, the bravery of the enemy under- rated, and the force of Menschikof! in the ficld alto- gether unexpected. The effect on the méney markets was decided. The following list shows the fluctudtions in consols :— Highest Closing prices. prices. 94% 9456 94% 943g 9436 O45, 9455 9455 9455 9436 0436 9434 9455 9434 9434 Ob 35 9435 9336 O45 93 36 983q 9344 9346 93 98% 9336 4 92% 9255 This shows a decline in one week of two and a quarter per cent. The London Times of the 14th inst. gives the following report of the Paris money market:— The closing accounts from the Paris Bourse this even- ing shoy, another fall of. per cent, malting a total de- cline of between 3 and & er cent since this day week. The to-day (Nov. 13) were chiefly speculative, and were doubtless consequent upon the fall on this side. Most of the mercantile letters treat the revived rumors of a loan as premature, and if this should be the case, and any news of a favorable complexion shouid arrive, a s rebound may be expected. Vie e quotations indicate a degree of distrust in political and financial position of Austria not recently oxceeded, o ae of exchange on London having again advan ‘The returns of the Bank of France for the past month thow a further decline in the bullion, equal to £1,590,000 sterling; the decrease on the preceding month being equal to £850,000 sterling. A continuance of the demand for discount must therefore have been generally felt, and the commercial paper in the Bank of France alone has again increased nearly £600,000 sterling. It is stated in correspondence from Berlin of the 12th, that the Russian reply to the late Prussian note has ar- rived there. The Russian cabinet dees not unreservedly accept, but is disposed to discuss the four points as a basis for negotiation. We learn that Prince Gortscha- koff has officially announced to Count Buol that Russia is prepared to treat direct with Austria on the basis of the four conditions, This is here considered a palpable attempt to cause disunion between Austria and the West ern Powers, There was a rumor in Vienna that Baron Rothschild, finding his recent purchase of the Austrian government railways « bad bargain, offers the government a loau of 200,000,000 franes to cancel the agreement. His propo- fal, if true, will exercise a considerable influence on financial affairs. The intelligence of this battle, although considered a - great triumph tothe allied army, caused a very depressed feeling in France and England. The greatest exertions were being made to send out reinforcements to the Crimea. * The regiments of England under earliest orders for the Crimea, are the 7th hussars, 16th lancers, lst, 24, 34 and 7th dragoons. ‘The steamship Africa arrived at Liverpoolon the after - noon of Sunday, 12th, (4 o'clock.) ‘The Indiana arrived at Southampton on the Lith, in thirteen days and a half, all well. The Brazilian mail steamer Thames arrived at South- ampton onthe ith. Her dates were from Buenos Ayres, October 8; Montevideo, 6th; Pernambuco, 234; Madeira, November 6. Had about £25,000 in gold, silver, and diamonds. News not important. The Liverpool Mereury of November 14 says that on the previous Friday Prince Albert was returning to the -enstle, attended by Captain Du Plat, after hunting with ‘the royal barriers, in the neighborhood of slough and Salt Hill, when, just after the Prince had passed Eton College, and was proceeding through the High street, a ferocious looking fellow, with a stick in his hand, rashed -out of the shop of Mr. Thumwood, wher he had been purchasing some beef, into the road, aud made use of some most insultingmnd abusive language towards his royal Highness. He said he was an Irishman, that his name was Mislich, and that ho was an old soldier, hay- ing served twenty-one years in the Bombay horse artil- Yery, He was committed to Aylesbury jail, as a va- grant, for a month. ‘The Mexican Minister at Beussels had, on the 6th of November, presented King Leopold with the grand cross of the National Order of Guadaloupe. The British Embassy was endeavoring to recover poa- session of the Rursian Indien who were recently cargied off by the Daghestanees, from the villages north of Tiflis, The British Parliament is further prorogued to Thurs- day, the 14th of December. Two houses, oceupied by Nivol, a gunmaker, and Ker, a bookseller, in Belfast, Ireland, were blown up 16th inst. | by gunpowder, during an accidental fire. | Charles Kemble, the great tragedian, died at London | on the 11th, having just completed his 79th year. Andrew Orr, of the firm of Orr & Sons, publishers, is elected Mayor of Glasgow for the next three years. The accounts of the state of trade in the manufactur- ing towns (during the week), showed no alteration, a tendency to depression being still observable, and espe- | cially at Manchester. From Birmingham the advites are favorable as regards the home trade, but unfavorable a respects the foreign, and although the principal irom manufacturers have resolved for the present to main- tain existing prices, a reduction before the close of the _ year seems not improbable. In the general trade of the town (Birmingham), no revival from the dulness caused by the state of in America and Australia is — now considered likely till the spring. At Nottingham | there has been a little less stagnation, but the busi- ness transacted has been at very low prices, and there has been no increase of employment. The | woollen districts continue to form an exception to the other of the country; and, although the manufac. /isposed to exercise great caution, the opera- tions are upon a very satisfactory scale, at firm quota- tions. In the Irish linen markets thore has been no im- provement, except in the coarser articles and yarns. For flax there has been an increased demand at better rates. Clay & Gillman, London, have suspended p: ment. The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rotter- dam produce markets state that although business had diminished, prices continued to be well supportea. In sugar and coffee operations had been singularly limites, | owing to a cessation of speculative purchases. ‘The quo- | tations for tea and rice were maintained, although few transactions had taken place. Some descriptions of | spices showed a tendency to improvement. Advices from Rouen mention that the market for ma- nufactures was steady, but the attendance of buyers was less numerous. Annexed is a list of Americans registered at the bank- ing house of Livingston, Wells & Co., Paris, Nov. 9 1854 :— J. Wyeth. J. A. Hatt | | Miss M. J, Norris "| “ Dr. D.P. Heap... D.C. | “ W. Ely enn “ G.R. Glidden. “ | “ ©. McKnight...) «| « A. J. Jones...... BL. L, Terry. “ Dr.J.Tacker.... Mass. °| Thomas Edwards“ Dr. E. Gage... | C.L. Sharpsteen. E.G. Quincey...) | F.T.Henriques,. E.8.Philbrook;, «> | G. Pollen, “ P. 8. Kintner, Ky. | M. Garcia “ A. Killgore. Te Nati D.D. Foote. “« Charles Sharp Va F. G. Thursto « 0. A. Pegram, “ R.S. Kissam, jr.‘ J. Riffard.. has? St H.D. Pritchard.. J. Little Smith:;. Ala. Capt. R.S. Brown R.J.Smith..../) 0+ M.T. Taylor... G.T. Thompson.. Ga. E. J. Morris “ Our London Correspondence. GREAT BATTLES BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Loxpow, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1354. Battle of Balaklava—Fearful Charge of the English | Light Cavalry—Terrific Slaughter—Battle before Sebas- topol—Two Sons of the Emperor Present—Four Eng- lish Generals Wounded—Ofcial Despatch of Canro- dert—Sorlie of the Russians—Cowardly Behavior of the Turks—The Bavarian Mission—Effect of the News on the Stock Exchange. “The present mail will bring you out stirring and | thrilling narratives of the war in the Crimea. The fightiog has been going on before Sebastopol in good ear nest. Many a heart will beat and a tear start to many an eye whilst reading the account of the glorious but fatal charge of the English light cavalry brigade on the 25th of October at the battle of Balaklava: The full official details have now been received, with copious ac counts of eye witnesses. The order for that fatal | charge of a handful of light cavalry against dense masses | of infantry, 4,000 Russian horse, and a large body of | artillery, originated in a mistake in the transmission of the order. Lord Cardigan saw that it was riding to certain death, but nevertheless obeyed under protest, and his handfulof horse succeeded in taking the Russian guns and dispersing their cavalry. Cut down by grape but few returned to their ranks. The charge of the Scots Greys and heavy dragoons was magnificent. But I enclose you a graphic account from-an eye-witness of that memorable day’s work. “C'est magnifique!” exclaimed an old French general, when he saw the light cavalry charge, ‘mais ce n'est pas la guerre ! The Russians were completely defeated, and had it not been for the cowardly Turks taking to their heels. and abandoning the redoubts entrusted to their care, Liprandi would no} have so good a bulletin to send to the Emperor. His bulletin has been published in Sif Petersburg. He pays a compliment to the desperate ats | tack of the English cavalry. According to his own ag | count the force he had under his orders on this dey | was 25,000 bayonets, 4,500 sabres and lances, and 10 pieces of field artillery. | A still more terrible battle was fought on the Sth of November, on the plain before Sebastopol. The only ac- count as yet received of it is a despatch from General Canrobert to the French Minister of War. [It is givenin | another column.) This despatch is published in the Moniteur of yester- day. Various other versions have been received from Vienna by way of Bucharest, all much of the same tenor. Another version, (a Russian one,) via Warsaw, says that a battle took place 5th November, in which the Russians took one battery and spiked fifteen guns of the left French division. It adds that the loss on both sides was considerable. With great naiveté, this Russian despatch adds that a French division, ‘pursuing’ the Russians, attempted an assault, but was repulsed with great loss. ‘The details of this battle (for such it was, as 9,000 Russians are said to have been killed, ) are most anxiously expected. Eight or ten days must elapse before the writ- ten accounts can arrive. I have on my table various private letters from Bala- klava and the camp before Sebastopol. Most of these letters, though confident in the idea that sooner or later Sebastopol must fall, express the opinion that it will hold out for some time yet unless an assault is attempt- ed, which will cost a fearful loss of life, as the towa con. tains fort within fort. ‘The English army is much harrassed by fatigue, not counting more now than 16,000 active men. Large re- inforcements, French and English, are on their way. ‘The raseally Turks, for whow we are fighting, have , proved themselves cowards. Accorting to the Times’ coxrespondent, whilst the English cavalry was fighting hand to hand with the Rus- sian cavalry, the Russian artillery opened a murderous fire of grape upon the combatants, killing their own men as well as the English, ac act of barbarism which Attila or Nero would have shuddered at. There is a large Russian army now in the vicinity of Sebastopol, and the presence of the Grand Dukes Michel and Nicholas cannot fail to stimulate their ardor. ‘The following is a general summary of the troops at the dispesal of Prince’ Menschikot for defensive aad of- fensive operations, supposing the two remaining divi- sions (16th and 17th) of the 4th. corps to have joined:— INFANTRY. Ath corpe—12 regiments, 49 battalions (1 of Bayonets. corpe—4 regiments, 16 battalions 11,000 6th corps—8 regiments, 33 battalions (1 of rifles) 23,000 | ‘Tehornamora (Black Sea)—1 battalion (rifles). a Marines—8 battalions...........ccccseseeeeees 5,600 Totalessssceceeee Mee eteeeeeeeeerenereens 74,350 CAVALRY. en. 11th and 12th Hussars—2 regiments, 16 squa | drone cork corps re 1,750 | Combined Lancers— | (6th corps) oven. sseeee 1,760 | Reserve division ditto—4 regiments, 82 ‘squa | Arone (6th CORPS). s.06.ecee es seseees 9,400. | 7th and 8th Lancers—2 regiments, 16 squadrons ‘7th and 8t ussats—2 regiments, 16 squadrons (ath corps)... 1,750 Corsacks and Tartar ATONS 6.6 ase s Se vu ee sees ee sreeeeseennens 5,000 ners. ARTILLERY. dun 41) corps—14 Geld batteries of 10 guns each (140 gums). 2,900 | in the eye of two astounded worlds, 6th corps—20 ditto of 10 guns each (100 guns).. Cossacks—3 ditto of $ guns each (24 guns)..... | SAPPERS—TRAIN. Sappers—s battalions - 2800 Train—? civisions, . 14,000 1 ae 4,000 General total, with 264 field pieces. : Of the infantry and gunners nearly 30,000 \ ren a1 daily required for garrison work—s0 that not above fe = , NOVEMBER 27, 1854. — PRICE ‘WO CENTS. ir way wi‘h lightning speed to cars om this side of channelon.‘y too anxious for intelligence. Accor- sly, on his la, \ding, Mr. Soulé was apprised generally ‘the law, which “emained in force, and of the necessi- there was that the officials should communicate with the authorities at Paris before the Span- Fish Minister could ywoceed on his journey, which, of course, could be done instantaneously by telegraph. }But Mr. Souls would listoxr to nothing of the kind, The t American republic had been grievously insulted in hhis person. It should be war to the knife, and the only ‘aphic communication he would condescend to make pypewas one to Mr. Mason, to tell him at once to put on his and mount bis warhorse, and ride full tilt into the 000 remain disposable asa moveable body for offensit Puileries, knocking over, of course, all the sentinels and cperations; sven ‘etmitting ‘tees: all neldters PF lords in waiting, thar would dare to im rons, partiegr vector Dterorons fy boa Boer = pand then and there to demand satisfaction of Napoleon made to send down recruits and reserve men to all or lp Red Ti) SOT teal ae . op vacancies. From the above you will see that the capture of Sebas* | topol is not quite so easy a matter as was at first supposed. Since the affair of the 17th, the deets have not again attacked the forts by the sen side. The winter—Russia’s best ally—is approaching, and | the Czar cares little how many thousands of his memare, |) shot—be has plenty more; whilst our leeses cannot 60 easily be made up. A victory tous is almost equivalent, inethie respect, tow teteat. It appears that in the battle on the Sth November, no less than four English Generals were wounded. ‘The announcement that Russia offers to negotiate. on the basis of the four guarantee points is simply a sub terfuge, probably of Prussian invention. Baron von de Tfordten bas returned to Munich. The precise result of his mission bas not been made known. ‘The Austrian official organ thus announces his depar- ture from Vienna — The Royal Bavarian Minister-President Baron von der Pfordten has left Vienna to-day. It is well known that this statesman came hither from Berlin in order to mote by his exertions the establishment of a perfect agreement among the German States on the Oriental question. We have every reason to take for granted that by the frank and sincere manner in whieh the viows and intentions of the imperial royal government in re- fet of the pending European question have been 6x: plained to Baron von der Pfordten, he will have gained a conviction which will only be promotive of the patriotic object that he has had in view, and that he will bein a position to make a satisfactory report to his royal court touching his sojourn in Vienna. y The news from the Crimea absorbs, as you may ima- gine, every other topic. The telegraphic announcement that Sebastopol was stormed on the 4th is not true, as the above will already have convinced you. It is, however, true that the breaching batteries of the allies have got much nearer the walls. Local news there is none. The season will be a dull one. There is scarcely a family out of mourning. Lum- ley is going to try his hand once more at opening ‘“ Her Majesty’s Opera House.’ Cruvelli has returned to Paris and the opera, it seems, without having married her beau cavalier. « Nothing more has transpired respecting Mr. Soulé. Lonpon, Nov. 14, 1854. The Effect of the News from Sebastopol—Movements of the Revolutionary Leader’—George Sanders Still in London. There is a feeling of intense gloom throughout Eng- land, caused by the disastrous results of ¢he campaign in the Crimea. Though it is only whispered, yet there is the general and fearful presentiment of a total des- truction of the allied forces. In the general dissatis- faction against the policy of the ministry, and the in- dignation against the very natural course of Austria, the conquered nations see the possibility of a new turn in the affairs of Europe. The republican exiles in London look on in breathless expectation, Mazzini is still safe, and is active and supported. Kossuth and Leda Rollin called on Mr. Sanders the day he was to , leave, and begged him to remain a fortnight longer to watch with them the progress of events. Everybody believes that there will bea new shuffle and deal im Furopean cards before thany weeks ‘There is a proposition started in Londov, which it is believed will offer the best paying investment at the present time. It is the erection of American hotels at the different capitals of Europe,{corresponding with that now going up in Paris, It is intended to connect them with telegraphic wires, so that a man at Rdme or Vienna can speak to his friends in London, Another feature is the erection of an hotel of embassy, adjoining, and having at will a communication with the main hotel. Asis usual in our our own country, there* would be a weekly soirée at the large hotel, at which the Minister could re- ceive all Americans in town, without expense to himself, so that the present salary would then enable the Ameri- can Ambassador to meet all his countrymen with more freedom to themselves, and without exceeding his pay. European capitalists will take hold of this scheme with avidity, Mr. Sanders’ letter to the French has been published in four papers in Belgium, and five in Switzerland. Three thousand copies were struck in Brussels, and circulated’ in France. Our Paris Correspondence. Paris, Thuraday, Nov. 9, 1864. The Souls Difficulty—AUeged Provocations given by Mr. Soulé to the French Government—Ezplanations of the French Government—Serious View taken in France of the Prospects of the Crimea Campaign—The Court Fes- tivities Postponed—Affairs in Spain—Cuba, dc. Mr. Soulé is the happiest of men, While all Europe t# prostrate with anxiety—while cannon is thundering, and shells are scattering death and destruction—while mi zines, containing tweaty tons of powder explode and threaten torend the globe in twain—while the youth and chivalry of four kingdoms fly at each other’s throats and startle the world with martial daring—while the gal- lant crews of France and England plant their ships in the very teeth of battlements which well nigh sweep them from the seas—while at early dawn and dreary eve the first and latest thought is of Sebastopol—while mothers wail their children’s fate, and fathers curse their foe—while sagest statesmen stand and gaze, and gallant marshals pause in deepest doubt—while despotic monarchs bate their breath, and England’s sovereignty pales its quivering lip—Soulé—America’s Ambassador at the Court of Spain—holds equal poise with Sebastopol, Mr. Soulé must, therefore, be the happiest of men; and if his love of no- toriety is not satiated—if, like Alexander, he still sighs for more worlds to conquer—the sooner he mounts some Spanish bull, and, like another Europa, rides him oT to othorial fields, the better. Barth can give him no more. ‘As I mentioned in my last, it was not easy to get at the precise facts. Mr. Soulé and his friends were wo deter- mined on martyrdom that all sorts of stories were rife. At one time it was said the French government were in such haste to eject so dangerous @ person from the soi of France that he was almost driven back into the sea at the point of the bayonet. Fancy the encampment o St. Omer, lately reviewed by so many kings and poten- tates, breaking up in hot haste to expel the terrible foe ! At another time it was asserted that Mr. Mason—the most peaceful and benevolent and tranquil of men—had gone straight to the Emperor with pistols and an order for coffee for one, 40 deadly was the feud, and that the future maritime ascendency of the United States was al- ready bearing down to make practice off Calais or Bou- logne; but the truth is now fairly out, and, as it alwa; proves to be, more really interesting than the fiction. From the moment Mr Soulé crossed the Spanish fron- tier and placed his foot in France, he has been the aub- Jeet of the strictest « vo the result of which is, that while the Frenc!) at have totally failed ia fixing him with any overt act, his general conduct has g ven deep offence; and as soon as Mr. Soulé quitted the country on his late grand political mission, it was determined that eome means should be adopted to | prohibit his return to it as aresident, Not to give the matter the importance of an exceptional case, an old law of 1808 was hunted up, by whieh it had been enacted that Frenclimen becoming the naturalized subjects of any other country should net enter France without per- mission from the government ; and this, it appears, was the purport of the intimation made to Mr. Soulé on his landing at Calais. It seems that while in England Me. Soulé bad not thought it necessary to use the same pre- cautions which had governed his conduct in France, ‘uA limit his political aspirations to such ambiguous ‘acts and phrases as kept them far from the setby which he know himself to be surrounded ; but that he had fre- quent meetings with Kossuth, Ledru Rollin, Louts Blane end others, where hot words were spoken which winged and forthwith sallied Mr. Mason, not quite in ‘all 9 his brother ambassador would have had him, the temperance aml moderation of @ man who felt he had serious business on hand. He presented himself fizst at the bureau of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, where he learnt the have mentioned above, 1808, and that, notwithstanding Mr. Soul's impatience, the oficials at Calnis had immediately applied to. P Dy telegraph, from whence am immediate answer was returned that Mr. Soulé had full permission to pass Ahrough France en route to Spain, ‘altho h that such perzaission did not extend. te nee. Mr. mason then directly se: ofa personal interview with the chief of the tate, (0° which no impediment was offered. On this interview being arranged, Mr. Mason lost go time in p himself at the ‘palace, and with great good tact required to’ be informed: whether any slight was iatended the country he had the bonor to represent, by what had just taken place with regard to Mr. Soulé The answer of the Emperor is understood to have been | exceedingly firm, but replete with courtesy. That he had the highest respect for the Vnited States—that he contemplated her expanding power and resources with the warmest sympathy—that for Mr. Mason personally be entertained the most perfect consideration—that to pass the smallest slight or disrespect on that country ¢ ver} lations with a people with whom France was every day becoming more asnociated; but that there was nothing | such sentiments which ought to prevent him from view- ing the conduct of Mr. Soulé with the reprobation it justly merited; tha: the line which that gentleman had thought fit 10 pursue in Spain was notoriously not of a nature to entitle him to any extra consideration on the part of the French government; that during his sojourn in France he had met with great forbearance from it—but that his conduct in England within the last few weeks rendered it a matter of necessity for the public welfare that Mr. Soulé should not have the po wer of disseminating opin: ions which might be injurious to it. Mr. Mason is un- derstood to have denied emphatically, on the part of Mr. Soulé, that he had at any time, either in Francs or Eng- land, held communion with those who were hostile to the imperial government, and that during the whole period of hiv absence from ‘Spain, (an absence distinctly ap- roved of by his government,) he had conducted him- self with the self-restraint and dignified reserve becom- ing the responsible office he had the honor to fill. ‘The Emperor replied that he was bound to believe such as- surance, coming from a quarter he 60 entirely respected as that of Mr. Mason,and that Mr. Soulé had the full per- mission of his government to pass through France, en- route to Spain. Mr. Mason could do no more; he had demonstrated the natural susceptibility of the great country he repre- sented; he had done his best in support of an officer the administration which had nominated himself had ap- pointed, and Mr. Soulé was free, like any other obnoxious animal, to put his tail between his legs and run through France’as fast as he could, to such quarters and hospita- Ue welcome as he might find in Spain, Man could do no more, There was no occasion 10 pull down the clock tower of the Parielon in the Tuileries, to bark the sen- tinels, to fight the Emperor, and plant the American flag on his palace. Mr. Soulé might have desired as much. Mr. Mason did his duty t Marcy, and every body is well pleased with the result, and hopes that the American Ambassador at Madrid will henceforth stop in his proper place, or if that should, as is very probable, prove too hot to hold him, that he is to fling himself as speedily as possible into the arms of dear Mr. Marey, who has so high an opinion of him. Here it is uséless to deny that public opinion falls so short of Mr. Soule’s merits that many Americans are heard tosay boldly that it is a pity sucha renegade Frenchman, miscalled an American, did not take his passage in the ill-fated Arctic. No sooner had this famous interview occurred than vais usual, all gorts of ridiculous reports became cur- reat, It was said that Mr. Mason had gone with a high hand to demand his passports, etcetera, The Moniteur accordingly, yesterday, put forth a statement which has, no doubt, reached you through the English journals. You will find the coe igee journals so full of Sebas- topol that it will be simply sparing your colainns not to say a word on the subject, beyond the fact: that a sttange misgiving is stealing over the public mind, lest, in spite of the disasters which befell the enemy at the commencement of the campaign, it should turn out H the allies bave caught a Tartar. The detenge of Sebastopol is allowed on all hands to be admirable, ant what with the approach of winter, and the difficuity of Ltaining adequate supplies, military authorities of the first class begin to look serious. ‘The Emperor declares this to be no time for festivity, spite of the wants of trade, and that he will patronize no kind of gaiety till the result of Sebastopol be known. He deems it con- sistent with the dignity of the chief magistrate, on so momentous an occasion, to be more than ever reserved— und at half-past eight he withdraws from the saloon, let whoever will be there, whether to go to bed, to offer up his prayers for victory, to study the affairs of State, or toenjoy the privacy of domestic life with his beautiful Empress, deponent saith not. pid Fatmerston is shortly expected on visit to hls jesty. ‘The Queen of Spain has opened the Cortes in a speech of singular brevity, and especially framed to give no of- fence to any party. Her reception, as she passed through the streets, was dull and sullen; but there was no disturbance.” A general fecling of uneasiness, however, prevails. It is the stillness of the coming storm. An opinion is current that Mr. Soulé cannot do better than make a bold proposition on the subject of what he conceives to be his peculiar mission—‘‘ the sale of Cuba ;’’ and if he fail, to demand his recall before ordered out of the country like the English Ambassador, Sir Henry Bulwer. BERTIE. country, aad even to Mr. Parts, Noy, 13, 1854, Departure of Mr. Soulé from Paris—Stege of Sebas- topol—The French Beginning to Quail—Another great Victory over the Russians—Contradictions in some of the late Reports from the Theatre of War—Rumored Removal of the Earl of Lucan from his Command—A Yankee Deserter from the English Force—His Tragical End—Entente Cordiale of the English and French Com- manders in Chief—Rumored \ Objects of Lord Palmer- cton’s Visit to Paris—Carlist Movements in Spain— The Spanish Government Determined not to Cede Cuba * Theatrical News, dc. That erratic star, Mr. Soulé, eclipsed on Saturday, after illumimating with its peculiar lustre the Parisian hemisphere for the space of three days. . The honorable gentleman is said to have deported himself with most Jamblike inoffensiveness during his sojourn in this me- tropolis, and to have departed with thé intention of placing himself at his post at Madrid by the end of the month. We hear of the ‘“gude man’’ preferring al- ways to arrive at his domestic hearth exactly as the kettle boils; Mr. Soulé perhaps is waiting for the bubbling of the ~ Spanish cauldion ere he prepares to visit it with his imeantations, and it is probable he will not have to wait long. Soulé and Spain in the nineteenth century haye secured them- selves a separate page in history, which is saying a good deal, considering the siege of Sebastopol will have to be secorded I, for one, however, must now sink the Ambassador in the piege, for the tales which the telegraph brings from the Crimea are shaking the heart of Paris to its certre. In vain does each journal in turn exclaim there is no fear—in vain does it demonstrate, on the strictest military principles, that Sebastopol must fall in a day or two—in vain does it tell of unwonted carnage, of heaps of unburied dead, of festering pestilence, of demorali- zation and desertion—there is notonly fear, but absolute panic. The Bourse on the 9th, after I despatched my letter, was literally beside itself, and though General Canrobert’s communication to the Minister of War, pub- lished yesterday in the Monifewr, might have tended to allay the excitement, the account this morning cf @ briliiaut wetory, in which th¢ nus Kusteined a loss of some eight or ten tho her inereased than Aiminished the state of forori sd) sasiety: for Canrobert speaks of terrible losse: ‘The conduct of Austria, which was becoming overy day regarded with lesa suspicion, is now once more most se- verely criticised, and feelings dammed up for the mo- ment are now bursting their sluices, and inundating that treacherous Power with a hatred and fury, and tempestuous violence, which show the intense bitterness of hostility which naturally exists between France and her former enemy. Every wind that blows brings ae counts of her domineering occupation of the provinces— provinces which she ts bound by good fafth (o hold as a friend of Turkey, and ns asnored deposit. She treats, | —Carlists, moderadoes, progressistas, and what not— | {i Expartero is in fora regency, the Queen to be sent adrift after her mother, and the Princess of Asturias, her infant daugh- it is thought, cannot long survive the meeting of the Cortes. ‘You will have seen the explanations of the French 4o. verometat of the Soulé sffqir. They were afraid “19 in- however, these provinciais with all the haughty insolence of a master, and, as in Italy 60 onthe Danube, the sbadow of her protection is the leaden hand which chills the life, blood of allit touches, But this is not the worst of it; she makes her occupancy subservient to the plans ) Of Russia, Tho Turks have been prevented making a di- version in Bossarabia to draw off (ho Russians from giviog last thing he desired; that on the con- | trary, he wished to cultivate and foster the closest re- | —— relief or reinforcements to Sebastopol, and large bodie: | of the Czar; and this morning’s Moniteur contains a des: | iustrious personages, ond that, aided by General Bos 9,000 men, but that the contest lasted the whole day . while on the French left General Foory had toencounter & sortie of the garrison, which he repulsed with the “laughter of a thousand men. The despatch adds that the siege is regularly continued, but that brilliant as has been the achievement of the allied arms, their losses are considerable. And here lies the rub. sufficient for such perilous victories. The fleets are un. dermanned in consequence of the aid they have dung on shore, Ont of 30,000, it is question whether 10,000 are left. What the loss sustained om the 25th, in the affair of | Balaklava by the charge of the English cavalry is, it is dificult to kay. General Canrobert, in his despatch of yesterday, says: “The day was already far advanced when tHe’ English light cavalry, about 700 strong, giving way too much to their ardor, vigorously charged the main body of the Russian army. ‘This impetuous charge ‘executed under the cross fire of rausketry and ortillery, at first produced considerable disorder in the enemy's ranks. This body of cavalry, led away too far from us, suffered consider- bees a After having panera the gunners of two ere ol return, weakened by 150 Bea EAE Te Popol tant cals i Phe eases see and not that ‘ 800 cavalry were engaged, of whom only 20 returned,” as was reported. But General Canrobort, it must be remembered, is not bound by a return which is not French ‘There has been 50 much discussion about this cavalry charge that it is necessary to teli you some persons | assert that it originated in'a mistake. In fact, 1 saw a | letter last night from an officer on board the Bellerophon, which states that Lord Raglan’s orders to Lord Lucan were that the cavalry should remain on the “defenstve,”” | which was mistaken for the “ offensive,”’ and that thus | the error was perpetrated. The English had i ‘ken the two redoubts on their left which had oeen Lost— the Russians were in full rout, and were about to abandon the other two on. their right, when an heroic but most inopportune | charge of’ English | tight cavalry changed the state-of things. One report says that the Russians, in retiring from the two works on the right, were going perhaps to carry away the seven guna which were there, when Lord Raglan sent orders to the officer in command of the cavalry to charge the Rus- sians and retake the guns. The officer who carried the order, and who was killed, signified, it is said, Lord Raglan’s wishes to Lord Lucan. Lord Cardigan, who was in command of the light brigade, to whom the order was transmitted, observed that the battery against which he was to charge was flanked by two others, with a cross-fire on the ground to be traversed—that the distance was enormous—that the infantry would join its fre to that of the artillery, and that the Russian cavalry would be able to act in its turn. He was told that the order was imperative, just as it was sent by the commander-in-chief. Lora Cardigan. then set off with eight hundred men. who conducted them- selves like heroes. They advanced under a fire of artillery and musketry. The men whom. the fire did not stop on the way, arrived at the battery, which many went across; but the horses were fatigued and blown, and it was found necessary to again traverse back this Piece of ground, ploughed up by the. fire of the enemy. horses did not return, and 160 men were killed, ‘wounded or made prisoners. Another rumor prevails, however, that Lord Raglan has suspended Lord Lucan, the General in command of the cavalry, for this and other acts of imprudence, and | that he is'to be sent to England. Lord Cardigan and | Lord Lucan are brothers in-law. | The same letter from the Bellerophon I have before | alluded to, states that some desertious from the English | had taken place, and that these consisted of two Royal | Artillery men, and another of the Royal Marine Artillery. | The princigl one, however, was a blue jacket from the | Diamond, * said to be a Yankee. ” The moment the Cap- | tain ot the Diamond was informed of it, he ordered the powder magazine to be changed from its then locality. (the captain happened to be on shore, aud took the re- | sponsibility of acting in the emergency), and five minutes had not elapsed after the removal when a whole flight of | shells lodged exactly in the place where he had formerly | stood. Afterwards the enterprising blue jacket, cross- | belted and caparisoned like a Russian, made a gullaut | sortie, and all his comrades being shot or frightened | away, he alone was left, tobe instantly seized, aud, with | more than Lynch-like judgment, to be girdled with a rope and made to dangle in the air forthwith. prosaic termination to so much poetic adventu such, perhpas, he thought w cldents of ‘flood? | and field: it was an evil hcur which seduced him from | those of the forme Lord Raglan and Canrolert seem to suit each other ad- mirably, The French think they are each a little too cold and too much men of detail. But it is almost im possible to convey to you the various degrees of hops andfear, of despondeney and triumph, which the na tional character evinces while this famous siege is go ing on. Their ardent nature cannot brook delay they must conquer or die; and what with the war baying something of a more complex character than they have been accustomed to—what with their suspicion of Aus tzia, their slight dependence on Turkish valor, their distrust of la perfide Alvion, and their misgivings about Napo!-on’s monetary resources, they are ready to ery sauve qui peut at the first contrary wind that blows. Lord and Lady Palmerston are expected to day at St. Cloud. It will be recollected, that of all the British statesmen, this noble lord was the first and foremos! support of Napoleon the Third, after his famous coup détat, ‘ What a rascally thing it is #”” said Sir Charles Wood. “Very true,” was Lord Paimerson’s answer, “but sodaver.”” It in uoderstood that on the present occasion he is, as Home Minister, to receive the Emperor’s instruc- tions as to the manuer of his reception in England on his promised visit to the Queen, and that while doing this he is specially to take into consideration the possibility of bringiug Austria and Prussia to a more definite under- standing, making known to the Emperor, at the same now has available in her militia. The German journals state that Austria and Prassia have already, between themselves, come to an under standing on the Eastern-question, and that Austria has agreed to abstain from any act in favor of the policy of the Western Powers which would give offence to Russia, Every account from Spain, shows that a spark is but required to ignite the whole country. The Carlists are stirring heaven and earth in Navarre, and troops are already directed thither, to prevent an outbreak. | Pam- phlets and placards, of a most offensive and disgusting character, boldly challenging the Queen to present her- self as a criminal at the bar of the Cortes, are distribu- | ted in the strects of Madrid, and arc not suppressed. A conference is said to have been held, in the presence of General Expartero, M, Pacheco, and the English and French ambassadors; when it was determined to oppose any proposition for the cession of any portion of the ter- ritory of Spain, To revert to Paris: °A circumstance scarcely less im- portant than the last political news, has occurred, in the arrival of Mad’lle Cruvelli, after her late eccentric de- parture. But as the potentates of song, any more than more substantial powers, do not abdicate or again re- sume their functions without the fall of some chief min- ister of State, who, of course, has done it all, so, as the Cravellian star once more rises, that of M. Roqueplan, t! Imperial Opera Manager, is doomed to wane, The world is simply informed that had it not been for him the list- ening monde would still have been enjoying the notes of this queen of song; therefore M. Roqueplan makes his bow. | In his place, by imperial decree, steps M. Crosnier, de- puty of the Corps Legislatif, and takes the title of General Administrator. For the future all actions or engage- ments are to be directed by, or against, the Administra- tor General. The Emperor is determined that the season of 1854-5 shall be unexampled in brilliancy, Every minister is expected to have his private opera box, aad balls of a highly pictorial and imaginativ acter are to be given, not only at the palace but at all tne minis terial hotels. Trade needs. the stimulus, “and trade,” says the Emperor, ‘shall have it, only let us give the coup de grace to Sebastopol.” BERTIE. Pars, Nov. 9, 1354. Departure of Mr. Souté for Madrid—His Policy—Appeal | tothe Cortes—A Queen to be Succeeded by a Regency, de.—Patriotism of the Americans in Paris—A General Ezodus Proposed on the Soulé Question—The Archbishop of New York at Paris—St. Anne and her Mother Free from Original Sin !—The Pope a Foreign Prince—Do the Know Nothings s0 consider Him ?—Modern French Philosophical Worke—Works of Heinrich Hein, one of * Uncle Tom's"? Converts— George Sand—Return of Cruvelli to the Grand Opera—Mme Stolte—M. Fould and ‘his!’ Emperor—Meyerbeer—A New Opera by Scribe and Verdi—Sporting Goseip—Yankee Rifles for the Eastern War—Menschikoff’s Lyric Despatches— Agitation in Hungary, Poland, Sweden and Finland— Will Mr. Soulé Fight with the French Minisier—Ihe Exhibition—New Houses in Paris. Mr. Soulé has left for Madrid, through France to Bor- deaux, thence in the U. 8. steamer San Jacinto to Spain—Santandar or some other port. Possibly Spain may reject him, i! the intrigues of the French Court and the prejudices of the Empress are successful. In the event of a rupture, France, in these things, has given unequivocal assurances of support to Spain. ‘The Cuba question will be formally brought before the Cortes, mow In session at Madrid. Mr. Soulé will appeal from the Cabinet, the diplomats of England and France, and the Spanish grandees, to the representatives of the people. The Cortes, as now constituted, are the supreme rower including the sovereighty itself. The battlets to | mounting dingy, badIooking, hat the faors ni ‘be fought there. The body is represented by all factions including some thirty reliable democrats, ter, to be proclaimed, The existing ministry of troops from the Danube have made their way iuto the Crimea, commanded by Dukes Michel and Nicholas, sons patch, dated the 6th of November, sta ting that an attack was made on the English right in the presence of these’ The foree is not | and the English army is rapidly being consumed. time, the nature of the resources which England just | 8 | tended to take up his residence in France. St is a re- markable fact, and highly honorable to the chivalry of the Americans in Paris, that they had in a body determined - | to leave the city m case of a refusal to retract the inter- dict against our Minister toSpain. ‘A deputation to thie effect actually waited upon Mr. Mason. The departure of the Americans would have been a serious loss to Paria. quet’s division, it was repulsed with the loss of 8,000 or | There are said to be a thousand families of them here, and they are proverbially among the wealthiest and most extravagant people of thix gay capital. Their exodus would have made a gemsatiam in more waye thaa one. The reds think it a pity i did not happen. The arrival of the Archbishop of New York is announc- ed im the Paris journals. He is probably on his way te the Council at Rome in December, which is to pronounce upon the dogma of Immaculate Conesption. The French secular press generally abstains front commenting upom | this question; but it has oceasioned in the Journal des | Débats a serics of elaborate articles, and’ the Siécle hae provoked the raillery of ultraniontaniste by decrying, if it were itself a stalworth cha on of tradition, what it calls a novelty in the church, The Siécle, however, pro- fesses to avoid the religious bearings of the question. It profanely asks, imdeed, if the council, for the sake of giving o more direetly celestial origin to the Blessed Vir- gin, decides that St. Anne, the mother of Mary, shared with her exalted daughter the privilege of conception free from original sin, why not extend the privilege te the mother of St. Anne, to’her grandmether, and s0 on to all her predecessors in the maternat'line? But it ia- | sists, ehiefly on the political bearings of a mecting in « | foreign country of French prelates under the presidence ; of the Pope, who is not only Christ’s Vicar but a foreign prince. It sees, or thinks ft sees, in this meeting a dan- ger for the liberties of the Gallican church. Are the now Nothings in the United States equally jealous of the relations between Pius IX. and American prelates? ‘The Bishop of Poitiers has anathematized the sinful impartiality of the French academy in lately conferring prizes upon a priest and a philosopher—upon the Abba Gratry—for a work on ‘God and his Attributes,” and Jules Simon, an eminent professor; for a work om “Duty.” The pious bishop is shocked that ‘Ctristiam philosophy, which points with its fingers the road te heaven, should receive the crown exmque with material- istic morality, which leads only to those virtues whereof | hell is full’? Will M. de Salvandy delight the Moata- | lamberts, the Veuillots, and the Nicolardots, by an hum- ble penitential confession, in the name of the Academy, in replying to the Bishop of Orleans, whose reception takes place to day at the Institute? If he does, he will have made amends for M. Villemain’s eulogy of M. Simon’s book, as uniting the rigor, the firmaess of philo- sophical sense to the intelligence, the respect, the indi- rect preaching of religious truth, and thus being in en- tire uniformity with the famous maxim of Bacon and the religious testament of Liebnitz. He will have made amends also for the recent satire of M. Vienult, the laureate of the Academy, against such apologists of the middle ages as M. Veuillot, with his droit de Seigneur (Lord’s right), and M. Nicolardot, with his seanda- lous revelations of the private life of Voltaire an@ his contemporaries. At this momsent of religious reac- | tion im France, Messrs. Veuillot, Nicolardot, and the | Abbé Gaume, with his Ver Ronguer, (you remember, | he holds that Pagauism in modern education has eat | away, like “a devouring worm,” the virtues implanted | by the Fathers of the Church,) seem to have it all their own way. While philosophers of every school are lutnp- | ed in ghe mass as Voltairians, one of their owm masters, Cousin, whom they style the heir of Descartes, appears to have forsaken severer studies to write biographies of the Duchess de Longueville and the Marchioness du Sabli—to pink metaphysical lace in the mysteries of the female heart. But the philosophers are neither discou- | raged nor idle, if we may judge by the number of philo- | sophical works which have lately appeared in France. | Among these, without mentioning Reynaud’s “ Heavem and Earth,’ or the second edition of Simon’s “ Duty,’* | must be named “Waut’s Philosophy,” by J. Barni ; | “Theory of Human Reason,” by Charles Bailly; “Trans. | lation of Leibnitz’s unpublished Refutation of Spinosa,’* | by Foucher de Cariel; “The Subjective Logic of Flegel,’? by H. Sloman and J, Wallon; and “History of the Care } tesian Philosophy,’ by F. Bouillier. * But these heavy philcsophical works cannot hope te | secure #0 many readers as another publication of the | Season, which will count in its seven volumes not a few | philosophical pages, it is true, but infinitely more that will attest the quality of their author as a poet, rathee | than a philosopher. Irefer to the complete works of Heiprich Heine, that German Frenchman, or French Ger- | man, who must have been born by mistake on the other side of the Rhine. Geceramtionty. he hails from Berlin, | but his peculiar talent gives the lie to latitudes, and Paria boasts of bim one her favorites most richly en- | dowed with esprit. He is well described as ‘ to Voltaire and nephew to Diderot, lost in the land | of Kant and Klopstock.’’ Of late, indeed, | himeelf out ina remarkable article in the Deux Mondes, as having finished the rounds “taverns of philosophy,” ‘and converted by of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ finding himself on with ‘Uncle Tom”? before an open Bible, | Mrs. Beecher Stowe rejoice prematurely, for mits himself, that even yet he does not see | clearly as Uncle Tom in the latter part of volume. His ‘conversion’? would scarcely admi on probation to the Methodist church. For years an incurable spine disease has confined Heinrich Heine to his bedroom in the rue d’Amsterdam, de; ing of life almost his whole body, save his head; but = living head is more full of life than his. George Sand, who promised t o give in the Presse the history of her life, is giving there instead the history of her father’s. Waggish critics say that in this she the holy commandment—‘‘Honor thy father and t! mother, that thy a prolonged. Her life. or the history of it, wi Bong enouet if she multiplies such digressions as it has abundantly displayed thus ft journals are full of eulogy on the success, lant of medy, or rather of the and 0 rst acts, and the conclusion of s new comedy, Geass San Ge gehen to the fashion here, hae made out of one of her novels. The co: in entitled Flaminir, and its materials were supplied by Such admirable Teverino. as Rose Cheri and her companions at the Gymnasie hantasy of Mt "me upon this p! | Sand mignt well tempt hed lage hay mistake it for a | master-plece and not s phan’ fit is, notwithstand- ing, like almost every other of productions on the a a t the event of the week for the theatre ie, bee been the announcement of the velar ivo—te re almost oMtclatly ett nd Oper. aren are almost oft ally told that a ttable misunderstanding prevent ‘of | Siles Cruvelll from informing the administration Before: | hand of the artist’s departure; that alarmed at the bad. eflect that ensued, the artist did not dare (as if there were anything that she would not dareif willed) te re-appear before the public; but that convinced that the evils occasioned by her absence would be, wated by further delay, she has solicited and ol autho- rization to resume her services at the opera. If, aw Iyhave already intimated to you, the return of Cru- velli prevents the fall of a minister, his friends wild have as little reason as the public to complain of 4 compromise which restores an eccentric but ed artist to the opera, M. Fould ma; find it more difficult to pacify Mme. Stoltz than peng i had sent for erie We Lees te her that “by express orders of the Emperor, he wished to treat her ith all the consideration due to her, as = favorite with the public.” Now, I should have premised that the Minister is accused of being, in his manners, a cross between a seller of tickets at the door of the thea- tre, and @ member of the Jockey Club—in short, an iit bred man. You can judge for yourself from his inter- view with Mme. Stoltz. ‘Yes,”’ continued M. Fould, ‘we intend to be very liberat with you. Indeed, the Emperor himself said to me—La Stolts ext vielle elle est latde c'est 2 mais elle adu feu’? —The Stolta is old, she is ugly, that’s true; but she has her ‘fire’? was not sit fire. “The Stoltz?’ proved, that ashes, Interru the ister, she exclaimed:— “You and your Emperor are two ua wink to make an cogsqoment with me; I wish for none; you offer me money; I refuse it; and you may tell your Em: peror that Iam rich enough to lend him some when he Il have exhausted the treasury of France.”’ With this treasonable and fiery speech ‘the Stolts’’ left the Minister ser otirenin a It in needless to add ee engagement will ret 1 long at the opera, expecial now that “the Cruvelli’ has returned. ‘i Meyerbeer, who had withdrawn his ‘“Africaine’ om account of the absence of Mile. Cravelti, and offered it, they say, to the Italian opera house in London, left Paria last week for Berlin, where he will probably’ pass the oe cinta) the eo = rr with _ ruant ‘enty ian, At all events, & SS ate Serie, the muste by Nerd in which Cruvelli wi tf s being read to-dag at the Opers, Throughthe fog, which made the last races at - I z 3 3 i z Hs i j 2 = Bg i 3 5 3 FF be i hi hantom races with spectral Sockets, have been discerned on the ‘Boulevards during the Inst week, an unusonl oumber of red <, sur Cee thought caps ‘ ronung Fes ptians peoden oh nape Relerd jogged at Berlin, fo twawnedt ef tos, ie at in, for itl-treat one of tative of their country in Prussia icly rofessors, the rey formally pracested. But thoy tam out to another patel ol ope n boys, who have beon sent to Pacis to pursue th stadte Looming up through the fog, aleo, bas been seen, several times this week, jigh- pointed cap, pale face, long black beard and nondesorpt costume, belonging te on outlandish individual, wna the people call ‘'Sehamyl,"” as he rides glong the levards with the Ottoman ambayadop I have mot yee