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      ing allusions to recent instances of dabbling in the funds by exclusively informed officials . There is , however , we believe , no official stockjobbing plot , but only tlie fact that routine does not go forth with telegraph speed or sympathise -with the impatience of 'Change . The Popiahijiot lias stronger testimony to it . We Lave the- evidence of Mr . Disraeli in his letter to the Blackburn Protestant Association : lie discerns papistical dangers in the premiership of Lord Aberdeen , and hints at rescue iom the hands of Lord . John Russell , if only LorcWohn could be separatedTfrom his Premier;—and if only , we surmise , he should be associated with Mr Disraeli .

      The Popish plot against the State , however , is further from ifs goal than the Popisli plot against another eminent individual . The case is flagrant in the papers this week . A monarch has been . dethroned . Like Europe , the Morning Advertiser has been much agitated of late . It has sympathies with Hungary T and its bowels have yearned towards Kossuth ¦; ' it has sympathies with Dissent T and has felt intestinal emotions on behalf of the Voluntary principle , insomuch that for the time the claims of the tavern , the public house , and brewery were forgotten ^ The organ of the Licensed Victualler Interest seemed for a time in possession

      of Urquhart , Ivossuth ^ Mazzini , and the leaders of the future . But ; in the meaTiwhile , what became of the present Beer Act thatr invaded the liberty of" . Sunday excursionists and of ' publicans ? The publican public leaved with the billows of agitation ; the quarterly meeting , ^ wnieh is also the annual meeting , approached , —arrived , ~ and a formal resolution was levelled at the policy of the paper committee , the premiership of theV editor . Manfully did the latter withstand the , storm ; and , he declared for the enlightenment of the discontented , the true motive of it was a popish plot got up against him by a Jesuit

      Irencaman . lhe Jesuit frenchman , it turnsout is a . Scotch Presbyterian . But the crisis was the 1848 of the Morning Advertiser ; and the ILouis Philippe of that office , -who had tried to . reconcile the -old regime "with revolution , and to accommodate high ambitions with ; the interests of the middle classes on whom he rested , was obliged to escapey—in . what disguise -we have not yet learned . Terrible ^ however , are the doings of popery when we find : two men like the Editor of the Advertiser and ..-the late Chancellor of the Exchequer thus

      struggling with adversity . In presence of these great events , we hear with comparative dulness of old news -which Sir William Moles-worth gives forth from Edinburgh . As a newly-made burgess of that city , he declared that the sword shall not be sheathed , on . the D anube until Russia be controlled . As a . burgess of Aberdeen , Mr . Hume testifies to the probity of the noble Premier who takes his title from the town . And , in the- same week , Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttort also testifies to the amiable character of Mr . Ualsey , the late member for Hertfordshire !

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      Almost simultaneously -with this , the annexed despatch from Marshal St _ Arnaud appeared in the Moniteur , in Paris : — " Bivouac on the Alma , Sept . 20 . " We encountered to-day the « nemy on -the Alma . " The--woody ravine through -which the river runs , studded ; with louses , passable only at three points ,, and having : very steep slopes on ; the left bank , was occupied by the > enemy ins great forces These slopes were strongly intrenched , and : covered by a po-werful artillery . " Tfe > allied armies attacked these difficult positions ¦ with unparalleled vigour . " Our soldiers advanced to the assault with cries of ' Vive VEmpereurP and carried all that was before them . tl The battle lasted four hours , and our loss was 1400 killed and wounded ..

      "lam as yet ignorant of the loss sustained by the English army , which fought valiantly against an obstinate resistance . " Telegraphic messages were received about the same time from Vienna , stating that the battle on the 20 th had been followed by another on the 22 nd , on the Katcha , and that after a sanguinary battle the Russians were totally defeated and pursued to the intrenchraents before Sebastopol . Tliis was immediately succeeded by another despatch from Bucharest , dated 28 th , announcing the capture of Sebastopol by the Allies on the 25 th , the garrison to-which a free retreat was offered " preferring to remain prisoners of war . " ,

      On Monday an announcement iras made in the papers by the Turkish Minister , that he had received the following telegraphic despatch from Vienna : — " Vienna , Oct . 2 . " The French Embassy and the Austrian Government have received from Bucharest , ¦ u nder daie 6 p . m . September 30 , the following , telegraphic despatch .: — "' To-day , at noon , a Tatar arrived from Constantinople with despatches for Omar Pacha ; his Highness being at Silistria , the- despatches had to fte forwarded to Mm at that place . " ' The Tatar announces the capture of SebastopoL l ? , 000 Russians were killed and wounded , 22 , 000 made prisoners ; Fort' Gonstantine was destroyed , and other forts ,, mounting 200 guns , taken .. ¦

      " Of the Russian fleet six sail of the line were sunk , and Prince Menschikoff had re-tired to the bottom of the bay with the remaining vessels , declaring that he would burn them if the attack continued . . " ' The Allied Commanders had given him six hours to . consider , invitin g Mm . at the same time to surrender , for the sake of humanity . ct' A French-General and three Russian Generals , all wounded , have arrived at Constantinople , which city was ; to be illuminated for ten days . '" To this it was added , that " The Oestereicliisdhe Correspondenz confirms the news already received , with the sol « difference that instead ; of 23 , 000 Russians being killed and wounded and 25 , 000 made prisoners , it says 18 , 000- Russians were killed and 22 , 000 made prisoners .. Port Constantine blew up , and other forts ,, with 200 guns , were taken , "

      On' Tuesday , the Times published , under the head of " Decisive Intelligence , " the following : — - " On the 23 rd Fort Constantine was destroyed toy the Allies , and Fort Alexander ta 3 cen . " On the , 24 th all the redoubts and forts around Sebastopol , all the batteries , and the Arsenal , were in tho bands of the Allies . u Tho flags of the Allies were hoisted on the tower of tlio Church of St . Vladimir . " It is believed that tho day on which Prince Menschikoff surrendered at discretion was tho 2 Gth . " It ia soid that tho . remainder of the Russian fleet is safe in tho hands of tho Allies . " The Turkish army will at onco cross tho Danube into Beasorabia . " There nlao appeared in other papers this : —

      THE WAK . v THE CRIMEA . On the evening of Saturday last an extraordinary Gazette was published and circulated extensively by tho Duke of Newcastle , containing a telegraphic despatch from . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe , dated . Constantinople , Septomber 23 rd , as follows : " Tho intrenched camp of tho Russians , containing 50 , 000 men , with a numerous artillery and cav-alry , on tho Iwighta of the Almn , was attacked on the 20 th inst ., at ~ X p . m ., by tho allied troops , and carried by tho bayonet at half-past threo with a loss on our sido of about 1400 killed and wounded , and an equal loss on the' side of tho French . Tho Russian army was forced to put itself in full retreat . " Tho Gazette was read in person by tho Eord . Mayor to a largo party assembled at tho inaugurabanquot of tho Sherifl ' s « t the London Tavern , and then proclaimed in form at the Royal Exchange .

      On the following day a supplement to the Gazette extraordinary was issuod , containing the following Megrophic despatch from Lord Raglan , not dated , evidently written on tho 21 st of September : tout t . ~ 11 lictl ft" «> cs yesterday attacked the position of " Tho u ' l 0 hoi S lltrt * l > ovo tho AJma , and carried it , the encinr ' w * ' "ittlo , about an hour and a half boforo after a asperate ik 1 < l mr »»™ tho Wcry and oxcol-Buneottfofching cou * " Iho po » iUo » wns Tory

      for-. . lent conduct of tho troop * . 'moroua art . llcry of heavy midablo , and defended by a nv . ls very coiifijdornblo , calibre . Our Iobb , I regrot to actu , ' ™ w . Tho inain lout no general oflloor has Ibcon wow 'mtoa at from foody of tho army of tho oncmy was Ofttn . " % among 45 , 0 VQ . to 60 , 000 infantry . A few prtoono ,., - been . two ,. general oukors * ami two gun « , Ihotv . whom , two /^ . ll ( m y ( " RAarxs . * takonby tlw Eng * jor .. '

      " Five Iiours after tho bombardment , Fort Constantino blow up ; 10 , 000 Russians wore buried' in its ruins . Prince Menschikoff fled to Fort Alexander , whoro 18 , 000 Russians shortly surrendered . " Tho allied fleets simultaneously destroyed tho outor harbour , forts , and vanguard , of tho Hussion fleet . " Princo Menschikotf is reported to have unconditionally sucrendcrcd on tho evening of the 2 Gth . " On tU © same day , however , there appeared , the following : — " Berlin , Tuesday , Oct . 3 . u A tolegraphio despatch has been received here direct from St . Petersburg ; It says that Princo Monschikoff has telegraphed , under data of September 2 ( 1 , that ho has withdrawn his troopa , xinmolosted , from boforo Sobiifltopol towards BnktHchi-Sorai . There ho will a-wait roinforcomontB from Kortsoh and Pcrokop . 14

      He tidde that Sebastopol has not been attaokod up to tho 26 th of September . " This was treated as of little valuo , as it was evident that *' 2 f ) th" was a misprint for " 20 th . " Tho capture of Sobaatopol was on Wednesday treated as an established fact , and tho only fooling wan that there was an umwarrantrtblo dclny of oittcial information ; but it -was accounted for by tho supposition that as tUo telegraphic despatch , giving

      intelligence of the battle on the 20 th of September * ° ,, * H ^ y to Teach this country , no news of the faai of Sebastopol could arrive much before the 6 th in&fcant . u On Thursday morning there was no confirmation of the report of ttoe fall of Sebastopol in most of the papers ; and the : Morning Chronicle published the following telegraphic despatches : — " Constantinople , Sept . 25 . "At the Battle of . the Alma , on the 20 th of September ,. th& KtoHHns numbered 45 , 000 men , and 100 cannon . " The English Bad 189 S . Eank and file , 96 officers 114 sergeants , and ? 2 3 drummers ,. kiHed and wounded . ' " The loss of the French was 1400 men and 60 officers .

      11 Vienna , Wednesday , Oct . 4 . " The Trieste Zeitung < says that the reported faU of Sebastopol is false . " The- Allies had sent to Varna for cavalry . " Vienna , Wednesday Evening . " Advices from Odessa of the 29 tli of September state that fighting continued uninterruptedly in the Crimea from the 25 th to the departur e of the courier on the 27 th . " The allies-were on the rivets Belbek and Merterewady , ten versts from Sebastopol . " The English Levant steamer took 340 -wounded Russians from Eupatoria to Odessa on the 28 th . " Six alliedsteamers hadcaptured prizes off Odessa" The Turkish troops at Bucharest fired guni on the 2 nd to celebrate the victory of the Alma . "

      Serious doubts were then generally entertained as to the accuracy of the statements which had fixed so early a day for the storming of Sebastopol as the 26 th ,- but there Avas little hesitation in the belief that the fortress had fallen . The matter -was set at rest in the evening of Thursday by the publication of another extraordinary Gazette , containing a teljegraphic despatch from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe in these terms : " September 30 , 1854 , at 9 | p . si . " The allied armies established their basis of operations at Balaklava on the morning of the 28 th , and - were preparing to inarch without delay upon Sebastopol . The Agamemnon , and other vessels of war of the allies , were in the port of Balaklava . There were facilities there for disembarking the battering train .

      " It is stated that Prince Menschikoff was in the field at the head of 20 , 000 men , expecting reinforcements ; that the fortified place o £ Anapa has been burnt by the Russians ; that its garrison was inarching to the scene of action ; and that a convoy of ammunition , escorted by Cossacks , had been taken and destroyed by an English detachment . " The Banshee , bearer of this nevrs , left the Crimea on the evening of the day before yesterday . " With the exception of the obvious , but ludicrous blunder , of making the despatch arrive at Bucharest six , liours before it was said to have been sent to Constantinople , the intelligence it contained peaces the state of affairs in a pretty clear light .

      In the first place , although Sebastopol is not taken it is completely invested . After the battle of Alma , tho Allies must , probably at tho expense of another battle , havo driven M ^ enschikoff with a portion of his forces into the interior , and marched down to the south , and rested on Balaklava , a place which was at one time thought of as the best for the landing of the expedition , as its heights command the south side of Sebflstopolj and the army could bo supported

      by the fleets in the bay . That project was abandoned because Balaklava was at that time strongly occupied by the Russian forces -which wei'e subsci quently withdrawn . As tho fleet is in the port of Balaklava , Sobastopol is invested by sea and land ; the bay affording every facility for landing tlip sicgo train and tho reserve ^ from Varna , which will lio required , ns Menachikoff is to bo kept in check while tho siege , proceeds . It is not likely to bo a long one .

      On' Friday morning tho following vras published : — " Mrarseillc 9 , Thursday ovoning . " Tho Nil , which left Constantinople on the 25 tli , has arrived with despatches . " Tho loss of tho English at tho battle of tho Ahnre amounts to 2000 men . " That of the Fronoh ia not so groat . * ' Oonornl IJonot is among tho lulled .

      41 . Lord UurghcrHh , who loft M « ita in tho Fury beforo tho Nil , with despatched for tho Engliah GoYcmnant , hut ) not yet arrived . " Tho capture of Sobastopol ia not confirmed . " On Friday evening eomo further det « H » at ^ battle of tho 20 th , reached town , na follows : — " Paris , Friday , S a . m . " Tho allied armioH « ro in communication with tlm ileota . A hiiI ' u nnd practicable rond loadH to SclmMopol" Tluj allies uro now firmly outabliehod iu tlio Crlnien .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 7, 1854, page 938, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2059/page/2/