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      Austria though , in any case , likely to the end to observe neutrality , if we permit her , is fomenting success for the King of Prussia ; and meanwhile both , are arming and both are getting money : Prussia by a direct loan } Austria by the mortgage of her railways for 24 , 000 , 000 / ., to the Parisian credit mobilier . The latter transaction is to be settled on the 5 th December : and the view taken

      in the City is , that if the negotiation be completed , the French capitalists -will have obtained the conviction that Austria is safe to be , at least , not for Russia . Yet as the price of a guarantee like this may be a pledge from . Louis Napoleon that he will aid in suppressing Italian , Polish , or Hungarian insurrections , England may be made a party to a dismal and disgraceful pact of despotisms . Let Parliament look to it .

      There is no talk of any intention to retrieve the blunder at Petropaukmsky . Why is not a force despatched to blow ttose forts into the air ? There is , again , nothing said of the Government comprehending their duty in meeting Russian intrigues in India—all that . 'is done feeing to put Major Edwardes on one side , without powers or instructions , and to plant at "ieherah the Hon . Mr . Murray , without capacity or purpose .

      Excepting the Kossuth meeting , and the Patriotic I'und meetings , and the letters teaching the Government its business , tie week has been eventless at home . In Ireland they have some excitement . The Tenant Sight champions are holding assemblies to an nii . en . ee elections and consolidate their Parliamentary party , while Mr . Lucas sets out for Rome , elected leader of the Catholic democracy , to entreat his Holiness to put down the Bishops .

      The boroughs that ore engaged in . supplying the Parliamentary vacancies occasioned by death , give play to a little activity . " We have to consider substitutes for Sir Hichael Hicks , Mr . Beach , Loxd Dudley Stuart , Mr . Geach , Sir A . Brooke , and Mr . Wyndham Goold ; East Gloucestershire , Maryleoone , Coventry , Bedford , and Limerick , have to consider their representation in

      Parliament , and on the whole , not-withstanding the deadness of ordinary political life , the inclination , thanks to the excitement of war ideas , seems to be to improve rather than degenerate in liberality . If Marylebone should fall short of Lord Dudley Stuarts , it will not be for want of candidates proposed ; but the electors are adopting a good practice in holding more than one caucus to elect a man to be candidate . We do not know whether

      the inhabitant electors have taken care to have themselves sufficiently represented at these meetings ; "but it is the standing practice of the country , where no man is taxed without his own consent , ' for six-sevenths to Ise deprived of a -vote , and for the other seventh to be indifferent about the election , and to leave it to agenta whose special business as the manufacture of Members of Parliament out of money-spenders . Sir Hamilton Seymour lias been objected to aa Whig ; yet ho has good things in his " carpet-bag , " and could

      have enlightened the Russian debates . However , he has voted himself into private life , leaving the field to a crowd of gentlemen , among whom , the naval captor of Cronstadt " next spring , " is conspicuous . Will ho toko the fortress or his seat ? ( Queers . ) Bedford concentrates its Liberal interest , tlie Russell influence included , upon a thorough-going Radical , John Trelawney , who knows more of naval matters tlmn most Radicals , more of politics than most Bailors , and

      will bo a really useful independent member . Coventry socms to favour Sir Joseph Paxton , the gardener ' s boy , who haa lived to be the architect of Crystal Palaces , and brings from tho ducal circle of Ohatawor tli a hearty , enlightened , national ¦ v iew of present affairs , desiring a household suffrage and wo centralisation at homo , demanding a vigorous administration of the war , and looking forward to enlargement for European liberties out of the quarrel of kings .

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      MEETING OF PARLIAMENT . A Privy Council was held at Windsor on Monday , when the following Proclamation was ordered to be issued : — Monday , November 27 , 1854 . By the QUEEN . —A Proclamation . Victobia , R . Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday , the 14 th day of December next ; and whereas , for divers weighty and urgent reasons , it seems to us expedient that our said Parliament shall assemble and be holden sooner than the said day , we do , by and with the advice of our Privy Coaacil , hereby proclaim , and give notice of our royal intention and pleasure that our said Parliament , notwithstanding the same now stands prorogued , as hereinbefore mentioned , to the said 14 th of December next , shall assemble and be holden , for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs , on Tuesday , the 12 th day of December next ; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and the KnigTits , Citizens , and Burgesses , and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons , are hereby required and . commanded to give their attendance accordingly , at "Westminster , on the said 12 th day of December , 1854 .

      Given at our Court , at Windsor , this 27 th day of November , in the year of Our Lord , 1854 , and in the 18 th year of our reign . Gor » save the Queen .

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      LATEST NEWS . Odessa , INov . 22 . Nothing of importance had taken place before Sebastopol to the 17 th . The weather is bitterly cold .

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      . Brussels . A despatch , attributed to Prince Menscllikoff , and bearing date Sebastopol , November 18 , affirms that the siege operations of the Allies had been arrested , and that on the 18 th they had all tut ceased . It is also asserted , on the same authority , that twenty-five vessels of the Allies had stranded .

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      There is no doubt that there was a heavy storm in the Black Sea on the 16 th . The Osierreichische Correspondenz conta ins intelligence from Constantinople of the 20 th : — " During the awful gale on the night of tie 14 th , the English lost 32 transports on the coast of the Crimea . 41 The fine screw-steamer Prince and Sea Nymph foundered with all on board . tl Three smaller English steamers were stranded . " Of the vessels of war , the Sanspareil was driven on shore , though she had her steam up . The Britannia had five feet water in her hold . " The Agamemnon was driven on shore , but managed to get off ; and the engines of the Sampson were seriously damaged .

      " The Retribution was also stranded , but got off by throwing her guns overboard . * ' The Terrible escaped without damage . " The French line-of-battle-ship Henri Qimtre and the Pluton were lost off Eupatoria , and another French steamer was dismasted . " According to news from Constantinople to the 15 th ;— - " The Russians continue fortifying tho houses in the interior of Sebastopol ; but they are likewise preparing tho means of retreating into the fortifications of tho north , by establishing two bridges of boats . " A part of the tropps beaten at Inkerman had arrived from . Odessa in nine days in carts . " Tho Tourml de Gonsta ? itinoj ) le states , that in addition to the speedy sending of 40 , 000 men ( English and French ) , 10 , 000 Turks are to embark for the Crimea .

      " Twenty-two transports have passed the Dardanelles . On tho i ) th the Golden Fleece took a regiment of artillery on board at Malta . " Tho army of Asia is doing nothing . It had 100 deaths a day during tho month of October , but its situation was improving . It waa preparing for winter quarters . " Tho Russian prisoners state that tho two Grand Dukes , during tUoir stay in tho Crimea , recommended the Polos to have full confidence in tho intontiona of tho Czar . "

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      . rlio St . Petersburg Jovrnal of the Iflth of November , contains an order of tho Grand Duko Constantino , informing tho Bnlio fleet that tho Emperor had rii ? re £ tlmnk hia doa * children , tho Bailors i ¦ i £ , , fleot > for the incomparable valour Tvluch they had displayed both by land and soa during the siogo of Scbastopol . rho Grand Duke adds , that ho hopoa tho Baltic fleet , when tho propor moment arrives , will show itoolt apmlly deserving of such a mark of tho Imporiiu favour . *•

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      THE PRINCIPALITIES . The latest ordinary correspondence from the l / ower Danube alludes to Omar Pasha ' s advance as confidently expected . It is also said that the numerous reinforcements sent by the Russian army of the Danube to that of the Crimea have sensibly weakened Prince Gortschaloff . In spite of the troops sent him . from Poland and from tlie interior of Russia , his army which , although very superior in number , had been obliged to give way before the forces of the Sultan , is now reduced to one-half its former number .

      Fearing to be attacked at any moment , he is collecting together all his available forces , and has ceased completely to send reinforcements to the Crimea , notwithstanding the pressing request of * Prince Menschikoff . Omar . Pasha is said to have placed the whole line of the Danube in a state of defence ; and the fortifications of Silistria , Griurgevo , and Kassova have been completed on the plans of Colonel Dieu . The Ottoman reserve is corning from Shumla to occupy the places of the Danube , and is replaced by recruits .

      The Vienna telegraphic statement that Omar Pasha lias received orders from Constantinople to suspend operations against Bessarabia is denounced by the Constitutionnel as " completely untrue . " It is nevertheless repeated from Vienna and also from Berlin , and may not be without some warrant . The German Journal of Frankfort states that the Czar having received certain information of the intention of Omar Paslia to immediately assume the offensive , has sent orders to Prince PaBkiewitseh , at Warsaw to send reinforcements into Bessarabia from the army of Poland . A letter from Varna , of the

      1 Oth , states that the corps of Koumelia , that of Staml ) oul , with the guard and the division of reserve of Ferik Pasha , amounting together to 45 , 000 infantry , 12 , 000 cavalry , and 150 pieces of artillery , with 20 , 000 Egyptian and Tunisian troops , had received orders to advance to tho Pruth . The telegraphic report that 20 , 000 rnen have been detached from Omar Pasha ' s corps is of later date than the Varna news . Should the fact bo established it may bo explained by the impossibility of better employing that number of Ottoman troops until the two promised French divisions can co-operate in the invasion of Bessarabia .

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      Count Coronini had published at Bucharest a bulletin , announcing to his army the news of tho battle of Inkerman . It is clear , fair , and truthful , concluding thus : —¦ " The conduct of tlio allied troops in tho presence of an enemy four times « t least superior to them in number has beon admirable . Tho victory was hard won , but brilliant . Wo h « va to rogret sorioua loasos , tho details of -which have not arrived . "

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      OBBMANTf , Tho King ' s Speech upon tho opening of tho Prussian Chambers , on Thursday , contains tho following passages : ¦—"A bloody conflict has broken out between three poworful members of tUo family of European States . " Our fnthorland Is not yet affected ; I have frcoh occasion to hope that tho basis of a further understanding will soon perhaps ho obtained . " CloHoly united with Austria and the rest of Germany , I shall continue to look upon it , as my tank to plead for poaco , tho recognition of tho indopondoncu oi foreign utatos , and motlonttion . " Should 1 Hubsoquontly bo compollod to add force to thin altitude , Prumrin ' B and my faithful pooplo will hoar their Inevitable bimtenH with resignation , and know how to meot , such ovontualitioa . " Tlio urany uhall K » o made ready for war . "

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      TRANCE . In Jus last address to the army , thanking the troops for the day of Inkerman , the Emperor Louis Napoleon speaks of the relief they may expect on the side of Bessarabia ; and this has been taken in confirmation of the news , originating in Galignani , that two ( or four ) divisions of the French army were immediately to be sent to the Danube , to operate in conjunction with the forces of Omar Pasha . But the announcement has not yet been officially made . The Paris Correspondent of the Daily News , assuming the news to be true , says : —

      " Itis stated on respe « table authority that Marshal Baraguay d'Hiiliers is to command the French army of the Danube . The choice is in many respects probable . He has long enjoyed the confidence of the Emperor , has a considerable military reputation , is extremely eager for active service , and , notwithstanding the drawback of a violent temper , is esteemed to have a certain ability as a diplomatist . I hear it objected that the command would be scarcely adequate to the dignity of a Marshal of France , at a moment when a young general is Commander-in-Chief in the Crimea . I cannot , however , think this objection of much weight . Although the army to be sent into the Principalities may in the first instanca consist of but two divisions , it must be very speedily augmented if the war soes on . "

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      THE WAR .

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      H 30 TIE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 2, 1854, page 1130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2067/page/2/