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      the Admiralty , But Sir Chabj . es , they say , is manageable man . He could talk over Sonthwark but others can talk over him . By the time Parliament meets , we shall als < ¦ grant a Sir Charles in the land service , in orde : to extract from ministers their real intention ii the war , the actual position in the' East , and thi accurate condition of the army . We are told tha that condition is the best in the world . Sir Johi idPNraii says so ; although he tells us that tht English soldier is tie most helpless of animals , except at fighting . We are told by Colonel M'Mubbo , chief of the Land Transport corps , that nothing but science could enable the army tc exist where it does , but that , with a Woolwich at it 3 back in the shape of a floating factory , it possesses a power such as no army ever possessed . Unfortunately , the British soldier , besides being a helpless animal , is now exhibited , in the last reports , to be an incorrigibly drunken animal . N " ow , what is the case V Has our boasted system of recruiting given us the scum and dregs of the people , or have we an army of heroes ? Is that army perfectly appointed with mechanical appliances , or is it as incapable of advancing as it seems ? Is it kept there for show , or are we to have a campaign next year ? If Parliament were sitting , a military Najiek might ascertain these facts—if he were not talked over . We are threatened with a campaign at home ; the factory-owners and the workpeople are once more at issue . The self-acting -winders and spinners have convened meetings of the ¦ working-classes , to resist the reduction of wagesa , reduction , it is said , justified upon the plea , that the price of cotton is rising , while the jprice of goods is fa'ling . The price of cotton is not rising ; and -we are promised the largest crop that was ever produced . There was an immense crop last year ; and , in fact , the . raw material , at present , exceeds the demands of the consumer . The price of goods is falling because goods are made too fast . That wages can be trought down , we scarcely believe ; certainly they * will not , if the working classes stand together . Crood workmen are no longer so plentiful as they once were , and they ought to command their price , for the factory-owners rate everything at its price—and it is time for them to be paid in their own coin . If they claim a liberal construction , they must themselves set the example . If they want wages to fall because prices are falling ^ ¦ Why should they not raise wages because the price © £ provisions is rising P The workmen ask for short time instead of lower wages , which would quite attain the objects of the mill-owners , without , the insecurities for the workmen which attend the reduction of wages . With the revival of trade , manufacturers will always renew long tune ; they will not always raioe wages as soon as they are able . If they incur the responsibility of throwing large classes oat of work during the ipinter , be the consequences on their own heads . An industrial dispute has arisen in the metropolis among the omnibus owners . There recently appeared a systematic statement , implying that a company was already on foot , in alliance with the fiocie ' te' de Credit Mobilier in Paris , for giving Itondon a combined system of omnibuses , by -which the passenger could traverse the metropolis in any direction at one fare . Divers omnibus proprietors have met , and have Bucoetsded in exposing the fact that the company tas ttfl yet no « sfotence , though it seems likely ifrmmgli to exist ; and they demand something liktf » a abandonment ftho scheme , in order that they may retain tBeir evm ¦ peoiea of free trade in PttSBSfafiteo . On this omnibus question we have two remarks .

      i If the omnibus "* proprietors could act together ; amongst themselves , and could act as if they were in concert with their passengers , they would not 3 only establish their interests on the foundation of r public confidence , but they would immensely i increase the number of riders . No stage-coach 3 indicated the kind of want that was called into t existence by the establishment of the railway . As j to the connexion with any French association of $ capitalists , we do not advise too hasty an accept - ance of such a scheme . There is the utmost fear ; that a desperate crisis must ensue in France after the bursting of the credit bubble . One striking ? fact was mentioned last week—the suicide of M . Biney , who cut his throat . We have been \ expecting some explanation of that event , but we have not seen it . There is no statement of the l cause , but it is said that he was a large shareholder in the Society de Credit Mobilie r . In the Crimea and the various seats of war ; there is something approaching to a stagnation , and affairs seem stiffening towards the inaction of * winter . The Allie 3 continue to menace Gobtschakoff from . Enpatoria ; but the Russian Com - ' mander has not as yet availed himself of that liberty which his Imperial Master gave him , to retreat from the Peninsula , and yield the hard - fought ground to the enemy . Action pauses ; and the " Bears" are endeavouring to get up rumours of peace . In the early part of the week there appeared to be some reason to believe that we were " drifting " in that direction ; and it was even said that Louis Napoleon desired to sheath the sword . That Russia , by means of her footmen in Austria and Prussia , may have been sounding the French and English cabinets , is possible ; but there is no immediate prospect of another Peace Congress . Mr . Cobden , however , has been raising his rough , strong voice in favour of that consummation ; and , pointing to the difficulty of recruiting our army , he deduces that the war is not popular among the masses . Winter , moreover , is coming ; prices of necessaries are high 5 mobs are rebellious in Hyde Park ; and the next few months may see some obvious turning of the wheel . There has been a little war in the Metrop olitan Commission of Sewers . Mr . F . O . Ward brings certain charges of culpable and wilful mismanagement against Mr . Bazalgette , the chief engineer of the Commission . That gentleman makes an elaborate defence , and the court refuses to entertain the charges against him , thus sanctioning the principle of wide-drainage which he advocates , and shelving Mr . Ward ' s system of tubular drainage . The war of society goes on as usual , in the shape of wife-beating , murdering , cheating , thieving , assaulting , and action-at-law-bringing . Dr . Frajscks , a German press-writer , commits suicide at Brighton , and lies under suspicion of having first murdered his son ; Alice Haggard , the modest impostor , is committed for trial ; and society continues to sing its own praises on the score of " civilization . "

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      The degree of uncertainty which has prevailed for some weeks as to the relative positions of the hostile forces in the Crimea , and as to the probable termination of the chess-playing-, still - continues . The season for fieMrOperations , moreover , is drawing to a _ close ; and , with the probable slackening of hostilities , come rumours orpeace and the busy pattering of diplomatic gossip . Eupatoria is . still the base of the field operations ; "but nothing decisive has resulted from the various manoeuvres planned and executed from that station . On the 2 nd inst ., Prince Gortschakoff announced that on the previous day the Allies made a strong

      demonstration from the side of Eupatoria , with thirty squadrons of cavalry and six battalions of infantry . Having advanced from Saki upon Tchebator , they were stopped , according to Gortscha - koff , by the Russian advanced guard , with which they exchanged some cannon shots . They then fell back on Saki , where they remained during the night , renewing their attempt on the'following morning , on which occasion a portion of their force advanced upon Temesch , but retired again on Saki , upon finding their left flank threatened

      by the Russian Dancers and Dragoons . A despatch from Marshal Pelissier , also dated the 2 nd , refers these events to the 27 th and 28 th ult . There is evidently some confusion in the dates . Gortschakoff writes on the 22 nd ult . that on the 20 th , at half-past three p . m ., the Allies , with sixteen battalions , descended from the heights above the valley of Baider to the villages of Karlore and Adym-Tchokrak , but , after passing the night there , returned to the ridge of the mountains . The number of the allied troops at Kertch has been increased .

      Nicholaieff continues in a state of alarm as to the future . The Augsburg Gazette states that the first brigade of the 14 th division of reserve , a corps which took part in the defence of Sebastopol , has marched thither , and that artillery has also been detached from Prince GortchakofPs army , with the same destination . The Russians themselves are evidently in a state of great aTnxiety ; but their good friends , the German papers , make out the "best case they can for them . Le Nord denies that the Russians in the Crimea are suffering from , want of provisions ; and the Fremden Bldtt—that noted organ of the " men-in-buckram " school of writing—asserts that the Russian army now in the Crimea numbers 200 , 000 men . The Grenadier corps , which lately arrived at

      Sinipheropol , was accompanied , says this authority , by u , 000 -waggons drawn by oxen , so that the Russian army is provisioned for six months . " Prince G-ortschakoff will not expect convoys after November , as by that time the steppes will be covered with snow . The northern forts continue to fire on the southern half of Sebastopol , occasionally picking off an odd wanderer ; and on one occasion they set fire to a French line-of-battle ship . The flames , however , were soon extinguished . From "Vienna , comes a statement , based on the authority of the Austrian Gazette , that a French camp of 50 , 000 men will be formed in Silistria , and that large quantities of provisions and building materials are already collected on the spot . Winter quarters are also being prepared in Constantinople for a numerous body of cavalry .

      Russian despatches from the Dnieper make their appearance from day to day . On the 26 th ult ., the enemy announces : — " The enemy has burnt the hamlets on the Spit of Kinburn , which , however , were already deserted , the inhabitants having abandoned them , taking with them all their cattle and currying off all their property . The enemy has made no movement nor attempted any other operation on land . " Lieutenant-General Zadousky yesterday made a reconnaissance beyond the village of Vassilievku , and advanced aa far as the enemy ' s outposts . " A later despatch ia aa follows : — " Oct . 27 , 9 . 30 p . m . 44

      In the night from the 2 Cth to the 27 th , the veascla of the enemy which were in the embouchure of tho Dnieper quitted it , and joined the squadron moored in the Bay of Otchakoff . Excepting this movement , there has been no change in the enemy ' s position , nor have they attempted any operation . The patrols sent from the advanced guard of General Zadousky to a distance of twenty -versts beyond the village of Bouzovala , the Spit of Kinburn , did not meet tho enemy anywhere . From Otchakofl " , it ia observed that the diuem-

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      1070 TVSE LEADER . [ No . 294 , Saturday , jjl

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      " YsHoubb of Lu 0 . "—Am adjudication of bankruptcy has been made against Richard Goodhind , described aa of Ludgate-hill ( "Ye House of Lud" ); of Crown-court , Cheapside ; of Tichborne-street , Haymarket ; also of Rook-street and Buck JMosley-street , Manchester , linen-draper , hosier , and hawker . Ihe debts and liabilities are estimated at 3 , 000 / . ; the assets at about 300 / . Messrs . Sole and Turner are the solicitors under the bankruptcy , Newcastle Bank Robbery . —Henry Martinson , the runaway cashier of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Bank , has b «« en arrested just previous to his departure for America . Z is thought that lie has In his possession most of the " monoy stolen—viz ., 4 , 260 / ,

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      THE WAR .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 1070, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2114/page/2/