the Seraskier the day before yesterday, and laid the
strictest commands on him to attend to the wants of
the allies. The Seraskier has sent to all the Pachas of
the empire, ordering them to recruit without loss of
time, and send all the disposable Nizams and Rediffs
to Constantinople, Varna, and Kustendjee."

It is stated in the Cassel Gazette, that maritime
communications have been re-established between Riga
and St. Petersburg. There are to remain at Riga only
the number of troops left there in ordinary times. The
rest are to be directed towards Poland.

A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Hamburg News,
states that the accounts of the battle of Inkermann had
produced great gloom in the Russian capital, and led to
an opinion that it would be impossible for Sebastopol to
hold out long against the allied armies.

A letter from Batoum, in the Lloyd of Vienna, states
that Mustapha Pacha has been ordered to hold himself
in readiness to embark for the Crimea with 10,000 men
of the élite of the Turkish army.

Numerous meetings to collect money in aid of the
Patriotic Fund have been held in London, and throughout
the country. On the 2d inst. there was a meeting
of the merchants, bankers, and traders of the City at the
Mansion House, the Lord Mayor in the chair. Lord
John Russell moved the first resolution, expressing
"the highest admiration and gratitude" for the services
of our Army and Navy in the East. It had been noticed
that some persons allege that the relief of the widows
and orphans of the fallen should be supplied out of the
national funds; Lord John said he would not discuss
that question—

"It has been the opinion of Parliament hitherto, that
such grants could not be made on ordinary occasions
without leading to great abuse of the funds. Be that as
it may, however, we know that there are no such funds
at present, and that it is to the voluntary zeal and
liberality of their countrymen that our sailors and
soldiers dying in battle must look for supplying comforts
to their widows and orphans."

Mr. Thomas Baring, who seconded the resolution,
added, that to him it appeared that it must be much
more gratifying to soldiers to know that "those dear to
them will, in the case of their own death, be supplied by
the individual sympathy and contributions of their
fellow countrymen, rather than by formal votes of
Parliament, which might be contested at every stage."
Mr. Hubbard, Governor of the Bank of England, took
the same view, in moving the second resolution; and Mr.
R. C. L. Bevan said that it should be considered a
privilege to come forward voluntarily in support of the
relatives of those who fall in the war. About £16,000
was subscribed on the spot.

Great efforts are now being made by the English
and French governments to Reinforce the Troops in the
Crimea. Within the last month, we are told by the
Globe, nearly seven thousand infantry have been ordered
out. Of these 4000 were sent from regimental depôts;
the Ninety-seventh, 1000 strong, was ordered from
Athens, and the Sixty-second from Malta; and further
detachments embarking this week comprise nearly 800
men. These supplies had been ordered, and partly sent
out, before the news of the affair of the 25th October and
5th November were received. The Ninetieth has been
ordered from Dublin, and the Seventy-first, Highland
light infantry, and Thirty-fourth, from Corfu. To these
must be added the first battalion of the Grenadier Guards,
who will join General Bentinck's Brigade. The other
regiments—the Seventy-first, Ninetieth, Thirty-fourth,
Ninety-seventh, and Sixty-second—will, with the Sixty-
eighth, now in the Crimea, form a Fifth Division of the
British army. It has been calculated that the total
reinforcements, including those actually sent and those
about to embark, will number 11,900 men. Nor have
the French been backward. It is known that large
bodies of troops have recently left the French ports for
the Crimea; and it is now stated by the Globe that ''the
French government is prepared to send out 50,000 men
in English ships, the expense to be shared by the two
governments." For this purpose the British government
has engaged several large steamers belonging to the
great companies, of which the Candia, Ripon, Nubia,
Alps, Indiana, Thames, Europa, have already been
named, to proceed as soon as possible to Toulon, there
to embark the French army. The French are also
drawing cavalry from Rome and Zouaves from Algeria.

The enormous losses sustained by our cavalry are to
be repaired.

As regards cavalry an arrangement has been come to
different from what was originally intended. Instead
of sending out the cavalry regiments on home service as
regiments, the effective men of those corps will be
incorporated with the regiments now in the Crimea, so as to
bring them up to such a strength as a cavalry regiment
in time of war should possess. With the exception of
the King's Dragoon Guards, our cavalry regiments of
the line consist of six troops of 45 men each; the
regimental staff and officers making up the entire number
to something over 300. Each cavalry regiment in the
Crimea will be made up to eight troops of 75 men each,
or 600 in the whole, besides the regimental staff. The
officers of the cavalry regiments at home will not be
transferred to those abroad, but will remain with their
own corps, and will be usefully employed in keeping up
an effective supply of trained men and horses for the
regiments abroad. Owing to recent losses, the ten
cavalry regiments now in the Crimea cannot be said to
muster 1000 men: when the new arrangements are
carried into effect, they will be increased by 5000 men;
and from the regiments at home there will be no
difficulty in at once supplying 2000 of this number.

Artillery detachments are leaving England for
Balaklava.

The Foot Guards will be conveyed to the Crimea in
the Royal Albert, 131,—the huge screw line-of-battle
ship launched at Woolwich in the summer.

Recruiting is going on with great briskness; the rate,
it is said by the Times, being about 1000 men per week.
Ample supplies of winter clothing have been sent out.

A Vienna Journal (the Ost Deutsch Post) gives the
following intelligence from the Danube. The Turkish
troops have taken possession of Matchin, Isaktcha, and
Tultcha, strongly occupied these places, as well as the
interior of the Dobrudscha. The Turkish garrison of Ibrail
has moved its advance guard to the Sereth. Achmet Sadyl,
commander of that body, has published a proclamation,
dated the 5th, announcing that the Russians having
been forced to quit the Dobrudscha, the Turkish troops
have occupied Babadagh, Tultcha, Matchin, and other
places of that district; that two officers had been
despatched to see that proper measures were taken for
having the navigation of the Danube re-established, the
said officers being charged to come to an understanding
for the purpose with the allies, who are in possession of
the Sulina; and, lastly, that the general-in-chief would
always make every exertion to protect the commerce of
that great river, of such paramount importance to the
Principalities. All the Turkish troops in Wallachia have
received orders to advance on Fokchany and Ibrail, and
to concentrate themselves there, in order to pass the
Pruth to the number of 30,000 men.

By the arrival of the United States Mail steam-
packet Pacific at Liverpool on the 22nd inst., we have
the following important intelligence respecting the
Operations of the Allied Fleets in the Pacific:—

"The Allied Fleets in the Pacific made an attack on
the Russian town and fort of Petropolouski,
Kamschatka, on the 1st and 4th of September, and destroyed
two Russian batteries. The loss of the allies was 64.
The loss of the Russians is reported to be very heavy,
but the number is not ascertained. The allies retired,
having captured two Russian vessels. Rear-Admiral
Price was accidentally killed. Captain Frederick, of the
Amphitrite, succeeds him.

The latest intelligence from the Baltic Fleet is
contained in a letter from Hamburg of the 18th inst. "We
remarked this morning, as the consequence of the
appearance of 14 Russian war steamers in the Gulf of
Finland, a considerable movement among the ships of the
English fleet at Kiel. Several of the latter have taken